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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 9774415" data-attributes="member: 6988941">It's not just "noise" if you are keen to be able to find lots of different people to play with. A vast number of people joined the hobby with 5e and its a familiar system to far more. You can virtually always get a group together.The question is what value published materials hold. For me personally I've encountered enough 5e stuff that I don't really need any more "for inspiration and ideas" products and I've got plenty of stat blocks at my beck and call, so my interest in most published campaigns or monster books is diminished.Maybe I could be sold on a 5e total conversion products with an IP I care about. I still buy some official WotC campaign modules when I feel the network and branding values (being able to find lots of online resources and being able to pitch a campaign that people recognize by name and are already interested in), along with whatever affinity I have for what the specific product is trying to do, outweigh the slog of trying to decipher a WotC module. I could be sold on a 3rd party 5e module, but the same factors are at play and they don't generally have the massive promotion to have the same selling points in networking and branding. I no longer hold out hope that a published module will actually make my life as a DM easier.Which is all just to say the products have become more noise to me as the value and use I find in published products in general has waned.</blockquote>

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