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While the OGL is, thankfully, remaining intact, the One D&D changes are still being rolled out on a playtesting basis on D&D Beyond. Recently, they released changes to Cleric, Druid, and Paladins, as well as confirming the already simmering changes regarding the use of ‘species’ as opposed to ‘race’ for the playable characters in the game.
There’s a lot of things to look forward to when you create your own world for Dungeons and Dragons. You can make landscapes, entire dimensions, societies, religions, divine beings, terrifying enemies - it’s all at your command. To be honest, though, while every creation I make excites me in some way, the unique element of magical items in D&D is some of the best fun I can have.
A lot of people don’t know what DMPCs actually are, how they differ from NPCs, how they’ve gotten a negative reputation, etc. The two extremes I see are often riddled with generalizations and misrepresentations, and I do think lack of common ground on the topic massively alienates people from a very important aspect of the game: making memorable characters.
Rather than getting the tattoos from particular artists, a player using RAW would instead find a special needle that’s pressed to the skin for the attunement process, then the tattoo would simply appear on the skin. The process of receiving them, in this weaver’s humble opinion, could use more flavor. I believe tattoos should require more than just finding a special needle in a dragon hoard, so I reworked the rules for my version.
It’s a good idea to determine the overall atmosphere of your world. Every story you’ve ever read or watched on TV or played through in a video game has a setting that sets a tone for how much of a struggle it is to live and breathe in that world.
If you’ve been on a community forum or facebook group focused on D&D, there’s a good chance you’ve seen questions regarding how to build a homebrew world. It’s an overwhelming task to some, not often because they’re completely lost on ideas, but because they have no idea how to narrow down the process of taking those ideas and making them a reality. I’m here to help.
