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Message: <blockquote data-quote="graves3141" data-source="post: 7666312" data-attributes="member: 84351">So, I finally had time to listen to the whole interview.  Perkins should be a politician because he talks with words without ever saying anything definite (I know he can't talk about a product that hasn't been announced, he said it in the interview).What I got out of the interview is that setting books as we have known them are gone.  WotC isn't going to make a book or boxed set of just setting material like the 2E FR boxed set or the 3E FRCS, it's just not going to happen with 5E (which, is a real letdown for me to put it mildly).Instead, it sounds like they are going to bring back small sections of campaign settings via the APs.  Originally, WotC talked about having two books for each AP... one for the player, which will end up having new races and spells and probably some setting specific info kind of like how the "Player's Guide to Faerun, Player's Guide to Eberron, etc... do it."  The other AP book will have the adventure in it (obviously) but hopefully done in such a way that it also gives you info on a particular region of the campaign world where the adventure takes place.  That's sort of what PotA already does in my opinion, it gives you an adventure in a sandbox format so it's also sort of like a regional sourcebook too.I guess this might work out alright but I'd still prefer to have one book dedicated to just setting/world information like the 3E FRCS. And the guy giving the interview seemed way out of his league.  Made me wonder if Perkins was the first person he'd ever interviewed.</blockquote>

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