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<blockquote data-quote="Haffrung" data-source="post: 7775471" data-attributes="member: 6776259">I'll echo the sentiments of others here that my biggest complaint with 5E is the presentation of the game content - how important information is buried in walls of text. It makes it extremely difficult to run their adventures at the table, and usually necessitates hours spent summarising the text into an easily parsed format. The problem is bad enough that I have real reservations about buying any more WotC 5E campaign books. So I oppose any initiatives to move further in that direction. The elephant in the room is that WotC know at least half the market for their books are people who don't actually use them in a game, and instead treat them as reading material. And those two purposes for a book - pleasant reading material and useful in-game reference - are at odds with one another. Other RPG publishers have made strides in squaring this circle and making adventure content easier to use at the table. But for some reason, WotC is extremely conservative when it comes to adventure format.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Haffrung, post: 7775471, member: 6776259"] I'll echo the sentiments of others here that my biggest complaint with 5E is the presentation of the game content - how important information is buried in walls of text. It makes it extremely difficult to run their adventures at the table, and usually necessitates hours spent summarising the text into an easily parsed format. The problem is bad enough that I have real reservations about buying any more WotC 5E campaign books. So I oppose any initiatives to move further in that direction. The elephant in the room is that WotC know at least half the market for their books are people who don't actually use them in a game, and instead treat them as reading material. And those two purposes for a book - pleasant reading material and useful in-game reference - are at odds with one another. Other RPG publishers have made strides in squaring this circle and making adventure content easier to use at the table. But for some reason, WotC is extremely conservative when it comes to adventure format. [/QUOTE]

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