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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 6761650" data-attributes="member: 5100">Greyhawk is a perfect example of how the Realms kills and eats a world. Granted, both kind of existed in the same "vanilla fantasy" area. Still, anything that was a Greyhawk selling point (Lolth, for example) has been "shared" with the Realms to the point where it can be supported for the Realms without even mentioning its origin.It would not surprise me to see other settings' goodies float over to the Realms or just get slowly ignored. Shifters and Warforged seem obvious choices to pull in from Eberron, as do Dragonmarks (though, not with that name). Planescape has been half-canonized, already.I think that'd be a real shame, too. One of the wonderful things about D&D is that it hasn't been synonymous with any particular setting. There's always been a bit of an implied setting, but it was about building your own world, first and foremost. The myriad of published settings provided ideas, but weren't anchors. You should be able to fit all you need to run a campaign in a setting into 128-160 pages. A 250+ source/guide/box should be considered a deluxe product, which would only be of use to truly hard-core fans.</blockquote>