Paragon v1.0

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, Presence, Blades, Flame, Lightning, Water, Shadow, or Light. 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.

Exertion Per Turn. 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.

Ability Score Improvement

4th-level Paragon feature

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 14th, 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.

Indefatigable

5th-level Paragon feature

On each of your turns the first stack of Exertion you would generate from an Active Ability or Exerted Attack is free and does not generate a stack of Exertion.

Deep Breath

6th-level Paragon feature

You gain the ability to recuperate quickly. If you haven't generated any stacks of exertion during your turn at the end of your turn, you can roll a d4 and remove stacks of exertion equal to the number rolled.

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

Perfected Defense

6th-level Paragon feature

You gain Proficiency in a saving throw for one of one ability of your choice that you do not yet have proficiency in.

Warmed Up

9th-level Paragon feature

When you reach your maximum stacks of exertion for the first time, you regain hit points equal to your Paragon level. This resets whenever you complete a short or long rest.

Limitbreaker

10th-level Paragon feature

Select one ability score. You can increase that ability score by 1, 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 can increase that ability score by 1, 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

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.

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. Your Active Ability modifier is your spellcasting DC for these abilities.

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 any means. This resets back to 1d6 when you complete a short rest or long rest.

Mechanical Maintenance

1st-level Augmented 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.
• Lightning Capacitor. You gain the Lightning Burst 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 course of a long rest.

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.
• Iron Shell. You gain proficiency with Heavy armor, but your speed is reduced by 5 feet while wearing it.
• 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.

Symbiotic Origin

These are Paragons that draw their superhuman powers from an external entity they have formed a special bond with. Each requires the other to achieve their full potential: the entity provides supernatural power and resilience, while the Paragon provides the drive, determination, and direction. The nature of the empowering entity varies widely; sometimes they are a pile of alien goo or eldritch entity that would be misunderstood as horrifying parasitic by many, while other times they take on forms that are more acceptable to average mortal, such as fluffy spirit animal or innocuous object such as crystal or weapon that merge with the user when activated.

Enhanced Transformation

7th-level Symbiotic feature

The damage die for the Natural Weapons transformation of Battle Transformation increase by one size (to 1d10 for melee weapons and 1d8 for ranged weapons).

Additionally, you gain new transformation options for Battle Transformation. Your list of choices are extended to include the following options:

• Adaptive Resistance. You gain resistance to your choice of Acid, Cold, Fire, or Lightning damage. You can gain this benefit multiple times, picking a different resistance each time.
• Climbing Proficiency. You gain a climbing speed equal to your movement speed.
• Extra Limb. You manifest an extra limb that serves as a normal additional hand for the purposes of holding items, weapons, and grappling.
• Enhance Lethality. You empower any natural weapons gained from your Battle Transformation by one size (to 1d12 for melee weapons and 1d10 for ranged weapons).

Symbiotic Sacrifice

13th-level Symbiotic feature

When you would take damage, your symbiotic entity can intercede to take the damage itself, temporarily causing it to fall dormant. You gain resistance to the damage, and if the damage would still reduce you to 0 hit points, you are instead reduced to 1 hit point. Any active Battle Transformations you have ends, you cannot regain their effects (or the effects of Entity Form), and you cannot use this feature again until you complete a short rest.

While the entity is dormant, as a bonus action you can gain two stacks of Exertion to immediately awaken your empowering entity from its dormant status, ending the side effects and refreshing the ability immediately. These stacks of Exertion do not grant Battle Transformation benefits.

Perfected Transformations

17th-level Symbiotic feature

You gain more powerful options for your Battle Transformation feature. Your list of choices are extended to include the following options:

• Counter Evolution. You gain advantage on your choice of Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throws.
• Endless Regeneration. At the start of your turn, if you have at least 1 hit point but less than half of your maximum hit points, you regain hit points equal to your Constitution modifier.
• Resilient Body. You gain resistance to Bludgeoning Piercing or Slashing damage. You can gain this benefit multiple times.
• Winged Form. You gain a flying speed equal to your movement speed.

Additionally, any time you generate a stack of Exertion while at your maximum transformations, you can gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your Constitution modifier instead of replacing a transformation.

Vengeful Entity

17th-level Symbiotic feature

If you are slain, your body rises under control of the empowering entity with all of your stats and abilities and a number of hit points equal to half of your maximum hit points. While under the control of the empowering entity, it attacks whatever killed it with single minded determination until it or the creature that killed you is slain.

Reconstitution Check. If the creature that killed you is slain before the empowering entity, roll a d20 + your Constitution modifier. On a 20 or greater, it manages to reconstitute your body sufficiently you are restored to life and regain control of your body with the remaining hit points the entity has, though with no memory of what has occurred since you died. This check gains a -5 for each time it has occurred within the last week. Time while under this effect does not otherwise count as the body was dead for the purposes of resurrection, and you immediately regain control if the body is resurrected.

If the cause of your death is not from another creature or the target of vengeance is otherwise unclear, the DM determines what the empowering entity does, and may decide to simply immediately make the Reconstitution check. It is possible that creatures the empowering entity is deeply familiar with (such as your long-time companions) can persuade it to cooperate with some difficulty.

This can occur even if your body was heavily damaged (such as in several pieces), but not if it was entirely destroyed.

Alchemical Origin

Paragons of the Alchemical origin do not rely on natural talent, divine bloodlines, or psychic awakenings. Instead, they push past the limits of mortal flesh through the ingestion, injection, and application of highly unstable alchemical draughts. Their veins run with acidic catalysts, potent mutagens, and liquid adrenaline, allowing them to force their bodies into superhuman states.

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 [PB]d6 + 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.

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 or smaller 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 [PB]d6 + 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.

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 [PB]d6 + your Active Ability modifier damage of your weapon's damage type, or half as much on a successful save.

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 [PB]d6 + your Active Ability modifier bludgeoning damage on a failed save. Your charge ends early if a creature passes their save, unless that creature has a CR of half your Paragon level or less (rounded down), in which case you can pass through them and continue the charge.

Strength Talents

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

Athletic Excellence (Prerequisite: Athletic Feat active ability)

When you use the Athletic Feat active ability, you can choose to perform two of its listed options instead of one.

Forceful Entry (Prerequisite: 5th-level Paragon, )

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 (Prerequisite: 9th-level Paragon)

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.

Miniture Might (Prerequisite: Lifting Mastery, Small or Tiny sized creature)

You count as one size larger for the purposes of Grappling creatures (counting as a Medium sized creature if you are Small, or as a Small sized creature if you are Tiny).

Mythic Feat (Prerequisite: Athletic Feat active ability, 15th-level Paragon)

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.

Unstoppable Momentum (Prerequisite: 5th-level Paragon)

When you use your movement or make a charge or jump ability, difficult terrain does not cost extra movement, and you ignore non-magical restraint or speed-reduction effects.

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 × PB feet.

Each time you strike a creature, make a melee weapon attack, dealing 1d6 + your Active Ability modifier 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.

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

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 [PB]d8 bludgeoning damage and is knocked prone.

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 Paragon)

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.

Shield Ricochet (Prerequisite: Pursuit of Strength, Thunderbolt Throw, 9th-level Paragon)

Your Thunderbolt Throw gains a new Empowered version:

• Shield Ricochet (Attack, 9th-level Paragon)
  If you have a shield equipped, you can instead throw your shield. Doing so generates an additional Exertion and unequips your shield treating it as a simple weapon with the thrown 60/180 property. Doing so causes the Thunderbolt Throw to ricochet to an additional target. It can ricochet a number of times equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down), and each target must be within 20 feet of another target.
  
  If you are within 20 feet of the final target and have not expended all of your ricochets, you can use a ricochet to return the shield to yourself. If you do so, you can re-equip your shield as a bonus action (instead of the action it would normally take). Otherwise your shield falls to the ground within 5 feet of the last target.

Once you use empower Thunderbolt Throw in this way, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Steel Skin (Prerequisite: 5th-level Paragon)

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 Paragon)

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.

Mind Talents

Analytic Abilities

You can use your Intelligence or Wisdom 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 Presence

Paragons who follow the Pursuit of Presence turn force of personality into a weapon. They command the field through sheer gravitas, imposing willpower, and heroic majesty. To them, battle is as much a test of resolve and aura as it is of blade or brawn—their mere presence can shatter enemy morale or inspire allies to impossible feats.

Fearsome Roar (1–2 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack)

When you take the attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a fearsome shout. All creatures in a 15-foot cone must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, they become Frightened of you until the start of your next turn.

Empowered Roar (2 Exertion) (Attack, 5th-level Required)

You can generate an additional Exertion and use this ability as an action. When you do so, shout becomes a 30-foot cone.

Inspiring Presence (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack)

When you take the attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks to you can allow an allied creature within 60 feet of you that can see or hear you 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. On hit, the allied creature's attack deals [PB]d4 additional damage.

Overawing Aura (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks to unleash your presence in a way that invokes awe in others. Creatures of your choice within 10 feet of your must make a Wisdom saving throw, or become Charmed by you for 1 minute. Creatures Charmed this way can repeat their saving throw at the end of each of their turns, or any time you deal damage to them. Once a creature passes a save against this ability, they are immune to it for 24 hours.

Rallying Presence (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack)

When you take the attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks to you can allow an allied creature within 60 feet of you that can see or hear you to move up 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 [PB]d4 temporary hit points.

Terrifying Glare (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack)

When you take the attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a dread-inspiring glare. One creature of your choice that you can see and that can see you within 30 feet must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it takes [PB]d6 psychic damage and must immediately use its Reaction, if available, to move as far away from you as it can, using the safest route. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage only. This has no effect on a creature immune to the Frightened condition.

Wake Up! (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Bonus Action)

As a bonus action, you attempt to use your presence to force an ally who is Charmed, Frightened, or Incapacitated by the effect of a spell or magical effect to snap back to the senses. If it is an effect that can be ended by an action or that would automatically be ended within 1 round, the effect ends. If the effect requires making a save to end, roll a d20 + your Charisma modifier + your proficiency bonus. If the roll exceeds the DC the target would need to overcome the condition, the condition ends immediately.

Presence Talents

Beguiling Wink (Prerequisite: 5th-level Paragon)

You can cast charm person without spell slots or components. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Dazzling Presence (Prerequisite: Charisma score greater than 20, 11th-level Paragon)

When a creature fails a saving throw against one of your Pursuit of Presence Active Abilities, you can cause them to become Blinded until the start of your next turn. Once this affects a creature, the are immune to it for 24 hours.

Halting Look

When a creature hits you with a melee weapon attack, as a reaction you can give them a halting look potentially causing them to hesitate. You add your Charisma to your AC against the attack, potentially turning it into a miss. Once you use this ability, using it again before completing a short or long rest generates a stack of Exertion.

Inspiring Momentum (Prerequisite: 9th-level Paragon)

When you regain hit points from Warmed Up, a number of allied creatures of your choice within 30 feet of you gain temporary hit points equal to your Paragon level.

Overwhelming Intimidation (Prerequisite: Proficiency in Intimidation, 5th-level Paragon)

You gain Expertise in Intimidation.

Overwhelming Persuasion (Prerequisite: Proficiency in Persuasion, 5th-level Paragon)

You gain Expertise in Persuasion.

Power of Presence

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

Unshakable Confidence (Prerequisite: 7th-level Paragon)

You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

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.

Void Strike (2 Exertion)

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

As an action, you make a special melee 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 [PB]d6 + your Active Ability 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.

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 [PB]d8 slashing damage . On success, they take half as much damage.

Wind Blades (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 blades of wind. You launch a number of blades equal to half proficiency bonus (rounded up). Each slash must target a different creature you can see within 60 feet. The blades are ranged weapon attacks using your Active Ability modifier. Each blade deals [PB]d6 + your Active Ability modifier slashing damage on damage on hit.

If you can make multiple attacks as part of the Attack action, you can forgo the rest of your attacks to generate one additional Wind Slash attack.

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 × PB feet.

Each time you strike a creature, make a melee weapon attack, dealing 1d6 + your Active Ability 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 turning 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 Paragon)

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 in this way, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

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

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.

Omnislash (Prerequisite: Pursuit of Speed, Wind Strike active ability, 11th-level Paragon)

Your Wind Strike gains the following Empowered version:

• Omnislash (3 Exertion) (Action, 11th-level Paragon)
  You can generate 2 additional Exertion (for a total of 3 Exertion) to use the ability as an action. When you do so, the number of attacks you can make does not change, but you can attack the same creature multiple times with the attacks you make.

Once you empower Wind Strike in this way, you cannot empower it again until you complete a long rest.

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, 5th-level Paragon)

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.

Volcanic Slam (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

You slam the ground, causing it flame and lava to erupt from the ground in a 15 foot long, 5 foot wide line extending outward from you. Any creature within the area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking [PB]d6 fire damage on a failed saving throw, or half as much on a successful saving throw. The line persists until the start of your next turn, and any creature that enters the area for the first time or ends its turn within the area must make the same saving throw against the effect.

Fire Talents

Building Heat

At the start of your turn, any creature, object, or spell effect that is grappling or restraining you takes Fire damage equal to your current stacks of Exertion.

If you are grappled by a spell or magical effect that does not have hit points, but is potentially affected by heat (such as ropes, chains, or plants, for example, the entangle spell), you gain advantage on an action or saving throw to break free of the effect while your stacks of Exertion is at its maximum (or four or more, whichever is lower).

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.

Form of Fire (Prerequisite: 15th-level Paragon)

You can cast form of fire without spell slots or components. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest

Ember Eyes

Your vision is not obscured by fire or smoke.

One With Flames

You gain resistance to Fire damage.

Persistent Beam (Prerequisite: 11th-level Paragon, 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.

Pursuit of Lightning

Paragons following this pursuit gain a powerful internal charge. Their mastery of this inner lightning allows them to overcharge their physical abilities or to expel shocking flashes of lightning from their body.

Static Charge (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Bonus Action, Supernatural)

As a bonus action, you load yourself with potential energy that discharges against a creature any time you hit it with a melee weapon attack or Active Ability, it hits you with a melee weapon attack, you grapple it, or it grapples you. This energy is a pool of d6s equal to your proficiency bonus that lasts up to 1 minute or until all the d6s are expended. Each time it is triggered to discharge energy, it expends one of the d6s, rolling it and dealing lightning damage equal to the number rolled to the creature.

Lightning Talents

Building Charge

Your Arc Strike damage is increased by your current stacks of Exertion.

In a Flash

When you take the Dash action, you can transform into a streak of lightning while moving. This allows you to pass through the space of other creatures and move through spaces as small as one inch without squeezing, and ignore the effects of nonmagical difficult terrain. You are only transformed in this way while moving, and only until the end of your turn. You cannot end your turn or take any other action while in a space you cannot otherwise fit into, and if you would be forced to end your turn in a space you cannot fit, you are ejected to the closest empty space you can fit into taking 1d10 force damage for each 5 feet you are forcible moved this way.

Lightning Bender

If you are hit by a spell or feature that does lightning damage, you can channel and redirect that lightning into a 5-foot wide beam toward a point within 30 feet of you or within the remaining range of the effect, whichever is longer. For example, if you are hit by a lightning bolt spell and are 50 feet away from the caster, you can redirect the effect in a new 5-foot wide, 50-foot line toward a location of your choice. Creatures in the path of the beam must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking damage equal to the original effect on failure, or half as much on success.

You still are considered a target of the original effect, and still take damage from it as usual.

Lightning Conduit

You gain resistance to Lightning damage.

Recharged Capacitor

Your Supercharged Reflex feature is recharged any time you sue a Pursuit of Lightning active ability.

Stormbolt (Prerequisite Thunderbolt Throw active ability)

When you use Thunderbolt Throw, you can generate an additional stack of Exertion to turn the attack into a Stormbolt Throw. When you do so, on a hit the target and all targets within 10 feet of it take 1d12 lightning damage.

Pursuit of Water

Paragons who walk the Pursuit of Water channel the dual nature of frozen tides—the fluidity and crashing force of rushing water, and the brittle, paralyzing stillness of deep ice. Water techniques fluidly move and reposition targets across the field, while ice techniques halt enemies in their tracks, encasing them in frost.

Ice Tomb (2 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with calling on ice to freeze a creature into a tomb of ice. If the target is an unwilling creature, it makes a Constitution saving throw. If the creature fails, or is a willing target, it becomes completely frozen into a block of ice. The creature gains 10 × PB Temporary Hit Points until the start of your next turn. While it has these Temporary Hit Points, it is Petrified, but has vulnerability to fire damage instead of resistance to it. The condition ends if it loses all of the Temporary Hit Points gained from this ability.

Riptide Rush (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with blasting forward as a stream of pressurized water, moving up to 20 feet in a straight line. You can pass through the spaces of other creatures. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity. Each Large or smaller creature you pass through must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes [PB]d6 + your Active Ability bludgeoning and, if it is Large or smaller, it is dragged along with you, landing in an unoccupied space adjacent to where you movement ends. On success it takes half as much damage and is not moved.

Shattering Shield (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Reaction, Supernature)

As a reaction to taking damage from a melee weapon attack, you can create a sheet of ice to block the attack. The attack's damage is reduced by [PB]d4 + your Active Ability modifier. If the attack damage is not completely blocked, the shield shatters, dealing the amount of blocked damage to as cold damage to the attacker. If the shield is not broken, it melts away after blocking the damage.

Water Jet (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a roaring wave of water in a 30-foot long, 5-foot wide line. Each creature in the line must make a Strength saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes [PB]d6 + your Active Ability modifier bludgeoning damage, is pushed 15 feet away from you, and is knocked prone. On a success, it takes half as much damage and is not moved or knocked prone.

Water Talents

Breath of Water

You gain the ability to breath underwater.

Flash Freeze (Prerequisite: 9th level)

If a creature that is soaking wet fails a Constitution saving throw against one of your abilities that deals Cold damage that would cause it become Slowed, it instead becomes Restrained for the same duration. A creature is considered soaking wet if it has been submerged in water or failed a saving throw against one of your abilities that control water to deal bludgeoning damage since the start of your last turn.

Flowing Form

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

Form of Ice (Prerequisite: 15th level)

You can cast form of ice without spell slots or components. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest

Form of Water (Prerequisite: 15th level)

You can cast form of water without spell slots or components. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest

Glacial Resilience

You gain resistance to Cold damage. In addition, you are unaffected by extreme cold weather conditions.

Water Body (Prequisite: Flowing Form, 5th level)

You can use Flowing Form to cast become water as a reaction to taking bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage as a reaction. The resistance the spell grants applies to the attack that triggers the effect.

Pursuit of Shadow

Paragons who follow the Pursuit of Shadow meld seamlessly into the dark, slipping unseen through the night. They strike from the shadows, but also strike with the shadows, treating them as an extension of themselves. They warp and twist the darkness, giving shadows a depth and form that is more than the mere absence of light.

Treacherous Shadow (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with causing the shadow of a creature within 60 feet to animate and attempt to slash the throat of the creature casting it. Make a melee weapon attack against the target. The attack has advantage if the target is in dim light or darkness. On hit, the target takes [PB]d8 + your Active Ability modifier necrotic damage. On miss, the target takes half as much damage.

Umbra Veil (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Bonus Action, Supernatural)

You shroud yourself in supernatural darkness until the start of your next turn. A creature other than you with darkvision can't see through this darkness, and nonmagical light can't illuminate it. While otherwise in darkness, you are Invisible (meaning that while not in darkness, creatures can still see your location as a blob of darkness even though are heavily obscured, but while in darkness you meld into the darkness cannot be seen by normal means).

Pursuit Shadow Talents

Active Clone (Prerequisite: Shadow Clone)

While you have a clone active from Shadow Clone, when you perform an Active Ability you can perform the Active Ability using it, causing any attack, ability, or area of effect to extend from it instead of you.

Eclipse (Prerequisite: Pursuit of Light)

If a creature has been Blinded by an Active Ability from the Pursuit of Light since the start of your last turn, it has disadvantage on saving throws against your first Shadow Active Ability against it since it has been Blinded.

Extended Sight

Your darkvision range increases by 30 feet.

Extinguish (Prerequisite: 7th-level Paragon)

You gain the ability to cast darkness without requiring any components or spell slots. Once you cast it this way, you cannot cast it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Flickering Shadows

When you would take damage, you can phase in and out of shadows, generating 1 Exertion to cast flicker^K.

Piercing Sight (Prerequisite: 5th level)

Your darkvision allows you to see colors, and you can see through magical darkness.

Shadow Passenger

As an action, you can hide yourself within the shadow of another creature that is within 10 feet of you. You are invisible and intangible while within their shadow. You cannot be targeted by attacks or spells, and take no damage from area of effect unless they deal fire or radiant damage. While hidden this way, you cannot take any action until you exit their shadow using 5 feet of movement to appear in a space adjacent to them.

When you take this action while already unseen by the target (being hidden, invisible, or heavily obscured), you can attempt to stow away in their shadow without them being aware of it. Make a Dexterity (Stealth) check against the target's passive Perception. On success, you can stow away in their shadow without them being aware of it.

Anything that completely dispels their shadow will reveal you, forcing you into the nearest unoccupied space.

Pursuit of Light

Paragons who pursue the path of light are radiant beacons who illuminate the battlefield. Those that seek to oppose them will see them coming... but it will be the last thing they ever see before the blindness takes them.

Mirage Mirror (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Bonus Action)

As a bonus action, you can created a duplicate of yourself out of solid light. While you have this mirage, each time a creature targets you with an attack, roll a d20. On an 11 or higher, the attack instead targets the mirage. The mirage has an AC of 10 + your Dexterity modifier and is destroyed if hit.

If not otherwise destroyed, the duplicate fades away after 1 minute. A creature is unaffected by this spell if it can't see, if it relies on senses other than sight, such as blindsight, or if it can perceive illusions as false, as with truesight.

Revealing Radiance (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with releasing a burst of shimmering light in a 10-foot emanation. Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, they take [PB]d4 radiant damage and become shrouded in shimmering light. Until the start of your next turn, a creature shrouded in shimmering light emits an 1-foot aura of dim light, cannot benefit from being invisible or heavily obscured, and attacks against these creatures cannot suffer from disadvantage.

Radiant Wings (1+ Exertion)

Active Ability (Bonus Action, Supernatural)

As a bonus action, you can expend 1 or more Exertion to form radiant wings of light until the start of your next turn. While you have these wings, you emit 20-feet of bright light, and an additional 20-feet of dim light, and, when you would normally fall, you can instead hover in place (you can still choose to fall if you wish, descending safely at 60 feet per round). The wings last for a number of turns equal to the Exertion generated.

Shimmering Strike (1 Exertion)

Active Ability (Attack, Supernatural)

When you take the ATtack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks by infusing your weapon with glittering radiance. Make a melee weapon attack. On hit, the target takes [PB]d8 + your Active Ability modifier radiant damage, and the target is marketed with shimmering lights that grant next attack against the creature before the end of your next turn gains advantage. On miss, the target takes half as much damage and is not marked.

Pursuit of Light Talents

Dancing Doppleganger (Prerequisite: Dazzling Doppleganger)

While you have a doppleganger active created by Dazzling Doppleganger you can do any of the following as a bonus action:

• Dodge. Have your Doppleganger dodge, giving all attacks against it disadvantage until the start of your next turn.
• Move. Move your Doppleganger up to 30 feet, moving in any direction you could normally move.
• Provoke. Force a creature within 5 feet of it to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it uses its reaction to attack your Doppleganger.

Feisty Clones (Prerequisite: Mirage Mirror)

While you have a duplicate from Mirage Mirror, each time you damage another creature with a weapon attack or active ability, the target takes 1d4 radiant damage from the duplicates mirrored attack.

Illusory Lights

You learn the dancing lights and minor illusion cantrips. Your Active Ability modifier is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Light Bending (Prerequisite: 7th-level Paragon)

You gain the ability to cast invisibility without requiring any components or spell slots. Once you cast it this way, you cannot cast it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Lingering Blindness

When you use a Pursuit of Light Active Ability that blinds the target until the start of your next turn, the condition instead lasts until the end of your next turn.

Supernova (Prerequisite: Burning Burst and Brilliant Burst active abilities, 11th level Paragon)

Your Brilliant Burst gains the following Empowered version:

• Supernova (3 Exertion) (Action, 11th-level Required). You can generate 2 additional Exertion (for a total of 3 Exertion) to use the ability as an action. When you do so, it increases to a 20-foot emanation, and the damage becomes 5d6 radiant damage and 5d6 fire damage. When your proficiency bonus increases, the size of the emanation increases by 5 feet (to 25 feet at 13th level, and 30 feet at 17th level) and the number of d6 damage dice for radiant and fire both increase by 1 (to 6d6 at 13th level, and 7d6 at 17th level).

Once you empower your Brilliant Burst in this way, you cannot empower it again until you complete a long rest.

General Paragon Talents

Adamantine Fists

Your unarmed strikes made using the Attack action deal 1d8 bludgeoning damage. Unarmed strikes made otherwise deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage, increasing to 1d6 at 5th level, and 1d8 at 11th level. Your unarmed strikes are considered an adamantine weapon for the purpose of overcoming resistance.

Additionally, whenever your unarmed strikes hits an object, the hit is a critical hit.

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.

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.

Mystic Arts

You can use your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier as your Active Ability modifier to calculate the DC and damage (where applicable) in place of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for all Active Abilities with the 'Supernatural' tag.

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 Feats

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)

2024 Conversion

When playing this in 2024, make the following changes:

• Subclasses. Move the subclasses and their 1st Level Feature to Level 3.
• Pursuits. Remove the 3rd level feature of the Pursuits (this is replaced with the Weapon Mastery Feature).
• Try Harder. When using Try Harder, you only gain a stack of Exertion if you succeed the ability check.
• Adamantine Fists. Your unarmed strike gains the Weapon Mastery property Push, Topple, or Graze (your choice). Once selected it retains that property, but you can change it whenever you finish a Long Rest, changing it to another one of those options.
• Weapon Masteries. Add the following Weapon Mastery Feature:

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