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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 2112445" data-attributes="member: 19893">Yes, we've heard it before, any game can be played in any way: I can take Vampire and run it as a hilarious romp through the dark underworld, and I can take paranoia and run it as a deadly serious commentary on the current political atmosphere.  I can make an exclusively low-level FR game that never leaves the dalelands, and I can run a superhero-themed Call of Cthulhu game (in fact, that last one I actually did run).But that's called playing against type. And there's a huge difference in the assertion that "you could run any setting in any way, its all up to you" (which is true), and "no setting is inherently created with a bias toward a certain style of play" (which is an obvious and absurd lie).Settings are all biased toward certain playstyles, and Eberron is biased toward, at best, severly crunchy severely tactical full-use-of-the-battlemat-and-the-$14.95-miniatures-booster-pack D&D.  At worst, it is oriented toward the total munchkinfest "my-warforged-juggernaut-is-bigger-than-your-warforged-juggernaut" powergaming extravaganza.And in either case, the fluff in it all exists not for its own sake, not because it was a dream in its authors mind for years before it became a published setting, not because of socio-political rationality, but only to justify the crunch.  What socio-political rationality exists is only constructed after the fact.Eberron's fluff is all pre-fab. It was done by committee to allow maximum crunch to satisfy a target demographic.Eberron is at best the Monkees of the D&D world.At worst, Eberron is the Milli-Vanilli of the D&D world.Nisarg</blockquote>

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