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Xanathar's Guide to Everything is a sourcebook published in 2017 for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It acts as a supplement to the 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide and the Player's Handbook.
The 5th edition's Basic Rules, a free PDF containing complete rules for play and a subset of the player and DM content from the core rulebooks, was released on July 3, 2014. [16] The basic rules have continued to be updated since then to incorporate errata for the corresponding portions of the Player's Handbook and combine the Player's Basic ...
In 5th Edition, the skills are more tightly tied to the ability scores, with each skill being seen as an area of specialization within the ability. Any skill check may be attempted by any character, but only characters that have proficiency in the specific skill area apply their proficiency bonus (a flat bonus tied to character level) to those ...
Characters gain proficiencies by way of "non-weapon proficiency slots", which can be used towards a variety of secondary skills. This book also provides rules on actions such as how well characters aside from thieves climb walls and trees, distances that characters can jump, and the length of time characters can hold their breath.
Tasha's Cauldron of Everything is a sourcebook for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published in 2020. The book is a supplement to the 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide (2014) and Player's Handbook (2014). [1]
The second version of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set combines the idea of race and class; non-human races do not have classes. Hence, a character might be a (human) Cleric or else simply an "Elf" or "Dwarf". The Basic Set presented four human classes: Cleric, Fighter, Magic User, and Thief, and three demi-human classes: Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling.
Andrew Stretch, for TechRaptor, commented that while there are quality of life improvements in the design changes, the book seems aimed at newcomers and not towards people with "an expansive 5e library". He highlighted that monster stat blocks have been reordered based on "action economy"; creatures with spellcasting have the biggest stat block ...
The Unearthed Arcana series is the 5th edition public playtest where the content released is "a near-final draft of the rules"; [30] parts of Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos were developed through this playtest.