D&D 5E I believe a slow and light product release can cause more harm in the long run.
FormerlyHemlock
Hero
An analogy from the computer world might be, "Who cares if Microsoft introduces breaking changes in IE 11 that prevent your company web site from functioning? If you don't like the new version, you don't need to upgrade to it!" (Or in the open source world, "If you don't like the direction oAuth 2 is going, you don't need to switch to it!") In both cases though, there exist people who will loudly make their displeasure known, with some justification, because the value of the networks they'd previously bought into is being degraded. (C.f. Metcalf's Law.)
Frankly I do not agree with the OP, I have a shelf full of 3e stuff that I never used, mostly spat books and setting info. I have a similar shelf full of 4e stuff but i did get more use out of them.
Ok, I have used the odd town or village from a campaign setting but have also taken towns and villages from adventures. I am curretly preparing to run Palace of the Silver Princess on Fantasy Grounds because i bought it 30 years ago and never used it. i am wavering for after that between the Lost Caverns of Tsojcont, Princes of the Apocalypse or Temple of elmental Evil. I would like to run Against the Giants and Expedition to the Barrier Peaks because back in the day I was homebrewing and never got to play the classics. The lack of game store in Ireland in the eighties and nineties did not help.
I have started Shackled City twice but real life has always got in the way so far. I would not care if I never saw another D&D book for the next five years but on the other hand I would likely be all over another board game as good as Lords of Waterdeep or even as good as Conquest of Nerath.
Ok, I have used the odd town or village from a campaign setting but have also taken towns and villages from adventures. I am curretly preparing to run Palace of the Silver Princess on Fantasy Grounds because i bought it 30 years ago and never used it. i am wavering for after that between the Lost Caverns of Tsojcont, Princes of the Apocalypse or Temple of elmental Evil. I would like to run Against the Giants and Expedition to the Barrier Peaks because back in the day I was homebrewing and never got to play the classics. The lack of game store in Ireland in the eighties and nineties did not help.
I have started Shackled City twice but real life has always got in the way so far. I would not care if I never saw another D&D book for the next five years but on the other hand I would likely be all over another board game as good as Lords of Waterdeep or even as good as Conquest of Nerath.
Heavy3p0
First Post
Personally i don't like rules bloat and rarely use any material beyond the core books, so the release schedule is fine with me. I am unlikely to purchase many supplements anyway so i am not the target market for many of the products they produced with earlier editions. I would like a 5E Greyhawk book and if they started to produce old school adventure modules i would buy them.
cmad1977
Hero
I'm pretty sure the site minimum is 2 per week.
delericho
Legend
Not really. Despite everything, Internet Exploder is still a fairly key piece of software for lots of people - a problem with that is more akin to the MM being faulty.
But the complaints about bloat are more like complaining that your computer's slow because you've chosen to install a whole lot of software that you never use - either uninstall it or at least stop it running in the background!
Harry Dresden
First Post
Or stop buying it and/or downloading it.
Harry Dresden
First Post
Well if multiple threads on the subject keep popping up then maybe some people find it to be a problem?
