Deflect Strike
Deflect Strike
With a bit of effort as an opponent strikes at you, you can knock the blow away and divert the attack.
Wounding Strike
Wounding Strike
Swinging or thrusting with your weapon like you have thousands of times before, you know precisely where its tip grazes and your swing hits at the smallest flaw in an opponent’s armor to deliver a painful wound.
Victory Pose
Victory Pose
Your victory pose spurs your allies.
Choose a weapon when you learn this combat maneuver. When you score a critical hit with this weapon, you can use your reaction to pose dramatically as you finish the strike.
Throwing Stance
Throwing Stance
You wield your weapon with a practiced familiarity that makes it deadly even when a foe is beyond your reach, able to hurl it as accurately as a thrown dagger.
Choose a weapon when you learn this combat maneuver. While you are wielding the chosen weapon it has the rebounding property and thrown property (range 30/60 feet).
Dangerous Signature
Dangerous Signature
You have mastered a strike that is unmistakably your own.
Mental Stress Effects
Mental Stress Effects
Adventurers encounter and even seek out experiences beyond the ken of most mortals. Whether it’s harrowing encounters with interdimensional beings, the sudden, violent loss of a beloved NPC, or simply the trauma of constantly being surrounded by death and terror, their lows can be as dramatic and potentially impactful as their highs.
Player Archetypes
Player Archetypes
Everyone shows up to a game to have fun, but what fun looks like is different for different people. When preparing and running a game, the Narrator wants to know what the group enjoys and how to keep them engaged. Understanding what players like helps everyone have fun and feel included in the gaming group.
Compatibility
Compatibility
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E) is designed to be backwards compatible with the original version of the game. You can use any of your existing (or future) original 5th Edition (O5E) adventures, monsters, spells, characters, and more in Level Up right out of the box.
Basic Maneuvers
Basic Maneuvers
Melee combat is not always an exchange of weapon attacks—sometimes you are trying to subdue, not kill. Other times, you may want to do something else other than damage your target in order to gain an upper hand. Several other basic maneuvers are presented below. The Narrator can use these to help adjudicate other improvised actions, following a similar structure and using similarly weighted effects.
All creatures can use basic maneuvers, even if they do not have access to combat maneuvers. No exertion points are required to use a basic maneuver.