As you may know by now, a Level Up character’s origin is comprised of heritage, culture, background, and destiny. We’ve covered heritages and backgrounds in detail recently, so now it’s time to look at the other two pieces of that puzzle.

The Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition Monstrous Menagerie has dragons–lots of dragons. With 85 pages of true dragons (about 90 stat blocks and variants) and 15 more pages of dragon turtles, sea serpents, and so on, we have a full source book’s worth of draconic friends and foes.

The back of the Monstrous Menagerie contains a handy list of all the creatures and NPCs within sorted by CR.

One of our goals with the Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition Monstrous Menagerie was to make enemy spellcasters less of a pain to run.

It’s time for a quick peek at the Table of Contents from the starter adventure, Memories of Holdenshire!

Stonesinger Cenya is one of the pregenerated characters which will be available for free from this website. She is a shadow elf bard.

The Kickstarter is halfway through! Last week we shared the adept with you. Today, it’s the most frequently requested class of them all — the ranger!

Gia is one of the pregenerated characters which will be available for free from this website. She is a planetouched eladrin warlock.

Backgrounds in Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition form part of your Origin, which consists of heritage, culture, background, and destiny.

Lily is one of the pregenerated characters which will be available for free from this website. She is a stout halfling herald.

T’lingbet is one of the pregenerated characters which will be available for free from this website. He is an aquatic dragonborn ranger from a wildling culture.

Several of the classes got a more extensive combat pillar overhaul than the others, though, and below we’ll be discussing both the changes and what the benefits from those changes will be for your games.

Let’s talk about feats in Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition!

In Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, martial classes get a choice of combat maneuvers. You learn combat maneuvers in a way not dissimilar to spells, and you power them by spending ‘exertion’.

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.

The Kickstarter has launched! Over the next month, we have plenty of fun stuff to show you. Let’s start with a class — and we’ll start at the beginning with the Adept.

Want to see what’s in each book? Check out the tables of contents below!

In Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, equipment gets something of an overhaul, with new weapons, armor, and properties, all designed to make each item different from the others.

The Monstrous Menagerie has an appendix which lists all of the monsters in the book in order of Challenge Rating. Here it is!

Yesterday we shared the Core Rulebook’s 6-page introduction chapter. Today it’s time for the Monstrous Menagerie’s introduction pages!