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My Dungeons & Dragons 5E bookmarks folder

Here’s all the bookmarks in my 5e folder. Not everything may be specifically 5e related but since we’ve started playing this edition, this is what I’ve collected so far.         

Player Help

D&D 5th Edition

           Discuss D&D 5E rules and products.

D&D 5E Character Sheets

DnDTwit

A Collection of Guides | WotC

           A collection of player made guides            

Pre-Generated Character Repository | WotC

           A Resource for Players and DMs            

List of 5E|Merric

donjon; RPG Tools

Zenith Games: 5th Edition Guide to the Guides

Tabletop

           Original, 10 minute ambiences and music for Tabletop Role Playing Games.            

Candlekeep Forum

How to search this rules forumn | The Wizards Community

           Searching this forumn does not seem to work for me.

Barbarians            

I’ll NEVER Die! (A Guide to the 5E Barbarian)

               Seen guides pop up the last few weeks for rangers, wizards, clerics, paladins, and warlocks, but I don’t think there’s one for the 5E barbarian yet. Seeing as it’s so straight forward, I feel like it might not be needed, but because it’s so straight forward, it’s also really easy for me to make it, so here you guys go

Graceful Destruction: A Guide to Dex Based Barbarism | The Wizards Community

               Graceful Destruction Contents: Intoductions Stats and Races Class Features Path Features Skills, Backgrounds and Feats Weapons and Armour Multiclassing Sample Builds            

Clerics                        

The Devout and the Dead: a guide to Clerics

               The Devout and the Dead a guide to Clerics

Clerics

               Greetings, Playground! I am going to be playing a Cleric soon, and, (being unfamiliar with 5e) come to you guys to figure out Clerics and their Domains.

For God and Party-A Cleric’s guide. | WotC

                Table of Contents

Dictum Mortuum’s The Cleric Handbook | WotC

               Hello All

Celestial Link Evoking Radiance Into Creation - CLERIC guide | WotC

Druids                         

By your Powers Combined: A Land Druid Handbook | WotC

               By Your Powers Combined: A Land Druid Handbook                

5e Druid Handbook - Land & Moon

               5th edition D&D Druid Handbook Version 2.0 Druids

[WIP] Thy Fearful Symmetry: A Circle of the Moon Handbook | The Wizards Community

               A holistic guide for Circle of the Moon Druids.                

Druid Guide & Discussion

               5th edition D&D Druid Guide Version 1.7        

Fighters                          

The Art of War: A Fighter Guide | The Wizards Community

               The Art of War: A Fighter Guide

Fighting Styles Overview/Discussion/Whathaveyou

               Ok So I havent seen any thread that specifically deals with the fighting styles in 5e

Bow Bond: An Eldritch Knight’s guide to Archery | The Wizards Community

               Bow Bond: An Eldritch Knight’s guide to Archery

An Optimized Polearm Master Fighter Template | The Wizards Community

               VARIANT HUMAN BUILD

Eldritch Knight Tactica - A Guide | The Wizards Community

               This is a work in progress - but open for discussion.            

Monks                     

Meditation, Mediation, Devastation: A Monk’s Guide | The Wizards Community

               How does one Monk?                

The Good, the Bad and the Monk, a 5e Monk guide

                I’m not going to explain why you would play a monk, or what the role of a monk is

Paladins                       

Oathbound: The Paladin Guide | The Wizards Community

               “It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.” — Aeschylus                

Good is Not Nice: A Paladin’s Guide

               "My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.“              

A Guide to the D&D 5th Edition Paladin through the eyes of a 3.5 Player

               Guide to the Dungeons & Dragons 5E Paladin through the eyes of a 3rd Edition Player

Rangers                    

Not All Who Wander are Lost: A Ranger’s Guide

                “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.” -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings                

Into the Woods We Go: The Ranger Guide | The Wizards Community

               “You’re no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.” — A Game of Thrones            

Rogues                   

Dealing Death: Handbook of the True Assassin | The Wizards Community

                “Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.” — Alamut by Vladimir Bartol

Wizards                

Arrive on Time - A General Guide to Wizardry | The Wizards Community

               Overview: What is a Wizard?                

A Compilation of Useful Spell Lists | The Wizards Community

               A Compilation of Useful Spell Lists

Know Your Rites: A Guide to Ritual Casting | The Wizards Community

               A guide to casting ritual spells.                

D&D 5e Spells Index

5th Edition Spells Spreadsheet

               I spent some time and put together a spell spreadsheet that lists all the spells by class, level, school, and some other quick reference items.                

Find Familiar confusion | The Wizards Community

               Hi, So here’s the thing.                

Ultanya: Dungeons & Dragons: Thaumaturgy

Treantmonk’s Guide to Wizards 5e - Google Docs

Treantmonk’s Guide to 5e Wizards - Google Docs

Backgrounds

What’s Your Story: A Custom Background Guide | The Wizards Community

                What’s Your Story: A Custom Background Guide In this guide I will be using the standard CharOp colour scheme:                

[5e/D&D] Backgrounds

               A forum for discussing roleplaying games.  Speak your mind here without fear!                

5E Backgrounds Database

               The D&D 5th Edition backgrounds database!                

Hack & Slash: Backgrounds

A Gamers Point of View: Custom 5e Backgrounds for the Forgotten Realms

List of All Personality Traits, Ideals, Bonds, and Flaws | The Wizards Community

           If you are like me and you like to scan through all of the backgrounds to find the perfect set of personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws for your character, then these lists might come in handy.                        

Musran            

Guide to Mulhorandi | Arelith

Nephthys - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nephthys - The Forgotten Realms Wiki - Books, races, classes, and more

                   Nephthys (pronounced nef-thiss ) is a vain but caring member of the Mulhorandi pantheon. She is…                    

Nephthys | Humus | Obsidian Portal

                   Protector of the Dead * *Symbol*: Horns around a lunar disk * *Home Plane*: The Offering Fields * *Alignment*: Chaotic Good * *Portfolio*: Death, grief * *W                    

Nephthys - Deities of Faerûn - Mulh Pantheon

                   Realms Helps: Nephthys - Deities of Faerûn - Mulh Pantheon                    

Mulhorand - The Forgotten Realms Wiki - Books, races, classes, and more

                   Mulhorand is one of the Old Empires in eastern Faerûn. The Mulhorandi were brought to Toril from…                    

Candlekeep Forum - Mulhorand

Candlekeep Forum - Which Faerunian gods could go to Mulhorand easily

Gnomes                         

Gnomes; The forgotten folk of Faerun | Neverwinter Nights - The Forgotten Realms - The Savage Frontier

Gnome - The Forgotten Realms Wiki - Books, races, classes, and more

               Gnomes, or the Forgotten Folk as they are sometimes known, are small fey humanoids

Realms   

Glossary of Phrases, Sayings & Words of the Realms

Candlekeep Forum - Glossary of Phrases, Sayings & Words of the Realms

Tools            

New Automated Tools for 5E | The Wizards Community

               Instead of starting a new thread for every set of tools I create, I am going to use this thread from now on. I will continue to make updates to it as I create new tools.  Here is the complete set of tools I’ve created to date:                

Fantasy Name Generator

                Name generator for RPGs, video games, novels, etc.. Can generate names for elves, dwarves, barbarians, “evil” names, “Lovecraftian” names, modern English names, and others.                

D&D 5e Pre-Made Characters - Table Topping

Efraim’s 5e Adventurers Pack

Dungeons and Dragons 1E-3E-5E Monster Converter

1d8: Point Buy Calculator for D&D Next (5e)

Javascript DDNext Character Generator Lite

RK’s D&D Treasure Generator (5e) - Setup

Dungeon maps for RPG. Create maps online, download as PDF and PNG.

               Dungeon Painter is a powerful rpg map design tool. Scene Viewer is a free encounter mapping tool that you can embed into forum or blog posts                

[Resource Guide] World and Map Generation : DnD

               In an effort to better serve the community, the moderation staff will be creating a series of guides and collections of resources over the next…                

Cartographers’ Guild - a community for maps of fantasy, sci-fi and real world locations

               A forum for cartography enthusiasts.                

D&D 5E Tools: Attribute Point-Buy Calculator

               A point-buy calculator for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition                

The Elf Name Generator: Your Sindarin Elf Name

               Elf names. Create elf names with the Sindarin elf name generator! View lists of elf names, generate random names, or choose an elf name based on your own name. Great for rpgs and mmorpgs.                

Fantasy name generators. Names for all your fantasy characters.

               A fantasy name generator for every fantasy character. From Chinese to Viking and from dragon to werewolf, I have a fantasy name generator for all your needs.                

Kobold Fight Club: The first rule of KFC is ‘Yip yip!’

D&D 5E Tools by Leugren

Dave’s Mapper | RPG Map Generator

               Geomorphic map generator web app for role-playing enthusiasts. Created by web designer and puzzle author David Millar.                

Town Map Maker ©2003 Jeffrey A. Mills, DVM

Barrow of the Evensong | The Wizards Community

               An Adventure Location for 3rd-Level Characters                

Elven Names

English-Elvish Translator

goblinoidgames.com • View forum - Maps and Map Making

http://pirateglossary.com/

MTG ART

               Magic: the Gathering Art. Best MTG Art, updated daily with new and old artworks. Organized by artists and mtg sets, Art of Magic the Gathering is an ever growing collection of amazing magic fantasy artworks.                

Names of Seasons

Pods and Blogs                     

Stories of the Fifth Age, Ep. 0 “Beginnings…” | The Mad Adventurers Society

Godsfall

               A website and podcast following a group of 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons players in custom D&D5e campaign in Washington, D.C.                

Dire Weasels’ Podcast : A “real play” 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons Campaign

               A bunch of drunks get together and make offensive jokes while playing dungeons and dragons.

Brave New Dungeon

               A Chronicle of one man’s heroic return to the land of Dungeons & Dragons (by bigAl)                

Lost Mine of Phandelver (5th edition D&D) | JM Hauser’s Blog

               Starting in July 2014, Wizards of the Coast released the newest version of their classic roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons.

RPG Crazy

Samson’s Bridge: A Dungeons and Dragons Campaign built from the ground up

http://dictummortuum.blogspot.com/

DnDUI Blows

Starwalker Studios

               The home of Starwalker Sudios Podcasts

Encounter Roleplay - D&D Advice, Reviews, Comics and Podcasts!

               D&D Advice, Reviews, Comics and Podcasts!                

Stories of the Fifth Age | The Mad Adventurers Society

Dyson’s Dodecahedron | Award Winning Dungeon Design

               Award Winning Dungeon Design                

Adventures | Dyson’s Dodecahedron

               Many of the maps on the site have full adventures written for them.

Nerdarchy – For Nerds By Nerds

               Nerdarchy for nerds by nerds specializing in role-playing games especially as game masters for d20 systems like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder RPG games.                

DnD Reddit

               reddit: the front page of the internet                

The Old Road, Part 1: Sunless Citadel

Many Sided Dice

               A Site for Table Top RPG Discussion and Creation–Share it, Like It, Follow It, Comment!                

Tribality

               Blogging about D&D / Role Playing                

Hack & Slash

Dungeons & Dragons Chris Perkins - Archive

               Dungeons & Dragons - Wizards of the Coast                

From the Sorcerer’s Scroll

               A geek’s musings on the games he loves to play (by Chris Perkins)

Inkarnate

Homebrew              

Homebrew Design

           Roll up your sleeves and get working: there’s lots of homebrewin’ to be done!

Homebrews Library

           Post your homebrew material, and share your house rules, creations, game aids and tools, character sheets, and more

Sane Magic Item Prices

           Let’s talk about flying items.

World Builder Blog

           Just a man and his homebrew world.        

Customized Races – The Saurials

Define your own! - Campaign Calendar

Bad Magic Weapons

Index of /pdf/DnD 3.5e and you are welcome/DnD DM 3.5e Essentials—Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master 3.5 Essentials/books

Donjons et Dragons le jeux de role

Dungeons and Dragons Adventures levels 1-3, the low levels

               Dungeons and Dragons Adventures for characters levels 1st through 3rd, 1-3.            

Caves of Chaos Reimagined by Weem | theWeem

Caves of Chaos Map Redux | RPG Cartography

               I think that a map can be a DM’s best friend when running an adventure.  However, many adventure maps do not provide much additional information other than location and a reference key number to  that points to text in the adventure. I took the classic map of the Caves of Chaos from Gygax (1979) Keep on the Boarderlands…                

NPCs for the Caves of Chaos D&D Next Playtest: Sly Flourish

Belgarion’s World for Eternal Soldier: Character Creation

Stores                   

Iron Wind Metals Online Store

Dice - The Dice Shop 

Polyhedral Dice Sets

Pathfinder Minis

So anyone have any other sites I need to add to my collection?

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Do you have any suggestions on how to make Dungeon Crawls more.. exciting or have a better atmosphere? Rather than just "The hallway extends 20ft and turns left.." I love dungeons, but as a DM it feels like my delivery is.. bland.

Lots of DMs struggle with this, and for good reason. 

Dungeons are the most mechanically straightforward aspect of the game besides combat, and the immediate shape and contents of them is more pressing to players than the atmosphere. 

But, there are some simple ways to make your dungeons more atmospheric. Here’s my proposed solutions, both a long thinky one and a fast random one:

I think that dungeons should thought about as ‘once functional spaces’. Every place in the world has a purpose for which it was built, even if it’s a weirdo crazy one. Dungeon rooms should almost always be more than just treasure, traps, and monsters. 

For example, temples have cloisters, treasuries, storage rooms, waiting rooms, choirs, sanctuaries, apse, washing rooms, etc. Each of these rooms has specific objects and furniture inside them, as well as different acoustics. They get decorated with frescoes and murals or hanging art or sculptures. They’re cultural places. Think about them as physical spaces that people would use. 

Now imagine something happened in them, long ago. Why is this place a ‘dungeon’ and not still used? What event caused it to be abandoned? A battle? Plague? Was the place cursed? Come up with that and you can seed the rooms with small historical details: evidence of fights, skeletal remains, treasures hidden so they could be reclaimed later (but never were).

Now add the effects of time and nature. Fabric rots, metal rusts, stone erodes and crumbles. Plants and roots push stone tiles aside, and water seeps in and floods deep places. The passage of ages scours away history and purpose. Now, your once functional rooms don’t appear so functional, but their purpose can still be intuited.

Now add some new tenants. Monsters are always the first to reclaim abandoned civilized spaces: goblins make shantytowns out of old human ruins, beasts make warrens in sepulchral tombs, small dragons and basilisks favour places with statuaries and abandoned treasures. No matter the space or its original purpose, monsters move in and call it home. Sometimes multiple species of monsters…and then they fight or argue over sharing space.

So now your dungeon has a vivid look and feel. The important bit now is to think about how that imagined space sounds and smells. 

With every room and hallway, imagine how its history smells. Is it acrid or pungent? Smokey or mouldy? Does it smell surprisingly pleasant? If so, that’s often a worrisome sign, because it means something sentient might already be there. 

Audio can clue players into a space faster than any other description. Wind whistling indicates access to the surface…or a much deeper cave. Dripping denotes water (you hope). Creaking could mean doors…or ghosts. Large spaces echo, and sounds warp and distort the further away they are. There’s even different kinds of silence. There’s an empty, lonely silence that comes with long dead spaces, or the claustrophobic close silence of small spaces. 

Appeal to your players senses besides sight. Describe what rooms smell, sound, and even taste or feel like. This is a surefire way to make your dungeon rooms stand out. For example:

“You enter a 20 by 20 foot square room. It’s a stuffy old parlour. Pushing the door open you immediately smell something caustic and sour, but you don’t see an immediate source. All the furniture is rotted, but some of it looks smashed. You can hear the faintest scraping of something against the wall in the adjacent room”.

If that seems like a lot to write, try something like this: Reveal each bullet point as the players inquire about them, or when they make Perception checks:

Parlour, 20 ft square room.

The room feels uncomfortably thick and stuffy.

All the furniture is rotted out. Some of it is smashed. Evidence of a fight.

Smells caustic and sour. The smell comes from under a tattered rug. It’s beholder puke. 50gp if collected and sold to the right buyer.

Scraping sounds from the cloaker in the next room.

So maybe you already have a pretty basic dungeon and you need to make each room (or block of rooms) less boring. Here’s my handy set of sense tables:

Random Room Sensations:

For each room you want to enhance, roll four dice (a d12, a d10, a d8, and a d6). Your rolls will determine what’s up with this room. Every time you roll a result, cross it out and replace it with a new one you come up with.

Smells (1d12):

Sickly sweet, like rotting fruit or wilting flowers.

Musty, like old people and expired cologne.

Tangy, like body odour and grime.

Dusty, the choking scent of age and ghosts.

Foul, like waste and death; something unholy.

Crisp, like freshly cut grass or unchecked plant life.

Soggy, the lingering smell of still water and flooding.

Pungent, like rot and decay.

Spicy, like herbs and dried ingredients, aged.

Electric, a faint aroma of ozone and metals.

Earthy, like fresh dirt and clay, mixed in with the copper of blood.

Roll again twice, both smells clash together.

Sounds (1d10):

Claustrophobic silence.

Deep, echoing silence.

Low moaning or groaning.

Creaking of wood in the distance.

Faint, maddeningly indistinct whispering.

Faint, maddeningly indistinct whispering in a language you don’t know.

Metal scraping against metal, rhythmically.

Dripping of some kind of liquid onto stone.

Dripping of some kind of liquid into more liquid.

Roll again twice, both sounds are present.

Touch Sensations (1d8):

Dryness on the skin, chapped lips and dry eyes.

Cold dampness, water beads on metal items.

Humidity, clothes become hot and heavy, metal feels colder.

Dry heat, throats become parched, skin itches.

Pressure change, ears pop and noises distort.

Static tingling, hair stands up on end, goosebumps.

Unholy chill, shivers, goosebumps, a sense of unease.

The feeling of being watched, an uncomfortable presence.

Kinds of Darkness, if applicable (1d6):

Grey, distant darkness that yields to lantern light.

Cloying, smothering darkness that seems to draw close to you.

Eerie still darkness that feels like it holds endless monsters.

Calm, still darkness that invites restfulness.

Flickering, shifting darkness where the room seems to be moving.

Impenetrable darkness that makes darkvision endowed races feel at uneasy.

I hope all this helps make your dungeons a little less boring. The dungeon tables in the back of the 5e Dungeon Master’s Guide from @dndwizards is also helpful in this regard. 

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We are so different, yet so alike

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I made a few illustrations about what it feels like to have social anxiety. I hope people that can relate are comforted to know other people have similar experiences. 

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I don’t even understand my own pain or thoughts.

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