WotC setting search winner - Eberron

[Scarbonac]

Pictures:

http://www.gamingreport.com/article.php?sid=9471

Looks like the trains are hover-trains.

Some of the buildings look pretty cool, IMHO.

Christ, that looks like my homebrew!

 

[Desdichado]

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.

Clearly you didn't understand what I said. I know trains aren't medieval. Neither are many of the other standard conventions of D&D. I find your complaint vacous unless you address that first. D&D is not Harn.

 

[NickTheLemming]

Clearly you didn't understand what I said. I know trains aren't medieval. Neither are many of the other standard conventions of D&D. I find your complaint vacous unless you address that first. D&D is not Harn.

I never claimed that D&D was Harn, or even that this was desirable. Go back again and look at the original post I replied to. It stated that this setting did not possess tech above the mediaeval level. This is obviously arse. It doesn't matter what tech they have; I really don't care. But to claim that the tech they have is no higher than mediaeval when it obviously is is bollocks. It doesn't matter whether D&D has other forms of tech that are far beyond our own. The setting synopsis stated that tech was below a certain level, and yet it also includes tech that is above this level. What is so hard for you to understand about this point? Talking of how other conventions of D&D don't match up with mediaeval reality is besides the point and completely irrelevant. Do you understand yet, or are you going to post again without actually considering the point I was making? Just to eb safe, here it is again:

The original post claimed that the setting had tech that was no higher than the mediaeval period. It has trains, which weren't around in that period. Therefore, they're talking crap.

Now, what's so hard to understand there?

Nick the Lemming

 

[d4]

i'll reserve final judgment for when i can actually skim through the book at my FLGS, but as of right now, there's too many elements i don't like presented so far for me to consider picking this one up.

powerful and ubiquitous magic, magic-replacing-the-functions-of-technology, a theme of "dark" anything...

i'm pretty sure, based on what's been revealed so far, that those things are definitely in the setting. i'm not going to comment on the other speculations such as steampunk-level technology or the pervasiveness of dinosaurs since we don't know yet whether those rumors are true. (for the record, i think dinosaurs are cool and more settings should use them. )

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

I never claimed that D&D was Harn, or even that this was desirable. Go back again and look at the original post I replied to. It stated that this setting did not possess tech above the mediaeval level. This is obviously arse. It doesn't matter what tech they have; I really don't care. But to claim that the tech they have is no higher than mediaeval when it obviously is is bollocks. It doesn't matter whether D&D has other forms of tech that are far beyond our own. The setting synopsis stated that tech was below a certain level, and yet it also includes tech that is above this level. What is so hard for you to understand about this point? Talking of how other conventions of D&D don't match up with mediaeval reality is besides the point and completely irrelevant. Do you understand yet, or are you going to post again without actually considering the point I was making? Just to eb safe, here it is again:

The original post claimed that the setting had tech that was no higher than the mediaeval period. It has trains, which weren't around in that period. Therefore, they're talking crap.

Now, what's so hard to understand there?

Nick the Lemming

It's not tech, it's magic.

 

[NickTheLemming]

It's not tech, it's magic.

It's a train. ;-P

 

[d4]

It's a train. ;-P

i have to agree with Nick here. it doesn't matter whether the train runs by a technological steam engine or if it draws energy from a bound fire elemental. it's still a train.

trains imply a certain level of organization and civilization that (for the most part) exceeds the standard pseudo-medieval / feudal mindset that pervades core D&D.

 

[Pants]

It's a train. ;-P

That runs on magic

 

[NickTheLemming]

That runs on magic

Not on rails then? ;-)

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

Not on rails then? ;-)

No, not on rails. Look at the picture. It's flying, for crying out loud. With lightning coming out the bottom of it.