Don't be like me... || D&D Homebrew with Dael Kingsmill
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Welcome to MonarchsFactory! On this channel you can find videos covering DnD, mythology, games, ridiculous fun with friends; all kinds of stuff. Today's video is a look at this massive dungeons and dragons homebrew document I've made.
A lot of links today! Keep in mind, these PDFs sometimes only display properly in Chrome:
Kingsmill Patch Fighter - www.gmbinder.com/share/-ND3q_...
Kingsmill Patch Ranger - www.gmbinder.com/share/-ND3tY...
Kingsmill Patch Wild Magic Origin - www.gmbinder.com/share/-NCmL3...
By popular demand, Kingsmill Patch Draconic Bloodline Origin - www.gmbinder.com/share/-NDCXI...
Beings from Beyond the Horizon - www.dmsguild.com/product/4070...
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - There may be something wrong with me
03:36 - Fighter Base Class
05:38 - Eldritch Knight Sidebar
06:25 - Back to the Fighter
08:12 - Champion Remix
10:37 - Battle Master Replacement
12:29 - This is a me problem
13:01 - Ranger Base Class
14:09 - Some class design philosophy from me to you
15:49 - Back to the Base Class
20:26 - New Magic Ranger Subclass
21:08 - Wild Magic Sorcerer Revisit
23:49 - Maths
25:32 - The maths goes away
27:48 - A visit from your friend
29:23 - Can't stop, won't stop
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Игры
"I might have shame, but I have no regrets!" is now my life motto.
I’m here for Awakened Dael. We are past the point of no return. I’m excited for the world altering actions that come next.
If we're talking L5R, that means a dark god will be released in the process... but it's probably worth it.
Let’s I
Dael: "Don't be like me"
Me: TRY AND STOP ME
Dael: "111-page document"
Me: Never mind.
It takes a certain dedication, to be sure.
This comment made my day!
The book I wrote for my entire campaign setting is only 100 pages. Dael is a personification of dedication.
111 page document AND a "SQUIRREL!" moment with the spider web? Yep. Deep end time.
I wish I could say I didn't already do one of my own XD
Everyone: I’m so excited for OneDND! Aren’t you?
Me: (patiently waiting for Kingsmill Edition)
Same, man, same.
Release the Kingsmill Cut!
Fever dream Dael IS a visionary.
"Scent Blood" would sound so much better if 5e had the bloodied condition by default
Because I am already like her... my planned rework of Ranger includes adding the Bloodied condition and making Ranger features key off that. So like, Colossus Slayer on Hunter would deal more damage to Bloodied targets rather than just targets missing any HP. But they also get abilities to cause the Bloodied condition before half HP.
Also some monsters would now have abilities off Bloodied, like Sahuagin getting advantage. Probably most Recharge abilities would automatically recharge when Bloodied the first time.
RIP to Remarkable Athlete, the most useful subclass feature of all time. Truly a loss that will be mourned for generations. My heart goes out to all the fighters who will no longer be able to jump across slightly wider gaps.
Really though, there's so many cool ideas in here, and the new names for the subclasses that you were showing on the stream were awesome. I've certainly been known to pick options based on how cool their name is
Arcadia and Kingsmill patch, wild day for homebrew
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that's made their own bastardized version of 5e. This is such a good feeling.
I know, right? When she said this was “going off the deep end,” I felt directly called out
Why are you doing that when you could just pick up another tabletop rpg that has what you want?
Show me the other ttrpg that has exactly what I want and we can talk
@@michimatsch5862 I don't heavily modify 5e because I don't like it. I modify it BECAUSE I like it! I know the system, I like the core mechanics! And I love tinkering!
It comes from a desire to create
I love the vibe of Dael reacting to the stuff she wrote in a "fever dream." The face she makes at 11:58 is hilarious.
I love your takes of Class and Subclass development. As a DM, I think you really have your finger on the pulse of what entices players to play certain classes. The "heartbeat" you mention is so on point.
That is so sweet, thank you!
Agreed!! That metaphor is so good
I actually really like the Hunter's Quarry idea. It does give the Ranger a combat edge over their Favored Enemy which makes sense. Even reconciles well with Hunter's Mark (spell). HQ says "I know everything about how [enemy type] fights." in a very Thrawn-like way, while Hunter's Mark can still work for enemies that aren't necessarily "favored", or can even work with favored enemies in making it a more personal "I know everything about how YOU fight." Very cool!
Love it. The add double proficiency to hit for champions is quite risky as a feature... we need to respect that Moses came down from the Mount with tablets that said "Thou shalt not take bounded accuracy in vain."
Your own surprise at what you wrote for the Battle Master's 'Impeccable Form' kills me! lol!
Path of the Berserker is another one of the underbaked muffins in the PHB I've found in need of some love to keep up with bear totem and zealot
Making the exhaustion go away on a short rest would be a good start.
Oh, it's in there! It wasn't flashy enough to include in the video, but it's in there
Big change I've found works is just making it so you ignore the effects of exhaustion while raging. That way you get that push pull of "Do I want to Frenzy?" but you are still effective in combat. (I still like the exhaustion mechanic, it's unique enough it nearly feels like it's from another, grittier game, and it's thematically on point. I've played a Berserker till high teens and it usually wasn't enough to hold me back, but it did mean I had to be a little more strategic.)
Some other changes I made was making the ability you get at 10 a bit better and calling it "Warp Spasm" like the Irish warriors of old. Now you use CON instead of CHA (symbolizing the horrific transformation of your body), you use it as a bonus action, but only while raging and in a Frenzy, and the creature who you target takes psychic damage and is stunned, while other creatures you choose who can see you up to your prof bonus are frightened if they fail. On a success the creature still takes the psychic damage, but isn't stunned, and the other guys aren't frightened. You can use your bonus action to extend the duration of the effect. (This means you're gaining levels of exhaustion, but you now have a small battlefield control feature, and you can do a bit of ranged damage I've gone back and forth on making it a flat number equal to your prof bonus, or a number of d6's equal to your rage damage, neither of tipped the scales wildly but dice are more fun. It sounds OP, but the monk is stunning fools much earlier, and getting its ability to do so back on a short rest.)
I also made the lvl6 feature grant you resistance to psychic damage while raging, because it's a "Mindless Rage". I've thought about giving them another boost by giving them some kind of big blowout move where they can do like a big burst of attacks at 14th level but get stunned for a round or something, just because of the power creep of later archetypes, but frankly I don't think they need it. Mine just tears through enemies with those three attacks, and being able to do a little bit of crowd control and ranged damage is great. With some good items and feat selection a Berserker is a bloody monster.
With OneDnD’s exhaustion dynamic changing so much I think it’s not honestly that bad anymore
My rework is fairly simple.
I think Berserker should keep Exhaustion for going into a Frenzy but it shoulb both be something they can just turn on (rather than waiting until next turn to benefit) but should also replace that one single extra attack with a minor Damage Threshold.
They literally ignore damage from single attacks or effect less than 2x their Proficiency Modifier, taking damage normally for the rest of the round once it's overcome and resetting at the start of their turn.
This would highly encourage Frenzy Rage for the damage threshold, meaning Exhaustion happens often, meaning Reckless Attack would be more encouraged.
High risk and reward.
But removing Exhaustion on a Short Rest could be a higher level ability.
Unhinged Approach to Dungeons and Dragons is so totally my new band name.
Giving everyone maneuvers is something I have done for my game as well, though I went so far as to give it to every single martial (though a heavily limited selection for non fighters)
Makes martials fun! "I move and attack, that's my turn" has become a much more rare sentence.
I will once more highly highly recommend Laserllama's homebrew works for all D&D tables that are interested in some game design reworks in terms of class design. I think he fully fixes so many of the core game's design and, on top of fixing many of the core classes, he has a number of super flavorful, super well-designed classes of his own design that are super fun.
FINALLY! SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS! My current pride and shame is a 48 page (and expanding) weapon overhaul for base dnd, consisting of over 96 weapons which I have lurked over for about 3 months. I cannot separate myself from it for more than a day and I feel crazy.
No shame, the weapons selection in D&D is so pitiful. So many great weapons that would fit, but they just don't include them in official material.
My favorite version of a Ranger rework comes from Heavyarms. It's a pretty major change that might not be for everyone, but it has revolutionized how I think about classes. It removes subclasses completely and just has a collection of features you can put together adhoc to make the sort of ranger you want
@@KBTibbs You're not wrong, so I removed my comment.
@@dane3038 Then I will remove mine as well.
Cheers, mate. :)
@@KBTibbs Cheers!
Without looking at the actual rule, it sounds like it works like PF2e does.
Love the ending comment after you'd left the screen and then come back. Brilliant!
👍👍👍👍😂😂😂😂
The way you said “so I made it good” inspired me
I'm so glad to see someone specifying the issues with Fighter and Ranger I've seen. Combat is designed to be balanced for the whole party and making everything equal because it's the only thing that the D&D rulebook cares about, however because of this, the fighter whose whole deal is combat, is weakened dramatically. Make the fighter fight good. And the ranger is always viewed as too specialised (especially with favoured enemy/favoured terrain) but that's the whole point of the classes, to be specialised, so lean into that
"There's a hugely long cobweb on my bunting" is the best piece of natural poetry I've heard in my life.
I have no idea what a bunting is so I'm gonna make up that the meaning of the line is about having a long gossamer of accumulated detritus holding your life back.
But it's but a spider's web and an old one at that. Be free fly! Become the moth you were always meant to be.
I may miss the mythology videos, but I love how Dael lays out her design philosophy. I also think it is funny that she even points out that it is her design philosophy.
Dont worry dael I think we all go through home brewing madness every once in a while.
"Rocks fall and you die! I am unhinged! We're back baby!" 🤣
Fantastic rant. Very Inspired. It's like those renaissance painters who worked without sleep or food to make one final masterpiece before becoming gravely ill lol.
Hahaha, but I did the becoming gravely ill part first just to be contrary
If I could like your video 50 times I would! From the energy/excitement to the fact that you came up with a ton of cool stuff, Bravo! Thanks Dale!
It's crazy how much you and some other great DnD-tubers have inspired and influenced my creativity! I've also done a very similar re-work of essentially all of 5e, and even had almost identical key-features like battlemaster maneuvers to all fighters and spell-less rangers (even down to having a spell-casting subclass being named "warden" weirdly enough)
I would love to see the full document. Seems like a lot of love was poured into making sure your players have the most fun at the table. As a DM currently working on my homebrew setting for our next game (I am currently running ToA and Scarlett Citadel) This type of video is really helpful as I have been making subclasses to fit my setting
Bless you Dael. Bless you.
I LOVE the expertise on attack rolls for certain weapons! Might be a bit OP, but rogues get the same thing on like 4 skills so seems fair enough to me
skills don’t kill monsters though, which is most of this game. the amount of times you roll a stealth check is nowhere near the amount of times you shoot a bow, and even if you got surprise off of that stealth check, everyone had to roll high enough for that to work.
if your players are like me and mine, expertise in a weapon means GWM and SS officially blow the doors off your combat encounters, as they no longer have their intended downsides.
@@Hazel-xl8in Skills might not kill monsters, but they have the power to completely change or circumvent entire encounters or even campaigns. I've seen expertise in athletics shut down an encounter with a mobile enemy, I've seen stealth used to circumvent countless challenges, I've seen the social skills de-escalate tons of potentially dangerous situations or even turn enemies against each other. I've seen Perception render entire encounters completely pointless. Expertise in weapon attacks just means you do more damage.
I will agree that it makes Great Weapon Master and Sharpshooter way too powerful. If I used this rule I would probably either nerf or disallow those feats.
I had an idea for rangers fovored terrain, what if it worked more like attunement? Like they spend x amount of hour minus their wisdom modifier to get to learn the lay of the land, and in the process making that terrain their favorite until they "attune" to a new terrain. While attuned, tracking in that terrain would be at advantage, and fighting enemies in that terrain allows you to add your proficiency bonus to your weapon damage maybe?
Scent Blood (Scent of Blood? Sense Blood?) is such a baller feature hooue booooiii that's some good design right there. I love so much of what you've done here! Couldn't agree more with your 'heartbeat' design philosophy for classes, and it has generated some awesome ideas. I will certainly use some of these designs when I run my next homebrew campaign.
Finally! I remember seeing your travel video YEARS ago. Since then I have run 6 campaigns, started my own RUclips channel, and been unsuccessful in finding MonarchsFactory again. Till now
Ahhhhh 53 rewrites! just in time for One D&D ;p very much support the ranger doesn't need to be casting spells so an equivalent to Edritch Knight & Arcane Trickster is perfect
Super super well thought out ideas and design augmentations. I have a lot of respect for Dael's Design. I especially liked the Ranger input.
I love the honest reactions you are having in the moment rereading some of these things for the video. Coming back to things with fresh eyes can really highlight how on or off the mark you were when you first made a thing.
I don’t even want to be like me.
Always warms my heart seeing a passionate creator at work! You're awesome! Don't let anyone snuff your fire.
This is incredible Dael, I so want to see the full document!
I'd also love to see the Kingsmill take on a 5e version of the Warlord class.
You are not the only one. I have been putting my "customized" version in a web page for my players for years, and I'm always tweaking things every now and then whenever I find some new cool idea. I think that this One D&D stuff is also making us all DM rethinking everything in our own way. 😁
Awakened Dael fever dreamed all of ONE D&D, I’m calling it now
That was a trip. Thanks for giving us a snapshot mid descent into madness. I like your changes, especially the champion. Always love seeing your videos in my feed. And my grandma likes it too (I only email her when a new video comes out).
Show us more of your subclasses! I loved these. I want hear more!
5:08 "Alter the Unsatisfying" makes a great bad guy ability
11:58 🤣 The best possible reaction you can have to your own homebrew
Dael - Don’t be like me, I rewrote two core classes
Me - *is considering rewriting every core class*
This is wild. I was here many years ago when you put out your first vids about greek mythology. Years later and you are a DnD content creator with wonderful ideas. I like it! :)
This is evocative. It is the opposite of vague. 😂. Very cool!
This is amazing! You're addressing a lot of the same qualms I have with the 5e classes, and I love make sure each class has a "beating heart"! I would be very interested to the whole document and the reworks you've made to all the other classes/subclasses
So glad I'm not the only one that does this stuff! Also these are fantastic!
If I were not a forever DM by choice I would play the hell out of that Wild Magic Sorcerer
Isn't that what NPCs are for?
Thanks for all the work! I can't wait to dig into the document
This was absolutely wonderful. I (also a mess) and about halfway through the same thing in my own game, and this is going to give me a lot to steal.
What you did here.... First is amazing. Second, is what I did for SmashUp. Reworked just about all of the factions. Cut from the same cloth I'd say. I'll see if any of my players are interested in play testing these. :) thank you!
What a video lmao welcome back Dael!
I thought to myself "this can't be so bad" then opened the description. Audibly said "Oh no".
I really love this video.
I have the same "problems" with the way this classes works, but I can't justify putting time in homebrewing a third of the player's book.
Between a full time job, college and my ADHD, is generally easier to me to change to another system that's closer to what I want than trying to redo Wizards job.
On the other hand, is pretty easy to me to steal this for my game.
Thank you Dale :)
Awesome ideas! Thanks for the insight into your brain.
I find the best RP ideas come while I'm half asleep
This is awesome. You had me at Ranger and kept me at Wild Magic Sorcerer.
I'm in love with this. Previously I have always somehow managed to avoid doing it myself, but I have always wanted to and I like this
Dael I am 100% here for this chaos. love the energy. never change :)
Always an awesome day with THE LOVELY DAEL KINGSMILL! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Brilliant work. Three cheers to feverdream homebrewing!
I love your passion and imagination.
I wish I could be a player in one of your campaigns. These sun-classes sound awesome!
Great changes to the Ranger. Characters don't need attack bonuses, in 5E AC's are low but high level enemies are still just sacks of HP.
Saw the preview of this on the livestream, excited for the journey this takes me on
Ooft, strap in, haha
I tried to do the exact same things with the Ranger class years ago. Ended up shelving it to work on other things.
Great video, as usual.
Dael, you have validated that one time I wrote a homebrew thing for players to have mixed heritages of any of 50 Forgotten Realms races and subraces
Hey, I did pretty much the same thing with the Fighter! Turned the Battle master into the base class! I feel inordinately happy to know you had the same thought. :D
I have fallen into similar wells such as downtime activities, mass battle rules, and ... well... just about everything. When you hit book 2 of your homebrew rule tweaks, take a breath and a step back. Or ignore it and carry on! Yay!
111 pages... Dael, you need to be stopped, but by the gods, I'm not going to do it. Thanks for being out here, living it up for homebrewers :-D
I used the Indomitable change from your previous video where it is a legendary resistance. It's so good. It really makes my player's fighter feel impressive and cool, and it's not a problem for me to balance
Expertise in their favoured weapon is brilliant. I was looking for ways to make martial classes keep pace with spell casters in my group. I like a lot of this.
"Don't be like me" --Dael
"BUT i'VE ALwaYS BEeN lIKE ThiS!!" --Me
"I think it's fairly normal for a lot of DMs to have a sort of set list of sourcebooks, or even individual classes and subclasses for their D&D game."
"I started really thinking, wouldn't it be really handy just to have a binder full of the different class and subclasses, like cool art, and short descriptions that try to sell the player something. You could just hand it out; people could flip through it through your session zero. I don't know, that sounded fun to me, BUT..."
...so, I basically ended up with, like, an 111 page document, wherein I tweaked or re-wrote just about every subclass."
(this is me on a NORMAL day. Thankyou for validating my existence.)
Turns out, yeah, you're right: people love that. But, they Sh*t on more than half of the suggestions in the book, and you only get to use about half of what they do like, because not everyone agrees on what's good and what's not. STILL: much better than pitching each and every tweak individually.
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At least you didn't re-write the entire rules of the game, and create a new edition, in which ... well, it doesn't use hit points OR use the familiar spellcasting system. It seems a bit intimidating to people.
Incredible! This is what I’ve been looking for. Also happy I’m not the only one who’s home brewed a ‘Hunter’s Quarry’ for the ranger.
I LOVE the way you’re reimagining the fighter. If you think abt any fun videogame, it immediately makes so much sense that a fighter would gain a 10% crit rate on melee attacks when other classes would have 5%.
I have been slowly burning at an idea for all characters with more martial levels than caster levels to have battlemaster maneuvers, but i may mix that with your fighter system, i would be excited to play a fighter too!
The doubled proficiency going into an option for bonus damage normal accuracy hits, these keep getting better.
The insight check dodge??? Woah!
Ok i have to stop writing and watch
Oh, this is a very "I can do this all...... DAAAAAAAY" rebuild. And I love it.
...partly because it's *very* similar to mine, lolol.
Big change I'd recommend, Dael: Combine Second Wind, Indomitable, and Action Surge into a single move called "Second Wind," with tthree options: Action Surge, Healing Surge, and something like Valiant Surge which is just Indomitable.
I have it working at 2xFartNoise (prof bonus times per day), and you can regain a use of it during a short rest.
Mainly so that the fighter works in the modern version of DnD where nearly every game has defaulted to the 1 to 2 big encounters per day thing, which means that Short Rest cadence is basically defunct.
So, just a few thoughts :
1) This is the *sane*(ish) post fever dream version of Dael?
2) Are these two classes not now the 'Satisfighter' and the 'Rearanger'?
3) This is your IRL version of the 'Testament of the Falling Fire' isn't it? :)
Those puns have class!
Oh this is good. I've really enjoyed this comment. Really, top tier stuff. I feel like I've eaten a perfect canapé, thank you.
@@MonarchsFactory You are most welcome. One does one's humble best. :)
You may be a mess, but you are the mess the we love watching. Don’t ever change.
Perfect timing with the release of the one dnd expert classes.
I do this exact thing and I love the fact that you do.
"I accidentally on purpose redid all the subclasses." THIS is why I love you so much and that big beautiful brain of yours!
This Video made me more exited about 5e than all the "One DND" news.
I like your Fever State Product, and wish i could read the 111 Pages.
Haven't played enough 5e to really track all this, but...really diggin' the energy for all this homebrew!
Im a big fan of your ranger changes yo! Rangers dont need magic to be cool, they are cool enough as just badass hunters. Also, I like the description of giving the class a heartbeat. Im gonna keep that in mind for the future
Thank you, Dael, I’m totally in love with everything you do and so is my grandmother and my daughter. Was very curious about your Draconic origins fix, but can’t get it to open. All your other links work fine and look beautiful, just not that one.
Running a Draconic origins character and am excited to see your homebrew.
Thanks for everything! Keep up the good work.
Thanks for letting me know! Something in the url has activated the strikethrough formatting code, but it doesn't seem to happen in the comments, so while I'm working on a fix you can try this link: www.gmbinder.com/share/-ND6rOZmKj7oL_-M7IAL
I feel like we've got similar approaches to homebrew: it's okay--in fact it's encouraged--to make your players feel badass fulfilling their fantasies.
Dael, this is fucking great. Great direction. Even though you could have very well ditched BM, love love love what you did with it. Love the Ranger, you opened my eyes to just accepting a specialized class. And holy shit I now wanna play a WM Sorcerer.
If you don't drop the whole thing online somewhere, can this become a series of you explaining all your rewrites? I've never wanted to play a ranger until now and this new wild magic origin has finally scratched my itch for a proper Scarlet Witch wild magic sorcerer.
Oh wow, this should be canon, I hope Wizards are watching :)
Great video.
I'm in complete agreement about the ranger's lack lustre favoured enemy in 5e.
"I MIGHT HAVE SHAME, BUT I HAVE NO REGRETS!" What a badass line
Amazing changes to the fighter and the ranger, I hope WotC sees this and considers giving all fighters maneuvers.
SHE'S BACK
Thank you So so much for these PDFs. You saved me so much time and your efforts look awesome!
The only thing I'd change about the champion favoured weapon would be training would happen during downtime.
The wild mage bend reality, I do think the reset is too hand wavy, I could see using the spend HD mechanic. During a rest, reduce the bend reality total by 1 for each HD spent.
Wonderful; don't stop!
Very cool Ranger rewrite! A friend I'm DMing for is playing a TCE revised Ranger, and I'm constantly stretching my brain to find out how to make every player have something cool and special to do every session, like he's stretching his brain to remember which attacks get Dreadful Strike and/or Favored Foe x.x