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Wanting more content doesn't always equate to wanting tons of splat options so please stop.
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<blockquote data-quote="Corpsetaker" data-source="post: 6927264" data-attributes="member: 6776548"><p>The title says it all.</p><p></p><p>There are a good many of us here who wants to see more content, and more of a variety. If you are not a fan of AP's then you aren't going to spend 35 plus on a book that contains very little else that you could probably find on the internet or in older material. What this leaves a lot of us with is no choices when it comes to D&D. I don't shop on DMsGuild because it doesn't have the official stamp of approval. It does contain the "make some money for yourself and us" approval but that's it. </p><p></p><p>There are a few on this forum who decide to put words into your mouth and start shouting about bloat and splat. Well it seems clear to me that these are obviously afraid that our voices will be heard so they try and shout over some of us or begin this giant "assumption" train that eventually goes rocketing down the rails. There is a happy medium when it comes to content and Wizards hasn't come even close. D&D has always provided it's customers with a bit of variety but this edition fails at it miserably. Again please don't interrupt with shouts of "DMS GUILD!" because fan made stuff has always been around and never has it ever been acknowledged as part of the edition's content. DMs Guild doesn't change that. I've also heard this argument about not wanting to put out the same stuff that had been around in past editions. </p><p></p><p>Two things:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">All you have to do is look at the AP's and you will see these have already been done.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Last time I checked, WoTc has some new people working and writing for them so I would like to see what ideas they have that would expand some things from the past.</li> </ol><p>What people don't seem to realize is that not everything was covered in previous editions. You could have a lot of somethings who had some mentions here and there but were never fully explained or fully detailed. I for one and fully interested in a source book on the Feywild made for 5th edition, as well as FR regional sourcebooks for areas that were never fully covered back in the day. </p><p></p><p>We are getting less and less DM's tools that allow DM's to create their own adventures and more and more preset adventures where the DM basically just becomes a storyteller and rolls a few dice. Now mechanical options wise, there are a few classes such as the Sorcerer who could use a few more Sorcerer options that are official and not some half job someone wrote on a napkin at work. When mechanics get printed by WoTc it gives me a sense of security that I know reasonably well that this is going to not be broken. I don't want a lot of options but there are classes who could use more. I hate the whole attitude of not needing more until you've played everything that's already out. Again, this is about variety because I don't currently like all the options, just like I don't like all the AP's so I want to be able to say no thanks to that, but yes please to something else. At the moment when you say thanks to an AP you get nothing else. </p><p></p><p>Putting out reasonably more material will not cause D&D to become a bloatfest. Anyone who tells you that is just flat out wrong. Nobody is asking for the 10,000 powers of 4th edition, the 20 settings of 2nd edition, and the 50,000 feats and spells of 3rd edition. Instead of looking at what came before and decided on a happy medium that gives us some of these things in moderation, we get mediocre AP's whose quality is just that. </p><p></p><p>Wanting more content doesn't equal wanting mountains of bloat, it's wanting variety.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Corpsetaker, post: 6927264, member: 6776548"] The title says it all. There are a good many of us here who wants to see more content, and more of a variety. If you are not a fan of AP's then you aren't going to spend 35 plus on a book that contains very little else that you could probably find on the internet or in older material. What this leaves a lot of us with is no choices when it comes to D&D. I don't shop on DMsGuild because it doesn't have the official stamp of approval. It does contain the "make some money for yourself and us" approval but that's it. There are a few on this forum who decide to put words into your mouth and start shouting about bloat and splat. Well it seems clear to me that these are obviously afraid that our voices will be heard so they try and shout over some of us or begin this giant "assumption" train that eventually goes rocketing down the rails. There is a happy medium when it comes to content and Wizards hasn't come even close. D&D has always provided it's customers with a bit of variety but this edition fails at it miserably. Again please don't interrupt with shouts of "DMS GUILD!" because fan made stuff has always been around and never has it ever been acknowledged as part of the edition's content. DMs Guild doesn't change that. I've also heard this argument about not wanting to put out the same stuff that had been around in past editions. Two things: [LIST=1] [*]All you have to do is look at the AP's and you will see these have already been done. [*]Last time I checked, WoTc has some new people working and writing for them so I would like to see what ideas they have that would expand some things from the past. [/LIST] What people don't seem to realize is that not everything was covered in previous editions. You could have a lot of somethings who had some mentions here and there but were never fully explained or fully detailed. I for one and fully interested in a source book on the Feywild made for 5th edition, as well as FR regional sourcebooks for areas that were never fully covered back in the day. We are getting less and less DM's tools that allow DM's to create their own adventures and more and more preset adventures where the DM basically just becomes a storyteller and rolls a few dice. Now mechanical options wise, there are a few classes such as the Sorcerer who could use a few more Sorcerer options that are official and not some half job someone wrote on a napkin at work. When mechanics get printed by WoTc it gives me a sense of security that I know reasonably well that this is going to not be broken. I don't want a lot of options but there are classes who could use more. I hate the whole attitude of not needing more until you've played everything that's already out. Again, this is about variety because I don't currently like all the options, just like I don't like all the AP's so I want to be able to say no thanks to that, but yes please to something else. At the moment when you say thanks to an AP you get nothing else. Putting out reasonably more material will not cause D&D to become a bloatfest. Anyone who tells you that is just flat out wrong. Nobody is asking for the 10,000 powers of 4th edition, the 20 settings of 2nd edition, and the 50,000 feats and spells of 3rd edition. Instead of looking at what came before and decided on a happy medium that gives us some of these things in moderation, we get mediocre AP's whose quality is just that. Wanting more content doesn't equal wanting mountains of bloat, it's wanting variety. [/QUOTE]
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