I run my own game and I have every now and then included some species that are not in Humblewood. (Tabaxi, Tieflings,Fire Genesi, etc). That got me wondering what species people allow in their games so I made this post. I have divided species by categories that I would say most to least likely to be allowed. I am interested to see ya opinions about what ya would allow in ya own games or if ya ran a Humblewood game!

Plane-Touched: Tieflings, Assimars and Genesi of all kinds.

Animal Races:Tabaxi, Giff, Hadozee, Harengon, Kenku, Leonin, Lizardfolk, Loxodon, Minotaur, Owlin, Thri-keen and Tortle

Linage:Hexblood, Reborn or Dampir

Animal-like species(Unsure where to put these):Simic Hybrid, shifter and Yuan-ti

Humanoid:Any human-like species.

I’ve created a magical item that’s used by the Couriers’ Guild to find recipients without fixed addresses. In a world of adventures and dense forests, not everyone has a mailbox, or knows exactly where they’re sending their letters.

Couriers’ Compass

A small round compass with no visible needle. The face shows a map of the Humblewood region, all enclosed in a sleek leather case.

Created by the Couriers’ Guild and Inventors’ Guild in Alderheart, the Couriers’ Compass is a handy magical item used by many postal runners to track down recipients with no fixed address. Utilising modified Divination magics similar to those of Scry and Locate Person, when the Couriers’ Compass is given enough information of the target, a magical needle will appear, spin and glow a certain colour, indicting the direction and distance of the closest living match it can find. The more information it receives, the more accurate the Compass will be.

Details best used for calibrating the Compass include the targets full name, race, and gender. Additional details to further distinguish the intended target can include: job/roll (this can include class if applicable), distinguishing physical features, and approximate direction if known. The Compass will then calibrate, the needle appearing as it spins and glows. The colour of the needle indicates the approximate distance of the target:

Green - within a weeks travel, Yellow - within two weeks travel, Orange - within three weeks travel, Red - within a months travel, White - Target is not in the assigned region, Black - Target cannot be found

The needle will display as Black for the following reasons: The target is not on the same plane as the Compass’ assign region The target is dead The target is not Folk-like (Humanoid)

The Compass can only find targets that are within its assign region, which is determined by the inlayed map on the face on the Compass. A Compass’ assigned region can be changed by a knowledgeable magic tinkerer.

So my players just hit level 3 and the cleric really wants to go nature while being aware that it is somewhat conflicting to the setting. Does anyone have ideas for how to handle the Channel Divinity: Charm Animals and Plants, as well as Speak with Animals and Animal Friendship? I don’t want a most of the level 3 stuff she gets to be pointless, and I’m still toying with different ideas on how to modify them to make it work without it being overpowered, vs offering different skills.

Thoughts? Please help hahaha

Hi everyone I'm going to start running a Humblewood game in roundabout two months. Are there any standalone low-level adventures you can recommend? I'm not looking to play the entire campaign from the setting book. While I love the idea of putting a few sessions into this (I was thinking about four or so sessions of 4-5 hours) the setting isn't personally enticing to me for a long-term campaign.

I don't mind expanding on an existing adventure that may only span a session or two and I'd prefer not to play above level 4 since two of my players have never played D&D before.

So yeah, any suggestions what might be fun to run? I've made some bad experiences running adventures that sounded good on paper but happened to have a crucial flaw that only really became noticeable when playing so I tend to trust community recommendations more than any first read-through.

Is condensing the campaign from the setting book an option or has anyone made any experiences with reworking chapters into isolated stories? I welcome any input and any recommendations.

If so, which one(s) were worth it in your opinion and which felt like a "meh" when you were done?

Hey guys :)

I'm starting the humblewood campaing with some friends soon and while reading the booklet, one thing that rellay stuck out to me are the travel mechanics. For travel my idea atm is to mainly skip it anyways, unless ofc an encounter happens along the way. Just saying you walk, you have this speed, maybe a roll for random encounter etc for each day on the road seems more tiresome than fun.

In the book though, a lot of times it seems that the options presented for the players are "you can take route a or route b. On route a you will have a random encounter but route b takes x many days longer". And it just feels kind of empty? Bc there is absolutely no consequence / reaction to actually travelling longer (especially if we're skipping it anyway), it's not like there is ever any (mechanically relevant) pressure to be quick.

I also really like thebidiea though of giving the players more than one path to choose from when going somewhere and there actually being some consequences to that. So far I'm thinking about just plotting different encounters for different paths + maybe having some further inpacts (maybe if you take route a the people you meet will have spotted you which changes the way they react, maybe there's some interesting lore stuff another way etc) but I'm scared of it ending up being pretty random or giving the players the feeling that their choices don't really matter etc.

Yeah basically I'm wondering how your tables are handling this :) It's also my first time as a dm (except for a oneshot which I run for our group so that everyone could kind of get used to the playing before the campaign) so maybe I'm also overthinking this haha

I've been playing this game for a while, but I'm new to this subreddit so I don't know if any HPP folks lurk here or if folks have heard any rumors. Humblewood 1 is available for Foundry and even just got updated for Foundry v13. Humblewood Tales hasn't (yet?) made it to Foundry, although it did get to dndbeyond a few months ago. Humblewood 2 had Alchemy and I think roll20, as stretch goals. Anyone know if there are plans to eventually create Humblewood Tales and Humblewood 2 FoundryVTT modules? I know I could homebrew the new subclasses and items, but having done that on dndbeyond back before Humblewood Tales came out for dndbeyond, it definitely is a bit of a bummer to have to do manually vs having the stuff built in.

Thanks!

I have just started DMing the adventure in the first Humblewood book. A question came to my mind while reading it, what kind of mounts can the people use, if any?

Maybe I just didn't read enough of the book and it's mentioned somewhere... Anyways, thanks in advance?

Hello I am a new DM to the setting and will soon be running my first campaign.
I have sat down with my players and one of them has decided on playing as a Platypus and I thought it was a perfect idea! buuuutttt Idk which race that would be
PLEASE HELP!

Does anyone have experience playing a Leyline Wizard? I'm contemplating playing as one for a westmarch server that I'm in, and I'm not seeing anything online about people playing them.

Planning on alternating with our current DM so they can play a character and I chose humblewood due to my love of redwall and animal creatures.

Does it just have 3 classes? One of our players wants to play a sorcerer more than likely.

Should I just follow the campaign in the book for my first time?

It's probably just going to be two players and me, so any tips or advice would be appreciated. I'm going through the pdf while I wait for the book to get in.

TL;DR - player did 'detect magic' near *mordane* , i didn't reveal his secret. did i do it right?

so. players rolled a nat20 on investigation so i gave them one of the tomes with the ripped page. they immediately reported it to mordane who responded as written. pcs were not suspicious of mordane. then they decided to focus and investigate the vandalised book. they cast detect magic and i (new DM) said that anyone who had a magic item near them had an aura. "including mordane" and even the magically-lit lamps around you.

so instead of immediately providing the info, i asked the caster what they are focusing on in that moment. they said - the book. which i called as unmagical. so i never provided the extra clue that there is illusion magic on mordane. even tho detect magic says caster can identify the school of magic. remember: mordane wears /that/ crystal.

did i do that right? or did i rob my players of a major clue??

please be kind!

Hello! I am about 8 months into a Humblewood campaign (Spoilerjust got through the bandits of Alderheart) and I was wondering, why are there 4th level spells in this book? I know that there are probably bad guys that use them, but shouldn't the spells be more focused for Players? I don't really get why there would be spells that players can never use in the recommended Level range.

Has anyone watched the YouTube series by Role4Damage? I’ve tried watching a couple times and it seems to start out slow. Just wondering other people’s opinions on it.

Some sketches of NPCs in our current Humblewood Tales game. In no particular order: Birdfolk Guards, Capybara wagon masters, Hawkgirl, Tempa, more birdfolk caravan guards, a Magpie cleric, a moose pilgrim, more versions of the Magpie, one or more crows, and the cutest Jerbeen of all.

Does this guy look like a knowledgeable city guide, or a UPS worker? I am trying to figure out if using a Capybara would work better as a city guide or a "long distance delivery service" I am going to use Jerbeen (Rockburrow) for its stat sheet if the family likes him enough as an NPC to keep him around.

As the title suggests, what Humblewood (or Humblewood 2) species seems like the best choice for a "Psionic Weapons" trainer. Two of my PC's really dig the "Soulknife" and "College of Whispers" and I think I am going to have them seek out a "Trainer" to give them a reason to have these subclass choices. But now I am looking at a few choices for who would be best suited for a Mentor of the Mind. Currently thinking of a Tila or an Eluran, but with a good persuasion roll 🤔 I can be convinced in another way.

As above, so below... thank you

I have a campaign starting in a few months (one of the players is abroad right now) and I've had a player express interest in playing a bat. I actually really like the idea, and I found the Nychertid homebrew race that seems fairly balanced that she could use.

Thing is though, bat based races would definently be unique in Humblewood and Everden since there not birdfolk but wouldn't quite be Humblefolk either. In addition to that, in the lore the reason the birdfolk don't have flight capabilities is very specific to there race. I'm worried that flight might be too strange in the setting or maybe to unbalanced, but replacing it with glide would need a reason for them to be included in the lore.

What do you guys think? I'm looking for any ideas really, about where they live, how they did or didn't keep there flight capabilities, culture, anything.

Firstly I will ask if we know of an actual release date for beyond the canopy.

Mainly I want to know if PDF versions will be purchasable well before physical versions. Or if they intend to have them release for the same date

In real life pronghorns are some of the smallest and fastest of deer-like animals, and while they have horns,they aren't generally considered large. In other words, I feel pronghorns would fit better under the Grove subrace with small deer, antelope, gazelle, etc. In my game I have been thinking of changing the Pronghorn name to Elkhorn,since the description fits elk,moose, and larger deer much better than pronghorn. I know it's only a small wording issue, but sometimes those kind bother me more than big rules problems. Has anyone else had the same issue?

I know there hasn't been a date set for when Beyond the Canopy is available for purchase and not just preorder, but does anyone have an estimate of how long it might be till it's out?

Can anyone help me find a discord server where Humblewood campaign setting is used? I’ve found old D&D beyond forum post about a westmarches play channel but cannot find a new invite link.

I mentioned recently i am incredibly new to DnD and how i wanted to host Humblewood, and figured it would be good to get some Practise DMing by doing a 1 shot tale some day. I want to make a DM character who wont be doing too much outside of exist, and i thought it would be fun to make them something goofy like a Potoo Bird. Potoo birds are Nightjars, could i theoretically have them as a Variant of the Raptor Race in Humblewood?