Dandwiki is pure garbage.

Undetectable Spell isn't edgy the hedgehog, though I don't think it's a great feat. Grimoire Necromancer was what I was calling "edgy the hedgehog."

Anyway - I'm not strictly against homebrew. But I emphasize the "home" part of that - the best homebrew is made by a group, for a group. When people start doing it and using it en masse it becomes a huge dumpster party, because all the feedback mechanisms are wrong and it sort of legitimizes the whole thing in a way it doesn't deserve. It becomes "additional source material" to some people, instead of what it is - the graffiti on the walls of the library.

99% of it is really bad - but that's because 99% of anything is really bad, but for most things there's a feedback mechanism that keeps all but the successful stuff from getting seen. Like, 99% of people that try to become actors are fucking horrible, but if you go to see a movie there's not like hundreds of people hanging out outside the theater performing short plays for you and telling you they're just as good as the movie you bought a ticket for. See what I'm saying?

My little PSA (which got kind of crazy) was just trying to address the rash of recent "Hey I want to play this cyclops wingmaster, any tips on builds?" posts by telling people that there's a way-better-than-average chance that they're trying to build a house out of literal feces. Like, some dude linked to a class that wasn't just bad, it was literally unplayable as written because it referenced mechanics that didn't exist, etc.

So 99% of the time, playing a homebrew thing is a terrible idea. And the 1% of the time when it's okay is almost certainly because an individual table decided they needed something special and catered it to their game.

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