Eberron spillover into Forgotten Realms?

[diaglo]

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.

they were both around in a form prior to the FR.

 

[Faraer]

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.

Such imports are a small quantity compared to the scores of published sourcebooks and more boxes of unpublished Realmslore.

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

It's a total non sequitur. Loathe the Realms because of TSR's mistreatment of the Realms?

 

[Liquidsabre]

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...

Right, not the same. Wonder about what exactly? Shifters is a neat race idea, anyone can port the race into whatever game they want, WotC included. Anyhow, it goes along with what has been produced core and FR-wise in covering the entire spectrum of +1 LA to higher LA's and the template-levels. Really, just an inevitable continuation of what has already been produced. In fact, Shifters or just Lycanthrope-touched just as there are Feytouched, Planetouched, etc. so Shifters themselves were quite inevitable and they appeared in Eberron because they hadn't been put into a setting just yet (WotC setting anyhow).

I've always viewed FR as the cutting edge and test-bed for new D&D mechanics, with some of the best game designers taking part (let's face it FR products produce quality stuff, so much so that we see some of the best imported into the core books with 3.5). Pushing the envelope and watching the synergy between new rules, feats, spells, what-have-you and the best bits, as I said brought into the core game. Not to mention the best setting book to have ever come out...still (I mean come on, the FR Setting Book came with a MAP for goodnes sakes! *gasp*)

If you love having options and greater complexity/sophistication in your D&D game FR is the way to go. If you like things simpler, less developed magically, and fewer rules to have to worry about then FR is not for you. Plain and simple, if I want to run a great cuthulu-ish D&D game I run Midnight or homebrew stuff, but for swashbuckling/high-adventure/high-magic/epic-style play I go FR. If I want Lord of the Rings I play a homebrew mix of Midnight and core rules.

 

[Arnwyn]

Which is one of the main reason to loathe the setting,

One of the main reasons to love the setting, for me.

 

[sckeener]

Ip

Wonder what exactly? Why Wizards using their own property?

agreed. I wish they would put the basics of all the settings out under OGL and then the other d20 gaming companies could pitch in with the ideas.

WotC using WotC intellectual property isn't strange.

 

[ruleslawyer]

they were both around in a form prior to the FR.

Not the lythari. Those are first found in FOR5 Elves of Evermeet, IIRC.

 

[diaglo]

Not the lythari. Those are first found in FOR5 Elves of Evermeet, IIRC.

all human,humanoids, demihumans(an ADnD term) were suspectible to lycanthrope at one point in the history of D&D....


elves included.

elven werewolves are not new.

neither are elven werespiders
nor elven weresharks

you name it... it existed....