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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 9419077" data-attributes="member: 6901101">Using your own map and that's it. How is that less of a homebrew than say, taking the themes, nostalgias, and concepts of Big Trouble in Little China and bending, stretching, altering, and designing to match the movie? I am not sure if you are serious or not, but if you are, there are certainly levels to homebrew. I don't want to police it, and I'm not here to turn anyone's fun into a finger-wagging session. But, like you have done many times in the past, I think a definition of homebrew would be helpful if we are trying to determine the number of DMs that actually homebrew. That was the topic, the large amount of tables that homebrew. It seems relevant to have a definition. Yeah, a map could qualify for some. And borrowing and stealing has always been a thing. But like all things D&D, there are layers. I mean, is the hexblade warlock and warforged cleric min/maxing or just building optimally? There have been 200-page threads about it. I was simply trying to narrow it down. Because if we are going to claim that anyone that makes their own map is homebrewing, then what about a DM that makes their own NPC? How about they make one original monster that's not in the MM - are they a homebrew table? How about the player that brings their own deity for their cleric, yet the DM is only using WotC products, yet to be flexible, they allow the player to port the god into the FR setting - are they a homebrew table?All I am saying is there are layers, and like most things, those layers often produce a different definition. I mean, a baked good could be bread until we flatten it and decrease the fat and call it pita. And its pita until we fluff and ball it up and steam it, then it's called bao.</blockquote>

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