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[MGibster]

To be fair, I am entirely convinced a lot of splat books were published in the 1990s with the idea that more people would read them than use them in a game.

 

[Maxperson]

No I’m asking WotC to keep doing what they’re doing and have done for the past ten years - present settings through adventures and practical, usable formats.

I don’t need or want a 5e FRCS. I have multie adventure paths set in FR that will get far, far more use at my table.

You folks that want setting stuff? Well, you’re still getting it. Just not the hose pipe you used to get while I had to be satisfied with tiny dribbles.

So no. I’m not going to apologize or feel bad that I’m finally the target audience after waiting for twenty five years. Give me canned campaigns that take about 18 months to play through. Fantastic. I’ll play one then move on to the next.

I'm not sure what you mean by "you're still getting it." WoTC hasn't written a decent setting in all of 5e. The few that are good were written by other people. So no, we haven't "gotten it" at all.

 

[Scribe]

No I’m asking WotC to keep doing what they’re doing and have done for the past ten years - present settings through adventures and practical, usable formats.

I don’t need or want a 5e FRCS. I have multie adventure paths set in FR that will get far, far more use at my table.

You folks that want setting stuff? Well, you’re still getting it. Just not the hose pipe you used to get while I had to be satisfied with tiny dribbles.

So no. I’m not going to apologize or feel bad that I’m finally the target audience after waiting for twenty five years. Give me canned campaigns that take about 18 months to play through. Fantastic. I’ll play one then move on to the next.

Which is fine.

Just dont put down SCAG or Fizbans, next to Eberron, and say they are all 'setting books'.

For what its worth, I actually agree that I would like things to come in the format of Spelljammer, but I may be weird in that regard. Eberron was/is overwhelming to me at this point in my life.

 

[Maxperson]

I don’t want or need high altitude ideas. I can get those from a thousand sources. I do need pretty maps, art, stat blocks and mechanics to run next week’s session.

And as an added bonus, those maps, stat blocks, room descriptions, NPCs and whatnot can be recycled into other adventures.

You can also get pretty maps and art from a thousand sources. Stat blocks and mechanics you can get from monster books and books like Xanathar's. Those books also come with that added bonus you just requested.

You don't need a setting book to get those things, but we do need a setting book with all those details you don't like if we don't have the time or energy to write one from scratch.

 

[Hussar]

Which is fine.

Just dont put down SCAG or Fizbans, next to Eberron, and say they are all 'setting books'.

For what its worth, I actually agree that I would like things to come in the format of Spelljammer, but I may be weird in that regard. Eberron was/is overwhelming to me at this point in my life.

Why not? They all are setting books. That someone doesn’t like them doesn’t make them not a setting book.

That’s exactly what they are.

 

[Scribe]

Why not? They all are setting books. That someone doesn’t like them doesn’t make them not a setting book.

That’s exactly what they are.

Fizban/Bigby/Spelljammer are not setting books, if Eberron is a setting book.

You can either change the definition, or just declare anything a setting book, but within the context of this little side thread, Eberron is the only real setting book released for 5e by WotC.

 

[Maxperson]

Fizban/Bigby/Spelljammer are not setting books, if Eberron is a setting book.

You can either change the definition, or just declare anything a setting book, but within the context of this little side thread, Eberron is the only real setting book released for 5e by WotC.

Fizban's and Bigby's aren't setting books in any case. They're just generic lore and stats on Dragons and Giants that can be plugged into real settings.

 

[Scribe]

Fizban's and Bigby's aren't setting books in any case. They're just generic lore and stats on Dragons and Giants that can be plugged into real settings.

Yeah, I like them a lot, but setting books? Nay.

 

[Hussar]

Fizban/Bigby/Spelljammer are not setting books, if Eberron is a setting book.

You can either change the definition, or just declare anything a setting book, but within the context of this little side thread, Eberron is the only real setting book released for 5e by WotC.

Note I did lump setting and lore together.

But how is Spelljammer not a setting book?

 

[Thomas Shey]

Very much this. How many editions of Shadowrun do we have? And yet...

Well, insufficient mechanical editing and blindtesting isn't limited to one-man-bands, its just endemic there.