Podcast #113 Exploring Eberron with Keith Baker (Win Exploring Eberron Hardcovers!)

Eyes of Nine · Aug 17, 2020

PsyzhranV2 said:
Eberron: Rising from the Last War is an official Wizards of the Coast release. It is the 5e Eberron book as WotC is concerned.

Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron was a prototype, a "test document" of sorts to see if there was interest in official Eberron material. It covers many of the same topics as Rising, and as of Rising's release, it's considered outdated.

Exploring Eberron is entirely 3rd party/homebrew and not associated with WotC in any way. It is Keith Baker's personal vision of the setting - with input from Will Brolley, Wayne Chang, and Laura Hirsbrunner among others, but still primarily Baker's work. Exploring Eberron focuses on topics that were not touched on in Rising, or in Eberron material from past editions for that matter. Hence there isn't a lot of overlap between Rising and Exploring, outside of common, setting-wide themes and elements.

Ideally I would say that the order would go Rising -> Exploring -> Wayfinders', but Rising has quite a few typos and lore mistakes that slipped past editing, so personally I'd place Exploring above Rising.

Based on @Morrus recent podcast interview/co-hosting with Baker, Exploring has a ton of stuff about the planes in the Eberron universe, as well some deeper dives into some of the countries.

Arilyn · Aug 17, 2020

Really enjoyed this one. Always love hearing from Keith Baker, as Eberron is one of my favourite settings.

Your skit was quite funny. Peter's slow wise cleric voice was great, and I had a good giggle over the physics of the wisdom stat.

Paragon Lost · Aug 17, 2020

About 40 minutes into the podcast and I find myself confused as to how Keith, Peter and Russ don't get how the alternate history aspect of Twilight 2000 works. That it didn't make sense to them I thought was odd. It's an alternate history folks, it's not hard. The Soviet Union didn't fall, hardliners took over instead in the early 1990s and then we end up with results of that and WWIII starting up. Alternate history science fiction/fantasy is a pretty popular genre and has been around a very long time. So there is no need to rename the game Twilight 2000 so say Twilight 2050 or something like that.

Noted some complaints posted above about the length of the podcast, personally I love the podcast and don't care that it's longer. I have no issue hitting my pause button and hitting play the next day if I didn't finish it. Complaining about the length of something that you can control when and how you listen to is rather illogical to me. Really if it were longer I'd love that.

Eyes of Nine · Aug 17, 2020

Paragon Lost said:
Noted some complaints posted above about the length of the podcast, personally I love the podcast and don't care that it's longer. I have no issue hitting my pause button and hitting play the next day if I didn't finish it. Complaining about the length of something that you can control when and how you listen to is rather illogical to me. Really if it were longer I'd love that.

I also thought the podcast was good (note, that hasn't changed).

I probably listen to podcasts differently than you do, and for different reasons, and possibly on a different platform. It works for me, and I'm glad your way works for you. Based on how I listen to pods, shorter shows are better. Especially when a show doesn't NEED to be so long. It can easily be broken into a Gaming News segment, an Interview segment, and a Kickstarter Game segment, at the very least. The funny fictive element about clerics could be added to the Kickstarter Game segment or maybe even be its own.

I can propose an experiment for Russ and Darryl and crew: Break it down for a month's worth of episodes. Take each larger segment (News, Interviews, Kickstarter Game) and create its own podcast. Collect the data to see which segments people seem to download more and be most interested in. In addition, you can see if dowloads and listens increase overall when you do it, or if they decrease. And then change or not, based on the data you collect. You can always revert using the "Classic Coke" marketing strategy...

Also, if you were "big media", this would also give you many more opportunities to insert ads. Since you are not, that's not really a concern.

Podcast #113 Exploring Eberron with Keith Baker (Win Exploring Eberron Hardcovers!)

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