Which Campaign Setting has the best fluff? Why?

[Turjan]

You say this... but I see nothing backing it up. Is it just an opinion or do you have some insider information that no one else is privy to?

This was more or less the condition for the setting search. The setting had to accomodate the whole D&D canon.

 

[Nightfall]

So the ranting continues eh?

Just going to keep adding this then:

SCARRED LANDS!!!

Thank you for your time and patience.

 

[Turjan]

So the ranting continues eh?

Oh, this is not one of the two setting rant threads ?

 

[Nightfall]

Oh, this is not one of the two setting rant threads ?

No just the one with Nis continuously assaulting Eberron for some reason.

And me pimping the Scarred Lands.

 

[Pants]

This was more or less the condition for the setting search. The setting had to accomodate the whole D&D canon.

Yet, I don't see Duergar, Gray Elves, Svirfniblen, or any other subraces (except those wacky Drow!). The planes are also different and many monsters are changed. So,

I also don't remember any clause within the original form that required entrants to be able to fit the entire Monster Manual in the setting (though, I obviously could be misremembering here), I thought that was something that Keith thought up.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Whoa whoa hold it there.. I did NOT slam Eberron before its release! I had, in the rare posts I had mentioned Eberron, stated both my hopes and fears for the setting, and my then sincere hope that it lived up to what buzz I was hearing about it.

My mistake. If it wasn't before the release, then it was soon after. Maybe I'm remembering more of your posts on the fears of Eberron. In any case, I appologize.

Kane

 

[Kanegrundar]

This was more or less the condition for the setting search. The setting had to accomodate the whole D&D canon.

I don't recall this requirement. From what I remember, it had to be a fantasy setting and be usuable with 3.5 rules. There were a couple other vague requirements, but they escape me now, and I have long since deleted the original document from Wizards. I don't remember that one though. Especially since if that was teh case, I wouldn't have offered up my submission in the first place.

Kane

 

[Turjan]

Yet, I don't see Duergar, Gray Elves, Svirfniblen, or any other subraces (except those wacky Drow!). The planes are also different and many monsters are changed. So,

Each WotC setting has its own subraces and a few special gimmicks. The FR also differ from standard Greyhawk, but they are still composed from similar pieces. And, of course, every setting has to have drow !

I also don't remember any clause within the original form that required entrants to be able to fit the entire Monster Manual in the setting (though, I obviously could be misremembering here), I thought that was something that Keith thought up.

Right, it was not explicitly required. If you had come up with an extraordinarily fantastic setting, they would have waived this point .

 

[Wayside]

Yes, well that might apply if you don't actually do a degree in European history, like I did.

These factors in combination are pretty well impossible for anything other than a society on the verge of a massive revolution, and yet the author makes it sound like neither the feudalism nor the universal education are new.

So you're applying the assumptions of whichever historiography you're trained in to Eberron, and then saying there's a problem with Eberron because it doesn't correspond with those assumptions? It might be helpful, then, to know what these assumptions of yours are. Jean Hyppolite's idea of history is not the same as Foucault's, which is not the same as Deleuze's (I choose these examples because you have lived in France and studied European history; there are of course countless others). Based just on your statement above, you are at least partially committed to a Marxist historiography, but beyond that it isn't very clear.

IHehehe. True. But there is such a thing as savagely beating a dead horse.

So you agree that Eberron is a dead horse then?

 

[RSKennan]

Edit: nevermind....