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It's a new month and time for new questions. In an ideal world, I'd be able to answer everyone's questions every month. In THIS world, this simply isn't possible. For those who are new to the IFAQ process, here's how it works.

  • Given the volume of questions I receive, I limit myself to answering one question per patron per month, to try to spread my time out as evenly as possible. You can ASK multiple questions, because it may be one is easier for me to answer than another—but if you ask seven questions, I'm only going to answer one of them.
  • If I can answer a question in 2-3 sentences, I will answer it here (as a reply to your comment). If I can answer a question in 2-3 paragraphs, it may be answered as an IFAQ article, but I only have time to post 1-3 IFAQs per month. If it would take 2-3 pages to answer the question, that's a Dragonshard article and I can only do one or two of those a month. I am going to do a poll this month, allowing Patrons to vote on which longer topic becomes a Dragonshard. So you can ask longer questions, but keep in mind that only the most popular one will get answered1
  • If I would have to do significant research to answer a question, that increases its effective size. It may be that the question only takes a few sentences to answer—but if I'd have to do two hours of research and contemplation to answer it, it's going toget passed over.

If you asked a question didn't get answered in a previous month, you're always welcome to ask it again, though consider how these guidelines apply! There's always good questions I just don't have time to answer.

As always, thanks for your support!

Comments

Anonymous

Yes, there is. And this is not really necessary read all the story. So, you maybe you think is fun I said in this way, but it is the Underdark the specific element that I needed. A specific place, where you can have some cities of strange races in a dangerous place where the sun never arises. I can and would be a fun adventure you know use a approach City A ---- Manisfest Zone or Khybers ---> City B, but I feel that this would make the adventure random. You know, the cities of the story knows that the others exist and have some conections. War, trade, imigrants, etc... A Lorgallen underground city knowing how you can go to a Akiak city (trying adapt the deep gnome and duergar cities there) sounds a really strange to me. But without this element, a place where things know each other and where there is bad things sealed, I feel that the sandbox element would be lost and would be a really linear random adventure (what can be nice, but I like sandbox more). In general people worry more about what is the demon lords, but I feel that daelkyr, overlords or just make demon lords a new thing could all work fine. But the localization, a place where there is strange cities connected underground and dangerous monsters, the underdark, not work so well adapting to Eberron. In general the underground places in Eberron looks like a more direct fight (drows against aberrants, dwarves against aberrants, etc...), no so much a society. But as I said, maybe is too big for here. Thanks, Keith!

keithbaker

There's a place for everything in Eberron, and in my opinion, the place for a thriving series of interconnected subterranean cultures is XEN'DRIK. Part of the point of Xen'drik is that THE FIVE NATIONS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT—which means there could be any number of hidden cultures they just haven't heard of. We already have the example of the Umbragen as a thriving subterranean culture, and there's no reason you couldn't say that the Umbragen have dealings with similarly unknown cultures of deep gnomes, kuo-toa, or duergar. These civilizations could have deep history and politics; it's simply that THEY'VE NEVER INTERACTED WITH KHORVAIRE. So adventurers come to Xen'drik, go below the surface, and discover a whole range of civilizations they never knew about. Most likely, these cultures who have their major centers in or near demiplanes, so you could also have adventurers stumble into them from Khorvaire by passing through a demiplane.

Anonymous

Where would you put cyclopes in your Eberron?