Warden

Command the Fury of Beasts

You have formed a bond with Beasts and have taken up the task of defending them. Your time among them has taught you their ferocity, tenacity, and animal instincts, allowing you to become a primal predator of the wilds.

You can move through the wilds as a Beast does, granting you the following benefits.

Once per turn when you hit a Large or smaller creature with an attack roll using a Melee weapon or an Unarmed Strike, the target takes an extra 1d8 Slashing damage and has the Prone condition.

You can assume the bloodthirsty visage of the Primal Beast. As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Command an Army of Vermin

A champion of vermin, you are called to defend the lowliest creatures of all: insects, rats, spiders, and other pests. These creatures mean no harm; they're merely trying to survive in a world too large for them, and so they flock to your side. Unmistakably, your coming is signaled by the scrambling of little claws and the cawing of the crows. Legions of pests wait at your command to swarm, bite, and infest anyone who might thin their numbers.

As a Bonus Action, you surround yourself with countless flying pests in an Emanation originating from you. You choose whether the Emanation extends 5 feet, 10 feet, or 15 feet. This area is Lightly Obscured and has one of the following effects of your choice, which lasts for 10 minutes or until you end it (no action required).

Whenever you use your Interrupt, the target has the Poisoned condition until the end of the current turn.

You can call a colossal swarm of vermin to your aid.

As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Strike Contracts and Command the Powers of Hell

Your call was a bellow from below, foul with brimstone and the cries of the damned. Diabolists are well-spoken advocates for demons, devils, and other Fiends, mediating their pacts and trading souls for their service. Often, Diabolists are called upon to defend portals to the underworld, safeguarding the innocent from wandering down below and trapping condemned souls within.

When you or an ally within 10 feet of you reduces an enemy to 0 Hit Points, you can trade its soul to your fiendish patron for one of the following magical boons. The GM decides if a creature's soul can't be traded to a Fiend. The boon lasts for 10 minutes or until you use this feature to trade another soul.

When you use your Survive, you can immediately move up to your Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks and make two attacks with a weapon or Unarmed Strike.

Your infernal allies can grant you a boon. As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Channel Draconic Magic with Your Blood

Your call was the booming roar of dragons. As such, you have struck a pact with an ancient wyrm to protect its hoard from enemies that might despoil it. In turn, the surged through your veins like fire and granted you a measure of draconic power. Fire alights at your fingertips and your eyes bear reptilian slits. As a Drake-Blooded wyrm granted you a few drops of its blood to drink, which Warden, you are a champion among half-dragons and a titan among kobolds.

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of the attacks with a casting of one of your Sorcerer cantrips that has a casting time of an action.

When you take damage from a creature that is within 10 feet of you, you can take a Reaction and expend a Hit Point Die to unleash draconic energy in a 10-foot Emanation originating from you. Each creature you choose in the Emanation makes a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, a creature takes damage equal to two rolls of your Hit Point Die plus your Constitution modifier, or half as much damage on a successful one. The damage is your choice of Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Poison.

You can wreathe yourself in a dragon's elemental might. As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Wield Divine Power to Protect the Weak

The whispers of gods, the ringing of bells, and the meter of hymns called you, compelling you to swear an oath of protection. With your blade, you defend temples, holy sites, and other sacred ground, and with your shield, you protect pilgrims as they make their grand journeys. Your purpose is grander than just one life, and you look forward to seeing what designs the gods have set on your travels.

You can cast any of the following spells once without a spell slot: Daylight, Lesser Restoration, Sanctuary, and Zone of Truth. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for the spells you cast with this feature. Once you cast a spell using this feature, you regain the ability to cast it in this way when you finish a Long Rest.

When a creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself is reduced to 0 Hit Points and not killed outright, you can expend the use of your Survive to prevent its demise.

The creature drops to 1 Hit Point instead and regains a number of Hit Points equal to twice your Warden level.

You can wreathe yourself in divine protection. As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Side With the Forces of Undeath

Blood-drinkers, Undead, and other creatures of the night are often feared and hunted, and few stand in their defense; except, of course, the grim and terrible Nightgaunts. Tales of Nightgaunts cast them as hunters of clerics and goodly vampire slayers. Their appearances always presage long nights and great rises in hungry Undead.

You felt the calling of the moon bringing you to the graveside of living corpses. Though vampires, zombies, and skeletons are mighty, they are always outnumbered, hunted, and turned by Clerics—never given a chance to repose in peace. They require an ally among the living to continue their ceaseless lives, and you have risen by moonlight to the task.

You can cast any of the following spells once without a spell slot: Darkness, False Life, Gentle Repose, and Speak with Dead. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for the spells you cast with this feature (choose the ability when you cast the spell). Once you cast a spell using this feature, you regain the ability to cast it in this way when you finish a Long Rest.

You can use your Survive three times and regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

You can invite necromantic energies into your body. As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Channel the Polar Winds

Your call was the howling, icy winds of a remote arctic land. As a Rimekeeper, you defend the people of these frigid lands from colossal creatures that thrive in the frost and invaders that hail from warmer places. Wherever you travel, the north wind follows, summoned at your fingertips with hailstones and ice.

As a Magic action, you can unleash a burst of ice from your hands. You can use this ice to create one of the following magical effects of your choice within 5 feet of you. If an effect calls for a saving throw or ability check, the DC equals 8 plus your Constitution modifier and your Proficiency Bonus.

You gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your Constitution modifier at the start of each of your turns if you don't have the Incapacitated condition.

You can embrace the bitter chill of hoarfrost. As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Defend Machines with High-Tech Abilities

When you heard the call, it was the electrical pips of binary Machine Code. The 'Verse is filled with Constructs of all shapes and sizes, from towering golems to simple automatons. Too often, however, machines are treated as disposable scrap. As a Steel Shepherd, you protect and repair neglected Constructs, speaking their buzzing mechanical language and raising hardlight barriers in their defense.

Your experience in firefights grants you the following benefits.

When you finish a Long Rest, choose Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Poison damage. Whenever an enemy subjects you to the chosen damage type, you can take a Reaction to take no damage and instead regain a number of Hit Points equal to the amount of the chosen damage type taken.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by expending two uses of your Interrupt (no action required).

You can transform into a mechanized colossus. As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Become an Unmovable Obstacle

Your call was the steadfast rumble of mountains, a pull which dwarves and gnomes have felt for generations. As a Stoneheart Defender, you protect the stones from those who would despoil them, from within and without. You might protect old dwarven walls, patrol high mountain lookouts, or stand in defense of remote villages. You are unmovable wherever you plant your feet: a mountain in mortal form.

Your attunement to the mountains grants you the following benefits.

When an enemy you can see takes a Legendary Action to make an attack, you can use Interrupt to prevent that attack.

You can encase yourself in rock to become a living mountain. As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Become Imbued with a Roaring Storm

Your call sounded like furious storm clouds and the flash of lightning. As a Storm Sentinel, you protect wayward sailors and coastal villages from the wrath of the tempests and the arrival of pirates and other raiders. From your fingertips, you deliver the awe of lightning and the roar of thunder, and with practice, you can fly among the squalls and rain thunderbolts from above.

At the start of each of your turns, you can gain a Fly Speed equal to your Speed until the end of the current turn (no action required).

As a Bonus Action, you can teleport inside a bolt of lightning to an unoccupied space you can see within 60 feet. Immediately before you teleport, each creature within 5 feet of the space you appear in makes a Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 plus your Strength or Dexterity modifier plus your Proficiency Bonus), taking 4d8 Lightning damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by expending a use of your Interrupt (no action required).

You can imbue yourself with the storm's fury. As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Protect Nature with Interlopers

You heard the call of the wind through the trees and the loam beneath your feet. As a Verdant Protector, you are the champion of the green things in nature, defending them against those who would despoil the wilds. Plants sprout at your command to assist you, entangling and ensnaring foes for you to dispatch.

You can cast any of the following spells once without a spell slot: Goodberry, Plant Growth, Spike Growth, and Speak with Plants. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for the spells you cast with this feature (choose the ability when you cast the spell). Once you cast a spell using this feature, you regain the ability to cast it in this way when you finish a Long Rest.

When you use your Survive, you and allies within 10 feet of yourself gain Temporary Hit Points equal to twice your Warden level.

You can grow the gnarled oak of a treant. As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Hunt Mages and Supernatural Foes

Where there is magic, there is evil. Witches, warlocks, and hags lurk in the shadows, plying their myriad curses upon the innocent. But your ever-vigilant sword is ready for them, ready to defend the nonmagical folk from evil spellcasters the world-over. You slay vampires, hexers, devils, and fey with impunity, for anyone who might despoil the world with magic shall be hunted and put to the stake.

Your well-trained eye can detect the slightest hint of magic, granting you the following benefits.

You can cast Counterspell without a spell slot. If the target fails its saving throw against this spell, it takes 4d8 Force damage. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell when you cast it with this feature (choose the ability when you cast the spell).

Once you use this feature to cast this spell, you can't do so again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by expending a use of your Interrupt (no action required).

You can imbue yourself with an antimagic aura. As a Bonus Action, you can gain the benefits below for 1 minute or until you choose to end them (no action required). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.