A curated list of awesome D&D Resources
Inspired by D&D Tool Compendium [5E] (Google docs file). To be honest, the Google Docs file may be updated more often than this list I am maintaining.
Everything here is either system agnostic or D&D 5E unless otherwise specified.
Resources of epic proportions!
- Home Brew - Create your own content that looks official
- DM's Guild - Official place to buy modules and stuff
- Donjon - Awesome resource for everything!
- 5E SRD - System Reference Document
- D&D Beyond - Official D&D 5E compendium
- Massive DM's Toolkit - Tons of online DM resources
- The Dungeon Master's Toolkit - More DM resources
- r/dndnext's Resourcelist - List of various 5E resources
- D&D Wiki - Home of user-generated homebrew pages for various editions
- Battlegrounds RPG Links - Tons of links to digital resources for use with Virtual Tabletop systems
Sites with pre-made adventures
- 5E Adventures by level - Links to 100's of 5E adventures
Let's flesh out some characters!
- Orc Pub - Almost a mega resource, has lots of stuff!
- Orc Pub 2 - Newer UI for Orc Pub. Pretty much what D&D Beyond should be like IMO
- D&D Beyond: Characters - Official D&D character resource
- D&D Beyond: Spell list - Official D&D spell list
- Every Possible Stat Array
- Class Comparison List
- Conjuration List
- Easy character creation
- Groctel’s Character Sheets
- Monstrous Races - This document presents rules for playing every creature in the Monster Manual
Where to buy/customize figurines
Track your campaigns here
Loot and store guides
- Magic Items by Rarity
- D&D Beyond: Items
- Treasure Generator
- Sane Magical PricesPrices
- Weak Magic Items
- Mithril And Mages Treasure
- Quick Store
- Adventurers League Rewards
Tools for creating NPCs
- RPG Tinker
- Cellule's NPC Generator - source code https://github.com/cellule/dndGenerator
- Total Party Kill NPC Generator
- Google Sheets NPC Generator
- NPCbase - Background generator for NPCs
- Subclass Statblocks - Also includes CR ratings for each subclass
Tools for building encounters
- Big List of RPG Plots - Abstract RPG plots to build encounters around
- D&D Beyond: Monsters
- Kobold club encounter builder
- Poison generator
- Monsters by Challenge Rating 1.0
- Monsters by Type 1.0
- Active combat initiative tracker (Axetax)
- Improved Initiative
- Combat Encounter Tracker - Track initiative and monster stats
- Monster stat tracker - Just track monster stats for encounters
- Skip's Guide To Monsters - Part 1 - 5e conversions of 3e monsters
- Forgotten Realms Conversion Guide - 5e conversions of 3e Forgotten Realms monsters
Name generators
Pre-made maps of all types
- Historic Cities - Olde maps of real places
Generate all the things!
- Taverns
- Mithril and Mages
- Dungeon & Town Quick
- Stores (with inventories)
- Pymapper
- Ye olde map maker
- Dave's Mapper
- Dwarven Forge Mapmaker
- Inkarnate
- Pyromancers' Dungeon Painter
Always more rules
- Sage Advice Compendium
- D&D Beyond: Compendium
- Monster Manual Errata 1.2
- Dungeon Master’s Guide Errata 1.1
- Unearthed Arcana Quick Reference
Best D&D related subreddits. Also be sure to check their wikis
- /r/DMAcademy - Tips on being a better Dungeon Master
- /r/DnDBehindTheScreen - More tips on being a better Dungeon Master
- /r/UnearthedArcana - Catalog for homebrew material
- /r/BehindTheTables - Lots of tables, especially this post
- /r/d100 - Various d100 lists
- /r/battlemaps
- /r/dndmaps
- /r/mapmaking
- /r/worldbuilding
- r/dndnext - Discussion about 5E, known during the playtest as DnD Next
Various websites
- History of the Forgotten Realms - Interactive calendar of the history of the Realms
- Broderick's Compendium: Plants and Fungi Across the Realm - Guide to over 600 fantasy plants for druids, poisoners, potion-crafters, and herbalists
Things to download and install
- Fantasy Grounds
- RP Tools
- Dungeonographer
- Hobbyte
- Syrinscape
- Realm Works
- Inspiration Pad Pro 3 (Random Tables)
Track your characters
- Squire - Character Manager Pro - $2.99
- PHB content for Squire - Files to import into Squire's Character Manager Pro app
- Fifth Edition Character Sheet
Spell lists
Encounter and campaign building
Add some sounds to your gameplay!
Please feel free to add issues, fork, and make pull requests. Thanks for being interested!