Leatherhead
Possibly a Idiot.
All the Dragonmarked houses in Eberron have their own magical birthmarks. Though it did come out later, so it could have been inspired by birthright.
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All the Dragonmarked houses in Eberron have their own magical birthmarks. Though it did come out later, so it could have been inspired by birthright.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Thanks! I didn't care for Eberron, so I wasn't familiar with that addition to it.
CapnZapp
Legend
Demetrios1453
Hero
That's an interesting point to bring up - although, as you said, it isn't strictly true, as once you get out of the more "featured" areas of the Forgotten Realms (to the east and to the south), kingdoms and other large-scale states are actually more the rule than the exception. But it is quite true that Cormyr is the only real traditional kingdom in more heavily-covered northwestern quadrant of Faerun (other than relatively new-fangled Elturgard, which SCAG implies might not be long for this world), with city-states predominant otherwise - and that is a noticeable and fairly striking difference.
Henry
Autoexreginated
It's a great point, one I've thought about before - and in any worlds where the "civilized races" aren't dominant in an area, it's a situation that ought to hold true more often, in fact. How could one hold a territory in an area where a 1000-year old dragon or an orc horde could just sweep through at any year, or the gods just fall out of the sky or a 100-year spellplague just breaks one day? The best you could hope for would be controlling a city and a few hundred acres around it.
It's also funny that it would seem, much maligned though it was, a "Greyhawk Wars" type situation would be the more natural consequence of Oerth's nation-states than all the dungeon-crawling that is associated with it.
It's also funny that it would seem, much maligned though it was, a "Greyhawk Wars" type situation would be the more natural consequence of Oerth's nation-states than all the dungeon-crawling that is associated with it.
The main problems I had with the Greyhawk Wars were twofold:
* It wasn't implemented well, and
* I hate the name.
But I'm not against the idea of wars in Greyhawk...
Cheers!
Aldarc
Legend
It's one of my favorite parts of the setting. Little magical gifts in bloodlines that provided accumulating economical advantages coalescing into pseudo-noble merchant families that have cornered the market. It's brilliant!
Ath-kethin
Elder Thing
What specifically did you dislike about Eberron without knowing about the Dragonmarks? That a was pretty significant part of the setting, from its very beginning.
I doubt that the change of attitude towards drow in-world was due from the introduction of Eilistraee. from the FR Wiki (which takes this info from Demihuma Deities):
They managed to build friendly relationships in some regions of Faerun, but they weren't liked or accepted from the get go. Only recently (as of 5e) things are improving for them. For example, whereas in the 1370s they met hostility when trying to settle in Ravens Bluff, in the 1490s Eilistraee is getting a temple within Waterdeep, after she appeared dancing outside its walls(and even then that's only happening because of the support of the Harpers. Most nobles aren't pleased with that).
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Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
I'm not a fan of magic being as common as dirt. I prefer it to be rarer and still mysterious.
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