Blog (A5E) Introducing Dungeon Delver’s Guide!

Later this year we’re Kickstarting a new hardcover book: Dungeon Delver’s Guide. This sourcebook, which is compatible with both Fifth Edition and Level Up: Advanced Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive toolkit for running (and exploring!) dungeons and—for those who wish to venture even farther below—the vast subterranean world of Underland.

Read all about it on the official site via the link below! We'll also be talking about this book on Thursday on EN Publishing's monthly livestream! 8pm BST (3pm ET) on Twitch.

Introducing Dungeon Delver’s Guide! — Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)

The Dungeon Delver’s Guide is a comprehensive toolkit for running (and exploring!) dungeons and—for those who wish to venture even farther below—the vast subterranean world of Underland.

www.levelup5e.com

Art by Herman Lau​

 

[Corinnguard]

Come on, you know you want to spoil us.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Which Kickstarter is coming first, this one or Voidrunner's Codex? Last I saw they were both "later this year".

 

[Morrus]

Which Kickstarter is coming first, this one or Voidrunner's Codex? Last I saw they were both "later this year".

This one is first. We’re aiming for Autumn this year.

 

[Reynard]

I'm looking forward to delving (ha!) Into Level Up.

I hope what the book does is scale the journey and exploration rules to the dungeon, with regions replaced by areas and traps and hazards taking the place of exploration encounters.

 

[Stone Dog]

"Why Dungeons?"
I liked GURPS' explanation for this. Basically all confined, dangerous spaces you have to go in to retrieve something is a dungeon. Even if you are already in there and it is you that you need to retrieve right out of the place. Secret tech lab with guards and intrusion counter measures? Dungeon. Crime boss mansion? Dungeon. Mining ship with a hostile alien in it? Dungeon.

"We can do intrigue and dungeons without the exploration and we can do exploration and dungeons without the intrigue, , and we can do all three concurrent or consecutive, but we can't do intrigue and exploration without the dungeon. Dungeons are compulsory- they're all dungeon, you see."

 

[Corinnguard]

Looks like Ratlings and Grimlocks are going to be two new heritages for everyone to try out. I wonder how many other heritages this book is going to debut.

 

[payn]

Excellent timing. Folks were just chiming in about lack of exploration in 5E materials and games!

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm looking forward to this. I'd really like to see some a5e adventures, and how they are different than o5e.....because right now, other than exploration (and now traps), I don't know what's different.

 

[Morrus]

Looks like Ratlings and Grimlocks are going to be two new heritages for everyone to try out. I wonder how many other heritages this book is going to debut.

A few more than that. 7, I think, if I remember correctly. Plus cultures, backgrounds, archetypes/subclasses.