Guardian

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d12 per Guardian level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d12 (or 7) + your Constitution modifier per Guardian level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: All armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Perception, and Persuasion.

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.

Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

Extra Reaction

Starting at 5th level, when you end your turn without using your action to cast a spell or use a magic item, you can take an additional reaction before the start of your next turn. You can only use one reaction per triggering effect. When you cast a spell as a reaction, you can't do so again until the start of your next turn.

The number of additional reactions granted by this feature increases to two when you reach 17th level in this class.

Ferocious Taunt

Also at 5th level, your taunts take a noticeable toll on your opponent's psyche. Your Daring Taunt feature gains the following effect in addition to its normal effects:

• It immediately takes psychic damage equal to your Inner Fire die. If damage from this effect would reduce a target to 0 hit points, it drops to 1 hit point instead.

Additionally, when a creature succeeds on its saving throw to resist your Daring Taunt feature, you can choose to have it suffer a single effect of your Daring Taunt feature of your choice.

Unbreakable

At 6th level, your unbreakable willpower shines through in the moments when you need it most. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage by an amount equal to twice your Guardian level.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again. You can use this feature twice between long rests starting at 15th level.

Honed Reflexes

At 7th level, you are a master of reacting to the opportunities presented to you. The range and movement of your Reactive Fighting features increase by 5 feet, to 15 feet of range and 10 feet of movement.

The range and movement of these features increase by 5 feet again when you reach 17th level in this class, to 20
feet of range and 15 feet of movement.

Juggernaut

At 9th level, you press through movement impairing effects with ease. While you are conscious, your move speed cannot be reduced without setting it to 0.

Additionally, you are immune to the effects of difficult terrain.

Unstoppable

Beginning at 14th level, your approach has become a near inevitability for most foes. You have advantage on ability checks and saving throws to prevent or end the frightened, grappled, prone, restrained, paralyzed or stunned condition and against effects that move or teleport you against your will.

Luring Taunt

At 17th level, your taunts make you even harder to ignore. Your Daring Taunt feature gains the following effect in addition to its normal effects:

• It must spend 2 feet of movement for every 1 foot it moves when moving away from you

Unyielding Bastion

At 20th level, even on the verge of collapse, you will serve as a aegis against the darkness for those in need. While you have no more than half of your hit points left the damage reduction of your Inner Fire feature is tripled.

Mystic Herald

Mystic Heralds augment their defenses with magics borrowed from the teachings of bards, using arcane magic channeled through rousing words or music to defend themselves and their allies.

Impenetrable Guard

When you choose this subclass at 3rd level, you shore up any remaining holes in your defense. After you reduce damage with your Inner Fire feature, you can use your reaction to add an additional Inner Fire die + your Constitution modifier to the damage reduction.

When you use this feature, you can reduce damage to zero using your Inner Fire feature. If you reduce damage to zero with your Inner Fire feature, you can choose to gain temporary hit points equal to any unused damage reduction.

Guarded Negotiations

Also at 3rd level, your guard is raised in all circumstances, not just on the battlefield. Creatures have disadvantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks against you.

Ever Vigilant

At 6th level, you are always on the lookout for threats against the lives of yourself and your companions. You gain the following benefits:

• You cannot be surprised while you are conscious
• You can add your Charisma modifier to initiative rolls

Superior Defense

Beginning at 13th level, your defenses are legendary. You add +1 to the total each time you roll your Inner Fire die.

Relentless Defender

At 18th level, you are relentless in your pursuit of defending your allies. If you are able to see or hear at least one living ally when you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, roll 1d20. On a result of 6 or greater, you can choose to drop to 1 hit point instead.

When you roll below a 6 for this effect, you cannot use this feature again until you complete a short rest

Is That All Ya Got?

When you choose this subclass at 3rd level, combat becomes a conversation to you... and you aren't the most polite conversationalist. When a creature within 30 feet of you attacks you, you can use your reaction to insult it. The creature must make a Wisdom saving throw or become blindly enraged by your insult. On a failure, the creature must immediately use its reaction to recklessly charge half of its movement speed directly towards you and you gain advantage on your next attack roll against it.

Interrogation Tactics

Also at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill. If you are already proficient in intimidation, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses intimidation instead. Additionally, you can use blackmail, provoking statements, insults, or some other method of your choice to draw information out of a target. After you spend 10 minutes interacting with it in close proximity, you ask it a yes or no question and make a Charisma (Intimidation) check contested by a Wisdom (Insight) check from the target. If you succeed, the target must truthfully answer yes, no, or I don't know.

Once you use this feature on a creature, they are immune to it for the next 24 hours.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Audacious Fighting

Starting at 13th level, your fighting style itself distracts and pisses of your opponents. After you hit a creature with a weapon attack, it has disadvantage on Wisdom saving throws until the end of its next turn.

Are You Even Trying!?

Starting at 18th level, you can respectfully tell one of your allies that they aren't performing at their best. As a bonus action, choose a creature within 60 feet of you that can hear you. They gain the following benefits for 1 minute:

• They are immune to the frightened condition
• Once on each of their turns the creature can roll your Inner Fire die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or damage roll it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Inner Fire die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails.
• At the start of each of their turns, they gain temporary hit points equal to your Inner Fire die

This effect ends early if the target is incapacitated or dies. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Draconic Disciple

You've learned much from the tutelage of dragons. You gain the following benefits:

Draconic Presence. If you fail a Charisma (Intimidation) or Charisma (Persuasion) check, you can use your reaction to reroll the check, as you tap into the mighty presence of dragons. Once this feature turns a failure into a success, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Draconic Blows. You can change the damage type of your melee weapon attacks to acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison.

Tongue of Dragons. You learn to speak, read, and write Draconic or one other language of your choice.

Frightful Glare

Your gaze invokes the fear of dragons in your enemies, freezing them in terror. When a creature starts its turn within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to force it to make a Wisdom saving throw or have its speed reduced to 0 until the end of its turn.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your charisma modifier. You regain all expended uses when you complete a short rest.

Draconic Aura

At 6th level, you can summon the elemental energy of dragons to assail your enemies. As a bonus action, you create a 10 foot wide aura around yourself. Choose a damage type from acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. Creatures that end their turn in the aura take 1d6 damage of the chosen type. The aura lasts until you choose to end it (no action required).

The damage of this feature increases to 2d6 when you reach 13th level in this class.

Legendary Resistance

At 13th level, you inherit the innate resistance of your Draconic teachers. When you fail a saving throw, you can choose to succeed instead.

Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

Wyrmguard's Awakening

At 18th level, when you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can choose to ascend to a draconic form instead. Reset your current hit point total to an amount equal to three times your Guardian level or your hit point maximum (whichever is lower) and you gain a flying speed of 60 feet for the next 10 minutes. Then, you regain any expended uses of Frightful Glare and Legendary Resistance.

Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

The Best Offense...

When you choose this subclass at 3rd level, you learn how to use shields not only for defense but also as bludgeoning weapons. While you are wielding a shield, you can choose to switch your grip on shield as a bonus action. You grip determines which traits the shield has when used as a weapon:

Knuckle Grip. The shield is a melee weapon with a reach of 5 feet that deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage and has the Light and Thrown(range 30/90) properties.

Forearm Grip. The shield is a melee weapon with a reach of 5 feet that deals 1d8 bludgeoning damage and has the Thrown(range 20/60) properties.

Two-Handed Grip. The shield is a melee weapon with a reach of 5 feet that deals 1d12 bludgeoning damage and has the Heavy and two-handed property.

If a shield grants a magical bonus to AC, it is also applied to attacks and damage rolls using the shield.

Fighting Style

At 3rd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take the same Fighting Style option more than once, even if you get to choose again.

Reactive Fighting: Takedown

You use brute force to disable those who would target your allies. When a creature within 10 feet of you makes a melee attack against a target other than you, you can use your reaction to move up to 5 feet towards it and attempt to grapple or shove it.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Shield Bash

At 13th level, you can slam creatures hard enough that they are temporarily dazed by your attack. When you hit another creature with a melee weapon attack using a shield, you can attempt to stun it. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of your next turn.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier. You regain all expended uses when you complete a short rest.

Wrecking Ball

At 18th level, you can build up momentum to become all but unstoppable. Your speed increases by 10 feet. If you've moved at least 10 feet in a straight line before you make an attack with a shield, your next attack made with a shield gains the following effects:

• It deals an additional 2d12 damage
• On a hit, the target must make a Strength saving throw or be pushed up to 10 feet directly away from you and knocked prone. Targets that are two or more sizes larger than you have advantage on their saving throw.