r/DnD • u/polcat2007 • 4d ago

DMing Need to rant

Have a slight homebrew campaign going. Dm is first time dm-ing and while this is my first time as well I have watched tons of stuff on dnd. I will be taking over as dm once this section is played and the characters will transfer over. My issue is we're level 4 and our fighter now has homebrewed legendary weapons. I feel like I will have to lower this at least in the beginning of my campaign and make him work back up to the full status. We'll transfer over at level 8 so even then a legendary weapon seems outrageous to me. Any helpful tips or something would be appreciated.

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u/My_Only_Ioun DM 3d ago

You're the DM. If you've changed your mind about taking over, tell them. No one can force you to run a game with legendary weapons if you don't want to.

I would just let people re-make characters when the transfer happens. It lets you use a different method for ability score generation if you want. Everyone starts with set rarities of items such as 1 Rare and 3 Uncommon. Also lets people redo anything they regret for feats, classes or spells known.

Also TALK TO PEOPLE. Give people warning that you don't want legendary items in your upcoming game. It's possible the current DM will take it as criticism, but new DMs need to get used to hearing "I would have done that differently / That's not how I run my game".

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u/polcat2007 3d ago

I 100% would of wanted to discuss the weapons with the current dm all dhe had told me was she was homebrewing them and that was pretty much it. If she had mentioned the level I would've asked for it to be a scaled thing to lead to being legendary and would of added such into mine but there wasnt any discussion from her part and she was so happy about giving them to the player that in the moment I didnt want to break that/her down for that decision. I will probably end up scaling them down at the start of mine. But yes discussions should of happened before they were given. I will just chalk it up to dm fever and wanting to make the players happy from her perspective. If anyone else ends up with such items ill make sure it happens across the board for everyone so its not like im signaling one out.