Barbarian
Class
Primary Ability Strength
Hit Die d12 per Barbarian level
Saving Throws Strength, Constitution
Proficiencies Light Armor, Medium Armor, Shields, Simple Weapons, Martial Weapons
Skills Choose 2: Animal Handling, Athletics, Intimidation, Nature, Perception, or Survival
Starting Equipment (a) Greataxe, 4 Handaxes, Explorer's Pack, and 15 GP or (b) 75 GP
Subclasses Path of the Berserker, Path of the Wyrmheart
Class Features
LVL 1Rage
You can imbue yourself with a primal power called Rage, a force that grants you extraordinary might and resilience. You can enter it as a Bonus Action if you aren't wearing Heavy armor. You can enter your Rage the number of times shown for your Barbarian level in the Rages column of the Barbarian Features table. You regain one ex- pended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. While active, your Rage follows the rules below. **Damage Resistance.** You have Resistance to Blud- geoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage. **Rage Damage.** When you make an attack using Strength-with either a weapon or an Unarmed Strike-and deal damage to the target, you gain a bonus to the damage that increases as you gain levels as a Barbarian, as shown in the Rage Damage column of the Barbarian Features table. **Strength Advantage.** You have Advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws. **No Concentration or Spells.** You can't maintain Concentration, and you can't cast spells. **Duration.** The Rage lasts until the end of your next turn, and it ends early if you don Heavy armor or have the Incapacitated condition. If your Rage is still active on your next turn, you can extend the Rage for another round by doing one of the following: - Make an attack roll against an enemy. - Force an enemy to make a saving throw. - Take a Bonus Action to extend your Rage. Each time the Rage is extended, it lasts until the end of your next turn. You can maintain a Rage for up to 10 minutes.
LVL 1Unarmored Defense
While you aren't wearing any armor, your base Ar- mor Class equals 10 plus your Dexterity and Consti- tution modifiers. You can use a Shield and still gain this benefit.
LVL 1Weapon Mastery
Your training with weapons allows you to use the mastery properties of two kinds of Simple or Mar- tial Melee weapons of your choice, such as Great- axes and Handaxes. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can practice weapon drills and change one of those weapon choices. When you reach certain Barbarian levels, you gain the ability to use the mastery properties of more kinds of weapons, as shown in the Weapon Mastery column of the Barbarian Features table.
LVL 2Danger Sense
You gain an uncanny sense of when things aren't as they should be, giving you an edge when you dodge perils. You have Advantage on Dexterity saving throws unless you have the Incapacitated condition.
LVL 2Reckless Attack
You can throw aside all concern for defense to at- tack with increased ferocity. When you make your first attack roll on your turn, you can decide to at- tack recklessly. Doing so gives you Advantage on at- tack rolls using Strength until the start of your next turn, but attack rolls against you have Advantage during that time.
LVL 3Barbarian Subclass
You gain a Barbarian subclass of your choice. A subclass is a specialization that grants you features at certain Barbarian levels. For the rest of your career, you gain each of your subclass's features that are of your Barbarian level or lower.
LVL 3Primal Knowledge
You gain proficiency in another skill of your choice from the skill list available to Barbarians at level 1. In addition, while your Rage is active, you can channel primal power when you attempt certain tasks; whenever you make an ability check using one of the following skills, you can make it as a Strength check even if it normally uses a differ- ent ability: Acrobatics, Intimidation, Perception, Stealth, or Survival. When you use this ability, your Strength represents primal power coursing through you, honing your agility, bearing, and senses.
LVL 4Ability Score Improvement
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat (see "Feats") or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. You gain this feature again at Barbarian lev- els 8, 12, and 16.
LVL 5Extra Attack
You can attack twice instead of once whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
LVL 5Fast Movement
Your speed increases by 10 feet while you aren't wearing Heavy armor.
LVL 6Barbarian Subclass
You gain a Barbarian subclass of your choice. A subclass is a specialization that grants you features at certain Barbarian levels. For the rest of your career, you gain each of your subclass's features that are of your Barbarian level or lower.
LVL 7Feral Instinct
Your instincts are so honed that you have Advan- tage on Initiative rolls.
LVL 7Instinctive Pounce
As part of the Bonus Action you take to enter your Rage, you can move up to half your Speed.
LVL 8Ability Score Improvement
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat (see "Feats") or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. You gain this feature again at Barbarian lev- els 8, 12, and 16.
LVL 9Brutal Strike
If you use Reckless Attack, you can forgo any Ad- vantage on one Strength-based attack roll of your choice on your turn. The chosen attack roll mustn't have Disadvantage. If the chosen attack roll hits, the target takes an extra 1d10 damage of the same type dealt by the weapon or Unarmed Strike, and you can cause one Brutal Strike effect of your choice. You have the following effect options. Forceful Blow. The target is pushed 15 feet straight away from you. You can then move up to half your Speed straight toward the target without provoking Opportunity Attacks. Hamstring Blow. The target's Speed is reduced by 15 feet until the start of your next turn. A target can be affected by only one Hamstring Blow at a time- the most recent one.
LVL 10Barbarian Subclass
You gain a Barbarian subclass of your choice. A subclass is a specialization that grants you features at certain Barbarian levels. For the rest of your career, you gain each of your subclass's features that are of your Barbarian level or lower.
LVL 11Relentless Rage
Your Rage can keep you fighting despite grievous wounds. If you drop to 0 Hit Points while your Rage is active and don't die outright, you can make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, your Hit Points instead change to a number equal to twice your Barbarian level. 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.
LVL 12Ability Score Improvement
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat (see "Feats") or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. You gain this feature again at Barbarian lev- els 8, 12, and 16.
LVL 13Improved Brutal Strike
You have honed new ways to attack furiously. The following effects are now among your Brutal Strike options. Staggering Blow. The target has Disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes, and it can't make Opportunity Attacks until the start of your next turn. Sundering Blow. Before the start of your next turn, the next attack roll made by another creature against the target gains a +5 bonus to the roll. An attack roll can gain only one Sundering Blow bonus.
LVL 14Barbarian Subclass
You gain a Barbarian subclass of your choice. A subclass is a specialization that grants you features at certain Barbarian levels. For the rest of your career, you gain each of your subclass's features that are of your Barbarian level or lower.
LVL 15Persistent Rage
When you roll Initiative, you can regain all ex- pended uses of Rage. After you regain uses of Rage in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest. In addition, your Rage is so fierce that it now lasts for 10 minutes without you needing to do anything to extend it from round to round. Your Rage ends early if you have the Unconscious condition (not just the Incapacitated condition) or don Heavy armor.
LVL 16Ability Score Improvement
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat (see "Feats") or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. You gain this feature again at Barbarian lev- els 8, 12, and 16.
LVL 17Improved Brutal Strike
The extra damage of your Brutal Strike increases to 2d10. In addition, you can use two different Brutal Strike effects whenever you use your Brutal Strike feature.
LVL 18Indomitable Might
If your total for a Strength check or Strength saving throw is less than your Strength score, you can use that score in place of the total.
LVL 19Epic Boon
You gain an Epic Boon feat (see "Feats") or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Boon of Irresistible Offense is recommended.
LVL 20Primal Champion
You embody primal power. Your Strength and Con- stitution scores increase by 4, to a maximum of 25.
Subclass: Path of the Berserker
Channel Rage into Violent Fury
Barbarians who walk the Path of the Berserker direct their Rage primarily toward violence. Their path is one of untrammeled fury, and they thrill in the chaos of battle as they allow their Rage to seize and empower them.
LVL 3Frenzy
If you use Reckless Attack while your Rage is active, you deal extra damage to the first target you hit on your turn with a Strength-based attack. To determine the extra damage, roll a number of d6s equal to your Rage Damage bonus, and add them together. The damage has the same type as the weapon or Unarmed Strike used for the attack.
LVL 6Mindless Rage
You have Immunity to the Charmed and Frightened conditions while your Rage is active. If you're Charmed or Frightened when you enter your Rage, the condition ends on you.
LVL 10Retaliation
When you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you, you can take a Reaction to make one melee attack against that creature, using a weapon or an Unarmed Strike.
LVL 14Intimidating Presence
As a Bonus Action, you can strike terror into others with your menacing presence and primal power. When you do so, each creature of your choice in a 30-foot Emanation originating from you must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 plus your Strength modifier and Proficiency Bonus). On a failed save, a creature has the Frightened condition for 1 minute. At the end of each of the Frightened creature's turns, the creature repeats the save, ending the effect on itself on a success. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest unless you expend a use of your Rage (no action required) to restore your use of it.
Subclass: Path of the WyrmheartOriginal
Wake the Dragon Sleeping in Your Blood
Barbarians who follow the Path of the Wyrmheart carry a spark of a dragon's soul, inherited from a distant ancestor or swallowed with a dragon's blood. When they rage, the spark catches: scales rise along their skin, their voice deepens into a roar, and the old hunger of the wyrm takes hold.
LVL 3Draconic Rage
When you gain this feature, choose a damage type: Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Poison. While your Rage is active, you gain the following benefits. Scaled Hide. Your skin hardens into scales. You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class while you aren't wearing heavy armor. Wyrm's Bite. The extra damage from your Rage Damage bonus deals damage of your chosen type instead of the weapon's type, if you choose.
LVL 3Wyrm Sense
You have Advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks to notice hidden creatures within 30 feet of you, and you can sense the presence of any Dragon within 1 mile of you, though not its location.
LVL 6Draconic Resilience
You have Resistance to the damage type you chose for Draconic Rage. In addition, you can't be Frightened by a Dragon.
LVL 10Terrible Roar
When you enter your Rage, you can let out a dragon's roar. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet of you that can hear you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 plus your Strength modifier and Proficiency Bonus) or have the Frightened condition until the end of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest, unless you expend a use of your Rage (no action required) to restore your use of it.
LVL 14Wings of the Wyrm
While your Rage is active, leathery wings unfurl from your back. You have a Fly Speed equal to your Speed. In addition, once per turn when you hit a creature with an attack while flying, you can deal an extra 1d10 damage of your Draconic Rage type to it.