A boy swears vengeance upon a broken sword in the ashes of his home; an Elf steps outside her farm with axe in-hand to water her crops once more with the blood of the hateful; A Colún atop a mountain heaves back the string of a great bow, to loose a true arrow into a dreadful wyrm; a bloodied Raska discards her splintered spear and picks up a rock to face down against a god.

These stories and others like them are all of Fighters, those who take up arms or raise their fists to do battle with others using their bodies and their minds. You are not just a body of meat swinging a sword. You are a skilled warrior devoted to the art of battle, honed through discipline, savagery, or desperation into something beyond the ordinary combatant.

Class Features

As a Fighter, you gain the following class features.

Hit Dice: 1d10 per Fighter Level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per Fighter level after 1st

Proficiencies
 Armor: All armor, shields
 Weapons: Simple weapons, Martial weapons
 Weapon Expertise: You gain expertise with 4 weapons of your choice with which you are proficient.
 Tools: None
 Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution
 Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, & Survival
 Starting Equipment: one or two pieces of armor whose cost does not exceed 200 gold, 1 simple weapon and 2 martial weapons, or 1 simple weapon, 1 martial weapon, and a shield, 20 gold.

Varied Strikes

Being either a traditionally trained, or intrinsically more tactically inclined combatant, you’ve found a variety of ways to use your weapons and skill that applies far beyond merely harming others. At 1st level, you gain these options to use in combat:

Fighting Style

You have a particular method of utilizing weapons and facing opponents. At first level, you gain a Fighting Style of your choice that affords you certain benefits in combat.

Fighter Strategy

At 2nd level, you learn one Fighter strategy. This defines more sharply how you approach combat. To use a strategy, you enter a stance associated with it as a bonus action. You remain in that stance until you choose to exit it, or you enter another strategy’s stance as a bonus action. Choose from the list below. You gain an additional strategy at 7th, 13th, and 17th level.

Specialty

At 3rd level, you pick a specialty that further refines your martial abilities and inclinations through certain features. You gain a Specialty feature at 3rd level, 7th level, 10th level, 14th level, and 18th level.

Second Wind

You have the ability to bounce back in the thick of a fight. As a bonus action, you may expend a number of hit dice up to your proficiency bonus, rolling them and healing for that total. You must complete a short or long rest before using this ability again.

Ability Score Improvement & Feat

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you may increase one ability score by 2, or two ability scores by 1. As a Fighter, you gain an additional ability score improvement at 6th level.

Alternatively, whenever you would get an ability score improvement, you may instead take a feat.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Additionally, you may replace one of these attacks with a Universal Maneuver.

The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 11th level in this class and to four when you reach 16th level in this class.

Action Surge

At 5th level, your adrenaline spikes when you bounce back from a heavy blow. When you use your Second Wind, you may also choose to gain an additional action on your turn. You may use this feature once per short or long rest.

Indomitable

At 9th level, choose a single one of these conditions:

• Blinded
• Charmed
• Deafened
• Frightened
• Petrified
• Poisoned

You gain immunity to your chosen condition. At 13th level you gain another immunity of your choice, though you may select from these additional conditions:

• Paralyzed
• Restrained
• Stunned

At 17th level you gain your last immunity from this feature, and your list of options grows to include:

• Exhausted
• Grappled
• Incapacitated
• Prone

Adrenaline Rush

At 11th level, you bounce back from death with fierce determination. When you use your Second Wind, you also gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your Fighter level, and gain resistance to all damage until the end of your next turn. Any remaining temporary hit points vanish when combat ends.

Martial Mastery

At 15th level, you hone your martial prowess into a distinct style that grants you powerful abilities. Choose one of the Martial Masteries below:

Stubborn Blood

At 16th level, you become a terror on the battlefield when you recover your breath. When you use your Second Wind, you immediately end all conditions of your choice affecting you. If the condition requires a save, you are treated as having succeeded on that save. You are immune to all conditions until the end of your next turn.

True Mastery

At 17th level, choose one weapon type with which you are proficient (longswords, warhammers, handaxes, etc). You double your proficiency bonus when making attack rolls with that type of weapon.

Sublime Technique

At 20th level, your weapon technique is perfected. As an action, you may roll your weapon’s damage die and add your Strength and Dexterity modifier. Any creature of your choice that you can see or hear with a number of hit dice less than the number rolled is slain instantly.

You must complete a short or long rest before using this ability again.

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A tiny orcish girl raises her only arm into the air, letting out a shout of distilled rage that is echoed back in the crowd around her with terrifying zeal; a bespectacled elvish woman closes her eyes and visualizes a man she suspects to be a killer stepping into his home; a Changeling with yellow eyes places his hand on the head of a corpse, inhaling slowly as the body opens its eyes once more.

Hierophants are as disparate as the concepts they embody, and the gods they serve. These people are exceedingly rare, and are hailed as prophets, omens, and signs of great or terrible things to come. Despite this, they are still very much people and the weight of their existence can weigh heavier on them than it would most, depending on how they view their place in the world.

Class Features

Hit Dice: 1d6 per Hierophant Level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per Hierophant level after 1st

Proficiencies
 Armor: None
 Weapons: Daggers, slings, quarterstaffs, spears
 Weapon Expertise: Choose any 2 with which you are proficient
 Tools: None
 Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
 Skills: Choose three from History, Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, Performance, & Religion
 Starting Equipment: A staff or another weapon with which you are proficient, 100 gold

Spellcasting

You work magic through your faith and a direct connection to the divine. You cast spells from the Hierophant spell list.

Cantrips
You know three cantrips of your choice from the Hierophant spell list. Cantrips can be cast at will, indefinitely, without expending a spell slot. You learn additional cantrips at higher levels as shown in the cantrips column of the Hierophant table.

Spell Slots
On the Hierophant table you can find how many spell slots you have for leveled (1st circle or higher) Hierophant spells. To cast a leveled spell, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher.
You prepare a number of spells per day equal to your Hierophant level + your Wisdom modifier. At the end of a long rest, you choose which spells to have prepared of all those available on the Hierophant list.

Casting Ability As a Hierophant, your spellcasting ability is Wisdom, as you draw divine power into the world through your faith. You use your Wisdom modifier to calculate your bonus to hit with a spell, and the DC of saves against your spells (or class/subclass features, if relevant).

Spell Save DC = 8 + your proficency bonus + your Wisdom modifier
Spell Attack Modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Hierophant Spell List

Domain

At 1st level, you devote yourself to a domain of power that influences and narrows your abilities. Your chosen domain gives abilities at 1st level 3rd level, 7th level, 11th level, and 14th level.

Aspect

At 2nd level, you choose the way you utilize the divine power made manifest in you.

Give of Yourself

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to sacrifice your own energy in the form of divine power, for the sake of your allies. You may spend a number of your hit dice equal to your proficiency bonus to perform one of the following:

Invoke Wrath
As a reaction when an ally rolls damage for an attack they made, they roll the hit die you expended and add your Wisdom modifier and the total rolled to any damage they would already deal. You choose the damage type added by your hit die when you gain this ability at 3rd level.

Divine Vitae
As a reaction when an ally takes damage, roll the hit die you would expend. Your ally instantly heals a number of HP equal to the total of your roll. If you use this ability on an effect that would kill an ally outright, either due to massive damage, or the nature of the effect (such as a disintegrate spell), your ally does not heal, but instead drops to 0 HP and begins making death saving throws.

Anointed

At 6th level, a halo forms around your head, marking you as a chosen saint of your faith. The halo appears how you choose, it could be a circle of perfect light, a crown of white hot flame, or anything of a similar nature.

You may use an action to hide or to manifest the halo. While the halo surrounds your head, it sheds bright light in a 10 foot radius and dim light for 20 feet beyond that. While you manifest the halo, commoners and people of similar faith treat you with a very deliberate reverence and respect, while those with faiths and ideals that oppose yours might learn of your presence, and plot your downfall.

You may grant yourself advantage on Intimidation, Persuasion, or Insight checks against any creature that can see the halo up to a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all uses of this feature on a long rest. In addition, you may force a creature within 30 feet of you that you’ve been speaking to for at least a minute to make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. If the creature fails, you learn their surface thoughts as per the Detect Thoughts spell. The creature is not aware of your attempt to learn their thoughts regardless of whether they succeed or fail the saving throw.

Ability Score Improvement & Feat

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you may increase one ability score by 2, or two ability scores by 1.

Alternatively, whenever you would get an ability score improvement, you may instead take a feat.

Face Divinity

At 10th level, you gain the ability to invoke true divine power, calling for the aid of your god, or attempting to tap into the raw essence of your domain. Describe what it is you seek, and roll percentile dice. If the total roll is below your Hierophant level, a miracle occurs. The GM determines the nature of this miracle, depending on what you’ve sought out, and how that might be interpreted. If a miracle occurs as a result of this feature, you can’t use it again for seven days. If nothing happens, you regain the ability to use it after a long rest.

At 20th level, you invoke miracles automatically, without requiring a roll.

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Two warriors clash with heavy, earth-shattering blows, until one emerges victorious, only to be stabbed in the back by the elf who’d lured them both there to die; a gambler pulls in marks with a poor hand and leaves the table richer than them all; an Orc backed into a corner throws dust into an attacker’s eyes and then skewers them with a piece of glass plucked from the ground; the dragon rears back its head and fire burns in its maw, before its eyes widen and go vacant in death as the Dwarf’s arrow pierces the gap in its scales

Rogues are scoundrels, thieves, smooth-talkers, masterminds, and more. They fight through trickery, deception, or simple charisma, as dangerous with a sharp wit and quick hands as they are with a blade. Where others rise to extraordinary heights through magic or sheer physical mastery, rogues forge their legends through guile that makes everything else meaningless.

Class Features

Hit Dice: 1d8 per Rogue Level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Rogue level after 1st

Proficiencies
 Armor: Light armor
 Weapons: Simple weapons, 3 Martial Weapons of your choice that lack the heavy property.
 Weapon Expertise: Choose any 3 with which you are prficient.
 Tools: Thieves’ Tools
 Saving Throws: Dexterity, Intelligence
 Skills: Choose four from Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception, Performance, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth
 Starting Equipment: 2 simple weapons and 1 martial weapon with which you are proficient, theives tools, a set of light armor and a cloak.

Expertise

At 1st level, choose two of your skill proficiencies, or one of your skill proficiencies and your proficiency with thieves’ tools. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

At 6th level, you can choose two more of your proficiencies (in skills or with Thieves’ Tools) to gain the benefit of Expertise.

Sneak Attack

Beginning at 1st level, you know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe’s distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack must use a weapon that can be used with Dexterity.

You don’t need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn’t Incapacitated, and you don’t have disadvantage on the attack roll.

The amount of extra damage increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Sneak Attack column of the Rogue table.

Cant

You are familiar with Cant, a form of doublespeak and hidden messages often used by those who associate with the seedier elements of society. When you write or speak in a language you are proficient in, you may use Cant to convey secret messages to those who know to recognize it.

Cunning Action

Starting at 2nd level, your quick thinking manifests in various ways to give yourself an advantage. You gain three of the following abilities, and gain an additional Cunning Action at 7th level, 13th level, and 17th level:

Rogue Archetype

At 3rd level, you hone your specialties derived from a certain archetype of your choice. This archetype grants you abilities at 3rd level, 9th level, 13th level, and 17th level.

Ability Score Improvement & Feat

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you may increase one ability score by 2, or two ability scores by 1. As a Rogue, you gain an additional ability score improvement at 10th level.

Alternatively, whenever you would get an ability score improvement, you may instead take a feat.

Uncanny Dodge

Starting at 5th level, when an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your Reaction to halve the attack’s damage against you.

Evasion

Beginning at 7th level, you have learned to get out of harm’s way at a moment’s notice. When you are subjected to an effect that forces you to make a Dexterity saving throw and you succeed, you may move up to your full movement without provoking attacks of opportunity. If this would put you outside the area of the effect, you are not subjected to it.

Risky Strike

Also at 7th level, you learn to take risks to do as much damage as possible. When you have advantage on an attack, you may choose to make the attack at disadvantage. If it hits, you may apply your Sneak Attack, and any damage die you roll for the attack is treated as if it had rolled the maximum number.

Cunning Action Improvement

At 10th level, you hone your Cunning Actions. They gain the following additional effects:

Reliable Talent

At 11th level, whenever you make an ability check that lets you add your proficiency bonus, and you roll a 9 or less, you may reroll one die.

Blindsense

Starting at 14th level, you know the location of invisible and hidden creatures within 30 feet of you, and can no longer be surprised.

Set Up

Also at 14th level, you have learned to pry open enemy defenses to secure a better opening. When you hit with an attack and apply your sneak attack damage, you may sacrifice a number of sneak attack die up to your proficiency bonus. The target’s Armor Class is reduced by that number of dice until the end of your next turn.

Slippery Mind

At 15th level, your mind is a bastion. You gain proficiency in Wisdom and Charisma saving throws, and if you are already proficient, you double your proficiency bonus. You are immune to Divination effects and know when you are being targeted by one.

Elusive

Starting at 18th level, you become nearly impossible to hit. If an enemy would have advantage on an attack roll against you, they roll that attack normally. If an enemy would roll their attack normally, they roll with disadvantage. If an enemy would roll their attack with disadvantage, the attack fails.

Deathstroke

At 20th level, you are a master of the killing blow. Make an attack roll as normal. If you hit, the attack is a critical hit. If the attack roll is naturally a critical hit, then you may choose to kill the target. If you do not kill your target using this ability, you must take a long rest before you can use this feature again. If you do kill the target, you must wait until the beginning of your next turn to use this feature again.

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A Cambion girl with eyes like a dog spills the blood of her lover over a ritual circle, crying out for the power to destroy her enemies; An imposing Human dressed in a deep blue cloak opens his eyes to see the thoughts of his enemy revealed before him; A Catfolk merchant snaps his fingers and disappears, just as a pair of debt collectors round the corner.

Each of these characters are Wizards, strange individuals who devote themselves to obsessive study in the pursuit of power. Their goals are often more personal or esoteric than they are megalomaniacal, but at the heart of everything is the yearning for the ability to change the world in some deep, fundamental way. What could such a thing be called, besides power?

Class Features

Hit Dice: 1d6 per Wizard Level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per Wizard level after 1st

Proficiencies
 Armor: None
 Weapons: Staff, One simple weapon of your choice
 Weapon Expertise: Wizards do not gain any weapon expertise.
 Tools: Calligrapher’s Supplies
 Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
 Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Engineering, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine,& Religion
 Starting Equipment: A spellcasting focus (normally a wand or staff), arcane record, calligrapher’s supplies, 100 gold.
 Special: In addition to any equipment you begin the game with, you also have your arcane record.

Spellcasting

As a wizard, you approach magic like a science. Your ability to cast is informed by your knowledge of the mysteries arcane, and how you might invoke them for power. You carry a spellbook filled with arcane formulae, which is the sum of all your knowledge, and the recipe book for all the magic you can cast.

Cantrips
You know three cantrips of your choice from the Wizard spell list. Cantrips can be cast at will, indefinitely, without spending spell slots. You learn additional cantrips at higher levels as shown in the cantrips column of the Wizard table.

Spell Slots
On the Wizard table you can find how many spell slots you have for leveled (1st level or higher) Wizard spells. To cast a leveled spell, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher.
You prepare a number of spells per day equal to your Wizard level + your Intelligence modifier. At the end of a long rest, you choose which spells to have prepared of the ones stored in your arcane record. Any spell you don’t have prepared, you won’t be able to cast.

Casting Ability As a Wizard, your spellcasting ability is Intelligence, as you gain the ability to invoke power through rigorous study and intense effort. You use your Intelligence modifier to calculate your bonus to hit with a spell, and the DC of saves against your spells (or class/subclass features, if relevant).

Spell Save DC = 8 + your proficency bonus + your Intelligence modifier
Spell Attack Modifier = your proficiency bonus + your intelligence modifier

Wizard Spell List

Arcane Record

As a 1st level Wizard, your arcane record contains six 1st level Wizard spells of your choice, and gains an additional 2 for every subsequent Wizard level. The two spells gained must be of a level you can cast. All spells you know are stored in this record, save for cantrips which remain fixed in your mind. The spells you add beyond that reflect research you conduct and breakthroughs you have in regards to the true shape of reality; you may also copy spells into your record you find on scrolls, or recorded by other wizards you meet on your adventures.

Copying Spells
You can only copy spells you have the ability to cast (a 5th level Wizard, for example, can’t copy a 9th circle spell). To copy any spell into your record takes both 2 hours and 50 gold of materials, times the circle of the spell being copied (for example, a 1st circle spell will take 2 hours and 50 gold, a 2nd circle spell will take 4 hours and 100 gold, etc).

Your arcane record may take one of the following forms:

Wizard Discipline

At 2nd level, you choose an area of study that helps you focus the purpose of your abilities. Your Discipline grants you features at 2nd level, 6th level, 10th level, 14th level, and 20th level.

Student of Artifice

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to create scrolls of spells you have stored in your arcane record. The gold cost and time necessary to craft a scroll is double that of the gold cost and time it takes you to record a spell of the same level (and school, if relevant) into your arcane record, as outlining the intricacies of casting in terms a layman can understand often requires a few tries to accurately describe.

Ability Score Improvement & Feat

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you may increase one ability score by 2, or two ability scores by 1.

Alternatively, whenever you would get an ability score improvement, you may instead take a feat.

Mysteries Arcane

At 5th level, 10th level, and 15th level, your arcane record brings a greater, unique strength to your magic by tapping into the greater mysteries of reality. You gain your choice of one of the following benefits based on your arcane record’s form:

Internalize

At 7th level when you see a spell being cast, you can use your Reaction to instantly memorize the motions the mage makes, the intonation with which they evoke the power, and any components they use to cast the spell. From this information, you can work backwards in your mind to decipher some element of how this spell works, and attempt to cast it yourself.

To cast a spell in this way, you must have a spell slot equal to the spell’s base level, and immediately expend it to make an Arcana check with a DC equal to 10 + twice the spell’s level. If the spell you’re attempting to cast isn’t on the Wizard spell list, you make this check with disadvantage. If you succeed the check, the spell takes effect. Regardless of whether you succeed or fail, the spell slot is lost. You have disadvantage on checks to keep concentration on spells cast in this way.

You may use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus before taking a long rest.

Subconscious Focus

At 18th level, when you cast a spell that requires concentration, you may declare that you are focusing on the spell subconsciously. When you do so, the spell does not require your concentration to remain active. Taking damage does not threaten to end your concentration on a subconsciously focused spell, and you may concentrate on other spells or features while having a spell active in this way. You may only focus subconsciously on one spell at a time. You cannot subconsciously focus on an internalized spell.
You must complete a short or long rest before using this feature again.

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