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What 5e variant/house rules do you play with that work? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll be DMing some more 5e soon and I want to take the opportunity to try some different ways of playing (I'll post my own suggestions as comments so they can start their own discussion threads). What alternate rules have you tried that you thought worked well? They can be larger changes to the game or little QoL tweaks (though if you can respond to the suggestion with "at this point just play [different game] instead" then that's probably more than what I'm looking for!)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blimey, that's a rewrite of half the classes! Have you found any problems with these changes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, not particularly; most of them are fairly small changes in play even if they take up a decent amount of text in the doc. I'm mostly just trying to put the weaker options more on par with stronger options. If something comes up in a game where I realize "Whoops I made that too strong" I'll reassess.

So far my players have liked them as it's mostly buffs: I've definitely seen the weaker Sorcerer subclasses get more play because of the changes. You could argue that Sorcerers are casters and don't need the help, but I feel it just puts them on par with Wizards at worst.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fair, I might just ask the players if there's anything they'd like to play but that they feel is a bit weak and offer some of your buffs if required!