WotC setting search winner - Eberron

Maraxle · Jul 25, 2003

Darn. I was hoping for a setting that I might be able to get into. Dinosaurs, drow, and trains just don't do it for me. Add me to the unimpressed crowd.

Heretic Apostate · Jul 25, 2003

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Emiricol said:
What's a sleestack?

Land of the Lost

Go to this page, and the lizard-like guy across from the guy-and-gal picture is a sleestack.

Really annoying. They emphasized their lizard-ness with lots and lots of hissing, if I recall correctly.

gordonknox · Jul 25, 2003

Keith Baker

Does anyone know any other projects done by Keith Baker?

Is Keith a part of the EN Community?

It would be nice to congratulate him and see if he could share any other info about the setting.

Anyway, congrats Keith!

gk

Christian Walker · Jul 25, 2003

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Creeping Death said:
There were apemen or at lease one that helped the humans...

Long live, Chaka!

I think there was one Sleestak that was friendly to the Marshalls. I can't remember his name, but I think he showed them how to use the Pylons found near that "lost city."

Damn, I think I want to buy a Land of the Lost setting book.

Gargoyle · Jul 25, 2003

I was in the same seminar as the gamingreport.com guy.

I think the concept art looks promising, and the idea of a "swashbuckling dark fantasy" (that's from the slide show we saw, although curiously omitted from the press release) in a world where magic is used in everyday life seems pretty cool to me.

My only complaint is that they didn't reveal enough about it; they should have waited until the setting was more developed before announcing any details. Q&A was hampered severely, with Bill Slaviscek saying over and over "We can't reveal that yet." I asked for one example of how the setting is both dark and swashbuckling, but Keith Baker wasn't permitted to answer, even though he said he could provide one.

Teasers are fine in movie trailers, but in an interactive seminar, I feel that it's out of place and frustrating. They barely exposed the tip of this campaign world, and may have misled some people. For example, from the Q&A, I got the feeling that dinosaurs do not play a huge role in the setting. They are there because "dinosaurs are cool" and "the MM has dinosaurs". I also remember "This is not Dinotopia".

Overall, I'm not sure whether I'm excited about this campaign world or not...I just didn't get enough info. I do think it will be good, but I'm not sure if it will be for me and my group.

Gargoyle · Jul 25, 2003

Re: Keith Baker

gordonknox said:
Does anyone know any other projects done by Keith Baker?

Is Keith a part of the EN Community?

It would be nice to congratulate him and see if he could share any other info about the setting.

Anyway, congrats Keith!

gk

Keith has done some work for Goodman Games. http://www.goodman-games.com/index.php

I don't know if he has an account here. I'll ask him if I see him.

Mythtify · Jul 26, 2003

Ghostwalk actualy sounds more intersting than this.

Azure Trance · Jul 26, 2003

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. They had tin cans on strings for early warning, didn't they?

BigFreekinGoblinoid · Jul 26, 2003

kenjib said:
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Didn't Wizards specifically state that they wanted nothing much beyond a medieval technology level for submissions? Odd and perhaps a bit unfair that the winner of the competition would be one that broke the rules by going into the industrial age.

This is a really good point. Maybe that's why his stood out from the others so much!

Fairness aside, I'll be hoping it is a good setting. But then again, I'm a huge IK fan, so tech done right ( balanced and reliant on magic ) doesn't automatically turn me off.

gordonknox: I think KB posted here sometime after the winner was announced, so he might eventually see your note.

ahh here we go - it's K-E-I-t-h

[http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39787

Emiricol: We have Midnight now and don't have to wait another YEAR! I'm glad Wizards passed it up!

Desdichado · Jul 26, 2003

To me, this setting sounds like the most interesting direction I've ever seen D&D go. Hopefully they keep up the "dark swashbuckling" and pseudo-magical-industrialism and don't let crappy novels burden the setting with parasitic baggage the way FR did.

I was very lukewarm about another official setting; now I'm starting to get a glimmer of excitement!