Class Features

As a Spellblade, you gain the following class features:

Mana Arts

2nd level Spellblade Feature

You can learn a number of unique abilities, known as Mana Arts, that further define your skill as a Spellblade. You know one Mana Art from the list at the end of the document. You know one Mana Art, and when you gain certain Spellblade levels, you gain additional Mana Arts of your choice, as shown in the Mana Arts Known column of the Spellblade table. If you learn a spell from a Mana Art, it counts as a spellblade spell for you and doesn't count against your total spells known.

If you already know a spell granted by a Mana Art, you may instead pick another Spellblade spell of the same level. If you are already proficient in a skill granted by a Mana Art, you can instead choose another Spellblade skill.

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

Resonance Dice

2nd level Spellblade Feature

You gain the ability to re-absorb the excess energy of your spells, and channel it once again to empower your abilities. Whenever you expend a spell slot to cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you gain a number of Resonance Dice equal to the half the level of the spell cast, rounded up. You can store a maximum number of Resonance Dice at one time equal to twice your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1). These Resonance Dice remain until you expend them, or until you complete a long rest.

Your resonance die is a d4. At 6th level, it becomes a d6. At level 11 it becomes a d8, and at level 17 it becomes a d10.

Ability Score Improvement

4th level Spellblade Feature

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 gain this feature again at levels 8, 12, 16, and 19.

Extra Attack

5th level Spellblade Feature

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of those attacks.

War Mind

6th level Spellblade Feature

You are trained in using magic in the heat of battle, and lesser blows have no hope of breaking your concentration. Whenever you take damage while concentrating on a spell, if the DC for the constitution saving throw would be 10, you can choose to automatically succeed on the saving throw.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier, after which point you must complete a long rest before you can do so again.

At 15th level, you can instead use this feature on any saving throw to maintain concentration that would have DC 15 or less.

Resonant Affinity

10th level Spellblade Feature

Choose one of your Ability Scores: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma. Whenever you make an ability check or saving throw with the chosen ability score, you may expend a stored Resonance Die, rolling it and adding the result to the check or saving throw. You can use this feature after you roll the saving throw or ability check, but before you know the outcome.

Magic Resistance

18th level Spellblade Feature

You have advantage on all saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Mana Mine

3rd level Manasoul Spellblade Feature

As a bonus action, you can send a mote of arcane light to a point you can see within 30ft of you, remaining for 10 minutes and shedding bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet. If a creature enters this light, it is revealed you even if it was hidden, and you can use your reaction to cause the mote to detonate. The creature that triggered this reaction must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Spellblade DC. On a failed save, it takes force damage equal to 1d6 + half your Spellblade level, taking half as much damage on a success.

You can create a number of motes equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1), after which point you must complete a short or long rest before you may do so again.

Resonant Burst

7th level Manasoul Spellblade Feature

As an action, you may choose to discharge any number of stored resonance dice in a violent explosion of mana. The radius of this effect is 5ft, plus an additional 5ft for every Resonance Die expended after the first. Every creature other than you within range must make a dexterity Saving Throw against your Spell Save DC or take force damage equal to the expended Resonance Dice and be knocked 5ft away from you. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and is not knocked back.

Starting at 14th level, you may add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) to the damage dealt by this feature.

Art Credit

Garruk, the Veil-Cursed by Greg Rutkowski

Mana Form

14th level Manasoul Spellblade Feature

You gain the ability to briefly become an immaterial being of pure arcane energy. As a bonus action, you can temporarily enter the ethereal plane, remaining until the start of your next turn or until you end the effect as a free action. While in this form, you appear as an illusory, shimmering version of yourself, you have a flying speed equal to double your walking speed, you can phase through creatures and solid objects, and you are immune to all damage types except force damage.

If you are in the space of a creature or object when this form ends, you and the creature or object each take 5d10 force damage, and you are shunted to the nearest unoccupied space. A creature can make a Dexterity saving throw against your Spell Save DC to avoid this effect; on a successful save, you and the creature each instead take half as much damage.

One you use this feature, you must complete a long rest before you may do so again.

Overflowing Soul

20th level Manasoul Spellblade Feature

You have become a flawless conduit for arcane energy. Your Resonance Die becomes a d12.

Also, whenever a creature other than you within 60ft of you casts a spell of 1st level or higher, you can use your reaction to gain Resonance Dice equal to the level of the spell. Resonance Dice gained in this way can exceed your normal maximum, but are lost at the end of your turn if not already expended.

The Drifter's Discipline

Arcane Footwork

3rd level Drifter Spellblade Feature

As a bonus action, you can dash forward in an up-to-15ft line, ending in an unoccupied space you can see. This movement can pass through creatures but not solid objects, and does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

You may use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1), after which point you must complete a short or longer rest before you may do so again.

Art Credit

Right: Blaring Captain by Greg Rutkowski

Resonant Dash

7th level Drifter Spellblade Feature

You gain the ability to attack even as you use your Arcane Footwork feature. As a part of that same bonus action, you may roll any number of your stored Resonance Dice. If you pass through any creatures as you dash, you may choose to make a spell attack roll against any or all of them, making separate attack rolls for each target. On a hit, a target takes force damage equal to the rolled result of your spent Resonance Dice.

Starting at 14th level, you may add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) to the damage dealt by this feature.

Unnatural Reflexes

14th level Drifter Spellblade Feature

After a melee attack misses you and you use your Swift Movements feature, if the attacking creature is within the range or reach of a weapon you hold, you may use your reaction to immediately make a weapon attack against it with advantage. This attack is a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest before you may do so again.

Supreme Arcane Footwork

20th level Drifter Spellblade Feature

When you use your Arcane Footwork feature, you can now dash up to 30ft in a straight line. In addition, once per turn you may use that feature as a free action and without expending one of its uses.

Mana Arts

Conjure Weapon

While you hold an Arcane Focus, you can use your object interaction, as if you were drawing a stowed object, to transform it into a duplicate of any simple or martial weapon with which you are proficient for 10 minutes. While transformed in this way, you can use your bonus action to change its form into that of another weapon. The duplicate has the following properties but otherwise functions exactly like the weapon it is mimicking:

• If the weapon has the Ammunition property, you may magically create ammunition for it each time you make an attack with it. Ammunition created in this way vanishes after it strikes its target.
• If the weapon has the Thrown property, you can cause it to magically reappear in your hand after you complete a thrown weapon attack.
• The damage dealt by the weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Distant Strikes

Prerequisite: Manasoul Arcane Discipline

Melee weapons under the effects of your Arcane Essence feature can now make ranged attacks with a range of (30/60).

Drifter's Dance

Prerequisite: Drifter Arcane Discipline, Spellblade level 12

Your walking speed increases by 10ft, and you are no longer slowed by nonmagical difficult terrain. In addition, while you are moving on your turn, you can walk across liquids. If you end your movement while not on solid ground, you fall as normal.

Ever Vigilant

Your training as a Spellblade allows you to be ever alert to danger. You gain proficiency in Perception. If you are already proficient in Perception, you instead gain proficiency in another Spellblade skill of your choice. In addition, you require two fewer hours of sleep to gain the benefits of a long rest.

Flame Attunement

Prerequisite: No other "Attunement" Mana Arts

You have advantage on saving throws to resist the effects of extreme hot weather. In addition, you learn the Control Flames^XGtE cantrip, as well as the Burning Hands 1st-level spell.

Also, whenever you deal force damage with a Spellblade spell or class feature, you may choose to deal fire damage instead.

Flame Mastery

Prerequisite: Spellblade level 9, Flame Attunement Mana Art

You learn the Fireball 3rd-level spell. Also, you gain resistance to fire damage.

In addition, once per turn when you use a spellblade spell or class feature that deals fire damage, you can expend a resonance die to create a cloud of obscuring smoke in your space and in a 5ft radius around you, remaining until the start of your next turn. A creature in this smoke is heavily obscured while inside it, but it does not obscure your own vision.

Frost Attunement

Prerequisite: No other "Attunement" Mana Arts

You learn the Frostbite cantrip, as well as the Ice Knife 1st-level spell. Also, you have advantage on saving throws to resist the effects of extreme cold weather.

In addition, whenever you deal force damage with a Spellblade spell or class feature, you may choose to deal your choice of cold or magical piercing damage instead.

Frost Mastery

Prerequisite: Spellblade level 9, Frost Attunement Mana Art

You learn the Sleet Storm spell. Also, you gain resistance to cold damage.

In addition, when you deal cold or piercing damage to a creature with a spellblade spell or class feature, you can expend a stored resonance die to force them to make a Constitution saving throw against your Spell Save DC. On a failure, their movement speed is halved until the end of your next turn.

Immaterial Dash

Prerequisite: Drifter Arcane Discipline, Spellblade level 3

Whenever you use your Arcane Footwork class feature, you may pass through solid objects while you move. You still must end the dash in an open space you can see.

Invigorating Mana

Prerequisite: Bulwark Arcane Discipline, Spellblade level 12

Your defensive magic also has the ability to give those close to death the strength to fight on. Whenever you grant Temporary Hit Points to a creature that is unconscious at 0 hit points, that creature also immediately gains 1 hit point.

Magical Vitality

You have advantage on saving throws against any effect that would cause you to gain levels of exhaustion. In addition, you may travel for 2 additional hours in a day before suffering the effects of forced march.

Mana Motion

Prerequisite: Bulwark Arcane Discipline, Spellblade level 9

You gain the ability to move the panels created by your Walls of Mana class feature. As an action on your turn, you can move any number of connected panels up to 10ft, and rotate them as you wish, so long as they remain connected.

If a moving panel hits a creature, its movement stops and the creature must make a Strength saving throw against your Spell Save DC. On a failure, the creature is knocked prone or pushed back 5ft, your choice.

Martial Discipline

You learn one Fighting Style of your choice from the Fighter list.

Perfect Weapon

Prerequisite: Manasoul Arcane Discipline, Spellblade level 12, "Refine Weapon" Mana Art

When you use your Arcane Essence feature, you may expend 2 Resonance Dice to also give the affected weapon a bonus of +2 to its attack and damage rolls for the duration, unless it already has an equal or greater bonus.

Psi Attunement

Prerequisite: No other "Attunement" Mana Arts

You learn the Mind Sliver cantrip, as well as the Dissonant Whispers 1st-level spell.

In addition, whenever you deal force damage with a Spellblade spell or class feature, you may choose to deal psychic damage instead.

Psi Mastery

Prerequisite: Spellblade level 9, "Psi Attunement" Mana Art

You learn the Hypnotic Pattern 3rd-level spell. Also, you gain resistance to psychic damage.

In addition, when you deal psychic damage to a creature with a spellblade spell or class feature, you can expend a resonance die to force them to make an Intelligence saving throw against your Spell Save DC. On a failure, they are marked for 1 minute. While marked in this way, a creature cannot become hidden from you, and your attack rolls against them are never made with disadvantage. An affected creature can repeat the save at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on a success.

Rapid Movement

Your walking speed increases by 10ft.

Refine Weapon

Prerequisite: Manasoul Arcane Discipline, Spellblade level 5

When you use your Arcane Essence feature, you may expend 1 Resonance Die to also give the affected weapon a bonus of +1 to its attack and damage rolls for the duration, unless it already has an equal or greater bonus.

Resonant Cleave

Prerequisite: Level 3 Spellblade

When you use your Resonant Weapon feature, you can use a bonus action to force every creature other than yourself within 5ft of the target to make a Dexterity saving throw against your Spell Save DC or also take the damage dealt by that feature.

Shield Ally

Prerequisite: Bulwark Arcane Discipline, Spellblade level 3

As a reaction to an attack targeting a creature you can see within 30ft of you, you can expend a one stored Resonance Die to cast Shield using one of your spell slots, targeting that creature instead of yourself.

Stone Attunement

Prerequisite: No other "Attunement" Mana Arts

You learn the Mold Earth^XGtE cantrip, as well as the 1st-level spell Earth Tremor^XGtE. Also, you gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

In addition, whenever you deal force damage with a Spellblade spell or class feature, you may choose to deal magical bludgeoning damage instead.

Stone Mastery

Prerequisite: Spellblade level 9, "Stone Attunement" Mana Art

You learn the Erupting Earth^XGtE 3rd-level spell. Also, you can move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings, while leaving your hands free.

In addition, when you deal bludgeoning damage to a creature with a spellblade spell or class feature, if that creature is standing on solid ground you can expend a resonance die to attempt to seal their feet in solid stone. An affected creature must make a strength saving throw against your Spell Save DC or have their speed reduced to 0. An affected creature can repeat the save at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on a success.

Storm Attunement

Prerequisite: No other "Attunement" Mana Arts

You learn the Shocking Grasp cantrip, as well as the 1st-level spell Witch Bolt.

In addition, whenever you deal force damage with a Spellblade spell or class feature, you may choose to deal lightning damage instead.

Spellblade Spell List