Barbarian

As a Barbarian, you gain the following class features

* **Hit points at higher levels:** 1d12 (or 7) + your constitution modifier per barbarian level after first.

### **Proficiencies:**

* **Armor:** Light armor, medium armor, shields.
* **Weapons:** Simple weapons, martial weapons
* **Saving throws:** Str, Con
* **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 bacground:

* (A) 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 unconcious 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 befor 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 fist 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. Choose the Path of the Berserker, Path of the Totem Warrior, or Path of the Ancestral Guardian. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th and 14th level.

### **Ability Score Improvement:**

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase on ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. 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 10ft 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 fist 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. You max for those scores is now 24.

## **Primal Paths**

### **Path of the Berserker:**

For some barbarians, rage is a means to an end- that end being violence. The Path of the Berserker is a path of untrammeled fury, slick with blood. As you enter the berserker's rage, you thrill in the chaos of battle, heedless of your own health or well-being.

* **Frenzy:** Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can go into a frenzy when you rage. If you do so, for the duration of your rage you can make a single melee weapon attack as a bonus action on each of your turns after this one. When your rage ends, you suffer one level of exhaustion.
* **Mindless Rage:** Beginning at 6th level, you can't be charmed or frightened while raging. If you are charmed or frightened when you enter your rage, the effect is suspended for the duration of the rage.
* **Intimidating Presence:** Beginning at 10th level, you can use your action to frighten someone with your menacing presence. When you do so, choose one creature that you can see within 30ft of you. If the creature can see or hear you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8+ your proficiency bonus+ your Charisma modifier) or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn. On subsequent turns, you can use your action to extend the duration of this effect on the frightened creature until the end of your next turn. This effect ends if the creature ends its turn out of line of sight or more than 60ft away from you. If the creature succeeds on its saving throw, you can't use this feature on that creature again for 24 hours.
* **Retaliation:** Starting at 14th level, when you take damage from a creature that is within 5ft of you, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.

### **Path of the Totem Warrior**

The Path of the Totem Warrior is a spiritual journey, as the barbarian accepts a spirit animal as guide, protector, and inspiration. In battle, your totem spirit fills you with supernatural might, adding magical fuel to your barbarian rage. Most barbarian tribes consider a totem animal to be kin to a particular clan. In such cases, it is unusual for an individual to have more than one totem animal spirit, though exceptions exist.

* **Spirit Seeker:** Yours is a path that seeks attunement with the natural world, giving you a kinship with beasts. At 3rd level when you adopt this path, you gain the ability to cast the *Beast Sense* and *Speak with Animals* spells, but only as rituals.
* **Totem Spirit:** At 3rd level, when you adopt this path, you choose a totem spirit and gain its feature. You must make or acquire a physical totem object- an amulet or similar adornment- that incorporates fur or feathers, claws, teeth, or bones of the totem animal. At your option, you also gain minor physical attributes that are reminiscent of you totem spirit. For example, if you have a bear totem spirit, you might be unusually hairy and thick skinned, or if your totem is the eagle, your eyes turn bright yellow. Your totem animal might be an animal related to those listed here bur more appropriate to you homeland. For example, you could choose a hawk or vulture in place of an eagle
	+ **Bear:** While raging, you have resistance to all damage except psychic damage. The spirit of the bear makes you tough enough to stand up to any punishment.
	+ **Eagle:** While you're raging and aren't wearing heavy armor, other creatures have disadvantage on opportunity attack rolls against you, and you can use the Dash action as a bonus action on your turn. The spirit of the eagle makes you into a predator who can weave through the fray with ease.
	+ **Wolf:** While you're raging, your friends have advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature within 5 feet of you that is hostile to you. The spirit of the wolf makes you a leader of hunters.
* **Aspect of the Beast:** At 6th level, you gain a magical benefit based on the totem animal of your choice. You can choose the same animal you selected at 3rd level or a different one.
	+ **Bear:** You gain the might of a bear. Your carrying capacity (including max load and max lift) is doubled, and you have advantage on Strength checks made to push, pull, lift, or break objects.
	+ **Eagle:** You gain the eyesight of an eagle. You can see up to 1 mile away with no difficulty, able to discern even fine details as though looking at something no more than 100 feet away from you. Additionally, dim light doesn't impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks.
	+ **Wolf:** You gain the hunting sensibilities of a wolf. You can track other creatures while traveling at a fast pace, and you can move stealthily while traveling at a normal pace.
* **Spirit Walker:** At 10th level, you can cast the *Commune with Nature* spell, but only as a ritual. When you do so, a spiritual version of one of the animals you chose for Totem Spirit or Aspect of the Beast appears to you to convey the information you seek.
* **Totemic Attunement:** At 14th level, you gain a magical benefit base on a totem animal of your choice. You can choose the same animal you selected previously or a different one.
	+ **Bear:** While you're raging, any creature within 5ft of you that's hostile to you has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you or another character with this feature. An enemy is immune to this effect if it can't see or hear you or if it can't be frightened.
	+ **Eagle:** While raging, you have a flying speed equal to your current walking speed. This benefit works only in short bursts: you fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft.
	+ **Wolf:** While you're raging, you can use a bonus action on your turn to knock a Large or smaller creature prone when you hit it with melee weapon attack.

### **Path of the Ancestral Guardian**

Some barbarians hail from cultures that revere their ancestors. These tribes teach that the warriors of the past linger in the world as mighty spirits, who can guide and protect the living. When a barbarian who follows this path rages, the barbarian contacts the spirit world and calls on these guardian spirits for aid in a time of need. Barbarians who draw on their ancestral guardians can better fight to protect their tribes and their allies. In order to cement ties to their ancestral guardians, barbarians who follow this path cover themselves in elaborate tattoos tell sagas of victories against terrible monsters and other fearsome rivals.

* **Ancestral Protectors:** Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, spectral warriors appear when you enter your rage. These warriors appear when you enter your rage. These warriors distract a foe you strike and hinder its attempts to harm your companions. While you're raging, the first creature you hit with an attack on your turn becomes the target of the warriors. Until the start of your next turn or until your rage ends, that target has disadvantage on any attack roll that doesn't target you, and creatures other than you have resistance to the damage of the target's attacks.
* **Spirit Shield:** Beginning at 6th level, the guardian spirits that aid you can provide supernatural protection for your allies. If you are raging and a creature you can see withing 30ft of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to reduce that damage by 2d8. When you reach certain levels in this class, you can reduce the damage by more: by 3d8 at 10th level and by 4d8 at 14th level.
* **Consult the Spirits:** At 10th level, you gain the ability to consult with your ancestral spirits and use them to scout far-off areas. When you do so, you cast the *Clairvoyance* spell, without needing a spell slot. Rather than creating a spherical sensor, the spell invisibly summons one of your ancestral spirits to the chosen location. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for the spell. After you cast the spell in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
* **Vengeful Ancestors:** At 14th level, your ancestral spirits grow powerful enough to strike foes that dare to harm those you protect. When you use your spirit shield to protect a creature damaged by an attack, the attacker takes the same amount of damage that your spirit shield prevents.