{"id":2983,"date":"2022-09-10T17:58:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2025-12-28T12:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:54:38","slug":"dd-5e-rules-a-prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2022\/09\/dd-5e-rules-a-prologue.html","title":{"rendered":"D&D 5e\/5.5e Rules – Overview and Table of Contents"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been DMing D&D going back to the AD&D v1 era, and recently (not so recently, now) wrapped a 2\u00bd year 5e campaign. One of the things I ended up doing for that was writing a lot of “rules summaries” explaining or exploring (or in some cases “house ruling<\/a>“) on concepts or specifics that need a bit more explanation than what shows up in all those expensive D&D books.<\/p>\n

We were using Roll20, so I’d been keeping those rules summaries in the Campaign Forum there for my players, but I think I’m going to start posting copies of them here on my blog, as a longer-term (and more searchable) resource. \"Know<\/a><\/p>\n

A few caveats:<\/p>\n

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  1. This is not exhaustive of all the rules, just ones that folk (including myself) seemed confused by.<\/li>\n
  2. I tend to try to go with Rules As Written (RAW) when given a choice. When I need something more clear than that, I lean heavily on the RPG Stackexchange<\/a>, because those folk are rules lawyers in a very reasonable fashion.<\/li>\n
  3. That said, this is still just me saying things, though I try to document what I say. If you, or your DM, think differently on any of this, that’s up to you and your table.<\/li>\n
  4. There are cases where I go with house rules<\/a> that I think make things easier, more sensible, more fun — without, I hope, gutting major gaming subsystems.<\/li>\n
  5. \"dnd<\/a>These posts were originally written for D&D 5e (2014).\u00a0 I have since updated them, best I could, to include notes on how things have changed in<\/span> 5.5e (2024)<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    On that note, some good sources for changes from 5e to 5.5e:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n