Recent content by Hellcow

Hi Everyone! Thanks for all the good wishes. As noted in the tweet earlier, while I’m shifting my primary focus to my work with Twogether Studios, I still love Eberron and will continue to write articles for my blog and my Patreon… I’m doing an Eberron story hour tomorrow on my Patreon Discord...

Hi everyone! I wanted to drop by to say that I really appreciate both the support and those raising legitimate. This is not a decision Im going to make quickly and I want to clarify a few things. I have no intention of completely abandoning Eberron. I’ve been supporting it for twenty years and...

I'd definitely like to write about those! Q'barra, the Demon Wastes, and the Eldeen Reaches are especially high on my personal list of topics, and I'd like to address them (and other things) before I'd go back to the planes.

I could easily imagine a deeper Planes of Eberron book with more concrete details, creatures, locations, etc. It’s a question of whether there’s interest out there. The success of and reaction to Exploring Eberron will be crucial in determining what I do next.

I think this is an excellent idea, and much more compelling than giving everyone a ring of resistance. This is the same sort of answer as where I suggested I'd use a boon from an architect of Irian. Having necrotic resistance will protect you. That doesn't mean that they answer has to BE...

Certainly, and I'd do both those things if I was going to have an adventure in Mabar. I'd never send a group of adventures into Mabar if their only method of survival was casting death ward, any more than I'd send them to a major adventure in a sahuagin capital with only a single character...

I understand your perspective and I respect it. However, how do you handle the comparison to aquatic adventuring? If you are going to go to a sahuagin city a thousand feet below the surface, the situation is the same: you have protection or you die. Again, why should Mabar -- the deadliest place...

What if you're underwater and someone dispels your water breathing spell? And it's MUCH easier to go underwater than it is to go to Mabar! It's not SUPPOSED to be easy or safe; it is the absolute most dangerous place you could possibly go in Eberron, the physical embodiment of the destruction of...

That’s the intent, yes. Mabar is literally the plane of death; it is the reason that specters and wraiths can kill you with their touch. It is SUPPOSED to kill mortals within minutes. But there’s two mitigating factors. The first is the Hinterlands, the outer reaches of Mabar that DON’T have the...

Exactly, and more clearly stated than what I said. Most changelings don't feel that their physical form defines their identity.

The Tyrants are an organization of changelings—shapeshifters who typically have a fluid relationship with gender.

That's an easy mistake to make, especially with fantasy names! In the context of the dragonmarked houses, "baron" is a unisex title, so that's an error on the part of the wiki - though I'm sure there's a canon book somewhere that also gets it wrong. Ultimately, you are correct: there are more...

I haven't had an opportunity to read the entire thread, but one thing caught my eye and I'm curious... Where are you getting this figure? Of the thirteen primary dragonmarked houses, seven have male leaders, four (Jorasco, Sivis, Phiarlan, and Lyrandar) have female leaders, and two (Cannith...

I posted this on a different thread, but seeing the "Eberron is 100% part of the Great Wheel. The Gods are real" comment, I figure I'll share it here too. (For anyone who doesn't know, I'm Keith Baker, one of the designers on Rising From The Last War. Howdy!) Eberron has always been tied to the...

No, I'm afraid there's no material on the Talenta Plains in ExE. There's so many possible topics I'd like to cover and there was no way to cover them all in one book. I'll note that Q'barra, the Demon Wastes, the Eldeen Reaches, and the Talenta Plains all fall into this category. If ExE does...