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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 1701375" data-attributes="member: 15800">Interesting. This is a general question, not specifically directed at Nisarg (so as not to keep forcing him to come back into the conversation about a setting he hates). But my question is this:Is Eberron really more of a kitchen sink than any of WotC's other major settings? If you own the XPH and like psionics, would you as a DM not allow a player to use psionics simply because there's no nation or race where psionics are prevelant? Do you look at the Monster Manual -- a core book -- and say "It's too bad I can't use this creature, since it has no defined place in Greyhawk?"In my mind, D&D has ALWAYS been a kitchen sink: because it's always supposed to have been a place where every monster, every spell, and yes, psionics, could be found. Heck, in Planescape anything could be found. The goal with Eberron was not to say "Throw everything in the books into one big heap" -- but rather to create a world where you could find a logical place for the things you wanted to use. Psionics have always been in D&D -- but now your psionic character has backstory you and your DM can draw on. The monster that you want to use that just doesn't make any sense in the world could have been created by the Mourning, while the culture you want to use but that you can't place in Khorvaire (because it should have a major impact on any nearby human nation) can be found in Xen'drik. As I said in the other thread, the point of Eberron is not to say that everything in D&D IS in Eberron; it's that everything in the core books could be in Eberron, if you want it to be. How is this any more "kitchen sinky" than most of the other WotC settings?The answer may be "It's not, but all WotC settings are too kitchen sinky". That may be true. But the point of the core books is to give a DM a basic set of tools to work with; WotC wanted a setting where the DM could use all of those tools. If you want a world that is going to invalidate significant sections of the core/SRD material, I'd advise you to look to third-party publishers.</blockquote>

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