D&D 5E Do you allow fan made material in your games?

[Waterbizkit]

Short answer, "yes" with an "if"; long answer "no" with a "but".

I don't think it's as black & white as one or the other for me, though I can appreciate that it is for other people. Either way I'm not going to vote because the poll doesn't even have a simple half-assed "sometimes" or "other" option.

 

[Corpsetaker]

The questions reflects races, classes, sub-classes, feats, sub-systems. Reflavouring, reskinning, a background, a spell, or anything like that is not what we are talking about.

 

[Mr. Wilson]

I voted a no, but it is a soft no.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Didn't vote, but philosophically I'm not opposed to including homebrewed stuff in my games - with advance notice and DM approval, of course. It does need to be relatively balanced and more importantly definitely needs to be able to slot into the background of the world without a huge amount of tinkering or adjustment of the world.

 

[practicalm]

I'm using the witch class that one of my players was interested in.
I also would use the 4 elements monk changes I've seen.

 

[S'mon]

Yes - I'll vet it, of course.

 

[Ath'kethin]

Frankly, I'm not interested in any material produced by people who AREN'T fans of the game.

More in-depth: I voted yes, but your list leaves off a valuable resource: 3rd-party publications such as Primeval Thule or The One Ring 5e or any of a number of other high quality (many even hardback) non-WotC publications.

And I have produced several pieces for "fan-made" publishers (EN5ider among them). I think it would be silly to disallow something I wrote just because it isn't in a WotC book.

 

[Guest 6801328]

No, but there's a corollary question that should be asked: do you disallow "official" content that you don't like? Because that's also a "no" for me.

 

[TwoSix]

Not only do I allow it, I encourage my players to search the Internet for concepts they like. Only one of my four players is playing a PHB class.

 

[Corpsetaker]

Frankly, I'm not interested in any material produced by people who AREN'T fans of the game. More in-depth: I voted yes, but your list leaves off a valuable resource: 3rd-party publications such as Primeval Thule or The One Ring 5e or any of a number of other high quality (many even hardback) non-WotC publications. And I have produced several pieces for "fan-made" publishers (EN5ider among them). I think it would be silly to disallow something I wrote just because it isn't in a WotC book.

I said nothing about 3PP. They aren't "fanmade".