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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 5429916" data-attributes="member: 2174">With respect, I think you're confusing a one-sentence description of a planet in a world book, or even a two-paragraph description of same in an article in a Pathfinder AP volume with the sum total Paizo will ever do with the Red Planet, which would be a huge mistake.We're in it for the long haul. Just because we make an off-hand reference to something once doesn't mean we're done talking about it, or that that one sentence conveys all the depth a given concept might get over the course of the campaign setting's life.I also think you're guilty of a little hyperbole on the campaign setting issue in general, though I think a lot of your other observations are quite astute. To wit: There is a middle ground between doing "no setting," or a setting that is so light on detail that it might as well not exist, and doing six or seven concurrent campaign settings, all of which lack distinction from one another.I don't know if the 1990s Dark Sun stole customers or sales dollars away from the Forgotten Realms, for example, but I have a hard time understanding why, from a business perspective, a company would concurrently support Greyhawk, the Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Birthright. Those settings _do_ poach off customers from one another, and I think the profusion of mutually exclusive, superficially identical campaign settings was one of many elements that eventually led to the doom of TSR. It's not an either/or proposition.  --Erik</blockquote>

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