Basic Equipment

Every adventurer requires stuff to adventure with. Whether you're on the frontline in heavy armor or in the backline with cloth, there's always more stuff for you. This document covers all of the options for equipment when building a character

Armor and Shield Properties

• Barbed: A suit of barbed armor or is covered with spikes and hooks designed to injure creatures foolish enough to grab at it. While you wear barbed armor a creature takes damage equal to 5 + your level when you escape that creature's grab on your turn or when that creature escapes your grab.
• Check: The penalty to Strength, Constitution, and Dexterity based ability and skill checks for wearing this armor
• Shield Bonus: Shields give a bonus to both AC and Reflex. Furthermore, you can carry small objects while wielding a light shield, but cannot carry anything in a heavy-shield wielding hand.
• Tough: Tough armor is reinforced with additional plates designed to protect vulnerable areas. The first time in each encounter a critical hit is scored against your AC while you're wearing tough armor, the critical hit becomes a normal hit.

Reading the Weapons Tables

Prof.: Having proficiency with a weapon means that you are trained in the use of that weapon, which gives you a proficiency bonus to weapon attack rolls. The bonus appears in this column if applicable. Some weapons are more accurate than others, as reflected by their bonus. If you don't have proficiency with the weapon, you don't gain this bonus.

Damage: The weapon's damage die. When a power deals a number of weapon damage dice (such as 4[W]), you roll the number of the dice indicated by this entry. If the weapon's damage die is an expression of multiple dice, roll that number of dice the indicated number of times. For example, a broadsword (which has a damage die of 1dlO) deals 4dlO damage when used with a power that deals 4[W] on a hit.

Range: The number before the slash indicates the normal range for the weapon. The number after the slash indicates the "long range" for the weapon. Attacks at long range have a -2 penalty to the attack roll. Attacks cannot be made beyond a weapon's range. Melee weapons with ranges will have either the "Heavy Thrown" or "Light Thrown" property.

Weapon Properties

• Brutal N: Whenever you roll N or lower on a damage die using this power, reroll that die
• Defensive: You gain a +1 bonus to AC while wielding a defensive weapon
• Heavy thrown: You hurl a thrown weapon from your hand, rather than using it to loose a projectile. A ranged basic attack with a heavy thrown weapon uses your Strength instead of your Dexterity for the attack and damage rolls.

• High Crit: Whenever you score a critical strike with this weapon add 1[W] damage. This improves by 1[W] every 5 levels, up to 6[W] at level 26.
• Light thrown A ranged basic attack with a light thrown weapon uses your Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls, unless otherwise noted in the description of the power used.
• Mounted: Mounted weapons are unwieldy when not mounted, imposing a -2 penalty to attack rolls. While mounted, you deal an extra 1d[W] damage on charge attacks (Increases to +2d[W]/+3d[W] at levels 11 and 21)
• Off-hand: An off-hand weapon is light enough that you can hold it and attack effectively with it while also holding a weapon in your main hand. You can't attack with both weapons in the same turn, unless you have a power that allows such an attack, but you can attack with either weapon.
• Rogue: Rogue weapons are special weapons that can be used with the Rogue's Sneak Attack class feature
• Reach: With a reach weapon, you can make melee attacks against enemies that are 2 squares away from you as well as against adjacent enemies. Even so, you can make opportunity attacks only against enemies adjacent to you and can flank only enemies adjacent to you.
• Stout: This weapon can be treated as a two-handed weapon
• Versatile: Versatile weapons are one-handed weapons that can be used two-handed. If you do, use the damage dice in parentheses instead of the weapon's usual damage dice.

Ranged Weapon Properties

• Light thrown A ranged basic attack with a light thrown weapon uses your Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls, unless otherwise noted in the description of the power used.
• Load: Ranged weapons that loose projectiles, including bows, crossbows, and slings, take some time to load. When a weapon shows “load free” on the Ranged Weapons table, that means you draw and load ammunition as a free action, effectively part of the action used to attack with the weapon. Any weapon that has the load property requires two hands to load, even if you can use only one hand to attack with it. (The sling, for example, is a one-handed weapon, but you need a free hand to load it.) The crossbow is “load minor,” which means it requires a minor action to load a bolt into the weapon. If a power allows you to hit multiple targets, the additional load time is accounted for in the power
• Returning: This weapon returns to the user after it is thrown.

Basic Implements

Implement Descriptions

• Holy Symbol: Fashioned after the emblem or mark of a deity, Holy Symbols are used as a conduit for divine power.
• Ki Focus: Ki focuses come in all shapes and sizes, but most are small rocks that can fit in the palm of a hand.
• Orb: Orbs are perfectly smooth spheres most useful for conducting control magic
• Rod: Rods are short sticks of intricately adorned wood, metal, and hide, useful for channeling raw magical energy.
• Staff: Staves can double as quarterstaffs, and are typically associated with defensive magic.
• Tome: Tomes are enchanted books capable of holding large quantities of spells.
• Totem: Totems are made of natural materials and carved in detail to represent the natural world.
• Wand: Wands are made of particular mixes of enchanted wood and ingredients from a magical creature.

Superior Implements

Adventuring Gear

Ball bearings can be scattered across a 5' square to turn it into difficult terrain. Characters may choose to ignore the terrain by making a saving throw - if they succeed they ignore the speed penalty, if they fail they fall prone.

Block, Tackle, and Winch After you attach this set of simple machines to a solid surface, you can pass a rope through it to triple the weight you can lift, pull, or drag on the other end of the rope

Caltrops work like ball bearings, except the penalty for failure is the target is slowed (save ends)

Candle Clock provide minimal light, but can keep accurate time for up to 8 hours

Chain (10') is a flexible way of securing doors, prisoners, or attaching two objects

Chalk can be used to draw marks or communicate

Slate is a platform to draw chalk on

Chirurgeon's Kit give a +2 bonus to medicine checks to treat diseases and poisons

Climber's Kit give a +2 bonus to athletics checks to climb a surface with at least 1 minute of setup

Crookeye allow characters to see from adjacent squares when wielded

Crowbar give a +2 bonus to Strength checks to pry a chest, door, or other object open

Disguise Kit give a +2 bonus to Impress checks to act as another person. A disguise kit can only confer a benefit to a single target at a time and takes at least one hour to set up

Flask (Empty) can be used to hold up to 16 oz of liquid

Flint and Steel can be used to start fires as a standard action, assuming there is sufficient material

Gambling Gear covers playing cards, dice, or even game boards for common games of skill and luck

Glass Cutter let you silently cut precise pieces of glass out without shattering the whole pane

Hunter's Kit give a +2 bonus to survival checks to forage and acquire rations

Inquisitive's Kit give a +2 bonus to perception checks to examine a crime scene or otherwise discern past events

Listening Cone grant advantage to perception checks to listen through doors or walls

Manacles can be used to restrain hands or feet

Pole (10') have all sorts of uses, but can also be used for a +2 bonus on Acrobatics to balance across a narrow surface

Pole (Collapsible) are like 10' poles but are made of retracting 2' increments, out to a maximum of 12', and can be combined with other collapsible poles

Rope - Hempen (50') can be used to tie or otherwise secure objects or people

Rope - Silk (50') is lighter and confers a +2 bonus to Sleight of Hand checks to use the rope

Rubbing Kit can be used to copy an intricate inscription found on a wall or other surface for later review

Spike, Iron can be driven into doors to seal them shut

Surveyor's Kit give a +2 bonus to perception checks to find secret doors or traps after taking 10 minutes to set up

Writing Utensils include quill, paper, and writing ink

Ritual Components

Rituals consume Dragonshards for their material components. See the rituals document for details about the cost and type per ritual.

First level characters start with 100 gp, which they spend to buy items. Alternatively, select from one of the kits below. All choices within a kit must be items a character is proficient in