Children of Gorkhon | A Player Character species supplement based on the world of Pathologic, and on adapting content from other mediums

For the last five months, I have been Dungeon Master for a game that isn't Dungeons & Dragons (which technically means I've been a Game Master, but Jeremy Crawford will have to come tell me himself before I retire the Dungeon Master title). This exploration of a system outside Dungeons & Dragons has been a lot of fun for both myself and my players; we've learned more about Fifth Edition's strengths, and about its weaknesses; its features and its lacks.

And so of course I decided to make some Fifth Edition homebrew inspired by our game anyway.

Oath of Detachment | Paladin Sacred Oath, and on sidebars and subtext

The Oath of Detachment finishes off my first trio of paladins, each inspired by Dragon magazine's "A Plethora of Paladins" article. This one was originally called the Oath of the Paramander and based off the true neutral-only pseudo-paladin class of the same name. In this post, I'd like to use this Sacred Oath as a jumping off point to talk about the reason I used optional variant feature sidebars in these three subclasses, and then I'd like to touch on how subtext can tell a story in a subclass.

Oath of Anarchy | Paladin Sacred Oath, and on adapting prior editions and on optional variants

After making the Oath of the Lyan, I went on to create the Oath of the Fantra, another Sacred Oath inspired by the same Dragon magazine article I mentioned in the post about the Oath of Society. While the Lyan of that article was the Lawful Neutral version of the paladin, the Fantra was Chaotic Neutral (remember, this is back when class alignment restrictions were a thing). As I became more experienced in homebrewing, my tastes and preferences also evolved, and so I eventually returned to the homebrew for revision, and it was renamed to the more generalized Oath of Anarchy—a nice opposite to the Oath of Society.

Oath of the Revenant | Paladin Sacred Oath, and on length, simplicity, and innovation

A short and sweet Sacred Oath! The Oath of the Revenant is an example of a few different things that I think about as I create homebrew.

Seelie Knight | Ranger Archetype, on rangers and paladins, and on one page or two pages

I realize I promised Sacred Oaths, but it made sense to me to share one of my most recent works after sharing one of my oldest. This distinction is slightly misleading, I grant, as they're both old and both recent. The Oath of Society was one of the first homebrews I made, but I revisited and revised it as recently as a couple months ago. I put together this PDF of the Seelie Knight a few days ago, but its first draft was from over a year ago! So really, they're both old and both new.

Oath of Society | Paladin Sacred Oath, and a lesson in learning

What a throwback, and in more ways than one! The Oath of Society is, in some senses, one of my oldest homebrews. It started life as the Oath of the Lyan, inspired by the Lyan class found in issue #106 of Dragon magazine, from an article called "A Plethora of Paladins." Since this was 1986, class alignment restrictions still existed, so all paladins had to be Lawful Good. But with this article, no more was that true! Now there existed a paladin-like class for every alignment! …As long as you were an NPC, at least, according to the article.

Inaugural Post! | Myself and BunnyBrew

Howdy to all the wild, wild Interwebs! Online I often go by the handle Bunnygeon Master, because I like Dungeons & Dragons, rabbits, and more than either of those, puns. This blog is meant to host the content I create as part of my homebrewing hobby. With any homebrew, my goal is to have fun making something interesting and balanced, and to occasionally remember the classes that aren't named 'paladin!' (It's my favorite, as you may be able to guess from the overwhelming amount of Sacred Oath content I tend to create.)

Most of the homebrews I create are homebrew archetypes, or subclasses as they're often called - in other words, new class archetype options for features like Sacred Oaths, Otherworldly Patrons, and more! I also make homebrew monster stat blocks sometimes, and even the occasional spell.

I should mention that I don't consider myself an exceptional expert in layout or visual design! My homebrewing is made possible by the great website GM Binder, a free-to-use tool that makes it easy to create and share all sorts of homebrew content.

As for the art I use, most is from Magic: The Gathering, which I use under Wizards of the Coast's Fan Content Policy. Content I create that falls under that policy is labeled as such in the document.

To you, the reader, and probable fellow Dungeons & Dragons fan and player, I hope you find something you enjoy on this blog, whether it's what you're looking for, or not. Happy gaming!