Path of the Battleborn Barbarian

Battleborn barbarians are started down their path in a sudden violent bout of rage at an early age. The cause is something so injurious that it sparks an inferno of hatred and violence so intense that fear, despair, and indecision burns away. Over time they learn to channel this rage into a wrath fueled awareness, making them brutally precise masters of combat and warfare.

Battle Focus

At third level when you choose this path, you learn to direct the raging fury that flows inside you, channeling it into enhanced focus and purpose. While you are raging you gain the following benefits

You may use your reaction to increase your AC or Wisdom modifier by an amount equal to your rage damage bonus until the start of your next turn.

Your first melee weapon attack each turn has a bonus to hit equal to your rage damage bonus.

Deadly Dance

At 6th level your frenzied grace on the battlefield is unmatched, allowing you to dodge and attack in the same breath.

While raging if you use your Action to Dodge you may make one melee weapon attack as a Bonus Action.

Instinctive Awareness

At 10th level, your heightened senses grant you the ability to detect hidden threats. You gain the following benefits.

Whenever you make a Perception check to detect traps or ambushes, you have advantage on the roll (advantage confers a + 5 bonus to your passive Perception.).

You also gain proficiency in the Insight or Perception skill. If you are already proficient in the chosen skill, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it.

Overwhelming Precision

At 14th level your rage induced perception expands each moment to feel like a lifetime. Your enhanced reflexes grant the following benefits.

When a creature misses you with an attack you have advantage on the next attack roll you make against that creature before the start of its next turn.

When you make a melee weapon attack with advantage your attack scores a critical hit on a roll of 18–20.