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That's the price you pay for WotC trying to support Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Ravenloft, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Spelljammer, Planescape, Exandria and a few Magic: The Gathering settings all at the same time. Every setting is a curiosity and only given the barest amount of support.

If they did Xen'drik or Sarlona as an expansion, I'd agree. But I don't think they are going back to Eberron again for a long while, considering how many other settings they are juggling.

I have to disagree with your main premise. Eberron didn't need yet another book going over the countries, deities, history and geography of Eberron. It needed a mechanical update for the now unusable subclass-based Dragonmarks and an updated artificer. Reprinting yet again RftLW with a glint of...

This is less a problem when you stop treating first level as "five minutes ago I was a commoner". Zero to hero demands you can't be anything but a nobody before game starts..

True. The consequence of that diversity is that my elf PC may not adhere to the norms of your elves because we are viewing elves from two different lens. And I think that, barring the most extreme examples, that is where most of these "entitled player" and "nightmare GM" stories come from. The...

Outside of a few super-specific campaign elements outside their respective settings (Dragonmarks in Eberron, Dark Gifts in Ravenloft) I don't ban things unless they are broken. I have long championed the kitchen sink and find it a profound lack of creativity if you can't even fit the PHB in your...

You are quite willing, but plenty of DMs aren't. Look how many people resist the idea of refluffing Dragonborn and Goliaths as dray and half-giants.

That still requires the DM to look at the subclass and create whole new lore for it. Lots of DMs simply won't. And to be fair, they shouldn't have to.

Not at all. I'm saying that if Microsoft made a bunch of different and vaguely compatible versions of Windows and then tried to support all of them at the same time, it would be a harder on customers (which version do I buy?) and software designers (is this software compatible with all...

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It does create a very arbitrary line when one thing is generic enough to be in the PHB (Knowledge domain) but shunted off to the Forgotten Realms book, and now you get a bunch of bad interactions, such as DMs calling it Realms exclusive or lumping it in with spellfire sorcery or Scion of the...

Because you get dumb ideas like bladesinger and knowledge clerics locked in a Faerun book and half-elves khoravar and artificers locked in the Eberron book and DMs who ban the whole book or don't even bother looking at it because it's "for another setting". The whole bloody thing should work...

Those people ignore it like they ignore Golarion or Midguard. But the game itself builds upon that lore and everything is compatible with itself rather than contradicting itself. In less than a month, D&D released two player facing books (Heroes of Faerun and Forge of the Artificer) that...

Well, I figure if nothing happens between now and December 12th, don't count on anything until after the New Year, probably around middle of January.

It tells me a slight bit more than D&D. The elves work essentially the same across the world (there are no major differences such as Krynns dark elves vs drow), the gods are the same, every supplement is automatically compatible with the lore (no Dragonborn don't exist on Oerth arguments). Yeah...

I sit down to play Cyberpunk Red, I know I'm playing in Night City. I read the core book, I know exactly what options are allowed, where my character comes from, even what the slang my character is going to speak, choom. If I play Pathfinder, I'm almost overwhelmingly playing in Golarion and...

That's the rub; a good player can make a Dragonborn warlock fit like a glove and and a bad player can make a human fighter stick out like a sore thumb.

Exactly. It's a mismatch of expectations that leads to a breakdown of the games lingua franca. And in this case, it really highlights the dangers of going against D&D's established tropes. You confuse players who hear their are a party of gnomes up ahead and think PHB gnomes only to discover...

I don't consider Starfinder a Pathfinder setting because it's essentially a different game with it's own PHB and Bestiary and unique classes and species. But I'll look into Labyrinth.

I've already said it's too late. The smoke isn't going back in the bottle. But I'm just reiterating the issue with players creating characters that don't fit with the DMs setting is almost exclusively a D&D problem and there is a reason you don't see it often in other RPGs.