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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jan van Leyden" data-source="post: 5302761" data-attributes="member: 20307">First things first: Jakandor: Island of War, the first of this mini series, is copyright 1997; not exactly the time in which TSR acted in a thoughtful, planned way.Then, let me quote the back cover text:A new, self-contained campaign arena conceived by Jeff Grubb, the ODYSSEY (TM) setting can be placed within any ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS world. New barbarian character kits, new forms of magic, and the opportunity for new styles of role-playing make Jakandor: Island of War a fresh experience for all players, novices and veterans alike.It was never intended to be a campaign world in its own right, but to be slotted into any other world or be run as a one-off.Maybe TSR saw the problem with their too many worlds and tried to garner the support of fans of different settings - though how an island setting should be interesting for Dark Sun folks eludes me - maybe they were frantically testing new approaches. But at least they prominently TradeMarked the name Odyssey, hoping to start a long line of successful supplements with it.</blockquote>