Eberron- And why I cannot jump onboard? A different take

[Wormwood]

I really like everything I've seen and heard about Eberron.

So much so, in fact, that once my current campaign wraps up (in April), I don't plan on starting up another until after Eberron's release.

 

[Hand of Evil]

My question is, why another setting? Why not work on Greyhawk or FR, the two greatest worlds next to Neo-Orion (my campaign world)?
Worse, everytime I think of this new setting, I think of Green Acres. An old 60's sit-come with Eddie Albert.
But as an aside I will buy it for any idea's I can use in my own campaign
I guess its the name of the world that kinda turns me off from digging it.


Scott

Here things get interesting, I personally think all the other settings have too many people/company names attached to them that it is a legal tar pit to try and do something, so you start fresh.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Here things get interesting, I personally think all the other settings have too many people/company names attached to them that it is a legal tar pit to try and do something, so you start fresh.

I feel the same way - Greyhawk etc... has already been done and done - The material is out there if you wanna play there - probably in a box in your closet.

In with the new, and let the better ones stick around and get supported for a few years.

 

[SGTScott]

Battle Chasers?

Hello hello-
The way people are talking about this new setting, it does sound intresting, the setting seems to smack of an old comic book series called Battle Chasers a Fantasy/ Sci-fi comic that ran for a year then no more, it was a great read too.
Hmmmm, I got it! I dump the stupid name Eb's world and give it my own worlds name. Yup, I cant wait for this puppy now.


Scott

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Hello hello-
The way people are talking about this new setting, it does sound intresting, the setting seems to smack of an old comic book series called Battle Chasers a Fantasy/ Sci-fi comic that ran for a year then no more, it was a great read too.
Hmmmm, I got it! I dump the stupid name Eb's world and give it my own worlds name. Yup, I cant wait for this puppy now.


Scott

I'd buy a miniature of Red Monika in a heartbeat!

 

[JeffB]

I've been in the " By all means this is not what I want for a D&D campaign" camp, based on what we had seen so far (dinosaurs, trains, all that junk)...after all I am an Old Fart Grognard

But the latest Eberron installment on the WOTC page is something I really enjoyed reading. I even printed it out

I still may hate the setting when it comes out, but I'ts gone from my "Must Be Burned" list to "hmmm..perhaps there is some hope" list

 

[Derulbaskul]

(snip) I also get the feeling that it's similar in many respects to Monte Cook's Ptolus campaign, which he described as D&D dialed up to 11. I'm hoping that is actually released as a setting itself one day.

One of the reasons I bought AU and its ancillary products was that I really enjoyed the Ptolus stuff on Monte's site. It's a shame that it wasn't expanded to make the AU world because Diamond Throne is so damn lifeless, IMO.

Eberron does not interest me. I would have preferred either a Midnight or Dark Sun-like ravaged world or something like Dawnforge where it's the beginning of history and the campaigns are about developing the history of the world (which, of course, I realise can be done in any world). I also understand why Wizards didn't choose either world, although DF was a finalist. Anyway, I have both and am enjoying them.

I will possibly still buy Eberron just to mine for ideas but I am sure that I will never play there... unless the accompanying mega-adventure is so compelling that I almost have no choice but to do so.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

I'll say I liked Eberron from the first art booklet(I'm an art sucker). I think it looks really interesting, and the idea how how would magic affect a developing/developed world. Plus, I like art.

 

[PJ Mason]

It is early to tell just now. The first look at E in Dragon was very interesting. The second article that came out recently backtracked it a little as i doubt i am into action points (also known as Luck, hero points, karma, willpower, fate points, etc) and most of the movies listed as inspirations i wasn't into or i don't want them mixed into my D&D. My homebrews have always been either semi and fully apocalyptic background or they have been highly advanced magic-as-technology (i go for extremes when i homebrew i guess). I am interested in that aspect of the setting.

All-in-all, its to early to tell, but its running a little behind if only because there may be genre conflicts with my tastes and i'm not sure its really going to end up different enough to add to the other 15 D&D settings i own or have owned. We'll see.

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

and its movie snob crimes for mentioning Brotherhood of the Wolf are made up by its literary/cinematic meritorious act of mentioning In the Name of the Rose.