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"If she was a victim of Longcoat's, she might be willing to talk if she thinks it might save someone else." Akilu runs a slightly-webbed hand over his smooth skull. "I remember one of the fishermen telling me about the ghost. I think I remember the spot where he mentioned seeing her. If no...

"I didn't take offense, Vanden," Akilu says, shaking his head. He turns to the rest of the gathered volunteers. "I'm Akilu. Pleasure to meet you all."

Akilu glances at the dwarven woman, then back to Vanden. He shrugs his striped shoulders. "Everyone's in this for their own reasons. I've got personal reasons of my own. But I don't have an Oldtown address, so the money matters to me too."

Akilu glances over his shoulder at the young man in the leather coat. We'll see if those looks of yours can turn aside Longcoat's blade." The darfellan gathers his ancestral trident from where he propped it, his only link to his slaughtered tribe. He stalks through the crowd till he arrives...

Akilu takes in Vanden's simple appearance, glancing at the tonsured hair and apparent lack of weaponry. This human doesn't look like much. Is he a scribe? He's no sailor or fisherman. There's courage in his action, but is there steel? Ah, well, at worst he'll distract Longcoat so that I can...

Akilu's jet black eyes survey the bedraggled patrons of the Shark. In the dim, flickering light of the Shark, the shadows play on his skin like the black waters of the bay. He remembers his neighbor, Salty Tom, pushing a wheelbarrow down the boardwalk two weeks ago. Akilu and his mother...

Damn you, Whizbang, I'm chomping at the bit here! Start the IC thread! :D

Great idea. If D&D is to move beyond its limitations, it has to take these kinds of steps. Niche protection is a millstone around the game's neck. It is a class system, so I suppose that some niche protection is inevitable. But it should be minimized, like this house rule suggests. I will...

Airwalkrr, The post you reference in your .sig essentially boils down to DM fiat which, while a legitimate approach, does little to defend the broken and useless nature of the Diplomacy skill in the RAW.

A cosmology based on Five Elements (Water, Fire, Earth, Wood, and Metal) rather than Four (Earth, Air, Fire, Water). ;)

I've never been able to grasp the reasoning behind penalizing the player for his character's death by having the new PC be a level or more behind the party or the dead character. The player has presumably earned every XP granted the old character. Now, because of some random luck with dice...

Interesting points, Jurgen. Definitely worth incorporating into my ideas, but as second-order concerns, which isn't a bad thing.

Akilu Description and background Appearance: Akilu has the large frame, thick neck, and powerful jaw of his race. His smooth, slightly oily skin displays black and white racial markings that resemble tiger striping. Jet-black eyes like the ocean on a moonless night rest above a small, flat...

Great comment. This clarifies what Solarious was only hinting at regarding Dragonshard Items. It puts the Dragonmark into great perspective. It's the Dragonshard items that make the Houses great, not the fact that a small fraction of them have SLAs. I don't recall this point being properly...

More great material to chew on. :) I see where you're going here and I'm halfway with you. We see this all the time in the modern world when it comes to U.S. defense or engineering contractors. The Lockheed-Boeing rivalry for Air Force contracts and the Haliburton-Bechtel conflict for Iraqi...

If you aren't going to make players actually climb walls, hide in shadows, or swing their greatswords, then it's fine to make them roll for social interaction as well. If a character has 18 Strength and the player, for the sake of argument, would have the equivalent of 6 Strength, you don't...

Great points, Jurgen, and they raise questions that I should at least consider. Maybe the monopolistic nature of the Houses needs to be downgraded a bit. Despite modern anachronisms like the lightning rail and the Orien telegraph system, Eberron is still very much a nineteenth century world...

Now that I had a chance to go home and read the core book, they explicitly call the House leader a "chief executive", so that sort of seals the deal for me. A blend of cyberpunk zaibatsu and the House of Saud seems like the way to go. Thanks to all who helped out in the thread. :)

Congrats to fellow party members! :) Do we have an ETA on when the game will begin? I'm typing this before checking the other forum. :D

Combining Eisen's reply with nameless', I'm starting to get the idea that it might be fun to portray the Dragonmarked Houses as modern-day multinational corporations. I'm tempted to push that analogy a bit further, into the image of corporations found in cyberpunk gaming and stories. In that...