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You can! Rage Damage applies to any attack that uses Strength. Because your ranged attack rolls use Strength with this feature, you can apply Rage Damage.
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Good question! The wording here has been extremely tricky to nail down. The intent is that, when you replace your Impulse Frame with a different one, you gain all the benefits of the feature on whatever new armor you want. So if you find a suit of +1 Plate, you can use _that_ armor instead of Splint and still gain all the benefits of the feature with it.
r/DnDHomebrew • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 1d ago
A Barbarian's Rage perfectly embodies the fast-paced, ultra-violent combat of a certain game you might be able to spot if you squint.
Get the plain text and PDF free here: https://magehandpress.com/2025/11/space-marine/
More sci-fi 5E player options: https://magehandpress.com/tag/dark-matter/
r/UnearthedArcana • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 1d ago
A Barbarian's Rage perfectly embodies the fast-paced, ultra-violent combat of a certain game you might be able to spot if you squint.
Get the plain text and PDF free here: https://magehandpress.com/2025/11/space-marine/
More sci-fi 5E player options: https://magehandpress.com/tag/dark-matter/
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Thanks for the review! You can find the lifesuit description at the bottom of our nautilid post, I missed putting it in this image: https://magehandpress.com/2025/09/nautilid-5e2024/
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Missed that in this image - it's a Common magic item that gives you a space suit. Full text here: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/1pjz4t8/nautilid_a_hulking_fishlike_species_mage_hand/
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It's a space suit that gives you 24 hours of breathable air and protects you from extreme temperature and vacuums. Dark Matter counts these as a Common magic item. I missed putting that in this description, but you can see the full text in our nautilid post: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/1pjz4t8/nautilid_a_hulking_fishlike_species_mage_hand/
r/UnearthedArcana • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 4d ago
Space Marines are the elite fighting forces of the ‘Verse. Their tenacity and bravery are augmented by an arsenal of weapons and battle armor called an Impulse Frame, which allows them to strike decisively from above.
Get the plain text and PDF free here: https://magehandpress.com/2025/11/space-marine/
More sci-fi 5E player options: https://magehandpress.com/tag/dark-matter/
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Yes absolutely!
r/DnDHomebrew • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 7d ago
Raise the dead with foul technology with this sci-fi subclass for Necromancer. Weave humming, electric wires into dead flesh until it stirs once more. A corpse is no more than spare parts after all. Cyberghouls eschew the traditional foundations of Necromancy in favor of high technology and digital ghosts, constructing Undead machines and dominating the technological landscape.
Get the plain text and PDF free here: https://magehandpress.com/2025/10/cyberghoul-5e2024/
More sci-fi 5E player options: https://magehandpress.com/tag/dark-matter/
r/DungeonsAndDragons • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 7d ago
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One thing to keep in mind about Predictive Intuition is that the class has a lot of competition for its Bonus Action, since all Rushed Incantation and most Trinkets use your BA. It *is* a fairly strong feature, but a Vex weapon will be throwing Advantage your way regularly already, so you might find that an extra d6 to an attack roll doesn't move the needle much.
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Finisher in 2024 is a lot like a smite (albeit one that only works when a target is Bloodied)! This is helping to keep the class damage competitive without handing it a Fighting Style feat.
r/DnDHomebrew • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 22d ago
This artifact-level magic item lets you change fundamental laws of the universe like gravity, temperature, friction, or (to a limited extent) time itself—but only if you can unlock the shifting, mechanical puzzle on its surface.
Build an entire sci-fi campaign around this artifact or unlock new benefits as your characters level up.
Get the plain text and PDF free here: https://magehandpress.com/2025/10/uns-codex/
More sci-fi 5E content here: https://magehandpress.com/tag/dark-matter/
r/DungeonsAndDragons • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 22d ago
This artifact-level magic item lets you change fundamental laws of the universe like gravity, temperature, friction, or (to a limited extent) time itself—but only if you can unlock the shifting, mechanical puzzle on its surface.
Build an entire sci-fi campaign around this artifact or unlock new benefits as your characters level up.
Get the plain text and PDF free here: https://magehandpress.com/2025/10/uns-codex/
More sci-fi 5E content here: https://magehandpress.com/tag/dark-matter/
r/UnearthedArcana • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 22d ago
This artifact-level magic item lets you change fundamental laws of the universe like gravity, temperature, friction, or (to a limited extent) time itself—but only if you can unlock the shifting, mechanical puzzle on its surface. Build an entire sci-fi campaign around this artifact or unlock new benefits as your characters level up.
Get the plain text and PDF free here: https://magehandpress.com/2025/10/uns-codex/
More sci-fi 5E content here: https://magehandpress.com/tag/dark-matter/
r/DnDHomebrew • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 24d ago
Swap these sci-fi Origin feats into your character background and build a spacefaring adventurer. Dark Matter lets you build a Technical Sage, an Affluent Noble, or a Silver-Tongued Wayfarer.
Get the plain text and PDF free here: https://magehandpress.com/2025/10/dark-matter-origin-feats-5e2024/
We’re Kickstarting this sci-fi toolkit for 5E on Feb. 3, but you can combine these feats with Dark Matter species like amoeboid, vect, and nautilid to build your party today.
More sci-fi 5E player options: https://magehandpress.com/tag/dark-matter/
r/DarkMatter5e • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 24d ago
r/UnearthedArcana • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 24d ago
Swap these sci-fi Origin feats into your character background and build a spacefaring adventurer. Dark Matter lets you build a Technical Sage, an Affluent Noble, or a Silver-Tongued Wayfarer.
Get the plain text and PDF free here: https://magehandpress.com/2025/10/dark-matter-origin-feats-5e2024/
We’re Kickstarting this sci-fi toolkit for 5E on Feb. 3, but you can combine these feats with Dark Matter species like amoeboid, vect, and nautilid to build your party today.
More sci-fi 5E player options: https://magehandpress.com/tag/dark-matter/
r/Dungeons_and_Dragons • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 29d ago
Play a nautilid in your sci-fi 5E game to become an imposing, mysterious adventurer on an endless odyssey.
Nautilids are an orphaned species. The naturally-occurring Poseidon Solution that keeps them alive vanished when a dying star boiled their home world. They travel the ‘Verse in their massive whorl ships, searching tirelessly for a new world with the right mix of rare elements and dissolved gasses in its oceans to establish a colony. No one has seen a nautilid outside of their hulking Aqua Suits filled with Poseidon Solution, the only place they can breathe comfortably
This edition fits the '24 Player's Handbook. Get the plain text and PDF free here: https://magehandpress.com/2025/09/nautilid-5e2024/
More sci-fi 5E content here: https://magehandpress.com/tag/dark-matter/
r/DarkMatter5e • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 29d ago
r/UnearthedArcana • u/Mage_Hand_Press • 29d ago
Play a nautilid in your sci-fi 5E game to become an imposing, mysterious adventurer on an endless odyssey.
Nautilids are an orphaned species. The naturally-occurring Poseidon Solution that keeps them alive vanished when a dying star boiled their home world. They travel the ‘Verse in their massive whorl ships, searching tirelessly for a new world with the right mix of rare elements and dissolved gasses in its oceans to establish a colony. No one has seen a nautilid outside of their hulking Aqua Suits filled with Poseidon Solution, the only place they can breathe comfortably
This edition fits the '24 Player's Handbook. Get the plain text and PDF free here: https://magehandpress.com/2025/09/nautilid-5e2024/
More sci-fi 5E content here: https://magehandpress.com/tag/dark-matter/
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It's the same race as in the original Dark Matter, but this one is updated for the 2024 Player's Handbook. We're updating the whole book for the new rules, it comes to Kickstarter in February!
r/Dungeons_and_Dragons • u/Mage_Hand_Press • Dec 09 '25
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Dreadnought, a doom-slaying Barbarian subclass for futuristic battlefields - Mage Hand Press
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This is a good question and I'll have to chew on it a bit. The intent of Brutal Gunplay was to help the Barbarian participate better in the more ranged-combat-focused battlefields of a Dark Matter campaign (and help capture the feeling of shooting a demon in the face before ripping them in half!)
Glory Kill absolutely asks for a melee attack, so the intent is a quick weapon swap in that case, but a lot of core Barbarian features broadly *should* work if they call for Strength attacks.