Homebrew Items and Abilities - Dolmenwood Campaign
The main campaign that I have been running with my weekly group uses the Dolmenwood setting and materials. That campaign has been on hiatus for several months after a big tournament event put on by Baron Hogwarsh just outside the city of High Hankle (in the meantime we’re running some other games).
Over the course of the campaign I’ve developed a few homebrew magic items and a few character abilities. I’m not a fan of items that are simply +X equipment with no other features, so whenever a module I’ve dropped into the campaign has items like that as treasure I have made additions to make them more flavorful and fun to use. The two items below were obtained from an NPC in The Hole in the Oak, so the base descriptions may sound familiar if you’ve played or read that module.
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Why Am I Even Here?
I’ve been playing ttrpgs for quite some time now, even though I took a long hiatus in the middle. My first brush with games like this was around three decades ago. I was probably 8, give or take a year. A close friend’s dad was running some version of D&D (in retrospect I can theorize that it was a heavily homebrewed version of AD&D 1e) and his family had a party in the sandbox.
It was brutal.
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