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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[Gradine]

Me last week: You know, I think I'm done running D&D, I want to branch out into new systems.
Me today:

 

[dave2008]

If I'm reading the announcement right, should be sometime next month, dependent on certain logistical/shipping factors outside of their control - they have to get a PoD copy shipped to them so they can approve it before PoD can go live for everyone.

Which is less than 2 weeks away

 

[doctorbadwolf]

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.

Hopefully the homebrew system will get an overhaul and it won’t be annoying to input homebrew. I don’t see much other practical way to allow individual users to be able to plug in whatever random 3pp they found online into their game. The most popular can be done by the ddb team, or perhaps a marketplace function could be built into the system where you can charge for your “homebrew” content and wizards gets a cut just like with DMsGuild, but even that is going to suck without a homebrew overhaul.

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.

This statement would only make sense if wotc had always owned ddb, rather than that being a very new development.

With regards to DDB, they keep promising the generic features system is just around the corner, but that dragged out for three years and now the acquisition seems to have disrupted progress.

Building a whole new system while supporting the existing system is a thing that has historically tended to take multiple years.
What makes you say the acquisition has disrupted progress?

Of course dmguild will continue past 2024, how else will the D&D team gets fans to do their work for them if there is no dmsguild?

This is an obnoxious thing to claim.

(Seriously, Domains of Delight, Spelljammer, the upcoming Dragonlance, etc..., the heavy lifting of settings is basically going to be there, which is pathetic of the D&D studio team).

Attacking the character of game designers because they make decisions you disagree with, or don’t cater to your preference, is beyond obnoxious. It’s ethically gross and needlessly disruptive.

Like I said that would mean the D&D team would actually have to do the work of updating settings

No, it wouldn’t.

instead of farming it out to dmguilds to do the hard work of actually supporting settings,

so dmsguild is the safest part of 5e as it shields the D&D team from doing the hard work of actual setting books.

No, it doesn’t. They just wouldn’t be putting out that content at all.

Dmsguild is going no where.

yes, but not for the reasons you suggest.

I mean, no they're not exactly the same. But EK needs a little work anyway, and using the weapon as a focus is the first one. I really like the general idea of the Eldritch Knight (I've used it for Aztec Jaguar Knights and non-good Church Inquisitors, both in the same campaign), but the implementation could have used more flavor and a little more playtesting, I think.

The Eldritch Knight should have a spellbook IMO, and a way to add elemental damage to all attacks for a turn.

Or there should be a fighting style that adds 2 damage of an element you choose during a long rest to your attacks with an a weapon, and give the EK the ability to gain an extra 1d10 damage of the same type every time they deal elemental damage with a weapon attack, and maybe let them learn hex.

Another way to go on the fighting style would be you can cast [new arcane hex-style spell with variable damage type chosen when cast] pb/lr.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Hopefully the homebrew system will get an overhaul and it won’t be annoying to input homebrew. I don’t see much other practical way to allow individual users to be able to plug in whatever random 3pp they found online into their game. The most popular can be done by the ddb team, or perhaps a marketplace function could be built into the system where you can charge for your “homebrew” content and wizards gets a cut just like with DMsGuild, but even that is going to suck without a homebrew overhaul.

This statement would only make sense if wotc had always owned ddb, rather than that being a very new development.

Building a whole new system while supporting the existing system is a thing that has historically tended to take multiple years.
What makes you say the acquisition has disrupted progress?

This is an obnoxious thing to claim.

Attacking the character of game designers because they make decisions you disagree with, or don’t cater to your preference, is beyond obnoxious. It’s ethically gross and needlessly disruptive.

No, it wouldn’t.



No, it doesn’t. They just wouldn’t be putting out that content at all.

yes, but not for the reasons you suggest.

The Eldritch Knight should have a spellbook IMO, and a way to add elemental damage to all attacks for a turn.

Or there should be a fighting style that adds 2 damage of an element you choose during a long rest to your attacks with an a weapon, and give the EK the ability to gain an extra 1d10 damage of the same type every time they deal elemental damage with a weapon attack, and maybe let them learn hex.

Another way to go on the fighting style would be you can cast [new arcane hex-style spell with variable damage type chosen when cast] pb/lr.

You can call it an obnoxious claim when when WotC puts out proper setting books for Spelljammer, Forgotten Realms, and Dragonlance of the quality of Eberron: Rising from the Last War and Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. Even Mythic Odyssey's of Theros, Radiant Citadel and Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica are better setting books then the Spelljammer, DL, or the SCAG (which is better then SJ or DL at least, I can't believe they manage to do less detailed setting books then the SCAG).

And books like VGtM, FToD, and MToF have contradictory lore, not just with established canon, but within the books themselves.

Mechanically, with a few exceptions things are solid thanks to playtesting,but this is the worst edition for lore, because lore is so poorly supported.

 

[BovineofWar]

As much as chide Wizards of the Coast for the lack of world building in 5e and the lack of support for established settings, Eberron is clearly the exception to the rule. Congrats to Eberron fans and many kudos to Keith Baker and everyone else supporting this setting.

 

[ChaosOS]

Building a whole new system while supporting the existing system is a thing that has historically tended to take multiple years.
What makes you say the acquisition has disrupted progress?

I watch the DDB updates every month, they themselves said they needed to take additional time to adjust to the acquisition.

 

[grimslade]

First off, love that cover. Second, this is going to be awesome. Very excited for the Lords of Dust to get more page count. Keep an eye on Hellcow's blog for spoileriffic content as he had for Exploring Eberron. Need to tell me wife that I have something to add to my Christmas list.

Tangent-
Is DL: SotDQ a setting book? It is an adventure path with an adjacent board game and some setting elements to flesh out the adventure. Part of the ease of creating these nostalgia settings is the back catalog of information available for people to get the level of detail they want. Spelljammer was marketed as a campaign setting with a sample adventure.

 

[Zaukrie]

First off, love that cover. Second, this is going to be awesome. Very excited for the Lords of Dust to get more page count. Keep an eye on Hellcow's blog for spoileriffic content as he had for Exploring Eberron. Need to tell me wife that I have something to add to my Christmas list.

Tangent-
Is DL: SotDQ a setting book? It is an adventure path with an adjacent board game and some setting elements to flesh out the adventure. Part of the ease of creating these nostalgia settings is the back catalog of information available for people to get the level of detail they want. Spelljammer was marketed as a campaign setting with a sample adventure.

Not even close to a setting book.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Taking bets on how long until this goes Adamantine

 

[pukunui]

Tangent-
Is DL: SotDQ a setting book? It is an adventure path with an adjacent board game and some setting elements to flesh out the adventure. Part of the ease of creating these nostalgia settings is the back catalog of information available for people to get the level of detail they want. Spelljammer was marketed as a campaign setting with a sample adventure.

No, it's an adventure with a little bit of setting material to give it context. DDB even has it listed under adventures rather than sourcebooks.