Recent content by Parmandur

Because they were trying to negotiate representation for people from across multiple edutions: most FR players had not embraced the Spellplague, so no floating islands.

But then they would require more prep work, these are puck up and go.

I mean, it is what itbis: I would note that longer books are not necessarily "unedited", because again, length is a virtue and books are not inherently improved by beong shortened. The Wheel of Time starts with some Tolkienian elements, but overall a closer comparison would be Frank Herbert or...

The thing about Magic is that they do innovate new game pieces that add more toa. Game: FunkoPops are cute, but they only take up space as decoration. Also, Magic mostly makes their moneybfrom casual players, primarily buying at big box or drug stores...

And this is actually still pretty usable, since it covers a lot of specific areas that are not addressed by the new more big picture book, other than Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate and the Moonshae Isles specifically.

You wouldn't know them, they go to a different school.

I do personally love a good thick mass market paperback, so I have felt the loss acutely.

Yeah, a catalog of Wildspace systems and some procedural generation help would have made the book, IMO.

People are tightening their belts, and they are probably pretty exposed to tariffs in their logistics.

I will believe the decline started earlier, but I learned to read in the 90s so mostly I'm just talking about changes I've seen since ebooks took off when I was in College. Heck, there has been a precipitous decline in Mass Market books juat in the past half decade it seems like.

And as you say, Amazon pricing was probably juat as much as detriment: I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the folks who transitioned to buying direct had been prior Amazon customers for D&D products.

Beyond has marketed hard to school clubs, so probably pretty common.

I think Dragon Delves is of pretty good quality, as an anthology all the modules are unburdened by the need of trying to serve a larger plot which tends to be the Achilles heel of a lot of WotC Adventure books. There is one Dungeon-focused module per major Dragon type, each by a different...

YMMV with the pre-made stuff, but for Dragon Delves the designers came in meaning business in terms of Dungeon difficulty.

Yeah, and for books the mass market paperback is becoming an endangered species because of ebooks...but hard copies aren't going anywhere.