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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6770141" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>I'm pretty sure Eberron did indeed hit its sales targets. Though the sales targets it had in the 3e era may well not be the sales targets it would now have in the 5e one.</p><p></p><p>But the problem with Eberron is that it was basically 'done' - by the time they'd produced the fourteen hardback books that detailed the setting in 3e, they'd basically exhausted all the easy topics for the setting. At which point they were stuck with a difficult choice: try to sell books based on more niche topics, or revise the setting in some way.</p><p></p><p>For 4e, they were going to advance the timeline, but the fans strongly opposed advancing it even by two years. And so they didn't really have anywhere to go.</p><p></p><p>(That's still true for 5e, of course - the fans will most likely still oppose a timeline advancement, and the setting is still detailed enough, so there's not really anywhere to go. Basically, the best they can do is reissue the 4e books with 5e mechanics.)</p><p></p><p>It's really hard to see how this might impact on a potential new setting for 5e. Eberron benefitted greatly from the interest generated by the setting search, of course. A new setting might do the same... but it's probably a much bigger risk than just updating the Realms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6770141, member: 22424"] I'm pretty sure Eberron did indeed hit its sales targets. Though the sales targets it had in the 3e era may well not be the sales targets it would now have in the 5e one. But the problem with Eberron is that it was basically 'done' - by the time they'd produced the fourteen hardback books that detailed the setting in 3e, they'd basically exhausted all the easy topics for the setting. At which point they were stuck with a difficult choice: try to sell books based on more niche topics, or revise the setting in some way. For 4e, they were going to advance the timeline, but the fans strongly opposed advancing it even by two years. And so they didn't really have anywhere to go. (That's still true for 5e, of course - the fans will most likely still oppose a timeline advancement, and the setting is still detailed enough, so there's not really anywhere to go. Basically, the best they can do is reissue the 4e books with 5e mechanics.) It's really hard to see how this might impact on a potential new setting for 5e. Eberron benefitted greatly from the interest generated by the setting search, of course. A new setting might do the same... but it's probably a much bigger risk than just updating the Realms. [/QUOTE]
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