That's what is has always been. Various themes and settings plugged in to the original FR setting by TSR.I mean, this isnt exactly a great thing.
FR - The dumping ground of all things, the kitchen sink, and all things to all people.
Thats not exactly great, to me.
Not really true. The Traveller and the Shadow are interlopers, and objectively real. If a god from FR where to somehow reach Eberron, they would just be a traveller from another dimension. They wouldn't automatically be worshiped, and if they were, they wouldn't gain power from that worship as they would in FR. They would be real, but they wouldn't be a god.Eberron religion is SUBJECTIVE.
But now the existence of the Forgotten Realms gods is OBJECTIVE.
That is the problem itself.
Forgotten Realms turned Eberron into FR crap.
No that’s not what I’m talking about.Eh, no, but I'm well aware that Fizban is rather metafictional (like when he shows up as Nabzif in the Death Gate novels).
Fizban's Treasury if Dragons provides a metaphysical framework to explain how D&D IP cab exist in multiple universes TL;DR it-s Plato by way of Tiamat and Bahamut, aka Tahakis and Palladibe in some worlds.Eh, no, but I'm well aware that Fizban is rather metafictional (like when he shows up as Nabzif in the Death Gate novels).
True - if they kept what made them special. But FR files off all the serial numbers and doesn't provide nearly as interesting connections to the world, making it much less vibrant.Diversity doesn't make everything a Grey mass of a blob.
Here's the Warforged entry from ForgottenRealms wiki.Not all races go in FR, Warforged don't.
No, the real world is like I described Eberron - each race has it's own place and multiple cultures. There are different cultures of elves, different cultures of halflings - each that has a place in the world.The real world is a "Kitchen Sink" and that is makes it special, instead of one note and unevolving.
Oh that, yeah, that's not new lore. Even in the Forgotten Realms, Tiamat is kind of an interloper deity herself. The thing is though, Forgotten Realms is written with interloper deities from all over the place being a part of the setting- Selune, Shar, and their "daughter" Mystra are the original deities, the rest mostly migrated from elsewhere, which is why you have Finnish deities, Norse deities, Egyptian gods, and all the rest fighting for elbow room.Fizban's Treasury if Dragons provides a metaphysical framework to explain how D&D IP cab exist in multiple universes TL;DR it-s Plato by way of Tiamat and Bahamut, aka Tahakis and Palladibe in some worlds.
cause they have been crossing over from the start, it’s not a new thing. I also don’t feel it cheapens things.I don't like the canonical crossover aspect of D&D worlds and rather have they all remain apart from each other. I'm excited for Spelljammer. But that's because of its space adventures, not because I intend to link up other settings. I like Star Wars, I like Stargate and I like Mass Effect. But I'd hate a crossover. It cheapens every setting and muddles every theme while breaking my verisimilitude by reminding me that their all fictional worlds. The point about Eberrons religions is that it cannot be known. But now it is possible to know there are gods. They might not be gods in Eberron, but gods that exist nonetheless.
If others are having fun doing crossovers, that's great! But why would you need to put that into the settings canonically? That's like having a Star Wars setting guide describe how Spiderman would make a great superhero on Coruscant. I mean, it's true. But also irrelevant and kinda misplaced to include there.