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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 7667709" data-attributes="member: 6701829">The cynic in me says that's why the APs are set in the Forgotten Reams - if they're not going to put out a campaign setting book any time soon, then that'll drive the fans to buy the APs, as that's going to be the only source of new Realmslore in the immediate future. That's of course assuming they've even fleshed out what the Realms even looks like now. Sure, they planned out the Sundering with Salvatore and the other novelists, but who's to say it wasn't as simple as "Ok, all the popular dead gods are back, all of the unpopular 4E changes are rolled back, and future novels can do whatever sells well?" It might make more sense in their eyes to only work out the details when they're setting something like an AP in a certain area, there's no guarantee Wizards even has a solid idea of what regions outside of Phandelver / Neverwinter / Red Larch.Eh, I wasn't around for the 1E days but it seemed to do just fine having only put out ~9 rules expansions in 12 years.Of course 1E did have a lot of smaller adventures as well - if we look at the APs as equivalent to the big compendiums like Against the Giants / Scourge of the Slavelords, there's a definite niche for one-shots alongside them. Personally, my preferred solution would to bring back Dragon and Dungeon as e-zines. That would provide pretty much all the content 5E ever needs.No, but there perhaps is one for more D&D stories. Wizards is trying to put out adventure paths that'll make the same lists as "Temple of Elemental Evil" and "Queen of the Spiders" in a few decades. Tyranny of Dragons... probably isn't going to make any of those lists, but Princes of the Apocalypse or an as-yet-untitled "King Lear with Giants" later this year might.</blockquote>

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