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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8736535" data-attributes="member: 5948">Hmmm.Golden Vault: That'll probably be a no.  Not a GM so I don't but adventures, and I'm generally not a fan of adventure compilations anyway.Glory of the Giants:  Probably no, but we'll see.  I'm on the last stages of playing through Storm Kin's Thunder right now so I'm a bit giant-ed out, plus I've never been a huge fan of D&D's take on giants in the first place.  Besides, Fizban's didn't really do it for me - it seemed to be an attempt to release a lore book applicable across every campaign setting (to avoid 2e/3e-type setting fanbase splintering and product overspecialisation i guess), but it only really seemed to homogenise and weaken all of them.Book of Many Things: I honestly don't know what to think about about this one.  We've seen the previews in UA, but how do you fill an entire book with this stuff?  They specifically talk about it being themed around the Deck rather than being another Of Everything book, how do you come up with enough themed material without completely grasping at straws.  Genuinely baffled regarding what this book looks like.  I'd need to know more before deciding.Phandelver campaign: as above, I don't buy adventures, and the prospect of yet another adventure set on the bloody Sword Coast makes me yawn uncontrollably when the whole of Faerun is out there untouched.  I mean, it's certainly not a bad idea, but surely the time to release this was years ago when it was clear that Lost Mine was a bit of a modern classic and that first-timers using the starter set would want to extend their Phandelver campaigns?  It seems weird to be releasing it a full year after Lost Mine went out of print and was replaced.Planescape:  Well, I'm excited to see it, but the proof will be in the pudding.  I'm just reading through Spelljammer now and while it's gorgeous, you really don't get much actual meat for your money.  I think i kinda hate the 3-books slipcase format, or at least i do when the books are so thin and scanty and you're paying for slipcases and dubiously useful DM screens rather than playing material.  I genuinely object to buying an RPG product where there's more thickness of cardboard than paper.  Given the lead time, I suspect the format of Planescape is locked in now and it's too late to change, so this will probably be a bare-bones planar adventure sourcebook rather than a Planescape setting, in the same way that Spelljammer is a minimalistic spelljamming sourcebook rather than an actual campaign setting in the manner of Rising from the Last War or VRGtR or anything from previous editions.So it's not looking like a particularly exciting year on the WotC front for me.  Still, I've already probably got half a dozen 3pp kickstarter products I'm expecting to arrive that year, so it's not like i'll be short of material...</blockquote>

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