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The two best known D&D settings, GreyHawk and FR, began as homebrew campaigns. Like Ravenloft, Dragonlance began as an adventure (or AP to retroactively apply the terminology). I am not sure but I think Dark Sun and Spelljammer were engineered as products. Planescape is a hybrid, a "corporate"...

@JmanTheDM: Not sure if it is very comparable. The issue with LCGs comes up because there is a competitive scene; FFG determines what cards can be played. With D&D, any given group can decide "what's in" so far as splat goes. Furthermore, the core books for 3E and 4E (PHB1 and DMG1 in the...

Alright, now that we have established that DMZ2112 personally, individually, without implication to anyone else whatsoever has no use for 5E setting guides we can get back on back topic ... :D One of the reasons I picked Ravenloft for the poll is that Ravenloft (as the name suggests) began as...

Third-party materials vary wildly in production values. As a separate point: It is pretty disingenuous to list all those materials when the subject is WotC releases.

Ah so all you meant was that the PDFs of older materials suffice for you personally?

Sounds like the first AP might have actually been Shadows of Yog-Sothoth.

Oh no, my friend. Here's where you made the claim: That's where you assumed the burden. My response simply asserted skepticism about your claim and the lack of evidence supporting it. But let's make sure we aren't talking past each other. Here's what I am NOT arguing: new players will never be...

I don't think they have any interest in buying PDFs to answer such questions. If we assume they will look for the question electronically, they will head to a forum or more likely a wiki. BTW expressing incredulity never shifts the burden of proof.

Because you want to play a character who can lift benches full of wenches and smash down reinforced doors?

This is a very strong point and does not bode well for setting guides in 5E's future. Could you expand on this point?

I don't think that is a realistic approach to 5E's market, which is far wider than the demographic who find decades' old material from older editions appealing. Only inasmuch as there is nothing about publishing one that is mutually exclusive with publishing the other. To me, that's beside the...

I should have clarified that I meant "dead" in terms of WotC's 5E releases, not for Pathfinder or other RPGs or for third-party publishers of 5E material. Also - I think Paizo often repackages setting material originally published in APs into short, specific products that get republished again...

I'm new here so please bear with me if I don't have a firm handle on the local jargon. I am assuming HotDQ/RoT is considered to be an "adventure path" (AP). I am also assuming that an AP is (most simply) defined as a self-contained campaign driven by a single high-level plot arc. The implication...

Ugh ... not me. Why redefine D&D history according to Paizo product branding?

So is an "adventure path" just a published campaign?

So is A1-4 an "adventure path"?

Incidentally, is anything besides "module" or "published adventure" meant by "adventure path"? If not, is there some reason the Paizo brand is driving the jargon?

I wouldn't, no more than I would milestone selling gear or carousing. A milestone is a significant plot point, not just a measurement of a regular interval. Think of it like this, many NPCs spend thousands of hours doing things the PCs might decide to spend time doing but never level because of...

Well -- no matter what was contemplated by the word "adventure" (there is a hint in the text that it could refer to a single session) in Rules Cyclopedia, it is certain that default 5E advancement is quicker. For my own purposes, I think milestone leveling is probably a more rational approach...

@SirAntoine Can you give some numbers to back up this calculation? Are you taking into account earning XP for looting treasure and from other sources? "On the average, characters should go up one experience level approximately every five adventures." - Rules Encyclopedia p. 129 Using your...