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Unearthed Arcana: Feats for Races This Is Playtest Material Barbed Hide the Material Here Is Presented for Playtesting and to Spark Your Imagination Unearthed Arcana: Feats for Races This Is Playtest Material Barbed Hide The material here is presented for playtesting and to spark your imagination. These game mechanics are in Prerequisite: Tiefling draft form, usable in your campaign but not refined by One of your ancestors was a barbed devil or design iterations or full game development and editing. other spiky fiend. Barbs protrude from your They aren’t officially part of the game and aren’t permitted in D&D Adventurers League events. head. You gain the following benefits: If we decide to make this material official, it will be • Increase your Constitution or Charisma score refined based on your feedback, and then it will appear by 1, up to a maximum of 20. in a D&D book. • As a bonus action, you can cause small barbs to This document introduces new feats to playtest. protrude all over your body or cause them to As explained in chapter 6 of the Player’s retract. At the start of each of your turns while Handbook, feats, like multiclassing, are an the barbs are out, you deal 1d6 piercing optional part of the game, usable only if your DM damage to any creature grappling you or any permits them. These feats don’t assume that creature grappled by you. multiclassing is used in a campaign, and they • You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill. If don’t assume the existence of the skill feats that you’re already proficient in it, your proficiency were released in a previous installment of bonus is doubled for any check you make with Unearthed Arcana. it. Each of these feats is associated with a race from the Player’s Handbook, as summarized Bountiful Luck below. Prerequisite: Halfling Race Feat Dragonborn Dragon Fear Whenever an ally you can see within 30 feet of Dragonborn Dragon Hide you rolls a 1 on the d20 for an attack roll, an Dragonborn Dragon Wings ability check, or a saving throw, you can use your Dwarf Dwarf Resilience reaction to let the ally reroll the die. The ally Dwarf Grudge-Bearer must use the new roll. Dwarf Squat Nimbleness Elf Elven Accuracy Critter Friend Elf (drow) Drow High Magic Elf (high) Fey Teleportation Prerequisite: Gnome (forest) Elf (wood) Wood Elf Magic Gnome Fade Away Your friendship with animals mystically Gnome Squat Nimbleness deepens. You gain the following benefits: Gnome (forest) Critter Friend • You gain proficiency in the Animal Handling Gnome (rock) Wonder Maker skill. If you’re already proficient in it, your Half-elf Elven Accuracy proficiency bonus is doubled for any check you Half-elf Everybody’s Friend Half-elf Prodigy make with it. Half-orc Orcish Aggression • You learn the speak with animals spell and can Half-orc Orcish Fury cast it at will, without expending a spell slot. Halfling Bountiful Luck You also learn the animal friendship spell, and Halfling Second Chance you can cast it once with this feat, without Halfling Squat Nimbleness expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to Human Human Determination cast it in this way when you finish a long rest. Human Prodigy Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for Tiefling Barbed Hide these spells. Tiefling Flames of Phlegethos Tiefling Infernal Constitution ©2017 Wizards of the Coast LLC 1 will, without expending a spell slot. You also Dragon Fear learn levitate and dispel magic, each of which you Prerequisite: Dragonborn can cast once without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to cast the spell in this way When angered, you radiate menace. You gain the when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your following benefits: spellcasting ability for these spells. • Increase your Strength or Charisma score by 1, up to a maximum of 20. Dwarf Resilience • Instead of exhaling destructive energy, you can Prerequisite: Dwarf roar and expend a use of your breath weapon to force each creature of your choice within 30 You have the blood of dwarf heroes flowing feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw through your veins. You gain the following (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your benefits: Charisma modifier). A target automatically • Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a succeeds if it can’t hear or see you. On a failed maximum of 20. save, a target becomes frightened for 1 minute. • Whenever you take the Dodge action in If the frightened target takes any damage, it combat, you can spend one Hit Die to heal can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect yourself. Roll the die, add your Constitution on itself on a success. modifier, and regain a number of hit points Dragon Hide equal to the total (minimum of 1). Prerequisite: Dragonborn Elven Accuracy You inherited the might and majesty of your Prerequisite: Elf or half-elf dragon ancestors. You gain the following You have uncanny aim. You gain the following benefits: benefits: • Increase your Strength or Charisma score by 1, • Increase your Dexterity score by 1, to a up to a maximum of 20. maximum of 20. • You grow retractable claws from the tips of • Whenever you have advantage on an attack your fingers. Extending or retracting the claws roll, you can reroll one of the dice once. requires no action. The claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing Everybody’s Friend damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, Prerequisite: Half-elf instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. You develop your magnetic personality to ease • Your scales harden; you gain a +1 bonus to AC your way through the world. You gain the while you aren’t wearing armor. following benefits: • Increase your Charisma score by 1, up to a Dragon Wings maximum of 20. • You gain proficiency in the Deception and Prerequisite: Dragonborn Persuasion skills. If you’re already proficient in You sprout draconic wings. With your wings, you either skill, your proficiency bonus is doubled have a flying speed of 20 feet if you aren’t for any check you make with that skill. wearing heavy armor and aren’t exceeding your carrying capacity. Fade Away Drow High Magic Prerequisite: Gnome Prerequisite: Elf (drow) You can draw on your magical heritage to escape danger. You gain the following benefits: You learn more of the spells typical for your people. You learn detect magic and can cast it at ©2017 Wizards of the Coast LLC 2 • Increase your Intelligence score by 1, up to a oozes, plants, or undead. Alternatively, you can maximum of 20. choose two races of humanoid (such as gnolls • When you take damage, you can use a reaction and orcs). You gain the following benefits: to magically become invisible until the end of • Increase your Strength, Constitution, or your next turn or until you attack, deal Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20. damage, or force someone to make a saving • During the first round of any combat against throw. Once you use this ability, you can’t do your chosen foes, your attack rolls against any so again until you finish a short or long rest. of them have advantage. • When any of your chosen foes makes an Fey Teleportation opportunity attack against you, it makes the attack roll with disadvantage. Prerequisite: Elf (high) • Whenever you make an Intelligence (Arcana, Drawing on your fey ancestry, you have learned History, Nature, or Religion) check to recall how to teleport. You gain the following benefits: information about your chosen foes, you add double your proficiency bonus to the check, • Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a even if you’re not normally proficient. maximum of 20. • You learn the misty step spell and can cast it once without expending a spell slot. You regain Human Determination the ability to cast it in this way when you finish Prerequisite: Human a short or long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for this spell. You are filled with a determination that can draw the unreachable within your reach. You Flames of Phlegethos gain the following benefits: • Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, Prerequisite: Tiefling to a maximum of 20. You learn to call on hellfire to serve your • When you make an attack roll, an ability check, commands. You gain the following benefits: or a saving throw, you can do so with advantage. Once you use this ability, you can’t • Increase your Intelligence or Charisma score use it again until you finish a short or long rest. by 1, to a maximum of 20. • When you roll fire damage for a spell you cast, you can reroll any roll of 1 on the fire damage Infernal Constitution dice, but you must use the new roll, even if it is Prerequisite: Tiefling another 1. • Whenever you cast a spell that deals fire Fiendish blood runs strong in you. You gain the damage, you can cause flames to wreathe you following benefits: until the end of your next turn. The flames • Increase your Constitution score by 1, up to a don’t harm you or your possessions, and they maximum of 20. shed bright light out to 30 feet and dim light • You have resistance to cold and poison for an additional 30 feet. While the flames are damage. present, any creature within 5 feet of you that • You have advantage on saving throws against hits you with a melee attack takes 1d4 fire being poisoned. damage. Grudge-Bearer Orcish Aggression Prerequisite: Half-orc Prerequisite: Dwarf As a bonus action, you can move up to your You have a deep hatred for a particular kind of speed toward an enemy of your choice that you creature.
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