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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9375480" data-attributes="member: 42582">Maybe it will? I mean, stranger things have happened!If the Worlds of D&D book is focused on art, well there is art for Mystara, given the amount of stuff that was published for it, and that might be a reason to include it. It seems unlikely that including it will drag the book down; and it might prompt some purchases of PDFs on DriveThru.As far as different flavour of fantasy are concerned, the differences between (1) Eberron, (2) DL/Krynn, and (3) the rest are reasonably clear. But the differences between FR, GH and M/KW are less clear to me. I know in this thread people have talked about GH including space ships and fighting robots and Murlynd, but how big a part of most people's GH play have those things been? They are not prominent in most published GH material (eg the original Gazetteer, From the Ashes, the CoGH boxed set, The Adventure Begins, the LGG).Likewise, how much Known World/Mystara play has really focused on the more outre parts of that setting? Or hast it mostly been fairly standard D&D fantasy that uses Karameikos rather than Furyondy  or Nyrond as its feudal realm, and that uses Specularum rather than GH as its version of Lankhmar?What mostly seems to distinguish these settings is the amount of published stuff. FR has absolute truckloads, including billions of novels, that mean it is  metaplot all the way down (at least for those into such stuff). Mystara/KW has its GAZs. And GH has a map and some famous names. (I'm not even going to call them named NPCs, because Mordenkainen isn't a character - it's a name that can be attached to anything, as the various publications that carry the name - Fantastic Adventure, Magnificent Emporium, Tome of Foes - illustrate.)Sure there are aficionados who have more nuanced opinions about the strength of each setting. But I can't imagine the numbers of those people are enough to support a commercial publishing strategy.</blockquote>

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