Eberron?

[Ibram]

I have never been a big fan of high magic worlds (and Eberron seems to be right at the top).

I wont be picking this one up.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

IMHO, there is no longer such a thing as an orignal idea.

You have yet to behold the awesome majesty of my game: Llamaworld d20. Never before has a domesticated South American ruminant mammal been offered as a player race.

Gawd, I'm brilliant.

 

[rounser]

Sometimes it strikes me as odd which anachronisms D&D players will find out of place and which they won't.

The line is fine, but it's gotta be drawn somewhere. As silly as it sounds, a magical transforming robot lobster submarine doesn't scream "industrial age" in the same way a magical train does...but rather, Leonardo Da Vinci gone wizardly, which is much more acceptable in terms of the measure of anachronism. If it were a magical transforming robot nuclear submarine, then Houston, we may have a problem...

Likewise, an Apparatus of Kwalish roaming around on land with the occupants firing wands through the portholes is acceptable in a way that a magical tank wouldn't be, IMO. YMMV.

 

[Neo]

I'll be picking Eberron up for sure, the whole Steam-punk angle is one Ive always found fascinating and along with Iron Kingdoms, Eberron is right up there with prime source I want to collect eventually.

To be honest though the subject matter was only part of the reason I decided to invest in this book on its release, the other decision making influence for me was the art they released on the Wizards site. I'm the first to admit a company can get my cash with eye candy.. many of my impulse buys outside our required and usable source for our campaign have been down to either a good looking book or fantastic art.. and the picture of the warforged pretty much confirmed this as a must have for me.

 

[Guillaume]

I answered that I might pick it up. I'm not looking for a new campaign world. I have too many campaigns stached away already. However, Eberon might have some interesting stuff that may well see use. We'll see...

 

[Buttercup]

I have no interest in Eberron. I don't begrudge the people who like it, I'm just not interested. Sort of like Scarred Lands or Oathbound or Midnight or Forgotten Realms or that accordian setting.

 

[Kesh]

when people discuss the difference between high magic and low magic, there's really two axes.

along one axis, high magic = powerful, high-level magic; and low magic = weak, low-level magic. on this axis, Eberron could justifiably be called low magic, since it seems the setting was designed with a dearth of high-level NPCs.

on the other axis however, high magic = common magic; and low magic = rare magic. on this axis, Eberron is quite definitely a high magic setting.

when i personally think about high magic / low magic, it's the second axis that's most important to me. a setting with powerful magic but with magic being rare i would call low magic. OTOH, a setting like Eberron with ubiquitous low-level magic is IMO high magic.

Ahh, good point. I'm of the opposite mind: high magic, to me, means common high-level magic. Worlds where everything is saturated with it and things are very obviously influenced by powerful spells. So, to me, Eberron is a relatively low-to-medium magic setting.

 

[buzz]

As silly as it sounds, a magical transforming robot lobster submarine doesn't scream "industrial age" in the same way a magical train does...but rather, Leonardo Da Vinci gone wizardly, which is much more acceptable in terms of the measure of anachronism.

Your'e right. This does sound silly.

 

[kroh]

You have yet to behold the awesome majesty of my game: Llamaworld d20. Never before has a domesticated South American ruminant mammal been offered as a player race.

Gawd, I'm brilliant.

OK...if you put out Llamaworld, I wanna know the release date...THAT SOUNDS LIKE A MUST HAVE TITLE!!!!


Keep us informed
WalT

P.S. You know that coffee cup i mentioned in my thread...The reason it was empty was that when I read the Llamaworld thing...I spit out most of it at my screen and then I laughed so hard I spilled the rest.

Great line...Great line...

 

[Hamburger Mary]

Likewise, an Apparatus of Kwalish roaming around on land with the occupants firing wands through the portholes is acceptable in a way that a magical tank wouldn't be, IMO. YMMV.

Yes, but... where are the magical tanks in Eberron? Everything I've read indicates that their idea of artillery is a low-level magewright with a wand. If they had tanks at all, it sounds like it would be a few people with wands on a juggernaut. (When the idea of magical vehicles was discussed, it was actually the juggernaut that was used as an example, not the apparatus.) My impression is that the "magical train" is an anomaly, not an example of the typical use of magic.