D&D 5E New Eberron Book Details From WotC

WotC’s Jeremy Crawford appeared on Twitch last night with Bart Carroll, discussing the upcoming D&D setting book Eberron: Rising from the Last War. Lots of details within!

- Overview of Eberron, emphasized potentials for adventure and post-WWI pulp style of setting.

- Dragonmarked Houses as fantasy Corporations, playable Dragonmarked characters as race rules in the book

- Rules and stories for playing, Warforged, Changlings, Kalsthar, Shifters, Goblins, Hobgoblins, Bugbears, Orcs. Playable Orc is different fro mthe Volo's Guide rules to reflect the different story (no intelligence malus, few other tweaks, still usable for other worlds, these are PC Orcs as opposed to Monster Manual Orcs like Volo's).

- Full rules for the Artificer, including a new feature in this book for making Common and Uncommon magic items

- Aberrant Dragonmark Feats are in the book

- Group patron rules for organizations the late 19th-early 20th century style: newspapers, criminal syndicates, universities, spy rings: fourth choice after Race-Class-Background that the party makes together, has new fluff background features to give characters and adventure hooks

- Possibility of the party becoming their own patron, example being creating your own Crime Syndicate

- All of the above is Chapter 1 material

- Chapter 2 is a Gazeeter of Korvaire and the world: delves into great nations, the religions, touches on otehr continents

- Chapter 3 is a zoom in on Sharn, a microcosm of the setting, great place for Noir intrigue

- Chapter 4 is a 100 page adventure creation toolkit comparable to Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica: wealth of adventure building tables, maps, organization information, first level adventure set in Sharn. Reveals brand new information about the Mournland, for instance, during the war they created not just regular Warforged and Warforged Titans but also Warforged Colossi the size of skyscrapers: one of the maps is of a fallen Warfored Colossi as a dungeon @doctorbadwolf

- Section in "massive" chapter for creating adventures about Eberron's cosmology, and how it relates to Great Wheel multiverse, left to DM to decide how sealed off Eberron is by the Progenitor Dragons

- There are extended magical item economy rules in chapter 5, Common magical items are plentiful: buying, selling, crafting rules and price lists.

- Eberron specific monsters and NPCs in the sixth and final chapter, covering things like Daelkyr, Living Spells (3 different Living Spells in the book including Living Cloud Kill, and a template for making more) and various specific NPCs

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[doctorbadwolf]

Corellon larethian creates the drow when he cast them out.

In FR, maybe.

 

[R_J_K75]

No, that's a fair question.

What Crawford said was that "in Eberron you can actually see what in other worlds we might refer to as the Crystal Sphere." The reason he phrases it this way is that "Crystal Sphere" as a term for the barrier around the systems is a misnomer, not quite accurate. It is identical to what Spelljammer calls a Crystal Sphere for Eberron space.

If memory serves me Spelljammer was never officially mentioned in any D&D 3.x book, correct? It showed up in a 4E book or two. Now in 5E its starting to be mentioned more and more, hence the retcon of Eberron I guess. I liked how 2E, especially in the Forgotten Realms Spelljammer lore was was incorporated into the setting, with products like Realmspace, Star Dock. There was a good write up of Waterdeep in the War Captains companion redarding the citys laws on spelljamming and smokepowder. Lands of Intrigue specifically places the Rock of Bral in the Tears of Sylune. I dont remember where but I think Evermeet has a standing fleet of the Elven Armada. Looks like 5E is returning to this type of cross over products which I like.

 

[Bolares]

From the 3e ECG:

"Elf Lands: The elves were born on the mysterious southern continent of Xen'drik, where they were slaves of the giant kingdoms." So no, they are not from another plane.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

This may sound like a disingenuous question, but I promise it isn't, english is not my first language and sometimes I assume some stuff by context...

IIRC they saythe ring is like a crystal sphere... being like a crystal sphere is the same thing as saying it is a crystal sphere?

It is not the same. Specifically in this case, it is “like” a crystal sphere in that it demarcates the boundary between Eberron and the larger multiverse, and that's about it.

It certainly is not actually a crystal sphere. If Eberron has one of those, the Ring of Syberis is contained within that sphere.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Still, the point is they came from outside. Originally, from Corellon. Corellon isn't neccesarily aware of Eberron, anymore than Eberron Elves are aware of him, but 5E Elves are his children.

And that is garbage lore, that is best discounted and mocked.

 

[Parmandur]

From the 3e ECG:

"Elf Lands: The elves were born on the mysterious southern continent of Xen'drik, where they were slaves of the giant kingdoms." So no, they are not from another plane.

That was changed with 4E. And in 5E, that is extended to them being related to the other Elves of the Material Plane.

 

[PsyzhranV2]

And now I know how the 3e people felt when 4e hit, and the 4e people felt when 5e hit, and, uh, you know where I'm going with this.

Oof. I’d forgotten how bad that is. Especially the drow of Khyber part. They don’t even worship Vulkoor, and are not like Llolth Drow (then, neither are the Vulkoori, or however it’s spelled). The Umbragen drow harness the power of the Umbra in order to survive the underdark, and have a civilization so advanced they consider all surface dwellers basically cave people.

The rest ranges from wild oversimplification to the point of implying false statements, to outright nonsense.

If the 5e Eberron books call Vulkoor an aspect of Llolth, I’ll have to basically give up on 5e Eberron lore altogether, as it will be useless.

They don't. They say that Vulkoor has been heard of on other worlds but by very few and is dismissed as insignificant by thise who do know of him.

 

[Parmandur]

And that is garbage lore, that is best discounted and mocked.

If you don't like it, that's fine, don't use it in your game. I like it, and use it: for goodness sake can people's tastes around here stop being discounted and mocked?

 

[doctorbadwolf]

From the 3e ECG:

"Elf Lands: The elves were born on the mysterious southern continent of Xen'drik, where they were slaves of the giant kingdoms." So no, they are not from another plane.

In 4e, this was clarified that elves are descended from Eladrin that were captured in Xendrik. Thus, elves are from Xendrik, but their ancestors are from Thelanis.

Which is not the Feywild, just similar too it.

 

[Parmandur]

In 4e, this was clarified that elves are descended from Eladrin that were captured in Xendrik. Thus, elves are from Xendrik, but their ancestors are from Thelanis.

Which is not the Feywild, just similar too it.

And similarly, 5E "clarifies" that they descend from Corellon. Same difference.