If you haven't noticed a trend with the character build posts this year, I've been trying to write up at least one using each of KibblesTasty and somanyrobots' homebrew classes (At least the ones that are in a released state. Made the mistake of doing an Abomination build early and now it needs to be redone with all the changes that class has received)

Fight the Necroindustrial Revolution! 2 new classes, 20+ subclasses, spells, monsters, and all the horrors of the Ivory Empire!

Fight the Necroindustrial Revolution in 'Machines of Bone & Blood', a new 5E expansion from Somanyrobots Games.

Fight the Necroindustrial Revolution in 'Machines of Bone & Blood', a new 5E expansion from Somanyrobots Games.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a speculation post for what subclass content I expected would be included in somanyrobots' second book, Machines of Blood and Bone. On Thursday of last week, robots posted the first major update to the Kickstarter page, which includes among other things the full list of subclasses planned for inclusion. In this post we're gonna see how well I did…

Since the Kickstarter ends in 4 days, I thought it might be a fun discussion to talk about what we think from somanyrobots’ existing work is going into Machines of Bone and Blood. Here’s what we KNOW is going to be there, either because it’s mentioned in the Kickstarter (either the page itself or in the sample materials) or because the subclass doc specifically mentions the setting.

For the month of May I decided to focus on subclass creators that aren't part of my usual three of KibblesTasty, somanyrobots, and TheArenaGuy. I've had a few items from creators like Mage Hand Press and Loot Tavern, as well as third party books like the Blazing Dawn Player's Companion, on my list to use for quite a while, but in preparation for this month, I started looking at some of the creations from folks I've met through Kibs and robots' communities.

A friend of mine is running a one-shot later today, and luckily they're on board with letting me play some non-WOTC material! The brief blurb she gave for the story had some very dark and creepy vibes to it, so I felt it was only appropriate to bring a character using somanyrobots' new Abomination class, specifically the Nature of Flame character I mentioned here…

For our next build post, we're going to craft Varis, the Half-Elf Swashbuckler I talked about for my Critical Role Campaign 2 post. The Swashbuckler class is another creation of somanyrobots, one featured in the same book I mentioned in my build post for Voss, and also for free on robots' website. Disclaimer: Yes that is Rheika in the Dawntrail Red Mage outfit as the header image.

Our next build is going to feature a character I talked about in my Critical Role Campaign 4 series, and one I've been thinking about more and more since the book his class is featured in, Songs of the Spellbound Sea, finally arrived on my doorstep a week ago. I did not expect to love somanyrobots' Bloodrager class…

Month 2 of 2026 is in the rear view mirror, and with it we have another character challenge to cover For this month, I chose to focus on the four new classes that are being worked on by KibblesTasty and somanyrobots and dedicate a week from the month to try and make at least one character from each class. They weren't the only things I made this month, but I had to do at least one for a new class a week, and I couldn't overlap.

Next up in our top 5 homebrew subclass series is Clerics! Yes, that's a screenshot of Ishgard as the post image. It sorta works! I do want to speak of one subclass that you might be surprised not to see on here. Given that I've mentioned it repeatedly in this blog before, you might be wondering why somanyrobots' Plague Domain is not on the top 5.

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Published in Songs of the Spellbound Sea by SoManyRobots, the Buccaneer Fighter is a tricky, highly mobile martial subclass built around Scoundrel's Strike

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