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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaTarrasque" data-source="post: 7706806" data-attributes="member: 6801226">I think Eberron, Dark Sun, and Planescape have an ANOVA issue with FR and Greyhawk.  Within the setting, it is easy to scale things:  for example in Dark Sun, your 1st level gnome fighter with added psychic goodies is fighting giant rats with added psychic goodies, so it all balances out.  Between settings is a different story:  in FR, neither gnome fighters or giant rats routinely have added psychic goodies, so your 1st level gnome fighter from Dark Sun is noticeably more powerful than his FR counterpart.  Likewise the twice the encumbrance level weight of magic items commonly worn by PC's in Eberron or Planescape doesn't really fit "magic is uncommon" settings (not to mention you aren't really getting the Planescape feel unless you are a half assimar, half tiefling, half dwarf <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />).I think balancing out the within the setting issues with the between setting issues is part of the reason they have been focusing on the FR.</blockquote>