Eberron: Rising from the Last War

The official Eberron update for 5th edition, Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron, was released on July 23, 2018 as a PDF.[10] While the material was for purchase online, it was treated as playtest material similar to the 5th Edition Unearthed Arcana material.[11] In October 2019, Crawford spoke on some key differences between the material in the playtest and the material in Eberron: Rising from the Last War. He highlighted that both the Warforged race and the Artificer class received substantial mechanical updates.[12]

In November 2019, Crawford said "People got to see some of this content last year in our DM's Guild book Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron. And if a person is wondering 'Well, what's the difference between these two products?' Well, if you look at just simply the number of words in the two of them, Eberron: Rising from the Last War, is over two and a half times longer than Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron. People just compare the number of pages. That's misleading because the pages don't have the same number of words on them".[1]

On November 19, 2019 Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron received an update to the following overlapping material and mechanics: player characters (Changeling, Kalashtar, Shifter, Warforged), dragonmarks (12 houses and aberrant), character background (house agent), and the Artificer class (subclass alchemist). Since the official release of Eberron: Rising from the Last War, this material is no longer considered playtest material.[6][13]

The Embers of the Last War storyline was announced on July 31, 2018 as an "exploratory campaign featuring Eberron" for the D&D Adventurers League[14] using the playtest material from Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron.[15] Twelve adventures were published as PDFs between September 2018 and December 2018 and the adventure campaign is set in Sharn.[16][17]

Oracle of War, the second Eberron themed Adventurers League storyline, was announced on August 19, 2019 and the adventure campaign is set in the Mournland.[4] Shawn Merwin, Adventurers League Resource Manager, wrote that the Oracle of War storyline is a "very different type of campaign from what has come before [in Adventurers League]. The story presented in Oracle of War plays out in 20 Core Storyline adventures that take characters from level 1 to 20. [...] Core Storyline adventures are placed on the DMs Guild at the rate of one per month, giving the campaign an active play period of approximately 2 years".[18] The first release of this storyline was in December 2019 shortly after the release of Eberron: Rising from the Last War.[18][19]

Exploring Eberron is a non-official 5th Edition campaign guide by Keith Baker which was published on July 30, 2020 via the Dungeon Masters Guild specific game license.[20] The 247 page sourcebook acts as a companion guide to Eberron: Rising from the Last War and focus on areas less explored in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Editions. The book also includes lore on the nature of magic in Eberron and the Planes of Eberron, along with 48 pages focused on new 5th Edition character and monster mechanics.[21][22][23] Baker wrote that this product "is not produced by WotC and it does not match all previous canon sources" and that this book is his "personal view of Eberron and what he does in his Eberron campaigns".[24]

Jeremy Thomas, for 411Mania, gave the supplement a 10 rating and wrote "while it's not official by Wizards of the Coast standards, Keith Baker and his team of designers have created an astounding book that perhaps does more to make the campaign setting unique since any book since the publishing of the Third Edition campaign setting back in 2004. This is an absolute must-get for anyone who enjoys playing in Eberron and yet will still have a wealth of material for non-Eberron players to enjoy as well. It represents the absolute pinnacle of what the DMs Guild system can accomplish and is as good or better as anything Wizards of the Coast has published for Fifth Edition".[22]