Level Up Gateway July Dev Update

A BIG feature upgrade on Level Up Gateway this month—monsters, companions and campaign sources are here!

Campaign Sources

All external resources like monsters and eventually other non-core items will be added to a campaign via a source. You can manage these and even create your own sources in campaign settings. So far monsters are the only thing shared by a source to campaigns that use it. You can use this feature to use homebrew monsters in multiple campaigns or to share them with others. When managing sources you can add any campaign in which you have the narrator role or the source campaign has “Public Source” enabled in its settings.

Monsters

The first source of monsters added is the Level Up: Monstrous Menagerie with over 500 monsters which will be added to and available in every campaign. These appear alongside your own homebrew and monsters from other sources.

You can also create your own monsters with a step by step builder as we showed in last month’s update. This tool still has some rough edges and will see improvements over time. Creating a copy of an existing monster may be a good starting point for homebrew.

Companions

We’ve added a place to track party companions on the characters page for mercenaries, pets and similar NPCs. You can create a companion either by creating a character and then choosing the Companion type in the first step of the character builder:

Or by taking a monster and turning it into a companion:

We’ve also added inventories for monsters to track carried items and to change their equipment. This is enabled by default for companions and can be enabled for other monsters in the character builder. Monsters are treated as proficient with all weapons and armor though so the GM will need to consider if the NPC would be proficient before using any items. This feature is especially useful if you have a mule or other animal companion for carrying gear.

Here is Snuggles the bear, a companion kitted out with heavy armor, a shield and javelin.

More

Bugfixes and smaller changes can be found on Gateway’s changelog page. A big thanks to everyone reporting bugs and giving feedback.