Third-party picks
Homebrew Picks
Community and third-party books we think are worth a look — what’s inside, who they’re for, and where to get them from their creators.
Solo play
by Paul Bimler
The Solo Adventurer’s Toolbox
A complete kit for playing D&D 5e without a DM: a yes-or-no oracle, travel and camping rules, premade wilderness, town and dungeon encounter lists, quest, dungeon and NPC generators, monster behavior tables, and encounter budgets scaled for one or two heroes.
Good for: Players without a group, DMs who never get to play, and anyone who wants fast generators for their own prep.
by Paul Bimler
The Solo Adventurer’s Toolbox Part Two
The expanded follow-up: new ways to play (a dice-pool exploration method and map-based crawls), a finer-grained oracle, city, cavern and castle generators, a hundred skill challenges, and villain and lair generators.
Good for: Solo players who know the basics and want more structure — and DMs who like a big generator library.
Monsters
by Dragonix
Monster Manual Expanded
Hundreds of new stat blocks that widen familiar monster families: role variants for humanoid tribes and giants, boss versions of low-level creatures, classics from older editions and a handful of very high-CR showpiece foes.
Good for: A goblin warren or giant steading full of distinct roles instead of ten copies of one stat block.
by Dragonix
Monster Manual Expanded II
Hundreds more variants with a big section of demons and devils — including mid-level “aspects” of the great fiends — plus zombie variants, class-themed NPCs and cultists.
Good for: Fiend-heavy campaigns and DMs who want stronger or weaker versions of the monsters they already use.
by Dragonix
Monster Manual Expanded III
Far more brand-new creatures: archons and guardinals, new dragon colors and templates, eladrin of every season, creatures from Philippine folklore, and legendary versions of the standard NPCs — nearly all with original art.
Good for: Surprising players with monsters they haven’t seen before, with ready stat blocks to cut prep.
Diseases & afflictions
by Jason Bakos & Themis Paraskevas
The Malady Codex
Eleven detailed fantasy diseases written by medical students, each with its origin, how it spreads, symptoms, diagnosis, cure and plot hooks — told through the casebook of an old physician-adventurer.
Good for: Plague stories, investigations and any table that wants sickness to be more than one saving throw.
by Jason Bakos & Themis Paraskevas
The Malady Codex II: Diseases of the Mind
Ten afflictions that attack perception, memory and personality, in the same detailed format, with monsters, items and ready-made intrusive “voices”.
Good for: Horror, psionic and fey-curse campaigns.
by Jason Bakos & Themis Paraskevas
The Malady Workshop
A step-by-step kit for designing your own diseases. A point system balances every choice and sets the save DCs; four finished examples show how it comes together.
Good for: A bespoke plague, parasite or curse tuned to your party’s level.
Encounters & player options
by Guild Adepts
Encounters in the Jungles of Chult
Ten drop-in jungle encounters from a team of Guild Adept writers, each with a hook, setup, development and treasure, spanning low to high levels, plus every stat block you need.
Good for: Anyone running Tomb of Annihilation who wants set pieces between the random-encounter rolls.
by Tyler Kamstra
Monstrous Races
Player options for running nearly any creature from the Monster Manual as a character — from aboleths to house cats — with traits, subraces, templates and advice on playing each one.
Good for: Tables that want unusual heroes and a DM who likes to say yes.
Adventures
by Guild Adepts
Rats of Waterdeep
A short mystery for levels 1–4: a magical plague has the Dock Ward under quarantine, and the City Watch sends the party in. Hardboiled banter and eccentric suspects.
Good for: A one-session noir romp in Waterdeep, legal for Adventurers League play.
About these picks
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