i have a question. I'm doing a Sburb DnD. But i have... Problems with the classes and god tiers. I mean: How can i introduce classes how Monk or Palladian AND at the same time, use classes and aspects how Sylph of Hope or Prince of Rage
what i had originally been planning to do was make them as their own custom classes, aka the Class portion of the classpect (Prince, Maid, etc) and then the aspect would affect the "elemental" or more... "powered" aspect of it? aka this is a homebrew homebrew where I am, deadset, doing everything from scratch, but tbh I haven't touched the project in a really long time, I'm probably going to scrap most of what I have so far and do a refresh, since I"m more actively participating and playing dnd than I was the like. three-ish years ago when i started this blog. or whenever i did!
Your current level of panic, does not take actual stat points, and is a modifier but is placed here for ease of access
0 - you are completely calm, without panic
10 - You are currently going shithive maggots, and cannot do anything.
CRAZY
Your Currently level of being absolutely bonkers
0 - You're perfectly sane!
5 - You're going crazy, alright. (Take - 1 Sanity, and for each tier higher)
10 - You have lost your goddamn mind. Amazing. (Take -5 SANITY and COMMUNICATION)
ENRAGED
Being completely furious
0 - You're not mad at all!
5 - You're pretty hot! (-1 intelligence and communication per tier higher)
10 - YOU’RE FUCKING FURIOUS (-5 intelligence and communication)
GRIMDARK
The current level of going grimdark
0 - Happy as can be! What's a horrorterror?
5 - Everyone is starting to get a little concerned. (Take -1 Sanity per tier higher, as well as a -1 per tier communication)
10 - agjks'ds sljid fdjsi dfix'sseir (Take -5 Sanity and -10 on communication rolls)
MURDER MODE
The current state of wanting to murder your friends while going batshit insane. Semi-reliant on Crazy stat)
0 - You're fine! You like your friends and wouldn't kill them!
5 - Uhm, everyone is now uncomfortable. (Take -1 Sanity per tier higher)
8 - Ohhhh god oh god this is not going to end well. (-3 Sanity, -1 per tier BRAINS)
10 - OH GOD WHO LET YOU HAVE THAT KNIFE (-5 Sanity, -3 BRAINS)
TRICKSTER MODE
The mode of being Trickster. I’m afraid this one is all or nothing.
0 - You’re perfectly normal
10 - HAHAHA I’M HAVING SO MUCH FUN!!!! (-5 BRAINS, COMMUNICATION and SANITY, +10 ASPECT and +5 SWEET MOVES, SPIRIT and MANGRIT, as well as +20% HEALTH)
After coming out of Trickster Mode, take everyone back to normal, and -1 all stats except health and aspect
Here’s a list of stats, what they mean, and how they work!
Point Allocation
Total Points
91 Alternians and Post-Apocalypse Humans
81 Beforans and Pre-Apocalypse
Reasoning:
In DnD (I used to use Orcpub to do my character sheets) while using the point buy system, I noticed 8 was the base average before you incorporate the 27 points you can have to allocate
Using the 6 stats X the 8 points, you get 48
Take 48 + 27 and that’s 75
so if we take our 8 Stats X 8 Points that’s 64 + 27 = 91
To show the difference between the fighting levels of the average trolls/humans combo I took 10 off for those weaker.
HOWEVER don’t feel like this is a necessity, and play around with what you feel is best. The points allocated might be higher or lower than what I gave depending on what you feel is fitting for the character!
It’s YOUR session, feel free to play around with it!
THE STATS
I’m going to put this under a cut now, considering the length of all this.
HEALTH
This is your basic health bar, represents overall health of course
Cap players at 10 Health in the beginning, no points can be allocated here, but feats can be used to bump it up or lower it, depending on the character.
MANGRIT
This is your base strength and defense!
This can be allocated with points, and there is no cap (the DM just has to decide on their own here)
Feats can bump up the growth of this per Echeladder and God Tier Level, or hinder its growth
BRAINS
Intelligence, Memory, and Reason
Can be affected by feats, like every stat, but is able to be allocated into freely.
SPIRIT
Charisma, Social Influence, and Stubbornness/Willpower
Affected by feats, and is able to be allocated into freely.
SANITY
Wisdom, perceptiveness, and overall sanity.
Same as SPIRIT and every other normal stat
SWEET MOVES
Agility, Flexibility, Acrobatics, Balance
Same as any other regular stat
ASPECT
How in tune you are with your Classpect Powers
Feats can affect the growth of this (negatively or positively)
The allocation of this one is special.
ASPECT works like a percentage bar, 0 points means the character is shit and understanding and utilizing their classpect, 100 points means they are completely, 100% in tune
However... This also goes the opposite way
You can LOSE ASPECT when allocating points depending on the character, which is called INVERSION (denying your classpect in favor of its opposite - a Seer of Light turning into Witch of Void in personality and how they interact with the game)
This system allows for players to drop their ASPECT into the negative and put the points somewhere else. Which, frankly, is up to the DM to monitor
However as you naturally get points to put into aspect... you just have to slowly build it up from whatever negative it was at. Meaning if you take away one hundred points, by end game you MIGHT have enough to be at maybe positive ten.
Personally, I cap the players at 20 points up and down, depending on the character, but personally I think it would be goddamn hilarious for a super overpowered character breaking the game.
LUCK
This is your amount of LUCK / Luckiness
It modifies your rolls, with a stat of positive 50 luck, you can ask your DM to roll a second D20 (and take the higher roll) at any given time if the situation calls for it, or your DM can flip a coin for a LUCKY 8R8K
If you have a modifier anywhere in the negatives, or if the situation simply call for it, you may be asked to roll two D20s and take the lower roll
This works exactly like the ASPECT point buy, and I cap at 20 as well for this.
COMMUNICATION
The ability to effectively get your point across, and talk things out with your friends. Stat affects anything involving conversation, feelings, and mediating.
COMMUNICATION works exactly like ASPECT and LUCK in the point buy system, but I personally don’t cap people on it, either negatively or positively.
Here’s a post on some easy ways to play this campaign, mechanics wise. Of course, you can run it like any old campaign, but I have a couple personal ways to make this fun and more like homestuck!
Places to Play
These are by no means the only ways to play, these are just my personal preferences!
MSPARP
A fun way to play this including text colors is MSPARP!
You can make group chats labeled for the characters involved (to simulate Private Messages, as well as group memos), as well as the DM to narrate small things.
You can also have group chats for commands, and such
The Pros to this are that it uses text color and quirks automatically, which is nicer than having to type it into discord,or just talking which doesn’t involve text colors at all. You can also simulate only the players and the DM knowing what is said between two characters.
The Cons are that the chats will pile up, and unless you make a page for yourself and others with links, it’ll become increasingly hard to keep track of them all.
Solutions to the cons: Make a google document, and copy+paste the urls of the chats onto it, or link via text to label it. Give the URLS to your players, and they can either get onto the chat or just refresh the log.
DISCORD
Another good way is to invite all of your players onto a discord server!
You can make roles for each player of their chat handle (including color so it changes their name to that color), their god tier, dream moon, species, etc!
You can make channels and adjust the settings so either only the two characters involved as well as DM can see and type into it, or that only the characters and DM can type, but everyone can see.
The Pros: You can make effective use of the channels to simulate players talking to each other in private, or group memos can be made by the DM when asked by a player (a new channel), and it’s all nice and neat! You can arrange the channels in preferred order, and the roles make it easy to click on a person and see what’s up with their character real quick.
Cons: channels can pile up, you can’t do quirk automatically and I’m pretty sure you can’t do jack about the text color. This means you have to manually input your quirk (which can be a PAIN for trolls depending on how bad the quirk is).
Solutions to the cons: nothing can be said for the channels, unless your players just pm each other, but that makes it so the DM can’t see the messages, which... isn’t ideal. The solution for quirking, however, is that you can get your quirks in order on msparp, and open up a group chat for yourself to type into, and then copy+paste the text into discord!
Fun ways to play
Keep your players quiet about each other
This works as a more homestuck feel, where characters are slowly revealed.
Players will have no idea about anyone elses character, making a more accurate session to happen (where nobody can decide how the factors play) and the only thing the DM says to other players is if certain things are taken (like if the player wants to be a Bard of Doom and someone else already has Bard, you can tell them bard is already taken)
If the players insist on having a specific class or aspect, however, you can always mediate between the two in asking if one is okay with a different one, or if the original player minds changing, or alternatively if neither do you can say “fuck it” and let both have them, or flip a coin to decide.
In my current session, we have no shared classpects, but we have no space player, and all of the players are on one moon. Unwinnable, but allows for a fun storytelling opportunity for the DM to plan out how to make a fucked session winnable, either through NPCs or through the party breaking the game.
That’s all for now, but I may edit this later or add on in addition, etc
This is a blog I made for mainly my own personal use but maybe someone else can use it too!
You can check out some of the more fleshed out story under the cut but basically tl;dr: I’m making a homestuck-based homebrew campaign and this blog will have a bunch of stuff as I make it
I got into dnd a few months ago (due to the adventure zone, admittedly) and have been doing mainly homebrew campaign stuff (considering I like to play hard and loose with the rules of DMing), and tend to go the more “story telling” route, with roleplay for my players, as well as some good old Shenanigans based on rolls and stuff, as my players aren’t too keen on fighting all that much, and tend to like the worldbuilding and storytelling more than anything.
We all met with homestuck (we all ran an analysis blog together for a time) and I thought it would be fun to do some sort of homestuck campaign, since I was developing a couple of other campaign ideas. They all took to the idea so here we are!
Like I said, I’m making stuff up as I go along, and there will be edits as I go! I’m mainly doing this centered to my own style of DnD and a bunch of homestuck-based features to go along with it. I’ll make posts as I update things, and this blog is still in construction of course, as well as my campaign, so there will be a lot of updates as I polish it up.
I’ll be coming out with a post for the stats here in a few, as well as their explanations, as well as statuses!
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