How I write D&D Homebrew

Here's what I've learned from writing homebrew.

[ismafalvar]

"Friends on the other side"

You definitely had Dr. Facilier in mind when making that druid homebrew.

[theman]

Druid: has an ability named “friends on the other side”

Me: *begins bopping to some sweet menacing brass*

[nerdysniper]

No matter what kind of home brew you make, your players (or at least one of them) will find an exploitable loophole that can be abused
-Some random DM probably

[Zedrinbot]

I really like that idea for the 14th level ability. Wish is such an odd spell, almost everyone takes it, but I think emphasizing that it's wish with more strings attached can make that fun, coupled with the long cooldown.

It winds up making it almost like a ridiculously powerful ribbon ability, which seems like an oxymoron.

[jacobvanveit]

“‘Most difficult thing about writing home brew is...” convincing your players of the new rules and telling them the old way wasn’t as good! Lol 😂😢😭

[gingerspice]

i can tell the quarantine is affecting him based on his hair

[calebharding]

One of my players uses hex on his monk warlock multiclass. Last session he dealt an extra 12 d6 with it.

[Blizzic]

"And they'll have a moral quandary about what to do to save a little girl..."

me, thinking of my players: "Will they, though?"

[bigs]

Hex is made to go with eldritch blast or extra attack characters; 1d6 extra necrotic damage on *each* attack. With EB (and Agonizing Blast of course) each beam will be doing 1d10 + Cha force damage + 1d6 necrotic damage, so about 11 damage with a Charisma of 16.

[WhyYouMadBoi]

You can just see Jacob's eyes just die when he had to think up of a homebrew race as "Kitsune" left his lips he was just cringing.

[Neutral_Tired]

The penalty in checks from hex isn’t really meant for combat, imo, it’s a multi-use spell, one of my personal favourite things I ever did as a warlock is hexed the opposing party and penalised charisma shortly before a trial, he had disadvantage on charisma checks for 24 hours, and we got the bad guy imprisoned.
Situations like this, imo, are where hex really shines, the damage is an extra effect for me

[caleb_widogast_fan]

Jacob: if i'm gonna cast this spell in a game, how can I use it to break the game. that's wat balancing is


Jeremy Crawford: fireball is a level 3 spell because I said so

[lazyspade]

Imagine you have a wild magic sorcerer and warlock with hex.

Sorcerer: Okay time to roll for my wild magic to go off
Warlock who used hex on the sorcerer : No need it’s a mat one

[isaaceshleman]

This is just him plugging this homebrew and I very approve.

[ForeverKite]

"I've come to bargin!"
roll for deception
"20!"
Not good enough.
"What do you mean not good... WAAAHH!H!!"
That's how i picture the 14 level Druid Wish going.

[graveyardshift]

Warlock has two invocations that work amazingly well with hex. Maddening Hex lets you spend a bonus action to inflict automatic psychic damage on the target of your hex and any creature of your choice within 5ft of the hexed creature. There's another one I can't remember the name of that lets you teleport as a bonus action to the target of your hex.

[michaelkennedy]

Just read through your home brew, bro it’s epic. I was easily able to see the encounters in me head and was able to “play out” how they would all react.

[mrgamezayfman]

They still need to add Kua Toa as a playable Race..."Ye."

[alexmendoza]

One of my Homebrew spells is a revised True Strike cantrip, basically I changed it's duration from up to 1 min with concentration, to a single turn spell making the next attack that targets the thing effected By True Strike gains advantage to that attack until the end of your next turn. With the number of attacks that gain advantage increasing as you level up, starting from 1 attack at lv 1, to 2 attacks gaining adv. at lv 6, then 3 attacks at lv 11, and finally 4 attacks at lv 17.

It's to actually make it useful for the caster, but it can also be used as a support spell for allies who are having trouble hitting that big bad when you're out of spell slots.

[brycedowner]

That Druid subclass is exactly what I’ve been looking for and sounds incredibly fun