The Complete Works of The Faculty

~ Professor Aari Nansen ~

(Atlas of Videciel - replace page with PDF)

Aari Nansen's Catalogue of People

The Catalogue

A Foreword from the Professor

If you're anything like me, you're wondering what the heck all those little mortal people are doing day to day in their little world. This guide is here to help. I have dedicated my whole life to researching the different species and their "jobs". I have since become the foremost expert in my field. Whether it's a half-elf warlock, or a gnome bard. I can tell you all about it.

Professor Aari Nansen

Professor Nansen has maintained his tenure at UFKR for 200 years, and has contributed masses to the anthropological study of those in the dimension below ours. As head of the Anthropology department at UFKR, he has led many excursions with student cohorts into the dimensions below to study the many "folk", as the Professor calls them. His most recent published work: 'The Guide to All Things Below Us', talks about the geography, the physics and a myriad of other topics covering the lower dimensions. Until his disappearance, he was working on this encyclopedia.

How to Use The Catalogue?

The information contained within this encyclopedia has been helpfully organised (Which took some time as Professor Nansen's notes were as messy as his hair!) into Race, Sub-Race, Class, and Sub-class. The full contents can be found on the next page.

Something to Note

All of the information collected in this text has been taken from multiple sources inside Professor Nansen's personal library. His workflow made it impossible to accurately cite where each tidbit comes from. however, the majority of the Professor's research can be tracked to a few sources:

• Xanathar. The Guide to Everything. Waterdeep Publishing.
• Geddarm, Volothamp. Guide to Monsters (Eds. Eliminster). Shadowdale University Press.
• Mordenkainen. Tome of Foes. Greyhawk Publishing

... Among many, many disorganised others.

Scatterings

The notes of Professor Nansen are difficult to track, and some pages might contain information you may deem unnecessary. Reagrdless, they are included as while we were able to separate most of the seemingly random notes of the Professor, that which you see, we deemed too inextricably linked to the important text, and thus it has been left untouched. The keener eyed among you may notice format differences, or inconsistencies within the page numbering of the work. Professor Nansen was well known to work within the Non-Eculidian realm, and thus, each time you read it, the numbers will be different. While we failed to have the book enchanted as the Professor's notes were, to open on whatever page you find yourself needing, we solemnly hope that you find everything you need within these pages that the Professor never got to publish.

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Contents

CATALOGUE OF PEOPLE
Foreword		1
Contents		2
Languages		3
Races		4
	Aarakocra	5
	Cervitaur	7
	Dragonborn	8
	Dwarf	10
	Elf	13
	Faerie	15
	Firbolg	16
	Genasi	X
	Gnome	X
	Halfling	X
	Half-Elf	X
	Half-Giant	X
	Half-Orc	X
	Homs	X
	Lapine	X
	Sciuridae	X
	Tabaxi	X
	Talpid	X
	Tiefling	X
	Vidra	X
Clases		X
Multiclassing		X
	Artificer	X
	Barbarian	X
	Bard	X
	Cleric	X
	Druid	X
	Fighter	X
	Gunslinger	X
	Monk	X
	Paladin	X
	Ranger	X
	Rogue	X
	Samurai	X
	Sorcerer	X
	Warlock	X
	Wizard	X
Feats		X

SUPPLEMENT OF THE BEYOND
Gifts & Curses		X
Boons		X
Blood Gifts		X
Blessings		X
Racial Paragon Traits		X
Curses		X
DM Resources		X
Non-Player Races		X
Non-Player Classes		X
Full List of Divine Forces		X
ARCANE INVENTORY		X
Items		X
Spells		X
DIVINE FIRMAMENT		X
Planes		X
Planar Travel		X
Legendary Statblocks		X
Appendices		X
A - Gods, Divine Beings, etc.		X
B - Bombs, Bullets, and Things That go BOOM!		X
C - Nightstalkers and Bloodsuckers		X
D - Spell Lists		X

A Note on Languages and Names

In the world of Videciel there a myriad of spoken languages that share similarities with those of our own world.

Races

Aarakocra

Sequestered in high mountains atop tall trees, the aarakocra, sometimes called birdfolk, evoke fear and wonder. They are scouts, and explorers, their outposts functioning as footholds.

Beak and Feather

From below, aarakocra look much like large birds. Only when they descend to roost on a branch or walk across the ground does their humanoid appearance reveal itself. Standing upright, aarakocra might reach 5 feet tall, and they have long, narrow legs that taper to sharp talons.

Feathers cover their bodies. Their plumage typically denotes membership in a tribe. Males are brightly colored, with feathers of red, orange, or yellow. Females have more subdued colors, usually brown or gray. Their heads complete the avian appearance, being something like a parrot or eagle with distinct tribal variations.

Sky Wardens

Nowhere are the aarakocra more comfortable than in the sky. They can spend hours in the air, and some go as long as days, locking their wings in place and letting the thermals hold them aloft. In battle, they prove dynamic and acrobatic fliers, moving with remarkable speed and grace, diving to lash opponents with weapons or talons before turning and flying away.

Once airborne, an aarakocra leaves the sky with reluctance.In an ideal world they could fly for days or months, landing only to lay their eggs and feed their young before launching themselves back into the air. They sometimes forget or ignore vertical distances, and they have nothing but pity for those earthbound people forced to live and toil on the ground.

Homelands

Once tribes of aarakocra settle in an area, they share a hunting territory that extends across an area up to 100 miles on a side, with each tribe hunting in the lands nearest to their colony, ranging farther should game become scarce.

A typical colony consists of one large, open-roofed nest made of woven vines. The eldest acts as leader with the support of a shaman.

Avian Masters

The resemblance of aarakocra to birds isn’t limited to physical features. Aarakocra display many of the same mannerisms as ordinary birds. They are fastidious about their plumage, frequently tending their feathers, cleaning and scratching away any tiny passengers they might have picked up. When they deign to descend from the sky, they often do so near pools where they can catch fish and bathe themselves.

Many aarakocra punctuate their speech with chirps, sounds they use to convey emphasis and to shade meaning, much as a human might through facial expressions and gestures. An aarakocra might become frustrated with people who fail to pick up on the nuances; an aarakocra’s threat might be taken as a jest and vice versa.

The idea of ownership baffles most aarakocra. After all, who owns the sky? Even when explained to them, they initially find the notion of ownership mystifying. As a result, aarakocra who have little interaction with other people might be a nuisance as they drop from the sky to snatch livestock or plunder harvests for fruits and grains. Shiny, glittering objects catch their eyes. They find it hard not to pluck the treasure and bring it back to their settlement to beautify it. An aarakocra who spends years among other races can learn to inhibit these impulses.

Confinement terrifies the aarakocra. To be grounded, trapped underground, or imprisoned by the cold, unyielding earth is a torment few aarakocra can withstand. Even when perched on a high branch or at rest in their mountaintop homes, they appear alert, with eyes moving and bodies ready to take flight.

Great Purpose

Aarakocra enjoy peace and solitude. Most of them have little interest in dealing with other peoples and less interest in spending time on the ground. For this reason, it takes an exceptional circumstance for an aarakocra to leave his or her tribe and undertake the adventurer’s life. Neither treasure nor glory is enough to lure them from their tribes; a dire threat to their people, a mission of vengeance, or a catastrophe typically lies at the heart of the aarakocra adventurer’s chosen path.

Aarakocra Names

As with much of their speech, aarakocra names include clicks, trills, and whistles to the point that other peoples have a difficult time pronouncing them. Typically, a name has two to four syllables with the sounds acting as connectors. When interacting with other races, aarakocra may use nicknames gained from people they meet or shortened forms of their full names.

An aarakocra of either gender may have one of these short names:

Aera, Aial, Aur, Deekek, Errk, Heehk, Ikki, Kleeck, Oorr, Ouss, Quaf, Quierk, Salleek, Urreek, or Zeed.

Aarakocra Traits

As an aarakocra, you have certain traits in common with your people. Being able to fly at high speed starting at 1st level is exceptionally effective in certain circumstances and exceedingly dangerous in others. As a result, playing an aarakocra requires special consideration by your DM.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
• Age. Aarakocra reach maturity by age 3. Compared to humans, aarakocra don’t usually live longer than 30 years.
• Alignment. Most aarakocra are good and rarely choose sides when it comes to law and chaos. Tribal leaders and warriors might be lawful, while explorers and adventurers might tend toward chaotic.
• Size. Aarakocra are about 5 feet tall. They have thin, lightweight bodies that weigh between 80 and 100 pounds. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Aarakocra Backgrounds Backgrounds that are most appropriate for aarakocra include the outlander, the hermit, and the sage. The small colonies of aarakocra are insular and remote, and few aarakocra live away from their roosts. In the Star Mounts of the High Forest in the Forgotten Realms, no more than a few dozen aarakocra live away from the nests of their families. Those that do are usually rangers or fighters, constantly patrolling for outside threats.

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• Flight. You have a flying speed of 35 feet. To use this speed, you can’t be wearing medium or heavy armor
• Talons. You are proficient with your unarmed strikes, which deal 1d4 slashing damage on a hit.
• Darkvision. Thanks to your elf blood, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• Avian Eyesight. Your passive perception score increases by 2.
• Language. You can speak, read, and write Common, Aarakocra, and Sylvan.

Cervitaur

Those who are familiar only with centaurs are quick to point out the similarities in resemblance between them and cervitaurs, but closer observation reveals an abundance of differences. Cervitaurs have legs of deer and the upper bodies of youthful humans: indeed, even an old cervitaur will still have the appearance of a man no older than twenty, and they rarely live twice that number. Cervitaurs are lithe creatures, quick on their hooves and flighty by nature. They are much lighter in coloration than most centaurs, both in the upper and lower parts of their bodies.

A Pair of Hooves

The cervitaur race encompasses a variety of phenotypes: one population of cervitaurs might have longer fur, rougher character and resemble reindeer, while another will share the tiny frame and tusks of muntjacs. This makes it hard to make generalizations about cervitaur physiology, although the following usually hold true: males have imposing antler crowns, while females sport smaller, straighter antlers; they are herbivores and almost always ruminants; and they are relatively small, standing no taller than a human and often much shorter.

Society

Cervitaur society is arranged by gender, although again this might vary by phenotype. Males usually live alone or in small gatherings, while females live in larger packs with the fawns. An interested male will approach a pack of females and attempt to court them. A male will usually court around three to five of the females at once. If their affections are returned, the male will live with the pack for a while. While in no way monogamous, a male cervitaur with children will frequent the packs that contain their young, and will protect them as best they can (and often sire more children at the same time). This only holds true for cervitaurs living solely with their own kind, however. Cervitaur populations that live near other races will quickly adopt any positive features of their cultures. These populations are a breeding ground for cervitaur adventurers, a line of work the cervitaur mindset is actually well suited for. Cervitaurs are present-moment-oriented, adaptive creatures with a penchant for moving in small parties - all qualities of the archetypal adveturer.

Cervitaur Names

Cervitaurs often take fey names and are content with just a first name, made possible by the small size of their populations.

Male Names: Rònan

Female Names: Liliana

Cervitaur Traits

Creatures with hybrid bodies and transient minds. As a cerivitaur, the following abilities are yours to command.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.
• Age. Cervitaurs mature in around 2 or 3 years and live up to be around 40 years old.
• Alignment. As wanderers, they tend toward neutrality.
• Size. Most cervitaurs stand 4 to 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 40 feet.
• Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• Hooves of Fury. You may attack with your hooves as though they were your unarmed strike. You are proficient with your unarmed strikes, which deal 1d6 bludgeoning damage on a hit.
• Deer Half. You cannot wear boots, pants, or anything that is worn on the legs or waist area except for belts and specially made armor and saddles. All armor you wear must be specially made to accommodate you, doubling the cost. You cannot ride mounts.
• Rideable Anatomy. You can willingly serve as a mount for a Medium or smaller creature as long as their additional weight doesn't cause you to be encumbered. Furthermore, your carrying capacity is multiplied by 1.5.
• Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic cannot put you to sleep.
• Languages. You can speak, read and write Common and Sylvan.

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Dragonborn

Born of dragons - as their name proclaims, the dragonborn walk proudly through a world that greets them with fearful incomprehension. Shaped by draconic gods or the dragons themselves, dragonborn originally hatched from dragon eggs as a unique race, combining the best attributes of dragons and humanoids. Some dragonborn are faithful servants to true dragons, others form the ranks of soldiers in great wars, and still others find themselves adrift, with no clear calling in life.

Dragonborn are as varied as the great wyrms they're descended from.

Proud Dragon Kin

Dragonborn look very much like dragons standing erect in humanoid form, though they lack wings or a tail. The first dragonborn had scales of vibrant hues matching the colors of their dragon kin, but generations of interbreeding have created a more uniform appearance. Their small, fine scales are usually brass or bronze in color, sometimes ranging to scarlet, rust, gold, or copper-green. They are tall and strongly built, often standing close to 6 1/2 feet tall and weighing 300 pounds or more. Their hands and feet are strong, talonlike claws with three fingers and a thumb on each hand.

The blood of a particular type of dragon runs very strong through som e dragonborn clans. These dragonborn often boast scales that more closely match those of their dragon ancestor—bright red, green, blue, or white, lustrous black, or gleaming metallic gold, silver, brass, copper, or bronze.

Self-Sufficient Clans

To any dragonborn, the clan is more important than life itself. Dragonborn owe their devotion and respect to their clan above all else, even the gods. Each dragonborn’s conduct reflects on the honor of his or her clan, and bringing dishonor to the clan can result in expulsion and exile. Each dragonborn knows his or her station and duties within the clan, and honor demands maintaining the bounds of that position.

A continual drive for self-improvement reflects the self-sufficiency of the race as a whole. Dragonborn value skill and excellence in all endeavors. They hate to fail, and they push themselves to extreme efforts before they give up on something. A dragonborn holds mastery of a particular skill as a lifetime goal. Members of other races who share the same commitment find it easy to earn the respect of a dragonborn.

Though all dragonborn strive to be self-sufficient, they recognize that help is sometimes needed in difficult situations. But the best source for such help is the clan, and when a clan needs help, it turns to another dragonborn clan before seeking aid from other races— or even from the gods.

Dragonborn Names

Dragonborn have personal names given at birth, but they put their clan names first as a mark of honor. A childhood name or nickname is often used among clutchmates as a descriptive term or a term of endearment. The name might recall an event or center on a habit.

Male Names: Arjhan

Female Names: Uadjit.

Childhood Names: Earbender

Clan Names: Yarjerit.

Dragonborn Traits

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1
• Age. Young dragonborn grow quickly. They walk hours after hatching, attain the size and development of a 10-year-old human child by the age of 3, and reach adulthood by 15. They live to be around 80.
• Alignment. Dragonborn tend to extremes, making a conscious choice for one side or the other in the cosmic war between good and evil
• Size. Dragonborn are taller and heavier than humans, standing well over 6 feet tall and averaging almost 250 pounds. Your size is Medium.#
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

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• Breath Weapon. You can use your action to exhale destructive energy. Your draconic ancestry determines the size, shape, and damage type of the exhalation. When you use your breath weapon, each creature in the area of the exhalation must make a saving throw, the type of which is determined by your draconic ancestry. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 2d6 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 16th level. After you use your breath weapon, you can’t use it again until you com plete a short or long rest.
• Damage Resistance. You have resistance to the damage type associated with your draconic ancestry.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Draconic. Draconic is thought to be one of the oldest languages and is often used in the study of magic. The language sounds harsh to most other creatures and includes numerous hard consonants and sibilants.

Colourful Ancestry

Black

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• Brutal and Cruel. You can add your Constitution modifier to the damage of your breath weapon.

  Blue

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• Desert Predator. As an action, you can burrow yourself into sand or loose soil. Creatures that attempt to sect you take a -5 penalty to their Wisdom (Perception) checks as long as you remain there without moving or taking actions.

  Brass

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• Boldly Talkative. You have proficiency in Persuasion.

  Bronze

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• Dragon of the Coast. You have a swim speed of 30 feet.

  Copper

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• Good Host. You have proficiency in Performance, and can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.

Gold

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• Reserved Champion. You have proficiency in Insight.

Green

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• Manipulative Schemer. You have proficiency in Deception.

Iron

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• Orebreaker Claws. Your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the normal bludgeoning damage for an unarmed strike. Additionally, you can use your claws as a tool for the purpose of harvesting ore and digging.

Red

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• Arrogant Tyrant. You have advantage on saving throws to avoid being charmed or frightened.

  Silver

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• Hoarding History. You have proficiency in History.

  Steel

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• Gracious Guardian. You know the friends cantrip.

  Violet

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• Superior Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

  White

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• Primal and Vengeful. You have proficiency in Survival.

  Yellow

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• Ambush Predator. You have proficiency in Stealth.

Dwarf

With kingdoms rich in ancient grandeur, halls carved into the roots of mountains, the echoing of picks and hammers in deep mines and blazing forges, a commitment to clan and tradition unites all dwarves.

Short and Stout

Bold and hardy, dwarves are known as skilled warriors, miners, and workers of stone and metal. Though they stand well under 5 feet tall, dwarves are so broad and compact that they can weigh as much as a human standing nearly two feet taller. Their courage and endurance are also easily a match for any of the larger folk.

Dwarven skin ranges from deep brown to a paler hue tinged with red, but the most common shades are light brown or deep tan, like certain tones of earth. Their hair, worn long but in simple styles, is usually black, gray, or brown, though paler dwarves often have red hair. Male dwarves value their beards highly and groom them carefully.

Long Memory, Long Grudges

Dwarves can live to be more than 400 years old, so the oldest living dwarves often remember a very different world. This longevity grants them a perspective on the world that shorter-lived races such as humans and halflings lack.

Dwarves are solid and enduring like the mountains they love, weathering the passage of centuries with stoic endurance and little change. They respect the traditions of their clans, tracing their ancestry back to the founding of their most ancient strongholds in the youth of the world, and don't abandon those traditions lightly. Part of those traditions is devotion to the gods of the dwarves, who uphold the dwarven ideals of industrious labor, skill in battle, and devotion to the forge.

Individual dwarves are determined and loyal, true to their word and decisive in action, som etim es to the point of stubbornness. Many dwarves have a strong sense of justice, and they are slow to forget wrongs they have suffered. A wrong done to one dwarf is a wrong done to the dwarf’s entire clan, so what begins as one dwarf’s hunt for vengeance can become a full-blown clan feud.

Clans and Kingdoms

Dwarven kingdoms stretch deep beneath the mountains where the dwarves mine gems and precious metals and forge items of wonder. They love the beauty and artistry of precious metals and fine jewelry, and in some dwarves this love festers into avarice. Whatever wealth they can’t find in their mountains, they gain through trade.

They dislike boats, so enterprising humans and halflings frequently handle trade in dwarven goods along water routes. Trustworthy members of other races are welcome in dwarf settlements, though some areas are off limits even to them.

The chief unit of dwarven society is the clan, and dwarves highly value social standing. Even dwarves who live far from their own kingdoms cherish their clan identities and affiliations, recognize related dwarves, and invoke their ancestors’ names in oaths and curses. To be clanless is the worst fate that can befall a dwarf. Dwarves in other lands are typically artisans, especially weaponsmiths, armorers, and jewelers. Some become mercenaries or bodyguards, highly sought after for their courage and loyalty.

Slow to Trust

Dwarves get along passably well with most other races. “The difference between an acquaintance and a friend is about a hundred years,” is a dwarf saying that might be hyperbole, but certainly points to how difficult it can be for a member of a short-lived race like humans to earn a dwarf’s trust.

Elves. “It’s not wise to depend on the elves. No telling what an elf will do next; when the hammer meets the orc’s head, they’re as apt to start singing as to pull out a sword. They’re flighty and frivolous. Two things to be said for them, though: They don’t have many smiths, but the ones they have do very fine work. And when orcs or goblins come streaming down out of the mountains, an elf’s good to have at your back. Not as good as a dwarf, maybe, but no doubt they hate the orcs as much as we do.”

Halflings. “Sure, they’re pleasant folk. But show me a halfling hero. An empire, a triumphant army. Even a treasure for the ages made by halfling hands. Nothing. How can you take them seriously?”

Humans. “You take the time to get to know a human, and by then the human’s on her deathbed. If you’re lucky, she’s got kin— a daughter or granddaughter, maybe—who’s got hands and heart as good as hers. That’s when you can make a human friend. And watch them go! They set their hearts on something, they’ll get it, whether it’s a dragon’s hoard or an empire’s throne. You have to admire that kind of dedication, even if it gets them in trouble more often than not.”

Gods Gold and Clan

Dwarves who take up the adventuring life might be motivated by a desire for treasure—for its own sake, for a specific purpose, or even out of an altruistic desire to help others. Other dwarves are driven by the command or inspiration of a deity, a direct calling or simply a desire to bring glory to one of the dwarf gods. Clan and ancestry are also important motivators. A dwarf might seek to restore a clan’s lost honor, avenge an ancient wrong the clan suffered, or earn a new place within the clan after having been exiled. Or a dwarf might search for the axe wielded by a mighty ancestor, lost on the field of battle centuries ago.

Dwarf Names

A dwarf’s name is granted by a clan elder, in accordance with tradition. Every proper dwarven name has been used and reused down through the generations. A dwarf’s name belongs to the clan, not to the individual.A dwarf who misuses or brings shame to a clan name is stripped of the name and forbidden by law to use any dwarven name in its place.

Male Names: Fargrim, Baern, Oskar

Female Names: Amber, Helja, Kristryd

Clan Names: Battlehammer, Holderhek, Ungart

Dwarven Traits

Your dwarf character has an assortment of inborn abilities, part and parcel of dwarven nature.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution increases by 2.
• Age. Dwarves mature at the same rate as humans, but they’re considered young until they reach the age of 50. On average, they live about 350 years.
• Alignment. Most dwarves are lawful, believing firmly in the benefits of a well-ordered society. They tend toward good as well, with a strong sense of fair play and a belief that everyone deserves to share in the benefits of a just order.
• Size. Dwarves stand between 4 and 5 feet tall and average about 150 pounds. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet. Your speed is not reduced by wearing heavy armor.
• Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• Dwarven Resistance. You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage
• Dwarven Combat Training. You have proficiency with the battleaxe, handaxe, throwing hammer, and warhammer.
• Tool Proficiency. You gain proficiency with the artisan’s tools of your choice: smith’s tools, brewer’s supplies, or mason’s tools.
• Stonecunning. Whenever you make an Intelligence (History) check related to the origin of stonework, you are considered proficient in the History skill and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Dwarvish. Dwarvish is full of hard consonants and guttural sounds, and those characteristics spill over into whatever other language a dwarf might speak.
• Subraces. Three main subraces of dwarves populate the worlds of D&D: Hill dwarves, Mountain dwarves, and Duergar. Choose one of these subraces.

Hill Dwarves

As a hill dwarf, you have keen senses, deep intuition, and remarkable resilience.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
• Dwarven Toughness. Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

Mountain Dwarves

As a mountain dwarf, you're strong and hardy, accustomed to a difficult life in rugged terrain. You’re probably on the tall side (for a dwarf), and tend toward lighter coloration.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2.
• Dwarven Armour Training. You have proficiency with light and medium armor.

Duergar

Physically similar to other dwarves in some ways, duergar are wiry and lean, with black eyes and bald heads, with the males growing long, unkempt, gray beards.

Duergar value toil above all else. Showing emotions other than grim determination or wrath is frowned on in their culture, but they can sometimes seem joyful when at work. They have the typical dwarven appreciation for order, tradition, and impeccable craftsmanship, but their goods are purely utilitarian, disdaining aesthetic or artistic value.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.
• Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision has a radius of 120 feet.
• Extra Language. You can speak one extra language of your choice.
• Duergar Resiliance. You have advantage on saving throws against illusions and against being charmed or paralyzed.
• Duergar Magic. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the enlarge/reduce spell on yourself once with this trait, using only the spell's enlarge option. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the invisibility spell on yourself once with this trait. You don't need material components for either spell, and you can't cast them while you're in direct sunlight, although sunlight has no effect on them once cast. You regain the ability to cast these spells with this trait when you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
• Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Elf

Elves are a magical people of otherworldly grace, living in the world but not entirely part of it. They live in places of ethereal beauty, in the midst of ancient forests or in silvery spires glittering with faerie light, where soft music drifts through the air and gentle fragrances waft on the breeze. Elves love nature and magic, art and artistry, music and poetry, and the good things of the world.

Slender and Graceful

With their unearthly grace and fine features, elves appear hauntingly beautiful to humans and members of many other races. They are slightly shorter than humans on average, ranging from well under 5 feet tall to just over 6 feet. They are more slender than humans, weighing only 100 to 145 pounds. Males and females are about the same height, and males are only marginally heavier than females.

Elves’ coloration encom passes the normal human range and also includes skin in shades of copper, bronze, and almost bluish-white, hair of green or blue, and eyes like pools of liquid gold or silver. Elves have no facial and little body hair. They favor elegant clothing in bright colors, and they enjoy simple yet lovely jewelry.

A Timeless Perspective

Elves can live well over 700 years, giving them a broad perspective on events that might trouble the shorterlived races m ore deeply. They are more often amused than excited, and m ore likely to be curious than greedy. They tend to remain aloof and unfazed by petty happenstance. W hen pursuing a goal, however, whether adventuring on a mission or learning a new skill or art, elves can be focused and relentless. They are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them. They reply to petty insults with disdain and to serious insults with vengeance.

Like the branches of a young tree, elves are flexible in the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and com prom ise to resolve differences before they escalate to violence. They have been known to retreat from intrusions into their w oodland hom es, confident that they can simply wait the invaders out. But when the need arises, elves reveal a stern martial side, demonstrating skill with sword, bow, and strategy.

Hidden Woodland Realms

Most elves dwell in small forest villages hidden am ong the trees. Elves hunt game, gather food, and grow vegetables, and their skill and m agic allow them to support themselves without the need for clearing and plowing land. They are talented artisans, crafting finely worked clothes and art objects. Their contact with outsiders is usually limited, though a few elves make a good living by trading crafted items for m etals (which they have no interest in mining).

Elves encountered outside their own lands are com m only traveling minstrels, artists, or sages. Human nobles compete for the services of elf instructors to teach swordplay or magic to their children.

Exploration and Adventure

Elves take up adventuring out of wanderlust. Since they are so long-lived, they can enjoy centuries of exploration and discovery. They dislike the pace of human society, which is regimented from day to day but constantly changing over decades, so they find careers that let them travel freely and set their own pace. Elves also enjoy exercising their martial prow ess or gaining greater magical power, and adventuring allows them to do so. Some might join with rebels fighting against oppression, and others might become champions of moral causes.

Elf Names

Elves are considered children until they declare themselves adults, som e time after the hundredth birthday, and before this period they are called by child names.

On declaring adulthood, an elf selects an adult name, although those who knew him or her as a youngster might continue to use the child name. Each elf’s adult name is a unique creation, though it might reflect the names of respected individuals or other family m em bers. Little distinction exists between male nam es and female names; the groupings here reflect only general tendencies. In addition, every elf bears a family name, typically a com bination of other Elvish words. Some elves traveling among humans translate their family names into Common, but others retain the Elvish version.

Child Names: Ara

Male Adult Names: Ivellios

Female Adult Names: Valanthe.

Family Names (Common Translations): (Starflower) (Moonbrook)(Goldpetal)

Elf Traits

Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.
• Age. Although elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old.
• Alignment. Elves love freedom , variety, and selfexpression, so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others' freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not.
• Size. Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
• Darkvision. Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
• Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
• Trance. Elves don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining sem iconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Elvish. Elvish is fluid, with subtle intonations and intricate grammar. Elven literature is rich and varied, and their songs and poem s are fam ous am ong other races. Many bards learn their language so they can add Elvish ballads to their repertoires.
• Subraces. Ancient divides among the elven people resulted in three main subraces: high elves, wood elves, and dark elves, who are commonly called drow. Choose one of these subraces.

High Elf

As a high elf, you have a keen mind and a mastery of at least the basics of magic. Some elves have bronze skin and hair of copper, black, or golden blonde. Their eyes are golden, silver, or black.Others are much paler, with alabaster skin som etimes tinged with blue. They often have hair of silver-white, black, or blue, but various shades of blond, brown, and red are not uncommon. Their eyes are blue or green and flecked with gold.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence increases by 1.
• Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow
• Cantrip. You know one cantrip of your choice from the wizard spell list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it.
• Extra Language. You can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.

Wood Elf

As a wood elf, you have keen senses and intuition, and your fleet feet carry you quickly and stealthily through your native forests. They are reclusive and distrusting of non-elves. Wood elves’ skin tends to be copperish in hue, sometim es with traces of green. Their hair tends toward browns and blacks, but it is occasionally blond or copper-colored. Their eyes are green, brown, or hazel.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
• Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow
• Fleet of Foot. Your base walking speed increases to 35 feet
• Mask of the Wild. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain,falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.

Dark Elf / Drow

Drow are extremely intelligent, charismatic and dexterous, but share surface elves' comparative frailty and slight frames. Females tend to be bigger and stronger than males. Drow are characterized by white or silver hair and obsidian black skin. Their eyes are red (or rarely gray, violet, or yellow) in darkness and can be many different colors in normal light. Drow have several kinds of innate spell powers and spell resistance.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.
• Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision has a radius of 120 feet.
• Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.
• Drow Magic. You know the dancing lights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the faerie fire spell once per day. When you reach 5th level, you can also cast the darkness spell once per day. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells
• Drow Weapon Training. You have proficiency with rapiers, shortswords, and hand crossbows.

Faerie

Rare and secretive, Faeries gather in sylvan forests along with other fey or animalian fol. They tend to be friendly with other good-spirited woodland folk, and they regard Elves and certain fey as natural allies. Faeries will befriend small forest animals and rely on them for information about threats that might prowl. They are also notorious tricksters, finding a penchant for messing with the larger races.

Physical Description

Faeries rarely reach over 2 feet tall, and their wings come in many colours, as a butterfly's would. They often look like tiny elves, with pointed ears and ranging skin tones. They carry the normal array of human skin tones as well as light shades of the rest of the spectrum of colors, coming from light shades of red to copper and bronze. They love vibrantly colored clothes or shiny metal armor, something that speaks about their personality on a level that other pixies and some people can understand.

Faerie Names

Travelling fairies will often take on the names of humans or elves, and sometimes those of the plants and trees that they find their homes in.

Male Names: Birch, Cloud, Drake, Nova, Walnut.

Female Names: Aria, Bianca, Thistle, Nova, Jasmine.

Tribe Names: Blackmeadow, Elmroot, Copperhop, Moonlily.

Faerie Traits

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2. Your Charisma score increases by 1.
• Age. Faeries reach adulthood by age 40, and are expected to live anywhere from 300 to 400 years.
• Alignment. Faeries love freedom, variety, and self-expression, so they lead strongly to the gentler aspects of the chaotic. They are more often than not good in heart.
• Size. Faeries are slightly shorter than Gnomes, rarely reaching 3 feet tall. Your size is Small.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 15 feet. You have a flying speed of 30 feet and you can hover no more than 10 feet off the ground if you are more than 10 feet off the ground when you end your turn you will fall until you are within the 10 feet of the ground.
• Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
• Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic cannot put you to sleep.
• Tiny Hands. You have disadvantage on Athletics checks, but you are proficient in the Sleight of Hand skill.
• Natural Magic. You know the druidcraft cantrip.
• Languages. You can speak, read and write Common and Sylvan.

Firbolg

Tribes cloister in remote forest strongholds, preferring to spend their days in quiet harmony with the woods. When provoked, firbolgs demonstrate formidable skills with weapons and druidic magic.

Humble Guardians

Firbolgs love nothing more than a peaceful day spent among the trees of an old forest. They see forests as sacred places, representing the heart of the world and monuments to the durability of life.

In their role as caretakers, firbolgs live off the land while striving to remain in balance with nature. Their methods reflect common sense and remarkable resourcefulness. During a bountiful summer, they store away excess nuts, fruit, and berries. When winter arrives, they scatter everything they can spare to ensure the animals of the wood survive until springtime.

In a firbolg's eyes, there is no greater fault than greed. The firbolgs believe that the world remains healthiest when each creature takes only what it needs. Material goods, especially precious gems and gold, have little appeal to them. What use are such things when winter lingers and food runs short?

Natural Druids

Firbolgs have a talent for druidic magic. Their cultural reverence for nature, combined with their strong and insightful minds, makes learning such magic an instinctive part of their development. Almost every firbolg learns a few spells, typically those used to mask their presence, and many go on to master nature magic.

Firbolgs who become druids serve as stronghold leaders. With every action the tribe takes, the druids weigh not only the group's needs, but the effect each action will have on the forest and the rest of the natural world. Firbolg tribes would rather go hungry than strain the land during a famine.

Hidden Shepherds

As caretakers of the land, firbolgs prefer to remain out of sight and out of mind. They don't try to dominate nature, but rather seek to ensure that it prospers and survives according to its own laws.

Firbolgs use their magic to keep their presence in a forest secret. This approach allows them to avoid the politics and struggles of elves, humans, and ores. Such events concern the firbolgs only when the events affect the forest.

Even in the face of an intrusion, firbolgs prefer a subtle, gentle approach to prevent damage to their territory. They employ their magic to make the forest an unappealing place to explore by temporarily diverting springs, driving away game, stealing critical tools, and altering trails to leave hunting or lumber parties hopelessly lost. The firbolgs' presence is marked by an absence of animals and a strange quiet, as if the forest wishes to avoid attracting attention to itself. The faster travelers decide to move on, the better.

If these tactics fail, the firbolgs take more direct action. Their observations of a settlement determine what happens next. If the outsiders seem peaceful, the firbolgs approach and gently ask them to leave, even offering food and other supplies to aid their departure. If those who insist on remaining respect nature, take only what they need, and live in harmony with the wood, firbolgs explore the possibility of friendship with them, as long as the outsiders vow to safeguard the forest. If the settlers clearly display evil intentions, however, the firbolgs martial their strength and magic for a single overwhelming attack.

Outcast Adventurers

As guardians of the wood, few firbolgs would dream of leaving their homes or attempting to fit into human society. An exiled firbolg, or one whose clan has been destroyed, might not have a choice in the matter. Most adventuring firbolgs fall into this latter category.

Outcast firbolgs can never return home. They committed some unforgivable deed, usually something that put their homeland at risk, such as starting a forest fire or killing a rare or beautiful wild creature. These firbolgs are loners who wander the world in hope of finding a new place to call home.

Orphaned firbolgs are those whose clans or homelands have been destroyed. They become crusaders for nature, seeking to avenge their loss and prevent the further destruction of the natural world.

A few rare firbolgs are entrusted l;>y their clan with an important mission that takes them beyond their homes. These firbolgs feel like pilgrims in a strange land, and usually they wish only to complete their quests and return home as quickly as possible.

The Firbolg Adventurers table can serve as inspiration for determining why a firbolg character leaves home.

Firbolg Adventurers

d8	Reason for Adventuring
1:	Outcast for murder
2:	Outcast for severely damaging home territory
3:	Clan slain by invaders
4:	Clan slain by a monster
5:	Separated from the tribe and lost
6:	Homeland destroyed by natural disaster
7:	Personal quest ordained by omens
8:	Dispatched on a quest by tribe leaders

Firbolg Names

Firbolg adopt elven names when they must deal with outsiders, although the concept of names strikes them as strange. They know the animals and plants of the forest without formal names, and instead identify the forest's children by their deeds, habits, and other actions.

By the same token, their tribe names merely refer to their homes. When dealing with other races, firbolgs refer to their lands by whatever name the surrounding folk use, as a matter of tact and hospitality, but among their own kind they simply call it "home."

Firbolg Classes

Most firbolgs are druids, rangers, or fighters. Among their kind, these vocations are passed down from one generation to the next. The firbolgs' magical heritage also expresses itself in other ways; those who become bards preserve the clan's lore, and firbolg sorcerers defend their communities. Firbolg wizards arise when a clan becomes friendly with elves. FirboJg rogues are typically scouts tasked with spying on neighboring folk to determine their intentions. They are most common among firbolgs whose homes border human settlements. Firbolg barbarians are rare except among dans that face constant threats from evil humanoids and other invaders. Firbolg clerics and paladins are usually dedicated to nature gods and are seen as enforcers of that god's will. Firbolg warlocks are rare, but some clans forge alliances and arcane pacts with powerful fey beings. Firboig monks are almost entirely unheard of, though a monastery might take in the young survivors of a devas tated firbolg clan.

Firbolg Traits

Your firbolg character has the following racial traits.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.
• Age. As humanoids related to the fey, firbolg have long lifespans. A firbolg reaches adulthood around 30, and the oldest of them can live for 500 years.
• Alignment. As people who follow the rhythm of nature and see themselves as its caretakers, firbolg are typically neutral good. Evil firbolg are rare and are usually the sworn enemies of the rest of their kind.
• Size. Firbolg are between 7 and 8 (eet tall and weigh between 240 and 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
• Firbolg Magic. You can cast detect magic and disguise self with this trait, using Wisdom as your spell casting ability for them. Once you cast either spell, you can't cast it again with this trait until you finish a short or long rest. When you use this version of disguise self, you can seem up to 3 feet shorter than normal, allowing you to more easily blend in with humans and elves.
• Hidden Step. As a bonus action, you can magically turn invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack, make a damage roll, or force someone to make a saving throw. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
• Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
• Speech of Beast and Leaf. . You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with beasts and plants. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them.
• Languages. . You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Sylvan. You can read and write in Jotunn.

Genasi

Those who think of other planes at all consider them remote, distant realms, but planar influence can be felt throughout the world. It sometimes manifests in beings who, through an accident of birth, carry the power of the planes in their blood. The genasi are one such people, the offspring of genies and mortals.

The Elemental Planes are often inhospitable to natives of the Material Plane: crushing earth, searing flames, boundless skies, and endless seas make visiting these places dangerous for even a short time. The powerful genies, however, don’t face such troubles when venturing into the mortal world. They adapt well to the mingled elements of the Material Plane, and they sometimes visit—whether of their own volition or compelled by magic. Some genies can adopt mortal guise and travel incognito.

During these visits, a mortal might catch a genie’s eye. Friendship forms, romance blooms, and sometimes children result. These children are genasi: individuals with ties to two worlds, yet belonging to neither. Some genasi are born of mortal–genie unions, others have two genasi as parents, and a rare few have a genie further up their family tree, manifesting an elemental heritage that’s lain dormant for generations.

Occasionally, genasi result from exposure to a surge of elemental power, through phenomena such as an eruption from the Inner Planes or a planar convergence. Elemental energy saturates any creatures in the area and might alter their nature enough that their offspring with other mortals are born as genasi.

Heirs to Elemental Power

Genasi inherit something from both sides of their dual nature. They resemble humans but have unusual skin color (red, green, blue, or gray), and there is something odd about them. The elemental blood flowing through their veins manifests differently in each genasi, often as magical power.

Seen in silhouette, a genasi can usually pass for human. Those of earth or water descent tend to be heavier, while those of air or fire tend to be lighter. A given genasi might have some features reminiscent of the mortal parent (pointed ears from an elf, a stockier frame and thick hair from a dwarf, small hands and feet from a halfling, exceedingly large eyes from a gnome, and so on).

Genasi almost never have contact with their elemental parents. Genies seldom have interest in their mortal offspring, seeing them as accidents. Many feel nothing for their genasi children at all.

Genasi Lands

As rare beings, genasi might go their entire lives without encountering another one of their kind. There are no great genasi cities or empires. Genasi seldom have communities of their own and typically adopt the cultures and societies into which they are born. The more strange their appearance, the harder time they have. Many genasi lose themselves in teeming cities, where their distinctiveness hardly raises an eyebrow in places accustomed to a variety of different people.

Those living on the frontier, though, have a much harder time. People there tend to be less accepting of differences. Sometimes a cold shoulder and a suspicious glare are the best genasi can hope for; in more backward places, they face ostracism and even violence from people who mistake them for fiends.

Facing a hard life, these genasi seek isolation in the wilds, making their homes in mountains or forests, near lakes, or underground.

Genasi Names

Genasi use the naming conventions of the people among whom they were raised. They might later assume distinctive names to capture their heritage, such as Flame, Ember, Wave, or Onyx.

Genasi Traits

Your genasi character has a number of traits in common with all other genasi.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2.
• Age. Genasi mature at about the same rate as humans and reach adulthood in their late teens. They live somewhat longer than humans do, up to 120 years.
• Alignment. Independent and self-reliant, genasi tend toward a neutral alignment.
• Size. Genasi are as varied as their mortal parents but are generally built like humans, standing anywhere from 5 feet to over 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Primordial. Primordial is a guttural language, filled with harsh syllables and hard consonants.
• Subraces. Four major subraces of genasi are found in the world:air genasi, earth genasi, fire genasi, and water genasi. Choose one of these subraces.

Air Genasi

As an air genasi, you are descended from the djinn. As changeable as the weather, your moods shift from calm to wild and violent with little warning, but these storms rarely last long.

Air genasi typically have light blue skin, hair, and eyes. A faint but constant breeze accompanies them, tousling the hair and stirring the clothing. Some air genasi speak with breathy voices, marked by a faint echo. A few display odd patterns in their flesh or grow crystals from their scalps.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.
• Unending Breath. You can hold your breath indefinitely while you’re not incapacitated.
• Mingle with the Wind. You can cast the levitate spell once with this trait, requiring no material components, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Earth Genasi

As an earth genasi, you are descended from the cruel and greedy dao, though you aren’t necessarily evil. You have inherited some measure of control over earth, reveling in superior strength and solid power. You tend to avoid rash decisions, pausing long enough to consider your options before taking action.

Elemental earth manifests differently from one individual to the next. Some earth genasi always have bits of dust falling from their bodies and mud clinging to their clothes, never getting clean no matter how often they bathe. Others are as shiny and polished as gemstones, with skin tones of deep brown or black, eyes sparkling like agates. Earth genasi can also have smooth metallic flesh, dull iron skin spotted with rust, a pebbled and rough hide, or even a coating of tiny embedded crystals. The most arresting have fissures in their flesh, from which faint light shines.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.
• Earth Walk. You can move across difficult terrain made of earth or stone without expending extra movement.
• Merge with Stone. You can cast the pass without trace spell once with this trait, requiring no material components, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Fire Genasi

As a fire genasi, you have inherited the volatile mood and keen mind of the efreet. You tend toward impatience and making snap judgments. Rather than hide your distinctive appearance, you exult in it.

Nearly all fire genasi are feverishly hot as if burning inside, an impression reinforced by flaming red, coal- black, or ash-gray skin tones. The more human-looking have fiery red hair that writhes under extreme emotion, while more exotic specimens sport actual flames dancing on their heads. Fire genasi voices might sound like crackling flames, and their eyes flare when angered. Some are accompanied by the faint scent of brimstone.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.
• Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. Your ties to the Elemental Plane of Fire make your darkvision unusual: everything you see in darkness is in a shade of red.
• Fire Resistance. You have resistance to fire damage.
• Reach to the Blaze. You know the produce flame cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the burning hands spell once with this trait as a 1st-level spell, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Water Genasi

The lapping of waves, the spray of sea foam on the wind, the ocean depths—all of these things call to your heart. You wander freely and take pride in your independence, though others might consider you selfish.

Most water genasi look as if they just finished bathing, with beads of moisture collecting on their skin and hair. They smell of fresh rain and clean water. Blue or green skin is common, and most have somewhat overlarge eyes, blue-black in color. A water genasi’s hair might float freely, swaying and waving as if underwater. Some have voices with undertones reminiscent of whale song or trickling streams.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
• Acid Resistance. You have resistance to acid damage.
• Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.
• Swim. You have a swimming speed of 30 feet.
• Call to the Wave. You know the shape water cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the create or destroy water spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Gnome

A constant hum of busy activity pervades the warrens and neighborhoods where gnom es form their close- knit communities. Louder sounds punctuate the hum: a crunch of grinding gears here, a minor explosion there, a yelp of surprise or triumph, and especially bursts of laughter. Gnom es take delight in life, enjoying every moment of invention, exploration, investigation, creation, and play.

Vibrant Expression

A gnome’s energy and enthusiasm for living shines through every inch of his or her tiny body. Gnomes average slightly over 3 feet tall and weigh 40 to 45 pounds. Their tan or brown faces are usually adorned with broad smair hair has a tendency to stick out in every direction, as if expressing the gnome’s insatiable interest in everything around. A gnome’s personality is writ large in his or her appearance. A male gnome’s beard, in contrast to his wild hair, is kept carefully trimmed but often styled into curious forks or neat points. A gnome’s clothing, though usually made in modest earth tones, is elaborately decorated with embroidery, embossing, or gleaming jewels.(beneath their prodigious noses), and their bright eyes shine with excitement. Their fair hair has a tendency to stick out in every direction, as if expressing the gnome’s insatiable interest in everything around.

A gnom e’s personality is writ large in his or her appearance. A male gnom e’s beard, in contrast to his wild hair, is kept carefully trimmed but often styled into curious forks or neat points. A gnome’s clothing, though usually made in modest earth tones, is elaborately decorated with embroidery, embossing, or gleaming jewels.

Delighted Dedication

As far as gnomes are concerned, being alive is a wonderful thing, and they squeeze every ounce of enjoyment out of their three to five centuries of life. Humans might wonder about getting bored over the course of such a long life, and elves take plenty of time to savor the beauties of the world in their long years, but gnomes seem to worry that even with all that time, they can’t get in enough of the things they want to do and see.

Gnomes speak as if they can’t get the thoughts out of their heads fast enough. Even as they offer ideas and opinions on a range of subjects, they still manage to listen carefully to others, adding the appropriate exclamations of surprise and appreciation along the way.

Though gnomes love jokes of all kinds, particularly puns and pranks, they’re just as dedicated to the more serious tasks they undertake. Many gnomes are skilled engineers, alchemists, tinkers, and inventors. They’re willing to make mistakes and laugh at themselves in the process of perfecting what they do, taking bold (sometimes foolhardy) risks and dreaming large.

Bright Burrows

Gnomes make their homes in hilly, w ooded lands. They live underground but get more fresh air than dwarves do, enjoying the natural, living world on the surface whenever they can. Their homes are well hidden by both clever construction and simple illusions. W elcome visitors are quickly ushered into the bright, warm burrows. Those who are not welcome are unlikely to find the burrows in the first place.

Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils enjoy a mix of serious learning and delighted enjoyment. A gnome might tutor several generations of a single human family over the course of his or her long life.

Gnome Names

Gnomes love names, and most have half a dozen or so.A gnome's mother, father, clan elder, aunts, and uncles each give the gnome a name, and various nicknames from just about everyone else might or might not stick over time. Gnome names are typically variants on the names of ancestors or distant relatives, though some are purely new inventions. When dealing with humans and others who are “stuffy” about names, a gnome learns to use no more than three names: a personal name, a clan name, and a nickname, choosing the one in each category that’s the most fun to say.

Male Names: Boddynock, Wrenn

Female Names: Bimpnottin, Waywocket

Clan Names: Garrick, Timbers

Nicknames: Aleslosh,Oneshoe

Seeing the World

Curious and impulsive, gnomes might take up adventuring as a way to see the world or for the love of exploring. As lovers of gems and other fine items, som e gnom es take to adventuring as a quick, if dangerous, path to wealth. Regardless of what spurs them to adventure, gnom es w ho adopt this way of life eke as much enjoyment out of it as they do out of any other activity they undertake, sometimes to the great annoyance of their adventuring companions.

Gnome Traits

Your gnome character has certain characteristics in common with all other gnomes.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 2.
• Age. Gnomes mature at the same rate humans do, and most are expected to settle down into an adult life by around age 40. They can live 350 to almost 500 years.
• Alignment. Gnomes are good-hearted, and even the tricksters among them are more playful than vicious.

Always Appreciative

It’s rare for a gnome to be hostile or malicious unless he or she has suffered a grievous injury. Gnomes know that most races don’t share their sense of humor, but they enjoy anyone's company just as they enjoy everything else they set out to do.

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• Size. Gnomes are between 3 and 4 feet tall and average about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.
• Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• Gnome Cunning. You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against magic.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Gnomish. The Gnomish language, which uses the Dwarvish script, is renowned for its technical treatises and its catalogs of knowledge about the natural world.
• Subraces. Three subraces of gnomes are found among the worlds of D&D: forest gnomes, rock gnomes, and deep gnomes (Also known as Svirfneblin). Choose one of these subraces.

Forest Gnomes

As a forest gnome, you have a natural knack for illusion and inherent quickness and stealth. In the worlds of D&D, forest gnomes are rare and secretive. They gather in hidden communities in sylvan forests, using illusions and trickery to conceal themselves from threats or to mask their escape should they be detected.

Forest gnomes tend to be friendly with other good-spirited woodland folk, and they regard elves and good fey as their most important allies. These gnomes also befriend small forest animals and rely on them for information about threats that might prowl their lands.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.
• Natural Illusionist. You know the minor illusion cantrip. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it.
• Speak with Small Beasts. Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas with Small or smaller beasts. Forest gnom es love animals and often keep squirrels, badgers, rabbits, moles, woodpeckers, and other creatures as beloved pets.

Rock Gnomes

As a rock gnome, you have a natural inventiveness and hardiness beyond that of other gnomes. Most gnomes in the worlds of D&D are rock gnomes.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.
• Artificer's Lore. Whenever you make an Intelligence (History) check related to magic items, alchemical objects, or technological devices, you can add twice your proficiency bonus, instead of any proficiency bonus you normally apply.
• Tinker. You have proficiency with artisan’s tools (tinker’s tools). Using those tools, you can spend 1 hour and 10 gp worth of materials to construct a Tiny clockwork device (AC 5, 1 hp). The device ceases to function after 24 hours (unless you spend 1 hour repairing it to keep the device functioning), or when you use your action to dismantle it; at that time, you can reclaim the materials used to create it. You can have up to three such devices active at a time. When you create a device, choose one of the following options:

Clockwork Toy. This toy is a clockwork animal, monster, or person, such as a frog, mouse, bird, dragon, or soldier. W hen placed on the ground, the toy moves 5 feet across the ground on each of your turns in a random direction. It makes noises as appropriate to the creature it represents.

Fire Starter. The device produces a miniature flame, which you can use to light a candle, torch, or campfire. Using the device requires your action.

Music Box. When opened, this music box plays a single song at a moderate volume.The box stops playing when it reaches the song’s end or when it is closed.

Deep Gnomes (Svirfneblim)

Svirfneblin seem more like creatures of stone than flesh. Their leathery skin is usually a gray, brown, or dun hue that acts as a natural camouflage with the rock around them. Their bodies are gnarled with hard muscle or fat, and they are heavier than their small stature suggests; svirfneblin often weigh 100 pounds or more but rarely stand much more than 3 feet tall.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 2, and your Dexterity score increases by 1.
• Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision has a radius of 120 feet.
• Stone Camouflage. You have advantage on Dexterity (stealth) checks to hide in rocky terrain.
• Svirfneblim Magic. You can also cast each of the following spells once with this ability: blindness/deafness, blur, and disguise self. You regain the ability to cast these spells when you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells, and you cast them at their lowest possible levels.

Halfling

The comforts of home are the goals of most halflings' lives: a place to settle in peace and quiet, far from marauding monsters and clashing armies; a blazing fire and a generous meal; fine drink and fine conversation. Though some halflings live out their days in remote agricultural communities, others form nomadic bands that travel constantly, lured by the open road and the wide horizon to discover the wonders of new lands and peoples. But even these wanderers love peace, food, hearth, and home, though home might be a wagon jostling along an dirt road or a raft floating downriver.

Small and Practical

The diminutive halflings survive in a world full of larger creatures by avoiding notice or, barring that, avoiding offense. Standing about 3 feet tall, they appear relatively harmless and so have managed to survive for centuries in the shadow of empires and on the edges of wars and political strife. They are inclined to be stout, weighing between 40 and 45 pounds.

Halflings’ skin ranges from tan to pale with a ruddy cast, and their hair is usually brown or sandy brown and wavy. They have brown or hazel eyes. Halfling men often sport long sideburns, but beards are rare among them and mustaches even more so. They like to wear simple, comfortable, and practical clothes, favoring bright colors.

Halfling practicality extends beyond their clothing. They’re concerned with basic needs and simple pleasures and have little use for ostentation. Even the wealthiest of halflings keep their treasures locked in a cellar rather than on display for all to see. They have a knack for finding the most straightforward solution to a problem, and have little patience for dithering.

Kind and Curious

Halflings are an affable and cheerful people. They cherish the bonds of family and friendship as well as the com forts of hearth and home, harboring few dreams of gold or glory. Even adventurers among them usually venture into the world for reasons of community, friendship, wanderlust, or curiosity. They love discovering new things, even simple things, such as an exotic food or an unfamiliar style of clothing.

Halflings are easily moved to pity and hate to see any living thing suffer. They are generous, happily sharing what they have even in lean times.

Affable and Positive

Halflings try to get along with everyone else and are loath to make sweeping generalizations— especially negative ones.

Blend into the Crowd

Halflings are adept at fitting into a community of humans, dwarves, or elves, making themselves valuable and welcome. The combination of their inherent stealth and their unassuming nature helps halflings to avoid unwanted attention.

Halflings work readily with others, and they are loyal to their friends, whether halfling or otherwise. They can display remarkable ferocity when their friends, families, or communities are threatened.

Pastoral Pleasantries

Most halflings live in small, peaceful communities with large farms and well-kept groves. They rarely build kingdoms of their own or even hold much land beyond their quiet shires. They typically don’t recognize any sort of halfling nobility or royalty, instead looking to family elders to guide them. Families preserve their traditional ways despite the rise and fall of empires.

Many halflings live among other races, where the halflings’ hard work and loyal outlook offer them abundant rewards and creature comforts. Som e halfling communities travel as a way of life, driving wagons or guiding boats from place to place and maintaining no permanent home.

Exploring Opportunities

Halflings usually set out on the adventurer’s path to defend their communities, support their friends, or explore a wide and wonder-filled world. For them, adventuring is less a career than an opportunity or sometimes a necessity.

Halfling Names

A halfling has a given name, a family name, and possibly a nickname. Family names are often nicknames that stuck so tenaciously they have been passed down through the generations.

Male Names: Finnan, Osborn

Female Names: Bree, Euphemia

Family Names: Goodbarrel, Tealeaf

Halfling Traits

Your halfling character has a number of traits in common with all other halflings.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.
• Age. A halfling reaches adulthood at the age of 20 and generally lives into the middle of his or her second century.
• Alignment. Most halflings are lawful good. As a rule, they are good-hearted and kind, hate to see others in pain, and have no tolerance for oppression. They are also very orderly and traditional, leaning heavily on the support of their community and the comfort of their old ways.
• Size. Halflings average about 3 feet tall and weigh about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.
• Lucky. When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll.
• Brave. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.
• Halfling Nimbleness. You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Halfling. The Halfling language isn’t secret, but halflings are loath to share it with others. They write very little, so they don’t have a rich body of literature. Their oral tradition, however, is very strong. Almost all halflings speak Common to converse with the people in whose lands they dwell or through which they are traveling.
• Subraces. The two main kinds of halfling, lightfoot and stout, are more like closely related families than true subraces. Choose one of these subraces.

Lightfoot

As a lightfoot halfling, you can easily hide from notice, even using other people as cover. You’re inclined to be affable and get along well with others. In the Forgotten Realms, lightfoot halflings have spread the farthest and thus are the most common variety.

Lightfoots are more prone to wanderlust than other halflings, and often dwell alongside other races or take up a nomadic life.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.
• Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.

Stout

As a stout halfling, you’re hardier than average and have some resistance to poison. Some say that stouts have dwarven blood. In the Forgotten Realms, these halflings are called stronghearts, and they’re most com m on in the south.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.
• Stout Resilience. You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage.

Half-Elf

Walking in two worlds but truly belonging to neither, half-elves combine what some say are the best qualities of their elf and human parents: human curiosity, inventiveness, and ambition tempered by the refined senses, love of nature, and artistic tastes of the elves. Some half-elves live among humans, set apart by their emotional and physical differences, watching friends and loved ones age while time barely touches them. Others live with the elves, growing restless as they reach adulthood in the timeless elven realms, while their peers continue to live as children. Many half-elves, unable to fit into either society, choose lives of solitary wandering or join with other misfits and outcasts in the adventuring life.

Of Two Worlds

To humans, half-elves look like elves, and to elves, they look human. In height, they’re on par with both parents, though they’re neither as slender as elves nor as broad as humans. They range from under 5 feet to about 6 feet tall, and from 100 to 180 pounds, with men only slightly taller and heavier than women. Half-elf men do have facial hair, and som etim es grow beards to mask their elven ancestry. Half-elven coloration and features lie som ewhere between their human and elf parents, and thus show a variety even more pronounced than that found among either race. They tend to have the eyes of their elven parents.

Diplomats or Wanderers

Half-elves have no lands of their own, though they are welcome in human cities and somewhat less welcome in elven forests. In large cities in regions where elves and humans interact often, half-elves are som etimes numerous enough to form small communities of their own. They enjoy the company of other half-elves, the only people who truly understand what it is to live between these two worlds.

In most parts of the world, though, half-elves are uncomm on enough that one might live for years without meeting another. Some Half-elves prefer to avoid company altogether, wandering the wilds as trappers, foresters, hunters, or adventurers and visiting civilization only rarely. Like elves, they are driven by the wanderlust that com es of their longevity. Others, in contrast, throw themselves into the thick of society, putting their charisma and social skills to great use in diplomatic roles or as swindlers.

Half-Elf Names

Half-elves use either human or elven naming conventions. As if to emphasize that they don’t really fit in to either society, Half-elves raised among humans are often given elven names, and those raised among elves often take human names.

Half-Elf Traits

Your Half-elf character has some qualities in common with elves and some that are unique to half-elves.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2, and two other ability scores of your choice increase by 1.
• Age. Half-elves mature at the same rate humans do and reach adulthood around the age of 20. They live much longer than humans, however, often exceeding 180 years.
• Alignment. Half-elves share the chaotic bent of their elven heritage. They value both personal freedom and creative expression, demonstrating neither love of leaders nor desire for followers. They chafe at rules, resent others’ demands, and som etim es prove unreliable, or at least unpredictable.
• Size. Half-elves are about the same size as humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
• Darkvision. Thanks to your elf blood, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep
• Skill Versatility. You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.
• Languages. Languages.You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and one extra language of your choice.

Half-Giant

Half-giants are widely known for their physical abilities, and for their ability to deal heavy damage to foes during combat, but they are typically shunned by many people for their hulking figures and often simplistic views on life and goals. This is not to say that half-giants are stupid, as many of them, especially storm half-giants can have great intellect, but because of their ability to muscle through problems, they typically do not worry too much about details, and feel they can just plow right on to their goals.

Half-Giant Names

Most Giants typically take Human names, or ancient Giant Names.

Ancient History

In the beginning, the world was populated by many creatures and they lived together in relative harmony. Infinitely varied they were; contrived of all the gods' imaginations. Each was beautiful and special in its own way. And the gods walked among them, blessing all the creatures of the Earth.

One the most impressive of these creatures was the race known as, the Giants.

Of god-like stature and possessing great power, the Giants were unmatched save perhaps, for the Dragons. They were so powerful, in fact, that they became arrogant and dismissive, even treating the gods with disdain. Weary of the constant annoyance, the gods withdrew their favour from the Giants and left them to admire themselves in solitude.

Half-Giant Traits.

Simple, deliberate, stubborn, and hulking. Not very nimble.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Strength and Constitution scores each increase by 1.
• Age. Half-giants age slightly slower than humans, reaching adulthood at around age 20. They tend to live a decent bit longer than humans as well, usually living to be no older than 200.
• Alignment. Half-giants don't tend toward any alignment in particular. Neutrality is the norm for Half-Giants.
• Size. The smallest half-giant is larger than all but the largest of humans. Your size is Large.
• Speed. You have a base walking speed of 35 feet.
• Long Legs. You have proficiency with the Athletics skill.
• Giantkin. Your creature type is considered to be both giant and humanoid.
• Languages. You speak, read, and write Common and you can read and write Jotunn.
• Subraces. Your blood races with the ancient lines of the Cloud, Fire, Frost, Hill, Stone and Storm Giants before you.

Cloud Giant Blood

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1
• Keen Senses. You have proficiency with the Perception skill.
• Cloud Giant Magic. You know the gust cantrip and can cast it at will. Starting from 3rd level, you know the spell feather fall and can cast it once. Starting from 5th level, you know the spell fog cloud and can cast it once as a 2nd-level spell. You regain expended uses of this trait when you complete a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Fire Giant Blood

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.
• Fireborn. You have resistance to fire damage. Additionally, when you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, your weapon ignites in flame and you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit. This extra damage is fire damage regardless of the weapon damage type.
• Metal Worker. You have proficiency with smith's tools.

Frost Giant Blood

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
• Frostborn. You have resistance to cold damage. Additionally, you know the frostbite[2] cantrip and can cast it at will. Starting from 3rd level, you know the spell ice knife[1] and can cast it once, regaining the ability to cast it when you complete a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
• Glacial Native. While you are traveling through arctic terrain, you add twice your proficiency bonus to Intelligence (Nature) and Wisdom (Perception and Survival) checks related to your immediate surroundings, instead of any proficiency bonus that you would normally apply. Additionally, you ignore difficult terrain while in arctic terrain.

Hill Giant Blood

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.
• Barrel Through. When you move, you can attempt to enter the space of a creature of Medium size or smaller. When you do so, that creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone as you enter their space. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus. You can't force a creature to make this saving throw more than once per turn.
• Thick Skinned. While you are not wearing armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Constitution modifier.

Stone Giant Blood

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.
• Deflect Missile. When you are targeted by a ranged weapon attack, you can use your reaction to deflect or catch the missile. When you do so, the damage from the attack is reduced by 1d4 + your Dexterity modifier. If you reduce the damage to 0, you can catch the missile if you have a hand free and the missile is small enough to be held in one hand. When you catch a missile in this way, you can choose to make a ranged attack with the missile as part of the same reaction. The damage die of the missile increases to 1d4 if it wasn't already higher, and the attack has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet. Once you attack in such a manner, you can't do so again until after you next roll initiative.
• Stone Camouflage. You have advantage on Dexterity (stealth) checks to hide in rocky terrain.

Storm Giant Blood

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.
• Storm Resistance. You have resistance to lightning and thunder damage.
• Storm Bolt. You can generate a bolt of lightning in your hand, which you can use to make attacks in combat. This is a ranged spell attack that you can use with the Attack action. The attack has a range of 60 feet, an attack bonus equal to your Intelligence modifier + your proficiency bonus, and deals lightning damage on a hit equal to 1d6 + your Intelligence modifier.

Half-Orc

Orc and human tribes sometimes form alliances, joining forces into a larger horde. When these alliances are sealed by marriages, half-orcs are born. Some half-orcs rise to become proud chiefs of orc tribes, their human blood giving them an edge over their full-blooded orc rivals. Some venture into the world to prove their worth among humans and other races. Many of these become adventurers, achieving greatness for their mighty deeds and notoriety for their barbaric customs and savage fury.

Scarred and Strong

Half-orcs’ grayish pigmentation, sloping foreheads, jutting jaws, prominent teeth, and towering builds make their orcish heritage plain for all to see. Half-orcs stand between 6 and 7 feet tall and usually weigh between 180 and 250 pounds.

Orcs regard battle scars as tokens of pride and ornamental scars as things of beauty. Other scars, though, mark an orc or half-orc as a former slave or a disgraced exile. Any half-orc who has lived among or near orcs has scars, whether they are marks of humiliation or of pride, recounting their past exploits and injuries. Such a half-orc living among humans might display these scars proudly or hide them in shame.

Half-Orc Names

Half-orcs usually have names appropriate to the culture in which they were raised. A half-orc who wants to fit in among humans might trade an orc name for a human name.

Male Orkish Names: Dench, Feng, Henk

Female Orkish Names: Emen, Shautha, Yevelda

Half-Orc Traits

Your half-orc character has certain traits deriving from your ore ancestry.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.
• Age. Half-orcs mature a little faster than humans, reaching adulthood around age 14. They age noticeably faster and rarely live longer than 75 years.
• Alignment. Half-orcs inherit a tendency toward chaos from their orc parents and are not strongly inclined toward good. Half-orcs raised among ores and willing to live out their lives among them are usually evil.
• Size. Half-orcs are somewhat larger and bulkier than humans, and they range from 5 to well over 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
• Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• Menacing. You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.
• Relentless Endurance. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.
• Savage Attacks. When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Orkish.

Homs (Human)

In the reckonings of most worlds, homs are the youngest of the common races, late to arrive on the world scene and short-lived in comparison to dwarves, elves, and dragons. Perhaps it is because of their shorter lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty empires on the foundation of conquest and trade. Whatever drives them, homs are the innovators, the achievers, and the pioneers of the world.

A Broad Spectrum

With their penchant for migration and conquest, homs are more physically diverse than other common races. There is no typical homs. An individual can stand from 5 feet to a little over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds. Homs skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of homs have a dash of nonhuman blood, revealing hints of elf, orc , or other lineages. Homs reach adulthood in their late teens and rarely live even a single century.

Varity in All Things

Homs are the most adaptable and ambitious people among the common races. They have widely varying tastes, morals, and customs in the many different lands where they have settled. When they settle, though, they stay: they build cities to last for the ages, and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual homs might have a relatively short life span, but a homs nation or culture preserves traditions with origins far beyond the reach of any single human’s memory. They live fully in the present—making them well suited to the adventuring life—but also plan for the future, striving to leave a lasting legacy. Individually and as a group, homs are adaptable opportunists, and they stay alert to changing political and social dynamics.

Exemplars of Ambition

Homs who seek adventure are the most daring and ambitious members of a daring and ambitious race.They seek to earn glory in the eyes of their fellows by amassing power, wealth, and fame. More than other people, humans champion causes rather than territories or groups.

Homs Traits

It’s hard to make generalizations about homs, but your human character has these traits.

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• Ability Score Increase. Two different ability scores of your choice each increase by 1
• Age. Homs reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.
• Alignment. Homs tend toward no particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.
• Size. Homs vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice. Humans typically learn the languages of other peoples they deal with, including obscure dialects. They are fond of sprinkling their speech with words borrowed from other tongues: Orc curses, Elvish musical expressions, Dwarvish military phrases, and so on.
• Skils. You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.

Lapine

Their bodies are covered in a coat of short fur, most commonly in shades of brown, black, grey, and white. Lapines have three-fingered hands with a single opposable thumb, long, four-toed feet, and large, powerfully muscled legs. Their fingers and toes end in short claws. A lapine warrior prides him- or herself on being strong, fast, watchful, and clever. Like their rabbit kin, lapines have keen senses, particularly hearing, and tend to maintain an alert, watchful stance even when at rest. For this reason, they are often taken as jumpy or fearful by other humanoid races.

Descended from prey animals, lapine culture places a high priority on security and emphasizes the importance of the group over the individual.

Unity, Security and Strength

Lapine society is highly rigid and structured, with a hierarchical collective leadership.

Each warren is led by a council of elders, at the head of which is a chief. Chiefs append the honorific -rah (roughly translated as “prince” or “leader”) to their names. The role of chief varies from benign figurehead to military dictator, but most warrens prefer a more consultative, quasi-democratic approach.

Lapine warrens serve a purpose similar to medieval castles, with a large, central burrow complexes acting as strongholds and places of refuge to their inhabitants in place of keeps.

Warrens

Lapine life is centered on warrens, independent communities of lapines usually made up of multiple families with complex interwoven bloodlines.

Each warren is essentially a clan, and warren names are often used as surnames by those few lapines who interact with the outside world. These warrens are typically named after the location they are built in.

Lapine Names

Lapine names tend to reflect the natural world and are often unpronounceable by other races. For this reason, Lapine's usually give their names in Common when dealing with outsiders.

Male Names: Buckthorn, Laburnum

Female Names. Anflellen, Violet

Lapine Traits

Sleek, fast, and alert, lapine traits reflect their ancestry.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
• Age. Lapines reach maturity at about age 15 and live around 65 years.
• Alignment. Lapines may be any alignment, but tend to gravitate toward lawful and neutral alignments. Lapines are rarely chaotic.
• Size. Adult lapines stand between 4-5 feet tall and weigh between 60-120 pounds. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 35 feet.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, and Sylvan. Other languages frequently spoken by lapines include Elvish, and Dwarvish
• Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
• Speak with Small Beasts. Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas with Small or smaller beasts. Forest gnom es love animals and often keep squirrels, badgers, rabbits, moles, woodpeckers, and other creatures as beloved pets.
• Graceful Athelete. You can use your Dexterity score in place of your Strength score for all Athletics checks.
• Powerful Jumper. Lapines have extremely powerful leg muscles. You can use your Dexterity score in place of your Strength score in regards to jumping.
• Claws. If your feet are unshod, you can use your claws to deliver an extra 1d4 slashing damage on a kick.
• Obligate Vegetarian. Lapines cannot eat meat. If you do so you must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until you take a long rest.

Sciuridae

R enowned for their quick thinking and tongue, generally quite the talkers they have found ways to fit into towns of larger species, even though most are still comfortable in the wild woods.

Squirrelly Society

Town Sciuridae tend to have an easier life, despite the hardships of trying to fit into a world of larger creatures. They make themselves into fast talking merchants, or messengers of important people, earning coins to buy food for their families. They tend to stay inside towns, having grown up hearing horror stories about the creatures of the wild.

Wild Sciuridae tend to have a harder life, forging and fighting for each day. At a young age these Sciuridae are taught about the dangers of the wild that they live in, and how to fight, or avoid them all together and to be independent. Seeing this society is rare as they aren't very trusting of outsiders, they tend to go into hiding when seeing a stranger.

Sciuridae Names

For the town squirrelfolk, they have taken on the traditions of the humans to name their children at birth, but tend to keep within the realm of their race's classic names.

Male Names: Lion, Bon(fire)

Female Names: Redroot, Wonder

For the wild squirrelfolk, they follow the tradition of letting the pups name themselves once they come of age and are ready to leave the nest to find their own place in the world, to leave their name as a mark on it. Tree names are used a lot.

Male Names: Pine, Wolf

Female Names: Oak, Griffon

Nicknames: Swift, Trouble

Sciuridae Traits

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.
• Age. Both subraces reach adulthood at 5 years old, but the town squirrelfolk tend to live to 40 years old while the wild squirrelfolk live to be around 30.
• Alignment. Squirrelfolk tend to be neutral, though like with every race, there are temptations and they can be evil or good.
• Size. They usually stand between 3 to 4 feet tall and weigh around 45 pounds. Your size is Small
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet. If both your hands are free you can run on all fours, increasing your speed to 30 feet and granting you a climbing speed of 30 feet.
• Languages. You can speak, read and write Common and Sylvan.
• Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• Alert. You are proficient in the Perception skill.
• Bite. You can make an unarmed strike with your bite, which deals 1d4 piercing damage.
• Graceful Athelete. You can use your Dexterity score in place of your Strength score for all Athletics checks.
• Tiny Hands. You have disadvantage on Athletics checks, but you are proficient in the Sleight of Hand skill.
• Environment. You are either a town squirrelfolk or a wild squirrelfolk.

Town Sciuridae

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.
• Professional Salesman. You know one extra language of your choice
• Skill Versatility. You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.

Wild Sciuridae

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.
• Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
• Speak with Small Beasts. Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas with Small or smaller beasts. Forest gnom es love animals and often keep squirrels, badgers, rabbits, moles, woodpeckers, and other creatures as beloved pets.

Tabaxi

Wandering tabaxi are catlike humanoids driven by curiosity to collect interesting artifacts, gather tales and stories, and lay eyes on all the world's wonders. Ultimate travelers, the inquisitive tabaxi rarely stay in one place for long. Their innate nature pushes them to leave no secrets uncovered, no treasures or legends lost to the uncaring sands of time.

Wandering Outcasts

Most tabaxi remain in their distant homeland, content to dwell in small, tight clans. These tabaxi hunt for food, craft goods, and largely keep to themselves.

However, not all tabaxi are satisfied with such a life. The divine figure responsible for the creation of the tabaxi gifts each of her children with one specific feline trait. Those tabaxi gifted with curiosity are compelled to wander far and wide. They seek out stories, artifacts, and lore. Those who survive this period of wanderlust return home in their elder years to share news of the outside world. In this manner, the tabaxi remain isolated but never ignorant of the world beyond their home.

Barterers of Lore

Tabaxi treasure knowledge rather than material things. A chest filled with gold coins might be useful to buy food or a coil of rope, but it's not intrinsically interesting.

In the tabaxi's eyes, gathering wealth is like packing rations for a long trip. It's important to survive in the world, but not worth fussing over.

Instead, tabaxi value knowledge and new experiences. Their ears perk up in a busy tavern, and they tease out stories with offers of food, drink, and coin. Tabaxi might walk away with empty purses, but they mull over the stories and rumors they collected like a miser counting coins.

Although material wealth holds little attraction for the tabaxi, they have an insatiable desire to find and inspect ancient relics, magical items, and other rare objects. Aside from the power such items might confer, a tabaxi takes great joy in unraveling the stories behind their creation and the history of their use.

Fleeting Fantasies

Wandering tabaxi are mercurial creatures, trading one obsession or passion for the next as the whim strikes. A tabaxi's desire burns bright, but once met it disappears to be replaced with a new obsession. Objects remain intriguing only as long as they still hold secrets.

A tabaxi rogue could happily spend months plotting to steal a strange gem from a noble, only to trade it for passage on a ship or a week's lodging after stealing it. The tabaxi might take extensive notes or memorize every facet of the gem before passing it on, but the gem holds no more allure once its secrets and nature have been laid bare.

Tinkerers and Minstrels

Curiosity drives most of the tabaxi found outside their homeland, but not all of them become adventurers. Tabaxi who seek a safer path to satisfy their obsessions become wandering tinkers and minstrels.

These tabaxi work in small troupes, usually consisting of an elder, more experienced tabaxi who guides up to four young ones learning their way in the world. They travel in small, colorful wagons, moving from settlement to settlement. When they arrive, they set up a small stage in a public square where they sing, play instruments, tell stories, and offer exotic goods in trade for items that spark their interest. Tabaxi reluctantly accept gold, but they much prefer interesting objects or pieces of lore as payment.

These wanderers keep to civilized realms, preferring to bargain instead of pursuing more dangerous methods of sating their curiosity. However, they aren't above a little discreet theft to get their claws on a particularly interesting item when an owner refuses to sell or trade it.

Tabaxi Names

Each tabaxi has a single name, determined by clan and based on a complex formula that involves astrology, prophecy, clan history, and other esoteric factors. Tabaxi names can apply to both males and females, and most use nicknames derived from or inspired by their full names. Clan names are usually based on a geographical feature located in or near the clan's territory. The following list of sample tabaxi names includes nicknames in parenthesis.

Tabaxi Names: Cloud on the Mountaintop (Cloud), Five Timber (Timber), Jade Shoe Qade), Left-Handed Hummingbird (Bird), Seven Thundercloud (Thunder), Skirt of Snakes (Snake), Smoking Mirror (Smoke)

Tabaxi Clans: Bright Cliffs, Distant Rain, Mountain Tree, Rumbling River, Snoring Mountain.

Tabaxi are more likely to chose a heritage name like the examples given above rather than a name in the Tabaxi language (Hebrew used as the equivalent).

Tabaxi personality

A tabaxi might have motivations and quirks much different from a dwarf or an elf with a similar background. You can use the following tables to customize your character in addition to the trait, ideal, bond, and flaw from your background.

The Tabaxi Obsession table can help hone your character's goals. For extra fun, roll a new result every few days that pass in the campaign to reflect your ever-changing curiosity.

Tabaxi Obsession

d8:	My curiosity is currently fixed on...
1:	A god or planar entity
2:	A monster
3:	A lost civilization
4:	A wizard's secrets
5:	A mundane item
6:	A magic item
7:	A location
8:	A legend or tale

Tabaxi Quirks

d10:	Quirk
1:	You relentlessly complain about the weather.
2:	You never wear the same outfit twice, unless you absolutely must.
3:	You have a minor phobia of water and hate getting wet.
4:	Your tail always betrays your inner thoughts.
5:	You purr loudly when you are happy
6:	You keep a small ball of yarn in your hand, which you constantly fidget with.
7:	You are always in debt, since you spend your gold on lavish parties and gifts for friends.
8:	When talking about something you're obsessed with, you speak quickly and never pause and others can't understand you .
9:	You are a font of random trivia from the lore and stories you have discovered.
10:	You can't help but pocket interesting objects you find.

Tabaxi Traits.

Your tabaxi character has the following racial traits.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.
• Age. Tabaxi have lifespans equivalent to humans.
• Alignment. Tabaxi tend toward chaotic alignments, as they let impulse and fancy guide their decisions. They are rarely evil, with most of them driven by curiosity rather than greed or other dark impulses.
• Size. Tabaxi are taller on average than humans and relatively slender. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.
• Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• Feline Agility. Your reflexes and agility allow you to move with a burst of speed. When you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the tum. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you move O feet on one of your turns.
• Cat's Claws. Because of your claws, you have a climbing speed of 20 feet. In addition, your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
• Cat's Talent. You have proficiency in the Perception and Stealth skills.

Talpid

Talpids, or molefolk, are a race that developed first in the Underdark, but they fairly quickly made their way into the Prime Material, the elemental plane of earth, and even the Shadowfell. Their true origin is lost, but many mages spec-ulate that they were developed from true moles. Regardless of their origin, molefolk have established themselves as a successful race, and they often have entire secondary cities deep beneath the streets of the better known ones above.

Underdark Origin

Talpids evolved first in the Underdark. Instead of darkvision, they navigate by sensing vibrations in the earth, which gives them a distinct advantage. Talpids appear as bipedal moles, squat mammals with velvety fur and massive front paws. Their eyes and ears are difficult to see, as their fur is pattern-ed to protect them. Those unfamiliar with them often focus their attention on the nose, which stands out from the fur and can have fleshy, sensory appendages on it which give it a star-like shape. They are stout, and are typically dressed in practical clothing with subdued tones.

Expert Tunnelers

A talpid's most powerful ability is their potent digging power. Their front paws are huge for their size, bigger even than hands on the largest races, like goliaths. These paws have long claws on each finger, that are both robust and sharp. These allow for both delicate motor functions and startlingly swift digging. While most talpids are restricted to digging in dirt, mud, sand, or ice, a few have managed to hone their skill to tunnel through stone, albeit at a significantly slower pace.

Unusual Habits

Talpids live a substantial portion of their lives underground. Even those who deal with them extensively have only rarely seen their young, who don't even see the sun until they've reached adulthood. While this proclivity towards the subterranean has offered great protection, it has left them with norms that other societies find odd. Molefolk eat insects, often alive and wriggling, and they keep pets that other races find bizarre, like giant centipedes and tamed bulettes.

Natural Excavators

Due to their inherent connection with the earth, most talpids can find easy work as archaeologists, tunnelers, gravekeep-ers, and miners. Those who become adventurers often dedicate themselves to paths that benefit from an ambush style of attacking, such as assassins and gloomstalkers.

Talpid Names

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Talpids have first names and surnames, as many other races do. Oftentimes, these names allude to their subterranean life-style, as an easy way to break the ice with surface dwellers.
Male Molefolk Names: Dusty, Clay, Desmen, Byron, Grant, Roark, Brock.
Female Molefolk Names: Bertha, Opal, Roxanne, Amethyst, Amber, Jade, Agatha, Ametrine.
Molefolk Surnames: Burrowfoot, Spadeshoe, Warrener.

Talpid Traits

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Your talpid character has certain traits deriving from the species evolving and living their lives underground and in the underdark.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Wisdom increases by 1.

Age. Talpids mature fairly quickly, with pups reaching maturity by age eight, and they live until age eighty.

Alignment. Talpids are as varied as most other humanoids, so they trend towards a neutral alignment.

Size. Talpids average around three feet tall and around about fifty pounds. Your size is small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet

Tunneler. You have a burrow speed of 5 feet through dirt, mud, sand, and ice. With dirt and ice, you may choose to leave a 3-foot diameter tunnel behind you. Small creatures can move at full speed through this tunnel, and Medium creatures can squeeze to get through.

Tremorsense. Using the natural vibrations in the earth, you can sense the shape and position of objects and creat-ures within 15 feet while you are burrowing or otherwise entombed. Creatures that are moving stealthily can still evade your detection, as normal.

Claws. You have long claws that augment your unarmed strikes. They deal 1d4 slashing damage and have the light and finesse properties.

Hold Breath. You are accustomed to digging in closed tunnels and living in low-oxygen environments. You can hold your breath for up to fifteen minutes without penalty.

Languages. You speak Common and Undercommon.

Tiefling

To be greeted with stares and whispers, to suffer violence and insult on the street, to see mistrust and fear in every eye: this is the lot of the tiefling.

Infernal Bloodline

Tieflings are derived from human bloodlines, and in the broadest possible sense, they still look human. However, their infernal heritage has left a clear imprint on their appearance. Tieflings have large horns that take any of a variety of shapes: some have curling horns like a ram, others have straight and tall horns like a gazelle’s, and som e spiral upward like an antelopes’ horns. They have thick tails, four to five feet long, which lash or coil around their legs when they get upset or nervous. Their canine teeth are sharply pointed, and their eyes are solid colors—black, red, white, silver, or gold—with no visible sclera or pupil. Their skin tones cover the full range of human coloration, but also include various shades of reds, yellows and blues. Their hair, cascading down from behind their horns, is usually dark, from black or brown to dark red, blue, or purple.

Self-reliant and Suspicious

Tieflings subsist in small minorities found mostly in human cities or towns, often in the roughest quarters of those places, where they grow up to be swindlers,thieves, or crime lords. Sometimes they live among other minority populations in enclaves where they are treated with more respect.

Tiefling Heritage

It is a known fact in the world of Videciel, that the Tiefling race was created by 9 of the avatars of K'arvel after his sealing. Pick an avatar ancestor:

Tiefling Heritage
The Shadows	The Siren
The Pawn	The Jester
The Empress	The Hive
The Strings	The Word
The Tower	The Curiosity †

Tiefling Names

Tiefling names fall into three broad categories. Tieflings born into another culture typically have nam es reflective of that culture. Some have names derived from the Infernal language, passed down through generations, that reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to em body that concept. For some, the chosen name is a noble quest. For others, it’s a grim destiny.

Male Infernal Names: Amnon, Melech

Female Infernal Names: Bryseis, Orianna

“Virtue” Names: Despair, Excellence, Fear, Glory, Nowhere, Random.

Tiefling Traits

Tieflings share certain racial traits as a result of their infernal descent.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2.
• Age. Tieflings mature at the same rate as humans but live a few years longer.
• Alignment. Tieflings might not have an innate tendency toward evil, but many of them end up there. Evil or not, an independent nature inclines many tieflings toward a chaotic alignment.
• Size. Tieflings are about the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Infernal.
• Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
• Hellish Resistance. You have resistance to fire damage.
• Infernal Legacy. You know the thaumaturgy cantrip.

Vidra

The kings of the river, the Vidra believe themselves to be better than other river creatures, for they are among the few sentient ones. The Vidra are petite, lanky, high-energy creatures who exude kindness.

Large Hearts

These humanoids establish quick and trusting relationships with acquaintances they work with or deal with frequently. The Vidra merchants are typically the most honest, trustworthy, and fair-priced.

Playful Creatures

The Vidra enjoy playing games and practical jokes. It’s common to witness Vidra wrestling or chasing one another around in their villages. This same sight is quite surprising when witnessed in other humanoid cities and establishments. Though not typically gamblers, those who become adventurers often develop addictions to games of chance.

Strong Bonds

Vidra traveling away from their families and villages find the loss of the familial bond emotionally painful. To counter this loss, they often select one companion with which they travel, expressing this new bond by grooming them, holding their hand, staying near them, or other expressions of affection.

Vidra Names

The Vidra language (Otterian) is a series of chirps, growls, squeals, clicks, purrs, and guttural noises. An example of a native Vidra name is Click-Gur-Click-Click Their native name is not often used when interacting with other humanoids. Instead, the Vidra use names from other races when they venture outside their villages. Examples include Storm Redbeard, and Beatrix.

Vidra Quirks

The Vidra have many habits that most other humanoids view as quirks. Some of these are:

d6:	Quirk
1:	Eating with your mouth open
2:	Making noises while you chew
3:	Having a distinct, animal scent
4:	Rubbing the scent glands located on your cheeks with your hands
5:	Trying to hold hands with companions
6:	Collecting rocks

Vidra Traits

Your Vidra character has the following racial traits.

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• Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2, your Dexterity score increases by 1, and your Intelligence score increases by 1.
• Age. A typical Vidra reaches maturity at two years old, and can live to a maximum of 60 years.
• Alignment. The Vidra are typically good, as they trust those they meet until that person proves them wrong.
• Size. A typical vidra is between 3 and 4 feet in height. Your size is Small.
• Speed. Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet, and you have a swim speed of 35 feet.
• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Otterian, Common, and one other language of your choice.
• Bite. Your powerful maw, filled with needle-like teeth, is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike
• Hold Breath. You can hold your breath for up to an hour.
• Cute and Cuddly. You have proficiency in the Persuasion and Performance skills.
• Natural Acrobat. You have proficiency in the Acrobatics skill.
• Protective Pelt. You have a thick pelt. When you aren’t wearing armor, your AC is 12 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield’s benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.

Classes

Classes

Class is the primary definition of what your character can do. It’s more than a profession; it’s your character’s calling. Class shapes the way you think about the world and interact with it and your relationship with other people and powers in the world.

A fighter, for example, might view the world in pragmatic terms of strategy and maneuvering, and see herself as just a pawn in a much larger game. Your class gives you a variety of special features, such as a fighter’s mastery of weapons and armor, and a wizard’s spells.

At low levels, your class gives you only two or three features, but as you advance in level you gain more and your existing features often improve.

Adventurers sometimes advance in m ore than one class. A rogue might switch direction in life and swear the oath of a paladin. A barbarian might discover latent magical ability and dabble in the sorcerer class while continuing to advance as a barbarian. Elves are known to com bine martial mastery with magical training and advance as fighters and wizards simultaneously.

Epic Levels

The first time you, as a player surpass 20th level in any single class, you may pick 2 of the following 3 bonuses. If you surpass 20th level total over a number of multiclasses, you may instead pick only 1.:

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• Boon. You may pick a boon from the boons list found in Aari Nansen's Supplement of the Beyond.
• Feat. You may pick an additional feat as you would in place of an ability score increase.
• Racial Paragon Trait. You may select a racial paragon trait from the list found in Aari Nansen's Supplement of the Beyond.

Artificer

Masters of unlocking magic in everyday objects, artificers are supreme inventors. They see magic as a complex system waiting to be decoded and controlled. Artificers use tools to channel arcane power, crafting magical objects. To cast a spell, an artificer could use alchemist's supplies to create a potent elixir, calligrapher's supplies to inscribe a sigil of power on an ally's armor, or tinker's tools to craft a temporary charm. The magic of artificers is tied to their tools and their talents.

Arcane Science

In the world of Videciel, arcane magic has been harnessed as a form of science and deployed throughout society. Artificers reflect this development. Their knowledge of magical devices, and their ability to infuse mundane items with magic, allows Videciel's most miraculous projects to continue.

Seekers of New Lore

Nothing excites an artificer quite like uncovering a new metal or discovering a source of elemental energy. In artificer circles, new inventions and strange discoveries create the most excitement. Artificers who wish to make their mark must innovate, creating something fresh, rather than iterating on familiar designs.

Creating an Artificer

When creating an artificer, think about your character's relationship with the artisan who taught them their craft. Does the character have a rival? Talk to your DM about the role played by artificers in the campaign and the sort of organizations you might have ties to.

Quick Build

You can make an artificer quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in Intelligence, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. Second, choose the guild artisan background.

Class Features

As an artificer, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d8 per artificer level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 + your Constitution modifier per artificer level after 1st

Proficiencies

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• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, simple and martial firearms
• Tools: Thieves' tools, tinker's tools, one type of artisan's tools of your choice

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• Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Sleight of Hand

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• any two simple weapons of your choice
• a light crossbow and 20 bolts, or any simple firearm and 10 appropriate bullets
• your choice of studded leather armor or scale mail
• thieves' tools and a dungeoneer's pack

Magical Tinkering

At 1st level, you learn how to invest a spark of magic into mundane objects. To use this ability, you must have tinker's tools or other artisan's tools in hand. You then touch a Tiny nonmagical object as an action and give it one of the following magical properties of your choice:

• The object sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet.

• Whenever tapped by a creature, the object emits a recorded message that can be heard up to 10 feet away. You utter the message when you bestow this property on the object, and the recording can be no more than 6 seconds long.

• The object continuously emits your choice of an odor or a nonverbal sound (wind, waves, chirping, or the like). The chosen phenomenon is perceivable up to 10 feet away.

• A static visual effect appears on one of the object's surfaces. This effect can be a picture, up to 25 words of text, lines and shapes, or a mixture of these elements, as you like.

The chosen property lasts indefinitely. As an action, you can touch the object and end the property early.

You can bestow magic on multiple objects, touching one object each time you use this feature, though a single object can only bear one property at a time. The maximum number of objects you can affect with this feature at one time is equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one object). If you try to exceed your maximum, the oldest property immediately ends, and then the new property applies.

Spellcasting

You have studied the workings of magic and how to channel it through objects. As a result, you have gained the ability to cast spells. To observers, you don't appear to be casting spells in a conventional way; you look as if you're producing wonders using mundane items or outlandish inventions.

Tools Required

You produce your artificer spell effects through your tools. You must have a spellcasting focus-specifically thieves' tools or some kind of artisan's tool-in hand when you cast any spell with this Spellcasting feature. You must be proficient with the tool to use it in this way. See chapter 5, "Equipment," in the Player's Handbook for descriptions of these tools.

After you gain the Infuse Item feature at 2nd level, you can also use any item bearing one of your infusions as a spellcasting focus.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know two can trips of your choice from the artificer spell list. At higher levels, you learn additional artificer cantrips of your choice, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Artificer table.

When you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the artificer cantrips you know with another cantrip from the artificer spell list.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Artificer table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your artificer spells. To cast one of your artificer spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of artificer spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the artificer spell list. When you do so, choose a number of artificer spells equal to your Intelligence modifier + half your artificer level, rounded down (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 5th-level artificer, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 14, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1 st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of artificer spells requires time spent tinkering with your spellcasting focuses: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your artificer spells; your understanding of the theory behind magic allows you to wield these spells with superior skill. You use your Intelligence whenever an artificer spell refers to your spellcasting ability.

In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an artificer spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast an artificer spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

The Magic of Artifice

As an artificer, you use tools when you cast your spells. When describing your s pellcasting, think about how you 're using a tool to perform the spell effect. If you cast cure wounds using alchemist's supplies, you could be quickly producing a salve. If you cast it using tinker's tools, you might have a miniature mechanical spider that binds wounds. When you cast poison spray, you could fling foul chemicals or use a wand that spits venom . The effect of the spell is the same as for a spellcaster of any other class, but your method of spellcasting is special. The same principle applies when you prepare your spells. As an artificer, you don't study a spellbook or pray to prepare your spells. Instead, you work with your tools and create the specialized items you'll use to produce your effects. If you replace cure wounds with heat metal, you might be altering the device you use to heal-perhaps modifying a tool so that it channels heat in stead of healing energy. Such details don't limit you in any way or provide you with any benefit beyond the spell's effects. You don't have to justify how you're using tools to cast a spell. But describing your spellcasting creatively is a fun way to distinguish yourself from other spellcasters.

Infuse Item

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to imbue mundane items with certain magical infusions. The magic items you create with this feature are effectively prototypes of permanent items.

Infusions Known

When you gain this feature, pick four artificer infusions to learn, choosing from the "Artificer Infusions" section at the end of the class's description. You learn additional infusions of your choice when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Infusions Known column of the Artificer table.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the artificer infusions you learned with a new one.

Infusing an Item

Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch a nonmagical object and imbue it with one of your artificer infusions, turning it into a magic item. An infusion works on only certain kinds of objects, as specified in the infusion's description. If the item requires attunement, you can attune yourself to it the instant you infuse the item. If you decide to attune to the item later, you must do so using the normal process for attunement (see "Attunement" in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master's Guide).

Your infusion remains in an item indefinitely, but when you die, the infusion vanishes after a number of days have passed equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 day). The infusion also vanishes if you give up your knowledge of the infusion for another one.

You can infuse more than one nonmagical object at the end of a long rest; the maximum number of objects appears in the Infused Items column of the Artificer table. You must touch each of the objects, and each of your infusions can be in only one object at a time. Moreover, no object can bear more than one of your infusions at a time. If you try to exceed your maximum number of infusions, the oldest infusion immediately ends, and then the new infusion applies.

Artificer Specialist

At 3rd level, you choose the type of specialist you are: Alchemist, Artillerist, or Battle Smith, each of which is detailed at the end of the class's description. Your choice grants you features at 5th level and again at 9th, 15th, and 22nd level.

Artificer Specialisms
Alchemist
Artillerist
Battle Smith

The Right Tool for the Job

At 3rd level, you learn how to produce exactly the tool you need: with tinker's tools in hand, you can magically create one set of artisan's tools in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. This creation requires 1 hour of uninterrupted work, which can coincide with a short or long rest. Though the product of magic, the tools are nonmagical, and they vanish when you use this feature again.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th, and 24th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1 . As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Tool Expertise

Starting at 6th level, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses your proficiency with a tool.

Flash of Genius

Starting at 7th level, you gain the ability t o come u p with solutions under pressure. When you or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an ability check or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to add your Intelligence modifier to the roll.

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

Magic Item Adept

When you reach 10th level, you achieve a profound understanding of how to use and make magic items:

• You can attune to up to four magic items at once.

• If you craft a magic item with a rarity of common or uncommon, it takes you a quarter of the normal time, and it costs you half as much of the usual gold.

Spell-Storing Item

At 11th level, you learn how to store a spell in an object. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one simple or martial weapon or one item that you can use as a spellcasting focus, and you store a spell in it, choosing a 1st- or 2nd-level spell from the artificer spell list that requires 1 action to cast (you needn't have it prepared).

While holding the object, a creature can take an action to produce the spell's effect from it, using your spellcasting ability modifier. If the spell requires concentration, the creature must concentrate. The spell stays in the object until it's been used a number of times equal to twice your Intelligence modifier (minimum of twice) or until you use this feature again to store a spell in an object.

At level 23, you can imbue a level 3 and level 4 spell for the ability now.

Magic Item Savant

At 14th level, your skill with magic items deepens more:

• You can attune to up to five magic items at once.

• You ignore all class, race, spell, and level requirements on attuning to or using a magic item.

Magic Item Master

Starting at 18th level, you can attune to up to six magic items at once.

Soul of Artifice

At 20th level, you develop a mystical connection to your magic items, which you can draw on for protection:

• You gain a +1 bonus to all saving throws per magic item you are currently attuned to.

• If you're reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can use your reaction to end one of your artificer infusions, causing you to drop to 1 hit point instead of 0.

Attunement Other

At 21st and 25th levels, the Artificer becomes even more expert at dealing with attunement, that they can bestow it to other creatures. You get 1 Attunement charge at level 21 and one more at level. For each attunement charge, you can touch a creature other than yourself and with a 1-hour ritual increase their number of maximum attunement slots by 1. If that creature dies or you do a 1-hour ritual to remove this attunement, that creature loses the extra attunement slot, and you regain 1 attunement charge.

Artificer Specialisms

Artificers pursue many disciplines. Here are specialist options you can choose from at 3rd level.

Alchemist

An Alchemist is an expert at combining reagents to produce mystical effects. Alchemists use their creations to give life and to leech it away. Alchemy is the oldest of artificer traditions, and its versatility has long been valued during times of war and peace.

Tool Proficiency

When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with alchemist's supplies. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Alchemist Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Alchemist Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Alchemist Spells

Artificer Level	Spell
3rd	healing word, ray of sickness
9th	flaming sphere, Melf's acid arrow
9th	gaseous form, mass healing word
13th	blight, death ward
17th	cloudkill, raise dead

Experimental Elixir

Beginning at 3rd level, whenever you finish a long rest, you can magically produce an experimental elixir in an empty flask you touch. Roll on the Experimental Elixir table for the elixir's effect, which is triggered when someone drinks the elixir. As an action, a creature can drink the elixir or administer it to an incapacitated creature.

Creating an experimental elixir requires you to have alchemist supplies on your person, and any elixir you create with this feature lasts until it is drunk or until the end of your next long rest.

When you reach certain levels in this class, you can make more elixirs at the end of a long rest: two at 6th level and three at 15th level. Roll for each elixir's effect separately. Each elixir requires its own flask.

You can create additional experimental elixirs by expending a spell slot of 1st level or higher for each one. When you do so, you use your action to create the elixir in an empty flask you touch, and you choose the elixir's effect from the Experimental Elixir table.

Experimental Elixir

d6	Effect
1	Healing. The drinker regains a number of hit points equal to 2d4 + your Intelligence modifier. At 22nd level, The drinker regains a number of hit points equal to 4d6+ your intelligence modifier.
2	Swiftness. The drinker's walking speed increases by 10 feet for 1 hour. At 22nd level, the drinker's walking speed increases by 20 for 1 hour.
3	Resilience. The drinker gains a +2 bonus to AC for 10 minutes. At 22nd level, the drinker gains a +2 bonus to AC for 10 minutes.
4	Boldness. The drinker can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to every attack roll and saving throw they make for the next minute. At 22nd level, the d4 becomes a d6
5	Flight. The drinker gains a flying speed of 10 feet for 10 minutes. At 22nd level, the drinker gains a flying speed of 20 feet for 10 minutes.
6	Transformation. The drinker's body is transformed as if by the alter self spell. The drinker determines the transformation caused by the spell, the effects of which last for 10 minutes. At 22nd level, the transformation lasts 1 hour.

Alchemical Savant

At 5th level, you develop masterful command of magical chemicals, enhancing the healing and damage you create through them. Whenever you cast a spell using your alchemist's supplies as the spellcasting focus, you gain a bonus to one roll of the spell. That roll must restore hit points or be a damage roll that deals acid, fire, necrotic, or poison damage, and the bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

Restorative Reagents

Starting at 9th level, you can incorporate restorative reagents into some of your works:

• Whenever a creature drinks an experimental elixir you created, the creature gains temporary hit points equal to 2d6 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 temporary hit point).

• You can cast lesser restoration without expending a spell slot and without preparing the spell, provided you use alchemist's supplies as the spellcasting focus. You can do so a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Chemical Mastery

By 15th level, you have been exposed to so many chemicals that they pose little risk to you, and you can use them to quickly end certain ailments:

• You gain resistance to acid damage and poison damage, and you are immune to the poisoned condition.

• You can cast greater restoration and heal without expending a spell slot, without preparing the spell, and without material components, provided you use alchemist's supplies as the spellcasting focus. Once you cast either spell with this feature, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Risky Transmutation

At 25th level, you can create an alchemical elixir that can function as a resurrection spell. This concoction takes a day to create, and while it does not require a human soul, it will completely deplete 10 sets of alchemist's supplies and requires 100 platinum pieces, and take a full week of slaving over your alchemical supplies. You may choose how this elixir can be applied.

Also, you gain access to the Human Transmutation skill from the wizard School of Transmutation:

You must gather the materials (costs 50 gp) for transmuting a human or elf or whatever player race. You then spend a lengthy ritual lasting 48 hours straight. In the end you roll a d20 if it isn't a 1 your create the player non-monstrous race. You can roll 3d6 or pick its stats with point buy. This just determines the maximum you can make a pure 3 stat creature. It can be whatever age you desire but mentally it is an infant. You can craft its looks however you want. Your DM may ask you to roll to see how well you crafted it. If you rolled a 1 the creature dies. In all intents and purposes this is a living breathing humanoid. With the DM's discretion you can also create beasts with a CR of 2 or less

Artillerist

An Artillerist specializes in using magic to hurl energy, projectiles, and explosions on a battlefield. This destructive power is highly valued by many armies. Some members of this specialization have sought to build a more peaceful world by using their powers to fight the resurgence of strife.

Tool Proficiency

When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with woodcarver's tools. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Artillerist Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Artillerist Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Artillerist Spells

Artificer Level	Spell
3rd	shield, thunderwave
9th	scorching ray, shatter
9th	fireball, wind wall
13th	ice storm, wall of fire
17th	cone of cold, wall of force

Eldritch Cannon

At 3rd level, you learn how to create a magical cannon. Using woodcarver's tools or smith's tools, you can take an action to magically create a Small or Tiny eldritch cannon in an unoccupied space on a horizontal surface within 5 feet of you. A Small eldritch cannon occupies its space, and a Tiny one can be held in one hand.

Once you create a cannon, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest or until you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher. You can have only one cannon at a time and can't create one while your cannon is present.

The cannon is a magical object. Regardless of size, the cannon has an AC of 18 and a number of hit points equal to five times your artificer level. It is immune to poison damage, psychic damage, and all conditions. If it is forced to make an ability check or a saving throw, treat all its ability scores as 10 (+O). If the mending spell is cast on it, it regains 2d6 hit points. It disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points or after 1 hour. You can dismiss it early as an action.

When you create the cannon, you determine its appearance and whether it has legs. You also decide which type it is, choosing from the options on the Eldritch Cannons table. On each of your turns, you can take a bonus action to cause the cannon to activate if you are within 60 feet of it. As part of the same bonus action, you can direct the cannon to walk or climb up to 15 feet to an unoccupied space, provided it has legs.

Eldritch Cannons

Cannon	Activation
Flamethrower	The can non exhales fire in an adjacent 15 - foot cone that you designate. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 2d8 fire damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. The fire ignites any flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried.
Force Ballista	Make a ranged spell attack, originating from the cannon, at one creature or object within 120 feet of it. On a hit, the target takes 2d8 force damage, and if the target is a creature, it is pushed up to 5 feet away from the cannon.
Protector	The cannon emits a burst of positive energy that grants itself and each creature of your choice with in 10 feet of it a number of temporary hit points equal to ld8 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +l) .

Arcane Firearm

At 5th level, you know how to turn a wand, staff, or rod into an arcane firearm, a conduit for your destructive spells. When you finish a long rest, you can use woodcarver's tools to carve special sigils into a wand, staff, or rod and thereby turn it into your arcane firearm. The sigils disappear from the object if you later carve them on a different item. The sigils otherwise last indefinitely.

You can use your arcane firearm as a spellcasting focus for your artificer spells. When you cast an artificer spell through the firearm, roll a d8, and you gain a bonus to one of the spell's damage rolls equal to the number rolled.

Explosive Cannon

Starting at 9th level, every eldritch cannon you create is more destructive:

• The cannon's damage rolls all increase by ld8.

• As an action, you can command the cannon to detonate if you are within 60 feet of it. Doing so destroys the cannon and forces each creature within 20 feet of it to make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 3d8 force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

At 22nd level, The dice rolls for each of the cannons increase by 1d8. At level 27, this increases by another 1d8.

Fortified Position

Starting at 1 5th level, you're a master at forming well-defended emplacements using Eldritch Cannon:

• You and your allies have half cover while within 10 feet of a cannon you create with Eldritch Cannon, as a result of a shimmering field of magical protection that the cannon emits.

• You can now have two cannons at the same time. You can create two with the same action (but not the same spell slot), and you can activate both of them with the same bonus action. You determine whether the cannons are identical to each other or different. You can't create a third cannon while you have two.

Elemental Investitures

At 22nd level, you gain the following spells added to your artillerist spell list: investiture of flame, investiture of ice, investiture of stone, investiture of wind

Battle Smith

Armies require protection, and someone has to put things back together if defenses fail . A combination of protector and medic, a Battle Smith is an expert at defending others and repairing both material and personnel. To aid in their work, Battle Smiths are usually accompanied by a steel defender, a protective companion of their own creation. Many soldiers tell stories of nearly dying before being saved by a Battle Smith and a steel defender.

Tool Proficiency

When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with smith's tools. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Battle Smith Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Battle Smith Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Artificer Level	Spell
3rd	heroism, shield
9th	branding smite, warding bond
9th	aura of vitality, conjure barrage
13th	aura of purity. fire shield
17th	banishing smite, mass cure wounds

Battle Ready

When you reach 3rd level, your combat training and your experiments with magic have paid off in two ways:

• You gain proficiency with martial weapons.

• When you attack with a magic weapon, you can use your Intelligence modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity modifier, for the attack and damage rolls.

Steel Defender

By 3rd level, your tinkering has borne you a faithful companion, a steel defender. It is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See this creature's game statistics in the steel defender stat block. You determine the creature's appearance and whether it has two legs or four; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.

In combat, the steel defender shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take one of the actions in its stat block or the Dash, Disengage, Help, Hide, or Search action.

If the mending spell is cast on it, it regains 2d6 hit points. If it has died within the last hour, you can use your smith's tools as an action to revive it, provided you are within 5 feet of it and you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher. The steel defender returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored. At the end of a long rest, you can create a new steel defender if you have your smith's tools with you. If you already have a steel defender from this feature, the first one immediately perishes.

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Steel Defender

Medium construct, Neutral

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• Armor Class 15 (Natural)
• Hit Points equal the steel defender's Constitution modifier + your Intelligence modifier + five times your level in this class
• Speed 40ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	12 (+1)	14 (+2)	4 (-4)	10 (0)	6 (-2)

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• Saving Throws Dex +3, Con +4
• Skills Athletics +4, Perception +4
• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14
• Languages understands the languages you speak

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Might of the Master. The following numbers increase by 1 when your proficiency bonus increases by 1 : the defender's skill and saving throw bonuses (above), the bonuses to hit and damage of its rend attack, and the number of hit points restored by its Repair action (below).

Vigilant. The defender can't be surprised.

Actions (Requires your bonus action)

Force-Empowered Rend. Melee Weapon Attack:+4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target you can see. Hit 1d8 + 2 force damage.

Repair (3/Day). The magical mechanisms inside the defender restore 2d8 + 2 hit points to itself or to one construct or object within 5 feet of it.

Reaction

Deflect Attack. The defender imposes disadvantage on the attack roll of one creature it can see that is within 5 feet of it, provided the attack roll is against a creature other than the defender.

Extra Attack

Starting at 5th level, you can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Arcane Jolt

At 9th level, you learn new ways to channel arcane energy to harm or heal. When either you hit a target with a magic weapon attack or your steel defender hits a target, you can channel magical energy through the strike to create one of the following effects:

• The target takes an extra 2d6 force damage.

• Choose one creature or object you can see within 30 feet of the target. Healing energy flows into the chosen recipient, restoring 2d6 hit points to it.

You can use this energy a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), but you can do so no more than once on a turn. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Improved Defender

At 15th level, your Arcane jolt and steel defender become more powerful:

• The extra damage and the healing of your Arcane jolt both increase to 4d6.

• Your steel defender gains a +2 bonus to Armour Class.

• Whenever your steel defender uses its Deflect Attack, the attacker takes force damage equal to 1d4 + your Intelligence modifier.

Limitless Arcane Jolt

At 22nd level, you can now your arcane jolt feature an unlimited number of times per long rest.

Grand Defender

At 22nd your steel defender becomes even more powerful still:

• Your steel defender gains a +3 bonus to Armour Class.

• Your steel defender's maximum hit points is equal to the steel defender's Constitution modifier + your Intelligence modifier + 10 times your level in this class.

• When you build a new steel defender, you can build them as a large construct. This gives a further +2 to the Strenght score and Constitution score, and an additional +1 to Armour Class

Artificer Infusions

Artificers have invented numerous magical infusions, extraordinary processes that rapidly create magic items. To many, artificers seem like wonderworkers, accomplishing in hours what others need weeks to complete.

The description of each of the following infusions details the type of item that can receive it, along with whether the resulting magic item requires attunement.

Some infusions specify a minimum artificer level. You can't learn such an infusion until you are at least that level.

Unless an infusion's description says otherwise, you can't learn an infusion more than once.

Boots of the Winding Path

Prerequisite: 6th-level artificer

Item: A pair of boots (requires attunement)

While wearing these boots, a creature can teleport up to 1 5 feet as a bonus action to an unoccupied space the creature can see. The creature must have occupied that space at some point during the current turn.

Enhanced Arcane Focus

Item: A rod, staff, or wand (requires attunement)

While holding this item, a creature gains a +1 bonus to spell attack rolls. In addition, the creature ignores half cover when making a spell attack.

The bonus increases to +2 when you reach 10th level in this class. This bonus increases to +3 when you reach 21st level in this class.

Enhanced Defense

Item: A suit of armor or a shield

A creature gains a +1 bonus to Armor Class while wearing (armor) or wielding (shield) the infused item.

The bonus increases to +2 when you reach 10th level in this class. This bonus increases to +3 when you reach 21st level in this class.

Enhanced Weapon

Item: A simple or martial weapon

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it.

The bonus increases to +2 when you reach 10th level in this class. This bonus increases to +3 when you reach 21st level in this class.

Radiant Weapon

Prerequisite: 6th-level artificer

Item: A simple or martial weapon (requires attunement)

This magic weapon grants a + 1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. While holding it, the wielder can take a bonus action to cause it to shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet.

The wielder can extinguish the light as a bonus action. The weapon has 4 charges. As a reaction immediately after being hit by an attack, the wielder can expend 1 charge and cause the attacker to be blinded until the end of the attacker's next turn, unless the attacker succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. The weapon regains ld4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Repeating Shot

Item: A simple or martial weapon with the ammunition property (requires attunement)

This magic weapon grants a + 1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it when it's used to make a ranged attack, and it ignores the loading property if it has it.

If you load no ammunition in the weapon, it produces its own, automatically creating one piece of magic ammunition when you make a ranged attack with it. The ammunition created by the weapon vanishes the instant after it hits or misses a target.

Repulsion Shield

Prerequisite: 6th-level artificer

Item: A shield (requires attunement)

A creature gains a + 1 bonus to Armor Class while wielding this shield.

The shield has 4 charges. While holding it, the wielder can use a reaction immediately after being hit by a melee attack to expend 1 of the shield's charges and push the attacker up to 15 feet away. The shield regains ld4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Resistant Armour

Prerequisite: 6th-level artificer

Item: A suit of armor (requires attunement)

While wearing this armor, a creature has resistance to one of the following damage types, which you choose when you infuse the item: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, or thunder.

Returning Weapon

Item: A simple or martial weapon with the thrown property

This magic weapon grants a + 1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it, and it returns to the wielder's hand immediately after it is used to make a ranged attack.

Elemental Weapon

Prerequisite: level 21 artificer

Item: A weapon (requires attunement)

You imbue a weapon with magical properties. The weapon now does an additional 2d6 fire, cold, thunder, or lightning damage(your choice when you apply this infusion) on any target that it hits.

Homonculus Servant

Prerequisite: 6th-level artificer

Item: A gem worth at least 100 gp

You learn intricate methods for magically creating a special homunculus that serves you. The item you infuse serves as the creature's heart, around which the creature's body instantly forms.

You determine the homunculus's appearance.

The homunculus is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands.

In combat, the homunculus shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take the action in its stat block or the Dash, Disengage, Help, Hide, or Search action.

The homunculus regains 2d6 hit points if the mending spell is cast on it. If it dies, it vanishes, leaving its heart in its space.

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Homunculus Servant

Tiny construct, Neutral

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• Armor Class 13 (Natural)
• Hit Points equal the homunculus' Constitution modifier + your Intelligence modifier + your level in this class
• Speed 40ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
4 (-3)	15 (+2)	12 (+1)	10 (0)	10 (0)	7 (-2)

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• Saving Throws Dex +3
• Skills Perception +4, Stealth +4
• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities exhaustion, poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14
• Languages understands the languages you speak

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Might of the Master. The following numbers increase by 1 when your proficiency bonus increases by 1 : the defender's skill and saving throw bonuses (above), the bonuses to hit and damage of its rend attack, and the number of hit points restored by its Repair action (below).

Evasion. If the homunculus is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it in stead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails. It can't use this trait if it's incapacitated.

Actions (Requires your bonus action)

Force Strike. Ranged Weapon Attack:+4 to h it, range 30 ft. , one target you can see. Hit 1 d4 + 2 force damage.

Reaction

Channel Magic. The homunculus delivers a spell you cast that has a range of touch. The homunculus must be within 120 feet of you .

Replicate Magic Item

Using this infusion, you replicate a particular magic item. You can learn this infusion multiple times; each time you do so, choose a magic item that you can make with it, picking from the Replicable Items tables below. A table's title tells you the level you must be in the class to choose an item from the table.

In the tables, an item's entry tells you whether the item requires attunement. See the item's description in the Dungeon Master's Guide for more information about it, including the type of object required for its making.

If you have Xanathar's Guide to Everything, you can choose from among the common magic items in that book when you pick a magic item you can replicate with this infusion.

Replicable Items (2nd Level Artificer)

Magic Item	Attunement
Alchemy jug	No
Armblade	Yes
Bag of holding	No
Cap of water breathing	No
Goggles of night	No
Prosthetic limb	Yes
Rope of climbing	No
Sending stones	No
Wand of magic detection	No
Wand of secrets	No

Replicable Items (6th Level Artificer)

Magic Item	Attunement
Boots of elvenkind	No
Cloak of elvenkind	Yes
Cloak of the manta ray	No
Eyes of charming	Yes
Gloves of thievery	No
Lantern of revealing	No
Pipes of haunting	No
Ring of water walking	No
Wand sheath	Yes

Replicable Items (10th Level Artificer)

Magic Item	Attunement
Boots of striding and leaping	Yes
Boots of the winterlands	Yes
Bracers of archery	Yes
Brooch of Shielding	Yes
Cloak of protection	Yes
Eyes of the eagle	Yes
Gauntlets of ogre power	Yes
Gloves of missile snaring	Yes
Gloves of swimming and climbing	Yes

Magic Item	Attunement
Hat of disguise	Yes
Headband of intellect	Yes
Helm of telepathy	Yes
Medallion of thoughts	Yes
Periapt of wound closure	Yes
Pipes of the sewers	Yes
Quiver of Ehlonna	No
Ring of jumping	Yes
Ring of mind shielding	Yes
Slippers of spider climbing	Yes
Ventilating lung	Yes
Winged boots	Yes

Replicable Items (14th Level Artificer)

Magic Item	Attunement
Amulet of health	Yes
Arcane propulsion arm	Yes
Belt of hill giant strength	Yes
Boots of levitation	Yes
Boots of speed	Yes
Bracers of defense	Yes
Cloak of the bat	Yes
Dimensional	No
Gem of seeing	Yes
Horn of blasting	No
Ring of free action	Yes
Ring of protection	Yes
Ring of the ram	Yes

Replicable Items (21st Level Artificer)

Magic Item	Attunement
Amulet of the planes	Yes
Carpet of flying	No
Dwarven plate	No
Ring of regeneration	Yes
Ring of telekenisis	Yes

Barbarian

A tall human tribesman strides through a blizzard, draped in fur and hefting his axe. He laughs as he charges toward the frost giant who dared poach his people’s elk herd.

A half-orc snarls at the latest challenger to her authority over their savage tribe, ready to break his neck with her bare hands as she did to the last six rivals.

Frothing at the mouth, a dwarf slams his helmet into the face of his drow foe, then turns to drive his armored elbow into the gut of another.

These barbarians, different as they might be, are defined by their rage: unbridled, unquenchable, and unthinking fury. More than a mere emotion, their anger is the ferocity of a cornered predator, the unrelenting assault of a storm, the churning turmoil of the sea.

For some, their rage springs from a com munion with fierce animal spirits. Others draw from a roiling reservoir of anger at a world full of pain. For every barbarian, rage is a pow er that fuels not just a battle frenzy but also uncanny reflexes, resilience, and feats of strength.

Primal Instinct

People of towns and cities take pride in how their civilized ways set them apart from animals, as if denying one’s own nature was a mark of superiority. To a barbarian, though, civilization is no virtue, but a sign of weakness. The strong embrace their animal n atu rekeen instincts, primal physicality, and ferocious rage. Barbarians are uncom fortable when hedged in by walls and crowds. They thrive in the wilds of their homelands: the tundra, jungle, or grasslands where their tribes live and hunt.

Barbarians come alive in the chaos of combat. They can enter a berserk state where rage takes over, giving them superhuman strength and resilience. A barbarian can draw on this reservoir of fury only a few times without resting, but those few rages are usually sufficient to defeat whatever threats arise.

A Life of Danger

Not every member of the tribes deem ed “barbarians” by scions of civilized society has the barbarian class. A true barbarian among these people is as uncom m on as a skilled fighter in a town, and he or she plays a similar role as a protector of the people and a leader in times of war. Life in the wild places of the world is fraught with peril: rival tribes, deadly weather, and terrifying monsters. Barbarians charge headlong into that danger so that their people don’t have to.

Their courage in the face of danger makes barbarians perfectly suited for adventuring. Wandering is often a way of life for their native tribes, and the rootless life of the adventurer is little hardship for a barbarian. Some barbarians miss the close-knit family structures of the tribe, but eventually find them replaced by the bonds formed among the members of their adventuring parties.

Creating a Barbarian

When creating a barbarian character, think about where your character com es from and his or her place in the world. Talk with your DM about an appropriate origin for your barbarian. Did you com e from a distant land, m aking you a stranger in the area of the cam paign? Or is the cam paign set in a rough-and-tumble frontier where barbarians are common?

What led you to take up the adventuring life? Were you lured to settled lands by the promise of riches? Did you join forces with soldiers of those lands to face a shared threat? Did monsters or an invading horde drive you out of your homeland, making you a rootless refugee? Perhaps you were a prisoner of war, brought in chains to “civilized” lands and only now able to win your freedom. Or you might have been cast out from your people because of a crim e you committed, a taboo you violated, or a coup that removed you from a position of authority

Quick Biuld

You can make a barbarian quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in Strength, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the outlander background

Primal Paths

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

Primal Paths
The Ancestral Guardian
The Battlerager
The Berserker
The Storm Herald
The Totem Warrior
The Zealot

Class Features

As a barbarian, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d12 per barbarian level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d12 + your Constitution modifier per barbarian level after 1st

Proficiencies

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• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: None

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• Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution
• Skills: Choose two from Animal Handling, Athletics, Intimidation, Nature, Perception, and Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a greataxe or (b) any martial melee weapon
• (a) two handaxes or (b) any simple weapon
• An explorer’s pack and four javelins

Personal Totems

Barbarians tend to travel light, carrying little in the way of personal effects or other unnecessary gear. The few possessions they do ca rry often include sma ll items that have special significance. A personal totem is significant because it has a mystical origin or is tied to an important moment in the character's life- perhaps a remembrance from the barbarian's past or a ha rbinge r of what lies ahead.

A personal totem of this sort might be associated with a barbarian's spirit a nimal, or might actually be the totem object for the a nimal, but such a connection is not essential. One who has a bear totem spirit, for instance, could still carry a n eagle's feather as a personal totem.

Consider creating one or more personal totems for your character- objects that hold a specia l link to your character's past or future. Think about how a totem might affect your cha racter's actions.

Tattoos

The members of many barbarian clans decorate their bodies with tattoos, each of which represents a significant moment in the life of the bearer or the bearer's a ncestors, or which symbolizes a feeling or an attitude. As with personal totems, a ba rba ria n's ta ttoos might or might not be re lated to an a nimal s pirit. Each tattoo a barbaria n displays contributes to that individual's identity. If your character wears tattoos, what do they look like, and what do they represent?

Superstitions

Barbarians vary widely in how they understand life. Some follow gods and look for guidance from those deities in the cycles of nature a nd the a nimals they encounter. These barbarians believe that spirits inhabit the plants and a nimals of the world, a nd the barbarians look to them for ome ns a nd power.

Other barbarians trust only in the blood that runs in their veins and the steel they hold in their ha nds. They have no use for the invisible world, instead relying on their senses to hunt and survive like the wild beasts they emulate.

Both of these attitudes can give rise to superstitions. These beliefs are often passed down within a family or shared among the members of a clan or a hunting group.

If your barbarian character has a ny superstitions, were they ingrained in you by your family, or are they the result of personal experience?

Rage

In battle, you fight with primal ferocity. On your turn, you can enter a rage as a bonus action. While raging, you gain the following benefits if you aren’t wearing heavy armor:

• You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
• When you make a melee weapon attack using Strength, you gain a bonus to the damage roll that increases as you gain levels as a barbarian, as shownin the Rage Damage column of the Barbarian table.
• You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

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

Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven’t attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken damage since then. You can also end your rage on your turn as a bonus action.

Once you have raged the number of tim es shown for your barbarian level in the Rages colum n of the Barbarian table, you must finish a long rest before you can rage again.

Unarmoured Defense

While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity m odifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Reckless Attack

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

Danger Sense

At 2nd level, you gain an uncanny sense of when things nearby aren’t as they should be, giving you an edge when you dodge away from danger.

You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, you can’t be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.

Primal Path

At 3rd level, you choose a path that shapes the nature of your rage. C hoose the Path of the Berserker or the Path of the Totem Warrior, both detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th levels.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th and 24th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

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

Fast Movement

Starting at 5th level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you aren’t wearing heavy armor.

Feral Instinct

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

Additionally, if you are surprised at the beginning of com bat and aren’t incapacitated, you can act normally on your first turn, but only if you enter your rage before doing anything else on that turn.

Brutal Critical

Beginning at 9th level, you can roll one additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack. This increases to two additional dice at 13th level and three additional dice at 17th level.4 dice at level 21, 5 dice at level 25

Relentless Rage

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

Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC increases by 5. When you finish a short or long rest, the DC resets to 10.

Persistent Rage

Beginning at 15th level, your rage is so fierce that it ends early only if you fall unconscious or if you choose to end it.

Indomitable Might

Beginning at 18th level, if your total for a Strength check is less than your Strength score, you can use that score in place of the total.

Primal Champion

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

Faster Movement

At level 23 you increaase your movement speed by 10 for each of these levels.

Primal Paths

Rage burns in every barbarian’s heart, a furnace that drives him or her toward greatness. Different barbarians attribute their rage to different sources, however. For some, it is an internal reservoir where pain, grief, and anger are forged into a fury hard as steel. Others see it as a spiritual blessing, a gift of a totem animal.

Path of the Ancestral Guardian

Some barbarians hail from cultures that revere their ancestors. These tribes teach that the warriors of the past linger in the world as mighty spirits, who can guide and protect the living. When a barbarian who follows this path rages, the barbaria n contacts the spirit world and calls on these guardian spirits for aid.

Barbarians who draw on their ancestral guardians can better fight to protect their tribes and their allies. In order to cement ties to their ancestral guardians, barbarians who follow this path cover themselves in elaborate tattoos that celebrate their ancestors' deeds. These tattoos tell sagas of victories against terrible monsters and other fearsome rivals.

Ancestral Protectors

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, spectral warriors appear when you enter your rage. While you're raging, the first creature you hit with an attack on your turn becomes the target of the warriors, which hinder its attacks. Until the start of your next turn, that target has disadvantage on a ny attack roll that isn't against you, and when the target hits a creature othe r than you with a n attack, that creature has resistance to the da mage dealt by the attack. The effect on the target e nds early if your rage ends.

Spirit Shield

Beginn ing at 6th level, the guardian spirits that aid you can provide supernatural protection to those you defend. If you a re raging a nd a nother creature you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to reduce that damage by 2d6. When you reach certain levels in this class, you can reduce the damage by more: by 3d6 at 10th level and by 4d6 at 14th level.

Consult the Spirits

At 10th level, you gain the a bility to cons ult with your ancestral spirits. When you do so, you cast the augury or clairvoyance spell, without using a spe ll slot or material components. Rather than creating a spherical sensor, this use of clairvoyance invisibly s ummons one of your a ncestra l spirits to the chosen location. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells. After you cast e ither spell in thjs way, you can't use this feature again until you finish a s hort or long rest.

Vengeful Ancestors

At 14th level, your ancestra l spirits grow powerful enough to reta liate. When you use your Spirit Shield to reduce the damage of a n attack, the attacker takes an amount of force damage equa l to the damage that your Spirit Shield prevents.

Improved Spirit Shield

At level 22, if you are raging and another creature you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to reduce that damage by 5d6.

Path of the Battlerager

Known as "amadantuagh" (literally "axe idiot") in Dwarvish, battleragers are followers of the gods of war and take the Path of the Battlerager. They specialize in wearing bulky, spiked armor and throwing themselves into combat, striking with their body itself and giving themselves over to the fury of battle.

Battlerager Armour

When you choose this path at 3rd level, you gain the ability to use spiked armor (see the "Spiked Armor" sidebar) as a weapon. While you are wearing spiked armor and are raging, you can use a bonus action to make one melee weapon attack with your armor spikes against a target within 5 feet of you. If the attack hits, the spikes deal ld4 piercing damage. You use your Strength modifier for the attack and damage rolls. Additionally, when you use the Attack action to grapple a creature, the target takes 3 piercing damage if your grapple check succeeds.

Reckless Abandon

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

Battlerager Charge

Beginning at 10th level, you can take the Dash action as a bonus action while you are raging.

Spiked Retribution

Starting at 14th level, when a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack, the attacker takes 3 piercing damage if you are raging, aren't incapacitated, and are wearing spiked armor.

Improved Reckless Abandon

At level 22, when you use reckless attack or greater reckless attack, you also gain temporary hit points equal to 2 times your constitution modifier. They also now last until you finish a long rest.

Path of the Berserker

For some barbarians, rage is a means to an end-—that end being violence. The Path of the Berserker is a path of untrammeled fury, slick with blood. As you enter the berserker’s rage, you thrill in the chaos of battle, heedless of your own health or well-being.

Frenzy

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can go into a frenzy when you rage. If you do so, for the duration of your rage you can make a single melee w eapon attack as a bonus action on each of your turns after this one. When your rage ends, you suffer one level of exhaustion

Mindless Rage

Beginning at 6th level, you can’t be charmed or frightened while raging. If you are charmed or frightened when you enter your rage, the effect is suspended for the duration of the rage.

Intimidating Presence

Beginning at 10th level, you can use your action to frighten som eone with your menacing presence. When you do so, choose one creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. If the creature can see or hear you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn. On subsequent turns, you can use your action to extend the duration of this effect on the frightened creature until the end of your next turn. This effect ends if the creature ends its turn out of line of sight or more than 60 feet away from you.

If the creature succeeds on its saving throw, you can't use this feature on that creature again for 24 hours.

Retaliation

Starting at 14th level, when you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you. you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.

Improved Retaliation

At level 22, when you enter a frenzied rage you may attack twice when you attack with your bonus action.

Path of the Storm Herald

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

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

Storm Aura

Starting at 3rd level, you ema nate a stormy, magical aura while you rage. The aura extends 10 feet from you in every direction , but not through total cover.

Your aura has an effect that activates when you enter your rage, and you can activate the effect again on each of your turns as a bonus action. Choose desert, sea, or tundra. Your aura's effect depe nds on tha t chosen environment, as ta il d below. You can cha nge your environment choice whenever you gain a level in this class.

If your aura's effects require a saving throw, the DC equa ls 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.

• Desert. When this effect is activated, all other creatures in your aura take 2 fire damage each. The damage increases when you reach certa in levels in this class, increasing to 3 a t 5th level, 4 at 10th level, 5 at 15th level, and 6 at 20th level.
• Sea. When this effect is activated , you can choose one other creature you can see in your aura. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw. The target takes l d6 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 2d6 at 10th level, 3d6 at 15th level, a nd 4d6 a t 20th level.
• Tundra. When this effect is activated, each creature of your choice in your aura gains 2 temporary hit points, as icy spirits inure it to suffering. The temporary hit points increase when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 3 at 5th level, 4 at 10th level, 5 at 15th level, and 6 at 20th level.

Storm Soul

At 6th level, the storm grants you benefits even when your aura isn't active. The benefits are based on the environment you chose for your Storm Aura.

• Desert. You gain resistance to fire damage, and you don't suffer the effects of extreme heat, as described in the Dungeon Master's Guide. Moreover, as an action, you can touch a flammable object that isn't being worn or carried by a nyone else a nd set it on fire.
• Sea. You gain resistance to lightning damage, and you can breathe underwater. You a lso gain a swimming s peed of 30 feet.
• Tundra. You gain resistance to cold damage, and you don't suffe r the effects of extreme cold, as described in the Dungeon Master's Guide. Moreover, as an action, you can touch water and turn a 5-foot cube of it into ice, which melts after 1 minute. This action fails if a creature is in the cube.

Shielding Storm

At 10th level, you learn to use your mastery of the storm to protect others. Each creature of your choice has the damage resistance you gained from the Storm Soul feature while the creature is in your Storm Aura.

Raging Storm

At 14th level, the power of the storm you channel grows mightier, lashing out at your foes. The effect is based on the environment you chose for your Storm Aura.

• Desert. Immediately after a creature in your aura hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes fire damage equal to half your barbarian level.
• Sea. When you hit a creature in your aura with an attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature to make a Strength saving throw. On a fa iled save, the creature is knocked prone, as if struck by a wave.
• Tundra. Whenever the effect of your Storm Aura is activated, you can choose one creature you can see in the aura. That creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw, or its speed is reduced to 0 until the start of your next turn, as magical frost covers it.

Improved Storm Aura

At level 22, Now your aura improves so the one that you picked before becomes even more powerful in the following way:

• Desert. When this effect is activated, all other creatures in your aura take 7 fire damage
• Sea. The creature takes 5d6 lightning damage
• Tundra. Now creatures of your choice gain 7 temporary hit points

Path of the Totem Warrior

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

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

Spirit Seeker

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

Totem Spirit

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

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

• Bear. While raging, you have resistance to all damage except psychic damage. The spirit of the bear m akes you tough enough to stand up to any punishment.
• Eagle. While you're raging and aren’t wearing heavy armor, other creatures have disadvantage on opportunity attack rolls against you, and you can use the Dash action as a bonus action on your turn. The spirit of the eagle m akes you into a predator w ho can weave through the fray with ease.
• Wolf. While you're raging, your friends have advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature within 5 feet of you that is hostile to you. The spirit of the wolf makes you a leader of hunters.
• Elk. The speed of the elk makes you extraordinarily swift. While you're raging and aren't wearing heavy armor, your walking speed increases by 15 feet.
• Tiger. The spirit of the tiger empowers your leaps. While raging, you can add 10 feet to your long jump distance and 3 feet to your high jump distance.

Aspect of the Beast

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

• Bear. You gain the might of a bear. Your carrying capacity (including maximum load and maximum lift) is doubled, and you have advantage on Strength checks made to push, pull, lift, or break objects.
• Eagle. You gain the eyesight of an eagle. You can see up to 1 mile away with no difficulty, able to discern even fine details as though looking at som ething no more than 100 feet away from you. Additionally, dim light doesn't im pose disadvantage on your W isdom (Perception) checks.
• Wolf. You gain the hunting sensibilities of a wolf. You can track other creatures while traveling at a fast pace, and you can move stealthily while traveling at a normal pace (see chapter 8 for rules on travel pace).
• Elk. The elk spirit helps you roam far and fast. Whether mounted or on foot, your travel pace is doubled, as is the pace of up to ten companions while they're within 60 feet of you and your aren't incapacitated.
• Tiger. The cat spirit hones your survival instincts. You gain proficiency in two of the following skills: Athletics, Acrobatics, Stealth, Survival.

Spirit Walker

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

Totemic Attunement

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

• Bear. While you’re raging, any creature within 5 feet o f you that’s hostile to you has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you or another character with this feature. An enemy is im mune to this effect if it can’t see or hear you or if it can’t be frightened.
• Eagle. While raging, you have a flying speed equal to your current walking speed. This benefit works only in short bursts; you fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft.
• Wolf. While you’re raging, you can use a bonus action on your turn to knock a Large or smaller creature prone when you hit it with melee weapon attack.
• Elk. While raging, you can use a bonus action during your move to pass through the space of a Large of smaller creature. That creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Strength bonus + your proficiency bonus) or be knocked prone and take bludgeoning damage equal to 1d12 + your Strength modifier.
• Tiger. While you're raging, if you move at least 20 feet in a straight line toward a Large or smaller target right before making a melee weapon attack against it, you can use a bonus action to make an additional melee weapon attack against it.

Improved Totem Spirit

Improved Totem Spirit. At level 22, the abilities you have previously gained increase in the following manner if you have chosen them.

• Bear. You now have resistance to psychic damage even when not raging. You have resistance to all forms of damage when raging
• Eagle. Now when you are raging enemies can't make opportunity attacks against you.
• Wolf. Now allies of any creature that is hostile toward you may reroll one of the die after advantage
• Elk. Now your walking speed increases by 30 feet while raging.
• Tiger. You now add 20 feet to your long jump distance and 6 feet to your high jump distance

Path of the Zealot

Some deities inspire their followers to pitch themselves into a ferocious battle fury. T hese barbarians are zealots- warriors who channel their rage into powerful displays of divine power. A variety of gods across the worlds of D&D inspire their followers to embrace this path.

In general, the gods who inspire zealots are deities of combat, destruction, and violence. Not all are evil, but few are good.

Divine Fury

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

Warrior of the Gods

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

Fanatical Focus

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

Zealous Presence

At 10th level, you learn to channel divine power to ins pire zealotry in others. As a bonus action, you un leash a battle cry infused with divine energy. Up to te n other creatures of your choice within 60 feet of you that can hear you gain advantage on attack rolls and saving throws until the start of your next turn.

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

Rage Beyond Death

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

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

Improved Divine Fury

At level 22, Divine fury now works on the first two attacks that you make in a round instead of one.

Bard

Humming as she traces her fingers over an ancient monument in a long-forgotten ruin, a half-elf in rugged leathers finds knowledge springing into her mind, conjured forth by the magic of her song—knowledge of the people w ho constructed the monument and the mythic saga it depicts.

A stern human warrior bangs his sword rhythmically against his scale mail, setting the tempo for his war chant and exhorting his companions to bravery and heroism. The magic of his song fortifies and em boldens them.

Laughing as she tunes her cittern, a gnome weaves her subtle magic over the assembled nobles, ensuring that her companions’ words will be well received.

Whether scholar, skald, or scoundrel, a bard weaves magic through words and music to inspire allies, dem oralize foes, manipulate minds, create illusions, and even heal wounds.

Music and Magic

In the worlds of D&D, words and music are not just vibrations of air, but vocalizations with power all their own. The bard is a master of song, speech, and the m agic they contain. Bards say that the multiverse was spoken into existence, that the words of the gods gave it shape, and that echoes of these primordial Words of Creation still resound throughout the cosmos. The music of bards is an attempt to snatch and harness those echoes, subtly woven into their spells and powers.

The greatest strength of bards is their sheer versatility. Many bards prefer to stick to the sidelines in combat, using their magic to inspire their allies and hinder their foes from a distance. But bards are capable of defending themselves in melee if necessary, using their m agic to bolster their swords and armor. Their spells lean toward charm s and illusions rather than blatantly destructive spells. They have a wide-ranging knowledge of many subjects and a natural aptitude that lets them do alm ost anything well. Bards becom e masters of the talents they set their minds to perfecting, from musical perform ance to esoteric knowledge.

Learning from Experience

True bards are not common in the world. Not every minstrel singing in a tavern or jester cavorting in a royal court is a bard. Discovering the magic hidden in music requires hard study and som e measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these perform ers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent wandering across the land gathering lore, telling stories, and living on the gratitude of audiences, much like any other entertainer. But a depth of knowledge, a level of musical skill, and a touch of magic set bards apart from their fellows.

Only rarely do bards settle in one place for long, and their natural desire to travel—to find new tales to tell, new skills to learn, and new discoveries beyond the horizon makes an adventuring career a natural calling. Every adventure is an opportunity to learn, practice a variety of skills, enter long-forgotten tombs, discover lost works of magic, decipher old tomes, travel to strange places, or encounter exotic creatures. Bards love to accompany heroes to w itness their deeds firsthand. A bard who can tell an awe-inspiring story from personal experience earns renown among other bards. Indeed, after telling so many stories about heroes accom plishing mighty deeds, many bards take these them es to heart and assume heroic roles themselves

Creating a Bard

Bards thrive on stories, whether those stories are true or not. Your character’s background and motivations are not as important as the stories that he or she tells about them. Perhaps you had a secure and mundane childhood. There’s no good story to be told about that, so you might paint yourself as an orphan raised by a hag in a dismal swamp. Or your childhood might be worthy of a story. Some bards acquire their magical music through extraordinary means, including the inspiration of fey or other supernatural creatures

Did you serve an apprenticeship, studying under a master, following the m ore experienced bard until you were ready to strike out on your own? Or did you attend a college where you studied bardic lore and practiced your musical magic? Perhaps you were a young runaway or orphan, befriended by a wandering bard who became your mentor. Or you might have been a spoiled noble child tutored by a master. Perhaps you stumbled into the clutches of a hag, making a bargain for a musical gift in addition to your life and freedom, but at what cost?

Quick Build

You can make a bard quickly by following these suggestions. First, Charisma should be your highest ability score, followed by Dexterity. Second, choose the entertainer background. Third, choose the dancing lights and vicious mockery cantrips, along with the following 1st-level spells: charm person, detect magic, healing word, and thunderwave.

Class Features

As a bard, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d8 per bard level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 + your Constitution modifier per bard level after 1st

Proficiencies

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• Armor: Light armor
• Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords
• Tools: Three musical instruments of your choice

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• Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma
• Skills: Choose any three

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a rapier, (b) a longsword, or (c) any simple weapon
• (a) a diplomat’s pack or (b) an entertainer's pack
• (a) a lute or (b) any other musical instrument
• Leather armor and a dagger

Spellcasting

You have learned to untangle and reshape the fabric of reality in harmony with your wishes and music. Your spells are part of your vast repertoire, magic that you can tune to different situations. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the bard spell list.

Cantrips

You know two cantrips of your choice from the bard spell list. You learn additional bard cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Bard table.

Spell Slots

The Bard table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest. For example, if you know the 1st-level spell cure wounds and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast cure wounds using either slot.

Spells Known from 1st Level and Higher

You know four 1st-level spells of your choice from the bard spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Bard table shows when you learn m ore bard spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the table. For instance, when you reach 3rd level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the bard spells you know and replace it with another spell from the bard spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your bard spells. Your magic comes from the heart and soul you pour into the performance of your music or oration. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability.

In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a bard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma

Ritual Casting

You can cast any bard spell you know as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a musical instrument (found in chapter 5) as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.

Bardic Inspiration

You can inspire others through stirring words or music. To do so, you use a bonus action on your turn to choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you w ho can hear you. That creature gains one Bardic Inspiration die, a d6.

Once within the next 10 minutes, the creature can roll the die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Bardic Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time.

You can use this feature a number of tim es equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses w hen you finish a long rest.

Your Bardic Inspiration die changes when you reach certain levels in this class. The die becomes a d8 at 5th level, a d10 at 10th level, a dl2 at 15th level, and 2d8 at 25th level.

Jack of All Trades

Starting at 2nd level, you can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn’t already include your proficiency bonus.

Song of Rest

Beginning at 2nd level, you can use soothing music or oration to help revitalize your wounded allies during a short rest. If you or any friendly creatures w ho can hear your perform ance regain hit points at the end of the short rest, each of those creatures regains an extra 1d6 hit points.

The extra hit points increase when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d8 at 9th level, to 1d 10 at 13th level, to 1d 12 at 17th level, to 2d8 at 21st level, and to 3d10 at 25th level.

Bard College

At 3rd level, you delve into the advanced techniques of a bard college of your choice. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th and 14th level.

Bard Colleges
College of Glamour
College of Lore
College of Swords
College of Valor
College of Whispers

Expertise

At 3rd level, choose two of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

At 10th level, you can choose another two skill proficiencies to gain this benefit.

Ability Score Increase

W hen you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Font of Inspiration

Beginning when you reach 5th level, you regain all of your expended uses of Bardic Inspiration when you finish a short or long rest.

Countercharm

At 6th level, you gain the ability to use musical notes or w ords of power to disrupt mind-influencing effects. As an action, you can start a perform ance that lasts until the end of your next turn. During that time, you and any friendly creatures within 30 feet of you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened or charmed. A creature must be able to hear you to gain this benefit. The perform ance ends early if you are incapacitated or silenced or if you voluntarily end it (no action required).

Magical Secrets

By 10th level, you have plundered magical knowledge from a wide spectrum of disciplines. Choose two spells from any class, including this one. A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Bard table, or a cantrip. The chosen spells count as bard spells for you and are included in the number in the Spells Known column of the Bard table. You learn two additional spells from any class at 14th level and again at 18th and 23rd levels.

Superior Inspiration

At 20th level, when you roll initiative and have no uses of Bardic Inspiration left, you regain one use.

Musical Expertise

At level 21, you gain expertise in 3 musical instruments you have proficiency in.

Bard Colleges

The way of a bard is gregarious. Bards seek each other out to swap songs and stories, boast of their accomplishments, and share their knowledge. Bards form loose associations, which they call colleges, to facilitate their gatherings and preserve their traditions.

College of Galmour

The College of Glamour is the home of bards who mastered the ir craft in the vibrant realm of the Feywild or under the tutelage of someone who dwelled there. Tutored by satyrs and other fey, these bards learn to use their magic to delight and captivate others.

The bards of this college are regarded with a mixture of awe and fear. Their performances are the stuff of legend. These bards are so eloquent that a speech or song that one of them performs can cause captors to release the bard unharmed and can lull a furious dragon into complacency. The same magic that allows them to quell beasts can a lso bend minds. Villainous bards of this college can leech off a community for weeks, misusing their magic to turn their hosts into thra lls. Heroic ba rds of this college instead use this power to gladden the downtrodden a nd undermine oppressors.

Mantle of Inspiration

When you join the College of Glamour at 3rd level, you gain the ability to weave a song of fey magic that imbues your allies with vigor and speed.

As a bonus action, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to grant yourself a wondrous appearance. When you do so, choose a number of creatures you can see a nd that can see you within 60 feet of you, up to a number equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one). Each of them gains 5 temporary hit points. Whe n a creature gains these temporary hit points, it can immediately use its reaction to move up to its speed, without provoking opportunity attacks.

The number of temporary hit points increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 8 at 5th level, 11 at 10th level, and 14 at 15th level.

Enthralling Performance

Starting at 3rd level, you can charge your performance with seductive, fey magic.

If you perform for at least 1 minute, you can attempt to inspire wonder in your audience by singing, reciting a poem, or dancing. At the end of the performance, choose a number of humanoids within 60 feet of you who watched and listened to all of it, up to a number equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one). Each target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be charmed by you. While charmed in this way, the target idolizes you, it speaks glowingly of you to anyone whota lks to it, and it hinders anyone who opposes you, a lthough it avoids violence unless it was already inclined to fight on your behalf. This effect ends on a target a fter 1 hour, if it ta kes any damage, if you attack it, or if it witnesses you attacking or damaging a ny of its a llies.

If a target succeeds on its saving throw, the target has no hint that you tried to charm it. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Mantle of Majesty

At 6th level, you gain the ability to cloak yourself in a fey magic that makes others want to serve you. As a bonus action, you cast command, without expending a spell slot, and you take on an appearance of unearthly beauty for 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell). During this time, you can cast command as a bonus action on each of your turns, without expending a spell slot.

Any creature charmed by you automatically fails its saving throw against the command you cast with this feature.

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

Unbreakable Majesty

At 14th level, your appearance permanently gains an otherworldly aspect that makes you look more lovely and fierce.

In addition, as a bonus action, you can assume a magically majestic presence for 1 minute or until you are incapacitated. For the duration, whenever any creature tries to attack you for the first time on a turn, the attacker must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, it can't attack you on this turn, and it must choose a new target for its attack or the attack is wasted. On a successful save, it can attack you on this turn, but it has disadva ntage on a ny saving throw it makes against your spells on your next turn.

Once you assume this majestic presence, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Imporved Mantle of Inspiration

At level 22 mantle of inspiration now gets more powerful. You can affect a number of creatures up to double your charisma modifier. Also the number of temporary hit points increases to 20 at level 22.

College of Lore

Bards of the College of Lore know something about most things, collecting bits of knowledge from sources as diverse as scholarly tomes and peasant tales. Whether singing folk ballads in taverns or elaborate compositions in royal courts, these bards use their gifts to hold audiences spellbound. When the applause dies down, the audience members might find themselves questioning everything they held to be true, from their faith in the priesthood of the local temple to their loyalty to the king.

The loyalty of these bards lies in the pursuit of beauty and truth, not in fealty to a monarch or following the tenets of a deity. A noble who keeps such a bard as a herald or advisor knows that the bard would rather be honest than politic.

The college’s members gather in libraries and sometimes in actual colleges, complete with classrooms and dormitories, to share their lore with one another. They also meet at festivals or affairs of state, where they can expose corruption, unravel lies, and poke fun at selfimportant figures of authority.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you join the College of Lore at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with three skills of your choice.

Cutting Words

Also at 3rd level, you learn how to use your wit to distract, confuse, and otherwise sap the confidence and com petence of others. When a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a damage roll, you can use your reaction to expend one of your uses of Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die and subtracting the number rolled from the creature’s roll. You can choose to use this feature after the creature makes its roll, but before the DM determines whether the attack roll or ability check succeeds or fails, or before the creature deals its damage. The creature is immune if it can’t hear you or if it’s immune to being charmed.

Additional Magicical Secrets

At 6th level, you learn two spells of your choice from any class. A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Bard table, or a cantrip. The chosen spells count as bard spells for you but don’t count against the number of bard spells you know.

At level 22 you gain 2 more spells of your choice from any list levels 1-9 and add them to your spells known.

Peerless Skill

Starting at 14th level, when you make an ability check, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration. Roll a Bardic Inspiration die and add the number rolled to your ability check. You can choose to do so after you roil the die for the ability check, but before the DM tells you whether you succeed or fail.

Improved Bonus Proficiencies

At level 22. You gain proficiency with 3 skills or tools of your choice.

College of Swords

Bards of the College of Swords are called blades, and they entertain through daring feats of weapon prowess. Blades perform stunts such as sword swallowing, knife throwing and juggling, and mock combats. Though they use their weapons to entertain, they are also highly trained and skilled warriors in their own right.

Their talent with weapons inspires many blades to lead double lives. One blade might use a circus troupe as cover for nefarious deeds such as assassination, robbery, a nd blackmail. Other blades strike at the wicked, bringing justice to bear against the cruel and powerful. Most troupes are happy to accept a blade's talent for the excitement it adds to a performance, but few entertainers fully trust a blade in their ranks.

Blades who abandon their lives as entertainers have often run into trouble that makes maintaining their secret activities impossible. A blade caught stealing or e ngaging in vigila nte justice is too great a liability for most troupes. With their weapon skills a nd magic, these blades either take up work as enforcers for thieves' guilds or strike out on their own as adventurers.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you join the College of Swords at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with medium armor and the scimita r. If you're proficient with a simple or martial melee weapon, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.

Fighting Style

At 3rd level, you adopt a style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if something in the game lets you choose again.

Dueling. When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

Two-Weapon Fighting. When you engage in twoweapon fighting, you can add your a bility modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Blade Flourish

At 3rd level, you learn to perform impressive displays of martial prowess and speed.

Whenever you take the Attack action on your turn, your walking speed increases by 10 feet until the end of the turn, and if a weapon a ttack that you make as part of this action hits a creature, you can use one of the following Blade Flourish options of your choice. You can use only one Blade Flourish option per turn.

Defensive Flourish. You can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the ta rget you hit. The damage equals the numbe r you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die . You also add the number rolled to your AC until the start of your next turn.

Slashing Flourish. You can expend one use of your Bardic Ins piration to cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the target you hit and to any other creature of your choice that you can see w ithin 5 feet of you. The damage equa ls.the number you roll on the Bardic Inspir ation die .

Mobile Flourish. You can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the target you bit. The damage equals th e number you roll on the Bardic Inspira tion die. You can also push the target up to 5 feet away from you, plus a number of feet equa l to the number you roll on that die. You can then immediately use your reaction to move up to your walking speed to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the target.

Extra Attack

Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Master's Flourish

Starting at 14th level, whenever you use a Blade Flourish option, you can roll a d6 and use it instead of expending a Bardic Inspiration die.

Epic Flourish

At level 22 you use a 3d10 when you use your blade flourish option instead of expending a bardic inspiration die.

College of Valor

Bards of the College of Valor are daring skalds whose tales keep alive the memory of the great heroes of the past, and thereby inspire a new generation of heroes. These bards gather in mead halls or around great bonfires to sing the deeds of the mighty, both past and present. They travel the land to witness great events firsthand and to ensure that the m em ory of those events doesn’t pass from the world. With their songs, they inspire others to reach the same heights of accomplishment as the heroes of old.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you join the College of Valor at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with medium armor, shields, and martial weapons.

Combat Inspiration

Also at 3rd level, you learn to inspire others in battle. A creature that has a Bardic Inspiration die from you can roll that die and add the number rolled to a weapon damage roll it just made. Alternatively, when an attack roll is made against the creature, it can use its reaction to roll the Bardic Inspiration die and add the number rolled to its AC against that attack, after seeing the roll but before knowing whether it hits or misses.

Extra Attack

Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Battle Magic

At 14th level, you have mastered the art of weaving spellcasting and weapon use into a single harm onious act. W hen you use your action to cast a bard spell, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

Improved Battle Magic

At level 22, you can attack 2 times with your bonus action if you cast a spell with your action.

College of Whispers

Most folk are happy to welcome a bard into their midst. Bards of the College of Whispers use this to their advantage. They appear to be like other bards, sharing news, singing songs, a nd telling tales to the audiences they gather. In truth, the College of Whispers teaches its students that they are wolves among sheep. These bards use their knowledge and magic to uncover secrets and turn them against others through extortion and threats.

Many other bards hate the College of Whispers, viewing it as a parasite that uses a bard's reputation to acquire wealth and power. For this reason, members of this college rarely reveal their true nature. They typically claim to follow some other college, or they keep their actual calling secret in order to infiltrate and exploit royal courts a nd other settings of power.

Phsychic Blades

When you join the College of Whispers at 3rd level, you gain the ability to make your weapon attacks magically toxic to a creature's mind.

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to deal an extra 2d6 psychic damage to that target. You can do so only once per round on your turn.

The psychic damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 3d6 at 5th level, 5d6 at 10th level, and 8d6 at 15th level.

Words of Terror

At 3rd level, you learn to infuse innocent-seeming words with an insidious magic that can inspire terror.

If you speak to a humanoid a lone for at least 1 minute, you can attempt to seed paranoia in its mind. At the end of the conversation, the ta rget must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be frightened of you or another creature of your choice. The target is frightened in this way for 1 hour, until it is attacked or damaged, or until it witnesses its allies being attacked or damaged.

If the target succeeds on its saving throw, the target has no hint that you tried to frighten it.

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

Mantle of Whispers

At 6th level, you gain the ability to adopt a humanoid's persona. When a humanoid dies within 30 feet of you, you can magically capture its shadow using your reaction. You retain this shadow until you use it or you finish a long rest.

You can use the s hadow as an action. When you do so, it vanishes, magically transforming into a disguise that appears on you. You now look like the dead person, but healthy and alive. This disguise lasts for 1 hour or until you end it as a bonus action.

While you're in the disguise, you gain access to all information that the humanoid would freely share with a casua l acquainta nce. Such information includes general details on its background and personal life, but doesn't include secrets. The information is enough that you can pass yourself off as the person by drawing on its memories.

Another creature can see through this disguise by succeeding on a Wisdom (Insight) check contested by your Charisma (Deception) check. You gain a +5 bonus to your check.

Once you capture a shadow with this feature , you can't capture a nother one with it until you finish a s hort or long rest.

Shadow Lore

At 14th level, you gain the ability to weave dark magic into your words and tap into a creature's deepest fears.

As an action, you magically whisper a phrase that only one creature of your choice within 30 feet of you can hear. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. It automatically succeeds if it doesn't share a language with you or ii it can't hear you. On a successful saving throw, your whisper sounds like unintelligible mumbling and has no effect.

On a failed saving throw, the target is charmed by you for the next 8 hours or until you or your allies attack it, damage it, or force it to make a saving throw. It interprets the whispers as a description of its most mortifying secret. You gain no knowledge of this secret, but the target is convinced you know it.

The charmed creature obeys your commands for fear that you will reveal its secret. It won't risk its life for you or fight for you, unless it was already inclined to do so. It grants you favors and gifts it would offer to a close friend.

When the effect ends, the creature has no understanding of why it held you in such fear.

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

Imporved Psychic Blades

At level 22 you gain improved psychic blades. The damage inflicted increases to 10d6 at level 22, 13d6 at level 25,

Cleric

Arms and eyes upraised toward the sun and a prayer on his lips, an elf begins to glow with an inner light that spills out to heal his battle-worn companions.

Chanting a song of glory, a dwarf swings his axe in wide swaths to cut through the ranks of orcs arrayed against him, shouting praise to the gods with every foe’s fall.

Calling down a curse upon the forces of undeath, a human lifts her holy symbol as light pours from it to drive back the zombies crowding in on her companions.

Clerics are intermediaries between the mortal world and the distant planes of the gods. As varied as the gods they serve, clerics strive to embody the handiwork of their deities. No ordinary priest, a cleric is imbued with divine magic.

Healers and Warriors

Divine magic, as the name suggests, is the power of the gods, flowing from them into the world. Clerics are conduits for that power, manifesting it as miraculous effects. The gods don’t grant this power to everyone who seeks it, but only to those chosen to fulfill a high calling.

Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on study or training. A cleric might learn formulaic prayers and ancient rites, but the ability to cast cleric spells relies on devotion and an intuitive sense of a deity’s wishes.

Clerics combine the helpful magic of healing and inspiring their allies with spells that harm and hinder foes. They can provoke awe and dread, lay curses of plague or poison, and even call down flames from heaven to consume their enemies. For those evildoers who will benefit most from a mace to the head, clerics depend on their combat training to let them wade into melee with the power of the gods on their side.

Divine Agents

Not every acolyte or officiant at a temple or shrine is a cleric. Some priests are called to a simple life of temple service, carrying out their gods’ will through prayer and sacrifice, not by magic and strength of arms. In some cities, priesthood amounts to a political office, viewed as a stepping stone to higher positions of authority and involving no com m union with a god at all. True clerics are rare in most hierarchies.

When a cleric takes up an adventuring life, it is usually because his or her god demands it. Pursuing the goals of the gods often involves braving dangers beyond the walls of civilization, smiting evil or seeking holy relics in ancient tombs. Many clerics are also expected to protect their deities’ worshipers, which can mean fighting rampaging orcs, negotiating peace between warring nations, or sealing a portal that would allow a demon prince to enter the world.

Most adventuring clerics maintain some connection to established temples and orders of their faiths. A temple might ask for a cleric’s aid, or a high priest might be in a position to demand it.

Temples

Most clerics start their lives of service as priests in an order, then later realize that they have been blessed by their god with the qualities needed to become a cleric. To prepare for this new duty, candidates typically receive instruction from a cleric of a temple or another place of study devoted to their deity.

Some temples are cut off from the world so that their occupants can focus on devotions, while other temples open their doors to minister to and heal the masses. What is noteworthy about the temple you studied at?

Keepsakes

Many clerics have items a mong their personal gear that symbolize their faith, remind them of their vows, or otherwise help to keep them on their chosen paths. Even though such an item is not imbued with divine power, it is vitally important to its owner because of what it represents.

Secret (OPTIONAL)

No mortal soul is entirely free of second thoughts or doubt. Even a cleric must grapple with dark desires or the forbidden attr action of turning against the teachings of one's deity.

If you haven't considered this aspect of your character yet, see the table entries for some possibilities, or use them for inspiration. Your deep, dark secret might involve something you did (or are doing), or it could be rooted in the way you feel about the world and your role in it.

Creating a Cleric

As you create a cleric, the most important question to consider is which deity to serve and what principles you want your character to embody. Appendix A includes lists of many of the gods of the multiverse. Check with your DM to learn which deities are in your campaign. Once you’ve chosen a deity, consider your cleric's relationship to that god. Did you enter this service willingly? Or did the god choose you, impelling you into service with no regard for your wishes? How do the temple priests of your faith regard you: as a champion or a troublemaker? What are your ultimate goals? Does your deity have a special task in mind for you? Or are you striving to prove yourself worthy of a great quest?

Quick Build

You can make a cleric quickly by following these suggestions. First, Wisdom should be your highest ability score, followed by Strength or Constitution. Second, choose the acolyte background.

Class Features

As a cleric, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d8 per cleric level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per cleric level after 1st

Proficiencies

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• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: All simple weapons
• Tools: None

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• Saving Throws: Wisdom , Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from History, Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a mace or (b) a warhammer (if proficient)

• (a) scale mail, (b) leather armor, or (c) chain mail (if proficient)

• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon

• (a) a priest’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack

• A shield and a holy symbol

Spellcasting

As a conduit for divine power, you can cast cleric spells. S ee chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the cleric spell list.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know three cantrips o f your choice from the cleric spell list. You learn additional cleric cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as show n in the Cantrips Known column of the Cleric table.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Cleric table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of cleric spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the cleric spell list. W hen you do so, choose a number of cleric spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + your cleric level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 3rd-level cleric, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of cleric spells requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your cleric spells. The power of your spells comes from your devotion to your deity. You use your Wisdom whenever a cleric spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your W isdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a cleric spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast a cleric spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a holy symbol (found in chapter 5) as a spellcasting focus for your cleric spells

Divine Domain

Choose one domain related to your deity: Forge, Grave, Knowledge, Life, Light, Nature, Tempest, Trickery, or War. Each domain is detailed at the end of the class description, and each one provides examples of gods associated with it. Your choice grants you domain spells and other features when you ch oose it at 1st level. It also grants you additional ways to use Channel Divinity when you gain that feature at 2nd level, and additional benefits at 6th, 8th, and 17th levels.

Domain Spells

Each domain has a list of spells—its domain spells— that you gain at the cleric levels noted in the domain description. Once you gain a domain spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you have a domain spell that doesn’t appear on the cleric spell list, the spell is nonetheless a cleric spell for you.

Channel Divinity

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to channel divine energy directly from your deity, using that energy to fuel magical effects. You start with two such effects: Turn Undead and an effect determined by your domain. Some dom ains grant you additional effects as you advance in levels, as noted in the domain description.

When you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which effect to create. You must then finish a short or long rest to use your Channel Divinity again.

Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your cleric spell save DC.

Beginning at 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity twice between rests, and beginning at 18th level you can use it three times between rests, which increases to four. When you finish a short or long rest, you regain your expended uses.

Channel Divinity: Turn Undead

As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak a prayer censuring the undead. Each undead that can see or hear you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes any damage.

A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can’t willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. It also can’t take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there’s nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.

Ability Score Imporvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Destroy Undead

Starting at 5th level, when an undead fails its saving throw against your Turn Undead feature, the creature is instantly destroyed if its challenge rating is at or below a certain threshold, as shown in the Destroy Undead table.

Destroy Undead

Cleric Level	Destroys Undead of CR...
5th	1/2 or lower
8th	1 or lower
11th	2 or lower
14th	3 or lower
17th	4 or lower
23rd	5 or lower

Divine Intervention

Beginning at 10th level, you can call on your deity to intervene on your behalf when your need is great.

Imploring your deity’s aid requires you to use your action. Describe the assistance you seek, and roll percentile dice. If you roll a number equal to or lower than your cleric level, your deity intervenes. The DM chooses the nature of the intervention; the effect of any cleric spell or cleric dom ain spell would be appropriate.

If your deity intervenes, you can’t use this feature again for 7 days. Otherwise, you can use it again after you finish a long rest.

At 20th level, your call for intervention succeeds automatically, no roll required.

Divine Domains

In a pantheon, every deity has influence over different aspects of mortal life and civilization, called a deity’s domain. All the domains over which a deity has influence are called the deity’s portfolio. For example, the portfolio of the Greek god Apollo includes the domains of Knowledge, Life, and Light. As a cleric, you choose one aspect of your deity’s portfolio to emphasize, and you are granted pow ers related to that domain.

Your choice might correspond to a particular sect dedicated to your deity. Apollo, for example, could be worshiped in one region as Phoebus (“radiant”) Apollo, emphasizing his influence over the Light domain, and in a different place as Apollo Acesius (“healing”), emphasizing his association with the Life domain. Alternatively, your choice of domain could simply be a matter of personal preference, the aspect of the deity that appeals to you most.

Each domain’s description gives examples of deities who have influence over that domain. The gods worshipped in Videciel and their associated domains are listed in Appendix A.

Divine Domains
Forge Domain
Grave Domain
Knowledge Domain
Life Domain
Light Domain
Nature Domain
Tempest Domain
Trickery Domain
War Domain

Forge Domain

The gods of the forge are patrons of a rtisans who work with metal, from a humble blacksmith who keeps a village in horseshoes and plow blades to the mighty elf artisan whose diamond-tipped arrows of mithral have felled demon lords. The gods of the forge teach that, with patience a nd hard work, eve n the most intractable metal can be transformed from a lump of ore to a beautifu lly wrought object. Clerics of these deities search for objects lost to the forces of darkness, liberate mines overrun by ores, and uncover rare and wondrous materia ls necessary to create potent magic items. Followers of these gods take great pride in their work, and they are willing to craft and use heavy armor and powerful weapons to protect them. Deities of this domain include Agstrøm and Talo.

Domain Spells

You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Forge Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for how domain spells work.

Forge Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	identify, searing smite
3rd	heat metal, magic weapon
5th	elemental weapon, protection from energy
7th	fabricate, wall of fire
9th	animate objects, creation

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this doma in at 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor a nd smith's tools.

Blessing of the Forge

At 1st leve l, you gain the ability to imbue magic into a weapon or armor. At the end of a long rest, you can touch one nonmagical object that is a suit of armor or a simple or martial weapon. Until the e nd of your next long rest or until you die, the object becomes a magic item, granting a +1 bonus to AC if it's armor or a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls if it's a weapon.

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

Channel Divinity: Artisan's Blessing

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to create simple items.

You conduct an hour-long ritual that crafts a nonmagica item that must include some metal: a simple or martial weapon, a suit of armor, ten pieces of ammunition, a set of tools, or another metal object (see chapter 5, "Equipment," in the Player's Handbook for examples of these items). The creation is completed at the end of the hour, coalescing in an unoccupied space of your choice on a surface with in 5 feet of you.

The thing you c eate can be something that is worth no more than 100 gp. As part of this ritual, you must lay out metal, which can include coins, with a value equal to the creation. The metal irretrievably coalesces and transforms into the creation at the ritual's end, magically forming even nonmetal parts of the creation.

The ritual can create a duplicate of a nonmagical item that contains metal, such as a key, if you possess the original during the ritual.

Soul of the Forge

Starting at 6th level, your mastery of the forge grants you special abilities:

• You gain resistance to fire da mage.
• While wearing heavy armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Divine Strike

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with the fiery power of the forge. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 fire damage to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Saint of Forge and Fire

At 17th level, your blessed affinity with fire and metal becomes more powerful:

• You gain immunity to fire damage.
• While wearing heavy armor, you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks.

Improved Soul of the Forge

At level 22, you gain an additional +2 to AC when wearing heavy armor. Furthermore if you don't meet the strength requirement of armor it no longer hampers your movement

Grave Domain

Gods of the grave watch over the line between life and death. To these deities, death and the afterlife are a foundational part of the multiverse. To desecrate the peace of the dead is an abomination. Deities of the grave include Pefrige, and those revered in Ancestor Spirit worship. Followers of these deities seek to put wandering spirits to rest, destroy the undead , and ease the suffering of the dying. Their magic lso a llows them to stave off death for a time, particularly for a person who still has some great work to accomplis h in the world. This is a delay of death, not a denial of it, for death will eventually get its due.

Domain Spells

You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Grave Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for how domain spells work.

Grave Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	bane, false life
3rd	gentle repose, ray of enfeeblement
5th	revivify, vampiric touch
7th	blight, death ward
9th	antilife shell, raise dead

Cirlce of Mortality

At 1st level, you gain the ability to manipulate the line between life and death. When you would normally roll one or more dice to restore hit points with a spell to a creature at 0 hit points, you instead use the highest number possible for each die.

In addition, you learn the spare the dying cantrip, which doesn't count against the number of cleric cantrips you know. For you, it has a range of 30 feet, and you can cast it ~ a bonus action

Eyes of the Grave

At 1st level, you gain the ability to occasionally sense the presence of the undead, whose existence is an insult to the natural cycle of life. As an action, you can open your awareness to magically detect undead. Until the end of your next turn, you know the location of any undead within 60 feet of you that isn't behind total cover and that isn't protected from divination magic. This sense doesn't tell you anything about a creature's capabilities or identity.

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

Channel Divinity: Path to the Grave

Starting at 2nd level , you can use your Channel Divinity to mark another creature's life force for termination.

As an action, you choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you, cursing it until the end of your next turn. The next time you or an ally of yours hits the cursed creature with an attack, the creature has vulnerability to all of that attack's damage, and then the curse ends.

Sentinel at Death's Door

At 6th level, you gain the ab lity to impede death's progress. As a reaction when you or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you suffers a critical hit, you can turn that hit into a normal hit. Any effects triggered by a critical hit are canceled.

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

Potent Spellcasting

Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric can trip.

Keeper of Souls

Starting at 17th level, you can seize a trace of vitality from a parting soul and use it to heal the living. When an enemy you can see dies within 60 feet of you, you or one creature of your choice that is within 60 feet of you regains hit points equal to the enemy's number of H it Dice. You can use this feature only if you aren't incapacitated. Once you use it, you can't do so again unti l the start of your next turn.

Improved Circle of Mortality

At level 22, the spare the dying cantrip has a range of 60 feet and doesn't require an action to cast. This means that everybody within 60 feet can be spared almost instantly

Knowledge Domain

The gods of knowledge—including Agstrøm, Avi, Sha-en, Talo, and Melket Ha Hetvelyem value learning and understanding above all. Some teach that knowledge is to be gathered and shared in libraries and universities, or promote the practical knowledge of craft and invention. Some deities hoard knowledge and keep its secrets to themselves. And some promise their followers that they will gain trem endous power if they unlock the secrets of the multiverse. Followers of these gods study esoteric lore, collect old tomes, delve into the secret places of the earth, and learn all they can. Some gods of knowledge promote the practical knowledge of craft and invention, including smith deities like Agstrøm and Talo.

Domain Spells

You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Knowledge Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for how domain spells work.

Knowledge Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	command, identify
3rd	augury, suggestion
5th	nondetection, speak with dead
7th	arcane eye, confusion
9th	legend lore, scrying

Blessings of Knowledge

At 1st level, you learn two languages of your choice. You also becom e proficient in your choice o f two of the following skills: Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion.

Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of those skills.

Channel Divinity: Knowledge of the Ages

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to tap into a divine well of knowledge. As an action, you choose one skill or tool. For 10 minutes, you have proficiency with the chosen skill or tool.

Channel Divinity: Read Thoughts

At 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity to read a creature’s thoughts. You can then use your access to the creature’s mind to command it.

A s an action, choose one creature that you can see within 60 feet of you. That creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature succeeds on the saving throw, you can’t use this feature on it again until you finish a long rest.

If the creature fails its save, you can read its surface thoughts (those foremost in its mind, reflecting its current emotions and what it is actively thinking about) when it is within 60 feet of you. This effect lasts for 1 minute.

During that time, you can use your action to end this effect and cast the suggestion spell on the creature without expending a spell slot. The target automatically fails its saving throw against the spell.

Potent Spellcasting

Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.

Visions of the Past

Starting at 17th level, you can call up visions of the past that relate to an object you hold or your immediate surroundings. You spend at least 1 minute in meditation and prayer, then receive dreamlike, shadowy glimpses of recent events. You can meditate in this way for a number of minutes equal to your Wisdom score and must maintain concentration during that time, as if you were casting a spell.

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

Object Reading. Holding an object as you meditate, you can see visions of the object’s previous owner. After meditating for 1 minute, you learn how the owner acquired and lost the object, as well as the m ost recent significant event involving the object and that owner. If the object w as owned by another creature in the recent past (within a number of days equal to your Wisdom score), you can spend 1 additional minute for each owner to learn the sam e information about that creature.

Area Reading. As you meditate, you see visions of recent events in your immediate vicinity (a room, street, tunnel, clearing, or the like, up to a 50-foot cube), going back a number of days equal to your W isdom score. For each minute you meditate, you learn about one significant event, beginning with the m ost recent. Significant events typically involve powerful emotions, such as battles and betrayals, marriages and murders, births and funerals. However, they might also include more mundane events that are nevertheless important in your current situation.

Improved Blessings of Knowledge

At level 22, you gain proficiency and expertise in any two skills or tools

Life Domain

The Life domain focuses on the vibrant positive energy—one of the fundamental forces of the universe— that sustains all life. The gods o f life prom ote vitality and health through healing the sick and wounded, caring for those in need, and driving away the forces of death and undeath. Almost any non-evil deity can claim influence over this domain, particularly agricultural deities (such as Fiamé, Elin), sun gods (such as Mehegenelleia), gods of healing or endurance (such as Mer, Mar and Tuh), and gods of home and community (such as Arale).

Domain Spells

You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Life Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for how domain spells work.

Life Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	bless, cure wounds
3rd	lesser restoration, spiritual weapon
5th	beacon of hope, revivify
7th	death ward, guardian of faith
9th	mass cure wounds, raise dead

Bonus Proficiency

When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor.

Disciple of Life

A lso starting at 1st level, your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level.

Channel Divinity: Preserve Life

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to heal the badly injured.

As an action, you present your holy symbol and evoke healing energy that can restore a number of hit points equal to five times your cleric level. Choose any creatures within 30 feet of you, and divide those hit points among them. This feature can restore a creature to no more than half of its hit point maximum. You can’t use this feature on an undead or a construct.

Blessed Healer

Beginning at 6th level, the healing spells you cast on others heal you as well. W hen you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit points to a creature other than you, you regain hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level.

Divine Strike

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your w eapon strikes with divine energy. O nce on each o f your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 radiant damage to the target. W hen you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Supreme Healing

Starting at 17th level, when you would norm ally roll one or more dice to restore hit points with a spell, you instead use the highest number possible for each die. For example, instead of restoring 2d6 hit points to a creature, you restore 12.

At level 22, Whenever you heal you heal 2 times the maximum instead of just the maximum.

Light Domain

Gods of light including Arale, Asen, Mehegenelleia, and Meda promote the ideals of rebirth and renewal, truth, vigilance, and beauty, often using the symbol of the sun. Some of these gods are portrayed as the sun itself or as a charioteer who guides the sun across the sky. Others are tireless sentinels whose eyes pierce every shadow and see through every deception. Some are deities of beauty and artistry, who teach that art is a vehicle for the soul's improvement. Clerics of a god of light are enlightened souls infused with radiance and the power of their gods’ discerning vision, charged with chasing away lies and burning away darkness.

Domain Spells

You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Light Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for how domain spells work.

Light Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	burning hands, faerie fire
3rd	flaming sphere, scorching ray
5th	daylight, fireball
7th	guardian of faith, wall of fire
9th	flame strike, scrying

Bonus Cantrip

When you choose this dom ain at 1st level, you gain the light cantrip if you don’t already know it.

Warding Flare

Also at 1st level, you can interpose divine light between yourself and an attacking enemy. When you are attacked by a creature within 30 feet of you that you can see, you can use your reaction to im pose disadvantage on the attack roll, causing light to flare before the attacker before it hits or misses. An attacker that can’t be blinded is im mune to this feature.

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

Channel Divinity: Radiance of the Dawn

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to harness sunlight, banishing darkness and dealing radiant damage to your foes.

As an action, you present your holy symbol, and any magical darkness within 30 feet of you is dispelled. Additionally, each hostile creature within 30 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes radiant damage equal to 2d10 + your cleric level on a failed saving throw, and half as much damage on a successful one. A creature that has total cover from you is not affected.

Improved Flare

Starting at 6th level, you can also use your Warding Flare feature when a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you attacks a creature other than you.

Potent Spellcasting

Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.

Corona of Light

Starting at 17th level, you can use your action to activate an aura of sunlight that lasts for 1 minute or until you dismiss it using another action. You emit bright light in a 60-foot radius and dim light 30 feet beyond that. Your enem ies in the bright light have disadvantage on saving throws against any spell that deals fire or radiant damage.

Improved Spellcasting

At level 38, You add triple your wisdom modifier to the damage dealt with any cleric cantrip.

Nature Domain

Gods of nature are as varied as the natural world itself, from inscrutable gods of the deep forests (such as Fiamé) or gods of the harvest (Such as Elin) to friendly deities associated with particular springs and groves (such as Corne L'arc-en-ciel, and Vendellon). Druids revere nature as a whole and might serve one of these deities, practicing mysterious rites and reciting all-but-forgotten prayers in their own secret tongue. But many of these gods have clerics as well, champions who take a more active role in advancing the interests of a particular nature god. These clerics might hunt the evil monstrosities that despoil the woodlands, bless the harvest of the faithful, or wither the crops of those who anger their gods.

Domain Spells

You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Nature Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for how domain spells work.

Nature Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	animal friendship, speak with animals
3rd	destructive wave, insect plague
5th	plant growth, wind wall
7th	dominate beast, grasping vine
9th	insect plague, tree stride

Acolyte of Nature

At 1st level, you learn one druid cantrip of your choice. You also gain proficiency in one of the follow ing skills of your choice: Anim al Handling, Nature, or Survival.

Bonus Proficiency

Also at 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor.

Channel Divinity: Charm Animals and Plants

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to charm animals and plants.

As an action, you present your holy symbol and invoke the name of your deity. Each beast or plant creature that can see you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is charmed by you for 1 minute or until it takes damage. While it is charmed by you, it is friendly to you and other creatures you designate.

Dampen Elements

Starting at 6th level, when you or a creature within 30 feet of you takes acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, you can use your reaction to grant resistance to the creature against that instance of the damage.

Divine Strike

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with divine energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 cold, fire, or lightning damage (your choice) to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Master of Nature

At 17th level, you gain the ability to command animals and plant creatures. While creatures are charmed by your Charm Animals and Plants feature, you can take a bonus action on your turn to verbally command what each of those creatures will do on its next turn.

Improved Divine Strike

At level 22, you deal additional cold, fire, or lightning damage 4d8 from your first weapon attack in a round in line with the divine strike feature previous.

Tempest Domain

Gods whose portfolios include the Tempest domain - mainly Raimei govern storms, sea, and sky. They include gods of lightning and thunder, gods of earthquakes, some fire gods, and certain gods of violence, physical strength, and courage. In some pantheons, a god of this domain rules over other deities and is known for swift justice delivered by thunderbolts. In the pantheons of seafaring people, gods of this domain are ocean deities and the patrons of sailors. Tempest gods send their clerics to inspire fear in the common folk, either to keep those folk on the path of righteousness or to encourage them to offer sacrifices of propitiation to ward off divine wrath.

Domain Spells

You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Tempest Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for how domain spells work.

Tempest Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	fog cloud, thunderwave
3rd	gust of wind, shatter
5th	call lightning, sleet storm
7th	control water, ice storm
9th	destructive wave, insect plague

Bonus Proficiencies

At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons and heavy armor.

Wrath of the Storm

Also at 1st level, you can thunderously rebuke attackers. When a creature within 5 feet of you that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to cause the creature to make a Dexterity saving throw. The creature takes 2d8 lightning or thunder damage (your choice) on a failed saving throw, and half as much damage on a successful one.

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

Channel Divinity: Destructive Wrath

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to wield the pow er of the storm with unchecked ferocity. W hen you roll lightning or thunder damage, you can use your Channel Divinity to deal maximum damage, instead of rolling.

Thunderbolt Strike

At 6th level, when you deal lightning damage to a Large or smaller creature, you can also push it up to 10 feet away from you.

Divine Strike

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your w eapon strikes with divine energy. O nce on each o f your turns when you hit a creature with a w eapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 thunder damage to the target. W hen you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Stormborn

At 17th level, you have a flying speed equal to your current walking speed whenever you are not underground or indoors.

Improved Wrath of the Storm

At level 22, you deal 4d8 instead of 2d8 lightning or thunder damage when you use wrath of the storm.

Trickery Domain

Gods of trickery—such as The Jester, are mischief-makers and instigators who stand as a constant challenge to the accepted order among both gods and mortals. They’re patrons of thieves, scoundrels, gamblers, rebels, and liberators. Their clerics are a disruptive force in the world, puncturing pride, mocking tyrants, stealing from the rich, freeing captives, and flouting hollow traditions. They prefer subterfuge, pranks, deception, and theft rather than direct confrontation.

Domain Spells

You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Trickery Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for how domain spells work.

Trickery Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	charm person, disguise self
3rd	mirror image, pass without trace
5th	blink, dispel magic
7th	dimension door, polymorph
9th	dominate person, modify memory

Blessing of the Trickster

Starting when you choose this domain at 1st level, you can use your action to touch a willing creature other than yourself to give it advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. This blessing lasts for 1 hour or until you use this feature again.

At level 22, the blessing now lasts up to 24 hours the time divided among however many people you choose.

Channel Divinity: Invoke Duplicity

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to create an illusory duplicate o f yourself.

As an action, you create a perfect illusion of yourself that lasts for 1 minute, or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). The illusion appears in an unoccupied space that you can see within 30 feet of you. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the illusion up to 30 feet to a space you can see, but it must remain within 120 feet o f you.

For the duration, you can cast spells as though you were in the illusion’s space, but you must use your own senses. Additionally, when both you and your illusion are within 5 feet of a creature that can see the illusion, you have advantage on attack rolls against that creature, given how distracting the illusion is to the target.

Channel Divinity: Cloak of Shadows

Starting at 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity to vanish.

As an action, you becom e invisible until the end of your next turn. You become visible if you attack or cast a spell.

Divine Strike

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your w eapon strikes with poison—a gift from your deity. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 poison damage to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Improved Duplicity

At 17th level, you can create up to four duplicates of yourself, instead of one, when you use Invoke Duplicity. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move any number of them up to 30 feet, to a maximum range of 120 feet.

War Domain

War has many manifestations. It can make heroes of ordinary people. It can be desperate and horrific, with acts of cruelty and cowardice eclipsing instances of excellence and courage. In either case, the gods of war watch over warriors and reward them for their great deeds. The clerics of such gods excel in battle, inspiring others to fight the good fight or offering acts of violence as prayers. Gods of war include champions of honor and chivalry (such as Arno) as well as gods of destruction and pillage (such as Iohannut). Other war gods (such as Agstrøm and Mehegenelleia) take a more neutral stance, promoting war in all its manifestations and supporting warriors in any circumstance.

Domain Spells

You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the War Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for how domain spells work.

War Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	divine favor, shield of faith
3rd	magic weapon, spiritual weapon
5th	crusader’s mantle, spirit guardians
7th	freedom of movement, stoneskin
9th	flame strike, hold monster

Bonus Proficiencies

At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial w eapons and heavy armor.

War Priest

From 1st level, your god delivers bolts of inspiration to you while you are engaged in battle. When you use the Attack action, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

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

Channel Divinity: Guided Strike

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to strike with supernatural accuracy. W hen you make an attack roll, you can use your Channel Divinity to gain a +10 bonus to the roll. You make this choice after you see the roll, but before the DM says whether the attack hits or misses.

Channel Divinity: War God's Blessing

At 6th level, when a creature within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, you can use your reaction to grant that creature a +10 bonus to the roll, using your Channel Divinity. You make this choice after you see the roll, but before the DM says whether the attack hits or misses.

Divine Strike

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with divine energy. O nce on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 damage of the sam e type dealt by the w eapon to the target. W hen you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Avatar of Battle

At 17th level, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonm agical weapons.

Improved War Priest

At level 22, when you use the feature of war priest you can take 2 attacks with your bonus action instead of one.

Druid

Holding high a gnarled staff wreathed with holly, an elf summons the fury of the storm and calls down explosive bolts of lightning to smite the torch-carrying orcs who threaten her forest.

Crouching out of sight on a high tree branch in the form of a leopard, a human peers out of the jungle at the strange construction of a temple of Evil Elemental Air, keeping a close eye on the cultists’ activities. Swinging a blade formed of pure fire, a half-elf charges into a mass of skeletal soldiers, sundering the unnatural magic that gives the foul creatures the mocking semblance of life.

Whether calling on the elemental forces of nature or emulating the creatures of the animal world, druids are anem bodiment of nature’s resilience, cunning, and fury. They claim no mastery over nature. Instead, they see themselves as extensions of nature’s indomitable will.

Power of Nature

Druids revere nature above all, gaining their spells and other magical powers either from the force of nature itself or from a nature deity. Many druids pursue a mystic spirituality of transcendent union with nature rather than devotion to a divine entity, while others serve gods of wild nature, animals, or elemental forces. The ancient druidic traditions are sometimes called the Old Faith, in contrast to the worship of gods in temples and shrines.

Druid spells are oriented toward nature and animals — the power of tooth and claw, of sun and moon, of fire and storm. Druids also gain the ability to take on animal forms, and some druids make a particular study of this practice, even to the point where they prefer animal form to their natural form.

Preserve the Balance

For druids, nature exists in a precarious balance. The four elements that make up a world — air, earth, fire, and water — must remain in equilibrium. If one element were to gain power over the others, the world could be destroyed, drawn into one of the elemental planes and broken apart into its component elements. Thus, druids oppose cults of Elemental Evil and others who promote one element to the exclusion of others.

Druids are also concerned with the delicate ecological balance that sustains plant and animal life, and the need for civilized folk to live in harmony with nature, not in opposition to it. Druids accept that which is cruel in nature, and they hate that which is unnatural, including aberrations (such as beholders and mind flayers) and undead (such as zombies and vampires). Druids sometimes lead raids against such creatures, especially when the monsters encroach on the druids’ territory.

Druids are often found guarding sacred sites or watching over regions of unspoiled nature. But when a significant danger arises, threatening nature’s balance or the lands they protect, druids take on a more active role in combating the threat, as adventurers.

Creating a Druid

When making a druid, consider why your character has such a close bond with nature. Perhaps your character lives in a society where the Old Faith still thrives, or was raised by a druid after being abandoned in the depths of a forest. Perhaps your character had a dramatic encounter with the spirits of nature, coming face to face with a giant eagle or dire wolf and surviving the experience. Maybe your character was born during an epic storm or a volcanic eruption, which was interpreted as a sign that becom ing a druid was part of your character’s destiny. Have you always been an adventurer as part of your druidic calling, or did you first spend time as a caretaker of a sacred grove or spring? Perhaps your homeland was befouled by evil, and you took up an adventuring life in hopes of finding a new home or purpose.

Quick Build

You can make a druid quickly by following these suggestions. First, Wisdom should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the hermit background.

Guiding Aspect

Many druids feel a strong link to a specific aspect of the natural world, such as a body of water, an animal, a type of tree, or some other sort of plant. You identify with your chosen aspect; by its behavior or its very nature, it sets an example that you seek to emulate.

Treasured Item

Some druids carry one or more items that are sacred to them or have deep personal significance. Such items are not necessarily magical, but every one is a n object whose meaning connects the druid's mind and heart to a profound concept or spiritual outlook.

Class Features

As a druid, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d8 per druid level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per druid level after 1st

Proficiencies

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• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields (druids will not wear armor or use shields made of metal)
• Weapons: All simple weapons Clubs, daggers, darts, javelins, maces, quarterstaffs, scimitars, sickles, slings, spears.
• Tools: Herbalism kit

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• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Animal Handling, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, and Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a wooden shield or (b) any simple weapon

• (a) a scimitar or (b) any simple melee weapon

• Leather armor, an explorer’s pack, and a druidic focus

Spellcasting

Drawing on the divine essence of nature itself, you can cast spells to shape that essence to your will. See chapter 10 for the general rules o f spellcasting and chapter 11 for the druid spell list.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the druid spell list. You learn additional druid cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Druid table.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Druid table show s how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these druid spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list o f druid spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the druid spell list. W hen you do so, choose a number o f druid spells equal to your Wisdom m odifier + your druid level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 3rd-level druid, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a W isdom of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can also change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of druid spells requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Sacred Plants and Wood

A druid holds certain plants to be sacred, particularly alder, ash, birch, elder, hazel, holly, juniper, mistletoe, oak, rowan, willow, and yew. Druids often use such plants as part of a spellcasting focus, incorporating lengths of oak or yew or sprigs of mistletoe. Similarly, a druid uses such woods to make other objects, such as weapons and shields. Yew is associated with death and rebirth, so weapon handles for scimitars or sickles might be fashioned from it. Ash is associated with life and oak with strength. These woods make excellent hafts or whole weapons, such as clubs or quarterstaffs, as well as shields. Alder is associated with air, and it might be used for thrown weapons, such as darts or javelins. Druids from regions that lack the plants described here have chosen other plants to take on similar uses. For instance, a druid of a desert region might value the yucca tree and cactus plants.

Spellcasting Ability

W isdom is your spellcasting ability for your druid spells, since your m agic draws upon your devotion and attunement to nature. You use your W isdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your W isdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a druid spell you cast and w hen making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast a druid spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a druidic focus (found in chapter 5) as a spellcasting focus for your druid spells.

Wild Shape

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to m agically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. Your druid level determines the beasts you can transform into, as shown in the Beast Shapes table. At 2nd level, for example, you can transform into any beast that has a challenge rating of 1/4 or lower that doesn’t have a flying or swimming speed.

Beast Shapes

Level	Max CR	Limitations	Example
2nd	1/4	No flying or swimming speed	Wolf
4th	1/2	No flying speed	Crocodile
8th	1	-	Giant Eagle

You can stay in a beast shape for a number o f hours equal to half your druid level (rounded down). You then revert to your norm al form unless you expend another use of this feature. You can revert to your normal form earlier by using a bonus action on your turn. You automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

While you are transformed, the following rules apply:

Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast, but you retain your alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom , and Charisma scores. You also retain all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature. If the creature has the same proficiency as you and the bonus in its stat block is higher than yours, use the creature’s bonus instead of yours. If the creature has any legendary or lair actions, you can't use them.

• When you transform, you assum e the beast’s hit points and Hit Dice. When you revert to your norm al form, you return to the number of hit points you had before you transformed. However, if you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your norm al form. For example, if you take 10 damage in animal form and have only 1 hit point left, you revert and take 9 damage. As long as the excess damage doesn’t reduce your norm al form to 0 hit points, you aren’t knocked unconscious.

• You can’t cast spells, and your ability to speak or take any action that requires hands is limited to the capabilities of your beast form. Transforming doesn’t break your concentration on a spell you’ve already cast, however, or prevent you from taking actions that are part of a spell, such as call lightning, that you’ve already cast.

• You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. However, you can’t use any o f your special senses, such as darkvision, unless your new form also has that sense.

• You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in your space, m erges into your new form, or is worn by it. W orn equipment functions as normal, but the DM decides whether it is practical for the new form to w ear a piece of equipment, based on the creature’s shape and size. Your equipment doesn’t change size or shape to match the new form, and any equipment that the new form can’t w ear must either fall to the ground or merge with it. Equipment that m erges with the form has no effect until you leave the form.

Druid Circle

At 2nd level, you choose to identify with a circle of druids: the Circle of the Land, the Circle of the Moon, Circle of Dreams, or Circle of the Shepherd both detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

Ability Score Improvement

W hen you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Timeless Body

Starting at 18th level, the primal m agic that you wield causes you to age more slowly. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year.

Beast Spells

Beginning at 18th level, you can cast many of your druid spells in any shape you assume using Wild Shape. You can perform the somatic and verbal components of a druid spell while in a beast shape, but you aren’t able to provide material components.

Archdruid

At 20th level, you can use your Wild Shape an unlimited num ber of times.

Wild Shape Continuation

At level 23, even if you aren't circle of the moon your wild shape continues to grow stronger. The CR of a beast that you can wildshape into is now equal to 1/8 of your druid level. However it still must be a beast shape.

Improved Wild Shape

At level 25, when you use any wild shape ability you get an additional 50 hit points on top of what you would have in that form. Furthermore each attack does an additional 10 damage.

Druid Circles

Though their organization is invisible to most outsiders, druids are part of a society that spans the land, ignoring political borders. All druids are nominally m em bers of this druidic society, though som e individuals are so isolated that they have never seen any high-ranking m em bers of the society or participated in druidic gatherings. Druids recognize each other as brothers and sisters. Like creatures of the wilderness, however, druids som etim es com pete with or even prey on each other. At a local scale, druids are organized into circles that share certain perspectives on nature, balance, and the way o f the druid.

Druid Circles
Circle of Dreams
Circle of the Land
Circle of the Moon
Circle of the Shepherd

Circle of Dreams

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

Balm of Wildcourt

At 2nd level, you become imbued with the blessings of Wildcourt. You are a font of energy that offers respite from injuries. You have a pool of fey energy represented by a number of d6s equal to your druid level.

As a bonus action, you can choose one creature you can see within 120 feet of you and spend a number of those dice equal to half your druid leve l or less. Roll the spent dice and add them together. The target regains a number of hit points equal to the total. The target also gains 1 temporary hit point per die spent.

You regain all expended dice when you finish a long rest.

Hearth of Moonlight and Shadow

At 6th level, home can be wherever you are. During a short or long rest, you can invoke the shadowy power of the Gloaming Court to help guard your respite. At the start of the rest, you touch a point in space, and an invisible, 30-foot-radius sphere of magic appears, centered on that point. Total cover blocks the sphere.

While within the sphere, you and your a llies gain a +5 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) and Wisdom (Perception) checks, and any light from open Hames in the sphere (a campfire, torches, or the like) isn't visible outside it.

The sphere vanishes at the end of the rest or when you leave the sphere.

Hidden Paths

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

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

Walker in Dreams

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

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

This use of teleportation circle is specia l. Ra ther than opening a portal to a perma nent tele porta tion circle, it opens a portal to the last location where you finished a long rest on your current plane of existence. If you haven't taken a long rest on your current plane, the spell fails but isn't wasted.

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

Improved Balm of Wildcourt

At level 22 you now have a pool of fey energy represented by a number of d10s equal to your druid level instead of d6s.

Circle of the Land

The Circle of the Land is made up of mystics and sages who safeguard ancient knowledge and rites through a vast oral tradition. These druids meet within sacred circles of trees or standing stones to whisper primal secrets in Druidic. The circle’s wisest members preside as the chief priests of communities that hold to the Old Faith and serve as advisors to the rulers of those folk. As a member of this circle, your magic is influenced by the land where you were initiated into the circle’s mysterious rites.

Bonus Cantrip

When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you learn one additional druid cantrip of your choice.

Natural Recovery

Starting at 2nd level, you can regain som e of your magical energy by sitting in meditation and com m uning with nature. During a short rest, you choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a com bined level that is equal to or less than half your druid level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest

For example, when you are a 4th-level druid, you can recover up to two levels worth of spell slots. You can recover either a 2nd-level slot or two 1st-level slots.

Circle Spells

Your mystical connection to the land infuses you with the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to circle spells connected to the land where you becam e a druid. Choose that land—arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, or Underdark—and consult the associated list of spells.

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

Arctic

Druid Level	Circle Spells
3rd	hold person, spike growth
5th	sleet storm, slow
7th	freedom of movement, ice storm
9th	commune with nature, cone of cold

Coast

Druid Level	Circle Spells
3rd	mirror image, misty step
5th	water breathing, water walk
7th	control water, freedom of movement
9th	conjure elemental, scrying

Desert

Druid Level	Circle Spells
3rd	blur, silence
5th	create food and water, protection from energy
7th	blight, hallucinatory terrain
9th	insect plague, wall of stone

Forest

Druid Level	Circle Spells
3rd	barkskin, spider climb
5th	call lightning, plant growth
7th	divination, freedom o f movement
9th	commune with nature, tree stride

Grassland

Druid Level	Circle Spells
3rd	invisibility, pass without trace
5th	daylight, haste
7th	divination, freedom of movement
9th	dream, insect plague

Mountain

Druid Level	Circle Spells
3rd	spider climb, spike growth
5th	lightning bolt, meld into stone
7th	stone shape, stoneskin
9th	passwall, wall of stone

Swamp

Druid Level	Circle Spells
3rd	darkness, Melf ’s acid arrow
5th	water walk, stinking cloud
7th	freedom of movement, locate creature
9th	insect plague, scrying

Underdark

Druid Level	Circle Spells
3rd	spider climb, web
5th	gaseous form, stinking cloud
7th	greater invisibility, stone shape
9th	cloudkill, insect plague

Land's Stride

Starting at 6th level, moving through nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through nonm agical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement, such those created by the entangle spell.

Nature's Ward

When you reach 10th level, you can’t be charmed or frightened by elementals or fey, and you are im mune to poison and disease.

Nature's Sanctuary

W hen you reach 14th level, creatures of the natural world sense your connection to nature and becom e hesitant to attack you. When a beast or plant creature attacks you, that creature must make a W isdom saving throw against your druid spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature must choose a different target, or the attack automatically misses. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours.

The creature is aware of this effect before it makes its attack against you.

Circle of the Moon

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

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

Combat Wild Shape

When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you gain the ability to use Wild Shape on your turn as a bonus action, rather than as an action.

Additionally, while you are transformed by Wild Shape, you can use a bonus action to expend one spell slot to regain 1d8 hit points per level of the spell slot expended.

Circle Forms

The rites of your circle grant you the ability to transform into more dangerous animal forms. Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Wild Shape to transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as 1 (you ignore the Max. CR column of the Beast Shapes table, but must abide by the other limitations there).

Starting at 6th level, you can transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as your druid level divided by 3, rounded down.

Primal Strike

Starting at 6th level, your attacks in beast form count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Flemental Wild Shape

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

Thousand Forms

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

Improved Circle Forms

At level 22 you can wild shape into any creature type except undead or construct provided it is the right CR.

Druids in General and the Gods

Some druids venerate the forces of nature themselves, but most druids are devoted to one of the many nature deities worshiped in the multiverse (the lists of gods in appendix A include many such deities). The worship of these deities is often considered a more ancient tradition than the faiths of clerics and urbanized peoples. In fact, sometimes in Videciel, the druidic faith is called the Old Faith, and it claims many adherents among farmers, foresters, fishers, and others who live closely with nature. This tradition includes the worship of Nature as a primal force beyond personification, but also encompasses the worship of gods such as Elin, Fiamé, Asen, and others, alongside grove spirits such as Vendellon

Cirlce of the Shepherd

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

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

Speech of the Woods

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to converse with beasts and many fey.

You learn to speak, read, and write Sylvan. In addition, beasts can understand your speech, and you gain the ability to decipher their noises and motions. Most beasts lack the intelligence to convey or understand sophisticated concepts, but a friendly beast could relay what it has seen or heard in the recent past. This ability doesn't grant you friendship with beasts, though you can combine this ability with gifts to curry favor with them as you would with any nonplayer character.

Spirit Totem

Starting at 2nd level, you can call forth nature spirits to influence the world around you. As a bonus action, you can magically summon an incorporeal spirit to a point you can see within 60 feet of you. The spirit creates an aura in a 30-foot radius a round that point. It counts as neither a creature nor an object, though it has the spectral a ppearance of the creature it represents. As a bonus action, you can move the spirit up to 60 feet to a point you can see. The spirit persists for 1 minute or until you're incapacitated. Once you use this feature , you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest. The effect of the spirit's aura depends on the type of spirit you summon from the options below.

• Bear Spirit. The bear spirit grants you and your allies its might and endurance. Each creature of your choice in the aura when the spirit appears gains temporary hit points equal to 5 + your druid level. In addition, you and your allies gain advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws while in the aura.

• Hawk Spirit. The hawk spirit is a consummate hunter, aiding you and your allies with its keen sight. When a creature makes an attack roll against a target in the spirit's aura, you cao use your reaction to grant advantage to that attack roll. In addition, you and your allies have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks while in the aura.

• Unicorn Spirit. The unicorn spirit lends its protection to those nearby. You and your a llies gain advantage on all ability checks made to detect creatures in the spirit's aura. In addition, if you cast a spell using a spell slot that restores hjt points to any creature inside or outside the aura, each creature of your choice in the aura also regains hit points equal to your druid level.

Mighty Summoner

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

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

Guardian Spirit

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

Faithful Summons

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

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

Improved Spirit Totem

At level 22, spirit totem has been changed in the following way: You can call forth nature spirits to influence the world around you. As a bonus action, you can magically summon an incorporeal spirit to a point you can see within 60 feet of you. The spirit creates an aura in a 60 foot radius around that point. It counts as neither a creature nor an object, though it has the spectral appearance of the creature it represents. As a bonus action you can move the spirit up to 120 feet to a point you can see. The spirit persists for 1 minute or until you're incapacitated. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest. The effect of the spirit's aura depends on the type of spirit you summon from the options below.

• Bear Spirit. The bear spirit grants you and your allies its might and endurance. Each creature of your choice in the aura when the spirit appears gains temporary hit points equal to 10+ 2 times you druid level. In addition, you and your allies gain advantage on strength checks and strength saving throws while in the aura.
• Hawk Spirit. The hawk spirit is a consummate hunter, aiding you and your allies with its keen sight. When a creature makes an attack roll against a target in the spirit's aura, it has advantage on any of those rolls. In addition, you and your allies have a +10 bonus on Wisdom (perception) checks while in the aura.
• Unicorn Spirit. The unicorn spirit lends its protection to those nearby. You and your allies automatically detect hidden creatures in the spirit's aura. In addition addition, if you cast a spell using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature inside or outside the aura, each creature of your choice in the aura also regain hit points equal to your druid level.

Learning Beast Shapes

The Wild Shape feature lets you transform into a beast that you've seen. That rule gives you a tremendous amount of flexibility, making it easy to amass an array of beast form options for yourself, but you must abide by the limitations in the Beast Shapes table. When you gain Wild Shape as a 2nd-level druid, you might wonder which beasts you've already seen. The following tables organize beasts from the Monster Manual according to the beasts' most likely environments. Consider the environment your druid grew up in, then consult the appropriate table for a list of animals that your druid has probably seen by 2nd level. These tables can also help you and your DM determine which animals you might see on your travels. In addition, the tables include each beast's challenge rating and note whether a beast has a flying or swimming speed. This information will help you determine whether you qualify to assume that beast's form.

Arctic

CR	Beast	Fly/Swim
0	Owl	Fly
1/8	Blood Hawk	Fly
1/4	Giant Owl	Fly
1	Brown Bear	-
2	Polar Bear	Swim
2	Sabre-toothed Tiger	-
6	Mammoth	-

Coast

CR	Beast	Fly/Swim
0	Crab	Swim
0	Eagle	Fly
1/8	Blood Hawk	Fly
1/8	Giant Crab	Swim
1/8	Poisonous Snake	Swim
1/8	Stirge	Fly
1/4	Giant Lizard	-
1/4	Giant Wolf Spider	-
1/4	Pteranodon	Fly
1	Giant Eagle	Fly
1	Giant Toad	Swim
2	Plesiosaurus	Swim

Desert

CR	Beast	Fly/Swim
0	Cat	-
0	Hyena	-
0	Jackal	-
0	Scorpion	-
0	Vulture	Fly
1/8	Camel	-
1/8	Flying Snake	Fly
1/8	Mule	-
1/8	Poisonous Snake	Swim
1/8	Stirge	Fly
1/4	Constrictor Snake	Swim
1/4	Giant Lizard	-
1/4	Giant Poisonous Snake	Swim
1/4	Giant Wolf Spider	-
1	Giant Hyena	-
1	Giant Spider	-
1	Giant Toad	Swim
1	Giant Vulture	Fly
1	Lion	-
2	Giant Constrictor Snake	Swim
3	Giant Scorpion	-

Forest

CR	Beast	Fly/Swim
0	Baboon	-
0	Badger	-
0	Cat	-
0	Deer	-
0	Hyena	-
0	Owl	Fly
1/8	Blood Hawk	Fly
1/8	Flying Snake	Fly
1/8	Giant Rat	-
1/8	Giant Weasel	-
1/8	Poisonsous Snake	Swim
1/8	Mastiff	-
1/8	Stirge	Fly
1/4	Boar	-
1/4	Constrictor Snake	Swim
1/4	Elk	-
1/4	Giant Badger	-
1/4	Giant Bat	Fly
1/4	Giant Frog	Swim
1/4	Giant Lizard	-
1/4	Giant Owl	Fly
1/4	Giant Poisonous Snake	Swim
1/4	Giant Wolf Spider	-
1/4	Panther	-
1/4	Wolf	-
1/2	Ape	-
1/2	Black Bear	-
1/2	Giant Wasp	Fly
1	Brown Bear	-
1	Dire Wolf	-
1	Giant Hyena	-
1	Giant Spider	-
1	Giant Toad	Swim
1	Tiger	-
2	Giant Boar	-
2	Giant Constrictor Snake	Swim
2	Giant Elk	-

Grassland

CR	Beast	Fly/Swim
0	Cat	-
0	Deer	-
0	Eagle	Fly
0	Goat	-
0	Hyena	-
0	Jackal	-
0	Vulture	Fly
1/8	Blood Hawk	Fly
1/8	Flying Snake	Fly
1/8	Giant Weasel	-
1/8	Poisonous Snake	Swim
1/8	Stirge	Fly
1/4	Axe Beak	Fly
1/4	Boar	-
1/4	Elk	-
1/4	Giant Poisonous Snake	Swim
1/4	Giant Wolf Spider	-
1/4	Panther (Leopard)	-
1/4	Pteranodon	Fly
1/4	Riding Horse	-
1/4	Wolf	-
1/2	Giant Goat	-
1/2	Giant Wasp	Fly
1	Giant Eagle	Fly
1	Giant Hyena	-
1	Giant Vulture	Fly
1	Lion	-
1	Tiger	-
2	Allosaurus	-
2	Giant Boar	-
2	Giant Elk	-
2	Rhinoceros	-
3	Anklyosaurus	-
4	Elephant	-
5	Triceratops	-

Hill

CR	Beast	Fly/Swim
0	Baboon	-
0	Eagle	Fly
0	Goat	-
0	Hyena	-
0	Raven	Fly
0	Vulture	Fly
1/8	Blood Hawk	Fly
1/8	Giant Weasel	-
1/8	Mastiff	-
1/8	Mule	-
1/8	Poisonous Snake	Swim
1/8	Stirge	Fly
1/4	Axe Beak	-
1/4	Boar	-
1/4	Elk	-
1/4	Giant Owl	Fly
1/4	Giant Wolf Spider	-
1/4	Panther (Cougar)	-
1/4	Wolf	-
1/2	Giant Goat	-
1	Brown Bear	-
1	Dire Wolf	-
1	Giant Eagle	Fly
1	Giant Hyena	-
1	Lion	-
2	Giant Boar	-
2	Giant Elk	-

Mountain

CR	Beast	Fly/Swim
0	Eagle	Fly
0	Goat	-
1/8	Blood Hawk	-
1/8	Stirge	Fly
1/4	Pteranodon	Fly
1/2	Giant Goat	-
1	Giant Eagle	Fly
1	Lion	-
2	Giant Elk	-
2	Sabre-toothed Tiger	-

Swamp

CR	Beast	Fly/Swim
0	Rat	-
0	Raven	Fly
1/8	Giant Rat	-
1/8	Poisonous Snake	Swim
1/8	Stirge	-
1/4	Constrictor Snake	Swim
1/4	Giant Frog	-
1/4	Giant Lizard	-
1/4	Giant Poisonous Snake	Swim
1/2	Crocodile	Swim
1	Giant Spider	-
1	Giant Toad	Swim
2	Giant Constrictor Snake	Swim
5	Giant Crocodile	Swim

Underground

CR	Beast	Fly/Swim
0	Giant Fire Beetle	-
1/8	Giant Rat	-
1/8	Stirge	Fly
1/4	Giant Bat	Fly
1/4	Giant Centipede	-
1/4	Giant Lizard	-
1/4	Giant Poisonous Snake	Swim
1	Giant Spider	-
1	Giant Toad	Swim
2	Giant Constrictor Snake	Swim
2	Polar Bear (Cave Bear)	Swim

Underwater

CR	Beast	Fly/Swim
0	Quipper	Swim
1/4	Constrictor Snake	Swim
1/2	Giant Sea Horse	Swim
1/2	Reef Shark	Swim
1	Giant Octopus	Swim
2	Giant Constrictor Snake	Swim
2	Hunter Shark	Swim
2	Plesiosaurus	Swim
3	Killer Whale	Swim
5	Giant Shark	Swim