Myrmidon

Quick Build

You can make a Myrmidon quickly by following these suggestions. First, Strength should be your highest ability score. Your next highest ability score should be Intelligence. Next, choose the Folk Hero background. You can use the tables below to round out your character's background. You can choose or roll randomly:

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 Myrmidon as one of your classes.

Ability Score Minimums. As a multiclass character, you must have Strength and Intelligence scores of at least 13 to take a level in this class, or take a level in another class if you are already a Myrmidon.

Proficiencies Gained. If Myrmidon isn't your initial class, here are the proficiencies you gain when you take your first level as an Myrmidon: All armor, simple weapons, martial weapons

Class Features

As a Myrmidon, you gain the following class features.

Improved Lightness

At 9th level, your understanding of gravity improves and your detachment from the natural law increases. While you are conscious, your body's weight, the weight of any weapon you are wielding, and the weight of any armor or clothing you are wearing, is reduced by one-half. You can sense minute changes in gravity, allowing you to discern your elevation above or below sea level, to within 30 feet. Further unencumbered by weight, your speed increases by an additional 5 feet, for a total increase of 10 feet.

You are even less impeded by the weight of your armor. When you wear medium armor and are not wielding a shield, you can add 4, rather than 3, to your AC if you have a Dexterity of 18 or higher. When you wear heavy armor and are not wielding a shield, you can add 2, rather than 1, to your AC if you have a Dexterity of 14 or higher.

Extreme Lightness

At 13th level, your divorce from gravity increases again. While you are conscious, your body's weight, the weight of any weapon you are wielding, and the weight of any armor or clothing you are wearing, is reduced by three-quarters. You can sense the texture of the gravity around you, which is unique to each plane of existence. If you have visited a plane before, you can always identify when you are back there. If you are on a plane you have never visited before, you can sense that you are on an unfamiliar plane. While the texture of the gravity may offer some clue to your location, you do not otherwise gain special knowledge of that plane. Your speed is increased by an additional 5 feet, for a total increase of 15 feet.

When you wear medium armor and are not wielding a shield, you can add 5, rather than 4, to your AC if you have a Dexterity of 20 or higher. When you wear heavy armor and are not wielding a shield, you can add 3, rather than 2, to your AC if you have a Dexterity of 16 or higher.

Weightlessness

At 17th level, you can almost completely isolate yourself from the force of gravity. While you are conscious, your body, any weapon you are wielding, and any armor or clothing you are wearing is effectively weightless. You do not sink in liquids. You can walk and run as normal, but you do not exert enough pressure on the ground to cause any effect other than sound. You no longer count against the number of creatures or objects you can isolate from the effects of your disciplines. Additionally, you may spend a number of focus points equal to the spell level to ignore the effects of any spell which alters the effect of gravity (such as Levitate or Reverse Gravity, at the DM's discretion.)

Vanguard

Myrmidons who embrace the paradigm of the Vanguard emphasize close combat over battlefield control. Vanguards tend to fight on the front line and hold their ground even when pressed.

Alacrity

When you choose this paradigm at 3rd level, you learn to combine your physical agility and mental assiduity to increase your mobility. You can spend 2 focus points to gain the following benefits until the beginning of your next turn:

• You can take the Dash action as a bonus action.
• You ignore difficult terrain.
• You have advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks.
• You do not provoke opportunity attacks from creatures you have hit with a melee attack this turn.

Surging Strike

At 7th level, you learn a fearsome means of closing the distance between you and your foes. Crushing Blow gains an additional feature: when you spend focus points on Crushing Blow, you can jump to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of your target before rolling for your attack. The maximum number of feet you can jump in this way is equal to five times the number of focus points you allocated to Crushing Blow. Unlike a normal long jump, this jump does not cost movement nor provoke opportunity attacks.

Field Improvisation

By 10th level, you have learned how to improvise new tactics by redirecting and reshaping some of the energy you use to alter gravity. When you activate a discipline on your turn, you receive different benefits depending on the type of discipline used. These benefits increase in potency at 18th level.

• When you use an Increase Gravity discipline, you can exploit the altered gravity to solidify your own footing. Until the beginning of your next turn, if you are moved against your will, you can reduce the distance you are moved by up to 15 feet. At 18th level, you can instead reduce the distance you are moved by up to 30 feet.

• When you use a Decrease Gravity discipline, you can deflect some of the trimmed gravity to immediately move an object or creature 5 feet in any direction. If a creature is unwilling it can make a Strength saving throw to resist the effect. If the target is being affected by the Float discipline, it automatically fails the saving throw. At 18th level, the distance you can move an object or creature is increased to 10 feet.

• When you use a Redirect Gravity discipline, you can commit some of the unleashed gravitational energy to immediately push yourself up to 15 feet in any direction. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks. At 18th level, you can push yourself up to 30 feet instead.

• When you use a Manipulate Gravity discipline, you harness the unstable energies to make yourself more difficult to hit, giving yourself a +2 bonus to AC until the beginning of your next turn. At 18th level, you also do not provoke opportunity attacks until the beginning of your next turn.

• When you use an Implosive Gravity discipline, you funnel some of the force to shore up your physical defenses. You gain a number of temporary HP equal to the number of focus points used to cast the discipline. At 18th level, you can add your Intelligence modifier to the number of temporary HP you gain in this way.

Mercurial Assault

At 15th level, you learn a new way to attack from a distance while maintaining a gravitational tether to your weapon. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use 2 focus points to give a weapon you are wielding the Thrown property until the end of your turn. This weapon has a normal range of 30 feet and a long range of 40 feet. If you hit on a ranged attack with this weapon, you can immediately cause the weapon to fly back into your hand.

If you miss with a ranged attack, the weapon lands 40 feet away from you in the direction you threw it. As a bonus action, you may use 1 focus point to recall the weapon, pulling it through the air back into your hand. As part of this bonus action, you can make a ranged weapon attack against any one creature within a 5 foot wide line between you and where your weapon landed.

Increase Gravity

These disciplines involve increasing local gravity to impose difficulties on your opponents.

Brace – Tier 1

• Cost: 1 focus point
• Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you or a creature within range makes a Strength or Dexterity ability check
• Duration: Instantaneous

You can roll an additional d20. You can choose to use brace after the die has been rolled, but before the outcome is determined. You choose which of the d20s is used.

Shape – Tier 2

• Cost: 2 focus points
• Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you or a creature within range makes an attack roll or a Dexterity saving throw
• Duration: Instantaneous

You can roll an additional d20. You can choose to use shape after the die has been rolled, but before the outcome is determined. You choose which of the d20s is used.

Tremblor – Tier 2

• Cost: 4 focus points
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

The ground within range becomes difficult terrain as the ground seems to tremble while gravity fluctuates. Each creature in the affected area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or any additional Dexterity saving throws the creature makes are made with disadvantage until the effect ends.

Gravity Hammer – Tier 3

• Cost: 6 focus points
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Duration: Instantaneous

You reverse and intensify gravity on a creature or object you can see, pulling the target 15 feet up and then slamming it back into the ground, knocking it prone and dealing 4d8 bludgeoning damage, or half as much on a successful Dexterity save, and it is not knocked prone. If a creature fails the save and hits a solid object (like a ceiling) on the way up, it takes an additional 1d8 bludgeoning damage. Creatures Huge or larger automatically succeed the saving throw.

At Higher Levels. At Tier 4, you can spend an additional 4 focus points to extend the effects to the entire area in range.

Push/Pull - Tier 1

• Cost: 2 focus points
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Duration: Instantaneous

You redirect gravity in a line 5 feet wide, the length of your range. Creatures and objects within the line are pulled toward you, or pushed away from you (your choice) by 10 feet. A creature which succeeds on a Strength saving throw is unaffected. If pulled towards you, creatures and objects stop 5 feet away from you.

At Higher Levels. At Tier 2, you can spend an additional 2 focus points to extend the effect to the entire area in range.

Throw/Yank – Tier 3

• Cost: 6 focus points
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Duration: Instantaneous

You redirect and amplify gravity in a line 10 feet wide, the length of your range. Creatures and objects within the line are pulled toward you, or pushed away from you (your choice) by 30 feet and take 2d8 force damage. A creature which succeeds on a Strength saving throw is moved only 15 feet and takes half damage. Creatures Huge or larger automatically succeed the save. If pulled towards you, creatures and objects stop 5 feet away from you. If the creature fails the save and hits a solid object which stops its movement early (such as a wall,) it takes an additional 1d6 bludgeoning damage.

At Higher Levels. At Tier 4, you can spend an additional 4 focus points to extend the effect to the entire area in range.

Overturn – Tier 3

• Cost: 6 focus points
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Duration: Concentration, up to 30 seconds

You create a channel of altered gravity in any direction, even straight up. Choose two points within range. Designate one of the points the "top." The two points are connected by a 5-foot-radius cylinder of altered gravity. All creatures and objects within the cylinder that are not somehow anchored fall upward and reach the top of the cylinder when you use this discipline. A creature can make a Dexterity saving throw to grab onto a fixed object it can reach, thus avoiding the fall.

If some solid object (such as a ceiling) is encountered in this fall, falling objects and creatures strike it just as they would during a normal downward fall. If an object or creature reaches the top of the area without striking anything, it remains there, oscillating slightly, for the duration.

When the effect ends, affected objects and creatures fall back down.

At Higher Levels. At Tier 4, you can spend an additional 4 focus points to instead shift gravity over the entire area in range, in any direction you choose.

Choke – Tier 2

• Cost: 4 focus points
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You constrict the lungs or throat of a creature with concentrated, localized gravity. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 2d6 force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. On a failed saved, the target starts choking. Huge or larger creatures automatically succeed on the saving throw. At the end of each of its turns, an affected creature can repeat the saving throw. For more information about choking, see Chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook (page 183.)

Implode – Tier 2

• Cost: 4 focus points
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Duration: Instantaneous

You create a sudden, internal implosion in a creature or object you can see. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. It takes 4d6 force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

At Higher Levels. At Tier 3, you can spend additional 2 focus points to increase the damage by 2d6. At Tier 4, you can spend another additional 2 focus points to increase the damage by another 2d6, to a maximum of 8d6 force damage.

Singularity – Tier 4

• Cost: 10 focus points
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Duration: Concentration, up to 30 seconds

Gravity is greatly amplified and concentrated on a point within range, creating a dark sphere about the size of a marble. Everything within 20 feet of the sphere is violently pulled towards it until the effect ends. All creatures and objects that are not anchored to the ground in the area are pulled inward and reach the center point when you use this discipline. A creature can make a Dexterity saving throw to grab onto a fixed object it can reach, thus avoiding the pull.

Each time a creature starts its turn within 5 feet of the center point, the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 8d6 force damage and become incapacitated until the start of its next turn, when it must repeat the saving throw. A creature that succeeds on its saving throw takes half as much damage and isn't incapacitated. A Huge or larger creature automatically succeeds on the Constitution saving throw.

In this area, for every 1 foot a creature moves, it must spend 4 feet of movement.