• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    6·
    1 year ago

    One risk with this is when you have a new player join your group. They might expect raw and be surprised by a whole kettle of home brew.

    I for one would be annoyed if I joined a group and found they were ignoring the rest rules. They may be having fun but I would have made different decisions if I’d known what they were actually playing.

    • sammytheman666@ttrpg.network
      5·
      1 year ago

      Every change should be treated the same : you tell about them at character creation and you tell them during the game while allowing for their set of rules on the present session if you cannot think of them in advance. Homebrew, legal rules, anything should be the same. It’s not during a game that you tell the multiclass druid cleric that the steroid goodberries dont work in your game, as he’s trying to heal someone after a fight. This actually happened to me. Don’t fucking nerf the core of a character’s mechanics midgame.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
        2·
        1 year ago

        This makes sense.

        In my imagination there is a large set of players who “homebrew” stuff because they don’t know or understand the rules, and a very large subset of those players are also disorganized. A sizable subset also just don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.

        So they’ll be like “oh we let the wizard attack and cast a spell on the same turn. Is that not the normal way?”

        But for people who homebrew with intention and thought, yeah, what you said.