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Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition

Created by Morrus

Level up your 5E game! The standalone advanced 5E tabletop RPG which adds depth and diversity to the game you love! www.levelup5e.com

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Adventures in ZEITGEIST is here!
about 2 years ago – Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 07:39:58 PM

Hi folks! Those who pledged for the Adventures in ZEITGEIST add-on should now have a download code from Backerkit allowing you to download the PDF at DTRPG. This 285-page book details the ZEITGEIST setting and includes 6 new heritages (deva, gnoll, goblin, kobold, lizardfolk, and minotaur), 16 archetypes (subclasses), a bunch of new backgrounds, 6 new cultures, a dozen feats, over 30 new magic items, and tons more.

This 285-page guide to the Adventures in ZEITGEIST setting offers a world of steam, sorcery, and intrigue, bringing fantasy gaming to a new era of innovative magic and technology. Whether a conspirator, a constable, a revolutionary, or a vagabond, your adventures will steer the course of a new age.

Adventures in ZEITGEIST offers character options for players to explore this new setting of industrial fantasy, plus advice and adventure hooks for game masters to help them bring to life the world's great nations, their clashing ideologies, and the mysteries and plots that imperil them.

Inside, you'll discover:

  • A detailed overview of Llanjr, its nations, geography, and history.
  • New deva, gnoll, goblin, kobold, lizardfolk, and minotaur heritages.
  • Sixteen new subclasses like the Gadgeteer fighter, the Urbanist warlock, and the Executore herald, as well as the new quick-witted Savant class.
  • New Archaeologist, Faction Agent, Investigator, and Riven Mind backgrounds.
  • Six cultures to help ground your character in the world of ZEITGEIST, including the Bloodmarked gnolls, De Guerra orcs, and the philosophical Dialecicians.
  • A dozen feats to show your devotion to the grand social movements shaping the world, like tinkering Technologists, the secret society of Vekeshi Mystics, and the Skyseers who glimpse prophecies in the movements of the planes in the night sky.
  • Over thirty new magic items, such as the absurdist web, blood of the hollow widow, countermagical handcuffs, and the hat of hats.
  • Tools for proper modern heroes, like an astounding array of firearms, the finest monster-repelling apotropaics science can devise, and arcanotechnological innovations such as lantern blasters, asomatous canvas projectors, and planarite-fueled dirigibles.
  • Monsters ranging from the dreamborn srasama-fey of Elfaivar and the emotivore malice beasts to the pride of Pemberton Industries: B.E.A.R. - the battle enhanced animalistic replicant.

Adventures in ZEITGEIST is a hardcover campaign setting for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition.

Didn't buy the add-on?

You can pre-order Adventures in ZEITGEIST over on our website. The PDF is availabe immediately.

Shipping Updates & Cover Previews!
about 2 years ago – Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 07:02:56 PM

Hey folks! A little bit of news  -- it's not really news, more just that we're still on target but I thought you'd appreciate an update.

Our printers have confirmed that the Level Up books (excluding Adventures in ZEITGEIST) are on schedule to ship to our warehouse on March 9th, after which we will begin fulfillment. We're hoping for no shipping or customs delays. For obvious reasons, us being in the UK, the closer you are to the UK the quicker your books will arrive because geography (for North America we ship a pallet of books to our US warehouse, and they get fulfilled from there).

So, all going according to plan so far! No unexpected wrinkles yet! 

Dungeon Delver's Guide

We received the cover art for the Dungeon Delver's Guide this week. This art is by Erik Davis-Heim, and is for a hardcover book we'll be Kickstarting later in the year. We talked a little about our 2022 plans on the offical website here a few weeks ago, but the art there is all placeholder. This is the first of those three book covers (including the To Save A Kingdom adventure and the Voidrunner's Codex) to arrive. Anyway, art below!

Dungeon Delver's Guide, art by Erik Davis-Heim

That's all for now. We're on track for fulfillment, and we have lovely art! Oh, and don't forget that the Gate Pass Gazette launches in a couple of weeks with its first issue, which we talked about here. Be sure to subscribe if you want that juicy monthly official Level Up content!

Oh - one final thing. I'm looking at Adventures In ZEITGEIST right now (it's literaly open in a different window). It's done. If you pledged for that book, expect to see the PDF very, very soon. I mean really soon. We're just making sure there are no glaring errors!

Thanks all!

- Morrus

Art Preview of the Spiderfolk!
about 2 years ago – Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 01:52:00 AM

Issue #1 of the Gate Pass Gazetteis well underway, and will be with subscribers in March. We thought you'd enjoy this preview of the new heritage in that issue -- the spiderfolk! As you already know, Issue #1 is a themed issue, focusing on the creepy fateholder spider and the character options related to it. This art piece is by the awesome Rafael Benjamin!

Homebrew and Hacking: Crafting New Heritages and Cultures
about 2 years ago – Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 06:23:40 PM

Hey folks!

While we all wait for the books to be printed, I have some news from one of the Level Up designers.

Peter Coffey has launched a Kickstarter for a softcover book with rules for creating new heritages and cultures for your Level Up games using a points-based system. While this isn't an EN Publishing product, Peter worked on the original Level Up books. 

This new book is called Homebrew and Hacking: Crafting New Heritages and Cultures. You can find it on Kickstarter by clicking on the link below. Please do check it out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/49409452/homebrew-and-hacking-crafting-new-heritages-and-cultures?

Click to check out the Kickstarter!

Gate Pass Gazette Issue #1 Is Coming In March!
over 2 years ago – Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 03:53:32 PM

Hey folks! We hope you enjoyed the free Gate Pass Gazette Issue #0. 

I wanted to share with you our plans for Issue #1. This one will be a themed issue (they won't all be, but this one is) centered around our new, hopefully iconic monster -- the Fateholder.

You can subscribe to the Gate Pass Gazette at the link below. You won't be charged until we release the first issue in March, and you can cancel at any time.

https://www.patreon.com/gatepass

Click to subscribe!

- Morrus