Eberron? Count me in!
It's hard not to be excited for new product of my favourite setting, but I have mixed feelings. I've taken a lot of the 3.5e book, some bits from the 4e book, and hacked together my own take on the world. I don't have any of the other sourcebooks, so I've been filling in details myself, unaware of what's "canonically" been fleshed out. Like more of what's in Sharn, how the Silver Flame operates, etc. I've even gone against what's in the books I have to create a custom interesting story for my players.
It would feel weird to see a new book take updates in a completely different direction and "undo" a lot of my custom work.
I would rather WOTC give us a new campaign world. If I'm not mistaken, the most recent one was Eberron in 2003. That's 15 years since we got something fresh.
One of the hallmarks of Eberron is that thanks to airships and lightning rails a single adventure might take you to several far flung locations. I think it would be a disservice to limit the setting to a single region. I would rather have a book that has sparse details on a variety of locations than one that focuses exclusively on the Eldeen Reaches or Breland for example. I guess we'll know more in a couple weeks.Also - keep in mind that if Eberron is the new setting they're likely to do with it what they've been doing with the Realms. Which means that it's won't be a full campaign setting but instead a campaign adventure set somewhere in Eberron and the setting material would be just for that one area of the world.
Nentir Vale had some really great stuff that was quite yoinkable. The Raven Queen, the cosmology (especially the Astral Sea), the Feywild, and the Shadowfell are still a part of my homebrew campaigns even though we've long left 4e behind. I would very much like that setting the survive in one form or another.One of the hallmarks of Eberron is that thanks to airships and lightning rails a single adventure might take you to several far flung locations. I think it would be a disservice to limit the setting to a single region. I would rather have a book that has sparse details on a variety of locations than one that focuses exclusively on the Eldeen Reaches or Breland for example. I guess we'll know more in a couple weeks.
One of the hallmarks of Eberron is that thanks to airships and lightning rails a single adventure might take you to several far flung locations. I think it would be a disservice to limit the setting to a single region. I would rather have a book that has sparse details on a variety of locations than one that focuses exclusively on the Eldeen Reaches or Breland for example. I guess we'll know more in a couple weeks.