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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7072793" data-attributes="member: 2525">Thanks! It's a good interview.So he mentions some other useful stuff. Here is a brief summary of some of the things I noted:He says Yawning Portal is about 100 hours of play, and about 14 levels.  Woosh that's a lot. Going to take my group a year to get through this one at the rate we play! <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=":)" />He mentions that they take the surveys serious and will change direction based on feedback. He was getting feedback on people wanting shorter adventures. He also was getting feedback that people wanted a good range of adventures, including higher level content. He mentions 5e is still blowing them away in terms of sales and popularity.  It's well beyond even their wildest imaginations when they wrote it and they feel it's really revived D&D in pop culture.He says they now have a good set of 5-6 complete pre-published campaign adventures and it's time to add more variety.  Sounds like maybe they will go to one pre-published complete campaign and then other type of product to deliver content for the year. They want to keep in mind the entire shelf of books at a game store or on your home shelf and the variety of books you'd see there rather than too much of one thing (pre-published campaign adventures from level 1 - 15 for example). They do not want to duplicate non-adventure products that appeared in prior editions.  They wanted to do a monster book, but not a monster manual 2.  They want to deliver things that people want, but not what people expect, and in a way to upgrade what people expect. For Yawning Portal, they thought about including B1: In Search of the Unknown or B2: Keep on the Borderlands or Village of Homlet from Elemental Evil. What did and did not make the cut for Yawning Portal was rough. There could be a "More Tales from the Yawning Portal" in the future theoretically. In fact Mearls says he hopes this sells well enough that he gets to do a second book.Yawning Portal will be useful in helping people convert other adventures.  Things like "How do you deal with this sort of thing that there are just no direct analogous rules in 5e" and "what to do with an ogre that had levels in fighter" and things like that.Yawning Portal is intended for any setting and not "officially set in Forgotten Realms".   They have Eberron, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Forgotten Realms guidelines. This includes moving Dead in Thay over from Forgotten Realms.  He also says, "Even though we don't have an official Greyhawk yet..." which made me smile that he used the word "yet" though he didn't place any emphasis on it. He mentions they are looking at all the settings, and they are aware people like the classic settings and want them brought back.</blockquote>

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