Best 5E SRD?

[Necrosnoop110]

I used to love the hypertext SRD for 3.5E (https://www.d20srd.org/index.htm) and found it to be pretty accurate. I really dislike the one they have for 5E.

What do you consider to be the "best" 5E SRD in regards to accuracy and usability?

[nickl_2000]

Personally, DNDBeyond. They do a great job of making things searchable and have hovertext.

[truemane]

Oddly enough, I also don't like it. And I don't know why. But it's the one I use because I have the muscle memory for typing the URL already, and I'm familiar with the layout.

[Dienekes]

Honestly, mostly just google. Though http://dnd5e.wikidot.com has a lot of the stuff I'm looking for on the player side of things.

[BoxANT]

wikidot for class & spells
roll20.net for magic items & conditions

[Man_Over_Game]

Oddly enough, I also don't like it. And I don't know why. But it's the one I use because I have the muscle memory for typing the URL already, and I'm familiar with the layout.

If I had to put my finger on it, it's that they tried too damn hard to make it pretty instead of useful. The icons are too big, the filters too hard to read, and they just take up a huge part of the screen.

Take a look at what they have for manually looking up rules for content. First, you hover over a small bit of text for "Game Rules", which expands into a bunch of stuff that takes up half the page (and this can disappear if your mouse moves off of the content due to the hover).

Then it has a list of classes by icon, then two lists to search by spells (also indicated by icon) that are divided into spell school and class spell list. Then the whole right-hand side of this UI piece is a bunch of rectangles with pictures and text for some of the other stuff you can pick from (Feats, Equipment, Races, etc).

It all feels very arbitrary, and it kinda feels like you're reading a magazine that's trying to cram as much information and artwork into as small of a place as possible, without really thinking about why things are going there.


That being said, it has made DMing so friggin' easy. The Encounter Builder is hands-down the biggest gamechanger I've ever come across. Just being able to half-ass a decent CR total of enemies and then click on their respective statblocks to roll for whatever they're doing is really nice. What would take me 20 minutes of scrambling is now done in 3.

[Necrosnoop110]

That being said, it has made DMing so friggin' easy. The Encounter Builder is hands-down the biggest gamechanger I've ever come across. Just being able to half-ass a decent CR total of enemies and then click on their respective statblocks to roll for whatever they're doing is really nice. What would take me 20 minutes of scrambling is now done in 3.
Where is that I cannot seem to find it? http://5e.d20srd.org/

[MaxWilson]

Where is that I cannot seem to find it? http://5e.d20srd.org/

I recommend https://kobold.club

[Man_Over_Game]

Where is that I cannot seem to find it? http://5e.d20srd.org/

https://www.dndbeyond.com/encounter-builder.

You just need a free DnD Beyond account. Although, keep in mind, it only adds minions that are free or are included in books that you own.

[thoroughlyS]

Depending on what you mean by "SRD", I think 5etools is the most robust and user-friendly free resource.

[Ogun]

5e tools and 5e wikidot.
5e tools is very comprehensive, but harder to use, especially on my phone.
Wikidot is easier to use but not as comprehensive.

[Grod_The_Giant]

5e tools and 5e wikidot.
5e tools is very comprehensive, but harder to use, especially on my phone.
Wikidot is easier to use but not as comprehensive.
Also, I believe both of those sites are illegal. Only so much of 5e is covered by the OGL.

[thoroughlyS]

That's why I said "depending on what you mean": 5etools is the most comprehensive reference for 5e resources, but only a fraction of that is OGL/SRD material. If you want access to everything, it can't be beat. If you only want the stuff WotC says you can have, I actually prefer the official SRD (https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/systems-reference-document-srd) just because it has the least likelihood of deviation from the PHB/DMG/MM. Other sites sometimes transcribe stuff themselves, without mentioning it.

[Valmark]

5e tools and 5e wikidot.
5e tools is very comprehensive, but harder to use, especially on my phone.
Wikidot is easier to use but not as comprehensive.

Careful with wikidot, some stuff on there has mistakes- I got things wrong from there more then once.

[Arkhios]

"Snip" and "Snap".
"Snip" is very comprehensive, but harder to use, especially on my phone.
"Snap" is easier to use but not as comprehensive.

Also, I believe both of those sites are illegal. Only so much of 5e is covered by the OGL.

It wouldn't surprise me if they are. And if they are, every time someone mentions the names of those sites on internet, chances increase for them to get shut down by lawful authorities.

I admit the "Snip" is the one and foremost I would use hands down, but not for long, I reckon.

So, "thanks", I guess...

[KorvinStarmast]

The best SRD. (https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/DND/SRD-OGL_V5.1.pdf)
Because it's legal, and because I've been using it on and off since it was first posted.

[Vegan Squirrel]

For just pure SRD function, I use http://5thsrd.org/. It's a clean, organized version of the SRD material, much like d20srd always was for 3.5 (keeping in mind that many PHB options (mainly subclasses) are not in the SRD for this edition).