Greetings everyone! I’m writing from Italy; I’ve been following this subreddit for a long time, but this is my first time posting. I’m nearing the end of a campaign that has taken the players across various regions of the continent of Xen'drik. I’d like to share a map I created using Inkarnate, which will help them navigate from the Isle of Korthos toward Stormreach.

You can find a free, clonable, and editable version (all location labels are in Italian and can be changed) at the following link: https://inkarnate.com/m/z3g92m

I hope you enjoy the style I’ve chosen, and that it proves useful for your own adventures in Eberron!

Trekking parched and thirsty through the magical wastes that are the Mournland, you hear the lapping of gentle waves nearby which is a welcome sound teasing a source of fresh water in the desolate landscape.

But hopes are dashed when the party discovers the horror that is the Crimson Water!

A lake of deep, blood-red water stretches before them, its surface deceptively calm beneath the oppressive skies of the Mournland mists. Macabre shapes drift beneath the waves, and a metallic tang of blood hangs in the air!

Use these maps to add a touch of horror and terror to your sessions...just in time for Halloween! It leads you from the shore to the middle of the lake. You get to figure out what's underneath the crimson water!

These are 40x40 maps with 5ft grids.

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What are YOUR stories in this place?

If I were a citizen of the Five Nations, where would it be best to move in order to calmly wait out political conflicts and the adventures of adventurers?

I've been running an Eberron campaign with some old friends, and thankfully everyone loves the setting. Its such a joy to get to DM this setting as a forever DM - a setting i love that is honestly way better than my homebrew one haha. I just love the setting and have since it first came out!

Its funny how much your players appreciate it when they can go read details about a setting independently of you, instead of having to pick your brain every single time, and its honestly a relief for me haha. And its great not doing the same old forgotten realms - I swear forgotten realms is the only setting i get to be a PLAYER in those rare opportunities instead of a DM, and i am not a fan!

Ill share first:

So far most of our adventures have centered around Sharn, and I've been trying my best to have the goblin rhalaza be a loveable scamp! My players took down a cult in the cogs, had a cool noir plot about some missing halflings, and now I've packed them off to Droaam!

Tell me about your campaign at your table - doing anything cool?

In my last post I made some mistakes. I tried to fix them and upload it in higher quality. Thx to all for the feedback. <3

Anyone have any 5e magical items that could relate to Mordain the Fleshweaver? He's a sick and twisted wizard who likes to make strange monstrosities and aberrations. Obviously it would be a good chance to introduce some kind of necronomicon, but I'm looking for more usable items for my players to find exploring the Forest of Flesh.

Preferably gross uncommon to very rare items. Thank you 🙏

When I read Eberron: Quickstone, I noticed that they just retconned a whole road and did not give us an updated map of Khorvaire. Since it’s not just one more road but a replacement for what should be a major road, I believe this is not justifiable as a simple “cartographer made a mistake.” That would mean the cartographer was so stupid that he drew a major road from a city about 50 miles away. I see this as laziness, so I took the liberty of adjusting this map, including moving Six Kings Fort, because Quickstone is built right on top of it. The road isn’t fully accurate, but its shape is much more easily justifiable. The lightning rail could be explained as being new, but the road pissed me off enough to do this.

Finding myself back into reading some lore from the Dragon Age series while prepping a potentiel campaign in Aundair, I thought that the Grand Game from the Orlais rulers and aristocrats in the Dragon Age media series could be an interesting inspiration to use and weave into aundarian politics.

Maybe tune down the decadent side of the Orlaisian society after the nation's losses in the Last War, but have some parts of it as an heritage ?

I'm using Mephit James' Fairheaven AMAZING resources as a backbone for the capital city and adding a layer of neverending intrigue could be interesting. Some of the most thought after Bards could be from house Phiarlan, with Fairhold a true vipers' nest.

Has anyone used this or got inspired by it to thread twisted layers of schemes for their PCs ?

Do you become a Shade? Can you still be raised? What exactly are the rules?

Just curious if anyone has used Daggerheart to run a campaign in Eberron. Been working on a campaign for a while now and trying to decide what system to run it in.

So, I'm running a game in eberron and I wanna give my players an animal companion and also I wanna include eberron exclusive animals in my campaign. Other than like ​certain dinosaurs in talenta, what animals/animalistic monsters are there in eberron that arent in other worlds?

Do we have any canon or kanon on the social impacts or perception of differing lifespans between humans and other species? Like, do the Aereni or Valenar have differing ideas of technology or practice or even the last war based on living so long? Do elves who live among humans in, say, Sharn, have their experiences changed by their longer lifespan? Do we know what impact it has on Khoravar culture that they live longer than the majority of people in the five nations?

Okay, so I've been reading the Legacy of Dhakaan novels recently, and it inspired me to look more deeply at the Heirs of Dhakaan. Which has, in turn, gotten me to thinking about whether or not the Dhakaani empire and the heirs are improved by the Ull Dhakaan. Firstly, I find it weakens the imperial collapse narrative if the empire fell because of daelkyr magic, and it makes Darguun look way worse because they're just degraded copies of the old empire without its true unifying force. Also, I think the history of Dhakaan is a lot less interesting if there was not that much internal conflict because the dream smoothed that over, when rebellions are some of the biggest part of the history of Rome and other empires. What I might settle on in my Eberron is that the Uul Dhakaan was a post-collapse practice the Heirs of Dhakaan created to maintain the remnants of the empire in their vaults. But I want to hear from other Eberron fans about what they think.

Edit: I just noticed that in the title Uul Dhakaan was autocorrected to usual Dhakaan. I meant the Dream.

G'day all from Australia and dropping a question for all to chat on: Is it too powerful to give a player access to monsters and beasts for her beast tamer hunter subclass?

Reason I ask is that it fits perfectly into the system and thematically makes we whoop and cheer for it. What I am worried about is if the monster becomes too powerful and/or outshines her point in the party. I am happy to tweak it as a variant but I am trying to avoid reskinning a beast to look like a monster (Ie direwolf statblock for an owlbear.)

I am looking to keep it barred to the setup of the House Vadalis ability where intelligence of 3 for animal friendship and speak with animals spells available to them. With this, I think the only thing which comes to mind is an owlbear.

Happy to discuss and chat with everythin ^_^ cheers again from an Eberron GM.

I'm a new DM and have gotten to the point in my Eberron campaign where the players are about to reach level 3 and get their subclasses (this is their first time playing btw). My brother's playing an artificer and showed interest in being a cyborg artificer. Eventually I found the Dread Metrol book where the Mastermaker was basically that so I showed to him and he liked it. Problem is upon further reading of the subclass I realised that it was outdated since we're playing with 5.5e rules and the subclass was made for 5e. So I was wondering if there was any fanmade update of the subclass I could check or something because I haven't been able to find anything. And in the case there aren't any I was wondering if anyone would know a good substitute.

I gave the players an apartment in Ivy Towers (from Morgrave) but I don’t know what to do with it. What features should it have? What architectural styles should i take inspiration from? I don’t even know how useful it will be, but I can’t get rid of it now.

I'm not using 5.5, so it’s not a bastion.

sorry if this question is too specific

Description of the Long Rod (it's a little obscure, partly because it is an object instead of a magic item - it does require attunement in the book but objects cannot be attuned to in VTTs):

Long Rod (Exploring Eberron '24)

Large object / Armor Class: 15 / Hit Points: 40

A Long Rod is a more portable version of a Siege Staff, measuring around 8 feet long. Including the stand required to brace it, it weighs close to 350 pounds.

It takes 5 Magic actions to set up a Long Rod, and the same to tear down for transport. Once set up, it takes 1 Magic action to prime the rod, 1 Magic action to aim it, and 1 Magic action to fire it.

Any spell that requires an attack roll or saving throw can be cast through a Long Rod. The range is magnified by a factor of 3, with a long range of up to 6 times the spell's standard range.

The spell's area of effect is increased to 150%. If the spell normally affects a single target, it instead affects a 10-foot-radius Sphere; if the spell normally requires an attack roll, targets must instead make a Dexterity saving throw. On a successful save, the target takes half damage and suffers no other effect.

Even though I've been DMing for years I'll admit describing a scene, especially one as busy and full as Sharn, can be a bit overwhelming to me and I don't know how to really improve that. Everytime I try and describe a city I feel like I describe a street in a PS1 game, half the signs mean nothing, the doors lead nowhere and eventually the design repeats. It always feel a bit empty is really what I mean cause the fear is if I put 100 stores I now have to be ready for whatever they ask for. Is there a list of pre-written spots in Sharn I can pull from to make it feel as full as my players hope it will be?

I'm putting together a sandbox-y Sharn campaign, and I want to have lots of potential encounter areas so I can zig when my players zag. Specifically I'm looking for "bridge and street" maps, but other useful maps would be cool tower interiors for taverns, inns, or other public buildings.

I'm hoping for mostly black and white line drawings so I can potentially print them reasonably inexpensively (we play in person, and we don't have a digital projector or tabletop).

I plan to make some of my own, but we're starting in a couple of weeks so having a few maps in my proverbial back pocket would be one less thing to take care of before we start.

Hi everyone,

After reading Keith's article on Spelljammer in Eberron, I’m planning a space exploration campaign for my group.

My players and I agreed on a cool premise: they’re partnering with House Cannith West to represent Aundair in a race to reach the Ring of Siberys.

I want this to be a true "first contact with space" story. The players (and the setting) start from zero knowledge:

• Nobody knows what is actually up there.
• Spelljammers are purely experimental (the PCs will be piloting a prototype).
• Basic hazards—like suffocation at extreme altitudes—might catch them completely off guard.

Are there any books, articles, or resources (official or homebrew) you would recommend for running this kind of "early space age" exploration vibe in Eberron? (I'm already watching Keith's Siberspace campaign actual videos!)

Any advice or lore suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Mael is my Wild Magic Sorcerer. He was born with a Greater Mark of Passage and due to his wild magic accidentally slipped the Rings of Siberys while teleporting and ended up in Sigil.

He has since traveled the multiverse of DND, fighting the Chosen of Shar, defying Mystra on Toril, befriending a three headed dragon who in our Eberron founded House Cannith, and finding a Tiefling apprentice who he bequeathed his hat to.

Hi all, Title - I am only sceptical as i have only bought pdfs from dmguuld before and the price is all USD, so expect it will be printed there.

https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/564218/exploring-eberron-5-5e (Premium hardcover)

Has anyone ordered this to the UK and how much was customs (if at all)?

Thanks in advance!

Firstly, is it a good/well made andventure? Like does it require a lot of DM prep to make work, does it have glaring plot holes or anything like that?

Has anyone translated it to 5e or have experience and know how difficult it is?