rest wrote on Jan 13^th, 2012 at 5:44pm:



I vaguely remembered it's existence, but had to hit up wikipedia for the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun:_Shattered_Lands

mudfud wrote on Jan 13^th, 2012 at 6:54pm:

Link?

Arkat wrote on Jan 13^th, 2012 at 7:37pm:



http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Seldarine

I also got it from the books, since I read all them as they come out.

I remember being sexually confused about the alpha muscled dark sun chicks

Epoch wrote on Jan 14^th, 2012 at 4:08am:


Especially considering (from what I hear) there are a heap of other cool places/cities/continents to go to in Ebberon.

on the other hand they can put the Underdark in Eberron...

There's nothing that makes it impossible.

and MOTU : Mysteries of the Underdark.

that would fit with the rest... except for the ddoforgottenrealms.com

Edit after reading the full thread again... I missed a few posts.

No world is unreachable to a D&D Immortal ( D&D, as in Basic Set, Expert Set, Companion Set, Master Set, Immortal Set, Wrath of the Immortal ) as by definition they can do as they see fit, create and destroy worlds at their whim. ( more or less they still have a few rules that needs to be followed )

Just when I thought I was nerd enough...

So please help a completely clueless person out here because I can't seem to fully connect all of the dots... why does it really matter if they open up portals to a realm not in the PnP Eberron series? From the perspective of someone who has only really enjoyed DnD in online gaming this just means new places to go, new classes and races to play and new loot/abilities. Why does it matter which realms they include? (TBH I'd be ok with them just making a few up as well.)

The only real issue I have with the proposed updates is the level cap increase, but it seems as though that is implied to be the opportunity to gain more enhancements? not actually a level raise?. All in all it seems like a huge update with tons of fresh content to keep me happily playing for months to come.

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When Eberron first came to ddo it was pretty much a new world for wotc. There were only a few books from the series out, meaning you could basically create your own stuff and vice versa. Since then I've seen multiple references to stormreach from the books that pretty much follow exactly the game. I've also seen in books multiple references as background to other places from the game. Hell there is even a wotc book for eberron out with the title: Eberron: Dungeons and dragons online following exactly what's in ddo, but i have yet to actually read this one.

By using most of the other stuff like Forgotten Realms (Abeir-Toril now) or depending on timeframe (Toril) the world as a whole is already established. Personally who in there right mind would want to play something that you can't really have new stuff for. I don't want to play in Waterdeep, as that's been done to death in books and pnp. Neither do I want to in other places there. Sure if they do it with the current Abeir-Toril the world was basically changed, so that kinda leaves an opening for turbine to create new areas/continents etc.

The same goes for Dragonlance, Ravenloft, Greyhawk, DarkSun, and anywhere else covered by wotc.

QuantumFX: They didn't do an alternate universe thing, but wotc last year in books did a cross world thing, went from the Dungeon and dragon world whatever that's called, Forgotten Realms, and DarkSun. I personally liked it and it's the first that I can recall, besides the occasional spelljammer ship coming to toril and krynn.

Oakianus wrote on Jan 16^th, 2012 at 9:12pm:


LoL myth drannor then or now? Back in the day myth drannor yeah. Now, the elves returned there and took it back from the demons/devils, so wouldn't be as fun now.

Oakianus wrote on Jan 16^th, 2012 at 11:55pm:


Yeah Spellplague basically changed the world. Netheril is back in a sense, High Imalskur (spelling) also, Mulhorand gone, Zhentil keep destroyed, neverwinter destroyed per the game, can't remember offhand name but first home to dwarves found near neverwinter, lots of other things also too many to name from memory. Few underdark cities completely destroyed dwarf, drow, deep gnome alike. Sovereignty back. etc etc

Hence why it might be ripe for a tie in of some kind to other places/worlds or just coincedence.

Flav wrote on Jan 17^th, 2012 at 3:17am:


Ravenloft was linked to other worlds but by accidents only, don't think it was able to be reached intentionally.

mudfud wrote on Jan 16^th, 2012 at 9:21pm:


The only reason why it isn't fun is elves have a lower fort save.