Dancer v1.33

With a lively tune on her lips, an elf carves her way through the battlefield of orcish raiders. Her enemies attempt to pin her down, each time to no avail. Every swing of a weapon made, she dodges with ease, leaving openings for her allies as much as answering with her own strikes.

A young tielfing smiles as fire curls up his arms. With a flourish, he sends the flames up and blossoming outwards. The gathered crowd squeals with excitement as the fire drifts apart in shapes of small flowers.

A human says a silent prayer as she rushes to the aid of her surrounded knight companion. With nothing but her touch, the man feels his strength return as he readies a fresh volley of attacks.

A dancer moves with an effortless grace, their zeal and excitement driving them to new heights. Their performances do so much more than entertain, as they inspire allies to further acts of bravery, befuddle the actions of their foes, and even pull at the strings of magic.

Thrilling Performance

Dancers spend their time perfecting the movements and motions of their routines, just to see the reactions of wonder from their audiences. Raw charisma exudes from their performances, as they revel in them as much as those watching. This intensity is infectious. Companions of a dancer often find them as a constant source of inspiration and encouragement. A good dancer does as much to bring out the full potential of their friends as they do for themselves.

Physicality plays as much of a role in a dancer's routines as their personality. Constant practice sees them developing an uncanny speed and fluidity of motion that few can adequately follow. Leaping, twirling, and spinning across their stage, or the battlefield, a dancer is hard to pin down and even harder to fully stop. This agility is one of the dancer's best weapons, whether it's being used to wow a crowd or slip through their enemies.

Wanderlust

Many types of physical performers can be found throughout the world. Tight-rope walkers, fire eaters, and gymnasts all abound, but few find the passion and fulfillment from their art enough to become a true dancer. Money is not the goal, nor is fame. A dancer plies their trade to hear the awe of the crowd at their newest move and the laughter and happiness that comes from their performances. This leads to a constant drive to improve and a longing for new experiences to use as inspiration for their performances.

For this reason, many dancers leave their homes to see the world and discover what new wonders it holds for them. A new city, a new person, even a new sunset can color a dancer's next show. Searching for the next inspiration often leads to falling in with bands of adventurers. Whether figuring out that final step by learning from a comrade's fighting style, to picking up new footwork while dodging a monster's attacks, the life of an adventurer is a fertile space for dancers to improve.

Quick Build

You can make a dancer quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Dexterity your highest ability score, followed by Charisma. Second, choose the entertainer background.

Optional Rule: Multiclassing

If your group uses the optional rule on multiclassing in the Player's Handbook, here's what you need to know if you choose dancer as one of your classes.

Ability Score Minimum. As a multiclass character, you must have Dexterity and Charisma scores of at least 13 to take a level in this class or to take a level in another class if you are already a dancer.

Proficiencies Gained. If dancer isn't your initial class, here are the proficiencies you gain when you take your first level as a dancer: simple weapons, one skill from the class's skill list.

Hit Points

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

Keen Edge Style

Dancers that use the Keen Edge Style, commonly referred to as blade dancers, defy expectations with the speed and precision with which they use the weapons they've mastered. Most observers simply see wild strikes mixed into the motions these performers make; those trained in the combat arts see the control these entertainers use to deliver perfectly timed blows to their enemies.

Keen Edge dancers delight in being at the forefront of a fight. They deliver as many strikes as the friends they inspire and revel in the rhythm of battle. As much as they see the danger, it's also a time to perfect that newest move they've been working on.

Extra Attack (2)

Beginning at 17th level, you can attack three times, instead of twice, when you take the Attack action.

Bonus Proficiencies

At 3rd level, you gain proficiency in martial weapons, medium armor, and shields.

Bolster Resolve

Also at 3rd level, when a creature benefits from your Invigorate feature, it also gains temporary hit points equal to your Strength or Charisma modifier (your choice). These temporary hit points last until the start of your next turn.

Proclaim Strength

At 3rd level, you can shout or gesture at any enemy to prove your battle prowess and shake their resolve. As a bonus action, choose a hostile creature within 30 feet of you. That creature must make a Wisdom saving throw, with a DC equal to your 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Charisma modifier (your choice). On a failure, the creature is frightened of you until the end of its next turn.

The first time you hit the creature with a weapon attack while it is frightened in this way, it takes an additional 1d6 psychic damage. The extra damage of this feature increases to 2d6 at 10th level and to 3d6 at 17th level.

Rouse the Spirit

At 6th level, you can give a rousing performance to up to 10 creatures over the course of 10 minutes, preparing them for the next battle. Those creatures gain a bonus to their next initiative check equal to your Charisma modifier and 2d8 temporary hit points. These benefits last until the creatures' next short or long rest.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you complete a long rest. You gain an additional use at 14th level.

Defiant Shout

At 10th level, when a creature you can see attempts to charm or frighten one or more of your allies, you can release a blood-curdling cry as a reaction. Any creature targeted by the triggering effect gains advantage on their saving throw against it.

The creature that caused the effect must making a Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of you, as if by your Proclaim Strength feature.

Master of Dread

By 10th level, the many battles you've fought have tempered your resolve. You gain immunity to the frightened condition.

In addition, your might can shatter even the most hardened resolves. If a creature succeeds on its saving throw against your Proclaim Strength feature, it still takes an additional 1d8 psychic damage if you hit it with a weapon attack before the end of your next turn.

Stand Your Ground

Opponents find it difficult to break your stride and position, and you can turn their attempts against them. Starting at 14th level, when you are subjected to a saving throw from a source you can see, you can use your reaction to make that saving throw with advantage. If you succeed, you gain advantage on attack rolls against the creature that caused the effect before the end of your next turn.

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

Warrior’s Revelry

At 17th level, as an action, you can instill a furious determination in your allies that breaks the resolve of your enemies. Allied creatures within 60 feet of you, including yourself, gain temporary hit points equal to 4d8 + your Strength and Charisma modifiers. These temporary hit points last for 1 minute.

While a creature has these temporary hit points, their attack rolls deal an additional 2d6 psychic damage on a hit. Creatures immune to the frightened condition are immune to this damage. In addition, while you have these temporary hit points, creatures have disadvantage on saving throws against your Proclaim Strength feature.

You must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Healer's Blessing

At 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Medicine skill. If you are already proficient with this skill, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check that makes use of this skill. Additionally, you learn the spare the dying cantrip. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Rejuvenating Touch

Also at 3rd level, you can draw on a pool of positive energy to soothe your allies’ wounds. You gain a number of d6s equal to 1 + half your Dancer level (rounded up). As an action, you touch one creature within 5 feet and spend any number of these dice. You may also use these dice as part of your Invigorate feature. Roll the spent dice and add the number together. The target regains HP equal to the amount rolled.

You regain all expended healing dice when you complete a short or long rest.

Invoke Angels' Might

Starting at 6th level, you can use your bonus action to empower the divine energies you use. When you do so, your weapon attacks deal 2d8 extra radiant damage. This effect lasts until the end of your turn.

You may use this feature twice, regaining all expended uses when you complete a short or long rest.

Miracle Worker

Also at 6th level, you can channel your healing dice into more powerful effects. You can spend 3 of your healing dice to cast the lesser restoration spell. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

You may do this a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier per long rest.

Divine Aegis

At 10th level, you gain resistance to radiant and necrotic damage, and your hit point maximum cannot be reduced.

Additionally, when a creature within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to fill it with angelic resilience. The creature takes half damage and deals an extra 1d8 radiant damage on its weapon attacks until the end of its next turn. You take the other half of the initial damage, which cannot be reduced in any way.

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier. You regain all expended uses after completing a long rest

Ascension

The celestials you emulate recognize and reward your devotion. At 14th level, you gain a pair of wings, granting you a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

You can dismiss or recreate these wings as a bonus action. Any clothing or armor you wear magically changes to accommodate your wings.

Kiss of Heaven

At 17th level, the angels hear your cries. Some even come to your aid. As an action, roll percentile dice. If you roll a number equal to twice your dancer level or lower, you summon a deva. The DM has this creature's statistics.

The summoned deva appears within 5 feet of you. The DM rolls initiative for the deva, and it is friendly to you and your allies. You may ask it to perform a particular action, but what it does is ultimately up to the DM. The deva remains for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma modifier.

If a deva answers your call, you can't use this feature again for 7 days. Otherwise, you can use it again after you finish a long rest.

Surging Tide Style

The practitioners of the Surging Tide Style are most often found in coastal regions. These water dancers use long, flowing motions that end in quick flourishes, mimicking the motions of crashing waves, that allows them to draw extra strength from their movements. Water flows at their command, snaking through the air in graceful displays. Some boast they can even command the sea itself to rise up and dance with them.

Wash Away

Beginning at 10th level, when a creature you can see within 30 feet of you is targeted by an attack or is forced to make a Strength or Dexterity saving throw, you may use your reaction to move the creature up to 10 feet. An unwilling creature may resist this movement with a Strength saving throw. If this forced movement puts the creature outside of its attacker’s reach or the triggering effect’s area, it is no longer affected by the triggering attack or effect.

You may use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier, and you regain all expended uses after completing a long rest.

Riptide

In addition, at 10th level, you can better channel the might of water. You now count as 1 size larger when determining the size of creature you can shove and for your Crashing Wave feature, and your successful shove attempts deal 1d6 + your Charisma modifier bludgeoning damage.

Embrace the Flood

Starting at 14th level, you can use an action to create a surge of water to reshape the battlefield. You choose to create the effect in either a 20 foot radius circle centered on you or a line 60 feet long and 20 feet wide.

You and allied creatures can immediately move up to 15 feet within the area of effect (no action required). Hostile creatures must make a Strength saving throw, with a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency modifier + your Charisma modifier. On a failure, they take 4d10 bludgeoning damage and you can move them up to 15 feet within the area of effect. On a success, they take half as much damage and are moved 5 feet away from the center of the effect.

Once you use this ability, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

At the Mercy of the Tides

You have gained a mastery over water, and it flits and shifts at your slightest gesture. You can cast the control water spell once per long rest. You only need to provide somatic components for this spell, and Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it.

Additionally, as an action, you can attempt to surround a creature with water to arrest and control their movement. A creature you choose within 60 feet must make a Strength saving throw, with a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency modifier + your Charisma modifier. On a failure, the creature is restrained, and you can move the target up to its speed and force it to take any basic physical actions, such as the Dash or Attack actions. It is not considered restrained when you are forcing these actions.

You can use your action to maintain this effect for up to 1 minute. The effect ends early if the target succeeds on a Strength saving throw against the effect at the end of its turn, or if it is ever outside the effect's range. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a short rest or long rest.

Call the Flames

At 3rd level, you can use your bonus action to make your weapons alight with flame. For 1 minute, you add 1d6 fire damage to your weapon attacks.

When you gain this ability, you can use it once per short rest. You gain an additional use at 10th level.

Additionally, you learn to speak, read, and write Primordial, primarily Ignan, as well as the produce flame cantrip. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Ignition

When the target of your Invigorate feature uses their extra action to attack, their attacks deal an additional 1d6 fire damage

Laughing Cinders

At 6th level, you’ve better learned to control the flames you wield in combat. When you take the Attack action, you can replace one or both attacks with a ranged spell attack with a range of 15 feet. You are proficient with this attack and add your Charisma modifier to its attack and damage rolls. Its damage is fire, and its damage die is a d6. You do not suffer disadvantage on this attack roll if you are within 5 feet of a hostile creature.

This special attack and your produce flame cantrip now benefit from your Call the Flames feature as if they were weapon attacks.

Fire Eater

At 10th level, when a ranged attack or effect that causes fire damage occurs within 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make yourself the target of the attack or to force the point of origin or direction of the effect to center on you.

Additionally, you gain resistance to fire damage, and you no longer suffer the negative effects of extreme heat.

Swirling Heat

A constant flow of heat surrounds you as you dance, and you’ve learned to use it. Beginning at 14th level, when you deal fire damage to a creature on your turn, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw. The DC for this saving throw is equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier. The target takes 4d6 additional fire damage and suffers one level of exhaustion on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier, and you regain all uses once you complete a long rest.

Cry of the Phoenix

Beginning at 17th level, while using your Call the Flames feature, you can choose to surge back to life if you are knocked unconscious. If you fall to 0 hit points while Call the Flames is active, you can choose to immediately regain hit points equal to your dancer level plus your Charisma modifier, and creatures of your choice within 20 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, they take 12d6 fire damage and are pushed 5 feet away from you, or they take half as much damage and are not pushed on a success.

Once you choose to use this feature, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

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