SilverClawShift
2008-03-04, 01:56 PM
As anyone who pokes around in Homebrew forums knows, custom content can be a really mixed bag. Some material is downright mediocre, some of it's downright bad, and some of it's far too specific to be of any use to most gaming tables.
There are diamonds in the rough though. Real quality content that just doesn't have the WOTC stamp prefacing it. Balanced and fun classes, flavorful and deadly monsters, spells that are interesting enough that you wish they were official.
I'm putting the thread here instead of the homebrew forum for a reason, mind you. The goal is to showcase some of those diamonds that people might have stumbled across, quality material worth noting... maybe even printing off and sticking with your books, wether you visit homebrew forums or not.
Ideally, anything shared in this thread will have a brief explanation of why you posted it. That would mean a little blurb about what it is, and why you think it's good enough to use in real gaming.
Also ideally, you won't post anything of your own. That'd be too easy.
Hopefully, this will show off some lesser noticed stuff worth keeping a copy of.
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I guess I'll start
Mythos Vestiges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68834)
These are custom vestiges for the Binder base class from Tome of Magic. They're well made, which makes them worth mentioning based on that alone.
But, aside from being well made, they're also based off of the Lovecraftian Mythos, Cthulhu and the other great old ones specifically, which lends itself well to the inherent insanity vestiges are supposed to show off in the first place.
Fun stuff for any Binder, or campaign featuring pact magic.
There are diamonds in the rough though. Real quality content that just doesn't have the WOTC stamp prefacing it. Balanced and fun classes, flavorful and deadly monsters, spells that are interesting enough that you wish they were official.
I'm putting the thread here instead of the homebrew forum for a reason, mind you. The goal is to showcase some of those diamonds that people might have stumbled across, quality material worth noting... maybe even printing off and sticking with your books, wether you visit homebrew forums or not.
Ideally, anything shared in this thread will have a brief explanation of why you posted it. That would mean a little blurb about what it is, and why you think it's good enough to use in real gaming.
Also ideally, you won't post anything of your own. That'd be too easy.
Hopefully, this will show off some lesser noticed stuff worth keeping a copy of.
********************************
I guess I'll start
Mythos Vestiges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68834)
These are custom vestiges for the Binder base class from Tome of Magic. They're well made, which makes them worth mentioning based on that alone.
But, aside from being well made, they're also based off of the Lovecraftian Mythos, Cthulhu and the other great old ones specifically, which lends itself well to the inherent insanity vestiges are supposed to show off in the first place.
Fun stuff for any Binder, or campaign featuring pact magic.