What's New: Homebrew Import/Export and a Smarter Inventory

Your homebrew deserves to be shared. Your inventory deserves to be organized.

This week, we shipped two of the most-requested features in ICE5e history: a full homebrew import/export system so you can share, back up, and collaborate on custom content, and an inventory overhaul that brings categories, sorting, and manual reordering to your character sheet.

Let's break it down.

📦 Homebrew Import/Export: Share Everything

If you've ever homebrewed a spell, monster, or custom species in ICE5e, you know the feeling: you spent an hour perfecting "Dave's Eldritch Pizza Blast" and now your friend wants it too. Until this week, your options were... telling them to recreate it by hand.

No more.

• Dedicated Transfer page at Homebrew → Import / Export — a full hub for moving homebrew content in and out of ICE5e
• Export any content type — spells, items, feats, monsters, weapons, species, subspecies, backgrounds, classes, subclasses, and languages. All 11 types.
• Bulk export — select multiple items across categories and download them as a single JSON file
• Single-item export — every homebrew detail page now has an Export button that downloads just that item
• Import with validation — upload a JSON file and ICE5e checks it for errors before committing anything
• Duplicate detection — importing detects matches against your existing library and lets you choose: skip, update, or create a copy
• Advanced JSON templates — for power users who want to author homebrew by hand, the Import tab includes reference JSON templates for every content type with inline comments explaining each field

• DMs who want to share custom campaign content with their players
• Communities building shared homebrew libraries
• Backup — export your entire homebrew collection for safekeeping
• Collaboration — co-DMs can exchange content without manual re-entry
• Power users who prefer authoring in a text editor using the JSON templates

🎒 Inventory: Categories, Sorting, and Manual Reorder

If you've played a high-level character in ICE5e, you know the inventory situation. Thirty items, no organization, just a flat list of everything your character owns from "Bedroll" to "Wand of Fireballs." Functional? Sure. Pleasant? Not even close.

This week, we fixed that.

Category-Based Organization

Every item in your inventory now belongs to one of 8 categories:

• Items are auto-categorized based on the equipment catalog — weapons go to Weapons, magic items go to Magic Items, and so on
• You can override the category for any item via the per-item category dropdown in the details modal
• New items get their category assigned automatically at creation time

Sort Your Way

A new sort dropdown in the inventory section gives you four presets:

• Manual — your custom order (the default, for control freaks)
• By Category — items grouped into the 8 categories above, rendered as collapsible sections
• By Name — alphabetical, for when you just need to find something fast
• By Weight — heaviest first, for encumbrance-conscious adventurers
• Equipped First — equipped items at the top, unequipped at the bottom

Reorder in Manual Mode

When you're in Manual sort mode, each item now has up/down arrow buttons so you can drag items into exactly the order you want. No more "I guess my backup dagger is just... somewhere in the middle."

🛠️ Under the Hood

As always, we shipped a batch of quality improvements alongside the headliners:

• Sorcerer and Barbarian subclass sources aligned to XPHB 2024 source of truth
• Character archive confirmation — archiving a character now requires confirmation, so you don't accidentally send your level 12 Paladin to the shadow realm
• Experienced mode background tools — the character builder now renders per-slot tool proficiency dropdowns for backgrounds that grant tool choices (e.g., "choose two musical instruments")
• Homebrew tab accessibility — Advanced Templates tab buttons now have proper aria-selected attributes
• Attunement badges — the inventory list view correctly shows attunement indicators for items that require attunement
• Component refactor — inventory rendering extracted into a dedicated InventoryItemList component for cleaner code and faster future updates

🎉 Try It This Weekend

All of these features are live right now. To try them:

If you've been keeping your homebrew in a spreadsheet or Google Doc "just in case," the export feature means you never have to do that again. And if your inventory has been a chaos pile since level 1, categories are here to help.

What's Next?

We're not slowing down. Coming soon:

• Party-wide homebrew sharing — DMs push custom content directly to their players' libraries
• Homebrew variant improvements — better management of alternative versions of existing content
• Encounter balance tools — smarter CR calculations and difficulty estimates for homebrew monsters
• Drag-and-drop reorder — grab-and-move items instead of clicking arrows

Happy rolling. 🎲