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Variant Rules
Downtime Activities
- Animal Training
- Birthday
- Creating A Permanent Spell Effect
- Disenchanting a Magic Item
- Drinking
- Investment
- Item Enchanting
- Learning a Feat
- Level Advancement
- Making Contacts
- Personal Improvement
- Philanthropy
- Raising a Family
- Skill Advancement
- Traveling
- Useful Materials
Supplemental Combat Actions
- Auras
- Catch
- Delay
- Drop Prone
- Entangle
- In Motion
- Item Enchanting
- Multiple Characters
- Object Interactions Repealed
- Reloading
- Shield Bashing
- Swallow Whole Variant
- Useful Materials
- Water Damage
Weapon Properties
- Alt-Fire
- Armor Piercing
- Disarming
- Dismounting
- Firearms
- Glove
- Hidden
- Oversized
- Returning
- Swift
- Undersized
Skills
Supplemental Variant Rules
A supplemental variant rule can be implemented into a campaign with little or no change in the core dynamics. These rules cover an area that the core rules do not cover or do not cover well.
- Additional Status Conditions
- Alchemy
- Alternate Ability Checks
- Anti-Feats
- Armor Enhancement
- Armor Functions
- Body Type
- Competitive Games
- Constructing Siege Engines
- Creating Homebrew Nonmagical Weapons
- Critical Hit Tables
- Cross-Class Archetypes
- Custom Weapon Design
- Downtime Activity Proficiencies
- Dungeon Location Investigation
- Expanded Interactions
- Falling Damage for Non-Medium Creatures
- Fundamental Skills
- Glide Speed
- Improvised Weapons
- Language Throws
- Large Player Characters
- Level Zero
- Magical Cookery
- Multi-Weapon Fighting
- Mythic Monsters
- Negative temporary HitPoints
- Overexertion
- Partial Armor
- Passive Feats
- Past Level 20
- Primitive Weapons
- Rare Monsters for Random Encounters
- Regeneration
- Revised Wild Magic Surge Table
- Rubber Forehead Alien
- Simple Psychic
- Size Conditions
- System Shock: A Hard Limit to Lives
- Three-Quarters Spellcaster
- Tiny Player Characters
- Unarmed Strike
- Underwater Combat
Transformational Variant Rules
A transformational variant rule, when implemented into a campaign, will change the core dynamics. These rules change the core rules to make them more playable or more realistic while staying within the d20 framework.
- Complex Death
- Downtime Counting
- Elaborate Weapon Design
- Fully Customizable Backgrounds
- Gestalt
- Individual Speed
- Manpower
- Multi-type Damage Weapons Variant
- Player Customizable Variant Races
- Resting
- Simplified Weapon Design
- Stacking Advantage
- Stacking Proficiency
- Unusual Dice
- Variant Individual Speed
- XP On Demand
Radical Variant Rules
These are variants which completely overhaul the mechanics of the game both large and small, and often bear only a resemblance to the d20 system.
Not-Categorized
These have yet to be categorized for how they implement into typical D&D rules. Please help and categorize these.
- AdvancedInjurySystem
- Birthday
- Custom Hybrid Classes
- Mighty Bow
- Race Progressions
- Soulbound
- Taming beasts
- Tattoos
Incomplete
Variant rules with one or many improving, reviewing, or removing templates present. Please help work on the problem presented on the template.
External Links
- Variant Rules at WotC
- When Armies Clash rules for mass combat at WotC
