Does Dungeons and Dragons need supported settings?

[Votan]

Points of Light Land

It's one of the message boards abbreviations that I despise. What's wrong with saying "core setting"?

Wow; I actually wondered if a medieval Poland setting was being used somewhere (which would actually be a potentially cool idea as it was a pretty interesting region and fits with "dark myths" rather well).

 

[Glyfair]

WotC appears to be doing that with the book Hammerfast. Why couldn't there be a similar book for Waterdeep, or the Dalelands, or an area in Eberron? Giving a team beleaguered DM a rich setting to draw on would only help keep DM's in the fold and playing the game.

Well, DDI has had the ongoing series fleshing out Fairhaven from Eberron. It's a very narrow slice, and only revealed a bit at a time, but it's there.

Then again, I have seen Eberron's support dwindle. The Eberron forums on the WotC site are pretty much a ghost town. Some of that might be due to Keith's drop in participation, but most of that I attribute to it's disappearance from the public eye. Even the DDI articles don't seem to be trumpeted much as Eberron articles.