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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliburn101" data-source="post: 6932573" data-attributes="member: 6802178">I am far from the 'poster child' - whatever it is you precisely meant by that...Official material released by WoTC which is useful for most campaigns and most GMs is buried within APs which, unless the adventures are used, are otherwise superfluous.Why should I need to buy Rage of Demons just to have Demon Lord stats for instance? I don't want the adventure, but I am forced to purchase it to get to the stuff I DO want.From the perspective of someone who hasn't decided to run the AP and run a FR campaign, it's like having sub-prime mortgages bundled up into my investments. I don't want them, but I cannot invest in what I want without them...Now I'm not short of money, so I have the APs anyway. But it is a poor business model from the non-AP following non-Forgotten Realms GM/player customer's point of view.Adventures should be separate from significant rules, spells and monster expansions, especially if those adventures are sizeable and expensive affairs.As for third party support - remember, WoTC own much of their IP detail. No-one else was going to release the stats for the named Demon Lords because of that. So third party can only add additional material, not release older core material in it's 5th edition iteration. Even where it can do that, any material WoTC releases later covering something already supported by a third party then over-writes that material and thus makes that purchase at least partially superfluous.Add to this the fact third parties (and the rest of us for that matter) are kept in the dark about the substantive content of the release schedule and we all have to guess what third party material to buy 'just in case' it won't be covered by WoTC.If you are running repeated campaigns, each with the latest AP at it's heart and you are setting it all in the Realms, then great - you are being very well supported and should be pleased with the style and pace of releases from WoTC.For the rest of us (a majority based on the 'which campaign do you run' survey done on these forums many months ago) then there are varying degrees of adaptation of material (with the inevitable non-use of parts of it) and dead money invested in pages and pages of material we will never use due entirely to the way it is bundled up into large set-pieces.You have completely misunderstood my point, and in assuming that the situation is good as it is, are not seeing from the perspective of the majority who do not fit into the exact model of 5th Ed. gamer being supported.</blockquote>

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