Prakriti
Hi, I'm a Mindflayer, but don't let that worry you
Yes. And the Eberron timeline never advances, so 5E Eberron is the same as 3E Eberron. Everything in Rising from the Last War is just a rehash of stuff we already knew.
D&D 5E With the release of each new setting book, the SCAG looks worse and worse...
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Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
That's why the new book pits an emphasis on actionable game rules and DM prep tools.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Sure it is. WotC puts out a setting and it changes via game play and DM planning. That's exactly how they work.
Plus there are a few twists like Dwarves with Symbants.
BrokenTwin
Biological Disaster
That's not my argument. The argument was in response to one person complaining about having to buy a $50 book for the ten pages of content they wanted, and another saying that that was a good bargin for the hours of enjoyment they would get out of the product. My point was that there are other RPG companies that don't force you to buy a bunch of content you don't want to get the content you do, so saying "that's just the way it is" is just giving WotC a free pass for how they're doing things.
Unrelated, I will always find it funny that with all this history passing in the Forgotten Realms, their technology and knowledge hasn't advanced one iota.
teitan
Legend
And those older books are overpriced on the secondary markets or confuse new people with how the rules work. This isn’t like 1e or 2e where the rules are essentially the same. They are incredibly different between 3.5 to 4e and then 5e.
teitan
Legend
That's not my argument. The argument was in response to one person complaining about having to buy a $50 book for the ten pages of content they wanted, and another saying that that was a good bargin for the hours of enjoyment they would get out of the product. My point was that there are other RPG companies that don't force you to buy a bunch of content you don't want to get the content you do, so saying "that's just the way it is" is just giving WotC a free pass for how they're doing things.
Unrelated, I will always find it funny that with all this history passing in the Forgotten Realms, their technology and knowledge hasn't advanced one iota.
ten years ago, even 6 years ago, there would be pitchforks and torches for expecting people to buy a fifty dollar book for 10 pages of rules content! Now everyone is like “I will eat that other 48 dollars and like it”. that’s one reason Xanathar is a good book, it reprints stuff from the adventures or online resources as well as having new stuff in it. It’s a win for DMs who don’t want to buy adventures but would like to have that stuff. I’d love to see them take those 30-40 page parts of the adventures about the region like Waterdeep and Baldur’s Gate and put out a 50 dollar hardback that also has new stuff in it as well for those who don’t want Avernus or Dragonheist and make it available in a print form from the FLGS and not just pdf and POD sites. Support the local stores man. It’s Not that hard and the material is already there.
BrokenTwin
Biological Disaster
Don't get me wrong, I understand why WotC is doing things as they are, and it's obviously a business model that works for them. But as much as I appreciate the polished presentation, there's been very little put out by WotC lately that genuinely interests me for the price tag attached. The new Eberron book intrigued me, but everything important to me that's in it lorewise I already own, and the crunch on its own isn't worth the price tag.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
That's not my argument. The argument was in response to one person complaining about having to buy a $50 book for the ten pages of content they wanted, and another saying that that was a good bargin for the hours of enjoyment they would get out of the product. My point was that there are other RPG companies that don't force you to buy a bunch of content you don't want to get the content you do, so saying "that's just the way it is" is just giving WotC a free pass for how they're doing things.
Unrelated, I will always find it funny that with all this history passing in the Forgotten Realms, their technology and knowledge hasn't advanced one iota.
I admit that I am privilagge to be interested in approximately 80+90% of every book released so far, except for Acquisitions Incorporated.
But WotC has made elements such as the Waterdeep Enchiridion available in other formats at reasonable prices. The prices WotC is charging for the page count and production quality are reasonable by publishing industry standards.
