Draft MMC 5E - Variant House Rules

=== VARIANT OPTIONS ===

Climb into Bigger Creature
- Target: Opponent at least two size category larger (Huge or above for Medium, Large or above for Small).
- Setups: Move into opponent's space (checks might be needed).
- ACTION: Dexterity (Acrobatics), vs Dexterity (Acrobatics).
+ Effect: attached to opponent; move with their move.
+ Effect: advantage on attack rolls against opponent.
- Effect: opponent can use ACTION to dislodge. Strength (Athletics), vs Dexterity (Acrobatics).

Disarm/Sunder
- Target: Opponent's weapon or held item.
- ACTION: attack roll, vs Dexterity (Acrobatics) or Strength (Athletics).
- Detail: disadvantage on attack roll, if opponent holding the item with two or more hands (or similar limbs).
- Detail: disadvantage on attack roll, if opponent is larger.
- Detail: advantage on attack roll, if opponent is smaller.
+ Effect: opponent dropped the weapon or the item, or deals damage to the weapon.

<Weapons' Durabilities>
+ Mostly Metal: 10 hardness
+ Mostly Woods: 5 hardness
+ Light Weapons: 5 hp
+ Normal Weapons: 10 hp
+ Versatile Weapons: 15 hp
+ Heavy Weapons: 20 hp
+ Resistance: Piercing.
+ Immunities: Psychic, Poison, Necrotic
+ Magical Durability: for each rarity, add +2 hardness and 10hp.

Mark
- Target: Opponent attacked in melee.
- Setups: attack opponent using a melee weapon, and declare to Mark.
+ Effect: Until the end of your turn, any opportunity attack you made to the opponent has advantage.
+ Effect: A new Mark supersedes older Mark; each creature can only be Marked by one other creature.

Overrun/Tumble
- Target: Opponent.
- ACTION/BONUS: Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) contest.
+ Effect: Can move through opponent.
- Detail: Moving out of reach still provokes opportunity attack.

Shove Aside (variant of Shove)
- Target: Opponent.
- ATTACK: Disadvantage Strength (Athletics), vs Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics).
+ Effect: Opponent moved 5ft, but at any direction.

Fear
- Setups: despair, no hope, cornered situation, impending terror and utter danger, frightful beings.
- Saves: Wis, vs DC set by DM (15 normal, 20 hard, 25 near-impossible).
- Effect: Frightened for 1 minute.

Horror and Sanity
- Setups: sudden realization of dreadful truth, 'my whole life is a lie' moment, extremely grotesque scene, horrific events.
- Saves: Cha, vs DC set by DM (15 normal, 20 hard, 25 near-impossible).
- Effect: DM decides madness level (DMG p258): Short Term or Long Term. Player decides madness.
- Variant: Short Term lasts for 10 days (Lesser Restoration cures it). Long Term lasts for 1 season (Greater Restoration cures it).

Rest Variants
- Spending Hit Die: requires one use of Healer's kit per hit die spent.
- Slow Natural Healing: does not regain any hp from long rest; but you can spend hit die.
- Long Rest effect: regain half of your spent hit dice (minimum of 1) by the end of Long Rest.

Hit Points Abstraction
- Basics: HP represents character's ability in surviving an otherwise deadly blows. It can be in the form of last ditch effort to evade or block thus render the direct blow to became a glancing blow, extra breath to move faster, simply tough stamina and endurance, the willpower to resist the horror of combat, or even layers of magical protections. Nevertheless, a hit is still a hit, and damage is still damage; poisons and diseases are delivered upon a minor scratch, extra damages might also means the magical nature of the attack bypasses the defenses, etc. However, reaching 0hp (and rendered unconscious) means that a fatal blow has connected and dealt serious shock to your system.
- Gritty: When you are down to 0hp and drop unconscious, you also gain a Wound.

<Wound>
- Basics: A quite fatal and often visible injury or wound, internal or external (details are up to an agreement by both DM and the player).
- Effect: Add Exhaustion level (1 Wound = 1 Exhaustion, 2 Wounds = 2 Exhaustion, 3 Wounds + 1 Exhaustion = 4 Exhaustion).
+ Remove: 1 hour of treating the wound, succeeding at Intelligence (Medicine) check, and spending two uses of Healer's Kit, will remove 1 point of Wound. The DC of this check is 5 + Wound x 5 (10 for 1 wound, 15 for 2 wounds, and so on).
+ Remove: Long rest remove 1 point of wound.

Haggling
- Setups: Basic price will fluctuate, at the increment/decrement of 10% (up to 50%). Selling Price is always at Basic Price -50%.
- Action: Cha(Persuasion) without any Help. No retry on one shop, and the deal cannot be canceled.
+ Effect: You get a better price whether on buying or selling, based on your result ( 20=10%, 25=20%, 30=30% ).
- SideFX: You might get a worse price, based on your result ( 10=10%, 5=20%, 0=30% ).

Crafting Mundane Items
- Setups: Must be Proficient with the Tool. Material cost is the Basic Price divided by Ranks.
- Action: Spend downtime activities.
+ Effect: Complete 5gp worth of the item's Basic Price per day per Rank.
+ Helper: Each Helper must be Proficient with the Tool, and complete 5gp worth of the item per day per rank, and must spend downtime activities too.