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Yeah, not including the Essentials Kit material was an odd decision. For my money, the obvious move would have been to actually develop...

I mean, that would have been an excellent place to have thrown in twenty or thirty one-off missions, and a short follow-up sequel...

Yes, it did a fine job. My only thing would be - and I'm not in any way meaning to put down anthologies - is that I think that a better...

Not an exact replacement, but if in practice they help people play more games...they might be a pragmatic replacement for an AP. These...

Quests From the Infinite Staircase did an excellent job at that, IMO, and with the same product lead as Borderlands coming up.

I think that they did, perhaps, too many long-form adventures in 2014-2023, but I hope that the lesson learned from it is not to do too...

Thing is. This approach allows them to squeeze a lot of material into non-Adventure DM products.

Maybe, but the new Forgotten Realms DM book having 51 mini Adventures (plus a "normal" more detailed 1-3 Adventure) is big bang for the...

Perkins definitely wouldn't make that claim, but I really can't think of anyone who touches his track record specifically in terms of...

Agreed, but to divert that back on to topic... The Cosmere books do take philosophy quote seriously, in fact the central struggle of...

The DMG approach to quick low prep.Advenruees seems to be the direction they are going: which may be more useful in practice.

I agree we're gonna get another iteration of Strahd & Ravenloft for 5.5, but we're still too close to Curse of Strahd ReVamped (2020)...

So here's a highly speculative train of thought... We've had several UA releases for unannounced books at this point; the Psion, Horror...

I mean, not with that attitude.

I took it that the core 3 were an "all hands on deck" scenario and the downtime between the MM (which was going to be a 2024 book) and...