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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magister Ludorum" data-source="post: 7994964" data-attributes="member: 6862253">All this discussion about TOA as a setting book has made me go back and read that portion of the book. (I'd never read it before, since I was playing it until a few months ago.) If I wanted to run a game set in Chult, I would find it more than sufficient for that purpose. Of course, I run Greyhawk from the folio edition and hate too much detail (or dog forbid "metaplot") in setting material. Others prefer more detail. This obsessive argument about whether it is a sufficient mini-setting book is ridiculous. You can clearly run a Chult game using only this material. I suspect, but can't prove, that most GMs could. If you are a GM who prefers to go have all the details (including the price of every single article of clothing <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) written out by someone else, you clearly won't be satisfied.When the Eberron 5e book came out, I was overjoyed that the material on each nation had been reduced. IMNSHO, the 3e book had way too much detail. I didn't want to have to memorize endless amounts of facts created by someone else and worry about my Eberron being in conflict with the facts as published. I was preparing to run an Eberron game using this version of the setting, but my daughter decided to run her own game set there and I'll just play instead.Like it or not, the amount of detail that appears in these mini-settings is what we're going to get from WOTC. I think that's a good thing. Others would like more. I would be very surprised if WOTC changes their policy any time in the near future. And I would be willing to eat a copy of the book (metaphorically, anyway) if they decided to publish a 3e style FRCS.All that said, I would love to see another SCAG style book for the Moonsea or the Sea of Shining Stars. I would buy it; I would read it; and then I would leave it on the shelf to collect dust. I strongly suspect that the reason WOTC doesn't produce more Forgotten Realms setting info is that their market research tells them that, aside from a few non-representative people on the internet RPG forums, most customers aren't asking for it.</blockquote>

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