The Magus

Class: Expanded

The Magus is a master of spell and sword in equal balance. Mechanically, they are an Intelligence-based half-caster that serves as the arcane counterpart to the Paladin and Ranger classes. Provided here are additional options for the Magus:

Additional Fighting Styles. The Fighting Styles here are more exotic or specific than those in the Magus class.

Spellsword Feats. The Feats included here allow player characters share in the abilities of the Magus class.

Additional Esoteric Orders. Included here are six more Esoteric Orders for a Magus to choose from at 3rd level.

Fighting Styles

The additional Fighting Styles listed here are available to the Magus class, along with those included in the base class.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can switch your Fighting Style for another Fighting Style of your choice.

Alternate Mage Slayer

Updated version of the Mage Slayer Feat
You have trained extensively to counter hostile mages
and spellcasters, learning to foil their arcane abilities.
You gain the following benefits:

Disrupt Spell. When a creature you can see within
your reach casts a spell, you can use a reaction to make
an attack of opportunity against it. On hit, the creature
must make a Constitution saving throw, as to maintain
concentration. On a failure, its spell fails to take effect
and any spell slot or feature expended is wasted.

Disrupt Concentration. When you deal damage to
a creature that is concentrating on a spell, it makes its
saving throw to maintain concentration on that spell
with disadvantage.

Spellguard. When a creature you can see within 5
feet of you forces you to make a saving throw to resist
the effects of a spell, you have advantage on your roll.

Alternate War Caster

Updated version of the War Caster Feat
Prerequisite: the ability to cast at least one spell
You have trained to make use of your spells amidst
the chaos of battle. You gain the following benefits:

Opportune Magic. Whenever you would make an
opportunity attack, you can cast a spell instead. It must
have a casting time of one action and must only target
the creature that provoked this reaction.

Resolute Focus. Whenever you are forced to make
a saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell,
you make your saving throw using your Spellcasting
Ability instead of Constitution.

Warrior Mage. You can use a weapon or shield to
perform the Somatic components of your spells. You
must be proficient with the weapon or shield to do so.

Spellsword Adept

Prerequisite: proficiency with a martial weapon
You have trained to channel minor magic through your
close-range weapons. You gain the benefits below:

Bonus Cantrips. You learn two additional Cantrips
from your class spell list or the Magus spell list. Both
must deal damage, but they do not count against your
total number of Cantrips Known.

If you learn a new Magus Cantrip through this Feat,
choose either Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma as
the Spellcasting Ability for these Cantrips.

Spellstrike. Once on your turn, when you make an
attack with a melee weapon, you can imbue the magic
of one Cantrip you know into your strike. The Cantrip
you imbue must deal damage.

On hit, the damage dealt by your weapon changes to
match the damage type of the Cantrip, then any of that
Cantrip's additional effects, other than its damage, are
    applied to the target of your weapon attack.

The Magi of the Order of Armorers claim to be disciples of
of the original Magus, the creator of the enchantment that
became the Arcane Armory. They unlock the true potential
of their Armory, conjuring the weapons within to levitate around them and strike out at their foes.

Conduit Spells

3rd-level Order of Conduits feature
You learn certain spells at the Magus levels noted in the table below. These spells do not count against your total number of Spells Known and cannot be switched upon gaining a level:

Arcane Conduit

3rd-level Order of Conduits feature
You have forgone the typical martial techniques of the Magi to hone your physical form. When not wearing armor, wielding a shield, or wielding a weapon, you gain the benefits below:

Martial Arts. You gain the Brawling Fighting Style. If you already know it, you gain the Featherweight Fighting Style instead. Moreover, you can use your Dexterity,
in place of Strength, for attack and damage
rolls of your unarmed strikes.

Arcane Fists. Your unarmed strikes
are magical, they can be used for your
Spellstrike attacks, and they fulfill the
material component requirements
for your Conduit Spells.

Unarmored Defense. Your Armor
Class equals 10 + your Dexterity
and Intelligence modifiers.

Ascetic Resilience

3rd-level Order of Conduits feature
You can forgo the traditional power of your Arcane Armory to infuse yourself with arcane fortitude. When you roll initiative, you gain temporary hit points equal to the number of unused slots in your Arcane Armory.

As a bonus action, you can expend a spell slot of 1st-level or higher to gain these temporary hit points again.

Ethereal Arts

7th-level Order of Conduits feature
You incorporate ethereal magics into your signature style of martial arts. When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can knock your target back 5 feet in a line (so long as it is your size or smaller), or instantly teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 5 feet of your target.

Also, your unarmed strikes now deal 1d8 damage on hit.

Enchanted Physique

15th-level Order of Conduits feature
Arcane magic suffuses your body. When you have temporary hit points from Ascetic Resilience, you gain resistance to all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, and you have advantage on saving throws to maintain concentration.

Ascended Conduit

20th-level Order of Conduits feature
As a bonus action, you can overcharge your body with arcane power, unlocking the true power of your Order. When you do so, you gain the benefits listed below for the next minute:

• When you take the attack action and make only unarmed strikes, you can make two additional unarmed strikes as part of that attack action (for a total of four attacks).
• You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed.
• Whenever you teleport with a Magus feature or spell, you can touch a creature equal to you in size (or smaller) and teleport it with you. This includes Grappled creatures.

You can use this feature once per long rest at no cost, after
       that, you must expend a 5th-level spell slot to use it again.

Hexblade Spells

3rd-level Order of Hexblades feature
You learn certain spells at the Magus levels noted in the table below. These spells do not count against your total number of Spells Known and cannot be switched upon gaining a level:

Hex Warrior

3rd-level Order of Hexblades feature
You can use the sinister magicks of your Order to awaken a nascent Hexblade. During a long rest, you can perform a dark 1-hour ritual, transforming one melee Arcane Armory weapon into your Hexblade. It remains your Hexblade until you use this ritual again, and gains the following benefits:

Enchanted Armament. You can use Intelligence, in place of Strength or Dexterity for its attack and damage rolls, and on hit, you can choose for it to deal necrotic damage.

Life Drain. When you deal necrotic damage to a Hostile creature that is not Construct or Undead, you can siphon its life, gaining temporary hit points equal to half that damage.

Malevolent Curse. When you attack a creature under the effects of a Hexblade Spell with your Hexblade, you score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20.

Accursed Armory

7th-level Order of Hexblades feature
You store the life you drain from your foes and use
it to fuel your sinister magic. When you use your
Hexblade's Life Drain, you can forgo gaining
temporary hit points and instead store it as
life essence in your Arcane Armory. Each
empty slot in your Arcane Armory can
hold 10 life essence. It remains until
you expend it on these abilities:

Sinister Spells. Whe you cast
a Hexblade Spell, you can expend
life essence instead of expending
a spell slot, 10 per slot level. You
can't use Life Drain with spells
cast with life essence.

Vile Resilience. If a creature
under the effects of one of your
Hexblade Spells forces you to
make a saving throw, you can
expend 10 life essence to
gain advantage on your
saving throw roll.

Sinister Sentience

15th-level Order of Hexblades feature
Your dark magick has awakened a sinister sentience within your Hexblade, granting it the vile benefits listed below:

Sentience. Your Hexblade gains an Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma score of 10, a personality which begins as a dark mirror of your own, and its own alignment.

Telepathy. Your Hexblade understands any languages you speak, and can hear out to a 60-foot radius. It can also speak Telepathically with any creature in that same range.

Mental Bond. While wielding your Hexblade, it lends you its mental abilities. You can concentrate on two spells at one time, but one must be a Hexblade Spell. However, when you are forced to make a saving throw to maintain concentration, you make one saving throw for both spells at disadvantage.

Awakened Hexblade

20th-level Order of Hexblades feature
You have reached the apex of your Order and mastered the dark magick to awaken the true potential of your Hexblade. The Hexblade's Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores become 16, and the range of its hearing and Telepathy also increases to 120 feet. Fully realized, it is highly resistant to moving between weapons, and will only do so willingly if a more powerful host weapon becomes available.

Finally, your Hexblade gains the benefits below against creatures under the effects of your Hexblade Spells:

• You can choose for Spellstrike damage to be necrotic.
• Its attacks ignore resistance to necrotic damage, and
  treat immunity to necrotic damage as resistance.

Shade Spells

3rd-level Order of Shades feature
You learn certain spells at the Magus levels noted in the table below. These spells do not count against your total number of Spells Known and cannot be switched upon gaining a level:

Shroud of Darkness

3rd-level Order of Shades feature
As an action, you can envelop yourself in a Shroud of illusion magic, which lasts for 1 hour. While this Shroud is active, you can use a bonus action to turn invisible if you are in an area of dim light or darkness. This invisibility lasts for the duration of your Shroud, but it ends early if you attack, touch, or force a creature to make an ability check or saving throw.

You can use your Shroud of Darkness once between each short or long rest at no cost, after which, you must expend a spell slot to use this feature again.

Umbral Sight

3rd-level Order of Shades feature
You have trained to fight in the dark. You gain Darkvision to a range of 60 feet. If you have Darkvision from another source, the range of your Darkvision increases by 30 feet.

From the Shadows

7th-level Order of Shades feature
You are adept at bringing down foes when they are unaware. When you hit a creature that is Surprised with a Spellstrike, it automatically fails its saving throw against your spell.

In addition, if you use Ethereal Step while you are in dim light or darkness, the distance you can teleport is doubled.

Improved Shroud

7th-level Order of Shades feature
Your magic conceals you from creatures of shadow. If your Shroud of Darkness is active while you are in darkness, you are invisible to anything that relies on Darkvision to see you.

Cloud the Mind

15th-level Order of Shades feature
You can penetrate the minds of your foes with your potent illusion magic. As an action, you can force one creature you can see within 30 feet to make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, it cannot see, hear, smell, or sense you in any way for 1 minute. On a success, it is immune to this effect for 24 hours. This effect immediately ends if you attack, touch, or force the creature to make an ability check or saving throw.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once), and you regain all uses when you finish a long rest. When you have no uses left, you can expend a spell slot to use this feature again.

One with the Darkness

20th-level Order of Shades feature
You have ascended to the apex of your Order and can become one with the darkness itself. You can conjure your Shroud of
          Darkness at will, and at the start of each turn that your
                  Shroud is active you gain the benefits of invisibility
                         and pass without trace, without concentration.

                                    Finally, you can use a bonus action on
                                        each of your turns to teleport up to 60
                                            feet to a space you can see that is in
                                                   an area of dim light or darkness.

Martial Exploits

3rd-level Order of Spellswords feature
You have studied various martial exploits to augment your Order's magical abilities. You gain the following features:

Exploit Dice. The Spellsword Exploits table shows how many Exploit Dice you have to use your Exploits. To use an Exploit you know, you expend an Exploit Die, and you regain your Exploit Dice when you finish a short or long rest. When you use an Exploit, you always roll the Exploit Die.

High Degree. Your Magus level limits the technicality of the Exploits you can learn, as shown in the High Degree
column of the Spellsword Exploits table.

Exploits. You learn two Martial Exploits of your
choice from the Alternate Fighter. You can only use a
single Exploit per ability check, attack, or saving throw, and you can't use an Exploit and Spellstrike at the same time.

When you gain a Magus level, you can replace one Exploit you know with another Martial Exploit of your choice.

Saving Throws. If a Martial Exploit requires a creature
to make a saving throw, it uses your Magus Spell save DC.

Swift Armory

3rd-level Order of Spellswords feature
You wield your Arcane Armory with the same skill that you wield your weapons. You can Access your Armory, conjuring and shunting objects as part of each attack you make.

Mystic Precision

7th-level Order of Spellswords feature
You mix magic and martial skill. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, then make a Spellstrike attack against it on the same turn, you gain a bonus to your Spellstrike attack roll equal to the level of the spell slot spent (+0 for Cantrips).

Ethereal Warrior

15th-level Order of Spellswords feature
Rather than develop new magics, Spellswords are masters of the fundamentals. Whenever you Access your Arcane Armory, you can use Ethereal Step to teleport up to 10 feet.

Arcane Blademaster

20th-level Order of Spellswords feature
You are a mythic master of both spell and sword. Once on each of your turns, you can use a Martial Exploit you know without expending an Exploit Die or Spellstrike a 1st-level Magus spell you know without expending a spell slot.

Order of Travelers

Practitioners of what many consider a forbidden ninth magic school, Travelers augment their skill with Chronomancy, time magic. As they grow in their understanding of this secret art, Travelers become increasingly detached from their place in time, becoming wanderers who safeguard the flow of time.