D&D 5e widgets — monsters, spells, items, encounters and rules

Six widgets on the Widgets page for anyone running D&D 5e. They read the System Reference Documents for both editions — SRD 5.1 (2014) and SRD 5.2.1 (2024) — and nothing in them is invented: where the rules stop, so do we.

Monster Browser

Every monster in both SRDs — 664 of them — in one sortable table: AC, hit points, speed, challenge rating, XP and Dexterity.

Filter by Edition, CR, Type or Size, search by name, and sort by any column. Each name links to its full entry in the reference.

Both editions at once

The edition filter starts on Both, and that’s deliberate: 277 monsters appear in both documents, some with different numbers. Pin the 5.1 and 5.2.1 rows of the same creature with the compare buttons and their stats line up directly above each other — which is the quickest way to see what the 2024 revision changed.

The ★ beside a challenge rating means the creature has legendary actions.

Spell Browser

All 658 spells from both SRDs, sortable by level, school, casting time, range and duration, and filterable by class — “what can a level 3 bard cast?” is the question it exists for.

The component chips

Every row shows its components as chips: V for verbal, S for somatic, M for material. Hover or focus the M chip and it tells you what the component actually is — “a tiny ball of bat guano and sulfur”.

A material chip with a dot is one that costs money or is consumed by the spell, so Revivify’s 300 gp diamond stands out from Fireball’s handful of guano without opening either.

Casting bound and gagged

The Needs filter combines, so “Ritual” and “No material component” together shows spells that are both. There’s also “No somatic component” — for when your hands are full, tied, or holding a shield and a sword.

Magic Item Browser

All 620 magic items from both SRDs, filtered the way a hoard is actually built: by rarity, by type, and by whether they need attunement.

That last filter is the one the books can’t give you. Attunement is written into an item’s type line rather than listed anywhere, so “uncommon items that need no attunement” means reading every entry on paper. Here it’s two clicks.

The attunement column also says who may attune — “Yes, by a spellcaster” — because that answers a question a tick mark can’t. Hover it to see the item’s full type line.

Note

Rarity sorts in the game’s order — Common, Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare, Legendary, Artifact — not alphabetically, so sorting a treasure list behaves the way you’d expect.

Weapons & Armour

The SRD’s weapons and armour in one table, across both editions. Filter weapons by property (Finesse, Light, Thrown, Versatile…) or, in the 2024 rules, by weapon mastery.

The AC column follows your Dexterity

Armour tables print a formula and leave you the arithmetic: 11 + Dex modifier, 15 + Dex modifier (max 2), 18. Pick your Dex modifier above the table and the AC column shows what you’d actually have — and you can sort by it.

Put that together with the Strength and Stealth columns and “the best AC I can get without needing Strength 15 or taking disadvantage on Stealth” is a sort and two glances.

Tip

A shield shows as +2 rather than an AC, because that’s what it is — it adds to whatever armour you’re wearing.

Encounter Builder

Build a fight to a difficulty, using the 2024 SRD’s own XP budget.

1. Set how many characters are in the party and their level.

2. Pick Low, Moderate or High.

3. Search for monsters and add them. The meter fills as you spend.

The meter shows all three marks at once, not just the one you picked. The SRD’s advice is to spend as much of your budget as you can without going over, and a roster that lands between moderate and high is easier to judge when you can see both lines.

Under the roster you may see notes headed Many Creatures, CR 0 Creatures or Number of Stat Blocks. Those are the three cautions the SRD prints in its Troubleshooting section, quoted rather than invented — they’re labelled with their headings so you can tell published guidance from a tool’s opinion.

Which edition's maths

The budget table is the 2024 one. The 2014 rules priced encounters with a multiplier based on how many monsters there were, which 2024 replaced with a flat budget — carrying both would give two different answers with nothing to say which is right. A 2014 monster still has an XP value, so you can spend it either way.

Save an encounter with Save as… in the bar above the tool, and keep as many as you like.

Rules & Conditions

The rules a table stops play to check: both editions’ fifteen conditions, the 2024 Rules Glossary, and the 2014 sections you actually resolve mid-session — cover, the order of combat, resting, travel, damage and healing.

Search reads the rule text as well as the name, so “difficult terrain” finds the rules that mention it even when that isn’t what they’re called. Use the 2024 / 2014 buttons to narrow to one edition, or leave it on Both to compare.

Note

The long chapters nobody looks up in the middle of a fight — traps, the planes, the pantheons — aren’t here. They’re on the reference pages, which are built for reading rather than checking.

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