D&D 5E (2014) Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

[Gradine]

That's basically Thief, right?

I mean, it's really basically the Dishonored games.

Or course, those are already basically Thief, so....

 

[Vael]

Sharn is definitely something I want to see in a visual medium, a game or even an animated/live action show, because I want to see how a city of towers is realized. A lot of the static art and maps ... don't really sell to me what Sharn would be like.

 

[pukunui]

Sharn is definitely something I want to see in a visual medium, a game or even an animated/live action show, because I want to see how a city of towers is realized. A lot of the static art and maps ... don't really sell to me what Sharn would be like.

Yes, this! For my Eberron game, I've read through a lot of Eberron content, including a lot of Sharn content, and I've gotten the distinct sense that many adventure authors don't quite understand how it's meant to work either. So many adventures based in Sharn make it sound like a standard horizontal, ground-based city, not a vertical one with multiple layers.

What helps me is to think of it as being like a fantasy version of Coruscant. You've got the upper level that has a "ground" that is mostly made up of the rooves of buildings and floating streets and such with smaller towers rising up from that, and then you've got a middle city that is mostly rooms and alleys and streets carved into the sides of the big towers so it feels like living on the sides of a canyon, and then you've got the lower city which is mostly inside and feels more like living underground - but it isn't necessarily just small passages with lots of rooms. You can have large interior spaces that feel like big caves or whatever.

 

[TravDoc42]

Found this art on D&D Beyond... is that a shifter? Or is it something else I don't know about?

 

[pukunui]

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Found this art on D&D Beyond... is that a shifter? Or is it something else I don't know about?

Might be a tiger-like shifter or else they’re officially bringing tabaxi into Eberron (like they previously did with dragonborn).

 

[Kurotowa]

Might be a tiger-like shifter or else they’re officially bringing tabaxi into Eberron (like they previously did with dragonborn).

I expect a shifter is more likely. Which means they're finally updating the official look of shifters, which IMO is long overdue. The old look was bland and uninspiring.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

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Found this art on D&D Beyond... is that a shifter? Or is it something else I don't know about?

Could be a shifter but during 4e I remember Keith Baker saying that because Rakshasas were the dominant fiends of Khorvaire, most tieflings actually look like tiger people

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Could be a shifter but during 4e I remember Keith Baker saying that because Rakshasas were the dominant fiends of Khorvaire, most tiefling actually look like tiger people

I'd be cool if that was a Sakah Tiefling, but I suspect it's just a furry-ized Shifter.

 

[Corinnguard]

I'd be cool if that was a Sakah Tiefling, but I suspect it's just a furry-ized Shifter.

I am going for a tiger-striped Tabaxi.

 

[tetrasodium]

Could be a shifter but during 4e I remember Keith Baker saying that because Rakshasas were the dominant fiends of Khorvaire, most tieflings actually look like tiger people

That would be pretty awesome if wotc did that with 2024 eberron stuff. Running eberron campaigns with tiefling players can get super annoying when they start loredumping Asmodeus and ties to planes/planar lore that don't exist.

It would also have the benefit of making tieflings actually have an excuse to be given the side eye sometimes.
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