The Song Weaver

Ardonia is home to many a talented people, capable of wondrous things. Some of which, are the Ardoni people, strange patterned people able to wield the most direct source of magic on Ardonia: The Songs of War.

Song Weavers have practiced using these songs to their utmost potential, able to bend them to their will more readily than other Ardoni.

Class Feature

As a Songweaver, you gain the following features

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8 per Song Weaver Level

Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Song Weaver level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: Light Armor, Medium Armor, Shields

Weapons: Simple Weapons

Tools: None

Saving Throws: Dexterity, Constitution

Skills: Choose two skills from Athletics, Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Arcana, Athletics, History, Nature, Perception, Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background.

• (A) Scale Mail or (B) leather, shortbow, and 20 arrows
• (A) A one-handed weapon you are proficient with and a shield, (B) a two-handed weapon you are proficient with, or (C) two one-handed weapons you are proficient with
• (A) a dungeoneer’s pack or (B) an explorer’s pack
• One Song of War of your choice

Fightning 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, even if you later get to choose again.

• Archery. You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.
• Blind Fightning. You have blindsight with a range of 10 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover, even if you're blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.
• Defense. While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
• 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.
• Interception. When a creature you can see hits a target, other than you, within 5 feet of you with an attack, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage the target takes by 1d10 + your proficiency bonus (to a minimum of 0 damage). You must be wielding a shield or a simple or martial weapon to use this reaction.
• 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.
• Two-Weapon Fighting. When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Weapon Mastery

Your training with weapons allows you to use the mastery properties of two kinds of weapons of your choice with which you have proficiency, such as Quarterstaffs and Javelins.

Songweaving

Your practice of the Songs of War has extended your limit of using them. Starting at level 1, you gain 1 additional use per day of each Category of the Songs of War. You gain additional uses as indicated above in the Songweaving section of the table.

Overextend

Your practice of the Songs of War has left you with an understanding of pushing past your limits in order to use your Songs. Starting at 2nd level, you can use each Song of War past your limit of each category, however whenever you do so, you gain a stack of “Dissonance.” You also gain a stack when you run out of charges of a category.

Whenever you use a category you’ve expended all uses of, you take 1d8 damage per stack of Dissonance. This damage cannot be reduced in any way.

Song of War Specialty

Beginning at 3rd level, you extend your Song of War knowledge by focusing on a specific Song you wish to attain mastery over.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Alternatively, you can take Feat instead.

Martial Versatility

Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can replace a fighting style you know with another fighting style available to Songweavers. This replacement represents a shift of focus in your martial practice.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Master Song Weaver

Starting at 7th level, you’ve mastered your Songs so that they are more effective. You treat your Proficiency Bonus as one higher when calculating the effects of a Song of War.

For example, if your Proficiency Bonus is +3, Aggroblast would deal 4d6 damage instead of 3d6, and Protoheal would have 20 hit points in the pool instead of 15. However, Songs such as Mobilislick are unaffected since it does not rely on your Proficiency Bonus.

This Bonus increases to two higher at 14th level.

Tireless Weaving

Starting at 9th level, you’ve become more resistant to the Dissonance you create when overextending yourself. The damage you take when overextending is reduced to 1d6 per stack instead of 1d8.

This damage is again reduced to 1d4 per stack at 15th level.

Multitasking

You’ve learned ways to harness multiple Songs of the same category, an incredibly rare ability very few Ardoni have ever attained. Choose two Song of War categories. You can attune to a second Song of those Categories. These Songs have their own number of uses, separate from the other Songs in the same category.

Ultimate Songweaver

You become the ultimate Songweaver, able to wield them to their utmost potential. You can use the Songs of War an unlimited number of times per day, and you treat your Proficiency Bonus as three higher when calculating the effects of a Song of War.