WotC setting search winner - Eberron

[kenjib]

Thanks for the clarification about it being tons of magical stuff rather than industrial technology. If this is true, magic-as-technology is not my kind of thing, but I hope it turns out well and people like it.

 

[Michael Tree]

Well said Meepo. And just out of curiousity, has anyone considered we could be seeing something like Perdido Street Station here? It's certainly what popped into my mind. Just picture it- huge industrialised cities, ancient ruins beneath them that were once the palaces and temples of older races..and out in the wilds there are tales of huge lizards that can swallow a man whole. Could be cool, could be bad- let's wait and see.

Exactly. With this sort of setting, the execution is what is important. Anyone could throw together magical tech and dinosaurs and create a mediocre derivative setting, but from the praise we've heard from the judges, this setting is much more than that.

What I like about the setting is that it isn't yet another pseudo-medieval fantasy heroic-quest world. There isn't an existing D&D setting that does swashbuckling well, nor is there one with interesting extensions of magic.

 

[Gellion]

This world sounds pretty cool, i will check it out when it comes out in August 2004.

 

[Dagger75]

Okay read it, heard about air ships flying with elemental rings from some here, people using magic to farm fileds and huge towering cities. Kind of a gritty industrial feel.


Almost sounds a bit like Earthdawn.

It had huge towering cities, it had steamships powered by elemental fire and water and flying castles made possible with elemental air.

Magic was very common and used by everybody.

I liked Earthdawn, I will take a look at this.

BUT

Swashbuckling AND Dinosaurs mentioned in the same game. Hmm kinda like mixing Jack Daniels and Mountain Dew, some people found the taste interesting and liked it, others hated it and threw it at me. We shall see.

 

[beta-ray]

I agree with Meepo... There is a fair amount of rudeness here. I am glad I am not the author reading these boards. I will wait for more info before I make a judgement on whether it is for mne or not. Then perhaps I can begin to think that I feel it is stupid or not as well. *shrug*

Feels like I am reading Newsarama's boards...

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

Cadillacs & Dinosaurs

That's the first thing I thought too.
It doesn't sound like my cup of tee, but I think it is ignorant to think that one could accurately gauge what the end product will be from what little info has been released so far.
I would say that I'll wait until it's on the shelves before I give it a thumbs up or not, but that would be pointless.
You see, I'm busy enough with a D&D campaign in my own homebrew world and two D20 Modern games in the "real" world (though all three games are on hiatus). For me to bother picking up another campaign setting it would have to be uber-kismet karmic-soulmate missing-twin perfect for me.
Or have so many cool rules that I buy it and chuck the setting. In the end, if stip-mining a setting book for the rules is what you're going to do, then the flavor and quality of the setting hardly matters. Hence, I have a few FR books.

Giving it a pass or fail at this juncture is just sort of foolish, unless you hate dinosaurs because they ate your one million times removed great aunt when she was just a proto-mammal.

If the setting ends up being a real loser hopefully they'll pull the plug instead of continuing to support it just in case someone buys it. They could just go to the next runner-up and give them a shot.
In the meantime, good luck to the person/people working on this, hopefully it will turn out great.
You never know, maybe the grognards of 2028 will be griping about what a crime it is that D&D's latest owners won't continue to support Eberron for D&D 8.0.

Edit:

Well I suppose we can begin the official countdown to the "Sleestacks got the shaft!" threads....

F$^&#*% ROFLMAO!

It broke the rules of the setting search by exceeding the technology level set in the criteria.

That does sort of stink.

dinosaurs and Industrial Age technology do not mix well, much like steak and chocolate.

What about dinosaurs and chocolate? There were Cadillacs and Dinosaurs chocolate bars.

I thought Land Of The Lost was when that family went camping in a Jeep Cherokee got swallowed by some earth quake, and thus entered Dinosaur-era.

That was a re-make. But you're on the right track. The original is redeemed by being unbelievably campy.
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STONE? Is this some new geek way to say "ROCK!" that no one told me about?

 

[Wolfspider]

I've never seen a bunch of moaners and whiners in my life.

Talk about overreacting and pre-judgement!

Jeez...I almost thought I had accidentally logged into RPG.net.

I just hope the author of this setting, someone who we should be congratulating, doesn't drop by and see this thread.

Does jealousy really run that deep?

Whiner: "MY setting was kewler than this. Dinosawrz and choo-choos?!? Ebberon sucks!"

 

[DaveMage]

My opinion is that WOTC shouldn't have unveiled the setting until they had more information that they could release. This is a very large campaign world in its infancy. Why have a Q&A seminar when you can't answer most of the questions?

This pretty much sums up how I feel about this whole thing.

It won't even be released for another 12 months.

WotC may fear that if they give out too many details, someone would copy them and get it out faster. They might be right.

Owell, if it's great, I'll buy it. If not, I'll probably still buy it because I'm a sucker.

 

[The Cardinal]

it sounds like the result of a computer program or some sort of comitee:

Jurassic Park + Harry Potter + semi-Anime design + orcs, elfs, dwarfs, and gnomes + Treasure Planet


Yep, truly original stuff...

 

[apocalypstick]

I go into every campaign setting looking for stuff to steal for my homebrew, and this setting looks promising in that. For me, it's:

Magic applied to industrial- age Tech: Super-Cool. Thumbs Up.

Dinosaurs: Yick.

Take what you want, ignore the rest; I imagine that I'll be buying this to take a look at a new spin on D&D and find out what I can swipe out of it. Same as I did for FR, Kalamar, and... (come on, where's my IK???)... yeah, well, anyway.

Does anyone really run a camapign "straight out of the box," anyway?

Keep an open mind, people. I thought the film adaption of LXG would rawk until I actually saw it.