Level Up (A5E) Dungeon Delver’s Guide: The Mycelial and the Ratling

Dungeon Delver's Guide is a handbook for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E) Narrators and original 5E (O5E) GMs who want to run dungeon adventures. It contains dungeon creation techniques, new subterranean monsters, oodles of traps, and so on.

That's just the half of it though.

It's also a sourcebook for characters from these subterranean realms. Dungeon Delver's Guide has new class archetypes and backgrounds, dungeon-themed spells, and weapons and armor that will help your characters battle the dungeon's denizens, such as shadow elf dark armor, oils that wreathe a weapon in necrotic flame, and the living, wrist-mounted parasite launchers of the aboleth.

And of course, it has new heritages and races, so you can play as a dungeon denizen yourself. These are the options I want to showcase today.

Dungeon Delver’s Guide: The Mycelial and the Ratling — Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)

Dungeon Delver's Guide is a handbook for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E) Narrators and original 5E (O5E) GMs who want to run dungeon adventures.

www.levelup5e.com

 

[Zaukrie]

Seems like the fungus gets a lot more interesting stuff. Maybe I read it wrong?

 

[Waller]

Seems like the fungus gets a lot more interesting stuff. Maybe I read it wrong?

A5E versions are always a lot more interesting than O5E versions. The fungus is the A5E version, the ratling is the O5E version.

 

[WarDriveWorley]

Does the Ratling get an option for a trenchcoat for starting equipment?

 

[WarDriveWorley]

OK serious question/comment time. Rat Swarm seems to be a bit weak to me. Advantage is good, but it's relatively easy to get on attack rolls and setting it as only once per rest seems lackluster.

 

[jaycrockett]

So could use this with vanilla 5e right? I love me some dungeons.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I understand the reasoning behind putting o5e and A5e versions in the book, but I really wish it wasn't a business necessity. I see the o5e versions as a waste of valuable page count. Level Up's heritage system is so much better than WotC's; I hope you guys don't give up on it.

 

[Zaukrie]

A5E versions are always a lot more interesting than O5E versions. The fungus is the A5E version, the ratling is the O5E version.

Ah, thanks. Missed that.

 

[Zaukrie]

I understand the reasoning behind putting o5e and A5e versions in the book, but I really wish it wasn't a business necessity. I see the o5e versions as a waste of valuable page count. Level Up's heritage system is so much better than WotC's; I hope you guys don't give up on it.

Agreed 100%.

 

[Faolyn]

I understand the reasoning behind putting o5e and A5e versions in the book, but I really wish it wasn't a business necessity. I see the o5e versions as a waste of valuable page count. Level Up's heritage system is so much better than WotC's; I hope you guys don't give up on it.

I agree. What I would have done is given only the A5e version, and then had a sidebar that explained how to adapt A5e to o5e style, rather than have two separate versions. Especially since A5e is supposed to be backwards compatible, which should mean that you don't need to have separate versions.