WotC setting search winner - Eberron

[NickTheLemming]

Uh, magical devices that serve the same function of trains. But then, you probably think the spell Teleport was inspired by Star Trek.

Look at the pictures on rpg.net. There is, quite unmistakeably, a a train. It even has "train" written next to it (Lightning train, I think). Now please cite a mediaeval reference for trains.

Nick the Lemming

 

[Banshee16]

I hear Clawfoot Riders got nerfed.


(sorry, couldn't resist, had to be the first! )

I don't know.....the dino fan in this gamer thinks it might be cool to have a ranger with a Clawfoot animal companion

The swashbuckling and industrial feel are very interesting sounding though. In some ways, they make me think of Planescape a bit, by far my favorite setting.

I *have* seen people complaining about this setting being released instead of bringing back Dark Sun or Planescape, etc. Well, though I absolutely loved both settings, they evidently didn't sell well enough to keep going. Why would that necessarily be different now?

The fact that this setting will be different from anything WotC has ever done before should be a pretty good thing.

Banshee

 

[NickTheLemming]

I'd like to see the references in our medieval period for 95% of the stuff that's in D&D first, if you don't mind.

The reference I quoted mentioned that the world was limited to mediaeval technology. Trains are obviously not mediaeval. I couldn't care less what tech levels are in the rest of the D&D stuff; this particular setting is supposedly limited to mediaeval tech, and clearly isn't.

Nick the Lemming

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

The reference I quoted mentioned that the world was limited to mediaeval technology. Trains are obviously not mediaeval. I couldn't care less what tech levels are in the rest of the D&D stuff; this particular setting is supposedly limited to mediaeval tech, and clearly isn't.

Nick the Lemming

...and you think that riding on Dragons is medieval? Face it. This is FANTASY. The setting can still be medieval without conforming to every tiny little detail.

 

[Gargoyle]

Could you please cite references in our mediaeval period for trains?

The setting also includes the spell fireball and burning hands. How dare they put flamethrowers in my D&D game! The trains run on magic, sorry if that wasn't clear.

Nick the Lemming, who really, really, really likes the sound of original cultures like Dwarves and Orcs. I'm just amazed that no-one's ever thought to use them before. No, really.

As far as the reference to "unique cultures such as dwarves, gnomes..." blah blah, I have to say that your sarcasm is well deserved. Whoever wrote that line at WOTC (because I can't believe gamingreport came up with it out of thin air) should have their head examined for completely ignoring the audience of their press release.

 

[NickTheLemming]

...and you think that riding on Dragons is medieval? Face it. This is FANTASY. The setting can still be medieval without conforming to every tiny little detail.

I don't care what they ride around on; I don't care if they have X-wing fighters that they travel around on; what does make me laugh at them is that they claim that there's nothing above mediaeval tech, but they have things like trains. Whoever did the presentation for this setting should be taking around the back of the building and shot in the head several times (just to make sure), as they've made a complete balls-up of it. It's almost as if the people at WOTC responsible for what was released were playing Exquisite Corpse - one person wrote a line, then folded the sheet of paper over and passed it on to the next person, who wrote a line and passed it on...

Nick the Lemming

 

[TiQuinn]

Whoever did the presentation for this setting should be taking around the back of the building and shot in the head several times (just to make sure), as they've made a complete balls-up of it. It's almost as if the people at WOTC responsible for what was released were playing Exquisite Corpse - one person wrote a line, then folded the sheet of paper over and passed it on to the next person, who wrote a line and passed it on...

I hope everyone is not as easily disappointed as you are. It wasn't a very good introduction for the setting...but is it a death knell? Is it suddenly some unholy abomination that must be staked and burned? Sheesh!

 

[Maggan]

Whoever did the presentation for this setting should be taking around the back of the building and shot in the head several times (just to make sure)

Wow, you sure thake your gaming seriously. Are you that harsh when you DM as well?

Cheers!

M.

 

[NickTheLemming]

Wow, you sure thake your gaming seriously. Are you that harsh when you DM as well?

Cheers!

M.

No-one forgets to bring snacks more than once... ;-)

Nick the Lemming

 

[Enceladus]

Ah well....

After reading the info on this setting and looking at the scans at gamingreport it makes me wonder if they shouldn't start random drug testing at WoTC.

Not that I was ever planning on getting this ever.