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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.93
EAN num: 9780786939336
ISBN number: 0786939338
Label: Wizards of the Coast
Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 160
Printing Date: November 07, 2006
Publishing house: Wizards of the Coast
Release Date: November 07, 2006
Sale Popularity Level: 305474
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The book is good, but my major issues with it is its lack of depth in describing the Dragonmarked houses. It gives you good information, but I wish they had taken more time to describe major players in the individual houses, perhaps intrigue not only within the houses, but between the houses. In the game I am playing in I created a character within House Deneith with monarchist views. They do mention a member with the house that has similar views but it's brief and not as detailed as I'd like it. I also wish they had mentioned more about the houses goals and views from perhaps several of the elders with each house.
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If you're going to run an Eberron campaign, you absolutely must have this book. One of the hallmarks of Eberron is the Dragonmarked houses, and you can't really understand the Houses until you have this book.
It's well written, and the consistent format makes it easy to find what you are looking for. Plot hooks abound, albeit in a slightly more subtle manner than a section entitled 'Plot Hooks for House..."
If you like Eberron, you'll love this book.
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I'm really disappointed that this book didn't contain information on the lost mark. I have planned a resurgence of the lost mark in my campaign setting and I was looking forward to an official breakdown of the least, lesser, and greater mark of death.
This book does contain a great many new and interesting feats for characters who have dragonmarks. Though, once again with the recent release wave of WOTC, there are issues with balance in regard to feats. Some feats are lame, some are very obviously uber.
Who wouldn't want to take a feat that grants Damage Reduction 5/magic or Damage Reduction 5/byeshk. Dm's will need to tweak things here and there to make them more balance minded.
There are some very promising prestige classes in this book. My personal favorite is the combat oriented prestige class for House Orien. Reminds me of Nightcrawler from the Xmen.
Since this book lacks information on the 13th mark...this is what I'm using...feel free to implement it in your campaign!
+2 knowledge(religion) checks
least mark - 1/day command undead or invisibility to undead
lesser mark - 1/ day animate undead or halt undead
greater mark - 1/ day create undead or undeath to death
siberys mark - 1/ day create greater undead or control undead
Overall...I feel this is a strong addition to my Eberron campaign and will enrich the setting.
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I like the product. It tells a lot more about the Dragonmarked and would be a good addition to any Eberron campaign. I only gave it three stars because of how limited it is in scope. While some history is explained, it doesn't go far enough. What about the thirteenth mark? It's all but unmentioned and it's a significant part of the past. A prestige class from another product is referred to several times but I only stumbled on it by luck when I was looking at the other book. It's a book that you can do without and that's a shame since the Dragonmarked are in interesting idea.
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Dragonmarked was another strong entry in the growing Eberron saga. As a player-oriented sourcebook, the player options were of course many and varied -- from the dozen prestige classes to the host of new feats and spells -- and on the whole, added to the setting precisely what one would expect the new mechanics of such a book to add. Unfortunately, some of the "meat" of the individual houses was thin if not outright gamey (no pun), in a few places. Here was a great opportunity (THE opportunity, in fact) to reveal the real deal behind some of the more intriguing and mysterious of houses, and it seems like the developers failed to capitalize on that opportunity at times. As a player in the setting, yes, I wanted more dragonmark-related goodies, but I wanted the depth of narrative that I've been waiting for since the corebook was released. Did the writers try to do this and were edited "down" by the developers? We'll never know, but the end result is a bit of a missed opportunity when it comes to such explication. In particular, the places where the tone retains its mystery -- "It might have been this, or it might have been that" -- were especially aggravating. That's what we've heard all along, folks; this was the place to stop prevaricating, and show us the hidden truth. If you don't intend to reveal it, don't make the promise that the book makes by its very design. All in all, the book is 5 out of 5 stars in game content, as one might expect from WotC; but as one might also expect from WotC in the 3.5 era, the narrative leaves a little something to be desired in some places (though a few house descriptions, such as Sivis, don't disappoint at all). And so it must needs drop from 5 to 4 stars, though it's still a very good sourcebook.
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