Last week we released the trap laying artificer archetype known as the Saboteur.

The grimgully has been in the works for quite a while.

Dreamwalker is an archetype that I’ve had in the back of my mind for a long time.

There are a lot of different ways to start an article like this - A mechanical breakdown of doing a whopping five subraces, an examination of what inspired me to tackle a dog race, what the heck does ‘groosehound’ mean, a really obvious joke about there being two whole feline races but not a single canine one.

Part of our core goals at Gelatinous Cubicles is to create things which allow players to do something in D&D which they weren’t able to before - be it fighting something new and spooky, wield a magic item with an unusual effect, or play an archetype that gives them enjoyable, novel features.

I’ve often heard that monks feel “out of place” as a criticism levied against them in DnD.

The Way of the River monk can be described as a very ‘reactive’ monk.

What makes good homebrew? What inspires it? The answers to these questions vary.