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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hamburger Mary" data-source="post: 3816500" data-attributes="member: 17363">To echo what I originally posted on the WotC boards, I simply can't imagine that the posts of three or four posters on two separate threads were what drove this decision. To me, that assumption is sheer egotism on the part of the posters in question - "we did it all by ourselves!"If you look at the other facts and at what James has posted in subsequent messages, the path for FR was laid out in 2005, and the path for Eberron has not yet been established. James states that "FR and Eberron are two different beasts." I think that WotC saw the massive outcry to the changes to FR and this caused them to stop and question whether the changes to Eberron were actually necessary. JAMES may have seen the threads in question, but there's no evidence that Andy Collins or Chris Perkins did, and by James' statement they were both questioning it independently. And given that Keith has long been a champion of the "Novels aren't Canon" plank, I doubt he was fighting for a TLA. So I don't think this was remotely a reaction to the rabid posting of a few Eberron fans. I think that it was a course of action they weren't strongly committed to in the first place, and that the massive outcry over the FR changes caused them to reevaluate it and conclude that, in the case of Eberron, it wasn't required.</blockquote>