Contributors

Grit and Glory is built with contributions and house rules from talented DMs from the Reddit and Discord community.

/u/damnedmage - Ingenious Proficiency
/u/ezfi - Personality Scores
/u/ilovegoodfood - Combat Options
/u/FTangSteve - Injury Tokens
/u/TheCheatIsNotDead - On Death's Door
/u/everythingnarrative - Con-based Death Saves
/u/transmogrify, /u/LeoKeros - Armors
/u/Wilhelm_III, Unknown - Weapons
/u/Rescon, /u/pfaffi89 - Realistic Firearms
Bryan Holmes- Subskills
/u/aeyana - Horde Opponents
/u/RaccoonLX - Inventory
/u/vulpetrem - Buying Items
/u/DracoDruid - Realistic Travel

Inspiration

These third party supplements have inspired or contributed to some of the key mechanics in Grit and Glory.

Fifth Edition Options by Total Party Kill Games
Roshambo-Style Theatre of the Mind by Wagner Volanin
The Comprehensive Equipment Manual by Randall Right
En5ider 267: Weapon Degradation by Erik Evjen
Darker Dungeons by /u/giffyglyph
Death Saves Revised by ThinkDM
Blog of Holding by Paul Hughes
Book of Hordes by /u/aeyana
The World of Farland by S.Baker

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Exceptional Success

Any noncritical Attack Roll that beats AC by 10 or any Skill Roll that beats DC by 10 is called an Exceptional Success.

If your Attack is an Exceptional Success, you may reroll one weapon die before calculating the damage. If you do,
you can choose between the two results.

If your Skill check is an Exceptional Success, it is also a Critical Success (at DM's discretion). The DM may give you advantage on one related follow-up skill check.

Inspiration Points

Inspiration Points are earned by the whole party. The party can earn up to 3 points per session and store points up to the number of players in the group. The party must agree when and how to spend the Inspiration Points.

The party earns Inspiration Points at the end of a session with:

Wounds

To represent actual bodily trauma, Grit and Glory uses what is called 'Wound Thresholds' and 'Wound Risks'.

A creature's Wound Threshold is equal to 12 + their Constitution modifier and represents how tough they are to resist physical damage. Should a creature ever take damage equal or greater than their Wound Threshold, they suffer what is called a Wound Risk - an injury that very well could lead to something serious! DM's and players can use tokens to tally up their characters' Wound Risks.

Wound Threshold = 12 + CON Modifier

At the end of each Combat Turn, if you have suffered one or more Wound Risks, make a Constitution saving throw at DC 12 + 2 for each Wound Risk you have. This saving throw is called a Confirmation Roll. Should you fail, you suffer an Open Wound - an injury that is bleeding profusely!

Regardless of whether you succeeded or failed the Confirmation Roll, remove all your Wound Risks, resetting them to 0, ready for another Turn.

Confirmation DC = 12 + 2 per Wound Risk

Any time you take damage that is equal or greater than x2 your Wound Threshold, you automatically suffer an Open Wound and you take an Injury token (pg. 9).

Bleeding

Until the end of combat, you take 1 point of bleeding damage at the beginning of your Combat Turn for each Open Wound you have suffered since the start of that combat.

Bleeding damage doesn't trigger death saves while you are dying. You can stop the bleeding during combat if you spend your action and make a DC 12 Wisdom (Medicine) check.

Falling from Wounds

If you have more Open Wounds than your Constitution Modifier plus half your Player Level, rounded up, then you immediately become Unconscious. The minimum amount of Open Wounds a creature can have before falling unconcious is 3 wounds. If you are not stabilized beforehand, you regain consciousness and lose one Open Wound in 2d4 hours.

Recovering Wounds

Open Wounds can be removed with natural healing or by using a Healer's Kit. At the end of a short or long Rest, you can spend one hit die and close one Open Wound. This die does not grant hit points: it only removes the Open Wound.

You can also use a Healer's Kit to attempt a First Aid Action (pg. 11) to close one or several Open Wounds.

Healing Spells of 5th level or higher can remove one or several Wounds, which are up to the DM's discretion. Regenerate, a 7th level Spell, removes all Open and Closed (pg. 10) Wounds from a creature.

Describing Damage and Wounds

Combat in Dungeons & Dragons is abstract. Each attack that causes a loss of hit points does not always cause actual damage - they wear the opponent down or leave nonfatal scratches and bruises until one final attack makes the killing blow.

When someone suffers a Wound Risk, the DM or players can describe an actual physical strike that causes significant damage. When the Wound Risk results in an Open Wound, you can describe real grievous wound caused by a particularly strong attack. Тhe wound may be nonfatal however it can be broken bones, exposed flesh and bleeding that can be used to track a fleeing creature.

Players who receive Wounds are encouraged to treat them as real damage that causes them great pain and impediment. While Wounds have no lasting effect like Injuries, DM should recognize and reward with Inspiration Points (see pg. 6) the players who put effort into realistically portraying the nasty consequences of combat.

When you gain the Bloodied or Beaten state (see Combat Conditions, pg. 12), the accrued damage changes your appearance so others can recognize how close you are to dying. The DM and players must communicate when any creature reaches these states. Any creature with an Intelligence score of 6 or more can pick up on weaker or wounded targets based on their appearance.

NPC Wounds

Monsters do not suffer Wounds, only damage. For NPCs, apply their proficiency modifier instead of half their player level to their max number of Wounds.

Massive Damage

When you take over 50% of your maximum hit points in damage from an attack, fall, explosion, the DM can rule that you take one or several Injury tokens.

At the end of combat, count how many Injury Tokens you have. For each damage type, count the number of tokens received and roll on the corresponding Severity Table below. If you have Injury Tokens for two or more different damage types, you roll on the Severity Table for each damage type, risking seperate Injuries. The outcome you rolled determines what happens next: Should you roll a Minor, Medium, Major, or Extreme outcome, you then roll on the corresponding Injury table (pg. 95-102) based on its damage type. The Severity Table will tell you if you can add your Constitution Saving Throw Modifier and Proficiency Bonus to the roll, and if it is with Advantage or Disadvantage. These modifiers could drastically lessen or worsen the severity of a Critical Injury - the higher the result, the less serious the Injury. Should you roll an Escalate outcome on the Severity Table, you simply roll again but this time on the Severity Table one step higher in Injury Tokens, performing the new result.

Once you have found your Injury, if any, all Injury Tokens are removed.

Severity 1: One Injury Token

4d6	Injury Roll
4-6	Escalate: Roll on Severity 2
7-17	Minor: Constitution saving throw, advantage. Add proficiency bonus to your saving throw if you are not already proficient in Constitution.
18-21	Medium: Constitution saving throw, advantage
22-24	Major: Natural 1d20 roll, advantage

Severity 2: Two Injury Tokens

3d8	Injury Roll
3-5	Escalate: Roll on Severity 3
6-7	Major: Natural 1d20 roll
8-9	Medium: Constitution saving throw
10-15	Minor: Constitution saving throw, advantage
16-19	Medium: Constitution saving throw
20-24	Major: Natural 1d20 roll

Severity 3: Three Injury Tokens

2d6	Injury Roll
2	Escalate: Roll on Severity 4
3	Major: Natural 1d20 roll
4-6	Medium: Constitution check
7	Minor: Constitution check, advantage
8-9	Medium: Constitution check
10-12	Major: Natural 1d20 roll, disadvantage

Severity 4: Four Or More Injury Tokens

1d12	Injury Roll
1-2	You will die in three combat rounds.
3-5	Extreme: Natural 1d12 roll instead of a 1d20 roll, disadvantage
6	Medium: Constitution check, disadvantage
7	Minor: Constitution check
8-9	Medium: Constitution check, disadvantage
10-12	Major: Natural 1d20 roll, disadvantage

Option: Overcoming Pain

When an injury requires making a Constitution saving throw to overcome nerve damage or lose your action and reaction until your next turn and you fail that roll, you may choose to exert yourself despite the debilitating pain and suffer internal damage to your body.

If you choose to do so, you execute the action as normal, but take internal damage as shown on the table, below. You still can't use your reaction until your next turn.

Overcoming Nerve Injury

Injury DC	Internal Damage
10	1d4 + your proficiency modifier
15	1d8 + your proficiency modifier

Injury While Unconscious

While unconscious, when you take more damage than the maximum value of your hit die, you also gain one Injury token.

Excess Injury

For every Injury token above four, the DM may require an additional roll on Table 4. These additional rolls are only for avoiding sudden death. If you roll 1 or 2, you will die
in three combat rounds. If you roll any other value, the additional roll has no effect.

First Aid

By spending a use of Healer's or Surgeon's Kit, you attempt to tend to an injured person until full medical treatment or rest is possible. Make a Wisdom (Medicine) check against DC equal to 5 + twice the Open Wounds of the treated creature. If you provide First Aid to yourself, you suffer disadvantage to the roll. On success, you close one Open Wound. If you score a critical or exceptional success on the Medicine check, you close an extra Open Wound.

Once you attempt a First Aid on a creature, you cannot attempt again until the creature completes a long rest.

Long Rest Care

By spending one use of Healer's or Herbalist's Kit, you can ease the suffering of one injured creature during its long rest. While spending Hit Dice to recover hit points during the long rest, the creature can choose one of the dice and change it to the maximum value of the die. Also, the creature benefits from an advantage to its next Constitution saving throw made during the long rest. In addition, the creature's Open Wounds are immune to festering effects (see pg. 11).

Resuscitate

By spending a use of Healer's Kit, you attempt to stabilize and return creature to life despite clinical death. A dead creature can still be returned to life within number of combat rounds equal to 1 + the number of successful death saves it scored before dying. Attempt a Wisdom (Medicine) check against DC 30 - 5 for each successful death save the creature had before dying.

If you succeed, the creature can immediately repeat one of its death saves with advantage. If it succeeds on it, it can repeat another death save with advantage. It can continue to do this until it scores one failure. Upon scoring one failure, it dies and can not be Resuscitated again. A creature may not be Resuscitated more than once until it finishes a long rest.

Treat Poison

By spending a use of Herbalist's Kit, you provide immediate assistance against the effect of poison. The creature gains resistance to the next damage it receives from the poison and can immediately repeat the saving throw against the effect of poison. You can also spend another use and make a Wisdom (Medicine) check against the Poison's DC. If you succeed, the creature gains advantage to its saving throw. You cannot Treat Poison again until the creature completes a long rest.

Treat Disease

By spending a use of Herbalist's Kit, you provide relief from a disease and prevent is further spreading. The creature can immediately repeat the saving throw against the effect of disease. You can also spend another use and make a Wisdom (Medicine) check against the Disease's DC. If you succeed, the creature gains advantage to its saving throw. In addition, any check against contracting the disease from the sick creature is made with advantage. You cannot Treat Disease again until the creature completes a long rest.

Surgery

By spending a use of Surgeon's Kit, you perform a complex procedure on specific Lasting Injury (pg. 9) the creature has. Attempt a Wisdom (Medicine) check against DC 30 - 2 points for each position below the first the Injury holds in its Lasting Injury table (pg. 95-102). The procedure requires minimum of 1 hour of uninterrupted work, plus another hour and an extra use of the Surgeon's Kit for each 5 points of DC. A creature proficient in Medicine can attempt to Help by spending an additional use of the Surgeon's Kit.

On success, the Injury recovery effect improves. If the Injury requires natural healing, it recovers twice as fast. If the Injury requires magical healing of a specific level or higher, magical healing of up to two levels lower achieves the same result. If the Injury effect lists a Constitution check or saving throw, the roll benefits from advantage for the next one week. On failure, the Injury remains the same. If you fail by 5 points or more, for each point below DC the creature suffers one Open Wound and may become dying during surgery.

Once you attempt a Surgery on a specific Lasting Injury, you cannot attempt again for one week. You can however attempt Surgery on another Injury on the same creature.

Bloodied

When you lose half of your Max HP, you are bloodied. Your body has open wounds or massive hematomas, and you feel intense pain during physical feats requiring Strength or Dexterity. Even if your wounds are hidden, anyone can recognize the signs of pain with a Wisdom (Insight) check vs DC 5 + your Constitution (Deception) skill.

Beaten

When you drop below 1/4 of your Max HP, you are beaten. Your body is a mess of bleeding open wounds, cracked or splintered bones, or much worse. You experience severe pain simply by moving around.

When you become beaten for the first time in combat and you have 2 or fewer levels of Exhaustion, you gain 1 level of Exhaustion that only comes into effect after the combat ends and the adrenaline rush wears off.

Dying

When you drop to 0 hit points and start dying, you gain one level of Exhaustion that comes into effect immediately when you are stabilized.

Grappled

• A grappled creature’s speed becomes 0, and it can’t benefit from any bonus to its speed.
• The condition ends if the Grappler is incapacitated or an effect removes the grappled creature from the reach of the Grappler or Grappling effect.

Susceptible [New]

Susceptibility is lesser variant of Vulnerability. Creatures susceptible to a damage type take extra damage from that damage type. You can use this effect instead of Vulnerability to lessen the damage type expoits in your campaign.

Susceptibility has damage type and a value (typically 5) or a die size. If a creature has Fire Susceptibility 1d10, then any time it takes fire damage it takes an extra 1d10 fire damage.

Pain-wracked [New]

The creature is experiencing excruciating pain that inhibits its ability to maintain control over its actions. It can suffer the Pain-Wracked condition along with ongoing damage due to burning alive, dissolving into acid, being eaten by a swarm of bugs or rats, extreme torture or surgery without anaesthesia, or when its mind is crushed by a powerful psychic entity.

Breather

Taking a breather is a short period of rest, at least 5 minutes long, after a strenuous activity. During that time you may rest, slake your thirst and hunger, or check on a single wound and bandage it.

During a breather, you may spend one Hit Die for healing or removing a Wound. If a Hit Die is spent to heal, you roll the die and add your Constitution modifier to it. You regain hit points equal to the total.

Short Rest

A short rest is a period of downtime, at least 1 hour long, during which you do nothing more strenuous than light activity like eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds.

You can spend Hit Dice at the end of a short rest for recovery or removing a Wound, up to 1 + Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). For each Hit Die spent in this way, you roll the die and add your Constitution modifier to it. You regain hit points equal to the total. If you have exactly 1 level of Exhaustion, you can remove that level.

You can't benefit from more than two short rest in a 24-hour period, and you must have at least 1 hit point at the start of the rest to gain its benefits.

Long Rest

A long rest is a period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during which a character sleeps for at least 6 hours and performs no more than 2 hours of light activity, such as reading, talking, eating, or standing watch. If the rest is interrupted by a period of strenuous activity - at least 1 hour of walking, fighting, casting spells, or similar adventuring activity - you must begin the rest again to gain any benefit.

Grappling

When using the Grapple action (Player's Handbook, pg. 195), the attacker's attack roll is no longer contested by the target's Strength (Athletics) check or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check, but is made against a DC equal to 10 + Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) skill modifier of the target (its choice).

If the target has an advantage to resist a grapple the DC is increased by 3, or decreased by 3 if it suffers a disadvantage instead.

Escaping a Grapple

Instead of your whole action (Player's Handbook, pg. 195), you may use any of your attacks to attempt an escape from grapple. To attempt an Escape, make a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check against the Passive Athletics (10 + Strength (Athletics) modifier) of the creature grappling you. If you succeed, you lose the Grappled condition. If your roll a natural 1 or your result is an exceptional failure, you fail and can't attempt any more Escape attempts until your next turn.

Grappled creatures with the Multiattack ability may use this ability as Multiescape instead. For each attack described as part of the Multiattack, they get one escape attempt. If the Multiattack includes more than one set of attacks, use the set with the most attacks.

Flanking

Dungeon Master's Guide (pg. 251) introduces flanking as an easy way to gain advantage and exploit a common enemy.

To make it more realistic, at the beginning of your turn while being flanked you may choose one of the attackers that are flanking you and deny them the benefit of flanking until the start of your next turn. You can choose a different attacker that is flanking you during each of your turns.

Disarming

When using the Disarm action (Dungeon Master's Guide, pg. 271), the attacker's attack roll is no longer contested by the target's Strength (Athletics) check or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check, but is made against a DC equal to 10 + Strength

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Saving Throw or Dexterity Saving Throw modifier of the target (its choice).

The attacker has advantage on their attack roll if they grappled using Opportunity Grapple (pg. 19) or with a weapon with the Grappling property (pg. 36) or if they are larger than the target. The attacker has disadvantage on their attack roll if the target is holding the item with two or more hands, or if they are smaller than the target.

If you succeed, the weapon, shield or item is no longer held by the target. You can use your item interaction to either kick the weapon into an adjacent area (your choice) or take the item if you have a free hand, otherwise the target may use its item interaction on their turn to take it back.

Marking

The Dungeon Master's Guide (pg. 271) introduces marking as a way to harry each other with opportunity attacks. This rule overrides the original effect.

When you use the Mark action, you gain a second reaction that can only be used for opportunity attack provoked by your marked target, and only this attack benefits from advantage.

However, you cannot perform reactions against any hostile creatures other than your marked target until the end of your next turn.

Overrun & Tumble

The Dungeon Master's Guide (pg. 272) introduces Overrun and Tumble as a way to pass through hostile creature's space.

By spending an action or a bonus Action, you are able to pass through hostile creatures as part of your movement. If you succeed, you do not provoke an Opportunity Attack when leaving the hostile creature's reach that you passed through.

If you fail your check, you may still choose to pass through hostile creature's space. If you choose so, treat the space as difficult terrain and you provoke an Opportunity Attack or a Grapple check from the hostile creature (their choice). If you miss by 5 or more, you are denied this option.

If you attempt to move through more than one hostile creature per turn, all checks after the first are made at disadvantage.

Power Attack (not Finesse)

Before you make an attack with a melee weapon, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll and attempt to put more of your raw strength behind a powerful blow.

If the attack hits, you add 2 + your Strength modifier (minimum 1) to the attack's damage.

Distraction

While you are hidden from a creature, you throw a pebble or make a sound meant to confuse and distract them. You must be aware of the creature's approximate location or direction of movement. Make a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) or Charisma (Performance) check depending on your distraction method, contested by Wisdom (Insight) or Intelligence (Investigation) check (the targets choose the ability to use). If the creatures is alert, Passive Insight or Passive Investigation applies.

If you succeed, the creature is Distracted until the end of its next turn. Distracted creatures have disadvantage to Wisdom (Perception) skill checks and cannot use their Passive Perception. You have advantage on attacks and grapple checks against any Distracted creature, and if grappled while Distracted it is Surprised until the end of its next turn.

If you fail, you provoke a Wisdom (Perception) check with advantage from your targets opposed by your Dexterity (Stealth) skill. Your Passive Stealth (pg. 25) does not apply.

Beyond that, everything is considered to be in the Far range, without the need to measure exact distances between them. Each Combat Zone is considered to be Far from the rest.

Tactical Movement

During Theatre of the Mind combat, you can perform three different types of action: Engage, Dash and Intercept. With the exception of Dash, all other actions in combat work as described in the Player's Handbook (pg. 192).

Engage (Move)

While not engaged, you can Engage a creature by simply Moving into it and declaring engagement. If you are Engaged, you can use a bonus action and become Engaged with an additional Near creature of your choice, without breaking your current engagements. However, this engagement attempt can be Intercepted by another unengaged creature.

Dash (Action)

You need to Dash in order to move Far. If you do so, you can become Engaged with a creature from another Combat Zone as part of your Dashing, but this attempt can be Intercepted normally.

You can also Dash into a Near creature to become Engaged with it without the opportunity of being Intercepted by any of its Near allies.

When you Dash, you break all your current engagements, and provoke Opportunity Attacks from all Engaged creatures. Unless otherwise stated, a successful hit from an Opportunity Attack doesn't stop your Dash.

Intercept (Reaction)

If you are unengaged and any Near creature tries to become Engaged with one of your Near allies, you can immediately use a Reaction to Intercept, forcing it to become Engaged with you instead.

You can still make Opportunity Attacks against a creature that you Intercepted, if it breaks the engagement with you on the same turn.

If you are Engaged with a creature and it Disengages, you cannot Intercept it until the end of its turn. You also won't be able to Intercept an engagement attempt if a Near creature Dashes into one of your Near allies

Move Advantage & Disadvantage

Every core Race is considered to have the same movement range while in combat. If you have any Class Feature that increases your movement speed (e.g. Monk's Unarmored Movement, Barbarian's Fast Movement and Druid's Wild Shape as a Wolf) or other effects that raise your movement speed temporarily (e.g. Haste Spell, Potion of Speed) grant you the benefits of Movement Advantage. Having Movement Advantage allows you to Dash as a Bonus Action. Multiple Class Features that increase your movement speed, such as those gained through multiclassing, don't ever stack.

If you already have a Class Feature that allows you to Dash as a Bonus Action, and yet you also get the benefits of Movement Advantage, they stack: You're now able to Dash once per turn for free as part of your normal movement, Dash again as a Bonus Action, and Dash once more as an Action.

Effects that reduce your movement speed temporarily (e.g. Difficult Terrain, Prone) impose Movement Disadvantage. Having Movement Disadvantage means you cannot usually Dash at all. If you have a Class Feature that specifically allows you to Dash as a Bonus Action, you are able to Dash normally by using an Action instead. You can still move Far by spending your entire turn moving, and you cannot become Engaged with anything as part of this movement.

Rogue

Armors: All Jacks

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Weapons: All Simple, Martial (Finesse).

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Equipment:

a Rapier; a Shortsword

a Shortbow and 20 arrows; a Shortsword

a Burglar's pack; a Dungeoneer's pack; an Explorer's pack

a Leather Tunic(underlay), a Light Cloak (cloak), 2 Daggers, and thieves’ tools

Sorcerer

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Armors: None

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Weapons: Simple Blades, Simple Thrown Weapons, Simple Crossbows (Light), Simple Polearms (non-lethal)

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Equipment:

a Light Crossbow and 20 bolts; any Simple weapon

a component pouch; an arcane focus

a Dungeoneer's pack; an Explorer's pack

2 Daggers

Warlock

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Armors: All Jacks

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Weapons: All Simple Weapons, Martial Flexible (chains)

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Equipment:

a Light Crossbow and 20 bolts; any Simple weapon

a component pouch; an arcane focus

a Scholar's pack; an Dungeoneer's pack

a Leather Tunic (underlay), any Simple weapon, and 2 Daggers

Wizard

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Armors: None

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Weapons: Simple Blades, Simple Thrown Weapons, Simple Crossbows (Light), Simple Polearms (non-lethal)

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Equipment:

a Quarterstaff; a Dagger

a component pouch; an arcane focus

a Scholar's pack; an Explorer's pack

a Spellbook

Option: Poverty and Equipment

Starting equipment assumes that all new characters have a Modest lifestyle and can easily afford quality equipment. If your character is among the poor, your access to equipment will be limited.

Check Lifestyle levels and their descriptions on pg. 74. For each Lifestyle level below Modest, you lack access to one item of starting equipment of your or DM's choice.

Magical Armors

When you wear multiple armor components with magical enhancement bonus, the highest bonus among them applies to your Armor Class.

Alternatively, the DM may allow each layer of armor to apply its enhancement bonus to its signature armor property:

• Underlay armor. Soak prevents +1, +2 or +3 more damage if you take 10 or more damage.
• Mesolay armor. Damage Reduction prevents +1, +2 or +3 more damage of its associated type.
• Overlay armor. Armor Class improves with +1, +2 or +3, as stated in the Player's Handbook.

Armor Properties

Armor Conditions

• Net. AC 10 and HP 5. Immune to bludgeoning and piercing damage. Can also be broken with a DC 12 Strength check but if the Net is Barbed, you take 2d4 piercing damage breaking it.
• Bola or Lasso. AC 10 and HP 5. Immune to bludgeoning and piercing damage. Can also be broken with a DC 12 Strength check.
• Chain. AC 10 and HP 10. Immune to piercing damage. Takes no damage from attacks dealing 5 damage or less. Can also be broken with a DC 20 Strength check.

Ongoing

While a weapon with the Ongoing property is grappling the target (see Grappling weapon property), the target takes damage at the beginning of each of its turns equal to the value shown in parenthesis.

Opportunistic

This weapon is great for striking back at opponents who threaten you. When using your reaction to make an opportunity attack with this weapon, you benefit from advantage to the attack roll.

Parry

The weapon has a catching or deflecting feature, allowing it to be used to parry incoming attacks.

You can use the Deflect combat action (see pg. 19) without Dominance over your target, and even if the weapon has the Light or Finesse properties.

Preventing

While your weapon is grappling the target (see Grappling weapon property) and you are holding your weapon, the target is unable to approach you and can only move away from you.

The target can only move towards you if it attempts to Shove you. If it succeeds, it also provokes an opportunity attack from you that automatically hits.

Reach

The weapon has an extended length. This weapon adds 5 feet to your Reach when you attack with it, and when determining your Reach for attacks of opportunity with it.

Thrown

Check Player's Handbook pg. 147 for this property.

Drawing a Thrown weapon is part of the attack, but you need a free hand. You may use your bonus action to recover any Thrown weapon within your reach. At the end of combat, you can recover all undamaged Thrown weapons by taking up to a minute to search the battlefield.

When you take damage from a thrown weapon and it causes an Open Wound (pg. 8), the weapon remains lodged in the target. Any time you use your action during your turn with one or several lodged weapons in you, you take 1d4 internal damage. Removing a lodged weapon is an action.

Velocity

Advanced firearms shoot projectiles at a higher velocity than all other ranged weapons. While causing less bleeding than arrows, bullets deal more trauma and are very effective at killing quickly. When rolling for damage, roll one additional weapon die then remove the die with the lowest result.

When using weapons with the Velocity property the target does not benefit from any AC bonus from armor components with the Hard property. If you use Realistic Defense (pg. 70), all DR is ignored instead.

Volley

Weapons with the Volley property are less effective at close distances. Your attacks against targets that are within 30 feet from you suffer disadvantage.

Lodged Arrows and Bullets

When you take damage from a ranged weapon using arrow projectiles and it causes you to suffer an Open Wound (pg. 8), the arrow lodges deep into your body. Anytime you use your action during your turn with one or several lodged arrows in you, you take 1d4 internal damage. Removing a lodged arrow is an action. You can use your action to remove the arrow, make a DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check. If you fail, the arrow breaks and the arrowhead remains in your body.

When you take damage from a ranged weapon using bullet projectiles and it causes you to suffer an Open Wound (pg. 8), the whole bullet or a fragment of it remains lodged in your body. Normal bullets leave one fragment while Buckshot bullets (pg. 41) leave 1d4 fragments.

Having arrows or fragments of bullets in your body will elicit a foreign body reaction and become encapsulated by connective tissue unless removed. Until all fragments are removed, any time you have one or more open Wounds you always take the minimum roll from healing by restorative abilities, magical healing or using hit dice during rest.

To remove all fragments left by bullets in your body, you or an ally must spend one use of a Healer's Kit and make a Wisdom (Medicine) skill check at DC 10 + the number of lodged pieces lodged in your body (maximum DC 20). If the check fails, you can still remove any amount of fragments but you lose 1 hit point for each fragment removed. The manipulation takes 1 minute per fragment removed.

If you do not have Healer's Kit available, you can use a blade or even your fingers to attempt to remove fragments lodged in your body. If you choose to do so the DC is 12 + the number of fragments lodged in your body (maximum DC 20) and if you fail, you can remove any number of fragments but you lose 1d4 hit points for each fragment removed. The manipulation takes 2 minutes per fragment removed.

Impaling

Impaling damage is dealt by direct fire artillery such as the ballista. Their projectiles need to hit the target exactly to deal damage so they are best used against immobile structures.

A number of creatures that meet the Strength requirement can Help you, up to the Crew value of the siege weapon. See Stacking Advantage (pg. 5) for bonuses beyond advantage.

If you attempt to move a siege weapon and succeed, it can be moved up to half your speed if Large or smaller, or by 5 feet if Huge. Gargantuan siege weapons cannot be moved without wheels, platforms or beasts of burden.

Once a siege weapon is moved or repositioned, it is no longer Aimed and all Aiming benefits are lost.

Proficiency Costs

When you permanently increase your Intelligence modifier, you may spend additional points as normal. Proficiencies learned by spending points cannot be lost once gained.

Creating a Personality Profile

To fully sketch your character's personality, you may assign an advantage or disadvantage to any trait. You may assign double advantage or double disadvantage when certain traits are incredibly strong or devastatingly weak. As characters develop with time, you can change your profile at any point.

Personality Check

When you want to check a certain personality trait, make an Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma ability check using the advantage or disadvantage (normal or double) assigned to the chosen trait. Then compare with the Difficulty table.