Eberron in a nutshell

[JRR_Talking]

We played it for a bit (got to 8th level) but i dont think i ever fully 'got it'

Its a lowish magic / power setting excpoet you know you have elemetyal powered craft and light rails and highly impressive skyscrapers and everyone knows featherfall.....and you get oodles of action points which help do ultra heroic / high powered stuff. And the new races all seemed a bit powerey, and the eternal wand is just awesome for its cheap price, and the tanget talanta, etc

Like i said, maybe i just didnt 'get it'

john

 

[Thomas Percy]

A setting as inconsistent and illogical as FR, but with a fewer possibilities than FR.

Well... but I must admit there are some interesting ideas in this my not so favorite Eberron.

 

[Doug McCrae]

A masked sorceress wages a vigilante war against the crimelords of Sharn.

I had that lined up as a plot, everything but the sorceress bit. Plan for PCs to be hired by the remaining crimelords to deal with her.

After that some ivory hunters will give them a job to kill Tarzan.

 

[sedarfaery]

Wow, lots of vivid descriptions. Thanks everyone.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Wow, lots of vivid descriptions. Thanks everyone.

How's this one? Two words: S___ Sandwich.

The first word is not "shark"

 

[Stone Dog]

For more information than we can effectively post, the wikipedia is actually very good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberron

 

[Chainsaw Mage]

I'm considering buying the Eberron Campaign setting. Can anyone explain it a a paragraph or two?

D&D meets Harry Potter: magic trains, magic blimps, and boarding schools for young wizards.

 

[Grymar]

D&D meets Harry Potter: magic trains, magic blimps, and boarding schools for young wizards.

Honestly? I don't think you could have gotten the feel of Eberron more wrong than you did. That isn't to say you couldn't run Harry Potter in Eberron, but that isn't the main way it is set up to be played.

 

[awayfarer]

It's a fantasy version of Earth c. 1930, *snip*

Not sure I'd agree with that estimate of the time. Maybe 1830. It's tough to say precisely because the areas vary a little bit on the tech. scale.

Edit: The pc game Arcanum makes me think of Eberron. Not sure how many folks have played that.

 

[wingsandsword]

Not sure I'd agree with that estimate of the time. Maybe 1830. It's tough to say precisely because the areas vary a little bit on the tech. scale.

It's always seemed to me that Eberron was meant to be fantasy 1920's/1930's sort of setting.

Aftermath of a massive world war
Giant post-industrialized cities
Trains and airships being main means of getting around.
Nazi analogs and rumblings of another great war coming years from now.

It's not perfect, but the "pulp" and "noir" inspirations for Eberron date to the 1920's and 1930's, so when it copies things from them for flavor, it takes on a lot of the trappings of that time.