Questions for Everyone about Eberron.

[Najo]

I have a sort of mixed questions poll about Eberron. Answer as many as they apply to you. Personally, I have enjoy most of Eberron's books (the player's guide being my favorite), and purchase all of the RPG books to glean for ideas in my own campaigns. So, please take a moment to review these questions and answer

Thanks

 

[Crothian]

I have some of the books but only because we are playing in the setting.

 

[Odhanan]

I love Eberron and own at least the main book
I would still have bought it if another publisher made it
I use Eberron materials in my own campaigns
I own most or all of the Eberron books

 

[Turjan]

What about "I own some Eberron books and find some aspects quite interesting"?

 

[Mark Hope]

I use bits and pieces of Eberron material in my homebrew. There are some really cool ideas in there that I have appropriated, subjected to hideous mutation and then turned loose in my own games. I have played in an Eberron campaign but don't really like the setting as a whole. For me it's a setting that is less than the sum of its parts. Good to raid for ideas, though.

 

[tylerthehobo]

I run one very regular and one semi-regular eberron campaigns. I've got many of the books, which are by and large quite good - some are extraordinarily weak on player content, though. It certainly has its weaknesses, and I've found some of the adventures kind of weak, but as a setting it provides enough of the "something for everybody" kind of flavor that keeps my players coming back for more.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Eberron has never appealed to me - not even once. I like the fact that they made psionics part of the world - that's great. But I don't care for halflings riding dinosaurs, I don't really care for warforged at all, and I could leave the train idea behind too. I don't much care for dragon marked (I think that's what they are called) houses - although I typically am all over "dragon stuff." Beyond that, the world kinda left me as meh.

However, I should clarify that my opinion is also highly tainted. In general I don't setting specific material outside of the Greyhawk stuff that is CORE. I can say that I have flipped through Eberron stuff more than I've flipped through Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance stuff. So take my opinion with a grain of salt. And realize that it is just that - an opinion.

 

[Radovarl]

Don't like it, won't buy it

I don't care for most of the new, setting-specific parts of Eberron (warforged, etc.) that I am aware of. I haven't (and wouldn't) purchase any Eberron products, mostly because of the slogan, "If it exists in D&D, it exists in Eberron." I read this to mean, "You must buy all of the D&D books Wizards publishes if you run Eberron." I much prefer Forgotten Realms, which doesn't (as much) artificially try to wedge every single creature from the MMs and prestige class from the Complete series into a niche somewhere.

 

[Klaus]

Actually, it's "if it exists in D&D, it *has a place* in Eberron". The core setting and the Sharn: City of Towers, Five Nations and the Schema Trilogy of adventures mention very little, if any, non-core stuff (well, core + Psionics). The first book to provide Eberron-specific fluff for non-core classes, PrClasses, races and the like was Player's Guide to Eberron.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

So, there IS a place for gunpowder in Eberron: if you want there to be. But not as part of any of the cultures of Khorvaire. The same is true of PrCs, variant rules, and so on. Nothing has to be in Eberron: but between the various fallen cultures and the many mysterious lands, it's a relatively simply task to find a place for something, if you want to. And that's all that the statement means

Unfortunately, there seems to be a conflict between Keith Baker and WotC whereas WotC attempts to cram anything into Eberron. Raptorans? Illumians? Whisper Gnomes? (Ok, the latter was the fault of the RPGA.)