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All of Siosilvar's homebrew works are free to use for noncommercial purposes, as long as you include this notice.
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It is the spirit of the game, not the letter of the rules, which is important. Never hold to the letter written, nor allows some barracks room lawyer to force quotations from the rule book upon you, if it goes against the obvious intent of the game. As you hew the line with respect to conformity to major systems and uniformity of play in general, also be certain the game is mastered by you and not by your players. Within the broad parameters given in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons volumes, you are creator and final arbiter. By ordering things as they should be, the game as a whole first, your campaign next, and your participants thereafter, you will be playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as it was meant to be. May you find as much pleasure in doing so as the rest of us do!
My Homebrewed Material Prestige Classes (PrCs) Duelist PrC [3.5] - An attempt to make an outdated Prestige Class usable without using Tome of Battle mechanics. Also includes the Sniper's Precision feat for ranged characters with precision damage. Lightning Blade [3.5] - Because the first strike is often the last. Also includes the first staggered PrC.
Always be open to the suggestions of others. That doesn't mean you have to implement them, but you should at least take them into consideration.
Always, always, always use a spelling checker and make sure your sentences make sense! If someone who's reading your homebrew rolls poorly on their Decipher Script, they may think the ability does something completely different from your intent. If you don't have access to a spellchecker or English isn't one of your strong points, just try your hardest, even if it means proofreading three or four times before you post homebrew.
Fluff isn't strictly necessary, but it's difficult to suggest changes or even give a critique of what's there without it. Balance follows intent just as form follows function.
In addition to the above warning about spelling and grammar, watch your commas. A simple comma splice can completely change the meaning of a statement.
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Here are some of my creations. [I just want to tell you all that I had a total BEAR of a time trying to get these links to look even half proper as I've never linked to my own stuff before!]
Maneuvers&Disciplines Piercing Point A ToB discipline for spear using warblades. Falling Mountain The Lightning Bruiser discipline (includes an NPC class).
Necroclock Devices: A technology system combining necromancy and clockwork. Largely uses grafts.
Base Classes Fragmented (on hold): Uses multiple personalities to develop separate skills. Necrocore (on hold): Controls dead matter with ease (can't be taken first level) Wisp Fire Guide: A guiding light to the afterlife. Ozodrin (In progress): Become an eldritch horror with large amounts of variation. Twilight Caster: Take control of the forces from both the Plane of Shadows and the Ethereal Plane depending on the time of day. (contest) Ethercaster: Use energy from the Ethereal Plane to defeat your foes (also includes twilight caster and Ethereal Magic). Sponge: Share pain with those around you for good or ill. (contest)
Prestige Classes Believer of the Void (contest): Attempt to disbelieve reality... successfully Ghost Blade (contest): Become incorpreal to evade your opponent. Wisp fire guide: Murderous trickster? No, I preffer to think of myself as a guiding light... to the next life. Task Mage: Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire. Ozodrin PRCs: A thread where various ozodrin PRCs can be found or are linked to.
Monster Classes Gilim-á-úr-šár (contest): A ball of tentacles and nothing else.
Races Ifiol: Fatal damage only makes them feel better. Licids: Based on the Magic the Gathering creatures of the same name. Ghūl: Based on the traditional creature, can turn into a hyena or people its eaten. Blooded - a race that focuses on bloodlines.
Monsters Trillnath (current): A hive type creature that adapts to be resistant to damage types, while you fight them. Soul Specter (on hold): A type of spirit with unique abilities. Spirit Gate (contest): A gate to the ethereal plane made of spirits that seeks to gain more souls to expand itself. Shiny (contest): A small creature that pretends to be a useless but irresistibly shiny object so others will pick it up.
Weapons Guillotine: A weapon inspired by the guillotine.
World Building Projects Sun Behind Night (In progress): An inside out world.
My Homebrew
[creature]Shiny: Monster Competition XXXVI entry.
[class]Wisp fire guide: Follow me. I have such sights to show you.
[class]Ozodrin: A class to play as an eldritch horror. other hombrew
Races Zakken: A jungle-dwelling, brutish, psionic race
Base Classes Barbarian: A maneuver-using barbarian Cerebral Stalker: A warrior who specializes in using his mental faculties to affect physical combat Shifter: Gains an alterable alternate form that exists in the player's imagination, gains abilities based on the three physical ability scores
Prestige Classes Blade Dancer: A wu jen specialized in metal magic and battle Blood Warrior: Warriors with a supernatural control of blood Disciple of the Nine: Demonic warriors who crusade for justice and good Evangelist of Urogon: Righteous warriors who convert whoever they can by whatever means necessary (mind controlling) Hellfire Blade: Powerful warriors who can control the powerful forces of hellfire Holy Vindicator: A holy warrior who utilizes sneak attacks and turn undead to destroy evil Malefic Sentinel: A hexblade-turned-paladin who fights for justice and protects his allies Pillow Warrior: Uses pillows as its main weapon (C.U.T.E.) Protector: A warrior who specializes in defending his allies Psychic Slayer: A psychic assassin who uses blades of pure psionic energy Reality Master: The master of reality, gains abilities that warp the world around them Shaman: A nature-oriented, spiritually based caster based around the ability to trance Witch: A flying warrior who utilizes both her bow and spiritual companion to fight
Feats Greater Hellfire Power: Increases the hellfire blade's daily allotment of hellfire power Enlarge Hellfire: Doubles the range of hellfire abilities Extend Infusion: Allows the hellfire blade to increase the duration of his hellfire infusion Maximize Hellfire: Allows a hellfire blade to maximize all damage dice for his hellfire burst or hellfire blast Psionic Attack: Use power points to increase attack/damage from attacks Psionic Attack, Improved: Increased version of Psionic Attack, allows more power points to be spent Psionic Demolish: Doubles the damage bonus per power point of psionic attack Quicken Hellfire: The hellfire blade can manifest his hellfire abilities as a swift action Know Your Soul: Increases mental resilience and allows you to commune with your soul Soul Manifestation: Physically manifests your soul in the form of a dæmon, granting the Linked Soul template (below) Widen Hellfire: The area of effect of the hellfire blade's hellfire abilities are doubled
Items Assassin's Crossbow: Crossbow that can use True Strike once per day Blood Worm Acid: A more powerful acid Blood Worm Poison: Infect the target with blood worms Hellforged Steel: Steel forged in the fiery depths of hell, resilient and fire resistant The Pillow: The mighty weapon of the Pillow Warrior (C.U.T.E.) Water Cannon: A powerful anti-ship weapon
Spells Alta's Gift: Psionic, summons a large blast of lava Expunge Blood Worm: Remove blood worms from the body in an incredibly destructive manner Fiery Ray: Shoots a single ray of fire at the target Fiery Blast: Fire blast centered on the caster The Funniest Joke in the World: This joke kills Implant Blood Worm: Infects the target with blood worms Quick Jump: A quick teleport to a close location, swift action Split: A quick teleport that summons a single mirror image to distract your opponent Upgraded Cantrips: Upgraded versions of cantrips, improved to level 1 spells
Monsters Blood Ooze: An ooze made of blood Blood Worm: Infects the target and takes over their body, consuming them from inside-out Blood Worm, Elder: A massive swarm of blood worms Blood Worm, Greater: This creature is spawned when blood worms are released from the victim and move about as a swarm Busker: A street performer who enthralls its crowd and saps their life Cloth Golem: A golem constructed of cloth and clothing Forsaken Blade: An abandoned samurai sword that continues to preserve justice even if its former master does not Gallivespian: Tiny humanoids with dragonfly mounts and poisonous spurs Invisible Giant: An almost completely translucent giant Llawfeddyg: An aberrant surgeon bent on achieving ultimate anatomical knowledge through whatever means necessary Mind Leech: A small parasite that enters the body and controls the mind Miniature Golems: Small golems for the creative adept Mist Rat: Rats made of mist, can assume a gaseous form Morco: Large birds with limited flight capabilities, usually used as mounts by the Zakken Panserbjørn: Armor-wearing, intelligent polar bears Reality Shifter: A frightening creature that constantly alters the world around it Spirit of the Woods: A giant, good, undead tree that protects forests The Tainted Ones: Demons who travel the world exposing it to their taint Tome of the Worlds: A book that contains information on all of reality
Templates Infested One: A creature infested completely by blood worms, who have taken control of the body Linked Soul: A humanoid whose soul is physically manifested as a shapeshifting animal Trepanned Creature: A creature who has had a hole drilled through their skull in order to grant the divine access to their mind
Material for the His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman Gallivespian: Tiny humanoids with dragonfly mounts and poisonous spurs Linked Soul: A humanoid whose soul is physically manifested as a shapeshifting animal Panserbjørn: Armor-wearing, intelligent polar bears Shaman: A nature-oriented, spiritually based caster based around the ability to trance Trepanned Creature: A creature who has had a hole drilled through their skull in order to grant the divine access to their mind Witch: A flying warrior who utilizes both her bow and spiritual companion fight
Most recent projects are in bold.
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a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee nor understand.
And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one.
He cannot win over himself.'"
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Dragonmarks as Bloodlines (Replacing/supplementing dragonmark feats with the Bloodline rules from Unearthed Arcana)
A Note:
I am willing and often able to evaluate and critique homebrew material. I don't have as much time as I used to, so I might not be able to, but it certainly doesn't hurt to ask.
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I've decided to recreate my Homebrewer's Extended Signature by separating out and posting only the creations I believe are my best, just a small portion of the total.
Races/Templates Humarin Shells and Bloodborn [TO BE REPOSTED WITH MORE! The Blackborn, better description of the ritual, physical description, and cultural background!]
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Coplantor's Official Second-In-Command 2.0. It's alot like being Will Riker, but still with less alien women and also pirates.
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"Epic Abjurer" avatar by the astounding Fayt!
"The-Fantastic-Protectimaton-MK-VIII" avatar by the wondrous KingGolem!
"You-Know-You-Want-It" Paladin MD avatar by the mighty thelizard!
"Eat-Steel-Vile-Flu" Paladin MD avatar by the sexier-than-I Dr. Bath!
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Hokay, time for me to join the fray and add in some of my stuff here... All of my stuff are for D&D 3.5. I don't play 4ed enough to try my hand at it.
Base Classes The Tattooed Monk: Re-envisioned as a base class. Effectively completed, as no more updates shall be made
Prestige Classes Cybernetic Gunner: PrC Contest X entry. Megaman X reincarnate? Beware the walls of text! Dusk Adept: A Duskblade/Sorcerer PrC. Sin Knight: PrC Contest XI entry. It's so full of sin it's beautiful Shifter Exemplar: Rawr, I transform and claw (or bite, or impale) thee! Bring on the shifter feats, you know you want 'em.
Feats New Heritage Feats: For those of you who like ice cream flavours other than Vanilla.
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Credit for Avvytar to drKarling (based on original artwork by Squaff, in turn based on Spectre, a character of my creation)
And so it came to pass that the universe ended not with fire or darkness, but in chocolate chip deliciousness and the wailing of the dieticians.
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When you're flopping about uncertainly like a Magikarp that just got sent in against a level 60 Venusaur, just go back to the basics.
My (so far rather insignificant) collection of homebrew:
Base Classes Templar - Zealous champion of his god. Time Warrior - Warrior harnessing the power of time. Cat Warrior - Warrior emulating the perfect animal.
Prestige Classes Deathlord - Necromancer who's friends with the undead. Hammer Brother - Hammer-specialized warrior. Temporal Assassin - Stealthy murderer wielding temporal power (Time Warrior/Rogue PrC).
Not intending to necro, but it seem that now I am starting to need this as well.
Will probably add alot with time.
My Homebrew:
Races/Template Soulless From the verge of death to immortality. Lycnos The truth behind lycanthropy. Raptember Predatorial outsider (fae) with hypnotic stare Nezumi They will make you say "Rats!"
Base Classes Soldier Defensive Fighting Reveler Knowledge is power. Witchblade Combine sword and sorcery. Chosen Hand of god, melee style. Netherhost share your body with an unimaginable beast from beyond.
It's probably better if everyone posted all their homebrew in here. It's one big database, and the sherrif has already acknowledged its existence and safeguarded it from deletion.
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