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ChrisMSD
Acolyte
USA
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 Posted - 12 Dec 2016 : 23:33:08
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What has happened to Eberron novels? I still never figured out the mist area.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 13 Dec 2016 : 00:54:44
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Weird question to be asking on a Forgotten Realms forum, but I'll take a crack at it...
I don't think the Eberron novels had the same 'traction' as the FR ones had; Eb fans were D&D players, mostly. It was more about the game. FR fans were mostly setting-fans, and it was more about the world itself. Ergo, whilst FR novels sold well (for the most part), the Eb ones didn't fare nearly so well, and thus, the line was cut. Plus, once Hasbro got a hold of WotC, their hatchet-men came in and cut-out anything that wasn't showing 'high profit'. "Its just business".
The area you are speaking of - I believe you mean the Mournland - was pretty cool. After the spellplague, 4e FR got a lot of similar terrain, in the 'Plaugewrought Lands'. I think the Mournland was explained somewhere - I recall reading something about how they were created, in some product that came out later, after the initial release of Eberron (so the 'big secret' didn't really stay a secret very long). I can't recall the details, but it had to do with someone (probably one of those Dragonmarked Houses) trying something experimental to win the war, and it backfired, BIG TIME. Thats about all I got (and it might not be correct - going by some dim recollections here). |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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EltonRobb
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 13 Dec 2016 : 03:08:08
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Originally posted by ChrisMSD
What has happened to Eberron novels? I still never figured out the mist area.
Eberron in an FR forum?
Actually, the Eberron novels were cut, unfortunately. I wanted to pen one -- but the window closed before I could. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 13 Dec 2016 : 15:37:55
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| Its sad, there were areas of Eberron that I really liked... its just they weren't the areas that were the focus. There was the psionic area with fiend's possessing the rulers. There was the jungle with drow and giants and a bunch of ruins. |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 13 Dec 2016 : 16:38:07
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That's why I borrow nearly everything from that setting... EXCEPT the main continent. I even borrow the 'Dragonmarked Houses' for Halruua (although I could put one, maybe two, in Nimbral. Perhaps even one in Lanatan... that might be fun).
I'd probably rename the Warforged 'Soulforged' for the Realms - give them a slightly grittier back-story (that to create them, one needs a soul, and sometimes, that soul remembers its past life... 'Awakened'). |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Starshade
Learned Scribe
Norway
279 Posts |
Posted - 13 Dec 2016 : 18:56:19
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| Isn't the purpose of such areas as the Mournland to not make sense, and be gray medieval ish areas marked on maps as "Here Be Dragons!" Who lies there unexplored, avaiting adventure? :) |
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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
2450 Posts |
Posted - 13 Dec 2016 : 22:46:58
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If you're interested, Keith Baker has for years posted more information on the setting, first on the WotC forum and then on his own website. It's not quite Word of Ed, since he doesn't have the "everything I say is canon unless later contradicted" clause Ed does, but that said it goes into a lot of detail on various areas of Eberron.
The cause of the Mourning, however, is not explained. That was meant from the very beginning to be one of those questions that was never answered. He did give several plausible possibilities, however. |
Doggedly converting 3e back to what D&D should be...
Sigh... And now 4e as well. |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 14 Dec 2016 : 21:16:54
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| In the Dreaming Dark novels I think he suggests that Cyre became a manifest zone of Dollurh, though that's just one possibility. |
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mastermustard
Seeker
USA
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Posted - 16 Dec 2016 : 01:53:39
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The corporate overlords at Hasbro axed it. It's a shame, too. I followed it for a couple of years after it went dark in the hopes that Kieth Baker might change their minds...
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Neil Bishop
Learned Scribe
Singapore
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Posted - 21 Dec 2016 : 07:34:18
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I think the D&D novels have been axed as part of the clearing of the decks for the D&D movie. The movie rights have probably been bundled with the novel rights and so the novels have come to an end.
And it is a shame that the Eberron novels have ended as they were generally rather good and certainly did a better job of communicating the Eberron world than the FR novels - with a few honourable exceptions - did of depicting the Forgotten Realms.
So, nothing sinister; it's just good business. And remember: It was mad business - the complete and utter mismanagement by Gygax, the Blumes, and Lorraine Williams - that killed TSR. D&D fans should be pleased that the brand is in the hands of people who are business savvy enough to keep it alive. |
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