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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
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 Posted - 30 Oct 2008 : 03:32:55
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Amazing how much the two settings are starting to look alike now...
I disagree. I've campaigned enough in EBERRON to appreciate that any similarities between the two settings are mostly superficial. Khorvaire still has plenty of unique features that I've never even found duplicated in the 4e Realmslore.
In regards to lore, Eberron won't top the Realms unless there's no new Realms material for the next 25 years. So I agree with you there.
However, the 'feeling' of the setting is starting to get closer, IMO. Spellscarred lands and people? Almost identical to Cyre and the aberrant dragonmarks of Eberron. If I wanted to play with dragonmarks and such, I would go to Eberron (and I have no difficulty doing so, I actually like the setting). However, I don't like these elements in the Realms. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 30 Oct 2008 : 04:24:05
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Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
In regards to lore, Eberron won't top the Realms unless there's no new Realms material for the next 25 years. So I agree with you there.
However, the 'feeling' of the setting is starting to get closer, IMO. Spellscarred lands and people? Almost identical to Cyre and the aberrant dragonmarks of Eberron. If I wanted to play with dragonmarks and such, I would go to Eberron (and I have no difficulty doing so, I actually like the setting). However, I don't like these elements in the Realms.
I agree with you on all points. I like the dragonborn, but I thought that continuing with the existing 3E race would have made more sense, as would having the "new" dragonborn originate in Anchorome, which should have been the setting for any new geography, rather than giving people an excuse to rearrange Faerun again. The Sellplague was a manufactured excuse to destroy Ed's creation and remake it in the image of another designer's ideas, far more than it was a "legitimate" RSE to "explain" game mechanic changes. But that's my two coppers. There are elements of the post-Sellplague Realms that I like, most of which could have been retained without the Sellplague. Anyway, I've ranted enough in this scroll, and I have other things I'd like to accomplish this evening. I just hope that Brian James relays my thoughts on old lore distribution to someone who realizes that it's worth doing. I'm not going to hold my breath, though.  |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
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Spellplague According to Prior Canon
