An Eberron Review by SKR

[Felonius]

Read the review here.

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[BradfordFerguson]

Silven Crossroads posted a trio of reviews yesterday:


Eberron Campaign Setting (Wizards of the Coast)

RPG Accessory Dundjinni Platinum (Fluid Entertainment)

Complete Divine (Wizards of the Coast)

 

[Psion]

Someday soon you will go home to visit Mom and Dad, but Dad will be gone, and Mom will smile, and say, "Eberron is your new daddy," and Eberron will walk out smoking a pipe and say, "Give me a hug, son."

And you better hug Eberron, man. You better hug Eberron.

/me looks at your sig funny...

Anyways, to repeat my brief comments from RPGnet:

One grump: The warforged writeup mentions "Warforged can be enchanted just as armor can be. The character must be present for the entire time it takes to enchant him." Yeaaaargh!! C'mon, I learned not to use the word "enchant" in terms of "enchanting objects" from my WotC editors, so someone over there in Renton needs a talking-to....

It was a dumb complaint then, Sean. It's a dumb complaint now.

Monks: Like in FR, most of the monks in Eberron are tied to a particular pantheon, and this has a slight effect what feats they can choose. Unlike in FR, their choice doesn't let them multiclass without penalty (you have to take a feat to do that, which is kinda poopy, as the multiclassing limitation is only there for roleplaying purposes at the insistence of some of the 3.0 playtesters anyway).

Y'know, they should have abolished the restriction altogether in 3.5. If you find yourself making the same change in each setting, that should tell you something about the rule that you are over-ruling. I don't really blame a setting for not spackling holes in the system.

If I ever find out who those 3.0 playtesters were...

 

[Flyspeck23]

/me looks at your sig funny...

Me too.
Strangely enough, I like the .sig

The only real problem I have with the warforged is their relative power level: they're LA +0, just like a human ... yet someone (in-campaign) decided "let's spend thousands of gold to create a race of warrior-servants that aren't any more powerful than you're typical made-the-old-fashioned-way human soldier." Strange ...

He must've missed the part about warforged mostly being 2nd level, with the PC warforged the notable exceptions (due to various reasons).

And even if that wouldn't be the case, doesn't it make sense to use artificial (or undead, for that matter) creatures if either you want to see less living folks killed, or you're running short of soldiers?

 

[Mystery Man]

Interesting review but...

This is Major Tom to ground control.....

 

[Desdichado]

It seems odd that he would compare Action points to Force points instead of to... well, to Action points, that were published a long time ago in d20 Modern and again in Unearthed Arcana. I can't believe he's so out of touch that he hasn't seem them before now.

 

[d20Dwarf]

It was a dumb complaint then, Sean. It's a dumb complaint now.

Other things you'll never see in a Sean Reynolds work:

Jonath wished that he had never struck the noble, as he was now in serious trouble.

Wished...WISHED!?!? Is he a 17th-level wizard? No? Then how could he wish anything?!

DM: You find a +2 crossbow in the hoard as well. So, who's going to take the magic missile weapon?

Magic missile weapon? Does it shoot magic missiles?! Then what are you thinking?!!


Hmm, this would make a fun thread on its own.

 

[Henry]

...regular "priests" of a church are either acolytes (slightly tweaked from the DMG version)...

interesting, considering they're called adepts in both Eberron and the DMG...

 

[WanderingMonster]

Other things you'll never see in a Sean Reynolds work:

Jonath wished that he had never struck the noble, as he was now in serious trouble.

Wished...WISHED!?!? Is he a 17th-level wizard? No? Then how could he wish anything?!

DM: You find a +2 crossbow in the hoard as well. So, who's going to take the magic missile weapon?

Magic missile weapon? Does it shoot magic missiles?! Then what are you thinking?!!

Don't get your nose out of alignment on this, please.












*psssst* That's your cue.

 

[~Johnny~]

I thought it was a good, balanced review. It seems like the kind of thing that a skeptic would have an easier time swallowing than more enthusiastic reviews like mine or the Silven Crossroads one: critical but positive.