I haven't done one of these in a few months, but I thought it would be fun to do another of my D&D community resources articles where I scour the web for fan-created material so you don't have to. As always, a great place to find a concentrated roiling mass of home-brews, house rules, and fan-created content is the D&D House Rules, Home-brews, & Conversion Library forum right here at EN World. You can find the archive of all 18 of my lists of useful community created content right here.
- One of the great things about the WotC forums before they closed was its large collection of character build guides. Fortunately, they were all saved and made their way over here to EN World, and Mistwell has kindly indexed them. There are over 20 guides at the link which help you to design and optimise useful character builds for each class.
- A useful note - DrNevermore is compiling a post which indexes home-brew races created by the EN World community. Very useful. If you've made a race, be sure to post and let him know so he can add it.
- These Epic Monster Updates by dave2008 are really quite impressive. It's an ongoing thread go gods, demon princes, arch-devils, dukes of Hell, and much more with CRs from about 25 up to 40. It's really worth checking out.
- I'm A Banana is converting the 2E "Complete Class Handbook" series of books. So far he's converted the Complete Fighter's Handbook, Complete Thief's Handbook, Complete Priests's Handbook, and Complete Wizard's Handbook.
- Coronoid's race creation system is well worth a look. It revise engineers the 5E races and creates 38 new example races.
- Take a look at Last's d100 Out of the Abyss trinkets.
- TheHobgoblin has designed a PC goblin race for 5E.
- Take a look at Tim McDonald's puppeteer class. It's based on the puppeteer ninja from Naruto.
- Over at Forgot My Dice there's a new monster called the Frozen King. It's a "phased boss monster" using some rules the same site posted last month. A phased boss fight is a monster which fights in waves - when it hits 0 HP, it moves on to the next phase.
- The Haunting Miasma is another new monster - an inky black undead cloud by Mitchell Hudson.
- James Introcaso wrote a high-level Christmas-themed adventure called Happy Holidays. It features Santa and Mrs. Claus. "With the Winter holidays ruined by a rash of explosive coal gifts, adventurers must venture to the North Pole to discover what’s making Santa punish the nice and reward the naughty. Happy Holidays is an adventure for four to six 20th level characters which uses fifth edition rules."
- The Prophecy and Commerce domains are two cleric subclasses by Benjamin Huffman.
- Trolls getting you down? Then use this Ring of the Troll Magi, created by Matt Evans.
- Robert Lundgren is back with some rules on incorporating holidays into your campaign.
- Council of Wyrms was a D&D 2E campaign setting which has been converted by Marsupialmancer to 5E in a 34-page PDF.
- Combat gear need simplifying? Look to Ilina-Selene Hawkins-Young attempt at simplifying weapons and armour!
- The Diary of Lara Constantin is a Ravenloft-themed magic item by Mark Craddock.
- Brandes Stoddard has created a Stormcloak Ranger archetype.
- Tim Bannock's Variants & Options Checklist for the DMG is a useful mini-index.
- Check out Tribality's 5E Jedi.
- If you're a Walking Dead fan, Marty Walser has created a new zombie disease. Well, technically he's created it whether or not you're a Walking Dead fan.
- This interesting article by Brandes Stoddard looks at wilderness travel in various games and discusses their application in D&D.
- Another free adventure is Christmas With The Orcs by Dan Head. "Christmas with the Orcs: The Red Man Comes! is a short, one-shot holiday-themed adventure for 3rd or 4th level player-characters (PCs) written in the style of Dungeons & Dragons’ 5th Edition."
- Sanishiver is putting together a compilation of adventuring company names and descriptions.
- The Messiah class is a bard-cleric hybrid by irwindyl.
- Omry Bass is writing a small narrative ruleset for 5E, inspired by SWRPG and WFRP3.
- The Physician is a new rogue archetype by Stormi. It's an expert in medieval medicine.
- Monk fans might enjoy kalani's new tradition, the Sohei/Kensei. A frontline warrior which blends martial arts and philosophy.
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