The Warden

Wardens aim to perfect the art of protection by becoming a sturdy pillar their community can rely on. They cover the vulnerabilities of their companions by focusing unwanted attention onto themselves, openning up an opponents's own weakness for others to exploit.

##### The Warden | Level | Proficiency
Bonus | Features | |:-----:|:--:|:----------------------------| | 1st | +2 | Bulwark, Guard | | 2nd | +2 | Eyes on Me, Fighting Style, Patience | | 3rd | +2 | Code of Conduct | | 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | | 5th | +3 | Extra Reaction (x1),
Guard Improvement | | 6th | +3 | Herculean, Unbreakable | | 7th | +3 | Code of Conduct feature | | 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | | 9th | +4 | combat feat, non-combat feat| | 10th | +4 | defensive? feat| | 11th | +4 | Code of Conduct feature | | 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | | 13th | +5 | Herculean Improvement,
non-combat feature| | 14th | +5 | ? feat| | 15th | +5 | Code of Conduct feature | | 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | | 17th | +6 | ? feat, Extra Reaction (x2) | | 18th | +6 | ? feat| | 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | | 20th | +6 | Code of Conduct feature,
Herculean Improvement |

``` ``` ## Class Features ### Hit Points **Hit Dice:** 1d12 per warden level
**Hit Points at 1st Level:** 12 + Constitution modifier
**Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d12 (or 7) + Constitution modifier per warden level after 1st ### Proficiencies **Armor:** All armor, Shields
**Weapons:** Simple weapons
**Tools:** None
**Saving Throws:** Strength, Constitution
**Skills:** Choose two from Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Perception, Survival ### Equipment You start with 125gp or the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background: - (a) a simple weapon and a shield or (b) two shields - (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) two handaxes - (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack - Chain mail, a shield, and a simple weapon

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Art & Homebrew By GeoK

\page ### Bulwark ***1st-level Warden feature***
You have resistance to damage dealt by allies and damage you take originally meant for another target. ### Guard ***1st-level Warden feature***
When you end your turn, you can guard until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). If a creature you can see within 5 feet of you takes or deals damage while you're guarding, you can suffer in place of one of the targets your choice of the damage or any secondary effects taking the damage would impose. At 5th level, you can suffer both in place of the target. ### Eyes on Me ***2nd-level Warden feature***
When a creature within 15 feet of you that can see or hear you starts its turn or makes an attack, you can catch its focus as a reaction. Until the end of the current turn, it can’t willingly move farther from you, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and Wisdom checks that don’t target you, and you can treat damage it deals to you as originally meant for another target for the purposes of your Bulwark feature. ### Fighting Style ***2nd-level Warden feature***
You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one [**Fighting Style option**](#p8). You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once. You can replace a fighting style you know with another fighting style whenever you gain a level in this class. ### Patience ***2nd-level Warden feature***
Before or after you use a reaction, you can move up to 15 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. If the reaction can be triggered by first moving to a space within 15 feet of you, you can use the movement to meet the trigger prerequisites first. Moreover, if you use your action to take the Ready action, you can gain one extra reaction until the start of your next turn. A single effect can only trigger one reaction. You can only gain a reaction this way once on each of your turns. ### Code of Conduct ***3rd-level Warden feature***
You choose a code of conduct that you abide by. The code you choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th, 15th, and 20th level. ### Ability Score Improvement ***4th-level Warden feature***
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. ``` ``` ### Extra Reaction ***5th-level Warden feature***
You have a second reaction you can take each round, but only one reaction per trigger. The number of reactions you can take each round increases to three when you reach 17th level in this class. ### Herculean ***6th-level Warden feature***
You count as large when determining your carrying capacity; the creatures you can grapple or shove; and the weight you can push, drag, or lift. At 13th level, you count as huge instead of large. At 20th level, you count as gargantuan. ### Unbreakable ***6th-level Warden feature***
When you use your Guard feature, you ignore the triggering damage and its secondary effects if either the triggering damage was an attack roll and the attack roll would miss you, or the triggering damage was a saving throw and its DC is lower than 10 + your bonuses to that saving throw. ### Non-Defensive Feature ***9th-level Warden feature***
Description. ### Defensive Feature ***10th-level Warden feature***
Description. ### Feature ***13th-level Warden feature***
Description. ### Feature ***14th-level Warden feature***
Description. ### Feature ***17th-level Warden feature***
Description. ### Feature ***18th-level Warden feature***
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Bastion Code

Bastions are revered as beacons of defense and safety, allowing those housed by it opportunities to plan ahead. By following the bastion code, you bring these fortunes to your allies as a living fortress and guide. Should you crumble, the foundational shelter you provide will follow. ## Subclass Features ### Bonus Proficiency ***3rd-level Warden feature***
You gain proficiency in your choice of either the Deception, Insight, Investigation, History, or Persuasion skill. At 7th level, you gain expertise in one of these skills of your choice if you have proficiency with it. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make with it. ### Bodyguard ***3rd-level Warden feature***
You can have the space within a 5-foot radius around you be treated as cover for the purposes of granting creatures of your choice other than yourself half cover. When you take the Dodge action, this radius is doubled until the start of your next turn. At 11th level, you can grant three-quarters cover in place of any half cover you provide. At 20th level, you can instead grant full cover in place of half cover. ### Focus Fire ***3rd-level Warden feature***
You can take the Help action as a bonus action. Further, if your use of the Help action aids an ally in attacking a target successfully, you can add either your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier (your choice) to the attack's damage roll. ### Iron Will ***7th-level Warden feature***
You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws. If you already have this proficiency, you instead gain proficiency in Intelligence or Charisma saving throws (your choice). ### Set-Up ***11th-level Warden feature***
If you use your Guard against a source of damage or use your Eyes on Me on a creature, the target provokes an opportunity attack from a creature you can see of your choice. ### Stronghold Actions ***11th-level Warden feature***
If a creature you can see uses its reaction, you can have it use yours instead; it maintains its own reaction, but can't use it on the same trigger. You can use this feature once per turn. ``` ``` ### Unfaltering ***15th-level Warden feature***
While you are guarding with your Guard feature, having 0 hit points doesn't knock you unconscious. You still must make death saving throws, and you suffer the normal effects of taking damage while at 0 hit points. However, if you would die due to failing death saving throws, you don’t die until your guard ends, and you die then only if you still have 0 hit points. ### Feature ***20th-level Warden feature***
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Warrior's Code

Those under the warrior's code know that the best defense is a good offense. By lying in wait, you can exploit any gaps made in your foes attacks and can recover from any blow they manage to land on you. Your threat is so great that no back should be turned your way. ## Subclass Features ### Warrior Training ***3rd-level Warden feature***
You gain proficiency with martial weapons. You can also add 1d4 to your Intelligence and Wisdom checks made against creatures carrying a simple or martial weapon you can see. ### Counter ***3rd-level Warden feature***
A creature provokes an opportunity attack from you if it misses you with an attack, you suffer the effects of a critical hit it makes, or you succeed a saving throw against it. ### Battle Hardened ***7th-level Warden feature***
When you roll for initiative or reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points, you can gain temporary hit points equal to your warden level + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). ### Shield Break ***11th-level Warden feature***
When you lose concentration on an effect, you can immediately make one weapon attack (no action required) and can use your reaction to guard using your Guard feature. ### Unflinching ***15th-level Warden feature***
If a creature hits you with an attack or you fail a saving throw against it, you can forgo all your temporary hit points to gain a bonus to your AC against the attack or the saving throw equal to your warden level, potentially turning a hit into a miss or a failure into a success. You can use this feature when you use your Guard to try and trigger Unbreakable. ### Feature ***20th-level Warden feature***
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Witchguard Code

In worlds full of the fantastic, the best way to fight fire is with fire. Those with the witchguard code are able to bend magic around people they see through and are able to shoulder burdens others would take to realize their arcane visions. Your stalwart aid keeps magic alive. ## Subclass Features ### Spellcasting ***3rd-level Warden feature***
You augment your defenses with the ability to cast spells. #### Cantrips You learn two cantrips of your choice from the bard spell list. You learn another bard cantrip of your choice at 10th level. #### Spell Slots The Witchguard Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your bard spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest. For example, if you know the 1st-level spell *Bless* and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast *Bless* using either slot. #### Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher You know three 1st-level spells of your choice from the bard spell list. The Spells Known column of the Witchguard table shows when you learn more bard spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 7th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level. Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the bard spells you know and replace it with another spell from the bard spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots. #### Spellcasting Ability Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your witchguard spells, as your insights over people allows you to draw magic towards them. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a witchguard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

**Spell save DC** = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Wisdom modifier
**Spell attack modifier** = your proficiency bonus +
your Wisdom modifier

#### Spellcasting Focus You can use a shield as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.

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##### The Witchguard | Level| Cantrips
Known | Spells
Known | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | |:----:|:-:|:--:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:| | 3rd | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | | 4th | 2 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | | 5th | 2 | 5 | 3 | — | — | — | | 6th | 2 | 6 | 3 | — | — | — | | 7th | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | — | — | | 8th | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | — | — | | 9th | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | — | — | | 10th | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | — | — | | 11th | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | — | — | | 12th | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | — | — | | 13th | 3 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | | 14th | 3 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | | 15th | 3 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | | 16th | 3 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | | 17th | 3 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | | 18th | 3 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | | 19th | 3 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | | 20th | 3 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 |

``` ``` ### Defense of the Ancients ***3rd-level Warden feature***
You are considered guarding with your Guard feature so long as you maintain concentration on any effect. Further, if you see a willing creature within 15 feet of you cast a spell of 5th-level or lower that requires concentration, you can use your reaction to maintain concentration on the spell in place of the caster. ### Bob and Weave ***7th-level Warden feature***
When you or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can expend a spell slot of 1st-level or higher (no action required) to roll 1d6, plus another 1d6 per level of the spell slot expended. You then either deal extra force damage to the target equal to the total rolled, or reduce the damage dealt to the target by the total. ### Vigil Magic ***11th-level Warden feature***
When you use your action to take the Ready action on your turn, you can use your bonus action to cast a cantrip of any casting time. Further, when you cast a spell on your turn, you can use your bonus action to take the Ready action. ### Feature ***15th-level Warden feature***
Description. ### Feature ***20th-level Warden feature***
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Template Code

In the off chance that you would want to create a warden code of conduct, the following subclass scaffolding is provided. This adds a bit of structure to the subclass as most of the subclass features fall onto important power scaling levels.
## Subclass Features ### 3rd-level Warden - **Bonus Proficiency.** Grant any relevant skills. - **Secondary Ability.** Each subclass should introduce a second ability to prioritize for the subclass. This prevents the warden from becoming single ability dependent (SAD). - **Bastion** gives INT, WIS, or CHA as a secondary. - **Warrior**'s secondary is the ability for the weapon. - **Witchguard**'s secondary is its spellcasting ability. - **Grab-Bag Feature.** This feature can be anything. ``` ``` ### 7th-level Warden - **Grab-Bag Feature.** This feature can be anything. - Typically a Defensive or Utility feature. - Doesn't have to be Defensive because of the 6th-level features. - Occasionally builds on the 3rd-level Grab-Bag. ### 11th-level Warden - **Major Power Spike.** Typically a damage dealing feature as all classes get a major improvement at 11th-level. - Typically builds on the 3rd-level Grab-Bag or an offensive feature granted at 7th-level. - The feature typically interacts with concentration if the 7th and 15th level features don't. ### 15th-level Warden - **Defensive Feature.** Meant to counterbalance 14th-level feature. ### 20th-level Warden - **Capstone.** A powerful feature to finish the class.

\page # Fighting Styles To make fighting styles easier to choose and understand, the list of options has been split into two categories known as core fighting style options and advanced fighting style options. While the options are split, the categorizations does not impact the mechanics of the game (i.e. they're somewhat arbitrary). Core fighting style options typically have a wide set of use cases and are easy to understand. Advanced fighting style options typically either require a long and complex explanation to use, or have a specific niche interactions with the game's mechanics. ## List of Core Options ### Archery You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons. ### Cleaver If you hit a target with a melee weapon attack, you can halve the total damage between it and a second target within reach. The AC of both targets can't be higher than your attack roll. - You gain a +1 bonus to melee attack and damage rolls. ### Controlled Shot When you roll the damage dice for an attack you make with a two-handed ranged weapon, you can treat one die result as a 6 instead. ### Critical Aid While you are conscious, an ally's attack against a creature within 5 feet of you scores a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20. ### Defender When you end your turn, you can guard until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). If a creature you can see within 5 feet of you hits or is hit while you're guarding, you can suffer the attack's effects instead. ### Defense While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. ### Deuling When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon. ### Evasive Fighting When you're attacked while you can move, you can use a reaction to move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks and impose a –2 penalty on the triggering attack roll, potentially causing it to miss instead. ``` ``` ### Flanker When an ally attacks a target within 5 feet of you, you can take the Help action as a reaction to grant the ally advantage, potentially turning a miss into a hit. ### Grand Weapon Fighting When you hit with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can roll one additional damage die but must then choose one damage die to remove. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property to use this benefit. ### Hearty Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to your level when you gain this fighting style and increases by another 1 whenever you gain another level. ### Jeopardized Your attack rolls ignore disadvantage imposed by being poisoned, prone, or restrained. - You gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls and death saving throws while you have less than half your hit points left. ### Lockdown Fighting In place of an Opportunity attack, you can attempt to grapple or shove the provoking creature as a reaction instead. - When you successfully grapple or shove a target, you can deal 2 bludgeoning damage to it. ### Martial Arts Your body is a simple weapon you are proficient with that has the light and finesse properties and that you can wield in each hand to perform two-weapon fighting with. On a hit, you deal 1d8 bludgeoning damage + any relevant modifiers. ### Movement Fighting While you are not wearing heavy armor or using a shield, climbing and swimming doesn’t cost you extra movement and, if your speed isn't 0, you can forgo any attack made with the Attack action to move up to 10 feet. ### Outrider While you control a mount or vehicle, the speed of the mount or vehicle increases by 10 feet and you can reduce any damage it takes by half your proficiency bonus. ### Reach Fighting When you hit a target more than 5 feet away from you with a melee weapon attack, you can move the target up to 5 feet towards or away from you.

\page ### Set-Up Fighting If your use of the Help action aids an ally in attacking a target successfully, the attack deals an extra 1d6 damage. - You can take the Help action in place of any attack made with the Attack action. ### Simplistic Each time you roll the maximum result on a damage die for an attack you make with a simple weapon, you can reroll that die and add both results to the total damage dealt. ### Two-Weapon Fighting When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack. ### Unbetrayed You have resistance to damage dealt by allies and damage you take originally meant for another target. ``` ``` ## List of Advanced Options ### Aura Tactics While you're under the effects of a feature or spell that affects targets in an area centered on you, you can use the Help action on any creature you can see or hear within the area. - After a creature within the area regains hit points, you can grant it 2 temporary hit points (no action required). ### Battle Medic You can treat a weapon as a healer's kit with unlimited uses and can use a healer's kit in place of one attack you make with the Attack action. - As an action, you can expend one use of a healer's kit to have a creature within 5 feet of you take 1d4 necrotic damage. However, you can allow the target to expend one of its hit dice to instead regain hit points equal to the roll. ### Delayed Fighting Whenever you make an initiative roll, you have advantage against creatures with a higher initiative than you until the end of your next turn. - When you use a reaction, you gain a +1 bonus to your AC until the end of the current turn. If the reaction is made in response to getting hit, you can potentially cause the attack to miss. ### Dirty Fighting Once per turn when you hit with a weapon attack, you can forgo adding your weapon's damage die to the damage roll to have the target blinded, deafened, poisoned, or silenced until the end of its next turn or it takes damage. - You gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls against creatures that cannot see, cannot move, cannot speak, cannot hear, are poisoned, or you hit with advantage on the attack roll. ### Diverse Fighting When you hit with a weapon attack and deal more than one type of damage, you can either change all the damage types to one of the types dealt or you have one of the damage types affect another target within 5 feet of the original instead. Each target also takes 2 extra damage of one type dealt to it. ### Exploitative Fighting Once on each of your turns when you score a critical hit or hit a target with a damage type it has vulnerability to, you can forgo doubling any damage or damage dice to instead reduce the target's AC by your proficiency bonus (minimum AC of 10) until the start of your next turn. ### Fall Breaker When you make a melee weapon attack right before you end a fall of 10 feet or more, you have advantage on the roll and will not fall prone upon landing if you hit.

\page ### Fall Fighting When you hit a target with a melee weapon attack right before you end a fall, you can reduce the number of damage dice used in the fall by up to half your proficiency bonus. For each die reduced, your attack deals an extra 1d6 damage. You can do this once per turn. ### Feral Fighting When an unarmed strike or natural weapon hits as a part of an action, bonus action, or reaction you take, this attack and all others against the target made on the same turn gain a cumulative +1 bonus to their damage rolls (maximum of +3). ### Focused Fighting When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can focus on it until the start of your next turn (no action required). Your concentration on an effect can't be broken as a result of taking damage dealt by the target no higher than your AC. ### Getaway Driver When you take the Disengage or Dodge action, you can forgo the benefits of the action to instead grant it to a creature or vehicle of your choice within 5 feet of you until the start of your next turn. * You can take the Disengage action in place of one attack you make with the Attack action. ### Hands-On Fighting When you grapple a creature, you can choose to concentrate (as if you were concentrating on a spell). While it's grappled this way, it's also restrained. Once the target is no longer restrained, you can't target it again with this fighting style until you finish a short or long rest. ### Improvised Fighting Before you determine if you hit or miss on an attack made with an improvised weapon, you can add any number of the weapon's damage dice to the attack roll. On a hit, each damage die used in the attack roll automatically rolls a 2 for its damage roll. ### Munitions Expert When an attack you make with a weapon that uses ammunition misses by 2 or less, you can change the attack's target to another within range as a bonus action, potentially hitting the new target. - You ignore the loading property and you can load a weapon with a hand you’re wielding the weapon with. ### Natural Fighting When a creature you can see or hear within your reach takes damage from a source not directly caused by a creature such as the terrain or a trap, you can use a reaction to increase the damage dealt to it by half your level + your proficiency bonus. ``` ``` ### Pacifist While conscious, you subtract your proficiency bonus from damage dealt by you and creatures of your choice that are within 5 feet of you or damaging a target within 5 feet of you. - When a creature other than you within 5 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points or reduces another creature to 0 hit points, you can have the damage dealt be nonlethal. ### Point-Blank Shooter When you make a ranged attack roll against a target within 5 feet of you, the roll ignores disadvantage imposed by hostile creatures within 5 feet of you and gains a +1 bonus. - When you make an opportunity attack, you can make one ranged attack in place of the one melee attack. ### Precision When you roll two or more d20s on a weapon attack roll and hit, you can treat a number of the attack's damage dice as a result of your choice that you can roll on the die. The number of dice you can affect is equal to the number of d20s rolled for the attack roll that, if used, would cause the attack to hit. ### Protector When a creature you can see other than you is within 5 feet of you and is about to be hit or fail a Dexterity saving throw, you can use your reaction to grant it the benefits of half cover until the end of the current turn, potentially causing the attack to miss or the saving throw to succeed. You must be wielding a shield to use this reaction. ### Provoker When you take the Help action to grant advantage against a creature, you can target all creatures within 5 feet of you instead. Each creature targeted this way grants the advantage to the next ally that attacks it instead of one ally you choose. - When you use the Help action to grant advantage against a creature, that creature has disadvantage on attack rolls that don’t target you until the start of your next turn. ### Quickdraw When you make an initiative roll, you can replace any weapon attack rolls you make before the end of your next turn with your initiative roll. You must choose to do so before the roll, and you cannot score a critical hit by doing so. - You gain a +2 bonus to your initiative roll. ### Reckless Fighting Before or after you make a weapon attack, you can add the AC bonus of a shield you wield to its attack or damage roll by forgoing the AC bonus until the start of your next turn or until you’re attacked (whichever comes first). - You weapon attacks gain a +1 bonus to damage rolls.

\page ### Resisted Fighting When you hit a creature only with a damage type it has resistance to, you impose disadvantage on the first saving throw it makes before the end of its next turn. - Once per turn, you can treat a target you hit as if it has resistance to your attack's damage. ### Restful Fighting When you finish a short or long rest, you and each creature you rest with can grant advantage to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes of its choice before it finishes a short or long rest. - The time it takes to finish a short or long rest is halved for you and one creature of your choice that you rest with. ### Ruinous Wrestler When you push a target away from you, you can have the ground beneath where the target traveled become difficult terrain for 1 minute. This terrain has no effect on you. - When you avoid being shoved or pushed away by a target, you can use your reaction to have the target pushed up to 5 feet away from you instead. ### Silvered Fighting When you deal damage with a silvered weapon or a piece of silvered ammunition, you gain a +1 bonus to the damage roll and can change the damage type dealt by it to radiant. - Before you make a weapon attack, you can spend 1sp to temporarily silver a weapon or up to 5 pieces of ammunition until the end of your next turn. ### Skill Tactics You can forgo any attacks made with the Attack action to instead take an action that is not from a feature—such as the Search action or an action improvised by the DM—and that requires you to make an ability check using a skill you have proficiency with. - You gain a +2 bonus to ability checks made against hostile creatures. ### Spellblade You learn two cantrips of your choice from any spell list that require you to make an attack roll. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for them (choose when you gain this fighting style). Whenever you gain a level, you can replace one of these cantrips with another that meets the same requirements. ### Tandem Fighting When you use a reaction in response to an ally within 5 feet of you taking an action or reaction, that ally can add a +2 bonus to one roll of its choice made as a part of that action until the end of the current turn. ``` ``` ### Terrain Fighting When you hit a target on difficult terrain, the target can’t be moved out of the difficult terrain until the end of its next turn or until the terrain disappears. ### Tracker Fighting When you hit a creature, it creates a trail wherever it moves that disappears at the end of your next turn. As a bonus action, you can see the trail until the end of the current turn. While on the trail, you spend 1 foot of movement for every 2 feet you move and gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls made against the creature making the trail. ### Trailblazer While you aren't wearing heavy armor, you can use a bonus action to create a trail wherever you move on the current turn that disappears at the start of your next turn. Your allies can see the trail and, while on it, spend 1 foot of movement for every 2 feet they move. ### Tunnel Fighting If you haven't moved during the turn, you can choose an area in a 15-foot cone originating from you as a bonus action. Until the start of your next turn, your speed becomes 0 and you can make opportunity attacks against creatures that moves 5 feet or more within the area, so long as it's also within your reach. ### Turtler You can treat a shield as a martial melee weapon you are proficient with that deals 1d4 bludgeoning damage on a hit. You add your Strength modifier to the attack and damage rolls when you attack with it, as normal. - When an attack misses you by rolling a die result of 10 or lower, you can make an opportunity attack against the attacker using a shield. ### Unarmored Fighting When you are hit by an attack, you can reduce the damage you take by half your level + your proficiency bonus as a reaction. You must not be wearing armor to use this reaction. - In addition, while you are not wearing any armor, your AC equals 12 + your Dexterity or Constitution modifier (your choice). You can use a shield and still gain this benefit. ### Vengeful Fighting When a creature you can see scores a critical hit on an ally or reduces an ally to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against that attacker. - When a creature hits an ally you can see, any d20 attack roll you make before the end of your next turn that is against the attacker can be rerolled if the d20 rolled a 1.

\page ### Weak Pointer Once per turn when you hit a creature, you can mark the place you hit the target until the end of your next turn. Any attack made against the mark gains a –2 penalty to the attack roll, but deals an extra 4 damage to the target on a hit. ``` ``` ### Weave Warrior Whenever you deal damage with a weapon attack that isn't bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing, you can roll for damage twice and choose either total. - When a spell is cast at a creature within 5 feet of you or by it, you can change the damage type of any weapon attacks you make before the end of your next turn to force damage or one type dealt by the spell. ### Whirling Dervish When your turn ends, you can use your reaction to whirl. Until your next turn starts, you can force creatures that enter your reach or end their turn there to succeed a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d6 damage of a type dealt by a held weapon (DC equals 8 + your attack bonus with that weapon).

\page # Armor

##### Armor Table |Armor |Properties|Armor Class|Strength |Stealth|Weight (lbs)| Price (gp) | |:------------|:---------|:---------:|:-------:|:-----:|:----------:|------------:| | Shields ||||||| | Buckler |Parrying | +1 | – | – | 2 | 5.00 | | Heavy Shield|Covering | +2 | Str 15 |Disadvantage |25 | 50.00 | | Tower Shield|Covering, Two-handed | +2 | – |Disadvantage |25 | 50.00 | | War Buckler |Parrying, Special | – | – | – | 2 | 10.00 |

## Armor Propertites Many armors or shields have special properties related to their use, as shown in the Armor table. Proficiency with the armor is required to gain the benefits of its properties. **Covering.** When you are wielding the shield, you gain a bonus to Dexterity saving throws equal to half the AC bonus of the shield. **Parrying.** When you are wielding the shield and a creature you can see hits you, you can use your reaction to add half your proficiency bonus to your AC against that attack, potentially causing it to miss. Further, when you use a feature that grants you a bonus to your AC as a reaction, you can also add half your proficiency bonus to your AC until the end of the current turn. **Two-Handed.** This shield requires two hands when you want to gain its benefits.

##### Dual-Wielding Shields *Optional rule*
While wielding a shield in each hand, you only benefit from the higher AC bonus granted between all the shields, but benefit from all effects and properties granted by the shields, if any.

## List of Armor Types ### Buckler *shield, worth 5 gp*
**Properties:** Parrying
**AC:** +1
**Strength:** –
**Stealth:** –
**Weight:** 2 lbs A small round shield that grants duelists decent defenses. You gain proficiency with this shield if you have proficiency with light armor. ``` ``` ### Heavy Shield *shield, worth 50 gp*
**Properties:** Covering
**AC:** +2
**Strength:** 15
**Stealth:** Disadvantage
**Weight:** 25 lbs A large heavy shield that grants the body good coverage. You gain proficiency with this shield if you have proficiency with heavy armor. ### Tower Shield *shield, worth 50 gp*
**Properties:** Covering, Two-handed
**AC:** +2
**Strength:** –
**Stealth:** Disadvantage
**Weight:** 25 lbs A tall two-handed shield that grants the body good coverage. You gain proficiency with this shield if you have proficiency with heavy armor. ### War Buckler *shield, worth 10 gp*
**Properties:** Parrying, Special
**AC:** –
**Strength:** –
**Stealth:** –
**Weight:** 2 lbs A small round shield that's barbed for combat. **Special.** While you wield the shield and have proficiency with it, it counts as a light simple melee weapon for you that deals 1d4 bludgeoning damage on a hit. You add your Strength modifier to the attack and damage rolls when you attack with it, as normal.

##### All Purpose Shield Bonuses *Optional rule*
When a creature attacks with a shield it has proficiency with, it can have any magical bonuses the shield grants to its AC also added to the attack and damage roll.

\page ## Special Armor Types ### Bark Armor Bark armor is made from mending the bark of forestkin together through guided healing. All armor have bulwark variants worth 500 gp more than the original armor. While worn, a creature has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide in plant foliage—potentially cancelling disadvantage granted by the armor—and can choose to have its creature type be Plant instead of what it normally is. #### Treant Bark If a piece of armor is made entirely of treant bark, a creature wearing the armor that remains motionless is also indistinguishable from a normal tree of the same size as it, but the AC bonus granted by the armor is reduced by 1. ### Bulwark Armor Bulwark armor is made by enchanting metal using alchemy and chemistry instead of through magic ritual. All armor have bulwark variants worth 500 gp more than the original armor. While worn, a creature that hits the wearer with a magical attack takes force damage equal to the wearer's proficiency bonus. This damage can be dealt once per turn. #### Bulwark Bronze If a piece of armor is made of pure bronze, the force damage dealt can be made in response to any attack instead of just a magical attack, but the AC bonus granted by the armor is reduced by 1. ``` ``` ### Leviathan Armor Leviathan armor is made from the scrap of a sea monster. All light armor have leviathan variants worth 1500 gp more than the original armor. While worn, the wearer gains a swimming speed equal to your walking speed and can breathe underwater. #### Leviathan Leather If a piece of armor is made entirely of leviathan leather, the wearer's speed increases by an additional 15 feet, but the AC bonus granted by the armor is reduced by 1. ### Thorn Armor Thorn armor is made covered in spikes using any materials, though wood, metal, and bones are most common. All medium and heavy armor have thorn variants worth 25 gp more than the original armor. While worn, the wearer can treat the armor as a simple melee weapon it has proficiency with that deals 1d6 piercing damage on a hit. #### Full Thorn If a piece of armor is spiked deliberately, the wearer can deal 1d6 piercing damage to any creature it has grappled at the start of the wearer's turns (no action required), but the AC bonus granted by the armor is reduced by 1. ### Trickster Armor Trickster armor is made with silver used in a fey's prank. All armor have trickster variants worth 1,500 gp more than the original armor. While worn, the wearer moving no more than half its speed on its turn lets it treat illusions as tangible until the end of the current turn.