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i'm not sure why everyone thinks 15 people is a skeleton staff :D. they aren't creating a new game from scratch...they have roughly 40 years of content! (settings/monsters/rules). and a 2 year lead in on this project. i've pretty much moved on from wotc as content creator at this point. dm's...

@Maldavos the 'solution' you seem to have is that everything is fine...wotc has produced plenty of 5e product-perhaps bordering on producing too much :D. further, this third party stuff you keep talking about is just that a bunch of talk...this is not 5th edition material...not compatible(which...

@Henrix why would you pay 30 bucks for hoard? this is a very good question . the decision to go hardcover alone was a bad one (increases the cost and adds little to no value) and also sets a terrible precedent...modules now cost 30 bucks apiece? ouch ^^;... @am181d why not do something...

before i got the physical edition of phb i prob would have paid 20-30 bucks for digital. but in my roll20 game i find myself flipping back and forth thru the physical book more than i ever would with a digital version (i played for a bit with the basic rules...and searching for this or that...

i keep ignoring the list because wotc ignores the list. giving me playtest materials (which again wotc isn't promoting at launch) feels like just that-a bunch of playtest materials. so the actual 'official' modules are mines and hoard...that's it. the 3rd party stuff isn't 5th edition-it is 3.5...

third party stuff is at present 3.5 stuff that is 'compatible' with the 'latest edition' of the 'world's greatest roleplaying game'. these are not 5 e products(altho they hint at being just that).... there is no ogl(again why not?). the lack of an ogl is actually more understandable than the...

@Henrix and i agree... i mean i think homebrew can work and work very well (and it doesn't have to work in a traditional sense for it too 'work' -if that makes sense :D). but it just isn't my cup of tea (errr...ale :cool:) at this point with 5e. and again on mines (which i have played and...

well that's true...but we shouldn't just give them a free pass-oh hey the company that just had the best selling book on amazon only has 15 people working on this project (cry me a river right?). and again they are outsourcing modules anyways....they had to know they needed more content. not to...

yeah rests are super dicey...my party had just finished a long battle and we went to rest (with watch). got ambushed by seven goblins... watchperson fails dc and is taken out. everyone else still asleep in their tents. first guy out that wakes up is shot down. that leaves 2 sleeping pc's....on a...

yeah the coding/backend side must be incredibly complicated...but i sort of thought that was what they were working on all these months :D.

@am181d not to put too fine of a point on this but if i bought phb on release there is little to no chance i would buy starter set for mines of phandelver. now this leaves me with one module- hoard. there is another module tyranny coming out november 4th. phb released on august 19th. so between...

yeah got to echo what most are saying... the beta just isn't that useful of a tool at this point. i have one character creation tab i can fool around with a bit (i still have to use phb to fine tune the character/understand what the nuances are). the end product could be awesome (something like...

i'm not really arguing against homebrew and it really doesn't matter if i was (i can't imagine all the worldbuilders are going to stop due to a comment in a thread :blush:). onwards ! i don't think anyone believes there is too much product for 5e :D. so we are left with most people saying...

this really isn't a knock on homebrew campaigns thread (i'll let others do that...just kidding :D). more frustration than anything else here. and again i speak as a new player not as someone familiar with wotc product (i know what forgotten realms is only in the vaguest ways...and i like it-what...

Maldavos i pretty much consider all 'homebrew' worlds to be inferior (some might be good...most of them definitely are not). but with a new edition i definitely consider all homebrew material to be inferior. the mechanics are new...mearls and company are still answering rules questions (some of...

i think the book would have been best if they had presented some sample ecologies/ecosystems. maybe an example of a swamp or forest and what kinds of creatures would naturally dwell there, how parties would encounter them..how the creatures would interact with the party and other creatures...

well two if you bought starter set...and if you like hoard (again reviews of this are generally lukewarm). but for new players and returning ones-players and dm's just getting familiar with the rules-is converting a module or creating your own (and this does go back to the absence of a dmg) even...

thanks for reply and i've actually got scourge of the sword coast ...problem is i'm not interested in playtest materials at this point. these modules were designed for testing...these are not phb modules. i mean just looking thru the pre gens generates confusion. i mean there is undoubtedly a...

i'm a huge fan of 5e dungeons and dragons but am i the only one feeling that the release schedule is a bit...slow :mad:. and i'm not talking about dmg specifically (im a player not a dm so the dmg isn't a must). but i am wondering where are the modules? at first i thought my group (we are 10...

Morrus yeah and i think it's interesting but we can't just look at social media in a vacuum. if say paizo is engaging their customers directly (thru website) then this might explain the disparity in numbers. without an explanation we can't read much into the figures (other than wotc is roughly...