Know Your Enemy: A Fighter’s Handbook īow Bond: An Eldritch Knight’s Guide to Archery Lunar Wilds: A Moon Druid Animal Guide īy Your Powers Combined: A Land Guide Handbook Thy Fear Symmetry: A Circle of the Moon Handbook The Devout and the Dead: A Guide to Clerics įor God and Party: A Cleric’s Guide ĭictum Mortuum’s The Cleric Handbook Ĭelestial Link Evoking Radiance into Creation ĥth Edition D&D Druid’s Handbook Graceful Destruction: A Guide to the Dex Based Barbarian īardic Lore: A Basic College of Lore Bard Guide Ī Party Without Music is Lame: A Bard The Gentleman’s Guide to Proper Barbarism I’ll Never Die! A Guide to the 5E Barbarian I am sure there are more, and many of these have already moved to Google Docs or other forums. It is a great listing of what is currently out there. Here is the list of guides that I found on another website ( ), that I am reading through right now. Since I’ve started with the Barbarian, it has turned into a very large posting that should be useful for a very long time. Red choices aren’t necessarily valueless, however, and are fine to take if you really like them.Īnd then going through a standard format: Another option exists that is in all ways at least as good or better. It might be useful in corner-case situations, but overall it’s not worth the investment. You’re not hurting your character by taking this, and it might even help in some situations, but there are better choices.
It definitely helps your character in the majority of cases.īlack is average. An option you should strongly consider above most others.īlue is a good choice. It’s a rare rating that denotes something that is so good that you must take it, or you can’t call yourself optimized.
I started with the Barbarian, and using the standard color coding for choices that can be made. Since the Wizards of the Coast’s community boards are all going away very soon, I have started creating my own optimization character builds. There are a lot of them that can be found on the Wizards community boards, and there are also some that are on Giant in the Playground. They are very detailed and have a lot of great information in them. There are a lot of character building guides and handbooks out there.