D&D (2024) You Can Now Pre-order Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Pre-orders for the upcoming setting book have gone live. Eberron: Forge of the Artificer comes out on August 19th. The book contains the new 2024/5 edition Artificer class with 5 subclasses, the Warforged species, a ton of backgrounds and feats, and 20 new monsters.

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Forge wonders in the world of Eberron, where magic meets marvelous inventions.

Play as the Artificer: the ultimate creative class. You’re not just an inventor or spellcaster. You're an innovator, a bold-hearted visionary, fusing together magic and technology to craft extraordinary creations.

Fuel your adventures with this rules expansion for Dungeons & Dragons:

• 4 revised Artificer subclasses and 1 new subclass: the Cartographer
• 5 revised species, 17 backgrounds, and 28 feats
• New spells, bastions, and magic items
• 3 distinct, genre-based campaign templates for building fantasy noir, political thriller, and pulp adventure campaigns in the world of Eberron
• Over 20 new monsters, each inspired by a campaign model

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[Azzy]

What Eberron monsters are they likely to add this time around? What ones were missed in Rising From the Last War?

scorpion-driders, tribex, more dinosaurs

 

[TravDoc42]

scorpion-driders, tribex, more dinosaurs

Those sound really cool! I love a good dino!

Thank you!

 

[Kobold Stew]

I really like the idea of slimmed-down rules books for players. $30 ain't nothing, but it's more likely something players will invest in (even if it proves to be only, say, 120 pages and not 160). And it sets a pattern for future books for different settings, as we've already expected.

Artificer with five subclasses (we've seen versions of all of them).
28 feats (the same number as in the UA earlier this year).

17 backgrounds: 13 will be associated with the 13 dragonmarks (including aberrant), I predict.

 

[Retros_x]

The lower price point somehow makes me uneasy. It makes me worry that there won't be much here beyond an update to 5+ ed.

I am also fine with that. Rising from Last War still holds up besides the mechanics. I also want Eberron expansion books that expand more on lore and locations that were not prominent in RfLW, but a rules updates is the first logical step.

Oh and I love the artwork and style and design.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Other than the minor error of giving everyone four fingers and a thumb, gotta say, love the inclusion of dragonborn on the back cover. Particularly because non-frontal images of dragonborn are often....not particularly well-drawn, shall we say, and this is done pretty well.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

What Eberron monsters are they likely to add this time around? What ones were missed in Rising From the Last War?

Dolgrue. Forgewraiths. New living spells. 4 of the main Daelkyr lords weren’t in RftLW. And there are like 20+ Demon Overlords that haven’t been statted out. Most of the major NPCs like the monarchs don’t have stats. And they could easily make a bunch of new generic NPC stat blocks for the servants of the Lord of Blades, Tairnadal Mercenaries, or Aereni Deathguard. There are also a lot of niche areas in Eberron, like on the other continents and planes of existence, where it would be fairly easy to make new monsters for. You can always make something new for the Mournland, after all.

In my opinion, you could fairly easily make a whole monster manual full of unique Eberron monster stat blocks.

 

[GarrettKP]

I just looked at the teaser video, and I see a number of pieces of art showing artificers creating warforged. I wonder if they are going to change the lore around the creation forges and the Treaty of Thronehold banning their use. Is WotC going to make it so individual artificers can make their own warforged now?

Nothing about the art suggested those are Warforged though. They could just as easily be a Battle Smiths Steel Defender or even an Artillerists Cannons.

 

[TravDoc42]

Dolgrue. Forgewraiths. New living spells. 4 of the main Daelkyr lords weren’t in RftLW. And there are like 20+ Demon Overlords that haven’t been statted out. Most of the major NPCs like the monarchs don’t have stats. And they could easily make a bunch of new generic NPC stat blocks for the servants of the Lord of Blades, Tairnadal Mercenaries, or Aereni Deathguard. There are also a lot of niche areas in Eberron, like on the other continents and planes of existence, where it would be fairly easy to make new monsters for. You can always make something new for the Mournland, after all.

In my opinion, you could fairly easily make a whole monster manual full of unique Eberron monster stat blocks.

Good to know that there's plenty of room for expansion!! The Daelkyr lords sound really intriguing!

Thank you!

 

[Atomoctba]

First houserule: Dragonmarked feats are limited to the respective species. Mark of Storm will not appear on a shifter, changeling, or even in a dwarf or human. I can be lone voice here, but I think that as much you remove restrictions as more you dilute the setting in a generic thing.

 

[renbot]

First houserule: Dragonmarked feats are limited to the respective species. Mark of Storm will not appear on a shifter, changeling, or even in a dwarf or human. I can be lone voice here, but I think that as much you remove restrictions as more you dilute the setting in a generic thing.

That was one of my first thoughts right after oh cool a new Eberron supplement. I think the restrictions on dragonmarks are just too deeply baked into the lore for me to dismiss them.