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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 8931976" data-attributes="member: 42040">Right. I'm going off the examples of the 21 other 5e products I've purchased and read very completely. While some of them are good, there was definitely a drop-off in quality (for my tastes) in the past few years. I do not think that I should be required to purchase and read each book before deciding if it's suitable for my needs. I can read passages, reviews, sample chapters, etc., and make an informed decision.Nope. It was a WotC production. Chris Perkins, Jeremy Crawford, and the entire team (with some Matt Mercer help) were all involved. Which one? Hoard of the Dragon Queen - I purchased and ran and am well within my rights to shoot it down. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The others - being the random assembled anthologies?  Yeah, I'm good to dismiss it as something that's not interesting to me. When I can flip through a book and see that there's 10 pages for an adventure with a single fight and just a bunch of fan-fic holding it together, I know I'm not interested.It's garbage, IMO. Here ya go for my in-depth analysis.  <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/rime-of-the-frostmaiden-post-mortem-spoilers.682833/" target="_blank">D&D 5E - Rime of the Frostmaiden Post-Mortem (Spoilers)</a> Look, I can tell when basic things are left out of a product (ship combat in Spelljammer). I can look at a page count and tell that a decent team should be able to get that content in there. I'm a professional writer. I have designed game content. If they can't meet the readers' expectations despite having literally millions of dollars and the best RPG design team on planet earth, they are doing something wrong.</blockquote>

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