Level Up: Gate Pass Gazette Issue #39 (A5E)

The Gate Pass Gazette is the official monthly magazine for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. Each month, this digital supplement comes crammed with new rules and resources for your game.

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Rollin’ on a River: A River Travel Primer
River travel is historic and flavorful, but often overlooked in campaigns. When implemented, however, it provides a refreshing mode of travel, new challenges, and vivid scenes for Narrators to describe. This article provides new mechanics and exploration challenges for those traveling rivers of all kinds. By Jim Temple.

Silent Plague: The Gloamer
The menace of the undead comes in all sorts, and on the opposite end of the spectrum of the necromancer leading a horde of the undead are the gloamers. Rather than brute force, these undead prefer subtle deception, embedding themselves in communities as merchants, healers, or advisors. They whisper to the desperate, offering wealth, power, or salvation. Through careful manipulation, they weave an intricate web of control, ensuring no one questions their influence—until it's too late. By Nick Roch.

Ferocity and Power: Pankration Synergy Feats and Combat Tradition
In ancient Greece, few competitions were more fiercely fought or hard won than pankration championship tournaments. A one-on-one contest decided by the submission of one athlete to another, the pankration match was the ultimate expression of personal will, fortitude, and virility. With only the barest measure of rules constraining pankratiasts, a wide variety of techniques were adopted, most of which involved inflicting pain via strikes, kicks, holds, throws, and locks. In many fantasy settings, a no-holds-barred gladiator pit or arena may give rise to such a combat tradition, and this article details some of the ways you can bring that energy to your game! By Anthony Alipio.

Familiar Faces from Far Afield
Across history, a few heritages have consistently prevailed over others. They have settled in countless corners of the world either by conquest or cooperation. Over time, they slowly diverged, developing distinct cultures and, occasionally, new traits. This article introduces new heritage gifts and paragons for dwarves, elves, halflings, gnomes, and orcs. By Jagger A Dillon.
Art by Julio Rocha