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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 6493401" data-attributes="member: 87576">I've recently been digging into Eberron for the first time in a series way and it definitely has that new feeling, even if it is now 10 years old. Ditto for Dark Sun, even though it's older! That said, clearly kitchen sinks sell well because both WotC with FR and Paizo with Golarion are doing that.I would argue that they're not. HotDQ and RoT are very much the Daughter of Khyber campaign arc sketched out in 3.5E's Dragons of Eberron (Tiamat is trapped and needs to be freed) and otherwise adapted to FR. (I hope to run them in Eberron at some point.) Also, Tiamat as the BBEG has been done before in:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragonlance;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the crappy 80s cartoon;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Red Hand of Doom; and</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Scales of War.</li> </ul>I am almost certain I have missed at least one major example.As for The Sundering, it uses the name of an event from early Realms history when the elves did something bad and may actually be the third such event with that name but my mind is blank on the second. It also is not a new idea in other ways in that all it does is correct something that WotC now sees as a mistake in the form of the Spellplague and the entire 4E era.So, no, neither represent something new but, if they sell well, that's great because it keeps D&D alive as a published TRPG.</blockquote>