D&D 5E Where is the content?

[ad_hoc]

I wonder how much of the player base is where you are at.

Between time between campaigns and only playing for 3 hours every 2 weeks there are many adventures I have not played yet.

So much so that I stopped buying them.

I am halfway through my last one now so I will be looking for a new adventure in the next few months. None of the current ones really interest me so I'm hoping there will be something good coming out soon too.

 

[BMaC]

There was an Enworld poll a while back (on phone or I would dig up link); I think playing once every other week was fairly typical for a group.
5E - How often have you played D&D 5e over the past year? edit. Found it.

 

[Parmandur]

My group is about to finish Descent into Avernus, we have played every hard back released so far, the Extra Life stuff, Goodman Games Keep on the Borderlands reprint and some of our number have played all of the Adventurers League content released so far so what's next? We have run out of content!

I am a True Believer Kool Aid Drinker and own every 5th edition book released so far in at least two formats (Hard copy, Beyond and Special Eds) and I like the slow release schedule so this is not the rant of a naysayer but I think the release schedule this year is out of kilter. The two new setting books are fine but what we really need is adventures!

We play once a fortnight for 6/7 hours and I guess we are pretty quick but surely not unreasonably so. We convert old adventures (I am running Night Below next) and we liberally use 3rd party stuff but finding decent 3rd party APs is tricky and converting can be laborious. We don't really homebrew because we find it can vary in quality to put it mildly and we are also full adults with jobs and commitments and stuff, we want to pick up a book, do standard prep and run it.

TLR We need more Adventures!

The Setting books include random tables and other tools to come up with Adventures pretty smoothly.

 

[The Big BZ]

The Setting books include random tables and other tools to come up with Adventures pretty smoothly.

And I love those tables but still not really what I'm after or what I am getting at. I guess I am pointing out that the last adventure release from WotC was 6 months ago and there currently isn't one on the horizon for another 6. Descent is Levels 1 - 13 so that is pretty scant stuff. We are going to finish it in about 7 months, which might be quick by some people's standards but is hardly lightning fast either. When we finish it is either home brew or 3rd party which just seems a bit off to me.

 

[BMaC]

And I love those tables but still not really what I'm after or what I am getting at. I guess I am pointing out that the last adventure release from WotC was 6 months ago and there currently isn't one on the horizon for another 6. Descent is Levels 1 - 13 so that is pretty scant stuff. We are going to finish it in about 7 months, which might quick by some people's standards but is hardly lightning fast either. When we finish it is either home brew or 3rd party which just seems a bit off to me.

This also raises the stakes for the next adventure release if there is only one in 2020. Maybe the Woll anthology is still coming this year (when??) And then the Perkins book in late 2020.

 

[Parmandur]

And I love those tables but still not really what I'm after or what I am getting at. I guess I am pointing out that the last adventure release from WotC was 6 months ago and there currently isn't one on the horizon for another 6. Descent is Levels 1 - 13 so that is pretty scant stuff. We are going to finish it in about 7 months, which might quick by some people's standards but is hardly lightning fast either. When we finish it is either home brew or 3rd party which just seems a bit off to me.

There'll be something in 7 months, handily.

They have said in the past that the feedback they were getting was that they were putting out Adventure focused products way faster than people could keep up in general, in addition to a general preference for Homebrew content among most grouos, so there is definitely a bit of a course correction going on.

 

[jayoungr]

We like the look of Odyssey book would be a big change in aesthetic for us.

If you do run it, please let us know how it went in the thread I made for the adventure:

D&D 5E - Running "Odyssey of the Dragonlords"

This adventure path recently came out from Modiphius Entertainment. I know several people on this board are running it, and I'm hoping to run at least parts of it myself. So I thought I'd create something like the "enhancing" threads that we have for the WotC-published books, so that we have a...

www.enworld.org

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Do you have the Adventure in Middle-Earth campaigns? They are pretty good, if a little railroad-y. They may require a little modifying tho (removing the Shadow Points, reworking a little the travel sequences and adding more enemies because AiME doest not include magic, so encounters may be on the easy side if your players have a lot of magic).

 

[The Big BZ]

There'll be something in 7 months, handily.

They have said in the past that the feedback they were getting was that they were putting out Adventure focused products way faster than people could keep up in general, in addition to a general preference for Homebrew content among most grouos, so there is definitely a bit of a course correction going on.

Sorry, I should have said 'We will have finished it in 7 months'. We have 1.5 sessions left and then we have run out of content so I am going to run Night Below, which is fine but would far prefer to just pick something off the shelf etc.

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

Dang you level fast... once every two weeks for six hours? My group has been doing that since September and they're still only 3rd and 4th level and we've only used four short adventure modules... I'm impressed.