IN THE SPIRIT OF THIS THREAD, LET'S SEE IF THEY CAN HEAR YOU FROM SHARN TO THE SCION'S SOUND
WHO ALL HAS THIS BEAUTIFUL GUIDE TO ALL THINGS FLAVOURFUL?
And when I have that book, my lovely book, I will use it to make games so fun that my players will forgo their XBoxes, forgo their PS3s, forgo their Wii and their false gods of entertainment on the false-light-boxes, and beg, nay DEMAND a game a week!
First impressions: the book looks amazing. Here's hoping it reads well!
I'll be getting it soon. I'm not going to be running 4th edition anytime soon so its not a priority. I just want it for the fluff.
Its awesome sauce ontop of awesome cake bakes in the firey forges of awesome.
Honestly i'm not understating.
Also made me think that I had to pick a fictional location to roll call from.
THAT"S SHARN PRESENT AND ACCOUNTED FOR>...
My question is what do people plan on doing with the poster map?
My question is what do people plan on doing with the poster map?
I'm definately framing mine. I can draw out the encounter maps on the other side if I have to.
...Or I'll just buy another copy of the book and keep that one around to use. :D
Now, where are the PDFs again?
Soeren
Saw it today in my FLGS and it looked awesome. I almost ruined the copy from drooling on the map at the back.
Yeah, I was totally going to buy that copy, and then you drooled all over it. GROSS!
Along with Seekers of the Ashen Crown, I have LOTS of fun reading to do this summer before the school year begins. I love how smoothly things seem to flow, with (fun-at-first-blush) monsters/NPCs included in the areas with which they're connected rather than referenced in the text and blobbed together at the end.
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Also... LOVE that the sewer valves encounter has returned with 4E mechanics. I'm currently DMing a 4E-translated "Forgotten Forge" adventure, and the heroes will be plunging into Dorasharn tomorrow night. Good, poo-ey times ahead.
I'm definately framing mine. I can draw out the encounter maps on the other side if I have to.
...Or I'll just buy another copy of the book and keep that one around to use. :D
Honestly, and I'm not even kidding, I am contemplating doing this.
Also, the poster map is the best roleplaying game accessory, EVAR!!one!
and after all they did to FR i was happy to see the name Keith Baker slapped onto the cover... a kind of "they didn't screw this up" seal of approval in my mind...
Luckily, I get paid tomorrow...
Sir, yes, sir. I have acquired the document.
Along with Seekers of the Ashen Crown, I have LOTS of fun reading to do this summer before the school year begins. I love how smoothly things seem to flow, with (fun-at-first-blush) monsters/NPCs included in the areas with which they're connected rather than referenced in the text and blobbed together at the end.ShowAlso... LOVE that the sewer valves encounter has returned with 4E mechanics. I'm currently DMing a 4E-translated "Forgotten Forge" adventure, and the heroes will be plunging into Dorasharn tomorrow night. Good, poo-ey times ahead.
*sigh* Really hope they get done with it soon. I still need to plan out what they're doing in heroic and paragon teir.
So seriously thrilled! :D
Minor disappointment was the lack of a stat block for Sheshka, having just finished reading HC's QoS. I suppose i can always make one myself based on one of the MM medusae and comparing the other warlords with thier basic versions. The only question being how powerful do I want her... I recall her being only a Ran4 in the ECS. Can't wait for the next Thorn book, or a continuation of the Dreaming Dark series, of which i find myself needing to re-read. Does anyone recall Daine's relationship to the gnome girl in sharn?
I absolutely love the writeup of The Trust :D
"just a mild poison in your drink"
Minor disappointment was the lack of a stat block for Sheshka, having just finished reading HC's QoS. I suppose i can always make one myself based on one of the MM medusae and comparing the other warlords with thier basic versions. The only question being how powerful do I want her... I recall her being only a Ran4 in the ECS.
In thinking about her character in the novel, I was certainly thinking her as being more than the sum of monster and level... just as Sora Maenya's stats in the Dragonshard make her more than just a barbarian. Sheshka might be a medusa, she might be a ranger with bow specialty... but she's also the Queen of Stone, and my thought is that this is more than just a title; it's a reflection of the fact that she has greater powers than other medusas. The fact that a normal stone to flesh won't restore her victims is an example of this. So she should be weaker than the Daughters themselves... but certainly a force to be reckoned with.
IS IT WRONG TO WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO A BOOK SIR!?
In thinking about her character in the novel, I was certainly thinking her as being more than the sum of monster and level... just as Sora Maenya's stats in the Dragonshard make her more than just a barbarian. Sheshka might be a medusa, she might be a ranger with bow specialty... but she's also the Queen of Stone, and my thought is that this is more than just a title; it's a reflection of the fact that she has greater powers than other medusas. The fact that a normal stone to flesh won't restore her victims is an example of this. So she should be weaker than the Daughters themselves... but certainly a force to be reckoned with.
I whole heartedly agree. I'm using the existing medusae as a base template starting point. Give her a few more flavorful powers to make her significant, keeping in mind the fact that she is unlikely to be unprotected, given her pets at the minimum, and the chances of finding her outside her own territory and not surrounded by other medusae, just getting to her is a challenge. The rest is DM roleplaying a strong charismatic leader.
*whispers subliminally*write more awesome books faster........
:D
I have mine at last.
IS IT WRONG TO WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO A BOOK SIR!?
DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL
I'm glad I managed to stall combat for just one more session. I was going to set the PCs against Karrnathi Skeletons. I had my own lvl 3 elite versions brewed up (since the party is level 3) but then I saw that the "official" ones are level 11. So Now I'm working on making the lvl 3 elite ones feel more like the level 11 ones without sending the party to it's doom...Then again...
And I'm loving the map of Khorvaire. The party I'm in is already using it to figure out where we've been sent after a botched portal trip and to plan our journey home.
Get to buying people!:D
:P
Does anyone recall Daine's relationship to the gnome girl in sharn?
I believe
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that they were romantically involved in the past, but she turned out to be a "user." It's been a long while since I read the series, though.
I was going to set the PCs against Karrnathi Skeletons. I had my own lvl 3 elite versions brewed up (since the party is level 3) but then I saw that the "official" ones are level 11.
You can certainly make your own variations, just as the dolgaunt stats represent a single dolgaunt - while the Khyber's Harvest adventure shows another level of them.
With that said, the point of the intelligent Karrnathi undead is that they are elite forces, created through a special ritual and only possible using the corpses of exceptional Karrnathi soldiers who have died in battle (which is why they don't just slaughter their own troops and make lvl 11 Karrnathi undead out of them), The bulk of Karrnath's undead troops are the traditional skeletons and zombies you see in the MM; the other types are their exceptional troops.
I need a monster list of the Eberron adventure in the ECG and Seekers of the Ashen Crown.
I'll be running an Eberron campaign when on holidays overseas but won't be able to get either item before I actually get there. However, I'd like to get the right minis.
I don't need an exact listing, and of course I'll pack typical Eberron- monsters like dolgrims, dolgaunts and warforged. But anything out of the ordinary - please, please - somebody post it.
Thanks,
Michael
Anyways, the ECG has only made me love the setting even more. The layers upon layers of pure awesome in this setting are mind-blowing. Very complex, very progressive in comparisson to every other setting I've seen, but... still so D&D. I love all of the breaks from old standbys--for instance, the concept of an Age of Monsters where Goblins were the dominant society. Awesome. Simple? Absolutely. But... no less awesome. Orcs with a druidic bent? More Awesome. Halflings on dinosaurs? Like I need to say anything about THAT. Elves... I love Eberron elves.
I'm having an incredible time planning an Eberron campaign right now for a single PC, and am about to start developing another one for group play.
I think the most brief way to explain my enthusiasm and amazement with this setting is this:
It's so EASY to have any kind of game you could want to play, all in this one setting.
Edited to add: I have a long history of hating halflings and gnomes because of their stereotypes. I've always recognized that they had the potential to be amazing, but were so frequently played the same way.
Eberron has given me a brand new love of halflings and gnomes.
Eberron has given me a brand new love of halflings and gnomes.
The gnomes of Eberron love you too, Auspex. At least, that's what they'll tell you while they're poisoning your drink.
We're playing some games but there's so much to learn about Eberron; it's very different from most D&D settings I've became familiar with over the years. I am most certainly not complaining ;).
The gnomes of Eberron love you too, Auspex. At least, that's what they'll tell you while they're poisoning your drink.
Death by poison beats the hell out of 'death by standing too close to big-nosed elderly shrimp's malfunctioning corn shucker when it detonates'.
On behalf of... presumably everyone... thank you for not giving the Mark of Making to gnomes. That probably would have Jar Jar'd the entire setting.
Its for your own good really.
All the pages are upside down. Can't wait to actually sit down and read it anyway though.
I can't imagine reading Sharn: City of Towers--which I've done a few times now-- Keith's "bonus index"
Bonus index? Where?
Finally got mine today, though it was supposed to be friday at the latest. Apparently USPS dropped it off at the wrong post office and it took the weekend to get it sorted.
Got my ECG today. Opened it up and the first thing I noticed...
All the pages are upside down. Can't wait to actually sit down and read it anyway though.
Bahaha! That's quite unfortunate, but also one of the funniest printer errors I've heard of. It'd be an open question for me whether I'd want to get it exchanged or keep it for its oddness.
ll the pages are upside down. Can't wait to actually sit down and read it anyway though.
That's hilarious! If you want an autographed non-upside down copy, I'd be happy to trade. ;)
Just picked mine up yesterday and I'm really glad with it..
oooohhh.. the ideas! My players will love the information I can get out of this book.
Still waiting for it to arrive at the stockist in Sydney and then get shipped out to me out on the other side of Australia... hopefully I will get it this coming week especially since my Eberron campaign is slated to start next Saturday... I can't wait any more!
Same boat as you, MyName - have to wait for it to arrive in Perth before I can get it.
Le sigh, why do all of our books have to arrive late??
You can certainly make your own variations, just as the dolgaunt stats represent a single dolgaunt - while the Khyber's Harvest adventure shows another level of them.
With that said, the point of the intelligent Karrnathi undead is that they are elite forces, created through a special ritual and only possible using the corpses of exceptional Karrnathi soldiers who have died in battle (which is why they don't just slaughter their own troops and make lvl 11 Karrnathi undead out of them), The bulk of Karrnath's undead troops are the traditional skeletons and zombies you see in the MM; the other types are their exceptional troops.
Which is exactly why I'm using Karrnathi Skeletons. I figure the Emerald Claw ought to have a few in reserve to guard a Safehouse in Atur. Which is what the PCs are attacking...
It took calling Barnes & Noble Bookstores in three different states.
I started looking in Tennessee but all of them only had the player's guide. Arkansas had the exact same story. Eastern Texas again had plenty of player's guides but no campaign guide. Dallas didn't have anything either but the lady I talked to pointed out that one store in the area around Dallas had a copy of the campaign guide. I traveled to Fort Worth, TX to discover that the B&N there not only had the ECG, they had seven copies. And to further add to the irony they didn't have a single copy of the EPG. I had to drive ten minutes up the road to the other store in Fort Worth to get that one. *sigh*
Oh well, at least I found it eventually.
.... SIR!!!!!!!!! :P
The art is terrible though. It saddens me that the 3.5 Eberron books had some of the best D&D art I have ever seen.
But the 4e books are really ugly art wise. It's really too bad.
Oh well i will get hold of a copy from somewhere soon.
Well im just gutted. Got a copy in the Borders near Worcester MA whilst on a business trip only to find that it had several ripped pages and the map missing from the back !!! Took it back hoping to exchange to find all sold out and no other store in the area had it including the local game shop i tried
Oh well i will get hold of a copy from somewhere soon.
If you're still in the area, they definitely have it at the Barnes & Noble on Lincoln St. (rt. 70) in Worcester.
Never mind - back in the US next week at a place called Elyria, OH - i will check for it around there instead.
or um...
SIR SORRY I'M LATE SIR! I HAVE THE BOOK OF JUICY GOODNESS.
Finally received my copy from Angus & Robertson Online (Australian bookstore) - am new to Eberron, but after starting to read this book, I wish I wasn't new to it.