Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Paladin Traits

Paladin Statistics

Hit Dice: d10
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
Skills: Two out of Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion
Armor:All
Weapons: All
Tools: None
ASIs: 5 (4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th)
Important Ability Scores: Charisma, Strength or Dexterity
Subclasses (Oaths): 6
  • PHB Oaths: Devotion, Ancients, Vengeance
  • SCAG Oaths: Crown
  • Xanathar Oaths: Conquest, Redemption

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Monk Traits

Monk Statistics

Hit Dice: d8
Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
Skills: Two out of Acrobatics, Athletics, History, Insight, Religion, and Stealth
Armor: None
Weapons: Simple Weapons, Shortswords
Tools: One artisan's tolls or one musical instrument
ASIs: 5 (4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th)
Important Ability Scores: Dexterity, Wisdom
Subclasses (Traditions):7
  • PHB Traditions: Open Hand, Shadow, Four Elements
  • SCAG Archetypes: Long Death, Sun Soul (reprinted in Xanathar's)
  • Xanathar Domains: Drunken Master, Kensei

Fighter Traits

Fighter Statistics

Hit Dice: d10
Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution
Skills: Two out of Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, and Survival
Armor: All
Weapons: All
Tools: None
ASIs: 7 (4th, 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 19th)
Important Ability Scores: Strength or Dexterity, Constitution
Subclasses (Archetypes):7
  • PHB Archetypes: Champion, Battlemaster, Eldritch Knight
  • SCAG Archetypes: Purple Dragon Knight (Banneret)
  • Xanathar Domains: Arcane Archer, Cavalier, Samurai

Druid Traits

Druid Statistics

Hit Dice: d8
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
Skills: Two out of Arcana, Animal Handling, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, and Survival
Armor: Light, Medium, and Shields
Weapons: Clubs, Daggers, Darts, Javelins, Maces, Quarterstaves, Scimitars, Sickles, Slings, and Spears
Tools: Herbalism Kit
ASIs: 5 (4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th)
Important Ability Scores:Wisdom
Subclasses (Circles): 4
  • PHB Circles: Land, Moon
  • Xanathar Domains: Dream, Shepherd

D&D 5e Class Traits

These lists are not meant to substitute for knowledge of the game or possession of the books. The terms and categories are subjective. They also do not rate the capability of each trait in the category it is placed in just that it is has the ability to be used for that purpose. For example, the Web spell can be used to deal damage when it is set on fire so it is included under the Damage category, but it is not particularly useful for damage dealing.

Some things:

Why are there categories on some classes that aren't on others? - Partially because I haven't standardized everything yet, but most of it is reasonably the same sort of thing.

What is Area Denial? Any effect that discourages or outright prevents creatures from entering an area. This can be causing the area to become Difficult Terrain as with Ice Storm, dealing damage to targets in the area as with Wall of Fire, or just preventing passage as with Wall of Force. The effect can be mobile, like Flaming Sphere, or stationary, like Plant Growth.

Why aren't Cantrips included in the Increased Effectiveness with Higher Level Slots categories? - Because you don't cast Cantrips with spell slots. The effectiveness of damage-dealing Cantrips increase based on Character Level automatically.

Why do you note which spells are Ritual on a classes that aren't Ritual Casters? - Because it is possible to get the Ritual Caster ability from another source such as the Ritual Caster feat or multiclassing.

Why is Wish on the Sorcerer list in its own category? - Because it's Wish.

What is a subclass? - For those that are new to 5e, the prestige classes from 3.x have been basically wrapped up into basic function of the class. Each class has several sub-classes and one of these is chosen between levels 1 and 3 dependent on which class it is. (Sorcerers, Clerics, and Warlocks choose at 1st Level. Druids choose at 2nd Level. The other classes choose at 3rd level.)

Why don't you less to-hit rates for the classes? - Attack accuracy is based on character level in 5e rather than differing from class to class. A character has a Proficiency Bonus which they add to any Skill, Saving Throw, or Attack with which they have proficiency. The Proficiency Bonus starts at +2 and caps out at +6 at level 17. Martial classes have other ways to stand out in their fighting ability such as the Extra Attack trait that most of them have.

Why did you use the PHB ranger instead of the revised ranger? - I prefer the Revised Ranger but decided to start with what WotC considers official and they have abandoned the Revised Ranger that they released on Unearthed Arcana. Mike Mearls has been toying with revising Ranger again, but the stuff he does on his stream is not always official so I do not know if we will be getting an official revision.


Others Coming

Cleric Traits

Cleric Statistics

Hit Dice: d8
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
Skills: Two out of History, Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion
Armor: Light, Medium, and Shields
Weapons: Simple Weapons
Tools: None
ASIs: 5 (4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th)
Important Ability Scores:Wisdom
Subclasses (Domains): 10
  • PHB Domains: Knowledge, Life, Light, Nature, Tempest, Trickery, War
  • SCAG Domain: Arcana
  • Xanathar Domains: Forge, Grave

Bard Traits

Basic Statistics

Hit Dice: d8
Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma
Skills: Three out of list of all Skills
Armor: Light
Weapons: Simple, Hand Crossbows, Longswords, Rapiers, Shortswords
Tools: Three music instruments
ASIs: 5 (4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th)
Important Ability Scores: Charisma
Subclasses (Colleges): 5
  • PHB Colleges: Lore, Valor
  • Xanathar Colleges: Glamour, Swords, Whispers

Monday, March 18, 2019

Barbarian Traits

Basic Statistics


Hit Dice: d12
Saving Throws: Strength and Constitution
Skills: Two from Animal Handling, Athletics, Intimidation, Nature, Perception, and Survival
Armor: Medium and Shields
Weapons: All
Tools: None
ASIs: 5 (4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th)
Important Ability Scores: Constitution, Strength, Dexterity
Sub-Classes (Primal Paths): 6
  • PHB Primal Paths: Frenzied Berserker, Totem Warrior
  • SCAG Primal Paths: Dwarven Battlerager, Additional Totem Warrior options
  • Xanathar's Primal Paths: Ancestral Guardian, Storm Herald, Zealot

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Scarred Endurance - Crossroads Campaign - Sessions 30-32

I've seen off Kelmar, Wyndelly, and Nezeri off on their mission to investigate the situations on Sharron leaving myself to look into the matters on Endurance with the newcomers to our little circle. Varis and Andraste are both far more competent with a blade than I am and have worked hard to interweave their magical arts with their martial abilities but this will be my chance to see how they stand up to the rigors of a mission.

Friday, January 18, 2019

Siege of Hollowguard - Crossroads Campaign - Sessions 26-29

I am writing now from within our quarters in the Center, the investigation has proven that there are certainly outsiders at work within the world of Sharron. The town of Hollowguard had been taken in the past by the effort of a necromancer and now that necromancer had reached out to the outer powers for greater power. Apparently there is a coalition of sorts of necromancers within the world and this one had felt constrained by their restrictions and so he sought extra power to defy them. When we arrived the initial necromancer had already been slain by a one of the members of this coalition who was now engaged in a half of a siege.

Saturday, January 12, 2019

Aki Satou - Chosen Scion of Ama-no-Uzume

Scions of the Second Refinement


D&D version of her, the scion version has no tail.

Background: Aki's conception was problematic to say the least in that she was certainly conceived after her supposed father died. Her mother, Kimun, reported that her husband came home from a position abroad one night and they celebrated as long parted lovers do. He left out the door the next day saying that he would return and the next she heard from him was a report that he had died in a car accident on another continent on the same day that he supposedly returned home.

At first Kimun and others assumed that the tryst was a matter of a ghost saying a final farewell and she sought a purification from the touch of the dead. Then she discovered that she was pregnant. She carried the child to term and gave birth to a daughter she named Aki. Aki was prone to sudden shifts of mood but was mostly well meaning just unfocused. Kimun sought help and learned that the apparition that had come to her was actually an oni with unknown intentions. Which is when she received a message to expect the creature soon and make his daughter ready for him.

Terrified for herself and her daughter, Kimun enacted a desperate plan. She set out a tea ceremony for her visitor who decided to appear in her husband's form, unaged from the last time he had appeared. Over the course of the meeting, she worked in subtle appeals to the Kami hoping against hope that they would help a simple woman such as herself. Luckily for her the Kami, or at least a Kami, heard and by the time the oni realized there was real power working against him, it was too late for him to act. He was forced to relinquish all his claim and influence over the child.

Unfortunately, Aki had snuck into a nearby room and witnessed the event and so she was present during the confrontation. As such while she was purified of the oni nature, it still left its mark on her. She had horns and her skin would range from shades of blue and red depending on her mood. Her mother worried that she would be shunned wherever they went. They'd already had to move from their first home due to the stigma of Aki being a cursed child, but there was no where to go where they could escape her cursed appearance. Fortunately, a cheerful woman stopped by their isolated house one day and asked for a chance to rest her feet. As she "just happened to chance" upon seeing Aki, she thanked her hostess by teaching Kimun a simple tea brew to help Aki conceal her curse.

It is the only tea that Aki finds very distasteful.

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