What is a Gestalt Class

A Gestalt Class is a class that is only meant for gestalt campaigns. These, to clarify are campaigns where every Player Character has two classes, rather than one. Overlapping abilities, such as HP increases, default to the most powerful one. This allows for the Players to have more powerful characters.

A Gestalt Class is a single, powerful class that counts as two classes, rather than one. The DM decides whether or not they will allow this class in their games. Gestalt Classes are intended for players who want to have a cohesive class, rather than having to find two classes that sort of go together.

Since this class has the potential of two classes, it is not at all intended for normal games. Each Gestalt Class is loosely based off of two classes, and the subclasses add a third. For instance, the Hero class is based off of the Fighter and Monk classes, with the Precision Hero having elements of Rogue, the Invincible Hero having elements of Barbarian, and Magical Hero having elements of Warlock.

The Hero

Finding an opening, the halfling jumps onto the giant's back and makes four quick strikes, felling her foe. As the body begins to fall, she leaps onto the next giant, and takes a defensive stance, readying herself for incoming attacks.

With a rallying cry, the half-orc rushes through the mob of undead, cutting down a couple dozen of them with his strikes. He finishes off the last of the undead with a couple punches, dislodging its rotting head.

With determination in his eyes, a human places a hand on his chest, and causes his body to be covered by frosty armor with spikes. He draws his long sword and shield, ready to begin the battle.

A Cut Above

Heroes are not born; they are made. Maybe a prophecy has chosen your to be a hero, or you gained your power through years of training and practice. Perhaps a magical experiment unlocked your newfound potential. Whatever the reason, Heroes are rare for a reason.

Some Heroes venture out in order to fight the evil they were always meant to fight. Others run from this responsibility, trying to hide their potential and live a normal life, or as close to it as they can get. For others, the journey is their purpose, and they seek out endless adventure and training. Whether accepting of their responsibility, or running away from it, a Hero always has epic potential within them.

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Creating a Hero

You appear to be a normal person, and likely lived most of your life believing this to be the case, until you became aware of your potential. How do you react to this realization? Do you long for what you've lost, or does your charater love the new life of adventure and duty they now have? Finally, how does this change how you treat other people?

How did you discover that you were a Hero? Are you the subject of a prophecy? Or did you strive to unlock this potential yourself?

Quick Start

To quickly make a Hero, Strength or Dexterity should be your highest score, followed by Constitution. If you are a Magical Hero, consider making Charisma your highest score.

Choose Folk Hero for your background.

Class Features

As a Hero, you gain the following class features.

Defensive Boost

Beginning at 1st level, while you are wearing medium or lighter armor, you can add 2 to your AC. You can wear a shield and still benefit from this bonus.

Fighting Style

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.

Power Surge

Starting 2nd level, you can push yourself, shrugging off exhaustion and pushing yourself beyond your normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can use your bonus action to take an additional action on top of your regular action, and regain a number of hit points equal to 1d10 + half your Hero level (rounded down).

Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again. Starting 15th level, you can use this feature twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.

Ki

Starting 2nd level, you can now harness the mystic energy of ki. Your access to this energy is represented by a number of ki points. Your Hero levels determine the number of points you have, as shown in the Ki Points column of the Hero table.

You can spend these points to fuel various ki features. You start out knowing three features: Rapid Strike, Defensive Stance, and Step of the Wind. You learn more feature that use ki points as you progress in this class.

Ki points that you spend are unavailable until you finish a short or long rest, at the end of which you regain all expended points.

If a ki feature requires your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature's effects, the saving throw DC is 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity Modifier (your choice).

Boosted Movement

Starting at 2nd level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you are not wearing heavy armor. This bonus increases when you reach certain levels, as shown on the Hero table.

At 9th level, you gain the ability to along vertical surfaces without falling during the move, and your jump distance is doubled.

Heroic Resonance

When you reach 3rd level in this class, you gain the benefits of a Heroic Resonance; a style of Heroism which you emulate. These Resonances are, Precision Hero, Invincible Hero, and Magical Hero. Your Resonance grants you features at 3rd level, and again at 7th, 11th, and 17th level.

Deflect Missiles

Starting at 3rd level, you can use your reaction to block or reflect the missile when you are hit by a ranged weapon attack. When you do so, the damage you take from the attack is reduced by 1d10 + your Strength or Dexterity Modifier (your choice) + your Hero level.

If you reduce the damage to 0, you can spend 1 ki point to reflect the missile as part of the same reaction, provided that the missile is small enough for you to throw. When you reflect the attack, you make a ranged attack against the original attacker. You make this attack with proficiency, regardless of your weapon proficiency.

Ability Score Increase

When you reach 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 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.

Slow Fall

Beginning at 4th level, you can use your reaction when you fall to reduce any falling damage you take by an amount equal to five time your Hero level.

Extra Attack

From 5th level on, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the attack action on your turn.

The number of attacks you can make increases to three when you reach 11th level in this class and to four when you reach 20th level in this class.

Magic Strikes

Starting at 6th level, your Weapon Attacks and unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Furthermore, when you hit another creature with a melee weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to attempt to stun the target. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of your next turn.

Evasion

At 7th level, your instinctive agility lets you dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a blue dragon's lightning breath, or a fireball spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only helf damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Indomitable Mind and Body

Starting 8th level, you gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws.

You can use your action to end one effect on you, such as a fear or charm effect, or a poison or paralysis effect. After you have done this, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest, and you lose your proficiency in Wisdom saving throws until you complete a long rest.

You can use this feature twice between long rests starting at 13th level, and three times between long rests starting at 17th level. You only lose your proficiency in Wisdom saving throws if you have used up all your uses of this feature.

Greater Constitution

Beginning at 10th level, you become immune to all disease and poison.

Overcome

The mastery of ki and your physical prowess give you the ultimate resistance. You gain proficiency in all saving throws. While you still have a use of Indomitable Mind and Body left, you also have advantage in Wisdom saves.

One with All

Starting 18th level, you can use your action to spend 4 ki points and become invisible for 1 minute. During that time, you also have resistance to all damage but force damage.

Additionally, you can spend 8 ki points to cast Foresight on yourself, with a duration of 10 minutes.

Ki Surge

At 20th level, when you roll initiative and have less than 4 ki points remaining, you gain ki points until you have a total of 4.

Furthermore, whenever you use a Power Surge, you also gain 4 ki points, even if this would put you over your limit (if you are over your ki point limit when you complete a short or long rest, you are reset to your limit).

Heroic Resonances

Heroes all resonate with a particular battle style. These Heroic Resonances might be tied to how the hero discovered their powers, or they may be a style that appealed to the Hero when they first began their journey. While many Heroes pick and choose their Resonance early on, the effects of their choice do not become clear until they have begun to grow and thrive as a Hero.

Protecting Aura

Also starting at 3rd level, you gain a defensive aura, which lashes out at enemies, and protects you and your allies. Once per short rest, you can summon this aura for 10 minutes, during which time you can make an unarmed strike with it, replacing one of your regular attacks. This aura has a reach of 10 feet, and deals 1d8 + your Strength modifier force damage on a hit. You are considered to be proficient with this attack. You can also use your reaction when you or an ally within 10 feet of you is hit by an attack to increase their AC against the triggering attack by 1d8.

You also summon this aura whenever you use your Hardened Body feature, without expending your use of this feature, and regardless of if you have already expended your use of this feature. When used in this way, your aura disappears when your Hardened Body ends.

Aspect of Invincibility

From 7th level onward, you gain the ability to infuse a creature with a protective ward. You touch a creature as an action (This creature can be you), and for the next 10 minutes, whenever that creature is hit by an attack roll, the attacker must reroll the d20 and use the new roll. This ward lasts for a number of times equal to your Strength modifier, after which it is used up. You regain the ability to ward a creature when you finish a long rest.

Strengthening Aura

Beginning 11th level, Whenever your Protecting Aura is active, you and each creature of your choice within 10 feet of you gain 4 temporary hit points at the start of your turn.

Additional Power Surge

Also at 11th level, you gain an additional Power Surge per rest.

Ultimate Aura

At 17th level, you learn how to infuse your Protective Aura with ki, transforming it into the ultimate defensive and offensive weapon. When you summon your Protective Aura, including through your Hardened Body, you can spend 5 ki points in order to gain the following benefits:

• You gain a +2 bonus to AC
• When you spend 2 ki points to use your Rapid Strike feature, you can make a third attack, provided all three attacks use come from your aura.
• Your aura's damage die increases from a d8 to a d10.

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Magical Hero

Magical Heroes are masters of might and magic. Some of them are the results of magical experiments to create a Hero, others were practiced magic before finding out about their destiny. Whatever the origin, Magical Heroes are a terror in and out of the battle field. They possess a smaller capacity for spells, compared to most casters, but they make up for it with the intensity of those spells.