Below is a list of just some of the many innovations and new features to be found in Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. Don’t forget to sign up to be notified when the Kickstarter launches!

• Fully compatible with original 5E materials

• Stand-alone core rulebooks

• Diverse team, cultural consultants, and representative content 

• Open Gaming License and free compatibility logo

• Robust online tools

• Depth but not complication, with an emphasis on choice

• ‘Race’ separated into heritage and culture

• 8 heritages, 34 cultures, 21 backgrounds

• 10 destinies for character motivations and goals that embrace the inspiration mechanic

• Heritage paragon traits at 10th level 

• A choice between two or more more heritage gifts for each heritage

• New marshal class providing support, tactics, and non-magical buffs

• New spell-less ranger class with strong wilderness features

• Over 35 new archetypes covering every class

• Improved class capstone features at 20th level

• Meaningful choices every time you level up

• All classes can operate in all three pillars of the game

• More than 80 individual distinctive weapons

• 20 weapon properties, plus new ammo properties

• New shield and helm types

• New weapon/armor customizations, plus shield customizations

• New weapon and armor materials

• Adventuring gear aplenty with new mundane items and customizable vehicle rules

• Rules for crafting mundane and magical items

• Optional equipment packages for each class at each tier of play

• Easy-to-use strongholds and followers

• New feats for multiclass characters

• A Prestige Score which measures your character’s fame or infamy

• A range of downtime activities 

• Variable initiative rolls

• Ability check critical successes and failures

• Revised combat actions

• Fatigue and strife condition tracks to represent physical and spiritual stress

• New bloodied, confused, doomed, rattled, and slowed conditions

• Environmental world actions in combat

• Full exploration pillar is a third of the game, integrated throughout

• Immersive journey rules

• Scores of exploration challenges with Challenge Ratings and experience rewards

• Easy-to-use regions to populate worlds and journeys

• Boons, discoveries, scenery, and social encounters along the way

• Simple Supply system gives journeys risk, but not complexity

• More than 100 nonmagical combat maneuvers which offer martial adventurers choices in battle, making fighting both more engaging and tactical

• Gamemastery advice, safety tools, and tools to design encounters and worlds

• Over 500 magic items

• Prices and crafting components for every magic item

• Treasure tables for each monster, and also for every Challenge Rating

• New rare versions of many spells

• Revised monster and CR math

• Robust encounter building rules which can combine monsters and exploration challenges

• Monster design rules

• Monster templates which can modify any creature

• Gem and spirit dragons, plus great wyrms

• New monsters including the god-killing khalkos, and expanded fey

• Expanded lore for many monsters

• Monster lore which respects cultural origins 

• New monster variants and NPCs

• Monster tools, including signs, behavior, encounters, treasure, names, and more