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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy 'Scaper" data-source="post: 2420219" data-attributes="member: 10712">I was really, really looking forward to Eberron when I first heard about it and the CS didn't disappoint. I loved it! But since then my opinion has steadily gone downhill. I found the published adventures to be weak. Sharn was quite good but there was just ... something ... that prevented me from rating it as highly as the all the glowing reviews seemed to indicate. Then came Race of Eberron which, with all its consistencies, may or may not be canon and then Five Nations. This was the biggest disappointment of the lot. From the moment I realised how thin it is to the power creep of some of the NPCs this went from being a highly anticipated "must buy" book to being one that stayed on the shelf of my FLGS. THere was always the danger that higher level NPCs would show up (and I'm not counting the cores in the CS because they filled very specific roles) and I've been dreading it. But after only a year? Sorry, but no thanks. I think the real turning point came in a recent game when the obligatory "fight on top of the lightning rail" scene cropped up and I really had to resist the temptation to have the player find three other fights already taking place up there. That I even thought that didn't bode well. It meant that I wasn't taking the setting seriously anymore and that it was already falling into cliches. I knew then that try as I might I didn't enjoy this world. I used to like Eberron and for a long time I've tried to keep liking it, but I'm afraid that it just doesn't do it for me anymore. Now I'm looking for something to replace Eberron, and strangely enough I'm finding that it is the likes of Greyhawk, Blackmoor and Kalamar that are catching my eye.</blockquote>

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