Are you planning on buying Races of Eberron?

[Romnipotent]

this is an Eberron book, not a Races Of book. Im annoyed it doesn't have the Eberron design on the cover, or internally I would gather. Not my bag.

 

[Illvillainy]

this is an Eberron book, not a Races Of book. Im annoyed it doesn't have the Eberron design on the cover, or internally I would gather. Not my bag.

WotC disagrees obviously.

Yeah, I'll buy it, even though I was lukewarm on it until I saw the previews.

 

[Testament]

I'll probably end up picking it up. Interested in the new Shifter streams, although the bull-horned and winged ones sound very powerful.

First is the Book of Tentacled Doom, aka Lords of Madness.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Races of Eberron is one of the two books (Lords of Madness being the other) from WotC I'm interested in since Sharn: City of Towers.
Ordered mine yesterday (no FLGS where I live...).

If it doesn't require the Eberron CS, yes.

So it's your fault they changed the cover?

 

[Snotlord]

No. Or maybe. I really don't have time for another setting, but I bought Grasp of the Emerald Something (mostly because of Cordell) and read the Eberron Drow article in Dragon, and found myself quite intrigued by the setting.
... so I might get Races of Eberron sometime in the future.

 

[JoeGKushner]

It's looking good. Maybe next year they'll update Races of Faerun and include more racial substitiion levels and planar touchstones and other goods.

 

[danbuter]

I have it. I really like it, but then I think Shifters are the coolest DnD race WotC every published.

 

[Von Ether]

(Time machine)


I won't be buying it. Eberron doesn't interest me.

How about master spies who's very skin is a disguise, perhaps they are the results of spell experiementation or Doppleganger half-breeds? (In a world filled with half-elves and half-orcs.) How about barbarians who have such a link to their wild lands they can call upon the powers of their animal totems for extra powers beyond battle rage?

IMHO, the changelings can be dropped in lock, stock and barrel into any game world where dopplegangers exist and a quiet a few that don't. The game mechanics for the race aren't attached to any Eberron specific thing and since the race is so secretive, there's no real need to insert a back story. They've just always been there, in the shadows until a PC is discovered to be one.

Mechanicaly, the shifters require no retrofit and are self contained. If you make them a remote tribe that's recently discovered, you're set. For my style, these two races are "no-brainers" for the most part to fit in any DnD world.

After reading the book, I suggest these two races deserve a second look from most GMs. Then again, I've had DM's who claimed we couldn't play halflings because that race was on an island that was undiscovered so far. I'm sure there are other GMs who perfer to keep similar control on thier race selection.

On the other two races, I admit the other two take a little more forethought to fit into a standard DnD game and YMMV.

As an aside, I love the "Adaption" paragrahs for the PrCs. They give good advice on how to adapt the classes to non-psionic and non-Eberron games. Most of it seems to be common sense, but I've had a GM nix PrCs from WotC's class books when they use Greyhawk names. .... "I don't have Hextor as a god in my game."

 

[Altalazar]

Yes, and what is truly sad is I have all of the Eberron stuff but haven't even had time to look at any of it - though I have a vague notion of what it is.

I also have all Core, FR, and Ravenloft books, along with a handful of 3rd party vendor books. And I haven't had time to look at any of those, either, since just before 3.5 came out.

Yes, I'm a book whore. The one thing I haven't gotten is anything Dragonlance - not quite sure why - I did like it before, though I never played it.

 

[KB9JMQ]

Yes I will be getting it. Just havent ordered it yet.
I will want it for my collection and to mine for ideas.
We are currently playing Eberron so it will probably be used pretty quickly.