Vanguard

An ardent's passion for sheltering others from harm manifests in them as a psychic power. This awakening allows them to project stationary barriers of psychic energy and launch enemies with telekinetic force.

You are awoken to new psionic powers you can manifest with Ardent Psionics:

You can launch a psychic assault against a creature. As an action, you can choose a creature within 60 feet of you that you can see. For the next minute, whenever the creature is in the process of casting a spell, you can use your reaction and spend one of your Hit Dice to force it to make a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). On a failure, the spell fails.

When a ranged attack is made against a creature within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to psionically intercede on the attack. Roll a d12 and reduce the attack roll by that amount. If the attack roll is reduced to 0, you can redirect the attack to another creature within 30 feet of you, using the original attack roll.

You gain a measure of telepathy that alerts you to the thoughts of others. You are aware of the location of any creature within 10 feet of you that is not protected from divination magic and is capable of thought (DM's discretion). You see invisible creatures within 10 feet of you that you are aware of as if they were visible.

You are immune to psychic damage, the charmed condition, and any divination spells or effects that would sense your emotions or read your thoughts

Further, the distance of your Mental Tower and Sixth Sense features extend to 30 feet, rather than 10 feet.

Feeling a duty of pain, dreadlords are typically conscripted warriors, given fel power straight from a fiend's armory. A dreadlord draws upon this power to punish those that dare draw their blades on them, a punishment they delight in coercing their enemies to inflict upon themselves.

When you curse a target with Wrathchild, you can use your reaction to gain 1d12 temporary hit points and resistance to the next instance of damage you take in the next minute.

When you curse a target with Wrathchild, you can choose a different hostile creature that you can see within 30 feet of the attacker, extending a compulsion of betrayal. If the cursed creature fails its Wisdom saving throw at the start of its turn, the chosen hostile creature must use its reaction to make an attack against the cursed creature.

When a creature attacks you or deals damage to you, you can force it to make a Charisma saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). On a failure, the creature is presented to you to answer for its transgressions, depending on its distance from you:

Once a creature fails its saving throw against this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest

While almost more of a compulsion rather than a duty, the juggernaut is a vanguard with a drive for havoc.

You deal double damage to objects and structures, and any creature you force to move by physical means provokes opportunity attacks from creatures other than you. If a creature is hit with an opportunity attack this way that scores a critical hit, the attack deals an additional die of damage.

When you use Hulking Endurance, you roll an additional d12 when determining the amount of damage you reduce, for a total of 2d12 + your Constitution modifier.

While you are charging, you can break through objects and structures with an AC 20 or lower and the damage you deal by pushing a creature into a structure increases to 2d10 + your Strength modifier.

Further, you can reduce damage you take during your turn with your Hulking Endurance feature (no reaction required).

Defenders of frostbound kingdoms, standing strong in the bite of winter, Rimeguards are vanguards that embody the terrifying borea. Vanguards under this mandate may model themselves after frost giants, be within the ranks of a white dragon's military, or have been raised for service by a bheur hag. Their bond to the cold doesn't necessarily grant them access to spells, despite likely haven taken in some boreal ritual to harness their powers.

You can use a bonus action during your turn unleash gelid hell in a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on you for 1 minute or until you dismiss it as a bonus action. The sphere moves with you, and the inside of the sphere is subjected to the following effects:

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest. Starting at 14th level, you can use it twice before a rest.

The additional cold damage you deal when you push a creature into an ice wall you create with Glacial Bastion increases to 2d6. This damage is increased to 4d6 in extreme cold.

You reduce cold damage you take by an amount equal to half your vanguard level. Further, if you successfully shove a creature and reduce its speed to 0, it becomes frozen in place, restraining it until the end of your next turn.

While almost more of a compulsion rather than a duty, the Templar is a vanguard with a drive for havoc.

When you use Venerated Martyr, your body becomes basked in divine light, which sheds bright light out to 10 feet and dim light for an additional 10 feet for 1 minute. While basked in this energy, you can use your reaction when you take damage to cause this energy to erupt from you. When you do, roll every Hit Dice you spent in the last minute. Each creature of your choice within 10 feet of you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier) or take radiant damage equal to the result of the Hit Dice rolled and be blinded until the start of your next turn.

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

Creatures you take damage for with Venerated Martyr gain the benefits of the sanctuary spell until the end of your next turn

Further, if a spell, such as raise dead, has the sole effect of restoring you to life (but not undeath), the caster doesn't need material components to cast the spell on you.

You can use your reaction at the end of any creature's turn to reduce all of the damage you took during the turn to 0.

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

While almost more of a compulsion rather than a duty, the Vexator is a vanguard with a drive for havoc.

When you use Taunt, you can target a number of creatures with it equal to your proficiency bonus. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

You can use Taunt as a reaction to rolling initiative. If you target a creature with Taunt that hasn't taken a turn yet in the current combat, it has disadvantage on its Wisdom saving throw.

While a creature is under the effects of your Taunt, it can't willingly move more than 30 feet away from you.