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(2) What do #Eberron fiends actually look like?

If running a fiend-heavy game one might be breaking out vrocks, hezrous, nalfeshnees, etc.

To me these don't look right as native fiends. I propose reskinning.

The only canon native fiends are the Rakshasa. They appear as normal tiger-people apart from the backwards hands.

I like the idea that khyber makes fiends to resemble mortals but it can never get it right. Tries to make a rabbit but it gets a jackalope instead.

Okay, time for some #Eberron ideas.

(1) According to K.Baker, Khyber aka Eberron's underdark is full of demiplanes. I can work with that but it strongly implies to me Khyber is its own plane or at least its own layer.

What if Siberys, Eberron and Khyber were three adjacent planes or layers of the material plane? I like this idea bc it implies there's cool stuff going on up in Siberys we just don't hear about it.

I'd like to think the moons are inhabited.

I wanted #Eberron gnomes who weren't defined by their nation's secret police. (Canon Eberron has pro-police sentiments fr.)

So I decided they must've created a penal colony at some point. I sited it in Lhazaar, decided it would've declared independence during the war,

and now there's an anarcho-capitalist island nation off my Eberron's Khorvaire's coast because obviously anarcho-capitalist gnomes will be an improvement

In my #Eberron the language Giant is as much a language of arcane magic as Draconic if not more

After all how much high arcana must have been brought back from Xen'drik, advancing the state of arcane magic? The Cul'sir Empire was magitech before the Five Nations ever were and there's definitely been tech transfer there. And all of it written in Giant

I can't accept Droaam as written. I find the basic nation idea implausible and can't let it go.

This being #Eberron I've taken artistic liberty to remake it as a Mirkwood-like sibling to Eldeen, so it's okay

Similar issue w/Sarlona. I can't accept how the plane Dal Quor is supposed to work. So nothing about Riedra works for me. Gotta overhaul that too.

I'll reject an entire continent of canon if I can't suspend disbelief about one premise. Shit has got to make sense.

Reading over all these thematic 3e #Eberron prestige classes makes me think

What I should do is take existing supplement-book subclasses, or good 3rd-party ones, and reskin to make them Eberron flavored

like reskin the Gloom Stalker Ranger as the Gloaming-bound Ranger fr'ex

so players have setting-thematic character options right in front of them. One might opt for gloaming-bound for the heck of it but later learns more abt the Gloaming and gets drawn into the lore.

#Eberron idea: when a hurricane hits #Sharn (or a cyclone or a typhoon)

Sharn's in the tropics, on Khorvaire's south coast and maybe 100 mi. from the west coast. That area can totally get hit by hurricanes.

(idk how many high-level Lyrandar spellcasters it'd take to blunt the force of a hurricane but I think it's more than there are.)