Weapons

Weapon types, properties, proficiency and the full weapon mastery tables.

Equipment Weapons

Weapons

The diverse cultures of D&D worlds have developed a wide array of martial tools. As such, adventurers can arm themselves with numerous weapon types, from simple clubs and daggers to martial swords and bows, and even more exotic implements. The Weapons table compiles the most readily available armaments, categorizing them by their properties and combat styles, distinguishing between simple and martial weapons, as well as melee and ranged options.

Weapon Types

Melee Weapons: Used to attack targets within 5 ft.
Ranged Weapons: Used to attack targets at a distance.

Weapon Properties

Ammunition: Requires ammunition to be fired. Each weapon with the Ammunition property will describe what type of ammunition it requires. Drawing ammunition is a part of using the weapon to attack unless it has the Loading property. You can spend one minute after a fight to collect up to half of your spent ammunition.
Finesse: Can use either STR or DEX for attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.
Heavy: Difficult for small creatures to use effectively. Both ranged and melee Heavy weapons have a requirement to use them, 13 STR for melee and 13 DEX for ranged.
Light: Easier to handle and use with two weapons. You can use an action to attack with your main hand and a bonus action to attack with your off hand. Each hand must have a separate weapon and your off hand does not benefit from your Proficiency Bonus or add the damage from your ability score unless the modifier is negative.
Loading: Requires time to load before firing. You can fire only one piece of ammunition from a Loading weapon when you use an action, bonus action, or reaction to fire it, regardless of the number of attacks you can normally make.
Range: Each weapon has its own range, if a weapon does not have an extended range, its range is 5 ft.
Reach: If the weapon has the Reach property its range increases by 5 ft. This is added to attacks made as well as opportunity attacks made with it.
Special: Has unique rules governing its use (e.g., thrown, two-handed).
Thrown: A melee weapon with the ability to be reliably thrown and used for a ranged attack.
Two-Handed: A Two-Handed weapon required both hands to use it.
Versatile: Versatile weapons can be used with one or both hands. The damage value increases when used with both hands.

Choose Equipment

Your class and background determine which weapons, tools, and armor you are proficient with.

Weapon Proficiency

Your class grants proficiency with certain weapon types. Proficiency allows you to add your proficiency bonus to attack rolls.

Improvised Weapons

Objects used as weapons: Any object can be used as an improvised weapon, but some objects are more effective than others.
Damage: Improvised weapons typically deal 1d4 damage, but the DM may assign a different damage type or amount depending on the object.
Proficiency: Characters proficient with a similar weapon type can use their proficiency bonus when using an improvised weapon.

Silvered Weapons

Cost: Silvering a weapon costs 100 gp.
Effect: Silvered weapons are more effective against monsters that have immunity or resistance to non magical weapons.

Special Weapons

Lance: Has disadvantage when attacking targets within 5 ft and requires two hands when not mounted.
Net: Restrains creatures hit by it. Creatures can break free with a successful STR check or by dealing 5 slashing damage to the net.
Armblade: Armblades require a bonus action to extend and a bonus action to retract. While retracted they resemble a normal gauntlet. While extended, only Light or Versatile Melee weapons can be held or risk damage.
Battle Fists: Battle Fists encase the entire hand, other weapons or objects cannot be held or manipulated while wearing Battle Fists.
Claws: While in use, only Light or Versatile Melee weapons can be held or risk damage. While using Claws you have a Climbing speed of 20 ft.
Katar: Katars take the hold hand to hold, other weapons or objects cannot be held or manipulated while using Katar.
Macuahuitl: target takes 1D4 slashing at the start of their next turn on a hit.
Boomerang: On a hit or miss the Boomerang returns to your hand.
Chackram: On a miss the Chakram returns to your hand.
Meteor Hammer: Though a ranged weapon it immediately returns to your hand after each attack.
Rope Dart: Though a ranged weapon it immediately returns to your hand after each attack.

Additional Notes

You can use a melee weapon as an improvised weapon at disadvantage.
You can throw a melee weapon as a ranged attack, but you use the same ability modifier for both attack and damage rolls.
Some weapons have special properties that affect their use (e.g., reach, finesse).
Proficiency with a weapon allows you to use it more effectively and accurately.

Weapons	Cost	Damage	Weight	Properties
Simple Melee Weapons
Club	1 sp	1D4 Bludgeoning	2 lb	Light
Dagger	2 gp	1D4 Piercing	1 lb	Finesse, Light, Thrown (Range 20/60)
Greatclub	2 sp	1D8 Bludgeoning	10 lb	Two-Handed
Handaxe	5 gp	1D6 Slashing	2 lb	Light, Thrown (Range 20/60)
Javelin	5 sp	1D6 Piercing	2 lb	Thrown (Range 30/120)
Light hammer	2 gp	1D4 Bludgeoning	2 lb	Light, Thrown (Range 20/60)
Mace	5 gp	1D6 Bludgeoning	4 lb	-
Quarterstaff	2 gp	1D6 Bludgeoning	4 lb	Versatile (1D8)
Sickle	1 gp	1D4 Slashing	2 lb	Light
Spear	1 gp	1D6 Piercing	3 lb	Thrown, Versatile (1D8)
Spiked Club	2 gp	1D4 Piercing, 1D4 Bludgeoning	5 lb	-
Simple Ranged Weapons
Crossbow, Light	25 gp	1D8 Piercing	5 lb	Ammunition (Range 80/320), Loading, Two-Handed
Dart	5 cp	1D4 Piercing	1/4 lb	Finesse, Thrown (Range 20/60)
Shortbow	25 gp	1D6 Piercing	2 lb	Ammunition (Range 80/320), Two-Handed
Sling	1 sp	1D4 Bludgeoning	-	Ammunition (Range 30/120)
Martial Melee Weapons
Armblade	50 gp	1D6 Slashing	3 lb	Special, Replace one Unarmed Strike
Battleaxe	10 gp	1D8 Slashing	4 lb	Versatile (1D10)
Battle Fists	100 gp	1D8 Bludgeoning	2 lb	Special, Replace Unarmed Strikes
Cat’O’Nine	40 gp	1D8 Slashing	6 lb	Finesse, Reach
Claws	140 gp	1D6 Slashing	2 lb	Special, Replace Unarmed Strikes
Flail	10 gp	1D8 Bludgeoning	2 lb	-
Flamberge	35 gp	1D6 Slashing	3 lb	Finesse
Glaive	20 gp	1D10 Slashing	6 lb	Heavy, Reach, Two-Handed
Greataxe	30 gp	1D12 Slashing	7 lb	Heavy, Two-Handed
Greatsword	50 gp	2D6 Slashing	6 lb	Heavy, Two-Handed
Halberd	20 gp	1D10 Slashing	6 lb	Heavy, Reach, Two-Handed
Katana	100 gp	1D8 Slashing	4 lb	Finesse, Versatile (1D10)
Katar	40 gp	1D6 Slashing	2 lb	Special, Replace Unarmed Strikes
Khopesh	20 gp	1D6 Slashing	3 lb	Finesse, Light
Lance	10 gp	1D12 Piercing	6 lb	Reach, Special
Longsword	15 gp	1D8 Slashing	3 lb	Versatile (1D10)
Macuahuitl	25 gp	1D6 Slashing	6 lb	Versatile (1D8), Special
Maul	10 gp	2D6 Bludgeoning	10 lb	Heavy, Two-Handed
Morningstar	15 gp	1D8 Piercing	4 lb	-
Nunchaku	20 gp	1D6 Bludgeoning	2 lb	Finesse, Light, Reach
Pike	5 gp	1D10 Piercing	18 lb	Heavy, Reach, Two-Handed
Rapier	25 gp	1D8 Piercing	2 lb	Finesse
Sai	4 gp	1D6 Slashing	1 lb	Finesse, Light
Scimitar	25 gp	1D6 Slashing	3 lb	Finesse, Light
Scythe	5 gp	1D10 Slashing	6 lb	Heavy, Two-Handed, Reach
Shortsword	10 gp	1D6 Piercing	2 lb	Finesse, Light
Tessen (Iron Fan)	25 gp	1D6 Bludgeoning	2 lb	Finesse, Light
Throwing Axe	10 gp	1D6 Slashing	1 lb	Light, Thrown (20/80), thrown damage 1D8 Slashing
Throwing Dagger	4 gp	1D4 Slashing	1 lb	Finesse, Light, Thrown (range 30/90), thrown damage 1D6 Piercing
Tonfa	8 gp	1D6 Bludgeoning	2 lb	Finesse
Trident	5 gp	1D6 Piercing	4 lb	Thrown (20/60), Versatile (1D8)
Twinblade	25 gp	1D6 Slashing	4 lb	Finesse, Versatile (1D8)
War pick	5 gp	1D8 Piercing	2 lb	-
Warhammer	15 gp	1D8 Bludgeoning	2 lb	Versatile (1D8)
Whip	2 gp	1D4 Slashing	3 lb	Finesse, Reach
Martial Ranged Weapons
Atlatl	20 gp	1D8 Piercing	2 lb	Ammunition, (Range 20/150), Loading
Blowgun	10 gp	1 Piercing	1 lb	Ammunition (Range 25/100), Loading
Boomerang	5 GP	1D6 Bludgeoning	1 lb	Range (20, 80), Special
Chakram	20 gp	1D8 Slashing	2 lb	Range (50/150), Special
Crossbow, hand	75 gp	1D6 Piercing	3 lb	Ammunition (Range 30/120), Light, Loading
Crossbow, heavy	50 gp	1D10 Piercing	18 lb	Ammunition (Range 100/400), Heavy, Loading, Two-Handed
Longbow	50 gp	1D8 Piercing	2 lb	Ammunition (Range 150/600), Heavy, Two-Handed
Meteor Hammer	25 gp	1D8 Bludgeoning	2 lb	Special, Range (10-25)
Net	1 gp	-	3 lb	Special, Thrown (Range 5/15)
Rope Dart	25 gp	1D8 Piercing	2 lb	Special, Range (10-25)
Shuriken	2 gp	1D6 Slashing	1 lb	Range (30/90)
Musket (Optional)	500 gp	1D12 Piercing	10 lb	Ammunition (Range 40/120), Loading, Two-Handed
Pistol (Optional)	250 gp	1D10 Piercing	3 lb	Ammunition (Range 30/90), Loading

Weapon Mastery

The following are the groups of weapons that follow the weapon mastery category. Having a weapon mastery allows you to use the mastered weapon feature of the weapons in the category.

Simple Melee
Club	Dazing Critical: On a critical hit the target must make a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus CON save or have Disadvantage on attacks on their next turn.
Dagger	Concealable Property: You can perfectly conceal daggers up to your DEX modifier (Minimum 2) on your person.
Greatclub	Dazing Critical: On a critical hit the target must make a DC 12 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus CON save or have disadvantage on attacks on their next turn.
Handaxe	Lacerating Critical: On a critical hit the target must make a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus CON save or take 2 Slashing damage the start of their next turn until save is successful or until one minute passes.
Javelin	Throwing Expert: Ranged attacks with Javelins have +2 to hit.
Light Hammer	Stagger Property: On a critical hit the target must make a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus CON save or the target’s movement speed is halved until the end of their turn.
Mace	Vicious Shoves: If the Shove action is used successfully while holding a Mace the target takes Bludgeoning Damage equal to twice your STR modifier (Minimum 1) in addition to being shoved.
Quarterstaff	Sweeping Critical: On a successful critical hit the target must make a DC 10 + your STR or DEX modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus DEX Save or be knocked Prone.
Sickle	Embed: On a successful attack you can leave the Sickle embedded, the target has Disadvantage on attacks until they use an action to remove it.
Spear	Rush Attack: When attacking with the spear as a melee attack and you move at least 10 ft in a straight line, you add an additional 1D6 piercing damage to the attack.
Spiked Club	Brutal Critical: On a successful critical hit, the damage die is increased to a D6.

Simple Ranged
Light Crossbow
Dart	Successive Pricks: Each time you hit a target after the first hit, it takes 1 additional damage for each Dart it has been hit with within the last minute.
Shortbow	Piercing Critical: On a critical hit the target takes 2 Piercing damage at the start of each of its turns until it succeeds a DC 10 + your DEX modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus CON save or until one minute passes.
Sling	Reeling Critical: On a critical hit the target must make a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus or be Stunned until the end of their next turn.

Martial Melee
Armblade	Quick Extension: You can extend and withdraw the armblade as a free action.
Battleaxe	Lacerating Critical: On a critical hit the target takes 2 Slashing damage (4 if using two hands) at the start of each of its turns until it succeeds a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus CON save or until one minute passes.
Battle Fists	Bludgeoning Fists: You deal an additional 1D4 Bludgeoning damage on a hit
Cat’O’Nine	Raking Critical: On a critical hit you deal an additional 3D6 damage.
Claws	SlashingCritical: On a critical hit you deal an additional 1D6 Slashing damage.
Flail	Unpredictable Flailing: On a miss the target still takes Bludgeoning damage equal to your STR modifier (Minimum 1).
Flamberge	Break Stance: The sweeping blade hooks and throws off most attacker’s weapons. On a successful hit with a target using a melee weapon they have disadvantage on their next attack roll with the melee weapon.
Glaive	Deadly Opportunity: When an enemy moves within 5 ft of you, you can use your reaction to make an opportunity attack as they move within your reach
Greataxe	Lacerating Critical: On a critical hit the target takes 3 Slashing damage at the start of each of its turns until it succeeds a DC 10 + your DEX modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus CON save or until one minute passes.
Greatsword	Slow Parry Reaction: You can use your reaction to add + 1 AC.
Halberd	Hooking Attack: In place of dealing damage, your successful attack hooks the target allowing you to move the creature up to 10 ft towards you. When attacking mounted targets, the target must make a DC 15 Athletic Check or be knocked Prone.
Katana	Fast Parry Reaction: You can use your reaction to add +3 AC.
Katar	Heavy Thrusts: The hit die of the weapon becomes 1D8.
Khopesh	Hooking Strike: In place of dealing damage, your successful hit can be used to hook a weapon out of an opponent’s hand forcing the target to make DEX save DC 8 + your DEX modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus and on a failed save the target drops the weapon.
Lance	When mounted and if you moved more than 10 ft your turn a Lance deals an additional 1D8 Piercing damage
Longsword	Parry Reaction: You can use your action to add + 2 AC.
Macuahuitl	Bleeding Wounds: Targets you hit take an additional 1D4 Slashing damage at the start of their next turn (This damage does stack with multiple attacks).
Maul	Flatten Property: On a critical hit the target must make a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus STR save or be knocked Prone.
Morningstar	Crushing Crit On a critical hit the target must make a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus CON save or the target can only take an action, bonus action, or reaction their turn.
Nunchaku	Whirling Flourishes: You can use a bonus action to flourish the Nunchaku as many times as you want. For each flourish roll 1D20 and on a 3 or above you gain a +1 bonus to your next hit for each successful flourish. For each successful flourish you must succeed the minimum value +1 of the last flourish (For instance, your 3rd flourish must be above a 5 and will add +3 to your next hit). On a failed flourish you deal 1D4 Bludgeoning damage to yourself and lose all bonuses due to flourishes.
Pike	Face the Charge: If a creature moves 10+ ft before attacking you, you may use your reaction plant your pike in the ground to receive the attack forcing the creature to make a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus DEX save or take 1D6 Piercing damage for every 10 ft of movement they traveled before attacking you.
Rapier	Made for Dueling: The Rapier is treated as a +2 weapon in single combat in addition to any other modifiers.
Sai	Protective: You have +1 AC when wielding two Sai.
Scimitar	Spinning Slash: While flanked you can make an attack action against each creature flanking you, dealing half the weapon’s damage rounded down Made for Mounted Slashes: While mounted you deal an additional 3 damage.
Scythe	Devastating Critical: On a critical hit you deal an additional 1D10 Slashing damage.
Shortsword	Parry Reaction: You can use your reaction to add +1 AC for each Shortsword you are holding.
Tanfa	Guarded Positioning: You can use a bonus action to defensively wield the Tanfa pair to give you +2 AC until the start of your next turn.
Tessen (Iron Fan)	Artful Deflection: You have +2 AC against ranged projectiles from attacks you can see as long as you are using two Tessen.
Throwing Axe	Improved Ranged Critical: You have an increased critical hit range of one (19-20) when thrown.
Throwing Dagger	Improved Ranged Critical: You have an increased critical hit range of one (19-20) when thrown.
Trident	Barbed Critical: On a critical hit you deal 1D6 additional damage. Pin Down: You may attempt to Grapple the target on a successful melee attack.
Twinblade	Whirlling Blades: Twinblade becomes a weapon with the Light property. Backstab: Twinblade has a critical hit range of +1 (19-20) to targets behind or to the side of you.
War Pick	Maiming Critical: On a critical hit the target must make a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus CON save or have disadvantage on their next CON, DEX, or STR save until the end of its next turn.
Warhammer	Stagger Property: On a critical hit the target must make a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus CON save or the target’s movement speed is halved until the end of their turn.
Whip	Wrap Around: On a successful hit, you may Grapple a target up to 10 ft away. Disarming Critical: On a successful critical hit the target must make a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus DEX save and on a failed save drops their weapon.

Martial Ranged
Atlatl	Debilitating Spear: The projectile thrown sticks in, decreasing the target’s speed by 10 ft until it is removed as a bonus action.
Blowgun	Perfect Carrier: Poison delivered via Blowdart is injected into the bloodstream, you roll Poison damage dealt this way with advantage.
Boomerang	Dazing Hit: Creatures hit with Boomerang must make a CON saving throw DC 15 or have disadvantage on the first attack on their turn.
Chakram	Lacerating: creatures hit with a Chakram take 1d6 slashing damage at the start of their next turn.
Hand Crossbow	Quickdraw: You can make one attack with each of your Hand Crossbows at the start of combat as long as you are not Surprised or Incapacitated.
Heavy Crossbow	Overwhelming Critical: On a critical hit you deal 1D8 additional damage, and the target must make a DC 10 + your STR modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus STR save or be pushed back 10 ft.
Longbow	Piercing Critical: On a critical hit the target takes 2 Piercing damage at the start of each of its turns until it succeeds a DC 10 + your DEX modifier (Minimum 1) + your Proficiency Bonus CON save or until one minute passes.
Meteor Hammer	Debilitating Critical: On a critical hit the target is thrown off balance and/or their armor is knocked askew lowering their AC by 2 until the end of their next turn.
Net	When used with a Trident you can throw a net and make a melee bonus action attack, provided you have the movement speed to move to the target.
Shuriken	Improved Critical: Shuriken has an increased critical hit range of two (18-20) when thrown at long range, and plus three (17-20) at short range.
Rope Dart	Keep at Bay: You can use your reaction to swing the Rope Dart around provided you have at least 5 ft of clear area around you giving all melee attacks disadvantage on you until the start of your next turn.
Musket (Optional)	Longshooter: Your range is doubled for the Musket.
Pistol (Optional)	Quickdraw: On the first round of combat you can make an additional attack with your Pistol.