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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Macbeth" data-source="post: 1633423" data-attributes="member: 11259">Hmmm... I'm not sure about Ebberon not clicking. From my perspective, it clicked. Oh boy, did it click. Maybe it's because I only started gaming with 3rd Ed. I don't have fond memories of Planescape or Darksun (though they both interest me), and my experiences with Greyhawk and FR are limited to their third Ed. incarnations (which might explain why I  never really liked Greyhawk). I bough the FR setting, I bought the Greyhawk Gazzetter, and neither of them clicked. To me, Greyhawk seemed like somebody rewrote the core books in a more prose-like form. The problem with "everything here is exactly like the PHB" is that I've already read the PHB, I want something new. And Ebberon, to my suprise, has done that.See, in my view, Ebberon takes everything from the PHB and fits transparently over it. None of the base monsters have any changes, except to the flavor, which is exactly what I want from a setting. I want all the same stuff, but with a unique story, a unique flavor. I didn't like Greyhawk (and to some degreee FR) because they just seemed like a world built around what the PHB already told me. Ebberon isn't perfect, but I'm having a dang good time reading it, more so then I ever did with Greyhawk or FR. So, from my point of view as a relatively new gamer, Ebberon is the big setting of 3rd Ed. Without the baggage of expectations of Planescape, Dark Sun, FR or Greyhawk, Ebberon really stand on it's own.</blockquote>

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