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<blockquote data-quote="Burnside" data-source="post: 8654924" data-attributes="member: 6910340"><p>I bought and used a lot more 3rd party adventures earlier in 5E's run (from DMsGuild and DriveThruRPG), because there was less adventure material in general available for 5E, particularly shorter adventures that were not updates of earlier edition material (which for the most part I don't use, since 1E and 2E adventures don't appeal to me).</p><p></p><p>Now that the edition is mature, there is more material available than I will ever use, so 3rd party stuff in general now has to be VERY appealing or feel a particular need, whereas in 2018 or earlier, I would pick up 3rd party stuff just because it seemed like it'd be good or was by a designer I knew and liked. I have so much stuff I know I'll never run, both official an unofficial. I also backed several 3rd party Kickstarters and the results were mixed tbh. I will say that some of the best 5E adventure material I've run has been 3rd party stuff, particularly when it comes to shorter adventures.</p><p></p><p>In terms of WotC stuff, I no longer buy physical copies of splat books (Fizban's and Monsters of the Multiverse I only own on DNDBeyond, for example). The setting books I will probably also start doing the same, but I did pre-order a physical copy of Spelljammer. I own physical copies of all the Magic: The Gathering setting books and tbh I don't need them and in retrospect should have bought those only on DNDBeyond. Official adventure books I still buy both physically and digitally, as those are the ones I'll read cover-to-cover while prepping them and prefer to be able to read the physical book while doing that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Burnside, post: 8654924, member: 6910340"] I bought and used a lot more 3rd party adventures earlier in 5E's run (from DMsGuild and DriveThruRPG), because there was less adventure material in general available for 5E, particularly shorter adventures that were not updates of earlier edition material (which for the most part I don't use, since 1E and 2E adventures don't appeal to me). Now that the edition is mature, there is more material available than I will ever use, so 3rd party stuff in general now has to be VERY appealing or feel a particular need, whereas in 2018 or earlier, I would pick up 3rd party stuff just because it seemed like it'd be good or was by a designer I knew and liked. I have so much stuff I know I'll never run, both official an unofficial. I also backed several 3rd party Kickstarters and the results were mixed tbh. I will say that some of the best 5E adventure material I've run has been 3rd party stuff, particularly when it comes to shorter adventures. In terms of WotC stuff, I no longer buy physical copies of splat books (Fizban's and Monsters of the Multiverse I only own on DNDBeyond, for example). The setting books I will probably also start doing the same, but I did pre-order a physical copy of Spelljammer. I own physical copies of all the Magic: The Gathering setting books and tbh I don't need them and in retrospect should have bought those only on DNDBeyond. Official adventure books I still buy both physically and digitally, as those are the ones I'll read cover-to-cover while prepping them and prefer to be able to read the physical book while doing that. [/QUOTE]
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