Brust workd in Eberrron? Oh hell yeah.
D&D 5E What's to Like about Eberron?
Tony Vargas
Legend
Doesn't sound completely off-base. But, the Golem was even earlier, and Pygmalion, earlier than that.
For the first couple hundred years of firearms, a well made quilt jacket was bulletproof. Early guns were terrible at inflicting damage. their most valuable quality was how easy it was to train riflemen.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Oh jfc I’m done
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Okey-dokey pokey.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Sure is a lot of industrialized and commodified magic items and services, direct cyberpunk influence, examinations of what is “monstrous” vs what is “human” as a key theme, Psuedo-Victorian tech level accomplished by magic, in other published dnd settings.
Yeeeup. Definitely the 30’s noir/pulp influence is the only unique thing in Eberron. Fooor sure.
Yeeeup. Definitely the 30’s noir/pulp influence is the only unique thing in Eberron. Fooor sure.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Those other bits flow from the Interbellum setting, as they did in the original fiction. Indeed, most of those are just straight up 20's-30's pulp themes.
Cyberpunk is Neo-Noir for the 80's, Eberron is Noir.
Bolares
Hero
People gave a great idea of the setting here, so I'm just gonna say what made me fall in love with the setting. It's D&D, but with consequences to its absurdity. Here are some examples...
If elves live so long, how do they view death, tradition and legacy? Eberron has distinct elven cultures that have that as their centerpiece, either usingmagic to keep their ancestors alive or by emulating their past deeds.
Magic in D&D is predictable, repeateable andobservable, so Eberron treats it like science and looks at how the world would evolve with the magical marvels that the game gives us.
Religion is about faith, not about facts. If your god walks around you,you don't need faith to venerate them. So in Eberron religions are either based in powerfull entities or not present gods, and there is real doubt and discussion about where divine magic comes from, as both the classical cleric and one that does not believe in gods can have the same powers.
Different races and creatures aren't tied to an aligment, you have to observe each individual to know if they are good or not.
If elves live so long, how do they view death, tradition and legacy? Eberron has distinct elven cultures that have that as their centerpiece, either usingmagic to keep their ancestors alive or by emulating their past deeds.
Magic in D&D is predictable, repeateable andobservable, so Eberron treats it like science and looks at how the world would evolve with the magical marvels that the game gives us.
Religion is about faith, not about facts. If your god walks around you,you don't need faith to venerate them. So in Eberron religions are either based in powerfull entities or not present gods, and there is real doubt and discussion about where divine magic comes from, as both the classical cleric and one that does not believe in gods can have the same powers.
Different races and creatures aren't tied to an aligment, you have to observe each individual to know if they are good or not.
Bolares
Hero
This is another beauty of Eberron. The setting has a lot of open ideas that incetivise you to create your Eberron, with the things that fit better in your table. My Eberron, yours, Baker's, and anyone else's is equally valid and probably interesting. I love discussions about how different is the mournland in different tables for an example.
