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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 3442871" data-attributes="member: 1106">It's all in the execution.  Zhentil Keep is continually encroaching on the dalelands, and they're basically definitive Indiana Jones style proto-nazis (read Haunted Halls of Eveningstar, and their meddlings there are very reminiscent of those movies).  Red Wizards come in nicely as mad scientist types.  In D&D terms, the pulp is actually an adventure, not a setting.  Eberron may have it's own Orient Express, which would be nice if it didn't come at the cost of adding a sore thumb of an anachronism, and really play up the lost world stuff, but we're not really talking much new here that can't be accomplished elsewhere without the wacky stuff that's there to support a genre that D&D could approximate without anachronisms already.FR really stresses the whole gate thing as a way of moving around (which I'm not sure isn't a bit of a cop-out even when presented there, in that if you need to travel such a long way and don't want to deal with the "in-between bits", why do you need such a large setting?  But that's just a personal setting theory thing - you need a certain size to fit in a sense of epic, diverse cultures etc.).  Okay, so you can't do chase scenes with gates, but they will get you there.  Gate to Chult.I think there comes a point where you have to ask why they're trying to do this with D&D.  If you really want pulp chases on blimps and trains, why not go the whole hog and go get yourself a 1930s setting and ruleset, then your two-fisted heroes can sling revolvers and hold onto their hats at the right technology level and with direct analogies, not anachronistic abstractions.In other words, I think the WOTC designers would really rather be playing a different game, but it has to be D&D, so let's shoehorn.  The result is quite weird to me.</blockquote>

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