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7 Things Pathfinder Got Right | Homebrew Rules for D&D 5e

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7 Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition Homebrew House Rules Inspired by Pathfinder 2nd edition. D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2e are a similar D20 TTRPG and there are a lot of things you can take and tweak to help homebrew your DnD game! ⏬ More Below ⏬

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0:00 Intro
0:24 Introduce NoNat1s
0:50 Pathfinder Three Actions
4:20 Varied Initiative Rolls
7:53 Critical Success/Failure
10:54 Overwhelmed Condition
13:57 Doomed Condition
16:44 Clumsy, Enfeebled, and Stupefied
19:05 Resistance X
21:36 Shields
28:13 Death/Wounded System
32:34 Outro

20 Comments

@TheDungeonCoach Creator 5 years ago Pinned

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@Nonat1s 5 years ago

Let's gooooo!! This was a freaking blast to work on! Hope everyone enjoys watching it as much as we enjoyed making it!

@ajaafive1384 5 years ago

Stamps below

0:49 unwasted movement
4:20 alt initiative
7:57 crits
10:52 conditions 1
14:00 dying 1
16:44 conditions 2
18:58 resistance
21:36 blocking
28:13 dying 2

@vigilantgamesllc 5 years ago

When it comes to death saves, I homebrew that you take 1 stack of exhaustion if you stand up from making death saves. Exhaustion is awesome and just not utilized enough. With this change I also allow you to heal 1 stack of exhaustion on a short rest since I'm using it more.

@AlexPBenton 4 years ago

That first one sounds dangerously like PF1e’s Full Attack action, which quickly becomes the most optimal thing for any martial character to do in almost every situation.

@Hadaka01 5 years ago

I love the idea of the opposite of the “doomed” status being something angelic or holy, where instead of falling and dying, you instantly get up. Maybe an angelic ally, or a god of the clerics gives a boon to fill in one of the saving throwing for death saves instead.

@ixelhaine 5 years ago

I like the idea of foregoing movement for an extra attack at disadvantage, reminds me of the Full Round Attacks in 3.5e

@followingdnd1434 5 years ago

It's been amazing watching this chan grow so fast, I remember just a year ago barley having 15-20 ppl in the chats and now we have full rooms.

@klasberggren3905 5 years ago

At my table whenever you get knocked unconscious and get healed up again you get one level of exhaustion

@live4twilight4ever 5 years ago

I love the idea of conditions because they make homebrew so much easier. Instead of inventing the wheel every time you want to have an ability/monster/spell/etc. do something other than damage, you can go to the list of conditions and pick the one (or more) that makes the most sense. Unfortunately, it's harder to have a lot of conditions in something like 5e because you have, as you say, fewer dials to tweak. Also, stacking conditions can get annoying fast if you don't have a computer to keep track for you.

@kdenkniep1454 5 years ago

I loved to hear the natural conversation that took place in this video. I would really enjoy seeing more content like this.

@DammitVictor-8H 1 year ago

20:00 Honestly? I always liked the idea that Fire Resistance worked like in 5e, but you also had Fire Resistance X that negated any remaining damage under X. Because high-level Ifrits should totally be able to face-tank high-level fireballs... but low-level Ifrits should also be able to sleep on top of the campfire to heal faster.

@Zertryx 5 years ago

One of the main reasons Pathfinder seems real good for taking things for D&D is because Pathfinder 1 is basically a Homebrew D&D 3.5, and then PF2 just reuses some things from PF 1 and builds apon that and makes it better. Example the Resistance X was a 3.5 thing that PF1 used and PF2 decided to keep, D&D 4E also used it, I honestly dont know why they got rid of it in 5E

@Jason-ji8ql 5 years ago

Personally, I feel that the best take on a solid d20 system is the happy love-child of 5E+2E. Pathfinder even has the proficiency without level variant which allows a similar playstyle to 5E. But ironically enough, if you just put advantage/disadvantage to 2E, it loses alot of the "Danger" feeling. If there was a way to merge alot of these systems, we would have a system anyone could get into and has any level of complexity a player could want.

@LeLa_Lu 5 years ago

For death saves I personally prefer them to literally just carry over: Getting healed simply does not remove your fails.

@andrewcamacho5258 5 years ago

The death saving fail example about going down loses one and coming back up loses another reminds me of Boromirs stand. The dude was literally on death's door but through sheer will power, adrenaline, and resolve he stayed standing as long as he did until he was hit with another arrow that took him out of the fight

@greyborg3846 5 years ago

One idea I have for the Death Saves is that everytime you drop you lose one and if you take a hit while down you also lose one, but each character gets a number of Death Saves equal to 3 plus their Con mod.

@steverennie5787 5 years ago (edited)

I can imagine how fiends would have a mechanic that gives them like a plus one or plus two to ALL die rolls for each opponent that has the "doomed" condition... that would be cool. And the "resistance XX" (where XX is 5 or 10 or whatever) is a mechanic from D&D 3.5ed. Love that shield rule!! Would make having metal shields and wood shield a big difference... AND make magic shields really big.

@vigilantgamesllc 5 years ago

Items actually can break in d&d. No one uses it, though. The same way a door has hp so you can break it down, a sword or a shield have the same. A monster would just have to specifically target it.

@ThomasWGideon 4 years ago (edited)

Shield HP:
As per DMG section on objects:
Wood ac is 15, iron ac is 19.
I would count an object that is reinforced to be hit as one size larger resilient objects. Shields are small (except for tower shields, which are cover so medium) so a shield would count as medium for HP (tower shields would be large).
Shield HP: 18(4d8)
Tower shield HP: 27(5d10)