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Yeah, whatever it might be sounds exciting

Yes, but...not a game lore book, Ten Speed Press produces the coffee table art books and cookbooks and such. So, it could be we may see artbooks for a D&D Setting, or the fictional lore of the D&D multiverse summarized.

Ooooo, this sounds like they have some fun stuff in the pipeline. Wonder what a "new lore book" means? Mayne something like those worlds of Magic the Gayhering books that inspired the Planeshift booklets. #GreyhawkConfirmed So, a brand new big Tournament module...but it is set in the Flannaes...

Tasha's has been around for 4 years, this isn't how it has panned out.

But still, for the past decade they have made it pretty clear that only DMs buy books: the 3E experiment of making player focused books did not pan out for 14 years. The current Adventure campaigns are probavly profitable through bulk: instead of trying to make a profit on a small paperback that...

Time will tell hiw this turns out: somewhat surprising that this didn't happen sooner, frankly. Andy Serkis is talented and very dedicated to Tolkien, so there is a chance it could turn out. What they ought to do is reboot LotR as a prestige TV show, 6 seasons, one for each Book of LotR.

No, it doesn't...?

For a lot of AL players, the complaint was that they could not use Races from Volo's or Mordenkainen's at the same time as Subclasses from Xanathar's.

No, not really. Fans were just tired of not being able to use different Races along with new Subclasses or Feats. There wasn't anything broken at all, that's why they did away with Core + 1: it was always about convenience for running organized play, not about power.

It's an homage, but only very loosely. Honestly, as wacky fun as ToEE is...Princes of the Apocalypse is basically mostly just better, and more coherent.

No, the opposite: the gathered secrets are rhe fuel for his ritual.

It could work, but AL decided they didn’t want to anymore. It really isn't a big deal.

As a suggestion. It was never a rule or all that important outside organized play circles. People complained about it for years in those circles to boot. It doesn't signal a "5.5" or anything. It was just a change of a table rule for a shared campaign.

One gets the impression that some folks criticize the campaign book line without being overly familiar?

While you are quite right: An explicit homage to Temple of Elemental Evil Also an explicit homage to the G series. However, in both cases, they are actually pretty original in execution and most material.