Grage Facts:

• Backgrounds that Include Feats:
  I will allow all of these backgrounds under one condition: You have to have a backstory of such quailty, that you can be assured I will be using at least a portion of it in the campaign.

• Cleric - All Subclasses:
  Turning and destroy undead by all clerics is at double the posted challenge rating.


• Fighter - Eldritch Knight:
  In the 2014 (Classic 5E) fifth edition, the vast majority of wizard spells that this subclass could take were limited tp the schools of evocation and the abjuration schools. The newest version of this subclass now allows all of the schools with perhaps the exception of graviturgy and chronurgy. The best part of this is that D&D Beyond never regulated the evo/abj spells on their site so I will now use the 2025 version with no on-line changes needed (PBH 2024).


• Paladins & Alignment -
  On Grage the relationship between the pantheon of powers that be have a more direct relationship with their religious warriors. This means that all Paladins must be of lawful alignment with good, neutral and evil being options. Any Pally that breaks from a lawful alignment immediately becomes an Oathbreaker. So why does a Paladin have to be lawful when a deity may not be at all? Well every holy warriror has to adhere to the tennets of an oath. Why? Beecause even the deity of insanity has a method to his madness and that method is governed by an oath.


• Ranger: Spells - Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace one spell on your list with another Ranger spell for which you have spell slots (PBH 2024).


• Ranger: Beast Master: I like the Tasha addition of primal companions but it is still complete garbage that the original best master that actually uses an standard beast requires the sacrifice of the ranger's action and later lose one (5th level) of the ranger's attacks. So the following parts of the original class and options will be smeared together:
  1. As with just about all of the other pet and companion sub-classes, the beast master can call on his non-spirit companion to attack and possibly other commands as a bonus action.
  2. The beast that you can tame as a companion can be up to a 1/2 challenge rating.
  3. You must have a living beast present in order to bond your beast companion to the primal beast you summon. After the bonding the primal companion, it assumes the primal companion's hit dice and hit points in the same manner as a druid's wild shape. If the primal companion is slain, the ranger's actual animal companion reverts to the number of hit points before the bonding.
  4. While bonded, the companion can use both primal and natural animal abilities including pack tactics!
  5. The companion can be bonded with the land, air or sea primal companion summoned, making for a beautiful or horrid version of the bonded animal (whatever the play wants to visualize), but the rest of the Tashs rules apply.
  6. Healing spells will work on your comapnion while bonded as standard, but if the primal companion is struck to zero hit points, the regular beast will be left. If your standard beast is reduced to zero - it is slain and no more bonding is possible until you get a new compainion or somehow bring it back to life.
  7. In the case that your primal bonding is lost - you can summon back the same type of primal companion using a spell slot just like the Tasha rules. Again, the rest of the Tasha rules apply.
  8. The 11th level two attack OR multi-attack is valid depending on the original animal companion's abilities!


• Warlock: Pact of the Chain:
  Just about every DM has an opinion on how this pact is handled. Some treat it no different than the Find Familiar spell to the point of ignoring the actual description text. Others basically give the Warlock an actual Quasit or Sprite, and everything that goes with it. To clarify, this familiar is a spirit of the fey, fiend or celestial origin as in the pact description, but this pact with this spirit does provide the full familiar varient benefits as per the Monster Manual. Seriously, what is the use of this pact pre Tashas with out the familiar variant benefits?

Spells & Magical Effects:

• Magic can be a painful pursuit - Since the end of the Gith invasion, any spell that requires concentration will cause 1 hit point of psychic or necrotic damage (DM's choice) per minute after the initial casting in wild magic regions and/or during wild magic storms.


• Wild Magic Surges during a Wild Magic Storm can be deadly - Though wild magic storms are rare outside of Ahegthna, they do happen and have the potential to lay waste to a village or damage a large city. Casting a spell can provoke an AD&D 2nd edition wild magic table effect, and a wild magic sorcerer can get a party killed!


• Many spells from earlier additions are making a comeback via 5E with a twist - Any of these spells that are brought back officially by WOTC will be taken out of the vitalilty loss category.


• Pulse Wave is a standard wizard spell - The 3rd level spell Pulse Wave is originally a Wildemount Chronomancer / Gravimancer spell, but everyone likes it too much not to upgrade it to standard offensive spell.


• Boccob has forbidden Leomund's Tiny Hut (Homebrew)- Boccob has decreed that Tiny Hut has been replaced with Galder's Tower. Casters that have the ability to Tiny Hut instead will cast Galder's Tower. Casters that enter into Grage from a gate and know the Tiny Hut can cast it, but the spell will be able to cast it, but the Tiny Hut will fail as soon as someone from inside touches the dome. So casters should tell guests to bring a shit bucket.


• Silvery Barbs is a 2nd level spell - Don't hate it, but Silvery Barbs is just a little OP for 1st level, and I usually do not have an issue with OP. Also, I am going with the wisemen that Silvery Barbs does not overcome legendary resistance.

• Some old ass weapons make a comeback - The Broadsword and the Sling Bullet are returning, as well as the two weapons from the Exotic category: The Bastard Sword and the Kopesh. The Weapon Master feat opens access to learn these two options as part of your four weapon choices.


• Guns - The development of firearms did not begin testing until midway through the war post-invasion, and unfortunately gnomish artificers focused on using magical ammunition with elemental effects that had disastrous results. By the time guns, rifles and cannons were introduced on the battlefield using metal and wooden shot, only a year remained in the conflict - well, at least on a world-wide scale. After the Gith had vacated Grage, it was agreed by allied forces that though this technology was initially ineffective, these weapons were easy to produce and train with... and the fact that a mere commoner could kill a skilled wizard or even a hardened barbarian with one good shot was destabilizing to society enought to halt further study and distribution of all firearm forms, ammunition and smoke powder. The four shot revolver that is mainly carried by Artificers is considered a magical weapon by the common humanoid.