Barbarian Remastered

Class Features

As a Barbarian, you gain the following class features.

Unarmored Defense

While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. Additionally, you can use your Constitution in place of Dexterity for determining your AC when wearing medium or light armor. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Rage

In battle, you fight with primal ferocity. As a bonus action on your turn, or as a reaction whenever you take damage, you can enter a rage.

While raging, you gain the following benefits if you aren't wearing heavy armor:

• You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
• When you make an attack using Strength, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll. This bonus increases as you level.
• You have resistance to bludeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. If you use your reaction to enter a rage in response to damage, that resistance applies to that damage if it is one of the damage types rage gives you resistance to.

If you are able to cast spells or manifest powers, you can't cast or manifest them, or concentrate on them while raging.

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

Once you have raged the maximum number of times for you barbarian level, you must finish a long rest before you can rage again. The number of rages you have at a given level is indicated on the "Rages" column of the Barbarian table.

Fighting Style

Beginning at 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty, Choose one of the following options. You can't take the same Fighting Style option more than once, even if you get to choose again.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one Fighting Style you know with another.

Fighting Styles

Reckless Attack

Starting at 2nd level, you can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with fierce desperation. When you make your first attack on your turn, you can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so gives you advantage on attack rolls using Strength during this turn, but attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn.

Fast Movement

Starting at 2nd level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you aren't wearing heavy armor.

Danger Sense

At 3rd level, you gain an uncanny sense of when things nearby aren't as they should be, giving you an edge when you dodge away from danger. You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, you can't be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.

Primal Path

At 3rd level, you choose a path that shapes the nature of your rage from the list of available paths. your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th levels.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 1 and gain a feat. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the attack action on your turn.

Juggernaut

Starting at 5th level, you become nigh invulnerable when you rage. While raging, you have resistance to all damage except psychic, and you deal double damage to objects and structures when you hit them with weapon attacks or deal damage with your barbarian class features.

Feral Instincts

By 7th level, your instincts are so honed that you have advantage on initiative rolls.

Additionally, if you are surprised at the beginning of combat and aren't incapacitated, you can act normally, but only if you use your reaction to enter a rage in response to damage, or if you use your bonus action to enter a rage before doing anything else on your turn.

Vicious Strikes (19-20)

At 7th level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Mindless Rage

At 9th level, your rage consumes even your own mind. While raging, you are immune to being charmed or frightened, and whenever you enter a rage, any effects currently charming or frightening you end. Additionally, you have resistance to psychic damage while raging.

Brutal Critical (1 die)

Beginning at 9th level, you can roll one additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with an attack using a weapon.

Relentless Rage

Starting at 11th level, your rage can keep you fighting despite grievous wounds. If you drop to 0 hit points while you're raging and don't die outright, you can make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, you drop to 1 hit point instead.

Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC increases by 5. This DC resets to 10 every time you enter a new rage, or when you finish a short or long rest.

Vicious Strikes (18-20)

At 11th level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 18 to 20.

Indominable Might

Beginning at 13th level, if your total for a Strength check is less than your Strength score, you can use that score in place of the total.

Brutal Critical (2 die)

Beginning at 13th level, you can roll two additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with an attack using a weapon.

Persistent Rage

Beginning at 15th level, your rage is so fierce that it never seems to end. The duration of your rage increases to 10 minutes.

Vicious Strikes (17-20)

At 15th level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 17 to 20.

Brutal Critical (3 die)

Beginning at 17th level, you can roll three additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with an attack using a weapon.

Titan

Beginning at 18th level, your might becomes uncanny. You ignore the size restriction for grappling and shoving other creatures, and your speed is no longer reduced when you're grappling other creatures. Additionally, your weapon attacks are considered adamantine for the purposes of dealing damage to objects and for the purposes of damage resistance and immunity.

Primal Champion

At 20th level, you embody the power of the wilds. Your Strength and Constitution scores increase by 4. Your maximum for those scores is now 24.

Optional Class Features

You gain class features when you reach certain levels in this class. An optional feature is an additional feature that you can gain beyond these.

Unlike normal features, you don't gain an optional feature automatically. Consulting with your DM, you decide whether to gain an optional feature if you meet the level requirement noted in the feature's description. These features can be selected separately from one another; you can use some, all, or none of them.

If you take an optional feature that replaces another feature, you gain no benefit from the replaced one and don't qualify for anything in the game that requires it.

Savage Cleave

9th level barbarian feature, which replaces the Brutal Critical features

Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, each creature of your choice within 5 feet of you other than the target you just hit takes damage equal to your Strength modifier of the same damage type as your attack.

At 13th level, this damage becomes 2 + your Strength modifier. At 17th level, it becomes 5 + your Strength modifier.

Shake It Off

9th level barbarian feature, which replaces the Mindless Rage feature

Whenever you are subjected to a spell or other effect that imposes the stunned, paralyzed, or incapacitated condition while raging, you can choose to end that rage early to ignore that effect.

Shoving Attack

2nd-level barbarian feature, which replaces the Reckless Attack feature

Starting at 2nd level, you can throw aside all concern for defense to aggressively shove your enemies. When you make your first attack on your turn, you can decide to make shoving attacks. Doing so causes your weapon attacks that use Strength to push your targets 5 feet away from you in a straight line on a hit if they are no more than one size category larger than you, but attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn.

Additionally, whenever you push an enemy using this feature, you can choose to immediately move up a number of feet equal to the distance you pushed the target. This movement does not provoke opportunity attacks, and must bring you closer to the target you pushed.

Slam

9th-level barbarian feature, which replaces the Brutal Critical feature

Starting at 9th level you violently slam your enemies when you push or shove them. Once per turn, whenever you push a creature into a piece of terrain, an object, or another creature the same size or larger than them, you can choose to slam the creature you just pushed. The target and whatever you push them into takes bludgeoning damage equal to your Strength modifier, and they both must make a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus) or fall prone.

At 13th level, the targets also have their speeds reduced to 0 until the start of your next turn. At 17th level, the targets also become incapacitated until the start of your next turn.

Primal Paths

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 gaint he ability to cast the beast sense and speak with animals spells, but only as rituals, as described in chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook.

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 hair 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.

• Bear. While 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.
• Eagle. While you're raging and aren't wearing heavy armor, your movement does not provoke opportunity attacks, and you can use the Dash action as a bonus action on your turn. The spirit of the eagle makes you a predator who can weave through the fray with ease.
• Elk. While you're raging, you can use a bonus action during your move to pass through the space of a Large or smaller creature. That creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Strength bonus + your proficiency bonus) or be knocked prone and take bludgeoning damage qual to 1d8 + your Strength modifier.
• Tiger. While you're raging, if you move at least 20 feet in a straight line toward a large or smaller target right before making a melee weapon attack against it, you can use a bonus action to make an additional melee weapon attack against it.
• Wolf. While you're raging, your friends have advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature within 5 feet of you that is hostile to you.

Aspect of the Beast

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

• 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. Additionally, you are considered one size larger for the purposes of grappling and shoving other creatures.
• 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. Additionally, dim light doesn't impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks and you gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision from your race, its range increases by 30 feet.
• Elk. Whether mounted or on foot, your travel pace is doubled, as is the travel pace of up to ten companions while they're within 60 feet of you and you're not incapacitated. Additionally, your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
• Tiger. You gain proficiency in two skills from the following list: Athletics, Acrobatics, Stealth, and Survival.
• Wolf. You gain the hunting sensibilities of a wolf. You can track other creatures while traveling at a fast pace, and you can move stealthily while traveling at a normal pace. Additionally, you can attempt to hide even when you're only lightly obscured.

Spirit Walker

At 10th level, you cast cast the commune with nature spell, but only as a ritual. When you do so, a spiritual version of one of the animals 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 can choose the same animal you selected previously or a different one.

• Bear. While raging, creatures cannot gain advantage on attacks against you unless you are incapacitated.
• Eagle. While raging, you have a flying speed equal to your current walking speed.
• Elk. While raging, your movement cannot be reduced by any spell or magical effect, and you are immune to the stunned and paralyzed conditions.
• Tiger. Whenever you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack while raging, their speed is reduced by half until the start of your next turn.
• Wolf. While you're raging, you can use a bonus action on your turn to knock a Huge or smaller creature prone when you hit it with a melee weapon attack.

Path of the Storm Herald

All barbarians harbor a fury within. Their age grants their superior strength, durability, and speed. Barbarians who follow the Path of the Storm Herald learn to transform that rage into a mantle 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 sword to protect nature. Other storm heralds hone their craft in lodges in regions wracked by storms, the in frozen reaches at the world's end, or deep in the hottest deserts.

Path of the Beast

Barbarians who walk the Path of the Beast draw their rage from a bestial spark burning within their souls. That beast bursts forth in the throes of rage, physically transforming the barbarian. Such a barbarian might be inhabited by a primal spirit or be descended from shape-shifters.

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