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<blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 6553506" data-attributes="member: 6701829">This has been a recurring question for a few pages now - perhaps it would help us avoid talking past each other if we can mutually agree on a shared definition of &quot;support&quot;. We all have our preferred type of support, but if we go with a basic &quot;anything that's not the core books that adds to the game or helps DMs or players play it&quot;, than yes, the products that have been released so far do constitute support.An entirely different debate is the amount of support that is preferable for 5E going forward. That of course depends on the audience WotC is targeting this time around, and I'm convinced that that audience is not us. I think they're looking to expand the brand amongst casual players, who probably won't buy books past the core three anyway, if they even purchase that much. If that's the market they're catering to, Catan-style &quot;4 expansions over 20 years&quot; makes a lot more sense - you don't want 40+ D&amp;D books at your local Barnes and Noble to confuse or intimidate anyone.Mind you I think we'll get more support than that. But it's likely going to be one or two non-adventure products a year. There's not a lot of crunch to be added to the game - I don't think we'll ever see 5E prestige classes and with feats being meatier but less critical pieces of the game, I don't think we'll see the same explosion in them that we saw previously. There could be always be more spells, subclasses, monsters and magic items, obviously, but those will come in time - and with the latest batch coming to us free this May, no less.There's 40 years worth of adventure and setting material for D&amp;D that needs very little work, if any, to use with 5E. I'd love to see Dragon and Dungeon come back as much as the next gamer but honestly it would just be adding to the treasure horde of material I'm never going to get through as it is already.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trickster Spirit, post: 6553506, member: 6701829"] This has been a recurring question for a few pages now - perhaps it would help us avoid talking past each other if we can mutually agree on a shared definition of "support". We all have our preferred type of support, but if we go with a basic "anything that's not the core books that adds to the game or helps DMs or players play it", than yes, the products that have been released so far do constitute support. An entirely different debate is the amount of support that is preferable for 5E going forward. That of course depends on the audience WotC is targeting this time around, and I'm convinced that that audience is not us. I think they're looking to expand the brand amongst casual players, who probably won't buy books past the core three anyway, if they even purchase that much. If that's the market they're catering to, Catan-style "4 expansions over 20 years" makes a lot more sense - you don't want 40+ D&D books at your local Barnes and Noble to confuse or intimidate anyone. Mind you I think we'll get more support than that. But it's likely going to be one or two non-adventure products a year. There's not a lot of crunch to be added to the game - I don't think we'll ever see 5E prestige classes and with feats being meatier but less critical pieces of the game, I don't think we'll see the same explosion in them that we saw previously. There could be always be more spells, subclasses, monsters and magic items, obviously, but those will come in time - and with the latest batch coming to us free this May, no less. There's 40 years worth of adventure and setting material for D&D that needs very little work, if any, to use with 5E. I'd love to see Dragon and Dungeon come back as much as the next gamer but honestly it would just be adding to the treasure horde of material I'm never going to get through as it is already. [/QUOTE]

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