Excal-Heim Character Creation

The Moon is An Egg

Excal-Heim Player's Guide

Magic, Potions, and Cocaine.

Combat Revamped

Deem Leem's House Rules

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Send me a link if you find offsite homebrew you wish to use. Expect nerfs/buffs.

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House Rules

• Alignment Chart v.4
• Custom Exhaustion Effects
• Death Bane
• Deem Leem's Misc Rules
• Drinking
• Environmental Magic Reactions
• Order of Combat
• Unique Combat Actions
• Update Log

Reference

• 1178 Trinkets
• Drugs
• Health Potion(Varies)
• Improved Wild Magic
• Language List
• Mana Steel Wild Magic
• Potions
• Random Gender Chart

Deem Leem's Misc Rules

Misc

Roll Ties. Succeed in favor of the person that rolled.

Bag of holding. Explode contents when ruptured. Crafted with 6th-level spells.

Temp HP. Temp HP stacks.

Removed Feats. The Alert, Sentinel, and all UA skill feats.

The Magic Initiate is unavailable to casters.

Removed Races. Orcs and Aasimar.

Falling damage. You take 1/2 damage if you land on "soft" objects or creatures.

Attack

Nonlethal Melee. Melee weapons can deal lethal or nonlethal damage at will.

Nonlethal Ranged. Ranged weapons requier special sleeper ammunition.

Plunging Attack. You must be falling at normal speeds above the target. Deals 1 level of crit per 10ft.

Bomb Attacks. Creatures make a Dex save to move out of AOE if they have movement left.

Dual typing. All weapons and/or spells with two damage types will use the 1st type, unless the target
is resistant or immune, in which case the 2nd type will be used.

Non-Nat Crits. If attack roll ≥ target AC*2, it's a critical hit. Does not apply to spells.

Using creatures as clubs Deals 1d8 BLD + 1 PSY. Full to target, half to "club".

Battle Master Parry. As a reaction, Add your Str/Dex to your AC for an incoming attack that you can see.

Parry stacking. AC bonus from multiple items/abilities with/named parry can stack.

Oppertunity Attacks. Auto hits the target. Can't add sneak atk, smite, spells, or use weapon arts.

Disengage Action. No longer uses a creature's action, instead uses 5 ft of movement.

Parry. Successfully parrying an attack triggers an opp atk.

Spell

Ascended Spells. Require 2 slots to cast. Can be learned by any caster with the needed spell slots.

Must be learned from a tome or scroll.

Draws more attention than normal spells.

Counter Spell v Ascended Spells. Combine required spell slots and use that. Ie: 4+3=7th level.

Spell Casting Time. 1 Spell above 0th level per turn, not per round.

Out of spell slots Casters can continue casting but gain 1 exhaustion per spell level.

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Character Creation

Ability score options

Normal Rules: Roll 4d6 and drop lowest, totalling the remainder. Do so 7 times and pick 6.
Standard Array: Assigne these as you see fit: 15(+2), 14(+2), 13(+1), 12(+1), 10(+0), 8(-1).
Blaze-It Rules: Roll 4d20 , drop 2 lowest and the highest.
Point-Buy: Discouraged going forward, as it makes for boring characters that prioritize stats.

Class:

All official Classes and subclasses are allowed, along with the 5 listed below.

Race:

Most races and subraces are allowed, along with the 6 new races listed below.

However, Dragonborn and Human have been changed.

The only races currently not allowed are orcs and half-orcs.

Alignment:

I made a new Alignment Chart v.4. This will not dictate how your character must act.

Starting Level:

All characters will start at level 3. So that everyone's character is fully formed.

Health:

Roll for your hit points as normal.

If you don't like what you rolled, you can take the average HP instead.

F E A T S:

Everyone gets 1 Feat for free, Humans get 2.

5e SRD Feats can be found here while my feats can be found to the right.

Languages:

Language List

Gear:

You get both starting gear and starting wealth for your class and background.

This is to simulate having gone on a few adventures already.

Be sure to check the Combat Revamped Page for any changes to your weapons and armor.

New/Changed Races

New	Stats	overview
Anubi	Str +2, Cha +1	Tabaxi, but Dogs. They're good boys/girls/other.
Astari	Con +1, Cha +2	Handcrafted by gods to be martyr, Now with dark vision.
Dullahan	Con +2	HEADLESS EDGELORDS... Side effects may include depression.
Farspawn	New +2, Any +1	Horrifying tentacles and █████████, whats not to love?
Vampire	Cha +3	Sexy bat people with a side of blood.
Were-kin	Has Options	https://youtu.be/h6D dop6pD8
Changed
Dragonborn	Con +2, Wis +1	Now with wings!
Human	Any 4 +1	Now less basic, still fucking everywhere though.

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Homebrew Classes

Casters

Sub-Classes

Engineer

Glass Cannon V.2.7

Non-Casters

Soul Hunter

Grave Knight

Soul hunter is not yet ready

Warlock, The CEO

Monk, Way of the Belly Dancer

Bard, College of Necromancy

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Homebrew Backgrounds

Born of the Far Realm

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World lore overview

Pantheon

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Current Map: Drucin, The North

All Pins are links to the different countries. Country development is based on what the party will be visiting.

Drucin

Open full size

the northern continent

Other Maps

Full Map of Excal-Heim

An updated version with the names
facing the right way will be added soon*. *next 5 years

Excal-Heim

Open full size

holy fuck this is a big map, why did I make it so big

Map of Vilantia, The East

Vilantia

Open full size

S W A M P

Map of Datilia, The South

Datilia

Open full size

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Alignment Chart v.4

A replacement for the traditional alignment chart.

Alignments are not to be used as a definitive position, your character should regularly shift around the chart within a day or two.
What you pick here should be your character's baseline.

Special alignments:

• Horny. Will drop everything to bang something, May or may not have standards.
• Drugs. Will sell the party for drugs.
• Obedient. Think robots, they do what is within their parameters and nothing else.

Some buttons for rolling: 1d9 , or 2d3

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Alignment	Lawful	Ambivalent	Chaotic
Selfless	Moral code based on helping others	Does their best for those around them.	"I'm going to make the world a better place and that is a threat."
Neutral	Neither helpful nor harmful to others.	100% case-by-case. Go with the flow.	Daddy issues and people with nothing left to lose.
Selfish	Moral code based solely on personal gain	Does whatever is their own best interest.	Believe themselves to be above the law.

current parties page:

Table of Contents

Welcome

• Deem Leem's House Rules

Character Creation

• Finding your Ability Scores
• Starting Level and Health
• Feats and Gear
• New/Changed Races
• Homebrew Classes/Sub-Classes
• Homebrew Backgrounds

World lore

• List of gods
• Maps

Alignment chart v.4

Changed/Removed Rules

Controlling the actions of other players is not allowed.

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Removed	Why / Notes
Alert Feat	OP AF.
UA Skill Feats	Borring/OP.
Magic Init Feat	Unavailable to casters.
Sentinel Feat	Deem Leem's Misc Rules.
Disengage Act	Deem Leem's Misc Rules.
Aasimar Race	Replaced.
Orc Race	Not in world lore.
Ready Action	Reactions no longer need them.

Random Gender Chart

Note: An attraction disparity will give the seducer disadvantage. Do whatever you want.

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1d6	Attraction	Gender
1	Girls	Fem-Female
2	Boys	Masc-Female
3	Bi	Fem-Non-bianary
4	Pan	Masc-Non-bianary
5	Ace	Fem-Male
6	Demi	Masc-Male

Homebrew Feats

• Based Caster
• Chonker
• Gnomish Polymorph
• Hemomancer
• Jack of all Trades
• Petty
• Smart-proof
• The Strength of 10,000 infants
• True Mimic
• Warlock's blessing

5e SRD Feats Link