Demon Slayer

Being a Demon Slayer involves placing your life on the line to

stop the spread of the demon plague. As part of your training,
you will need to learn a stance of combat and a breathing
technique to engage your enemies in battle.
Creating a Demon Slayer
As you build your Demon Slayer, remember that you need to
have had a special kind of training to become one.
Usually, a slayer possesses enhanced strength, speed,
stamina, agility, mobility of the joints, or extreme resistance
to pain. It's even common for some of the swordsmen in the
Demon Slayer Corps to have naturally enhanced senses,
which they use in combination with existing breathing styles
or to develop new breathing styles.
Breathing Styles are specific patterns of concentrated breath Demon Slayer
used to increase the user's lung capacity and the amount of
oxygen in the blood. This increase allows the slayer to Proficiency
enhance their physical abilities and mental concentration, Level Bonus Features Breathing
enabling them to fight on par with Demons, whose physical Combat Stance, Breathing,
prowess surpasses that of the average human. 1st +2
Nichirin Blade
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Focused Breathing is also capable of clotting wounds from Action Surge (one use),
severe injuries and slowing down the circulation of poison in 2nd +2
Combat Stance Feature
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the bloodstream. All known Breathing Styles currently taught
within the Demon Slayer Corps are derived from the Sun 3rd +2 Breathing Style 2
Breathing, the first one ever created. 4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 2

The most important breathing styles Improved Breathing,

5th +3 3
Extra Attack
6th +3 Ability Score Improvement 3
Total Concentration
7th +3 4
Breathing
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 4
9th +4 — 5
10th +4 Combat Stance Feature 5
11th +4 Extra Attack (2) 6
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 6
13th +5 Path to the 5th Rank 7
14th +5 Ability Score Improvement 7
Total Concentration
15th +5 8
Constant
All known Breathing Styles currently taught within the 16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 8
Demon Slayer Corps derived from the Sun Breathing, the 17th +6 Action Surge (two uses) 9
first one ever created.
18th +6 Combat Stance Feature 9
Breathing Hybridization 19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 10
It's possible for a swordsman to use more than one Breathing 20th +6 Extra Attack (3) 10
Style technique at a time, allowing the slayer to take
advantage of the advantageous aspects of both techniques.
It's a well-known fact that no slayer has ever used three
breathing styles at the same time, it's considered an
impossible feat for a human.

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 Class Features
Every basic stance comes with a different combination of hit
points and proficiencies. Formally there are only five stances,
but there are stories of a sixth one that only a few chosen
slayer know. These are the five common stances:
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per slayer level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your
Constitution modifier per slayer level after 1st
Proficiencies
Armor: Light Armor, Medium Armor
Weapons: Simple Weapons, Martial Weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Determined by your Stance
Skills: Athletics
Equipment
A Leather Armor or a Chain Shirt
A Nichirin Blade
A Dungeoneer's Pack or an Explorer's Pack
A Healer's kit
Breathing
You begin to learn the basics of a slayer, breathing is only the
first step on a long staircase. On your turn, you can use
Breathing as a bonus action.
While Breathing, you gain the following benefits if you
aren’t wearing heavy armor:
You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your
demon slayer level + your Constitution modifier (minimum
of 5) for the duration of your Breathing.
You can use the techniques of your chosen breathing style.
You have an advantage on Perception checks against
fiends and undead.
Your Breathing lasts for 1 minute (10 rounds). It ends early
if you are knocked unconscious or you can end it on your turn
as a bonus action. Some breathing techniques may end your
breathing early.
Once you have used Breathing the number of times shown
for your demon slayer level in the Breathing column of the
demon slayer table, you must finish a long rest before you can
use Breathing again.
Combat Stance
You adopt a particular combat stance as your specialty and
describes how you fight. You choose between five different
stances, all detailed at the end of the class description.
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Nichirin Blade
Your blade is one of the essential features that makes you
different from a common swordsman.
When making an attack with a Nichirin Blade, you use the
ability score modifier of your stance for the Attack and
Damage Rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.
Every weapon made with Scarlet Crimson Iron Sand or
Scarlet Crimson Ore counts for this feature.
Action Surge
Starting at 2nd level, you can push yourself beyond your
normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one
additional action.
Once you use this feature, you must finish a short rest
before you can use it again. Starting at 17th level, you can use
it twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.
Breathing Style
Beginning at 3rd level, you start to learn the techniques of a
specific breathing style. Choose a breathing style available to
your chosen combat stance and gain access to the related
breathing techniques.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th Level, and again at 6th, 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.
Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking that
feature to take a feat of your choice instead. You can take
each feat only once unless the feat’s description says
otherwise.
Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th Level, you can attack twice, instead of once,
whenever you take the Attack action on Your Turn.
The number of attacks increases to three when you reach
11th level in this class and to four when you reach 20th level
in this class.
Improved Breathing
Starting at 5th Level, while breathing is activated, you gain
the additional following benefits:
Your senses become preternaturally attuned to the scent
of demons. While you are Breathing, you're able to detect
the approximate number of demons within 18 m (60 ft) of
you by smell.
You have an advantage on all the skill checks made with
the ability score of your chosen combat stance.
You have an advantage on saving throws against poison.
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Total Concentration Breathing
By 7th level, you can reach a new level of concentration.
When you activate Breathing, you can gain the following
benefits until the end of the effect, then you suffer one level of
exhaustion:
You gain 3 m (10 ft) to your movement speed
You add an additional damage die to all your Breathing
Style Techniques.
Path to the 5th Rank
Starting at 13th level, when your last charge of breathing
ends, you can make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw. On a
successful save your Breathing lasts for 1 extra minute. You
can repeat this saving throw each time the duration expires
until you fail on the saving throw.
Total Concentration Constant
Starting at 15th level, you no longer suffer from a level of
exhaustion when using the effects of Total Concentration
Breathing to increase your movement speed.
However, if you add an additional damage die to all your
Breathing Style Techniques, you still suffer one level of
exhaustion at the end of breathing.
Combat Stance
You adopt a particular combat stance as your specialty.
Choose one of the following options, you won't get to choose
again in the future, so you can't take multiple options.
Strength Stance
The strength stance focuses on the might of your blows. The
harder you can hit the faster your enemies will crumble.
Compatible Breathing Styles: Moon, Flame, and Stone.
Toughness
At 1st level, your maximum hit points increases by 1 and
increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class.
Skill Profiency
At 1st level choose one of the following skills: Acrobatics,
Insight, Intimidation, Perception, Stealth, and Survival. You
are now proficient in that skill.
Stance Training
You spent time training on your stance, to improve your
survivability. At 2nd level choose one of the following:
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.
Improved Critical: Your weapon attacks score a critical hit
on a roll of 19 or 20.
Retaliation
At 10th level, when you take damage from a creature that is
within 1,5 m (5 ft) of you, you can use your reaction to make a
melee weapon attack against that creature.
Strength Before Death
At 18th level, Your fighting spirit can delay the grasp of death.
If you take damage that reduces you to 0 hit points, you can
use your reaction to delay falling unconscious, and you can
immediately take an extra turn. While you have 0 hit points
during that extra turn, taking damage causes death saving
throw failures as normal, and three death saving throw
failures can still kill you. When the extra turn ends, you fall
unconscious if you still have 0 hit points. Once you use this
feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
Dexterity Stance
The dexterity stance focuses on the speed of your blows. The
quicker you can hit the faster your enemies will crumble.
Compatible Breathing Styles: Water, Flame, and Thunder.
Toughness
At 1st level, your maximum hit points increases by 1 and
increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class.
Skill Profiency
At 1st level choose one of the following skills: Acrobatics,
Insight, Intimidation, Perception, Stealth, and Survival. You
are now proficient in that skill.
Stance Training
You spent time training on your stance, to improve your
survivability. At 2nd level choose one of the following:
Two-Weapon Fighting: When you take the Attack action and
attack with a light melee weapon that you're holding in one
hand, you can use a bonus action to attack with a different
light melee weapon that you're holding in the other hand.
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your
ability modifier to the second attack.
Fast Movement: Your speed increases by 3 m (10 ft) while
you are not wearing medium armor.
Whirlwind Attack
At 10th level, you can use your action to make a melee attack
against any number of creatures within 1,5 m (5 ft) of you,
with a separate attack roll for each target.
Stalker's Flurry
Starting at 18th level, you learn to attack with such
unexpected speed that you can turn a miss into another
strike. Once on each of your turns when you miss a weapon
attack, you can make another weapon attack as part of the
same action.
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 Constitution Stance
The constitution stance focuses on your endurance. The
longer you can last the higher you're chances of winning.
Compatible Breathing Styles: Moon, Flame and Stone
Endurance
At 1st level, your maximum hit points increases by 2 and
increases by 2 again whenever you gain a level in this class.
Skill Profiency
At 1st level choose one of the following skills: Intimidation,
Nature, Perception, and Survival. You are now proficient in
that skill.
Stance Training
You spent time training on your stance, to improve your
survivability. At 2nd level choose one of the following:
Protection: When a creature you can see attacks a target
other than you that is within 1,5 m (5 ft) of you, you can use
your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll.
Multiattack Defense: When a creature hits you with an
attack, you gain a +4 bonus to AC against all subsequent
attacks made by that creature for the rest of the turn. You
can use this feature on a number of creatures at the same
time, equal to your constitution modifier.
Warding Maneuver
At 10th level, you learn to fend off strikes directed at you, your
mount, or other creatures nearby. If you or a creature you can
see within 3 m (10 ft) of you is hit by an attack, you can roll
1d8 as a reaction if you're wielding a melee weapon. Roll the
die, and add the number rolled to the target's AC against that
attack. If the attack still hits, the target takes half of the
attack's damage.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Constitution modifier (a minimum of once), and you regain all
expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.
Survivor
You attain the pinnacle of resilience in battle. At the start of
each of your turns, you regain Hit Points equal to 5 + your
Constitution modifier if you have no more than half of your
Hit Points left. You don’t gain this benefit if you have 0 Hit
Points.
Intelligence Stance
The intelligence stance focuses on never being predictable.
The faster you can think the higher you're chances of
winning.
Compatible Breathing Styles: Water, Wind, and Thunder.
Skill Profiencies
At 1st level choose two of the following skills: Deception,
Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, Perception, or Survival.
You are now proficient in those skills.
Stance Training
You spent time training on your stance, to improve your
survivability. At 2nd level choose one of the following:
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Escape the Horde: Opportunity Attacks against you are
made with a disadvantage.
Know Your Enemy: 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,
Dexterity, Constitution, AC, HP, Total levels.
Stand Against the Tide
At 10th level, when a Hostile creature misses you with a
melee attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature
to repeat the same attack against another creature in his
range (other than itself) of your choice.
Slayer’s Reflexes
Starting at 18th level, you have become adept at laying
ambushes and quickly escaping danger. You can take two
turns during the first round of any Combat. You take your first
turn at your normal initiative and your second turn at your
Initiative roll minus 10. You can’t use this feature when you
are surprised.
Wisdom Stance
The wisdom stance focuses on never being hit and learning
from every mistake. The more experience you accumulate the
higher you're chances of winning.
Compatible Breathing Styles: Water, Wind, and Thunder.
Skill Profiencies
At 1st level choose two of the following skills: Deception,
Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, Perception, or Survival.
You are now proficient in those skills.
Stance Training
You spent time training on your stance, to improve your
survivability. At 2nd level choose one of the following:
Favored Enemy. You have significant experience studying,
tracking, and hunting Demons. You have an advantage on
Wisdom (Survival) checks to track your favored enemy, as
well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about
them.
Insightful Fighting. You gain the ability to decipher an
opponent’s tactics and develop a counter to them. As a
bonus action, you make a Wisdom (Insight) check against a
creature you can see that isn’t incapacitated, contested by
the target’s Charisma (Deception) check. If you succeed,
you get +2 AC on the creature's next attack.
Uncanny Dodge
At 10th level, when an attacker that you can see hits you with
an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the attack’s
damage against you.
Eye for Weakness
Starting at 18th level, you learn to exploit a creature’s
weaknesses by carefully studying its tactics and movement
for at least 1 minute. You add an additional die to the damage
of all your Breathing Style Techniques against that creature.
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Nichirin Blades
Nichirin Blades are extraordinary swords made specifically
for the Demon Slayer Corps to slay Demons. They are forged
from a unique ore that can only be found in a mountain that
constantly absorbs sunlight, one of the only major
weaknesses of Demons.
Nichirin Blades are forged with Scarlet Crimson Iron Sand
and Scarlet Crimson Ore, both of which are found on high
mountains like the Sunlight Mountain, which is perpetually
bathed in sunlight throughout the year.
Demon Slayer recruits choose their ore after successfully
passing the Final Selection. The ore will then be used by a
swordsmith of the Swordsmith Village during the forging
process, and the swordsmith will personally bring the
weapon to the Demon Slayer.
A Nichirin Blade is most commonly a 1d8 slashing
sword with the Versatile property that weighs
around 1,5 kg (3 lbs).
Some of the higher-ranked slayers changed their
style to use a different kind of weapon. They are
still formally considered nichirn weapons.
Crows
The Demon Slayer Corps possess special crows that can
memorize the location of multiple places and understand
where to go just by listening to their master.
They are mainly used to deliver quests for the demon slayer
they have been assigned to. Every slayer gets assigned to one
after passing their Final Selection.
Final Selection
The Final Selection is an entrance exam for individuals who
seek to become a Demon Slayer of the Demon Slayer Corps.
The exam takes place on a hill, where Wisteria flowers bloom
every season from the mountain's foot to its slope.
The area around the mountaintop does not have any Wisteria
flowers and is infested with Demons, which were caught alive
and placed on the mountain by existing Demon Slayers.
Since Wisteria is poisonous to Demons, the Demons remain
trapped on the mountain top and cannot leave.
The exam requires the examinee to survive seven nights on
the hill, without any outside aid. Candidates who successfully
survive the seven nights are then permitted to become official
members of the Demon Slayer Corps. At the end of the exam,
they get to choose their ore and, additionally, receive their
own uniform and a specially trained crow.
Ranks
The Demon Slayer Corps are divided into 5 ranks. After
passing the Final Selection, the starting rank is the 1st one.
After some time of training and when their demon-slaying
has reached a certain point, the leaders of the corps may
decide to move the slayer to a higher rank.
Most of the slayers reside in the 1st and 2nd rank since the
difference in strength becomes noticeable in the 3rd rank.
Only a few exceptional slayers, mostly veterans, are allowed
at the 4th rank. The ones who are strong enough to reach the
5th rank are called "Pillars" of their breathing styles, the
most valuable Demon Slayer of the organization.
1st Rank (Level 1-5)
Every novice slayer that was strong enough to pass the
Final Selection. They are usually given more trivial quests
such as defeating a single demon or being a guard to
ordinary people.
2nd Rank (Level 6-10)
More skilled slayers that have defeated several demons.
They are mostly assigned to defeat groups of demons that
may cause harm.
3rd Rank (Level 11-15)
Usually only talented people reach the 3rd rank. They are
usually assigned to lead groups of slayers.
4th Rank (Level 16-19)
A few select numbers of talented and experienced
veterans has reached the 4th rank. They usually become
leaders of the Demon Slayer Corps because they can't
fight as they could in the past.
5th Rank (Level 20)
This rank is only for exceptional people that have reached
new heights in terms of fighting skill and breathing
techniques. They usually work by themself and travel
around the world to find the most powerful demons to
defeat them.
Final Notes
As anyone could notice, this class was made to be played in a
Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer) campaign. I endorse you to
read the original source of this content, the manga created by
Koyoharu Gotōge.
Most of this class was created using already existing content,
you can safely assume that I found the feature somewhere and
adapted it to fit my needs.
You can find on my profiles all the breathing styles that I have
created. Of course, I do not own any of the Demon Slayer or
Dungeons and Dragons related content.
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Stone Breathing
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Water Breathing
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Flame Breathing
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Moon Breathing
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Thunder Breathing
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Wind Breathing
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