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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1908891" data-attributes="member: 19893">There were a lot of D&D settings that started off strong and with a slew of supplements. The real issue here is that WoTC cannot have two flagship lines: FR and Eberron. They WANT Eberron to succeed but success here means success in the much larger field of the MMORPG industry, and to a lesser extent how many people who get into the MMORPG actually get into buying D&D books because of it. The Novels will also play a big part.If the MMORPG (and the novels) are not a big success, then Wizards has no good reason to abandon "old faithful" (the realms) for the new setting that has demonstrated its inability to actually capture new blood. If they didn't retreat back into the realms (and do anything less than reduce Eberron to a minor line, if not kill it completely), they'd be intentionally harming themselves as a company.On the other hand if Eberron is a huge success in those related lines, then the die is cast for Eberron as the new flagship line, and the realms will have to be cut down to something akin to what Greyhawk is at now.Nisarg</blockquote>