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Argent Fist

A human man adorned in half-plate stands firm, clenching his empty fists. Before him stands an ancient green dragon, laughing its menacing laugh. The human smirks, stretching his arm in preparation. The dragon thinks it's looking at an easy meal. The human thinks, "Not today," as his fists erupt with silver fire.

Hundreds of people walk this street every day, and only a few ever notice the beggars. The poor, the destitute, living on society's table scraps. But one of them always turns down gold, telling the offerer to give it to another. "He must secretly be loaded to turn down free money like that," the thief says to himself, figuring the unarmed unarmored beggar will make an easy target. He will soon find out just how wrong he is.

Sacred Fists

Your practice of divine martial arts gives you mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons, which are shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don't have the two-handed or heavy property.

You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or wielding only monk weapons and not wearing heavy armor or wielding a shield:

• Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier. If you strike with two free hands, the d6 becomes a d8.
• When you successfully start a grapple, you can deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage to the grappled creature. Until the grapple ends, you can also deal this damage to the creature whenever you hit it with a melee attack.
• When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike or a monk weapon on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.
• As a bonus action, you can cause your fists and any held monk weapons to erupt with silver flame that burns until you let go of the weapon or dismiss the flame as a bonus action. Half of the bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage dealt by a weapon sheathed in this silver flame is dealt as radiant damage instead.

Ki

Starting at 2nd level, your divine training allows you to harness the mystical energy of Ki. You have a number of Ki Points equal to half your Argent Fist level (rounded up).

You can spend these points to fuel various Ki features. You start knowing three such features: Kiai Smite, Step of the Wind, and Spellcasting. You learn more Ki features as you gain levels in this class.

You regain all expended Ki Points when you finish a short or long rest. You must spend at least 30 minutes of the rest meditating in prayer to regain your Ki points.

Some of your Ki features require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature's effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Channel Divinity

Your Sacred Vow allows you to channel divine energy to fuel magical effects. Each Channel Divinity option provided by this class explains how to use it.

When you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which option to use. You must then finish a short or long rest to use your Channel Divinity again.

Some Channel Divinity effects require Saving Throws. When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your Ki Save DC.

Ability Score Increase

At 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 when you take the Attack action on your turn.

Stunning Smite

Starting at 6th level, whenever you use your Kiai Smite feature, you can spend an additional Ki Point to force the creature you hit to make a Constitution saving throw at your Ki save DC. On a failure, the creature is stunned until the end of your next turn.

Starting at 11th level, you can do this once per turn without needing to spend an additional Ki Point.

Diamond Soul

At 10th level, you become proficient in all saving throws, and you add double your proficiency bonus to Wisdom saves. In addition, whenever you make a saving throw and fail, you can spend 1 Ki Point to reroll it and take the second result.

Tongues

Beginning at 14th level, you can speak and understand all spoken languages.

Curse of Babel

Beginning at 14th level, as an action you can present your holy symbol and speak a divine curse, using your Channel Divinity. You choose any number of creatures within 30 feet of you who can see or hear you. Silver flames erupt from your holy symbol and rush to the chosen creatures. Each of those creatures must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failure, that creature cannot understand any spoken, written, or sign language, and any attempts they make to communicate with speech, writing, or sign language produce only gibberish.

This effect persists for one hour. At the end of each minute, an affected creature can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect for itself on a success.

Timeless Body

At 15th level, your Ki sustains you so that you suffer none of the frailty of old age, and you can't be aged magically. You can still die of old age, however.

Divine Meditation

At 20th level, you can spend one minute in prayerful meditation to regain 2d6+8 Ki Points. You must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Sacred Vow

Becoming an Argent Fist requires taking sacred vows of self-denial, committing yourself to a path of righteousness. All Argent Fists swear the following Vow at 3rd level:

Vow of Honor. Let your word be your bond. Never willingly betray a friend or sworn ally, and so far as it is within your power, never break a promise.

In exchange for upholding this vow, you gain the following Channel Divinity option:

Sanctify Oath. You and a number of other creatures up to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1) each place a hand on your holy symbol. You speak a one minute prayer extolling the virtue of honor, at the end of which you speak a binding oath, using your Channel Divinity.

Silver flame erupts from your holy symbol, enveloping the hands touching it. Those creatures, if willing, are divinely bound to the oath that was spoken. If a creature is unwilling, the silver flame around that creature's hand turns black, making it obvious that that creature did not allow itself to be bound. The flames persist for one minute, then flicker out.

The binding lasts for a number of days equal to your Argent Fist level plus your Wisdom modifier. During this time, if a creature bound this way willingly and intentionally violates the oath, silver flame immediately erupts from its forehead and it takes radiant damage equal to 1d10 plus your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). You are aware of this happening if you are on the same plane of existence at the time. The silver flame also leaves a black scar across the creature's forehead that reads "Oathbreaker" in Celestial. This scar can be removed with an atonement ritual, otherwise only a remove curse spell or similar magic can remove it.

In addition to the Vow of Honor, you swear a Major Vow at 3rd level, and a Minor Vow at 3rd, 7th, 11th, and 15th level. Unless otherwise noted, you cannot swear the same Minor Vow more than once.

In addition to the Minor Vows you must swear at the indicated levels, you may swear an additional Minor Vow any time you gain a level in this class, so long as you are never sworn to more total Minor Vows than half your Argent Fist level, rounded up.

If you ever willingly and intentionally violate the terms of one of your vows, you immediately lose 1d6 Ki Points, and you no longer gain any of the benefits of that vow until you undergo an atonement ritual. You can undergo a similar ritual to permanently forgo a Minor Vow you have sworn, losing its benefits but no longer bound to its tenets.

Poverty (Major Vow)

An Argent Fist who swears a Vow of Poverty is called an Ascetic. You pledge to give freely of your time and energy and possessions to anyone in need.

Nonviolence (Major Vow)

An Argent Fist who swears a vow of nonviolence is called a Pacifist. As far as it is within your power, you pledge to stay on good terms with everyone. Whenever a problem arises, you will always seek a nonviolent solution first.

Channel Divinity

You gain the following Channel Divinity option:

Preserve Life. As a bonus action, you present your holy symbol and speak a prayer of healing, using your Channel Divinity. You choose any number of creatures you can see within 30 feet of you. Silver flames erupt from your holy symbol and rush to the chosen creatures. You can immediately use your Lay on Hands feature in any amount on any combination of those creatures without needing to touch them or spend additional actions.

Punish the Violent

Starting at 7th level, as a reaction when an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can spend a Ki Point to divide the damage evenly between you and the attacker.

Tranquility

Beginning at 11th level, you can enter a special meditation that surrounds you with an aura of peace. At the end of each long rest, you gain the effect of a sanctuary spell that lasts until the start of your next long rest as long as you do not wear heavy armor or use a shield (the spell can end early as normal). This spell uses your Argent Fist spell save DC.

Weaponbane

Beginning at 18th level, when you use your Punish the Violent feature, you can force the weapon to make a Wisdom save at your Ki save DC (if the weapon has no Wisdom score, its wielder makes the save instead). Either way, the attack's full damage is dealt to the weapon's wielder instead of to you, and on a failure, the weapon also gains the broken condition.

A broken item can be repaired for half of its base cost by any artisan who could have created the original item. Until it receives these repairs, it is unusable and has no effects.

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

Holy War (Major Vow)

An Argent Fist who swears a Vow of Holy War is called a Crusader. You choose certain Favored Enemies against whom you declare righteous war and undying enmity.

Tireless Tracker

Beginning at 18th level, when you target one of your favored enemies with Hunter's Mark, that spell does not require concentration, and its duration is "until dispelled". You can only have one creature under this effect at a time.

Minor Vows

Modesty

When you swear a Vow of Modesty, you pledge to always keep your body hidden from the world. You must never willingly allow another creature to see your exposed skin, covering every inch of your head and body with clothing and wearing a dark veil in front of your face, and you must never be completely nude even in private, always keeping at least your genitals covered.

You cannot swear both this vow and a Vow of Naturism, for obvious reasons.

In exchange for upholding this vow, you can't be charmed.

Naturism

When you swear a Vow of Naturism, you pledge to always keep your body bared to the world. You must never wear clothing or armor, though you are permitted to wear jewelry or other adornments so long as they do not hide your flesh from prying eyes or protect it from the elements.

You cannot swear both this vow and a Vow of Modesty, for obvious reasons.

In exchange for upholding this vow, your AC becomes equal to 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Wisdom modifier. In addition, you are immune to the effects of a harsh environment (such as hot or cold weather or strong winds), and you have advantage on all attempts to avoid or escape a grapple or the restrained condition.

Prayer

When you swear a Vow of Prayer, you must perform a ten minute ritual prayer within one hour before or after dawn, noon, and dusk every day. You may do this as part of a rest.

In exchange for upholding this vow, you can prepare spells from the Cleric spell list as though they were Paladin spells, and you learn a cantrip of your choice from the Cleric spell list (these count as Paladin spells for you). In addition, you can cast Paladin and Cleric spells as a ritual if the spell has the Ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Sacred Weapon

When you swear a Vow of Sacred Weapon, you choose one type of weapon to hold sacred above all others, such as "club" or "unarmed strike" or "greatsword". You have disadvantage on all weapon attacks not made with your Sacred Weapon.

In exchange for upholding this vow, you gain proficiency with your Sacred Weapon and it counts as a monk weapon for you. In addition, once per turn when you hit a creature with your Sacred Weapon, you can cause Silver Flame to erupt from the wound, dealing an additional 1d8 radiant damage.

You may take this vow up to twice, choosing a different weapon the second time.

Silence

When you swear a Vow of Silence, you join in solidarity with all those whose voices go unheard. You must never willingly allow sound to escape your lips, be it speech, song, simple grunts, or even a sigh. You may communicate through silent gestures, facial expressions, body language, telepathy if you have it, or even writing, but not through voice.

In exchange for upholding this vow, you ignore the Vocal Component requirements of any Paladin spell you cast, and you count as deaf for the purposes of resistance or immunity to relevant effects.

Tattoo

When you swear a Vow of Tattoo, you get a sacred symbol tattooed somewhere on your body. This tattoo must never be covered by clothing, armor, or other means of disguise.

When you swear this vow, choose a Paladin Spell. In exchange for upholding this vow, you always have that spell prepared, not counting against your number of spells prepared. In addition, you can cast that spell once without using a spell slot or Ki Points, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

You can swear this vow up to a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minim once), choosing a different Paladin spell each time.

Battle Dancer

With elegance and grace, the acrobat flings herself off the trapeze, doing three flips in the air before landing perfectly on her feet. The crowd goes wild, giving her her third standing ovation of the night. She takes a deep bow, then makes her exit. In the alley behind the circus tent the takes a long slow drink of water, when suddenly she feels a knife point at her back. A gruff voice says, "That was some show, girl. Now you're coming home with me." In an instant she ducks low to the ground, sweeps a leg around taking the would-be kidnapper's feet out from under him, and with a few sharp taps to his ribs and collarbone, the dagger falls to the ground, his arms dropping limply to his sides. His eyes go wide with fear as he realizes he is paralyzed. She waggles a finger at him with a cold smile. "Naughty naughty. Someone has to teach you that kidnapping is wrong."

Dance of the Floating Step

Starting at 2nd level, your speed increases by 5 feet. This bonus increases when you reach certain Battle Dancer levels, as shown on the Battle Dancer table.

At 9th level, you gain the ability to move along vertical surfaces and across liquids on your turn without falling during the move.

At 15th level, you gain a flying speed equal to your speed that you can only use during your turn; you fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft.

Starting at 18th level, if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft, you can spend 1 Ki Point to maintain your flying speed until the end of your next turn.

You only gain the benefits of this feature while you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield.

Ki

Starting at 2nd level, your training allows you to harness the mystical energy of Ki. You have a number of Ki Points equal to your Battle Dancer level.

You can spend these points to fuel various Ki features. You start knowing three such features: Flurry of Blows, Step of the Wind, and Spellcasting. You learn more Ki features as you gain levels in this class.

You regain all expended Ki Points when you finish a short or long rest. You must spend at least 30 minutes of the rest meditating to regain your Ki points.

Some of your ki features require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature's effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Spellcasting

You can use the magic of Ki to fuel a limited number of Bard spells. To cast a spell you know, you must spend a number of Ki Points equal to 1 plus the level of spell cast. For example, if you know the 1st level spell cure wounds, you can spend 2 Ki Points to cast it at 1st-level, or 3 Ki Points to cast it at 2nd-level. The maximum level of spell you can cast is shown on the Battle Dancer table.

You know two 1st level spells of your choice from the Bard spell list. The Spells Known column of the Battle Dancer table shows when you learn more Bard spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level you can cast by spending Ki Points. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your Bard spells. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma when setting the DC for a Bard spell you cast with ki and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +

your Charisma modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +

your Charisma modifier

Dance Style

When you reach 3rd level, you commit yourself to a style of dance combat: the Obsidian Butterflies Style, the Whispering Reed Style, or the Fist of the Sun Style, all detailed at the end of the class description. Your style grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 11th, and 17th level.

Ability Score Increase

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.

Slow Fall

At 4th level, you can use your reaction when you fall to reduce any falling damage you take by an amount equal to five times your Battle Dancer level.

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 can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or an ice storm spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 10th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Dance of the Blooming Lotus

Starting at 13th level, immediately after using an action to cast a spell, you can make one attack with an unarmed strike or monk weapon as part of the same action.

Dance of the Springing Tiger

Starting at 14th level, at the beginning of your turn you can commit to using your action and bonus action on that turn to Attack and use Flurry of Blows. If you do, your movement speed for the turn is doubled, and you do not provoke opportunity attacks by moving this turn.

Perfect Dancer

At 20th level, when you roll for initiative and have no ki points remaining, you regain 4 Ki Points. Additionally, when you roll for initiative and have no uses of Inspiring Dance left, you regain one use.

Dance Styles

Metamorph

All is quiet on the marsh. A halfling man appears through the mist and looks to the ground. His quarry's trail is going cold, and will be lost soon. In an instant, the halfling's face turns to that of a wolf, and long claws grow from his fingers. A scent fills his nose, not that of the swamp. With a mighty leap, he clears the treacherous water of the marsh, and is soon back on the hunt.

An elvish woman sits patiently at a tavern, eavesdropping on a nearby conversation. The women at the table next to her are waiting for something. One mentions a delivery meant for them. Unknown to them, the nearby elf had already acquired said delivery, and eliminated the man taking it to them. From the dark corner where she sits, nobody notices the elf suddenly take the form of the man meant to deliver their package. Naturally as ever, the elf gives the two women what they seek, and follows them to their base of operations.

Wild Shape

Read carefully! This is the core feature of this class!

As a bonus action, you can magically assume the shape of a Beast that you have seen before. You can spend a number of hours Wild Shaped equal to your Metamorph level plus your Wisdom modifier (these hours do not have to be consecutive but they must be spent in 1 hour increments; you choose a form each time you transform) after which you must finish a short or long rest before you can use Wild Shape again.

At 1st level, your shape can't have a CR higher than 1/4 your Metamorph level, and it can't have a swimming or flying speed. At 3rd level, the max CR increases to 1/3 your Metamorph level, and you are permitted a swimming speed. At 6th level, you are permitted a flying speed.

You can revert to your normal form by using a bonus action on your turn. You automatically revert if you run out of hours of Wild Shape, fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

While you are transformed, the following rules apply:

• Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast except as mentioned here. You retain your alignment, personality, hit dice, hit points, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, and you use the average of your normal and your new form's Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores (for example, if your Dexterity score is 14 and your new form's Dexterity score is 10, you will have a Dexterity of 12 in that form; your new Constitution score does not affect your hit points). You also retain all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature. You will have to recalculate the form's attack bonuses and saving throw DCs using your new Ability Scores and your Proficiency Bonus in place of the base creature's.

• Your ability to speak or to take any action that requires hands is limited to the capabilities of your current form. Usually this will prevent you from using weapons and tools or casting spells (you need to be able to speak at least one language to perform verbal components, and hands that can use tools to perform somatic components).

• You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. However, you can't use any of your special senses (such as darkvision) unless your new form also has that sense.

• You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in your space, merges into your new form, or is worn by it. Worn equipment functions as normal, but the DM decides whether it is practical for the new form to wear a piece of equipment, based on the creature's shape and size. Your equipment doesn't change size or shape to match the new form until you gain the Shifter's Hide feature, and any equipment that the new form can't wear must either fall to the ground or merge with it. Equipment that merges with the form has no effect until you leave the form.

• When you transform, you can gain temporary hit points equal to the beast's maximum hit points. These temporary hit points last until you revert to your normal form, or until you use Wild Shape to take a new form. You must complete a short or long rest before doing this again.

Wild Defense

Beginning at 2nd level, while you are wearing no armor, not using a shield, and in a form without natural armor, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Wisdom modifier. While you are wearing light or medium armor or in a form with natural armor but not using a shield, you have a +1 bonus to your AC.

Chameleon

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to gradually alter your coloration to blend in to your surroundings. You can spend 1 minute standing still and allowing your coloration to shift until you are camouflaged against a static background (for example, a wall or a forest, but not a river or a crowd).

Once you are camouflaged in this way, you gain a +10 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) checks as long as you remain there without moving or taking actions. Once you move or take an action or a reaction, you must camouflage yourself again to gain this benefit.

Shifter Path

At 3rd level, you choose a Path. Choose between Chimera, Verdant, Elementalist, or Draconic, all detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 11th, and 17th.

Ability Score Improvement

At 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.

Monstrous Shape

Beginning at 5th level, you can use Wild Shape to take the shape of Monstrosities as though they were Beasts.

Multiattack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. In addition, whenever you take the Multiattack action on your turn, you can make one additional attack with a natural weapon as part of that action.

Magic Fang

Starting at 7th level, your natural weapons count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

In addition, you gain the ability to extend and retract fangs in the same way you extend your Shifter Claws, gaining a Bite attack that counts as a natural weapon and uses your Shifter Claws damage die.

Blood Drinker

At 7th level, you gain the ability to heal yourself by drinking the blood of your enemies. Any time you use a Bite attack to deal damage to a living creature (or otherwise consume at least one ounce of fresh blood other than your own), you can regain a number of hit points equal to 1d10 plus your Metamorph level. You must complete a short or long rest before you can do this again.

Shifter's Tongue

At 9th level, you gain the ability to speak any language you know in any form you take. Additionally, you can speak in the native tongue of any form you take while in that form.

Civil Shape

Beginning at 10th level, you can use Wild Shape to take the shape of Humanoids. You can make yourself look like a specific individual you have seen before, or like a specific individual from your imagination, or just like a generic member of that race. Using Wild Shape this way changes your race to another humanoid race for as long as you are transformed; you lose all of your racial features and gain all the racial features of your new race. None of your other statistics change.

Shifter's Hide

Beginning at 13th level, whenever you choose to keep wearing a piece of equipment (other than a weapon or metal armor) when you use Wild Shape, that equipment changes with you to the appropriate size and shape to be worn by your new form. The equipment reverts to its normal size and shape when you revert to your normal form.

Purity of Body

At 14th level, your magical mastery over your body makes you immune to disease and poison.

Giant Shape

Beginning at 15th level, you can use Wild Shape to take the shape of Giants as though they were Beasts.

Timeless Body

Beginning at 18th level, the magical control that you wield over your body allows you to age more slowly. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year, and you can't be aged magically.

Everyshape

At 20th level, you have unlimited hours of Wild Shape, and you can take the shape of any creatures other than Undead or Constructs as though they were Beasts.

Shifter Paths

Verdant Shape

Beginning at 6th level, you can use Wild Shape to take the shape of Plant creatures as though they were Beasts.

Improved Verdant Shape

Beginning at 11th level, your maximum CR for using Wild Shape to take Plant Creature shapes becomes 2 plus 1/3 your Metamorph level.

Greater Verdant Shape

Beginning at 17th level, your maximum CR for using Wild Shape to take Plant Creature shapes becomes 1/2 your Metamorph level.

Elementalist

Elementalists gain the ability to take Elemental shapes.

Draconic

Draconics gain the ability to take dragon shapes.

Greater Dragon Shape

Beginning at 17th level, your maximum CR for using Wild Shape to take Dragon Creature shapes becomes 1/2 your Metamorph level.

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Multiclassing

Prerequisites

To qualify for multiclassing into the Metamorph class, you must meet these prerequisites:
Wisdom 13 or higher, Dexterity 13 or higher.
No levels of Druid or Monk.
If you have any levels of Metamorph, you can't multiclass into Druid or Monk.

Proficiencies

When you multiclass into the Metamorph class, you gain the following proficiencies:
Light Armor, Medium Armor

Ninja

The nobles are all talking amongst themselves, enjoying their quiet party. Lavish decorations blanket the room. An elvish woman stands in the corner, having bribed and disguised and bluffed her way in. She keeps her expression casual but never lets the host out of her sight, the baron over these lands who just raised taxes on the peasantry for the third time this month. She grips the kunai beneath her robes, waits for the opportune moment, then ducks into the nearest shadow and vanishes.

Step of the Wind

You can spend 1 ki point to take the Disengage or Dash action as a bonus action on your turn, and your jump distance is doubled.

Shadow Arts

As an action. you can spend 2 ki points to cast darkness, darkvision, pass without trace, or silence. without providing material components.

Unarmored Movement

Starting at 2nd level, your speed increases by 10 feet. This bonus increases when you reach certain Ninja levels, as shown in the Ninja table.

At 9th level, you gain the ability to move along vertical surfaces and across liquids on your turn without falling during the move.

You only gain the benefits of this feature while not wearing armor or wielding a shield.

Combat Style

At 3rd level, you choose a style of combat to specialize in. You choose from among Daisho, Karate, or Shuriken, all detailed at the end of the section. Your choice grants you features at 3rd, 6th, 11th, and 17th levels.

Ability Score Increase

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.

Slow Fall

At 4th level, you can use your reaction when you fall to reduce any falling damage you take by an amount equal to five times your Ninja level.

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 can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or an ice storm spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Infiltration Expertise

Starting at 9th level, you can unfailingly create false identities for yourself. You must spend seven days and 25 gp to establish the history, profession, and affiliations for an identity. You can't establish an identity that belongs to somebody else. For example, you might acquire appropriate clothing, letters of introduction, and official-looking certification to establish yourself as a member of a trading house from a remote city so you can insinuate yourself into the company of other wealthy merchants.

Thereafter, if you adopt the new identity as a disguise, other creatures believe you to be that person until given an obvious reason not to.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 10th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Acculturate

Starting at 13th level, you can gain the ability to speak and understand any language by carefully listening to it being spoken for at least an hour. This includes accents and jargon necessary to pass as a native speaker of a particular dialect.

Impostor

At 14th level, you gain the ability to unerringly mimic another person's speech, writing, and behavior. You must spend at least three hours studying these three components of the person's behavior, listening to speech, examining handwriting, and observing mannerisms.

Your ruse is indiscernible to the casual observer. If a wary creature suspects something is amiss, you have advantage on any Charisma (Deception) check you make to avoid detection.

Cloak of Shadows

By 15th level, you have learned to become one with the shadows. When you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use your action to become invisible. You remain invisible until you make an attack, cast a spell, or are in an area of bright light.

Elusive

Beginning at 18th level, you are so evasive that attackers rarely gain the upper hand against you. No attack roll has advantage against you while you aren't incapacitated.

Perfect Self

At 20th level, when you roll for initiative and have no ki points remaining, you regain 4 ki points.

Combat Styles

Dragon Fist

Starting at 6th level, your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks.

In addition, whenever you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 1 ki point to impose one of the following effects on that target:

• It must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone.
• It must make a Strength saving throw. Ir it fails, you can push it up to 15 feet away from you.
• It can't take reactions until the end of your next turn.

Wholeness of Body

At 11th level, you gain the ability to heal yourself. As an action, you can regain hit points equal to three times your Ninja level. You must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Quivering Palm

AI 17th level. you gain the ability to set up lethal vibrations in someone's body. When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike. you can spend 3 ki points to start these imperceptible vibrations, which last for a number of days equal to your Ninja level. The vibrations are harmless unless you use your action to end them. To do so, you and the target must be on the same plane of existence. When you use this action, the creature must make a Constitution saving throw. If it fails, it is reduced to 0 hit points. If it succeeds, it takes 10d10 necrotic damage.

You can have only one creature under the effect of this feature at a time. You can choose to end the vibrations harmlessly without using an action.

Shuriken

Shuriken literally means "hand hidden blade", and refers to a combat style focused on concealable throwing weapons such as darts or daggers.

Sudden Edge

Beginning at 17th level, you can make opportunity attacks with light thrown monk weapons to the weapon's first range.

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Multiclassing

Prerequisites

To qualify for multiclassing into the Ninja class, you must meet these prerequisites:
Dexterity 13 or higher.
No levels of Rogue or Monk.
If you have any levels of Ninja, you cannot multiclass into Rogue or Monk.

Proficiencies

When you multiclass into the Ninja class, you gain the following proficiencies:
Simple Weapons, Shortswords, one of your choice from Thieves' Tools, Disguise Kit, or Poisoner's Kit

Samurai

A dwarf in layered splint armor sits astride his warhorse, a naginata held in both hands resting across his lap. He stares down the rebellious group of peasants, wielding torches and sickles and pitchforks, with a few sword-wielding ninja at the front lines. He shifts his grip on the specialized spear in his hands, glancing at his fellow warriors to his left and right for support. This will be a bloody battle, but someone has to keep the rabble in line.

An elf in studded leather armor draws her daikyu taught, her right hand coming to rest against her cheek. She takes a deep breath, lets it out slowly, and in a flash she releases the arrow and grabs a second one. Four arrows are loosed in the space of two heartbeats, each one finding its target. The enemy soldier falls, and in the blink of an eye she turns to face the next one.

Flurry Strike

When wielding only monk weapons, you can spend 1 ki point to make one attack with a monk weapon as a bonus action.

When you use two-weapon fighting with a pair of monk weapons, you can spend 1 ki point to make one attack with each of those weapons as a bonus action, instead of just with the second weapon.

You can only use this ki feature while wearing light or no armor and not wielding a shield.

Second Wind

On your turn, you can spend 1 Ki Point as a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + your Samurai level.

Once you use this Ki feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Kiai Smite

When you hit a creature with a monk weapon, you can spend Ki Points up to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1) to add additional damage dice to the attack. You add 1 die per Ki Point spent. This die is a d6 at 1st level, and changes as you increase in level as shown on the Samurai table.

Patient Defense

You can spend 1 ki point to take the Dodge action as a bonus action on your turn.

Fast Movement

Starting at 2nd level, when wearing light or no armor and not wielding a shield, you gain a bonus to your movement speed as shown on the Samurai Table.

In addition, you gain the following ki feature, which you can use any time you can use your Fast Movement bonus:

Samurai Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype of combat techniques to focus on. Choose Kihei, Ronin, or Shogun, all detailed at the end of the class description. The archetype you choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.

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.

Action Surge

Starting at 5th level, You can push yourself beyond your normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one additional action on top of your regular action and a possible bonus action.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. Starting at 17th level, you can use it twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.

Medium Armor

At 6th level, you gain the following benefits:

• Your Strength or Dexterity score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with Medium Armor.
• You can use your Fast Movement and Flurry Strike features while wearing Medium Armor, but your Fast Movement is reduced by 5 feet while wearing Medium Armor.

Deflect Missiles

Starting at 9th level, when you are hit by a ranged weapon attack you can use your reaction to deflect or catch the missile. When you do so, the damage you take from the attack is reduced by 1d10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Samurai level.

If you reduce the damage to 0, you can catch the missile if it is small enough for you to hold in one hand and you have at least one hand free. If you catch a missile in this way, you can spend 1 ki point to make a ranged attack with the weapon or piece of ammunition you just caught, as part of the same reaction. You make this attack with proficiency, regardless of your weapon proficiencies, and the missile counts as a monk weapon for the attack.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 11th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. At 20th level, you can attack three times instead of twice.

Linguistic Study

At 13th level, you gain proficiency with four languages of your choice.

Heavy Armor

At 14th level, you gain the following benefits:

• Your Strength or Dexterity score is increased by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with Heavy Armor.
• You can use your Fast Movement and Flurry Strike features while wearing Heavy Armor, but Fast Movement is reduced by 10 feet while wearing Heavy Armor.

Perfect Self

At 20th level, when you roll for initiative and have no ki points remaining, you regain 4 ki points.

Samurai Archetypes

Maneuvers

The maneuvers are presented in alphabetical order.

Commander's Strike. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks and use a bonus action to direct one of your companions to strike. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you and spend 2 ki points. That creature can immediately use its reaction to make one weapon attack, adding a Kiai die to the attack's damage roll.

Disarming Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to attempt to disarm the target, forcing it to drop one item of your choice that it's holding. The target must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it drops the object you choose. The object lands at its feet.

Distracting Strike. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to distract the creature, giving your allies an opening. The next attack roll against the target by an attacker other than you has advantage if the attack is made before the start of your next turn.

Evasive Footwork. When you move, you can spend 1 ki point, rolling a Kiai die and adding the number rolled to your AC until you stop moving. You can only use this maneuver any time you can use your Fast Movement.

Feinting Attack. You can spend 1 ki point and use a bonus action on your turn to feint, choosing one creature within 5 feet of you as your target. You have advantage on your next attack roll against that creature.

Goading Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to attempt to goad the target into attacking you. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target has disadvantage on all attack rolls against targets other than you until the end of your next turn.

Lunging Attack. When you make a melee weapon attack on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to increase your reach for that attack by 5 feet.

Maneuvering Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to maneuver one of your comrades into a more advantageous position. You choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature can use its reaction to move up to half its speed without provoking opportunity attacks from the target of your attack.

Menacing Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to attempt to frighten the target. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Parry. When another creature damages you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and spend 1 ki point to reduce the damage by the number you roll on a Kiai die + your Dexterity modifier.

Precision Attack. When you make a weapon attack roll against a creature, you can spend 1 ki point to add a Kiai die to the attack roll. You can use this maneuver before or after making the attack roll, but before any effects of the attack are applied.

Pushing Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to attempt to drive the target back. If the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you push the target up to 15 feet away from you.

Rally. On your turn, you can use a bonus action and spend 1 ki point to bolster the resolve of one of your companions. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature gains temporary hit points equal to a Kiai die roll + your Charisma modifier.

Riposte. When a creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and spend 1 ki point to make a melee weapon attack against the creature.

Sweeping Attack. When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to attempt to damage another creature with the same attack. Choose another creature within 5 feet of the original target and within your reach. If the original attack roll would hit the second creature, it takes damage equal to the number you roll on a Kiai die. The damage is of the same type dealt by the original attack.

Trip Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to attempt to knock the target down. If the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you knock the target prone.

Spelldrinker

She looks her victim up and down with cold malice, as blood runs down his limply hanging body and drips from his toes onto the stone floor.
"Come now, pet, we haven't got all day. I know you want to counter my spell. You know how much I hurt you when you don't."
"No... please..." the helpless wizard whispers hoarsely, his conviction slowly waning.

"Don't worry, my pet, this will all be easier once you've been broken. Now, on the count of three, you cast counterspell on me. Ready? One... two..."

Spellthief

A Spelldrinker has minimal magic power of her own; mostly she relies on stealing the magic of her enemies.

Any time you are the target of a spell or are within a spell's area of effect, you can make a Charisma saving throw at that spell's save DC. If you succeed, the spell does not affect you, and instead you regain a spell slot, and you can add that spell to your list of spells known (replacing one of the spells you already know if necessary).

In addition, any time you absorb a spell this way, that spell is removed from the spell list and list of prepared spells or spells known of the one who cast it, and the spell slot they used to cast the spell is not restored by resting. This lasts for a number of days equal to the level of spell or spell slot stolen plus your Charisma modifier (minimum 1). This effect ends immediately if you become unconscious, are reduced to 0 hit points, or die.

The spell must be of a level you can cast to use this feature. You can absorb cantrips this way, but you do not regain a spell slot from absorbing a cantrip. You can absorb total spell levels of spell slots up to your Spelldrinker level, after which you must complete a long rest before using this feature again.

Enchantment Drinker

At 18th level, you gain the ability to absorb magic from enchanted weapons. When you are struck by a magic weapon, you can force its wielder to make a Charisma saving throw at your Spelldrinker spell save DC (if the weapon has a Charisma score, it makes this save for itself). If they succeed, you take half damage from the attack. If they fail, you take no damage from the attack and you regain a spell slot. You must complete a short or long rest before using this feature again.

Master Spellthief

At 20th level, a Spelldrinker learns to truly make her target's magic her own. As an action, if you are within 30 feet of someone who is missing a spell or spell slot that you have stolen, you can force them to make a Charisma saving throw at your Spelldrinker save DC. If they fail, they lose their highest level remaining spell slot and you gain a spell slot of that level or lower (minimum 5th). If they succeed, the same thing happens but they lose a random level of spell slot instead of their highest. You must complete a long rest before using this feature again.

Spelldrinker Disciplines

Touch of the Lash

At 11th level you gain the ability to deliver spells through your whip, treating any target your whip is touching as though you were touching them.

Whip Mastery

Beginning at 17th level, your reach with a whip increases from 15 feet to 20, and you can use your whip as though it were a grappling hook attached to 20 feet of rope. You gain an additional reaction each round that can only be used for opportunity attacks with a whip.

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Multiclassing

Prerequisites

To qualify for multiclassing into the Spelldrinker class, you must meet these prerequisites:
Tortured by a master until broken.
Charisma 13 or higher and Dexterity 13 or higher.
No levels of Monk or Warlock.
If you have any levels of Spelldrinker, you cannot multiclass into Monk or Warlock.

Proficiencies

When you multiclass into the Spelldrinker class, you gain the following proficiencies:
Light Armor, Simple Weapons, Flails, Whips

Nymph

The Nature Fey

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Naiad

Naiads are freshwater nymphs, guardians of lakes and rivers. Your skin is a vibrant blue, and your hair appears to be a constantly flowing waterfall.

Cocoon. Naiads are born cocooned in a riverbed or lakebed, and are bound to that body of water.

Speed. You have a swimming speed of 40 feet, and you can swim against currents and up waterfalls as though they were standing water.

Innate Spellcasting. You know the shape water cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the water breathing spell once with this trait. Once you reach 5th level, you can cast the control water spell once with this trait. You regain the ability to cast these spells this way when you finish a long rest. Starting at 11th level, you regain the ability to cast these spells this way when you finish a short or long rest. Starting at 17th level, you can cast these spells at will.

Nereid

Nereids are saltwater nymphs, guardians of the oceans. Your skin is a deep blue-green, and your hair appears to be made of seafoam decorated with shells and seaweed.

Cocoon. Nereids are born cocooned in a giant seashell, and are bound to a particular cove or bay of a sea or ocean.

Speed. You have a swimming speed of 40 feet, and you are unaffected by ocean currents, tidal forces, or large waves.

Darkvision. You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Innate Spellcasting. You know the shape water cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the water breathing spell once with this trait. Once you reach 5th level, you can cast the control water spell once with this trait. You regain the ability to cast these spells this way when you finish a long rest. Starting at 11th level, you regain the ability to cast these spells this way when you finish a short or long rest. Starting at 17th level, you can cast these spells at will.

Oread

Oreads are rock nymphs, guardians of the mountains. Your skin appears to be made of stone or soil. If you have hair, it appears to be made of cave moss.

Cocoon. Oreads are born cocooned in a cliff or giant boulder, and are bound to a particular hill or mountainside.

Speed. You have a burrowing speed of 20 feet. When you use this speed to travel through unworked earth or stone, you can glide through the material, leaving it undisturbed.

Darkvision. You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Innate Spellcasting. You know the mold earth cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the maximilian's earthen grasp spell once with this trait. Once you reach 5th level, you can cast the stone shape spell once with this trait. You regain the ability to cast these spells this way when you finish a long rest. Starting at 11th level, you regain the ability to cast these spells this way when you finish a short or long rest. Starting at 17th level, you can cast these spells at will.