Dragonmarked

[Hellcow]

Does Dragonmarked offer explanations behind each house's heraldry? Specifically, the reasons behind each magical beast and weapon displayed?

I know it's something CA and I worked into our chapters, Klaus. Off the top of my head, I can't recall if Michelle did it for all of her houses.

 

[Klaus]

Hellcow! You're alive!

...

Shouldn't you be working on some secret project?

 

[Sidekick]

Heraldry - I can't remember if every house has an explanation but Tharashk & Lyrandar definetly do. I've only read it once through since buying it so there's probably loads more that I'm forgetting.

But how's about those PrCs!!! Black Dog & Nosomatic Chirugeon kick some.

I can see my next eberron character being a Marked Jorasco rogue/cleric (traveller) with a pre-occupation for diseases and killing the infirm.

Seriously though Nosomatic Chirugeon is the stand out PrC for me in that book.

And the aberrant feats - my aberrant marked barbarian is going to be getting some serious loving!!!

Good work to all the authors, I#'ve been staving off the Eberron books for a while as they weren't up to the quility that I wanted. But Faiths and Dragonmarked seem to me to be where the settings been around long enough so all the authors (not just the might Hellcow) have a good feeling for the setting.

I vely impressed.

 

[Tzarevitch]

Heraldry - I can't remember if every house has an explanation but Tharashk & Lyrandar definetly do. I've only read it once through since buying it so there's probably loads more that I'm forgetting.

But how's about those PrCs!!! Black Dog & Nosomatic Chirugeon kick some.

I can see my next eberron character being a Marked Jorasco rogue/cleric (traveller) with a pre-occupation for diseases and killing the infirm.

Seriously though Nosomatic Chirugeon is the stand out PrC for me in that book.

And the aberrant feats - my aberrant marked barbarian is going to be getting some serious loving!!!

Good work to all the authors, I#'ve been staving off the Eberron books for a while as they weren't up to the quility that I wanted. But Faiths and Dragonmarked seem to me to be where the settings been around long enough so all the authors (not just the might Hellcow) have a good feeling for the setting.

I vely impressed.

Kundarak has an explanation as I recall.

Tzarevitch

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

There's a feat that mimics continuous foresight.

Lol. I think that's called dodge. Crappiest. Spell. Ever.

 

[kroh]

I am thinking about getting this book for Christmas. I loved the concept of the Dragonmarked houses as they give off that old world Guild feel. Definately looking forward to this.

Regards,
Walt

 

[Vocenoctum]

Heraldry - I can't remember if every house has an explanation but Tharashk & Lyrandar definetly do. I've only read it once through since buying it so there's probably loads more that I'm forgetting.

But how's about those PrCs!!! Black Dog & Nosomatic Chirugeon kick some.

I loved the ideas behind both, though I think neither has an execution I'd like. The Sivis PrC is great, but I'm not sure it'd be worth playing an artificer for all those levels in order to reach the good stuff. (In addition, I think an artificer loses too much for multiclassing. Infusions are nice, but alone are no where near the utility of a real spellcaster. IMC I also give them the craft pool with "+1 level of..." stuff, but still seems iffy.)

 

[Graf]

I think flavor text (!) was another problem. Having a Dragonmark meant you were tied to a House, but the nature of the ties was left unclear. Many players thought this meant the House would control them too much to actually allow them to adventure.

The novels don't help. In Bakers books the Cannith chick basically seems to have a choice between doing exactly what she's told and being kicked out.

Not that most DMs are dumb enough to play it that way. But the abject vagueness (to levae way for both dramatic novelizations and normal-DnD play) means that it's a lot of extra work to include the houses.

Personally I love them and wish hope that the book ups the power factor a bit and offers some new/useful choices for players.

 

[Crothian]

I really like this book. It makes me actually want to play a dragon marked chareacter something I was not interested in doing before.

 

[johnnype]

I've just started reading Hellcow's trilogy and it's made me go out and buy the book a bit sooner than expected. I'm still going through it and enjoying the depth dragonmarks give to the setting. Aberrant marks certainly get a nice boost and when you combine it with the Tarkanan writeup in Sharn: City of Towers you have a nice plot device you can build many a campaign around.

Still, I think I'll pass on playing a dragonmark but I'm all for having NPC's play the role. They're cool but I'm more interested in other aspects of the setting. I'm glad I bought the book however.