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I think part of it for me is that disassociated resource management generally has a player facing mechanic around its replenishing that's handled by the routine of gameplay. At the start of my turn I roll d3 to gain Clarity; when I Short Rest I regain Ki (focus?); I know my spell slots regen on...

I think the key to the critical analysis Ben is pointing out is that a significant proportion (or all, I haven't read them) of the 1 page adventures in the book boil down to "go here and kill things" with little interactivity provided. It would have been far more interesting to, say, have...

I dont think that it at all. The OSR community (whatever broad definition that entails) goes the opposite way: "here's a situation, lets leave it entirely up to player creativity and curiosity to figure out how to solve it." Regarding the siege, an OSR take might do something like not have nice...

There's also ways for everybody to come together and work on one thing; the Gather Info downtime activity which is basically "lets lay the groundwork for the next phase of adventuring" and cooking/fishing which is just adorable.

Funny, my players highlighted the structure and ability for everybody to contribute to high stakes social events without having to be “in the conversation” as a high point.

And they’ve got a link to the draft campaign frame up there and on the Ghostfire site. Edit: oh cool, they got the artist of the DH maps to redo the Drakkenheim one in that style.

Man, I don't even know how to respond to that. Feels like endless goalpost shifting, I dont think it's worth continuing this discussion.

That's categorically false, everything I just listed is directly out of the Wildemount book.

Nobody is saying Exandria is the be-all-end-all of settings. Within "standard D&D high fantasy published by WOTC" it's pretty decent, has some specific stuff going for it enumerated herein, and Wildemount in particular is a much better then average setting handbook for a DM to actually use...

Within WOTC official settings, this wasn't a thing until Eberron; and has continued being a bit of a back and forth in WOTC main line products (witness all the kerfuffle around WOTC "modernizing" species along this line in the 5.2024 products). You're also skipping over the general emphasis on...

People in general and in fan-style communities in particular seem to have difficulty using "I" statements. Eg: "I think, I feel..." and you instead get a lot of this posting subjectivity in the frame of absolute truth. And of course when people push back on that style of assertion, things spiral.

We're getting smoother with combat as we do more, people were making a serious effort to weave their Awesomeness Narration into the mechanical resolution tonight. We also discovered that starting a combat with Victories makes a huge difference when you make the Intuition roll to notice the...

I will refer you back to my bulleted list in post 75.

Yup. If a) you're already in the market for a WOTC published 5e setting book (a subset of D&D customers), and b) don't have a reason to already pick one of the other ones, and c) generally want a "High Fantasy" world, Wildemount is genuinely good and of the 5e books I've read the most chock full...

Dude, you're just making stuff up here to crap on CR and the setting. My post included an example of the sort of adventure seeds the book provides, which reach all the way up to "make a difference in the literal war between empires kicking off that will have continent level ramifications." Every...

I generally dont really care about the backdrop of gods in a setting apart from what is relevant to the characters, and any themes that might help with using their agents or goals within play. Having a fairly concise pantheon that's got a reason to be somewhat distant is Good for Play imo. The...

"Through the ashen skies of Creation Primordial, the gods came from beyond the ether, new and formless. Looking on this roiling realm, they saw potential for great beauty, great strength, and the chance to learn their own place in creation."

To respond to OP in a wider scale, again as somebody who has watched/listened to (0) CR episodes: Explorer's Guide to Wildemont specifically as one of the few published WOTC campaign settings for 5e does the following I really like: It's "new." The only pre-existing lore is what you see from...

My personal gold standard for Factional play is of course Blades in the Dark. When I've been building setting type stuff for any other games, I find myself trying to actively mirror that format. In a more traditional format, the way that the 4e Neverwinter Campaign Setting operationalizes a...

Right! That's the city in Call of the Netherdeep that had a gazetteer and hooks that were more interesting than the actual campaign plot, lol.