About Overlay for 5e - Rules - Combat - Homebrew
A rules lookup that is faster than the book and faster than a search engine,
because everything is already on your machine.
Press Ctrl+Shift+Space anywhere — including inside a virtual tabletop's canvas
— and type. "Aoo" finds Opportunity Attack. "Short sword" finds Shortsword.
"What happens if I'm knocked off my mount" finds Mounted Combat and offers to
walk you through it. Results appear in under a tenth of a second because
there is no network call to wait for.
WHAT IS IN IT
• 2,059 entries: rules, spells, monsters, magic items, class features
• Three openly licensed packs — D&D SRD 5.1, Level Up: Advanced 5e, and the
Black Flag SRD — each switchable on or off
• An alias table mapping table-slang to the rule it means
AT THE TABLE
• Every dice expression is a button. Click 8d6 in Fireball and it rolls.
• Spells show what they cover: a sphere, cone, cube or line drawn to scale on
a five-foot grid, with the caster marked
• Cast a spell higher and the dice follow — Fireball at 3rd is 8d6, at 9th
it is 14d6
• A dice tray with d4 through d100 and a roll history
• "Explain simply" gives dense rules a plain-English summary and a worked
example
COMBAT
• Initiative for everyone at once, with a turn order that stays put
• Attack rolls, saving throws, damage, temporary hit points, death saves
• Conditions that actually change the maths — advantage, disadvantage,
automatic criticals, speed reduced to zero — with every roll saying which
conditions shaped it
• Concentration checked automatically when damage lands
• Twelve steps of undo
• An encounter difficulty readout, and a filterable combat log
YOUR OWN CONTENT
• Write your own monsters, spells, items, rules and features. They are
searched, filtered and fought exactly like the published ones.
• Copy any published entry into your homebrew to use as a starting point
• A party roster whose characters bring their weapons and spells into combat
• Attach your own pictures to anything
• Export the lot — characters, homebrew and pictures — as one file
PRIVACY
No account, no server, no analytics, no telemetry, no network requests at
all. Everything is stored on your own machine. The full policy is at
https://github.com/AdLgames/5echromeext/blob/main/PRIVACY.md
ATTRIBUTION
Includes material from the D&D System Reference Document 5.1, © Wizards of
the Coast LLC, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Also includes material from the A5E
SRD (EN Publishing, CC BY 4.0) and the Black Flag SRD (Kobold Press, ORC).
This extension is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or
sponsored by Wizards of the Coast.
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