How soon we forget about Path of the Totem Warrior (beasts), College of Spirits and Phantom and Undying and Undead patrons (I forget what the creature type is called -- spookems?)... In fact warlocks also cover fiends, fey, and elementals, too. More or less.
It wouldn't be D&D without constant remixes of the same ingredients. It's a formula that works!
I would not mind a book on giants. More books on monsters would be fun. Can we have books on magic items and vehicles too? That would be awesome.
And I want BEEFY books. I got the physical Tyranny of Dragons about a year ago since it was on sale, and I was surprised how thin it was since it was supposed to be two adventures. Personally, I want the average D&D book in general to be thicker, ideally around the combined size of the PHB, DMG, and MM, or about the size of a college textbook. I would not mind paying more either.
Would you prefer they publish 1 or 2 "beefy" books a year or the present 4+ books a year tempo?
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How soon we forget about Path of the Totem Warrior (beasts), College of Spirits and Phantom and Undying and Undead patrons (I forget what the creature type is called -- spookems?)... In fact warlocks also cover fiends, fey, and elementals, too. More or less.
It wouldn't be D&D without constant remixes of the same ingredients. It's a formula that works!
I didn't forget but I didn't want to sit and make a full list in that last post, just gave a few examples but yes those are some more great examples thanks :)
Edit: A revamped Libris Mortis would be a GREAT Undead themed book they could make
I would not mind a book on giants. More books on monsters would be fun. Can we have books on magic items and vehicles too? That would be awesome.
And I want BEEFY books. I got the physical Tyranny of Dragons about a year ago since it was on sale, and I was surprised how thin it was since it was supposed to be two adventures. Personally, I want the average D&D book in general to be thicker, ideally around the combined size of the PHB, DMG, and MM, or about the size of a college textbook. I would not mind paying more either.
Would you prefer they publish 1 or 2 "beefy" books a year or the present 4+ books a year tempo?
I prefer the 1 or 2 beefy books a year. When I first started, I guess I did not mind smaller books because everything is so new and I have a lot of books to skim through, but now that I am into it, the books feels a bit lacking and disorganized. Like, it does not really go in depth enough, and the mishmashing of player stuff with GM stuff to pad things out does not really help.
I want the Giant Gazetteer of Giants to be, well, giant! I want more variety in statblocks and variety in mechanics. I like FTOD, but the amount of statblocks in there does not feel like a dragonhoard big enough to be called a treasury to me, and a lot of statblocks are samey.
Yeah I'd buy it. One thing I think would be cool is new subclasses that are giant themed. I love the rune knight. Maybe include new runes for that subclass while they're at it.
I'm not personally all that interested in giants, so if a book was 'just' about giants I probably wouldn't buy it unless it came with subclasses or player races I found interesting. But that's just my personal tastes, I don't think a giant book would be a 'bad' idea.
I think the problem with a book about giants is that giants aren't all that interesting. At least from a non-D&D perspective. They're just antagonists that live up thr top of beanstalks or herd giant woolly mammoths or something. They don't have the strong interest that dragons do. And even dragons are problematic - I wasn't overly interested in FToD. I'm sure it's a great resource for dragons, but I so far, I've only encountered a dragon once in each of my campaigns. That's not much return for wanting a full priced book. I might get it, but mostly with the intent of it being almost a coffee table book type of thing.
Giants would really have to be done well in order to attract the attention of people like me who hasn't been playing Version -101.3. They'd have to make them really interesting and well developed lore to get me excited enough to buy such a book - and deep lore isn't really the direction WotC seems to be heading in, these days.
I could see giants being a section of a book on a wider range of things. Like Wyverns wouldn't feet a book, but they'd [presumably] had bit on them in FToD, I could see giants getting a section in a book on a more overarching grouping - although, I'm not familiar enough with D&D giants to propose what that book would be on.
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The thing that makes giants interesting imo is that they're older than *everything.* Well, their existence is, anyway. Most individual giants won't have lived more than a few human lifetimes iirc. But they had kingdoms before most races even had tools. Theoretically, a really thorough guide to the Forgotten Realms history could detail their lore, but I'm not sure there would be much practical value in that. A big collection of ancient ruins maybe.
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How soon we forget about Path of the Totem Warrior (beasts), College of Spirits and Phantom and Undying and Undead patrons (I forget what the creature type is called -- spookems?)... In fact warlocks also cover fiends, fey, and elementals, too. More or less.
It wouldn't be D&D without constant remixes of the same ingredients. It's a formula that works!
Would you prefer they publish 1 or 2 "beefy" books a year or the present 4+ books a year tempo?
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I didn't forget but I didn't want to sit and make a full list in that last post, just gave a few examples but yes those are some more great examples thanks :)
Edit: A revamped Libris Mortis would be a GREAT Undead themed book they could make
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I prefer the 1 or 2 beefy books a year. When I first started, I guess I did not mind smaller books because everything is so new and I have a lot of books to skim through, but now that I am into it, the books feels a bit lacking and disorganized. Like, it does not really go in depth enough, and the mishmashing of player stuff with GM stuff to pad things out does not really help.
I want the Giant Gazetteer of Giants to be, well, giant! I want more variety in statblocks and variety in mechanics. I like FTOD, but the amount of statblocks in there does not feel like a dragonhoard big enough to be called a treasury to me, and a lot of statblocks are samey.
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Yeah I'd buy it. One thing I think would be cool is new subclasses that are giant themed. I love the rune knight. Maybe include new runes for that subclass while they're at it.
I love giants and would love a book on them but what really want is something that I could use to make a campaign where the giant empire comes back
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I'm not personally all that interested in giants, so if a book was 'just' about giants I probably wouldn't buy it unless it came with subclasses or player races I found interesting. But that's just my personal tastes, I don't think a giant book would be a 'bad' idea.
I think the problem with a book about giants is that giants aren't all that interesting. At least from a non-D&D perspective. They're just antagonists that live up thr top of beanstalks or herd giant woolly mammoths or something. They don't have the strong interest that dragons do. And even dragons are problematic - I wasn't overly interested in FToD. I'm sure it's a great resource for dragons, but I so far, I've only encountered a dragon once in each of my campaigns. That's not much return for wanting a full priced book. I might get it, but mostly with the intent of it being almost a coffee table book type of thing.
Giants would really have to be done well in order to attract the attention of people like me who hasn't been playing Version -101.3. They'd have to make them really interesting and well developed lore to get me excited enough to buy such a book - and deep lore isn't really the direction WotC seems to be heading in, these days.
I could see giants being a section of a book on a wider range of things. Like Wyverns wouldn't feet a book, but they'd [presumably] had bit on them in FToD, I could see giants getting a section in a book on a more overarching grouping - although, I'm not familiar enough with D&D giants to propose what that book would be on.
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The book would be Volo's, lol.
The thing that makes giants interesting imo is that they're older than *everything.* Well, their existence is, anyway. Most individual giants won't have lived more than a few human lifetimes iirc. But they had kingdoms before most races even had tools. Theoretically, a really thorough guide to the Forgotten Realms history could detail their lore, but I'm not sure there would be much practical value in that. A big collection of ancient ruins maybe.