Line #22 YMMV/Eberron


1	%%* AccidentalInnuendo: [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/pgte_gallery/95017.jpg Look at the Skeleton Bra.]]
2	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: House Cannith: The world’s best war profiteers or a bunch of raving lunatic scientists doing what they do to just to push SCIENCE forward. (Since Cannith is split into three rival factions, it's quite possible for them to be both and more.)
3	** The setting was designed to be ambiguous in regards to major events as well as factions and people, so that [=DMs=] could choose their own interpretation.
4	** A lot of fans, at least in modern circles, have taken King Boranel of Breland, a heroic adventurer-king and one of the few well-established [[BigGood Big Goods]] of the setting, and turned him into a meme-parody of Teddy Roosevelt complete with "Borry Tigers" as a parody of Teddy Bears.
5	** According to the handbooks (and themselves), the Undying are animated by positive energies, unlike normal undead, who are animated by negative energies. An alternate read would be that this is just propaganda; Undying are in fact not any different from normal undead.
6	* BrokenBase: Many "traditionalist" ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' players found the setting too radically different from the earlier MedievalFantasy[=/=]HighFantasy settings like ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'', ''TabletopGame/{{Dragonlance}}'' and ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''. Ironically, the main complaint was that the setting was just too ''different'' from the already existing ones, which was kind of the point of launching a new campaign setting in the first place.
7	* CompleteMonster: "The Chimes of Midnight", "Quoth the Raven", "Hell's Heart": [[FallenHero Genius Inquisitive Viktor/Victor Saint-Demain]] has his [[ItsAllAboutMe massive ego]] bruised by Baron D'Medani and plots a gruesome revenge, recruiting {{serial killer}}s to commit murder all over Sharn with intention of wiping out the Baron, his House and to drop D'Medani's beloved daughter Zelina to her death. Foiled and placed in a sanitarium, Viktor [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] a troubled man into becoming a serial killer who kidnaps and tortures his victims to death, with the intent of sending the heroes to die against him after creating a large body count. Locked away in the asylum of Hell's Heart, Viktor uses his manipulative brilliance to take over, allowing the insane doctor in charge to torture other inmates, before recruiting more serial killers. Having the D'Medanis captured, Viktor tries to have them killed, intending on framing the heroes for [[WaterSourceTampering poisoning Sharn's water supply]] to kill thousands upon thousands of innocents, releasing his killers on the population and "clearing" his name to take advantage of the horrible chaos.
8	* EnsembleDarkhorse: The [[MechanicalLifeforms Warforged]] and the [[BeastMan Shifters]], especially [[CatGirl Razorclaws]].
9	* FandomRivalry: Eberron fans and Forgotten Realms fans.
10	* FanNickname: Razorclaws are often called ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats\|1985}}''.
11	* FanonDiscontinuity: While many of the changes for 4e stuck nicely, introducing Tieflings, Dragonborn, and Eladrin into Eberron, fans generally agree that there is not now nor has there ever been a 14th Plane called Baator! Upgraded to CanonDiscontinuity as of 5e, as ''Eberron: Rising From the Last War'' doesn't mention it at all.
12	* HoYay: YaoiGenre [[YaoiFangirl fans]] might enjoy the fact that the [[{{Bishonen}} kalashtar]] are described as having a strong preference for the company of members of the same quori lineage, and do not commonly form long-term relationships or marriages with members of other lineages. Since each lineage consists of only one gender...
13	* ItWasHisSled: King Kaius being a vampire is basically an OpenSecret among the fandom. ''Eberron: Rising From the Last War'' even had open speculation about his true nature where the players could read precisely because it was already so well-known.
14	%%* MemeticMolester: [[http://eberroncomic.blogspot.com/ Cardinal Krozen]]
15	* MemeticMutation: Rood the Doorforged, [[http://montreuil.deviantart.com/art/Flash-and-Friends-2012-320461028 Warforged Pimps]]...
16	** ''[[Creator/MontyPython Everyone]]'' [[Creator/MontyPython expects the Thranish Inquisition]].
17	* {{Moe}}: Jaela Daran in fan-art.
18	%%* MoralEventHorizon: Happened a lot during the Last War.
19	* NightmareFuel: The Daelkyr are pretty horrifying to start with, being really powerful and completely alien creatures from [[EldritchLocation Xoriat]]. It's even worse when you consider that they look [[HumanoidAbomination almost exactly like humans]], the implications of which are unclear, but the most likely reason is they created humans (and possibly all humanoids.)
20	* OlderThanTheyThink: There's plenty of new material in Eberron, but some ideas like Elemental Airships were already used in {{TabletopGame/Mystara}}. ''TabletopGame/{{Jakandor}}'' could also be seen as a proto-Eberron, with two morally grey factions that the Party could be members of, rather than the dozens of organizations, houses, nations, and religions vying for control of Khorvaire.
21	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: Some of the elements that originally helped make Eberron unique, like liberal use of {{Magitek}} and rejection of D&D's traditional AlwaysChaoticEvil approach to monsters, have ended up becoming a feature in a lot of other settings, to the point where younger fans might not realize how unusual (and as BrokenBase above shows, controversial) those ideas were when Eberron was first published.
22	* VindicatedByHistory: While ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' remains the most popular D&D Setting (thanks to Wizard's contract with Ed Greenwood requiring at least one new Forgotten Realms book each year), ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' is really the only other contender for the #2 slot. Beyond that, Keith Baker indicated that adapting Eberron to 5e was extremely easy because in the past decade D&D as a whole has drifted strongly toward the DungeonPunk feel of Eberron, and now assumes Settings in which magic has mundane utility as the default, something for which Eberron was heavily criticized for upon its initial release.

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