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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 5550754" data-attributes="member: 51942">Put me in the camp of Eberron supporters!  It's fantastically flexible, and it's not quite as predictable or hashed out as forgotten realms.  I like Forgotten Realms, but it's rather something I'd read about than DM; it's too restrictive.  Dark Sun has a lovely flavor; we'll be using it in an upcoming game (different DM), but I expect it's not a setting to be reused in tons of campaigns.  It's distinctiveness both a huge strength, but also means that not every campaign will fit equally well.For me that leaves Eberron as a kind of pimped Greyhawk: a flexible default setting with lots of internal consistency.  I mean, if the PC's can use trivial magic every day (easily possible both in 4e and 3e/pathfinder), up to and including hiring NPC's and finding tons of magical trickets, it's stands to reason that they're not the only ones.  Indeed, tons of monsters are inherently magical, and encountered all the time in a typical D&D campaign.Then you've got classes and how they fit into the world.  It's one thing to say that wizards can be extremely scholarly types; yet most PC's level and gain their power by themselves through adventure.  And (certainly in 4e), they're not inherently more powerful than the fighters and other non-magical types; nor are they much more fragile or special at low levels.  If so, where are all the beginners?  The mundane magicians?  Eberron makes that click - they're there, they're useful, they're just rather niche and not particularly powerful.</blockquote>

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