Barbarian
A tall human tribesman strides through a blizzard, draped in fur and hefting his axe. He laughs as he charges toward the dire wolf who dared poach his people’s elk herd.
Frothing at the mouth, a dwarf slams his helmet into the face of his drow foe, then turns to drive his armored elbow into the gut of another.
These barbarians, different as they might be, are defined by their rage: unbridled, unquenchable, and unthinking fury. More than a mere emotion, their anger is the ferocity of a cornered predator, the unrelenting assault of a storm, the churning turmoil of the sea.
For some, their rage springs from a communion with fierce animal spirits. Others draw from a roiling reservoir of anger at a world full of pain. For every barbarian, rage is a power that fuels not just a battle frenzy but also uncanny reflexes, resilience, and feats of strength.
Ancestral Protectors
Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, spectral warriors appear when you enter your rage. While you’re raging, the first creature you hit with an attack on your turn becomes the target of the warriors, which hinder its attacks. Until the start of your next turn, that target has disadvantage on any attack roll that isn’t against you, and when the target hits a creature other than you with an attack, that creature has resistance to the damage dealt by the attack. The effect on the target ends early if your rage ends. Spirit Shield
Beginning at 6th level, the guardian spirits that aid you can provide supernatural protection to those you defend. If you are raging and another creature you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to reduce that damage by 2d6. When you reach certain levels in this class, you can reduce the damage by more: by 3d6 at 10th level and by 4d6 at 14th level. Consult the Spirits
At 10th level, you gain the ability to consult with your ancestral spirits. When you do so, you cast the augury or clairvoyance spell, without using a spell slot or material components. Rather than creating a spherical sensor, this use of clairvoyance invisibly summons one of your ancestral spirits to the chosen location. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells. After you cast either spell in this way, you can’t use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest. Vengeful Ancestors
At 14th level, your ancestral spirits grow powerful enough to retaliate. When you use your Spirit Shield to reduce the damage of an attack, the attacker takes an amount of force damage equal to the damage that your Spirit Shield prevents.
Only dwarves can follow the Path of the Battlerager. The battlerager fills a particular niche in dwarven society and culture. Your DM can lift this restriction to better suit the campaign. The restriction exists for the Forgotten Realms. It might not apply to your DM’s setting or your DM’s version of the Realms. Battlerager Armor
When you choose this path at 3rd level, you gain the ability to use spiked armor (see the “Spiked Armor” sidebar) as a weapon. While you are wearing spiked armor and are raging, you can use a bonus action to make one melee weapon attack with your armor spikes against a target within 5 feet of you. If the attack hits, the spikes deal 1d4 piercing damage. You use your Strength modifier for the attack and damage rolls. Additionally, when you use the Attack action to grapple a creature, the target takes 3 piercing damage if your grapple check succeeds.
Beginning at 6th level, when you use Reckless Attack while raging, you also gain temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). They vanish if any of them are left when your rage ends. Battlerager Charge
Beginning at 10th level, you can take the Dash action as a bonus action while you are raging. Spiked Retribution
Starting at 14th level, when a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack, the attacker takes 3 piercing damage if you are raging, aren’t incapacitated, and are wearing spiked armor.
Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can go into a frenzy when you rage. If you do so, for the duration of your rage you can make a single melee weapon attack as a bonus action on each of your turns after this one. When your rage ends, you suffer one level of exhaustion. Mindless Rage
Beginning at 6th level, you can’t be charmed or frightened while raging. If you are charmed or frightened when you enter your rage, the effect is suspended for the duration of the rage. Intimidating Presence
Beginning at 10th level, you can use your action to frighten someone with your menacing presence. When you do so, choose one creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. If the creature can see or hear you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn. On subsequent turns, you can use your action to extend the duration of this effect on the frightened creature until the end of your next turn. This effect ends if the creature ends its turn out of line of sight or more than 60 feet away from you. If the creature succeeds on its saving throw, you can’t use this feature on that creature again for 24 hours. Retaliation
Starting at 14th level, when you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.
Lingering Magic
At 3rd level, your body reacts to the presence of magic. You can cast the detect magic spell without using a spell slot or components. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell. You faintly glow a color corresponding to the school of magic you detect (you choose the colors). You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Wild Surge
Starting at 3rd level, magic erupts from you as you rage. When you enter your rage, roll on the Wild Surge table to determine the magical effect produced. If the wild surge requires a saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier. Wild Surge (d8)
At 6th level, you can channel the magic surging inside you into other creatures. As an action, you can touch a creature and roll a d4. The creature recovers an expended spell slot of a level equal to the number rolled. If the creature you touch can’t recover a spell slot of that level, the creature instead gains temporary hit points equal to five times the number rolled. You take force damage equal to five times the number rolled. When you reach 14th level in this class, you increase the die to a d6. Arcane Rebuke
At 10th level, the magic crackling within your soul lashes out. When a creature forces you to make a saving throw while you are raging, you can use your reaction to deal 3d6 force damage to that creature. Chaotic Fury
At 14th level, you become a wellspring of wild magic while you are raging. As a bonus action, you can reroll on the Wild Surge table, replacing your current effect with the new one.
When you adopt this path at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: History, Intimidation, Performance, or Persuasion. Alternatively, you learn one language of your choice. Tribal Leader
At 3rd level, you learn to bolster the resolve of your allies, and crush that of your enemies, with battle cries. You learn two battle cries of your choice, which are detailed under “Battle Cries” (see ‘Battle Cries’ below). You learn an additional battle cry of your choice at 6th, 10th, and 14th level. Each time you learn a new battle cry, you can also replace one battle cry you know with a different one. You can issue one of your battle cries as an action on your turn. When you do, you choose a creature other than yourself within 30 feet of you that can hear you as the target for the battle cry. That target gains the effect of the chosen battle cry. While raging, you can issue a battle cry as a bonus action on your turn. War Song
At 6th level, you augment your rage with a tribal song or chant that inspires greater power in your allies’ attacks. While raging, when a friendly creature, other than yourself, within 15 feet of you hits with an attack, the attack gains a bonus to its damage equal to half your rage damage bonus. A creature must be able to hear you to gain the benefits of this feature. Commanding Presence
At 10th level, you gain a supernatural ability to influence and inspire obedience in others. You can cast the command and suggestion spells without using a spell slot or material components. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for the spells. Once you cast suggestion this way, you can’t cast either spell using this feature again until you finish a short or long rest. Chieftain’s Voice
Starting at 14th level, your voice booms with such incredible authority that even those who cannot hear it are compelled to listen. If a creature is deafened, it can still hear you when you speak, as well as when you make any noise, for the purpose of your War Chief features. Additionally, the range of your War Song increases to 30 feet, and when you issue a battle cry, you can choose a creature within 60 feet that can hear you as the target for the battle cry’s effects.
Primal Instinct
People of towns and cities take pride in how their civilized ways set them apart from animals, as if denying one’s own nature was a mark of superiority. To a barbarian, though, civilization is no virtue, but a sign of weakness. The strong embrace their animal nature—keen instincts, primal physicality, and ferocious rage. Barbarians are uncomfortable when hedged in by walls and crowds. They thrive in the wilds of their homelands: the tundra, jungle, or grasslands where their tribes live and hunt. Barbarians come alive in the chaos of combat. They can enter a berserk state where rage takes over, giving them superhuman strength and resilience. A barbarian can draw on this reservoir of fury only a few times without resting, but those few rages are usually sufficient to defeat whatever threats arise.A Life of Danger
Not every member of the tribes deemed “barbarians” by scions of civilized society has the barbarian class. A true barbarian among these people is as uncommon as a skilled fighter in a town, and he or she plays a similar role as a protector of the people and a leader in times of war. Life in the wild places of the world is fraught with peril: rival tribes, deadly weather, and terrifying monsters. Barbarians charge headlong into that danger so that their people don’t have to. Their courage in the face of danger makes barbarians perfectly suited for adventuring. Wandering is often a way of life for their native tribes, and the rootless life of the adventurer is little hardship for a barbarian. Some barbarians miss the close-knit family structures of the tribe, but eventually find them replaced by the bonds formed among the members of their adventuring parties.Creating a Barbarian
When creating a barbarian character, think about where your character comes from and his or her place in the world. Talk with your DM about an appropriate origin for your barbarian. Did you come from a distant land, making you a stranger in the area of the campaign? Or is the campaign set in a rough-and-tumble frontier where barbarians are common? What led you to take up the adventuring life? Were you lured to settled lands by the promise of riches? Did you join forces with soldiers of those lands to face a shared threat? Did monsters or an invading horde drive you out of your homeland, making you a rootless refugee? Perhaps you were a prisoner of war, brought in chains to “civilized” lands and only now able to win your freedom. Or you might have been cast out from your people because of a crime you committed, a taboo you violated, or a coup that removed you from a position of authority.QUICK BUILD
You can make a barbarian quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in Strength, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the outlander background.
Barbarian
Hit Points
Hit Dice: d12 per Barbarian level
Hit Points at first Level: 12 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d12 (or 7) + your Constitution modifier per barbarian level after 1st
Proficiences
Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution
Skills: Choose two from Animal Handling, Athletics, Intimidation, Nature, Perception, and Survival
Class Features
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.
Unarmored Defense
While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.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.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.Primal Path
At 3rd level, you choose a path that shapes the nature of your rage. The Path of the Berserker is detailed at the end of the class description, and additional primal paths are available in other sources. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th levels.Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.Fast Movement
Starting at 5th level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you aren’t wearing heavy armor.Feral Instinct
By 7th level, your instincts are so honed that you have advantage on initiative rolls. Additionally, if you are surprised at the beginning of combat and aren’t incapacitated, you can act normally on your first turn, but only if you enter your rage before doing anything else on that turn.Brutal Critical
Beginning at 9th level, you can roll one additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack. This increases to two additional dice at 13th level and three additional dice at 17th level.Relentless Rage
Starting at 11th level, your rage can keep you fighting despite grievous wounds. If you drop to 0 hit points while you’re raging and don’t die outright, you can make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, you drop to 1 hit point instead. Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC increases by 5. When you finish a short or long rest, the DC resets to 10.Brutal Critical
At 13th level, you can roll two additional weapon damage dice when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack. This increases to three additional dice at 17th level.Persistent Rage
Beginning at 15th level, your rage is so fierce that it ends early only if you fall unconscious or if you choose to end it.Brutal Critical
At 17th level, you can roll three additional weapon damage dice when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack.Indomitable Might
Beginning at 18th level, if your total for a Strength check is less than your Strength score, you can use that score in place of the total.Primal Champion
At 20th level, you embody the power of the wilds. Your Strength and Constitution scores increase by 4. Your maximum for those scores is now 24.Starting Equipment
- (a) a greataxe or (b) any martial melee weapon
- (a) two handaxes or (b) any simple weapon
- An explorer’s pack and four javelins
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Rages | Rage Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2 | Rage; Unarmored Defense | 2 | 2 |
| 2nd | 2 | Reckless Attack; Danger Sense | 2 | 2 |
| 3rd | 2 | Primal Path | 3 | 2 |
| 4th | 2 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 | 2 |
| 5th | 3 | Extra Attack; Fast Movement | 3 | 2 |
| 6th | 3 | Path Feature | 4 | 2 |
| 7th | 3 | Feral Instinct | 4 | 2 |
| 8th | 3 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 2 |
| 9th | 4 | Brutal Critical (1 die) | 4 | 3 |
| 10th | 4 | Path Feature | 4 | 3 |
| 11th | 4 | Relentless Rage | 4 | 3 |
| 12th | 4 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 3 |
| 13th | 5 | Brutal Critical (2 dice) | 5 | 3 |
| 14th | 5 | Path Feature | 5 | 3 |
| 15th | 5 | Persistent Rage | 5 | 3 |
| 16th | 5 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 4 |
| 17th | 6 | Brutal Critical (3 dice) | 6 | 4 |
| 18th | 6 | Indomitable Might | 6 | 4 |
| 19th | 6 | Ability Score Improvement | 6 | 4 |
| 20th | 6 | Primal Champion | Unlimited | 4 |
Primal Paths
Rage burns in every barbarian’s heart, a furnace that drives him or her toward greatness. Different barbarians attribute their rage to different sources, however. For some, it is an internal reservoir where pain, grief, and anger are forged into a fury hard as steel. Others see it as a spiritual blessing, a gift of a totem animal.Path of the Ancestral Guardian
Some barbarians hail from cultures that revere their ancestors. These tribes teach that the warriors of the past linger in the world as mighty spirits, who can guide and protect the living. When a barbarian who follows this path rages, the barbarian contacts the spirit world and calls on these guardian spirits for aid. Barbarians who draw on their ancestral guardians can better fight to protect their tribes and their allies. In order to cement ties to their ancestral guardians, barbarians who follow this path cover themselves in elaborate tattoos that celebrate their ancestors’ deeds. These tattoos tell sagas of victories against terrible monsters and other fearsome rivals. Path of the Ancestral Guardian Features| Barbarian Level | Feature |
|---|---|
| 3rd | Ancestral Protectors |
| 6th | Spirit Shield (2d6) |
| 10th | Consult the Spirits, Spirit Shield (3d6) |
| 14th | Vengeful Ancestors, Spirit Shield (4d6) |
Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, spectral warriors appear when you enter your rage. While you’re raging, the first creature you hit with an attack on your turn becomes the target of the warriors, which hinder its attacks. Until the start of your next turn, that target has disadvantage on any attack roll that isn’t against you, and when the target hits a creature other than you with an attack, that creature has resistance to the damage dealt by the attack. The effect on the target ends early if your rage ends. Spirit Shield
Beginning at 6th level, the guardian spirits that aid you can provide supernatural protection to those you defend. If you are raging and another creature you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to reduce that damage by 2d6. When you reach certain levels in this class, you can reduce the damage by more: by 3d6 at 10th level and by 4d6 at 14th level. Consult the Spirits
At 10th level, you gain the ability to consult with your ancestral spirits. When you do so, you cast the augury or clairvoyance spell, without using a spell slot or material components. Rather than creating a spherical sensor, this use of clairvoyance invisibly summons one of your ancestral spirits to the chosen location. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells. After you cast either spell in this way, you can’t use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest. Vengeful Ancestors
At 14th level, your ancestral spirits grow powerful enough to retaliate. When you use your Spirit Shield to reduce the damage of an attack, the attacker takes an amount of force damage equal to the damage that your Spirit Shield prevents.
Path of the Battlerager
Known as Kuldjargh (literally “axe idiot”) in Dwarvish, battleragers are dwarf followers of the gods of war and take the Path of the Battlerager. They specialize in wearing bulky, spiked armor and throwing themselves into combat, striking with their body itself and giving themselves over to the fury of battle. Restriction: Dwarves OnlyOnly dwarves can follow the Path of the Battlerager. The battlerager fills a particular niche in dwarven society and culture. Your DM can lift this restriction to better suit the campaign. The restriction exists for the Forgotten Realms. It might not apply to your DM’s setting or your DM’s version of the Realms. Battlerager Armor
When you choose this path at 3rd level, you gain the ability to use spiked armor (see the “Spiked Armor” sidebar) as a weapon. While you are wearing spiked armor and are raging, you can use a bonus action to make one melee weapon attack with your armor spikes against a target within 5 feet of you. If the attack hits, the spikes deal 1d4 piercing damage. You use your Strength modifier for the attack and damage rolls. Additionally, when you use the Attack action to grapple a creature, the target takes 3 piercing damage if your grapple check succeeds.
SPIKED ARMOR Spiked armor is a rare type of medium armor made by dwarves. It consists of a leather coat and leggings covered with spikes that are usually made of metal. Cost: 75 gp AC: 14 + Dexterity modifier (max 2) Stealth: Disadvantage Weight: 45 lb.Reckless Abandon
Beginning at 6th level, when you use Reckless Attack while raging, you also gain temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). They vanish if any of them are left when your rage ends. Battlerager Charge
Beginning at 10th level, you can take the Dash action as a bonus action while you are raging. Spiked Retribution
Starting at 14th level, when a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack, the attacker takes 3 piercing damage if you are raging, aren’t incapacitated, and are wearing spiked armor.
Path of the Berserker
For some barbarians, rage is a means to an end—that end being violence. The Path of the Berserker is a path of untrammeled fury, slick with blood. As you enter the berserker’s rage, you thrill in the chaos of battle, heedless of your own health or well-being. FrenzyStarting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can go into a frenzy when you rage. If you do so, for the duration of your rage you can make a single melee weapon attack as a bonus action on each of your turns after this one. When your rage ends, you suffer one level of exhaustion. Mindless Rage
Beginning at 6th level, you can’t be charmed or frightened while raging. If you are charmed or frightened when you enter your rage, the effect is suspended for the duration of the rage. Intimidating Presence
Beginning at 10th level, you can use your action to frighten someone with your menacing presence. When you do so, choose one creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. If the creature can see or hear you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn. On subsequent turns, you can use your action to extend the duration of this effect on the frightened creature until the end of your next turn. This effect ends if the creature ends its turn out of line of sight or more than 60 feet away from you. If the creature succeeds on its saving throw, you can’t use this feature on that creature again for 24 hours. Retaliation
Starting at 14th level, when you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.
Path of the Wild Soul
You have been touched by the magic of Adulla. Whether you are a half-blood, firstborn, or one who had an encounter with one where they almost killed you, you have now gained some of the abilities or a caster in Adulla. Unfortunately, your anger and rage does not give you control over this magic even if you were born with it. When a barbarian who follows this path rages, it is a bellowing roar for freedom, an explosion of expression, manifesting in unpredictable ways. Path of the Wild Soul Features| Barbarian Level | Feature |
|---|---|
| 3rd | Lingering Magic, Wild Surge |
| 6th | Magic Reserves 1d4 |
| 10th | Arcane Rebuke |
| 14th | Chaotic Fury, Magic Reserves 1d6 |
At 3rd level, your body reacts to the presence of magic. You can cast the detect magic spell without using a spell slot or components. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell. You faintly glow a color corresponding to the school of magic you detect (you choose the colors). You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Wild Surge
Starting at 3rd level, magic erupts from you as you rage. When you enter your rage, roll on the Wild Surge table to determine the magical effect produced. If the wild surge requires a saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier. Wild Surge (d8)
- Necrotic energy bursts from you. Each creature within 30 feet of you takes 1d10 necrotic damage, and you gain temporary hit points equal to the sum of the necrotic damage dealt to the creatures.
- You teleport up to 20 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Until your rage ends, you can activate this effect again on each of your turns as a bonus action.
- You conjure 1d4 intangible spirits that look like flumphs in unoccupied spaces within 30 feet of you. Each spirit immediately flies 30 feet in a random direction. At the end of your turn, all spirits explode and each creature within 5 feet of one or more of them must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 2d8 force damage.
- Arcane energy enshrouds you. Until your rage ends, you gain a +2 bonus to AC, and whenever a creature within 10 feet of you hits you with an attack, that creature takes force damage equal to your Constitution modifier.
- Plant life temporarily grows around you: until your rage ends, the ground within 10 feet of you is difficult terrain.
- Arcane energy taps into the minds of those around you. Each creature within 30 feet of you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or you see a glimpse of the creature’s thoughts, learning how it plans to attack you. As a result, the creature has disadvantage on attack rolls against you until the start of your next turn.
- Shadows weave around a weapon of your choice you are holding. Until your rage ends, your weapon deals psychic damage instead of its bludgeoning, slashing, or piercing damage, and it gains the light and thrown properties with a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet. If you drop the weapon or throw it, the weapon dissipates and reappears in your hand at the end of your turn.
- A beam of brilliant light lances from your chest in a 5-foot-wide, 60-foot-long line. Each creature in the line must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 2d8 radiant damage and be blinded until the start of your next turn.
At 6th level, you can channel the magic surging inside you into other creatures. As an action, you can touch a creature and roll a d4. The creature recovers an expended spell slot of a level equal to the number rolled. If the creature you touch can’t recover a spell slot of that level, the creature instead gains temporary hit points equal to five times the number rolled. You take force damage equal to five times the number rolled. When you reach 14th level in this class, you increase the die to a d6. Arcane Rebuke
At 10th level, the magic crackling within your soul lashes out. When a creature forces you to make a saving throw while you are raging, you can use your reaction to deal 3d6 force damage to that creature. Chaotic Fury
At 14th level, you become a wellspring of wild magic while you are raging. As a bonus action, you can reroll on the Wild Surge table, replacing your current effect with the new one.
Path of the War Chief
While some barbarians prefer a life of savage solitude, others long for a tribe. Barbarians on the Path of the War Chief are leaders and warrior kings who can turn any scrappy group of companions into a tight-knit tribe. Inspiring their allies to victory with battle cries and war songs, war chiefs lead every battle from the frontline. Bonus ProficiencyWhen you adopt this path at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: History, Intimidation, Performance, or Persuasion. Alternatively, you learn one language of your choice. Tribal Leader
At 3rd level, you learn to bolster the resolve of your allies, and crush that of your enemies, with battle cries. You learn two battle cries of your choice, which are detailed under “Battle Cries” (see ‘Battle Cries’ below). You learn an additional battle cry of your choice at 6th, 10th, and 14th level. Each time you learn a new battle cry, you can also replace one battle cry you know with a different one. You can issue one of your battle cries as an action on your turn. When you do, you choose a creature other than yourself within 30 feet of you that can hear you as the target for the battle cry. That target gains the effect of the chosen battle cry. While raging, you can issue a battle cry as a bonus action on your turn. War Song
At 6th level, you augment your rage with a tribal song or chant that inspires greater power in your allies’ attacks. While raging, when a friendly creature, other than yourself, within 15 feet of you hits with an attack, the attack gains a bonus to its damage equal to half your rage damage bonus. A creature must be able to hear you to gain the benefits of this feature. Commanding Presence
At 10th level, you gain a supernatural ability to influence and inspire obedience in others. You can cast the command and suggestion spells without using a spell slot or material components. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for the spells. Once you cast suggestion this way, you can’t cast either spell using this feature again until you finish a short or long rest. Chieftain’s Voice
Starting at 14th level, your voice booms with such incredible authority that even those who cannot hear it are compelled to listen. If a creature is deafened, it can still hear you when you speak, as well as when you make any noise, for the purpose of your War Chief features. Additionally, the range of your War Song increases to 30 feet, and when you issue a battle cry, you can choose a creature within 60 feet that can hear you as the target for the battle cry’s effects.
Battle Cries
Bolstering Yip. Until the start of your next turn, the target has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.
Cautionary Bellow. The target has advantage on the first Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution saving throw it makes before the start of your next turn.
Challenging Call. The target can use its movement only to move closer to you during its next turn. The creature can choose not to move. This battle cry has no effect on a creature immune to being charmed.
Defensive Holler. The first attack made against the target before the start of your next turn is made with disadvantage.
Empowering Howl. The first time the target hits with a weapon attack before the start of your next turn, it gains a bonus to the damage roll equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).
Hastening Whoop. The target can use its reaction to move up to half its speed. If this movement provokes an opportunity attack, the attack roll is made with disadvantage.
Infuriating Bark. The target has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you until the start of your next turn. This battle cry has no effect on a creature immune to being charmed.
Inspiring Roar. The first time the target makes an attack roll or ability check before the start of your next turn, it can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the attack roll or ability check.
Invigorating Shout. The target gains temporary hit points equal 1d6 + your Charisma modifier (minimum 1). It loses any of these remaining temporary hit points at the start of your next turn.
Maddening Ululation. The target has advantage on the first melee weapon attack it makes before the start of your next turn, and the first attack made against it before then by a creature other than you is made with advantage. This battle cry has no effect on a creature immune to being charmed.
Terrifying Shriek. The target can’t willingly move closer to you during its next turn. This battle cry has no effect on a creature immune to being frightened.
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