v1.83.1

Short Introduction

5eTools is an open-source website (Licensed under the MIT license) which is designed to be able to be used by anyone who wishes to curate the content of their D&D 5e books in a simplified digital manner, (online or 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 to help 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 time to a project.

Where to start...

You're likely here because you've found the site, and 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 likely 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 to 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.

The current source code is available as a zipped archive on the distribution page.

Basic (runs, but requires internet access for various elements)
Developer (runs, including offline)
Support Files (images. which you'll need if you're attempting to run the site offline)

(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 however 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.

Tracked Variants:

For Shadowrun
For Call of Cthulhu
For Pathfinder

Content

The site draws upon a number of resources, and by default, all RAW (Rules as Written / Offical) 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 both 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

🧙	DM	⛹️	Player
🍣	RAW	🍺	Homebrew	🗝️	Adventure
🏆	AL Legal	🥇	AL Legal+	🥈	Not AL Legal

Title	Abbrev	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	🥈	🧙⛹️	💸
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	🍺	🧙⛹️	💸
Twitter	Titter	🍺	🧙⛹️	💸

And CAN - thru 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 upon the link and it will open the Dice Roller and generate a result within the roller's window.

Links

The content uses various tags such as {@spell Detect Magic} which will be denoted by blue text, that when moused over will prompt a pop-up window of the content to grant temporary access. 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.

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 mostly shown in a pretty consistent format, depending upon the topic/subject. Below are the options with which you can familiarize yourself with those, the common layout and the features around such.

Website Navbar

The Navbar appears at the top of most of the pages on the site and helps quickly navigate between its features, and will help (at a glance) identify what page you are on, and even give some specific advice for its use, and a link to the wiki for the site's feature(s).

For more infomration see the information about the Website Navbar

OmniSearch

Virtually every page (the DM Screen being the obvious exclusion) will have the omnisearch box. Denoted by box on the right side of the navbar, with the words "Search everywhere..."

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.

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 look 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.

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.

For a detailed description of the feature please 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/Beastiary; 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.

1️⃣ Website Navbar

The Navbar appears atop of 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 link to the wiki for the site's feature(s).

Navbar Options

Home

This page offers some basic guidance and directs users to popular features. It also includes some basic review of how to work with the community, and some basic information about BetteR20.

For more information see the Home page on this wiki.

Rules

Book a list of Books (Raw)
- Dungeon Master's Guide
- Monster Manual
- Player's Handbook

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

Adventures League

View All/Homebrew

Player Options

Classes

Quickly browse the official classes, and their associated subclasses. Unearthed Arcana content can be accessed by cycling the "All Sources" button.

Backgrounds

A list of the various Backgrounds for character development

Feats
Races

Statgen

A Basic tool for ability stats generation (point buy, array, dice roll)

This is Your Life

An automated version of the character background generator from Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

Names

A collection of racial name tables found in Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

DM Tools

DM Screen

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.

Traps & Hazards

CR Calculator

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.

References

Utilities

Donate

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.

Settings

OmniSearch

Virtualy every page (the DM Screen being the obvious exclusion) will have the omnisearch box. Denoted by box on the right side of the navbar, with the words "Search everywhere..."

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.

For more infomration see the information about the Website Navbar.

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 filter popup.

- 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. Depending up the settings used on the Filter setup popup.

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 upon the column's heading which will then be denoted after the column's title by either

(ascending) or

(descending).

By selecting an entry upon the filter's result list, the panel on the (4️⃣) right-hand pane side of the webpage, and will update with the detailed information as it is selected.

You can choose them by either using the mouse to select or using the J or K keys to manually move through the list of options.

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 use to make a pinned list, pull the information into a separate window, copy a link to the data for saving/sharing elsewhere, and uploading or downloading the pinned list.

5️⃣ Information Pane

On the right-hand side of the website, the detailed information of the selected item 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; links to the entry directly, and to manage homebrew sources for the content being used for that section's data.

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 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 look 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.

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.

For a detailed description of the feature please see the 🎲 Dice Roller page.

Book Content Pages

The follow image is a color coded representation of the site's presentation of Book content common layout of the site's information. The various highlighted regions are covered in brief below.

1️⃣ Website Navbar

The Navbar appears atop of 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 link to the wiki for the site's feature(s).

Navbar Options

Home

This page offers some basic guidance and directs users to popular features. It also includes some basic review of how to work with the community, and some basic information about BetteR20.

For more information see the Home page on this wiki.

Rules

Book a list of Books (Raw)
- Dungeon Master's Guide
- Monster Manual
- Player's Handbook

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

Adventures League

View All/Homebrew

Player Options

Classes

Quickly browse the official classes, and their associated subclasses. Unearthed Arcana content can be accessed by cycling the "All Sources" button.

Backgrounds

A list of the various Backgrounds for character development

Feats
Races

Statgen

A Basic tool for ability stats generation (point buy, array, dice roll)

This is Your Life

An automated version of the character background generator from Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

Names

A collection of racial name tables found in Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

DM Tools

DM Screen

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.

Traps & Hazards

CR Calculator

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.

References

Utilities

Donate

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.

Settings

For more infomration see the information about the Website Navbar

OmniSearch

Virtualy every page (the DM Screen being the obvious exclusion) will have the omnisearch box. Denoted by box on the right side of the navbar, with the words "Search everywhere..."

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 upon the book (

) will open the books ENTIRE contents in the page content pane (3️⃣).

3️⃣ Page Content'

This will be in a tradtional 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 the community.

Complex Pages

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

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 page, each feature's page will include a Controls section which will cover the specific mapped keyboard keys for that section.

Shift - Locks open a popup window
F - Find. This will immediatly move the focus to the Filter's Search field
' or / - Open the Quick Find.
J or K - Navigate Rows up and back
SPACE - page down

= Pinned. Add currently selected item to the list in the 4️⃣ Pinned List.

= Popout Window. Opens a locked popout.

+

= View JSON code for the entry

= Get link to Filters

+

= Gets the link for the generated Pinned List

= Download list. Export your pinned items to local file.

+ [[File:Shift key.png|framless|x22px] =

= Upload List. load a local file of previously exported list.

+

=

A (not so) Dirty Secret

shhhhhhhh......

There are two URLs with which to access the site.

5eTools With Ads http://5etools.com & http://5e.tools.com
and WithOUT Ads http://noads.5e.tools

Both use the same content, features etc. One, however, has ads. Please use 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.

Website: User Guide

Contents

Short Introduction

Where to start...

History

Code

Content

Tags (links)

Page Layout

1️⃣ Website Navbar

2️⃣ Filter

3️⃣ Filter's Result's List

4️⃣ Pinned List & Information Pane Controls

5️⃣ Information Pane

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