Eberron spillover into Forgotten Realms?

[Alzrius]

It's probably just a coincidence, but does anyone think it's somewhat suspicious that only shortly after Eberron has given us the shifters, people who are descended from lycanthropes, we now have a Forgotten Realms article which gives us a quasilycanthrope template? It's not the same, but still, it makes you wonder...

 

[Derulbaskul]

Mate, it's D&D. Ideas get used and used and used.

I'm using Eberron's artificers in FR as the Rashemi Vremyonni as well as for certain gnomes from Lantan, Thayan and Halruaan item crafters etc.... I will also be using living spells but am changing them to either elementals or constructs (favouring the latter at the moment).

 

[ecliptic]

It's not the same, but still, it makes you wonder...

Wonder what exactly? Why Wizards using their own property?

 

[Gez]

Or rather, why Wizards is reinventing its own wheels. If they bothered to create shifters for Eberron, why not use them also in the Realms, rather than creating the same thing anew?

Anyway, the Forgotten Realms are well known for their Dimensional Vacuum Cleaner that allow them to import anything they want from other settings (even whole settings, actually, like Kara-Tur), so...

 

[reanjr]

It's probably just a coincidence, but does anyone think it's somewhat suspicious that only shortly after Eberron has given us the shifters, people who are descended from lycanthropes, we now have a Forgotten Realms article which gives us a quasilycanthrope template? It's not the same, but still, it makes you wonder...

You must be unfamiliar with Forgotten Realms. That's what they do. You can't have something in any campaign setting unless FR gets it, too. That's why there's so much stuff there.

 

[Mystery Man]

You must be unfamiliar with Forgotten Realms. That's what they do. You can't have something in any campaign setting unless FR gets it, too. That's why there's so much stuff there.

Actually its the other way around it seems, more and more with this Eberron book.
FR had it first with the lycanthrope worshipers of Malar (people of the black blood) and Elven werewolves (Lithari) a natural race of lycanthropes that go back for thousands of years.

You got your peanut butter in my chocolate!

 

[Mercule]

You must be unfamiliar with Forgotten Realms. That's what they do. You can't have something in any campaign setting unless FR gets it, too. That's why there's so much stuff there.

Which is one of the main reason to loathe the setting, but that's an old, dead horse.

 

[Mulkhoran]

Actually its the other way around it seems, more and more with this Eberron book.
FR had it first with the lycanthrope worshipers of Malar (people of the black blood) and Elven werewolves (Lithari) a natural race of lycanthropes that go back for thousands of years.

You got your peanut butter in my chocolate!

Are any of these partial-lycanthrope descendants, like Shifters or Quasilycanthropes?

 

[Psion]

You must be unfamiliar with Forgotten Realms. That's what they do. You can't have something in any campaign setting unless FR gets it, too. That's why there's so much stuff there.

And often, the "too" bit goes away, and things become FR exclusive. Frex:
- Demihuman deities other than the pantheon head can only be found in FR books.
- Genasi, originally a PS race, can only be found in FR books

 

[mhacdebhandia]

While the concept sounds similar (distant descendants of werecreatures with abilities reminiscent of their ancestors) the reality is pretty different. Quasilycanthropes are pretty much nothing but a flavoursome +1 LA template; shifters are different entirely.