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Deekin said:It's really really similar:
Massive Mechanical improvements that refocus the game in the way that some people did not like.
A setting chage that most did not like (oMage to NMage --> FR changes
Two other settings that are about balanced ( Werewolf and Vampire --> Dragonlance and Eberron)
Hopefully that means that the First new setting will be awesome, but only a minority will like it (Promeathan)!
One difference I do see in your analogy is the Werewolf and Vampire -->Dragonlance and Eberron.
I see a big disparity here between Vampire or Werewolf and Eberron. These two games had become as fleshed out as they could possibly get...yet Eberron really seems to have been shortchanged in the edition switch. It had in no way been fully or even mostly fleshed out as a campaign setting in 3.5. The dillemna I see here is that Eberron will initially be reprinting alot of stuff (especially if their goal is to bring in new players) that many people only recently purchased. I myself drifted away from the setting when I realized WotC was jumping to Sarlona when half the continent of Khorvaire still hadn't been explored. I can't see alot of people being happy with purchasing a rehash of a fairly new gameworld, and I wonder just how much of Eberron will be changed to make this type of purchase worthwhile.