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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9724545" data-attributes="member: 18">Presumably only in mechanical content, though, because the setting is not hugely changed from previous versions, and what changes there are, are definitely Keith Baker because Keith Baker was giving out ongoing commentary about the setting and how he was developing it, and it's Keith Baker's setting (of course Keith Baker is also making a Daggerheart setting!).So yeah, I think we can be very certain he didn't meaningfully design anything at about the lore part of Eberron. He's certainly never claimed otherwise.He's never worked on a original setting book that got published for 5E (he did lead on Ravnica, and I don't know how much that's changed/expanded from the MtG standard - at least somewhat I would assume). But we know there have been like, what, at least 4, possibly, far, far, more original settings that got somewhere between a very serious pitch and "wrote most of the book" before WotC canned them, so he might well have done some proportion of those. Back in 4E he was behind the Neverwinter campaign setting.Also he created his own fully original setting for Blue Rose, which a sort of synthesis/pastiche of what was then called "Romantic Fantasy" (not to be confused with Romantasy which is an entirely different genre with largely different tropes and very different vibes). Including putting out a detailed setting book, World of Aldea.So credit where credit's due but let's not credit him with a setting that is close to 100% Keith Baker. I don't see him having a huge problem writing a setting book - he's not got a long history of cool original settings, but hey, most designers don't until they do, y'know? Even Zeb Cook had never done an original setting until Oriental Adventures, and then came out with the hugely original Taladas and Planescape.</blockquote>

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