One:Weapon
Your Class grants proficiency in certain weapons, reflecting both the class’s focus and the tools you are most likely to use. Whether you favor a longsword or a longbow, your weapon and your ability to wield it effectively can mean the difference between life and death while adventuring.
The Weapons table shows the most common weapons used in the fantasy gaming worlds, their price and weight, the damage they deal when they hit, and any special properties they possess. Every weapon is classified as either melee or ranged. A melee weapon is used to attack a target within 5 feet of you, whereas a ranged weapon is used to attack a target at a distance. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Weapon Proficiency
Your race, class, and feats can grant you proficiency with certain weapons or categories of weapons. The two categories are simple and martial. Most people can use simple weapons with proficiency. These weapons include clubs, maces, and other weapons often found in the hands of commoners. Martial weapons, including swords, axes, and polearms, require more specialized training to use effectively. Most warriors use martial weapons because these weapons put their fighting style and training to best use.
Proficiency with a weapon allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with that weapon. If you make an attack roll using a weapon with which you lack proficiency, you do not add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Weapon Properties
Many weapons have special properties related to their use, as shown in the Weapons table. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Ammunition
You can use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a ranged attack only if you have ammunition to fire from the weapon. Each time you attack with the weapon, you expend one piece of ammunition. Drawing the ammunition from a quiver, case, or other container is part of the attack (you need a free hand to load a one-handed weapon). At the end of the battle, you can recover half your expended ammunition by taking a minute to search the battlefield.
If you use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a melee attack, you treat the weapon as an improvised weapon. A sling must be loaded to deal any damage when used in this way. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Finesse
When making an attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Heavy
Summary:[2] You have Disadvantage on your attack rolls with this weapon if:
- Melee Weapon: Strength < 13
- Ranged Weapon: Dexterity < 13}
Light
Summary: [2] When you attack with a light weapon, you can make a additional attack with a different light weapon as a Bonus Action with some limitations.
Loading
Because of the time required to load this weapon, you can fire only one piece of ammunition from it when you use an action, bonus action, or reaction to fire it, regardless of the number of attacks you can normally make. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Range
A weapon that can be used to make a ranged attack has a range in parentheses after the ammunition or thrown property. The range lists two numbers. The first is the weapon’s normal range in feet, and the second indicates the weapon’s long range. When attacking a target beyond normal range, you have disadvantage on the attack roll. You can’t attack a target beyond the weapon’s long range. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Reach
This weapon adds 5 feet to your reach when you attack with it, as well as when determining your reach for opportunity attacks with it. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Special
A weapon with the special property has unusual rules governing its use, explained in the weapon’s description (see “Special Weapons” later in this section). [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Thrown
Summary: [2] You can draw and make a Ranged Attack with a weapon with this property. Use the same Ability modifier as when making a Melee attack with it.
Two-Handed
This weapon requires two hands when you attack with it. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Versatile
This weapon can be used with one or two hands. A damage value in parentheses appears with the property — the damage when the weapon is used with two hands to make a melee attack. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Mastery Properties
Summary: [2] Weapons have a Mastery property that can only be used by characters that have a feature that permits the Mastery property use.
Cleave
Prerequisite: Melee Weapon, Heavy Property
Summary: [2] This mastery and weapon, it allows you once a turn to, after hitting a creature with a Cleave weapon, to make a free attack against a different, nearby creature with this weapon.
Graze
Prerequisite: Melee Weapon, Heavy Property
Summary: [2] With this mastery and weapon, it allows you to do your ability modifier damage, even if you miss the target creature.
Nick
Prerequisite: Light Property
Summary: [2] With this mastery and weapon, you can use the extra attack of the light weapon property without expending a bonus action when you use the Attack action.
Push
Prerequisite: Heavy, Two-Handed, or Versative Property
Summary: [2] With this mastery and weapon, you can push a target you hit away from you.
Sap
Prerequisite: No Other Properties
Summary: [2] With this mastery and weapon, you can impose disadvantage on a creature you hit's next attack roll.[3]
Slow
Prerequisite: None
Summary: [2] With this mastery and weapon, you can temporarily reduce the speed of a {{onelc|Creature} you hit.
Topple
Prerequisite: Heavy, Reach, or Versative Property
Summary: [2] With this mastery and weapon, when you hit a creature, you may knock it Prone (Constitution save to avoid being prone).
Vex
Prerequisite: Ammunition, Finesse, or Light Property
Summary: [2] With this mastery and weapon, a hit on creature grants you advantage on your next attack roll against it.
Improvised Weapons
Sometimes characters don’t have their weapons and have to attack with whatever is at hand. An improvised weapon includes any object you can wield in one or two hands, such as broken glass, a table leg, a frying pan, a wagon wheel, or a dead goblin.
Often, an improvised weapon is similar to an actual weapon and can be treated as such. For example, a table leg is akin to a club. At the GM’s option, a character proficient with a weapon can use a similar object as if it were that weapon and use his or her proficiency bonus.
An object that bears no resemblance to a weapon deals 1d4 damage (the GM assigns a damage type appropriate to the object). If a character uses a ranged weapon to make a melee attack, or throws a melee weapon that does not have the thrown property, it also deals 1d4 damage. An improvised thrown weapon has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
Silvered Weapons
Some monsters that have immunity or resistance to nonmagical weapons are susceptible to silver weapons, so cautious adventurers invest extra coin to plate their weapons with silver. You can silver a single weapon or ten pieces of ammunition for 100 gp. This cost represents not only the price of the silver, but the time and expertise needed to add silver to the weapon without making it less effective. [SRD5 OGL] [1]
List of Weapons
41 weapons.
Sources and Notes
see individual weapon
- Wizards RPG Team. SRD-OGL v5.1 (5e) (2015.05.06). Wizards of the Coast. Licensed: OGL. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12
- WotC RPG Team. UA 2023 Player's Handbook Playtest 8 (Dungeons and Dragons One D&D) (2023-11-27). Wizards of the Coast. Licensed: © Wizards of the Coast. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11
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