A curated list of awesome D&D Resources
Everything here is either system agnostic or D&D 5E unless otherwise specified.
- Mega Resources
- Web Tools
- Desktop Applications
- Mobile Applications
- Audio and Music
- Developer Tools
- Discord Bots
- Contributing
Resources of epic proportions!
- D&D Beyond - Official D&D 5E compendium
- 5E SRD - System Reference Document
- DM's Guild - Official place to buy modules and stuff
- Homebrewery - Create your own content that looks official
- GMbinder - Create and curate homebrew content
- Donjon - Awesome resource for everything!
- Massive DM's Toolkit - Tons of online DM resources
- The Dungeon Master's Toolkit - More DM resources
- r/dndnext's Resourcelist - List of various 5E resources
- D&D Wiki - Home of user-generated homebrew pages for various editions
Sites with pre-made adventures
- Adventure Lookup - Searchable collection of tabletop RPG adventures
Let's flesh out some characters!
- Dungeon Master's Vault - Replaces Orc Pub/Orc Pub 2. Almost a mega resource, has lots of stuff!
- D&D Beyond: Characters - Official D&D character resource
- D&D Beyond: Spell list - Official D&D spell list
- Every Possible Stat Array - A list of all possible standard stat arrays using the point buy system
- 5E Point Buy Calculator - A calculator for choosing stats using the point buy system
- Roll20 Character Builder - A web-based character creation tool that uses SRD sources
- Groctel’s Character Sheets - Custom character sheet by /u/Groctel
- Monstrous Races - This document presents rules for playing every creature in the Monster Manual
Where to buy/customize figurines
- Hero Forge Custom Figs - Design your own custom 3D miniatures for purchase with a ton of features including full color
- Titancraft - Design your own custom 3D miniatures for purchase
- Reaper Minis - Very popular pre-made minis
- Anvl - Custom miniatures
- Eldritch Foundry - Even more custom miniatures
Track your campaigns here
- Kanka - A tool for Dungeon Masters to manage campaign notes
- Obsidian Portal - A one stop portal for the whole party to share a wiki, blog posts, maps, and other campaign resources
- ScryRPG - A shared campaign manager with party inventory, character sheets, shops, loot, a linked lore wiki, and an AI familiar
Loot and store guides
- D&D Beyond: Items
- Magic Items by Rarity
- Sane Magical PricesPrices
- Mundane Item Generator
- Adventurers League Rewards
Tools for creating NPCs
- RPG Tinker
- Cellule's NPC Generator - source code https://github.com/cellule/dndGenerator
- Total Party Kill NPC Generator
- Google Sheets NPC Generator
- Subclass Statblocks - Also includes CR ratings for each subclass
Tools for building encounters
- D&D Beyond: Monsters
- Kobold club encounter builder
- Monsters by Challenge Rating 1.0
- Monsters by Type 1.0
- Improved Initiative
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator - This application generates a random medieval city layout of a requested size.
- Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator - Generate fantasy world maps with ease.
Name generators
- Fantasy Name Generators
- NameLore - Fantasy name generator where every name comes with its meaning and real Old Norse etymology; covers elves, dwarves, dragons, cities, kingdoms, and more
- Japanese Name Generator - Authentic Japanese names with real kanji, readings and meanings; handy for eastern-inspired settings like Kara-Tur
Map Editors
- Dungeon Map Doodler - Free to use 2D grid-based map editor accessible from any web browser
- RPG Map Editor - Top-down 2D grid-based map editor
- Dungeon Scrawl - Old school maps in minutes
- Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator - Web application generating interactive and customizable (world) maps
Pre-made maps of all types
- Historic Cities - Olde maps of real places
Tools for creating tokens
Generate all the things!
- Orteil's Random Generators - A collection of random generators by Orteil
- Taverns
- Donjon
- Dungeon & Town Quick
- Stores (with inventories)
- Pymapper
- Dave's Mapper
- Inkarnate
- Village generator
- One Page Dungeon generator
- Medieval Fantasy City generator
- Perilous Shores
- Mystic Waffle - Free procedural dungeon and loot generator with a grid-based map drawing suite
AI-driven tools that run the game itself — narration, NPCs, and rules.
- Neural Initiative - Hosted AI Dungeon Master for 5e: persistent campaign memory, a coded rules engine with real dice, voice narration, solo or up to four players in the browser.
- claude-dnd-skill - Open-source AI DM for Claude Code; the engine Neural Initiative is built on.
Tools for playing online together on a battlemap.
- Fantasy Grounds - A virtual tabletop application, which contains a set of tools to assist players of tabletop role-playing games
- Foundry Virtual Tabletop - A self-hosted, modern, and developer-friendly roleplaying platform
- Owlbear Rodeo - "The simplest way to play tabletop games online"
- Roll20 - A browser-based suite of tools that allows users to create and play tabletop role playing games
Convert stuff from older editons to 5E
- Conversion Guide - Conversion guide from Wizards of the Coast to convert characters and adventures to fifth edition of D&D
- Skip's Guide To Monsters - Part 1 - 5e conversions of 3e monsters
- Forgotten Realms Conversion Guide - 5e conversions of 3e Forgotten Realms monsters
Best D&D related subreddits. Also be sure to check their wikis
- /r/DMAcademy - Tips on being a better Dungeon Master
- /r/DnDBehindTheScreen - More tips on being a better Dungeon Master
- /r/UnearthedArcana - Catalog for homebrew material
- /r/BehindTheTables - Lots of tables, especially this post
- /r/d100 - Various d100 lists
- /r/battlemaps
- /r/dndmaps
- /r/mapmaking
- /r/worldbuilding
- /r/dndnext - Discussion about 5E, known during the playtest as DnD Next
YouTube Channels related to D&D and/or roleplaying
- Dungeons & Dragons - The official Dungeons & Dragons channel on YouTube
- D&D Beyond - Official D&D Beyond Channel
- Critical Role - Home of "Vox Machina" and "The Mighty Nein"
- XP to Level 3 - Tutorials, satire, skits, and all other assortment of videos on D&D and other TTRPG's
- Sly Flourish - Channel of the author of "Return of the lazy dungeon master"
- WASD20 - A hub for tabletop role-playing games and fantasy maps
- Taking20 - A channel dedicated to role-playing games like D&D, Pathfinder, Starfinder and more
- Dungeon Dudes - Creators of Dungeons of Drakkenheim, Kelly McLaughlin and Monty Martin
- Ginny Di - Advice for tabletop players and game masters, character-building tools for creatives, music videos, and more
- DnD Shorts - Content that aims to inspire people to check out the game
- Bob World Builder - Great videos that make D&D more fun!
Various websites
- Alphastream's Forgotten Realms Timeline - Interactive calendar of the history of the Realms
- Broderick's Compendium: Plants and Fungi Across the Realm - Guide to over 600 fantasy plants for druids, poisoners, potion-crafters, and herbalists
- Conjuration List - A table of all beasts, celestials, elementals, fey, and fiends that your PC's may conjure with Conjure Animals, Conjure Celestial, Conjure Elemental, Conjure Fey
Things to download and install
- 5e Companion App -
Character sheet manager, spell lists, monster stats, homebrew content creator, and more
Track your characters
- Squire - Character Manager Pro - A character sheet manager
- Fifth Edition Character Sheet - A complete multiple page character sheet for a fifth edition tabletop role playing game
- Fight Club 5th Edition -
A digital character sheet that can be all you need to play a Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition game
Create things
- NPC Generator - Create simple NPCs with an emphasis on quick readability. Can even add custom traits & classes to be used by the generator
Spell lists
Encounter and campaign building
Add some sounds to your gameplay!
Resources to help build your own content programmatically
- Open5e - Open source resource for 5E SRD content that includes an API
Useful bots for playing over Discord
Please feel free to add issues, fork, and make pull requests. Thanks for being interested!