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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8017584" data-attributes="member: 16814">So, here's something to think about.&nbsp; Different games do things differently.&nbsp; That's obvious.&nbsp; Some are close, and do similar things, some are really far apart.&nbsp; You need to make sure that when you play a game, you're playing it how it was meant to be played (at least at first, you can modify it, of course, but you should know the baseline first).&nbsp; Again, this is kinda obvious.What gets less obvious is when you want to do things like take your existing setting and port it into another game.&nbsp; Doing this is usually asking for trouble.&nbsp; Settings tend to take the play goals and focuses of the game they were created for and bake them into the setting.&nbsp; If you try to port it to a game that works differently, you've got a setting with baked in assumptions from one game that you're now trying to use in a completely different game.&nbsp; That's going to cause problems.&nbsp; Eberron has a huge amount of the base assumptions of D&amp;D baked into it.&nbsp; Sure, it's different from other D&amp;D settings and is fairly unique among D&amp;D settings, but it's still got D&amp;D as it's foundation.&nbsp; Trying to take that setting, outside of very high level tropes (and not all of them), and port it into another game is going to cause issues.&nbsp; If the game is similar to D&amp;D, then the issues will likely be small and can be papered over.&nbsp; If the game isn't that similar to D&amp;D, or has a few big differences in core assumptions, then you'll have trouble.If I was looking for a different system to handle Eberron, I'd be keenly examining the assumption sets of both.&nbsp; Honestly, if I were to recommend a game where you kept most of the Eberron setting but changed the focus of play away from combat and had strong resolution systems for social and exploration play, I'd recommend FATE.&nbsp; FATE has large assumption difference from D&amp;D, but the way FATE encodes that is through descriptive tags.&nbsp; This works well with many settings because it's pretty trivial to turn a setting assumption into a descriptive tag for a character or scene.&nbsp; That said, FATE may not at all be what the OP is looking for.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8017584, member: 16814"] So, here's something to think about. Different games do things differently. That's obvious. Some are close, and do similar things, some are really far apart. You need to make sure that when you play a game, you're playing it how it was meant to be played (at least at first, you can modify it, of course, but you should know the baseline first). Again, this is kinda obvious. What gets less obvious is when you want to do things like take your existing setting and port it into another game. Doing this is usually asking for trouble. Settings tend to take the play goals and focuses of the game they were created for and bake them into the setting. If you try to port it to a game that works differently, you've got a setting with baked in assumptions from one game that you're now trying to use in a completely different game. That's going to cause problems. Eberron has a huge amount of the base assumptions of D&D baked into it. Sure, it's different from other D&D settings and is fairly unique among D&D settings, but it's still got D&D as it's foundation. Trying to take that setting, outside of very high level tropes (and not all of them), and port it into another game is going to cause issues. If the game is similar to D&D, then the issues will likely be small and can be papered over. If the game isn't that similar to D&D, or has a few big differences in core assumptions, then you'll have trouble. If I was looking for a different system to handle Eberron, I'd be keenly examining the assumption sets of both. Honestly, if I were to recommend a game where you kept most of the Eberron setting but changed the focus of play away from combat and had strong resolution systems for social and exploration play, I'd recommend FATE. FATE has large assumption difference from D&D, but the way FATE encodes that is through descriptive tags. This works well with many settings because it's pretty trivial to turn a setting assumption into a descriptive tag for a character or scene. That said, FATE may not at all be what the OP is looking for. [/QUOTE]

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