Spellblade

A Human swings a strange sword through the air at an orc, the strike booming with thunder on impact sending the orc flying.

A Tiefling wielding a wicked looking longbow smirks as with one shot loosed it strikes down a gang of goblins.

A serene looking Elf strides forth surrounded by whirling blades while also wielding blades of shadow and darkness before cutting down an Ogre in a swirl of strikes.

Class Features

As a Spellblade, you gain the following class features

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) Scale Mail or (b) Leather Armor
• (a) a Longsword or (b) any Martial Melee Weapon
• 5 Javelins
• (a) Scholar’s Pack or (b) Explorer’s Pack
• Your Living Weapon

Living Weapon

Starting at 1st level, you have forged a bond with a living weapon, a sentient item which grows as you do. Your living weapon takes the form of a weapon you are proficient with. Your living weapon has its own personality, goals, and flaws.

The weapon is partially born of your soul, so it takes after some of your characteristics. Your weapon shares your alignment, Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma scores. It does not have Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution scores. The living weapon has proficiency in any one skill of your choice that uses Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma. Whenever you gain the ability score improvement class feature, your Living Weapon may also choose to improve one of its scores by 2, or two of its scores by 1 (to a maximum of 20)

Your weapon can hear and see out to a range of 60 feet, can telepathically communicate with anyone within that range or speak out loud if it so chooses. You can use a bonus action to cause this weapon to teleport into your hands, regardless of distance or plane. While holding your living weapon, you can perform an arcane ritual over the course of 1 minute. The weapon can change into any other weapon you are proficient with.

If your living weapon is in the form of a weapon that has the ammunition property, you can ignore it, as your weapon generates its own ammunition as you fire it, which disappears after the attack.

Arcanovision

Starting at 1st level, through your bond, your Living Weapon shares it’s magical insights with you, using it’s inherently magical nature to see other magic clearly.

Your Living Weapon may gain access to a special sense, that it can activate using your action. This special sense functions identically to the Detect Magic spell, however instead of the normal duration of the spell you have a pool of time you must expend instead. This pool is equal to your Spellblade level x 3 minutes, and this pool replenishes when you complete a Long Rest.

You may instead choose to expend 5 minutes of your pool of Arcanovision to have your Living Weapon use its reaction to cast the Identify spell on an object it is touching without requiring material components.

Combat Companion

At 2nd level, you've learned that your living weapon isn't merely a tool in battle but an active participant and ally, enhancing and protecting you as you work together.

Your Living weapon has a reaction that it can take each round of combat while you are wielding it. It regains this reaction at the start of each of your turns and can only use it in ways outlined in this feature, unless otherwise specified.

When you make an attack using your living weapon, it can use its own reaction to add 1d4 to the attack roll. Alternatively, when you are targeted by weapon attack, your living weapon can use its reaction to add 1d4 to your AC against that attack, potentially causing it to miss.

The living weapon can wait until after you roll the d20 before deciding to use this reaction, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails.

Your living weapon can add a die to one of your rolls this way a number of times equal to its Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once). It regains any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Your Companion Weapon die changes when you reach certain levels in this class. The die becomes a d6 at 5th level, a d8 at 9th level, and a d10 at 13th level, and a d12 at 17th level.

Fighting Style

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

Spellcasting

Through your study and experimentation you have gained an affinity for magic. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and the list at the bottom for the Spellblade spell list.

Spell Slots

The Spellblade table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these Spellblade spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. Your regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest. For example, if you know the 1st level spell Ice Knife and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Ice Knife using either slot

Weapon Enhancements

At 7th level, your living weapon continues to grow and change as the bond between you grows. You may choose two Weapon Enhancements option of your choice (see "Weapon Enhancement Choices" below)

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the enhancements you know and replace it with another enhancements that you could learn at that level.

A level prerequisite in an enhancements refers to Spellblade level, not character level.

You gain an additional Weapon Enhancement option of your choice when you reach certain levels in this class: 10th, 15th, and 18th level.

Weapon Vision

At 9th level, your bond with your Living Weapon deepens even further. Your Living Weapons senses increase out to a range of 120ft and the range at which you can telepathically communicate with your Living Weapon increases to a 1 mile radius.

While your living weapon is within 1 mile of you, as an action, you can see through your weapon’s senses until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that your weapon has. During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses.

You can also use your action to peer through the ammunition fired from your living weapon, as if seeing through the living weapons senses. The ammunition remains for 1 minute until it disappears.

Manifested Blades

At 20th level, you and your Living Weapon channel your arcane abilities together to summon a wall of blades. You may cast the Blade Barrier spell as an action. The spell does not require concentration from you, and remains for its full duration, or until you dismiss it with a bonus action.

You may change the spell’s dimensions from among the options as described in the spell using a Bonus Action, or choose to move it up to 30 feet in any direction. You may use this feature once per short rest.

Discipline of Disruption

The teachers of the Discipline of Disruption originally observed the power of Living Weapons to absorb magic, and continuously developed this ability further and further. Practitioners of this style can use their techniques to disrupt, nullify and destroy other magic users with ease. This led to the forming of the Spell Breakers, powerful shock-troops, assassins and bodyguards.
Since the early days of this Discipline’s development, Spell Breakers have since refined their techniques to be useful in controlling any number of opponents, rather than just enemy mages. This style forms a balance of both melee and magic, rather than focusing on one or the other, as with the other styles. Spell Breakers often consider the other disciplines too narrow and close minded for their tastes.

Discipline of Prowess

The style of Prowess was founded and inspired by an eldritch knight, whose connection to his bonded weapon grew so strong that it transformed into a Living Weapon. Since then, the Style of Prowess have always considered themselves more as warriors, than mages or spellcasters. They are more fully connected and attached to their living weapon than the other styles, considering themselves true disciples of the blade. They consider their weapon a true partner, an almost symbiotic relationship, where both parties give and share equal amounts of magic.

The most martial and knightly of the disciplines, they are often known as the Blade Guard, who stand side by side with eldritch knights and paladins as a powerful legion of arcane warriors.

Sundering Strike

Also at 3rd level, you may feed your Living Weapon arcane power in order to cleave through enemy ranks with arcane power. Once per turn, when you hit with a creature with a melee weapon attack using you Living Weapon, you may expend 5 Arcane Charges to make the attack a cleaving strike. As part of the attack, you may also target any number of other creatures within your reach with the same attack roll. If the original attack roll would hit one of the other targets in range, that creature takes half the damage received by the initial target (rounded down). If a targeted creature who is in range is not hit by the cleave, it counts as a missed attack against them.

If your Living Weapon is in the form of a Ranged Weapon instead, this feature affects all creatures within 10ft of your initial target.

Extra Attack

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

Momentum

At 7th level, you and your Living Weapon make synchronized strikes, leading to perfect rhythm and momentum. When you miss with a weapon attack made with your Living Weapon, you gain a +1 stacking bonus to hit and damage that on your next weapon attack. This bonus resets when you next hit a creature with an attack.

Transformation Style

Also at 7th level, you gain the ability to change your fighting style as freely as your Living Weapon changes its own form. When your Living Weapon changes forms into a different weapon, you may also switch your current Fighting Style to a different choice from among those listed in the ‘Fighting Style’ feature above.

Blade Guard

At 10th level, you gain the ability to defend your allies with offensive force. When an allied creature within 15ft of you, that you can see, is hit by a melee weapon attack, you may use your reaction and 4 Arcane Charges to make a weapon attack against the creature who hit your ally, as long as you can see the attacker and your weapon has the reach or range to do so.

Living Weapon: Collective Power

At 14th level, your living weapon has learned to manifest many forms at once, gathering its collective magic strength. Your Living Weapon can benefit from the magical bonuses and features of all magical weapons it has previously absorbed at the same time, up to a limit of 3 items combined at once. These features and bonus effects must be appropriate to your Living Weapon’s current form(as determined by the DM) in order to function and you must be attuned to all the items you are drawing effects from.(for example, you cannot benefit from a sword of sharpness while your Living Weapon is not a slashing weapon and you cannot benefit from an effect of a magic weapon you aren’t attuned)

If your Living Weapon has two or more abilities or bonuses which are similar but gained from multiple sources, you must choose one of these features to benefit from. They do not stack. For example, if you Living Weapon has absorbed a +2 longsword and a +1 dagger, you must choose one of these bonuses to gain, rather than adding them together. This includes properties that allow the weapon to gain bonus damage dice on hit. For example, you cannot benefit from the bonus fire damage provided by a Flametongue at the same time as benefiting from the bonus damage dealt by an Oathbow’s effects, you must choose which one to apply to the attack.

Implacable Duellist

At 18th level, your martial skill outmatches any opponent who fights on an even playing field.

Once per turn when you target a creature with an attack, and that creature is wielding a weapon of the same weapon type as you, you may gain one stack of your Momentum.

Your Momentum stacks now no longer reset when you hit a creature, they instead remain until you spend more than one round not attacking a hostile creature or until you switch the weapon type of your Living Weapon. Your bonus to hit and damage from Momentum can never be higher than +3.

Discipline of Amplification

This Discipline Style was created when the first Spellblades discovered you could use the power of the Living Weapon to amplify your own power. By doing so, the weapon, perhaps attracted by the arcane force, begins to float and animate of its own accord. Thus the style was born. The Weapon Weavers, as they are called, use their enhanced spellcasting and animated partner to unleash an assault of spells and attacks.

Using their Living Weapon as a base to build on, the Disciples of this style have learned to form new weapons out of thin air. A Weapon Weaver is often found with three or more weapons in hand, or floating in the air around them.

Weapon Weaving

At 7th level, you can manifest multiple weapons and combine them with your animated partner.

If you hit a creature with a spell attack and your Living Weapon hits the same creature with a weapon attack during the same round, you may choose to cast either the Shadow blade or Flame Blade spells as a free action, without expending Arcane Charges. You may use this feature once per short or long rest.

In addition, you do not need to concentrate on the Flame Blade or Shadow Blade spells while casting them. They instead have a duration of 10 minutes or until you dismiss them with a bonus action.

Amplified Knowledge

Also at 7th level, your Living Weapon’s abilities and knowledge have increased due to its animated nature. Your Living Weapon can use double your proficiency when making checks with skills it has proficiency in.

Animated Arsenal

At 10th level, you have gained the ability to animate and control any number of mundane weapons or armour sets. You can use your action to animate a collection of weapons or suits of armour you can see. The objects gain a speed of 30ft or a fly speed of 30ft if its a weapon. They have 17 AC and 1 hit point, becoming inactive when reduced to 0. They act on your initiative, following your orders. You can command any number of your animated arsenal using a bonus action, giving them orders to move or take actions as you see fit. If you command an object to attack a creature, you must first expend 1 arcane charge to do so. The object has a bonus to hit equal to your proficiency + your intelligence modifier and it deals 1d6 piercing, slashing or bludgeoning damage (as appropriate) on a successful hit. You can choose to see through their senses, which are the same as your Living Weapon, as an action on your turn.
They remain animated for 8 hours, or until you dismiss them using your action. The number of objects you can have animated at one time is equal to your intelligence modifier (min 1).

Once you use this feature you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

Living Weapon: Spell Eater

At 14th level, you can imbue your Living Weapon with spare magical energy. You are able to store spells within your Living Weapon by performing a 10 minute ritual, in which you expend the spells slots required as if casting the spells. You can store a number of spells with a total combined slot level equal to your level in this class.

You or an allied creature holding your Living Weapon, may unleash one of these spells from it as a bonus action. Your Living Weapon can also cast one of these spells during its turn, as long as the spell does not require concentration.

Readied Arsenal

At 18th level, when you roll initiative you can regain the use of your choice of your Weapon Weaving feature or your Animated Arsenal feature.

Living Weapon Personality Table

Weapon Arts

Weapon Arts are a special kind of cantrip which may only be taken by characters who have the majority of their character level in the Spellblade Class Spellblade Cantrips do not count against the number of cantrips you know.