Battle Dancer Archetype

Battle Dancer Dedication - - Feat 2

[Archetype] , [Dedication]

Prerequisites: trained in Performance

You have decided to follow the path of a Battle Dancer, incorporating choreographed dancing movements with your weapon attacks to make yourself a beautiful and deadly presence on the field of battle. Choose a melee weapon group. Any weapon that you are proficient with in that weapon group gains the following benefit. While wielding the weapon, you can use a performance check for attack rolls. You still use your Strength modifier when calculating damage.

Special You cannot select another dedication feat until you have gained two other feats from the Battle Dancer archetype.

Twirling Advance - - - - - - - - Feat 4

[Archetype]

Prerequisites: Battle Dancer Dedication

Requirements: You are wielding a weapon in the weapon group associated with the Battle Dancer Dedication feat.

[2 actions]

You step or stride and then make a melee strike. Any creatures adjacent to you at any point during your movement take damage equal to the number of weapon dice your weapon has.

Credit: Maria Panfilova (https://www.artstation.com/maryia_panfilova)

Strike A Pose - - - - - - - - - - Feat 6

[Archetype]

Prerequisites: Battle Dancer Dedication

You strike a dynamic pose as you lay an enemy at your feet. Choose one of the following effects as a reaction when you reduce a creature to 0 hit points:

• Attempt a Performance check and compare your result to the Will DC of one creature of your choice. If you succeed, the target is fascinated or feared by you for 1 round. You must choose which creature you’re trying to fascinate before you roll your check.

• You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to AC until the end of your next turn and a number of temporary Hit Points equal to your character level; these last for 1 minute.

• You take the Step action as part of this Reaction.

Dancer Stance - - - - - - - - - Feat 8

[Archetype], [Stance]

Prerequisites: Battle Dancer Dedication

Requirements: You are wielding a weapon in the weapon group associated with the Battle Dancer Dedication feat.

You ready yourself for an extended performance, limbering up and taking in your surroundings. While you are in this stance, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to AC against reactions caused by your movement and you increase the distance you can step or stride by 5 feet.

Change Log

First, I would really like to say thank you all for giving this a look over. I am really happy to see any comments or feedback you may have. If you decide to play this and have any feedback at all, please don't hesitate to send me a message on reddit. I would love to hear about how it functions in actual play! Thank you so much!

v1.0

• This is the first publishing of this Archetype/Dedication and I am mostly using this space to explain my own concerns and what my ideas were. I genuinely feel this should be a mostly balanced archetype, but it does give me pause that it grants a faster scaling than weapon proficiencies. I don't see any huge, glaring exploitable gimmicks that could cause it to be OP, but I am cautious about missing one.