Alignment

A typical creature in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons has an alignment, which broadly describes its moral and personal attitudes. Alignment is a combination of two factors: one identifies morality (good, evil, or neutral), and the other describes attitudes toward society and order (lawful, chaotic, or neutral). Thus, nine distinct alignments define the possible combinations. These brief summaries of the nine alignments describe the typical behavior of a creature with that alignment. Individuals might vary significantly from that typical behavior, and few people are perfectly and consistently faithful to the precepts of their alignment.

Ability Score Increases

When determining your ability scores, you increase one of of those scores by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or you increase three different scores by 1. You follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20.

Proficiencies and Proficiency Points

All characters are proficient in the Common language and simple weapons.

You gain a number of proficiency points equal to 7 + your intelligence modifier. These proficiency points can be used to gain choice proficiencies in any combination, as described below. You can spend these points directly at character creation, or as part of a downtime activity. It takes a week of downtime per proficiency point spent to gain a proficiency.

Expertise in a skill or tool lets you add twice your proficiency bonus to the appropriate ability check, instead of once. You don't need to have proficiency in a skill or tool to gain expertise in it. If you already proficient in a skill or tool, expertise costs only 1 point instead.

Each of the following options will cost you proficiency points to gain, and you can choose the same option multiple times:

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Adept Linguist

You can communicate with humanoids who don't speak any language you know. You must observe the humanoids interacting with one another for at least 1 day, after which you learn a handful of important words, expressions, and gestures - enough to communicate on a rudimentary level.

All Eyes on You

Your accent, mannerisms, figures of speech, and perhaps even your appearance all mark you as foreign. Curious glances are directed your way wherever you go, which can be a nuisance, but you also gain the friendly interest of scholars and others intrigued by far-off lands, to say nothing of everyday folk who are eager to hear stories of your homeland.

You can parley this attention into access to people and places you might not otherwise have, for you and your traveling companions. Noble lords, scholars, and merchant princes, to name a few, might be interested in hearing about your distant homeland and people.

Bad Reputation

No matter where you go, people are afraid of you due to your reputation. When you are in a civilized settlement, you can get away with minor criminal offenses, such as refusing to pay for food at a tavern or breaking down doors at a local shop, since most people will not report your activity to the authorities.

Ballad of the Minstrel

You know how to find a hideout. In any city of 10,000 people or more, you can play a song in a major tavern or inn. A member of your college will find you and give shelter to you and any companions you vouch for. This shelter might be discontinued if it becomes too dangerous to hide you, at the DM's discretion.

This feature must be used with caution, for not all who know the ballad are your friends. Some are traitors, counterspies, or agents of tyranny.

By Popular Demand

You can always find a place to perform, usually in an inn or tavern but possibly with a circus, at a theater, or even in a noble's court. At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your performance makes you something of a local figure. When strangers recognize you in a town where you have performed, they typically take a liking to you.

City Secrets

You know the secret patterns and flow to cities and can find passages through the urban sprawl that others would miss. When you are not in combat, you (and companions you lead) can travel between any two locations in the city twice as fast as your speed would normally allow.

Court Functionary

Your knowledge of how bureaucracies function lets you gain access to the records and inner workings of any noble court or government you encounter. You know who the movers and shakers are, whom to go to for the favors you seek, and what the current intrigues of interest in the group are.

Cult Network

You know the locations of your cult’s safehouses, shrines, and sanctums in many settlements and wilderness areas. In such a network, you can find at least one loyal member of the cult, who can provide food and a safe place to rest for you and up to six people that you vouch for. Large cities always have a safehouse, while smaller settlements are 50% likely to have one. Remote wilderness areas have one safehouse in any 100-square-mile area. If you have left the cult, you can use the safehouse, drawing attention from the cult only 50% of the time.

Criminal Contact

You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your liaison to a network of other criminals. You know how to get messages to and from your contact, even over great distances; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages for you.

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Discovery

The quiet seclusion of your extended hermitage gave you access to a unique and powerful discovery. The exact nature of this revelation depends on the nature of your seclusion. It might be a great truth about the cosmos, the deities, the powerful beings of the outer planes, or the forces of nature. It could be a site that no one else has ever seen. You might have uncovered a fact that has long been forgotten, or unearthed some relic of the past that could rewrite history. It might be information that would be damaging to the people who or consigned you to exile, and hence the reason for your return to society.

Work with your DM to determine the details of your discovery and its impact on the campaign.

Down Low

You are acquainted with a network of smugglers who are willing to help you out of tight situations. While in a particular town, city, or other similarly sized community (DM's discretion), you and your companions can stay for free in safe houses. Safe houses provide a poor lifestyle. While staying at a safe house, you can choose to keep your presence (and that of your companions) a secret.

Dual Personalities

Most of your fellow adventurers and the world know you as your persona. Those who seek to learn more about you—your weaknesses, your origins, your purpose—find themselves stymied by your disguise. Upon donning a disguise and behaving as your persona, you are unidentifiable as your true self. By removing your disguise and revealing your true face, you are no longer identifiable as your persona. This allows you to change appearances between your two personalities as often as you wish, using one to hide the other or serve as convenient camouflage. However, should someone realize the connection between your persona and your true self, your deception might lose its effectiveness.

Ear to the Ground

You are in frequent contact with people in the segment of society that your chosen quarries move through. These people might be associated with the criminal underworld, the rough-and-tumble folk of the streets, or members of high society. This connection comes in the form of a contact in any city you visit, a person who provides information about the people and places of the local area.

Echoes of Victory

You have attracted admiration among spectators, fellow athletes, and trainers in the region that hosted your past athletic victories. When visiting any settlement within 100 miles of where you grew up, there is a 50 percent chance you can find someone there who admires you and is willing to provide information or temporary shelter.

Between adventures, you might compete in athletic events sufficient enough to maintain a comfortable lifestyle, as per the "Practicing a Profession" downtime activity in chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook.

False Identity

You have created a second identity that includes documentation, established acquaintances, and disguises that allow you to assume that persona. Additionally, you can forge documents including official papers and personal letters, as long as you have seen an example of the kind of document or the handwriting you are trying to copy.

Feywild Connection

Your mannerisms and knowledge of fey customs are recognized by natives of the Feywild, who see you as one of their own. Because of this, friendly Fey creatures are inclined to come to your aid if you are lost or need help in the Feywild.

Guild Membership

As an established and respected member of a guild, you can rely on certain benefits that membership provides. Your fellow guild members will provide you with lodging and food if necessary, and pay for your funeral if needed. In some cities and towns, a guildhall offers a central place to meet other members of your profession, which can be a good place to meet potential patrons, allies, or hirelings.

Guilds often wield tremendous political power. If you are accused of a crime, your guild will support you if a good case can be made for your innocence or the crime is justifiable. You can also gain access to powerful political figures through the guild, if you are a member in good standing. Such connections might require the donation of money or magic items to the guild's coffers.

You must pay dues of 5 gp per month to the guild. If you miss payments, you must make up back dues to remain in the guild's good graces.

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Harvest the Water

You gain advantage on ability checks made using fishing tackle. If you have access to a body of water that sustains marine life, you can maintain a moderate lifestyle while working as a fisher, and you can catch enough food to feed yourself and up to ten other people each day.

Heart of Darkness

Those who look into your eyes can see that you have faced unimaginable horror and that you are no stranger to darkness. Though they might fear you, commoners will extend you every courtesy and do their utmost to help you. Unless you have shown yourself to be a danger to them, they will even take up arms to fight alongside you, should you find yourself facing an enemy alone.

Historical Knowledge

When you enter a ruin or dungeon, you can correctly ascertain its original purpose and determine its builders, whether those were dwarves, elves, humans, yuan-ti, or some other known race. In addition, you can determine the monetary value of art objects more than a century old.

I'll Patch It!

Provided you have carpenter's tools and wood, you can perform repairs on a water vehicle. When you use this ability, you restore a number of hit points to the hull of a water vehicle equal to 5 × your proficiency modifier. A vehicle cannot be patched by you in this way again until after it has been pulled ashore and fully repaired.

Inheritance

Choose or randomly determine your inheritance from the possibilities in the table below. Work with your Dungeon Master to come up with details: Why is your inheritance so important, and what is its full story? You might prefer for the DM to invent these details as part of the game, allowing you to learn more about your inheritance as your character does.

The Dungeon Master is free to use your inheritance as a story hook, sending you on quests to learn more about its history or true nature, or confronting you with foes who want to claim it for themselves or prevent you from learning what you seek. The DM also determines the properties of your inheritance and how they figure into the item's history and importance. For instance, the object might be a minor magic item, or one that begins with a modest ability and increases in potency with the passage of time. Or, the true nature of your inheritance might not be apparent at first and is revealed only when certain conditions are met.

When you begin your adventuring career, you can decide whether to tell your companions about your inheritance right away. Rather than attracting attention to yourself, you might want to keep your inheritance a secret until you learn more about what it means to you and what it can do for you.

Knightly Regard

You receive shelter and succor from members of your knightly order and those who are sympathetic to its aims. If your order is a religious one, you can gain aid from temples and other religious communities of your deity. Knights of civic orders can get help from the community—whether a lone settlement or a great nation—that they serve, and knights of philosophical orders can find help from those they have aided in pursuit of their ideals, and those who share their ideals.

This help comes in the form of shelter and meals, and healing when appropriate, as well as occasionally risky assistance, such as a band of local citizens rallying to aid a sorely pressed knight, or those who support the order helping to smuggle a knight out of town when he or she is being hunted unjustly.

Legalese

Your experience with your local legal system has given you a firm knowledge of the ins and outs of that system. Even when the law is not on your side, you can use complex terms like ex injuria jus non oritur and cogitationis poenam nemo patitur to frighten people into thinking you know what you're talking about. With common folks who don't know any better, you might be able to intimidate or deceive to get favors or special treatment.

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Mercenary Life

You know the mercenary life as only someone who has experienced it can. You are able to identify mercenary companies by their emblems, and you know a little about any such company, including who has hired them recently. You can find the taverns and festhalls where mercenaries abide in any area, as long as you speak the language. You can find mercenary work between adventures sufficient to maintain a comfortable lifestyle (see "Practicing a Profession" under "Downtime Activities" in chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook).

Military Rank

You have a military rank from your career as a soldier. Soldiers loyal to your former military organization still recognize your authority and influence, and they defer to you if they are of a lower rank. You can invoke your rank to exert influence over other soldiers and requisition simple equipment or horses for temporary use. You can also usually gain access to friendly military encampments and fortresses where your rank is recognized.

Never Tell Me the Odds

Odds and probability are your bread and butter. During downtime activities that involve games of chance or figuring odds on the best plan, you can get a solid sense of which choice is likely the best one and which opportunities seem too good to be true, at the DM's determination.

Official Inquiry

You're experienced at gaining access to people and places to get the information you need. Through a combination of fast-talking, determination, and official-looking documentation, you can gain access to a place or an individual related to a crime you're investigating. Those who aren't involved in your investigation avoid impeding you or pass along your requests. Additionally, local law enforcement has firm opinions about you, viewing you as either a nuisance or one of their own.

Position of Privilege

Thanks to your noble birth, people are inclined to think the best of you. You are welcome in high society, and people assume you have the right to be wherever you are. The common folk make every effort to accommodate you and avoid your displeasure, and other people of high birth treat you as a member of the same social sphere. You can secure an audience with a local noble if you need to.

Respect of the Stout Folk

As well respected as clan crafters are among outsiders, no one esteems them quite so highly as dwarves do. You always have free room and board in any place where shield dwarves or gold dwarves dwell, and the individuals in such a settlement might vie among themselves to determine who can offer you (and possibly your companions) the finest accommodations and assistance.

Researcher

When you attempt to learn or recall a piece of lore, if you do not know that information, you often know where and from whom you can obtain it. Usually, this information comes from a library, scriptorium, university, or a sage or other learned person or creature. Your DM might rule that the knowledge you seek is secreted away in an almost inaccessible place, or that it simply cannot be found. Unearthing the deepest secrets of the multiverse can require an adventure or even a whole campaign.

Respect of the Stout Folk

As well respected as clan crafters are among outsiders, no one esteems them quite so highly as dwarves do. You always have free room and board in any place where shield dwarves or gold dwarves dwell, and the individuals in such a settlement might vie among themselves to determine who can offer you (and possibly your companions) the finest accommodations and assistance.

Retainers

You have the service of three retainers loyal to your family. These retainers can be attendants or messengers, and one might be a majordomo. One of your retainers is a noble who serves as your squire, aiding you in exchange for training on his or her own path to knighthood (This person could be your bond.). Your two remaining retainers might include a groom to care for your horse and a servant who polishes your armor (and even helps you put it on).

Your retainers can perform mundane tasks for you, but they do not fight for you, will not follow you into obviously dangerous areas (such as dungeons), and will leave if they are frequently endangered or abused.

Rustic Hospitality

Since you come from the ranks of the common folk, you fit in among them with ease. You can find a place to hide, rest, or recuperate among other commoners, unless you have shown yourself to be a danger to them. They will shield you from the law or anyone else searching for you, though they will not risk their lives for you.

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Safe Haven

As a faction agent, you have access to a secret network of supporters and operatives who can provide assistance on your adventures. You know a set of secret signs and passwords you can use to identify such operatives, who can provide you with access to a hidden safe house, free room and board, or assistance in finding information. These agents never risk their lives for you or risk revealing their true identities.

Shadow Network

You have access to an assassin's shadow network, which allows you to communicate with other members of your order over long distances. If you write a letter in a special arcane ink, address it to a member, and cast it into a fire, the letter will burn to cinders and materialize whole again on the person of the agent you addressed it to.

The ink used to send a letter across the shadow network is the same as that used by a wizard to scribe spells in a spellbook. Writing a letter in this ink costs 10 gp per page.

Shelter of the Faithful

As an acolyte, you command the respect of those who share your faith, and you can perform the religious ceremonies of your deity. You and your adventuring companions can expect to receive free healing and care at a temple, shrine, or other established presence of your faith, though you must provide any material components needed for spells. Those who share your religion will support you (but only you) at a modest lifestyle.

You might also have ties to a specific temple dedicated to your chosen deity or pantheon, and you have a residence there. This could be the temple where you used to serve, if you remain on good terms with it, or a temple where you have found a new home. While near your temple, you can call upon the priests for assistance, provided the assistance you ask for is not hazardous and you remain in good standing with your temple.

Ship's Passage

When you need to, you can secure free passage on a sailing ship for yourself and your adventuring companions. You might sail on the ship you served on, or another ship you have good relations with (perhaps one captained by a former crewmate). Because you're calling in a favor, you can't be certain of a schedule or route that will meet your every need. Your Dungeon Master will determine how long it takes to get where you need to go. In return for your free passage, you and your companions are expected to assist the crew during the voyage.

Spy Contact

You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your liaison to a network of other spies. You know how to get messages to and from your contact, even over great distances; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages for you.

Steady

You can move twice the normal amount of time (up to 16 hours) each day before being subject to the effect of a forced march (see "Travel Pace" in chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook). Additionally, you can automatically find a safe route to land a boat on shore, provided such a route exists.

Supply Chain

From your time as a merchant, you retain connections with wholesalers, suppliers, and other merchants and entrepreneurs. You can call upon these connections when looking for items or information.

Wanderer

You have an excellent memory for maps and geography, and you can always recall the general layout of terrain, settlements, and other features around you. In addition, you can find food and fresh water for yourself and up to five other people each day, provided that the land offers berries, small game, water, and so forth.

Watcher's Eye

Your experience in enforcing the law, and dealing with lawbreakers, gives you a feel for local laws and criminals. You can easily find the local outpost of the watch or a similar organization, and just as easily pick out the dens of criminal activity in a community, although you're more likely to be welcome in the former locations rather than the latter.

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Armor Properties

The armor table shows the cost, weight, and other properties of the common types of armor worn in the worlds of D&D.

Armor Materials

The following entries describe the materials of armor that give you special attributes. A set of armor is usually made of iron, leather and steel, but certain other materials give you special properties as described below. To craft armor with these materials, you need the materials worth the amount of gold described below.

Improvised Weapons

Sometimes characters don't have their weapons and have to attack with whatever is at hand. An improvised weapon includes any object you can wield in one or two hands, such as broken glass, a table leg, a frying pan, a wagon wheel, or a dead goblin. Often, an improvised weapon is similar to an actual weapon and can be treated as such. For example, a table leg is akin to a club. At the DM's option, a character proficient with a weapon can use a similar object as if it were that weapon and use his or her proficiency bonus.

An object that bears no resemblance to a weapon deals 1d4 damage (the DM assigns a damage type appropriate to the object). If a character uses a ranged weapon to make a melee attack, or throws a melee weapon that does not have the thrown property, it also deals 1d4 damage. An improvised thrown weapon has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.

Two-Weapon Fighting

When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can make one additional attack with a different light melee weapon that you're holding in the other hand as part of the same action.

If either weapon has the thrown property, you can throw the weapon, instead of making a melee attack with it.

Special Weapons

Weapons with special rules are described here.

Bowblade. The bowblade can be transformed into a scimitar or back again as a bonus action.

Chained Weights. On a hit, a Large or smaller creature must make a DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check or be knocked prone.

Net. A Large or smaller creature hit by a net is restrained until it is freed. A net has no effect on creatures that are formless, or creatures that are Huge or larger. A creature can use its action to make a DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check, freeing itself or another creature within its reach on a success. Dealing 20 slashing damage to the net (AC 20) also frees the creature without harming it, ending the effect and destroying the net. When you use an action, bonus action, or reaction to attack with a net, you can make only one attack with the net regardless of the number of attacks you can normally make. You do not have disadvantage on attack rolls against a target within 5 feet of you with a net.

Pistol blade. When making an attack with the pistol blade, you can either make a melee weapon attack with the blade against a target within your reach, or a ranged weapon attack with the pistol within range. The pistol deals 1d4 piercing damage, has the ammunition (10/30) and loading properties, and uses Dexterity for its attack and damage rolls.

Quadflail. When you hit an attack with this flail, roll a d4. The number rolled determines how many heads will hit the target. You roll the damage die and add your ability modifier as well as any other modifiers a number of times equal to the number rolled on the d4. You cannot make more than one attack with this weapon, regardless of how many attacks you can normally make, even if your Strength score is 24 or higher.

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Uncommon Weapons

Adamantine. An adamantine weapon or piece of ammunition overcomes resistance and immunity to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage that isn't adamantine. Any hit made with an adamantine weapon against an object is a critical hit, and adamantine armor is treated as normal armor. The cost for five pieces of adamantine ammunition equals 125 gp more than the normal version, and 500 gp more than the normal version for a melee weapon, whether the weapon or ammunition is made of the metal or coated with it.

Bone. A bone weapon or piece of ammunition can use either Strength or Dexterity to determine its attack and damage rolls, and loses the heavy property, if it had it before. The cost for five pieces of bone ammunition equals 50 gp more than the normal version, and 200 gp more than the normal version for a melee weapon.

Enchanted. An enchanted weapon counts as magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage, as well as gaining one enchanted weapon property. This property is applied when the ammunition is purchased or crafted, and once a weapon or piece of ammunition is given an enchanted property, it cannot be be given another enchantment. Hit or miss, the enchanted ammunition gets destroyed once used for an attack, and you must attune to an enchanted melee weapon to gain its benefits. The cost for five pieces of enchanted ammunition equals 250 gp more than the normal version, and 1000 gp more than the normal version for a melee weapon. To craft and enchant ammunition or a melee weapon, you must be proficient in smith's tools and be able to cast at least one spell of 3rd level or higher. The enchanting process takes 10 minutes, which you can undertake as part of a short or long rest, after which the gold is absorbed into the enchanted object.

Silver. A silvered weapon or piece of ammuntion overcomes resistance and immunity to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage that isn't silvered. The cost for five pieces of silver ammunition equals 25 gp more than the normal version, and 100 gp more than the normal version for a melee weapon, whether the weapon or ammunition is made of the metal or coated with it.

Wood. A wooden weapon or piece of ammunition weighs and costs half of the normal version of a weapon or ammunition, and loses the heavy property, if it had it before.

Weapon Properties (Enchanted)

You can enchant your weapons or ammunition with one of the following properties.

Armor Piercing (E). You have advantage on attack rolls with an Armor Piercing weapon or ammunition when attacking a creature that has an AC of 20 or higher.

Brutal (E). When you score a critical hit against a creature with a Brutal weapon, you can add one additional weapon damage die to the damage dealt.

Elemental (E). When you hit a creature with an Elemental weapon or ammunition, the target takes an additional 2d4 of one of the following damage types (chosen when gaining this property): acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison or thunder. You can also choose to change your normal damage type with an Elemental weapon to your chosen damage type.

Exotic (E). When you hit a creature with an Exotic weapon or ammunition, the target takes an additional 1d8 of one of the following damage types (chosen when gaining this property): force, necrotic, psychic, or radiant. You can also choose to change your normal damage type with an Exotic weapon to your chosen damage type.

Glowing (E). As a bonus action on your turn, you can have your Glowing weapon or ammunition shed bright light in a 60 foot radius, and dim light for an additional 60 feet. You can deactivate this effect with another bonus action on your turn. An invisible or ethereal creature becomes visible while within 60 feet of you while the weapon sheds light.

Slaying (E). When you hit a creature with an Slaying weapon or ammunition, the target takes an additional 2d6 damage if it is of one of the following creature types (chosen when gaining this property): aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, undead or two distinct humanoid races (such as gnolls and orcs).

Switching (E). When you hit a creature with an Switching weapon or ammunition, you can use a bonus action immediately afterwards to switch places with the target. If you throw the Switching weapon and switch places with your target, the weapon reappears in your hand.

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Weapon Properties (Mundane)

Many weapons have special properties related to their use, as shown in the Weapons tables.

Adaptable. When you make an opportunity attack with this weapon, you have advantage on the attack roll.

Agile. When making an attack with an agile weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls when you wield the weapon in two hands. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.

Ammunition. You can use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a ranged attack only if you have ammunition to fire from the weapon. Each time you attack with the weapon, you expend one piece of ammunition. Drawing the ammunition from a quiver, case, or other container is part of the attack (you need a free hand to load a one-handed weapon).

At the end of the battle, you can recover half your expended ammunition by taking a minute to search the battlefield. If you use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a melee attack, you treat the weapon as an improvised weapon. A sling must be loaded to deal any damage when used this way.

Blackpowder. When fired, Blackpowder weapons emit a deafening crack audible 300 feet away. If a Blackpowder weapon is exposed to heavy rain, submerged, or drenched in water by a similar means, then it cannot fire. A character cannot use this weapon again until they complete a short rest in dry conditions. Blackpowder bullets and grenades are destroyed after being used.

Bludgeon. If you make an attack with this weapon and score a critical hit against a creature wearing armor, you can roll one additional damage die when determining the extra damage it takes.

Brawler. If you attack with this weapon as part of the attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action immediately after to shove or grapple your opponent.

Bulky. When using this weapon to attack a target within 10 feet, you have disadvantage on the attack roll.

Bypass. When you attack a creature wielding a shield with a bypassing weapon, you can ignore the bonus to its AC from its shield.

Covert. If you are hidden, a missed attack with a covert weapon does not reveal you or your position.

Cumbersome. When making an attack with a cumbersome weapon, you must use your Strength modifier for both the attack and damage rolls.

Defensive. While you are wielding a defensive weapon and no shield, you gain a +1 bonus to your AC. You can add this bonus only once.

Deflect. When a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee weapon attack while you are wielding a deflecting weapon, you can reduce the damage as a reaction by 1d4 plus your proficiency bonus (to a minimum of 0 damage).

Demolish. On a hit, your weapon deals double damage to structures and objects.

Disarm. While wielding a disarming weapon, you have advantage on ability checks and attack rolls made to disarm a creature.

Drag. As an action, you can make a special ranged attack with a dragging weapon, a dragging attack. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them. The target of your dragging attack must be no larger than one size larger than you and must be within range of your weapon. Make a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the target's Strength (Athletics) check or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. If you win the contest, the attack causes no damage or other ill effect, but the target gets pulled up to 10 feet towards you.

Execute. If you make an attack with an executing weapon and score a hit against an incapacitated, paralyzed, restrained, surprised or unconscious creature, you can roll one additional damage die when determining the damage it takes.

Finesse. When making an attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.

Flexible. When you take the Attack action and attack with a flexible weapon, you can use a bonus action to make another attack, dealing the same damage type equal to the value in parentheses, on the property description.

Glove. A glove weapon is worn on your hand or forearm, and you cannot be disarmed of it. You can hold objects, wield weapons, and cast spells with a hand fitted with a glove weapon, but you can only attack with the glove weapon if that hand is unoccupied. It takes an action to don or doff a glove weapon.

Heavy. Small or Tiny creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls with heavy weapons. Small and Tiny creatures may craft versions of these weapons that are more suited to them, with the size of all damage dice reduced by one die size (3d4/2d6/1d12 -> 1d10 -> 2d4/1d8 -> 1d6 -> 1d4 -> 1d1).

Hidden. Your weapon is hidden inside a boot, gauntlet, sleeve, staff, hat, cane or another possible location on your person and can be pulled out, ejected via a mechanism or reinserted as a bonus action. The weapon remains hidden unless a creature succeeds on a DC 20 Intelligence (investigation) check to search you.

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Alchemist Supplies

Alchemist's supplies enable a character to produce useful concoctions, such as acid or alchemist's fire.

Brewer's Supplies

Brewing is the art of producing beer. Not only does beer serve as an alcoholic beverage, but the process of brewing purifies water. Crafting beer takes weeks of fermentation, but only a few hours of work.

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Calligrapher's Supplies

Calligraphy treats writing as a delicate, beautiful art. Calligraphers produce text that is pleasing to the eye, using a style that is difficult to forge. Their supplies also give them some ability to examine scripts and determine if they are legitimate, since a calligrapher's training involves long hours of studying writing and attempting to replicate its style and design.

Carpenters's Tools

Skill at carpentry enables a character to construct wooden structures. A carpenter can build a house, a shack, a wooden cabinet, or similar items.

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Cartographer's Tools

Using cartographer's tools, you can create accurate maps to make travel easier for yourself and those who come after you. These maps can range from large-scale depictions of mountain ranges to diagrams that show the layout of a dungeon level.

Cobbler's Tools

Although the cobbler's trade might seem too humble for an adventurer, a good pair of boots will see a character across rugged wilderness and through deadly dungeons.

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Cook's Utensils

Adventuring is a hard life. With a cook along on the journey, your meals will be much better than the typical mix of hardtack and dried fruit.

Disguise Kit

The perfect tool for anyone who wants to engage in trickery, a disguise kit enables its owner to adopt a false identity.

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Forgery Kit

A forgery kit is designed to duplicate documents and to make it easier to copy a person's seal or signature.

Gaming Set

Proficiency with a gaming set applies to one type of game, such as Three-Dragon Ante or games of chance that use dice.

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Glassblower's Tools

Someone who is proficient with glassblower's tools has not only the ability to shape glass, but also specialized knowledge of the methods used to produce glass objects.

Herbalism Kit

Proficiency with an herbalism kit allows you to identify plants and safely collect their useful elements.

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Jeweler's Tools

Training with jeweler's tools includes the basic techniques needed to beautify gems. It also gives you expertise in identifying precious stones.

Land and Water Vehicles

Proficiency with land vehicles covers a wide range of options, from chariots and howdahs to wagons and carts. Proficiency with water vehicles covers anything navigates waterways. Proficiency with vehicles grants the knowledge to handle vehicles of that type, along with knowledge of how to repair and maintain them.

In addition, a character proficient with water vehicles is knowledgable about anything a professional sailor would be familiar with, such as information about the sea and islands, tying knots, and assessing weather and sea conditions.

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Leatherworker's Tools

Knowledge of leatherworking extends to lore concerning animal hides and their properties. It also confers knowledge of leather armor and similar goods.

Mason's Tools

Mason's tools allow you to craft stone structures, including walls and buildings crafted from brick.

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Musical Instruments

Proficiency with a musical instrument indicates you are familiar with the techniques used to play it. You also have knowledge of some songs commonly performed with that instrument.

Navigator's Tools

Proficiency with navigator's tools helps you determine a true course based on observing the stars. It also grants you insight into charts and maps while developing your sense of direction.

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Painter's Tools

Proficiency with painter's supplies represents your ability to paint and draw. You also acquire an understanding of art history, which can aid you in examining works of art.

Poisoner's Kit

A poisoner's kit is a favored resource for thieves, assassins, and others who engage in skulduggery. It allows you to apply poisons and create them from various materials. Your knowledge of poisons also helps you treat them. Additionally, the Crafting and Harvesting Poison rules require the use of a poisoner's kit.

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Potter's Tools

Potter's tools are used to create a variety of ceramic objects, most typically pots and similar vessels.

Smith's Tools

Smith's tools allow you to work metal, heating it to alter its shape, repair damage, or work raw ingots into useful items.

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Thieves' Tools

Perhaps the most common tools used by adventurers, thieves' tools are designed for picking locks and foiling traps. Proficiency with the tools also grants you a general knowledge of traps and locks.

Tinker's Tools

A set of tinker's tools is designed to enable you to repair many mundane objects. Though you can't manufacture much with tinker's tools, you can mend torn clothes, sharpen a worn sword, and patch a tattered suit of chain mail.

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Weaver's Tools

Weaver's tools allow you to create cloth and tailor it into articles of clothing.

Woodcarver's Tools

Woodcarver's tools allow you to craft intricate objects from wood, such as wooden tokens or arrows.

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Additional Appendages

If you have more than two arms or some other additional appendages, the following rules apply:

• Your additional appendages have a range of 5 feet, and you can lift a number of pounds equal to 15 times your Strength modifier, as well as drop, hold, push, or pull an object or a creature.
• You can interact with an additional object or environment feature on your turn for each additional appendage you have beyond two, and you can grapple someone, make an unarmed strike, use tools, use magic items and use spell components with them, as long as they are free.
• You are only able to wield light weapons or light shields with any additional appendages, and you do not gain more than one additional attack from engaging in two-weapon fighting no matter the amount of arms you have, choosing which offhand weapon you make the attack with.

Advantage and Disadvantage

Even if more than one factor gives you advantage or disadvantage on a roll, you have it only once, and if you have advantage and disadvantage on the same roll, they cancel each other.

Bonus Action

If you want to cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 bonus action, remember that you can't cast any other spells before or after it on the same turn, except for cantrips with a casting time of 1 action.

Additionally, any feature, spell or trait that requires a bonus action to activate, can also be activated as an action.

Concentration

If a spell must be maintained with concentration, its description specifies how long you can concentrate on it. You can end concentration at any time (no action required). The following factors can break you concentration:

• You cast another spell or used a special ability that requires concentration.
• You take damage. Suceed on a Constitution saving throw to maintain your concentration, with a DC equal to 10 or half the damage you take, whichever is higher.
• Your incapacitated or killed.
• You're overwhelmed by an enormous distraction, such as a wave crashing into you. Succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw to maintain your concentration.

Combining Different Effects

Different game effects can affect a target at the same time. For example, two different benefits can give you a bonus to your Armor Class. But when two or more effects have the same proper name, only one of them (the most powerful one if their benefits aren't identical) applies while the durations of the effects overlap. For example, if bless is cast on you when you're still under the effect of an earlier bless, you gain the benefit of only one casting. Similarly, if you're in the radius of more than one Aura of Protection, you benefit only from the one that grants the highest bonus.

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Drinking

Adventuring and imbibing alcohol are close bosom buddies. Each day, a creature can safely consume a number of alcoholic drinks equal to their Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 drink). A creature that is resistant to poison damage can safely consume a number of drinks equal to twice their constitution modifier.

For each drink a creature consumes beyond that limit, they must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to 9 + 1 for each drink past their limit.

On a failed saving throw, a creature is poisoned for 1 hour. If a creature fails their saving throw by 5 or more, they retch and are poisoned for 4 hours instead.

A creature that is proficient with brewer's supplies can use their action to stifle the effects of alcohol poisoning. If the creature succeeds on a DC 20 Constitution (Brewer's Supplies) check, they are no longer poisoned. Once a creature uses this action, they can't do so again until they finish a long rest.

Falling

Falling from a great height is a significant risk for adventurers and their foes. At the end of a fall, you take 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet you fell, to a maximum of 20d6. You also land prone, unless you somehow avoid taking damage from the fall.

When you fall from a great height, you instantly descend up to 500 feet. If you are still falling on your next turn, you descend up to 500 feet at the end of that turn. This process continues until the fall ends, either because you hit the ground or the fall is otherwise halted.

A flying creature in flight falls if it is knocked prone, if its speed is reduced to 0 feet, or if it otherwise loses the ability to move, unless it can hover or it is being held aloft by magic, such as the fly spell.

If a flying creature is knocked prone while in flight and it is still conscious, subtract the creature's current flying speed from the distance it fell before calculating damage. This can be due to the creature flapping its wings or taking similar measures to slow the velocity of its fall, if it's able.

If a flying creature that is falling starts any of its later turns still falling and is prone, it can halt the fall on its turn by spending half its flying speed to counter the prone condition (as if it were standing up in midair).

Flying

Flying is strenuous and requires training and inner strength to combine flight with combat or traveling long distances.

Each day, a creature with an innate flying speed can fly a number of hours equal to their Constitution modifier. After each hour a creature flies beyond that limit, they must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to 9 + 1 for each hour past their limit, resetting the DC after finishing a long rest. On a failed saving throw, they gain one level of exhaustion.

You can use your flying speed while unarmored without restrictions, but flying in light armor requires a Strength score of 11 or higher, medium armor requires a strength score of 13 or higher, and heavy armor requires a Strength score of 15 or higher.

While flying, you can use light weapons without any restrictions, but bigger, bulkier and heavier weapons require a certain amount of strength to wield effectively. You have disadvantage on all weapon attacks made with weapons that aren't light while flying, unless your Strength score is 13 or higher, and you have disadvantage on all weapon attacks made with heavy weapons while flying, unless your Strength score is 15 or higher.

To perform the somatic components of cantrips while flying, you require a Dexterity score of 13 or higher, and for spells of 1st level or higher, you require a Dexterity score of 15 or higher.

Potions

Different kinds of magical liquids are grouped in the category of potions: brews made from enchanted herbs, water from magical fountains or sacred springs, and oils that are applied to a creature or object. Most potions consist of one ounce of liquid.

Potions are consumable magic items. Drinking a potion or administering a potion to another character requires a bonus action. Applying an oil might take longer, as specified in its description. Once used, a potion takes effect immediately, and it is used up.

Proficiency Bonus

If your proficiency bonus applies to a roll, you can add the bonus only once to the roll, even if multiple things in the game say your bonus applies. Moreover, if more than one thing tells you to double or halve your bonus, you double it only once or halve it only once before applying it. Whether multiplied, divided, or left at its normal value, the bonus can be used only once per roll.

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Reaction Timing

Certain game features let you take a special action, called a reaction, in response to some event. Making opportunity attacks and casting the shield spell are two typical uses of reactions. If you're unsure when a reaction occurs in relation to its trigger, here's the rule: the reaction happens after its trigger completes, unless the description of the reaction explicitly says otherwise.

Once you take a reaction, you can't take another one until the start of your next turn.

Resistance and Vulnerability

Here's the order that you apply modifiers to damage: (1) any relevant damage immunity, (2) any addition or subtraction to the damage, (3) one relevant damage resistance, and (4) one relevant damage vulnerability.

If a creature or an object has multiple instances of resistance that affect the same damage type, the damage taken is reduced by 5 for each instance of resistance after the first. Likewise, the damage is increased by 5 for each instance of vulnerabality after the first. The damage increase or reduction is applied after the resistance or vulnerability comes into affect.

Round Down

Whenever you divide or multiply a number in the game, round down if you end up with a fraction, even if the fraction is one-half or greater, unless specified otherwise.

Rowed Vessels

Keelboats and rowboats are used on lakes and rivers. If going downstream, add the speed of the current (typically 3 miles per hour) to the speed of the vehicle. These vehicles can’t be rowed against any significant current, but they can be pulled upstream by draft animals on the shores. A rowboat weighs 100 pounds, in case adventurers carry it over land.

Short and Long Rests

A character can’t benefit from more than Short Rest in a 1-hour period or from more than one Long Rest in a 24-hour period, and a character must have at least 1 hit point at the start of the rest to gain its benefits.

Short Rests. A Short Rest is a period of downtime, at least 5 minutes long, during which a character does nothing more strenuous than eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds.

A character can spend one or more Hit Dice at the end of a Short Rest, up to the character’s maximum number of Hit Dice, which is equal to the character’s level. For each Hit Die spent in this way, the player rolls the die and adds the character’s Constitution modifier to it. The character regains Hit Points equal to the total. The player can decide to spend an additional Hit Die after each roll. A character regains some spent Hit Dice upon finishing a Long Rest, as explained below.

Long Rests. A Long Rest is a period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during which a character sleeps or performs light activity: reading, talking, eating, or standing watch for no more than 2 hours. If the rest is interrupted by a period of strenuous activity—at least 1 hour of walking, Fighting, casting Spells, or similar Adventuring activity—the Characters must begin the rest again to gain any benefit from it.

At the end of a Long Rest, a character regains all lost Hit Points. The character also regains spent Hit Dice, up to a number of dice equal to half of the character’s total number of them (minimum of one die). For example, if a character has eight Hit Dice, he or she can regain four spent Hit Dice upon finishing a Long Rest.

Resting on a Vehicle. A creature attempting to take a short or long rest while on a land or water vehicle (e.g. a carriage or a longboat), must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or fail to rest successfully. A creature has advantage on the saving throw if its current hit points exceeds half of its hit point maximum.

If a creature attempts a short rest and fails, it can't expend more than a number of hit dice equal to its Constitution modifier (minimum of 1).

If a creature attempts a long rest and fails, it only regains only a number of hit points equal to one roll of its Hit Die + its Constitution modifier (it doesn't expend a hit die for this) and a quarter of its hit dice, rounded up.

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Saddles, Mounts & Vehicles

Different saddles have different purposes:

• A military saddle braces the rider, giving you advantage on any check you make to remain mounted.
• A pack saddle lets your mount carry up to twice the weight it can normally carry.
• A riding saddle increases the speed of your mount by 5 feet.
• An exotic saddle is required for riding any aquatic or flying mount.

A creature riding without a saddle for longer than 1 hour, and after each consecutive hour after the first, must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to 9 + 1 for each hour past their limit, or gain 1 level of exhaustion.

Sleep

While a creature sleeps, it is subjected to the Unconscious condition. A creature that is naturally sleeping, as opposed to being in a magically or chemically induced sleep, wakes up if it takes any damage or if someone else uses an action to shake or slap the creature awake. A sudden loud noice - such as yelling, thunder, or a ringing bell - also awakes someone that is sleeping naturally.

Whispers don't disturb sleep, unless a sleeper's passive Wisdom (Perception) score is 20 or higher and the whispers are within 10 feet of the sleeper. Speech at a normal volume awakens a sleeper if the environment is otherwise silent (no wind, birdsong, crickets, street sounds, or the like) and the sleeper has a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 15 or higher.

Sleeping in light armor has no adverse effect on the wearer, but sleeping in medium or heavy armor makes it difficult to recover fully during a long rest. When you finish a long rest during which you slept in medium or heavy armor, you regain only one quarter of your spent Hit dice, rounded up. If you have any levels of exhaustion, the rest doesn't reduce your exhaustion level.

A long rest is never mandatory, but going without sleep does have its consequences. Whenever you end a 24-hour period without finishing a long rest, you must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or suffer one level of exhaustion. It becomes harder to fight off exhaustion if you stay awake for multiple days. After the first 24 hours, the DC increases by 5 for each consecutive 24-hour period without a long rest. The DC resets to 10 when you finish a long rest.

Spell Scrolls

A spell scroll bears the words of a single spell, written in a mystical cipher. To identify a spell scroll's spell, make an Intelligence (Arcana) check against a DC equaling 10 + the spell's level. On a success, you can read the spell, learn how to cast it without providing any material components. Otherwise, the scroll is unintelligible to you. Casting the spell by reading the scroll requires the spell’s normal Casting Time. Once the spell is cast, the words on the scroll fade, and it crumbles to dust. If the casting is interrupted, the scroll is not lost.

If the spell of a higher level than you can normally cast, you must make an ability check using your Spellcasting ability to determine whether you cast it successfully. The DC equals 10 + the spell’s level. On a failed check, the spell disappears from the scroll with no other Effect.

The level of the spell on the scroll determines the spell’s saving throw DC and Attack bonus, as well as the scroll’s Rarity, as shown in the Spell Scroll table.

A Wizard spell on a spell scroll can be copied just as Spells in spellbooks can be copied. When a spell is copied from a spell scroll, the copier must succeed on an Intelligence (Arcana) check with a DC equal to 10 + the spell’s level. If the check succeeds, the spell is successfully copied. Whether the check succeeds or fails, the spell scroll is destroyed.

Temporary Hit Points

Temporary hit points aren't cumulative. If you have temporary hit points and receive more of them, you don't add them together, unless a game feature says you can. Instead, you decide which temporary hit points to keep.

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Tying Knots

The creature who ties the knot makes an Intelligence (Sleight of Hand) check when doing so. The total of the check becomes the DC for an attempt to untie the knot with an Intelligence (Sleight of Hand) check or to slip out of it with a Dexterity (Acrobatics) check.

Versatile Features and Multiclassing

Building a Stronghold

A character can spend time between adventures building a stronghold. Before work can begin, the character must acquire a plot of land. If the estate lies within a kingdom or similar domain, the character will need a royal charter (a legal document granting permission to oversee the estate in the name of the crown), a land grant (a legal document bequeathing custody of the land to the character for as long as he or she remains loyal to the crown), or a deed (a legal document that serves as proof of ownership). Land can also be acquired by inheritance or other means.

Royal charters and land grants are usually given by the crown as a reward for faithful service, although they can also be bought. Deeds can be bought or inherited. A small estate might sell for as little as 100 gp or as much as 1,000 gp. A large estate might cost 5,000 gp or more, if it can be bought at all.

Once the estate is secured, a character needs access to building materials and laborers. The Properties table shows the cost of building the stronghold (including materials and labor) and the amount of time it takes, provided that the character is using downtime to oversee construction. Work can continue while the character is away, but each day the character is away adds 3 days to the construction time.

Buying a Magic Item

Purchasing a magic item requires time and money to seek out and contact people willing to sell items. Even then, there is no guarantee a seller will have the items a character desires.

Complications

The magic item trade is fraught with peril. The large sums of money involved and the power offered by magic items attract thieves, con artists, and other villains. If you want to make things more interesting for the characters, roll on the Magic Item Purchase Complications table or invent your own complication.

Carousing

Carousing is a default downtime activity for many characters. Between adventures, who doesn't want to relax with a few drinks and a group of friends at a tavern?

Complications

Characters who carouse risk bar brawls, accumulating a cloud of nasty rumors, and building a bad reputation around town. As a rule of thumb, a character has a 10 percent chance of triggering a complication for each workweek of carousing.

Crafting an Item

A character who has the time, the money, and the needed tools can use downtime to craft armor, weapons, clothing, or other kinds of nonmagical gear.

Tool Proficiencies for Crafting Items

If all the above requirements are met, the result of the process is an item of the desired sort. A character can sell an item crafted in this way at its listed price.

Crafting Magic Items

Creating a magic item requires more than just time, effort, and materials. It is a long-term process that involves one or more adventures to track down rare materials and the lore needed to create the item.

Potions of healing and spell scrolls are exceptions to the following rules. For more information, see "Brewing Potions of Healing" later in this section and the "Scribing a Spell Scroll" section, below.

To start with, a character needs a formula for a magic item in order to create it. The formula is like a recipe. It lists the materials needed and steps required to make the item.

An item invariably requires an exotic material to complete it. This material can range from the skin of a yeti to a vial of water taken from a whirlpool on the Elemental Plane of Water. Finding that material should take place as part of an adventure.

The Magic Item Ingredients table suggests the challenge rating of a creature that the characters need to face to acquire the materials for an item. Note that facing a creature does not necessarily mean that the characters must collect items from its corpse. Rather, the creature might guard a location or a resource that the characters need access to.

If appropriate, pick a monster or a location that is a thematic fit for the item to be crafted. For example, creating mariner's armor might require the essence of a water weird. Crafting a staff of charming might require the cooperation of a specific arcanaloth, who will help only if the characters complete a task for it. Making a staff of power might hinge on acquiring a piece of an ancient stone that was once touched by the god of magic—a stone now guarded by a suspicious androsphinx.

In addition to facing a specific creature, creating an item comes with a gold piece cost covering other materials, tools, and so on, based on the item's rarity. Those values, as well as the time a character needs to work in order to complete the item, are shown on the Magic Item Crafting Time and Cost table. Halve the listed price and creation time for any consumable items.

Complications

Most of the complications involved in creating something, especially a magic item, are linked to the difficulty in finding rare ingredients or components needed to complete the work. The complications a character might face as byproducts of the creation process are most interesting when the characters are working on a magic item: there's a 10 percent chance for every five workweeks spent on crafting an item that a complication occurs. The Crafting Complications table provides examples of what might happen.

Brewing Potions of Healing

Potions of healing fall into a special category for item crafting, separate from other magic items. A character who has proficiency with the herbalism kit can create these potions. The times and costs for doing so are summarized on the Potion of Healing Creation table.

Crime

Sometimes it pays to be bad. This activity gives a character the chance to make some extra cash, at the risk of arrest.

Gambling

Games of chance are a way to make a fortune—and perhaps a better way to lose one.

Gambling Results

Complications

Gambling tends to attract unsavory individuals. The potential complications involved come from run-ins with the law and associations with various criminals tied to the activity. Every workweek spent gambling brings a 10 percent chance of a complication, examples of which are on the Gambling Complications table.

Performing Sacred Rites

A pious character can spend time between adventures performing sacred rites in a temple affiliated with a god he or she reveres. Between rites, the character spends time in meditation and prayer.

A character who is a priest in the temple can lead these rites, which might include weddings, funerals, and ordinations. A layperson can offer sacrifices in a temple or assist a priest with a rite.

A character who spends at least 10 days performing sacred rites gains inspiration (described in chapter 4 of the Player's Handbook) at the start of each day for the next 2d6 days.

Pit Fighting

Pit fighting includes boxing, wrestling, and other nonlethal forms of combat in an organized setting with predetermined matches. If you want to introduce competitive fighting in a battle-to-the-death situation, the standard combat rules apply to that sort of activity.

Relaxation

Sometimes the best thing to do between adventures is relax. Whether a character wants a hard-earned vacation or needs to recover from injuries, relaxation is the ideal option for adventurers who need a break. This option is also ideal for players who don't want to make use of the downtime system.

Religious Service

Characters with a religious bent might want to spend downtime in service to a temple, either by attending rites or by proselytizing in the community. Someone who undertakes this activity has a chance of winning the favor of the temple's leaders.

Research

Forewarned is forearmed. The research downtime activity allows a character to delve into lore concerning a monster, a location, a magic item, or some other particular topic.

Reveling

Characters can spend their downtime engaged in a variety of hedonistic activities such as attending parties, binge drinking, gambling, or anything else that helps them cope with the perils they face on their adventures.

A reveling character spends money as though maintaining a wealthy lifestyle (4 gp per day spent reveling). At the end of the period spent reveling, the player rolls percentile dice and adds the character's level, then compares the total to the Reveling Results table to determine what happens to the character, or you choose.

Running a Business

Adventurers can end up owning businesses that have nothing to do with delving into dungeons or saving the world. A character might inherit a smithy, or the party might be given a parcel of farmland or a tavern as a reward. If they hold on to the business, they might feel obliged to spend time between adventures maintaining the venture and making sure it runs smoothly.

A character rolls percentile dice and adds the number of days spent on this downtime activity (maximum 30), then compares the total to the Running a Business table to determine what happens.

If the character is required to pay a cost as a result of rolling on this table but fails to do so, the business begins to fail. For each unpaid debt incurred in this manner, the character takes a -10 penalty to subsequent rolls made on this table.

Scribing a Spell Scroll

With time and patience, a spellcaster can transfer a spell to a scroll, creating a spell scroll.

Selling a Magic Item

Selling a magic item is by no means an easy task. Con artists and thieves are always looking out for an easy score, and there's no guarantee that a character will receive a good offer even if a legitimate buyer is found.

Sowing Rumors

Swaying public opinion can be an effective way to bring down a villain or elevate a friend. Spreading rumors is an efficient, if underhanded, way to accomplish that goal. Well-placed rumors can increase the subject's standing in a community or embroil someone in scandal. A rumor needs to be simple, concrete, and hard to disprove. An effective rumor also has to be believable, playing off what people want to believe about the person in question.

Sowing a rumor about an individual or organization requires a number of days depending on the size of the community, as shown in the Sowing Rumors table. In a town or city, the time spent must be continuous. If the character spreads a rumor for ten days, disappears on an adventure for another few days and then returns, the rumor fades away without the benefit of constant repetition.

Training

Given enough free time and the services of an instructor, a character can learn a language or pick up proficiency with a tool.

Training to Gain Levels

You must spend downtime training or studying before gaining the benefits of a new level. Once a character has earned enough experience points to attain a new level, he or she must train for a number of days before gaining any class features associated with the new level.

The training time required depends on the level to be gained, as shown on the Training to Gain Levels table. The training cost is for the total training time.

Work

When all else fails, an adventurer can turn to an honest trade to earn a living. This activity represents a character's attempt to find temporary work, the quality and wages of which are difficult to predict.