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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8032781" data-attributes="member: 18">Baker's Eberron is definitely from a similar school to Planescape, and it's why it's a setting I like a lot. Baker doesn't quite have the same flare for cultures and groups that fundamentally think in different ways that Zeb Cook did, nor the eye for customs and trends and so on - he does attempt both (unlike a lot of D&amp;D writers) but he doesn't commit as hard or land them as well, and he tends to ground his organisations and make them a lot more &quot;adventurer-friendly&quot; than they strictly need to be, but he does think things through, does consider history, does think about how different cultures regard things, and so on. He also has a little bit of that &quot;weird fantasy&quot; stuff going on rather than just the High Fantasy/Epic Fantasy most D&amp;D runs on. So I'm always excited to see more Eberron. I'm hoping the new book for it will amp up the strangeness factor and specificity of some people/places even more.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8032781, member: 18"] Baker's Eberron is definitely from a similar school to Planescape, and it's why it's a setting I like a lot. Baker doesn't [I]quite[/I] have the same flare for cultures and groups that fundamentally think in different ways that Zeb Cook did, nor the eye for customs and trends and so on - he does attempt both (unlike a lot of D&D writers) but he doesn't commit as hard or land them as well, and he tends to ground his organisations and make them a lot more "adventurer-friendly" than they strictly need to be, but he does think things through, does consider history, does think about how different cultures regard things, and so on. He also has a little bit of that "weird fantasy" stuff going on rather than just the High Fantasy/Epic Fantasy most D&D runs on. So I'm always excited to see more Eberron. I'm hoping the new book for it will amp up the strangeness factor and specificity of some people/places even more. [/QUOTE]

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