I always thought he would be ELA

Scarn, Michael Scarn he actually looks a lot like my 7th grade history teacher 😂

@@hassanh8783 History is where all the real nerds hide out.

Lol. Sometimes words just came out of my mouth.

LMAO.

I loved the movie Treasure Planet. I was sad that while it was a hit with critics it didn't do well in the box office hence why it's sequel was cancelled.

@@AkkiLad I hate being reminded about the canceled sequel. It just makes my ache

Oh don't worry, most of the content is recycled too.

Too bad they made warforged boring and the alchemist is the worst subclass in the game now.

@@RolandTheJabberwocky really? How so?

@@darienb1127 they took away warforged subraces, integrated armor and tool, and made them lame. They're nothing special anymore. Not sure about alchemist subclass but I heard they didnt fix anything from the UA and even made a feature worse

@@gavinhudson1960 that kinds sucks. Well, my group likes to take thing into our own hands and chnage things if needed, so we can work around it.

@@darienb1127 yeah I'm a very lenient DM so I'll let my group run Wayfarer's Guide races instead.

Keith Baker has actually said that Eberron is a "wide magic" world, rather than a "high magic" world. The Dragonmarked Houses are supposed to churn out a lot of very low level stuff, with high level stuff still being as rare as it is in other D&D worlds. Having said that, you don't see flying ships in every D&D setting. So what Keith says doesn't seem to fit in totally with the airships.

@@DavidShepheard I think it still fits. Wide magic is available to almost everyone. They can afford magical household items that make day to day life easier. But to travel on an airship or even the lightning rail is very expensive, and not as available to the masses.

I agree!

Ah. Thanks for the clarification!

A good inspiration for how to see it is Pierce from the dreaming dark series.

I forgot to mention it in the review, but I really like the gold text and illustrations for the dragonmarks, as well as a little newspaper clippings throughout.

Didn't let me down 👍 great stuff thank you!

Ya it's like they tweaked the 4ed model of pumping out successive PHBs, DMs Guides, etc.

They should do a set of softcover pocket editions of all the books!!!! Kind of how the old Volo's guides use to be. I would get them.

@@aspektx They did that for third edition as well, if I remember well.

looks like they made some good changes from UA

@@user-mz2ow4ky7v yeah it looks really good. A little sad that the archivist didn't make it one of my players really liked that but hey nothing's stopping me from still using UA subs.

@@DanTheBear yeah after just realizing that I'm disheartened too. I really was looking forward to playing that class =/

I think that was a major selling point for a lot of us.

Archivist was quite powerful, though the flavor was great. With any luck? We'll see it and other archetypes in future releases.

I did seem to remember Warforged having subraces in Wayfinder's guide. I agree it would have been nice to keep that.

@@WASD20 Yeah they seemed to use the envoy Subrace for the base race, but removed intergrated tool from it. Probably cause it was the most played Subrace they made it default. Oh also Wayfinders Guide is basically a beta run for E:RLW and in fact will be updated to match E:RLW but won't get certian things from E:RLW like two of the three Artificer Archtypes and such.

Dark sun would either be watered down due to politics or just never see the light of day. You dont need a sourcebook really, its nice but u can do it without it

As someone who really likes Eberron as a setting that is fine, it's a very different D&D setting and can be a bit hard to fully get into with how different the setting is.

I love the concepts of the Neo Noir and Steampunk, but the actual setting leaves me meh. My goal is to make my own setting combining Eberron technology, Greyhawk maps and environments, and the spirit of Dragonlance Grimmified.

I mean, there's a lot of recycles art in D&D in general.

Really? I thought they were supposed to be limited editions sold only in bricks and mortar stores.

I'm just working out a way to do that, too. Eberron is my favourite campaign world.

It was essentially a rough draft of this book.

Probably Mordenkainen’s tome of foes if you’re looking for monster lore.

No. This book really replaces and expands on the wayfinders guide. I view the wayfinders guide as a playtest version.

WASD20 Thank you

You are objectively wrong about this. 😆

Probably worst thing me XD

@@MrElvenbrother They didn't have to remove Arcane Weapon, they could have just made it like Divine Favor but with force damage instead of radiant.

@@TheCarlosLuna I personally would have kept it multi-element but nerfed it somehow, or made it a class feature of at least the artillerist.

@@MrElvenbrother The thing is that elemental vulnerabilities can be exploited to deal more damage, balance-wise I would make it like Divine Favor.

@@TheCarlosLuna i am not reaaally that against the "exploit", is not like elemental compatibility really comes up much in DnD. And it's always more resistances and immunities on the monsters' side. Basically everyone and their mother shrugs off fire and poison, basically no one resists radiant and like 2 people are immune to it, and force is just the second less-resisted thing around.

I’m with you

I actually really like it, just doesn’t seem to fit the style of the rest of the book and other 5e art.

Sub-races definitely would have been cool.

Should be. It is available in Germany, I will get mine on friday.

The dragonmark will tell you what it replaces for your chosen race. It will either replace the subrace or racial features.

That art wasn't originally supposed to be cover art. WotC put out a preview of the original cover and got some nerd rage about that picture, so they moved it into the book and moved one of the chapter pictures to the front cover. WASD20 has a point about the halfling not seeming to be iconic to Eberron, but he didn't flip the book over to see the halfling's animal companion, which has been pushed onto the back cover. What we have with that replacement cover picture is a halfling with a dinosaur companion who is ready to attack with a boomerang. That's a lot more interesting than what you see if you only look at half the cover painting. :-) The cliff at the far left of the painting does look less finished than the cliff at the right side and the bottom left side of the painting is very blurry. It's possibly that was intentional (if maybe this was supposed to be the edge of the Mournlands) but it's just as likely than the artist was asked to put the characters on the extreme right and treat the left part of the painting as a sacrificial area to be covered by blurb text. I'm not sure, but I think that art directors actually specifically ask artists to fade out some bits of paintings, so that they can be used as a background that does not steal focus from text. So an unfinished look is not necessarily an unfinished picture. It could be exactly how it was asked to be. One thing that does disappoint me with this painting is that the artist is capable and gives us a couple of interesting characters, but there is a vague winged monster in the top-right of the picture and I have no idea what part of Eberron this is supposed to be located in. So the artist has some great storytelling there, but I have no idea what the actual story might be.

David Shepheard I appreciate your perspective bro🤙thanks!

I definitely wouldn't either!

@@WASD20 Forgotten Realms is high fantasy with high magic, Eberron is noir and pulp adventure with wide magic.

Higher tech than Faerun, but both are high fantasy in my mind. When you have shifters and changelings and gnomes and robots and spirit beings it’s hard for me not say that’s high fantasy.

Also huge fan of the original 3rd edition art. Would be heartbreaking if that entiendo vanished. Much like DiTerlizzi art in Planescape 2e such is just dead on the setting. I hope they re use some of that art with the planescape reboot

YES

Planescape For 5e When

Yep. First race I mentioned, I think.

Dean Kleinbooi kaladesh is basically eberron for magic

Not AL Legal...Fuck that

Nope

WASD20 ok thank you, does it give anything that you can play through or is it just a handbook to eberron