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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3440171" data-attributes="member: 32536">I can't say I agree with this idea, since the new races all have very interesting aspects to them, and have more flexibility and potential than you are giving them credit for. I mean, I played a changeling in my first Eberron campaign, and she was hardly a spy. In fact, it was a human and a shifter who were the real spies in that campaign; my character was the team blaster. Well, I can claim that no campaign setting has ever inspired me to play Indiana Jones before, but Eberron has come close. Further, the vast amounts of old, exotic ruins and unexplored lands in Eberron caters to an Indiana Jones or even a Tarzan story more than classic campaign settings have. It may have been possible in D&D before, but the previous published settings were not based around the concept, and settings do not support different character types equally. How easy is it to play Indiana Jones in Birthright, for example?I am beginning to get the feeling you just don't like published campaign settings, since this complaint would not be limited to just Eberron. Honestly, compared to the Forgotten Realms and some other settings, Eberron goes out of its way to leave very large tracts of "unwritten space", places specifically left for the DM to fill in. The entire cause for the Day of Mourning, for example. I admit, this is declining a bit with some of the new sourcebooks (Secrets of Xen'Drik and Sarlona), but it is still very much part of the intention of the designers. Besides, having restrictions is nowhere close to being the same as not being fun. Historical or Low-Magic campaigns are an example of very restrictive campaigns, but there are many who swear by them.</blockquote>

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