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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9473780" data-attributes="member: 93670">I think that you are looking at it the wrong way, both the original comments about wanting to see/hear about things that support the GM or make their role easier as well as the book about hosting parties that focuses on things for your guests to do.&nbsp; Take the very simple example of the way the second bastion video talks exclusively about how players make use of it &amp; how players will interact with it &amp; compare it to the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/giving-an-ad-d-feel-to-5e.679228/post-8243611" target="_blank">2e DMG talking abou</a>t why striking the right balance of enough but not too many magic items is critical for the GM.&nbsp; The video did not even attempt the most token of brief nods towards why wotc thinks the GM will find bastions useful while doing so even though they mentioned things they could have highlighted as reasons for the GM to be excited about bastions had they gone further into depth on those areas rather than spotlighting it for players.Your book on hosting parties covering things for your guests to do is a bad analogy because the equivalent would be a book on hosting parties that talks about how a particular style of shoe will be better for a particular dance often enjoyed by guests at a party.&nbsp; Sure it might be reasonable to mention that high heels are going to be bad at an outdoor party taking place on a grass covered lawn &amp; that it's good to warn guests of the lawn walking expectations, but the book about hosting a party should be written towards the idea of expecting a would be party host as the reader.&nbsp; Likewise any advertisement &amp; hype for that book on hosting parties should be aimed at making those would be party hosts say &quot;oh, I think that is going to be useful to me&quot;.&nbsp; It might not be out of place if some of the advertising &amp; hype for that book on hosting parties&nbsp; is focused on how much party guests might enjoy the resulting party, but it would be quite worrisome if all of that advertising &amp; hype were focused on the guests.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9473780, member: 93670"] I think that you are looking at it the wrong way, both the original comments about wanting to see/hear about things that support the GM or make their role easier as well as the book about hosting parties that focuses on things for your guests to do. Take the very simple example of the way the second bastion video talks exclusively about how players make use of it & how players will interact with it & compare it to the [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/giving-an-ad-d-feel-to-5e.679228/post-8243611']2e DMG talking abou[/URL]t why striking the right balance of enough but not too many magic items is critical for the GM. The video did not even attempt the most token of brief nods towards why wotc thinks the GM will find bastions useful while doing so even though they mentioned things they could have highlighted as reasons for the GM to be excited about bastions had they gone further into depth on those areas rather than spotlighting it for players. Your book on hosting parties covering things for your guests to do is a bad analogy because the equivalent would be a book on hosting parties that talks about how a particular style of shoe will be better for a particular dance often enjoyed by guests at a party. Sure it might be reasonable to mention that high heels are going to be bad at an outdoor party taking place on a grass covered lawn & that it's good to warn guests of the lawn walking expectations, but the book about [I]hosting[/I] a party should be written towards the idea of expecting a would be party host as the reader. Likewise any advertisement & hype for that book on hosting parties should be aimed at making those would be party hosts say "oh, I think that is going to be useful to me". It might not be out of place if [I]some[/I] of the advertising & hype for that book on hosting parties is focused on how much party guests might enjoy the resulting party, but it would be quite worrisome if [I]all[/I] of that advertising & hype were focused on the guests. [/QUOTE]

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