D&D General Who else was resistant to Eberron for awhile before falling for it?

[earthsea_wizard]

That's how the game I ran became all about Sharn beat cops being assigned crappy duties in the city

Sounds awesome.

 

[earthsea_wizard]

When Eberron first came out with 3.5e, I was not interested in it at all (I was Greyhawking it at the time). It wasn't until I read the pdf of Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron that (that preceded Rising from the Last War) that I fell in love with it.

When you compare it to Greyhawk now, what do you think? And could you see yourself running Greyhawk again?

 

[jdrakeh]

I wasn't averse to it, just disinterested. Until 5e, but it had nothing to do with the 5e rules. Rather, it was the approach to setting materials they took. The big hardcover campaign coupled with the AL adventures made it really approachable. I now thoroughly enjoy Eberron. It may be my favorite 5e setting.

 

[earthsea_wizard]

I wasn't averse to it, just disinterested. Until 5e, but it had nothing to do with the 5e rules. Rather, it was the approach to setting materials they took. The big hardcover campaign coupled with the AL adventures made it really approachable. I now thoroughly enjoy Eberron. It may be my favorite 5e setting.

Is that the Rising from the Last War book? And what settings do you dig otherwise?

 

[jdrakeh]

Is that the Rising from the Last War book? And what settings do you dig otherwise?

Yes, Rising From the Last War is the hardcover. My other favorite D&D settings are a bit obscure. For urban/city D&D fantasy, I prefer The City League (from TSR UK's Pelinore) and Irilian (a city published as a series of articles in White Dwarf by GW). For classic, world-spanning, high fantasy it's Greyhawk for me (I really like From the Ashes).

 

[Stormonu]

I wanted to do nothing with it when it first came out. I can't recall when that started to change, but my "try out" was to run a LOST-style game on Xendrik - purposely away from Khorvaire as I wasn't familiar with the main setting and needed a "clean slate" area where I could learn and build as I went. It went decently well, I could explain away any inconsistencies as the weirdness of Xendrik until I had read and internalized more of the setting.

By the time that Rising From the Last War came out though, I'd pretty much come to accept and appreciate the campaign setting. I'm not a master of the lore, but I feel confident I could run a campaign in Khorvaire and enjoy it to boot (and hope to do one sometime soon, involving air pirates). A year or two back I actually ran a Cyre 1313 one-shot that was a hoot, getting to mix Eberron and Ravenloft in a fun mash-up.

 

[earthsea_wizard]

I wanted to do nothing with it when it first came out. I can't recall when that started to change, but my "try out" was to run a LOST-style game on Xendrik - purposely away from Khorvaire as I wasn't familiar with the main setting and needed a "clean slate" area where I could learn and build as I went. It went decently well, I could explain away any inconsistencies as the weirdness of Xendrik until I had read and internalized more of the setting.

By the time that Rising From the Last War came out though, I'd pretty much come to accept and appreciate the campaign setting. I'm not a master of the lore, but I feel confident I could run a campaign in Khorvaire and enjoy it to boot (and hope to do one sometime soon, involving air pirates). A year or two back I actually ran a Cyre 1313 one-shot that was a hoot, getting to mix Eberron and Ravenloft in a fun mash-up.

Xen'Drik is one of the areas that interested me from the beginning and the one that kept me looking at the setting off and on over the years.

What aspects of it had you balking at it in the beginning? Similar to my experience?
What other settings do you like?

 

[earthsea_wizard]

Yes, Rising From the Last War is the hardcover. My other favorite D&D settings are a bit obscure. For urban/city D&D fantasy, I prefer The City League (from TSR UK's Pelinore) and Irilian (a city published as a series of articles in White Dwarf by GW). For classic, world-spanning, high fantasy it's Greyhawk for me (I really like From the Ashes).

Quite obscure, although I actually know of Pelinore! Have not heard of Irilian.

 

[jdrakeh]

Quite obscure, although I actually know of Pelinore! Have not heard of Irilian.

Irilian is a big 'ol city. Very Warhammer-ish vibes. I forget what issues of White Dwarf it was serialized in (I'll have to go digging around in my closet), but it hearkens back to a time before White Dwarf became little more than a giant ad for Warhammer and dedicated many of its pages to other games (by other publishers). I miss those days.

 

[Stormonu]

Xen'Drik is one of the areas that interested me from the beginning and the one that kept me looking at the setting off and on over the years.

What aspects of it had you balking at it in the beginning? Similar to my experience?
What other settings do you like?

Too much magic, artificers, magitech like lightning rails and New York (Sharn). I suppose when it didn't spread to other settings, I started to be comfortable with it being limited to Eberron and could swing with it. I guess part of my initial fear/anger was with as much as they were putting out for it, it was going to become the default setting for D&D and I did not like that level of magic & magitech infused into other settings.

As to other settings - all TSR's 1E/2E settings, most especially Greyhawk, Dragonlance and Dark Sun. There's aspects I like about all those worlds, and as I learn more about non-TSR settings (Invincible City-State, Blackmoor, The Young Kingdoms, Lankhmar, etc.) I've been collecting those too.