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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9038159" data-attributes="member: 6906155">This is both correct and wrong. What WotC has recognised is:a) setting lore is edition neutral;b) you don't need vast amounts of lore to play D&D. The old setting books where written to be read, not played in. The place where you need to have the detailed descriptions is in the adventures that are going to use them.So the 5e "setting books" are about the mechanics of running the game in a setting, lore is peripheral. VGR is a good example. This is a book about running a horror game in D&D. The lore is exemplar material and idea seeds. So really, there is nothing more to say apart from in adventures that make use of a location. So there is never any reason for an additional setting book.In addition, they are trying to avoid a situation where you must have dozens of refrence books in order to run the game. WotC have quite rightly realised this was a con trick to sell books.</blockquote>