Armor & Shield Properties

• Bashing

You may attack with a shield or component with the Bashing property as though it were a weapon, rolling the damage dice shown in the parenthesis.

• Bulky

Bulky armor has a Strength score requirement of 10 or more. Bulky armor imposes disadvantage on Strength (Athletics) and Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks to swim, climb, run, and similar activities. These penalties can be avoided if your Strength score is at least 2 points higher than the armor’s Strength requirement.

This property also impedes your movement when standing from Prone. Add +1 to the Standing from Prone DC for each Bulky armor component you wear.

• Conceal

Components with the Conceal property can hide and store as a quickdraw item a number of small weapons (such as throwing daggers) as listed in the parenthesis. These quickdraw items do not take up any additional inventory slots from you.

• Damage Reduction (DR)

After damage from a successful hit is calculated and before soak and damage resistance (if any) is applied, reduce the damage taken by the amount of Damage Reduction. If you gain Damage Reduction from multiple sources to the same damage type, they stack together.

• Deflect

As a reaction, you can use a component with the Deflect property to raise your AC by 1. After using the component in this way, it is damaged and requires 1 hour of work to repair by proficient work with an appropriate tool. For example, leather bracers require a leatherworker, and metal bracers require a blacksmith. Once it is repaired, it can be worn and used again.

• Noisy

This type of armor reduces your ability to move quietly due to hard or metal components rubbing and striking against each other. When you wear Noisy armor, you suffer disadvantage on any Dexterity (Stealth) checks that you make to move silently.

• Stealthy

Cloaks with the Stealthy property help quiet your movements. If you are wearing one and only one component with the Noisy property, the penalties are negated by Stealthy.

• Soak

After damage is calculated and Damage Reduction is applied but before damage resistance (if any) is applied, for each 10 points of remaining damage, reduce the damage taken by 1.

Soak Examples

Damage	Soak
0-9	0
10-19	1
20-29	2
...	...

• Special (Wall Shield)

Even larger than a tower shield, a wall shield is a massive, door-sized shield with a set of imposing spikes set into the bottom edge, facing the ground. It is much more cumbersome to use and proves to be a bit less effective than a tower shield in normal melee combat.

The spikes along the bottom row serve to anchor the shield into the ground. As an action, you can slam the shield into the ground and brace yourself behind it. While anchored this way, a wall shield ceases to grant you a bonus to AC. Instead, it provides up to full cover for a Medium creature and half cover for a Large creature stationing itself behind the shield.

Melee Properties

You must have proficiency in a weapon before you can benefit from any special properties listed. Properties from the Player’s Handbook are listed here if there have been any changes made to them.

• Beatdown

You can use one of your attacks to make a special unarmed attack beating down a defenseless target. If your target is restrained, grappled or prone, you may choose to beat it down with a special melee attack that deals additional damage of the same type as shown in the parenthesis.

Example: Jax unleashes a powerful blow with her maul, knocking the bandit prone on the ground. Kal takes the opportunity to pummel the bandit, dealing 1d4 bludgeoning damage with his unarmed strike and an additional 1d4 bludgeoning damage because he is wearing armored gloves.

• Bleed

Weapons with the Bleed property can inflict gaping wounds and cause profuse bleeding. The target loses an extra 1 hp at the start of its turns, or extra 2 hp if caused by a critical hit. This property does not stack.

To stop the excessive bleeding, a creature must be healed or a successful Medicine check (DC 15) must be performed. Objects, Constructs, Elementals, or creatures that do not bleed are immune to this effect.

• Brutal

Weapons with the Brutal property deal devastating critical hits. When you score a critical hit, you add your ability modifier to the damage twice instead of once.

Example: Kal aims his chakrams at the rock worm and rolls a natural 20. As per usual, he rolls his initial damage of 4 (1d6), adds the maximum damage for his weapon for the critical hit bonus (6) and adds his Dexterity modifier (+6). Because the chakrams have the Brutal property, he adds his Dexterity modifier again, bringing his total damage to 22 slashing damage to the rock worm.

• Bypass

Flexible weapons with the Bypass property are unaffected by directly blocking the blow. These weapons ignore the AC bonus from shields. The target can still use the Raise Shield combat action to make your attack miss.

• Double

This weapon has two striking heads on each side of its haft. When you take the attack action and make a two-handed attack with a double-sided weapon, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with the opposite end of the weapon. This attack uses the same ability modifier as the primary attack. The damage for this bonus attack is listed in parenthesis.

Example: The Dervish is a double-bladed weapon. Using two hands to make an attack deals 2d4 slashing damage on a successful hit. Using a bonus action, the wielder can use the other end to make an attack and deal 1d4 slashing damage on a successful hit. Both of these attacks add the wielder’s ability modifier to the damage rolls.

• Effective

When rolling for damage, roll one additional weapon die then remove the die with the lowest result.

• Free-handed

This weapon or shield attaches to the arm, but the hand remains unoccupied. No inventory slots are used while this item is equipped since you are wearing it, but the item takes one minute to don and doff.

• Fragile

Weapons with the Fragile property cannot withstand the rigors of combat for long. If you make an attack roll with a Fragile weapon but miss the target’s AC by 5 or more, the weapon breaks and cannot be used again.

• Impact

Weapons with the Impact property can hit with a singularly boneshaking blow, stunning the target. When landing a critical hit or defeating the target’s AC by 10 or more, the creature becomes Stunned until the end of its next turn if it is no more than one size category larger than you.

• Light - Expanded

A light weapon is small and easy to handle, making it ideal for use when fighting with two Weapons.

NEW: The weapon is able to be used just as effectively while you are laying on the ground or while you are standing. When you are prone and attack with this weapon, you do not suffer disadvantage if you are proficient with the weapon.

• Limit

Weapons with the Limit property impose disadvantage when not used in the specific way described in parenthesis, such as only or never on a mount, or only when stationary.

• Mastery

Weapons with the Mastery property require focused training to utilize the ability listed in parentheses. To focus your training on a specific weapon, you must declare your intention to the GM, use the weapon as your primary weapon of choice, and spend downtime training until you reach your next level.

If multiple Masteries are listed, you unlock the features in numerical order, requiring focused training for each level of Mastery.

• Massive

This weapon is incredibly large and heavy. When a creature wields this weapon, it reduces the number of attacks that creature can make with the Attack action by one, to a minimum of one.

• Mounted

This weapon is normally used while attached to a tripod, wagon, or other bracing mount. While it is mounted, it can’t be moved. You can mount or unmount this weapon as an action. While it is unmounted and the creature wielding it is not prone, this weapon can only be used proficiently by a Medium or larger creature with a Strength score of at least 17.

• Opportunistic

This weapon is great for striking back at opponents who threaten you. When using your reaction to make an opportunity attack with this weapon, you benefit from advantage to the attack roll.

• Parry

While wielding this weapon and not wielding a shield, you gain a +1 to your AC against melee attacks. You can only gain the benefit of one weapon with this property at a time.

• Reach

The weapon has an extended length. This weapon adds 5 feet to your Reach when you attack with it, and when determining your Reach for attacks of opportunity with it.

• Returning

After you make a thrown attack using a weapon with the Returning property, it automatically returns to your hand at the end of the turn as long as you have a hand free and are proficient with it. Catching a weapon does not require an action or reaction, but you cannot catch it if you are currently unable to take reactions (such as if you are incapacitated or have already used your reaction). If you do not catch the weapon you threw, it lands in a random space within 10 feet of you.

• Sharp

Sharp weapons can tear through defenses or otherwise leave a target more vulnerable. When landing a critical hit or beating a target’s AC by 10 or more, your attack lowers the creature’s AC is 2 until the end of its next turn.

• Shield

This weapon is large enough or shaped in a certain way so that you can use it to protect yourself from damage. While wielding this weapon and not wielding a shield, you gain a +1 to your AC. You may only gain the benefit of one weapon with this property at a time.

• Superheavy

This weapon is unusually large for its type. You must have a Strength score of at least 17 to proficiently wield a superheavy weapon. Creatures smaller than Medium size cannot wield a superheavy weapon regardless of their Strength score. This property also counts as the Heavy property.

• Sweeping

The weapon makes attacks in broad, sweeping motions. You can use your bonus action to make one of your attacks into a special Sweeping attack. If there's another creature adjacent to both you and your target, and your attack roll would hit both of them, your target takes normal damage and the other creature takes 1d6 in damage (this damage is not modified by damage bonus modifiers or other abilities).

If there are multiple walls, friendly characters sized Medium or larger adjacent to your target, or other such obstructions adjacent to you, you cannot use this property.

• Switch

This weapon has two forms. The damage and properties of its second form are listed in parentheses. You can use a bonus action to swap between these forms.

• Thrown - Expanded

If a weapon has the thrown property, you can throw the weapon to make a ranged Attack. If the weapon is a melee weapon, you use the same ability modifier for that Attack roll and damage roll that you would use for a melee Attack with the weapon. For example, if you throw a Handaxe, you use your Strength, but if you throw a Dagger, you can use either your Strength or your Dexterity, since the Dagger has the finesse property.

New: Drawing a Thrown weapon is part of the attack, but you need a free hand. You may use your bonus action to recover any Thrown weapon within your reach. At the end of combat, you can recover all undamaged Thrown weapons by taking up to a minute to search the battlefield.

• Vicious

If a weapon with the Vicious property deals damage, you may reroll any of the weapon dice if it rolls a value of 1. You must use the new value even if it is also a 1. If you have the Great Weapon Fighting style, the two rerolls stack to 1-3 instead.

Ranged Properties

Proficiency is required to use any of the following properties. If a ranged weapon has a property that is not listed here, refer to Melee Properties of the same name.

• Forceful

Ranged weapons with the Forceful property deal additional damage due to their stopping power. For each 5 points by which you beat the target’s AC, you may add a damage die up to the value shown in parenthesis.

• Loading - Expanded

Because of the time required to load this weapon, you can fire only one piece of ammunition from it before needing to reload. To reload, you must spend a number of attacks equal to the value in parenthesis.

• Point Blank

Ranged weapons with the Point Blank property allow for exact precision when pointing at nearby targets. Attacks with ranged weapons that have this property do not suffer disadvantage when made within 5 feet of a hostile creature.

• Quick Reload

Weapons with the Quick Reload property can now ignore the Loading property listed.

• Stock

Ranged weapons with the Stock property can improve your aim when set on firm ground.

If you lay prone and make a ranged attack with it, you can ignore disadvantage when shooting at long range, but you suffer disadvantage if you shoot at targets within close range.

• Strength

Ranged weapons with the Strength property require raw strength to draw the string. You must have the minimum Strength score as shown in parenthesis in order to use them.

• Velocity

When using weapons with the Velocity property, the target does not benefit from any Damage Reduction from armor. If you have two instances of Velocity for an attack, your attack also ignores Soak.

Animal Description

• Bulette

This creature also has a burrow speed of 8mph, but it must rest after an hour of burrowing. Without special equipment, it cannot burrow and carry inventory.

• Cassowary

This is a flightless bird, but it can glide for 30 feet if it carries no more than half of its capacity.

• Centipede, giant

This creature also has a burrow speed of 6mph, but it must rest after two hours of burrowing. Without special equipment, it cannot burrow and carry inventory.

• Eagle, giant

This creature does not have a significant walking speed. It is capable of flight of up to 8mph, but because flying creatures do not have to navigate around terrain, they often must fly at a slower speed to keep pace with owners on the ground.

• Sandworm, adolescent

This creature can burrow at a speed of 6mph, but it must rest every 12 miles of travel. It does not have a significant speed on the surface. Without special equipment, it cannot burrow and carry inventory.

• Vulture, giant

This creature does not have a significant walking speed. It is capable of flight of up to 8mph, but because flying creatures do not have to navigate around terrain, they often must fly at a slower speed to keep pace with owners on the ground.