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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8624656" data-attributes="member: 59082">A couple comments.For one, I a struck by how some settings that loom large in our collective minds have actually had relatively short-lived, or sparse, support. Birthright stands out - just four years. And even Dark Sun, Eberron, and Planescape - they were really only significantly supported for five (Planescape), six (Eberron), and seven (Dark Sun) years at a time, with bits and pieces after.One of the reasons I decided to include Golarion and Midgard was as a counterpoint to the recent decades of WotC. Paizo and Kobold/Open Design have covered those two settings far more consistently than WotC has of any setting over that similar fifteen years or so - especially Paizo (although it looks similar).In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if more words have been about Golarion than any other setting, for any game. Speaking of Midgard, that was one setting that I struggled with designating colors. I gave dark squares for the two Midgard setting books, but also the Southlands books - but that isn't really consistent with how I covered Golarion - I mean, if Southlands is considered a &quot;full setting product,&quot; then Absalom and Mwangi probably should be, as well. And I also called City of Greyhawk and various Mystara and FR products &quot;full setting products,&quot; even though they were just expansions of the original setting.So all that is pending revision.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 8624656, member: 59082"] A couple comments. For one, I a struck by how some settings that loom large in our collective minds have actually had relatively short-lived, or sparse, support. Birthright stands out - just four years. And even Dark Sun, Eberron, and Planescape - they were really only significantly supported for five (Planescape), six (Eberron), and seven (Dark Sun) years at a time, with bits and pieces after. One of the reasons I decided to include Golarion and Midgard was as a counterpoint to the recent decades of WotC. Paizo and Kobold/Open Design have covered those two settings far more consistently than WotC has of any setting over that similar fifteen years or so - especially Paizo (although it looks similar). In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if more words have been about Golarion than any other setting, for any game. Speaking of Midgard, that was one setting that I struggled with designating colors. I gave dark squares for the two Midgard setting books, but also the Southlands books - but that isn't really consistent with how I covered Golarion - I mean, if Southlands is considered a "full setting product," then Absalom and Mwangi probably should be, as well. And I also called City of Greyhawk and various Mystara and FR products "full setting products," even though they were just expansions of the original setting. So all that is pending revision. [/QUOTE]

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