Introduction

This document is the end result of more than three years of work, with the goal of improving martial characters in D&D 5e. While it might seem otherwise, I ultimately believe any character can be fun to play with great characterization, no matter how weak or strong. But I also believe that a character's numerical competence is equally vital. D&D crashes make-believe and a skirmish wargame together, and both parts are necessary for a fun experience.

Unfortunately, I and many others have found that martial characters are not as fun to play. While they have more health, deal consistent damage, and have fewer resources to track, they have meager options on the battlefield, and can't compete when they try to affect the world outside combat. In character-building they have a similar dearth of effective options. Many subclasses are mediocre, and others are just plain bad. In The Warrior's Codex Reforged, I've attempted to rectify that. Instead of a full system overhaul or mass rewrites of class features, I addressed three glaring weaknesses:

1. Fewer combat options. Every weapon felt the same. Now each one has a unique combination of properties that creates its own niche. Weapon-switching to better meet the enemy becomes commonplace and adds a new level of strategy. 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 and artificers among the latter, 5e has 6 martial classes and 7 spellcaster classes. There are 47 published caster subclasses, and 38 official martial ones. Worse, many martial subclasses—such as Arcane Archer, Path of the Totem Warrior, and paladin, monk, and ranger—explicitly and inherently use magic.

3. Fewer viable options. Many warrior archetypes are much, much weaker than their magical brethren, to the point that players entirely unconcerned with whiteroom theorycrafting take notice during play. The problem appears not only in abstraction, but in regular games. This document contains several attempts to rework egregious examples (though it avoids the ranger, which wiser brewers have already addressed). When accompanied by new subclasses, these reworks create a flood of new and exciting choices.

That said, I have nothing against mages or their players. 5e has addressed the divide between martial and caster marvelously and the gap is as small as it has ever been—but it could be smaller. To shrink it more, I haven't made casters worse, but martials better. A rising tide lifts all boats. Rules on weapons, item creation, and even a few new subclasses for non-martial classes will delight players who favor magic.

You might wonder—why this supplement over Weapons Remastered, /u/theapoapostolov's Grit and Glory, Wraith Wright's Comprehensive Equipment Manual, or others. The truth is, your group might prefer those! And I admit I borrowed ideas—some unashamedly and outright—from those works, because they were just that good.

But I believe the latter two add too much complexity. They are fantastic, well-researched works, to a fault. Too many options slows play and confuses players.

This document—I hope—reaches a middle ground with its expanded Weapons Remastered to create more options without overwhelming players. It doesn't rewrite core aspects of the system, and doesn't rely on gear and gear alone to bridge the gap. Ultimately, experiment, and see what works best for your table.

Using this Book

The Warrior's Codex is a massive project, and when first picking it up it can be difficult to decide where to begin! The answer is anywhere that you choose. The Codex isn't one package, and you are free to pick and choose the parts you like and leave the rest behind. Read through this homebrew with your group and pick out the parts you like!

Special Cases

A spear converts to a shortspear if the user is proficient in simple weapons but not martial ones, or a javelin if it was used primarily as a thrown weapon.

If the character is proficient in martial weapons, instead change it to a spear, or a harpoon if it was used for throwing. It is not recommended to convert an existing weapon to a boar spear.

If a longsword is used for its versatile property, it becomes a bastard sword. If one-handed, it is an arming sword.

A shortsword remains a shortsword but might become an arming sword at your discretion.

Depending on the fencing style of the user, a rapier becomes a rapier, a sabre, or an estoc.

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

All shields remain typical shields granting +2 AC instead of any of the other more unique shields, but their user chooses whether an individual shield has a strap or handle grip during the conversion process, which allows flexibility.

All arrows become field arrows, and all crossbow bolts*** become quarrels. Projectiles with more variety can be purchased from this point on from any crafter.

If a character uses a trident, whip, or net, use that weapon as their one free exotic weapon proficiency (explained in more detail in Part IV: New Rules).

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

Armor

While armor's mechanics are unchanged, many names have shifted places on the table, which may confuse longtime players. Use the table below, or choose the armor with the same AC as the old that is closest in price.

The old padded armor no longer exists. It is identical in appearance to the gambeson, which was a far superior to leather, which remains leather armor.

Studded leather is replaced by the gambeson.

Medium armor, with its new and varied Dexterity caps, can become virtually any kind of medium armor except cuirass or half-plate. As long as the end result is equal to your current AC, your choice is fine.

Hide armor remains hide, and half-plate is similarly unchanged.

A breastplate become a cuirass.

Ring mail becomes scale armor, chain mail becomes a hauberk, and splint and plate are unchanged, though both have a lower Strength requirement.

New Proficiencies

While the martial classes gain proficiency in all simple and martial weapons, other classes gain proficiency in an itemized list of weapons. The new weapons are added to those lists, as seen below.

• Artificer: Arquebus, handgonne
• Bard: Arming sword, estoc, parrying dagger, rondel, sabre, buckler
• Druid: Blowgun, boar spear, cestus, harpoon, spear
• Monk. Spear
• Ranger. Herbalism kit or Woodcarver's tools
• Rogue: Arming sword, bastard sword, estoc, garotte wire, longsword, parrying dagger, rondel, sabre, buckler, medium armor

Barbarians, fighters, paladins, and rangers gain proficiency in one exotic weapon or shield of their choice.

These rules are repeated and detailed in Part IV.

Other Racial and Class Changes

Part IV of this document lists a variety of adjusted features, traits, and abilities for races, classes, and subclasses. When a feature has the same name as another existing one, remove the existing version entirely and replace it with the WCX feature of the same name.

Avarice

Dragons' famed lust for gold endures in these dragon-
born, who suffer a persistent and painful need to gather and guard valuables into an ever-growing hoard. With
keen senses attuned to treasure, these jealous
dragonborn keep close watch for new wealth
wherever it can be found.

Mastery

With the primordial magic of their ancestors flowing through their veins, Mastery Aspect Dragonborn are natural-born mages with incredible control over their ancestral power.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score
increases by 1.

Dragonblood Sorcery. You know one cantrip determined by your Draconic Ancestry, as listed on the table below. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this cantrip.

Elemental Channel. You can use your finely-tuned magical power to warp the elements. When you deal acid, cold, fire, poison, or lightning damage, you can change that damage type to the same type as your Draconic Ancestry.

Lesser Giants

Beneath or outside the levels of the Ordning—the stratified caste system of true giants—these radically-different groups share many physical traits. While often grouped together due to physical strength, each are separate cultures and species, and tend to despise each other nearly as much as the giants from which they take their name and language.

Most clans of lesser giants are the scraps of once-great civilizations who cling to the glory of their past, or survive on the fringes of the wilderness. Rare, towering sights in the realms of other humanoids, lesser giants' bulk make them invaluable enforcers, guards, and elite soldiers.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score
increases by 2.

Age. Lesser giants live long lives, but not nearly as long as true giants. They reach adulthood in their 30s and can live as long as 200 years.

Size. lesser giants stand between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 240 and 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Muscle Mass. You have proficiency in the Athletics skill.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures that you can grapple or shove.

Language. You can speak, read, and write Common and Giant.

Subrace. Long lines of ancestry divide the lesser giants into distinct clans, isolated from both each other and the rest of the world. These entirely separate groups share little kinship, and even less affection.

Ogrillon

The results of unfortunate unions between ogres and humans, orcs, or goblinoids, ogrillon are diminished in size and stupidity compared to their pure-blooded ogre kin. This middle ground makes them valuable thugs for criminals and mercenaries; they are easier to manipulate and control, and take orders more willingly. While far from geniuses, more cunning ogrillon are common, and exploit ogres' reputation for incredible stupidity to surprise enemies who underestimate them.

Human parents rarely survive an ogrillon's birth, so most half-ogres are raised by ogre gangs. Their slightly-higher intelligence and social needs make life within rudimentary ogre society unsatisfying, but their fearsome appearance and violent disposition make them incompatible with all but the most boorish and lawless humanoid societies.

Most ogrillon strike out on their own, and live solitary lives on the fringes of civilization, occasionally trading with solitary travelers. These lonely folk are quick to make friends, but the combination of great strength, social ignorance, and short temper turns new friends into enemies, and enemies into corpses, in seconds. In spite of this, Ogrillon can find acceptance within the hobgoblin war machine—where they live cruel, short lives as glorified beasts of burden.

Alignment. Selfish, indulgent, and brutish, with attention spans limited by their appetites, ogrillon are outcasts wherever they go. Unwelcome among both men and monsters unless they can be used and abused, ogrillon rarely find solace among their own kind and rarely form lasting alliances. They are usually chaotic, and rarely good.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score
increases by 1.

Language. You can speak, read, and write Orcish or Goblin, taught to you by your fellow monsters or your non-ogre parent.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Dense. You are too dull-witted for magic that twists the senses to affect your mind. You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against spells and magical effects.

Menacing. You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.

Human

Able to inhabit any environment and conquer any territory, humans have a rich history of cultural variety, adaptability, and sheer endurance. A dwarf or orc has more stamina, but where they recognize a task as impossible, humanity's dogged determination pushes them onward regardless.

Ability Score Increase. Each one of your Ability Scores increases by 1.

Age. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.

Alignment. Humans tend toward no particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

Size. Humans vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to just over 6 feet. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Marcher's Endurance. Primitive humanity hunted by outlasting their prey over slow pursuit, an ability that serves modern humans well on long marches and sleepless nights. You have advantage on saving throws against exhaustion.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.

Subrace. Humans inhabit most environments, and gain particular skills from living there. Many humans' origins can be identified at a glance, for human physiognomy adapts to its environment over generations with frightening speed.

Barbarian

Famous for their raw power, barbarians can have remarkably versatile characterizations in spite of their narrow archetypal base. Five new primal paths add new ways for barbarians to ply their talent for reckless destruction.

Updated Class Features

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

New Proficiencies

You gain the additional proficiencies listed below.
Weapons. One exotic weapon or shield.

Rage

1st-level barbarian feature
Rage works as-written, with the following changes:

1. When you make an attack with a melee weapon that uses Strength, you gain a +1d4 bonus to the damage roll. This die grows as you gain levels in this class, to 1d6 at 9th level, and 1d8 at 16th. This replaces your Rage Damage listed on the Barbarian class table.
2. If you are able to cast spells, you can't cast them or concentrate on them while raging, unless the spell was granted by a racial feature or racial feat.

Reckless Attack

2nd-level barbarian feature
Reckless Attack works as-written, with the following change:
You have advantage on attack rolls using Strength until the start of your next turn, not until the end of your current turn.

Brutal Critical

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

Weapons that deal multiple damage dice per hit roll each damage die an additional time when you use this feature, instead of a single die.

Rage Beyond Death

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

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

Primal Paths

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

Path of the Berserker

For some barbarians, rage is a means to an end—that end being violence. The Path of the Berserker is a path of untrammeled fury, slick with blood, where anger for anger's sake is king. As a berserker enters a rage, they thrill in the chaos of battle, heedless of their own health and well-being.

Frenzy

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

Mindless Rage

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

Terrifying Rampage

Starting at 10th level, whenever you reduce a target to 0 hit points you can choose to force creatures of your choice within 30 feet of the slain target to make a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier). On a failed save, creatures that can see or hear you are frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

A creature with fewer hit points than the damage you dealt has disadvantage on its saving throw.

Adrenaline Rush

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

Omen of Catastrophe

At 6th level, your power grants you benefits at all times, whether you are raging or not. You learn Primordial, the language of elemental magic, and gain one benefit based on your chosen aura:

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

Blizzard. You gain resistance to cold damage, and ignore difficult terrain created by ice, slush, and snow.

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

Flood. You gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed, and can breathe underwater. You also gain darkvision within a range of 30 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet.

Sandstorm. You don't suffer the effects of extreme heat or strong winds, and can survive for thrice as long without food or water. You also learn the gust cantrip. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this cantrip.

Solar Flare. You grain resistance to radiant damage, and learn the light cantrip. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this cantrip.

Tempest. You gain resistance to lightning damage, and ignore the penalties imposed by strong wind and heavy precipitation.

Volcano. You gain resistance to fire damage. You can also set aflame any object that isn't being worn or carried simply by touching it.

Gaia's Embrace

Beginning at 10th level, you can not only shield your allies from your furious aura, but also protect them from similar effects. All creatures of your choice within your aura have resistance to your aura's damage type unless you have a flood or sandstorm aura. Those auras grant you and your allies resistance to cold damage and fire damage, respectively.

Channel the Apocalypse

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

You can cast and concentrate upon these spells while raging, unlike normal spells. You also cast them without material components, if they require them. You can cast a spell granted by this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of 1), and regain all expended castings when you finish a long rest. Your spellcasting ability for these spells is Constitution. If a spell is not already 4th level or higher, then it is cast at 4th level.

Blight. giant insect, harm

Blizzard. armor of agathys, ice storm

Earthquake. move earth, earthquake

Flood. control water, water walk

Sandstorm. freedom of movement, wind wall

Solar Flare. fire shield, flame strike

Tempest. chain lightning, wind wall

Volcano. fireball, wall of fire

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

PART II | CHARACTER OPTIONS

Path of the Crescendo

Those who follow the Path of the Crescendo use simple, well-practiced movements to rain attack after attack on their enemies in devastating cadence. The drums of war pound to the tempo of these barbarians' hearts, who constantly build to the next hammerblow.

Unyielding

Starting at 6th level, your armor's weight lets you barrel through obstacles. While wearing heavy armor, you can move through difficult terrain and effects that require you to spend additional feet of movement such as the wall of thorns spell without being slowed. In addition, when you are subjected to an effect that would move you, knock you prone, or both against your will, you can use your reaction to be neither moved nor knocked prone.

Iron Curtain

At 10th level, the bulk of your mighty armor forces enemies to work around your presence, reducing their effectiveness against your allies. When a creature within 5 feet of you takes nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, you can reduce the damage taken by an amount equal to your armor's damage reduction, if any.

Dreadful Dreadnought

Starting at 14th level, your ability to shrug off mighty blows demoralizes your enemies and weakens subsequent strikes. Whenever you take an amount of bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage less than your barbarian level, the creature that inflicted that damage has disadvantage on the next attack it makes against you before the end of its next turn.

Path of the Totem Warrior

The animal kingdom contains creatures as exotic and bizarre as any monster. Totemic attunement to a few terrestrial mammals allows barbarians to gain the attributes of some of the most noble, powerful beasts known to mankind, but the animal kingdom offers so much more.

If you follow the Path of the Totem Warrior, you have access to the options presented here. For a list of options organized by level instead of by the animal totem that grants these new powers, click here to access The Menagerie of Might, a separate document that details those options in different order.

The end of this section also contains a list of animals that can be emulated with a combination of existing totems, rather than a whole new set of abilities.

Toad

Totem Spirit. While raging, you gain the poisonous skin of a frog. As a reaction to being touched, grappled, or hit with a natural weapon, you can poison the creature that touched you. This poison lasts until the end of the creature's next turn.

Aspect of the Beast. You gain the crural strength of a toad. The height and length of your high and long jumps are doubled.

Totemic Attunement. The spirit of the toad snatches your foes and draws them in. When you damage a creature while raging, you can pull it 15 feet straight towards you.

Tortoise

Totem Spirit. While you are raging and not wearing armor, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage done to you from both magical and nonmagical weapons is reduced by 3. The spirit of the tortoise grants you its incredible resilience.

Aspect of the Beast. You gain the lifespan of a tortoise. You suffer none of the drawbacks of old age, and you can't be aged magically.

Totemic Attunement. The weight that you can push, drag, lift, and carry quintuples while you are raging. Your AC when not wearing armor also becomes 18, unless it is already higher. You can still use a shield and gain this benefit.

Whale

Totem Spirit. When you enter a rage, you gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your Constitution score, which last until your rage ends. For the duration of your rage, you also have resistance to cold and fire damage. The spirit of the whale protects you from the elements.

Aspect of the Beast. You have the senses of a whale. You gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed, and have blindsight out to a 60 foot radius when not deafened.

Totemic Attunement. While raging, you come under the enlarge effect of the enlarge/reduce spell. You also count as one size larger than your enlarged size for the purposes of determining which creatures you can grapple and shove.

Combination Totems

As the rules are written, totem barbarians aren't limited to
a single animal and can mix-and-match their totem features to associate with multiple beasts. However, many bar-
barians choose a single animal and build their character's theme and aesthetic around it. To reinforce that playstyle without flooding the book with new and redundant mechanics, the table opposite lists combinations of totem powers that create single-animal totem paths.

Reflavored Totem Animals

Totem	Level 3	Level 6	Level 14
Albatross	Eagle	Elk	Eagle
Ant	Wolf	Locust	Shark
Boar	Bear	Mule	Elk
Camel	Whale	Mule	Mule
Cheetah	Elk	Tiger	Tiger
Crab	Serpent	Shark	Serpent
Crocodile	Serpent	Shark	Serpent
Dragonfly	Eagle	Wolf	Eagle
Hippopotamus	Mule	Bear	Elk
Hornet	Locust	Serpent	Eagle
Kangaroo	Eagle	Toad	Tiger
Lion	Gorilla	Wolf	Tiger
Lobster	Tortoise	Tortoise	Serpent
Monkey	Gorilla	Fox	Gorilla
Orca	Wolf	Whale	Shark
Ox	Ram	Mule	Tortoise
Rabbit	Fox	Toad	Mule
Rat	Fox	Locust	Shark
Rhinocerous	Bear	Bear	Wolf
Scorpion	Serpent	Serpent	Locust
Spider	Serpent	Serpent	Tiger
Stallion	Eagle	Elk	Mule
Vulture	Shark	Wolf	Locust

Bard

Once, bards were one of the weakest classes, scarcely worth mentioning. In this edition they stand among the best, where the sheer versatility of their performative powers make them truly dangerous. Both Colleges presented here are oriented towards combat—one martial, one magical.

Cleric

One of the most versatile classes, clerics need few mechanical buffs, but the variety of their divine domains means clerics have a home in almost any themed document.

Healing Hemlock

At 17th level, your deity's power allows harmful chemicals to rejuvenate you. When you would take poison damage from a source other than your Divine Strike, you take no damage and instead regain a number of hit points equal to the poison damage dealt. If a poison deals damage over multiple turns, you only regain those hit points once.

For example, you can drink a dose of Purple Worm Poison and regain 12d6 hit points. You can ingest any type of poison and gain this benefit.

When a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you takes poison damage, you can use your reaction to confer this benefit to it, eliminating the damage and causing it to regain a number of hit points equal to the poison damage dealt. It retains this benefit until the start of your next turn.

Druid

Druids need little help—they are one of the best classes for area control, and have unmatched utility. But they are pigeonholed by their flavor, and remain somewhat unpopular.

Firebreather

The archetypal Firebreather inherits the techniques of an ancient tradition and wields the first element mastered by civilization with deadly control. To a Firebreather, battle is a deadly dance, where they can dazzle and decimate with finely-honed bursts of flame. Their weapon of choice is dangerous as their enemies' blades, but Firebreathers balance easy grace with masterful control of themselves and the battlefield.

Firedance

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you can use a bonus action to light the weapons you are wielding on fire for 1 minute, or until you drop or sheathe the weapons. While aflame, your weapons shed bright light for 20 feet and dim light for another 20, and your attacks with those weapons deal additional fire damage equal to your Fighter level divided by 3.

You can use this ability three times, and regain all expended uses at the end of a short or long rest.

Flame Breath

Also at 3rd level, you can use an action to inhale the flames from your ignited weapons while they are on fire and expel them in a 15-foot cone, a 10-foot radius centered on yourself, or a line 30 feet long and 5 feet wide.

    Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). A target takes 3d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. After you breathe, the fire on your weapons fades until the end of your next turn.

The fire damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 15th, and 19th levels in this class.

Master to Student

The art of firebreathing is an intimate affair, with knowledge passed down from master to apprentice. At 7th level, you gain proficiency in either Performance or Religion, and have resistance to fire damage. In addition, any fire damage that you deal ignores resistance to fire damage.

Into the Hand

Starting at 10th level, you can redirect others' fiery attacks wherever you choose. When a creature within 30 feet of you takes fire damage, you can use your reaction to grant that creature resistance to fire damage until the end of your next turn (including the damage from the triggering effect). You can target any number of creatures with this reaction, so long as each creature took fire damage from the same effect.

The first time you hit a creature with a weapon attack during your next turn, the attack deals an extra 1d6 fire damage for every creature you granted fire resistance.

You can also use a bonus action to snuff out nonmagical fires that are Medium or smaller. When you do so, you deal an additional 1d6 fire damage on the first weapon attack that you make before the end of your turn.

Coal Road

Beginning at 15th level, you can use a bonus action to leave a trail of burning coals along the ground behind you. Until the end of your turn, every space you move through is set ablaze for 1 minute. This area is difficult terrain for any creature without resistance or immunity to fire damage, and when a creature moves into or within the area, it takes fire damage equal to your fighter level for every 5 feet it travels.

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

Dancing Flame

Beginning at 18th level, you can use an action to summon a fire elemental called a Dancing Flame that shadows your movements. When you create it, it appears within 5 feet of you, and takes its turn in combat immediately after yours, following the telepathic instructions that you give it (requiring no action). The flame cannot regain hit points, and persists until it is destroyed or you are incapacitated. Once you summon one, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

The Dancing Flame uses the statistics of a fire elemental (the DM has this creature's statistics), but is Medium instead of Large, and its ability scores, proficiency bonus, and number of attacks are equal to your own. It wields ignited versions of weapons you are wielding (gaining the same bonus you do from Firedance) and is proficient with them. If you are wielding a magical weapon, none of that weapon's magical properties are copied by the Dancing Flame.

PART II | CHARACTER OPTIONS

Luck. You add your Charisma modifier (a minimum of 1) to the result of any attack roll, ability check, or saving throw you make with disadvantage.

Music. You are proficient in all musical instruments.

Nature. You cannot be slowed by nonmagical difficult terrain, and can clear a 5 foot space of difficult terrain, both nonmagical and magical, by walking through it.

Order. When you successfully grapple a creature, you can also shove it prone, no action required.

Peace. You have advantage on ability checks and saving throws to avoid being moved against your will.

Tempest. You ignore the effects of heavy precipitation and strong winds, as described in the Dungeon Master's Guide, and any weapon that you wield has the thrown property while you wield it.

Toxin. You are immune to poison damage and the poisoned condition, unless you choose to be poisoned.

Travel. Your speed increases by 10 feet, and you ignore nonmagical difficult terrain.

Trickery. You cannot be blinded, and your passive Perception increases by 5.

Twilight. You gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision from your race, its range increases by 30 feet. In addition, the time it takes for you to complete a long rest is halved.

War. You have an advantage on initiative rolls, and cannot be frightened.

Winter. You have resistance to cold and fire damage.

Demigod

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

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

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

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

 

Grave. You are immune to necrotic damage, and when you die you return to life with a new body in 1d10 days.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mage Knight

The archetypal Mage Knight combines the martial mastery common to all fighters with a careful study of magic. Keeping a small, carefully-curated list of memorized spells instead of the spellbooks used by wizards, Mage Knights blend the arcane and mundane into one. They are best in the thick of battle, where they intersperse choice spells with devastating weapon attacks energized by magic. At their peak, Mage Knights teleport freely from target to target, defying attempts to pin them down.

Spellcasting

When you reach 3rd level, you augment your martial prowess with the ability to cast spells. See PHB chapter 10 for the rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the wizard spell list.

Manhunter

The archetypal Manhunter chooses a target and pursues it with singleminded intensity. Unaided by magic, a Manhunter relies on keen insight and sheer determination to hunt down the unfortunate souls in their sights. Many Manhunters are bounty hunters, while others are mercenaries, bandits, or soldiers who eliminate priority targets on the field.

Going Underground

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

Roll	Result
1	Your mark's contacts discover your efforts. You have disadvantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma checks against your mark for 24 hours.
2-7	You have a few ideas about the broad strokes of your mark's future plans. Some might be wrong.
8-13	You know your mark's general location, and a few specific details of its future plans.
14-19	You know your mark's current location, and where it plans to go in the next eight hours.
20	You know its current location, where it plans to go next, and when and how it plans to go there.

No Escape

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

Out of My Way

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

Untouchable

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

Marks and the Order of Operations

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

PART II | CHARACTER OPTIONS

Marksman

The archetypal Marksman is a master of ranged combat, with impeccable aim and a keen eye for priority targets. Marksmen fight from great distance, cutting down foes with ease and rallying their allies with incredible displays of skill. They are famed for both accuracy and showmanship, as Marksmanship holds a long history of competition and fame as both martial art and masterful performance.

Every Marksman has a unique combination of skills and specialties, with preferred weapons and tricks to raise spirits and fell enemies. At the peak of their skills, they can shoot enemy arrows from the sky and respond with a rain of their own unerring projectiles.

Spell Reflection

At 18th level, magic becomes desperate to escape you, and flows back up the channels it carves into the weave. Your Null grants you immunity to damage from spells cast at 4th-level or lower, rather than resistance. Whenever you are targeted by one of those spells, you can use your reaction to reflect it back at its caster, using the spellcaster's slot level, spell save DC, attack bonus, and spellcasting ability. If the reflected spell targets multiple creatures, those other creatures are still targeted by the spell. 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.

Elements and Effects

Take the time to describe how an Arcane Shot's effects interact with the damage type of Energized Attacks. For example, for a Phasing Shot energized with lightning, you can describe the shot as a bolt of electricity that streaks from your weapon through each enemy. A Banishing Shot that deals necrotic damage could send the target to a harmless part of the Shadowfell, or a Ricocheting Shot that deals force damage could be a beam of magical energy that streaks straight from one target to the next. If you want, think of a signature combination your character is particularly proud of. Be inventive, and play up the sudden, unexpected tricks your character might create.

Warrior of the Hall

At 3rd level, you can open your soul to the hall of glorious dead, channeling a fragment of its power. You gain the following benefits:

Inspiring Cry. When you take the Attack action, you can shout a snippet of heroic poetry that inspires any number of friendly creatures within 30 feet that can hear you. An affected creature can add your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of 1) to one attack roll or saving throw it makes before the start of your next turn. You can use this ability thrice per short rest.

Rise Again. At dusk in Valhalla, the lethal wounds of the dead close, and as one of its stewards you can heal the fighters you choose. You learn prayer of healing. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell, and when you cast it in this way it has a casting time of one action. You can cast prayer of healing in this way thrice per long rest.

Shield Maiden

Starting at 7th level, your experience preparing yourself and others for battle allows you to strip and don armor efficiently. It costs an object interaction, rather than an action, for you to don or doff any shield, and you don and doff armor in half the time. When you help another creature don or doff armor, the time the process takes is quartered, rather than halved.

Honored Dead

Also at 7th level, your ability to choose the final destination of a mortal soul allows you to ease its return to life. You can conduct a minute-long ritual over the body of a deceased creature, preparing the soul to either return or cross over. Once this ritual is completed, the material cost of any spell cast to resurrect the creature is waived and it comes under the effect of gentle repose.

A creature cannot benefit from this ritual more than once, and you cannot bless the corpse of a creature that was not killed in combat.

Ride of the Valkyrie

When the day comes, you will charge with your sisters
across the sky. Starting at 10th level, when you use
Inspiring Cry or finish casting prayer of healing granted by Rise Again, you grant yourself and one targeted creature a flying speed of 60 feet for 1 minute. This ability can manifest as feathered wings sprouting from your back, a mighty gale that holds you aloft, a shadowy eight-legged horse that appears beneath you, or another form of your choice.

Judge the Fallen

Starting at 15th level, you can cast speak with dead a
number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier per
long rest (a minimum of once). If the target of your spell
died violently, your casting does not expend a use of this feature.

In addition, allied creatures within 30 feet of you have advantage on death saving throws.

Dawn of the Final Day

Starting at 18th level, you have been found worthy. When you die, your soul will ascend to Valhalla. More importantly, your powers of healing cannot be matched. Once per day, you can use your action to cast mass heal. You and every creature that gains hit points from mass heal gain a flying speed of 60 feet for 1 minute.

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Monk

Light on their feet and heavy with their blows, monks represent a fast, mystical form of martial artistry. Three new monastic traditions focus on honing specific techniques, rather than mystical teachings or magical prowess.

Monastic Traditions

At 3rd level, a monk gains the Monastic Tradition feature, which offers you the choice of a subclass. The following options are available to you when making that choice: Way of the Current, Way of the Hurricane, and Way of the Raptor.

Way of the Current

A trickling stream is humble yet ever-moving, and so are the meditative followers of the Way of the Current. Each movement is chosen with practiced deliberation, which allows its users to remain untouched and serene as the torrent of battle rages around them.

Stance of the Stream

Starting at 3rd level, when you take the Dodge action the moment of calm allows you to regain your sense of inner peace, which allows you to enter a controlled, combat-ready stance until the start of your next turn.

If a creature misses you with a melee attack while you are in your stance, you can use your reaction to make an unarmed strike against that creature.

In addition, when a Large or smaller creature moves at least 10 feet straight toward you and enters your reach, you can spend 1 ki point to knock it off-balance and send it sprawling to any point within 10 feet of you.

At 11th level, you can target Huge creatures with this feature, and at 17th level you gain the ability to target Gargantuan creatures.

Bend Like the River

Water moves as it wishes, and is difficult to capture. Starting at 6th level, you have advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks to escape from being grappled or restrained, and can attempt to escape as a bonus action, rather than an action. You are also treated as one size smaller for the purpose of squeezing through spaces.

In addition, you deal double damage to structures and objects that are not being worn or carried. The trappings of civilization are no match for a mighty flood.

Calm Surface

Starting at 11th level, the flow of your blocks and parries makes you nigh-impossible to touch. When you enter Stance of the Stream, you can spend an additional 2 ki points and gain the ability to target both ranged and melee attacks with your Deflect Attack feature until your stance ends. In this state, Deflect Attack does not use your reaction unless you attack with a projectile or attempt to disarm the attacker.

If you reduce the damage of a melee weapon attack to 0, you can use your reaction to throw the attacker to any point within 15 feet of you.

Spirit Maelstrom

Beginning at 17th level, you can become the epicenter of an astral whirlpool that draws energy. When you are targeted by a harmful area of effect, such as cone of cold or a behir's lightning breath, you can use your reaction to drain the destructive power into yourself. The effect targets no objects or creatures other than you.

You suffer no damage or other effects, and store the magical power within your ki. The next time you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack before the end of your next turn, the energy is unleashed, causing the attack to deal bonus damage equal to the amount and type of damage you would have received from the effect you absorbed. If you fail to hit a creature before the end of your next turn, the rampant energy explodes inside you. You suffer all effects from the power you absorbed as if you failed the saving throw.

Way of the Hurricane

A follower of the Hurricane moves faster than the eye can see, streaking from one target to the next in a dizzying blur. From a distance, their battles sound like a barrage of cannonfire, and they whip up torrential winds that send their enemies flying like leaves in a gale. The few who survive battles with its followers claim their opponent
teleported behind them and punished their
mistakes with a storm of brutal attacks.

Whirlwind Blows

Starting at 3rd level, you specialize in
attacks that hurl your body across
the battlefield in the blink of an eye.
Whenever you take the Dash or
Disengage action, you can make an
unarmed strike as part of the same
action.

If the attack hits, a shockwave of
power explodes from the point of
impact. Every creature within 5 feet
of the target other than you must
make a Strength saving throw. On a
failed save, a creature is knocked
10 feet away from the target.
Large or smaller objects not
being worn or carried are hurled
the same distance.

If a creature collides with
another creature or an object,
it takes bludgeoning damage
equal to your Wisdom
modifier.

Rushdown

The Way of the Hurricane
teaches aggression and rewards
decisive action. Starting at 6th
level, when a creature that you
can see misses you with an
attack, you can use your reaction
to move up to your speed toward
the attacker. If you end this movement
within 5 feet of the attacker, you can
also make one melee weapon attack
against it.

Barefoot Blitz

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

Leap Into Action

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

                                             Galeforce

                                                            Starting at 17th level, you
                                                                 move faster than the eye
                                                                   can see, and your
                                                                     attacks break the                                                                        sound barrier. When                                                                          you move, you                                                                            can spend any                                                                       amount of movement                                                                       to teleport that                                                                       distance instead of                                                                       moving normally, so                                                                       long as you move into                                                                       an unoccupied space                                                                       that you can see.

                                                                     When you teleport,                                                                       you unleash a                                                                       booming thunderclap                                                                          that all creatures                                                                            within 300 feet of                                                                           you can hear.

                                                                       If you teleport                                                                         within 5 feet of a                                                           creature and hit it with an
                                                              attack, you can spend 1 ki
                                                                 point to deal additional
                                                                thunder damage equal to
                                                               half your monk level.

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Oath Spells

You gain oath spells at the paladin level listed.

Good Host

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

Channel Divinity

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

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

Champion's Banquet. In quiet moments, you can use your Channel Divinity to prepare a source of relief for others at the end of a short rest, such as comfort food, a stiff drink, or kind words. Any creature that can see or hear you regains hit points equal to your Charisma modifier, and is cured of one curse, condition, or disease of your choice.

Aura of Revelry

Starting at 7th level, your incorrigible excitement suppresses fatigue. While you are conscious, you and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you do not suffer the effects of the blinded, deafened, exhausted, poisoned, and unconscious conditions, unless the creature in the aura suffers the condition willingly or currently has 0 hit points. Affected creatures are not cured of any conditions they suffer, and the effects return when a creature leaves your aura.

At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

Dramatic Entrance

Starting at 15th level, you gain an impeccable sense of dramatic timing that allows you to enter the fray with a thrilling buildup and explosive introduction. From the beginning of any combat until the start of your first turn, you have advantage on ability checks and saving throws, and during your first turn you can take an additional action.

In addition, you cannot be surprised.

Life of the Party

At 20th level, you can use an action transform into a brilliant source of reinvigorating joy for 1 hour. In this state, you radiate rays of multicolored bright light in a 300-foot radius, which dispel magical darkness and reveal illusions, which appear as ghostly, monochrome apparitions. The light also reveals creatures that are hidden or in the ethereal plane. You can choose to exclude a creature or illusion from this effect.

While transformed, you and creatures of your choice within 60 feet of you cannot be blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, or stunned, and any levels of exhaustion a creature is suffering are removed when it starts its turn within 60 feet of you. The first time a creature of your choice enters this aura or starts its turn there, it gains the benefits of the death ward spell, which last until your transformation ends. Once a creature gains this benefit, it cannot do so again until your next transformation.

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

Oath of Indemnity

The Oath of Indemnity binds paladins to help others. Its followers believe in the redress of wrongs, the repair of the ruined, and acts of prevention to ensure tragedies never happen again. They comfort broken people and repair broken property alike. Also known as gold knights and underwriters, paladins of the Oath of Indemnity are bound to repair the aftermath of catastrophe.

But these paladins are not starry-eyed cornucopias to be exploited by the opportunistic or overwhelmed by the desperate. They are generous and genuine, but the oath also requires a strict adherence to readiness and fairness. Even the most penniless refugee deserves a share, but no more. This oath calls its followers to be charitable, but also skeptical, because those who take advantage of others' kindness seek these paladins hoping to trick them.

Rogue

Elusive and evasive, rogues are masters of many talents and move in many circles. Their archetypes categorize and specialize them even further. Those listed here improve two of the weakest archetypes and add several more.

Updated Class Features

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

New Proficiencies

You gain the additional proficiencies listed below.
Weapons. Arming sword, bastard sword, estoc, garotte wire, longsword, parrying dagger, rondel, sabre, buckler.
Armor. Medium armor.

Sneak Attack

1st-level rogue feature
Sneak Attack works as written, with the following change:
The attack that triggers Sneak Attack can use an arming sword, bastard sword, longsword, or any weapon with the finesse, light, or ranged properties.

Spellcasting Focus

3rd-level Arcane Trickster feature
You can use an arcane focus (found in Chapter 5 of the
PHB) as a focus for your wizard spells.

Use Magic Device

13th-level Thief feature
You have learned enough about the workings of magic that you can improvise the use of items not intended for you. You ignore all class, race, level, and alignment requirements on the use of magic items.

Roguish Archetypes

At 3rd level, a rogue gains the Roguish Archetype feature, which offers you the choice of a subclass. The following options are available to you when making that choice: the Blink, the Chameleon, the Infiltrator, the Thunderbolt, and the Windblown.

Blink

The legendary Blinks are master thieves and pickpockets with a supernatural knack for concealment. With a portal to a personal demiplane manifested in your hands, you join their ranks, able to make contraband vanish in the blink of an eye.

Palm Portal

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, the plane within you stabilizes. As an action, you touch a Medium or smaller object and spirit it away into a demiplane tied to you, that only you can access.

If another creature is wearing or carrying the object, you must hit the creature with an unarmed strike to take it. You can use your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack roll, which you are proficient in. This attack deals no damage.

In addition, when you or a creature within 10 feet of you is targeted by a ranged attack, you can use your reaction to divert the projectile or spell, imposing disadvantage on the attack. If it misses, you pull the projectile into your demiplane. On your next turn, you can use an action to reverse the projectile, making a ranged weapon attack against a target within the original attack's range, as though it originated from you. You are proficient in the attack, and if the attack hits, it deals additional force damage equal to your rogue level. The attack is considered a ranged weapon attack for the purposes of triggering your Sneak Attack.

You can use a bonus action to pull a Small or smaller object that you can see 30 feet straight toward you.

If the object is less than 30 feet away from you, it flies into your empty hand. If a creature or another object impedes its progress, it stops harmlessly and falls to the ground.

You can withdraw an object in your demiplane as an action, though you can withdraw a weapon from your demiplane as part of the attack you make with it. which holds weight no greater than your carrying capacity. At 13th and 17th levels in this class, its capacity doubles.

Planar Interference

Starting at 9th level, energy leaks from your demiplane, interfering with attempts to perceive you. You can channel a portal through your empty hand and leave it open, as though you were concentrating on a spell.

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Pocket Prison

Starting at 13th level, you can store a creature inside your demiplane. You can target a Medium or smaller creature with the unarmed strike from Palm Portal, and if it hits, the creature takes 2d6 force damage and is pulled into your demiplane for the next minute, or until you pull another creature inside. While in the demiplane, the creature is unharmed and takes turns and actions as normal, but it is blinded and deafened until freed.

Singularity

Beginning at 17th level, you are under the effects of the blink spell whenever you are conscious, unless you choose to suppress it.

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.

Numbing Lash

Starting at 13th level, you produce a potent poison that can be applied to your weapons. When you damage a creature with your Sneak Attack, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). If it fails, the creature is poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, the target is paralyzed. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the poisoned condition on a success. You can use this feature once per short or long rest, though you do not expend a use if the target succeeds on its initial save.

Walking Chromatophore

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

Infiltrator

Professional killers and talented socialites, Infiltrators combine a keen eye and quick tongue with mastery of the blade. Glamorous assassins who blend in a variety of societies and situations, their skills are just as sharp and deadly as their knives.

Coup de Grâce

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

Tools of the Trade

Also at 3rd level, you have assembled invaluable skills for any assassination. 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
• Two 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:

• 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 3 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 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 deal the maximum possible amount of damage.

When you land a critical hit with your Coup de Grâce feature, the target must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your Dexterity modifier + your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, your attack deals doubled damage.

Thunderbolt

While most rogues favor stealth and subterfuge, others favor shock and awe. These rogues, charged with elemental lightning, are one such archetype, and surge from one target to the next in a blinding display that leaves survivors dazzled and casualties burned to death.

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 choose this archetype at 3rd
level, you move more agilely when fleeing
from enemies. Your speed increases by 5
feet. Whenever you Disengage using your
Cunning Action, you can attempt to shove
one creature within reach. If you haven't
successfully inflicted Sneak Attack on this
turn, you can 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 speed increases by 10 feet. You and creatures with you cannot be slowed by poor weather during travel, though other factors may still reduce your pace. In strong winds, you have advantage on ranged attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks the rely on hearing, rather than disadvantage.

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 before you can do so again.

Whirlwind Sprint

At 17th level, tailwinds thrust you forward in a single, deadly strike. You gain a new action. When you take it, each creature in a line 30 feet long and 15 feet wide extending from you in a direction of your choice must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC= 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier). On a failed save a creature takes 10d6 force damage, or half as much on a success. You can take this action once per short rest.

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

Dashing and movement:

If you Dash, the movement available during your turn increases by an amount equal to your speed. This affects the flight granted by Whirlwind Sprint. If you dash you can fly 90 feet before falling, because you only fall at the end of your turn, regardless of your current speed. If you dash with both action and bonus action, you can fly 135 feet.

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Sorcerer

Sorcery is an odd inclusion in a martial supplement, but there have been many attempts to create a martial sorcerer. The attempt below focuses on powers that fit into a book filled with steel and strategy.

Sorcerous Origins

At 1st level, a sorcerer gains the Sorcerous Origin feature, which offers you the choice of a subclass. The following option is available to you when making that choice: the Iron Core.

Iron Core

Your blood flows with a subset of elemental earth refined by millenia of industry. Perhaps an ancestor survived immersion in molten adamantine, or generations past lived in mining towns surrounded by ore. Regardless of source, each Iron Core harbors a kernel of magic metal within their souls.

Iron Core Spells

You learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown on the Iron Core Spells table. Each of these spells counts as a sorcerer spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of sorcerer spells you know.

When you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an abjuration or transmutation spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list.

Level	Spells
1st	entangle, shield, sword burstSCAG/TCE
3rd	heat metal, spike growth
5th	slow, protection from energy
7th	death ward, fabricate
9th	hold monster, circle of power

Armor Affinity

At 1st level, you gain proficiency in heavy armor, wearing it does not reduce your speed, and any damage reduction granted by armor you wear applies to all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, not just nonmagical.

Iron Guard

Also at 1st level, you can use your action to form a ward of magical metal around yourself or one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. While you are conscious, any bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage dealt to a guarded creature is reduced by an amount equal to your your Charisma modifier + your Sorcerer level divided by 3 (rounded down).

You can use an action to move the guard to another creature and can remove it freely, requiring no action. You can guard one creature with this feature. At 5th level in this class you can have two guards on separate creatures, and three creatures at 14th level.

Shape the Steel

Starting at 6th level, even the firmest metal bends for you. You can use an action to touch a nonmagical metal object and expend 3 sorcery points to slowly reshape it into a new form over the course of 1 minute. The object cannot be worn or carried by another creature, and if you stop touching the object before the minute is up, it reverts to its original form.

You cannot create or destroy mass, only reshape it, and cannot change its temperature. You can't use this feature to create items that ordinarily require a high degree of craftsmanship, such as jewelry, weapons, or armor, unless you have proficiency with the tools used to craft such objects. This feature cannot be used to deal damage.

Core Infusion

At 14th level you gain the ability to absorb metal to bolster your allies. During a short rest, you can absorb 1 cubic foot of metal, which destroys the material and infuses up to 6 willing creatures within 60 feet of you. Until it completes a long rest, an infused creature's current and maximum hit points increase by 15, and it gains a +1 bonus to its armor class. You can conduct this ritual once per long rest.

Arcane Conduction

Beginning at 18th level, choose one of the following damage types when you apply a guard to a creature: lightning, fire, cold, thunder, radiant, necrotic or force. The guarded creature has resistance to that damage type, and when it takes damage of the chosen type you can use your reaction to channel the energy around the metallic ward into a protective barrier. That guarded creature gains temporary hit points equal to the damage taken.

If it has those temporary hit points and deals damage, the guarded creature can choose to remove all remaining temporary HP and discharge the energy, adding damage to the attack equal to your sorcerer level, of the type that triggered this feature.

Warlock

Warlocks' combat-oriented Pact of the Blade (which this section empowers significantly) mean even this uniquely-functioning spellcaster has a place within this document.

Paint the Target

Starting at 1st level, you gain the ability to direct your allies to weaknesses in the enemy line. As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. That target is cursed by you until it is damaged by a creature hostile to it, or until the end of your next turn.

If an allied creature can see both you and the cursed target, the ally has advantage on attack rolls against it. The first time a creature benefiting from this advantage hits the cursed creature with an attack, that attack is a critical hit.

When you would deal necrotic damage with hex, you can choose to forgo dealing necrotic damage and instead choose to curse the creature you would have damaged.

You can curse a target a number of times equal to twice your Charisma modifier (a minimum of 2). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Eternal Soldier

Starting at 6th level, your body and soul are marked for endless battle. You can use an action to touch any severed body part to the place it was removed and reattach it to your body. You can use the body parts of a creature of the same race as you in place of your own.

In addition, the cost of material components for a spell that restores you to life are halved, and any spell that would animate your corpse as an undead can instead restore you to life as though you were targeted by the resurrection spell.

Numbed Command

Starting at 10th level, your deadened soul keeps the horrors of battle from influencing you. For 1 minute after you curse a creature with your Paint the Target feature, that creature cannot frighten you, illusions that it creates with spells or other effects have no effect on you. In addition, when damage from that creature forces you to make a saving throw to maintain concentration, you make the save with advantage.

Grit and Glory

Starting at 14th level, your bitter resolve and broken body let you withstand attacks that should finally give you peace. When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to drop to 1 hit point instead, and you gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your warlock level.

The number of temporary hit points you gain is multiplied by the number of friendly creatures within 120 feet of you. This multiplier cannot exceed your Charisma modifier.

If you cursed the creature that damaged you with Paint the Target, the hex spell, or a similar feature, it takes necrotic damage equal to the damage it dealt to you.

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

Eldritch Invocations

When you choose eldritch invocations, you have access to these additional options.

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

Ranged

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.

Some ranged weapons have a Strength requirement listed. You cannot make ranged attack rolls with that ranged weapon if your Strength is lower than that value.

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. Reach weapons cannot be used for two-weapon fighting regardless of strength or feats.

Special

Special weapons have entirely unique attributes, detailed after the weapon charts.

Status

Status weapons inflict extra effects on powerful hits. When an attack roll with a status weapon exceeds the target's AC by 5 or more, it inflicts an additional status effect based upon the type of damage dealt. A critical hit also triggers status. If you inflict status on an attack but deal no bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing to a creature with the attack, you do not trigger the effects of status.

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

Bludgeoning weapons hit with staggering blows that daze the target. Inflicting this status prevents the targeted creature from taking reactions and reduces its passive Perception by 5 until the start of its next turn.

Piercing weapons reward precise or focused attacks, punching holes in enemy defenses. When you inflict this status, the next attack made against the target gains a bonus equal to your proficiency bonus.

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

Sundering

Sundering weapons crush, break, or penetrate armor. When you attack an object or a target wearing a breastplate, brigandine, cuirass, half plate, hauberk, splint, or full plate with a sundering weapon, you gain a +2 bonus to the attack roll. You also gain this bonus against creatures with thick shells, metallic hides, and other creatures at the discretion of your DM. Weapons with this property ignore the damage reduction provided by certain kinds of armor.

Sweeping

These weapons strike in broad motions. When you reduce an enemy to 0 hit points with a sweeping weapon, you can target another creature within 5 feet of the first that you can 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. The standard and maximum ranges of a weapon with the thrown property increases 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, and must be wielded in two hands to attack with it. If one of your hands is occupied by performing somatic components, grappling, etc, you cannot attack with this weapon until you return your hand to the weapon. This property is relevant only when you attack with the weapon, not when you simply hold it.

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

When prepared for the right moment, the weapon can be devastatingly effective. In place of a weapon attack, you can wind up your weapon or brace it against the ground, depending on the weapon's design. The next time you hit with the wound-up weapon before the start of your next turn, you can roll three additional damage dice. A wound-up melee weapon can be used to make an opportunity attack when a hostile creature that you can see enters your reach.

Winged

These weapons have specially-shaped heads that halt the forward movement of their target toward the wielder after piercing the target, and can be used to catch shields and weapons. After damaging a Huge or smaller creature with a melee attack from a winged weapon, the creature cannot move toward you and must expend 2 feet of movement for every foot it moves within your reach. This reduction ends if it leaves your reach or you make another attack roll with the winged weapon. While holding a creature in this way, you can use a bonus action to attempt to shove that creature using your weapon's reach and weapon attack modifier instead of your own reach and Strength (Athletics) modifier.

You can use a bonus action to attempt to disarm a creature within your reach, using your weapon attack modifier in place of Strength (Athletics).

Weapon Charts

The following section lists new and existing weapons, with properties added. Some weapons list multiple damage types. When attacking with one of those weapons, you indicate which damage type you use before you make the attack roll.

Simple Melee Weapons

Name	Cost	Damage	Weight	Properties
Club	1 sp	1d4 bludgeoning	2 lb	Light, nonlethal
Dagger	4 gp	1d4 piercing/slashing	3/4 lb.	Finesse, light, prone fighting, thrown (20/60)
Goedendag	1 gp	1d6 bludgeoning/piercing	3 lb.	Sundering, finisher, two-handed, wind-up
Greatclub	5 sp	2d4 bludgeoning	10 lb.	Heavy, status, two-handed
Guisarme	10 gp	1d8 piercing	5 lb.	Ensnaring, reach, two-handed
Handaxe	1 gp	1d6 slashing	1 lb.	Light, status, thrown (20/60)
Javelin	5 sp	1d6 piercing	2 lb.	Thrown (60/120)
Light Hammer	2 sp	1d4 bludgeoning	1 lb.	Light, status, sundering, thrown (20/60)
Mace	5 gp	1d6 bludgeoning	4 lb.	Status, sundering
Peasant Flail	5 sp	1d8 bludgeoning	3 lb.	Bypass, status (piercing), two-handed
Quarterstaff	2 sp	1d6 bludgeoning	4 lb.	Nonlethal, versatile (2d4)
Shortspear	1 gp	1d6 piercing	4 lb.	Light, versatile (1d8)
Sickle	1 gp	1d4 slashing	2 lb.	Ensnaring, light, status

Simple Ranged Weapons

Name	Cost	Damage	Weight	Strength	Properties
Blowgun	10 gp	1 piercing	1 lb.	—	Ammunition (25/50), loading, special
Dart	5 cp	1d4 piercing	¼ lb.	—	Finesse, light, thrown (20/60)
Light Crossbow	30 gp	1d8 piercing	1 lb.	Str 8	Ammunition (60/120), loading, two-handed
Shortbow	25 gp	1d6 piercing	1 lb.	Str 9	Ammunition (90/360), two-handed
Sling	1 sp	1d4 bludgeoning	1/8 lb.	—	Ammunition (30/60), wind-up
Staff Sling	4 sp	1d6 bludgeoning	5 lb.	—	Ammunition (80/160), special, two-handed

Special Weapons

Atlatl. The atlatl benefits from skill with both ranged and thrown weapons. You can use your Strength modifier to increase the range of darts hurled with this weapon, as though it had the thrown property, and it and its darts are considered thrown weapons when used to make ranged attacks for the purposes of benefits such as the Thrown Weapon Fighting fighting style.

Arming Sword. The techniques of an arming sword are fairly basic, easy to learn, and highly defensive. As a result, you can safely focus on offense and deal more devastating attacks. You can inflict status with this weapon, and when you do you inflict the effects of both status: piercing and status: slashing, regardless of the damage type you dealt.

Boar Spear. This thick, heavy spear is better wielded in two hands than one. When wielded in both hands, a boar spear gains the reach and wind-up properties in addition to the increased damage it gains from the versatile property.

Boomerang. This weapon returns to your hand if you miss.

Blowgun. If you are hidden when you attack with this weapon, you do not reveal your location.

Blowgun Needle. These minute needles are small enough that when you apply a poison to them, a dose covers 10 pieces of ammunition instead of the usual 3.

Cestus. Cestus are not held in the hand but are wrapped around the knuckles and forearm. or worn as gloves. If you are wielding a cestus, you can use that hand to grapple or shove an enemy, or load a ranged weapon, but you cannot attack with that cestus without ending the grapple. You cannot wield other weapons or shields in that hand, nor can it perform somatic components. You cannot drop a cestus or be disarmed of one unless you are incapacitated. You must use an action to don or doff a cestus, but can don or doff a pair of cestus in one action.

Chain Whip. A length of chain is unbalanced and difficult to use, but can be a far-reaching weapon. When held in both hands, this weapon gains the reach property.

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

Elemental Ammunition. Elemental ammunition includes enchanted bullets, quarrels, needles, or arrows charged with magic. You cannot buy elemental ammunition, but you can craft it if you have proficiency in the appropriate tools and the Arcana skill, and can cast a spell that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage without expending a spell slot. The ammunition deals that damage instead of its normal type, and returns to normal after one use.

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

Garotte Wire. A garrote cannot be used on any creature more than 1 size larger than you, and you can only attack with a garotte if you have advantage. On a hit, the target is automatically grappled and restrained.

Until the grapple ends, the target cannot breathe and chokes (PHB 183). Creatures that do not need to breathe are immune to a garotte wire's choke at the discretion of the DM.

Gauntlet-Sword. This specialized sword is built into a stiff gauntlet. You cannot drop or be disarmed of a gauntlet-sword. It takes an action to don or doff a gauntlet sword.

Grapeshot. Instead of a single bullet, a large number of tiny projectiles fill a canister of grapeshot ammunition. Upon firing, the projectiles fly in a line 5 foot wide and as long as the gun's normal range. You can target a number of creatures in that line equal to your proficiency bonus, making new attack rolls for each creature.

Greataxe. The blows of a greataxe stagger and daze opponents. You can inflict status with this weapon, and when you do you inflict both status: slashing and status: bludgeoning, even though you only deal slashing damage.

Greatbow. An enormous bow with massive draw weight, you must use Strength instead of Dexterity for attack and damage rolls with this weapon.

Hooksword. If you are holding a hooksword in each hand, checks from the weapon's ensnaring property are made with advantage, and the ability to link both hookswords together gives this weapon the sweeping property.

Lance. You have disadvantage when you use a lance to attack a target within 5 feet of you. A lance requires two hands to wield when you aren't mounted.

Lantern Shield. An apparatus combining a small shield, a lantern, a gauntlet, and several blades. When wielded it adds +2 to your Armor Class, can be used to make a melee weapon attack that deals 1d4 piercing damage, and can store a lit bullseye lantern, which you wield while holding this shield. If you are disarmed of this shield or doff it, the lantern moves with it. A lantern can be added or removed as an action.

Morningstar. You can inflict status with this weapon, and when you do you inflict the effects of both status: piercing and status: bludgeoning, regardless of the damage type dealt.

Net. A Large or smaller creature hit by a net is restrained until freed. A net has no effect on creatures that are formless, or are Huge or larger. A creature can free itself or others by using its action and succeeding on a DC 10 Strength check. Dealing 5 slashing damage to the net (AC 10) also frees the creature without harming it, and destroys the net.

Parrying Dagger. Parrying daggers are best used as defensive options when wielded in conjunction with another weapon. When you hold a parrying dagger in one hand and another weapon in your other hand, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. This bonus cannot exceed 1, even if you have a parrying dagger in each hand.

Pavise. A pavise is a tall, oblong shield used to provide portable cover. You can use your action to plant a pavise in the ground, doffing it as part of the same action. In this state it is no longer wielded and stands on its own to act as 1/2 cover for an upright creature, or total cover for a prone one.

Silver Bullet. This bullet deals no special damage against most creatures, but any attack with a silver bullet that hits a creature with a special vulnerability to silver, like some fiends or shapechangers, is an automatic critical hit.

Staff Sling. The shaft that adds leverage to the projectiles this sling throws can also be used for close-range combat. This weapon can make be wielded in melee combat as a quarterstaff. In addition, this weapon can be used to throw bombs to any point within its long range.

Shield Grips

Shield grips determine how you hold a shield.

Handles are a wood or metal handlebar on the inside of a shield. These shields can be doffed or donned with the item interaction you receive as part of your turn and can be dropped freely, but enemies have advantage on checks made to disarm you of them.

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

While some shields list more than one grip type on their table entries, an individual shield of has only one. You choose the type of grip it has when it is created or purchased.

Armor Revised

The Armor Table shows the cost, weight, armor class, and properties each type of armor. Class proficiencies and stealth rules remain unchanged, as do donning and doffing rules. However, armor weighs half as much while you wear it for the purposes of determining encumbrance.

When worn, half plate and heavy armor offer Damage Reduction. When you take nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage, the damage you take is reduced by an amount equal to half your proficiency bonus, rounded down. Full plate reduces the damage by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus instead. This reduction applies before you apply resistances or vulnerabilities.

Armor Table

Light	Cost	AC	Strength	Stealth	Weight
Leather	5 gp	11+Dex	—	—	8 lb.
Gambeson	10 gp	12+Dex	—	—	10 lb.
Jackchains	25 gp	13+Dex	—	Disad.	15 lb.
Medium
Hide	10 gp	12+Dex (max 2)	—	—	12 lb.
Breastplate	200 gp	13+Dex (max 3)	—	—	20 lb.
Brigandine	100 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	100 gp	15	Str 12	Disad.	40 lb.
Hauberk	150 gp	16	Str 13	Disad.	30 lb.
Splint	300 gp	17	Str 14	Disad.	35 lb.
Full Plate	1,500 gp	18	Str 14	Disad.	45 lb.

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Cauldron Contents

You can fill a cauldron with more than boiling water. The table below lists several alternate options, as well as water. A cauldron is assumed to contain 20 gallons of liquid, or the volume of 160 standard flasks.

Boiling Oil. When a creature fails its saving throw against the cauldron, it is coated in oil. If the target takes any fire damage before the oil dries (after 1 minute), the target takes an additional 10 fire damage from the burning oil. A 5-foot-radius circle directly below the cauldron is also covered in oil. If lit, the oil burns for 4 rounds and deals 10 fire damage to any creature that enters the area or ends its turn there. A creature can take this damage only once per turn.

Holy Water. Fiends and undead take an additional 4d6 radiant damage from a cauldron of holy water on a failed saving throw, or half as much damage on a success.

Magma. Only the strongest magical cauldrons can withstand the heat of boiling magma, but it can be a potent siege weapon in battles with magically-gifted combatants.

Boiling Pitch. When a creature fails its save against the cauldron, it is covered in sticky goo. The target's speed is halved until it takes 10 minutes to scrape the tar from its body. If it hasn't removed the tar after 1 hour passes, the tar hardens, and it is restrained until another creature removes the material.

Trebuchet Ammunition

Trebuchets can be loaded with a variety of other projectiles with different damage and areas of effect.

    Cold Iron. They may rust and deform more quickly than steel, but iron weapons hold a key advantage besides their low cost and ubiquity: they are anathema to fey. Iron weapons ignore fey creatures' resistances and immunities to nonmagical weapons and damage, and when a fey creature starts its turn in contact with an item made of iron, it takes 1 fire damage. All iron is considered cold iron, and iron is one of the most common materials used to make weapons. Fey are not pleased by this development.

Flametouched Iron. Native to the material planes of Eberron, this dark gray metal takes on a reddish sheen when refined. When used to attack an evil creature or an undead, a weapon made from flametouched iron is considered magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical damage. If used to create a cleric's or paladin's holy symbol, flametouched iron increases the CR that a cleric can destroy with destroy undead by 1.

Ironwood. A substance grown and tempered by warrior-druids for weapons and armor, this fireproof wood is as dense and resilient as steel. Ironwood items are considered wood, rather than metal, for the purposes of spells and other effects that target those materials, and can't be set on fire by effects that ignites objects that aren't being worn or carried.

Mithral. A light, flexible material, mithral armor removes Strength requirements and disadvantage on Stealth checks inflicted by wearing certain armor. Weapons made from mithral are similarly light, weighing half as much as their iron counterparts. Mithral weapons with the Heavy property can be used to make extra attacks regardless of the user's strength and can be wielded normally by small creatures.

Obsidian. A precious volcanic glass, weapons made with this delicate material are incredibly sharp. In addition to its typical properties, an obsidian weapon that deals piercing or slashing damage gains the corresponding status property if it didn't have it already, and inflicts a status effect when it exceeds the target's AC by 3 or more, rather than 5. Weapons made from obsidian cost four times as much as their mundane counterparts.

    Silver. Some monsters with immunity or resistance to nonmagical weapons are susceptible to silver, so cautious adventurers invest extra coin to plate their weapons with silver. The cost represents not only the price of the silver, but the time and expertise needed to add silver to the weapon without making it less effective. It costs 100 gp to silver a weapon or 10 pieces of ammunition. Unlike most materials, a weapon that is silvered retains all the properties of its original material.

Steel. The best mundane metal that can be made by a typical weaponsmith. It has no magical properties, but its nature allows smiths to select for sharpness, flexibility, hardness, and durability. Its relative resistance to wear and ease of maintenance has made it a material of choice across the world. Steel weapons cannot be damaged by monster features that corrode, damage, or dissolve metal, such as black puddings' corrosive form, and cost 50% more than their iron counterparts. Weapons made from steel by default are listed with their cost when made of steel.

Stone. All weapons made from stone deal bludgeoning damage, even if it would normally deal another type. All weapons and armor made with stone have the heavy property, lose finesse and light properties if they have them, weigh 4 times as much as usual, and cost twice as much.

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

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

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Default Materials

Most weapons are made of a combination of wood and a metal (typically iron), and very few weapons use only one. For example, crossbows and arquebuses used both wood and metal, bows use specific types of wood or horn for the arms and sinew for the string, and so on. Melee weapons, especially polearms, used a haft made of wood and a head made of iron or steel. Armor features several layers of cloth padding beneath its metal exterior. For simplicity's sake this table lists only one type of material, either the one which comprises most of the item (for ranged weapons and ammunition) or the material of the component that contacts the target (for melee weapons).

Ammunition Materials

Armor Materials

Siege Engine Materials

Siege Ammunition Materials

Modifications

Weapons are not discrete items. They can be altered, gaining add-ons that improve their features or add new ones. You can make or purchase the modifications below and add them to the items they list. A weapon can have more than one modification, and modifications are permanent.

Creating New Weapons

The sheer variety of properties and options presented in this document means that even the new weapons it introduces could never cover every possible combination in reality, let alone in the imagination. In the event that you or a member of your group want to create a new weapon that uses the properties presented in The Warrior's Codex, this page lists several guidelines to follow in order to balance the new option and prevent the creation of a single strictly superior choice—something WCX aims to avoid at all costs.

Remember that your goal should never be to create a weapon that is mechanically superior to other weapons, but provides an alternative of equal power to the other weapons in the same category (simple or martial).

The point system below was used to balance the existing WCX weapons, and in fact highlighted several flaws late in the design process. Though it is a guideline, not a hard rule that you must adhere to, it is highly recommended that you follow it, and maintain a power level comparable to existing weapons, as much as possible.

Each weapon has a certain number of points, determined by the damage it deals and the properties it uses. The values are listed below, with the point values of existing weapons listed at the end of this section.

Alternative Weapons

Many weapons can be represented by the same combination of mechanics. The alternative weapons below use the same statistics, though their damage types may differ. That change is listed in parentheses: (b) for bludgeoning, (p) for piercing, and (s) for slashing. A status weapon uses its new type.

Most alternates originate from cultures and eras outside D&D's early-renaissance European pastiche, such as Rome, Japan, China, India, and Polynesia. They are not appropriate for every game and location. The DM is justified in disallowing any alternative below.

Alternate armors, fortunately, are simple matter scaling protection. A heavy Babylonian bronze breastplate is "plate              armor" if, in-setting, it is the best armor available—                          then weaker armors scale down from there.

Mechanical Changes

While robust, some of 5e's rules can be tweaked or clarified. This section focuses on quality-of-life changes, buffs, adaptations to fit rules established in this document, and house rules. It also includes changes to races, classes, and subclasses too small to count as a full rework.

Weapon Proficiencies

Some classes gain proficiency in additional items:

• Artificer: Arquebus, handgonne
• Bard: Arming sword, estoc, parrying dagger, rondel, sabre, buckler
• Druid: Blowgun, boar spear, cestus, harpoon, spear
• Monk. Spear
• Ranger. Herbalism kit or Woodcarver's tools
• Rogue: Arming sword, bastard sword, estoc, garotte wire, longsword, parrying dagger, rondel, sabre, buckler, medium armor

Proficiency in shields does not grant proficiency in exotic shields. Barbarians, fighters, paladins, and rangers gain proficiency in one exotic weapon or shield of their choice at 1st level. Multiclassing into those classes does not grant this additional weapon proficiency.

Some straightforward weapons are easy to learn with repeated drills. It takes half as much time to train to gain proficiency in the shortspear, light crossbow, spear, hand crossbow, heavy crossbow, arquebus, and handgonne.

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Updated Class Features

This section lists new and updated class features for classes not listed in Section II, or features that benefit multiple classes.

Elemental Adept

Choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Your attacks, spells, and features ignore resistance to damage of that chosen type. In addition, when you roll a 1 on a damage die of that damage type, you can treat it as a 2.

You can select this feat multiple times. Each time you do so, you must choose a different damage type.

Gunner

You have a quick hand and keen eye with guns, granting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with the arquebus and handgonne.
• You no longer have to use your action or expend an attack to reload a gunpowder weapon.
• Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls.
• Items with the gunpowder property that you're wearing or carrying only explode when they take fire or lightning damage greater than your level.

Heavy Armor Master

Prerequisite: Proficiency with heavy armor.
You can use your armor to deflect strikes that would kill others. Your Strength score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20, and the damage reduction you gain from heavy armor increases by 3.

When a creature hits you with a melee weapon attack, you can use your reaction to attempt to disarm the creature of that weapon. If your armor reduced the damage to 0, you have advantage on the check.

Kitbasher

Your mastery of specialized instruments allows you to improvise tools from scraps. You gain the following benefits:

• Your Strength, Dexterity, or Intelligence increases by 1
• You gain proficiency in one set of artisan's tools of your choice, or your proficiency bonus is doubled when you make checks with set of artisan's tools that you are already proficient in.
• If you spend an hour gathering debris and assembling pieces, you can create a functional substitute for a set of artisan's tools. This set of tools can be used a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus before breaking.

Light Armor Master

Prerequisite: Proficiency with light armor
You can balance protection with impressive agility, gaining you the following benefits:

• Your Dexterity score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your speed increases by 5 feet when you aren't wearing medium or heavy armor.
• Once on your turn, you can choose not to provoke opportunity attacks when you move 5 feet in any direction.

Mage Slayer

Mage Slayer works as-written, with the following change:
When this feat allows you to use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against a creature casting a spell, you can choose to make the attack before or after the spellcaster finishes the spell and it takes effect.

Piercer

Piercer works as-written, with the following addition:
You must exceed the target's AC by 3 or more, rather than 5 or more, to trigger status: piercing.

Polearm Master

Polearm Master works as-written, with the following changes:

1. This feats' benefits can also be used while wielding a shortspear, sling staff, boar spear, spear, guisarme, lucerne, pike, pollaxe, or ranseur.
2. You can only use the bonus action attack granted by this feat if you are wielding the eligible weapon in both hands, unless the weapon is equipped with the butt spike modification (see Part III).

Powder Mage

Prerequisites: The ability to cast at least one spell
You have combined magical power and gunpowder chemistry, which grants you the following benefits:

• You gain proficiency with the handgonne and arquebus, which you can use as a spellcasting focus.
• When you roll damage for a spell that deals fire or thunder damage, you can expend 1 charge of powder on your person to roll one additional damage die for that fire or thunder damage roll and add it to the total.
• You can magically sense items loaded or filled with gunpowder within 120 feet of you. You can use an action to cause one item loaded or filled with gunpowder that you can sense to explode, as if it had taken fire or lightning damage.

Slasher

Slasher works as-written, with the following addition:
You must exceed the target's AC by 3 or more, rather than 5 or more, to trigger status: slashing.

Unarmored Master

Armor only holds you back. You gain the following benefits when not wearing armor:

• Your speed increases by 10 feet, and you gain a climbing and swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
• When you fail a Dexterity saving throw, you can use your reaction to reroll the save and take the second result.
• You have advantage on checks made to avoid or escape being grappled.

Unstoppable

You can shift others with ease, but moving you requires monumental effort. You gain the following benefits:

• Your Strength or Constitution score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you win a contested check to avoid being shoved or grappled, you can shove the creature that initiated the contest 5 feet away from you.
• When you are subjected to an effect that would move you, knock you prone, or both, you can use your reaction to be neither moved nor knocked prone.

Weapon Master

You have practiced extensively with a variety of weapons. Your Strength or Dexterity score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20, and you gain one of the proficiencies below:

• Four simple or martial weapons
• Two simple or martial weapons, and one shield
• Two simple or martial weapons, and one exotic weapon
• Two exotic weapons
• One exotic shield

Feat Bonuses

Some feats now increase one of your ability scores by 1, to a maximum of 20, when you take them. If a feat below lists multiple ability scores, it grants a benefit to one ability score of your choice.

• Defensive Duelist: Dexterity
• Dungeon Delver: Intelligence or Wisdom
• Grappler: Strength
• Inspiring Leader: Charisma
• Medium Armor Master: Strength or Dexterity
• Savage Attacker: Strength or Dexterity
• Skulker: Dexterity or Wisdom

Combat Rules

Tossing a Creature

A new variant action, along with Overrun, Disarm, Tumble, Climb onto a Bigger Creature, etc.

When a creature has another grappled, it can use the Attack action to make a special melee attack to the hurl the grappled creature. If the thrower can make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them. The thrower makes a Strength (Athletics) check and attempts to throw the grappled creature a number of feet equal to twice the result in any direction. The tossed creature takes a die of falling damage for every 10 feet it was thrown laterally (and can take additional falling damage if it falls vertically) and lands prone unless it succeeds on a Dexterity (Acrobatics) check with a DC equal to the Athletics check used to throw it, or uses a feature or spell to land safely.

The larger a creature, the higher the DC to throw it:

Two-Weapon Fighting

Once per turn when you make a melee weapon attack or special melee attack such as a grapple or shove against a creature using one hand, you can make one additional attack using a melee weapon with the light property that you're holding in the other hand. You don't add your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack, unless that modifier is negative. You cannot make this additional attack if you have already engaged in versatile fighting in the same turn.

Versatile Fighting

Once per turn when you make a special melee attack such as a grapple or shove against a creature using one hand, you can make one additional attack using a melee weapon with the versatile property that you're holding in the other hand. You cannot make this additional attack if you have already engaged in two-weapon fighting in the same turn.

Falling Damage

When a creature lands it takes 1 damage die of bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it fell, to a maximum of 150 dice. When a creature falls it instantly descends up to 500 feet, and falls at the end of each of its turns until it lands. It lands prone unless it took no falling damage.

The damage dice rolled when a creature falls change based on the size of the creature falling. Medium creatures roll d6s, while creatures of other sizes roll different dice, listed below:

Getting Up & Movement

Standing from prone expends 15 feet of movement, regardless of your speed. If you have less than 15 feet of movement, it takes all your movement to mount, dismount, or stand up. If your speed is 0, you cannot do so.

Knocking a Creature Out

Sometimes an attacker wants to incapacitate a foe, rather than deal a killing blow. Before you make a melee attack with a weapon, you can declare a less violent intent. If the attack hits, it deals bludgeoning damage equal to 2 + your Strength modifier. If the weapon has the nonlethal property, it does its full damage instead. In either case, if the targeted creature is reduced to 0 hit points, it falls unconscious and is stable.

Some weapons and features add additional damage. An attack with such benefits cannot knock a creature out unless the weapon has the nonlethal property, and the bonus feature deals the same damage type as the weapon, or increases its damage (such as Sneak Attack or Rage). Attacks that deal additional damage of a different type (such the banishing smite spell) cannot be used to knock a creature out.

Magical Item Use

You draw and drink a potion yourself as a bonus action. Administering a potion to another creature requires an action. Any creature capable of reading the language a spell scroll can written in can activate it.

Mounted Combat

A willing creature at least one size larger than you with appropriate anatomy can serve as a mount.

During your turn, you can mount a creature within 5 feet of you, or dismount. Doing so costs 15 feet of movement. If an effect moves your mount involuntarily or you are knocked prone while you're on it, you must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or fall off the mount, landing prone in a space within 5 feet. If your mount is knocked prone, you can use your reaction to dismount as it falls and land on your feet. Otherwise, you fall prone within 5 feet of it.

While you're mounted, you can control a mount that has been trained to accept a rider, or allow it to act independently. Intelligent creatures, such as dragons, always act independently. While controlling a mount, you cannot move except to dismount.

Instead, your mount moves both of you as you direct it during your turn, carrying you with it. Your mount can take an action at any time during your turn, but can only Dash, Disengage, or Dodge.

An independent mount retains its place in the initiative order. Bearing a rider puts no restrictions on the actions an independent mount can take, and it moves and acts as it wishes. In either case, if the mount provokes an opportunity attack while you're on it, the attacker can target you or the mount.

If you are proficient in the Animal Handling skill, you can ride most mounts. If you are not proficient in Animal Handling, you can still ride a mount, you must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw whenever the mount takes the Dash, Disengage, or Dodge action. On a failed save, you are thrown from the mount and land prone within 5 feet of it (The Warrior's Codex 80).

Underwater Combat

When fighting underwater, you have disadvantage on melee weapon attack rolls unless you use a dagger, javelin, shortspear, harpoon, or trident. You suffer disadvantage even if you use one of those weapons if you do not choose to deal piercing damage.

You can only make a ranged weapon attack if you use a crossbow, net, or harpoon. Any attack beyond a weapon's normal range misses automatically.

A fully-submerged creature has resistance to fire damage, and vulnerability to lightning damage if it doesn't have resistance or immunity to lightning damage.

Unless you can breathe underwater, you cannot cast spells with a Verbal component.

Conditions

Most conditions are unchanged, but this section includes a few tweaks to make the effects of said conditions less arbitrary and more realistic.

Travel

The travel rules in 5e actually accomplish the system's goals of simple, intuitive play very well. The hardest part of using the travel rules is finding them, scattered as they are over multiple sections of multiple books. This section copies text from the Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide wholesale and consolidates them in one place for ease of use.

This section includes rules for overland travel, and omits extreme weather, wilderness hazards, ocean or air travel, etc. It is meant to reduce cross-referencing for rules most likely to appear in day-to-day and session-to-session travel.

Special Travel Pace

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Certain special mounts, such as a pegasus or griffon, or special vehicles, such as a carpet of flying, allow you to travel more swiftly.

The above rules on travel pace assume that a group of travelers adopts a pace that, over time, is unaffected by the individual members' walking speeds. The difference between walking speeds can be significant during combat, but during an overland journey, the difference vanishes as travelers pause to catch their breath, the faster ones wait for the slower ones, and one traveler's quickness is matched by another traveler's endurance.

A character bestride a phantom steed, soaring through the air on a carpet of flying, or riding a sailboat or a steam-powered gnomish contraption doesn't travel at a normal rate, since the magic, engine, or wind doesn't tire the way a creature does and the air doesn't contain the types of obstructions found on land. When a creature is traveling with a flying speed or with a speed granted by magic, an engine, or a natural force (such as wind or a water current), translate that speed into travel rates using the following rules:

• In 1 minute, you can move a number of feet equal to your speed times 10.
• In 1 hour, you can move a number of miles equal to your speed divided by 10.
• For daily travel, multiply your hourly rate of travel by the number of hours traveled (typically 8 hours).
• For a fast pace, increase the rate of travel by one-third.
• For a slow pace, multiply the rate by two-thirds.

For example, a character under the effect of a wind walk spell gains a flying speed of 300 feet. In 1 minute, the character can move 3,000 feet at a normal pace, 4,000 feet at a fast pace, or 2,000 feet at a slow pace.

The character can also cover 20, 30, or 40 miles in an hour. The spell lasts for 8 hours, allowing the character to travel 160, 240, or 320 miles in a day.

Similarly, the phantom steed spell creates a magical mount with a speed of 100 feet that doesn't tire like a real horse. A character on a phantom steed can cover 1,000 feet in 1 minute at a normal pace, 1,333 feet at a fast pace, or 666 feet at a slow pace. In 1 hour, its rider can travel 7, 10, or 13 miles.