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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7594219" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Honest question. Is this desire born out of playing Adventurer's League games?&nbsp; Every time this conversation or any conversation about wanting more content or a quicker release schedule comes up, I'll note that there are are already many great competing settings for 5e from various third-party publishers. Kobold Press's Midguard setting and Frog God Game's forthcoming Lost Lands setting are both content rich, high quality publications. The Numenera setting is coming out for 5e. Even among the official stuff there is Ravnica and Eberron in addition to Forgotten Realms. If I were running a game in the Forgotten Realms, Ravnica, or Eberron, I'd rather see more material fleshing out these setting than another setting book. Every time I bring up non-official material the common retort seems to be that it is not AL legal. Yet I would think for organized play that sticking with a specific setting is more important than proliferating settings. Wouldn't it be better that the world all these AL characters are supposedly acting is more fleshed out than creating new settings?I'm not trying to be contrarian, but the current release schedule is doing very well for WotC and their experiences with bloat in earlier editions have made them wary of rocking to boat. And, yet, that doesn't affect me in the slightest. but I'm DROWNING in great-quality material, both adventures, setting, and character options.&nbsp; I realize that there are people who are lucky enough to play much more than I am and some of them only want to play D&amp;D 5e, but I find it hard to believe that even these folks are lacking in options unless they choose to ONLY use official content.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 7594219, member: 6796661"] Honest question. Is this desire born out of playing Adventurer's League games? Every time this conversation or any conversation about wanting more content or a quicker release schedule comes up, I'll note that there are are already many great competing settings for 5e from various third-party publishers. Kobold Press's Midguard setting and Frog God Game's forthcoming Lost Lands setting are both content rich, high quality publications. The Numenera setting is coming out for 5e. Even among the official stuff there is Ravnica and Eberron in addition to Forgotten Realms. If I were running a game in the Forgotten Realms, Ravnica, or Eberron, I'd rather see more material fleshing out these setting than another setting book. Every time I bring up non-official material the common retort seems to be that it is not AL legal. Yet I would think for organized play that sticking with a specific setting is more important than proliferating settings. Wouldn't it be better that the world all these AL characters are supposedly acting is more fleshed out than creating new settings? I'm not trying to be contrarian, but the current release schedule is doing very well for WotC and their experiences with bloat in earlier editions have made them wary of rocking to boat. And, yet, that doesn't affect me in the slightest. but I'm DROWNING in great-quality material, both adventures, setting, and character options. I realize that there are people who are lucky enough to play much more than I am and some of them only want to play D&D 5e, but I find it hard to believe that even these folks are lacking in options unless they choose to ONLY use official content. [/QUOTE]

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