Monstrous Menagerie Preview: Blue Dragon
If you love dragons, and don’t have the Monstrous Menagerie yet, here’s a preview of one iconic monster: the blue dragon! The MoMe has nearly 100 pages of dragons, including chromatic, metallic, essence, and gem dragons.
Adventures in ZEITGEIST Table of Contents
Take a quick peek at the upcoming campaign world hardcover, Adventures in ZEITGEIST!
Previewing Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Adventures in ZEITGEIST is a hardcover setting book coming in 2022. It details the ZEITGEIST world, along with a whole slew of heritages, cultures, backgrounds, equipment, archetypes, the new Savant class, and so much more.
Actions in Combat
In Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition, we've tweaked combat to give it a little more variety.
So, what’s ZEITGEIST?
A number of people have asked for more information about the ZEITGEIST setting and the Gears of Revolution adventure path.
A Question of Culture & Destiny
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.
Dragons in Level Up
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.
Monsters By Challenge Rating
The back of the Monstrous Menagerie contains a handy list of all the creatures and NPCs within sorted by CR.
Spellcasting Monsters in Level Up
One of our goals with the Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition Monstrous Menagerie was to make enemy spellcasters less of a pain to run.
Memories of Holdenshire
It’s time for a quick peek at the Table of Contents from the starter adventure, Memories of Holdenshire!
Meet Cenya the Elf Bard
Stonesinger Cenya is one of the pregenerated characters which will be available for free from this website. She is a shadow elf bard.
Class Preview: Ranger
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!
Meet Gia the Planetouched Warlock
Gia is one of the pregenerated characters which will be available for free from this website. She is a planetouched eladrin warlock.
Character Origins: Backgrounds
Backgrounds in Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition form part of your Origin, which consists of heritage, culture, background, and destiny.
Meet Lily Canterfoot the Halfling Herald
Lily is one of the pregenerated characters which will be available for free from this website. She is a stout halfling herald.
Meet T’lingbet the Dragonborn Ranger
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.
Keeping it Classy: Updated Core Classes in Level Up
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.
What Are Combat Maneuvers?
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’.
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.