Aim

As a bonus action, you can forgo half of your movement speed for this turn, and gain advantage on your next attack roll made with this weapon. If the attack hits, the target takes additional damage equal to another roll of this weapon's damage dice.

Ammo

You can use a weapon that has the ammo property to make a ranged attack only if you have the ammunition to fire from the weapon. Each time you attack with the weapon, you expend one piece of ammunition. Drawing the ammunition from a quiver, case, or other container is part of the attack.

The normal range is increased by a number of feet equal to 5 x your Dexterity modifier.

If you use a weapon that has the ammo property to make a melee attack, you treat the weapon as an improvised weapon.

Bleed

This weapon is designed to tear things open, leaving painful wounds. A Creature that takes unreduced damage from a bleed weapon must make a Constitution Saving throw at the end of it’s next turn, taking necrotic damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus on a failed Save.

Creatures that do not have or need blood take no additional damage.

If a creature regains hit points before making this Saving throw, it automatically succeeds.

Brawn

You always use your Strength Modifier for attack and damage rolls with this weapon.

Catch

When you are missed by a melee weapon attack made with a sword or similar weapon, you can use your reaction to lock that weapon, along with this one. While a weapon is locked, it cannot be used to attack, and if it has the shield property, the wielder doesn't benefit from it.

The wielder of the weapon you have locked can use its bonus action to attempt to end the lock. To do so, it must beat you in a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) Contest (each creature chooses which skill to use separately).

As the Locker, you can end the lock at any time (no action required). The lock also ends if either creature moves away from the other more than 5 feet.

Cripple

When a creature takes damage from this weapon, the it makes its next attack roll at disadvantage.

Critical

This weapon excels at finding weak points, or making its own. The minimum number you need to roll to score a Critical Hit is reduced by one for your first attack each turn made with this weapon.

Daze

The first time you hit a creature with a daze weapon each turn, that creature loses its reaction.

Enfeeble

This weapon opens up a target, or pokes holes in their defenses, the first time you damage a creature with this weapon in a turn, it must subtract 1d4 to the next Saving throw that it makes before the end of your next turn.

Execution

These weapons excel at finishing enemies that you have already essentially beaten. When you damage a prone or stunned creature with this weapon, the target takes an additional 1d6 damage of this weapon's type.

Finesse

When making an attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of Strength or Dexterity for the attack rolls and damage rolls.

Flow

The form of this weapon allows you to make multiple attacks with it in quick succession. When you attack with this weapon on your turn, you can make one additional attack with it as a bonus action.

This second attack does not apply your Ability Modifier to the damage (unless that modifier is negative).

Formation

While wielding this weapon within 5 feet of a friendly creature, you can give it a +1 bonus to its Armor Class.

You can change what creature you are defending at any point during your turn at no action cost, or as a reaction to a creature being attacked.

Heavy

Small and Tiny creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls made with heavy weapons.

Hook

When you make a successful attack with this weapon, you can also attempt to grapple the target as a bonus action, using the weapon’s reach. If you succeed on this grapple you can choose one of the following effects:

• The creature is pulled off of its mount.
• The creature is pulled up to 10 feet closer to you.
• The creature is knocked prone.

Once you activate one of these effects the grapple ends.

Light

When you take the Attack action and attack with a light weapon that you’re holding in one hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different light weapon that you’re holding in another hand. You don’t add your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack, unless that modifier is negative.

Light Armor

You can add your Dexterity Modifier to your Armor Class when wearing Light Armor.

Medium Armor

You can add your Dexterity Modifier, up to a maximum of 2, to your Armor Class when wearing Medium Armor.

Additionally, when you are damaged by a weapon attack, you can reduce the amount of damage you take by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus as a reaction.

You cannot do this while prone or grappled.

Heavy Armor

When you are damaged by a weapon attack while wearing Heavy Armor, you can reduce the amount of damage you take by an amount equal to twice your proficiency bonus as a reaction.

You cannot do this while prone or grappled.

Slow

When you try to move silently while wearing this armor, you must move at half of your walking speed or roll with disadvantage.

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Artificer

Barbarian

Bard

Cleric

Druid

Fighter

Monk

Paladin

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light Armor, Medium Armor
• Weapons: Simple Weapons, Martial Weapons
• Tools: None

Starting Equipment

• (a) a Gambeson or (b) Paper armor
• (a) a Dungeoneer's Pack or (b) an Explorer's Pack
• 45 Gold

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light Armor
• Weapons: Simple Weapons, Bucklers, Estocs, Gou-Rangs, Hand Crossbows, Hook Swords, Jians, Katars, Lantern Shields, Rapiers, Rondels, Shortbows, Smallswords, Swordbreakers
• Tools: Thieves' Tools

Starting Equipment

• (a) a Dungeoneer's Pack or (b) an Explorer's Pack
• Thieves' Tools
• 30 Gold

Proficiencies

• Armor: None
• Weapons: Daggers, Darts, Light Crossbows, Quarterstaffs, Slings
• Tools: None

Starting Equipment

• (a) a Component Pouch or (b) an Arcane Focus
• (a) a Dungeoneer's Pack or (b) an Explorer's Pack
• 30 Gold

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light Armor
• Weapons: Simple Weapons
• Tools: None

Starting Equipment

• (a) a Component Pouch or (b) an Arcane Focus
• (a) a Dungeoneer's Pack or (b) a Scholar's Pack
• a Gambeson
• 30 Gold

Proficiencies

• Armor: None
• Weapons: Daggers, Darts, Quarterstaffs, Slings
• Tools: None

Starting Equipment

• (a) a Component Pouch or (b) an Arcane Focus
• (a) an Explorer's Pack or (b) a Scholar's Pack
• a Spellbook
• 30 Gold

Aim Weapon Master

Prerequisite: 4th level or higher
You have trained with firearms and are able to use them more effectively, gaining the following benefits:

• You don't have to use your bonus action to Aim if you forego all of your movement, rather than half.
• Once per turn, When you have advantage on an attack roll and hit, you can add +5 to that attack's damage.

Adaptive Combatant

Prerequisite: A Fighting Style
You know how to fight well against different opponents, gaining the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom Score by 1.
• At the start of every combat, you can change your Fighting Style to another one available to your class, if you have multiple fighting styles, you can change any number of them.

Bloodmaster

Prerequisite: 4th level or higher
You have honed your skills with particular weapons in order to maximize pain, gaining the following benefits:

• When you score a natural 20 on an attack roll, the target takes one level of exhaustion.
• When a creature succeeds on its Saving throw against bleed from one of your attacks, it takes half damage instead of no damage.

Critical Hitter

Prerequisite: 10th level or higher
You know how to hit hard, and in the right places. The minimum number you need to roll to score a Critical Hit is reduced by one.

Execution Master

Prerequisite: 4th level or higher
You excel at finishing off enemies in one fell swoop, gaining the following benefits:

• When you hit a prone or stunned creature with an execution weapon, the extra damage increases to 1d10
• You can shove as a bonus action.

Finesse Weapon Master

Prerequisite: 4th level or higher
You have practiced extensively with fast weapons, gaining the following benefits:

• You can disengage as a bonus action.
• Before you make a melee attack with a finesse weapon,, you can choose to add 5 to your attack roll. If the attack hits, the weapon's damage dice are treated as 1s.

Finesser

Prerequisite: Strength and Dexterity Scores of 15 or higher
You excel at both strength and dexterity based fighting, and gain the following benefits:

• When you make a weapon attack using Strength, you can add half your Dexterity Modifier to your attack bonus.
• When you make a weapon attack using Dexterity, you can add your Strength Modifier to the damage roll.
• You can add both your Strength and Dexterity Modifiers to both Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

Flow Master

Prerequisite: 4th level or higher
You've focused your training on hitting fast, and quickly recovering from your mistakes, gaining the following benefits:

• When you attack with a flow weapon as a bonus action, you can make 2 attacks instead of 1.
• When you miss a melee weapon attack, you can make another one with the same weapon as a reaction.

Half Wielder

Prerequisite: Strength Score of 17 or higher
You've figured out how to use two-handed weapons in one hand by cleverly conserving momentum, gaining the following benefits:

• You can ignore the two-handed property of weapons that are not heavy.
• Weapons with the versatile property always use their two-handed damage dice for you.

Heavy Weapon Master

Prerequisite: 4th level or higher
You’ve learned to put the weight of a weapon to your advantage, letting its momentum empower your strikes. You gain the following benefits:

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

Improvised Weapon Master

Prerequisite: 4th level or higher
You've learned how to make the best of whatever you have available, gaining the following benefits:

• You gain proficiency with improvised weapons.
• Whenever you obtain an improvised weapon, you can add one property of your choice, other than ammo, to it.

Calm Fighting

Fighter, Paladin, Ranger
You have advantage on Saving throws against being Charmed or Frightened.

Corner Fighting

Fighter, Paladin, Ranger
Creatures do not benefit from flanking you.

Countering

Fighter, Paladin
When you are missed by a melee attack, you can make an attack of opportunity against the attacker.

Critical Fighting

Fighter, Paladin, Ranger
When you score a Critical Hit on a weapon attack, you can add your Strength or Dexterity Modifier to the damage roll an additional time.

Deceptive Fighting

Fighter, Paladin, Ranger
You have advantage on attack rolls made to Feint.

Disarming

Fighter, Paladin, Ranger
You have advantage on checks made to Disarm.

Dueling

Fighter, Paladin, Ranger
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and either no weapon, or a weapon with the shield property in the other, you gain a +2 to damage rolls with that weapon.

Flow Weapon Fighting

Fighter, Paladin, Ranger
When you attack with a flow weapon as your bonus action, you can add your Ability Modifier to the damage roll.

Mobile Fighting

Fighter, Ranger
Your walk speed increases by 15 feet.

Reach Fighting

Fighter, Paladin
Your reach for melee weapon attacks increases by 5 feet.

Resilient Fighting

Fighter, Paladin, Ranger
Your Hit Point maximum increases by 1, and increases by 1 again every time you gain a level in this class.

Risky Fighting

Fighter, Ranger
Once per round, you can choose to take disadvantage on an Attack roll. If the attack hits, it is considered to be a Critical Hit. You can do this a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Stable Fighting

Fighter, Paladin, Ranger
You have advantage on Ability checks and Saving throws to avoid being moved against your will or forced prone.

Unarmored Defense

Fighter, Paladin, Ranger
While not wearing armor, your AC is 13 + Your Dexterity or Constitution Modifier, your choice.

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Resurrection DC

Whenever someone tries to resurrect you, they must make a skill check of some kind, often Religion or Arcana. The DC for this check is your Resurrection DC, which starts at 5, and permanently increases by 1 every time you die.

Remaining Conscious

When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can make a Constitution Saving throw with the DC equal to half the damage taken, or 10, whichever is higher. If you succeed on this Saving throw, you remain awake during your Death Saving throws. While you are awake but not stable you have the following penalties:

• You must remain prone, unless you have something to lean on, such as a wall or friendly creature.
• Your movement speed is halved.
• You cannot take any bonus actions.
• You do not benefit from Extra Attack if you have it.
• You cannot cast spells of the highest level your Spellcasting feature gives you access to.
• You can't benefit from advantage on attack rolls.

If you take additional damage while in this state, you must repeat the Saving throw.

Getting Back Up

When you are stabilized, either by being healed or taking 3 successes, you stay unconscious until a creature uses an action to shake you awake, or you succeed on a DC 16 Constitution (Perception) check, which you can make once on each of your turns when unconscious.

When you wake up, you do so halfway through your turn, and have access only to half your movement and your action.

Even when you are stabilized, your Death Saving throw failures stay. You can get rid of 1 at the end of a short rest, or 2 at the end of a long rest. If you have Death Saving throw failures at the beginning of a long rest, that long rest cannot be used to remove a level of exhaustion.

Break Neck

action
Make a melee weapon attack roll contested by the Constitution Saving throw of a creature that you're grappling, which it makes with advantage. If you win the contest, the target takes necrotic damage equal to the result of your attack roll. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, it immediately gains two failed Death Saving throws.

Feint

bonus action
Make a melee weapon attack roll contested by a target creature's Wisdom (Insight) check. If you win the contest, your next two weapon attack rolls made against that creature before the start of your next turn are made at advantage.

You make this initial attack roll at disadvantage if you are wielding a heavy weapon.

Half-Disengage

bonus action
For the rest of the turn, opportunity attacks made against you are made with disadvantage.

Interplace

reaction
When you are grappling a creature and you are targeted by an attack, you can switch places with the grappled creature, causing the attack to target it instead. You do before the attack is rolled.

Pin

attack
Make a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check of a creature you're grappling. On a success, the target is restrained for as long as you have it grappled, and you can choose to force it prone by falling prone yourself.

A creature can attempt to escape this restraining the same way it would escape a grapple, and on a success it is no longer restrained, but is still grappled by you as normal.

Scamper

reaction
When a creature moves to a point where you are within it's melee reach, you can move up to half your walk speed away from it.

Strangle

attack
You deal 1 bludgeoning damage to a creature that you're grappling. This damage doubles every time you do this successively, up to a maximum amount equal to your Strength Score.

Suplex

attack
Make a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Athletics) check of a creature you're grappling, on a success, the target is knocked prone, moved to a space within 5 feet of you of your choice, and takes bludgeoning damage equal to the result of your Strength (Atletics) check - the result of its check.

You cannot do this to a prone creature.

Tackle

attack
Make a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the Strength or Dexterity Saving throw of a creature within 5 feet of you, you get a +1 bonus to your roll for every 5 feet you've moved towards the target this turn. On a success, both you and the target fall prone and the target takes bludgeoning damage equal to the result of your Strength (Athletics) check - the result of its Saving throw.

Extra Attack and Multiclassing

When you gain the Extra Attack feature from multiple classes, you benefit from all of them, gaining an extra attack for each time you get the feature.

Directional Flanking

When you are to the side of an enemy creature you gain a +2 to your melee attack rolls, and when directly behind an enemy creature you have a +5 to your melee attack rolls.

You only benefit from flanking if another enemy of your target is threatening its space.

A creature can change what direction it is facing at any point. If it does so while it isn't its turn, it provokes an attack of opportunity fro any creature that is now behind or to the side of it.

Glancing Blows

When a weapon attack roll exactly meets its target's Armor Class, it only does half damage, and is inelligable for Sneak Attack.

Initiative Bonus

You can add your choice of your Dexterity or Wisdom Modifier to your Initiative rolls.

Shillelagh

The following weapons are eligible for the shillelagh cantrip:

Clubs, Goedendags, Ihes, Kanabos, Knobkerries, Kotiates, Leiomanos, Longflails, Macuahuitls, Quarterstaves, Taiahas, Te Toaneas, Tecpatls, Tepoztopillis, Tewhatewhas, Tonfas, Ulas

Creating Your Own Weapons

You may want to wield a weapon not represented in this book, or you might think that a weapon's given statistics don't accurately reflect it. In any case, you can use this process to customize or create your own weapons.

First, you should choose what weapon you are trying to create. Knowing the weapon's physical characteristics as well as how it was used historically will be able to guide you through the process of translating it into the game.

Second, consider if your weapon of choice could be represented through another weapon's statistics. There are numerous examples of this in Appendix B: Alternative Weapons. Weapons that share very similar features, or are simply another culture's interpretation of the same weapon, can be simply reskinned versions of existing weapons found in this book.

Third, now that you've chosen a unique weapon, you must choose whether it will be simple or martial. From a mechanical standpoint, this will affect how powerful the weapon is, and who can use it effectively. From a storytelling perspective, this distinction should reflect how easy the weapon is to use, how common it is for somebody to be trained in it's use, and how common it may be in society.

Simple weapons have a starting damage die of 1d8, and martial weapons start their damage die at 1d10.

Fourth, augment your weapon with different properties. This book introduces dozens of new properties, all of which can be put in to three groups, positive, neutral, and negative.

Whenever you add a positive property to your weapon, reduce it's damage die by 1 die step, to a minimum of 1d4.

Whenever you add a negative property to your weapon, increase it's damage die by 1 die step, to a maximum of 1d12.

If a weapon's damage die reaches 1d4 or 1d12, you cannot add more properties that would cause it to exceed this range.

Positive Properties: Ammo, Bleed, Catch, Cripple, Critical, Daze, Enfeeble, Execution, Flow, Formation, Hook, Light, Mutilate, Negate, Precise, Press, Punch, Reach, Reliable, Restrain, Shield, Stagger, Thrown, Varied, Waylay and Wrap

Negative Properties: Heavy, Load, Two-Handed

Fourth, decide price and weight. This should be easy to do, simply learn how much the real thing weighs, and round it to the closest half pound. Price gets a little more difficult, figure out about how much material and skill is involved in your weapon, and then look around at other weapons in the rest of the book and try to do the same. Once you've found a weapon that you think would require the same amount of time and resources, simply use that price for your weapon.