Barbarian

A tall human tribesman strides through a blizzard, draped in fur and hefting his axe. He laughs as he charges toward the frost giant who dared poach his people’s elk herd.

A half-orc snarls at the latest challenger to her authority over their savage tribe, ready to break his neck with her bare hands as she did to the last six rivals. Frothing at the mouth, a dwarf slams his helmet into the face of his drow foe, then turns to drive his armoured elbow into the gut of another.

These barbarians, different as they might be, are defined by their rage: unbridled, unquenchable, and unthinking fury. More than a mere emotion, their anger is the ferocity o f a cornered predator, the unrelenting assault of a storm, the churning turmoil of the sea.

For some, their rage springs from a communion with fierce animal spirits. Others draw from a roiling reservoir of anger at a world full of pain. For every barbarian, rage is a power that fuels not just a battle frenzy but also uncanny reflexes, resilience, and feats of strength.

Class Features

As a barbarian, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d12 per barbarian level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d12 (or 7) + your Constitution modifier per barbarian level after 1st

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 untrammelled fury, slick with blood. As you enter the berserker’s rage, you thrill in the chaos of battle, heedless of your own health or well-being.

Frenzy

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can go into a frenzy when you rage. If you do so, for the duration of your rage you can make a single melee weapon attack as a bonus action on each of your turns after this one. When your rage ends, you suffer one level of exhaustion (as described in appendix A of the Player's Hand Book).

Spirit Seeker

Yours is a path that seeks attunement with the natural world, giving you a kinship with beasts. At 3rd level when you adopt this path, you gain the ability to cast the beast sense and speak with animals spells, but only as rituals, as described in chapter 10.

Totem Spirit

At 3rd level, when you adopt this path, you choose a totem spirit and gain its feature. You must make or acquire a physical totem object- an amulet or similar adornment—that incorporates fur or feathers, claws, teeth, or b ones of the totem animal. At your option, you also gain minor physical attributes that are reminiscent of your totem spirit. For example, if you have a bear totem spirit, you might be unusually hairy and thick skinned, or if your totem is the eagle, your eyes turn bright yellow. Your totem animal might be an animal related to those listed here but more appropriate to your homeland. For example, you could choose a hawk or vulture in place of an eagle.

Bear. You gain the might of a bear. Your carrying capacity (including maximum load and maximum lift) is doubled, and you have advantage on Strength checks made to push, pull, lift, or break objects.

Eagle. While you're raging and aren’t wearing heavy armour, other creatures have disadvantage on opportunity attack rolls against you, and you can use the Dash action as a bonus action on your turn. The spirit of the eagle makes you into a predator who can weave through the fray with ease.

Wolf. While you're raging, your allies have advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature within 5 feet of you that is hostile to you. The spirit of the wolf makes you a leader of hunters.

Aspect of the Beast

At 6th level, you gain a magical benefit based on the totem animal of your choice. You can choose the same animal you selected at 3rd level or a different one.

Bear. While you’re raging, any creature within 5 feet of you that’s hostile to you has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you or another character with this feature. An enemy is immune to this effect if it can’t see or hear you or if it can’t be frightened.

Eagle. You gain the eyesight of an eagle. You can see up to 1 mile away with no difficulty, able to discern even fine details as though looking at something no more than 100 feet away from you. Additionally, dim light doesn't impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Wolf. You gain the hunting sensibilities o f a wolf. You can track other creatures while traveling at a fast pace, and you can move stealthily while traveling at a normal pace (see chapter 8 for rules on travel pace).

Spirit Walker

At 10th level, you can cast the commune with nature spell, but only as a ritual. When you do so, a spiritual version of one of the animals you chose for Totem Spirit or Aspect of the Beast appears to you to convey the information you seek.

Totemic Attunement

At 14th level, you gain a magical benefit based on a totem animal of your choice. You can choose the same animal you selected previously or a different one.

Bear. While raging, you have resistance to all damage except psychic damage. The spirit of the bear makes you tough enough to stand up to any punishment.

Eagle. While raging, you have a flying speed equal to your current walking speed. This benefit works only in short bursts; you fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft.

Wolf. While you’re raging, you can use a bonus action on your turn to knock a Large or smaller creature prone when you hit it with melee weapon attack.

Keeper

When taking the Path of the Skald at 3rd level, you are able to draw upon the many tales you have collected. You gain proficiency in the History and Performance skills. Your proficiency bonus is also doubled for those skills.

Raging Song

At 3rd level, you can recite or sing a poem when you rage. If you do so, your rage gains the additional benefits of whichever type of performance you select. When your rage ends, your Raging Song also ends. Any raging creature within the influence of your Raging Song choose either their Rage or yours to be affected by.

Dirge of Doom. All enemies within 30 feet of you that can hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier. On a failed save, a creature has disadvantage on all attack rolls and ability checks. If a creature ends its turn unable to hear you, they can make a Wisdom saving throw. A creature that successfully saves against this is immune to its effects for 1 hour.

Song of Inspiration. All allies within 60 feet of you that can hear you gain an Inspiration die, a d6. Once the Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. Each ally's Inspiration die is lost when your rage ends. The die becomes a d8 at 8th level and a d10 at 13th level.

War Chant. All allies within 60 feet of you that can hear you can choose to recieve the effects of your War Chant. Allies under this effect recieve advantage on all Strength checks and Strength saving throws. Any melee attacks they make using Strength gain Rage Damage equal to yours -1.

Bellowing Voice

At 6th level, you've learned how to channel your rage through your diaphragm. While using your Raging Song, all allies within 30 feet of you are immune to any enemy action that requires their voice to be heard, and all enemies within 30 feet of you are drowned out, preventing another creature from hearing their voice.

Transformation

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can transform into an abomination when you rage. If you do so, for the duration of the rage you transform into an abomination. Whilst you are in this form, weapon attacks made with silvered weapons against you ignore resistances to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage.

Beast's Bile

Beginning at 6th level, while transformed your body produces acid which you can spit at your foes to harm them.

You can use your action to shoot caustic acid in 15-foot-cone, spraying each creature in the area with burning bile.

When you use your bile, each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw. The DC for this save is equal to 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 3d6 acid damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful on. The damage increases to 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 16th level.

Once you have used your bile, you cannot use it again for the duration of your rage.

Thick Blood

Starting at 10th level,
your blood becomes resistant to most
impurities. You gain immunity to poison and
disease.

Eldritch Body

At 14th level, the eldritch blood flowing in your veins is at its most potent, protecting you from other magics.

While transformed, you have advantage on saving throws against spells.

Path of the Hellion

Wild, unpredictable, and utterly ruthless, a hellion thrills to the spilling of blood. The Path of the Hellion is a path of exhaustive savagery.

Battle Trance

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can choose to go into a trance when you rage. For the duration of your rage, when you make an attack roll, you can choose to, instead of rolling, treat the attack as if you had rolled a 10.

When your rage ends, you suffer one level of exhaustion (as described in appendix A)

Iron Swan

Beginning at 6th level, once per turn when you make a melee weapon attack, you can treat the attack as if the weapon had the reach property.

Adrenaline Rush

Beginning at 10th level, when you make an attack whilst raging, and you are below half your hit point maximum, your rage damage is doubled.

Barbaric Roar

Starting at 14th level, as an action you can release a mighty roar. Each creature within 5 feet of you must succeed a Wisdom saving throw (DC equals 8 + your Charisma modifier + your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, the creature is stunned.

At the end of each of its turns, the target repeats the saving throw. On a successful save, the creature is no longer stunned.

Ancestral Protectors

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, spectral warriors appear when you enter your rage. While you’re raging, the first creature you hit with an attack on your turn becomes the target of the warriors, which hinder its attacks. Until the start of your next turn, that target has disadvantage on any attack roll that isn’t against you, and when the target hits a creature other than you with an attack, that creature has resistance to the damage dealt by the attack. The effect on the target ends early ifyour rage ends.

Spirit Shield

Beginning at 6th level, the guardian spirits that aid you can provide supernatural protection to those you defend. If you are raging and another creature you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to reduce that damage by 2d6.

When you reach certain levels in this class. you can reduce the damage by more: by 3d6 at 10th level and by 4d6 at 14th level.

Consult the Spirits

At 10th level, you gain the ability to consult with your ancestral spirits. When you do so, you cast the augury or clairvoyance spell, without using a spell slot or material components. Rather than creating a spherical sensor, this use of clairvoyance invisibly summons one of your ancestral spirits to the chosen location. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

After you cast either spell in this way, you can’t use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

Vengeful Ancestors

At 14th level, your ancestral spirits grow powerful enough to retaliate. When you use your Spirit Shield to reduce the damage of an attack, the attacker takes an amount of force damage equal to the damage that your Spirit Shield prevents.

Storm Aura

Starting at 3rd level, you emanate a stormy, magical aura while you rage. The aura extends 10 feet from you in every direction, but not through total cover.

Your aura has an effect that activates when you enter your rage, and you can activate the effect again on each of your turns as a bonus action. Choose desert, sea, or tundra. Your aura’s effect depends on that chosen environment, as detailed below. You can change your environment choice whenever you gain a level in this class.

If your aura's effects require a saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.

Desert. When this effect is activated, all other creatures in your aura take 2 fire damage each. The damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class, in— creasing to 3 at 5th level, 4 at 10th level, 5 at 15th level, and 6 at 20th level.

Sea. When this effect is activated, you can choose one other creature you can see in your aura. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw. The target takes 1d6 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 2d6 at 10th level, 3d6 at 15th level, and 4d6 at 20th level.

Tundra. When this effect is activated, each creature of your choice in your aura gains 2 temporary hit points, as icy spirits inure it to suffering. The temporary hit points increase when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 3 at 5th level, 4 at 10th level, 5 at 15th level, and 6 at 20th level.

Storm Soul

At 6th level, the storm grants you benefits even when your aura isn’t active. The benefits are based on the environment you chose for your Storm Aura.

Desert. You gain resistance to fire damage, and you don’t suffer the effects of extreme heat, as described in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Moreover, as an action, you can touch a flammable object that isn’t being worn or carried by anyone else and set it on fire.

Sea. You gain resistance to lightning damage, and you can breathe underwater. You also gain a swimming speed of 30 feet.

Tundra. You gain resistance to cold damage, and you don’t suffer the effects of extreme cold, as described in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Moreover, as an action, you can touch water and turn a 5-foot cube Of it into ice, which melts after 1 minute. This action fails if a creature is in the cube.

Shielding Storm

At 10th level, you learn to use your mastery of the storm to protect others. Each creature of your choice has the damage resistance you gained from the Storm Soul fea ture while the creature is in your Storm Aura.

Raging Storm

At 14th level, the power of the storm you channel grows mightier, lashing out at your foes. The effect is based on the environment you chose for your Storm Aura.

Divine Fury

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can channel divine fury into your weapon strikes. While you’re raging, the first creature you hit on each of your turns with a weapon attack takes extra damage equal to 1d6 + half your barbarian level. The extra damage is necrotic or radiant; you choose the type of damage when you gain this feature.

Warrior of the Gods

At 3rd level, your soul is marked for endless battle. If a spell, such as raise dead, has the sole effect of restoring you to life (but not undeath), the caster doesn’t need material components to cast the spell on you.

Fanatical Focus

Starting at 6th level, the divine power that fuels your rage can protect you. If you fail a saving throw while you’re raging, you can reroll it, and you must use the new roll. You can use this ability only once per rage.

Zealous Presence

At 10th level, you learn to channel divine power to inspire zealotry in others. As a bonus action, you unleash a battle cry infused with divine energy. Up to ten other creatures of your choice within 60 feet of you that can hear you gain advantage on attack rolls and saving throws until the start of your next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Rage Beyond Death

Beginning at 14th level, the divine power that fuels your rage allows you to shrug off fatal blows.

While you’re raging, having 0 hit points doesn’t knock you unconscious. You still must make death saving throws, and you suffer the normal effects of taking damage while at 0 hit points. However, if you would die due to failing death saving throws, you don't die until your rage ends, and you die then only if you still have 0 hit points.

Weight of the World

The burden that you bear is heavy, but you bear it with pride. At 3rd level when you adopt this path, you gain proficiency with heavy armor, and you gain the benefits of raging even while you are wearing heavy armor.

Additionally, while you are wearing heavy armor, whenever you are pushed or pulled, you can choose not to be moved.

Wrath of the World

The world flows into you, and you become a force of nature. At 3rd level when you adopt this path, you can go into a wrath when you rage. If you do so, for the duration of your rage you gain the enlarge effect of an enlarge/reduce spell, and you can use a weapon with the two-handed property with one hand if your other hand is free or being used to grapple a creature. You can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Steel Avalanche

Starting at 6th level, your weapon crushes civilization. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks. If you do, your next melee weapon attack during this turn has advantage, deals additional damage equal to the weapon's damage + your Strength modifier + Rage Damage, and the attack deals double damage to objects and structures.

Stone Flechette

Starting at 10th level, the world itself trembles at your wake. Immediately before you rage, you can use your action to cast earth tremor. If you go into a wrath, you can instead use your action to cast erupting earth without material components. Strength is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Forgotten God's Gift

While all are forgotten and lost to time, the world will never forget. Starting at 14th level, you can fuse yourself with the world and allow energy to course violently through your body. You can choose to forgo resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage when you rage. If you do so, for the duration of your rage you have advantage on saving throws against spells and resistance against the damage of spells.

Anvil of Dawn

Beginning when you choose this primal path at 3rd level, when you rage, your rage damage increases by 1 and deals fire or radiant damage instead. You choose the damage type when you rage.

Solar Strike

Starting at 6th level, when you score a critical hit on an attack roll, the damage dealt is either radiant or fire damage as you call down a column of sunlight. This feature coincides with that of your brutal critical feature.

The column of light has a 15-foot radius and is 60 feet high, spreading bright light in its area, then dim-light for an additional 15 feet. It stays around you, centered on you until the end of your next turn. Whilst the column persists, you gain a bonus to attack rolls equal to your rage damage bonus.

Enduring Sun

At 10th level, you gain a resistance to radiant or fire damage when you rage.

In addition, when you score a critical hit, you can forgo the damage of your brutal critical feature, instead using the die rolled to regain hit points equal to the number rolled.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier.

Blaze of the Unrelenting

Starting at 14th level, when you hit a creature with your solar strike, the extra damage that your Brutal Critical now affects any hostile creatures within 15 feet your target.

Crystal Clarity

Your mental focus and martial study have rendered your will into an unbreakable wall that cannot be deceived. As you adopt this path at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Insight skill. You have advantage on all Insight checks made during combat.

Also, whenever you are subject to a spell or effect that alters reality using illusions or phantasms, you may roll any related saving throw or ability check with advantage.

Crystalline Stances

Your mind and body meld, granting you an edge in combat. You move slightly faster than normal due to a combination of confidence, training, and clarity of mind. This slight edge adds up with each action.

Additionally at 3rd level, you can forgo adding your rage damage modifier as a bonus on weapon damage rolls whenever you enter a rage. Instead, each time you start raging, select one of the following effects.

• Emerald Razor. You may add half your Rage damage bonus (rounded down) as a modifier on all melee weapon attack rolls you make for the duration of your rage.
• Refracting Mind. You may add your Rage damage bonus as a modifier on all Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma saving throws you may have to make for the duration of your rage.
• Diamond Defense. You may add half your Rage damage bonus (rounded down) as a modifier to your Armor Class for the duration of your rage.

Once you enter a rage with one of the chosen effect being active, you can't change the effect until your rage ends.

Sapphire Senses

You close your eyes, take a deep breath and your perception becomes so fine that you can hear the tiniest flutter of air moving past you. Hidden threats become as plain as day in the area of your heightened senses. Starting at 6th level, you gain proficiency in the Perception skill. Furthermore, as a bonus action on your turn, you may enter a trance like state that lasts until the start of your next turn. During this time, you gain blindsight within a radius 10 feet.

While this effect is active, you gain vulnerability to thunder damage.

Amethyst Alacrity

The raindrops themselves stand still as you act at the speed of thought. You move like a blur, catching enemies by surprise with your blinding speed. Starting at 10th level you can add your proficiency bonus on initiative rolls. Furthermore, your movement speed is doubled and doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity during the first round of combat.

Additionally, you can now change the effect granted by your Stance of Alacrity class feature by using a bonus action on your turn.

Pellucid Parry

You lash out, your weapon a blur, hammering at the slightest gap that appears in your foe’s defenses. Starting from 14th level, while you are raging and a creature within your reach makes a melee weapon attack against you, you may use your reaction to make an Insight check contested by the target's attack roll.

If the result of your Insight check is higher then the targets attack roll, the attack automatically misses and you may make one melee weapon attack against the creature as a part of the same reaction. This attack has advantage.

Wrestle Warrior

When you adopt this path at 3rd level, you commit yourself entirely to the art of sumo. You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed and you aren’t wearing armor or wielding a shield:

• When you make an unarmed strike using Strength, you can roll a d6 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike. The damage of your unarmed strike increases as you gain levels in this class: it becomes a d8 at 5th level, a d10 at 11th level, and a d12 at 17th level.
• You count as one size larger for the purpose of grappling and shoving, and when determining the weight you can push or drag.
• While raging, you can attempt to grapple or shove a creature as a bonus action during each of your turns.

Immovable Strikes

At 6th level, your strength and skill imbues your strikes with a greater energy, and your body with an immutable spirit. Your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Additionally, you add your proficiency bonus to ability checks and saving throws you make to avoid being knocked prone, pushed, or restrained, even if you are already proficient in the ability check or saving throw.

Unbreakable Master

By 10th level, you have distinguished yourself as one of the greatest warriors of your era through your incredible resilience. While you aren’t wearing armor or wielding a shield, you can use your reaction when you take damage to gain resistance to one type of damage you took from the triggering effect. This resistance doesn’t apply to the damage of the triggering effect. You retain this resistance until you use this feature again.

Beast Strength Grandmaster

At 14th level, your power and ability make you worthy of the title of a Grand Champion. While you’re raging and aren’t wearing armor or wielding a shield, you count as an additional size larger for the purpose of grappling and shoving, and when determining the weight you can push or drag. For example, if you are a Medium creature, you would count as being Huge for these purposes while raging.

Additionally, when you take the Attack action, you can forgo one of your attacks to throw a creature you have grappled. You push the creature up to 30 feet in a straight line away from you. If the creature impacts an object or creature at any point during this push, it stops and is shunted to the nearest unoccupied space. It and the target it impacted take 3d12 bludgeoning damage, and must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be knocked prone.

Lingering Magic

At 3rd level, your body reacts to the presence of magic. You can cast the detect magic spell without using a spell slot or components. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell. You, or a body part you choose, faintly glows a color corresponding to the school of magic you detect (you choose the colors).

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Wild Surge

Starting at 3rd level, magic erupts from you as you rage. When you enter your rage, roll on the Wild Surge table to determine the magical effect produced.

If the wild surge requires a saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.

Magic Reserves

At 6th level, you can channel the magic surging inside you into other creatures. As an action, you can touch a creature and roll a d4. The creature recovers an expended spell slot of a level equal to the number rolled. If the creature you touch can’t recover a spell slot of that level, the creature instead gains temporary hit points equal to five times the number rolled.

You take force damage equal to five times the number rolled.

When you reach 14th level in this class, you increase the die to a d6.

Arcane Rebuke

At 10th level, the magic crackling within your soul lashes out. When a creature forces you to make a saving throw while you are raging, you can use your reaction to deal 3d6 force damage to that creature.

Chaotic Fury

At 14th level, you become a wellspring of wild magic while you are raging. As a bonus action, you can reroll on the Wild Surge table, replacing your current effect with the new one.