Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4494342" data-attributes="member: 71571">1)&nbsp; The FR stuff was -always- usable in Eberron-The-Campaign-That-Was-Designed-To-Include-Everything.&nbsp; Eberron's uniqueness is based not on what is in it, but the place it fits in the whole shebang.&nbsp; Elves aren't the same sorts of elves you find in other settings, yet there they are.&nbsp; Night Hags are rulers of a country trying to find diplomatic ties with the human realm.&nbsp; Half-elves are sometimes crossbred from forbidden love.... but more often they're a distinct race that is its own identity.&nbsp; Orcs aren't even -close- to being the bad guys.&nbsp; Goblins have their own culture.&nbsp; None of the differences that make Eberron -Eberron- come from rules fluff so much as what Eberron does with what's already existed, except for Dragonmarks... and.... that's about it.&nbsp; That -includes- Warforged.&nbsp; Player characters have wanted to play magicrobots since forever.&nbsp; Eberron just provided them a good way to do so.&nbsp; It's hardly 'new'.&nbsp; I had a 'warforged' PC in a game I ran over a decade ago for FR.2)&nbsp; Forgotten Realms is so expansive that pretty much anything could and -has- been in it.&nbsp; It's been absorbing stuff from other campaign settings since forever.Examples:&nbsp; Tiefling, Aasimar, Genasi.&nbsp; The Planetouched aren't a Forgotten Realms original, by any stretch of the imagination.&nbsp; They were Planescape born through and through, but they found their way into FR, despite the fact that they weren't -really- 'appropriate' before then.&nbsp; Warforged are probably going to undergo the same treatment.Examples:&nbsp; Most of the spells that begin with ______'s.&nbsp; For gossake, the Greyhawk mages are mentioned as part of Faerun's magical lore in some older books.&nbsp; Again, FR is hardly an isolated plane with no connection to nothing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DracoSuave, post: 4494342, member: 71571"] 1) The FR stuff was -always- usable in Eberron-The-Campaign-That-Was-Designed-To-Include-Everything. Eberron's uniqueness is based not on what is in it, but the place it fits in the whole shebang. Elves aren't the same sorts of elves you find in other settings, yet there they are. Night Hags are rulers of a country trying to find diplomatic ties with the human realm. Half-elves are sometimes crossbred from forbidden love.... but more often they're a distinct race that is its own identity. Orcs aren't even -close- to being the bad guys. Goblins have their own culture. None of the differences that make Eberron -Eberron- come from rules fluff so much as what Eberron does with what's already existed, except for Dragonmarks... and.... that's about it. That -includes- Warforged. Player characters have wanted to play magicrobots since forever. Eberron just provided them a good way to do so. It's hardly 'new'. I had a 'warforged' PC in a game I ran over a decade ago for FR. 2) Forgotten Realms is so expansive that pretty much anything could and -has- been in it. It's been absorbing stuff from other campaign settings since forever. Examples: Tiefling, Aasimar, Genasi. The Planetouched aren't a Forgotten Realms original, by any stretch of the imagination. They were Planescape born through and through, but they found their way into FR, despite the fact that they weren't -really- 'appropriate' before then. Warforged are probably going to undergo the same treatment. Examples: Most of the spells that begin with ______'s. For gossake, the Greyhawk mages are mentioned as part of Faerun's magical lore in some older books. Again, FR is hardly an isolated plane with no connection to nothing. [/QUOTE]

Verification