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Message: <blockquote data-quote="R_J_K75" data-source="post: 8993544" data-attributes="member: 6921294">[USER=16668]@Ulorian - Agent of Chaos[/USER] , this isnt directed to you, Im just replying to your post but just speaking my opinion at the same time, so please don't take it personally, that's not my intention. If I already bought it once, I don't feel I should need to buy it twice just to get the additional information on the area. I do keep up on 5E just to see what's coming down the line. Mega adventures or piecemeal mini compilation adventures just dont do it for me. 5Es output has become too formulaic for my tastes.  Where's the occasional Pages from the Mages, the Bastion of Faith, Den of Thieves products, et al we used to see in 1E & 2E. Everything just seems a rehash, making Venger a Redder Red Wizard IMO is scraping the bottom of the nostalgia barrel, Another edition ending adventure with Vecna doesn't seem too intriguing. I want books that are useful to me, as I write my own adventures more or less. Long running adventures 200-300 pages just make me feel like I need to hire a lawyer to make heads or tails of it and still have to re-read the adventure to refresh before sessions, which at 16/32/64 pages wasn't too bad of a task but at 200-300 pages that's asking a lot. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that what WotC/D&D is putting out is bad or inferior products, I've bought and read most 5e books up until the last year give or take, and Ive usually found a bit here and there that I used in my game. For instance, the Soul Tanks from Descent into Avernus (IIRC) was a fun addition to our game. So I want to be clear I'm not saying WotC or D&D or what they are putting out sucks, I just haven't seen anything in the 2023-2024 release schedule that looks new and interesting to me. I miss the shorter niche books and would like to see them return as an occasional release. I suppose its a tough job for WotC balancing 50 years of the games history and updating it with a new setting or supplement that changes previously stated lore.  I'm not done with D&D or WotC and Im still holding out hope and really do want 1D&D to clean up the 2014 version so its easier to prep, run and play. Ultimately, preferably I'd  like to see the game evolve a little passed the d20 system which it doesnt seem to have done so much since 2000 when 3E was released. Sure its changed but to me it still feels the core mechanic is pretty much the same.</blockquote>

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