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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SigmaOne" data-source="post: 6653018" data-attributes="member: 6748799">This is very well put, and sums up my response to the original question as well.Though I appreciate the points other people have made elsewhere that they don't want to have to come up with stuff... D&D, being many things to many people, has a hard time still being many things to many people all at the same time. The splat books that dilute and ruin the game for some are the same that keep it fresh for others.  For me, I have years and years worth of content to plunder. I want to play a Dark Sun game. I want to play an Eberron game. I want to play in Planescape. And I would love to see boxed sets for 5e released for all of these; it would be more convenient for me. And given all the things that has happened in the Forgotten Realms and the fact that that's where we're currently playing, I'd *really* love to see an update that gives us the current state of the realms.  All of this I think goes double for folks who are just learning to roleplay with 5e -- they shouldn't have to do research to get a proper setting presented to them.   But I could easily play in all these settings, and so can newcomers with considerably more effort, using content that's already available. That's to say nothing of creating my own world, or adventuring in a completely undeveloped world which can be just as fantastic. Frankly, I think one of the best things they could to is to create a new starter set every couple of years; refining the process of "getting started" playing D&D into an art. Make it as easy to get into as a mid-level board game. (Frankly many modern boardgames are far more impenetrable to new players than D&D, given that new D&D players don't need to be experts on the rules.) Keep working on developing fantastic introductory adventures, and make it less daunting for new people to DM; and you'll create an ongoing market for the three core books. If the adventures are good, many current players will buy them as well.</blockquote>

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