Weapon (One)

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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.

Weapon Proficiency

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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.

Weapon Properties

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Many weapons have special properties related to their use, as shown in the Weapons table.

Ammunition

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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.

Finesse

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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.

Heavy

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Small creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls with heavy weapons. A heavy weapon’s size and bulk make it too large for a Small creature to use effectively.

Light

Summary: 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

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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.

Range

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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.

Reach

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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.

Thrown

  

If a weapon has the Thrown property, you can throw the weapon to make a ranged attack, and you can draw that weapon as part of the attack. If the weapon is a melee weapon, you use the same ability modifier for that attack roll and damage roll that you would use for a melee attack with the weapon. For example, if you throw a Handaxe, you use your Strength, but if you throw a Dagger, you can use either your Strength or your Dexterity, since the Dagger has the Finesse property.

Two-­Handed

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This weapon requires two hands when you attack with it.

Versatile

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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.

Mastery Properties

Summary: Some classes and a feat allow you to make use of a weapon's Mastery Property.

Cleave

Prerequisite: Melee Weapon, Heavy Property
Summary: 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.

Flex

Prerequisite: Versatile Property
Summary: This mastery and weapon, it allows you to utilize the higher, Versatle, damage even if using the weapon one-handed.

Graze

Prerequisite: Melee Weapon, Heavy Property
Summary: 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: With this mastery and weapon, you can use the extra attack of the light weapon property as a free attack rather than expending a bonus action to do so.

Push

Prerequisite: Heavy, Two-Handed, or Versative Property
Summary: With this mastery and weapon, you can push a target you hit away from you.

Sap

Prerequisite: No Other Properties
Summary: With this mastery and weapon, you can impose disadvantage on a creature you hit's next attack roll.

Slow

Prerequisite: None
Summary: 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: With this mastery and weapon, when you hit a creature it must attempt a Constitution saving throw becoming prone on a failure.

Vex

Prerequisite: Ammunition, Finesse, or Light Property
Summary: With this mastery and weapon, you gain advantage on your next attack roll against a creature after you hit and damage it with this weapon.

Improvised Weapons

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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.

Silvered Weapons

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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.

List of Weapons

38 official and unofficial nonmagical weapons.

Weapon	Kind	Type	Damage	Damage Type	Properties	Mastery	Cost	Weight	Author
Battleaxe	Martial	Melee	1d8	slashing	Versatile (1d10)	Topple	10 gp	4	"Varied"
Greataxe	Martial	Melee	1d12	slashing	Heavy, Two-Handed	Cleave	30 gp	7	"Varied"
Handaxe	Simple	Melee	1d6	slashing	Light, Range (20/60), Thrown	Vex	5 gp	2	SRD5, ua23phpt5
Blowgun	Martial	Ranged	1	piercing	Ammunition, Loading, Range (25/100)	Vex	10 gp	1	"Varied"
Longbow	Martial	Ranged	1d8	piercing	Ammunition, Heavy, Range (150/600), Two-Handed	Slow	50 gp	2	"Varied"
Shortbow	Simple	Ranged	1d6	piercing	Ammunition, Range (80/320), Two-Handed	Vex	25 gp	2	"Varied"
Greatclub	Simple	Melee	1d8	bludgeoning	Two-Handed	Push	2 sp	10	"Varied"
Club	Simple	Melee	1d4	bludgeoning	Light	Slow	1 sp	2	"Varied"
Hand Crossbow	Martial	Ranged	1d6	piercing	Ammunition, Light, Loading, Range (30/120)	Vex	75 gp	3	"Varied"
Heavy Crossbow	Martial	Ranged	1d10	piercing	Ammunition, Heavy, Loading, Range (100/400), Two-Handed	Push	50 gp	18	"Varied"
Light Crossbow	Simple	Ranged	1d8	piercing	Ammunition, Loading, Range (80/320), Two-Handed	Slow	25 gp	5	"Varied"
Dagger	Simple	Melee	1d4	piercing	Finesse, Light, Range (20/60), Thrown	Nick	2 gp	1	"Varied"
Dart	Simple	Ranged	1d4	piercing	Finesse, Range (20/60), Thrown	Vex	5 cp	1/4	"Varied"
Flail	Martial	Melee	1d8	bludgeoning		Sap	10 gp	2	"Varied"
Glaive	Martial	Melee	1d10	slashing	Heavy, Reach, Two-Handed	Graze	20 gp	6	"Varied"
Halberd	Martial	Melee	1d10	slashing	Heavy, Reach, Two-Handed	Cleave	20 gp	6	"Varied"
Light Hammer	Simple	Melee	1d4	bludgeoning	Light, Range (20/60), Thrown	Nick	2 gp	2	"Varied"
Maul	Martial	Melee	2d6	bludgeoning	Heavy, Two-Handed	Topple	10 gp	10	"Varied"
Warhammer	Martial	Melee	1d8	bludgeoning	Versatile (1d10)	Push	15 gp	2	"Varied"
Javelin	Simple	Melee	1d6	piercing	Range (30/120), Thrown	Slow	5 sp	2	"Varied"
Lance	Martial	Melee	1d10	piercing	Heavy, Reach, Two-Handed	Topple	10 gp	6	UA 2023 Player's Handbook Playtest 5, "Varied"
Mace	Simple	Melee	1d6	bludgeoning		Sap	5 gp	4	"Varied"
Morningstar	Martial	Melee	1d8	piercing		Sap	15 gp	4	"Varied"
Musket	Martial	Ranged	1d12	piercing	Ammunition, Loading, Range (40/120), Two-Handed	Slow	500 gp	10	UA 2023 Player's Handbook Playtest 5, "Varied"
Pike	Martial	Melee	1d10	piercing	Heavy, Reach, Two-Handed	Push	5 gp	18	"Varied"
Pistol	Martial	Ranged	1d10	piercing	Ammunition, Loading, Range (30/90)	Vex	250 gp	3	UA 2023 Player's Handbook Playtest 5, "Varied"
Quarterstaff	Simple	Melee	1d6	bludgeoning	Versatile (1d8)	Topple	2 sp	4	"Varied"
Sickle	Simple	Melee	1d4	slashing	Light	Nick	1 gp	2	"Varied"
Sling	Simple	Ranged	1d4	bludgeoning	Ammunition, Range (30/120)	Slow	1 sp	—	"Varied"
Spear	Simple	Melee	1d6	piercing	Range (20/60), Thrown, Versatile (1d8)	Sap	1 gp	3	"Varied"
Greatsword	Martial	Melee	2d6	slashing	Heavy, Two-Handed	Graze	50 gp	6	"Varied"
Longsword	Martial	Melee	1d8	slashing	Versatile (1d10)	Sap	15 gp	3	"Varied"
Rapier	Martial	Melee	1d8	piercing	Finesse	Vex	25 gp	2	"Varied"
Scimitar	Martial	Melee	1d6	slashing	Finesse, Light	Nick	25 gp	3	"Varied"
Shortsword	Martial	Melee	1d6	piercing	Finesse, Light	Vex	10 gp	2	"Varied"
Trident	Martial	Melee	1d8	piercing	Range (20/60), Thrown, Versatile (1d10)	Topple	5 gp	4	Varied, "Varied"
War Pick	Martial	Melee	1d8	piercing	Versatile (1d10)	Sap	5 gp	2	"Varied", UA 2023 Player's Handbook Playtest 8
Whip	Martial	Melee	1d4	slashing	Finesse, Reach	Slow	2 gp	3	UA 2023 Player's Handbook Playtest 5, "Varied"

Sources and Notes

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