Book of the Righteous 5E

Very happy with this purchase

The Book of the Righteous is a ready to use pantheon for role-playing games. Although some of the material in it, particularly class options, spells and monsters, are designed for 5th edition, much of this material is system neutral. The overall pantheon seems to be well thought out, with lots of great detail given to types of clergy, holy days and lore. This book seems to be aimed at primarily game masters who have created their own home-brew world. You can use the pantheon as a whole, complete system to flesh out your world, or you can pick one of the deities in the book and use the material provided to flesh out a deity of your own creation - a simple name change may be all it takes to use the ideas in this book. At worst, this book is a treasure trove of ideas for the game master to pull from.All that said, what this book isn't is a pantheon creation guide. There are a few pages devoted to converting this book's religions to your own campaign, but there is literally nothing about creating a fantasy religion from scratch. A chapter on the methodology behind creating the churches in this book would have been very welcome. Still, with all the examples in this book, the framework the book uses is a great example of how to do it, even if you don't borrow any of the actual religions provided.What else is in the book? Each character class gets at least 1 new character option. Clerics get a bunch of new domain options, some of which do conflict with the official 5E domains added in Xanathar's Guide to Everything. There are two new character backgrounds and 2 variant background options for existing PHB backgrounds. There are 10 new spells, ranging from cantrips to 9th level. There are a handful of magic items, mostly staves, and a handful of monsters.At 256 pages, there's a lot of material here. Whether the pantheon presented, as a whole, is going to be a fit for your game is not something I can know or judge. Using it as a source of ideas and inspiration, though, it is quite good. It's certainly the most detailed look at a fantasy pantheon since the Forgotten Realms 2nd edition source books.

For those that miss some of the additional source material that old D&D (2nd edition up to 3.5) provided, this is an excellent source book as an appendix or addition to your D20 system library. With a wide variety of player options, it also goes into greater detail about pantheons, and even adds some options for other player classes. Adding the Hospitaler fighter discipline expands that class's options significantly. Personally, divine classes are my favorite, and allowing the combat prowess of a fighter with a little divine magic is exciting to me. The cover and binding are well made, not separating or wearing with lots of use. The pages are full color, seemingly tear resistant (not that I've tried), and durable. And last but not least, something missing from about every other resource book I've seen is an index. Which this has. Green Ronin publishes some really good material, so if you haven't looked at other products of theirs, I recommend just taking a peek.

This book gave me a lot of inspiration and ideas as a dungeon master on how I would create my own deities and pantheons. Having deities that represent aspects of mortal consciousness is really inspired and the different myths associated with each deity is fun to read. I really love how in depth the author went into the tenets of the religious sects and how they organize themselves. The attention to detail is incredibly thorough and I really appreciated that.All that being said, I do have some personal issues with this book. Despite this pantheon being polytheistic, the religions and theologies are extremely Christian. There are Saints and Archbishops, the gods are always on the side of Good and they oppose Evil while trying to free mortals from their Sin. All of these are pretty Christian ideas, which I'm fine with a few deities being inspired by, but all of them? (To be fair, I haven't read every single deity yet so maybe it's different later on). As someone who has recently left Christianity and was hoping to base their pantheon on a more polytheistic & morally grey theology, this is a little disappointing for me.Also the number of typos is a little ridiculous. Hence, 3 stars from me.

Nice addition to the 5e source books. Great material for adding a different kind of pantheon to your campaign or using it as a template to create your own.

This was my favorite 3rd Edition supplement. I pored over it again and again for well over a decade. Though I never used the material directly in a game, it certainly helped me bring the pantheons in the campaigns we played to fuller life, and fired my imagination, a player and DM's best tool.This updated edition is another masterpiece. There are more Domains than in even the 5e PHB, I believe, and there are additions to all character classes, as well as spells, magic items, and creatures. I honestly don't have an instinctive feel for whether content is balanced, but I can say that all of it that I have read seems *fun*, and that counts as much as anything for me.The artwork is in keeping with the style of 5th edition. The addition of color is welcomed, but I have to admit to preferring the dynamic nature of a lot of the art in the original. Most of the figures in this one are shown in profile.

I still own a copy of this book from when it was written for 3rd edition. The material holds up for 5th edition. If you're looking for an alternate pantheon or cosmology for your campaign, this is the book for you. Don't expect anything heavy on the stats side, but there are still plenty of "crunchy bits" and ideas/seeds to go off of.

Very good and intresting, definelty recomend for any hombrew creator looking for ideas.

The Book of the Righteous is a 254 page, full colour hardback source book by Green Ronin Publishing for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. The binding quality of the book is good, it's glued and stitched, but the glued area doesn't appear to be cloth, so I'm not sure about the longevity of the spine. At least it is stitched, so the pages shouldn't fall out.It's a fully developed source book with an entire pantheon of gods, covering details from the beginning of creation to how they interact with their followers. This is a really solid source book for anyone looking for a fully developed and highly detailed pantheon of gods for their campaign. The book contains ten chapters and two appendices, with a nice spread of full colour art throughout the book. If you want details on gods and how to use them in a game, this is a definite must have book for 5th Edition D&D.

The Book of the Righteous was extremely well packed so arrived in excellent condition. Well produced hardback, nicely illustrated with excellent source material for religions which are generall christianity based for D&D or other 5th Edition games. Very happy with this purchase.

This product is a bit misleading. First off it recreates the origin story of the universe with different deities. Not explaining the 5e origins. (Its own concepts are ok, but it is not 5e)Also I have two chapters of the same and I am missing a chapter. Did anybody else have this issue?

Im enjoying this detailed book , very indepth , cant wait to add to my Game.