Shadowplay I - Gerald Shadowplay

Properly Trained

Choose one weapon group as your trained weapon group: blades, axes, hammers, polearms, spears, bows, crossbows, thrown weapons, flexible weapons, or improvised weapons. Powers that reference your trained weapon apply to weapons in that group that you are proficient with.

Improvised Weapon

Turn a nearby object into a usable weapon. Make a melee or ranged weapon attack with an improvised weapon you can lift. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage. You may use STR for thrown improvised attacks.

Weapon Style

Choose one style for your trained weapon: Dueling, Two-Weapon, Great Weapon, Archery, Defense, Thrown, Polearm, Shield, or Improvised. Gain its basic benefit, such as +2 damage with a one-handed weapon, rerolling low heavy-weapon damage, +2 ranged attack bonus, +1 AC, or drawing thrown weapons freely.

Measured Strike

Make one attack with your trained weapon. On a hit, add 1d6 damage of the weapon’s type and choose one minor rider: push the target 5 ft., reduce its speed by 10 ft. until your next turn, or prevent it from taking reactions until the end of this turn.

Guarded Stance

Set your stance around your trained weapon. Until the start of your next turn, gain +1 AC, advantage on checks to avoid being disarmed or shoved, and your opportunity attacks with your trained weapon deal extra damage equal to your STR modifier.

Ready Hands

When initiative is rolled, when a creature enters your reach, or when you are targeted by a weapon attack, draw, ready, swap, or raise a trained weapon. You may also add 1d4 to the triggering initiative roll, opportunity attack, or opposed disarm/shove check.

Extra Attack

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. At least one attack must be made with your trained weapon to benefit from this feature.

Precise Strike

Make one trained weapon attack with advantage. On a hit, add 3d8 damage, and choose one: the target is slowed by 10 ft., loses reactions, suffers disadvantage on its next weapon attack, or grants advantage to the next attack against it before your next turn.

Parry and Riposte

When a creature hits you with a melee attack while you wield your trained weapon, reduce the damage by 3d8 + your STR modifier. If this reduces the damage to 0, make one trained weapon attack against the attacker.

Whirling Guard

Spin, brace, or sweep your trained weapon defensively. Until the start of your next turn, creatures of your choice that start within your reach or enter it for the first time take weapon damage equal to your STR modifier, and you gain advantage on opportunity attacks.

Weapon Mastery Dominion

Your trained weapon attacks ignore resistance to nonmagical weapon damage and ignore disadvantage from range within normal range, partial cover caused by crowds or melee, and nonmagical attempts to disarm you. Your critical hit threshold with trained weapons improves by 1.

Smart Strike

Read the target’s guard and strike the weakest point. Make a trained weapon attack. On a hit, deal normal damage plus 6d8 damage and choose STR, DEX, or CON. The target has disadvantage on its next save of that type before the end of your next turn.