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5E never got its own setting. 5.5 is the current version of the game. WotC should make a setting for 5E -- now that is 5.5E.

Why wouldn't it? As I stated up thread, the shift away from species to background as more important for characters, and the reduction of importance of species in "monster" NPCs, suggests a world that is more culturally focused and cosmopolitan. That is just an example. There is a lot of implied...

The math isn't different between 5.0 and 5.5, but there are differences in play based on what they changed and how they shifted things. Characters are different for sure, and they underpin the world since the PCs are the focus of play. But even if 5.5 is not "that different" there is still room...

I am a little surprised at how new-setting averse folks here are. No wonder WotC won't ever do anything new.

If the background of your BBEG does not actually impact play, it might as well not exist at all. It's just self indulgent would be storycrafting. Adventures aren't novels. So the PCs should have access to the lore and world building. But infodumps are dry. That means integrating this stuff is...

Another thing you can do is integrate that background into actual information the PCs can learn and/or access otherwise. it could be as simple as Knowledge check charts: roll X, and you learn this much. Etc. But all that background is mostly wasted if the PCs never engage with it, so a good...

I think it is pretty cvlear that what we are talking about here are things like Sword and Fist. Only 3.0 did that.

Write it for playability, not readability.

So, no?

I mean, I don't think we need to talk explicitly about the value of using smart, talking things as antagonists, do we?

I don't own any of those. Are they hard to follow? Are they "wall of text" adventures?

"The Lost City of Z" is done and I must say that the last 20% ish where it is about how people who believe things very much yet fail and then turn to magical systems in order to "succeed" is horribly depressing for me.

The Conspiramid is much more big picture than I am talking about here. I mean when the PCs come to the town or the court or even the dungeon, mapping out how the individual NPCs and/or factions interact with one another on even a micro level.

I think a really interesting exercise might be to "rewrite" a WotC adventure in the accessibility style we are talking about here. What does that look like? Where is the balance?

I don't think we have seen soft bound short player facing books since 3.0

One thing I make for myself that I am not sure I have ever seen in a published module are relationship webs: just a bunch of pictures of NPCs in the situation (I steal headshots from the internet) with a name and basic description, connected to the other NPCs with various kinds of lines and...

What's the significance?

Does WotC usually use PAX to announce the new slate?

The biggest problem with printed terrain is I have no talent for painting.

Yup! Yeah, I am trying to decide exactly how elaborate I want to get.