Starting Gear

One of our goals with Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition was to create simple quality-of-life tools which make running the game easier. One such tool is our Starting Gear Past 1st Level section. We think these couple of pages will be very useful.

You’ve already seen in O5E*, and in our Adept preview, that characters get suggested starting gear packages at 1st level. We took that idea and ran with it!

In the Adventurer’s Guide, we provide a Starting Wealth table which provides a starting gold amount for every level up to 20th; if you’re creating a 9th-level character, that table tells you that you start with 3,000 gold. But we go further than that. For each class, we provide suggested starting packages of gear for each tier of play (tiers, as you may recall from O5E, are levels 1-4, 5-10, 11-16, and 17-20). Below is an example.

Now, these are only suggestions, of course. We’ve provided the price of each item, so it’s easy for you to switch things out (and every magic item in Level Up has a price!)

Naturally, there are many items which are suited for all classes. Old favorites, like healing potions, bags of holding, riding horses, and so on. So we’ve also included a Miscellaneous Items section for all those.

It’s just a couple of pages in the book, but we feel that small things like this make running and playing the game even easier. And for those who prefer to browse and shop, you can ignore the suggestions completely, and simply outfit your character however you want!



*Original 5E (O5E), as opposed to Advanced 5E (A5E)