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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8283690" data-attributes="member: 18">Having read through most of the new Ravenloft, it does seem pretty clear that it is the best 5E book so far, on quite a number of levels. Even the way it is arranged and the general reading flow is better than most, and the contents and DM advice are particularly distinctly superior. There's nothing it it that made me yawn or flip forward, and not a Ravenloft obsessive. Combine that with more and better art than most (esp. if we note Theros was mostly cribbing art from MtG, which is cool but...), and it honestly looks like 5E is in a kind of "vertical climb" in terms of quality.What's also interesting to me is that this isn't a bunch of highly-experienced super-veteran designers or something, this is a diverse crew of mostly-younger designers, so pretty much new to designing for D&D (AFAICT), and the guy in charge is younger than me (40!), but they've managed to put out a book that is pretty much unquestionably better put-together than a lot of stuff that had vets on it. This should certainly put paid to any notions that going younger or more diverse might in some way reduce quality. The direct contrary appears (unsurprisingly to me) to have happened.</blockquote>