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1 year ago ::
Jan 09, 2012 - 2:40PM
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Ah, now that it's been officially announced, I'll be on pins and needles watching for this. I'm excited, excited! Fully Open or fully closed, I don't care (it's a game on the fence I hate)! I've been waiting for 5th Edition since I was first frustrated with 4th Edition (and some of the people on these forums, thank you very much).
I'm hoping to see Eberron continue into the new Edition for curiosity's sake. Keith, I hope you will be as excited about this as I am.
Author of Elementalism in Atlas Games' Occult Lore. 
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1 year ago ::
Jan 09, 2012 - 3:33PM
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I too hope that Eberron goes into 5e and I would definitely support it. Eberron is imo, the best piece of work Wizards have ever done! There is no Wizards book I've enjoyed reading more than what Eberron has released. And almost all of the extra materials (Five Nations, Magic of Eberron, Dragonmarked) was excellent. Too bad it didn't get that much support in 4e but I guess it would just be reprinting what was already said.
I do hope they make a Eberron Campaign Setting for 5e. I would also suggest maybe a few changes to the setting or just adding more elements. Maybe even let Eberron advance a few year forward in time. What worries me most with such a thing is that you might loose some of the "cold war" feeling of Eberron so it shouldn't be too many years. Maybe add some dramatic events. At least enough to make it worth a 5e upgrade. However Eberron fans seems to be quite sensitive about changing anything or advancing the setting a few years so be careful. Just my wishes for 5e Eberron.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 10, 2012 - 11:22AM
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The announcement of 5e and the idea of them actually looking for player input was enough to drag me out of retirement.
I can only hope they can make it playable.
4e Eberron wasn't even worth looking at for me, unfortunately.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 10, 2012 - 1:21PM
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Feb 17, 2008
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The announcement of 5e and the idea of them actually looking for player input was enough to drag me out of retirement.
I can only hope they can make it playable.
4e Eberron wasn't even worth looking at for me, unfortunately.
I got a copy. The 3 pictures of the races was the best part of the Player's Guide, actually.  The Layout was -- in a word -- terrible.
Author of Elementalism in Atlas Games' Occult Lore.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 10, 2012 - 2:34PM
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Everybody here (presumably) knows that I love the 4th edition, but even I will say that the Dragonmarks of 4e Eberron were lackluster. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to 5e Eberron.
Gold is for the mistress, silver for the maid Copper for the craftsman, cunning at his trade." "Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall, "But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all." -Kipling Defenders: We ARE the wall! I've replaced the previous Edition Warring line in my sig with this one, because honestly, everybody needs to work together to make the D&D they like without trampling on somebody else's D&D. Miss d20 Modern? Take a look at Dias Ex Machina Game's UltraModern 4e! I am a hero, not a chump.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 10, 2012 - 8:55PM
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My personal hope is that the new version of D&D will allow for easy portability of old material. That is, rules that are simple enough to accomodate any fluff text from any setting and any edition. So that my 3.5 Eberron Campaign Setting and my 4E Eberron Campaign Guide remain solid source material.
Even in my 4E Eberron game, I often reach for the various 3.5 Eberron books. Throwing some mechanics together is no big deal; it's the story that makes Eberron great.
For money reasons alone, I'm sure that the Forgotten Realms will remain in the vanguard of the new edition. (And I do like the Realms, but c'mon, I've been invested in Eberron since writing for it!) The hope is that Eberron will at least not be left out.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 11, 2012 - 7:50AM
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Hey,
I'm somewhat in two minds about 5e and eberron (5eberron, nexberron?). Clearly, to my mind, Dragonmarks would've worked better as themes rather than feats (particularly the element of progression that would've involved). In fact, I think if themes had been available at the start of 4e they would've been implemented that way - and I wouldn't mind an optional set of rules for dragonmarks implemented as themes (either additional or alternative to the feats), if anyone with the power to make that happen is reading.
That aside, however, I'm pretty happy with how 4e and Eberron work together. I would've liked to have seen a book on Khorvaire's nations other than the main five, but I still have hope that information will be drip-fed to us in a series of Dragon articles - and it's not really an edition problem anyway.
Yours,
JMH
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1 year ago ::
Jan 11, 2012 - 2:52PM
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There is one thing that will be a dealbreaker for me with a 5e Eberron.
There. Are. No. Dragonborn.
Period.
Dig out your 3e Eberron Campaign Setting book. That is the base of what Eberron should be. Not shoe-horned in dragon people who only suddenly exist because they were in the new PHB and the setting apparently wasn't allowed to say "Um, no, those don't exist here, you can't use that by default".
Simply put, I will not buy a single Eberron 5e product if they support Dragonborn by default. A sidebar that gives them as a possible option, I could live with that, but the setting as a whole should not acknowledge their existance.
If it does, I'll stick to my 3e books and the 5e ones can rot on the shelf as far as I would be concerned.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 11, 2012 - 3:15PM
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I'm fine with them, as a matter of fact they can throw in whatever they want if I don't like it I won't use it.
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1 year ago ::
Jan 11, 2012 - 3:50PM
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There is one thing that will be a dealbreaker for me with a 5e Eberron.
There. Are. No. Dragonborn.
Period.
Dig out your 3e Eberron Campaign Setting book. That is the base of what Eberron should be. Not shoe-horned in dragon people who only suddenly exist because they were in the new PHB and the setting apparently wasn't allowed to say "Um, no, those don't exist here, you can't use that by default".
Simply put, I will not buy a single Eberron 5e product if they support Dragonborn by default. A sidebar that gives them as a possible option, I could live with that, but the setting as a whole should not acknowledge their existance.
If it does, I'll stick to my 3e books and the 5e ones can rot on the shelf as far as I would be concerned.
You're mad that they put in Dragonborn. Actually, it's true, they made no mention of any half-dragons except for Erandis Vol. And that was just to try to stop a war that shouldn't have went as long as it did. When they put them in, yeah it's a surprise. However, I don't think they will add them in this time. We haven't even seen what is going on with Eberron.
Still, I think Keith will have some ideas on how to do things for the next "iteration." Hopefully it will be modular because Eberron was designed to have everything including the kitchen sink. Even if it doesn't make sense to have it.
Author of Elementalism in Atlas Games' Occult Lore.
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