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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1168386" data-attributes="member: 151">At Gencon, there was a panel, and they also passed out a promotional brochure, some of which was recycled for the Dragon article.  They're being fairly tight-lipped about Eberron, but it is NOT about dinosaurs...it just has them in the world setting at some locations.  What little we've been able to cobble together is that it takes place in a world where magic is much more pervasive to the common man, and it's applications are widespread.  Many of the standard races are mixed up, so they don't match the pure PHB expectations, or so they claim.  Everything I've seen so far has indicated that it will very much have a 'Edgar Rich Burroughs-feel' to the setting...being much more like the ancient cities of Tarzan and the martian landscape of John Carter than of your traditional medieval European fantasy setting. And that, IMHO, is a Good Thing (TM). As for it's support, I think Henry has the right of it.  WotC is trying to find a way to keep their revenue stream for the RPG division going by means other than producing rules revisions.  Creating a new setting from the ground up (and let's face it, this will be the first true WotC setting for D&D 3rd Edition) is a big undertaking, and then adding in supplements and support (and D&D minis) is a big deal. As long as they don't treat it like Greyhawk, we'll be fine.  Greyhawk got the Cloudbusting YoYo treatment...which is to say that they buried it in the garden, because what made it special is what made it dangerous. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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