Editing Eberron (section)

==5th Edition==
For the longest time, Eberron went untouched in [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], outside of an early-released [[Unearthed Arcana]] conversion document of dubious quality. That all changed on July 23rd 2018, when WoTC announced that they were allowing Keith Baker to produce his own translation of Eberron to 5e - a document called "The Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron" - on the DM's Guild. This was described as a "first step", with the Wayfinder's Guide being described as a singular point to "collect feedback on adjusted races, dragon marks, new backgrounds and more". The implication-by-hope here is that WotC will release their own fully official printed copy of a 5e Eberron based on the feedback given to Keith Baker's "test book".

The fanbase was... split... on this decision. On the one hand, the fact Eberron was finally returning was a source of celebration, especially among players who were sick of many of the prior material being focused on the Forgotten Realms. On the other hand, the fact that the first Eberron book was basically a glorified homebrew - and one that you were paying $20 US for to boot, and which will probably get obsoleted by a more expensive book later - was a source of outrage, especially given the simultaneous announcement that [[Ravnica]] was going to get its own campaign setting book.

Still, this decision meant it was finally legal for fans to put their own Eberron-based content on the DM's Guild, and the Unearthed Arcana for several months afterward presented the various aspects for anyone to use (races, Dragonmarked as subraces, and magic items).

In late August 2019, Eberron's official 5th Edition debut was announced with Eberron: Rising from the Last War, coming out on November 19th. Among the many inclusions of the book is the final, retweaked version of the [[Artificer]] for 5th Edition, as well as ways to run around in the Mournland, if you really want to do that sort of thing. They also tease a new feature called "Group Patrons" which acts as a background, but for your entire adventuring party. One oddity with the book is that the cover was swapped a mere week before starting printing on account of the original cover being completely and utterly '''horrible''' and getting backlash for it. The original cover consisted of nothing more than a twink looking elf/gnome hybrid on a blue background with a badly drawn Warforged in front of him. The new cover is clearly a rush job, yet miles better in that it's actually depicts something that about Eberron, showing a better drawn Warforged with a clearly tribal halfling (and his dinosaur companion but that is sadly cut off by the aspect ratio and only visible on the banner version, even though there's dead space this dinosaur could have easily been moved to if it wasn't a rush job). If you don't like either of them, you can get the alternate cover, which is ''amazing'', featuring a stylized frame and title, encircling the spires of Sharn and a skyship against an Eberron night sky.