Subclass Remaster : Banneret Fighter

Tenets of the Crown

The tenets of the Oath of the Crown are often set by the sovereign, lord or noble to which their oath is sworn, but generally emphasize the following tenets.

• Law - The law is paramount. It is the mortar that holds the stones of civilization together, and it must be respected.
• Loyalty - Your word is your bond. Without loyalty, oaths and laws are meaningless.
• Duty - You must be willing to do what needs to be done for the sake of order and the protection of your soulbond, even in the face of overwhelming odds. Retreat and cowardice disgrace your oath. You must embrace faith, devotion and duty.
• Responsibility - You must face the consequences of your actions, and you are responsible for fulfilling your duties and obligations, the same way that you are responsible for the safety and protection of your sovereign.

Oath of the Crown Spells

Channel Divinity

When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following two Channel Divinity options.

• Sovereign Presence : As an action, you issue a command that compels other creatures to fully commit to a fight with you as their only target. Each creature of your choice that you can see within 20 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature can't willingly move more than 30 feet away from you and cannot attack or target a creature with a spell or ability other than you. For each creature that failed the required saving throw, you gain temporary hit points equal 1d6 + your charisma modifier. This effect ends on the creature if you are incapacitated or die or if the creature is more than 30 feet away from you.

• Rempart : As an action, you can bolster and shield a willing creature with your Channel Divinity. A creature of your choice within 5 feet of you gains temporary hit points equal to 1d10 + your charisma modifier (minimum of 1). For as long as you remain within 5 feet from the chosen creature, it gains resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage, and benefits from three quarter cover. These effects end if you move more than 5 feet away from the chosen creature or if you are incapacitated or die.

Divine Allegiance

Starting at 7th level, when an allied creature within 5 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to magically substitute your own health for that of the target creature, causing that creature not to take the damage. Instead, you take the damage. The damage dealt to you can't be reduced or prevented in any way.

Unyelding Vanguard

Starting at 15th level, you can no longer be moved, paralyzed, stunned, nor be magically incapacitated or put to sleep while remaining within 30 feet of a conscious allied creature.

Furthermore, whenever you reduce a creature to 0 hit points, choose yourself or one allied creature within 5 feet of you. The chosen target regains hit points equal to 1d8 + your Charisma modifier.

Sovereign Champion

At 20th level, your allegiance to your sovereign ascended to a stage of divine, unwavering protection of your allies on the battlefield. You can use your action to gain the following benefits for 1 hour:

• Allied creatures that are within 30 feet of you cannot be reduced to 0 hit points, instead dropping to 1 hit point for as long as they remain within your range of effect.

• Allied creatures that are within 15 feet of you benefit from three quarter cover and from your Unyielding Vanguard condition immunities.

• Whenever a creature successfully hits an allied creature within 30 feet of you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to move up to your speed and up to 5 feet from the attacking creature before making a melee weapon attack against it. Using your movement this way does not cause other creatures to make opportunity attacks against you.

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

Tenets of Knowledge

The tenets of the Oath of Knowledge are bestowed by the order of scholars, wizards or mage-kins they vow to serve and protect, revolving around the preservation and protection of centuries worth of knowledge.

• Expansion - Knowledge is ever changing and always evolving. New techniques, branches of magic and discoveries must be protected and integrated to the neverending pools of knowledge.
• Duty - Your vow of preservation is the essence of your life. Knowledge must be preserved and protected at all costs.
• Protection - Your shield is the luminous aegis standing against darkness and chaos. Archives, books, scrolls, temples and magic users must be sheltered and shielded against the evil that lurks in the shadows.
• Prevention - Your sword is the extension of knowledge. All that attempts to destroy or spoil the core of magic and civilizations must be vanquished or banished.

Oath of Knowledge Spells

Channel Divinity

When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following two Channel Divinity options.

• Arcanic Judgment : As an action, you channel the ancient magic that resides within you, attempting to trap a creature within 10 feet of you in a magically sealed 15-foot-radius zone. The creature must make an intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC or become restrained and forced to tell the truth. On a failed save, it must answer a number of questions equal to half your paladin level, rounded up. The answers can be direct, elaborated or vague as long as the answer remains within the boundaries of truth and contains all of the known informations it was asked about. This effect lasts for 10 minutes or until the creature answered all of the questions it was asked, and ends early if you are reduced to 0 hit points, fall unconscious or die.

• Sentence the Pagans : As an action, you unleash the mystical powers of the first deities from your mind and body, radiating waves of raw magic around you. Each creature within 30 feet of you must make an intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC or have a disadvantage on saving throws against spells for 1 minute.

Wings of the Forgotten

Beginning at 7rd level, you gain the ability to sprout spectral wings from your back as an action. You choose their appearance as you gain this feature. When you do so, each creature of your choice who can see you within 15 feet of you must make an intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC or become gazed* for 1 minute.

You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed. The wings last for 1 minute and fizzle if you are reduced to 0 hit points, fall unconscious, become incapacitated or die.

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

At 18th level, the range upon activation increases to 30 feet.

Mantle of the Forgotten

When you reach 15th level in this class, your continuous dive in the endless knowledge of the forgotten deities of the realm has awakened the magic which remained inside of you, resulting in the creation of an aura of aether waves pulsing around you, forming a veil of magic that cloaks you and nearby allies. You choose its appearance when you gain this feature. You and allies within 10 feet of you have advantage on saving throws against spells and effects caused by spells.

Mask of the Forgotten

At 20th level, you can assume the form of the very embodiment of magic for a short period of time. As a bonus action, you create an ethereal mask that hides your visage and allows you to become an avatar of knowledge, gaining the following benefits for 1 minute :

• You gain 120 feet of truesight and become immune to the blinded, charmed, gazed and possessed* conditions.

• You gain resistance to damage from spells.

• Whenever you cast a paladin spell, you can choose a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. It restores an expended spell slot of an equal or lesser level.

Once you use this bonus action, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a 5th-level spell slot to use it again.

Witchstalker's Concoction Table

Begin the Witch Hunt

At 3rd level, your martial training takes a first step into the techniques of the Old Ways, transmitted upon you by conjurers and/or other veteran witchstalkers, allowing you to spot hints of a recent ritual or use of profane magic. When you make an investigation check in order to find more information about the use of magic in your nearby environment, you make the skill check as though you had proficiency in the skill. Furthermore, you know from which school of magic the spell or ritual was from if you succeed on the check.

Additionally, you learn how to brew specific poisons and the techniques to imbue your blades and arrows with the perfect concoction when you are preparing to fight certain types of creatures. You gain proficiency in the poisoner’s kit. You can prepare a number of concoction vials equal to your dexterity modifier during shorts rests (minimum of 1). You add your proficiency bonus to the limit of concoctions in case of a long rest. Otherwise, you may also take an action to start preparing a vial with a successful skill check using your poisoner’s kit. The concoction time equals 10 minutes regardless of the moment you make your poisons. Refer to the Witchstalker’s Concoction Table for any concoction that is specific to a creature type among Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Dragon, Fey, Fiend or Undead.

Poisoner's Reckoning

Beginning at 7th level, through the constant affliction of poisonous substances upon yourself and the acquirement of new techniques of the Old Ways, you now know how to exploit the weaknesses of your enemies that are under the effects of your poisons. When you make an attack roll against a poisoned creature, add your Intelligence modifier to the attack roll. On a successful hit, the target takes an extra 1d8 poison damage. The damage die increases to 2d8 at 10th level, 3d8 at 15th level and 4d8 at 18th level.

Thousandth Venom Medicine

At 10th level, your poisonous experimentations on yourself have given you enough knowledge to augment your resilience to poisons and use your brews in a curative way. You gain proficiency in the medicine skill, have advantage on saving throws against poison and gain resistance against poison damage. During a short rest, you can choose up to one :

• You can attempt to share a part of these benefits to an allied creature. The creature makes a DC 10 constitution saving throw as you puncture them with needles tipped with poison. On a successful save, they gain resistance against poison damage for the 3 hours following your short rest. On a failed save, they take 3d4 poison damage and cannot attempt to benefit of your poison resistance until they complete a long rest.

• You use your anatomy and medicine knowledge to cleanse the body of a creature from another poison, infection or condition. Make a DC 14 medicine check, adding your poisoner's kit proficiency bonus to the roll. On a successful check, you end any nonmagical poison or decease affecting the creature, alongside any linked condition currently applied to the creature.

Battle Alchemist

Beginning at 15th level, your poisoner skills now actively reinforce your martial prowess. You can now coat a weapon or an item as a bonus action. You can also use items such as puncturing needles and potions as a bonus action instead of an action. If you are wielding a weapon in each hand, you can coat both as an action and make a weapon attack as a bonus action, as if you took the Attack action.

Fang of the Old Ways

When you reach 18th level, you are now a master of the Old Ways, gaining access to the deadliest techniques of this archetype, known to a handful of witchstalkers only. You gain advantage on all attack rolls made against poisoned creatures.

Furthermore, you can cast the spell Thousand Venoms Judgment* once at 7th level without material components, recharging on a long rest. When you cast it this way, you gain the ability to prematurely end the spell. As an action, you force the affected creature to make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 10d10 poison damage and becomes poisoned.

Survival of the Fittest

Inquisitors generally tend to have a gruesome and harsh background, as their whole reason of being is to serve, wage war and conquer in the name of lords or forgotten eldritch beings. While most of them are orphans, survivors of massacres, products of martial tithes, urchins or even conscripted criminals, some are fortunate enough to be born in an upper class environment and may become the students of a scholar, but it is just an extra step before their martial training begins, making them go through a living hell. Few trainees manage to survive the deadly years of selection, slowly climbing on the corpses of their brothers and sisters until they reach the last obstacle between them and the title of inquisitor, generally taking the form of duels to the death or cleansing missions.

During these years of training, the future inquisitors' minds are also put to the test, for only the subjects with the most resilient spirits are selected for their studies of arcane texts, among other occult rituals and pacts with eldritch entities.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d10 per inquisitor level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per inquisitor level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: all armor, shields
• Weapons: simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: none

• Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Perception, Religion, Stealth, and Survival

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) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) two daggers
• (a) a soldier's pack* or (b) an explorer's pack
• (a) chain mail or (b) studded leather
• an arcane focus.

Presence of Dread

Your oppressive presence and your ability to strike fear in the minds can make your interlocutors give certain pieces of information they would normally try to hide from others, knowing your kind’s reputation. You gain proficiency in Intimidation. If you would roll an Insight check or any charisma based check that is not related to deceiving others, you may roll using your Intimidation score instead.

Relentless Endurance

The battlefield taught you to follow the flow of combat, even when you were outnumbered or heavily wounded. Whenever you reduce a creature to 0 hit points, You regain 1d4 hit points + your constitution modifier. This die changes as you gain inquisitor levels, becoming a d6 at 5th level, a d8 at 11th level, and a d10 at 17th level.

Any hit points gained this way that would exceed your maximum number of hit points become temporary hit points, to a maximum of three times your inquisitor level.

Fighting Style

Beginning 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.

Blood Mist*

2nd Level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 90 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a vial of blood)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You create a 30-foot-radius sphere of mist traversed by spectral blood tendrils centered on a point within range. The sphere spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured for every creature aside of you. Each creature of your choice within the sphere must make a Constitution saving throw or be blinded for the duration of the spell. You can choose another creature that starts or ends their turn by using your reaction each round for the duration of the spell. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d6 bleed damage* at the start of each of its turns, as the tendrils lunges at the creature's eyes while the mist attacks their lungs, making it violently bleed from the inside. The creatures can repeat their saving throws at the end of each of their turns until they succeed. Constructs and undead creatures automatically succeed on the saving throw.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage of the mist increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 2nd. The radius of the mist increases by 5 feet for each slot level above 2nd.

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Maw of the Deep*

3rd Level Illusion

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S, M (the fang of a large serpent)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You create the illusion of a huge serpent's maw rising from under a creature of your choice within range, trying to engulf it. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take 4d8 psychic damage and become frightened of you for 1 minute. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the frightened condition on a success.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage of the maw increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 3rd.

Black Blood

Poison (injury, ingested), 500 gp

Made from the blood and substances of specific creatures living in deep caves and/or the Underdark. A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw (15 if it is a fey) or become poisoned for 1 hour. A fey poisoned this way is restrained and takes 2d12 acid damage at the start of each of its turns.

Hallowed Pine Resin

Poison (injury), 200 gp

Often procured by religious forces to their most skilled warriors when they are sent to cleanse a place from undeath. A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 3d6 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. If the subjected creature is an undead, it is also purged (1d8), and any damage dealt to it is treated as though it was radiant.

Mourning Willowtree Venom

Poison (injury), 200 gp

Harvested from the highly venomous needles of a vicious creature often called "the lamenting huntress". A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw, taking 4d6 poison damage on a failed save. If the subjected creature is a beast, it is also paralyzed for 1 minute. A creature who failed its saving throw can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns if it is affected by the paralyzed condition this way.

Rotprowler Miasma

Poison (inhaled), 350 gp

Found in the hunting grounds of a rotprowler. It is used as a main ingredient for toxic fumes, able to make the creatures merely inhaling it suffocate by blocking their respiratory system. A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned. On a failed save, the creature must repeat the saving throw at the start of each of its turns, taking 2d6 poison damage and seeing its movement speed halved on a failed save. The poisoned condition ends when the creature succeeds on a total of three Constitution saving throws made this way.

Thousand Venoms Judgment

7th level Necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S, M (the fang of an adult deathdealer worth at least 500 gp)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

You cause a spectral blade to form above the head of a creature that you can see within the spell's range. The blade follows the creature as it moves and cannot be interacted with.

You can ask up to five questions to the creature, which it must answers. Whenever the creature answers by a lie or attempts to avoid the question, the spectral blade descends nearer of the creature's head. If the creature answers a total of three questions truthfully, the spell ends. If the creature lies to a total of three questions, the spectral blade plunges through the creature, dealing 10d10 poison damage to it, giving the poisoned condition and ending the spell at the same time.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 8th level or higher, the damage increases by 3d10 and the maximum amount of lies the creature can tell decrease by 1 for each slot level above 7th.

Gazed

A creature affected by the gazed condition has disadvantage on its attack rolls, cannot take the ready, dodge, disengage or dash action, nor take any reaction. The effect ends when the creature takes damage, falls unconscious or dies.

Possessed

A creature affected by the possessed condition spends its turn obeying the source of the possession, has a disadvantage on all Wisdom saving throws it makes, and cannot attack or harm the source of their condition.

Purged

A creature affected by the purged condition has disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls, and whenever it misses an attack roll against the source of the condition or one of its allies, the source heals the indicated amount of hit points, while the affected creature takes that much damage.