Eberron: Rising from the Last War - D&D 5E REVIEW

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[unknownartist]

This man was my American History teacher in high school, and I'm so sad that I didn't know how amazing DnD was when I was still there

[klee]

“First chapter is all about Eberron.”
I would hope the entire book would be about Eberron.

[JarlHavi]

Woohoo! Yeah, Eberon! Now i can be in the world of Treasure Planet which i’ve been dying to play.

[BobWorldBuilder]

I was not planning to get this book, but the fact that it’s an all-in-one guide and bestiary for the setting (plus that pre-written adventure) has definitely put it on my radar. Thanks for the great review, Nate!

[tbruce]

I'll be honest, as long as the art is decent quality and consistent with the setting I don't really carry if it's recycled. I'm more interested in content.

[blturn]

I adore how the changeling looks now. Just completely white until they shapechange

[user__]

5:54 Warforged are not becoming "more emotional" or "more sentient." They have always had sentience, a soul, and emotions. The interesting hook for the Warforged now that the Last War is over is what purpose do they make for themselves. They are not robots who are becoming people; they already were.

[MythicMachina]

I want this book for two things, artificer, and warforged.

[alexbarrett]

The older Wayne Reynolds art stands out a bit, but it is very much the "iconic" look of the Eberron setting. The original 3.5 books started every chapter with a one page comic, capturing a scene or event from the World of Eberron which would be relevant to the topic of the chapter. It very much carried on the tradition of each 2e D&D setting being given its own unique "style", with Eberron's pulpy nature being highlighted by its Graphic Novel type look.
As far as the high vs low fantasy goes, it is a very high magic world, but its actually one the grittiest D&D settings, because it leans very much into the Film Noir, and Indiana Jones style feel, rather than your classic Middle Earth type adventure. You might find that an adventure is set agaist a very high magic background, but still captures a "street level" type game, better than something in forgotten realms does.

[tyleremery]

I'm a little jealous that you have it already lol, my pre-ordered copy is still on the way. Thanks for getting me even more hyped though!

[DavidShepheard]

4:07 Re: "There were some 3.5 Edition books, in Eberron. There were many 4th Edition books." You have that backwards WASD20.

The vast majority of Eberron RPG books are 3.5 books, with only a few 4th Edition books. There were also organised play campaigns for 3.5 which created even more 3.5 Eberron content.

If someone new to 5e likes Eberron: Rising from the Last War and wants to get some of the older books, they are probably going to find a lot of duplicated content in Eberron Campaign Setting (the main 3.5 book) and Eberron Campaign Guide (the main 4e book). If you take those two books out of the equation, you end up with only a couple of 4e books that do something you won't find in Eberron: Rising fro the Last War, so looking at the Print on Demand reprints of 3.5 books (as well as second-hand 3.5 books) is probably something to consider.

Eberron has also been opened up to the DMs Guild content creator program, so you can find things over there that were not published by Wizards of the Coast. A lot of the 5e products are created by fans, but there are some, like Morgrave Miscellany, which have been created by Keith Baker and people who helped him work on the first 5e Eberron product.

Anyhoo. Aside from that minor mix-up, this is a great review. Thanks for showing us what is on all the pages, as that's really useful for making a purchasing decision.

[KingofBlades]

To me the inclusion of in setting information in the form of the newspaper clippings is a really awesome thing for the book

[Heath]

that pic you mentioned is from the original eberron books, art by wayne reynolds. It is iconic for Eberron

[drgeek]

I absolutely agree with you for the incongruent styles of the arts: i love older editions arts (especially the fourth edition style) but i cannot see them combined with fifth edition new style. Apart from that, this book looks great!

[TimothyMReynolds]

The Art direction and layout of the book is gorgeous.

[Oozeragon]

I am super happy that Saltmarsh and TFTYP can both be placed in Eberron. Makes it alot easier starting off.

[bonbondurjdr]

Posting this early in the video: Thank you for this review.

I just wish D&D and other games would stop cross-referencing rules from one chapter to the other or even one book to the other. I would also prefer smaller, soft covers to make them portable! But aside from that, looks great!

[Tank]

My copy of this arrived today, it's my first D&D book in my collection. My DM owns the core 3 books I can loan until I buy my own but I 100% want to attempt to use this to run my first campaign. I love this type of fantasy as my first table top game was Warhammer so it brings that touch to me personally. I cannot wait to give this a full read and go! Thanks for giving an overview of this so I know what to look for in where as its lot of content to read at once.

[TheWonderboy]

Another great video! I was intrigued by this before. Watching this has made me even more interested in this setting. I used to play G.U.R.P.S. back in the day to play a different kind of setting like this or steampunk kinda feel. This should an easy way do bring that feeling into 5th edition D&D. I'm excited, just gotta try to get my friends on board. Thanks again for the video.

[jarnomiedema]

I'm going to say this: I like the cover for the Limited Edition, but whose idea was it to have the golden trim end up in the fold of the cover!? If it had been offset a little to the right, the cover would've looked so much better!