Essential Dungeon Master Resources for 5E



📖 Core Rulebooks & Official Supplements

  1. Player’s Handbook (PHB) – Essential rules for character creation, abilities, and gameplay.

  2. Dungeon Master’s Guide (DMG) – Advice, world-building tools, magic items, and optional rules.

  3. Monster Manual (MM) – A vast collection of creatures and foes.

  4. Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything – New rules, subclasses, and DM tools.

  5. Xanathar’s Guide to Everything – Expanded spells, rules, and DM inspiration.

  6. Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons – In-depth dragon lore and mechanics.

  7. Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes – Higher-level monsters and deep lore.

  8. The Wild Beyond the Witchlight – A Feywild-themed adventure with roleplay-heavy mechanics.

🛠️ Online Tools & Generators

  1. D&D Beyond (dndbeyond.com) – Digital rulebooks, character sheets, encounter builders, and homebrew tools.

  2. Kobold Fight Club (koboldplus.club) – Encounter balance calculator for designing battles.

  3. Donjon (donjon.bin.sh) – Random dungeon, NPC, treasure, and quest generators.

  4. 5e.tools (5e.tools) – Open-source rules, monsters, and magic item databases.

  5. Tabletop Audio (tabletopaudio.com) – Free ambient sounds and music for immersive sessions.

  6. World Anvil (worldanvil.com) – A world-building platform for campaign settings.

  7. RPG Map Editor 2 (deepnight.net/tools/rpg-map) – A free, browser-based battle map creator.

🎲 Adventure Modules & Homebrew Content

  1. The Dungeon Master’s Guild (dmsguild.com) – A marketplace for official and homebrew adventures.

  2. The Homebrewery (homebrewery.naturalcrit.com) – A tool for creating professional-looking homebrew content.

  3. Sly Flourish’s Lazy DM Resources (slyflourish.com) – DM advice and prep shortcuts.

  4. Adventure Lookup (adventurelookup.com) – A database of adventures for various themes.

📜 Narrative & Roleplaying Tools

  1. Name Generators (fantasynamegenerators.com) – Instant NPC, city, and faction names.

  2. Improved Initiative (improved-initiative.com) – A digital initiative tracker.

  3. Mythic GM Emulator (mythicgme.com) – A tool for running D&D without a DM or for improvising sessions.

📢 Communities & Podcasts

  1. Critical Role (critrole.com) – Popular actual-play show for inspiration.

  2. The Dungeoncast (Spotify/Apple Podcasts) – Discussions on lore, mechanics, and homebrew.

  3. Matt Colville’s “Running the Game” (YouTube) – DM tips and storytelling advice.

  4. D&D Subreddit (reddit.com/r/dndnext) – A place to discuss and ask for DM help.

  5. The Angry GM (theangrygm.com) – Deep dives into game design and DMing philosophy.


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