When you create your character, you receive equipment based on a combination of your class and background. Alternatively, you can start with a number of gold pieces based on your class and spend them on items from the lists in this chapter. See the Starting Wealth by Class table to determine how much gold you have to spend.

Beyond 1st Level

The Character Wealth by Level table lists the amount of treasure that each PC is expected to have at a specific level, in addition to their first level starting equipment from background and class.

Character Wealth by Level

PC Level	Wealth	PC Level	Wealth
1	Starting	11	4022 gp
2	60 gp	12	4947 gp
3	120 gp	13	5872 gp
4	239 gp	14	6797 gp
5	393 gp	15	7629 gp
6	542 gp	16	12363 gp
7	691 gp	17	17097 gp
8	1339 gp	18	21831 gp
9	1987 gp	19	28458 gp
10	2912 gp	20	35085 gp

Note that this table assumes a standard fantasy game. Low-fantasy games might award only half this value, while high-fantasy games might double the value. It is assumed that some of this treasure is consumed in the course of an adventure (such as potions and scrolls) and that some of the less useful items are sold for half value so more useful gear can be purchased.

Coinage

Common coins come in several different denominations based on the relative worth of the metal from which they are made. The three most common coins are the gold piece (gp), the silver piece (sp) and the copper piece (cp).

With one gold piece, a character can buy a belt pouch, 50 feet of good rope, or a goat. A skilled (but not exceptional) artisan can earn one gold piece per day. The gold piece is the standard unit of measure for wealth, even if the coin itself isn't commonly used. When merchants discuss deals that involve goods or services worth hundreds or thousands of gold pieces, the transactions don't usually involve the exchange of individual coins. Rather, the gold piece is a standard measure of value and the actual exchange is in gold bars, letters of credit, or valuable goods.

One gold piece is worth ten silver pieces, the most prevalent coin among commoners. A silver piece buys a labourer's work for a day, a flask of lamp oil, or a night's rest in a poor inn.

One silver piece is worth ten copper pieces, which are common amongst labourers and beggars. A single copper piece buys a candle, a torch, or a piece of chalk.

In addition, unusual coins made of other precious metals sometimes appear in treasure hoards. The electrum piece (ep) and the platinum piece (pp) originate from fallen empires and lost kingdoms and they sometimes arouse suspicion and skepticism when used in transactions. An electrum piece is worth five silver pieces and a platinum piece is worth ten gold pieces.

A standard coin weighs about a third of an ounce. So, fifty coins weigh a pound.

Selling Treasure

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

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

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

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

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

A suit of armour is split up into four general types of armour pieces; arms, legs, torso and underlay. An armour piece is a small group of armour parts, rather than simply being any discrete part of the armour. A single armour piece is comprised of the armour parts needed to protect the corresponding area. A single arm or leg armour piece provides armour for both arms or both legs, respectively. A plate arm armour piece typically consists of pairs of pauldrons, gardbraces, rerebraces, vambraces and gauntlets along with bits of chainmail, while a splint arm armour piece consists of two splint sleeves, gauntlets and perhaps pairs of pauldrons and couters. Both protect the arms, though they have a different number of specific parts and types of overall components.

The protective qualities of each individual piece of armour are listed in the tables below. If a character has only one armour piece, then they use the statistics of that piece as their armour. If a character is wearing more than one armour piece, they add the armour costs, benefits and weights of the armour pieces and take the worst maximum Dexterity bonus to Dexterity defence from among the various armour pieces to determine the full statistics and qualities of the armour that they are wearing.

As long as a character is wearing a single armour piece, they are considered to be wearing armour for any effects that rely on wearing armour (such as the barbarian class's natural resilience, or the monk class's unarmoured defence).

If a character is wearing arm, leg, torso and underlay armour pieces, then they are wearing a suit of armour. Suits of armour can have all armour pieces of the same type (all plate pieces make a suit of full plate), or a mixture of armour pieces (a plate arm armour piece and torso armour piece combined with a chainmail leg armour piece creates a suit of half-plate).

See the Half-Plate Suit Pieces table for an example of wearing a breastplate with a plate arm armour piece and a chain leg armour piece. The top line lists the cost, bonuses, penalties and so on for the half-plate suit as a whole. The lines below list the statistics for the component pieces, as well as the benefits that result from the pieces constituting a suit.

Half-Plate Suit Pieces

Armour	Piece	Cost	DR	Max Dex	Properties	Strength	Weight
Half-Plate	Suit	605 gp	8	+1	Bulky, coverage 1-2 8-16, hard, noisy, soak	15	53 lb.
Plate	Arm	375 gp	+2	+1	Bulky, coverage 2, hard, noisy	15	15 lb.
Breastplate	Torso	200 gp	+5	+1	Coverage 8-16, hard, shirt	15	20 lb.
Chain	Leg	25 gp	+1	+2	Bulky, coverage 1, noisy	13	10 lb.
Padded	Underlay	5 gp	+1	+8	Clothing, soak	7	8 lb.

Armour Pieces and Proficiency

If a character is proficient with an armour category, then they are also proficient with the armour pieces of that category. For example, if a character is proficient with light armour, then they are proficient with all light armour pieces. Some torso armour pieces (such as chain and plate torso armour pieces) are a category lighter if worn without limb pieces (treat as a chain shirt and breastplate, respectively).

When a character is wearing at least one armour piece of a type with which they are not proficient, they suffer disadvantage on all attack rolls and ability checks that involve moving.

Underlay

An underlay is in direct contact with the body and is usually thick, protective clothing. Medium and heavy armour is uncomfortable when worn without an underlay and requires one to avoid chafing.

Leather Underlay Armour Piece: Leather armour is made up of multiple overlapping pieces of leather, boiled to increase their natural toughness and then stitched together.

Padded Underlay Armour Piece: More than simple clothing, padded armour combines heavy, quilted cloth and layers of densely packed stuffing to create a cheap and basic protection.

Silk Underlay Armour Piece: Used for ceremonial displays, these robes consist of several layers of cloth and an outer layer of silk intricately woven with gold brocade designs and covered with metal studs.

Arms

    Brigandine Arm Armour Piece: These pauldrons and bracers are constructed of hard-boiled leather carefully sewn together and reinforced with riveted metal segments.

Chain Arm Armour Piece: This arm armour piece typically takes the form of separate lengths of chain attached to pauldrons and couters, and ending in a pair of gauntlets at the hands.

Hide Arm Armour Piece: This arm armour piece consists of pauldrons and bracers crafted from the tanned and preserved skin of a thick-skinned beast.

Plate Arm Armour Piece: A plate arm is composed of pauldrons, gardbraces, rerebraces, vambraces and gauntlets, along with bits of chainmail and padded armour.

Scale Arm Armour Piece: These sleeves are made up of dozens of small overlapping metal plates. A scale arm armour piece includes a pair of gauntlets.

Splint Arm Armour Piece: These sleeves are constructed of metal strips reinforced with chain mail. A splint arm armour piece includes a pair of gauntlets.

Torso

    Brigandine Torso Armour Piece: This shirt or jacket is constructed of hard-boiled leather carefully sewn together and reinforced with riveted metal segments.

Chain Torso Armour Piece: This armour piece is a shirt of chain mail. When worn without limb pieces, it is counted as medium armour and acts as a chain shirt.

Hide Torso Armour Piece: This armour piece is a shirt, wrap, or jacket constructed of the tanned and preserved skin of a thick-skinned beast.

Plate Torso Armour Piece: This is a breastplate made of steel. When worn without limb pieces, it counts medium armour and acts as a breastplate.

Scale Torso Armour Piece: This shirt or cuirass is made up of dozens of small overlapping metal plates.

Splint Torso Armour Piece: This shirt or cuirass is constructed of metal strips reinforced with chain mail.

Legs

    Brigandine Leg Armour Piece: These tassets are constructed of hard-boiled leather, carefully sewn together and reinforced with riveted metal segments.

Chain Leg Armour Piece: A chain leg piece takes the form of a long skirt made of chainmail that is further protected by steel greaves, or individual leggings of tighter-fitting chain reinforced by padding, steel kneeplates, and leather straps.

Hide Leg Armour Piece: This armour piece consists of leggings or a skirt made of the tanned and preserved skin of a thick-skinned beast.

Plate Leg Armour Piece: A plate leg armour piece is composed of faulds, tassets, cuisses, poleyns and greaves along with bits of chainmail and padded armour for extra support and protection.

Scale Leg Armour Piece: Typically a scale leg piece is a skirt of overlapping metal plates and leather greaves reinforced with steel plates. Some suits feature long leggings of overlapping metal plates instead.

Splint Leg Armour Piece: These thigh guards and leggings are constructed of metal strips and chainmail.

Cloak

Cloak armour pieces provide an external layer of protection.

Head

Head armour pieces are intended to protect your exposed head and provide coverage that helps to protect the wearer from suffering injuries.

Shield

A shield is made from wood and/or metal and is carried in one hand. Wielding a shield allows you to:

1. Use your Strength defence to defend vs ranged attacks. Your proficiency bonus to Strength defence vs ranged attacks is limited by your shield's weight category (see table below).
2. Add your proficiency modifier to your Strength defence vs melee and ranged attacks, if you are not already proficient in Strength defence, to a maximum value defined below:

Cost

The cost in gold pieces of the armour for Small or Medium humanoid creatures.

Damage Reduction (DR)

Armour reduces the damage that you take. Your damage reduction is equal to the sum of the damage reduction from the heaviest pieces of arm, leg and torso armour that you are wearing. If you are only wearing an underlay, you may use the damage reduction from that instead. Subtract this value from any damage that you take following a melee or ranged attack.

• Light armour cannot reduce the damage dealt below 1.
• Medium armour can reduce the damage dealt by weapons with the finesse property to 0. Damage dealt by other weapons cannot by reduced below 1 by medium armour.
• Heavy armour cannot reduce the damage dealt by weapons wielded in two hands below 1. Damage dealt by other weapons can be reduced to 0 by heavy armour.

Damage from multiple attacks from a single creature in one turn (such as from the Extra Attack class feature, the Multiattack monster action, the Eldritch Blast spell, or when two-weapon-fighting) is added to the damage before it is reduced.

Abilities that deal extra damage (such as Smite or Sneak Attack) are also added to the damage before it is reduced.

Whenever damage reduction completely negates the damage from an attack, it also negates most special effects that accompany the attack, such as injury poison, a monk’s stunning, and injury-based disease.

Damage reduction is applied before damage resistance.

Maximum Dexterity Bonus

This number is the maximum Dexterity bonus to Dexterity Defence that this type of armour allows. Dexterity bonuses in excess of this number are reduced to this number for the purposes of determining the wearer’s Dexterity defence. Heavier armours limit mobility, reducing the wearer’s ability to dodge blows. This restriction doesn't affect any other Dexterity-related abilities.

A character’s encumbrance (the amount of gear carried, including armour) may also restrict the maximum Dexterity bonus that can be applied to his Dexterity Defence.

Armour Properties

Coverage

When rolling on a table to determine an injury, if the result of your roll falls within the range defined by the coverage of your armour, then you may reroll and take the better result.

Finesse

When making an attack with a finesse shield, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls. Shields with this property that do not also have the light property require Strength 11 or higher to use Dexterity in this way.

Hard

Hard armour is made of large, curved sections, making it vulnerable to the sunder weapon property.

Light

Light shields are small and easy to handle, making them ideal for use when fighting with two weapons (see the rules for two-weapon fighting in chapter 9).

The shield is able to be used just as effectively whilst you are laying on the ground or whilst you are standing. When you are prone and attack with this shield, you do not suffer disadvantage if you are proficient with the weapon.

Noisy

Noisy armour reduces your ability to move quietly, due to metal components scraping against each other. When you wear Noisy armour, you suffer disadvantage on any Dexterity (Stealth) checks to move silently. Other situations, such as hiding without movement or magical silence, are up to the GM.

Non-Lethal

Non-lethal shields are designed to incapacitate a target without killing it. Shields with this property deal their full damage when dealing non-lethal damage.

Shirt

These torso armour pieces are considered to be one weight category lower when worn without other arm, head, or leg pieces. A chain torso armour piece worn alone is a chain shirt (light armour), and a plate torso armour piece worn alone is a breastplate (medium armour). When worn in this manner, the maximum possible Dexterity bonus when wearing the armour increases by 2 and the Strength requirement is reduced by 4.

Soak

If this armour is not worn as the top layer, then it adds 1 damage reduction vs a specific damage type.

Unwieldy

Small creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls with unwieldy shields. An unwieldy shield's size and bulk make it too large for a Small creature to use effectively.

Visor

Helmets with a protective visor provide additional protection to the eyes. The visor is optional (unless stated otherwise) and can be raised or lowered as a bonus action.

Whilst the visor is lowered, your face is hidden and you gain coverage 3. However the visor limits the effective field of view. Creatures that you did not attack or target with abilities and spells during your last combat turn, have advantage on attack rolls against you. You also suffer disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Worn

This shield attaches to the arm but the hand remains unoccupied. If you attack with a weapon held in your shield hand (such as a two-handed weapon), you must either choose to do so with disadvantage or you cannot benefit from the shield until the start of your next turn.

Weapons with the worn property are equipped in a way similar to armour, by strapping it firmly to the body. It takes up to 1 minute to don or doff the shield and you can do it as part of donning or doffing armour. The GM may allow you to skip the required time if you ignore the worn property of the shield.

While the shield benefits from the worn property, it cannot be disarmed unless the attack or skill check is a critical hit.

Strength

Armour interferes with the wearer's ability to move quickly, stealthily and freely. If an armour table shows a number in the Strength column for an armour type, the armour reduces the wearer's speed by 10 feet unless the wearer has a Strength score equal to or greater than the listed score.

Weight

This column gives the weight of the armour sized for a Medium wearer. Armour fitted for Small characters weighs half as much and armour for Large characters weighs twice as much.

Magic Armour

Any individual armour piece can be magically enchanted. In this manner, each armour piece is treated as its own type of armour, but most armourers and magic item crafters know that this is an inefficient way of making and enchanting armour. The most efficient way to enchant armour is to enchant an entire suit. In order to do this, the suit's pieces need not all be of the same type, but they must be enchanted together. The drawback is that none of the individual pieces are considered magical on their own (although they do detect as magic and can be identified as part of an armour suit). When used as piecemeal armour, they function like normal pieces of non-magical armour of their type. If a character is wearing pieces of separately enchanted armour, the armour only takes the magic of the most protective piece (typically the torso armour piece). If a character does not wear a torso armour piece, the most protective piece is the leg armour piece, followed by the arm armour piece.

For instance, if a character does not wear a torso or leg armour piece, but wears a +1 chain arm armour piece, they gain the benefit of wearing magic armour (the piece has a +1 enhancement bonus due to the enchantment). If that character then puts on a normal chain torso armour piece, they lose the +1 bonus due to magic, as the most protective armour piece no longer has either of these qualities.

Special Materials

In order for the armour to gain the benefits of adamantine or dragonhide, the torso piece must be made of that material.

In the case of chain shirts, breastplates and any other armour pieces that are treated as a category lighter when worn alone, to determine the cost of creating that piece of armour from a special material, use the base armour category (medium in the case of a chain torso armour piece, and heavy in the case of a plate torso armour piece) when pricing the item.

Getting Into and Out of Armour

The time required to don or doff an armour piece is based on its type and the area that it protects.

Don. This is the time that it takes to put on the armour piece. You benefit from the armour's DR only if you take the full time to don the armour piece.

Don Hastily. This is the time that it takes to put on the armour piece in a hurry. The maximum Dexterity bonus and DR for hastily donned armour are each 1 point worse than normal (minimum 0 in the case of the DR).

Doff. This is the time it lakes to take off the armour piece.

If your species and class both grant proficiency in an armour category, you treat the armour as one category lighter for the purposes of donning and doffing.

When doffing armour or when donning medium armour, if a character has help, then this time is halved. A single character doing nothing else can help two adjacent creatures. Two characters can't help each other don or remove armour pieces at the same time. The wearer must have help to don heavy armour pieces. Without help, they can only be donned hastily.

Weapons

Your class grants proficiency in certain weapons, reflecting both the class's focus and the tools that you are most likely to use. Whether you favour a longsword or a longbow, your weapon and your ability to wield it effectively can mean the difference between life and death while adventuring.

The weapons tables show the most common weapons, their price and weight, the damage that they deal when they hit and any special properties that they possess. Every weapon is classified as either melee or ranged. A melee weapon is used to attack a target within 5 feet of you, whereas a ranged weapon is used to attack a target at a distance.

Weapon Proficiency

Your species, class and feats can grant you proficiency with certain weapon groups or categories of weapons. The two categories are simple and martial. Most people can use simple weapons with proficiency. These weapons include clubs, maces and other weapons often found in the hands of commoners. Martial weapons, including swords, combat axes and halberds, require more specialised training to use effectively. Most warriors use martial weapons, because these weapons put their fighting style and training to best use.

Proficiency with a weapon allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack that you make with that weapon. If you make an attack roll using a weapon with which you lack proficiency, you do not add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll.

Proficiency Groups

	Simple	Martial
Axes	✓	✓
Blades	✓	✓
Bows	✓	✓
Crossbows	✓	✗
Bludgeoning	✓	✓
Firearms, medieval	✗	✓
Firearms, renaissance	✗	✓
Firearms, industrial	✗	✓
Flexible	✓	✓
Muscle-Powered	✓	✗
Polearms	✓	✓
Unarmed	✓	✗

Str/Dex

If your Dexterity is less than the Str/Dex entry of the weapon, then you suffer disadvantage on your attack rolls with the weapon. If you are wielding the weapon as a finesse weapon, then this instead applies to your Strength.

Break

The weapon has Strength defence and hp values and can be attacked with melee attacks as long as the weapon is grappling you (see grappling property). You may also be allowed a Strength check to break the weapon. Common breakable objects are:

• Net. Strength defence 10 and hp 5. Immune to bludgeoning and piercing damage. Can also be broken with a DC 23 Strength check. If the Net is Barbed, you take 1d4 piercing damage breaking it.
• Bola or Lasso. Strength defence 10 and hp 5. Immune to bludgeoning and piercing damage. Can also be broken with a DC 23 Strength check.
• Chain. Strength defence 10 and hp 75. Immune to piercing damage. Takes no damage from attacks dealing 10 damage or less. Can also be broken with a DC 26 Strength check.

Once broken, weapons immediately release their grapple and, unless held by you, drop to the ground.

Hooked

The weapon has a hooked head that can get stuck into your opponent. Whilst your weapon is grappling the target (see Grappling weapon property) and you are holding on your weapon, the target is unable to move away from you and can only approach you.

The target can only move away from you if it attempts to Shove you, or is Shoved away from you. If it succeeds, it also provokes an opportunity attack from you that automatically hits.

Ongoing

Whilst a weapon with the Ongoing property is grappling the target (see Grappling weapon property), the target takes damage at the beginning of each of its turns equal to the value shown in parenthesis.

Preventing

Whilst your weapon is grappling the target (see Grappling weapon property) and you are holding your weapon, the target is unable to approach you and can only move away from you.

The target can only move towards you if it attempts to Shove you. If it succeeds, it also provokes an opportunity attack from you that automatically hits.

Restrain

Whilst your weapon is grappling the target (see grappling weapon property), the weapon restricts some of the actions of the creature. The effect depends on the location listed in parenthesis. If more than one is listed, pick one. If none are listed, pick any one of your choice.

• All. The creature is restrained by your weapon.
• Body. The creature is restrained by your weapon, except its speed is not reduced to 0.
• Hand. Choose a hand. The target cannot use that hand to attack or use items (unless activated) whilst restrained.
• Legs. The creature is restrained by your weapon, but it doesn't suffer disadvantage to attacks. If the creature used its movement in its turn before it was hit by this attack, it also falls prone.

Whilst your weapon is restraining the creature and you are holding your weapon, on your turn you may spend an attack to deal damage equal to your Strength modifier without rolling to attack. Creatures that are formless cannot be Restrained, and some creatures may be too large to Restrain, at GM discretion.

Suffocating

Whilst your weapon is grappling the target (see Grappling weapon property) and you are holding your weapon, the target is also suffocating. If the target attempts to break your weapon's grapple by moving out of reach, it must make a Strength (Athletics) check against your Weapon Skill DC. It can only move away from you if it succeeds on the check.

Light

Light weapons are small and easy to handle, making them ideal for use when fighting with two weapons (see the rules for two-weapon fighting in chapter 9).

A light weapon can also be used effectively while the wielder is prone or supine. Creatures that attack with a light weapon while prone or supine do not suffer disadvantage on their attack roll, if they are proficient with the weapon.

The light weapon property includes the effects of the finesse weapon property. The close weapon property includes the effects of the light weapon property.

Long

Long weapons add 5 feet to your reach when you attack with them, as well as when determining your reach for opportunity attacks with them. However, long weapon attacks vs targets at a distance of 5 feet or less suffer disadvantage.

Mounted

Mounted weapons deal additional damage when wielded by a creature riding a mount with a speed of 40 feet or more. The target may be neither prone, nor more than one one size category smaller than your mount. If the weapon has reach or is long, the target may be prone or two size categories smaller than your mount.

When rolling damage while mounted, double the number of weapon dice. Following a mounted attack, you may continue the movement of your mount and do not provoke an opportunity attack if you leave the reach of your target, unless your attack missed.

If a mounted weapon is two-handed, then it may be wielded in one hand when mounted.

Non-Lethal

Non-lethal weapons are designed to incapacitate a target without killing it. Weapons with this property deal their full damage when dealing non-lethal damage.

Parry

When wielding a parry weapon, you may add your proficiency modifier to your Strength defence vs melee attacks, if you are not already proficient in Strength defence. Your proficiency bonus to Strength defence vs melee attacks is limited by your weapon's size (see table below).

If you are wielding a finesse weapon and blocking an attack from a one-handed weapon, then you may use your Dexterity to calculate your Strength defence.

If you are wielding an unwieldy weapon and use all of your attacks when taking the attack action on your turn, then you do not benefit from the weapon's parry bonus to Strength defence until the end of your next turn.

Reach

The weapon has an extended length. This weapon adds 5 feet to your Reach when you attack with it, and when determining your Reach for attacks of opportunity with it.

Sharp

When you use a sharp weapon to attack a target with 4 or less DR, you ignore DR equal to the value listed.

Shield

This two-handed weapon may be used in one hand when combined with a shield.

Sunder

When you use a sunder weapon to attack a target with hard armour or natural armour with 7 or more DR, you ignore DR equal to the value listed.

Tangle

Tangle weapons snare implements (arms, shields, weapons) used to directly block an attack made with them when defending via Strength defence. This entangles both the weapon used to make the attack and the implement used to defend.

Attacks with an entangled weapon suffer disadvantage on the attack roll. An entangled shield grants no bonus to Strength defence and cannot be used to defend against ranged attacks. The wielder of the entangling weapon has advantage to disarm the entangled weapon.

The creature wielding the weapon used to make the attack can disentangle it using their object interaction. If the creature wielding the implement used to defend wishes to disentangle itself, then it must spend an attack as part of the attack action and make a successful melee attack roll vs the weapon skill of the creature wielding the entangling weapon.

Trip

Trip attempts made with a trip weapon are made with advantage.

Thrown

If a weapon has the thrown property, you can throw the weapon to make a ranged attack. If the weapon is a melee weapon, you use the same ability modifier for that attack roll and damage roll that you would use for a melee attack with the weapon. For example, if you throw a handaxe, you use your Strength, but if you throw a dagger, you can use either your Strength or your Dexterity, since the dagger has the finesse property.

Drawing a Thrown weapon is part of the attack, but you need a free hand. You may use your bonus action to recover any Thrown weapon within your reach. At the end of combat, you can recover all undamaged Thrown weapons by taking up to a minute to search the battlefield.

When you are hit by a thrown weapon and it causes an injury, the weapon remains lodged in the target. Any time you use your action during your turn with one or several lodged weapons in you, you take 1d4 piercing damage. Removing a lodged weapon is an action.

Two-Handed

A two-handed weapon requires two hands when you attack with it. When the weapon is held in two hands attempts to disarm you are made at disadvantage.

Wielding a melee weapon in two hands allows you to put more strength behind your blows. Your damage bonus increases by half (round up), as shown on the table below.

Unwieldy

Small creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls with unwieldy weapons. An unwieldy weapon's size and bulk make it too large for a Small creature to use effectively.

Additionally, if you take the attack action with an unwieldy weapon and use all of your attacks for that round, then hostile creatures leaving your reach do not have to make a defence check to avoid taking damage from an opportunity attack.

Versatile

A versatile weapon can be used with one or two hands. When the weapon is held in two hands attempts to disarm you are made at disadvantage.

Wielding a melee weapon in two hands allows you to put more strength behind your blows. Your damage bonus increases by 50%, as shown above on the two-handed weapon property table. Additionally, this damage bonus increases by a minimum of 1, see below:

Vicious

Vicious weapons roll their damage die twice and take the better result.

Worn

A worn weapon attaches to the arm but the hand remains unoccupied.

Weapons with the worn property are equipped similarly to armour, by strapping them firmly to the body. It takes up to 1 minute to don or doff the weapon and you can do it as part of donning or doffing armour. The GM may allow you to skip the required time if you ignore the worn property of the weapon.

While the weapon benefits from the worn property, it cannot be disarmed unless the attack or skill check is a critical hit.

Special Materials

You can build a double weapon with each head made of a different special material.

Ammunition (Ammo)

A weapon that uses ammunition can only make ranged attacks if ammunition to shoot from the weapon is available. Each time that an attack is made with the weapon, one piece of ammunition is expended. Drawing the ammunition from a quiver, case, or other container is part of the attack.

Some ranged weapons can be loaded with an amount of ammunition equal to a listed value. As long as there is ammunition in the weapon, it may ignore the load property.

After battle, half of the expended ammunition can be recovered by taking a minute to search the battlefield. This does not apply to bullets.

Caliber

Ranged weapons with the Caliber property deal additional damage when you shoot from an advantageous position. The following conditions allow you to add extra damage dice of the same damage type up to the value shown in parenthesis.

• If your target is within 15 feet distance of you, the attack deals 1 additional damage die
• For each 3 points by which you beat the target's Dexterity defence, the attack deals 1 additional damage die.

Concealed

Weapons with the Concealed property can be hidden from plain sight until wielded or used. You can use your Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) skill to hide the weapon.

Light

Light weapons are small and easy to handle, making them ideal for use when fighting with two weapons (see the rules for two-weapon fighting in chapter 9).

A light weapon can also be used effectively while the wielder is prone or supine. Creatures that attack with a light weapon while prone or supine do not suffer disadvantage on their attack roll, if they are proficient with the weapon.

The light weapon property includes the effects of the finesse weapon property. The close weapon property includes the effects of the light weapon property.

Load

Because of the time required to load this weapon, you can fire only one piece of ammunition from it per round, regardless of the number of attacks you can normally make.

Some weapons take longer to reload and you must spend a number of attacks to reload equal to the listed value.

Misfire

Whenever you make an attack roll with a ranged weapon with the misfire property and the attack roll is equal to or lower than the weapon’s misfire value, the weapon misfires. The attack misses, and the weapon cannot be used again until you spend an action to try and clean or repair it.

To repair a firearm, you must make a successful Tinker’s Tools check (DC equal to 8 + misfire score). If your check fails, the weapon is unusable until the end of combat and may need to be mended out of combat at a quarter of the cost of the firearm (GM's discretion). Creatures who use a firearm without being proficient increase the weapon’s misfire by 1.

Non-Lethal

Non-lethal weapons are designed to incapacitate a target without killing it. Weapons with this property deal their full damage when dealing non-lethal damage.

Pellets

This weapon uses free ammunition, such as stones, which do not leave a trace of the direction they were shot from unless the victim is alive to notice, or the wound is inspected with a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check, or the environment is searched with a DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check.

Point Blank

Ranged weapons with the Point Blank property allow for exact precision when pointing at nearby targets. Attacks with ranged weapons that have this property do not suffer disadvantage when made within 5 feet of a hostile creature.

Shot

A ranged weapon with the shot property spreads multiple fragments in a cone at short range. Both the weapon and the ammunition must have the shot property.

If the target is within the normal range increment you can select a number of secondary targets within 5 feet of the primary target up to the value in parenthesis. The primary target cannot be selected as secondary target. Secondary targets behind the primary target or behind another secondary target cannot be selected. Make one attack and damage roll to apply to all targets.

If the target is within 5 feet reach instead of selecting secondary targets, the primary target takes additional damage. Roll additional damage dice equal to the listed value.

Shot attacks with this weapon do not add your ability modifier to damage unless the modifier is negative.

Stock

Ranged weapons with the Stock property can improve your aim when set on firm ground.

If you lay prone (but not supine) and make a ranged attack with it, you can ignore disadvantage when shooting at long range (but no further than 1000 feet), but you suffer disadvantage if you shoot at targets within close range.

Strength

Ranged weapons with the Strength property require raw strength to draw the string. You must have the minimum Strength score as shown in parenthesis in order to use them.

Tall

Attempting to shoot a tall weapon from horseback imparts disadvantage on the attack roll.

Tripod

Attempting to fire this weapon without a tripod imparts disadvantage on the attack roll.

Unwieldy

Small creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls with unwieldy weapons. An unwieldy weapon's size and bulk make it too large for a Small creature to use effectively.

Additionally, if you take the attack action with an unwieldy weapon and use all of your attacks for that round, then hostile creatures leaving your reach do not have to make a defence check to avoid taking damage from an opportunity attack.

Velocity

Advanced firearms shoot projectiles at a higher velocity than all other ranged weapons. While causing less bleeding than arrows, bullets deal more trauma and are very effective at killing quickly. When rolling for damage, roll one additional weapon die then remove the die with the lowest result.

When using weapons with the Velocity property the target does not benefit from any DR from armour components with the Hard property.

Volley

Weapons with the Volley property are less effective at close distances. Your attacks against targets that are within 30 feet from you suffer disadvantage.

Siege Weapon Damage Types

Siege Weapons introduce three new types of damage: impaling, crushing and explosive.

Structures and Materials

Structures made of solid material have Damage Reduction based on the material they are made from. Subtract DR from any damage dealt to them unless they are vulnerable to the damage type. Their size determines the base siege defence and the smaller the target is, the harder it is to hit.

Siege Weapon Properties

Push/Move Weapon

When a siege weapon is built, assembled or placed stationary it is considered to be facing in a chosen direction (including diagonals). The weapon can only fire in that direction. Only if mounted on a mobile platform, vehicle or a living creature, its direction may change on command.

You can spend your action during combat to push or pull a siege weapon to change its direction of fire, or move it to a new position. To do this with a Large siege weapon you must have Strength score 13 or more and make a DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check.

For each size category above Large, raise minimum Strength score by +2 and DC by 5. The GM may allow you to roll with advantage if the weapon has means to rotate or move (such as wheels) or impose a disadvantage if has large friction area and stationary.

A number of creatures that meet the Strength requirement can Help you, up to the Crew value of the siege weapon.

If you attempt to move to siege weapon and succeed, it can be moved up to half your speed if Large or smaller, or only by 5 feet if Huge. Gargantuan siege weapons cannot be moved without wheels, platforms or beasts of burden.

Once a siege weapon is moved or repositioned, it is no longer Aimed and all Aiming benefits are lost.

Aim

Aiming involves precise targetting or trajectory calculation that improve the odds of hitting the target. To Aim a siege weapon during combat, spend your action to make a DC 15 Intelligence (Siege Weapon proficiency) check. Only one creature can Aim with the same siege weapon, up to a number of times equal to its Intelligence modifier. On success, an effect is applied to the next Fire action:

Precise Targetting. You gain advantage to the next Fire action with the siege weapon. This advantage ignores the general rule for only one advantage to the roll. You can take this option multiple times, each time adding one more d20 die to your next Fire action.

Predict Positioning. When you fire a siege weapon that deals impaling or explosive damage against a target that moved during its previous turn (such as creature or a vehicle), you ignore defence bonuses from movement. Effect is ignored if the target chooses not to use its movement during any of its following turns prior the Fire action.

Calculate Trajectory. When you fire a siege weapon that deals crushing damage, it will ignore half and three quarters cover unless the cover is positioned above the target.

Collateral Damage. When you fire a siege weapon that deals explosive damage, instead of doing collateral damage on missing the defence by 2 or less, you do so on missing the defence by 4 or less.

Fire

Fire is either manual action or a given command to an ally who fires the siege weapon. Firing a siege weapon is not a ranged attack, and abilities and feats that benefit ranged attacks do not apply. After the weapon is fired, all Aiming benefits are lost.

You can either spend your action to fire a siege weapon. Make a Dexterity or Intelligence (Siege Weapon proficiency) check and add the weapon's Aim modifier. You must meet or beat the siege defence of the target.

The Aim action allows you to roll one or several extra d20 and take the highest result. You always hit if you roll more natural 20s than natural 1s with all dice.

The siege defence of the target is based on its size, movement, or evasion ability. Use the tables to calculate the defence by choosing a base and applying related modifiers.

Damage Resolution

Siege Damage Injuries

For living creatures, a siege weapon impact is almost a death warrant. Not only you may die, but the prospects of finding remains of your body or being able to resurrected it may be uncertain.

If siege damage deals more than half your max hp and reduces you to 0 hit points, you suffer a siege injury. Roll on the Siege Injury table. Roll with advantage if the damage is impaling. Roll with disadvantage if the damage is explosive.

Purchasing Poison

In some settings, strict laws prohibit the possession and use of poison, but a black-market dealer or unscrupulous apothecary might keep a hidden stash. Characters with criminal contacts might be able to acquire poison relatively easily. Other characters might have to make extensive inquiries and pay bribes before they track down the poison they seek.

The Poisons table gives suggested prices for single doses of various poisons.

Sample Poisons

Each type of poison has its own debilitating effects.

Assassin's Blood (Ingested). This poison makes an attack with a bonus of +0 vs the Constitution defence of any creature subjected to it. On a hit, the creature takes 6 (1d12) poison damage and is poisoned for 24 hours. On a miss, the creature takes half damage and isn't poisoned.

Burnt Othur Fumes (Inhaled). This poison makes an attack with a bonus of +3 vs the Constitution defence of any creature subjected to it. On a hit, the creature takes 10 (3d6) poison damage and is attacked again at the start of each of its turns. On each successive hit, the creature takes 3 (1d6) poison damage. After three misses, the poison ends.

Carrion Crawler Mucus (Contact). This poison must be harvested from a dead or incapacitated carrion crawler. The poison makes an attack with a bonus of +3 vs the Constitution defence of any creature subjected to it. On a hit, the creature is poisoned and paralysed for 1 minute. The creature is attacked again at the end of each of its turns. On a miss, the effect ends.

Drow Poison (Injury). This poison is typically made only by the Drow and only in a place far removed from sunlight. The poison makes an attack with a bonus of +3 vs the Constitution defence of any creature subjected to it. On a hit, the creature is poisoned for 1 hour. If the attack hits by 5 or more, the creature is also unconscious while poisoned in this way. The creature wakes up if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.

Essence of Ether (Inhaled). This poison makes an attack with a bonus of +5 vs the Constitution defence of any creature subjected it. On a hit, the creature is poisoned for 8 hours. The poisoned creature is unconscious, but wakes if it takes damage or if another creature takes an action to shake it awake.

Malice (Inhaled). This poison makes an attack with a bonus of +5 vs the Constitution defence of any creature subjected to it. On a hit, the creature is poisoned and blinded for 1 hour.

Midnight Tears (Ingested). A creature that ingests this poison suffers no effect until the stroke of midnight. If the poison has not been neutralised before then, then this poison makes an attack with a bonus of +7 vs the creature's Constitution defence. On a hit, the creature takes 31 (9d6) poison damage, or half as much damage on a miss.

Oil of Taggit (Contact). This poison makes an attack with a bonus of +3 vs the Constitution defence of any creature subjected it. On a hit, the creature is poisoned for 24 hours. The poisoned creature is unconscious. The creature wakes up if it takes damage.

Pale Tincture (Ingested). This poison makes an attack with a bonus of +6 vs the Constitution defence of any creature subjected to it. On a hit, the creature takes 3 (1d6) poison damage and becomes poisoned. The poisoned creature is attacked again every 24 hours, taking 3 (1d6) poison damage on a hit. Until this poison ends, the damage the poison deals can't be healed by any means. After seven misses, the effect ends and the creature can heal normally.

Crafting and Harvesting Poison

During downtime between adventures, a character can use the crafting rules in the Player's Handbook to create basic poison if the character has proficiency with a poisoner's kit At your discretion, the character can craft other kinds of poison. Not all poison ingredients are available for purchase, and tracking down certain ingredients might form the basis of an entire adventure.

A character can instead attempt to harvest poison from a poisonous creature, such as a snake, wyvern, or carrion crawler. The creature must be incapacitated or dead, and the harvesting requires 1d6 minutes followed by a DC 20 Intelligence (Nature) check. (Proficiency with the poisoner's kit applies to this check if the character doesn't have proficiency in Nature.) On a successful check, the character harvests enough poison for a single dose. On a failed check, the character is unable to extract any poison. If the character fails the check by 5 or more, the character is subjected to the creature's poison.

Tools

A tool helps you to do something you couldn't otherwise do, such as craft or repair an item, forge a document, or pick a lock. Your species, class, background, or feats give you proficiency with certain tools. Proficiency with a tool allows you to add your proficiency bonus to any ability check you make using that tool. Tool use is not tied to a single ability, since proficiency with a tool represents broader knowledge of its use. For example, the GM might ask you to make a Dexterity check to carve a fine detail with your woodcarver's tools, or a Strength check to make something out of particularly hard wood.

Alchemist’s Supplies

Alchemist’s supplies enable a character to produce useful concoctions, such as acid or alchemist’s fire.

Components. Alchemist’s supplies include two glass beakers, a metal frame to hold a beaker in place over an open flame, a glass stirring rod, a small mortar and pestle, and a pouch of common alchemical ingredients, including salt, powdered iron, and purified water.

Arcana. Proficiency with alchemist’s supplies allows you to unlock more information on Arcana checks involving potions and similar materials.

Investigation. When you inspect an area for clues, proficiency with alchemist’s supplies grants additional insight into any chemicals or other substances that might have been used in the area.

Alchemical Crafting. You can use this tool proficiency to create alchemical items. A character can spend money to collect raw materials, which weigh 1 pound for every 50 gp spent. The GM can allow a character to make a check using the indicated skill with advantage. As part of a long rest, you can use alchemist’s supplies to make one dose of acid, alchemist’s fire, antitoxin, oil, perfume, or soap. Subtract half the value of the created item from the total gp worth of raw materials you are carrying.

Brewer’s Supplies

Brewing is the art of producing beer. Not only does beer serve as an alcoholic beverage, but the process of brewing purifies water. Crafting beer takes weeks of fermentation, but only a few hours of work.

Components. Brewer’s supplies include a large glass jug, a quantity of hops, a siphon, and several feet of tubing.

History. Proficiency with brewer’s supplies gives you additional insight on Intelligence (History) checks concerning events that involve alcohol as a significant element.

Medicine. This tool proficiency grants additional insight when you treat anyone suffering from alcohol poisoning or when you can use alcohol to dull pain.

Persuasion. A stiff drink can help soften the hardest heart. Your proficiency with brewer’s supplies can help you ply someone with drink, giving them just enough alcohol to mellow their mood.

Potable Water. Your knowledge of brewing enables you to purify water that would otherwise be undrinkable. As part of a long rest, you can purify up to 6 gallons of water, or 1 gallon as part of a short rest.

Calligrapher’s Supplies

Calligraphy treats writing as a delicate, beautiful art. Calligraphers produce text that is pleasing to the eye, using a style that is difficult to forge. Their supplies also give them some ability to examine scripts and determine if they are legitimate, since a calligrapher’s training involves long hours of studying writing and attempting to replicate its style and design.

Components. Calligrapher’s supplies include ink, a dozen sheets of parchment, and three quills.

Arcana. Although calligraphy is of little help in deciphering the content of magical writings, proficiency with these supplies can aid in identifying who wrote a script of a magical nature.

History. This tool proficiency can augment the benefit of successful checks made to analyze or investigate ancient writings, scrolls, or other texts, including runes etched in stone or messages in frescoes or other displays.

Decipher Treasure Map. This tool proficiency grants you expertise in examining maps. You can make an Intelligence check to determine a map’s age, whether a map includes any hidden messages, or similar facts.

Carpenter’s Tools

Skill at carpentry enables a character to construct wooden structures. A carpenter can build a house, a shack, a wooden cabinet, or similar items.

Components. Carpenter’s tools include a saw, a hammer, nails, a hatchet, a square, a ruler, an adze, a plane, and a chisel.

History. This tool proficiency aids you in identifying the use and the origin of wooden buildings and other large wooden objects.

Investigation. You gain additional insight when inspecting areas within wooden structures, because you know tricks of construction that can conceal areas from discovery.

Perception. You can spot irregularities in wooden walls or floors, making it easier to find trap doors and secret passages.

Stealth. You can quickly assess the weak spots in a wooden floor, making it easier to avoid the places that creak and groan when they’re stepped on.

Fortify. With 1 minute of work and raw materials, you can make a door or window harder to force open. Increase the DC needed to open it by 5.

Temporary Shelter. As part of a long rest, you can construct a lean-to or a similar shelter to keep your group dry and in the shade for the duration of the rest. Because it was fashioned quickly from whatever wood was available, the shelter collapses 1d3 days after being assembled.

Cartographer’s Tools

Using cartographer’s tools, you can create accurate maps to make travel easier for yourself and those who come after you. These maps can range from large-scale depictions of mountain ranges to diagrams that show the layout of a dungeon level.

Components. Cartographer’s tools consist of a quill, ink, parchment, a pair of compasses, calipers, and a ruler.

Arcana, History, Religion. You can use your knowledge of maps and locations to unearth more detailed information when you use these skills. For instance, you might spot hidden messages in a map, identify when the map was made to determine if geographical features have changed since then, and so forth.

Nature. Your familiarity with physical geography makes it easier for you to answer questions or solve issues relating to the terrain around you.

Survival. Your understanding of geography makes it easier to find paths to civilisation, to predict areas where villages or towns might be found, and to avoid becoming lost. You have studied so many maps that common patterns, such as how trade routes evolve and where settlements arise in relation to geographic locations, are familiar to you.

Craft a Map. While traveling, you can draw a map as you go in addition to engaging in other activity.

Cobbler’s Tools

Although the cobbler’s trade might seem too humble for an adventurer, a good pair of boots will see a character across rugged wilderness and through deadly dungeons.

Components. Cobbler’s tools consist of a hammer, an awl, a knife, a shoe stand, a cutter, spare leather, and thread.

Arcana, History. Your knowledge of shoes aids you in identifying the magical properties of enchanted boots or the history of such items.

Investigation. Footwear holds a surprising number of secrets. You can learn where someone has recently visited by examining the wear and the dirt that has accumulated on their shoes. Your experience in repairing shoes makes it easier for you to identify where damage might come from.

Maintain Shoes. As part of a long rest, you can repair your companions’ shoes. For the next 24 hours, up to six creatures of your choice who wear shoes you worked on can travel up to 10 hours a day without rolling to avoid exhaustion.

Craft Hidden Compartment. With 8 hours of work, you can add a hidden compartment to a pair of shoes. The compartment can hold an object up to 3 inches long and 1 inch wide and deep. You make an Intelligence check using your tool proficiency to determine the Intelligence (Investigation) check DC needed to find the compartment.

Cook’s Utensils

Adventuring is a hard life. With a cook along on the journey, your meals will be much better than the typical mix of hardtack and dried fruit.

Components. Cook’s utensils include a metal pot, knives, forks, a stirring spoon, and a ladle.

History. Your knowledge of cooking techniques allows you to assess the social patterns involved in a culture’s eating habits.

Medicine. When administering treatment, you can transform medicine that is bitter or sour into a pleasing concoction.

Survival. When foraging for food, you can make do with ingredients you scavenge that others would be unable to transform into nourishing meals.

Prepare Meals. As part of a short rest, you can prepare a tasty meal that helps your companions regain their strength. You and up to five creatures of your choice regain 1 extra hit point per Hit Die spent during a short rest, provided you have access to your cook’s utensils and sufficient food.

Glassblower’s Tools

Someone who is proficient with glassblower’s tools has not only the ability to shape glass, but also specialised knowledge of the methods used to produce glass objects.

Components. The tools include a blowpipe, a small marver, blocks, and tweezers. You need a source of heat to work glass.

Arcana, History. Your knowledge of glassmaking techniques aids you when you examine glass objects, such as potion bottles or glass items found in a treasure hoard. For instance, you can study how a glass potion bottle has been changed by its contents to help determine a potion’s effects. (A potion might leave behind a residue, deform the glass, or stain it.)

Investigation. When you study an area, your knowledge can aid you if the clues include broken glass or glass objects.

Identify Weakness. With 1 minute of study, you can identify the weak points in a glass object. Any damage dealt to the object by striking a weak spot is doubled.

Jeweler’s Tools

Training with jeweler’s tools includes the basic techniques needed to beautify gems. It also gives you expertise in identifying precious stones.

Components. Jeweler’s tools consist of a small saw and hammer, files, pliers, and tweezers.

Arcana. Proficiency with jeweler’s tools grants you knowledge about the reputed mystical uses of gems. This insight proves handy when you make Arcana checks related to gems or gem-encrusted items.

Investigation. When you inspect jeweled objects, your proficiency with jeweler’s tools aids you in picking out clues they might hold.

Identify Gems. You can identify gems and determine their value at a glance.

Leatherworker’s Tools

Knowledge of leatherworking extends to lore concerning animal hides and their properties. It also confers knowledge of leather armour and similar goods.

Components. Leatherworker’s tools include a knife, a small mallet, an edger, a hole punch, thread, and leather scraps.

Arcana. Your expertise in working with leather grants you added insight when you inspect magic items crafted from leather, such as boots and some cloaks.

Investigation. You gain added insight when studying leather items or clues related to them, as you draw on your knowledge of leather to pick out details that others would overlook.

Identify Hides. When looking at a hide or a leather item, you can determine the source of the leather and any special techniques used to treat it. For example, you can spot the difference between leather crafted using dwarven methods and leather crafted using halfling methods.

Mason’s Tools

Mason’s tools allow you to craft stone structures, including walls and buildings crafted from brick.

Components. Mason’s tools consist of a trowel, a hammer, a chisel, brushes, and a square.

History. Your expertise aids you in identifying a stone building’s date of construction and purpose, along with insight into who might have built it.

Investigation. You gain additional insight when inspecting areas within stone structures.

Perception. You can spot irregularities in stone walls or floors, making it easier to find trap doors and secret passages.

Demolition. Your knowledge of masonry allows you to spot weak points in brick walls. You deal double damage to such structures with your weapon attacks.

Painter’s Supplies

Proficiency with painter’s supplies represents your ability to paint and draw. You also acquire an understanding of art history, which can aid you in examining works of art.

Components. Painter’s supplies include an easel, canvas, paints, brushes, charcoal sticks, and a palette.

Arcana, History, Religion. Your expertise aids you in uncovering lore of any sort that is attached to a work of art, such as the magical properties of a painting or the origins of a strange mural found in a dungeon.

Investigation, Perception. When you inspect a painting or a similar work of visual art, your knowledge of the practices behind creating it can grant you additional insight.

Painting and Drawing. As part of a short or long rest, you can produce a simple work of art. Although your work might lack precision, you can capture an image or a scene, or make a quick copy of a piece of art you saw.

Potter’s Tools

Potter’s tools are used to create a variety of ceramic objects, most typically pots and similar vessels.

Components. Potter’s tools include potter’s needles, ribs, scrapers, a knife, and calipers.

History. Your expertise aids you in identifying ceramic objects, including when they were created and their likely place or culture of origin.

Investigation, Perception. You gain additional insight when inspecting ceramics, uncovering clues others would overlook by spotting minor irregularities.

Reconstruction. By examining pottery shards, you can determine an object’s original, intact form and its likely purpose.

Smith’s Tools

Smith’s tools allow you to work metal, heating it to alter its shape, repair damage, or work raw ingots into useful items.

Components. Smith’s tools include hammers, tongs, charcoal, rags, and a whetstone.

Arcana and History. Your expertise lends you additional insight when examining metal objects, such as weapons.

Investigation. You can spot clues and make deductions that others might overlook when an investigation involves armour, weapons, or other metalwork.

Repair. With access to your tools and an open flame hot enough to make metal pliable, you can restore 10 hit points to a damaged metal object for each hour of work.

Tinker’s Tools

A set of tinker’s tools is designed to enable you to repair many mundane objects. Though you can’t manufacture much with tinker’s tools, you can mend torn clothes, sharpen a worn sword, and patch a tattered suit of chain mail.

Components. Tinker’s tools include a variety of hand tools, thread, needles, a whetstone, scraps of cloth and leather, and a small pot of glue.

History. You can determine the age and origin of objects, even if you have only a few pieces remaining from the original.

Investigation. When you inspect a damaged object, you gain knowledge of how it was damaged and how long ago.

Repair. You can restore 10 hit points to a damaged object for each hour of work. For any object, you need access to the raw materials required to repair it. For metal objects, you need access to an open flame hot enough to make the metal pliable.

Weaver’s Tools

Weaver’s tools allow you to create cloth and tailor it into articles of clothing.

Components. Weaver’s tools include thread, needles, and scraps of cloth. You know how to work a loom, but such equipment is too large to transport.

Arcana, History. Your expertise lends you additional insight when examining cloth objects, including cloaks and robes.

Investigation. Using your knowledge of the process of creating cloth objects, you can spot clues and make deductions that others would overlook when you examine tapestries, upholstery, clothing, and other woven items.

Repair. As part of a short rest, you can repair a single damaged cloth object.

Craft Clothing. Assuming you have access to sufficient cloth and thread, you can create an outfit for a creature as part of a long rest.

Woodcarver’s Tools

Woodcarver’s tools allow you to craft intricate objects from wood, such as wooden tokens or arrows.

Components. Woodcarver’s tools consist of a knife, a gouge, and a small saw.

Arcana, History. Your expertise lends you additional insight when you examine wooden objects, such as figurines or arrows.

Nature. Your knowledge of wooden objects gives you some added insight when you examine trees.

Repair. As part of a short rest, you can repair a single damaged wooden object.

Craft Arrows. As part of a short rest, you can craft up to five arrows. As part of a long rest, you can craft up to twenty. You must have enough wood on hand to produce them.

Disguise Kit

The perfect tool for anyone who wants to engage in trickery, this pouch of cosmetics, hair dye, and small props enables its owner to create disguises that change their physical appearance and adopt a false identiy. Proficiency with this kit lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to create a visual disguise.

Components. A disguise kit includes cosmetics, hair dye, small props, and a few pieces of clothing.

Deception. In certain cases, a disguise can improve your ability to weave convincing lies.

Intimidation. The right disguise can make you look more fearsome, whether you want to scare someone away by posing as a plague victim or intimidate a gang of thugs by taking the appearance of a bully.

Performance. A cunning disguise can enhance an audience’s enjoyment of a performance, provided the disguise is properly designed to evoke the desired reaction.

Persuasion. Folk tend to trust a person in uniform. If you disguise yourself as an authority figure, your efforts to persuade others are often more effective.

Create Disguise. As part of a long rest, you can create a disguise. It takes you 1 minute to don such a disguise once you have created it. You can carry only one such disguise on you at a time without drawing undue attention, unless you have a bag of holding or a similar method to keep them hidden. Each disguise weighs 1 pound.

At other times, it takes 10 minutes to craft a disguise that involves moderate changes to your appearance, and 30 minutes for one that requires more extensive changes.

Forgery Kit

This small box contains a variety of papers and parchments, pens and inks, seals and sealing wax, gold and silver leaf and other supplies necessary to create convincing forgeries of physical documents, seals and signatures. Proficiency with this kit lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to create a physical forgery of a document.

Components. A forgery kit includes several different types of ink, a variety of parchments and papers, several quills, seals and sealing wax, gold and silver leaf, and small tools to sculpt melted wax to mimic a seal.

Arcana. A forgery kit can be used in conjunction with the Arcana skill to determine if a magic item is real or fake.

Deception. A well-crafted forgery, such as papers proclaiming you to be a noble or a writ that grants you safe passage, can lend credence to a lie.

History. A forgery kit combined with your knowledge of history improves your ability to create fake historical documents or to tell if an old document is authentic.

Investigation. When you examine objects, proficiency with a forgery kit is useful for determining how an object was made and whether it is genuine.

Other Tools. Knowledge of other tools makes your forgeries that much more believable. For example, you could combine proficiency with a forgery kit and proficiency with cartographer’s tools to make a fake map.

Quick Fake. As part of a short rest, you can produce a forged document no more than one page in length. As part of a long rest, you can produce a document that is up to four pages long. Your Intelligence check using a forgery kit determines the DC for someone else’s Intelligence (Investigation) check to spot the fake.

Gaming Set

This item encompasses a wide range of game pieces, including dice and decks of cards (for games such as Three-Dragon Ante). A few common examples appear on the Tools table, but other kinds of gaming sets exist. If you are proficient with a gaming set, you can add your proficiency bonus to ability checks you make to play a game with that set. Each type of gaming set requires a separate proficiency.

Components. A gaming set has all the pieces needed to play a specific game or type of game, such as a complete deck of cards or a board and tokens.

History. Your mastery of a game includes knowledge of its history, as well as of important events it was connected to or prominent historical figures involved with it.

Insight. Playing games with someone is a good way to gain understanding of their personality, granting you a better ability to discern their lies from their truths and read their mood.

Sleight of Hand. Sleight of Hand is a useful skill for cheating at a game, as it allows you to swap pieces, palm cards, or alter a die roll. Alternatively, engrossing a target in a game by manipulating the components with dexterous movements is a great distraction for a pickpocketing attempt.

Herbalism Kit

This kit contains a variety of instruments such as clippers, mortar and pestle, and pouches and vials used by herbalists to create remedies and potions. The kit has ten uses. Proficiency with this kit lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to identify or apply herbs and to safely collect their useful elements. Also, proficiency with this kit is required to create antitoxin and potion of healing.

Components. An herbalism kit includes pouches to store herbs, clippers and leather gloves for collecting plants, a mortar and pestle, and several glass jars.

Arcana. Your knowledge of the nature and uses of herbs can add insight to your magical studies that deal with plants and your attempts to identify potions.

Investigation. When you inspect an area overgrown with plants, your proficiency can help you pick out details and clues that others might miss.

Medicine. Your mastery of herbalism improves your ability to treat illnesses and wounds by augmenting your methods of care with medicinal plants. With a Herbalist's Kit you can also use the Treat Poison and Treat Disease actions.

Nature and Survival. When you travel in the wild, your skill in herbalism makes it easier to identify plants and spot sources of food that others might overlook. You can refill one use of the Herbalist Kit with a Wisdom (Survival) check gathering herbs from their environment, with the DC based on their availability.

Identify Plants. You can identify most plants with a quick inspection of their appearance and smell.

Musical Instrument

Several of the most common types of musical instruments are shown on the table as examples. If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument, you can add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus, as described in chapter 10. Each type of musical instrument requires a separate proficiency.

Proficiency with a musical instrument indicates you are familiar with the techniques used to play it. You also have knowledge of some songs commonly performed with that instrument.

History. Your expertise aids you in recalling lore related to your instrument.

Performance. Your ability to put on a good show is improved when you incorporate an instrument into your act.

Compose a Tune. As part of a long rest, you can compose a new tune and lyrics for your instrument. You might use this ability to impress a noble or spread scandalous rumors with a catchy tune.

Navigator's Tools

This set of instruments is used for navigation at sea. Proficiency with navigator's tools lets you chart a ship's course, follow navigation charts and helps you to determine a true course based on observing the stars. It also grants you insight into charts and maps while developing your sense of direction. In addition, these tools allow you to add your proficiency bonus to any ability check you make to avoid getting lost at sea.

Components. Navigator’s tools include a sextant, a compass, calipers, a ruler, parchment, ink, and a quill.

Survival. Knowledge of navigator’s tools helps you avoid becoming lost and also grants you insight into the most likely location for roads and settlements.

Sighting. By taking careful measurements, you can determine your position on a nautical chart and the time of day.

Poisoner's Kit

A poisoner's kit includes the vials, chemicals, and other equipment necessary for the creation of poisons. It is a favored resource for thieves, assassins, and others who engage in skulduggery. It allows you to apply poisons and create them from various materials. Your knowledge of poisons also helps you treat them. Proficiency with this kit lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to craft or use poisons.

Components. A poisoner’s kit includes glass vials, a mortar and pestle, chemicals, and a glass stirring rod.

History. Your training with poisons can help you when you try to recall facts about infamous poisonings.

Investigation, Perception. Your knowledge of poisons has taught you to handle those substances carefully, giving you an edge when you inspect poisoned objects or try to extract clues from events that involve poison.

Medicine. When you treat the victim of a poison, your knowledge grants you added insight into how to provide the best care to your patient.

Nature, Survival. Working with poisons enables you to acquire lore about which plants and animals are poisonous.

Handle Poison. Your proficiency allows you to handle and apply a poison without risk of exposing yourself to its effects.

Thieves' Tools

This set of tools includes a small file, a set of lock picks, a small mirror mounted on a metal handle, a set of narrow-bladed scissors, and a pair of pliers. Proficiency with these tools lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to disarm traps or open locks.

Perhaps the most common tools used by adventurers, thieves’ tools are designed for picking locks and foiling traps. Proficiency with the tools also grants you a general knowledge of traps and locks.

Components. Thieves’ tools include a small file, a set of lock picks, a small mirror mounted on a metal handle, a set of narrow-bladed scissors, and a pair of pliers.

History. Your knowledge of traps grants you insight when answering questions about locations that are renowned for their traps.

Investigation and Perception. You gain additional insight when looking for traps, because you have learned a variety of common signs that betray their presence.

Set a Trap. Just as you can disable traps, you can also set them. As part of a short rest, you can create a trap using items you have on hand. The total of your check becomes the DC for someone else’s attempt to discover or disable the trap. The trap deals damage appropriate to the materials used in crafting it (such as poison or a weapon) or damage equal to half the total of your check, whichever the GM deems appropriate.

Vehicles (Land or Water)

Proficiency with land vehicles covers a wide range of options, from chariots and howdahs to wagons and carts. Proficiency with water vehicles covers anything that navigates waterways. Proficiency with vehicles grants the knowledge needed to handle vehicles of that type, along with knowledge of how to repair and maintain them.

In addition, a character proficient with water vehicles is knowledgeable about anything a professional sailor would be familiar with, such as information about the sea and islands, tying knots, and assessing weather and sea conditions.

Arcana. When you study a magic vehicle, this tool proficiency aids you in uncovering lore or determining how the vehicle operates.

Investigation, Perception. When you inspect a vehicle for clues or hidden information, your proficiency aids you in noticing things that others might miss.

Vehicle Handling. When piloting a vehicle, you can apply your proficiency bonus to the vehicle’s defence.

Mounts and Vehicles

A good mount can help you move more quickly through the wilderness, but its primary purpose is to carry the gear that would otherwise slow you down. The Common Mounts and Pack Animals table shows each animal's speed and base carrying capacity. Each of these animals costs 50% more if combat trained. A warhorse is already combat trained.

An animal pulling a carriage, cart, chariot, sled, or wagon can move weight up to five times its base carrying capacity, including the weight of the vehicle. If multiple animals pull the same vehicle, they can add their carrying capacity together.

Mounts other than those listed here are available in the world, but they are rare and not normally available for purchase. These include flying mounts (pegasi, griffons, hippogriffs, and similar animals) and even aquatic mounts (giant sea horses, for example). Acquiring such a mount often means securing an egg and raising the creature yourself, making a bargain with a powerful entity, or negotiating with the mount itself.

Barding. Barding is armour designed to protect an animal's head, neck, chest, and body. Any type of armour shown on the Armour table in this chapter can be purchased as barding. The cost is four times the equivalent armour made for humanoids, and it weighs twice as much.

Saddles. A military saddle braces the rider, helping you keep your seat on an active mount in battle. It gives you advantage on any check you make to remain mounted. An exotic saddle is required for riding any aquatic or flying mount.

Vehicle Proficiency. If you have proficiency with a certain kind of vehicle (land or water), you can add your proficiency bonus to any check you make to control that kind of vehicle in difficult circumstances.

Rowed Vessels. Keelboats and rowboats are used on lakes and rivers. If going downstream, add the speed of the current (typically 3 miles per hour) to the speed of the vehicle. These vehicles can't be rowed against any significant current, but they can be pulled upstream by draft animals on the shores. A rowboat weighs 100 pounds, in case adventurers carry it over land.

Other Creatures

Dire Animals

These feral beasts are all but untamable, and are typically only sought out by violent brawlers or cruel lords, either for brutish protection or to pit against equally vicious creatures in violent animal fights. At the GM’s discretion, PCs who acquire dire animals may be required to attempt Animal Handling checks every day to keep their pets from running away or attacking them and their allies. Dire animals are not generally suitable as mounts, though the GM may make exceptions at their discretion.

Other Mounts

When reared from birth, the following animals can easily be ridden by Small or Medium humanoids, depending on the riding animal’s size. In addition, most of these animals can be purchased already trained for combat.

Pets

The following reared animals don’t fit into one of the aforementioned categories, but can still be purchased by sellers who have access to them. Some may be purchased already combat-trained at the GM's discretion, and typically cost an amount equal to 1-1/2 × the price of the standard animal.

Trade Goods

Most wealth is not in coins. It is measured in livestock, grain, land, rights to collect taxes, or rights to resources (such as a mine or a forest).

Guilds, nobles, and royalty regulate trade. Chartered companies are granted rights to conduct trade along certain routes, to send merchant ships to various ports, or to buy or sell specific goods. Guilds set prices for the goods or services that they control, and determine who may or may not offer those goods and services. Merchants commonly exchange trade goods without using currency. The Trade Goods table shows the value of commonly exchanged goods.

Wealthy (50 gp/character/week)

Choosing a wealthy lifestyle means living a life of luxury, though you might not have achieved the social status associated with the old money of nobility or royalty. You live a lifestyle comparable to that of a highly successful merchant, a favored servant of the royalty, or the owner of a few small businesses. You have respectable lodgings, usually a spacious home in a good part of town or a comfortable suite at a fine inn. You likely have a small staff of servants.

A party with a wealthy lifestyle need only track purchases in excess of 5 gp.

Aristocratic (100 gp/character/week)

ou live a life of plenty and comfort. You move in circles populated by the most powerful people in the community. You have excellent lodgings, perhaps a townhouse in the nicest part of town or rooms in the finest inn. You dine at the best restaurants, retain the most skilled and fashionable tailor, and have servants attending to your every need. You receive invitations to the social gatherings of the rich and powerful, and spend evenings in the company of politicians, guild leaders, high priests, and nobility. You must also contend with the highest levels of deceit and treachery. The wealthier you are, the greater the chance you will be drawn into political intrigue as a pawn or participant.

A party with an aristocratic lifestyle need only track purchases in excess of 10 gp.

Beverages (Nonalcoholic)

Intoxication

One unit of alcohol is defined as 10 milliliters of pure alcohol. Typical drinks (i.e., typical quantities or servings of common alcoholic beverages) may contain 1–3 units of alcohol. Typically, there is one unit per half-pint of beer, or small glass of wine, or single measure of spirits. Most drinks, such as a pint of beer/ale, or a normal-sized glass of wine, is assumed to contain 2 units.

Drinking alcohol provokes a Constitution defence check, with a DC of 2 per unit in the drinker's system. This is cumulative, so the DC for drinking two pints of beer, or 4 units of alcohol, is DC 8.

The drinker's Constitution defence is considered their base alcohol tolerance. Until the DC exceeds this number, the drinker suffers no ill effects. This number will be 10 for the average commoner - they can comfortably drink two pints without a problem. A particularly fit individual with 12 Constitution defence can drink 3 pints, or 12 units of alcohol, before suffering penalties.

Once the DC of the consumed alcohol exceed the drinker's Constitution defence, the drinker suffers one level of exhaustion. If they consume any further alcohol, they roll against the DC normally. Failed checks result in additional levels of exhaustion. If the drinker reaches the 6 levels of exhaustion as a result of drinking, they do not die, but instead pass out and are unconscious, but stable. The lethal dose of alcohol is 30 units plus the drinker's Constitution score.

Alchohol is considered poison and resistance to poison grants resistance on any Constitution checks against alcohol. This equates to a +4 bonus to the drinker's base tolerance.

As an approximate guideline, a typical healthy human adult can metabolise (break down) 1 unit of alcohol per hour, although this may vary depending on gender, age, weight, health and many other factors. These factors are summarised by the drinker's Constitution score. A drinker breaks down one tenth of their Constitution score in units of alcohol per hour. Once the alcohol has left their system, the levels of exhaustion are removed.

Mundane Services

Adventurers can pay nonplayer characters to assist them or act on their behalf in a variety of circumstances. Most such hirelings have fairly ordinary skills, while others are masters of a craft or art, and a few are experts with specialized adventuring skills.

Some of the most basic types of hirelings appear on the Services table. Other common hirelings include any of the wide variety of people who inhabit a typical town or city, when the adventurers pay them to perform a specific task. For example, a wizard might pay a carpenter to construct an elaborate chest (and its miniature replica) for use in the secret chest spell. A fighter might commission a blacksmith to forge a special sword. A bard might pay a tailor to make exquisite clothing for an upcoming in front of the duke.

Other hirelings provide more expert or dangerous services. Mercenary soldiers paid to help the adventurers take on a hobgoblin army are hirelings, as are sages hired to research ancient or esoteric lore. If a high-level adventurer establishes a stronghold of some kind, he or she might hire a whole staff of servants and agents to run the place, from a castellan or steward to menial laborers to keep the stables clean. These hirelings often enjoy a long-term contract that includes a place to live within the stronghold as part of the offered compensation.

Spellcasting Services

People who are able to cast spells don't fall into the category of ordinary hirelings. It might be possible to find someone willing to cast a spell in exchange for coin or favors, but it is rarely easy and no established pay rates exist. As a rule, the higher the level of the desired spell, the harder it is to find someone who can cast it and the more it costs.

Hiring someone to cast a relatively common spell of 1st or 2nd level, such as cure wounds or identify, is easy enough in a city or town, and might cost 10 to 50 gold pieces (plus the cost of any expensive material components). Finding someone able and willing to cast a higher-level spell might involve traveling to a large city, perhaps one with a university or prominent temple. Once found, the spellcaster might ask for a service instead of payment. Such a service is typically of the kind that only adventurers can provide, such as retrieving a rare item from a dangerous locale or traversing a monster-infested wilderness to deliver something important to a distant settlement.

Magic Items

Shifty Healing Potion

Potion, common (10 gp)

When you drink this potion, roll a d20. The effect depends on your roll, as shown on the Potion Effects table.

Spell Scrolls

Any character can use a spell scroll, provided they have a spellcasting ability equal to 10 + the spell's level.

A creature who tries and fails to cast a spell from a spell scroll must make a DC 10 Intelligence check. If the creature is proficient in Intelligence defence, it may add its proficiency bonus to this check. If the check fails, roll on the Scroll Mishap table.

Runic Script

Scripts are instructions for etching runes. You can usually read a script as long as you can read the language it’s written in, though you might lack the skill to craft the item.

You can buy scripts at the price listed in the Script Price table below, or you can hire an NPC to let you copy their formula for the same price. A purchased script is typically a schematic on rolled-up parchment. You can copy a a script in 1 hour.

If you have a runed item, you can try to reverse‑engineer its script. This takes the same amount of time as creating the item from a script would. You attempt a crafting check against the same DC it would take to craft the item. If you succeed, you craft the script at its full price. You can work for longer in order to reduce the price.

The Etching Process

Etching a rune on an item follows the same process crafting an item. You must have the script for the rune, the item you're adding the rune to must be in your possession throughout the etching process, and you must meet any special crafting requirements of the rune. The rune has no effect until crafting is complete. You can etch only one rune at a time.

You can upgrade a rune already etched on a suit of armour to a stronger version, increasing the values of the existing rune to those of the new rune. You must have the script of the stronger rune to do so, and the price of the upgrade is the difference between the two runes' prices.

Transferring Runes

You can transfer runes between one item and another, including a runestone. This lets you either move one rune from one item to another or swap a rune on one item with a rune on the other item. To swap, the runes must be of the same form (fundamental or property).

If an item can have two or more property runes, you decide which runes to swap and which to leave when transferring. If you attempt to transfer a rune to an item that can’t accept it, such as transferring a melee weapon rune to a ranged weapon, you automatically failure your crafting check. If you transfer a potency rune, you might end up with property runes on an item that can’t benefit from them. These property runes go dormant until transferred to an item with the necessary potency rune or until you etch the appropriate potency rune on the item bearing them.

The DC of the Crafting check to transfer a rune is determined by the item level of the rune being transferred, and the Price of the transfer is 10% of the rune’s Price, unless transferring from a runestone, which is free. If you're swapping, use the higher level and higher Price between the two runes to determine these values. It takes 1 day to transfer a rune or swap a pair of runes, and you can continue to work over additional days to get a discount.

Energy Resistant

Usage: Etched onto armour.
Level: 8
Price: 6000 gp

These symbols convey protective forces from the Elemental Planes. You gain resistance to acid, cold, electricity, or fire. The crafter chooses the damage type when creating the rune. Multiple energy-resistant runes can be etched onto a suit of armour, but each must provide resistance to a different damage type.

Invisibility

Usage: Etched onto light armour.

Light seems to partially penetrate this armour.

As an action you can whisper the command word and become invisible for 1 minute, gaining the effects of a 2nd-level invisibility spell.

Fortification

Usage: Etched onto medium or heavy armour.
Level: 12
Price: 500 gp

A fortification rune wards against the most deadly attacks. While you're wearing it, any critical hit against you becomes a normal hit.

Antimagic

Usage: Etched onto medium or heavy armour.
Level: 15
Price: 65000 gp

This intricate rune displaces spell energy, imposing disadvantage on attack rolls targeting you with magical effects.

Weapon Property Runes

Corrosive

Usage: Etched onto a weapon.

Acid sizzles across the surface of the weapon. When you hit with the weapon, add 1d6 acid damage to the damage dealt. In addition, on a critical hit, the target’s armour (if any) takes 3d6 acid damage. If the target has a shield, the shield takes this damage instead.

Greater: Increase the acid damage dealt to armour or a shield on a critical hit to 6d6.

Flaming

Usage: Etched onto a weapon.

This weapon is empowered by flickering flame. You can use a bonus action to speak this magic sword's command word, causing flames to erupt from the blade. These flames shed bright light in a 40-foot radius and dim light for an additional 40 feet. While the sword is ablaze, it deals an extra 1d6 fire damage to any target it hits. The flames last until you use a bonus action to speak the command word again or until you drop or sheathe the sword. The weapon deals an additional 1d10 persistent fire damage on a critical hit.

Greater: Increase the persistent damage on a critical hit to 2d10.

Frost

Usage: Etched onto a weapon.

This weapon is empowered with freezing ice. It deals an additional 1d6 cold damage on a successful strike. In addition, while you hold the sword, you have resistance to fire damage. In freezing temperatures, the weapon sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 ft.

Greater: When you draw this weapon, you can extinguish all non-magical flames within 30 feet of you. This property can be used no more than once per hour.

Shocking

Usage: Etched onto a weapon.

Electric arcs crisscross this weapon, dealing an extra 1d6 lightning damage on a hit. On a critical hit, electricity arcs out to deal an equal amount of lightning damage to all other creatures of your choice within 5 feet of the target.

Greater: The electricity arcs to all other creatures of your choice within 10 feet of the target.

Thundering

Usage: Etched onto a weapon.

This weapon lets out a peal of thunder when it hits, dealing an extra 1d6 thunder damage on a successful strike. On a critical hit, roll with a +5 attack bonus vs the target's Constitution defence. On a hit, they are deafened for 1 minute (or 1 hour on a critical hit).

Greater: The attack bonus is +10, and the deafness is permanent.

Dancing

Usage: Etched onto a melee weapon.
Level: 13
Price: 2000 gp

A dancing weapon flies autonomously and strikes your foes. You can use a bonus action to toss this magic sword into the air and speak the command word. When you do so, the sword begins to hover, flies up to 30 feet, and attacks one creature of your choice within 5 feet of it. The sword uses your attack roll and ability score modifier to damage rolls.

While the sword hovers, you can use a bonus action to cause it to fly up to 30 feet to another spot within 30 feet of you. As part of the same bonus action, you can cause the sword to attack one creature within 5 feet of it.

After the hovering sword attacks for the fourth time, it flies up to 30 feet and tries to return to your hand. If you have no hand free, it falls to the ground at your feet. If the sword has no unobstructed path to you, it moves as close to you as it can and then falls to the ground. It also ceases to hover if you grasp it or move more than 30 feet away from it.

Spell-Storing

Usage: Etched onto a melee weapon.
Level: 13
Price: 24000 gp