D&D 5E Does your group allow homebrew or 3PP material?

[Zhern]

There is for sure still a punk rock camp (enough to earn Zak S a few Ennies).

Agreed on this. Maze of the Blue Medusa and A Red and Pleasant Land (both easily converted to 5e) are quite excellent.

 

[The Crimson Binome]

I agree with the premise, but Dracula means literally "Order of the Dragon."

That's actually a very good point. I should have gone with something more ridiculous, like vampires and lycanthropes in the same setting! Can you imagine that?

 

[arjomanes]

What I would love is an alternate world where most 3PP was geared towards wonderful adventures, campaigns, and scenarios.

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I have had great use out of 3PP story and adventure material!

I just wish the customer base didn't crave 90% (99?) player options...

While I agree with a lot of what you say, and I also wish (selfishly) to see more adventures and DM tools, the main way a player interacts with the game is through their character. Yes, I'd LOOOOOOVE if my players were more interested in my world and my NPCs and my story, but that's often not the case. Some care more about story, but some really are into their character, and that's fine.

As a DM, of course I care more about the story/world, but I also get why players want to create a very bad-ass or super thematic/narrative character. And one very concrete way to do that is to use unique fiddly rules pieces. And sometimes only 3PP deliver that very specificly flavorful mechanic.

 

[Zhern]

That's actually a very good point. I should have gone with something more ridiculous, like vampires and lycanthropes in the same setting! Can you imagine that?

You mean like Underworld?

 

[arjomanes]

That's actually a very good point. I should have gone with something more ridiculous, like vampires and lycanthropes in the same setting! Can you imagine that?

Seriously though, do you disallow core classes or races? I originally had homebrew races back when I was playing B/X, but when I converted to 5e it got too complicated to disallow PHB races and classes. So for my new campaign, it was far easier to just make the PHB available for everyone to pick from, even if in my world there are literally only a handful of elves left, and they're mostly remembered as cruel, psychopathic overlords.

 

[The Crimson Binome]

Seriously though, do you disallow core classes or races?

The available races in my last campaign were human, dwarf, halfling, half-orc, dragonborn, and elf. The classes were most of the classes in the PHB, except for druid which didn't make sense for the world, and a lot of the other spellcasters had racial restrictions.

It's not that I actively disallow anything. I just don't actively allow some of the things. No player should ever go into a game expecting that everything in the book is going to be available. Every race and class is an option, which the DM can include or not, as makes sense for the world they're building.

 

[TwoSix]

You mean like Underworld?

Or, just to get really obscure:

Buffy/Angel
World of Darkness
Dresden Files
Warcraft
Tamriel (Elder Scrolls)

Certainly no settings anyone would be interested in.

 

[CapnZapp]

I don't think Jester David is trying to win an argument, so much as point out to someone that "I don't have time" is often an inaccurate thing people say when the truth is that they have placed whatever activity they "don't have time" for at such a low priority compared to other things in their life that they do not realize they do have the time, they just are choosing to use it for something other than that activity.

So when someone says "I want X, but I don't have time to make it myself" it is possible that it would be more accurate were they to say "I want X, but not badly enough that I'd spend my time making it."

And maybe, just maybe, if a person realizes that they do have time but they just don't want a thing enough to spend their time on it, they will be more satisfied about the circumstances of not having that thing.

You are completely ignoring my point. Let me rephrase:

In your eagerness to make us like 3PP now you're going into stalker mode.

Please don't go there. Winning this argument Pointing that out can't be that important.

I invite you to reply now that the minor issue you grabbed hold of is now resolved.

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

Or, just to get really obscure:

Buffy/Angel
World of Darkness
Dresden Files
Warcraft
Tamriel (Elder Scrolls)

Certainly no settings anyone would be interested in.

You forgot a few... like Mystara and Ravenloft. I mean, I'm sure there are more, but that's getting into stuff that basically no one has ever heard of.

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

You are completely ignoring my point.

Did you only have one?

I thought there were two points, so I addressed the one and let the other stand.