D&D 5E Chronicles of Eberron Is Keith Baker's New D&D Book, out now!

After a few days of teasing, Eberron creator Keith Baker has announced his new book -- Chronicles of Eberron! By Keith and Imogen Gingell, the 200-page book will be available on DMs Guild in December.

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Hektula is the Scribe of Sul Khatesh, the Keeper of the Library of Ashtakala, and the Chronicler of the Lords of Dust. Her treasured tomes hold arcane secrets still hidden from human and dragon alike. What lies beneath the Barren Sea? What powers does Mordain the Fleshweaver wield within Blackroot? Who are the Grim Lords of the Bloodsail Principality? All these secrets and many more can be found in the Chronicles of Eberron…

• Chronicles of Eberron is a new 5E sourcebook from Eberron creator Keith Baker and designer Imogen Gingell.
• This book explores a diverse range of topics, including lore and advice for both players and DMs, along with new monsters, treasures, spells and character options.
• Chronicles of Eberron will be available on the DMs Guild as a PDF and print-on-demand.

But that's not all! There is a collaboration with Hero Forge and new T-Shirts!

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[darjr]

The heroforge stuff is cool.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

They're down to a tenth of their employees and most of the folks that keep the complicated series of plates spinning are gone. All the network engineers I know think that Twitter is likely going to go down, repeatedly, or even stay down for an extended period once the World Cup starts.

A few black out periods while they figure things out isn't the same thing as Twitter ending, so I'd say it's still melodramatic.

 

[humble minion]

The shear melodrama of Twitter, where folks act like Twitter is mere hours from demise is freaking hilarious . It's Y2K all over again.

The only reason Y2K didn't end in disaster is because all over the world, loads of people took the possibility seriously, and spent years proactively working hard to prevent it. The Y2K bug response is probably one of the greatest successes the IT sector as a whole has ever had, and it still gets me steamed up when people act as though it was all a big funny nothingburger and we all got worried for no reason. But you never get any credit for the disasters you successfully avert, I guess. Nobody stops at the traffic lights and then gives fulsome thanks to the mechanic who last serviced their brakes.

Twitter is doing the exact opposite to what the tech industry did in response to Y2K. It's busy sacking all the people who've been keeping the lights on up to now, and gutting its internal expertise and experience base. I'm not in the social media field, but I've worked in the financial software sector for over a decade so I'm fairly familiar with how big complicated systems run, on an everyday level. From everything I'm reading, all my professional experience tells me the platform is circling the drain. This doesn't mean it'll die today, or tomorrow, or next week. But it means that by the law of averages, something will soon go wrong and they'll have sacked everyone who knew that bit of the system and how to fix it.

 

[ChaosOS]

Has it been announced yet?

no full post yet, we've just got piles of things from Keith bringing the book up on livestreams like his panel at PAXU last year plus a tiktok stream he did over the summer, plus commentary by the development team in the Eberron discord that Keith lurks. The formal announcement post I think is the 22nd, and then sometime between then and 12/3 the book will go up on the dmsguild (Presumably because they're waiting on the POD confirmation process). We can definitely make a new thread once the book is formally up with details and things like a cover image.

Also, Keith dropped another deep cut from development!

 

[darjr]

Image in case twitter dies.

 

[Rabulias]

The only reason Y2K didn't end in disaster is because all over the world, loads of people took the possibility seriously, and spent years proactively working hard to prevent it. The Y2K bug response is probably one of the greatest successes the IT sector as a whole has ever had, and it still gets me steamed up when people act as though it was all a big funny nothingburger and we all got worried for no reason. But you never get any credit for the disasters you successfully avert, I guess. Nobody stops at the traffic lights and then gives fulsome thanks to the mechanic who last serviced their brakes.

Yes, I know the team I was on at the time worked very hard on our systems (with our vendor's assistance) and I know I had a couple of long nights off hours running and verifying updates.

The shear melodrama of Twitter, where folks act like Twitter is mere hours from demise is freaking hilarious . It's Y2K all over again.

There is a new issue to watch out for: the 2038 bug (Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia). I do not believe it to be as extensive as Y2K, but that (combined with the success we had with Y2K) may be a danger that folks brush this off as not serious.

 

[darjr]

Y2K is a strange bird. Lots of folks were worried and lots of folks worked hard to make sure it wasn’t a problem. I was one of them.

An anecdote that sums it up for me.

We had people go thorough the office sticking “Y2K ok” stickers on things. Office supplies and furniture and tools and anything we sourced from a third party. My first thought was it was dumb. And largely I still kinda do. However some of those things were pretty important and the stikerers were trying to make sure they’d covered thier bases when it came to procurement of said things in case shinola did hit the phan.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It's amazing how people get so much praise when they rescue someone for a disaster, but those who work hard to prevent disasters happening in the first place get slagged off as doomsayers.

Although I would rate the demise of Twitter a triumph rather than a disaster.

 

[OakenHart]

1. I'm super happy to hear this, his last book was fantastic (got both the hardcover and the pdf)! Looking forward to the announcement.

2. I wish there was a path for DMs Guild material to more easily become available on D&D Beyond rather than needing to manually homebrew every used piece personally. With WotC's purchase of D&D Beyond, I'd hope ease of 3rd party inclusion would be on their minds, but I'm not confident that it is.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

but I'm not confident that it is.

They have a hard time implementing their own official stuff, I'm not too confident we'll see 3PP support until a few years, if ever.