What is your reaction to the Eberron news?

[The Crimson Binome]

Eberron has always been my least favorite D&D setting, which is saying something, given that the competition literally includes the Forgotten Realms. I just don't get the appeal of pulp. I mean, what does it say about a genre, when its most defining feature is that they can't afford to print it on decent paper?

Also, Eberron was responsible for bringing Action Points into D&D, which was one of the worst aspects of 4E.

 

[Jer]

Very excited - not so much for this product but because Keith Baker is producing Eberron material again. And that Wizards is taking the DM's Guild publishing platform seriously and looking for ways to do more with it.

DM's Guild could be a really great platform for keeping the folks who want tons of setting material happy while not overburdening the retailers with a lot of books that they can't sell or creating a glut of stuff that the majority of players don't really want to keep up with. Especially if they figure out how to leverage POD - nothing ever really needs to go out of print again if you have a platform that lets you reprint it on demand.

 

[Oofta]

Very succinctly, sometimes to be a good fan you have to take satisfaction in the fact that other people enjoy a hobby in a different way. I have zero interest in robots and trains in D&D. However, I am glad that other fans will play more D&D because of it!

I really wish for more swords and sorcery whether Greyhawk or something new in that genre. And no, the Realms don't do it for me.

Whatever. The game is thriving, fans are playing and recruiting.

Yeah, both the new settings seem to push the "advanced magic" theme. While that can be fun, I'd really like to see a more traditional fantasy/sword and sorcery. Something less "anything goes" of FR.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

Very excited - not so much for this product but because Keith Baker is producing Eberron material again. And that Wizards is taking the DM's Guild publishing platform seriously and looking for ways to do more with it.

DM's Guild could be a really great platform for keeping the folks who want tons of setting material happy while not overburdening the retailers with a lot of books that they can't sell or creating a glut of stuff that the majority of players don't really want to keep up with. Especially if they figure out how to leverage POD - nothing ever really needs to go out of print again if you have a platform that lets you reprint it on demand.

I think that is a really good point about the DMs Guild and WotC. Between this and the artificer/mystic being on the Guild, it seems like 2018 is the year that the Guild went from being something tolerated (and slightly profited by) to being an actual component of WotC's strategy.

 

[jgsugden]

I've always found Eberron to be a bit of a disappointment in that it is an incredibly rich campaign setting - but a lot of DMs fail to capitalize upon it and run vanilla dungeon delves in it that don't capitalize upon the elements of the setting.

However, I run games in the FR, in Eberron and in Homebrew worlds. FR games are really only for short little adventures where I'm playing with experienced gamers I do not know and I want them to know a bit about the setting. My Homebrews are massive efforts with years of work going into them and I peel those onions slowly with a group over a long time. Eberron is the middle ground - I'll run a game there with my friends if I'm filling in for a DM taking a break, or if I have an appropriate adventure idea in mind and people are available. It is a great place to tell stories with good roleplayers you know well...

 

[Warpiglet]

Yeah, both the new settings seem to push the "advanced magic" theme. While that can be fun, I'd really like to see a more traditional fantasy/sword and sorcery. Something less "anything goes" of FR.

Absolutely!

 

[Jester David]

Not a huge Eberron fan, but excited. I’ve been saying sinc launch that WotC should do small PDFs updating setting with recycled art. Hopefully this means more are on the way.
And it’s significantly larger than I was expecting. Very cool.
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although, I am sad it means we’re unlikely to get a Ravenloft book, as they would have done so already...

 

[Satyrn]

I'm not a fan of Eberron, and looking at the sample you can download from DMsGuild, I have no interest in the Wayfinder's Guide . . .

. . . Except the Regrets and Debts tables that I saw in the sample are intriguing alternatives to Flaws or other traits.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

As I stated over in the Ravnica thread, my feelings about the new/recycled campaign settings are completely neutral.

I'm currently digging the box set of Birthright that I rediscovered at my parents place so I have no wish or urge for another setting.

However, I also don't begrudge others getting their groove on.

I'm mostly unaffected by it.

 

[mach1.9pants]

I'm neutral, it's a good seeing and I really like how they have done the dragonmarks. But, promised a setting for the hardcore (or at least that is how I read it), I was hoping for a classic setting. I also think two high magic tech seeing at once it's too much, cos they're not my thing. But it looks good and I hope Eberron people are happy