I loved how in 3.5e Eberron they never advanced the world - leaving it up to the individual DMs/Players to do so for their campaigns. ...but with updating to a new edition, it's clearly a chance to jump the world ahead in time if they so choose. Just curious if there's any news yet.
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Sorry to ask something that's probably been asked before... but every time I do a search it just pops up a blank page for me at the moment (search worked fine for me before, just seems broken at the moment).
The way James Wyatt told the story at Gen Con was, shortly after the news was leaked Bill Slavicsek called James into the office and asked him to explain "Why Eberron needed a time jump?" Emphasis on the 'need', James couldn't give a reason beyond general desire to tinker with the setting, so Bill decided then and there to nix the two year jump. Because Eberron didn't 'need' it.
That would be cool.. as I'm already preparing running a 4E Eberron campaign as soon as the PGE is out.
So this means that with the 4E PGE and the 3.5 Campaign setting, you have all the info you need to run a 4E game without finding new info contradicting what you already made in your campaign in the months between both books?
Pretty much. It might be a few corrections here and there to smoothen out certain rpugh spots. But nothing big.
You'd almost expect them to leave out the whole Kalashtar/Dreaming Dark shadow war until it could be done justice (next year with PHB3). ...which kinda stinks, I loved using the Dreaming Dark (and one of my players loved playing a Kalashtar).
However, maybe it's just me - but I can't see ever wanting to play a Kalashtar until PHB3 actually comes out. I'm sure statistically they'll mesh just fine with some existing class or another... but knowing their flavor and how I like to deal with them in my campaigns, they're likely going to be shelved for a year overall.
I guess one saving grace is that, due to the nature of the shadow war ...you know, it being in the shadows and all ;) ...if no one cares to play a Kalashtar without the psionic classes, a DM can easily skip over the Dreaming Dark and their plots entirely (as they're not ones to make their doings known to those "outside" the shadow war itself).
As for Kalashtar, I'm 75% confident that they're going to be in the Eberron Player's Guide. Of the 4 new races Eberron introduced in 3.5, they're the one people seem to leave in Eberron the most (shifters, warforged, and changelings are all popular imports for other settings, including homebrew,) so there's less of a push to make them "core." I've also seen something where they talked about how they plan to give the Kalashtar a psionic feel and make them suitable for upcoming psionic classes, without confining them to a psionic class, which makes the concept of releasing them pre-PHB3 fairly sensible.
On the other hand, they're a solid psionic race, and would only be somewhat surprised if it turned out that they held them back to fill out the race roster for PHB3.
With shifters in the PHBII I am guessing that warforged, changlings (dopplegangers), and kalashtar will all be included in PGtE.
They only did two in the FR book, so I imagine it'll be kalashtar and warforged, and then dopplegangers in a Dragon mag article.
There is no time jump. The year is the same as 3.5 Eberron.
This. I tip my hat to you, Talae!
They only did two in the FR book, so I imagine it'll be kalashtar and warforged, and then dopplegangers in a Dragon mag article.
That would be a shame. They have to put Kalashtar so that meens there will be one other race included (Hopefully three).
They only did two in the FR book, so I imagine it'll be kalashtar and warforged, and then dopplegangers in a Dragon mag article.
I am unfamiliar with the details of the Forgotten Realms setting. Were there important races that were left out? I mean the variant Elves were done via feats, the Genasi were combined into one race, the Tieflings were there already and PHB2 was set to have many of the non-setting specific races. Did they miss anything?
Kalashtar, Changelings, Shifters and Warforged were huge parts of the ECS. I can't see them leaving any out (despite the Warforged write-up in Dragon and Shifters being in PHB2). I hope they all get at least some flavor text write-ups and some racial feats and Paragon Paths.
This. I tip my hat to you, Talae!
I am unfamiliar with the details of the Forgotten Realms setting. Were there important races that were left out? I mean the variant Elves were done via feats, the Genasi were combined into one race, the Tieflings were there already and PHB2 was set to have many of the non-setting specific races. Did they miss anything?
Kalashtar, Changelings, Shifters and Warforged were huge parts of the ECS. I can't see them leaving any out (despite the Warforged write-up in Dragon and Shifters being in PHB2). I hope they all get at least some flavor text write-ups and some racial feats and Paragon Paths.
Oh, I'm quite sure they will, but full write-ups will be left to the Warforged and Kalashtar, for sure.
Oh, I'm quite sure they will, but full write-ups will be left to the Warforged and Kalashtar, for sure.
Are you sure they won't do Changelings (Dopplegangers) and Warforged? And then do Kalashtar in the PHB3?
You can see a preview of some of the stuff they have here, including a level 14 Inspired assassin statblock - http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4pr/20090504 .
Glancing at the statblock, I'll note that there's an important piece of errata there (which is corrected in the final book): the power "Dual Mind" only affects attacks that target the assassin's Will.
Glancing at the statblock, I'll note that there's an important piece of errata there (which is corrected in the final book): the power "Dual Mind" only affects attacks that target the assassin's Will.
That seems like a serious typo. It also seems like an interesting ability for a Kalashtar to have...
That seems like a serious typo.
Like I said, I checked the final text, and it's fixed there.
That is all that metters. Now to get them (or you;)) to accidentally leak out the Dragonmarked info...
Patience, only a month from now and all (save DM info) will be revealed.