Armor Class
13
(hide armor)
Hit Points
67
(9d8 + 27)
Speed
30 ft.
STR
16
(+3)
DEX
12
(+1)
CON
17
(+3)
INT
9
(-1)
WIS
11
(+0)
CHA
9
(-1)
Senses
Passive Perception 10
Languages
Any one language (usually Common)
Challenge
2 (450 XP)
Proficiency Bonus
+2
Traits
Reckless. At the start of its turn, the berserker can gain advantage on all melee weapon attack rolls during that turn, but attack rolls against it have advantage until the start of its next turn.
Actions
Greataxe. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d12 + 3) slashing damage.
Description
Unpredictable berserkers come together in war parties and seek conflict wherever they can find it.







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Posted Aug 17, 2019The magic item "Horn of Valhalla" can summon spirits made of the berserker statistics.
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Posted Jun 8, 2020The computation of the CR here is incorrect. Following the formulas in the DMG, this should be a CR 1 creature.
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Posted Jun 28, 202067 hp seems quite high for a CR 1 that hits with advantage for 1d12 though...
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Posted Jun 29, 2020You helped clarify my mistake. I didn't pay attention to the Reckless feature. It increases this creature's effective attack bonus by 3.5, but decreases its effective AC by 3.5. I was (incorrectly) assuming these offset one another, but they don't. In the end, this creature's defensive CR is 1/4 (even with 67 hp), but its offensive CR is 3. The average is 1.625, which justifies the CR 2 rating.
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Posted Aug 21, 2020Truly living up to your name I see
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Posted Oct 28, 2020I’m a little confused as to why this has reach. The great axe itself normally doesn’t, so is it just associated with the creature?
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Posted Oct 29, 2020It doesn’t have reach it’s simply stating that the reach of the weapon is 5ft
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Posted Nov 9, 2020Replacing standard orcs with modified berserkers and thugs is fun, the berserkers kind of need a second attack though. Big scary orcs.
Weird thing about berserkers and thugs is having a CR2 creature making one attack with advantage and taking all attacks back with advantage, and a CR 1/2 with two attacks with likely advantage. The thugs wind up being the real damage dealers and the berserkers tank with tempting advantage to hit them.
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Posted Nov 30, 2020“My love for you is ticking clock...”
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Posted Dec 3, 2020I am making a Berserker, and it says to add a "trophy from a slain adversary" and I don't know what that means. Can someone tell me what that means?
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Posted Jan 18, 2021It most probably means you add a flavour item that is just "a thing you took from somebody you killed" such as:
A stupid looking hat
A locket with a picture of someone they cared about.
A letter they were gonna give someone.
Anything on the regular Trinkets table.
Anything that's on the Haunted Background's Gothic Trinkets table.
A really round rock that rolls really good.
A note they wrote themselves reminding them to do some task.
A broken thing.
One sock.
A lock of hair that might be theirs or might be somebody else's.
A coin that's not a money coin.
Other similar such.
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Posted Jan 27, 2021yes, its quite OP at iron level
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Posted Mar 13, 2021Its even more op when your bbeg has all 3 tiers, its 10d4+10 berserker XDXD I had to learn how to run creature hordes XD
I simulated the fight, 2 hours for individual creature, or 30 mins with hordes
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Posted Apr 9, 2021Think about someone important your character may have killed in their backstory. You have a trophy to remember that. Maybe it was a rivals sword. Maybe its the finger bone of an evil priest. Maybe you have the horns of a great beast you killed on your first hunting trip.
I bet you don't need to know this info anymore.
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Posted May 8, 2021Ooo ni
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Posted May 3, 2022I vill drink from your skull
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Posted May 30, 2022Every melee weapon has some sort of reach. When in melee (unless with a swarm or something similar that is in your space) a target is 5 ft away, thus why every weapon has a base reach of 5 feet. Reach (the feature) specifically means adds an extra 5 feet. Since greataxes don't have the Reach feature, 5 feet is the accurate amount.
HOWEVER, an interesting thing to note is that the bugbear playable race does have a 5 foot bonus to its reach, meaning that, if your berserker is a bugbear, it would thus have a reach of 10 feet (if you want to apply that rule from the race).
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Posted Aug 27, 2022Berserker!
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Posted Jul 10, 2023weiner dogs
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Posted Oct 25, 2023Thank you this is helpful