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<blockquote data-quote="neobolts" data-source="post: 6533528" data-attributes="member: 65244"><p><strong>5) Lack of Digital Tools</strong></p><p>Not looking for digital tools, particularly digital tools from WotC with a monetized and/or cloud model. (I remember 4e when they trashed and bricked the good tools and went with Silverlight. Suddenly I was without the features I wanted. I was paying them for this and they blew it big time. I cancelled my account and returned to more traditional prepwork and am happy.)</p><p></p><p><strong>4) No PDFs</strong></p><p>I too would like PDFs for current books.</p><p></p><p><strong>3 & 2) Nothing to Look Foward To & No Book Diversity/Waiting</strong> (essentially the same thing)</p><p>They clearly have a plan (experimenting with digital tools, avoiding splat book bloat) but I would love if they were more open about their plans. I want to feel engaged in the upcoming book schedule and long term plan. There is one book on the horizon. I don't need an avalanche of books, but there are edition-to-edition classics they could have on the schedule: Oriental Adventures, Psionics Handbook, Manual of the Planes, etc. Also, how about more monster manuals? Monsters are the one area that adds to the DMs toolbox without bloating the rules. Can't have too many monster choices!</p><p></p><p><strong>1) OGL</strong></p><p>An OGL would be nice. Especially from a publisher perspective.</p><p></p><p><strong>And to answer your follow up... No, my interest isn't waning.</strong> We ran LMoP towards the end of 2014. We are running Numenera currently. And next we are running a 5e campaign in an original setting. So we haven't gotten much play out the game, how could we be tired of it already? <strong>The DMG has only been out for 2 months, I haven't even finished my cover-to-cover read of it yet.</strong> While I am hoping for more from WotC...it's coming from a place of enthusiasm, I'm a million miles away from "waning."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neobolts, post: 6533528, member: 65244"] [B]5) Lack of Digital Tools[/B] Not looking for digital tools, particularly digital tools from WotC with a monetized and/or cloud model. (I remember 4e when they trashed and bricked the good tools and went with Silverlight. Suddenly I was without the features I wanted. I was paying them for this and they blew it big time. I cancelled my account and returned to more traditional prepwork and am happy.) [B]4) No PDFs[/B] I too would like PDFs for current books. [B]3 & 2) Nothing to Look Foward To & No Book Diversity/Waiting[/B] (essentially the same thing) They clearly have a plan (experimenting with digital tools, avoiding splat book bloat) but I would love if they were more open about their plans. I want to feel engaged in the upcoming book schedule and long term plan. There is one book on the horizon. I don't need an avalanche of books, but there are edition-to-edition classics they could have on the schedule: Oriental Adventures, Psionics Handbook, Manual of the Planes, etc. Also, how about more monster manuals? Monsters are the one area that adds to the DMs toolbox without bloating the rules. Can't have too many monster choices! [B]1) OGL[/B] An OGL would be nice. Especially from a publisher perspective. [B]And to answer your follow up... No, my interest isn't waning.[/B] We ran LMoP towards the end of 2014. We are running Numenera currently. And next we are running a 5e campaign in an original setting. So we haven't gotten much play out the game, how could we be tired of it already? [B]The DMG has only been out for 2 months, I haven't even finished my cover-to-cover read of it yet.[/B] While I am hoping for more from WotC...it's coming from a place of enthusiasm, I'm a million miles away from "waning." [/QUOTE]
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