Final post of 2025 and….it’s an oops. Heh. On brand for me. (get it, ’cause my name is Brandon? Whaddya mean no more dad jokes? FIIIIIIINE) I made more alts for this event for….various reasons. Let’s take a look at this final group, as Legion Remix winds down to the end Sehnrael Greyarah Pyrebrow Xardorim…
Critical Role Characters – Campaign 4, part 3
It’s the last part to our Campaign 4 posts and this time we’re looking at the Schemers table! This is without question the table I am least likely to want to end up at. Intrigue and Espionage aren’t particularly interesting game styles to me, I don’t typically enjoy playing charismatic face characters as much as…
2024 Artificer Review
Now that Eberron: Forge of the Artificer is out, we have the final full release of the new 2024 Artificer. I’ve covered the two UA versions before, so I’m going to go through and give my final thoughts on the core features and subclasses The Core Class Alchemist Armorer Artillerist Battlesmith Cartographer And that’s it,…
Critical Role Characters – Campaign 4, part 2
It’s part 2 of this series and we’re heading off to the Seekers table! I’ve learned since starting this series that Brennan’s style for placing people was to ask them about their character’s goals and place them based on that, so I apparently approached this entirely from the wrong perspective, but ah well. This is…
Legion Remix Characters – Part 3
Rounding out our alt list is a group of Alliance characters! You know how this works by now, let’s get to the image. Nocturhowl Race: WorgenClass: MonkPreferred specialization: Windwalker Baelmara Race: Kul Tiran humanClass: DruidPreferred specialization: Feral Nichtsehen Race: Night ElfClass: Demon HunterPreferred specialization: Havoc Arcanomecha Race: MechagnomeClass: PriestPreferred specialization: Shadow And that’s the last…
Critical Role Characters – Campaign 4, part 1
We set up all the rules a couple of weeks ago, now it’s time to do our first set of potential characters for Campaign 4. We’re going to start off with the Soldiers table. While I do greatly enjoy combats in D&D, I don’t necessarily believe this is the table I would most likely find…
Legion Remix Characters – Part 2
It’s part 2 of the series looking at my Legion Remix characters, and today we’re gonna be looking at my group of Horde alts that are all in melee classes. I feel it’s important for you to know that I instinctively typed “melee jobs” in the above sentence before realizing what I’d done and correcting…
Critical Role Characters – Campaign 4
Hey, remember this post from over a year ago when I talked about what I would have played if I were on Critical Role, and then these three posts where I discussed alternate options? I had a lot of fun doing that, and I always planned on doing it for the next major campaign, once…
Legion Remix Characters – Part 1
What’s this? A World of Warcraft pose here on YQLIF? In 2025? Hey, we got our start writing about WoW, and Legion Remix is going on, which happens to be the last expansion I truly enjoyed start to finish in this game, so why not? If you haven’t done a Remix event before (and there’s…
Top 5: Wizard Homebrew
Wizards are already among the most powerful of D&D’s spellcasting classes thanks to the sheer versatility of Wizard magic, so their subclasses don’t quite as heavily influence their power compared to other classes. That made them somewhat difficult to rank. They weren’t the most heavily revised of these lists (that honor remains with the Rogue),…
UA: Psion Update
We have an update to the Psion UA we originally talked about back in June! Let’s go over some of the big changes. Honestly this new class has been my favorite thing they’ve introduced in Unearthed Arcana since the release of 2024, so I have high hopes for it! As per usual, I won’t cover…
Top 5: Warlock Homebrew
Warlocks are immensely fun to write backstories for and to roleplay because you have a built it dynamic with an NPC as part of the package. I know a lot of people hate how few spell slots they get, but to me half the fun is deciding when to drop the most impactful spell you…
Building Seth – Kinetic Inventor
We took a bit of a break ago to cover the update to the Magic subclasses UA, but now it’s time for the third entry in our Kinetic Inventor build series. This time we’re looking at Seth Lassiter as a Magitek Innovation inventor. Technically, if we were being true to the original D&D Seth, he…
Top 5: Sorcerer Homebrew
Sorcerers are near and dear to my heart. They were the first class in D&D I ever played. I was always greatly attracted to the idea that their magic was fully theirs, part of them, and it couldn’t be taken away by outside powers or denied to them because they lost a book. The fact…
UA: Magic Subclasses Updated!
We got a blog post which provides some updates to some of the Magic UA subclasses, as well as a link to the new playtest packet. Let’s have a look at what they changed here. Arcana Domain, Hexblade, and Ancestor Sorcerer Not found in this update. The Arcana Cleric was overall fine, so maybe they…
Top 5: Rogue Homebrew
Rogues were a bit hard to rank, since most of their power is wrapped up in their core class features, they don’t have a HUGE amount of room in their power budget for subclass features to influence their design. It also doesn’t help that rogues gain their first subclass feature at level 3 and gain…
Building Bolg – Kinetic Inventor
Welcome to the second entry in our Kinetic Inventor character build series. This time around, we’re going to rebuild Bolg, our Dromaar armor innovation inventor. I love the idea of a powered armor inventor, I’ve talked about the Kibbles version a couple of times. One of my chief issues with the Pathfinder version is that…
Top 5: Ranger Homebrew
This one was honestly easy, both in choosing the top 5 and ranking them. I’ve come across more than a few really great ranger subclasses, but these 5 stood head and shoulders above just because they speak heavily to themes I really love. Let’s get into it. #5 Dragon Apprentice Let me start off by…
Building Snickit – Kinetic Inventor
Welcome to our first build using the Kinetic Inventor. We’re going to start with building Snickit, our goblin gunslinger I talked about here, as a Weapon Innovation Inventor. I initially planned to use the base class when I made the character, but ultimately chose to go the Gunslinger route instead. Now we’ll take a shot…
Top 5: Paladin Homebrew
As I’ve talked about before, I do have a fairly specialized interest when it comes to Paladins. I’m not the worlds biggest fan of the trope of the chivalrous knight, and tend to favor Paladin subs that go against that trope. Vengeance and Conquest are my two favorite official ones, for example. Since I have…
Kinetic Inventor
It’s no secret that I have expressed a marked distaste for the Inventor class in Pathfinder 2nd Edition. I have also previously talked about 2 third party documents that help with changing that opinion, to varying degrees. Inventors+, from Team+, generally can be considered an expansion to what is available to the official class, while…
Top 5: Monk Homebrew
Let’s toss out a few disclaimers on this one right away: you all know by now I do not like monks very much. I don’t think unarmed martial arts as a concept is particularly cool, and I definitely think the 2014 monk design is particularly good in terms of combat output and resource management The…
Building Nilas – Level 6
After getting taken to a world (maybe) that we don’t recognize, battling some demon cultists, encountering an odd portal that somehow aged an NPC ally of ours, finding a town that she had grown in while “in” the portal is now in ruins, and battling some phase spiders that had turn the ruin into a…
Top 5: Fighter Homebrew
Side note: I think I’m just gonna keep using XIV screenshots where appropriate, why not. This one was tough to write, my lack of experience with Fighters made judging possible entries more difficult than other classes would be, but I think I’ve got a top 5 I’m happy with. Let’s talk about em! #5 Buccaneer…
Favorite “Official” subclasses
I’m very aware of my propensity for 3rd-party D&D player character creations. Frankly, I just think there are a number of talented designers out there who are willing and able to make player content for the game that Wizards of the Coast is unwilling to attempt doing. Considering just how many player options they liked…
Top 5: Druid Homebrew
I gotta say, this one was very challenging, just because there are a wealth of options out there even from the smaller number of creators I typically follow closely. I had to make some tough calls to move subclasses I REALLY love out of the top 5, just because those that did make it speak…
UA: Magic Subclasses
Another Unearthed Arcana document is out, this one covering 9 new magic (or magic themed) subclasses, including the four missing Wizard school subclasses, the Arcana Cleric, the Arcane Archer Fighter, and a new Monk and Sorcerer subclass. We also get our second pass at the Hexblade Warlock. Just like we did with previous subclass-heavy UAs,…
Top 5: Cleric Homebrew
Next up in our top 5 homebrew subclass series is Clerics! Yes, that’s a screenshot of Ishgard as the post image. It sorta works! I do want to speak of one subclass that you might be surprised not to see on here. Given that I’ve mentioned it repeatedly in this blog before, you might be…
The Intelligence Stat
Intelligence is my favorite stat in D&D. I know, it’s usually considered one of the weakest ones because there are so many more common mechanical benefits to the others, but I still love it. I’ve always been drawn to the smarter characters in video games for the reasons I talked about in this post, and…
Top 5: Bard Homebrew
Well, we had to get to this one eventually I suppose. Ya’ll know this is gonna be a hard one for me, because even with the idea of Bard moving away from necessarily being all about a magical musician, I really just don’t love most of the subclass concepts. The ones you’ll see below are…
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