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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 5873862" data-attributes="member: 29398">Hear hear to this.What everyone's been ignoring up till now is that back in the 1e era much of what we now see as "splat" came out in bits and pieces each month in Dragon Magazine; and you could choose whether or not to buy each issue.  You could then choose whether or not to include anything therein in your game.Later, some of the highlights (well, what TSR thought were the highlights, anyway) became the first splatbook: Unearthed Arcana; and one expansion book every 5 years is a rate I can live with.Problem is, Dragon is now hidden behind a subscription paywall.Unfortunately for the OP, I think 5e is being designed in such a way as to make splatbooks unavoidable: there's no way they can possibly include all the various modules and dial settings in the initial releases.  What I'm hoping is that the splats are organized in a way that makes sense - each one dealing with something specific (e.g. The Book of Exploration Rules and Modules) is far preferable to each one covering a smattering of all kinds of stuff (e.g. the Book of Compiled Ideas From 2014) - so I can buy what interests me and ignore the rest.Regardless, adventures outrank all of these in importance as far as I'm concerned; and I hope they can design some good ones.  5e's success depends on it.Lan-"whether or not I adopt 5e I'll take a good adventure wherever I can find it"-efan</blockquote>