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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8470035" data-attributes="member: 6906155">I think SCAG is underrated - I certainly find myself referring to it sometimes. But I do support it with material from FR Wiki, my 3rd edition book, and lots of experience.Likewise, I think that if you know the settings well from MTG, the Ravnica and Theros books work, but without that supplemental info they feel very sparse.Ideally, a good setting book stands on it's own. And by that criterion, only Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Eberron: Rising from the Last War, and Explorer's Guide to Wildemount stand up.Stryxhaven is different to any of those, in that the world beyond the college isn't much fleshed out even in MTG, so we have one small part of a world in great detail. I would call it a &quot;bubble&quot; setting - one designed to support a single campaign. Which is not to say there isn't anything generally useful in it. We already have an Owlin PC in our game, the Stryxhaven backgrounds are a handy fix for underpowered sorcerers, I'm sure the maps could be handy etc..Full disclosure, I was planning on buying the digital Stryxhaven on D&amp;D Beyond in the sale, and am really really bummed that they have excluded preorders. I reckon it's worth $20 but not $30.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 8470035, member: 6906155"] I think SCAG is underrated - I certainly find myself referring to it sometimes. But I do support it with material from FR Wiki, my 3rd edition book, and lots of experience. Likewise, I think that if you know the settings well from MTG, the Ravnica and Theros books work, but without that supplemental info they feel very sparse. Ideally, a good setting book stands on it's own. And by that criterion, only Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, Eberron: Rising from the Last War, and Explorer's Guide to Wildemount stand up. Stryxhaven is different to any of those, in that the world beyond the college isn't much fleshed out even in MTG, so we have one small part of a world in great detail. I would call it a "bubble" setting - one designed to support a single campaign. Which is not to say there isn't anything generally useful in it. We already have an Owlin PC in our game, the Stryxhaven backgrounds are a handy fix for underpowered sorcerers, I'm sure the maps could be handy etc.. Full disclosure, I was planning on buying the digital Stryxhaven on D&D Beyond in the sale, and am really [I]really[/I] bummed that they have excluded preorders. I reckon it's worth $20 but not $30. [/QUOTE]

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