Dungeons & Dragons 5e Class Features : Shielder
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Shielder
You are a master of the Shield, solely focused on the protection of those around you, even putting yourself in harm's way for others.
hit dice:
1d10
hit points at 1st level:
10 + Constitution Modifier
hit points at higher levels:
1d10 + Constitution Modifier
armor proficiencies:
All Armor and Shields
weapon proficiencies:
simple weapons, Shields
tools:
saving throws:
Strength, Constitution
skills:
Pick 2 from Acrobatics, Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Perception, or Survival.
starting equipment:
A small Shield
A longsword or a shortsword
An Explorer’s Pack or a Dungeoner’s Pack
Studded Leather Armor or Hide Armor
A small Shield
A longsword or a shortsword
An Explorer’s Pack or a Dungeoner’s Pack
Studded Leather Armor or Hide Armor
spellcasting:
class features:
Indomitable Defense For some reason your defenses seem to be a step above your comrades. This could be the favor of a god, a natural gift, or some other reason. Whatever the reason, it allows you to better protect yourself and those around you. Through your training you have learned not only how to use your shield to defend against blows and push your opponents back, but also how to use your shield's weight as a deadly offensive weapon. The Size of your shield generates a bonus AC, damage die, and other effects. Fighting Style You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, you gain an additional style at 5th level, 12th level, and 17th level. Protection When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield. Defense While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. Parry If you use your reaction to block with a shield, and you roll a 19 or 20 against an attack made with a melee weapon and succeed, your opponent's weapon is knocked to the ground. the opponent must be within 5 feet of you. Basher If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield. Charger Requirements: Basher or Path of Avalon If you shove a creature you shove it 10 feet instead of 5 feet Dueling When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other Weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to Damage Rolls with that weapon. Great Weapon Fighting When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an Attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the Two-Handed or Versatile property for you to gain this benefit. Entrenched When you decide to settle into a defensive stance, there aren’t many who can break past it. At the 2nd level, if you do not use your movement on your turn you go into a defensive stance. Meaning that all attacks made against you are done with a disadvantage, making an attack action removes you from your defensive stance. Shielder Paths Choose a Shielder Path, which describes the source of your defensive power detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features when you choose it at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level. Iron Defense at 3rd level, the magic that has been enhancing your outer defenses in now flowing inward and through you, making you immune to disease and resistant to two more of the following types of damage: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, psychic, radiant, poison, or thunder. Ability Score Increase When you reach the 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. Extra Attack Beginning at 5th level, when you take the attack option, you may attack twice. Entrenched At 7th level, you may now move 15 feet and still be able to maintain your Entrenchment status. All attacks made against you are done with a disadvantage, and making an attack action removes you from your defensive stance. Body and Mind At 9th level, you gain proficiency with Wisdom saving throws. You also have an advantage against being frightened Studious Defense Starting at 11th level, if you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside combat, you can learn certain information about its capabilities compared to your own. The DM tells you if the creature is your equal, superior, or inferior in regard to two of the following characteristics of your choice: Strength score Dexterity score Constitution score Armor Class Current hit points Total class levels (if any) Steel Defense at the 13th level, the magic that has been flowing inward and through you has increased making you immune to disease and poison. and resistant to two more of the following types of damage that you have not already chosen: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, psychic, poison, radiant, or thunder. Hard Knocks At the 15th level whenever an enemy moves within 5 feet of you, you may take an opportunity attack against them with your shield. doing damage based on the size of your shield Moving Trenches At 17th level, you may now move 30 feet and still be able to maintain your Entrenchment status. All attacks made against you are done with a disadvantage, and making an attack action removes you from your defensive stance. Adamantine Defense at 18th level, you gain resistance to non-magical damage and critical hits.
Indomitable Defense For some reason your defenses seem to be a step above your comrades. This could be the favor of a god, a natural gift, or some other reason. Whatever the reason, it allows you to better protect yourself and those around you. Through your training you have learned not only how to use your shield to defend against blows and push your opponents back, but also how to use your shield's weight as a deadly offensive weapon. The Size of your shield generates a bonus AC, damage die, and other effects. Fighting Style You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, you gain an additional style at 5th level, 12th level, and 17th level. Protection When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield. Defense While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. Parry If you use your reaction to block with a shield, and you roll a 19 or 20 against an attack made with a melee weapon and succeed, your opponent's weapon is knocked to the ground. the opponent must be within 5 feet of you. Basher If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield. Charger Requirements: Basher or Path of Avalon If you shove a creature you shove it 10 feet instead of 5 feet Dueling When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other Weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to Damage Rolls with that weapon. Great Weapon Fighting When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an Attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the Two-Handed or Versatile property for you to gain this benefit. Entrenched When you decide to settle into a defensive stance, there aren’t many who can break past it. At the 2nd level, if you do not use your movement on your turn you go into a defensive stance. Meaning that all attacks made against you are done with a disadvantage, making an attack action removes you from your defensive stance. Shielder Paths Choose a Shielder Path, which describes the source of your defensive power detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features when you choose it at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level. Iron Defense at 3rd level, the magic that has been enhancing your outer defenses in now flowing inward and through you, making you immune to disease and resistant to two more of the following types of damage: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, psychic, radiant, poison, or thunder. Ability Score Increase When you reach the 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. Extra Attack Beginning at 5th level, when you take the attack option, you may attack twice. Entrenched At 7th level, you may now move 15 feet and still be able to maintain your Entrenchment status. All attacks made against you are done with a disadvantage, and making an attack action removes you from your defensive stance. Body and Mind At 9th level, you gain proficiency with Wisdom saving throws. You also have an advantage against being frightened Studious Defense Starting at 11th level, if you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside combat, you can learn certain information about its capabilities compared to your own. The DM tells you if the creature is your equal, superior, or inferior in regard to two of the following characteristics of your choice: Strength score Dexterity score Constitution score Armor Class Current hit points Total class levels (if any) Steel Defense at the 13th level, the magic that has been flowing inward and through you has increased making you immune to disease and poison. and resistant to two more of the following types of damage that you have not already chosen: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, psychic, poison, radiant, or thunder. Hard Knocks At the 15th level whenever an enemy moves within 5 feet of you, you may take an opportunity attack against them with your shield. doing damage based on the size of your shield Moving Trenches At 17th level, you may now move 30 feet and still be able to maintain your Entrenchment status. All attacks made against you are done with a disadvantage, and making an attack action removes you from your defensive stance. Adamantine Defense at 18th level, you gain resistance to non-magical damage and critical hits.
subclass options:
Path of Avalon
Thorn Shielders have studied nature, learning the ways that large beasts and plants are capable of not only being defensive but also their destructive and harmful attributes. Shielders who go this route tend to have fur pelts, bone or vines on the armor and shield.
Deadly Foliage
At level 2 you have learned to bend nature to your aid causing thorny vines to cover your shield and harm those that target you. If an enemy within 5 feet of you makes a melee attack on you they take 1D4 Thorn (piercing) damage.
Broken Bones I
At level 6, if you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield. If you attacked twice you can make the bonus action after each attack.
Aura of Thorns
Beginning at 10th level, your presence becomes harmful, enemies that start their turn within 10 feet of you take 1D8 Thorn damage; additionally Deadly Foliage's Thorns now do 1D6 damage instead. In addition, you can cast Wall of Thorns twice per long rest. These Thorns are effected by other class features.
Broken Bones II
At level 14, if you take the bonus action to try to shove a creature, on a successful shove, the creature takes Blunt damage as if it was attacked.
Thorny Weapon
At level 18, you may attack three times. In addition, your thorns now grow over your weapon granting it and additional +2 to hit and an additional 1D8 Thorn damage.
Experimental Thorns
Starting at level 20, at the start of the day, you may choose to imbue your thorns with one of three attributes.
- Lacerating Thorns: Anytime after taking damage from thorns, creature takes 1d4 slashing damage for 3 turns. This effect is stackable.
- Poison Thorns: Once per turn, if the creature takes thorn damage, it must make a DC 15 Con save or be poisoned for 1 minute. Creature can make a saving throw every turn to be cured.
- Neurotoxic Thorns: After taking 10 damage from thorns, creature must make a DC 16 Con save or suffer from Blindness for a turn. This can happen multiple turns in a row.
Path of Hadrian
You wish to focus on defense, enduring more punishment than your fellow Shielders, allowing you to move and react faster, changing the tide of a battle.
Aura of Bulwarks
At level 2 when an ally that is directly behind you and within 5 feet of you is attacked, you may shield them for coverage based upon the defensive coverage of your shield.
Nether Shielding I
At level 6, you can use your reaction to make a shield that surrounds you, capable of taking magical damage equal to half your hit points. The ability lasts for one minute. You may use this ability up to three times per long rest.
Ancient Ferocity
At level 10, You may use your reaction anytime a selected ally could use a reaction. You may choose a new ally after completing a long rest.
Nether Shielding II
At level 14, you can use your reaction to make a shield that surrounds you or an ally, capable of taking magical damage equal to half your hit points. This ability now can lasts for 5 minutes. You may use this ability up to five times per long rest.
Ancient Ferocity II
At level 18, you may now select up to three allies at once.
Guardian Angel
Reaching level 20, when an ally within 20 feet of you suffers from an attack that would knock them unconscious, a magical shield with your AC and hit points cover the ally. This shield lasts until its HP is depleted. This effect can trigger twice per long rest, but only once per day on any given character.
Path of the Tower
You have become trained in spear and lance weapons and learned how to apply the benefits of defense, and range together making it difficult for many people to touch you.
Aura of Towers
At level 2, you become proficient with spears, lances, and pikes and can use those weapons from an entrenched position without losing your defensive coverage. In addition, you get advantage against being knocked prone.
Hold the line
When you reach level 6, while entrenched, you may spend your action to make all friendly creatures within 5 feet to the side or behind you share the benefits of entrenchment. This lasts until the end of their next turn. You also gain the ability to use pikes and lances one handed; in addition, spears damage is increased to 1d8.
Punish their Advance
Starting at level 10, when you successfully damage a creature that is your size or smaller, you may spend your bonus action to reduce their movement to 0. Doing this ensure that the creature attacks you the following round.
Sweeping Disengage
At level 14, when 2 or more enemies are within 5 feet of you, you may spend your action and attacks to make a wide sweeping attack on all creatures, this attack does not suffer from disadvantage from being too close if using a lance. You move 5 feet in a direction away from the creatures and removed from entrenchment. This does not provoke an attack of opportunity. You may then move at half your movement.
Barrage of Spears
Once you reach 18th level, you may spend all attacks and reaction to begin a barrage of spears. Once you begin the barrage, you do not stop attacking until either the target is dead or you miss an attack. You forego your next turn and lose entrenchment. Once you use this feature, you must finish a Long Rest before you can use it again.
Brutal Execution
At level 20, if you kill a creature of medium size or bigger with Barrage of Spears, any creature of that size or smaller within line of sight must succeed a DC (20 + your Con modifier) Constitution saving throw or be frightened and have their movement reduced to half.
Path of Magus
Focus on Support (Necromancy, Illusion, Abjuration, and Enchantment) magic.
Spellcasting
When you reach 2nd level, you augment your defensive prowess with the ability to cast spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the wizard spell list. Your shield can be used as your arcane focus.
Cantrips
You learn two cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. You learn additional wizard cantrips of your choice at higher levels
Spell Slots
The Shielder Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
For example, if you know the 1st-level spell Shield and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Shield using either slot.
Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher
You know three 1st-level wizard spells of your choice, two of which you must choose from the abjuration and evocation spells on the wizard spell list.
The Spells Known column of the Shielder Spellcasting table shows when you learn more wizard spells of 1st level or higher. Each of these spells must be an abjuration or evocation spell of your choice, and must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 7th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.
The spells you learn at 8th, 14th, and 20th level can come from any school of magic. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the wizard spells you know with another spell of your choice from the wizard spell list. The new spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots, and it must be an abjuration or evocation spell, unless you're replacing the spell you gained at 3rd, 8th, 14th, or 20th level from any school of magic.
Spellcasting Ability Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your wizard spells, since you learn your spells through study and memorization. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a wizard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier
Shielder Spellcasting Table
Level | Cantrips known | Spells Known | Spell Slots 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
2 | 2 | 3 | 2 - - -
3 | 2 | 3 | 2 - - -
4 | 2 | 4 | 3 - - -
5 | 2 | 4 | 3 - - -
6 | 3 | 4 | 3 - - -
7 | 3 | 5 | 4 2 - -
8 | 3 | 6 | 4 2 - -
9 | 3 | 6 | 4 2 - -
10 | 3 | 7 | 4 3 - -
11 | 4 | 8 | 4 3 - -
12 | 4 | 8 | 4 3 - -
13 | 4 | 9 | 4 3 2 -
14 | 4 | 10 | 4 3 2 -
15 | 4 | 10 | 4 3 2 -
16 | 4 | 11 | 4 3 3 -
17 | 4 | 11 | 4 3 3 -
18 | 4 | 11 | 4 3 3 -
19 | 4 | 12 | 4 3 3 1
20 | 4 | 13 | 4 3 3 1
Double Actioned
At level 6, you may take two casting actions during your turn rather than two attacks.
Arcane Recovery
At level 10, Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your Shielder level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher.
For example, if you're a 4th-level Shielder, you can recover up to two levels worth of spell slots. You can recover either a 2nd-level spell slot or two 1st-level spell slots.
Anti-magic Zone
At level 14, if a spell would target a creature within 10 feet of you, then you may have the caster do so at disadvantage. You may use this ability up to five times per long rest.
Magical Construction
By level 18, you have limited knowledge of how to imbue trinkets such as rings and necklaces with magic. You can now enchant any non-weapon or non-armor with any infusion from the Artificer's list from any level equal to half your Shielder level and below. You may have up to three of these trinkets at any given time.
The Ultimate Shield
At level 20, You may cast Template:5e: Invulnerability upon yourself by spending your action. When Invulnerability ends, your exhaustion level increases to level 3 and your movement is reduced to 15 feet.
Bulwark
Shield Smash
Beginning when you choose this archetype at 3rd level, if you take the attack action on your turn and have a shield equipped, you can as a bonus action, use your shield as a weapon. It's damage die is a d4 and it deals bludgeoning damage. You can make a melee attack against a creature within 5 feet or use your shield as a thrown weapon with a range of 20/60. If you hit a creature with your shield as a part of the thrown ranged attack the shield ricochets back to you. This ignores the action cost to doff and don the shield for this attack. If you miss the attack, you forfeit your shield’s bonus to AC until you retrieve and equip it.
This bonus action, as well as the bonus action provided by the Shield Master feat (if taken) may be taken before, in-between, or after you have completed the attack action.
To the End of the Line
Additionally, at 3rd level, you can add your proficiency bonus to saving throws (that don't already include this bonus) made against spells or effects that otherwise are guaranteed to knock you unconcious (ie. a spell that sets you to 0 hp, grants the unconcious condition, or a spell with minimum damage enough to drop you to 0 hit points).
Armament Informed
Starting at 7th level, due to your special interest and study of arms and armor you’ve learned how to identify origins of its creation. If you spend 1 minute to inspect a weapon or set of armor, you can learn information about its country of origin, the race/style of the smith that forged it, and the era in which it was created.
Shield Adept
Additionally at 7th level, you can don or doff a shield as a bonus action; and your shield smash now deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage.
Shield Prowess
At 10th level, when you make your Shield Smash melee or ranged attack, as well as the bonus action provided by the Shield Master feat (if taken), you can make an additional Shield Smash attack as a part of the same bonus action.
Shield Expert
Starting at 15th level, your shield is an extension of your body in combat. If you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you only take half damage even if you fail on the saving throw.
One with the Shield
At 18th level, your shield smash now deals 1d8 bludgeoning damage. In addition, the AC bonus provided by a shield is +4.| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | Indomitable Defense, Fighting Style |
| 2nd | +2 | Entrenched, Shielder Paths |
| 3rd | +2 | Iron Defense |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 5th | +3 | Extra Attack, Fighting Style |
| 6th | +3 | Path Feature |
| 7th | +3 | Moving trenches |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 9th | +4 | Body and Mind |
| 10th | +4 | Path Feature |
| 11th | +4 | Studious Defender |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement, , Fighting Style |
| 13th | +5 | Steel Defense |
| 14th | +5 | Path Feature |
| 15th | +5 | Hard Knocks |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 17th | +6 | Moving Trenches, Fighting Style |
| 18th | +6 | Adamantine Defense, Path Feature |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 20th | +6 | Path Feature |
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