Recent content by JConstantine

So it was. I could have sworn it was presented as rumour before RftLW. I was certainly treating it as such earlier than 5e, and I'm sure I got it from an official source rather than coming up with the idea independently.

For Eberron, it was an in-universe rumour/hypothesis that shifters were the results of having a lycanthrope in their ancestry, but never explicitly fact. This rumour was made explicitly true for the Forgotten Realms versions of shifters when they were back-ported into that setting. The same was...

So, it's not so much that it's a slur, but inaccurate (and potentially inappropriate). In an anthropological context, "Creole" typically refers to ethnic groups which have formed due to one group suffering mass displacement as a result of colonialism, combining with another group and creating a...

"Creole" means different things to different people, and plenty of multi-ethnic people don't identify as Creole.

Except the various races have been used as representative of real world human groups, especially by racists, so if one accepts that racial stats should be removed because of said associations (as WotC clearly do), then one also has to accept that the removal of half-races is tantamount to...

Hexcrawls are typically about exploration and as you can see from that map, most of Khorvaire has been explored, settled and documented. For Eberron, the obvious place for a hexcrawl is Xen'drik, but if I was to do one in Khorvaire, I'd probably start with a premise like House Sivis or Morgrave...

This is not accurate. Elves and humans produced the first half-elven offspring, who felt they didn't fit in so formed their own community, with two half-elves then producing further "trueborn" half-elves. They started referring to themselves as Khoravar (Children of Khorvaire) because they...

Like I said, the first versions used candles:

I don't see what's so objectionable about lanterns on belts. London's Metropolitan Police wore signal lanterns on their belts c. 1860. The earliest versions used candles, before upgrading to whale oil, and eventually kerosene. I know post-industrial revolution tends to be outside the...

Not quite in line with the rest of your post, but there's Tomorrow City (which happens to be on sale right now), and Age of Steel.

Unfortunately, it does not. I could have been more explicit, but I meant playing as the fairy tale characters themselves.

One premise I find lacking is for playing in a unified world of Fairy Tales in the vein of Fables, Shrek and Once Upon a Time. City of Mist sort of comes close, but it's not quite there.

I suspect that's related to Frank Gruber's assertion that there's only 7 plots for westerns.

But why male models?

There's a thread for it on RPG.net where the lead designer has been providing additional info.