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Feat Redesign

These classes and rules should be used together with the The Feat Compendium. This contains a redesign of the traditional Feat system, which includes modal feats with so-called subfeatures you can choose from. For example, the new Fighting Styles refer to these subfeatures.

Art: Greg Rutkowski

Your Rage lasts for up to 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious. You can also end your Rage on your turn as a Bonus action.

You start with one use of Rage, which increased to two at 5th level, and three at 11th level. You regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Feat

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th level, you gain a feat of your choice.

Extra Attack

At 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action.

Fast Movement

Your speed increases by 10 feet while you aren’t wearing Heavy Armor.

Primal Instinct

At 7th level, your instincts have become so honed that you can sense danger, providing you with the following benefits:

• You have Advantage on Initiative rolls and Dexterity saving throws, unless you have the Incapacitated condition.
• When you see a creature that has a CR of three or more than your character level, you can instinctively sense that the creature is dangerous.

Savage Critical

At 9th level, when you score a critical hit with an attack using Strength, the target takes extra damage equal to your Barbarian level.

Brute Force

At 11th level, when you have Advantage on a Strength skill check, Saving Throw, or an attack roll using Strength, you can reroll one of the dice once.

Seething Fury

Beginning at 13th level, when you roll Initiative, you may choose to immediately enter your Rage. In addition, your Rage lasts for 10 minutes, instead of 1.

Undying Rage

Your Rage can keep you fighting despite grievous wounds. If you drop to 0 Hit Points while your Rage is active and don’t die outright, you can make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, your Hit Points instead change to a number equal to twice your Barbarian level.

Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC increases by 5. When you finish a Short Rest or Long Rest, the DC resets to 10.

Endless Rage

At 17th level, when you roll Initiative you immediately regain one use of Rage.

Primordial Might

Beginning at 20th level, you embody primal power. Your Strength and Constitution scores increase by 4, and their maximum is now 30.

Art: Justin Sweet

Path of the Beast

Barbarians who walk the Path of the Beast draw their rage from a bestial presence coursing through their blood, causing physical transformations when they draw on its power. The source of this power might be a primal spirit, the touch of lycanthropy, or descent from a shapeshifter.

Apex Predator

At 18th level, your transformation becomes complete. From now on when you Rage, you manifest all three features from Evolved Form, instead of having to choose one.

Art: Christopher Moeller

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. As you enter the berserker's rage, you thrill in the chaos of battle, heedless of your own health or well-being.

Flawless Savagery

Starting at 18th level, you can make opportunity attacks freely, instead of needing your Reaction.

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Path of the Slayer

Even among the Barbarian tribes, Slayers are known for their hulking stature and the monstrous weapons they wield with seeming ease. Their colossal arms are often relics of giants or trophies from vanquished beasts, and symbolize their dominance on the battlefield. With unparalleled might, the Slayer cleaves through armies with howling swings, leaving behind a trail of terror and devastation wherever he treads.

Titanic Stature

At 18th level, if you are smaller than Large, you permanently become Large. Your Strength and maximum Strength score are increase by 2.

Oversized Weapons

The official rules (278 DMG) treat oversized weapons as one full size category larger. As a weapon increases in size, the weapons damage dice are added again for every step above Medium.

Art: Max Kostin

Path of Wild Magic

Many places in the multiverse are unbound and run rampant with chaotic magic; the elemental planes, limbo, and many other such realms of innate magic power radiate with such forces that it can spill over. Barbarians draw strength from their raw chaotic rage, this however makes susceptible to these wild influences, with some barbarians being transformed by the magic. These magic-suffused barbarians walk the Path of Wild Magic.

Maelstrom Wielder

At level 18, by exerting yourself you can gain control over the magic within you. At any time after you rolled on the Wild Magic table, you can expand one of your uses of Rage to reroll any number of the dice and roll an additional one. You may choose up to two outcomes to manifest. If you roll the same number more than once, you can ignore any two dice and choose any effect on the table.

Art: Jarreau Wimberly

Fighting Style

Beginning at 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the below options. When you gain a level in Fighter, you can replace your Fighting Style to a different one.

Unarmed Fighting

• Your unarmed strikes deal Bludgeoning damage equal to your superiority die + your Strength modifier.
• Your unarmed strikes are considered melee weapons and count as Maul attacks for qualifying for maneuvers. If you do not have both hands free, they count as a Mace instead.

Versatile Combatant

• Versatile weapons you wield have their damage die increased by one size category.
• While wielding a Versatile weapon in two hands, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
• You may don or doff your Shield using your Bonus Action.

The Battle Master

Battle Masters are not simply set out to achieve victory, for them it must be accomplished through technical supremacy. These disciplined warriors treat combat as an academic field, that ought to be carefully studied. In their martial aspiration, they reflect upon their battles, diligently analyzing ever move made. Most warriors do not absorbs the lessons of history, theory, and artistry to such degree, but those who do become exceptional fighters of great skill and with sharp minds.

Student of War

At 3rd level, You gain proficiency with one type of Artisan’s Tools of your choice, and you gain proficiency in Investigation, History or Insight.

Superior Technique

Also at 3rd level, when you roll one or more Superiority Dice as part of a Counter, Strike or Stratagem maneuver, you can roll the dice twice and use the higher of the two total results.

Disciplined Mind

At 6th level, you gain an additional number of superiority dice equal to your Intelligence or Wisdom modifier (your choice), with a minimum of 1. In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to the DC of your strike maneuvers.

Flawless Execution

At 10th level, endless repetition allow you to execute your maneuvers perfectly. You may declare the use of a strike maneuver after a weapon attack roll is made.

Battle Recollection

At 14th level, at the start of your turn in combat, you regain one Superiority Die.

Technical Supremacy

At 18th level, you have reached the pinnacle of technical mastery, allowing you to seamlessly weave together your strikes. From now on, you can initiate a different strike maneuver with each attack on your turn.

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The Champion

The archetypal Champion focuses on the development of their raw physical talent and hone it to deadly perfection. Those who model themselves on this archetype combine exceptional athleticism with rigorous training to push their physical capabilities into the realm of legends.

Outlast

At 18th level, as you survived through endless battles you have acquired legendary resilience. You gain the following benefits:

• At the start of each of your turns, if you are Wounded but conscious, you regain hit points equal to your Strength, Dexterity and Constitution modifiers combined.
• You are immune to the Exhausted condition.

Art: Alex Alekseenko

The Gladiator

A Gladiator aspiration often lies beyond the more typical noble motivations of allegiance, duty or martial perfection. Instead, these fighters tend to have more hedonistic causes, such as wealth, fame and admiration. To this end, a Gladiator treats combat as a performance, an art, and most of all an opportunity for spectacle. On the battlefield, this manifests itself in the way they cut through their foes, brutally, yet graciously. As the Gladiator stand victorious, they revel as the crowd is struck by awe.

Reigning Veteran

At 18th level, you are relentless in your pursuit of a worthy challenger. When the creature designated as your challenger dies, you can freely designate a different creature you can see as your challenger. When you challenge a creature this way, you regain one use of Vicious Counter.

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The Mage Knight

The Mage Knight combine arcane teachings with martial prowess to enhance their combat capabilities. They apply magical techniques similar to those practiced by wizards, except they focus their study on the schools of abjuration and evocation magic. Abjuration spells grant an Mage Knight additional protection in battle, and evocation spells deal damage to many foes at once, extending the fighter's reach in combat.

Battle Arcana

Beginning at 6th level, when you take the Attack Action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks by casting a cantrip with a casting time of 1 Action.

In addition, when you use Action Surge, your additional Action can now also be used to take the Magic Action.

Mage Knight Spellcasting

Fighter Level	Cantrips Known	Spells Known	1st Level	2nd Level	3rd Level	4th Level
3rd	2	3	2	—	—	—
4th	2	4	3	—	—	—
5th	3	4	3	—	—	—
6th	3	4	3	—	—	—
7th	3	5	4	2	—	—
8th	3	6	4	2	—	—
9th	3	6	4	2	—	—
10th	4	7	4	3	—	—
11th	4	8	4	3	—	—
12th	4	8	4	3	—	—
13th	4	9	4	3	2	—
14th	4	10	4	3	2	—
15th	4	10	4	3	2	—
16th	4	11	4	3	2	—
17th	4	11	4	3	3	1
18th	4	11	4	3	3	1
19th	4	12	4	3	3	2
20th	4	13	4	3	3	2

Art: theDURRRRIAN

Spellstrike

At 10th level, you learn how release spells with your strikes. When you hit a creature with your bonded weapon, you can expend your Bonus Action and one superiority die to cast a Mage Knight spell. The spell must be instantaneous, have a casting time of 1 Action, and target one creature or affect an area (cone, line or sphere). When you cast a spell this way, the following effects apply:

• If the spell requires an attack roll, it uses the same roll as the weapon attack.
• If the spell forces a saving throw on the struck creature, that creature has Disadvantage on the saving throws made against it this turn.
• If the spell deals damage, you add the superiority die to the spells damage roll.
• If the spell you deliver through your weapon creates an effects based on a position, the effects instead use the struck creatures position. For direction it uses a straight line between you and the struck creature.
• You may exclude yourself from the spell's area of effect.

Improved Battle Arcana

At 14th level, your Battle Arcana extends beyond cantrips, allowing you to also cast an instantaneous spell with a casting time of 1 Action in place of an attack.

Arcane Flourish

At 18th level, when you use Improved Battle Arcana to replace your third attack to cast a spell of 2nd level or higher, you can combine two spells slots of lower levels to cast that spell. The combined spell slots must be equal or higher than the level of the spell cast this way.

In addition, when u Action Surge, you immediately recover three levels worth of expanded spell slots, divided as you choose.

Art: John Dowson

Fighting Stances

A Stance is a particular fighting pose that grants a martial adept unique benefits, but also disadvantages. Unlike maneuvers, stances do not require superiority dice, but are limited in that you can only maintain one at a time. All the stances you know are available to you at all times. At the start of your turn in combat, you can use your Bonus Action to adopt a Stance, or change from one Stance to another. Alternatively, you may instead forgo a Stance freely. At any time you become incapacitated, you can no longer maintain your stance and thus lose its benefits.

Doming Phalanx

Stance: You cover your allies as you raise your weapon to the blow. Their hopes dashed as they meet the bladed iron wall.

• You can't make opportunity attacks.
• You gain a +1 to AC for each allied creature that is adjacent to you, up to a maximum of +2 AC.
• Allies adjacent to you not using this Stance gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Art: David Seguin

Grinning Wolf

Stance: Your style naturally open up your foes defenses, allowing you and your allies to swiftly pick them apart.

• You have Disadvantage on melee attack rolls made against a creature if no ally is adjacent to the creature.
• When you make a melee attack against a creature that has at least one of the your (conscious) allies adjacent to it, it deals an extra 1d4 points of damage.

Hydra Hunting

Stance: With a circular motion you gracefully guide your weapon's momentum, striking at exceptional angles of attack.

• During your turn, you can't attack the same creature more than once.
• When you take the Attack action using a melee weapon, you may make an additional melee attack.
• You are immune to being flanked.

Iron Pillar

Stance: With timed strikes, you stop your foes in their tracks, punishing those foolish enough to divert their path.

• When you enter this Stance or attack, you lose all remaining movement for the current turn.
• When you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, the creature's speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn.
• When a creature makes an attack against another target, you can use your Reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the attacking creature.

Reaping Wind

Stance: As your strike extend beyond normal, your foe stumbles, surprised that you could reach at such distance.

• As you enter this Stance, or by using your Bonus Action, you may end your turn to ready an Attack to strike at a creature who enters your reach. If you do, your weapons is treated as having the Reach property until the start of your next turn.

Resolute Form

Stance: Your form shifts, suddenly resolute, favoring consistency over potential.

• Your attacks are never made with Advantage.
• When you miss with an attack, you may use your Bonus Action to make an attack with that same weapon.

Rooting Mountain

Stance: You crouch and ground your feet, rooting yourself to the spot you stand. Nothing will move you from your place.

• You spend one extra foot of movement for every foot you move.
• At the end of your turn, if you did not move, you gain temporary hit points points equal to your Fighter level.
• You can't be pushed, dragged or knocked Prone by creatures up to one size larger than you.

Steel Curtain

Stance: Through graceful movement of your shield, each slash becomes a mere scratch, each blow becomes a thud.

• Your AC is reduced by 1.
• When a creature damages you with an Attack while you are using a Shield, you can use your Reaction to gain damage resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage until the end of the current turn.

Thicket of Blades

Stance: You recklessly create an opening in your defenses, to provoke an opportunity for a stinging counter.

• You or adjacent enemies can't take the Disengage Action.
• When you make an opportunity attack, you can make a number of attacks equal to those you can make as part of the Attack action.

Thrashing Serpent

Stance: You blitz through the battlefield striking your foes as you pass by, providing no opening for retaliation.

• You can't move through an allied creatures space.
• When you hit a creature with a melee attack, you regain 5 feet of spent movement and don't provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for the rest of the turn.

Weeping Penance

Stance: You let them tear your flesh and splinter your bones, as you guide them to the path of repentance.

• Melee attacks never have Disadvantage against you.
• When an adjacent creature you have hit since the start of your last turn attacks another creature, you may use your Reaction to redirect the attack to you.

Art: Craig Mullins

List of Maneuvers

The following section contains a list of all maneuvers. Maneuvers belong to the Brutal, Martial, Cunning or Warcry groups. Different classes have access to different maneuver groups. The DC for Brutal maneuvers is determined using Strength, while Martial use the same as modifier as used for the attack, and Cunning use Dexterity. The three basic types of maneuvers are counters, stratagems and strikes.

To initiate a maneuver, you must be proficient with any weapon used as part of it. All maneuvers require at least one superiority die to initiate.

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Ambush

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Stratagem)
Requires: Proficiency in Stealth.
When you make an initiative roll, you can expend one superiority die and add the die to the roll, provided you aren't incapacitated. The first attack you make against a creature that hasn't acted in combat yet, is made with Advantage.

Battle Insight

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Stratagem)
Requires: Proficiency in Insight or Investigation.
As you exchange blows, through experience and wit you gain valuable insights into your foe's capabilities. As a Bonus Action, you can expend a superiority die. Choose a creature you hit with an attack this combat. You can make an Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Insight) check with a DC equal to 8 + the creatures CR, and add your superiority die to the skill check. On a success, roll two d8 and use the list below to determine what property you gain insight in (its up to the DMs how much you learn exactly). If you roll the same number twice, you ignore those two and may choose any two from the list instead. On a failed check, roll 2d4 instead, limiting you to the first four options.

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[1]: Armor Class
[2]: Proficiency Bonus
[3]: Highest score among Strength, Dexterity & Constitution
[4]: Lowest score among Strength, Dexterity & Constitution
[5]: Speed and available Movement types
[6]: Damage and Conditional Immunities
[7]: Damage Resistances and Vulnerabilities
[8]: An special ability

Bellowing Blow

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Strike)
Requires: A Heavy or Bludgeoning Martial Melee weapon.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Bellowing Blow, that rattles your foe to the core. On a hit, add your superiority die to the attack’s damage roll. It must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or gain the Dazed condition until the start of your next turn.

Brace

Maneuver Type: Martial (Counter)
As you take damage, you can use your Reaction to expend both a superiority die and a Hit Dice to brace yourself for incoming attacks. Roll both. You gain temporary hit points equal to the combined results + your Constitution Modifier. These temporary hit points last up to 1 minute.

Command to Strike

Maneuver Type: Warcry (Stratagem)
You can use your Bonus Action to direct one of your companions to strike. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you and expend one superiority die. That creature can immediately use its Reaction to make one melee attack, adding the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll.

Cleave

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Strike)
Requires: A Slashing weapon held in two hands.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Cleave attack, that attempts to cut through your target and strike a second creature within reach. On a hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll against the original target. Then, you can make an attack roll with the same weapon against a second creature within 5 feet of the first that is also within your reach (even if the initial attack missed).

Crushing Blow

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Strike)
Requires: Flail, Light Hammer, Mace, Maul or Warhammer.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Crushing Blow. For this attack, the targets AC is considered equal to its Dexterity score. On a hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and the creature becomes debilitated until the end of your next turn. While debilitated, melee attacks against it are made with Advantage.

Disarming Attack

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Strike)
Requires: Any melee weapon with the Finesse property.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Disarming Attack. If it hits, you attempt to disarm the target, forcing it to drop one item of your choice that it's holding. You add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll. The target must make a Strength saving throw. On a fail, the object you chose drops at its feet.

Earthshatter

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Strike)
Requires: Greataxe or Maul.
As an Action, you expend two superiority die to execute an earth shattering slam. Roll a number superiority die equal to your proficiency bonus. Each other creature within 10 feet of where you strike, must make a Dexterity saving throw or take Bludgeoning damage equal the total roll + your Strength modifier and be knocked Prone. A target that succeeds its saving throw takes halve damage instead and remains standing. If the ground in that area is earth or stone, it becomes difficult terrain until cleared. Each 5-foot-square portion of the area requires 1 minute to clear by hand.

Enduring Cry

Maneuver Type: Warcry (Stratagem)
When an ally you can see would take damage or make a Constitution saving throw, you can use your Reaction and expend one superiority die to bolster its resolve. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature may immediately use a Hit Dice to regain hit points. If that players does, it regains an additional number of hit points equal to your superiority dice. In addition, it gains advantage on Constitution saving throws until the end of the creatures next turn.

Execute

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Strike)
Requires: Any Heavy melee weapon.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks against a Incapacitated, Restrained or Prone creature an executing strike. If it hits, the attack is considered an automatic critical hit, and you may roll your superiority die and add it to the attack's damage roll.

Exposing Strike

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks an Exposing Strike. When you hit the creature, you disrupt its stance, giving your allies an opening. You add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll. The creature provokes an attack of opportunity from each ally that is flanking the creature.

Fall Back!

Maneuver Type: Warcry (Stratagem)
You can use your Reaction and expend one superiority to call a tactical retreat. When you do so, choose another friendly creature who can see or hear you.

Until your next turn, the creature may use its Bonus Action to Disengage. When it does, it gains Temporary Hit Points equal to your superiority die.

Fan of Blades

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Strike)
Requires: Dagger or Handaxe
As an Action, by expanding a superiority die, you can make a ranged Thrown weapon attack against any number of creatures within a cone in front of you. The cone has a range of 5 times your proficiency bonus. On a hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

Art: Eric Persson

Feinting Assault

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Stratagem)
Requires: A melee weapon held in one hand.
As a Bonus Action, you can expend a superiority die on your turn to feint, choosing one creature within 5 feet of you as your target. You make a Slight of Hand test opposed by the creatures Insight test. If you succeed, you have Advantage on your attack rolls against that creature this turn. When the next attack on the same turn hits, add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

Final Flourish

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Any martial weapon.
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend all superiority die to attempt to slay your foe in a single overwhelming attack. Roll all superiority die expended this way plus one, and add the total amount to the attack’s damage roll.

Flesh Ripper

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Strike)
Requires: Wielding two Slashing weapons.
As part of the Attack action, you can expend a superiority die, to unleash viciously, rending and tearing your foe to pieces. Each time you attack with your main hand weapon as part of this Attack action, you may also attack with the melee weapon held in your off-hand. Once when your main-hand and off-hand hit in succession this way, you deal extra Slashing damage equal to your superiority die.

Other than the mentioned exceptions, these attacks follow the rules of the (new) Two-Weapon Fighting rules.

Gleaming Strike

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Any Light melee weapon.
As a Bonus Action, you can expend one superiority die and make a weapon attack. You can draw the weapon as part of this attack. Add the superiority die to the attack roll.

Heavy Strike

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Strike)
Requires: Any melee Bludgeoning weapon.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Heavy Strike. If it hits, the powerful blow pushes it back by force. You add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw, or be pushed 10 feet away from you and gain the Prone condition. If it makes it save, it is only pushed back 5 feet and remains standing.

Hooking Strike

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: A Dagger, Shortsword, Sickle, Tridant, War Pick
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Hooking Strike. If it hits, you attempt to hook the creature. You add your superiority die to the attack’s damage roll and may attempt a Grapple, using the weapon or a free hand. If you do, the target has Disadvantage on the saving throw to resist the Grapple. While you use your weapon to Grapple this way, you can't use that weapon for attacking.

Impale

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Strike)
Requires: A Lance, Pike or Spear.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks an Impale. On a hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and if the target is normal sized or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it gains the Grappled condition as you impale it. While impaled, you can forgo an attack as part of the Attack Action to Shove the creature 5 feet. Each time you do so, you may move along with it, and the impaled creature takes Piercing damage equal to your Strength modifier.

Once per turn, when you Shove a creature this way into another creature, you may use your impaling weapon to make an extra attack against the creature you shoved into, treating it as though it had the Reach property. You are otherwise prohibited from attacking with that weapon.

You can freely choose to end the effect on your turn. It also ends if you move more than 5 feet away from the creature.

Interpose Shield

Maneuver Type: Martial (Counter)
Requires: A Shield.
You can use this maneuver in reaction to a ranged attack, or an area effect (cone, line or sphere) that allows you to make a Dexterity Saving Throw to take half damage. When you or one or more creatures in a 30 feet cone behind you (relative to the origin of the attack or effect) would be dealt damage, you can use your Reaction to throw up your shield as a barrier. For the effect or attack, you and creatures within the cone may add your superiority die as a bonus to AC and Dexterity saving throws, potentially changing the outcome. You take no damage if you succeed on the Saving Throw.

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Leap

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Strike)
Requires: Proficiency in Athlethics.
As an Action, you can expand a superiority die to leap forward. Make a Strength (Athletics) check and add you superiority die to the result. If you moved at least 10 feet on foot immediately before the jump, the Athletics check is made with Advantage, while wearing Heavy Armor imposes -5 penalty. You may leap forward up to a number of feet equal to the result, rounded to the nearest 5. If the Athletics check is at least 20, you can move through the space of any creature up to your size. Any movement made as part of leap does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

When you land next to a creature and leaped at least 10 feet straight towards it, you may immediately make a melee attack against it as part of the same action. This attack is made with Advantage, and you may add your superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

Lunging Strikes

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Stratagem)
Requires: Any Martial Slashing or Piercing melee weapon.
As a Bonus Action, you can expend one superiority die to temporarily increase your reach. Until the end of your turn, your reach is increased by 5 feet and your next attack that hits deals extra damage equal to your superiority die.

Maneuvering Attack

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Strike)
Requires: Any melee weapon.
As an Action, you can expend one superiority die to maneuver yourself and an ally into a more advantageous position. You can choose an allied creature with 5 feet of you who can see or hear you. If willing, that creature may switch positions with you. Neither you or your ally provoke opportunity attacks for doing so. Immediately after the move, both you and your ally may make a melee attack against a creature within reach. You may do so as part of the same Action, but your ally must use their Reaction to do so. You and the ally both roll and add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

Menacing Attack

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Any martial melee weapon.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Menacing Attack. On a hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it gains the Frightened condition until the end of your next turn. If the creature succeeds on its saving throw, it can't be Frightened again by your Menacing Attack for the next 24 hours.

Muscle Burst

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Stratagem)
Requires: Proficiency in Athlethics.
At any time you make a Strength skill check or an attack roll using Strength during combat, after rolls are made, you can expend one superiority die and add the superiority die to the initial result.

Parry

Maneuver Type: Martial (Counter)
Requires: Any martial melee weapon.
When you are hit by an attack, you can use your Reaction and expend a superiority die to add it to your AC, potentially causing the attack to miss. The AC bonus lasts until the end of the current turn.

Piercing Shot

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Shortbow, Longbow, Javelin or Spear.
As an Action, you expend one superiority die to make a powerful shot that rips through your targets. Each creature in a straight line up to the normal range of your weapon, must make a Dexterity saving throw or take Weapon damage + your superiority die + your Strength or Dexterity modifier.

Pinning Shot

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Strike)
Requires: A ranged or thrown piercing weapon.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Pinning Shot, attempting to pin a creature that is within normal range of your weapon to the wall, ground or similar hard terrain. On a hit, add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and if the creature is no more than one size larger than you, it must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or have its speed reduced to 0 until the end of its next turn. A creature is unaffected if it is currently flying, swimming, or is immune to being knocked prone.

Point Blank Shot

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Any ranged or thrown weapon.
When you make a ranged weapon attack against a creature within 5 feet of you, you can expend one superiority die and make the attack without Disadvantage. If the attack hits, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and the target must make a Strength saving throw or be pushed back 5 feet.

Puncture

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Any piercing weapon.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Puncture. Add your superiority die to the attack roll. On a hit, for each point the attack roll exceeds the targets AC, it deals 1 additional Piercing damage.

Quick Shot

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Counter)
Requires: Any ranged or thrown weapon.
When a creature enters the normal Range of a ranged or thrown weapon you wield, you may use your Reaction and a superiority die to make a ranged weapon attack with that weapon. On a hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

Rallying Cry

Maneuver Type: Warcry (Stratagem)
On an allied creatures turn, you can use your Reaction and expend one superiority die to inspire one of your companions. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. Until end of turn, it may use the Dash action as a Bonus action and adds you superiority die to their next attack roll.

Rain of Arrows

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Shortbow or Longbow.
As an Action, you can expand two superiority dice to rain down arrows on to your foes. You make a ranged weapon attack against each creature inside a 20-foot-radius circle within the weapons normal range. On a hit, you add the superiority die to the first two attack's damage rolls.

Rapid Adjustment

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Stratagem)
Requires: Proficiency in Acrobatics.
At any time you make a Dexterity skill check or an attack roll using Dexterity during combat, after rolls are made, you can expend one superiority die and add the superiority die to the initial result.

Rupture

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Any Slashing or Piercing weapon.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Rapture. If it hits, it inflict a grievous wound that bleeds profusely. You add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll. At the start of each of the bleeding creatures turns, the target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it loses hit points equal to the ability modifier you used to make the attack roll. The bleeding also ends when it receives magical healing or a creature uses an Action to make a DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check to stop the flow of blood.

A creature without blood, or a similar bodily fluid, can't be caused to bleed. A creature can only have one bleeding effect at a time.

Riposte

Maneuver Type: Martial (Counter)
Requires: Greatsword, Longsword, Rapier or Shortsword.
When a creature makes melee attack against you, after the attack roll is made, you can use your Reaction and expend one superiority die to instill a penalty to that attack equal to your superiority die result, potentially turning a hit into a miss. If the attack misses, you may make a melee weapon attack against the creature.

Shield Crush

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Strike)
Requires: A Shield.
By expending your Bonus Action and a superiority die, you can make a powerful smashing attack using your shield. You make an attack roll using your Shield. On a hit, you deal Bludgeoning damage equal to your superiority die + your Strength modifier, and the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be Shoved or knocked Prone.

Snipe

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Strike)
Requires: Any Bow, Crossbow or Thrown weapon.
When you make a ranged weapon attack as part of the Attack Action, you can expend a superiority die to shoot with exceptional accuracy. Add the superiority die to both attack and damage rolls for the attack. The attack ignores any penalties imposed by long range and cover.

Spellbreaker

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Strike)
Requires: Any Martial weapon.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks as a Spellbreaker, aimed at breaking a creatures concentration. On a hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll. For this attack and any subsequent attacks you make this turn, the creature has Disadvantage on saving throws made to maintaining concentration.

Taunting Strike

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Any Martial melee weapon, Proficiency in Persuasion.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks as a Taunting Strike. On a hit, you attempt to goad the target into attacking you. You add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target has Disadvantage on all attack rolls against targets other than you, and it can’t willingly move away from you. These effects last until the end of your next turn.

Tendon Slash

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Any Martial Slashing weapon.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Tendon Slash, attempting to hinder its movement. On a hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and the target must succeed a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save it gains the Slowed condition until the end of your next turn.

Only creatures that rely on limbs for movement can be affected by this maneuver.

Venom Thrust

Maneuver Type: Cunning (Strike)
Requires: Any Finesse Piercing weapon.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your attacks a Venom Thrust. On a hit, you attempt to instill a state of toxic shock. If the weapon was coated with an injury poison, you add the superiority die as Poison damage to the attack's damage roll, and the creature gains Disadvantage on any saving throw made to resist that poison.

Vicious Strike

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
After you make a weapon attack roll, you can expend one superiority die to increase the attacks critical range by one (normally to a 19 - 20) and add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll. This ability scales with other effects that increase critical threat range.

Warning Call

Maneuver Type: Warcry (Stratagem)
You can use your Reaction and expend one superiority die to alert an ally of danger. When you do so, choose another friendly creature that you can see, and who can see or hear you. Roll a superiority die. Until the end of the current turn, the ally gains a bonus to AC and Dexterity saving throws equal to the result. You may choose to use Warning Call after any rolls are made.

Weapon Hurl

Maneuver Type: Brutal (Strike)
Requires: Any melee weapon, Strength 15+.
When you take the Attack Action on your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks to hurl your weapon at an enemy. For this attack the weapon is treated as having the thrown property, with normal throw range equal to ten times your Strength modifier. On a hit, the weapon damage die is doubled and you may add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

If a Heavy weapon is thrown this way, the range is halved and on a hit the creature must succeed a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

The weapon drops at the feet of your target.

Wing Clip

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Any ranged or Throwing weapon.
When you take the Attack Action, you can declare one of your ranged or thrown attacks a Wing Clip. On a hit, add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and the target creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or have its Climbing and Flying speed reduced to 0 feet until the end of its next turn. A Climbing or Flying creature affected by this maneuver tumbles at 60 feet per round. Only creatures that uses appendages such as arms or wings to climb or fly are affected by this maneuver.

Whirlwind Strike

Maneuver Type: Martial (Strike)
Requires: Melee Slashing or Bludgeoning weapon, used while two-weapon fighting or held with two hands.
As an Action, you can forgo your remaining movement and expend a superiority die to make a whirling attack. As part of this maneuver, you can make a single melee attack against each creature within your reach. On your first hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll. Each creature hit this way is pushed 5 feet away from you if it is no more than one size larger than you.

Warstorm

Maneuver Type: Warcry (Stratagem)
You can use your Action and expend one superiority to coordinated charge. Until the end of turn, you can move straight towards a hostile creature you can see. Any ally within 15 feet of as you move that can see you, may use its Reaction to move up to its speed along with you. At the end of your movement, you may make a melee attack against a creature within your reach. On a hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll. Any ally may do the same as part of the same Reaction.

Art: Heonhwa Choe

Rules Changes & Additions

This chapter contains changes to base combat rules. In line with most other rule changes presented in this document, the aim of these changes is to make combat more tactical, exciting, intuitive and balanced. Choices will have more weight to them and revolve more around pro's and con's.

Multiclassing & Martial Maneuvers

When a player decided to multiclass, the following rules apply for maneuvers and superiority dice:

• Maneuvers Known. The number of maneuvers known from different classes are added together.

• Superiority Dice. The amount of superiority dice you have available is based on your proficiency bonus gained from classes belonging to the Warrior group. For example, if you have 5 levels in Fighter and 4 levels in Barbarian, your Warrior level is considered 9. At level 9, your proficiency bonus is +4 and thus you will have 4 superiority dice. On the other hand, if you would have 5 levels in Wizard and 4 levels in Fighter, your Warrior level would be 4. At level 4 you have a proficiency bonus of +2, and thus your would only have 2 superiority dice.

• Superiority Die Size. All your superiority dice have a size equal to the largest provided by a class you have.

Resting

Heroic though they might be, Adventurers can’t spend every hour of the day in the thick of Exploration, Social Interaction, and Combat. They need rest — time to sleep and eat, tend their wounds, refresh their minds and spirits for Spellcasting, and brace themselves for further adventure.

Adventurers can take Short Rests in the midst of an Adventuring day and a Long Rest to end the day.

Long Rest

A Long Rest is a period of extended downtime at least 8 hours long during which a creature sleeps for at least 6 hours and performs no more than 2 hours of light activity, such as reading, talking, eating, or standing watch.

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Benefits of a Long Rest:

• Recovery. You regain all Hit Points and half your Hit Dice, rounded up.

• HP Max Restored. If your Hit Point Maximum was reduced, it returns to normal.

• Ability Scores Restored. If any of your Ability Scores were reduced, they return to normal.

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

Short Rest

A Short Rest is a period of Downtime, at least 15 minutes, during which a character does nothing more strenuous than eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds.

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Interrupting the Rest
If a Long Rest is interrupted by combat or by 1 hour of walking, casting Spells, or similar activity, the rest confers no benefit and must be restarted; however, if the rest was at least 1 hour long before the interruption, the creature gains the benefits of a Short Rest.

Art: Baelrog (Midjourney AI)

Exhaustion

Exhaustion is a cumulative condition. Each time you receive it you gain 1 level of exhaustion. While you are subjected to the Exhausted Condition, you suffer the following effects:

• Levels of Exhaustion. This condition is cumulative. Each time you receive it, you gain 1 level of exhaustion. You die if your exhaustion level exceeds 10.
• Affected d20 Rolls When you make a d20 Test, you subtract your exhaustion level from the d20 roll.
• Save DCs are reduced. Subtract your exhaustion level from the Spell save DC of any Spell you cast.
• Ending Exhaustion: Finishing a Long Rest removes 1 of your levels of exhaustion. When your exhaustion level reaches 0, you are no longer Exhausted.

Grappled

While you are Grappled, you experience the following effects:

• Speed 0. Your Speed is 0 and can’t change.
• Attacks Affected. You have Disadvantage on attack rolls against any target other than the grappler.
• Movable. The grappler can drag or carry you, but the grappler must spend 1 extra foot of movement for every foot you move, unless you are two or more Sizes smaller than the grappler.
• Escape. While Grappled, you can make a Dexterity or Strength saving throw against the grapple’s escape DC at the end of each of your turns, ending the Condition on yourself on a success. You may also spent your Action to make an escape attempt. The Condition also ends if the grappler is Incapacitated or if the distance between you and the grappler exceeds the grapple’s range.

Invisible

While Invisible, you experience the following effects:

• Concealed. You aren’t affected by any effect that requires its target to be seen.
• Surprise. If you are Invisible when you roll initiative, you have Advantage on the roll.
• Attacks Affected. Attack rolls against you have Disadvantage, and your attack rolls have Advantage. If a creature can somehow see you, as with magic or Blindsight, you don’t gain this benefit against that creature.

Incapacitated

While Incapacitated, you experience the following effects:

• Inactive. You can’t take any Action, Bonus Action, or Reaction.
• No Concentration. Your Concentration is broken.
• Speechless. You can’t speak.
• Surprised. If you are Incapacitated when you roll Initiative, you have Disadvantage on the roll.

Prone

Your movement is hindered, you experience the following effects:

• Limited Movement. You must spend 1 extra foot of movement for every foot you move using your Speed.
• Attacks Affected. Attack Rolls against you have Advantage.
• Sluggish. You have Disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws.
• Standing Up. You can spend an amount of movement equal to half your speed to end the Prone condition on yourself. You can’t stand if your speed is 0.

Restrained

• A restrained creature’s speed becomes 0, and it can’t benefit from any bonus to its speed.
• Attack rolls against the creature have Advantage, and the creature’s attack rolls have Disadvantage.
• The creature has Disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws.

Slowed

Your movement is hindered, you experience the following effects:

• Attacks Affected. Attack Rolls against you have Advantage.
• Impaired Movement. You must spend 1 extra foot of movement for every foot you move using your Speed.
• Sluggish. You have Disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws.

Unconscious

While Unconscious, you experience the following effects:

• Inert. You have the Incapacitated and Prone conditions, and you drop whatever you are holding. When this condition ends, you remain Prone.
• Unmoving. Your Speed is 0 and can’t change, and you automatically fail Strength and Dexterity saving throws.
• Helpless Attack rolls against you have Advantage, and any attack roll that hits you is a critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet of you.
• Unaware. You are unaware of your surroundings.

Weakened

• You have Disadvantage on a Strength and Dexterity based skill checks or saving throws, and attack rolls using Strength or Dexterity.

Wounded

A creature is Wounded while below 50% of of its maximum Hit Points, and retains the condition until it recover Hit Points above 50% of it maximum. This condition does nothing by itself, but some mechanics interact with Wounded creatures.