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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 4168646" data-attributes="member: 20805">I think both settings can cater to the same types of groups. The biggest difference, in my limited experience with FRs, is that the FR world has a more uniformness. What I mean here is that there is very little variance of the type of game you would be playing, swords and sorcery with knights and mages and stuff. Its the 'baseline' world of most modules. It also has a deeply developed history that is scattered across many source books, modules, and novels. Many of these novels are not 'DnDised', meaning characters in the book break almost every DnD rule, so its hard to have a coherent setting with these characters {or PC's that want to be like them}Eberron, on the other hand, can very wildly based on what and where and how you play it. You can go from playing stone age barbarians foraying at the borders of Droam, Indiana Jones'ish adventured into the jungles of Xendrik, high fantasy with hippogryph races in Sharn... high magic, low magic.. there is a *place* in Eberron for each of these styles. And the cool thing is how the places have ties to why they are there and where they came from, neatly packaged in the history section of the ECS. The novels are 'DnDised' and the characters within them can easily become represented in play within the rules.[Sidetrek] I think its interesting that some posters have maintained thier knee-jerk reaction to the initial marketting mistakes {lightning rail and 'everyday magic'} and haven't taken the time to look at how it actually works out. The dreaded lightning rail is about as slow as a horse drawn coach, is prone to being attacked by bandits, and major portions of the 'rail' is missing in the mists of the Mourning. Its advantage isn't speed but cargo capacity. The Airships are expensive and have this problem called 'falling off'...not something you will have in every game session unless your players want to purchase and run one like a privateer. The thing that sold me the most on the setting was reading the excellent module 'Coils of Set' and realizing that it fit very nicely into Eberron with only minor fluff changes...actually made sense in the world. Then I did the same thing with the War of the Burning Sky campaign that I am currently running <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Anyway, [/sidetrek]</blockquote>

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