Xenonnonex
Hero
Eberron is where religious magic is cast not because of some deity but because you believe very much in yourself.
He's the only one still regularly engaging with the Eberron fanbase though. Wyatt has moved on to M:tG, Slaviscsek is working on ES:O at ZeniMax, and Perkins is running the creative direction for 5e. Baker is running Twogether Studios and is producing on Phoenix: Dawn Command, but still also semi-regularly posts Eberron content and talks to people in the Eberron Discord community.It's worth noting that Baker isn't really the singular authority on Eberron. He created the setting, certainly, but its development was always by WotC. This means that Baker's influences are not the only influences or even the primary ones necessarily. This is especially true for Eberron as a mature setting.
Edited to remove snark.On the contrary, the whole synthetic life anxiety in fiction draws from sources from that period, including the creation of the term "robot" itself. Metropolis is another good period example.
Large multinational corporations were emerging at that time in history, and the Dragonmarked houses are more like the corporate interests of the post-War period than they are like Shadowrun.
Both things are unique.Well, yes. The unique thing, though, is the post-War milieu, echoing themes from 20's-30's fiction.
But the inspiration for them in Eberron is specifically and decidedly cyberpunk.True, Baker does cite Cyberpunk: but those tropes originate in post-War fiction!
@Parmandur regarding anxiety about synthetic life.
Frankenstein was there even earlier, but I can’t imagine a serious argument that we should consider Frankenstein the inspiration for Warforged.
He's the only one still regularly engaging with the Eberron fanbase though. Wyatt has moved on to M:tG, Slaviscsek is working on ES:O at ZeniMax, and Perkins is running the creative direction for 5e. Baker is running Twogether Studios and is producing on Phoenix: Dawn Command, but still also semi-regularly posts Eberron content and talks to people in the Eberron Discord community.
Plus, the setting was originally his brainchild, which I would say gives his voice slightly more weight. Compare to the Forgotten Realms; many people have produced content and stories for it over the years, but I'd take Greenwood's word over anybody else's except in specific corners of the setting that other authors specialized in.
But the inspiration for them in Eberron is specifically and decidedly cyberpunk.
Stop trying to squish everything into one inspirational source-era, and just accept the fact that Eberron has a wide range of inspirations.
He's the only one still regularly engaging with the Eberron fanbase though. Wyatt has moved on to M:tG, Slaviscsek is working on ES:O at ZeniMax, and Perkins is running the creative direction for 5e. Baker is running Twogether Studios and is producing on Phoenix: Dawn Command, but still also semi-regularly posts Eberron content and talks to people in the Eberron Discord community.
Plus, the setting was originally his brainchild, which I would say gives his voice slightly more weight. Compare to the Forgotten Realms; many people have produced content and stories for it over the years, but I'd take Greenwood's word over anybody else's except in specific corners of the setting that other authors specialized in.