Eliminate the Slog in your game nights with Nimble 5e
Your game nights are too precious to waste with slow or fiddly RPG rules. Slay the slog and empower your players and GM with more interesting choices, less waiting around, and have more fun playing epic stories.
It's no secret that D&D 5e is THE most popular TTRPG around, it's got a pretty great core system, a fantastic community of 3rd party creators producing mountains of great content —but it's also no secret that 5e has plenty of rough edges and frustrations.
Nimble 5e uses the bones of D&D 5e, and fixes many of its frustrations using the best elements of some of the greatest RPGs around today. No more waiting 15 minutes for your turn, just to miss your attack. No. not here.
Attacks are fast and heroic, no more fiddly back & forth just to see if you even hit. No way. The overhauled combat system keeps things quick yet deeply strategic, and with exploding critical hits you can retain the chaotic excitement of battle and create some very memorable moments!
Actively defend, and bravely interpose for your allies! Instant Initiative. You can get RIGHT into combat without breaking up the flow of the story.
Nimble enables More Player Agency. With a flexible action economy, and deep yet simple weapon, skill, and magic systems. A character sheet that looks less like a tax form — and less intimidating to new players. It’s more focused, reducing bookkeeping, and making each remaining option matter far more.
11 Fresh but Familiar Classes OOZING with Flavorful
These classes beautifully take advantage of the updated rules. Each with its own unique and super flavorful play style. New spells (no more save-or-suck spells those can get RIGHT on out of here) New spells that encourage creativity, allow for discovering cool setups and combos and are super flavorful and satisfying to pull off. and Items that as the GM you can’t wait to hand out. Magical items that will help move the story forward, or get your party into or out of trouble, as you see fit.
A new Legendary Monster system that makes them actually EASY TO RUN AT A GLANCE! Balanced even across widely differing party sizes. The tide of battle will shift in interesting ways, making for even more memorable nail-biting moments!
5e Compatible. The best part, this is all 5e compatible. Bring your favorite D&D adventure modules. Your favorite 3rd party monster books and easily run them with the Nimble system.
Empower your GM and players with more interesting choices and have more fun playing epics stories, with Nimble 5e. Check out the free 30+ page preview and see if you like it first.
