Invelios wrote on Jan 13^th, 2012 at 11:00am:

URL tags aren't that hard.

Ooh! ooh! Speculation threads!  My favorite!

Perhaps Turbine and WotC is planning a DDO2 based around the 5.0 ruleset.

Cale wrote on Jan 13^th, 2012 at 7:09am:


The fact that Turbine registered DDOforgottenrealms.com leads me to believe this is definitely an expansion to the Forgotten Realms and not a trip to Khyber (which we have done already in part 2 of the Xoriat line)

Khyber is Eberron's version of the Underdark, it is not the "Underdark" of the Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk" though. The world was formed when the progenitor wyrms changed their form into what they are now. Siberys and Khyber fought, leading to Siberys' body being broken into pieces. To stop Khyber, Eberron wrapped around him, and Siberys' broken body became a ring around them both. Siberys created the dragons, Eberron created humanoids and other "lower races", and Khyber created the "demons" of the world.

In FR and Greyhawk things like beholders, mindflayers and drow are natural residents of the "Underdark", whereas in Eberron only one subsect of drow has chosen to venture into Khyber, while most live in the ruins of the giant Empire either in violent confrontation with the giants that remain, or in servitude like the Sulatar drow who still serve the fire giants of the Sulat league.

Beholders and Mindlflayers populate Khyber because they and their Daelkyr masters were banished there by the Gatekeeper druids long ago when they invaded from Xoriat.

The other group that lives in Khyber are the Demon rajahs that once ruled Eberron and were spewed forth by Khyber itself. The most powerful demons, the Rajah's were sealed within Khyber by the combined force of the dragons and the Couatls who sacrificed themselves to bind the demons to Khyber.

I really hope that Turbine in not going to tie Eberon and FR together, that would be rather weird.

FR is a high magic world that meshes quite a few "stapes" of fantasy into one over all world, if they really fit or not.

Whereas Eberon is a steam punk magic world with a wholly different mythos.

I was always a fan of the core FR world, not so much all the little add-on parts.

If they try and mesh the two it will be contrived and awkward.

livefreeordie wrote on Jan 13^th, 2012 at 11:38am:


Lolth is an evil goddess of the Drow in other D&D worlds besides Ebberon, I do not know if she is in the Ebberon mythos or not, but I do not think she is.


lol ... what Stainer said.

Little off track -

From the survey I got awhile back, I have the impression we will be seeing FR and Greyhawk versions of DDO. Standalone or somehow incorporated with the current DDO, I am not sure. Does it make sense to mingle campaigns?

Orberon wrote on Jan 13^th, 2012 at 11:43am:



She lives in the demonweb in the Abyss in FR and GH

Keith Baker once stated in a post that Lolth does not exist in Eberron(someone was asking about driders). But this was prior to the introduction of 4th edition which added the abyss where Khyber has been changed somewhat to look like this

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http://community.wizards.com/coga/wiki/The_chaos_of_khyber

the existence of the abyss means it is possible that the demonweb exists as well if your approaching it form a 4th edition mindset

flynnjsw wrote on Jan 13^th, 2012 at 12:09pm:


This is what I was thinking, besides WF in FR?, no thank you.

If an FR MMO opens up and Eberron fizzles out and closes down before I get a chance to ride a fucking dinosaur I will be severely displeased.

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The website is on a Turbine Server. I think this is Project Hendrix.

Cyr wrote on Jan 13^th, 2012 at 12:45pm:


or

Consolidate DDO:EU and put into maintenance.

Move resources to new exciting MMO.

rest wrote on Jan 13^th, 2012 at 12:48pm:


No.

AC is still going in maintenance mode.

And I am thinking out loud. Other than we are getting something new to do with Lollth and the Underdark, I am a little lost.