A book of Classes, Crafting, Psionics, & More for DnD 5e!
Years of design. Thousands of playtesters. Evocative art. This Compendium brings KibblesTasty’s most popular systems together into a single book containing:
Two full classes: the Psion and the Inventor (commonly called “Kibbles’ Artificer”)
12+ subclasses tying into the themes and mechanics of Psionics and Arcane Technology!
Items, spells, feats, monsters, character building tools for the new classes, and optional world building tools for integrating psionics and fantasy technology to your world!
Kibbles’ Crafting System - Blacksmithing, Alchemy, Enchanting (making wondrous items), and much more (everything from Cooking to Wand Whittling and Scroll Scribing!) - all artisan tools have a use here!
…all clocking in at 230+ pages of content all designed and extensively playtested for 5e D&D.
Loaded with original art to give life to its content, I want this book to be an exciting thing to flip through; a true compendium of ideas.
In addition to the Hardcover Compendium, there are a few ways to experience the content:
The PDF will feature everything the hardcover does, in a digital format.
The Class Handbooks are standalone soft covers that contain everything needed to play that class (Psion or Inventor). Great for people that only want that or to get in addition to the compendium to hand out to players.
The Crafting Reference Guide is the whole crafting system as a standalone thing in a softcover booklet.
The most popular homebrew Psionic system for 5e and its eponymous Psion! Bring the most popular missing playstyle of 5e to your group! A flexible class with a lot of opportunities to specialize in what sort of mind (or reality!) bending hero they want to be! Along with the Psion comes a selection of psionic subclasses that tie into its features and bring Psionic crunch and flavor to other classes.
The Psion can be fully previewed online. The version that will appear in the book will be an updated version combining more playtesting feedback and professional editing into making a definitive edition to the beloved class.
Contains the subclasses Awakened Mind, Unleashed Mind, Transcended Mind, Wandering Mind (the Nomad!), and of course the astral construct creating Shaper, each of whom wield a Discipline from Telepathy, Telekinesis, Transposition (manipulate space and dimensions), Psychokinetics (manipulate energy), Enhancement (enhance material forms), or Projection (project the contents of your mind into the world!), the unique model of the Psion allows each subclass to have one core Discipline from their subclass and another of their choice, allowing extensive flexibility and combinations, without ever getting to mystical levels of complexity or compounded effects.
What will be new? Item support! Feat support! Extended tools for backgrounds and character building! Optional tables for character details, backstory details, and more, as well as a suite of things that makes Psionics a better and more seamless fit for your world, and, of course, an update to be fully OGL. Plus it’ll get even more new art to have fully original art. Professional editing and proofreading!
The original Kibbles’ class that started it all, now dubbed the Inventor! Forge what sort of hero you are yourself - choose from a wide array of subclasses and master gadgets, magical infusions, magnificent warplate, or turn more… experimental. Widely known as “Kibbles’ Artificer” or “Alternate Artificer” this class served as the original 5e Artificer for many, and is still one of the most widely played homebrew classes - now updated to live alongside default classes and updated to its best form yet.
At the nexus of magic, technology, and creativity, it is a beloved class that has had tens of thousands of players try it out over the years.
You can explore the class for yourself, as it’s freely available online. The version presented here will be a comprehensive overhaul that focuses on editing and clarity to bring about a definitive 3.0 version with all the features people love.
What will be new? This will convert it to the OGL system, bringing with it a double handful of new spells, a lot of new items, more new art to have completely original art, and a massive editing pass by professional and talented editors (not me!)
A comprehensive crafting system for 5th edition. You can forge a longsword with Blacksmithing and enchant it to +1 with Enchanting; you can use alchemy to brew a potion or concoct an explosive. This is a system that had a few core goals:
Let you make anything that exists in the game (as much as possible) and give concrete and extensible rules for everything else that could exist in your game.
Open the door to new kinds of loot. Allow a player to be excited by something they cannot even use because of the possibilities of what they can make it into. This opens the door to loot and rewards that make sense in a world and give the players incremental but satisfying rewards that build toward something they want.
Make it a player driven system. An aspirational system you can put in front of the players and let them drive toward their goals.
A system that is easy to use for the GM and players alike, but offers a satisfying depth.
The whole system is available on my patreon, but early versions of Blacksmithing, Alchemy, and Enchanting can be previewed to give you an idea of what this system will look like, as well as inside look into how it’ll work. The beta system of Crafting will be made available to all backers of the Compendium (including PDF) or Crafting Reference Guide tiers. The completion and fine tuning of this system is one of the major pieces of crunch remaining to flesh out this book.
Beyond the large tentpoles of the design, there’s a lot more: items (both mundane and magical!), spells (40+), feats, variant features, and more. This book comes packed with all the tools a player could want to play the options it presents as well as helpful tools for the GM to run these systems (as a GM twice a week myself, I keep your time in mind when designing any system!)
And in additional to all the crunch, this compendium will come with large sections about integrating Psionics and Inventors (and the style of magic-technology they can bring) into your world - they are entirely optional, but one of the most common things I hear from GMs and players is that they love the ideas, but aren’t sure how they fit or what impact they’ll have on world building - in this book will be a suite of tools and ideas for how they might be present, and what sort of things they add.
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