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Path of the Sword • Hidden Weapons Master

Subclasses Designed by frodo12311

About these subclasses

My attempt at making a weapon using cultivator for my Wuxia setting.

Subclass details

Path of the Sword

Spell trait: Instinct

You focus your cultivation on achieving the Sword Heart, when you become one with the spiritual concept of your weapon.

Foundation
Tier 1

Sword Qi: You may add your Instinct to your weapons damage rolls. 

Sword Wind: Using the pressure you let off by infusing you weapon with Qi you may mark a stress to make a ranged attack against you have disadvantage.  

Specialization
Tier 2

Aura Blade: You may mark a stress to expand the range of your attack by one category. You may instead mark 2 stress to increase it by 2. 

Sword QI Mastery: You may mark a stress to cause your next attack to ignore cover. 

Mastery
Tier 3

Formless Sword: You no longer need to have a weapon on hand as you can from the weapon you have awoken the Heart Sword of with your Qi alone. This weapon deals and extra d6 damage using your proficiency. 

Heart Sword: Choose a weapon type from Blades, Bows, Staves, Axes, Hammers, Spears. When wielding a weapon of the chosen type and you critically succeed on a weapon attack you gain an additional Hope, clear an additional Stress, and gain a +1 bonus to your Proficiency for the attack.

Hidden Weapons Master

Spell trait: Instinct

You spend your time training in using a multitude of hidden weapons

Foundation
Tier 1

Hidden blade: After missing a melee attack you may spend a hope to  make another attack against the same target using your instinct dealing d4 damage based on your proficiency.

Hidden Plate: Once per long rest you may mark a stress instead of an armor to reduce the damage threshold of a hit.

Specialization
Tier 2

Fake Target: You may mark a Stress to fake an attack against a target in melee range if you do so you may then make an attack against a different target in Very Close range at advantage using the damage of your primary weapon. 

More Plates: You may now use your Hidden blade feature twice per long rest but must mark 2 stress on the second use.

Mastery
Tier 3

Steel Dragon Rain: Spend 3 Hope to make a Spellcast Roll and strike out using your hidden weapons at all targets within Far range. Targets you succeed against take d12+2 physical damage using your Proficiency. Targets hit also become Vulnerable. 

If a target you hit is already Vulnerable, they take an extra 2d8 damage.

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Foundation / Specialization / Mastery
Martial Daoist

Path of the Sword

Foundation

SPELLCAST TRAIT: Instinct

Sword Qi: You may add your Instinct to your weapons damage rolls. 

Sword Wind: Using the pressure you let off by infusing you weapon with Qi you may mark a stress to make a ranged attack against you have disadvantage.  

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Martial Daoist

Path of the Sword

Specialization

Aura Blade: You may mark a stress to expand the range of your attack by one category. You may instead mark 2 stress to increase it by 2. 

Sword QI Mastery: You may mark a stress to cause your next attack to ignore cover. 

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Martial Daoist

Path of the Sword

Mastery

Formless Sword: You no longer need to have a weapon on hand as you can from the weapon you have awoken the Heart Sword of with your Qi alone. This weapon deals and extra d6 damage using your proficiency. 

Heart Sword: Choose a weapon type from Blades, Bows, Staves, Axes, Hammers, Spears. When wielding a weapon of the chosen type and you critically succeed on a weapon attack you gain an additional Hope, clear an additional Stress, and gain a +1 bonus to your Proficiency for the attack.

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Martial Daoist

Hidden Weapons Master

Foundation

SPELLCAST TRAIT: Instinct

Hidden blade: After missing a melee attack you may spend a hope to  make another attack against the same target using your instinct dealing d4 damage based on your proficiency.

Hidden Plate: Once per long rest you may mark a stress instead of an armor to reduce the damage threshold of a hit.

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Martial Daoist

Hidden Weapons Master

Specialization

Fake Target: You may mark a Stress to fake an attack against a target in melee range if you do so you may then make an attack against a different target in Very Close range at advantage using the damage of your primary weapon. 

More Plates: You may now use your Hidden blade feature twice per long rest but must mark 2 stress on the second use.

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Martial Daoist

Hidden Weapons Master

Mastery

Steel Dragon Rain: Spend 3 Hope to make a Spellcast Roll and strike out using your hidden weapons at all targets within Far range. Targets you succeed against take d12+2 physical damage using your Proficiency. Targets hit also become Vulnerable. 

If a target you hit is already Vulnerable, they take an extra 2d8 damage.

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