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Level up your 5E game! The standalone advanced 5E tabletop RPG adds depth and diversity to the game you love!

Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition

Level up your 5E game! The standalone advanced 5E tabletop RPG which adds depth and diversity to the game you love! #levelup5e

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[Waller]

A friend in another space was asking if this is official licensed D&D, since it's mentioned in the Kickstarter preview page? I thought this was all built on the SRD... But was not sure?

The word “D&D” is not mentioned anywhere.

 

[Youshang]

How easy/difficult will it be to use this more as a toolkit, where I only pick parts of the new systems to add them to my D&D game? Are many of it's parts are building on top of each other?

 

[Faolyn]

How easy/difficult will it be to use this more as a toolkit, where I only pick parts of the new systems to add them to my D&D game? Are many of it's parts are building on top of each other?

You can definitely use the non-heritage/class features in D&D (I have started doing this). Regions and other exploration stuff, combat stuff, the monsters, probably the spells, etc. All of them should be easy to import.

You could probably use maneuvers as is. Except for monks, since the adept was rewritten so that instead of ki, they simply had some extra exertion to spend on both class-related stuff and on maneuvers. You'd have to give o5e monks extra ki to allow them to use maneuvers.

 

[Jmarso]

You could probably use maneuvers as is. Except for monks, since the adept was rewritten so that instead of ki, they simply had some extra exertion to spend on both class-related stuff and on maneuvers. You'd have to give o5e monks extra ki to allow them to use maneuvers.

Since it's all compatible, there is nothing stopping anyone from using both O5E monks with ki and the LevelUp version with exertion. Instead of one monk class, you have two. One more eastern themed, one a catch-all.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

A friend in another space was asking if this is official licensed D&D, since it's mentioned in the Kickstarter preview page? I thought this was all built on the SRD... But was not sure?

It uses uses the OGL, but is not otherwise “official” - it will not be supported in any way by WotC and they cannot use WotC IP. However, I personally don’t think that should matter one bit of you are at all interested in a more in-depth version of 5e, because you are never going to get that from WotC.

 

[Jmarso]

One of the things that I think will contribute to LevelUp's chances of success is that you can buy any WotC product or adventure for 5E and immediately / seamlessly use it with LU.

 

[Waller]

It uses uses the OGL, but is not otherwise “official” -

It's 100% official Level Up! Though WotC makes a lot of third party adventures for it.

 

[Faolyn]

Since it's all compatible, there is nothing stopping anyone from using both O5E monks with ki and the LevelUp version with exertion. Instead of one monk class, you have two. One more eastern themed, one a catch-all.

What I mean is, if you wanted to use maneuvers with o5e classes, you can do so more or less seamlessly, but will need to remember that LU adepts are built using a different math than 05e monks and so exertion might not map completely.

 

[Morrus]

2,500 followers on the prelaunch page. That’s the most of any Kickstarter we’ve ever run before. Bodes well for the big Kickstarter campaign!

 

[Eyes of Nine]

The word “D&D” is not mentioned anywhere.

This was how the link appeared in the slack community he pointed it out to me:

Maybe it's some sort of metatag? Here's the link: Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E) (advanced D&D)

Oh yeah, here's the view in browser Inspector. You guys may want to clean that up.