So, I've decided to read up on Eberron some because it seems like a fun setting, and I like what I see so far. My preferred system is Worlds Without Number, which I've already ran more traditional D&D type settings in with success. Almost everything seems relatively simple to homebrew in replacements/equivalents for... and then there's Artificers.

My understanding, looking through 3.5's Eberron book, is that Artificers are mages that can't directly cast spells, but can temporarily infuse items with magic and get a bunch of crafting related class features. 5e makes them a spellcaster with infusions as a secondary ability. Worlds Without Number has no equivalent of infusions, and has no direct character building features for accelerating magical item building (a magic sword is going to take a month no matter what to build on your own). How important are Artificers as a distinct concept from 'crafty mages'? Am I just trying to cram a round peg into a square hole here?

If I'm misunderstanding anything about Artificers or Eberron, please correct me, I'm still learning the setting lore. I can try and clarify things about Worlds Without Number's mechanics if needed.

My latest trinket supplement is now available on the DMsGuild.

In Sora Esma's Furbelow Menagerie, I showcase over 90 unique creatures to Eberron, and include examples of templated beasts such as Horrid Animals, Valenar Beasts, or Magebred Creatures.

Since the Eberronicon, I have tried to point out where people can learn more about each entry, some of these creatures are only mentioned once in passing in novels or referred to in dialogue with no explanation... others have existed since the setting's creation but were never given their time to shine. And then there's Eberron beasties like the revetaw that never saw the light of day beyond concept art, so I had fun figuring out where they might have been put into the world.

As its nature, this trinket supplement contains more live creatures than most of my other supplements, easy to drop into pet shoppes, dungeons, zoos, etc.

What is everyone's favorite Eberron-specific creature? Mine is probably the tryyl, not just for what they do as toxic tribble stand-ins, but for this I had the inspiration to make the orange beastie from a particular art piece (that was scrapped for the original cover) and turn that likely homunculus into a tryyl. Runner-up is definitely the tribex, in all its forms.

Sora Esma's Furbelow Menagerie

So, I'm currently drafting up an Orllassk-based dungeon, a former Dhakaani fotress that was assaulted by Daelkyr forces coming up from an entrance to Khyber in its depths. I was wondering, what kinds of creatures (beyond the standard stone/petrification usual suspects) might be included in this long-sealed army? Did different Daelkyr have occasionally overlapping forces? Like were Illithids and Dolgaunts just Drynn's thing, or did other daelkyr also have the standard aberration roster?

Would it work similar to Thinaun, or would a spell be involved? If so, what level spell do you think it would be? Which Save do you think it would target? Would there be other components besides the Khyber crystal and the humanoid whose soul you're binding?

I haven't been able to find much information on Khyber crystals other than that they're good at binding, but then, I don't actually have any books, and have to resort to Google. :/

Any help would be appreciated.

My 3rd-level players are about to do the final encounter in "the Gatekeeper's Tale" section of the "Heart of Stone" adventure (from *Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone). The gist of it is that the party is drawn into a vision of the past, where they must help an injured druid 90 feet back through difficult watery terrain to a monolith, upon which the vision ends. It's presumably supposed to be a challenge, with some PCs fighting off monsters (a dolgaunt and star spawn grues that keep respawning) and others carrying the druid or pushing him on a raft.

Here's the thing: The writers of the adventure apparently didn't think about the spell Vortex Warp. The party's wizard can negate the whole encounter on his very first turn, teleporting the druid to the monolith.

I don't want to completely invalidate the wizard player's spell selection, but I also really don't want the spell to just be a win button. I followed the written adventure pretty closely, not adding extra encounters (which I now regret), and this adventuring day has already been something of a breeze for them. I know and fully believe that sometimes one should just let players—due to good choices, rolls, spells, etc.—have their cool, encounter-ending moments, but this just seems like it will be way too anticlimactic.

So, I'm considering telling him that the "vision of the past" won't allow such an action so at odds with what actually happened in the past. That he magically knows this, and that vortex warp can be used on his allies to get them closer, but the druid himself can't be moved by such magical means. The idea is that the spell will still be super useful—allowing him to get the barbarian or monk to the druid, to protect him from the aberrations—but not encounter-ending.

But I'm wondering what others think. Does this seem like it would be unfair? Or is it forgivable in the interest of ensuring the encounter remains challenging?

...and you thought Kresht Rhyll, the Forest of Flesh was bad!

Get dragged beneath the earth by living roots and descend into the CAVERN OF FLESH!

This subterranean nightmare is a labyrinth of living, pulsing muscle, tangled sinew, and unidentifiable organs. Gaping, trypophobia-inducing holes pockmark the walls, concealing aberrant horrors best left undiscovered. Beneath your feet, the fleshy floor quivers and contracts like a giant tongue savoring the taste of you.

Welcome to another corner of Mordain the Fleshweaver’s twisted playground and home to one of his many pets, an Elder Brain!

This is a 40x40 maps with 5ft grids.

The Uul Dhakaan is a stable dream connecting the Heirs of Dhakaan. But what if a group of non goblins managed to connect to it?

Maybe they want to use it for communication, maybe for something else. What group would be interested in something like this?

The idea is, Thranish half-elven wandslinger in the military turned Lyrandar dragonmarked foundling. The house scooped him up (without asking) and he's out of a career.

Would he end up a d'Lyrandar? d'FormerSurname? Just former surname? Using whichever he prefers in any given context?

(Any names/surnames ideas or directions would also be welcome, as a secondary request)

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?

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!

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.