If I ever run another game, I'll probably do a FR setting that incorporates ideas from Eberron that I like (there are a ton of things I hate about FR too - but the setting and maps are so detailed and easy to manipulate, I use FR extensively.) At any rate, like all products from WotC, take what you like, leave the rest. There are some aspects I don't, but I won't mention them for fear of negative posting. There are some aspects of Eberron I like - Changlings, Shifters and the Houses I really like. It's new, it's scary - and it isn't what they're used to. Tell me the 'Campaign Classics' and 'Demonimicon of Iggwilv' series in Dragon didn't warn your heart a little? ) It's up to us to extract what good we can from their output. WOTC are just trying to follow their market and make a buck, they can do this best with innovative new! New! NEW! ideas like Incarnum (ftw? :-/). To a generation raised on the cosmopolitan flash-bang of Final Fantasy and Harry Potter older and more traditionally 'high fantasy' settings like Greyhawk and Birthright may seem a bit inaccessible, or, dare I say it. ![]() I suppose it's a generational thing in a way. The adventures have left me cold, and most of the expansions are kinda 'well, duh!' material to someone who still has his old 2nd Ed boxed sets lying around. ![]() Serious note, I bought the 'Eberron' campaign setting purely to steal every bit of swashbucklery goodness I could out of Eberron (Xtreme Xplorer, action points, Halflings on dinosaurs, etc.). OMGWTFLOL doooouuuuooood Materia Dragonshards and Wolverine Shifters RAWK!!!11one1!!! ) However i really am doing my best to ignore the Eberron. To me, any setting with golem druids and ninja's is a total smack in the teeth, to older and more loyal fans who cried out for Dragonlance pre-chaos war, Spelljammer, Ravenloft and Faerun. ![]() To me its a setting that (no offense to younger players) seems totally designed and marketted for the newer kiddy generation, at the spite of the older loyal fans who want high fantasy.
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