Arcane Sentinel

Surrounded by arcane energy a lone dwarf approaches a group of orcs with not a drop of fear. The orcs' mouthes drop when they see his blade, a greatsword gleaming with arcane energy; that was their greatest mistake. Seizing the moment of the orcs charm he unleashes a ball of pure lightning at the orcs, they didn't even stand a fighting chance.

A half-orc hunting party is traveling along a mountain's edge in search of prey, little do they know they are the prey. An elf clad in plate with two gleaming swords in her hands opens a rift from her perch to right behind the orc party. As she steps out the orcs turn in confusion with their weapons raised. But before they can strike she strikes they off the mountain's edge to their inevitable doom.

Class Features

As an Arcane Sentinel, you gain the following class features

Arcane Ward

Starting at 2nd level Arcane Sentinels gain the ability to create shields to block incoming damage.

You can use your bonus action to summon an arcane shield, the shield has 3 times your arcane sentinel level health and has no damage resistances or immunities. Every short rest the shield heals of it's health, alternatively you can use your bonus action and a spell slot to heal the shield 5 health for every level of the slot. The shield lasts 1 minute or until you use your bonus action to dismiss it.

If the shield loses all of it's health no damage is carried over to you.

At 11th level the shield becomes more resistant. It gains resistance to all damage, a +2 to AC, an immunity to the spell magic missile, and advantage to strength checks and strength saving throws.

If the shield is reduced to 0 health you cannot use this ability until you finish a short or long rest.

Fighting Style

At 2nd level, you adopt a style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Arcane Sight

At 3rd level you gain the ability to detect magic nearby.

Using your action you can detect the location of magic within 20ft of you, the detection includes magic items, spells, and creatures.

You can only use this ability a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Arcane Weapon

Starting at 6th level you gain the ability to infuse weapons of your choosing with arcane power.

Choose any weapon you are proficient in, that weapon becomes your arcane weapon.

Your arcane weapon gains the following bonuses:

• Attacks you make with your arcane weapon are considered magical for the purpose of overriding resistances or immunities.
• You cannot be disarmed of your arcane weapon except by magic.
• You deal an additional 1d4 damage when dealing damage with your arcane weapon.
• You can use your wisdom score for attack rolls and damage instead of strength.

At 15th level you may choose one more weapon to become your arcane weapon.

Additionally your arcane weapons gain more bonuses:

• You gain a +1 to attack and damage rolls made with your arcane weapons.
• You cannot be disarmed of your arcane weapons even by magic.
• Instead of dealing an additional 1d4 damage, your arcane weapons now deal an additional 1d8 damage.

Arcane Smite

At 7th level you gain the ability to smite your enemies when attack them in various ways.

When you hit with a weapon attack you can expend one spell slot to smite the target in various ways depending on the spell slot.

Here is a chart of the possible smites:

You are still able to use smites of a lower spell level than the one you used. For example if you use a 3rd level spell slot you are able to use a forceful smite or a stunning smite.

Stunning Smite

The target takes an additional 3d8 thunder damage and must make a constitution saving throw equal to your spell save DC. On a fail the the target is stunned until the end of your next turn.

Psychic Smite

The target takes and additional 4d8 psychic damage and must make a intelligence saving throw equal to your spell save DC. On a fail the target becomes stunned until the end of your next turn, but can't take reactions for the next 1 minute.

Elemental Smite

The target takes an additional 5d8 of your choice of fire, cold, acid, or lightning damage and must make a dexterity saving throw equal to your spell save DC. On a fail the target is paralyzed until the end of it's turn next turn. Any creature other than you within 5ft of the targeted creature takes 2d8 damage of the chose damage type

Spell Strike

At 10th you gain the ability to strike faster with magic.

Whenever you take the attack action you can use your bonus action to make another attack with the same weapon. If you hit twice before on this turn before using this ability you have advantage on the attack roll.

Arcane Overload

At 18th level you can overload you spells to a maximum power.

Whenever you cast a spell you can overload it by casting it with a spell slot 1 higher than it's normal spell slot. Using a higher spell slot to overload a spell does not benefit the at higher levels bonuses of spells.

An overloaded spell gains the following benefits:

• If it uses damage dice the damage is maximized, and you deal additional damage equal to your spellcasting score's modifier.
• If it has a duration the duration is increased by 8 hours.
• If it has a range that range is increase by 80ft.
• If it required a material, somatic, or verbal component it no longer does.
• If it required concentration you gain a +5 to saving throws to keep concentration.

You can only use this ability a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, you recharge all uses after a long rest. You cannot overload multiple spells at once. If you are overloading a concentration spell, the next spell you cast cannot be overloaded.

Arcane Avatar

At 20th level you gain the ability to conjure an avatar of yourself that can copy your actions.

Using your action you can conjure a glowing avatar that faintly resembles you. The avatar shares the same space as you and copies all of your actions, reactions, bonus actions, and movements. The avatar is not able to copy the ability of a magic item, but can benefit from +1 (2, 3) items. The avatar gives you resistance to bludgeoning piercing and slashing damage and imposes disadvantage on attack rolls against you from creatures with an intelligence under 14.

The avatar lasts 1 minutes or until you fall unconscious. This ability can only be used once every 5 days.

Arcane Specialties

Arcane Sentinels practice their combat magic in many different ways. Some choose to master the capabilities of the elements. While others master the power of psychic energy.

Elemental Mastery

At 14th level you become a master in the presence of all elements.

You gain a swimming, flying, and climbing speed equal to your walking speed. You lose one point of exhaustion after completing a short or long rest.

Additionaly your Elemental Fortitude ability gives you immunity to the chose damge type rather than resistance.

Arcanum of Shadows

The Arcanum of Shadows is a subclass of the Arcane Sentinel class that focuses on the manipulation of darkness and shadow. These arcane casters are skilled at hiding in the shadows, inflicting debuffs on their enemies, and teleporting through the shadows.

Arcanum of the Void

The Arcanum of the Void is a subclass of the Arcane Sentinel class that focuses on harnessing the power of the void. These arcane casters have delved into the mysteries of the universe and learned to manipulate the very fabric of reality.

Arcane Sentinel Spells