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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darjr" data-source="post: 9098682" data-attributes="member: 52905">[MEDIA=youtube]RYkNPB5LYN8[/MEDIA]transcript in spoiler tag.[spoiler]future of dragon Lance spell Jammer andmore of your favorite d d campaignsettings I love the future earlier thismonth at Gen Con I had the chance tospeak with Jeremy Crawford the leadrules designer of Dungeons and Dragonswe talked about a ton of differenttopics mostly surrounding the upcoming2024 rules revision but I did get thechance to talk about a topic near anddear to my heart that is camping settingbooks the topic came up in the Presssuite at Lucas Oil Stadium with a fullarray of planescape books sitting behindus and as we discussed the 2024 rulesrevision Crawford mentioned that astrength of this 2024 rules revision wasthat it meant that Wizards didn't needto quote unquote reset the clock andrevisit old material to make itcompatible with a new addition his quotewe can focus on new Innovative books andwe can also revisit things a littlelater on he said because we know peoplestill can get curse estrad we don't needto do a new version of ravenloth wemight certainly return to the domains ofdread but it means that we can again goon brand new adventures because Crawfordmentioned ravenloth I took the chance tobring up the recently released campaignsetting books I pointed out that thebook seemed to be very popular and askedhow they were received in terms of salesso our campaign setting books are verypopular Crawford said people lovewhether they're classic ones or new oneslike the magic the Gathering bookssetting books that we've done andthey're often among our most popularbooks and we love them because they helphighlight just how wonderfully Rich DNDis a little bit later on he said and sowe feel it's vital to visit thesesettings to tell stories in them and welook forward to returning to them so wedo not view these as one shotsa little while into the conversation Ipointed out that one of the biggestcriticisms of the campaign setting booksis that players want more frequentreturns to Worlds like Dragon Lance andravenloth and planescape Crawford'sresponse is that while the d d designteam wants to keep exploring the d dMultiverse which means exploring bothnew places and returning to familiarbeloved places they're also mindful ofhow much content they put out in a givenyearso like many people Crawford said I lovedeep dives into various settings becauseI'm a d d fan first I've been a d d fansince I was six years old and yeah it'sso fun to get all of that detail but wealso know after years of looking atgroup play patterns if we give you toomuch information really all we've doneis given you a bunch of material youhave no time to use and so our approachis to spread it out more to give peopletime to actually play the adventuresthey bought Crawford went on to explainthe D D's current model is a play firstapproach and that they put out materialat a pace that players can actually playthrough a lot of it Crawford and the DNDdesign team's approach is that the realmagic of d d isn't the worlds that areexplored in the books it's the storiesthat take place at the table the onesthat no one could imagine when preparinga game Crawford said play is when thereare those moments that surprise even thedungeon master and make people gasp orcry or laugh half or shutter and Terrorif it's a horror game and so for usthat's why play is so important becausethat is the heart of the entire game nowif you've ever watched some of ourvideos you know that we're big fans ofthe d d campaign setting books and we'refrustrated by the lack of support thesesettings get however we will admit thatCrawford's explanation is a good onefive rule books a year is a lot ofcontent to get through and most tableswouldn't even be able to get throughthose five books even if they playedevery weekend now personally I thinkthere's probably solutions to this maybeD D Beyond or more digital only sourcebooks perhaps but I'm guessing thatthey've run the cost analysis on thosetype of methods and they realize that itjust doesn't really work or make sensefor them I guess there's a real delicatebalance that Wizards is trying to pulloff at least we know that we're gettingmore setting focused products on the waystarting with the 2024 Adventurefeaturing vecna later this year whichwill take us through the entire d dMultiverse or at least a parts of itthat we've explored in the past so whatdid you think of Crawford's Commons letus know in the comments and don't forgetto hit those like And subscribe buttonsthank you[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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