Once you factor in the various hidden, little known, or esoteric 5e languages from specific sourcebooks – including those inter-dimensionally ported in fromMagic: The Gathering– the total number of languages in D&D rises to over 60. To find out more about those mysterious tongues, read on!
Once you’ve chosen one of theDungeons and Dragons classes, use our other expert guides to help get your 5e character game-ready. Choosing a species for your character is the next step – our complete list ofDnD raceshas all the info you need. If you’re using the new edition Player’...
You can further refine the trigger so the spell activates only under certain circumstances or according to physical characteristics (such as height or weight), creature kind (for example, the ward could be set to affect aberrations or drow), or alignment. You can also set conditions for creatur...
The Ashbound, for example, believe that arcane magic is an abomination against nature, the Children of Winter venerate the forces of death, and the Gatekeepers preserve ancient traditions meant to protect the world from the incursion of aberrations. Fighter A human in clanging plate armor holds ...
Aberrations are utterly alien beings. Many of them have innate magical abilities drawn from the creature's alien mind rather than the mystical forces of the world. The quintessential aberrations are aboleths, and slaadi. Beasts are nonhumanoid creatures that are a natural part of the fantasy ec...
Choose a type of favored enemy: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. Alternatively, you can select two races of humanoid (such as gnolls and orcs) as favored enemies. ...
You sit alone; a pouch of dice in one hand, and your DM screen in the other. A sad sight. A sad day. But a great meme to push you through the despair! Some parts of D&D’s metagame never change. Fireball might be the most notoriousD&D 5E spellaround, and was a staple of past...
The first three DnD damage types are what you might call the Physical damage types. They’re some of the most common forms of damage in the game, dished out by all commonDnD weapons. That means every class that regularly uses a weapon, from theFighter 5eto theRogue 5e, will make use ...