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<blockquote data-quote="Tarrasque Wrangler" data-source="post: 1031818" data-attributes="member: 7473">Re: Re: Count me (proudly) amongst the Whiners!They said in the submission guidelines quoted above and several times on forums that they wanted something that had the flavor of Dragonlance, FR, and Greyhawk.&nbsp; At first I thought this was ridiculous, but I came to understand that WotC and TSR made their bones in standard fantasy, and that still represents the largest chunk of the market.&nbsp; While I thought it might spread them a little too thin, I understand the corporate mentality that says go with the proven winner, rather than stick your neck out.Now, judging from what I've seen so far, you can a lot of things about this setting, but &quot;If you like Greyhawk, you'll LOVE Eberron!&quot; doesn't appear to be one of them.It now appears (given some of the rhetoric bandied around on these boards and others) that their target market, namely people who like to play &quot;standard fantasy&quot;, do not, in fact, want to play something that looks like Arcanum D20.&nbsp; It seems like WotC reversed their mentality halfway through the setting search.&nbsp; I'm not saying they're wrong to pick what might very well be the best setting in the contest, just that they shouldn't have said they wanted vanilla for months, wait until everyone entered, and then say they wanted chocolate after all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tarrasque Wrangler, post: 1031818, member: 7473"] [b]Re: Re: Count me (proudly) amongst the Whiners![/b] They said in the submission guidelines quoted above and several times on forums that they wanted something that had the flavor of Dragonlance, FR, and Greyhawk. At first I thought this was ridiculous, but I came to understand that WotC and TSR made their bones in standard fantasy, and that still represents the largest chunk of the market. While I thought it might spread them a little too thin, I understand the corporate mentality that says go with the proven winner, rather than stick your neck out. Now, judging from what I've seen so far, you can a lot of things about this setting, but "If you like Greyhawk, you'll LOVE Eberron!" doesn't appear to be one of them. It now appears (given some of the rhetoric bandied around on these boards and others) that their target market, namely people who like to play "standard fantasy", do not, in fact, want to play something that looks like Arcanum D20. It seems like WotC reversed their mentality halfway through the setting search. I'm not saying they're wrong to pick what might very well be the best setting in the contest, just that they shouldn't have said they wanted vanilla for months, wait until everyone entered, and then say they wanted chocolate after all. [/QUOTE]

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