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Helping

Dogpiling happens when after one player fails at a check, another player asks to repeat it only to attempt at a better roll even if they are less proficient at the skill than the character that attempted first. This may result in whole party asking for a roll just to chase a high die result. Dogpiling is metagaming behavior and is discouraged.

You can use the Help action to aid another character in a task or salvage their effort after they have failed. In order for a check to benefit from the Help action, at least one of the contributing players must be proficient at the skill check. There is no limit how many characters can help on a task, but only two die rolls can be made, and the highest die result is added to the check total. The check total uses the highest proficiency bonus and skill modifier among all contributing characters. If a Lore or Craft is applicable to the check, only one Lore or Craft that the players are proficient in can add its bonus to the check total.

You cannot Help if you suffer disadvantage to the used attribute or skill, such as having a level in Exhaustion.

Group Checks

There are two group check types: common and challenging.

Common group checks are made when the party is expected to succeed but the players with the highest rolls are rewarded with being the first to react to the new information.

Challenging group checks account for the party will make multiple die rolls trying and compared to a single check, the DC is increased by +3 to +5. The DC should not be increased so far that each individual player has less than 10% chance to succeed.

Pre-Combat Initiative

In tense situation where you and your allies face hostile creatures ready for combat but neither side has initiated hostile actions, or in other situations where these's impeding sense of danger, all creatures must roll initiative but are not bound by the initiative order. All hostile creatures always act first, then all players and their allies act second. Within each side of a conflict, all creatures can take their actions in any order they choose however the number of actions they can take in a turn is bound by the combat rules. During floating initiative, creatures can use reactions as normal, can Ready their action or Delay their turn by leaving the initiative.

If a creature chooses to have a long conversation with the option to respond as a free action until the start of its next turn, it must spend {2A} to Argue with its allies or hostile creatures. When Arguing with a hostile creature, the actions are spent only if the hostile creature agrees to spend the same amount of actions from its next turn to Argue back. The Argue action has the auditory, linguistic and concentrate traits. The GM may limit the amount of argument within a turn if it drags for too long, or increase the turn count by the amount of time spent in argument.

The first creature that initiates a hostile action or reaction ends the floating initiative. If it is a reaction it is resolved immediately, otherwise the combat turn starts from the start of the initiative order in the current combat round. The creature that initiated the hostile action must complete it on its own turn, before taking other actions that turn.

Damage Types

The Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign brings important changes to damage types.

The campaign introduces new type of damage - frost damage - that is inherently different from cold damage.
Spells and effects that cause frost damage cover a creature in growing layer of frost that can become just as impenetrable as permafrost. Effects and abilities that grant resistance and immunity to cold damage do not affect frost damage.

Resistance to cold damage only affects spells and attacks that cause cold damage. It doesn't provide protection against prolonged exposure to cold or extreme cold weather (see pg. 35 for more information on weather). There is one exception, however - immunity to cold damage also grants immunity to cold and extreme cold weather. For example, Frost Giants do not suffer the effect of cold and extreme cold weather.

Weather Conditions

There are two distinct arctic conditions - cold and extreme cold weather. You can learn more about them on pg. 35.

Any ability, spell or equipment that provides resistance to cold weather allows you to ignore the effect of cold weather, and when exposed to extreme cold weather you suffer the effect of cold weather that cannot be ignored. A typical fur coat with wool stockings provides resistance to cold weather.

Any ability, spell or equipment that provides immunity to cold weather allows you to ignore the effect of cold weather and extreme cold weather. Insulated tents provide such greater protection from the elements. Races such as Goliaths and Snow Elves are acclimatized to extreme weather which grants them immunity to cold weather. Immunity to cold damage also grants immunity to cold weather.

Rule Clarifications

Lores and Crafts

When you create a character, remove all tool and instrument proficiencies from your character. For each such proficiency removed you may choose a Lore or Craft proficiency that fits your character concept and background from the lists below. If this grants you 2 or less slots, increase them to 3.

Intellect Bonus

Your cunning Intelligence allows you to learn more skills and knowledge than others. When creating a character, you gain a number of points equal to your Intelligence modifier. Subtract 2 points if your class, multiclass or planned subclass will be capable of casting spells based on your Intelligence attribute.

Expertise Dedication

When creating a character, after you choose all you skill proficiencies you may choose to focus most of your prior training in one skill and increase its proficiency to expertise. An expertise in a skill allows you to double the proficiency bonus when making an ability check. If you choose to do so, pick two other skills you are proficient in and remove that proficiency from them.

This optional rule allows all characters to access the expertise (double proficiency) skill mechanic, however at a very high cost of having only few skill proficiencies remaining. These characters will be very limited in what else they can do.

Updated Barbarian

Battlerager Armor

When you choose this path at 3rd level, you gain the ability to use spiked armor as a weapon while not wielding a shield. You gain a special version of a chain shirt or scale mail that was modified into spiked armor, and costs 75gp. You are proficient in spiked armor as an exotic melee weapon. If you hit with it, you deal 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage to one target within 5 feet from you.

While you are wearing spiked armor and are raging, you can use a bonus action to make one melee weapon attack with your spiked armor against a target within 5 feet of you. Additionally, when you successfully grapple, restrain or pin a creature, or a creature successfully does the same to you, the creature takes 3 piercing damage if your check succeeds.

Once per long rest, you can modify any medium armor to become spiked armor. You need 25 gp in raw materials and a skill check using Blacksmith (Armors) Craft. Any armor that becomes spiked armor causes it to weigh 5 pounds more. If the armor is magical, then the gold required is increased by 50 gp for each rarity level (common to legendary) , and the damage from your spiked armor becomes magical.

Dwarven Upkeep

At 3rd level, you learn the mending cantrip as barbarian cantrip so you can maintain your spiked armor. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this cantrip.

Reckless Abandon

Beginning at 6th level, when you use Reckless Attack while raging, you also gain temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). They vanish if any of them are left when your rage ends.

Battlerager Charge

Beginning at 6th level, the speed granted by Fast Movement barbarian feature is increased by 5 feet. In addition, while raging, you can take the Dash action as a bonus action on each of your turns.

When you Charge, Shove or Tumble Through a creature, that creature takes 3 piercing damage if your check succeeds.

Deadly Spikes

Starting at 10th level, when you would deal 3 piercing damage when you grapple, restrain or pin a creature or a creature does the same to you, or you Charge, Shove or Tumble Through a creature, instead you deal piercing damage equal to your Strength modifier (minimum of 3).

Spiked Retribution

Starting at 10th level, when a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction make an attack with your spiked armor against the attacker.

If you are raging, you can choose to attack recklessly with this attack, unless you have already attacked recklessly during your last turn.

Battlerager Vigor

At 14th level, your might is unmatched by most. Whenever you use your Relentless Rage, you reduce the DC by an amount equal to your Constitution modifier.

Additionally, when you begin raging and at the start of each your turns while raging, you gain temporary hit points equal to 2 + your Constitution modifier if you have no more than half of your hit points left. These temporary hit points vanish when your rage ends or when you doff your spiked armor.

Path of the Beast

Barbarians who walk the Path of Beast draw their rage from a bestial spark burning within their souls. That beast howls to be released and bursts forth in the throes of rage.

Those who tread this path might be inhabited by a primal spirit or descended from shapeshifters. Pick a beast type creature that you partially transform or embrace its features to during your rage. The DM should approve its ability to use one or several natural attacks such as bite, claw or tail attack.

Bestial Soul

Starting at 6th level, the feral spirit within you grows in power, causing the natural weapons of your Form of the Beast to count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

You can also call on the feral spirit to help you adapt to your surroundings. When you finish a short or long rest, choose one of the following benefits, which lasts until you finish a short or long rest:

• You gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed, and you can breathe underwater for 1 hour.
• You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, and you can climb difficult surfaces.
• When you jump, you can make a Strength (Athletics) check and extend your jump by a number of feet equal to the check's total. You can make this special check only once per turn.

Infectious Fury

Starting at 10th level, when you hit a creature with your natural weapons while you are raging, the spirit within you can curse your target with rabid fury. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier) or suffer one of the following effects (your choice):

• The target must use its reaction to make a melee attack of your choice against another creature of your choice that you can see. If it doesn't have a suitable target, it automatically hits itself.
• Target takes 2d12 psychic damage. The damage increases to 3d12 when you reach 14th level, and 4d12 when you reach 13th level.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Call the Hunt

The beast within you grows so powerful that you can spread its ferocity to others and gain resilience from them joining your hunt. When you enter your rage, you can choose a number of other willing creatures you can see within 30 feet of you equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of one creature).

You gain 5 temporary hit points for each creature that accepts this feature. Until the rage ends, the chosen creatures can each use the following benefit once on each of their turns: when the creature hits a target with an attack roll and deals damage to it, the creature can roll a d6 and gain a bonus to the damage equal to the number rolled.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

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.

Path of the Storm Herald

All barbarians harbor a fury within. Their rage grants them superior strength, durability, and speed. Barbarians who follow the Path of the Storm Herald learn to transform that rage into a mantle of primal magic, which swirls around them. When in a fury, a barbarian of this path taps into the forces of nature to create powerful magical effects.

Storm heralds are typically elite champions who train alongside druids, rangers, and others sworn to protect nature. Other storm heralds hone their craft in lodges in regions wracked by storms, in the frozen reaches at the world's end, or deep in the hottest deserts.

Path of the Totem Warrior

The Path of the Totem Warrior is a spiritual journey, as the barbarian accepts a spirit animal as guide, protector, and inspiration. In battle, your totem spirit fills you with supernatural might, adding magical fuel to your barbarian rage.

Most barbarian tribes consider a totem animal to be kin to a particular clan. In such cases, it is unusual for an individual to have more than one totem animal spirit, though exceptions exist.

Spirit Seeker

Yours is a path that seeks attunement with the natural world, giving you a kinship with beasts. At 3rd level when you adopt this path, you gain the ability to cast the beast sense and speak with animals spells, but only as rituals.

Totem Spirit

At 3rd level, when you adopt this path, you choose a totem spirit and gain its feature. You must make or acquire a physical totem object—an amulet or similar adornment—that incorporates fur or feathers, claws, teeth, or bones of the totem animal. At your option, you also gain minor physical attributes that are reminiscent of your totem spirit. For example, if you have a bear totem spirit, you might be unusually hairy and thick-skinned, or if your totem is the eagle, your eyes turn bright yellow.

Your totem animal might be an animal related to those listed here but more appropriate to your homeland. For example, you could choose a hawk or vulture in place of an eagle.

Ape. While raging, enemies have disadvantage on escaping grapple checks against you and disadvantage on rolls to disarm you. The grip of a giant ape is everlasting.

Bear. While raging, you have resistance to all damage except psychic damage. The spirit of the bear makes you tough enough to stand up to any punishment.

Boar. Once per short rest, while raging, if you take damage equal to or less than 5 + your Constitution modifier that would reduce you to 0 hit points, you are reduced to 1 hit point instead. The spirit of the boar makes you relentless.

Bull. While raging, you gain temporary hit points at the start of each of your turns, equal to your Rage damage. These temporary hit points last until your rage ends. While you have temporary hit points from your Totem Spirit feature, you also have resistance to acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, and thunder damage. The spirit of the bull lends you resilience in the heat of battle.

Eagle. While you're raging and aren't wearing heavy armor, your rage gives you advantage to Dexterity checks and Dexterity saving throws instead of Strength. Also while raging, other creatures have disadvantage on opportunity attack rolls against you, and you can use the Dash action as a bonus action on your turn. The spirit of the eagle makes you into a predator who can weave through the fray with ease.

Elk. While you're raging and aren't wearing heavy armor, your walking speed increases by 15 feet. Also while raging, when you use the Charge action to Strike, the maximum additional damage you can do is equal to the total of your Strength and Constitution modifiers. The spirit of the elk empowers your charges with devastating force.

Rat. While you're raging and not wearing heavy armor, you gain +1 to AC and Dexterity saving throws, and can use the Hide or Disengage action as bonus action on your turn. The spirit of the rat makes you numble enough to avoid incoming blows.

Tiger. While raging, your unarmed strikes gain the finesse property, and you gain a +1 bonus to any attack rolls with it. Also while raging, your unarmed strikes using your action or bonus action deal 1d4 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier slashing damage. The spirit of the tiger empowers your swift strikes.

Wolf. While you're raging, all friendly creatures have advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature within 5 feet of you that is hostile to you. The spirit of the wolf makes you a leader of hunters.

Animal Instincts

Starting at 6th level, you gain proficiency in one skills from the following list: Athletics, Acrobatics, Stealth, and Survival. The animal spirit hones your survival instincts.

Aspect of the Beast

At 6th level, you gain a magical benefit based on the totem animal of your choice. You must choose the same animal you selected at 3rd level.

Ape. While raging, you can attempt to grapple, restrain or pin a creature as a bonus action without suffering disadvantage. The creature you attempt to restrain ro pin can be one size larger than you or smaller. When you succeed on a grapple check, the grappled creature takes bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier. The spirit of the ape teaches you to break your enemies with painful holds.

Bear. You gain the might of a bear. Your carrying capacity (including maximum load and maximum lift) is doubled, and you have advantage on Strength checks made to push, pull, lift, or break objects.

Boar. The spirit of the boar guides your trample. You can move through difficult terrain (but not greater difficult terrain) as though it were normal terrain. In addition while raging, your Totem Spirit feature can be used a number of times per short rest equal to your Constitution modifier instead of once before short rest. Every time you use the feature, you can use your reaction to make a melee attack against the creature that brought you to 0 hp.

Bull. You gain the stubbornness of a bull, in both mind and body. While raging, you have advantage on Wisdom saving throws against effects to charm or frighten you, as long as the source is a hostile creatures. If an effect causes you to make such a Wisdom saving throw and you successfully resist the effect, you enter a battle frenzy and your Rage damage is doubled until the end of the next turn.

Eagle. You gain the eyesight of an eagle. You can see up to 1 mile away with no difficulty, able to discern even fine details as though looking at something no more than 100 feet away from you. When using ranged weapons, your short range is also doubled and you can apply your Rage damage to ranged attacks made while raging. Additionally, dim light doesn't impose penalty on your Passive Perception and Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Elk. While you're raging and aren't wearing heavy armor, when you Charge and successfully succeed to Strike or Slam, you may use the rest of your movement to Tumble Through the same target. If you succeed at it, the target takes 2d4 + your Strength modifier bludgeoning damage. The elk spirit shows you how to trample through your enemies.

Rat. You gain the immune system of a rat. You are immune to nonmagical diseases, and you gain resistance to poison damage and saving throws against being poisoned. Also after dipping your weapon in foul dirt or rotting carcass for one minute, during each of your turns and while raging the first attack that deals slashing or piercing damage also deals one weapon die of poison damage as long as the target has no resistance or immunity to poison damage.

Spirit Walker

At 10th level, you can cast the commune with nature spell, but only as a ritual. When you do so, a spiritual version of the animal you chose for Totem Spirit or Aspect of the Beast appears to you to convey the information you seek.

Totemic Attunement

At 14th level, you gain a magical benefit based on a totem animal of your choice. You must choose the same animal you selected previously.

Ape. While raging, any creature that starts its turn restrained or pinned by you takes bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier + Rage damage. The spirit of a giant ape crashes its enemies in its arms.

Bear. While you're raging, any creature within 5 feet of you that's hostile to you has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you or another character with this feature. An enemy is immune to this effect if it can't see or hear you or if it can't be frightened.

Boar. Every time you roll for initiative you recover one use of your Totem Spirit feature. Also while raging, the damage you can shrug off using your Totem Spirit feature increases to 10 + your Constitution modifier. The spirit of the boar makes you survive even the worst of killing blows.

Bull. You gain the vigour of a bull. Both your carrying capacity and maximum to push, drag and lift weights are doubled and you may maintain your rage without attacking or taking damage, as long as you are carrying, pushing, dragging or lifting objects in excess of 500 lb. Additionally, you are not slowed by pushing or dragging weight in excess of your carrying capacity and you can move at full speed while grappling a creature. While raging, you can also grapple, restrain and pin creatures that are one size larger than you.

Eagle. While raging, you have a flying speed of 40 feet. This benefit works only in short bursts; you fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft. You take half damage from falls from distance less than 100 feet, even if you are no longer raging. If you are grappling a creature as you fall while raging and the creature is your size or larger, you can use your reaction to redirect the fall damage to it instead.

Elk. While raging, when you successfully Tumble Through your target as part of your Charge action, the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Strength bonus + your proficiency bonus) or be knocked prone. If it is knocked prone, you can use your reaction to make one melee attack against it.

Rat. While you're raging and not wearing heavy armor, you gain +2 to AC and Dexterity saving throws instead of +1. Also, the spirit of the rat encouraging swarming the enemy. While raging, you may use your reaction on your turn to make an additional melee attack against a creature if there are at least two allies within 5 feet from it.

Tiger. While you're raging, your bonus to attack rolls with unarmed strikes increases to +2. If you successfully hit the same target with three or more attacks during your turn, you can make one additional unarmed strike as a free attack. The cat spirit finally grants you swiftness to rend and decimate enemies.

Wolf. While you're raging, you can use a bonus action on your turn to knock a Large or smaller target prone when you hit it with melee weapon attack. Additionally, while you are raging, any prone hostile creature you are threatening has its DC to stand from prone increased by +2.

Path of the Wild Magic

Many places in the multiverse abound with beauty, intense emotion, and rampant magic; the Feywild, the Upper Planes, and other realms of supernatural power radiate with such forces and can profoundly influence people. As folk of deep feeling, barbarians are especially susceptible to these wild influences, with some barbarians being transformed by the magic. These magic-suffused barbarians walk the Path of Wild Magic. Elf, tiefling, aasimar, and genasi barbarians often seek this path, eager to manifest the otherworldly magic of their ancestors.

Bolstering Magic

Starting at 6th level, you can harness your wild magic to bolster yourself or a companion. As an action, you can touch one creature (which can be yourself) and confer one of the following benefits of your choice to that creature:

• Until your rage ends, the creature can roll a d4 whenever making an attack roll or an ability check and add the number rolled to the d20 roll. Each time it uses this effect, you and the creature take 1d6 force damage. If you touched yourself, you take 2d6 force damage instead.
• Roll a d6. The creature regains one expended spell slot, the level of which equals half the number rolled (rounded up) or lower, up to the creature's choice. Once a creature receives this benefit, that creature can't receive it again until after a long rest.

You can take this action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Wild Magic Distortion

As 6th level, your rage is so powerful, the blast of wild magic can temporarily disable the magical effect of items around you. When you enter rage, you can focus your anger towards one magical item or effect within 30 feet you can see, or a creature concentrating or benefiting from a spell. The DM decides the item rarity, effect or spell level used to create the effect. You take an amount of force damage and levels of exhaustion as shown on the table below. Exhaustion taken this way cannot be recovered until you take long rest.

As long as you do not fall unconscious due to the damage taken, the item, effect or spell are temporarily disabled until your rage ends, and the creature concentrating on the spell must make a concentration check at disadvantage.

Unstable Backlash

At 10th level, when you are imperiled during your rage, the magic within you can lash out; immediately after you take damage that you do not have resistance against or fail a saving throw while raging, you can use your reaction to produce the same effect as decided when you entered your rage.

Empowered Wild Magic

Also at 10th level, your wild magic effects grow stronger than before. When you deal force damage due to a wild magic effect, you deal one extra die as force damage. If your target rolls 1 on a saving throw, it has vulnerability to force damage from the triggering effect.

Controlled Surge

At 14th level, whenever you roll on the Wild Magic table, you can roll the die twice and choose which of the two effects to unleash. If you roll the same number on both dice, you can ignore the number and choose any effect on the table.

Path of the Zealot

Some deities inspire their followers to pitch themselves into a ferocious battle fury. These barbarians are zealots—warriors who channel their rage into powerful displays of divine power.

Indoctrination

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you become proficient in Religion. Your proficiency bonus is doubled on all checks related to your faith.

Divine Fury

Also at 3rd level, you can channel divine fury into your weapon strikes. While you're raging, the first creature you hit on each of your turns with a weapon attack takes extra damage equal to 1d6 + half your barbarian level. The extra damage is necrotic or radiant; you choose the type of damage when you gain this feature.

Warrior of the Gods

At 3rd level, your soul is marked for endless battle. If a spell, such as raise dead, has the sole effect of restoring you to life (but not undeath), the caster doesn't need material components to cast the spell on you.

If you ever transgress against your faith, you lose access to this feature. You may only regain it if you atone through great challenge set by your god's servants.

Zealotry

Starting at 6th level, you can add your Strength modifier to any Charisma (Intimidation or Persuasion) to defend your faith or to force other creatures to follow its commandments.

Fanatical Focus

Starting at 6th level, the divine power that fuels your rage can protect you. If you fail a saving throw while you're raging, you can reroll it, and you must use the new roll. You can use this ability only once per rage.

Zealous Presence

At 10th level, you learn to channel divine power to inspire zealotry in others. As a bonus action, you unleash a battle cry infused with divine energy. Up to ten other creatures of your choice within 60 feet of you that can hear you gain advantage on attack rolls and saving throws until the start of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Rage beyond Death

Beginning at 14th level, the divine power that fuels your rage allows you to shrug off fatal blows.

While you're raging, having 0 hit points doesn't knock you unconscious. You still must make death saving throws, and you suffer the normal effects of taking damage while at 0 hit points. However, if you would die due to failing death saving throws, you don't die until your rage ends, and you die then only if you still have 0 hit points.

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Updated Druid

Initiate of the Deep

Starting at 2nd level, you learn the cantrip Shape Water and it doesn't count against the number of cantrips known. In addition, the area in which you can affect with this cantrip increases by an additional 5-foot cube for every four levels you have in this class.

Circle Spells

Your mystical connection to the land infuses you with the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to circle spells connected to the land where you became a druid.

Once you gain access to a circle spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the druid spell list, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.

Water Strider

At 6th level, your body has adapted when moving in any body of water. Your swimming speed is now equal to your speed and you have +1 AC while underwater. This feature extends to any of your forms in Wild Shape.

One with the Water

Also at 6th level, you can hold your breath underwater for up to 10 minutes. At 17th level you can do it for uo to 1 hour.

Wellspring of Life

Beginning at 10th level, the waters you conjure and manipulate now possesses curative properties that can easily mend wounds. When you cast any of your circle spells, all friendly creatures within 5 feet of you regains hit points equal to half of the spell's level + your Wisdom modifier.

Ocean's Purity

At 14th level, you invoke the very power of the oceans wherever you are and become one with water itself. When you use your Wild Shape, you can choose to become a spirit of water, granting you additional properties:

• Your swimming speed is doubled and you can breathe underwater.
• You gain immunity against acid damage.
• When you take cold damage, make a Constitution saving throw against a DC of 10 or half of the damage taken (whichever is higher). On a failed save, your speed is reduced by 20 feet until the end of your next turn.
• You can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. You can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
• While you are underwater, you gain bonus to your Dexterity (Stealth) checks. This bonus is equal to half of your druid level.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Circle of the Desert

You have overcome the scorching sands and blistering heat. Experiencing the harshness of one of nature's lands, you can call forth the very essence of the desert at your whim.

Terror of the Dunes

At 10th level, nobody truly knows what is hidden beneath the rolling sands of a desert, although this truth is only known who would dare trespass and not many survives. While in your Wild Shape form, your first attack in that form while hidden has bonuses to its attack and damage rolls. This bonus is equal to half of your druid level.

Additionally, you can reduce the duration of your form by an hour to choose another beast of equal CR or lower and transform into that beast. When you do so, you retain your previous form's temporary hit points.

You can do this a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once) and regain expended uses at the end of a long rest.

Sand Layer

At 14th level, your connection with the land has allowed you to attract sand so fine that they're nearly invisible, constantly flowing around you, and empowering your beast. When you use your Wild Shape, you can choose to become a spirit of the sand, granting you additional properties:

• You ignore difficult and greater difficult terrain caused by sand and quicksand.
• You gain immunity against fire damage.
• When you take cold damage, make a Constitution saving throw against a DC of 10 or half of the damage taken (whichever is higher). On a failed save, your AC is decreased by 1 until the end of your next turn.
• When you roll your hit die to regain hit points during short or long rest you gain a bonus of +1 AC for each hit die spent, up to a maximum of +3 AC. When you take damage while you have bonus AC from this feature, you gain resistance against the triggering damage and you lose the bonus AC from this feature.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Circle of Dreams

Druids who are members of the Circle of Dreams hail from regions that have strong ties to the Feywild and its dreamlike realms. The druids' guardianship of the natural world makes for a natural alliance between them and good-aligned fey. These druids seek to fill the world with dreamy wonder. Their magic mends wounds and brings joy to downcast hearts, and the realms they protect are gleaming, fruitful places, where dream and reality blur together and where the weary can find rest.

Hidden Paths

Starting at 10th level, you can use the hidden, magical pathways that some fey use to traverse space in the blink of an eye. As a bonus action on your turn, you can teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Alternatively, you can use your action to teleport one willing creature you touch up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Walker in Dreams

At 14th level, the magic of the Feywild grants you the ability to travel mentally or physically through dreamlands.

When you finish a short rest, you can cast one of the following spells, without expending a spell slot or requiring material components: dream (with you as the messenger), scrying, or teleportation circle.

This use of teleportation circle is special. Rather than opening a portal to a permanent teleportation circle, it opens a portal to the last location where you finished a long rest on your current plane of existence. If you haven't taken a long rest on your current plane, the spell fails but isn't wasted.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Circle of the Forest

Bountiful harvest and whispers of the wood sings their sweet melodies to you. Perhaps one of the well-known druids of any circles, they are much more connected with the land given the vibrant life that surrounds them during their stay.

Circle of the Grassland

These druids welcomes the vast and open fields of greenery and rolling hills. No obstruction can hide intruders from them and they have adapted well, moving swiftly as the passing wind within these lands.

Circle of the Moon

Druids of the Circle of the Moon are fierce guardians of the wilds. Their order gathers under the full moon to share news and trade warnings. They haunt the deepest parts of the wilderness, where they might go for weeks on end before crossing paths with another humanoid creature, let alone another druid.

Changeable as the moon, a druid of this circle might prowl as a great cat one night, soar over the treetops as an eagle the next day, and crash through the undergrowth in bear form to drive off a trespassing monster. The wild is in the druid's blood.

Elemental Wild Shape

At 10th level, you can expend two uses of Wild Shape at the same time to transform into an air elemental, an earth elemental, a fire elemental, or a water elemental.

Thousand Forms

By 14th level, you have learned to use magic to alter your physical form in more subtle ways. You can cast the alter self spell at will.

Circle of the Mountain

Spending their time within the peaks of mountains and valleys, watching the clouds roll below them and experiencing the adrenaline flowing through their veins with each climb. These druids tap into the jagged rocks and defiant fortitude of their land to stand taller among others.

Circle of the Shepherd

Druids of the Circle of the Shepherd commune with the spirits of nature, especially the spirits of beasts and the fey, and call to those spirits for aid. These druids recognize that all living things play a role in the natural world, yet they focus on protecting animals and fey creatures that have difficulty defending themselves. Shepherds, as they are known, see such creatures as their charges. They ward off monsters that threaten them, rebuke hunters who kill more prey than necessary, and prevent civilization from encroaching on rare animal habitats and on sites sacred to the fey. Many of these druids are happiest far from cities and towns, content to spend their days in the company of animals and the fey creatures of the wilds.

Members of this circle become adventurers to oppose forces that threaten their charges or to seek knowledge and power that will help them safeguard their charges better. Wherever these druids go, the spirits of the wilderness are with them.

Mighty Summoner

Starting at 6th level, beasts and fey that you conjure are more resilient than normal. Any beast or fey summoned or created by a spell that you cast gains the following benefits:

• The creature appears with more hit points than normal: 2 extra hit points per Hit Die it has.
• The damage from its natural weapons is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Guardian Spirit

Beginning at 10th level, your Spirit Totem safeguards the beasts and fey that you call forth with your magic. When a beast or fey that you summoned or created with a spell ends its turn in your Spirit Totem aura, that creature regains a number of hit points equal to half your druid level.

Faithful Summons

Starting at 14th level, the nature spirits you commune with protect you when you are the most defenseless. If you are reduced to 0 hit points or are incapacitated against your will, you can immediately gain the benefits of conjure animals as if it were cast using a 9th-level spell slot. It summons four beasts of your choice that are challenge rating 2 or lower. The conjured beasts appear within 20 feet of you. If they receive no commands from you, they protect you from harm and attack your foes. The spell lasts for 1 hour, requiring no concentration, or until you dismiss it (no action required).

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Circle of the Spores

Druids of the Circle of Spores find beauty in decay. They see within mold and other fungi the ability to transform lifeless material into abundant, albeit somewhat strange, life.

These druids believe that life and death are parts of a grand cycle, with one leading to the other and then back again. Death isn't the end of life, but instead a change of state that sees life shift into a new form.

Druids of this circle have a complex relationship with the undead. Unlike most other druids, they see nothing inherently wrong with undeath, which they consider to be a companion to life and death. But these druids believe that the natural cycle is healthiest when each segment of it is vibrant and changing. Undead that seek to replace all life with undeath, or that try to avoid passing to a final rest, violate the cycle and must be thwarted.

Halo of Spores

Starting at 2nd level, you are surrounded by invisible, necrotic spores that are harmless until you unleash them on a creature nearby. When a creature you can see moves into a space within 10 feet of you or starts its turn there, you can use your reaction to deal 1d4 necrotic damage to that creature unless it succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. The necrotic damage increases to 1d6 at 6th level, 1d8 at 10th level, and 1d10 at 14th level.

Symbiotic Entity

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to channel magic into your spores. As an action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to awaken those spores, rather than transforming into a beast form, and you gain 4 temporary hit points for each level you have in this class. While this feature is active, you gain the following benefits:

• When you deal your Halo of Spores damage, roll the damage die a second time and add it to the total.
• Your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 poison damage to any target they hit.

These benefits last for 10 minutes, until you lose all these temporary hit points, or until you use your Wild Shape again.

Fungal Infestation

At 6th level, your spores gain the ability to infest a corpse and animate it. If a beast or a humanoid that is Small or Medium dies within 10 feet of you, you can use your reaction to animate it, causing it to stand up immediately with 1 hit point. The creature uses the zombie stat block in the Monster Manual. It remains animate for 1 hour, after which time it collapses and dies.

In combat, the zombie's turn comes immediately after yours. It obeys your mental commands, and the only action it can take is the Attack action, making one melee attack.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Spreading Spores

At 10th level, you gain the ability to seed an area with deadly spores. As a bonus action while your Symbiotic Entity feature is active, you can hurl spores up to 30 feet away, where they swirl in a 10-foot cube for 1 minute. The spores disappear early if you use this feature again, if you dismiss them as a bonus action, or if your Symbiotic Entity feature is no longer active.

Whenever a creature moves into the cube or starts its turn there, that creature takes your Halo of Spores damage, unless the creature succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. A creature can take this damage no more than once per turn.

While the cube of spores persists, you can't use your Halo of Spores reaction.

Fungal Body

At 14th level, the fungal spores in your body alter you: you can't be blinded, deafened, frightened, or poisoned, and any critical hit against you counts as a normal hit instead, unless you're incapacitated.

Circle of the Stars

An ancient lineage, the Circle of Stars allows druids to draw on the power of starlight. These druids have tracked heavenly patterns since time immemorial, discovering secrets hidden amid the constellations. By revealing and understanding these secrets, the Circle of the Stars seeks to harness the powers of the cosmos.

Many druids of this circle keep detailed records of the stars and their effects on the world. Some groups document these observations at megalithic sites, which serve as enigmatic libraries of lore. These repositories might take the form of stone circles, pyramids, petroglyphs, and underground temples—any construction durable enough to protect the circle's sacred knowledge even against a great cataclysm.

Cosmic Omen

Starting at 6th level, you learn to use your star map to divine the will of the cosmos. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can consult your star map for omens. When you do so, roll a d6. You gain one of the following possible omens based on whether you rolled an even number or an odd number on the d6:

Weal (even) Whenever a creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, a saving throw, or an ability check, you can use your reaction to roll a d6 and add the number rolled to the total.

Woe (odd) Whenever a creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, a saving throw, or an ability check, you can use your reaction to roll a d6 and subtract the number rolled from the total.

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Full of Stars

Beginning at 10th level, while your Starry Form feature is active, you become partially incorporeal, giving you resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

Star Flare

At 14th level, your connection to the cosmos allows you to conjure brilliant starlight. As an action, you conjure a burst of light in a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you can see within 120 feet of you. You can immediately teleport each willing creature in the sphere to an unoccupied space within 30 feet outside the sphere. Each creature remaining in the sphere must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or take 4d10 radiant damage and be blinded until the end of your next turn. At 17th level, the radian damage increases to 5d6.

Once you have used this action, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest or until you expend a spell slot of 5th level or higher to use it again.

Circle of the Swamp

While many considers the swamplands inhospitable, many druids choose their calling here. Learning the land that gives life to many strange, yet wondrous creatures. While each being's perspective of a swamp differs, these druids can channel the many faces of their land against their foes.

Call of the Swamp

At 14th level, the swamplands has bestowed its essence to the beasts who dwell in it. When you use your Wild Shape, you can choose to become a spirit of the marsh, granting you additional properties:

• You gain tremorsense up to 60 feet while in a swamp environment.
• You gain immunity against poison damage.
• When you take necrotic damage, make a Constitution saving throw against a DC of 10 or half of the damage taken (whichever is higher). On a failed save, you gain 1 level of Exhaustion.
• At the start of your turn, if you are standing in a swamp environment, you gain temporary hit points equal to your proficiency modifier.
• Whenever you take bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage, you deal poison or acid damage (your choice) to the attacker equal to half your druid level.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Circle of Twilight

The Circle of Twilight seeks to exterminate undead creatures and preserve the natural cycle of life and death that rules over the cosmos. Their magic allows them to manipulate the boundary between life and death, sending their foes to their final rest while keeping their allies from that fate.

These druids seek out lands that have been tainted by undeath. Such places are grim and foreboding. Once vibrant forests become gloomy, haunted places devoid of animals and filled with plants dying a slow, lingering death. The Circle of Twilight goes to such places to banish undeath and restore life.

Circle of the Underdark

The subterranean environment can be quite unforgiving for those unfamiliar with the nature of the land. Hidden from daylight, cold and damp, makes it a unique biome that offers druids who chooses this land as their circle for it holds secrets that can only be found beneath the ground.

Darkstones

Starting at 2nd level, you know the magic stone cantrip and it doesn't count against your cantrips known. When you cast this cantrip, you can now imbue a number of additional pebbles with magic equal to your druid level divided by 3.

At 5th level, when you use your action to attack with a pebble, you can throw up to 2 pebbles at once.

Circle Spells

Your mystical connection to the land infuses you with the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to circle spells connected to the land where you became a druid.

Once you gain access to a circle spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the druid spell list, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.

Cavernous Whisper

At 6th level, your time within the underdark has developed your senses to thrive within the land beneath. You gain darkvision out to 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, this extends to 120 feet.

In addition, you gain bonus to your Wisdom (Perception) score and Passive Perception equal to your proficiency bonus while you are in darkness or half of your proficiency bonus while you are in dim light.

Deep Affinity

Also at 6th level, you can always tell the directions and the time while in the underdark environment. You can recall all your travels in an underground environment in the past 1 day. At 17th level, you can tell directions and the time while in magical darkness, and you can recall your travels in the same environment for up to 1 month.

Breath of the Dark

At 10th level, you can momentarily heighten your senses, granting you the ability to feel the earth around you. As an action, you can spend a minute to gain tremorsense out to 30 feet until the end of your turn.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once) and regain expended uses at the end of a long rest.

Beast of the Underdark

At 14th level, the very essence of the underdark shrounds your hunting beast. When you use your Wild Shape, you can choose to become a spirit of the depths, granting you additional properties:

• You gain advantage to all Dexterity (Stealth) checks in dim light and full darkness, and you can take the Hide action as a bonus action.
• You gain immunity against necrotic damage.
• When you take radiant damage, make a Constitution saving throw against a DC of 10 or half of the damage taken (whichever is higher). On a failed save, you have vulnerability to the damaging effect.
• At the start of your turn, if you are in an underdark environment and you are in full darkness, you heal 1d4 hit points and gain temporary hit points equal to your proficiency modifier.
• While in an underdark environment, walls provide the same effect as friendly creatures for the purpose of flanking.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Circle of Wildfire

Druids who are members of the Circle of Wildfire understand the necessity of destruction, such as how a forest fire promotes growth. These druids bond with a primal spirit that harbors destructive tendencies, allowing the druids to use their power to create controlled flames that help flora and fauna reproduce and grow.

Wildfire Spirit

Small elemental, any chaotic alignment

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• Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
• Hit Points equal to six times your level in this class
• Speed 20 ft., fly 30 ft. (hover)

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	14 (+2)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)	15 (+2)	11 (+0)

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• Saving Throws Dexterity +4, Constitution +4, Wisdom +4
• Skills Athletics +2, Nature +4
• Damage Immunities fire
• Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, grappled, prone, restrained
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
• Languages understands the languages you speak

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Soul Bond. The following numbers increase by 1 when your proficiency bonus increases: the spirit's skill and saving throw bonuses above, the bonuses to hit and damage of its Flame Seed, and the bonus to damage of its Fiery Teleportation.

Hide in Flame. Your spirit can hide itself, merging with other sources of small flame like campfires or torches, before exploding outwards 5 ft. in a surprise attack dealing an additional 1d4 fire damage.

Smoke Cloud. The wildfire spirit takes 3d6 damage and create a 20 ft. radius sphere of smoke centered around it. The sphere spreads around corners and its area is heavily obscured. Lasts for 1 minute or until a wind of moderate or greater speed (at least 10 m per hour) disperses it.

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Actions (Uses Your Bonus Action)

Flame Seed. Ranged Weapon Attack: uses your spellcasting modifier to hit, range 30 ft., one target you can see. Hit: 1d6 + 2 fire damage. The damage increases to 1d8 + 3 on 5th level, 1d10 + 4 on 9th level, and 1d12 + 5 on 14th level.

Fiery Teleportation (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The spirit and each willing creature of your choice within 5 feet of it teleport up to 30 feet to unoccupied spaces you can see. Each creature within 10 feet of the space that the spirit left must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or take damage equal to its Flame Seed attack.

Enhanced Bond

At 6th level, the bond with your wildfire spirit enhances your destructive and restorative spells. Whenever you cast a spell that deals fire damage or restores hit points while your wildfire spirit is summoned, roll a d8, and you gain a bonus to the damage or healing roll of the spell equal to the number rolled. In addition, when you cast a spell with a range other than self, the spell can originate from you or your wildfire spirit.

Flames of Life

At 10th level, you gain the ability to turn death into flames of vitality. When a Small or larger creature that you can see dies within 30 feet of you or your wildfire spirit, you can use your reaction to cause primal flames to spring from the body. When a creature you can see touches these flames, the creature regains hit points or takes fire damage (your choice) equal to 2d10 + your Wisdom modifier. The flames vanish after a creature has touched them or after 1 minute. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Blazing Endurance

Starting at 14th level, the bond with your wildfire spirit is exceptionally strong, even fatal blows only fuel your defiance. If you drop to 0 hit points and don't die outright, you drop to 1 hit point instead and gain temporary hit points equal to five times your druid level, and each creature of your choice within 30 feet of you that you can see takes fire damage equal to 2d10 + your druid level.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Updated Fighter

Arcane Shot Options

The Arcane Shot feature lets you choose options for it at certain levels. The options are presented here in alphabetical order. They are all magical effects, and each one is associated with one of the schools of magic.

If an option requires a saving throw, your Arcane Shot save DC is calculated as follows: Arcane Shot save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier.

Banishing Arrow. You use abjuration magic to try to temporarily banish your target to a harmless location in the Feywild. The creature hit by the arrow must also succeed on a Charisma saving throw or be banished. While banished in this way, the target's speed is 0, and it is incapacitated. At the end of its next turn, the target reappears in the space it vacated or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied. The target also takes 1d6 force damage when the arrow hits it at 10th level, or 2d6 at 15th level.

Beguiling Arrow. Your enchantment magic causes this arrow to temporarily beguile its target. The creature hit by the arrow takes an extra 2d6 psychic damage, and choose one of your allies within 30 feet of the target. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw, or it is charmed by the chosen ally until the start of your next turn. This effect ends early if the chosen ally attacks the charmed target, deals damage to it, or forces it to make a saving throw. The psychic damage increases to 3d6 at 10th level, and 4d6 at 15th level.

Bursting Arrow. You imbue your arrow with force energy drawn from the school of evocation. The energy detonates after your attack. Immediately after the arrow hits the creature, the target and all other creatures within 10 feet of it take 2d6 force damage each. The force damage increases to 3d6 at 10th level, and 4d6 at 15th level.

Bramble Shot. When you make an attack with a ranged weapon, you can expend one superiority die to wrap the shot in thorns. On hit these thorns wrap about the target, forcing causing it become entangled in thorns. While entagled by thorns, each time it willingly moves 5 feet without teleporting, it takes 1d4 piercing damage, and makes a Dexterity saving throw. On a passed save, it escapes the brambles after taking damage. This brambles last for 1 minute, or until it passes a Dexterity saving throw after moving. As an action, a creature can clear away the brambles, taking piecing damage as if it moved. The damage increases to 1d6 at 10th level, and 2d4 at 15th level.

Enfeebling Arrow. You weave necromantic magic into your arrow. The creature hit by the arrow takes an extra 2d6 necrotic damage. The target must also succeed on a Constitution saving throw, or the damage dealt by its weapon attacks is halved until the start of your next turn. The necrotic damage increases to 3d6 at 10th level, and 4d6 at 15th level.

Fire Shot. When you make an attack with a ranged weapon, you can infuse your ammunition with the power of fire. On hit it explodes; dealing 1d6 additional fire damage, and all other creatures within 10 feet of the target must pass a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d6 fire damage. Any flammable items that are not worn or carried are ignited. The fire damage increases to 2d6 at 10th level, and 3d6 at 15th level.

Force Missile Shot. When you make an attack with a ranged weapon, you can forgo using a piece of ammunition, instead forming the ammunition from pure arcane energy. You do not need to expend a piece of ammunition on this attack, and the attack treats the target's armor as 10 + their Dexterity modifier by passing all armor or magical AC bonuses they have, but is automatically blocked by the shield spell. The attack gains a bonus +1 to the attack roll at 10th level, and +2 at 15th level.

Grasping Arrow. When this arrow strikes its target, conjuration magic creates grasping, poisonous brambles, which wrap around the target. The creature hit by the arrow takes an extra 2d6 poison damage, its speed is reduced by 10 feet, and it takes 2d6 slashing damage the first time on each turn it moves 1 foot or more without teleporting. The target or any creature that can reach it can use its action to remove the brambles with a successful Strength (Athletics) check against your Arcane Shot save DC. Otherwise, the brambles last for 1 minute or until you use this option again. The poison damage increases to 3d6 at 10th level, and 4d6 at 15th level.

Ice Shot. When you make an attack with a ranged weapon, you can infuse your ammunition with the power of ice prior to making an attack. On hit the target takes additional 1d6 cold damage and must pass a Constitution saving throw, or have their speed halved until the start of your next turn. The cold damage increases to 2d6 at 10th level, and 3d6 at 15th level.

Lightning Shot. When you make an attack with a ranged weapon, you can turn your ammunition into a bolt of lightning. When you make an attack you forgo making an attack roll and instead every creature in a line 5 feet wide and the normal range of your weapon long must pass a Dexterity saving throw or take 2d6 lightning damage instead of arrow's normal damage. Creatures take half as much damage on a successful save. The lightning shot deals 3d6 lightning damage at 10th level, and 4d6 at 15th level.

Piercing Arrow. You use transmutation magic to give your arrow an ethereal quality. When you use this option, you don't make an attack roll for the attack. Instead, the arrow shoots forward in a line, which is 1 foot wide and 30 feet long, before disappearing. The arrow passes harmlessly through objects, ignoring cover. Each creature in that line must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes damage as if it were hit by the arrow, plus an extra 1d6 piercing damage. On a successful save, a target takes half as much damage. The piercing damage increases to 3d6 at 10th level, and 4d6 at 15th level.

Magic Arrow

At 7th level, you gain the ability to infuse arrows with magic. Whenever you fire a nonmagical arrow from a shortbow or longbow, you can make it magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. The magic fades from the arrow immediately after it hits or misses its target.

Curving Shot

At 7th level, you learn how to direct an errant arrow toward a new target. When you make an attack roll with a magic arrow and miss, you can use a bonus action to reroll the attack roll against a different target within 60 feet of the original target.

Ever-Ready Shot

Starting at 10th level, your magical archery is available whenever battle starts. If you roll initiative and have no uses of Arcane Shot remaining, you regain one use of it.

Critical Infusion

Starting at 15th level, your magical archery is fueled by your feats in combat. If you score a critical hit and have no uses of Arcane Shot remaining, you regain one use of it.

Arcane Superiority

Starting at 18th level, your arcane shot deals an additional 1d6 that can be any of the damage types the shot is able to deal. Your Arcane Shot save DC is increased by 1.

Battle Master

Those who emulate the archetypal Battle Master employ martial techniques passed down through generations. To a Battle Master, combat is an academic field, sometimes including subjects beyond battle such as weaponsmithing and calligraphy. Not every fighter absorbs the lessons of history, theory, and artistry that are reflected in the Battle Master archetype, but those who do are well-rounded fighters of great skill and knowledge.

Know Your Enemy

If you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside combat, you can learn certain information about its capabilities compared to your own. The DM tells you if the creature is your equal, superior, or inferior in regard to two of the following characteristics of your choice:

• Strength score
• Dexterity score
• Constitution score
• Armor Class
• Current hit points
• Total class levels (if any)
• Fighter class levels (if any)

Improved Combat Superiority (d10)

At 10th level, your superiority dice turn into d10s.

Relentless

Starting at 15th level, when you roll initiative and have no superiority dice remaining, you regain 1 superiority die.

Improved Combat Superiority (d12)

At 18th level, your superiority dice turn into d12s.

Brute

Brutes are simple warriors who rely on mighty attacks and their own durability to overcome their enemies. Some brutes combine this physical might with tactical cunning. Others just hit things until those things stop hitting back.

Cavalier

The archetypal Cavalier excels at mounted combat. Usually born among the nobility and raised at court, a Cavalier is equally at home leading a cavalry charge or exchanging repartee at a state dinner. Cavaliers also learn how to guard those in their charge from harm, often serving as the protectors of their superiors and of the weak. Drawn to right wrongs or earn prestige, many of these fighters leave their lives of comfort to embark on glorious adventure.

Born to the Saddle

Starting at 3rd level, your mastery as a rider becomes apparent. You have advantage on saving throws made to avoid falling off your mount. If you fall off your mount and descend no more than 10 feet, you can land on your feet if you're not incapacitated. Mounting or dismounting a creature costs you only 5 feet of movement, rather than half your speed.

You also gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, History, Insight, Performance, or Persuasion. Alternatively, you learn one language of your choice.

Mounted Superiority

At 3rd level, you gain a set of combat abilities, referred to as mounted maneuvers, which are fueled by special dice called superiority dice.

Superiority Dice. You have four superiority dice, which are d8s. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain all your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest. You gain another superiority die at 7th level and one more at 15th level.

Maneuvers. You spend your superiority dice on your maneuvers. You can use more than one maneuver per turn, but no more than one maneuver per attack. You know the maneuvers detailed under "Mounted Maneuvers" below.

Saving Throws. Some of your maneuvers require your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows: Maneuver save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +your Strength modifier.

Mounted Maneuvers

The maneuvers are presented in alphabetical order.

Cavalier's Strike. When you take the Attack action while mounted, you can expend a superiority die and direct your mount to attack (if it has any attacks) as a bonus action. You can add your Proficiency modifier to the attack roll, and if it hits you add your Supriority die to the damage roll.

Control Mount. When you make a Wisdom (Animal Handling) check to influence a creature that you or an ally is riding, you can expend one superiority die, roll it, and add the number rolled to the check. You can do this before or after rolling the d20, but before applying the results of the check.

Inspiring Charge. When you move 20 feet or more toward a target while mounted, you can expend superiority die. Up to five allied creatures that can see or hear you can use their reaction to move 10 feet towards you or the target you moved towards.

Precision Attack. When you make a weapon attack against a creature while mounted, you can expend one superiority die, roll it, and add it to the attack roll. You can use this ability before or after rolling the d20, but before any of the effects of the attack are applied.

Trip Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack while mounted, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to knock the target down. Roll the die, and add it to the attack's damage roll. If the target is Large or smaller, it must also succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be knocked prone.

Unstoppable Advance. When you move, you can expend one superiority die to make you or your mount ignore difficult terrain (but not greater difficult terrain) until the end of your turn. During this time, you or your mount can move through the spaces of hostile creatures by spending twice the movement required to move through their space.

Warding Maneuver. If you or your mount is hit by an attack, you can expend one superiority die as a reaction if you're wielding a weapon or a shield. Roll the die, and add the number rolled to the target's AC against that attack. If the attack still hits, the target has resistance against the attack's damage.

Rider's Rally

Starting at 7th level, whenever you roll initiative while mounted or use your Second Wind feature, your mount gains temporary hit points equal to your Fighter level. These hit points are lost if you dismount the mount.

Ferocious Charger

At 7th level, you gain additional benefits when you use your Trip Attack maneuver. You can expend up to two superiority dice on it, adding both dice to the damage roll. When you spend two dice in this way, the target has disadvantage on its Strength saving throw to avoid being knocked prone.

Inspiring Surge

At level 10, when you use your Action Surge feature, you can choose one creature within 60 feet of you that is allied with you. That creature can make one melee or ranged weapon attack with its reaction, provided that it can see or hear you.

Improved Combat Superiority (d10)

At 10th level, your superiority dice turn into d10s.

Relentless

Starting at 15th level, when you roll initiative and have no superiority dice remaining, you regain 1 superiority die.

Unbreakable Bond

Starting at 15th level, whenever you roll a superiority die while mounted, you gain temporary hit points equal to half the number rolled (rounded down).

Master Equestrian

At the 18th level, when you hit a creature with a mounted Charge, creatures have advantage on attack rolls against it until the start of your next turn. Additionally, attacks you make as part of Mounted Charge critically hit on a 19-20, and deal one additional weapon die of damage on a critical hit.

Improved Combat Superiority (d12)

At 18th level, your superiority dice turn into d12s.

Champion

Champions are mighty warriors who honed their fighting skills in wars or gladiatorial pits. To soldiers and other people who fight for a living, champions are as influential as nobles, and their presence is courted as a sign of status among rulers. The archetypal Champion focuses on the development of raw physical power honed to deadly perfection. Those who model themselves on this archetype combine rigorous training with physical excellence to deal devastating blows.

Eldritch Knight

The archetypal Eldritch Knight combines the martial mastery common to all fighters with a careful study of magic. Eldritch Knights use magical techniques similar to those practiced by wizards. They focus their study on two of the eight schools of magic—abjuration and evocation. Abjuration spells grant an Eldritch Knight additional protection in battle, and evocation spells deal damage to many foes at once, extending the fighter's reach in combat. These knights learn a comparatively small number of spells, committing them to memory instead of keeping them in a spellbook.

Weapon Bond

At 3rd level, you learn a ritual that creates a magical bond between yourself and one weapon. You perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. The weapon must be within your reach throughout the ritual, at the conclusion of which you touch the weapon and forge the bond.

Once you have bonded a weapon to yourself, you can't be disarmed of that weapon unless you are incapacitated. If it is on the same plane of existence, you can summon that weapon as a bonus action on your turn, causing it to teleport instantly to your hand.

Additionally, your bonded weapon acts as an arcane focus for your wizard spells, and you can perform the somatic components of these spells as if your hand was free while wielding a bonded weapon.

You can have up to two bonded weapons, but can summon only one at a time with your bonus action. If you attempt to bond with a third weapon, you must break the bond with one of the other two.

War Magic

Beginning at 7th level, once per turn when you take the Attack action, you can exchange one or more attacks using that action to cast a single damaging cantrip. A cantrip cast in this way has a number of damage dice equal to the total number of attacks spent to perform it, and allows you to add your Intelligence modifier to the cantrip's damage roll.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a short or long rest.

Magic Bond

Starting at 7th level, when you use your Weapon Bond feature, the weapon becomes magical and ignores resistance against nonmagical damage.

Eldritch Strike

At 10th level, you learn how to make your weapon strikes undercut a creature's resistance to your spells. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, that creature has disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes against a spell you cast before the end of your next turn.

Arcane Charge

Starting at 10th level, you learn to utilize threads of residual magic left behind after your casting. On your turn, when you cast a wizard spell of 2nd level or higher you can choose one of the following effects;

• If the spell deals damage, you can wreathe your weapon in its energy. The next time you hit a creature with the weapon before the end of your next turn, it deals an additional 2d8 damage of the same type dealt by the spell. If the spell has multiple damage types, choose one.
• You teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. You can teleport immediately before or after you cast the spell.

Elemental Bond

Starting at 15th level, when you use your Weapon Bond feature, you can choose to change each weapon’s damage type to acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder (your choice) until you cast the ritual again, dismiss the effect as an action, or another creature wields it.

Improved War Magic

Starting at 18th level, your War Magic feature increases in potential. You can treat any single-action spell as you would a cantrip when using War Magic, allowing a spell to be cast at a slot level equal to the number of attacks and bonus actions exchanged (up to the slot level of any unused spell slots). d interacts with standard attacks that have not been exchanged as normal.

You must have a use of War Magic to use this feature. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short rest, even if you have additional uses of War Magic.

Knight Banneret

A Knight Banneret inspires greatness in others by committing brave deeds in battle. The mere presence of a knight in a hamlet is enough to cause some orcs and bandits to seek easier prey. A lone knight is a skilled warrior, but a knight leading a band of allies can transform even the most poorly equipped militia into a ferocious war band.

A knight prefers to lead through deeds, not words. As a knight spearheads an attack, the knight's actions can awaken reserves of courage and conviction in allies that they never suspected they had.

Psi Warrior

Awake to the psionic power within, a Psi Warrior is a fighter who augments their physical might with psi-infused weapon strikes, telekinetic lashes, and barriers of mental force. Many githyanki train to become such warriors, as do some of the most disciplined high elves. In the world of Eberron, many young kalashtar dream of becoming Psi Warriors.

As a Psi Warrior, you might have honed your psionic abilities through solo discipline, unlocked it under the tutelage of a master, or refined it at an academy dedicated to wielding the mind's power as both weapon and shield.

Psionic Power

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you harbor a wellspring of psionic energy within yourself. This energy is represented by your Psionic Energy dice, which are each a d6. You have a number of these dice equal to twice your proficiency bonus, and they fuel various psionic powers you have, which are detailed below.

Some of your powers expend the Psionic Energy die they use, as specified in a power's description, and you can't use a power if it requires you to use a die when your dice are all expended. You regain all your expended Psionic Energy dice when you finish a long rest. In addition, you regain one Psionic Energy die every time you complete a short rest.

When you reach certain levels in this class, the size of your Psionic Energy dice increases: at 5th level (d8), 11th level (d10), and 17th level (d12).

The powers below use your Psionic Energy dice.

Protective Field. When you or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage of type other than force, you can use your reaction to expend one Psionic Energy die, roll the die, and reduce the damage taken by the number rolled plus your Intelligence modifier (minimum reduction of 1), as you create a momentary shield of telekinetic force.

Psionic Strike. You can propel your weapons with psionic force. Once on each of your turns, immediately after you hit a target within 30 feet of you with an attack and deal damage to it with a weapon, you can expend up to two Psionic Energy dice, rolling them and dealing force damage to the target equal to the number rolled.

Telekinetic Movement. You can move an object with your mind. As an action, you expend one Psionic Energy die and target one loose and unattended object of 25 pounds or lighter that you can see within 30 feet of you, you can move it up to 15 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Alternatively, if the object is no heavier than 5 pounds, you can move it to or from your hand. Either way, you can move the target horizontally, vertically, or both. You can expend additional Psionic Energy dice, for each additional die the maximum weight of the unattended object increases by 10 pounds, and the item you can pull to your hand by 2 pounds.

Psionic Sense

Also at 3rd level, you can communicate telepathically with any creature you can see within 30 feet of you. If it understands at least one language, it can respond to you telepathically. As long as the creature is willing to maintain the communication, you have advantage on all Wisdom (Insight) checks to sense its emotions and intent.

Telekinetic Adept

At 7th level, you have mastered new ways to use your telekinetic abilities, detailed below.

Psi-Powered Leap. As a bonus action, you can spend one Psionic Energy die and propel your body with your mind. You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed until the end of the current turn. You can spend one additional Psionic Energy die to double your flying speed gained this way.

Telekinetic Thrust. When you deal damage to a target with your Psionic Strike, you can spend one additional Psionic Energy die and force the target to make a Strength saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier. If the save fails, you can knock the target prone or move it up to 10 feet in any direction horizontally.

Psionic Knowledge

Also at 7rd level, while you communicate telepathically with a willing creature, it can bestow its knowledge subconsciously to you. You can spend one Psionic Energy die to gain the creature's proficiency or expertise in a skill of your choice for one check in the next one minute.

Guarded Mind

Starting at 10th level, the psionic energy flowing through you has bolstered your mind. You have resistance to psychic damage. Moreover, if you start your turn charmed or frightened, you can expend a Psionic Energy die and end every effect on yourself subjecting you to those conditions.

Bulwark of Force

At 15th level, you can shield yourself and others with telekinetic force. As a bonus action, you can choose creatures, which can include you, that you can see within 30 feet of you, up to a number of creatures equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one creature). Each of the chosen creatures is protected by half cover for 1 minute or until you're incapacitated.

Once you take this bonus action, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend two Psionic Energy dice to take it again.

Telekinetic Master

When you reach 18th level, your ability to move creatures and objects with your mind is matched by few. You can cast the telekinesis spell, requiring no components, and your spellcasting ability for the spell is Intelligence. On each of your turns while you concentrate on the spell, including the turn when you cast it, you can make one attack with a weapon as a bonus action.

Once you cast the spell with this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend two Psionic Energy dice to cast it again.

Samurai

The Samurai is a fighter who draws on an implacable fighting spirit to overcome enemies. A Samurai's resolve is nearly unbreakable, and the enemies in a Samurai's path have two choices: yield or die fighting.

Sharpshooter

The Sharpshooter is a master of ranged combat. An excellent sniper and eagle-eyed scout, this fighter is a perilous foe who can defeat an entire war band so long as they are kept at range.

Patient and Thorough

Starting at 7th level, your willingness to wait and your keen eyes make it difficult to sneak past or even detect you. You can take the Search and Hide actions as a bonus action on your turn.

Approaching Shot

Also at 7th level, when a hostile creature starts its move in a location more than 30 feet away from you and ends its move within 30 feet from you, you may use your reaction to make one ranged attack against that creature.

Brave Archer

Starting at 10th level, if you hit a creature within 5 feet of you with an attack on your turn, that creature can't make opportunity attacks against you for the rest of your turn.

In addition, you have advantage on Wisdom saving throws against being frightened as long as you are more than 15 feet away from the frightening creature or effect.

Sudden Shot

Also at 10th level, when a hostile creature begins its movement out of your line of sight and ended its movement within your line of sight, you may use your reaction to make one ranged attack against that creature. You can use this ability only once per each creature until end of combat.

Reactive Archer

Beginning at 15th level, you can use your bonus action on your turn to gain a second reaction. You can use your second reaction to make ranged attacks triggered by your Exposed Shot, Approaching Shot, Sudden Shot or Protective Shot but you cannot use two of these features against the same target until the start of your turn.

Close Shot

Also at 15th level, when a hostile creature begins its movement 5 feet away from any friendly creature and ends its movement 5 feet away from another friendly creature, you may use your reaction to make one ranged attack against that creature.

Unstoppable Archer

Starting at 18th level, when you miss with a ranged weapon attack, you may choose to reroll the attack with advantage. Once you have used this ability, you may not do so again until you finish a short or long rest, or you score a critical hit in combat.

Updated Rogue

Mage Hand Legerdemain

Starting at 3rd level, when you cast mage hand, you can make the spectral hand invisible, and you can perform the following additional tasks with it:

• You can stow one object the hand is holding in a container worn or carried by another creature.
• You can retrieve an object in a container worn or carried by another creature.
• You can use thieves' tools to pick locks and disarm traps at range.

You can perform one of these tasks without being noticed by a creature if you succeed on a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check contested by the creature's Wisdom (Perception) check. In addition, you can use the bonus action granted by your Cunning Action to control the hand.

Magical Ambush

Starting at 9th level, if you are hidden from a creature when you cast a spell on it, the creature has disadvantage on any saving throw it makes against the spell this turn.

Versatile Trickster

At 13th level, you gain the ability to distract targets with your mage hand. As a bonus action on your turn, you can designate a creature within 5 feet of the spectral hand created by the spell. Doing so gives you advantage on attack rolls against that creature until the end of the turn.

Spell Thief

At 17th level, you gain the ability to magically steal the knowledge of how to cast a spell from another spellcaster.

Immediately after a creature casts a spell that targets you or includes you in its area of effect, you can use your reaction to force the creature to make a saving throw with its spellcasting ability modifier. The DC equals your spell save DC. On a failed save, you negate the spell's effect against you, and you steal the knowledge of the spell if it is at least 1st level and of a level you can cast (it doesn't need to be a wizard spell). For the next 8 hours, you know the spell and can cast it using your spell slots. The creature can't cast that spell until the 8 hours have passed.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Assassin

You focus your training on the grim art of death. Those who adhere to this archetype are diverse - hired killers, spies, bounty hunters, and even specially anointed priests trained to exterminate the enemies of their deity. Stealth, poison, and disguise help you eliminate your foes with deadly efficiency.

Assassination Maneuver

At 13th level, when you score a critical hit against a surprised creature during your first turn in combat, that creature is still reeling from your attack.

If the creature has not hit you at least once during its first turn during the combat it must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your Dexterity modifier + your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, it still counts as surprised against your attacks until its second turn in the combat.

Death Strike

Starting at 17th level, you become a master of instant death. When you make a critical hit against a target that is surprised by you, it must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your Dexterity modifier + your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, double the damage of your attack against the creature.

Inquisitive

As an archetypal Inquisitive, you excel at rooting out secrets and unraveling mysteries. You rely on your sharp eye for detail, but also on your finely honed ability to read the words and deeds of other creatures to determine their true intent. You excel at defeating creatures that hide among and prey upon ordinary folk, and your mastery of lore and your keen deductions make you well equipped to expose and end hidden evils.

Mastermind

Your focus is on people and on the influence and secrets they have. Many spies, courtiers, and schemers follow this archetype, leading lives of intrigue. Words are your weapons as often as knives or poison, and secrets and favors are some of your favorite treasures.

Master of Duel

Staeting at 3rd level, you have gained the ability to use wit and knowledge in combat as much as speed and power. You choose one attribute out of Intelligence and Wisdom. You can use that attribute on attack and damage rolls of any weapon with the finesse property instead of Dexterity.

Master of Tactics

Starting at 3rd level, you can use the Help action as a bonus action. Additionally, when you use the Help action to aid an ally in attacking a creature, the target of that attack can be within 30 feet of you, rather than within 5 feet of you, if the target can see or hear you.

When you reach 11th level, your Help action grants advantage to the first two attacks rather than to just one.

Powerful Mind

At 9th level, your mind has become something which can work out any problem and control anyone or thing. You gain the ability to add a extra d6 to any skill check that uses Charisma, Intelligence or Wisdom and does not benefit from advantage. The die size increases to d8 when you reach 14th level, and d10 when you reach 18th level.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all uses when you finish a long rest.

Insightful Manipulator

Starting at 9th level, if you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside combat, you can learn certain information about its capabilities compared to your own. The DM tells you if the creature is your equal, superior, or inferior in regard to two of the following characteristics of your choice:

• Intelligence score
• Wisdom score
• Charisma score
• Class levels (if any)

At the DM's option, you might also realize you know a piece of the creature's history or one of its personality traits, if it has any.

Unbreakable Mind

At 13th level, your mind has become stronger and more powerful than any piece of magic or psychic power. You gain the ability to add a d8 to any Wisdom, Charisma or Intelligence saving throw you make as long as it doesn't suffer from disadvantage. You can choose to do this after you see the roll but before you know if you have succeeded or not. The die size increases to d8 when you reach 17th level.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all uses when you finish a long rest.

Soul of Deceit

Starting at 13th level, your thoughts can't be read by telepathy or other means, unless you allow it. You can present false thoughts by succeeding on a Charisma (Deception) check contested by the mind reader's Wisdom (Insight) check.

Additionally, no matter what you say, magic that would determine if you are telling the truth indicates you are being truthful if you so choose, and you can't be compelled to tell the truth by magic.

Phantom

Many rogues walk a fine line between life and death, risking their own lives and taking the lives of others. While adventuring on that line, some rogues discover a mystical connection to death itself. These rogues take knowledge from the dead and become immersed in negative energy, eventually becoming like ghosts. Thieves' guilds value them as highly effective information gatherers and spies.

Many shadar-kai of the Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay (Forgotten Realms) and Karrnath (Eberron), where many necromancers practice their craft, a Phantom can become a wizard's confidant and right hand. In temples of gods of death, the Phantom works as an agent to track down those who try to cheat death and to recover knowledge that might otherwise be lost to the grave.

How did you discover this grim power? Did you sleep in a graveyard and awaken to your new abilities? Or did you cultivate them in a temple or thieves' guild dedicated to a god of death?

Tokens of the Departed

At 9th level, when a life ends in your presence, you're able to snatch a token from the departing soul, a sliver of its life essence that takes physical form: as a reaction when a creature you can see dies within 30 feet of you, you open your free hand and a Tiny trinket appears there, a soul trinket. The creature must have class levels or challenge rating at least 2 less than your, as you can only gain control over the weaker of souls. The DM chooses the trinket's form or has you roll on the Trinkets table in the Player's Handbook to determine it. You can have a maximum number of soul trinkets equal to your proficiency bonus, and you can't create one while at your maximum.

As a reaction you can destroy one of your soul trinkets held in your hand, and gain advantage to the next death saving throw and Constitution saving throw, as your vitality is enhanced by the life essence within the object.

As an action, you can destroy one of your soul trinkets, no matter where it's located. When you do so, you can ask the spirit associated with the trinket one question. The spirit appears to you and answers in a language it knew in life. It's under no obligation to be truthful, and it answers as concisely as possible, eager to be free.

Call of the Death

Also at 9th level, when you enter combat with no uses of your Wails from the Grave feature, you gain one use of that feature.

Ghost Walk

Starting at 13th level, you can now phase partially into the realm of the dead, becoming like a ghost. As a bonus action, you assume a spectral form. While in this form, you have a flying speed of 10 feet, you can hover, and attack rolls have disadvantage against you. You can also move through creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, but you take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside a creature or an object.

You stay in this form for 1 minute or until you end it as a bonus action. While in a ghost form, you can extend the period by another 1 minute by destroying one of your soul trinkets as a bonus action. When you leave ghost form, you cannot use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Death Knell

At 17th level, when you use your Wails from the Grave feature, you can now deal the psychic damage to both the first and the second creature.

Scout

You are skilled in stealth and surviving far from the streets of a city, allowing you to scout ahead of your companions during expeditions. Rogues who embrace this archetype are at home in the wilderness and among barbarians and rangers, and many Scouts serve as the eyes and ears of war bands. Ambusher, spy, bounty hunter—these are just a few of the roles that Scouts assume as they range the world.

Sudden Strike

Starting at 17th level, you can strike with deadly speed. If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make one additional attack as a bonus action. This attack can benefit from your Sneak Attack even if you have already used it this turn, but you can't use your Sneak Attack against the same target more than once in a turn.

Soulknife

Most assassins strike with physical weapons, and many burglars and spies use thieves' tools to infiltrate secure locations. In contrast, a Soulknife strikes and infiltrates with the mind, cutting through barriers both physical and psychic. These rogues discover psionic power within themselves and channel it to do their roguish work. They find easy employment as members of thieves' guilds, though they are often mistrusted by rogues who are leery of anyone using strange mind powers to conduct their business. Most governments would also be happy to employ a Soulknife as a spy.

Amid the trees of ancient forests on the Material Plane and in the Feywild, some wood elves walk the path of the Soulknife, serving as silent, lethal guardians of their woods. In the endless war among the gith, a githzerai is encouraged to become a Soulknife when stealth is required against the githyanki foe.

As a Soulknife, your psionic abilities might have haunted you since you were a child, only revealing their full potential as you experienced the stress of adventure. Or you might have sought out a reclusive order of psychic adepts and spent years learning how to manifest your power.

Psychic Veil

When you reach 13th level, you can weave a veil of psychic static to mask yourself. As an action, you can spend one Psionic Energy die and magically become invisible, along with anything you are wearing or carrying, for 10 minutes or until you dismiss this effect (no action required). While you are invisible, you can continue spending Psionic Energy dice to extend its duration by 10 minutes. This invisibility ends early immediately after you deal damage to a creature or you force a creature to make a saving throw.

Rend Mind

At 17th level, you can sweep your Psychic Blades directly through a creature's mind. When you use your Psychic Blades to deal Sneak Attack damage to a creature, you can spend two Psionic Energy dice and force that target to make a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier). If the save fails, the target is stunned for 1 minute. The stunned target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Swashbuckler

You focus your training on the art of the blade, relying on speed, elegance, and charm in equal parts. While some warriors are brutes clad in heavy armor, your method of fighting looks almost like a performance. Duelists and pirates typically belong to this archetype.

A Swashbuckler excels in single combat, and can fight with two weapons while safely darting away from an opponent.

Thief

You hone your skills in the larcenous arts. Burglars, bandits, cutpurses, and other criminals typically follow this archetype, but so do rogues who prefer to think of themselves as professional treasure seekers, explorers, delvers, and investigators. In addition to improving your agility and stealth, you learn skills useful for delving into ancient ruins, reading unfamiliar languages, and using magic items you normally couldn't employ.

Cunning Apprraisal

Also at 3rd level, your eye for valuables allows you to appraise the value of items you discover. You have advantage to all Intelligence (Investigation) checks to find the approximate market price of a valuable item and whether it is genuine of fake. You also have advantage to all Charisma (Deception) checks to pass a fake for genuine item, or manipulate potential buyers into paying a higher price for it.

Supreme Sneak

Starting at 9th level, you have advantage on a Dexterity (Stealth) check if you move no more than half your speed on the same turn.

Decypher Magic Scrolls

By 9th level, you have began to learn the art of magic scrolls that you can decypher magic scrolls even when they are not intended for you. You ignore all class, race, and level requirements on the use of scrolls. Your spellcasting ability to determine whether you succeed or fail casting the scroll is Intelligence.

Use Magic Device

By 13th level, you have learned enough about the workings of magic that you can improvise the use of all magic items even when they are not intended for you. You ignore all attunement requirements on the use of magic items, and you use your proficiency bonus in place of your spellcasting ability modifier to determine whether you cast the spell successfully.

Additionally, your superior understanding of magic items allows you to master their use. You can now attune to up to four, rather than three, magic items at a time. At 17th level, this limit increases to five magic items.

Thief’s Reflexes

When you reach 17th level, you have become adept at laying ambushes and quickly escaping danger. You take two turns during the first round of any combat. You take your first turn at your normal initiative and your second turn at your initiative minus 10. You can’t use this feature when you’re surprised.

Updated Warlock

The Great Old Ones

Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. It might come from the Far Realm, the space beyond reality, or it could be one of the elder gods known only in legends. Its motives are incomprehensible to mortals, and its knowledge so immense and ancient that even the greatest libraries pale in comparison to the vast secrets it holds. The Great Old One might be unaware of your existence or entirely indifferent to you, but the secrets you have learned allow you to draw your magic from it. Entities of this type include Ghaunadar, called That Which Lurks; Tharizdun, the Chained God; Dendar, the Night Serpent; Zargon, the Returner; Great Cthulhu; and other unfathomable beings.

Great Old One Invocations

Aberrant Metamorphosis

Prerequisites: Pact of the Chain, Great Old One patron

Otherworldly magic touches your familiar. Your familiar gains additional hit points equal to your warlock level, its creature type becomes aberration, and you can use your bonus action to make its appearance alien, or revert it to normal.

While your familiar appears alien, it has advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks, and you can use your action to make it do something unnatural, such as gibber in maddening voices. Any creature within 10 feet of the familiar that sees this must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC or be frightened of the familiar for 1 minute. The frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

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Misdirection of Ulban

Prerequisites: 7th level, Great Old One patron

When you use Awakened Mind feature to communicate telepathically, you can alter your voice to sound however you wish. You can alter your mental pattern to appear as the voice of a creature that you have seen able to observe speaking in a language you understand for at least one hour.

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Secrets of Khirad

Prerequisites: 7th level, Great Old One Patron.

You use long forgotten knowledge to alter your magics, casting them with nothing but a thought. You can ignore the verbal component of a warlock spell as long as it also has a somatic component. If the spell is on your expanded spell list, it instead requires no components.

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Touch of Tharizdun

Prerequisites: Pact of the Blade, Great Old One Patron.

Your pact weapon becomes capable of carving through flesh and mind. Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a weapon attack made with your pact weapon, you can cause the attack to deal psychic damage instead of its regular type.

Additionally, when you hit a creature with a weapon attack made with your pact weapon, you can glipse into its mind. You immediately learn if the creature is under any mind influencing effect and what those effects are, such as a geas spell, and learn the creature's greatest fears and desires. Once you glipse into a creature's mind, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

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Unfathomable Understanding

Prerequisites: 9th level, Pact of the Tome, Great Old One patron

Your Book of Shadows becomes linked to an aspect of your patron you can call upon for knowledge, at the risk of your sanity. You can cast contact other plane as a ritual. The spell doesn't count against your number of spells known.

When you cast contact other plane, you make a saving throw using your warlock spellcasting ability instead of Intelligence, and the aspect writes its answers in your Book of Shadows, in arcane script only you can understand. The first time you fail your saving throw against the spell, you become insane for one hour instead of until the end of a long rest. Additionally, you can unerringly recall any information written in your Book of Shadows. Even if the book is not on your person, you can cantrips learned through it at will.

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Whispers Beyond the Veil

Prerequisites: 3rd level, Great Old One patron

You can draw your consciousness close to the veil between worlds, listening to whispers from denizens of the Far Realm. You can cast augury without spending a spell slot, and without material components. When cast this way, you can gain advantage on one attack roll or ability check of your choice that you make in the next hour, if it relates to the course of action you received an omen for.

Once you cast augury this way, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

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Voice of Ulban

Prerequisites: Great Old One patron

Your ability to touch the minds of other creatures expands dramatically. When you use Awakened Mind feature to communicate telepathically, the range increases to 120 feet, and the creature can reply to your communication in a similar fashion to the message cantrip. In addition, you can communicate with a number of creatures equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1) simultaneously, and creatures without telepathy can respond to your telepathic messages, but can't initiate or terminate contact.

Combat

Charging

When you or your mount uses its Dash action and moves more than 20 feet in a straight line towards a hostile creature, you may spend your bonus action to make a special attack. You cannot charge through difficult terrain and any attack of opportunity that hits you makes you unable to finish your special attack with options from the list below.

If you finish your charging attack within reach of your target, you may follow it with one of these options:

Aim

If your target hasn't used any of its movement during its previous turn or hasn't been moved from its previous position, you can spend your full movement to stand still and hold your breath to aim with a ranged weapon. Until the end of this turn, your next ranged weapon attack against that target within close shooting range benefits from advantage.

If you are moved willingly by force, you lose the advantage from Aim until the end of your next turn.

Flanking

You can flank a hostile creature as long as you aren't flanked by hostile creatures at the same time.

Give Ground

When you are hit with a melee attack and you haven't moved during your last turn, you can use your reaction to move 5 feet away from the creature, reducing the damage you take by 1d6 points (minimum of 1). You can do so as long as your movement speed is greater than 0. This movement does not provoke an opportunity attack from the attacker but can provoke from other hostile creatures, and the attacker may immediately follow you into the space you just vacated if it has remaining movement.

You cannot Give Ground while you are grappled by any creature, or knocked prone. You cannot Give Ground if you are already on, or would walk into difficult terrain

Tumble Through

As part of your movement, you may attempt to force your way through space occupied by a hostile creature. As an action or bonus action, the mover makes a Strength (Athletics) check against DC 10 + Strength saving modifier of the creature, or Dexterity (Acrobatics) against DC 10 + Dexterity saving modifier of the creature. The creature attempting the overrun has advantage on this check if it is larger than the hostile creature, or disadvantage if it is smaller.

If you succeed, it can move through the hostile creature's space once this turn, treating the occupied space as difficult terrain. You also do not provoke attack of opportunity from the hostile creature until the end of this turn.

Grab an Edge

As a reaction, you can attempt to grab with a free hand an edge to prevent falling to your death in a chasm or falling out of a vehicle. Attempt a Dexterity saving throw or a Grapple check using Dexterity (Acrobatics) against a DC chosen by the DM based on the availability of items or surfaces to grab on. The table below provides some difficulty examples.

New and Updated Conditions

Vision

These rules expand the vision rules in Player's Handbook and add additional realism to handling low light conditions.

Darkness

Darkness creates a heavily obscured area. Creatures that face Darkness outdoors at night suffer the Blinded condition unless there's sufficient moonlight such as full moon, or at least half moon and reflective surfaces such as thick snow. Auril's aurora counts as a half moon equivalent.

In outdoor darkness, creatures that enter solid shadows cast by creature or structure that is at least two sizes larger than it, or merges its silhouette with that of such creature or object that is more than 120 feet away from you, allow it to appear fully obscured and impossible to target with ranged attacks and spells.

Exhaustion

The Exhaustion condition will be expanded in the Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign. Exhaustion is broken into two types - Light and Heavy. Light Exhaustion accumulates with strenuous physical activity such as heavy labor day or travel across difficult terrain. Heavy Exhaustion usually covers the ill effect of diseases, life drain, and can ultimately kill you.

Forcing yourself to keep going despite exhaustion requires strong will and determination. When you attempt an action that has a chance to increase your Exhaustion to a level that has a listed Ignore DC, you must make either a Constitution saving throw to muster the strength to do it, or a Wisdom saving throw to keep going on despite struggling. If you fail, you find an excuse not to do it but rather rest.

Updated Feats

Barbed Hide

Prerequisites: Tiefling

One of your ancestors was a barbed devil or other spiky fiend. Barbs protrude from your head. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• As a bonus action, you can cause small barbs to protrude all over your body or cause them to retract. At the start of each of your turns while the barbs are out, you deal 1d6 piercing damage to any creature grappling you or any creature grappled by you. You deal the same damage to a creature when it successfully grapples, restrains or pins you. The barbs retract when you lose consciousness or become incapacitated.
• You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill. While the barbs are out, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with the skill.

Blade Mastery

You master the shortsword, longsword, scimitar, rapier, and greatsword. You gain the following benefits when using any of them:

• You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls you make with the weapon.
• On your turn, you can use your reaction to assume a parrying stance, provided you have the weapon in hand. Doing so grants you a +1 bonus to your AC until the start of your next turn or until you're not holding the weapon.
• When you make an opportunity attack with the weapon, you have advantage on the attack roll.

Brawler

Prerequisite: Strength 13 or higher

Accustomed to rough-and-tumble fighting using whatever weapons happen to be at hand, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Constitution by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your unarmed strike uses a d4 for damage. If your target is Pinned, prone or pressed against hard surface your unarmed strikes use d6 for damage.
• You are proficient with all improvised weapons. Attacks with improvised weapons use d6 for damage and have the versatile (d8) property.
• When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike or improvised weapon on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attempt to grapple the target.

Crusher

You are practiced in the art of crushing your enemies, granting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Constitution by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an attack that deals bludgeoning damage, you can move it 5 feet to an unoccupied space, provided the target is no more than one size larger than you. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks. If the creature had not moved during its previous turn it can attempt to brace against being moved by using its reaction and attempting a Strength saving throw against DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier.
• You can use your reaction to move 5 feet into the space a creature had vacated as part of being moved against its will such as Shoved or by your attack that deals bludgeoning damage.
• When you score a critical hit that deals bludgeoning damage to a creature, the creature is dazed by the blow. Its movement is halved, and it can make only one attack with its action, and cannot use bonus action or reactions. At the end of each of its turns, the creature can attempt a Constitution saving throw against DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier to recover.

Dawncaller

Prerequisite: Goliath

You learn the sacred ways of the dawncallers — the goliaths responsible for watching over their kin throughout the night and awakening them at dawn. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You have darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. You can see in dim light within this range as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• You have advantage on all checks to find direction and to navigate in a wilderness you are familiar with during the night suing the stars as your guide.
• During a long rest, you only need to sleep for 4 hours; you can perform light activity (e.g. reading, talking, eating, or standing watch) for the remaining 4 hours.

Defensive Duelist

Prerequisites: Dexterity 13 or higher

When you are wielding a finesse weapon with which you are proficient and hostile creature hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to add your proficiency bonus to your AC for that attack, potentially causing the attack to miss.

If this causes the attack to miss you then you may instantly make a single melee weapon attack against the creature.

Delver

Alert to the hidden traps and secret doors found in many dungeons as well as hazards that could harm you or your allies, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity or Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks made to detect the presence of hidden traps, potential natural hazards with effect similar to traps, secret doors or compartments.
• You have advantage on saving throws made to avoid or resist traps or natural hazards with effects similar to traps. You can spend your reaction bestow a friendl creature within 5 feet from you the same beenfit.
• You have advantage on Dexterity and Intelligence checks to disable traps.
• You have resistance to bludgeoning, percing and slashing damage dealt by traps.

Dragon Breath

Prerequisites: Dragonborn

Your inner draconic power swells, amplifying the capabilities of your breath weapon.

• You gain an additional use of Breath Weapon. The number of uses increases to three at 11th level. You regain one expended use of your Breath Weapon when you finish a short rest and all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
• The damage of your Breath Weapon increases by 2d6.
• The DC of your Breath Weapon increases by 1.
• The area of effect of your Breath Weapon increases: breath weapons with a size of 5 by 30 feet increase to a 5 by 60 feet and breath weapons with a size of a 15-foot cone increase to a 20-foot cone.

Dragon Fear

Prerequisites: Dragonborn

When angered, you radiate menace. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength, Constitution, or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Instead of exhaling destructive energy, you can expend a use of your Breath Weapon trait to roar, forcing each creature of your choice within 30 feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier). A target automatically succeeds on the save if it can't hear or see you. On a failed save, a target becomes frightened of you for 1 minute. If the frightened target takes any damage, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Dragon Hide

Prerequisites: Dragonborn

You manifest scales and claws reminiscent of your draconic ancestors. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength, Constitution, or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your scales harden. While you aren't wearing armor, you can calculate your AC as 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.
• You grow retractable claws from the tips of your fingers. Extending or retracting the claws requires no action. The claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them or succeed on an opposed Grapple check, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier.
• Using your claws, you benefit from advantage to Climbing checks against uneven surface.

Dragon Wings

Prerequisites: Dragonborn

You sprout draconic wings. With your wings, you have a flying speed of 20 feet if you aren't wearing heavy armor and aren't exceeding your carrying capacity.

Drow High Magic

Prerequisites: Elf (drow)

You learn more of the magic typical of dark elves. You learn the Detect Magic spell and can cast it once per short rest, without expending a spell slot. You also learn Levitate and Dispel Magic, and you can cast each of them once per long rest, without expending a spell slot. You can also cast the spell using any spell slots you have. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for all three spells.

Dual Wielder

You master fighting with two weapons, gaining the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain a +1 bonus to AC while you are wielding a separate melee weapon in each hand.
• You can use two-weapon fighting even when the one-handed melee weapons you are wielding aren't light.
• You can still grapple creatures even when you are wielding a separate weapon in each hand.
• When you use your reaction to make an opportunity attack, you can make one attack with each weapon you are holding.

Dwarven Fortitude

Prerequisites: Dwarf

You have the blood of dwarf heroes flowing through your veins. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you take the Dodge action in combat, you can spend one Hit Die to heal yourself. Roll the die, add your Constitution modifier, and regain a number of hit points equal to the total (minimum of 1).

Elven Accuracy

Prerequisites: Elf or half-elf

The accuracy of elves is legendary, especially that of elf archers and spellcasters. You have uncanny aim with attacks that rely on precision rather than brute force. Choose an attribute between Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your chosen attribute by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you have advantage on an attack roll using your chosen attribute and you do not suffer from a penalty to attack rolls, you can reroll one of the dice once. You can do this times twice until you complete a short or a long rest. The number of uses increase to three at 6th level, four at 11th level, and five at 16th level.
• Whenever you roll damage with an attack using your chosen attribute, you can reroll one die if the result was 1 or 2, but you must keep the new roll.

Escape Artist

You master the martial art of breaking grapple locks and holds, as long as you aren't fully pinned down. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you use your action to Escape being grappled or restrained, you have advantage on the Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check you make.
• You can use your reaction to Help a friendly creature within 5 feet from you Escape being grappled, restrained or pinned by a hostile creature.
• When you Escape a grapple, you can use your reaction to make a one unarmed strike or strike with a Light weapon, or a Grapple check against the same creature.

Elemental Adept

Prerequisites: The ability to cast at least one spell

When you gain this feat, choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Spells you cast ignore resistance to damage of the chosen type. In addition, when you roll damage for a spell you cast that deals damage of that type, you can treat any 1 or 2 on a damage die as a 3. You can select this feat multiple times. Each time you do so, you must choose a different damage type.

Everybody's Friend

Prerequisites: Half-Elf

You develop your magnetic personality to ease your way through the world. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency in the Deception and Persuasion skills, if you do not have them.
• If you're already proficient in Deception and Persuasion skills, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any check you make when interacting with non-hostile creatures who meet you for the first time, as long as they can see you and understand the language you are speaking in. Once they establish an opinion for you (either friendly or hostile), this benefit no longer applies.

Fade Away

Prerequisites: Gnome

Your people are clever, with a knack for illusion magic. You have learned a magical trick for fading away when you suffer harm. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity or Intelligence by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Immediately after you take damage, you can use a reaction to magically become invisible until the end of your next turn. If you are not immobilized you may also move 5 feet in any adjacent free space and become Hidden from all hostile creatures. You remain invisible until you attack, deal damage, or force someone to make a saving throw. Once you use this ability, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Fell Handed

You master the handaxe, battleaxe, greataxe, warhammer, and maul. You gain the following benefits when using any of them:

• You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls you make with the weapon.
• Whenever you have advantage on a melee attack roll you make with the weapon and hit, you can knock the target prone if the lower of the two d20 rolls would also hit the target.
• Whenever you have disadvantage on a melee attack roll you make with the weapon, the target takes bludgeoning damage equal to your Strength modifier (minimum of 0) if the attack misses but the higher of the two d20 rolls would have hit.
• When you make an opportunity attack with the weapon and it hits a creature wielding a shield, you knock the target's shield momentarily. The creature doesn't benefit from the +2 bonus to AC from its shield until the end of its next turn.

Fey Teleportation

Prerequisites: Elf (high) or Any Race (see text)

Your study of high elven lore has unlocked fey power that few other elves possess, except your eladrin cousins. Drawing on your fey ancestry, you can momentarily stride through the Feywild to shorten your path from one place to another. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You learn the misty step spell and can cast it once without expending a spell slot. Only if you are High Elf, you can cast it twice in that way instead of once. At 11th level, you can cast it one additional time in that way. You regain the ability to cast it in this way when you finish a short or long rest. You can also cast these spells using spell slots you have of the appropriate level. The spells' spellcasting ability is the ability increased by this feat.
• When used without expending a spell slot and only if you are a High Elf, your misty step range is 50 feet instead of 30 feet.

Flail Mastery

The flail is a tricky weapon to use, but you have spent countless hours mastering it. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls you make with a flail.
• As a bonus action on your turn, you can prepare yourself to extend your flail to sweep over targets' shields. Until the end of this turn, your attack rolls with a flail gain a +2 bonus against any target using a shield.
• When you hit with an opportunity attack using a flail, the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be knocked prone.

Flames of Phlegethos

Prerequisites: Tiefling

You learn to call on hellfire to serve your commands. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you roll fire damage for a spell you cast, you can reroll any roll of 1 or 2 on the fire damage dice, but you must use the new roll.
• Whenever you cast a spell that deals fire damage, you can cause flames to wreathe you until the end of your next turn. The flames don't harm you or your possessions, and they shed bright light out to 30 feet and dim light for an additional 30 feet. While the flames are present, any creature within 5 feet of you that hits you with a melee attack takes 1d4 fire damage. This fire damage increases to 2d4 at 6th level, 3d4 at 11th level, and 4d4 at 16th level.

Grappler

Prerequisite: Strength 13 or higher

You’ve developed the skills necessary to hold your own in close-quarters grappling. You gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Attack rolls against a creature you are Grappling.
• When you succeed on a Grapple check against a creature to Grapple, Restrain or Pin, you may also deal your unarmed attack damage to the creature.
• When a creature provokes an attack of opportunity from you and you have a free hand, you may attempt an opposed Grapple check at disadvantage instead of attacking.

Great Weapon Master

You've learned to put the weight of a weapon to your advantage, letting its momentum empower your strikes. You gain the following benefits:

• On your turn, when you score a critical hit with a melee weapon or reduce a creature to 0 hit points with one, you can make one melee weapon attack as a bonus action.
• Before you make a melee attack with a heavy weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add +10 to the attack's damage.

Grudge-Bearer

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You have a deep hatred for a particular kind of creature. Choose your foes, a type of creature to bear the burden of your wrath: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. Alternatively, you can choose two races of humanoid (such as gnolls and orcs, and you need DM's approval to choose prevalent races such as humans or elves) that generally lean towards an alignment opposite to yours. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength, Constitution, or Wisdom by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• During the first round of any combat against your chosen foes, your attack rolls against any of them have advantage.
• When you hit your chosen foes with a melee weapon, you deal +2 additional weapon damage to any of them. The additional damage increases to +3 on 9th level, and +4 on 16th level.
• When you score a critical hit against your chosen foe, instead of adding additional dice to the attack the target of your attack has vulnerability to your damage.
• When you bring your chosen foe to 0 hit points, you can use your bonus action to make a battle cry. You regain hitpoints equal to half the size of one of your hit dice (rounded up), and all other friendly creatures with the Grudge-Bearer feat have advantage to their next melee attack.

Healer

You are an able physician, allow you to mend wounds quickly and get your allies back in the fight. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you use a healer's kit to stabilize a dying creature, that creature also regains 1 hit point and also suffers 1 level of Exhaustion.
• You can spend 1 minute and spend one use of a healer's kit to administer an emergency medication to a willing creature that is not unconscious. The creature regains the maximum amount of hit points it can regain from a hit die, without spending a hit die. The creature cannot receive such healing until it completes a short or long rest.

Magic Initiate

• Choose a class: bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard. You learn two cantrips of your choice from that class's spell list.
• In addition, choose one 1st-level spell from that same list. You learn that spell and can cast it at its lowest level. Once you cast it, you must finish a long rest before you can cast it again using this feat. You may choose to exchange one cantrip gained from this feat for an additional 1st-level spell from the same list that you can cast that way.
• Your spellcasting ability for these spells depends on the class you chose: Charisma for bard, sorcerer, paladin or warlock; Wisdom for cleric, druid or ranger; or Intelligence for wizard.

Sentinel

You have mastered techniques to take advantage of every drop in any enemy's guard, gaining the following benefits:

• When you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, the creature's speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn.
• Creatures provoke opportunity attacks from you even if they take the Disengage action before leaving your reach.
• When a creature within 5 feet of you makes an attack against a target other than you (and that target doesn't have this feat), you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the attacking creature.

Shadow Touched

Your exposure to the Shadowfell's magic has changed you, granting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You learn the invisibility spell and one 1st-level spell of your choice. The 1st-level spell must be from the illusion or necromancy school of magic. You can cast each of these spells without expending a spell slot. Once you cast either of these spells in this way, you can't cast that spell in this way again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast these spells using spell slots you have of the appropriate level. The spells' spellcasting ability is the ability increased by this feat.

Sharpshooter

You have mastered ranged weapons and can make shots that others find impossible. You gain the following benefits:

• Attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls. Also, you do not suffer disadvantage when attacking at close range in dim light.
• Your ranged weapons ignore half cover and treats three-quarters cover as +2 bonus to AC instead of +5 to AC.
• Before you make a ranged attack with a ranged weapon with which you are proficient, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If you do so and the attack hits, it deals +10 damage.

Shield Master

You use shields not just for protection but also for offense. You gain the following benefits while you are wielding a shield:

• You gain proficiency with shields, if you don't already have it.
• You can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield. If you succeed by 5
  or more, te creature also suffers disadvantage to its first attack on its next turn.
• If you aren't incapacitated, you can add your shield's AC bonus to any Dexterity saving throw you make against a spell or other harmful effect that targets only you.

• If you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can use your reaction to take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, interposing your shield between yourself and the source of the effect.
• If you have the Spellcasting or Pact Magic feature, you can use a shield as a spellcasting focus.

Skilled

You have a knack for learning new things. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase one attribute by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice related to that attribute you increased.
• You gain proficiency in two Lores or Crafts of your choice.
• Choose one skill in which you have proficiency other than the one gained from this feat. You gain expertise with that skill, which means your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make with it. The skill you choose must be one that isn't already benefiting from a feature, such as Expertise, that doubles your proficiency bonus.

Skulker

Prerequisites: Dexterity 13 or higher

You are expert at slinking through shadows. You gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on any checks to Hide when you are at least heavily obscured or benefit from three-quarters cover
• You can attempt to Hide if you are only lightly obscured or benefit from half cover.
• When you are Hidden from a creature and miss it with a ranged weapon attack, making the attack doesn't reveal your position.
• Dim light doesn't impose disadvantage on your attack rolls or Wisdom (Perception) checks relying on sight.

Slasher

You've learned where to cut to have the greatest results, granting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Once per turn when you hit a creature with an attack that deals slashing damage, you can reduce the speed of the target by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.
• When you score a critical hit that deals slashing damage to a creature, you grievously wound it. Every time the creature uses its movement or uses its action, it loses 1d4 hit points. The creature can stop the bleeding with two free hands and a DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check, or succeed on a Constitution saving throw against DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier to stop bleeding.

Spear Mastery

Though the spear is a simple weapon to learn, it rewards you for the time you have taken to master it. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls you make with a spear.
• When you use a spear, its damage die changes from a d6 to a d8, and from a d8 to a d10 when wielded with two hands. This benefit has no effect if another feature has already improved the weapon's die.
• As a bonus action on your turn, you can increase your reach with a spear by 5 feet for the rest of your turn.
• You can set your spear to receive a charge. As a bonus action, choose a creature you can see that is at least 20 feet away from you. If that creature moves within your spear's reach on its next turn, you can make a melee opportunity attack against it with your spear as a reaction. If the attack hits, the target takes an extra 1d8 piercing damage, or an extra 1d10 piercing damage if you wield the spear with two hands.

Spell Sniper

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

You have learned techniques to enhance your attacks with certain kinds of spells, gaining the following benefits:

• When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell's range is doubled. In addition, you do not suffer disadvantage when attacking in dim light in the spell's original range.
• Your ranged spell attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover.
• You learn one cantrip that requires an attack roll. Choose the cantrip from the bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list. Your spellcasting ability for this cantrip depends on the spell list you chose from: Charisma for bard, sorcerer, and warlock; Wisdom for cleric or druid; or Intelligence for wizard.

Squat Nimbleness

Prerequisites: Dwarf or a Small race

You are uncommonly nimble for your race.

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Increase your walking speed by 5 feet.
• You gain proficiency in the Acrobatics or Athletics skill (your choice).
• When you take the Dodge action, attempts to Grapple you are made at disadvantage.
• When you provoke an opportunity attack from a hostile creature, that creature cannot choose to make a Grapple check against you.
• You have advantage on any Strength (Athletics) check you make to Tumble Through a hostile creature's space, and you ignore disadvantage due to size difference. When you use your action or bonus action, you can Tumble Through twice as part of your movement instead of once. Each Tumble requires a separate check.

Tough

Hardy and resilient, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Consitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to your level when you gain this feat. Whenever you gain a level thereafter, your hit point maximum increases by an additional hit point.
• When you roll a Hit Die to regain hit points, the minimum number of hit points you regain from the roll equals twice your Constitution modifier (minimum of 2).
• You have advantage on rolls to resist alcohol, simple poisons and common disease.
• You roll a success on a Death Save if you roll 9 or higher.

Trapper

You have spent time hunting creatures and honed your skills, gaining the following benefits:

• Increase your Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You learn the hunter's mark spell. You can cast it twice as a 1st level spell without expending a spell slot, and you must finish a long rest before you can cast it in this way again. You can also cast the spell using any spell slots you have. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.
• You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track and hunt beasts and other creatures with Intelligence score 8 or lower.
• You have advantage on any checks to skin, extract and preserve precious organs from creatures you have researched for at least a week of downtime, or hunted for a week of downtime in your past.

War Caster

Prerequisites: The ability to cast at least one spell

You have practiced casting spells in the midst of combat, learning techniques that grant you the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Constitution saving throws that you make to maintain your concentration on a spell when you take damage.
• You can perform the somatic components of spells even when you have weapons or a shield in one or both hands.
• When a hostile creature's movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction to cast a spell at the creature, rather than making an opportunity attack. The spell must have a casting time of 1 action and must target only that creature.

Weapon Master

You have practiced extensively with a variety of weapons, gaining the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with all simple or martial weapons.
• You learn one Fighting Style from the Fighter class. You can't choose a Fighting Style twice, regardless of where you gain it from.
• Drawing and sheathing a weapon on your turn is a free action for you.

Wonder Maker

Prerequisites: Gnome (rock) You master the tinker techniques of your people. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity or Intelligence by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Select three Crafts you are proficient in. When making checks to craft or repair, you double your proficiency bonus to the check.
• When you make a device with your Tinker trait, you have the following additional options for what you make:

Alarm. This device senses when a creature moves to within 15 feet of it without knowing the exact method to bypass the alarm chosen when you create it. One round after a creature moves into range, the alarm makes a shrill ringing that lasts for 1d4 rounds and can be heard from up to 100 feet away.

Lifter. This device can be used as a block and tackle, allowing its user to hoist three times the weight the user can normally lift.

Timekeeper. This pocket watch keeps accurate time, down to exact quarter of an hour.

Weather Sensor. When used as an action, this device predicts the change in weather conditions in a 1-mile radius within the next 12 hours.

Wood Elf Magic

Prerequisites: Elf (wood)

You learn the magic of the primeval woods, which are revered and protected by your people. You learn to cast Longstrider spell and can cast it once per short rest, without expending a spell slot. You also learn the Pass Without Trace and Erupting Earth spells, each of which you can cast once without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to cast these two spells in this way when you finish a long rest. You can also cast the spell using any spell slots you have. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for all three spells.

Magic and New Spells

Animal Companions

These rules expand on the concept of animal pets and companions provided by backgrounds, classes and subclasses, or purchased and trained during the course of an adventure. The goal of these rules is to improve the odds of survival of animal companions by introducing hit points and attack progression, and allow adventurers to train companions and animal pets to follow complex commands.

Training

After you tame a creature, it starts out with number of learned tricks equal to its Intelligence modifier plus 5. For example, a dog with an Intelligence modifier of -3 start with just 2 tricks after being tamed. The tricks are up to player's choice, but they can only be Simple tricks.

You can spend effort and additional expenses to teach its new pet new Simple or Complex tricks. A creature can know a total number of tricks equal to its Intelligence score (not the modifier). For example, a simple dog can know up to 3 tricks.

Training a new trick to a creature is far simpler and cheaper than taming it in the first place. You need to foot the bill for the creature's food and shelter for number of days equal to 10 minus the creature's Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1). If the trick is a Complex one, multiply that number by 3. For example, a dog would take 7 days to learn a Simple trick and 21 days to learn a new Complex trick.

Tricks

Come and Heel (Simple). This issue is more than just having an creature return when you call it. This command will cause the creature to act against its own desires. The creature will come to you, even if you are standing in a dangerous place. The creature will sit and stay still, even if it really wants to go chase or kill another creature.

Attack (Complex). This command will cause the creature to mercilessly attack whoever you are directing it toward. Teaching the creature this trick also allows them to add a proficiency bonus to their attacks. It is unlikely to relent until the target is ruined, or a come and heel command is given.

Fetch (Simple). This command will send the creature to strive to obtain whatever you are directing it toward. If the creature cannot do it, it will attempt to open up any barriers which prevent you from getting it yourself.

Ride (Simple). If the creature is at least one size larger than you or able to carry like as it it is one size larger than you, as well as of appropriate anatomy, it can be trained to be a mount. Prior to this training, the creature just acts of its own accord, tolerating your presence on its back. Just because it is trained does not necessarily mean that you know how to ride it though.

Perform (Simple). This is one amusing trick your creature does. A back flip on command, playing dead, speaking on command, etc. When used for practical purposes, this is the same as the creature having the Intelligence (Perform) skill.

Find (Complex). The creature can use its unique senses to search for things and track or hunt a mark. It is also trained to give a warning call when it spots its mark. The creature must be trained to hunt specific targets (such as humans, or find and follow tracks of blood) to be given a clue followed with a sense that the creature had advantage on Perception checks (such as the smell of your target's clothes, for a wolf).

Enlighten (Complex). You spend a great deal of time getting the creature to understand the subtleties of your expression, such that it has a higher understanding of people and what they are talking about. As an example, an unenlightened creature will feel good if you talk to it in a happy tone, even if your words are harsh, but an enlightened creature will get the hint that you're being facetious. This is represented by a one-time +2 Intelligence score improvement for the creature.

New Equipment

Local Tools of Trade

Engraver’s tools. Used for etching designs and words into ivory, metal, stone, and wood. They are the prefered method of creating scrimshaw artworks. A set of engraver’s tools includes several chisels of different sizes, a clamp, 8 ounces of polishing fluid, a rag, sandpaper, a stamp, and a hammer.

Engraving: As part of a long rest, you can engrave a design into workable material. The design may be filigree, image or a message. Giant runes are also engraved, believed to wield ancient power. Make a Intelligence or Wisdom (Artistry Craft) against the DC of the material used.

Carving. You can carve elaborate decorative figurines or items, made of scrimshaw ivory of great value in the South. Choose design complexity from the table below to set the base price per pound of scrimshaw used if the carving is successful. As part of a long rest, you can make one DC 13 Intelligence or Wisdom (Artisty Craft) to work on that figurine. Each time you fail by 5 or more, you leave a noticeable defect and if two defects are made, the figurine is spoiled and has no value for sale. Each time you succeed by 5 or more, you increase the value of your work by 5%. Each critical success raises the value of your work by 20%.

Fisher’s supplies. are used for catching fish that can provide food and other materials, such as ivory from the knucklehead trout that populate the lakes of Frozenfar. These tools consist of a fishing net, a bucket, and a fishing pole with a line, hook, and several pieces of tackle.

Fishing. Check the fishing rules at the end of the Travel section. If you have Fishing Lore, failing by less than 5 points grants you +2 to the next Fishing check.

Explorer's Herbal Aids

Dried Alathorne berriies. These tiny green-hued berries can be brewed into a strong tea that helps those not acclimated to cold environments stave off the cold. Consuming it removes the Frostbitten conditio and allows to recover Exhaustion during short rest even in cold and extreme cold weather.

Juniper berries. These bitter, sour berries are a well-known antitoxin and stimulant for those near death. They are so common in the wild that they can be found in nearly any town and a bag of the berries is always recommended for anyone adventuring in the wild. When chewed and put into the mouth of an unconscious or sleeping creature, the berries juice stimulate their senses and bring them to consciousness. They can also cure hangovers and stomach ache.

Kanishta Root. Chewing on an ounce of the bitter, dry kanishta root staves off the effects of extreme cold. Once consumed, for the next hour you don't have to roll Constitution saving throws to resist gaining a level of Exhaustion or falling asleep and freezing to death, unless you are naked or wet. Prolonged consumption of the root is addictive (DC 14 to resist). People who rely on kanishta root to endure the elements can be recognized by their green-yellow teeth. Withdrawal symptoms occur in 1d4 days of no consumption and include depression, blurred vision and loss of smell and taste. Long-term use causes deterioration of the liver, stomach and colon.

Kanishta Root, Powdered. Desperation forces the poor folk to snort powder from already cherwed root spittle, driend and ground to dust. Once snorted, for the next hour you gain advantage to Constitution saving throws to resist gaining a level of Exhaustion or falling asleep and freezing to death, unless you are naked or wet. Kanishta root powder is even more addictive (DC 16 to resist) and long-term use damages the brain, causing hallucination and loss of memory.

Mounts

Sled dogs. Select breeds such as Heteff (similar to Siberian Huskies), Okteff (similar to Alaskan Malamute) and Moorhounds (similar to Tibetan Mastiffs) make perfect sled dogs. Their puppies are sold at a premium especially if pure-bred. Every snow sled needs a number of trained dogs to fill its swing, point and wheel positions, as well as one or two leaders depending on where it is a one-lead (with up to 4 dogs) or two lead (up to 12 dogs)

Reindeer. Reindeer or caribou (also called klantars in the Realms) were a larger variety of deer. The variety of caribou in Angalpuk on the Great Glacier weigh upwards of 600 pounds and are about 6 feet (2 meters) from the ground to the tops of their heads when upright. They have arching antlers, thick coats, long snouts, and wide hooves. Their coat is brown or grey. Reindeer are crucial to the survival of the northern tribes of the Hordelands.

Travel Speed

The typical marching speed of a humanoid in 3 miles per hour, or a total of 24 miles during a 8-hour travel day.

If you ride mounts such as horses during summer or dog sleds during winter the travel speed increases to 5 miles per hour, or 40 miles daily total. The DM may change the speed based on the breed of the mount. If your mount is carrying or pulling cart or sled with more than half its maximum capacity, decrease the speed by hour by 1 mile.

Distracting Activities

Some activities are so demanding that you can't pay much attention to your surroundings. If you perform a Distracting activity, you suffer a -5 penalty to your Passive Wisdom (Perception) score for the whole travel leg.

Exhausting Activities

Some activities are much more tiresome that simple travel. If you perform more than one Exhausting activity during the same day, you suffer one level of Exhaustion and cannot perform any more Exhausting activities.

Focused activities

Most activities can be performed by any number of players. However, the Focused activities can only be performed by a maximum of 2 players, and you only use the higher of the two check results to determine their effect.

Draw a Map

Skill: proficient Intelligence (Survival) or Caligraphy and Mapmaking Craft

While your companions keep watch, hunt for food and guide the party, you focus on documenting your journey. Drawing a map won't help you on your journey forward, but might prove useful once you try to find your way back. Good maps are also a highly sought-after commodity.

Make a check against the Navigation DC.

Cold

Whenever the temperature at at or below -10° Celsius, a creature exposed to the cold without resistance or immunity to cold damage finds it difficult to rest in one place. It cannot recover exhaustion during short rest. At the end of the long rest it only recovers hit points equal to half its maximum hit points rather than all its hit points, unless it benefits from comfortable camp location (such as a mountain lee or a cave).

A naked or wet creature that lacks resistance or immunity to cold weather is instead exposed to extreme cold effect until clothed or dried and warmed.

Extreme Cold

Whenever the temperature is at or below -30° Celsius, a creature exposed to the cold must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw at the end of each hour or gain one level of exhaustion and must roll against Ignore DC to continue their physical activity. Te DM may increase the DC to 12 or higher if the extreme cold is caused by magical or supernatural means. Creatures naturally adapted to extreme cold weather or with resistance to cold damage roll with advantage. Creatures immune to cold damage automatically succeed on the saving throw.

Creatures without resistance or immunity to cold damage find it impossible to recover under extreme cold conditions and are lured into falling asleep. You cannot spend hit dice during short rest, and during long rest you must make a Constitution saving throw against DC 10 + 1 for each level of Exhaustion you have to avoid falling asleep. If you fail the roll, you start to slowly lose consciousness freezing to death. At the end of every hour, repeat the same Constitution saving throw. Failure on each repeated check causes you to take 2d6 cold damage, and your maximum hit points decreases with the same amount. If yout hit point maximum reaches 0, you freeze to death. If you succeed, you are awaken. You only need to make physical activity for an hour to recover your lost hit point maximum, but not your lost hit points.

Terrain

There are variety of terrain complications in the tundra, but this section will cover only the most common ones.

Hazards

No adventuring party is safe from hazards such as blizzards, hailstorms, avalanches and earthquakes. Pick the appropriate tier of your player group and the danger level of the hazard: setback, dangerous or deadly. Each hazard has a saving throw ( Dexterity or Constitution) that the players must make.

If they fail, they take damage appropriate for their level tier. If they succeed, they take half of that damage. If they critically fail, they suffer vulnerability to the full damage. If they critically succeed, they have resistance to the half damage.

Damage Severity by Level

Avalanches and Rockfalls

Any Level of Hazard

Any character in the area where the hazard occurs must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes bludgeoning damage and is buried by the hazard, or half as much damage on a successful one and is not buried. The area is filled with snow, ice and rubble.

Any buried creature is considered suffocated, and it can dig through to free itself. To do so, the creature must succeed a number of Strength (Athletics) checks, as shown in the following table.

You can read more about suffocating rules in chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook.

Blizzard or Hailstorm

Setback Hazard (Blizzard), Dangerous Hazard (Hailstorm)

The area affected by a blizzard is considered difficult terrain, or if it is difficult terrain already it becomes greater difficult terrain (15 feet of movement is spent to move across 5 feet of terrain). It also becomes affected from the Strong Wind weather condition.

When a creature without proper shelter is in the area affected by the blizzard for one hour or more, it must make a Constitution saving throw, taking cold damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. If a creature is wearing clothing that provide resistance to cold or extreme weather, it has advantage on the saving throw.

Hailstorm are similar to Blizzard but instead every hour, the check must be made every 30 minutes and clothing that provide resistance to cold or extreme weather, do not provide advantage against hailstorms.

Earthquakes

Any Level of Hazard

A powerful tremor shakes the area; each creature on the ground in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone. If the creature is on ice, it cracks or shatters if thin. The hazard level is determined by the proximity to the epicentre or the intensity of the earth tremor:

• Setback. Far from the epicentre or light earthquake.
• Dangerous. Near the epicentre or moderate earthquake.
• Deadly. Very close to the epicentre or severe earthquake.

Making Camp

Skill: proficient Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Survival), or Hunting or Scouting Lore

When it's time to make camp for the night, the players need to start looking for a suitable camping location. Up to two players can spend up to an hour of time and make the check. If you had players Scout on the last leg, they can use their Intelligence (Investigation) check result instead their Making Camp check. Depending on the best result the campsite has one or more randomly selected properties.

The DM rolls a d6 on the table below to decide what campsite properties are found first, second and third.

Camp Activities

Once a party sets down to rest, players can choose one or more of the following activities. Each activity takes roughly 1 hour, and each player can perform one of these activities during a short rest, or two activities during a typical long rest of 8 hours (6 hours of sleep and 2 hours of light activity).

You may always expend hit dice to regain lost hit points, but you can take a special camp activity to accelerate your recovery (Tend to the Wounded).

Camouflage Camp

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Skill: Dexterity (Stealth)

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You can gather and use natural materials like rocks or foliage to hide your campsite. A successful DC 15 Dexterity (Stealth) check adds the Hidden property to your campsite if it doesn't have it. The DM may increase the DC of the check due to terrain or climate complications.

Cook Hearty Meal

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Skill: Cooking and Brewing Craft, Comfortable camp

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A good night's rest is not guaranteed when camping in the wilds and a fine cooked meal can go a long way to remedy this fact. Make a DC 15 Wisdom (Cook's utensils) check.
You need one fresh ration of food for every person that will partake of the meal, as well as a reasonable amount of seasoning. If you provide at least 20% more fresh rations than necessary (rounded up), you gain advantage on this check. If you can only provide half the required amount of rations (but not less), you gain disadvantage.

If you succeed, each person partaking of your meal gains 3 temporary hit points per each point of their proficiency bonus (6 temp hp if proficiency +2, 9 temp hp if proficiency +3, and so on). The temporary hit points last for 24 hours. If you fail, the meal is edible, but not refreshing. If you rolled a total of 5 or lower, the whole meal is spoiled and its rations are wasted.

You can only benefit from one hearty meal per long rest.

Fortify Camp

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Skill: Strength (Athletics)

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You can use wooden spikes or large boulders to barricade your campsite or dig a ditch and build ramparts. A successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check adds the Defendable property to your campsite if it doesn't already have it. The DM may increase the DC of the check due to terrain or climate complications.

Hunt & Forage

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Skill: Wisdom (Survival)

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Gather food and water or hunt local game. This is the same action as the Hunt & Forage travel activity. However, since you are not traveling at this point but you have very limited time before sunset, you may make the corresponding Wisdom (Survival) check with advantage but the number of rations found are decreased by 1. If you choose not to rest but hunt all night, you ignore the decrease in ration number.

Keep Watch

Skill: Wisdom (Perception) or Scouting Lore

A long rest requires at least 6 hours of sleep and 2 hours of light activity. Depending on the size of the traveling party, you are advised to take shifts keeping watch whilst the others try to gain some sleep. Make a Wisdom (Perception) check. If your result is 5 or lower, you can take 6 instead. Players who perform one of the other camp activities (i.e. not sleeping or keeping watch) do not benefit from a minimum of 8 on the roll.

The DM determines the DC for any threat or approaching danger (hostile creatures or natural phenomena) and compares it to all Wisdom (Perception) results. On a success, the watchers are able to wake and warn the rest of the party, and prevent being surprised.

Blizzard Travel

Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, pg. 10-11

The blizzards that ravage Icewind Dale and harry travelers on the mountain pass are reflections of Auril’s self- imposed isolation. A blizzard in Icewind Dale typically lasts 2d4 hours, and whenever the characters are caught in one, the following rules apply until the blizzard ends.

The blizzard’s howling wind limits hearing to a range of 100 feet and imposes disadvantage on ranged weapon attack rolls. It also imposes disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing. The wind extinguishes open flames, disperses fog, erases tracks in the snow, and makes flying by nonmagical means nearly impossible. A flying creature in the wind must land at the end of its next turn or fall.

Visibility in the blizzard is reduced to 30 feet. Creatures without goggles or other eye protection have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight due to blowing snow.

Any creature that is concentrating on a spell during combat in the blizzard must, at the end of its turn, succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or lose its concentration on the spell unless the creature is sheltered against the elements (for example, in an igloo).

Blizzards on the Open Tundra

On the open tundra, it’s easy to veer off course while traveling through a blizzard, and it’s also easy for party members to become separated from one another, which is why the wisest course of action is to stay put and wait for the blizzard to pass.

If the characters travel during a blizzard, have the players designate one party member as the navigator. At the start of the blizzard, the DM makes a DC 15 Wisdom (Survival) check on behalf of the navigator. On a successful check, the party stays on course. On a failed check, the party wanders off course, putting its members no closer to their destination than they were when the blizzard started.

If the check fails by 5 or more and the party members aren’t tied together, one randomly determined party member becomes lost in the blizzard and separated from the others at a time of the DM’s choosing. When the blizzard passes, have the characters (including the missing one) make a DC 15 Wisdom (Survival) group check at the end of each hour. If this group check succeeds, the missing party member is found, but no progress is made reaching the group’s intended destination. The group check can be repeated after each hour spent searching for the missing party member.

Hunting

Hunting is the practice of seeking, pursuing, and capturing or killing wild animals. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done for the gathering of raw materials and meat in order to sustain oneself or for trade.

The process of Hunting consists of three stages.

• Locate. Use your Intelligence (Nature) or Wisdom (Survival) skill to locate animals in your surrounding
  area. On success, will locate one or several hunting opportunities.
• Track. Use your Wisdom (Survival or Perception) skill to follow the tracks of animals to approach them. On success, you will approach the animal in hunting range.
• Kill. Use your Stealth to approach and an attack roll (usually ranged) to kill the animal. On success, you take down the animal and your hunt is successful.

Anyone can attempt to hunt, however if the DC to locate, track or approach the animal is 17 or higher should only be possible to do by those proficient in the appropriate skill or weapon used to kill the animal.

Harvesting and Preparing

After killing an animal, its meat, hide and exotic organs may be harvested. Separate supplements will be used by the DM to decide what can be harvested from the carcass. If a check is required, Beasts Lore or Medicine and Surgery Craft give advantage to the roll.

Before your meat can be eaten or sold it must be properly prepared. You need two lbs of meat in order to prepare a ration. When harvesting an animal, refer to the following list to determine how much meat is obtainable and long it will take to properly prepare it. You can prepare multiple rations during this time.

Raw meat that is not cooked within 24 hours begins to spoil. In cold weather the period to spoil is increased to 48 hours, and in extreme cold weather it is 72 hours.

Starvation

A creature can survive a number of days without food equal to 3 + Constitution (minimum of 4) modifier without ill effects other than the discomfort starvation. During this period of growing hunger, you no longer can recover exhaustion during short rests, and long rests recover only half your maximum hit points instead of all your hit points.

Once the period of hunger expires, you start to starve. You gain the first level of exhaustion if you don't have it and you can no longer remove that first level. At the start of a long rest, make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw. Each additional day you continue without food, increase the DC by 2. If you succeed, you make another tortuous day without food. If you fail, your long rest recovers no hit points or hit dice, and the highest attribute score between your Strength and Constitution scores by 1d4. If either your Strength score or Constitution score becomes 0, you die of starvation.

Attributes scores lost via starvation recover slowly. For each day of full recovery and access to enough food and water, you attempt a DC 12 Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, you can increase either your Strength or Constitution score by 1d4, up to its original value before the effects of starvation.

DM's Corner

The rules in this section are for the DM only. They are no secret for the players and can grant insight behind DM's decision process and encounter design.

Creature Health

On average, creatures in Medium and harder encounters have 75% (rounded up) of their max health points. Boss creatures have 100% of their max health points.

Minions

Minions are creatures too weak to be of any challenge to the party, and usually provide protection or support to a solitary Boss creature for at least two rounds. As long as their number and placement allows the players to eliminate them, reduce them to a non-threat or shut down their effect within two turns, they do not count against the CR encounter balance. Usually, up to two minions per player character is the acceptable amount that the players can deal with. The table below gives guidelines for creatures that may classify as minions.

Magic Item Levels

Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition is balanced without a requirement for the party to own and use magical items. Campaigns where players accumulate passive magical items usually become easier for the players and harder for the DM to balance challenging encounters. To account for passive magic effects, the rules below allow the DM to increase the effective level of a player character using such items for the purpose of encounter CR balance.

Check the tables below. Sum all effective level increases that apply to a character, but the maximum increase of the effective level should not exceed 3. Only increase levels if the items would be effective in the upcoming encounter.