I have not messed around with Homebrewing Backgrounds much, but want to create a custom Background for a new Character idea.
I think I figured everything out except how to specify what three Ability Scores are available for selection, do any of you know how to do this? Also, I am not getting the Drop Down on my character creation sheet for the +2,+1 or +1+1+1 for the Ability Scores as well.
I am not starting from scratch, but using the 2024 Farmer as a base to start from.
Any help is appreciated.
Cheers!
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Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty. Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers; Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas. Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
I have not messed around with Homebrewing Backgrounds much, but want to create a custom Background for a new Character idea.
I think I figured everything out except how to specify what three Ability Scores are available for selection, do any of you know how to do this? Also, I am not getting the Drop Down on my character creation sheet for the +2,+1 or +1+1+1 for the Ability Scores as well.
I am not starting from scratch, but using the 2024 Farmer as a base to start from.
Any help is appreciated.
Cheers!
D&D Beyond doesn't currently support homebrew backgrounds in the 2024 style that include ability score bonuses. It's not clear whether this is something they're planning to support in the future or not.
Thank you for your response, this explains why I can't find that info/section.
I guess that closes this post/thread.
Cheers!
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Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty. Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers; Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas. Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
I am using a custom background and the place where you can select your chosen score increases is on the Abilities page just below the "Ability Scores" part and just above the "Score Calculations" part.
I have not messed around with Homebrewing Backgrounds much, but want to create a custom Background for a new Character idea.
I think I figured everything out except how to specify what three Ability Scores are available for selection, do any of you know how to do this? Also, I am not getting the Drop Down on my character creation sheet for the +2,+1 or +1+1+1 for the Ability Scores as well.
I am not starting from scratch, but using the 2024 Farmer as a base to start from.
Any help is appreciated.
Cheers!
I thought we could do this now. I recall doing this, anyway. Oh! wait. You're trying to create an actual homebrew.
I've been able to make a custom background just using the character builder. (I'm not sure if it depends on owning/having access to the new DMG.)
some nice person made a custom 24 background and even gives you 50gp for it plus feat etc
I saw that post, I'll check it out :)
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Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty. Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers; Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas. Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
Actually adding the feat to my collection didn't do anything, as the homebrew background didn't allow me to add his feat. So I just did one myself, thanks for the workaround though, great help!
Greetings everyone,
I have not messed around with Homebrewing Backgrounds much, but want to create a custom Background for a new Character idea.
I think I figured everything out except how to specify what three Ability Scores are available for selection, do any of you know how to do this?
Also, I am not getting the Drop Down on my character creation sheet for the +2,+1 or +1+1+1 for the Ability Scores as well.
I am not starting from scratch, but using the 2024 Farmer as a base to start from.
Any help is appreciated.
Cheers!
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
D&D Beyond doesn't currently support homebrew backgrounds in the 2024 style that include ability score bonuses. It's not clear whether this is something they're planning to support in the future or not.
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Wagnarokkr,
Thank you for your response, this explains why I can't find that info/section.
I guess that closes this post/thread.
Cheers!
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
I am using a custom background and the place where you can select your chosen score increases is on the Abilities page just below the "Ability Scores" part and just above the "Score Calculations" part.
I thought we could do this now. I recall doing this, anyway. Oh! wait. You're trying to create an actual homebrew.
I've been able to make a custom background just using the character builder. (I'm not sure if it depends on owning/having access to the new DMG.)
some nice person made a custom 24 background and even gives you 50gp for it plus feat etc
I saw that post, I'll check it out :)
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
Rats. I was hoping I was just incompetent and/or blind.
But I guess it really isn't possible or supported yet. Oh well.
I created this homebrew feat: Background Ability Bonus +2/+1
If you add this as a second granted feat for your custom background, it should let you pick the bonuses you want.
I will also create one for +1/+1/+1: Background Ability Bonus +1/+1/+1
Here is an image of how to set up the choice of +2/+1 or +1/+1/+1: https://freeimage.host/i/37JP23u
Awesome man, real life saver! The link on the +1/+1/+1 doesn't seem to work tho. Any updates on that? Cheers
Actually adding the feat to my collection didn't do anything, as the homebrew background didn't allow me to add his feat. So I just did one myself, thanks for the workaround though, great help!
Custom 2024 Background - Backgrounds - Homebrew - D&D Beyond
I've been using this for some time now.