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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8927814" data-attributes="member: 5948">Funny how subjective these things are.  For me, Eberron is far and away the best setting book WotC have done, Theros and Wildemount a step behind it.  I genuinely LIKED Theros!  I intensely disagree with the angle that VRGtR took on the setting, but looked at purely on its own merits and wilfully ignoring all the decades of Ravenloft lore that I much prefer, it's a pretty competent setting book.  Only the number of holes it leaves for the DM to stitch together, and its incoherent approach to the Dark Powers striking me as major boo-boos, so it's another half-step behind.  SCAG trailing the pack, it's a skimpy inadequate setting book that spends too much space on generic (and mostly underpowered) character options and not enough on setting, but it's usable.  Ravnica I haven't read.Spelljammer is, looked on as setting book, waaaaay down the bottom of the pile.  But increasingly I'm wondering whether we really can look at it as a setting book at all.  It kinda tries to bridge the gap between adventure and setting, a bit like the equally disappointing Strixhaven did, but because it spent a third of its page count on monsters (that were mostly stolen from Dark Sun and were utterly out of theme with the rest of the product), and most of its shipping weight on useless cardboard, it did neither job adequately.</blockquote>