WithFinal Fantasy 14: Endwalker’s release in less than a month, fans are looking far and wide for things to occupy their time until the highly-anticipated expansion drops. One fan, Soren of Asgard, has put his time and effort into putting together an incredible PFD full of homebrew content that allowsDungeons & Dragonsplayers to play characters of the races and jobs fromFinal Fantasy 14.
Soren first shared hisFinal Fantasy 14supplement for5th Edition Dungeons & Dragonsabout five years ago, shortly before theStormbloodexpansion was released. In the years following, he updated the supplement with every majorFinal Fantasy 14release, adding new classes, like the Red and Blue Mage, Dancer, and Gunbreaker, and new races, like the Viera and Hrothgar. His most recent update continued the trend, adding theReaper and Sage classes coming withEndwalker.
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Soren’sFinal Fantasy 14supplement contains over 130 pages of wonderfully-organized and presented content, complete with beautiful art from the game. With this most recent update, every race inFinal Fantasy 14is represented, and the jobs have either an original class or anew subclass for one that already exists inDungeons & Dragons. Soren even included rules to play characters in ways impossible in the MMORPG, such as a Black Mage that focuses on summoning demonic voidsent or enthralling their enemies rather than blowing them up, or by playing an imperious garlean or a destiny-bound padjal.
For as long asDungeons & Dragonshas existed, fans of the game have sought to bring their favorite settings to tabletop roleplaying. In particular, settings likeMass Effect,Avatar: The Last Airbender, andWorld of Warcraftare often converted into5th Edition. While many others have converted various parts ofFinal Fantasy 14intoDungeons & Dragonsas well, Soren’s is by far the most extensive, comprehensive, and well-known.
Theworld ofFinal Fantasy 14is rich and vibrant, making it the perfect place for players to tell their own stories within it, and Soren’s supplement gives players nearly every tool they might need to do it using5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. What’s better, Soren is planning “big overhauls” to his supplement in 2022, and wants to add the Musketeer, an abandoned class fromFinal Fantasy 14’soriginal launch, and other iconicFinal Fantasyjobs that do not appear in the MMO and don’t have a fair analogue in5th Edition, as well as new spells.
As always, players using homebrew inD&Dwill have to consider how introducing it will affect balance. Though Soren has done a great deal of playtesting with hisFinal Fantasy 14supplement with other fans ofD&DandFinal Fantasy 14, it is important to remember homebrew is always changing and adapting with its rule system, and since5th Edition Dungeons & Dragonsitself is seeing big changes in the future, Soren will undoubtedly adapt his supplement as well. But at the end of the day, having fun is more important than balance–and Soren’sFinal Fantasy 14supplement has over a hundred pages of fun.
Final Fantasy 14is available now on PC, PS4, and PS5.Endwalkerlaunches on November 23.
