Barbarians

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Drawn from the wilds, the inflicted, the isolated, and the mad, barbarians are uncouth warriors who, when pushed to their limit, snap into deadly rages.

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Barbarian Heroes

Prerequisite: 12 Constitution
Starting Hit Points: 12 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Die: d12
Proficiencies: You are Trained in Dodge, Initiative, Weapons, light and hide Armor, and Martial Maneuvers.
Skills: You possess the Endurance skill and can select 3 other Skills.

Barbarian Features

Devastating Blows

When you have Advantage on a non-finesse weapon attack and both rolls result in a hit, you deal additional damage equal to your weapon’s damage dice.

Alternatively, if you are wielding two non-finesse weapons, you deal your secondary weapon's damage to your target or an adjacent enemy.

Mobility

You have Advantage on Dodge attempts against attacks triggered by your movement. In addition, critical hits against your allies allow you to shift 5' closer to them.

Rage

On your turn in combat, you can spend a hero's surge to become Enraged. This condition lasts until you fall unconscious, a number of rounds equal to your Constitution score pass, or you are pacified.

While enraged, you increase your Strength score by your level.

Reckless Attacks

When you make an attack, you can gain Advantage on all attacks until the start of your next turn at the cost of suffering Disadvantage on all defenses until the start of your next turn.

The Barbarian

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Level	Benefit	Hero’s Surges	Title
1	Barbarian Features, Devastating Blows, Mobility, Rage, Reckless Attacks	4	Brute
2	Brutal Expertise, Haul the Scruff, Long Strides	5
3	Path of Blood, Trap Sense	5	Savage
4	Boon, Brutal Legend	6
5	Valor	6
6	Path of Blood Benefit	7	Bloodthirster
7	Boon	7
8	Path of Blood Benefit	8	Juggernaut
9	Boon	8
10	Heroism	9

LEVEL 2 Barbarian

Brutal Expertise

You learn the Power Attack Fighter Combat Feat. Consider your Telling Attacks damage for this feature to be 1d4.

Boon Option: Learn an additional Fighter Combat Feat.

Haul the Scruff

If you have a free hand, when you move you can pull a willing, adjacent, medium or smaller ally with you with Hindered movement.

While you are raging, you can do the same with an unwilling creature, provided you hit the creature with an attack on the turn you use this feature.
For every level your Strength rank exceeds Trained, increase the creature size you can target with this feature by one.

Long Strides

While wearing hide or lighter armor or no armor your speed is increased by 5’.

Boon Option: Increase this bonus by 5’.

LEVEL 3 Barbarian

Path of Blood

At level three, the violent nature that made you a barbarian begins to overtake. Choose a Path of Blood to unleash upon those who stand in your way.

Berserker

Berserkers

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You are a whirlwind of devastation, a fearless conqueror of the battlefield who leaves no enemy standing.

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LEVEL 3 Berserker

Litter the Battlefield

When your Devastating Blows feature is triggered, you can use the Martial Maneuver feature of a weapon you wield at the success level you rolled in place of dealing additional weapon damage.

Savage Attacks

Choose a type of , such as Trip or Push. Non-finesse melee weapons you wield are considered to possess this feature when you use them to make melee attacks. If the weapon you wield already possesses this feature, you instead gain a +1 rank bonus with such attacks.

Boon Options:

• Choose an additional type of to add to weapons you wield.
• Apply Trip or Push features to ranged attacks.

LEVEL 6 Berserker

Berserker Expertise

Learn an additional Fighter Combat Feat.

Unstoppable Strength

You reroll any non-finesse weapon damage result lower than your Constitution modifier

LEVEL 8 Berserker

Berserker Expertise

Learn an additional Fighter Combat Feat.

Brutal Critical

Your critical hits with melee weapons deal additional damage equal to your weapon's damage dice

Uncanny Reaction

While wearing hide or lighter armor, you can spend a hero's surge to act in a surprise round, take no damage or effect from an attack you successfully dodged or resisted with Dexterity, or attempt to Dodge an attack you were unaware of with Advantage. If your Dodge attempt does not succeed, you do not expend a hero's surge.

Feral Blood

Feral Blood Barbarians

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Your blood, through exposure to lycanthropy, disease, experimentation, or some other factor, is twisted with bestial traits. When your fury breaks forth from it, so do terrifying mutations.

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Prerequisite: 12 Constitution

LEVEL 3 Feral Blood

Primal Expertise

When you activate a Primal Manifestation, select a Fighter Combat Feat. You know this feat while this manifestation is active.

Primal Manifestation

Select two Primal Manifestations. Every night at the moon's zenith, you can select which manifestation you have active. While wearing hide or lighter armor, you gain the benefits of this manifestation. When you rage, you can change your active manifestation.

Boon Options:

• Activate two manifestations simultaneously.
• Learn an additional Primal Manifestation.

LEVEL 6 Feral Blood

Keen Senses

You make Perception checks without penalty while sleeping and can notice traps and secrets doors as if you were searching for them merely by passing by them

Rage Breaker

You gain access to the Rage Breaker power of your Primal Manifestation.

LEVEL 8 Feral Blood

Feral Expertise

Learn an additional Fighter Combat Feat.

Wilder Blood

Select an additional Primal Manifestations.

Feral Blood Barbarian Primal Manifestations

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Manifestation	Benefit	Rage Breaker (Level 6)
Protractile Claws	You gain claws that function as non-finesse melee weapons you are Trained in and deal 1d6 slashing damage. If you already possess natural claws, instead increase their damage die by one size. Once per turn when you use an Attack action while raging, you can make an additional claw attack, provided you have an empty hand to do so with.	Carcajou's Frenzy: After taking damage, you can spend a hero's surge to regain hit points equal to your Constitution modifier at the start of each of your turns. This effect lasts for a number of rounds equal to your level, until you've regained more than ¼ of your maximum hit points through this effect, or until your enraged condition ends. If you begin your turn with your hit points at maximum or if this condition ends, your enraged condition ends.
Forked Tongue	You gain Blindsight equal to the distance of your Long Stride bonus speed. While raging, this distance is doubled.	Viper Strikes: As an action, you can spend a hero's surge to attack all adjacent creatures. If you kill all adjacent creatures during this attack, you can move and attack all adjacent creatures again. After taking this action, your enraged condition ends.
Spiked Tail	You gain a tail of a length equal to half your height. If you already possess a natural tail, it instead becomes prehensile. Your tail grants you Reliability on Dexterity (Balance) checks. While raging, your tail counts as a non-finesse melee weapon you are Trained in that deals 1d8 piercing damage.	Komodo's Sweep: As an action, you can spend a hero's surge to make a spiked tail attack against all creatures within a range equal to your Long Stride movement bonus. Any target you critically hit with this attack is knocked prone. After taking this action, your enraged condition ends.
Spined Scales	Reduce your choice of slashing, piercing, or bludgeoning damage by 1. While raging, reduce all Physical Damage by 1.	Moloch's Embrace: When you Grapple a creature or are grappled by a creature, you can spend a hero's surge to deal piercing damage to the creature equal to your Constitution modifier. You can repeat this damage once per turn and at the end of the target's turn while the grapple persists. If you end a turn while not grappling a creature, your enraged condition ends.
Vestigial Wings	You take no falling damage and when falling, you can glide a distance equal to the distance you fall. While raging, you can fly at a speed equal to your Long Stride bonus speed.	Sparrow Bee's Sting: As an action or when an enemy within 30' feet makes an attack, you can spend a hero's surge to hurl the weapons you wield at the triggering enemy or a target within 30' with Advantage and Reliability. After taking this action, your enraged condition ends.

Wild Blood

Wild Blood Barbarians

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You survived a powerful spell, curse, or encounter with an arcane entity, and when you rage, the magic seared in your blood tears free to wild, devastating force.

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LEVEL 3 Wild Blood

Magic Blood

Your blood boils with magic. Choose one of the following options.

Smell Magic: You can make a Perception attempt to detect magic as if you possessed Arcane Magic's Detect Magic feature at a Trained rank. In addition, you gain the Arcana skill and learn an additional Fighter Combat Feat.
Speak Magic: You become Trained in Arcane Magic and its Detect Magic feature and learn an arcane cantrip of your choice.
Boon Option: Learn an additional arcane cantrip.
Boon Option: Gain both Magic Blood features.

Wild Magic Rage

When you rage, you unleash the magic bound up inside you. Roll 1d100 and consult the Wild Magic Rages table to determine the effect.

LEVEL 6 Wild Blood

Disrupt Magic

As a full-round action, you can interact with a magic effect. Roll on the Disrupt Magic table to determine the outcome. If the magic effect is a magical trap, at the end of this action, you trigger it.

Wild Expertise

Learn an additional Fighter Combat Feat.

LEVEL 8 Wild Blood

Wild Expertise

Learn an additional Fighter Combat Feat.

Wild Resistances

While wearing hide or lighter armor, you can spend a hero's surge to use Disrupt Magic against a magical attack, even if you are not aware of it.

Wild Magic Barbarian Wild Magic Rages

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1d100	Wild_Magic_Rage	Benefit
1	Contagious	Your critical hits cause your target to become Enraged until the end of their next turn. A target with more hit points than your maximum can spend an attack to end this effect.
2-5	Dispelling	All magic items and effects on you are suppressed and your melee attacks dispel a 1st level magic effect on your target on a normal success, a 2nd level effect or two 1st level effects on a major, or a 3rd level effect or combination of 1st and 2nd level effects totaling up to 3 on a critical.
6-11	Magnetic	Attacks with metal weapons against you have Reliability and if an adjacent creature is hit by a metal weapon, you can cause that attack to hit you instead.
12-19	Necromantic	When you critically hit an enemy, dead creatures within a distance equal to your Long Stride movement bonus stand up, move up to your Long Stride bonus speed, and make a melee attack against your target before collapsing back to death. If no creature is within their reach, they attack you instead.
20-24	Silent	You become incapable of making a sound and when you hit a target with an attack, it is Silenced until the end of its next turn. A target with more hit points than your maximum can spend an attack to end this effect.
25-29	Blood	Your weapon attacks deal an additional 2 damage while dealing 1 True Damage to you
30-39	Burning	At the end of each of your turns, you burn for 1d4 damage. In addition, creatures who hit you with melee attacks take 1d4 fire damage for each odd level you possess.
40-49	Frigid	Ice forms around your skin. You suffer Vulnerability to cold damage but gain Resistance to fire and Damage Reduction against physical attacks equal to your number of odd levels.
50-59	Electric	You gain Resistance to lightning and your critical hits arc lightning between you and every creature or corpse you've hit since the start of the rage, dealing 1d4 lightning damage per odd level you possess.
60-69	Thunderous	Your critical hits detonate, pushing all creatures within your Long Stride movement bonus of the target you struck a distance equal to your Long Stride movement bonus.
70-79	Fading	You gain Invisibility at the start of every turn. If you attempt to attack a creature while invisible and roll a 1, it also gains this effect.
80-88	Astral	When you hit an enemy, you can teleport a distance equal to your Long Stride movement bonus
89-94	Divining	Your vision pierces any magical effect, from fog cloud to invisible creatures to those that have been polymorphed
95-99	Displacing	You become displaced in space and time. When a creature or object attempts to interact with you, make a Luck Roll. If you are lucky, you vanish and reappear where you were after the interaction. On a 1, this effect is transferred to your attacker.
100	Temporal	At the beginning of your first turn while raging, take two turns. Each turn must utilize different movements and actions. Make separate attempts for each turn. After determining the effects of each turn, choose which turn comes into play. Each round thereafter, make a luck roll. On a 1, you lose your turn. On a lucky result, repeat this effect. On a 20, repeat this effect but choose from three turns.

Wild Magic Barbarian Disrupt Magic

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1d100	Disruption_______	Effect
1	Detonated	The magic effect explodes in a 5' sphere per spell level, dealing force damage to those that don't resist, and half that damage to those who do. Make a Luck Roll. If the result is lucky, it deals 2d6 per spell level. On a 20, it deals 1 per spell level. If the result is unlucky, it deals 3d6 per spell level. On a 1, it deals 4d6 per spell level.
2-5	Awakened	The magic effect becomes intelligent and selects any effect on this table it desires
6-11	Maximized	Any randomly determined effects of the magic effect are maximized
12-17	Empowered	Any static effects of the magic effect, such as range, duration, or number of targets affected, are doubled.
17-22	Piercing	If the magic effect offers a chance to resist its effects, the first such chance is always failed
23-28	Altered: Necrotic	Any typeable effect of the magic effect becomes a necrotic effect
29-34	Altered: Force	Any typeable effect of the magic effect becomes a force effect
35-39	Altered: Poison	Any typeable effect of the magic effect becomes a poison effect
40-44	Altered: Fire	Any typeable effect of the magic effect becomes a fire effect
45-49	Altered: Cold	Any typeable effect of the magic effect becomes a cold effect
50-54	Altered: Acid	Any typeable effect of the magic effect becomes an acid effect
55-59	Altered: Radiant	Any typeable effect of the magic effect becomes a radiant effect
60-64	Altered: Lightning	Any typeable effect of the magic effect becomes a lightning effect
65-69	Altered: Healing	Any damage the magic effect would have dealt is changed to healing
70-74	Delayed	The magic unleashes at a later time. The DM secretly rolls 1d100 and determines what the result means.
75-82	Weakened	All numeric effects of the magic effect are halved
83-88	Suppressed	The magic effect is suppressed for a number of rounds equal to your level
89-94	Dispelled	The magic effect is dispelled
95-99	Manipulated	You gain the ability to manipulate the magic effect, as per Manipulate Magic
100	Dominated	You absorb the magic effect, gaining the ability to recast it on a target or space you can see as an action before your next long rest.

Trap Sense

You gain a +1 Rank Bonus on your defenses against traps and on Perception (Find Traps) checks to detect them

LEVEL 4 Barbarian

Brutal Legend

You increase your renown by the number of legendary monsters you have defeated.