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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malmuria" data-source="post: 8613933" data-attributes="member: 7030755">In terms of the format/length, I feel the target audience might be players with plenty of money to spend on hobbies, but not a lot of time.From the other thread:So the adventure book provides 12 episodic adventures with cliffhangers, making up one “season” of content.  Then the monster book will have enough hooks, possibly lairs, to continue with more seasons into higher levels.This might be part of the strategy to provide more “bite sized” adventures that they mentioned some time ago.  I think the feedback was that most people play 2-4 hour sessions, increasingly online for obvious reasons, and that campaigns might not last more than 10 sessions before of scheduling or wanting to try something new.  Along with that, they are releasing more products now.  Early in 5e, one adventure book was the theme for 4-6 months, so it needed to provide at least 30 sessions of play.  But now, if they are releasing more adventures, and new players have the entire 5e catalogue to go through, each adventure book can be fewer sessions worth of play with the idea that by the time they are done with that they will be ready to buy the next adventure book, or one of the old ones.  You also feel more a sense of accomplishment and value if you play through the entire adventure, vs if your campaign falls apart midway through a longer AP and you end up not being able to finish the story arc.   And of course shorter content works well for streaming, etc.I think it makes sense as a strategy, though I can see how it would not work as well for players who play more regularly or for longer periods of time.</blockquote>

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