So, I've Been Thinking A Lot About Eberron

[Theron]

(Enough that I've posted this to a couple of boards today )

I love that the lightning rail is owned by House Orien, which makes it perfectly logical to call it the "Orien Express".

I want a powerful, wealthy Warforged Artificer who has a team of five of the greatest adventurers in the world at his beck and call, who right wrongs and explore the globe.

I want to see a titanic Dire Ape rampage through the streets of Sharn.
I want to see a shadowy psionic vigilante who hides behind the identity of a wealthy merchant prince.

I want to run it, I've decided, even if it's D&D. Even if The Missus won't want to play. Sorry, honey. It's an artistic imperative, or something.

 

[apsuman]

I want a powerful, wealthy Warforged Artificer who has a team of five of the greatest adventurers in the world at his beck and call, who right wrongs and explore the globe.

I don't get this one.

Oh, and you forgot the high level whip weilding rogue that finds ancient treasure, and fights the agents of the evil empire.

 

[Theron]

I don't get this one.

Sigh. No one reads the Classics anymore.

Would it help if he appeared to be made out of bronze?

Grumblefarblekidsthesedays...

 

[d4]

i've been thinking a lot about this too. i love the pulps and i love pulp-style games. i love fantasy too. it's just that this is one of those cases where i don't want your chocolate in my peanut butter. i like both pulp and fantasy on their own, but i don't like the mixture of the two together.

(the other major thing is the "magic = industrial technology" paradigm, which always annoys me.)

 

[Wormwood]

Sigh. No one reads the Classics anymore.

Would it help if he appeared to be made out of bronze?

Feh. I got it without the help, thankyouverymuch

With apologies to Lester Dent:

Clark "Doc" Savage Jr: Warforged (or Half-Bronze Dragon) Extreme Explorer/Fighter/Artificer

Pat Savage: Warforged (or Half-Bronze Dragon) Aristocrat

"Ham": Changeling Rogue/Bard

"Monk": Dwarf Wizard/Fighter

"Long Tom": Human Artificer

"Johnny" Littlejohn: Elf Extreme Explorer/Expert

"Renny": Half-Orc Monk

 

[Ibram]

(the other major thing is the "magic = industrial technology" paradigm, which always annoys me.)

as a Conan fan I dont mind mixing pulp and fantasy, but I do loath magic=tech, it just rubs me the wrong way.

Yes, I fliped through the Eberron book, and yes it is a decient RPG book, but I'm not buying it or running it.

 

[d4]

as a Conan fan I dont mind mixing pulp and fantasy...

i'm not talking about that kind of pulp fantasy... it's the fantasy Indiana Jones / airships / trains / "fantasy noir" stuff that bothers me.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

I for one am glad to see the mix, if there were no new concepts coming out, we'd all still be stuck in repetitive 2 dimensional dungeon crawls and the industry probably would have died out. I think people have an interest in trying new things, many homebrewers I've met specifically take two genres and mash them together. Is this any different?

There will always be those that love something and those that don't. I only hope the people who don't like it don't talk others into not looking at it for themselves, it'd be a shame if they missed out on something they liked.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I am more thinking about a living construction submarine, raging against shipping...a secret weapon from the Prince of Blades.

 

[Tetsubo]

The Spider would fit right in. I loved those books...