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Spellcasting

Material Components

• If you have an arcane focus or component pouch it is assumed you have any material components necessary for spellcasting except if a material has a gp value, in which case you must have that Material Component in your inventory to cast the spell.

Combat

Name	To Hit	Damage
Unarmed Strike	Strength Mod + Proficency	1 + Strength Mod bludgeoning
Improvised Weapon	Strength Mod	d4 + Strength Mod bludgeoning
Improvised Weapon (Thrown)	Dexterity Mod	d4 bludgeoning

Attack Replacements

• Shove
  • Contest: Strength (Athletics) vs Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics)
    • the target chooses the ability to use
  • Win: knock the target prone or push it 5 feet away from you.
  • Target must be no more than one size larger than you and within your reach
• Grapple
  • Contest: Strength (Athletics) vs Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics)
    • the target chooses the ability to use
  • Win: Target is grappled (move speed becomes 0)
  • Target must be no more than one size larger than you and within your reach
  • Involuntary movement of attacker or target out of reach will break the grapple (shove)
  • Moving with a grappled creature halves your speed unless the creature is two or more sizes smaller than you.
• Escape a grapple
  • Contest: Strength (Athletics) vs Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics)
    • the target chooses the ability to use
  • Win: Remove grappled condition

HomeRule All players may benefit from the 'Restrain' maneuver from the Grapple Feat

You can use your action to try to pin a creature Grappled by you. To do so, make another grapple check. If you succeed, you and the creature are both Restrained until the grapple ends.

Restrained:

• A restrained creature’s speed becomes 0, and it can’t benefit from any bonus to its speed.
• Attack rolls against the creature have advantage, and the creature’s Attack rolls have disadvantage.
• The creature has disadvantage on Dexterity Saving Throws.

Movement

• You can move through a nonhostile creature’s space
• Another creature’s space is difficult terrain for you
• Whether a creature is a friend or an enemy, you can’t willingly end your move in its space
• A creature can squeeze through a space that is large enough for a creature one size smaller than it
  • Must spend 1 extra foot for every foot it moves there
  • Disadvantage on Attack rolls and Dexterity Saving Throws
  • Attack rolls against the creature have advantage
• Overrun
  • Athletics Contest
  • Action or bonus action
  • Advantage if larger than target, disadvantage if smaller
• Tumble
  • Acrobatics Contest
  • Action or bonus action
  • Advantage if smaller than target, disadvantage if larger

Out Of Combat

Resting

For the purposes of a short or long rest, rest is considered to be generally sedentiary actions that usually involve sitting, and doing nothing that requires intense focus.

• You regenerate all HP after a long rest, and up to 1/2 your maximum Hit Dice
• When you finish a long rest during which you slept in medium or heavy armor, you regain only 1/4 of any expended Hit Dice (min 1).
• Whenever you end a 24-hour period without finishing a long rest, you must succeed on a DC10 CONSAV or suffer one level of exhaustion. It becomes harder to fight off exhaustion if you stay awake for multiple days. After the first 24 hours, the DC increases by 5 for each consecutive 24-hour period without a long rest. The DC resets to 10 when you finish a long rest (-Xanathars)
• If you did not sleep on previous nights, or if you slept in medium or heavy armor, the rest does not reduce your exhaustion level.
• Long rests in some environments will only provide the benefit of a short rest. To get the benefit of a long rest, rest in an established or fortifiable position, or spend an entire day performing no travel or strenuous tasks.

Donning and Doffing Armor

Category	Don	Doff
Light Armor	1 minute	1 minute
Medium Armor	5 minutes	1 minute
Heavy Armor	10 minutes	5 minutes
Shield	1 action	1 action

Exhaustion

Effects

Level	Effect
1	disadvantage on ability checks
2	Speed halved
3	disadvantage on all attack rolls & saving throws
4	Max HP halved
5	Speed reduced to 0
6	Death

Ways to gain a point of exhaustion

• Go 24 hours without sleep
  • DC10 CONSAV (+5 per 24 hrs)
• End a day without drinking 1 gallon of fresh water. (2 in hot climates)
  • DC15 CONSAV
  • DC+5 if moving at a fast pace
  • Disadvantage if wearing medium armor, heavy armor or heavy clothing
  • Automatic fail if less than 1/2 target water drunk
  • If you already have one or more levels of exhaustion, you take two levels
• End a day without consuming 1lb of food
  • PCs can go 3+CONMOD days without eating, after which an automatic point of exhaustion per day without food
  • Eating half the required food is considered a half day without food
  • A hero cannot live on Goodberries alone. After 3+CONMOD days of Goodberries, a character will develop symptoms of food poisoning (Poisoned & +1 Exhaustion)
• Travel during Torrential weather
  • 1 exhaustion without check
  • immediate DC10CONSAV for a second exhaustion
• Travel for more than 8 hours in a day (Forced March)
  • DC10 CONSAV
  • +1 for each hour past 8
• And of course, spells, diseases etc

Ways to remove a point of exhaustion

• Greater Restoration
• Potion of Vitality
• Spending a day safe, with no strenuous tasks, full ration of food, water and uninterrupted sleep