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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6673197" data-attributes="member: 37579">We really don't know. They haven't said. We don't know the size of the book (likely 160-pages since it's... ahem... only $39.95 compared to the $49.95 the 256-page adventures are) or the ration of crunch to lore.Green Ronin staff have stated that this book is entirely new. So if it did replace the Adventurer's Handbook, it did so before much work was done on the concept.Yes, it would be jumping the gun. So far, WotC has proved they are doing things nothing if not differently. Plus, WotC no longer really have the staff to write any books, and are licencing out every product. So they'd have to find a company capable of writing said giant campaign guide. Green Ronin is exhausting themselves with the current storyline and all their Fantasy Age stuff, while Sasquatch Games and Kobold Press are busy with their own campaign settings and Kickstarters. I'm not sure who'd have the time to add on another giant book. First, if the FR book is a mega-book it'd likely be over 300-pages and thus $60. Be warned. For $50 you get 250-odd pages. Second, they seem to be setting their storylines in the Sword Coast. So expanding to the Dales or Cormyr is unneeded as none of their stories are set there. They could expand into the Moonsea region, where the Adventurer's League content is set and provide options for that, but that would get in the way of the adventurer writers making their own content and "owning" the region.Third, if the books are mostly aimed at players, other than setting lore, what else could they put in a book for the Dales that they couldn't put in a Sword Coast book? There'd be a crazy overlap of backgrounds, races, classes, feats, etc. That'd be a terrible way of differentiating content. If looking for a, say, a Thayan Refugee background neither book is different enough to help tell you where to look. If you cannot find content you want when you need it, the books are more of a hindered than blessing.</blockquote>

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