The big problem with homebrew and 5e was wotc never published their algorithm on how they balanced all the classes. So you'd never be sure if the class would be over or under powered per level until you extensively play tested it. This problem and the obvious OGL was what made 5.5 dead on arrival.
This isn't a problem per se. I think one of the worst things about 4e from a... system for a campaign perspective is that all the races are from the same balance algorithm. Which makes it easy to balance and prevents munchinkinning but really makes the racial system very bland.
The issue is that WotC stance now is that it is a Massive Yikes to restrict players from being whatever faggotshit troon in a wheelchair shit they want to ruin a session with. So you can no longer have things that aren't mechanically balanced or everyone will just pick the powerscale race/class. Because "Your half orc will not be allowed to entire the town" is too triggering.
Instead of taking the 2e and 3e stance of "If you want a wizard, you probably want to be an elf", the 4e stance of "you're going to want to allign these numbers with your floating bonus", the 5e stance is "Its othering and problematic to have dwarves be better clerics than other
races bloodlines"
...and now I'm curious; you guys use any third-party content in your games, by any chance? Any that you'd recommend? Any that you'd avoid at all costs?
When I say 3rd party here, it would more accurately say "anything that officially released for that edition of the system"; I use tables and mechanics from other editions in D&D all the time, despite that not being technically "third party" I count it as such. So that autistic hairsplitting asside:
From the DM side, as mentioned I'll
rampantly steal borrow tables, mechanics, graphs, monsters, etc from anywhere I can find something that looks like it'd fit the bill. And i make up my own shit all the time, sometimes based on things I've found for other systems or from other publishers.
But for stuff that goes on player sheets? Forget excluding 3rd party content, I look at anything outside the PHB with a very long, hard withering stare. If I had a player I didn't know and trust (and who talked to me about it before hand) bring me a character sheet with third-party shit on it, I'd tell them that I don't think they are going to have fun at my table and should find another one.
Doubly so if they bring me furry shit.
What're you guys' thoughts on Critical Role's "Blood Hunter" class for DnD 5e? I've heard a good amount of talk about it, but I haven't ever looked into it myself; some of the subclass options do look fairly interesting, but I tend to stick more with the actual officially published classes rather than homebrew, though I did hear that WOTC is adding official support for it? I dunno.
It is from Critical Role so I imediately assume its unbalanced faggot shit.
Bearfolk are from Ebon Tides, while Vulpin are from Humblewood; they're both third-party settings, not made by WOTC. That said, I've heard of people using them for their DnD campaigns anyways.
This because these people are furries and should not be suffered to live.
