How Level Up Advanced 5e Could Add More Than D&D 55

How Level Up: Advanced 5e Could Add More Than D&D 5.5

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There are many unknowns surrounding the upcoming 5.5 D&D revision, but it is likely Level Up: Advanced 5e will offer more complexity and changes.

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Fans of 5e Dungeons & Dragons have a lot of changes to look forward to, as the tabletop RPG’s planned D&D 5.5 version should make its debut in 2024, but the third-party core rule replacement Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition could add more to the game than the official mid-edition revision. Details on Wizards of the Coast’s plans for 5.5 D&D are still nebulous at present, but players can infer it will remain compatible with existing 5e material. More information on EN Publishing’s Level Up is available through early draft copies made available to Screen Rant, and it adds more options, complexity, and sweeping changes to core 5e D&D rules than the official 5.5 edition is likely to embrace.

Level Up: Advanced 5e does for 5e D&D what Pathfinder did for the game’s 3.5 edition, in essence. It adds a series of martial Combat Maneuvers, providing non-spellcasters an option that is close to a spell list of their own, and these rules tie with universal Combat Maneuver DCs. All monsters have been rebalanced to provide a more robust challenge to players, and each class has more out-of-combat options, as well as build choices at what were originally “dead levels”. Level Up alters some core D&D rules, including the mechanics of critical hits, the properties of armor types, and core feats, among others. The third-party product remains compatible with existing 5e D&D adventures and monsters, with a little bit of conversion calculation.

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There are a lot of unknowns on what official 5.5 D&D will change and retain from its current rules, but it is likely it will be less dramatic than the new sub-systems and core rule changes offered in Level Up. Wizards of the Coast is conducting a survey to prepare for 5.5e D&D, which indicates their final plans for the revision might not be set in stone at this moment in time. Relatively little in the survey deals with actual gameplay preferences for D&D, however, and seems aimed more at determining what kind of products and supplements the company should focus on going forward.

Level Up May Add More Complexity And Rule Changes Than 5.5 D&D

While it is still too early to say very much about 5.5 Dungeons & Dragons with certainty, available information indicates it will move the rules in the direction suggested by Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything. This approach provides flexibility in character creation, as stat bonuses are no longer tied to race, and backgrounds that offer more flexible skill choices. The book did deviate from a few of 5e D&D’s core balance paradigms with its introduction of implements that raise spellcaster DCs, among others, but it still suggests less drastic changes than the new rules, and altered rules, of Level Up: A5E.

Beyond these unknowns, there are a few certainties, as the more immediate availability of Level Up ensures at least a two-year window where it can provide a new rule set compatible with 5e D&D modules, before the launch of the official 5.5e D&D books. As many players will have two years to discuss what D&D rules could be updated for 5.5, Level Up will offer its own take on how the rules could be changed, in the interim. It is likely Level Up and the official 5.5 D&D will have some common goals, as Wizards of the Coast has already acknowledged some of them through Unearthed Arcana playtest content and errata.

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The D&D Ranger base class as depicted in the original Player’s Handbook is underpowered, and both Wizards of the Coast and EN Publishing took notice, providing different ways to improve the class, through “The Ranger, Revised” 2016 playtest material for the former, and a non-spellcasting Ranger focused on Combat Maneuvers in Level Up. Other changes have less certainty, as Level Up provides pricing guidelines for D&D magic items, as well as item creation rules, and it is unknown whether the official 5.5 D&D will follow suit. Time will tell what the 2024 release of Dungeons & Dragons 5.5e provides, but odds are Level Up will still offer more complexity, and almost certainly more changes to fundamental D&D rules, than the official mid-edition revision.

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