Homebrew: Organizing

v1.1.0

Anatnomy of Homebrews

Most of the content is made up of blocks called JSON Key/Pair such as a race, language, action, spell, class feature, language, or spell. Each of these elements have a set of fields that make up and hold details about its implementation; such as its title/name; a description, or specific settings unique to a certain element: if it is requires attunement and by whom; what it costs; its effects; damage and the like.

This section talks a little about each of these blocks.

STRUCTURE

The structure of an element is very similar for each element even though some elements may have required parts while others don’t require these to function.

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Each of these elements will have a reference

Section Name		Example File(s)	Template	Schema 📑	Tool(s)	Description
Action		💾	📑	[📑]		Reference for the mechanical economy of a creature's combat turn.
Adventure		💾	📑	[📑]		A playable adventure. Should include maps, event descriptions, etc.
Background		💾	📑	[📑]		A background which provides rich content for developing a Character's history, beliefs, and motivations.
Book		💾	📑	[📑]		Books are like Compendiums but include more information, 'fluff' and the like.
Bestiary		💾	📑	[📑]		Bestiary - Monsters, NPCs and the like
Boon		💾	📑	[📑]		Special rewards from Extraordinarily powerful creatures for a character's service.
Class		💾	📑	[📑]		Character class information
Class Features		💾	📑	[📑]		Features such as Invocations, Fightstyles, or the like.
Collection						A Brew with multiple section types defined within it, which doesn't lean more towards any one type.
Conditions		💾	📑	[📑]		Conditions and their effects
Creature		💾	📑	[📑]		Bestiary - Monsters, NPCs and the like
Cult		💾	📑	[📑]		A shadowy organization or guild, usually with a religious cohessive element
Deity		💾	📑	[📑]		The gods of the worlds of D&D through various campaigns.
Disease		💾	📑	[📑]		Diseases and illnesses.
Feats		💾	📑	[📑]		Custom Feats
Hazard		💾	📑	[📑]		These are most often enviromental hazards and climate issues, not as simple as traps but still worthwhile.
Item		💾	📑	[📑]		Items are the most complicated. Magical and Mundane, Trade goods, Kits, Mounts etc etc etc.
Language		💾	📑	[📑]		Sets of written and spoken languages, who speaks them, what font they use, etc.
Magic Variant		💾	📑	[📑]		??
Make Homebrew's Monster Traits		💾	📑	[📑]		Extensible Sets of Monster trains and feature usable by the Homebrew builder.
Meta tag		[ 💾]	📑	📑		This is required for each JSON
Monster		💾	📑	[📑]		Bestiary - Monsters, NPCs and the like
Object		💾	📑	[📑]		Objects are special items, being seige weaponry, explosives etc - usually mundane items that have specific features that exceed simple items but don't really have traditional combat aspects and need special descriptions.
NPC		💾	📑	[📑]		Bestiary - Monsters, NPCs and the like
Optional Features		💾	📑	[📑]		Optional features are things like Eldritch Innvocations, Powers, etc
Psionics		💾	📑	[📑]		Psionics are currently unique to Mystics and are similar to spells.
Races		💾	📑	[📑]		Playable races.
Reward		💾	📑	[📑]		Rewards and Boons, these are extraordinary results.
Ships		💾	📑	[📑]		Ships are part of a UA expansion to better identify how naval (space) combat would work.
Spells		💾	📑	[📑]		Spells are the magical powers for spellcasters, being divided into 10 tiers of power (cantrips + 1..9 level spells)
Subclass/Archetype		💾	📑	[📑]		Subclasses for an existing class
Table		💾	📑	[📑]		Tables can be random result tables or just a means to store data in a more helpful way.
Trap		💾	📑	[📑]		Traps and Lair like features that threaten characters - most often without combat resolutions.
Variant Rules		💾	📑	[📑]		These are sets of Rules for 5e that are House Rules, or expansions of existing rules - like crafting, mass combat/warfare, Strongholds and Travelling
Vehicles		💾	📑	[📑]		Ships are part of a UA expansion to better identify how naval (space) combat would work.