Warmage

Conquer the Battlefield Through Tactical Superiority

Warfare in the 'Verse is a perilous dance of arcana and technology that stretches across entire star systems. In this new theater of combat, none have adapted better than the Coalition and their squads of Warmage arcanists. Equipped with specially-designed blaster gauntlets, a coalition arcanist wields magic as others do a blaster: firing off spells automatically, in shotgun-style bursts, and in deadly beams that can level an entire company of foes.

You have been fitted with a neural implant, granting you unparalleled battlefield awareness. You can take a Magic action to gain knowledge of the general lay of the land within a 1-mile Emanation originating from you. This knowledge only extends to surface-level or obvious features (natural or artificial) and doesn't detect creatures. Additionally, you have a +5 bonus to your Passive Wisdom (Perception) score.

You can requisition magic items from the Coalition's armory for short-term use. When you finish a Long Rest, choose one of the following magic items, which is teleported to you: a Concussion Grenade, Drive Wheel, Hoverboard, Jetpack, Nanobot Canister (Deconstructive or Reconstructive), Phase Suit, or Scout Scanner. If the magic item has a save DC, it uses your spell save DC. If it requires Attunement, it is attuned to you automatically. This item remains in your possession until you finish a Long Rest, at which time it is teleported back to the Coalition's armory.

Your tactical uplink synchronizes you with your allies, granting you a decisive tactical advantage. While you are within 120 feet of an ally, you know the exact location of any creature that your ally sees. Additionally, you can cast a Warmage cantrip targeting a creature that your ally can see. You launch the cantrip like a mortar, ricochet it off obstacles, or fire it through thin barriers to hit the target.

As a Magic action, you can mark a point you can see within 120 feet of yourself for destruction. At the start of your next turn, the Coalition delivers a magical bombardment in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on that point. Each creature within the Sphere makes a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 10d10 Force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried are reduced to ash.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Wield Greater Arcane Magic

The House of Bishops adopts Warmages with arcane potential and teaches its members traditional spellcasting. Such Warmages might be mistaken for Wizards or Sorcerers, for they wield many of the same spells, but bishops prioritize excellence in their spellcasting over a wide repertoire of spells.

You always have the Find Familiar spell prepared, which doesn't count against your number of prepared spells. When you cast the spell, you choose one of the normal forms for your familiar or one of the following special forms: Imp, Pseudodragon, Quasit, or Sprite.

Your Warmage and Wizard spells deal double damage to objects and structures. You have Advantage on spell attack rolls against targets that are 100 or more feet away from you.

When you cast a spell with a spell slot that affects other creatures that you can see, you can choose a number of them up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one). The chosen creatures automatically succeed on their saving throws against the spell, and they take no damage if they would normally take half damage on a successful save.

As a Bonus Action, you can expend a number of spell slots with a combined level of 6+ to regain one expended use of your Arcane Surge.

Push Your Luck With Hands of Cards

Warmages who join the House of Cards approach combat the same way they do games of chance: with high stakes and calculated gambles. Each Warmage of this house wields a special deck of cards tied to the very threads of fate, through which they can empower their magic with deft flurries of hands. However, while these Warmages command incredible power, their magical surges are at the whims of the cards, and so they must make strategic, ingenious plays to master them.

On your turn, you can choose any number of cards from your hand and place them on the bottom of your Deck of Fate (no action required), losing 2 Hit Points per card you choose. You then draw until you have five cards in your hand again.

You can take a Bonus Action to gain one of the following effects, chosen by the GM.

Once on each of your turns when you draw a card from your deck as part of your Deck of Fate feature, you can declare a suit (Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, or Spades) and check the top card of your deck. If you guessed the suit correctly, you can take the Dash, Disengage, or Use an Object action as part of the Bonus Action used for the feature.

Whenever you would draw one or more cards from your deck, draw twice as many. Put half of the cards drawn on the bottom of your deck and the other cards in your hand.

Make Bullseye Shots with Ranged Cantrips

Every Warmage understands the importance of precision, but the House of Darts flaunts a competitive excellence when it comes to landing shots. Daggers, bolts of magic, and of course, darts are their weapons of choice, but they don't stop at mere bullseyes. A wire array of trick shots set these Warmages apart from their contemporaries, even if they lack the grand strategies or discipline of the more martial colleges.

You can cast Magic Daggers to summon a pair of daggers to your open hands, helping you scale surfaces. You gain a Climb Speed equal to your Speed for 10 minutes.

As a Reaction when an attacker you can see within 60 feet makes an attack against you or an Ally you can see within 30 feet of yourself, you can make a ranged spell attack using Magic Daggers to interrupt the attack. If the result of your roll is greater than the result of the attacker, you can reduce the attack roll targeting you by 5 (to a minimum result of 1).

You master the house's signature technique for recovering darts. Whenever you cast the Magic Daggers cantrip, you can replace one of your spell attacks with throwing a special teleportation dagger to a point you can see within the spell's range. You can take a Bonus Action to teleport to the dagger as long as you are within 500 feet of it. The dagger disappears after 10 minutes or if you use this feature to teleport or throw another teleportation dagger.

If you have recorded ten or more unique numbers using your Bullseye feature, you can take an action to clear all of your recorded numbers and throw a burst of darts. Each creature in a 60-foot cone must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 1d8 Force damage for each unique recorded number on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

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

Tempt Fate with Chaotic Die Rolls

The House of Dice throws out the Warmage convention of meticulous, deliberate spellcasting in favor of wild, chaotic magic that presses the odds. Everything from their magical bursts to their enchanted sets of dice can fail horribly, so it's auspicious that they often keep their fingers on the scales of fate. These Warmages have mastered not only a repertoire of cantrips, but also techniques to manipulate fortune itself, allowing them to risk everything, and more than often come out on top.

You can subtly cheat your dice. Once on each of your turns when you roll a d6, you can flip the die upside down. Note that on a balanced d6, the top and bottom numbers add up to 7, so you can determine the bottom number by subtracting the top number from 7.

When you make an attack roll or ability check with Disadvantage on your turn, you can attempt to invert fate as a Bonus Action. Expend a Die of Fate and roll it. On a 5, you ignore Disadvantage on the roll. On a 6, you instead have Advantage on the roll.

You can channel the chaotic energy of your dice in an instant. As a Reaction when you take damage from a creature you can see, you can expend two Dice of Fate to make a Chaos Roll.

When you roll Initiative, roll a d6. You steal that many Dice of Fate back from the GM.

Dominate Your Foes Through Cunning Formations

The renowned House of Go predates the other Warmage colleges by centuries. Unlike its successors, the strategies pioneered by the House of Go focus upon formations and cooperation, rather than individual excellence. Which isn't to suggest that Warmages of this college are anything other than brilliant strategists—they rival the House of Kings in this regard. Rather, the footsoldiers of the House of Go are greater than the sum of their parts, fluidly adopting motions to isolate and flank their foes.

You can spend 10 minutes planning an encounter in exact detail. When you do so, you can share your plan with up to six Allies within 30 feet of you who can see or hear you and who can understand you. Each Ally that understands the plan can gain Advantage on an attack roll or ability check it makes within the next 10 minutes. If an Ally rolls Initiative during this time, it can't use this feature to gain Advantage after the end of the first round of combat.

Once you use this feature to make a plan, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

While you are in a formation, any Critical Hit against you or an Ally in your formation becomes a normal hit.

Your formation moves as if your Allies were links in a chain. Whenever you move on your turn, any number of willing Allies in your formation can move the same distance.

On your turn, when you reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points with a Warmage cantrip, you can cast another cantrip as a Bonus Action. You can apply Warmage Edge to this cantrip, even if you have already used it on your turn.

Lead Your Allies with Brilliant Stratagems

Warmages who train in the House of Kings specialize in tactics and strategy, learning age-old maneuvers to gain an edge in combat. Natural-born leaders, Kings work best with a cadre of supporters to perform their tactics and overwhelm the enemy. Moreso than all other Warmages, those in the House of Kings treat life and death as a game of strategy to be understood and conquered.

Difficult Terrain doesn't cost you extra movement. Allies that can see you within 120 feet of you also gain this benefit.

Allies within 10 feet of you add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) to their saving throws against spells and magical effects.

When you hit a creature with an attack, you can expend one Battle Die as a Bonus Action to direct an Ally within 60 feet of yourself that can see or hear you to strike. The Ally can take a Reaction to cast a cantrip or make one attack with a weapon or Unarmed Strike. The ally adds the Battle Die to one damage roll of the attack or cantrip.

When you roll Initiative, choose a number of Allies up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one) within 60 feet of yourself that can see or hear you. Give each Ally a Battle Die without expending it.

Once within the next minute when the Ally fails a D20 Test, it can roll the Battle Die and add the number rolled to the d20, potentially turning the failure into a success. A Battle Die is expended when it's rolled.

Wield Blades of Fire, Lightning, Frost, and Force

The House of Knights has a long and storied tradition of melding swordplay with the Warmage's potent spellcasting. Unlike other warriors, however, Knights carry neither swords nor shields into combat, for they can forge both out of magical force at a moment's notice.

You gain a Fighting Style feat of your choice. Whenever you gain a Warmage level, you can replace the feat you chose with a different Fighting Style feat.

You can raise a hardened magical barrier between you and your foes. As a Bonus Action, you gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to twice your Warmage level.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

You can spend up to 30 feet of movement to teleport to an unoccupied space you can see. The destination can be a number of feet away from you equal to half the movement you spend.

You can summon a whirlwind of mystical weapons for a flurry of strikes. As a Magic action, you can make a melee spell attack against up to five creatures you can see within 30 feet of you. Make a separate attack roll for each target. On a hit, a target takes Force damage equal to 2d10 + your Intelligence modifier.

Deliver Cantrips Through Hand-to-Hand Arcana

Warmages who join the House of Lancers are trained in fluid martial arts and meditative asceticism, melding the stoic discipline of monks with potent spellcasting. As such, they are unarmed elemental warriors, self-reliant and capable of feats unmatched by their peers. However, Lancers are notoriously neutral and abstain from the politics of the other Warmage houses. Lancers derive their name from an ancient precursor to the pawn, a piece remembered only in early variants of chess. It is a relic from a forgotten age, rife with symbolism.

Your Lancer training has heightened your body and mind, granting the following benefits.

When you're subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw and only half damage if you fail.

You don't benefit from this feature if you have the Incapacitated condition.

You can lunge up to 30 feet using your Shock Trooper feature. This movement causes you to teleport through creatures and objects, blinking to the target in an instant. You can't teleport into an occupied space.

You can cast spells with superhuman speed. As a Magic action, you can expend a use of your Arcane Surge feature to cast three different cantrips that have a casting time of an action or a Bonus Action. You can't use your Arcane Surge feature on any of these cantrips.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Master Cantrips and Warmage Tricks

By far the most prominent Warmage house is that of the Pawns. Warmages who join the House of Pawns learn to stretch their skill with cantrips to its limits. Pawns can master any cantrip or strategy, for they embody the adaptability to which all Warmages aspire.

You can add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) to Initiative rolls. Additionally, when you roll Initiative, you can move up to your Speed.

You can add half your Proficiency Bonus (round down) to any saving throw you make that doesn't otherwise use your Proficiency Bonus.

Whenever you deal damage with a Warmage cantrip, you and up to two Allies within 5 feet of you have Resistance to that damage type until the end of your next turn.

Your magic always finds its way to your foes' most vulnerable spots. Once per turn when you roll damage for a Warmage cantrip, you can choose one damage die and treat it as having rolled its maximum value.

Practice Furtive Magic and Mystical Stealth

The clandestine members of the House of Rooks make adept spies, assassins, and scouts, though they might just as easily pick up jobs run by rogues and brigands. In addition to their suite of cantrips, Rooks are light on their feet and know a few tricks to magically open doors in utter silence.

You learn a suite of furtive magic practiced by Rooks. You can cast each of the following spells without using a spell slot or Verbal components: Feather Fall, Invisibility, Knock (silent when you cast it using this feature), Silence, and Spider Climb.

Once you cast a spell using this feature, you can't cast it again until you finish a Long Rest. You can expend a use of Arcane Surge to regain your use of all of these spells (no action required).

When you take damage from a creature you can see, you can take a Reaction to raise a defensive illusion that protects you from further harm. Attacks made against you have Disadvantage until the start of your next turn.

If you move more than 5 feet on your turn, any subsequent movement you make doesn't provoke Opportunity Attacks.

You can cast the Greater Invisibility spell targeting yourself only without a spell slot or spell components. While you have the Invisible condition, your Speed is doubled.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Spin the Wheel, Gambling on Your Lucky Numbers

Like the Houses of Dice and Cards, Warmages of the House of Roulette are masters of the calculated gamble. Bearing a number of magical chips, they can push the odds when the need arises, pulling off longshot plays that other Warmages could only dream of.

Pick a Lucky Number from 1 to 100 If you roll that number on any d100 roll of your Spin the Wheel feature, you gain the benefit of betting that number as a Single. You can change your Lucky Number whenever you finish a Long Rest.

When a creature you can see makes an attack roll against you, you can take a Reaction to conjure your roulette wheel between yourself and the attacker. You and the attacker each roll a d100. If your roll is equal or higher than that of the attacker, the attack misses, and you can't use this ability again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

You can unleash the energy stored within a Chip of Fate to escape a tight spot. As a Bonus Action, you can expend a Chip of Fate to teleport up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space you can see.

Whenever you roll Initiative, you regain 4 expended Chips of Fate. Additionally, whenever you expend one or more Chips of Fate to bet on a Single and win, you regain all of your expended Chips of Fate.