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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[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Different priorities I guess, coupled with me being young and "edgy" when Dark Sun came out. Like I said, I like post-apocalyptic settings, and all of Dark Sun's changes were in service to thst theme. I also like psionics, and they of course were heavily featured.

Eberron, on the other hand, made a bunch of what I saw at the time as "look at how different I am!" changes, for no particular reason that I could see, and the only visible theme to the setting was noir. It basically taught me to ignore it (except for the artificers and the robots).

I don't necessarily agree with your view, but I understand it. If you're at all interested in learning more about Eberron, I recommend looking at Riedra. It's the part of Eberron where Psionics is more common/important than spellcasting. The Inspired, Kalashtar and Dreaming Dark are very unique and amazing, and Riedra is less "noir" and more "fight against the dystopian, psychic dream demons that have possessed our political leaders and have conquered the entire continent and the minds of its inhabitants."

 

[Scribe]

Is there a Psionic class from either of the 2 DMGuild books?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Is there a Psionic class from either of the 2 DMGuild books?

I don't think that there's an entire class, but there are subclasses (a psionic cleric in Exploring Eberron, from what I've heard) and this book will have Psionic Feats, at least.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

I know you like Dragons. Have you checked out Eberron's take on dragons? Because they're really quite interesting, especially his recent article on how he would include Gem Dragons in Eberron (they're the remnants of a previous version of the world that survived the end of the a previous Kalpa, being powerful humanoid Psions that tapped into the dream of a dead godlike dragon that slowly transformed them into dragons, kind of like how Dark Sun's Dragons work).

Thank you for the link, I’ll have to check that out. I didn’t know if Keith Baker had done any more fleshing out of the dragons of his world in regards to 5e, but I still stand by “Dragons of Eberron” from 3rd edition as being my all time favorite D&D book. It was cool to see not only the history of the dragons of this world, but their religious beliefs, organizations, goals and how they operated around the world. I love most of the lore for D&D dragons, but it was one of the only times I recalled a book actually tackling them as an actual race of sentient creatures that can act as a collective instead of just solitary creatures.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Again though, all the marketing. They really pushed Sharn as the place to be in Eberron.

Sharn has been a bit overdone. When the inevitable Eberron refresh for the Anniversary Edition happens, I'd like to see another city spotlighted. I may be biased, but I'd love to see a deep dive on Korranberg.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

@Micah Sweet, I made the thread:

D&D General - Fun Experiment: Post a cool bit of (mostly) unknown lore from your favorite setting

We've had a lot of negative threads on this site lately, so I wanted to make something unique and fun. Hopefully, people engage. To summarize, this thread is about sharing small, minute pieces of lore from your favorite setting that you think most people don't know about and that people on...

www.enworld.org

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Sharn has been a bit overdone. When the inevitable Eberron refresh for the Anniversary Edition happens, I'd like to see another city spotlighted. I may be biased, but I'd love to see a deep dive on Korranberg.

I'd prefer a focus on Riedra, or maybe Stormreach. The other continents need a bit more detail, IMO.

 

[Scribe]

Well, besides girding myself for the discussions tomorrow, I'll be reading my Eberron book and looking at picking up his other ones, I assume I can get them to Canada at grotesque prices for shipping...

 

[ChaosOS]

Yeah if you want physical copies definitely wait to order ExE with Chronicles so you can get them shipped together.

Lore-wise, Sharn is like NYC in marvel comics; absolutely overdone, but also a hugely core part of the experience that sells people on the setting. Rising is very much an "updated version" of past Eberron core books rather than additional content, the bestiary is the original ECS + a few late game stat blocks.

Also, I know Megan Caldwell and a few of her friends are working on several huge Sarlona projects for the dmsguild, hopefully they'll be ready in 2023q1 (Unfortunately none of these will have POD options, pdf only)

 

[Bolares]

As an aside, Dark Sun is post-apocalyptic, which  is a genre I like.

for the rest, however. I accept your deal. I like the idea of a separate thread, but if there isn't one, I'll reply here.

It’s maybe a reach to call it post-apocalyptic, but the demon wastes in Eberron give me bid Dark Sun energy. And Riedra has my favourite takes on psionics.