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Martial Weapons are weapons that require extensive trainings to effectively use in combat.
- When attacking with a Martial Weapon without proficiency, you can not add your Proficiency Bonus and Ability Modifier (Strength for Melee Weapons, Dexterity for Ranged Weapons) to your Attack Rolls, resulting in lower chances to successfully hit enemies. For example:
- When a character that has no Proficiency with Martial Weapons makes a melee attack to an enemy, their Attack Roll would be:
d20
- When a character that has Proficiency with Martial Weapons makes a melee attack to an enemy, their Attack Roll would be:
d20 + Proficiency Bonus + Ability Modifier
- When a character that has no Proficiency with Martial Weapons makes a melee attack to an enemy, their Attack Roll would be:
- Only martial classes such as Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, have proficiency with all martial weapons at level 1. However, for other classes:
- Bards are proficient with
hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords
. - Druids are proficient with
scimitars
. - Monks are proficient with
shortswords
. - Rogues are proficient with
hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords
. - Clerics, Sorcerers, Warlocks, Wizards have no proficiency with any martial weapons
- Bards are proficient with
Melee Weapons | Ranged Weapons |
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Martial Melee Weapons
Battleaxes
Battleaxes are versatile martial melee weapons.
Glaives
Glaives are two-handed heavy martial melee reach weapons.
Greataxes
Greataxes are two-handed heavy martial melee weapons.
Halberds
Halberds are two-handed heavy martial melee reach weapons.
Longswords
Longswords are versatile martial melee weapons.
Mauls
Mauls are two-handed heavy martial melee weapons.
Morningstars
Morningstars are one-handed martial melee weapons.
Pikes
Pikes are two-handed heavy martial melee reach weapons.
Rapiers
Rapiers are one-handed martial melee finesse weapons.
Scimitars
Scimitars are one-handed martial melee light finesse weapons.
Shortswords
Shortswords are one-handed martial melee light finesse weapons.
Tridents
Tridents are two-handed heavy martial melee reach weapons.
Warpicks
Warpicks are one-handed martial melee weapons.
Warhammers
Shortswords are versatile martial melee weapons.
Martial Ranged Weapons
Hand Crossbows
Hand Crossbows are one-handed martial ranged weapons.
Heavy Crossbows
Heavy Crossbows are two-handed heavy martial ranged weapons.
Longbows
Longbows are two-handed heavy martial ranged weapons.