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With Eberron everything is there that's in default D&D. But it's all different. I think my metaphor of a filter or lens being placed over the top works quite well to describe it. No other setting does that. With Greyhawk, FR, and Mystara, everything's there but it's mostly the same. With Spelljammer, everything's there but it's separated by the introduction of a new element - space travel.Second, it is not the only D&D setting that has done something genuinely new. From Ghostwalk to Spelljammer, D&D is filled with different takes.
And there are mutltitudes of genuinely new things even within the kitchen sink settings.
I completely agree. Eberron does change, modify, and subvert. And it's also a kitchen sink setting -Eberron, Dark Sun, Dragon Lance, and many lesser-known settings (Ghostwalk, for example) are all POV settings (changing, modifying, subverting).
This is why I consider it to be a unique setting.a large, multi-purpose setting that can accommodate a diverse number and type of "standard" D&D adventures and tropes. In other words, if you choose this type of setting, it would be fairly simply to quickly adapt any standard D&D module or AP to fit somewhere within it.
Another, similar, possibility that afaik no one has ever done would be twinning D&D and superhero, which, like pulp, is also a kitchen sink genre.
By definition, then, it isn't.
I am modifying, changing, and subverting the expectations and rules of D&D is NOT a kitchen sink setting.