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<blockquote data-quote="Zhern" data-source="post: 6934130" data-attributes="member: 6801469">I can still find useful material in a setting specific general release book like SCAG and Volo's - and I freakin' HATE the Forgotten Realms (at least from 3E - present realms). It isn't hard to strip out setting specific stuff and adapt it to another setting. That kind of thing is happening for years. I get it, people are strapped for time, I am too. I work full time, I'm in graduate school, I have a family and responsibilities and I would love for my specific ideas of the ideal TRPG crunch book to be created by someone else and made available for purchase but I also realize that what I want and what I get are two different things. If I think the book has some usable information in it after perusing it at my FLGS, I'll throw them my support and buy it. If it doesn't have anything useful, then I vote with my wallet and don't give the publisher my support. Having this debate is good and it definitely demonstrates that there are some very ingrained and rigid ideals among the TTRPG community (as there always have been - think back to the edition wars on the late 2000s - many goblins died to bring us Pathfinder during the bleak 4E years). I will say that in my 41 years of life and 31 years of TTRPG gaming, I've learned that most of the time if I want something very specific, I have to create it myself, usually from pieces parts from other resources.&nbsp; It isn't ideal but sometimes the only way to get what I want.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zhern, post: 6934130, member: 6801469"] I can still find useful material in a setting specific general release book like SCAG and Volo's - and I freakin' HATE the Forgotten Realms (at least from 3E - present realms). It isn't hard to strip out setting specific stuff and adapt it to another setting. That kind of thing is happening for years. I get it, people are strapped for time, I am too. I work full time, I'm in graduate school, I have a family and responsibilities and I would love for my specific ideas of the ideal TRPG crunch book to be created by someone else and made available for purchase but I also realize that what I want and what I get are two different things. If I think the book has some usable information in it after perusing it at my FLGS, I'll throw them my support and buy it. If it doesn't have anything useful, then I vote with my wallet and don't give the publisher my support. Having this debate is good and it definitely demonstrates that there are some very ingrained and rigid ideals among the TTRPG community (as there always have been - think back to the edition wars on the late 2000s - many goblins died to bring us Pathfinder during the bleak 4E years). I will say that in my 41 years of life and 31 years of TTRPG gaming, I've learned that most of the time if I want something very specific, I have to create it myself, usually from pieces parts from other resources. It isn't ideal but sometimes the only way to get what I want. [/QUOTE]

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