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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6672981" data-attributes="member: 7006">I don't disagree that other people such as yourself are fine with taking minimal information from a section of a world-spanning book and creating a campaign out of it.  If it works for you, that's awesome.  But I will say though... a potential reason why WotC might not care to go in your direction first (a world book rather than a kingdom book) is that if you are willing to take the 2 pages of a single location in a 200 page book and create a campaign around it (by just filling in all the gaps you obviously were going to have by making your own stuff up)... they might be more inclined to think that you are more than capable of taking one of the older world books (like 4E) and just making up and filling in the gaps of 5E by what you get from the other 5E products.  If very little has changed within Turmish in the 10-15 years from the 4E book to the current 5E timeline (just pulling this area out as an example)... how really useful is it to reprint those 2 pages of information with the half-dozen(?) small 5E changes that occured in those 10-15 years?  Are those six 5E changes worth reprinting the other 90% that is unchanged?  Especially when the DM is going to be making up so much other 5E-era stuff anyway just to fill in the missing gaps?It's the same reason why I find the idea of printing a 5E Eberron Campaign Setting book to be kind of useless if they don't advance the timeline.  Both the 3E book and 4E book go over the exact same information at the exact same time with only a few small changes to take into account things like eladrin and dragonborn.  Do we need to have the Five Nations described again a third time if nothing has changed?  I personally do not see the point from a consumer point of view.The same holds true with a 5E world book.  If each kingdom or area across Faerun takes up so little page count in the book that barely any substantive changes that are worth mentioning in those 2 pages have occurred in the 10-15 years since the 4E book... why bother reprinting it?  Or more to the point... does that service enough player needs moreso than a much more detailed single location within the Realms (for those unlike yourself who don't want to have to fill in and make up all the details that are missing in your traditional world book?)I don't know what is better-- for both the playerbase and for WotC's sales projections.  But I will say that I seem to recall a much more positive response for the Neverwinter mini-setting book for 4E came out than the complete Forgotten Realms world book released for 4E.  And if WotC's sales numbers bore that out... I can certainly understand why they might continue to go in that mini-setting direction.</blockquote>

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