D&D 5E Favourite Homebrew Classes

[Greg K]

I have seen any of these in play (and, therefore, cannot comment on balance), but from a read through (I'll add links later)

Light Armor Fighter variant and its Brawler, Corsair, Duelist, Gallant, Kensei, Musketeer, Swashbuckler martial archetypes (Khaalis in the dowload section)
Martial Ranger (AgenderArcee)
Shaman (Michael Wolf)
Scholar (Kyle Grant)
Witch (Walrock Homebrew')

College of Folklore (Forgot My Dice website)
College of Sea-Singers (Rich Howard at Tribality Website)
Commander Martial Archetype ( David "Jester" Gibson 5MWD)
Exorcism Domain (Brandes Stoddard) the final version is published in Mysteries of the Gods (Tribality)
Spirit Domain (Brandess Stoddard): the final version is published in Mysteries of the Gods (Tribality)
Brawler, Corsair, Fencer, Hospitaler Martial Archetypes (Middle Finger of Vecna (Mage Hand Press website))
Acrobat Roguish Achetype (Middle Finger of Vecna (Mage Hand Press website))
Investigator Roguish Archetype (Brandes Stoddard)
Arcane Origin (AgenderArcee)
Fey Blood Sorceror Origin ( David "Jester" Gibson 5MWD website (which is down))
Tidal Sorcery Origin Brandes Stoddard): the final version is published in Three Sorcerous Arts (Tribality)
Winter-Kin Sorcerous Origin (Brandes Stoddard): the final version is published in Three Sorcerous Arts (Tribality)

I also agree that KibblesTasty, Laser Llama, and Mage Hand Press (including their Middle Finger of Vecna website) are worth looking at

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Haven't delved too much into others' stuff so uh...

Is it cheating to say my own? I'm plinking away at a homebrew Summoner, and I have made a homebrew Silver Pyromancer PrC that I still need to playtest (but no one has been interested in letting me do so.)

The baseline skeleton of the Summoner is done and I have the theme for the class overall and the three subclasses (the Sign of the Protean, the Sign of the Muses, and the Sign of the Chimaera) and the three sub-flavors (Elemental, Celestial, and Umbral.) Am mostly finished with the spell list (slightly longer than the default Warlock list, much shorter than the default Sorcerer list.) Still need to work on the statblock for the summoned creature, which I call a "Visitant," a lovely word and perfect for the concept. Sign of the Protean is mostly finished.

 

[Longspeak]

Laser Llama: GM Binder

I love a lot of stuff on GM Binder, but I can't use any of it. I've never figured out why, but when I print or print to PDF, it always becomes an unusable mess. Word run off the page, I lose information...

But reading on the site, there's a lot of creativity in our extended community.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

I love a lost of stuff on GM Binder, but I can't use any of it. I've never figured out why, but when I print or print to PDF, it always becomes an unusable mess. Word run off the page, I lose information...

But reading on the site, there's a lot of creativity in our extended community.

It may be a browser issue. I know I've had to be really really careful with how I do my stuff on NaturalCrit because the markup they use there may look 100% fine in one browser and look like absolute garbage in another.

 

[Longspeak]

It may be a browser issue. I know I've had to be really really careful with how I do my stuff on NaturalCrit because the markup they use there may look 100% fine in one browser and look like absolute garbage in another.

I will check that out. It's worth some tinkering if I can get usable copies of some of these.

ETA: It works. Issues in Firefox, but on Chrome-based Vivaldi it comes out fine... although I'd stopped using Vivaldi because of a weird quirk where printing to PDF somehow makes the file size ridiculous. (Like a text log from a single session on Roll20, <100 Kb on Firefox, >6000 kb on Vivaldi?) This seems to be larger than I'd expect for the size, but not to that degree.

 

[Rogerd1]

You can get OCR loss when you print to pdf, but can be resolved if you used a free online pdf to force ocr.

 

[tiny_kangaroo]

I know this thread is a bit old, but I'm a homebrew addict and I want to weigh in. Rain-Junkie has some absolutely marvelous works, like the Titan or Exemplar, and the images they choose and where its placed within the homebrew brings me so much joy. I love me a cohesive art direction!

I will also emphatically vouch for KibblesTasty, LaserLlama, and Tandra_Boy, as they have some of my favorite brews ever.

 

[cbwjm]

I know this thread is a bit old, but I'm a homebrew addict and I want to weigh in. Rain-Junkie has some absolutely marvelous works, like the Titan or Exemplar, and the images they choose and where its placed within the homebrew brings me so much joy. I love me a cohesive art direction!

I will also emphatically vouch for KibblesTasty, LaserLlama, and Tandra_Boy, as they have some of my favorite brews ever.

Definitely some cool stuff by rain junkie, having a quick look through some of it now.

 

[RealAlHazred]

As people following the Subclass Survivor threads will attest, I am a homebrew junkie. There are tons of really, really flavorful ideas out there. I particularly like Kibblestasty, Mage Hand Press, Walrock Homebrew, VampireBagel_, and Brandes Stoddard's subclasses. One-off ideas I've really enjoyed would include:

• Barbarian: revlid & OmicronMechanix, Path of the Morrigan
• Bard: Walrock Homebrew, Bardic College: College of Dirges [Second Draft]
• Cleric: VampireBagel_, Divine Domain Destruction (based on Mike Mearls)
• Druid: VampireBagel_, Xanathar's Guide to Somethings Revised Circle of Dreams
• Fighter: Steve Fidler, Variant Fighter (modifies whole class)
• Monk: MisterMittens64, Bare Bones Monk Fixes (modifies whole class)
• Monk: IrishBandit, Way of the Four Elements Redux
• Monk: Brandes Stoddard, D&D 5e: Way of the Wild Monastic Tradition and D&D 5e: Expanded Way of the Wild Features
• Monk: Brandes Stoddard, The Way of the Silver Chain, Revised (very video-gamey)
• Paladin: Brandes Stoddard, Oath of Hospitality Paladin (my home game is steeped in faeries, and this class really messes up their shenanigans!)
• Ranger: zipperondisney, CONSENSUS RANGER (modifies whole class)
• Ranger: Brandes Stoddard, D&D 5e: Lantern-Bearer Ranger Archetype and By Flame, Storm, and Thorn
• Rogue: Caitlin Bradbury, Roguish Archetype: The Clover
• Rogue: TheForsakenEvil, The Occult Agent (very video-gamey)
• Sorcerer: SwordMeow, Sorcerer Tweaked (modifies whole class)
• Sorcerer: Brandes Stoddard, The Royal Sorcerer, Revised (I combine this with the Imperial Bloodline from the above document)
• Sorcerer: SubjectiveSloth, Sorcerous Origin: Fey-Touched
• I don't have warlocks in my home campaign (I replaced them with Walrock Homebrew's Witch) so I haven't really looked into them, but there are a few homebrews that caught my eye.
• Warlock Pacts: Not really whole subclasses, but I like saequis' Pact of the Deck Mk IV, a Cardcasting Warlock Pact; SitkaPad's Warlock Pact Boon - Coin; Ascended_Bebop's Pact of the Claw; Rex_Gunn's Pact of the Cauldron, a new witchy pact boon!; ItsADnDMonsterNow's Warlock Pact: Pact of Blood; PeanutJaygee's Pact of the Talisman (which came out before the official one and is IMO more flavorful); and, FrostBladestorm's Pact of the Key v1.3 with the modification suggested in billFoldDog's comment.
• Warlock: Eiti3, Otherworldy Patron: The Friends
• Warlock: Brandes Stoddard, D&D 5e: Three New Spells, One New Pact, One New Patron (includes his Malediction Pact which isn't too flavorful, but is mechanically interesting)
• Warlock: samhaine, D&D 5e Warlock Patron: The Elder Blood
• Warlock: samhaine, D&D 5e Warlock Patron: The Wyrm
• Wizard: Brandes Stoddard, D&D 5e: Apostate and Renegade Wizards
• Wizard: Brandes Stoddard, Necromancer Rework (replaces subclass)

I won't say that they all belong in the same campaign, but I really like a lot of the flavor here. If you're running for people who love video games, for instance, the Silver Chain Monk and Occult Agent Rogue above give players a strong feel of being a character from Castlevania (the Monk) or Dishonoured (the Rogue). And the Morrigan Barbarian and Friends Patron Warlock are chef's kiss.

 

[Dndaddict!]

Really? This is the best ya'll can do? Not ONE of them made by yourself! How about this for a change:

• Artificer - Biomechanic, High magic tweaker, Spelljammer pilot, wayfinder, demonologist, war engineer.
• Barbarian - Path of the Spellax, Path of the dragon, path of pain, path of the demon, path of the titan, path of the fractured, path of blood, path of instinct, path of the bladestorm, path of mutation, path of the forever rage, path of the bloodline, path of the infernal, path of nightmares, path of the tides heart.
• Bard - College of the Celestials, College of Fools, cCollege of the Elements, College of Opera, College of Mime, College of Chance, College of Culinary, College of the Killing Joke, College of Horror, College of Adventurers, College of Requiems.
• Blood hunter - Order of lichdom, order of chaos, order of the dark elements, order of hematology, order of sangromancy, order of creation, order of the runescarred, order of mystery.
• +Cardmaster - Gambler, magician, tarot deck.
• ++Cattleman - Bear rider, Horse rider, many mounted, sea rider.
• +Chronomancer - Clock warrior, time weaver, chronology manipulator, mage of chrono.
• Cleric - Love domain, beast domain, hells domain, void domain, pestilence domain, time domain, eldritch domain, false domain, judgment domain, martyr domain.
• ++Combination warrior - Attack combination, Defense combination, spells combination.
• +Death Knight - Pestilence, War, Famine, Death.
• +Doctor - Plague doctorate, war doctorate, magic doctorate, therapy doctorate.
• Druid - Circle of the mimic, circle of sacrifice, circle of the ancients, circle of the deep, circle of the desert, circle of blood, circle of mutation, circle of ecoflora, circle of growth, circle of the wildfire, circle of roots.
• ++Elementalist - Power of the skies, power of the seas, power of the lands, power of the hells, power of the storms, power of the glacier, power of bloodborne, power of the trees.
• Fighter - Ascended blade, hellblade, wrestler, green knight, fae warrior, templar, Field medic, Living crucible, Town guard, Astral crusader, windguard, onyx knight, techblade, spirit sworn, cosmic knight.
• ++Hell hunter - hunt on demons, hunt on devils, hunt on lords.
• Monk - way of music, way of the weaponed, way of the undead, way of wrestling, way of the leaden crown, way of pride, way of the iron mountain, way of the bloody palm, way of the outcast, way of the sword saint, way of the heavens, way of the viper.
• +Necromancer - Bonecraft, soulcraft, bloodcraft.
• ++Occultist - Rune of the devil, Rune of the undead, Rune of the celestial, Rune of the dragon, Rune of the fae.
• +Odic - tattoo of the eldritch, tattoo of the Thayan, Tattoo of the Chromatic, tattoo of the yin Yang.
• Paladin - Oath of mobility, oath of sacrifice, oath of the reaper, oath of pestilence, oath of zeal, oath of silence, oath of sanity.
• +Painter - Sculptor, sky sketcher, musical arts.
• ++Psion - telekinetic, shifter, stormcaller, soul master, dreamwalker.
• ++Pugilist - Trained of fists, Trained of legs, Trained of steel.
• Ranger - Faeman, spell farmer, bounty hunter, spelunker, sheriff, grim warden, green reaper, vermin lord, kinetic arrow, mirrormask, mimic knight, specialist, mind hunter, swamp warden, abyssal roamer, gravekeeper, .bird born, dragon apprentice.
• Rogue - Desperado, Mind robber, quickshot, shiny seeker, stage magician, shadow dancer, lumineer, demolitionist, highway rider, misfortune bringer, Ghosteir, divine hand, gadgeteer.
• +Runesmith - Tablet of lore, tablet of good, tablet of evil.
• +Savant - Beast specialty, Weapon specialty, Lore specialty.
• ++Shaman - study of bone, study of flesh, study of blood, study of rituals.
• +Sociopath - Kleptomaniac, Pyromaniac, dipsomaniac.
• Sorcerer - Spellforged, beastly bloodline, elder mimic descendant, fae origin, fiendish father, sea soul, metallic soul, haunted, wretched bloodline, aberrant parents, the nimbus king, the stoneheart.
• +Spellblade - Infusion of abjuration, infusion of conjuration, infusion of divination, infusion of enchantment, infusion of evocation, infusion of illusion, infusion of necromancy, infusion of transmutation. (GOD!)
• +Spirit caller - Heart of the beast, heart of the aberration, heart of the monstrosity, etc.
• +Tempest - District of lightning, district of thunder, district of light, district of darkness.
• +Touched - Beholder, Dragon, Mind flayer, Lycanthrope, Hellspawn, Lich, Vampire.
• ++Tribesman - Felentus (Music), Sharno (Spells) Selentum (Religion), Foloni (Attack)
• ++Unexpected magician - Chef, Merchant, Student, accident.
• ++Warden - Planes guardian, Stronghold guardian, chainbreaker.
• +Warlord - Crest of the eagle, crest of the shark, crest of the lion, crest of the staff, crest of the sun and moon, crest of the forge.
• Warlock - Pact of the titan, pact of the speakers, pact of the dragon, pact of the peacekeeper, pact of the dearly departed, pact of the unformed, pact of the first vampire, pact of the parasite, pact of the ooze, pact of the overseer, pact of the tempest, pact of the knowledge keeper.
• +Witch - Curse of alchemy, curse of necromancy, curse of song.
• Wizard - School of artifice, school of nature, school of the celestial, school of healing, school of metallurgy, school of sangromancy, school of spellshifting, school of chronology, school of graviturgy, school of xenomancy, school of geomancy, school of primalmancy, school of school of forgotten magic, School of scientology, school of innovation, geometer.
• +Wuxia master - Art of teaching, Art of zen, Art of nature.

And this isn't all! How about races?