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D&D Homebrew Monster - The Bean Sidhe / Banshee

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    A spectral fey tied to the Ethereal Plane, grieving for those of ancient houses and the downfall of great heroic bloodlines.  Inspired by Celtic/Irish mythology and folklore.      A homebrew monster for  Dungeons & Dragons  3e/3.5 ; created by  Aboleth Eye !        As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye      The sickness has claimed all but one of the castle’s noble denizens. The beloved son and heir of the late lord.  For days the sky has been dark and stormy; the roads muddy and impassable.  The healer requested days ago has been unreachable, and the young lord slips away more with each passing, gloomy day.  And the servants whisper of a haunting voice wailing from the cemetery beyond the hill… ...

D&D Homebrew Races - The Mortal Dullahan / Headless Horseman

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        A homebrew race of death-born, headless knights for  Dungeons & Dragons  3e/3.5 ; created by  Aboleth Eye !  Inspired by the Dullahan  from Irish folklore , Washington Irving's American folktale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and more modern incarnations of the headless horseman--including the Headless Rider from Japanese urban legends and light novel series  Durarara!!      As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye     Known  as “headless riders” and even "headhunters of the gods"; true Dullahans are some of the most terrifying entities to roam the planes!  Veiled in death, riding a vicious steed blacker than night and holding aloft a chain of spines and their own severed head; these dark creatures chase down their vic...

D&D Homebrew Races - The Bonepuppet / Living Skeletons

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      A homebrew race of sentient skeletons for  Dungeons & Dragons  3e/3.5 ; created by  Aboleth Eye !      As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye      Undead are a common breed of monster on the Material Plane (as well as other evil-aligned planes).  While the majority are extremely limited in mind--merely forms of flesh, bone or other remains given dark purpose and hunger--there are many breeds with intelligent sapient minds, almost always for ill.  But even so, most undead creatures lack a will of their own, as the living soul departs upon death.       Many undead, like the humble monstrous skeleton, are easily animated and therefore manipulated by necromancers for menial, malicious tasks.  By the time a dead cr...

D&D Homebrew Races - The Alraune / Malicious Maneaters

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      A homebrew race of carnivorous plantfolk for Dungeons & Dragons 3e/3.5 ; created by Aboleth Eye !      As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye      In the deep woodlands and jungles of the land, you may find areas completely abandoned of animal or human life.  Or rather, warmblooded creatures avoid entering the domain--for they know an Alraune resides among the trees and vines.  These predatory and seductive plantfolk do not just require flesh and bone, they enjoy the taste.  And they reside in the most dangerous territories as cunning man-eating abominations, luring travelers to their dooms.        The Alraune are a race of sentient plantfolk that were first discovered in the unexplored depths of rainforests and marshl...

D&D Homebrew Classes - The Dragoon

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    A homebrew Ranger variant class for Dungeons & Dragons 3e/3.5 edition , created by Aboleth Eye !  Finally, you can play as the dedicated spear-wielding hunter, dashing across the field of battle to face a behemoth without fear!  Inspired by the Final Fantasy dragoon archetype and heroes of ancient Greek myth!      As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye      A dragoon is a mighty warrior focused on slaying monstrosities and surviving everything beasts throw at them.  Their dedication borders on obsession, often leading to their ironic deaths at the hands of beasts.  The obsession borders on addiction; for if a dragoon hears of a terrible beast (kindly or vile) they cannot resist the urge to grab their weapon and charge in regardless of circumstance....

D&D Homebrew Races - The Novisnauts / Possessed Armor and Diving Suits

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A homebrew race for Dungeons & Dragons 3e/3.5 Edition ; created by Aboleth Eye ! These strange hollow creatures are loosely inspired by SCP 1861-B , episode #57 of The Magnus Archives , and the Creepy Old-Fashioned Diving Suit trope…      As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye      The first time a spacehand ran about crying about a figure floating outside of the spelljammer, their fellow crew and captain laughed at them…      When the lone fisherman came back from the bay ranting about a metal-suited creature rising from the foam to hand them a full net; the locals at the tavern called them deluded with too much salt on the brain…      And when a peasant burst into the tavern about a large dungeon unearthed beneath their farm, patrolled by something u...

D&D Homebrew Classes - The Celestial Warlock

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       A variant for the  Warlock  class from  Dungeons & Dragons 3e/3.5 Edition ; created by  Aboleth Eye !      As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye      There are those who will do anything for power, or their blood itself calls out to those hungry things that lurk in the dark depths of the soul.  Most warlocks tie their souls to the fiends of the dreaded Lower Planes–gaining unholy powers to influence, harm and terrorize all that is good in the planescape.  They are both slaves and addicts to pleasing their masters, and even those who pact with good intentions will never be rid of the allure of evil.      To combat this growing epidemic that poisons the souls of mortals, many beings of Goodness itself began to...

D&D Homebrew Classes - The Spiritualist Warlock

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       A variant for the Warlock class from Dungeons & Dragons 3e/3.5 Edition ; created by Aboleth Eye !      As always, though this homebrew was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye      One comes to briefly cross the threshold of life and death only through unusual means…  Perhaps one is haunted by a loving family member’s spirit…  A terrible brush with mortal injury…  A resurrection gone awry…  Or, perhaps, one may simply possess the natural talent to compel the energies of the Ethereal Plane…      Many individuals are called upon to see the unseen, empathize with the remains of the dead and channel spiritual energy often call it a curse instead.  Spiritualists are both made, as well as born…     How one becomes a spiritualist, or any other ...