doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Hmm. I've never seen that connection. I guess I would just run it in Hollow Earth Expedition, Savage Worlds, or something like that. D&D just seems like you have to change too much about the assumptions of the game - like forcing a square peg into a round hole.
I really prefer dnd for Eberron. DnD (4e and 5e, at least) does fantasy pulp very well.
Tangent: Eberron doesn’t need guns. It doesn’t need to be “fantasy 1930s”. The 1930s are one of the primary inspirations, it isn’t the whole setting.
Remember, Eberron also has chivalric knights, is mostly ruled by absolute monarchs, has inventors more inspired by steampunk than anything 20th century, and delves into cyberpunk themes of Uber powerful megacorps and questions of what it means to be “human” in the face of truly sapient synthetic people, etc.
I do think it needs elemental blasting rods or something that fill a niche similar to guns without just being guns, like the lightning rail and airships. Wands don’t quite get there, because only select people can use them at all. That misses one of the biggest distinguishing features of guns. Still, not having them helps distinguish Eberron from a generic “fantasy 1930s” world.