The META THREAD of useful things!

[Corinath]

Hey all!

I wanted to create a super index of articles, guides, or resources that might help a player, or DM, regardless of familiarity with DnD 5e. If you have a useful guide, article, or resource, please post them here and I'll add them to the OP. I'd love to see some class guides at some point, like we had floating around 3.5.

Cheers!

~Corinath

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Monk Guide (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?373403-Kicking-and-Screaming-A-Guide-To-Monks-WIP) - by TheCrowing1432
Druid Guide (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?370229-Druid-Guide-amp-Discussion&p=18062573#post18062573) by Hymer
Fighter Guide (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?373134-Know-Your-Enemy-A-fighter-s-handbook) - by Dire_Stirge


A useful DnD 5e Primer (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?358474-A-Grognard-s-Guide-to-D-amp-D-Next-5E-Rules) by Person_Man
List of Useful and Powerful Spells (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?371892-List-of-Useful-and-Powerful-Spells) started by Person_Man
The DM's guide to Pre-Game ambiguous RAW (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?371961-The-DMs-guide-to-Pre-Game-ambiguous-RAW) started by Myself (Corinath)
Feat Analysis; First impressions of a wanna be optimizer (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?370020-a-feat-analysis-first-impressions-of-a-wannabe-optimizer) - by Beige
The Magic Economy (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?372551-The-Magic-Economy) by MukkTB is a great thread discussing Magic Items and using them as loot


This spell sorter/index (http://salty-ridge-7989.herokuapp.com) is a massive compendium of 5e spells, sortable by every statistic. Great for spell casters.
Sage Advice (http://thesageadvice.wordpress.com) - A massive compendium of tweets made from developers to players who ask them questions
A Monster Analysis Blog (http://surfarcher.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/d-5e-monsters-master-index.html) Created by Surfarcher
Monsters by CR (http://media.wizards.com/2014/downloads/dnd/MM_MonstersCR.pdf) - straight from WotC


Thanks to Greylind for suggesting The Magic Economy thread

[Corinath]

(Reserved in the very rare instance the meta guide gets this big)

[GWJ_DanyBoy]

Well, there's the spell sorter/index: http://salty-ridge-7989.herokuapp.com/

There's also a monster sorter floating around somewhere.

[Greylind]

Some good preliminary notes on magic items and their placement as treasure in this thread:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?372551-The-Magic-Economy

[Corinath]

Thank you!

I had the spell index listed already, but I just edited it to make the name more clear. Thank you!
I'll add the magic economy thread as well.

I appreciate it!

[hymer]

Mind if i do a little plugging for my druid guide (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?370229-Druid-Guide-amp-Discussion&p=18062573#post18062573)? :smallbiggrin:

[Corinath]

Not at all! Added it and created a new spoiler for Class Guides. I'd love to see more.

[hymer]

Not at all! Added it and created a new spoiler for Class Guides. I'd love to see more.

Well, here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?373403-Kicking-and-Screaming-A-Guide-To-Monks-WIP)'s a monk guide in progress, then. :smallsmile:

[Corinath]

Well, here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?373403-Kicking-and-Screaming-A-Guide-To-Monks-WIP)'s a monk guide in progress, then. :smallsmile:

Thanks! Adding it. :)

[T.G. Oskar]

Do class guides from other sites count?

This one isn't made by me, but it's the earliest Paladin guide released: Oathbound, by Gladius Legis. (http://community.wizards.com/forum/player-help/threads/4135276) Kinda hard to find, since it doesn't appear in Google.

Then there's this one (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?373592-A-Guide-to-the-D-amp-D-5th-Edition-Paladin-through-the-eyes-of-a-3-5-Player) which is native to the forum, of course.

I don't like self-promoting so much, so I had to find another source to compensate for this shameless attempt.

[zoltar]

Thanks for the mention Corinath! :redface:



Hope that http://www.sageadvice.eu will help to find answers, because this 5e is amazing and tweets from Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford and now from Chirs Perkins and Rodney give the rules a tone of voice: good intentions not rules lawyers.

THANKS!


grazie!

[hymer]

There's a 'tricks and combos (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?374458-5e-tricks-and-combos-collection)' thread you may want to add.

[Thomar_of_Uointer]

Might as well throw in my E6 and D20 Modern Mutations articles.

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?373113-D20-Modern-Mutations-Conversion-To-5e

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?374560-E6-%28and-other-level-caps%29-in-5e-D-amp-D&p=18187777

[hymer]

Yorrin has started a cleric guide here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?374604-The-Devout-and-the-Dead-a-guide-to-Clerics).

[Daishain]

Might I suggest that this sucker gets stickied? Or that it gets remade into a sticky? I for one have hunting for it multiple times.

[jkat718]

Just subscribe to the thread. That way, you can always know when it gets updates. But yeah, this should get stickied.

[Inevitability]

Thirding the sticky. Time to start the dark ritual that may summon a moderator to fulfill this wish?

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[neovenator250]

EvilAnagram has a Ranger Guide posted

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?374666-Not-All-Who-Wander-are-Lost-A-Ranger-s-Guide

[Xetheral]

Not sure if anyone else will actually find it useful, but I put together a table showing base damage/hit chance breakpoints for GWM's -5/+10 option. It would apply to Sharpshooter as well. It's located here: GWM Reference Table (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?373572-GWM-Reference-Table).

At the moment it only includes entries for targets whose AC is at least 2 points higher than the attack bonus. The table is technically pertinent all the way to targets whose AC is up to 2 less than the attack bonus (i.e. effectively need a -2 or greater on a D20 to hit), but that seemed like such an unlikely situation I left those lines off the table for clarity.

[FoxDropz]

Thumbs up for a paladin guide!! Anybody making it? :smalltongue:

[Daishain]

Thumbs up for a paladin guide!! Anybody making it? :smalltongue:
There are actually two I'm aware of

http://community.wizards.com/forum/player-help/threads/4135276

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?373592-A-Guide-to-the-D-amp-D-5th-Edition-Paladin-through-the-eyes-of-a-3-5-Player

[GWJ_DanyBoy]

Has anyone done a Sorcerer guide?

[odigity]

UPDATE:

There's a guide for clerics now: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?374604-The-Devout-and-the-Dead-a-guide-to-Clerics

There's a guide for paladins now: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?375696-Good-is-Not-Nice-A-Paladin-s-Guide

[odigity]

UPDATE:

There's a guide for rangers now: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?374666-Not-All-Who-Wander-are-Lost-A-Ranger-s-Guide

[odigity]

Just learned about a thread on Wizards forum with another collection of guides:

http://community.wizards.com/forum/player-help/threads/4138726

[odigity]

For those of you that find yourself here, a note: I would consider this thread deprecated since it hasn't been updated in a while, and this other one has taken up the torch now:

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?377491-Guides-Tables-and-other-useful-tools-for-5E-D-amp-D