Excellent sourcebook for Eberron, but also some great concepts and elements for any campaign. As usual, Baker's book is a masterclass in TTRPG design... rich with options and choices and potential hooks, wonderful lore that is unmistakenly Eberron while also not binding your hands or creativity with oppressive detail.

If you love eberon setting and love lore of this world. You NEED this book.

If you're like me and intrigued (and amazed) by the setting of Eberron then this is a must have for 5th Edition. It provides a variety of information that can potentially be crucial to you running your own game whether you utilize it word for word or adjust it to better suit your game!

There is enough information here that will allow you to add onto Rising from the Last War with ease, afterall there is a lot of 3.5 and 4th Edition material for Eberron lore but unfortunately some of it became contradicted or a bit confusing, but hey if you like something you read from a past edition book then make use of it and adjust as needed!

Exploring Eberron also provides character options such as racial feats and sub-classes, not to mention magic items! Having a better understanding of the Recent History, the Planes and even the Faiths of Eberron can truly give you a better understanding of how and why. Not to mention it can spark something in your mind to bring about a new concept for a character or perhaps an adventure.

After a thorough reread and several backchecks, I have had to readjust my initial review. This book is superb. The perfect companion book for Eberron. It adds to all the lore of the world without contradicting itself and gives so much depth. The only thing that worries me is the binding. Not sure how well it will hold up to prolonged and repeated use. 5 out of 5 for content though.

OMG!!! Thank you Keith Baker for writing this book! And I'm looking forward to Frontiers of Eberron: Threshold

Awesome extension if you are hungry for new inspirations for Eberron campain. New subclasses and items looks balanced and intresting, description of planes and Eberron exclusive races brings tons of inspiration. Imo only issue is omnision of Shifters.

With Exploring Eberron, you will never run out of ideas as a DM. Even if you don't play on Eberron but in different worlds, it's A LOT OF STUFF in there. It can be very intimidating, but give it time, it took me some weeks to have an overview of all the input (with RotlW as well). It's amazing that you can have such lore with only 2 Books.

The creator of Eberron decided to sit down and get out of his head all of the bits he'd never really gotten to explore in another book.

This was an excellent idea and worth absolute every penny. You get really solid setting information about Eberron's planes, religions, and several under-represented chunks of the setting, such as Droaam, the Dhakaani, and undersea stuff.

This expands out for both players and DMs options that you can choose to use or not, but adds a grounding and depth to the setting.

It's not a "must have" to run a game in Eberron - you could get by without using just the core setting book if you needed - but this is so jam packed full of ideas and concepts to play around with that you really, really should get it.

Little details fill every page, and there's obscure sentences you can hang entire character concepts off.

This book is a joy.

This absolute work of art is quite possibly the best setting book available for D&D 5e. Eberron is one of D&D's most robust settings and this book did it the justice it deserves. If you're looking for the deep lore of Eberron as well as more, Eberron specific, character options then this is your book. Honestly, anyone looking to run full campaigns in Eberron should highly consider this product as it gives DMs the tools they need to truly become lore masters at the table. I also find it to be an incredible world building resource. It is the best example of a fully fleshed out world brought to page and gives homebrewing DMs something to aim for. Quite truly, my only complaint is that the Hardcover doesn't sit flush with my other 5e books but that is hardly a complaint at all.

So, Exploring Eberron is excellent. It's a must-have for fleshing out your Eberron campaign. And even if you have all the old 3.5 books in your library, this isn't just an expansion of Rising from the Last War, it's an expansion of Eberron. Material never really given its due gets plenty of coverage, and many ideas from Keith Baker finally see print here after only being alluded to or mentioned online. Lots of fluff, lots of crunch, plenty of great material for anyone looking to dive deeper into Eberron for their 5e game. It's a perfect expansion, and coming from the creator of the setting it's as canon as it gets.

I got the print-on-demand hardcover as well as the PDF, so let me share my impressions of the POD copy: it's fantastic. It's a little bigger than a standard 5E hardcover, but it is hugely appealing to me that it matches the 5E trade dress. It looks great on the shelf. Quality feels solid throughout. Paper is matte, so the book is light, but the print quality on the page is great: no blurriness or white margins. It is honestly the best quality POD book I've gotten from the DMs Guild yet, and that includes newer Wizards books like the Elemental Evil Player's Companion. Definitely worth the money if you want a print copy.

I'm kind of obsessed with Eberron, and this is an amazing deep dive into some of the more obscure aspects of the setting. Highly recommended for anyone setting their games in Eberron. Also highly recommended for inspiration with worldbuilding!

The book is fantastic, a must-have for any Eberron fan; and the physical copy is of an outstanding quality.

Not only does it contain many great insights: the level of detail in fleshing out Eberron makes it feel like this is truely a vital addition to this eddition of the setting. It has everything that a player or DM could want/imagine, with a wonderfully rich index. Bravo. I could harp on, but in simple words: This is one of my new favourite additions to my bookshelf and I am sure the crisp pages are going to burr as this gets used again and again.

If you're running an Eberron campaign, this is required reading. Keith Baker (The author) created the Eberron setting, but due to WotC technically owning the Eberron IP, everything has to go through their approval process. Thus, with every edition of D&D, the core Eberron book must spend the majority of it's pages re-explaining the basic setting, with little space to go in depth. So what we have here is an extremely talented writer with decades of pent up lore, finally allowed to put unrestricted pen to paper.

15 pages on the dwarves. Eberron: Rising from the Last War had 2.

62 pages on the 13 planes of existence. RftLW had 5.

Did you know there is an entire civilization beneath The thunder sea? Because I sure didn't. Here, have 16 pages on an entire underwater city that RftLW didn't mention (To my recollection).

You want new character archetypes? Check.

You want new racial feats? Check.

You want new character races? Check.

New magic items? New Monster stat blocks? Artillery used in the last war? Check. Check. Check.

How about everything above but it's also balanced as well as any official material, plus written by the actual dude that created the setting? Giant checkmark with a smileyface next to it.

This is the DMsGuild at its very best. Support the authors, get the hardcover version if you can possibly afford it, it's gorgeous, plus the PDF for that sweet CTRL-F power. As far as I'm concerned, this is core material.

This book is utterly fantastic and a very useful tool for anyone seeking to run a game in the Eberron setting. Filled with interesting lore and superb artwork!

A masterclass in world building. I have the beautiful physical copy and it is worth every penny.