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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6535178" data-attributes="member: 70">To date, the official support for 5e from WotC has been significantly less than the support for 3e, considering only the first month's content in Dragon and Dungeon magazine, and not considering online support, since I don't have any kind of record for that.Now, that's clearly a high bar to hit. In many ways 3e was the high water mark of D&D support. I don't expect 5e to reach that level. Or even a quarter of that level. Ce la vie.So what sort of support could have been offered?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An additional introductory adventure or two, for those who don't find the default adventure to their liking or don't want to reuse the same adventure but aren't comfortable crafting their own.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A higher-level adventure or mini-adventure, to showcase elements of the system that aren't obvious at 1st-level.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Guides to adapting adventures from earlier editions to 5e, to overcome the lack of the first two.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A stronger guide to converting, adapting, or creating classes, subclasses, and/or races. Including prestige classes. For instance, there was a fair amount of criticism leveled at the preview of the DMG's variant races pages, with a number of people, including myself, suggesting that the pages were an incomplete preview and that more detailed examples/recommendations/guidelines would be in the DMG. I was wrong. The preview turned out to be the majority of the material.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ditto spells</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ditto items</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The DMG spends a lot of time on creating monsters, so that's pretty well covered. Still, more info on templates?</li> </ul>That's just off the top of my head.Given the lack of 3PP license or policy, I cannot consider any 3PP products (ie Fifth Edition Foes) to be "support", since WotC cannot control, rely, or plan on such products, their nature, or their quality. If 3PP release 100 products, and WotC releases 1, then WotC has 1 supporting product, not 101. Products developed for WotC by outside contractors (ie Princes) ARE official support.</blockquote>

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