-Mike
2. The changes in the PHB races and classes will have an impact in Eberron, or not?
What will be the Artificer's purpose, now that magic items are less prevalent, and the creation rules are cleaned up? Will it even still exist?
10 mentions:
- What is going to happen to the Eberron-specific races, especially since two of them are confirmed to be in the MM. What is going to happen to the Gnomes, now that they might not be in the PHB? How will this affect Eberron? Are Eladrin going to be retconned in? If so, how?
- What will happen to the Artificer? Also, what will be the Artificer's purpose, now that magic items are less prevalent, and the creation rules are cleaned up? Will it even still exist?
3 mentions:
- When is the planned release for the Eberron Campaign Setting Book?
2 mentions:
- How does Eberron stack against other popular settings like Forgotten Realms in terms of precedence of product and speed/availability of campaign material?
- Will 4E update most of the 3.5 supplements for Eberron?
- What are the Warforged going to be like, mechanically?
- How will Dragonmarks work in 4E?
1 mention:
- What new topics will the first supplements explore? What about an exploration of the planes or other political locations of Eberron?
- One of Eberron's themes has been "If its D&D, its in Eberron," but has also been handcrafted for 3.5e. What does changing to 4e mean in terms of accuracy of these terms?
- Will there be preview material for Eberron before the release of 4E and the release of the new ECS?
- Other than the timeline advancing, what other changes are planned other than those neccessary for updating to 4E?
Top 5 Questions about Eberron: (Personal favorites decided ties)
- What is going to happen to the Eberron-specific races, especially since two of them are confirmed to be in the MM. What is going to happen to the Gnomes, now that they might not be in the PHB? How will this affect Eberron? Are Eladrin going to be retconned in? If so, how?
- What will happen to the Artificer? Also, what will be the Artificer's purpose, now that magic items are less prevalent, and the creation rules are cleaned up? Will it even still exist?
- When is the planned release for the Eberron Campaign Setting Book?
- What are the Warforged going to be like, mechanically?
- How will Dragonmarks work in 4E?
Accurate to Post 21
GnomeNinja5's Top 5 Questions thread Tallies:
Eberron, Forgotten Realms, OGL/D20
Valdrax's Top 5 Questions Thread Tallies:
[post=14136960]Races[/post] [post=14136971]Classes[/post] [post=14136974]Monsters[/post] [post=14136981]4e Rules[/post] [post=14136988]4e Concerns and Criticism[/post]
Could we hear more about why the campaign setting will not be advanced in years to accommodate for all the rest of the "new" being associated with 4e?
With so many current 3.5 supplements available for Ebberon, it seems that Ebberon is very rooted in the 3.5 world. Will 4e re-visit many of these supplements or is the campaign update limited to the core material?
How does Ebberon stack against other popular settings like Forgotten Realms in terms of precedence of product and speed/availability of campaign material?
Since some races introduced in Ebberon are becoming core errata, (shifters, eg.) is Ebberon losing some of its 'special' to the Core setting? If so, what is Ebberon getting that will retain its individuality.
2) One of Eberron's themes has been "If its D&D, its in Ebberon," but has also been handcrafted for 3.5e. What does changing to 4e mean in terms of accuracy of these terms?
3) What is going to happen to the Eberron-specific races, especially since two of them are confirmed to be in the MM.
4) How does Ebberon stack against other popular settings like Forgotten Realms in terms of precedence of product and speed/availability of campaign material?
5) What about the little gnome-lits? T.T
2) We know at least one Eberron race (Shifters) will be into MM, probably Warforgeds and Changellings will be there too. How much detail we will have about them there? We will see them re-print in an Player's Guide to Eberron, with more options?
3) One word: Eladrins.
Could we hear more about why the campaign setting will not be advanced in years to accommodate for all the rest of the "new" being associated with 4e?
It's not being advanced because people on the forums were complaining about the time jump. I was personally psyched up about it.
1. What's going to happen with Artificer? How will it change, will we see a new version in the first 4th ed Eberron splat book?
2. How are the Eberron Specific races going to work in 4e? How will shifters shifting improve? Will we be getting a decent and balance race prog for Orcs and Hobgoblins in the Eberron book? Cause we need those, they are pretty major races in Eberron.
3. How will Dragon Marks work in 4e? Will they continue to be feats, or will they become an alternate race/class feature sort of thing? How often will they be usable?
4. Okay, Settings not advancing time wise. Are there ANY major changes to the setting planned beyond what is ABSOLUTELY NECCESSARY for the change in game mechanics?
5. What's the projected release date for the first 4th Ed Eberron book? If, as I understand (Something about "One Setting a year, and Forgotten realms is the first, followed by Eberron), it's at or around January 2009, will we get the important bits beforehand as web enhancements, like 4e artificer, kalashar, shifter, changeling, etc?
- The Artificer: What, where, when, and HOW... will his Focus shift from Magic Item Junkie to Master of Homunculus Minions.
- Shifters, Warforged, and the others Eberron Races: will they be 4E from the Launch or will we need to be Game Designers ourselves and figure something out...
- Will we have individual Campaign Support in Dragon and Dungeon and in the D&DI: i all for generic and making content that can be ported to any world. but will there be Eberron Content that is Eberron Content? will we see an D&DI for the MM that tells us for , if not every monster, but most of them "how to use this guy in Eberron"...
- with so much Fluff printed, will the next group of Eberron books be mostly Crunch or will it take all the fluffy goodness and make it all make more sense...
- the Game Plan: do you have any plans for Eberron yet or not... you talk about FR having been planned for years... does Eberron have a group of planners who are already at work in their dark dungeon
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I think that the two questions involving races and the two involving Artificers are so similar that they should be grouped : )
That's why I grouped it in What/Where/When/How questions!
@ GnomeNinja5: Please update the list acordingly.
It's not being advanced because people on the forums were complaining about the time jump. I was personally psyched up about it.
I find that disappointing. I couldn't foresee another good opportunity to revise the Eberron world. I guess they wanna keep it stuck where it is. Shame, I think 3.5 and 4e Eberrons should feel very different since they are obviously going to play very different. Thanks for the nod Ninja
I find that disappointing. I couldn't foresee another good opportunity to revise the Eberron world. I guess they wanna keep it stuck where it is. Shame, I think 3.5 and 4e Eberrons should feel very different since they are obviously going to play very different. Thanks for the nod Ninja
But those not switching to 4e are left behind with any new sourcebooks that cover new topics in Eberron, such as the remaining nations and regions of Khorvaire or the Planes of Eberron. Additionally, any changes in the setting would be reflected in every other adventure, sourcebook or article released, all of which would be extremely frustrating to rollback considering the vast number of ripples that would be created in the shallow, small pond that is Eberron.
In other words, Eberron is still too young and unexplored for any sort of advancement. It's only 4 years old with only some of the meatier topics being covered within the last 2 years.
2. Mechanically, how different are warforged going to be?
3. Will all of the Eberron specific PC races (shifters, kalashtar, warforged, and changelings) be available as "Monsters as PC's" in the MM1? If not, which ones are or aren't going to be in MM1?
4. How will Eladrin fit?
5. How will dragonmarks work in 4th? Feats, talent trees, racial substitutions, or something completely different?
2) Will there be any info at all for Eberron in the year between 4e's release and the new ECS's release, like Dragonshards, D&DI articles, etc?
- What will happen to the Artificer? Also, what will be the Artificer's purpose, now that magic items are less prevalent, and the creation rules are cleaned up? Will it even still exist?
"Will it exist" seems redundant with "what will happen." Maybe as a good follow-up, you could ask which role will it belong to. - When is the planned release for the Eberron Campaign Setting Book?
Will it have to wait until after core setting factions have rules (e.g. druids & psions)? - What are the Warforged going to be like, mechanically?
right now we know that many races are going to be in the MM and this should be good for most of us... wither they are unique is a mute point as they are all in the MM already... but the Artificer is an Important part of Eberron... i think that should be the #1 Question...
What is going to happen to the Eberron-specific races, especially since two of them are confirmed to be in the MM.
What is going to happen to the Gnomes, now that they might not be in the PHB? How will this affect Eberron? Are Eladrin going to be retconned in? If so, how?
What will happen to the Artificer? Also, what will be the Artificer's purpose, now that magic items are less prevalent, and the creation rules are cleaned up? Will it even still exist?
When is the planned release for the Eberron Campaign Setting Book?
What are the Warforged going to be like, mechanically?
How will Dragonmarks work in 4E?
Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to try and get as many of the following questions addressed as possible.
What is going to happen to the Eberron-specific races, especially since two of them are confirmed to be in the MM.
What is going to happen to the Gnomes, now that they might not be in the PHB? How will this affect Eberron? Are Eladrin going to be retconned in? If so, how?
What will happen to the Artificer? Also, what will be the Artificer's purpose, now that magic items are less prevalent, and the creation rules are cleaned up? Will it even still exist?
When is the planned release for the Eberron Campaign Setting Book?
What are the Warforged going to be like, mechanically?
How will Dragonmarks work in 4E?
It would be really helpful to get answers to those questions. Will the answers be coming in the form of a D&DI column or in the _Wizard's Presents: Worlds and Monsters_ and _Wizard's Presents: Classes and Races_ books. Will those two books be a preview of 4th edition?
Thanks,
John
When is the planned release for the Eberron Campaign Setting Book?
O we Know... and it for the love of God better be 2009!!! if Dragonlance or grayhawk or some other Campaign gets its 4E treatment before us there will be Hell to pay... By the Hellcow's WRATH!!!
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But over all those look good : ]
When is the planned release for the Eberron Campaign Setting Book?
Truthfully, I'm more concerned about supplemental material. It seems most mechanical concerns will addressed in the first three core books, and the changes to the core races shouldn't effect Eberron much since there will not be any plot advancement or changes to the setting.
Are we going to get some info soon?
It's been about three weeks, just curious what was going on with this.
So, how goes the whole Top 5 questions thing?
I'm pretty sure that if he hasn't unstickied this thread that he isn't watching this forum, much less the thread itself. ;)
Especially after reading Worlds and Monsters, I'm left wondering: will the "feel" of Eberron change? It's got many things that are dramatically different than the "feel" that R&D said they were going for in the default setting -- it's explicitly contradictory of the "points of light" idea, for instance -- plus things like the new cosmology, the Feywild and Shadowfell, etc. I'm less concerned about what happens to a specific race or class, honestly.
I guess another way of putting it would be: In the Eberron setting book, there are "Ten Things You Need to Know" about Eberron that's a 2 page intro to the tone & feel of the setting. Are those 10 things changing? I'm sure that I'll find a race and class I want to play, so I'm not really sweating that.