Secrets of Sarlona (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Eberron Supplement) [Hardcover]

Keith Baker (Author), Scott Fitzgerald Gray (Author), Glenn McDonald (Author), Chris Sims (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (February 13, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786940379
• ISBN-13: 978-0786940370
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.6 x 11.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #285,540 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good resource for Eberron Players and DMs, May 18, 2007

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Mark Metz "werkshop" (Madison, WI, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secrets of Sarlona (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Eberron Supplement) (Hardcover)

For anyone interested in psionics canon in Eberron, I'd highly recommend this book. There are a lot of NPCs and political information as well as some weapons and feats that may prove useful. It seems a little bit of a throw-back to forgotten realms style regional modules.

Downsides for me was that the material was very vague or limited, geographically, but fairly detailed politically. For example, they'll spend a tiny paragraph for a whole region that is leaking chaos into Eberron in Adar and has a lot of fantasy potential, then spend 5 pages talking about a political group that really, after reading it, isn't very interesting or have clear goals or themes.

For crunch, the PrCs and quori-related stuff seems a little tame...a lot more flavor than bang. Enough of the artwork is mediocre to remove it from the list of strengths.

I think I would have liked the book to be...bigger. There is a lot of material to cover and a lot of it gets short treatment or no treatment at all, but still a good book especially if you are interested in non-Khorvaire Eberron, as I am.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Secrets of Sarlona, April 12, 2007

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Edward Goodson (Afton, WY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secrets of Sarlona (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Eberron Supplement) (Hardcover)

I think this is an excelent product. I like the ideas that the dreaming dark present as villians and this book expands on those ideas. Both in how they would be used, and how to use those who would oppose them. I also appricate the inclusion of new quori that can be used with empty vessels to make enlightened. Finally I am a huge fan of psionics and many rule books include very little additional material on psionics, so I am excited about the additional psionic content in Secrets of Sarlona.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Secrets of Sarlonna Review, March 23, 2009

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David N. Moore "keyes" (Stevens Point, WI) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book to expand my Eberron game, and that's just what it did. There was something the psuedo-steampunk Eberron Campaign Setting was missing, and that's Asia. That's right, the Sarlonna world is essentially Asia, except its full of kalashtar and quori, magic like Korvairre, except with a religious flare to it. Its a nice addition to any collection, I only gave it 4 stars because of all the fluff involved (details which don't actually change gameplay.).