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Feckin autocorrect! I was trying to avoid the Sam Spade reference and Hercule has a similar role despite not being the hard boiled gumshoe. Though admittedly, I'm only familiar with Murder on the Oriental Express and Death on the Nile (which both felt very Eberron).

I've always taken Eberron's pulp/noir elements as a scale that you set. The pulp side likes bombastic action, clear heroes and villains, and larger than life settings. Noir wants subtle character driven stories, gray morality and unclear alliances, and smaller, more intimate settings. You want...

BECMI was broken down into very specific play loops Basic: explore the dungeon Expert: explore the overland/wilderness Champion: rule a domain Masters: become a God Immortal: do godly things I think the major issue that AD&D did was take the BE loops and stretch them over 10+ levels, give...

It's a long thing. AD&D dwarves had high bonuses on saving throws vs magic and a 10% chance magic items would not work for them (except for things like weapons and armor). They also could only originally be fighters, and then later thieves and eventually clerics. Supposedly it's based on the...

Yup. There were all sorts of workarounds (such as kits that weakly mimic certain classes for banned races) but I don't think there was many people who were content with playing "I want to be X, but I can't so I'll take all the draws backs but none of the benefits". (And honestly, could you...

Quickstone is so good. I just wish the adventure wasn't only to 5th level

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...