Starting in May of last year, I did a series where I ranked my top 5 favorite homebrew subclasses for each class. We're going to take another look at those lists and see if anything's changed. We might see new entrants, we might have a change in opinion on where things rank, or nothing might have changed at all!

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a speculation post for what subclass content I expected would be included in somanyrobots' second book, Machines of Blood and Bone. On Thursday of last week, robots posted the first major update to the Kickstarter page, which includes among other things the full list of subclasses planned for inclusion. In this post we're gonna see how well I did…

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The season of horror continues with a third-party supplement infused with necromancy. And we've got an exclusive adventure reveal.

The season of horror continues with a third-party supplement infused with necromancy. And we've got an exclusive adventure reveal.

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Since the Kickstarter ends in 4 days, I thought it might be a fun discussion to talk about what we think from somanyrobots’ existing work is going into Machines of Bone and Blood. Here’s what we KNOW is going to be there, either because it’s mentioned in the Kickstarter (either the page itself or in the sample materials) or because the subclass doc specifically mentions the setting.

Fight the Necroindustrial Revolution! 2 new classes, 20+ subclasses, spells, monsters, and all the horrors of the Ivory Empire!

Xardorim was first conceived as a Baldur's Gate 3 character, a Blue Dragonborn Wizard specializing in the School of Necromancy so I could enjoy running round with a big batch of undead minions. However, while the Necromancy Wizard might be fun in a game like BG3, at the table it's an absolute mess that can add entirely too many minions to a combat, bogging down combat with a single player's turn dominating the time spent and trivializing encounters.

We fire up the necrofactories of "Machines of Bone & Blood," a new D&D 5E and 5.5E supplement that blends body horror, steampunk and industrial revolution.

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A friend of mine is running a one-shot later today, and luckily they're on board with letting me play some non-WOTC material! The brief blurb she gave for the story had some very dark and creepy vibes to it, so I felt it was only appropriate to bring a character using somanyrobots' new Abomination class, specifically the Nature of Flame character I mentioned here…

For our next build post, we're going to craft Varis, the Half-Elf Swashbuckler I talked about for my Critical Role Campaign 2 post. The Swashbuckler class is another creation of somanyrobots, one featured in the same book I mentioned in my build post for Voss, and also for free on robots' website. Disclaimer: Yes that is Rheika in the Dawntrail Red Mage outfit as the header image.

Our next build is going to feature a character I talked about in my Critical Role Campaign 4 series, and one I've been thinking about more and more since the book his class is featured in, Songs of the Spellbound Sea, finally arrived on my doorstep a week ago. I did not expect to love somanyrobots' Bloodrager class…

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