Eccentric Warriors

Persistent, stubborn, hot-headed, those with such qualities can be turn into lethal weapons in combat, and those qualified as Daredevils have trained to use them. One could be a Daredevil by being a warrior which started to control his fury of combat to his advantage, or a sage which instead of devoiding himself from emotions, decides to embrace and harness it. However, not only do you need those, but you also need your body and spirit to keep up those emotions and use them without going overboard.

Artists of Battle

Daredevils use combat to express themselves like a bard would use a stage to perform. By using any tools, creatures and environment around them, they present a beautiful, thrilling and stylish performance for those who love battle. Moving around like no others and performing different kind of attacks and techniques which are only possible in the presence of such people.

Dangerous Life

Outside of battle, the daredevil likes to performs activities that can still stimulate them: gamble, smuggling, guarding, etc. Those can lead to sticky situation but to them it's just an opportunity to show off their talent and have some fun.

Creating a Daredevil

By creating a Daredevil, you need to think about how it found out it's place in battle. In what aspect does your character find battle beautiful and exciting? Where does your great will comes from? Protecting those who cannot protect themselves, being in the thin line between life and death or seeing those who oppose you fall in despair. Did somebody teach you how to use it or you learned it by yourself with your talent? Maybe a relative or a hero of your home town/city helped you.

What made you start adventuring to keep battling, instead of other alternatives like arena fighting or protecting a city? What else are you looking for outside of battle? Do you want to gain money for any particular reason, using your talents to gain reputation, or do you want to find something in specific which is only possible to achieve by going through dangerous paths?

Quick Build

To make a Daredevil quickly, you can follow these suggestions. First of all, you should prioritise your Dexterity score, then your Wisdom score, and if possible your Constitution. Then, you take the folk hero background. Finally, take proficiency in Athletics or Acrobatics, Survival and gaming set (playing cards). Finally, pick leather armor and two daggers, a short sword, a dagger, the exploration's pack and playing cards.

Multiclassing

You must have atleast : Dexterity 13, and Wisdom 13 or Intelligence 13

You gain the following proficiencies when multiclassed on this class : Light armor, simple weapons, improvised weapons, martial weapons

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per Daredevil level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier.
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Daredevil level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: light armor
• Weapons: simple weapons, martial weapons, firearms, improvised weapons
• Tools: One gaming set of your choice

• Saving Throws: Strength, Wisdom
• Skills: Choose two skills from Acrobatics, Athletics, Medicine, Intimidation, Perception, Performance, and Survival.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) leather armor and a dagger or (b) padded armor and a martial weapon
• A martial weapon and a simple weapon
• One gaming set
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack

Rapid Maneuvering

Daredevils are extremely agile, swinging their weapons and moving around stylishly at unnatural speeds.

At 1st level, when a creature within 5 feet of you is about to hit you with an attack, you can use your reaction to roll an Athletic or Acrobatic skill check. Depending on your result, you gain the following amount of AC against that attack:

If you dodge the attack, you may move 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. However, if you do not, the creature rolls an extra dice for the attack damage.

Additionally, you can count as being in Two Weapon Fighting if you hold a light weapon in one hand and nothing in the other, making you able to attack with that same weapon or with an unarmed strike as a bonus action.

Blade's Edge

Manifesting blades with their will, Daredevils of the blade's edge are quite artistic, going around attacking and dashing with their blades, granting a smooth and beautiful spectacle for those witnessing them in battle.

Cloud of Blades

Starting at 18th level, when you become Frenetic, you add an additional blade for any creature within 15 feet, dealing 1d4 slashing damage to them. You are able to go beyond your limit of blades while frenetic.

When it ends, all the blades above your limit vanish.

Luxor

Starting at 3rd level, you can tap into the power of Lightborn, creatures harnessing the energy of the light, to unleash devastating attacks. You choose between the following Lightborn colors: Cyan, Emerald, Grey, Pink, Purple, Gold, Red, and Green. You have the ability to use Luxor points to do a variety of different Luxor Abilities, unique to your Lightborn's color. You have a maximum amount of Luxor points equal to double your proficiency bonus and you regain them on a short or long rest. All damage from your Luxor abilities is of the same type as your Lightborn.

Your Luxor Save DC = 8 + Wisdom modifier + proficiency bonus

Additionally, you can convert a maximum of 2 Luxor points into Thrill points or vice versa a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier.

Shining Display

Additionally at 3rd level, you can spend 2 Luxor points and 2 Thrill points as a bonus action to gain unique benefits depending on your Lightborn's color until the start of your next turn. Each color has the following effects:

• Cyan - When you hit an enemy with an attack their movement speed is reduced to 0 and can't take reactions. Your attacks do an additional 1d6 Cold damage.

• Emerald - You gain a +2 bonus to your AC and an enemy that tries to hit you with a melee attack makes a Constitution saving throw against your Luxor Save DC, being poisoned on a fail. Your attacks do an additional 1d6 Poison damage.

• Grey - You can pass through creatures as if they are difficult terrain, you do not trigger opportunity attacks and cannot end your movement in the same space as another creature. When you pass through a creature they take 1d4 Fire damage. Your attacks do an additional 1d6 Fire damage.

• Pink - Your movement speed is doubled and whenever you hit with an attack, you heal 1d4 hitpoints. Your attacks do an additional 1d6 Force damage.

• Purple - You gain a flying speed of 30ft. and descend safely at the start of your next turn. When you attack an enemy, you can have them make a Strength saving throw against your Luxor Save DC. On a fail, you can drag them with you, dropping them at the end of your turn. Your attacks do an additional 1d6 Force damage.

• Gold - Enemies attack you with disadvantage. If an enemy is 5 ft. away from you, they must attack you if possible. Your attacks do an additional 1d6 Psychic damage.

• Red - You can take 1d4 damage to make an additional attack with an Attack action. Your attacks deal an extra 1d6 Fire damage.

• Green - When you make an attack, a pulse with an area of 10 ft. comes out from the target, dealing 1d4 damage to enemies in the pulse's area and healing 1d4 hitpoints to allies in the area. Your attacks deal an extra 1d6 Radiant damage.

You can do this feature once per turn and a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per short or long rest.

Additionally, you gain access to the Enlightened Blast and Enlightened Dance Luxor abilities.

Bright Excitement

Finally at 3rd level, you gain 1 Thrill each time you hit with one of your Luxor Abilities.

Light Within

When you reach 6th level, you can spend 2 Luxor points and 1 Thrill point to use one of your Lightborn's available Light Abilities.

Additionally, when you use your Shining Display feature you may spend an additional 1 Luxor point and 1 Thrill point to gain the effects of another color of your choice.

Finally, you gain access to the Enlightened Taunt Luxor ability.

Drain the Shine

When you reach 10th level, when you hit an enemy with a melee attack you can choose to gain 2 Luxor Points. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier.

Additionally, you gain access to the Enlightened Vacuum Luxor ability.

Brightest Display

When you reach 15th level, when you activate one of the Shining Display features, you can immediately one of your Lightborn's available Light Abilities. You can also spend an additional 1 Thrill point to deal additional damage equal to your Wisdom modifier with your Shining Display.

Additionally, you can gain access to the Enlightened Trickshot Luxor ability.

Glowing Breaker

When you reach 18th level, when you activate Frenetic, you gain the Shining Display effects from your color and you may use one of your Luxor abilities for free without spending an action.

Finally, you gain access to the Enlightened Madness Luxor ability.

Enlightened Blast

You concentrate a ball of Luxor in your hands, throwing it on the ground to blow up in an explosion of light.
Cost: 1 Luxor Point
Action: You make a ranged weapon attack against an enemy. On a hit, they take 1d8 + Wisdom modifier damage. Hit or miss, the target and every creature in a 5 ft. radius make a Dexterity saving throw. They take 1d6 damage on a fail.

Enlightened Dance

Focusing Luxor on your hands and feet, you begin moving in place tracing the air with light confusing your foes.
Cost: 2 Luxor Points
Action: Attacks made against you have disadvantage until the start of your next turn. When a creature attacks you and misses, you can spend your reaction to make an attack of opportunity against it.

Enlightened Taunt

You gain the attention of your foes with the light shining from you, with your words goading them to attack you in a rage.
Cost: 1 Luxor Point
Action: Each hostile creature of your choosing within 20 ft. that can hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a fail, they must attack you on their next turn. By spending an additional 1 Luxor point, you may use this Luxor ability as a bonus action.

Enlightened Vacuum

Focusing Luxor in your hands, by spiraling it out of control you shoot a concentrated beam of luxor that pulls your enemy towards you.
Cost: 1 Luxor Point
Action: You make a ranged weapon attack against an enemy up to 30 ft. away. On a hit, you deal 1d10 + Wisdom modifier damage to it and they make a Strength saving throw, being pulled toward you up to 30ft. on a fail. By spending an additional 1 Luxor point, you may use this Luxor ability as a bonus action.

Enlightened Trickshot

You concentrate Luxor in your index finger, shooting a bolt of Light in a strange arc.
Cost: 2 Luxor Points
Action: You make a ranged weapon attack with disadvantage against an enemy that is up to 120 ft. from you. They do not count as having cover when targeted by this attack. On a hit, they take 1d12 + Wisdom modifier damage and you gain an additional 1 Thrill point. By spending an additional 1 Luxor Point, you make the attack without disadvantage.

Enlightened Madness

You focus Luxor in your entire body, entering a frenzy and rushing your enemies in a mad flurry of blows.
Cost: 3 Luxor Points
Action: You move up to your movement speed, attacking each enemy that is 5ft. away from you at any point during your movement. You can only attack each enemy once. You do not trigger any opportunity attacks during this movement.

Cyan

Emerald

Grey

Pink

Gravity Pull

You use Luxor to manipulate gravity to make your enemies come to you.

Light Ability: As a bonus action, you change the gravity in a zone to point towards yourself. All creatures in a 15 ft. cube up to 15 ft. away from you make a Constitution saving throw. On a fail, they get pulled up to 15 ft. towards you.

Heaviness Crash

By focusing Luxor on someone's body, you can make them heavier, stopping them in their tracks.

Light Ability: As a bonus action, one creature within 15 ft. which you can see must make a Constitution saving throw. On a fail, they fall prone and must use all their movement to get up. If it's an object, you can pull it towards you or make it collapse in on itself if it weighs 5 pounds or less. If it collides with another creature, that creature makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 1d8 damage on a fail for every 5 pounds the object weighs.

Zero Weight

You learned that you can use Luxor to manipulate gravity to traverse through the air gracefully.

Light Ability: As a bonus action, you can make someone you can see that's up to 30 ft. from you lighter than air. Any willing target gains 15 ft. of flying speed until the end of their turn. Any unwilling target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a fail, they are thrust 15 ft. into the air until the start of your next turn, unable to move willingly.

Dreamlike Reality

You use Luxor to distort reality around you, making anyone affected be in your world.

Light Ability: As part of the Attack action, one creature within 30 ft. must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a fail, they are entranced and enter your reality. While affected, they take 1d4 + Intelligence modifier Psychic damage at the start of their turn and any other Gold Light Ability against them becomes stronger. They can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns.

Harmful Hallucination

By focusing Luxor you can create an illusionary object that attacks someone, hurting them mentally.

Light Ability: As part of the Attack action, one creature within 15 ft. which you can see must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a fail, they take 2d4 + Intelligence modifier Psychic or half as much on a success. If the target is affected by Dreamlike Reality, they take 2d8 + Intelligence modifier Psychic damage instead.

Non-existent Apparitions

You learned that you can use Luxor to create illusionary duplicates of yourself to confuse your attackers.

Light Ability: As a bonus action, you create 2 illusionary duplicates of yourself around you until the start of your next turn. When a creature attacks you, roll a d20 with a +1 bonus for each duplicate. If you roll 10 or higher, they instead hit one of your duplicates. Their AC is equal to yours, and if they get hit they instantly disappear. If the attacker is affected by Dreamlike Reality, you roll the d20 with advantage.

Flame shot

You use Luxor to create a small ball of concentrated fire in your hand and shoot it at an enemy.

Light Ability: As part of your Attack action, you can make a ranged spell attack: + Dexterity modifier + proficiency bonus to hit, reach 60 ft., 1 target. Hit: 1d12 + Dexterity modifier Fire damage. You can choose to take 1d4 damage to add an extra 1d6 damage.

Flurry of Fire

By focusing Luxor on your limbs you create flames around them, striking nearby foes with blazing strikes.

Light Ability: As part of your Attack action, you can make 2 Melee weapon attacks: + Strength modifier + proficiency bonus to hit, reach 5 ft., 1 target. Hit: 2d4 + Strength modifier Fire damage. You can choose to take 1d4 damage to roll a d6 instead for the damage of each attack.

Energy Beam

You use Luxor to shoot a beam made of nature's life force to either heal or hurt.

Light Ability: As part of your Attack action, you shoot a beam 5 ft. wide and 30 ft. long. Ranged spell attack + Wisdom modifier + proficiency bonus to hit. When you hit a creature with the beam you can choose to either heal or deal Radiant damage to it for 1d4 + Wisdom modifier. The beam ends when it hits one creature.

Shining Blossom

By focusing Luxor on the ground you can concentrate energy towards it to grow a bed of shining flowers that can redirect your beams of energy.

Light Ability: As a bonus action, you make a bed of shining flowers in a 5 ft. square in a space up to 30 ft. away from you. Anyone standing in the bed of flowers is healed by 1d4 + Wisdom modifier at the end of their turn. When an Energy Beam you shoot hits the same square as a bed of flowers, you can choose a new direction for the beam to carry on, and the beam hits for an additional 1d4. If a creature is standing in the bed of flowers when this happens, they are hit by the beam.

Sudden Garden

You learned that you can use Luxor to manipulate the energy from nature to create a beautiful garden of flowers around you, empowering the energy that is within.

Light Ability: As a bonus action, you create a garden of flowers in a 10 ft. radius around you. While you're inside the garden, you shoot an additional Energy Beam and Energy Beams you shoot can bend and turn in any way you choose.

Whirlwind of Blood

Starting at 3rd level, by spending 2 Thrill point as an action, you can move up to 5 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. After doing so, you can make an attack roll with a melee weapon, that attack targets each creature within 5 feet, but only deals half damage. Then, you can move up to 5 feet again without provoking opportunity attacks.

You may lose a number of hitpoints equal to your proficiency during the feature, doing so augments the area of this feature to 10 feet.

Bloodthirst

Additionally at 3rd level, as a bonus action, if you have hit multiple creatures and one of them is below half of their hitpoints , you can do an unarmed attack against one of them and gain that amount of damage as hit points.

Rose Tempest

Finally at 3rd level, you gain one Thrill point for every 2 different creatures you hit in a round.

Battlefield Sweeper

Starting at 6th level, when you attack a creature, you can attack every creature within 5 feet of it with that same attack but they still need to be within your weapon's range. The damage from that attack is divided amongst the hit creatures.

Additionally, you can spend 3 Thrill points by using your reaction to take less damage equal to your proficiency until the end of your next turn. For each different creature attacking you while you are under this effect, you can add it again on top of the current reduction.

You may lose a number of hitpoints equal to your proficiency during the feature, doing so gives you temporary hit points equal to double your proficiency while affected by this feature.

One Thousand Petals

Starting at 10th level, if you have spent thrill during this turn, as a bonus action, you may deal a number of slashing damage equal to your proficiency bonus to every creature within 5 feet. You can do this feature once per turn.

By also losing a number of hitpoints equal to your proficiency, you can also add your Wisdom modifier to the damage.

One Rose Many Corpses

Starting at 15th level, the range of the Whirldwind of Blood feature augments by 5 feet, as well as the augment.

Additionally, if you reduce a creature to 0 hitpoints with Whirlwind of Blood, you can do another one as a bonus action without any cost.

Death Lotus

Starting at 18th level, when you become Frenetic, you can hit any creature within 15 feet of you with one of your weapons by losing a number of hitpoints equal to your proficiency bonus.

Spellcasting

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

Battle Healer

Starting at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in Medicine skill checks. You can double it if you are already proficient on it. You can also use a healer's kit as a bonus action.

Divine Exaltation

Additionally at 3rd level, you gain one Thrill point when you heal or grant temporary hit points to a creature within 10 feet, or when you deal radiant or necrotic damage.

Muscular Armor

At 3rd level, you can use your Strength modifier instead of your Dexterity modifier on your AC.

Unstoppable Force

Additionally at 3rd level, by spending 3 Thrill points as a bonus action, you harden yourself with your strength and you are able to rush onto the battlefield, pushing or taking anything in your way until the end of your turn.

While under the effect of this feature, creatures have advantage on attack rolls made against you, but you take only half damage from weapon weapons. You are also able to move through hostile creature spaces. You can attempt to shove creatures aside or grapple up to 2 creatures that you moved through. Shoved creatures by this feature take damage equal to your unarmed strikes' damage.

At the end of your turn, you can only get one creature grappled.

Brute Style

Finally at 3rd level, you gain one Thrill point when you grapple or shove a creature.

Grappler's Gift

Starting at 6th level, you gain +2 AC for each creature you are grappling with.

Additionally, by spending 2 Thrill point as a bonus action, you can throw a grappled creature up to 5 feet per Strength modifier. The thrown creature takes damage equal to your unarmed strikes' damage and it falls prone to the ground.

If you throw it against another creature, the creature hit by your thrown creature takes damage equal to your unarmed strikes' damage and must do an Athletic check against yours. If it fails, it also falls prone.

If you throw it against a vertical surface, like a wall, it takes extra damage equal to 1d6.

Harden Fists

At 10th level, you gain 1 Thrill point when you shove or throw a creature against another.

Additionally, the extra damage of Grappler's Gift is now a 1d8 instead of 1d6 and your unarmed strikes now deal 1d6 damage or 1d8 if you already deal that much damage with unarmed strikes.

Hostage Opportunist

Starting at 15th level, by spending 1 Thrill point as a bonus action, you can pin a grappled creature to the ground without doing an Athletic check.

Additionally, when a creature is about to hit you with an attack, you can spend 4 Thrill points by using your reaction to make one of your grappled creatures take the damage instead.

Apotheosis of Strength

Starting at 18th level, when you become Frenetic, you can attempt to grapple one creature within 5 feet, you can grapple up to 2 creatures.

Additionally, your unarmed strikes deal 1d12 damage while frenetic and you can throw all the creatures with a single bonus action with double the range and damage.

Weak Spots

Starting at 3rd level, you start to see the weak points of your foes all around them. By exploiting them, you can inflict a high amount of pain to them, making your job easier.

Every creature has 4 weak points, one from each side of the creature: top, right, bottom, left. By hitting one with a finesse or light weapon, your attack will deal an additional 1d4 damage. If you hit the 4 weak points of the creature, the creature becomes weakened, making you and your allies able to add the bonus damage to any attack against it for one round.

When a creature is no longer weaken or when you hit another creature, those 4 weak points reappear.

Executioner’s Laceration

Additionally at 3rd level, by spending 3 Thrill points as part of an Attack action, you can replace a normal attack with this special attack. You can move next to a creature within 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks.

If the creature's hitpoints are below half of it's max hitpoints, you may attack the creature with a finesse or light weapon. You can add 1d4 for each time you hit that creature during this encounter.

If the attack hits and the damage is enough to reduce the creature's hitpoints to 0, the creature is then instantly killed. Also, you may do this feature again as a bonus action, counting as if you hit the new target creature a number of times equal to how many times you hit the previous killed creature.

If the damage is not enough to reduce it to 0 hitpoints, then the creature only takes half the damage.

Target Acquire

Additionally at 3rd level, you gain one Thrill point when you hit 2 times the same creature in a row within a turn.

Effective Tools

Starting at 6th level, your critical hits with finesse or light weapons are now 19-20.

Also, by spending one Thrill point as a bonus action, you can augment the critical change by one if it’s a creature that you lastly hit.

Tactical Advantage

At 10th level, you gain 1 Thrill point when you hit a weak point from the Weak Spots feature.

Additionally, the weak points damage from the Weak Spots feature augments from 1d4 to 1d6 damage.

High Stakes

Starting at 15th level, when using the Attack action, you can lower the needed number to roll to do critical hit up to your proficiency bonus against a specific creature until the end of your turn, but it lowers your AC by the same amount. It most be the creature that you lastly hit.

Additionally, when you do a critical hit, you gain 2 Thrill Points and you count the attack has two hits for the Executioner’s Laceration feature.

Last Breath

Starting at 18th level, when you become Frenetic, the next hit you do will break all the 4 weak points of a creature and the critical range of the following attacks you make against it are from 17 to 20 while it's weakened.

Air Hopping

At 3rd level, you can use your dexterity modifier instead of your strength to jump.

Also, by spending 2 Thrill points as a bonus action, you can add up to 10 bonus feet to your vertical or horizontal jump until the end of your turn.

At later levels, this feature's jumping boost augments:

You can also do this feature once per short or long rest without spending any Thrill points.

Star Fall

Additionally at 3rd level, you are able to use the air and force of your body falling to use it as a lethal weapon against your enemies.

When you jump at least 10 feet, you can finish your jump in a hostile creature space within 10 feet.

If you finish your jump in a creature space, you can then fall or collide with it as part of the Attack action. The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw against an attack made with a weapon or unarmed strike.

If the creature rolls lower than you, it takes damage from the attack as usual but you also add the fall damage from the jump length as if you were falling from that distance.

Depending on how you jumped, the following effects happen:

• Horizontal Jump: If the creature rolls lower than you, you also make the creature move 5 feet for each dice rolled for the fall damage. If not, you move 5 feet for every 2 dice rolled for the fall damage, which provokes opportunity attacks.

Psychic Thrill

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to use psionic powers with your will and mind.

You can choose 2 manifestations that you can manifest from the Mind Harvester's Psionic Abilities below.

To manifest them, you need to use a number of Thrill points that the manifestation needs and you need to be stimulated by 2 links. You use your Intelligence Modifier for any effect of those manifestations. When you gain a new level, you can change 1 manifestation which you can manifest. You also have a Psionic DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + Intelligence modifier. If you are concentrating on one manifestation, you can't concentrate on another.

Additionally, you can use Intelligence instead of Wisdom for your Daredevil class features.

Emotional Link

Also at 3rd level, by spending 1 Thrill point as a bonus action, you can connect yourself with a creature within 30 feet, draining its emotions and tiring them.

It must do a Wisdom saving throw against your Psionic DC. If it fails, you then start to harvest its emotions for 1 minute. The link breaks whenever you want as a free action, or when the creature goes further than 30 feet of you.

At the beginning of their turn, affected creatures take 1d4 + your Intelligence modifier psychic damage. If it rolls a 4, it can’t take bonus actions.

However, when you are hit while you are linked with other creatures, you must do a Concentration saving throw with a DC equal to the damage taken. If you fail, you are hit with a shocking headache due to the unexpected change, dealing 1d4 psychic to yourself for each connected creature and you lose 1 of your links. If it's a critical hit, you lose 2 instead.

You can link yourself with a maximum of creatures equal to your proficiency.

Stimulus Overdose

Finally at 3rd level, you gain one Thrill point at the start of your turn for each emotional or intellectual link on hostile creatures.

Intellectual Link

Starting at 6th level, not only can you collect emotions for your foes but also their thoughts. By spending 1 Thrill point as a bonus action, you can, like the Emotional Link, create a link directly with a creature’s thoughts within 30 feet.

It must do an Intelligence saving throw against your Psionic DC. It has disadvantage if it’s already connected with the Emotional Link. If it fails, you then start to harvest its intellect and read what they are thinking for 1 minute. The link breaks whenever you want as a free action, or when the creature goes further than 30 feet of you. Affected creatures have disadvantage in attack rolls against you and you gain advantage against Dexterity, Intelligence and Wisdom saving throw made against abilities from that creature. Additionally, affected creatures become vulnerable to psychic damage.

Greater Mind

Starting at 10th level, you can learn 2 additional manifestations.

Aura of Victory (1–15 thrill; conc., 10 min.)

As a reaction whenever an enemy you can see is reduced to 0 hit points, you project thrillonic energy until your concentration ends. The energy fortifies you and your allies when your enemies are felled, you and each of your allies within 15 feet of you gain temporary hit points equal to double the thrill points spent to activate this effect until the end of the encounter.

Crowned in Sorrow (1–15 thrill)

As an action, one creature you can see within 30 feet of you must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 1d6 psychic damage, and it can’t take reactions until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage. You add 1d6 per 2 additional Thrill points used on this ability.

Eye of Horror (1–15 thrill)

As an action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The target must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 1d6 psychic damage and can’t move closer to you until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage. You add 1d6 per 2 additional Thrill points used on this ability.

Modified Weapons

Starting at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with tinker's tools and carpenter's tools.

By spending 8 hours with one of those tools, one ranged weapon and 10 gp of materials like metal and strings, the weapon used for this feature becomes a modified weapon, which reduces the normal range to half of it rounded down, but gives you the possibility to do some features described below. The normal range can't be reduced below 20 feet.

Can’t Catch Me

Additionally at 3rd level, by spending 2 Thrill points as a reaction when a creature enters within 5 feet of you or as a bonus action, you may roll an Athletic or Acrobatic skill check as opposed to one of a creature within 5 feet. If you succeed, you pass through the creature, moving in a straight line up to 20 feet and without provoking opportunity attacks from that creature.

Doing so will also give you the opportunity to attack the creature while passing through it by using a melee weapon or a modified weapon. In any case, you don’t suffer disadvantage for being in close quarters with a modified weapon during this feature and you can consider this attack as a melee attack for the purpose of the Thrill feature.

Hybrid Combat Style

Finally at 3rd level, you gain 1 Thrill point when you hit a creature with a ranged attack and a melee attack in the same round.

Additionally, you can count modified shortbows as light weapons for the purpose of the Rapid Maneuvering feature. You can shoot with a modified shortbow or load a modified crossbow/firearm even if your other hand is holding a light weapon.

Evasive Attacks

Starting at 6th level, during your turn, when you hit a creature, you can move 5 feet without provoking an attack of opportunity from the hit creature.

Coin Toss

Also at 6th level, by spending a certain amount of Thrill points as a bonus action, you can toss a coin in the air for each 2 Thrill points within 20 feet. They stay in the air until the end of your turn.

While the coins are in the air, you can attack them with a modified weapon. They have the same AC as the closest hostile creature to them + 2 for each coin in the air. If you attack them and the attack succeeds, all the coins ricochet to the closest creature, taking the damage of your weapon + 1d8 for each tossed coin.

Swift Menace

Starting at 10th level, each creature you pass through with the Fleet Positioning and Can’t Catch Me has disadvantage on their first attack made against you, and you have advantage on the first ranged attack made against them with a modified weapon until the end of your next turn.

Deadly Shots

Starting at 15th level, if you reduce a creature to 0 hitpoints with a Coin Toss, you gain 2 Thrill points and you can move up to where the coins were tossed.

Additionally, you gain 1 Thrill point if you pass through a hostile creature.

Showdown

Starting at 18th level, while you are frenetic, you can't receive disadvantage on your attack rolls while attacking with a modified weapon and you can count attack rolls of 9 or lower as a 10 when attacking with a modified weapon.

Additionally, when a creature moves or enters within 10 feet of you while frenetic, you can attack it with a modified weapon without using your reaction. You can only attack one time the same creature with this feature.

Spellcasting

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

Shape Casting

Additionally at 3th level, you can act in a way so that you can shape and then cast a specific school of spell with more ease. To shape the spells, you must do specific actions in order to shape those spells correctly. When it's shaped, you can then cast a spell from that school with 1 less Thrill point for each spell level until the end of your next turn.

Abjuration. During your turn, use the Dodge or Disengage Action and dodge one attack, or dodging 2 attacks from different enemies.

Conjuration. During your turn, attack with two different weapons and hit 2 different creatures.

Divination. During your turn, use the Ready action and deal damage to a creature with it, or dodge an attack with Rapid Maneuvering.

Enchantment. During one round, move at least 10 feet in a straight line towards a creature, hit that creature and move 10 feet again.

Evocation. During one round, hit the same creature 2 times with a single weapon.

Illusion. During one round, miss one attack and directly hit the next one.

Necromancy. During your turn, reduce a creature to 0 hitpoints, or put it below half of its hitpoints.

Transmutation. During your turn, use Cooling-off or do a critical hit.

Additionally, you can cast any spell at your maximum spell slot level after using Frenetic without any Thrill cost.

Arcanic Rush

Additionally at 3rd level, you gain 1 Thrill when you deal damage with a spell or when you deal non-bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage.

Also, you can use Intelligence instead of Wisdom for Daredevil features.

Weave Manipulation

Starting at 6th level, when you shape a spell with the spell Shape Casting Feature, by spending 2 Thrill points as a bonus action, you can cast a 1st level spell of the same school of the shaped spell this round.

Barbarian Archetype - Path of the Manic

These barbarians live for battle and harness their rage to go dash into battle. Using Thrill, barbarians from the Path of the Manic are really good at targeting foes in the back lines of the battlefield, passing through them and harnessing the pain and thrill they took.

Frenetic Rage

Beginning at 14th level, by spending your maximum amount of Thrill points as a bonus action while in Rage, you enter in a Frenetic Rage until the start of your next turn. While in a Frenetic Rage, you gain the following bonuses:

• Your movement speed increases by 15 feet.
• You can make an extra attack as part of the Attack action.
• You can use Perilous Charge or Deranged Presence as a free action and without any Thrill cost in your turn.
• If you put a creature to 0 hitpoints, you can add your proficiency bonus to the damage of your next attacks in your turn.
• Furious Counter does not cost any Thrill points and if the creature becomes prone, you can attack the creature.

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

Thrill

Starting at 3rd level, Bravos began to be able to use their will to push themselves to their limits.

The Bravo has the ability to use Thrill, which permits them to go beyond their capacities and execute difficult maneuvers and techniques.

You gain Thrill points with the following methods:

• Hitting the same creature more than once.
• Going below half your hit points.

If your turn ends and you have not gained any Thrill points since your last turn, you lose 1 Thrill point.

You can have an amount of Thrill points up to your proficiency bonus. If you are at your maximum Thrill, you gain a number of hitpoints equal to your proficiency bonus at the start of your turn.

Combat Tricks

Also at 3rd level, you learn 2 combat tricks, gaining an additional one at 7th, 10th and 15th level. You can perform a number of combat tricks a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per short or long rest. You don't gain any Thrill when performing a Combat Trick. You can change one of your known combat tricks when you gain a level in Fighter. If a combat trick requires a saving throw, your Combat Trick save DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier.

Risky Dodge

When a creature is about to hit you with an attack, you can spend 2 Thrill points by using your reaction to dodge an attack and move 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. However, other creatures have advantage when attacking you until the start of your next turn.

Augment - You can dodge an additional attack and move 5 feet, however, you also become vulnerable to slashing, bludgeoning or piercing damage caused by creatures which you didn't dodge the attacks from.

Thrill

Starting at 3rd level, monks following the Way of Ambivalence began to be able to use their will to push themselves to their limits.

They have the ability to use Thrill, which permits them to go beyond their capacities and execute difficult maneuvers and techniques.

You gain Thrill points with the following methods:

• Hitting 2 different creatures.
• Dodging 2 attacks in the same round.

If your turn ends and you have not gained any Thrill points since your last turn, you lose 1 Thrill point.

You can have an amount of Thrill points up to your proficiency bonus. If you are at your maximum Thrill, you add 10 feet to your speed.

Balance of Temperaments

Also at 3rd level, by spending 2 Thrill points as a free action, you can enter in one of the following temperaments until the start of your next turn:

Focused - You channel your emotions to totally focus on the battle. While focused, you add half your proficiency bonus rounded down in your AC and you spend one less ki point in monk features.

Excited - You free your emotions to augment battle prowess. While excited, your unarmed strikes damage dice value increases by 2 and you gain temporary hitpoints equal to your proficiency bonus when hitting a creature.

Your temperament stays one additional round if you gained a Thrill point before the end of this effect.

Additionally, while in a temperament, you can use 2 Thrill points as 1 Ki point when using a monk features and you can use 1 Ki point as 2 Thrill points for this subclass's features.

Embracing Body

Starting at 6th level, you can learn how to utilize your temperaments even more, making you able to manifest them in innovative ways.

Sharp Eyes - By spending 2 Thrill points as a bonus action while Focused, you can try to spot a weakness of your opponent until the end of your turn. On your next hit, the attacked creature must also roll a Constitution saving throw against your Ki save DC. If they fail, you reduce its AC by your proficiency bonus until the end of its turn.

Flaming Fists - By spending 2 Thrill points as a bonus action while Excited, you can fuel your arms and legs to aflame them. Until the end of your turn, your next 2 unarmed strikes can burn a creature on hit until the end of their turn. Burned creatures take 1d4 + your proficiency bonus fire damage at the start of their turn. If they take 6 or more damage from this feature, their next attack this turn has disadvantage.

Defensive Emotions

Starting at 11th level, you can extend the duration of your temperament up to 1 minute by spending 4 Thrill points while in one. Additionally, you now can control your emotions to use them defensively.

Motion Control - When a creature is about to hit you with a weapon attack while Focused, you can spend 3 Thrill points by using your reaction to alternate the way of the attack to another creature or to attack it instead. The creature must do a Dexterity saving throw against your Ki save DC. If they fail, you can choose a creature within 5 feet of you to take half the damage of the attack and you don't take any damage from the attack. If you don't choose, you can instead attack it and you also don't take any damage from the attack.

Tough Body and Mind - When you are about to do a saving throw while Excited, you can spend 3 Thrill points by using your reaction to gain advantage on that saving throw. If you succeed, you gain temporary hitpoints equal to your monk level.

Total Control

By 17th level, you become fully capable of harnessing all your emotions and controlling them. By spending 2 Thrill points while in a temperament, you can change your temperament into the following one:

Controlled - Your mind and body become one with your emotions and your will. While controlled, you do an extra attack when using Flurry of Blows, you heal yourself by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus and gain 2 ki points at the start of your turn.

While controlled, you can use both abilities from the Embracing Body and Control of Emotions features.

This temperament stays one additional round if you gain 2 Thrill points before the end of it. You cannot extend it with the Defensive Emotions feature.

Thrill

Starting at 3rd level, Madcaps began to be able to use their will to push themselves to their limits.

Madcaps have the ability to use Thrill, which permits them to go beyond their capacities and execute difficult maneuvers and techniques.

You gain Thrill points with the following methods:

• Doing a Sneak Attack.
• Reducing a creature to 0 hitpoints.

If your turn ends and you have not gained any Thrill points since your last turn, you lose 1 Thrill point.

You can have an amount of Thrill points up to your proficiency bonus. If you are at your maximum Thrill, you can attack with a light weapon as a bonus action.

Rushing Blade

Also at 3rd level, by spending 2 Thrill points when you use a bonus action to Disengage, you may immediately move up to 15 feet towards a hostile creature. You may immediately make an attack with a light weapon against the creature you moved towards. When you move in this way, you are unaffected by difficult terrain and can pass through spaces occupied by other creatures without penalty.

Pumping Adrenaline

Starting at 9th level, by spending 2 Thrill points on your turn, you gain an additional bonus action.

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

Danger Seeker

At 13th level, when a creature within 5 feet is attacking an ally, you can spend 3 Thrill points by using your reaction to attract its attention to you and he instead attacks you. If it misses the attack, your next weapon attacks scores a critical hit on a roll of 18 to 20 against that creature until the end of your turn.

One against the World

When you reach 17th level, by spending 6 Thrill points, all your attacks count as being Sneak Attacks, but you can only sneak attack the same creature once.

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

V1.0

Creation of the class with 6 subclasses: Blade's Edge, Blooming Rose, Divine Wrath, Hitman, Swift Trigger and Weaveshaper.

V2.0

After all the feedback, I tried to focus on what makes the daredevil. I tried to make the key features of the class and the subclasses risky to use. Also changed or removed some features that were hard to balance (the old Hybrid Combat Style for example) or just weird (old Rapid Action).

Base Class

Small tweaking to make the class a bit more clear.

• Rapid Action now specifies that you can use the same weapon you attacked with as a bonus action if you have the right conditions.
• Combo Breaker's DC for exhaustion is now 10 but it augments by 5 each time you use it per long rest and you gain temporary Thrill points when used.
• Quick Hands now gives proficiency in Sleight of Hand.
• Fleet Positioning now only costs 1 Thrill point.
• Instinctive Counter now specifies that it's the creature's check which is taken in account for the counter to take effect.
• Thrilling Danger does not work if you know its position or if its an allied trap.

Blade's Edge

Blade's Edge is a really good spot, however, the way the blades are handled make this a bit convoluted to use due to how many dices you need to roll. So I thought of an alternative to make it a bit easier to handle.

• Hail of Blades has massively changed. Now you manifest blades when you hit a creature. The blades' hits now depends of the attack roll instead of rolling for each. For each 2 values of your attack roll above the enemy AC, a blade will hit it. However, now that the blades are easier to get, you also loose them when you are hit by an attack.
• Dashing Blades's range is now 10 feet.
• Rain of Blades is now a bonus action and reduces the value you need to hit with a blade.

Divine Wrath

Small change to make divine wrath a bit more consistent.

• Thrill Casting now only resets at long rests and not short rests.

Enforcer

New subclass around strength by shoving, grabbing and throwing it's opponents around, and using it's own muscles has armor.

Hopper

New subclass around jumping and using fall damage to damage his enemies. Also adds some utility outside of combat with a free hop per short rest and flight per long rest.

Swift Trigger

The last feature of this class was quite boring and was coping Action Surge in some way. The new one may help it to be a bit more interesting.

Base Class

Overall balancing and tweaking of features. Some features also changed name.

• Rapid Action is now Rapid Maneuvering, and it now you take an additional dice of damage when you fail to dodge the attack.
• You can now choose Superior Technique as a Fighting Style.
• Thrill now specifies the maximum amount of Thrill you get and that out of combat you don't have Thrill. Also, you no longer gain Thrill when you take damage, but you gain when you go below half your hitpoints and when passing through creatures with Fleet Positioning. Finally, if you are above half your maximum Thrill, your unarmed strikes and improvised weapons are stronger.
• Combo Breaker is now called Frenetic to make it more clear to what it does.
• Stress Relief is now called Cooling-off to make it more clear to what it does. Additionally, it's now a 2nd Level feature and only heals the amount of Thrill points you spend + your Wisdom modifier, and it can remove the frighten condition and add some extra healing if you spend 5 Thrill points or more a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per short rest.
• Instinctive Counter now costs 3 Thrill points and no longer asks you to do a skill check. Instead you attack the creature with a light weapon. If you succeed, you deal damage, disarm it, and you only take half the damage. You still fall prone and take damage if you fail.
• You can only attack, cast spell/cantrips, and use non Daredevil features more than once with bonus actions.
• Bringer of Carnage no longer affects allies.
• Master of All Weapons now augments all weapon's damage dice to 1d10 instead of 1d12. If the weapon already does that much damage or more, then you add 1d6.
• Lord of the Battlefield only grants 2 bonus actions if you are at your maximum thrill.

Blistering Light

New subclass around using Luxor, an energy which uses light, to do a variety of abilities around their Lightborn by mixing it with the Daredevil's Thrill.

Hitman

This subclass is fine on itself but Executioner Laceration was a bit clunky and weak.

• Executioner's Laceration now replaces an attack instead of using the full action.
• You need to hit a creature 2 times in the same turn to gain thrill now.

Hopper

This subclass is fine on itself but it needed some buff to be less clunky.

• Air Hopping is now specified that it only adds the bonus jumping in your turn.
• Star Fall's attack is now part of the Attack action instead of using the all action.
• Air Disk now specifies that it takes your movement speed for the flying speed.

Mind Harvester

This subclass was kinda weak since you would loose all your links on a hit + fail saving. I increase the power of the links and also adjusted the manifestation to be a bit more balance overall.

• Emotional Link and Intellectual Link only lose 1 link when you fail the saving throw, or 2 if the attack was a critical hit.
• Emotional Link and Intellectual Link only costs 1 Thrill point.
• Removed redundant wording on Incite Fear.
• Overwhelming Fury now obliges the creature to do the thing it does, instead of giving the choice.

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