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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 1611973" data-attributes="member: 1288">Precisely. Eberron isn't aping or copying anything. My post was meant to discuss the metaphor involved in the game. It's an omni-present metaphor, but it's still metaphor. I happen to love the notion of the pulp adventure feel in a D&D game. But it's important to remember that Eberron is, first and foremost, D&D. It's just D&D with a spin.If I want to play a pulp game set in the 30s, I've got Adventure. If I want to play D&D with a similar feel, I've got Eberron. They do not, and do not appear meant to, fill the same niche. They simply happen to have a thematic resonance. (See the Indiana Jones/Star Wars/Eberron comment made previously.)And I want to go on record, in case I wasn't sufficiently clear... I love this setting. I love what they've done, I love the fact that they've designed the world so that it can include all the tropes of pulp adventure without making it any less D&D. And that's the thing. I am, first and foremost, a fantasy fan. I like sci-fi, I like horror, I like pulp, and I'll play games based on any of those. Given my druthers, however, I'll usually go for fantasy--and, if I'm in the right mood, include one of the others in it. (Not always; I'm sometimes in the mood for something else. But often.)If Eberron hadn't come out, and I wanted to play a fantasy pulp game, I wouldn't say "Oh, well, close enough," and play Adventure. I do that when I'm in the mood for pulp without the fantasy. I'd simply have made up a D&D pulp homebrew and run with it.I know how frustrating it can be when you can't play what you want, and I sympathize. But I think blaming Eberron for it, or the people who buy it, is a bit misplaced. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm willing to bet that most people who love Eberron for the pulp feel still wouldn't have been focusign their efforts where you want them if it hadn't been released.</blockquote>

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