Barbarian, Path of the Wild Soul

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Overview & Creation

For some, their rage springs from a communion with fierce animal spirits. Others draw from a roiling reservoir of anger at a world full of pain. For every barbarian, rage is a power that fuels not just a battle frenzy but also uncanny reflexes, resilience, and feats of strength.  

Quick Look Table

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Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features	Rages	Rage Damage
1st	+2	Rage, Unarmored Defense	2	+2
2nd	+2	Reckless Attack, Danger Sense	2	+2
3rd	+2	Primal Path	3	+2
4th	+2	Ability Score Improvement	3	+2
5th	+3	Extra Attack, Fast Movement	3	+2
6th	+3	Path Feature	4	+2
7th	+3	Feral Instinct	4	+2
8th	+3	Ability Score Improvement	4	+2
9th	+4	Brutal Critical (1 die)	4	+3
10th	+4	Path Feature	4	+3
11th	+4	Relentless Rage	4	+3
12th	+4	Ability Score Improvement	5	+3
13th	+5	Brutal Critical (2 dice)	5	+3
14th	+5	Path Feature	5	+3
15th	+5	Persistent Rage	5	+3
16th	+5	Ability Score Improvement	5	+4
17th	+6	Brutal Critical (3 dice)	6	+4
18th	+6	Indomitable Might	6	+4
19th	+6	Ability Score Improvement	6	+4
20th	+6	Primal Champion	∞	+4

 
 

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Class Features

Rage

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In battle, you fight with primal ferocity. On your turn, you can enter a rage as a bonus action. While raging, you gain the following benefits if you aren't wearing heavy armor:   You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws. When you make a melee weapon attack using Strength, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll. This bonus increases as you level. You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. If you are able to cast spells, you can't cast them or concentrate on them while raging.   Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven't attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken damage since then. You can also end your rage on your turn as a bonus action.   Once you have raged the maximum number of times for your barbarian level, you must finish a long rest before you can rage again. You may rage 2 times at 1st level, 3 at 3rd, 4 at 6th, 5 at 12th, and 6 at 17th.   Unarmored Defense

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While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.   Danger Sense

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At 2nd level, you gain an uncanny sense of when things nearby aren't as they should be, giving you an edge when you dodge away from danger. You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, you can't be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.   Reckless Attack

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Starting at 2nd level, you can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with fierce desperation. When you make your first attack on your turn, you can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so gives you advantage on melee weapon attack rolls using Strength during this turn, but attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn.   Primal Path

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At 3rd level, you choose a path that shapes the nature of your rage from the list of available paths. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th levels.   Ability Score Improvement

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When you reach 4th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.   Extra Attack

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Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.   Fast Movement

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Starting at 5th level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you aren't wearing heavy armor.   Path Feature

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At 6th level, you gain a feature from your Primal Path.   Feral Instinct

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By 7th level, your instincts are so honed that you have advantage on initiative rolls. Additionally, if you are surprised at the beginning of combat and aren't incapacitated, you can act normally on your first turn, but only if you enter your rage before doing anything else on that turn.   Ability Score Improvement

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When you reach 8th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. If your DM uses the optional Feats, you can instead take a feat.   Brutal Critical (1 Die)

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Beginning at 9th level, you can roll one additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack. This increases to two additional dice at 13th level and three additional dice at 17th level.   Path Feature

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At 10th level, you gain a feature from your Primal Path.   Relentless Rage

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Starting at 11th level, your rage can keep you fighting despite grievous wounds. If you drop to 0 hit points while you're raging and don't die outright, you can make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, you drop to 1 hit point instead. Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC increases by 5. When you finish a short or long rest, the DC resets to 10.   Ability Score Improvement

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When you reach 12th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. If your DM uses the optional Feats, you can instead take a feat.   Brutal Critical (2 Dice)

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At 13th level, you can roll two additional weapon damage dice when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack. This increases to three additional dice at 17th level.   Path Feature

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At 14th level, you gain a feature from your Primal Path.   Persistent Rage

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Beginning at 15th level, your rage is so fierce that it ends early only if you fall unconscious or if you choose to end it.   Ability Score Improvement

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When you reach 16th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. If your DM uses the optional Feats, you can instead take a feat.   Brutal Critical (3 Dice)

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At 17th level, you can roll three additional weapon damage dice when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack.   Indomitable Might

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Beginning at 18th level, if your total for a Strength check is less than your Strength score, you can use that score in place of the total.   Ability Score Improvement

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When you reach 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. If your DM uses the optional Feats, you can instead take a feat.   Primal Champion

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At 20th level, you embody the power of the wilds. Your Strength and Constitution scores increase by 4. Your maximum for those scores is now 24.

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Starting Equipment

You start with the following items, plus anything provided by your background.   (a) a greataxe or (b) any martial melee weapon (a) two handaxes or (b) any simple weapon An explorer's pack, and four javelins   Alternatively, you may start with 2d4 × 10 gp to buy your own equipment.

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Subclass Options

Path of the Wild Soul (Revised)

The realm of the Feywild abounds with beauty, unpredictable emotion, and rampant magic. A barbarian exposed to this realm feels emotions equally as powerfully and magic saturates their body. When a barbarian who follows this path rages, it is a bellowing roar for freedom, an explosion of expression, manifesting in unpredictable ways.

Path of the Wild Soul Features

Barbarian Level	Feature
3rd	Lingering Magic, Wild Surge
6th	Magic Reserves
10th	Arcane Rebuke
14th	Chaotic Fury

  Lingering Magic

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At 3rd level, your body can react to the presence of magic. You can cast the detect magic spell without using a spell slot or any spellcasting components. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell. You faintly glow a color corresponding to the school of magic you detect (you choose the colors). You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.   Wild Surge

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Starting at 3rd level, magic erupts from you as you rage. When you enter your rage, roll on the Wild Surge table to determine the effect produced. If the wild surge requires a saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.   DURATION. Some surge effects are persistent; they are active for as long as you are raging, and end once your rage ends. You can only have one persistent effect active at a time; if you trigger another wild surge and roll a new persistent effect, the new effect replaces the old one.   UNSTABLE RAGE. Whenever you take damage, roll a d20. You trigger a wild surge if the result of the roll is equal to or less than half the damage you took. Once you trigger a wild surge this way, you cannot trigger another one until the start of your next turn.   DIRECTED CHAOS. When you roll on the Wild Surge table, you can change the result of the d20 roll by 1 in either direction, changing which effect is produced. Once you do, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest. (my note; my DM likes to use custom wild tables to keep players from predicting any outcomes. If you or your DM wants to do so, it would be more enjoyable to omit Directed Chaos)   Magic Reserves

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At 6th level, you can channel the magic surging inside you into other creatures. You have a pool of magical energy that replenishes when you take a long rest. The amount of energy in the pool is equal to half your barbarian level (rounded up). As an action, you can touch a creature and expend energy from the pool to restore one of the creature's expended spell slots, expending an amount of energy equal to the slot level. You can restore multiple spell slots with a single touch, expending the appropriate amount of energy for each. You cannot restore a spell slot of 6th level or higher. Alternatively, when you use this feature and expend energy, the creature instead gains temporary hit points equal to five times the amount of energy expended, up to a maximum of 30 temporary hit points.   Arcane Rebuke

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At 10th level, the magic crackling within your soul lashes out in times of danger. When a creature within 60 feet of you forces you to make a saving throw while you are raging, you can use your reaction to deal 3d6 force damage to that creature.   Chaotic Fury

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At 14th level, you become a wellspring of wild magic while you are raging. As a bonus action, you can trigger a wild surge and roll on the Wild Surge table.   Wild Surge

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d20	Effect
1	You unleash an explosion in a 20-foot radius centered on yourself. Creatures in the area, including you, must make a Dexterity saving throw, and you roll a number of d10s equal to your Rage Damage. A creature takes fire damage equal to the total on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
2	(Persistent) You teleport up to 20 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Until your rage ends, you can activate this effect again on each of your turns as a bonus action.
3	Energy floods into your body. You can immediately take one additional action, which can only be used to take the Attack or Dash action.
4	(Persistent) Plant life temporarily grows around you; the ground within 10 feet of you is difficult terrain, and you do not suffer penalties to your movement to move through it.
5	Healing energy radiates from you. Roll a number of d12s equal to your Rage Damage. You restore up to the total as hit points, divided as you choose amount any number of creatures that you can see within 30 feet of you.
6	(Persistent) You are borne aloft. You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed.
7	You conjure 1d4 intangible spirits in unoccupied spaces within 30 feet of you. Each spirit immediately flies 30 feet in a random direction. At the end of your turn, all spirits explode. Roll a number of d8s equal to your rage damage. Each creature within 5 feet of one or more of the spirits must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take force damage equal to the total.
8	(Persistent) You and anything you are wearing or carrying become invisible. This effect ends early when you attack.
9	A beam of brilliant light lances from your chest in a line 5-feet-wide and 60-feet-long. Roll a number of d8s equal to your Rage Damage. Each creature in the line must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take radiant damage equal to the total and be blinded until the start of your next turn.
10	(Persistent) Shadows weave around a weapon of your choice that you are holding. Until your rage ends, your weapon deals psychic damage instead of its bludgeoning, slashing, or piercing damage, and it gains the light and thrown properties with a range of 20/60. If you drop the weapon or throw it, the weapon dissipates and reappears in your hand at the end of your turn.
11	Necrotic energy bursts from you. Roll a number of d6s equal to your Rage Damage. Each other creature within 30 feet of you takes necrotic damage equal to the total, and you gain temporary hit points equal to the sum of the necrotic damage dealt to the creatures.
12	(Persistent) Arcane energy enshrouds you. Until your rage ends, you gain a +2 bonus to AC, and whenever a creature within 10 feet of you hits you with an attack, that creature takes force damage equal to two times your Rage Damage.
13	Strong winds blast out from you. Each creature within 10 feet of you must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed away from you a number of feet equal to five times your Rage Damage, and fall prone.
14	(Persistent) your body becomes wreathed in flames. You shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet, and your melee attacks deal an additional amount of fire damage equal to your Rage Damage. If another creature touches you or hits you with a melee attack while within 5 feet of you, roll a number of d4s equal to your Rage Damage. That creature takes fire damage equal to the total.
15	Your visage becomes terrifying. Creatures within 30 feet of you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn.
16	(Persistent) Your eyes can pierce through illusions. You gain truesight to a range of 60 feet.
17	Arcane energy taps into the minds of those around you. Each creature within 30 feet of you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw, or you see a glimpse of the creature's thoughts, learning how it plans to attack you. As a result, the creature has disadvantage on attack rolls against you until the start of your next turn.
18	(Persistent) Your body can move much faster than usual. Your movement speed increases by 10 feet, and your movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.
19	You disrupt magic around you. Creatures within 30 feet of you that are concentrating on a spell must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or lose concentration on the spell. The DC is equal to 10 + the spell's level.
20	(Persistent) You become the center of a storm. Once per turn, when you successfully hit a creature with a melee attack, lightning leaps from your weapon to another creature of your choice within 30 feet. Roll a number of d6s equal to your Rage Damage. The target creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or suffer lightning damage equal to the total.

 

Credit to Wizards of the Coast for the original UA Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian   Credit to /u/Hageshii01 for this revised version   None of this is my own content, except for my note(s)