D&D Sourcebook Template

This Obsidian project gives you templates insert and new documents to create new creatures, spells, or whatever in your own sourcebook to create a campaign settings, supplements, or modules.

Included are a bunch of the bare bones basics taken from Markdown version of the SRD: character creation and gameplay guides along with example species, class, and subclass. Although this is mostly just to give a sense of what you can do and good practice, I highly recommend keeping the guides and contributed to the project I copied them from.

The templates themselves range from subclass, items, feats, and more. You can really go all Tasha's Cauldron of Everything if you truly wanted.

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

1. Fork this repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b fix/spell-formatting)
3. Make your changes
4. Ensure Markdown is properly formatted (use a linter like markdownlint)
5. 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.