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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5216638" data-attributes="member: 58416">I think there is a certain amount of gritty and noir attached to a lot of Eberron which helps to set the setting apart from others.  The political intrigue and backroom politics of the setting help bring the setting to life. There is also something of a post apocolypse feel in many areas of the setting, and that helps to give a dark edge to the otherwise civilized world.  What originally attracted me to the setting was that it addressed somewhat more complex and mature ideas of morality.  I think it might be a good idea to port Eberron into a system which more fully allows for noncombat skills to shine at the same level as combat skills.   Eberron has a certain mystery and madness which lurks just below the norm, and sometimes it's not the quickest sword which survives, but the quickest mind.  Eberron, for me, is a setting where there's just as much place for a Sherlock Holmes as there is for a Conan.    I couldn't help but to be mulling over the whys, whos, and hows of the kobold assasin so easily getting to and slitting through the throat of the mayor.  As I sped along on the train, the wheels of my mind kept turning, and something about the whole ordeal seemed too quick; too clean; too cut and dry.   There was no time for that now though.  I was almost at my stop.  I had been commissioned to investigate the disappearance of some workers at a mine.  Foul play was suspected, and I would need a little muscle.  My next stop was to call upon an old friend of mine.  A simple fellow, he is, but, with sharp steel in his hand, and the block of meat that made up his body in front of me, the prospect of meandering into the dark underground seemed somehow more palpable.  In past ventures, there had been times when I'd watch him at work... his type of work, and I couldn't help but ask myself whether it was my friend or my foes who constituted the real monster. Olstag Madhelm, Dwarven Investigator</blockquote>

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