The Chevalier by

<div class='cover-header'>The Chevalier</div>

<div class='cover-footer'>A Charisma-Based Martial Class That Brings Confidence To Battle</div>

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A human general charges into the fray of battle. They whirl their sword around them, taking down enemy after enemy that comes their way. Upon seeing their leader fighting alongside them so furiously, the soldiers are rallied and begin to push back against the tide of enemies.

Four adventurers sit around a fire, recovering from the day's action. A goblin watches them from the brush, about to alert their tribe to the easy prey in their territory. But before they can do so, they are run through with a longsword by the fifth, and unseen, elven adventurer.

A halfling in leathers walks through the streets of a populated city. A thief bolts out a nearby alley, pursued by two guards. The halfling snaps their fingers and says a single word, causing the thief to fall over and enter a magic-induced laughing fit, allowing the guards to catch up to them.

Chevaliers are combatants with style, flair, and confidence. They come in many forms, from knights of honor sworn to a cause to wandering mercenaries travelling the world and looking for coin. Often as adept with words as they are with weapons, chevaliers are known for their quick tongues and charismatic dispositions. In battle, they are daring, bringing overwhelming boldness and determination to the battlefield.

### Daring Combatants
A chevalier's defining trait is their confidence in combat. Not all chevaliers are necessarily courageous or fearless, but to be a chevalier is to have utter belief in one's ability to fight and win any battle in which they may find themselves. Some consider this pretension or arrogance, but a chevalier at work produces undeniable results.

Chevaliers use flashy techniques and impressive displays to put their opponents off, while projecting confidence through body language and bold moves. Such is the way of a chevalier, to convince their enemies of the chevalier's superior skill and their inferior techniques, regardless of the actual skill of either side.

### Weapons and Wit
A chevalier's weapons of choice are not just the traditional arms, but also words. The ability to command one's own body and mind to project the confidence required to be a chevalier also makes them famously—or infamously, depending on who you ask—able to hurl biting insults, convince anyone of anything, and talk themselves out of bad situations.

A fight, to a chevalier, does not just mean physical combat, but any situation where they or another is in danger, and as with any fight a chevalier is in, they will apply their boundless confidence to it. And, if worst comes to worst, a blade is a great persuasive tool regardless.

### Creating a Chevalier
The flexible nature of chevaliers makes them varied and diverse characters. Why did you become a chevalier? Were you trained, or did you pick up the skills yourself? Have you met other chevaliers? Have they taught you anything, or vice versa? Are you naturally confident, or is it an act?

Perhaps you have decades of experience and are sure of your skills, or you are young, impulsive, and overconfident. Maybe becoming a chevalier was a choice for you, or maybe you were forced to fight for a person or cause. Are you a leader or a follower? To what end do you apply your skills?

Perhaps your confidence comes from a genuine belief in your skills, or perhaps it is more of a projection if your own doubt onto your enemies. Whatever their style, your chevalier's past is vital to determining their present.

#### 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 chevalier as one of your classes.

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

***Proficiencies Gained.*** If chevalier isn't your initial class, here are the proficiencies you gain when you take your first level as a chevalier: light armor, medium armor, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons, and one skill from the class' skill list.

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##### The Chevalier
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Confident Strike |
|:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|
| 1st | +2 | Unarmored Defense, Finesse Focus | — |
| 2nd | +2 | Fighting Style, Confident Strike | 1 |
| 3rd | +2 | Chevalier Arte, Vivacity | 1 |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 1 |
| 5th | +3 | Extra Attack, Alacrity | 2 |
| 6th | +3 | Chevalier Arte feature | 2 |
| 7th | +3 | Bravado (x1) | 2 |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 |
| 9th | +4 | Fearlessness | 3 |
| 10th | +4 | Chevalier Arte feature | 3 |
| 11th | +4 | Bravado (x2) | 3 |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 |
| 13th | +5 | Improved Fearlessness | 4 |
| 14th | +5 | Chevalier Arte feature | 4 |
| 15th | +5 | Bravado (x3) | 4 |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 |
| 17th | +6 | Audacious Warrior | 5 |
| 18th | +6 | Chevalier Arte feature | 5 |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 |
| 20th | +6 | Man, Myth, Legend | 5 |

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## Class Features
As a chevalier, you gain the following class features.

#### Hit Points
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- **Hit Dice:** 1d10 per chevalier level
- **Hit Points at 1st Level:** 10 + your Constitution modifier
- **Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per chevalier level after 1st

#### Proficiencies
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- **Armor:** Light armor, medium armor, shields
- **Weapons:** Simple weapons, martial weapons
- **Tools:** None
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- **Saving Throws:** Dexterity, Charisma
- **Skills:** Choose three from Persuasion, Intimidation, Deception, Performance, Insight, Perception, History, Acrobatics, Stealth, or Sleight of Hand

#### Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- *(a)* a martial weapon and a shield or *(b)* two martial weapons
- *(a)* five javelins or *(b)* any simple melee weapon
- *(a)* a dungeoneer's pack or *(b)* an explorer's pack
- Leather armor and a rapier

### Unarmored Defense
Your swagger allows you to dodge attacks with ease. While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Charisma modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

### Finesse Focus
As a chevalier, you fight with agility and grace. All melee weapons have the finesse property when you wield them. To gain this benefit, you must be proficient in the weapon, and it must lack the heavy property.

### Fighting Style
At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

#### Blind Fighting
You have blindsight with a range of 10 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover, even if you're blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.

#### Defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

#### Dueling
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

#### Great Weapon Fighting
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

#### Thrown Weapon Fighting
You can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as part of the attack you make with the weapon. In addition, when you hit with a ranged attack using a thrown weapon, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll.

#### Two-Weapon Fighting
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

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### Confident Strike
Also at 2nd level, you learn how to harness your confidence to propel your strikes. Some features from this class grant you Confidence. While you have Confidence, you can add a +1 bonus to all weapon damage rolls you make. This bonus increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Confident Strike column of the Chevalier table.

Additionally, when you hit with a weapon attack and you have Confidence, you can choose to perform a Confident Finisher. Instead of dealing your Confident Strike damage, you roll a number of d8's equal to your Confident Strike bonus and deal additional damage equal to the total rolled. When you perform a Confident Finisher, you lose Confidence. You cannot perform a Confident Finisher more than once per turn, even if you gain Confidence again.

Confidence lasts for 1 minute or until you end it (no action required). You cannot gain Confidence while you already have Confidence.

The following abilities grant you Confidence.

***Confidence: Charge In.*** When you end your turn within 5 feet of a hostile creature, you gain Confidence.

***Confidence: Fend Off.*** When another creature misses you with an attack, you gain Confidence.

### Chevalier Arte
Starting at 3rd level, you have studied, practiced, and honed one of many artes. Choose the Aspirant, the Justicar, the Marshal, the Racketeer, the Troubadour, or the Vagabond, each detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level.

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### Vivacity
Also starting at 3rd level, you enter battle with enthusiasm. You can add your Charisma modifier to initiative rolls.

### 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.

### Extra Attack
Also at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

### Alacrity
Beginning at 5th level, your movement speed increases by 10 feet, and you can use Dexterity in place of Strength when determining your jump distance.

### Bravado
At 7th level, you can endure certain attacks with confidence alone. When you make a saving throw, you can choose gain a bonus to the roll equal to your Charisma modifier.

You have one use of this feature, which increases to two uses at 11th level and three uses at 15th level. You regain all expended uses of this feature when you finish a short or long rest.

### Fearlessness
At 9th level, your confidence protects you from fear. You are immune to the frightened condition.

Starting at 13th level, allied creatures that can see or hear you are also immune to the frightened condition while you are not incapacitated.

### Audacious Warrior
At 17th level, your Confident Strike and Confident Finisher damage ignores resistance and immunity to its damage type.

### Man, Myth, Legend
At 20th level, your unwavering confidence in battle has become legendary. At the start of your turn, you gain temporary hit points equal to half your chevalier level if you have at least 1 hit point. Temporary hit points gained from any other source can be added to these temporary hit points.

## Chevalier Artes
Each chevalier practices an arte, a specific set of skills that augment the other skills and talents of a chevalier. Aside from the boundless confidence required to be a chevalier, nothing defines a given chevalier more than their arte. It reflects who they are and how the operate.

A chevalier's arte is unique to them, but there are six main categories of arte that most chevaliers follow. They are: aspirants, justicars, marshals, racketeers, troubadours, and vagabonds. Each one applies a chevalier's confidence in their own way, and each one serves a different role in a fight.

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### Aspirant
Aspirants are chevaliers who focus solely on their chevalier training. They seek to become among the best of all warriors; they aspire to be legends, hence them being called aspirants. It takes great confidence to be a chevalier, but to be an aspirant is to have a level of certainty in oneself as to border on impudence.

##### Aspirant Features
| Level | Features |
|:----:|:-------------:|
| 3rd  | Aspirant's Confidence, Grandiosity |
| 6th  | Flamboyant Combatant |
| 10th | Aplomb |
| 14th | Improved Extra Attack |
| 18th | Boundless Confidence |

#### Aspirant's Confidence
When you take on this arte at 3rd level, your Confident Strike improves. When you perform a Confident Finisher, you can immediately make an additional weapon attack afterwards (no action required).

You also gain the following Confidence ability.

***Confidence: Grand Entrance.*** When you roll initiative, you gain Confidence.

#### Grandiosity
Also at 3rd level, you are always confident when you need to be. As a bonus action, you can choose to gain Confidence until the end of your next turn.

You have a number of uses of this feature equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

#### Flamboyant Combatant
At 6th level, your flashy fighting style allows you to make severe strikes easily. Your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

#### Aplomb
At 10th level, your confidence swells as you fight. When you use your Aspirant's Confidence feature to make a weapon attack after performing a Confident Finisher, you gain temporary hit points equal to your chevalier level if that attack hits. These temporary hit points last for 1 minute, or until you make the additional attack again.

#### Improved Extra Attack
At 14th level, you can make three attacks, instead of two, when you take the Attack action on your turn.

#### Boundless Confidence
At 18th level, your confidence never ends. When you gain Confidence and it lasts for 1 minute, it lasts for 10 minutes instead.

Additionally, when you perform a Confident Finisher, you can choose to not lose Confidence. As normal, you cannot perform more than one Confident Finisher per turn using this feature. You can do this a number of times equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

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### Justicar
Justicars are chevaliers who further their combat training. They attack without mercy and defend without pause, using heavier armaments than most chevaliers. Many are knights sworn to a land or cause, with both martial expertise and stunning charm at the ready.

##### Justicar Features
| Level | Features |
|:----:|:-------------:|
| 3rd  | Justicar's Confidence, Champion of Iron |
| 6th  | Unbroken Vow |
| 10th | Exact Justice |
| 14th | Knightly Valor |
| 18th | Valiant Vigil |

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#### Justicar's Confidence
When you take on this arte at 3rd level, your Confident Strike improves. When you have Confidence, you can use your reaction when a creature within 5 feet of you is hit by an attack to roll your Confident Finisher dice and reduce the damage they take by the total rolled. You then lose Confidence.

You also gain the following Confidence ability.

***Confidence: Victorious Stand.*** When you succeed on a saving throw, you gain Confidence.

#### Champion of Iron
Also at 3rd level, you have trained to use heavier weapons and armor. You gain proficiency in heavy armor, and you can use your Dexterity score in place of Strength for the Strength requirements of heavy armor.

Additionally, your Finesse Focus ability now applies to weapons with the heavy property.

#### Unbroken Vow
At 6th level, when you swear to do something, you will make it happen. As a bonus action on your turn, choose one creature within 30 feet of you and pick one of the following vows.
- ***Vow of Salvation.*** For the next minute, whenever another creature makes an attack against the target or forces them to make a Dexteirty saving throw, you can grant them a bonus to their AC or Dexterity saving throw equal to your proficiency bonus if they are within 5 feet of you.
- ***Vow of Retribution.*** For the next minute, whenever another creature makes an attack against or casts a spell on the target, you can make a weapon attack against them if they are within reach of one weapon you are holding as a reaction.

Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

#### Exact Justice
At 10th level, any foe who would dare attack your allies face your wrath. Whenever you use your Justicar's Confidence ability to reduce the damage a creature would take from an attack, the attacking creature takes damage equal to half the amount of damage that you prevented (rounded down) if it is also within 5 feet of you.

#### Knightly Valor
At 14th level, you can push through and stay in the fight when you need to. When you are forced to make a saving throw against an effect that would deal damage or inflict the charmed, paralyzed, or stunned condition, you can choose to automatically succeed.

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

#### Valiant Vigil
At 18th level, you are always watching out for your allies. In combat, you get a special reaction that you can take once on every creature's turn, except your turn. You can use this special reaction only to use the reactions granted by your Justicar's Confidence and Unbroken Vow features, and you can't use it on the same turn that you take your normal reaction.

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### Marshal
Marshals are chevaliers who lead those around them. They use their charisma and boldness to take the helm in battle, commanding and inspiring those around them. Any chevalier is a force to be reckoned with by themselves, let alone one who is a master of commanding others.

##### Marshal Features
| Level | Features |
|:----:|:-------------:|
| 3rd  | Marshal's Confidence, Rallying Advance |
| 6th  | Spur To Action |
| 10th | Impeccable Order |
| 14th | Unwavering |
| 18th | Take Charge |

#### Marshal's Confidence
When you take on this arte at 3rd level, your Confident Strike improves. When you have Confidence, you can use your reaction when a creature that can see or hear you hits with an attack to allow them to roll your Confident Finisher dice and add it to one damage roll of the attack. You then lose Confidence.

You also gain the following Confidence ability.

***Confidence: Commander's Poise.*** When you grant another creature temporary hit points, you gain Confidence.

#### Rallying Advance
Also at 3rd level, you inspire your compatriots as you fight. When you make a weapon attack and hit, you can choose to grant one creature who can see or hear you temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier (minimum of 2 temporary hit points).

You have a number of uses of this feature equal to half your chevalier level (rounded up). You regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

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#### Spur To Action
At 6th level, you can order your allies to act at a moment's notice. As an action, you can expend up to 2 uses of your Rallying Advance feature. For each use expended, one creature of your choice that can see or hear you may use their reaction to take one of the following actions of their choice.
- Make a weapon attack with one weapon they are currently holding, or make an unarmed strike.
- Cast a spell with a casting time of 1 action, expending a spell slot as normal. 
- Move up to their speed. 
- Take the Hide, Search, or Use an Object action.

The number of Rallying Advance uses you can expend with this feature at once increases to 3 at 10th level, 4 at 14th level, and 5 at 18th level.

#### Impeccable Order
At 10th level, your orders and instructions to your allies are always precise. When you use your Marshal's Confidence ability to add your Confident Finisher damage to another creature's damage roll, they can reroll up to half of the dice (rounded down) and choose which result to take for each die.

#### Unwavering
At 14th, you never waver in a fight. When you roll initiative and have no uses of your Rallying Advance feature left, you regain a number of uses equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down).
 
#### Take Charge
At 18th level, you can take the lead in battle and inspire your allies to fight on. As an action, you can grant any number of creatures of your choice that can see or hear you advantage on all attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks until the start of your next turn.

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

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### Racketeer
Racketeers are chevaliers who prefer the more violent side of diplomacy. They use threats and coercion to achieve their ends. Some work as bodyguards and bouncers, others apply their skills as bruisers and gangsters, and a select few are wandering vigilantes that menace their foes.

##### Racketeer Features
| Level | Features |
|:----:|:-------------:|
| 3rd  | Racketeer's Confidence, Strike Terror |
| 6th  | Rough Around |
| 10th | Broken Resolve |
| 14th | Frozen In Fear
| 18th | Dishearten |

#### Racketeer's Confidence
When you take on this arte at 3rd level, your Confident Strike improves. When you perform a Confident Finisher, you can reduce the number of dice you roll and choose a number of creatures who can see or hear you equal to the number of dice you reduced. Each one suffers a penalty to attack rolls and skill checks equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1) until the end of your next turn.

You also gain the following Confidence ability.

***Confidence: Menacing Presence.*** When you frighten another creature, you gain Confidence.

#### Strike Terror
Also at 3rd level, you know exactly how to menace your enemies. When you reduce another creature to 0 hit points, you can choose a number of creatures who can see or hear you up to your proficiency bonus. Each target must make a Wisdom saving throw against a DC of 8 + your Charisma modifier + your proficiency bonus.

On a failed save, a creature is frightened of you until they can no longer see or hear you. At the end of their turns, they can remake the saving throw, and are no longer frightened on a success.

#### Rough Around
At 6th level, you learn to bully your opponents in battle. When you attempt to grapple or shove a creature, you can make an Acrobatics check instead of an Athletics check. Additionally, you gain the following benefits.
- While you have a creature grappled, the creature also has the restrained condition.
- When you shove a creature, you can choose to push it 10 feet, or push it 5 feet and knock it prone.

#### Broken Resolve
At 10th level, you break the resolve of those you intimidate. When you use your Racketeer's Confidence ability to give other creatures a penalty to attack rolls and skill checks, the penalty from that feature also applies to saving throws.

#### Frozen In Fear
At 14th level, the fear you strike in others' hearts locks them in place. When you frighten a creature, they also suffer one of the following effects of your choice while they are frightened.

- The creature can't take reactions.
- The creature's speed is reduced by 15 feet.

#### Dishearten
At 18th level, you have a knack for demoralizing your foes. When you hit another creature with an attack, you can choose to immediately use your Strike Terror feature, even if the creature was not reduced to 0 hit points by the attack.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

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### Troubadour
Troubadours are chevaliers who use a form of magic similar to that of bards. Through their sheer force of personality, magic springs forth. They are adept at using magic—particularly enchantment magic—to their advantage in combat, and make use of the added versatility that their magic grants them.

##### Troubadour Features
| Level | Features |
|:----:|:-------------:|
| 3rd  | Troubadour's Confidence, Spellcasting |
| 6th  | Treachery |
| 10th | Captivating Confidence |
| 14th | Enchanter's Cunning |
| 18th | Beguiling Influence |

#### Troubadour's Confidence
When you take on this arte at 3rd level, your Confident Strike improves. When you gain Confidence, you can choose a creature within 30 feet of you that can see you. That creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your troubadour spell save DC. On a failure, that creature is charmed by you until you lose Confidence.

You also gain the following Confidence ability.

***Confidence: War Enchanter.*** When you cast a spell of the enchantment school on another creature, you gain Confidence.

#### Spellcasting
When you reach 3rd level, you augment your martial prowess with the ability to cast spells.

***Cantrips.*** You learn two cantrips of your choice from the bard spell list. You learn an additional bard cantrip of your choice at 10th level.

***Spell Slots.*** The Troubadour Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell *charm person* and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast *charm person* using either slot.

***Spells Known of 1st-Level and Higher.*** You know three 1st-level bard spells of your choice. The Spells Known column of the Troubadour Spellcasting table shows when you learn more bard spells of 1st level or higher. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 7th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the bard spells you know with another spell of your choice from the bard spell list. The new spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

***Spellcasting Ability.*** Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your bard spells, since your magic comes from your force of personality. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a bard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

**Spell Save DC** = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier
  
**Spell Attack Modifier** = Your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier

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##### Troubadour Spellcasting
| Level | Cantrips Known | Spells Known | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th |
|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| 3rd | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — |
| 4th | 2 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 5th | 2 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 6th | 2 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 7th | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | — | — |
| 8th | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | — | — |
| 9th | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | — | — |
| 10th | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | — | — |
| 11th | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | — | — |
| 12th | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | — | — |
| 13th | 3 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — |
| 14th | 3 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — |
| 15th | 3 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — |
| 16th | 3 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — |
| 17th | 3 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — |
| 18th | 3 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — |
| 19th | 3 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 20th | 3 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 |

#### Treachery
At 6th level, you take full advantage of charmed opponents. When you hit a creature that is charmed by you with a weapon attack, you deal additional damage to that creature equal to your chevalier level.

#### Captivating Confidence
At 10th level, others can't help but be enthralled by you. Whenever you use your Troubadour's Confidence ability to charm a creature, you can charm a number of creatures up to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down).

#### Enchanter's Cunning
At 14th level, you can hold your charms even as you fight. When an effect causing a creature to be charmed by you would be ended by you or your allies harming the charmed creature, you can prevent the effect from ending.

You have a number of uses of this feature equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

#### Beguiling Influence
At 18th level, enchantment magic passively warps other's perceptions of you. When a creature attacks you, it must make a Wisdom saving throw against your troubadour spell save DC. On a failed save, the attack automatically misses.

Creatures that can't be charmed are immune to this effect, as are creatures you have done anything harmful towards within the last 24 hours.

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### Vagabond
Vagabonds are chevaliers that strike from the shadows. They lie in wait, looking for the perfect opportunity to take their opponents down swiftly and silently. Their prey never see it coming—and if they do, its only because the vagabond wanted them to.

##### Vagabond Features
| Level | Features |
|:----:|:-------------:|
| 3rd  | Vagabond's Confidence, Silent Steps |
| 6th  | Run Through |
| 10th | Marked For Death |
| 14th | Run and Hide |
| 18th | Abscond |

#### Vagabond's Confidence
When you take on this arte at 3rd level, your Confident Strike improves. When you gain Confidence, you can choose one creature you can see. If you deal your Confident Finisher damage to that creature before you lose Confidence, you may deal an additional die of damage.

You also gain the following Confidence ability.

***Confidence: Hidden Blade.*** When you successfully hide from another creature, you gain Confidence.

#### Silent Steps
Also at 3rd level, you can hide at a moment's notice. You can take the Hide action as a bonus action.

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#### Run Through
At 6th level, you've gained a knack for striking the most vital parts of your enemies' bodies. When you make a weapon attack against a creature and hit, you can choose to make it a critical hit.

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

#### Marked For Death
At 10th level, you are a master at taking down your targets quickly. Whenever you use your Vagabond's Confidence ability to choose a creature to take additional damage from your Confident Finisher, the additional damage that creature takes from that feature is increased by an amount equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1).

#### Run and Hide
At 14th level, your first order of business in a fight is to gain the upper hand. When you roll initiative, you can immediately move up to your speed and take the Hide action (no action required). The movement from this feature does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

#### Abscond
At 18th level, when everything goes south, you can escape easily. As a bonus action, you can gain the benefits of two of the following actions of your choice: Dodge, Dash, Hide, and Disengage.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

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## Changelog

### Version 2.0
#### Class Features
- Removed bonus to initiative from Bold and Brash, renamed it to Unarmored Defense.
- Added Great Weapon Fighting to available fighting styles; removed Archery from available fighting styles.
- Reworked Confident Strike.
  - Confidence now always lasts for 1 minute.
  - Confidence now grants a bonus to weapon damage rolls.
  - Confident Strike is now Confident Finisher, which ends Confidence to deal additional d8's of damage.
  - Replaced Confidence: Grand Entrance with Confidence: Charge In.
- Renamed Chevalier Flair to Chevalier Arte.
- Added Vivacity.
- Reworded Alacrity.
- Reworded Bravado.
- Reworded Audacious Warrior to work with the Confident Strike changes.
- Reworded Man, Myth, Legend to be more clear.
#### Chevalier Artes
- **Aspirant:** Changed Aspirant's Confidence to work with the Confident Strike changes; now allows aspirant to make an additional attack.
- **Aspirant:** Replaced Confidence: Ambitious Blow with Confidence: Grand Entrance.
- **Aspirant:** Replaced Take In Stride with Grandiosity; allows aspirant to gain Confidence as a bonus action.
- **Aspirant:** Reworded Aplomb to work with the Aspirant's Confidence changes.
- **Aspirant:** Renamed Undaunted Daring to Boundless Confidence; reworded to work with Confident Strike changes.
- **Justicar:** Reworded Justicar's Confidence to work with Confident Strike changes.
- **Marshal:** Reworded Marshal's Confidence to work with Confident Strike changes.
- **Marshal:** Fixed a typo in Spur To Action.
- **Racketeer:** Reworded Racketeer's Confidence to work with Confident Strike changes.
- **Troubadour:** Reworded Troubadour's Confidence to work with Confident Strike changes.
- **Vagabond:** Reworded Vagabond's Confidence to work with Confident Strike changes.
- **Vagabond:** Changed Marked For Death; additional damage now equal to Charisma modifier.
- **Vagabond:** Replaced Unexpected Arrival with Run and Hide; now allows vagabond to move and hide when they roll initiative.

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 The Chevalier
 
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 A Charisma-based martial class that brings confidence to battle. Bring your courage and audacity to bear on the battlefield! Fight with swagger and poise! Adopt one of the six Chevalier Flairs and become its paragon!
 
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 **Artist Credits:**
 
 Cover - [*Lucien, by chibi-oneechan*](#p1)
 
 Page 1 - [*Omexe Arena, by Dimitar Marinski*](#p2)
 
 Page 1 - [*2016, by Chanz Z*](#p2)
 
 Page 3 - [*Graph, by Billy Christian*](#p4)
 
 Page 4 - [*Pirate, by Audia Pahlevi*](#p5)
 
 Page 5 - [*Crusader Captain Vsevolod, by PARADE Games*](#p6)
 
 Page 6 - [*Joan of Arc, by Bayard Wu*](#p7)
 
 Page 7 - [*Fantasy Fighter, by Andrebernardino*](#p8)
 
 Page 9 - [*Female Warrior, by Drakewitch*](#p10)
 
 Back - [*Betty the Badger, by Olie Boldador*](#p11)
 
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