Is there already in #eberron a group of people that fights to give freedom or rights to elementals? Like someone considering elemental binding close to slavery?#dnd5e The Ashbound will free elementals by force when they have an opportunity. The Power of Purity is a Zil organization seeking to develop more humane methods of binding. However, there’s a case that elemental binding is MORE humane than, say, riding a horse: https://t.co/SrtWcsySiq

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 24, 2018

That’s what I was looking for!
I was reasoning about this remembering the philosophy behind spirit binding in exalted (binding elementals is disrespectful because you are stealing a natural phenomenon from somewhere, binding demons is “bad guys in chains”-like good).
Thanks 🙂 5E has moved towards Eberron; the 5E Monster Manual says that elementals "have no society or culture, and little sense of being" and that an elemental "has no desire except to course through the element of its own plane"… and the idea is that binding replicates this experience.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 24, 2018

… But that's what the BINDERS say; the Ashbound still see it as an attack on nature, and the Power of Purity still believes there's a better way.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 24, 2018

This is what I love about #Eberron. Sooooo many layers!

— RutyNewYear (@RutyWoot) December 24, 2018

Do air elementals dream of cloud sheep?

Coming soon 😉

— MaDdi3 (@TheMaDdi3) December 24, 2018

In your personal Eberron, as you control it, can a Warforged sprout an aberrant dragonmark? If so, is it just possible in theory or has it happened? (You may have answered this elsewhere, but I couldn’t find it)(also, big fan of the plane!) Sure. Mechanically it’s possible, and in my novel The Son of Khyber there’s a warforged with an aberrant mark. But this is EXTREMELY WEIRD and rare, and people would be very surprised by it; such a character would draw a lot of attention.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) January 8, 2019

So currently there have been a few mentions about adding the artificer class to WGtE and you mentioned a “Greater Aberrant Dragonmark Feat”. My question is as it stands are people who bought WGtE going to have to buy a follow up book/PDF to get the feat? The artificer should be added to the WGtE once it's gone through development at WotC, but because it's being developed in-house I don't know the timeline on it. That's the only additional rules material that's going to be added to the WGtE.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) January 3, 2019

Hi Keith, I was talking with some people on Reddit who are concerned the Wayfinder’s Guide being released as a PDF is some form of dismissal of Eberron as a setting by WotC. Anything you can say that reassures them DnD is still giving Eberron some love? I’m not part of WotC, so I don’t know their plans. But I know they are still actively developing the artificer (which I expect to see in an upcoming UA). And sales for the WGtE were phenomenal. So I don’t think it’s just going to be forgotten.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) January 7, 2019

Okay this is driving me nuts, was there a published Eberron adventure at the Sharn Opera House? I thought it featured the House Phiarlan/Thuranni rivalry.

— Snark Knight (@SnarkKnight1) December 26, 2018

I’m not aware of a published adventure dealing with the Opera house, but I don’t know them all. “Curtain Call” is a 5E #Eberron adventure with a finale in a theatre, but it uses the Silvermist, Art Temple, or Korranor.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 26, 2018

hey, guys, how different is 5E Sharn from the 3.5 Sharn: City of Towers? #E The city is the same, as far as I know. The Wayfinder’s Guide explores different aspects of the city, but I don’t think it contradicts the 3.5 Sharn sourcebook.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 13, 2018

No, the Wayfinder’s Guide doesn’t advance the timeline.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 13, 2018

Hi Kaine!
I know the elemental Airships in Eberron are controlled by magic, but could the elemental be bargained with, using primordial to be piloted? Running a solo game and thought it was a fun idea. For your home game, you can do whatever you like but in staying true to the setting, elemental ships require a Mark of Storms to pilot. The “arcane scientific basis” of this is largely unknown outside the house, but without the dragonmarked heir, it can’t be controlled.

— Merry Wootmas to All! (@RutyWoot) December 18, 2018

However, it is important to differentiate elemental ships (air and sea) from the sky coaches that populate Sharn. Those are held aloft by the manifest zone that Sharn was constructed on top of and aids in its upward expansion. @HellcowKeith might have additional notes. Per the 3.5 Explorer’s Guide, it’s POSSIBLE to control an airship through negotiation, but it’s extremely unreliable; elementals are intelligent but they are extremely alien and difficult to communicate with. So it’s an emergency landing option if your Lyrandar pilot gets killed.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 18, 2018

But as @RutyWoot says: in your home game, do what you want. Perhaps you have a ship with an exceptional elemental that’s easy to talk to. But by canon, the Mark of Storms is the only reliable method. There you have it, older text provides that it is possible but highly improbable, and likely leads to a crash landing. pic.twitter.com/jgg2AZu32t

— Merry Wootmas to All! (@RutyWoot) December 18, 2018

But as @RutyWoot says: in your home game, do what you want. Perhaps you have a ship with an exceptional elemental that’s easy to talk to. But by canon, the Mark of Storms is the only reliable method.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 18, 2018

Oh, and to answer the “bargaining” specifically. The elementals are actually bound by and within Khyber Dragonshards and, from my understanding, remain in a happy self contained ecosystem within akin to a blissful stupor. However, there are activist groups that contend— 1/2— Such a practice is a form of slavery and are making moves to abolish the practice. In any case, direct conversation w/bound elementals wouldn’t be likely, unless the elemental was released from the eldritch machine…and in that case, it could no longer power the elemental ship.

— Merry Wootmas to All! (@RutyWoot) December 18, 2018

Right. The elemental is bound to the core of the ship and is largely unaware of its surroundings.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 18, 2018