Devil Hunter

Creating a Devil Hunter

As you make your devil hunter character, think about the origin of your power, and what that may entail. Are you a descendant of a legendary devil with a legacy to fulfill? Are you merely someone who had an unfortunate encounter with the Abyss? Or are you the product of your ancestor's dealings with a devil?

How do you feel about the fiendish power that resonates within you? Do you embrace it, or is it a mark of embarrassment? Is it a blessing or curse? Did you seek this power, or did it seek you? Did you have the option to refuse it, and do you wish you had? What do you intend to do with your power? Was it given to you to protect others? Or to subjugate them?

Equally important is why you fight. For a devil hunter, fights are sources of entertainment. Do you hold back to give your opponents a fair chance? Or do you unleash all that you have to see how long they may last? What kind of warrior are you motivated to be? Is there a certain person or creature that you are trying to defeat? Or do you seek a rival that can match your abilities? Consider how you might feel when faced with a foe beyond your abilities, and how you may feel after winning or losing against it.

Quick Build

You can make a devil hunter quickly by following these suggestions. First, Charisma your highest ability score, following with Dexterity or Strength, depending on the weapons you wish to use. Second, take the Folk Hero, Urban Bounty Hunter, or Haunted One background.

Class Features

As a devil hunter, you gain the following class features.

Two-Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second Attack.

Style Points

Starting at 2nd level, your devilish power allows you to harness style and grace with every movement. Your ability to tap into style is represented by a number of style points. Your devil hunter level determines the number of points you have, as shown by the Style Points column of the Devil Hunter table.

You can spend these points to fuel various stylish moves, known as Stylish Arts. You start knowing three such Arts: Charged Shot, Witty Taunt, and High Time, as well as traits given by your Archtype (see Stylish Arts in your chosen Archtype). You learn more stylish features as you gain levels in this class.

Unless otherwise stated, Stylish Arts are performed with your currently held Melee weapon, and benefit from any traits or properties that weapon has. For example, a weapon with a property that adds +1 damage or 2D6 Fire Damage adds that damage to the Stylish Art. Unless otherwise stated, the damage type of a Stylish Art is also determined by the weapon being used. An Art using a longsword does slashing damage, while using a rapier will cause piercing. The weapon damage die is not added to the damage of Stylish Arts, unless states in the rules for the Art (a greatsword does not add 2d6 damage).

Stylish Arts may not land Critical Hits.

When you spend a style point, it is unavailable until you finish a short or long rest, at the end of which your style is replenished anew.

Stylish Arts use Charisma to determine their hit rolls. Some of your style features require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature's effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

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. You may instead choose a feat instead of increasing any ability scores.

Devilish Reflexes

Beginning at 4th level, you develop an uncanny ability to narrowly avoid surprise attacks and traps. You gain advantage on Dexterity saving throws. You may also use your Dexterity, instead of Strength, to determine your Jumping range.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. This increases to attacking three times per Attack action at level 11.

Stylish Combos

Devil Hunters are able to string multiple types of attacks and Arts together to make for a truly stylish, and devastating, show out of combat. Starting at 5th level, you may perform Stylish Arts with Bonus Actions and Opportunity Attacks. You may not perform the same Stylish Art more than once per turn

Your movement speed gets reduced to half after you use a bonus action to perform an Attack or Stylish Art.

Speed

Also at 5th level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you aren't wearing heavy armor.

Shall Never Surrender

Starting at 7th level, your fiendish blood allows you to recover from even the deadliest of injuries. You have advantage on death saving throws. If you are unconscious but stable, roll a d20 at the beginning of your turn. On a 19 or 20, you regain 1 hit point.

Taste the Blood

At 9th level, your infernal blood makes you immune to disease and poison.

Enhanced Stylish Arts

At 10th level, the power of your stylish arts grows, granting additional effects when you use them. You also gain new Arts for your Archtype. See Enhanced Stylish Arts in your Archtype.

• Stylish Art: Honeycomb Fire: Any target you hit with a ranged attack takes an extra 1d4 force damage when you use Charged Shot.

• Stylish Art: Scathing Remarks: You may use the Witty Taunt Stylish Art 3 times per short or long rest instead of only twice. You may now also target up to 2 enemies with the Art.

• Stylish Art: Aerial Rave: When you successfully launch a creature with High Time, you may spend 1 Stylish point as an action to leap into the air with the target and follow up with an number of attacks equal to your Attack action. You have advantage on these attack rolls, and the damage is equal to your Distortion Die. The final attack brings yourself and the target back to the ground. The target lands prone in front of you. You do not take fall damage from this, your target does. You may follow this up with Stylish Combos as usual, provided you have enough bonus actions left to do so.

Stylish Bonus Actions

Starting at 10th level, you gain special actions known as Stylish Bonus Actions. These actions may be used as Bonus Actions or Reactions, and may only be used to perform Stylish Arts. At the start of each turn, you gain 1 Stylish Bonus Action at 10th level. The number of Stylish Bonus Actions you get increases to 2 at 15th level and 3 at 20th level. Any Stylish Bonus Actions not used are lost at the start of your turn, replaced by the new actions.

In addition, at the start of each turn, you regain 1 Stylish point. You may not go over your starting amount for your level. This increases to regaining 2 points at 15th level, and 3 at 20th level.

Fiendish Resilience

At 13th level, your fiendish body has learned to react more effectively to threats. You gain proficiency in either Constitution, Intelligence, Strength, or Wisdom saving throws (your choice).

Timeless Body

At 15th level, your infernal blood sustains your body so that you suffer none of the frailty of old age, and you can't be aged magically. You can not die of old age.

Devils Never Cry

At 17th level, your body becomes extremely resilient to all manners of harm. If your total for a Constitution saving throw is less than your Constitution score, you can use that score in place of the total.

Trigger Heart

At 20th level, the duration of your Devil Trigger is doubled, and you gain one extra use of Devil Trigger. At the start of each of your turns, you gain HP equal to your Constitution modifier, up to your maximum Hit Points. Additionally, when you roll for initiative and have no style points, you regain 3 style points.

Devil Hunter Archetypes

Devil hunters utilize their fiendish powers and styles of combat in different ways. The devil hunter archetype you choose reflects your approach.

Sin Devil Trigger

At 11th level, you gain the ability to unleash the full extent of fiendish power inside. You can expend two uses of Devil Trigger as a bonus action to activate Sin Devil Trigger and gain the normal effects of your Devil Trigger, along with the following benefits:

• You gain a flying speed of 60 feet.
• Your Size increases to Large
• The extra necrotic damage once per turn when you hit with a weapon attack increases to an amount equal to your devil hunter level.
• You gain access to the Stylish Art known as The Luce
• Starting at 15th Level, when you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make an additional attack as part of the action.

Your Sin Devil Trigger lasts for a number of rounds equal to half your devil hunter level, and ends early if you are reduced to 0 hit points or die. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

• Stylish Art: The Luce: You channel the power of your Sin Devil Trigger into bolts of pure energy that shoot out at your enemies. As an action, spend up to 6 Style Points to use this Art. Select up to 3 targets that you can see within 40 feet of you. Make a number of attack equal to the number of points spent, divided evenly between the targets. These attacks hit automatically. The damage from this attack is force damage equal to 2 rolls of your Distortion Die + your Charisma Modifier. You may only use this Art once per Sin Devil Trigger. Your turn ends after using this Art.

Enhanced Style Change

Beginning at 14th level, your Devil Trigger empowers your styles. While you are under the effects of Devil Trigger, you gain the following benefits and additional Stylish Arts depending on your current style:

Trickster. Opportunity attacks made against you have disadvantage.

• Stylish Art: Air Trick: As a action, you may spend 2 Style points to teleport up to 20 feet to any open space. This is not a Stylish Art that counts as using your weapon.

Swordmaster. When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can reroll a damage die and choose which dice are used for the damage roll. You also gain an Extra Attack when attacking with a melee weapon, giving 4 attacks per Attack action.

• Stylish Art: Dance Macabre:
  As an action, you may spend 3 style points to use this Art. Make 5 attack rolls against an enemy in range. This may only be done once per short or long rest. The damage is melee weapon damage + necrotic damage equal to you Distortion Die.

Royal Guard. Bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage that you take from nonmagical weapons is reduced by half your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1, rounded up). You gain 2 extra Reactions per turn. Reactions not used by the start of your next turn are lost.

• Stylish Art: Just Guard: As a Reaction to being hit by an attack or spell, you may spend 1 Stylish Points to attempt to nullify the hit. Take a Constitution test, with advantage, against the attack roll. If successful, the attack you guard against is stopped and counts as missing instead. This is not an attack and does not use your weapon, and is not used in Stylish Combos. You may only use this a number of times equal to your Constitution Modifier.

• Stylish Art: Royal Release: As a free action, when you successfully stop an attack with Just Guard, you may spend 1 style point to release the energy from the attack back at the attacker. The creature that attacked you takes Force damage equal to your Constitution modifier + your Charisma modifier + your Distortion die. You may only do this twice, and regain uses after a short or long rest. This is not a Stylish Art that counts as using your weapon, and is not used in Stylish Combos.

Gunslinger. Attacks made with ranged weapons ignore half cover and three-quarters cover. Your ranged attacks also Crit on a 19 or 20. You may use 2 one-handed ranged weapons and benefit from Two Weapon Fighting, and ignore the Loading and Ammunition attribute.

Quadruple S

At 18th level, your battle rhythm allows you to instinctively control your Sin Devil Trigger. Whenever you hit a creature with 4 Attack rolls and/or Stylish Art rolls on the same turn, you can gain the benefits of your Sin Devil Trigger until the beginning of your next turn, regardless of how many uses you may have.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Devil Breaker

Utilizing fiendish energies that have changed their very bodies, Devil Breakers combine relentless strength with pure style to brutally beat their foes into submission.

Snatch/Hell Bound

Beginning at 14th level, you may use your action to spend 1 style point to snatch a creature that is Large or smaller within 60 feet. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pulled within 5 feet of you. If the target succeeds, you may instead pull yourself within 5 feet of the target. If the target is behind total cover, this feature fails.

You can also use this feature on objects to pull them towards you, or yourself towards them depending on the weight (DM's discretion).

MAX-Act

At 18th level, your Exceed weapon is so enveloped in fiery energy that all of its attacks ignite. Whenever you hit a creature with your Exceed weapon, the creature take an extra 1d8 fire damage. If you also use style points to deal extra fire damage, you add this damage to the extra damage.

Additionally, your Exceed weapon ignores resistance to fire damage.

Mysterious One

The Mysterious One employs the aid of fiends, often to make up for the power they lack. While their companions are often unable to kill creatures, their strength more than enough allows their contractor to slip in for the finishing blows.

Round Robin

Starting at 6th level, your Familiar's loyalty towards you grows. As a reaction to being attacked, you may have your familiar teleport to an unoccupied space next to you. When you do so, your familiar becomes the new target of the attack, and the attacker takes Lighting damage equal to your Distortion Die.

If there is no open space, the familiar can not intercept the attack.

Enhanced Stylish Arts

These addition Arts require Shadow to be summoned:

• Stylish Art: Arbiter: This Style Art follows the rules for High Time, yet is made by Shadow, not yourself. The damage type is slashing This is not a Stylish Art that counts as using your weapon.
• Stylish Art: Buzzsaw: This Style Art follows the rules for Aerial Rave, yet is made by Shadow, not yourself. It uses your number of attacks, not Shadow's. The damage type is slashing. This is not a Stylish Art that counts as using your weapon.

Nightmare

At 11th level, you can use your action to magically summon an amorphous massive hulking demon from very nightmares themselves. Choose an unoccupied 10 foot cube that you can see within 60 feet. Nightmare appears at the point. Additionally, each creature within 5 feet of Nightmare must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature take 4d6 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

As part of that action, and on subsequent turns as an action while you are within 60 feet of Nightmare, you may activate Promotion, mounting Nightmare. While you are mounted on Nightmare, you are immune to all damage, but Nightmare is no longer immune to all damage.

Nightmare's attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Nightmare shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. The only actions it can take on its turn are the Attack and Dodge actions, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take one of the actions in its stat block or to take the Dash, Disengage, or Help action.

Nightmare takes a number of turns equal to half your devil hunter level, rounded up, and disappears afterwards. It disappears early if it is reduced to 0 hit points or you die. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Gambit

At 14th level, you gain the ability to slip through reality using your weapon as an anchor. When you take the Attack action, you can teleport up to 10 feet before each attack to an unoccupied space you can see.

If you attack at least two different creatures with the action, you can make one additional attack with it against a third creature.

Royal Fork

At 18th level, you gain this Royal Fork Stylish Art:

• Stylish Art: Royal Fork: You can use your action to spend up to 10 style points, summoning projections of your weapon to strike your foes. Target a number of creatures that you can see within 120 feet of you equal to the number of spent style points. Each creature must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 8d10 force damage, or half as much on a successful save.

Nightmare

Large fiend, chaotic neutral

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• Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
• Hit Points equal to three times your level in this class + your Charisma modifier + Nightmare's Constitution modifier
• Speed 20 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	12 (+1)	18 (+4)	4 (-3)	10 (+0)	6 (-2)

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• Saving Throws Str +7, Con +8
• Damage Immunities all damage
• Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, grappled, restrained
• Senses blindsense 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages understands the languages you speak

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Amorphous. Nightmare can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Might of the Master. The following numbers increase by 1 when you proficiency bonus increases by 1: Nightmare's saving throws and the bonuses to hit and damage of its desperado.

Stylish Arts (Requires your action)

Stylish Art: Desperado: Melee Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target you can see. Hit: 4d6 + 5 bludgeoning damage. This counts as a Stylish Art used by you for the purpose of Stylish Combos.

Stylish Art: Domination (Once per Devil Trigger): Nightmares fires a powerful laser in a 30-foot line that is 10 feet wide. Each creature in that line must make a Dexterity saving throw against your style save DC, taking 12d6 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This counts as a Stylish Art used by you for the purpose of Stylish Combos.

Dark Slayer

Dark Slayers are calm, honorable, and fearless. They utilize speed and strategy, able to teleport and strike at the most opportune moments. Combining summoned projections of swords with brutal attacks, they dominate the battlefield.

Enhanced Style Arts

• Stylish Art: Blistering Swords: Once per turn, when you take the Attack action and use Summoned Swords as a part of it, you can spend 1 style point to double the number of Summoned Sword attacks. Example: If you have 2 Attacks due to Extra Attack, you choose to use 1 attack with your melee weapon and 1 with Summoned Swords, you gain 2 Summoned Swords attacks by using Blistering Swords. If you use Summoned Swords with both attacks, you get 4 when using this Art. This is not a Stylish Art that counts as using your weapon.

• Stylish Art: Heavy Rain Swords: You can use an action to expend 2 style points to rain down Summoned Swords. Choose a point within 60 feet. Each creature within 5 feet of the point must make a Dexterity saving throw or take force damage equal to two rolls of your Distortion die. The damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to three rolls at 11th level, and four rolls at 17th level. This is not a Stylish Art that counts as using your weapon. Creatures hit by this Art reduce their speed by half.

• Stylish Art: Spiral Swords: You can use a bonus action to expend 1 style point to surround yourself with 10 spinning Summoned Swords. Any creature that begins its turn, ends its turn, or moves within 5 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw, or take damage equal to that of your Summoned Swords. Regardless of the success or failure of the saving throw, a sword is consumed. The swords last until all 10 swords are consumed, or if you dismiss them as a bonus action. This is not a Stylish Art that counts as using your weapon.

• Stylish Art: Storm Swords: You can use an action to expend 2 style points to surround a target within 30 feet with spinning Summoned Swords until the end of your next turn. If the target moves before then, it immediately takes force damage equal to three rolls of your Distortion die, and the swords are consumed. The damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to four rolls at 11th level, and five rolls at 17th level. This is not a Stylish Art that counts as using your weapon.

Sin Devil Trigger

At 11th level, you gain the ability to unleash the full extent of fiendish power inside. As a bonus action you may expend 1 use of Doppelganger to activate Sin Devil Trigger and gain the following benefits:

• You gain temporary hit points equal to your devil hunter level. These temporary hit points last until the end of your Devil Trigger.
• You gain Resistance to Necrotic and Fire damage
• When you take the Attack action and use Summoned Swords as part of it, double the number of Summoned Swords used.
• You gain a flying speed of 60 feet.
• Your Size increases to Large
• Stylish Art Judgment Cut has its range increased to 30 feet.
• When you deal damage with your Stylish Arts, add your Charisma modifier to that damage.

Your Sin Devil Trigger lasts for a number of rounds equal to half your devil hunter level, and ends early if you are reduced to 0 hit points or die. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Concentration

At 14th level, you develop the ability to draw upon untapped pools of power through concentration. When you take the Dodge action, you may use a bonus action to regain up to a number of expended style points equal to half your total style points. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Judgment Cut End

At 18th level, while in Sin Devil Trigger, you gain access to a new Stylish Arts skill, Judgment Cut End, and can unleash a flurry of attacks that have the power to distort spacetime itself.

• Stylish Art: Judgment Cut End: As an action, you may spend up to 10 Style points. Select a number of creatures you can see within 30 feet, equal to the number of points spent. You may choose creatures of size Large as a target twice, and anything Huge or bigger three times. Each target takes Force damage equal to you 3D10 + Distortion Die + Charisma Modifier. You can then teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 30 feet. This does not trigger opportunity attacks. Your Doppelganger can not copy this Art, instead making a single Attack action in the direction it is facing. You may only use this Art once per short or long rest. Using this Art ends your turn.

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