D&D General What do you like about Eberron?

[Reynard]

Unrelated tangent: a player wanting to play something unusual for an orc is what got John Wick to write Orkworld, which I enjoy pillaging for ideas. The rpg/sourcebook started because his DM told him 'orcs can't be bards or PCs, they're plot speed bumps'. He got his DM - who was his boss - to agree to let him play an ork bard if he could justify it, and a week later he had a four-thousand word essay on ork culture.

John Wick is the Grant Morrison of the RPG industry -- and not in a good way. Half the time he is brilliant. The other half, no one has any idea of what he is talking about.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

John Wick is the Grant Morrison of the RPG industry -- and not in a good way. Half the time he is brilliant. The other half, no one has any idea of what he is talking about.

I think that's a fair statement. But I'd like to share my personal Gencon John Wick story.

I met him the year Orkworld came out at Gencon. I have a great picture with him, and he offered to give me a DDT on the floor.

Later, I ran into him at the Safe House as he was passing through the crowd and I said hi again. He said, 'Hey, come upstairs and have a drink', so my friend and I went up and met him and his Orkworld artist. We talked about L5R, and I tried to avoid being the typical fanboy and boring him with details about our home L5R rpg campaign but he was very interested in hearing about it, and was a very active listener.

He gave me very good in-character advice - which boiled down to 'You're the only person strong enough to save the Empire.' And with that, he managed to help me find a strong touchstone for my character, which directly altered and improved the campaign once I got back home.

And for that experience, even decades later, I will at least hear him out on his gaming philosophies and keep or discard as needed.