BONUS LEVEL UP

PERKS 2.0
BY THE DUNGEON COACH
Contents Tier 3 11

Bonus Level Up Perks 3 Subclasses 11

Artificer Subclasses.......................................................................... 11
Tier 1 4 Barbarian Subclasses........................................................................12
Bard Subclasses...................................................................................13
General Perks 4 Cleric Subclasses............................................................................... 14
Druid Subclasses.................................................................................15
Tier 2 8 Fighter Subclasses..............................................................................16
Monk Subclasses.................................................................................17
Classes 8 Paladin Subclasses.............................................................................18
Artificer................................................................................................. 8 Psion* Subclasses.................................................................................19
Barbarian............................................................................................... 8 Ranger Subclasses.............................................................................20
Bard.......................................................................................................... 8 Rogue Subclasses.................................................................................21
Cleric....................................................................................................... 8 Sorcerer Subclasses .........................................................................22
Druid........................................................................................................ 8 Warlock Subclasses ........................................................................23
Fighter..................................................................................................... 8 Wizard Subclasses............................................................................24
Monk........................................................................................................ 8
Paladin.................................................................................................... 9
Psion*....................................................................................................... 9
Ranger..................................................................................................... 9
Rogue....................................................................................................... 9
Sorcerer.................................................................................................. 9
Warlock................................................................................................. 9
Wizard.................................................................................................. 10

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Bonus Level Up Perks
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Tier 1
General Perks
Acclimated: You are accustomed to a specific type of terrain or
environment, things like temperature, difficult terrain, etc. do
not effect you while you are in this terrain.
DC Tip: You can also have this be ADV on checks made
against this type of terrain (like Con Saves) if you don’t want
them to be immune to it entirely.
Ace Driver: You are unparalleled when driving a particular
kind of vehicle. You gain the following benefits:
• You gain proficiency with land, water or air vehicles. If you
are already proficient with them, you add double your prof.
bonus to checks you make with them.
• The speed of a vehicle that you are proficient with increases
by 10ft while you are guiding it.
Alter Ego: You have, over time, crafted an alternate identity
that you can slip into when the need arises. This alternate
identity has their own friends, acquaintances, reputation and
somewhat legitimate documentation. The alter ego does not
gain any other benefits, but people believe you to be them in
that disguise unless given obvious reason not to.
Born Trader: While within a settlement, you can easily find
the most profitable location to sell items or goods and you
have ADV on Persuasion Checks to negotiate the sale price of
an item or service.
Burglar: You pride yourself on your quickness and your
close study of certain clandestine activities. You gain the
following benefits:
• You gain proficiency with thieves' tools. If you are already
proficient with them, you add double your prof. bonus to
checks you make with them.
• As part of a short rest, you can use scavenged or acquired
materials to build a temporary set of thieves' tools for when
you lack access to a permanent one. This temporary set
ceases to function or breaks after 1 hour.
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Cartographer: You have studied the art of cartography and are
an expert in its practice. You gain the following benefits:
• You gain proficiency with cartographer's tools. If you are
already proficient with them, you add double your prof.
bonus to checks you make with them.
• You remain alert to danger even while you drawing a map
or recording your travels
Carpenter: Your knowledge of wooden structures is widely
applicable throughout your adventures. You gain the
following benefits:
• You gain proficiency with carpenter’s tools. If you are
already proficient with them, you add double your prof.
bonus to checks you make with them.
• You can temporarily fortify a door or window by using your
action to use your carpenter’s tools. The DC needed to open
it increases by 5.
Chaser: You have ADV on Athletics and Acrobatics Checks
while running away from a pursuer, or pursuing someone else.
Combat Drills: Upon spending 1 hour in training drills and
studying the walls of a fortification, you gain an accurate
estimate of the drilled humanoids' combat capabilities, as well
as any equipment they use. You determine the most suitable
strategy to improve the defensive capabilities of a settlement
in both the short and long terms.
Confuse: When another creature attempts to recall an event
from the past, you can make a Deception Check contested
by the creature’s Insight Check. Success: You convince the
creature that subtle details about a specific event are different
than they remember. Others watching are unaware that your
interjection is what has caused the confusion.
Cook: You have mastered a variety of special recipes, allowing
you to prepare exotic and special dishes with useful effects.
You gain the following benefits:
• You gain proficiency with cook's utensils. If you are already
proficient with them, you add double your prof. bonus to
checks you make with them.
• During a short rest, you can prepare a tasty meal provided
you have access to your cook's utensils and sufficient food.
You and up to 5 creatures of your choice regain 2 extra HP
per Hit Die spent during this rest.
Copycat: You can mimic the speech of another person or the
sounds made by other creatures. You must have heard the
person speaking, or heard the creature make the sound, for
at least 1 minute. A successful Insight Check contested by
your Deception Check allows a listener to determine that the
effect is faked.
Cryptographer: You have studied secret codes, gaining the
following benefits:
• You can ably create written ciphers. Others can't decipher
a code you create unless you teach them or they succeed on
an Intelligence Check (DC equal to your Intelligence score
+ your prof. bonus)
• You have ADV on Intelligence Checks made to crack
cyphers.
Diagnostician: Thanks to your expertise in medicine, if you
spend 10 minutes observing and examining a creature, you
gain ADV on Medicine Checks to find the exact cause of the
creature’s illness, injury, poisoning, or death. If you succeed
on the check, you also become aware of how to cure the
ailment, if a non-magical cure exists. This does not include
magical diseases such as the Contagion spell.
Enduring Survivalist: You have learned how to survive on
very little sleep or nourishment. You can go without food
or sleep for twice the amount of time than normal before
automatically gaining a level of Exhaustion.
Expert Rider: You are an experienced rider and the usual
pitfalls of mounted combat are not something you worry
about. You gain the following benefits:
• Adv on Animal Handling Checks to interact with your
mount.
• Adv on Dex Saves to remain mounted.
• Mounting or dismounting costs you 10ft of movement and
is not limited to once per movement.
Forger: You are a master of creating false identities and
documents. You gain the following benefits:
• You gain proficiency with forgery kits. If you are already
proficient with them, you add double your prof. bonus to
checks you make with them.
• You can protect yourself with multiple layers of identities
and misdirection. When you forge a document, you can
leave behind false clues that suggest a different person
was the forger; this act doesn't take any extra time. Such
false clues could involve blending a mimic of the person's
handwriting with the intended one, adding fake prints of the
target's fingers to the paper, or including a secret message
that somehow implies this person is the true culprit.
When a reader spots that the document is forged, they
also discover these clues. Identifying that these clues
are false requires an additional Investigation Check
against the same DC used to identify the original
forgery.
Good with Kids: You are great at interacting and dealing
with children. You have ADV on ability
checks to socially interact with children
or gauge their mood and intentions.
In addition, any children you are
taking care of are especially happy,
healthy, and well-behaved if you
spend at least a modest amount of time
mentoring or parenting them.
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Gut Feeling: You have ADV on Insight Checks to detect
if a humanoid is lying if you have spoken with them for
over 1 minute.
Harmless: You are unassuming and most folks don’t expect
much from you. You have ADV on checks made to convince
other creatures that you are too harmless to be considered a
suspect of a crime, or that you mean them no harm.
Heraldry Expert: You automatically recognize all banners,
crests and insignia and know the names of their respective
house, order, or kingdom. Additionally, you have ADV on
History Checks to recall more detailed information about this
type of lore.
Herbalist: You excel at the identification and use of herbs and
other natural substances for medicinal purposes. You gain the
following benefits:
• You gain proficiency with herbalism kits. If you are already
proficient with them, you add double your prof. bonus to
checks you make with them.
• As part of a short rest, you can use your herbalism kit to
administer a herbal remedy that helps a creature recover
from their ailments. The creature gains ADV on Saves
against being Poisoned or Diseased for the next hour.
Liquid Courage: While under the effects of alcohol you have
DisADV on Perception Checks but you have ADV on Saves
against being Frightened.
Master of Deduction: Your mind becomes capable of instantly
dissecting all that you take in. You always know if a piece of
information that you learn contradicts a story that you’ve
heard previously, or if a story you hear doesn't make sense
based on the known evidence.
DC Tip: This can also be seen as getting ADV on any checks
to remember something that happened to you before,
depending on how the GM runs it.
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Master of Disguise: You have honed your ability to shape
your personality and to read the personalities of others. You
gain the following benefits when using disguises that you
personally made.
• You gain proficiency with disguise kits. If you are already
proficient with them, you add double your prof. bonus to
checks you make with them.
• It takes 1 hour to create a full disguise of a person that you
have seen before (given the right materials).
• It takes 1 minute to don a full body disguise.
• It takes 1 action to don a facial disguise.
Master Interrogator: You become a master of the fabled seven-
stage interrogation. After spending 10 minutes interrogating
a captive creature that you can communicate with, threats
or implications of violence you make are as effective as the
violence itself would have been. You also gain ADV on
Intimidation Checks against the captive creature.
Mentor: If you spend 1 minute teaching an ally a skill you are
proficient in, your ally gains ADV on their next check using
the same skill. You can use this feature a number of times equal
to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) and regain all
expended uses after a long rest.
Musician: You excel at composing and performing music. You
gain the following benefits:
• You gain proficiency with one musical instrument of your
choice. If you are already proficient with it, you add double
your prof. bonus to checks you make with it.
• While performing with a musical instrument you are
proficient with, you can try to distract one humanoid that
you can see who can see and hear you. Make a Performance
Check contested by the humanoid's Insight Check. Success:
You grab the humanoid's attention enough that it makes
Perception Checks with DisADV until you stop performing.
Myths and Legends: You are extremely adept at uncovering
knowledge which pertains to eldritch threats and forgotten
legends. You have ADV on History Checks related to legends
and other ancient lore.
Natural Erudite: Your encyclopedic knowledge of nature
grants you the following benefits:
• You gain ADV on Nature Checks to identify and learn more
about creatures and plants that aren't outright magical in
origin.
• By spending 1 minute outside, you can reliably predict the
weather for the next day.
Navigator: You have a keen sense of direction on both land
and sea. You gain the following benefits:
• You gain proficiency with navigator's tools. If you are
already proficient with them, you add double your prof.
bonus to checks you make with them.
• You can always retrace your steps back through areas you
have traveled through.
Painter: You pride yourself on your artistic skill and
its applications to painting and drawing. You gain the
following benefits:
• You gain proficiency with painter's supplies. If you are
already proficient with them, you add double your prof.
bonus to checks you make with them.
• As part of a long rest, you can produce up to 3 simple works
of art, or you can produce a single masterwork of art.
Perfect Memory: You have ADV on all History Checks and
Saves that involve your own memory. You also remember
anything you hear or learn within the past year.
Poison Specialist: Your knowledge of poisons and their creation
is unmatched. You gain the following benefits:
• You gain proficiency with the poisoner’s kit. If you are
already proficient with it, you add double your prof. bonus
to checks you make with them.
• Other creatures have DisADV on checks made to identify a
poison you made.
Polyglot: You have studied languages from many different
cultures, gaining the following benefits:
• Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple
ideas to a creature that doesn’t share a language with you
and has an Intelligence score of 4 or less.
• While speaking a language other than Common that is
not native to your race, you have ADV on Deception or
Persuasion Checks to interact with creatures native to that
language.
Read Lips: If you know what language someone is speaking
and you can see the creature’s mouth, you can gather the
general idea of what they are talking about.
DC Tip: As a GM you could only give them bits and pieces of
words they pick out instead of telling them exactly what they
say. Lip reading is a very difficult skill!
Religious Study: Through hours of memorization, you’ve
learned the names and symbols of countless religions. You
recognize all holy symbols and know the names of their
respective deities.You have ADV on Religion Checks to recall
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Rumormonger: Upon spending 1 hour in a civilized settlement,
you can learn of rumors, political intrigue, or other gossip
related to a subject of your choice. This includes jobs and
information people tend to hide from the authorities. In
addition, you have ADV on Deception and Persuasion Checks
made to shift the community’s attitude to align with any
rumors you start, and these rumors take 1 year to fade unless
spurred on by yourself once a week/month.
Rune Expert: You have ADV on Arcana Checks to uncover the
properties and uses of magical runes, glyphs, or other symbols.
Salvager: As part of a short rest, you can search nearby to find
raw materials (provided there can be anything reasonable to
find) to mend or create any mundane item that cost 20gp or
less. This feature only provides the raw materials, not the
actual knowledge to create the mundane item. Once you
use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can
use it again.
Secret Intuition: You understand instinctively if someone you
are observing for at least 1 minute is keeping a secret, but you
do not automatically know the nature of the secret or why
they are keeping it.
Stage Magician: You become adept at mundane illusions.
Your training grants you ADV on Sleight of Hand Checks to
perform any reasonable mundane tricks.
Survivalist: You have ADV on checks made to locate and
harvest food or water from natural resources (wild animals,
fresh berries, etc.), and have ADV on saves against ingested
poisons and diseases from the wild.
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Tactical Retreat: You know when to cut your losses and
run. Once per long rest, if you are engaged in combat, you
can choose to take the Disengage Action and rally creatures
around you to get out of dodge. For the next minute, any ally
that was within 30ft of you when you sounded the retreat can
take the Disengage or Dash Actions as a Bonus Action. The
Dash Action can only be used to try to escape or move as far
away from dangers as you can.
Tracking Quarry: You have ADV on Survival Checks to find
and follow the tracks of any creature that you have dealt
damage to within the last 24 hours.
Unremarkable: You are remarkably average and easily
forgettable. You have ADV on checks made to hide or go
unnoticed while in a crowd of similar creatures. Creatures
have DisADV on checks made to recall information about you.
Ventriloquist: You have a natural talent for ventriloquism. You
gain the following benefits:
• You can speak without moving your lips.
• You can throw your voice when you speak, making it appear
to originate from any source that you can see within 20ft of
you. A suspecting creature can use its action to attempt an
Insight Check contested by your Deception Check.
Voice Actor: You can alter your voice to mimic any human
or non-magical creature that you have listened to for over
1 minute. You have ADV on all Performance or Deception
Checks when disguising your voice in this way.
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