Introduction

This document is the end result of almost a year of work toward the improvement of martial characters for D&D 5e. I'm a man of two opinions—the first, that any character can be fun to play if based in truly excellent characterization. The second is that a character's mechanical competence improves the fun even more. D&D crashes make-believe and a skirmish wargame together, and both parts are absolutely necessary for a fun experience.

Unfortunately, I and many others find that martial characters (those without magic or spell slots of 1st-9th level) can be less fun to play, mechanically speaking. While they have more health, can be more consistent in damage, and have fewer resources to track, they have fewer options on the battlefield when it comes to attacks. In character-building they have a similar dearth of effective options compared to others. In The Warriors' Codex, I've attempt to rectify that. I decided to forgo a full system overhaul or en masse alterations to the class structures of martials (barbarians, fighters, monks, paladins, rangers, and rogues). Instead, I approached their three glaring weaknesses:

1. Fewer combat options. Every weapon now operates distinctly from every other. Weapon-switching to better meet the enemy becomes commonplace and adds a new level of strategy for martials. While nowhere close to the complexity of spells, no longer are the functional differences between weapons limited to weight, reach, and damage dice.

2. Magical Saturation. If ranger and paladin count among the former, 5e has 6 martial classes and 6 spellcaster classes. On the surface, the numbers appear even—42 published caster archetypes, and 38 official martial ones as of this writing. However, 24 of those archetypes—such as Arcane Archer, Path of the Totem, and paladin, monk, and ranger as a whole—explicitly and inherently use magic. Many of the mundane archetypes that remain suffer because of the third problem.

3. Fewer viable choices. Many warrior archetypes are much, much weaker than their magical brethren, to the point that players entirely unconcerned with theorycrafting take notice during play—a problem not only in abstracted numbers, but in actual, regular games. This document contains several attempts to rework some egregious examples (though it avoids the ranger, which wiser brewers have already addressed). When accompanied by new subclasses, these reworks create a flood of options where once there was a drought. Feedback to improve or balance them even further is welcomed.

It should be said I approached this supplement without bitter regard towards spellcasters or their players. I believe 5e has addressed the divide between martial and caster marvelously and the gaps is as small as it has ever been—but it could be even smaller. I haven't tried to make casters worse, but martials better. There's no need to tear down material already released; a rising tide lifts all boats.

In fact, rules on weapons, item creation, and even a few new archetypes for non-martial classes will delight players who favor magic. Everyone uses weapons and items, after all.

You might wonder why you might use this supplement over the original Weapons Remastered, /u/theapoapostolov's Grit and Glory, or Wraith Wright's Comprehensive Equipment Manual. The truth is, your group might find those preferable, and I admit I borrowed ideas—some unashamedly and outright—from those works, because they were just that good. I genuinely admire them.

But I believe the latter two go a touch too far in mechanical combat complexity, and so much more could be accomplished with the first. They are fantastic, well-researched works, perhaps to a fault. Too many options can slow play. Hopefully, this version creates more options without choice paralysis. It should present more crunch in options but not overwhelm a player or rework the system. 5e dedicated itself first and foremost to simplicity, and we can address the places where it became too simple and still avoid the issues of other, more complicated systems. Ultimately, experiment, and see what works best for your table. Every group has different preferences.

Barbarians

Famous for their raw power, barbarians are remarkably versatile despite their narrow archetypal base. Some of their subclasses add unexpected roles, while others make even more improvements to their unmatched talent for absolute reckless destruction.

The Path of the Berserker reworks the exhaustion penalties that crippled it but keeps the risk-reward.

Path of the Bonebreaker gives the Battlerager a racially-neutral identity as a barely-armored fistfighter who crushes their enemies without mercy.

Path of the Cataclysm diversifies and empowers the options available to the Path of the Storm Herald. It gives them greater command over their magic and changes them from the bearers of the storm to walking catastrophes. Instead of climates, they personify natural disasters like earthquakes, plagues, and volcanic eruptions.

The Path of the Crescendo is an exercise in repetition and, oddly for a barbarian, control. They temper their rage into rhythm, and hit harder and harder with each consecutive blow in the strange dance of combat.

The Path of the Ironclad drops thunderclaps with every footstep. They bear the heaviest armor and wield the largest weapons available to them, with devastating results.

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. If you do so, for the duration of your rage you can make an additional melee weapon attack when you take the attack action on your turn. When your rage ends, you suffer one level of exhaustion.

While frenzied, you ignore the effects of all levels of exhaustion.

Mindless Rage

Beginning at 6th level, the joy of battle drowns out other influences. You can't be charmed or frightened while raging. If you are charmed or frightened when you enter a rage, the effect ends.

Intimidating Presence

Beginning at 10th level, you can use a bonus action to terrify an enemy. Choose one creature that can see or hear you within 30 feet of you. It must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier + your Strength modifier). On a failed save, the creature is frightened of you until the end of your next turn. This effect ends if the creature ends its turn more than 60 feet away from you. If the creature succeeds on its saving throw, it is immune to this feature for 24 hours.

Adrenaline Rush

Starting at 14th level, if an enemy reduces you to 0 HP while you are frenzied, you can choose to instead be reduced to 1 HP and gain temporary hit points equal to twice your barbarian level that last until the end of your rage. After your frenzied rage ends, all levels of exhaustion that you have taken are removed. You can use this feature once per long rest.

Omen of Catastrophe

At 6th level, your power grants you benefits even when you aren't raging.

Volcano. You gain resistance to fire damage, and don't suffer the effects of extreme heat. You can also set aflame any object that isn't being worn or carried simply by touching it.

Flood. You gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed, and can breathe underwater. You also gain darkvision up to 30 ft, or an additional 30 if you already have darkvision.
Tempest. You gain resistance to lightning damage, and suffer no ill effects such as movement penalties or vision impairment from rain or thunderstorms.

Blizzard. You gain resistance to cold damage, and ignore all drawbacks of extreme cold. You also ignore difficult terrain created by ice, slush, and snow.

Blight. You gain resistance to necrotic damage, and have advantage on saving throws against poisons and diseases.

Earthquake. You gain resistance to thunder damage, and have tremorsense within 15 feet.

Sandstorm. You don't suffer the effects of extreme heat, and can survive for three times as long as you normally could without food or water. You also gain proficiency in acrobatics.

Corona. You cannot be blinded by any means, gain darkvision within a range of 30 ft., and learn the light cantrip.

Gaia's Embrace

Beginning at 10th level, you can shield your allies not only from the power of your furious aura, but protect them against similar effects. All creatures of your choice within your aura are resistant to the damage type you deal with it.

Channel the Apocalypse

At 14th level, you can use powerful magics that personify your disaster. You learn a pair of spells determined by your chosen aura, which you can cast only while raging, though if your rage ends while you are concentrating on a spell the spell continues.

You can cast and concentrate upon these spells while raging, unlike normal spells. You also cast them without material components. You can cast each spell once per rage. You can cast either a second time, but if you do so your rage immediately ends. Your spellcasting stat for these spells is Constitution, and all are cast at 4th level if they are not a higher level.

Volcano. immolation, wall of fire.

Flood. control water, maelstrom.

Tempest. call lightning, wind wall. You are considered the source of the lightning from call ldightning , rather than the sky, and so can cast it inside. It is also considered stormy conditions when you cast this spell.

Blizzard. ice storm, wall of ice .

Blight. antilife shell, giant insect.

Earthquake. bones of the earth, earthquake.

Sandstorm. wall of sand, whirlwind.

Corona. dawn, sickening radiance.

In addition, you are immune to the damage type dealt by your aura while you are raging.

Song of Swords

You are part of a long lineage of martial creation, a history of innovation spanning millenia. And you must do your part. At 6th level, you gain proficiency in smith's tools, and can produce armor and weapons twice as quickly, at half the typical cost of supplies.

Crushing Blows

At 10th level, you can swing the heaviest weapons with a mighty heave that crushes enemies beneath them. The first time you hit a large or smaller creature with a heavy weapon after using Reckless Attack on your turn, that creature is smashed to the ground beneath your weapon and knocked prone. You can drop the weapon and leave that creature restrained under it. A restrained creature must use its action and succeed on a DC 15 Strength in order to remove the weapon from themselves and stand up. If you attack again with that weapon, they are no longer restrained but remain prone.

Unyielding

Starting at 14th level, you have learned to let your armor's weight carry your forward, even through obstacles. While you are wearing heavy armor, effects that move you against your will move you half as far, and you can power through difficult terrain without suffering penalties against your movement speed. You also have advantage on checks made to shove opponents or move objects.

Bards

Once, players disregarded bards among the weakest of character classes, scarcely worth mentioning. In this edition, though, they stand among the best. The sheer versatility of their performative powers and magical might make them truly dangerous. Both of the Colleges presented here are oriented towards combat.

The College of Passion can take many paths, but all support their allies and magically entrance their enemies.

The College of the Voice indulges in no sensual subtleties. Instead, it magnifies the already-explosive magical power of a bard's voice by a hundredfold.

College of Passion

Through your weapons and your words, you incite fervor in others. Whether attraction or lust, rapture or enthusiasm, in battle you use a combination of grace, dance, and the subtleties of romantic magic to beguile and bewilder.

Untarnished Beauty

Starting when you take this archetype at third level your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity Modifier + your Charisma modifier when you are not wearing armor.

Lovestruck

When you enter this college at level 3, choose one of the following styles of combat concupiscence. When you reach 6th and 14th levels, you gain the new feature from the same style that you chose before.

Cupid. You gain proficiency in greatbows, longbows, and recurve bows. When you damage a creature with one of these weapons (or a shortbow) you can use a bonus action to expend a use of your bardic inspiration and force your target to make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, they are charmed by one creature of your choice that they can see for 1 minute, or until that creature damages the target. While charmed in this way, they are also paralyzed.

Pole Dancer. You gain proficiency in glaives, guisarmes, halberds, lucernes, pikes, pollaxes, and spears. While you are wielding one of those weapons (or a shortspear or boar spear) and you grant bardic inspiration, the creature receiving it gains temporary hit points equal to twice your Charisma modifier + your bard level.

Seven Veils. You gain proficiency in scimitars. When wielding a scimitar in each hand, you can use an action to force a creature hostile to you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, they are charmed by you. You can then use a bonus action to make one attack with a scimitar, as though you were two-weapon fighting. You have advantage on attacks against creatures charmed by you, though the charm ends after you damage them. You can also use accessories on your person as spellcasting foci, such as ribbons, veils, scarves, and shawls.

Regardless of which feature you chose, you can use the weapons you gained proficiency in as a spellcasting focus, and can use your Charisma modifier instead of Strength or Dexterity on attack rolls (but not damage rolls) made with those weapons.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 6th level, you can make two weapon attacks instead of one when you take the attack action on your turn, so long as you are wielding one of the weapons detailed in the feature you chose from Lovestruck.

Killing With Kindness

At 14th level, you gain a new feature based on your choice at level 3. You must be holding a weapon listed in your choice of Lovestruck to use these features.

Pole Dancer: Reinvigoration. You can use your action and expend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to perform a dance weaved with magic that reinvigorates one friendly creature of your choice. That creature can use its reaction at the end of your turn to take the dodge, attack, cast a spell, or use an object actions.

Cupid: Love's Wings. You can expend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to sprout massive feathered wings from your shoulders, granting you a flying speed of 60 feet for 1 minute.

Seven Veils: Gossamer. You can use a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to draw on illusion magic and pull it around your body. You teleport to any point within 60 feet and make two weapon attacks against a creature of your choice. You have advantage on both attack rolls.

College of the Voice

"Words carry weight. Mine moreso than yours."—anonymous bard.
You are not a paltry singer or teller of tawdry tales. Your voice is your instrument, ancient words your performance. Those born with the power to join the College of the Voice carry the uncanny power to make their words reality by screaming nature into submission. Through bellowed incantations, you change the world around you to suit your whims.

Shouts

At 3rd level, the power of your voice adds new spells to your arsenal and alters your existing ones. You can learn the spells on the shouts table when you reach the appropriate level in this class, and if they are not bard spells already they are considered bard spells for you. They do not require material or somatic components. If they do not have a verbal component, one is added, and the sound of your voice when you cast these spells booms outward. All creatures within 300 feet hear you when you cast a spell on the shout table. In addition to spell slots, you can expend a bardic inspiration die to attempt to cast one of these spells. Roll the die. If the number is at least the number of the spell slot of the spell you are attempting to cast, you cast it. Whether or not you successfully cast the spell, the inspiration die is expended. You cannot use this feature to cast spells of a higher level than you have slots.

Spells marked with a * on the table are already on the bard spell list.

Bard Level	Spells
1st	animal friendship, faerie fire*
3rd	calm emotions* , dragon's breath, earthbind
5th	lightning bolt, fear*
7th	dominate beast, stoneskin

Bard Level	Spells
9th	dominate person, hold monster*
11th	soul cage, tenser's transformation
13th	whirlwind, etherealness*
15th	dominate monster*, control weather

Tongue of the Ancients

At 3rd level, you choose the language from which your shouts are formed. You learn one of the following languages: Abyssal, Celestial, Draconic, Deep Speech, Infernal, Primordial, or Sylvan. When you use one of your Shouts, you speak the verbal component in this language.

Thundering Yell

At 6th level you can project your voice as a weapon. As an action, you expend a 1st-level spell slot and force each creature in a 30-foot cone to make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. Creatures that fail take 2d8 thunder damage, are shoved 10 feet away from you, and fall prone. On a success they take half damage and are not moved or knocked prone. For every spell slot higher than 1st, the damage increases by 1d8 and the distance by 10 feet.

Shout from the Mountaintops

Starting at 14th level, the power of your shouted spells reaches new levels. When you cast a spell listed on the shout table or use Thundering Yell, you can expend a use of your bardic inspiration die and add the amount rolled to your spell save DC for the first save one creature of your choice makes against that spell.

Divine Domain: Toxin

You have entered the service of one of the gods of poisoning, venom, and intoxication. These gods, which include Lolth, Dionysus, Talona, Achlys, and Zehir, value a variety of ideals, but all share a love of substances that twist the senses and damage the body. The burning pains of acidic venom, the dulled joy of drunkenness, and the potent sting of a snakebite all fall under this domain, as does the gleam of fluid on an assassins' knife or the bubbling of a hag's brew.

The Circle of the Boundary provides druids with a melee combat option that doesn't rely entirely upon wild shape or fungal infusion. Wearing steel armor and weapons and spells that cripple their enemies or reshape the land as they see fit, they are the perfect keepers of balance.

Circle of the Boundary

Nature never stops evolving. Members of this circle know they must do the same if they are to survive a world of fire and steel. They walk the line between nature and civilization and use the greatest weapons of both to preserve the fragile balance between the two.

Manufactured Carapace

Starting at 2nd level, you forsake the druidic taboo against
metal armor and gain proficiency in heavy armor and martial weapons. When you transform using Wild Shape any armor you wear becomes barding for your animal form, which gives the same Armor Class. Your Wild Shape allows you to become a beast with a CR as high as 1/4 your druid level, though must abide by the other limitations on the Wild Shape table. Finally, you gain proficiency in one tool of your choice and in one of Insight, Deception, or Persuasion.

Circle Spells

You gain the spells below, at the level listed on the table. They are always prepared, and do not count against the number of spells you have prepared. If they do not appear on the druid spell list, they are considered druid spells for you.

Druid Level	Circle Spells
3rd	blur, magic weapon
5th	haste, plant growth
7th	guardian of nature, stone shape
9th	passwall, steel wind strike

Verdict of the Unseelie

At 2nd level all things fall to your jurisdiction. You can use an action and expend a druid spell slot of first level or higher to create one of the effects below. If the effect requires a saving throw, it uses your druid spell save DC.

Breached Foundations. For one hour you bring the forces of decay upon buildings and edifices. You target up to five 30-foot cubes of a structure, which destabilize and collapse, or become overgrown by vegetation.

Clear the Brush. Nonmagical plants in a 60 ft. radius around you wither, die, and rot away over the course of 1 minute. You can dispel magically-grown plants, such as those created by entangle or spike growth, as an action.

Dulled Swords. One creature you can see within 60 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw. If it fails, every time it deals damage its attacks take a cumulative −1 penalty to attack and damage roll. This penalty cannot exceed a value greater than your Wisdom modifier and lasts for 1 minute.

Claws of Iron. For the next hour, your weapon attacks in humanoid and Wild Shape forms gain a +1 bonus to hit and damage, and are considered magical for the purposes of overcoming damage resistance.

Thin the Herd. One creature you can see within 60 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If it fails, every successful weapon attack made against it deals a cumulative +1 damage. This bonus cannot exceed your Wisdom modifier, and lasts for 1 minute.

Warden's Magic

Starting at 6th level, when you use your action to cast a druid cantrip, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action. You can cast druid cantrips and use this feature in Wild Shape, and can perform the verbal and somatic components of cantrips in animal form.

Apex Predator

At 10th level, when you choose a foe to stalk, their doom is inevitable. When you target a creature with Thin the Herd or Dulled Swords, it is cursed by you whether it succeeds or fails its saving throw. A creature you have cursed has disadvantage on saving throws against your spells, or on attack rolls against you, for 1 hour.

Shaper of the Balance

At 14th level diverse materials become one and the same to you. Whenever you cast a spell that affects wood, vegetation, stone, soil, or metal, it affects any of those materials instead of those listed in the spell.

Fighters

Some think Fighters are a base, to be used until their player graduates to something more specialized. I reject that notion, and propose that fighters can be just as fun, complex, and powerful as any other. For that reason, they are the focus of this supplement.

Bannerlords take the mounted prowess of cavaliers and combine it with a supercharged version of the Purple Dragon Knight's supportive powers to become a powerful mounted leader.

Bastions are born from Cavaliers' defensive abilities and the Dwarven Defenders of old as a defender of the party and the people, not necessarily themselves.

Cataphracts embody the ideal of heavy cavalry and detemrined soldiers' marches on long campaigns. They ride their enemies down only to whirl away and do it again.

Dervishes whirl over the battlefield. They leap through the fray, and destroy foes foolish enough to cluster together.

Dragoons combine two of the three common definitions of the word for fantasy classes—a draconic knight, and a leaping, spear-wielding warrior. The end result does not include the real-life heavy cavalry, sad to say.

The Exemplar revises the Champion, which the Brute's release suggested was necessary. It remains simple to play, but takes a new place as the quintessential warrior who makes any combination of weapons viable. Regardless of situation, they are competent.

The Firebreather creates persistent area of effects on the battlefield, a tactic previously closed to fighters. To them combat is a performance of deadly skill and careful control.

Mage Knights are Eldritch Knights with a few small tweaks to improve their blend of magic and might.

Manhunters select a single target and hunt them down without mercy. They are ruthless, fiercely perceptive, and deadly in one-on-one combat. They hunt just as well outside fights as in, and are an excellent choice for fighters in search of activities removed from combat.

The Sharpshooter archetype from Unearthed Arcane worked fine, but added static bonuses to an already impressive playstyle and little else. This revision gives them customization, and a new identity as performers.

Spellscorn work best in a campaign with a plethora of magic items and spellcasting enemies, where they counter the greatest threads the world can offer. This archetype cuts through the weave just as easily as a monster's flesh.

Spellslingers revise the Arcane Archer, which for many levels lost its entire subclass after firing two powerful shots. This version retains those shots, but gives them flexibility only seen before in cantrip-slinging spellcasters. It also discards bows for all ranged weapons.

Swordmasters, like gunslingers, are too iconic to omit, though weapon-neutral archetypes are preferable. This version prioritizes accuracy and finesse rather than raw strength.

Varangians cripple their foes before killing them outright. They also dabble in teamwork, for raiding is a group affair.

The Warlord, a popular past archetype, supports and guides their allies into tactical battlefield positions and coordinate the party's attack.

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Bannerlord

Skilled in combat both mounted and on foot, Bannermen are the noble, powerful leaders of the battlefield. Also called bannerets, chevaliers, and men-at-arms, these soldiers direct the flow of battle and bolster their allies with their very presence. Leaders by example, they are some of the first to enter the field and one of the last to leave it.

Highborn Horseman

At 7th level, your nobleman's training comes to the forefront. You gain proficiency in two of the following skills: Animal Handling, History, Insight, Performance, or Persuasion.

You also have advantage on saving throws against being knocked off a mount. If you fall off a mount and fall no more than 10 feet, you are not knocked prone so long as you are not incapacitated. Mounting and dismounting a creature costs you 5 feet of movement, and you can choose to have attacks against your mount target you instead. Finally, Raise the Colors benefits each friendly creature within 60 feet of you when you are mounted.

Lead the Charge

Starting at 10th level, you can trigger a rush while Raise the Colors is active, whether you are mounted or not. When you move at least 15 feet in a straight line on your turn each creature affected by Raise the Colors can use its reaction to move up to its movement speed in the same direction as you.

The first enemy creature you or a charging ally comes within 5 feet of during a charge must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier). A creature falls prone on a failed save, unless it is two or more sizes larger than a charging creature.

You can use Lead the Charge once per short rest.

Unquenchable Morale

Beginning at 15th level, when you roll initiative and have no uses of Raise the Colors remaining, you gain one use. You can also use two effects whenever 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.

Exemplar

Empowered Fighting Styles

At 10th level, your chosen fighting style provides further benefits.
Archery. The short range of your attacks with ranged weapons increases by 20 feet. This bonus cannot exceed the weapon's long range.
Brawling. You become proficient in improvised weapons, and you unarmed strikes deal 1d6 bludgeoning damage.
Defense. You gain an additional +1 to AC while wearing armor, and you can don and doff armor in half the time it normally takes.
Dueling. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can use your bonus action to attempt to disarm the target.
Flexibility. you can add your Dexterity modifier (maximum of +1 while one-handed, maximum of +2 while two-handed) to your damage rolls with versatile weapons if you are wielding a versatile weapon and not wielding a shield.
Great Weapon Fighting. If your size is small, you ignore disadvantage inflicted by using heavy weapons. If your size is medium, you can reroll 3s on damage dice in addition to 1s and 2s when attacking with a versatile or two-handed weapon.
Protection. You may use your reaction to impose disadvantage on an attack roll against yourself as well as others. If you impose disadvantage on an attack and it misses, you can make one weapon attack against the creature who made it as part of the same reaction.
Two-weapon fighting. When you make the additional attack granted by two-weapon fighting, you can choose to deal half the damage you ordinarily would and attempt to shove the target prone.

Final Stand

Starting at 15th level, you can power through mortal injuries. Once per day when you succeed on a death saving throw, you regain 1 hit point, stand without consuming any movement, and can take your turn as normal. Any allied creature within 30 feet that can see you gains inspiration.

Survivor

At 18th level, you attain the pinnacle of resilience in battle. At the start of each of your turns, you regain 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.

Firebreather

Fire was the first aspect of nature mastered by man, the first unnatural power to guard the races against the terrors of the night. Over time, civilization has tamed the capricious and consuming flame, harnessing it not only for security and energy, but for entertainment. Firebreathers have graduated from tricks, performances, and religious exercises for the battlefield, and likewise discard liquid fuels for elemental magic.

Firedance

When you take this archetype at 3rd level, you gain the ability to set your weapons aflame as a bonus action, without damaging them or yourself. The flames last for 1 minute or until you drop or sheathe your weapons. Lit weapons shed bright light for 20 feet and dim light for another 20 feet. When you make an attack with a lit weapon, it or the ammunition fired from it deals extra fire damage equal to 1/3 your fighter level. You can use this ability thrice per short rest.

Flame Breath

Also at 3rd level, you can use an action to take the flames from your ignited weapons into yourself and then exhale them in 15-foot cone, 10-foot radius centered on yourself, or a 30-foot line. Each creature within the area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). A creature takes 3d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. Once you use this feature, you cannot reignite your weapons until the end of your next turn, but doing so does not expend an additional use of Firedance. Flame Breath deals an additional 1d6 fire damage at 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th levels.

Thanks to your skill and careful practice with controlling your fires, this and any other fire attacks you use do not ignite objects being worn or carried.

Master to Student

Learning the art of firebreathing is an intimate affair, with knowledge and techniques passed down from masters to singular apprentices. Whoever your master may have been, their knowledge and personal flair will live in you long after their death. At 7th level you gain proficiency in either Performance or Religion, and have resistance to fire damage.

Into the Hand

Starting at 10th level you can pull fire to yourself. You can use a reaction to remove the fire damage from any attack or effect that targets you or a friendly creature within 10 feet. You can then add the fire damage dice the next time you hit with a weapon attack.

If the effect used 4 or more damage dice, you can regain one use of Firedance instead of adding extra damage.

You can also use this feature as a bonus action on large or smaller nonmagical fires at any time. Such flames grant you an extra 1d6 fire damage, and are extinguished after you target them.

Coal Road

Beginning at 15th level you can use a bonus action to leave a path of burning coals behind you as you move. This path is difficult terrain to any creatures not resistant or immune to fire damage, and deals fire damage equal to your level to any creature that touches it. It lasts until the start of your next turn.

You can use this feature once per short rest, but if a fire attack absorbed by Into the Hand uses at least 6 damage dice, you can choose to regain a use of this feature instead of gaining extra damage on your next attack.

Dancing Flames

Beginning at 17th level, you can use an action summon a fire elemental that shadows your form and movements, moving in perfectly synchronicity with you.

This creature has 13 AC, 100 hit points, resists bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks, and is immune to fire and poison damage. It cannot be exhausted, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, or unconscious. It has ability scores, proficiency bonus, and number of attacks equal to your own, and is under your control. When you create it, it appears next to you and moves based on your subconscious commands. It acts during your turn, moving at the same time you do and taking the same actions immediately after you take them.

After summoning a Dancing Flame, you cannot do so until the next dawn or until you absorb 10 or more damage dice with Into the Hand.

Manhunter

Warriors and trackers, manhunters seek a single target and destroy them. Unaided by magic, they rely on their keen insight and indomitable determination to hunt down the unfortunate souls in their sights. Many manhunters are bounty hunters, while others are mercenaries, bandits, or soldiers who excel at eliminating dangerous battlefield threats.

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 entering taverns, interrogating their allies, or retracing their steps. Afterwards, roll 1d20 to determine the results of your research. You can only gather information about a single mark at a time.

Roll	Result
20	You know the exact current location of your mark, where they plan to go next, and when and how they intend to get there.
14-19	You know the exact current location of your mark, and have a few ideas as to what they plan next.
8-13	You know the general current location of your mark, and have a few ideas as to what they plan next. Some of them might be wrong.
2-7	You have a few ideas as to what your mark plans to do next. Some of them might be wrong.
1	Your mark's own contacts discover your efforts and inform them. You have disadvantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma checks against your mark for 24 hours.

No Escape

At 10th level, when you hit a mark with a melee weapon attack, their movement is reduced by 5 ft until the start of your next turn.

Out of My Way

Starting at 15th level, your reading of your marks has become almost precognizant, allowing you to predict what they will do and react appropriately to protect others. When a mark makes a melee weapon attack against an allied creature, you can use your reaction to move up to half your speed toward both creatures and shove that ally 5 feet away from your mark. You then become the target of your mark's attack. If that attack misses you, you can make one weapon attack as part of the same reaction you used to move.

Untouchable

Starting at 18th level, your ability to recognize incoming attacks and counter them—to wade into a brawl and emerge unscathed—is unparalleled. The first melee weapon attack 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 miss once on any creature's turn, even if a mark misses you more than once.

Sharpshooter

Sharpshooters' impeccable aim make them invaluable allies on the battlefield, where they can pick off vital targets. Outside of war they are famous for both accuracy and showmanship. Sharpshooting holds a long history of competition and fame; skilled snipers can surpass great warriors.

Deadshot

At 17th level, your aim is devastating and you can target vital areas to take an enemy out of the fight more quickly. When you reduce an enemy to a number of hit points less than your fighter level with a ranged weapon attack, that target is immediately reduced to 0 hit points instead.

Spell Deflection

At 18th level, you can turn the magic of your foes against them. You are immune to the damage of and effects from spells that Null grants resistance to. Whenever you are hit with one of those spells, can use your reaction to reflect the spell back at its caster, dealing half the spell's normal damage. If the spell does not deal damage, this feature has no effect.

Spellslinger

A spellslinger studies a unique form of ranged combat first created by high elf archer-mages, who weaved spells into their bowshots. The magical shots of these elite warriors guarded their borders against monsters and marauders who borrowed or imitated their skills to create their own spellslingers. Such techniques are no longer secret, but they are esoteric, and this particular marriage of magic and precision remains effective wherever it goes.

Rogues

Elusive and evasive, rogues are masters of many talents and move in many spheres. Their archetypyes categorize and specialize them even further, and for the most part do a marvelous job of it.

Chameleons are masters of concealment. Unlike every other rogue, they can hide in plain sight and strike from anywhere. The emulate their namesake lizard in other respects, with poison and highly-advanced eyes.

Infiltrators combine the best parts of Assassin and Mastermind. The former was powerful but limited to special circumstances, while the latter struggled to keep pace in combat but did several of the assassin's tasks better. The new archetype born from both combines their strengths.

Windblown emphasize swiftness and hit-and-run tactics. Whether the wind truly protects them is left up in the air.

Chameleon

Most rogues can hide, but few hide in plain sight. From mere disguises to physical changes in color, Chameleons master covert skills both mundane and magical to immerse themselves into any situation and strike at a moment's notice.

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 can double your proficiency bonus for all checks made with it instead.

Color Change

Most infiltrators operate in cramped conditions far away from pursuers, but you can hide in the open. At 3rd level, when you hide, you and everything you are wearing or carrying change color to match a large or larger object to which you are adjacent, and you are considered invisible until you move more than 5 feet or take actions. Smaller objects provide insufficient cover to use this ability. You can hide using this feature even if other creatures can see you.

At 13th level, you can move up to half your walking speed during your turn without revealing yourself.

Pinpoint Eyes

At 9th level, your eyes mimic the abilities of your reptile namesake. Lightly-obscured areas don't impose disadvantage on your Perception checks, and you have advantage on saving throws against being blinded. You gain darkvision to a range of 60 feet, and can make Perception checks to search for hidden objects and enemies as a bonus action. At 17th level, your advanced eyesight also pierces magical illusions, granting you truesight within a 30 ft. range.

Numbing Lash

Starting at 13th level, you produce a potent poison that can be applied to your weapons. When you hit an opponent with your sneak attack, you can paralyze them until the end of your next turn. You must wait until the end of a short or long rest to use this feature again.

Walking Chromatophore

Beginning at 17th level, you can change your body's colors in real time. You can cast greater invisiblity, targeting only yourself, five times per long rest.

Infiltrator

Professional killers, master trespassers, and talented socialites, Infiltrators combine a keen eye and quick reflexes with mastery of the blade, stealth, and carefully-chosen word. Glamorous assassins who must infiltrate all manner of societies, their tongues are just as sharp as their knives.

Coup de Grâce

Your blows are deadliest when your foes are at their weakest and don't realize you were ever there. Starting at 3rd level, you have advantage on initiative rolls, and on attack rolls against creatures that have not yet acted in combat. Any attack that you land against a creature that is restrained, unconscious, surprised, or has not yet taken a turn is a critical hit.

Tools of the Trade

Also at 3rd level, you have assembled invaluable skills for any assassin. You gain two of the following benefits.

• proficiency in Disguise Kits
• proficiency in Poisoner's Kits
• proficiency in Forgery Kits
• proficiency in one gaming set of your choice
• learn 2 languages of your choice

If you take proficiency in a kit, you can use it, its components, or its products using your Cunning Action.

Analyze Target

Starting at 9th level, if you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside combat, you can learn certain information about its capabilities compared to your own. The DM tells you if the creature is your equal, superior, or inferior in regard to two of the following characteristics of your choice:

• Dexterity
• Intelligence
• Wisdom
• Charisma
• Class levels (if any)
• Hit Points

At the DM's discretion, you might also realize you know a piece of the creature's history or one of its personality traits.

Undercover

At 13th level, you can create a false identity by spending three hours considering facets of your new persona such as mannerisms, speech patterns, and clothing. If you spend at least 1 hour observing these features in an existing humanoid you can instead mimic that person instead. The identity also includes letters of introduction, forged certifications, appropriate clothing, etc. This disguise is indiscernible to the casual observer, and you have advantage on Charisma (Deception) checks to maintain it when questioned.

Backstabber

At 17th level, it is impossible to tell through magical means whether you are lying, and checks made to discern the truth of your statements are made with disadvantage. Magic cannot compel you to tell the truth, and your mind cannot be read through any means. The first time you damage a creature that regards you with affection or considers you an ally, you have advantage on the attack and forgo damage dice. Instead, you roll the maximum possible amount of damage.

When you damage a creature that is surprised, it must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your Dexterity modifier + your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, double the damage of your attack against the creature.

Windblown

Some people train from youth to be fast. Others use magic to enhance their speed. And still others have an apparently supernatural edge. Operating on instinct and mundane skill, their eternal tailwind pushes them on. They are the Windblown, rogues favoring hit-and-run tactics with the wind at their back.

Fleet of Foot

When you take this archetype at 3rd level, you move much more quickly when fleeing enemies. Whenever you disengage using your Cunning Action, you may shove one creature within reach of you. If you haven't successfully inflicted Sneak Attack on that turn, you may make 1 melee weapon attack against that creature instead.

You can also use Dexterity, instead of Strength, on Athletics checks made to shove enemies.

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 movement 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. You also ignore disadvantage inflicted by strong winds on Perception checks and attack rolls, and gain advantage in those conditions instead.

Airburst

Beginning at 13th level, the wind shelters you against projectiles. When you are targeted by a ranged attack you can use your reaction to inflict disadvantage on it and any other ranged attacks made against you until the start of your next turn. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once), and must complete a long rest to do so again.

Whirlwind Sprint

At 17th level, tailwinds thrust you forward in a single, deadly strike. As an action, you sprint at impossible speed in a straight line to an unoccupied space 30 feet away. Roll damage as though you had landed Sneak Attack with a weapon you're holding. All enemies within your reach as you move in that line take 1/3 that amount.

You also gain the ability to fly in limited bursts. You have a flying speed equal to your current walking speed on your turn; you fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft.

Dashing and movement:

If you Dash, your speed increases during your turn. This speed includes the flight granted by Whirlwind Sprint. Thus, you can fly 80 feet before falling, because you only fall at the end of your turn, regardless of your current speed. If you dash as both an action and a bonus action, you can fly 120 feet.

Weapons Remastered

This remaster massively expands the original Weapons Remastered by another author, which can be found here.. Both exist to diversify weapons' use and function in combat. This chapter is not an attempt to increase their power, but instead mirror the diversity of options and rider effects exhibited by their caster counterparts' cantrips and weapons' use in real life—with significant abstraction.

It does improve them slightly, but the ultimate goal is diversification and the overall increase is minimal. It also attempts to remove the universal popularity of some weapons (such as the rapier) in situations where it might not apply, and instead make all weapons at least somewhat viable.

To do so, each weapon has a combination of several unique properties, which add new functions, passive bonuses, or options. Many entirely new weapons join the existing roster, to include some weapons of great tactical value in history which 5e neglected.

Ideally, players will intuit and remember properties with ease. Properties should in most cases adhere to the design philosophy of 5e, and most are relatively simple or expand properties which already existed. Ultimately, they should have few negatives for massive gains in fun factor.

In some cases, these properties conflict or overlap with feats, a difficult problem. On one hand, martial characters' progression encourages them to take feats. On the other, the removal of "feat taxes" (feats necessary to make builds viable) is an admirable goal as well.

    Ultimately, feats provide much larger bonuses, and those with properties encroaching on their niche remain the superior option. They are a specialization with an enormous opportunity cost and should be treated as such.

This chapter adds no new actions and works to adhere to the already-extant combat system without additional redundancies, extras, or rules bloat, though it does tweak much. Ultimately, it hopes to increase martial characters' ability to think tactically and add a level of nuance which characters without magic or superiority dice sorely lacked.

To those unused to such options, this sudden, glaring change warps the game. Its size daunts newcomers. However, it appeals enormously to martial play, makes choice of weapon have meaning, and it's easy to learn your favorites. Spellcasters continue to track far more options and resources, and they operate beautifully.

As time passes, most warriors will find their favorites, memorize those options, and remain loyal to their preferred style. The keyword, then, is style. No longer is a longsword interchangeable with a battleaxe, or a spear with a javelin. By its very nature this rework differentiates player characters even more and lets players make them their own. This mechanical and stylistic diversity is the ultimate benefit of tabletop roleplay over other games, and this remaster helps that aspect shine.

Weapon Properties

Parry

This weapons can parry incoming attacks. When you are attacked by a melee weapon attack from a target you can see, you can use your reaction to attempt to parry it, adding half your proficiency bonus to your AC for that single attack. Parries must be declared before the result of the attack is known.

Prone Fighting

When you are prone and make a melee attack with this weapon, you do not suffer disadvantage for being prone.

Range

A weapon that can be used to make a ranged attack has a range in parentheses after the ammunition or thrown property. The range lists two numbers. The first is the weapon's normal range in feet, and the second indicates the weapon's long range. When attacking a target beyond normal range, you have disadvantage on the attack roll. You can't attack a target beyond the weapon's long range.

Reach

This weapon's extended length adds 5 feet to your reach when you attack with it, as well as when determining your reach for opportunity attacks with it. Reach weapons cannot be used for two-weapon fighting regardless of strength or feats.

Special

Special weapons have some entirely unique property. These are detailed after the weapon charts.

Status

    Status weapons inflict extra effects on powerful hits. When you hit with an attack roll with a status weapon and exceed the target's AC by 5 or more, it will inflict an additional status effect based upon the type of damage dealt. A critical hit guarantees a status effect.

Slashing weapons inflict gaping wounds and profuse bleeding, inflicting additional slashing damage equal to your proficiency bonus. Objects, Constructs, and Elementals are immune to this damage, as may other creatures that do not bleed at the discretion of your DM.

Bludgeoning weapons hit with staggering blows that daze the target. Inflicting this status causes the target's next attack roll to be made with disadvantage.

Piercing weapons reward precise or focused attacks, punching holes in defenses and leaving a target vulnerable. Inflicting piercing status grants advantage on the first weapon attack against the target before the start of its next turn.

Improvised weapons may inflict status depending on their damage type and the discretion of your DM.

Sundering

The weapon features qualities that crush, pierce, break, or penetrate armor. When you attack a target wearing a breastplate, brigandine, cuirass, halfplate, splint, or full plate, you gain a +2 bonus to the attack roll. You also gain this bonus against creatures with thick shells or metallic hides, and other creatures at the discretion of your DM.

Sweeping

These weapons strike in broad motions. When you reduce an enemy to hit points with a sweeping weapon, target another creature within reach and, if the original attack roll can hit it, apply any remaining damage to it. If that creature is likewise reduced to 0 hit points, repeat this process, carrying over the remaining damage until there are no valid targets, or until the damage carried over fails to kill an enemy.

Thrown

If a weapon has the thrown property, you can throw the weapon to make a ranged attack. If the weapon is a melee weapon, you use the same ability modifier for attack and damage rolls that you would use for a melee attack with it. You increase the standard and maximum range of a thrown weapon by a number of feet equal to 5 times your Strength modifier, unless your Strength modifier is negative.

Two-Handed

The weapon is large or cumbersome to the point of requiring two hands to fight with effectively. You must wield the weapon in both hands to use it, and cannot use the weapon while performing somatic components, grappling, or other tasks that require a free hand.

Versatile

The weapon can be wielded in either one or two hands. A damage value in parentheses appears with the property, indicating the damage dealt when you use it with two hands.

Wind-up

You can prepare attacks with this weapon to make it even more effective. You can use an attack to wind up or set your weapon. On the next attack you make with the weapon, you add an additional weapon die and twice your Strength modifier to damage. A weapon can only add one such damage die in this way. If no attack is made by the end of the wielder’s next turn it is no longer wound up. The wielder can use an attack to keep the weapon wound up for a subsequent round. A weapon that is wound up can be used to make an opportunity attack when an enemy enters its range.

Winged

    These weapons have specially-shaped heads that halt the forward movement of their target toward the user and can be used to catch shields and weapons. After hitting a huge or smaller creature with this weapon, it is unable to move straight toward you and its movement speed is halved until you make an attack roll against another target or it leaves your reach. While holding a creature in this way, you can use a bonus action to attempt to shove the target.

You can also replace one of your attacks with an attempt to disarm a target, using your weapon attack modifier in place of Strength (Athletics).

Weapon Charts

With the additional properties detailed, they can be listed in tables of new and existing weapons. Some weapons list multiple damage types. When attacking with one of those weapons, you indicate which type you'll use before you make the attack.

Simple Melee Weapons

Name	Cost	Damage	Weight	Properties
Boar Spear	5 gp	1d6 piercing	5 lb.	Versatile (1d8), winged
Club	1 sp	1d4 bludgeoning	2 lbs.	Light, nonlethal
Dagger	2 gp	1d4 piercing	¾ lb.	Finesse, finisher, light, prone fighting, thrown (20/60)
Goedendag	5 sp	1d4 bludgeoning/piercing	3 lbs.	Finisher, sundering
Greatclub	5 sp	2d4 bludgeoning	10 lb.	Heavy, nonlethal, status, two-handed
Handaxe	3 gp	1d6 slashing	2 lb.	Light, thrown (20/60)
Javelin	5 sp	1d6 piercing	2 lb.	Thrown (30/120)
Light Hammer	2 sp	1d4 bludgeoning	2 lb.	Light, status, thrown (20/60)
Mace	5 gp	1d6 bludgeoning	4 lb.	Sundering
Quarterstaff	2 sp	1d6 bludgeoning	4 lb.	Nonlethal, versatile (2d4)
Sickle	1 gp	1d4 slashing	2 lb.	Light, status
Shortspear	1 gp	1d6 piercing	4 lb.	Light, versatile (1d8)

Simple Ranged Weapons

Name	Cost	Damage	Weight	Properties
Dart	5 cp	1d4 piercing	¼ lb.	Finesse, thrown (20/60)
Light Crossbow	25 gp	1d8 piercing	5 lb.	Ammunition (80/320), loading, sundering, two-handed
Shortbow	25 gp	1d6 piercing	2 lb.	Ammunition (100/150), two handed
Sling	1 sp	1d4 bludgeoning	¼ lb.	Ammunition (30/120)

Special Properties

Silver Bullet

This bullet is useless against most creatures, but any attack with a silver bullet that hits a creature with a special vulnerability to silver, like fiends and some shapechangers, is an automatic critical hit.

Tower Shield

    To wield a tower shield, a creature must be medium or larger and have at least 15 Strength. Its wielder can use their reaction to hide behind it to gain ¾ cover against harmful area-of-effects such as breath weapons or spells, so long as the effect does not travel around corners. If the wielder of the shield is directly between another creature and the effect's origin, that creature gains ½ cover so long as it is of equal or smaller size than the shield's wielder.

Tower shields may also be planted in the ground as an action. In this state they are no longer wielded and stand on their own to act as ½ cover for an upright creature, or full cover for a prone one.

Unarmed Strike

An attack with any part of your body, such as a fist, elbow, knee, or headbutt. Racial and class features might provide better damage dice when making unarmed strikes with specific parts of your body. Unarmed strikes can trigger features that activate on a successful attack, such as martial maneuvers and divine smites, or with spells that require a weapon attack.

Shield Grips

    There are two types of grips, which determines how you hold a shield:

Handles are a simple bar made of metal or wood that function similarly to the hilt of a weapon. A shield with a handle can be doffed or donned with an item interaction and dropped freely, but enemies have advantage on athletics checks made to disarm the user of that shield.

Straps attach the shield to the arms, reinforcing the handle with a series of cloth or leather bands. These shields take an action to don or doff, and enemies have disadvantage on athletics checks made to disarm the user.

If a shield lists multiple grip types, either can be used, chosen when the shield is obtained or created.

Armor Revised

    Armor has also been reworked, to better reflect the realities of personal protection in the Late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.

The table below shows the cost, weight, armor class, and and properties each type of armor. Proficiencies, Dexterity bonuses, and stealth rules remain unchanged, as do donning and doffing rules. However, armor's weight is halved while you wear it.

Armor Table

Light	Cost	AC	Strength	Stealth	Weight
Leather	5 gp	11+Dex	-	-	8 lb.
Gambeson	10 gp	12+Dex	-	-	10 lb.
Padded Jack	25 gp	13+Dex	-	Disad.	15 lb.
Medium
Hide	10 gp	12+Dex (max 2)	-	-	12 lb.
Chain Shirt	50 gp	13+dex (max 2)	-	Disad.	15 lb.
Breastplate	330 gp	13+Dex (max 2)	-	-	20 lb.
Brigandine	125 gp	14+Dex (max 2)	-	Disad.	25 lb.
Cuirass	400 gp	14+Dex (max 3)	-	-	25 lb.
Half-plate	1,000 gp	15+Dex (max 3)	Str 12	Disad.	30 lb.
Heavy
Scale	50 gp	15	-	Disad.	40 lb.
Hauberk	75 gp	16	Str 13	Disad.	30 lb.
Splint	100 gp	17	Str 14	Disad.	35 lb.
Full Plate	2,000 gp	18	Str 14	Disad.	45 lb.

Cauldron

Often filled with boiling liquid and suspended above a gate, wall, or portcullis, those in a 10 ft. square directly below a cauldron must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or take its damage, or half on a successful saving throw. Boiling oil or fat deals an extra d6, pitch an extra 2d6, and magma (in the cases of a magical cauldron) an extra 4d6. Pouring acid changes the damage type to acid. Boiling holy water deals an additional 3d6 radiant damage to an undead.

Organ Gun

A set of fanned iron gun barrels, used as an anti-personnel weapon. Its massive spread allows targets to escape its grasp; all attack rolls with the organ gun are made with disadvantage, but it attacks every target within its area of effect.

Ram

This movable galley is equipped with an iron-clad log suspended by chains. It requires 4 medium creatures to operate, and these creatures have total cover against attacks from above. If all 4 of those creatures use their action to dash, the ram can move at a speed of 20 feet on that turn.

Trebuchet

These siege engines hurl their payloads in high arcs that hit targets behind cover. In addition to heavy stones, they can hurl barrels of oil or sewage, rotting corpses, alchemist's fire, and clusters of bombs which explode upon impact.

Modifications

    Weapons and armor are not complete, discrete items. They can be altered from their original forms and given new properties which change the way they operate. Specific tool proficiencies are necessary to create most modifications. Unlike the immobile manufacturing tools required to create entirely new weapons and armor, modifications can be created anywhere so long as a character has the tools, gear, and material in hand.

Weapon Mods

Modification	Weapons	Price	Effect
Bayonet	Arquebus, heavy crossbow, light crossbow	20 gp	Allows the attached weapon to be used as a melee weapon: 1d6 piercing, status, two-handed
Blunted	All piercing, slashing	10 gp	Changes damage type to bludgeoning, adds nonlethal property. When the highest possible number on a damage die is rolled, reroll it and take the lower number.
Butt Spike	Spears, polearms, harpoon	10 gp	Allows you to make a single melee weapon attack as a bonus action when you move through a prone creature's space. Deals piercing damage and normal damage die, but no other properties.
Consecrated	All	-	Overcome fiends' & undeads' resistances &immunities to nonmagical damage.
Guige	Shields	2 gp	When you drop or doff a shield, it remains on you person instead of falling to the ground.
Guisarme Hook	Glaive, halberd	55 gp	Modifies head of weapon to add the ensnaring property.
Enhanced Guard	Swords*	15 gp	Grants advantage on checks to avoid being disarmed.
Flaming	All non-gunpowder	-	For 1 minute, half the damage dealt with the weapon (or in a single shot for ammunition) deals fire damage instead.
Penobscot Arms	Bows	200 gp	Adds a small pair of forward-facing second arms that increase ease of drawing the bow, improving your aim and increasing power. Reroll 1s on damage dice.
Poison Reservoir	All piercing, slashing	1500 gp	Stores up to 5 doses of injury poison, automatically applying the poison on a successful hit.
Repeater	Crossbows	300 gp	Allows you to fire a crossbow 5 times before reloading.
Scope	Two-handed ranged	6000 gp	Removes disadvantage inflicted by attacking at long range.
Second Barrel	Gunpowder	500 gp	Adds 1.5*weight of weapon, allows you to attack twice, instead of once, before reloading.
Serrated	All piercing, slashing melee	200 gp	When you exceeds a target's AC by 5, you deal additional piercing/slashing damage equal to half your proficiency bonus.

*Estoc, falchion, greatsword, longsword, rapier, scimitar, shortsword

Created Modifications

Consecrated. Clerics or paladins can consecrate weapons by submerging them in 200 gp's worth of holy water in places sacred to their god such as a temple or altar. The ritual takes 80 work-hours of intense prayer and must be completed no more than 10 days after its inception.

Flaming. As an action, coat and light a weapon or 3 pieces of ammunition, consuming 1 flask of oil in the process.

Oiled. Over the course of 1 hour, expend a flask of oil to lubricate the components of armor to reduce noise. Lasts until your next long rest.

Alternative Weapons

    Many real weapons varied only slightly, and cannot be further differentiated in this document. The following table provides alternatives to the existing mechanics and choices. They use the same weight, properties, and damage dice as their original equivalents, though their damage type may differ. That difference is listed in parentheses; (b) for bludgeoning, (p) for piercing, and (s) for slashing damages.

Several of these alternates originate from cultures and technological eras outside the late-medieval/early-renaissance European pastiche of D&D, and may not be appropriate for every game. They include Greece, Rome, Japan, China, and India throughout multiple eras, and this list is far from exhaustive. The DM is within their rights to not allow certain alternatives based on culture, time period, location, or tone. However, the difference is entirely aesthetic, and fantasy cultures may have followed a very different path from our reality. Finally, many of the alternatives are little more than translations for a game that takes place in a different setting, and may be considered equivalent or specific for all intents and purposes.

Alternative armors, fortunately, are a simple matter of scale. A prehistoric game would feature primarily leather and bone—"plate armor" could be as simple as bone overlay on the chest. A heavy babylonian breastplate, made from bronze, can be considered plate armor in game mechanics. Ultimately, aesthetic and mechanic can co-exist without strict adherence to exact description depending on setting.

This phenomenon also applies to armor in the "standard" setting, as well. A "gambeson" could be heavily padded clothing supplemented by a helm, bracers, and almain collar, and leather armor can exist as armored noblewear rather than full gear. Ultimately, the willingness of player and Dungeon Master to stretch plausibility for aesthetics varies in every group. This document leans simulationist, which limits reflavor work, but this page in particular gives great leeway in just that.

Combat Rules

While robust, some of 5e's combat rules can be tweaked or clarified. This section focuses primarily on small quality-of-life changes, alterations to ease the flow of combat and rules adjudications, and house rules. It does not overhaul HP, AC, action economy, etc. Rather, it addresses specific situations and in some cases creates new or more specific rules.

Two-Weapon Fighting

When you take the Attack action and attack at least once with a light weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can make one attack with a different light weapon that you're holding in another hand as part of the same action. You don't add your ability modifier to this attack's damage, unless that modifier is negative. If either weapon has the thrown property, you can throw that weapon instead of making a melee attack with it. You can only make this additional attack once per turn, even if you have multiple features that allow it.

Feats

Charger

When you move at least 20 feet in a straight line before stopping in a space with one or more creatures within your reach, you gain the following benefits until the end of the turn or until you move again:

• When you successfully shove a creature, you push it an extra 10 feet.
• The bonus damage dealt by your ability score modifier doubles for the first weapon attack you make.

Close-Quarters Shooter

Your extensive practice using ranged weapons in close combat grants you the following benefits:

• You ignore the loading quality of ranged weapons with which you are proficient.
• Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls.
• When you hit a creature within 30 feet of you with a ranged weapon attack using a one-handed ranged weapon, you can deal 1d6 extra damage to the creature.

This feat replaces crossbow expert.

Defensive Duelist

While you are wielding a finesse or versatile weapon and no other weapons, when another creature that you can see hits you with a weapon attack, you can use your reaction to add your proficiency bonus to your AC (potentially causing the attack to miss), which lasts until the start of your next turn or until a weapon attack hits you. You must be proficient with the weapon you are wielding to gain this benefit.

Dual Wielder

You master fighting with two weapons. You gain the following benefits:

• You have a +1 bonus to your AC while you wield at least two one-handed melee weapons in different hands.
• You can add your ability modifier to the damage of additional attacks you make by engaging in two-weapon fighting.
• You can use two-weapon fighting even when the one-handed melee weapons you are wielding aren't light.

Inspiring leader

Prerequisite: Charisma 13 or higher

Your confidence inspires your companions to fight on, granting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You can spend 10 minutes inspiring your companions, shoring up their resolve to fight. When you do so, you and up to five friendly creatures within 30 feet of you who can see, hear, and understand you gain temporary hit points equal to your level + your Charisma modifier. A creature can't gain temporary hit points from this feat again until it has finished a short or long rest.

Mage Slayer

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

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

Savage Attacker

You attack with especially brutal force. You gain the benefits below:

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you roll damage for a melee weapon attack, you can reroll the weapon's damage dice once and use either total.

Sharpshooter

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

• Attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls.
• While you are elevated 10 or more feet above a creature, your ranged weapon attacks against it ignore half cover; at 30 feet or higher, your ranged weapon attacks against it ignore three-quarters cover.
• Before you make an attack with a ranged weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add +10 to the attack's damage.

Shield Master

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

• You can use your bonus action to attempt to shove a creature you can see within 5 feet with your shield
• If you aren't incapacitated, you can add your shield's AC bonus to any Dexterity saving throw you make against a spell or other harmful effect that targets only you.
• When subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take half damage, you can use your reaction to interpose your shield between yourself and the source of the effect.

Rules

Exhaustion

Each level of exhaustion inflicts the corresponding effect:

Level	Effect
1	Disadvantage on ability checks
2	Speed halved
3	Disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws
4	Hit point maximum halved
5	Speed reduced to 0
6	Death

If an already exhausted creature suffers another effect that causes exhaustion, its current level of exhaustion increases by the amount specified in the effect's description. A creature suffers the effect of its current level of exhaustion as well as all lower levels. For example, a creature suffering level 2 exhaustion has its speed halved and has disadvantage on ability checks.

An effect that removes exhaustion reduces its level as specified in the effect's description, with all exhaustion effects ending if a creature's exhaustion level is reduced below 1. Finishing a short or long rest removes level 1 exhaustion from a character. A long rest reduces a creature's exhaustion by 1 regardless of the current level. Being raised from the dead increases a creature's exhaustion level by 1.

Getting Up & Movement Speed

Mounting, dismounting, or standing up from prone expends 15 feet of movement, regardless of your speed. If a creature has less than 15 feet of movement, it takes all their movement to mount, dismount, or stand up. A creature with 0 movement cannot do these things.

Injury

Falling to 0 HP devastates your stamina. Whenever your HP drops to 0, you gain 1 level of exhaustion.

Intentional Failures

Before you roll an ability check or saving throw with an ability score other than Constitution you can choose to fail that check or save and incur all the penalties of with failure. You can also choose to allow an attack to hit you.

Using Certain Magical Items

You may draw and drink a potion yourself as a bonus action. Administering a potion to another creature requires your action. The same applies to Herbal Mixtures. Any creature capable of reading Common can activate a spell scroll.

Class Features

Mid-Adventure Crafting

If you are proficient with a set of tools, you can create certain items with them. To craft, you declare a period of 1-8 hours and the item you craft. During that time you progress 50 gp closer to the item's sale price for every hour worked. After the interval ends, make an Intelligence check, adding your proficiency bonus. The check DC equals 18 minus the number of hours worked. If you succeed, your attempt at crafting is successful and the progress you made is added to the total progress you made to the item prior, if any. You cannot work more than 8 hours per day.

When your progress reaches or exceeds the default sale price of the item, it is complete. If you exceed the price of the item in the time you allotted you cannot begin another item; reduction of the DC over time reflects slower, more careful work on the same item. Multiple items in the same period require multiple intervals and checks.

If the item isn't finished, progress carries forward to the next crafting attempt. If the check fails, the materials you used are worth half as much as they were before. To begin crafting an item, you need materials worth at least half the item's listed price. These materials can be purchased, scavenged, etc.

For example, if you are proficient in smith's tools and have access to a forge, tools, and 5 gp of metal, you can spend one hour to make a maul so long as you succeed on a DC 17 check, or two hours with a DC 16 check.

Offensive Gear

    Included in this section are the other items that PCs might employ to attack, and can create. They are not weapons, and each possesses their own unique properties and traits. Adventuring gear without an aggressive combat use have been omitted, as they have not been changed. After the base adventuring gear section, each category is listed in the order of the tools used to create them.

If a piece of gear requires you to make an attack roll, you are not proficient in it unless you are trained in the use of that item or have taken the Tavern Brawler feat.

If a piece of gear can be thrown, it has the Thrown property and a range of 20/60. Throwing these items counts as a single attack when taking the attack action. You add Dexterity to attack rolls with thrown gear, and nothing to damage.

Gear

Name	Cost	Weight	Properties & Damage
Acid Vial	25 gp	1 lb.	2d6 acid, thrown
Alchemist's Fire	50 gp	1 lb.	1d4 fire/round, thrown
Ball Bearings	1 gp	2 lb.	-
Caltrops	1 gp	2 lb.	1 piercing
Flour	2 cp	1 lb.	2d6 fire, thrown
Grappling Hook	2 gp	4 lbs.	1 piercing, thrown
Gunpowder Horn	35 gp	2 lbs.	3d6 fire, gunpowder
Gunpowder Keg	150 gp	20 lbs.	6d6 fire, gunpowder
Gunpowder Barrel	1750 gp	20 lbs.	12d6 fire, gunpowder
Holy Water	25 gp	1 lb.	2d6 radiant, thrown
Hunting Trap	5 gp	25 lbs.	1d10 piercing, status
Manacles	2 gp	6 lbs.	-
Oil Flask	1 sp	1 lb.	5 fire, thrown
Torch	1 cp	1 lb.	1 fire

Acid

You can splash the contents of this vial onto a creature within 5 feet of you or throw the vial, shattering it on impact. Make an attack attack against a creature or object, treating the acid as an improvised weapon using your Dexterity modifier. On a hit, the target takes 2d6 acid damage. Acid does double damage against objects, structures, and creatures made from stone or metal.

Alchemist's Fire

This sticky, adhesive fluid ignites when exposed to air. Throwing this flask causes it to shatter on impact. Make a ranged attack against a creature or object, treating the alchemist's fire as an improvised weapon. On a hit, the target takes 1d4 fire damage at the start of each of its turns. A creature can end this damage by using its action to make a DC 10 Dexterity check to extinguish the flames. Creatures vulnerable to fire damage have disadvantage on this check, and the DC is increased to 15 for them.

Ball Bearings

    You can spill this bag of 1,000 tiny metal balls from their pouch to cover 10 ft square are. A creature moving across the covered ground must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or fall prone. A creature moving through the area at half speed doesn't need to make the saving throw. A creature that has taken the dash action on their turn or moved at least 15 ft in a straight line before entering a ball bearing-filled space makes that save at disadvantage.

Creatures that fly, jump, or hover through the space are unaffected by ball bearings.

Caltrops

    You can spread a single bag of caltrops to cover a 5-foot-square. Any creature that enters the area must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or stop moving and take 1 piercing damage. Until the creature regains at least 1 hit point, its walking speed is reduced by 10 feet. A creature moving through the area at half speed doesn't need to make the saving throw. If a creature is knocked prone in a caltrop's space, it takes damage equal to the Strength score of the creature that knocked it prone or the save DC of the same effect.

Improvised collections of sharp items, such as broken glass, can be used as caltrops.

Flour

    You can throw a bag of flour, which ruptures on impact. A 10 ft cube is filled by powder, which lingers in the air and can reveal any invisible creature. If the flour cloud is ignited, it deals 2d6 fire damage to all creatures within the cloud.

Coal, sawdust, coffee, pollen, and magnesium powder can also be used to such an effect.

Grappling Hook

If this sharp metal hook is tied to a rope, you may throw the grappling hook at an object or creature, making an attack roll against the creature or the AC of the object's material. You may then pull the rope to move that object as though you were carrying it, or the creature as though you were dragging it. You can also climb that rope.

Gunpowder Horn

A gunpowder horn holds 25 pinches of gunpowder to be used in loading weapons with the Gunpowder property. If the powder horn takes fire damage, it explodes, dealing 3d6 fire damage to all creatures and objects within 10 feet of it. A successful DC12 Dexterity saving throw halves the damage taken.

Gunpowder Keg

A small, personal barrel of gunpowder, typically about a foot tall. It contains 200 pinches of gunpowder to be used in weapons with the Gunpowder property. If the powder keg takes fire damage, it explodes, dealing 6d6 fire damage to all creatures and objects within 10 feet of it. A successful DC14 Dexterity saving throw halves the damage taken.

Gunpowder Barrel

A full-sized barrel of black powder. It contains 700 pinches of gunpowder to be used in weapons with the Gunpowder property. If the powder barrel catches fire, it explodes, dealing 12d6 fire damage to all creatures and objects within 15 feet of it. A successful DC16 Dexterity saving throw halves the damage taken.

Holy Water

Throwing this flash causes it to shatter on impact. Make a ranged attack against a target. If the target is a fiend or undead, it takes 2d6 radiant damage.

Hunting Trap

As an action, you may set this trap, which is comprised of a pressure panel, a pair of heavy iron jaws, and a spike & chain. It has +8 to hit and deals 1d10 piercing damage. It requires an action and a DC15 Strength check to remove. Failing the check by 5 or more deals an additional 1d10 piercing damage. If the trap is concealed, a DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check will reveal it, and a DC 10 Dexterity check using thieves' tools will disable it.

Manacles

These metal restraints can bind a Small or Medium creature, requiring a successful grapple if that creature is attempting to resist. Escaping the manacles requires a DC 20 Dexterity check to slip out, or a DC 20 Strength check to break. Each set of manacles comes with one key. Without the key, a creature proficient with thieves' tools can pick the manacles' lock with a successful DC 15 Dexterity check. Spellcasters in manacles cannot perform the somatic components of spells.

Oil Flask

    Make a ranged attack against a target creature or object, treating the oil as an improvised weapon, to splash flammable oil onto it. If the target takes any fire damage before the oil dries (after 1 minute), the target takes an additional 5 fire damage. You can also pour a flask of oil on the ground to cover a 5-foot-square space. If lit, the oil burns for 2 rounds and deals 5 fire damage to any creature that enters the area or ends its turn there. A creature can take this damage only once per turn.

Oil can also be used in the upkeep of armor. Taking one hour to apply a flask of oil to an armor that grants at least 13 AC (without Dexterity bonuses) removes disadvantage on stealth checks while wearing it until you take a long rest.

Torch

A torch burns for 1 hour, providing bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for another 20. If you make a melee attack with a burning torch and hit, it deals 1 fire damage and ignites any oil or flour that may be on the target.

Bombs and Grenades

Specialized thrown explosives, bombs are thrown using an attack to any point within 60 feet. They deal their effects in a sphere in the radius listed. All bombs weigh 1 lb, have the Gunpowder property unless otherwise noted, can be lit or activated as part of the same attack used to throw them, and deal half damage on a successful saving throw unless otherwise noted.

Like potions, an alchemist must know or find the recipe to create a specific bomb before they can make it. After they know it, they can make that bomb as many times as they like; most ingredients are assumed to be part of their alchemists' kits.

Bomb

The standard bomb, a metal shell packed with gunpowder. Its thunder damage is doubled against constructs and structures.

Aeolian Flare

A tiny cloth pouch filled with magnesium strips and gunpowder to set them alight. It produces blinding light on impact. All creatures that fail their saving throw are blinded until the end of their next turn. Creatures with Darkvision make their save against with disadvantage.

Ashes of Dreams

Fey magic and tranquilizing herbs combine in this gas bomb to tranquilize targets. Creatures that fail their save are knocked unconscious for 1d4 rounds. Creatures immune to being magically put to sleep are immune to this effect.

Boreas' Embrace

Packed with shards of True Ice and cold magic, creatures that fail their initial saving throw against this bomb are restrained and gain +2 to their AC. This effect lasts for 1 minute. They may repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending both effects on a success.

Cayenne Smog

Filled with a powder distilled from exotic fruits, this chemical grenade releases a billowing cloud of excruciating gas from the space it is thrown for 1 minute. On a failed save, creatures within the cloud are blinded and poisoned. Affected creatures can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on themselves on a success. Creatures immune to fire damage or that do not need to breath are immune to this bomb's effects. This bomb does not have the Gunpowder property.

Charnock's Remorse

A closely-guarded secret of contemporary alchemy, the result of a quest for ever-burning flames. The result was a horrific, burning chemical which sticks to clothing, skin, and buildings, continuing to burn for 10 minutes unless completely starved of air by smothering. This fire is even immune to the effects of prestidigitation, control flames, and other extinguishing spells. Capable of burning damp materials and causing excruciating pain, creatures suffering from it must also succeed on a DC10 Constitution saving throw or be immediately incapacitated until the fire is put out or they die.

While capable of burning in damp conditions, this bomb retains the Gunpowder property and must be ignited as normal. Creatures that succeed on their Dexterity saving throw against this bomb take no damage.

Dimeritium Shardsmoke

Crafted from a series of complicated enchantments, reagents, and metals, the tiny blast of smoke interferes with magic itself. When it explodes it imitates the effects of the dispel magic spell for all effects within range. If a check is required, it has a +5 to the d20 roll.

Dynamo

A palm-sized metal sphere covered in greebling, this marvel of alchemical engineering unleases stored lightning in all directions. It lacks the gunpowder property and does double damage when thrown underwater, and has a 20 ft radius of effect in water or damp conditions. Unlike other items and weapons, it can move its full range when used underwater.

Flashbang

This bomb creates a burst of light and sound upon impact, disoriented creatures within range. On a failed saving throw, all creatures within its range are blinded and deafened for 1 minute. They may repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on themselves on a success. Creatures with Tremorsense or Darkvision make the initial saving throw against this bomb with disadvantage.

Glitterburst

Silver dust and shards fill this bomb, inflicting terrible damage on creatures vulnerable to it. Creatures that do not resist damage from silvered weapons take doubled piercing damage and have disadvantage on their saving throws against this bomb. Its thunder damage is doubled against constructs and structures.

Hornet's Nest

This large sphere is packed by rounded balls of soft metal and rubber that explode in a wide radius. All creatures within range that fail their saving throw against it are stunned until the end of their next turn, incapacitated by nonlethal pain. Creatures resistant to damage from nonmagical weapons make their saving throw against this bomb with advantage, and creatures immune to automatically succeed.

Moon Dust

Packed with parilla cuttings and shards of feldspar, this bomb is designed to combat shapeshifters. Creatures with the shapechanger trait make their saving throw against this bomb with disadvantage and, if they take damage from it, revert to their human form and cannot change from it for 1 hour.

Shockwave Diamond

A small crystal of compressed energy, this tiny object shatters on impact and releases all its power at once. On a failed save, all creatures within its radius are pushed 10 feet away and knocked prone. They take damage regardless of whether they fail the save or not. This bomb deals an additional 3d4 thunder damage to objects, structures, and constructs within its range.

Smokestick

A flammable compound that produces a thick plume of smoke within its effect range for 1 minute. The area within its range is heavily obscured for 1 minute.

Spirit Walker

When this bomb explodes, it send all creatures within its radius that failed their save into the ethereal plane for 2d6 rounds, after which they return, unharmed, in the same place.

Tanglefoot Bag

A bag of magical, sticky tar that erupts from the point of impact. Creatures in its radius must succeed on a saving throw against it or be restrained. A successful DC14 Strength check can break a restrained creature free. In addition, its entire area is difficult terrain for 1 minute, after which the tanglefoot compound dries. If a 5ft square of tar takes 10 points of fire damage, it dries early and is no longer difficult terrain. This bomb does not have the Gunpowder property.

Thunderstone

A small rock densely packed with incredible magical power. When thrown, it shatters on impact, releasing tremendous concussive energy. It damages objects as well as creatures, and deals double damage to structures and constructs, both of which automatically fail their saving throws.

Torpid Air

A concocation that thickens the air within its area of effect, rapidly slowing descents. Bursting on impact, all creatures that fall to a point on the ground within its range have their falling damage quartered. This effect lasts for 1 minute.

Vomit Comet

Containing an assortment of pungent, rotting materials, the terrible smell of this bomb can stop creatures close to it in their tracks. Those who fail their save within its area of effect are poisoned, have their movement speed reduced by 10 feet, and must repeat their saving throw or lose their action to retch and stagger. This effect lasts for 1 minute. Creatures that cannot be poisoned or do not have to breathe are immune to this effect.

Zabou

The fungal zabou can be hurled, releasing its cloud of spores on impact. Any creature in its area must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. The poisoned creature's skin itches for the duration. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Oils

These magically-infused ointments can coat weapons and armor to produce a temporary magical effect. Oils last for one hour, after which they naturally evaporate, or until they're cleaned off or washed away.

Oils can be applied to a weapon, piece of armor, or 3 pieces of ammunition. A character needs at least 1 free hand to apply an oil. Oils cannot be applied to items worn or carried by an unwilling and conscious target.

Items can only benefit from one oil at a time. A new application overrides the old and removes it.

Creating Oils

Characters proficient with both arcana and brewer's supplies can create oils. To create oils, a character needs an amount of the corresponding gemstone dust valued at least half the oil's cost, and a flask of oil. Unlike alcoholic beverages, oils can be created while traveling, with the portable kit.

Oil Components

Oil	Component
Accuracy	Pearl
Blessing	Diamond
Corruption	Emerald
Decay	Onyx
Energy	Topaz
Flameborn	Ruby

Oil	Component
Frost	Sapphire
Nightmares	Amethyst
Power	Garnet
Resilience	Aquamarine
Spite	Peridot
Thunderclap	Alexandrite

Oils

Oil of:	Weapon Effect	Armor Effect	Rarity	Cost
Accuracy	Gain +1 to hit	Gain +1 AC	Uncommon	500 gp
Blessing	Deal Radiant damage	Gain resistance to Necrotic damage	Uncommon	200 gp
Corruption	Deal Poison damage	Gain resistance to Acid damage	Uncommon	200 gp
Decay	Deal Necrotic damage	Gain resistance to Radiant damage	Uncommon	200 gp
Energy	Deal lightning damage	Gain resistance to Thunder damage	Uncommon	200 gp
Flameborn	Deal Fire damage	Gain resistance to Cold damage	Uncommon	200 gp
Frost	Deal Cold damage	Gain resistance to Fire damage	Uncommon	200 gp
Nightmares	Deal Psychic damage	Gain resistance to Force damage	Uncommon	200 gp
Power	Deal +1 damage	Reduce damage taken by 1	Uncommon	200 gp
Resilience	Deal Force damage	Gain resistance to Psychic damage	Uncommon	200 gp
Spite	Deal Acid damage	Gain resistance to Poison damage	Uncommon	200 gp
Thunderclap	Deal Thunder damage	Gain resistance to Lightning damage	Uncommon	200 gp
Greater Accuracy	Gain +2 to hit	Gain +2 AC	Rare	2500 gp
Greater Blessing	Deal Radiant damage+ 1d4 extra	Gain immunity to Necrotic damage	Very rare	1000 gp
Greater Corruption	Deal Poison damage +1d4 extra	Gain immunity to Acid damage	Very rare	1000 gp
Greater Decay	Deal Necrotic damage +1d4 extra	Gain immunity to Radiant damage	Very rare	1000 gp
Greater Energy	Deal Lightning damage +1d4 extra	Gain immunity to Thunder damage	Very rare	1000 gp
Greater Flameborn	Deal Fire damage +1d4 extra	Gain immunity to Cold damage	Very rare	1000 gp
Greater Frost	Deal Cold damage +1d4 extra	Gain immunity to Fire damage	Very rare	1000 gp
Greater Nightmares	Deal Psychic damage +1d4 extra	Gain immunity to Force damage	Very rare	1000 gp
Greater Power	Deal +2 damage	Reduce damage taken by 2 (min. 1)	Rare	400 gp
Greater Resilience	Deal Force damage +1d4 extra	Gain immunity to Psychic damage	Very rare	1000 gp
Greater Spite	Deal Acid damage +1d4 extra	Gain immunity to Poison damage	Very rare	1000 gp
Greater Thunderclap	Deal Thunder damage +1d4 extra	Gain immunity to Lightning damage	Very rare	1000 gp

Scrolls

You must have proficiency in both arcana and either calligrapher's tools or forgery kit in order to create spell scrolls. You must know the spell you scribe through the entire creation process.

Spell Levels & Scrolls

Spells cast from a scroll use their own attack bonuses and save DCs, listed on the table below. Each scroll weighs ¼ lb. The prices on the table list the gp threshold to create them.

Scrolls

Spell Level	Rarity	Attack Bonus/DC	Price
Cantrip	Common	+5/13	50 gp
1st	Common	+5/13	100 gp
2nd	Uncommon	+5/13	200 gp
3rd	Uncommon	+7/15	1,000 gp
4th	Rare	+7/15	2,000 gp
5th	Rare	+7/15	10,000 gp
6th	Very Rare	+9/17	20,000 gp
7th	Very Rare	+10/18	50,000 gp
8th	Very Rare	+10/18	75,000 gp
9th	Legendary	+11/19	100,000 gp

Herbal Mixtures

Any herbalist who takes the time to gather ingredients can make these mixtures. Gathering uses the same mechanics as a mid-adventure crafting check for you, and grants materials worth the same amount as the gp progress made. These ingredients cannot, be sold for that amount; they are useless in their inert base forms. You know the recipe for each herbal mixture if you are proficient in herbalist's kits. Each mixture weighs 1 lb.

Herbal Mixtures

Mixture	Cost
Alertness Draught	2 gp
Antiparalytic	100 gp
Antipathogen	100 gp
Antitoxin	50 gp
Clearbreath	10 gp
Healer's Kit	5 gp
Incense	2 gp
Insect Repellant	1 sp
Journeybread	5 gp
Nightlight	20 gp

Alertness Draught

For 1 hour, the drinker of this bitter brew has advantage on Perception checks and saving throws against sleep effects.

Antiparalytic

This flavorless slimy fluid grants the drinker advantage on saving throws against paralysis for 1 hour.

Antipathogen

A chalky, dry tablet that grants advantage on saving throws against disease for 8 hours.

Antitoxin

This vial of liquid grants advantage on saving throws against poison for 1 hour when drunk.

Clearbreath

Any creature which inhales this grey mist gains advantage on saving throws against a ghast's stench and other features that use scent.

Healer's Kit

A leather pouch containing bandages, splints, and salves, this kit has 10 uses. You can expend a use as an action to stabilize a creature that has 0 hit points, without needing to make a Medicine check.

Incense

A small stick of scented herbs that relaxes the mind and can be used during religious ceremonies or spell rituals.

Insect Repellant

An acrid concoction applied to the skin that repels inisects for 24 hours. It has no effect on swarms or giant insects. Multiple insect repellants can be created with the same crafting check.

Journeybread

Despite its weight, this dense vegetable cake acts as a day's rations for a medium creature.

Nightlight

A thick, purple liquid kept in a glass vial that glows with flameless light for 1 hour when shaken. It emits bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for another 30 feet.

Poisons and Toxins

Characters proficient in poisoner's kits can create the poisons below with ingredients from their kit. If a poison mentions a non-humanoid creature in its name, the poisoner must first gather vital ingredients from a dead or incapacitated specimen of that creature, requiring a DC 20 Nature check and 1d6 minutes. Characters must be proficient in poisoner's kits to make that check. Applying or triggering a poison requires an action.

Types of Poisons

Poisons come in four varieties. Each variety is applied to a creature in a different way; those methods are listed below.

Contact: Contact poison can be smeared on an object and remains potent until touched or washed off. A creature that touches contact poison with exposed skin suffers its effects.

Ingested: A creature must swallow an entire dose of ingested poison to suffer its effects. The dose can be delivered in food or a liquid.

Inhaled: These poisons are powders or gases that take effect when inhaled. Releasing the powder or gas subjects creatures in a 5-foot cube to its effect. The resulting cloud dissipates immediately afterward. Holding one's breath is ineffective against inhaled poisons, as they affect nasal membranes, tear ducts, and other parts of the body.

Injury: Injury poison can be applied to weapons, three pieces of ammunition, trap components, and objects that deal piercing or slashing damage. It remains potent until delivered through a wound or washed off. A creature that takes piercing or slashing damage from an object coated with the poison is exposed to its effects. Undelivered injury poisons dry from a weapon after 1 hour.

DMG Poisons

Poison	Type	Save/DC	Price
Basic Poison	Injury	Con 10	100 gp
Assassin's Blood	Ingested	Con 10	150 gp
Burnt Othur Fumes	Inhaled	Con 13	500 gp
Carrion Crawler Mucus	Contact	Con 13	200 gp
Drow Poison	Injury	Con 13	200 gp
Essence of Ether	Injury	Con 15	300 gp
Malice	Inhaled	Con 15	250
Midnight Tears	Ingested	Con 17	1500 gp
Oil of Taggit	Contact	Con 13	400 gp
Pale Tincture	Ingested	Con 16	250 gp
Purple Worm Poison	Injury	Con 19	2,000 gp
Serpent Venom	Injury	Con 11	200 gp
Torpor	Ingested	Con 15	600 gp
Truth Serum	Ingested	Con 11	150 gp
Wyvern Poison	Injury	Con 15	1200 gp

Basic Poison

You can use the poison in this vial to coat one slashing or piercing weapon or up to three pieces of ammunition. Applying the poison takes an action. A creature hit by the poisoned weapon or ammunition must make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or take 1d4 poison damage.

Assassin's Blood

A creature subjected to this poison must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 6 (1d12) poison damage and is poisoned for 24 hours. On a successful save, the creature takes half damage and isn’t poisoned.

Burnt Othur Fumes

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or take 10 (3d6) poison damage, and must repeat the saving throw at the start of each of its turns. On each successive failed save, the character takes 3 (1d6) poison damage. After three successful saves, the poison ends.

Carrion Crawler Mucus

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. The poisoned creature is paralyzed. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Drow Poison

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 hour. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.

Essence of Ether

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 8 hours. The poisoned creature is unconscious. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.

Malice

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 hour. The poisoned creature is blinded.

Midnight Tears

A creature that ingests this poison suffers no effect until the stroke of midnight. If the poison has not been neutralized before then, the creature must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking 31 (9d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

New Ingested Poisons

Bloodwine

An undead subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The blood of a living creature acts as bloodwine to any creature that drinks their blood for the next 8 hours.

Celestial Lightsblood

A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 25 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, their Dexterity score is decreased by 2, but cannot be reduced past 1, and they must repeat the saving throw at the beginning of their next turn. On a subsequent failed save, their Constitution score is decreased by 2, but cannot be reduced past 1. These scores can only be restored by the greater restoration spell or similar magic.

Depraved Decadence

A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 25 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature can no longer receive sustenance by consuming food. Every two days the creature goes without sustenance, their Constitution score decreases by 1. If a creature's Constitution score reaches 0 due to this effect, they die.

Lockjaw

A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature's jaw muscles lock and its tongue falls numb. An affected creature cannot speak or cast spells that require verbal components for 10 minutes.

Nightmare Root

A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 19 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature's sleep is haunted with a combination of their greatest fears and everything they've ever done wrong. An affected creature cannot benefit from long rests, and therefore gains a point of exhaustion at the beginning of the next day. The poison leaves the creature's system 24 hours after ingestion.

Pallid Serpent's Deception

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw, taking 22 (4d10) psychic damage on a failed save, and must repeat the saving throw at the start of each of its turns. On a successful save, the effect ends. While the creature remains poisoned in this way, it must succeed a on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw at the end of each of its turns, taking 11 (2d10) psychic damage on a failed save.

Unicorn Blood

A creature subjected to this poison heals (4d4 + 4) hit points and must then succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, they are affected by one of the options of the bestow curse spell for one week. The DM rolls a d4 to determine which curse takes hold.

Anosmia

A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 18 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature loses its sense of smell for 48 hours. If the creature relies on smell to locate other creatures, it can no longer do so. The creature automatically fails any Wisdom (Perception) check that relies on smell. If the creature has the keen smell trait, it must also succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or act as though affected by the confusion spell during their next turn.

Dretch Gas

Dretch gas lingers for 1 minute after it is released, or until a strong wind disperses it. Any creature that starts its turn in that area must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of its next turn. While poisoned in this way, the target can take either an action or a bonus action on its turn, not both, and can't take reactions.

Dust of the Desert Winds

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or take 3 (1d6) necrotic damage, and must repeat the saving throw at the start of each of its turns. On each successive failed save, the creature takes 2 (1d4) necrotic damage. After five successful saves, the poison ends. If the creature spends its action consuming a liquid, it automatically succeeds the saving throw for that turn.

Euphoria Breath

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 11 Wisdom saving throw or, for 1 minute the target can't take reactions and must roll a d6 at the start of each of its turns to determine its behavior during the turn:
1-4. The target takes no actions uses all of its movement to move in a random direction.
5-6. The target does nothing on its turn save Wisdom saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Fish out of Water

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 hour. While poisoned in this way, the creature loses any ability to breath underwater. Rules for suffocating can be found on page 183 of the Player's Handbook.

Gorgon Breath

A creature subjected to this gas must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw against being magically petrified. On a failed save, the creature begins to turn to stone and is restrained. It must repeat the saving throw at the end of its next turn. On a success, the effect ends. On a failure, the creature is petrified until freed by the greater restoration spell or other magic.

Gravedust

An undead subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or become incapacitated for 1 minute. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Green Dragonbreath

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw, taking 56 (16d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Insanity Mist

A creature subject to this poison must succeed a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or gain an effect listed on the short-term madness table within the DMG (page 259). The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Vrock Spores

A creature subjected to these spores must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned. While poisoned in this way, a target takes 5 (1d10) poison damage at the start of each of its turns. A target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Emptying a vial of holy water on the target also ends the effect on it.

Bearded Devil Venom

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, the target can't regain hit points. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Bloodfire Paste

A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 11 (2d10) fire damage on a failed save, and must repeat the saving throw at the start of each of its turns. On each successive failed save, the creature takes 3 (1d6) fire damage. After three successful saves, the poison ends. This effect ignores a creature's immunity to poison, but cannot effect a creature without blood.

Bone Devil's Sting

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or take 17 (5d6) poison damage and become poisoned for 1 minute. On a successful save, the target takes half damage and is not poisoned. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Celestial Essence

An undead subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or take 5 (2d4) radiant damage.

Centipede Venom

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) poison damage on a failed save. If the poison damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target is stable but poisoned for 1 hour, even after regaining hit points, and is paralyzed while poisoned in this way.

Cockatrice Saliva

A creature subjected to this venom must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw against being magically petrified. On a failed save, the creature begins to turn to stone and is restrained. It must repeat the saving throw at the end of its next turn. On a success, the effect ends. On a failure, the creature is petrified for 24 hours.

Ettercap Venom

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 4 (1d8) poison damage and becoming poisoned for 1 minute on a failed save. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Grell Venom

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. The poisoned creature is paralyzed. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Imp Venom

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Lichbane

An undead subjected to this poison must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, their Intellect, Wisdom, and Charisma scores are reduced by 2 for 1 minute. At the beginning of their next turn, they must repeat the saving throw. On a failure, the effect becomes permanent and can only be cured by a greater restoration spell or similar magic.

Liquid Mortality

An undead subjected to this poison must make a DC 22 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, their Strength score is permanently reduced by 2. If this effect reduces an undead's Strength to 0, they are utterly destroyed, and cannot be resurrected or reanimated by any means other than a wish spell. The creature's Strength score can be restored by a greater restoration spell or similar magic.

Metabolite

A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 25 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, an affected target's speed is halved, it takes a -2 penalty to AC and Dexterity saving throws, and it can't use reactions. On its turn, it can use either an action or a bonus action, not both. Regardless of the creature's abilities or magic items, it can't make more than one melee or ranged attack during its turn. If the creature attempts to cast a spell with a casting time of 1 action, roll a d20. On an 11 or higher, the spell doesn't take effect until the creature's next turn, and the creature must use its action on that turn to complete the spell. If it can't, the spell is wasted. A creature affected by this poison makes another Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns. On a successful save, the effect ends for it. On a failed save, the poison's saving throw DC decreases by 10.

Naga Venom

A creature subjected to the venom of a spirit naga must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 31 (7d8) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Pit Fiend Venom

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 21 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned. While poisoned in this way, the target can't regain hit points, and it takes 21 (6d6) poison damage at the start of each of its turns. The poisoned target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Pseudodragon Venom

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 hour. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.

Purified Couatl Venom

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 24 hours. Until this poison ends, the target is unconscious. Another creature can use an action to shake the target awake. This effect ignores immunity to the poisoned condition.

Scorpion Venom

A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 9 Constitution saving throw, taking 4 (1d8) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Spider Venom

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or take 2 (1d4) poison damage.

Sprite Poison

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.

Svirfneblin Poison

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Thri-kreen Venom

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also paralyzed while poisoned in this way. The poisoned target can repeat the saving throw on each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Wasp's Sting

A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the poison damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the target is stable but poisoned for 1 hour, even after regaining hit points, and is paralyzed while poisoned in this way.

Witchbane Poison

A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, they lose 1d4 spell slots, starting at level 1 slots and increasing until that many spell slots have been lost. This effect ignores all magical effects that grant immunity to poison.

Yuan-ti Venom

A creature subjected to the poison from a yuan-ti malison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 7 (2d6) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Zealot's Blade

A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 25 Constitution saving throw, taking 78 (12d12) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This damage ignores resistances and immunities.

Concept Credits

The Path of the Ironclad was inspired by the Path of Iron, created by Submortimer, Giant in the Playground. Similarly, the corona option for the Path of the Cataclysm was created by the Haven discord group and can be found here. It is included with permission. Jana suggested the College of Passion. /u/badooga1 created the version of the warlord listed in this document. It can be found here. It is included with permission. Emily suggested the Chameleon rogue.

Weapons Remastered was originally created by another anonymous user, whose work can be found here I owe the entire creation of this work to them. The wording for bypass, winged, and the tower shield comes from the highly similar work of /u/theapoapostolov. We have collaborated to some degree and I am very grateful for his help. /u/AngryRepublican inspired the creation of the harpoon, the martial spear (indirectly), and the chain whip.

Nearly all of the changes listed in Part 3 were created by /u/devikyn in Martial Mastery. The crafting rules used here modify those created by Kittenhugs of dmsguild.com. Alchemical Oils were made by /u/giffyglyph and are included with permission. The herbal mixtures were taken from Wraith Wright's Comprehensive Equipment Manual; some had their prices or functions changed for balance reasons, and many of the more redundant, niche, specific, or minimally effective items were removed. The poisons are a simplified version of those created by /u/Glorac. Many have had some of their crunchier properties—aquatoxins, banetoxins' mathematics, and legality rules—have been removed for ease of play.

Dedications and Thanks

I owe so much to the people who helped make this massive undertaking successful. First, I owe so much to my eternally patient players, who took new and sometimes insane changes in stride. For hours every weekend they've playtested content in this document, and it could have never happened without them. Alicia, Emily, John, Michael, Kevin, Matt, Langston, Jana, Jonah. I owe you guys so much.

To the playtesters I joined biweekly for the sole purpose of homebrewing—thank you too. You've realized changes I would have never imagined trying to go it alone, and flaws in these archetypes I never even considered. Frank, Camden, Steven, thank you too.

The people who've given feedback on archetypes and rules also deserve enormous thanks. Sean, /u/aeyana, /u/theapoapostolov, Badooga, Katz, CDC, Entrench, Dusk, and everyone else who's told me an idea sucked and how I could improve it. This would be impossible without you.

Finally, I have to thank the anonymous user who posted the original Weapons Remastered. I have spoken with them once, and have no means to do so again. But they made all this possible, and changed the way I think about tabletop and my participation in it forever.

Art Credits

Stains created by /u/flamableconcrete, /u/QalarValar, and /u/AeronDrake.

Pt. 3 Art Credits

• Nothing Will Break Me, Francoyovich
• Eglath, Kim Sokol
• Soldoros, the First Blade Master,
  Jung Wook Choi
• Wizard and Ranger, ketunhanska

Pt. 4 Art Credits

• Concept Art, Bloodborne
• Concept/Illustrations for D&D 'Basic
  adventuring' items, Michael Fitzhywel
• Alchemist Satchel, Orcs Must Die!
• Alaeron, Paizo Games
• medicine bottle, Fang WangLin
• Pei Zin Herbalist, ALRadeck
• Blight Town, From Software
• Young Green Dragon, Ben Wootten
• Poison spider, István Dányi
• Cover, Architect of Fate (Anthology)
• Shieldswarm, CMON Xenoshyft Onslaught

Pt. 5 Art Credits

• Eclipse 2, Jie Ma
• 1410, Jakub Rozalski

Cover Art Credits

• Dark Souls 2, Michael Chang
• guff armor, Sueng Hoon Woo