Homebrew: an overview

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Every table has its own ideas: a species that isn't in the book, a spell you dreamt up, a monster for your big finale. Homebrew lets you add them, and they work just like the official ones.

Open Homebrew

On your campaign's Build page, press Homebrew.

There are nine kinds, each with its own tab: species, classes, subclasses, backgrounds, feats, spells, equipment, magic items and monsters.

Make or change an entry

Choose a tab, press New to make one, or Edit to change one. A change reaches every character already using it.

Where your homebrew shows up

Your homebrew belongs to your account, not to one campaign. So everything here can be picked in every campaign you run, by you and your players: in the character creator, on the sheet, in a level-up, and in Reference, where it carries a Homebrew badge.

Monsters

Monsters are yours alone. They turn up in your NPC and combat pickers, and in Reference.

Your players can't make monsters, and only see one if you tick Players can pick this as a companion or form. Then they can choose it for a companion, or a Wild Shape. Monsters, equipment and magic items can also go into the generators: just tick Include in generators.

Delete, retire and bring back

To get rid of an entry, press Delete. If nothing uses it, it's gone. If a character, an NPC, a fight or another homebrew entry uses it, it's retired instead. It leaves every list, so nothing new can pick it, but it keeps working wherever it's already used.

Retired entries wait at the foot of the list. Press Bring back to return one.

Your players' homebrew

Your players can make homebrew too, and ask you to approve it. That's under Waiting for you, and it has its own guide: Approving your players' homebrew. So does each of the nine kinds.

That's homebrew in Critsmith. If the game doesn't have it, make it, and it fits right in.