Eberron FAQ

Exploring Eberron, 2/6/20

Keith Baker

— 2 min read

The above image shows a two-page spread from Exploring Eberron, including art from Kristóf Köteles. I'm thrilled with how the book is coming together, but it's a long journey and it's not over yet.

Exploring Eberron is a huge undertaking. By the time it's done, I expect the book to include over 180,000 words... which is longer than my first two Eberron novels combined! I know what I'm capable of when I'm writing at top speed, and that's what my original estimates have been based on. But unfortunately I haven't been able to maintain that speed. Over the last six months there have been family issues that have had to take priority, and once things pushed into this year it collided with the work I need to do for The Adventure Zone: Bureau of Balance. The production of board and card games is a lengthy process, and I have dates I have to meet to hit our GenCon release for Bureau. Exploring Eberron is my labor of love—but that also means it's the one thing that has a timeline that can be pushed, and so it has been.

My hope had been to release Exploring Eberron by the end of this month. The art has been in hand for months now, and the first half of the book have already gone through editing and layout. But I am still writing the final chapter; the recent Lamannia article is a preview of that. Once I'm done, that material will have to go through editing and layout, and then the completed book will need to go through a final review process with the DM's Guild for hardcover printing.

So when will Exploring Eberron come out? The short answer is that I don't have an absolute answer. I'd hoped for this month, but that seems unlikely. I'm reasonably confident that it will be released in March, but I'm not prepared to say whether it will be at the beginning or the end of the month. What I can say is that we're close, and that I'm excited about how it's coming together.

So thank you for your patience and your enthusiasm. We'll continue to release previews in the days ahead, and I'll let you know when there's more news!

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