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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ragboy" data-source="post: 2021636" data-attributes="member: 4151">I'm enjoying it. I read it up to a certain point and lost interest for a week or so, but that could have been other factors besides the actual book. I wonder, as I got to this part last night, why Keith chose to  [spoiler]use a 'male' medusa instead of a maedar...or whatever they were called in previous editions. It sort of broke me out of the text wondering that, and I probably didn't get the significance of the scene. I guess the maedar haven't been converted to third edition, but that seemed like a great opportunity to incorporate that bit of legend/lore with an Eberron spin. [/spoiler] But related to that... anytime they encounter a 'sage' type character, they come away with nothing. I guess these are meant to be 'introductions' of sorts for the various players, but it seems that it could be handled better than that.  Overall, I like the characters. As was mentioned earlier, they are heroes, but not super-heroes. I tend to enjoy books where the protaganists are continually kicked in the teeth until they are forced to deal with the conflict, and this certainly fits the bill. I think, though, that there's a lot of 'wandering around' that could have been handled better. I expected, with the emphasis on pulp that the Eberron setting purports, that there would be a bit more continuous action and less introspection. They seem to be asking the same questions over and over without even incremental answers. I guess I'll know more tonight.  As far as painting a vivid picture of Eberron, he's definitely done that. There are campaign ideas a-plenty in practically every scene.  [spoiler] I especially liked Daine's interaction with the street hobgoblins. A lot of culture/history crammed effectively into that one little scene[/spoiler]. The individual characters:  Daine: Seems less a leader than he probably should be. I don't know all of his backstory yet, but the tortured leader persona isn't really keeping me interested. He's still sort of buffeted around by forces beyond his control, and doesn't seem ready to change that. I guess his character develops further throughout the series. I hope so, anyway.  Lei: Don't have a bead on her as yet. She's just shown the 'fire' in her personality, though, [spoiler] by punching her cousin in the face[/spoiler]. And we got just a little bit more information on her plight in the subsequent scene.  Pierce: I like his character concept and there's some bubbling of change there. I'm anxious to see how he develops.  Jode: Other than the name (jod - long O, or jode - long O long E?), I don't much care for this character. His background seems to be the only thing that we're made to care about. He's a toned down Tasselhoff and that makes me unhappy. His encounter with the [spoiler] halfling thief had me wishing that we'd got the thief character instead. [/spoiler] And for my prediction, since I haven't finished yet: [spoiler] The Cyrean senator? diplomat? Whoever it was that had them to dinner before the weird dudes attacked them... He's the bad guy. [/spoiler]</blockquote>

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