Unarmored Defense

Starting at level 1, you begin to train your bones and skin to take direct hits usually blocked by armor. While not wearing armor or carrying a shield, your AC equals 10 + your Constitution modifier + your Strength modifier.

Reserves

You can push well past your normal means, drawing on your well of energy to fight harder than is otherwise possible. This reserve of energy is represented by a pool of reserve dice, the size and number of which is shown in the Reserve Dice column of the Militiaman table. You regain all of these dice on a long rest. You start with two ways to use these reserve dice, and can gain more as you level up in this class.

• Brace. When taking damage, as a reaction, you can expend and roll one reserve die to reduce the damage taken by that amount plus your Constitution modifier.
• Endure. When forced to make a saving throw, as a reaction, you can expend and roll one reserve die to add it to your result.

Combatant

When dealing damage with an unarmed strike or light weapon, you may use your Reserve die in place of its normal damage. Additionally, your unarmed strikes count as light melee weapons, and as long as you don't attack with a two-handed weapon on your turn, you can always use a bonus action to make a single attack with a light weapon.

Capabilities

While your training is strict and intense, individuals are also encouraged to develop their own methodologies and techniques, personalized to exclusively themselves. You learn one of the Militiaman Capabilities listed at the end of this class, and learn more at certain levels as shown in the Capabilities Known column. Upon leveling up, you may replace one of your capabilities with another Militiaman Capability.

If a capability forces a saving throw, the DC is determined as:
Capability Save DC = 8 + your Prof. Bonus + your Constitution Modifier.

Tough Flesh

At 2nd level, you can hold yourself steady in the face of violent phenomena, allowing you to more effectively resist harmful effects. When making Constitution saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells, you can treat any roll lower than 8 on the die as an 8. Starting at 7th level, this benefit extends to Strength saving throws, and to Dexterity saving throws at 14th level. To gain this benefit, you can't be incapacitated.

Militiaman Techniques

All trainees strive to master six primary techniques in order to become a militiaman. You can learn these techniques in any order, but it takes time. You learn your first technique at 3rd level, choosing from the list on the next page, then learn more techniques of your choice as you level up, as shown in the Militiaman Techniques column until you have learned all of them.

Militiaman Archetype

Additionally at 3rd level, you've begun to adopt particular proclivities and mannerisms, leaning into a certain way of getting things done. Choose an archetype that most befits your style, from Assault, Tactician, or Conduit.

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

Starting at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, when you take the attack action on your turn.

Efficiency

Starting at 7th level, your body is finally acclimating to the harsh conditions you put it through. Once per long rest, you can recover an amount of Reserve dice equal to one roll of your Reserve die as a bonus action. You gain a second usage of this feature at level 13.

Mastered Training

Starting at 11th level, you have finally completed your militiaman training. Once per long rest, when taking damage or failing a saving throw, you can instead take no damage or succeed on the saving throw. Additionally, your attacks count as magical for purposes of overcoming resistance.

Steely

Starting at 13th level, your constitution score increases by 2, up to a maximum of 26. It increases again in this way at 17th level, and again at 20th level.

Overwhelming

Starting at 15th level, you have an aura which can make others feel utterly hopeless. As an action, you can force all creatures of your choice within 15 feet to make a Charisma saving throw against your Capability save DC. On a failed save, the creature is frightened for one minute, during which time it cannot take any action against you or any creatures friendly to you. The condition ends if you or any of your allies miss it with an attack roll or force it to make a saving throw which it succeeds, after which the creature becomes immune to this feature until your next long rest.

Take Down

By expending one or more Reserve dice, you can take the grapple or shove actions as a bonus action, adding the total rolled to your Athletics check.

Bulwark

Once per round, when a creature other than you within 20 feet of you takes damage, you can reduce that damage by an amount up to twice your Militiaman level (no action required), but then lose hit points equal to the amount of damage reduced. If you are effected by the same area of effect as multiple other creatures, such as the explosion of a Fireball, you can use this capability on all creatures within that area that took damage.

Smoke Bomb

Twice per short or long rest, you can cast Fog Cloud as a bonus action.

Strength in Unity

When flanking a target, you may choose to gain temporary HP equal to your Constitution modifier at the beginning of each of your turns. These temporary hit points disappear at the end of your next turn.

Self-Dislocate

When you make a melee weapon attack on your turn, you can expend reserve dice up to your proficiency bonus to increase your reach for that attack by 5 feet per reserve die. The first time you target a creature with this attack, you make the attack with advantage as they are surprised by the technique.

Instant Opening

As a reaction when a creature within makes a successful melee attack against you, you can expend 2 Reserve dice and attempt to counterattack. Make an attack roll. If your attack roll exceeds theirs, you can instantly make a single attack with a light weapon or unarmed strike against them, and the triggering attack deals only half damage.

Rushdown

As an action, you may expend and roll an amount of Reserve dice up to half your Militiaman level rounded up, with a minimum of 2. For each die rolled, you must make a separate special attack, making an unarmed strike attack roll and dealing damage equal to one roll of your Reserve die + 1 on a hit.

Disorient

Prerequisites: Instantaneous Leap
You use your extreme speed to throw off your opponents defenses. When you use your Instantaneous Leap technique and teleport within 5 feet of a creature, your next attack roll this turn against that creature has advantage. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency bonus, and regain all uses at the end of a long rest.

Gather Strength

As an action once per short or long rest, you can gather your strength. For the next minute, or until you are knocked unconscious, you can treat your Strength score as if it was two points higher (effecting your modifier as well).

Imperceptible Jab

Prerequisites: Instantaneous Leap
In the tiny moment in which you travel forwards, you strike your opponent with your body. Once per turn, when using your Instantaneous Leap to move from one side of a creature to its opposite end, you can expend and roll one Reserve die, dealing slashing damage equal to the amount rolled (no action required).

Reflect

Prerequisites: Mental Barrier
When a creature deals damage which is only dealt to the Temp HP granted by your Mental Barrier, you can use a reaction to expend reserve dice up to half your Proficiency bonus (rounded up), immediately dealing damage equal to the total rolled to the attacker. The damage type is the same type you were damaged with.

Deflect

Prerequisites: Mental Barrier
You gain the innate ability to cast the Shield spell, twice per long rest, without needing or expending spell slots. You do not learn this spell, and cannot cast it with spell slots you may have.

Toxin Spit

Prerequisites: Hand Cannon
When using your Hand Cannon technique while affected by the Poisoned, Frightened, or Blinded conditions, you can exhale that condition along with the air used to create your projectile. Expend two reserve dice as part of the attack to end one of those conditions, and gain benefits to the attack based on the condition ended:

• Poisoned. The attack deals an additional 2d6 Poison damage on a hit, as the poison travels with the projectile.
• Frightened. The next attack made against the target is made with advantage, regardless of whether or not the attack is successful, as the projectile makes a startling screaming noise.
• Blinded. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become blinded until the beginning of your next turn, as the projectile bursts into inky darkness.

Gale Cannon

Prerequisites: Hand Cannon
You subtly shift the method of your hand cannon to shoot out a wide-scope cutting blast of wind instead. You can expend and roll reserve dice up to your proficiency bonus as an action, forcing all creatures within a 30 foot cone originating from you to make a Strength saving throw, taking damage equal to the amount rolled plus your Constitution modifier on a failed save, and getting pushed 10 feet away from you, or taking half as much damage on a failed save without being pushed.

Entrench

Prerequisites: Perfect Body
If you haven't moved this turn, you may use a bonus action to dig your heels in. While you are in this stance, your movement speed is set to 0, but you gain the following benefits:

• You gain a bonus to your AC equal to your proficiency bonus.
• You can add 1d6 to all saving throws you make.
• Once per turn, you can resist an effect that causes you to be moved against your will.

You can end the effects of this capability as a bonus action.

Zombie

Prerequisites: Perfect Body
On your turn, if you are currently at 0 hit points, you may expend and roll one Hit Die in order to regain HP equal to the total rolled. You can use this feature an amount of times equal to your Proficiency bonus, and regain all uses at the end of a long rest.

Instinctual Compression

Prerequisites: Perfect Body
You have trained your internal organs to automatically perform CPR on themselves when you would be knocked unconscious. When you are restored to one hit point from your Perfect Body technique, you can expend two Reserve dice to additionally regain half of your hitpoints.

Momentum Lock

Prerequisites: Perfect Body
You make your physical body so perfectly still that the laws of thermodynamics momentarily don't apply. As a reaction after your body is moved, be it by yourself or something else, you can momentarily 'lock' your momentum to what it currently is, moving with the same velocity and direction. At the beginning of your next turn, you repeat the movement that triggered this reaction, and the effects of this capability end. When colliding with a solid object or creature, it will stop you in place. You cannot use this capability as a reaction to movement made with this capability.

*Remember, movement can be vertical, too! Things like holding yourself still in mid-air can take you out of an opponent's reach, so get creative!

Vitality Drain

Prerequisites: Recede
You drain the very vitality of a target. In place of an attack, you can expend two reserve dice to make an unarmed strike attack roll against a target within 5 feet. On a success, you deal necrotic damage equal to the total rolled (do not add your ability modifier) and regain HP equal to the damage dealt.

Detonate

Prerequisites: Recede
As an action, you store up your power before releasing it all at once in an overwhelming burst. All creatures within 20 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking force damage equal to your Constitution modifier plus a number of reserve dice to twice your proficiency bonus on a failed save, or half as much on a success. You automatically succeed on this saving throw, taking half damage. Once you use this capability, you must finish a long rest before using it again.

Harden Blood

Prerequisites: 5th level
As a reaction to taking damage equal to or greater than twice your level, you can harden your blood, and it takes on a sharp, crystalline structure. You can use this crystallized blood as a natural weapon with the two-handed, heavy, and reach properties which you are proficient in, which deals 1d10 slashing damage and uses your Constitution modifier for the attack and damage rolls. At 11th level, its damage increases to 1d12. Additionally, this weapon cannot be taken from your hands, and as a bonus action after hitting a target with this weapon, you cause it to shatter, sending a burst of shards that force all creatures of your choice within 15 feet of the target (including the target) to make a Dexterity saving throw or take 2d8 slashing damage. After one minute, the blood halberd will melt back into mundane, liquid blood, becoming useless.

Regeneration

Prerequisites: 9th level
At the beginning of each of your turns, if you have less than half your maximum hit points and more than 0, you regain 1 HP.

Anvil Kick

Prerequisites: 5th level
You learn the Skullstomp spell, and can cast it twice per long rest at its lowest level without expending a spell slot. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell. You can take this capability a second time to cast it at 3rd level instead of 1st level.

Lay Traps

Prerequisites: 5th level
As an action, you can produce a spread of traps in front of you. You decide the appearance and nature of these traps, but they are plainly visible to all creatures. Choose up to 8 unoccupied spaces within 40 feet of you to lay these traps on. When a creature steps onto one of these spaces, they immediately take damage equal to 3 rolls of your Reserve die. After 1 minute, all of these traps become inert and disappear. You can use this capability twice per long rest.

Immutable

Prerequisites: 5th level
When a creature moves in a way which would provoke an attack of opportunity from you, even if they take the disengage action or otherwise do not provoke opportunity attacks, as a reaction, you can force them to make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, their movement speed is set to 0 until the end of their current turn. You can force this save as part of an attack of opportunity by expending one Reserve die.

Enrage

Prerequisite: 5th Level
Once per long rest, if you have half of your maximum hit points or fewer, then as a bonus action, you can fly into a violent rage for 1 minute. During this time, you have a +2 bonus to Armor Class, and when you make a melee weapon attack using Strength, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll.

Competetive

Prerequisite: 5th Level
You have advantage on your ability check when making contested ability checks.

Rocket Battery

Prerequisites: 9th level
You can unleash a storm of homing projectiles that never fail you. You gain a number of charges of this capability equal to your proficiency bonus. You can expend one of these charges as an action to cast the Magic Missile spell, and expend extra charges to increase the level of the spell by 1 for each charge spent. When cast in this way, the spell deals bludgeoning damage, and the targets and all creatures within 5 feet of any of the targets must make a Dexterity saving throw or take fire damage equal to two rolls of your reserve die. You can take this capability a second time to gain twice the charges.

Killer Stare

Prerequisites: 9th level
As a bonus action, you may expend and roll Reserve dice up to your Proficiency bonus to force a creature which can see you within 90 feet to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes psychic damage equal to the total rolled, or half as much on a successful save.

Resistant

Prerequisites: 9th level
You gain proficiency in one type of saving throw of your choice. You cannot gain this capability more than once.

S.L.A.M

Prerequisites: 9th level
As an action, you can expend one Reserve die to place a bomb on any space within 5 feet of you, occupied or otherwise. This bomb is clearly visible, and you cannot move on the same turn you place it. As a bonus action, you can detonate this bomb, forcing all creatures within 15 feet to make a Dexterity saving throw or take 5d10 Fire damage, taking half as much on a successful save.

Concussion

Prerequisites: 13th level
When making a weapon attack or unarmed strike, you can expend three Reserve dice to strike with brain-rocking force. On a hit, you add a reserve die to the damage, and the target subtracts your reserve die from their next attack roll, ability check, or saving throw.

Shattering Impact

Prerequisites: 17th level
As an action, you can expend six reserve dice in order to strike through the very veil of existence. Make a melee weapon attack against a creature or adjacent space. The very space in front you cracks, like glass, and all creatures within a 60 foot cone originating from you must make a Constitution saving throw. A target takes force damage equal to four rolls of your reserve die and is stunned until the end of your next turn on a failed save, or takes half as much damage without being stunned on a successful save. The target of your attack has disadvantage on this save.

Dextrous

3rd level Assault feature
When you first adopt this specialization, you can use your Dexterity modifier, instead of your Strength modifier when determining your AC for your Unarmored Defense feature. You can also use your Dexterity modifier, instead of strength, for light weapons that lack the finesse property.

Relentless Assault

3rd level Assault feature
Each of your strikes works to dig weakpoints into the enemy's defense, leaving them open to more and more devastating strikes. Whenever you make a successful attack against a hostile creature, you gain a +1 bonus to your attack rolls until the end of your current turn. This bonus stacks with itself; If you make two successful weapon attacks, your attack rolls have a +2 bonus until the end of your turn, and so on. Once per turn, if your total attack modifier exceeds the AC of a creature (1d20 + 12 against AC 12) you may choose to deal a critical hit with your attack instead of rolling.

Follow-Through

6th level Assault feature
Starting at 6th level, you can add an amount equal to one roll of your Reserve die to one attack roll and one damage roll on each of your turns.

Followup

9th level Assault feature
Once per turn when you have advantage on an attack roll, you can choose to instead make two attacks without advantage. Additionally, when using your Combatant feature to make an attack with your bonus action, you can make a two-weapon fighting attack with the same bonus action.

Zealous Brutality

17th level Assault feature
You gain an additional action on each of your turns. This action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, or Use an Object action.

Spellcasting

When you adopt this archetype, you augment your martial prowess with the ability to cast spells. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells, as it comes from your physical body's ability to attract and channel magic.

Spell Slots

The Conduit Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your conduit spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell Shield and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Shield using either slot.

Black Wind

3rd level Tactician feature
You have spent time within an accursed land, and black wind has built up inside you. Black wind is a mass of small, sharp particulates which normally pass freely through objects, as if ghostly in nature, but still cause pain and erosion to anything it passes through. Due to your unqiue methodology, you have an additional way to use your limited magic, in which you control the black wind built up inside of you. At certain levels, you learn spells in this class which you cannot change. These count as Conduit spells for you, and do not count against your known spells.

Hidden Power

Starting at 6th level, when using a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level slot to cast an evocation or necromancy spell on the Conduit spell list, the spell is cast as if the slot expended was one level higher. Additionally, choose one 1st-level spell that you know that has a casting time of 1 action. You can cast that spell as a bonus action once per short or long rest.

Recuperation

Additionally at 6th level, once per long rest, you can expend reserve dice up to your proficiency bonus to gain spell slots whose total level equals the amount of reserve dice spent.

Spell Capture

Starting at 9th level, you can absorb a fraction of the power of the spells you are subjected to. When succeeding on a saving throw against a spell, you regain a spell slot equal to one third of the spell's level, rounded up, provided the spell is 2nd level or higher. You can only gain one slot per spell, even if you are forced to make multiple saving throws by the same spell. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency bonus, regaining all uses at the end of a long rest.

Obvious Power

Starting at 17th level, any time you cast a spell, it is cast as if the expended slot was one level higher. Due to your Hidden Power feature, evocation or necromancy spells cast by you are cast if the expended slot was two levels higher.

Black Wind

1st-level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 5 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 minute, concentration.

You cough up a mass of ethereal, but sharp and corrosive black particulates, which you control. It appears in an unoccupied space within range, and uses the Black Wind statblock below. As part of the casting of this spell, you lose hit points equal to 5 * the level of the spell slot used to cast it. In combat, the black wind shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. You directly control its turn (no action required). It uses the Black Wind statblock below. The slot's level is used in certain places in the statblock.

Classes: Militiaman

Black Spear

2nd-level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 5 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 minute, concentration.

Your black wind twists into a more corporeal form, capable of physically striking your enemies. It appears in an unoccupied space within range, and uses the Black Wind statblock below. As part of the casting of this spell, you lose hit points equal to 5 * the level of the spell slot used to cast it. In combat, the black spear shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. You directly control its turn (no action required).

Black Semblance

3rd-level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 5 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 minute, concentration.

Your black wind shapes into a rough form of a humanoid, able to move and fight alongside you. It appears in an unoccupied space within range, and uses the Black Semblance statblock below. As part of the casting of this spell, you lose hit points equal to 5 * the level of the spell slot used to cast it. In combat, the black spear shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. You directly control its turn (no action required).

Protectorate

3rd level Stalwart feature
Starting at 3rd level, you can serve as a mount for any creature your size category or smaller. Any time your rider or a creature you have grappled takes damage, you can instead take the full damage in their place, no action required, and can use your Brace feature to reduce the damage you take in their place without expending a reaction.

Resolve

3rd level Stalwart feature
Your hit point maximum increases by 3, and by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class. Additionally, as a bonus action, you can expend one Resolve die to gain temporary hit points equal to the amount rolled + your Constitution modifier. Starting at 13th level, you can additionally grant one ally within 30 feet these hit points as part of the same bonus action.

Interpose

6th level Stalwart feature
When you are between a hostile attacker and their target is an allied creature, you impose disadvantage on the attack roll. Additionally, when a creature would provoke an attack of opportunity from you, you can instead use your reaction to reduce their movement speed to 0.

Superpower

6th level Stalwart feature
At the beginning of your turn, you can choose to ignore all negative effects, debuffs, magical effects, and difficult terrain until the beginning of your next turn. You can use this feature once per short or long rest.

Meatshield

9th level Stalwart feature
You can redirect any damage dealt to a creature within 30 feet to be dealt to you instead. When absorbing damage in this way, the damage against you cannot be reduced or resisted by any means.

Uncanny Toughness

9th level Stalwart feature
As a reaction to taking damage from an attack, spell, or effect, you can halve the damage taken by you.

Absolute Defense

17th level Stalwart feature
As an action once per long rest, you can gain resistance to all damage for one minute.

Reinforce

17th level Stalwart feature
Once per long rest when using your Resolve feature to grant temporary hit points, you can grant a number of allies up to your Proficiency bonus within 30 feet the same amount of temporary hit points.