D&D Sourcebook Template

This Obsidian (though not limited to it) project with templates you copy or use the built-in system to write your creatures, spells, or whatever for creating your own sourcebook to use in campaign setting or supplementary rulebook for later.

Included are basic character creation and gameplay guides with one species, class, and subclass as examples. Although this is mostly just to give a sense of what you can do and good practice, I highly recommend keeping the guides. These were taken from recent Markdown conversation of the SRD that I highly recommend you contribute to.

Recommendations

Any Markdown-supported text editor
- Obsidian or VSCode
mdBook
Harper spellcheck

How To

Add a chapter to the Summary
- See mdBook documentation
Insert or paste the contents from /templates
Write whatever you want down
Test your book with mdbook serve (Optional)

Tips

When making a subclass, I would recommend copying the base class for reference.
You can convert Animals to Monsters or vice versa. They follow the structure.
If you want to make 5E's magic more fallible, I highly recommended watching this video.
- If 4E or 3E are released under the CC-By, then you could potentially merge the two systems.

Contributing

If you want to contribute this template, feel free to lend a hand.

How to Contribute

Fork this repository
Create a feature branch (git checkout -b fix/spell-formatting)
Make your changes
Ensure Markdown is properly formatted (use a linter like markdownlint)
Submit a pull request

Guidelines

Maintain consistent Markdown formatting
Use tables for stat blocks and data
Add links between related sections where helpful
Follow the existing heading hierarchy

Legal Declaimer

This work contains material from the System Reference Document 5.2 by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available here. The SRD 5.2 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, and their respective logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC.

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