5e Classes (Halo Setting)

As a universe of guns and plasma, one can reason that such things aren’t specifically covered in the PHB. When creating a character, traditional classes will appear out of place, as listed below. Instead, consider the following homebrews:

• Spartan, Halo Variant

• Marine

• Covenant Soldier

• MechMaster (see reflavoring under equipment)

• Soldier (see changed equipment)

• Gunslinger (excluding preacher subclass, see equipment tab)

As a purely physical world, classes and sub-classes that use magic are generally not allowed. Granted, in certain incredibly rare cases, it would be reasonable to reflavor such a class to resemble the technological mastery of a Forerunner, but to include one in your campaign would cause numerous lore and role play issues, so proceed along this path with caution.

The Forerunners, and later the unindexed prometheans, gained a mastery over the physical world. This gave them the ability to manipulate matter, read minds, and other such effects similar to magic. When creating a character with spell casting, proceed with caution. It will be treated with hostility by all creatures, human to Covenant, save for the unggoy, who will treat you as a god and rebel against their san’shyuum masters.

While not necessarily impossible, traditional classes such as fighters, and barbarians don’t exactly fit the setting all that well. One wouldn’t necessarily take on a squad of gun-toting aliens with a sword. Rangers and rogues could make an amount of sense as a drafted Amish individual or special operations unit, but such options wouldn’t be recommended.

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