Barbarian Table

Class Feature 

As a barbarian, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d12 per barbarian level

Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d12 (or 7) + your Constitution modifier per barbarian level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields

Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons

Tools: None

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

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 shown in 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 times shown for your barbarian level in the Rages column of the Barbarian table, you must finish a long rest before you can rage again.

Unarmored Defense

While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + 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. Doing 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. All of the Primal Paths are described below. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th levels. Primal Paths: Path of the Berserker, Path of the Gladiator, and Path of the Totem Warrior

Ability Score Improvement

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.

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 combat 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.

Relentless Rage

Starting at 11th level, your rage can keep you fighting despite grievous wounds. 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 embody the power of the wilds. Your Strength and Constitution scores increase by 4. Your maximum for those scores is now 24.

A gladiator was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their lives and their legal and social standing by appearing in the arena. Most were despised as slaves, schooled under harsh conditions, socially marginalized, and segregated even in death. This subclass is used to represent the more aggressive and strong gladiators, that fights with brutality and power. You can use the subclass Way Of The Gladiator to represent gladiators that prefers finesse and speed.

Note: It is presumed the character has taken the background for one of the seven schools. Players should likely not take this path if they have not.

Rage of the crowd

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, your rage is reinforced when you are in the arena, under the cheers of the crowd. While raging, if there are present at least three non-combatant bystanders, you can add your Charisma modifiers to your damage rolls with melee weapons.

Gladiator style

At 3rd level, when you adopt this path, you choose a gladiator style and gain its feature. If you are proficient with piece meal armor you can use it in conjunction with your unarmed defense. Also see the World Book for Details.

• Andabata – The Blind Folded: While raging you have blindsight or 30 feet. Also do to the training it takes in the this school, you can go one whole turn without making an attack and still maintain your rage.
• Cestus – The Brawler: While raging your unarmed damage goes up one die type. Also if you have multiple attacks and you hit with all of them on the same opponent, you can make a special grab action as a bonus action. This does your 2d6 bludgeoning damage and does not require an attack roll.
• Dimach – Dual Swords: While raging you can add a +2 to your AC as your weapons become a blur like defense.
• Parmul - Small Shield: While raging you can use your shield as yet another weapon. If you do not have a weapon damage with your shield it is considered a light weapon doing 1d6 bludgeoning damage. If your shield already has weapon damage, the damage dies in increased by one die type.
• Retiarius – the Net Fighter: Not sure, might need to work with a player that wants this.
• Samnite – Sword and tower shield: While raging if you make a dexterity related save to take half damage, you take know damage instead.
• Venatio – The Animal Trainers: While raging you can add 5 feet to the threat range of your whip, and if you hit a creature with an attack you can pull the creature too you. This is done just like a push, but instead you pull them to you.
• Other – Small School: Players are welcome to craft a new smaller school. Maybe it is a new school that has recently come to Eadwald and is looking to expand and become an eighth school.

Gladiator in arena consilium capit

Beginning at 6th level, you can motivate and inspire your wounded allies during a short rest. If you or any friendly creatures who can hear your performance spend one or more Hit Dice to regain hit points at the end of the short rest, each of those creatures regains an extra 2d6 hit points. Also, you and any friendly creature gains advantage in saving throws against being frightened until the next long or short rest.

Morituri te salutant

Starting with 10th level, anytime you roll initiative, you can make a Charisma (Performance) check. For every 5 points you get on the check, you gain a 1d8 Gladiator Inspiration die. You can keep just one die and transfer the rest to any number of creatures within 60 feet of you who can hear you. A creature can have only one Gladiator Inspiration die at a time. Any remaining die are lost.

Once within the next 10 minutes, anyone with a Gladiator Inspiration die can roll it and add the number rolled to one damage roll, attack roll, or saving throw you make. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Gladiator Inspiration die but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Gladiator Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost.

Dum vivimus, vivamus

Starting 14th level, if you score a critical hit, you regain hit points equal to 10 + your Charisma modifier. You don’t gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points or if you have more than half of your hit points left.