Eberron: Rising from The Last War

This is a very detailed guide to the world of Eberron, a possible campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons. It has a very different feel to the Forgotten Realms: more steampunk, more noir, more grittiness. I liked the little excerpts from newspapers of the various cities covered by the book, and there are some great ideas for adventures. It was rather a lot for me to take in, though, and I skimmed rather a lot of the last two chapters. I also find it mildly upsetting that the lightning rail trains are powered by binding elementals, and the overall gritty noir atmosphere is not something I want to be reading about these days. That said, this book did give me ideas for a possible character (yes, I am perpetually stuck on the Character show more Creation screen for D&D), so it was worth reading. Definitely felt it was worth borrowing from the library! show less

A setting for D&D 5th Edition, updated from its previous version. A weird combination of high fantasy and low grade cyberpunk, it can work well with the right group.