The submission period for the second ever Wild Homebrew Jam is now over!

Now, it’s time for everyone to vote on their favorite homebrew offerings. Visit the #jam-submissions channel, and react to submissions with the not-so-new emote to vote for them! You can vote for as many submissions as you like, but please only use one account per person to vote for submissions.

In addition, you can use the emote to vote for any entries that match the “Steam” theme for this Homebrew Jam.

As you’re voting for submissions, we heartily encourage you to read everyone’s homebrew. If you haven’t already, give its creator some feedback! Let them know what you liked, or disliked; how things could be improved, or how you’d like to see it expanded upon. Even if you don’t upvote a homebrew creation, feedback is good to receive, and might help their next creation be better!

You have until December 10th, 12 PM GMT to cast your votes! Once everyone’s voted, we’ll reveal the winners – and the winner of our “Developer’s Choice” award – in the next blog post.

It’s that time of the year, once again !

Last year, we organized a fun event to celebrate both the then-newly-available GitHub Wiki, and the growth of the Reclaim the Wild community as a whole : the Wild Homebrew Jam !

For those unaware of what a “Jam” consists of, it’s a celebration of creation and content created by people, as a showlight of their creativity. Our last year’s example is still standing : The Global Game Jam is one of the biggest game design events of the year, dedicated to the creation of games in less than 3 days, around a specific thematic unknown to everyone before the Jam begins. We of course don’t expect people to work that quickly, so our own Jam lasts during all of November, from the 1st, to the 30th.

And as our domain isn’t exactly video games, but tabletop ones, we’re looking for homebrew content of any kind! It can go from new gameplay options (like new Races, Feats, Techniques, or Spells), to new adventures (like modules and encounters), to completely new rules or even systems! We’re open to mostly anything, with the sole conditions that your content must be original, safe for work, and wholly made by you withing the month of November!

Last year gave us multiple new adventures and dungeons, rules for grand-scale battles, multiples techniques, monsters and races, and even a complete Metroid conversion of the system!

As with last year, the developers and moderators are offering prizes for a select few high-quality submissions! Your content can get special recognition, be featured on the website, and even earn you a Nintendo eShop gift card!

This year, we even add a new twist with a theme ! While it’s completely optional for you to follow it, so people can still submit anything they created with their blossoming creativity, we hope it will give some inspiration boost !

Check out the rules below for more information, and we hope to see you hang out in our Discord, submitting some new homebrew!!

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