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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9176329" data-attributes="member: 23751">Right, but that's what 5e settings get compared to.  In 5e they typically do not release any further supplements to a setting, so we have to compare what they release to the entire 2e version. WotC's choice not to expand settings means that 5e settings that were also 2e settings will always fall flat. Flatter than a pancake! <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=":)" />That only really matters to those who readily have 2e Planescape at their fingers.  Otherwise the 5e setting is all they have.  People here like to point to 3pp as an answer to WotC's lack of setting supplementation, but that also falls flatter than a pancake since the vast majority of D&D players(per WotC) don't go online to look stuff up on forums or 3rd party sites.People will also now point to WotC saying that they are going to be revisiting settings already released, but that really doesn't mean much.  Why? Because of 5e's anemic release rate.  It has taken them 10 years to give us a handful of settings, which at the same rate of release means 10 more years to get a single supplement for each setting AND each setting needs significantly more than one supplement.10 years to get just the Sword Coast of the Forgotten Realms.  10 more  years to get say the Heartlands.  10 more years to get the East.  10 more to get the South. 10 more to get...Now they could release additional setting books, but that just means that we then lose a book like Tasha's or an adventure that would have come out.  The only way that they can keep releasing adventures as often as they do, and the rare crunch book and also a decent number of setting supplements is for them to up their release rate, but WotC doesn't seem willing to do that.</blockquote>

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