2004 Fun Fact: The design of the Eberron Campaign Setting is a milestone in my career—an amazing experience of collaborative design, with @HellcowKeith, @slavicsek, and I doing most of the actual writing while a whole slew of other people contributed ideas and direction.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020

2004 Fun Fact: I’ve told this story before, but on day 2 of @HellcowKeith’s visit to Wizards working on Eberron, I was like, “You look really familiar.” We had played D&D together years before, when my high-school friend was dating his sister.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020

2004 Fun Fact that is also a 1991 Fun Fact: Here’s my journal entry for the adventure Keith ran. I played Wyredd, a paladin with the berserker kit. https://t.co/4RzxcwzH7d

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020

2004 Fun Fact: While we were doing the worldbuilding for Eberron, a vignette took shape in my head that eventually became this scene in In the Claws of the Tiger, where Janik meets the Speaker of the Flame. pic.twitter.com/AlznFi9lG0

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020

2004 Fun Fact: I submitted six proposals to the setting search that resulted in Eberron. One of them is the setting I’m using for my home game now, though it’s changed a lot from its original incarnation. pic.twitter.com/3M0pCTrOoC

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020

2004 Fun Fact: I can’t hear the music from the Sharn CD without having flashbacks to Origins 2004, when we had it playing on loop in our booth as I stood there talking to people about Eberron.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020

2004 Fun Fact: If you call Wizards’ corporate HQ and get put on hold, I believe to this day you will hear music from the CD included in Sharn: City of Towers.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020

Rats.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 22, 2020

2006 Fun Fact: Player's Guide to Eberron seems straightforward but was surprisingly ambitious: I used InDesign to write the manuscript (and work with freelancer turnovers), so we could design the content around the page spreads.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 24, 2020

Unearthed Arcana presents three more subclasses for you to playtest: the Armorer for the artificer, the Circle of the Stars for the druid, and the Fey Wanderer for the ranger. Today’s article also includes some new infusions for the artificer.

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How much work do you do in between sessions preparing your players for the following sessions. Do you prepare them less than you did for Campaign 1? I’ve been devouring campaign 1 about 12-16 hours every day for a few weeks now, and it seems like you aided them. None! We don’t talk about future story elements much between sessions unless the player is asking for clarification on something current, or is asking about potential paths their character is contemplating. We enjoy the mystery and excitement of not knowing what’s going to happen

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) January 30, 2020

Its all good! I don't prepare them for any narrative elements. If they ask about possible paths (like Vax talking about his deal with the Raven queen), I might mention the loose possibilities and leave the choice up to him. Travis will even jokingly ask questions to slip me up.

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) January 30, 2020

If the players are looking to multiclass down the road, they might mention that intent to me & I can try to lean narrative opportunities into the game to help tie their intent to what’s happening. Sometimes I hint at multiclass opportunities within the story, & its up to them. It's much of the standard "Player/DM" musing and conversations that happens between sessions, but I am adamant about keeping the future of the story a mystery, both for the sake of our fun, and because their choices can change it all at the drop of a hat. 🙂

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) January 30, 2020

A video guide to the polyhedral gaming dice of the 1970s, with a quick reference for identifying the earliest dice people used to play Dungeons & Dragons. https://t.co/SMSDCdMOnz #rpg #dnd pic.twitter.com/rViVHzIaBL

— Jon Peterson (@docetist) February 22, 2020

Fantastic piece Jon! Thanks for sending it my way. https://t.co/8MhP1SNfg0

— JOE MANGANIELLO (@JoeManganiello) February 23, 2020

Instantaneous duration spells.

Are they spells whose effect starts and ends right away?

Spells that remain forever?

Spells that remain until a creature saves?

All of the above and more? Yeah, it’s pretty all over the place and I get them confused a lot. 😕 The magic of an instantaneous duration spell happens, and then is gone immediately. The magic is there and gone in an instant, but effects of that magic might remain, such as damage from a fireball, or healing from cure wounds.

— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) January 23, 2020

Hey Matt I got a question: when it comes to a Barbarian’s Brutal Critical does that additional damage double as well? Thanks a ton! It does not. The additional damage die IS the added benefit of the critical hit.

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) January 30, 2020