D&D 5E (2024) No 5.5 AP Yet?

[mamba]

When I read AP, I see Adventure Path. That's a Paizo 'thing' and that pretty much stopped for D&D when Paizo moved to PF. Some Paizo AP have been released for 5e: Abomination Vaults and possibly the Kingmaker Bestiary...

Everything official D&D 5e is called an 'adventure', or "...an adventure in an anthology...".

AP stands for adventure path, so you understood it correctly. Not sure what is misleading about something you understand.

An adventure is something shorter than an AP. The stuff in the anthologies are adventures, Rime of the Frostmaiden or Curse of Strahd are APs, to distinguish them from 16 page adventures.

What is the difference between the Abomination Vaults 5e AP and, say, Dungeon of the Mad Mage that makes the former an AP and the latter an adventure?

 

[sevenbastard]

Just give me a sandbox of slightly interconnected location based adventures with a homebase that has some mild intrigue.

It is not that hard.

 

[tetrasodium]

AP stands for adventure path, so you understood it correctly. Not sure what is misleading about something you understand.

An adventure is something shorter than an AP. The stuff in the anthologies are adventures, Rime of the Frostmaiden or Curse of Strahd are APs, to distinguish them from 16 page adventures.

What is the difference between the Abomination Vaults 5e AP and, say, Dungeon of the Mad Mage that makes the former an AP and the latter an adventure?

I think that there is a qualitative difference between the Paizo APs & the wotc HC adventures. The biggest and most important difference is that one is very much designed for the GM to run it and maybe includes a section with player options. In contrast though, the other places servicing a reader who reads it while thinking about playing it very high and sometimes at the expense of the gm trying to run it.

 

[tetrasodium]

AP stands for adventure path, so you understood it correctly. Not sure what is misleading about something you understand.

An adventure is something shorter than an AP. The stuff in the anthologies are adventures, Rime of the Frostmaiden or Curse of Strahd are APs, to distinguish them from 16 page adventures.

What is the difference between the Abomination Vaults 5e AP and, say, Dungeon of the Mad Mage that makes the former an AP and the latter an adventure?

I think that there is a qualitative difference between the Paizo APs & the wotc HC adventures. The biggest and most important difference is that one is very much designed for the GM to run it and maybe includes a section with player options. In contrast though, the other places servicing a reader who reads it while thinking about playing it very high and sometimes at the expense of the gm trying to run it.

 

[bedir than]

Their skill sets suggest they are.

Aren't Haek and Merwin more mechanics nerds while the other two focus on lore?

 

[Reynard]

Just give me a sandbox of slightly interconnected location based adventures with a homebase that has some mild intrigue.

It is not that hard.

They should do one of these for each tier. You start in Phandelver. At 5th you move to 10 towns. At 10th you are off to the Aether Sea and when you hit 15th you land in Sigil!

 

[Morrus]

How would a 5.5 adventure path differ to a 5.0 adventure path?