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

[mamba]

But that assumes the market is really rhere for aeperated products: it well may not be.

yes, it assumed that, guess WotC thinks it is, they have two for FR in the pipeline, as to other settings, who knows

But if the main audience is those who want vote, it can be a problem to divide resources and split the market. WotC may be better served by annoying a smaller segment to please a larger segment of customers.

possibly, but it could also give them an audience that they currently do not get. They have diverse offerings on the AP side, why not have it wrt format / content mix.

They have had setting books in the past, two next year, tried boxed sets for SJ and PS (and could keep the same mix in one book too), so I do not think that they have decided that the only format that works is large AP with a small gazetteer

There is no one size fits all, for aure: but that's also whybWotC has to figure out what will maximize value. And it would seem to me they may have done it.

their recent experiments and the upcoming FR books suggest they are still searching or that they understand that there is no one size solution

 

[Parmandur]

yes, it assumed that, guess WotC thinks it is, they have two for FR in the pipeline, as to other settings, who knows


possibly, but it could also give them an audience that they currently do not get. They have diverse offerings on the AP side, why not have it wrt format / content mix.

They have had setting books in the past, two next year, tried boxed sets for SJ and PS (and could keep the same mix in one book too), so I do not think that they have decided that the only format that works is large AP with a small gazetteer


their recent experiments and the upcoming FR books suggest they are still searching or that they understand that there is no one size solution

All those Setting books had significant sized Adventures in them, and I do not sldouvt that rhe FR one will, too (we were, after all, promised a Red Wizards campaign).

 

[Echohawk]

All those Setting books had significant sized Adventures in them, and I do not sldouvt that rhe FR one will, too (we were, after all, promised a Red Wizards campaign).

Even the original FR boxed set included 16 pages of adventures!

 

[mamba]

All those Setting books had significant sized Adventures in them, and I do not sldouvt that rhe FR one will, too (we were, after all, promised a Red Wizards campaign).

I don't think Eberron had one, neither did SCAG. Ravenloft had a 20 page one, out of 256 or so pages, not what I would call significant.

Contrast that with SKT which had a 56 page gazetteer (out of 232 pages), DL 30 out of 224, CoS 30 out of 224, RotFM maybe 80 out of 320, ToA maybe 40 out of 240.

So in the setting books the adventure is 0-10% of the pages, in the APs the gazetteer is 10-25% of the pages. Definitely a significant difference.

I am not saying the setting must not contain any adventure, maybe having a smaller 1-3 or 1-5 level one is even good to get people started, but there is a big difference between being predominantly an adventure and being predominantly a setting book.

 

[Parmandur]

Even the original FR boxed set included 16 pages of adventures!

Rising from the Last War, Van Richten's, Spelljammerz and Planescape have way more than thst, though. Strixhaven is, like, mostly Adventure.

 

[Parmandur]

I don't think Eberron had one, neither did SCAG. Ravenloft had a 20 page one, out of 256 or so pages, not what I would call significant.

Contrast that with SKT which had a 56 page gazetteer (out of 232 pages), DL 30 out of 224, CoS 30 out of 224, RotFM maybe 80 out of 320, ToA maybe 40 out of 240.

So in the setting books the adventure is 0-10% of the pages, in the APs the gazetteer is 10-25% of the pages. Definitely a significant difference.

I am not saying the setting must not contain any adventure, maybe having a smaller 1-3 or 1-5 level one is even good to get people started, but there is a big difference between being predominantly an adventure and being predominantly a setting book.

Eberron does have a 15 page Adventure. The difference between "setting" and "advebture" is largely arbitrary, and a sliding scale. SCAG is on one end, Strixhaven on another.

 

[mamba]

Eberron does have a 15 page Adventure. The difference between "setting" and "advebture" is largely arbitrary, and a sliding scale. SCAG is on one end, Strixhaven on another.

it might be a sliding scale, but if 80% is adventure, I’d call it that and not a setting book, and vice versa.

I am not opposed to them having a 20 page adventure in a ‘setting’ book, but that is still quite different to having to collect 10 APs to get to the same amount of setting information

 

[Parmandur]

it might be a sliding scale, but if 80% is adventure, I’d call it that and not a setting book, and vice versa.

I am not opposed to them having a 20 page adventure in a ‘setting’ book, but that is still quite different to having to collect 10 APs to get to the same amount of setting information

Thing is, collecting those 10 APs ends up being a lot of Setting information.

 

[mamba]

Thing is, collecting those 10 APs ends up being a lot of Setting information.

I could do the same with one setting book, instead of being 'forced' to buy 10 books to get it

 

[Parmandur]

I could do the same with one setting book, instead of being 'forced' to buy 10 books to get it

But if WotC can get 100,000 people to buy 5 each of them, whereas only 20,00o would buy the pure Setting book...why wouldn't they go for Option A...?