D&D 5E Eberron: Rising from the Last War Coming For D&D In November

A new D&D campaign setting has appeared on Amazon -- Eberron: Rising from the Last War. It's slated for November 19th, at $49.99.

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Explore the lands of Eberron in this campaign sourcebook for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.

This book provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play Dungeons & Dragons in Eberron—a war-torn world filled with magic-fueled technology, airships and lightning trains, where noir-inspired mystery meets swashbuckling adventure. Will Eberron enter a prosperous new age or will the shadow of war descend once again?

• Dive straight into your pulp adventures with easy-to-use locations, complete with maps of floating castles, skyscrapers, and more.

• Explore Sharn, a city of skyscrapers, airships, and noirish intrigue and a crossroads for the world’s war-ravaged peoples.

• Include a campaign for characters venturing into the Mournland, a mist-cloaked, corpse-littered land twisted by magic.

• Meld magic and invention to craft objects of wonder as an artificer—the first official class to be released for fifth edition D&D since the Player’s Handbook.

• Flesh out your characters with a new D&D game element called a group patron—a background for your whole party.

• Explore 16 new race/subrace options including dragonmarks, which magically transform certain members of the races in the Player’s Handbook.

• Confront horrific monsters born from the world’s devastating wars.

There is an alternate cover for game stores:

WotC's Jeremy Crawford confirmed that "The book incorporates the material in "Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron" and adds a whole lot more."

 

[Kurotowa]

Just checked the DMsGuild version of Krenko's Way is 30 pages long: so an old-timey ~32 page module in the Eberron book centered in Lord of Blades shenanigans seems equivalent.

I admit I'd forgotten that was in there. In the printed book version Krenko's Way is a mere 12 pages. For comparison, the intro adventure The Forgotten Forge in the original Eberron 3e campaign book was 11 pages.

So if that's our baseline for an intro adventure, and Rising from the Last War is advertising a "campaign", I expect the page count to be higher. How much higher I don't know, but I hope we find out soon.

ETA: Crawford's tweets indicate RftLW will be 320 pages. That's pretty substantial and leaves a lot of room for both campaign and setting material, which alleviates my concerns substantially. He also says goblinoid PCs will use Volo's rules but PC orcs will have new stats.

 

[pukunui]

Looks like that cover’s official. The D&D FB page has shared it as part of the product announcement.

Release date is Nov 19th.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I think the only overlap with Wayfarer's Guide is going to be the races/dragonmarks and the Artificer class.

Setting details on this one seems to be more focused on Sharn and the Mournlands to match what's in the adventure.

 

[Osgood]

Looking forward to this one, but that cover is real disappointment.

 

[Inchoroi]

That is the very first special edition cover that I've actually liked.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

So here is explained that there are Goblins, Hobgoblins, Bugbears and Orcs as PC options. And the Orc is different from the one in Volo's Guide.

 

[Parmandur]

I admit I'd forgotten that was in there. In the printed book version Krenko's Way is a mere 12 pages. For comparison, the intro adventure The Forgotten Forge in the original Eberron 3e campaign book was 11 pages.

So if that's our baseline for an intro adventure, and Rising from the Last War is advertising a "campaign", I expect the page count to be higher. How much higher I don't know, but I hope we find out soon.

ETA: Crawford's tweets indicate RftLW will be 320 pages. That's pretty substantial and leaves a lot of room for both campaign and setting material, which alleviates my concerns substantially. He also says goblinoid PCs will use Volo's rules but PC orcs will have new stats.

Bellisimo!

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Everyone here wondering how to get the special cover when they don't have, or refuse to patronize, a local gaming store, there are several larger brick&mortar stores who also sell online and make the special cover versions available to their online customers. Some of them even sell at a discount, though not normally as steep as Amazon does, but prices below retail are out there for the special covers.

 

[MarkB]

I think the only overlap with Wayfarer's Guide is going to be the races/dragonmarks and the Artificer class.

Setting details on this one seems to be more focused on Sharn and the Mournlands to match what's in the adventure.

Sharn was a pretty major focus in the Wayfinder's Guide too. I'd prefer a more detailed overview of each of the nations/regions of Khorvaire than the couple of paragraphs they received in Wayfinder's.

 

[David Howery]

upon seeing the cover, my first thought was "Is that Thanos, a bunny, and an elf?"