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developing an adventure in the world or a
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player preparing to explore it, here are a few
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Player Characters Are Remarkable.
Exotic Locations. Lightning rails, airships,
Eberron is a world in need of heroes. Lingering
and other forms of transportation can facilitate
tensions of war remain. From the fanatics of
travel to exotic locations. Adventures could
the Emerald Claw and the mad cults of the
take you to the colossal ruins left behind by the
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giants of Xen’drik, the warped landscape of the
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Mournland, or the dark demiplanes within the
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underworld of Khyber. Even if you prefer to stay
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divine force of light, but it can only act through
tunnels that lie beneath it.
mortal champions. The few powerful benevolent
What Are the Stakes? What’s better than
NPCs have limitations: the Keeper of the Flame
a battle on the deck of an airship? A battle on
loses her powers if she leaves her citadel. The
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for ways to raise the stakes of a scene, so players
the powerful people in the setting are driven by
feel that every decision matters. This could be
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driven by the consequences of failure: through

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