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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3777342" data-attributes="member: 14159">Tying a setting to a specific edition is nostalgia.  Settings and rules are two separate things, and if you only had ever played Greyhawk using something completely different, like GURPS, after years of GURPS Greyhawk going to AD&D might even feel bizarre and like it wasn't meant to be played in that system.Saying a new setting wouldn't work because older editions didn't have, before that setting was released and the new "crunch" to go with it, that setting wouldn't work in the current edition either.  You could run Eberron just fine in 1e AD&D, or Basic D&D, with just as much custom rules as it took for 3.5, creating some custom races and classes and maybe a few more "fiddly bits".I used to play and run Forgotten Realms in 2e, now I can do so as easily or better in 3e.  Forgotten Realms was originally a 1st Edition setting, by the way.  It was released in the twilight of 1e and became much bigger in 2e, but it was originally 1e.</blockquote>