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."

 

[lowkey13]

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[doctorhook]

From 1E-4E, there were 4 different Psionics systems. They have to reinvent the wheel to a certain extent.

They tested point based, and people hated it.

(I think there were five, if you count the major redux that happened between 3.0 and 3.5, but I take your point.)

There is a huge subset of players who seem to dislike psionics in any form, so I’m not sure they should be catered to. I don’t know much about the playtest feedback WotC received, but it seems to me that 3.5’s psionics system was the most popular, and it’s certainly the model I’d like to see emulated.

Even beyond the points system though, I strongly dislike the name “mystic” (which isn’t evocative of psionics at all, and could describe half of the classes in D&D) as well as the insistence on tying psionics to the far realm. It’s the kind of flavour-rewriting that happened all over 4E and wasn’t popular there either.

 

[Parmandur]

(I think there were five, if you count the major redux that happened between 3.0 and 3.5, but I take your point.)

There is a huge subset of players who seem to dislike psionics in any form, so I’m not sure they should be catered to. I don’t know much about the playtest feedback WotC received, but it seems to me that 3.5’s psionics system was the most popular, and it’s certainly the model I’d like to see emulated.

Even beyond the points system though, I strongly dislike the name “mystic” (which isn’t evocative of psionics at all, and could describe half of the classes in D&D) as well as the insistence on tying psionics to the far realm. It’s the kind of flavour-rewriting that happened all over 4E and wasn’t popular there either.

Well, some good news for you there: the Far Realms connection and the name Mystic didn't survive the playtesting, per the Happy Fun Hour. They are going with Psion as the Class name moving forwards.

What they found wasn't that people didn't want Psionics, it's that they didn't want a different casting system. I don't know if you checked out Mearls' brainstorming in the Happy Fun Hour, but the Psion as the big Exception to Concentration rules is actually pretty exciting.

 

[Gradine]

I would happily accept a psionic class does is not "basically arcane magic, but point-based!"

I thought the latest iteration of the Mystic was really interesting, honestly.

 

[Shardstone]

Well, some good news for you there: the Far Realms connection and the name Mystic didn't survive the playtesting, per the Happy Fun Hour. They are going with Psion as the Class name moving forwards.

What they found wasn't that people didn't want Psionics, it's that they didn't want a different casting system. I don't know if you checked out Mearls' brainstorming in the Happy Fun Hour, but the Psion as the big Exception to Concentration rules is actually pretty exciting.

If you watched Happy Fun Hour, you'd know Mearls is saying he plans to go back to psi points for the Psion and is only using spell slot terminology for ease of creation right now

 

[Parmandur]

If you watched Happy Fun Hour, you'd know Mearls is saying he plans to go back to psi points for the Psion and is only using spell slot terminology for ease of creation right now

Well, he said they might depending ion feedback: but they will use the DMG spell point rules, which are identical to slots mathematically.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

They tested point based, and people hated it.

I don't know if it was the point based system that people hated. The Mystic was just bad - unbalanced, overcomplicated, vague, trying to cram too much into one class.

 

[Parmandur]

I don't know if it was the point based system that people hated. The Mystic was just bad - unbalanced, overcomplicated, trying to cram too much into one class.

Mearls did specify that DMs did not want to use an alternative magic system, due to invested knowledge i nthe Spell Slot system.

 

[R_J_K75]

It's fair: I am option rich locally, having two good stores within ten minutes.

Buffalo is weird. you either find a good store or they are stand-offish when yo walk in. Hence Ive taken to playing at home these days.

 

[Azzy]

Don't start none. Won't be none. Welcome to ignore.

You must be fun at parties.