Free5e Character's Codex is the player-facing core rulebook for Free5e, an open, accessibility-forward take on familiar 5e-style tabletop roleplaying. It gives players everything they need to create, advance, and play characters from 1st through 20th level while keeping the structure recognizable and the procedures easier to find and use.

Build the character you want to play with 12 classes and their subclasses, ancestries, cultures, backgrounds, feats, equipment, and hundreds of spells. The Character's Codex separates ancestry from culture, supports mixed ancestry, and encourages reflavoring character concepts without rewriting the mechanics. Optional disability rules and assistive items provide additional ways to represent characters whose bodies and minds work differently without treating disability as something that must be erased.

Once the character is ready, the book carries play forward with rules for roleplay, exploration, combat, movement, resting, conditions, planar travel, and spellcasting. Class spell lists and complete spell descriptions put the player-facing rules in one reference instead of requiring a stack of books and tabs.

Inside you'll find character creation and advancement; the Adept, Bard, Cleric, Dreadnought, Fighter, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Vanguard, Warlock, Wodewose, and Wizard; ancestries and mixed ancestry; cultures and backgrounds; feats and equipment; assistive items; adventuring and combat rules; spellcasting rules and hundreds of spells; conditions; and cross-system character conversion guidance.

Free5e is designed for groups that want the familiarity of 5e-style play with clearer organization, flexible character building, open rules, and deliberate inclusive design. Bring more reality into your fantasy settings-and make the game more fantastic for everyone at the table.

Dale Critchley is the owner, lead writer, and chief tea drinker at Wyrmworks Publishing. He has played tabletop roleplaying games since 1982 and founded Wyrmworks Publishing in 2000. Since 2021, his work has focused on using tabletop roleplaying games to make lives better through accessibility, inclusion, and practical play at the table. He is the primary author of Limitless Heroics.