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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 4064091" data-attributes="member: 771">Unearthed Arcana was a cool book, and I'd be supportive of a similar sort of tool set book to come out when the new edition has been around a few years, however overall it has seen only very limited use in my games and has not been particularly inspiring.The choice between Pathfinder and Eberron was a hard one for me, as I really like both products, and both were fresh takes on D&D, with Pathfinder breathing new life into a more classic feeling D&D, and Eberron taking D&D to a new, yet completely logical place where it hadn't quite been before.  In the end, I chose Eberron.  Many of the reasons have been spelled out by others in this thread already, but basically I felt like the ECS really accomplished the goals is set out...to provide a fun and exciting new D&D world that was over-the-top and action packed, yet still believable and internally consistent, with flexibility for multiple campaign styles.  Not all campaign styles, mind you, but a setting need not be all things; it is great at hitting the pulp/noir options it highlighted as well as a few others.That said, I have really enjoyed reading Pathfinder, and hope to be able to run it the not too distant future.  Had I actually had the chance to play it already, it might have got the edge, but its too new for that.  I have however had several fun bouts with Eberron (no full fledged campaigns, but we played a short story arc that was a blast).</blockquote>

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