D&D 5E New Cover for Eberron: Rising from the Last War

The new cover for the upcoming Eberron: Rising From the Last War has been revealed by WotC. This cover by Wesley Burt depicts a warforged wizard and their halfing companion in the Demon Wastes.

Jeremy Crawford and Greg Tito discuss the new cover in this video. A couple of weeks ago, Jeremy Crawford stated that the previous cover by Ben Oliver was an interior illustration serving as a placeholder cover. They expand on that in this video:

Tito: We have decided to change this cover, though. We are going with a different cover for this book.... we had the rare opportunity to change that because the files had not yet been sent to the printer.

Crawford: That's right. When the book was announced, we were still about a week out from sending the books to the printer... we had a window of time to swap out the cover, which was actually something we had been discussing for some time leading up to the announcement.

Tito: But, once we announced, we also recieved a lot of feedback from fans saying that they wanted a different cover and that feedback really galvanized us... so we are changing it to this cover designed by Wesley Burt.

The painting was already in the book, and was moved to the cover, while Ben Oliver's previous cover was moved to be the chapter opener for the first chapter (character creation).

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[Atlatl Jones]

This one has the same problem the original had: It's a gorgeous two-page spread piece, which when chopped in half to fit on the front cover looks really bland and uninspiring. I'll be getting the alternate.

 

[Prakriti]

Something about the wasteland-like desert hues of the new cover make me think Athas rather than Eberron.

Still, I like it better than the original cover.

 

[RSIxidor]

Are we going to get official rules for boomerangs because for that alone, I am interested.

 

[Zardnaar]

I really dont understand these art choices. They should be evocative of the setting and dripping with flavor.

A proper Dragonlance setting book would feature something like a Knight of Solamnia, a Wizard of High Sorcery, and a Kender all standing in front of the High Clerists Tower with a silver and blue dragon fighting overhead in the distance bearing riders wielding lances.

This is Eberron for goodness sake, give us something akin to a Warforged Juggernaut, an Artificer, a Changeling, and a Dragonmarked noble riding the Lightning Rail through the pulp-filled city of Sharn with an airship in the background.

Also does that strange Warforged on the cover look like an Ultron clone to anyone else?

Now that you mention it.

I'm torn, I liked the 3.5 version and own it.

Pros. No WAR art.
Cons. No WAR art

Go figure can't really explain it.

 

[cbwjm]

I like the piece in general, I do think the outfit the warforged is wearing looks a little stupid, but otherwise, this is a cool piece of art.

 

[Ash Mantle]

What is Iron Man doing on a D&D cover?

He built himself in a cave with a box of scraps!

 

[PsyzhranV2]

Are we going to get official rules for boomerangs because for that alone, I am interested.

We already do. Simple Ranged Weapon, 1d4 bludgeoning, 60/120 range, returns to the thrower's hand if it misses.

 

[teitan]

I have this on pre-order but I’m wondering why we aren’t getting the same for the Realms when it’s the default? SCAG is a decent regional source but FR deserves better.

 

[Zardnaar]

I have this on pre-order but I’m wondering why we aren’t getting the same for the Realms when it’s the default? SCAG is a decent regional source but FR deserves better.

Eberron didn't get blown up. If they fleshed out the Realms they would probably have to pick sides about hard decisions.

 

[Parmandur]

I have this on pre-order but I’m wondering why we aren’t getting the same for the Realms when it’s the default? SCAG is a decent regional source but FR deserves better.

The FR is getting setting info region by region.