DnD Homebrew

616 readers

1 users here now

A community to share and workshop your DnD homebrew. Feats, classes, subclasses, races, items, pretty much everything is welcome.

/c/DnD Network Communities

Rules (Subject to Change)

Be a Decent Human Being
No non-DnD content (any DnD system is fine)
Credit all content that you did not create (art, etc.)
No Piracy, this includes links to torrent sites, hosted content, streaming content, etc. Please see this post for details
Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.
No NSFW content
Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

Posting Homebrew

If possible, provide a screenshot with your post
Provide a link to a PDF, Homebrewery, etc.
Specify in the text whether you're looking for feedback and what kind
If you ask for feedback, be prepared for criticism. Your first brews might not be as good as you think they are. Brewing is a skill that improves with practice, and you probably won't master it on your first try. That's okay! Try not to take it personally and use it to improve your brewing skills.

Offering Feedback

Be constructive. "This is bad and you should feel bad" is not constructive. "You have an interesting idea, but it seems unfinished" is constructive.
If you're critiquing something, offer suggestions or a general direction when possible.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

owenfromcanada

Brunbrun6766

Consort's Playable Dragons (yiffit.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/dndhomebrew

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

By me~

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eFc2qQTY9P3ym9fyMNYHC_mIogpt9kNrOdm5n_yj1cs/edit#heading=h.6xjrgcowqrbb

This is a large homebrew that has the primary goal of allowing you to play as actual true dragons in a DnD setting without being unfairly overpowered.

To accomplish this...

A) I've included some guidance on how to better balance high level content

B) I've designed eight dragon-only classes, which are equivalent in power to the existing bard and wizard classes.

C) I've re-introduced a simple mechanic that allows martial characters to function much more effectively in combat; Flat Damage Reduction.

D) I've playtested it and refined it constantly for months

Also it contains a few new feats and spells that are suitable for use by humanoid characters! Complete with my personal guarantee that all of this stuff is at least as well-balanced as basic 5th edition DnD.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Aielman15 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's not necessarily your fault because it's the way it works in 5e, but I find the mounting rules are a bit janky: the dragon and the rider get to roll separate initiative, but match their initiative the moment the rider gets on top of the dragon, with some edge cases when the two get separated or the dragon gets mounted mid battle.

I propose a far more elegant fix: the two roll their own initiative and act during their turn, as usual; while mounted, the rider moves using the dragon's speed, but during the second turn (either the dragon's or the rider's, depending on who went first in initiative order), the players must subtract from the dragon's speed the movement it did during the previous turn (so, for example, if the rider moves 20 feet forward using the dragon's speed; when the dragon's turn comes, it can move 20 feet less than its total walking speed, because it has already moved 20 feet this round).

This way, you only need to keep track of the movement; turn order remains unchanged. I know it's a divisive opinion, because some players may find it easier to move the initiative rather than writing down how many feet the dragon walked in a given round; but it could be worth having it as an optional rule. It's how I run it in my games, and I find it a lot more elegant than having the mount's turn swing up and down in initiative count whenever someone gets on top of it.