Campaign Settings
This setting holds many modern things D&D. From Honor Among Thieves, the Baldur's Gate Series, and most 5e Modules.
What is the Forgotten Realms?
This mechanic allows a player to roll two d20s, taking the higher of the two results.
What is Advantage?
These classic monsters are psionic beings that feed on the brains of sentient creatures. They are the main villain in Baldur's Gate III and in Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk. They are also known as Illithids.
What are Mind Flayers?
This book is likely the first ever D&D 5e book you ever encountered. Going over the core races and classes, as well as explaining the way that the game works, it is impossible to play D&D without this book.
What is the Player's Handbook?
This D&D movie shattered expectations in the box office, making over 208.2 Million USD. Following the tale of a Harper Bard within the Forgotten Realms, the film introduces the Emerald Enclave, the Underdark, Elminster, and Neverwinter as key presences within its plot.
What is Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves?
This setting is the first of many, created by one of D&D's original co-founders, Gary Gygax. It is home to the famous wizards Mordenkainen and Bigby.
What is Greyhawk?
This optional mechanic allows players to gain advantage on attack rolls against a specific creature, so long as two creatures are on opposite sides of the target.
What is Flanking?
This monster hails from the Aaqa, elemental plane of air. With the appearance of a humanoid eagle, they protect the skies from invaders of the elemental plane of earth. They were introduced as a playable race to 5e in the Elemental Evil Player's Companion, as well as Volo's Guide to Monsters. They now reside as the first race in Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse.
What are Aarakocra?
Combining the character options and bestiary of both Volo's Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, this book was first featured in the core supplements box set, which also contained a copy of both Xanathar's Guide to Everything and Tasha's Cauldron of Everything.
What is Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse?
This company is indisputably the largest TTRPG streamer in the world. Starting out with shotty audio on Geek & Sundry's YouTube Channel, they are now well into their third campaign, and are producing two new TTRPG systems.
What is Critical Role?
This setting is easily recognizable thanks to its introduction through pop culture. With three campaigns readily available to watch on YouTube, you can find most of the lore just by watching others play in this setting.
What is Exandria?
This mechanic allows player characters to automatically succeed against Constitution Saving Throws in extreme cold conditions. They are however, not unaffected by cold damage as a whole.
What is Resistance To Cold?
These monsters are born of pure hatred. The remnants of one's soul after being killed by a wraith, these undead roam the lands killing with no discrimination. These poor souls are doomed to the Material Plane, and have no hope of reaching an afterlife, their only rest being the oblivion that comes with the destruction of its soul.
What are Specters?
This book, or books, were the first modules written for 5th edition. Originally written by the Kobold Press, they follow a story in the Forgotten Realms, in which the Cult of the Dragon has set aside their mission to revive Dracoliches and instead summon Tiamat, the goddess of all evil dragons.
What is Tyranny of Dragons?
What is Hoard of the Dragon Queen?
What is Rise of Tiamat?
Originally written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, this book series would shape the fate of an iconic D&D setting. The series of books contains four books, each named after one of the four season.
This campaign setting focuses on the outer planes of existence, with a interesting emphasis on zaniness and portalling.
What is Planescapes?
This mechanic allows creatures to travel underground. This is usually a slower method of movement than overland, however it can make fighting players a lot more interesting.
What is a Burrow Speed?
At war with the Sea Elves for countless generations, these monsters terrorize the depths of the seas to no end. With four arms, a large tail, and fish like skin, they make for an impressive foe against any kind of adventurer.
What are Sahuagin?
This book is largely regarded as the best 5e supplement. With new character options, revamped races, and a sprawling bestiary, there is not a corner of the book that isn't filled with something a player or DM could use in their games... unless of course their setting doesn't have dragons.
What is Fizban's Treasury of Dragons?
Featured as a game that your player character can be proficient in, this gambling card game is played by creating a 'flight' which must have a higher combined power than all other players to win the gold from the stakes. The game ends, when one player has lost all of their funds.
What is Three Dragon Ante?
This campaign setting is set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world. With a ravaged desert-like setting, and scare resources, it shatters the expectations of D&D's standard playstyle.
What is Dark Sun?
This mechanic changes a player character physically, often for the worse. Being an effect commonly found in Avernus, the first of the Nine Hells, entering Demon Ichor makes a player roll on this table, in which the player rolls a d100 to see how their character is changed.
What is Flesh Warping?
This monster is of the fiendish variety. Often, they are found serving archdevils as shock troops, fighting shoulder-to-shoulder and reveling in the glory of battle. They are humanoid in appearance, and bear purple hued skin as well as an odd menagerie of barbed tentacles extending from their chins and jawbones.
What are bearded devils?
This book follows a new faction/business that is booming in the Forgotten Realms. Introducing background such as the Rival Intern, and the race of Verdans, this book has to be one of the most fun yet odd books within the 5e bibliography.
What is Aquisitions Incorporated?
With 5e containing now three campaign setting sourcebooks based on different settings from this game, it is safe to say that the set of cards released for both the Forgotten Realms and Baldur's Gate in this game were highly anticipated. This card game is also manufactured by Wizards of the Coast, the same company to manufacture D&D products.
What is Magic: The Gathering?