To build off this, moneys tight for a lot of GMs and stuff like foundry removes the need for buying, assembling and painting terrain and miniatures. Which saves on time and money.

What if it’s both?

There’s no way the Ice castle of the necrolord and the mountains of muscle aren’t a Fire &Ice reference

Same with mine and Bennies. You can’t take them with you after all.

Also if its from the developers of the system you also, hopefully, can assume that they are keeping with their own visions and intentions which should be healthy for the system. Even if its just “Story” content, it’d be really weird to see a room full of random sci-fi crap in what has up until that point been mostly a gritty fantasy dungeon. Also, people can rail against this all they want, but people tend towards authority. The developers and publishers saying X feat or edge or whatever is useable in X setting, it doesn’t leave a lot of room for inter-group bickering about it, but even then its opt-in.

Yea this is 100% the issue here. If I wanted to make content, I would, if I purchase a book with content for a specific setting or scenario, then there had better be that content in it.

Oh I’m not. I don’t even play 5e anymore unless someone else is running it. I moved my setting and campaigns to Savage Worlds.

I did so because I don’t like that WotC sells me books that are half baked and claims it’s up to GM to write the content they paid for.

Also the entire debacle the other year with the OGL.

Idk. I kinda of expect that when I buy something that all the information I would need would be present. But, I guess if you like having some of the information only, then it makes sense there’s no rules for sailing space ships in the space sailing book. Especially since they charge you the same for modules with half the information in them as modules that have all the information in them.

Really d&d 5e is a mid system from an increasingly mid company.

There’s also the newish Starship Troopers: Extermination

It is an unfortunate fact that Shadowrun tends to suffocate under its own density.

Honestly, especially after their team up with Paizo, SWADE has been really, really improving and become my favorite system to reskin things in.

Hell I’m thinking about running a Curse of Strahd campaign in Savage Worlds.

A lot of eastern European folklore ascribes more zombie-like qualities to vampires. Living out of a grave is one.

Why a -10? That seems arbitrary in 5e that almost does nothing with incremental modifiers.

Just have them roll a strength based intimidation check.