Now that the lists of homebrewed content have blown past 1000 pages, it's impossible for me to keep track of everything... especially since there's no way for me to sort them by date (please fix this admins?!?). So which have caught your eye? Let's try and focus on the ones that aren't already at the top of the list. Here's some I've noticed:
Mimic Sword (Binbag): A mimic that's allowed a player to use it in combat. Just a cool concept.
Mund's Melody (Razorice): Not your traditional OP artifact, but a neat way to selectively reveal information.
I love this idea!!! The current viewing system is kinda screwed up right now. My outlaw class has been displaying lower on the roster than it should be for example. Anyway, here is some good Homebrew to check out.
Dagger Master (dropbear8mybaby) Decent quality of life for dagger focused characters
Daywalker (Wand_of_Dorkus) Soo nice to allow players to use darker races without penalty
Aarakocra Arrow Storm (Stag_Horn) Great spell, used it thematically to mark the gave of an aarakocra player who died.
Highblood Dragonborn (VillainTheory) A very popular HB that still should be mentioned because it fixes so much of what’s wrong with the dragonborn race. Nearly required HB.
Origami (Cantrip) which is incredibly flavourful, and has been a huge hit in my group.
There's an error with that cantrip. It says you can have five of them active at one time and yet only allows you to cast it on one piece of paper at a time while also requiring concentration. Unfortunately the author doesn't have comments enabled.
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Yeah, the voting thing is a bit silly when we can add items to our own collection. I've posted an entire thread of homebrews just begging people for feedback, and have been "penalized" for it.
When the voting system was first talked about, I railed against it because of exactly this. People can be very reactionary and petty and rarely vote based on a critical analysis of content. What I find odd about this is that they seem to understand this based on the fact that you can't downvote a post on the forums. Then there's also vote manipulation where people 'brigade' like on reddit either to promote someone's brew or stifle a 'competitor'. There's a particular piece of brew that has about 70 upvotes when the next closest one has 15 and the rest are all in the 5's. And it's not even very good brew. Nothing suspect there at all.
All in all, feedback and commentary is good, I welcome it. But this voting thing is just ridiculous and does far more harm than good.
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
When the voting system was first talked about, I railed against it because of exactly this. People can be very reactionary and petty and rarely vote based on a critical analysis of content. What I find odd about this is that they seem to understand this based on the fact that you can't downvote a post on the forums. Then there's also vote manipulation where people 'brigade' like on reddit either to promote someone's brew or stifle a 'competitor'. There's a particular piece of brew that has about 70 upvotes when the next closest one has 15 and the rest are all in the 5's. And it's not even very good brew. Nothing suspect there at all.
All in all, feedback and commentary is good, I welcome it. But this voting thing is just ridiculous and does far more harm than good.
Reddit brigades? Really? And what's the competition? Petty indeed.
Now that the lists of homebrewed content have blown past 1000 pages, it's impossible for me to keep track of everything... especially since there's no way for me to sort them by date (please fix this admins?!?). So which have caught your eye? Let's try and focus on the ones that aren't already at the top of the list. Here's some I've noticed:
Mimic Sword (Binbag): A mimic that's allowed a player to use it in combat. Just a cool concept.
Mund's Melody (Razorice): Not your traditional OP artifact, but a neat way to selectively reveal information.
Axe of Dwarven Throwing (Chaoswarp): Absolutely ridiculous, and I love it.
Primal Cannibal (5thDimension): You'll either get this one or not.
Swarm of Animated Books (Thranok): Every wizard library needs one of these.
I love this idea!!! The current viewing system is kinda screwed up right now. My outlaw class has been displaying lower on the roster than it should be for example. Anyway, here is some good Homebrew to check out.
Dagger Master (dropbear8mybaby) Decent quality of life for dagger focused characters
Daywalker (Wand_of_Dorkus) Soo nice to allow players to use darker races without penalty
Aarakocra Arrow Storm (Stag_Horn) Great spell, used it thematically to mark the gave of an aarakocra player who died.
Highblood Dragonborn (VillainTheory) A very popular HB that still should be mentioned because it fixes so much of what’s wrong with the dragonborn race. Nearly required HB.
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I have a growing library of Homebrew: Subclasses | Races | Feats | Items
You check out my newest Homebrew: Doctor - The Survey Corps - Order of the Shadow Master
Seconding the choice of Dagger Masterby dropbear8mybaby.
I also really like these:
Arcane Distiller (Background) which is really unique.
Bureaucrat (Background) fills a great niche in a political campaign.
Gloom (Cantrip) which is fantastic for Drow, creating small areas of weak magical darkness.
Origami (Cantrip) which is incredibly flavourful, and has been a huge hit in my group.
Ring of Kinetic Storing (Item) is pretty neat.
Ventriloquist (Feat) which is a little niche, but still really cool.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
― Oscar Wilde.
I’ll help you out with an upvote or two from the people I know that use it. That kind of stuff goes a long way
Dungeon Master for Heroes of Agarra
I have a growing library of Homebrew: Subclasses | Races | Feats | Items
You check out my newest Homebrew: Doctor - The Survey Corps - Order of the Shadow Master
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
― Oscar Wilde.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/feats/1382-agile
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/feats/971-main-gauche-fighter
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/feats/609-shifting-blades
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/feats/972-retiarius
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/feats/3825-poison-specialist
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/feats/224-stylized-combatant
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/feats/3449-ventriloquist
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/subraces/3487-highblood-dragonborn (and the rest of VillainTheory's stuff)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/36186-speed-read
https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/12035-ring-of-the-grammarian
https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/16079-wand-of-counterspell
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/subclasses/8482-anime-swordsman (if you don't take your game at all seriously)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/34204-thunder-shout
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Yeah, the voting thing is a bit silly when we can add items to our own collection. I've posted an entire thread of homebrews just begging people for feedback, and have been "penalized" for it.
What do you mean, penalized?
Dungeon Master for Heroes of Agarra
I have a growing library of Homebrew: Subclasses | Races | Feats | Items
You check out my newest Homebrew: Doctor - The Survey Corps - Order of the Shadow Master
I mean downvoted without any feedback. That's a penalty in that it makes other users even less likely to find your work and provide feedback.
When the voting system was first talked about, I railed against it because of exactly this. People can be very reactionary and petty and rarely vote based on a critical analysis of content. What I find odd about this is that they seem to understand this based on the fact that you can't downvote a post on the forums. Then there's also vote manipulation where people 'brigade' like on reddit either to promote someone's brew or stifle a 'competitor'. There's a particular piece of brew that has about 70 upvotes when the next closest one has 15 and the rest are all in the 5's. And it's not even very good brew. Nothing suspect there at all.
All in all, feedback and commentary is good, I welcome it. But this voting thing is just ridiculous and does far more harm than good.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
― Oscar Wilde.
We’re here to share good HB and remedy this anyway. Keep sharing good brew here. You guys can eat eachother alive in PMs or another topic lmao.
Dungeon Master for Heroes of Agarra
I have a growing library of Homebrew: Subclasses | Races | Feats | Items
You check out my newest Homebrew: Doctor - The Survey Corps - Order of the Shadow Master
Achroma
Bag of Bugs (I'm not really sure how you'd use the Giant Insect spell otherwise)
Battlewise
Cognitive Essence
Dewyck's Alchemical Assistant
Glass Genasi (this and VillainTheory's other genasi subraces are magic)
Oozeundheit (I dare you to find a more unique homebrew spell)
Unburn
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