Captain

Captains that fly the Demon Banner have struck the darkest of pacts: binding their soul to a demonic entity that periodically takes hold of their body. On the battlefield, they forgo the companionship of a cohort and rely on a flickering symbiosis between themselves and the demon. First one attacks, then the other, each form taking blows in turn. Indeed, it can hardly be said that the demon and the captain are separate, for they share one body and parts of one soul.

Starting at 7th level, you gain the use of the demon's darkvision out to a range of 120 feet. Additionally, you and the demon can see normally in magical darkness.

At 13th level, you can use your demon's Innate Spellcasting trait, even while you are not transformed.

By 17th level, the bond with your demon has become unbreakable, granting you the following benefits:

Captains under the banner of the Dragon are among the most formidable warriors to grace the battlefield. Armed with an array of lethal maneuvers, these captains cut through lesser combatants with ease, turning the tides of battle on their own, if needed. The visage of the dragon banner inspires fear and loyalty in equal measure, for the carnage and bloodshed left in a dragon warrior's wake speaks volumes of their skill.

At 7th level, you learn the following maneuver:

You can expend a battle die to take the Dash or Disengage action as a bonus action on your turn.

At 13th level, you learn the following maneuver:

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can expend a battle die as a bonus action to unleash a barrage of strikes. Make up to three melee weapon attacks as part of the Attack action, instead of one. Each attack must target a different creature.

Beginning at 17th level, whenever you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points or score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you enter a zen state of battle for 1 minute. For the duration, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20. Each time during the duration that you reduce another hostile creature to 0 hit points or score another critical hit, this critical hit range increases, first allowing your melee weapon attacks to score a critical hit on a roll of 18–20, then on a roll of 17–20, then on a roll of 16–20. If you fall unconscious, this effect ends early.

With sharp eyes and even sharper arrows, captains of the Eagle seek to be lords of speed and ranged combat, mastering bow, sling, and ballista alike. Such captains are just as dangerous in close range as they are perched on the horizon, for they can accurately deliver an arrow or a crossbow bolt at point blank range.

By 7th level, you can quickly scale walls to gain a perch above your foes. You have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. In addition, by climbing at half speed, you can climb up difficult surfaces (such as slippery vertical walls) without making an ability check.

Starting at 13th level, being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls or the ranged attack rolls of friendly creatures within 15 feet of you.

Starting at 17th level, you can use your action to launch a volley of projectiles. Make a ranged weapon attack against any number of creatures you choose within a 15-foot cone, making a separate attack roll for each target. If you target only one creature in this cone, your attack deals one additional weapon damage die on a hit.

The skulls and crossbones adorning the Banner of the Jolly Roger need no introduction: it means thieves, brigands, treasure, and adventure on the high seas. Moreover, it means the strong backs of a crew working in unison, piloting a ship from horizon to horizon, under the command of a fierce captain and their first mate.

By 7th level, your elegant swordplay lets you place enemies where you want them. Whenever you hit a creature of your size or smaller with a melee attack on your turn, you can switch places with the target. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Beginning at 13th level, both you and your cohort can use a bonus action to take the Hide or Use an Object action, or to attempt to shove a creature. You have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks you make to push another creature out of a boat or other waterborne vessel.

By 17th level, your crew works in perfect unison at your directive. You can use your action on your turn to direct each friendly creature within 60 feet of you that can see or hear you to take an action of your choice; this action can't be the Attack, Cast a Spell, Dodge, or Use a Magic Item action. A creature can immediately use its reaction to take this action.

Bravery in the face of overwhelming odds, mastery of horsemanship, and unwavering honor are the hallmarks of captains of the Lion. This banner represents the very ideal of gallantry and fortitude that knights and paladins aspire to achieve. The mere sight of it inspires heroism in its troops, and a captain who flies it can turn even the most poorly equipped militia into a fit fighting force.

Starting at 7th level, you have advantage on saving throws made to avoid falling off your mount, and if you fall off your mount, you always land on your feet unless you're incapacitated. In addition, mounting or dismounting a creature costs you only 5 feet of movement, rather than half your speed.

Finally, you can force an attack targeted at your mount to target you instead.

Beginning at 13th level, you and up to three friendly creatures of your choice that you can see can each move up to 20 feet when you roll initiative. A creature can't benefit from this feature if its speed is 0.

Starting at 17th level, when you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature, and if you hit, you can add half your level to the damage roll.

You can make this attack three times, and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a short or long rest.

Captains who brandish the banner of the Ram seek to batter through their obstacles with overwhelming force. Whenever possible, these captains put their enemies on the back foot, literally hurling their foes to the floor or shoving them into unfavorable ground, from which position their cohorts can make swift work of any resistance. The Banner of the Ram sees such tactics as not only fair, but optimal, as validity in combat should be judged only by effectiveness.

Beginning at 7th level, moving through nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement.

At 13th level, you can buck your foes into harm's way. Whenever you shove a creature into one of your allies, that ally can use its reaction to make an attack against the shoved creature.

Starting at 17th level, whenever a creature stands up from being prone while within your reach, you can make an opportunity attack against it.

The Banner of the Raven signifies a clandestine captain who prefers stealth to action and ambushes to open fights. If pressed, a captain of the Raven might be drawn into a direct confrontation, but they can never be expected to play fair. These captains might have more in common with rogues, and might even hold a position of leadership within a thieves' guild. More than one guild master and bandit leader has flown the Raven Banner while on a raid.

At 7th level, when you are hidden and a creature discovers you with a successful Wisdom (Perception) check, you can reattempt your Dexterity (Stealth) check to hide. On a success, you silently reposition yourself and the creature doesn't notice you. Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Beginning at 13th level, you can intercede moments before an enemy strikes. As a reaction when a hostile creature you can see attacks, you can move up to your speed without provoking opportunity attacks toward the creature and make one attack targeting it. Resolve your attack before the creature makes any attacks.

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

Starting at 17th level, you are a master of unconventional combat. You have advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn't taken a turn in the combat yet. In addition, the first time you hit a creature with an attack during the first round of combat, you can add two battle dice to the attack's damage roll without expending them.

The Siegeball Banner is that of a favored sports team—one that's going all the way this year. Captains who fly a Siegeball Banner live and breathe sports, viewing the entire world through sports metaphors and placing themselves in the privileged position of the team captain or perhaps the coach. Foes are naturally the opposing team, the referees, or even a rowdy crowd, whereas quests are no different from a sports season, in which the team is destined to break records and bring home the cup.

For such captains, sportsmanship and rowdy competition go hand-in-hand. One can expect rousing speeches and inappropriate jeers measured out between downfield sprints and breathtaking tackles.

By 7th level, you're the biggest fan on the planet. You have advantage on any ability check you make to play a sport or recall information about a sport or its teams.

By 13th level, you can use your bonus action to mock a creature within 15 feet of you. If the target can hear you and it understands at least one language, it has disadvantage on any attack roll it makes against a creature other than you before the end of its next turn.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once). You can regain a use of this feature by expending a battle die, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Starting at 17th level, you can accomplish daring, last-second plays when all else seems to be lost. If you drop to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to delay falling unconscious. You can then move up to twice your movement speed without provoking opportunity attacks and take an action. Taking damage causes death saving throw failures as normal, and three death saving throw failures can still kill you. Following this, you fall unconscious if you still have 0 hit points.

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

Whether they lead a company of Grax's Guys, a band of Coalition mercenaries, or a generic crew of space pirates, captains who emblazon their ships with the icon of the Space Wolf seek fame and fortune amongst the stars. Their hallmarks are daring gunplay and swift starship maneuvers that always keep them a hair ahead of their foes.

Starting at 7th level, when you are piloting a ship accompanied by other friendly ships within 10,000 feet, you and the other ships can adopt a formation while flying. This confers the following benefits to all the ships flying in formation:

Ships remain in this formation as long as they remain within 10,000 feet of you and take only the same actions to move or perform evasive maneuvers.

At 13th level, you can use the Blitz to direct up to 4 friendly creatures (including your cohort) within 60 feet of you that can see or hear you to reposition. Each creature can use its reaction to move up to its speed, fall prone, or stand up from being prone. If the creatures in this group can see you, they do not need to hear you in order to follow this command.

Starting at 17th level, you can ensure that your allies survive your worst battles. When your cohort or a friendly creature you can see within 60 feet drops to 0 hit points and begins making death saving throws, you can use your reaction to spend a battle die. The creature instead drops to a number of hit points equal to the roll of the battle die. Until the end of the creature's next turn, it doesn't provoke opportunity attacks and has advantage on saving throws.

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

Fey captains under the Treant Banner believe in using the environment to gain the upper hand over their opponents. Whether that be taking cover in thick forests, luring the enemy into toxic swamps, or using a blizzard to avoid an opponent's ranged attacks, these captains always bend their tactics to suit the terrain. As a tree always grows towards the light, a treant marshal always pushes their troops towards glory via the path of least resistance.

By 7th level, you have gotten wise to Feywild's terrain-manipulating tricks. You and your cohort ignore magical and nonmagical difficult terrain. Additionally, you are immune to the spell spike growth and other spells that affect the natural terrain, such as the spells hallucinatory terrain and plant growth.

At 13th level, your ability to use the land to your advantage is unparalleled. You and each friendly creature within 15 feet of you have advantage on attack rolls against creatures that are standing in difficult terrain.

Starting at 17th level, brambles sprout wherever you walk, ensuring your foes are always hemmed in by thorny ground. Whenever you or your cohort moves across the ground, you can choose to leave a 5-foot wide area of thorns behind you, as per the spell spike growth, using your maneuver save DC. These thorns last for 10 minutes, or until you choose to dismiss them on your turn (no action required).

The fortified defenses of captains who fly the Turtle banner are legendary. Turtle tactics emphasize endurance and survival, as well-protected soldiers cannot only win battles, but entire wars. Thinking long term is key to any defensive strategy, as captains of the Turtle know the answer is never how they shall counterattack, but when.

Beginning at 7th level, your speed can't be removed and you can't be knocked prone or moved against your will.

By 13th level, you can shelter others behind your armor. You count as half cover for effects passing through your space for allied creatures of your size and smaller within 5 feet of you.

Starting at 17th level, you can shrug off attacks that would otherwise hit you. You have a pool of 20 armor points. As a reaction when you're hit by a melee weapon attack, you can expend any number of armor points and add them to your Armor Class against that attack, potentially causing the attack to miss. You regain all expended armor points when you finish a long rest.