D&D 5E What should the next product be?

[Stormonu]

Gotta say, I'm a bit surprised. I expected more parity. Seems like people are tired of adventures and hardly anyone wants more tactical options, but people want settings and more player options.

Campaigns have broader scope - you can put a thousand adventures into a campaign world, you run an adventure path maybe once.

 

[schneeland]

6E Core Rules?

But honestly: about the only thing I would be interested in right now are setting books (can even be a FR setting book, as long as it is a spiritual successor to my 3e FRCS).

 

[CleverNickName]

I voted Monster Manual, because that is what I would be most likely to buy. Ideally it would be more than just a group of Kewl Monstahs, it would also have rules for monster customization and creation. I really miss templates, for example.

 

[Tony Vargas]

Gotta say, I'm a bit surprised. I expected more parity. Seems like people are tired of adventures and hardly anyone wants more tactical options, but people want settings and more player options.

It's still a small, self-selected sample from a population that tend heavily towards tired old DMs.

"Tactical options" IDK, I get the feeling that a lot of what was called 'tactical' - like the fairly intuitive use of a grid & minis - wasn't really about tactics, either player-side metagame tactics nor fiction-side PC abilities to model tactics. 2e C&T, 3.5, 4e, and the 5e 'tactical' module all let you move minis around on a grid, neatly place AEs (3e's varied templates or 4e cubes), determine LoS & LoE, and vary most notably in how persnickety they are when it comes to counting diagonals. It's really pretty minor, a convenience that makes tracking combats (and maybe now and then some other action scene) easier...
...but it'd hardly seem to warrant a whole book, not any more than it warranted all the nerdrage over "grid dependence" from 3.0 through 4e.

 

[Fenris-77]

I hardly use grids anyway, and as an experienced tabletop wargamer I have great options and ideas for mass combat already. Hence my being very lukewarm on a 'tactical' supplement. That's me and my table though.

 

[Anoth]

I hardly use grids anyway, and as an experienced tabletop wargamer I have great options and ideas for mass combat already. Hence my being very lukewarm on a 'tactical' supplement. That's me and my table though.

well when one goes decades without support one has to come up with their own ideas. Some campaigns I want a war machine, others I don’t. But I do love them.

 

[The Green Hermit]

As somebody that is both a new DM and new to D&D, I would love, absolutely love, a tactical rules supplement.

 

[The Green Hermit]

I voted Monster Manual, because that is what I would be most likely to buy. Ideally it would be more than just a group of Kewl Monstahs, it would also have rules for monster customization and creation. I really miss templates, for example.

Tips on monster creation would be wonderful.

 

[Charlaquin]

Voted other because I want a book that explores world building by showing multiple settings, and gives new player options and monsters and such for each.

Ooh, I like that idea!

 

[Charlaquin]

I think that the "tactical suppliment" is poorly supported because the rules that people hope for aren't tactical so much as the kind of structural & foundational reworks you can stuff into a phb2 type thing even if it's got a few classes in it.

For me it’s because I know any sort of “tactical supplement” WotC would release for 5e would be unlikely to satisfy what I would want out of such a book.