9. Gladiator Another day at the Colosseum. [Art by Mazertyoung] Gladiators may sound like another fighter variant, but really this particular homebrew class emphasizes the more bard-like aspects of the historic gladiators. It presents an interesting strength and charisma oriented character type that...
Lots of cool and memorable ideas Unique setting and interesting villain Reasons to avoid Poor writing, design, and balance Irrelevant gazetteer Needs huge amounts of homebrew to work Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus sends players to literal, actual Hell, where they must rescue a city that...
Generally, a weapon attack bonus equals the relevant ability score modifier (Strength for melee weapons, Dexterity for ranged or finesse weapons) plus your proficiency bonus. Be aware that you only get to add your proficiency bonus if you’re proficient with that weapon type. Similarly, spell ...
Fans of Matt Mercer'shomebrew class The Blood Hunterwill love this faction. The Blood Hunters are basically The Witchers of your world, a sect of adventurers who take a step further to monstrosities by turning their bodies into weapons to hunt them down. You can use the homebrew class of ...
DM workshops, a panel on self publishing RPGS, a panel on Professional DMing, and closed the Con with an amazingly entertaining Improv D&D session, where our two DMs (Rhys & Michael) took turns more or less inciting the audience to assault the other with foam weapons to the thin veil of...
I homebrewed foraging etc. for healing potions ingredients and tweak the brewing/creation process.This method takes into account prof. bonus and expertise in the foraging portion but not the brewing (because you should be able to pull it off unless somethings contaminates the while in ...
Asking a player to artificially weaken a powerful character is never appropriate in D&D (unless it uses imbalanced homebrew or third-party content). Mechanically effective characters are particularly fitting for a high-level game; if a hero has managed to reach the upper levels, that is usually ...
Based on the fact that your DM created rules to remove weapons, and now one of thes PCs is a warlock for this demon, I would guess that it was a plot device to explain your fellow player going multiclass to warlock. In other words, that demon is probably unkillable because ...
You can use homebrew or house rules to“limit” minmaxing(like: you can only multiclass into 1 additional class, etc.) 1.- The Competitive “I dealt 56 damage and the Wizard only dealt 49!” “I hit the final blow and tanked the Dragon, that means I deserve a bigger part of the ...
This background could fit any class. However, we recommend picking a character build that already has a dark tinge and going full edgelord. A Grave Cleric, aDnD Warlockwho made a dark pact, or even the homebrewBlood Hunter 5e. Hermit 5e ...