WotC D&D Beyond Reveals 'Partnered Content' Schedule

D&D Beyond has published a release schedule for partnered content in the first quarter of 2026. This includes products from Eberron creator Keith Baker, Beadle & Grimm's, and Kickstarter favourites Loot Tavern and The Griffon's Saddlebag.

Partnered content is existing D&D books from third-party publishers on D&D Beyond.

• Exploring Eberron (Visionary Production & Design)
• The Pugilist Class (Benjamin Huffman)
• Faster, Purple Worm! Everybody Dies, Vol. 1 (Beadle & Grimm’s Pandemonium Warehouse)
• Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 2 (Loot Tavern)
• The Griffon’s Saddlebag: Book One (The Griffon’s Saddlebag)

 

[Marandahir]

we will see how long that is the case, I am not sure WotC is opposed to AI in principle, Hasbro's CEO certainly is not

WotC is VERY opposed to it on principle, if Mark Rosewater is to be believed. Honestly a huge part of what makes MtG stand out in the card game world to this day is the beautiful and imaginative art, and they would NOT want to jeopardize those sales with AI Slop (and beacuse of how lucrative lootbox gambling is, they can afford to go all out and justify not cutting corners).

D&D team have also been very outspoken against AI.

Hasbro's CEO may be AI-bullish, but the new creative hires at WotC give me confidence that they'll stay the course.

 

[mamba]

WotC is VERY opposed to it on principle, if Mark Rosewater is to be believed. Honestly a huge part of what makes MtG stand out in the card game world to this day is the beautiful and imaginative art, and they would NOT want to jeopardize those sales with AI Slop

there are other ways of using AI than generating images with it without retouching anything

Hasbro's CEO may be AI-bullish, but the new creative hires at WotC give me confidence that they'll stay the course.

let’s hope so, it’s not like I want then to

 

[Morrus]

Some Indie publishers I know also think the proliferation of AI content has tanked the Kickstarter marketplace. I’m not sure, but I know my last KS (human-made) got about half the number of backers that i was expecting

The market as a whole is down for a whole bunch of reasons.

 

[bergec]

I don’t recall there being any feats in the original book. What are the new feats in this version? I saw KB’s interview with Todd Kenreck, and he talked about some Warforged origin feats.

There were eight "Racial Feats" in Exploring Eberron (p. 212) and they're included and adjusted for 2024.

• Changeling Metamorphosis (General Feat for Changelings)
• Focused Personas (Origin Feat for the new Changeling Traveler Background)
• Aereni Half-Life (General Feat for Elves)
• Quori Bond (General Feat for Kalashtar)
• Thoughtsinger (Origin feat for Kalashtar)
• Superior Shifting (General Feat for Changelings)
• Envoy Specialist (Origin feat for Warforged)
• Juggernaut Plating (General Feat)

In addition, they've added:

• Aereni Expertise (Origin Feat for Elves)
• Aquatic Adaptation (Origin Feat for the new Malenti Background)
• Khesh'dar Training (Origin Feat for Dhakaani)
• Uul Dhakaan (Origin Feat for Dhakaani)

 

[TravDoc42]

Reading Exploring Eberron, I am so far LOVING the planes section of the book!! The planar effects are so freaking flavourful, unique, and fun! I'm totally swiping some of these planar effects for my own campaigns!!

 

[Marandahir]

Reading Exploring Eberron, I am so far LOVING the planes section of the book!! The planar effects are so freaking flavourful, unique, and fun! I'm totally swiping some of these planar effects for my own campaigns!!

These were in the 2020 version of the book (at least mostly the same, I haven't found the differences); Keith's ideas about the Planes have always been fascinating to explore. WotC trimmmed their chapters way down in like every book of the last 3 editions, so it's really awesome that through DM's Guild (and now D&D Beyond) people are able to get to know the conners of the Eberron Setting that don't make the cut for the core Khorvaire Great Houses Five Nations story.

I"m still hoping we'll get an 5E Sarlona or Xend'rik expansion from Keith, but if you're liking Exploring Eberron, I highly suggest checking out his other D&D 5E books on DM's Guilde – specifically, "Dread Metrol", "Chronicles of Eberron", and "Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone". There's a few others but those are the 3 non-Wotch source books that Keith was involved with for 5E. He worked a bit with Ruty on "Morgrave Miscellany" but that book really doesn't represent Keith's version of Eberron (down to including the Mark of Death! I appreciate seeing how someone might create rules for the Mark of Death, but Keith didn't want this published anywhere in anything even tangential to official manuals because that creates a sense of a canon narrative around the lost Mark.).

 

[TravDoc42]

These were in the 2020 version of the book (at least mostly the same, I haven't found the differences); Keith's ideas about the Planes have always been fascinating to explore. WotC trimmmed their chapters way down in like every book of the last 3 editions, so it's really awesome that through DM's Guild (and now D&D Beyond) people are able to get to know the conners of the Eberron Setting that don't make the cut for the core Khorvaire Great Houses Five Nations story.

I"m still hoping we'll get an 5E Sarlona or Xend'rik expansion from Keith, but if you're liking Exploring Eberron, I highly suggest checking out his other D&D 5E books on DM's Guilde – specifically, "Dread Metrol", "Chronicles of Eberron", and "Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone". There's a few others but those are the 3 non-Wotch source books that Keith was involved with for 5E. He worked a bit with Ruty on "Morgrave Miscellany" but that book really doesn't represent Keith's version of Eberron (down to including the Mark of Death! I appreciate seeing how someone might create rules for the Mark of Death, but Keith didn't want this published anywhere in anything even tangential to official manuals because that creates a sense of a canon narrative around the lost Mark.).

I'll definitely have to check those out!! Thank you so much!!

 

[pukunui]

I"m still hoping we'll get an 5E Sarlona or Xend'rik expansion from Keith, but if you're liking Exploring Eberron, I highly suggest checking out his other D&D 5E books on DM's Guilde – specifically, "Dread Metrol", "Chronicles of Eberron", and "Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone". There's a few others but those are the 3 non-Wotch source books that Keith was involved with for 5E.

Yeah, I'd love more 5e support for Eberron beyond Khorvaire. Hopefully if this updated version of Exploring Eberron does well, they'll be able to update Chronicles as well. IIRC Quickstone already uses the newer ruleset.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, I'd love more 5e support for Eberron beyond Khorvaire. Hopefully if this updated version of Exploring Eberron does well, they'll be able to update Chronicles as well. IIRC Quickstone already uses the newer ruleset.

KB doesn't want to do more Eberron - this update is mechanical stuff which KB doesn't do. KB wrote the lore was stuff back in 2020.

 

[pukunui]

KB doesn't want to do more Eberron - this update is mechanical stuff which KB doesn't do. KB wrote the lore was stuff back in 2020.

I know he's said that, but the interview he did with Todd Kenreck made it seem like he was involved in this update.

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