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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 2490757" data-attributes="member: 9646">I don't like the current dungeonpunk style. In fact I hate it. For me D&D is about knights and wizards in Greyhawk, or something inspired from Tolkien and King Arthur. Now, I also like other genres: in fact I much like the Cyberpunk genre, but only in OGL Cybernet and similar stuff. As such, I hate halfling paladins-bards with a trenchcoat, a katana, and an attitude. I can play a halfling bard in Greyhawk no problem (I already did and quite enjoyed it); I would love to play a sort of justiciar with a trenchcoat, a katana, and big guns in a OGL Cybernet game, no problem; but when it comes to mixing the two genres I simply hate it. This is what I call "Ice Cream wit Ketchup". Ice Cream is good, Ketchup is good, but adding Ketchup onto Ice-cream tastes awful to me. So, this is my metaphor for adding dungeonpunk style and pulp-technology to D&D staples (Tolkien races, wizards, knights in shiny armor, etc.). But to everyone his tastes of course.Well, I perfectly know that Eberron was specifically designed for D&D 3.5, and it is probably perfect for that dungeonpunk style of D&D 3.5. However, if I had to choose a D&D 3.5 setting, I would rather opt for <a href="http://www.diffworlds.com/valus.htm" target="_blank">Valus</a> (the old school type of setting I like for D&D), or better, would run a <a href="http://www.rpgobjects.com/index.php?page=pro&product_id=146" target="_blank">Legends of the Dark Ages</a> campaign. Now, since I intend to run a "planetary-romance-barsoomy" campaign (with Grim Tales and Slavelords of Cydonia), I want an appropriate setting. I could wait for d20 Mars or purchase GURPS Planet of Adventures, or even create a homebrew (but don't want to). But then, it looks like to me that Eberron (albeit sleightly modified as proposed earlier) would do the trick fairly well. I would just remove the D&D aspect, using a set of rules and premises that suit better my idea of what this setting should be.</blockquote>

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