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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 1604274" data-attributes="member: 6182">Worry not, you wrote better than the majority of English-speaking chat room goers ever did on their best day.In regards to the meat of your commentary, there's a few factors.1) Greenwood has no logic.  The man's career has mostly been about reading every book he could get ahold of, and then shoving little bits of all of them together in to his setting.  Thus, while the individual pieces are often interesting (but as unique as Shakespeare, which is to say, not at all), none of them are realistically related, and the events are all but at random.2) Some say that Eberron is, in fact, a fully-realized concept as you desired.  It's just that it has magitech trains and lacks the classical fantasy feel in exchange for the 80s action feel.  While only a bit more 'unique' than Greenwood's stuff, it's at least done by someone whom comes up with ideas on his own, even if they had been done elsewhere.  Effective originality is more respectable than "I read a bazillion books so you'll never guess where I stole this from."  (Mind you, I'm not saying that FR is a BAD setting.  It's just not the most logical, and very very borrow-happy, as fans and foes alike know well)3) Like with a meal, the best one for you is usually the one you do yourself.</blockquote>