A hardcover compilation of archetypes, feats, spells, heritages, monsters, and more for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition!

The Gate Pass Gazetteis the official monthly magazine for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. You can subscribe to it on Patreon.

This material was all published in Gate Pass Gazette Issues 23-35 throughout 2024, and is being presented here for the first time as a brand new hardcover compilation.

Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E) launched in 2021 and is a standalone game which enhances the 5E ruleset which you know and love. If you love 5E but would like a little more depth to the rules, Level Up is the new game for you!

After two years of extensive public playtests and surveys involving thousands of players, and input from our active community, we completely overhauled the 5E game system. From redesigned classes to a full exploration pillar, we revisited every aspect of the game to present this new standalone game, backwards compatible with the 5th Edition core rules.

We ran the hugely successful Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition Kickstarter in 2021, raising nearly a million dollars. Since then Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition has been featured on major outlets like Kotaku and Polygon.

If you would like to read an overview of the system, you can visit the official Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition tools site. Here you will find the rules of the game, along with searchable directories of spells, combat maneuvers, magic items, monsters, and more.

The PDF version is fully bookmarked, indexed, and hyperlinked for easy navigation.

Digital (PDF) rewards will be fulfilled as soon as the campaign ends in February 2025. We pride ourselves on the fastest digital delivery of digital rewards in the world! 

We will place the print run order for the books the same day the Backerkit surveys close -- the printer is standing by! They will then be shipped to our UK & US warehouses ready for distribution to you, along with any add-ons you may choose.

The Gate Pass Gazette Annual 2024 will be printed via a high quality offset print run, to the same standard as the other Level Up A5E books.

A5E.tools is the official Level Up online tools site. It contains the rules of the game, along with searchable databases of spells, magic items, monsters, and more.

You can find character sheets here, and other useful resources here.

Level Up Gateway is the online character builder currently in development for Level Up A5E. The site contains official Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition material and enables players and Narrators to build characters, roll colourful, animated virtual dice, and access official A5E rules. Later, it will also include an integrated virtual tabletop (VTT).

You can currently play Level Up Advanced 5th Edition online with the below virtual tabletop platforms. 

We are also speaking to other VTT platforms to partner with in the future. We have signed agreements with many, and will announce them once they have coded A5E on their platform and have them available for you.

We are strong supporters of the Open Gaming movement and encourage third-party support for Level Up Advanced 5th Edition.

Creators can publish for A5E under the licence of their choice: Creative Commons, the Open Game License, or the Open RPG Creator (ORC) License.

We have System Reference Document (SRD) for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E), designated the A5E System Reference Document (A5ESRD). You can read more about this at a5esrd.com.

We already have a thriving community of third party creators for Level Up A5E which can be found here.

This product contains no art or any other content created by generative artificial intelligence. We work with a large, international team of talented freelance artists and writers.