D&D 5E Eberron Is Here Today!

Eberron: Rising from the Last War hits local gamestores today. Eberron creator Keith Baker talks on his blog about what's changed!

So, what's changed? The Mror Dwarves, races, Dragonmarks, the Mournland, Lady Illmarrow, monsters... but not guns!

And what's new? The artificer class, group patrons, warforged colossus, and scary monsters!

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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?

• 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.
• Enter the world of Eberron in a 1st-level adventure set in Sharn, the City of Towers
• Dive straight into your pulp adventures with easy-to-use locations, complete with maps of train cars, battle-scarred fortresses, and fallen warforged colossi.
• Explore Sharn, a city of skyscrapers, airships, and intrigue and a crossroads for the world’s war-ravaged peoples.
• 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.
• Prepare to venture into the Mournland, a mist-cloaked, corpse-littered land twisted by magic.

 

[gyor]

For those complaining that the Changeling got nerfed, they are the only race that can have +3 charisma, by design according to Jeremy Crawford. This means they can have an 18 in Charisma making them the best face characters, best sorcerers, best bards, best warlocks (including hexblade), and among the best Paladins especially ones with the Blessed Warrior fighting stye. And one of those Stats is a floating stat so they are good wizards, clerics, monks, barbarians, rogues, ect... as well.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I understand the whole bugs, patches and fixes are a necessary evil based solely on the fact that theyre building one software for a customer base who are using different OS, hardware, software and browsers on their machines. But Im not big on re-buying material I own already because I still buy mostly hard copies. But for the price of the core books I may give it a chance if its really as good as people here have said. Does anyone now if the problem with the new Eberron book is fixed and if the paid version is more stable than the free version?

I can’t speak to stability, because I’ve had no stability issues.

I’m just getting Eberron on ddb today, so I’ll report any issues I have as I find them.

If that worries you, just wait a couple weeks? They’re quite responsive to bug reports.

 

[R_J_K75]

FYI, that wouldn't be "on WotC part" as they don't own or run DnD Beyond. It would be a good response time by Curse.

EDIT: Even more so since it wasn't supposed to release until Tuesday anyway!

I had no clue Curse ran D&D Beyond. Im not a Chronomancer nor do I play one on TV but If it wasnt supposed to be out until Tuesday isnt it possible that some people would get it earlier on Monday, our Tuesday?

 

[R_J_K75]

If that worries you, just wait a couple weeks? They’re quite responsive to bug reports.

Id only be interested in the core books at this point. Can you print out spell descriptions with players character sheets when you pay for the phb on ddb?

 

[tetrasodium]

I had no clue Curse ran D&D Beyond. Im not a Chronomancer nor do I play one on TV but If it wasnt supposed to be out until Tuesday isnt it possible that some people would get it earlier on Monday, our Tuesday?

Generally those people work at a FLGS or know someone who does. Often they are also the people who are also the ones running/organizing games week after week at those shops as doing that causes them to interact with the staff on good/friendly terms more often than the average player likely to only interact as a customer. This works to everyone's favor since then WotC & the Shop have those gms & organizers telling their fellow GMs & players about the awesome new book they should checkout.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

For those complaining that the Changeling got nerfed, they are the only race that can have +3 charisma, by design according to Jeremy Crawford. This means they can have an 18 in Charisma making them the best face characters, best sorcerers, best bards, best warlocks (including hexblade), and among the best Paladins especially ones with the Blessed Warrior fighting stye. And one of those Stats is a floating stat so they are good wizards, clerics, monks, barbarians, rogues, ect... as well.

I hadn't spotted that, quite cool. I think it's more a case of specific combat focused abilities where deemed unnecessary. Changings are very strong in the social tier. The "persona" thing is role playing, it doesn't need to be hard coded into the mechanics, players who like it will do it anyway.

 

[dave2008]

If it wasnt supposed to be out until Tuesday isnt it possible that some people would get it earlier on Monday, our Tuesday?

Of course! From what I have seen things are often available on DnD Beyond slightly before they are available in stores. It could simple do with time zones and such, but it seems some people tend to get their DnD Beyond content the night before the release date.

 

[Blue]

Its pretty cool how the entirety of the gazeteer in Wayfinder's was put word for word into Rising from the Last War, and then a new section (Aftermath of the Last War) added to each one.

Feels dope to pay for the same content + extras.

Woulda' been super dope if they stopped selling Wayfinder's. But it's still up for sale, for $20 no less, despite having all its information repeated in the new book (often word for word) + expounded upon.

Glad they told us about that so I could avoid it. You paid for early access.

 

[Warforged DK]

I'd prefer to let the players create the story with me rather than just be my audience.

Try telling them that you have pre-scripted everything. Just be honest. See how many people want to keep "playing" then.

It's actually a lot of fun to allow the story to happen at the table. It's part of the magic of the TTRPG.

I was playing through a conversion of Seekers of the Ashen Crown about a year ago and when the party had their first BBEG fight I had some awful dice rolls. We were using a homebrew critical hit/miss chart, and my BBEG crit missed is first attack, which knocked him prone at the feet of one adventurer. I decided to attack again, and crit missed again! This time, he knocked himself unconscious and the party made very short work of him. We ran it as he was just revived from a 5000 year slumber and was a bit rusty/creaky. We still talk about that fight every couple of sessions and it was way more fun than I ever thought.
A few months later, another group fought a young white dragon and some kobolds. One player had just gotten dust of sneezing and choking, dropped it on himself and the entire enemy group. Player was the only one who made his save- dragon failed the next 3 and then ded. Super fun and that player who initially thought the dust was worthless, now carries a pouch for every character he plays.
I love this game!

 

[Von Ether]

Interesting enough at our local store, most of the copies are being snatched up by customers who would have been 5 when the 3.5 version came out and maybe 10 or 11 when the 4e book came out.

Makes me wonder what's motivating them? Gronoard hype? The second setting to come out for 5e? The MMORPG?