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Last updated 2026-10-20
SRD 5.2.1 attribution
This work includes material from the System Reference Document 5.2.1 (“SRD 5.2.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC, available at https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd. The SRD 5.2.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
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Third-party material
| Name | Used for | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| System Reference Document 5.2.1 (Wizards of the Coast LLC) | Rules, tables, conditions, classes, species, backgrounds, languages, 339 spells, 341 monster stat blocks, magic items and equipment used by the tools | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) |
| System Reference Document 5.1 (Wizards of the Coast LLC) | The 2014 Exhaustion table on the exhaustion page and the full Experience Points by Challenge Rating table (CR values that have no SRD 5.2.1 stat block) | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) |
| 5e-database 5e-database-v7.8.2 (5e-bits/5e-srd-api) | Machine-readable copy of the SRD 5.2.1 content, converted to our data files and checked against the SRD 5.2.1 PDF (we corrected a few entries) | MIT (code); the content is the SRD 5.2.1 under CC-BY-4.0 |
| rpg-dice-roller 5.5.1 (GreenImp Media) | Rolls dice notation on the dice roller and other dice tools; includes random-js (MIT) | MIT |
| pdf-lib 1.17.1 (Andrew Dillon) | Writes the character sheet and DM screen PDFs in your browser; the unmodified file is served from /vendor/pdf-lib/ with its licence | MIT (bundles tslib — Apache License 2.0, pako — MIT/Zlib, @pdf-lib/standard-fonts and @pdf-lib/upng — MIT) |
| Sora (The Sora Project Authors) | Letter shapes of the logo wordmark (converted to outlines) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |