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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 8072151" data-attributes="member: 54629">I understand why they are doing the latter. The broader the appeal, the more sales they make. That's been the trend since they took over D&amp;D. 2e had lots of hyper-focused books (books just for one class or one race or whatever). 3e and 4e had books for broader groups (martial classes, arcane casters, divine casters, etc). 5e's taken that a step further and just made it so every book has a little of something for everyone.It is a bit annoying but understandable.What I would really like is for them to spend more time on the quality. Volo's was mostly high quality, with the possible exception of the playable races, which really weren't playtested/balanced enough. Xanathar's is a real hit-or-miss book, with some really good stuff, some really bad stuff, and a whole lot of meh stuff that could've been better with a bit more time/effort. Mordenkainen's was OK but the theme was really weak and the inclusion of the gnomes/halflings section made little sense thematically.I think so far I like the Ravnica, Eberron and Wildemount books best after Volo's. I'd love them to do more in the style of the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (which was fantastic in terms of what it did have but it also could have had so much more in it ...).I want less of the Xanathar's type book, but it looks like we'll be getting another one this November.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 8072151, member: 54629"] I understand [I]why[/I] they are doing the latter. The broader the appeal, the more sales they make. That's been the trend since they took over D&D. 2e had lots of hyper-focused books (books just for one class or one race or whatever). 3e and 4e had books for broader groups (martial classes, arcane casters, divine casters, etc). 5e's taken that a step further and just made it so every book has a little of something for everyone. It is a bit annoying but understandable. What I would really like is for them to spend more time on the quality. Volo's was mostly high quality, with the possible exception of the playable races, which really weren't playtested/balanced enough. Xanathar's is a real hit-or-miss book, with some really good stuff, some really bad stuff, and a whole lot of meh stuff that could've been better with a bit more time/effort. Mordenkainen's was OK but the theme was really weak and the inclusion of the gnomes/halflings section made little sense thematically. I think so far I like the Ravnica, Eberron and Wildemount books best after Volo's. I'd love them to do more in the style of the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (which was fantastic in terms of what it did have but it also could have had so much more in it ...). I want less of the Xanathar's type book, but it looks like we'll be getting another one this November. [/QUOTE]

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