There are a variety of reddits (/rpg, /DnDnext, /dungeonsanddragons, /unearthedarcana, /dndhomebrew), more forums like this (Paizo has D&D 5e forums, as does the Piazza) as well as RPGNet and ENWorld, various google + groups, various Facebook groups, and twitter. :)
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I back up the suggestions of Reddit. To clarify which subs are most appropriate:
r/UnearthedArcana is for complete 5e homebrew that you want feedback on, though they have a stickied post ("The Arcana Forge") for drafts, ideas, and requests.
r/DnDHomebrew is for incomplete 5e stuff (though it has to be complete enough to be useable), and stuff from other editions.
r/boh5e (Best of Homebrew 5e) is for high-quality complete stuff. They have a team of critics who give very in-depth reviews. You can't post yourself, though; you have to submit it via the sidebar, and if the critics like it enough they'll put it up on the sub for review.
r/dndnext is the main 5e subreddit. Some people do post homebrew there, though you're more likely to get good feedback in r/UnearthedArcana.
r/DnD is the general D&D subreddit for any edition. r/DungeonsAndDragons is another, though it seems less active maybe?
r/BehindTheTables is specifically for random tables, which are sort of a kind of homebrew material I guess? Definitely useful either way. Most of the ones on there are by u/OrkishBlade, the founder of the sub, though anyone can submit their tables.
r/DnDBehindTheScreen is for homebrewed fluff, rather than the crunch that you find in the first three subs in this list. In layman's terms, it's for worldbuilding and story, rather than actual mechanics, classes, races, etc.
There's also r/dndmaps and r/battlemaps for maps you create for your games (or for other people's games).
And I think that sums up all the subreddits I know about currently. If you don't already know about it, The Homebrewery is an excellent resource for creating professional-looking homebrew. You write your stuff up as text, using a variant of markdown, and it formats that to look like the WotC sourcebooks. Much simpler and quicker than trying to do it in Photoshop, GIMP, etc, with results that are just as good. For sharing it, you can give people a link to view it on the site (a separate link to the editing one), or you can generate a PDF file. I think it's been a real game-changer in terms of the visual quality of general homebrew, and it'll only get better!
I'm an administrator on dandwiki.com, and I think it's a pretty good place to post and share homebrew if you like collaborating with others, and want it to be retained in an easily accessible state. (Reddit posts very rapidly become buried, accessible only through carefully worded search entries.) There's a lot of sub-par stuff on there, but that's just what happens with a free and open community. It ain't my place to call their stuff badwrongfun, I just keep the peace.
If that ain't your style, there's also dnd-wiki.org. I'm not a member of their community, but they're a good bunch of people at least. They have a different philosophy in their community, which focuses on the writer's intent first, rather than consensus based creativity. They also have much higher standards for quality. They will happily tell you a broken design is broken, and then remove it from a display page until you have fixed it. Like I said, they aren't mean or anything, just a different philosophy.
Better than both though, is to just set yourself up a free blog and upload your brews to that. It's easy to make catalogues of your creations, and your stuff is readily accessible. Then, when you want to share, just link people to the individual blog articles! Lots of homebrewers do that, and it seems to serve them well.
Oh, there's also Facebook! DM Paul Weber, the guy who made item cards for every single item in the PHB and DMG, has a thriving little community going on his Facebook page! If you're really productive, Facebook is an awesome way to start and maintain a conversation about your homebrew autonomously of any specific online gaming community.
I'm not a fan of Reddit in general but that's a lot of info to have on hand.
There are certainly areas of reddit that can be a bit dodgy, but in general I've found all of the D&D subs I'm part of to be very pleasant communities. (In fact, I think that's true for most smaller single-interest subreddits, you only get shit people on the massive default ones or in isolated pockets dedicated to certain viewpoints.) I generally prefer reddit because it's a lot easier to have conversations than on tumblr - and conversations let you improve your homebrew through criticism. Tumblr, fb, and blogs can be great places for people to post stuff when they've already got good at writing high-quality homebrew, but somewhere like reddit is better for people who are starting out, so they can develop their skill and style better.
I'm an administrator on dandwiki.com, and I think it's a pretty good place to post and share homebrew if you like collaborating with others, and want it to be retained in an easily accessible state. (Reddit posts very rapidly become buried, accessible only through carefully worded search entries.) There's a lot of sub-par stuff on there, but that's just what happens with a free and open community. It ain't my place to call their stuff badwrongfun, I just keep the peace.
If that ain't your style, there's also dnd-wiki.org. I'm not a member of their community, but they're a good bunch of people at least. They have a different philosophy in their community, which focuses on the writer's intent first, rather than consensus based creativity. They also have much higher standards for quality. They will happily tell you a broken design is broken, and then remove it from a display page until you have fixed it. Like I said, they aren't mean or anything, just a different philosophy.
Better than both though, is to just set yourself up a free blog and upload your brews to that. It's easy to make catalogues of your creations, and your stuff is readily accessible. Then, when you want to share, just link people to the individual blog articles! Lots of homebrewers do that, and it seems to serve them well.
Oh, there's also Facebook! DM Paul Weber, the guy who made item cards for every single item in the PHB and DMG, has a thriving little community going on his Facebook page! If you're really productive, Facebook is an awesome way to start and maintain a conversation about your homebrew autonomously of any specific online gaming community.
Yeah, on reddit at least dandwiki has a big reputation for being full of unbalanced stuff, and generally if someone posts a link to it, others will be like "ignore dandwiki, most stuff on there is broken". From looking at a couple things myself, I have seen that some of the stuff seems ok balance-wise, but there is certainly a lot that isn't balanced very well - like you say, that's just a consequence of having it open to all.
Of course, not everyone is interested in keeping their homebrew perfectly balanced, and that's ok too. Personally I prefer to stick to balanced stuff, because I feel it's more likely to being enjoyable for the party as a whole, and so I prefer to stick to places that focus more on balance. And while the mechanics are often "bad", it's probably a good place to look for concept inspiration, to reimagine in a more balanced way. I hadn't heard of dnd-wiki, if they're more balance-focused I might have to check them out. At first glance it seems to have a lot less on there than dandwiki, which I suppose is one of the downsides of being more restrictive about what's allowed.
I'll check out Paul Weber's page too, that sounds pretty cool!
Oh, they're plenty active! It's just mostly behind the scenes. The major difference is the way they display their content, and their attitude towards copyright and collaborative work. Basically, .com is CN, while .org is more LN.
Personally, I love /r/dndnext for most homebrew stuff--even though it's funneled into the sticky post most of the time. I'm just a fan of the community and mods there, themselves.
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It is a great website to post your content, and the best part about it is that you can choose if you want to sell your title for money and get paid or if you want to release it for free. It also has a very large fanbase because It is a Wizards of the Coast website.
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I've recently started hombrewing, where is the best location to post?
I once posted mine on the Giant in the Playground forums, but I don't think that they've quite moved past 3.5/Pathfinder as their game of choice.
I've recently found the Unearted Arcana subreddit, which is a community I'm super excited to become a part of, so perhaps look there!
There are a variety of reddits (/rpg, /DnDnext, /dungeonsanddragons, /unearthedarcana, /dndhomebrew), more forums like this (Paizo has D&D 5e forums, as does the Piazza) as well as RPGNet and ENWorld, various google + groups, various Facebook groups, and twitter. :)
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Definitely Reddit
I back up the suggestions of Reddit. To clarify which subs are most appropriate:
And I think that sums up all the subreddits I know about currently. If you don't already know about it, The Homebrewery is an excellent resource for creating professional-looking homebrew. You write your stuff up as text, using a variant of markdown, and it formats that to look like the WotC sourcebooks. Much simpler and quicker than trying to do it in Photoshop, GIMP, etc, with results that are just as good. For sharing it, you can give people a link to view it on the site (a separate link to the editing one), or you can generate a PDF file. I think it's been a real game-changer in terms of the visual quality of general homebrew, and it'll only get better!
I'm not a fan of Reddit in general but that's a lot of info to have on hand. Thanks.
I found a tumbler that used to be very active, love the way they put stuff together but less of a fan of browsing through it.
I'm an administrator on dandwiki.com, and I think it's a pretty good place to post and share homebrew if you like collaborating with others, and want it to be retained in an easily accessible state. (Reddit posts very rapidly become buried, accessible only through carefully worded search entries.) There's a lot of sub-par stuff on there, but that's just what happens with a free and open community. It ain't my place to call their stuff badwrongfun, I just keep the peace.
If that ain't your style, there's also dnd-wiki.org. I'm not a member of their community, but they're a good bunch of people at least. They have a different philosophy in their community, which focuses on the writer's intent first, rather than consensus based creativity. They also have much higher standards for quality. They will happily tell you a broken design is broken, and then remove it from a display page until you have fixed it. Like I said, they aren't mean or anything, just a different philosophy.
Better than both though, is to just set yourself up a free blog and upload your brews to that. It's easy to make catalogues of your creations, and your stuff is readily accessible. Then, when you want to share, just link people to the individual blog articles! Lots of homebrewers do that, and it seems to serve them well.
Oh, there's also Facebook! DM Paul Weber, the guy who made item cards for every single item in the PHB and DMG, has a thriving little community going on his Facebook page! If you're really productive, Facebook is an awesome way to start and maintain a conversation about your homebrew autonomously of any specific online gaming community.
Current Character: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/User:Kydo/Ideas
There are certainly areas of reddit that can be a bit dodgy, but in general I've found all of the D&D subs I'm part of to be very pleasant communities. (In fact, I think that's true for most smaller single-interest subreddits, you only get shit people on the massive default ones or in isolated pockets dedicated to certain viewpoints.) I generally prefer reddit because it's a lot easier to have conversations than on tumblr - and conversations let you improve your homebrew through criticism. Tumblr, fb, and blogs can be great places for people to post stuff when they've already got good at writing high-quality homebrew, but somewhere like reddit is better for people who are starting out, so they can develop their skill and style better.
Oh, they're plenty active! It's just mostly behind the scenes. The major difference is the way they display their content, and their attitude towards copyright and collaborative work. Basically, .com is CN, while .org is more LN.
Current Character: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/User:Kydo/Ideas
Personally, I love /r/dndnext for most homebrew stuff--even though it's funneled into the sticky post most of the time. I'm just a fan of the community and mods there, themselves.
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It is a great website to post your content, and the best part about it is that you can choose if you want to sell your title for money and get paid or if you want to release it for free. It also has a very large fanbase because It is a Wizards of the Coast website.