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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8638743" data-attributes="member: 18">I'm still in two minds re: PF2E because I rather concerned about the inability to use monsters that are much higher/lower level without things getting messy - it's not so different from 4E in that, but I don't think it's yet at the 4E DDI levels of digital support unless you're willing to shell out for Foundry, which I'm not. I think Paizo are building are similar thing though, and I'll probably have another look then. With 4E having that problem I worked around it because you could just take a monster and level it up or down with a few clicks with the DDI, and have all the stats adjust and so on, it was great. So I suspect I'll look again when their digital tools set is up and running.I don't need WotC settings (most of 5E I've run a "300 years in the future" version of Taladas, from very early 2E!), but I am slightly horrified to think of what WotC might do to future settings (esp. PS/DS), given VRGtR, Strixhaven and Spelljammer, all of which had increasingly few pages (256, 224, 192, so I guess we can expect 160 for the next one! I know not really but you know what I mean), and increasingly large amounts of the book not dedicated to, well, anything but the setting.Re: 3PP settings, I haven't seen anything like, hugely interesting for 5E yet. Most seem to be well-established settings that are cool but not for me to run (like Midgard), or new but not really in a way that excites me or sets my imagination going. Weirdly enough I'd say certainly from 3E, and the 5E I've seen so far that 3PP settings, if anything, tend to be go a more trope-y and obvious than WotC settings (like, if they're steampunk, they'll be REALLY steampunk and hit every steampunk trope on the nose, and so on). One of the rarer exceptions being Odyssey of the Dragonlords, which managed to be Ancient Greece-like without just ramming into every Ancient Greek trope at full speed (and indeed seems to have some interesting discussion re: colonialism among other things). Vast Kayiva looks like it might have some potential for sheer bizarreness.</blockquote>

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