Weapons Remastered

Weapon Properties

Ranged

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

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

Reach

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

Special

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

Status

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

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

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

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

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

Sundering

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

Sweeping

These weapons strike in broad motions. When you reduce an enemy to 0 hit points with a sweeping weapon, you can target another creature within 5 feet of the first that you can reach and, if the original attack roll can hit it, apply any remaining damage to it. If that creature is likewise reduced to 0 hit points, repeat this process, carrying over the remaining damage until there are no valid targets, or until the damage carried over fails to kill an enemy.

Thrown

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

Two-Handed

The weapon is large or cumbersome, and must be wielded in two hands to attack with it. If one of your hands is occupied by performing somatic components, grappling, etc, you cannot attack with this weapon until you return your hand to the weapon. This property is relevant only when you attack with the weapon, not when you simply hold it.

Versatile

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

Wind-up

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

Winged

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

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

Weapon Charts

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

Simple Melee Weapons

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

Simple Ranged Weapons

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

Special Weapons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Garotte Wire. A garrote cannot be used on any creature more than 1 size larger than you, and you can only attack with a garotte if you have advantage. On a hit, the target is automatically grappled and restrained. Until the grapple ends, the target cannot breathe and chokes (PHB 183).

Creatures that do not need to breathe are immune to a garotte wire's choke at the discretion of the DM.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shield Grips

Shield grips determine how you hold a shield.

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

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

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

Armor Revised

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

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

Armor Table

Light	Cost	AC	Strength	Stealth	Weight
Leather	5 gp	11+Dex	—	—	8 lb.
Gambeson	10 gp	12+Dex	—	—	10 lb.
Jackchains	25 gp	13+Dex	—	Disad.	15 lb.
Medium
Hide	10 gp	12+Dex (max 2)	—	—	12 lb.
Breastplate	200 gp	13+Dex (max 3)	—	—	20 lb.
Brigandine	100 gp	14+Dex (max 2)	—	Disad.	25 lb.
Cuirass	400 gp	14+Dex (max 3)	—	—	25 lb.
Half-plate	1,000 gp	15+Dex (max 3)	Str 12	Disad.	30 lb.
Heavy
Scale	100 gp	15	Str 12	Disad.	40 lb.
Hauberk	150 gp	16	Str 13	Disad.	30 lb.
Splint	300 gp	17	Str 14	Disad.	35 lb.
Full Plate	1,500 gp	18	Str 14	Disad.	45 lb.

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Cauldron Contents

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

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

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

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

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

Trebuchet Ammunition

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Default Materials

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

Ammunition Materials

Armor Materials

Siege Engine Materials

Siege Ammunition Materials

Modifications

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

Alternative Weapons

Many weapons can be represented by the same mechanics. Examples are listed on the table below. Weapons use the same statistics, though their damage types may differ. That change is listed in parentheses: (b) for bludgeoning, (p) for piercing, and (s) for slashing. A status weapon uses its new damage type, rather than the weapon's original type.

Since most alternates originate from cultures and eras outside D&D's early-renaissance European pastiche—such as Rome, Japan, China, India, and Polynesia—they are not appropriate for every game and location. The DM is within their rights to disallow any alternative on this list.

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