Dungeons And Dragons Online: Designer Diary #1 - The World of Eberron

Lead Designer Ken Troop discusses the fantasy world of Eberron, the home of Dungeons & Dragons Online over at Gamespot.

The World of Eberron
By Ken Troop
Lead Designer, Turbine Entertainment

With some trepidation, I opened up the first draft of the Eberron sourcebook, all 300-plus loose-leaf pages, freshly spit out from the printer. All the while, I was thinking, "Please be right."

At the beginning of 2003, we still weren't sure exactly what world we were going to choose for D&D Online. Forgotten Realms, the best known of publisher Wizards of the Coast's three Dungeons & Dragons settings, had been bandied about for awhile, but then there was some discussion about Turbine creating a new fictional setting for D&D Online. Back and forth we went, until our contacts at Wizards told us about a new campaign setting they wanted us to consider for D&D Online. They called it Eberron.

Read the rest of this soon to be literary classic over at Gamespot and don't forget to see the new screenshots as well.