D&D 5E Eberron Confidential by Keith Baker

Keith Baker's latest 26-page Eberron book is called Eberron Confidential. It contains a a collection of character 'secrets' which function as adventure hooks and minor player abilities.

Everyone's hiding something! What's a secret you've never shared? Are you hiding an aberrant dragonmark? Were you kicked out of Arcanix? Were you actually raised by gnolls? Or are you [REDACTED]?

In Eberron Confidential, setting creator Keith Baker presents a host of secrets for DMs and players to enjoy. Each secret provides a unique connection to the world of Eberron, an intriguing story hook for the DM to explore, a minor mechanical benefit, and unlimited roleplay potential.

Eberron Confidential includes the following...

• 54 character secrets, ready to be printed out and distributed as player handouts.
• Tips for Dungeon Masters to integrate each secret into a campaign.
• Options for introducing secrets to your players, whether at character creation or during an ongoing campaign.
• Ideas for using rumors to add drama to party dynamics.
• Tables for quickly generating NPC secrets whenever you need them.

 

[ChaosOS]

As of right now, it's the first dmsguild supplement to dethrone Exploring Eberron from the #1 spot in the hot bar in the last 106 days. I don't think that will last though, the low price tag means it would have to sustain over 6x the sales of ExE. (The hot bar is based on total $$ sales). By contrast, I think this will occupy the top spot on the "under $5" for a very, very long time since that's based just on units sold with no price weighting.

 

[Chaosmancer]

Bought it, looks nice, good hooks for various plots

 

[Rellott]

So this has no crunch, only secrets for players? While lore is interesting, I’m always much more interested in races and archetypes that I can mine for other uses/settings.

 

[Chaosmancer]

So this has no crunch, only secrets for players? While lore is interesting, I’m always much more interested in races and archetypes that I can mine for other uses/settings.

There is a little bit of crunch, each secret gives a small ability, like a new skill or a cantrip. A few even give a more unique ability, like regaining 1 hp on a roll of 18 or better on a Death Save

 

[tetrasodium]

So this has no crunch, only secrets for players? While lore is interesting, I’m always much more interested in races and archetypes that I can mine for other uses/settings.

There have been a couple posted to facebook in the runup by keith. They all seem to give something minor that you don't need to worry too much about balancing.

Spoiler: Here are a couple

 

[ChaosOS]

There's also a bunch of stuff in the full size preview on the product page. Also, Keith posted a new article to his blog. If you haven't been following his blog, this index on the Eberron wiki has them sorted by topic.

 

[TheSword]

It looks good. I would really love to see a quality published campaign set in Eberron. At least 10
Levels... don’t care which.

The 3e adventures really didn’t do the setting justice. It would be great to see something with the production values of the current products he’s releasing.

 

[ChaosOS]

It looks good. I would really love to see a quality published campaign set in Eberron. At least 10
Levels... don’t care which.

The 3e adventures really didn’t do the setting justice. It would be great to see something with the production values of the current products he’s releasing.

I've always wanted a Q'barra adventure based on this post.

 

[ChaosOS]

Keith made a new blog post

IFAQ: Dragons Bad?

I’ve been keeping busy. In addition to working on my Threshold Campaign, I’m also about to release The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance and I DID just release Eberron Confidential. And…

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