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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7963236" data-attributes="member: 23751">This is simply not correct.  In 2e Greyhawk never got even remotely the same support that the Realms got. In fact, it got one campaign book and very little else.  In short, it got a minor push, so it's no wonder it didn't do well.  Had TSR fleshed out the various countries like it did to the Realms, Greyhawk would have been much more popular.Along came WotC and they had a cash cow and nothing else of substance due to TSR's blundering, so of course they went with the Realms as the primary source of books.And this argument just proves us right.  Greyhawk and Eberron are still two very popular campaigns due to.............QUALITY!  They just never got the support to raise them to more than they are.Would those two be as popular as the Realms?  Maybe Greyhawk had TSR supported it in 2e, but I suspect they deliberately tanked it due to their issues with Gygax.  Once 3e came around, they could not possibly catch up to the Realms in the same way that no other RPG can ever catch up to D&D, regardless of quality.No kitchen sink setting has received anything other than a minor(Greyhawk) to moderate(Eberron) push, so they had no chance to do better.  The two niche settings that got major pushes were Planescape and Spelljammer, but being niche, no amount of pushing could get them anywhere near the Realms.  It doesn't matter how many books on flying through space on magic ships they put out, if you don't like the concept you aren't going to buy it.</blockquote>

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