This is a hypertext prototype of the System Reference Document 5.1 (the 2014 fifth-edition rules), built in the spirit of Old Gus' Daggerheart SRD: one static site, no accounts, no ads, works offline.
Pick a category on the left, search, and click an entry. Monsters can be sent straight into the Encounter calculator; conditions are cross-linked from monster stat blocks.
Everything is derived live from the six ability scores. Your character is saved in this browser only (localStorage) and can be exported as JSON.
Sly Flourish's fast build, adapted to the 2014 rules: pick a class, deal out an all-in standard array (it already includes species & background bonuses — don't add them again), take two extra skill proficiencies of your choice instead of background skills, optionally one tool proficiency, the Tough feat by default, and one potion of healing instead of background equipment. Species and background are flavor and story only. Sources: Alternative Standard Arrays · Build Characters Quickly
Built around the Lazy Encounter Benchmark (Sly Flourish): an encounter may be deadly if the monsters' total CR exceeds a fraction of the party's total levels, and the fraction grows with the party's average level — ¼ at average levels 1–4, ½ at 5–10, ¾ at 11–15, and the full total at 16+. The 2014 XP-budget method is still available, collapsed under the result. Add monsters from the Compendium, or enter CRs by hand.
| Task | DC |
|---|---|
| Very easy | 5 |
| Easy | 10 |
| Medium | 15 |
| Hard | 20 |
| Very hard | 25 |
| Nearly impossible | 30 |
| Score | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 9 |
Budget: 27 points. Scores above 15 can't be bought.
| Pace | Per minute | Per hour | Per day | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fast | 400 ft | 4 miles | 30 miles | −5 passive Perception |
| Normal | 300 ft | 3 miles | 24 miles | — |
| Slow | 200 ft | 2 miles | 18 miles | Stealth possible |
The 15 SRD conditions, cross-linked everywhere:
A vertical slice toward “Old Gus' Daggerheart SRD, but for 5e”: compendium + character calculator + encounter calculator, as a fully static site. Put the folder on any static host (or open it locally) and it works offline — a service worker caches the app shell and data after the first visit over http(s).
This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
Structured data via the 5e-bits/5e-database project (SRD 5.1 dataset). The Lazy DM deadly benchmark is a rule of thumb by Michael E. Shea (Sly Flourish), included as an unofficial calculator. The quick-build mode adapts guidelines from "Alternative Standard Arrays for 5e Ability Scores" and "Build Characters Quickly in D&D 2024" by Michael E. Shea at SlyFlourish.com, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. This is an independent prototype, not affiliated with or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast or Old Gus.