Vigilante

A masked tiefling in black leather armour with a sleek metal staff lurks atop a small building in a crumbling city, watching as a group of thugs unload a cache of weapons for transport. The tiefling smiles before leaping down into the shadows, ready to take them out one by one.

A dwarf raises an arm as the Cultist leader flees through the temple corridor, a long tube like device mounted to their wrist fires a heavy looking crossbow bolt. The bolt splits into two halves, joined by a thick metal wire and wraps around their target’s legs, sending them tumbling to the ground.

A halfling woman in a bejewelled domino mask and black breastplate pounces onto the fallen ally of a group of orc mercenaries. Driving her serrated knife into his back, she cackles as she tears the blade free and showers several of the warriors in blood, sending a chill down their spines.

Individual vigilantes may approach their calling differently, but all of them are driven by the pursuit of personal justice against those who have wronged them or others. A vigilante is defined by the brutal, stylised or extreme methods they may go to in order to deal with the individuals they feel are responsible or complicit in whatever it is the vigilante opposes. They pursue their targets with a determination and savagery that some would likely find distasteful.

Some may follow a personal code of honour, or act within the letter of the law, but others may simply be doing whatever they must to achieve their own personal vengeance. At their best a vigilante is a shadowy hero with a strong moral code, trying to make the world a better place even if they must use brutal methods to do so. At their worst, a vigilante is a villain hiding behind a mask pursuing their own personal goal with a twisted lack of empathy.

Simple Devices

Simple Devices are one-use items that need to be reset or replenished during a long rest. At the start of a long rest, decide which of the Simple Devices you know that you wish to create, you may create any number of an individual device you know but cannot have more than your maximum number of Simple Devices at any one time, any unused devices are assumed to be broken down for parts or re-used.

• Brightlight Explosive. As an action, choose a point you can see within 20 feet. Each creature within a 5 foot radius of that location must make a Dexterity saving throw against your DC. Any creature that fails is blinded until the end of their next turn.
• Flame Projector. As an action, all creatures within a 15-foot cone originating from you must make a Dexterity saving throw against your DC. On a failure a creature takes 2d6 fire damage, or half as much on a success. Any flammable objects in the area are also set alight. This device's damage increases to 3d6 at 5th level, 5d6 at 9th level and 7d6 at 13th level.
• Frenzy Elixir. As an action, you drink this thick red elixir and gain temporary hit points equal to 1d8 + your vigilante level. In addition your speed increases by 20 feet until the end of your next turn.
• Scatter Powder. As an action, all creatures within a 20 foot cube originating from you must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Vigilante Ability DC. On a failure, a creature can't benefit from being invisible and has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks to hide.
• Snare Launcher. As an action make a ranged weapon attack, which you are proficient in, against a creature within 120 feet. If the attack hits, the target is restrained until they use an action on their turn to make a Strength or Dexterity ability check against your DC.

Complex Devices

Complex Devices are more intricate inventions that provide you with additional tactical maneuvers in battle. A Complex Device don't need to be replenished like Simple Devices, but can often only be used a few times before they need to be reset or their power replenished.

• Elemental Proofing. As a reaction, when you are the target of an attack that deals fire, cold, acid, lightning, or poison damage you gain resistance to that damage type for a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier. You regain the use of this feature when you finish a short or long rest.
• Grapple Launcher. As a bonus action, choose a location you can see within 30 feet of you and move to that location without provoking attacks of opportunity. This movement can be in any direction, but you must end it on a solid surface. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier and it regains all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.
• Gust Engines. As a reaction, when you are the target of an attack that would hit you or when you are forced to make a Dexterity saving throw, you can add your Intelligence modifier to your AC or your Dexterity saving throws until the start of your next turn. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier and it regains all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.
• Mental Disruptor. As a bonus action you can activate a device that emits a subsonic noise that makes it extremely difficult to concentrate on spells or other features around you. Any creature within 10 feet of you that is concentrating on a spell at the start of their turn must make a Concentration check against your DC. If they fail they lose concentration of the spell. This effect lasts for 1 minute. You regain the use of this feature when you finish a short or long rest.
• Lightning Crystal. As a bonus action, choose one of your signature weapons. The next time you hit a creature with that weapon they must make a Constitution saving throw against your DC or become stunned until the end of their next turn. You regain the use of this feature when you finish a short or long rest.

Spellcasting

When you reach 3rd level, you gain the ability to cast spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the sorcerer spell list.

Cantrips. You learn three cantrips of your choice from the sorcerer spell list. You learn another sorcerer cantrip of your choice at 10th level.

Spell Slots. The Enchanted Gifts Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your 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 burning hands and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast burning hands using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st-Level and Higher. You know two 1st-level sorcerer spells of your choice.

The Spells Known column of the Enchanted Gifts Spellcasting table shows when you learn more sorcerer spells of 1st level or higher. 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.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the sorcerer spells you know with another spell of your choice from the sorcerer spell list. The new spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your sorcerer spells, since you access your arcane power through intense study of the self, and inner self-reflection. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a wizard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

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

Gift Source

Also at 3rd level, you can choose from where you gain your arcane gift, much like a sorcerer does. Choose from the list below your choices, and perhaps read about said origin on the sorcerer's page. Picking a Gift Source grants you a Source Spell. This spell is of 1st level, and relates to your Gift Source, it also does not count against your number of spells known.

Additionally, your Gift Spells and Enchanted Gifts cantrips count as your signature weapons.

At your DM's discretion, you can create your own Gift Source, that grants its own spell that the DM can decide.

Choose from below:

Draconic Bloodline. You know the spell absorb elements.

Dreamworld. You know the spell sleep.

Earthshaped. You know the spell earth tremor.

Entwined. You know the spell æther ray.

Frigid Core. You know the spell ice knife.

Giant Soul. You know one of the following spells of your choosing: armour of Agathys, burning hands, enrage, fog cloud, shocking grasp, or stone bolt

Imperial Ancestry. You know the spell command.

Ocean Heart. You know the spell ice knife.

Orchard. You know the spell entangle.

Phoenix Soul. You know the spell burning hands.

Shadowborn. You know the spell aura of shade.

Star Touched. You know the spell guiding bolt.

Stormherald. You know the spell thunderwave.

Trickster Spirit. You know the spell animal friendship.

Wild Magic. You know the spell chaos bolt.

Phase Shield

At 6th level, your magic allows you to briefly shift through space to avoid other powerful magic. When you make a saving throw against a spell or other magical effect, you can expend a spell slot as a reaction to gain a bonus to the saving throw equal to the expended spell slot's level + 1. You must use this feature before the DM says whether you succeeded or failed the save.

Alternatively, when a creature makes a spell attack roll against you, you can expend a spell slot as a reaction to gain a bonus to your AC equal to the expended spell slot's level + 1.

Improved Gift Source

Upon reaching 10th level, your greater link to the source of your magic grants access to new Source Spells based on your Gift Source, all of 2nd level.

Draconic Bloodline. You know the spell dragon breath.

Dreamworld. You know the spell phantasmal force.

Earthshaped. You know the spell stalagmite.

Entwined. You know the spell silence.

Frigid Core. You know the spell Snilloc's snowball storm.

Giant Soul. You know one of the following spells of your choosing: enlarge/reduce, gust of wind, heat metal, hold person, invisibility, or Maximilian's earthen grasp

Imperial Ancestry. You know the spell discover weakness.

Ocean Heart. You know the spell chargebolt.

Orchard. You know the spell protection from poison.

Phoenix Soul. You know the spell flame spiral.

Shadowborn. You know the spell invisibility.

Star Touched. You know the spell darkness.

Stormherald. You know the spell gust of wind.

Trickster Spirit. You know the spell detect thoughts.

Wild Magic. You know the spell blur.

Arcana Surge

When you reach 14th level, your arcane gifts strengthen to allow even some of your stronger abilities to be mastered at will. You can cast your 1st level Source Spell without using a spell slot. When you cast your Source Spell in this way, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Alternatively, you can cast your 2nd level Source Spell, which ceases your ability to use this feature until you complete a long rest.

Unarmed Fury

Some vigilantes take up the most elegant form of battle, martial arts, to fight their fight. Some train for years at monasteries, whilst others master it in the heat of their vigilante lifestyle. Those that master the method of the unarmed fury are not to be reckoned with, for they are capable of a great many devastating attacks.

Hit and Run

When you first choose this vigilante method at 3rd level, you know how to successfully dart in and out of an enemies defences, striking its weak points with ease. Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a weapon attack whilst within 20 feet of that creature, you can choose to create a 30-foot radius hit and run ring centered on the target creature.

If you then leave that hit and run ring before the start of your next turn, your next attack against the target creature that you make within the next 10 minutes deals an additional 1d8 damage of the weapon's type. You may only deal this additional damage if you are within 20 feet of the target creature.

Targets with a hit and run ring around them suffer disadvantage on attacks of opportunity against you.

This damage increases as you gain vigilante levels. increasing to 2d8 at 6th level, 3d8 at 10th level, and 4d6 at 14th level.

Blur Unseen

Also at 3rd level, you move with silence, and finesse. You gain proficiency in Dexterity (Stealth) checks, and are considered to have left a hit and run ring if you become hidden from the creature from which it emanates.

Thrill of the Chase

Upon reaching 6th level, you can dart and dash at brilliant speeds, catching any prey. You can take the Dash or Hide actions as a bonus action on your turn, and nonmagical difficult terrain does not impair your movement.

Skirmish

When you reach 10th level, you can escape from any danger with naught but a scratch. When you take the Dash action, and a hostile creature is within 20 feet of you, you can move an additional 10 feet as a part of that Dash action.

Additionally, all opportunity attacks made against you are made at disadvantage.

Endless Flurry

By the time you reach 14th level, your movement is but a storm of blades, unseen and deadly. When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points using your hit and run feature, you can take another turn immediately after this one.

Once you have used this feature, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.