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How do you introduce large amounts of homebrew content?
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My 2 cents: Rule changes should be shared immediately and agreed upon by the party. The GM is not the rulebook; the GM is the arbitrator for situations the rulebook does not cover. The rules should all be ones the entire group likes, or at least can live with.
Extra content (feats, spells, etc): stick it in the world somewhere and let your players find it. Nothing's cooler than beating a miniboss and finding an entirely unique spell nobody else has.
I like this idea, but given that players never read the rules, it's a little like asking my granny what kind of package management system her computer should use.
How complex are your rules? If it's more than a page or two, it's probably too much. There's a reason nobody knows Pathfinder's grapple rules. Cut it down to level you could feasibly expect someone to read in a few minutes.
My game has fewer rules than Pathfinder by any measure, although 'a page or two' seems a very low number - that sounds more like a little zine than a fully-fledged RPG.