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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8803769" data-attributes="member: 7023887">???WotC has hired new writers for a ton of their 5e books, all the way back to the beginning of 5e.Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat were written by Kobold Press (which explains why I don't like the adventures or art style in those books)James Wyatt worked for M:tG until the Planeshift articles that he made, which caused the following books to be published:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Mythic Odysseys of Theros</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Fizban's Treasury of Dragons</li> </ol>Matt Mercer has been involved in a few official 5e books as well, starting with Waterdeep: Dragon Heist and eventually having his own world and adventures in his world getting published officially in Explorer's Guide to Wildemount and Call of the Netherdeep.F. Wesley Schneider left Paizo to work for Wizard of the Coast, being involved in several products (Ravenloft, Theros)Writers from previous settings have been consulted and involved in 5e (Curse of Strahd, Eberron: Rising from the Last War)The entire reason why Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel even exists is because they brought in Ajit A. George to write a Domain of Dread for Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft and he pitched them the idea for the Radiant Citadel, which they turned into an entirely new book.Both Candlekeep Mysteries and Radiant Citadel were written almost entirely by freelance authors.And Chris Perkins mentioned in the interview videos for Rime of the Frostmaiden that they regularly hire freelancers for their Summer Adventures, and that the starter locations/adventures in that book were written by freelancers.They've regularly brought in people from the M:tG team (Ari Levitch, James Wyatt), brought back people that wrote for previous editions (Weiss and Hickman, Keith Baker), consulted "D&D celebrities" for adventures (Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, Descent into Avernus), hired dozens of freelancers for different books, and even outsourced books to 3rd party creators (Kobold Press, Critical Role).Almost all of their newer books have something "cool, new, and creative" in it. Even the 5e books that I don't like (Strixhaven, Princes of the Apocalypse, Dragon Heist) have plenty of cool and creative things in them. And they clearly are not overly restrictive about hiring newer authors. They don't completely reinvent their entire writing team every other book because that would be insane and wouldn't work, but they bring in new people all of the time.How many D&D 5e books do you own and have you read? Because I own and have read all of them. And there is plenty of creativity and no shortage of newer writers.</blockquote>

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