D&D 5E Eberron: Rising from the Last War Coming For D&D In November

A new D&D campaign setting has appeared on Amazon -- Eberron: Rising from the Last War. It's slated for November 19th, at $49.99.

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Explore the lands of Eberron in this campaign sourcebook for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.

This book provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play Dungeons & Dragons in Eberron—a war-torn world filled with magic-fueled technology, airships and lightning trains, where noir-inspired mystery meets swashbuckling adventure. Will Eberron enter a prosperous new age or will the shadow of war descend once again?

• Dive straight into your pulp adventures with easy-to-use locations, complete with maps of floating castles, skyscrapers, and more.

• Explore Sharn, a city of skyscrapers, airships, and noirish intrigue and a crossroads for the world’s war-ravaged peoples.

• Include a campaign for characters venturing into the Mournland, a mist-cloaked, corpse-littered land twisted by magic.

• Meld magic and invention to craft objects of wonder as an artificer—the first official class to be released for fifth edition D&D since the Player’s Handbook.

• Flesh out your characters with a new D&D game element called a group patron—a background for your whole party.

• Explore 16 new race/subrace options including dragonmarks, which magically transform certain members of the races in the Player’s Handbook.

• Confront horrific monsters born from the world’s devastating wars.

There is an alternate cover for game stores:

WotC's Jeremy Crawford confirmed that "The book incorporates the material in "Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron" and adds a whole lot more."

 

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[Parmandur]

No.

Wait, allow me to express myself better-

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

As a Greyhawk fan, I can confidently say that there is absolutely no need for a setting book, unless they are looking to re-publish the 1983 boxed set.

I don't want them to PlagueSunder a homeland for Tieflings into GH.

Well, it seems Like Mearls has back-doored a place in 5E for Greyhawk as the generic setting for old module reprints, as in Ghosts of Saltmarsh. Shortly before they announced Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Mearls did a Lore You Should Know segment on Dragon Talk, speaking "hypothetically" about what he would like to do with Greyhawk in a product: essentially, reboot it to the '83 box set, actually.

 

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[Parmandur]

Oh... I thought they were planning on doing something ... good. If "like we already did the Gith, but more-ish" is the direction they want to go, then I can wait a VERY LONG TIME for the rules.



Hope springs eternal, I guess!

Obviously still pretty much in the air at this point, but at this time they are planning for the Psion to use spell slots and have full transparency with normal magic. The distinct feature will be breaking the Concentration rules. The early prototype Psion from the Twitch show had a selection of basic Psychic Cantrips, which the Psion would pour Spell slot in to power them up.

When discussing Dark Sun, Mearls discussed how they would give Psionics to all PCs. It sounded something like what they are doing with Dragonmarks in this upcoming book.

 

[Demetrios1453]

No.

Wait, allow me to express myself better-

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

As a Greyhawk fan, I can confidently say that there is absolutely no need for a setting book, unless they are looking to re-publish the 1983 boxed set.

I don't want them to PlagueSunder a homeland for Tieflings into GH.

Ghosts of Saltmarsh already resolved that issue by having an NPC tiefling associated with Iuz. Honestly, adding tieflings to Greyhawk isn't hard with Iuz amd the Great Kingdom around.

 

[Aaron L]

No.

Wait, allow me to express myself better-

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

As a Greyhawk fan, I can confidently say that there is absolutely no need for a setting book, unless they are looking to re-publish the 1983 boxed set.

I don't want them to PlagueSunder a homeland for Tieflings into GH.

Well yes... that is certainly a concern of mine as well. But I would still very much like to see what they would do with it. Besides, just getting Oerth out there for all the new D&D players to see for possibly the first time would be worth it all by itself. Exposing all those newbies to Oerth as an alternative to the omnipresent Forgotten Realms is something that should be vehemently encouraged!

And as an aside, just a few weeks ago a buddy of mine sold me a set of both the 1980 Greyhawk Folio and the 1983 Greyhawk Boxed Set, both in truly excellent condition and missing only the box for the 1983 set. Maps, inserts, and all. For $20 dollars each! He had picked them both up as part of a large lot of old D&D books from a guy selling all his old stuff, and my buddy offered them to me because he knows how much I love Greyhawk. I told him how long I'd been wishing to buy them on eBay and how much he would reasonably be able to sell them for online, but he insisted that I only needed to pay him 20 bucks for each set because he knows how much I love the setting and how little money I have.

He's a pretty damn cool guy.

 

[Aaron L]

Well, it seems Like Mearls has back-doored a place in 5E for Greyhawk as the generic setting for old module reprints, as in Ghosts of Saltmarsh. Shortly before they announced Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Mearls did a Lore You Should Know segment on Dragon Talk, speaking "hypothetically" about what he would like to do with Greyhawk in a product: essentially, reboot it to the '83 box set, actually.

Pure Radness!

 

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[Parmandur]

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do something.

Probably because I picked up the box set PDF after 5E, it always struck me that the Horned Society is basically perfect as a sort of Teotonic Knights of Tieflings deal. Dragonborn can be wondering Ronin from the Far West.

Both can work in Greyhawk, which was always a large wooly kitchen sink setting. Just don't make too big a deal of their existing in the setting book, just mention that they are rare and will be remarked upon.

 

[Aaron L]

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do something.

Just as long as they did something to mold Tieflings into more of the way the were originally, as unique with individual fiendish deformities derived from a lower planar ancestor rather than a uniform race of Devilmens, then I wouldn't have a problem with it. I could see a lot of Tieflings popping up around the Lands of Iuz as a result of various Demons infesting the area. When the ruler of the place is an actual Half-Demon Demigod then there are bound to be other Half and Quarter and 1/8 (and so on) Demons running around... there could even be plenty of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of Iuz himself!