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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8843387" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>Isn't Dark Sun similar? It subverts most of the typical roles of the normal fantasy races and isn't connected to the rest in any way. </p><p></p><p>Yeah, it was marketed poorly. I've only done a few side-quests involving investigations/noir in Eberron. However, I've done dozens of "typical" D&D adventures, like dungeon crawls, hexcrawls, tracking down BBEGs, gathering rare magical ingredients, killing hordes of demons and aberrations invading from Khyber, and finding powerful magical artifacts necessary to save the world. </p><p></p><p>I agree that the marketing, and often the art, tends to focus too much on the noir. It really isn't that big of a part of the setting if you dig deeper.</p><p></p><p>Eh, no. Most of the subversions weren't subverted "for the sake of subverting". Basically all of the subverted material is really, really good and of higher quality than most of the played-straight versions of the tropes. It gives a lot of thought to what it does and doesn't subvert. </p><p></p><p>The Warforged are definitely hard to remove from Eberron, I 100% agree with you there. </p><p></p><p>I heard that Nerath did a good job of converting them over, but when I was making my homebrew race, I had to make an entirely different version of "Golemfolk" to fill the role of Warforged in my world. </p><p></p><p>It is definitely hard to get into settings, especially when there's been a lot of material for them. I made the mistake of spending a couple months reading the FR wiki before I figured out that there was no way that I could learn everything about the FR in my lifetime. </p><p></p><p>However, if you like some of the stuff from it, I have an interesting idea, but I'm not sure if you would engage. </p><p></p><p>Here's a proposal: </p><p></p><p>You tell me one awesome thing about a setting that you know a lot about and love that you think I don't know yet and that you think I'd like. It can be Dragonlance, it can be Dark Sun, or Old Ravenloft, Planescape, or whatever setting you want. </p><p></p><p>Then, I'll tell you about one part of Eberron that I think is awesome and you probably don't know yet. </p><p></p><p>(Maybe this would be a good idea as a new thread, though. Would people like that?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8843387, member: 7023887"] Isn't Dark Sun similar? It subverts most of the typical roles of the normal fantasy races and isn't connected to the rest in any way. Yeah, it was marketed poorly. I've only done a few side-quests involving investigations/noir in Eberron. However, I've done dozens of "typical" D&D adventures, like dungeon crawls, hexcrawls, tracking down BBEGs, gathering rare magical ingredients, killing hordes of demons and aberrations invading from Khyber, and finding powerful magical artifacts necessary to save the world. I agree that the marketing, and often the art, tends to focus too much on the noir. It really isn't that big of a part of the setting if you dig deeper. Eh, no. Most of the subversions weren't subverted "for the sake of subverting". Basically all of the subverted material is really, really good and of higher quality than most of the played-straight versions of the tropes. It gives a lot of thought to what it does and doesn't subvert. The Warforged are definitely hard to remove from Eberron, I 100% agree with you there. I heard that Nerath did a good job of converting them over, but when I was making my homebrew race, I had to make an entirely different version of "Golemfolk" to fill the role of Warforged in my world. It is definitely hard to get into settings, especially when there's been a lot of material for them. I made the mistake of spending a couple months reading the FR wiki before I figured out that there was no way that I could learn everything about the FR in my lifetime. However, if you like some of the stuff from it, I have an interesting idea, but I'm not sure if you would engage. Here's a proposal: You tell me one awesome thing about a setting that you know a lot about and love that you think I don't know yet and that you think I'd like. It can be Dragonlance, it can be Dark Sun, or Old Ravenloft, Planescape, or whatever setting you want. Then, I'll tell you about one part of Eberron that I think is awesome and you probably don't know yet. (Maybe this would be a good idea as a new thread, though. Would people like that?) [/QUOTE]
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