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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[Xenonnonex]

My body is ready.

 

[Parmandur]

So, looking back at Ravnica, this new book has basically an identical format. Ravnica had:

Chapter 1: Character Creation, 18 pages
Chapter 2: The Guilds, 69 pages
Chapter 3: the Tenth District, 23 pages
Chapter 4: Creating Adventures, 50 pages
Chapter 5: Treasures, 10 pages
Chapter 6: Friends and Foes, 73 pages

This seems to match up with Rising from the Last War exactly, replacing the Guilds with a Gazeeter of the world and the Tenth District zoom in with a Sharn zoom in.

Indulging in silly speculation, if the page proportions per chapter stayed the same (I doubt they will), we might see the following plus some intro material:

• Chapter 1: Character Creation - ~23 pages
• Chapter 2: Gazeeter for Khorvaire and beyond - ~87 pages
• Chapter 3: Sharn City of Towers - ~29 pages
• Chapter 4: Creating Adventures - ~63 pages
• Chapter 5: Treasure - ~13 pages
• Chapter 6: Monsters - ~92 pages

I imagine that it won't be exact, though. The only number Crawford gave was "nearly 100 pages" for Chapter 4. He also mentioned that it is done, and being printed.

 

[Ash Mantle]

Hopefully they can devote some of that world gazetteer to Xendrik. I'd been meaning to run a Tomb of Annihilation style game set in Xendrik, with Stormreach replacing Port Nyanzaru. Curses for everyone . It'd be more of an exploration game, and possibly most definitely also involve treasure and artifact and cryptid hunting; also inspired by Central and South American myths.

What I really like about Eberron is the open-ended nature of a lot of its underpinnings, meaning DMs are free to come up with their own explanations and their own version of the Truth.

 

[Parmandur]

Hopefully they can devote some of that world gazetteer to Xendrik. I'd been meaning to run a Tomb of Annihilation style game set in Xendrik, with Stormreach replacing Port Nyanzaru. Curses for everyone . It'd be more of an exploration game, and possibly most definitely also involve treasure and artifact and cryptid hunting; also inspired by Central and South American myths.

What I really like about Eberron is the open-ended nature of a lot of its underpinnings, meaning DMs are free to come up with their own explanations and their own version of the Truth.

Crawford said that there would be something about Xen'drik in Chapter 2, but Khorvaire is the focus of the chapter.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Looks very nice! I'm particularly happy to see Living Spells make it in as a template - those can be used in pretty much any setting as monsters.

 

[Remathilis]

For what it's worth, it sounds like the the stuff not replicated from WGtE include the dragonmarked heir background, the valenar and arenial elf rules, feats and weapons, and the 2-handed spell implements rules, which isn't much all things considered.

 

[Parmandur]

For what it's worth, it sounds like the the stuff not replicated from WGtE include the dragonmarked heir background, the valenar and arenial elf rules, feats and weapons, and the 2-handed spell implements rules, which isn't much all things considered.

Depends on what's in Chapters 2-4: it may well be complementary, rather than repetitive, to one degree or another.

 

[Ash Mantle]

For what it's worth, it sounds like the the stuff not replicated from WGtE include the dragonmarked heir background, the valenar and arenial elf rules, feats and weapons, and the 2-handed spell implements rules, which isn't much all things considered.

There's also that 100 page adventure creation toolkit, which I'm really looking forward to, the chapter on creating adventures using the greater Eberron cosmology, and the extended magical item economy rules, and of course the bestiary, all of which sounds pretty substantial

 

[Parmandur]

There's also that 100 page adventure creation toolkit, which I'm really looking forward to, the chapter on creating adventures using the greater Eberron cosmology, and the extended magical item economy rules, all of which sounds pretty substantial

Well, we already know from Greg Tito that Rising from the Last War is over 200,000 words, while the Wayfinders Guide is only about 50k, so at the very least 75% of the book is new.

 

[Ash Mantle]

Well, we already know from Greg Tito that Rising from the Last War is over 200,000 words, while the Wayfinders Guide is only about 50k, so at the very least 75% of the book is new.

She sounds like she's going to be a beauty!