D&D 5E How Do You Feel About the Rate of New WotC Game Content for 5E DMs?

[mamba]

as soon as you open up your mind and wallet to stuff that isn't WotC, you're absolutely spoiled for content.

sure, but if we count that, no one would be asking this question

 

[jayoungr]

There ought to be a lot more decent quality short official 5e adventures by now.

Not to be a broken record, but the Adventurer's League adventures are short and official, and while they range from excellent to terrible, there are quite a lot that are decent quality or better.

 

[Hussar]

I'm in the very early stages of thinking I'd like to run Out of the Abyss. To give you just a tiny idea of how much material there is out there, I just picked up a three HUNDRED page free collection on Reddit of various ideas for how to expand the module. There's over a hundred add on products for a single module. A module that's almost ten years old now. That's insane.

And you can find the same level of support for every single WotC publication. There's just so much there. Don't like Dragonheist? Do the Alexandrian Remix. Or one of half a dozen other remixes of the adventure. And so on.

 

[overgeeked]

Nowhere near enough useful stuff like setting books or actual referee options.

Far too much useless stuff like APs and PC options books.

 

[Chaltab]

I have so much trouble wrangling players sometimes that any pace they publish at is faster than I can use it.

 

[mamba]

There's over a hundred add on products for a single module. A module that's almost ten years old now. That's insane.

how did you determine this, go to DMsGuild, select OotA as the adventure and then be impressed that they list 229 items?

Most of these are generic underdark, so that gets you to 100? Half of those 100 are battlemaps (seriously, why are there so many packs, other adventures have far fewer…), most of the rest are AL modules that form a separate campaign rather than enhance OotA, and then you are stuck with 10 or so items that actually focus on OotA, and most of those are not all that impressive…

While WotC APs frequently have a lot of support, ironically you picked one of the worst supported APs, Storm King’s Thunder is where it starts to pick up with actual products that expand the storyline

Not sure that those that want a higher release rate are looking for that. In essence that would be larger books at the same pace rather than more books to choose from.

As it is, it also means using 3pp material, and if that is no problem then there is a ton of adventures, classes, monsters, etc. already, making this thread moot

 

[Hussar]

how did you determine this, go to DMsGuild, select OotA as the adventure and then be impressed that they list 229 items?

Most of these are generic underdark, so that gets you to 100? Half of those 100 are battlemaps (seriously, why are there so many packs, other adventures have far fewer…), most of the rest are AL modules that form a separate campaign rather than enhance OotA, and then you are stuck with 10 or so items that actually focus on OotA, and most of those are not all that impressive…

While WotC APs frequently have a lot of support, ironically you picked one of the worst supported APs, Storm King’s Thunder is where it starts to pick up with actual products that expand the storyline

Not sure that those that want a higher release rate are looking for that. In essence that would be larger books at the same pace rather than more books to choose from.

As it is, it also means using 3pp material, and if that is no problem then there is a ton of adventures, classes, monsters, etc. already, making this thread moot

Dunno what you're looking at. I'm counting dozens of products - add ons for levels, adventures, an entire Adventurer's League series of modules. Not quite sure how much you want.

 

[mamba]

Dunno what you're looking at. I'm counting dozens of products - add ons for levels, adventures, an entire Adventurer's League series of modules. Not quite sure how much you want.

we are talking about the same thing, I just looked more closely at the content.

Here is the start of the AL campaign

“Harried in Hillsfar
In the village of Elventree, near the oppressive city of Hillsfar, a recent string of strange occurrences has the locals on edge. The factions have gathered here on the borders of the forest of Cormanthor to determine what’s happening. Is this the machinations of Hillsfar, or something more?”

Fits perfectly with a campaign that starts with the characters as prisoners in the Underdark… the AL is its own campaign, not optional modules to expand the AP with

I did not argue the premise, I just thought you picked an AP that is bad at demonstrating it. Also, that it is old helps with the number, creating content takes time. Relatively new APs like Shattered Obelisk or DL have a lot less material than e.g. Tomb of Annihilation, theirs is still getting released, so the ‘even a 10 year old AP’ part kinda has it backwards

My main point was that expanding the existing APs is the equivalent of WotC releasing thicker books / APs over multiple books, not more individual APs in the same timeframe. I am not sure that this is what people asking for more releases want.

 

[Yaarel]

I am happy with the rate of book publication. I think I want to see more articles, insight into books, analysis, more UAs for upcoming or experimental stuff, that kind kind of thing. I guess they are doing videos, but it is hard to "analyze" or detail in an interview.

 

[jayoungr]

To give you just a tiny idea of how much material there is out there, I just picked up a three HUNDRED page free collection on Reddit of various ideas for how to expand the module.

Got a link, by any chance?

There's over a hundred add on products for a single module. A module that's almost ten years old now. That's insane.

What's insane about it? I think it's great!