Harald Hardrada

Medium humanoid (human), lawful neutral rogue 2/barbarian (juggernaut) 4/fighter (battlemaster) 12

Armor Class 19 (half plate, shield)
Hit Points 137 (2d8+4d12+12d10+36)
Speed 40 ft.

STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
18 (+4)	14 (+2)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)	14 (+2)

Saving Throws Dex +8, Int +7
Skills Athletics +16, Deception +8, History +7, Insight +7, Intimidation +8, Persuasion +14; thieves’ tools +8
Senses passive Perception 11
Languages Arabic, Dutch, Norwegian, Olde English, Thieves’ Cant
Challenge 12 (8,400 XP)

Special Traits

• Action Surge (1/short Rest). On his turn, Harald can take an additional action on top of his regular action and a possible bonus action.
• Cunning Action (1/turn). Harald can use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, Hide action.
• Danger Sense. Harald has advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that he can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, he can’t be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.
• Indomitable (1/long Rest). Harald can reroll a saving throw that he fails. If he does so, he must use the new roll.
• Maneuver Master (5d10 maneuver dice/short Rest). Harald can expend a maneuver dice to perform a single maneuver with an attack.
  • Command. Harald uses his bonus action to forgo one of his attacks and direct a friendly creature who can see or hear him. The creature uses its reaction and makes a weapon attack, dealing 1d10 additional weapon damage on a successful hit.
  • Disarm. A creature Harald has hit with an attack takes 1d8 additional damage and makes a DC 18 Strength saving throw or drops one held item of his choice.
  • Feint. Harald can use his bonus action to feint against one creature within 5 feet. He has advantage on his next attack roll against that creature as long as it before the end of his turn. On a hit he deals 1d10 additional damage.
  • Menace. On a successful hit with a melee weapon, Harald deals 1d10 additional damage and the target makes a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw or is frightened of him until the end of Harald’s next turn.
  • Sweep. Harald chooses a creature adjacent to him target and within his reach and on a hit, the adjacent creature takes 1d10 damage (of the same type as the weapon attack).
  • Trip. Harald deals 1d10 additional damage and if the target is a creature of Large size or smaller, it makes a DC 18 Strength saving throw or is knocked prone.
• Rage (3/long Rest). On his turn, Harald can enter a rage as a bonus action. His rage lasts for 1 minute, ending early if he is knocked unconscious or if his turn ends and he hasn’t either attacked a hostile creature since his last turn or taken damage since then. Harald can also end his rage on his turn as a bonus action. While raging, he gains the following benefits:
  • Harald has advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
  • When Harald makes a melee weapon attack using Strength, he deals 2 extra damage.
  • Harald has resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
  • While conscious, he cannot be knocked prone.
  • Once per turn, the target of a successful melee attack from Haralda makes a DC 18 Strength saving throw or is pushed 5 feet away from him. Haralda can immediately move into the square previously occupied by the target of his attack.
• Reckless Attack. When Harald makes his first attack on his turn, he can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so gives him advantage on melee weapon attack rolls using Strength during this turn, but attack rolls against him have advantage until his next turn.
• Second Wind (1/short Rest). On his turn, Harald can use a bonus action to regain 1d10+12 hit points.
• Sneak Attack (1d6/turn). Harald deals an extra 3 (1d6) damage when he hits a target with a weapon attack and has advantage on the attack roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of Harald that isn’t incapacitated and Harald doesn’t have disadvantage on the attack roll.
• Tactician’s Insight. After Harald has observed or interacted with a creature for 1 minute, he learns whether or not it has higher or lower Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma scores than him. In addition, he learns if the target has more or fewer class levels than him. Harald also knows when he and the target have equal scores in one of these categories.
• Athletic. Harald can stand up from being prone with only 5 feet of his movement, climbing doesn’t cost him extra movement, and he only has to move 5 feet before making a running long jump or running high jump.
• Mobility. Harald can Dash through difficult terrain without requiring additional movement. Whenever he makes an attack against a creature, he doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks from that creature until the end of his turn.
• Soldier Tactics. A creature hit by Harald’s opportunity attack reduces its Speed to 0 until the beginning of the next round and disengaging from Harald still provokes opportunity attacks. In addition, Harald can use his reaction to make a melee weapon attack against a creature within 5 feet when it makes an attack against a target other than Harald.

Actions

• Multiattack. Harald attacks three times when he takes the Attack action.
• Longsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d8+6) slashing damage.
• Handaxe (6). Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6+4) slashing damage.
• Heavy Crossbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 100/400 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d10+2) piercing damage.

About

Harald Sigurdsson lived from 1015 to 1066 AD and was King of Norway from 1046 to 1066. In the years before that, however, he was exiled, traveling across the world as a mercenary and military commander in the Byzantine Empire.

After defeat trying to help his half-brother Olaf Haraldsson (later Saint Olaf) reclaim the Norwegian throne from King Cnut the Great in the Battle of Stiklestad, Harald was exiled and joined the army of Grand Prince Yaroslav the

Due to his position as a ruler, Harald is treated with a measure of respect wherever he goes. He is treated as royalty (or as closely as possible) by most peasants and traders, and as an equal when meeting other authority figures (who make time in their schedule to see him if requested to do so).

Wise until he left for Constantinople in 1034. There he became very rich as the commander of the Byzantine Varangian Guard. He started planning on retaking the throne of Norway, now restored to Magnus the Good, a bastard child of his brother.

Four years later Harald fought alongside Sweyn II, the pretender of Denmark, but Magnus would not fight him, and instead agreed to rule together in exchange for some of Harald’s wealth. A year later Magnus died and Harald became the only king of Norway, instituting a coin economy, encouraging

Random Viking Treasure Hoard

d20	Treasure
1	Average party level × 600 gp worth of platinum and gold coins, plus average party level × 200 gp in miscellaneous loot, a randomly determined rare magic item, and two randomly determined uncommon magic items
2	Average party level × 500 gp worth of platinum and gold coins, plus average party level × 150 gp in miscellaneous loot, and two randomly determined uncommon magic items
3	Average party level × 400 gp worth of platinum and gold coins, plus average party level × 125 gp in miscellaneous loot, a randomly determined uncommon magic item, and a +1 weapon
4	Average party level × 300 gp worth of platinum and gold coins, plus average party level × 100 gp in miscellaneous loot, and a randomly determined uncommon magic item
5	Average party level × 200 gp worth of platinum, gold, and silver coins, plus average party level × 75 gp in miscellaneous loot, and a suit of +1 medium armor or +1 shield
6	Average party level × 150 gp worth of gold and silver coins, plus average party level × 50 gp in miscellaneous loot, and a +1 weapon
7	Average party level × 125 gp worth of gold and silver coins, plus average party level × 25 gp in miscellaneous loot, and a suit of +1 light armor or +1 shield
8	Average party level × 100 gp in miscellaneous loot, and a suit of +1 light armor or +1 shield
9	Average party level × 50 gp worth of gold, silver, and copper coins
10	50 gp worth of gold, silver, copper coins, and 50 gp in miscellaneous loot
11	Average party level × 25 gp of coins in gold, silver, and copper
12	Average party level × 10 gp in miscellaneous loot
13	Average party level × 100 gp of coins in gold, silver, and copper, a +1 weapon (any sword), and a +1 shield
14	Average party level × 125 gp of coins in miscellaneous loot, plus average party level × 25 gp worth of gold, silver, and copper coins, and a suit of +1 light armor or +1 shield
15	Average party level × 150 gp of miscellaneous loot, plus average party level × 50 gp worth of gold and silver coins, and a +1 weapon
16	Average party level × 200 gp in miscellaneous loot, plus average party level × 75 gp worth of gold and silver coins, and a suit of +1 medium armor or +1 shield
17	Average party level × 300 gp in miscellaneous loot, plus average party level × 100 gp worth of platinum and gold coins, and a randomly determined uncommon magic item
18	Average party level × 400 gp in miscellaneous loot, plus average party level × 125 gp worth of platinum and gold coins, a randomly determined uncommon magic item, and a +1 weapon
19	Average party level × 500 gp in miscellaneous loot, plus average party level × 150 gp worth of platinum and gold coins, and two randomly determined uncommon magic items
20	Average party level × 600 gp in miscellaneous loot, plus average party level × 200 gp worth of platinum and gold coins, a randomly determined rare magic item, and two randomly determined uncommon magic items

Note: Miscellaneous loot is bulkier and often heavier than coins. As a general rule, GMs can treat miscellaneous loot as weighing 1/5th or more of its gold value in pounds.