#a5e — Public Fediverse posts

A little heritage for free, as a treat.

#LevelUpA5e #A5e

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2026/04/22/the-created-heritage/

A little heritage for free, as a treat.

#LevelUpA5e #A5e

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2026/04/22/the-created-heritage/

A little heritage for free, as a treat.

#LevelUpA5e #A5e

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2026/04/22/the-created-heritage/

A little heritage for free, as a treat.

#LevelUpA5e #A5e

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2026/04/22/the-created-heritage/

ICYMI: Mike Myler's Complete Class Compendium brings a dozen new adventurers to Level Up: Advanced 5E, including the free Gemini class for when the voices in your head demand their own character sheets. Compatible with D&D, on BackerKit until February 13th. #LevelUp #A5E #TTRPG http://l.d20.ninja/S9UFZe

ICYMI: Mike Myler's Complete Class Compendium brings a dozen new adventurers to Level Up: Advanced 5E, including the free Gemini class for when the voices in your head demand their own character sheets. Compatible with D&D, on BackerKit until February 13th. #LevelUp #A5E #TTRPG http://l.d20.ninja/S9UFZe

ICYMI: Mike Myler's Complete Class Compendium brings a dozen new adventurers to Level Up: Advanced 5E, including the free Gemini class for when the voices in your head demand their own character sheets. Compatible with D&D, on BackerKit until February 13th. #LevelUp #A5E #TTRPG http://l.d20.ninja/S9UFZe

ICYMI: Mike Myler's Complete Class Compendium brings a dozen new adventurers to Level Up: Advanced 5E, including the free Gemini class for when the voices in your head demand their own character sheets. Compatible with D&D, on BackerKit until February 13th. #LevelUp #A5E #TTRPG http://l.d20.ninja/S9UFZe

ICYMI: Mike Myler's Complete Class Compendium brings a dozen new adventurers to Level Up: Advanced 5E, including the free Gemini class for when the voices in your head demand their own character sheets. Compatible with D&D, on BackerKit until February 13th. #LevelUp #A5E #TTRPG http://l.d20.ninja/S9UFZe

Mike Myler's Complete Class Compendium brings a dozen new adventurers to Level Up: Advanced 5E, including the free Gemini class for when the voices in your head demand their own character sheets. Compatible with D&D, on BackerKit until February 13th. #LevelUp #A5E #TTRPG http://l.d20.ninja/S9UFZe

Mike Myler's Complete Class Compendium brings a dozen new adventurers to Level Up: Advanced 5E, including the free Gemini class for when the voices in your head demand their own character sheets. Compatible with D&D, on BackerKit until February 13th. #LevelUp #A5E #TTRPG http://l.d20.ninja/S9UFZe

Mike Myler's Complete Class Compendium brings a dozen new adventurers to Level Up: Advanced 5E, including the free Gemini class for when the voices in your head demand their own character sheets. Compatible with D&D, on BackerKit until February 13th. #LevelUp #A5E #TTRPG http://l.d20.ninja/S9UFZe

Mike Myler's Complete Class Compendium brings a dozen new adventurers to Level Up: Advanced 5E, including the free Gemini class for when the voices in your head demand their own character sheets. Compatible with D&D, on BackerKit until February 13th. #LevelUp #A5E #TTRPG http://l.d20.ninja/S9UFZe

Do your players submit NO or TOO MUCH backstory? This handy writing frame helps them give you bullet point information AND gains their consent for it to be messed with.

#TTRPG #5eFeed #dnd #a5e

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2026/01/30/backstory-generator/

Do your players submit NO or TOO MUCH backstory? This handy writing frame helps them give you bullet point information AND gains their consent for it to be messed with.

#TTRPG #5eFeed #dnd #a5e

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2026/01/30/backstory-generator/

Do your players submit NO or TOO MUCH backstory? This handy writing frame helps them give you bullet point information AND gains their consent for it to be messed with.

#TTRPG #5eFeed #dnd #a5e

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2026/01/30/backstory-generator/

Do your players submit NO or TOO MUCH backstory? This handy writing frame helps them give you bullet point information AND gains their consent for it to be messed with.

#TTRPG #5eFeed #dnd #a5e

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2026/01/30/backstory-generator/

Black Flag is in the Creative Commons, now what? Backgrounds!

Over the past decade the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons grew three main offshoots from its original 2014 release by Wizards of the Coast. These three trunks are all now in the Creative Commons thanks to Kobold Press’s announcement this week.

A5e is the Systems Reference Document for LevelUp, from EN Publishing. This branch of 5e places much greater emphasis on social and exploration, while also being a more complex combat engine. It’s “advanced” 5e.

2024 D&D by Wizards of the Coast (the 5.2.1 SRD) is an evolution of the most popular version of the game in history. It adds minor layers of complexity, and removes most bioessentialism.

Now, Black Flag, the SRD for Tales of the Valiant is also in the Commons under the CC BY 4.0. The primary changes within Black Flag are replacing Inspiration with Luck, adding Dread and similar to A5e uses both nature and nurture to define an upbringing.

All three modern offshoots add a unique element to every monster. Rather than have merely have bigger numbers, monsters do something different — a Commoner in Black Flag has Angry Mob, while in A5e Commoners have a Stone (they can also be a Group) and in 5.2.1 they have Training.

What can a DM/GM/designer do with all four in the same license?

1. I am not a lawyer. Nor am I your lawyer. Use an actual lawyer if you have questions and are publishing for money.
2. Read all relevant SRDs as well as their related FAQs.
3. Find the place you want fiddle with and become an expert at that before you try to be an expert at everything.
4. At your home table, borrow liberally from every system. If you don’t find yourself handing out 2014 Inspiration and don’t like 2024 D&D’s mechanical implementation, use Luck from Black Flag. Use everyone’s monsters — they’re balanced enough for the elastic system that is 5e — your players will have fun interacting with different commoners doing different things.

Maybe you’re thinking “that’s nice advice Dave, but what are you going to do?”

Backgrounds!

Full Moon Storytelling’s most popular types of stories are various Backgrounds. The ones on this site focus on empowering a wider variety of tales within our 5e games, while leaning into short-form personality, a spread of Feats/Talents for each and sometimes a cantrip.

Each of the main trunks of 5e do something different from the 2014 version of the game. That’s good! Your table can use a Background from any of the modern versions and there will be no balance issues. That means dozens of more origin stories for your heroes.

For myself it means my eternal project becomes a simple project. A few dozen new Backgrounds with methodology to fit in all four trunks of 5e.

Custom Backgrounds for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons

• Barker or Crier
• Remarkable Drudge
• Farmer & Beekeeper
• Vintner
• Midwife
• Caravanserai & Innkeeper
• Sparkler
• Tinker
• Lamplighter or Street Sweeper
• Herbalist
• Far Talker
• Hunter
• Messenger
• Clerk & Tax Collector
• Barber, Stylist or Bloodletter
• Cabbie & Ferien
• Clothier or Weaver

The Tinker

This week the Tinker is my most popular Background. Tuning it for each version of 5e doesn’t take much.

2014 5e by WotC

It’s already released, but the key point is the feature “I Can Fix It.” The feature helps in exploration situations, mostly, as it means the Tinker will usually have a way to MacGyver there way through a problem even if they don’t have the proper supplies.

2024 5e by WotC

If you leave Ability Score Improvements within the Background rather than have them float the Tinker would choose between Dexterity, Intelligence and Charisma.

Origin Feats

Choose one;

• Crafter
• Magic Initiate (Wizard)
• Skilled
• Tavern Brawler
• and from Tasha’s Artificer Initiate

Black Flag from Kobold Press

Choose a Talent

• Far Traveler
• Polyglot
• Trade Skills
• Scrutinous
• Ritualist (Arcane)

A5e from EN Publishing

ASI – Tinkers typically grant a +1 in Dexterity

Connections – Tinkers might know a caravanserai, an innkeeper, a ferien, a smith, a group of bandits, a sergeant from a warring nation, a local farmer, a maker of fine meed, a faerie that’s a cheesemonger.

Memento – Tinker memento options could include a letter from home, a chapbook of poetry, a metal they’ve never been able to bend or smelt, a strap of leather from their first failed project, the stein from their favorite inn, or a book of cantrips though they don’t know any.

Adventures and Advancement – A Tinker who repaired a notable authority’s broken item may be granted a writ of access granting the Tinker expertise on Persuasion rolls.

Feature – same as the original on Full Moon Storytelling.

Now, these examples are quick looks at a future project that will include the score of Backgrounds already on the site, plus the four Everflow specific Backgrounds that didn’t get their own entry. And more as my reading expands.

With four versions of 5e available in the Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) how will you create for your table?

#A5e #backgrounds #BlackFlag #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #gaming #homebrew #LevelUp #PlayingDD #RPG #TalesOfTheValiant

I wrote a lengthy piece of work on using antimagic, low level magic zones and wild magic to help take your game to higher levels without feeling "cheap".

#A5e #Free5e #dnd #WildMagic

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2025/07/14/antimagic-low-magic-and-wild-magic-zones/

I am very excited to see that the Level Up character builder for #A5E is now in OpenBeta and you can signup for an account. I very happy to see other character builders in the wild for #5e variants as that only opens up #5e more to the community. Thank you #EnPublishing.

https://levelupgateway.com/

Welp, here we go. Got the cover. It is still a work in progress! Need to sort the colours!

If you boost the post, that would be nice, if you click through and follow the project it will let you know at about 6pm on Wednesday that we've launched.

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/44f00f6e-5f11-4a31-b115-0574112fd0e0/landing

This is the culmination of three years hard thought.

@dnd #levelupA5e #a5e #dnd #dnd5e #free5e

Cheers to:
@CITIZEN_OCHOA @nicolasfolliot @ninjafingers and @bedirthan

A look at the structure and organisation of the new 2024 #DnD #5e #PHB from @WOTC as part of my comparison with the 2014 PHB, @koboldpress #TalesOfTheValiant #ToV and @enpublishing Level Up #A5E

https://melestrua.net/2024/09/15/the-evolution-of-dd-5th-edition-part-2b-overall-structure-of-2024-phb/

You're having a normal one, fighting giant ants, but just attacking is getting samey. Then it hits you! Combat maneuvers! And then you hit the giant ants... with style!

#Dnd #A5e #LevelUpA5e

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2024/07/05/a5e-combat-maneuvers/

Have you ever said, "Damn, that Level Up is a fine looking system, so many clever books, I should use it. If only it was on sale I could use it to add sparkle to my 5e games."

Well! Good news! It is!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?ruleSystem=1000104&format=45305?affiliate_id=273871

That's all the bundles from 3rd party developers. I'll tell you a bit about the individual ones below!

#A5e #LevelUpA5e #Dnd #5e

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Our LevelUp A5e side quest series, The Guild of Icons: Adventures, has a new episode out now!

This time, it's a mission run by Pixel, who ordinarily plays the micro mycelial Capulet. In this session, we meet a cult, and they seem nice. Really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bspQtzkd2a4

#ttrpg #dnd #a5e #rpg #actualplay #realplay #youtube #video

Crafting Heritages and Cultures SRD is available under creative commons!

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2024/04/12/srd-for-crafting-heritages-and-cultures/

#TTRPG #5e #a5e #LevelUpA5e #CreativeCommons

@ttrpg

Guild of Icons adventures returns!

Me, Bri, Iris, playing in a LevelUp Advanced 5e game run by Pixel

This episode: The Cult of Petrichor

https://www.twitch.tv/hiscursedness

https://youtube.com/live/0_5cLIqR99o

#ttrpg #a5e #levelup #actualplay #realplay #youtube #twitch

Guild of Icons: Adventures, our LevelUp A5e AP, returns tonight at 7:30PM UTC!

Three little kids from the mean streets of The Sundered City contend with the Cult Of Petrichor.

https://www.twitch.tv/hiscursedness

https://youtube.com/live/0_5cLIqR99o

#a5e #levelup #LevelUpA5e #ttrpg #actualplay #podcast #twitch #youtube

Level Up A5e. What do people say about it? I wanted to find out so I searched the internet.

#A5e #LevelUpA5e #Dnd #5e

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2024/02/09/the-good-the-bad-and-the-bizarre-a-literature-review-of-a5e/

Well that's nice. I've launched my Kickstarter. :) If you want to get playing rather than prepping I think you'll be very pleased with the proposal. There's a lot of cool art and cool rules and I'm just pretty pleased with it already. :)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/homebrewandhacking/worlds-to-go-the-elysians

Boosts are of course appreciated and I'm always delighted to answer questions. :)

#TheElysians #DnD #A5e #LevelUpA5e #TTRPG #KickstarterTTRPG #kickstarter

@ttrpg
@bedirthan
@nicolasfolliot

Worlds To-Go the Elysians. Get a lil micro setting that you can seamlessly insert into your games, or just grab the bits you want, as it's all modular and run!

If you'd also rather be playing than prepping, this is for you!

#a5e #LevelUpA5e #DnD

http://homebrewandhacking.com/2023/09/09/worlds-to-go-the-elysians-kickstarter-pre-launch/