Enchanted Trinkets: Zap! Science Fantasy *and* Level Up is live on Kickstarter!
Added 2021-10-05 16:21:12 +0000 UTC
This issue of Enchanted Trinkets is a bit of a departure—to infinity and beyond! When the adventurers come across a truly strange vessel consider rewarding them with an antigravity pack, or if they find the cache of a uniquely different kind of traveler perhaps a harmonic vocalizer or mnemonic calculus instead. Maybe the reigning gladiatorial champion is staying on top because of a disintegrator pistol soon to be taken by the party? Check out these 11 excellent sci-fi inspired magic items and consider bringing a little bit of something extra into your 5E game! Delightedly designed by William Fischer, illustrated by Jared M. Boone.

- Three books: the Adventurer's Guide, Trials & Treasure, and Monstrous Menagerie.
- The original D&D 5E race and backgrounds have been replaced with an in depth four stage origins system: your heritage (what your parents were), your culture (how you were raised), your background (what you did before adventuring), and your destiny (putting more weight on inspiration and rooting your adventurer's development in the campaign they are in).
- Every class in the Adventurer's Guide has been thoroughly revised and there's a new marshal class.
- Every pillar of play—combat, exploration, and social—is addressed with new class features that matter for more than just when initiative has been rolled.
- Speaking of combat: that's more satisfying too! The Adventurer's Guide has a chapter of over 100 combat maneuvers for martial classes!
- Trials & Treasure has scores of exploration challenges with a journey system that makes every part of a quest memorable. How about rewards to hand out after battle is over? This book has more than 500 magic items—all the originals you know and love plus a whole bunch of new ones. That includes a few sentient magic items and a whole slew of unique artifacts!
- Think your bestiary could use a boost? Monstrous Menagerie has over 600 revamped creatures in it and each entry is filled with useful tools like treasure tables, what other monsters they might be encountered with, signs of a creature's presence, and legends and lore for adventurers that want to make an ability check to know more about a creature.
- New weapons, new armor, new materials, new equipment and crafting systems (magical, mundane, and machined!), new skills (Culture and Engineering), new feats (plus many you'll recognize and synergy feats to become a Shadowdancer and the like), world actions, strongholds, followers, ability check criticals and failures, new spells (and rare spells), new diseases, new poisons, mental stress effects, a dual system for exhaustion (fatigue represents physical suffering whereas strife represents mental suffering) as well as other new conditions (confused, rattled, slowed), and so much more.
- Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters has been updated for Level Up, and there's an Adventures in ZEITGEIST campaign setting book coming in 2022!
- SO MUCH MORE! The Level Up website does a much better job of laying it all out! --> https://www.levelup5e.com/about
