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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8792828" data-attributes="member: 907">IIRC, it was released fairly early – late 2000, I think. But it was definitely not given the same love as the FRCS.As I recall the discussion at the time, the idea was to make "Greyhawk lite" the core setting. The PHB references it, and so does various core material. For example, there are various prestige classes building on Greyhawk material, like Knight of the Great Kingdom, and the adventures released for core 3e are given Greyhawk geographical references when needed. But those references matter about as much as Bigby matters to the existence of Bigby's grasping hand – not much. Forgotten Realms, on the other hand, was meant to be the Deluxe setting. Plenty of sourcebooks with good production values (like full-color art), bespoke rule elements (feats, races, prestige classes, items, spells), and stuff like that.Remember that one of the primary reasons Wizards had identified for TSR's issues was the proliferation of settings, which split the customer base into Forgotten Realms players, Birthright players, Dark Sun players, Planescape players, etc. instead of just D&D players. Something like Thri-kreen of Athas, while well-made, would be pretty much useless to a Ravenloft player. And that was something they wanted to avoid, which is why Forgotten Realms got almost all of the setting love (well, at least until Eberron came along).</blockquote>