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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zakael19" data-source="post: 9791516" data-attributes="member: 7044099">To respond to OP in a wider scale, again as somebody who has watched/listened to (0) CR episodes:Explorer's Guide to Wildemont specifically as one of the few published WOTC campaign settings for 5e does the following I really like:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's "new." The only pre-existing lore is what you see from the CR campaign, it doesn't have decades of existing stuff that can feel a little overwhelming (and leads to absurdly long timeline entries with little or no relevance to play).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It has a nice set of 4 major civilizations/power groups, two of which have simmering conflicts going on internally; two of which are at active war with each other. To quote from the book's opening:</li> </ul>(It does have suggestions for how to prioritize/deprioritize or even drop the large scale war out of your campaign depending on what you and your players want to on-screen though)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It has lots of suggestions on how to weave this conflict into your campaign.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's got the good "ancient magic flying cities flew too close to the <s>sun</s> gods and caused an empire-collapsing event." Always fun.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It has lingering effects of that collapse and the God's War that followed in the very geography, as well as cultural elements.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It brings in the excellent and concise 4e pantheon, updated for 5e.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It has pretty strong Factions, each with Goals outlined, Relationships presented, and useful Figures of Interest to onscreen with their own sub-goals and personalities. Many of them are in conflict with each other, giving clear places for PCs to step in.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It has a strong Gazetteer (honestly perhaps a little much! it goes and goes for a single continent), with adventure seeds and hooks liberally sprinkled throughout (this isn't unique, but is a bare minimum for a good setting guide). Most of those hooks tie back to regional factions. Here's an example:</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It has a mobile settlement on the backs of giant tortoises.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It has a good remix of the classic tropes around species.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It has suggestions for how to take the core backgrounds from the 2014 PHB and tie them into the factions here to give PCs goals and relationships to drive play.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's got 4 pretty alright adventures tied to the 4 major areas to help start campaigns off.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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