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Keep of the Kobold Queen Playtest Sign Up

Hello there backers!

First, the bad news—I have never read anything about Incarnum before it won the poll last month so it will be a bit longer while I let ideas percolate. I do hope it will be out by next week!

Next, the good news...

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December Exclusive: Dragonheart

What's better than a four Patreon exclusive fight clubs? How about five! This month you guys voted in another new fight club, the Dragonheart. Dragonhearts learn to mimic the might of dragons in a series of esoteric techniques passed down from lon...

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November Exclusive: King of Beasts

This month you all voted for the druid equivalent version of the Hand of Dread archetype proving to me once and for all that you guys really, really like pugilists. This one took me a bit of time to develop because I've written ma...

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October Exclusive: Street Saint

For your October patron exclusive, the vote was nearly a perfect split down the middle between divine and druidic archetypes for the Pugilist. Divine just barely edged out in the end. When I got to work on the idea, I decided I'd continue in the v...

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Other Interests

Hello there patrons!

I'm posting this poll to see if you all would be interested in getting non-D&D content in addition to the current stream of D&D content. In particular, I'm wondering if you'd like to get prototy...

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September Exclusive: New Feats & Spells for Warcasters

For your September patron exclusive, the vote was split among the many excellent choices but a narrow majority of patrons voted for a new feats and spells to enable gish builds. Surprisingly, I found this a particularly challenging thing to tackle...

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Patron Exclusive: Cosmonaut

For your August patron exclusive, the (very slim) majority of patrons voted for a new Field of Study for the Scholar class. As I was working on this concept I kept going back to the phrasing of the original suggestion that this was a scholar who E...

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Sorcerous Origin: Changeling, Early Draft

Hello their patrons!

Linked here is my early draft of a sorcerer archetype for an upcoming project I'm working on. I'm very keen to hear your thoughts! Please note that I was writing faster than my brain could keep up with me and the capsto...

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The Summon Class, v0.32

Hi there patrons!

Linked here is the newest draft of the Summoner class. I've completely reworked the core feature which meant I needed to scale back everything else to get feedback honed in on how that's working. My goal with reworking the...

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Patron Exclusive: Golema Pilot

For your July patron exclusive, the (very slim) majority of patrons voted for a new mecha piloting archetype for the Artificer class. As you've no doubt figured out by now, bringing science fantasy elements into D&D is one of my favorite thing...

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Preview: Infamous Adversaries

Hail fair patrons!

I'm putting together a few project proposals for collaborations and one of them is a project called Infamous Adversaries. The elevator pitch is that it's a collection of unique variations of the creatures introduced in th...

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Patron Exclusive: Petsoukhos

Hello, welcome, and thank you, patrons!

For your June patron exclusive, the majority of patrons voted for a new race with the prompt, “A warrior race of half-human, half lizard (centaur-like) hybrids w/ Ancient Egypt inspired culture”....

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Patron Exclusive: Lethal Weapon Fight Club for Pugilist

 Hello, welcome, and thank you patrons!

For May, you all voted on the Lethal Weapon fight club for Pugilist - but I was completely stumped on how to execute it! By focusing on improvised weapons I think I've come up with something that'...

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Patron Exclusive: College of Mourning Archetype for Bard

Hello, welcome, and thank you patrons!

For the May exclusive, one of you asked for a necromantic themed archetype for bard. This sounded familiar so I looked through some old documents and, sure enough, right when the Patreon started I had w...

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Spell Catalysts

Hello everyone!

This month we got a lot of great suggestions for Patreon backer exclusives! One that I was immediately interested in exploring, although it didn't win the vote to be the next exclusive, was the idea of optional spell compone...

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Patreon Exclusive: New Dwarf Subraces

 

Hello, welcome, and thank you patrons!

For April, you chose the volcano dwarf subrace for the dwarf race as your patreon backer exclusive. This is actually a concept I’ve been kicking around for awhile and whenever I thought o...

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The Scholar Class Graduates to the DM's Guild on 3/26!

Hello patrons!

I want you to be among the first to know that the final version of the Scholar class is coming to the DM's Guild on 3/26 - next Tuesday! Thanks for all the feedback and support you've given the Scholar!

Thanks,

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Scholar Class Art Preview

Happy Friday!

This morning I got the next to final draft of the remaining art needed for the Scholar class. I couldn't wait to share it with you!

From left to right we have: a grimalkin tactician, an elf scholar, and a halfling culin...

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Patron Exclusive: Nightbinder Archetype for Rogue

Hello there backers!

Last month you said you wanted a new archetype for the rogue class, the Nightbinder. You can check out this password protected update on the blog by using the password: shadowfell319.

Thanks for yo...

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Patron Exclusive: New Pact Boons for Warlock

Hello there backers!

Last month you said you wanted more pact boons for the warlock class so this month, you got them! You can check out this password protected update on the blog by using the password: pact219.

Thanks for your support...

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Patron Exclusive: The Great Trickster, an archetype for Warlock

Happy new year, patrons!
In December the recruits, adventurers, and legends voted on January's exclusive. They chose, "a spellthief archetype for rogue or warlock".  I hadn't ever really thought about an archetype like this before but I'm ...

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Patron Exclusive: Sigils of the Firmament

Happy December patrons!

Last month I put this month's patron exclusive to a vote and the winner was "a Rod of 7 Parts inspired set of magic items". I was excited to work on this prompt because there were so many ways to develop it. I settled on som...

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Personal Update: I'm A Father

Hello backers!

I wanted to let you all know that my son, Milo Finn Huffman-Byrne was born yesterday, 11/22 at 3:13 pm. He is happy and healthy and excited to help me write more D&D stuff!

If you're a $3+ backer, I will be closing th...

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Sterling Vermin Patreon, Revisited

Happy November, patrons!

As some of you may know, I am going to become a father this month - in fact, within the next two weeks! With this major life change, I had to think long and hard about how, and whether I would, continue to commit time to wr...

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The Spiritualist Class Now Available On the DM's Guild!

Hello patrons!

Please take the time in the next two weeks to download the Spiritualist Class from the DM's Guild for free. Mid November I'll be doing a sweep of the class with an editor to improve the text, make balance changes, and probably ad...

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Backer Preview: The Book of Uncommon Ancestry

Hello backers!

Today I am very pleased to share with you the final draft of the printer-friendly version of my upcoming DM's Guild release, The Book of Uncommon Ancestry. In this book are twelve races (some new, some revised), over 30 new feat...

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The Spiritualist Class, Early Draft

Happy October everyone!

I apologize for being a bit quiet lately - I'm chugging through the end of a few major projects and then I'll have a lot to show all at once. I've also spent a good part of the last week trying to quickly put together a...

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The Sorcerer, Revisited

Hello backers!

Linked here is the printer friendly version of the Sorcerer Class, Revisited as it will appear next week on the DM's Guild. Over the weekend we'll be finalizing the art & color version that will go up on the DM's Guild but I...

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The Sorcerer, Revisited - Semifinal Draft

Hello there patrons!

I recently got a chance to playtest the Sorcerer revisited and my findings were very useful. If you haven't seen the most recent version (before this one) it was posted on the blog a few weeks back. You'll note a few chang...

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Backer Preview: Way of the Tattooed Temple

Happy Monday!

I hope you all are having a great start to your week (I am, I have Labor Day off!). Today we're previewing one of the monk archetypes from the upcoming book, The Complete Devout Handbook. The Sterling Vermin Recruits and higher g...

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