These screencaps were posted by GM Leigh (of Mage Productions) on Twitter after being showed on WotC's Twitch stream, presented by Kate Welch and Nathan Stewart. Note the old Saltmarsh trilogy references!
Saltmarsh is not mostly about boats and seasickness. It's one of the greatest series of adventures ever. There are some who say it was the best beginner adventure ever. I know you're disappointed that this isn't something else, but I think you have this one pegged wrong.
So let me understand. When me or other posters say wotc is not doing well in not supporting more campaign settings for 5E, the standard answer by the majority on these forums is 'you don't need that, check dmsguild or your father's library for the old fluff/stuff, it is still completely applicable!'. Stuff that, regarding Mystara or Birthright for example, is so old that has never been updated since AD&D 2nd edition.
Now that wotc is (maybe) modernizing Saltmarsh for 5E, after having done exactly the same thing just a couple of editions ago (check 3.5 DMG2 chapter on Saltmarsh), they are issuing "one of the greatest series of adventures ever. There are some who say it was the best beginner adventure ever.".
I would say, coherently with the answers I received: 'you don't need that, check dmsguild or your father's library for the old fluff/stuff, it is still completely applicable!'. Moreover because you now have TWO beginner boxes, so you don't need other support for beginners.
So I would like to understand, is right when wotc decides to support old stuff but is it not right when I ask them to do the same for older one??
So let me understand. When me or other posters say wotc is not doing well in not supporting more campaign settings for 5E, the standard answer by the majority on these forums is 'you don't need that, check dmsguild or your father's library for the old fluff/stuff, it is still completely applicable!'. Stuff that, regarding Mystara or Birthright for example, is so old that has never been updated since AD&D 2nd edition.
Now that wotc is (maybe) modernizing Saltmarsh for 5E, after having done exactly the same thing just a couple of editions ago (check 3.5 DMG2 chapter on Saltmarsh), they are issuing "one of the greatest series of adventures ever. There are some who say it was the best beginner adventure ever.".
I would say, coherently with the answers I received: 'you don't need that, check dmsguild or your father's library for the old fluff/stuff, it is still completely applicable!'. Moreover because you now have TWO beginner boxes, so you don't need other support for beginners.
So I would like to understand, is right when wotc decides to support old stuff but is it not right when I ask them to do the same for older one??
And yet, we still somehow see regular complaints about them "breaking promises" that they never made. lolYup, their work seems delayed slightly: this is why they avoid promising specifics, life happens.
Yep. Not sure why they changed it. All the old pronunciation guides had sa-HWA-gin, as did the voice-overs in Dungeons & Dragons Online, which is where I learned how to pronounce it.
If this is based on Saltmarsh, and the U series which is set in Greyhawk but they set this in FR, a lot of Greyhawk fans are going to be upset. Seriously this silly, FR has a major old school adventure that is widely seen as one of the best, Desert of Desolation, but instead they largely bastardize adventures from other settings, but twisting them for FR.
If this is based on Saltmarsh, and the U series which is set in Greyhawk but they set this in FR, a lot of Greyhawk fans are going to be upset. Seriously this silly, FR has a major old school adventure that is widely seen as one of the best, Desert of Desolation, but instead they largely bastardize adventures from other settings, but twisting them for FR.
Kind of odd to argue about stealing adventures from other settings by using an Adventure that wasn't originally based in FR and was transplanted there as an example.If this is based on Saltmarsh, and the U series which is set in Greyhawk but they set this in FR, a lot of Greyhawk fans are going to be upset. Seriously this silly, FR has a major old school adventure that is widely seen as one of the best, Desert of Desolation, but instead they largely bastardize adventures from other settings, but twisting them for FR.