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Wowser! Now I feel embrassed about my Hellcow handle (which is based on my adventure in En Route, which does not even involve an actual demon). All I can say about this is that James Wyatt is a devout Christian and former minister -- I believe his website recently had a discussion about his...

If you wanted to make a psionic version of the Artificer, I'd swap Use Magic Device with Use Psionic Device, Spellcraft with Psicraft, Knowledge (arcana) to Knowledge (psionics), all of the creation feats with their psionic equivalents, spell-storing item to "power-storing item" (same idea but...

I think this has been covered officially (IE by Bill Slaviscek) on the WotC boards, but the short form is that it's the difference between me going into a library and trying to find out as much as I can about snails and someone with professional training in digging up information doing the same...

I'm afraid it is, because it's really not a question I can answer. Remember that the 100 page story bible was just that -- a story bible, without mechanics. During the development of the setting, the first pass at warforged mechanics went to James Wyatt, and they went through dozens of rewrites...

I know there has been a lot of discussion of this on the WotC boards (by others). Xen'drik is a good place because it has giants and because the giants fought the Quori long ago; thus the psionic ability of half-giants could be related to this, either the result of a taint or giants trying to...

Huh. I haven't dealt with many. But people may just be afraid to joke about the setting around me. Sorry to hear about the bored artificers. Both the artificers I've played with have gone the crossbow route; crossbow + personal weapon augmentation can be pretty effective. On the other hand...

Only the core books. My hope was that the world had enough versatility (especially with the presence of the Mournland and Xen'drik) to allow people to incorporate ideas from other products, but only the core books were fixed. Case in point, my own work in Crime & Punishment overlaps some...

To possess a dragonmark, you must be a member of a dragonmarked house or trace descent from a house. You cannot belong to two houses. If you mix the blood of two houses, you generally end up with an aberrant dragonmark (if you end up with a mark at all). It seems likely. However, a lot of the...

You're right, it's not up to me. But I don't think WotC is in any hurry to do this. As I've said before, based on discussions I've had with the WotC designers, I doubt you'll ever see an adventure that says "this is exactly what happened in the Mournland" -- you might get things that MAY have...

Needless to say, I'm also interested in your concerns, Kai Lord. I'm sorry the setting didn't work out for you.

Glad to hear it. I think there's a lot there that can be used in Eberron, but of course I'm biased. :) I haven't read Feet of Clay, but you're not the first person to mention it -- I'll certainly check it out next time I'm in a bookstore.

OK, I'm back, but it will take me a while to answer everyone's questions. I also advse folks to check the WotC message board's "Ask Keith" thread -- as they pay the bills (though not, unfortunately, for posting on message boards) I've been devoting a little more time to that thread. I provided...

Well, first off, I have to agree with the other folks: Artificers are really going to want to pump up Use Magic Device. They don't have to put all their feats into it -- in one of my campaigns, the artificer went for Magical Aptitude and Point Blank Shot -- but there's a lot to be said for doing...

I'm afraid I have a lot of work piling up, so it will be a few days before I can answer all of these questions. I'll get to everything as time permits. I don't see why not, but I'd personally rule that this supercedes armor enhancement, so you can't end up with a +5 warforged of the archmagi...

My point is that if someone thinks it's overpowered and is saying "It tastes great!", perhaps they should actually try to see if it's spoiled, instead of disagreeing with those who already have. With that said, I don't think it's "spoiled". I said that it would slow you down. I ran a campaign...

I've actually addressed this in great detail in another post, but I can't seem to track it down. For shorter views, you can check out: http://www.coveworld.net/eberron/rules.html#alignment and http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=92370 The quick point, though: Eberron encompasses both...

Sure. Knowing that they wanted a setting that could have the scope of FR, it seemed logical to assume that they would want to expand into novels, computer games, or even CCGs (not something that's being planned, to the best of my knowledge). So certainly, in writing up the basic idea, I had in...

Warforged never suffer class penalties for composite plating (aside from the 5% arcane spell failure). Composite plating does not count as armor for purposes of warforged druids, monks, or any other class with armor restrictions. There is a fair amount of wood in warforged already; note that...

Correct. A few inches for least, increasing from there. The picture of the Dragonmark Heir on page 73 shows a lesser mark. Siberys marks are big! It depends on where it is, but it is a status symbol, so most people would show it off unless they are trying to be undercover. By the book, the...

The Mournland expedition is a great idea, but I could also see such creatures as having been bred by the Ashbound druids in the past, just as the Gatekeepers once created horrid animals. You're welcome, and I'm glad you're giving it a try. Have fun, and I look froward to hearing about the...