A Shady and Brutal Living

Brigands make their living by joining raiding parties and other unsavoury organisations for coin, though lone wolf Brigands are not uncommon. It is rare for a Brigand to be in an honest line of work, the closest being a mercenary sworn to a lord. Even then the role they play in their lords warband often deals with the dirty and distasteful affairs of politics and battle.

Brigands are far closer than most folk to the world of murder, theft, and violence that pervades the underbelly of civilization, and they have survived so far by disregarding the rules of society to get one step ahead. Though the price of survival often requires more than mere indifference to the rules of honourable men, which is sure to turn them into foes.

Better you than Me

Brigands devote as much effort to mastering the use of a variety of skills as they do to perfecting their dirty combat abilities, giving them a broad expertise that few others can match. Many focus on stealth and deception, befitting of those called Brigand, while others refine the skills that help them in combat. Precise footing and a keen eye for weakness can easily compete with raw strength.

When it comes to combat Brigands would rather make one precise strike, placing it exactly where the attack will hurt the most, then wear an opponent down with a barrage of attacks. The less time spent in a battle, the less likely you are to die yourself. This mentality gives Brigands a knack for avoiding danger derived from this calculating nature, or cowardness.

Stamina

• Stamina Dice: 1d6 per Brigand level
• Stamina at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
• Stamina at Higher Levels: 1 + your Constitution modifier per Brigand level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armour: Light
• Weapons: Simple Weapons, rapiers, shortswords
• Tools: Thieves Tools
• Saving Throws: Dexterity & Intelligence
• Skills: Choose three from: Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception, Performance, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a rapier or (b) a shortsword
• (a) a shortbow and quiver of 20 arrows or (b) a shortsword
• (a) a burglar’s pack, (b) a dungeoneer’s pack, or (c) an explorer’s pack
• Leather armor, two daggers, and thieves’ tools

Close and Personal

You violently close the distance between you and the target. You attempt to grapple the target. On a success, the target is grappled by you and takes bludgeoning damage equal to 2 x the points spent. This tactic can only be used if the triggering attack was a melee attack.

Eye Thief

You attempt to gouge your fingers into the target's eyes, throw dirt in their face, or otherwise attempt to blind your foe. You make a contested Dexterity check against the target of the attack. Targets wearing helmets have advantage on the contest. On a success, the target is blinded for a number of turns equal to the number of points spent. The target can make a Constitution (Grit) check as a bonus action on their turn to end the effect early.

Shin Sweep

You lash out at the target’s shin or stomp on their toe. The target of the attack makes a Constitution (Grit) check with a penalty equal to the number of points spent. On a failure, the target falls prone.

Visceral Attack

You drive your attack into one of the target's vital points. You add an extra 1d6 per point spent to the damage of the attack.

Nose Cracker

You thrust forward with the blunt end of your weapon or with your head, hitting the target in the nose. You must spend two or more points to trigger this tactic. The target of the attack must make a Constitution (Grit) check with a penalty equal to the number of points spent or become Staggered until the end of its next turn. This tactic can only be used if the triggering attack was a melee attack.

Uncanny Dodge

You ready yourself against your target's retaliation. The damage of the next attack the target hits you with is reduced by an amount equal to 1 + the number of points spent until the beginning of your next turn. This effect lasts until the beginning of your next turn.

Wind ‘em

You drive your attack into the targets weak point, winding them. You must spend two or more points to trigger this tactic. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw or become Winded for a number of turns equal to the number of points spent on a failure. The target can make a Constitution (Grit) check at the end of its turn to end the effect early.

Cruel Twist

You cruelly twist your attack as it drives into the target, causing painful bleeding. The target must make a Constitution saving throw or begin to take necrotic damage equal to the number of points pent at the end of each of their turns. Either the target or someone else can end this effect with a successful Wisdom (Medicine) check.

Low Blow

You strike out dishonorably against your target's groin. You must spend three or more points to trigger this tactic. You make an additional attack roll against the target. On a hit the target gains a level of exhaustion. This level of exhaustion can be removed if the target uses their action and all their movement to catch their breath. A creature cannot gain more then 4 levels of exhaustion from this source. This tactic can only be used if the triggering attack was a melee attack.

Well Connected

Starting at 1st level, if you spend at least 1 hour carousing a populated area, you can find one of the following:

• Lodgings equal to a Modest lifestyle for up to five creatures.
• Information regarding the location of persons of interest.
• Access to rare/illegal goods and services.

Discern Weakness

Also at 1st level, you gain the ability to decipher an opponent’s tactics and develop a counter to them. As an action, you make a Wisdom (Insight) check against a creature you can see that isn’t incapacitated, opposed by the target’s Charisma (Deception) check. If you succeed you may add your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier to the damage of your next Underhanded Assault against the targeted creature, as long as you maintain concentration. A creature that succeeds against you cannot be targeted again for 1 minute.

Additionally, your Underhanded Assault save DC can be calculated with either your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier (your choice).

Secrets Gleaned

You are adept at observing the plans and weapons of your enemies. Starting at 3rd level, if you spy on an enemy without being detected for at least 10 minutes, you may pick one of the following benefits:

• The GM gives you a clue about the enemy’s plans or destination.
• You spot a potential weakness in the enemy, giving you (or an ally you advise) advantage on the first attack you make against foes of that kind.
• You gain a +1 bonus to AC against attacks made by enemies of the kind you are observing. This benefit lasts until you next take a short rest.
• You gain advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) ability checks made against enemies of this kind. This benefit lasts until you next take a short rest.

Equipped for War

Starting at 1st level, you gain proficiency in medium armour, shields, and four weapons of your choice.

Additionally, your stamina maximum increases by 1 and increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class.

Brutal Blows

Also at 1st level, you can use an Underhanded Assault with any weapon you are proficient in, not just light, finesse or ranged weapons. The other requirements for Underhanded Assault still need to be met.

Additionally, your Underhanded Assault save DC can be calculated with either your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).

Martial Skill

Starting at 3rd level, you learn one Martial Skill of your choice from the Warrior class feature of the same name. Your Martial Skill options are detailed at the end of the Warrior class description.

You learn one additional Martial Skill of your choice at 6th and 9th level. Each time you learn a new Martial Skill, you can also replace one Martial Skill you know with a different one.

Some of your Martial Skill may require your target to make a saving throw to resist the Martial Skill's effects. The saving throw DC is equal to your Underhanded Assault save DC.

Square Up

Starting at 6th level, you can use your bonus action granted by your Cunning Action to impose disadvantage on the next melee attack that targets you until the start of your next turn. When you do so, you also gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your Brigand level.

You can do this a number of times equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Brutal Killer

Starting at 9th level, you take advantage of your foe's weakness and strike to dispatch them as brutally as possible. Whenever you hit a creature with an Underhanded Assault or Martial Skill that is bloodied, broken or incapacitated, you deal an extra 5 damage. This damage ignores the Resistant properties of armour and shields.

Twin Talons

Starting at 1st level, the weapon in each of your hands are like the killing tools of a great predator. You gain the following benefits while two-weapon fighting:

• You can add your ability modifier to the damage of your off-hand attacks.
• If you take the Attack action and trigger an Underhanded Assault while engaged in two-weapon fighting, you may use your bonus action to make two attacks with your offhand weapon instead of one.

Guerrilla Fighter

Starting at 3rd level, you dart into the fray bringing death upon two blades. If you move 20 feet before attacking a creature with an off-hand attack, you can use an Underhanded Assault against that creature without meeting any of the other criteria of Underhanded Assault.

Additionally, your movement speed is increased by 5 feet, and increases by 5 feet again at 6th and 9th level.

Blade Wall

Starting at 6th level, you need no shield wall to guard yourself from harm. You gain the following benefits while two-weapon fighting:

• You gain a +1 bonus to your AC.
• Opportunity attacks against you are made at disadvantage.

Tools of the Craft

Starting at 1st level, you gain proficiency in martial weapons.

Killer’s Intent

You lash out at your foes with unrivaled deadliness. Also at 1st level, whenever you roll a 1 on one of your d6s when performing a Visceral Attack, you can reroll the die.

At 6th level you may reroll 2s as well.

Pig Sticker

Starting at 3rd level, you know how to come in low and skewer your foes on the end of your weapon. When you hit a creature with an Underhanded Assault and spend all available points on Visceral Attack, you also roll a d10. On a roll of 9 or 10 on this d10, you double the damage of Visceral Attack against that creature. On a roll of 8 or lower however, you gain 1 Stress.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again. You can, however, regain the use of this feature if you reduce a humanoid creature to 0 health using damage from Visceral Attack while in combat.

Butcher

Starting at 6th level, you are at your deadliest when you get the drop on your enemies. You have advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn't taken a turn in the combat yet.

Killing Strike

Starting at 9th level, you become a master of instant death. When you attack and hit a creature that is surprised or stunned, it must make a Constitution saving throw against your Underhanded Assault save DC. On a failed save, the hit becomes a critical hit.

Marksmen

Starting at 1st level, you are a master of the inglorious killing tool. You gain proficiency with longbows, if you are not already proficient in them, and gain a +2 bonus to all ranged attack rolls.

Additionally, due to your ranged approach to combat, the Close and Personal Underhanded Tactic is replaced with the following new Underhanded Tactic:

• Pin: The shot hits your quarry's foot, knee, or hip, possibly stifling their movement. The target must succeed on a Strength (Athletics) check contested by your Wisdom (Perception) check or have their movement speed reduced by 10 x the number of points spent feet until the end of their next turn. Creatures who's movement speed is reduced to 0 in this way are considered Restrained by the projectile until they succeed on a Constitution (Grit) check to remove it as a bonus action. This tactic can only be used if the triggering attack was a ranged attack.

Eagle-Eye

Starting at 3rd level, your sharp eyes and steady fingers allow you to make shots others would deem impossible. While wielding a ranged weapon you can make a special attack if you did not move during your last turn. As an action, choose a creature within range of your weapon. That creature must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Underhanded Assault save DC. On a failure the creature takes your weapon's normal damage + your Brigand level, or half as much on a success. This damage ignores the Resistant property of armour and shields.

You can do this a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier (minimum of once). You regain all spent uses after you complete a long rest.

Quickdraw

Starting at 6th level, you learn to shoot first and ask questions later. When initiative is being rolled and you have a ranged weapon in hand, you can make a single ranged weapon attack before combat starts. You can use this feature even if you are surprised.

This attack is considered to activate the Pin Underhanded Tactic as if 1 point were spent on it, regardless of if the attack could trigger an Underhanded Assault or not. If this attack does meet the prerequisites to trigger an Underhanded Assault, the aforementioned spent point does not effect the number of points you can spend on Underhanded Tactics.

Bullseye

Starting at 9th level, no matter what guards a target your arrows will find purchase. When you make a ranged weapon attack and would miss, you can choose to add a +10 bonus to the attack roll, potentially causing the attack to hit. You can do this before or after the roll is made, but before the outcome is determined. Once you do so, you must complete a short rest before you can do so again.

Additionally, you may spend Underhanded Assault points on either the Visceral Attack or Pin tactics when you use your Eagle-eye feature, even though it is not an attack that would trigger an Underhanded Assault.

Defender

Starting at 1st level, while you are wielding a shield, whenever a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. If the attack still hits, the damage taken is reduced by an amount equal to your Dexterity modifier.

Bearer of the Shield

Also at 1st level, you gain proficiency in shields and gain a shield as a part of your starting equipment.

Aegis

As a Shield Bearer it is your job to ready the bulwark that guards you or your allies from harm. Starting at 3rd level, over the course of a short rest you can spend your time maintaining and reinforcing a shield, making it your Aegis. You spend any number of Underhanded Assault points on the shield to increase its protective ability. After doing so, whenever a creature wielding your Aegis takes bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage they can, as a reaction, roll a number of d6s equal to the spent Underhanded Assault points and reduce the damage taken by the total result of the roll.

This can be done a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, after which your Aegis becomes a regular shield again. This cannot be used to reduce the damage of a critical hit, unless the creature wielding your Aegis uses the shields Splinter feature.

However, while you have a Aegis, your Assault Potency is decreased by the number of points spent on your Aegis until the Aegis runs out of uses.

You can only have one Aegis at a time. If you make another shield your Aegis, the previous shield loses all its bonuses.

Untiring Arm

Starting at 6th level, a shield does not burden you but aids you instead. When using a shield, its weight does not count towards your encumbrance.

Additionally, while wielding a shield you have advantage on checks and saving throws against being shoved.

Shield that Guards

Starting at 9th level, you do your best to protect yourself and those around you. Your Aegis gains a number of additional uses of Splinter equal to the number of Underhanded Assault points spent on the Aegis. Additionally, whenever you use your Defender ability against a critical hit, you can use your own shields Splinter ability to negate the Gritty Injury if the attack still hits.

Unarmed Savage

Starting at 1st level, you fight like a cornered animal. Your unarmed attacks are now considered light finesse weapons. Whenever you hit a creature with an unarmed strike and use an Underhanded Assault, you deal additional bludgeoning damage to that creature equal to your Dexterity modifier.

You add a d4 to this extra damage at 4th level and again at 8th level.

Animal Strength

Also at 1st level, whenever you hit a creature with an unarmed attack and attempt the Close and Personal or Shin Sweep Underhanded Assault you can treat your grapple check/change the DC of the Constitution (Grit) check to equal your Strength Score. You must do this before any rolls are made, after which you gain 1 Stress.

Finally, your Underhanded Assault save DC can be calculated with either your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).

Filed Teeth and Sharpened Claws

Starting at 3rd level, you hone the weapons given to you at birth - your teeth and fists. You need nothing else. While you are unarmed, creatures have disadvantage on ability checks and saving throws against your Underhanded Assault features.

Pursuit Predator

You follow your prey for days, tiring it out, until finally it can flee no longer. Starting at 6th level, you can track other creatures and move stealthily while traveling at a fast pace. You also gain advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) and Wisdom (Survival) checks made in natural environments.

Additionally, the unarmed strikes you make on the first round of combat against a creature you have been pursuing/hunting for at least a day have advantage.

Go for the Throat

Like an animal you go for your prey's exposed throat to finish the kill, savoring the metallic taste of their blood. Starting at 9th level, when you score a critical hit against a creature you can choose to regain 2d6 stamina and cause your next successful unarmed attack against the same creature to deal an additional 2d6 damage.

Once you use this feature, you gain 2 Stress and cannot do so again until you complete a short rest.

Leaders of Men

Maintaining control and dominance in dangerous situations is often what decides who lives and dies. In this regard, Marshals are masterful commanders. A Marshal often requires those they lead to share a common goal, moral code, a willingness to work together, or at least an unwavering ability to take orders. Regardless, a Marshal makes an exceptional and often much needed addition to any group pursuing a dangerous or glorious endeavour.

The ways in which a Marshal can command those under them vary greatly from person to person. However, all Marshals spend their time barking orders, issuing commands, and leading their followers with their inspiring presence. Through extensive preparation, meticulous training, and flawless coordination; a warband led by a skilled Marshal is capable of magnitudes more than a common fighting force and will be able to fell foes several times greater than themselves.

Stamina

• Stamina Dice: 1d6 per Marshal level
• Stamina at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
• Stamina at Higher Levels: 2 + your Constitution modifier per Marshal level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armour: Light and Medium, Shields
• Weapons: Simple Weapons, Longswords, Rapiers, Shortswords.
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Dexterity & Charisma
• Skills: Choose any three

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) scale mail or (b) leather armour, a shortbow, and 20 arrows
• (a) a spear and a shield or (b) a longsword
• (a) a dipomat’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• a simple weapon and a spangenhelm

Commands

Additionally, each Leader’s Presence also has two Commands listed in their description. You can use an action to give a Command on your turn. You can do this a number of times as seen in the Command column of the Marshal class table. You regain all spend uses after you complete a long rest. If you are out of uses but still wish to give a Command, you can spend a Stamina die and gain 1 Stress to regain a use.

Commands only effect creatures in range of your Leader's Presence.

Bearer of the Banner

Starting at 1st level, you carry the banner bearing a great heraldry, inspiring those who serve under it. You gain a banner as a part of your starting equipment. When you roll initiative and are wielding this banner, you may choose one ability score. All allies that can see the banner gain a +2 bonus to skill checks and saving throws with the chosen ability score for the duration of the combat. You must be wielding the banner for your allies to get this benefit.

This bonus increases increases by +1 at 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level.

Lay Claim

Starting at 3rd level, you can raise your banner and plant it in the blood-soaked battlefield, laying claim to the land. For 1 minute, 20 feet around the planted banner is considered difficult terrain for enemies. Any allies who start their turn in this space gain 1d4 temporary hit points. These temporary hit points stack with each other, up to a maximum of your Charisma score, and last for 1 minute or until the effect ends. Moving the banner also ends this effect.

Allies still gain the benefit of your Bearer of the Banner feature (and later your Renowned Emblem feature) even though you are not holding the banner while this ability is active.

Once this feature is used, it cannot be used again until you have finished a short or long rest.

Renowned Emblem

Starting at 6th level, you banner sways above the din of war, inspiring all that lay their eyes upon it. While holding your banner your Leader’s Presence features have a range of 60 feet.

Bannerlord

Starting at 9th level, your Lay Claim feature can be used a number of times equal to 1 + your Charisma modifier (minimum of twice) per short or long rest.

Open Ears

Starting at 1st level, you make a point of keeping up with the latest news both local and from afar, as well as making an effort to know the wise and the powerful. If you can freely travel about an area talking with locals and passing travellers for a few hours, you hear all the latest local news, including news of trouble, without raising suspicion. This may require a successful Dexterity (Stealth) check, with a DC set by the GM, if you are in enemy territory.

War of Words

If you can keep yourself aloof enough, one can begin to see that most wars are prompted by the words of one powerful person to another. An insult given, a declaration made, an oath sworn - people have killed for less. You know this, and know how to shape history by uttering the right words to the right people. Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to generate Counsel Points. Once gained, they are lost after a number of weeks equal to your Charisma Modifier have passed or you spend them.

You gain 1 Counsel Point if you carry out a difficult order given to you by a superior such as collecting taxes from a disloyal village, when you successfully shift the balance of political power in a settlement to your advantage, when you give useful advice to a superior that later ends up playing a big role in securing victory, or when you spend 2 periods of downtime every day for a week improving your relationship with a superior/high ranking official of the local settlement. All of these conditions may require one or more ability checks to complete, with DCs set by the GM.

You can spend Counsel Points to activate the following abilities, paying the stated number of points in order to do so:

• Favors Owed (1 Point). Choose one non-hostile NPC that you know. That NPC now owes you a favor. They will not risk injury to themselves of their allies while returning this favor.
• Gleaned Secrets (2 Points). Choose an NPC that you know. After spending 4 periods of downtime collecting information on them, you learn a secret about them that they would rather keep secret. The chosen NPC is aware that you know this secret if you fail a Charisma (Deception) check contested by their Wisdom (Insight) check made after you learn the secret.
• Plots Thwarted (3 Points). You spend 1 period of downtime each day for a week searching for plots against you or your superiors. Should one or more be present, you become aware of one of the GMs choosing. After doing so, you gain advantage on the first ability check you make to stop this plot.
• Friendships Forged (4 Points). You publicly offer friendship to a non-hostile faction, earning their trust even if just for some time. The next time you assist the chosen faction in a combat encounter, your allies and the chosen faction gain a +2 bonus to their AC until the end of combat and do not suffer Battle Fatigue.
• Enemies Made (5 Points). You publicly insult and defame an enemy faction, earning their ire. In the next combat encounter you participate in against the chosen enemy, your allies gain a bonus to their damage rolls and Intelligence Saving Throws equal to your Charisma modifier until the end of combat.

Tools of War

You gain proficiency in Heavy armour and 4 weapons of your choice.

Bring Forth the Slaughter

Starting at 1st level, when an ally that you can see scores a critical hit on a melee weapon attack, you can use your reaction to spit curses and inspire fear into your foes. All hostile creatures within 10 feet of the ally who scored the critical hit must make a DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier Charisma saving throw or become frightened of you and the ally until the end of their next turn.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a short rest before you can use it again. You gain an additional use between short rests at 6th level.

Leader of the Wolf Pack

Starting at 3rd level, you lead your pack of comrades with every strike. You gain the following features:

• If you hit a creature with a melee attack, the next attack made by one of your allies against the same creature gains advantage.
• If you hit a creature with a ranged or thrown weapon attack, that creature gains disadvantage on opportunity attacks until the start of your next turn.
• If an enemy deals damage to one of your allies, you can use your reaction to bellow insults at them. If you do, you deal 1d4 psychic damage to that creature.

Spit Back

Starting at 6th level, you have a way of taking the brass from the balls of those who challenge you. When a creature would cause you to become frightened, they must pass a Charisma (Intimidation) contest against you. If they succeed, you are frightened as normal, if they fail, they are instead frightened of you as per the effect.

Let Slip the Dogs of War

Starting at 9th level, your leadership methods have bred violence and bloodlust into your warband. These wolves need only your command to lose themselves in the slaughter. You can use your action to command your allies to send the weak to a shallow grave. Each ally within 60 feet of you can use their reaction to make a single attack with a bonus to its damage roll equal to your Charisma modifier.

Once you use this feature, you gain 2 Stress and cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Learned Commander

A dull mind is far more detrimental to a warrior than a dull blade, though a sharp one is a far better weapon then any axe. Starting at 1st level, you may add your Intelligence modifier to your Initiative rolls in addition to your Dexterity modifier.

Additionally, when an Order, Command, or Leader's Presence states to use your Charisma modifier for an effect, you can use your Intelligence modifier instead.

Cunning Strategist

At 3rd level, your keen mind for the logistics of warfare allows you to best organize your allies and prepare plans for the battles ahead. You gain an additional Order.

Additionally, over the course of a long rest you can choose one Order you know and replace it with another.

Tactical Evaluation

Starting at 6th level, as a bonus action you can make an Intelligence (Investigation) check against a creature of your choice within 30 feet of you contested by a Charisma (Deception) check. On a success you and your allies may add your Intelligence modifier to damage rolls against that creature until the start of your next turn.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once) per short rest.

Veteran Tactician

The carnage of battle is little more than a bloody chess board. The pieces move to your order as your grand strategy unfolds. Starting at 9th level, if an Order requires you to use an action to issue it, you can issue another Order as apart of the same action.

Inspiring Leader

Starting at 1st level, you bring your leadership talents to bear in every situation. Just as you look over the battlefield and give orders to your warriors, you survey your lands and tell the people how to work it. You gain proficiency in Charisma (Persuasion) if you did not already have it. You can add double your proficiency bonus to Charisma (Persuasion) checks when attempting to recruit allies or give orders.

Levys

You are a minor lord; a landowner and commander. Through this influence, you can sway the rabble to your side and call peasants to fight beside you. Starting at 3rd level, while in a settlement of village size or larger in which the populace is non-hostile towards you, you can attract a number of Levys equal to your proficiency bonus.

These freemen swear allegiance to you and will serve you loyally and even fight for you, at no cost besides basic lifestyle expenses and assurance of safety and comfort in your holdings and the holdings of your superiors. However, they might desert or even mutiny against you if they are treated poorly or exposed to moral breaking experiences.

In combat, the Levys share your initiative count, but take their turns immediately after yours. They can move and use their reactions on their own, but the only Action they take on their turn is the Dodge action unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command them to take one of the actions in their stat block or the Dash, Disengage, Help, Hide, or Search action. Unless commanded to otherwise, Levys will always remain within 5 feet of each other. Additionally, all Levies make saving throws as a single creature if multiple of them are targeted by an effect.

Over a Long rest, you must run your Levys through combat drills and other marital training to keep them in fighting shape. Doing so requires 5 periods of Downtime. If these drills are preformed, until your next long rest the Levys add your proficiency bonus to their AC, attack rolls, and damage rolls, and your Marshal level to their Stamina maximum.

Air of Dominance

You are a domineering force on the battlefield. Your battle brothers strike harder as to not earn your ire. All allies in range that can see and hear you can re-roll all 1s on their damage rolls.

No Quarter: You command your allies to cut deeper. For 1 minute, all allies in range that can see and hear you can re-roll all 2s and 3s on their damage rolls. This Command requires you to maintain Concentration.

Overwhelming Power: You command the attention of all in the shield-shake, causing foes to falter at your power. For 1 minute, all enemies in range that can see and hear you roll their damage die twice and take the lower result. This Command requires you to maintain Concentration.

Always Ready

You have a keen sense for spotting the fight before it begins. All allies in range that can hear you gain a bonus to their initiative rolls equal to your Charisma modifier.

Get Ready: You command your warriors to make a lasting first impression on your foes. All allies in range that can hear you gain a bonus to their first attack roll, ability check, and saving throw they make on the first round of combat equal to your Marshal level.

No Surprises: You command your allies to remain vigilant. For 10 minutes all allies in range cannot be surprised and creatures cannot gain advantage on attack rolls against them as a result of being hidden. This Command requires you to maintain Concentration.

By Example

You don't keep back and order from a distance. You lead from in the midst of the battlefield, inspiring your men to fight. While you are engaged with an enemy, all allies in range gain a bonus to Strength and Wisdom saving throws equal to your Charisma modifier.

Keep Fighting: You command those around you to fight on despite their wounds. For 1 minute, while you are engaged with an enemy, all allies in range gain advantage on Constitution (Grit) checks.

Shield Brothers: You command your battle brothers to keep their shields up as they fight beside you. For 1 minute, while you are engaged with an enemy, all allies in range gain a +1 bonus to their AC and damage rolls.

Cull the Weak

In your presence, wholesale slaughter is common. Enemies in range that receive a critical hit gain a penalty to their Gritty Injury roll equal to your Charisma modifier.

Feed the Worms: You command your allies to slaughter them all, down to the last. For 1 minute, whenever an ally in range that can see and hear you scores a critical hit against a creature, they add your Marshal level to the damage of the attack. This Command requires you to maintain Concentration.

Death: You command your men to end your foes. Until the beginning of your next turn all allies in range that can see you can make an additional attack when they take the Attack action on their turn.

Dirty Hands

War is a grim thing. As such you inspire your men to win the fight, by what ever means necessary. All allies that can see you in range gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls made against creatures they are flanking.

Kick 'em While They're Down: You command those around you to curb stomp fallen enemies. For 1 minute all allies that can see you in range add your Charisma modifier to damage rolls made against prone or incapacitated creatures. This Command requires you to maintain Concentration.

Impaling Insult: You command your foes to stick their weapons were the sun don't shine. Choose a number of humanoid enemies in range that can hear you equal to your Charisma modifier. The chosen targets must make a DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier Wisdom saving throw or take 1d6 + your proficiency bonus psychic damage and take a -2 penalty to their AC for 1 minute as they drop their guard in response to your scathing comment. Effected targets can reattempt the saving throw at the end of their turn, ending the effect on a success.

Great Minds

Scholars are people who make their living primarily by preforming secretarial and administrative duties such as dictation and keeping business, judicial, and historical records for lords, ship captains and cities. They are among the few in the civilized world who can read and write, but are unique in their endless desire to learn. This coupled with an ability to apply their intelligence to nearly any task, Scholars use their vast reservoir of knowledge to resolve the various challenges that confront them.

While most Scholars have broad intellectual interests, all of them pursue a particular field of expertise to which they have likely dedicated their entire lives to study. As a result, no one undertakes the mantle of Scholar without some ambition in mind. While many scholarly types are happy simply contemplating the theoretical, Scholars will use their knowledge as a tool that has a tangible effect on the world around them. Beyond the obvious application of their craft, a Scholar often has a higher purpose they strive towards, a reason to scorn the violent ways of many of their companions in favour of the quill and inkwell.

Stamina

• Stamina Dice: 1d4 per Scholar level
• Stamina at 1st Level: 4 + your Constitution modifier
• Stamina at Higher Levels: 1 + your Constitution modifier per Scholar level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armour: None
• Weapons: Clubs, Daggers, Slings, Spears, Staffs
• Tools: An artisan’s tool of your choice
• Saving Throws: Intelligence & Wisdom
• Skills: Four of your choice from: History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Occultism, Religion, Sleight of Hand, or Survival.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a staff or (b) a sling with 20 stone bullets
• (a) an artisan’s tool of your choice or (b) a dagger
• A scholar’s pack
• A book, quill, and a full inkwell

Hands of a Healer

Starting at 1st level, you know how to treat wounds, illness and poison. You have a pool of healing techniques that replenishes when you take a long rest. With this pool, you can restore a total number of health equal to your Analysis Modifier x 5.

As an action, you can touch a creature to begin binding their wounds and on your subsequent turn use another action to expend a use of a healer’s kit. After taking the initial action, you must concentrate and remain within 5 feet of the target until you take the next action. Additionally, during this time the target creature cannot take actions of any kind, or your concentration will be broken. Successfully doing so restores a number of health to that creature, up to the maximum amount remaining in your pool.

The DC to resist breaking concentration for this ability is 8 + number from the pool spent or the damage of the attack that triggered the saving throw, whichever is higher.

If instead you tend the creature for at least 1 hour, binding their wounds, treating them with herbs and poultices, then you may add your Intelligence modifier to the amount of health healed.

Healing Lore

Starting at 3rd level, you make a discovery in your quest to understand the inner workings of the human body. Choose one Lore that requires you to be a Healer. You gain the chosen Lore. This Lore does not count toward the total amount of Lore you can know.

Battlefield Surgeon

There is no better teacher than the blood-soaked battlefield, though you have learned different lessons than a warrior would from it. Starting at 6th level, you have advantage on Wisdom (Medicine) checks made to tend to open and festering wounds and other injuries or effects caused by a Gritty Injury.

Healer of Great Burdens

Starting at 9th level, such is your skill that those you tend too know that they'll never succumb to their wounds while in your care. When you use your Hands of a Healer feature on a creature currently suffering from a Gritty Injury, the healing it receives is doubled.

Studied Sources

Your knowledge of history and culture makes you a reliable source of information. Starting at 1st level, when you make an Intelligence (History, Nature, Occultism, or Religion) skill check and may add your proficiency bonus to the check, you can choose to treat any roll of 9 or lower as if you had rolled a 10.

Ancient Lore

Starting at 3rd level, you make a discovery in your quest to understand the obscure workings of history. Choose one Lore that requires you to be a Loremaster. You gain the chosen Lore. This Lore does not count toward the total amount of Lore you can know.

News from Afar

Starting at 6th level, you know many things that are hidden from most and tidings of distant events tend to reach you with astonishing speed. The source of this knowledge is obscure and you need not explain how you know the things you do to others, it is enough that what you know is true.

At the end of a long rest, the GM informs you of one or two events of importance occurring somewhere in the region you are in.

Additionally, when you're in a situation with several powerful or influential figures, you always know at least one person there by reputation and at least one deed they're known for. When you meet a lord or famous knight, you can usually recall at least one fact about them.

Legendary Lore

Starting at 9th level, your ability to piece together dissociated knowledge allows you to uncover hidden truths and lore with uncanny accuracy. During a long rest, you may name or describe a person, place, or object. Your in depth study and knowledge of history will bring to your mind a brief summary of the significant lore about the thing you named. The lore might consist of current tales, forgotten stories, or even secret lore that has never been widely known.

If the thing you named isn't of great importance, you gain no information. The more information you already have about the thing, the more precise and detailed the information you receive is.

Tactical Command

Starting at 1st level, you know how to apply your study of warfare to aid your allies in combat as you direct them to slaughter specific foes. Your Academic Analysis ability can be used to target a hostile creature within range. Doing so grants a number of allies equal to your Intelligence modifier that can hear and understand you a bonus to their fist attack and damage roll against the selected creature equal to your Analysis Modifier. This bonus lasts until the start of your next turn.

Combat Lore

Starting at 3rd level, you make a discovery in your quest to understand the gritty intricacies of battle. Choose one Lore that requires you to be a Military Advisor. You gain the chosen Lore. This Lore does not count toward the total amount of Lore you can know.

Battle Leader

Starting at 6th level, the ebb and flow of battle can seem like chaos to those unacquainted with its rhythm. You however are keen to it’s song of steel, and can use this knowledge to better give orders to your allies. You gain two Order dice, which are d6s.

As a bonus action you can give an Order die to any ally that is within 60 feet of you and can hear you. That ally can roll their Order die and add the number rolled to any ability check or attack roll on their next turn.

An Order die is expended when you use it. You regain all of your Order dice when you finish a short or long rest.

You gain an additional Order die at 9th level.

Written by the Victors

Those who heed your advice will always find themselves the victors. Starting at 9th level, whenever you roll initiative and have no uses of Academic Analysis remaining, you regain one use. This use however can only be used on your Tactical Command feature.

Additionally, on your turn you may spend 1 Stamina die as a bonus action to regain a use of Academic Analysis, to once again be used on your Tactical Command feature. After doing so you gain 1 Stress.

Words of Comfort

Starting at 1st level, you have studied how to sooth the mind and rid it of distress. As an action, you can target a willing creature within 15 feet of you and speak words of comfort to them, reducing their current Stress by an amount equal to your Intelligence modifier. This requires the creature to be able to hear and understand you.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all spent uses after you complete a long rest.

Psychological Lore

Starting at 3rd level, you make a discovery in your quest to understand the maddening patterns of the human mind. Choose one Lore that requires you to be a Psychologist. You gain the chosen Lore. This Lore does not count toward the total amount of Lore you can know.

Mend the Broken

Starting at 6th level, you become dedicated to mending those broken by the stresses of the world. You are considered a trained professional in terms of curing creatures of any Traumas they are suffering from.

At 8th level you can cure Insanities as well.

Break the Mind

Starting at 9th level, as you have mastered how to cure and ease the burdens upon the mind, you have also learnt how to inflict such mental wounds. As an action you can force one creature of your choice that can hear and understand you to make an Intelligence saving throw. The DC for this saving throw = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier.

On a failure, that creature takes 4d6 + your Intelligence modifier psychic damage, or half as much on a success. When a creature takes this damage it gains an amount of Stress equal to half the damage taken.

Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Wise Counsel

Starting at 1st level, your experiences and wisdom can assist those who are willing to listen. When you take the Help action to assist an ally, you can do so at a range of 30 feet and that creature adds your Wisdom modifier to their d20 roll as long as it can hear and understand you.

Worldly Lore

Starting at 3rd level, you make a discovery in your quest to understand the world around you. Choose one Lore that requires you to be a Wiseman. You gain the chosen Lore. This Lore does not count toward the total amount of Lore you can know.

To Dwell and to Act

Starting at 6th level, you know well how to apply your wealth of knowledge to benefit you in most situations. You can spend 1 minute pondering a specific course of action you plan to undertake within the next day. After doing so, the GM provides you with one of the following predictions about the action:

• Weal. A good outcome.
• Woe. A bad outcome.
• Weal and Woe. Both a good and bad outcome.
• Nothing. The outcome is not specifically good or bad.

Your predictions do not account for any possible circumstances that might change after you ponder the action, like the gain or loss of an ally.

Every time you use this feature before completing a long rest, there is a cumulative 20 percent chance for each use after the first that you get an incorrect prediction. The GM makes this roll (a d100) in secret.

Inhuman Wisdom

Starting at 9th level, your dedication to developing your mind has honed you into a true genius. The sum total of your experiences lends you an incisiveness that is unmatched. Your Wisdom score increases by 4 and your maximum Wisdom increases to from 20 to 24.

Additionally, you can add your Wisdom modifier to Intelligence ability checks and saving throws you make and vice versa.

Agricultural Application

Prerequisite: None.

You have advantage on Wisdom (Animal Handling) and Intelligence (Nature) checks made in relation to farming. Additionally, the damage die for farming implements that you use as a weapon increases by one step (d4>d6 etc.).

Animal Husbandry

Prerequisite: None.

You gain a faithful dog, cat, or raven companion. Your companion has the same stats as the base animal, but it’s Intelligence score is 4 and can understand (but not speak) the basics of one language that you speak. Should your companion die, you can find a stray to replace them after one period of Downtime of searching in any town or city.

Astute Defence

Prerequisite: Military Advisor.

While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Intelligence modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Banes of the Mind

Prerequisite: Psychologist.

Instead of using Words of Comfort to reduce a creatures Stress, you can instead use one use to remove one condition affecting the target creature. The conditions you can remove using this feature are the Charmed, Frightened, or Winded conditions. You cannot remove any conditions in this way that you are currently suffering from.

Bear the Burden

Prerequisite: Psychologist.

When you use your Words of Comfort feature you can choose to reduce a creature's Stress by an additional amount equal to your Analysis Modifier. If you choose to do so however, you gain an equal amount of Stress.

Calculated Response

Prerequisite: Military Advisor, Level 4.

When you would make a Dexterity saving throw, you can instead make an Intelligence saving throw. You can use this Lore a number of times equal to your Analysis Modifier. You regain all expended uses of this lore when you complete a long rest.

Clean Living

Prerequisite: None.

Over the course of 10 minutes you can administer beneficial herbs to yourself and up to your Intelligence modifier in other creatures. When you do you and each creature you choose gains resistance to poison damage and has advantage on saving throws against poison, disease, festering wounds, and infection for the next 24 hours. You can’t use this again until you complete a long rest.

Combat Efficiency

Prerequisite: Military Advisor, Level 6.

You and allies within 30 feet of you have advantage on initiative rolls and on the first attack roll they make in an encounter.

Buying Painkillers

Painkillers can be found in most large city centres, where they are sold by a variety of individuals. Court healers, herbalists, and even drug dealers can supply characters with this valuable resource. Painkillers can be bought for 40 gp per dose plus any additional fees the seller may charge.

A Life of War

Slayers are warriors without peers. War is their life, for often a Slayer knows nothing else. They seek it like a starving mutt, whether consciously or not, for what else is a Slayer good for other than killing? Even if a Slayer began their life as a farmhand, fishermen, or even a craftsmen of some kind, all those skills have been long forgotten. Lost to the gore shower of battle. Many find comfort in the certainty of war. The strong live and the weak perish. And Slayers are strong, without compromise.

Often from a young age Slayers learn nothing other than how to swing a blade and fight in battle. This is different to the martial training granted to eager youths who wish to become warriors. A Slayer's training, if it could be called that, often consists of being thrust into danger against insurmountable odds with only one objective: Kill or die. This violent upbringing paves the way for a lifetime of bloody conflict.

Living Weapons

The mettle of a Slayer is forged through hardship and strife. They train their bodies endlessly, and thus are often well muscled and hard faced. However, the strength of their body pales in comparison to the strength of their mind. The Battle Trance, as it is known, is a window into the mind of a Slayer. Their Battle Trance enables a Slayer to make their dreadful will manifest in combat.

It can be a state of pure unbridled rage, a state of hyper focus, a numbing lucid experience, an adrenaline rush that brings ecstasy with every kill, or something else entirely. Regardless, Slayers make use of this ability to push their body to inhuman feats. A Slayer cannot draw upon their trance without consequence. A Battle Trance puts such a strain on body and mind that a lesser warrior who attempted similar feats to a entranced Slayer might be sent into madness or to the afterlife.

Stamina

• Stamina Dice: 1d10 per Slayer level
• Stamina at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Stamina at Higher Levels: 3 + your Constitution modifier per Slayer level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armour: Light and Medium, Shields
• Weapons: All Weapons
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Strength & Constitution
• Skills: Choose two from: Athletics, Grit, Intimidation, Perception, and Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) scale mail or (b) leather armour, four javelins
• (a) a greataxe or (b) any martial melee weapon
• two handaxes
• An explorer’s pack, any simple weapon, and a spangenhelm

You can enter a Battle Trance twice between rests at 7th level. If you enter a Battle Trance multiple times between rests, you do not suffer the above penalties while in a Battle Trance, though the AC penalty does stack for every additional Battle Trance after the first.

Berserkergang

Your rage is mindless, known by all as the Berserkergang. While walking the Berserkergang you know not of pain; only destruction. Starting at 1st level, while in a Battle Trance, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain a +1 bonus to Strength based damage rolls. This bonus increases to +2 at 4th level and +3 at 8th level.
• You have advantage on Constitution (Grit) checks.

Fury

Starting at 3rd level, your rage can push you to incredible feats in combat, should you give in to the fury. You gain a set of abilities that are fueled by a pool of special points called Fury.

You have a number of Fury equal to your Slayer level. You can spend Fury to fuel various abilities, which are detailed below.

Fury is expended when you use it. You regain all of your expended Fury when you finish a short or long rest.

You can use Fury to activate the following abilities.

• Bear Strength: Your rage struggles against the contrasting weakness of your body. You can spend Fury at the beginning on your turn as a bonus action to add a bonus to all Strength related d20 rolls until the end of your next turn equal to 2 x the amount of Fury spent.
• Cull the Weak: Rage consumes you as you cut down the weak. After hitting a creature with a melee attack, you can spend 2 Fury to add 1d8 to the damage of the attack.
• Push Through: You refuse to feel pain. As a reaction to being subjected to the Winded or Staggered condition you can spend Fury to ignore the effect for a number of rounds equal to the amount of Fury spent, after which you are subjected to the effect as per normal and gain 1 Stress.
• Revenge: None strike you without consequence, your rage will not allow it. As a reaction to being hit with a melee attack you can expend 1 Fury to retaliate. You deal your Strength modifier + half your Slayer level damage to the creature that attacked you. The damage type dealt is that of the weapon you're currently wielding.

Rekindled Rage

The Berserkergang is unending while your fury persists. Starting at 6th level, you can use an action to spend 5 Fury to regain a use of Battle Trance, which you immediately enter after doing so, either preforming the 1 minute ritual or spending a Stamina Die to enter the trance as an Action. Once this Battle Trance ends, you gain one level of exhaustion.

After using this ability, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

Undying Fury

Rage pulses through your body with every heartbeat like a war drum. While you walk the Berserkergang, the fury will never leave you. Starting at 9th level, whenever you enter a Battle Trance and don't have any Fury remaining, you regain 2 Fury.

Additionally, you are no longer required to spend Stamina die if you wish to enter a Battle Trance on your turn.

Step into the Ring

The dueling arts are known to you, giving you an advantage over those who would face you one-on-one. Starting at 1st level, while in a Battle Trance, you gain the following benefits:

• When you are engaged with a humanoid target and there are no other creatures within 5 feet of you or the target, your attack rolls against them gain a +2 bonus.
• If you take the Dodge Action on your turn you can use your reaction to make a single melee weapon attack with disadvantage.

Expert Duelist

Starting at 3rd level, you excel at fighting one-on-one where you can best take advantage of your foes missteps. Creatures provoke opportunity attack from you if they target you with a melee weapon attack and miss, as long as they are the only creature within 5 feet of you.

Additionally, while in a Battle Trance you gain an additional reaction each round. This extra reaction can only be used to make an opportunity attack.

Renowned Fighter

Your talent as an exceptional combatant has given you a reputation that you can exploit for your benefit. Starting at 6th level, at the start of initiative you can select one humanoid target within 30 feet of you that can see, hear and understand you. That creature must succeed on a DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier Wisdom saving throw as you boast of your skill and past duels. On a failure, the target gains 2 Stress and has disadvantage on attack rolls until it uses an action to make the saving throw again and succeeds. It has advantage on this saving throw if it has hit you with an attack since the start of combat. If the target succeeds the initial saving throw however, you gain 2 Stress instead.

Additionally, your dueling prowess is apparent or known and most who would be willing to settle their disputes with you by duel will often be driven to compromise instead of violence.

Steelwind

Your speed and nimble strides gift power to your attacks. Those you strike wonder if your blades glide upon the wind itself. Starting at 1st level, while in a Battle Trance and not wearing Heavy armour, you gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws.
• If you move at least 15 feet in your turn, your melee weapon attacks made with light or finesse weapons deal an additional 1d4 damage if made on the same turn. If you move at least 30 feet, the damage becomes 1d8.

Focus

You have learned how to combine swift movements with quick thinking, allowing you focus in combat in order to dart in and out of combat at incredible speeds in order to gain the upper hand. Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to generate Focus when in combat. You create 1 Focus whenever you successfully hit a creature with a light or finesse melee weapon attack, when you first enter your Battle Trance, or when you take the Dodge action. All Focus gained is lost when combat ends or you become incapacitated.

On your turn you can spend 1 Focus to take the Disengage action as a bonus action, or double your movement speed until the end of your turn.

Additionally, when you make a weapon attack, you can spend 2 Focus to grant yourself advantage on that attack; if you do so, that attack cannot generate Focus.

Rapid Strikes

Starting at 6th level, you learn to trade accuracy for swift strikes. If you have advantage on a weapon attack against a target on your turn, you can forgo that advantage to immediately make an additional weapon attack against the same target as a reaction. Neither of these attacks generate Focus.

You can do this a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier (minimum of once) per short rest.

Deadly Momentum

Starting at 9th level, you become a blur in combat, your strikes dismembering your foes before they can react. While in a Battle Trance and not wearing a suit of Mail, you gain the following benefits:

• If you take the Dodge action you generate 2 Focus instead of 1.
• If you move at least 15 feet in your turn, your melee weapon attacks made with light or finesse weapons deal an additional 1d6 damage, instead of 1d4, if made on the same turn. If you move at least 30 feet, the damage becomes 1d10, instead of 1d8.

Indomitable Behemoth

When fully clad in the armaments of war, you are near unstoppable. Starting at 1st level, while in a Battle Trance and wearing Heavy armour, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain a +1 bonus to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws made against damaging effects. At 7th level, this bonus increases to +2.
• You can activate the Scuff and Splinter properties of armour and shields without reducing the Item Condition of the armour or breaking the shield. This can only be done once per Battle Trance for each piece of equipment.

Armoured for War

Also at 1st level, you gain proficiency in Heavy armour, and gain a set of Ring Mail as apart of your starting equipment in place of either scale mail or leather armour and four javelins.

Iron Resolve

While your armour may be strong, your mettle is forged of things far stronger. Starting at 3rd level, you have a pool of delayed damage that allows you to forestall the effects of your injuries. When you take damage, this damage is added to your Delayed Damage Pool, instead of being subtracted from your health or stamina. At the end of your turn, you take damage equal to the total stored in your delayed damage pool, which then resets to 0.

At 3rd level, your delayed damage pool can hold up to 5 points of damage. Any damage beyond that comes off your health or stamina as normal. The maximum damage your pool holds increases by 5 at 6th (10 points) and 9th (15 points) level.

When your health or stamina is healed while you have damage in your delayed damage pool, you choose whether it reduces your damage pool, or restores your health or stamina normally, or both (you can split the amount of healing as you wish).

Additionally, when you have damage stored in your delayed damage pool, you can trigger one of the following two abilities: Return the Favour or Walk it Off. You can do so a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier per long rest.

Animalistic Trance

Primal instinct is what fuels your trance. As such you have no use for the armaments of men. Starting at 1st level, while in a Battle Trance and not wearing Medium or Heavy armour, you gain the following benefits:

• You add both your Strength and Dexterity modifier to the damage of your unarmed strikes.
• While wearing an animal pelt cloak, you add you Constitution modifier to your AC.

Bone Breaker, Flesh Ripper

Also at 1st level, you unarmed strikes are considered light finesse weapons, and you may add your ability modifier to offhand attacks made with them. Additionally, you can choose to deal either bludgeoning or slashing damage when you hit with an unarmed strike.

Bestial Veneration

Starting at 3rd level, you focus your worship of beasts onto a specific animal in hopes of gaining their power. Choose one of the following animals: the Bear, Eagle, or Wolf. Over the course of a long rest, you can hunt down and make a cloak of the chosen animal if you do not already have one. While wearing this cloak and not wearing Medium or Heavy armour, you gain the benefits associated with the animal.

• Bear. While wearing a bear skin, you gain a +1 bonus to your AC.
• Eagle. While wearing a cloak of eagle feathers, you do not provoke opportunity attacks from spending movement and creatures that you can see have disadvantage on ranged attack rolls made against you.
• Wolf. While wearing a wolf pelt, you can attempt to knock a Medium or smaller creature prone as a reaction to damaging them with an unarmed strike, as per the shove action.

Bestial Embodiment

Starting at 6th level, you further seek to embody the beast that you draw your primal power from. You file your teeth, sharpen your nails, grow your hair out, and scarify animal symbols onto your flesh. While wearing your animal cloak in a Battle Trance while not wearing Medium or Heavy armour, you gain the benefits associated with your chosen animal.

• Bear. While wearing a bear skin, you double the number of temporary hit points you gain when you first enter the Battle Trance.
• Eagle. While wearing a cloak of eagle feathers, creatures cannot gain advantage on attack rolls against you as a result of flanking you or from being hidden from you.
• Wolf. While wearing a wolf pelt, you can make one additional unarmed strike when you use your bonus action to make an offhand attack with your unarmed strike.

Rip and Tear

Such is your savagery that you will not stop fighting until your prey lay in pieces at your feet. Starting at 9th level, you can decide to keep attacking until you run out of steam and your fists are stained red with blood. After you make your normal number of attacks, you can choose to attack again. If this attack hits, then you can attack again with a -1 penalty, and so on with a cumulative -1 penalty until you miss. Once you miss an attack, you become Winded until the end of your next turn and gain 3 Stress.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

Warmonger's Trance

Your weapon's deadly swings are embowered as you seek out more enemies to slay. Starting at 1st level, while in a Battle Trance, you gain the following benefits:

• When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack while wielding weapon that deals slashing damage in two hands, all creatures within 5 feet of the creature but still within your reach take slashing damage equal to your Strength modifier.
• While wielding a weapon in two hands your critical hit damage ignores the Resistant property of armour and shields.

Tempest

You have mastered the vicious swing of your weapon. Utilizing its size and weight you sweep your weapon around you, spinning to increase your weapons momentum, cleaving through multiple foes in a single attack. Starting at 3rd level, while wielding a melee weapon that deals slashing damage in two hands, you can use your action to perform a Tempest attack.

When you do so, you make an attack roll against two targets within 5 feet of you. There cannot be any form of cover between these targets, or you will attack the cover in place of one of your targets. On a hit, the targets take your normal weapons damage plus two times your Strength modifier.

Performing a Tempest attack leaves you open, giving enemies advantage on attack rolls against you until the start of your next turn.

You can target 3 targets with this feature at 5th level, 4 at 7th level, and 5 at 9th level.

Once you make a Tempest attack, you cannot do so again until you complete a short rest. However, once per Battle Trance you can expend a Stamina die and your full movement for your turn as a bonus action to regain the ability to make a Tempest attack.

Brutal Cleave

Starting at 6th level, your mighty strikes carve through your foes with sickening ease. While wielding a weapon in two hands you score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Dreadful Storm

Your Tempest is fearsome like the storms that gave it it's name. Starting at 9th level, whenever you perform a Tempest attack, you can choose to force all creatures within 15 feet of you to make a DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier Charisma saving throw, becoming frightened of you until the end of their next turn and gaining 3 Stress on a failure. A creature frightened in this way must use their turn to move away from you, and cannot willingly end their turn in a space within 15 feet of you. On a success a creature only gains 2 Stress and is not frightened.

Once this feature is used, it cannot be used again until you have finished a short rest.

Land Walkers

The world is a cruel place. In order to survive, humanity must cling to its holdfasts lest they be devoured by the countless dangers of the wilderness. Roaming beasts, marauding reavers, outlaw gangs, and the wilderness itself can and will kill without remorse. Yet travel is a necessity of life. You cannot trade, forge alliances, or wage war without traversing the land. As such Wanderers fill the need for those who know how to best travel effectively and safely.

Wanderers have traveled far across the world and spent many years on the road and in the wilderness. Their experience in the ways of travel and their perseverance when undertaking journeys is unmatched. They know that traversing the unclaimed wilderness often requires a degree of luck to make it to their destination alive, for no plan truly survives contact with adversity.

Capable Vagabonds

To traverse this dangerous world and all its hazards is a great undertaking and it is unwise to do so without means to defend oneself. All Wanderers, no matter their reason for wandering, know how to fight in some capacity. This paired with their unmatched skill at journeying across the land makes a Wanderer a prized commodity among travelers. Nomadic tribes, merchant caravans, and standing armies all benefit from the wisdom of a Wanderer.

The safety afforded by the walls of a city cannot be understated, so to choose to live within the fickle confines of nature is to some a puzzling decision. Though there are many callings that require folk to do so however. All these callings require those who answer them to become more than the average vagabond, woodsmen, or fighter. A Wanderer must be able to survive whatever dangers the wilds throw at them.

Stamina

• Stamina Dice: 1d8 per Wanderer level
• Stamina at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Stamina at Higher Levels: 2 + your Constitution modifier per Wanderer level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armour: Light and Medium, Shields
• Weapons: All Weapons
• Tools: Navigator's Tools
• Saving Throws: Strength & Dexterity
• Skills: Survival, plus choose two from; Animal Handling, Athletics, Grit, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, and Stealth

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) scale mail or (b) leather armor
• (a) two shortswords or (b) two simple melee weapons
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• A skullcap
• A longbow and a quiver of 20 arrows

Sworn Enemy

You wander the world in search of those who have wronged you in order to enact vengeance upon them. Starting at 1st level, you choose your sworn enemy. This sworn enemy can be anything from a king, a mercenary company, or an entire tribe of marauders. Discuss with the GM the specifics of your enemy and how they will be integrated into the world and campaign.

You gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with weapon attacks against your sworn enemy and agents who serve them, and you have advantage on Intelligence checks to recall information about them.

Additionally, you also learn one language spoken by your sworn enemy or creatures associated with it.

If your sworn enemy is defeated you may choose another. After doing so you gain all the above benefits, excluding the additional language, against your new sworn enemy. When choosing this new enemy think upon those who have wronged you on your past quest for vengeance and decide whether or not they deserve your ire.

Vendetta State

Starting at 3rd level, you can enter into a state during battle where your lust for revenge takes over completely as you personally act upon your vendettas. As an action you can enter a Vendetta State. While in this Vendetta State, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain an amount of temporary hit points equal to your Wanderer level.
• Whenever a creature hits you with an attack you gain a +1 bonus to your next damage roll against that creature. This effect stacks up to a maximum of +3. Once you hit that creature the damage bonus is lost.
• As a reaction to a creature targeting you with an attack, you can choose to gain advantage on attack rolls against the attacking creature until the end for your next turn at the cost of having disadvantage on attack rolls against all other creatures until the end of your next turn.

The Vendetta State lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven't attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken damage since then. You can also end this state on your turn as a bonus action. Once this Vendetta state ends you gain 1 Stress.

You can enter this Vendetta State a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum once). You regain expended uses when you complete a long rest.

Run to Ground

Hunters can track their quarry across many miles, and bring it down with a well-placed arrow or swift blow. Starting at 1st level, if you spend a day stalking a foe before attacking, that foe gains 1 level of exhaustion and you may make one additional attack when you take the Attack action against that creature on the first round of combat.

If you spend three days, the foe gains two levels of exhaustion and you may make one additional attack against that creature and gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls when you take the Attack action against that creature on the first round of combat.

If you spend a week, the foe suffers three levels of exhaustion and you may make one additional attack against that creature and gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls when you take the Attack action against that creature on the first round of combat.

Mark Prey

At 3rd level you learn to read your prey, allowing you to strike deeper and truer. As a bonus action on your turn, you can choose a creature you can see within 60 feet of you and mark it as your prey. You can maintain this mark for a number of hours equal to half your Wanderer level. You deal an extra 1d6 damage of the weapon's type to the marked target whenever you hit it with a weapon attack, and you have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) check you make to find it.

This effect ends if you fall unconscious, use it on another creature, or dismiss it as a bonus action.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Deadly Mark

Starting at 6th level, weapon attacks you make against creatures marked by your Marked Prey feature are a critical hit on a roll of 19-20.

Hunter's Respite

Starting at 9th level, the thrill of the hunt comes to an end when the prey falls. When the thrill leaves, a calm takes it's place. When you bring down (kill or incapacitate) a creature you have marked with Mark Prey you can choose to regain any number of Stamina Die up to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1).

Once you've used this ability, you cannot do so again until you've finished a long rest.

Longstrider

Starting at 1st level, the many journeys you have undertaken have quickened your steps. Your movement speed increases by 5 feet and increases by 5 feet again at 3rd, 6th, and 9th level.

Mentor of the Road

Also at 1st level, you know that long travels are made shorter by sharing the knowledge of the land and how to best traverse it. Over the course of a short rest you can give a number of allies equal to your Wisdom modifier the benefits of your Wanderer class feature. The benefits last until you take a short or long rest.

Starting at 2nd level you can spend a long rest tutoring one of your allies in your more specialized talents. After doing so, choose one Ranging Talent that you know, the chosen ally gains that Ranging Talent until you take another long rest.

Momentum Transfer

Nomads know that when embarking upon a journey one should only stop for respite as necessary. For often the momentum of travel can carry one further if left unhindered. You know well that this knowledge can also be applied in combat. Starting at 3rd level, for each 10 feet you move on your turn, you gain a +1 bonus to either your attack or damage rolls (your choice per activation of this feature) until the start of your next turn.

Fast Travel

Starting at 6th level, you have traveled many paths and always know the best route to safe harbor. While you are the Navigator, if you are traveling to a place that you have previously spent at least a short rest in, you can reach this destination in half the usual time if the group you travel with consists of a number of creatures no greater than your Wanderer level + your proficiency bonus.

Home on the Road

For a Nomad, whose only home is the road, it is easy for them find respite despite the often grueling journeys they undertake. Starting at 9th level, if you travel for a week without entering combat you are considered to have taken a long rest and your allies a short rest.

Rugged Survival

Used to living rough in the woods, you have become adept at sleeping with one eye open and with your gear on you. Starting at 1st level, while sleeping you remain aware of your surroundings and you do not suffer any penalties from resting in armour or going 24 hours without taking a short rest.

False Identity

Also at 1st level, you have managed to build a false identity that allows you to enter settlements and interact with other folk without fear of execution. You have advantage on Charisma (Deception) checks made to hide your true identity.

Hidden Blade

Starting at 3rd level, you keep hidden from those who would harm you and strike against them should they find you. When you hit a creature from which you are hidden with a weapon attack, you can add your Wisdom modifier + Wanderer level to the damage of the attack.

Additionally you can attempt to hide when only lightly obscured by natural phenomena.

Paranoid Fugitive

Starting at 6th level, your violent lifestyle affects you in ways you haven't anticipated, causing you to constantly be on edge for potential threats. You gain the following traits:

• You can’t be surprised while you are conscious.
• Other creatures don’t gain advantage on attack rolls against you as a result of being hidden from you.
• Dim light doesn’t impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks relying on sight.
• You have advantage on all saving throws you make in the first round of combat.
• The first time you gain Stress after a long rest you gain 1 additional Stress.

Woodland Stalker

So long have you spent hiding that you can become near undetectable to those who would seek you out. Starting at 9th level, while in dim light or darkness, like the shade of a forested area, you can use your action to become undetectable to those trying to find you. You are considered invisible to any creature that tries to perceive you. This effect lasts for 1 minute or until you make an attack or move into bright light.

Keen Eye

Starting at 1st level, you gain proficiency in the Wisdom (Perception) skill. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses the Wisdom (Perception) skill.

Skirmisher

Also at 1st level, you are difficult to pin down during a fight. You can move up to half your speed as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet of you. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Read the Earth

At 3rd level you have learned to read signs of recent events in the terrain. After you spend 1 minute studying an area you identify some of the following events that occurred here in the past 24 hours. Choose two questions to be answered by the GM:

• What the type and number of creatures that passed through here?
• What were the lowest and the highest exhaustion levels of all creatures that passed through here?
• What was the heaviest armor type worn by creatures that passed through here?
• In what directions did creatures travel after passing through here?
• What were the weather conditions?

After using this ability you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Co-ordinate Ambush

Starting at 6th level, you excel at leading ambushes. If your foes are surprised, you grant each ally who can see you a +5 bonus to their initiative roll.

Your allies also gain a bonus to damage rolls against surprised creatures during the surprise round equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Pathfinder

Starting at 9th level, you have honed your skills of observation so sharply that you can read the terrain and form a rough map of its features in your mind. While aboveground, outdoors, and not in heavily obscured (or worse) conditions you may spend 1 minute observing the surrounding area from a vantage point. You gain a mental map of all aboveground pathways and water features within 1 mile that are not concealed. You may apply your passive Wisdom (Perception) as a check to discover hidden ways and secret doors within the same area as if you were standing near the hidden feature.

Once you use this ability you cannot use it again until you complete a short rest.

Additionally, you gain an extra use of your Read the Earth feature per short or long rest.

Equipment Maintenance

Starting at 1st level, you know the importance of maintaining equipment. Over the course of a short rest you can maintain one piece of armour or weapon. Preforming maintenance on a piece of armour gives it the Resistant (1) property or increases it the value of it's Resistant property by 1. Preforming maintenance on a weapon gives it a +1 bonus to damage rolls.

The chosen piece of armour or weapon maintains this bonus until you take short rest.

Efficient Packer

Also at 1st level, by distributing weight and using space efficiently, your carrying capacity is doubled. When you finish a long rest you can extend this benefit to a number of other creatures equal to your Proficiency bonus by packing their things for them.

Supply Manager

Quartermasters make note of every supply in their stockpile, meticulously maintaining and rationing out resources to their caravan or group. Starting at 3rd level, when your group makes a Supply Roll while traveling, you can choose to roll twice and take the higher result. You can only use this feature before any rolls are made.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you have completed the journey you are on and have taken a short or long rest. You gain an additional use per journey at 5th and 7th level.

Additionally, should you fail the Wisdom (Insight) check while you are the Stockpiler, you loose a d4 Supply instead of a d6.

Finally, you can always recognize when something has been added or removed from your person or a container you are carrying since the last time you've carried it.

Deep Pockets

Starting at 6th level, your pack always seems to contain exactly the tool you need for the task in front of you. By using your action to reach into your pack you can produce any entirely generic item (subject to GM approval). The item must be able to fit into your pack. Though it functions perfectly, the item is so battered by its time in the recesses of your pack that merchants and traders will consider it valueless.

This ability cannot recharge until the item produced has been entirely used, discarded, or returned to your backpack (where you cannot find it again without expending another use of Deep Pockets).

Once the item has been expended or returned you cannot produce another item using this feature until you finish a short rest.

Flawless Maintenance

Starting at 9th level, your ability to maintain equipment and supplies is unparalleled. The bonus from your Equipment Maintenance feature to the Resistant property of armour and to the attack rolls of weapons equals your Wisdom modifier (minimum of +1).

Masters of Arms

Whether they are questing knights, conquering overlords, royal champions, elite foot soldiers, hardened mercenaries, or bandit kings, as Warriors they all share a thorough knowledge of the skills of combat and an unparalleled mastery with weapons and armor.

Every Warrior can swing an axe, wield a sword or spear, and use a bow with some skill. Likewise, a Warrior is adept with shields and every form of armour. Beyond this basic degree of familiarity, each Warrior specializes in a certain style of combat. This combination of broad general ability and extensive specialization makes Warrior dangerous combatants on the battlefield.

A Bloody Tradition

Over countless generations the grim art of war has been honed to a keen edge. This grand tradition of warfare and widow-making is carried and honoured by every Warrior in some capacity. Warriors are well acquainted with death, both meting it out and staring it defiantly in the face.

The skill of a Warrior can be attributed to a degree of natural talent, though even the most gifted of fighters will have been taught something from someone. The bloody lessons of battle often teach themselves, however the more deadly lessons can be learnt beforehand though a more experienced Warrior. Battle hardened commanders, old soldiers turned trainers, and long-gazed raiders from distant shores all have tales to tell of battles fought and lost. Each tale carries a warning of what can save a Warrior’s life and what can end it.

Stamina

• Stamina Dice: 1d8 per Warrior level
• Stamina at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Stamina at Higher Levels: 2 + your Constitution modifier per Warrior level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armour: All armour, Shields
• Weapons: All weapons
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Strength & Constitution
• Skills: Choose any two from; Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, Grit, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, and Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) chain mail or (b) leather, longbow, and 20 arrows
• (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial weapons
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) two handaxes
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• A bassinet

Student of War

Starting at 1st level, you know that pain is the greatest teacher. You are therefore quick to learn from your mistakes. Whenever you miss a creature with a weapon attack the next attack roll you make against that creature gains a +1 bonus. This effect stacks up to a maximum of +3. Once you hit that creature the bonus is lost. If you attack another creature the bonus is also lost.

Battle Ward

Also at 1st level, you leave no openings for your foes to take advantage of. You do not provoke opportunity attacks from creatures as a result of taking the Attack action while flanked and not targeting a creature that is currently flanking you.

Superior Martial Skill

Starting at 3rd level, your ability adapt your Martial Skill to match any fight exceededs that of most other Warriors. You gain an extra Martial Skill of your choice.

Additionally, over the course of a long rest you can choose one Martial Skill you know and replace it with another if you spend a period of Downtime each day training.

Know Your Enemy

Starting at 6th level, you know that only half a war is fought with steel. The other half is fought with the mind. If you use an action while observing or interacting with another creature, you can learn certain information about its capabilities compared to your own. The GM tells you if the creature is your equal, superior, or inferior in regard to a number of the following characteristics of your choice equal to your Intelligence modifier + 2 (minimum of 1):

• Strength score
• Dexterity score
• Constitution score
• Armor Class
• Current Health and Stamina
• Current Stress
• Total class levels (if any)

Once you use this feature against a creature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Master of War

Starting at 9th level, the student has become the master. The bonus from Student of war now also applies to your damage rolls against the creature. Additionally, the bonus is no longer lost upon hitting the creature with an attack.

Pillar of the Wall

Starting at 1st level, you are the strong foundation upon which the warband is built. While you are wielding a shield, you give any ally within 5 feet of you that is also wielding a shield a +1 bonus to their AC.

Additionally, while wielding a shield you reduce all damage dealt to you, except psychic damage, by an amount equal to the number of allies within 5 feet of you that are also wielding a shield.

Iron Wall

Starting at 3rd level, you can brace yourself against incoming blows. As an action, you can enter a defensive stance that resists the damage of attackers. While in this stance you reduce any bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage you take by 3. However, while in this stance your attack and damage rolls do not add your Strength or Dexterity modifiers, your movement speed is reduced to 5 feet and you have disadvantage on Dexterity checks and saving throws.

You exit this stance if you are knocked prone, incapacitated, or you choose to exit the stance as a bonus action.

Builder and Breaker

One should be weary of the builder, for what they build they know how to break. Starting at 6th level, when you critically hit someone with a melee weapon attack you can force the target to either Splinter their shield or Scuff their armour. The target gains no benefit from doing so in this manner.

You can do this a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once). You regain all spent uses once you complete a long rest.

Steel Fortress

Starting at 9th level, when you hunker down you become unmovable. The damage reduced while using your Iron Wall feature increases to 5.

Cry Havoc

Dogs of War are emboldened when the bloodshed starts. Starting at 1st level, whenever you or an ally rolls a critical hit against a hostile creature or reduces a hostile creature to 0 health you can use your reaction to give you and all allies within 30 feet of you that can hear you a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls until the end of their next turn. If you use this feature again during the same combat encounter, the bonus increases by +1 each time.

You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Warrior level. You regain all spent uses after you finish a short or long rest.

Carrion Looter

Also at 1st level, you have a morbid knack for sniffing out valuables and useful resources from the dead and dying. You have advantage on checks made to loot corpses or find hidden material wealth.

Admits battle

Starting at 3rd level, you have become fully accustomed to the harrowing environment of the battlefield, able to trample over the half dead bodies of the freshly fallen and push through crowds of bloodcrazed warriors lost in blood lust to end your foe. While in combat you gain the following benefits:

• Your movement speed is not impacted by difficult terrain caused by battlefield conditions, such as the spilled guts of a fallen combatant.
• Whenever you successfully Overrun a creature you deal bludgeoning damage to that creature equal to your Strength modifier (minimum of 1) and do not provoke opportunity attacks from it as a result of moving out of its reach until the start of your next turn.

Sellsword's Brutality

You don't fight your foes - you butcher them. Starting at 6th level, when a melee attack you make reduces a creature's health or stamina to less than or equal to your proficiency bonus, it is instead reduced to 0 health or stamina respectively.

War Wolf

Starting at 9th level, you become lost in the bloodshed like a wolf on the hunt, your attacks fueled by murderous intent. Whenever you hit a creature with an attack while under the effects of Cry Havoc with a bonus of at least +3, you can choose to turn that hit into a critical hit. Creatures critically hit in this way add the current bonus of your Cry Havoc feature to their Gritty Injury roll. After doing so you gain 1 Stress.

You must complete a short rest before you can use this feature again.

Bloody Flail

Starting at 1st level, you strike rapidly with fury, your weapon flailing against the battered defences of your foe. While wielding a light melee weapon you can use an action to make three separate melee weapon attacks with the light weapon against a creature. On a hit you deal damage to the target equal to your weapons damage modifier (minimum of 1). After making all three attacks, the target's AC is reduced by 1 for each attack that hit until the start of their next turn.

You can do this a number of times equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (minimum of once) per short rest.

Guts and Glory

Starting at 3rd level, you charge headlong into the fray in spite of your safety, hacking and slashing as you do so. On the first round of combat, after initiative is rolled but before anyone acts, you can take your turn. Doing so gives you advantage on attack rolls until the end of your turn. Additionally, when you roll your weapons damage die you can choose to reroll the die but you must use this new roll, even if the new roll is lower than the first. You cannot use this feature if you are surprised or incapacitated.

After this round, intuitive returns to normal and all attacks against you have advantage until the start of your next turn.

Blood!

Starting at 6th level, your heart beats loudly like the hammering blows of your weapon as crimson life-blood coats your face. Whenever you deal health damage to a creature in combat you regain 1 stamina.

Bladestorm

Your favourite song is the bite of the blade and your chosen gown is gore drenched mail. Starting at 9th level, the number of attacks you make when you use your Bloody Flail feature increases to 5.

Ferocious Athlete

Starting at 1st level, you count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Additionally, you can use your Strength modifier for Charisma (Intimidation) checks instead of your Charisma modifier.

Brute Force

You leverage your brutish strength to hit harder. Also at 1st level, you gain three Brute Die, which are d6s. a Brute Die is expended when you use it. You regain all spent Brute Die when you finish a long rest. Alternatively, you can spend a Stamina Die during a short rest to regain a Brute Die.

When you make a melee attack using Strength you can spend 1 Brute Die and roll it, adding the result to your damage total.

Feats of Strength

Starting at 3rd level, you can become an imposing and overbearing figure on the battlefield. Your especially brutal force put to grim use. You gain the following new ways to spend Brute Die.

• Big Bastard. At the start of your turn you can roll 1 Brute Die. You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the result and 1 Stress. While you have these temporary hit points, you gain advantage on Strength (Intimidation) rolls and deal 1d4 extra damage to creatures who's Strength score is lower than yours.
• Stone Muscle. As a reaction to taking damage you can roll 1 Brute Die. Should the result of the roll be higher than the damage taken, you negate the damage you would have taken.
• Sundering Impact. Whenever you take the shove action you can roll 1 Brute Die. You add the result to your Strength (Athletics) check to Shove the target. Should the shove attempt be successful, you deal bludgeoning damage to the target equal to the result and the target is pushed back 5 feet and knocked prone.

Improved Brute Die

Starting at 6th level, your Brute Die become d8s. Additionally, you gain an extra Brute Die and another at 9th level.

Overwhelming Threat

Starting at 9th level, your size and strength allows you to enter any fray without worry. You may add your Strength modifier to the result of any Brute Die you roll.

Master of Arms

Starting at 1st level, you know where to place your cuts, swings, and thrusts so that you foe is sent to the afterlife in pieces. When you make an attack roll with a weapon you score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Wolf Among Dogs

Starting at 3rd level, your abilities surpass those of your peers. You gain one of the following features of your choice. You gain another at 6th and 9th level.

Advancing. You advance ever forward, your attacks swift and heedless. When you use your Action Surge feature, you gain advantage on any weapon attacks you make until the end of your turn. After doing so you gain 1 Stress.

Menacing. Your battle-shouts fill your foes with dread as you cut into them. When you first hit a creature with a weapon attack on the first round of combat, the target of the attack and must make a Wisdom Saving Throw against your Martial Skill save DC. On a failure they gain an amount of Stress equal to your Resolve, or 1 on a success.

Stalwart. You are as sturdy as you are brave. Your Physical Condition is always considered to be one higher to determine your Condition Modifier for Gritty Injuries, unless you are incapacitated. Additionally, your Resolve can be calculated by adding your Constitution modifier in place of your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier should it be higher.

Vigorous. No matter your wounds, you are always able to fight. When you use your Second Wind feature you can spend a Stamina Die and roll it, adding the number rolled to the amount of temporary hit points you gain.

Wounder. Your strikes inflict mortal wounds. When you roll a critical hit against an enemy you can choose to not roll damage against their Health and instead add a penalty to their Gritty Injury roll equal to your weapon's damage bonus.

One Against One Hundred

You can stand against a tide of a hundred warriors without fear. Starting at 6th level, when you start your turn adjacent to more than one enemy, you gain a +1 bonus to your AC for each enemy beyond the first up to a maximum equal to your Constitution modifier, as long as there are no conscious allies adjacent to you.

Unparalleled Skill

Starting at 9th level, your skill in battle has become unmatched. Few can hope to face you and live. Whenever you would roll a weapon's damage die, you can instead choose to automatically treat the roll as if you had rolled the maximum number on the weapons damage die.

You can do this a number of times equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice) per combat encounter.

Armour

Technique

Bone-Breaker

When you score a critical hit with an attack that deals bludgeoning damage, you can choose to not add your Strength modifier to your damage roll to instead add it to the result of the gritty injury the target would gain.