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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 4870174" data-attributes="member: 15800">While I LIKE the Cabinet of Faces and would love to see this rectified in a Dungeon article - it was part of the original setting proposal and has never been addressed in the level of detail I'd like - I'm not sure I'd see it as one of the most obvious things to get space in the ECG. It's only mentioned once in a throw-away capacity in the original ECS (page 304), and while it is addressed further in later books, we only had so much room to work with. The Xen'drik section could certainly have been larger, but it is six pages compared to half a page in the original ECS and four pages in the original Player's Guide to Eberron. So compared to City of Stormreach or Secrets of Xen'drik, six pages isn't much - but it's an improvement over those previous multi-subject sourcebooks. I am sad about the lack of Quori information. The issue here is that since the quori can't physically manifest on Eberron, devoting pages to their stats is a questionable use of space. You do get two pages on the Inspired, two pages on the Dreaming Dark, and an additional five pages on Sarlona, including a lot of information otherwise only available in Secrets of Sarlona. So i hope we will get quori stats at some point - but I am glad that we were able to provide more general information about the DD, Inspired, and Riedra than we did in the original ECS. But the main thing is that this one book can't address things in the same level of depth that you get from topic-specific sourcebooks like Secrets of Sarlona or Dragonmarked. I'm happy with what we did get in; there's more information about a lot of things that were glossed over or entirely unmentioned in the original ECS. But yes, there are gaps. And lest I come off as saying "It's perfect! How dare you criticise it!" - that's not what I mean at all. I'd love to do more with the quori or Cabinet of Faces, and it's good for me to hear the things you want to see in the future (if the opportunity arises). But we only had so many words to work with, and I'm pleased with what we did manage to do with things like the Lords of Dust, House Tarkanan, the Dreaming Dark, the impact of the Last War, and for that matter, new threats like the Fading Dream.</blockquote>

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