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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8170665" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p>Except for all the new people who don't know Ravenloft beyond what's in CoS. Especially in such a worldbook includes new rules of some sort, new archetypes, new races, new monsters, and/or new spells.</p><p></p><p>And even if it's not Ravenloft, TSR produced a zillion worlds. Take a look at Eberron: Rising from the Last War. It had all sorts of world info, plenty of character options, <em>and </em>a chapter-long adventure. Now imagine that for Dragonlance, or Planescape, or yes, Ravenloft--or any of the other settings they produced. Yes, gone are the days when you're going to get a metric ton of books for a setting with details like that of the S&S Ravenloft Gazetteers, but since WotC has already said they're producing three classic setting books between '21 and '22, it stands to reason that we'll get books along the lines of ERftLW for at least those three settings, and perhaps more in later years.</p><p></p><p>As an example: Dark Sun. You could just do a DS adventure, but you'd need that chapter for psionics, another chapter for the races (off the top of my head, they'd need at least muls, half-giants, and thri-kreen, and that's without the setting-specific sub-races), another for setting-specific archetypes, and yet another for the Dark Sun-specific monsters, since there's actually <em>not </em>a lot of overlap between those monsters and the ones in the MM. It makes <em>more </em>sense for them to produce a setting book like ERftLW with an introductory adventure than it does for them to create one of their massive levels 1-15 adventures with a prologue that explains the world. The same is true for Planescape and Spelljammer--there's too much in those settings to be reduced to a short prologue in front of an adventure. </p><p></p><p>I don't understand why you're so adamant that there shouldn't be setting books, when they've clearly already produced Sword Coast, Ravnica, Theros, and Wildemont, all of which are setting books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8170665, member: 6915329"] Except for all the new people who don't know Ravenloft beyond what's in CoS. Especially in such a worldbook includes new rules of some sort, new archetypes, new races, new monsters, and/or new spells. And even if it's not Ravenloft, TSR produced a zillion worlds. Take a look at Eberron: Rising from the Last War. It had all sorts of world info, plenty of character options, [I]and [/I]a chapter-long adventure. Now imagine that for Dragonlance, or Planescape, or yes, Ravenloft--or any of the other settings they produced. Yes, gone are the days when you're going to get a metric ton of books for a setting with details like that of the S&S Ravenloft Gazetteers, but since WotC has already said they're producing three classic setting books between '21 and '22, it stands to reason that we'll get books along the lines of ERftLW for at least those three settings, and perhaps more in later years. As an example: Dark Sun. You could just do a DS adventure, but you'd need that chapter for psionics, another chapter for the races (off the top of my head, they'd need at least muls, half-giants, and thri-kreen, and that's without the setting-specific sub-races), another for setting-specific archetypes, and yet another for the Dark Sun-specific monsters, since there's actually [I]not [/I]a lot of overlap between those monsters and the ones in the MM. It makes [I]more [/I]sense for them to produce a setting book like ERftLW with an introductory adventure than it does for them to create one of their massive levels 1-15 adventures with a prologue that explains the world. The same is true for Planescape and Spelljammer--there's too much in those settings to be reduced to a short prologue in front of an adventure. I don't understand why you're so adamant that there shouldn't be setting books, when they've clearly already produced Sword Coast, Ravnica, Theros, and Wildemont, all of which are setting books. [/QUOTE]
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