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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2419426" data-attributes="member: 2067">I agree. I just don't see any reason to do something in Eberron vs. doing something in any other campaign setting or homebrew right now. The 'do anything' capability is nice, but it's not what I look for in a campaign setting, because I don't need a campaign setting to 'do anything'. I could 'do anything' without Eberron. I don't feel I need Eberron's *permission*, and I feel that in Eberron's rush to grant that permission (which, again, is a good thing) it stops short of making itself different. The CS has seeds of this difference, but the things that have come after seem to have ignored these seeds in favor of being adaptable. The playground feel is good. But D&D is already a playground. Eberron has to be a different sort of playground, and saying "It can be any sort of playground you like!" seems weak sauce to me. It's a cop out. Eberron needs to grow up, get it's own personality, and stop imitating everything around it. It's not that the imitation is bad. It's that there needs to be more, for me. You can't win me over by saying "You can play D&D here!" You have to say "The play experience is what we offer you that non-Eberron D&D can't easily mimic." To put it in terms that the Marketing department might understand, Eberron feels like a D&D knock-off. It's the Street Fighter II TURBO to D&D's Street Fighter II. The dial is up to 11. I don't need another Street Fighter. I need a Mortal Kombat. Eberron is a lot of things, but it's no Fatality.</blockquote>

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