Basically I need a list of source books that can be bought digitally on this site that will let me unlock basically every single character creation feature on the character creator in this website. It doesn't matter if it only unlocks a single subclass, i need this list. ^^;
That's basically every single book, with a very small list of exceptions. Going through the sources, the following books don't unlock at least one thing that could be used on your character sheet (note this includes monsters for the purpose of pets/mounts/wild shape/polymorph etc)
It should be noted that books like Lord of the Ring Role-playing 5e, while they use the same engine, aren't the same game. So, while they technically have Classes, Subclasses, etc, they don't mix with the D&D content and wouldn't work very will them. Really, they are not necessary for what the OP wants - every single character option fora D-D game.
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It should be noted that books like Lord of the Ring Role-playing 5e, while they use the same engine, aren't the same game. So, while they technically have Classes, Subclasses, etc, they don't mix with the D&D content and wouldn't work very will them. Really, they are not necessary for what the OP wants - every single character option fora D-D game.
They didn't provide any qualifiers other than "every single character creation feature on the character creator in this website" and "It doesn't matter if it only unlocks a single subclass". They didn't even mention D&D specifically, so I included everything, per their request
My primary want is class features, feats, subclasses, spells, classes, character backgrounds that allow the character to do unique things, and races. Like for example: The scholar background lets you grab additional bonus skills. Stuff like that.
That's basically every single book, with a very small list of exceptions. Going through the sources, the following books don't unlock at least one thing that could be used on your character sheet (note this includes monsters for the purpose of pets/mounts/wild shape/polymorph etc)
That's basically every single book, with a very small list of exceptions. Going through the sources, the following books don't unlock at least one thing that could be used on your character sheet (note this includes monsters for the purpose of pets/mounts/wild shape/polymorph etc)
Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
Baldur's Gate Gazetteer
Dragon Delves
Third party content
Ruins of Symbaroum: Setting Handbook
One-Shot Wonders: 10 Coastal One-Shot Adventures
One-Shot Wonders: 10 Desert One-Shot Adventures
One-Shot Wonders: 10 Forest One-Shot Adventures
which ones unlock the most to the least?
I'm afraid I'm not doing the work for you, there are a lot of D&D books
That's basically every single book, with a very small list of exceptions.
which ones unlock the most to the least?
You have been given the necessary information, short of someone doing the work to compile a list for you what is your end goal?
The Legendary Bundle would have been your best bet right behind piece meal purchases when you first joined the site, but both have been discontinued, and since selling accounts is against the tos, your stuck with essentially buying everything a available on the site, though some books are no longer available for purchase so your quest may well be in vain.
The book that unlocks the most is the Player's Handbook. Other books with a lot of content are Xanathar's Guide to Everything, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, and Monsters of the Multiverse. All three of them contain some character options, however, that have since been replaced with updated ones.
That's basically every single book, with a very small list of exceptions. Going through the sources, the following books don't unlock at least one thing that could be used on your character sheet (note this includes monsters for the purpose of pets/mounts/wild shape/polymorph etc)
Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
Baldur's Gate Gazetteer
Dragon Delves
Third party content
Ruins of Symbaroum: Setting Handbook
One-Shot Wonders: 10 Coastal One-Shot Adventures
One-Shot Wonders: 10 Desert One-Shot Adventures
One-Shot Wonders: 10 Forest One-Shot Adventures
which ones unlock the most to the least?
Go to the Marketplace using Incognito Mode. Each of the Item pages list how many monsters, magical items, classes, subclasses etc.
Start with the Core Rules (PHB, DMG, MM) and then the Sources books. After that the settings and adventures have smaller amounts of monsters and items. Third party stuff is "See the listing".
To see what subclasses are available from which books, I’d recommend checking the D&D Beyond mobile app. From there, you can go to Listings > Classes > select a class > Subclasses.
For the rest, you can use the site by clicking Game Rules in the main menu. In Species, the available options are already sorted by book. For the rest, you can open the Advanced Filters and then filter by Source to see which options any available book contains.
To see what subclasses are available from which books, I’d recommend checking the D&D Beyond mobile app. From there, you can go to Listings > Classes > select a class > Subclasses.
For the rest, you can use the site by clicking Game Rules in the main menu. In Species, the available options are already sorted by book. For the rest, you can open the Advanced Filters and then filter by Source to see which options any available book contains.
thx that makes it abit easier deciding which books to buy first^^
One thing to note, quantity does not always equate to quality. For example, many of the third party content books have a large number of species, spells, and subclass options, so if you just look at raw numbers, they look pretty good. However, in my experience, their balance is generally terrible and vastly out of proportion with most official content. Not exactly the kind of thing you really want if you are just starting your collection.
Others on this thread have already given pretty good guides on where to start building a catalogue of official content. I would highly recommend starting there and ignoring most of the player-facing third party content to start.
One thing to note, quantity does not always equate to quality. For example, many of the third party content books have a large number of species, spells, and subclass options, so if you just look at raw numbers, they look pretty good. However, in my experience, their balance is generally terrible and vastly out of proportion with most official content. Not exactly the kind of thing you really want if you are just starting your collection.
Others on this thread have already given pretty good guides on where to start building a catalogue of official content. I would highly recommend starting there and ignoring most of the player-facing third party content to start.
Most 1st party content isn't balanced to itself, so this is a nothingburger complaint.
But, to answer OP:
1st tier of priority: Core(PHB, DMG, MM) Xanathar's Guide to Everything Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica Eberron:Rising From The Last War Tasha's Cauldron of Everything Mordenkainen Presents:Monsters of the Multiverse Spelljammer:Adventures in Space
2nd: Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Fizban's Treasury of Dragons Bigby Presents:Glory of the Giants Planescape:Adventures in the Multiverse Dragonlance:Shadow of the Dragon Queen Strixhaven:A Curriculum of Chaos
3rd: Acquisitions Incorporated Bigby Presents:Glory of the Giants The Book of Many Things
The rest: One Grung Above Mystic Odesseys of Theros Lost Laboratory of Kwalish Locathah Rising Wayfarer's Guide to Eberron Icewind Dale:Rime of the Frostmaiden
3rd-Party/Partnered Content: Explorer's Guide to Wildemount Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn Lairs of Etharis Dungeons of Drakkenheim Humblewood Campaign Setting Grim Hollow:Player Pack Book of Ebon Tides Tales From the Shadows The Ilrigger Revised The Lord of the Rings Revised The Griffon's Saddlebag Vol 2 Humblewood Tales Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting Vol 1 Obojima:Tales From The Tall Grass Valda's Spire of Secrets:Player Pack Monsters of Drakkenheim The Gunslinger Class:Valda's Spire of Secrets The Crooked Moon Part One:Player Options & Campaign Setting
These should get you most options that are still sold here.
I advise you have some way to get Volo's Guide to Monsters, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes & the 2014 PHB & DMG, just to cover your bases.
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I advise you have some way to get Volo's Guide to Monsters, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes & the 2014 PHB & DMG, just to cover your bases.
AFAIK Volos and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes were both replaced by Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse and are no longer available for purchase to unlock the options on D&D Beyond.
I advise you have some way to get Volo's Guide to Monsters, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes & the 2014 PHB & DMG, just to cover your bases.
AFAIK Volos and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes were both replaced by Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse and are no longer available for purchase to unlock the options on D&D Beyond.
That's why I said "Some way". Because that implies the official way is not available.
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DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
I advise you have some way to get Volo's Guide to Monsters, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes & the 2014 PHB & DMG, just to cover your bases.
AFAIK Volos and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes were both replaced by Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse and are no longer available for purchase to unlock the options on D&D Beyond.
That's why I said "Some way". Because that implies the official way is not available.
If the goal is to unlock them on D&D Beyond, unofficial ways won't work. Except campaign sharing, but if that was possible this thread wouldn't be necessary.
I advise you have some way to get Volo's Guide to Monsters, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes & the 2014 PHB & DMG, just to cover your bases.
AFAIK Volos and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes were both replaced by Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse and are no longer available for purchase to unlock the options on D&D Beyond.
That's why I said "Some way". Because that implies the official way is not available.
If the goal is to unlock them on D&D Beyond, unofficial ways won't work. Except campaign sharing, but if that was possible this thread wouldn't be necessary.
I just meant on file in general, not unlock them on here. It was last in priority of all the options I put there because it was of the least priority, aka not a mainline suggestion
Geez..
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DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Basically I need a list of source books that can be bought digitally on this site that will let me unlock basically every single character creation feature on the character creator in this website. It doesn't matter if it only unlocks a single subclass, i need this list. ^^;
That's basically every single book, with a very small list of exceptions. Going through the sources, the following books don't unlock at least one thing that could be used on your character sheet (note this includes monsters for the purpose of pets/mounts/wild shape/polymorph etc)
Third party content
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
It should be noted that books like Lord of the Ring Role-playing 5e, while they use the same engine, aren't the same game. So, while they technically have Classes, Subclasses, etc, they don't mix with the D&D content and wouldn't work very will them. Really, they are not necessary for what the OP wants - every single character option fora D-D game.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
They didn't provide any qualifiers other than "every single character creation feature on the character creator in this website" and "It doesn't matter if it only unlocks a single subclass". They didn't even mention D&D specifically, so I included everything, per their request
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
Do you count magic items and/or monsters as character creation features? If not, then that will reduce the list of books required.
My primary want is class features, feats, subclasses, spells, classes, character backgrounds that allow the character to do unique things, and races. Like for example: The scholar background lets you grab additional bonus skills. Stuff like that.
which ones unlock the most to the least?
I'm afraid I'm not doing the work for you, there are a lot of D&D books
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
You have been given the necessary information, short of someone doing the work to compile a list for you what is your end goal?
The Legendary Bundle would have been your best bet right behind piece meal purchases when you first joined the site, but both have been discontinued, and since selling accounts is against the tos, your stuck with essentially buying everything a available on the site, though some books are no longer available for purchase so your quest may well be in vain.
The book that unlocks the most is the Player's Handbook. Other books with a lot of content are Xanathar's Guide to Everything, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, and Monsters of the Multiverse. All three of them contain some character options, however, that have since been replaced with updated ones.
Go to the Marketplace using Incognito Mode. Each of the Item pages list how many monsters, magical items, classes, subclasses etc.
Start with the Core Rules (PHB, DMG, MM) and then the Sources books. After that the settings and adventures have smaller amounts of monsters and items. Third party stuff is "See the listing".
To see what subclasses are available from which books, I’d recommend checking the D&D Beyond mobile app. From there, you can go to Listings > Classes > select a class > Subclasses.
For the rest, you can use the site by clicking Game Rules in the main menu. In Species, the available options are already sorted by book. For the rest, you can open the Advanced Filters and then filter by Source to see which options any available book contains.
Need help with D&D Beyond? Come ask in the official D&D server on Discord: https://discord.gg/qWzGhwBjYr
thx that makes it abit easier deciding which books to buy first^^
One thing to note, quantity does not always equate to quality. For example, many of the third party content books have a large number of species, spells, and subclass options, so if you just look at raw numbers, they look pretty good. However, in my experience, their balance is generally terrible and vastly out of proportion with most official content. Not exactly the kind of thing you really want if you are just starting your collection.
Others on this thread have already given pretty good guides on where to start building a catalogue of official content. I would highly recommend starting there and ignoring most of the player-facing third party content to start.
Most 1st party content isn't balanced to itself, so this is a nothingburger complaint.
But, to answer OP:
1st tier of priority:
Core(PHB, DMG, MM)
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica
Eberron:Rising From The Last War
Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
Mordenkainen Presents:Monsters of the Multiverse
Spelljammer:Adventures in Space
2nd:
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Bigby Presents:Glory of the Giants
Planescape:Adventures in the Multiverse
Dragonlance:Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Strixhaven:A Curriculum of Chaos
3rd:
Acquisitions Incorporated
Bigby Presents:Glory of the Giants
The Book of Many Things
The rest:
One Grung Above
Mystic Odesseys of Theros
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Locathah Rising
Wayfarer's Guide to Eberron
Icewind Dale:Rime of the Frostmaiden
3rd-Party/Partnered Content:
Explorer's Guide to Wildemount
Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn
Lairs of Etharis
Dungeons of Drakkenheim
Humblewood Campaign Setting
Grim Hollow:Player Pack
Book of Ebon Tides
Tales From the Shadows
The Ilrigger Revised
The Lord of the Rings Revised
The Griffon's Saddlebag Vol 2
Humblewood Tales
Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting Vol 1
Obojima:Tales From The Tall Grass
Valda's Spire of Secrets:Player Pack
Monsters of Drakkenheim
The Gunslinger Class:Valda's Spire of Secrets
The Crooked Moon Part One:Player Options & Campaign Setting
These should get you most options that are still sold here.
I advise you have some way to get Volo's Guide to Monsters, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes & the 2014 PHB & DMG, just to cover your bases.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
That's why I said "Some way". Because that implies the official way is not available.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
If the goal is to unlock them on D&D Beyond, unofficial ways won't work. Except campaign sharing, but if that was possible this thread wouldn't be necessary.
I just meant on file in general, not unlock them on here. It was last in priority of all the options I put there because it was of the least priority, aka not a mainline suggestion
Geez..
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
If the focus is on character creation, then the Dungeon Master's Guide and the Monster Manual should both be low priorities.