Intro

Hello. My name is c0re. I’ve been playing 5th edition since the very early playtest, and have seen just about everything possible in the 5e ruleset. I’ve ran two full campaigns from 1 to 20, numerous other games spanning a variety of levels, and spent over 5000 hours playing 5e on roll20. Throughout my time with this game, I’ve noticed a bunch of smaller issues that I felt like didn’t quite fit with the rest of the game, and had slowly introduced houserules, homebrews, and other similar fixes to get things where I want them. I’ve shared bits and pieces of my work with different people in numerous 5e communities all over the internet, but wanted to compile them all in a single source to make it easier for people to find and use my tweaks for their own games.

Path of the Berserker

For some barbarians, rage is a means to an end- that end being violence. The Path of the Berserker is a path of untamed fury, slick with blood. You thrill in the chaos of battle, heedless of your own health or well-being.

Path of the Battlerager

Known as Kuldjargh (literally "axe idiot") in Dwarvish, battleragers are dwarf followers of the gods of war and take the Path of the Battlerager. They specialize in wearing bulky, spiked armor and throwing themselves into combat, striking with their body and giving themselves over to the fury of battle.

College of Valor

Bards of the College of Valor are daring skalds whose tales keep alive the memory of the great heroes of the past, and thereby inspire a new generation of heroes. These bards gather in mead halls or around great bonfires to sing the deeds of the mighty, both past and present. They travel the land to witness great events firsthand and to ensure that the memory of those events doesn't pass from the world. With their songs, they inspire others to reach the same heights of accomplishment as the heroes of old.

Trickery Domain

Gods of trickery-such as Tymora, Beshaba, Olidammara, the Traveler, Gari Glittergold, and Loki-are mischief-makers and instigators who stand as a constant challenge to the accepted order among both gods and mortals. They're patrons of thieves, scoundrels, gamblers, rebels, and liberators. Their clerics are a disruptive force in the world, puncturing pride, mocking tyrants, stealing from the rich, freeing captives, and flouting hollow traditions. They prefer subterfuge, pranks, deception, and theft rather than direct confrontation.

Circle of the Land

The Circle of the Land is made up of mystics and sages who safeguard ancient knowledge and rites through a vast oral tradition. These druids meet within sacred circles of trees or standing stones to whisper primal secrets in Druidic. The circle’s wisest members preside as the chief priests of communities that hold to the Old Faith and serve as advisors to the rulers of those folk. As a member of this circle, your magic is influenced by the land where you were initiated into the circle’s mysterious rites.

Swamp

You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.

Animal Companion

At 6th level, the druid can call on the assistance of the wild. They gain the ability to cast the find familiar spell, can only cast it as a ritual, and requires no material components. They can summon any CR 0 beast, and it does not become a celestial, fey or fiend. You do not know this spell, and it cannot be cast normally. Your animal companion acts on your turn and does not roll initiative, but otherwise has all of the actions and limitations presented in the find familiar spell.

Land’s Stride

Starting at 6th level, you can pass through nonmagical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard. In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement, such those created by the entangle spell.

You also leave no trail in natural surroundings and cannot be tracked. You may choose to leave a trail if so desired.

Nature’s Ward

When you reach 10th level, you can’t be charmed or frightened while outdoors, and you are immune to poison damage, the poisoned condition, and disease.

In addition, you are resistant to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from Beasts.

Nature’s Sanctuary

When you reach 14th level, creatures of the natural world sense your connection to nature and become hesitant to attack you. When a beast or plant creature attacks you, that creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your druid spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature must choose a different target, or the attack automatically misses. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours.

In addition, you gain proficiency in the Nature and Survival skills if you don’t already have it. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of those proficiencies.

Fighter Rework 2.4

Reworking fighter to use superiority die baseline has been a very popular talking point amongst the community for quite a while. A friend of mine tweeted the 5e developers and asked them their thoughts, and Mike Mearl's reply was "I think that would've been my preferred approach to the fighter, looking back." and "in fact, initial martial dice design worked that way."

My design goals here were to make the fighter have more meaningful and interesting options in combat while giving them a minor buff.

My original version of this rework removed action surge and extra attack (3) in exchange for full damage baseline maneuvers. This worked out mathematically, but was found to be pretty unpopular. Turns out, people REALLY like action surge, even when presented with a mathematically superior alternative.

I went back to the drawing board and decided to remove the damage and number of uses from maneuvers, so you can use a maneuver once per turn, every turn. I moved the ability to deal damage with maneuvers to battlemaster.

All Archetypes from the PHB, XGE and TCE are compatible. Use the included modified battlemaster instead of the PHB battlemaster.

Class Features

Fighting Style

You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose a fighting style from the list of optional features. You can't take the same Fighting Style option more than once, even if you get to choose again.

Practiced Draw

Through repetition and and discipline, your weapons have become an extension of your arms. You can draw or stow up to two weapons as part of taking the attack action, and you can don or doff a shield as a bonus action.

Second Wind

You have a limited well of stamina that you can draw on to protect yourself from harm. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + your fighter level. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Action Surge

Starting at 2nd level, you can push yourself beyond your normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one additional action on top of your regular action and a possible bonus action.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. Starting at 17th level, you can use it twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.

Combat Superiority

As a 2nd level fighter you learn maneuvers that can be used in combat to control the tides of battle.

Maneuvers. You learn three maneuvers of your choice, which are listed in the Fighter Maneuver list. The full list of maneuvers is detailed at the end of the fighter section.

Your Martial Archetype will let you choose from an expanded list of maneuvers when you learn a maneuver, which are listed in the Archetype Maneuver list. Many maneuvers enhance an attack in some way. You can use only one maneuver per turn.

You learn two additional maneuvers of your choice at 6th, 11th and 14th level. Each time you learn a new maneuver, you can also replace one maneuver you know with a different one. When you choose a martial archetype at level 3, you may replace any number of maneuvers with ones from the expanded list.

Hit Dice. Many maneuvers will ask you or your target to roll a hit die. The hit dice are not consumed, but only used to determine the strength of the effect. You add your constitution modifier to the result of the hit die roll, as usual.

Saving Throws. Some of your maneuvers require your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

• Maneuver save DC = 8 + proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice)

Fighter Maneuvers

All fighters have access to the following maneuvers: Commanding Presence, Feinting Attack, Grappling Strike, Lunging Attack, Parry, Pushing Attack, Quick Toss, Second Wind, Sweeping Attack, Tactical Assessment. These are also listed in the Archetype Maneuvers table and detailed at the end of the fighter section.

Martial Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you strive to emulate in your combat styles and techniques. There are many choices available to you, one of which is the Battle Master, detailed at the end of the class description. The archetype you choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Martial Versatility

Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can do one or both of the following, as you shift the focus of your martial practice:

• Replace a fighting style you know with another fighting style available to fighters.
• You can replace one maneuver you know with a different maneuver.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 11th level in this class and to four when you reach 20th level in this class.

Indomitable

Beginning at 9th level, you can reroll a saving throw that you fail. If you do so, you must use the new roll, and you can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest. You can use this feature twice between long rests starting at 13th level and three times between long rests starting at 17th level.

Martial Archetypes

Different fighters choose different approaches to perfecting their fighting prowess. The martial archetype you choose to emulate reflects your approach.

Archetype Maneuvers

This is a list of maneuvers available to fighters of different archetypes. The Fighter Maneuver list is available to all fighters regardless of archetype, and the archetype specific lists are available to fighters who choose that particular archetype at 3rd level. You may choose maneuvers only from the lists you have access to. The maneuvers themselves are detailed at the end of this document.

Maneuvers

Maneuvering Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can to maneuver one of your comrades into a more advantageous position. Choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature can use its reaction to move up to half its speed without provoking opportunity attacks from the target of your attack.

Menacing Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can to attempt to frighten the target. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Parry

When another creature damages you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and parry the blow, reducing the damage of the attack by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus.

Precision Attack

When you make a weapon attack roll against a creature, you can roll a hit die and add half of the total to the roll. You can use this maneuver before or after making the attack roll, but before any effects of the attack are applied.

Pushing Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can to attempt to drive the target back. If the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw with disadvantage. On a failed save, you push the target up to 10 feet away from you.

Quick Toss

As a bonus action, you can make a ranged attack with a weapon that has the thrown property. You can draw the weapon as part of making this attack.

Rally

On your turn, you can use a bonus action to bolster the resolve of one of your companions. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature can gain temporary HP equal to 1d4 plus your constitution modifier.

Riposte

When a creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the creature.

Second Wind

You have a limited well of stamina that you can draw on to protect yourself from harm. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + your fighter level. Once you use this maneuver, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Sweeping Attack

When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can attempt to damage another creature with the same attack. Choose another creature within 5 feet of the original target and within your reach. It takes damage equal to your original attack or your fighter level, whichever is lower.

Tactical Assessment

When you make an Intelligence (Investigation), an Intelligence (History), or a Wisdom (Insight) check, you can add your Constitution modifier to the ability check.

Trip Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can to attempt to knock the target down. If the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you knock the target prone.

Way of the Four Elements

You follow a monastic tradition that teaches you to harness the elements. When you focus your chi, you can align yourself with the forces of creation and bend the four elements to your will, using them as an extension of your body. Some members of this tradition dedicate themselves to a single element, but others weave the elements together.

Many monks of this tradition tattoo their bodies with representations of their chi powers, commonly imagined as coiling dragons, but also as phoenixes, fish, plants, mountains, and cresting waves.

Assassin

You are a smooth talker, suave negotiator, and an excellent liar. You trick and deceive your targets into allowing you into their homes freely, then strike when they least expect it. You eliminate your targets with a sudden and surprising strike that catches your unprepared victims completely defenseless.

Wild Magic

Your innate magic comes from the wild forces of chaos that underlie the order of creation. You might have endured exposure to some form of raw magic, perhaps through a planar portal leading to Limbo, the Elemental Planes, the mysterious Far Realm, or it could be a fluke of your birth, with no apparent cause or reason.

School of Necromancy

The School of Necromancy explores the cosmic forces of life, death, and undeath. As you focus your studies in this tradition, you learn to manipulate the energy that animates all living things. As you progress. you learn to sap the life force from a creature as your magic destroys its body, transforming that vital energy into magical power you can manipulate.

Most people see necromancers as menacing, or even villainous, due to the close association with death. Not all necromancers are evil, but the forces they manipulate are considered taboo by many societies.

Houserules

These are merely a few houserules I use in some of my campaigns. Theres not much to explan here except they change the tone of the game to fit a bit better with a particular style of campaign, or solve some smaller design issues I have with the core mechanics.

Hexgrids and Overworld Travel

When your campaign has lots of overworld travel, the base rules in the player's handbook can be very lacking. It is best to consider using a hexgrid when dealing with campaigns that have large overworld travel sequences that need to be spiced up with exciting and effective mechanics. Your players can learn to interact with these mechanics, making overworld travel more engaging and interactive.

Maps

There are generally two ways to make a hexmap: 1. Either generate a hex map using tiles that each represent the climate, animals, or dominate vegetation (called a "Biome") in that particular hex, or 2. Take an existing map of a landmass and simply add hexes over the top.

The map on the left is an example of what I call a "Terrain Based Map". The map on the right is what I call an "Art Based Map".

Terrain Based Map

A Terrain Based map uses each hex as a generic embodiment of the biome it represents. Each hex is a single biome, and the features of the map are made by placing these biomes next to each other to make up the smaller details a typical art based map would have. A mountain ridge would be illustrated by a long band of mountain biome hexes, and a river would be a series of water hexes cutting through the land based hexes on either side. This type of map works best when you care less about the specific details of each hex, but instead want each hex to represent a particular environment and works great with games that rely heavily on random encounter tables to make up a bulk of the campaign's content.

A Terrain based map can be generated relatively easily, and involves much less skill and finesse than an Art based map. When making this type of map, it's easy to accidentally make something that seems unrealistic and confusing to look at. Consider using a real world map of a region similar to the one you are creating, or an art based fictional map as reference while designing your terrain based map to ensure it keeps some level of realism.

Art Based Map

An Art Based Map uses a piece of existing art with a grid layered on top. Each hex is a form of measurement that does not account for the freeform nature of geography. Because of this, you will often have several different biomes and geographical features all within a single hex.

Because Hexes will not have uniform biomes like the Terrain Based Maps, you must account for the ever changing landmass that does not interact with the hexes above it. Typically the best way to do this will to be to have biomes be geographically dependent, meaning that you use the features of the map itself to choose the biomes of each hex. Instead of having a "Jungle Hex", you will instead have a portion of your map labeled "Stranglethorn Jungle" and all hexes that fit the geographic description will use the Jungle biome template. Essentially, instead of dictating what the map looks like based on the hexes, you dictate what the hex contains based on the map.

Types of Hexes

The age old debate, Horizontal vs Vertical Hexes. Although no clear victor has been decided over the ages, there are valid arguments and design considerations to be make for either option. There is no right or wrong answer, so ill be outlining the upside of each hex type and leaving the final decision up to you.

Horizontal Hexes . . . . . Vertical Hexes

Vertical Hexes

This is the more common of the two hex grid styles. This is largely due to the fact that grid paper has come primarily in this orientation and used by GM's for many years. Most people assume this is the "correct" orientation for hexes by default, and that horizontal hexes appear to look strange at a first glance.

If your map is going to use a "bird's eye" or "Isometric" viewpoint, then you will want to use vertical hexes. This is due to the fact that details along the bottom edges of the hexes will be much easier to view if the side is facing the viewpoint directly. Also, in same vein, they can be stretched to be twice as wide as they are tall, which can give the appearance of depth when placing tall objects on the tiles that extend upwards in the 3rd dimensional axis.

Another argument for vertical hexes is that western text flows horizontally, and players from these regions will notice straight lines and uniformity along a horizontal axis more obviously than a vertical one. Since one of the major benefits to using hex grids is de-emphasizing straight lines and making movement appear to be omnidirectional, by using a vertical hex orientation you will minimize the overall sense of straight lines in the grid for players.

Horizontal Hexes

Horizontal hexes are primarily seen in beehives, where "The axes of honeycomb cells are always quasi-horizontal, and the non-angled rows of honeycomb cells are always horizontally (not vertically) aligned." If you are playing a primarily Bee-based campaign, you will want to use Horizontal Hexes. If your game consists of more humanoids than bees, there are still reasons to use horizontal hexes. One thing to mention could be a benefit or a downside, depending on the structure of your campaign. Traveling "Against the grain" is significantly more difficult than traveling with it. Most maps (especially art based hex maps) are made in a 16:9 ratio, meaning they are wider than they are tall. In this case, your players will be doing more horizontal movement than vertical, generally speaking. By using a horizontal orientation on a 16:9 map, you are making overworld travel much more straight forward. On a vertical orientation, to move from left to right you must move up and down as well, where as on a horizontal orientation, you can just move straight in either direction without interruption.

Travel Mechanics

You have decided to use a hex map, chose the hex orientation, the style of hex map, and now have your hex map complete and ready to go. Now you must create your hex travel mechanics and how your players will interact with them. I will explain the concepts behind these mechanics first, and then later give you example rules I have created and refined over many play sessions to use for yourself or as a base for your own creations.

I have found that keeping track of the players movement within a hex is relatively unimportant. Instead, I use the movement mechanics to allow players to move between hexes, and then encounter mechanics to decide what happens within the hex as they are traveling. Its assumed that the players are traveling across the hex, so keeping track of their exact position within it doesn't really accomplish anything. Putting points of interest in specific parts of a hex and making the players move across the hex to get to the POI is more like traditional map making but using hexes as a form of measurement. That is not what this guide is about, and other guides exist describing this more traditional map making technique in much better detail than I could provide.

Movement & Encounter Mechanics

There are two distinctly different mechanics in place on a hex grid overworld map. The first is "Movement Mechanics" or how you move between each hex. The second is "Encounter Mechanics" or what you will do or find within any given hex. Its important to keep these two mechanics separate so that you can balance your game in different ways by tweaking them independently.

Movement Mechanics

Your movement mechanics can be as in depth or shallow as you think you players will enjoy. The rules you put into place here will directly affect how long it takes your players to move across your map. Typically, you will have some kind of skill check to be performed by your players, and a DC for them to beat, with some type of failure penalty when they do not meet the DC, and the ability to move on to the hex of their choice on a success. The concept of "skill check -> DC -> Failure or success" is not the only way to make movement mechanics, but the one that fits best with the design philosophy behind 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons.

The level of difficulty to successfully move to the next hex, and the harshness of your failure penalty, will directly affect how long it takes to get from one place to another during overworld travel. If you are running a primarily randomly generated campaign, where the journey is more important than the destination, then feel free to make these a bit more challenging. It will keep your players out in the world for longer, and make preparing for and surviving the harsh wilderness more of a concern.

Encounter Mechanics

You can go in two directions, with a spectrum of choices between. The two opposite ends of the spectrum are "Random Table Based" and "Points of Interest Based". You can of course do a combination of the two, but by putting specific POI's into your hexes, you limit the type of events you can add to your random tables, turning them into combat encounter tables very quickly.

Miscellaneous Mechanics

You may also want to spice up your map with other events to keep things interesting, or add flavor to your world. For example, in a game set in the Plane of Fire, you may have flaming tornadoes move randomly around the map, keeping the players from entering the hexes they occupy. These type of events can be great for keeping the players from just taking the most optimal route directly towards their objective and to think ahead when planning where to go next.

Hexes could also contain buffs and debuffs to encourage/discourage travel to those hexes. This will make the players take more indirect paths to either collect the positive benefits of buffed hexes or to avoid the negative benefits of debuffed ones. Buffs can include natural boons that make survival easier. A hex can have much more food or water than normal, or less combat encounters, or take less time to travel through. It will encourage the party to not just take the shortest path, and to instead weave a path between these hexes to make the journey easier.

One last mechanic you could add are landmarks that must be explored for a reward. These can be a dungeon the party members are sent to by a NPC in exchange for a reward, or a location told to the party members that contains the reward directly. This represents a major detour and risk, in exchange for a permanent bonus that would make the rest of the trip easier, like a magic item, spell scrolls etc.

Example Mechanics

Rebalanced Feats

Grappler +

Prerequisite: Strength 13 or higher

You've developed the skills necessary to hold your own in close-quarters grappling. You gain the following benefits:

• If you successfully grapple a creature on your turn, you can attempt to knock it prone as a bonus action
• You have advantage on attack rolls against a creature you are grappling.
• You can grapple creatures 1 size larger than normal.

Great Weapon Master

You've learned to put the weight of a weapon to your advantage, letting its momentum empower your strikes. You gain the following benefits:

• On your turn, when you score a critical hit with a melee weapon or reduce a creature to 0 hit points with one, you can make one melee weapon attack as a bonus action.
• Before you make a melee attack with a heavy weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add +10 to the attack's damage.

Healer

You are an able physician, allowing you to mend wounds quickly and get your allies back in the fight. You gain the following benefits:

• When you use a healer's kit to stabilize a dying creature, that creature also regains 1 hit point.
• As an action, you can spend one use of a healer's kit to tend to a creature and restore 1d6 + 4 hit points to it, plus additional hit points equal to the creature's maximum number of Hit Dice. The creature can't regain hit points from this feat again until it finishes a short or long rest.

Heavily Armored

Prerequisite: Proficiency with medium armor

You have trained to master the use of heavy armor, gaining the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with heavy armor.

Heavy Armor Master +

Prerequisite: Proficiency with heavy armor

You can use your armor to deflect strikes that would kill others. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• While you are wearing heavy armor, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage that you take from non-magical weapons is reduced by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus.

Inspiring Leader

Prerequisite: Charisma 13 or higher

You can spend 10 minutes inspiring your companions, shoring up their resolve to fight. When you do so, choose up to six friendly creatures (which can include yourself) within 30 feet of you who can see or hear you and who can understand you. Each creature can gain temporary hit points equal to your level + your Charisma modifier. A creature can't gain temporary hit points from this feat again until it has finished a short or long rest.

Keen Mind +

• Increase your intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of20.
• You always know which way is north.
• You always know the number of hours left before the next sunrise or sunset
• You can accurately recall anything you have seen or heard within the past month. The DM must provide you with an accurate description.

Lightly Armored

You have trained to master the use of light armor, gaining the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with light armor.

Linguist +

You have studied languages and codes, gaining the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You learn three languages of your choice.
• You can understand the general concept behind basic statements you can hear that are in a language you can't understand. Your DM can have you roll a d20 + your Intelligence modifier to determine if you understand more complex statements, with a DC equal to its level of complexity.

Lucky -

You have inexplicable luck that seems to kick in at just the right moment.

• You have 1 luck point. Whenever you make an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can spend your luck point to roll a second d20. You can choose to spend your luck point after you roll the die, but before the outcome is determined. You choose which of the d20s is used for the attack roll, ability check, or saving throw. If you were already rolling a second d20, you cannot use this feature.
• You can also spend your luck point when an attack roll is made against you. Roll a d20, and then choose whether the attack uses the attacker's roll or yours. If more than one creature spends a luck point to influence the outcome of a roll, the points cancel each other out; no additional dice are rolled.

You regain your luck point when you finish a short rest.

Mage Slayer +

You have practiced techniques useful in melee combat against spell casters, gaining the following benefits:

• When a creature within 5 feet of you casts a spell, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.
• When you damage a creature that is concentrating on a spell, that creature has disadvantage on the saving throw it makes to maintain its concentration.
• You have advantage on saving throws against spells cast by creatures within 5 feet of you, and creatures within 5 feet of you have disadvantage on spell attacks made against you.

Magic Initiate -

Choose a class: bard, c1eric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard. You learn two cantrips of your choice from that class's spell list.

In addition, choose one 1st-level spell from that same list. You do not learn that spell but can cast it at its lowest level. Once you cast it, you must finish a long rest before you can cast it again.Your spellcasting ability for these spells depends on the class you chose: Charisma for bard, sorcerer, or warlock: Wisdom for cleric or druid: or Intelligence for wizard. If you're using the warlock rework, use intelligence.

Martial Adept

You have martial training that allows you to perform special combat maneuvers. You gain the following benefits:

• You learn two maneuvers of your choice from among those available to the Battle Master archetype in the fighter c1ass. If a maneuver you use requires your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver's effects, the saving throw DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus +your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).
• The superiority die is added to any others you have, no matter when you gain them: otherwise, you have one superiority die, which is a d6. This die is used to fuel your maneuvers. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest.

Medium Armor Master

Prerequisite: Proficiency with medium armor

You have practiced moving in medium armor to gain the following benefits:

• Wearing medium armor doesn't impose disadvantage on your Dexterity (Stealth) checks.
• When you wear medium armor, you can add 3, rather than 2, to your AC if you have a Dexterity of 16 or higher.

Mobile

You are exceptionally speedy and agile. You gain the following benefits:

• Your speed increases by 10 feet.
• When you use the Dash action, difficult terrain doesn't cost you extra movement on that turn.
• When you make a melee attack against a creature, you don't provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for the rest of the turn, whether you hit or not.

Moderately Armored

Prerequisite: Proficiency with Light armor

You have trained to master the use of medium armor and shields, gaining the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with medium armor and shields.

Mounted Combatant

You are a dangerous foe to face while mounted. While you are mounted and aren't incapacitated, you gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on melee attack rolls against any unmounted creature that is smaller than your mount.
• You can force an attack targeted at your mount to target you instead.
• If your mount is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.

Observant +

Quick to notice details of your environment, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• If you can see a creature's mouth while it is speaking a language you understand, you can interpret what it's saying by reading its lips.
• You have a +5 bonus to your passive Wisdom (Perception) and passive Intelligence (Investigation) scores. In addition, you can choose to use your passive value instead of rolling a Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) check. You must choose to use the passive score before rolling.

Polearm Master -

You can keep your enemies at bay with reach weapons. You gain the following benefits:

• When you take the Attack action and attack with only a glaive, spear, trident, pike, halberd, or quarterstaff, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with the opposite end of the weapon. The weapon's damage die for this attack is a d4, and the attack deals bludgeoning damage. You cannot add your ability score modifier to this damage without the two weapon fighting style unless you are holding it in two hands.
• While you are wielding a glaive, spear, trident, pike, halberd, or quarterstaff, you can use your reaction to make a single melee weapon attack when a creature enters your reach.

Resilient

Choose one ability score. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase the chosen ability score by 1, to a maximum of20.
• You gain proficiency in saving throws using the chosen ability.

Ritual Caster

Prerequisite: Intelligence or Wisdom 13 or higher

You have learned a number of spells that you can cast as rituals. These spells are written in a ritual book, which you must have in hand while casting one of them.

When you choose this feat, you acquire a ritual book holding two 1st-level spells of your choice. Choose one of the following classes: bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard. You must choose your spells from that class's spell list, and the spells you choose must have the ritual tag. The c1ass you choose also determines your spellcasting ability for these spells: Charisma for bard, sorcerer, or warlock; Wisdom for cleric or druid; or Intelligence for wizard.

If you come across a spell in written form, such as a magical spell scroll or a wizard's spell book, you might be able to add it to your ritual book. The spell must be on the spell list for the class you chose, the spell's level can be no higher than half your level (rounded up), and it must have the ritual tag. The process of copying the spell into your ritual book takes 2 hours per level of the spell, and costs 50 gp per level. The cost represents material components you expend as you experiment with the spell to master it, as well as the fine inks you need to record it.

Savage Attacker +

• Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you roll damage for a melee weapon attack, you can roll the weapon's damage die twice, and use either value.

Sentinel

You have mastered techniques to take advantage of every drop in any enemy's guard, gaining the following benefits:

• When you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, the creature's speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn.
• Creatures provoke opportunity attacks from you even if they take the Disengage action before leaving your reach.
• When a creature makes an attack against a creature other than you (and the target doesn’t have this feat), you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the attacking creature.

Sharpshooter -

You have mastered ranged weapons and can take shots that others find impossible. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls.
• Your ranged weapon attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover.

Shield Master +

You use shields not just for protection but also for offense. You gain the following benefits while you are wielding a shield:

• If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield.
• If you aren't incapacitated, you can add your shield's AC bonus to any Dexterity saving throw you make against a spell or other harmful effect that you can see.
• lf you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can use your reaction to take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, interposing your shield between yourself and the source of the effect.

Skilled +

You gain proficiency in 3 skills of your choice, or 2 skills of your choice and any combination of 2 tools, weapons or languages of your choice.

Skulker

Prerequisite: Dexterity 13 or higher

You are an expert at slinking through shadows. You gain the following benefits:

• You can try to hide when you are lightly obscured from the creature from which you are hiding.
• When you are hidden from a creature and miss it with a ranged weapon attack, making the attack doesn't reveal your position.
• Dim light doesn’t impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks relying on sight.

Spell Sniper

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

You have learned techniques to enhance your attacks with certain kinds of spells, gaining the following benefits:

• When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell's range is doubled.
• Your ranged spell attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover.
• You learn one cantrip that requires an attack roll. Choose the cantrip from the bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list. Your spellcasting ability for this cantrip depends on the spell list you chose from: Charisma for bard, sorcerer, or warlock; Wisdom for cleric or druid; Intelligence for wizard.

Tavern Brawler

Accustomed to rough-and-tumble fighting using whatever weapons happen to be at hand, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your unarmed strike uses a d4 for damage.
• When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike or an improvised weapon on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attempt to grapple the target.

Tough

Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to twice your level when you gain this feat. Whenever you gain a level thereafter, your hit point maximum increases by an additional 2 hit points.

War Caster

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

You have practiced casting spells in the midst of combat, learning techniques that grant you the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Constitution saving throws that you make to maintain your concentration on a spell when you take damage.
• You can perform the somatic components of spells even when you have weapons or a shield in one or both hands.
• When a hostile creature’s movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction to cast a spell at the creature, rather' than making an opportunity attack. The spell must have a casting time of 1 action and must target only that creature.

Weapon Master +

You have practiced extensively with a variety of weapons, gaining the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with martial weapons.

Homebrew Feats

This section contains a compiled list of homebrew feats. Keep in mind that the following content is entirely experimental and subject the change at the DMs slightest desire.

Commander

• As an Action, you can direct one of your companions to strike. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature can immediately use its reaction to make one weapon attack.
• When you direct one of your companions to strike, you can use your reaction to grant them advantage on the attack, but once you use your reaction to do so, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Controller

You excel at spells that control the battlefield. You gain the following benefits:

• When using a spell that does not deal damage, you can use your Bonus Action to choose one creature within the area of effect who automatically succeeds the saving throw.
• When using a spell that does not deal damage, you can choose one creature who passes the saving throw and cause them to be forced to attempt the save again. You cannot do this again until you have completed a short or long rest.

Deadly Illusionist

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

Your illusions invade the deepest crevice of your enemies’ minds and leave them scarred.

• You add one Illusion spell of a level you can cast, from your class spell list to the list of spells you can prepare of cast.
• If a creature fails their initial saving throw or ability check against an illusion spell of 1st level or higher, you can choose for them to take psychic damage equal to the spell’s level + your spell casting ability modifier, if the spell does not already deal damage.

Dervish

Standing still is boring! You’re always on the move.

• Your speed increases by 10 feet
• When you hit a creature with a melee attack, you can move 5 feet at no movement cost as part of the attack.
• After making an attack roll on your turn, any additional attacks you make on your turn that are against creatures you have not yet attacked have advantage.

Dexterous Grappler

You don’t waste any time when apprehending criminals, monster or a combination of the two.

• When you attempt to grapple a creature on your turn and fail, you can use a bonus action to attempt to grapple the same target again.
• You no longer have a speed penalty while dragging a grappled creature.
• You can use Dexterity (Acrobatics) to grapple, not just to resist or escape a grapple.

Diehard

It’s never quite your time. You refuse to die

• Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain a +5 bonus to death saving throws.
• When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can immediately move half your speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

Duelist

When wielding a one handed melee weapon in one hand, and nothing in the other, you gain the following benefits.

• You gain a +1 bonus to AC.
• When you take the Attack action and attack with a melee weapon, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with the hilt of the weapon; this attack uses the same ability modifier as the main attack. The weapon's damage die for this attack is a d4, and the attack deals bludgeoning damage.

Enhanced Transmutation

Prerequisite: The ability to cast a 3rd level spell

When you choose this feat, add Enhance Ability to your spell list. If it is already there, choose another transmutation spell of equal or lower spell level from your class spell list. You always have Enhance Ability prepared

• You can now cast Enhance Abilities once as a bonus action without expending a spell slot or using concentration. While the target is under the effects of the spell, you cannot choose it to be the target of another transmutation spell.
• As a reaction to an ally within 5ft making a skill check, you can cast Enhance Abilities on them by expending a 2nd level spell slot, using the ability score related to the skill check being performed. This casting uses concentration.

You can only use either of the features once, and regain the ability on a short or long rest

Enchanting Illusionist

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

You’ve unlocked the true potential of mixing illusions and Enchantment magic.

• When you make a Charisma (Persuasion) or Charisma (Intimidation) ability check, you can replace your Charisma Modifier with your spellcasting ability modifier.
• A creature charmed or frightened by a spell you cast gains disadvantage on the next saving throw or ability check made to resist an Illusion spell of equal or higher level you cast.

Escape Artist

• If you add your proficiency bonus to an ability check made to end the grappled or restrained condition on yourself, you can instead add twice your proficiency bonus.
• When you escape a creature’s grapple on your turn you can immediately use your bonus action to attack the creature you escaped.

Expert Grappler

Prerequisite: Proficiency in Strength (Athletics)

• When you add your proficiency bonus to an ability check made to grapple, you can instead add twice your proficiency bonus.
• You benefit from half cover while you grapple a creature.
• You can expend your bonus action to deal your Strength modifier in damage to any creature you currently grapple.

Expert Scout

• Increase your Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks made to spot and locate strategic vantage points or other areas of interest such as enemy camps, cave entrances, or ideal hunting grounds.
• You can move at full travel speed when traveling stealthily. Others traveling with you also gain this effect.

Field Medic

You’re an expert of saving people in the most dire of circumstances.

• Allies within 50 feet of you must fail an additional death saving throw to die.
• You can use your bonus action to move half your speed towards a creature at 0 hit points without provoking opportunity attacks.
• As an action, you can spend one use of a healer's kit to tend to a creature and end one condition afflicting it. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.

Glib Tongue

Yours is the face that suckers like to trust, and you have a pretty way with words; you’ve probably sold someone a bridge, and you might do it again. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20
• You reduce the cost of equipment purchased after character generation by 20%. This only applies to smaller purchases, worth a standard market value of 100gp or less.
• On your turn, you can use your Action to thoroughly distract a creature you can see within 60 feet that can hear you. Provided that you or your companions aren’t fighting the creature, make a Charisma (Deception) check, contested by the Wisdom (Insight) of the creature. If you succeed, the target has disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks made to perceive any creature or unusual occurrence, other than you, for up to 1 minute. This effect ends if you are incapacitated or can no longer speak.

Helper

• You can use your Bonus Action to help an ally within 10 feet, granting them advantage on their next attack roll or ability check. You and the target of your help must remain within 10ft of each other to benefit from this ability.

Hemophobic

You have a large number of phobias and fears but your greatest is seeing your own blood.

• When you take damage, you can use your reaction to move 10 feet away from the source. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity
• Your speed is increased by 10 feet while you are at or below half hit points.

Hooked Weapon Master

While unconventional weapons, you have found picks and sickles suit your fighting style well.

• You do not need a free hand to grapple while you are wielding a war pick or sickle.
• When you hit a creature with a war pick or sickle on your turn, you can use your bonus action to attempt to grapple the targeted creature.
• If you successfully grapple the creature while wielding a sickle or a war pick, the creature takes damage equal to your Strength Modifier. The damage is slashing if you use a sickle and bludgeoning if you are using a war pick.

Idiot Savant

Prerequisite, Intelligence or Wisdom of 8 or lower.

• Choose Intelligence or Wisdom, then choose 2 skills based off that Ability score. If that Ability score is ever raised above 8, you lose the benefit of this feat.
• You have Advantage on any Ability Checks made using those skills. You gain proficiency with and can add your proficiency bonus twice to any checks made using these skills. Both bonuses do not apply to your passive score, only active skill checks.
• If you roll a Natural 1 on the dice when making an ability check using those skills, you can reroll the die, and must use the new roll.

Inheritance

• You can choose a single uncommon magical item from a list provided by your DM. This item is delivered to you as an inheritance from a character from your background. You cannot take this feat more than once. You do not have access to every item available in the DMG, only a predefined list supplied by your DM. This feat is unavailable to Variant Humans at level 1.

Light Armor Master

Prerequisite: Proficiency with light armor

You know how best to use the thin armor that protects you

• While wearing light armor, you gain a +1 bonus to armor class whenever you are at least 20 feet from where you started your turn. This bonus last until the start of your next turn.
• One attacker of your choice per turn has disadvantage on its Attack of Opportunity against you.
• You have advantage on Acrobatic checks made to break or contest a Grapple
• You can conceal light armor under your cloths or robe, making yourself appeared unarmored.

Master Swordsman

Your expertise with the blade is unmatched; few rival your skill.

• While wielding a longsword and you take the dodge action, you can use your bonus action to make a single melee attack.
• While wielding a sword and attacking at disadvantage, you can choose to ignore the disadvantage and instead attack with advantage. Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.
• When attacking with a sword, you can choose to deal bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, rather than the normal damage type. You must choose the damage type of the attack before making the attack roll.

Metamagician

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

You gain a deeper understanding of the functioning of metamagic.

• You gain one sorcerer metamagic option.
• If you already have a pool of sorcerer points, you gain 2 more. If you do not, you can use the metamagic option granted by this feature once without expending sorcerer points, and cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest. If you ever gain a pool of sorcerer points, you increase the pool by 2 and lose the ability to cast the metamagic for free.

Mind Breaker

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

Your enchantments scar their victim’s minds. The wound left behind is easily recognizable by those who know where to look.

• You are aware of all creatures within 10 feet that have been affected by a 1st level or higher Enchantment spell you cast.
• When the Effects of a 1st level or higher Enchantment spell, with duration 1 minute or greater, end on a creature, it takes psychic damage equal to the spell’s level + your spellcasting ability modifier. You can choose not to inflict the damage.
• When all creatures affected by an Enchantment spell you cast succeed on a saving throw to resist the spell and the spell has no effect, you do not expend the spell slot used to cast the spell. Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

Mystic Reservoir

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

You have tucked away a bit of extra magic in the back of your mind, ready to be used in dire straits.

• You gain an additional spell slot of second highest level you can cast, to a maximum of 4th level. This bonus spell slot changes as the highest level spell you can cast changes. The spell slot given by this feature can only be used to cast a single spell, designated when you regain spell slots after a long rest.

Necromantic

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

You’ve recently got in touch with your dead side. Aside from slowly rotting, things are pretty great.

• You add 1 Necromancy Spell from your class spell list, of a spell level you can cast, to the list of spells you know or can prepare.
• After completing a short rest, you gain temporary HP equal to your level.
• As an action, you can detach or reattach one of your hands. While detached, your hand functions as a Crawling Claw (Monster Manual, pg. 44) that obeys your commands.

One Step Ahead

• You gain a +5 bonus to initiative rolls.
• You can choose to switch your initiative total with the creature directly before you in the initiative order. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
• If another creature has the same initiative total as you, you can choose to go before them.

Performance Master

Prerequisite: Proficiency in Performance

• Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses Performance.
• Any money earned from your performance is doubled.

Quick Witted

Great ideas come to you naturally, often when they would save your life.

• Your Intelligence score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you would make a Dexterity saving throw, you can instead make an Intelligence saving throw. Once you use this feature you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Reckless

You fight with reckless abandon, but not to your disadvantage. Countless wounds have desensitized you to pain.

• Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to your level when you gain this feat. Whenever you gain a level thereafter, your hit points maximum increases by an additional 1 hit point
• When another creature within 5 feet misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to subtract your proficiency bonus from your AC, potentially causing the attack to hit you. If the attack hits and deals damage, you can make a melee weapon attack with advantage against the creature who attacked you, after their attack is resolved.

School Specialist

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

You’ve spend most of your time researching a specific school of magic. When you cast a spell of a chosen school of magic at a higher level you get a benefit based on the type of spell:

• If the spell includes a spell attack, you gain a +1 bonus to the attack roll
• If the spell includes a saving throw, you increase the spell save DC by 1
• If the spell has neither, its range is increased by 10ft.
• If the spell has a range of self, it has a range of touch.
• If it normally receives no benefit when casting at a higher level, you can cast it at a higher level anyways and choose one of the benefits listed above. Its range also increases by 10ft.

You can only benefit from one of these bonuses for each spell. If it can be affected by more than 1, you can choose which bonus it receives as you cast it.

Shadow Caster

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

You draw your magic from the shadow weave and may have pledged yourself to one of its dark patrons. Your physical appearance shifts to mimic the plane of shadow.

• You can see normally in magical darkness out to 5 feet
• When you cast a spell while in dim light or darker, you can remove the verbal and somatic components. Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.
• The bodies of creature slain by your spells are transported to the shadow plane in tribute to your dread lord. You can optionally send their equipment.
• You can cause a spell you cast to require a Wisdom saving throw, rather than its normal type. Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

Shadow Rogue

You signed a pact with a Shadow Lord and at the charge of ferrying him your victims you gain the powers of darkness.

• You can see normally in magical darkness out to 5 feet
• The bodies of creature slain by you are transported to the shadow plane in tribute to your dread lord. You can optionally send their equipment.
• You can attempt to hide even in dim light.
• You can use your action to extinguish a lantern or any similarly or less bright light source that you can see within 50 feet.

Shadow Warrior

• You can see normally in magical darkness out to 5 feet
• The bodies of creatures slain by you are transported to the shadow plane in tribute to your dread lord. You can optionally send their equipment
• You gain 5 temporary hit points when you start your turn in dim light or darker. These temporary hit points fade as soon as you enter bright light.
• You gain Darkvision out to 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, increase its range by 30ft.

Shield Bearer

Sometimes others can benefit from your skill with a shield or more than you could.

• Your Strength or Constitution score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• While wearing a shield, you can choose to impose disadvantage on any attack of opportunity made against a creature within 5 feet of you.
• You gain the protection fighting style. If you already know it, choose another from your classes list of available fighting styles.

Skirmisher

Your uncanny dexterity pervades throughout your combat style

• Your speed increases by 5 feet
• When a creature misses you with a melee attack, they expend 5 feet of movement. If they do not have any movement left to expend, they must make a Strength save (DC 12) to avoid falling prone.
• If you are 20 feet from where you started your turn, any melee weapons held by you gain the finesse property until the start of your next turn.

Slick Tongue

Prerequisite: Proficiency in either Persuasion or Deception

• Choose either Persuasion or Deception, you must be proficient in the skill you choose. You now can add your proficiency bonus twice to any checks made using this skill
• You learn two additional languages of your choice.

Slippery Archer

• Your speed increases by 10 feet.
• As an Action, you can use a ranged weapon to make a single Ranged Weapon Attack against a target within 5 ft without Disadvantage. If the attack hits, the target may not take Reactions until the start of its next turn. If it misses, you may use disengage as a Bonus Action.

Spell Breaker

Your tolerance to magic is notable and spells can’t keep a grip on you for long

• You can add half your proficiency bonus to a saving throw made against a spell if you do not already add your proficiency bonus.

Stalwart

When you hold position, your defenses become near impenetrable.

• At the start of your turn, you can reduce your speed to zero and impose disadvantage on the next melee attack made against you before the start of your next turn.
• When an effect causes you to move without expending your movement, you can choose to move half of the distance instead. Rounded down to the nearest 5-foot interval.

Studied Warrior

Your devotion to fighting transcends simple practice. You have studied the masters and learned their techniques.

• Your Strength or Dexterity score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You learn one fighting style that you do not already know.

Telekinetic

The natural world bends slightly to your will. You can apply minor forces with your mind.

• Your natural reach is considered 15 feet for the purpose of using your interactions. Should an interaction require an action to perform, you do not benefit from this feature.
• You can cast Shield as a 1st level spell. You can cast shield twice as part of this feature before you must complete a long rest to regain all uses. When you expend the second use of this feature, you take 10 necrotic damage (this damage cannot be reduced), immediately before you cast the spell.

Thesis Spell

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

You’ve spend a good portion of your time researching and perfecting a single spell. Designate a single spell of 3rd level or lower that you can cast as your thesis spell.

• You can reroll an attack roll or cause a creature to reroll a saving throw against your thesis spell after you have seen the result. Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest to use it again.
• You can cast your thesis spell at its lowest level once after completing a long rest without expending a spell slot.
• You can always recognize a casting of your thesis spell should you have the sensory ability to do so, and have advantage on saving throws against it.

Thrown Weapon Master

You have an uncanny knock for throwing things to deadly effect

• Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature does not impose disadvantage on your ranged attacks made with thrown weapons.
• When you miss a creature within 20 feet with a thrown weapon, you can cause the weapon to immediately bounce back into or return to your hand.
• When you take the attack action and attack with a thrown weapon, you can draw the weapon as part of the attack made with it, without expending your interactions.
• The Short/Long range of your thrown weapons increase by 10 feet.

Whip Master

A whip in your hands become a deadly weapon. You gain proficiency in whips when you choose this feat.

• When you hit a large or smaller creature with a whip, the creature’s speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.
• Whips you wield gain the light property & the damage die of whips you wield increases from 1d4 to 1d6 while using two of them.
• When using a single whip and your off-hand is empty, the damage die of whips you wield increases from 1d4 to 2d4