Remathilis
Legend
Call out on ToD and WbWL.I haven't gotten excited for an official WotC 5e product in years. This is what I've heard of each of them ...
For all my other complaints about 5e as a system, WotC's products specifically are either low quality or don't interest me (or sometimes both). And this isn't just "the last few releases" it's for the past several years.
- Spelljammer ("incomplete and inadequate")
- Deck of Many Things ("derail your campaign with a luxury box that has a 50/50 chance of arriving damaged - great for lulz")
- Tyranny of Dragons ("re-purchase the railroad site-seeing tour of the Realms")
- Wild Beyond the Witchlight ("get through the entire adventure without combat")
- Call of the Netherdeep ("play second-fiddle to Matt Mercer's NPCs - who can beat the adventure for you"
- Candlekeep and Radiant Citadel ("here's a bunch of one-shots that were written by random freelancers")
- Fizban's and Bigby's ("monster books about the literal most boring monsters in the game")
- Monsters of the Multiverse ("re-purchase the monster books you've already got")
- Planescape ("overpriced box filled with cardboard and not content")
Tyranny is a 2014 product that condensed two books into one. Any complaints about it take you back to 2014.
Witchlight CAN be completed without mandatory combat. You can easily fight things if you want and the challenges are there, but major NPCs and monsters have goals and motivations other than being hp sacks and can be negotiated with if you opt.
You're free to like what you want, but these two sounded like complaints for the sake of complaining.