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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave Turner" data-source="post: 3195491" data-attributes="member: 12329">I'm mulling over a new PbP campaign idea surrounding Eberron and the Dragonmarked.  I know that there's a new book out and I have plans to get it.  In the meantime, I don't want the idea to collect dust.  I want to flesh out this campaign idea.  Since it's intended for a PbP game, I don't want to deviate too much from the general public understanding of the Eberron setting.  I would like players to contribute to the game without worrying about their interpretation of the Houses and mine coming into conflict.  I don't know much about Eberron beyond what's in the core book and the Races book.  Truth be told, I'm even rusty about what those two books say.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Here are the questions I'm curious about:1) How influential are the Dragonmarked Houses in the core setting?  Are they seen as the de facto rulers of Khorvaire, powerful organizations whose interests must be factored into political and economic decisions, or merely large merchant houses with a magical leg-up on the competition?2) I seem to recall that there are distinct royal families in some nations that exist alongside the Dragonmarked Houses.  Are the Dragonmarked broadly seen as more prestigious or noble or special?3) Are the Dragonmarked Houses a kind of celebrity-elite of Khorvaire, perhaps akin to our real world celebrity fascination with entertainers and the super-rich?  I'm sure that more questions will arise as the thread (hopefully) attracts responses.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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