Warforged is by Who?
After reading his very fervent commentary on one article posted over at MMORPG, anyone would come to the conclusion that Matteo Anelli lives and and breathes Dungeons and Dragons Online.
The article in question contained these words:
I questioned James [Jones] also about the choice of Eberron and was told that it was recommended by Wizards of the Coast. The continent of Xen’drik had yet to have lore fleshed out and Turbine was basically given the ability to build their own world, including a new playable race – the Warforged.
Currently, the world that Turbine has built has been integrated into existing lore by Wizards and the world of Stormreach has crossed over to the Pen & Paper Realm.
Being an RPGA official D&D Dungeon Master, he wrote to Keith Baker, the guy responsible for Eberron, which won the Wizards of the Coast Fantasy Setting Search, for clarification, to which he immediately and gladly replied.
I think itÂ’s just a poor choice of words. The warforged existed long before the MMO was even considered; theyÂ’ve always been part of the game world, and were included in the MMO as one of the clear connections TO the existing world, not as something new.
XenÂ’drik has always INTENTIONALLY been left undeveloped, so each DM can put what he wants there. So that part is correct. The reason the MMO was placed in XenÂ’drik was so they would have room to create their own material. However, the warforged as a concept were present in the story bible I submitted in the Fantasy Setting Search. Warforged game mechanics were worked out during the design phase by, among other people, James Wyatt. And the warforged were in the original Eberron sourcebook.
Incorporating warforged was one of the key ways to make DDO feel like Eberron. But the warforged were not created BY the DDO designers; they have always been part of the setting.
Hopefully that will set the matter straight on any misunderstandings that may have occurred. Even Wikipedia agrees: “Racial qualities and adjustments of the warforged were published in the Eberron Campaign Setting (ECS) and later reprinted in Monster Manual III (MM3).”
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After reading his very fervent commentary on one article posted over at MMORPG, anyone would come to the conclusion that Matteo Anelli lives and and breathes Dungeons and Dragons Online.
The article in question contained these words:
I questioned James [Jones] also about the choice of Eberron and was told that it was recommended by Wizards of the Coast. The continent of Xen’drik had yet to have lore fleshed out and Turbine was basically given the ability to build their own world, including a new playable race – the Warforged.
Currently, the world that Turbine has built has been integrated into existing lore by Wizards and the world of Stormreach has crossed over to the Pen & Paper Realm.
Being an RPGA official D&D Dungeon Master, he wrote to Keith Baker, the guy responsible for Eberron, which won the Wizards of the Coast Fantasy Setting Search, for clarification, to which he immediately and gladly replied.
I think itÂ’s just a poor choice of words. The warforged existed long before the MMO was even considered; theyÂ’ve always been part of the game world, and were included in the MMO as one of the clear connections TO the existing world, not as something new.
XenÂ’drik has always INTENTIONALLY been left undeveloped, so each DM can put what he wants there. So that part is correct. The reason the MMO was placed in XenÂ’drik was so they would have room to create their own material. However, the warforged as a concept were present in the story bible I submitted in the Fantasy Setting Search. Warforged game mechanics were worked out during the design phase by, among other people, James Wyatt. And the warforged were in the original Eberron sourcebook.
Incorporating warforged was one of the key ways to make DDO feel like Eberron. But the warforged were not created BY the DDO designers; they have always been part of the setting.
Hopefully that will set the matter straight on any misunderstandings that may have occurred. Even Wikipedia agrees: “Racial qualities and adjustments of the warforged were published in the Eberron Campaign Setting (ECS) and later reprinted in Monster Manual III (MM3).”
Via dot-brain
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