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#Foxin dnd professional

It’s essentially the same as RPG Workshop, but with a few more options. For example, if you wanted to create a homebrew monster with a climbing or burrowing speed, you’d be SOL with this tool.Īlong the same vein is a site called Tetra-Cube, which I’ve talked about before. The biggest downside is that – as far as I know – you can’t add things that don’t have a field.

#Foxin dnd professional

The tool takes care of the rest for you, allowing you to easily create professional looking statblocks while still focusing on the mechanical and flavorful content. It’s as easy as typing the values and abilities you want into the appropriate fields. If you’ll be using some of the methods below, RPG Workshop is a great tool for making DnD homebrew monster statblocks.

#Foxin dnd code

It may look like an intimidating mess of code (it’s markdown, btw), but there are lots of resources if you’re willing to spend a short amount of time learning. I’ve seen some really neat, professional looking things be created from here but I haven’t actually used it myself so I can’t directly attest to its user-friendliness or steepness of the learning curve. It’s sort of a one-stop-shop while the other methods might require combining a few tools to create a complete homebrew monster. As a DM, it’s far more beneficial to understand the monster creation and balancing process than it is to understand the nuances of Photoshop or GM Binder.īut anyway, here’s a few tools you can select fromĪn extremely popular method is to use a site called GMBinder. It’s much better get practice making 5 homebrew monsters and only use a pencil than to spend the same amount of time making 1 homebrew monster with 60% of your effort focused on flashiness. But I can’t stress enough the importance of actually getting started, while having the overall ‘finish’ of the homebrew monster come later. This section is here to provide you information to help you get started. There are n+1 ways to go about actually “making” the homebrew monster, with some of these methods a bit more complicated than others.

(A water buffalo, but like an elemental made of water that resembles a buffalo).

Wordplay and misnomers are your best friend!.

(this is what I’m doing with the Pogloid).

(It’s not just a fox, it’s a froststorm fox).

Use an existing animal/monster and add an element!.

Here’s a few easy tricks and ideas that I used when coming up with DnD homebrew monster concepts for Ekemon’s Exotic Mounts

Uses these arms (and feet!) to climb on walls and ceilingsĭon’t have any idea what sort of homebrew monster you’d like to make? I’ve got a few tips for you: sit down, slow down, and shut the fuck up.

You don’t have to write a damn novel, just lay out a couple of key features of your new homebrew monster that will make it stand out and be completely awesome.įor example, I’m gonna be trying to create a Pogloid ( pretty sure that’s a made up word). Here’s what I might write down for the concept Document! Write things down! Solidify them! If you’re working with a wishy washy abstract idea, you really have no idea what you’re trying to create which is gonna make things harder. The more well-defined and concrete your concept is from the beginning, the easier it will be down the road as you move on to actually making it. This is the most important step so you want to be sure that you’re not rushing through it. If so, great! Now you gotta solidify it and turn it from mystic thought-ether into something with a bit more form. If you’re trying to make a DnD homebrew monster, you probably already have a concept in mind ( I mean, you’re reading this article after all…). Not gonna lie, Step 3 is kind of a doozy but if you stick it out it’ll be worth it. Get ready to get creative as we go through the 5 steps for making DnD Homebrew monsters! This might not be the best way, but it sort of outlines my thought process as I’m going about making the monster.