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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 1635921" data-attributes="member: 20740">I'm betting you are wrong.Wizards will push the hell out of it.  But the chances of Eberron ever supplanting FR are too minute to ponder.  FR is a standard sword and sorcery campaign and is therefore very accessible.  And it already has massive amounts of support, just counting 3e.Then there's the fact that an Eberron novel line doesn't have the vacuum market that FR and Dragonlance did when they came out (not will it probably have authors that are as good).  To make inroads into an oversaturated fantasy novel market (DL, FR, Tolkien [due to the movies, he's more relevent today than he has been in 20 years], Harry Potter, among others), the Eberron novel line would have to authors with industry-stature among the lines of Weis, Hickman, Salvatore, Denning, Knack, etc.  Instead they're asking for amateur author proposals.Without a novel line, the campaign just can't keep up with FR (maybe not even Dragonlance in the long term, though Sovereign Press is limited by their license with Wizards and cannot publish more than a handful of books a year).  Alot of people come into D&D from novels, and hordes of DMs use them as basis or inspiration for adventures.My best estimate is that Eberron will be wildly successful for upwards of two years, but will taper and become unsupported (or scantily so) by age 5.</blockquote>