Design Notes

Mod Notes

A common complaint about Arcane Archer is only having two charges, so the main change is using Combat Master charges. The Arcane Shots were slightly tweaked and new shots were added.

The Elemental Arrows and Elemental Arrows+ features were added to give more choices to the Fighter on each attack (a common theme with the rework).

Finally, the level 18 evolution of the arcane shots that just added damage was removed because it was boring for a subclass "capstone," and the main class gains damage as it levels. Instead, Magical Quiver was added to give the subclass something for those players that are afraid to use single-use arrows (even though level 18 is quite late).

Level 3: Elemental Arrows

When you make an attack using a bow, instead of using a real arrow, you can conjure a magical arrow made of arcane energy from an unlimited font of magic that you've accessed. Each arrow deals the same damage as your bow damage, but takes on an element of your choice when fired out of the level 3 options in the element table below.

Level 3: Arcane Shot

You learn to unleash special magical effects when firing. When you gain this feature, you learn three Arcane Shot options of your choice (see "Arcane Shot Options" below).

Once per turn when you fire an arrow from a bow as part of the Attack action, you can apply one of your Arcane Shot options to that arrow. You decide to use the option when the arrow hits, unless the option doesn’t involve an attack roll. You consume a use of your Combat Master feature to use an Arcane Shot.

You gain an additional Arcane Shot option of your choice when you reach certain levels in this class: 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.

Level 7: Curving Shot

You learn how to direct an errant arrow toward a new target. When you make an attack roll with a magic arrow and miss, you can use a bonus action to reroll the attack roll against a different target within 60 feet of the original target.

Level 10: Ever-Ready Shot

Starting at 15th level, your magical archery is available whenever battle starts. If you roll initiative and have no uses of Combat Master remaining, you regain one use of it (though you can use it on maneuvers instead of arcane shots if desired). You may also apply an arcane shot without consuming a use of Combat Master when you land a critical hit.

Level 15: Elemental Arrows+

When you make an elemental arrow attack, you now fire two magical arrows and can pick two different damage types.

In addition, your elemental options have expanded to the remaining damage types, and gain a special effect based on the element used. The options and their options effects are shown in the element table below.

Level 18: Magical Quiver

Your magic extends to your quiver. You can use a charge of Combat Master to pull any arrow from your quiver that you have used before. You can add your Superiority Die to the attack and damage roll for that arrow.

Mod Notes

The ideas from Flutes and Shard in "Fixing the Purple Dragon Knight Fighter" were integrated here, with slight modifications to fit what I prefer.

At level 10, in addition to the base revisions by F&S, the Banneret can never be hidden from their allies, which I think fits their mighty force of character as a leader to their party.

The level 18 feature hallmarks the "heroes' feast made fighter" trope of this class with a little added flavor to drive it home for final battles.

Level 3: Rallying Cry

You've learned how to inspire your allies to fight on past their injuries.

As a bonus action (using a charge of Rallying Cry) or when you use your Second Wind, you can choose up to three allied creatures who can see or hear you. They each gain hit points equal to your Fighter Level plus your PB and maybe may move up to 10' without provoking attacks of opportunity.

You may use Rallying Cry a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier, and regain uses on a Long Rest (uses tied to Second Wind regain as normal for that feature).

Level 3: Resolute

When you or any allies that can see or hear you gain hit points that would exceed the maximum, the remainder becomes temporary hit points.

Level 3: Royal Envoy

You gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice, or expertise if you already have proficiency: Animal Handling, Insight, Intimidation, Performance, or Persuasion.

You also gain proficiency in Charisma saving throws.

Level 7: Inspiring Surge

When you use your Rallying Cry or Action Surge feature, you can choose one allied creature who can see or hear you. That creature can make one action immediately at the end of your turn (a mage can take the magic action, but cannot cast a leveled spell if they did so on their turn). You can inspire an additional ally to take another action at each Fighter level (10, 15, 18).

Level 10: Tireless Leadership

When you roll initiative and have no uses of Indomitable remaining, you regain one use, and you regain all uses of Indomitable when you finish a short rest.

Your presence cannot be veiled. You can choose to allow your voice to be unaffected by spells or effects that Silence, and you can choose to make yourself unaffected by spells or effects that obscure, such as regular or magical darkness, fog clouds, etc.

Level 15: Unwavering Support

You can extend the benefit of your Indomitable feature to an ally. When an allied creature who can see or hear you fails an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, you can extend your Indomitable feature to them, allowing them to reroll the saving throw. It must use the new roll. If you and another allied creature who can see or hear you are subjected to the same saving throw and fail, you may both reroll.

In addition, allies who you grant your Indomitable feature to gain the benefits of half cover until the start of their next turn, whether they succeed or fail the saving throw.

Level 18: The Great Protector

Any ally that you affect with Unwavering Support automatically succeeds on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws until the start of their next turn.

When any allied creatures see another allied creature succeed a saving throw (including the ally who saved), they become immune to the frightened condition until the end of their next turn.

Mod Notes

Battlemaster was integrated into the core class, so I kept the subclass but updated it to make it sort of synergize with the base class in a way that fulfilled the original battlemaster's subclass fantasy.

Know your enemy was too hard to apply during a given game, so it now happens more reliably, and you explicitly get to keep the information.

Combat superiority is an enhancement to maneuvers, and the battlefield/advanced roles added to the main class get a bonus when playing a battlemaster to really round out the idea of this new Fighter variant.

Finally, relentless was slightly improved and always ready was added to round out any final corners the Battlemaster Fighter may still need to cover.

Level 3: Know Your Enemy

Whether a prodigy or seasoned war veteran, your combat knowledge aids you against any foe.

Immediately upon seeing a foe, the DM tells you if the creature is equal, superior, or inferior to you with regard to one of the following characteristics of your choice. Each time you hit a creature with an attack or maneuver, you learn another characteristic. For that unique creature type, you always know these characteristics (recommend writing them down as you learn them to help your DM!).

If the creature's true form is under disguise (such as a dragon transformed to be a human), you learn the statistics of the disguise form, not the true form (unless you have true sight). You learn the creatures species (such as Ambush Drake, Human, etc.).

• Strength score
• Dexterity score
• Constitution score
• Armor Class
• Current hit points
• Total class levels, if any
• Fighter class levels, if any

Level 7: Combat Superiority

Your arsenal of combat tricks is ever expanding, and you've studied and overcome each flaw behind your maneuvers so that your success is nigh guaranteed. You learn 5 maneuvers.

When you use a maneuver, you can immediately perform an additional maneuver without spending a superiority die (but you still roll a superiority die if the maneuver has a roll associated with it).

Finally, your Role DC is increased by 1.

Level 10: Role Expert

Your allies may find you aiding a fight in any role, attacking swiftly, dealing heavy blows, or providing protection when needed most.

When you choose your Advanced Role at level 10, you also gain the Major Role Bonus of the Advanced Role. If you chose the same Role twice, you can choose to gain the Major Role Bonus of a Battlefield Role that you didn't choose as your second Battlefield Role.

In addition, you also gain the Minor Role Bonus of one Battlefield Role of your choice, and may regain a Minor Role Bonus that you already have.

Example 1. If you take the Myrmidon Battlefield Role then at level 10 you take the Warrior Battlefield Role (to assume the Predator Advanced Role), your character will have the Minor Role Bonus of the Myrmidon and Warrior, and the Major Role Bonus of the Myrmidon. You then also gain the Major Role Bonus of the Warrior, and may choose to gain again the Minor Role Bonus of the Myrmidon or the Warrior, or take the Minor Role Bonus of the Bulwark.

Example 2. If you choose the Blademaster Advanced Role by taking Myrmidon at level 3 and level 10, you gain +2 Crit Range and +Bonus Actions from your Battlefield Role and Advanced Role, and may then choose to further increase your crit range, gain +1 to hit, or +1 to AC as your Minor Role Bonus. You then may take the Second Wind Allies or +1 All Saves +Allies Major Role Bonus, since gaining +Bonus Actions (the Major Role Bonus of the Myrmidon) a second time does not otherwise provide any benefit.

Level 15: Relentless

When you roll initiative and have no superiority dice remaining, you regain 1 superiority die.

If you are reduced to zero hit points, you can use a charge of Combat Master to immediately gain health equal to your superiority die roll.

Level 18: Always Ready

You gain two reactions which, in addition to your existing reaction, can be used to perform any of the following as appropriate, once per single enemy turn:

• Perform an attack of opportunity.
• Perform a held action.
• Stand from prone.
• Reattempt a saving throw.
• Attempt to free yourself from a grapple.
• Perform a maneuver.
• Make a skill check (such as a Perception check)
• Call out to your allies
• Move 5' without provoking an AoO

Mod Notes

People tend to take the Champion subclass because there isn't much to it, or to build a crit fishing build. Given the ability to take the myrmidon for enhanced crits, I felt players could take the level 3 improved critical of this subclass plus myrmidon for crit fishing, which allowed me to pull out the enhanced crit at level 15 for a different passive bonus. The base class now has enhanced player choice, so the subclass still doesn't necessarily need a lot of features or choices to make it interesting.

The main focus was to make the champion excellent at its skills more often, enhancing Remarkable Athlete at level 15 and building the character's core at level 10 (and future levels) with Champion Ability. Remarkable Athlete only works on Athletics, Acrobatics, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth, then eventually Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws.

Level 3 - Improved Critical

Your prowess with weapons has honed your ability to deal heavy blows for massive damage. Your critical hit range is increased by 1.

Level 3 - Muscle Memory

Your muscle memory becomes more concrete with each battle, allowing you to perform with extreme competence. When you roll to attack and miss or fail a saving throw, you can choose to hit or succeed instead. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per short rest.

Level 7 - Remarkable Athlete

You can add half your proficiency bonus (rounded up) to any Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution ability check you make that doesn't already use your proficiency bonus.

In addition, when you make a jump, the distance you can cover increases by a number of feet equal to your Strength modifier.

Level 10 - Champion Ability

You can choose an additional Fighting Style and gain the ASI feat. During future Fighter class levels where you gain the ASI Feat (levels 12, 16, and 19), you gain 3 ASIs instead of 2.

Level 15 - Perfect Athlete

Your athletic capabilities have reached near supernatural levels. You've become proficient in all Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution ability checks and saving throws, or expertise if you are already proficient.

Level 18 - Survivor

You attain the pinnacle of resilience in battle. At the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to 5 + your Role modifier if you have no more than half of your hit points left. You don't gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.

Mod Notes

This subclass is all about swinging your weapons as much as possible to become a storm of blades. This class doesn't really function correctly without the dual wielder feat and two-weapon fighting, and while it is likely that anyone taking this subclass will choose those features, it was built into the subclass to be safe.

Elemental strikes is just a flavor item to enhance the storm imagery. Whirlwind is a typical subclass fantasy for a dual-wield build, allowing characters to deal enhanced damage a few times per short rest. Whirlwind causes more attacks, which means more chances to miss, but also more chances to crit. Overall, it may result in less damage because of this, but it lets the character be flashy for a potential for more damage. Assuming a Role modifier of +4 at level 7 and +5 at levels 11 and 19, this features results in an average damage increase of 23%, 35%, and 43% at each respective "extra attack" level (assuming all attacks hit and there are no resistances, immunities, or critical hits).

Climber is flavor given the dual-pick method of climbing sharing similarities to dual-wielding weapons. Flash Dance Strike can be paired with or without whirlwind and allows the dervish to blitz about the battlefield, or dance around a single target. One Against Many exists to embody deflecting attacks with your blades easily, and free hand riposte makes you dangerous to attack as you can dish out more damage.

Level 3 - Dual Wielder

You gain the Two-Weapon Fighting Fighting Style and the dual wielder feat. If you already have the dual wielder feat, you gain a feat of your choice.

Level 3 - Elemental Strike

The power of your strikes bends the weave itself, bestowing the energies of the universe into your attacks. When you use a feature of this subclass, you can add elemental energy to your weapon or tool. This elemental energy deals damage of that type equal to your Role modifier.

You can use this feature a number of times per short rest equal to your proficiency bonus, and it applies to every attack of the attack action. You can change the element imbued to your weapon with each attack, and the imbuement only lasts for the duration of the swing. The available elements include poison, fire, cold, and lightning.

These elements create real effects for the purposes of the impact of using this ability on the world (such as invoking fire on a weapon to melt ice, etc.).

Level 7 - Whirlwind

The spirit of wind can guide your blades. While wielding two weapons, as a bonus action, you can become a frenzy of steel dealing a burst of attacks on your target. When you do, during your next attack action this turn, you attack with both weapons for each attack. The attacks use each weapon's modifiers as normal.

For example, when you first gain this feature at level 7, you have the extra attack feature, so you can normally make two attacks per turn plus one attack as a bonus action using two-weapon fighting. Using your whirlwind feature, you make 4 attack rolls instead of 3, 2 with each weapon.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per short rest.

Finally, each time you make an attack of opportunity, you can make an attack with both of your weapons.

Level 7 - Climber

While wielding two weapons or two climbing implements, you gain a climbing speed equal to your speed, and you have advantage on skill checks related to remaining attached to something you are climbing with two weapons, including climbing picks or similar objects.

Level 10 - Flash Dance Strike

While wielding two weapons, each time you attack, you can move 5' before the attack, which doesn't consume your normal movement speed. If you are attacking a creature and remaining within their attack range with this movement, you can use this movement to move diagonally to spaces in front of, left of, behind, and right of, your target.

If you attack a creature from 4 different sides using this feature, the fourth and all additional attacks after (if any) are made at advantage.

Level 15 - One Against Many

While wielding two weapons, you gain +1 AC for each hostile creature greater than 1 this is within 10 feet of you, up to a maximum of your Role modifier. For example, if there are 4 creatures around you and targeting you, you gain +3 AC.

Level 18 - Free Hand Riposte

When a hostile creature misses a melee attack against you, you can make a single weapon attack with your main hand or off hand weapon. This does not consume your reaction.

Mod Notes

Only a few changes were made to the subclass to enhance some holes in its abilities. Unleash Incarnation can be used based on your Role mod instead of Con. Echo Avatar has a little more usability and can be used to attack/etc. Shadow Martyr explodes on death dealing damage and blinding. Reclaim Potential allows you to take your dead Echo's place and you can use it more often. Finally, Legion of One lets you cycle your echos rather than just destroying them both when casting a new one.

Manifest Echo

At 3rd level, you can use a bonus action to magically manifest an echo of yourself in an unoccupied space you can see within 15 feet of you. This echo is a magical, translucent, gray image of you that lasts until it is destroyed, until you dismiss it as a bonus action, until you manifest another echo, or until you're incapacitated. It is considered an object for the purposes of targeting.

Your echo has AC 14 + your proficiency bonus, 1 hit point, and immunity to all conditions. If it has to make a saving throw, it uses your saving throw bonus for the roll. It is the same size as you, and it occupies its space. On your turn, you can mentally command the echo to move up to 30 feet in any direction (no action required). If your echo is ever more than 30 feet from you at the end of your turn, it is destroyed.

• As a bonus action, you can teleport, magically swapping places with your echo at a cost of 15 feet of your movement, regardless of the distance between the two of you. You can use this to escape from a grapple, but the cost is subtracted from your speed after escaping.
• When you take the Attack action on your turn, any attack you make with that action can originate from your space or the echo's space. You make this choice for each attack.
• When a creature that you can see within 5 feet of your echo moves at least 5 feet away from it, you can use your reaction to make an opportunity attack against that creature as if you were in the echo's space.

Unleash Incarnation

At 3rd level, you can heighten your echo's fury. Whenever you take the Attack action, you can make one additional melee attack from the echo's position.

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

Echo Avatar

Starting at 7th level, you can temporarily transfer your consciousness to your echo. As an action, you can see through your echo's eyes and hear through its ears. During this time, you are deafened and blinded. You can sustain this effect for up to 10 minutes, and you can end it at any time (requires no action). While your echo is being used in this way, it can be up to 1,000 feet away from you without being destroyed, and can hover up to a foot off of any surface.

While using your Echo in this way, it has all of your abilities, but still has its own health/resistances/etc.

Shadow Martyr

Starting at 10th level, you can make your echo throw itself in front of an attack directed at another creature that you can see. Before the attack roll number is announced, you can use your reaction and a charge of Combat Master to teleport the echo to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the targeted creature. The attack roll that triggered the reaction is instead made against your echo and its AC.

If your Echo is destroyed when martyring itself, you explodes in a flash of light. The attacking creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your Role DC or take 3dX force damage and be blinded for 1 minute, where X is your superiority die size.

Reclaim Potential

By 15th level, you've learned to absorb the fleeting magic of your echo. When an echo of yours is destroyed by taking damage, you can gain a number of temporary hit points equal to 2d6 + your Constitution modifier. When this occurs, you can use your reaction to magically teleport to the location that your Echo was destroyed (as long as you are not piloting it using your Echo Avatar feature). If you used your reaction to use your Shadow Martyr ability and your Echo was destroyed as a result, you can activate Reclaim Potential as a part of the same reaction.

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

Legion of One

At 18th level, you can use a bonus action to create two echos with your Manifest Echo feature, and these echoes can co-exist. If you create a third echo, you choose which of the two echos to destroy.

In addition, when you roll initiative and have no uses of your Unleash Incarnation feature left, you regain one use of that feature.

Mod Notes

The original Eldritch Knight as really just a Mage Knight, so this class is just a new class with the same name but an actual mind-breaking, eldritch feel.

Invoker's Soul simply lets the subclass feel Warlock-like, but with fewer invocations than warlocks, and none that require warlock prerequisites.

Terror's Mask is essentially a weaker version of Mask of Many Faces, but at least lets you completely change how you are perceived. Eldritch Haunt is the main function of the class, allowing you to attack the psyche of a single target. You become a mind destroyer for that target, embodying fear. Haunted Plague is "free," balanced via the limited uses of Eldritch Haunt, which is required to use this ability unless the DM gives another way to cause a haunt.

Eldritch Submit gives a combat boost and enhances the theme of the class, and Death is an enhanced, thematic Power Word Kill. Finally, the level 20 bonus is just for fun.

Level 3, 7, 10, 15, 18 - Invoker's Soul

You've dipped your soul into the darkness of the void. Something beyond reaches towards you from beyond, its tendrils caressing your form and supplying you with the power to invoke certain eldritch abilities.

Each time you reach an Eldritch Knight subclass level, you can learn an Eldritch Invocation of your choice. You must meet the prerequisites as usual. You may also swap one Invocation.

Level 3 - Terror's Mask

You gain a haunting aura. You can spend 1 minute to change your physical appearance, though you gain unnatural features during your transformation, such as illithid-like face tentacles, blood red eyes, sharpened teeth, skeletal facial structure, and more. Your equipment and physical size do not change, and this effect is not considered an illusion.

Your Persuasion and Intimidation checks are made at advantage when your appearance is otherwise used to unsettle your target.

Level 7 - Eldritch Haunt

As a bonus action, you can impinge your aura onto a creature you can see within 30' of you, haunting them. While haunted, that creature is frightened of you, takes 1d6 psychic damage when they make an attack while you are within 30' of them, and your attacks against them deal psychic damage instead of weapon damage.

In addition, when you hit a haunted creature with an attack, you may ignite the fear in its heart. It must succeed on a Wisdom Saving Throw against your Role DC or be forced to use its reaction to move up to its speed away from you along the safest available route. If no safe route is available, it must succeed on another Wisdom Saving Throw or move away even unsafely.

You can apply Eldritch Haunt a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per short rest.

Level 10 - Haunted Plague

As an action, you can cause your haunt to infect the minds of those around your haunted foe. If you do, any creature of your choice within 20' of the haunted creature also becomes haunted.

In addition, the spectral terror you unleash upon your foes can be made real. As a separate action, you expand the terror within their minds, detonating the haunt to destroy their minds. Haunted creatures take 6d12 psychic damage and the haunt is removed.

Neither of these actions consume a use of Eldritch Haunt.

Level 15 - Eldritch Submit

The spirit of a great eldritch being clings to your soul, forming a bond with you which grants you new powers. The spirit appears as a large floating dark entity always behind you, always watching.

You can command the spirit to protect or to attack with a thought. When commanded to protect, you gain +2 AC, and cannot be surprised. The spirit has hit points equal to your maximum, and any damage dealt to you is split in half, dealing half to you and half to your spirit.

When the spirit is commanded to attack, it bolsters all attacks you make by swinging its terrible claws with every swing of your blade. When your spirit attacks with you, you have advantage on attacks against foes haunted by you, and your spirit's claws deal 2d12 additional damage per hit, of either type.

If your spirit is reduced to 0 hit points, it dissipates, returning to the plane from whence it came. Each dusk, the spirit returns, often accompanied by news of nightmares of those around you.

Level 18 - Death

You walk the fringe between reality and the supernatural, glimpsing into the astral plane and garnering the favor of horrors within. Once per day, you can invoke Death on a single creature you touch. That creature must make a Constitution saving throw with DC equal to 20, or take 150 force damage. If this reduces the targets hit points to zero, they instantly die and their soul and body are torn apart and locked away within the clutches of a powerful entity of another plane.

Level 20 - Reaper's Arsenal

You can cast Eldritch Blast while wielding a scythe.

Mod Notes

Not a lot of change, just moved some things around and added some features, to shore up the class fantasy and make it happen a bit earlier.

Level 3 - Firearm Proficiency

You gain proficiency with firearms, allowing you to add your proficiency bonus to attacks made with firearms.

Level 3 - Gunsmith

You gain proficiency with Tinker’s Tools. You may use them to craft ammunition at half the cost, repair damaged firearms, or even draft and create new ones (DM’s discretion). Some extremely experimental and intricate firearms are only available through crafting.

Level 3 - Adept Marksman

You learn to perform powerful Trick Shots to disable or damage your opponents using your firearms.

• Trick Shots. You learn two trick shots of your choice. Many maneuvers enhance an attack in some way. Each use of a trick shot must be declared before the attack roll is made. You can use only one trick shot per attack. You learn an additional trick shot of your choice at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level. Each time you learn a new trick shot, you can also replace one trick shot you know with a different one.
• Grit. You gain a number of grit points equal to your Intelligence or Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1). You regain 1 expended grit point each time you roll a 20 on the d20 roll for an attack with a firearm, or deal a killing blow with a firearm to a creature of significant threat (DM’s discretion). You regain all expended grit points after a short or long rest.
• Saving Throws. Some of your trick shots require your targets to make a saving throw to resist the trick shot’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Level 7 - Quickdraw

You add your proficiency bonus to your initiative. You can also stow a firearm, then draw another firearm as a single object interaction on your turn.

Level 7 - Lightning Reload

You can reload any firearm as a bonus action.

Level 10 - Rapid Repair

You learn how to quickly attempt to fix a jammed gun. You can spend a grit point to attempt to repair a misfired (but not broken) firearm as a bonus action.

Level 10 - Breathe

You can use a bonus action to steady your breathing to gain advantage on your next shot. If your attack hits while made at advantage using this feature, you regain your bonus action, which you can use for any normal bonus action, including using this feature again.

Level 15 - Specialty Gunner

You gain a feature based on your Battlefield Archetype:

• Myrmidon. You can attempt to repair a misfire using a bonus action.
• Warrior. Your attacks do not miss on a misfire, but the weapon still requires a repair as normal.
• Bulwark. You can prevent misfires by choosing to make your attack at disadvantage.

Level 18 - Vicious Intent

Your critical hit range is increased by 1 for firearm attacks, and you regain a grit point when you roll a critical hit on a d20 attack roll.

Level 18 - Hemorrhaging Critical

Whenever you score a critical hit on an attack with a firearm, the target additionally suffers half of the damage from the attack at the end of its next turn.

Mod Notes

Renamed from Eldritch Knight to Mage Knight, since the class was leaning into magic rather than something eldritch.

Removed spell school limitation, which was pointless. Players who want to flavor it that way can. Beyond that, the class was just modified to give a nice bond between being a weapon-based warrior and a mage, attempting to give the player options with respect to weaving attacks and spells in and outside of combat.

Eldritch Knight Spellcasting

Level 3 - Spellcasting

Your martial prowess is augmented with magic, gaining more cantrips, spell slots, and spells as you gain Fighter levels.

Cantrips. You learn cantrips per the table.

Spell Slots. You have spell slots per the Eldritch Knight Spellcasting table, regaining spell slots on long rest.

Spells Known. You know a number of spells as shown in the Eldritch Knight Spellcasting table.

Spellcasting Ability. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability, which you use when a spell requires it for spellcasting or saves.

Level 3 - Spellblade Bond

You learn a ritual that creates a magical bond between yourself and one weapon. You perform the ritual over the course of 10 minutes, which can be done at any time, including during a short or long rest. The weapon must be within your reach throughout the ritual, at the conclusion of which you touch the weapon and forge the bond.

Once you have bonded a weapon to yourself, you can't be disarmed of that weapon unless you are incapacitated. If it is on the same plane of existence, you can summon that weapon as a bonus action on your turn, causing it to teleport instantly to your hand.

You can have up to two bonded weapons and summon them both with a single bonus action. If you attempt to bond with a third weapon, you must break the bond with one of the other two.

Level 3 - Forged Mind

While your spellblade is on your person, your intelligence is increased by 2 (can be >20).

Your spellblade counts as a spellcasting focus.

Level 7 - War Magic

You can cast a cantrip as part of each attack roll you make. At level 15, you can cast a level 1 spell instead of a cantrip.

In addition, when you use your action surge, you can use the Magic action to cast up to a level 2 spell.

Level 10 - True Strike

Your spellcrafting enhances your weapon and spell strikes.

When you successfully hit a foe with a weapon attack, your next leveled spell attack before the end of your next turn can either be made at advantage or can surpass the target's resistance to a certain damage type. You choose the effect when you hit with the weapon attack.

When you successfully hit a foe with a spell attack, your next weapon attack before the end of your next turn is made at advantage, or at up to double its normal range, decided before you make the attack roll.

Finally, if your target fails a saving throw against a spell you cast, they have disadvantage on attack rolls until the start of your next turn.

Level 15 - Weave Walker

When you cast a spell, you can magically teleport to a location you can see within a number of feet equal to the level of the spell cast * 5. You can perform the teleportation before or after the spell is cast.

Level 18 - Specialized

You've become specialized in a particular spell of your choice. Pick one up to 3rd level spell. You can cast it a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier between each Short Rest without using a spell slot.

Mod Notes

This was another UA class with copy/paste features, so I just rebuilt it from scratch. Overall this is just a simple class to make you an expert of tracking creatures and turning their bodies into weapons, armors, and otherwise magical items, and transforming into them yourself.

Level 3 - Beast Knowledge

You have what some would consider a supernatural understanding of monsters and beasts. The first time you succeed on a check to hunt a creature (typically Survival), you recall a property of your choice of the creature you're hunting from the following list:

When you see the creature, you immediately recall the name of the type of creature, and one more item on the list. This feature cannot be used on things created by humanoids such as robots or laboratory experiments.

Finally, as a result of your tracking success, you gain the following benefits while hunting the creature, including during battle with it:

• Your speed increased by 5
• Your jump ability is doubled
• You take 10 feet less of fall damage
• You and allies gain a +1 to initiative rolls against this creature

Level 3 - Unnatural Endurance

You've learned to hunt efficiently, allowing you to find and catch small prey far quicker than others (except for maybe a seasoned Ranger). In addition, while hunting a creature including while journeying through the wilderness to reach its expected location, you and your allies cannot gain exhaustion from lack of sleep or from constant pressing, invigorated by the spirit of the hunt.

Level 3 - Cut and Craft

You've learned to incorporate the bodies of slain beasts into your arsenal. You can spend an appropriate amount of time based on the size of the creature, and the parts you wish to harvest, harvesting parts from a dead creature. Your knowledge of creatures ensures your success so no skill check is required, but time still is. The DM decides the amount of time it would take to salvage the parts.

You can sell the components or use them to mystically craft weapons and armor. You can perform a 30 minute ritual to magically form armor or weapons out of the components, applying appropriate magical features to the gear when you do. For example, the scale armor of a young red dragon may act as Scale Armor +1 with fire resistance. The pelt of a feral blink dog could be fashioned into a cloak which allows you to teleport 10' as a bonus action. Work with your DM to determine appropriate possibilities.

Level 7 - Creature Totem

You have learned to perform a ritual which allows you to gain even more insight into the entities that you hunt. You can perform a 10 minute ritual using the corpse of a creature that is not completely destroyed, and which was killed in the last 30 minutes, to transform the creature into a small totem. This cannot be used on humanoid creatures.

You can perform this ritual as many times as you want, but may only carry a number of totems equal to your proficiency bonus. You must choose and banish a totem during a ritual to create a new one for there to be success.

While gripping a totem in your hand, you can use an action to take the form of the creature, gaining all of its properties, but keeping your mind otherwise in tact. This transformation lasts up to 1 hour or until you choose to end the transformation early using an action. If you are reduced to 0 hit points, you revert to your original form, taking any excess damage remaining, and the totem is destroyed. If you revert early to prevent the destruction of the totem, that totem cannot be used again until the next dawn.

Level 10 - Monster Foresight

When you would be hit by an attack from a non-humanoid that would reduce you to zero hit points, you can use your reaction to avoid the damage completely. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Role modifier per long rest.

Level 15 - Hunting Party

You've learned to extend your abilities to your allies. While an ally is within 10 feet of you, you can use your reaction to apply the benefit of Monster Foresight on them instead of yourself.

In addition, you can perform the totem ritual on an ally, causing the same affects to take them as they would you.

Level 18 - Totem Master

You are no longer limited to totems equal to your proficiency bonus, and can instead create as many as you desire.

Mod Notes

There were three variants of psionic subclasses across Tasha's and UA. I mostly just picked the stuff I liked best out of the 3, and added what I felt the subclass needed to drive home the rule of cool of being a psionic knight.

Level 3 - Psionic Power

You harbor a wellspring of psionic energy within yourself. This energy is represented by your Psionic Energy dice, which are each a d6. You have a number of these dice equal to twice your proficiency bonus, and they fuel various psionic powers you have, which are detailed below.

Some of your powers expend the Psionic Energy die they use, as specified in a power's description, and you can't use a power if it requires you to use a die when your dice are all expended. You regain all your expended Psionic Energy dice when you finish a long rest, and 1d4 when you finish a short rest.

When you reach certain levels in this class, the size of your Psionic Energy dice increases: at 7th level (d8), 10th level (d10), and 15th level (d12).

The powers below use your Psionic Energy dice.

Psionic Field. When you or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to roll any number of Psionic Energy dice and reduce the damage taken by the number rolled plus your Intelligence modifier (minimum reduction of 1), as you create a momentary shield of telekinetic force.

Psionic Strike. You can attack from afar with the force of your psionic abilities. When you make an attack roll with a weapon, you can increase the range by you character level. If you do, you may also roll a Psionic Energy die and add the value rolled to the damage dealt.

Psionic Teleport. You can expend Psionic Energy dice to teleport a number of feet equal twice the value rolled on all dice, minimum 5'. You do not need to see your destination.

Level 3 - Telekinesis

You can move an object or a creature with your mind. As an action, you target one object or creature that you can see with 30' of you, that is of size Large or smaller. You can move it up to 30 feet in any direction.

This feature has a number of charges equal to your proficiency bonus plus your Intelligence modifier, of which you regain 2 on short rest and all on long rest. Using telekinesis requires a number of charges based on the size of the object or creature, equal to 0 for tiny, 1 for small, 2 for medium, or 3 for large.

Attempting to move a held object or creature can be resisted by the creature. The creature makes a Strength saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your PB + your Intelligence modifier to attempt to hold onto its item or prevent itself from moving. If you attempt to dislodge an object, you must make a Intelligence check against an appropriate DC chosen by your DM (such as a DC 10 to dislodge a small boulder). If a creature succeeds in resisting your mental control, they make future checks at advantage to resist the affects.

Level 7 - Enhanced Telekinesis

Your Telekinesis reaches greater speeds, offering new ways to control the field around.

Missile Capture. You can use a reaction to focus your psionic will into the air around you, reducing the damage of incoming arrows by the size of your Psionic Die + your Intelligence modifier + your Fighter level, until the start of your next turn. The total is cumulative, potentially reducing damage from multiple sources.

Hover. You gain the ability to telekinetically hover at all times, up to 1 foot off the ground. You can move as normal, using your mind to glide instead of walking. You can hover over any solid or liquid surface using this ability, and you can descend at a slow rate when falling and conscious.

Level 10 - Guarded Mind

The psionic energy flowing through you has bolstered your mind, which you can expand outward to protect nearby allies. You and any creatures you choose within 10' have resistance to psychic damage. In addition, if you start your turn charmed or frightened, you can expend a Psionic Energy die and end every effect on yourself subjecting you to those conditions.

Level 10 - Bulwark of Force

You can shield yourself and others with telekinetic force. As a bonus action, you can choose creatures, which can include you, that you can see within 30 feet of you, up to a number of creatures equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one creature). Each of the chosen creatures is protected by half cover for 1 minute or until you're incapacitated.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, regaining 2 uses per short rest and all on long rest.

Mod Notes

The UA Scout was clearly just pulling features from other classes/subclasses almost if not exactly word-for-word, so I simply tried to make the class more scout flavored. Some features I included are drawn from other classes and feats, but I tried to add more flavor if I did so.

Every part of the class is focused on being a good party scout. The Hidden Vanguard gives many passive bonuses similar to the Ranger's Natural Explorer, with more bonuses since it only affects the Scout themselves. Survival Superiority further increases the ability of the Scout to perform scout-like functions better.

Scout's Dodge and Skirmisher are combat abilities related to a scout's quickness and agility.

Chameleon is an improved form of the Ranger's Hide in Plain Sight ability, focusing on allowing the Scout to hide quickly and effectively. A slight trade off is that it is considered a magical effect, meaning it's easier to find over raw camouflage, and the character has to hold their breath.

Ambusher is similar to the UA Rogue Scout's level 15 ability, but more straight forward with a Skulker kicker to support the whole team.

Finally, nimbus is just a good way to get around by level 18 and be the most effective scout possible.

Level 3 - Hidden Vanguard

As the master of forward exploration in your adventures, you gain proficiency in Athletics, Nature, Perception, Stealth, and Survival, and expertise in two of those skills of your choice.

In addition, while traveling solo away from your party in the wilderness, which is typical for you while scouting:

• Your speed is increased by 10'.
• You are not slowed by difficult terrain.
• Your memory of what you've seen and heard while scouting is perfect for anything scouted in the last month.
• You always know which direction you're traveling if on a plane with directional consistency (locations like the Feywild may interfere with this ability).
• You cannot be surprised.
• You can move stealthily at a normal pace.
• You leave no tracks if moving slowly.

Level 3 - Scout's Dodge

While scouting, when an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the attack's damage against you. You can also expend a superiority die to reduce the damage further (after halving it) by the amount rolled on the die.

Level 7 - Survival Superiority

When you make an Athletics, Nature, Perception, Stealth, or Survival skill check, you can expend one superiority die to bolster the check. Add the number rolled to your check. You apply this bonus after making the check but before learning if it was successful.

Level 7 - Skirmisher

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.

Level 10 - Chameleon

While scouting alone, you can use a bonus action to hold your breath and stand completely still to become invisible. You gain the affects of the invisibility spell as long as you do so. Creatures cannot perceive you unless they come into contact with you, have true sight, or any other feature or magic that reveals invisible creatures.

In addition, your Hidden Vanguard trait now applies to man-made terrain as well, such as dungeons and towns.

Level 15 - Ambusher

You excel at leading ambushes. If any of your foes are surprised, you and all allies gain +5 to initiative rolls, and ranged attacks while hidden do not reveal you or your allies' locations.

Level 18 - Nimbus

As a bonus action, you can summon a silent nimbus cloud from another plane to carry you, giving you a flying speed of 60'. It dissipates when you leap off of it. You can use your Chameleon ability by holding your breath while on your nimbus to make you and your nimbus invisible.