D&D 5E Keith Baker Presents Closing Doors On Eberron

Keith Baker has announced that his Eberron-based publishing company will be ending production after 4 years. The company, led by Eberron creator Keith Baker, produced four incredibly popular books on the Dungeon Master's Guild--Exploring Eberron, Chronicles of Eberron, Dread Metrol, and Eberron Confidential. There is one more book planned--Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone will be released by Visionary Production and Design who will also be continuing publication of the four existing books.

Eberron is an official D&D world, and was introduced to 5E with Eberron: Rising form the Last War in 2019.

We appreciate all the support and enthusiasm that our fans brought these past four years, and it is with a heavy heart that we must inform you that on June 30, 2023 KB Presents will be closing its doors. It has been a joy and honor to bring you our version of Eberron and we are incredibly proud of what we have created.

As we pursue new challenges and opportunities, we leave the existing works under the stewardship of Visionary Production and Design (https://twitter.com/visionarypnd). This includes the following Dungeon Masters Guild titles:

Exploring Eberron: Exploring Eberron - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild
Chronicles of Eberron: Chronicles of Eberron - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild
Dread Metrol: Dread Metrol: Into the Mists - An Eberron / Ravenloft Crossover - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild
Eberron Confidential: Eberron Confidential - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

If you would like to continue supporting the former KB Presents production team, you can find us at:

Laura Hirsbrunner, Editor: Laura Hirsbrunner
Imogen Gingell, Designer: Imogen Gingell
Wayne Chang, Producer: Adventuring Zone
Keith Baker, Lead Designer: Twogether Studios

Our final book, Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone, is slated for release in the latter half of 2023 and will be published under Visionary. We appreciate your taking this journey with us and we look forward to our paths crossing once again.

Thank you!

 

[Bolares]

Eberron's heyday was 3rd Edition. Like D&D itself. Sad how many things great with this game vanished after 4e and 5e came.

Don't say some things returned in 5e, they got horribly butchered like Ravenloft and Spelljammer, or weren't even settings at all, just massive adventure modules like Dragonlance. Prepare to be terribly disappointed with Planescape next.

And they can't even do Darksun 5e because WotC hates Psionics and its fans and they have to cater to the extremely loud few who would gasp at societies that have some evils as the norm. People who hate real conflict, they just want a PG version of conflict.

Weird take but ok….

Core 5e had already use a lot of the core assumptions of eberron, and Rising is one of the best 5e books.

 

[Remathilis]

Eberron's heyday was 3rd Edition. Like D&D itself. Sad how many things great with this game vanished after 4e and 5e came.

Don't say some things returned in 5e, they got horribly butchered like Ravenloft and Spelljammer, or weren't even settings at all, just massive adventure modules like Dragonlance. Prepare to be terribly disappointed with Planescape next.

And they can't even do Darksun 5e because WotC hates Psionics and its fans and they have to cater to the extremely loud few who would gasp at societies that have some evils as the norm. People who hate real conflict, they just want a PG version of conflict.

Didn't you just dog Paizo for announcing Remastered as "cash grab" and "de-evolution"? Is there any rpg you like right now or you just here to lament that rpg companies are evil?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Didn't you just dog Paizo for announcing Remastered as "cash grab" and "de-evolution"? Is there any rpg you like right now or you just here to lament that rpg companies are evil?

There are plenty of game companies out there that aren't WotC or Paizo. Seems presumptuous to assume they hate everything from not liking those two.

 

[Plaguescarred]

I am not sure what you mean by "cutting ties," but he said he will still be writing Eberron content in the this post (#55) just three before yours. It just seems like he doesn't want to be publishing content for it anymore?

I meant that KB wont be publishing Eberron game content anymore, unless @Hellcow works directly with WoTC i guess.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

More to the point, KB isn't planning on writing any more Eberron sourcebooks because he will be busy writing something else.

People forget that writing books is a time-consuming business!

 

[dave2008]

I meant that KB wont be publishing Eberron game content anymore, unless @Hellcow works directly with WoTC i guess.

He could always publish stuff on the Guild again if he wants. He doesn't have to have a direct relationship with WotC.

However, it just doesn't seem like he wants to. From his post on this thread he wants to focus his time on other things and will only be writing content for Eberron for his fans.

 

[Velderan]

There are plenty of game companies out there that aren't WotC or Paizo. Seems presumptuous to assume they hate everything from not liking those two.

Considering from their posts they were pretty clear anything past 3.x was a cash grab, @Remathilis has a perfectly valid question.

 

[Blue Orange]

From Baker's point of view, I get it. He doesn't have the rights to Eberron, so he's going to invest his efforts into something he does own the rights to. (Now that he's famous enough to have an audience, of course...)

I'm sorry to see one of the genuinely new settings since the 2e days go.

 

[Micah Sweet]

From Baker's point of view, I get it. He doesn't have the rights to Eberron, so he's going to invest his efforts into something he does own the rights to. (Now that he's famous enough to have an audience, of course...)

I'm sorry to see one of the genuinely new settings since the 2e days go.

Yeah, sorry to see Eberron join the ranks of all the other D&D settings relegated to history, with nothing to replace them.

 

[Gradine]

Eberron still has a thriving fan community that is continuing to create excellent content for 5e, and it seemed like Keith was still going to be answering lore questions on his blog. It's nice to think of KB products as more or less "official" Eberron content but it's not like the setting is vaporizing in the mists (I mean aside from Cyre )