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ShortQuests -- individual adventure modules! An all-new collection of digest-sized D&D adventures designed to plug in to your game.

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9882821" data-attributes="member: 54840">That's the trick isn't it. They put something out and the very next reaction is "not like that". The setting we have in our head isn't what they're going to put out. I don't have a desire for any particular setting. I like to get excited by what people make. That's true except for D&D settings where I have something particular in mind and I often don't see it the way I want.Zobeck Clockwork City by Kobold Press is pretty awesome and I already mentioned Ptolus.I don't think it would be as big as the OGL debacle, but it would be really really bad. I'd definitely consider just walking away from WOTC at that point.I don't think that's true. Many publishers have published many awesome campaign settings.And here lies my big issue with D&D Beyond as the centralized platform for D&D. If you require it for your game, you're bound to whatever choices they want to make or not make with it. Your happiness with D&D depends on the business goals of WOTC at that point.Yeah, that's the habit I'd love to help people break. When the books are on your table, it doesn't matter who made them. They're great books. They serve you and your players or they don't. It's not for everyone but I think I've gotten more out of the Kobold Press Midgard World Book than any other single campaign book at this point. Each region of the world can be its own campaign.I would love to see more regional books like what TSR produced for Forgotten Realms for a while. Shorter focused regional guides. I'd love to see them with a more modern GM-focused and adventure-focused style.One of the points in my video is that I get a lot more out of a setting book than an adventure book. Sure, they sometimes have small regional gazetteers in them but I'd like even more to help me build adventures instead of spoon-feeding ones I tend not to like (I did like Tomb of Annihilation, however). But even WOTC clearly didn't think Icewind Dale got enough love in Rime of the Frostmaiden or Baldur's Gate got enough in Descent into Avernus. They stuck both of them in the Forgotten Realms book too...We're all free to desire what we want but when we bind our desires to "official D&D" we're asking for disappointment when their business-driven goals don't meet our desires and we're discounting the incredible talent and effort of hundreds of designers and dozens of publishers who make fantastic products.Instead, we can look at the work of publishers equally, recognize the talent of their designers (who, again, often worked for or later work for WOTC), and share our experiences with these awesome products.</blockquote>

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