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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 8171071" data-attributes="member: 4881">RE:  The discussion about the SCAG being considered a "rulebook" and expectations around purchasing setting/adventure books and using small amounts of the content in them for homebrew campaigns.I think there is tacit acknowledgement by WotC that the setting/adventure books aren't looked at as a "general purchase" item in their lineup.  My reasoning is that both Xanathar's and Tasha's (and at least one of the monster books) contain material previously printed in other locations and repackaged for consumption by a different pool of purchasers.  If WotC expected that the SCAG or Eberron books were owned by a large majority of their fanbase they wouldn't be recycling parts of those books in other books.This leaves me with the following list of "general purchase" hardbacks suitable for all campaigns.PHBDMGMMXanatharTashaVoloMordenkainenIf you consider that the first three were released more or less upon the start of the new edition, this leaves us with 4 general consumption books released over the next 5+ years of time...or less than 1 book a year.  This is the reason why some people (like myself) feel that 5e is slow.Note, however, that this particular discussion is about the total output of the D&D team, not just the general consumption output, so everything I say above doesn't affect the fact that they have produced lots more than 4 books in 5+ years.</blockquote>