Summary

  • Xanathar's Guide to Everything offers incredible new subclass options for expert-level players.
  • Tasha's Cauldron of Everything provides dozens of subclass features for each class, and new tools for DMs.
  • Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft introduces Dark Gift mechanics and new subclass options.

Beyond just the 2024 Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide, there are dozens of supplementary sourcebooks, modules, adventures, and more on hand for expert-level 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons players. Whether you're lo⛦oking for unique classes, species, adventures, or more, either as a DM or player, there are so many different options available for high-level players.

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That's why we've created this list, which breaks these expert supplements down, and gives players and DMs alike some insight into what they can find in these sourcebooks. For this list, we'll mainly be looking at D&D supplements, but a💖lso some modules and adventures as well.

10 Xanathar's Guide To Everything

The beholder xanathar looking at its pet goldfish
Dungeons and Dragons Xanathar's Guide To Everything Cover Art by Jason Rainville.

Book Type

Supplement

Best Features

New Subclasses

Xanathar's Guide to Everything is a fantastic supplement book for 5e that offers new subclass options for every single class (with the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:exception of artificer). These subcl෴asses are truly incredible and offer some of the best character-creation options📖 for expert-level players.

Some highlights include the horizon walker ranger, inquisitive and mastermind rogue, and storm sorcery sorcerers. In addition to great player options, t𒁃his sourcebook also has new traps and downtime session options for Dungeon Masters.

9 Mordenkainen's Tome Of Foes

Wizard Mordenkainen making cures in his lab whiel a small imp watches.
Mordenkainen via Wizards of the Coast

Book Type

Supplement

Best Features

New Subspecies

While this sourcebook is perhaps best know for the amount of beasts and new creatures it has to offer Dungeon Masters, this book also has a plethora of new subspecies options for elves, dwarves, halflings, and gnomes, but it꧟ also introduces rules for the githyanki, who are probably best known now thanks to Baldur's Gate 3.

The eladrin are perhaps the mos🧸t fun subspec🌜ies addition, thanks to their emotionally volatile characteristics and seasonal transformations. If you have players at your table who think they've played every species imaginable, refer them to Mordenkainen's.

8 Tasha's Cauldron Of Everything

Dungeons & Dragons image showing Tasha using her Cauldron.
The Witch Tasha by Linda Lithen.

Book Type

Supplement

Best Features

Optional Class Features & Subclasses

Tasha's Cauldron of Everything is another fantastic supplement that offers dozens of different subclass features for every single class (once again, except artificer). Some highlight subclass options include the psi warrior fighter, the twilight domain cleric, and the bladesinger wizard. Some of these subclasses, like the clockwork soul sorcerer, actually became mainstays 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:in the 2024 PHB.

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In addition to these options, DMs also have tools in ꦕTasha's for puzzles, magical tattoos, customizing spells, and running ಞsession zeroes. Overall, this is one of the best sourcebooks out there for 5e.

7 Van Richten's Guide To Ravenloft

A player receives a dark gift from a malevolent force in Dungeons & Dragons.
Dark Gifts by Paul Scott Canavan

Book Type

Campaign Setting

Best Features

Adventure Settings & Dark Gifts

Though technically a campaign setting, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft also functions as an excellent supplement thanks to its Dark Gift mechanics, which you can bring over into another campaign. The⭕re are Dark Gifts that work best fo🐼r adventures in the Domains of Dread, but nothing says that these can't be translated to another horror campaign, or even a regular one.

There are also two new subclass options available for bards and warlocks, both of which are great. The college of spirits bard is🐠 a particular highlight. Plus, you can introduce new backgrounds like the haunted one and the investigator to players.

6 Spelljammer: Adventu🗹res In Space

An alien and its pet dragon in Dungeons & Dragons.

Book Type

Campaign Setting

Best Features

New Species

Spelljammer: Adventures in Space is another campaign setting supplement that also has many options that can be brought out into other campaigns. While, of course, these rules are best used for a𒁃dventures in the Astral Sea and Wildspace, you can technically bring these spells, magic items, and species into normal campaigns as well.

The astralﷺ elf, autognome, and giff are particularly fun species that translate well to other campaigns. Nothing says you can't bring species like plasmoids over as well, though these are definitely best suited for the far reaches of Wildspace.

5 ꦚ Planescape: Adventures In The Multive🍃rse

The Smoldering Corpse Bar in DND.
Smoldering Corpse Bar by Mike Pape

Book Type

Campaign Setting

Best Features

Rules for Multiverse Travel

Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse introduces Dungeon Masters to the world of Sigil, the City of Doors, which serves as a gateway to almost 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:every realm in the multiverse. While this sourcebook is best used to run multiverse adv𝕴entures for your high-level players, there are also some elements to be found in this book that can be ported into other campaigns.

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Namely, the 𓆏best character options found in this sourcebook include things like new b🍬ackgrounds, feats, spells, and even magic items. If you want to introduce the multiverse to your campaign, which is often a great way to up the stakes for expert players, use Planescape to do so.

4 🔯 𝓀 The Book Of Many Things

The cover art for the Book of Many Things in DND.
The Book of Many Things by Ekaterina Burmak, CoupleofKooks

Book Type

Supplement

Best Features

High-Level Adventures

One of the most chao൩tic items you can give your players in a Dungeons & Dragons game is the Deck of Many Things. The Book of Many Things introduces adventures inspired by and launched from various cards in 🦄the deck. While you can use some of these adventures for low-level parties, many of these are best suited for expert players.

Frankly, if you're giving your players a Deck of Many Things to begin with, likely, they're already pretty high level. While this book doesn't have any character options fo𒀰r players, there are dozens of new stat blocks for high-level monsters for DMs to use against their players, making it a great supplement for Dungeon Masters in particular.

3 💛 Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel

The Radiant Citadel marketplace in DND.
Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel by Evyn Fong, Sija Hong

Book Type

Adventure Module

Best Features

High-Level Adventures

The Radiant Citadel🙈 is a really unique locale to bring high-level adventuring parties to in Dungeons & Dragons, thanks to this incredible adventure module. What's great about this module too is that you✅ can adjust the level of each adventure and tailor it to your specific party.

Alternatively, this sourcebook details the Radiant Citadel in ꦿfull. So, whether or not you want to actually run an adventure in this locale is up to you. This makes the supplement great for DMs who want to use the Radiant Citadel as a set piece for their own homebrewed adventure.

2 Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

The cover art to the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, featuring an adventuring party preparing to do battle in DND.
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide by Tyler Jacobson

Book Type

Campaign Setting

Best Features

Unique Backgrounds

If you want to set your Dungeons & Dragons campaign in the Sword Coast, t𓆉his next sourcebook is a must-have. The Sword Coast is one of the most famou꧅s regions in all of Dungeons & Dragons, and has been around long before 5e.

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What's great abo🐟ut this campaign setting is that it offers a ton of unique backgrounds for expert players to try out, as well as new subclasses. The only issue is that many of these backgrounds are going to be relatively restricted to the Sword Coast, meaning these character opti🎃ons don't port over to other campaigns very well.

1 Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus

Dungeons & Dragons image showing Zariel and her devils fighting demons in Avernus.
Descent into Avernus Cover Art by Tyler Jacobson

Book Type

Adventure Module

Best Features

High-Level Combat Encounters

This last sourcebook, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Descent Into Avernus, is technically a full adventure module for high-level adventuring parties. This adventure takes players from level one past level thirteen if they so desire, making it a great campaign to run for expert players. However, the best part of this booౠk is the stat blocks.

While you can, of course, use this book to run a full campaign, you can also take the creature stat blocks from Appendix D and us♌e them for your own homebrewed campaign. Most of these creatures are incredibly powerful, making them great for high-level play.

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Original Release Date
1974
Designer
🌳 E. Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson🃏
Player Count
2+