Appraising Eberron

[Vegepygmy]

How does it stand up to Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms?

I like it less than Greyhawk and more than Forgotten Realms.

 

[Meloncov]

Wizards is still supporting it, so it's proably doing at least decently.

I greatly enjoy Eberron. It took me a while to get used to the magic=tecnology system Eberron uses, but beyond that there's a huge amount of possiblity for really cool adventures. Most of the things I initially disliked about Eberon make either for great fights (the massive towers, the airships) or fasinating roleplay (the warforged).

 

[Mouseferatu]

I think it's pretty easy to assess, at least in very general terms.

Look at the frequency of Eberron releases. WotC is releasing a pretty steady stream of Eberron books. That suggests, in and of itself, that they're selling at least decently. Whether or not they're flying off the shelves, they're clearly turning a sufficient profit that it's worth continuing them.

 

[Enforcer]

I've bought every Eberron gaming product there is (and two of the novels--the Keith Baker ones are pretty good for gaming fiction) and will continue to do so barring anything stupid on WotC's part like advancing the timeline or a massive retcon. I love the setting.

 

[Ghendar]

As someone who likes his fantasy D&D traditional and tolkienesque, I really like Eberron. I love the "Indiana Jones, explore the ruins" type of high adventure feel that this setting has.

I'm not crazy about some things, lightning rails for example. I'm just not a big fan of such things. Interesting concept to be sure but not my cup of tea. Not a huge fan of the eberron specific races other than the Warforged which, love em of hate em, are very cool to me.

Overall, I'd want to play in the setting but not DM it.

 

[Anti-Sean]

Folks mentioned DDM figures and every set has some Eberron specific figures since Giants came out. I expect an Eberron themed one next year.

I doubt they will, and certainly hope they don't. I'm a *huge* Eberron fan, but making any one DDM release overly specific for *any* campaign setting would be a mistake, IMHO. The hue and cry from fans of other settings would be deafening, and would likely lead to too many lost sales on WotC's part. I'm very happy with the way they do it now, mixing a few campaign-specific figures into each release, changing the numbers up a bit each time.

 

[Kurotowa]

So how is this setting doing? Is it the success WotC wanted it to be? Is it a failure? How does it stand up to Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms?

Growing well, probably, heck no, that's a matter of opinion but I love it.

In short, Eberron is new. It's a new setting, it does new things as a setting, and it sets up new sorts of adventures. If you were perfectly happy with Greyhawk or the FR, there's not much attraction there. If you were like me and bored stupid by the old settings, then it's a wonderful treasure box of new toys.

 

[megamania]

I doubt they will, and certainly hope they don't. I'm a *huge* Eberron fan, but making any one DDM release overly specific for *any* campaign setting would be a mistake, IMHO. The hue and cry from fans of other settings would be deafening, and would likely lead to too many lost sales on WotC's part. I'm very happy with the way they do it now, mixing a few campaign-specific figures into each release, changing the numbers up a bit each time.

Underdark = Forgotten Realms

Bloodwar = Planescape

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

More than just the commercial impact, I suspect that Eberron will impact D&D for years to come. I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to see one of the new races make the leap to the PHB some day (any but the Kalashtar seem equally likely), I think action points will likely make it into the core rules, as will many of the monsters (the living spell, for instance, is too damn cool not to, and it'll likely displace many of the non-MM1 oozes for good) and even things like having a major medieval university as a patron for adventurers.

I don't think a lot of the other elements will show up outside Eberron, so the lightning rail haters need not worry, but I think that the strongest elements of Eberron will get rolled into the core game pretty soon.

 

[Anti-Sean]

Underdark = Forgotten Realms

Bloodwar = Planescape

Ah, by that logic then, we've already had an Eberron themed set - Aberrations had 9 or 10 Eberron figures in it. Underdark had what, a dozen or so FR-specific/themed figures in it? I don't recall, as I didn't buy very much of that set. While there's certainly a lot of crossover between the Underdark and FR, I still don't see it as an FR-themed set, despite the developers statements before the set released that it would include a large (at least, relative to previous/other sets) number of FR figures. I read your earlier post as an endorsement of a broadly Eberron-themed set, on the lines of one third or more of the set being Eberron specific. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa as I seem to have misunderstood.