A Homebrewer's Attempt at Fame

Just a random guy who likes D&D and writing random stories. D&D Homebrew Patreon! Link on pinned post.

[nite0304]

Patreon and some other neat links!

Heya! I’m a homebrewer for D&D, I do everything, from classes and custom rules, to monsters and spells. I release one page of my brews weekly (Saturdays generally), but you can become a patreon to see the full stuff immediatly as soon as I finish it! See you around!

Currently taking emergency comissions!

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nite0304

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/nite0304

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nite0304

Discord: Martin0304 (Elle)#9516

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/h9VmY9kaN5

Projects and works:

Finished Homebrews: - Realm Fused Class (V 1.0) - Multiclass Combos (Barbarian) - Silver Land’s Guide (Part 1) - Hollow Knight Homebrew (V 1.0) - Advanced Crafting (Part 1) - Barbarian, Path of the Broken Mind

Working on: - Challenger Class - Mana Gatherer Class - Multiclass Combos (Bard) - Silver Land’s Guide (Part 2)

On publishing Process: -Nuthin’

[spiced-wine-fic]

[cryptotheism]

Hi, just wondering if you've ever done any studying of quantum physics/quantum mechanics. Seems like the fact that it was proven several decades ago that matter doesn't exist, only energy, and what we experience of the world is only a small fraction of the energy that exists should have some sort of effect on the views of materialists. I'm curious to know what you think of it and what your exposure level to it all is.

Well just because matter isn't a discreet substance doesn't make the notion of material reality less useful. Like, it didn't suddenly make the periodic table useless. Chemistry still works. Newtonian physics still works. The writings of Jabir ibn hayyan and other alchemists that led to modern chemistry are still valuable to study. New paradigms of understanding do not negate the value of previous ones. Science is a body of knowledge that can only grow! The materialists are going strong.

[cryptotheism]

There is a desire, I think, within occultism to find some philosophical angle on quantum physics that will free us from the tyrany of brute physics. A similar thing happened with the discovery of electricity, and again with radiation. Suddenly! The soul is actually electromagnetic waves! No! Now it is alpha-rays! Mesmer swings around again to drag his wonderful magnets over our etheric fluids.

The specifics of quantum reality are interesting! But swing a baseball at my head, and brains will come flying out to chase the gold at the end of gravity's rainbow. Curse the demiurge.

[nite0304]

The thing with science is that it (almost) never destroys what was built before, only builds upon it.

What we know today as "science" will always be "science", it will just become considered as less advanced as more and more science is built upon it, while simultaneously become an ever more fundamental piece of all future science.

My chemistry teacher from highschool opened his class with "What I will tell you this year is a lie. Its all false. It just has not been proven false yet. Like any good lie, it has pieces of truth scattered about. So its the best lie we have. You can try coming up with a different lie on the exam. But if it is not a better lie, you will not pass. And if it is, what the fuck are you doing here? Go win the nobel prize or something"

[cryptotheism]

One time I got a callout post for being pro-palestine. The author wanted to call me a tumblrina. They also wanted to respect my nonbinary identity, and conjugated the word as "Tumblrine."

[nite0304]

I mean, respect to them. They hate you for being pro-palestine, not for being nonbinary.

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. I’ve received complaints from anonymous employees that our support of the “homosexual lifestyle” is “degenerate” and “irresponsible”. It really got me thinking and I think I found a solution. So good news! We now have 23 vacated positions reserved for members of the LGBT community. Additional good news, we began a new testing initiative on evolutionary degenration with 23 test subjects all ready to go.“

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. If you’re experiencing a time loop in which you’re repeating the month of June over and over, that’s totally intentional. We at Aperture Science felt that pride month was not long enough and so we created this loop to let employees experience as much pride as they feel like. To get out of this loop, simply use the pod labeled “Time Machine” in Shaft 6 and then either kill or save the baby on the other end depending on when in the loop you’re on. Don’t worry about the baby’s identity, he grows up to be an asshole.“

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here, happy to announce that our Rainbow Gel project was a massive success. We have developed distinct gels in every color of the rainbow pride flag. In fact, it was too much of a success, so we’ll be updating our pride flag accordingly to include 75 new colors corresponding to all of our new gels. Word of advice, though, don’t stare at the flag for too long, most of these colors haven’t been tested on human eyes yet.”

[charlesoberonn]

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here, Cave Johnson queer. Get used to it.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. Caroline just informed me that I am her “beard”. I checked, and I fail to see how I could possibly have grown out of her face. If anybody knows anything about human-to-facial hair transmogrification, please report to my office.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. Friendly reminder that Aperture employees living prior to the legalization of gay marriage are invited to use our Aperture Science Temporal Matrimony Pod in order to travel to the future with your same-sex partner and get married there. Employees from the future who wish to return to a time before gay people being able to marry are also welcome to use the pod and we’ll make sure to send you to an era well before gay marriage. I’m thinking maybe Late Cretacesous.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. I’m proud to announce that our plan to hire only female test subjects to prevent them from flirting with our female scientists has been a resounding failure.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. I’m afraid we’ll have to temporarily pause all experimentation with the Gender Affirmation Beam. The testing itself is going great, the beam is working. But we’re starting to run out of thigh high socks and khaki shorts.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johson here. Shafts 10 through 14 are currently under lockdown due to a meltdown in the Neopronoun Syntheizer. The transphobes up in DC might call that ‘a disaster in the making’ but I call it a win for diversity! That being said most of these pronouns are radioactive so do watch out.”

[charlesoberonn]

Cave Johnson here. If you feel a sudden sense of elation and contentness when putting on your new Aperture Science unisex uniform, that is not Gender Euphoria! That’s a hallucinogenic fungus taking over your brain. Take the uniform off immediately and throw it in the nearest incinerator.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. I won’t tolerate any misgendering of the interdimensional invaders swarming the facility! Their pronouns are they/them and we’re ought to respect that. We’re also ought to shoot them on sight since they’re extremely hostile and bent on enslaving our planet.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. To all of my suitors and secret admirers: Thank you, honestly I’m flattered. Unfortunately for you, I don’t swing that way. Or any way. I only swing where the wrecking ball of science takes me. Usually into a brick wall.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. I’ve been thinking. We have gay pride, and we have gender envy. What other deadly sins can we incorporate? Maybe bisexual sloth? Lesbian wrath? I’ll talk to the lab boys about it.”

“Cave Johnson here. Update: The Lesbian Wrath project is postponed indefinitely. My condolences to the families of the deceased. Though let’s be honest, they probably had it coming.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. For the last time! “I’m reclaiming the slur” is not a valid excuse to shout out loud the killer androids’ activation codes! We picked that word for a reason.“

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. I’d like to apologize to Floor 194 Safety Supervisor Doug Blakely for firing him after allegations that he was forcing employees back in the closet. I was not aware that said closet was a literal storage closet for zombified Aperture employees. To make it up to Doug, he’ll be allowed to feed Floor 194 HR Manager Lisa Briant to the closet zombies if he so chooses.”

[charlesoberonn]

”Cave Johnson here. A reminder that next year Transgender Day of Visibility falls on Extradimensional Day of Visibility. The lab boys are cautioning me to caution you to be prepared. Do not confuse transgender and transdimensional! Big mistake.“

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. To all cishet Aperture employees who volunteered for the ‘Get More Woke’ program, please report to your department’s OR at the nearest convenience to get the alarm clocks surgically removed from your spinal cord. Aperture Science apologizes for the misunderstanding.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. Dr. Barnaby from Cyborg Engineering is an attack helicopter. That’s not a transphobic joke, by the way, they literally transformed themselves into an amalgam of human and helicopter. Impressive. Unauthorized, of course, but still impressive. Anyway, we lost track of them, so everyone watch the sky for a mad scientist with blue rotors and machine guns.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. To the joker who added ‘make the sun gay’ to our quarterly agenda, I hope you’re pleased with yourself. The Astrophysics Department is tearing itself apart with half of them shouting that you can’t make the sun gay and the other half screaming that the sun is already gay. Either way, we’re not doing it.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. The congressional delegation of Senator Patrick Johnson (no relation) to inspect our facilities had to be cut short due to a mishap with the Gender Affirmation Beam. I’d like to apologize on behalf of Aperture Science to Senator Johnson and her staff.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. Just the other day, our sign guy asked me ‘Cave, don’t you think LGBTQIA2S+ is a tad too long?’ and I told him ‘First of all, that’s Mr. Johnson to you! And secondly, I actually think it’s not long enough!’ and that’s why I’m adding an ’&’ to the acronym. Don’t know what it stands for yet, but I’ll figure it out.”

[charlesoberonn]

“Cave Johnson here. You already know that here in Aperture Science we’re all about gender affirming care. We’ve been at the forefront of hormone replacement therapy since before we knew what these hormones do. You also know that here in Aperture Science we’re all about not getting sued. So everyone be quiet about our role in the Estrogen Cola disaster.”

[bettinalevyisdetermined]

[cryptotheism]

POPE

[cryptotheism]

NEW POPE

[nite0304]

WHO

[reb00tart]

Trust

[nite0304]

He looks plenty trustworthy to me :D

[nite0304]

And lastly, for the last day of Monster Week, have the Dragon's spell list + a bunch of original dragon-themed spells.

The dragon's spell list is incredibly powerful, especially if you go for the Arcane dragon subclass.

And I wanted the dragon spells to be inspired by various myths of dragons, such as a dragon that devours the sun, or that cannot be harmed by some specific conditions.

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[nite0304]

Day 4! Have all the Dragon Subclasses.

I wanted each of them to represent an archetype of dragons from pop culture or fantasy.

And I do have ideas for other subclasses, like the Wiseman, or the Alien, but I figured these 4 were enough for now.

My personal favorite of these has to be the Rampager. What's scarier than a Barbarian? A DRAGON barbarian.

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[nite0304]

Hello again! For day 3, have all the Draconic Features from the Dragon Class!

These act as the class's Eldritch Invocations, allowing you to make and build a unique dragon each time.

My personal favorites are Breath Coverage and All the Pressences.

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[nite0304]

Monster Week day 2!

Here is the full base Dragon Class!

As you can see, it is a half-caster focused on big area damage, with decent martial capabilities.

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[nite0304]

Heya! I'm back! I decided to make a Dragon Race + Class combo for Monster Week this year.

The race actually introduces a few key traits for the class, that the class will build up on and expand, so the Class is actually only avilible if that is your race (which, I think makes sense thematically)

Today, have the Race part of it, tomorrow will be the full base class

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[outofcontextdnd]

“biblically accurate pinocchio”

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[nite0304]

You mean Netflix's pinocchio?

[cuties-in-codices]

wdym the british library is going to auction off 20% of their manuscripts to private collectors in order to make up for their losses from the 2023 cyber attack?? HELLO???

[upennmanuscripts]

😲😲😲

[cryptotheism]

Do Gyms have genus locii

Yes

No

Voting ended onMar 16, 2025

[nite0304]

Voted for yes, but I am not very informed on genus locii, where can I learn more about them?

[thegaylibertarian]

[liminalweirdo]

I am once again begging you to get your hands on physical media and/or save your fave stuff OFFLINE.

[ryttu3k]

How to remove DRM from Kindle with Calibre.

I use Kobo, which uses a slightly different method. Some publishers already don't use DRM. Great! You're good to go. Most others will be listed as using Adobe DRM. For that, you'll need Adobe Digital Editions.

Download the DRM file. This will be an ASCM file (Adobe Content Server Message) called 'URLLink.ascm'. This isn't an ebook, it's basically just a link.

Open in Adobe Digital Editions. It should automatically download the ebook.

Locate the actual file location. By default, this is Documents > My Digital Editions. This will give you the epub file, with DRM.

Follow the above instructions to install DeDRM in Calibre.

Drag the epub file into Calibre. If you've installed DeDRM correctly, there'll be a button up the top labelled 'Convert books'.

Up the top of the window, there'll be 'Input format' on the left, and 'Output format' on the right. Input will default to EPUB, select whatever you like (including EPUB again) for output. Select 'OK' (bottom right).

Locate your Calibre file. For me, this was Documents > Calibre. By default, books are listed in subfolders by author, then title. Open the folder for the book you converted, and you should have four files - a cover, an OPF file with metadata, your new EPUB file, and an old version with the file extension of .original_epub.

Not necessary, but I prefer to do this for organisation - you can now place the DRM-free EPUB file wherever you like. I have folders for my own library that I can back up as I wish.

You may want an ereader not tied to a particular platform. I use one for my phone called Moon+ Reader. It has a free option with unobtrusive ads (which only show when you close a book). Otherwise, using Calibre on my PC has its own epub reader.

Anyway. Not hyperbole. Microsoft closed its ebook platform in 2019 and people lost their entire libraries. Back your books up.

[lynmars79]

Amazon is ending the ability to download/transfer ebooks from Kindle devices via USB connection on February 26 2025!

You should still be able to use the PC and mobile apps, and in browser reading, but your device will be entirely reliant on WiFi (which isn't always available or reliable!). Here's 1 article on it.

I've been using Epubor Ultimate to remove DRM from all of my ebooks so I can convert and save them, able to read them either in Kobo or Kindle, or in Calibre. I can save them as Epubs, PDFs, or what have you.

Also keep in mind Bookshop.org, an online store that interacts with independent booksellers, now has an ebook app and options from those indie stores. You can even set it specifically to your own favorite local bookstores if you want.

I get a lot of ebooks due to space issues, being a rental/apartment dweller. So the cracked and converted books are saved to my PC and external backup drives. I bought them. They're mine. I ought to be able to read them, and not worry about them being "updated" or removed on some whim*.

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(*I noticed that Jim Butcher's The Aeronaut's Windlass has a different cover than when I first downloaded it, not sure what else has changed yet. Good Omens also went from the classic black cover to the TV show tie in cover.)

[nite0304]

Do you do the art for your homebrews?

No, I have said in the past that I use AI to make the images.

No. I am not proud of it, in fact I berate myself a little every time I make an image. But its the only way to make homebrew that actually sells.

Believe me, as soon as I have the income to comission art for my brews, I will never touch AI art ever again.