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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 8582431" data-attributes="member: 6879661">Because it’s another anthology of bite sized adventurettes that don’t make a campaign no matter how you stick the name of a single location in the title. Just like Yawning Portal adventures had nothing in common, and Candlekeep was only superficially linked.Small one-shot adventures are fine for what they are. Sure you can fit them anywhere and fill a session or too that’s great. There is a reason for that though. Where is the slowly unfolding mystery revealed a layer at a time? They lack depth, they don’t build on existing NPC relationships, develop places you’ve already started to explore or provide a narrative arc (without the DM writing these things in themselves)… that’s how they can be slotted in anywhere.I’m sure they will be good for what they are, as many of the Candlekeep adventures were good. There was a place for this kind of adventure… it was called Dungeon Magazine and ran for 20 years delivering this kind of content.They’re not campaigns, and I seriously miss the unified, structural, crafted campaigns we saw in the first five years of 5e. Anthologies with multiple writers are much easier to publish I’m sure and require a lot less thought. I have no doubt there will be some useful stuff. I just see them as a poor alternative to the heady heights of Tomb of Annihilation, Out of the Abyss and Curse of Strahd.I fear nothing I’ve seen in the last two years makes me think we can return to those days. That’s disappointing as I would have hoped to we would have got at least one slam-dunk in that period (No Witchlight and Strixhaven were absolutely not slam dunks for me, and judging by the recent thread on review data not for a lot of people]</blockquote>

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