for me, the very best is the halfling Barbarian. Eberron is the only place where you can use a halfling barbarian without anyone laughing.
so whats your favorite feature?
Especially depending on what they are riding!
My best is a Valenar Elf fighter/ranger/Revenant Blade with a Valenar double scimitar. It's a meat-grinder!
I think it would be enteresting even a Shifter Druid Moonspeaker. IN KARRNATH!!! ;)
Pulp action because its the best kind, rife with great villains/NPCs, as well ass promoting exciting adventures in exotic locales. Indiana Jones to its paroxism.
Warforgeds, since the Azm pic in the end of my Libris Mortis was what made me buy the ECS. (I had no setting, I thought Forgotten Realms was boring like hell and all I wanted was a flavorful race to love. Guess what, I got four!) Now, they are my favorite one, and I devote my drawing time to them.
EDIT: I forgot to mention halfling mobsters. House Boromar FTW!
Warforged and pulp action.
Pulp action because its the best kind, rife with great villains/NPCs, as well ass promoting exciting adventures in exotic locales. Indiana Jones to its paroxism.
Warforgeds, since the Azm pic in the end of my Libris Mortis was what made me buy the ECS. (I had no setting, I thought Forgotten Realms was boring like hell and all I wanted was a flavorful race to love. Guess what, I got four!) Now, they are my favorite one, and I devote my drawing time to them.
EDIT: I forgot to mention halfling mobsters. House Boromar FTW!
You pretty much summed it up for me.
Don't forget, though, monsters aren't canon fodder anymore. I love the concept of orcs and goblins having a lot more going on instead of just being stupid orcs and goblins.
One player I had played a Warforged Paladin who using his faith to try and understand his place in the world whilst upholding the virtues of his faith. Add to this the fear and distrust people showed towards him and the fact he was created to kill it really brought out some memorable moments in the game.
Great roleplaying !
And for my players I think its the fact that at 2nd level you're a hero already.
And for my players I think its the fact that at 2nd level you're a hero already.
Definately a plus - i hadn't thought of that but that is one of the reasons my players didn't want me to buy FR when we were looking for a new setting.
and another great thing about Eberron is the fact that all the great mysteries are up to the DM to decide, but often with "suggestions" to play with.
Sarlona. Although it doesn't get talked about that much, aside from how it effects Khorvaire, Sarlona absolutely fascinates me. Riedra is either utopian or distopian, depending on your view, conquered by an alien menace nobody but the kalashtar knows is there. It is the X-Files, Brave New World and the Tripods all rolled into one. I would love, absolutely love, to be in a secret-agent campaign there.
so whats your favorite feature?
The religions of the setting. I love that there are multiple non-theistic faiths of various types, and that it's explicit that those who follow the Sovereign Host worship the whole pantheon collectively.
Eberron throws out alignment preconceptions - you have creatures with alignment based upon culture, rather than race. You cannot make assumptions about any creature you meet, and alignment is treated more 'realistically' where you can have people of one alignment siding with a cause of another alignment.
I like the 'real world' 'technomagic' angle of things like skyships and lightening rails: these things are given a new spin and added as they would work in a 'real' world: primarily, they are economic items, not PC toys.
Add the pulp feel to this, the encouragement to do 'photogenic' things like swinging on chandeliers for which the Action Point system was made, and you have a setting with a great feel that is fun to play.
The wide use of magic has to be one of the biggest parts what made it for me.
+1. I had the same basic idea when I began making my own campaign setting some years ago (widespread low-grade magic), but then I noticed Eberron did it so much better, especially how it portrayed the magitech advancements. So I lazed it up, bought the books and started DMing there instead. Good decision it turned out.
i was wondering what is, in your opinion the best about eberron, the one feature that holds a special place in your heart?
for me, the very best is the halfling Barbarian. Eberron is the only place where you can use a halfling barbarian without anyone laughing.
so whats your favorite feature?
It is a relatively new campaign, and I dont have to learn a lot of history to understand certain things.
+1. I had the same basic idea when I began making my own campaign setting some years ago (widespread low-grade magic), but then I noticed Eberron did it so much better, especially how it portrayed the magitech advancements. So I lazed it up, bought the books and started DMing there instead. Good decision it turned out.
Yeah same for me, but I realised that I was making a copy of the same world just a different map
so I finally chose the simple solution.The world is made to change and evolve during play.
This may not seem like such a big thing, but in the big picture it is. I never started to play FR just because of it, it was so loaded with canon and info that it was almost no room for a little insecure DM. But in Eberron I not only felt that it was OK to do this very thing if it fitted me.
"The best part of Eberron is that it is made of super ultra epic win!"
BUT, like has been hinted at, asking an Eberron forum what they like about Eberron is not that helpful or new. What I would instead ask, is:
What do you dislike about Eberron? And, more importantly, what about it have you changed in YOUR Eberron?
For me, it is the changlings. While I like the concept, in practice they throw too much of a boost in the standard adventurer party toolset. I don't mind incorporating them into my campaigns, they can add fun twists, but I don't like my PCs to play as them.
As we used to say when I was a camp counselor, the final score of this game is Fun to Fun!
I just died a little inside...
Like has been said before, my favorite part is the approachability of it. I have no history with any setting, so a clean slate to jump into was great. To add onto this, the thought that anything fits into Eberron is great as well.
BUT, like has been hinted at, asking an Eberron forum what they like about Eberron is not that helpful or new. What I would instead ask, is:
What do you dislike about Eberron? And, more importantly, what about it have you changed in YOUR Eberron?
For me, it is the changlings. While I like the concept, in practice they throw too much of a boost in the standard adventurer party toolset. I don't mind incorporating them into my campaigns, they can add fun twists, but I don't like my PCs to play as them.
well i know that i love Eberron becues i real have to think about what i do not like about it (think about it right now give me a min)..... (5 min later) got it. I have read (city of blood) that the elves had their own kingdoms but it is also say that they were slaves so what i wany to know is when did they have kingdoms. From what i have read they have always been slaves and i do not think that the gaints would like haveing them have little kingdoms.