WotC setting search winner - Eberron

[drnuncheon]

I also think the "Wizards passed on Midnight for this?" comments have already become way too...um...hip for my tastes.

...especially when Midnight wasn't even sent in to WOTC.

But hey, if people repeat something loud and long enough, everyone will believe it.

J

 

[Kevin O'Reilly]

[Gripe on]

Just to join in, because I also am a little perturbed by the amount of variance from the guidelines on the submission...

[Gripe off]

This world (almost) already exists. Ubquitious magic, shapeshiftes, magitech, steampunk trains... gunslinger heroes and anti-heroes... it's called Mageknight.

I am interested in how religion gets incorporated. The industrial revolution here on RealSide created alot of religious conflicts and the onslaught of Enlightment changed the many belief structures in absolute existance in Good and Evil.

Interested to see that.

Also... we still have a void for a Psionic World....Publishers...Talk to me

 

[Banshee16]

I'm still trying to figure out how everyone went from "From the look of the artwork there are large dinosaur like monsters" to "there are dinosaurs and other lost-world creatures"

I mean, 'large dinosaur like monsters" covers a lot of ground. They could be dinosaurs, sure. They could be dire lizards. They could be that world's dragons, for pete's sake.

"Saying this is the new "main" setting for D&D just doesn't sit well with me, and I don't care how you spin spin the steampunk/dino stuff."

Who said that? What did I miss? Can I get a direct, verifiable quote or is it just more Chicken-Littling?

After looking at the concept art, I think it looks pretty damn cool. The much b*tched-about "dinosaur-like creature" seems to be a bipedal riding lizard, which are nothing new or un-D&Dlike, and the art hardly suggests that hunting dinos is the order of the day.

I love the smell of lame conclusions in the morning. It smells like...well, gamers, I guess. Although I'm glad so many people were whining about it, it made me actually check out the setting. (No such thing as bad publicity, right?)

J

Well, if you look at the pictures, the riding dinosaur is called a "Clawfoot". And it's got this nice sickle-shaped claw on the foot, and the quote says "Clawsfoots are disturbingly fast, even with riders".

To me, that says Velociraptr. So perhaps different names for the dinosaurs.

And that's not a bad thing. Ancient cities, swashbuckling, dark magic, and technological magic? Cool I say. At least it's not another FR or GH clone. Nothing wrong with those settings, but we don't need more of the same, and this is definitely different.

Time for a change I say. I'm looking forward to finding out more.

Banshee

 

[Banshee16]

I agree that they should've waited until there was a bit more meat on the bone to announce this. Right now it sounds like a hodge podge of ideas. Why they couldn't reveal more details is beyond me.

All the same, I dig new settings...even the ones that I end up hating. There's just something about the prospect of seeing something original or different that piques my interest. I also think the "Wizards passed on Midnight for this?" comments have already become way too...um...hip for my tastes.

WotC didn't "pass" on Midnight. It wasn't part of the competition. It was a completely separate setting created by FFG.

And it was already in production before the setting contest even started, IIRC.

Banshee

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Well, if you look at the pictures, the riding dinosaur is called a "Clawfoot". And it's got this nice sickle-shaped claw on the foot, and the quote says "Clawsfoots are disturbingly fast, even with riders".

I hear Clawfoot Riders got nerfed.


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

 

[NickTheLemming]

FYI, the setting is not technologically advanced. The technology is medieval level. That was made clear in the seminar.

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

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.

 

[jasamcarl]

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

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.

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

 

[Kesh]

Now, my wife and I were chatting as I read this thread. At first, she had the same reaction I did. As we talked more, though, she came up with a cool idea. She said it kinda sounded like the Gunslinger world and I have to agree.

This is exactly what sprung into my mind. It's Stephen King's Dark Tower d20!

It's going to be a lot more high-fantasy than his series, but the same brooding atmosphere can be done. I've already got some ideas, if this is how the setting pans out.

Dinosaurs don't bother me, considering they exist in most other settings as well. They're just really big, nasty wandering monsters.

 

[Desdichado]

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

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.

 

[Banshee16]

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

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.

A lot of people whining about very little information.

They said unique cultures....not unique races. The halflings of Dark Sun had a unique culture. As did the halflings of Birthright. As do the gnomes of Dragonlance. The setting could very well have many of the core races, but put unique spins on them that we haven't seen in WotC settings before.

Banshee