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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ankh-Morpork Guard" data-source="post: 1903292" data-attributes="member: 10079">Yep, I know those settings are older. And think what you want about Eberron, Mystara hs faded out of supported D&D like many older settings.  Its novel elements are novel to the many gamers who have likely never even heard of Mystara before. If Eberron keeps being supported as the schedule for next year shows, it will continue to grow in strength and will have no trouble sticking around for a long time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I specifically was talking about mechanics. Everything you mentioned is a campaign setting, which, as I mentioned before, ARE the things that will survive through editions(and even other games, as you've pointed out). What I was trying to say was that older editions DID have the mechanics books like 3e has, but it seems like the only examples of books people give these days are the campaign settings? Coincidence? Nope. Every edition has its useless books for older editions. That makes SENSE. Its a different edition of the game. Of course everything's not going work.True. But despite the large amount of mechanics in 3e products, there IS flavor text. There's enough of it to inspire and keep people playing. If there wasn't, the game would not have experienced the increase in numbers that it has over the past 4 years. Even IF 3e doesn't survive the test of time, its brought a great number of new players and that's a VERY GOOD THING.Honestly, I don't think that WotC will ever be able to truly release a new edition anymore. Most revisions from this point on, IMO, will likely be smaller like the 3.5 was to 3.0. Eventually, the SRD will fade into obscurity, but it will be something to keep an eye on when 4e starts to show its head.</blockquote>

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