Eberron?

[Arnwyn]

Switzerland - I just don't care. I've long since had my campaign multiverse, so new campaign settings don't get a second look from me (heck, they don't even get a first look).

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Assuming I have the funds, I'll be buying it.

I just want to see if a 12th level warforged kineticist can knock over a train with the power of his magically constructed mind.

Seriously though, the thing that really hooks me is that the setting tries to make sense of all the "D&Disms". That, and its style appears to be the yang to my Midnight yin. Running both settings on alternating weekends is my current plan.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

I'm planning to pick it up so that I can also pick up an Iron Man HeroClix mini. Armed with my worst Arnuld accent, I'm dying to introduce a warforged assassin cohort: "Come with me if you want to live."

Priceless...

That reminds me, has anyone seen any good warforged minis? Besides the plastic one that WOTC is making that is...

 

[Psion]

I'll pick up the first book and examine it for mining potential.

Though after the PGTF, I am dubious about the productivity of "fringe mining" WotC settings. Which is probably a good development for my bank account...

 

[Remathilis]

I'll pick it up, but I don't know how much I'll canabilize. I like the "living construct" subtype, and I think I'll modify the warforged for a new rogue modron race...

 

[WizarDru]

Seriously though, the thing that really hooks me is that the setting tries to make sense of all the "D&Disms". That, and its style appears to be the yang to my Midnight yin. Running both settings on alternating weekends is my current plan.

Dude, that could wreck your mind.

Especially if you get mixed up once in a while.

"OK, we stop at the inn and ask for directions."
"Right. The villagers, clearly recognizing you as troublemakers, poison your ale and set upon you with pitchforks, axes and knives. They quickly dig shallow graves and hide your corpses in them on the far side of town, before word reaches Izrador's minions that they were harboring fugitives."
"Dang. Not again."

 

[Stone Dog]

Priceless...

That reminds me, has anyone seen any good warforged minis? Besides the plastic one that WOTC is making that is...

Give it a few months or start an email campaign. Sooner or later Reaper will make "metal men" or something like that.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Dude, that could wreck your mind.

Especially if you get mixed up once in a while.

"OK, we stop at the inn and ask for directions."
"Right. The villagers, clearly recognizing you as troublemakers, poison your ale and set upon you with pitchforks, axes and knives. They quickly dig shallow graves and hide your corpses in them on the far side of town, before word reaches Izrador's minions that they were harboring fugitives."
"Dang. Not again."

Or I could end up with Warforged that look like this!

...cool

 

[~Johnny~]

I am interested to hear from the 10 people who voted "No and I am upset that it is even seeing print."

Most people I've chatted with who don't plan on picking up Eberron either prefer a less general fantasy setting, have a favorite setting already, run a homebrewed setting, think it's going to be too much of a hodgepodge, or don't like certain elements of the setting.

Then there are the folks who actively hate it, for reasons I don't understand as well. Some of their thoughts (from other forums):

"I haven't bought any WotC DnD books since their announcement of Eberron. I was hoping the setting was just some sort of a prank, but I was wrong. I'm counting on Eberron to flop, DnD closed, and then sold to some real company with enough brains to understand what DnD really is. Course that might mean DnD as we know it will be dead, but at least we won't see 4.0 next year."

"Eberron..what an utterly useless setting book. If your not into technology, guns and everything modern in your DnD campaign stay away from this thing. What WOTC was thinking when they decided to choose this setting is lost on me."

"It's just a steaming pile of derivitive nonsense, cooked up for Final Fantasy fanboys."

So yeah, there's still some ill will toward the setting, and I don't think all of it's attributable to Setting Search sore losers. Some people still mistakenly believe it's D&D cyberpunk, while others think it's so weird that it will bring down D&D.

For the most part, though, people seem to get more interested as they learn more information.

 

[Hardhead]

I remember readin a post where the designer said something like "there's not a bunch of elven subraces. There are different elven cultures, but they're all statistically elves."

I think my heart skipped a beat.

Warforged look cool. It a place for psionics. A nice backstory and a lot of thought into differentiating the regions culturally. We're going to give it a spin as soon as it comes out.