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<blockquote data-quote="schneeland" data-source="post: 7803889" data-attributes="member: 6900337"><p>That is, indeed, one of my major gripes with 5e - I really had hoped for new editions of the campaign setting books (revised according to the progressed time line). However, there are two problems that probably stop WotC from doing so:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If I look at my old books, the amount of lore on the Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft or Dark Sun is excessive. Even though I loved them back in the day and have even bought back a few, I think a campaign setting books/boxes would need some prudent pruning in many places to get that down to fewer pages (I would say: one book, but then I cannot imagine how you would fit all Forgotten Realms content into one book that is not a massive tome)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The general assumption for 5e seems to be that everybody loves to play adventure path-style campaigns as published by WotC. And the sales numbers seem to indicate that they are not entirely wrong about that. Campaign settings, however, always seemed much more useful to me when you fit smaller modules into them or run homebrew campaigns. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Generally, the publishing model now seems to be that every book mixes content for different audiences, so "there is something for everybody in every book" (a.k.a. you have to buy all the books, even if you are interested only in a fraction of the content). So a dedicated book on a setting might not be a good fit for their current publishing model.</li> </ol><p>So yes, I would love to see revised campaign setting books/boxes for 5e, but I don't see it happen any time soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="schneeland, post: 7803889, member: 6900337"] That is, indeed, one of my major gripes with 5e - I really had hoped for new editions of the campaign setting books (revised according to the progressed time line). However, there are two problems that probably stop WotC from doing so: [LIST=1] [*]If I look at my old books, the amount of lore on the Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft or Dark Sun is excessive. Even though I loved them back in the day and have even bought back a few, I think a campaign setting books/boxes would need some prudent pruning in many places to get that down to fewer pages (I would say: one book, but then I cannot imagine how you would fit all Forgotten Realms content into one book that is not a massive tome) [*]The general assumption for 5e seems to be that everybody loves to play adventure path-style campaigns as published by WotC. And the sales numbers seem to indicate that they are not entirely wrong about that. Campaign settings, however, always seemed much more useful to me when you fit smaller modules into them or run homebrew campaigns. [*]Generally, the publishing model now seems to be that every book mixes content for different audiences, so "there is something for everybody in every book" (a.k.a. you have to buy all the books, even if you are interested only in a fraction of the content). So a dedicated book on a setting might not be a good fit for their current publishing model. [/LIST] So yes, I would love to see revised campaign setting books/boxes for 5e, but I don't see it happen any time soon. [/QUOTE]
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