Must-Reads

Everyone should read the Introduction and Using This Book sections, to better understand The Warrior's Codex's goals and how it affects the game.

If you play a race or subclass changed by Part I: Races or Part II: Subclasses, read the relevant text. You can also read those sections when creating a new character.

Everyone should read Part III: New Weapons in its entirety, to make sure they understand the properties of weapons and armor and the options they have in combat.

The same applies to Part IV: New Rules to ensure nobody is blindsided by the changes, and that they understand any other options they have to further customize their character. Some players might even see an unexpected buff.

Part V: New Items is helpful for creative players who like to craft items and use them in combat, but is not required.

Any player who plans to make a spellcaster should read Part VI: New Spells, since some existing spells have been changed and new and exciting options have been added.

Part VII: Monsters exists for the DM, who has the chance to add new armies for mid- and high-level players to face. It also provides a quick way to handle combat between large groups, and acts as an example of proper wording for weapons with WCX properties when carried by monsters.

Part VIII: Appendices is excellent, but optional. The cheat sheet is an invaluable quick reference, and the profiles contain examples of each weapon and a brief explanation of its use, history, and other trivia.

Converting to WCX

Most campaigns won't begin with the Codex in place, and have to switch mid-game. This section contains the most important changes from RAW. Remember that your group can adopt as much or as little of this book as you want, and most parts work independently of one another. Choose the parts you like, and feel free to ignore the rest. With the exception of the Way of the Raptor and the Path of the Bonebreaker, every subclass in this book can be used without the other content introduced in The Warrior's Codex.

Other Conversions

The old longbow becomes a recurve bow, and the new longbow is a weapon all its own. The recurve bow is more typical of fantasy and popular contemporary bows, while the longbow is the titanic artillery piece employed by medieval English infantry. This includes all mentions of longbows, including in enemy statblocks or racial and class features.

A shield becomes any new shield of the user's choice.

All arrows become field arrows, and all crossbow bolts become quarrels. Other projectiles can be purchased or crafted after the group begins to use the document.

If a character uses a trident, whip, or net, use that weapon as their free exotic weapon proficiency if playing a class that gains one. If not playing a class or race that gains proficiency in that weapon, consider making an exception. If the character doesn't use any of those weapons, choose one free exotic weapon proficiency if the class grants it, as normal.

While exotic weapons are listed as a separate category for the purposes of class and subclass proficiencies, any feature that requires any simple or martial weapon to use can also use an exotic weapon.

In all other cases, such as feats, class features, and spells: when a feature has the same name as another existing one, remove the existing version entirely and replace it with the WCX feature of the same name unless it states the change is an addition rather than a replacement. In that case, add the existing benefit but do not remove the old.

On the Cover

Lake Hurwitz illustrates a master duelist's wall display of masterwork weapons, where the spirit of his skill manifests as ghostly rapier and parrying dagger.

Centaur

Raucous and passionate as wild stallions, centaurs are creatures with the lower body of a horse and the upper body of a human. Incorrigible nomads, these wanderers put down few roots and possess the wisdom of centuries of experience in the wild as well as a dangerously fun-loving disposition. When they pass through, wild celebrations that end with missing food, drink, and citizenry are to be expected.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Centaurs mature and age at the same rate as humans.

Alignment. With their need to travel and love of festivities, centaurs tend toward chaotic alignment. They are rarely purposely malicious or evil, though the victims of their destructive merrymaking disagree.

Size. Centaurs stand between 6 and 7 feet tall, with their equine bodies reaching about 4 feet at the withers. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 40 feet.

Hybrid Nature. You have two creature types: humanoid and monstrosity. You can be affected by a game effect if it works on either of your creature types.

Charge. If you move at least 15 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with a melee attack on the same turn, you can immediately follow that attack with a bonus action, making one attack against the target with your hooves.

Hooves. Your hooves are natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Equine Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push or drag, and the creatures that you can grapple or shove, as well as the DC of ability checks made to toss you. If a weapon, shield, or suit of armor you use has a Strength requirement, the requirement is reduced by 2. In addition, climbing is especially difficult for you because of your hooves. When you climb, each foot of movement costs you 4 extra feet, instead of the normal 1 extra foot. A Medium or smaller bipedal creature can ride on your back if you allow it. In such a situation, you continue to act independently, not as a controlled mount.

Finally, you are always considered mounted for all features and rules that involve it, such as mounting another creature (which you cannot do) or weapons with the cavalry property.

Wild Life. You gain proficiency in two of the following of your choice: Animal Handling, Medicine, Nature, Performance, Survival, brewer's supplies, leatherworker's tools, or weaver's tools.

Language. You can speak, read, and write Common and another language of your choice.

Dragonborn

An ancient race created by dragons in their own image, the poverty of the dragonborn belies their mighty heritage. Scattered to the winds by conquest and diaspora, time and distance have not dulled their passion. Filled by a boisterous zest for life and a love of riches, these vibrantly-colored reptile-men live ostentatious lives in spite of their low work as laborers, mercenaries, and hired muscle.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score
increases by 2.

Age. Young dragonborn grow quickly. They walk hours after hatching, attain the size and development of a 10-year-old human child by the age of 3, and reach adulthood by 15. They live to be around 80.

Alignment. Impassioned and independent, most dragonborn tend toward chaotic alignment. While their color does not influence their disposition (unlike true dragons), very few dragonborn are neutral; they tend toward zealous extremes of good or evil.

Size. Dragonborn are bulky, standing well over 6 feet tall and averaging about 250 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Draconic Ancestry. You are descended from a particular breed of dragon. Choose a type of dragon from the Draconic Ancestry table. Your breath weapon, damage resistance, and the color and material of your scales are determined by the dragon type, as shown in the table.

Damage Resistance. You have resistance to the damage type associated with your draconic ancestry.

Breath Weapon. You can use a bonus action to exhale destructive energy of a type and shape determined by your ancestry. When you use your breath weapon, each creature in its area must make a saving throw. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A target takes 2d6 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases to 3d6 at 3rd level, and increases by another d6 every other level afterward.

Goliath

In the highest mountains live Goliaths, descended from the children of humanoids and stone giants. These folk live peaceful, pastoral lives but can be brutally dangerous when roused to anger.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score
increases by 1.

Alignment. Attuned to nature's impassive rhythms with focus on self-reliance, clear roles, and personal accountability, goliaths tend toward law and neutrality in affairs outside their own mountain villages.

Mountain Born. You have resistance to cold damage. You're also acclimated to high altitudes, including elevations above 20,000 feet.

Stone Flesh. Mineral veins that block incoming damage crisscross your skin. The first time on a turn that you take nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, you reduce the damage by an amount equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of 1).

Fir Bolg

This primordial race has inhabited uncleared forests since ancient times, competing with fey, humans, fomorians, and gods for territory. Their name translates as "men of the bag" or "men of the bellows," which refers to their ability to grow with spasmodic battle-rage.

Once enslaved laborers, the fir bolg became conquerers, only to be usurped within a single generation. The remains of their kingdoms still linger in the remains of the forests they once ruled.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score
increases by 1.

Alignment. With a government of provinces beneath a high kingship formed after centuries of oppression, the fir bolg tend toward loyalty to their own and a lawful civilization. Their code of honor and enmity with the evil fomorians make evil fir bolg a rarity.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Sylvan.

Fury of the Ancients. You can channel your ancestors' battle-rage to force your body to swell with anger. As a bonus action, you cause yourself and everything you are wearing or carrying to increase by one size category (from Medium to Large), and gain a number of temporary hit points equal to 1d4 + your level. This transformation and temporary hit points last for 1 minute. In this state, your weapon attacks do an additional 1d4 damage.

You can enter this battle-rage a number of times equal to your Strength modifier (a minimum of once), and must complete a long rest before you do so again.

Nephilim

Born of sinful mortals and fallen angels, these antediluvian warrior-poets ruled before the rise of humanoids. With a flawless, uncannily beautiful aspect, their haunting battle-hymns echo from the hidden warbands and prehistoric ruins where they linger.

Modern nephilim fondly remember bygone days when their bronze-armored warriors controlled fertile farmlands and dominated the smaller races for tribute, wealth, and labor. Their subjects' benevolent gods helped them rebel against and overthrow the nephilim, whose shadowy pantheon remained distant as the empire fell.

Desert

Congregated around oases and springs, the harsh desert yields to this people a multitude of resources. Famed for their wealth, the centers of trade, learning, and culture built by these far-traveling humans shine like diamonds in the sand.

Traveling Trader. You gain proficiency in Persuasion, Survival, and the scimitar or shotel. You also learn one language of your choice.

Take the Heat. You’re naturally adapted to hot climates, as described in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide, and you ignore difficult terrain created by sand. Finally, a taste of water harmlessly tells you if it is clean and safe to drink, without poison, disease, or contamination.

Forest

Surrounded by hostile wilderness, forest humans are a hardy people who eke out a living in fields or build walls to protect against the horrors lurking in the brambles. Others inhabit the depths of the woods, living amongst nature, and rely on its bounty for survival and its chaotic tangles for protection.

Woodsman. You gain proficiency in Stealth, the handaxe or arming sword, and woodcarver's tools.

Man the Walls. Many forest humans congregate in towns and castles; others use trees for protection. Used to taking shelter in battle, you gain an additional +1 bonus to AC and Dexterity saving throws from half and three-quarters cover.

Highlander

With empires built on terraced mountain peaks and ancient clans rooted between the hills, these humans thrive at the roof of the world. Their rocky surroundings make harsh living, but are a powerful defense against lowland invaders.

Mountain Men. You gain proficiency in Athletics, the mace or greatsword, and bagpipes or weaver's tools.

You are also acclimated to high altitude, including elevations above 20,000 feet.

Eye for Fractures. You are accustomed to crossing untrustworthy terrain. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, and can tell if any surface, ledge, bridge, or handhold can take your weight (including anything you are wearing or carrying) when you see it.

Islander

Scattered across coasts and isolated islands across the world, this resolute group of humans colonize far-flung and hostile terrain that others dare not seek. They fly in the face of the assumption that humans are terrestrial creatures, and thrive in and around the world's sapphire oceans.

Fishermen. You gain proficiency in the harpoon or trident, navigator's tools, and water vehicles. You also gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed.

Stand in the Surf. Used to long trips on rough seas, you stand obstinate against the elements. You have advantage on checks and saving throws against weather, spells, and other effects that would knock you prone or move you against your will. You also ignore the effects of heavy precipitation and strong winds, as described in the Dungeon Master's Guide.

Jungle

In the humid woods of tropical regions, these humans survive against and alongside the most dangerous mundane and magical beasts. Living in groups that range from tribal bands to mighty empires in cities of vine-choked stone, these fierce humans live with a grudging respect for their hostile environment, which leads unwary foreigners to their demise.

Rainforest Warrior. You gain proficiency in Perception, the battleaxe or spear, and the drum. You also have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

Eyes in the Gloom. Unlike most humans, you have excellent night vision. You can see in dim light as though it were bright light, and in darkness you have advantage on Perception checks using senses other than sight.

Steppe

Inhabitants of rolling plains, these nomadic humans rely on herds of animals for meat, milk, and material instead of the harsh soil. They also train such beasts for war: when united under a common banner, they form an unstoppable force.

Horselord. You gain proficiency in Animal Handling, the scimitar or recurve bow, and land vehicles.

Nomad. You fight with great agility and control. Your base walking speed increases by 5 feet, and when mounted you and your mount have advantage on Dexterity saving throws.

Tundra

Inhabitants of the frigid snowfields at the ends of the world, these humans defy the elements simply by existing. With a wasteless lifestyle that borrows from the creatures native to their snowy homes, these humans owe their survival to their tenacity and inventiveness in the face of impossibility.

Sustenance Hunter. You gain proficiency in Nature, the boar spear or harpoon, and leatherworker's or scrimshander's tools.

Last Through the Winter. You are inured to subzero temperatures. You are naturally adapted to cold climates, and ignore all difficult terrain created by ice, snow, and slush.

Updated Class Features

The following entries detail changes and enhancements to various barbarian features.

Brutal Critical

9th, 13th, and 17th-level barbarian feature
Brutal Critical works as-written, with the following change:

Weapons that deal multiple damage dice per hit roll each damage die an additional time when you use this feature, instead of a single die. At 13th level you roll the weapon's damage dice two additional times, and 17th level you roll the dice three additional times.

Rage Beyond Death

14th-level Path of the Zealot feature
Rage Beyond Death works as-written, with the following addition:

Being knocked to 0 hit points doesn't inflict additional levels of exhaustion if you are raging.

Primal Paths

At 3rd level, a barbarian gains the Primal Path feature, which offers you the choice of a subclass. The following additional options are available to you when making that choice: Path of the Berserker, Path of the Bonebreaker, Path of the Cataclysm, Path of the Crescendo, Path of the Ironclad, and more options for the Path of the Totem Warrior.

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 untrammeled fury, slick with blood, where anger for anger's sake is king. As a berserker enters a rage, they thrill in the chaos of battle, heedless of their own health and well-being.

Frenzy

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can go into a frenzy when you rage. During a frenzied rage, you can make one additional melee weapon attack when you take the Attack action, but every attack that you make during this rage must use your Reckless Attack feature.

Mindless Rage

Beginning at 6th level, the bloody joy of battle wipes out other influences. While raging, you can't be charmed or frightened, and are immune to psychic damage. If you are charmed or frightened when you enter a rage, the condition ends.

Terrifying Rampage

Starting at 10th level, whenever you reduce a target to 0 hit points you can choose to force creatures of your choice within 30 feet of the slain target that can see and hear you to make a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier). Each creature that fails its save is frightened of you until the end of your next turn. A creature with fewer hit points than the damage you dealt has disadvantage on its saving throw.

Adrenaline Rush

Starting at 14th level, when you are attacked, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against the attacker. You can enter a frenzied rage as part of the same reaction, potentially gaining resistance to the damage from the attack.

Path of the Bonebreaker

Brawlers, battleragers, gladiators, and pugilists, Bonebreakers wield crude-but-powerful weapons older than any other: their own two fists. Seemingly impervious to pain, their bone-shattering blows dent the finest armor and sunder the hardest scales. To a Bonebreaker, magic and weapon alike can never compete with a strong right hook.

Furious Fists

Also at 3rd level, your punches hit harder than any other. You gain the Unarmed Fighting style (detailed in Part IV), which you can also use when wielding a cestus as though you were wielding no weapons.

Your unarmed strikes and attacks with cestus have the sundering property. Even though they lack the light property, you can use your fists to engage in two-weapon fighting,

and you add your ability score modifier to the damage of the additional attack when you use a cestus or fist to make it.

I am Unbreakable!

Starting at 6th level, your stamina in a brawl matches even the most hardened soldier. You have advantage on saving throws against being stunned or being put to sleep.

In addition, you can use a bonus action while raging to expend a hit die and send a surge of strength through your body. When you do so, you end one of the following conditions on yourself: blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, poisoned, or restrained. When you expend a hit die in this way, you do not regain hit points. You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus.

Thorned Charge

At 10th level, you can barrel through many foes. When you take the Dash action, you can Overrun (Dungeon Master's Guide, page 272) any number of creatures without expending an action or bonus action. When you successfully Overrun a creature it takes 2d4 bludgeoning damage and is knocked prone. If you are wearing spiked armor, you deal 2d4 piercing damage instead (for a total of 3d4 piercing damage).

If the creature that you attempted to Overrun succeeds on the check, it takes half as much damage and isn't knocked prone, but you still move through its space.

Right Hook

Beginning at 14th level, you can ruthlessly exploit the flaws in your enemies' guards. If you have advantage on an attack roll with an unarmed strike or cestus and you hit, you can use the maximum possible result on all of the attack's damage dice instead of rolling.

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Path of the Cataclysm

All barbarians have powerful rage. The untamed elemental fury of those who follow the Path of the Cataclysm is a more tangible rage than most. Attuned to the greatest extremes and natural disasters, these barbarians train with druids at the harsh ends of civilization, or with planeswalkers at the paraelemental borders between worlds. These bastions of elemental power represent the chaotic energy of the natural world at its mightiest, and wield it on the battlefield to widespread, devastating effect.

Disaster Aura

Starting at 3rd level, destructive elemental power explodes from you while you rage, creating a roiling aura of energy that extends 10 feet from you in every direction, though not behind total cover. The aura's radius increases to 15 feet at level 10 and 20 feet at level 14.

Choose a catastrophe from the options listed below. Your aura gains features based on the type you choose at this level, and you gain new features for the same aura at 6th and 14th levels in this class. You can change your chosen power whenever you gain a level in this class.

When a creature starts its turn within your aura, you can deal magical damage to it equal to half your barbarian level. If your aura's effects require a saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.

Your aura determines the type of damage dealt. When you enter a rage, and as an action while raging, you can send power surging through your aura. Creatures of your choice in the area take an amount of damage equal to 1d6 + your Constitution modifier, of the same type as your aura.

This surge of power allows you to maintain your rage as though you attacked a hostile creature.

Blight. You emanate disease and toxic miasma. You deal necrotic damage, and creatures of your choice in your aura suffer disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity checks as plague and parasite wrack their bodies.

Blizzard. Winter wind and frigid snow surround you. You deal cold damage, and can use the plunging temperature to soothe the flames of battle. You can use a bonus action to give a creature of your choice within your aura temporary hit points equal to half your barbarian level.

Earthquake. Your blows carry the incredible power of shifting earth and falling avalanches. You deal thunder damage, and can use a bonus action to focus the tremors on a creature of your choice within your aura. That creature must make a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

Flood. You are a portal to the crushing ocean depths. Your aura deals bludgeoning damage. Creatures of your choice in your aura jump half as high and far as they otherwise could. For all creatures of your choice without a swim speed, the space in your aura is difficult terrain.

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Regular Violence

Each of your strikes is a drumbeat punctuating the rhythm of battle. Starting at 3rd level, whenever you hit a hostile creature with a weapon attack while raging, you gain an additional +1 bonus to the additional damage granted by your rage. This bonus cannot exceed half your barbarian level, and lasts until you miss an attack or your rage ends.

Furious Footwork

Beginning at 6th level, you gain proficiency in drums and your choice of Acrobatics or Performance. When you are prone, you can stand up using only 5 feet of movement, and when you Dash, you ignore difficult terrain or any penalty to your speed, unless your speed is 0.

Battle Beat

Starting at 10th level, you can use a bonus action while raging to make an uproar that thrills the hearts of your allies. Friendly creatures within 60 feet of you have advantage on saving throws to avoid being charmed, frightened, exhausted, or put to sleep until the start of your next turn. A creature
that cannot hear you does not gain this benefit.

Once before the start of your next turn, each inspired creature can add your Constitution modifier to one ability
check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. It can wait
until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the
bonus, but must decide before the DM says
whether the roll succeeds or fails.
Once the bonus is added, it is lost.

    A creature can have only one bonus at a time. You can use this bonus action a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of once) and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Staccato

Beginning at 14th level, your mighty blows ring with thunderous notes. When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, all other creatures of your choice within 5 feet of the target take thunder damage equal to your current rage bonus damage.

Iron Curtain Variant

The Warrior's Codex adds new rules for heavy armor that allows its wearer to reduce the incoming damage, which your Iron Curtain feature spreads to your allies. If your group does not use these rules for armor, then Iron Curtain instead reduces damage taken by an amount equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of 1).

Elephant

Totem Spirit. While you're raging, any 5-foot space of difficult terrain that you enter ceases to become difficult terrain for any creature that passes through it afterward, even if the difficult terrain is created by magic. The spirit of the elephant tears through snarls of vegetation and rubble.

Aspect of the Beast. You have tremorsense in a 10-foot radius around yourself. You can sense the general location of thunder damage dealt, earthquakes, storms, and burrowing creatures within a number of miles equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1).

Totemic Attunement. When a creature falls prone within 5 feet of you while you're raging, you can use your reaction to make a special unarmed strike by stomping on that creature. You are proficient in this attack, which deals damage equal to 2d8 + your Strength modifier in bludgeoning damage.

Fox

Totem Spirit. While raging, you can move up to 5 feet in any direction when a creature misses you with a melee attack. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity. The spirit of the fox makes you swift and evasive.

Aspect of the Beast. You have advantage on checks and saves against illusions, and gain proficiency in Insight or Perception. The tricksy fox knows when it is being fooled.

Totemic Attunement. While you are raging, when you make a Charisma check or saving throw, you can replace the number you roll with your barbarian level.

Gorilla

Totem Spirit. When you fail an ability check or saving throw while raging, you can use your reaction to gain a bonus to the roll equal to the number of allied creatures within 10 feet of you. This bonus cannot exceed your Constitution modifier (minimum 1). The spirit of the gorilla makes you a competent leader that never fails its troop.

Aspect of the Beast. You gain the threatening bulk of a gorilla. You have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, and gain proficiency in Intimidation.

Totemic Attunement. While raging, you can use an action to engage in an intimidating display of ritualized aggression. Choose one creature within 60 feet of you that can see you. That creature must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier). On a failed save, the target is frightened of you for 1 minute. This action is considered an attack that prevents your rage from ending early.

Locust

Totem Spirit. While raging, you have advantage on saving throws to avoid being charmed, frightened, deafened, or blinded. The spirit of the swarm gives you the independent resilience of a million eyes, ears, and minds.

Aspect of the Beast. You gain the plasticity of a swarm. You can squeeze through spaces large enough for creatures two sizes smaller than you, rather than one.

Totemic Attunement. When you damage a creature while raging, it loses any temporary hit points it has, and you gain an equal number of temporary hit points. When you damage a creature that has no temporary hit points while raging, its maximum HP is reduced by an amount equal to your rage bonus damage until the creature finishes a short or long rest.

Mole

Totem Spirit. While raging, you can use an action to gain a burrowing speed equal to half your walking speed until the end of your turn. This action is considered an attack that prevents your rage from ending early. The spirit of the mole lets you burrow through earth and stone.

Aspect of the Beast. You gain the sensitive senses of a mole. You have tremorsense out to a range of 30 feet.

Totemic Attunement. While raging, you can replace one of your weapon attacks with a special melee attack (which you are proficient in) that does no damage. If it hits, the target makes a Constitution saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). On a failed save, the target is paralyzed until the start of its next turn.

Mule

Totem Spirit. While raging, you can't be moved against your will, and you have advantage on Constitution checks and saving throws. The spirit of the mule makes you obstinate and enduring.

Aspect of the Beast. You gain the stamina of a mule. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, and the weight you can push, drag, or lift. You also have advantage on saving throws inflicted by a forced march.

Totemic Attunement. While raging, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.

Peacock

Totem Spirit. While raging, if a creature makes a melee attack against you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the roll. If the attack misses, you can cause that attack to hit one creature of your choice other than the attacker that is within 5 feet of you. The spirit of the peacock shines with dizzying elegance.

Aspect of the Beast. You gain the splendor of a peacock. You add an amount equal to your rage bonus damage to your Charisma checks.

Totemic Attunement. While raging, the first creature you damage on your turn is charmed by you until the end of its next turn.

Ram

Totem Spirit. While raging, you have advantage on saving throws against effects that would knock you prone, move you against your will, or stun you. You also have resistance to cold damage while raging. The spirit of the ram fills you with its sure-footed resilience.

Aspect of the Beast. You have the balance of a mountain sheep. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, and have advantage on checks to maintain your grip and footing while climbing.

Totemic Attunement. When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack while raging, you can choose to knock that creature 5 feet away from you and occupy the vacated space. This shift does not expend movement or provoke opportunity attacks.

Serpent

Totem Spirit. While you're raging and have at least one free hand, you can attempt to grapple a creature as a bonus action. The spirit of the snake accelerates your strikes made to capture prey.

Aspect of the Beast. You gain the venomous touch of a snake. You have proficiency in poisoner's kits.

Totemic Attunement. While raging, any creature grappled by you takes bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier + your rage bonus at the start of its turn.

Shark

Totem Spirit. Whenever you hit a creature that doesn't have all its hit points with a melee attack while raging, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier. The spirit of the shark makes you ferocious at the smell of blood.

Aspect of the Beast. You gain the swiftness and senses of a shark. You have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed, can breathe underwater, and creatures that do not have all their hit points cannot hide from you.

Totemic Attunement. While raging, the first enemy you damage with a melee weapon attack each turn has disadvantage on attack rolls against you until the end of its next turn. An enemy is immune to this effect if it can't see or hear you, or if it can't be frightened.

Tiger

Totem Spirit. While raging, you can Hide as a bonus action. So long as you are hiding, you can maintain your rage without attacking. The spirit of the tiger gives you the patience to strike at the perfect moment.

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Reflavored Totem Animals

Updated Class Features

The following entries detail changes and enhancements to various bard features.

College of the Voice

Bards of the College of the Voice ridicule paltry singers and tellers of tawdry tales. To them, their voice is their instrument, and the ancient words they speak their performance. Bards of this college are regarded with reverence, for those with the power to join it speak their will into reality. The hills shake with their bellowed incantations, which warp the world to suit their whims. When these bards speak, even the mightiest creatures fall before their words.

Shouts

When you join the College of the Voice at 3rd level, the power of your voice adds new spells to your arsenal and alters your existing ones. The spells on the shouts table are added to the bard spell list for you.

When you attempt to cast a spell on the shouts table, you can expend a Bardic Inspiration die instead of a spell slot. Roll the die. If the result is equal to or exceeds the level of the spell, you cast it as a shout. Otherwise, the spell fails.

When cast in this way, a shout does not require material or somatic components, and has a verbal component added if it does not already have one. Because your voice booms like thunder when casting a shout, all creatures within 300 feet hear the echoes of the incantation used to cast the spell.

Shouts Table

Spells marked with a * on the table are already on the bard spell list. If a spell can be found in Xanathar's Guide to Everything, it is marked with XGE.

Bard Level	Spells
1st	animal friendship, faerie fire*
3rd	dragon's breath,XGE earthbindXGE
5th	call lightning, fear*
7th	dominate beast, stoneskin
9th	dominate person, hold monster*
11th	harm, soul cageXGE
13th	draconic transformation,FTD etherealness*
15th	dominate monster*, control weather
17th	meteor swarm, time stop

Tongue of the Ancients

Starting at 3rd level, the words of an ancient language give your magic form. You learn one of the following languages of your choice: Abyssal, Celestial, Draconic, Deep Speech, Giant, Infernal, Modron, Primordial, Slaad, Sphinx, Sylvan, or Yeti. When you use a shout, you speak the verbal component in this language. You also know the comprehend languages spell, and can cast it at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Thundering Yell

Starting at 6th level you can project your voice as a weapon. You can use an action and expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher and force each creature in a 30-foot cone to make a Constitution saving throw against your bard spell save DC. A creature takes 2d8 thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

On a failed save, the target is pushed a number of feet away from you equal to your Charisma modifier multiplied by 5 (a minimum of 5 feet), and is knocked prone.

The thunder damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st.

Legend Rend

Starting at 14th level, you learn words of power that force the mightiest creatures to comprehend their own mortality. You can use an action to scream those words to one creature within 120 feet of you. If the target can hear you, it must must make a Wisdom saving throw against your bard spell save DC. On a failed save, the target temporarily loses any resistances to damage and immunities to conditions that it has, and has disadvantage on all saving throws. This effect ends after 1 minute. The affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. A creature cannot use a Legendary Resistance, if it has one, to succeed on saving throws against this feature.

You can use this feature once, and regain all expended uses after you finish a long rest.

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Updated Class Features

The following entries detail changes and enhancements to various cleric features.

Domain Spells

Bonus Proficiency

At 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor, martial weapons, and Poisoners' Kits.

Concoctive Acolyte

Your divine knowledge allows you to craft poisons with holy magic and mundane materials. Starting at 1st level, you don't need materials to craft poisons, and can use Wisdom, instead of Intelligence, when you make a check to craft poisons.

Poisons you craft can use your cleric spell save DC instead of the poison's DC. Finally, you have advantage on saving throws against poison and have resistance to poison damage.

Creeping Death

Starting at 1st level, the venom coursing through enemies' veins guides your attacks. You have advantage on attack rolls against poisoned creatures.

Channel Divinity: Fangs of Steel

At 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to coat a weapon you're holding with the ichor of your god.

As a bonus action, you channel holy poison through your weapon. For the next minute or until you are incapacitated, any creature you damage with that weapon must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the target is poisoned for the next minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the condition on a success.

Fighter

Some think fighters are a basic class, only used until their player graduates to something more specialized. This supplement disagrees, and provides improvements to weak fighter subclasses and adds new, exciting options.

Lead the Charge

Starting at 10th level, you can trigger a rush while Raise the Colors is active. When you move at least 15 feet in a straight line on your turn, each creature benefiting from Raise the Colors can use its reaction to move up to its speed in the same direction as you.

The first time you or a charging ally come within 5 feet of a hostile creature during this charge, the creature must make a Strength saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier). On a failed save, the target falls prone, unless it is two or more sizes larger than the charging creature. You can use this feature once per short or long rest.

Unquenchable Morale

Beginning at 15th level, when you roll initiative and have no uses of Raise the Colors remaining, you regain one use. You can also choose two different benefits when you use Raise the Colors, instead of one.

Lead from the Front

Starting at 18th level, when you persevere and access the well of strength hidden deep within, so can your allies. Whenever you use your Action Surge or Second Wind, one ally of your choice within 60 feet that can see or hear you can take an additional action immediately after your turn ends.

Bastion

Bulwarks of grit and implacable scions of self-sacrifice, the archetypal Bastions pride themselves on the simple (but fundamental) dwarven martial art of collective defense. To dwarves, clan and honor eclipse the self, so defense of others is fundamental to their military training. But anyone can use these skills, including hoplites and legionnaires.

Cataphract

The archetypal Cataphracts—also known as knights, hussars, or lancers—carry on the ancient role and invaluable role of heavy cavalry. They persist as a powerful force of shock and awe that devastates lines of unprepared infantry, charging into battle in a mass attack that shakes the earth and terrifies their foes. The bond between horse and rider is a powerful one, and you are no exception, able to protect your mount and use its incredible mobility to devastating effect.

Mounted Mountain

Beginning at 18th level, you become the ultimate mobile juggernaut. You gain the same temporary hit points your mount does from Companions on Campaign when you roll initiative, whether you are mounted or not. Additionally, your speed and the speed of any creature you use as a mount increases by 10 feet.

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Strike True

You are the master of every weapon and every fighting
form. When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you
gain proficiency in all exotic weapons and shields, and in
improvised weapons. Any weapon you wield has a damage die of 1d8 while you use it, unless it already uses a larger
die or multiple damage dice. Finally, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20. This expands to include a roll of 18 at 15th level in this class.

Remarkable Athlete

Starting at 7th level, you add your proficiency bonus to all Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution checks you make that you are not already proficient in, and to the length of your long jumps and height of your high jumps. You gain proficiency in your choice of Athletics or Acrobatics, and your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make using your choice. In addition, your speed increases by 5 feet.

Empowered Fighting Styles

At 10th level, you become a master of your chosen styles of combat. Choose one additional fighting style from the options presented to you. Both your choice and the fighting style you gained at 1st level in this class grant you additional benefits, which are listed below.

Archery. Once per turn when you make a ranged weapon attack roll and miss, you can reroll the attack roll against a new target within 5 feet of the original.

Blind Fighting. You have truesight out to a range of 10 feet.

Defense. You gain an additional +1 bonus to AC while wearing armor, and you don and doff armor in half the time.

Dueling. When wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you can use a bonus action to attempt to disarm a creature when you hit it with that weapon.

Flexibility. You gain both benefits of this fighting style anytime you are wielding a weapon, regardless of whether you hold it in one or two hands.

Great Weapon Fighting. When you attack with a melee weapon held in two hands, you can grant that attack the sundering or sweeping property. Additionally, if your size is Small, you wield heavy weapons without penalties.

Interception. If you successfully reduce the damage of the intercepted attack to an amount less than your fighter level, the target of the attack takes no damage instead.

Protection. If you impose disadvantage on an attack roll and it misses, you can make one melee weapon attack against the attacker as part of the same reaction.

Superior Technique. You learn another maneuver of your choice from among those available to the Battle Master archetype, and gain an additional superiority die.

Thrown Weapon Fighting. When you hit with an attack with a thrown weapon, you can push the target up to 5 feet away from you in a straight line.

Two-Weapon Fighting. When you miss an attack with a weapon that you are are holding in one hand, you gain advantage on the next attack you make against the same target with the weapon you are holding in your other hand, so long as you make both attacks on the same turn.

  Unarmed Fighting. When you have a creature grappled, you can make a new Strength (Athletics) check against the target's opposed Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check in place of one of your attacks. On a success, the target is restrained and your speed is reduced to 0 until the start of your next turn.

Final Stand

Starting at 15th level, your indomitable will lets you power through mortal injuries. When you succeed on a death saving throw, you can choose to regain 1 hit point. When you do so, your current level of exhaustion is reduced by 1, you stand without consuming any movement, and can take your turn as normal.

Creatures of your choice that can see you gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your fighter level + your Charisma modifier. After you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you do so again.

Survivor

At 18th level, you attain the pinnacle of resilience in battle. At the start of each of your turns, you regain a number of hit points equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier if you have no more than half of your hit points left. You don't gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.

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Hidden in the Mist

Starting at 15th level, your god intervenes directly to protect you from peril, obscuring other mortals' vision and moving you out of harm's way. When you are targeted by an attack or spell, you can use your reaction to cast misty step, causing the attack to miss you or potentially moving you out of the spell's range of area of effect.

After you teleport, you are invisible until the start of your next turn. You can use this feature three times per long rest.

Demigod

Starting at 18th level, you become a minor god. You gain eternal youth; at the end of a long rest you can appear as any age you choose, no longer suffer any effects of aging, and cannot die of old age. In addition, your near-immortality makes you more enduring; you don't fail a death saving throw when you take damage while at 0 hit points.

You also gain one of the following benefits, based on the domain your god rules. Your choice does not have to be the same option you selected for your Chosen's Blessing or Gift of the Gods feature.

Arcana. You are immune to force damage, and automatically and successfully identify any spell when you see it cast without using your reaction.

Forge. You are immune to fire damage, and gain a +1 bonus to your AC.

 

Grave. You are immune to necrotic damage, and can use an action to bless a corpse you touch, preventing it from suffering any penalties if raised from the dead (such as the penalty to attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks incurred by the resurrection spell).

Hunting. You can move up to your speed straight toward a creature that doesn't have all its hit points as a bonus action.

Knowledge. You are immune to psychic damage, and when you add your proficiency bonus to any Intelligence check, your proficiency bonus is doubled.

Life. You are immune to radiant damage, and when you regain hit points or restore them to another creature, the number of hit points gained is doubled.

Light. You are immune to radiant damage, can see perfectly in dim light and darkness for any distance.

Love. You are immune to psychic damage, and cannot be charmed or blinded.

Luck. No attack roll can have advantage against you while you aren't incapacitated.

Music. You are immune to thunder damage, and cannot be charmed or deafened.

Nature. You are immune to poison damage, and can cast speak with animals and speak with plants at will.

Order. You are immune to psychic damage, and whenever a creature of chaotic alignment forces you to make a saving throw, you have advantage on the save.

Peace. When you or a creature within 60 feet of you are targeted with an spell that raises a creature from the dead, the caster doesn't need material components to cast the spell.

Tempest. You are immune to lightning and thunder damage, and you gain a flying speed equal to your base walking speed.

Toxin. Once per turn when you damage a creature, you can inflict the poisoned condition upon it. This poison lasts until the start of your next turn, and ignores immunity to the poisoned condition.

Travel. The distance you and creatures with you can travel in a day doubles, and you cannot be restrained or paralyzed.

Trickery. You can cast polymorph at will, targeting only yourself. You can use this spell to turn into a humanoid, as well as a beast, but the Challenge Rating of the humanoid you become cannot exceed your fighter level divided by 4.

Twilight. While in dim light or darkness, you can use your reaction when you take damage to halve the damage dealt.

War. At the start of each of your turns, you and creatures of your choice within 30 feet of you gain a number of temporary hit points equal to half your fighter level.

Winter. You are immune to cold damage, and ranged attacks have disadvantage against you.

Mage Knight

The archetypal Mage Knight combines the martial mastery common to all fighters with careful study of magic. With a small, curated list of memorized spells instead of a spellbook, Mage Knights blend the arcane and mundane into one. They work best in the thick of battle, where they intersperse choice spells with devastating weapon attacks empowered by magic.

    Cantrips. You learn two cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. You learn an additional wizard cantrip of your choice at 10th level.

Spell Slots. The Mage Knight Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your wizard spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell shield and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast shield using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st-Level and Higher. You know three 1st-level wizard spells of your choice, which you choose from the wizard spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Mage Knight Spellcasting table shows when you learn more wizard spells of 1st level or higher. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 7th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Any spell with the word "smite" or "strike" in its name is considered a wizard spell for you.

Whenever you gain a fighter level, you can replace one of the wizard spells you know with another spell of your choice from the wizard spell list. The new spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your wizard spells, since you learn your spells through study and memorization.

    You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a wizard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Mark Target

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you can mark a creature when it misses you with an attack, you hit it with a weapon attack, or you succeed on a contested check against it. You can also mark a creature whose identity you know if you take 10 minutes to gather and ruminate upon information about it. When you mark a creature, you gain insight into that creature's thoughts, beliefs, and style of combat.

You can have a number of marks equal to your Wisdom modifier at any one time (a minimum of 1). If you mark another target, one other mark of your choice ends.

When a target is marked, you gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Charisma (Intimidation) checks against it.
• If it misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction to make one weapon attack against it.
• You have advantage on opportunity attack rolls against it.
• When you make an opportunity attack against it, you can attempt to grapple it instead of making a weapon attack. You have advantage on the check to grapple it.

Gut Feeling

At 7th level, you gain proficiency in Insight. If you are already proficient in it, you gain proficiency in one of the following instead: Intimidation, Perception, Survival, or Thieves' Tools. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses Insight. You receive this benefit regardless of the proficiency you gain from this feature.

Going Underground

Also at 7th level, you can spend 1d4 hours whenever you enter a city or other urban area to gather information about a mark. This includes interrogating its allies, retracing its steps, gathering rumors, and other investigation. Afterwards, roll 1d20 to determine the results of your research. The DM determines the specific information that you learn, based on the result rolled on the table below. You can only gather information about a single mark at a time.

No Escape

At 10th level, whenever you hit a mark with a weapon attack, its speed is reduced by 5 feet until the end of its next turn. This feature can affect the same mark multiple times.

Out of My Way

Starting at 15th level, you can forcibly remove others from your hunt. When a mark makes an attack against a creature within 15 feet of you, you can use your reaction to move towards the target, entering its space and shoving it into the nearest unoccupied space. You then become the target of the mark's attack. If that attack misses you, you can make one weapon attack against the mark as part of the same reaction.

Untouchable

Starting at 18th level, your ability to wade into a brawl and emerge unscathed is unparalleled. The first attack roll a mark makes against you each turn has disadvantage. You no longer require a reaction to attack when a mark misses you. You can only attack after a mark misses you once on any creature's turn, even if a mark misses you more than once.

Marks and the Order of Operations

Your mark is separate from the action described on page 271 of the DMG and does not gain the benefits of that action. In order to use mark features against a creature, it must already be marked. If an unmarked enemy misses you and you mark it, you cannot use your reaction to counter, because it wasn't a mark when it missed. Similarly, if you hit a creature and mark it, its speed is not reduced, because it was not a mark when you hit it.

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Trickshots

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you exceed a common archer or triggerman and enter the realm of entertainment. You learn two of the Trickshots below, and learn an additional one when you reach 10th and 15th level in this class.

You can only use a Trickshot when you make a ranged weapon attack. An attack roll can only benefit from one Trickshot at a time, and you cannot use a feature that alters the way you make ranged weapon attacks, such as the Hunter Conclave's Volley feature, in the same turn as a Trickshot.

Double Up. Once on your turn when you make a ranged weapon attack, you can use two weapons or pieces of identical ammunition instead of one. If the attack hits, you roll the weapon's damage dice an additional time and add them to the total damage dealt. The close and long ranges of this attack are halved.

Hairtrigger. Once per turn when you have advantage on a ranged weapon attack roll against a target, you can forgo the advantage to make an additional ranged weapon attack against the same target. Neither attack roll can benefit from advantage. You cannot use a Trickshot on the second attack.

Heavy Impact. When you hit a Huge or smaller creature with a ranged weapon attack, you can push it 5 feet away from you in a straight line.

Ricochet. Once on your turn when hit a creature with a ranged weapon attack, you can make a second attack against another creature within 30 feet of the target, using the same piece of ammunition or thrown weapon. The second attack's damage is halved, and you cannot use a Trickshot on the second attack.

    You also gain a number of temporary hit points, determined by the item's rarity. You lose any remaining temporary hit points when the item becomes active again. If you damage the creature wearing or carrying an inert magical item you can extend the time it is inoperable, though you gain no additional temporary hit points for doing so.

You can also use this feature on a magical item you are wearing or carrying, either as a bonus action or as a reaction when you take damage. The temporary hit points absorb as much of the incoming damage as possible, and those left last until the item reactivates.

Energized Attack

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you can charge your ranged attacks with magic. Once per turn when you hit with a ranged weapon attack with a ranged or thrown weapon, you can choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, psychic, or thunder damage. The attack deals damage of the type you chose, instead of the weapon's normal damage type.

Arcane Shot

Also at 3rd level, you can unleash special magical effects from your Energized Attacks. When you gain this feature, you learn two Arcane Shot options of your choice (see "Arcane Shot Options" below).

When you hit with an Energized Attack, you can apply one of your Arcane Shot options to that projectile (unless the specific shot has a different trigger). You decide to use the option when the projectile hits the creature, unless the option doesn't involve an attack roll. If the option does extra damage, it deals the same damage type that you chose for that Energized Attack. You have a number of uses of this feature equal to 2 + your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of 3), and regain all uses at the end of a short or long rest.

You gain an additional Arcane Shot option of your choice when you reach 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level in this class.

If an option requires a saving throw, your Arcane Shot save DC is calculated as follows:

Elements and Effects

Take the time to describe how an Arcane Shot's effects interact with the damage type of the Energized Attack that you use with it.

For example, for a Phasing Shot energized with lightning, you could describe the shot as a bolt of electricity that streaks from your weapon through each enemy. A Banishing Shot that deals necrotic damage could send the target to a harmless part of the Shadowfell until, or a Blinding Shot that deals psychic damage could be a beam of magical energy that scours the eyes or disrupts communication between the target's eyes and brain. A Grasping Shot using cold damage might lock the enemy down with ice instead of chains, or the acid might melt its shoes into the dirt, making moving difficult.

If you want, think of a signature combination your character is particularly proud of. Be inventive, and play up the sudden, unexpected tricks your character might create.

Swordmaster

Instead of a variety of weapons, the archetypal Swordmasters specialize in mastery of the blade. Such masters include the Swordmasters of Hoeth, the myrmidons of Magvel and Elibe, and the doppelsöldner mercenaries of 16th-century Europe. With unmatched agility, Swordmasters are masters of defense who punish enemies for attacking.

Cleansing Exercise

At 7th level, you can use meditation and practice to purify your body. So long as you are not incapacitated, you can perform a ritual of meditative maneuvers over the course of a short rest.

When you do so, you remove the effects of a single poison, disease, curse, spell, level of exhaustion, or other condition from yourself. Though this activity is strenuous, it does not prevent you from gaining the other benefits of a short rest. The first time you roll initiative after this short rest, you do so with advantage.

You can use this feature once, and must complete a long rest before you can do so again.

Flash Step

Beginning at 10th level, you can charge so swiftly that you seem to have teleported. If you haven't moved on your turn and aren't grappling another creature, you can expend all of your movement to move up to twice your speed, so long as you stop within 5 feet of a hostile creature. This movement does not provoke opportunity attacks. You then make two melee weapon attacks. Afterward, your turn continues as normal. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier (a minimum of 1), and regain all uses at the end of a long rest.

Improved Parry

At 15th level, your defensive skill has improved. You can take two reactions per round instead of one, so long as at least one of those reactions is used to deflect an attack. When you roll your weapon's damage dice to reduce the damage from an attack using Fechtbücher Expert, you gain a bonus to the roll equal to your fighter level.

Blade Dynamo

Once you reach 18th level, when you use your reaction to make a weapon attack, you can make two weapon attacks, instead of one.

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Updated Class Features

The following entries detail changes and enhancements to various monk features.

Way of the Current

The meditative Monks of the Way of the Current are as humble and ever-moving as the trickling stream. They choose their movements with practiced deliberation, which allows them to remain untouched and serene as the torrent of battle rages around them.

Path of the Kensei

When you choose this tradition at
3rd level, you completely integrate
weaponry into your martial arts,
and gain discipline in arts that soothe
the mind. You gain the following benefits.

Kensei Weapons. Any weapon without the heavy property is considered a monk weapon for you, including improvised weapons. When you make an attack with a monk weapon, you can add one of the following properties to the weapon for that attack: bypass, ensnaring, finisher, prone fighting, sundering, or sweeping.

Agile Parry. When you use your Deflect Attack feature while holding a monk weapon, you can reroll the die and use the higher result.

Kensei's Focus. You can use a bonus action to focus upon openings in your enemies' defenses until the end of your turn. When you do so, any target you hit with a monk weapon takes an extra 1d4 damage of the weapon's type.

Meditative Arts. You gain proficiency in tea sets, and your choice of calligrapher's supplies or painter's supplies.

One With the Blade

At 6th level, your ki flows through your weapons, granting you the following benefits.

Magic Monk Weapons. Your attacks with monk weapons count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Deft Strike. When you hit with a monk weapon, you can spend 1 ki point to deal extra damage equal to your Martial Arts die. You can use this feature once per turn.

Sharpen the Blade

At 11th level, you can focus the flow of ki through your weapons to enhance them further. As a bonus action, you can expend up to 3 ki points to grant one monk weapon you touch a bonus to attack and damage rolls when you attack with it. The bonus equals the number of ki points you spent. This bonus lasts for 1 minute or until you use this feature again. If used on a magical weapon that already has a bonus to attack and damage rolls, you cannot increase its bonus beyond +3.

Unerring Accuracy

At 17th level, your mastery grants you extraordinary accuracy. If you miss with an attack roll using a monk weapon on your turn, you can reroll it. You can use this feature only once on each of your turns, though you can use it again on a subsequent attack on that turn if you land a critical hit.

Barefoot Blitz

You sprinted over hot coals and ran marathons over sharp stones to earn your speed. Starting at 11th level, you ignore difficult terrain, and can move along ceilings using your Unarmored Movement Improvement feature.

Leap Into Action

Also at 11th level, your impatient nature, nurtured by your training, allows you to scream across the battlefield. In combat, you have a special reaction that you can take once on every creature's turn. You can only use this special reaction if you spend 2 ki to activate it, and you can't use it on the same turn that you take your normal reaction. You can use this special reaction only to use Rushdown or Slow Fall.

Tenets of Festivity

The tenets of this oath call its adherents to care for the well-being of others as well as themselves.

Fun. Life is a gift and every day a celebration. Create opportunities to enjoy it and alleviate boredom and misery.

Joy. Act as a persistent comfort to the hurting, and a source of happiness for those without it. Create experiences that will never be forgotten.

Plenty. No celebration is complete without abundant food and drink, and no life can be happy if it wants for basic necessities. Ensure there is comfortable excess in all things.

Hospitality. There is always room for another chair at the bar, another seat at the table, and another friend in your heart. Bring others into the fold and share with them.

Oath Spells

You gain oath spells at the paladin level listed.

Generous Host

You gain proficiency in cook's utensils or brewer's supplies.

Channel Divinity

When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following two Channel Divinity options.

Rebuke the Sober. You can use your Channel Divinity to bring revelry and merriment to others, for their benefit or detriment as you choose. As an action, you force each creature of your choice within 30 feet of you that can hear you to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target becomes poisoned and charmed by you for 1 minute. The affected creature can repeat this saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Lord of Plenty. You can use your Channel Divinity to multiply food supplies, to ensure everyone has enough to eat. As an action, you can enchant one serving, platter, or small table of food that you touch. The food magically replicates as it is served, able to feed a number of creatures equal to your paladin level without running out, instead of one.

Social Chameleon

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in Disguise Kits and the Deception skill. If you are already proficient in Deception, you gain proficiency in another skill of your choice.

Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses Deception. You receive this benefit regardless of the skill proficiency you gain from this feature. If another feature, such as Expertise, already doubles your proficiency bonus for Deception checks, another skill of your choice that you are proficient in gains this benefit.

Color Change

Most rogues operate in cramped conditions far away from pursuers, but you can hide in the open. At 3rd level, you can take the Hide action even if another creature can see you by changing the color of yourself and everything you are wearing or carrying to match a Large or larger object within 5 feet. To maintain the color change, you must concentrate as though you were concentrating on a spell.

When your color is changed, you are invisible until you move more than 5 feet in any direction, attack, or take any kind of action besides the Hide action on your turn.

Starting at 13th level, you can move up to half your speed on your turn without revealing yourself.

Pinpoint Eyes

At 9th level, your eyes mimic the abilities of your reptilian namesake. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain darkvision to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet.
• Lightly-obscured areas don't impose disadvantage on your Perception checks that rely on sight.
• You can Search with the bonus action granted by your Cunning Action.
• You have advantage on saving throws against blindness.

At 17th level, your advanced eyesight also pierces magical illusions, granting you truesight with a range of 30 feet.

Numbing Lash

Starting at 13th level, your body produces a potent poison that you channel through your weapons. When you damage a creature with your Sneak Attack, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). If it fails, the creature is poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, the target is paralyzed. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the poisoned condition on a success. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of once) and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Walking Chromatophore

Beginning at 17th level, you can change your body's colors in real time. You can cast greater invisibility on yourself without using a spell slot. You can do so a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Coup de Grâce

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you have advantage on initiative rolls, and on attack rolls against creatures that have not yet acted in combat. Any attack you land against a creature that is stunned, surprised, or has not yet taken a turn in combat is an automatic critical hit.

Electrical Charge

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, electricity courses through your body. You can use an action to transform into a living bolt of lightning and move in any direction of your choice, expending movement as normal. In this state, opportunity attacks against you have disadvantage, you have advantage on checks against effects that grapple or restrain, and you can move through other creatures.

You return to your normal state if you stop moving or change direction. If you do so inside another creature, you are shunted to the nearest unoccupied space.

When you move through a creature or return to normal within 5 feet of one, you can attack it as part of the same action. You can inflict your Sneak Attack against the target without having advantage on the roll, though all the other rules for Sneak Attack still apply. When you inflict Sneak Attack in this way, it deals lightning damage instead of your weapon's.

Ride the Lightning

Starting at 3rd level, your attunement to electricity allows you move and speak like an elemental being. You gain the following benefits:

• You can glide through the air, borne by lingering charge. The length of your long jumps and the height of your high jumps is doubled.
• Because you stream through water like electricity, you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
• You can speak, read, and write Auran.

Flow of the Current

Starting at 9th level, you flow like lightning through conductive objects. When you touch a wet or metallic object while in your Electrical Charge form, you can move within its metal components or along its wet surface, expending movement as normal. Your Electrical Charge form shrinks to fit within the object or surface if it is smaller than you.

If you change direction when moving in this way, you maintain your Electrical Charge form. You can exit the object in any unoccupied space that you can reach with your remaining movement, and can leave as a lightning bolt that travels in any direction or in your normal form. If you run out of movement or end your turn in the object, you are ejected into the nearest available space.

Thunder Child

Starting at 13th level, the electricity that courses through your body just beneath the surface grants you the ability to move like an elemental of the storm. You have resistance to lightning, thunder, and falling damage, and can move through a space as narrow as 1 foot without squeezing. You can also enter another creature's space and stop there. Until you or that creature leave that space, any attack that misses you targets that creature instead.

Bolt from the Blue

Starting at 17th level, you can use a bonus action to teleport to any point you can see by transforming into a lightning bolt that streaks into the air and crashes down at the point with a flash and roar of thunder that all creatures within 5 miles can see and hear. All creatures and objects within 5 feet of the point take 1d6 lightning and 1d6 thunder damage.

To use this feature, both you and the point you choose must be outdoors. Anything you are wearing or carrying, including one additional creature that you are grappling, is transformed into lightning for the duration as well, but nothing that you bring with you takes damage when you land.

Fleet of Foot

Starting at 3rd level, you move quickest when fleeing from enemies. Your speed increases by 5 feet. When you Disengage, you can attempt to shove one creature within your reach as part of the same action.

You can also use your Dexterity modifier, instead of your Strength modifier, when you make an Athletics check to shove a creature.

When you reach 13th level in this class, you can also Toss one creature within your reach when you Disengage even if you haven't grappled that creature, and can use your Dexterity modifier instead of Strength when you make the check to Toss it and calculate the distance it is thrown.

Wind Beneath My Wings

Starting at 9th level, the climate always favors you. As long as you aren't inside or underground, you have advantage on Survival checks made to navigate, and your speed increases by 10 feet. You and creatures with you cannot be slowed by poor weather during travel, though other factors may still reduce your pace. In strong winds, you have advantage on ranged attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing, rather than disadvantage.

Updated Class Features

The following entries detail changes and enhancements to various warlock features.

Otherworldly Patrons

At 1st level, a warlock gains the Otherworldly Patron feature, which offers you the choice of a subclass. The following option is available to you when making that choice: the Battlefield.

Battlefield Expanded Spells

Blockade Runner

Prerequisite: 15th level, Pact of the Chain
If you can see through your familiar's senses, you can use an action and expend a warlock spell slot to switch your positions, teleporting it into your space, and you into its.

Dead Soldiers' Waltz

Prerequisite: 12th level, Pact of the Blade
You can use an action and expend a warlock spell slot to summon a copy of your pact weapon in the grasp of corpses you can see, which attack targets of your choice within their reach or range. The corpses' attack and damage rolls use your pact weapon's bonuses to hit and damage, rather than those the corpse used in life. The corpses ignore disadvantage imposed by being prone or blinded. Whether the attacks hit or miss, the copies of your pact weapon immediately vanish afterward.

The number of corpses you affect cannot exceed 1 + the level of the slot you expend.

Sanitize Supplies

Prequisite: Pact of the Talisman
You can cast purify food and drink at will, without expending a spell slot, so long as you touch your talisman to a container of food or drink when you do so.

Wizard

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Another odd inclusion, even the scholarly wizard has a place in this document. With no changes necessary for its martial subclasses—the Bladesinger Arcane Tradition received an update in an official release—WCX instead adds one new tradition devoted to survival and mobility, so wizards can better support and reinforce their slower-moving allies.

Updated Class Features

The following entries detail changes and enhancements to various wizard features.

New Proficiencies

You gain the additional proficiencies listed below.
Tools. Calligrapher's Supplies.

Arcane Traditions

At 2nd level, a wizard gains the Arcane Tradition feature, which offers you the choice of a subclass. The following additional option is available to you when making that choice: Cavalry.

Cavalry

Magic can slaughter dozens and turn the tide of battle in an instant, and wizards' value and frailty make them prime targets. Students of the Cavalry tradition use equestrian skills and practical knowledge to survive the chaos of combat.

The combination of ranged magic and incredible mobility keeps these practioners out of harms' way, because when a single spell can end a battle, ensuring your mages can survive and position themselves where they're needes is invaluable. Such positioning is where Cavalry wizards excel.

Mounted Mage

When you select this school at 2nd level, you learn a ritual that summons a magical consciousness bound to you, which takes the form of a noble steed of your choice when summoned. This ritual takes 1 hour and expends a spell slot of 1st level or higher. The mount assumes the shape of any beast of CR 1/2 or lower without a flying speed, of a size that can serve as a mount for you.

Your mount vanishes if killed or if you summon another mount. You summon your mount with full hit points, but it only regains features that are restored after a short or long rest when you complete the appropriate rest. It obeys your verbal commands and can only take the Dash, Disengage, and Dodge actions, whether you're mounted or not.

You also gain proficiency in Animal Handling.

As you gain levels in this class, your mount can take on more powerful forms. You can summon any beast without a flying speed of appropriate size to act as a mount of the same Challenge Rating as the creatures listed in the table below. You can also summon the specific examples listed in the table, even though most are not beasts. After reaching 8th level in this class, the restriction on flying mounts is removed.

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Veteran's Tricks

Starting at 6th level, your experience with battlefield survival at any cost grants you an improvisational trick based on a school you favor. When you finish a long rest, you can replace the trick you know with a different one, changing your tactics to suit your situation.

Abjuration—Improvised Ward. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, your AC and the AC of your mount increase by 1 until the start of your next turn.

Conjuration—Back in the Saddle. You can use a bonus action to dismiss your mount to a pocket dimension where it awaits your summons. You can use another bonus action to conjure it at any point within 30 feet of you, including directly beneath you (which allows you to instantly mount it, without expending movement).

    Divination—Incoming! When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you and your mount have advantage on the next Dexterity saving throw you make before your next turn starts.

Enchantment—Shock Tactics. One creature you damage with a spell of 1st level or higher has disadvantage on the first attack it makes against you or you mount before the end of your next turn.

Evocation—Elemental Endurance. You and your mount gain resistance to the damage type dealt by one of your wizard cantrips of your choice, so long as the type is not bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing.

Illusion—Ride in the Night. Hushing magic quiets your footsteps. You and your mount move silently, gaining advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.

Necromancy—Tireless Rider. You and your mount draw on the endurance of undeath. Neither of you need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep. When you take a long rest, you spend four hours in an inactive, motionless state. You appear inert, but remain conscious, and can see and hear normally.

Transmutation—Chemical Boost. Your speed, and the speed of your mount, increases by 10 feet.

Rearing Hooves

Beginning at 10th level, you can use your bonus action to allow your mount to take an action, ignoring the limits normally imposed on a controlled mount. You take the rest of your turn as normal. If your mount has Legendary Actions, it still cannot use them.

Bonded Souls

Starting at 14th level, whenever you cast a spell that targets yourself, the spell targets the mount as well. When you target your mount with a spell, the spell also targets you.

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Ammunition

These weapons can be used to make a ranged attack, provided you have ammunition to fire from the weapon. Each time you attack, you expend one piece of ammunition.

Drawing the ammunition from a quiver, case, or other container is part of the attack you make with this weapon (you need a free hand to load a one-handed weapon). At the end of a battle, you can recover half your expended ammunition by taking 1 minute to search the battlefield.

Bypass

These flexible weapons wrap around shields and other personal defenses. When you attack with a bypass weapon, you ignore the AC bonus granted by shields and features that parry or deflect attacks, as well as half cover created by objects and other creatures.

Cavalry

These weapons are well-suited to combat on the move. If you damage a creature with a cavalry weapon immediately after moving 15 feet straight toward it while mounted, you roll two additional damage dice and add them to the total.

Ensnaring

These weapons feature chains, hooks, and other entangling components. When you hit with an ensnaring weapon, you can use your bonus action to attempt to shove the target prone, pull or shove it into a space within 5 feet of you, or disarm it (DMG page 271). If your roll requires you to use your Strength (Athletics) bonus, you can add your weapon's attack bonus instead.

When you attempt to disarm a creature using a weapon with the ensnaring property, you do not have disadvantage on the roll if the target is larger than you.

Finesse

These precise weapons lend themselves to dextrous combat. When you attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.

Finisher

These brutal weapons are well-suited to executing enemies at your mercy. When you damage a prone creature with a weapon with the finisher property, you roll the weapon's damage dice, as listed on the table, an additional time.

Gunpowder

These weapons utilize volatile powder as a propellant to fire projectiles or explode. They cannot be used underwater, and ammunition from these weapons cannot be reused. When you attack, the weapon flashes, expels smoke, and creates a bang that can be heard up to 300 feet away. You can reload a gunpowder weapon in place of a single weapon attack on your turn, or with the Use An Object action. Reloading consumes both a charge of powder and a piece of ammunition.

Winged

These weapons prevent targets from approaching and can catch weapons. You can use a bonus action to attempt to disarm a creature within reach using a winged weapon.

After you damage a creature you could grapple with a winged weapon, the target cannot move straight toward you and the area within your reach is difficult terrain for it until it leaves your reach or you attack with the weapon again.

While holding a creature in this way, you can use a bonus action to attempt to shove it. The hold ends if you shove the target outside the weapon's reach.

If one of the above rolls uses your Strength (Athletics) bonus, you can add the weapon's attack bonus instead.

Weapon Charts

The following section lists both new and existing weapons, with their new properties. In addition to their cost, weight, and properties, some weapons list multiple damage types. When you attack with one of these weapons, you choose which damage type you use before you make the attack roll.

    You cannot wield other weapons or shields in that hand, nor use it to perform somatic components. You cannot drop a cestus or be disarmed of one unless you are incapacitated. You must use an action to don or doff a cestus, but can don or doff a pair of cestus in one action.

Dueling Shield. These large shields have a large triangular boss and hooks and blades built into the rim. A dueling shield adds a +2 bonus to AC when wielded in one hand, as normal. When wielded in both hands, it acts as a melee weapon that deals 1d8 piercing damage with the ensnaring, heavy, and parry properties in addition to its AC bonus.

Firecage Arrow. The curved metal bars that flare out from the shaft of this arrow carry a burning coal through the air, which sheds dim light in a 5 ft. radius. When you hit with a firecage arrow, half the damage you deal is fire damage, instead of piercing. If you miss with a firecage arrow, choose a space within 15 feet of the target. The arrow ignites objects in that space that aren't being worn or carried.

Garotte Wire. A garotte cannot be used on a creature more than 1 size larger than you, and you can only attack with a garotte if you have advantage on attack rolls against the target.

On a hit, the target is grappled until you release it, it breaks free of the grapple, or you stop wielding the garotte. While grappled in this way, the target is restrained, cannot speak or breathe, and suffocates (PHB 183). Creatures that do not need to breathe are immune to a garotte wire's choke at the discretion of the DM.

If you are grappling a creature, you can grip the wire with the same hand that you are using to grapple the target and attack it with the other end of the garotte wire that you are holding in the other hand, effectively ignoring the wire's two-handed property for that target.

Natural Weapon Properties

Most natural weapons, if not all, use Strength for attack and damage rolls. Consult with your DM to determine if your race, character, or class could use Dexterity for your attack and damage rolls with your natural weapons instead.

The Warrior's Codex recommends bites, talons, and tentacles/pseudopods as weapons that can use either Strength or Dexterity.

Hwacha. A large handcart loaded with 100 firework-propelled arrows used extensively in the Korean peninsula against invaders. Angled and ignited to fire hundreds of light projectiles in a shower of flame, forcing each creature within 15 feet of a point within range chosen by the crew to make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. A target takes 3d6 piercing damage and 3d6 fire damage on a failed save. The attack also ignites flammable objects within its area of effect that aren't being worn or carried. This engine has the gunpowder property.

Organ Gun. A set of fanned barrels used as an anti-personnel weapon during the Hundred Years' War, this siege engine makes an attack roll against creatures in a 60 foot cone originating from it, and can target up to 10 creatures within the cone. Its massive spread means it that it cannot target the same creature with multiple attack rolls. An organ gun expends 10 bullets for every attack it makes, and does 2d8 + 5 piercing damage to each target it hits. This engine has the gunpowder property.

    Barrel of Alchemist's Fire. After the initial impact, alchemist's fire explodes in all directions. Every creature and object within 30 feet of the point where the barrel landed must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 8d4 fire damage, and is set alight. A burning target or object takes 3d4 fire damage at the start of each of its turns. A creature use an action to extinguish the flames on itself or another creature or object, which requires a successful DC 10 Dexterity check.

On a successful save, a target takes half as much fire damage and is not set alight.

Barrel of Sewage. After the initial impact, sewage seeps from the barrel in all directions. Every creature within 30 feet of the point where the barrel landed must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw against disease or take 2d10 poison damage and contract sewer plague (DMG page 256). On a successful saving throw, a creature takes half as much poison damage and does not contract the disease.

Bombs. A trebuchet can fire up to 10 bombs of any type at once, which explode on impact. Each individual bomb forces its saving throw in its radius, against its effects.

Corpse. A corpse targets a space the same size as the creature it was in life (a 5 ft. square for a medium creature, 10 ft. for large, etc). The corpse of a Small creature deals 1d10 bludgeoning damage and 1d10 poison damage. The bludgeoning damage increases by 1d10 for every size above Small. Most trebuchets cannot fire Gargantuan creatures.

Equipment Customization

Materials, extras, and other customizations for weapons diversify them even further. While not the numerical bonuses from masterwork items of older editions, these alterations allow you to customize your weapons further, and provide additional benefits.

Materials

A weapon's composition is just as important as its wielder's skill. While every weapon has a default material, different substances provide circumstantial benefits. The material of a weapon cannot be changed after its creation. All the materials listed here can be used to make melee weapons, ranged weapons, armor, ammunition, and foci, though not all have an effect in each form.

Adamantine. An ultra-hard jet-black metal with a multicolored sheen, weapons made from this meteoric iron devastate other objects. When you hit an object with an adamantine weapon or piece of ammunition, the hit is a critical hit. All adamantine melee weapons have the sundering property, and affect all types of wearable armor. If a creature attempts to parry an attack you made with an adamantine melee weapon and your attack hits in spite of the attempt, both the target and the parrying weapon or shield take damage from the attack. When wearing adamantine armor or wielding an adamantine shield, any critical hit against you not from an adamantine weapon becomes a normal hit. An adamantine item costs 500 gp more than the normal version, whether the item is made of the metal or coated with it.

Adamantite. A rare material created when Underdark Faerzress corrupts adamantine deposits. Used extensively by drow, this material has all properties of adamantine, but also temporarily absorbs poison into itself. When you apply an injury poison to an adamantite weapon or piece of ammunition, the poison isn't removed after the first injury, but is instead applied every time you deal piercing or slashing damage to a creature until the poison dries naturally. When exposed to direct sunlight, adamantite items disintegrate.

    Bone. A strong, off-white material scavenged from animal, monster, or humanoid corpses which is carved or cut into useful shapes. Used in areas without access to wood or metal, items made of this inflexible material are as durable as their standard versions, but weigh half as much and have triple the cost. Wearing armor made from bone (an incredibly rare item thanks to bones' inflexibility and inconsistent quality) grants you advantage on saving throws against necromancy spells, and when you cast a necromancy spell through a focus made from bone you can reroll one of the spell's damage dice.

Bronze. A gold-colored alloy of copper and tin. Though supplanted by iron and steel since ancient times for all but fey and elves (who are sensitive to iron's touch), bronze weapons are known for their magical affinity. When you create a magical item with bronze, it takes half the time and cost.

Mundane bronze items cost 50% more than their iron counterparts, and are produced and sold by few smiths. Most bronze weapons are antiques, though the use of bronze-cast cannon and bombards has caused a resurgence in its popularity.

Mundane and Magical

Most smiths can only create items out of wood, iron, and steel, while specialized craftsmen can make items from bone, bronze, ironwood, obsidian, silver, and stone. The rest are magical materials (and weapons made from them are considered magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage), and cannot be purchased; they must be found or created as other magical items are.

    Stone. All weapons and ammunition made from stone deal bludgeoning damage, even if they would normally deal another type. A stone weapon that ordinarily has the finesse or light properties loses those properties, and any stone weapon that does not have the finesse or light properties gains the heavy property. In addition, a stone weapon with the skewering or slicing properties loses those properties, and gains the staggering property instead. Stone weapons weigh 4 times as much as usual, and cost twice as much.

True Ice. An exceptional magical material, True Ice comes from the core of polar caps and mountain peaks, and never melts. Elementals aligned with fire or water are vulnerable to damage from true ice weapons and ammunition. Armor made from True Ice grants resistance to fire damage and immunity to atmospheric hazards in hot environments, but halves the time required to make saves against cold.

Wood. Softer and more flexible than most materials, wood is used to make most ranged weapons and some ammunition and does not alter the statistics of those weapons. A wooden weapon or piece of ammunition has the blunted modification if it is not made from wood by default, and costs half as much. If the weapon's default material is wood, it works as normal, and uses its listed cost.

Damage Dice Point Values

Weapon Property Point Values