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Yup. While the rogue was a huge step forward compared to the useless thief, the fact that criteria/SA attack was far more common then spell resistance meant martials (and rogues in particular) were almost always inferior in damage. Add on spells that ignore SR...

In 1999? It was the Hallmark of munchkin players who didn't care about racial identity and only wanted to play the most powerful or wacky combos imaginable. Specifically, ruined the story that dwarves hated magic and were so antimagical they couldn't do it (possible exceptions for clerics...

While rapiers were part of 2e via supplement, 3e put them in the PHB with the explicit expectation it was the "Dex fighter sword" and preferred weapon of rogues. The concerns voiced here were similar to those 2000 era ones (which ran counterpoint to dwarf necromancers gnome barbarians as proof...

Rapiers in D&D. A source of concern since 2000. Time truly is a flat circle.

To me, that's an issue with D&D's power curve, not Eberron as a setting. I can't think of any setting's internal consistency that survives the core premise. Ravenloft is less scary when your more powerful than the Dark Lords, Dragonlance stops feeling epic when you can solo most dragons and Dark...

I think this is a common misconception of Ebberon's world building. There is high level magic, about as much as Krynn, Mystara, or most of Oerth. The two things is that high powered magic is not openly part of society. Magewrights, dragonmarks and dragonshards free high level wizards and clerics...

No. You have four questions left.

The psion and apocalypse classes are for Dark Sun. Full stop. The psion might get a reprint ala Tasha and the Artificer, but it's absolutely for DS. M

Im still not convinced that this is all for one Everything book. We got two themes: arcane and horror. No primal, martial, expert/skills, or divine. I'm thinking this is going to be two books that are themed rather than one everything book. The arcane book giving spells, magic items, magical...

If I do have one complaint, it's that Eberron is great for running a variety of very modernistic style adventures, but kinda bad for running generic medieval D&D. The fact most of the common species are "... With a twist" means it's harder to just plop in an adventure featuring a elven forested...

See for me, I tend to pick one theme and run with it rather than do all of them. I've done pulp exploration in Xen'drik, high seas swashbucklers in Lhazaar, noir political intrigue in Sharn and now Western cosmic horror in Quickstone. Eberron supports these all, but like any good ice cream bar...

Eberron supports high level play the same way any D&D setting does. There is so many interesting places to put high level foes (Khyber, Demon Wastes, Sarlona, the Mournlands, Xen'drik, the planes) but it would mean designers would have to leave Sharn and the Five Nations and design stuff for them!

So how about those changes rather than rehash 4e arguments?

Agreed on this. The biggest flaw is that outside the insanely expensive AL APs, most Eberron stuff is tier one only. It would kill WotC to make a mid level adventure or AP for Eberron. Even Keith rarely ventures past 9th...

I won't run Eberron because the book was delayed. Once it's out, I will run it.

It also creates the illusion you need both books (supplement and module) to get the most out of them.

Storm Kings Thunder was produced though the same year as Volo's Guide to Monsters, which has a section on... giants! Bigby is a larger amount of info, but there was some initial synergy as well. They did similar synergy with Xanathar and Dragon Heist, Fizban and Dragonlance, and Tasha and...

I'm liking it, but I would love a phone interface (small screen vertical orientation) some point down the road.

I kinda appreciate that design goal. Greyhawk is a light touch setting that incentivizes DMs to make it their own and only is used to give DMs proper nouns to use. The Realms is the lore heavy, detail rich setting.

Another mind goblins thread? With a link to the same video even. I think the Shattered Obelisk got it right with psionic goblins; they are a mutation/evolution of regular goblins rather than a distinct subspecies. Other than that, I don't see much more coming about them since I don't believe...