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GAME SYSTEMSGame system: 5E, 2014 rules (SRD 5.1)

5E 2014

Heroic fantasy with classes, levels and spells, fought out square by square.

Rules
5E compatible, System Reference Document 5.1
Dice
D20 against a target number, D4 to D12 for damage

Also on Elrune: 2024 rules (SRD 5.2.1)

How it plays

Roll a D20, add your modifier and meet or beat the number: a Difficulty Class or Armor Class.

  1. 1A check is a D20 plus your modifier against a Difficulty Class
  2. 2Advantage keeps the higher of two D20, disadvantage the lower
  3. 3A natural 20 on an attack is a critical hit: the damage dice roll twice
  4. 4Initiative is a Dexterity check, highest first
  5. 5Move, take one action, and a bonus action only when a feature grants one
  6. 6At 0 hit points you make death saving throws: three successes or three failures

What Elrune runs at the table

  • Ability checks, saving throws and contests: D20 plus modifier against a DC, with advantage and disadvantage
  • Attacks against Armor Class with critical hits, cover, range, two-weapon fighting, grapple and shove
  • Damage types with resistance, vulnerability and immunity; temporary hit points; death saving throws
  • Initiative and the turn budget: movement on 5-foot squares, action, bonus action, reaction
  • Every condition, with its effects on rolls and movement
  • Spellcasting with slots, concentration and the spells that state their dice
  • Short and long rests, Hit Dice, levels 1 to 20 with class features and their uses
  • Legendary actions and stat block spells for monsters, and an NPC autopilot that fights by the same checks
  • Story checks and traps in adventures, loot, coins and experience

The GM runs by hand: Area shapes (the caster picks the targets), reaction spells other than the Shield spell, and class features the code does not run yet: the GM applies them

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This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 ("SRD 5.1") by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.