In this post, I'll detail 4 feats that focus on aerial and aquatic combat, and techniques your character might pick up to turn the challenge into strength!
Aerial & Underwater Combat – New Feat Options
Playable Race – Sodden
Sodden are tall, ape-like humanoids with a thick layer of dense fur. They have a bright red hue to their skin which is only exposed on their faces and hands. They are a tall, lanky race that grows to around 6 feet in height while not putting on much muscle.
Adapting Official 5e Archetypes for Veneon
In this post you can find modifications to a number of official class archetypes. I'll be separating them by realm and this post will be a living document that has regular updates as I adapt more official archetypes.
Rogue Archetype – The Vulture
Vultures are masters of taking the discarded remains of others and finding a way to make them into useful boons that help them overwhelm their foes with unpredictable changes to their fighting style.
Magic Item – Cape of the Storm Chaser (& more)
Magic items are by design, intentional rewards designed to buff your players. They can reward them with buffs, new features, special one-time effects, or even changes to their existing powers. This intentional and purposeful nature allows the DM to be careful and strategic with when the rewards are given and it's because of this, that they are the ideal method for introducing new mechanics to a character's spells.
Playable Race – Half-Dwarf
Half-Dwarf are the children of a Dwarf and Human pairing. They are the rarest race to find within the Hammerlands due to the rarity in which the two peoples mix but in the event a child is born, they are blessed with a merging of the gifts of both their parents.
Epic Mounts of the Hammerlands
Four unique, one-of-a-kind mounts that intended for high level characters. They are epic rarity creatures that could have entire adventures based around acquiring them. How you introduce them to your game is up to you!
Ranger Archetype – Disaster Walker
Disaster Walker rangers are experts in traversing the most dangerous of landscapes and dealing with natural disasters on a near daily basis. They are trained to make accurate predictions of the unpredictable and always be ready to turn a problem into an opportunity.
The Night of Rising – Encounter Asset Pack
Every year, on the cursed night of Draugate's Hallow, the grounds of the Black-Stave Church stir and tear open as Draugar rise to fall upon the realm once more. Yet the Norn of the Hammerlands are prepared, and stand ready to keep the risen dead confined to the rotten holy site, lest they sweep across the realm in a mindless, violent flood of death and decay.
Playable Race – Dwarf (Dark Elf)
Despite the usual connotations, Dwarves are the largest race in the Hammerlands. The spend their days beneath the mountains crafting art and magic items, striving to find the perfect expression of their skill.
Monk Archetype – Way of the Submerged Soul
In the endless rains of the Floodplains, escaping the watery environment is not an option. One must embrace the water or suffer. No one is more connected to the aquatic nature of the Floodplains than the submerged soul Monks.
Creatures of Veneon – Hilt Stalkers
"When the campfire quenches without warning, and the darkness of the night denies you vision, run. For the Hilt Stalkers come and bring with them terror and death."
Playable Race – Valkor
Valkor are the rare offspring of a Valkyrie and a Norn. It is uncommon for a Valkyrie to mingle with Humans and even rarer for them to lay together but if they do, there is a small chance of the Valkyrie falling pregnant. Due to its inability to traverse their floating city homeland, the mothers almost always leave the child in the care of the father.
Mounts of the Hammerlands
Mounts are a staple of fantasy across many genres. Be it video game, film or book, mounts can be much loved characters and important plot hooks for the heroes. Every fantasy fan can recall Shadowfax from the Lord of the Rings, Epona from the Legend of Zelda and the Chocobo from Final Fantasy. In MMO's mounts are highly sought-after rewards and collectables.
Artificer Archetype – Lockout
It was the Dwarves of Nidavellir that first mastered the art of imbuing mundane objects with magic, and in doing so birthed the first magic items. Not long after, the Artificer became a popular profession within Dwarven culture. Many focused on their talent for creating constructs or magical weapons yet as time went on, and their skills progressed, a new variation of the Artificer emerged, the Lockout.
Upbringing of the Valkyrie – Background Options
The Valkyrie are an elusive race of winged warrior women. They live high above the conflict and turmoil of the Hammerlands, in the city of Úlfdalir. Despite their relative safety, they all grow up to be proficient fighters, destined to protect the realm from catastrophe. But before they take up a life of adventure and glory, they have other tasks within Valkyrie society.
Playable Race – Valkyrie
The Valkyrie are winged warrior women. Gifted with flight and the divine blessing of Thor, the Valkyrie watch over the realm from high above its surface, preferring to keep to themselves whenever they can.
The Lindwyrm’s Promise – Encounter Asset Pack
Exceedingly rare and suspiciously dragon-like in appearance, the elusive Lindwyrm is a creature regarded with extreme caution throughout the Hammerlands. Rumours about them and their abilities run rampant and if the truth is known, it has been lost in an ocean of fiction and embellishment.
Fighter Archetype – Thunderer
Throughout the realm of the Hammerlands, individuals are born with volatile, thunderous magic trapped within their bodies. Many of these people die young, overtaken by the errant energy in a moment of danger. Yet some learn to gain a semblance of control. These, are the Thunderers.
Magic Item – Dragonfall
Very few individuals across the Realms can claim to wield a weapon so notorious as Dragonfall. Forged by the Dwarves of Nidavellir and pasted through generations of Norn, the battleaxe Dragonfall is the Hammerlands answer to the destructive, invasive dragons that have torn their home asunder.
Veneon Reforged 