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Which isn't that far off of canon, actually. What's known is that Erandis was killed and her mother made her into a lich to save her. So it wasn't the standard ritual or process wizards used to turn themselves into liches, and was likely tied to her mother's own Mark of Death. Personally, I've...

Just to throw out a few random thoughts... First, I've never thought that the powers of the Mark of Death would be anything like slay living or inflict wounds. There is a mark that inflicts wounds - an aberrant dragonmark. My personal intention was that the pure marks were constructive in...

In my mind, if you're ever in a fight with a Concordian, something has gone wrong with his plans. He doesn't want to fight you; he wants his mercenaries or assassins to fight you, while he's sipping a Gold Dragon Margarita on the beach in Stormhome. So combat with him should be less of a "He...

Building on my previous post, I'd also emphasize that this ability is very subtle in its manifestation. He's a silver-tongued devil. His eyes don't glow, he doesn't chant magical phrases. He just says "Protect me from this brute, won't you, my dear?" to the barmaid... and suddenly she's ready to...

A point that's already been raised is that it's up to the DM to decide who the Concordian dominates. Sometimes that choice may be painfully obvious. But at the same time, there could be situations where the best choice isn't a PC at all. Let's say the Concordian meets with the PCs in a bar...

As I see it, there's a number of different issues here. I don't think these are things everyone will ever agree upon, but I thought I'd drop my two crowns in. The first issue is the Concordian himself. He's a dwarf who possesses a power that is unavailable to PCs. He's not a mind flayer, or a...

I agree with Trolls - this is certainly an interesting approach for a warforged artificer or runepriest. The ghulra is unique to each warforged, and some would say that it is the signature of the warforged's soul. As such, it's interesting to consider what a warforged with multiple ghulra or the...

My apologies for the delayed response - I haven't been on ENWorld for a bit. This seems logical to me. However, to clarify, it's not specifically dragonmarks that I'd use... it's Prophecy marks, the symbols that appear on the world. Quoting Dragons of Eberron: Essentially, this precisely fills...

Speaking specifically to "the rules allow NPCs to have dragonmarks"... it's true. They do. They allow the DM to do whatever he wants. but it's clearly called out that this is abnormal for the setting. Looking to page 18 of the ECG: The character might be a member of the dragonmarked house and...

Oh, and speaking of ritual components... something else that I do but that I don't think made it to the book is to say that in Eberron, residuum is highly refined Eberron dragonshards. This firmly establishes the role of dragonshards in the magical economy. Dragonshards are the fuel that keeps...

And speaking to the any-race-can-have-any-dragonmark issue... That to is what you make of it. The ECG notes that this is incredibly rare; that the DM should avoid making NPCs with out of house dragonmarks; that it may be the first time in history a dragonmarked house has encountered such an...

I don't have time to read through the entire thread, but I just wanted to speak to this. Flavor is what you make it. Take a half-elf storm sorcerer with the Mark of Storm. You could choose to look at it as "He could be a storm sorcerer without the Mark of Storm. Therefore, all the mark does...

I'm not scheduled to run anything, and with all the other business I have to take care of, I don't think I have time for a pick-up. I probably be running games at the next few cons I'm at, though... (Pacificon in California in early September, and GenCon Oz in Australia a few weeks after that)...

Hey all! I'm going to be at GenCon this year and I'd love to catch up with anyone who's going to be there and feels like talking (even if it's just to say "4E 3b3rr0n sux", mainly because I want to hear you pronounce the '3'). I've got a number of scheduled appearances, and I'm also planning to...

If you've already sent me an invite, nope; I'll let you know as plans come together. If not, drop me a note - the details are on my HDWT website.

Hey folks! Sadly I haven't gotten to see nearly as many people as I'd hoped - and I'm missing out on Ropecon to work on my novel. However, my journey around the world has been quite interesting so far, and I've got a long way still to go. I'm going to have to come back to Europe at some point to...

While I LIKE the Cabinet of Faces and would love to see this rectified in a Dungeon article - it was part of the original setting proposal and has never been addressed in the level of detail I'd like - I'm not sure I'd see it as one of the most obvious things to get space in the ECG. It's only...

Speaking to the history of Dhakaan, it's left out because it's DM information. Nothing has changed, and if anything, the ECG contains more information on the daelkyr and the Dhakaani than the ECS did. IMO, the changes to the planes have relatively little impact on things; If I were writing The...

You may want to check my comments about the Living Darkness in this thread: http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/257965-free-rpg-day-ebberon-black-ooze-escape-2.html

As printed, the encounter really doesn't run the way I planned it. However, I have to accept responsibility for the fact that my tactics section was quite long, and the editor had to squeeze it down to fit the encounter on one page. The problem is that they refocused it to be a purely combat...