D&D 5E Here Are The Races In The New Eberron Book

According to WotC's Jeremy Crawford, the following eight races appear in Eberron: Rising from the Last War.

Official versions of previous playtest races: Warforged, Changelings, Kalashtar, Shifters.

Playable versions of: Goblins, Bugbears, Hobgoblins, Orcs.

He goes on to clarifiy that "The playable orc in "Eberron" is a bit different from the orc in "Volo's Guide to Monster's." The playable goblinoids in "Eberron" use the same traits as the ones in "Volo's."

 

[Parmandur]

Personally I cant wait for the JAKANDOR: ISLAND OF WAR 5E conversion. !! That probably sold maybe 8 copies ever, I think that box set sat on my local Media Play shelf until they went bankrupt. All kidding aside...

I think you might be on to something with Greyhawk, they may do a whole year of that stuff that year. Or maybe some Dragonlance thrown in at that time. Ive never played either so I would rather they wait to adapt those to 5E. I'd like to see them role Planescape and Spelljammer into one hard back book or boxed set. I know they are technically 2 separate settings but I think they compliment each other enough to justify that like they did in 4E. Id like to see them return to the campaign setting format rather than the mega adventures that we've been getting. But thats just my opinion, I really miss the cool fold out maps from the 2E days.

The adventure books have been stealth setting books for the Forgotten Realms, more than they are "Paths" liek the old Dungeon Magazine series.

 

[R_J_K75]

The adventure books have been stealth setting books for the Forgotten Realms, more than they are "Paths" liek the old Dungeon Magazine series.

I buy them to mine for content here and there because I write my own adventures/campaigns. I get some use out of them but I haven't run any printed 5E adventures. They're too long and we don't play often enough so it would take too long to get through them.

 

[qstor]

I have to admit I am somewhat disappointed that WotC is coming out with an Eberron book but not a Greyhawk book.

Same here. They did a 4e Eberron book.

 

[Parmandur]

Same here. They did a 4e Eberron book.

Ten years ago, and it is a more popular setting?

 

[R_J_K75]

Ten years ago, and it is a more popular setting?

I think "popularity" is relative. Its easy to say that Eberron is more popular than Greyhawk when theres nothing to compare it to. Most of whats been offered to consumers over the last 20 years is either Forgotten Realms or Eberron products.

 

[Parmandur]

I think "popularity" is relative. Its easy to say that Eberron is more popular than Greyhawk when theres nothing to compare it to. Most of whats been offered to consumers over the last 20 years is either Forgotten Realms or Eberron products.

Possibly, but in terms of "people asking us to sell them a product," that's pretty important for WotC decision making.

 

[SuperTD]

For me, my tolerance to the amount of repeated or "filler" material (like name lists) depends on how much new material there is overall in the book. If they spend 30 pages reprinting dragonmarks, magic items and races that still leaves 290 pages of new content. That's an extra 100 pages on Xanathar's which itself managed to spend 18 pages on random name generators. This will be the second biggest book after the Monster Manual and joint with Dungeon of the Mad Mage, so I think they get more leeway for reprints.

 

[R_J_K75]

Possibly, but in terms of "people asking us to sell them a product," that's pretty important for WotC decision making.

I considered this and got to thinking of the demographic of players relative to WotC surveys. I wonder what age group is asking for what campaign settings? Have they made the poll results available? I took quite a few of the surveys but didnt see the results but admittedly I didnt look for them either. I dont take the UA surveys as I dont use any of it or playtest the material so I dont think my opinion matters and will just skew the results. Im confident that they are listening to what the majority of those surveyed want as opposed to what they just think will sell. I think I read somewhere that 5E is their most successful, is this correct?

 

[Parmandur]

I considered this and got to thinking of the demographic of players relative to WotC surveys. I wonder what age group is asking for what campaign settings? Have they made the poll results available? I took quite a few of the surveys but didnt see the results but admittedly I didnt look for them either. I dont take the UA surveys as I dont use any of it or playtest the material so I dont think my opinion matters and will just skew the results. Im confident that they are listening to what the majority of those surveyed want as opposed to what they just think will sell. I think I read somewhere that 5E is their most successful, is this correct?

They haven't released exact numbers, and don't talk about the results as openly as they used to, but here is the latest they gave us on Settings:

D&D Monthly Survey | Dungeons & Dragons

dnd.wizards.com

I do not imagine that much has changed. These surveys apparently draw in 7 figures of respondents regularly, soooo it is difficult to skew them individually.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I would they wouldn't do much to the orcs apart from removing the intelligence penalty to bring them in line with the general playable race policy. They possibly could do with a bit of help to stop them being inferior to half orcs. I can't think of anything in Eberron lore that would make them really distinguishable from half orcs.

I quite like the Volo hobgoblin, they would make good artificers.

I’d want a bonus to wisdom, and maybe something that feels like natural aggressive impulse has been honed to fight abominations, like the ability to make an OA when someone casts a spell against you or subjects you to a saving throw?