Are you planning on running an Eberron campaign when it comes out?

[northrundicandus]

They were in Three Hearts and Three Lions twenty years before Elric showed his pasty face.

Three Hearts was published in 1953. Elric's first appearance was in 1961. In Michael Moorcock's intro to Elric: Song of the Black Sword he mentions that the Elric stories began to take form in the mid-50's.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

The lightning train illo made me flinch the first time I saw it, but going through the book, it not only makes sense, it has restrictions and difficulties that ensure it will serve equally well as a source of plot hooks as for a convienient "red line drawing across the map" depending on how the DM wants to use it in his game.

As someone writing for the line, I've also been told pretty much point blank - "no magical toasters!" The prevalence of low level magic for comercial use is tied to an intriguing aspect of the setting, and will be clearly a feature of Eberron, rather than some random colision of outside sources. And again, it makes sense rather than being a cheesy mess that such an idea could have been.

Is it safe to assume you are reffering to dragonshards here?

 

[PJ-Mason]

Works for me! =)

Now to the others... I am not saying have a wait and see attitude but I think some of the responses to Eberron remind me of the responses I saw when the Forgotten Realms originally came out...! It is very humourous to me. No, don't have a wait and see attitude but darn, just because you see something you don't like doesn't mean it is a big part of the setting.

Homebrewers, eh, I understand what you are saying and I feel ya, but you don't need to be so adamant about it. If you homebrew great, but why all the vitriol?

Jason

Aw, all us homebrewers are frustrated writers, don't ya know!
(The fact that most of us haven't even tried to be writers professionally is generally lost on us, but hey)

I think my anxiety was spurred by the fact that i was interested in Eberron in the beginning when all they had was some art and a few blurbs in the dragon mag. Then as more info came along, it deviated more and more from what i had envisioned the setting was like. Although i'm not much interested in the new setting now, i hope it does well. A lot of us b!@#$ and moan about this book or that, but in GENERAL Wotc does a better job with D&D than TSR. Eberron doing well will help keep the hobby alive. Thats whats important.

 

[Morgenstern]

Are you under an NDA? If not, I sense a HUGE Q/A thread coming....

Yep, 'fraid I am . Hence the dutiful avoidance of anything too leak-like in my post. I had the opportunity to read through it though, and my inpression is the setting has a lot more 'texture' than you might expect. There were even a few things I was surprised could come from WotC. It's occasionally a lot more edgy than I thought they would put into print.

Even the name of the book I'm on is off limits until GenCon...

 

[Morgenstern]

Is it safe to assume you are reffering to dragonshards here?

Nope in both cases. While the various kinds of Dragonshards are a tasty feature, there are several more new ideas at work in the above... And the art for the later is just gorgeous !

 

[Buttercup]

No way will I run a campaign in it. If I ever run a setting out of the box again (I'm running Freeport at the moment) it will be Wilderlands. There is s slim chance I'll buy it to mine for ideas, but even that isn't likely. I just don't have the space for more RPG material that I won't use. Also, I've currently got other priorities for my disposable income.