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Dungeons & Dragons (DnD) is a co-operative, tabletop role-playing game or more commonly referred to as a "TTRPG". Originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974, this game is still going strong. It's undeniable how many movies, video games, board games, and more have been influenced by DnD. DnD itself has handbooks, gaming supplies, magazines, animations, movies, video games, cards, fiction book series, comics, toys, and even a music soundtrack.

Put as simply as possible: it's a storytelling game in which you create a "character", play with other people and their characters in a world with problems to solve, monsters to slay, and more tasks. The DnD publishers give you all the rules of play and content you'd need to run your game (another name for a single DnD game is "campaign"). It's a creative game in which you can change almost anything you want, afterall it's story-telling.

Over the years, several companies had the rights to DnD and over the years these companies changed their licensing, to an Open Game License (OGL) from a Game System License and then back again. Homebrew is unlicensed content for DnD (races, monsters, backgrounds, classes, spells, etc.) created by the players themselves. Without the Open Game License (OGL), Homebrew would either be prohibited or the content creators would have to sell at the least a small amount of the rights to thier unlicensed material to the DnD publishers. These small content creators would suffer and so would the DnD community.

To see a player community of Homebrew items check out DnDBeyond. You can submit your own Homebrew or use some of the thousands on content already on the site in your campaign.