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Feb. 4th, 2024 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krahkaUsually I give only a mild to moderate shit about Dungeons and Dragons. It is firmly not my favorite TTRPG but one that I will play without complaint if no one around me will play anything else, or if it's genuinely the best fit for what we want to do, but will complain about if they will not play anything else.
But I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 and having a good time, and all this DnD got me thinking about Eberron. Love that shit. Read the campaign setting when it was first released in 2004, and it blew my young mind. Highly underrated. Don't get enough of it. Still a little mad that the only video games it got were Dungeons and Dragons Online and some obscure RTS, and now here we are with yet another Forgotten Realms game. And I started thinking about whether a BG3 Eberron AU would work. At first, I was like, "Probably not, Eberron was specifically designed to take all the traditional DnD tropes and monsters and mechanics and do them as differently from the Forgotten Realms specifically as possible so that there's a reason to set your campaign there, instead of in FR like everyone else." But then...
Anyway, now I'm attached to Inspired/kalashtar Shadowheart who is part of a Dreaming Dark experiment to see if they can corrupt the kalashtar's quori bond with enough psionic fuckery, warforged Karlach who got a few brief, beautiful years of being a person and not a weapon before getting shoved in a box and sent to the eternal battlefield of Shavarath, Gale of Fairhaven, who fucked up the Prophecy by activating an ancient giant superweapon at the wrong time, Wyll d'Deineith who manifested his dragonmark under the most suspicious circumstances possible and got excoriated for it, war hero Gortash who watched too many of his buddies die by getting shot by magic missile and now thinks the Age of Demons might not have been as bad as they said it was, crystal dragon Orpheus, the Emperor having been a literal emperor, and Orin Tarkanan in a frankly, pretty crowded field of changelings who are into the Dragon Below.
Anyway, I might be writing those up in a coherent manner and posting them here, since Dreamwidth seems like a good place to keep all my long-winded, self-indulgent headcanon-y stuff on.
But I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 and having a good time, and all this DnD got me thinking about Eberron. Love that shit. Read the campaign setting when it was first released in 2004, and it blew my young mind. Highly underrated. Don't get enough of it. Still a little mad that the only video games it got were Dungeons and Dragons Online and some obscure RTS, and now here we are with yet another Forgotten Realms game. And I started thinking about whether a BG3 Eberron AU would work. At first, I was like, "Probably not, Eberron was specifically designed to take all the traditional DnD tropes and monsters and mechanics and do them as differently from the Forgotten Realms specifically as possible so that there's a reason to set your campaign there, instead of in FR like everyone else." But then...
Anyway, now I'm attached to Inspired/kalashtar Shadowheart who is part of a Dreaming Dark experiment to see if they can corrupt the kalashtar's quori bond with enough psionic fuckery, warforged Karlach who got a few brief, beautiful years of being a person and not a weapon before getting shoved in a box and sent to the eternal battlefield of Shavarath, Gale of Fairhaven, who fucked up the Prophecy by activating an ancient giant superweapon at the wrong time, Wyll d'Deineith who manifested his dragonmark under the most suspicious circumstances possible and got excoriated for it, war hero Gortash who watched too many of his buddies die by getting shot by magic missile and now thinks the Age of Demons might not have been as bad as they said it was, crystal dragon Orpheus, the Emperor having been a literal emperor, and Orin Tarkanan in a frankly, pretty crowded field of changelings who are into the Dragon Below.
Anyway, I might be writing those up in a coherent manner and posting them here, since Dreamwidth seems like a good place to keep all my long-winded, self-indulgent headcanon-y stuff on.
