WotC setting search winner - Eberron

[Kichwas]

Re: A Few Thoughts

"Any sufficienly advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."
---Alan Kellogg

This just shows that the author of that quote doesn't know how to think with the non-rational right side of their brain -where magical thinking stems from.

 

[Emiricol]

Re: Re: A Few Thoughts

This just shows that the author of that quote doesn't know how to think with the non-rational right side of their brain -where magical thinking stems from.

Why do you say that? (And why would you?)

 

[Scorpio]

Wow-this is a like a Butcher's Convention!...We'll see how this turns out, it *did* have some interesting artwork....in the meantime, I can tell you for sure that one of the 'runner-ups', Morningstar WILL be awesome....
BTW,The name is coincindental!

 

[Dismas]

I like The World Builder's Guidebook. If there turns out to be a close genetic relationship between Rich and Keith Baker I can only account it a good thing. (Genius running in families and all that.)

Keith has already put that accusation to bed. He is no realtion to Rich Baker.

 

[NickTheLemming]

I suppose that depends on what your point is. If you're trying to make a point about fantasy settings in general, fine - but then again, this discussion is about Eberron in specific, and whether it has a higher than medieval level of technology. Since we've seen no indications of anything you mention besides the lightning rail, considering the rest of them as an argument is rather worthless, isn't it?

You don' t think that hover trains count as higher than mediaeval tech then? There are also the skyscrapers and it has been described in places as industrial, but the very fact that there are hover trains in the setting tends to suggest something that is not mediaeval, don't you think? Could you please tell me how my argument is worthless? I'd also look up the definition of reductio ad absurdum if I were you, since you don't seem to understand it.

I have no idea, you'd have to tell me. It's just something I've noticed in more than one Harn fan.

J

Well, forgive me for being blunt, but it's you that appears to have the fixation on Harn...

Nick the Lemming

 

[JeffB]

Well I think Eberron is split into two groups, the love it or the hate it camps. Not a lot in between! Me, I'll stick to my boring and predictible FR and Greyhawk's pseudo Medieval feel. Because to me that is what DnD is. Eberron is not what I think of as DnD. Perhaps people would have been more warm to it if it didn't have the DnD label?

Agreed on all points.

 

[NickTheLemming]

Re: Hamburgers? They serve hamburgers? They suck!

Yeah, but at this time the restaurant hasn't opened yet, has it? It's getting some negative and some positive reponses based on a second hand source claiming they serve hamburgers, and a brochure showing some of the flashy interior.

Which evidently included hamburgers, which means that the restaurant serves bad food, if I am to follow the logic?

So, I think the restaurant has nothing to fear from this, because they can easily explain that hamburgers by themselves does not constitute evidence of a bad cuisine (which seems to be the case here). And most people will find this approach reasonable, which will make it easier to feed out more PR, due to name recognition.

M.

I think a more apt analogy would be a restaurant that claims it'll be vegetarian, but then has a menu that offers hamburgers. Or one that says it'll have unique dishes like french fries...

Nick the Lemming

 

[NickTheLemming]

Wow-this is a like a Butcher's Convention!...We'll see how this turns out, it *did* have some interesting artwork....in the meantime, I can tell you for sure that one of the 'runner-ups', Morningstar WILL be awesome....
BTW,The name is coincindental!

Do you have any details of Morningstar?

Nick the Lemming

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

Re: Re: Hamburgers? They serve hamburgers? They suck!

I think a more apt analogy would be a restaurant that claims it'll be vegetarian, but then has a menu that offers hamburgers. Or one that says it'll have unique dishes like french fries...

Nick the Lemming

For the 3087235982735th time, that was from the Gaming Report article. If a restaurant reviewer says the restaurant has unique dishes like french fries, is that the restaurant's fault?

Besides, if you'd read Keith Baker's comments instead of trolling, you'd see that he's offering his own unique spin on the french fry.

 

[Scorpio]

Hey Nick,
You can start at Goodman Games' preview at http://www.goodman-games.com/4100preview.php ;
this is a unique setting that brings out the best that the game offers- I've seen hundreds of 'settings' and only a handful have ever caught my attention as really different!