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The Domain Player Handbook

June-August 2020
Created in DnD 5e
Created in DnD 5e
DnD 5e Homebrewed Player Handbook
Solo Project

"With the once ever-watchful Celestials having gone silent, the rest of the Domain has been forced into a terrible choice: struggle to survive by themselves, or choose a side in the rapidly escalating conflict that may rip the entire world apart once and for all."

The Domain Player Handbook is a collection of the various races, classes, and weapons that I homebrewed for a DnD 5e campaign. The book functions as a companion piece to The Aquarius module, and was created to introduce players to the homebrewed world of the campaign and allow them to choose new characters that would be able to interact with the setting in interesting ways. In addition to all the races of the base game, players may also play as a cunning sea-dwelling Atlantean,  a haughty Celestial from a floating metropolis, or a battle-hardened Magmarian from the depths of the earth's fiery core. To fit the campaign's more modern setting, I also introduced two new classes: the Pilot, specializing in planes, ships, and practically anything else with an engine, and the Soldier, a sort of gun-wielding equivalent to the base Fighter class, adept with firearms and explosives. 

The Aquarius was intended to be a quick, 4-hour, one-shot campaign for a group of friends over a long weekend, but quickly grew and morphed into a much larger and more complicated project. The resulting homebrewed monstrosity came in at over 60 pages, including details for 5 new races, 2 new classes, an assortment of vehicle, weapon, and enemy designs, and far more lore and world-building than my poor players had the time or willpower to even begin to unravel. For the purposes of this portfolio, I have split it into two parts: The "campaign" portion of the content, featuring location descriptions, possible player routes, NPC characteristics, and encounters, and the "player handbook" portion, which contains the races and classes I added to 5e to allow my players to make full use of the setting. 

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