Barbarian

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 unconscious 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 before you can rage again.

Unarmored Defence

While you are not wearing any armour, your armour class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

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.

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 melee weapon attack rolls using Strength during this turn, but attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn.

Primal Path

At 3rd level, you choose a path that shapes the nature of your rage. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th levels.

Primal Knowledge

When you reach 3rd level and again at 10th level, you gain proficiency in one skill of your choice from the list of skills available to barbarians at 1st level. Chosen skill = Animal Handling. As all other skills available are selected, at level 10, choose to gain expertise in a skill.

Path of the Giant (sub-class)

Giant’s Power

When you choose this path, you learn to speak, read, and write Giant or one other language of your choice if you already know Giant. Additionally, you learn a cantrip of your choice: either druidcraft or thaumaturgy. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Giant’s Havoc

Your rages pull strength from the primal might of giants, transforming you into a hulking force of destruction. While raging, you gain the following benefits:

• Crushing Throw. When you make a successful ranged attack with a thrown weapon using Strength, you can add your Rage Damage bonus to the attack’s damage roll.


• Giant Stature. Your reach increases by 5 feet, and if you are smaller than Large, you become Large, along with anything you are wearing. If there isn’t enough room for you to increase your size, your size doesn’t change.

Grokk Swampbasher, a Grung of the Thundertoads tribe, was born and raised in the heart of a vast and untamed swamp. The Thundertoads were a proud Uthgardt tribe known for their isolationist nature, fierce loyalty, and unwavering commitment to the old ways. Grokk, from a young age, displayed exceptional physical prowess and a deep connection to the tribe's traditions, quickly becoming their strongest warrior.

For many years, life within the swamp had been harmonious, with the Thundertoads thriving and flourishing in their ancestral home. The tribe's annual pilgrimage to "Toadfather's Hollow," a sacred site deep within the swamp, was a cherished tradition, an opportunity to renew their bond with the land and seek guidance from their ancestors. However, a dark shadow fell upon the Thundertoads when they arrived at the sacred site, only to discover it desecrated, defiled by unknown malevolent forces.

Alarmed and disheartened, their chieftain made the fateful decision to retreat deeper into the swamp, beyond the reaches of the desecration to the place they refer to as "Pondfather's Perch". Grokk, loyal to his tribe, followed the chieftain and the rest of the Thundertoads into this hidden refuge. In their secluded sanctuary, they remained for several years, cut off from the outside world. The chieftain hoped that time would heal their wounds and that the spirits of the swamp would guide them toward a path of redemption.

But the swamp, their home and protector, was now under threat. A band of savage orcs, driven by profit and corporate interests, sought to exploit the valuable timber resources of the ancient and mysterious wood that surrounds Pondfather's Perch, and in doing so polluting the swamp itself - whether they were completely oblivious to the Grung's existence, or just didn't care, the fragile equilibrium of the swamp ecosystem is now threatened.

Knowing that one warrior is not enough to fight back the orcs, against the chieftain's wishes, Grokk set out to find allies who could help the Grung defend their homeland from this ecological devastation, carrying with him basic necessities, as well as a deep-seated hatred for orcs.