DMG to include a "starter town".

[Doug McCrae]

Where's the starting town in the Eberron Campaign Setting

Sharn

 

[Aust Diamondew]

I think it's a great idea to include, mainly for new DMs. However, I hope they don't devote 30 pages to it like they did in the DMG II. 5 would be pleanty.

My thoughts exactly. Saltmarsh was way overdone.
Give me a brief overview, my group can fill in the details in game.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

You tell me.

Why assert there are starting towns in the books, then? (They're not, incidentally.)

Sharn

Spending an additional $30 on a book to go alongside the ECS for something much more complex than a starting town for a newbie DM seems like a pretty bad idea to me.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Spending an additional $30 on a book to go alongside the ECS for something much more complex than a starting town for a newbie DM seems like a pretty bad idea to me.

There's a couple of pages on Sharn in the ECS, it's the most detailed settlement in the book. You're right that it's very big, the biggest city in the world I believe, very different from the likes of Hommlet. Nonetheless it is intended as the default starting point for Eberron games. Sharn = Manhattan so everyone knows what it's like to a degree.

 

[Vigilance]

I think this is an awesome idea, and I definitely hope its Hommlett.

Most interesting starting town ever.

 

[theredrobedwizard]

Hommlet or Oakvale (the town from The Sunless Citadel) are my top choices.

-TRRW

 

[MerricB]

Hommlet! Hommlet! Hommlet!

Cheers!

 

[Dog Moon]

Ptolus!

They can fit that in the DMG, right?

 

[MerricB]

Dog Moon... somehow I think not.

Hommlet would seem to well fit the Points of Light setting as well.

Cheers!

 

[Reynard]

Hommlet would seem to well fit the Points of Light setting as well.

Pretty much any town pre-3E can do that, no? I mean it has always been "points of light", hasn't it. Evidence? Exhibit A: Wandering Monster Charts.

I vote for Threshold.