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Wayfinder’s guide to Eberron

Will there be a print on demand option?

— Master the Game (@MasterTheGameRP) July 23, 2018

Lot of people asking about this for Eberron – not until the content is 100% sealed. Mechanics will run through UA and be updated in the PDF. Once those are done – and artificer added – we'll turn on POD. https://t.co/hmQNi5hPbT

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 23, 2018

Should we wait till there is an official release then, if we don’t want to pay twice? Or will the official Ebberon book have different content? Updates to PDFs are free once you buy them via the DMs Guild, so if you buy today you'll get the updated ones for free.

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 23, 2018

I'm sorry, I'll try to be more clear. I'm a bit confused about this. Is this like a pre-book or is this something else entirely? Is it even official or will it be eventually? If I buy this, will i end up buying an official Ebberon book in a year from now with different content?

— Dustin Gauntt (@Tw1zt84) July 23, 2018

This is 100% official content for Eberron. Since it is an ebook, that also means we can update content with comments based on UA playtests of the races and the artificer. If we do an Eberron print product, we will design it to complement as much as possible what the PDF presents. https://t.co/jq9zf1BmIZ

— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) July 23, 2018

Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron brings the eponymous campaign setting to 5e Dungeons & Dragons, providing an overview of the core themes of the setting and the rules to connect them to current campaigns. It explores the continent of Khorvaire and the great city of Sharn. Herein awaits a fantastical sampling of what this setting has to offer, as well as hooks for compelling adventures of your own design.

would you say that horrid beasts were created by gatekeepers (assuming they did) more to 1fight alongside/as them or more as 2fire & forget minefield-like area denial things with the happy accident of removing things daelkyr could convert?Both of these seem like logical approaches to me. There were surely some druids who didn't approve of the creation of horrid animals; this was likely one of the things that led to a split & the ultimate foundation of the Eldeen sects.

— Keith Baker @UKGE (@HellcowKeith) May 9, 2018

Would you use the monsters in Mordenkainen’s as agents of the lords of dust, or as fighters in Shavarath? Or both? I only just acquired MToF, so I’ll have to look – probably a good topic for a blog post next week.

— Keith Baker @UKGE (@HellcowKeith) May 18, 2018

What I've suggested before is that the Gith are the survivors of a previous world destroyed by the Daelkyr, and that the mind flayers are to the Gith as dolgaunts are to goblins: a reflection of their own people twisted into the weapons used to destroy them.

— Keith Baker @UKGE (@HellcowKeith) May 19, 2018

And remember: most people in Eberron don't use PC classes. In 3.5 terms, a lawyer or politican would generally be an Expert, or possibly an Aristocrat. If I was making a PC lawyer or politican, bard seems like a logical choice.

— Keith Baker @UKGE (@HellcowKeith) May 19, 2018

if you wanted to run an Al Amarja alike game, but in Eberron, where would you put a little semi-independent nationstate of weirdness and intrigue?The Lhazaar Principalities are an easy option. You’ve got lots of room for an independent island city-state, and it could be in a manifest zone (or more than one!) that helps drive the weirdness.

— Keith Baker @UKGE (@HellcowKeith) May 23, 2018

Though actually: Lhazaar is too far off the beaten path. I think I’d make it an island off the coast of Xen’drik – close to but distinct from Stormreach – where the weirdness of Xen’drik can leak onto it.

— Keith Baker @UKGE (@HellcowKeith) May 23, 2018

if Eberron were first designed today, would dragonborn & tieflings (now core PHB races) also be dragonmarked races? Dragonborn and tieflings are still “exotic races” in 5E. To me tieflings are more interesting when they’re rare; I don’t really want a nation of tieflings. So personally I wouldn’t make them a Dragonmarked race- just as changelings aren’t Dragonmarked, despite being core Eberron.

— Keith Baker @UKGE (@HellcowKeith) May 27, 2018

As for Dragonborn? If I was building a setting from scratch today for 5E I’d at least think about giving them a bigger role. But for Eberron, I’m happy with the approach we took for 4E (and I played a Dragonborn PC for over a year!).

— Keith Baker @UKGE (@HellcowKeith) May 27, 2018

Plus, anyone can have an Aberrant dragonmark… and in fact, my 4E Dragonborn had an Aberrant Mark, as did his changeling companion.

— Keith Baker @UKGE (@HellcowKeith) May 27, 2018

With 5th edition D&D removing the concept of NPC classes (Warrior, Noble, etc.), how does that change the chef character who was the highest-level character on the planet? 5E removed the concept of NPC classes because it essentially removed the concept of NPCs having classes at all; NPCs simply have the skills you want them to have. So Maza Thadian is still a legendary chef; I might give her expertise with cook's tools and a +5 proficiency bonus.

— Keith Baker @UKGE (@HellcowKeith) May 20, 2018

lol I think you’ve already seen this question since I mentioned @satinephoenix

what resources do I need to run the eberron setting? And is it still easy to run in 5e without official rules for psionics?Psionics aren't required for Eberron. Psionics are integrated into the setting through the Kalashtar and the Dreaming Dark, but you can run a campaign without involving either of these.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) March 19, 2018

This is WotC's early playtest draft of 5E Eberron material. I hope we'll see a revised version of this, but for now it's a place to start. https://t.co/HVVVUazYRm

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) March 19, 2018

Have you read this? https://t.co/4qvgY01cV6 Templars are soldiers. Priests do the work of caring for and guiding a community. Templars fight supernatural evil; priests inspire good in mortals. Paladins are usually templars; clerics can be either templars or priests.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) April 3, 2018