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<blockquote data-quote="lyle.spade" data-source="post: 4329952" data-attributes="member: 30042">I was thinking along similar linesI'd like to keep gaming in Eberron -- been there exclusively for 3 years and unless the new FR is amazing, I don't see dumping Eberron. I plan on combining some of the Points of Light ideas into Eberron, to make it a little more wild -- I figure that in the wake of the Last War, things outside the big cities could easily be described in more desolate, isolated, and in some places dire terms.I don't know if I'd beef up the points to 25. Sure, Eberron is more heroic and cinematic, but I think 4e has moved normative DnD closer toward those through the powers and tactical possibilities. I was planning on just keeping the standard level, or 4d6, drop lowest, and let things go from there.You could make the Tieflings descendants of a people/empire/whatever that existed in the Demon Wastes, and survived (or maybe once thrived?) through demonic pacts. They could also be the distant offspring of a servitor race of humans or some such who were enslaved by demons in that area, or maybe a LONG time ago, and have since thrown off the shackles of slavery....but not their heritage. That way they could be something like the shifters -- outliers wherever they go, which is consistent with their place in regular 4e -- and yet they've been around long enough on Khorvaire to not be really odd.What will you do for Dragonmarks &amp; shard magic? I hadn't gotten to those yet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lyle.spade, post: 4329952, member: 30042"] [b]I was thinking along similar lines[/b] I'd like to keep gaming in Eberron -- been there exclusively for 3 years and unless the new FR is amazing, I don't see dumping Eberron. I plan on combining some of the Points of Light ideas into Eberron, to make it a little more wild -- I figure that in the wake of the Last War, things outside the big cities could easily be described in more desolate, isolated, and in some places dire terms. I don't know if I'd beef up the points to 25. Sure, Eberron is more heroic and cinematic, but I think 4e has moved normative DnD closer toward those through the powers and tactical possibilities. I was planning on just keeping the standard level, or 4d6, drop lowest, and let things go from there. You could make the Tieflings descendants of a people/empire/whatever that existed in the Demon Wastes, and survived (or maybe once thrived?) through demonic pacts. They could also be the distant offspring of a servitor race of humans or some such who were enslaved by demons in that area, or maybe a LONG time ago, and have since thrown off the shackles of slavery....but not their heritage. That way they could be something like the shifters -- outliers wherever they go, which is consistent with their place in regular 4e -- and yet they've been around long enough on Khorvaire to not be really odd. What will you do for Dragonmarks & shard magic? I hadn't gotten to those yet. [/QUOTE]

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