#dnd homebrew
“You have taken so much from me and gave so little. It’s my turn to take something from you.”
“It’d be funnier if I hadn’t already heard that one.”
Since my bardlock (college of spirits and undead patron) Syori is probably one of the best and most fun characters I’ve ever played I thought I’d try and post some more concepts with an equally spooky theme!
- Using more of Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft: Kalashtar that uses the reborn stats, but instead of remembering a past life they’re the spirit the original Kalashtar was connected to and are trying to keep their friend’s memory alive. I like the idea of them being a grave domain cleric, but you can do pretty much whatever class combos you want.
- Undead warlock or death domain cleric in a Curse of Strahd campaign with Strahd as their patron. Make them get super excited over all the vampire stuff, but don’t let the party know who their patron is. As the campaign continues and they slowly learn how awful Strahd is they can start to go against him. Don’t use this to team up with Strahd, players joining the bbeg is a no-no unless the WHOLE GROUP is okay with it.
- Dhampir who was turned by Strahd long ago and has finally managed to return to Barovia for revenge. If you don’t wanna go the Strahd theme they can basically have been turned by any powerful vampire in the world setting.
- undead druid of spores who is basically a zombie and refuses to die until their body is either completely destroyed or they’re able to finish their life’s quest (whatever that may be).
- Undead warlock whose patron is your character that died earlier in the campaign.
Aggraloths dislike taking contracts, and would rather spend their days lounging around. Whenever they must take contracts they greatly prefer guard jobs to protect stationary areas but they are sometimes ordered to cause mayhem by their higher ups, which they do without complaint, as they understand their lack of magical powers and silently fear Yugoloths with arcane gifts. An aggraloth employed for combat lumbers into the middle of a battle and uses its immense metal body to crush lesser beings.
Aggraloths are large and bipedal, Its whole body is covered in a metallic armor, looking kind of like a wide platemail knight. They have two sharp horns and piercing blue eyes. They employ their entire body as their arsenal, using whatever heavy limb is closest to an enemy at that time to slam them and disorient them.
Dents and scratches in their armor is seen as medals of victory and they wear their injuries with pride. Clean coated aggraloths are hazed and given rough jobs to either toughen them up or end their pathetic life.
Seasonal Rituals for Worshippers of Incabulos, the God of Disease and Pestilence
One of my players was playing a priest/cleric of Incabulos and he was not sure what to do on his down time so I made up season Rituals for him!! Hope you can find them useful!
Farmer’s Tale: The priests of Incabulos must go out and make sure that some of the crops the farmers plant during this season never grow. They are expected to go out and vandalize the fields. Some do this by setting them on fire, poisoning the crops, or just uprooting all of the soil. When the plants begin to bud through the soil they must go and destroy a farmers field in their gods name.
Harvest’s Tale: Once every week, the farmers of the area must give 20 pounds of their food to the priest. If they don’t give it to the priest it then becomes the priests responsibility to go out and steal 20 lbs of food from their house.
Polar’s Tale: During this month disease and sickness should be spread. As the cold assaults everyone, they become more prone to getting sick. The priests are there to help spread disease in order to please their God. They must infect up to twelve people this month. If someone dies from the disease, then they need not try and get the twelve and only need the one.
Twilight’s Tale: When the sun sets and the three moon rises, this is when Incabulos rests. He ask that while he is resting, you give him prayers. Solitude for three days praying for incabulos, whispering the smallest of incantations. If done properly, you enter a trance where you experience his dreams. Most priests become fixated on one dream alone and when they exit the trance, they try and accomplish the arena they experienced in order to appease Incabulos when he awakes.
Bahamut’s Tale: When the sky’s begin to glow orange is when your God wants you to go out and recruit. Do this any way possible. Offer peasants housing before the firestorms start, make threats, steal children. Your God does not care how but he needs his influence spread. After all, most of his wishes are considered “evil” and illegal so he is in constant need of new worshippers.
Vishnash’s Tale: The season where fire rains down. Something your God prefers is for the sacrifice of a farmer. Doing this in his eyes puts you a head of the other priests. He does not make this a requirement for all priest s but in his unholy text it talks about setting a farmer aflame during this season in order to help the hunger spread. This is a very hard to pull off task though and Incabulos would rather not lose his followers to this one tiny crime.
DUNGEON DOZEN by Zack Morrison
Dungeon Dozen is a compilation of 12 different subclass options for 5th edition made by Zack Morrison!
Includes the Barbarian’s Path of Nature’s Wrath, the Bard’s College of Cacophony, the Cleric’s Mischief Domain, the Druid’s Circle of Sickles, the Wrestler Fighter, the Monk’s Way of the Monkey Fist, the Oath of Elegance Paladin, the Mariner Ranger, the Scoundrel Rogue, the Death Essence Sorcerer, the Warlock’s Weapon of Legend Patron, and the Wizard’s School of Martial Arcanistry. Each is illustrated!
From Zack:
I’m proud of these and hope you have a lot of fun playing them. Thank you in advance for your support! Money is tight for me right now and I am hoping to chip at a plane ticket for visiting my family on the opposite coast with this release, so anything you can chip in if you’re interested would be a huge help. Thanks again so much!
RPG classes?
No.RPG extracurriculars.
Rather than picking one path to build your character, at each level you can choose minor powers and abilities. I think this could work in a “realistic” game like Call of Cthulhu (we’ll call it 8e, the Less Crunchy Edition). Or if you’re looking for a game that exists, the FATE system will let you play this kind of malleable character.
Actually a concept I’ve been quietly working on for the past few years. I’ve dubbed it the “colligate” system:
Each level you get 3-5 credits (depending on the level). You can spend them on anything from ASI’s to a variety of feats, which have costs and prerequisites based on what they do.
Rather than your class determining your features/skills, classes are a set of requirements that can be filled by a range of feats and other things (such as ability scores, skill bonusses, speed, or ac). If you meet the requirements for a class, you are considered to be that class, and gain access to additional feats that have that class as a prerequisite.
Obviously, this is meant to mirror the way college credits work in earning a degree (except, you know, classes actually mean something). And it makes character creation and leveling significantly more flexible and creative.
It’s hard to keep track of without computer assistance though (just like college credits, who would have guessed?). And because there is so much flexibility, there is definitely a lot of room for both ineffective and overpowered builds. My goal with writing the features is to keep them all relatively balanced, but to do so, I have to consider how they might interact with literally every other feature.
so needless to say, it’s taking a while to get anywhere
Sort of progress but Min-su’s comphredendable god form without any of his adornments. God of Knowledge, Air, Spring, and bards. The Jade serpent of the East
Min-su’s daughter, Ayano. She is the goddess of theatre and considered to be one of the muses
Maximilian the ancient elf x sky elf wizard
Remaking a pandaren into a homebrew orc. Yuji the monk turned death knight. Here is her fancy outfit and a more combat based outfit plus her death knight armor and look after death including her killing scar
Killian the birch/wolf fae another dnd npc
"Make me love myself
So that I might love you
Don’t make me a liar
Cuz I swear to God
When I said it I thought it was true…“
When I moved away from home,
100 miles or so
I knew a change had grown
inside my awkwardly long limbs
and bones
I realized I never finished the ref of my partner’s half high elf/sea elf. She’s in the same campaign as Esen
Min-su and his heavenly polycule. From left to right in his arms are Satoshi, Chi-hun, Ari-rae, and Lan Fen.
Satoshi and Lan Fen belong to Chronolink and LavenderFang on toyhouse. Might finish this later
Finally drew and updated a design I got. This is Jun Shi the leader of the fox-folk in the homebrew world. He and his brother, Lan Fen were blessed by a fox spirit giving them 10 tails.
If you can guess who he’s based off you hey a star
Touma is Ichika’s twin brother and the forge cleric in the party. Did this design for my roommate playing him
Bai Yazhu Jadefang. First husband of Long Xue. The serpent master general. The Jade hand
Chi-hun getting an update for the homebrew setting as an ancient elf.