D&D 5E What official 5E content do you want to see more of?

[dave2008]

I'd love to see a collection of well-written small adventures centered around and branching from a single town. Something that lays a solid foundation for sandbox play without too much of an overarching plot (though a little is welcome).

Isn't that what the starter box and essentials box provide?

 

[atanakar]

A version of 5e that lets me do from Pirates of the Spanish Main to Near Future including post-apocalyptic and urban arcana. Modern 5e!

 

[atanakar]

A version of 5e that lets me do solar expansion to transhuman science fiction. Including cyberwar and space opera. Future 5e!

 

[prabe]

Haven't adventures always had unique magic items in them? Back in the day you had to buy White Plume Mountain to get Wave, Whelm, and Blackrazor. Now they are in the DMG! Heck there a quite a few magic items in the DMG that used to only be in adventures. I'm all for a magic item book, but to call the current set up (regarding magic items) money-grubbing seems a bit odd since it has pretty much been standard practice from the beginning of the game.

There's an argument it was money-grubbing then, too.

 

[The Crimson Binome]

The only content I would consider purchasing is an official campaign option, with at least a few paragraphs of consideration, that fixes healing.

 

[dave2008]

There's an argument it was money-grubbing then, too.

I would think it would be money-grubbing if the adventure mentioned the items, but you had to buy a separate book to get the details on them. It is not like we can expect WotC to have every possible magic item in the DMG and have adventures just reference that list. I mean, you could consider a magic item book "money-grubbing" as well.

 

[prabe]

I would think it would be money-grubbing if the adventure mentioned the items, but you had to buy a separate book to get the details on them. It is not like we can expect WotC to have every possible magic item in the DMG and have adventures just reference that list. I mean, you could consider a magic item book "money-grubbing" as well.

My ideal would be for them to publish books at some regular interval that collected at least the best of the player options, magic items, spells, whatever, from at least the published adventures, if not the settings. I don't (can't) run published adventures, so I don't buy them. I don't (can't) run published settings, so I buy them reluctantly, if there's other stuff in them I can use. While there's little-to-no incentive for them to serve people like me, it seems as though they'd have a market for AL and AL-adjacent folks who are doing PHB+1.

 

[Todd Roybark]

A version of 5e that lets me do solar expansion to transhuman science fiction. Including cyberwar and space opera. Future 5e!

Arcana of the Ancients, can help you.

I would love a Big Book of Complex Traps. Every encounter where I have combined complex trap features, with monsters, has been fun and memorable.

Module pieces like pre built traps or scenarios saves DMs time. I think it is an under served design space.

I use my old Traps and Treachery books, in 5e all the time. Often times without much modification.

I can never get enough monsters, so I am fine with another monster book.

A Short adventure anthology is fine with me. I would love to get something weird, inspired, and well put together.

I would love to get a 5e AD&D: Tweaks and different visions of the existing classes, balanced with 5e, but intended for games with more of a “This one goes to 11” attitude, and more gritty rules modules enabled.
Combine this with an adventure path, and WoTC can demonstrate how different themes can be modeled with 5e.

 

[ccs]

Same vote as always; Monsters.
Not a few pages salted into the Adventures & setting books, not a book that's 1/4 player stuff, just a few extra books of all monsters.

After that more short adventures that cover only a single lv or so.

 

[Asisreo]

I kinda want more of everything. Not because what we have isn't enough but more would be so much more appreciated. I want a book that explains the various vistas one might see traversing the planes, and new mechanics for them.

I want a book that will patch up the pesky holes in the rulebooks and make certain things more useful than others.

I want class variant features and rule variants to mix up a campaign.

Settings and adventures can be easy to pull from. Heck, I can just change the name of a town and use the adventure word-for-word.

Though I love monsters the most, so even though we've already gotten a good amount of monsters, I'd want more (if not for an excuse to get more miniatures).