Basically Eberron 

"Some people claim that the Dragonmarks, tokens of the dragons' power, are necessary to maintain order. But they're wrong, Dungeon Master. The Dragonmarks are to blame."

If liking Eberron is Eberwrong, I dont wanna be Eberright

how could you speed through the coolest nations like chthulhu mines or zombie lumberjacks

"People who actually like customer service. Like psychopaths." I work in a call center (credit card complaints), I can confirm anyone who enjoys what I do is 100% a psychopath.

Cool shit from Eberron not mentioned: - The Aztec/Chinese High Elves who worship and are lead by intelligent undead - The Wood Elves are basically mongols - they like riding horses and killing people for their stuff - Half-elves have formed their own communities which have existed for long enough that the vast majority of half-elves are the children of two half-elves. No edgy child-of-two-worlds-no-one-loves-me backstories here! - Most people have never even heard of Tieflings or know what they are, so they get treated more like magical curiosities than shunned outcasts

"I wont be talking about artificers because I'm the only channel that doesnt care about them." Now that's what I call a spicy original D&D channel statement

Note: Warforged are something a bit different from drones or robots in that they have actual souls. A Warforged could become a ghost, or undead, or any other life/death/undeath related thing, for the most part.

“Have a good 2020...” ... If only he knew..

"I have a friend...who doesn't like DnD. This book made him run a one-shot for us." Well, you're forgetting the most important detail: How did it go? Can you tell us about it?

I got into DnD earlier this year and I'm playing in an Eberron campaign. So far, we've: Fought pirates on an airship Been hired to solve a kidnapping/murder, comitted 8 crimes in our first day and the guy who did 6 of them was the only one who didn't get arrested, then we failed to save the guy we were supposed to find and the cult that kidnapped him killed two of us, traumatised the surviving monk, and gave my sorcerer a near-death experience Transported a package across Sharn to get into a crime lord's good graces, walked right into a gang war Infiltrated an auction where everything went horribly wrong and my character got so drunk he had low rolls for the first hour of the next session and got arrested by the cops Stopped a zombie apocalypse that we accidentally started AT the auction

Just to clarify, there's two Shadow Houses, Phiarlian and Thuranni, and they split apart in the war because they kept getting hired to spy on each other.

"They now walk around the ashes of a half ruined world, trying to find out where they belong Kinda like all of us..." AH, yes, we're all going to die.

"The Talenta Plains are Nevada but with halfling nomads" This sentence sold me, a native Nevadan, on this whole book.

Runesmith: I won’t be talking about artificers because I’m the only channel who doesn’t care about them. Me: FFFFFFFUUUUUUuUuUuUUUU!!!

"I thought it would be like 6." I guess someone didn't hear the Ebberon rule of 13. And if it's 12, there's hidden 13th one.

My favorite lore concept for the origin of the goblin race, is this idea that once there was a powerful elven nation who's king made a wish that they and their people would have eternal youth. Wish granted. By way of killing them all the moment they're older than 12 years, so that the entire civilization crumbles into lord of the flies as only kids survive and anyone who gets too old and experienced dies off young. Goblin society is brutal and crude because they're just the natural consequence of snot nosed children being in charge for who knows how many centuries, eventually evolving to adapt to their shorter lifespans.

Just got the book and got the alert. Why read the book when I can watch a video of a guy simplifying it?

Something I would advise all dungeon masters to do if your running a eberron game is to completely throw out alignment because eberron subverts alignment in a lot of ways the king of Karrnath is a vampire and lawful evil but he wants peace among the nations but the reason why he's evil is because he's willing to use assassination and other underhanded methods to keep the peace meanwhile the queen of Aundair is neutral good but she wants to restart the war and take over the continent because she thinks everything would be better under her control.

Eberron: The War Over Propane Superiority

I love the world explanations. I wish wizards could remake the Dark Sun setting for 5E.

Im gonna resume articifier for you: "I like magic but im also a sucker for steampunk but I don't like A.Is so im gonna be an articifier"

Races: we have NASCAR and that’s it.

“Have a great 2020.” Ah, yes, we sure did.

I want so see "Basically Dark Sun" please

I literally just got this book two hours ago this couldn’t have been better timed.

Weirdly enough, your joke names for the Dragonmarked Houses will be great as mnemonics for us DMs. That'll make it so much easier to run games in Eberron! Thanks, Runeguy!

Note: What caused Cyre to be destroyed isn't confirmed by the creators, its left open for DMs to decide for themselves

"Spooky Nukes?! Isn't that what happened in Adventure Time world history?! Gese, I knew Adventure Time took a lot of inspiration from D&D.....

I guess I'll give a go at describing the Artificer class in terms of the base class. The class is Intelligence-based and focuses on magic item creation and crafting, but the actual "crafting" suffers from a lack of solid crafting mechanics in the game's core rules. To make up for this, the class uses a feature that starts at 2nd level called Infuse Item that lets you infuse a nonmagical item with magic at the end of a long rest to make a magic item for as long as you're alive or you decide to end the infusion by using other infusions in its place. Several infusions are for specific stuff like weapons, shields and armor, but one specific infusion called Replicate Magic Item can be used multiple times and it lets you basically poof one out of an entire list of existing magic items into existence ranging from uncommon items like the Bag of Holding that are accessible at lower levels to rare items like the Amulet of Health that are accessible at higher levels. Aside from that, the class also has spellcasting and is technically a half-caster, but with many differences. You get spellcasting right at Level 1, you get cantrips (and you'll only have 2 throughout most of the character's career) that you can change out when you level up, you know all your spells and can prepare them like a cleric, you must have a spellcasting focus (which is typically thieves' tools or any artisan's tools, but infused items can also be used as a focus if need be) in hand to cast artificer spells, and you're told to flavor the spells as items that emulate the spell effects like yeeting a jar of acid to mimic Acid Splash. Finally, at higher levels, you get to attune to more than 3 items, eventually attuning to 6 at 18th level. This helps with the infusions since many of them require attunement. The capstone at 20th level is one of the stronger ones in the game because you get a bonus to your saving throws based on how much bling you've attuned to, making you a saving throw god.

“Have a fun 2020 I’ll try to do the same” Aged like milk

The Artificer class only has 3 subclasses: the Battle Smith, the Artillerist and the Alchemist. The Battle Smith is a gish-type subclass that gives you martial weapon proficiency and uses your Intelligence for attack and damage rolls, and it gives you a pet called a Steel Defender that follows you around and helps defend you as the name suggests. It's also big enough to be used as a mount by gnomes. The Artillerist is more of a blaster, using blast spells and cantrips, and turret-like machines called Eldritch Cannons. The Cannon can be a flamethrower, a force damage gun, or a temporary hit point factory. You only get one at any given time until 15th level, where you get two. You also get to make a wand into an "arcane firearm" that increases the accuracy of your spell attacks. The Alchemist is mostly a support subclass that focuses on potions and healing. It can make "experimental elixirs" after a long rest that do minor stuff when you drink them; the effects are random, but you can make elixirs that you get to choose the effects of by spending spell slots on them. Eventually, you get to be even more like a cleric by casting Lesser Restoration, Greater Restoration and Heal for free, but only a certain number of times between long rests.

"It wasn't me, it was the Quori." Nah that is the Inspired you are thinking of, the very people that the Kalashtar are trying *not* to be.

I love you for saying therianthrope instead of lycanthrope when talking about Shifters. It's a massive pet peeve of mine when people use lycanthrope for non-wolves.

My group just calls the warforged, Big Metal Vietnam War Vets

7:35 Finally someone else sees the connection between Warforged, and the Toa from Bionicle.

"have a good 2020" he said

“Have a good 2020" oof

I think the coolest part about ebberon is the story behind the mournlands, because everybody gets it wrong.... that didn't come out right. what I'm trying to say is that everybody thinks it was like a giant explosion that was so bright that the sky seemed dark, and loud enough to hear halfway across the planet, when in reality, it's closer to the silent fog from the second hunger games movie. you're just sitting in your house when you see a giant tsunami of mist rolling down the street, engulfing buildings, and leaving everybody inside it dead. much more terrifying

The Freddy freakier gag caught me off guard and I nearly spat out my drink. I haven’t thought of him in years

the beginning of the video applies to me as well because in my homebrew world a devastating event involving trillions of tarrasques devastated the world, and again it has both the 'shepherding' aspect and the 'society' aspect.

In my language, house kundarak basically means house pussyrak, so i just cannot help but chuckle every time i hear it.

My understanding is that it’s a seious setting. By that I mean a serious, no r setting.

Finally, someone else who isn't a fan of artificers! Seriously though, several of your sentences in here have nearly sold me on the book. Hang in there, bro--I always look forward to a new video of yours!

One of my favorite characters was a Warforged. Real gullible sort. When he noticed the "Elf" in our party was sleeping (Spoiler: He was a changeling) he failed a bluff check and became convinced "Northern Elves" sleep like regular folk.

"Have a good 2020". Sorry to let you down, my dude...

As a side note, Keith Baker said that he views Eberron as less high magic and more wide magic in that "Effects like teleportation are rare, but lower level magic has been incorporated into everyday life."

Eberron has an interesting setting. It was made for a contest for 3rd edition by Keith Baker. There are a ton of books for it on 3rd and 4th edition if you need adventure ideas.

Eberron aka the world that will never advance the storyline

this is the perfect blend of intriguing and amusing. boi am i glad that i found this channel

Loved the vid. I’m planning a game in this world with my group so this was useful.

"Have a good 2020, and I'll try to do the same..."

"have a good 2020, and ill try to do the same" this is kinda pog

I'd love more setting related "basically" videos. Good stuff, bud. Keep it up.

Good 2020 to you too mate, I'm glad you get to work on stuff you like :D always nice to hear you

“Like every world there was a war long ago that devastated the world”. That’s because that’s the world of every gamer. We had a war long ago that devastated the world. Not only can we relate to that, but every world-builder doesn’t want to think that we are the only people who were stupid enough to have not one, but two world-devastating wars.

Yep, can confirm, Warforged have that wonderfully chiseled chin.

"... Essentially combines the elements of Neo Tokyo and the Wolf Among Us." Yeah that sold me on the book too. That sounds amazing.

Great video, as always! Although I'm not a huge fan of magic being everywhere, your video has made me finally read the book, because I only got it because of the Artificer! Wish you good luck in new year!

"Have a good 2020". If only he knew, what was to come.

As someone very familiar with Eberron this is comedy gold...

As a member of a troupe who adopted an underdark monitor as our TANK, I cannot wait for your book!

I'll admit: I've been pretty lukewarm on the runesmith videos of late -- but a series of videos explaining greyhawk, dark sun, and other settings makes me excited to be subscribed again!

heck ya, new Basically vid. keep up the work my dude, Rune.

Logan you damn well better have a good 2020 because you deserve to be happy.

Extremely useful. I'm joining an Eberron based campaign soon, and I've only ever researched and played in the Faerûn setting. I now understand the Eberron setting in much more detail, and for this I seek to thank you.

You sounded so hopeful, "Have a good 2020." That makes me look back from the year 2021 and laugh

It's kind of ironic that he doesn't care about Artificers, but there's a homebrew Artificer subclass called the Rune Smith. xD Still a good video. Artificers are my fave and love the Warforged.

Once played a warlock of khyber and my party shat themselves when they realised my patron was the literal underdark itself

7:35 I'm never going to be able to unsee Freddy Freaker Warforged now, guess that's gonna have to be a new character for a one shot.

7:34 I will never be able to unsee this.....

Ypu know what? I like your narrative laidback style. Also, I hope you do have a great year.

Eberron let me become my ideal fantasy form, a morally gray robot surgeon who has a pet lion.

Every description of each country sounds like the best thing ever and I want to run a whole campaign in every single one.

"Have a good 2020" Narrator: They did not

Eberron has always been my favorite universe since its publishing under 3.5.Iv'e been running an eberron game for my older brothers group as their intro to this world and omg i will be sharing this video. I died laughing watching this, thank you

“Have a good 2020”

One of the big religions of Eberron is the Church of the Silver Flame. They're your typical Lawful Good religion: perform good deeds, tend to the poor, oppose evil in all its forms, skullfuck lycanthropes to death and so on. Their pontiff-in-training is Jaela Daran, an 11 year old girl who developed weirdo powers when she was younger, and her recruitment was pretty much that one quest in Skyrim where you need to find a new Sybil for Dibella. Except instead of becoming an oracle little Jaela gains 15 levels of Cleric on top of the 3 she already has at age 11 when she's in her cathedral. Her best friend is Skaravojen, a big dragonhound beastie with a puppy-like personality until you try and hurt Jaela, in which case its murder instinct kicks in and demonstrates that its teeth, horns and six clawed legs are not for show. So remember: ravioli ravioli do not lewd the pontiff loli for she will SLAP YOUR SHIT.

"Have a good 2020 I'll try"...Oh Logan

1) That was hilarious! 2) I’m glad I watched it bc I didn’t realize Eberron was that different. I just never read about it or bothered. 3) I’m excited about Stibble’s!

Never knew you were working on your own book. Would love to hear a Basically video on some of the highlights.

The Warforged are basically what you get if the Clone Army from Star Wars were Droids. And I'm a big Clone Wars fan, so I'm sold on this book.

I love your channel, new subscriber!👍 Thanks for not being overly cringy.

Tesseract, Rathnica, and Ebaron "Finally I can ascend! ... this *ULTRA INSTINCT* ...

Been in an Ebberon campaign for a good four months now. It's so fun lol. I didn't know anything about the lore and oddly enough this video answered a lot of questions I had lol

Ahhh eberron, the setting where magic is all over the fucking place, and evil monsters can be good (rolls eyes). What ever im a murder hobo anyway. I will shape the world to MY LIKING! *Casts World Wake*

6:12 coulda been house syphilis 👀

"Have a good 2020" my friend your optimism was misplaced, but we love you for it

dude, this was a great video and had me laughing more than once

I have not had a good 2020. Hope you had a better one

As a long time fan of Eberron from the old 3.5E days, I find his deliberated mispronunciation of well... 'everything' to be both infuriating and hilarious. Good on ya'.

"Valenar is Arabian Nights with Elves" That sentence sold me on this entire book

Awesome setting pitch for any group!

this stibble's codex dealy sounds cool and useful. looking forward to finding out more.

This sounds like someone's cranked all fantasy tropes into a cannon and lit the fuse.

have a good 2020 that aged well

2:45 it was good working with you to have an appearance on your channel Mr. Runesmith. Not my best performance, but I've been out of work for a while.

"Heres the meat and potatoes.." Me to myself after just leaving Nux Taku: chill out chill out he's not trying to flex on ZA WARUDO

Luv this, hope you do fun and funny vids on the other settings too!!!

I love Warforged, still remember my Silver Paladin that laughed everytime someone said something awkward. And the worse laugh of them all.

“Because I’m the only RU-vid who doesn’t care about this class” and “house Tabasco” sold me haha