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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 9178213" data-attributes="member: 20323">My observation: Yeah, 5e products are better designed for usability than 1e products. But compared to stuff being produced by indie/OSR designers today, WotC's 5e products have a loooong way to go before they're as usable to me as those products.I like the big concepts behind their work. I think many of their fantastic locations are superbly designed. I love much of the art/maps. Those things save time.BUT... Having to write in 30-40% new content because an adventure isn't sufficiently fleshed out? Not having an index and missing an important chart in table of contents so I have to hunt it down? Gaping holes in the narrative that require in-depth reading, note-taking, reworking, and creating new connective tissue? Taking 500 words to say something that could be distilled to a paragraph? Referencing other books or other pages on the same book, requiring flipping about, when a tidbit of info could have been included inline in the text? Monster stat blocks bloated with combat info while the essential character of the monster is hidden in text? Those things require more time.So far, the WotC products I've used have been fighting themselves in terms of usability.I feel I'm much MORE the target audience of indie/OSR products than I am of WotC currently – largely because of (Certain) indie/OSR's products better usability. Not all indie/OSR products think about this, so I still need to be selective, but have had better luck than with WotC's products which consistently have mediocre usability.I still have the alt cover of Witchlight and look forward to running that some day, but as a huuuuuge Planescape fan after reading the reviews for Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse I decided not to get it, so Witchlight was my last WotC purchase back in Sept/Oct 2021.</blockquote>

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