DND 5e Tips

Check out the full Changeling 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/changeling-5e Changelings hide right under our noses, sometimes while wearing our noses. Changelings get to re-sculpt themselves like Clayface whenever they like and if you can’t come up with some shenanigans with that you’re just not trying hard enough. Their origins are mysterious and secretive, and so...

Check out the full Eladrin 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/eladrin-5e Eladrin are elves with their fey magic cranked up to 11. Emotional, powerful, in-tune with nature, the eladrin represent everything that was once wild and primal within elven-kind. While technically a subrace for elves, the eladrin are unique and diverse enough on their own to deserve a bit of the...

Check out the full Simic Hybrid 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/simic-hybrid-5e Why be one thing when you can be everything. The Simic Combine are the wardens of nature within Ravnica, but they’ve often felt mother nature could use some improvement. Grow gills, or maybe some giant crab claws since Simic hybrids are genuinely varied and you’ll get to take your pick....

Check out the full Vedalken 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/vedalken-5e Old veterans of the Magic the Gathering multiverse, Ravnica is the first opportunity for D&D players to take up the blue mantle. Vedalken are researchers, seekers of truth, with the complexion of a popular primary color. Studious, logical, and quite often adept at the arcane, vedalken are perfec...

Check out the full Lizardfolk 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/lizardfolk-5e The lizardfolk dwell within sweltering jungles and deep ancient swamps. Simply a monster for most of D&D history, the lizardfolk have been elevated to player race so that new players can experience role-playing through their alien reptilian minds. Playing a lizardfolk means seeing the world...

Check out the full Tortle 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/tortle-5e-dungeons-and-dragons Survivalists, nomads, and excellent parents, the tortles are the turtle-folk D&D multiverse and each one is a born adventurer. Each tortle has a built-in need to explore and reach the horizon, albeit slowly. These lovable reptiles got their own expansion (The Tortle Package) and...

Check out the full Kalashtar 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/kalashtar-5e-race-dungeons-and-dragons Kalashtar are intertwined with spirits from the realm of dreams, psionic conduits born of two minds and one body. Like bizarre otherworldly spirit animals, these spirits guide the kalashtar through life, though their voices may only be heard as dreams and felt in the...

Check out the full Blood Hunter 5e Class Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-blood-hunter-class-in-dnd-5e?_pos=1&_sid=8d30c1e1b&_ss=r Blood hunters are the monsters who hunt monsters, these masters of hemocraft sacrifice of themselves to banish evil from this world. Matt Mercer of Critical Role fame added these resolute warriors to 5e D&D and they’re n...

Check out the full Warlock 5e Class Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-ultimate-warlocks-guide-for-dungeons-and-dragons-5e Dungeons and Dragons is about doing the things you can't do otherwise -- whether that involves adventuring through the mountains, fighting bugbears, or making pacts with otherworldly beings. You know, the stuff we dream about. Warlocks are one of the m...

Check out the full Gunslinger 5e Class Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-ultimate-guide-to-gunslingers-in-d-d-5e Cowboys, gangsters, and practically every other cool trope since the invention of gunpowder use a firearm. D&D is a fantasy setting, but steampunk, dieselpunk, and a whole range of other punks have a tendency of creeping in. There is a ton of homebrew content p...

Check out the full Centaur 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/centaur-5e Noble and stoic denizens of the forest, centaurs are about as iconic as they come. They’ve been galloping through D&D ever since the 1st edition and finally in 5th edition, we’ve been given a chance to take the reins. Monsters to some, trusted friends to others, wild and never tamed, centaurs are...

Full Drow 5e Race Guide: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/drow-5e The drow 5e are just as iconic as dungeons and/or dragons. Called night elves, dark elves, or “The Ones who Went Below” if you’re being fancy, drow have been with D&D since the beginning in the very first edition. Drow were originally just monsters, as were a lot of the “monstrous races” of yore. But with the extremely po...

Full Leonin 5e Race Guide: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/leonin-5e Mythic Odysseys of Theros gave us some new catfolk that are far more ferocious than their distant tabaxi cousins. Where the tabaxi are catfolk, the Leonin are lionfolk with muscular jaws, claws, and resplendent golden manes. These kings of the savannah are brand new to D&D, and while they technically only exist so far...

Full Leonin 5e Race Guide: skullsplitterdice.com/leonin Mythic Odysseys of Theros gave us some new catfolk that are far more ferocious than their distant tabaxi cousins. Where the tabaxi are catfolk, the Leonin are lionfolk with muscular jaws, claws, and resplendent golden manes. These kings of the savannah are brand new to D&D, and while they technically only exist so far in the world of Theros,...

Full Polearm Fighter 5e Build Guide: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/polearm-fighter-build-for-5e-dungeons-and-dragons The “polearm master” feat inevitably comes up whenever people discuss optimized fighter builds. Some DMs will even call it overpowered or broken. Is it? Should you play one? We’re going to dive deep into the concept and provide you with everything you need to know. #po...

Full Triton 5e Guide: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/triton-5e You may have wanted to play a merfolk at some point, planned out your character from the mysterious depths only to be stymied by a fundamental lack of legs. Fear not! Tritons are the legally distinct merfolk that come with those all-important ambulatory limbs needed for day-to-day adventuring. They come packed with all tha...

Full Dungeons & Dragons Guide:: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/what-is-dungeons-and-dragons So you’ve heard of Dungeons & Dragons? And you want to know what it is and how it is played? We’ll give you a complete explanation in this article. You may have heard vague answers in the past like “Oh, it’s a roleplaying game.” But you won’t get that here. We’ll explain exactly what D and D is...

Full Out of the Abyss Review: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/out-of-the-abyss-review Out of the Abyss is D&D 5E’s foray into the unrelenting jaws of the underdark. But there are more terrors here than normal, even by underdark standards. Demon lords have been unleashed in the darkness, and their madness is creeping steadily outward from the silence in the deep. It was released early i...

Minotaur 5e Class Guide: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/minotaur-5e Minotaurs are downright iconic. Bullheaded monsters that stalk the labyrinth and hunt down those foolish enough to challenge their deadly maze. That whole “monster” thing has largely fallen by the wayside though, as we have playable minotaurs in both Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica and Mythic Odysseys of Theros. They’r...

Gnome 5e ClassGuide: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/gnome-5e What are the best classes for gnomes in DND5e? What are some good gnome 5e names? Gnomes come in many flavors, and almost all of them add a bit of spice and excitement to a campaign. From the genius absent-minded tinkerer putting a burning pipe down carelessly on a pile of black powder to the minstrel prankster not only pick...

Artificer 5e ClassGuide: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-artificer-class-dnd5e Artificers are the first official class to be added to 5e since the beginning and it was a long time coming. Artificers have bounced around in playtesting for years before getting a real launch, and for good reason. Artificers are complicated, versatile, and walk the line between un...

Halfling 5e Race Guide: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/halfing-5e When most new players think about halflings, oftentimes the first image that comes up are hobbits from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" & "The Lord of the Rings." While there are definitely many common traits borrowed from this source material, to assume the halfling 5e race are just like hobbits is to diminish everything...

Human 5e Race Guide: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/human-5e Human 5e. Even in most fantasy worlds they are the most common, or one of the most common races, and often seen as a fascinating enigma among the other races of the D&D world. Elves shake their heads at the impetuous and often short-sighted decision making of this race that comes and goes in a mere century, but can't help bu...

Beginner’s Guide to DnD: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/pages/a-beginners-guide-to-dungeons-and-dragons Interested in playing Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition? Then don't miss this article! Here we'll teach beginners how to play Dungeons and Dragons and you'll find a complete beginner's guide to playing D&D 5th edition. You're joining 20 million other brave adventurers across the world in the l...

Loxodon 5e Guide: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/loxodon-5e ELEPHANTINE HEROES! Loxodon are the elephant-folk of D&D, massive, kind, stubbornly loyal, and only occasionally given to bouts of beating smaller creatures into a pulp. Not native to Toril or any of the other standard adventuring locales, loxodon 5e hail from Ravnica, and are really better described as a Magic: The Gathering...