Todd Talks - Exploring Eberron - With Keith Baker

Todd Kenreck talks with Keith Baker about his upcoming book "Exploring Eberron"
Todd Kenreck is a host and Creative Manager for D&D Beyond, as well as the DM of Beyond Heroes. Follow him on Twitter: / toddkenreck
Keith Baker is a game designer, the creator of Eberron for Dungeons & Dragons, and a co-owner of Twogether Studios ( twogetherstudio). Follow him on Twitter ( HellcowKeith) and check out his website (keith-baker.com)
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[@michaelnagel2205]

Hey WotC, I would love more Keith Baker/Eberron novels. Are there others out there that agree?

[@dominickdrake4886]

i guess Im kind of randomly asking but does anyone know of a good site to stream new series online ?

[@hayesabdullah2018]

@Dominick Drake Lately I have been using FlixZone. You can find it by googling :)

[@patrickhenderson8988]

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[@patrickhenderson8988]

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[@maggintons]

Old D&D fans: "Enough of Forgotten realms, give us more forgotten settings!" Keith Baker: "Would you like a new world book in this trying time?"

[@optimus2200]

You know there is something satisfying and calming knowing that the crator of Eberron havent mapped his world all the way and that he didnt codify it all. and that setting down to write a book forces him to do so. as a perfectionist and someone building his own world its calming that you dont have to have the full world figure out before playing in it .... which ..... stilll I kinda have to jsut to know how things would interact with each other.... its fun but man can be overwhelming XD

[@IamWalkingDead1]

I remember matt colville stated work on what you need right now. If you have a cleric in your group of players that is knowledge domain, then thats good incentive to figure out about the god of knowledge, you can work on the others later

[@neb985]

This is perfect timing for me. I’ve been deep diving into the 3.5 Eberron books looking for this exact information.

[@Tsuna_SoulSilver]

Wow how convenient. Me and my friends are just starting an Eberron campaign.

[@schwarzesonne6529]

This book may make me look into it after my campaigns I'm working on right now in wildemount. There is just so much going on there to write about next week my crew is gonna bust up an orc lives matter riot in the heart of the capital city to restore order and stop the fires

[@TheLanach]

Can't wait to read this book. Eberron is a setting I really want to DM an adventure on.

[@nojusticenetwork9309]

Would have enjoyed a prewritten module. I just want more non-Faerun/forgotten realms based campaigns.

[@bryancetroni]

I know its not a WoTC Official module, but have you heard of Curtain Call: A Sharn Adventure? 1st to 4th character adventure written by Keith and some others. I have it, and its well done. There is a sequel as well, but I have not really looked into it.

[@krim7]

Honestly, WotC is never going to make a ton of adventures for Eberron because it is not their core setting. I would highly recommend all of the 3.5 Eberron Adventures though. Many third edition-era Dungeon Magazone Adventures also had blurbs on how to convert them to Eberron. Not the same as a 5th edition Eberron Adventure but it is as close as you will get for now :)

[@paracosmicSTL]

@Barry Clown "Just write an adventure" clearly youve never written an adventure LMAO

[@paracosmicSTL]

@Barry Clown then you of all people should appreciate that writing an adventure is a time consuming process. Geez, have some empathy

[@nojusticenetwork9309]

@Barry Clown and I am sure you are a regular J.R.R Tolkien with your creations. Look, sometimes I don't want to put that level of work into making a campaign (and I shouldn't be expected to as DM's need to have fun too), sometimes my players don't want to play homebrew, and I enjoy seeing what new official material has to offer because it's helps to inspire me when I DO wish to create homebrew.

[@Ajmauritz]

Great interview, and I’m thrilled to hear the book is almost ready for print. I’m also really glad they went over the sub classes, it’s nice to see more than two. Keith if you are listening I hope you include more details about airships in whatever your next project is, I think they’re visually awesome and a big part of what makes Eberron unique.

[@garyfarr950]

100.00 q q P

[@maximaalverliezen9260]

I love the Eberron setting! I can't wait

[@bryceburgdorf9716]

I've been running an Eberron adventure for a few months now and I was kind of drawing blanks on what to do with these little details. This book sound likes its everything I've been looking for thank you Keith and Thank you DnD Beyond!!!! Also I just found out about the Baker's Dozen holy **** how did this work so perfectly?

[@krynny]

Looking forward to more content and fleshing out my favorite setting. Hopefully it drops by this weekend.

[@simonkennedy6116]

I've had this character in my head for a while, a quadriplegic with artificial appendages. It couldn't exist without the artificer class. Thanks

[@biteso2333]

oo more eberron! thank you!!! I needed this for my three eberron campaigns! Thank you so much!!! can't wait to play a hobgoblin der'kala

[@Felrika]

Really thinking of incorporating Eberron as a crystal sphere in Spelljammer. Making it the origin world for Mind Flayers and Beholders would be great

[@TheHammertime51]

Running a 5e Eberron game currently. The players are in the Gloaming about to face down a traveling Bone Knight and his twelve Karrnathi Undead Soldiers.

[@jamesalexhowlett]

I have been waiting for this damn book forever now.

[@lingbomanbo]

I love this. I just starting to dm for my first full campaign with eberon as it setting. I can see several my players interested in the subclass mentioned. Can’t wait to get it when it comes out.

[@anathema1828]

This is so cool!

[@AbeH]

Hopefully this gets moved into DND beyond

[@MrDemonWorm]

It's not owned by WOTC, so there needs to be an agreement first.

[@jack0slack]

@@MrDemonWorm Two years later, we've started to see non-WotC owned material in D&D Beyond so who knows now...?

[@zombiemanjosh]

The idea of the Armorer Artificer in Warforged armor gave me a great idea. A tale of friendship that ended in tragedy. A young boy growing up learning how to tinker by working with/on his robot friend, when the robot friend is damaged beyond repair and dies the Artificer can still feel his friend's presence within the lifeless shell and turns the scrap pile that was his friend into a suit of magic armor (possibly retaining his friend's consciousness as a sentient item) so his friend can protect him even in death.

[@jackdizzy123]

That would be a cool backstory for a Docent IMHO

[@zombiemanjosh]

@@jackdizzy123 Actually, I do like that idea a lot. Might go for that and see if my DM would waive the Warforged requirement for attuning to the Docent since the armor would be made of a Warforged.

[@marshallsonsteby3862]

I need this as a physical book! That art looks amazing.

[@writererics]

This is literally on the D&D Beyond Channel, I'd be surprised if this didn't end up on the site.

[@MrDemonWorm]

There's probably something being negotiated behind the scences; DnDBeyond is simply authorized by WOTC, without owning it.

[@jumpnow59]

Really hope this is supported past the initial release. I absolutely adore Keith’s ideas when each of his books come out. But the morgrave miscellany was said to have an (non-existant) update in January and the wayfinders guide felt like a big waste of money after the Eberron book came out. It’s been a let down every time so I’m hoping this is THE homebrew ebberon book that’s actually balanced. Looking forward to it!!

[@bryancetroni]

I have to agree with you about Wayfinders. I thought I was preordering THE setting book for Eberron, especially since it was on DnDBeyond.

[@JacobHanson]

Any way to bring this book to D&D Beyond instead of just DM's Guild? You've already proven stuff doesn't have to be official with Critical Role content, or the Runeterra stuff

[@mothsanchez944]

I really wish. I believe (please correct me) DM’s Guild has some weird stuff regarding exclusivity with products they sell

[@High-LordHarza]

I mean, Exandria is canon now, just one material realm among many, and Wizard's took part in making the Wildemount book. Though if you mean Bloodhunter, that's entirely fair

[@mcullennz]

@@mothsanchez944 matts blood hunter is on dmsguild and dndbeyond

[@saltybarry9647]

I'm running Eberron right now. Obviously this is something I'll buy asap.

[@vicharris4096]

Goddammit I was hoping it was out now!

[@Nyarancia_]

Our warforged druid in curse of strahd always turned into a mecha giant crab. The killing blow was done by his mighty claws.

[@Madrock7777]

That is beautiful.

[@joshuaholmes6014]

This is the best. I have to create an npc based off this from my campaign.

[@khamulthewack4732]

He used THE CLAMPS!

[@ShotGunner5609]

Sounds like he probably dished out some pretty massive damage!

[@kat_boss5520]

This book is top tier, good job

[@donaldhughes6407]

For anyone looking for this content on dndbeyond, I am currently working on adding as much of it as I can through the homebrew section. Unfortunately homebrew on ddb is a little limited so it won't all make it on but as of right now I have all of the monsters, the 4 side bar spells and a few of the races.

[@weaselwolf]

Can't we have both? Do a monthly 30ish page gazetteer ebook and every 6-12 months, collect them into a volume. People can pay a couple bucks for a 30 page ebook and then if they want it all in one place and on their shelf they can pay $40-50 for a 180 page 6-month compendium bound and on their shelf.

[@Nemo12417]

Is it just me, or could the section on Mabar be subtitled "How to Run a Ravenloft Campaign in Eberron"? Not that I consider that a bad thing. Also, with it being canon that the Eberron multiverse exists in the mainline D&D multiverse (albeit in a far corner that's been separated from the rest of it by the Ring of Siberys), my new headcanon for the origin of mindflayers and the Gith is that they originally came from the Eberron multiverse and a few managed to get into the mainline multiverse (explaining why nobody knows where the mindflayers came from or can find ruins of their empire).

[@ChrisBarney]

Rose is probably my favorite piece of D&D art, full stop.

[@UglyHyena]

Keith - Hey I'm just going to make really powerful subclasses so that you buy this book, cool?

[@TheAllAroundG]

I myself love everything about Eberron, except for the fact that so much data is scattered across so many books, wikis, webpages, Q&As, some of it updated or disregarded or sorta c/kanon...Ive spent the last three months trying to gather this all into a comprehensive document just to have everything straight and centralized.

[@isaacpirihi1524]

Where did you find the most valuable information?

[@JazzyBassy]

The most valuable books IMO are the following: Your setting guide of choice (Campaign Guide, Campaign Setting, or Rising from the Last War), Exploring Eberron (I skimmed it, definitively feels like a core part of the setting!), and Five Nations (Most campaigns deal with one of the Five Nations, their influence, or the aftermath shadow war that khorvaire is in.) If you are playing in a different continent you can replace Five Nations with Secrets of Sarlona/Secrets of Xen'Drik/Dragons of Eberron. If your campaign is set in Sharn you can also use Sharn, City of Towers. So for the most part a setting guide of choice and exploring Eberron for the broad strokes, while the other supplements for more detailed strokes if it applies to your campaign.

[@LeBigsou]

Perfect for my campaign

[@tylermohle5486]

Love this book bought the hard cover, it's a good read.

[@Xelgar]

where do you get the hard cover?

[@DBoyTommie]

This is really exciting, I'm ordering the hardcover. I'm just worried bout buying this and then having to buy it again in order to use on D&D beyond.

[@samw.6876]

Buying ASAP!

[@TheCoulsonlax]

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell

[@kalemas1]

I want this!

[@killfear]

26:55 - Rend IS the suit of armor.. very cool.

[@ianwhippie2533]

Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell!

[@martinacvetkovic2825]

You guys should make a something for 15th anniversary of it 😊

[@goygeous]

Im new to dnd so im lost on something, i love love love dnd beyond and i have fallen in love with eberron, so why is this book not offical, and i find it odd that dnd beyond promote such amazing content but dont support it on their site the content on their site for char creation and source books. I mean just create a section in homebrew that we pay for and allow us to add it on dnd beyond that way.

[@davidafonso3201]

COOL will this content come to D&D beyond?

[@sketch_012]

Will this content be available on D&D Beyond as well?

[@krynny]

Probably not, if the book is coming out via DM's Guild. I wish it was though.

[@DiceofTime]

Where's the link for "Exploring Eberron" I would LOVE to own a hardcover of Keith Baker's book. Can't find on Dmsguild.com or Amazon.

[@misterright4528]

Is there a psionic class? How psionics were baked into Eberron was one of my favorite parts of that setting.

[@xGhostCat]

no

[@jackdizzy123]

Yeah, the Mind domain cleric

[@TheHareedo]

Will this be available in any way on DnDBeyond? New subclasses, races, items etc? I love me some Eberron, but it would really suck not to be able to integrate this in some way.

[@killfear]

38:20 - oh Hell Yes.

[@armandomiccoli]

So what happened to further releases? Its been almost a year. Did Keith not get the support he needed or am I missing something?

[@greglong7170]

Are there any suggestions beyond the first book for people new to Eberron?

[@punkasaurian3055]

Rising from the last war, The manifest zone podcast and Keith Baker.com are all good.

[@drakkonusfrostburn4038]

So when can I preorder this on DnDBeyond?

[@DragonEaterT]

Does anyone know which miniseries Todd and Keith were referring to in 31:00 ?

[@jeremymagsamen3265]

Any chance the content is going to be on DnD beyond?

[@jamessheehy2752]

Super super expensive via dm guild

[@Kanakadea]

Will Exploring Eberron be legal for Adventurers' League?

[@jordanramsby3616]

Is this book going to come to D&D beyond or is it only DM guild?

[@NxtGenDragon]

Will this book be able to work with D&D Beyond

[@jochenpanjaer980]

NxtGenDragon no, this is no official wotc content, so I highly doubt it.

[@leem4386]

Jochen Panjaer uhhhh hang on, is it not???

[@NxtGenDragon]

@@jochenpanjaer980 I mean Gunslinger, Blood Hunter and the LoL crossover stuff isn't offical either but is on the site so it's not out of the question

[@jumpnow59]

Keith said in an article that the listen I gotta deal with DMs Guild doesn’t allow it to be on dnd beyond.

[@jochenpanjaer980]

@@leem4386 No, it's DmsGuild.

[@TheSkeletonVA]

So is this an official book? Or is it just a side creation/book of original maker of Eberron?

[@christophercorbin9387]

Theodore Minick I can’t seem to find it on DMs guild, do you have a link?

[@engilaru]

So, is this coming to DnDBeyond? Considering it is on the DnDBeyond channel I'd expect it, but on the other hand, you only mentioned the DMs guild...

[@krynny]

Probably not coming to D&DB.

[@DaDunge]

Got to suck to be an author and only be allowed to continue your work if the owner of a setting you created will allow it.

[@dersies6347]

So i missed or didnt understand... is this book coming to DDB as well? or is dm guild exsclusive?

[@DnDBeyond]

This is being released on DMs Guild.

[@Noctis198]

Can you please do guides for Greyhawk, Planescape, Dark Sun, and Spelljammer!

[@joluoto]

Ask Wizards about that. Neither of these people in this video work for Wizards.

[@thehohcollective5201]

the subclass for artificer sound boring but i miss playing warkird so i like the bard.

[@TropicStormed]

Is this technically official material?

[@AFable-sr6gk]

When?

[@Similacrest]

8 hours from now

[@alexwhitten2133]

I'm Kieth Baker and welcome to Manifest zone

[@matthewzaksheske4211]

So I am confused. Is this like a really cool well developed homebrew or is this a legit DnD5e book?

[@Rey99m]

Technically the first, actually the second

[@shea42]

Anyone know the name of the series they mention at 30:42?

[@michaelf6261]

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

[@shea42]

@@michaelf6261 Thanks! Always keen for more Feywilds inspiration.

[@TheCoulsonlax]

It’s also an excellent book

[@rafibausk7071]

Can we get warforged subraces back.

[@karmapolice1337]

They are actually in that book as feats now

[@DavidFoxfire]

Wait! Pause the Multiverse!! Crunch? Crunch is everything that relates to the mechanics of the game, what numbers and dice are used, how the rules work, and how conflicts are resolved. When someone calls any Role Playing Game _Crunchy_ that person is referring to the level of rules and mechanics is involved in the game, the more complex the rules the _Crunchier_ the game. These are terms from the inside, explained using _Broken_ Brilliance...yeeeeesss. Unpause!!

[@davejunk1]

Why is dndbeyond even doing this interview if I can neither buy nor use the content in dndbeyond? Even just having the player options available would be better than a pdf only user experience. Really confused by this

[@sooofisticated0499]

It’s not the world falling apart, it’s just Portland.