D&D 5E (Deleted)

[Lanefan]

Grouping houserules in with homebrew seems ... confusing and not very useful to me. Not sure what the objective of the pole is.

Any change to the game system - be it an actual change to a rule, an added homebrew element, a setting-required deletion (e.g. no Dragonborn in this game) - is in the end a rule change.

The only changes that aren't rules changes IMO are table-level restrictions e.g. no evil PCs, as those sort of things don't change anything in the game or setting (evil characters certainly exist there!) but merely tell players what they're allowed to play.

 

[LordEntrails]

Any change to the game system - be it an actual change to a rule, an added homebrew element, a setting-required deletion (e.g. no Dragonborn in this game) - is in the end a rule change.

Creating new magic items is a rule change? Describing a village or a tribe of marauders is a rule change?

I guess it doesn't matter. To me that are all things that are expected and normal for any game of D&D.

 

[Lanefan]

I am now curious about the campaigns that effectively have their own complete rulebook, but are still consider 5th edition.

Mine's not 5e. I tend to treat nearly all D&D threads as "general" as so many things can and-or do apply to most/all editions - including this poll question.

 

[Lanefan]

Creating new magic items is a rule change? Describing a village or a tribe of marauders is a rule change?

In order: yes; and no.

The magic item list is, technically, part of the rules. Adding an item to said list changes said rules. That said...

I guess it doesn't matter. To me that are all things that are expected and normal for any game of D&D.

...exactly this. Rules changes are expected, to the point we often don't even realize (or care) we're doing it.

 

[Yora]

I feel new magic items and monsters are homebrew within the rules.
Spells and feats might be regarded more as rules additions, as those are character options that chance the game on the players' side

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I know you got frustrated with some of the people here, so maybe try again, but in two separate threads, one for house rules and one for homebrew, since the two are completely different things.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The preliminary questions seem to be:

Do you use house rules?

Do you have written house rules?

Once you cave a yes to both of those, then you can start asking how many pages, specifying you are including homebrew content or not. Although it still may depend more on the size of the writing rather than the number of rules.

My group has house rules that we have all agreed on, but they aint written down anywhere.

 

[Lanefan]

My group has house rules that we have all agreed on, but they aint written down anywhere.

That must be a PitA for anyone new joining your game.

 

[rmcoen]

That assumes new people join the game. I've been with the same crew for 20 years - we've added one and lost one in that time.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I'm finalizing my homebrew rules document. The player options are currently sitting at 175 pages.