D&D 5E New Eberron Book Details From WotC

WotC’s Jeremy Crawford appeared on Twitch last night with Bart Carroll, discussing the upcoming D&D setting book Eberron: Rising from the Last War. Lots of details within!

- Overview of Eberron, emphasized potentials for adventure and post-WWI pulp style of setting.

- Dragonmarked Houses as fantasy Corporations, playable Dragonmarked characters as race rules in the book

- Rules and stories for playing, Warforged, Changlings, Kalsthar, Shifters, Goblins, Hobgoblins, Bugbears, Orcs. Playable Orc is different fro mthe Volo's Guide rules to reflect the different story (no intelligence malus, few other tweaks, still usable for other worlds, these are PC Orcs as opposed to Monster Manual Orcs like Volo's).

- Full rules for the Artificer, including a new feature in this book for making Common and Uncommon magic items

- Aberrant Dragonmark Feats are in the book

- Group patron rules for organizations the late 19th-early 20th century style: newspapers, criminal syndicates, universities, spy rings: fourth choice after Race-Class-Background that the party makes together, has new fluff background features to give characters and adventure hooks

- Possibility of the party becoming their own patron, example being creating your own Crime Syndicate

- All of the above is Chapter 1 material

- Chapter 2 is a Gazeeter of Korvaire and the world: delves into great nations, the religions, touches on otehr continents

- Chapter 3 is a zoom in on Sharn, a microcosm of the setting, great place for Noir intrigue

- Chapter 4 is a 100 page adventure creation toolkit comparable to Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica: wealth of adventure building tables, maps, organization information, first level adventure set in Sharn. Reveals brand new information about the Mournland, for instance, during the war they created not just regular Warforged and Warforged Titans but also Warforged Colossi the size of skyscrapers: one of the maps is of a fallen Warfored Colossi as a dungeon @doctorbadwolf

- Section in "massive" chapter for creating adventures about Eberron's cosmology, and how it relates to Great Wheel multiverse, left to DM to decide how sealed off Eberron is by the Progenitor Dragons

- There are extended magical item economy rules in chapter 5, Common magical items are plentiful: buying, selling, crafting rules and price lists.

- Eberron specific monsters and NPCs in the sixth and final chapter, covering things like Daelkyr, Living Spells (3 different Living Spells in the book including Living Cloud Kill, and a template for making more) and various specific NPCs

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[Sorcerers Apprentice]

What did they create the Planes from?

Freshly baked McGuffins!

 

[JohnLynch]

Well, Eberronian Elves are a creation (emanation, technically) of Corellon per Mordenkainen's Time of Foes, they've just forgotten that "fact."

Not in my Eberron books they’re not. I’ve got 3 edition’s worth of them as well (well, PDF for one of the editions).

But your of course welcome to do whatever you want in your Eberron.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

"This comes to a critical point. Nothing is set in stone. Like every sourcebook that’s come before it, this book is intended to be a source of inspiration: use what inspires you, but always feel empowered to change the world to better suit the story you want to tell."
- Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

 

[Vael]

There does seem to be a sharp contradiction between 4e lore and 5e. If you use 4e, Elves are the slave descendants of Eladrin captured by Giants. Unless Eladrin are also the emanation of Corellon. And IMO, I prefer the 3.5/4e story.

I'll admit, I don't see why MToF saw fit to try and create a unified lore across planes. Dark Sun is also pretty darn different, and ... I dunno, in the event I would even try to create a multi-planar campaign, I'd find the parallels between worlds an interesting but unexplained phenomenon. Like how every civilized race in Babylon 5 has their own equivalent to Swedish meatballs.

 

[Arnwolf666]

The same species popping into existence on different planets is too ridiculous for me suspension of disbelief. They have to have a common ancestor or they are a different race. I don’t expect to find humans around alpha Centauri when we start exploring neighboring star systems in the far future.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The same species popping into existence on different planets is too ridiculous for me suspension of disbelief. They have to have a common ancestor or they are a different race. I don’t expect to find humans around alpha Centauri when we start exploring neighboring star systems in the far future.

I take it you are not a fan of Star Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars or pretty much any other space opera ever then?

 

[Bolares]

Well, I don't expect to see dragons on the corner of the street, but that doesn't stop me from playing with them... D&D has magic, anything is plausible

 

[Arnwolf666]

I take it you are not a fan of Star Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars or pretty much any other space opera ever then?

I take it you are not a fan of Star Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars or pretty much any other space opera ever then?

I really liked the acting in TOS. But I was quite happy that later tv series stopped using humans from other planets as they got the ability to design more aliens.

I think television will always have the problem of wanting to make aliens look human because viewers want characters they can physically identify with. It’s a visual limitation not needed in a verbal game IMHO. Not criticizing anyone that disagrees with me. Just describing what ruins my suspension of disbelief.

 

[Parmandur]

There does seem to be a sharp contradiction between 4e lore and 5e. If you use 4e, Elves are the slave descendants of Eladrin captured by Giants. Unless Eladrin are also the emanation of Corellon. And IMO, I prefer the 3.5/4e story.

I'll admit, I don't see why MToF saw fit to try and create a unified lore across planes. Dark Sun is also pretty darn different, and ... I dunno, in the event I would even try to create a multi-planar campaign, I'd find the parallels between worlds an interesting but unexplained phenomenon. Like how every civilized race in Babylon 5 has their own equivalent to Swedish meatballs.

Yes, Eladrin are a Feywild variety of Elves descended from Corellon.

 

[Parmandur]

One possibility is that Eberron was created as a copy of the distant realms of the multiverse, hidden away to prevent the gods from influencing it. As such, while the drow of Eberron have no knowledge of Lolth, if she found her way through the Ring of Siberys and into Eberron, she might be able to poison their hearts and turn them to her service.

So, this is the prime version to which Crawford seems to be pointing, that makes Eberron compatible with MToF (which is my interest). I'm curious to see how the new book presents this, being more Crawford's baby.