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Message: <blockquote data-quote="warfteiner" data-source="post: 6743182" data-attributes="member: 6802715">Tia - thank you for your insight, but I think you may be mis-remembering a key thing about the marketing surrounding the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide: at no point did it say it was "for" the Rage of Demons storyline - it said that it was "compatible with" the Rage of Demons storyline.It's a simple lead from one to another, but I think it's also important to note that not only did Rage launch at Gen Con, but Gen Con was about two weeks earlier than normal this year and the book was about two weeks later in the usual fall release pattern (based on previous years of D&D releases).  While it's true that Wizards was able to work some magic (har, har) in 2014 so that the Monster Manual was at the show, this won't be a guarantee every year... especially when so many elements work against us in that regard.Lastly: on the story origins and spells point, well, it's always possible to find a spellbook with some of the season 2 spells inside.  There may even be other adventure-based rewards for such things in the future, but who knows.  It may not be perfect (as not every class uses a spellbook, nor does this 'unlock' races) but Faerun is a big and wonderful place.  There's no need to have all the toys in one chest, in my opinion <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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