We get a monthly Forgotten Realms article - usually two between the special locations and Prestige Classes. They only take up 2 or 3 pages each, so it's not a horrible thing for the few people like myself who loathe FR.
That said, I think there are plenty of us that would love some monthly material focused on Eberron - adventure sites (Manifest Zones, lost ruins, aberrations' lairs), NPCs and their stats, write-ups on Gods of the Sovereign Host and their followers (and holy symbols).
A two-page printout of Keith Baker's "Dragonshards" every week is not enough for me, personally, and every other article is flavor I could have made up on my own - do I really need a web article TELLING me that there are magewrights whose occupations rely solely on lighting lamps, mending garments, or preparing food?
So, yeah. This was a way too long post which could have been summed up with two words: More Eberron.
We get a monthly Forgotten Realms article - usually two between the special locations and Prestige Classes. They only take up 2 or 3 pages each, so it's not a horrible thing for the few people like myself who loathe FR.
I suppose 2 or 3 pages each for Eberron articles isn't too bad for people like myself who loathe Eberron. :)
I'd like to see a few Eberron articles too. However, I asked Dragon about this before and they said they weren't interested in running anything Eberron-specific. Presumably this is because something Eberron-specific can't be used by anyone who doesn't have the Eberron book.
I understand where they're coming from - I don't usually read the Faerun articles, since I never run games in Forgotten Realms.
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I suppose 2 or 3 pages each for Eberron articles isn't too bad for people like myself who loathe Eberron. :)
We get a monthly Forgotten Realms article - usually two between the special locations and Prestige Classes. They only take up 2 or 3 pages each, so it's not a horrible thing for the few people like myself who loathe FR.
And *I* suppose that 4 or 6 pages for Forgotten Realms and Eberron isn't terribly horrendous for people like myself who loathe both the Reams and Kieth's Homebrew. :)
Oh, wait... maybe it is... ;DFor the record, I don't LOATHE FR or Eb, but I'm not really that interested in seeing anything that's world specific unless the nations and people of Greyhawk got the same treatment.
...splintered readership, indeed. :)
For the record, I don't LOATHE FR or Eb, but I'm not really that interested in seeing anything that's world specific unless the nations and people of Greyhawk got the same treatment.
...splintered readership, indeed. :)
I love Greyhawk, I grew up gaming in the Flaeness - but over the years I have seen gaming groups come and go. I now play with a relatively new group of players who don't have any knowledge of the long, long history of Greyhawk or it's movers and shakers.
I also don't have time to write up a 200-page campaign world guide to my own world - I tried it, and got tired of trying to come up with more history and political figures after about 5 pages. The real world also puts a damper on my ability to create enough depth in my own world to make it interesting.
Enter Eberron. I linked my gaming group to the web articles, hyped it up on our message boards, passed around the Countdown to Eberron articles, and in June we all grabbed it up off the shelves as quickly as possible. Starting at square one with the introduction of this world and bits and pieces of its history, I can get my gaming group onto the same page, and won't be asked "What's the Horned Society?" in the middle of an adventure.
Monthly tidbits in Dragon would help my group, and hopefully others, to further explore the details and politics of the world and enrich their gaming experience.
I wholly respect every DM out there who has a homebrew world they have labored for hours upon hours refining. I have done the same, but always get bored and have new ideas to incorporate. Time is a luxury I don't have these days - and neither do alot of DMs. Being able to add something new that is "official" to the campaign without waiting 4 months for a book release would be a blessing.
For those looking for more Eberron stuff, hopefully the query I submitted recently will be accepted. :-)
As Jonathan Drain pointed out, though, the folks at Dragon have indicated they plan to accept less stuff that is campaign specific. Given that, I'll be pleasantly surprised when my query is accepted. ;)
With both Eberron and Forgotten Realms* being official game settings, I can see "legitimate" requests for support for both of these. However, I use neither of these, so I am not all that keen to see *more pages* of campaign-specific material.
As a compromise, perhaps Dragon could alternate between the two settings each issue --> 2-3 pages.
I look forward to more Eberron articles. There is no way they wont cover the new campaign setting with a few articles. Yet the only article I can recall concerning Eberron (not including the countdown to Eberron) is the Quari(sp?) dream creatures. It is very easy to convert material from one campaign to another, the articles thatDragon presents are never that capamign specific. At least they are not to hard to convert.
Give me Eberron or Give me...something else...with cool stuff...like dragons...a few dungeons...maps are nice.