Comments on: Tales from the Yawning Portal for D&D 5e https://www.tribality.com/2017/01/05/tales-from-the-yawning-portal-for-dd-5e/ D&D / Role Playing Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Ish https://www.tribality.com/2017/01/05/tales-from-the-yawning-portal-for-dd-5e/#comment-1960 Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:51:00 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=18741#comment-1960 On the one hand, I am extremely happy that WotC is avoiding the “splat book glut” that plagued 3.x for most of its life and made 4e a core to use without their online tools. (This same “splat book glut” made me run screaming in terror from Pathfinder.)

On the other hand, not counting adventure modules and the “Big Three” core books… We’ve only gotten two supplements in the two years since 5e launched. Both of which are perfectly fine, but kinda lightweight, books about my least favorite campaign setting.

I don’t want to see a return to the “Book of the Month Club” format — especially at $50 USD a pop! — but I’d like to see some sort of increase.

]]> By: MTi https://www.tribality.com/2017/01/05/tales-from-the-yawning-portal-for-dd-5e/#comment-1959 Mon, 09 Jan 2017 07:46:00 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=18741#comment-1959 In reply to Mr. Flibble.

Well SKT and VGtM are two different kind of books, one is an advernture and the other is a source book, so it is not so easy to compare them. Otherwise, I am fully on board with you here.

Plus, surprise surprise, this one also is based in FR. Makes me wonder if they are planning to issue any material outside FR. (On that note, Mearls et al answered in Twitter that the said book is based in FR but it is more setting agnostic than the others, for more Q&A on the upcoming book, click here: http://www.sageadvice.eu/2017/01/06/tales-from-the-yawning-portal-question-answers/. Also, at some point, and I cannot find that link, Mearls has hinted that we might have a Spelljammer adventure sometime soon)

]]> By: Mr. Flibble https://www.tribality.com/2017/01/05/tales-from-the-yawning-portal-for-dd-5e/#comment-1950 Sat, 07 Jan 2017 14:30:00 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=18741#comment-1950 I’ve really enjoyed Storm King’s Thunder and Volo’s Guide to Monsters, but this one leaves me a little cool. I’d prefer to see original material or original twists on what has gone before, but so far nothing about this book suggests any real twist on the existing adventures (which I can convert for myself just as easily if I feel the need).

]]> By: brettday https://www.tribality.com/2017/01/05/tales-from-the-yawning-portal-for-dd-5e/#comment-1944 Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:28:00 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=18741#comment-1944 I’d been wondering why Dreams of the Red Wizards: Scourge of the Sword Coast is available for printing at drivethrurpg, but Dreams of the Red Wizards: Dead in Thay isn’t. If they print the map of the Doomvault in this HC all nice like the poster map of Barovia in CoS, all will be forgiven.

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