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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 7896833" data-attributes="member: 16077">I think that the idea that Greyhawk is to similar is because WotC have not done the setting any justice.  FR had had several RSEs over the years which naturally allowed people to segregate canon and a return to previous canon as pertains to the setting. Greyhawk's only RSE has really been the Greyhawk Wars/From the Ashes and not a lot of of content after that to try and tie it all to previous canon or explain the current canon.  Had they provided a 3e Gazetteer that did a good job of explaining before and after, it might have provided impetus to continue to develop products in 3e and 4e.  You'll recall that GH was the default in 3e yet they produced mostly FR and Eberron setting content.  Why did they make GH the default and not support it?  The only love shown to the other campaign settings was a set of articles in Dragon.  While I love FR for high fantasy and have grown to like Eberron, WotC's inability to support a cleaned-up low magic GH, Spelljammer, Mystara, planescape, or Ravenloft led to me supporting other publishers in the 3e era - Kalamar and the World of Aereth being two campaign settings I heavily invested in at the time, as well as dabbling in the Midnight campaign setting for some of the darker campaign ideas.Yes, I get that want to avoid saturation like in previous editions, but putting out one really good whole of setting book for each of their main older settings should have been the priority to then compare to survey results to gauge what their customer base who actually purchases to use in their home campaigns actually want vs what the portion of customers who replied to surveys and may or may not actually use (or even play at all) say they want.  I'd love to see the comparison of survey results vs booked sales to see how well that they match up - it would not surprise me if the results were similar to political exit polls vs actual voting results.</blockquote>

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