Paul Farquhar
Legend
Keith Baker has always been pretty anti-canon, so most Eberron fans aren’t that bothered about it either.
D&D 5E Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
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Yep! It's now been both ways (species-specific and non-species-specific) so any player can choose for themselves in their own campaign how they want to run it. Just like they get to choose for themselves what caused The Mourning and whether the Sovereigns are real or not.
If the originator of the setting just picks and chooses which lore is real for them in their version of setting... all the rest of us can too.
TwoSix
Everyone's literal second-favorite poster
I'm excited because it's Eberron and because Keith Baker is involved.
I'm not excited because the mechanics seem to be yet another pass of "another artificer, another attempt at dragonmarks, another pass of species we've already had". We're in Year 11 of 5e, can't we start to see some mechanical novelty?
I'm not excited because the mechanics seem to be yet another pass of "another artificer, another attempt at dragonmarks, another pass of species we've already had". We're in Year 11 of 5e, can't we start to see some mechanical novelty?
RoughCoronet0
Dragon Lover
Honestly, the fact that they are touching other places besides Khorvaire makes this a million times better than The Last War will ever be. Sorry, but Khorvaire is they most boring and uninteresting part of the Eberron world. Give me stuff on Aerenal, Xen'drik, Sarlona, Argonnessen, Everice and the Frostfell.
Kurotowa
Legend
Very interesting. This is the first "dependency" book in 5e, I think. By which I mean, this is a supplement to Rising From The Last War. Devs have repeatedly mentioned in interviews that setting lines had shrinking sales because you were only selling to people who bought the prior book, and that meant you were on diminishing returns from the get go.
This is probably why we have the notation about it being "a different page count and price point than typical D&D rulebooks". They may be trying it out as a smaller, slimmer, cheaper book and see if the economics make sense.
Anyway, it sounds like an Eberron patch job, and I'm okay with that. Revise the Artificer, update Dragonmarks to be Origin feats, revamp a few lore and setting points, and call it a day. I'll buy that.
This is probably why we have the notation about it being "a different page count and price point than typical D&D rulebooks". They may be trying it out as a smaller, slimmer, cheaper book and see if the economics make sense.
Anyway, it sounds like an Eberron patch job, and I'm okay with that. Revise the Artificer, update Dragonmarks to be Origin feats, revamp a few lore and setting points, and call it a day. I'll buy that.
If you haven't bought yet the relevant 3.5E books for Xen'drik, Sarlona and Argonnessen, I'd highly recommend it.
All the 3.5E Eberron books are worth it, even if mechanically they aren't aligned to 5E necessarily.
RoughCoronet0
Dragon Lover
I have a few of them, Dragons of Eberron and Secrets of Xen'drik being the two big ones I've enjoyed and the former being one I still use very extensively.
TwoSix
Everyone's literal second-favorite poster
And if you really want an expanded setting, Exploring Eberron on DM's Guild is absolutely worth the cost.
Chaltab
Legend
Does this mean we're getting a 5th subclass?
