Path of the Executioner
You exist solely to bring death to your enemies. Whether you're on a quest to rid the world of evil or you have embarked on a personal vendetta, you slay those who dare stand in your way without hesitation or mercy, empowering your attacks with the essence of death itself, and eventually using it to defend yourself oand gain knowledge to assist you in your murderous path.
Path of the Executioner features
Barbarian Level | Feature |
---|---|
3rd | Deadly strike |
6th | Shroud of the reaper |
10th | Unholy interrogation |
14th | Unescapable death |
Deadly strike
When you choose this path at 3rd level, you are used to being surrounded by death, and learn to wield it to your advantage. While raging you have resistance to necrotic damage. Additionally, when you deal damage with a melee weapon to a creature, you can add 1d4 necrotic damage to the same target.
Shroud of the reaper
When you gain this feature at 6th level, you become further attuned to the power of death. When you rage you shroud yourself in necrotic energy. As a reaction to taking damage, you can use this shroud to reduce that damage by 2d6. When you reach certain levels in this class, you can reduce damage by more: 3d6 at 10th level and 4d6 at 14th level.
Unholy interrogation
Starting at 10th level, you gain the ability to interrogate the dead. When you do so, you cast the Speak with dead spell, without using a spell slot or material components. After you cast the spell in this way, you can't use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.
Unescapable death
Starting at 14th level, you always have resistance to necrotic damage. Also, while you're raging your attacks made with a melee weapon treat immunity to necrotic damage as having resistance and resistance as not having resistance, and the additional necrotic damage you deal with your Deadly strike ability increases to 2d4.
Credits
Design by: u/WildWereostrich, with feedback from the Discord of Many Things community.
Illustration: A warrior by ling-z (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License)