Converting Frostburn prestige classes to Eberron

The Eberron Journal's Conversions section gets a long overdue update this weekend with the addition of a conversion article for Frostburn. This article, written by forum member LewisLynn, provides some suggestions for adapting the book's cold-themed prestige classes to Eberron. Stay tuned for its counterpart later this week, as LewisLynn tackles Sandstorm.

Player's Guide to Eberron Announced

Amazon has posted a product page for the Player's Guide to Eberron, a product apparently releasing in January 2006. The page lists James Wyatt, Keith Baker, Luke Johnson and Steven Brown as the authors.

While the title and date could certainly change, this at least confirms that more Eberron releases are on the horizon!

Official Site Updates

Eberron Expanded:
Heroes of Battle, Part One

Dragonshards:
Masters of Magic

Sharn Inquisitive
Mykiro Harudden Collapses Onstage

Mark of Heroes:
"Death in Darguun" Recap

Official Site Updates

Steal This Hook!: The Tyrranical Eye

Mark of Heroes: Reflections of the Multiverse Recap

Sharn Inquisitive, News for Sul, Lharvion 8th, 998: Crown Affirms Explorer Rights

Dragonshard is now in Open Beta

The Dragonshard Beta has gone public!

You need to sign up for the Open Beta with Fileplanet to get a Game Key.

Go Here to start all the action.

Races of Eberron Chat, Monday July 18th 8pm EST

The Breland Ledger is finally getting around to having its long overdue Races of Eberron chat with authors Keith Baker, and Jesse Decker. Gwendolyn Kestrel and other developers may step in as well.

When: Monday July 18th @ 8pm EST
Where: #eberron @ chat.psionics.net
How: IRC Instructions

Greetings Dungeoncrawlers!

As previously promised, we have released an exclusive multiplayer demo including 4 new maps for registered Fileplanet members. For those of you who have already participated in the beta we have also released an updated patch that you can download from the same site. We would love to hear your thoughts on Dragonshard. So keep your questions and comments coming in.

Enjoy!

-The DM

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Shane DeFreest
Atari Community Manager

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard
http://www.atari.com/dragonshard

Dragonshard Community Updated #14

Greetings Dungeoncrawlers!

The Dragonshard Demo is coming soon! Many of you have been asking for some time about the status of a Dragonshard demo and we're excited to announce that a multi-player demo will be available this week. I'll send out more details to the community very soon regarding the specifics. So be ready, its on the way! Also, I'd like to remind everyone that our next chat with Liquid is just around the corner. So don't forget to tune in this Friday as our friends at Warcry host one of our last pre-launch developer chats.

Information on the chat as follows:
July 15, 2005 8:30 EST
irc.warcry.com::6667
#dragonshard

As for other community news, our friends at Dragonshard Enclave have just relaunched their site and it looks fantastic. Make sure you stop over there and check it out. We've had allot of new interest in Dragonshard from the RTS community this week. I'd like to take a minute to welcome gamereplays.org to our online community. They are a fantastic site that really caters to the RTS experience.

This weeks going to be a little different in that Instead of me releasing a couple of new Q&A and some screens I've compiled all of the previous updates thus far into a FAQ for your convenience. We'll return to new Q&A next week.

Enjoy!

-The DM!

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Dragonshard Screen Shots:

Base Assalt 1

Base Assalt 2

Official Site Update

Dragonshards: Warforged, Part 2

Sharn Inquisitive: Lhazaar Volcanoe Erupts

Official Site Updated

The Official Site has posted this months Getting Caught Up: Previews for July and Beyond article.

This months article has a wealth of information and sneak peeks for Five Nations and The Explorers Handbook.

Especially exiting, from the Five Nations preview is the Cyran Avenger Prestige Class!

Official Site Updates

The official site has been full of Eberron news this week! In addition to the new Eberron Expanded article mentioned below, two other articles have been posted.

Sharn Inquisitive, News for Sul, Lharvion 8th, 998: Special Report

Excerpts: Five Nations Excerpt
This excerpt covers a lot of cool info on the book's introduction and Chapter 1, Aundair.

Official site launches Eberron Expanded

Yesterday, the official site unveiled the first in a series of Eberron Expanded articles. Like the Eberron Journal's own Conversions, they examine general D&D releases through an Eberron-oriented lens. Unlike fan-made conversion articles, these articles are written by Eberron creator Keith Baker! Here's what he had to say about the series:

I am writing a new bimonthly feature for the Wizards of the Coast website, to fill in the blanks between Dragonshards. It's called Eberron Expanded, and it discusses ways to adapt WotC's non-core books to Eberron. These are just suggestions, but this is your chance to see what I'm doing with these books in MY campaign. Look for the first article on July 4th, as I delve into Lords of Madness.

To read the first article, click here!

Dragonshard Community Update

Greetings, Dungeoncrawlers!

We've got lots of new news for you this week. As many of you know we have recently clarified our position on our NDA policy regarding the open beta test. But just to re-cap, only the testers in the closed beta are subject tot the Atari NDA. So those of you who have been playing in the open beta we'd love to hear your thoughts and comments. In other news as a preview to their upcoming Dragonshard chat on the 15th of July our friends over at DND Warcry just posted an interview with Jasen Torres from Liquid Entertainment so make sure you check that out http://dnd.warcry.com/#46936.

Information on the chat is as follows:
July 15, 2005 8:30pm EST
irc.warcry.com::6667
#dragonshard

Lastly, our friends at Wizards of the Coast will be providing us a few copies of the upcoming Eberron Five Nations Sourcebook (signed by Liquid and Eberon creator Keith Baker) as prize support. We hope to see everyone there so mark your calenders. And now Liquid answers your questions for the week.

Enjoy!


The DM: What RPG elements are included in Dragonshard?

Liquid: There are lots of RPG elements that would commonly be found in D&D RPG style games - heavy storylines, tons of quests (including branching quests), uncovering lore about the world, the ability to choose what side of a faction you want to help or hurt, and leveling up your units to make them better by earning experience.

THE DM: Are Heroic characters built in single player mode able to be bought into multiplayer?

Liquid: We are going to try. I can't say that we will, as it depends on time and the multiplayer platform support, but I'd love to have that.

Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard
http://www.atari.com/dragonshard

Dragonshard Screenshots:
UmbragenExpansion
WarFell Drake