D&D 4E Eberron and 4e - hopes and fears

[amethal]

I know that my Eberron campaign has gone into hiatus, and will remain there until I have all the rules I need to run it properly.

Interesting way of putting it.

I'm not trying cause offense (honest!) but I already have all the rules I need to run it properly.

I can understand being reluctant to run an Eberron campaign in June with just the 4th edition core books, (although we don't know for sure what monsters are going to be in MM1 so we could be pleasantly surprised).

But the decison to stop playing in Eberron now seems a bit unusual to me. What led you to make it?

 

[Singing Smurf]

I have a shifter, a psion, a changeling and an artificer.

I have a psion in my game - the plan for him is the 4e wizard with some vigorous filing of serial numbers.

Believe me, I can relate. I'm really looking forward to running 4e in general and maintaining the spirit of the characters as they currently exist is very important to me. It helps that my party contains: a Daelkyr Half-Blood Warblade (becomes variant Tiefling fighter), a human Crusader (becomes a paladin, or maybe a fighter/warlord), a human rogue/warlock (no issues there), a human cleric (already flavored like a Warlord), and a Kalashtar Telepath (the challenge).

I just noticed that you've been running D&D for only slightly less time than I've been alive. Whoa.

 

[Nymrohd]

The artificer would be a hard class to create on your own, I'd rather wait for a designer to craft it for me. So hiatus for Eberron till it is out.

 

[Darkwolf71]

Really?

It seems more like Eberron is moving to being a "legacy" setting (like greyhawk)

WOCT is goign to the trouble of coming up with a reason why FR is now much more like 4e conditions. They declined to do anything like that for eberron.

Not declined. They said it was not going to be required. Big difference.

If FR is selling better than Eb in 3.5, it makes sense to do it that way, FR having the stronger pull. and the RPGA did living FR, not Living Eberron.

The RPGA is in fact, running a 'Living Eberron' It is called Xen'drik Expeditions

I don't think eberron is as wildly successful as it was hoped, and not as much as FR.

That's you're opinion, and you are welcome to it. However, a quick look at the product page shows two 'non-system specific' releases between now and 4e launch. Both are for Eberron. Is it as popular as FR? No, probably not. But, it isn't tanking either.

 

[jaer]

My guess would be that the cosmology of ebberron won't really change, that the "planes" will instead be domains in the astral sea or primal chaos that happen to overlap with the prime instead of being whole and complete planes as they were before.

What that will mean for the Shadowfel and Feywild, I don't know. These seem a little different in their handeling than other planes, so I wouldn;t be surprised if they were kind of just overlaped on, added completely from nothing.

The Dragon Prophecy has come true (well, this small bit of it) and low do we see the dawning of these weird transient areas. Or something.

 

[drothgery]

With absolutely no inside info, I strongly suspect that any Eberron races that aren't in the PHB1 or MM1 will show up online on D&D Insider very shortly after 4e's release. Classes are a bigger deal; my guess is that 'official' psionics show up in PHB2 (my bet is 'psionic, shadow, and primal heroes' as the subtitle) and 'official' artificers in the first Eberron book.

Temporary hack for an artificer might be a rogue/wizard multiclass.

 

[Rechan]

We know that James Wyatt and Keith have said that Eberron isn't getting hit with the same thing FR is; they won't even advance the timeline.

I suspect that anything done to Eberron will be just a conversion (at least, as far as one can be done). I don't expect anything done to the Planes, and possibly some tips on how you can use the 4e planes (Feywild, Shadowfell) with the 4e planes.

I'm not really worried about it.

Also, bets: The Artificer will become a Leader. Of what power source, I have no clue.

 

[Spatula]

The question is, if Eberron doesn't need some meta-event to explain the edition rule changes, then why does FR?

Anyway, the intent does seem to be for Eberron gamers to abandon the world with 4e, since so many large rule chunks will be missing, until sometime in 2008 - at the earliest.

 

[Remathilis]

Anyone wonder where Eladrins will fit into the elf/giant storyline?

I'm in the same boats as others; I have an artificer and a daelkyr half-blood (with symbiots) so I'll convert somewhere down the line...

 

[Dragonbait]

Anyone wonder where Eladrins will fit into the elf/giant storyline?

I'm assuming that the Aerenal elves will adopt the Eladrin racial stats (not saying that it's a good fit, culturally, mind you), unless they introduce a new race in the 4E Eberron.