Project 5.5 Update Log

9/19/24

• Added ancestries: Lupin
  • Swapped Proficient Crafter for Fierce Loyalty on the Lupin (basically Protector fighting style)
• Added Civil Militia to the Human ancestry

9/20/24

Across the board, the Multiclassing prerequisite for all classes was changed to 15, instead of 13.

9/23/24

• Added War
• Buffed the vault upgrade on the Strongholds doc

9/25/24

• Added the Prison to the Stronghold upgrades
• Added a blurb about Cosmic Vessels and how they explore to Hexploration

9/26/24

PHB

• Added Ships under both the Combat Mechanics and Exploration sections of the DMG
• Added a clarification on how contributing to Downtime Project Clocks actually works
• Combined Environmental Hazards and Exploration Hazards into a single document, which is now displayed in both Combat Effects and Exploration
  • Suffocation and Falling now have their own category in this doc
  • Most of the "hazards" fell under Surfaces
  • Desecrated Land and Wild Magic Zone were moved to a new section, Exotic Environments
• Rules for Weather and Rations were moved to the Environmental Hazards doc.

9/27/24

PHB

• Readded Crown of Madness to the Rules of Magic and simplified it a bit.
• Added the Fathomless, Hoarded, and Undying subclasses to the Warlock class.
• The Iceborn Magic feature that the Iceborn Tielfing gets was changed to no longer be exactly the same as the Firespawn Magic feature.
  • The same goes for the feature of the same name on Twinned Lineage
• Added Brutal Bite and Incredible Smell to Twinned Lineage, representing Gnoll and Lupin respectively.
• Added links to the Alignment and Languages pages to the Character Customization section in addition to the DMG section.
• Added three heritages to Lupin, the Khenra, Wildhount, and Civildog.
• Added two heritages to Tabaxi, the Leonin and Stryder.
• The Tabaxi's Cat's Talent feature was replaced with Padfoot, which gives Stealth proficiency, as the other proficiency was split between its heritages.
• Removed Cat's Talent from Twinned Lineage.
• Added Civil Crafter, Daunting Roar, Rallying Howl, and a weaker version of Feline Agility to Twinned Lineage, representing Civildog Lupin, Leonin Tabaxi, Wildhound Lupin, and Stryder Tabaxi respectively.

DMG

• Added Skill Challenges

9/29/24

• Toll the Dead properly listed as a Necromancy Cantrip as it is supposed to be.

10/01/24

• Added the Carved rare ancestry, living statues that feed on the souls of the dead.
• Added icons to all Ancestry pages that show their rarity.

10/02/24

• Added a blurb about Burrowing, Flying, and Hovering speeds to the Movement and Chasing doc.

10/03/24

• Added class: Mystic
• The damage of Storm of Vengeance was slightly reduced, but buffed a few minutes later.
• The damage of Meteor Swarm was reduced.
• All damage from Prismatic Wall was reduced.
• Clarified some wordings on Wizard class featuress.

10/06/24

• Added ancestry: Tortle
• Properly added the Prestige prerequisites and rules to Warpflesh
• A general outline for what Prestige Classes will be was put on the main Project 5.5 doc.
• The Multiclass Prestige Class was added.
• The Multiclass prerequisite was also added to the Mystic doc.
• The Cure Wounds, Healing Word, and Mass Healing Word spells each gained an additional die of healing.
• On the Rules of Magic doc, the separate changelog was removed for redundancy.
• On the Rules of Magic doc, the Spells by Letter table was resized.
• Aura of Vitality was readded to the Rules of Magic doc

10/07/24

• Added ancestries: Firbolg, Siren

10/09/24

• Added the flavor text to Swords and Lore Bard subclasses
• Changed the proficiencies on the 1st level Swords Bard feature to "one type of one-handed melee weapon of your choice."

10/10/24

PHB

• The Paladin's Divine Health was moved to 9th level in preparation for reworked Diseases.
• Documents that are shared between the PHB and DMG sections (Alignment, Languages) were given a graphical update to reflect this.

DMG

• Added the Dying condition to Conditions, a last stand condition that lets you keep fighting in the worst scenarios

10/11/24

• Added the Miscellaneous Goodies category to the DMG section
• Added Epic Levels to the DMG roadmap

10/12/24

• The Credits and Master Changelog from 5e were moved to separate documents.
• Added the Additional Links section on page 1 of the Project 5.5 home doc.

PHB

• Added ancestries: Kitsune and Fairy
• Added Tools, Kits, and Packs to the Equipment section of the PHB
• Conjure Elementals was readded as a 6th level spell. It now summons a Myrmidon (CR7) instead of an Elemental of 5 CR or lower.
• The Vineling's Nature Attuned feature was split among its 3 new Heritages: Calmspore, Feyrose, and Trunkling
• Added an additional feature to the Farlander: Voidite prestige ancestry

DMG

• Magic Items were added to the DMG section
• The changelog for magic items was added to the Project 5.5 master changelog

10/13/24

• Added an additional heritage to Vineling: Shadowblight

10/14/24

• Added the Superior Human prestige option to the Human ancestry
• Lizardfolk now properly lists their Size.

10/18/24

• Added ancestry: Saurian
• Added the placeholder spot for Oracle and Summoner under Uncommon classes
• Added the missing weight number for a few magic items

10/19/24

• Updated more Magic Items to properly display their weight
• Added Group Skill Checks to the DMG Roadmap
• Clarified a bit of wording on Becoming Lost in Hexploration
• Clarified that the search hex activity in Hexploration uses a group skill check

10/21/24

• Added the Eladrin uncommon ancestry
• Added heritages to Orc themed around various biomes- it's quite similar to the Elf heritages.
• Majorly reworked Rogue, adding a whole host of changes from 5e.

10/24/24

• Added a safeguard against Enlarge/Reduce and similar effects for Fairy

10/26/24

• The Destructive Exhalation ability on Hoarded Warlock now properly says it costs an action to use.
• Renamed Focus Points on Mystic to Psi points, since Focus Points already exist on Monk

10/26/24

• Readded the Oath of Conquest and Oath of Redemption subclasses to the Paladin class.
• Updated the language on Paladin, clarifying what action / bonus action / reaction some abilities took and replacing the last remaining references of Channel Divinity to Channel Oath.

10/27/24

• Added the Rune Carver and Skyforged subclases to Artificer
• Added a 10 minute timer to the Winged Robes Artificer infusion similar to that of the Boots of Speed
• Reorganized the Artificer doc so that the Infusions are at the end of the document (also there's a link to jump to that section in the Infused Item feature)

10/28/24

• Added Magic Items: Armor of Gleaming, Bead of Refreshment, Cloak of Billowing, Enduring Spellbook, Handy Spice Pouch, Orb of Direction, Orb of Timekeeping, Perfume of Bewitching, Pipe of Smoke Monsters, Pole of Angling, Staff of Flowers, Talking Doll, Wand of Conducting, Wand of Pyrotechnics, Wand of Scowls, and Wand of Smiles

10/29/24

• Added Sorcerer subclasses: Cinder Soul, Ocean Heart, and Stone Arcanum.
• Added the Poppet heritage to Automaton
• Added a blurb about squeezing into small spaces on the Movement and Chasing doc.
• Added the Chiropteran rare ancestry, the flying batfolk, as well as rules for playing it as a Prestige ancestry.

10/30/24

• Added the Lich prestige ancestry
• Added class: Oracle. It has 6 subclasses (Ancestors, Battle, Bones, Cosmos, Fate, and Life) and 10 Curses (Charred, Clouded, Deafened, Haunted, Legalistic, Marbled, Pranked, Psychosis, Submerged, Scourge).
  • Subsequently, the Oracle Spell List was added to the Rules of Magic.
• Added subclasses to Monk: Drunken Master, Kensei, and Mercy
• Clarified the wording on certain Paladin subclass abilities.
• Added the Skyrite spell to the Rules of Magic in preparation for Oracle. Readded the Banishing Smite and Infernal Calling spells to the Rules of Magic. Added the Summon Demon spell to the Rules of Magic, a custom combination of Summon Lesser Demon and Summon Greater Demon
• Added the Mental Prison spell to the Rules of Magic. Its damage upon a creature leaving its zone was slightly reduced.

10/31/24

• Added ancestries: Minotaur and Ratfolk.
• Added the Oxen language. It's spoken by Minotaur and cows.
• Added the Squeak language. It's spoken by Ratfolk and mice.
• The Carved now actually get languages.

11/01/24

• Fixed some typos in Magic Items
• Changed some wordings on the Dying Condition. Attacks don't auto-crit, but the DM can also decide whether certain abilities that would normally end upon falling unconscious also end when Dying.
• Added Smokepowder Weapons, renaissance firearms and explosives.
  • Added a blurb both for Smokepowder weapons and Exotic weapons about them not being allowed in all games, as was intended
• Changed the language of the Hamstring Shot Weapon Action so that it's more in-line with similar abilities.

11/02/24

• Added a brief description of each School of Magic to the Rules of Magic.
• Fixed some typos and formatting errors across all Classes.
  • Notably the "Spells Per Level" text was added to every spellcasting class that lacked it, and spells given by subclasses and class features (such as Domain spells) are italicized.
• All Classes (including unreleased ones) now have an associated color to be more in line with newer content.
• Changed the color of that single noteblock and the tables for the Rules of Magic.
• On Bard, Magical Secrets was renamed to Spell Songs for thematic reasons.
• All Conditions, Damage Types, and Schools of Magic on the Rules of Magic are properly capitalized.

11/4/24

• Added ancestry: Oculos
• Added Fighter subclasses: Brute, Cavalier, and Psi Warrior.
• Buffed the Champion Fighter's Empowered Maneuvers, increasing the size of their superiority dice to d12 at 18th level.
• Added features to Twinned Ancestry for Minotaur, Ratfolk, and Oculos

11/06/24

• Added the Hobgoblin uncommon ancestry
• Buffed the following Psionic Talents on the Mystic: Aerial Recovery, Strained Thoughts
• Nerfed the following Psionic Talents on the Mystic: Desperate Brainstorm, Eyes of Regret, Forced Adrenaline, Mind Blast.
• Added a stipulation to the Aspect of Curiosity on Mystic that creatures won't move somewhere obviously dangerous.
• Dream Eater on Mystic now grants 2 Mystic Energy die, and reduces the target's highest ability score instead of dealing damage.
• Changed Psychic Tripwire on Mystic to be a 1 minute aura as an action, and now deals slightly more damage.
• Empathic Sense on Mystic no longer tells you whether creatures are lying.
• Heartfelt Aura on Mystic now grants both its effects instead of one.
• Mental Adversary on Mystic now can only be used a limited amount of times.
• Fixed some weird wordings on Mystic.
• Removed Consumptive Power from Mystic. It was replaced with Mystic Siphon, which was moved from 13th level to 10th.
• Reserved Strength and Perfected Mind swapped places on Mystic.
• The Mystic's Extra Attack feature was replaced with Mystic Recovery, which lets you regain mystic energy dice.
• The Mystic's Yoink subclass feature was moved to 14th level, and Twinned Trickster was reworked into a new 18th level feature.

11/08/24

• Kitsune's Kitsune Trickery feature was simplified.
• Kitsune's Foxfire ability was changed. It now gives you a limited use natural weapon that deals minor fire damage.

11/9/24

• Added ancestries: Aviana, Axol, Lepid
• Added the Archfey prestige anestry.
• The Earth Genasi's Elemental Power was changed. It now gives Ensnaring Strike and Spike Growth instead of Levitate and Gust of Wind.
• Nerfed the amount of healing Hobgoblin's Gift of Reciprocity grants, but made it easier to regain use of it.

11/10/24

• Added two heritages to Axol by request, the Lake Axol and Cave Axol
• Added the Living Rifle subclass to Artificer. It has art, whose credit was added to the Credits page

11/11/24

PHB

• Added Zealot Barbarian
• Removed references to Eldritch Invocations from Fighter.
• Barbarian subclasses were alphabetized.
• The Grung now properly displays the Rare tag on its doc

DMG

• Added the Potion of Instant Transition to Magic Items.
• Updated the Potion of Returning Dreams Magic Item to say that the long rest location must be on the same plane for the potion to work.
• Added The Shitpost Pack to the Miscellaneous Goods section of the DMG
• Added the Immortal Snail rare ancestry to The Shitpost Pack
• Added the Wii Remote of Electronic Destruction magic item to The Shitpost Pack
• Added The One Piece magic item to The Shitpost Pack.
• Added the Master Ring artifact to The Shitpost Pack.

11/13/24

• Added Cool Shit to The Shitpost Pack
• Added some visual elements to the War doc.
• Reorganized where information on Resting is on the War doc.
• You can now take long rest before a War is resolved, but you gain a level of exhaustion when you do so, instead of losing one.

11/15/24

• Added the Mastermind, Swashbuckler, and Soulknife subclasses to Rogue.
• The Assassin Rogue's Maim dirt trick option now halves speed instead of reduces speed to 0.
• The Rogue subclasses were alphabetized.
• Clarified a bit of wording on the Mystic's Bottled Hatred talent.
• Fixed some formatting errors on the Investigator left over from drafting.
• Clarified when you get a second class with Multiclassing Prestige
• The bonus to ability checks from the Investigator's Purse Leads feature now has a minimum bonus of +1.

11/16/24

• Added the Hookblade and Smokepowder Longrifle Weapons
• Added the Prescient Planner Feat
• Removed unfinished content from Barbarian

11/17/24

• Added the Adamantine Weapon to Magic Items.
• Did a change to the Home Page where when you hover over a link, it increases in size slightly for ease of use. Additionally, (most) links on the home page also have a brief description of their contents if you hover over them long enough.

11/18/24

• Added ancestry: Loxodon.
• Added the Yuan-Ti Anathema prestige ancestry.
  • Added a feature to Twinned Lineage for Loxodon.
• Added the Artificer Initiate and Cartomancer Feats.
• Added a bit more Fairy lore to their doc.
• Actually gave Yuan-Ti proper lore on their doc.

11/19/24

• Added ancestry: Gorgonfolk
• Added the Arbiter and Marauder Aasimar heritages.
  • Added options to Twinned Lineage based on these heritages.
• Buffed the Hollow Aasimar's Siphon Emotion.
• Added the Pot of Greed to The Shitpost Pack.
• Updated the language on the Immortal Snail's Deadly Touch ability on The Shitpost Pack.
• Added THE SNAIL statblock to The Shitpost Pack upon request.

11/21/24

• Added Hemomancy Spells to the Miscellaneous Goodies section of the DMG

11/27/24

• Added ancestry: Half-Dragon
• Added the Kelpling heritage to Vineling.
• Nerfed the Weaver's Darkvision to 60ft instead of 120ft.

11/28/24

PHB

• Added class: Druid.
• Added the Feathered Drake Dragonborn heritage.
• Added options for a Purple Dragonborn. For balancing reasons, it grants Force damage for their breath weapon damage type and possible damage resistance instead of Psychic damage (which the purple dragon creature resists/is immune to).
• Added the Sword Burst spell.
• Added some helpful links for certain class' optional resources on the home page (maneuvers, eldritch invocations, etc.), as well as an additional one for the Wild Magic Surge table.
• The Dragonborn's Draconic Ancestry feature was reworded for clarity. Its name was also changed to Draconic Ancestor, given the word "Ancestry" replaced "Race" in p5.5.
• Fixed some links on Oracle, Sorcerer, and Warlock that weren't working properly.
• The Fire Bolt spell now properly has the "At Higher Levels" text displayed.
• The Catapult spell is now properly listed as a 1st level spell on spell lists.

DMG

• Added Running Environments to the Exploration section of the DMG roadmap, as well as placeholders for sublinks.
  • (this replaced Exploring the Cosmos)

12/1/24

PHB

• Added the Barrage of the Ancients, Giant Strike, and Warrior's Fury Fighter Maneuvers, some more high-level Maneuvers to better match some of the higher level spells available to spellcasters.
• The Farlander Whip Exotic Weapon now has the Grappling Strike Weapon Action (wow that was a lot of capitalized terms).
• Clarified some wordings on a few Weapon Actions, namely Morph, Tenacity, and Weakening Strike.
• Removed some redundant text from the Grappling Strike Weapon Action.
• Removed references to Exotic weapons on the Weapons doc that no longer exist.
• Some of Psi Warrior Fighter's maneuvers now properly expend superiority dice.
• Renamed the Eldritch Knight Fighter's Weakening Strike maneuver to Enervating Strike to differentiate it from the Weapon Action of the same name.
• Fixed the wording of the Hail of Arrows Fighter maneuver. It now properly centers on where your attack lands, instead of somewhere random within your weapon's range.
• Fixed some errors on the Mystic class table, including typos, features being gained later than they should've, and removing references to features that were removed.
• Changed the layout of page 4 on the Mystic doc so that the Amped Talents feature is more visible.

DMG

• Reorganized the DMG section a bit. The Magical Curiosities section was created with the Magic Items and Secret Spells subcategories.
  • Subsequently, all magic item and spell related links and roadmap placeholders were moved to this section (excluding Epic Levels & Epic Spells, which remains in the Miscellaneous Goodies section).
• Added the Graviturgy spell list to the Magical Curiosities section of the DMG.

12/2/24

• Added ancestries: Hadozee, Triton
• Added a tiny bit of extra description to the Yuan-Ti Ophidianite heritage.

12/3/24

• Added a note on how GM Binder does its links and how to fix issues with them to the Home Page.
• Added the Genie and Hexblade Warlock subclasses.
• The Paladin's Lay on Hands was reworded to fit the new way Diseases function.
• The Monk's Physician's Touch was reworded to fit the new way Diseases function.
• The Contagion, Lesser Restoration, Heal, and Mass Heal spells were reworded to fit the new way Diseases function.

12/4/24

• Added options for purple dragons for Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer, Hoarded Warlock, and Half-Dragon's Ancient Dragon Prestige option. Like the addition to Dragonborn, for balancing reasons, these options grants Force damage for their breath weapon damage type and possible damage resistance instead of Psychic damage (which the purple dragon creature resists/is immune to). For Sorcerer, the spell they receive with a purple dragon ancestor is Catapult.
• Finally added the Heartfelt Barbarian subclass which was accidentally added in an unfinished state multiple times.
• Added a Prestige option to Half-Dragon to let you add it to a different ancestry after character creation.
• All classes now properly have the Feat feature instead of the Ability Score Improvement feature. ASI is still a Feat that can be taken multiple times, but can't be taken at 1st level.
• The link to Half-Dragon on the Home Page now properly has the superscript P to signify it has a Prestige Option.
• Spells on the Draconic Sorcerer's draconic ancestry feature were italicized to fit the standard.
• The Ability Score Improvement Feat now properly requires you to be 4th level or higher to take it. This was done to ensure anyone playing RAW Variant Human or Custom Lineage can no longer get it at 1st level.
• For balancing reasons, the Psi Adept Feat that lets you get some of Mystic's Psionic Talents now requires an INT score of 12 instead of 10.

12/5/24

DMG

• The Search Hexploration activity was rewored; you can search a Hex you are in, or a hex you are entering if you immediately enter it. You can also search an adjacent hex, but you do so at disadvantage.

MM

• Added the Monster Manual.
• Added Purple Dragons to the Monster Manual.

12/6/24

PHB

• The area of the Barrage of the Ancients Fighter maneuver was increased from a 10ft radius to a 15ft radius.

DMG

• Added the Playtest Campaigns section to the DMG Roadmap, along with the Whispering Crypt playtest dungeon. -Moved one of the placeholders for Traps from the Combat Effects subsection to the Combat Mechanics subsection, since I feel that just makes more sense.
• The Combat Effects subcategory was renamed to "Imposed Effects."
• Removed the Points of Interest category and everything in it from the DMG Roadmap. I looked back on it, and decided that between the 2014 DMG and the 2024 DMG, random cities and random dungeons are pretty well-covered. -Tentatively removed the Item Design, Random loot, and Random NPCs sections from the DMG Roadmap. I'm not really sure what I would've said in these docs, but if I have ideas on what to write, I'll add them back.

MM

• The Monster Manual was split into two main categories: Wildlife and Sample Organizations. The former has subcategories for every creature type (except Humanoid). The latter is mostly centered around humanoids, and currently includes 2 subcategories with short descriptions, but not any statblocks or lore yet: the Order of the Black Rose and The Undying Evil. Each organization includes the rough player level range they are meant to be used with.

12/11/24

• The UI of all sections of the Home Page was upgraded to dropdown menus. No more lists of hyperlinks!
  • Because the dropdown menus take up significantly less space, the Player's Handbook section now once again fits onto a single page.
• Added a Previous Home Pages dropdown under Additional Links on the Home Page.

PHB

• Added ancestry: Vespidae

DMG

• The document simply called "roleplay" was renamed to Intro to Roleplay.
• Added Intro to Combat and Intro to Exploration to the DMG Roadmap.
• Readded the Item Design and Random Loot sections to the DMG Roadmap.

MM

• Added a whole host of monsters to the Monster Manual Roadmap, especially in the Plants section.
• Added The Mystic Order (1-20) and Saurian Houses (5-12) to the Sample Organizations section of the Monster Manual Roadmap.

12/12/24

PHB

• Added the Boomerang Weapon.
• Added the Haunting prestige ancestry
• All Bard subclasses now receive an additional feature at 18th level.
• All Bard subclasses were changed. The new subclasses are Bladesinging, Eloquence, Glamour, Portraiture, Satire, and Valor.
  • Bladesinging was slightly reflavored to fit Bard.
  • Bladesong is now activated with one use of Bardic Inspiration. It also doubles your jump distance while active.
  • Silver tongue was moved to 18th level, and was replaced with Lore Bard's proficiencies feature and Cutting Words.
  • Valor and Spirits Bard were combined.

DMG

• Added Call of the Grave to the Monster Ability Toolbox.

MM

• Purple Dragons now have proficiency in Deception, and their Adult and Ancient variants have a long range telepathy feature.

12/13/24

• Added the Aberrant Mind and Divine Soul Sorcerer subclasses.
• Reduced the collective INT score for the Illithid's Brain Hunger to 20.
• Updated the language of the Warpflesh's Memorized Weapons to fit the standard.

12/17/24

PHB

• Added ancestry: Cyclops.
• Added the Prickling and the Tumbling Vineling heritage.
• Fixed some wordings on Vineling lore left over from drafting.

MM

• Added Drill Bots (Constructs), Explosive Creepers (Plants), Primordial Dragons (Dragons), and Vinelings (Plants) to the Monster Manual.

12/18/24

• Updated several Credits.
• The Credits page was condensed.

PHB

• Added ancestry: Octopian.
• Added the Dust and Mud Genasi heritages.
• Added the Returning weapon property.
• Added the Chakram and Yo-Yo martial weapons.
  • Sorcerers now gain proficiency in Chakrams.
  • Rogues now gain proficiency in yo-yos.
• The Boomerang weapon now has the Returning property instead of a special property, since there is now more than one item that uses it.
• The Smokepowder Longrifle weapon no longer has the Light property.
• The art credit on Page 6 of the Mystic doc was removed, as I've discovered the image that was once there was deleted.
• Capitalized some damage types listed in resistances granted by certain Ancestries.
• Fighter and Paladin are now the only classes that get proficiency in all shield types at base. Both classes gain a Kite Shield as part of their starting equipment.
  • Other classes that normally get proficiency in shields instead get prof. in bucklers and kite shields, and their starting equipment grants a Kite Shield.

12/19/24

• Updated the wording for Prestige Ancestries and Prestige Classes on the Home Page for clarity.
  • Due to weirdness with the dropdown menus, the Player's Handbook is once again split between two pages.

12/23/24

• Added brief descriptions of what an Ancestry and Class gives onto the Home Page.

PHB

• Added the Summoner uncommon class, as well as the Summoner Spell List.
• Added the Aura of Life, Aura of Purity, Blinding Smite, Circle of Power, Crusader's Mantle, Destructive Wave, Elemental Weapon, Searing Smite, Staggering Smite, Thunderous Smite, and Wrathful Smite spells; yet another set of spells I accidentally missed.
• Added the rules for Mystic, Oracle, and Summoner to the Multiclassing prestige class.
• Weapon properties across the Weapons table were properly alphabetized.
• The Ranger class table now correctly displays when some of its higher level features are gained.
• Ranger and Wizard subclasses were alphabetized.
• Fixed some formatting issues with the Spell Lists.

MM

• Added minor cosmetic changes to all Monster Manual pages, including on the home page.