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Why Ebberon?
Headcheese21
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I am looking forward to the DDO game, but my biggest complaint is why Ebberon? Forgotten Realms would be a much better setting since the Majority of the people out there are familiar with the Realms. Call me old school, but I would prefer the realms than some new world they created last year. I play D&D and I was dissapointed when I heard it was Eberron. Anyone out there agree with me?
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Personaly id rather have the game setup in Krynn. If not possible then Forgoten Realms. never eberron, guess they want to sell eberon to players..
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I think it is because ebberon is a fairly new world setting for DnD.
Using something like forgotten realms would tie you up way to much and force you to make the game in accordance to what has earlier been.
With Ebberon they have somehwat freer hands and can adds things as they like instead of worrying about a million books and adventures that is allready written down.
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Originally posted by Jerek_
I wonder if you honestly even believe what you type, or if you live in a made up world of facts.
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Here is a question:
Has anyone ever read Eberron?
In fact it is the perfect place to hold a ORPG. I could sit here and type up some cool and nice subjects about Eberron, but I won't because only way to learn is to read about a subjects some people do not know about.
According to their forums, Turbine chose Eberron because (to paraphrase), they felt the Forgotten Realms was too elitist. I was, at first, disappointed, but I've since purchased the Eberron Campaign Setting book and have come to realize that the new world could easily be the next FR.
As Umbrood said, if nothing else, it gives Turbine the ability to experiment with nearly everything: so many games, novels, and supplements have been published relating to the Forgotten Realms that Turbine would spend more time maintaining consistency with existing products than creating new and original content.
I have a feeling, however, that Wizards of the Coast wanted to advertise their new product more than they wanted fans to enjoy the quintessential D&D campaign setting.
One of the reasons that I am looking forward to the game is because it is set in Eberron. I love the setting! It actually got me interested in 3.5 again.
If you haven't read Eberron, then don't knock it until you take a look at it. One of the primary reasons that it makes a great setting for a game (PnP or MMO) is the backstory doesn't include Elminster and Drizzt who should just swing in to take care of everything that is wrong with the world. The PCs are the best heroes that Eberron has.
Now, I know that they could have implemented FR in D&DO with no problem and it would have worked as well as Eberron. But then you couldn't play a warforged.
i think its stupid that there using eberron 2 i have idea what ne thing is in eberron since im used to forgotten realm settings but i think the DnD ppl are tryin to appeal to a newer audience and of course get more money
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I'm not sure what you mean by "brief exploitation", exactly, but the best source would be the official Eberron Campaign Setting book by Wizards of the Coast. The book is 320 pages long and I have personally found it to be an invaluable guide to Eberron. In addition, Wizards has also published many other Eberron-related texts; a complete list can be found at their Web site.
Best source for reading up on Eberron is the camaign setting. Though that costs about as much as D&D Online will.....
I am really kind of excited about it being Eberron. It's an entire new land to explore! With FR, everyone knows the world far too well - there's no exploration necessary! You know all the major landmarks, the cities, pretty much everything. After over 100 novels, dozens of sourcebooks, several PC games, etc. it would really be hard to come up with an entire MMO worth of actual NEW and fresh content for D&D online.
FR is beaten to death - I think Eberron is a good change.
This is what a inexpierenced (or unimaginative) DM would do, send in such iconic characters to solve a problem in any campaign world. Eberron has it's iconic characters as well, they're just not as commonly known as those from a game setting that has been going strong for the past 18 years. When you stop and think about it, as many times as TSR and WOtC have tried to launch other game worlds and have it peter out on them, the testimony of the Forgotten Realms' strength and depth speaks for itself. The other point of Eberron's worth being it's backstory doesn't include famous characters doing noteworthy things, I have to concede that's true. However that's because it's backstory is rather weak IMHO.
Now I understand why Turbine opted for Eberron, they needed a setting that wasn't as firmly etched in people's mind as to what things should be like. One previous poster said they'd spend more time on trying to get the content of the FR right rather than developing the game. Unfortunately, they missed out on a lot of potential, because those very iconic characters the FR has, makes for event material that will have subscribers panting to play. Likewise, the Underdark is a feature of the FR that is mimiced in many other games, but while imitation is the greatest form of flattery, it also manages to fall far short of what the original provided. A expansion pack devoted exclusively to the Underdark would've been a guranteed sell, and opened game play options that they will be hard pressed to duplicate in Eberron's setting.
Mind you, if you like Eberron, that's fine. Different folks have different tastes, but after buying and reading several of it's products, I felt like I had wasted time and money. Now while I personally may not have liked Eberron, a sad fact is that many of Eberron's features will not be in the game. While most will quickly point at the race of the Warforged, sadly, that's the only Eberron specific race that will be present in the game. Likewise, the Dragonmarks are absent, as is the Artificer. In short, the things that set Eberron apart from previous fantasy worlds TSR and WotC have released are largely absent.
That said, I will be buying this game and will be playing it. I'm keeping an open mind as to how much I will like it. But I know that for me, like for many many others, the game would ensnare me far more deeply, and I'd be far more forgiving, were the game set in the FR or even Greyhawk. We'll just have to wait and see.
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Eberon is a good location but for me and my long time of gamming...... Grayhawk. A classic setting and all the things that bring back the old days of slavers, giants and Drow (oh my).
Looking forward to the game, and I am sure my actual game group will be on as well.
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i like plain old d&d
frogoten realms are ok
but i like the basic D&D 3.5 setting
The main reason for D&DO beeing set in Ebberon is that WoTC has stated that Ebberon is now their official D&D campaign setting. I understand why turbine also wanted to use the Ebberon setting, especialy the continent where they be setting the game, its untouched by the source books for ebberon with the exception of a few minor notes, its vastly unexplored and turbine will have the creative lfreedom needed to expand the game content as they wish, imagine if the game was set in the forgoten realms campaign, you would have most of the main landmasses explored already, much of the history is already set, the major players/factions are already known and their motives are clear, would be no fun.
Apart from Ebberon, i think the most interesting setting in terms of freedom and imagination, would be planescape, planescape campaigns are incredible and the setting is beyond words, i think a game based on it would rock, an online game that is, beacuse we already have one of the best rpg´s ever based on it: Planescape torment.
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Im not sure about this new world but it has the possability of being great IF its done right.
that said i would have prefered FR,others have stated that would not be so good for the game because its ben done so much before,BUT i say thats exactly why it would have ben a better choice because its all layed out before them with a built in fan base.
but regardless ill buy it and give it an honest try,who knows maybe they will do the diff servers for diff worlds someday but i doubt it.
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I've been playing D&D since 1978 - at least, I did up until Ebberon became the new world. I was really excited about DDO, but the more I read about it, the less I want to even try it.
At this point, I don't see D&D. I don't see the game I loved and supported. I don't see the game that I used to create a campaign that lasted almost a decade.
I see the worst elements of hack-&-slash, Monty Haul gaming elevated to be the primary focus of this game. I see character development, community, and the fellowship of the tabletop abandoned in the name of fast action intended to hold the attention of a teenage audiance badly in need of a higher Ritalin dosage.
I see a marketing decision made by people who have never played D&D in their lives.
I see they chose Ebberon, and I am delighted - because I would weep to see someone do *this* to the Forgotten Realms.
Turbine: I wish you success. I hope you attract *exactly* the customers you are aiming at - because your success means the people you are marketing to won't be mucking up the games I'll be playing.
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At this point, I don't see D&D. I don't see the game I loved and supported. I don't see the game that I used to create a campaign that lasted almost a decade.
a 10 year Campaign! (I applaud you for that accomplishment) As a DM for a variety of games for quite sometime I think this is an awesome achievement. If you cannot see what Turbine and WOTC is tying to do well I cannot help that people are intitled to his or her opinion.
I see a marketing decision made by people who have never played D&D in their lives.
Your very wrong with this comment. (Swing and Miss) The Dev Team is always talking about their Campaigns and all the years that they have played D&D. Now they are in a Campaign with one of the Lead Designers of D&D. Never played hmmm.
I see they chose Ebberon, and I am delighted - because I would weep to see someone do *this* to the Forgotten Realms.
I am glad they are doing this in another realm, for I have not been in to many Eberron Sessions. I have been in many Grayhawk, Forgotten Realms. and Ravenloft sessions. I wanted WOTC to come out with a game that not a lot of people know about. I think that this forum would have a lot more Critics when it came to one of the other realms. Because in PNP every roleplayer has there own image of what FR,GH, and RL looks like.
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