Warlord

Only those who are determined to have inner psionic talent are trained as Battleminds. These mentally elite commanders use their wondrous minds to enhance their leadership skills.

At 3rd level, you awaken the psionic potential of your mind, and learn to manifest spells, much like a psion does.

You have learned to enhance your leadership ability with your psionic power. Also at 3rd level, when you use a warlord class feature or a Tactical Exploit that requires an allied creature to be able to hear you, you can do so using your Telepathy.

You can enhance the power of your allies' attacks with your mind. Beginning at 6th level, when you, or a creature within 30 feet hits a target with an attack, you can use your reaction to expend Psi Points, causing the attack to deal additional psychic damage equal to 1d4 per Psi Point you expend.

The maximum amount of Psi Points that you can expend at one time is equal to your Intelligence modifier.

The power of your mind it truly wondrous and difficult to penetrate. Starting at 14th level, your mind cannot be read unless you wish it to be, and when you are forced to make an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, you gain a bonus to the roll equal to your Intelligence modifier.

In addition, the range of your Telepathy becomes 60 feet.

Your mind is able to shield those who follow you from mental assaults. Beginning at 18th level, you can use your action to expend an Exploit Die and extend the benefits of Thought Shield to creatures of your choice within 30 feet.

This benefit lasts for 1 hour, and you must concentrate on your Thought Shield as if you were concentrating on a spell.

Warlords that select the Academy of Chivalry often hail from the ranks of the nobility and are most always formal knights. As leaders, they hold themselves and those who follow them to a lofty code of conduct. These knights stand as beacons of fair play, honor, and justice, both on and off the field of battle.

Your presence inspires your allies to fight through adversity. Starting at 3rd level, creatures of your choice within range of your Orders have advantage on saving throws to resist being charmed or frightened.

Moreover, when you succeed on a saving throw, you can use your reaction to choose one creature within 30 feet that can see or hear you, that was subjected to the same saving throw, to automatically succeed on their saving throw.

Your words inspire others to acts of greatness. Beginning at 6th level, when you target an allied creature with an Exploit, you can expend an Exploit Die to instill one target with noble motivation. The next time it makes an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it can add your Exploit Die to its roll.

Beginning at 14th level, you can let forth a rallying cry as an action. You, and a number of creatures of your choice equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one) that can hear you gain temporary hit points equal to your warlord level.

While these temporary hit points last, a creature cannot be charmed or frightened, and its speed increases by 10 feet.

Once you use this feature you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

You stand as a beacon of everything noble and chivalrous in the world. At 18th level you gain the following benefits:

Where most warlords have a sense of appreciation and care for those that follow them, those known as Dreadlords only care for one thing - victory. These ruthless captains make use of any possible advantage, often using their enemy's greatest fears against them to turn the tide of the battle. These dark captains are often found leading hordes of orcs and undead.

Both friend and foe can sense your willingness to sacrifice anything, or anyone, for the sake of your victory. Beginning at 3rd level, when a creature that can see you within 30 feet is forced to make a saving throw to resist being frightened, you can use your reaction impose disadvantage on its roll.

Upon reaching 11th level the range increases to 60 feet.

Those who follow you fear what will happen should they fail to achieve your goals. Starting at 6th level, when you target a creature with a Tactical Exploit, you can expend an Exploit Die to grant it temporary hit points equal your Exploit Die.

When a creature that has temporary hit points from you hits with a weapon attack, it can expend any amount of its temporary hit points, adding them to its damage roll.

You command those who follow you to strike down the weak. Beginning at 14th level, both you, and allied creatures under the effects of your Exploits, have advantage on any attack roll they make against a creature that is currently frightened.

You stand as a monument to all those who have tried, and failed, to stop your iron conquest. At 18th level, you gain the following benefits the reflect your intimidating presence:

Warlords who hail from this Academy rarely come from formal schools of war. In place of using military theory, their tactics are based on the instincts of wild predators. These leaders are famous for their ruthless treatment of their foes, though they would lay down their life for any member of their pack.

You lead your allies as an alpha wolf leads its pack. Starting at 3rd level, you can use your bonus action to mark a creature that you can see within 30 feet. You, and any creatures under the effects of your Tactical Exploits, have advantage on your first attack against the marked creature each turn.

This mark lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if the creature is slain, you are incapacitated, or you mark another creature.

Once you mark a creature you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again. When you have no uses left, you can expend an Exploit Die to mark another creature.

You lead your pack to hunt as efficiently as wild predators. Beginning at 6th level, both you and allied creatures of your choice within 30 feet of you, gain the following benefits:

Beginning at 14th level, the thrill of a successful hunt drives you into a frenzy. As a reaction when the creature marked by Thrill of the Hunt is slain, you can grant yourself temporary hit points equal to your warlord level and immediately mark another creature without expending an Exploit Die.

You lead your comrades as well as an apex predator leads its pack. Starting at 18th level, both you and creatures within range of Savage Ambush gain the following benefits:

Warlords who join the Academy of Schemes are committed to securing victory at any cost. These leaders have no scruples about how they achieve their goals and are willing to cheat, deceive, and sacrifice whatever is necessary to find success. Often distrustful of strangers, these utilitarians always have a backup plan should things not work out as they predicted.

At 3rd level, you learn various tricks to ensure your victory, even when you are outmatched. Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw in addition to the normal damage.

On a failure, it is blinded, deafened, silenced, or its speed is reduced by a number of feet equal to 5 times your proficiency bonus (your choice) until the beginning of your next turn.

You instruct those that follow you to prey upon the weakest of your foes. Beginning at 6th level, you, and any creature under the effects of your Exploits, has advantage on its first attack against a creature suffering from the effects of Cheap Shot.

Also, creatures that fail their saving throw against Cheap Shot cannot take reactions until the start of your next turn.

You have no qualms about leaving allies in danger. Starting at 14th level, when you use an Exploit as part of your action, you can use the Dash or Disengage action as a bonus action.

Also, when a creature hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to force the attacker to target a creature of your choice (other than itself) within its reach, instead of you.

You are ruthless in pursuing the destruction of your enemies. Starting at 18th level, when a creature fails its saving throw against Cheap Shot, you can forgo the normal conditions and instead mark that creature for death. The first attack that hits a target marked in this way becomes an automatic critical hit.

Once you mark a creature in this way you must finish a short or long rest before you can use this mark again.

Warlords who join the Academy of Skalds are keenly aware of the power that music and song have to inspire soldiers. When they combine their bardic magic with their understanding of strategy, these commanders can turn even the most unskilled rabble into a heroic fighting force. The Skalds of legend were said to be able to turn the tide of the most desperate battles, fanning the flames of hope in all who heard their warsong.

At 3rd level, you learn how to shape reality with music and song, producing wondrous spells much as a bard does.

Beginning at 6th level, your presence assuages the worries of your allies allowing them to rest. Any creature that spends a short rest with you has advantage on their Hit Die rolls.

Additionally, any creature that spends a short rest with you can regain an expended spell slot by expending a number of Hit Dice equal to twice level of the spell slot they recover.

Also at 6th level, you can weave spells, Exploits, and attacks as one song in battle. Whenever you use your action to cast a bard spell, you can make a weapon attack as a bonus action.

You inspire your comrades to stand and fight against all odds. Starting at 14th level, when you target a creature with a spell of 1st-level or higher, or an Exploit, it has advantage on the first saving throw it makes before the start of your next turn.

The Skalds of legend were said to be able to turn the tide of the most desperate battles, fanning the flames of hope in all who heard their warsong. Beginning at 18th level, when you expend an Exploit Die to use one of your Tactical Exploits, the targets of that Exploit gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 temporary hit point).

Also, when you take the Attack action on your turn, you can cast a bard spell in place of one of your weapon attacks.

Warlords of this Academy often hail from formal organizations that serve the will of the ruling class. These commanders are highly educated, and most have spent time serving as military advisors and strategists. These tacticians are known for their dedication to those who follow them, and they work tirelessly to best utilize the strengths of each of their companions.

You excel in adapting your tactics to best meet the challenge before you. At 3rd level, you gain the following benefits:

You wield your comrades as others wield weapons. Starting at 6th level, when you use your action to use an Exploit, or use an Exploit in place of each attack you could make, you gain the following benefits until the start of your next turn:

Starting at 14th level, you cannot be surprised while you are conscious, and when you roll initiative, you gain a special action that you take at the start of combat before any other creature has a chance to act. This special action can only be used to use a Tactical Exploit or to take the Ready action.

Never to be outdone, you always have a plan for when things go south. Beginning at 18th level, you can reveal one of your previously undisclosed plans to your allies, making an ability check relevant to the plan to determine its effectiveness.

Once you use this feature you can't use it again for 7 days.