Is it time for a new setting?

[Belorin]

I'm still trying to figure out why the adamantly neutral good god of dawn, who's the second most worshiped god in all of Faerun, decided "You know what? I think I'll become the adamantly lawful neutral 'OBEY, PEASENT' god that everyone's forgotten, instead. That sounds like a good idea. Worshipers and consistency? That's for suckers."

While trying to fathom the reasons for the Tyr-Tymora-Helm debacle his personality fractured.

Bel

 

[Kishin]

I'm still trying to figure out why the adamantly neutral good god of dawn, who's the second most worshiped god in all of Faerun, decided "You know what? I think I'll become the adamantly lawful neutral 'OBEY, PEASENT' god that everyone's forgotten, instead. That sounds like a good idea. Worshipers and consistency? That's for suckers."

There was a mini plot arc about Amaunator in Power of Faerun, I believe. Maybe that contributed?

Besides, nothing says sun god like 'OBEY, PEASANT'.

 

[Green Knight]

While tring to fathom the reasons for the Tyr-Tymora-Torm debacle his personality fractured.

Bel

Tyr-Tymora-Helm debacle.

 

[malcolm_n]

I'll admit to having not read the 6+ pages of thread. But, I vote not until they release Birthright 4e

 

[doctorhook]

I'll admit to having not read the 6+ pages of thread. But, I vote not until they release Birthright 4e

Don't worry, five pages of it was "The Internet & Rational Thought" vs. "Aria Silverhands". You ain't missed much.

I'm a little surprised at how evenly split the poll is. I suspect it's because the question is somewhat vague. For example, does 'new setting' mean 'totally original' or merely 'new to 4E'? Does 'now / in conjunction with 4E release' mean '6 June 2008' or 'sometime this summer'? Add the fact that we are getting the Points of Light quasi-setting on 6 June 2008, and that we will have Forgotten Realms by summer's end, and the question becomes fairly convoluted. My own answers to these subquestions led me to poll, "No, we don't need one, because we are effectively getting FR along with 4E," but I can imagine someone voting 'Yes' and sharing my opinion, and someone else voting 'No' despite completely disagreeing with me.

(I'd like to say that although I believe the question posed by the poll is too subjective in its interpretation for a clear view of popular opinion, my criticism is in no way levelled at the OP, Knightshade. The question is valid, and merely its phrasing is not. It's an honest mistake.)

 

[doctorhook]

...For example, myself:
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Eberron; magi-tech, warforged, not my concept.
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Bel

Aria Silverhands, take notes! In one short line, Bel has elucidated more than you have in this entire thread. Here, Bel has indicated that he finds the prevalence and popular use of magic in Eberron personally distasteful, and all without insulting the setting, its fans, and its authors.

You'd do well to be a little more like Bel.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I'm still trying to figure out why the adamantly neutral good god of dawn, who's the second most worshiped god in all of Faerun, decided "You know what? I think I'll become the adamantly lawful neutral 'OBEY, PEASENT' god that everyone's forgotten, instead. That sounds like a good idea. Worshipers and consistency? That's for suckers."

Maybe he met Praios during an excursion to Dere (the world of the DarkEye/Das Schwarze Auge)?

 

[malcolm_n]

I'm still trying to figure out why the adamantly neutral good god of dawn, who's the second most worshiped god in all of Faerun, decided "You know what? I think I'll become the adamantly lawful neutral 'OBEY, PEASENT' god that everyone's forgotten, instead. That sounds like a good idea. Worshipers and consistency? That's for suckers."

because he's not adamantly neutral in the realms? He was the god of the sun and the letter of the law. His clerics were very well practiced in both reading and writing loopholes in contracts where there probably may not need to be. From my understanding of Amaunator, that's how he even got the sun portfolio was a loophole in an exchange with the then-current god of the sun. Am I way off base here?

 

[Belorin]

Ppl, pls. The USS Enterprise could beat BOTH Eberron AND Forgotten Realms, with one photon torp launcher tied behind its back.

Yes, but could it beat a spelljamming Beholder hiveship in full combat mode?

Bel

 

[Terramotus]

I've read the setting, I've played in games and I already formed my opinion about it. It's crap. GORRAM CRAP. It's a piece of crap that shouldn't have ever been published. It's a marketing ploy by WotC to try and sell more books. 4th edition campaign books are driving this point home even further because the will expect you to own every single gorram "core" book wotc puts out.


Chandeliers, hardly unique to Eberron.
Airships, hardly unique to Eberron.
Guns? Don't belong in D&D.
Yeah, pimps and loli... just what D&D needs...

Eberron is quite frankly, the worst setting ever made, imo. It has no theme, no plausibility... just a damned marketing melting pot to sell more books.

It's one pathetic class which I have heard many people complain about because it's cheese. People whose opinion I trust. So what if I haven't read the class crap about the artificer? It's only ONE class out of the entire book of fluff and junk.

You know, when you can't be bothered to backup your complaints about something with actual facts, or to support any of your bald assertions with any actual argumentation at all other than the smug certainty that you know what's best, it makes you look rather foolish.

You've posted in the same manner in all of the other threads I've noticed, often derailing them. Refuting you seems rather pointless, since you seem unwilling to engage in actual debate. I've never believed in killfiles or blocklists, but I'm making my second exception since 1993. Congratulations.