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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7128172" data-attributes="member: 5100">He's actually doing a monthly podcast called <a href="http://manifest.zone" target="_blank">Manifest Zone</a> and has outright said that he'd be open to working on Eberron if WotC asked him to or it was opened up on DMs Guild. He's also said that he strongly opposes advancing the timeline and that he was the major advocate for leaving questions open.There's a reason why I think Keith would be one of the few people who could do justice to an update to Greyhawk: He has a pretty strong attitude on equipping DMs for play, then getting out of the way, which is part of what the "Gygaxian prose" was about (inserting idea seeds without fully detailing them).Doesn't matter what you believe. It matters what's politically viable. Why doesn't the US just turn ISIS into a pane of glass? We're the ultra-high level characters and could easily do it. It would be a political disaster, even though we're certainly capable of doing so.No. Maturity is based on the size of the mark you have. For PCs, that's tied to level because of balance, feat chains, and similar mechanics. For NPCs, there's absolutely no reason why a 1st level Commoner (in 3.5 parlance) couldn't have a Greater Mark. Eberron has always been pretty explicit that a lot of the balance factors for PCs are because they're PCs and that NPCs may have different rules. Even pre-play PCs have different rules such that it was totally appropriate to have a 20 year veteran of the Last War start as a 1st level Fighter because he only just had whatever epiphany leads one to be an adventuring type.Well, they're worried about what's illegal because they don't want the consequences of being caught, if nothing else. It works to keep many real-world folks in line. In addition to the national laws, there are also agreements among The Twelve and to serious of a breach would invite action. Besides, many of the most important advances require more than one Mark to build -- the airships require Cannith, Lyrandar, and Sivis (not sure why, but it sticks in my mind), IIRC, even though it takes the Mark of Storm to actually control one. Sure, Lyrandar would suffer from Cannith being too far in the doghouse, but not as bad as Cannith would if all the Houses embargoed them. Eventually, cooler heads would prevail in Cannith and the head would be replaced (this, of course, ignores the fact that there is already a three-way schism in Cannith that severely limits their power).There is also no proof that Cannith caused the Mourning. In fact, Cannith lost more than any other House because they were headquartered in Cyre and kept their coolest toys there. If they did it on purpose, they were idiots. If they did it accidentally, they were also idiots, but of a different kind. The fact that the Mournland perfectly fits the area of Cyre's control (not their traditional borders or the land they claimed) is very suspicious and would seem to imply it was intentional. It's actually just as likely that some Khyber cult or the Dreaming Dark was able to strike a blow using some obscure ritual that only worked with the planes in the right alignment. Or, maybe Cyre discovered the war had awakened one of the greater demon lords and they (someone with the means) sacrificed the nation to save the rest of the world, like the Coatls of old, but with much less pretty results.</blockquote>

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