Category: Changelog

Barbarian revision, including a new feature and some streamlining.

Berserker subclass for barbarian

On  the website, you can now select ‘other’ as your subclass, and it will  give you instructions on how to use subclasses from non-Elkan sources.

Druids gain the ‘Lesser Shifting’ option for their wild shapes, bringing a shapeshifting option back into the base class

Fireball radius reduced to 15 ft. from 20 ft.

Dueling fighting style renamed to Single-Weapon Fighting

Thunder damage renamed to sonic damage

Tool descriptions no longer reference tool checks, only skill checks that use the tools

Added description for unarmed strikes

Added Draconic Bloodline

Added Animate Dead, Arms of Earth, and Burning Beam spells

Bardic Inspiration split into two features (mechanically equivalent)

Druid subclasses start at level 1 for the sake of their expanded spell list

Monks now have a d10 hit die

Monk Stunning Strike progression unlinked from proficiency bonus

Monk Perfect Self now bonus action

Paladin class progression changed to gain subclass features at 3/6/10/14/20 (but still compatible with old subclasses)

Paladin‘s Divine Sense now a bonus action and 3/long rest

Paladin Channel Divinity renamed to Channel Conviction, each 1/short rest, gain one option at level 3, the other at level 10

Paladin:  reworked Cleansing Touch as an extension of Lay on Hands, including  moving some of the function of Lay on Hands to Cleansing Touch

Rangers now have the same number of spells as paladins

Rogue reverted to always getting Thieves’ Tools

Expertise should no longer reference tools

Added small shields to starting equipment options for bards, rogues, and warlocks

Standardized white space on mobile site and placement of text and buttons

Made our Trello task board public

Cleaned up old Discord channels

A lot of minor formatting

Fighters now get one combat maneuver at levels 2, 7, and 15 instead of two.

Fireball and Shield spells added to website

Tieflings now count as fiends and Aasimar count as celestials

Backgrounds now grant a few items based on the proficiencies they grant

Properly finished combat maneuvers

Added the changeling ancestry

Changed the barbarian and monk features that increase speed to function in all armor types

Reformatted and edited several feats for QOL improvements

Rebalanced weapons Darts now have a range of 30/90 instead of 20/60 Greatclubs now deal 1d10 damage instead of 1d8 Quarterstaffs are now two-handed weapons with a reach of 10 ft. that deal 1d8 damage, instead of versatile 1d6/1d8 weapons Spears now have a reach of 10 ft. when used as melee weapons Halberds can now deal either piercing or slashing damage (user’s choice) Morningstars are now versatile 1d8/1d10 weapons instead of just 1d8 The flail, trident, and war pick were removed, for reasons we outline at the bottom of https://www.elkan5e.com/weapons

Added description text for weapons to our website

Ancestry and Background features were updated to our new formatting (with no changes to their function)

Added descriptions to each class page, describing what the class is like.

The ranger’s natural explorer feature is simplified

Rage now functions in heavy armor

Updated  the Character Creation Guide, including ability score generation  methods (Elkan 5e standard array, point buy, and rolling for stats)

The Distant Spell and Extended Spell metamagics were improved.

Eldritch  Blast no longer counts as a spell at all, which allowed us to adjust  some features to allow better integration with warlock spellcasting.

Mystic Tricksters and Spellswords can now choose warlock as their spellcasting class.

Fixed Fiend Patron expanded spell list

Fixed link issues to and from the rogue and bard page

Fixed dragonborn breath weapons to correctly list ‘1/long rest’

Added a link to our Foundry VTT module on the website.

Added the Circle of the Shifter druid subclass.

Added 7 Elkan-exclusive spells.

Revamped the website’s home page and returning player hub.

Spells that require a visible target now say ‘visible creature’ or somesuch in  the target field at the top of spell descriptions.

Martial Command now targets a single ally and allows them to move up to their speed.

Fixed a whitespace issue on the fighter page.

Silence no longer counts as a ritual spell.

Added the College of Jesters subclass to bard

Added the College of Lore subclass to bard

Revised Sorcerer to get subclass features at levels 1/6/10/14

Standardized capitalization for each class’s proficiencies and items

Added an explanation of how to use recommended ability score arrays

Improved the Subtle Spell metamagic option

Finished the Druid class

Added spellcasting progression tables to Spellsword and Mystic Trickster.

Replaced the old cantrips page with the new spells page and replaced all links to spells.

Added a list of changes to cantrips at the bottoms of the spells page.

Song of Rest now affects a maximum of 6 creatures.

Fixed an issue with white space at the bottom of the Ranger page.

Cleaned up the spells page’s design

Added Way of the Open Hand subclass for monks

Revised monk to get subclass features at levels 3/6/10/14

Revised  wizard to get access to spells of their chosen school at level 1, moved  Arcane Recovery to level 2, and moved their first Arcane Tradition  feature(s) to level 3

Reformatted the sorcerer and monk pages

Added the expanded spell list for Fiend patron warlocks

Rogues can now choose not to have proficiency in thieves’ tools

Replaced references to ‘shield’ with ‘large shield’ and added links for items on the cleric page

Replaced the level 10 Commander feature

Clarified lack of synergy between repelling blast and familiar’s blast