Variant Rules (Bleach Supplement)

Variant Rules

The following are writeups and links to various variant rules this campaign should use.

Alternate Armor and AC

While not wearing any armor, a creature's AC is equal to 10 + their Strength or Dexterity modifier + their proficiency bonus. In this setting, a creature's AC is their ability to dodge. If you have an Unarmored Defense feature, such as from being a monk or barbarian, you gain a +2 bonus to your AC while fulfilling that feature's requirements.

All armor grants a penalty the target's AC, and Strength and Dexterity saving throws. This penalty is referred to as its Armor Penalty. Additionally, armor grants a damage threshold. When a creature takes damage, if the amount of damage is below their damage threshold, they instead take no damage. This is decided after resistances, immunity, and other decreases to damage are calculated. A critical hit ignores the target's damage threshold.

If a creature would gain a bonus to their AC under standard 5e rules, such as by wielding a shield, that does not change how their AC is calculated, like the Unarmored Defense feature, they instead must use their bonus action to defend in order to benefit from it, adding any of these bonuses to what would be their AC under standard 5e rules to their damage threshold until the beginning of their next turn.

Additional Weapon Properties

• Long Reload - Similar to the reload property, a limited number of shots can be made with a weapon that has the long reload property. A character must then reload it using an action, or may use their bonus action to reload a single shot.
• Spread - A weapon with the spread property fires multiple projectiles with a single pull of the trigger. On a hit, roll the die listed in the weapon's spread property. The weapon's damage is dealt to the target a number of times equal to the spread die's roll.

Rarity Instead of Cost

This setting uses rarity instead of cost. Items that players are expected to come across regularly are given a typical rarity (i.e. Common) while items that should be treated as individual rewards, such as magic items, are given a special rarity (i.e. Special Common). If you wish to use cost, consider the following values measured in US dollars:

• Common - >$100
• Uncommon - $1,000
• Rare - $10,000
• Very Rare - $25,000
• Legendary/Special Common - $50,000
• Special Uncommon - $100,000
• Special Rare - $500,000
• Special Very Rare - $1,000,000
• Special Legendary - >$10,000,000

Simple Exhaustion

When a creature gains a level of exhaustion, rather than its traditional effects, they gain a -1 penalty to any d20 rolls they make, and for every even-numbered level of exhaustion a creature gains they also gain a -5 ft. penalty to their movement speed. If a creature has at least 10 levels of exhaustion, they immediately drop to 0 hit points and can not regain hit points until they have fewer than 10 levels of exhaustion. If a creature has at least 15 levels of exhaustion, they are killed instantly.

Multisubclass

A creature is not locked to one subclass for each of their classes, and can instead gain features from a different subclass each time they gain a subclass feature, though features from each subclass are still gained in order.

For example, a fighter reaches 3rd level and takes the Champion Martial Archetype, gaining Improved Critical. At 7th level, they multisubclass into the Psi Warrior Martial Archetype, gaining Psionic Power instead of Remarkable Athlete. At 10th level, they may gain Remarkable Athlete or Telekinetic Adept, or can multisubclass into yet another Martial Archetype.

Player Equivalent CR

In addition to the above rule, some creatures are categorized as "bosses". Bosses are intended to be equal to a party of 4 players of the same level as its CR, and are generally a larger size category with at least twice as many hit points.

Further Beyond

In addition to the above rule, when a creature's total level reaches 21st level, and again at 41st level, they gain proficiency in one common (Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom) and uncommon (Strength, Intelligence, Charisma) saving throw.

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