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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6513427" data-attributes="member: 7006">5E in no way "needs" new setting books-- "needs" as in "required to be made because otherwise DMs have no other options"-- because we have all the setting books we "need" on dndclassics.com.The only thing those products are missing for 5E which would be "helpful" to DMs are NPC stats.  That's it.  Everything else-- 95% of material in the book-- is story and fluff... none of which is edition-dependent.  You can buy and use those products right now.  Hell, I'm using the 3E Silver Marches setting book for my 5E game and haven't had a single moment of feeling like I was hamstrung because it wasn't a "5E book".People had been clamoring for YEARS during 4E that not having any of these older products available for purchase was *such* an issue... that they were stuck just buying nothing but 4E products because that's all WotC was offering to people, and my god think of all the money WotC was leaving on the table because they'd give them their first-born for the opportunity to pick up those better older products.  But now that WotC *has* made almost 40 years worth of material available for purchase to any player that wants it, all that we hear now is "We need *new* stuff!"  And that "I want to give WotC all my money, but they won't take it!"When the fact is... the whole reason they built the 5E game the way they did was so that you *could* buy all the adventures and settings from the past 40 years and just spend like 30 minutes before your session making any obvious monster adjustments in the module as necessary, but otherwise run the adventure relatively as-is.  And by doing so... they don't need to spend the countless man-hours basically just re-writing all of these supplements over again just in order to layer 5E stats into it.If you want new adventures... have you tried using any of the adventures you already own and just take a few moments to tweak perhaps the quantity of monsters in the encounters?  If you haven't, you should give it a try.  You might find that all of this product you already own more than covers what you need for your campaign.</blockquote>

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