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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8453494" data-attributes="member: 5948">I strongly suspect that's because Eberron has always been a PCs world, in a static state waiting for home games to do anything.&nbsp; It's never been subject to the tyranny of metaplot - especially novel-driven metaplot.Seriously, when you look at what people most hate about in those older settings, it almost always comes back to metaplot and novels.&nbsp; FR - Drizzt and Elminster doing everything.&nbsp; Dragonlance - the Heroes of the Lance already won the War of the Lance in the novels, and there were so many metaplot changes after that, that even the most devoted DL fan was bound to find something they hated.&nbsp; Dark Sun?&nbsp; Everyone hated how the Prism Pentad exploded the setting.&nbsp; Metaplot again.&nbsp; Poor old Planescape copped Faction War and Die Vecna Die.&nbsp; Even Greyhawk - I wasn't around for it personally, but the reception From the Ashes got is still the stuff of vitriolic legend.&nbsp; And that's the thing about people hating settings - you have to like them a bit first, to care enough about them to hate them later.&nbsp; People who never really got into a setting don't hate it anything like as hard as alienated hardcore fans.Eberron never made that mistake.&nbsp; They decided not to do metaplot, and they stuck with that decision.&nbsp; The setting is not everyone's cup of tea, but it hasn't driven any of its hardcore fans into resentment, either (except possibly with the dumb way 5e handled dragonmarks, but I digress...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8453494, member: 5948"] I strongly suspect that's because Eberron has always been a PCs world, in a static state waiting for home games to do anything. It's never been subject to the tyranny of metaplot - especially novel-driven metaplot. Seriously, when you look at what people most hate about in those older settings, it almost always comes back to metaplot and novels. FR - Drizzt and Elminster doing everything. Dragonlance - the Heroes of the Lance already won the War of the Lance in the novels, and there were so many metaplot changes after that, that even the most devoted DL fan was bound to find something they hated. Dark Sun? Everyone hated how the Prism Pentad exploded the setting. Metaplot again. Poor old Planescape copped Faction War and Die Vecna Die. Even Greyhawk - I wasn't around for it personally, but the reception From the Ashes got is still the stuff of vitriolic legend. And that's the thing about people hating settings - you have to like them a bit first, to care enough about them to hate them later. People who never really got into a setting don't hate it anything like as hard as alienated hardcore fans. Eberron never made that mistake. They decided not to do metaplot, and they stuck with that decision. The setting is not everyone's cup of tea, but it hasn't driven any of its hardcore fans into resentment, either (except possibly with the dumb way 5e handled dragonmarks, but I digress...) [/QUOTE]

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