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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PeterWeller" data-source="post: 3889122" data-attributes="member: 55795">Hussar, it sounds like you want your campaign books to be like Mysteries of the Moonsea or Flashpoint: Brak Sector,which is one of my favorite source books and infinitely adaptable BTW.  I get the impression you want a campaign book that provides you with just about everything you need to run a campaign.  I like books like this, but I don't think this should be the model setting books follow.  I think setting books should give you the tools to create campaigns in their world.  They should provide background and hooks from which you and your players can develop a story.  The kinds of books you want are, in my opinion, better off as supplements to main setting books.  Here's where Mysteries of the Moonsea is a good example; it develops a corner of the larger setting and provides a fairly detailed framework for a campaign in that region.  This works really well in a limited area, but I don't think it's the best way to handle entire settings, especially those as large as Faerun or Eberron. Also, if WotC decides to release single book settings and they contain a campaign's worth of fairly detailed adventures, this runs the risk of making them essentially one use books.  Granted, a year's worth of gaming from a single book is a pretty good deal.</blockquote>