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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8581216" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>I'll wait til we see the table of contents, but on a knee-jerk reaction this is looking like a no-buy for me. Nothing against the Radiant Citadel itself, it always seemed a bit silly (though maybe it was an in-world viewpoint) that Sigil was presented as The Centre Crossover Point Of Everything, so i have no issues with their being another metasetting hub. And nothing against a diversity of new settings, this is something I've wanted for ages.</p><p></p><p>But for me, an anthology of short adventures - each in its own mini-setting - is the worst possible way to present it. I'm not a fan of adventure compilations to start with (though i can see why some do like them), and this particular format seems likely to double down on the stuff i dislike about them. The settings lack almost all useful detail because so much page space is eaten by adventure material, and the adventures are reduced to railroads or merely a couple of connected encounters because the writers have to squeeze a basic outline of the setting into their very limited pagecount. And they're making the compression problem even worse by making the book only 212 pages, which is VERY thin. Eberron was 320, FFS. I suspect this was largely what caused the issue Panzerlion had with Candlekeep - an editor hacked back context and detail to fit an overly compressed page count, and chose poorly or ignorantly about what to hack. If you're giving me a setting, give me a setting. If you're giving me adventures, give me adventures (but don't expect me to buy them because I'm not DMing and I don't want to spoil myself for something I might play through). Don't try to Frankenstein the two together like Strixhaven did. But WotC fairly clearly disagrees with me here. </p><p></p><p>If it was a setting book, just about the Radiant Citadel and some of the places you could reach from there, I'd be all over it. But a grab-bag of mini-adventures? No.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8581216, member: 5948"] I'll wait til we see the table of contents, but on a knee-jerk reaction this is looking like a no-buy for me. Nothing against the Radiant Citadel itself, it always seemed a bit silly (though maybe it was an in-world viewpoint) that Sigil was presented as The Centre Crossover Point Of Everything, so i have no issues with their being another metasetting hub. And nothing against a diversity of new settings, this is something I've wanted for ages. But for me, an anthology of short adventures - each in its own mini-setting - is the worst possible way to present it. I'm not a fan of adventure compilations to start with (though i can see why some do like them), and this particular format seems likely to double down on the stuff i dislike about them. The settings lack almost all useful detail because so much page space is eaten by adventure material, and the adventures are reduced to railroads or merely a couple of connected encounters because the writers have to squeeze a basic outline of the setting into their very limited pagecount. And they're making the compression problem even worse by making the book only 212 pages, which is VERY thin. Eberron was 320, FFS. I suspect this was largely what caused the issue Panzerlion had with Candlekeep - an editor hacked back context and detail to fit an overly compressed page count, and chose poorly or ignorantly about what to hack. If you're giving me a setting, give me a setting. If you're giving me adventures, give me adventures (but don't expect me to buy them because I'm not DMing and I don't want to spoil myself for something I might play through). Don't try to Frankenstein the two together like Strixhaven did. But WotC fairly clearly disagrees with me here. If it was a setting book, just about the Radiant Citadel and some of the places you could reach from there, I'd be all over it. But a grab-bag of mini-adventures? No. [/QUOTE]
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