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Personally, I can't envision Eberron without at least SOME firearms, but admittedly, that's in no small part because I've had an Eberron Savage Tide conversion stewing in my head for way, WAY too long and one of the immediate aesthetic touchpoints I'm working from is the Pirates of the Caribbean...

Honestly, I don't think that's too hard to work around. Pathfinder 2e has a playable merfolk ancestry with a feat option down the road that allows them to swap their tail for a pair of legs when on land - PFS gives this feat to merfolk PCs at level 1 for free. Exploring Eberron does pretty much...

I mean, per Planescape canon, certain factions of celestials have been covertly forging and selling weapons specifically enchanted to bypass demon/devil damage resistances to both sides of the Blood War for eons...

I believe that's art for the Fiend Cultist (presumably meant to be a worshipper of Mammon) that's on Beyond, but didn't make it into the print book.

4e lore. All "high elf" subraces got consolidated into the new eladrin PC race, defining them by a stronger connection to the Feywild - part of the same cosmological overhaul that saw the celestial eladrin of Arborea moved to the Feywild, essentially as the PC eladrin's older, more powerful kin...

To be fair, that's at least in part because Empyreans can apparently also be fiendish in nature, instead of just celestial. So I think it's the "it could be anything" kind of neutral, rather than the "dedicated to balance in all things" kind.

The term "celestial" has traditionally meant good aligned, but there have been a number of neutral/unaligned celestials of late - particularly in 5e Planescape (the rilmani) and Spelljammer (several of the Astral Sea natives). And they did say that not all of the celestials in the new MM will...

This is why you don't try to invade Ysgard... Quasi-relatedly: Glances at copy of God of War Ragnarok

Fundamentally, I've always seen it as an option, not a mandate. A way to connect Eberron's cosmology to the Great Wheel for those who want it, but that is easily ignored if you don't. And as someone who has somehow managed to square being a massive Planescape fan that loves using the Great...

Continues eternal, entirely unsupported hopes for a Manual of the Planes/Great Wheel setting guide somewhere down the road

That is entirely fair. For myself, I think the choice to make them celestial (or fey/fiendish/etc., as appropriate) spirits in animal form makes sense. Particularly in the case of giant eagles, which have always felt like a pretty blatant reference to Lord of the Rings, where their entire role...

I mean, sure, clearly they want the giant eagle (for example) to be something more than just a beast - that's the entire point behind making this change. What I'm getting at is, putting the giant eagle into the Giant creature category has lore implications that they may not have wanted to make...

I think there's a distinction to be made between giant as a general descriptor and Giant as a creature category. Putting something into the Giant category implies a connection to frost/fire/cloud/storm/etc. giants, Annam and the giant pantheon, and quite possibly the deep, ancient lore of the...

Pretty sure they mentioned giant eagles (and owls) as specific examples that were changing, so...yeah.

They're wanting to move animal-type monsters with human-like levels of sapience out of the beast category, and are using the Beastlands as one of the likely origins for such creatures.

Never been much of a Forgotten Realms fan (though I'm always happy to mine it for ideas and mechanics), so I'm not going to get into the discussion on whether this version of the Purple Dragon Knight should use that name or not, but I do think that if we're going to get a dragonrider fighter...

To be sure, I do the same - I'm a massive Planescape fan with a particular interest in the Nine Hells/Baator, a planar region that has major aspects of its lore upended and/or thrown out with pretty much every edition change. Gestures at the Dark Eight. Just saying that when those lore changes...

In theory, sure. Just saying that it's giving me 4e "Succubi are devils now" vibes, where they make a sweeping change to the baseline lore of a creature and then have to spend the rest of the edition bending over backwards to explain that "Succubi in the Forgotten Realms WERE demons in the...

To each their own, obviously, but as an Eberron fan, this shift towards gnolls being defined as ravenous fiends rather than a "people" and goblins as being magical fey tricksters causes some frustrations. What of the gnolls of the Znir Pact? Why are the Dhakaani goblins, an infamously...

Sigh And now that's going on the "Villains I will now only be able to imagine speaking with the voice of..." list, right next to Kaius III of Eberron and Phillip J. Fry (if you know, you know). The Doomguard on Ash used to be based out of Citadel Cavitius, but were kicked out when Vecna took...