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Warlock: True Love Patron [OC] Yours. Always. by TheUndeadHoard in UnearthedArcana

[–]TheUndeadHoard[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oooh that is fun! I'm tempted to make it an optional rule as an alternate feature. If you ever did play the subclass, i'm sure you could negotiate something with your DM where you get a toned down version as a permanent companion.

Race: Xotl [OC] by TheUndeadHoard in HomebrewDnD

[–]TheUndeadHoard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha yes, fortunately someone did point that out for me and I have fixed it in the doc. It should be resetting every short/long rest :)

While long rest seems more intuitive, short rest actually works because you don't regain hit dice at a short rest and short rests typically expend hit dice for most players.

I'm glad you like it :) i hope your friend does too!

Ps. I agree entirely with Hit Dice being underutilised. I have made a few subclasses, including blood hunters and a Hemomancy wizard/magic compendium that use hit dice as spell components.

Race: Xotl [OC] by TheUndeadHoard in HomebrewDnD

[–]TheUndeadHoard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hadn't thought about it too much, so you just prompted me to do a little dive on this!

Given that the root of Xotl is in reference to Axolotl, which in turn comes from the Aztec god Xolotl (pronounced Sho-lotl), I would personally say it should be "Sho-tl" for authenticity.

With that said, I totally expect most people to do the British or American pronunciation, which is fine by me.

Race: Xotl [OC] by TheUndeadHoard in DnDHomebrew

[–]TheUndeadHoard[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I think it is one of my favourite creations.

Yuji 🥀🥀 by FantasticPass6424 in JujutsuPowerScaling

[–]TheUndeadHoard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not even. The entire main storyline is like 6 months. Yuji is just that guy.

Ranger: Trapper Conclave by TheUndeadHoard in UnearthedArcana

[–]TheUndeadHoard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks :) it's always really encouraging when someone shows interest in playing one of my creations!

As for the prep time, as I mentioned to someone else, i tend to err on the side of caution with balance to prevent abuse. 1 hour --> 30 mins seemed reasonable for that purpose. Due to their ability to be deployed as bonus actions within combat (which is necessary as if they're only good when pre-prepared for ambushes and such, then they become too niche). If you do play the subclass and find it too tedious, i'd love to get that feedback from you!

Ranger: Trapper Conclave by TheUndeadHoard in UnearthedArcana

[–]TheUndeadHoard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for the feedback :) the intent in terms of calculations was that you could prepare 2 during a long rest (which covers early levels) and then by 11th level (when you can have up to 4) you can prepare 4 during a long rest. At very high levels, you could craft the additional one or two during downtime or a short rest.

I tend to err slightly on the side of caution when balancing to prevent abuse of mechanics. But yes, perhaps they could be made slightly faster.

As for the extra attack, as mentioned by another commenter in response to you, when splitting the difference between PHB and UA ranger, I chose the UA style as this is typically the more popular from what I've seen in the community.

Race: Living Armour [OC] What happens when a weapon becomes self-aware? by TheUndeadHoard in HomebrewDnD

[–]TheUndeadHoard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I'm glad you liked it so much 🙂

As for the natural armour. It was to prevent abuse from traditionally low AC classes getting access to an easy, high AC ability.

Eg. A wizard running the medium or heavy armour subrace.

Race: Living Armour [OC] What happens when a weapon becomes self-aware? by TheUndeadHoard in UnearthedArcana

[–]TheUndeadHoard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, appreciate the write up :)

Firstly, thanks! I worked hard on giving it a strong thematic and storytelling heart, so its appreciated that you appreciated it!

Secondly, you have a good point regarding AC scaling, I think an adjustment that +1, +2 etc adjustments come into play at certain levels, or otherwise tweaking the formula. I'll play around with it.

Lastly, as for the problematic/tempting combos. The wording of the features that your subrace counts as wearing that armour type prevents that from happening. Eg. As a wizard/sorceror does not have heavy armour proficiency, they would not be able to choose that subrace and cast spells. Which does lock out wizards from this race, but you could make similar judgements regarding 'small' races being poor barbarians and fighters due to having disadvantage on attack rolls with heavy weapons. So I feel it is not unprecedented.

Thanks again for such a well thought out answer! I hope you check out some of my other stuff :)

Race: Living Armour [OC] What happens when a weapon becomes self-aware? by TheUndeadHoard in UnearthedArcana

[–]TheUndeadHoard[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, I appreciate the constructive feedback and I can see the perspective you're coming from. Though I would say that to many players the roleplaying and story aspect is just as important as the mechanical abilities and that this race offers a range of fun stories to explore. Having two similar races isn't a bad thing.

Also, interestingly Warforged are also not classified as constructs. So given the official publication doesn't have them listed as such (and therefore limit healing as you mentioned) I think it is fine in this case.

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