Most of the games I am in allow SOME homebrewed stuff. Even the 4e game I am in my GM let me create a minor custom magic item.
My 8th level druid is a custom race. She has several custom magic items. My witch has a custom magic item.
My own campaign has custom magic items, custom races, custom artifacts even custom magic spells.
I'm all about creativity.
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I don't care where it came from as long as I think it's balanced.
I'd definitely be careful as to what I allow in my game and what I don't, but I definitely allow some homebrewed stuff.
I allow it; just like any other material I go over it carefully before giving it the go ahead, though. More often than not my players brew something up that is not only better balanced than a lot of published options, but better fits niche themes they are going for.
It depends on the player. I have one player who is devilishly clever at making something that looks totally balanced and ends up being a game-breaker. And it doesn't matter what the system is. Picture Brian from KOTD without the strict adherence to a code of the rules are the rules whether they help the players or screw them. If a rule loophole is helpful to the players he'll exploit it, if a rule loophole aids the GM in anyway though, he'll do whatever he can to neuter it in any official way he can find. I wouldn't even let him in the game except he's entertaining and a good role-player, he just has strong Munchkinish tendencies that the other members of the group can barely keep in check.
Sure do. Definitely want to see it before I add it in though and I do reserve the right to change things if they aren't (or come to a workable workaround with the player in question).
My home game is almost nothing but homebrewed stuff. "Official" content is only allowed if it can be modified to fit the home game.
I encourage my players to come up with their own homebrewed stuff (as well as almost constantly pumping out my own homebrewed monsters, items, spells and feats.) In the case of feats or spells, I try to let the players know about them long before NPCs use them (with some exceptions - if it's meant to be a secret in the game world, I won't reveal it until its use, and then let the players learn about it.) In the case of stuff my players come up with, I work with them to make sure it's balanced enough, erring on the side of weaker-than-standard to be sure.
My game is based on stories I started writing in 1967, so D&D is 'new'! I have over two dozen races that have appeared in my writing and most made it into my game world. Goat based centaurs, a race of octipi-creatures, marsupial sorcerers and radically different Elves have been standard for 37 years, but mostly stage props because I couldn't make them work as playable races.
I prune Classes to fit and use a spell point system for magic. There are feats I use that are hardwired into the campaign. Yes, I use homebrews and loot Kirth's rules shamelessly.
In my groups three of the four GMs do homebrew, the other runs modules.
I dont invent my own stuff (I pay professionals because they're better at it than me) and wouldnt allow a player to introduce something they've invented* (since I wouldnt know if it was good/bad/balanced or anything else).
I would have guessed I was in the majority, this thread notwithstanding.
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Well, I meant homebrewed rules and classes and whatnot, didn't mean homemade campaigns.
In my experience, those tend to go together.
None of my play groups ever considered homebrewing anything as players. Of course, nearly everyone was also a GM, but I can't say off the top of my head how much homebrew material they added.