Dancer

Strike with Gymnastic Speed and Momentum

Acrobats vault, walk tightropes, and backflip over their foes to find new angles of approach. Such Dancers often perform with circuses or work for criminal organizations, and find endless applications for their skills in dungeon-diving. Moreover, an Acrobat can convert the momentum of their gymnastics into crushing force when a foe proves otherwise intractable.

While your Agile Movement Dance Style is active, you gain the following benefits.

When you move 30 feet or more during your turn, you can take the Dodge action as a Bonus Action.

You can have up to three Momentum at a time and you don't lose Momentum at the end of your turn while your Dance is active. When you hit a creature with a weapon or an Unarmed Strike, you can expend up to three Momentum at once.

Encourage Your Allies with Acrobatics and Cheer

Pom-pom-wielding Cheerleaders are an essential component of siegeball games, which sell out stadiums wherever teams clash. Cheerleaders bound from the sidelines, energizing the crowd and their team with upbeat chants and daring acrobatic displays. Indeed, on some siegeball teams, the most impressive athleticism occurs on the sidelines with human pyramids.

When you begin your Dance, choose a Dance Style other than Inspiring Chant. Each ally that can see or hear you within 10 feet of yourself gains the benefits of that Dance Style until the start of your next turn.

When you make a Strength or Constitution saving throw, you can make a Dexterity saving throw instead.

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 Dance (no action required).

When you roll Initiative, you can give yourself and each ally that can see or hear you within 60 feet of yourself a special instance of Heroic Inspiration that vanishes after the first round of combat. A creature can have this instance of Heroic Inspiration and another instance at the same time, but can only use one Heroic Inspiration per roll.

Dance with Mesmerizing Flexibility

Balancing on their shoulders and folding their body into perplexing configurations, Contortionists represent the very pinnacle of flexibility. Contortionists, with practice, can leverage their flexibility to evade attacks and respond from expected directions with the grace and lethality of a serpent.

You can enter the space of a Small or larger enemy and end your turn there. While in this creature's space, you have Half Cover against attacks and effects that originate outside of your space, and the creature can't have Advantage on attack rolls against you.

When a creature you can see misses you with a melee attack roll, you can take a Reaction to force the attack to target another creature other than the attacker within the attacker's reach. Use the existing attack roll against the new target's AC, dealing damage as normal on a hit.

You can take this Reaction a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier (minimum of once). You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

While your Dance is active, you have an additional Reaction, which you regain at the start of each of your turns. You can't take two Reactions on the same turn. Additionally, once you take a Reaction, such as an Opportunity Attack or casting a Spell with a Reaction trigger, you can't take that Reaction again until the start of your next turn.

Enthrall Others with Your Grace

Dressed in finery, Courtesans are the very picture of cultured elegance. Rather than dancing like a jester for others' amusement, Courtesans leverage their unearthly grace to twist the affections of others. Most ingratiate themselves into high society, for a melodic tone and captivating glance is enough to enrapture most nobles.

During the first round of combat, you can take the Influence action as a Bonus Action and have Advantage on ability checks you make using that action.

When you give a creature the Charmed condition, you can choose one of the following effects for the creature while it has the condition.

Whenever a creature succeeds or fails its saving throw against your Enthralling Movement, you can deal Psychic damage to the target equal to two rolls of your Dance Die.

Raise the Dead with Your Necromantic Dance

The “Danse Macabre” is a lament, a dirge from the recently deceased that causes the spirits of the dead to stir and join in. The spectacle is one of grim frivolity—a single living person among jovial skeletons that vanish upon the danse's final note.

Only a few Dancers called “Necrodancers” or “Danseurs Macabre” learn this morbid footwork. Usually, it calls for those with a morose disposition and a fascination with death, the very same attributes that make for a fine necromancer.

You can cast Speak with Dead without a spell slot. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell. When you cast the spell in this way, the corpse gains enough of a semblance of life to move and dance with you for the duration of the spell, if it is able. The corpse will generally move where you ask it to, but can't take actions or deal damage. You can also take a Bonus Action to change the target of the spell to a different corpse within range. You can ask a total of five questions, no matter how many corpses you target.

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 Dance (no action required).

Your Danse Macabre Dance Style improves in the following ways.

When a creature you can see within 60 feet dies while your Danse Macabre Dance Style is active, you can take a Reaction to cast Create Undead targeting that creature without expending a spell slot or components. The Ghoul is under your control and uses the following rules.

Perform with Arcane Magic

Wearing extravagant costumes or archetypal masks of comedy and tragedy, Dramaturges channel the power of the stage into performative magic. Their spells manipulate minds and create illusions to bolster their performances, transforming the world around them into a great play in which they are the star.

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

You have a pair of enchanted theater masks. You can put on either your Comedy Mask or your Tragedy Mask when you finish a Short or Long Rest, granting you the following benefits until you remove the mask or replace it with the other one.

When you take the Attack action on your turn while your Dance is active, you can cast a spell that has a casting time of an action as a Bonus Action.

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 Dance (no action required).

Parry and Thrust with Lethal Poise

Postured, graceful, and utterly deadly, Fencers favor one-handed parries and thrusts to whirling Daggers and Darts. Their repertoire of movements constitute a dance of footwork and bladework that can overcome most foes with a few precise movements and pinpoint strikes.

While your Dance is active, you can perform the following maneuvers.

When you use your Graceful Dodge, you can take a Reaction to add another roll of your Dance Die to your Armor Class for this attack.

Starting at Dancer level 11, if you use this feature and the triggering attack misses you, you can use your Graceful Retaliation as a part of the same Reaction.

You can take this Reaction a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier (minimum of once). You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

When you score a Critical Hit or reduce an enemy to 0 Hit Points on your turn, you regain up to 15 feet of expended movement and can make one additional attack on your turn. You can make up to three such additional attacks on a single turn.

Dance With Unearthly Grace and Perfection

Perhaps the most majestic style of dance originates in the Feywild, where unending waltzes and chaotic ballets intermingle with raw threads of magic. Mortal Fey Ballerinas have proven their merits at dance to a Fey and been bequeathed with a boon: a magical pair of slippers, a charm, or another trinket that further imbues their Dance with supernatural grace.

You can cast Misty Step without expending a spell slot a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once). Charisma is your spellcasting modifier for this spell. You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

During the first round of combat, your Speed is doubled and you automatically succeed on saving throws.

While you're Bloodied and your Dance is active, you can take a Bonus Action to begin a Swan Song. You regain Hit Points up to half your Hit Point maximum and you have Advantage on the first D20 Test you make each turn until your Dance ends.

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

Perform Dazzling Pyrotechnic Displays

Fire dancing features dazzling displays of torch juggling and spinning, fire eating, and fire breathing. Though these spark-throwing performances are a wonder to behold, they can easily become hazardous, unintentionally sparking a blaze or intentionally catching a foe alight.

As a Magic action, you can breathe flames in a 15-foot Cone. Each creature in the Cone makes a Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 plus your Charisma modifier and Proficiency Bonus). On a failed save, a creature takes Fire damage equal to three rolls of your Dance Die plus your Dancer level. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage.

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 Dance (no action required).

Once on each of your turns while your Pyrotechnics Dance Style is active, when you deal damage to a creature and roll the highest number on a damage die, that target makes a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 plus your Charisma modifier and Proficiency Bonus). On a failed save, the target has the Blinded condition until the start of your next turn.

Your Fire Breather feature improves in the following ways.

Mock Your Foes with Acrobatic Flair

Consummate comedians, jugglers, and acrobats, Harlequins perform alongside jesters in royal courts and local taverns alike. Their usual performances feature a mix of barbed jokes at the attendees and daring knife stunts performed with an acrobatic flair. Though they draw plenty of ire from their heckling routine, their nastiest jokes can reliably earn a laugh from the crowd and take down the target a peg or two.

When you roll a Dance Die, you can flip the die over and use the number on the bottom. Note that for a balanced die, the top and bottom numbers add up to one more than the die's largest number. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until the start of your next turn.

You can take this Reaction a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier (minimum of once). You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Your Jest Dance Style improves in the following ways.

Once on each of your turns when you miss a target with an attack roll, you can make one ranged attack with a weapon you are Juggling against the same target.

Manipulate Others Like Puppets

Marionettists are master manipulators with magical strings. Instead of dancing themselves, they prefer to control a puppet or ensnare other creatures with their strings and compel them to dance to a new rhythm.

Your skill in manipulating others grants you the following benefits.

When a creature fails its saving throw against your Puppet Strings, it has the Charmed condition and Disadvantage on attack rolls against your allies until the start of your next turn.

When a Beast or Humanoid fails its saving throw against your Puppet Strings, you can cast Dominate Beast or Dominate Person targeting the creature, respectively, without a spell slot. The target automatically fails its saving throw against the spell. Charisma is your spellcasting modifier for this feature's spells.

The spell ends early if your Puppet Strings is no longer active. Additionally, you can't use the Bonus Action of your Puppet Strings for the spell's duration.

When you reach Dancer level 15, you can use this feature to cast Dominate Monster when any creature fails its saving throw against Puppet Strings.

Once you use this feature to cast a spell, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest. You can also restore your use of this feature to cast Dominate Beast or Dominate Person by expending two uses of your Dance (no action required).

Perform a Silent Dance with Invisible Props

Silent and monochromatic performers, Mimes act out a world of invisible objects and wordless gags. Those that master this artform find that their pantomimes can drive sound from the room, imbue invisible props with solidity, and even raise invisible walls of force around their foes.

Once on each of your turns, when you hit a creature with a melee attack while your Pantomime Dance Style is active, you can give the target the Prone condition or push it up to 10 feet away from you.

You can cast Wall of Force without expending a spell slot or spell components. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

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

While your Pantomime Dance Style is active, whenever you roll damage with a Melee weapon that deals 1d4 or 1d6 damage, you can deal 2d6 Force damage instead of its normal damage type.

Weightlessly Dance Through the Air

With a stylish pair of anti-gravity shoes, Moonwalkers perform a weightless Dance that defies all manner of physics. Their signature move drifts backwards, sideways, and through the air in frictionless and spellbinding style.

You radiate an invisible aura that alters friction in a 10-foot Emanation originating from you. Within the Emanation, creatures you choose other than yourself can move without expending movement. Any other creature other than yourself treats the Emanation as Difficult Terrain. You can dismiss the Emanation or manifest it again as a Bonus Action.

You can cast Freedom of Movement on yourself without expending a spell slot. Charisma is your spellcasting modifier for this spell.

Your Moonwalk has become a supernatural staple of your Dance routine, granting you the following benefits.

Dance Alongside a Shadowy Duplicate

Wielding long-forgotten magic, Shadow Dancers animate their shadows to act as dance partners. This Shadowdance is a waltz performed in perfect synchronicity that can fold the darkness around them, obscuring the room or even causing the Dancer to vanish from view.

On the first round of combat, you have the Invisible condition. The condition ends early immediately after you make an attack roll, deal damage, or cast a spell.

When the shadow duplicate of your Shadowdance is destroyed, you can take a Reaction to teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is entirely in Dim Light or Darkness.

When a creature destroys the shadow duplicate of your Shadowdance, lingering shadowstuff covers the creature until the end of your next turn. You have Advantage on attacks against a creature covered in shadowstuff, and whenever you hit such a creature with an attack, you deal an extra 1d6 Necrotic damage to it.

Deflect Attacks with Your Armored Dance

The “Steel Song” is a treatise on combat, detailing the stances and techniques of armed battle. Though the original manual has long since been lost to time, its practitioners have passed down the discipline down through the generations to particularly lightfooted warriors.

Steelsingers demonstrate acrobatic flourishes and mobility, even while laden with relatively bulky weapons and armor, dancing across the battlefield in a lethal cadence.

When a creature you can see hits an ally within 5 feet of you with an attack roll, you can take a Reaction to force the attack to hit you instead.

You can take this Reaction a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier (minimum of once). You regain one expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Your Armored Deflection Dance Style is improved in the following ways.

You can use your Redirection and Graceful Retaliation as a part of the same Reaction. When you do so, the target takes extra Bludgeoning damage equal to two rolls of your Dance Die on a hit.