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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 2082047" data-attributes="member: 381">One cannot presume that a feat from a setting book is automatically balanced with core feats. The setting may be, overall, higher powered than a standard D&D milieux. (Eg. the Forgotten Realms.) The core classes may be balanced with each other given all of the extra items from that sourcebook (feats, powers, new spells, etc.) but not with classes that don't have access to those additional rules. So, your 'safe' choices as a DM are to either disallow setting books entirely, or make sure that your whole group, as well as your NPCs and monsters, have the opportunity to take advantage of the bonuses of the alternate setting.That said, my overall feel (without, mind you, having actually played a campaign in the setting) of Eberron is that it's not much of a power-up. There are core feats that a monk could take that are comparable to things like Whirling Steel Strike, Flensing Strike, and the other special monk combat styles available in Eberron. But they're just not as cool. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> YMMV, of course.</blockquote>