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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 6765190" data-attributes="member: 82779">I am not currently surprised by that attitude.  I was, at the time that I first encountered it.  However, I have a tendency to both hope for the best from people while also expecting the worst from them.  For example, when I meet a new person, I hope we can be friends, but I expect them to be a bullying/backstabbing jerk because that it what life has taught me to expect from people.What I want is probably best described as the following:Each year I would like one conventional and one non-conventional setting until all the established settings are updated.  Ravenloft is my favorite setting, and since you asked what I want, I would want the first year to be FR (which I don't care about at all but which seems to be the most popular conventional setting), and Ravenloft.  The second year could then be Greyhawk (which I, again, don't personally care about) and either Spelljammer or Planescape (those are tied for my #2 spot).Alternately, if they are not going to update my favorite settings, then a new setting would be good.As far as the third party books, until very recently the only 3rd party 5e material that I knew about was the EnWorld magazine.  Perhaps I am still stuck in an older way of doing things, but I had been expecting 3rd party material to actually show up on the shelves of game stores.  At the moment, I haven't had time to check out the third party material that I have recently been informed of (I have finals in a couple of weeks, and each reply here is actually me taking the occasional minor but much-needed break from rereading textbook chapters and doing research for my final research project).  Once this semester comes to a close, I will check out the third party material that a couple of posters here have been kind enough to direct me to.Let's look at the idea of pace from a different perspective, the setting perspective.  FR is the setting that will see material published for it for the next however many years WotC thinks they should.  They have said that they plan to rotate through the settings after a non-disclosed (and likely not yet established) period of time.  This means the rotation to the next setting (and which setting that is has also not been disclosed, if they even know what it will be yet) may be two, three, five, or ten years off, and that setting could easily be another one of the settings that I don't care for.I also find it equally likely that if they do rotate to a new setting that I actually like, that it will only be a partial rotation and that part of the releases will still be FR material simply because it is the most popular published setting.Also, just because they plan to do it doesn't mean it's going to happen: I've been planning to eat more healthy foods, but as I'm typing this a frozen pizza is cooking in my oven.</blockquote>

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