Combat Discipline

At 1st level, you’ve completed your training in a certain combat specialty of your choice: Weapon Master, Unarmed Fighter, or Primal Focus each of which is detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 1st level, and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

Natural Power

Additionally, at 1st level, you can pull from a well of natural power to augment your prowess in combat. The die size and number of power die available to you are listed on the Warden class table.

Whenever you hit with a weapon attack that is not part of a spell, you can expend a power die to add its result to the damage of the attack. The damage type of the additional damage is Fire, Cold, Lightning, or Acid (your choice.)

Whenever you take the Cast a Spell action to cast a 1st level spell or higher that deals damage, you can expend a power die to add its result to the spell’s damage roll. The damage type of the spell changes to Fire, Cold, Lightning, or Acid (your choice) or can remain unchanged.

You regain all expended power die when you finish a long rest, or half of the expended amount (rounded up) when you finish a short rest.

Fighting Style

You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Two-Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Source Magic

At 2nd level, you’ve unlocked your natural born affinity with the elements in the form of spellcasting. See chapter 10 of the Player’s Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting.

Spell Slots

The Warden table shows how many spell slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your warden spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest.

For example, when you are 5th level, you have two 2nd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell thunderwave, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 2nd-level spell.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

At 1st level, you know two 1st level spells of your choice from the warden spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Warden table shows when you learn more warden spells of your choice of 1st level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what’s shown in the table’s Slot Level column for your level. When you reach 9th level, for example, you learn a new warden spell, which can be of 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of your warden spells you know and replace it with another spell from the warden spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your warden spells, so you use your Wisdom whenever a spell references to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a warden 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

Prime Element

At 3rd level, your application of your elemental abilities enforces a specialized discipline of ability. You gain one of the following features of your choice.

Putrid Corrosion Spells

Shining Glow

You learn the following cantrips, light, mirror burst, and sacred flame

Whenever you score a critical hit, you can expend a power die. Each creature you choose within 10 feet of your must succeed a Constitution saving throw or take radiant damage equal to the power die and be blinded until the start of their next turn. A successful save halves the damage and the target is not blinded.

Targets cannot be affected by this feature if they rely on other sense to see, such as tremorsense, or the creature has no eyes.

Stoic Chill

You learn the following cantrips, frostbite, ray of frost, and shape water.

Whenever you must make a saving throw, you can use your reaction and expend a power die to add that die roll to your total. You may choose to do this after you have rolled the saving throw, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails.

If you choose to expend a die this way and succeed on the saving throw, all surfaces in a 20-foot radius around you become covered in enchanted ice. Any creature (other than you) who starts their turn on this area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, or fall prone. This effect lasts 1 minute.

Unrelenting Storm

You learn the following cantrips, bolt rail, gust, and thunderclap.

Whenever you make an attack roll with a weapon attack, you can expend a power die and add that number to your attack roll. You may choose to do this after you have rolled to attack, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll hits or misses.

If this attack roll hits, all creatures within 5 feet of you or the target of your attack must succeed a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC, taking thunder damage equal to your Wisdom modifier and be knocked back 5 feet. A successful save prevents the movement and target takes half damage.

Natural Awareness

At 3rd level, the time you have spent in nature learning your craft and honing your skills has given you an acute sense of danger.

While in an entirely natural environment, you can’t be surprised.

In addition, you have advantage on all perception checks to natural phenomena such as tremors, eruptions, magma flows, thunderstorms, and more. As a result of being attuned to these events, you will automatically know whether such phenomena are natural or unnatural by whether you could predict it.

Starting at 18th level, you gain a bonus to your initiative equal to your Wisdom modifier and whenerver you are in an entirely natural environment, you make initiative roll with advantage.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 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 Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Glamour

Also starting at 5th level, you can create a harmless elemental sensory effect originating from your body. This may be in the form of water dripping from your hands, a fiery glow in your eyes, or for your skin to appear mottled and earthen.

When doing so as part of a Charisma ability check you may expend a power die and add the result to your roll.

Prime Elemental Shield

At 7th level, you gain the ability to tap into your prime element for a defensive boost. You can use your reaction to produce one the following effects, depending on the prime element you’ve chosen.

Creeping Shadow. When a creature misses you with a weapon attack, you can use your reaction to teleport to an unoccupied space within 10 feet.

Flaming Bravery. When a creature makes a melee attack against you, you can use you reaction to force that creature to succeed a Constitution saving throw or take fire damage equal to your Wisdom modifier; taking no damage on a success.

Immutable Earth. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to gain resistance to the type of damage dealt until the start of your next turn. If more than one type of damage was dealt to you at once, choose one to gain resistance to.

Putrid Corrosion. When you would be subjected to a spell or effect that would move you, you can use your reaction to gain advantage on the saving throw that would prevent this effect or spell by forming a sticky substance beneath you.

Alternatively, you could also use your reaction to create a slippery substance beneath you, doubling the distance you are moved.

Shining Glow. Anytime a creature makes a melee weapon attack against you, you can use your reaction to create a flash of light and cause the attack to have disadvantage.

Stoic Chill. Immediately after a creature has successfully hits you with a melee weapon attack, you can use your reaction to have that creature make a Constitution saving throw equal to your spell save DC. On a failed roll, you freeze their weapon, causing it to become impossibly heavy and rendered unusable. The weapon remains in a deep freeze and until the end of the attacking creature’s turn.

Unrelenting Storm. Anytime a creature hits you or an ally within 5 feet of you with a ranged weapon attack, you can use your reaction to create a buffet of air that dampens the impact of the projectile, reducing the damage dealt by the attack by an amount equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Project Senses

Beginning at 10th level, you can channel nature to extend your senses.

You can spend 1 minute touching a natural surface and focusing. After which you can shift your perspective as if your eyes were looking from a point on that surface up to 60 feet away. You can use your bonus action to on subsequent turns to maintain this connection, extending the duration until the end of your next turn.

Prime Elemental Burst

By 11th level, your attunement to your prime element has infused your weapon attacks with increased natural power. Whenever you hit a creature with a weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage of the type associated with your prime element.

• Creeping Shadow: Necrotic
• Flaming Bravery: Fire
• Immutable Earth: Thunder
• Putrid Corrosion: Acid
• Shining Glow: Radiant
• Stoic Chill: Cold
• Unrelenting Storm: Lightning

Power Flow

Beginning at 15th level, your natural power can benefit your spellcasting further. You can sacrifice your power dice to gain additional spell slots.

As a bonus action, you can expend four power dice to regain a single spell slot.

Master of Elements

At 20th level, your mastery of your prime element has granted you access to its most powerful form.

You gain one of the following 6th-level spells depending on your prime element choice. You can cast this spell once without expending a spell slot, and you ignore the concentration portion of the spell. You must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

• Creeping Shadow: investiture of shadow
• Flaming Bravery: investiture of flames
• Immutable Earth: investiture of stone
• Putrid Corrosion: investiture of corrosion
• Shining Glow: investiture of light
• Stoic Chill: investiture of ice
• Unrelenting Storm: investiture of wind

Combat Disciplines

All warden are masters of combat and natural magic. Their strength comes from their ability to harmonize both. To do so, each warden focuses on a single area of combat to excel in – and learns spellcasting techniques that best suit that area of combat.

Your choice of combat discipline may define your role as an adventurer, but as a warden you will always be attune to the thrum of nature.

Protection. When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.

Fanatic

While learning the art of combat, you’ve decided that weapons are a hindrance and only serve to block your connection to natural power. The raw connection of your fists is the only extension of combat you feel truly allows you to freely wield your affinity to nature.

Pugilist

Foregoing all need for weapons, you’ve focused your training on turning your fists into a force of nature. You gain the following benefits:

• You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike. This die changes as you gain warden levels, as shown in the Power Die column of the Warden table.
• You can use Wisdom instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes.
• When you take the Attack action to make an unarmed strike, you can make another unarmed strike as a bonus action.

You can still use the Natural Power feature to improve your unarmed strikes with power dice.

Burst of Power

Starting at 6th level, your patience has allowed you to enhance the boons granted to you by your innate power.

When you spend a power die to deal additional damage to a creature with an unarmed strike, you can roll the power die an additional time and add its result to the damage.

You can do this a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest

Extension Stance

Beginning at 10th level, your blend of hand to hand and elements has extended your ability.

Your reach with unarmed strikes is increased to 15 feet as long as both hands are empty. If a spell you cast has a range of touch, you can deliver it to any creature within range of your unarmed strikes.

Form of Nature

Starting at 14th level, the elements coursing through you can be expelled as an explosive burst. As an action, you can gain one of the following benefits for 1 minute:

• Your feet become covered in flame and your movement becomes doubled.
• Your fists turn to hard stone and your unarmed strikes deal additional bludgeoning damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

Keeper

Your elemental affinity and natural power has been so strong since it manifested that you’ve dedicated yourself entirely to your innate abilities. Compared to other wardens, your ability to command spells is unmatched.

Fell Knight

A more rare discipline of wardens is that of light and dark. Fell Knights run a tightrope of balance between radiance and shadow, for fear they should fall into either side. Because of this, they have disciplined minds, and are often self-restrained individuals. However, there are also those of this practice that intentionally engulf one side, and are usually regarded as anomalies.

Dusk Defender

As a forefront for beasts of shadow or failures of light,
you are well versed in combat weaponry.

You gain proficiency with martial weapons, and
whenever you take damage, you can expend a Power
Die to reduce that damage
by the number rolled.

Voidwarp Strike

Beginning at 6th level, you learn to refract the light around your weapons, and cloud the vision of your foe. When you add your power die to your damage rolls, you can choose radiant and necrotic damage, in addition to your choices.

Shadestep

Starting at 10th level, you are able to step from rays to shadows in the blink of an eye. As a bonus action, you can teleport up to 30 feet.

Emanate Nova

At 14th level, you can take on the form of a paradoxical star beast. As an action, you transform into a Huge monstrosity that throws shadows and light in a flashing mayhem. You gain the following benefits for 1 minute:

• Attacks against you suffer your power die rolled against them as a penalty, without you expending it.
• You gain a flying speed equal to your current speed.
• All creatures (excluding yourself) within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw at the start of their turns if they can see you. On a failure, they are blinded until the end of their next turn. Once a creature succeeds against this ability, they are immune to the effect for 24 hours.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Dragoon

The Dragoon are a unique group of wardens who have spent their life dedicated to the protection and cultivation of draconic ideals and their culture. In their eyes, dragons are a physical manifestation of the same power that innately courses through them and as such they have learned to utilize it in a way that honors their revered dragons.

Fury of Dragons

At 14th level, your draconic influence has taken a deep hold of you, granting you a significant portion of the power of a dragon. You gain the feature below associated to your chosen Draconic Influence.

Black Dragon. When dealing damage to a creature that is surprised, your weapon damage die and any power die you spend on that attack deal their maximum damage.

Blue Dragon. When attacking a creature that is 20 or more feet above or below you, you deal additional damage equal to your power die.

Brass Dragon. As a bonus action, you can expel a breath of knock out gas. Each creature within a 15 foot cone must succeed a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or become incapacitated until the start of their next turn.

Bronze Dragon. As a bonus action, you can expel a breath of repulsive gas. Each creature within a 15 foot cone must succeed a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed saving throw, they are compelled to immediately move up to half their movement away from you.

Copper Dragon. As a bonus action, you can expel a breath of heavy gas. Each creature within a 15 foot cone must succeed a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed saving throw, they are unable to benefit from a Dash or Disengage action until the end of their next turn.

Gold Dragon. As a bonus action, you can expel a breath of dry, hot air. Each creature within a 15 foot cone must succeed a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed saving throw, they only deal half damage with weapon attacks that use Strength or Dexterity until the end of their next turn.

Green Dragon. As an action, you can study the movements and patterns of a single creature. You can expend a power die and add the result to all attack rolls made against that creature on your next turn.

Red Dragon. When dealing fire damage to a creature, you can expend a power die and add double the result to the damage.

Silver Dragon. As a bonus action, you can expel a breath of intoxicating gas. Each creature within a 15 foot cone must succeed a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or become charmed by you until the end of their next turn.

White Dragon. When dealing cold damage to a creature, you can expend a power die and add double the result to the damage.

Elementalist

Drawing your power from the very elemental chaos itself, the elementalist harnesses the power of the elements into its strikes, empowering its own abilities by breaking down the usual limits created by mortal interaction with the elemental chaos. Elementalists bring order to such chaos, breaking down mental barriers that would stop them from harnessing the true power of the elements.

Element Slinger

When you select this combat discipline at 1st level, you come in touch with a wide variety of weaker, but potent elemental magics. You learn two cantrips of your choice from the table below. You can pick more than one per damage type, or pick two different cantrips.

Damage Type	Cantrips
Acid	acid splash, mordant pool
Cold	frostbite, ray of frost
Fire	firebolt, produce flame
Lightning	bolt rail, shocking grasp
Necrotic	chill touch, duelling shadows
Poison	poison spray, septic shock
Radiant	dire radiance, hand of wrath
Thunder	clamouring tones, thunderclap

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Cantrips learned through this feature count as warden cantrip for you and use your warden spellcasting ability to cast.

You learn one additional cantrip of your choice from the table above at 4th, and 10th level.

Limit Breaker

Once you reach 6th level, you can invoke the power of the elements well past your regular ability, enchanting your strikes with elemental energy pulled straight from the elemental chaos. When you cast a spell, or expend a power dice in a way that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, necrotic, poison, radiant, or thunder damage, you gain a limit stack of the triggered type. You can have up to three stacks of damage type, reaching your "limit".

Chaotic Attunement

At 10th level, you can coalesce the chaos energy you harness into a shield against a particular element. When you complete a short or long rest, you gain resistance to either acid, cold, fire, lightning, necrotic, poison, radiant, or thunder damage until you next complete a short or long rest.

Greater Limit

Upon reaching 14th level, you can achieve much greater limits with your elemental breaks. You can accumulate up to 6 limit stacks of each element. Limit breaking whilst you have less than 6 stacks grants you you the same benefits as per your Limit Breaker feature. Limit Breaking whilst you have 6 stacks in your element, you break a greater limit, empowering your limits as follows:

    Acid. The bonus damage changes to d10s, and creatures that wear non-magical armour, or have natural armour that fail the Constitution saving throw receive a -1 penalty to their armour class until they either replace their armour, or finish a long rest respectively.

Cold. You cause the cold to manifest on each weapon attack you make as a part of your Attack action.

Fire. Each time you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can choose to make up to two melee spell attacks instead of one.

Lightning. Your melee weapon's reach is increased by a further 10 feet, whilst your ranged weapon's long range increases by an amount equal to its normal range. Additionally, the bonus damage changes to d8s.

Necrotic. The bonus damage increases to d10s, and you restore hit points equal to the total necrotic damage dealt.

Poison. The radius increases to 15 feet, and creatures that become poisoned are considered to be incapacitated for the duration.

Radiant. Instead of its regular effect, you make all weapon attacks with advantage for the duration, and once per turn, you can choose to apply the damage to a successful weapon attack.

Thunder. The bonus damage increases to d8s, and creatures that fail the saving throw also fall prone.

When you break a limit in this way, you cannot break another limit of the same type until you next complete a long rest.

Additionally, when you perform a limit break, for the duration your prime elemental burst feature deals the same damage as the type associated with your limit break.