If you like somewhere nice enough, the streets are cleaned with magic. Magical lanterns keep the streets illuminated. Banks can use extradimensional spaces to allow customers to deposit in one city and withdraw in another. Sending stones provide instant, telegraph-like communication. Bound elementals power the lightning rail, seagoing vessels, and a rare few airships – taking the place of trains, steamships, and zeppelins. The world features a lot of pervasive, low-level magic that functions mostly like a late Victorian era level of technology (part of me wants to draw a comparison to steampunk, but there’s no actual steam, no punk, and almost none of the aesthetic that goes along with that term, so I think the real-world technology comparison will be more helpful). It’s a 320-page, full-color hardcover (with a pull-out map of the continent of Khorvaire), and is available in the ‘normal’ cover (featuring a warforged and a halfling + dinosaur) or a limited edition cover that is possibly the most gorgeous thing they’ve put on the front of a 5E book.Įberron, as a setting, differs from the ‘traditional’ high fantasy of Faerun (the default D&D5E world) in a number of ways.
It does contain a single first-level adventure to help introduce the world and, more specifically, the city of Sharn, to the players, but beyond that it’s purely a setting back, not an adventure book. Writer/Designer Keith Baker won a fantasy setting search held by Wizards of the Coast in 2002, beating out the other 10,000+ of us to see his creation become part of D&D history.Īlthough it bears a more distinctive title, Eberron: Rising from the Last War would, in a different time, simply have been entitled Eberron Campaign Setting. Maybe one a year isn’t really fast and furious, but with Eberron: Rising from the Last War (releasing November 19, 2019) following Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica we’ve now received new Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting books two years in a row, and that certainly feels fast and furious to someone like me who has a whole back catalog of D&D worlds they would love to see updated into Fifth Edition.Įberron is, relatively speaking, one of the newer D&D campaign settings, inasmuch as it came out during the Third Edition era, in this millenium instead of in the 1980s.
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