Personally, I love the idea of homebrew. Unfortunately, most people who create homebrew do not follow the rules. Like some of my homebrew, it doesn’t really follow the rules. My best homebrew is this: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/6269615-shadowbound-skeleton it is not even that good. I am gonna do a poll. Select yes if you agree with me or select no if you don’t agree with me.
What do you mean by not following the rules? Do you mean balance? Used language? Syntax?
I've tried to make all of my homebrew items, spells, and monsters be as balanced and official seeming as possible. Sure, I have a joke item or two, but even those should be "following the rules".
Yeah, a lot of homebrew items, spells, and monsters are not balanced and don’t have proper mechanics.
Luckily you don't have to include those into your games. If you find an item concept you really like, but the weapon is severely over/underpowered, tweak it to your needs. I haven't been around for too long as a DM homebrewing my own stuff that I would know how it has evolved over time, but saying "Homebrew ain’t really good anymore" is quite a powerful statement, IMO. Maybe it's true and people just want to create massively overpowered monsters/items nowadays or maybe you've only looked at the "wrong" place.
I usually craft homebrew items and monsters specifically for a certain story. When I've created the monster/item, I write its description as if it's from the official materials. I haven't really looked into the homebrew collection too thoroughly, partly because as you said, they might not have mechanics well described. But mostly it's because when I create from scratch I know the RAW and RAI of the item/monster and I can better explain it to my players if there's confusion or ambiguity.
Personally, I love the idea of homebrew. Unfortunately, most people who create homebrew do not follow the rules. Like some of my homebrew, it doesn’t really follow the rules. My best homebrew is this: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/6269615-shadowbound-skeleton it is not even that good. I am gonna do a poll. Select yes if you agree with me or select no if you don’t agree with me.
What do you mean by "anymore"? Are you asserting that at some point everyone (or most people) followed these so-called homebrew rules and that's dropped off? If so, I have two questions:
Personally, I love the idea of homebrew. Unfortunately, most people who create homebrew do not follow the rules. Like some of my homebrew, it doesn’t really follow the rules. My best homebrew is this: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/6269615-shadowbound-skeleton it is not even that good. I am gonna do a poll. Select yes if you agree with me or select no if you don’t agree with me.
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What do you mean by not following the rules? Do you mean balance? Used language? Syntax?
I've tried to make all of my homebrew items, spells, and monsters be as balanced and official seeming as possible. Sure, I have a joke item or two, but even those should be "following the rules".
Yeah, a lot of homebrew items, spells, and monsters are not balanced and don’t have proper mechanics.
Oiia
I have created exactly 1 race, and it follows the rules just fine, but lots of weapons are way too op.
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Luckily you don't have to include those into your games. If you find an item concept you really like, but the weapon is severely over/underpowered, tweak it to your needs. I haven't been around for too long as a DM homebrewing my own stuff that I would know how it has evolved over time, but saying "Homebrew ain’t really good anymore" is quite a powerful statement, IMO. Maybe it's true and people just want to create massively overpowered monsters/items nowadays or maybe you've only looked at the "wrong" place.
I usually craft homebrew items and monsters specifically for a certain story. When I've created the monster/item, I write its description as if it's from the official materials. I haven't really looked into the homebrew collection too thoroughly, partly because as you said, they might not have mechanics well described. But mostly it's because when I create from scratch I know the RAW and RAI of the item/monster and I can better explain it to my players if there's confusion or ambiguity.
What do you mean by "anymore"? Are you asserting that at some point everyone (or most people) followed these so-called homebrew rules and that's dropped off? If so, I have two questions:
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