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Eberron 5e sourcebook vs Eberron 3.5?

Started by danskmacabre, February 02, 2021, 08:52:26 PM

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danskmacabre

I recently bought the Eberron 5e sourcebook, mainly as I want to play a Warforged in DnD game that's happening.

I never played Eberron in 3.5 (actually I never played 3.5 at all), but I've heard a lot of good things about Eberron and teh setting generally intrigued me.

For those who have played Eberron for DnD 3.5 and have the 5e supplement, what are your opinions of the 5e book compared to the 3.5 edition?

The same? Better, Worse?


danskmacabre

Thanks for the links.
It seems overall, the view of the 5e supplement is positive.

Nice!

Omega

For me... Less so. Knowing nothing of the setting, I came away from reading it knowing not much more really. And was a bit irked that the way hyped "noir" and techno magic elements were practically nil. As said. They spend alot of pages saying not very much.

Totally YMMV and you might find it a better read than I.

JeffB

I was not an Eberron fan per-se, but loved certain elements and to this day Secrets of Xen'Drik is one of my very favorite gaming books ever.  I eventually sold my Eberron materials - all except SoX.

The 3.5 Book is  considered the best, but I felt it was poorly laid out, verbose (in a bad way) and hard to use. I think visually it had the best presentation of the setting both in art and the fonts, and "comics", etc. It was a good looking book, but as a DM's tool, hard to find things and info was scattered.

The 4E book was much better as a DM tool, with better layout.  Maybe not quite as fun to read and contained some of the 4E art style (which may or may not bug you), but I found it more straightforward, readable, and usable.

The setting did not change really between editions as I recall.

I have not checked out the 5E version as I eventually realized that SoX gives me everything from the setting I want to steal, and the rest I'm not in like with.