Paragon v0.5.3

Creating a Paragon

When you build your Paragon, think about what sets you apart from ordinary mortals. Did you discover your gifts suddenly, in a moment of crisis when your strength, speed, or resilience carried you beyond your limits? Or did your power grow through relentless training, a lifetime of discipline that pushed you further than anyone else could go? Perhaps destiny or divine will marked you for greatness, making you a vessel of impossible potential.

Your Origin is important to your story. A Paragon is by definition exceptional at what they do, even if they don't think of themselves in those terms, and your Origin will tie into how you became the way you are.

Class Features

• Hit Dice: 1d10 per Paragon level
• Hit Points at 1st level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per Paragon level after 1st.

Pursuit of Perfection

1st-level Paragon feature

Select a Pursuit you wish to achieve perfection with, selecting from the Pursuit of Strength, Speed, Endurance, Mind, Blades or Flame. The selected Pursuit grants you various features, and a list of Active Abilities you can select.

Exertion

1st-level Paragon feature

As a Paragon, you can push yourself above and beyond. Some features either use or require Exertion. Using Exertion generates a stack of Exertion, contributing toward your Exertion Limit.

Exertion Limit. Your Exertion Limit starts at 1, and increases as you gain levels, as shown on the Paragon Class Table. Any time you generate Exertion while at your Exertion Limit, you instead gain a level of Exhaustion. You can generate a maximum of two stacks of Exertion a turn, after which you cannot use additional Exertion that turn.

Clearing Exertion. You clear all stacks of Exertion when you take a short or long rest, but do not clear any that have turned into Exhaustion (which are treated as normal levels of Exhaustion).

If you are at maximum stacks of Exertion when you roll initiative, your stacks of Exertion is reduced by 1.

Limitbreaker

10th-level Paragon feature

At 10th level, select one ability score. You gain +1 to that ability score, and the maximum for that ability score increases to 22.

Extra Attack

11th-level Paragon feature

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Limitbreaker (2)

15th-level Paragon feature

Select another ability score you have not used Limitbreaker on already. You gain +1 to that ability score, and the maximum for that ability score increases to 22.

Adrenaline Rush

18th-level Paragon feature

You can briefly ignore your limits and freely use exertion. On your turn, you do not generate any stacks while using Exertion.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

Beyond Perfection

20th-level Paragon feature

You shatter mortal limits. Select on ability you've used Limit Breaker on. You gain +2 to that ability score, and the maximum for that ability score increases to 24. When you make any attack roll, ability check, or saving throw using that ability, you can treat any roll lower than 10 as a 10.

Paragon Origins

Unlimited Willpower

17th-level Prodigy feature

During your turn can push yourself beyond mortal limits until the start of your next turn (no action required). You gain the following benefits:

• You ignore the effects of Exhaustion, even if it would otherwise kill you.
• You can take an additional action on each of your turns. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action.
• You are unaffected by difficult terrain, and spells and other magical effects can neither reduce your speed nor cause you to be paralyzed or restrained.

This state ends at the start of your next turn unless you generate a stack of Exertion to maintain it. Doing so reduces your current hit points by combined number of stacks of Exertion and Exhaustion. Once this ability ends, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

Divine Origin

Paragons of a Divine Origin typically have the blood or blessing of divine or celestial origins--distant demigods, descendents of avatars, blessed champions, anyone that is beyond the mortal capability due to the touch of the divine.

Some of them champion or owe allegiance to the source of the power, while others are a distant and forgotten remnant left behind in the mortal realm who may not even know the origin of the power.

Growing Divinity

13th-level Divine Blood Feature

Select an additional selection from Celestial Legacy, and then select one of the following upgrades to one of your selections:

• Eyes. You gain blindsight with a range of 30 feet.
• Voice. You can understand and speak all languages.
• Wings. Your wings stay manifested at all times. You gain a flying speed of 30 feet.
• Skin. You gain resistance to your choice of Cold, Fire, Lightning, Radiant, or Necrotic damage.

Divine Descent

17th-level Divine Blood Feature

As a bonus action, you fully express your divine legacy becoming a divine avatar and gaining the following benefits:

• You gain resistance to all damage.
• You have advantage on all saving throws.
• You can become Large sized.
• Once during the effect, when you use Divine Judgement you can generate two stacks of Exertion to instead cast platinum lances^K without a spell slot or components.

This form ends at the start of your next turn unless you generate a stack of Exertion to maintain it. Once this ability ends, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

Gifted Origin

A gifted Paragon is one whose power comes from an inner well of psionic power. This power is something they tap into unconsciously, empowering their body and granting them nearly instinctive psionic abilities as they continue to use it, filling themselves with psionic power.

The more they strain themselves, the more of this psionic energy fills them, often causing them to glow or distort their surroundings in minor ways as their psionic powers grow more potent. Their lack of formal Psionic training sometimes makes their powers leak subconsciously.

Rampant Power

3rd-level Gifted feature

Your generated Psionic power wreathes you in an aura of power. While you have 1 or more psi points, the first time during your turn you strike a creature with a melee weapon attack or Active Ability, it deals an additional psychic damage equal to the psi points you have.

Dangerous Mind

7th-level Gifted feature

You can aggressively rebuff and rebound any effect that targets your mind. You can gain advantage on an Intelligence or Wisdom saving throw.

Rebound. If you succeed and the save was triggered by the spell or effect of another creature, you can expend 1 psi point to force the creature to make a saving throw of the same type and DC. On failure it takes 4d6 psionic damage and becomes Dazed until the start of your turn. On success, it takes half as much damage and does not become Dazed.

Once you use this feature to succeed a saving throw, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Branching Power

13th-level Gifted feature

You can select a second Psionic Power from any Discipline of Psion, gaining the passive feature and the ability to use that Power with Psionic Surge as a second option.

Additionally, you can use any of the Alternate Effects from either Discipline of 3rd level or lower by expending psi points.

Ultimate Outburst

17th-level Gifted feature

When you use Psionic Surge, you can instead cast shockwave^K. The overwhelming psionic energy coursing through you empowers, granting you temporary hit points equal to the damage roll of the spell and granting you an additional action you can use before the end of your turn.

Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest. If you die, you automatically cast shockwave^K (no action required), regardless if this ability is available or not.

Augmented Origin

While some Paragons are born to their power, Augmented Paragons pursue perfection through artificial enhancement. They leave behind the weak and insufficient flesh replacing parts of the bodies with powerful augmentations. Some perform these enhancements out of necessity to repair a ruined body, others in pursuit of power, while an unlucky few are the results of some mad experiment waking up with powers they never sought and having to learn to make due with their situation.

Overheat

1st-level Augmented feature

You gain the ability to push your mechanical enhancements beyond their limits. Once per turn, when you generate a stack of Exertion while at your maximum stacks, you can choose to take 1d6 fire damage instead of gaining a level of Exhaustion.

You take this damage at the end of your turn. Each time you take fire damage this way after the first, the fire damage is doubled (to 2d6, 4d6, etc). This damage cannot be reduced by resistance or immunity. This resets back to 1d6 when you complete a short rest or long rest.

Mechanical Maintenance

1st-level Augmente feature

You gain proficiency in your choice of Tinkerer's Tools, Blacksmith's Tools, or the Arcana skill.

Weapon Module

3rd-level Augmented feature

You can install a module that grants you a special Active Ability. Select one of the following options:

• Energy Cannon You gain the Fire Beam active ability.
• Power Leap You gain the Meteor Leap active ability.
• Blade Whip. You gain the Whirlwind Slash active ability.

You can replace your selection of module when you gain a level in this class, replacing the module over the cour

Mechanical Upgrade

3rd-level Augmented feature

You gain the ability to upgrade your form in one of the following ways:

• Boosted Jumps. You double your jumping distance.
• Grappling Reel. As an attack or as an action, you may target a surface, object or creature within 30 feet. If the target is Medium or smaller, you can make a Strength (Athletics) check as if grappling normally to pull it to you and grapple it on success. Alternatively, if the target is Large or larger, you can choose to be pulled to it (this doesn’t grapple it). When moving yourself this movement provokes opportunity attacks as normal movement would.
• Reinforced Limbs. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying weight and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
• Terrain Adaptation. You gain a climbing or swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
• Integrated Weapon. You integrate one one handed simple or martial melee weapon into one of your arms. You are proficient with the integrated weapon. It counts as occupying your hand only while in use.

You can replace your selection of upgrade when you gain a level in this class, replacing the upgrade over the course of a long rest.

You can select additional Upgrades by using Paragon Talents.

Machine Mode

7th-level Augmented feature

When you become Unconscious, Incapacitated, roll initiative while under the effect of those conditions, or die, you can allow your augmentation to override control of your body, suppressing the effect or death until the end of your next turn. Doing so generates a stack of Exertion, and while you are in this state you are considered Dazed and Silenced. These are removed if the underlying condition is cured.

If you are unconscious due to being at 0 hit points, you gain a damage threshold of 10 (meaning you do not suffer any effects from taking less than 10 damage) while in this state, but if you are still damaged, you suffer a failed Death Saving Throw as normal.

This effect cannot be triggered if you are Paralyzed, Petrified, or your body is fully destroyed. Once triggered, this effect cannot be triggered again until you complete a short or long rest.

Emergency Systems

13th-level Augmented feature

You gain one of the following features of your choice. You can replace your selection of system when you gain a level in this class, replacing the upgrade over the course of a long rest.

Mega Module

17th-level Augmented feature

When you use the Active Ability granted by your Weapon Module, you can choose to double the area of effect and damage of it. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Hotswap

17th-level Augmented feature

You can replace any module, upgrade, or system that you can normally replace during a long rest or after gaining a level during a short rest. You can only change one selection during the course of a short rest.

Vampiric Origin

Vampiric Paragons drain their powers from others, shattering their mortal shackles through stealing the power of others to add to their own. Some following this path use forbidden techniques and rites, others were born with an ability to draw in the power of others, such as dhampirs or others with powers that descend from vampiric or demonic kin of some kind.

Stolen Power

13th-level Vampiric feature

You gain the ability to copy powers from creatures that you drain. You can gain one of the following features of a creature you hit with a Draining Strike. The copied ability lasts for 1 minute or until you steal another ability this way:

• Any special sense it has (such as darkvision, blindsight, or Keen Senses).
• Any skill, weapon, or tool proficiency it has.
• Any damage resistance it has (against a single type of damage).
• Any climbing, swimming, or flying speed it has, with a maximum of up to your walking speed.

Devouring Storm

17th-level Vampiric feature

You gain the ability to drain entire armies of their life. As an action, you vanish, teleporting to and making a Draining Strike against a number of creatures within 60 feet of you equal to your current number of Exertion stacks (ignoring the normal once per limitation of the ability). Each creature takes damage based on the number of Exertion stacks you have when using this feature. Each successful hit can reduce your stacks of Exertion by 1 as normal. After completing all of the attacks, you reappear either where you started, or within 5 feet of any target attacked by the ability.

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

Pursuit of Strength

Paragons that pursue this Pursuit aim to achieve the pinnacle of mortal strength and surpass it, being engines of raw power that shatters all that stands before them. Before absolute strength, all else is secondary—nothing can hinder their steps, nothing can stop their blows, and nothing can escape their grip.

Thunder Strike (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a shockwave that affects all creatures in a 15 foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a Constitution saving throw. On failure, they take 2d8 + your Active Ability modifier thunder damage and are knocked backwards 10 feet. On success, they take half as much damage and are not knocked back. The number of d8 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d8s equaling your proficiency bonus).

Thunderbolt Throw (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks to hurl a Small orsmaller object (including weapons for creatures of Medium size) at a target. Make an attack treating the object as a simple melee weapon with the thrown 60/180 property unless it already has a longer thrown range. On hit, the creature takes 2d6 + your Active Ability modifier bludgeoning damage (replaced by the weapons damage type when throwing a weapon) and must pass a Constitution saving throw or be knocked prone and dazed†. The number of d6 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d6 equaling your proficiency bonus).

Whirlwind Slash (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack) When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with spinning your weapon in a massive arc with great force. All creatures of your choice within 5 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw. On failure, they take 2d6 + your Active Ability modifier damage, or half as much on a successful save. The number of d6 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d6 equaling your proficiency bonus).

Wild Charge (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with making a charge.

You or a mount you are controlling can move up to 30 feet in a straight line, flinging your enemies out of your path. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity. Large or smaller creatures in your path must make a Strength saving throw, or be knocked out of your way and prone.

If a creature has no where they can move, they are knocked prone but not moved, and you pass over them. A creature takes 2d6 + your Active Ability modifier bludgeoning damage on a failed save. The number of d6 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d6 equaling your proficiency bonus). Your charge ends early if a creature passes their save. Creatures with a CR equal to less than half of your character level automatically fails their save.

Strength Talents

The following are Paragon Talents that you can select if you follow the Pursuit of Strength:

Forceful Entry

You can cast knock without any components or spell slots. When an object is opened with knock this way, the unlocked object is broken (both the object itself and the locking mechanism).

Once you use this ability, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Magic Breaker

You can cast dispel magic without any components or spell slots, but the range becomes touch and the target takes 1d8 + your Strength modifier damage if targeting an object or creature. Strength is your spellcasting ability modifier when casting the spell in this way.

Once you use this ability, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

Mythic Feat (Prerequisite: Athletic Feat, 15th Level)

When using Athletic Feat, you can lift, carry, or drag anything Huge or smaller regardless of weight.

Lifting Mastery

You count as one size larger for the purposes of Lifting and Carrying, up to counting as Large sized creature.

Pursuit of Speed

Paragons of speed follow only one creed: there is no such thing as moving too fast. To move untouched, to move unseen, to move up a wall... everything is a question if you can just move fast enough. To a Paragon of this path, all problems fall away in the face of unmatched movement. Nothing catches them--not the weapons of their enemies, not the magic of wizards, not even the so-called laws of physics.

Quicksilver Steps (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural), Prerequisite: Level 15

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks to cast quicksilver steps without a spell slot or components.

Wind Strike (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a special attack that lets you vanish into the wind before striking a number of nearby creatures with an unarmed strike or weapon you are carrying in a flurry of blows, before reform from the wind within 5 feet of one of the creatures attacked. You can attack a number of creatures in this way equal to your proficiency bonus, but can only strike each creature once. You can strike creatures within a range of 5 × your proficiency bonus feet (for example when you proficiency bonus is +2, you can strike creatures within 10 feet).

Each time you strike a creature, make a melee weapon attack, dealing 1d6 + your Active Ability modifier (your choice) modifier damage on a hit. The damage increases by 1d6 each time your proficiency bonus increases.

Speed Talents

The following are Paragon Talents that you can select if you follow the Pursuit of Speed:

Arrow Time

As long as your movement speed isn't 0, ranged weapon attacks made from more than 30 feet away from you have disadvantage.

Blurring Movement

When you take the Dash action, all attacks have disadvantage against you until the start of your next turn.

Evasion (Prerequisite: 7th Level)

When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

High Velocity

Your unarmed strikes gain the Finesse property, allowing you to use your Dexterity in place of your Strength for attack and damage rolls.

Perfect Step (Prerequisite: Pursuit of Mind, Evasive Step, 12th Level)

When you use Evasive Step, the attack that triggered the ability automatically misses.

Wind Step

You can cast become wind without any components or spell slots. Once you use this ability, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Pursuit of Endurance

Paragons of Endurance embody the unyielding spirit of stone and steel. Where others falter, they remain, unbroken and immovable. Their creed is simple: to outlast all trials, to weather every storm, to endure where none others can. Neither blade nor spell can sway them from their path, for they are living bastions, defined not by how hard they strike, but by how impossible they are to bring down.

Unyielding Endurance (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Reaction)

As a reaction to taking damage, you can brace yourself to weather the blow and any additional blows. Until the start of your next turn, you can reduce all damage taken (including from the damage that triggered this reaction) by your Proficiency bonus and gain advantage on Strength and Constitution saving throws.

Additionally for the duration, if an attack would reduce you to 0, you can make a Constitution saving throw with a DC to the amount of damage taken. On a success, you are reduced to 1 instead.

If you are not incapacitated at the start of your next turn after using this feature, you can expend a number of hit dice up to your proficiency bonus, rolling them to regain hit points as normal.

Wrecking Ball (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with leaping into another creature's space within the distance of your long jump range. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw. On failure it takes 2d8 + your Strength modifier damage and is knocked prone. The number of d8 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d8 equaling your proficiency bonus).

Pass or fail, if the creature is your size or smaller, it is knocked out of its space to the closest adjacent space, prioritizing spaces away from where you jumped. If there is no available space or it is larger than you, you instead are moved to the closest available space.

Endurance Talents

The following are Paragon Talents that you can select if you follow the Pursuit of Endurance:

Adamantine Grip (Prerequisite: 5th level)

You gain proficiency in Athletics. If you are already proficient in Athletics, you gain expertise in Athletics.

Durable Skin

While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 13 + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Internal Endurance.

You gain resistance to Poison damage, and advantage on saving throws against becoming Poisoned.

Iron Flesh

You reduce all damage taken by 1.

Steel Skin

Your AC increases by 1.

Stone Stance

You can cast become stone without any components or spell slots. Once you use this ability, using it again before you complete a short or long rest generates a stack of Exertion.

Unbreakable (Prerequisite: 9th level)

You become immune to damage from falling.

Pursuit of Mind

Paragons who walk the Pursuit of Mind devote themselves to the sharpest edge of all—intellect. To them, raw speed and strength mean little without the wit to apply them with precision. They move through battle and life alike with uncanny foresight, analyzing possibilities in a heartbeat and choosing the one path that leads to victory. Their minds race faster than blades, and with each decision they prove that true mastery lies not in brawn or swiftness, but in clarity of thought.

Perfect Calculation (1–2 Exertion)

Active Ability (Bonus Action)

As a bonus action on your turn, you calculate an upcoming sequence of events. Roll a number of d20s equal to the Exertion generated. Until the start of your next turn, you can replace one attack roll or saving throw you make one with one of the results.

Rallying Presence (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack)

When you take the attack action on your turn, you can allow an allied creature to move up to half of its movement speed without provoking attacks of opportunity and make a single weapon attack as a reaction.

This attack can occur before or after the moment. The allied creature also gains 2d6 temporary hit points.

The number of d6 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d6 equaling your proficiency bonus).

Tactical Coordination (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack)

When you take the attack action on your turn, you can allow an ally to also make a coordinated weapon attack with their reaction against the same target with advantage. If both attacks hit, the target takes 2d6 additional damage (of a damage type from either attack). The number of d6 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d6 equaling your proficiency bonus).

Mind Talents

Analytic Abilities

You can use your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma as your Active Ability modifier to calculate DC and damage instead of Strength or Dexterity.

Calculated Interference

When you have one or more uses of Perfect Calculation, as a reaction to a creature within 5 feet of you making a saving throw, you can force them to use the d20 result in place of rolling their own save.

Calculated Sight (Prerequisite: 5th Level)

When you use Perfect Calculation, you gain blindsight with a range of 30 feet until the start of your next turn. If you already have blindsight, the range of your blindsight expands by 30 feet instead.

Clear Mind (Prequisite: 9th level)

You can use your action to end one effect on yourself that is causing you to be Charmed or Frightened. If you generate a stack of Exertion, you can do this as a bonus action instead.

Cold Reader (Prerequisite: 5th level)

You can cast detect thoughts without expending a spell slot or any components must study the target for a number of extra rounds equal to 5 minus your Intelligence modifier (minimum 0) before you can read their thoughts. Once you cast it this way once, casting it this way again generates a stack of exertion each time until you complete a long rest.

Expanded Calculations

When you have one or more uses of Perfect Calculation available, you can replace the attack roll by or against an allied creature within 60 feet instead of an attack roll by or against you.

Polygot

You learn an additional language of your choice.

Precise Placement

When you are within 5 feet of the edge of an area of effect that requires you to make a saving throw, you have advantage on the saving throw.

Savant

You gain Expertise with one artisan tool, gaming set, or Intelligence related skill you are proficient in.

Quick Mind

You can take the Search action as a bonus action. When you take this action, you can attempt to examine your surroundings for illusions, making an Intelligence (Investigation) check. If your Investigation result exceeds the casters saving throw DC, you discern the illusion.

Pursuit of Blades

Paragons who follow the Pursuit of Blades see the edge of a weapon as the purest expression of mastery. To them, the sword, dagger, or axe is not merely a tool of battle, but an extension of the self—swift, precise, and unrelenting. Every motion is a cut, every breath a strike waiting to be unleashed. They carve paths through their foes with flawless technique, blending art and lethality until the line between them is razor-thin. In the hands of such a Paragon, a blade is not just a weapon, but destiny sharpened to a point.

Dimension Cutter (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural), Prerequisite: 13th level

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks to cast dimension cutter^K without a spell slot or components.

The level you cast the spell increases at 17th level (to 5th).

Great Cleave (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a wide cleave. All creatures within 10 feet in a 180 degree arc around you in a direction of your choice (a half circle) must make a Dexterity saving throw. On failure, they take 2d6 + your Strength or Dexterity slashing damage (your choice). On success, they take half as much damage. The number of d6 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d6 equaling your proficiency bonus).

Slashing Dash (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a rapid burst of movement, moving up to 30 feet along any surface in a straight line.

You can move on vertical or horizontal surfaces with this movement, can pass through creatures, and do not provoke attacks of opportunity, but cannot pass through objects or terrain.

Each time you pass through a creature, you can force it to make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 2d6 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice) bludgeoning damage (or of your weapon type, if you are carrying a weapon you are proficient in) on a failed save, or half as much on a successful save. The number of d6 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d6 equaling your proficiency bonus).

Weapon Clash (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Reaction)

When you are hit by a melee weapon attack while carrying a weapon, you can make a special attack as a reaction. Roll 2d6 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier. You block that amount of damage, and if you block more damage than the attack did and your attack roll would hit the attacker, they take any overflow damage (with the damage type being from the weapon you blocked with). The number of d6 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d6 equaling your proficiency bonus).

Whirlwind Slash (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with spinning your weapon in a massive arc with great force. All creatures of your choice within 5 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw. On failure, they take 2d6 + your Strength modifier damage, or half as much on a successful save. The number of d6 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d6 equaling your proficiency bonus).

Void Strike (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Action, Supernatural), Prerequisite: 5th Level

As an action, you make a special attack that strikes the dimensional boundaries around a creature, disrupting them and potentially briefly pulling the creature into the ethereal plane. The target makes a Charisma saving throw. On failure, they take force damage equal to 3d6 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier and are banished to the ethereal plane until the start of your next turn. On success, they take half as much and are not banished to the ethereal plane.

The creature cannot move while on the ethereal plane, but can otherwise take any action they can normally take, but they cannot interact with things on the material plane unless they normally could. You can choose to do no damage with this ability, and the target can choose to fail their save. The number of d6 damage the target takes increases when your proficiency bonus increase, remaining equal to your proficiency bonus

Wind Cleave (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with an overhand cleave that releases a slash of wind. Each creature in a 15-foot long, 5-foot wide line must make a Dexterity saving throw. On failure, they take 2d8 slashing damage damage. On success, they take half as much damage.The number of d8 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d8s equaling your proficiency bonus).

Once you use this attack ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Wind Slash (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a special attack, launching a blade of wind at targets within 60 feet. You launch a number of blades equal to your proficiency modifier, but can increase the number of attacks made by giving up additional attacks you can make as part of the Attack action (launching one additional attack for each attack forgone). The blades are ranged weapon attacks using your Strength or Dexterity modifier. Each blade deals 1d6 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier slashing damage on damage on hit.

Wind Strike (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a special attack that lets you vanish into the wind before striking a number of nearby creatures with an unarmed strike or weapon you are carrying in a flurry of blows, before reform from the wind within 5 feet of one of the creatures attacked. You can attack a number of creatures in this way equal to your proficiency bonus, but can only strike each creature once. You can strike creatures within a range of 5 × your proficiency bonus feet (for example when you proficiency bonus is +2, you can strike creatures within 10 feet).

Each time you strike a creature, make a melee weapon attack, dealing 1d6 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice) modifier damage on a hit. The damage increases by 1d6 each time your proficiency bonus increases.

Blade Talents

Arrow Parry

When you are hit by a ranged weapon attack roll from an attacker you can see, as a reaction you can attempt to parry the projectile out of the air, adding your proficiency bonus to your AC against that attack, potentially during the hit into a miss.

Blade Bond

You form a special bond with a bladed melee weapon. Damage you deal with that weapon is considered magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance damage from nonmagical attacks. If the weapon does not have a bonus to attack and damage roles, it gains a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls. If the weapon is lost or destroyed, you can form a bond with a new weapon over the course of a long rest.

Blade Soul (Prerequisite: Blade Bond, 9th level)

The empowerment of the bonded blade grows stronger, and its bonus to attack and damage rolls becomes +2.

You can manifest the soul of the blade with the effect of casting the unseen servent spell without a spell slot and using the blade as the only component to casting the spell. Once you manifest the soul of in this way, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

Blade Zenith (Prerequisite: Blade Soul, 15th level)

The empowerment of the bonded blade grows stronger, and its bonus to attack and damage rolls becomes +3.

The blade can no longer be damaged or destroyed by normal means, and while you are on the same plane of existence as the weapon you can call it to your hand as an action, causing it to vanish appear in your hand.

Blade Style

You gain the Dueling or Great Weapon Fighting Fighting Style from the Fighter class.

Fancy Footwork

When you hit a creature with a bladed melee weapon, you can move through their space as difficult terrain until the end of your turn.

Fencing Stance

While wielding a melee weapon and not a shield, your AC is increased by 1.

Style Mastery (Prerequisite: Blade Style)

You can apply the Fighting Style gained from Blade Style to damage dealt by an Active Ability using a qualifying weapon.

Pursuit of Fire

Paragons who walk this path seek to become fire, gaining a supernatural mastery of it and even becoming one with it as they progress toward Pursuit. For some it is an innate ability, for others it is a mystical technique, for others still an esoteric secret tradition.

Fire Beam (1–2 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks to fire a beam of fire. All creatures within a line 30-foot long, 5-foot wide must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d8 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful save. The number of d8 increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d8s equaling your proficiency bonus).

Empowered Beam. If you can take more than one attack as part of the same Attack action, you can replace the second attack by empowering this beam, doubling the length and width of the beam, as well as the Exertion it generates. When you do so, the damage of the beam increases by 1d8.

Fire Blast (1–2 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the attack action on your turn, you can replace of your attacks with firing a ball of fire from your hand at a point within 60 feet of you. The fireball explodes on impact, filling a 10 foot radius. All creatures within the area must make a Decterity saving throw. On failure, a creature takes 2d8 fire damage. The number of d8s increases by one when your proficiency bonus increases (with the total number of d8s equaling your proficiency bonus).

Empowered Blast If you can take more than one attack as part of the same Attack action, you can replace the second attack by empowering this blast, doubling radius of the explosion, as well as the Exertion it generates. When you do so, the damage of the explosion increases by 1d8.

Explosive Rejuvenation (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Bonus Action, Supernatural)

As a bonus action, you can unleash the power of the ember within your soul, exploding with fire. You regain 2d4 hit points, and all creatures within 10 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d4 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.

The fire damage and hit points regained increase by 1d4 each time your proficiency increases (remaining equal to your proficiency bonus). Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a short rest.

Trailblazer (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Bonus Action, Supernatural)

As a bonus action, you ignite your steps, leaving behind a trail of fire. Until the end of your turn, your movement speed increases by up to 10 feet and for those extra feet of movement any space you move through is filled with a blazing fire until start of your next turn. Any creature that enters one of these spaces takes 2d4 fire damage. You can place the trail of fire anywhere during your movement, but it must a single connected line of up a length equal to or less than the bonus movement speed.

The bonus movement and distance of the fire trail increases by 5 feet when your proficiency bonus does (equaling 5 × your proficiency bonus).

Fire Talents

Fire Flesh

You can cast become fire^K without any components or spell slots. Once you use this ability, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Flaming Fists (Prerequisite: Adamantine Fists)

Your unarmed strikes can deal Fire damage instead of bludgeoning damage. You can use your Wisdom, Intelligence, or Charisma modifier in place of your Strength modifier for your unarmed strikes.

One With Flames

You gain resistance to Fire damage.

Persistent Beam Prerequisite: 11th level, Fire Beam

When you use Fire Beam, you can opt to maintain the effect, leaving the line effect in place until the start of your next turn. Any creature that enters the beam for the duration must make a save against its damage. For the duration, you must concentrate on maintaining the beam, as if concentrating on a spell.

You can choose to maintain the beam at its current strength and position at the start of your next turn by spending your action. Doing so generates a single stack of Exertion (regardless if it was Empowered or not).

If you move or your concentration is broken, the beam ends and cannot be maintained.

General Paragon Talents

Adamantine Fists

Your unarmed strike damage increases to 1d8, and whenever your unarmed strikes hits an object, the hit is a critical hit. Your unarmed strikes are considered an adamantine weapon for the purpose of overcoming resistance.

Adrenaline Junkie (Prerequisite: 18th level)

You can use Adrenaline Rush again after completing a short rest, in addition to after a long rest.

Defensive Perfection (Prerequisite: 12th level)

You can select another saving throw proficiency from Perfect Defense.

Diligent Training (Prerequisite: 9th level)

Your Exertion Limit increases by 1.

Empowered Strikes (Prerequisite: 5th level)

The damage of your melee weapon attacks, unarmed strikes, and Active Abilities becomes magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing daamge from nonmagical attacks.

Extended Training

You can select 1 additional active ability from any Pursuit you have selected.

Fired Up

When you are hit by a critical strike from a hostile creature that is a CR of at least 1/4, your stacks of Exertion are decreased by 1. Once this occurs, it cannot occur again until the start of your next turn.

Victory Rush

When you score a critical hit with a weapon attack against a hostile creature that is a CR of at least 1/4, your stacks of Exertion are decreased by 1. Once this occurs, it cannot occur again until the start of your next turn.

Weapon Training

You gain proficiency with martial weapons.

Paragon Items

Appendix A: Active Feats

The following are new Active Feats. These expand on the Active Feats found in Kibbles' Compendium of Legends and Legacies.

Team Spirit

Prerequisite: 4th level

You gain the ability to lead others and inspire others to action more effectively:

• Ability Score Increase. Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma by 1 to a maximum of 20.
• Team Inspiration. If you have Inspiration, you can expend that Inspiration on an allied creature's roll that could benefit from Inspiration to allow them to reroll.
• Gain the Rallying Presence special ability (below).

Wind Cutter

Prerequisite: 4th level

• Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength or Constitution by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Parry Projectile. As a reaction to being hit by a ranged weapon attack, you can use your reaction to slash it, reducing the damage from it by your proficiency bonus.
• You gain the Wind Cleave special attack (below).

Living Shields

Prerequisite: 4th level

Mastery of the battlefield revolves around improvisation and adaptation.

• Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength or Constitution by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Reposition. On your turn when you are grappling a creature your size or smaller, you can move your grappled target up to 10 feet (around you), without expending any movement. While the creature is between you and the source of an attack, you can treat the creature as an equipped shield.

Wild Fighting

Prerequisite: 4th level

You fight with everything you have, willing to trade your flesh for that of your enemies. You gain the following abilities:

• Ability Score Increase. Increase your Constitution modifier by 1 to a maximum of 20.
• Wild Brawling. Once per turn, when you miss a melee weapon attack against a creature within 5 feet of you, you can recklessly throw yourself into the attack, dealing damage equal to your Constitution modifier to both you and the target.
• You gain the Headbutt special attack (below)

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