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Concerning Judges Guild’s current owner, the son of one of the co-founders -- Many other people from diverse backgrounds contributed to Judges Guild’s early products, but this is the present owner of the JG name who has been selling PDFs of those older publications as well as licensing new related works.

See also Bat in the Attic statement of severing business ties:

https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2020/02/concerning-judges-guild.html

Comments page from Judges Guild’s unfulfilled 2014 Kickstarter:

Oh, you found my stupid stupid D&D homebrew blog! Where I take things that already exist and turn them into RPG content! (Just D&D 5e for now; but I might branch out as I read more TTRPGs.)

What I mean is, I take characters/creatures/items/whatever from other media and pop culture and make stats and mechanics for them. 

As much as this blog is for funsies, I take this seriously as an exercise in both adaptation and game design. So fair warning, some character accuracy may be sacrificed in order to produce well-balanced, usable content. It might be fun to figure out how much damage Saitama deals in a single attack to kill literally anything in one punch, but mechanically speaking, that would be a game-breaking pain in the ass for any player or DM.

Works the other way around too. If I like a character, but they only demonstrate a few abilities throughout the [game/show/movie/comic/book/whatever], I might stretch their established powerset, refer to fanon, infer more abilities, etc. instead of finding something easier to adapt because fuck you I like them.

Most character posts will be two-parters: one post where I take existing races/classes/backgrounds/feats/stuff and figure out how best to build Johnny Characterpants; second post, where I make a subclass that more accurately reflects the core of that same character.

For the Part A’s (the “Canon Builds,” as I call them), I’ll stick to official Wizards material as much as possible, just to see if I can. BUT - I’m a big fat hypocrite so I bend this rule when I want. Particularly, when I think a race/class/thing from an established 3rd-party publisher (Kobold Press, Frog God Games, ENWorld) would fit better for whatever I’m adapting. Also because the homebrew community needs more love. And I might break my rule even more and suggest other homebrewers’ stuff with proper credits and links and whatnot, like a madman!

Final disclaimer, play these builds at your own risk. This blog is like, 70% for goofs, but I am trying my best to create balanced, thought-out material. I certainly won’t have the chance to playtest everything before I post it. And that’s why I’m throwing all this crap up here for free, and not charging you a Suggested Donation up on DMsGuild. Maybe they work, maybe they’re absolutely broken. If you like my stuff, try it out and see! And – in a constructive fashion, if you please – feel free to let me know what does/doesn’t work!

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Over the past 5 years (2017-2023) myself and Morrus have covered, in I admit a somewhat haphazard fashion, a significant amount of Tabletop RPG publishing on Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk, the podcast for ENworld.org. Known affectionately to me as “MUTRT” (pron: Muttered) I regret only that I have never managed to make “The Wizards of Pod” a thing. Through the whole journey we’ve had the…