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I dont know if this is fact or what it is. But in my head I imagine that this rulessett will rely far less on magical itims as the improving factor of your character. And somewhere in my head I actually believe that this will be healty for eberron. Because, if I understand Keith correctly, well then the high magic setting of eberron isnt so much high as it is wide. Meaning that yeah magic is everywhere, in the same sense that electricity is in our world. There is alot of nifty things that makes life much easier, that is magical, but usually it isnt all that powerfull. Its sort of prestidgitation gone way way out of hand. And with a new rulessystem that doesnt focus on magic for fighting power its much much easier to show that magic is for betterment of man. And the stuff that blows you skyhigh is either old and we dont understand it propperly, or it costs way way more than any common adventurer could possibly aford.

When it comes to what i want from eberron, well what realy brougth me inn, is that feeling that hey even at lvl 1 we are special! We are heroes, rats in basement arent realy our thing. But old artifacts in sewers, thats a bit more like it. Only later to discover that said artifact was part of some doomsday machine... not good.

4th ed learned much from Eberron, especially this. But for me something sadly got lost in the general translation, there was for some reason a bit of zing that left with the streamlining and powers etc. We sort of missed a bit of the "look i can du stuff outside of skill challenges and combat" part. It might be us playing it wrong, but we lost some of our improvisation when we got powers.

So what i look forward to in eberron next, well the pulpy swing from the chandelier action as i chase after the brelish spy who stole the goblin artifact right in front of my nose. And yes, i know that is possible in 4th as well. It just isnt so easy to break out of the mold always.

Yes, I was trying to extrapolate what can be done with Backgrounds and Themes.  Thats what we have so far with the playtest.  However, as my players have me running Shadowruns, I can rest my creative muscles in this area.  I can rest for a wait and see.  I've been immersing myself into the Sixth World again.

It was good to think along those lines, even though it didn't seem perfect as a theory, a failed hypothesis.  Perhaps after resting and looking at future of the playtest packet, I can get some great ideas on how to recreate Eberron on 5e.

Jun 2, 2012 -- 12:15AM, DoctorBadWolf wrote:

I wouldn't mind a time advance, but only enough of one that it's still essentially europe in between the great wars. Maybe a handful of years, at most. No 50 year jump.

Since I still have all the old books, it wouldn't bother me to see it advanced a bit.

What would any of you guys want to see changed if it did get advanced? Like that Droaam/Breland war or Haruuc being killed?

I wouldn't mind Breland being at war with Droaam, since I'm always looking for an excuse to kill Sora Maenya in every game, but I like Haruuc and I'd prefer him alive.

Maybe the Inspired could be building a monolith in Q'barra, or the Valenar have moved from raiding the Talenta Plains into an open invasion in hopes of forcing Karrnath to act, or something is rumbling deep in Xen'drik that has mages across Eberron concerned, or Aurala has water accidentally splashed on her at a party and melts, throwing Aundair into its own mini-succession-crisis.

As long as the situation remains a boiling point that hasn't spilled over into a new war yet, then I think the themes of Eberron remain intact, but we'll have even more information to play around with.