Eberron

Eberron is a campaign setting created by author and game designer Keith Baker for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

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Baker's Eberron setting was the winning entry for Wizards of the Coast's Fantasy Setting Search, a competition run in 2002 to establish a new setting for the Dungeons and Dragons game. Eberron was chosen from more than 11,000 entries. Eberron combines a fantasy tone with pulp and dark adventure elements, and some non-traditional fantasy technologies such as trains and mechanical beings which are all powered by magic.

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The setting is set on the world of Eberron, in a period after a vast destructive war on the continent of Khorvaire. Eberron is designed to accommodate traditional D&D elements and races within a differently toned setting.

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The Eberron setting was officially released with the publication of the Eberron Campaign Setting hardback book in June 2004.

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In June 2005 the Eberron Campaign Setting book won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement of 2004.

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Campaign setting: A campaign setting is a fictional fantasy world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame, such as Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer, Chill, and various other games. A campaign is a series of individual adventures, and a campaign setting is the world in which such adventures and camp...

Keith Baker: Keith Baker is a freelance writer of Dungeons & Dragons material and is most well known for his setting, Eberron, which won the Wizards of the Coast Fantasy Setting Search. In addition to working with Wizards of the Coast on Eberron material, he has also contributed material for Atlas Games, Goodma...

Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Wizards of the Coast. The current version of the game is Dungeons & Dragons v.3.5 (also known as the Revised 3rd Edition or D&D3.5). Previous versions of the game include Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (abb...