DND 5e Tips

Check out the full Goblin 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/goblin-5e Goblins are angry little monsters, usually eking out an existence raiding and stealing from the fringes of civilization. Each goblin is a tight wound little ball of spite and menace that lives for petty cruelty and selfish indulgence. But they have reason to be so angry. Goblins as a race are the butt of...

Check out the full Rogue 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-best-dnd-5e-rogue-class-guide The Arcane Trickster is a character type that's been around D&D for a long time, and it's essentially a delicious mix of Rogue and Wizard that works together like chocolate and peanut butter. The 5e Arcane Trickster is an incredibly easy take on the concept that is built into the R...

Check out the full Eberron guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/andrars-rumblings/3-things-to-know-before-an-eberron-campaign-in-dnd-5e So you want to go to Eberron. What brings you to this world, weary traveler? What are your intentions in this land? Perhaps, you’ve seen the new release of Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron and wish to explore. Longtime Dungeons and Dragons players may r...

Check out the full Lich 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/lich-5e While the dragon still sits as the defacto big bad guy of D&D, the lich makes a convincing grab for #2. The undead necromancer leading forth his undead legions is downright iconic, and liches have been lurking at the end of campaigns since the very first edition of D&D. So how should you run them in your adv...

Check out the full Eldritch Knight 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/eldritch-knight-5e The eldritch knight, a supreme armored titan and master of magic and the blade, it’s a shame the build in 5e is a bit rough. Eldritch knight is a fighter archetype that produces a glorious character image but has left a lot of players unimpressed. But the little magical fighter build is...

Check out the full Two Weapon Fighting 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/two-weapon-fighting-dnd5e Prepare for trouble and make it double! Slapping a sword in both hands is a time-honored D&D tradition and countless adventurers have campaigned using the old slice and dice. Some other systems and older editions made this type of build complicated, but thankfully 5th edition...

Check out the full grappling 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/grappling-5e Grappling is easy in D&D 5e! No incomprehensible grappling charts, no feat trees to make it work. If you want to put a wizard in a headlock you can just go ahead and do it. But how exactly does it work? What are the best ways to do it? Stay in that headlock for just a minute while we explain everyt...

Check out the full beholder 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/beholders-5e There is no creature more iconic and more unique to Dungeons & Dragons as the beholder. Nothing quite says D&D like a horrifying floating eyeball monster, and they’ve remained as a tentpole of every bestiary since the very first edition. There’s so much more to these monsters than meets the EYE (I’l...

Check out the full Shifter 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/mindflayer-5e The Illithids are called “mind flayers” by the people of the surface, “mind rulers” by the rightfully fearful denizens of the underdark, and “squidly diddlys” by me, because I think it’s funny. Illithids have been murdering adventurers for their sweet juicy brains since the 1st edition of D&D,...

Check out the full Mind Flayer 5e Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/mindflayer-5e The Illithids are called “mind flayers” by the people of the surface, “mind rulers” by the rightfully fearful denizens of the underdark, and “squidly diddlys” by me, because I think it’s funny. Illithids have been murdering adventurers for their sweet juicy brains since the 1st edition of D&D, a...

Check out the full Shifter 5e Race Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/shifter-5e Eberron gave us warforged, sky ships, elemental powered trains, and with all that goodness it’s easy to forget that we also got werewolf people! Shifters are the descendants of Lycans (were-people) of one animal or another. Have you always wanted to be part wolf? Or part tiger? Or part anything el...

Check out the full False Hydra 5e Monster Guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-false-hydra-5e The false hydra is a fan made homebrew monster that gained quite a bit of popularity for evil Dungeon Masters. This creepy bugger has been tossed around quite a bit with a bunch of different versions and iterations, but you can thank a guy named Goblin Punch for the original idea fr...

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: 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,...