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Because the well contains good ideas. And they have to go somewhere for them. It’s not like any of those old settings are remembered fondly, because you can’t remember things from before you were born. Sounds like you only looked at the pictures before forming your opinion. I’m sure there will...

Saltmarsh lost a lot of its atmosphere by being over-adapted by people unfamiliar with the original literary sources (Moonfleet, Jamaica Inn). Infinite Staircase has been much more sensitively updated. For example, it’s clear that the writers went from Red Nails to 1950s Sci Fi B movies doing...

You still are missing the point. It doesn’t matter that original DS was good and Birthright terrible (although true) because current players don’t know anything about any of them!!! What we will get, in effect, is a completely new setting, loosely based on something that existed in the largely...

In the 80s they were viewed as distant threats that could easily be ignored. Now they are upon us.

Fallout was only created because they couldn’t get the Gamma World license.

Really, because I hear it described that way quite regularly!? Environmental collapse and exploitation, totalitarianism.

I find watching people play D&D like watching people play sport. Doing it is fun, but I don’t see the point in just watching.

As I said before, how DS did in the past is irrelevant, because current D&D players weren’t born then. It is in effect a new setting using themes that were ahead of their time in the 1980s, but are very topical now. Anyway, I rate the probability of WotC using the slipcase approach for any...

There is no such thing as a sure bet. Unless you make a spelljammer of it, in which case it's a sure bet it will fail.

The market already tested that format. It failed.

in order of probability, I would rate rank it as so: 1) a CoS sequel (possibly based on Gryphon Hill) 2) the Thayan adventure (if it didn’t get cancelled when Perkins left) 3) Dark Sun, to accompany a setting book (2 book pair) 4) something not mentioned above

I have not, but adventure formatting is due a major overhaul.

The times when you use elaborate props in game are when you are running a epic "event level" adventure (I make my own). Whilst the FR book includes adventure material, it's is short and forgettable. There are no obvious props, aside from regional maps, that a DM is going to want. Likewise with...

It’s basically Paizo’s fault, since they are responsible for selling these things in a serialised magazine format, giving them a reason to hold back critical information on NPCs. WotC copied the format (and hired former Paizo writers), even though everything was being published in a single volume.

It’s because the suit is so preposterous it makes Hasbro look like the good guys. And nobody wants that.

HAT2: Edgin Casts a Spell.

Somehow, Strahd returned.

It might be more accurate to say Romantasy is assimilating pulp fantasy, not killing it. I’m always suspicious of genre labels. Sometimes they can help you find something you like, but just as often they cause you to overlook something great.

If they were going to do a setting, why not FR? It’s a much bigger deal. My bet is Strahd 2: The Vampire Strikes Back.

These things are generally adventures, not setting books, I think?