House Rules

Character Creation

Approved Options

Anything published on D&D Beyond that is fully compatible with the 2025 ruleset. Firearms are banned and do not exist in our universe.

Play in Good Faith

Don't build to exploit loopholes or break the system. Everyone is here to contribute, shine, and keep the game fun.

Ability Scores

Start with the Carthanelle Array: 18, 16, 14, 13, 11, 9. You may freely redistribute points downward from any score to any other score. You cannot increase the total points in the array—only move them around.

Class Adjustments

Paladin

Smites are a free action that can occur immediately after a successful attack and can only occur once per turn.

Warlock

Hexblade warlocks use the Hexblade abilities and proficiencies from the 2014 rules.

Rule Adjustments

Potions

You can drink a potion as a bonus action.
If you drink a healing potion as your action, it always heals for the maximum possible amount—no roll required.

Critical Hits

Critical hits should be fun and do more damage than regular hits. When you score a critical hit:

Base damage dice are treated as if they rolled their maximum value (e.g., a d8 becomes an automatic 8).
Crit dice are rolled normally.
Modifiers are added as usual.

Examples

Longsword (1d8) Normal roll: 1d8 (1–8 damage) + modifiers Normal crit: 2d8 (2–16 total damage) + modifiers Max + Roll crit: 8 + 1d8 (9–16 total damage) + modifiers

Greatsword (2d6) Normal roll: 2d6 (2–12 damage) + modifiers Normal crit: 4d6 (4–24 total damage) + modifiers Max + Roll crit: 12 + 2d6 (14–24 total damage) + modifiers