Website: User Guide
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Short Introduction
5eTools is an open-source website (Licensed under the MIT license), which is designed to be used by anyone who wishes to curate the content of their D&D 5e books in a simplified digital manner, (online, on their local computers or ... if you're a bit of coder ... customized on their own private or public websites for their and their player's use.)
The site is developed with the intent of helping provide an easier means to search and work with the resources users already own IRL (in real life). Allowing a player or DM to carry all their books and supplements on their laptop even if they do not have internet access wherever they are.
If you are developer, please see this page if you wish to contribute to a project.
Where to start...
You're likely here because you've found the site, want to do "x" with it, and want to know how to do it ... or you tried to do "x" with and its not working.
So, for that let's directly link to where you may want to go...
History
- The site arose from the primordial pit that is 4chan, and then was nearly lost were it not for Astranauta, who kept a copy of what had been gathered together, and then the current lead dev Giddy took over, along with help from DBAWiseMan, 5egmegaanon, aeosynth, grxanon, Temp345, Azzurite, Buluphont and several others ... with the support of Lord Dusk.
Code
- There remains two means to get the code; the public Github (which is not the most updated code -- it is, however, a place for persons to fork the code, report bugs (though .. you should use the Troubleshooting BEFORE attempting to do such) or a location to make pull requests with fixes or additions you've made.
- OR
- The current source code is available as a zipped archive on the distribution page across three zipped files.
- Basic (the site, but requires internet access for various elements)
- Developer (the site and its development files; which as a result will work offline)
- Support Files (images. which you'll need if you're attempting to run the site offline)
- The current source code is available as a zipped archive on the distribution page across three zipped files.
- (all of which is covered in the installation guide.)
- As previously mentioned the site and its code are opensource and released under the MIT license. Which (paraphrased) means you are welcome to use it, modify it, distribute it, and build from it.
- It is requested that if you do develop new versions or features that you fork from the Github and that you modify this page with a link to your own project.
Content
- The site draws upon a number of resources, and by default, all RAW (Rules as Written / Official) content is loaded when the site loads.
- We should address that now.
- The site CAN be used improperly. The content is there, and if you don't own a copy of the content - you should use the Blacklist to limit the content that you own or have legitimate access to. A link to where you can obtain legal copies of each resource has been provided so that you can better support WoTC and the individual content developers.
Content
The site provides all RAW content (Officially released content) which currently means it contains the following:
RAW
- LEGEND
| For Whom | 🧙 | DM | ⛹️ | Player | |||||||||
| Type | 🗝️ | Adventure | 📚 | Book | 🏫 | Class | 🧝 | Race | 💰 | Item | 🧙 | Spell | |
| 🍣 | RAW | 🍺 | Homebrew | 🗝️ | Adventure | ||||||||
| AL | 🏆 | AL Legal | 🥇 | AL Legal+ | 🥈 | Not AL Legal |
| Title | Abbrev | Type | AL | Whom | Buy? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player's Handbook | PhB | 🏆 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Dungeon Master's | DMG | 🍣 | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Dungeon Master's Screen | Screen | 🥈 | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Monster Manual | MM | 🥇 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Sword Coast Adventure's Guide | SCAG | 🥇 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Volo's Guide to Monsters | VGM | 🥇 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Xanathar's Guide to Everything | XGE | 🥇 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Elemental Evil Player's Companion | EEPC | 🥇 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Elemental Evil: Trinkets | EET | 🏆 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes | MTF | 🍣 | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron | UAWGE | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Mythic Odysseys of Theros | MoT | 🗝️ | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 |
| Adventurers' League | AL | 🏆 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Adventurers' League: Curse of Strahd |
ALCurseOfStrahd | 🗝️ | 🏆 | 🧙 | 💸 |
| Adventurers' League: Elemental Evil |
ALElementalEvil | 🗝️ | 🏆 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 |
| Adventurers' League: Rage of Demons |
ALRageOfDemons | 🗝️ | 🏆 | 🧙 | 💸 |
| Aquisitions Incorporated | AI | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Lost Mines of Phandelver | LMoP | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Hoard of the Dragon Queen | HoDQ | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Rise of Tiamat | RoT | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Rise of Tiamat Online Supplement | RoTOS | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Princes of the Apocalypse | PotA | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Out of the Abyss | OotA | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Curse of Strahd | CoS | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Storm King's Thunder | SKT | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Tales from the Yawning Portal: Against the Giants |
TftYP-AtG | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Tales from the Yawning Portal: Dead in Thay |
TftYP-DiT | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Tales from the Yawning Portal: The Forge of Fury |
TftYP-TFoF | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Tales from the Yawning Portal: The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan |
TftYP-THSoT | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Tales from the Yawning Portal: The Sunless Citadel |
TftYP-TSC | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Tales from the Yawning Portal: Tomb of Horrors |
TftYP-ToH | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Tales from the Yawning Portal: White Plume Mountain |
TftYP-WPM | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Tomb of Annihilation | ToA | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Waterdeep: Dragon Heist | WDH | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage | WDMM | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Krenko's Way | KKW | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Lost Laboratory of Kwalish | LLK | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Ghosts of Saltmarsh | GoS | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Hunt for the T-hydra | HftT | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Dragon of Icespire Peak | DIP | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| The Orrery of the Wanderer | OoW | 🗝️ | 🧙 | 💸 | |
| Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica | GGR | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Planeshift:Amonket | PSA | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Planeshift:Dominaria | PSD | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Planeshift:Innistrad | PSI | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Planeshift:Ixalan | PSX | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Planeshift:Kaladesh | PSK | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Planeshift:Zendikar | PSZ | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| The Tortle Package | TTP | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| One Grung Above | OGA | 🥇 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Dragon Magazine | Mag | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana | UA | 🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Artificer |
UA Artificer |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Eladrin and Gith |
UA EladrinAndGith |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Eberron |
UA Eberron |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Feats for Races |
UA FeatsForRaces |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Feats for Skills |
UA FeatsForSkills |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Fiendish Options |
UA FiendishOptions |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Feats |
UA Feats |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Gothic Heroes |
UA GothicHeroes |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Modern Magic |
UA ModernMagic |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Starter Spells |
UA StarterSpells |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana The Mystic Class |
UA TheMysticClass |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana That Old Black Magic |
UA ThatOldBlackMagic |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana The Ranger, Revised |
UA TheRangerRevised |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Waterborne Adventures |
UA WaterborneAdventures |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Variant Rules |
UA VariantRules |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Light, Dark, Underdark! |
UA LightDarkUnderdark |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Ranger and Rogue |
UA RangerAndRogue |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana A Trio of Subclasses |
UA ATrioOfSubclasses |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Barbarian Primal Paths |
UA BarbarianPrimalPaths |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Revised Subclasses |
UA RevisedSubclasses |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Kits of Old |
UA KitsOfOld |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Bard: Bard Colleges |
UA BardBardColleges |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Cleric: Divine Domains |
UA ClericDivineDomains |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Druid |
UA Druid |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Revised Class Options |
UA RevisedClassOptions |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Fighter |
UA Fighter |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Monk |
UA Monk |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Paladin |
UA Paladin |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Modifying Classes |
UA ModifyingClasses |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Sorcerer |
UA Sorcerer |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Warlock and Wizard |
UA WarlockAndWizard |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana The Faithful |
UA TheFaithful |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Wizard Revisited |
UA WizardRevisited |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Elf Subraces |
UA ElfSubraces |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Mass Combat |
UA MassCombat |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Three-Pillar Experience |
UA ThreePillarExperience |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Greyhawk Initiative |
UA GreyhawkInitiative |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Three Subclasses |
UA ThreeSubclasses |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Order Domain |
UA OrderDomain |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Centaurs and Minotaurs |
UA CentaursMinotaurs |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Giant Soul Sorcerer |
UA GiantSoulSorcerer |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Races of Eberron |
UA RacesOfEberron |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Races of Ravnica |
UA RacesOfRavnica |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Of Ships and the Sea |
UA OfShipsAndSea |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Sidekicks |
UA Sidekicks |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Unearthed Arcana Artificer Revisited |
UA ArtificerRevisited |
🥈 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Livestream (Mearl's Happy Hour) | Stream | 🍺 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 | |
| Titter | 🍺 | 🧙⛹️ | 💸 |
And CAN - through the Manage Homebrew feature; be expanded to include...
Homebrew
- Legend
| 🗝️ | Adventure | 👶 | Background | 📔 | Book | |||
| 👨🏫 | Class | 📚 | Collection | 😩 | Condition | |||
| 🐉 | Creature(s) | 🗿 | Diety | 💪 | Feat | |||
| ⚠️ | Hazzard | 📦 | Item | ☄️ | Magic Variant | |||
| 🏹 | Object | 🎯 | Optional Features | 🧘 | Psionic | |||
| 🧝 | Race | 🎁 | Reward | 🔮 | Spell | |||
| 👥 | Subclass | 📊 | Table | ☠️ | Trap | |||
| 💬 | Variant Rules | 🚚 | Vehicles |
| Title | Abbrev | Author | Type | Want it? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tags (links)
- Rolls (Damage/Saves/Skills/Tables)
- When you come across a roll that has been linked in the content, you can click on the link and it will open the Dice Roller and generate a result within the roller's window.
- Links
- The contents of the site use various
tagssuch as{@spell Detect Magic}which will be denoted by blue text, and that when moused over will prompt a pop-up window of the content tagged for viewing purposes. As mentioned above, this is a place where the
shift key can help. Holding Shift while your cursor is over a popup link will freeze it and add additional controls to the window, labelled below.
- The contents of the site use various
From left to right (
)
- Go to Page - this immediately takes the user to the page within the source being cited .
- Open a Pop-up - open a new browser window for the pop-up's content.
- Close - Close the pop-up window and return to the current page.
Page Layout
- The website's content is laid out in a simple format that changes to fit the subjects being shown. This section shows how to best use/understand the features implemented using said format.
- The Navbar appears at the top of most of the pages on the site and helps quickly navigate between its features. It helps identify at a glance what page you are on, and even gives some specific advice for its use, as well as a link to the wiki for the site's feature(s).
For more information see the Website Navbar page.
- Each page outside of the DM screen will have the Omnisearch box. Denoted by a bar on the right side of the navbar, with the words "Search everywhere..." inside of it.
- The Omnisearch box looks over the dataset's titles for matching content. It does not search the description (ie `Fluff`) text, but instead focuses upon key data fields in Monster, Items, Tables, Rules, Feats, etc. fields like title, name.
For more information see the Omnisearch Feature page.
- Dice Utility
- At the bottom of most pages, there will be this icon
. When it is clicked, (as the animation shows) it will open a small window which can be used to either roll or return the results of actions triggered by clicking other elements of the site, usually triggered by a link on the page that most often looks like 2d10 this. (There are some instructions on how to do this within the JSON data in the Renderer Demo should you want to enable this for your own documents - see Homebrew.
- At the bottom of most pages, there will be this icon
- The roller uses the common format for dice rolling (that being
<a>d<X>where<a>is the number of dice rolled<X>number of times. The results of the roll(s) is(are) presented to the roller window with separate entries, and then the sum of the rolls are calculated as well.
- The roller uses the common format for dice rolling (that being
For more information see the 🎲 Dice Roller page.
- For an overview of the layout and most common features the site's pages, click [expand] below.
Reference Pages
Reference pages are for content with dense data; things like Items; Tables; Monsters/Bestiary; Feats; Spells; etc. Things that having a filter for content is most helpful with.
The following image is a color-coded representation of a fairly common layout of the site's information. The various highlighted regions are covered in brief below.
- The Navbar appears above most of the features of the site and helps quickly navigate between its features.
- The bar shifts to include the current page's title and some specific advice for its use, and a link to the wiki for the site's feature(s).
- Book a list of Books (Raw)
- Dungeon Master's Guide
- Monster Manual
- Player's Handbook
- Book a list of Books (Raw)
- Book a list of List of Books (Extended)
- Acquisitions Incorporated
- Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
- Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
- Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
- Volo's Guide to Monsters
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything
- Eberron: Rising from the Last War
- Dungeons & Dragons vs. Rick and Morty: Basic Rules
- Guide to Wildemount
- Book a list of List of Books (Extended)
-
- Quickly browse the official classes, and their associated subclasses. Unearthed Arcana content can be accessed by cycling the "All Sources" button.
- A list of the various Backgrounds for character development
- A Basic tool for ability stats generation (point buy, array, dice roll)
- An automated version of the character background generator from Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
- A collection of racial name tables found in Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
-
- A fully-customizable Dungeon Master's screen, featuring an initiative tracker; a unit converter, embedded images, videos, and sites; and the majority of 5etools' content.
-
- Objects are the Siege weapons currently.
-
- A verbose, in-depth Challenge Rating calculator, for determining the CR of homebrew creatures.
- A random loot generator for both individual and hoards level treasure.
- A link to the donation page. Here its a link to suggestions on how to support the project; money; development; artistic; or just time.
For more information see the Donate page on this wiki.
- Each page outside of the DM screen will have the Omnisearch box. Denoted by a bar on the right side of the navbar, with the words "Search everywhere..." inside of it.
- The Omnisearch box searches the dataset's titles for matching content. It does not search the description (ie `Fluff`) text, but instead focuses upon key data fields in Monster, Items, Tables, Rules, Feats, etc. fields like title, name.
- For more information see the Omnisearch Feature page.
For more information see the Website Navbar page.
2️⃣ Filter
- The filter interface is a quick and easy way to break down the results into usable 'chunks' for use.
There are a number of facets that the filter element brings into play on the current page.
- This opens a popup window for advanced filtering features for that section of the website
- This collapses the filter source details (the list of red and blue colored sources that appear below the filter element as they are added from the filterpopup.
- Simple text filter. You type in the data you are looking for here and the site attempts to filter by it.<Results>/<Total Entries>- This gives the specific feedback of
- From the results of your filter, this chooses a random result.
- Removes the entire, left pane (including Filter and Filter's Result's List), making the page collapse into one column.
- Resets the Filters to using RAW sources.
- Filtering Sources Guide:
- 🔵
Blue - Included - 🔴
Red - Excluded - ⚪
Colorless - Ignored
- 🔵
- Combine filters as...
- Filter options will require all elements to be presented to the filtered result pane
-
-
-
-
- Includes All
- Clears Selection
- Excludes All
- WoTC 1st Party Material + Loaded Homebrew- x28px - Includes things that have This or That
- Includes things that have This and That
- Excludes things that have This or That
- Excludes things that have This and That
-
Sources
- The sources will be listed under the Features' filter.
For more information please see the Filter feature page.
3️⃣ Filter's Result's List
- This pane lists a number of columns which can be sorted by clicking on the column's heading, which will then be denoted after the column's title by either
(ascending) or 
(descending).
- This pane lists a number of columns which can be sorted by clicking on the column's heading, which will then be denoted after the column's title by either
- By selecting an entry on the filter's result list, the panel on the (5️⃣) right-hand pane side of the webpage will open up with the content, and will update with the detailed information as it is selected.
- You can choose what is being displayed on the right panel by either using the mouse to select it, or using the
JorKkeys to manually move through the list of options.
- You can choose what is being displayed on the right panel by either using the mouse to select it, or using the
4️⃣ Pinned List & Information Pane Controls
- Atop the information pane are set of controls and an area for pinning selections to make a list for your reference and use.
- these provide access to additional tabs of information
or 
- are used to make a pinned list, pull the information into a separate window, copy a link to the data for saving/sharing elsewhere, or upload or download the pinned list.
- Atop the information pane are set of controls and an area for pinning selections to make a list for your reference and use.
5️⃣ Information Pane
- On the right-hand side of the website, the detailed information from the selected item in the Filter's Result List pane (3️⃣) will be displayed.
- This will differ from page to page and as such some entries will have elements which (
and/or 
) which will provide additional information, pin or remove customized lists, Show the source JSON data for modification in the Homebrew Builder, link to the entry directly, or link to manage homebrew sources for the content being used for that section's data.
- This will differ from page to page and as such some entries will have elements which (
6️⃣ Dice Utility
- At the bottom of most pages, there will be this icon . When it is clicked (as the animation shows) it will open a small window that can be used to either roll or return the results of actions triggered by clicking other elements of the site, usually triggered by a link on the page that most often looks like 2d10 this. (There are some instructions on how to do this within the JSON data in the Renderer Demo should you want to enable this for your own documents - see Homebrew.
- At the bottom of most pages, there will be this icon
- The roller uses the common format for dice rolling (that being
<a>d<X>where<a>is the number of dice rolled for a die with<X>number of sides. The results of the roll(s) is(are) presented to the roller window with separate entries, and then the sum of the rolls are calculated as well.
- The roller uses the common format for dice rolling (that being
For more information see the 🎲 Dice Roller page.
Book Content Pages
The following image is a color coded representation of the site's presentation of Book content. The various highlighted regions are covered in brief below.
- The Navbar appears above most of the features of the site and helps quickly navigate between its features.
- The bar shifts to include the current page's title and some specific advice for its use, and a link to the wiki for the site's feature(s).
- Book a list of Books (Raw)
- Dungeon Master's Guide
- Monster Manual
- Player's Handbook
- Book a list of Books (Raw)
- Book a list of List of Books (Extended)
- Acquisitions Incorporated
- Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
- Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
- Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
- Volo's Guide to Monsters
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything
- Eberron: Rising from the Last War
- Dungeons & Dragons vs. Rick and Morty: Basic Rules
- Guide to Wildemount
- Book a list of List of Books (Extended)
-
- Quickly browse the official classes, and their associated subclasses. Unearthed Arcana content can be accessed by cycling the "All Sources" button.
- A list of the various Backgrounds for character development
- A Basic tool for ability stats generation (point buy, array, dice roll)
- An automated version of the character background generator from Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
- A collection of racial name tables found in Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
-
- A fully-customizable Dungeon Master's screen, featuring an initiative tracker; a unit converter, embedded images, videos, and sites; and the majority of 5etools' content.
-
- Objects are the Siege weapons currently.
-
- A verbose, in-depth Challenge Rating calculator, for determining the CR of homebrew creatures.
- A random loot generator for both individual and hoards level treasure.
- A link to the donation page. Here its a link to suggestions on how to support the project; money; development; artistic; or just time.
For more information see the Donate page on this wiki.
For more information see the Website Navbar page.
- Each page outside of the DM screen will have the Omnisearch box. Denoted by a bar on the right side of the navbar, with the words "Search everywhere..." inside of it.
- The Omnisearch box searches the dataset's titles for matching content. It does not search the description (ie `Fluff`) text, but rather focuses upon key data fields in Monster, Items, Tables, Rules, Feats, etc. fields like title, name.
For more information see the Omnisearch Feature page.
2️⃣ Table of Contents
- The tables of contents will be listed within this pane. Clicking on the book (
) will open the books ENTIRE contents in the page content pane (3️⃣).
- The tables of contents will be listed within this pane. Clicking on the book (
3️⃣ Page Content'
- This will be in a traditional content layout.
- Formatting options include 3 Layers of headings; bold; italic; linked/tagged (denoted by blue text); Inserts; lists; tables; and a monster template;
See How to convert Booking into 5eTools for details about how to add more books for yourself, or for the community.
Complex Pages
Coming Soon...
Other Pages
- A number of other pages exist that do not easily fit into the general layouts of the site.
- DM's Screen
- Statgen
- Lifegen
- Loot Generator
- CR Calculator
- A number of other pages exist that do not easily fit into the general layouts of the site.
- Content Blacklist
- Homebrew Manager
- Initiative Tracker Player View
- Homebrew Builder
- Renderer Demo
- Text Converter
- Names
- Encounter Generator
Controls
- There are a number of mapped keys for use on the website. Each feature will list the key mappings used to help navigate or perform additional functions that may not be immediately obvious to the casual user.
- In general, try using the Shift
key when working on the pages, each feature's page will include a Controls section which will cover the specific mapped keyboard keys for that section.
- In general, try using the Shift
Shift- Lock open a popup windowF- Find. This will immediately move the focus to the Filter's Search fieldJorK- Navigate Rows up and downM- Expand list elementSPACE- page down
+ Hover cursor over links to load and view fluff where available
= Pinned. Add currently selected item to the list in the 4️⃣ Pinned List (see Reference Pages (above))
= Popout Window. Opens a locked popout
= Get link to Filters.
- + = Get the link for the generated Pinned List
- +
= Download list. Export your pinned items to local file
- + =
- +
= Upload List. load a local file of previously exported list
- + =
- +
By Right Mouse clicking on the Pinned List (See above Menu)
- You can Popout individual pinned entries
- Remove an entry from the pinned list
- Clear List
- Roll on List picks an entry
- or you can Download JSON data for the pinned list directly
A (not so) Dirty Secret
shhhhhhhh......
There are two URLs with which to access the site.
- 5eTools With Ads http://5e.tools
- and WITHOUT Ads http://noads.5e.tools
Both use the same content, features etc. One, however, has ads. We prefer use of the one with Ads, as that helps pay hosting costs, but you are welcome to NOT use that URL should you wish to, and would rather support the site directly.
