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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 7897388" data-attributes="member: 6895991">1. Me.2. You sent them demon lords away didn't yo? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Now, pun aside, i am oldschool also, with similar timeline on when i started etc. It was 2e for me, no active playing during 3e, but much CRPG and skipping 4e, while liking 5e as the best edition ever and heavy into PnP again.I can understand your concerns up to a point.You said you do something like complete homebrew. I use (Greyhawk atm.) official settings as a backbone for my homebrew, means i take the names npcs etc. and parts of the official lore, but i make my own thing.For me Mordenkainens and Xanathars is like some optional stuff,  i may integrate or may not. But besides that, those two products are into supporting Wotcs FR stuff mainly, they are not specifically tailored for it, but it goes into that direction. So for me these books do not offer much fluff, because that is what i decide on my own.So for your homebrew, that no one at Wotc is aware of, which is only remotely based on some official gameworld, if i read and interpreted your post correctly, how do you expect them to cater specifically to you?What do you, as an experienced DM who can do his own homebrew world and has got a favourite theme for it also, need from Wotc? I bet you are able to convert stuff from almost any edition properly to 5e.Otoh there are tons of potential new players, players which do not know nothing about the classical campaigns, (which partially do not meet todays Zeitgeist anymore) and for them it will not matter if something is in Greyhawk, wilderlands or the new setting they now bring out which name i already forgot again.These potential customers do not know how to convert stuff from older editions, and it might even confuse them, so from Wotcs marketing standpoint i cannot see them doing anything wrong.For my part i am glad if they bring out only products which i might opt to use, instead of "mandatory" stuff.</blockquote>

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