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."

 

[Beleriphon]

Or the art order is late?

AD

That's probably the case. I suspect if it is late then we're in a situation of the art director saying "That is great, but..." and then hashing out the specifics of what they want changed.

 

[Staffan]

Pure Radness!

I thought Rad was over on Mystara?

 

[Essafah]

Man, I am going to buy the book but I sincerely hope that is not the cover. The alternate cover looks okay but the standard cover with with the Angelina Jolie looking elf and bunny rabbit bird thing looks wack. Nothing about this cover to me says pulp fantasy or noir. It looks like an advertisement for Malificent.

 

[MarkB]

Man, I am going to buy the book but I sincerely hope that is not the cover. The alternate cover looks okay but the standard cover with with the Angelina Jolie looking elf and bunny rabbit bird thing looks wack. Nothing about this cover to me says pulp fantasy or noir. It looks like an advertisement for Malificent.

It's been confirmed that this is the interior front page art, being used as a placeholder for the cover.

Something of a moot point as far as I'm concerned, as I'll likely just buy the D&D Beyond version, the same as I did for Xanathar's and the Wayfinder's Guide.

 

[Remathilis]

That's a demonstrably false statement. Given that (1) Greyhawk was published prior to either race being invented, let alone made a playable race, and (2) the only definitive version of GH that had input from the setting creator has a last known version of 1983.

This is the worst possible hill to die on.

Art evolves. It evolves past its original creator's vision and incorporates new ideas, good and bad. It's why bands cover other band's songs. It's why Spider-Man comics are published long after Stan Lee stoppedv writing them. It's how five Star Wars movies came out after Lucas sold it and Star Trek continued long after Roddenberry passed. Things grow and change, adapting new elements from different creators.

To Whit, Greyhawk isn't just Gygax's 83 folio anymore. It's From the Ashes. It's The Adventure Begins. It's Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. It has sorcerers and half-dragons now. It has Greyspace and portals to Sigil. Vecna became a God. All of that is as much Greyhawk as Gygax's. You can choose to ignore it, but it doesn't go away or become any less legitimate, just like how all Star Wars movies past 1983 are still Star Wars movies.

So Greyhawk will grow and adapt to the core of 5e like it grew to adapt to 3e and 2e before it. You are free to continue to view the setting as being set in stone 30+ years ago, but please understand most people do not share that opinion.

And if Greyhawk can't adapt, then it should be consigned to the dustbin of history with the edition that spawned it.

 

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[Emirikol Prime]

Man, I don't like the cover, either, but calling it nightmare fuel is a bit extreme (unless, of course, elf chicks give you nightmarre—and, if so, this might not be the right hobby for you ).

It's exactly the right hobby for me. It's nightmare fuel because it's horribly depicted.

But failed attempt at gatekeeping.

 

[Parmandur]

Listening to Greg Tito on D&D News now, relevant tidbits:

- Artificer in this book will have 3 Subclasses (unnamed): Crawford had said previously that the Alchemist was the low scorer of the last batch, so that might not have made the cut.

- Group Patrons excite Greg Tito, a traditional quest giver who adopts the adventuring party is the background, but now with weighty mechanics: used the example of being a team working for a University.

- Keith contributed a lot to this book, Crawford was the lead, James Wyatt has also worked on the book, and a number of freelancers

- There is a chapter that is a Gazeeter of Sharn

- There is another chapter that is a Gazeeter of Khorvaire

- This material is beyond what is in the Wayfinder's Guide: Tito said there are 320 pages in this book, with 750 words per page, whereas the Wayfinder's guide had 192 pages with 300 words per page, so there is a masive amount of new material.

- Wayfidner's Guide will get all the mechanics updated to match this book.

- All 12 Dragonmark Races are in the book

- Discussed the cover showing on Amazon, said there would be some news coming on the cover itself, and that they have heard the feedback

- Alternate cover backside has a cool Warforged figure

- Someone called Eberron "Steampunk," Tito corrected this, as it is more of a magictech pulp setting.

- There are "tons of maps" in the book for trains, airships, universities and other things, and material for a "slew of adventures"

 

[Cringer_luvr1701]

Looks like Amazon has it listed as a September 3rd release, Not November.

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This title will be released on September 3, 2019.

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[Azzy]

It's exactly the right hobby for me. It's nightmare fuel because it's horribly depicted.

But failed attempt at gatekeeping.

Gatekeeping? That's a fun way to interpret a joke (that included an emoticon that indicated that it wasn't serious). But rock on with your bad self.