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Compendium
Look up monsters, spells, items and the rest of the rules reference, and add entries to your campaign.
The Compendium is the rules reference: Items, Monsters, Spells, Classes, Races, Feats, Backgrounds, Professions and Maps. You can reach it from the Library in the sidebar.
Look something up
- Open the Compendium and pick a section.
- Search or filter to narrow the list. On the monster list, Legendary only narrows it to monsters with legendary actions.
- Open an entry for the full text. Many entries show their art next to the name.
Ready for the table
The Compendium page also has a row of shelves to grab from, and the Library lists the same shelves. A shelf with nothing on it still shows, marked None yet, so you can find it.
- Legendary creatures: Monsters with legendary actions, lowest challenge rating first.
- Ready NPCs: NPCs with art and a profile. Grab one for your campaign.
- Villains: NPCs who stand against the party, ready to drop in.
- Patrons: Powers that grant gifts for a price. Filter by alignment.
- Traps: Triggers, DCs and consequences a DM can drop into a room.
- Puzzles: Clue chains and answers for a session that needs a riddle.
- Dungeon rooms: A single room: feature, occupant, treasure, exits.
- Religions: Shared-table faiths: a deity, a domain, a ritual. Generate later.
- Cultures: Peoples and customs a table can treat as common knowledge.
Put it in your campaign
If you run a campaign, monster, item and profession pages have an Add to Campaign Log button. It puts the entry on the Campaign Log of the campaign you choose. NPC Codex pages have the same button for NPCs.
Where the content comes from
Only open-licensed material: the D&D SRD under CC-BY-4.0 and OGL-1.0a, plus other OGL and Creative Commons sources. Product Identity, such as named characters, iconic creatures and all-rights settings, is left out. Every source is listed on the Licenses page, and Free Rules & SRDs explains the licences.