Jacobs D&D 5e Compendium

Artificer - Alt. Artificer - Official

Artificers are those who spend most of their free time creating all sorts of artifacts, weapons and more. This class shines when played by imaginative players, as it requires you to describe your spells as being “cast” or applied by tiny tools or creations. Playing this makes you the brain of the group, the problem solver, as well as the weird strategist that infuses recordings in mundane objects and creates magical ones.

Barbarian - Alt. Barbarian - Official

Filled with their destructive rage and primal instincts, the barbarian is the class you choose if you want to be the meat shield in the front line dealing great amounts of damage. Who needs a shield when you can stand your foes’ puny attacks with your hardened skin and/or high evasiveness?

Bard - Alt. Bard - Official

A true jack of all trades; a bard can cover great amounts of ground when speaking about what they are able to do. A performer at heart, an inspiration to its allies, but above all a foul-mouth to its foes. With its great charisma, a bard's voice becomes their greatest weapon.

Bloodhunter - Alt. Bloodhunter - Official

Curses and hemocraft, monster hunters and blood mages, ghost slayers, mutants, lycans, and the profaned. Bloodhunters have dedicated their life to combating creatures of evil, often trading some part of themselves in the process, permanently altering their appearance or countenance.

Cleric - Official

As well as with bards, clerics cover a wide amount of possibilities depending on the god you choose to follow. They are high spirited servants of their deities and follow their domains to choose a way of life. Both a warrior and spellcaster, they are able to cover practically any role in a party. Depending on their subclass, their Channel Divinity ability acts in different ways, granting direct powers from their gods.

Druid - Official

Preservers of balance and nature’s warriors, the druids aid their party members by using great support spells, as well as heavy damage dealing ones. They speak the language of the flora and fauna, as well as they can shapeshift into a wide amount of beasts for combat or situational purposes.

Fighter - Alt. Fighter - Official

What does a fighter do best? Well, fight of course. A really versatile class, as it can work in numerous ways. Add the fighting style and you can choose to have a one handed weapon accompanied by a shield, have a two handed weapon, two one handed ones (dual wielding), a ranged weapon and more! Once you've got that decided, ready yourself to start demolishing your foes, be it with your mighty strength or dexterous precision!

Monk - Alt. Monk - Official

Martial artists who can channel their Ki to do impressive feats as if they were magic users. No armor is necessary, just dexterity and the power of your mind. Deflect missiles thrown at you, changing the target to your enemies, move at the speed of the wind and fill your foes’ faces with a flurry blows.

Paladin - Official

A paladin is a person guided by an oath, their force of will and devotion so strong they are granted the ability to cast spells to smite their foes. They fight for justice and righteousness, with the drive to follow their oath and ideals to the very end. For this, they use heavy armor to stand on the front liners and protect their allies while decimating their foes.

Ranger - Alt. Ranger - Official

A natural explorer seeking adventures, who on their way found a special hatred towards a certain beast or monster. Able to master any fighting style as long as they don't involve heavy weapons or armor. Spellcasters by default, due to their connection with nature and/or the Feywild, they are excellent scouts and allies to have by your side.

Rogue - Alt. Rogue - Official

Let’s get shady, grab a dagger and start stabbing. Rogues excel at sneaking around, scouting ahead, being dexterous and about everything you would expect a thief to be good at. In dungeons, they can help their party by deactivating traps or opening locked doors. Don't expect them to wear much armor, nor be able to carry heavy stuff; but were your task to need some delicacy or swashbuckling, you've found the right person.

Sorcerer - Alt. Sorcerer - Official

Due to some random or pre-established occurrence, magic runs through you. This means you can “cheat” in a certain way to be able to use magic at will, instead of having to learn how to cast it. Sorcerers are also equipped with a pool of magic they get their sorcery points from, letting them twist spells to their will in different ways.

Aasimar

Dragonborn

Dwarf

Elf

Firbolg

Genasi

Gnome

Goliath

Half-Elf

Half-Orc

Halfling

Human

Kenku

Lizardfolk

Tabaxi

Tiefling

Tortle

Triton

Warforged

Bug-bear

Goblin

Hobgoblin

Kobold

Orc

Yuan-ti Pureblood

Advantage/Disadvantage and Lucky

Whenever a character makes a roll with disadvantage or with advantage and chooses to use the Lucky feat, the player will roll two dice and from those two dice the player will select one die to keep. Once a die has been selected a third die will be rolled and the advantage/disadvantage roll will function as normal between the die chosen and the third die.

Conditions

• Becoming paralyzed does not end concentration on a spell as part of the attached incapacitated effect.
• Paralyzed creatures fall prone.

Curated Feats

A list of official, homebrew, UA, and modified official Feat's that I allow in my games.

Additionally, each player character knows one feat at level 1. Human and Variant Human have been changed to compensate for this.

Drinking a Potion

When you use an action to drink a potion you gain the full effects of the potion with maximized die rolls wherever applicable, alternatively you can use a bonus action to drink the potion and roll the appropriate dice where applicable or do not gain the full effect or duration, depending on the potion in question.

For example, a regular healing potion heals 2d4+2 hit points; as an action that would be a total of 10 hit points recovered, as a bonus action you would roll to determine. For non-healing potions, such as a Potion of Fire Breathing, you would roll two dice associated with the duration of the effect, for example you would roll 2d10 for a 1 minute (or 10 round) duration, and take the higher number of the two to determine how long the effect lasts.

Holding Your Breath

When not performing strenuous activity (such as combat), a creature can hold their breath for a number of minutes equal to their Constitution modifier (minimum of 1).

When performing strenuous activity (such as combat), a creature can hold their breath for a number of rounds equal to 2 x their Constitution modifier (minimum of 1).

If a creature that is holding its breath takes damage, they must make a Constitution saving throw as if they were maintaining concentration on a spell (the DM can decide if another set of circumstances would require the same saving throw). If the creature fails the saving throw they can no longer holding their breath and begin suffocating.

Homebrew and Modified Spell Compendium

A collection of any homebrew spells and any modified official spells that I allow in my games.

Identifying a Spell

If a character perceives a spell being cast, the spell's effect, or both, the character can make an Intelligence (Arcana) check using their reaction or action. The DC equals 15 + the spell's level. If the spell is being cast as a class spell and the character is a member of that class, they make the check with advantage. Spells cast using Innate Spellcasting, a racial ability, or a magic item are not considered to be cast as a class spell.

If a character knows the spell Counterspell and uses their reaction to identify the spell, whether or not they correctly identify the spell, they can still attempt to Counterspell it as part of the same reaction if they so choose.

Intelligence

In addition to any languages or tool proficiencies a character learns from their background and class, they also learn additional languages, tool proficiencies, or skill proficiencies depending on their Intelligence score based on the provided table.

If the characters Intelligence score ever permanently changes, the character learns or forgets the additional proficiency(s) based on the provided table.

Jumping

You can jump up to your maximum jump distance or height, so long as you have at least 5 feet of movement remaining. If you jump a distance greater than your remaining movement, you can't move again during that turn, and you must make a DC 10 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to land on your feet. On a failed check you fall prone.

Knocked Down

Being reduced to 0 HP places you in a "Knocked Down" state, which is mechanically identical to the "unconscious" state. However it has the following changes:

• You have a maximum crawl speed of 5 ft., allowing you to crawl one square at a time. This can still invoke an Attack of Opportunity.
• You can speak, albeit falteringly on your turn.
• You cannot take an action, bonus action, item interaction, or reaction. Additionally you cannot cast a spell or concentrate on a spell while "knocked down".

Being knocked down in a fight imparts a level of exhaustion after the encounter has ended (does not stack for multiple drops in the same encounter).

Original vs. Homebrew Exchange Rate

Additionally, currency is broken up into 2 different forms; coins and bars. Coins are valued as listed above while bars are equal to 10 coins. So a copper bar is worth 10 copper coins, a silver bar is worth 10 silver coins, and a gold bar is worth 10 gold coins.

The price of general goods, rewards, services, hirelings, and loot will be pre-converted to the silver standard, and the prices listed in the Player's Handbook have been modified to the tables on the following pages.

Silvered Weapons

Some monsters that have immunity or resistance to nonmagical weapons are susceptible to silver weapons, so cautious adventurers invest extra coin to plate their weapons with silver. You can silver a single weapon or ten pieces of ammunition for 100 sp. This 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.

Selling Treasure

Opportunities abound to find treasure, equipment, weapons, armor, and more in the dungeons you explore. Normally, you can sell your treasures and trinkets when you return to a town or other settlement, provided that you can find buyers and merchants interested in your loot.

Arms, Armor, and Other Equipment. As a general rule, undamaged weapons, armor, and other equipment fetch half their cost when sold in a market. Weapons and armor used by monsters are rarely in good enough condition to sell.

Magic Items. Selling magic items can be problematic. Finding someone to buy a potion or a scroll isn't too hard. but other items are out of the realm of most but the wealthiest nobles. Likewise, aside from a few common magic items, you won't normally come across magic items or spells to purchase. The value of magic is far beyond simple gold and should always be treated as such.

Gems, jewelry, and Art Objects. These items retain their full value in the marketplace, and you can either trade them in for coin or use them as currency for other transactions. For exceptionally valuable treasures, the DM might require you to find a buyer in a large town or larger community first.

Trade Goods. On the borderlands, many people conduct transactions through barter. Like gems and art objects, trade goods —bars of iron, bags of salt, livestock, and so on— retain their full value in the market and can be used as currency.