Commoner
A
fter a full day of work, the people goes to get
some rest and prepare for another full day.
Some go to the inn to get something to eat or
drink, others head back home, in the warm
hug of their family. Commoners are just these
people, but not all of them want to live their
entire life as a blacksmith or innkeeper. Some
want to live adventures of their own, instead of waiting for
some adventurers to come to the town's tavern to tell
theirs.
Ultimate Versatility
Commoners have the same means of an adventurer, they
just need a bit more training. Everyone started off a
commoner after all!
Commoners can already be a threat if encountered in
great packs and angered, but some want to be more than
that, and be able to hold their own. Through training and a
lot of effort, commoners can strengthen their bodies to
become excellent warriors, or delve into the Arcane to test
out their possibilities and one day compete with the best
spellcasters known.
Commoners are the most varied of classes. All wizards
may be learned and educated, but among commoners you
could find bits of everything. It is only up to you to decide
what you want to be, without any sort of restriction.
Creating a Commoner
Commoners are people like many others, but definitely
capable of becoming an adventurer.
Quick Build
To make a commoner be sure to read the Born for
Greatness and Class class traits.
Playing a Commoner
When creating a commoner, roll 4d5 and drop
the lowest instead of using 4d6.
If you're using the point buy method of
generating ability scores, have the maximum
purchasable attribute before bonuses be 13 and
the maximum amount of available points be 15.
If you're using the standard array, use these
values instead: 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 7.
If you intend to use a conventional way of
generating ability scores, ignore the Ability Score
Improvements in the class table.
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 The Commoner
Level Proficiency Bonus Features Cantrips Known (If Any) 1st Level Spell Slots (If Any)
1st +1 Born For Greatness, Skill Proficiency (1) — —

2nd +1 Martial Proficiency (1) — —

3rd +1 Training Focus 1 —
4th +1 Ability Score Improvement 1 —
5th +1 Martial Proficiency (2) 1 —
6th +1 Training Focus ability 1 —
7th +1 Skill Proficiency (2) 1 —
8th +1 Ability Score Improvement 1 —
9th +1 Martial Proficiency (3) 1 —
10th +1 Halfway There 1 —
11th +1 Hit Die Improvement 1 —
12th +1 Ability Score Improvement 1 —
13th +1 Martial Proficiency (4) 1 —
14th +2 Training Focus ability 2 1
15th +2 Hit Die Improvement 2 1
16th +2 Ability Score Improvement 2 1
17th +2 Martial Proficiency (5) 2 1
18th +2 Hit Die Improvement 2 1
19th +2 Ability Score Improvement 2 1
20th +2 Class 2 1

Class Features Born for Greatness

As a commoner, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d6 if Small size, 1d8 if Medium size
Hit Points at 1st Level: 1d6 or 1d8 + your Constitution
modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: You may only gain additional
Hit Points with the Hit Die Improvement class feature.
Proficiencies
Armor: None
Weapons: dagger
Tools: None
Saving Throws: None
Skills: None
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
equipment granted by your background:
1 gp
Playing a Commoner
This class is intended to be played in a full group
of commoners. Leveling up should be fast but
take a long in-game time for downtime activities.
Consider using the commoner class in a
campaign with few to no combat encounters.
As a commoner, you don't have the abilites that an
adventurer has, yet. Leveling up, you will get to pick
proficiencies that will have you become an adventurer.
When you reach 20th level, you get to choose a class for
which you have enough proficiencies. Select your
commoner proficiencies carefully keeping this in mind.
In order to be able to pick a class, you can't have
proficiencies that are different from the class you are going
to pick, but you can have less. For example, if you have
proficiency in Strength saving throws, you can't pick the
bard class because that class is only proficient in Dexterity
and Charisma saving throws, but you can pick the fighter
class even if you are not proficient in Constitution saving
throws aswell. Any proficiency got through any means that
isn't listed in the class table doesn't count against this rule
(for example, if you got the Strength saving throw
proficiency through the Resilient feat, you may be able to
pick the bard class. Same goes for skills granted by your
background, your race, your feats, and so on).
You only consider the proficiencies present it the Class
Features table (e.g. a cleric gains proficiency in heavy
armor at level 1 if they choose the Life Domain. You don't
consider this case. If you are proficient in heavy armor you
won't be able to choose cleric as your class). You make an
exception if you pick the Thieves' Cant or Druidic language
with the Broaden Your Horizons trait, but you must then
choose rogue or druid respectively as your class when you
reach 20th level.

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You can't pick a feat instead of an Ability Score
Improvement, but you can start off with a feat if you choose
the human (variant) race. You then won't get another feat at
level 1 of your chosen class.
When you finally get a class, you gain all the class
features of the class you've chosen but you can't change the
proficiencies you had chosen as a commoner.
As a commoner, you can't Multiclass (see Chapter 6 of the
Player's Handbook).
When creating a commoner, roll 4d5 and drop the lowest
instead of using 4d6.
If you're using the point buy method of generating ability
scores, have the maximum purchasable attribute before
bonuses be 13 and the maximum amount of available
points be 15.
If you're using the standard array, use these values
instead: 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 7.
Skill Proficiency
At 1st level, you gain proficiency with one Skill of your
choice.
When you reach 7th level, you gain proficiency in another
Skill that's from a list of staring proficiencies of a class that
includes the Skill proficiencies you already picked, too.
Martial Proficiency
When you reach 2nd level, you gain proficiency with darts,
quarterstaffs and slings.
When you reach 5th level, you gain proficiency in your
choice of a) shortswords, b) light crossbows, c) clubs,
javelins, maces, sickles and spears, or d) light armor.
When you reach 9th level, you gain proficiency in your
choice of a) hand crossbows, longswords and rapiers, b)
shortswords, c) scimitars, or d) clubs, javelins, maces,
sickles and spears.
When you reach 13th level, you gain proficiency in your
choice of a) all simple weapons, b) medium armor, c)
herbalism kits, d) thieves' tools, or e) one musical
instrument of your choice.
When you reach 17th level, you gain proficiency in your
choice of a) all martial weapons, b) heavy armor, c) shields,
or d) one saving throw of your choice.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th, 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. You can't
increase an ability score above 18 using this feature.
You can't give up an Ability Score Increase to pick a feat
instead.
Training Focus
At 3rd level, you choose what you want to focus your
training on. Choose Spellcaster, Warrior, or Supporter, all
detailed at the end of the class description. The focus you
choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th and
14th level.
Halfway There
Starting when you reach 10th level, if you use the Help
action to aid a player of the Commoner class, they add an
additional +1 bonus to the ability check or attack roll they
make with advantage. This bonus reverts back to +0 at
20th level.
Hit Die Improvement
When you reach 11th level, you can reroll your Hit Die in
hopes of getting a higher result for your maximum Hit
Points. You don't consider this roll if it is lower than your
previous one.
When you reach 15th level, your Hit Die becomes a d8
even if your size is Small. If your previous Hit Die was a d6,
you roll the d8 twice when determining your new
maximum Hit Points and pick the highest result. If the
highest result of the two is lower than your previous one,
you maximum Hit Points don't change.
When you reach 18th level, you treat your maximum Hit
Points as if you rolled an 8 on your Hit Die.
Class
When you reach 20th level, you are finally ready to become
a proper adventurer. Following the rules stated in the Born
for Greatness trait, pick a class. You gain the 1st level of
that class, and your hit dice are replaced by the class' hit
dice, and you change the hit points accordingly. In order for
you to be able to pick a certain class, the proficiencies
(armor, weapons, tools, saving throws, skills) you picked via
the commoner's class table mustn't be ones that your
chosen class doesn't have (you can still pick a class if you
have proficiencies that the class doesn't have if they've been
granted by other means, like race, background or feats),
and you must abide the Multiclassing prerequisites present
in Chapter 6 of the Player's Handbook. You don't gain the
Multiclassing Proficiencies, only the Class Features
proficiencies. You now count as a level 1 character of the
class you have chosen.
Training Focuses
Commoners have no restrictions on what they could
become, if they put effort into it. On an attempt to become a
spellcaster, warrior or supporter, you focus your training
specifically on that.
Spellcaster
You dive into the world of the Arcane, either studying magic
or starting to experiment with magic or alchemical
formulas and to test your magic capabilities.
Cantrip
Starting when you choose this focus at 3rd level, you gain
the ability to cast spells. See chapter 10 for the general
rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the spell lists. The
Commoner table shows how many Cantrips you know.
Choose a class: bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or
wizard. You learn one cantrip of your choice from that
class's spell list. Your spellcasting ability for this spell
depends on the class you chose: Charisma for bard,
sorcerer, or warlock; Wisdom for cleric or druid; or
Intelligence for wizard.
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 Change of Mind Warrior
When you reach 6th level, you can choose a different spell You put physical training above all else, in hopes of
list, changing the spellcasting ability for your spells becoming a strong warrior, hunter, soldier, city guard or
accordingly. The cantrip you know must be from the spell whatever you feel like.
list of the new class you choose.
Spell Fighting Proficiency
When you reach 14th level, you can choose a different spell When you choose this focus at 3rd level, you gain
list, changing the spellcasting ability for your spells proficiency in one saving throw of your choice among
accordingly. The cantrip you know must be from the spell Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution.
list of the new class you choose. Also, you learn one
additional cantrip. This cantrip must be from the same list Training Advancement
your other cantrip you gained from this focus is from. When you reach 6th level, you apply +2 as your proficiency
bonus instead of the normal proficiency bonus your level
You also gain the ability to cast 1st level spells. The should grant you.
Commoner table shows how many Spell Slots you have to
cast your Spells. To cast one of your Spells of 1st level, you Accessory Training
must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain When you reach 14th level, choose one proficiency you
all expended Spell Slots when you finish a Long Rest. have developed during your tranining:
• a) If you are proficient with all simple weapons through
You prepare the list of Commoner Spells that are the Martial Proficiency trait, you gain proficiency in your
available for you to cast, choosing from a spell list that choice of a) one type of artisan's tools of your choice or b)
includes both of the cantrips you chose through this focus. shields.
When you do so, choose one 1st level spell. You cannot • b) If you are proficient with medium armor through the
change your list of prepared Spells. Martial Proficiency trait, you gain proficiency with shields.
Supporter
You want to be the part of an adventuring group that
everyone could take use of, either thanks to your training in
healing, social skills or general proficiency in different
branches.
Supporting Proficiency
When you choose this focus at 3rd level, you gain your
choice of a) one proficiency in a Skill that's from a list of
starting proficiencies of a class that includes the Skill
proficiency you picked at level 1, too, or b) proficiency in the
herbalism kit, or c) proficiency in one saving throw of your
choice among Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom
and Charisma.
Training Advancement
When you reach 6th level, you apply +2 as your proficiency
bonus instead of the normal proficiency bonus your level
should grant you.
Broaden Your Horizons
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