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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 9510066" data-attributes="member: 463">None of the options fit my feelings really.1. Quality has generally not been good enough, I've bought way too much stuff and thought "meh". There was an especially marked decline from around when Mearls left D&D, although I did like the Essentials Kit which I think postdates him.2. I'm not looking for a ton of options, and I think XGTE filled in the obvious GM side gaps to make the game complete - usable encounter tables, good downtime rules are the obvious ones, the common magic items were nice too.3. The big problem is adventures. WoTC has mostly published campaign adventures, and they have ranged from bad to ok. There ought to be a lot more decent quality short official 5e adventures by now. Third Party stuff is often much better. Odyssey of the Dragonlords is way better than any of the many WotC campaign adventures I bought. Tales from the Yawning Portal has good old adventures but the maps & conversion were so weak I'd often go to the old 3e or even 1e stuff for reference.4. I can't really comment on the campaign setting books like Spelljammer Dragonlance & Planescape, but I've not heard much (anything?) good about them.Compared to the better Third Party publishers, WoTC is lacking in quantity, but it's the poor quality that is really noticeable. The 2014 5e releases were a very solid core set of books, but they seem to have been coasting ever since.</blockquote>