2004 Fun Fact: The design of the Eberron Campaign Setting is a milestone in my career—an amazing experience of collaborative design, with @HellcowKeith, @slavicsek, and I doing most of the actual writing while a whole slew of other people contributed ideas and direction.
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020
2004 Fun Fact: I’ve told this story before, but on day 2 of @HellcowKeith’s visit to Wizards working on Eberron, I was like, “You look really familiar.” We had played D&D together years before, when my high-school friend was dating his sister.
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020
2004 Fun Fact that is also a 1991 Fun Fact: Here’s my journal entry for the adventure Keith ran. I played Wyredd, a paladin with the berserker kit. https://t.co/4RzxcwzH7d
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020
2004 Fun Fact: While we were doing the worldbuilding for Eberron, a vignette took shape in my head that eventually became this scene in In the Claws of the Tiger, where Janik meets the Speaker of the Flame. pic.twitter.com/AlznFi9lG0
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020
2004 Fun Fact: I submitted six proposals to the setting search that resulted in Eberron. One of them is the setting I’m using for my home game now, though it’s changed a lot from its original incarnation. pic.twitter.com/3M0pCTrOoC
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020
2004 Fun Fact: I can’t hear the music from the Sharn CD without having flashbacks to Origins 2004, when we had it playing on loop in our booth as I stood there talking to people about Eberron.
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020
2004 Fun Fact: If you call Wizards’ corporate HQ and get put on hold, I believe to this day you will hear music from the CD included in Sharn: City of Towers.
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020
Rats.
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020
2006 Fun Fact: Player's Guide to Eberron seems straightforward but was surprisingly ambitious: I used InDesign to write the manuscript (and work with freelancer turnovers), so we could design the content around the page spreads.
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 24, 2020