wingsandsword
Legend
I never thought I'd see an official Forgotten Realms/Eberron crossover.
I've been playing DDO a few years, and it's not exactly a big secret it's set in Eberron. The D&D MMORPG came out not long after the Eberron setting and was an early way of promoting the setting. Even at the time, I said I'd wished they had made an MMORPG set in the Realms.
Now, 7 years after its release, they've put out a new expansion, Menace of the Underdark. Well this expansion had two big selling points: first was it opened up epic-level adventuring in DDO, raising the level cap from 20th to 25th level. Second, all the epic-level content is on Toril (Cormyr and the Underdark) or on a plane tied to Realmspace (the Demonweb).
Apparently, the spellplague and resulting planar cataclysms damaged planar boundaries enough to create a rift that connected Lolth's plane/domain of the Demonweb with Eberron. PC's explore the rift, and find it connects to a whole new world, and a big plotline leading up to Lolth herself as the endgame raid boss.
It's mostly set in Cormyr and the Underdark in post-spellplague Realms, but interestingly the nefarious plot of Lolth that the PC's are trying to thwart involves a MacGuffin villager who is apparently implied to be either a reincarnation of Mystra waiting to assume her full power, or somehow somebody who has the power to cause the rebirth of Mystra. . .and by consuming her before she realizes her full power, Lolth could become the new Goddess of Magic.
A possible events leading to the 5e Realms?
Will future products for either setting use this tenuous planar linkage? (Well, maybe as an excuse for the occasional Warforged to show up in the Realms, or for an excuse for Eberron PC's to use Realms classes obviously)
I've been playing DDO a few years, and it's not exactly a big secret it's set in Eberron. The D&D MMORPG came out not long after the Eberron setting and was an early way of promoting the setting. Even at the time, I said I'd wished they had made an MMORPG set in the Realms.
Now, 7 years after its release, they've put out a new expansion, Menace of the Underdark. Well this expansion had two big selling points: first was it opened up epic-level adventuring in DDO, raising the level cap from 20th to 25th level. Second, all the epic-level content is on Toril (Cormyr and the Underdark) or on a plane tied to Realmspace (the Demonweb).
Apparently, the spellplague and resulting planar cataclysms damaged planar boundaries enough to create a rift that connected Lolth's plane/domain of the Demonweb with Eberron. PC's explore the rift, and find it connects to a whole new world, and a big plotline leading up to Lolth herself as the endgame raid boss.
It's mostly set in Cormyr and the Underdark in post-spellplague Realms, but interestingly the nefarious plot of Lolth that the PC's are trying to thwart involves a MacGuffin villager who is apparently implied to be either a reincarnation of Mystra waiting to assume her full power, or somehow somebody who has the power to cause the rebirth of Mystra. . .and by consuming her before she realizes her full power, Lolth could become the new Goddess of Magic.
A possible events leading to the 5e Realms?
Will future products for either setting use this tenuous planar linkage? (Well, maybe as an excuse for the occasional Warforged to show up in the Realms, or for an excuse for Eberron PC's to use Realms classes obviously)
