Tenkar's Tavern: Putting Together a List of Free Resources for the D&D Basic Rules (5e)

Friday, July 4, 2014

Putting Together a List of Free Resources for the D&D Basic Rules (5e)

You know those sidebars on the right side of this page, linking to free OSR rulesets and adventures? I'm going to do the same for 5e. It's the least I can do when WotC is giving us the core rules for free.

I'm trying to put together the list before I put it up, so if folks can point me to anything I may have missed, I'd appreciate it. Just add a comment below.

Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules (5e)

Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules (5e Printer Friendly)

The Wizards Amulet (1st Level Adventure)

5th Edition Character Sheets (WotC)

ENWorld 5e Adventure Collection

ENWorld 5e Fan Created Character Sheets

Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set Maps (DM & Player) (apparently not free)

5e Treasure Generator

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AnonymousJuly 5, 2014 at 3:17 AM
Hey, Adventures! Who cares what edition? ;)
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Darcy PerryJuly 5, 2014 at 4:49 AM
D & D (5e) Treasure Generator http://redkatart.com/treasure5e/treasureGen.php

Companion to D&D http://www.codenamemorningstar.com/

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Chris C.July 5, 2014 at 8:02 AM
Awesome! I always find at least one item I wasn't aware of (often more) in all your lists. They're most useful. Thanks for doing them!
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GaryJuly 5, 2014 at 10:38 AM
Printer friendly version! YESH!
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JasperAKJuly 5, 2014 at 1:57 PM
It looks like the Starter Set maps are not free although my browser keeps freezing when I click on buy.
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FlannelMarch 21, 2015 at 4:43 PM
http://manysideddice.wordpress.com

Tons of magic items and adventure resources there.
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Why "Swords & Wizardry?"

Believe me when I say I have them all in dead tree format. I have OSRIC in full size, trade paperback and the Player's Guide. I have LL and the AEC (and somewhere OEC, but I can't find it at the moment). Obviously I have Basic Fantasy RPG. Actually, I have the whole available line in print. Way too much Castles & Crusades. We all know my love for the DCC RPG. I even have Dark Dungeons in print, the Delving Deeper boxed set, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea. BOTH editions of LotFP's Weird Fantasy and some dead tree copies of the Greyhawk Grognards Adventures Dark & Deep

I am so deep in the OSR when I come up for breath it's for the OSR's cousin, Tunnels & Trolls

So, out of all that, why Swords & Wizardry? Why, when I have been running a AD&D 1e / OSRIC campaign in Rappan Athuk am I using Swords & Wizardry and it's variant, Crypts & Things, for the second campaign? (Actually, now running a S&W Complete campaign, soon to be with multiple groups)

Because the shit works.

It's easy for lapsed gamers to pick up and feel like they haven't lost a step. I can house rule it and it doesn't break. It plays so close to the AD&D of my youth and college years (S&W Complete especially) that it continually surprises me. Just much less rules hopping than I remember. (my God but I can run it nearly without the book)

I grab and pick and steal from just about all OSR and Original resources. They seem to fit into S&W with little fuss. It may be the same with LL and the rest, but for me the ease of use fit's my expectations with S&W.

Even the single saving throw. That took me longer to adjust to, but even that seems like a natural to me now. Don't ask me why, it just does. Maybe it's the simplicity of it. At 45 52, simplicity and flexibility while remaining true to the feel of the original is an OSR hat trick for me ;)

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Putting Together a List of Free Resources for the D&D Basic Rules (5e)

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