The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for D&D 5e

Races

This section presents 10 races that can be used by characters in this setting. The races of Hyrule are characterized by a Trait, a Weak Point, and a Strong Point. All characters gain the following general features:

Trait: Winged

You are a being of the sky. You have a flying speed of 50 feet while you are not wearing medium or heavy armor.

Weak Point: Hollow Bones

Your bones are hollow to grant you easier flight, but in turn, are more fragile than those of other races. Your enemies find it easier to hit you where it counts. Weapon attacks made against you score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Strong Point: Warm Cloak

Your feathers insulate you from the cold of the Tabantha skies. You have resistance to cold damage.

Trait: Of the Desert

You are used to surviving in the most extreme environments. You are immune to exhaustion.

Weak Point: Informal Upbringing

Gerudo Town is largely isolated from the outside world, and Gerudo conversations are typically short and direct. You have disadvantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks made to interact with non-Gerudo characters.

Strong Point: Resilience

You are sturdy of body and spirit. When you make a saving throw, you can give yourself advantage on the save before rolling the d20. You can give yourself advantage in this way a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Additional: Language

You can speak, read, and write Gerudo.

Trait: Lost Sight

Used to navigating the dark corners of Hyrule, you have darkvision to a range of 60 feet.

Weak Point: Unsteady

Your footing is naturally unsteady. You automatically fail saving throws made to avoid being moved against your will, and any such effect can carry you up to twice as far.

Strong Point: Hide and Seek

You have proficiency in the Stealth skill, and you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made while you are not moving.

Additional: Size

Instead of Medium, your size is Small.

Trait: Vanishing Step

You are able to utilize an ancient Sheikah trick, allowing you to seemingly teleport. On your turn, in place of your normal movement, you can opt to teleport to a point you can see up to a number of feet equal to your movement speed away. You can teleport in this way only if you haven't used any of your movement speed on the current turn, and once you teleport in this way, your speed is 0 until the end of the current turn.

Weak Point: Teleporting Vulnerability

After using your Vanishing Step, the next attack roll made against you before the start of your next turn has advantage.

Strong Point: Eyes of Night

Your keen senses grant you the ability to see in darkness. You have darkvision to a range of 60 feet.

Additional: Language

You can speak, read, and write Runic.

Trait: Third Eye

You have a third eye on your forehead, though it usually remains closed. As a bonus action, you can open your third eye for 1 minute. While it is open, you gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks, and you can add your Wisdom modifier to Intelligence checks and attack rolls that don't already use your Wisdom modifier. Once you open your third eye, you can't open it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Weak Point: Unacclimated

Your body is built for living in the sky, so being on the surface is especially taxing. You have disadvantage on Constitution saving throws while you aren't at least 500 feet above the surface.

Strong Point: Creator

You are naturally adept at the creation and use of Zonai devices. You gain proficiency with tinker's tools.

Additional: Language

You can speak, read, and write Zonai.

Trait: Keen Smell

Your porcine biology grants you a sense of smell attuned to sniffing out your next meal. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

Weak Point: Clumsy

When you are hit by a critical hit, you drop everything that you are holding.

Strong Point: Scavenger

You are used to making weapons out of whatever's on hand. You are proficient in improvised weapons, and your attacks with improvised weapons deal damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).

Additional: Language

You can speak Bokoblish.

Trait: Mechanical Being

You are a constructed being, wholly unlike the other creatures of Hyrule. You gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
• You are immune to disease.
• You don’t need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep.
• When you take a long rest, you spend at least 6 hours in an inactive, motionless state, instead of sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but you remain conscious.
• If the mending spell is cast on you, you can spend a Hit Die, roll it, and regain a number of hit points equal to the roll plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).

Weak Point: Biological Incompatibility

Effects that would mend the wounds of a flesh-and-blood creature have no effect on your mechanical form. You can only regain hit points by taking a short or long rest, or by way of the mending spell as described above.

Strong Point: Armored Casing

Your metallic exterior offers you protection from assault. While you aren’t wearing armor, your base Armor Class is 13 + your Dexterity modifier.

Additional: Creature Type

Instead of a Humanoid, you are a Construct.

Additional: Language

You can speak, read, and write Runic.

To emulate a cleric of Nayru, Knowledge Domain clerics may opt to replace their domain spells with the following list.

The Way of the Sheikah monastic tradition is available to monks in this setting.

Ki Manifestation

When you select this tradition at 3rd level, you gain the ability to manifest versions of yourself using your ki. As a bonus action, you can spend a number of ki points up to your proficiency bonus. For each ki point you spend, one lesser echo of yourself appears at a point you can see within 15 feet of you or another lesser echo you have manifested with this action.

A lesser echo has your AC, 1 hit point, and immunity to all conditions. If it has to make a saving throw, it uses your saving throw bonus for the roll. It looks identical to you. The lesser echo’s movements mirror yours; that is, if you move 10 feet north, all of your lesser echoes move 10 feet north as well. Lesser echoes are incorporeal, so they can pass through solid creatures and objects without issue (though they can still take damage).

When you make a weapon attack (including an unarmed strike), the attack can originate from your space or any of the lesser echoes’ spaces. You can use your reaction to make an opportunity attack from a lesser echo’s space. The lesser echoes disappear after 1 minute, when you're incapacitated, or when you manifest an echo again.

All as One

At 6th level, you gain the ability to switch places with your echoes. Once on your turn, you may expend 5 feet of your movement to switch places with one of your echoes that isn't sharing its space with an object or creature.

Convergence Point

Starting at 11th level, you can bring all your lesser echoes together to attack. As a bonus action, you can teleport all of your lesser echoes to unoccupied spaces you can see within 10 feet of you. You can immediately make one unarmed strike from each lesser echo’s space. After you take this action, all of your echoes disappear.

True Manifestation

At 17th level, you gain the ability to manifest the true version of yourself. As a bonus action, you can spend 12 ki points to create your true echo. A true echo replicates your game statistics when it is created, and it takes its turn immediately after yours. You determine what the true echo does, but it cannot manifest its own echoes. Your true echo disappears after 1 minute, when you're incapacitated, or when you manifest an echo again.

Inverted Eye

You have learned secret Yiga techniques, granting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You learn the disguise self spell, and you can cast it without expending a spell slot. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can't cast it in this way again until you finish a short or long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.
• When you make an attack while under the effect of the disguise self spell, you can choose to end the spell and grant yourself advantage on the attack.

Ancient Tech Researcher

Whether from the lab in Hateno, Akkala, or your own work environment, you have devoted hundreds of hours to finding and studying ancient technology. From the ancient constructs that now roam the land, to the shrines scattered across Hyrule, to the legends dating back millennia, you are well-versed in the history, properties, and even use of ancient technology.

• Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, History
• Tool Proficiency: Smith's tools
• Language Proficiency: Runic
• Equipment: A book, a set of common clothes, 150 rupees

Bandit

It's a hard life in post-Calamity Hyrule, and some turn to less scrupulous methods of getting by. Bandits are varied in their methods, but whether by cunning, intimidation, or outright force, you learned to survive by pillaging from travelers on the road.

• Skill Proficiencies: Intimidation, Sleight of Hand
• Tool Proficiencies: Thieves’ tools, vehicles (land)
• Equipment: A set of traveler's clothes, a crowbar, 100 rupees

Construction Co. Worker

As a member of the Hudson Construction Company, you've traveled Hyrule to help rebuild its infrastructure following the Calamity. You may have even worked to help build Tarrey Town, a young but thriving community in Akkala. Folk from all across Hyrule join together under President Hudson's leadership — just so long as their name ends in -son!

• Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Persuasion
• Tool Proficiencies: Carpenter’s tools
• Language Proficiency: Gerudo
• Equipment: A set of common clothes, a set of carpenter's tools, 150 rupees

Goron Miner

To the north and south of Goron City lie the mines you have called home. Whether the precious stones your work bears are for selling or for eating, you push your body to its limits prying them from Death Mountain. Not many people besides Gorons are willing to endure the labor and heat of the mines, but those who do find an honest pay and lifelong camaraderie.

• Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Perception
• Tool Proficiencies: Mason’s tools, smith’s tools
• Equipment: A set of dirty working clothes, a set of mason’s tools or smith’s tools, 100 rupees

Traveling Merchant

You make your living transporting goods across the ruins of Hyrule. It's a dangerous path to walk, but a profitable one. Monsters and bandits roam the land, but you're familiar with the tricks of the trade when it comes to avoiding them. Still, though, most of your kin have to know their way around a sword to make it through the road alive.

• Skill Proficiencies: Persuasion, Survival
• Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools, vehicles (land)
• Equipment: A set of traveler's clothes, a set of artisan’s tools, 200 rupees

Yiga Agent

You are (or were) a member of the notorious Yiga Clan. You have been trained in the arts of deception, assassination, and banana-picking. Whether you still follow the path of the Yiga, or you have left that life behind, your past is near-inescapable. The Yiga do not take kindly to defectors.

• Skill Proficiencies: Acrobatics, Deception
• Tool Proficiencies: Disguise kit, thieves’ tools
• Equipment: A set of traveler's clothes and a set of Yiga clothes, 150 rupees.

Mipha’s Grace

3rd level, evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Reaction, which you take when you or a creature you can see within 60 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points
• Range: 60 ft.
• Components: S
• Duration: Instantaneous

Instead of being reduced to 0 hit points, the target drops to 1 hit point, as healing energy envelops it.

Daruk’s Protection

3rd level, abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 Reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack
• Range: Self
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 Round

Until the start of your next turn, a Goron barrier appears around you. You have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack. Immediately after you cast this spell, you can make 1 melee weapon attack.

Revali's Gale

3rd level, conjuration (requires concentration)

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range/Area: Self/5 ft. cylinder
• Components: S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 round

Until the start of your next turn, a powerful updraft blows around the location where you cast this spell in a 5-foot-radius, 50-foot-high cylinder. Any creature that starts its turn in the cylinder or enters the cylinder for the first time on its turn must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be blown to the top of the cylinder. A creature can voluntarily fail this saving throw. If the creature does not have a method of keeping itself airborne, it will fall back down.

Urbosa's Fury

3rd level, evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range/Area: Self/20 ft. sphere
• Components: S
• Duration: Instantaneous

As part of the action used to cast this spell, you may opt to make a melee weapon attack. Lightning then rains down in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on you. All creatures in range besides you must make a Dexterity saving throw. A target takes 5d8 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.

Power of Time

2nd level, transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range/Area: 30 ft.
• Components: S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

You focus on an object you can see within range that isn't being worn or carried, and coax it backwards through time. While you concentrate on this spell, the object retraces its path through space, moving through the locations it previously occupied at the same speed it moved through them. This does not alter the object's properties or state, only its location.

Power of Water

2nd level, conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action
• Range/Area: 30 ft.
• Components: S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You grant the blessing of water to one creature you can see within range. Until the spell ends, the target gains a +2 bonus to AC.

When the target makes a weapon attack, it can end the spell early and give itself advantage on one weapon attack roll. That attack deals an extra 3d4 bludgeoning damage on a hit.

Power of Lightning

2nd level, evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Reaction, which you take when a creature you can see within 60 feet of you is hit by a weapon attack
• Range/Area: 60 ft.
• Components: S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You infuse a strike with the power of electricity. Choose any number of creatures you can see within 10 feet of the creature hit by the attack. Each target must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d8 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.

Armor

Weapons

The One-Hit Obliterator

This item is detailed here because it appears in the game, and because it's deeply funny to me. Putting this item into your game is a bad idea, and you should not do it.

Fire Arrow

Weapon (arrow), common

When you hit an attack with this arrow, the target takes an extra 1d6 fire damage.

Ice Arrow

Weapon (arrow), common

When you hit an attack with this arrow, the target takes an extra 1d6 cold damage.

Shock Arrow

Weapon (arrow), common

When you hit an attack with this arrow, the target takes an extra 1d6 lightning damage.

Bomb Arrow

Weapon (arrow), uncommon

The head of this arrow is packed with gunpowder, set to explode on reaching its target. When you make an attack with this arrow, whether you hit or miss, all creatures within 10 feet of the target must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 4d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.

Ancient Arrow

Weapon (arrow), very rare

This piece of magic ammunition deals force damage instead of piercing damage. When you hit an attack with this arrow, the target takes an extra 3d8 force damage.

Additionally, when you hit a Guardian with this arrow, it takes an extra 3d8 force damage (6d8 extra damage total). If you score a critical hit on a Guardian using this arrow, it is reduced to 0 hit points.

Fire Rod

Rod, uncommon (requires attunement)

You can use this rod as an arcane focus. When you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals fire damage through this rod, you can roll an extra damage die and add it to one of the spell’s damage rolls.

Additionally, while you are holding this rod, you can use an action to cast the fire bolt spell from it, using your spellcasting ability.

Ice Rod

Rod, uncommon (requires attunement)

You can use this rod as an arcane focus. When you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals cold damage through this rod, you can roll an extra damage die and add it to one of the spell’s damage rolls.

Additionally, while you are holding this rod, you can use an action to cast the ray of frost spell from it, using your spellcasting ability.

Lightning Rod

Rod, uncommon (requires attunement)

You can use this rod as an arcane focus. When you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals lightning damage through this rod, you can roll an extra damage die and add it to one of the spell’s damage rolls.

Additionally, while you are holding this rod, you can use an action to cast the lightning lure spell from it, using your spellcasting ability.

Meteor Rod

Rod, very rare (requires attunement)

You can use this rod as an arcane focus. When you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals fire damage through this rod, you can roll an extra two damage dice and add them to one of the spell’s damage rolls.

Additionally, while you are holding this rod, you can use an action to cast the fire bolt spell from it, using your spellcasting ability.

You can also cast the control weather spell through this rod, without expending a spell slot or material components. When you cast the spell in this way, you can only increase the temperature. Once you use this property, you can't use it again until the next dawn.

Blizzard Rod

Rod, very rare (requires attunement)

You can use this rod as an arcane focus. When you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals cold damage through this rod, you can roll an extra two damage dice and add them to one of the spell’s damage rolls.

Additionally, while you are holding this rod, you can use an action to cast the ray of frost spell from it, using your spellcasting ability.

You can also cast the control weather spell through this rod, without expending a spell slot or material components. When you cast the spell in this way, you can only decrease the temperature. Once you use this property, you can't use it again until the next dawn.

Thunderstorm Rod

Rod, very rare (requires attunement)

You can use this rod as an arcane focus. When you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals lightning damage through this rod, you can roll an extra two damage dice and add them to one of the spell’s damage rolls.

Additionally, while you are holding this rod, you can use an action to cast the lightning lure spell from it, using your spellcasting ability.

You can also cast the control weather spell through this rod, without expending a spell slot or material components. When you cast the spell in this way, you can only increase the winds and/or precipitation. Once you use this property, you can't use it again until the next dawn.

Daybreaker

Armor (shield), legendary

This shield does not interfere with the Bladesong feature of wizards.

While you hold this shield, if you are missed by an attack, you can immediately make one melee weapon attack against the attacker as a reaction.

Hylian Shield

Armor (shield), very rare (requires attunement)

When you are hit by a ranged attack or targeted by the magic missile spell or a line spell, you can use your reaction to attempt to reflect the attack. When you do so, the damage you take is reduced by 1d10 + your Strength modifier.

If you reduce the damage to 0, the attack or spell is negated, and instead reflected back at the attacker, turning the attacker into the target. Use the same attack bonus or saving throw DC.

Korok Leaf

Wondrous item, uncommon

While holding this leaf, you can use an action to cast the gust cantrip or the gust of wind spell from it without expending a spell slot or material components (save DC 10). Once you use this leaf to cast gust of wind, you cannot do so again until the next dawn.

Korok Mask

Wondrous item, uncommon

While you are wearing this mask, you know if there are any Koroks within 30 feet of you. You don't learn their exact locations.

Paraglider

Wondrous item, common

When you fall, you can deploy this paraglider as a reaction. While deployed, you do not take damage from falling and you can land on your feet, and while falling, you descend at a rate of 30 feet per round. Additionally, you can move up to 2 feet horizontally for every foot you descend while falling.

Thunder Helm

Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement)

As a bonus action while you are wearing this helm, you can activate or deactivate its aura. While the aura is active, all creatures within 30 feet of you (including you) are immune to lightning damage.

Travel Medallion

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

When you finish a long rest, you may opt to use this medallion to create a waypoint at your location. The waypoint functions as a permanent teleportation circle. If you create a new waypoint while another waypoint created by this medallion already exists, the old one is destroyed.

Hand of Rauru

Wondrous item, legendary (requires attunement)

To attune to this ancient hand, it must replace your own. While attuned to it, you gain the following benefits.

Ultrahand. You can cast the telekinesis spell as an action, without expending a spell slot. When you cast the spell in this manner, you can only target objects.

While you are affecting an object with this ability, you can use an action to fuse it to a different object it is touching. The objects become inseparable until you use an action while affecting one of the attached objects to break the bond.

Ascend. While standing directly under a solid surface no more than 60 feet above you, you can use an action to teleport to an unoccupied space directly above you on top of that surface.

Seal the Demon King. As an action, you can make a melee spell attack against a creature within your reach. If it hits, you cast the imprisonment spell (burial option) requiring no material components, targeting both the creature and yourself. Both you and the target automatically fail the saving throw. The condition for the spell to end is "when disturbed by another creature."

Secret Stone

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement)

While you are attuned to this item, you can use an action to manifest a corporeal incarnation of your spirit in an unoccupied space you can see within 30 feet. If you use this action while an incarnation of your spirit of yourself already exists, the previous incarnation is destroyed.

Your spirit replicates your game statistics when it is created, and carries a copy of all of your equipment. If any of its equipment is separated from the spirit it is bound to, it vanishes immediately. You control its actions directly (no action required).

The incarnation of your spirit disappears when you die.

If you swallow the secret stone as an action, you permanently transform into a dragon of the DM's choosing. Your game statistics, including mental ability scores, are replaced by the statistics of the new form.

Purah Pad

The rules presented here for the Sheikah Slate can also be used to represent the Purah Pad.

Sheikah Slate

Wondrous item, legendary

The Sheikah Slate is an ancient, customizable tablet. By itself, it does nothing, but its true power lies in its ability to receive runes that grant its user many varied capabilities.

Map Rune

Rune

While this rune is installed on the Sheikah Slate, you can use it to view maps retrieved from the terminals atop Sheikah Towers.

Map Upgrade

Rune

While this upgrade is installed on the Sheikah Slate, you can use it to cast the teleportation circle spell without expending a spell slot or material components. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Scanner Rune

Rune

While this rune is installed on the Sheikah Slate, you can use it to cast the locate object spell without using a spell slot or material components. When you cast the spell in this manner, you can opt to target the nearest shrine. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Key Rune

Rune

While this rune is installed on the Sheikah Slate, it can be used to activate terminals such as the ones in front of shrines.

Storage Rune

Rune

While this rune is installed on the Sheikah Slate, it functions as a bag of holding.

Remote Bomb Rune

Rune

While this rune is installed on the Sheikah Slate, you can use an action to retrieve a bomb from the slate. The bomb can be thrown up to 20 feet away as part of the same action.

While holding the slate, you can use a bonus action to detonate one bomb you took from the slate. All creatures within 10 feet of the bomb must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw. A target takes force damage equal to twice your proficiency bonus, or half as much on a successful save.

Magnesis Rune

Rune

This rune has 3 charges. While this rune is installed on the Sheikah Slate, you can use it to cast the telekinesis spell without expending a spell slot or material components. When you cast the spell in this way, you can only target a manufactured metal object. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

The rune regains all expended charges daily at dawn.

Stasis Rune

Rune

This rune has 3 charges. While this rune is installed on the Sheikah Slate, you can expend 1 charge to cast the immovable object spell without expending a spell slot or material components. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

The rune regains all expended charges daily at dawn.

Stasis Upgrade

Rune

While this upgrade is installed on the Sheikah Slate, you can use it to cast the hold monster spell without expending a spell slot or material components. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Once this property has been used, it cannot be used again until the next dawn.

Cryonis Rune

Rune

While this rune is installed on the Sheikah Slate, you can use an action while holding the slate to cause a pillar of ice to rise from water. Choose a point on the surface of water within 30 feet of you. A pillar of ice rises there. If the pillar intersects with a creature's space, they are harmlessly lifted to the top of the pillar.

The pillar is a 5 foot cube that has AC 12 and 24 hit points. It is vulnerable to fire damage. The pillar disappears after 1 minute.

Camera Rune

Rune

While this rune is installed on the Sheikah Slate, you can use it to take and view pictures.

Storage

Devices