D&D 5E (2014) To much 5th edition content?

[MxBaticeer]

We are the complete opposite! We have played every hardback AP, the Starter set, Essentials, lots of the AL stuff and loads Guild Adept and 3rd party stuff and have completely run out of content! Having to convert Night Below at the moment while we wait for September. There's no shortage of releases at the moment if you want setting source books etc but we are severely lacking adventure material! (Few levels in the back of Wildemount and Theros etc but I mean APs)

With all due respect here, how on earth is this possible? Like, how often and for how long does your group play, and how quickly did it take for you to finish the hardback adventures such that you've been able to play all of them as they were coming out AND loads of other stuff as well? I'm just having trouble wrapping my head around the math of it. It seems crazy to me.

 

[Parmandur]

That is not true for 3rd edition at least. In addition to 30 official adventures of varying lengths, there was Dungeon Magazine and tons of free adventures on the Wizards website. Even including the AL adventures 5E falls well behind 3E in this regard.

But where does it fall on page count, and word count? The 5E books are large compilations, after all. And if the magazines count, do does the DMsGuild and AL content.

 

[Xaelvaen]

I have bought more D&D books for 5e than any edition (I started back with 1e & BECMI). I've really enjoyed it and I just picked up MOoT. However, I think I am about done. There is already way more content than my group can get through and I just don't know that I want anything more. To clarify, I am not burned out or anything like that. We still have stories to tell and will keep playing 5e for many, many moons. However, I just don't see my buying much more 5e stuff. I have more content than I need. Is anyone else in the same boat?

I can get this. The only material I'm even remotely interested in buying for 5e are complete rule expansions. Tactical Combat development, add-on modules, and the like. I've no interest in playing within the same ruleset content, already enough of that.

 

[The Big BZ]

With all due respect here, how on earth is this possible? Like, how often and for how long does your group play, and how quickly did it take for you to finish the hardback adventures such that you've been able to play all of them as they were coming out AND loads of other stuff as well? I'm just having trouble wrapping my head around the math of it. It seems crazy to me.

We play once every two weeks for 6/7 hours and have done pretty consistently since the PHB dropped in 2014. We play pretty quickly in comparison to some commentators but but not off the charts by WotC guidelines. Takes us about 11 months to play Level 1 - 20 but we've only every gone all the way to 20 once (again because of the lack of content).

 

[Reynard]

But where does it fall on page count, and word count? The 5E books are large compilations, after all. And if the magazines count, do does the DMsGuild and AL content.

I'm not really looking for an argument. It's self evident that 3e has a bigger and more diverse adventure library than 5e so far. 5e is likely to have a longer life so it may well eclipse 3e in this regard.

And no, I don't think GMG stuff counts. There's no editorial oversight. It's plainly 3rd party content.

 

[dave2008]

But where does it fall on page count, and word count? The 5E books are large compilations, after all. And if the magazines count, do does the DMsGuild and AL content.

and Dragon+

 

[Reynard]

and Dragon+

How many adventures does Dragon+ publish per year?

 

[pukunui]

How many adventures does Dragon+ publish per year?

None really. They just hand out freebies from DMs Guild. Usually one per issue.

 

[darjr]

I think one or two were written specifically for Dragon+ and DMsGuild was just the delivery mechanism. But I concede that might be splitting hairs

 

[Reynard]

None really. They just hand out freebies from DMs Guild. Usually one per issue.

So not relevant.

There were 8 years of Dungeon adventures for 3E, including the first and arguably best Adventure Paths. That alone is a HUGE library of material.

I'm not saying anything negative about 5E's adventures. I am just arguing against the assertion that 5e has a similar library. It clearly doesn't -- yet.

Relatedly: I really wish they would bring Dungeon back. 3 adventures a month is much more useful than one storyline per year.