5th Edition, Revised

Introduction 5th Edition, Revised

Character Creation and Ability Scores

Races and Ability Bonuses

One +1 ability score bonus provided by a character's race may be moved to any ability score the player wishes. In the event that there is more than one +1 bonus or no +1 bonuses, the player may choose which bonus to move. This bonus cannot be moved to an ability that is already benefitting from a racial ability score bonus or flaw.

Aasimar

Resistance: You may choose to be resistant to necrotic or radiant damage, but not both.

Aarakocra

Flight: Adjust the aarakocra flight feature as follows:

• Flight: While not in combat, you have a 50 foot fly speed.
• Combat Flight: You have trained to fly and fight at the same time. To use Combat Flight, you can't be wearing medium or heavy armor. You have the following flight speeds in combat: 1st level 20 feet; 3rd level 30 feet; 5th + level 40 feet.

Human

Variant Human is no longer a selectable race (all characters have level 1 feats; see the section on feats )

Standard Human now has the following racial features:

• +1 to all Ability scores. Knows Common + 1 Language.
• A choice of 2 skill or tool proficiencies in any combination.
• Human Ingenuity Humans are one of the most versatile races by far. You reduce the amount of downtime required to learn a new proficiency by 10% * your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1).

Tiefling

Variant: Winged Tiefling

This Tiefling variant is no longer an option.

Dragonborn

All Dragonborn now gain an additional skill proficiency and racial bonus based on the color of their dragon ancestry.

Metallic Ancestries

Chromatic Ancestries

Ability Score Applications

The various functions that ability scores effect have changed, below is a list of all the changes made.

Intelligence

Intelligence now provides the following benefits per modifier. You gain the bonus associated with the modifier immediately upon obtaining the new modifier. This is cumulative with previous modifier bonuses. If you lose your modifier for whatever reason, you lose the associated bonuses.

Strength

Increases the maximum number of times you can fall to 0 hit points before succumbing to death. This increase is equal to your strength modifier (minimum of 1). (for more on this, see the Combat - Death section).

Character Advancement

Advancement Changes

First Level Feat

All characters now select a feat at first level.

Learning Skills

• Gaining proficiency with a new tool takes 60 days of downtime

• Gaining proficiency with a new skill takes 120 days of downtime

• Learning a new language takes 250 days of downtime

Heroic Boons

Combat

The +2 Bonus

Throughout this update you'll notice that, along with advantage, some of the content gives +2 or -2 bonuses, depending on the circumstance. It's important to note that you may only benefit from one non-spell based, circumstantial bonus and penalty to any given roll. If you have more than one, use the highest bonus and the highest penalty.

What does that mean?

When making a roll, circumstantial +2 bonuses do not stack with themselves or advantage. (The same goes for -2 penalties and disadvantage). So, you could not use +2 and advantage at the same time, nor could you use multiple +2 bonuses simultaneously; but, you could have +2 and disadvantage. Circumstantial +2 and -2 bonuses cancel each other out, just as advantage and disadvantage do.

Flexible Initiative

There may be situations where Dexterity will not be the most appropriate bonus to use for initiative. In these cases, you may have the individual combatant (or all combatants) add their modifier in a partcular skill to their initiative roll, rather than their Dexterity bonus. Commonly used skills are Wisdom (perception), Charisma (deception), Dexterity (stealth), or Wisdom (insight).

For example, if a character is trying to hide but they are spotted and combat begins, they could use their Dexterity (stealth) modifier and enemies could use their Wisdom (Perception) modifier as bonuses to their initiative roll, in place of Dexterity.

Flanking

Flanking provides the following benefits:

Creatures that are flanked cannot provide flanking.

Death

Condition: Weakened

The Weakened condition tracks your failing strength as you succumb to more and more injury. Every time you regain consciousness from being reduced to 0 hit points (whether through healing or naturally) you increase your Weakened level by 1. The next time you are reduced to 0 hit points, if your Weakened level is greater than your Strength bonus (minimum 1), each additional Weakened level beyond your strength modifier is counted as an automatic death save failure.

For example, Stronk the Rogue has a Strength bonus of +0, and is currently Weakened 3. If he is reduced to 0 hit points before any Weakened levels are removed he would automatically have 2 failed death saves (Weakened 3 - 0 Strength bonus (1 minimum)). If you would automatically have 3 failed death saves, you instead die outright upon reaching 0 hp.

Removing Weakened Levels

There are multiple ways to remove Weakened levels:

• Healer’s Kit: If a you have a healer’s kit, you may expend one use of it and make a Wisdom (medicine) check to treat an ally, DC (8 + ½ the level of the character being healed, rounded down). On a success you reduce their Weakened level by 1.
• Short Rest: For every hit die spent on a short rest, you may reduce your Weakened level by 1.
• Long Rest: Upon completing a long rest, reduce your current Weakened level by half, rounding down.
• Restoration Magic: Casting Lesser Restoration on an ally allows the caster to reduce the targets Weakened level by 1. Casting Greater Restoration on an ally allows the caster to reduce the targets Weakened Level by 1d4.

Optional Condition: At Death’s Door

When you would die, instead you may make a flat DC17 check. Upon success, you cling to life for one last moment gaining the At Death’s Door condition. While you have this condition, any amount of healing will stabilize you, but will not bring you above 0 hp and any amount of damage will kill you. If you are not stabilized by the start of your next turn you die.

Exploration Updated

In order to make the process of exploration more streamlined and narrative, while exploring (such as walking through a dungeon, a ruined city, a spooky cave, or simply traveling from one town to another) players may choose an activity to perform. The list of activities below is not exhaustive and players may suggest something not on this list. In that case, it is up to the GM's discretion how that plays out and what bonuses, if any, it provides.

Assume Competency

One component to bear in mind while players are exploring or traveling is to assume that their characters have a basic level of competency for whatever activitiy they're performing. For example, if a character is searching, they are likely going to search the obvious places where a trap or hidden compartment may be, and should not have to specify exactly where they are searching.

If the object is particularly well hidden, they may find traces of it instead and may have to examine the area more closely to find exactly what it is.

Exploration Activities

Assist

You spend your time assisting an ally with their activity. When they would make a skill check for their activity, they can add +2 to their roll. This bonus increases to advantage if it is a skill which you are proficient in.

Analyze Surroundings

You carefully examine your surroundings, trying to recall or learn as much information as you can. Inform your GM what general category of information you're trying to glean (for example: the area's history, the building's structural information, clues at a crime scene, and so on). Make the appropriate skill check for every new area you enter while performing this activity. The GM will supply you with any information you discover or remember.

This will generally be used with the skills Investigation, Arcana, Medicine, History, Religion, and Nature.

Commune

You attempt to commune with your deity, or any spiritual being you have the ability to interact with. Make the appropriate check after you have spent 30 minutes of exploration time (and every 30 minutes after that). If your communion is successful, you will be able to communicate with the entity you have contacted.

Double Time

Move at double your travel speed for an hour. For every hour you spend at double time you must make a constitution saving throw, DC 10 + total hours spent. On a failure you gain a level of exhaustion. The DC resets after a long rest.

Hide

You move at half speed, sticking to the shadows while you explore. Make a stealth check for every new area you enter, or once every hour of exploration time, whichever is shorter.

Move Cautiously

You move at half speed, keeping on your toes and being extra careful as you explore. You gain +2 on saves made to avoid the effect of traps and hazards.

Maintain a Spell

You continually cast a spell as you explore. If the spell consumes spellslots, those spellslots are consumed as normal. If you roll initiative while Maintaining a Spell, you start combat with that spell active as though it were just cast.

Navigate

You dedicate your time to tracking your movement against geographical landmarks, the stars, or a map; if you have one. You gain +2 to survival checks to avoid getting lost if you are using the navigate activity. This bonus increases to advantage if you have a map of the area as well.

Search

You spend your time searching, looking for traps, hidden doors, secret compartments, and the like. Make a Wisdom (perception) check for every area you enter while searching.

Scout

You scout ahead and behind the party, keeping a keen eye out for any approaching danger, granting your party +2 on initiative rolls while you are scouting.

Track

You attempt to follow a trail or tracks. Make a Wisdom (survival) check in secret for every 30 minutes you spend tracking or when entering a new area while performing this activity, whichever is shorter.

Equipment

Equipment updates

Shields and Potions

Healing potions now always provide their maximum healing output.

Shields have been divided into three tiers, mirroring armor. A character's armor proficiencies determine their shield proficiencies as well. (E.g. if your character is proficient in light armor, they are also proficient in light shields.)

New Equipment Properties

Armor Properties

Weapon Properties

Armor

Light Armor

Medium Armor

Heavy Armor

Weapons

Simple Melee Weapons

Simple Ranged Weapons

Martial Melee Weapons

Martial Ranged Weapons

Crafting

Overview

The basic flow of crafting consists of 4 parts.

1. Obtain the correct tools for the item you wish to craft.
2. Obtain a recipe for the item you wish to craft (if you do not already have it).
3. Obtain materials required to craft the item.
4. Spend time to craft the item.

The Right Tool for the Job

In order to start the crafting process, you will need to have to the appropriate set of tools for the item you're trying to craft. The chart below shows the general crafting categories, thier associated tools, and the primary ability score used by that tool. If something you want to craft does not fall into the categories given, choose the most appropriate tool for it.

Categories of Crafted Items

Recipes

Before you can begin crafting an item, you must know how to craft it. To that end, you'll need a recipe. There are two ways to obtain new recipes: either by purchasing or finding a pre-written recipe (such as from a recipe book or a scroll); or by researching and writing the recipe yourself.

Purchasing Recipes

Nearly all mundane item recipes can be found in Recipe Books and purchased at most local specialty stores. Recipe Books are bound collections of crafting instructions usually covering all items of a single type (such as Metal Armor, Swords, Crossbows, etc.) Once you have purchased a recipe book, you learn all the recipes in it over a long rest, and may craft any item for which you now have learned to craft.

Researching Recipes

Non-common and Magical Items will usually require you to research their crafting recipe yourself before you can craft them. In order to do so, you must first determine the monetary worth of the item you're attempting to craft. If this is a mundane item, it's value will be listed in the appropriate book. If it is a magical item, consult the Crafting Magic Items section below and use the chart to determine its value.

Once you have found the item's value, divide it in half, rounding down. This is your Research Goal.

The Research Process

Making progress on your Reasearch Goal takes both gold and downtime. To begin the researching process, you invest 10% of the items total value in gold, then spend a workweek of downtime dedicated to your research.. At the end of the worweek, you make a skill check using the appropriate crafting tool's ability modifier (adding your proficiency bonus if you are proficient with the tool). If the item you're researching is magical you make 2 skill checks; one for the appropriate crafting tool and an arcana skill check.

Add any rolls you made together, then multiply them by 10. Reduce your remaining Research Goal by the total.

You can continue making progress on your research by spending a workweek of downtime to gain an additional research roll.

Free Research Rolls

If you have a physical copy the item you are trying to research, you may use that item in place of a gold investment for a workweek worth of research. If you do so, the item is destroyed as you study it and you multiply your skill check(s) by 20 when determining how much you reduce your Research Goal by.

Gathering Materials

Before you can being crafting, you first have to get materials. For common items, these materials are likely available at stores in any major town, while uncommon and rarer items may require special materials not available at a store (this is up to your GM).

Either way, you must aquire base materials worth at least 25% of the item you're attempting to craft's value, up to a maximum of 50%. The initial material investment will determine how much time you have to spend crafting the item, so it's important to consider.

Crafting Items

Find the Crafting Goal

Once you have your materials, it's time to determine your Crafting Goal. This works almost identically to research goals, but this time, you get the item you've worked on when you complete it!

Determing your Crafting Goal as follows: (The gold value of the item being crafted) - (The gold value of the initial materials purchased). The number you get is your Crafting Value, it's your count-down to crafting completion!

Get Crafting

Once you've determined your crafting goal, crafting itself is fairly simple. You must dedicate 1 workweek to crafting your item. At the end of that workweek, roll a crafting check using the appropriate tools and ability modifier; add proficiency if you're proficient (exactly the same way as researching a recipe). Take this value and multiply it by your level. Reduce your Crafting Goal by the result.

Taking a Shortcut

At the end of any workweek you spend crafting, you may immediately complete the item you are crafting by paying the remaining value of your Crafting Goal.

Crafting Magic Items

Before you can craft items beyond common rarity, you must first have either proficiency in the tools associated with the items crafting catagory, or proficiency with the Arcana skill.

Consumables are 50% less expensive and may be crafted in batches of 4

The Magic Difference

The major difference between crafting mundane items and crafting magical items (apart from the proficiency requirement, and any additional materials your GM may require) is that, in addition to your normal skill roll, you make an Intelligence (arcana) check at the end of your crafting workweek. This is added to your crafting roll before multiplying the value by your level.

Crafting From Start to Finish

• Stronk the Rogue wants to craft a +1 Rapier for himself, this falls under the Metallurgy crafting catagory, so he first ensures he has Smith's Tools. He does! Now, since this is a magical item, he will also need the appropriate proficiency. It looks like he has that too!

• Since he does not have a recipe for this item, he will have to research it himself. First, he'll need to find the value of the item. A Rapier has a cost of 25 gp, and a +1 weapon is an Uncommon, Major magic item. Giving it an additional 700 gold value. For a total of 725, meaning the Research Goal is 363 points.

• He'll invest 72 gold (10% of the items total value) and complete his first research workweek. Smith's Tools are a Strength based crafting tool, and unfortunately Stronk's strength is a +0. But he is proficient in both the tools and arcana. Since it's a magic item he makes both the crafting check and an arcana check.

• He rolls a (15+3) for his crafting check, and a (19+3) for his arcana check, for a die total of 42. Then he multiplies this number by 10, giving him a total of 420! **He reduces his Research Goal by this much, meaning he completed his research and learns the recipe.

• With the recipe in hand, Stronk sets off to gather the base materials to begin crafting. He buys 363 gp worth of materials (50% of the items value). He begins crafting with a Crafting Goal of 363 points(Total Value - Initial Materials).

• Just like Research, he'll roll both a crafting and an arcana check for every workweek he spends, since this is a magic item. However, now he multiplies the total die roll by his level, rounded down. He repeats the process until he finishes his +1 Rapier!