Core Classes
Barbarians come alive in the chaos of combat.
Barbarian : Revised
A tall human tribesman strides through a blizzard,
draped in fur and hefting his axe. He laughs as he
charges toward the frost giant who dared poach his
people’s elk herd.
A half-orc snarls at the latest challenger to her
authority over their savage tribe, ready to break his
neck with her bare hands as she did to the last six
rivals.
Frothing at the mouth, a dwarf slams his helmet
into the face of his drow foe, then turns to drive his
armored elbow into the gut of another.
These barbarians, different as they might be, are
defined by their rage: unbridled, unquenchable, and
unthinking fury. More than a mere emotion, their
anger is the ferocity of a cornered predator, the
unrelenting assault of a storm, the churning turmoil of
the sea.
For some, their rage springs from a communion
with fierce animal spirits. Others draw from a roiling
reservoir of anger at a world full of pain. For every
barbarian, rage is a power that fuels not just a battle
frenzy but also uncanny reflexes, resilience, and
feats of strength.
Primal Instinct
People of towns and cities take pride in how their
civilized ways set them apart from animals, as if
denying one’s own nature was a mark of superiority.
To a barbarian, though, civilization is no virtue, but a
sign of weakness. The strong embrace their animal
nature—keen instincts, primal physicality, and
ferocious rage. Barbarians are uncomfortable when
hedged in by walls and crowds. They thrive in the
wilds of their homelands: the tundra, jungle, or
grasslands where their tribes live and hunt.
They can enter a berserk state where rage takes
over, giving them superhuman strength and
resilience. A barbarian can draw on this reservoir of
fury only a few times without resting, but those few
rages are usually sufficient to defeat whatever
threats arise.
A Life of Danger
Not every member of the tribes deemed
“barbarians” by scions of civilized society has the
barbarian class. A true barbarian among these
people is as uncommon as a skilled fighter in a town,
and he or she plays a similar role as a protector of
the people and a leader in times of war. Life in the
wild places of the world is fraught with peril: rival
tribes, deadly weather, and terrifying monsters.
Barbarians charge headlong into that danger so that
their people don’t have to.
Their courage in the face of danger makes
barbarians perfectly suited for adventuring.
Wandering is often a way of life for their native tribes,
and the rootless life of the adventurer is little
hardship for a barbarian. Some barbarians miss the
close-knit family structures of the tribe, but eventually
find them replaced by the bonds formed among the
members of their adventuring parties.
Creating a Barbarian
When creating a barbarian character, think about where
your character comes from and his or her place in the
world. Talk with your DM about an appropriate origin for
your barbarian. Did you come from a distant land, making
you a stranger in the area of the campaign? Or is the
campaign set in a rough-and-tumble frontier where
barbarians are common?
What led you to take up the adventuring life? Were you
lured to settled lands by the promise of riches? Did you join
forces with soldiers of those lands to face a shared threat?
Did monsters or an invading horde drive you out of your
homeland, making you a rootless refugee? Perhaps you
were a prisoner of war, brought in chains to “civilized” lands
and only now able to win your freedom. Or you might have
been cast out from your people because of a crime you
committed, a taboo you violated, or a coup that removed
you from a position of authority.
Quick Build
You can make a barbarian quickly by following these
suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in
Strength, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the
outlander background.

The Barbarian Table

Proficiency
Level Bonus Features Rages Rage Damage
1st +2 Rage (Revised), Unarmored Defense 2 +2
2nd +2 Reckless Attack (Revised), Danger Sense 2 +2
3rd +2 Primal Path 3 +2
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 3 +2
5th +3 Extra Attack, Fast Movement 3 +2
6th +3 Path Feature 3 +2
7th +3 Feral Instinct 3 +2
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 3 +2
9th +4 Brutal Critical (Revised) (1 die) 4 +3
10th +4 Path Feature 4 +3
11th +4 Relentless Rage (Revised) 4 +3
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 5 +3
13th +5 Brutal Critical (Revised) (2 dice) 5 +3
14th +5 Path Feature 5 +3
15th +5 Persistent Rage (Revised) 5 +3
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 5 +4
17th +6 Brutal Critical (Revised) (3 dice) 6 +4
18th +6 Indomitable Might (Revised) 6 +4
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 6 +4
20th +6 Primal Champion (Revised) Unlimited +4
*Make every feature a hyperlink that brings them to that specific feature in the class immediately in the final result
⦁ (a) two hand axes or (b) any simple weapon
Class Features ⦁ An explorer’s pack and four javelins

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 + 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) a greataxe or (b) any martial melee weapon
*remember to make every item a hyperlink with a quick
description in the final result
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 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.
● When you enter rage you may move up to half
your movement speed before having to use your
own movement speed.

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 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. 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
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. The Path of the Berserker and Path of the
Totem Warrior are detailed at the end of the class
description, and additional primal paths are available in
other sources. Your choice grants you features at 3rd
level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th levels.
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.
Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this
feature to take a feat of your choice instead.
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, your weapon attacks score a
critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20, in addition you add the
maximum result of one die of your weapon's damage to
the damage of a critical hit with a weapon.
This bonus damage increases to 2 maximum die
results at 13th level and 3 maximum die results 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
5 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 rage again, the DC resets to 5.
Persistent Rage
Beginning at 15th level, your rage is so fierce that your
rage lasts equal to half your Barbarian level.
Additionally you may regain a rage whenever you finish
raging and succeed on a DC 15 Constitution Check.
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.
Whenever you have advantage on an attack roll using
Strength, you can also reroll one of the dice once.
Primal Champion
At 20th level, you embody the power of the wilds. You
may divide 10 points between your Strength, Constitution
and Dexterity scores. Your maximum for those scores is
now 24.
Primal Paths
Rage burns in every barbarian’s heart, a furnace that
drives him or her toward greatness. Different barbarians
attribute their rage to different sources, however. For
some, it is an internal reservoir where pain, grief, and
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anger are forged into a fury hard as steel. Others see it
as a spiritual blessing, a gift of a totem animal.
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
Mindless RageStarting 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. Each additional time you use
this ability before completing a long rest, you must make
a DC 10 Constitution saving throw at the end of the
frenzy. If you fail, you suffer one level of exhaustion. You
ignore the effects of exhaustion while raging.
Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC
increases by 5. When you finish a long rest, the DC
resets to 10.
At 5th level, you may make a single melee weapon
attack as part of the bonus action you use to begin a
Frenzy.
At 11th level, you gain temporary hit points when you
use Frenzy equal to your Barbarian levels.
At 14th level, you no longer suffer exhaustion when
you finish using Frenzy..
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 condition immediately
ends.
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
30 feet 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 Strength 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 60 feet away
from you.
If you are using Frenzy, you may use a bonus action to
frighten someone and maintain the effect.
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 reach of a weapon you are holding,
you can use your reaction to make a 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 as described in the
Spellcasting section. When you cast these spells, you
may not do so again until you finish a long rest.
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
your 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 but more appropriate to your 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, your movement does not provoke
attacks of opportunity, 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
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you that is hostile to you. The spirit of the wolf makes you
a leader of hunters.
Tiger
While you're raging your speed increases by 10ft.
Additionally as a bonus action you can attempt to
grapple.
Your Rage Damage Bonus is also doubled for your
attacks. The spirit of the tiger increases your natural
ferocity.
Elk
While you're raging and aren't wearing heavy armor, your
walking speed increases by 15 feet.
Additionally while you're raging you can use the Shove
action as a bonus action. Whenever you successfully use
the Shove action against an enemy, you deal
bludgeoning damage to them equal to your Strength
modifier.
The spirit of the elk makes you extraordinarily swift and a
master of battering your enemies.
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
Your carrying capacity (including maximum load and
maximum lift) is doubled, and you have advantage on
Strength checks made to push, pull, lift, or break objects.
Eagle
You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws if you don't
have it already.
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. Dim light doesn’t
impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception)
checks. You also have advantage on all Wisdom
(Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Wolf
You can track other creatures while traveling at a fast
pace, and you can move stealthily while traveling at a
normal pace (see “Adventuring,” for rules on travel pace).
You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that
rely on hearing or smell.
Tiger
You gain proficiency in two skills from the following list:
Athletics, Acrobatics, Stealth, and Survival.
While raging, you can add 10 feet to your long jump
distance and 3 feet to your high jump distance. The spirit
of the tiger empowers your leaps.
Elk
Whether mounted or on foot, your travel pace is
doubled, as is the travel pace of up to ten companions
while they're within 60 feet of you and you're not
incapacitated.
Additionally you gain advantage on Wisdom
(Perception) Checks and get proficiency in the
Perception skill if you didn’t already have that. The spirit
of the Elk makes you weary of potential predators.
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 based 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 5 feet 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, spectral eagle wings sprout from your back,
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. Whenever you do fall, you can safely fall for a
number of feet equal to your current walking speed.
Wolf
While you're raging, you can use a bonus action on your
turn to attempt to knock a Large or smaller creature
prone with the Shove action when you hit it with a melee
weapon attack.
Tiger
While you're raging, if you move at least 20 feet in a
straight line toward a Large or smaller target right before
making a melee weapon attack against it, you can use a
bonus action to make an additional melee weapon attack
against it.
Additionally when your grapple succeeds you may
make one additional melee weapon attack as you lock
onto the creature with the grip of a Tiger.
Elk
While raging, you can use a bonus action during your
move to pass through the space of a Large or smaller
creature. That creature must succeed on a Strength
saving throw (DC 8 + your Strength bonus + your
proficiency bonus) or be knocked prone, pushed 10 feet
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into a random direction and take bludgeoning damage
equal to 1d12 + your Strength modifier.
Path of the Beast
Barbarians who walk the Path of the Beast draw their
rage from a bestial spark burning within their souls. That
beast bursts forth in the throes of rage, physically
transforming the barbarian.
Such a barbarian might be inhabited by a primal spirit
or be descended from shape-shifters. You can choose
the origin of your feral might or determine it by rolling on
the Origin of the Beast table.
Origin of the Beast
d4 Origin
One of your parents is a lycanthrope, and you've inherited
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some of their curse.
You are descended from an archdruid and inherited the
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ability to partially change shape.
A fey spirit gifted you with the ability to adopt different
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bestial aspects.
An ancient animal spirit dwells within you, allowing you to
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walk this path.
Form of the Beast
Starting at 3rd level, when you enter your rage you can
transform, revealing the bestial power within you. Until
the rage ends, you manifest a natural weapon. It counts
as a simple melee weapon for you, and you add your
Strength modifier to the attack and damage rolls when
you attack with it, as normal.
You choose the weapon's form each time you rage:
Bite. Your mouth transforms into a bestial muzzle or
great mandibles (your choice). It deals 1d8 piercing
damage on a hit. When you damage a creature with this
bite, you regain a number of hit points equal to twice your
proficiency bonus.
Claws. Each of your hands transforms into a claw,
which you can use as a weapon if it's empty. It deals 1d6
slashing damage on a hit. Once on each of your turns
when you attack with a claw using the Attack action, you
can make one additional claw attack as part of the same
action.
Tail. You grow a lashing, spiny tail, which deals 1d10
piercing damage on a hit and has the reach property. If a
creature you can see within 10 feet of you hits you with
an attack roll, you can use your reaction to place your tail
in front of you and roll a d6, applying a bonus to your
Armor Class equal to the number rolled, potentially
causing each attack to miss you.
You also gain a bonus of +1 to your Armor Class
whenever you are using this tail.
Potential natural weapons to include:
Carapace. Your skin hardens into a tough hide or
chitin. Your hit point maximum and current hit points
increase by your barbarian level plus your constitution
modifier. In addition, you have a +2 bonus to your Armor
Class.
Wings. A set of wings sprout from your back. You
gain flying speed equal to your walking speed.
Bestial Soul
At 6th level, the feral power within you increases, causing
the natural weapons of your Form of the Beast to count
as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and
immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage, as well as
granting you a +1 at 6th level (to attack and damage
rolls), a +2 at 10th level and a +3 at 14th level.
You can also alter your form to help you adapt to your
surroundings.
When you finish a short or long rest, choose one of the
following benefits, which lasts until you finish your next
short or long rest:
● You gain a swimming speed equal to your
walking speed, and you can breathe
underwater.
● You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking
speed, and you can climb difficult surfaces,
including upside down on ceilings, without
needing to make an ability check.
● When you jump, you can make a Strength
(Athletics) check and extend your jump by a
number of feet equal to the check's total. You
can make this special check only once per turn.
Additionally with this alteration you have gained more
control over the beast within.
As a bonus action, you can switch to another natural
weapon from your Form of the Beast feature while
raging.
Infectious Fury
At 10th level, when you hit a creature with one of your
natural weapons while you are raging, the beast within
you can curse your target with rabid fury once per turn.
The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC
equal to 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency
bonus) or suffer one of the following effects depending on
what.natural weapon you’re using:
● Bite. The target takes psychic damage equal to
twice your proficiency bonus and is unable to
regain hit points until the beginning of your next
turn, as it is overcome with an insatiable
bloodlust.
● Claws. You cause the target to make its next
attack at disadvantage until the start of your
next turn, as its appendages become warped
into unfamiliar shapes.
● Tail. The target’s AC is reduced by 1d6 until the
start of your next turn, as it is unbalanced due to
having to rely on a tail it never had.
A use is only expended when a creature fails the
Wisdom saving throw, and you can use this feature a
number of times equal to your proficiency bonus and
regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
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Call the Hunt
At 14th level, the beast within you grows so powerful that
you can spread its ferocity to others and gain resilience
from them joining your hunt. When you enter your rage,
you can choose a number of other willing creatures you
can see within 30 feet of you equal to your Constitution
modifier (minimum of one creature).
You gain 5 temporary hit points for each creature that
accepts this feature. Until the rage ends, the chosen
creatures can each use the following benefit once on
each of their turns:
● When the creature hits a target with an attack
roll and deals damage to it, the creature can roll
2d6 once per turn and gain a bonus to the
damage equal to the numbers rolled.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to
your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended
uses when you finish a long rest.
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.
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 that celebrate their ancestors' deeds. These
tattoos tell sagas of victories against terrible monsters
and other fearsome rivals.
Ancestor Protectors
Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, spectral
warriors appear when you enter your rage. While you're
raging, the first creature you hit with an attack on your
turn becomes the target of the warriors, which hinder its
attacks.
Until the start of your next turn, that target has
disadvantage on any attack roll that isn't against you, and
when the target hits a creature other than you with an
attack, that creature has resistance to the damage dealt
by the attack.
The effect on the target ends early if your rage ends.
Spirit Shield
Beginning at 6th level, the guardian spirits that aid you
can provide supernatural protection to those you defend.
If you are raging and another creature you can see within
30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction
to reduce that damage by 2d6.
When you reach certain levels in this class, you can
reduce the damage by more: by 3d6 at 10th level and by
4d6 at 14th level.
Consult the Spirits
At 10th level, you gain the ability to consult with your
ancestral spirits. When you do so, you cast the augury or
clairvoyance spell, without using a spell slot or material
components. Rather than creating a spherical sensor,
this use of clairvoyance invisibly summons one of your
ancestral spirits to the chosen location. Wisdom is your
spellcasting ability for these spells.
After you cast either spell in this way, you can't use this
feature again until you finish a short or long rest.
Ghost Buster
At 10th level, you can see on the ethereal plane and see
invisible creatures while raging. You can also attack and
damage creatures on the ethereal plane normally, as if
you were on the same plane of existence.
Vengeful Ancestors
At 14th level, your ancestral spirits grow powerful
enough to retaliate. When you use your Spirit Shield to
reduce the damage of an attack, the attacker takes an
amount of force damage equal to the damage that your
Spirit Shield prevents.
A note to barbarian
At low levels they do quite well, rage is a good ability,
reckless attack is a good ability, they have a lot of
hitpoints and they do a fair amount of damage. As you
get into higher levels though; even more so than other
martial classes, is that they tend to fall behind which
results in multiclassing to try to keep up. The goal then is
to make it so that if you chose to go straight barbarian
your martial capabilities would keep up with other martial
classes.
So the higher level abilities are being boosted to give
the barbarian a bit more power in that area.
Other changes are about how Rage itself can be a bit
clunky, particularly the rules to maintain your rage.
Another thing is that throwing weapons aren’t really
supported by the rules as written, so that option will also
be given.
As for the subclasses the totem barbarian choices
don’t really match up against each other. So that means
that the bear totem is much better than the others, and
some of the abilities given are also not that viable.
At higher levels the totem abilities also don’t match up
with those at 3rd level. These abilities should at least be
as good, if not better.
The Berserker Barbarian just doesn’t work as written,
so that needs a whole change. The primary ability is a
punishment, and the way you're punished makes it so
that you become a tired barbarian and that doesn’t really
fit with a ‘berserker barbarian’. Although the idea makes
sense, revisions need to happen so at least the main
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ability can be used without turning into that kind of
barbarian. This doesn’t mean that the whole exhaustion
idea is gone though.
The Beast barbarian's natural weapons are
underpowered at higher levels and the weapons also
don’t match up together. There is also no scaling for
those weapons.
Changes
➔ Equipment upper first option Changed from ‘a
greataxe’ to ‘a martial weapon and a shield’
because that is iconic and many barbarians use
a shield.
➔ Rage. Mostly the same except for the rage
damage with melee strength attack rule. It used
to be: ‘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.’ And that has
now been changed to: ‘When you make a
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.’ So now
it doesn’t have to be a melee attack to get your
rage bonus.
➔ Rage. There are already lots of limitations when
you rage, so it should be made harder to lose
your rage. So the following line has been
removed: ‘Your rage ends early if your turn ends
and you haven’t attacked a hostile creature
since your last turn or taken damage since
then.’
➔ Reckless attack. The following line has been
changed: ‘You can attack recklessly with melee
weapon attack rolls using Strength during this
turn’. The melee part is just removed. That
weapon still relies on strength.
➔ Brutal Critical. This ability used to be: ‘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.’ Now that
has been changed to: ‘Beginning at 9th level,
your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll
of 19 or 20, in addition you add the maximum
result of one die of your weapon's damage to
the damage of a critical hit with a weapon. This
bonus damage increases to 2 maximum die
results at 13th level and 3 maximum die results
at 17th level.’ This makes criticals happen a lot
more since some people would already do this
by taking a couple of levels in champion fighter
and combining this with reckless attack.
➔ Relentless Rage. DC is now a 5 instead of a 10
from the start. The line ‘When you finish a short
or long rest, the DC resets to 10’ has been
changed to ‘Each time you use this feature after
the first, the DC increases by 5. When you rage
again, the DC resets to 5.’ This means that you
could potentially reset the DC if you’re willing to
expend a rage.
➔ Persistent Rage. Persistent Rage originally was
something that already has been given at 3rd
level now where you don’t just lose your rage
when you haven’t attacked or taken damage. So
this ability has completely been changed into
the following: ‘Beginning at 15th level, your rage
is so fierce that after a rage would end after one
minute, you can attempt to extend the rage. You
can make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If
you succeed, the rage lasts an additional minute
or until you fall unconscious. Each time you use
this feature after the first, the DC increases by 5.
The DC resets to 5 when you begin a new rage.’
The mechanics here are similar but if you are in
a very stretched out battle you’re going to be
able to still have rage. This is probably no
enough to be able to get rage over multiple
battles, but it should be enough to make sure to
always maintain your rage through an entire
battle
➔ Indomitable Might. The following line has been
added: ‘Whenever you have advantage on an
attack roll using Strength, you can reroll one of
the dice once.’
➔ Primal Champion. Capstone was pretty good,
but it didn’t change your dexterity. So here is the
changed feature: ‘At 20th level, you embody the
power of the wilds. You may divide 10 points
between your Strength, Constitution and
Dexterity scores. Your maximum for those
scores is now 24.’
All of these features now make it so that you would do a
lot more damage and that you are a little more durable so
that it becomes a lot more of a viable class to level in.
Path of The Berserker
➔ Frenzy replaced by Come and Get Me. Feature
where you taunt and make a creature use its
reaction to attack you but you get to attack it
before that. Scales and has a safe condition.
➔ Mindless Rage. A slight wording change,
normally the charm or frightening would be
suspended when rage is activated but now
those conditions end immediately so there will
not be a technicality problem.
➔ Intimidating presence. Not useful, and pretty
lacking in the things it can as well as bad action
economy. The ability has the following changes:
the DC is now dependent on your Strength
modifier since it is already difficult to have 3
main stats and having charisma added is very
hard to maintain. If you are also using Frenzy,
you may use a bonus action to frighten
someone and maintain the effect. This gives you
a better action economy and a reason to also
use Frenzy more.
➔ Retaliation. Only change is the wording,
normally you could use a reaction to attack a
creature with a melee weapon within 5 feet that
damaged you, but this limits some weapons
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 usefulness. So that line has been changed to: Tail. Changed damage die to 1d10 so it’s as
‘within reach of a weapon you are holding’. good as a normal weapon and not sub-optimal.
But also reduced AC reduction at lower levels to
Path of the Totem Warrior 1d4. Scaling AC and weapon.
➔ Spirit Seeker. People tend to not cast spells as Claws.
rituals, so making it so beastsense and speak
All of these might need some scaling though.
with animals can only be used once makes this
a bit more of a viable feature. ➔ Bestial Soul. Added the ability to change your
➔ Totem Spirit. natural weapon with a bonus action on your turn
before you make an attack so that people don’t
Bear - Always was good, so the same.
always switch to the tail last
Eagle. A bit underpowered so made it so that ➔ Infectious Fury. This ability is a bit
movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks underwhelming. Also expends use even when
instead of giving disadvantage with opportunity failing. Changed it so a use is not expended
attacks. As well as bonus action Dash. when a creature succeeds on this ability.
Wolf. Pretty good, stayed the same. ➔ Call the Night. Increase damage die to 2d6.
Elk. Very bad, just extra movement is not
Path of the Ancestral Guardian
worthwhile. Changed to 15 feet movement
increase and shove action as bonus action that Doesn’t need much improvement so only 1
deals damage equal to strength modifier. change.
Tiger. Jumping distance doubled is sad at 3rd ➔ Ghost buster. New 10th level ability added
level. Changed to 10 feet extra movement where you can see and attack through the
speed and bonus action grapple. ethereal plane.
➔ Aspect of the Beast.
Bear. nothing added.
Eagle. Proficiency in wisdom saving throws.
Wolf. Nothing added.
Tiger. The normal 3rd level ability has been
added to the two skills and rage damage bonus
is doubled.
Elk. Extra feature where they have advantage
on perception checks and gain proficiency in the
perception skill.
➔ Totemic Attunement.
Bear. The same
Eagle. Gain temporary flying speed equal to
walking speed. You still fall if you end in the air,
but you don’t take damage for a fall equal to
your current movement speed.
Wolf. Changed wording so that it doesn't look
like you automatically knock a creature prone.
Tiger. Added ´when your grapple succeeds you
may make one additional melee weapon attack
as you lock onto the creature with the grip of a
Tiger.´
Elk. Instead of having a creature be knocked
prone they are also pushed 10 feet back.

Path of the Beast

➔ Form of the Beast.
Bite. You heal once per turn equal to your
proficiency bonus when you hit a creature and
you deal 1d8 damage. Low heals, only once per
turn, only under half HP and only 1d8 damage.
Wildy underpowered, needs a buff so changed
to heal with every attack on your turn even
above half HP. Scaling HP gain and temporary
hit points gain.