D&D 5E Are you buying less 5e Material?

[Zardnaar]

Planning on buying less. Tasha's and Mordenkainen kinda messy and the adventures are average and collect dust.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Just bought our first house, so money is tight, but I havent been interested in APs since Frostmaiden (which was supposed to be ''horror'' but kinda fell flat on this point, IMHO). I've bought Tasha's but I think its the first 5e book I regretted buying. I used to buy every 5e books, but now I'm more on a look out for 3pp material; AiME was the pinnacle of my collection-ing time.

Fizban and Dragonlance peek my interest, but I fear I'll have to wait to find my taste in a WotC product. But that's okay.

 

[Neonchameleon]

Out-nerding you all. I took my 5E product chart, and color-coded it based upon my ownership:

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Anyhow, as you can see, the more recent years, the more purple (haven't/won't buy) - but there's quite a few upcoming products that I'm interested in.

Honestly what I see from that is that you buy a consistent average of about two to three books per year - and as WotC has been putting out more this hasn't changed.

 

[Neonchameleon]

Eh, seems to me there are plenty of less niche character concepts that have yet to appear in 5E. Elemental-focused spellcasters being the most baffling omission (I guess they must have been discouraged by the reception to the relevant UAs).

I think that this is one of the places where having D&D Beyond to provide feedback on what people do is a net negative. The Storm Sorcerer is a very definite elemental focused spellcaster and is IMO the third worst subclass in the game. The two worst are, of course, the Berserker which gets you killed and the PHB Beastmaster that turns the game into an escort mission. The storm sorcerer is the third worst because if you actually try to use its abilities, especially heart of the storm, you are placing your incredibly squishy sorcerer right in the front lines. So its abilities are either niche for when things have gone pear shaped or simply suicidal to use. Frankly the Four Elements Monk is a better subclass.

Therefore I expect the Storm Sorcerer, who is a definite elemental focused caster (and I'd expect the elementalists to be sorcerers not wizards), is not only one of the least popular subclasses in the game but one of the most abandoned ones. And WotC are looking at that and seeing a lack of demand.

I'm curious what else you think is missing.

 

[JEB]

I'm curious what else you think is missing.

Some kind of cold-themed caster (hi, Elsa). A barbarian that gets faster when raging (usually called a dervish, but let's not if we can). The Satire bard (jester) that never made it out of UA. Dedicated acrobat and/or skill-expert rogue. Elemental/primordial warlock (we even have an NPC example with the firenewt warlock of Imix). Dragon warlock (Fizban's was the obvious opportunity there, but nope).

I'm sure most of those can be achieved with the right build or reskinning - though by that argument, we also didn't need a lot of the subclasses we did get - but they're still archetypes that would benefit from official coverage.

At this point, though, I don't expect any of those to appear any sooner than 2024, if at all. I guess maybe if there's another product that particularly suits the theme (Dark Sun could be an excuse for elemental stuff).

EDIT: Having typed all that... if you want to discuss this topic at length, probably best to switch to another thread or PM, realized this is a pretty big tangent from the thread.

 

[DND_Reborn]

I voted less, but at this point I am buying none. If the OP updates to not buying any then I would change my vote to that.

 

[Mercurius]

Honestly what I see from that is that you buy a consistent average of about two to three books per year - and as WotC has been putting out more this hasn't changed.

That is partially true, although I mainly only bought Candlekeep just to buy something, and Ravenloft because I liked the alt cover and setting books.

Two other factors play a part: I haven't played much in the last few years, and simply that most of the recent offerings I haven't been excited about - pretty much going back to Theros.