Brannik Tidebreaker
Brannik Tidebreaker
Sheet
AC 16 · HP 140 · 40 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AthleticsSTR
- IntimidationCHA
- PerceptionWIS
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
26 featuresAction
- Extra AttackLevel 5
When Attack action
Make one extra attack when you take the Attack action.
Bonus action
- RageLevel 1
When Bonus Action
Enter a rage as a bonus action to gain damage resistance, rage damage, and advantage on Strength checks and saves.
- Storm AuraLevel 3
At 3rd level, you choose the Storm Aura, which lets you project a constant elemental effect while raging. This character uses Sea. While raging, you can use a bonus action to cause a 10-foot radius aura of crashing water. One creature of your choice in the area takes cold damage equal to your barbarian level or half that on a successful Dex save.
Reaction
- Raging StormLevel 14
At 14th level, when a creature in your storm aura is hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to force it to make a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone, with additional movement control themed to the sea storm.
Always on
- Unarmored DefenseLevel 1
While not wearing heavy armor, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier.
- Fast MovementLevel 2
You can move through nonmagical difficult terrain made of rubble, rocks, and similar obstacles with no extra movement cost.
- Danger SenseLevel 2
You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects you can see, such as traps and spells, unless you are blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.
- Primal PathLevel 3
Choose a primal path. This character follows the Path of the Storm Herald, channeling the fury of sea and sky into a living tempest.
- Fast MovementLevel 5
Your land speed increases by 10 feet while you are not wearing heavy armor.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
You choose an ability score improvement or feat. This build uses the options to sharpen the character's raw dominance on deck and in boarding actions.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 8
You choose an ability score improvement or feat. This build uses the options to sharpen the character's raw dominance on deck and in boarding actions.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 12
You choose an ability score improvement or feat. This build uses the options to sharpen the character's raw dominance on deck and in boarding actions.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 14
You choose an ability score improvement or feat. This build uses the options to sharpen the character's raw dominance on deck and in boarding actions.
- Brutal CriticalLevel 9
If you roll a 1 on a damage die for a melee attack while raging, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll.
- Brutal CriticalLevel 9
If you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, roll one additional weapon damage die and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.
- Persistent RageLevel 15
You can rage longer, and your rage only ends early if you are knocked unconscious or you choose to end it. It also ends if you have not attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken damage since then.
- Rage DamageLevel 9
Your rage damage bonus increases to +3.
- Rage DamageLevel 13
Your rage damage bonus increases to +4.
- Storm SoulLevel 6
At 6th level, your storm grants a benefit tied to your environment. In the sea environment, you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed and can breathe underwater.
- Shielding StormLevel 10
At 10th level, you and allies in your aura gain resistance to lightning and thunder damage while raging, and you can also use your sea aura to push foes off balance in close quarters.
- Brutal CriticalLevel 13
When you make a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, roll one additional weapon damage die again, increasing the burst of damage from your criticals.
- DarkvisionHalf-OrcYou can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light.
- MenacingHalf-OrcYou gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.
- Relentless EnduranceHalf-OrcWhen you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead once per long rest.
- Savage AttacksHalf-OrcWhen you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon's damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.
- Ship's PassageSailor
You can secure passage for yourself and your companions on a ship, and you can usually identify safe ports, working crews, and the local laws of harbors and sea trade.
Gear
8 itemsWeapons
- BattleaxeA brutal one-handed heavy axe, perfect for boardings and commanding presence.
- 2×HandaxeA pair of balanced throwing axes for deck skirmishes and close-quarters boarding actions.
- 4×JavelinSix sturdy throwing spears stored in a rack near the quarterdeck.
Armor
- ShieldA wooden shield painted with a stylized storm wave, used both for defense and intimidation.
Gear
- Explorer's PackA travel pack with bedroll, rations, tinderbox, waterskin, rope, and similar necessities.
- Common ClothesA worn captain's coat, stripped of ornaments for combat mobility.
- Silk RopeA length of silk rope kept coiled and ready for boarding, climbing, or securing prisoners.
- Lucky CharmA small token from his first voyage, kept for luck when the sky goes black.
Appearance
A broad-shouldered half-orc with storm-gray skin, a shaved scalp braided with coin charms, and a weathered captain's coat cut short for fighting. Salt has bleached the edges of his black beard and scarred his forearms with pale lines from rigging burns and boarding fights. He carries himself like a mast in hard wind, steady, dangerous, and impossible to ignore, with a shark-tooth earring and a blue storm-tide tattoo curling over his left shoulder.
Mannerisms
He speaks softly right before violence, then roars commands while the fight is already won. When thinking, he rubs his thumb over the edge of his compass and looks toward the nearest open water. He never sits with his back to a door, a hatch, or a rail.
Personality
Brannik is loud, unshakably confident, and weirdly courteous to anyone who survives a fight with him. He treats discipline like a sacred ritual, but only when it serves the crew. Beneath the swagger is a keen, practical mind that notices wind shifts, mutiny signs, and who is lying about their loyalty.
Ideals
Freedom. The sea belongs to no throne, no merchant prince, and no tyrant. A captain proves worth by keeping their people alive and giving them room to become legends.
Bonds
The Freewake, his ship, is more than property to him, it is proof that he can command something larger than violence. He keeps a brass compass taken from the first captain who ever believed in him, and he will sink a fortune before he lets it be lost. Every soul who has sailed under his flag is under his protection, even the cowards and the fools.
Flaws
He cannot resist a challenge to his authority, even when tactical patience would serve the crew better. Brannik drinks too much, laughs too loudly at danger, and sometimes mistakes fearlessness for wisdom. If someone looks down on his crew, he will abandon a perfect plan just to make an example of them.
Quirks
Background
Brannik Tidebreaker was born in the hold of a smuggler's brig and raised on salted decks where the weak were thrown to the gulls and the strong were given a knife and a duty. He learned early that a ship is a kingdom with one law, the captain's will, and that the fastest way to become king was to outfight everyone who tried to take the helm. By sixteen he had a reputation for cracking skulls in boarding actions with a two-handed axe in one hand and a grin full of broken teeth in the other. When the old captain died during a black squall, Brannik did not wait for a vote. He bellowed the storm aside, seized the wheel, and kept the ship alive through a gale that would have torn lesser souls apart.
“By sixteen he had a reputation for cracking skulls in boarding actions with a two-handed axe in one hand and a grin full of broken teeth in the other.”
- Background
- Sailor
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Species
Half-Orc
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