D&D 5E (Deleted)
Plaguescarred
D&D Playtester for WoTC since 2012
My GREYHAWK campaign has 1-5 pages of houserules and variant rules.
dave2008
Legend
1-5
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
Noted and thanks again.
LordEntrails
Hero
I guess the new thread title means we've given up trying to figure this out?
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
I got enough responses to get what I was after.
How many pages ya got?
Homebrew classes? Check.
Homebrew races? Check.
Rewritten/revamped established/traditional classes? Check.
Old and homebrewed class mechanics? Check.
Homebrew setting/world? Check.
Languages? Check.
Cultures? Check.
Pantheon(s) and established religions from the Vatican analogue to regional/local cults? Check.
Individual deity domain/sphere powers? Check.
Reworked/written magic spheres? Check.
Homebrewed types/spheres of magic (and commensurate powers, spell lists, etc...)? Check.
Revamped (largely to pare down) spell lists for all classes/types of magic? Check.
Homebrewewd Psychic powers/psionic rules (+organizations and setting fluff)? Check.
Homebrewed monsters? Check.
Revamped/reworked traditional/established monsters? Check.
Homebrewed artifacts? Check.
"Martial Maneuvers" mechanic/rules (grapples, holds, parry, "power strike/charge," etc...) ? Check.
[Homebrewed Barbarian class] "Clan Boons" (different clans get different features: save bonuses, attack maneuvers, etc...)? Check.
Roguish special abilities, i.e. "Tricks & Tasks"[tm]? Check.
...I honestly can't think of any more...but if there's a specific area of the game you are wondering about...I have prooooobably done something to tweak it.
EDIT: I suppose it should be noted, I do not give players a manual of hundreds of pages all their own. hahaha. There are packets of relevant info for the world (where they are/start out) and whatever class and/or race specifics they need. But that's it. Things become revealed through play and "need to know" or "as they come up" kind of basis so as not to overwhelm any players/potential players with unnecessary facts and figures.
Homebrew classes? Check.
Homebrew races? Check.
Rewritten/revamped established/traditional classes? Check.
Old and homebrewed class mechanics? Check.
Homebrew setting/world? Check.
Languages? Check.
Cultures? Check.
Pantheon(s) and established religions from the Vatican analogue to regional/local cults? Check.
Individual deity domain/sphere powers? Check.
Reworked/written magic spheres? Check.
Homebrewed types/spheres of magic (and commensurate powers, spell lists, etc...)? Check.
Revamped (largely to pare down) spell lists for all classes/types of magic? Check.
Homebrewewd Psychic powers/psionic rules (+organizations and setting fluff)? Check.
Homebrewed monsters? Check.
Revamped/reworked traditional/established monsters? Check.
Homebrewed artifacts? Check.
"Martial Maneuvers" mechanic/rules (grapples, holds, parry, "power strike/charge," etc...) ? Check.
[Homebrewed Barbarian class] "Clan Boons" (different clans get different features: save bonuses, attack maneuvers, etc...)? Check.
Roguish special abilities, i.e. "Tricks & Tasks"[tm]? Check.
...I honestly can't think of any more...but if there's a specific area of the game you are wondering about...I have prooooobably done something to tweak it.
EDIT: I suppose it should be noted, I do not give players a manual of hundreds of pages all their own. hahaha. There are packets of relevant info for the world (where they are/start out) and whatever class and/or race specifics they need. But that's it. Things become revealed through play and "need to know" or "as they come up" kind of basis so as not to overwhelm any players/potential players with unnecessary facts and figures.
rmcoen
Adventurer
House rules actually in play: single page "player's aid", front-and-back, condensed and summarized. Probably a quarter of which is "cool things you can do with a Critical Hit, instead of extra damage".
Rules in a word document that I consider "officially part of the campaign" - 20 or so, because after 40 years of playing many games (cough "Magic: The Gathering" cough), my friends and I are all rules lawyers to some extent, and I like to be verbose to eliminate misunderstandings and clarify edge cases. House ruling Falling Damage, for example, takes 3 bullets to say ("d10, cumulative, Acrobatics for half"), plus 6 extra bullets to handle definitions, edge cases, Monk slow fall, different size creatures, etc., plus three examples. House ruling Counterspell into a class ability is simple to say, but takes two pages to describe, define, and address interactions and edge cases and special rules, as well as a paragraph on "what was the intent of this massive change".
Rules I think are cool and I'd like to have in the game: Um... what if I just count the number of documents, instead of the pages? ;-) Heck, I added three more items to one of the docs just reading through this thread (Medicine/Surgery healing d4s, for example). Spell or feat clarifications/tweaks tend to end up in this category. For example, "Power Word Kill does 100 necrotic damage, and instakills if it reduces you to 0 hp." But... the party is 6th level, so this "rule" is not in the "officially part of the campaign" document because they will likely never reach 17th!
Plus three Excel documents for cataloging and categorizing diseases, expanded weapons and armor lists, and one for special materials/abilities and crafting. Lots of columns, lots of rows... and I think now three lines have made it into the game as unique effects.
Homebrew: New spells and items have their own documents, culled from internet/reddit sources and my own creativity. Just available as a reference. Plus setting specific changes - my campaign has no gods or other planes, and a sharp delineation of arcane vs. primal magics. This makes for small to large changes to some classes, reskinning of some subclasses, and elimination of some subclasses. Plus some classes get changed lore - alchemists and artificers are from the Empire, wizards are from the Northern Kingdoms, all sorcerers are "genetically dominant" (i.e. any child with at least one sorcerous parent will be a sorcerer) nobles called "Mageborn", druids are barely tolerated in "civilization" because they use "goblinoid magic", warlocks are anathema (neither Mageborn nor "Tower-trained"), and so on). That's... about 30 pages, I think?
Rules in a word document that I consider "officially part of the campaign" - 20 or so, because after 40 years of playing many games (cough "Magic: The Gathering" cough), my friends and I are all rules lawyers to some extent, and I like to be verbose to eliminate misunderstandings and clarify edge cases. House ruling Falling Damage, for example, takes 3 bullets to say ("d10, cumulative, Acrobatics for half"), plus 6 extra bullets to handle definitions, edge cases, Monk slow fall, different size creatures, etc., plus three examples. House ruling Counterspell into a class ability is simple to say, but takes two pages to describe, define, and address interactions and edge cases and special rules, as well as a paragraph on "what was the intent of this massive change".
Rules I think are cool and I'd like to have in the game: Um... what if I just count the number of documents, instead of the pages? ;-) Heck, I added three more items to one of the docs just reading through this thread (Medicine/Surgery healing d4s, for example). Spell or feat clarifications/tweaks tend to end up in this category. For example, "Power Word Kill does 100 necrotic damage, and instakills if it reduces you to 0 hp." But... the party is 6th level, so this "rule" is not in the "officially part of the campaign" document because they will likely never reach 17th!
Plus three Excel documents for cataloging and categorizing diseases, expanded weapons and armor lists, and one for special materials/abilities and crafting. Lots of columns, lots of rows... and I think now three lines have made it into the game as unique effects.
Homebrew: New spells and items have their own documents, culled from internet/reddit sources and my own creativity. Just available as a reference. Plus setting specific changes - my campaign has no gods or other planes, and a sharp delineation of arcane vs. primal magics. This makes for small to large changes to some classes, reskinning of some subclasses, and elimination of some subclasses. Plus some classes get changed lore - alchemists and artificers are from the Empire, wizards are from the Northern Kingdoms, all sorcerers are "genetically dominant" (i.e. any child with at least one sorcerous parent will be a sorcerer) nobles called "Mageborn", druids are barely tolerated in "civilization" because they use "goblinoid magic", warlocks are anathema (neither Mageborn nor "Tower-trained"), and so on). That's... about 30 pages, I think?
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