Here’s A Question For The Dimension 20 Fans.

Someone in my campaign is playing a fairy who just really wants to make some love chaos, so this is my first shot at a homebrew subclass, based on a separate homebrew also found on line. If you believe in love here is the domain of wild love:

Sifting through DnD lore on any “evil” race is like handling primary documents circa 1900s reviewing the peoples of “the dark continent”. Turn on your sociology brain, question everything, and re-construct in a way that remembers morality is subjective and history is written by the victors.

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The Skull of Yorrick

- What is remembered of a man, and by whom? After contemplating suicide with skull in hand, a PC reduced to 0 hit points has their waking conscious instead transferred to the skull until their actual body is revived or dies. Poor Yorrick has a speed of 10. He has five first level spell slots and the spells; hideous laughter, sleep, bane, dissonant whispers, and mage hand.

If you’re upset about Zac confirming Gorgug straight by this because you want mlm rep in the show a couple things to note:

Zac is not mlm. Do you really want a straight man playing a mlm character, if that was not his first instinct? It would have been manufactured and inauthentic. 

If you are claiming it’s because you want mlm rep in a popular show, why don’t you support shows that have actual mlm players, instead of hoping a straight man will play as mlm? Maybe the reason why mlm aren’t in popular D&D actual play shows is because fans don’t try to support D&D actual play shows that already exist and portray them?

Why are you begging at the feet of straight people for representation when lgbt creators are already putting themselves out there, waiting to be discovered?

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Pipsy’s Drinking Horn

- A French horn that doubles as a source of infinite Sweet Mead. It’s seen battle and it’s seen parties in equal measure. +3 to performance. Taking a swig from Pipsy’s drinking horn grants Liquid Courage for one hour, which gets you advantage on Strength and Charisma ability checks and disadvantage on Intelligence and Wisdom checks.

Midnight Train to Nowhere

*Disclaimer- this is absolutely inspired by (stolen from) that one episode of Drawfee where they came up with Carl Sedgebee and his magic train. I just wanted to do something with the idea.*

My friends call me Ace, so that’s what you can call me. I’m a conductor of a subway train in New York City. I’ve been one for a very long time.

I only work late nights so you probably don’t see me much. Not many do. I don’t work the Red or the Blue or the Yellow line. I’m not on the G or the L, thank God for that. No, the train I run goes all over the tracks. I go from 34th down to West 4th, then switch over to get to Broadway-Lafayette, then its up to Broadway by Astoria. Don’t try to make sense of it, it doesn’t. I hop from Astoria to Bay Ridge, South Ferry to Inwood. To get to the Blue on Staten Island I have to do a loop de loop off 14th street. It’s a tricky maneuver but I’ve gotten the hang of it. My train runs just under the tracks, or just over them, and straight through any other trains running. 

I suppose it’s a little bit of a ghost situation, but I assure you when I pull up to your station and you step onto the steel and aluminum floors of this fine specimen of an automotive- it is the feel of real beneath your feet alright. So ease your mind and take a seat. They’re all clean. Don’t worry. You’ve got the car all to yourself too, so spread out. This train’s never crowded. I like to maintain a personalized experience here. Lay down if you like and rest your eyes. I’ll wake you up when it’s your stop. Sleep for hours, we’ll still get there in seconds. 

You’re always glad to see my train pulling in. Cause I always appear when you need it most: when you end up on the wrong end of the line, but its 2 am and your apartment is on the other. When you’ve got an interview that you can’t miss, or you’ve just gotta get to Mt. Sinai, but an ambulance would be too expensive. I’ll get you there in no time. When the G or the L is stalled up for no reason, I can come and pick you up. We’re friends after all. 

All of my passengers are friends. I’m torn up to see you go, but I know I’ll see you again. In any case, it’s better than the alternative. That’s the real late night ride- that special ride I give to the unfortunate few who find themselves in their final moments on a subway platform. These are the folks for whom the subway’s the closest thing they call home. Most of them I’ve seen before, and offered a ride to a food bank, or just a ride through the night, spent in a warm place. If I could leave this train I’d do more. But a job’s a job, and I’ve got a job to do. So I’m grateful for what I can do. I’m grateful that I can offer those bygone souls a clean car, a warm seat, and a friend to take their final ride to the other side with. What’s a little bit of kindness for someone who has received so little?

2. Maglubiyet: False Goblin God

The canonical assumed interpretation of the Maglubiyet myth is that rather than avoid combat, Goblins will just make sure not to die in combat. The fear of Maglubiyet makes them fight harder. The assumption however relies on the eugenic leaning idea that Goblins are too pre-disposed to violence to avoid it. We’re trying to deconstruct that though, so that interpretation has to be binned.

Fact is, the Goblins left alone, should be a peaceful species. In canon they are mostly subjugated however and act as war fodder for everything from liches to bugbears. From the point of view of an oppressor who uses Goblins as minions, Maglubiyet is a great god for the Goblins to have - for the reason explored above. It is my belief then that Maglubiyet did not originate as a Goblin deity but was forced upon them by another culture, perhaps Hibgoblins who view Maglubiyet more favorably.