Questions tagged [homebrew]
For questions about homebrewing new rules content for an existing system. This tag should be used when locally-created, non-published content is at the heart of the question. (Note that soliciting ideas for creating homebrew is off topic for the site.) Not to be confused with the [house-rules] tag. For creating entire new games, use [game-design]. This tag is not for reviewing already created content; for that use [homebrew-review].
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Does adding multiple skills when combining creatures cause balance issues?
I'm creating a Svirfneblin Evil Mage by combining the stat blocks for each Evil Mage and Svirfneblin.
A Svirfneblin has the skills Investigation +3, Perception +2, Stealth +4.
An Evil Mage has the ...
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Balance implications of +3 racial bonuses
Many races have a +2 bonus to one ability and a +1 bonus to another ability. They do not usually have +3 to a single ability.
I am wondering about the implications of having races with such bonuses in ...
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How to increase weapon strength with the player
I've got a player who's character has a home-brew weapon that's supposed to grow in strength alongside the character so it can be used through the whole campaign.
I get that, normally, throughout the ...
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How many two-skill +2/+4 bonus feats are there and is it balanced to homebrew more?
Each skill except for Appraise, Linguistics, Craft, Perform, and Profession corresponds to a core feat that has no prerequisites and grants +2 to two skills or +4 if you have 10 or more ranks. Those ...
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Is this homebrew variant of Leomund's Tiny Hut a problem?
I am playing a wizard with the spell tiny hut.
The DM came up with the idea of having Strahd change the spells in my spell book, just slightly. This makes a little sense because my current character ...
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What is the interaction between Thunderwave and being required to target your own space? [duplicate]
The spell Thunderwave has the rather unusual target area of a 15-foot cube, the point of origin for which is the caster, which is generally understood to mean you can either position the cube anywhere ...
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Is Booming Blade that unbalanced? How could it be rebalanced? [closed]
Up until now, we had quite the terrible party lineup (a Rogue, two Paladins and a Barbarian; we soon discovered the game is simply not enjoyable without casters), and we all decided to fix this by ...
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In Pathfinder's Race builder, can you give the race you create two racial qualities? (i.e. Fey and Humanoid.)
I was wondering when creating a race in Pathfinder 1e, are you able to give them two racial type qualities like Fey and Humanoids for example or is it just one type only? I ask because I was looking ...
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What was this homebrew monster class based on That Damn Crab and other crab memes?
WARNING: The content of this question is potentially disturbing and contains references to animal abuse
I remember reading a homebrew class some time ago (within a few years) that has been based on ...
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Can I, as a DM, create a new class entirely? If I can, how do I develop class features? [closed]
I believe my campaign needs a new class entirely. As in, you can choose from barbarian, rogue, new class name, etc. I looked at the DMG and it says literally nothing about creating a new class from ...
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In 5E World of Warcraft, does the Monk's Superior Martial Arts allow one attack vs every enemy in the area of effect?
In the World of Warcraft 5e conversion (v3.3 by Djmove & Arrius Nideal), the Windwalker Monk's 'Superior Martial Arts' states:
As an action, you may spend 2 Ki and deal your unarmed damage as ...
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Looking for a 3.5 reference to a Monster Harvester's Handbook
Back in the day, someone had created a handbook for harvesting parts from monsters. They went through every monster in the SRD and chose parts (and fairly reasonable prices for those parts). I was ...
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How can I balance this purposefully weak player character?
I'm DMing a 6 person campaign in 5E and one of my players made a Warlock that is dreadfully sick, but is bolstered by the Undying Warlock patron. How can I balance giving him mostly temporary ...
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“Continuous” Bardic Inspiration
The bard's Bardic Inspiration feature states:
You can inspire others through stirring words or music. To do so, you use a bonus action on your turn to choose one creature other than yourself within ...
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For a Portent feat based on the Lucky feat, how many Portent dice would be balanced against the 3 points (dice) from the Lucky feat?
I am looking to make a homebrew feat based on the Lucky feat but using the Portent mechanic, and am trying to find the balance point on the amount of dice.
Disclaimer: I don't think Lucky is ...
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Would allowing Wizards to use Wisdom for AC be unbalanced?
I find myself frustrated that Wizards have high incentive to invest in Dexterity and Constitution so that the aren't quite so squishy whereas they have little incentive to increase Wisdom except to ...
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Can my players coat a +1 Plate Armor with Adamantine?
My Dwarf smith wants to merge both his Plate Armor +1 and his Adamantine Plate Armor. The idea is to melt Adamantine, obtain the raw material, and coat his +1 Plate with it, thus obtaining a +1 ...
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What's the closest-to-legal way to make this semi-homebrew savage succubus have LA+0 and a low level?
I wanted to make a weaker succubus character, so I didn't need all the features of the ECL 12 version in the Monster Manual. Savage Species offers a progression on pages 195-197 that gives everything ...
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What should I do when every PC has really low charisma (and it bothers me)?
I am currently working on a PnP which is a mixture of Traveller, DnD and some of my own game mechanics.
The attributes of PCs are pretty much the same as in DnD, and I also decided to have players ...
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how can I handle automatic rifles in my rules? [closed]
Due to the current situation me and my group decided to try something new for our first online-session. We agreed on a post-apocalyptic, post-modern setting in a Metro2033-style. This presents me with ...
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Are there rules to create Troops of casters?
So a person I play Pathfinder with showed me the Troops sub-type which opens up a whole lot of possibilities for high level parties to deal with high numbers of enemies.
But I don't find much about ...
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Can undead characters use healing spells as normal to heal other characters?
I've been trying to create a character (a Skeleton Bard using this homebrew race option) and I know that there are some spells that cannot heal the undead. But what about the other way around?
As a ...
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Whose property is user-created homebrew material on D&D Beyond?
When creating homebrew material on D&D Beyond (dndbeyond.com), what kind of license do I grant to Fandom Games for the material that I create by using its tools? Or more broadly, whose property is ...
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Would the following curse be too detrimental, too beneficial, or just right for a combat-focused campaign?
The Curse:
Clockwork Curse
All Attack Rolls the cursed target makes replace their d20 roll with a 10 instead of rolling, as per the effect of Clockwork Amulet.
Extra Details:
This curse is ...
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Which of these two homebrew adaptations of the Elemental Weapon and Flame Arrows spells to work is more balanced?
Which of these two homebrew adaptations of the Elemental Weapon and Flame Arrows spells to work with ranged weapons is more balanced?
I was thinking of adjusting a couple of existing spells, namely ...
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How to create travel speed for homebrew vehicles [closed]
I'm working on a campaign where a giant forest covers the land where oceans should usually be. My party is going to have a vessel akin to a ship that will let them travel across this massive forest.
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Consequences of Relying on temporary hit points instead of armor for a homebrew class? [closed]
I am creating a homebrew tanking class for DND 5e, and I want to add some flavor rather than going with same formula as fighter, barbarian, and paladin.
I am thinking that instead of armor the class ...
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Would it be unbalanced to offer a cambion's Fiendish Blessing as a racial feat for a tiefling player?
The Cambion monster in the MM p.36 has the trait Fiendish Bleesing:
Fiendish Blessing The AC of the cambion includes its Charisma bonus.
Would it be unbalanced to offer my player's tiefling ...
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How do you go about making a homebrew mount?
I wanted to make a custom mount but I'm not sure how to fully go about it.
What I wanted to do was make a half-Dire Wolf, half-Worg.
I've got the idea for the background story of how it was ...
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On D&D Beyond, how to create a shield that gives a ranged attack?
In D&D Beyond, I’m trying to essentially create a captain America shield. If I make its type a shield, then I can’t seem to make it give a ranged attack as an option.
I’ve tried to add a ...
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How do I deal with metagaming/power-playing as a player? [closed]
I'm in a D&D Homebrew campaign that allows pretty much anything as long as it is written online. We have one player in specific who is frustrating and decided at the end of the campaign, he would ...
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Allowing an attack roll in activity that usualy requires ability check [closed]
I want to create a homebrew feature that will allow a character to take specific action on advantageous modifiers when lacking in primary means (low ability score or lacking skill/tool proficiency)
I ...
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How many Sorcery Points should it cost to add 1d4 to a spell's save DC? [closed]
I have a homebrew idea to try and add more power to the sorcerer. The idea is that when sorcerer casts a spell that causes a target to make a saving throw, they can spend sorcery points to add 1d4 to ...
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How can I let my PCs create new spells in a balanced and fair way?
Assuming the DM is on board with the premise, are there resources that would provide some guidelines on how a PC may create a spell, and mechanics that should be considered for balancing and fairness ...
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How is the damage required to regurgitate a creature calculated?
As an addition to my previous question "How is CON save DC determined for the Behir?" there is another figure that I'm curious as to how it is determined.
If the behir takes 30 damage or ...
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How is CON save DC determined for the Behir?
I am homebrewing a monster that has incorporates the Swallow mechanic used by the Behir (MM, pg. 25). My monster is not at the same CR and I need to adjust its statistics accordingly, but there is one ...
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Is it at all possible to create/homebrew a class with half-subclasses?
Sonny is a great little game starring a zombie who starts out with limited skills (a super-basic attack and a self-healing spell) and gains more skills as he levels up. At two points in the game, you ...
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For a homebrew class, how can I offset the disadvantage created by not granting proficiency in one of the “big three” / “strong” saving throws?
I made a homebrew class. (I’m happy to share any details anyone deems necessary or even the entire class if it isn’t against the rules.) It’s a Cha-based class which, for flavour reasons, has a ...
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How many character points would a skill to fully manipulate an element cost?
One of the major advantages of GURPS is creating your character the way you want, since the rules let you create anything. And the spell-casting system is arguably too complex or boring.
Putting ...
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Is it necessary to have archetypes for a homebrew class?
I'm trying my hand at homebrew. Specifically, I'm making an Alchemist class, but can't think of any archetypes - which prompted this question.
If I need to be a little more specific, a class that ...
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How do you work with spells in homebrew subclasses on D&D Beyond?
I'm trying to create a homebrew subclass on D&D Beyond, but I can't seem to figure out how to make spells work. There are different places for an added list of spells and actually adding spells, ...
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Is gaining 1 AC in exchange for disadvantage on Perception checks a balanced trade?
Inspired by this answer, and to avoid lengthy back and forth comments, I decided to make this a question in itself.
You can put on your helmet for +1 AC and disadvantage on Perception checks. In ...
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What RAW weirdness would arise from a PC being permanently Tiny?
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Every official playable race in D&D, to the best of my knowledge, is either Medium or Small. Even for creatures that should be Large (meaning where the "monster" versions of ...
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What is homebrew? Should I use it in normal games? [closed]
I keep on hearing about homebrew in D&D and I was just wondering what it meant.
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Are there fundamental problems with this guideline for estimating the rarity of home-brewed Magic Items?
There are a lot of questions about estimating the appropriate rarity level of a homebrewed Magic Item. In one of those, I came across this answer by Lino Frank Ciaralli suggesting a fairly general ...
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Creating a balanced spell [closed]
I'm currently playing a level 6 warlock (pact of the seeker) in a campaign right now. I want to develop a new spell in game. This is the spell that I'm trying to create:
Name: Xanlin's Secret ...
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How to make an ability to sense vibrations in the ground? [closed]
Am pretty far along on baby's first homebrew race, but I've run into a hiccup: These are grub-people with an uncanny knack for feeling vibrations of the earth, even if they are above ground. (a la ...
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Should I classify the homebrew race I'm working on as a large race?
These are bug-people, who can wield normally-sized weapons (they have 2 sets of small hands). They are typically about 9 feet in height. Should I, and would it be a wise choice to, classify them as a ...
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How do I get started creating this homebrew race?
I'm a pretty new player. I have played one campaign to completion and am in the middle of two other ones with two different groups. I've never made any homebrew content, and I only have a pretty basic ...
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How can I implement Yondu's Yaka Arrow? [closed]
I'm a neophyte DM and currently running a homebrew. One player in the group wants to incorporate the Yaka Arrow from Guardians of the Galaxy (as seen here).
How I should implement it and is there any ...
