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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 3429798" data-attributes="member: 8447">I am coming into this late, but have a couple of questions and comments, primarily as an outsider.First up, one of my players, otherwise not much of a fan of D&amp;D/D20, really likes the Eberron setting and is threatening to run it when I next take a break from behind the screen (this summer).&nbsp; I must admit that I am intrigued to find out what he finds so interesting about the setting.Second, as far as I can tell from my FLGS (and the NSFLGS [Not So...]), Eberron seems to be a huge hit with the customers.&nbsp; People seem to be looking forward more to Eberron than anything to do with Forgotten Realms (and Greyhawk is entirely a dead issue locally).Third, I am wondering what most people think of when they think of &quot;pulp&quot;.&nbsp; Part of this comes from my own background (my father, a child of the 1930s, secretly loved his pulps, mainly because they were cheap throwaways and definitely did not have the literary merit that my grandmother kept trying to foist on him; a friend of mine had an uncle professionally wrote pulps, aka almost no money for a lot of work, churning out over 300 titles, 90+% of them &quot;oaters&quot;/Westerns) and partially because the word seems to be used to actually mean a genre, when during their heyday it merely designated lowbrow, low cost reads.&nbsp; So what does &quot;pulp&quot; mean to you and how does Eberron differ from pulp?Again, please recognize that I know very little about the setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 3429798, member: 8447"] I am coming into this late, but have a couple of questions and comments, primarily as an outsider. First up, one of my players, otherwise not much of a fan of D&D/D20, really likes the Eberron setting and is threatening to run it when I next take a break from behind the screen (this summer). I must admit that I am intrigued to find out what he finds so interesting about the setting. Second, as far as I can tell from my FLGS (and the NSFLGS [Not So...]), Eberron seems to be a huge hit with the customers. People seem to be looking forward more to Eberron than anything to do with Forgotten Realms (and Greyhawk is entirely a dead issue locally). Third, I am wondering what most people think of when they think of "pulp". Part of this comes from my own background (my father, a child of the 1930s, secretly loved his pulps, mainly because they were cheap throwaways and definitely did not have the literary merit that my grandmother kept trying to foist on him; a friend of mine had an uncle professionally wrote pulps, aka almost no money for a lot of work, churning out over 300 titles, 90+% of them "oaters"/Westerns) and partially because the word seems to be used to actually mean a genre, when during their heyday it merely designated lowbrow, low cost reads. So what does "pulp" mean to you and how does Eberron differ [I]from[/I] pulp? Again, please recognize that I know very little about the setting. [/QUOTE]

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