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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[I'm A Banana]

The examples we have of mechanical looking beings so far are below. The first one is more likely the "Iron Man" artificer.

The others could be a steel defenders or not. If they are steel defenders then the Warforged have been strangely absent in the marketing for this Eberron product. In the second to last picture, that would also put two steel defenders in the picture.:

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https://www.enworld.org/attachments/crab-temple-jpg.404792/

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Thread 'Eberron: Forge of the Artificer Alternate Cover Revealed'

May 9, 2025

Wizards of the Coast has revealed the alternate cover to Eberron: Forge of the Artificer. The new cover, seen below, was first seen on ICv2. The cover shows an Artificer creating a metal construct, which may or may not be a Warforged. We'll note that, generally speaking, the average Artificer doesn't have the capabilities to create a sentient Warforged, as they were created by House Cannith via special Creation Forges. Unless there's a radical change to Eberron lore, it's more likely that this construct is a less sophisticated cration of some kind. The...

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Yeah, judging from this artwork...

...the first one is different; I believe that's the suit of armor that the Armorer artificer uses, along with an Armorer artificer. All the rest of the people in that image are depictions of artificers, and I'd bet that is, too. The third picture has two of the people from the first one in it: the battle smith (with the steel defender) and the alchemist (and next to them what is likely a homunculus servant).

The other three seem to be this new design. The last one is the only one depicting the creation of a warforged, probably. But nothing about it suggests a canon change to me.

The new look is a lot sleeker and a lot more "human"-y than the traditional look, but it's a good look, and I have no trouble believing that those warforged and the traditional warforged and alternate depictions (the warforged juggernaut?) were all made by House Cannith before the Last War.

 

[WanderingMystic]

Also one of the nicest touches I have seen is the folded blade on the second picture. This has a drastically different look that previous takes on the built-in magical weapons a warforged could get. I am hoping that in the new warforged write up they talk about being able to customize themselves, or that we have the three body types they have received in the past.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Has anyone tried to pre-order the digital version on D&D beyond?
I'm in the UK and this is the first time they want to charge a 20% Sales Tax on top of the $19.99 cost

Give a fake US address, it's digital only, so you don't have to worry about delivery.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Now that Artificers have appeared in FR and Ravenloft novels, I wonder how they will keep the Eberron Artificers flavour distinct from other settings Artificers.

 

[dave2008]

Now that Artificers have appeared in FR and Ravenloft novels, I wonder how they will keep the Eberron Artificers flavour distinct from other settings Artificers.

Why would you need to do that (anymore than wizards, fighters, clerics, etc.)?

 

[WanderingMystic]

Alchemist: Old witch of the woods, doctor or apothecary, more modern chemist, turn them into single use charms, magical chef, Bio tech or rune scribe.

Armorer: Could be grafted components tech or Bio tech, living steel (Think T2) magical construct (light construct), Witchblade(magical weapons), symbiote, mage tech, elemental construct suit,

Artillerist: Magical guns, techno cannon, wand master, totem or elemental summoner, magical archer

Battle Smith: Rune Carver, mech tech, golem crafter, summoner, Bio tech crafter, animal handler,

 

[Paul Farquhar]

This conversation is going in circles now. The descriptions on the credits page should tell us what’s happening in these cover artworks, so I guess we’ll just have to wait till August to confirm one way or another.

I, for one, will be happy to be proven wrong.



Only if they’ve completely changed what they look like! They are massive obelisks.

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A "massive obelisk" could look like a great many things. Just do an internet search. That is just one artist's interpretation of the text. Art is not canon.

The actual forge apparatus is not shown in the new art (I assume the viewpoint is inside looking out), but if I was using one in an adventure I would lean into Frankenstein imagery (and not goofy cartoons).

 

[Bolares]

Maybe the cover isn't about creating the warforged, maybe it's about trying to fix them after they were murdered. I'm grasping at straws here...

 

[Shardstone]

The most Eberron adventure you can make is Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. So much of Eberron's "pulp" vibe can be distilled into it. Indy on a train punching Nazi's? Your heroes are on a lightning rail fighting Emerald Claw operatives. Need an airplane? Airship. Need a telegram? Sending stones. The Last War is absolutely the stand in for post-War political and social tensions needed for espionage and revenge plots.

This is it.

Now make no mistake, Eberron 100% draws on Magicpunk, Steampunk, and other -punk elements. That's undeniable. But that's because those genres are usually responses to pulp genres. Punk and pulp may not be commonly seen put together, but they can be and in doing so you can enhance the qualities of both genres and create something with its own unique characteristics, as seen in Eberron.

 

[Retros_x]

It’s easy enough to have art nouveau styled armour. Historical armor was generally stylised with whatever was fashionable at the time (which changed rapidly, just as fashions do now). There is no such thing as chainmail (or studded leather) but it’s certainly possible to wear mail under your outer garments - just ask Frodo

Frodo who famously did live in a 1920 art nouveau setting. Ok but so to understand correctly - you actually have fighter in plate armor running around in your fantasy 1920 new york.