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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[ZeshinX]

Sounds like Eberron fans are in for a helluva treat. Very nice. Despise Eberron myself, so this'll be a hard pass, but for those that enjoy it, this'll be awesome.

 

[Parmandur]

That sounds awesome! 8D

But I am confused how this book compares to the other Eberron release from last year.

That was a playtest with some new rules, and a fair amount of fluff totalling ~50,000 words. This takes the finalized rules elements, and adds a ton more, coming in at ~200,000 words. New monsters, new maps, etc.

 

[Inchoroi]

Alright, so I guess I gotta buy it now...

 

[MechaTarrasque]

I haven't really sent it discussed much, but I feel like monster design has improved tremendously since the MM. Both MToF and GGtR had some really good, deep monsters with interesting abilities.

I think a lot of it is that the MM is built with new/casual gamers/DM's as one of (if not the) primary audience, and thus monsters are pretty straightforward. Later books are geared more for more dedicated gamers/DM's, and the monsters are more interesting. AP's tend to split the difference with a couple of interesting monsters and a lot of MM monsters.

 

[SkidAce]

I think a lot of it is that the MM is built with new/casual gamers/DM's as one of (if not the) primary audience, and thus monsters are pretty straightforward. Later books are geared more for more dedicated gamers/DM's, and the monsters are more interesting. AP's tend to split the difference with a couple of interesting monsters and a lot of MM monsters.

This makes sense, I wonder if it was planned or grew organically?

 

[Shardstone]

Hopefully this means people will now stop whining about "buying the same book twice" regarding Wayfinder's Guide.

Nah I'm still tight.

 

[R_J_K75]

That was a playtest with some new rules, and a fair amount of fluff totalling ~50,000 words. This takes the finalized rules elements, and adds a ton more, coming in at ~200,000 words. New monsters, new maps, etc.

So if one disregards the mechanical rules would it be a safe assumption to say it would be worth buying the Wayfarers Guide for the fluff not in the upcoming book, if youre going to run an Eberron campaign?

 

[Parmandur]

So if one disregards the mechanical rules would it be a safe assumption to say it would be worth buying the Wayfarers Guide for the fluff not in the upcoming book, if youre going to run an Eberron campaign?

Unknown, honestly: it has been confirmed that it is not all in the new book, but details are light at this point.

 

[R_J_K75]

Unknown, honestly: it has been confirmed that it is not all in the new book, but details are light at this point.

Kind of figured that was the answer, suppose theres no way to know until it comes out. Makes me wish I didnt get rid of my 3E copies of the campaign setting.

 

[JohnLynch]

Damn. I have pretty low expectations for 5e products, but this might just entice me to let my players decide if they prefer PF2e or 5e.