D&D (2024) Keith Baker's new Eberron Book

[Kurotowa]

Luckily, subclasses, backgrounds, feats, species, and magic items are all things you can add to DDB yourself via homebrew. I've already added a bunch of things from his other 5e Eberron books for my Eberron campaign.

And if we're being honest, the player options are not what you get a Keith Baker penned Eberron supplement for. It's the setting material that's the real meat of the book. The player options tend to be a bit perfunctory and of uneven quality.

I'm going to wait for the reviews on this, but only so I can decide between getting the PDF and springing for the PoD hard copy like I did Exploring Eberron. The Droaamish frontier is something I've always been interested in.

 

[dave2008]

why isnt this just official content, like how do they have keith baker willing to make so much content for a setting, and none of it is just made official.

Its so weird.

Why does it need to be "official?"

 

[dave2008]

As @SlyFlourish pointed out on his podcast this week, stuff getting on D&D Beyond is completely up to WotC, an opaque process (presumably bolstered by NDAs) and probably pretty strategic in what gets on and what doesn't.

I do wonder why they don't put Keith's stuff on D&D Beyond though. It makes more sense to me than some of the other 3PP stuff they have on it.

 

[Marandahir]

I do wonder why they don't put Keith's stuff on D&D Beyond though. It makes more sense to me than some of the other 3PP stuff they have on it.

The thing to note is that DM's Guild is now owned by Roll20, against which WotC is launching a direct competitor platform. So while from the D&D Beyond side of things, the licensing seems to be getting easier to bring in 3rd party content ever since WotC bought D&D Beyond, from an RPGNow side of things, it may be even more difficult to share publishing rights.

 

[Zaukrie]

The thing to note is that DM's Guild is now owned by Roll20, against which WotC is launching a direct competitor platform. So while from the D&D Beyond side of things, the licensing seems to be getting easier to bring in 3rd party content ever since WotC bought D&D Beyond, from an RPGNow side of things, it may be even more difficult to share publishing rights.

They've done it multiple times

 

[Marandahir]

They've done it multiple times

Yes, they have – that's what I meant when I said it may be easier on WotC's side.

But the process takes Authorial buy-in, RPGNow Buy-in, and Hasbro Buy-in. Before the buy-out, it also took Fandom Buy-in, which is why it literally only existed for a handful of Critical Role stuff that everyone worked really hard to make happen. But now it's easier, from the DDB side.

But Keith Baker content is highest of high tier DM's Guild content, up there with, say, Ed Greenwood's stuff. So Roll20 may actually have a disincentive to cooperate with an active competitor platform. Especially since they're pushing so hard for people to buy the Roll20 plug-in versions!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Medusa, worgs, harpies and gargoyles and PC species? I guess the medusa's petryfing gaze will be nerferd.