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Vecna actually has a lot of great set pieces, even if the whole is disjointed. The Dungeon design is really solid.

I think there is room for both, but for a Setting book like this, 50 low-prep Adventures with Mike Schley maps is better than a 50 page highly detailed adventure would be for showing off the range of stories for the Setting. And being low prep, the amount of details that need to be changed if...

I don't think it is: TSR and WotC have made a number of tries, and it never worked. And WotC actually does professional market research, unlike the TSR dartboard approach to decision making, so am inclined to believe that WotC has solid information thst those who play high level are also in the...

There is one traditional (as in with named and detailed NPC and all the usual informstion) for Level 1-3 that is 16 pages long, and then 50 Adventures spread across 50 pages in the DM book that cover Level 1-13, in a similar style to the 5 sample Adventures in the DMG: each has a map and a...

With the caveat that rhw bookscan data is incomplete and partial, this does show something of the relative success of these books. And WotC has explained the reason this doesn't sell: there are people who play high level, bit the Venn diagram overlap of the group people who actually play high...

Yeah, it is notable that the point where 5E play seems to end organically by and large matches up pretty closely with the transition from Expert box Levels to Companion box Levels, if you look at the conversion guide for older editions to 5E. Given that the audience that passed on Companion and...

Being mistaken about the relevance of bookscan at first is one thing, bit he has juat continually doubled down in spite of all the evidence...

It's easier tonprep for a game with a functional map and a series of Wncointers set up than working from first principles, and it's easier to file the serial numbers off a faction and change a few proper coins than to build things from scratch.

My understanding, from way back when with the Forefly Cortex game, was that it is kind of like if Savahe Worlds and Fate had a baby.

That's precisely what makes the FR so handy for WotC: it has flavor and texture, but basically everything can swapped out 8nto any Setting with standard D&D assumptions.

I think a small book like Forge of the Artificer, similar in style and structure to it and these FR books or the Greyhawk section of the DMG, that ties into Van Richten's Guide, would make a ton of sense. I think we could see thst, and a reprint of the Subclasses in an Everything style product...

I mean, one of the companion books to this involves time travel shenanigans...it fits.

Good for her!

The only truly high level books have been Dungeon of the Mad Mage (which is workable as a catalog of a bunch of high level dungeons, just cut out each Level and run it as an independent dungeon), and Vecna.

Level 13 is high level.

No events for 3E ir 2024, just a timeline advanced and changes made.

10 regional Backgrounds that use PHB Feats, 7 Faction based Backgrounds with Faction based Origin Feats, and Spellfire Adept which has a new Feat.

This book refers readers to the fan wiki.

They are kid of necessary ib media like comic books, too be honest, and game lore is inherently going to be messy as the designers dance around game element events like Adventure books and video games.

The dialogue in the novels is notably absent of British-isms...which is partly down to the level of writing at TSR/WotC, but itnis not possible for me to imagine the characters in the novels talking with British accents...it just doesn't track.