Category: Changelog

New Subclasses

• Avenger Paladin, an offensively-focused paladin that punishes foes and forces them to fight.

• Spellbreaker Ranger, a ranger focused on countering spellcasters and magical effects. They also have more magical utility than other rangers, and control and hamper enemies.

Classes

• Paladin

  • Renamed Oath of Devotion to Paragon.

• Warlock

  • Added Conjure Woodland Creature to Fey warlock expanded list.

• Wizard

  • Spectral Graveguard now deals force damage.

Feats

• Expanded Fast Loading feat to allow loading weapons using a shield arm or a hand holding another one-handed ammunition weapon.

• Ambidextrous Might renamed to Ambidexterity.

Items

• Added pistols and muskets as martial weapons.

Spells

• Added Intercession as a 3rd level spell for clerics, paladins, and spellbreakers.

• Added Dispel Magic, Arcane Eye, Mislead, Mass Cure Wounds, Dream, and Conjure Elemental to the ranger spell list.

• Added Guardian of Faith, Mass Cure Wounds, Commune, and Planar Binding to the paladin spell list.

• Conjure Minor Elementals and Conjure Elemental merged into a single 4th level spell.

• Conjure Woodland Beings and Conjure Fey merged into a single 4th level spell.

Misc

• Added legal attribution for the 2024 SRD. Expect to see more content from the 2024 ruleset!

Backgrounds

• Forge-Bound background feature options changed to Armor Training, Crafter, or Weapon Training.

Classes

• Bard

  • Bards now always get performance as a skill in addition to a choice of 3 skills.

• Druid 

  • Otherworldly Veil replaces Color Spray in the Underworld druid subclass, and works with Echoes in the Dark.

  • Shephard’s Ward switched to reroll rather than auto miss.

Feats

• Added 5 new skill-related feats.

• Shifty Feat reworked.

• Added skill proficiency prerequisites to Brawler, Fast Hands, Grapple Hold, Danger Sense, and Gymnast.

• Battle Cry now grants targets advantage on their next attack instead of granting temporary hit points.

Spells

• New Level 1 spells: Seeping Ooze, Snowball Swarm, Otherworldly Veil.

• Arcane Lock is now a ritual.

• Fix Missing Ritual status from Gentle Repose, Magic Mouth, and Meld Into Stone.

• Clarified Well of Corruption prevents raising the dead.

Rules

• Added Cursed to conditions list, though it doesn’t have standard effects.

Website

• Updated the Class Spell Lists page to be current. It will now be maintained.

• Made website icons work on dark mode.

Classes

• Bard

  • Added expanded spell lists for bard subclasses.

  • Clarified Bardic Inspiration doesn’t work on self.

  • Lorekeeper: Voice of Legend now allows ally to reroll their roll rather than rerolling the bardic inspiration die.

• Druid Wild Shape Changes

  • Howling Storm: 40 ft. radius, 1 minute → 30 ft. radius, 10 minutes

  • Ice Flow: 1 minute → 10 minutes

  • Lurking Fog: 100/30 ft. radius → 50/15 ft. radius

  • Twisted Terrain: 40 ft. radius → 20 ft. radius

  • Underworld Eyes: 1 minute → 10 minutes

  • Breath of the Sea: 1 minute → 1 hour

  • Crawler’s Claws: 1 minute → 1 hour

  • Removed Springing Step

  • Rising Mud: 40 ft. radius → 30 ft. radius

  • Soaring Winds: 1 minute → 10 minutes

Spells

• Curse of Frailty no longer causes creatures to instantly die at 0 hit points, instead blocking features that prevent dropping to 0 hit points and incapacitating creatures who survive the drop to 0 for 1 minute.,

• Identify and Shockwave are no longer Bard Spells (though they are Lorekeeper and Noise bard spells respectively).

New Subclasses

• Celestial Warlock, a simple subclass that focuses on radiant damage and healing, especially for those at the brink of death.

Classes

• Sorcerer

  • Switched wild magic level 6 and 10 abilities,

• Monk

  • Renamed Shockwave feature to Repulsion Wave to avoid confusion with the Shockwave spell.

Spells

• Added all 4th level spells. Check our Summary of Changes for details.,

• Hold Creature no longer additionally applies the dazed condition.,

• Whirlwind renamed to Vortex and now works in water.,

Misc

• Clarified that a creature must have a higher passive perception than an illusion check total to automatically disbelieve an illusion.

New Subclasses

• Abjurer Wizard, a defensive wizard which is now the only archetype to gain access to Counterspell in Elkan 5e.

• Elementalist Monk, which switches between 4 elemental attunements and gains different abilities for each attunement.

Classes

• Barbarian

  • Reckless Attack 3/Long Rest at level 2, unlimited at level 11.

• Monk

  • Flurry of Blows no longer requires the monk to also use the Attack action.

  • Open Hand: Thrust renamed to Sweep, costs 1 ki and does not require the attack or flurry of blows actions to occur first.

• Ranger

  • Beastmaster: Swapped Coordinated Attacks for Companion’s Extra Attack.

  • Beastmaster: Predator’s Instinct feature at level 6, replacing One Mind, which is now redundant.

  • Beastmaster: Can now see through your companion’s eyes and telepathically communicate starting at level 3 instead of 6.

Items

• Provided tables with magic armor stats and prices.

Spells

• Gentle Current now has a better upcasting option, and doesn’t work on restrained creatures.

• Burning Hands upcasting reverted to 1d6 per spell level.

• Ball Lightning 2d6 -> 2d8 damage.

Misc

• Merged gaming sets into a single proficiency.

We did a lot of math and then did a big balance patch about it.

Classes

• Barbarian

  • Reckless Attack moved to level 11, Feral Strike removed. Rumination moved to level 2.

  • Bloodrager: Seething Blood is now 3d6/6d6 and 3/long rest.

• Fighter

  • Battlemaster reworked to fit the new combat maneuvers.

  • Champion: Reworked. They gain a new Keen Strikes feature at level 3 and 14, which adds 1d10 damage 1/turn. Improved Critical now level 6 only.

  • Commander: Commander’s Strike is now unlimited, and Rally uses a d10 instead of a d8. Persistent Leader adjusted to fit.

  • Bulwark: swapped their level 3 and 6 features.

• Monk

  • Flurry of Blows improves to two attacks at level 11. Effortless Step moved to level 9.

  • Open Hand: Condensed Thrust and Sweep into a single feature. Shockwave is now more versatile.

  • Shadowdancer: a number of QOL and formatting updates. Abilities work more consistently.

  • Empty Body reworked, now a level 14 Shadowdancer feature, and Purity of Body moved to level 18.

• Ranger

  • Hunter: Dropped Uncanny Dodge option.

• Rogue

  • Assassin: Finishing Blow now works on creatures with 10 or fewer hit points on any attack the assassin makes.

  • Assassin: Moved level 6 abilities to level 10.

  • Assassin: New Ability at level 6: Death Strike. 1/Short Rest. Essentially do sneak attack twice.

Items

• Armor Prices Adjustments: Large Shield 10 ->20, Chain Mail 75 -> 100, Plate Mail 1500 -> 1200.

Feats

• Reworked Combat Maneuvers to have no action cost.

• Spirit Speech made into a level 8 monk feat.

Classes

• Rogue

  • Improve damage on several precision strike options (alternate sneak attacks).

  • Make melee precision attacks more clear that they are melee only, and work with reach.

  • Poisoned Weapon Precision Strike now poisons for 1 minute, with saves to end early.

• Warlock

  • Added a new redesigned Fey Patron.

Spells

• Upcasting Rend Vigor now affects more targets.

Ancestries

• Small ancestries now have 30 speed.

Classes

• Shifter and Beastmaster subclasses both now have a feature to grant magical and cold iron properties to beast attacks.

• Druid

  • Clean up formatting on Druid abilities.

• Monk

  • Open Hand: Wholeness of Body reduced to 3dmartial arts die.

• Sorcerer

  • Wild Mage: Finished all Wild Magic Surge tables.

  • Avert Disaster is now 3/long rest.

  • New Delayed Surge feature for Wild Mages at level 10, replacing Refract Magic.

• Wizard

  • Illusionist: Illusory attacks d8 -> d6

Items

• A detailed set of tables showing the statistics and prices of magical weapons and weapons made from adamantine, cold iron, and silver.

• A number of minor adjustments to weapon weight and price.

Spells

• Inflict Wounds 3d10 -> 3d8

• Silent Cacophony 4d10 -> 4d6

• Floating Disk now sinks in water

Feats

• Added Spell Trap feat.

Misc

• Confused condition adjusted to be less debilitating.

Backgrounds

• Sudden Warning can now clearly not target self.

Classes

• Barbarian

  • Bloodrager: Bloodrager Seething Blood reworked to a bonus action and save, starts at 2d6 and scales higher at higher levels. Removed Transfused Strikes.

  • Bloodrager: New Level 6 Bloodrager feature to replace the free War Casting feat. Wild Magic Bloodragers can now trigger Wild Surges.

• Sorcerer

  • Release of the Elkan 5e Wild Mage sorcerer subclass, along with Wild Magic rules.

• Wizard

  • Illusionist: Added Masterful Illusions ability.

Spells

• Level 3 spells are now 100% done.

• 7 New Curse Spells, replacing Bestow Curse.

• New Prismatic Bolt and reworked Prismatic Spray spells.

• Cure Wounds and Healing Word healing increased to 2d6 and 1d6 respectively.

• Goodberry now 10 berries plus 5 per higher spell level.

• Druidcraft can now clear a 5 ft. cube of difficult terrain.

• Added Inflict Wounds to sorcerer spell list.

• Removed Confusion from Druid spell list and fix it not being listed for sorcerer

• Knock cannot be dispelled. Forcing the lock open ends the spell.

Feats

• Removed War Casting feat.

Misc

• Removed Dominated from the conditions list.

Ancestries

• Added Genasi and Construct Ancestries.

• Hobgoblins now have the Strength in Numbers feature instead of Repressed Memory, which is now a feat.

• Dragonborn now have the ‘dragon’ creature type.

Feats

• Added new Undead Nature and Repressed Memory feats as level 1 feats.

• War Casting feat now requires a character to have Extra Attack feature

Spells

• Added rules for Curses.

• Added flavor text for all third level spells.

Misc

• Phase out ‘As Part of a Weapon Attack’ keyword

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November 7th, 2024Ancestries

• Aasimar and Tieflings now get Thaumaturgy rather than a choice of two cantrips, bringing them in line with upcoming ancestries.

Backgrounds

• Added Criminal and Entertainer Background.

• Relaxed the restrictions on what tools could be chosen by each background.

• Removed weapon proficiencies from backgrounds other than militant and granted extra tools instead.

• Arcanist, Devout, and Fey-Touched: Each gains one cantrip of your choice from a given spell list.

• Cosmopolitan: added a choice of Crafter, Dabbler, or Polyglot feat to replace its old ribbon feature.

• Maritime: reworked, added new Sailor’s Vigilance feature.

• Noble: Coordinating Direction now allows an ally to reroll a skill check.

• Wild: improved useability of both feature choices.

Spells

• Produce Flame can now set fires.