The Compendium: rules lookup at the table

Spells, magic items, conditions and feats from the D&D 5e SRD — the 2024 rules and the 2014 rules — searchable and filterable, so a mid-session rules question does not cost five minutes.

EveryoneUpdated October 1, 2026

The Compendium is a rules lookup you can use without leaving the table: spells, magic items, conditions and feats from the D&D 5e SRD, in one searchable place — for the 2024 rules and the 2014 rules alike.

The Compendium on its Spells tab, showing 319 spells with a search box and filters for school and level, and cantrip cards listing each spell's school, components and casting time. — Four tabs, one search box. Filter spells by school and level to find the one you half-remember.

What is in it

Spells — searchable, and filterable by school and by level. Each card shows school, components and casting time before you open it.
Magic items — what it does and what it takes to use it.
Conditions — the one you actually look up mid-fight, because nobody remembers exactly what restrained does.
Feats — for levelling up between sessions.

2024 rules and 2014 rules

The Compendium holds two versions of the SRD side by side: SRD 5.2.1, the 2024 rules, and SRD 5.1, the 2014 rules. Many entries exist in both with different text — Fireball is in each, and the 2024 conditions read differently — so the Rules filter shows one at a time. It opens on the 2024 rules. Every entry says which rules it comes from, and switching the filter clears the school and level choices, because the two versions sort some things differently (2024 feats are Origin, General, Fighting Style and Epic Boon feats).

Spell and item links on a character sheet open the 2014 entry. The bestiary works the same way: its D&D rules filter picks 2024 or 2014 stat blocks, and other systems are not affected by it.

SRD content only

The Compendium carries the System Reference Document — the portion of D&D 5e published for open use. Material from books outside the SRD is not here, and a search that comes back empty usually means the thing you are looking for is not SRD content rather than that the search failed. A few 2024 magic items are not in the Compendium yet, because the source it imports from does not carry them.

The 2024 entries are SRD 5.2.1 material, shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, so each 2024 page carries Wizards of the Coast's attribution statement.

Faster than a search engine mid-session

Filter first, then read. “Evocation, level 3” is a much shorter list than “fireball-ish spells”, and it works when the table's wifi does not love you.

Related lookups

Creature stat blocks live in the bestiary rather than here, and the tools for building a fight out of them are in NPCs, encounters & loot.

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