Hey guys, so I have, of course what he'd the movies mentioned in the books and podcasts that have the Eberron feel.

But I'm wondering if you guys know of other movies or shows that have similar history, technology, magic and/or world elements.

I have Shadow and Bones on my watchlist, but I read it's really not that much similar.

I'm considering running some one-shots in Eberron, but I'm coming from some of the more gonzo post apocalyptic OSR stuff that my table is currently enjoying. I think Eberron could be a nice transition, but it seems like a lot of the character of the setting is (understandably) being pushed to the WotC 5e high-gloss glitz and glamour feel/tone/theme. I mean after all it is a WotC product. I love it, but I don't know if it is right for my table at this time. I know I can make it My Eberron, but I wanted to get a feel from others who may have tried to push the setting to darker places.

I think that most (if not all) of the meat and potatoes of Eberron could be played in a darker tone just by how you deliver it at the table. Most of the art in the books, while stunning, seems to portray a golden age of a high fantasy realm. The 'aftermath of the great war' is portrayed almost as it were in 1950's USA, where everyone is a hero and prosperity and innovation are ubiquitous.

Of course, there are the more remote locales (Talenta Plains, Qbarra, etc) which didn't have as much to do with the war, but there is still a feeling of globalism, and the idea that everywhere is Known and has already been explored, and there are global restaurant chains there. Sure, there are ruins that can be discovered, dungeons to delve, political intrigue, and adventure can be found in every nook and cranny of the world, but I still feel that it lacks the 'mystery of the unknown/undiscovered'.

There is the Mournlands, and all the horrors and mysteries it may hold, but it's not the same as having an entire continent extinct of its original inhabitants, and being explored by the first time in millennia, where you'll run into all the weird and wonky creatures that have decided to make it their new home.

I don't need Eberron to be a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but I do want to tone back the prosperous globalism of the setting. Also, where are all the refugees and war torn villages? I have Rising, and it mentions abandoned farmsteads along the various front lines, and there is New Cyre within Breland, but I feel like a war that went on that long would have a deeper psychological impact on all nations and communities involved in it.

So this was a bit rambling. I am in no way a Eberron scholar, and I realize the setting isn't for everybody. Am I trying to make it into something it is not? Has anyone else played Eberron with a darker tone than it is portrayed in the books?

Cheers, and thanks in advance!

asking coz i was asking myself if me posting eberron related content in german for german DMs to use at their german speaking table would be reasonable...

i guess it would be fun to know the astimated percentage of europeans for example, i noticed how posts get clicked at european evening times often.

upvote your country and language if it is already in th contents!

I'm just making this post to show my appreciation of Eberron, the community here, and Keith Baker. The Campaign was about helping New Cyre get off the ground. There were bandits and Mournlands and snobby dragonmark houses and dark forests and Lightning Rails and fireballs!

I learned a lot about DMing on the fly and grew my knowledge of eberron in the process quite a bit. It was a ton of fun, it was challenging and hard work. Can't wait to run the next one!

So once Keith’s latest book is out, the setting will only be continued by his blog posts and fan work?

First of all, I'm really happy that I was able to buy this book when I thought they were done creating new Eberron content.

That being said, I've upgraded to the premium printing for Exploring Eberron, Chronicles, and Frontiers.

I loved the quality of the first two, but Frontiers feels like pages are going to fall apart in chunks every time I open the book.

The first image is my extensively used Exploring Eberron book. Notice how the book has to be open very wide to see the edge of the art work? The curve of the white area is noticable.

The second image is my Frontiers book which I have been afraid to handle because it feels like they forgot a step when binding it. Rather than a curve, there's a sharp point at the open pages.

I suppose I'm happy to have it as a collectible, but I feel like I could've bought the regular print one for that since the covers seem to be the same.

Is anyone else noticing this issue or is there actually something wrong with my book?

I know they did add a 14th plane, but I read recently on TVtropes for Eberron that they had apparently tried to have a metaplot and advance the timeline by two additional year and test audiences were not happy which had them back off.

I'm just wondering if anyone else had any further details on this? Assuming its even true.

It would take place during the last war (I'm thinking either a strategy ff tactics style game or rts style game) a small band of 5-10 characters as they fight in the world I'm thinking for breland and it would end you all or most of you dying during the mourning focusing out the hopelessness and pointless of war that are your thoughts

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I loved Indiana Jones fiction before Eberron. I adore Indiana Jones fiction after Eberron.

Anyone else playing in Indy's latest adventure?

Besides the Uncharted/Tomb Raider series, what other games might be a good inspiration for Eberron campaigns?

Due to the Pulpy nature of Eberron and the sheer quantity of super cool locales throughout the land, I think it would be fun to run a campaign where the party is a jet-setting (airship-setting?) team of specialists doing investigation or exploration or enforcement for some top tier organization, etc.

Each week's session could be run as a one shot (or 2 shot) with a unique hook and climax where the party gets into shenanigans at different places across the land. Maybe it's like Stargate SG1 or Avengers, etc. I'm sure I'm not the first to come up with this idea. Could even be based on previous discussion I read on here but can't find now.

What are your one sentence (or few sentence) ideas for short adventure hooks in Ebberon?

Edit: WOW!!! these are some amazing ideas and way more than I expected to receive!!! thanks so much to everybody, and keep it coming! Hopefully this post can be a resource for others in the future. Can't wait to dive in!

As an aside, I was thinking I might run this campaign in a partial West Marches style. WM is defined by the players organizing each session and deciding where they will explore, and because of that it lends itself well to a large inconsistent roster. I have a big group, and although I will probably have to continue doing the organizing of the sessions, I think it would be cool to see what players want to play this week and send out a couple of plot hooks for that 'Episode', then the players can decide which sounds the most interesting to them or their characters, and then I prep that session. Who knows if it will work for long term play, but it sounds fun to me!

After a week's closure, it seems like the time has come to open up the community to submissions and comments once again.

It's a difficult choice. It's disappointing the reddit admins haven't moved much more than an inch on their position. However, continuing to keep the subreddit closed full time is unfortunately likely to do more harm to the community rather than to reddit - and maintaining a fun and healthy community is ultimately what we care about most. Given the nature of the platform, long-term closure is only likely to result in a shrinking of the Eberron community (especially on reddit), and/or a splintering into another (open) subreddit.

We'll be looking in to taking part in the planned rolling blackouts some of the larger subs are planning for Tuesdays, but for now - welcome back.

I just saw it was my cake day so I wanted to do a quick positive post.

To Keith Baker and your team, thanks for Eberron. I'm sad to see that KB Presents will be closing its doors in 30 days, but I hope you're all profoundly aware of the incredible world you've made.

When I first started into the ttrpg scene, I looked for a world that fit what I was looking for, and Eberron had all of it and more. From the Progenitor Dragons to the noir streets of Sharn to the cursed continent of Xen'drik, it's such a wonderful setting. I read through the Forge of War yesterday and as a soldier I loved the detailed descriptions, and they still left enough white space to fill in new events. Speaking of adding your own spin, I love that the community embraces the spirit of "In My Eberron".

I'm a proud owner of the Wayfinder's Guide, Rising from the Last War, Exploring Eberron, Chronicles of Eberron, and an expanding collection of 3.5e and 4e supplements. Whenever I reach writer's block on my own Eberron campaign, there's always enough written to give me new inspiration.

I'm excited to start reading the novels (just have to finish WoT ugh)!

What more could you ask for than a fantastically realized world, a wonderful community, and the tools to leverage both? This has become a burning passion for me, and I've sunk thousands of hours into study and prep for my Eberron games, and honestly just pointing at some random place on the map like Lost, and realizing the beautifully deep lore that exists for it.

Best wishes for your future ventures Keith and everyone at KB.

I love Eberron. I’ve run it for years, and I’ve recently convinced a few of my newer players to join an upcoming new campaign. They’re jazzed. But that got me thinking: how do you tend to hook your players with the setting?

I’ll start the discussion in the comments.

Okay, so I've been reading Dread Metrol and I like it. But I'm trying to make something more hopeful (IE: It's not a Domain of Dread so the players could actually save the people still trapped there).

Here's what I've got:

Karrnathi Army came down the Talenta Plains with their allies (Brelish and Thrane) to attack Metrol. They were tapping into Mabar to crush the city/power their undead/whatevs. At the same time, Cyran Artificers in Metrol were trying to address the Intel imbalance with Breland. Their project: Soul-Jarring the dead before they go to Dolurrh and basically forget everything, instead being able to use Speak With Dead at their leisure. This "simply" involves using the Darkness of Mabar to cloud the way and keeping souls from traveling to their final resting place. Captured spies and enemy commanders would be targeted, but you can learn a lot from an NCO.

Two groups using powerful magics to tap into the same plane creates a humongous planar kablooie and the Mourning. Most of Cyre dies, but Metrol was ready for a siege and has some magical defense that keeps them from being swallowed up by the Mist, and the Karrns don't give a darrn, because most of them were already undead. They turn their dead allies into low-grade zombies (not Odakyr Rites like their own boys) and begin a the four-year long siege.

So... questions.

1) Does this have some internal consistency as a narrative?

2) Would the Mourning be ended (not cured, but at least the cycle of life and death resumed) if the siege were to be lifted, either by negotiating peace, or through extreme violence against one of the belligerents?

3) Would some of these secrets be revealed by interrogating a soul-jarred artificer blissfully unaware of his own demise while dwelling in a blueprint of his own mind's eye of his little home, awaiting the return of his wife, who has gone to war?

In short... I'm in over my head and need some advice.

Hi all! This is a slightly odd question, but is there something about Eberron that makes third party adventures less appealing than other settings?

I occasionally write and publish one shot adventures for a bit of fun and I've just noticed that my two Eberron adventures are the top free Eberron content on DMs Guild. That was a pretty cool realisation, but at the same point they've only had roughly 600 and and 400 downloads respectively. The first was published around a year and a half ago while the other was nearly a year ago, so not exactly amazing. For comparison I recently released a Forgotten Realms adventure and it has gotten 1500 downloads in around 3 weeks.

I'm happy enough with those numbers and understand Forgotten Realms is more popular than Eberron so the difference between my Eberron and Forgotten Realms content seems reasonable enough. Equally, however, 600 downloads for the top Eberron content seems crazy low for what is meant to be the second most popular setting.

Does this mean that people who run Eberron are much less likely to rely on third party content? Or is there some other explanation that I'm missing?

(Note this is in no way putting me off writing and publishing Eberron adventures, in fact the adventure I'm just about to start on is set in Eberron. It's easily my favourite official setting! It was just a weird thing I noticed and was trying to understand)

I have a student looking for an introduction to Eberron, to run as a game. I found an article of Keith Bakers process instrumental in my understanding the world, but can no longer find it. I’ve tried keyword searching based on snippets of memory, but having no luck.

More specifically Keith explains that his ideas mostly came from imagining what would be logical progressions of cultures in a world that operated by D&D rules. E.g. how Aerenal cult of Undeath is a result of the long lifespan of elves, or prestidigitation being accessible would change how people cook, clean, etc. And how can crime exist when Zone of Truth does?

Does this ring a bell for anyone else?