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So the only metric is success in the marketplace?

I'm not entirely convinced they did the various subsetting properly, or else it means something slightly different than we think. I don't know for sure but I know that things like this are rather challenging to manage given the nature of the data. In particular, the fact that everybody's...

Just so I wasn't going totally on memory I pulled it out to look. SCAG was pretty darn thin, literally and figuratively: It had essentially nothing for several classes (Bards, Druids, Monks, Rangers just got a bit of fluff), nine archetypes, a few cantrips but no other spells, and some...

Hmmm, I think a lot of it was just how thin SCAG was in terms of content other than Realms fluff, so it was essentially two full years before a decent non-AP release happened.

The Willie Sutton defense! :) Like all Greatest Hits albums, it's a classic slot filler, whatever else it is.

Oh yeah, going one way and then the other a few posts later isn't too consistent. Yes, I'd agree with regards to lore. Most of my comments were directed at player-facing content, which I think has to be held to a much higher standard than things that are really only for the DM to use. Yeah...

Certainly, and quite frankly I'm not a huge fan of level 1-15 APs myself, but just because people were begging for something doesn't mean that TftYP's not particularly imaginative conversions of some classic modules or, in one case a direct republishing of something that had already been...

Imagine that, the purchasers of a product saying "hey, we'd like you to release something"....

I think there's a big divide between what WotC releases officially and what's third party content, though the divide is more important when it comes to player content compared with DM content. I'm not saying everything WotC releases is perfect. Lord knows I think they have made some bad calls...

Al'Qadim was really good. It was some of the best material TSR ever wrote.

I'm playing a Variant Human with Polearm Master in a campaign that just started. We're only level 2, but the plan is Level 3 Samurai and Level 4 Great Weapon Master. Let the pain begin!

No kidding, especially in combination with Great Weapon Master!

As I recall, al'Qadim was always in Forgotten Realms, albeit a fairly distant part of it. Sales figures. Fans prioritize "content I want" and aspects like "true to the canon" or whatever factor into it. The bosses prioritize sales figures and don't actually care about the other aspects. They'd...

Absolutely, although many of those modules are rather difficult to get except perhaps in PDF form. Partly it's because the other settings are getting nothing and as @epithet noted, can't even publish on DMs Guild. Fans of that work, correctly, perceive that releases are limited resources. So...

Nice, I'm really looking forward to that. My own campaign world is very influenced by Wolfe, Moorcock, and others writing in that kind of "Dying Earth" genre. It would be great to have a sourcebook on this in 5E.

Yeah, I love those old modules but Yawning Portal was... well... appropriately named. I totally don't get why that was a hardcover. Nice PoD redos of classic modules on DMs Guild? Sure. I suspect they had a production schedule to fill and something wasn't working out.

That is so very, very true.

I could be mistaken but I believe Saltmarsh was retrofitted to Greyhawk. If I recall correctly it was very loosely situated in Keoland but the original module was pretty setting-neutral, like many of those early modules. This map shows the locations, most of which I recall from the WoG boxed...

Desert of Desolation was retrofitted to FR. It was originally released as being setting-neutral. I'm running it now. It really is a very good adventure, though I think that a good-faith update---not a thematically loosely related "spiritual successor" to other IMO often overdone classics as the...

I was very much referring to how successful things were overall. What I meant about "they got lucky" was that I don't think anyone in 2014 would have anticipated the really substantial success that's happened and their released for a while afterwards felt a bit uncertain because it wasn't too...