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During the development of Orcus, I had a lot of ideas for tweaking 4E - or changing it in more profound and radical ways. I (mostly) resisted the urge at the time, but I wanted to share some of these ideas now. I'd also love to hear about your 4E/Orcus house rules. I'm most interested in major...

Last year, I launched a 4E retroclone called Orcus. I've posted about it in a few other places, but never shared it here -- which I wanted to correct now. I'm very open to contributions from others, whether that's homebrew material you've created or proposing balance/gameplay fixes to the...

Character Sheets These character sheets have all the rules for playing as a particular class on the character sheet - including 20 levels of class features! Here's the barbarian character sheet as two images if you want to check it out quickly without downloading a whole PDF: Barbarian (page...

Hey folks, I made my first background: the Earthling. It's for that old planetary romance/fantasy staple of a human from Earth transported to a different planet or plane. It's a little silly at times, but I genuinely cannot think of anything more fun than the whole adventuring party piling into...

Hi all, We got to talking about SRD5 in the Necromancer Games thread before someone pointed out that we were dragging that thread off topic. From what I can see so far, SRD5 is a clone of part of Basic D&D (with the rest in the works). Like other retroclones, it relies on the fact that game...

I was marvelling at the fact that in some earlier D&D editions monster stats could be written on a single line. I wanted to experiment with some D&D 5E stats and see what I could do with them, and thought people might be interested to see them. Do let me know what you think. --- These don't...

Hi folks, I was wondering whether people who've been playing 4E for a while now think that the four roles of leader, defender, striker and controller were correctly identified, or whether there might be more (or fewer). For example, I know Sacred Barbeque splits the controller role into...

Questions about competition moved from thread You mention the OGL and the GSL. What about other public copyright licences like the Creative Commons licences? Is it okay to submit a game under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike?

I've stumbled across a couple of resources for the playtest and I thought it was worth collecting in one place all the resources that have been created. 5E in General 5e Campaign World and Musings by Chris Kümmel (history of the races, etc.) <http://5ednd.blogspot.nl/> Additional...

I would prefer characters to have more tactical options available to them. A way to do this occured to me while flicking through Martial Power. Why not give characters access to all their class's at-will attack powers (or a large number, like 6, since not every class has an equal number)...