MARTIAL ADEPT A FAN-MADE CLASS FOR D&D 5TH EDITION

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Designer Notes: Tome of Battle is an interesting book from the

end of 3rd edition’s life cycle featuring truly large-than-life
martial classes. It doesn’t translate perfectly to 5e at all, as 5e is
a much lower-numbers, lower-action-economy game. However,
the setup of psionics in July’s Unearthed Arcana inspired me to
give it a try, basing stances and maneuvers off the
CREDITS passive/active concentration setup of psionic disciplines.
Designer: Kittenhugs
My main worry currently is that the martial schools alone
Last updated July 8, 2015
outshine other martials. From the get-go this appears to be an
exercise in balancing downward. A lot of the options here are
Based on Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords by Richard
interesting and strong, but there may be far too many available
Baker, Matthew Sernett, and Frank Brunner, which is property of
for any one given character at a time, and I don’t have enough
Wizards of the Coast.
class features to meaningfully fill the main class or its paths.

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THE MARTIAL ADEPT

Proficiency Adept Adept
Level Bonus Features Points Maximum
1st +2 Blade Magic, Martial School (1st) — —
2nd +2 Adept Power 4 2
3rd +2 Martial Discipline 4 2
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 6 2
5th +3 Extra Attack, Martial School (2nd) 6 2
6th +3 — 14 3
7th +3 Martial Discipline feature 14 3
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 17 3
9th +4 Adept’s Blade 17 3
10th +4 — 27 5
11th +4 Martial School (3rd) 27 5
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 32 5
13th +5 Skilled Adept 32 5
14th +5 — 38 6
15th +5 Martial Discipline feature 38 6
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 44 6
17th +6 Martial School (4th) 44 6
18th +6 — 57 7
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 57 7
20th +6 Stance Mastery 64 7

MARTIAL ADEPT
Fighters dedicate themselves to mastering the power
of armor and weapon. Martial adepts are very similar,
but they go about much stranger, ritualistic paths to
attain power. By focusing on the blade, their bodies,
and the world around them, martial adepts unlock the
powers of the nine martial schools, allowing them to
perform superhuman (or outright supernatural) feats
of strength and agility.
CLASS FEATURES
As a martial adept, you gain the following class
features.
HIT POINTS
Hit Dice: 1d8 per martial adept level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution
modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your
Constitution modifier per martial adept level after 1st
PROFICIENCIES
Armor: Light armor
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Strength
Skills: Choose two skills from Acrobatics, Arcana,
Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Perception,
and Religion
EQUIPMENT
You start with the following equipment, in addition to
the equipment granted by your background:
 Leather armor
 Two martial weapons
 (a) two handaxes or (b) a greatsword
 (a) an explorer’s pack or (b) a dungeoneer’s pack
BLADE MAGIC
As a martial adept, you are a student of blade magic.
You can master and use several of nine known martial
schools.
MARTIAL SCHOOLS
At 1st level, you train in one martial school of your
choice. You learn additional schools of your choice at
higher levels, as shown in the Schools Known column
of the Martial Adept table. When you learn a new
school, you can exchange a school you are trained in
for another you are not.
USING MARTIAL SCHOOLS
You activate a martial school as a bonus action and
must immediately concentrate on its stance. If a
school grants a benefit for concentrating on it, you
immediately gain that benefit. You continue to gain
that benefit and can use the school’s maneuvers as
long as you maintain your concentration on the
stance. Concentrating on a stance follows the same
rules as concentrating on a spell, and you cannot
concentrate on a stance and a spell at the same time.

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While you are concentrating on a stance, you can
spend adept points to initiate maneuvers in that
school. Each school lists its maneuvers, the adept
point cost to activate it in parentheses, and the type of
action (if any) required to spend adept points on a
maneuver. If a maneuver is initiated by an attack, you
cannot initiate another maneuver on the same attack.
You can end all effects of a school immediately by
ending concentration on the stance. If you want to end
a single effect of a school but still maintain its other
effects, you can end a specific effect as a bonus action.
ADEPT POWER
At 2nd level, you unlock the power of your growing
martial prowess.
ADEPT POINTS
You gain a pool of adept points based on your martial
adept level, as shown in the Adept Points column of
the Martial Adept table. Your adept point total returns
to its maximum after you finish a long rest.
ADEPT MAXIMUM
You have a maximum number of adept points you can
spend to activate a discipline based on your martial
adept level, as shown in the Adept Maximum column
of the Martial Adept table.
ADEPT ABILITY
Wisdom is your martial ability for your blade magic.
Your insight into the workings of the world, yourself,
and your blade allows your powers to manifest. In
addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting
the saving throw DC for a martial school maneuver or
when making an attack roll with one.
Maneuver save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Wisdom modifier
Maneuver attack modifier = your proficiency bonus
+ your Wisdom modifier
MARTIAL DISCIPLINE
At 3rd level, you finally choose the strict discipline
which you will adhere to, specializing in your specific
types of blade magic. Choose Crusader, Swordsage, or
Warblade, all detailed at the end of the class
description. The discipline you choose grants you
features at 3rd level.
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.
EXTRA ATTACK
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of
once, whenever you take the Attack action on your
turn.
ADEPT’S BLADE
At 9th level, you gain the ability to transfer your
prowess into your weapon. Choose one non-magical
weapon and meditate over it for 1 hour. This can be
part of a short or long rest. At the end of the
meditation, the weapon gains a +1 bonus to its attack
and damage rolls and is magical for 24 hours.
SKILLED ADEPT
Beginning at 13th level, you regain 5 adept points
when you complete a short rest.
STANCE MASTERY
At 20th level, you achieve the pinnacle of martial
prowess. Choose one martial school that you know.
You now benefit from that school’s stance, even if you
are not concentrating on that school. You can choose
a different martial school for this feature after a short
rest.
MARTIAL DISCIPLINE
Not all martial adepts approach blade magic in the
same way or learn it for the same reason. Your martial
discipline determines your reasons and method for
learning such powerful martial abilities.
CRUSADER
Like paladins, crusaders are often devoted knights
and agents of the divine. They are, above all else,
dedicated. They can slough through damage like few
others can, driving fear into their enemies. Their blade
magic is often little more than a means to an end,
good or evil.
DEFENSIVE TRAINING
At 3rd level, you gain proficiency with medium and
heavy armor and shields.
STEELY RESOLVE
At 3rd level, you gain a delayed damage pool that
allows you to delay the effects of injury. When you are
attacked, any hit point damage you are dealt is added
to your delayed damage pool. Your delayed damage
pool can hold a number of points equal to your
martial adept level. Any damage beyond that is
inflicted to your hit points.
At the end of your turn, you take necrotic damage
equal to the total stored in the delayed damage pool,
which resets to 0. This damage ignores resistances
and immunities and cannot be reduced in any way.
Any healing you receive can either regenerate your
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normal hit points or decrease your delayed damage
pool.
FURIOUS COUNTERSTRIKE
Starting at 3rd level, you can channel the pain of your
injuries into a terrific rage that lets you lash out at
your enemies. When you hit with a melee weapon
attack, you can deal additional damage equal to your
delayed damage pool of the same type dealt by the
weapon. You can only deal this damage once per turn.
ZEALOUS RESISTANCE
At 7th level, when you would take damage from your
delayed damage pool, you can spend 1 adept point to
take only half damage from it.
DIE HARD
At 15th level, your resolve makes you nearly
unstoppable. If you would drop to 0 hit points from
damage taken from your delayed damage pool, you
drop to 1 hit point instead. Once you’ve used this
feature, you cannot benefit from it again until you
finish a short or long rest.
SWORDSAGE
Swordsages focus on the power of the body and mind,
studying themselves and others to unlock incredible
powers. They are sometimes known as “blade
wizards,” lightly-armored masters of blade magic who
study for the sake of knowledge itself.
SAGE DEFENSE
Beginning at 3rd level, while you are not
incapacitated, are wearing light armor or no armor,
and are not wearing a shield, you gain a bonus to your
AC equal to your Wisdom modifier or 3, whichever is
lower.
QUICK TO ACT
Beginning at 3rd level, as long as you are not
incapacitated, you have advantage on initiative rolls.
DISCIPLINED FOCUS
At 3rd level, your focus becomes unmatched. You can
never lose concentration on a martial school stance as
a result of taking damage.
MAGIC ATTUNEMENT
At 7th level, you gain the ability to cast detect magic at
will. Beginning at 10th level, you can spend 5 adept
points to cast counterspell or dispel magic.
FLEXIBLE ADEPT
Beginning at 15th level, you can perform a maneuver
from any martial school you know, even when you are
not concentrating on that school’s stance.
WARBLADE
Bred for war, warblades are true masters of the blade.
They are swift, strong, enduring, and above all else,
confident. Unlike the swordsage, who studies blade
magic for the sake of knowledge, or the crusader,
whose blade magic is a means to an end, the warblade
knows blade magic only for battle.
BALANCED TRAINING
At 3rd level when you choose this discipline, you gain
proficiency with medium armor and shields.
FIGHTING STYLE
At 3rd level, you adopt a particular fighting style 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.
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.
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.
BATTLE ARDOR
Beginning at 7th level, your weapon attacks score a
critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.
REFLEX MASTERY
At 15th level, you gain the ability to take two reactions
per round instead of one.
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MARTIAL SCHOOLS
Each martial school consists of one stance and several
maneuvers. Each maneuver is given with its adept
point cost to activate, the action, if any, required to
activate it, and the conditions under which it can be
activated. The nine martial schools are listed here, in
alphabetical order.
THE MARTIAL SCHOOLS
Martial School Overview
Desert Wind Reactionary defense and wide-area
damage
Devoted Spirit Healing and support through
combat
Diamond Mind Self-centered defense and
accurate, heavy-hitting attacks
Iron Heart High endurance and unmatched
melee capability
Setting Sun Reactionary offense and enemy
control
Shadow Hand Stealth and underhanded tactics
Stone Dragon Unmatched endurance and
punishing enemy control
Tiger Claw Visceral damage and feral
movement
White Raven Group-focused support and
combat
DESERT WIND
The school of the Desert Wind focuses on speed,
ability, and a biting defense. Maneuvers often draw
inspiration from the scorching heat and harsh
sandstorms of the desert.
Stance: While concentrating on your Desert Wind
stance, you gain resistance to fire damage, and your
melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 fire damage.
Holocaus t Cloak (*): As an action, you wrap
yourself in fire by expending 2 or more adept points.
For 1 hour while your concentrate on this school, you
have 5 temporary hit points and any creature that hits
you with a melee attack while you have those
temporary hit points takes 5 fire damage. For each
adept point you spend beyond 2, the amount of
temporary hit points and damage increases by 5.
Zephyr Dance (2): When a creature attacks you
and would hit, you can use your reaction to gain a +5
bonus to AC until the end of your next turn.
Fiery Riposte (3): When a creature within your
reach attacks you and misses, you can use your
reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that
creature. If you hit, the creature takes an additional
2d6 fire damage.
Rising Phoenix (5): As an action, you generate a
column of heated air beneath you. For the next hour
while you concentrate on this school, you gain a flying
speed of 60 feet.
Dragon’s Flame (6): As an action, you can spit
flames in a 30-foot cone. Creatures in the cone must
make a Dexterity saving throw. A target takes 8d6 fire
damage on a failed save, or half as much on a
successful one.
Inferno Blast (7): As an action, you can send out
streams of living fire at your enemies. Choose a
number of creatures within 60 feet of you. Those
creatures must make a Dexterity saving throw. Each
target takes 12d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half
as much on a successful one. Those that fail this
saving throw must then make a Constitution saving
throw or be stunned until the end of your next turn.
Once you use this maneuver, you cannot use
another maneuver that requires 7 adept points until
you finish a long rest.
DEVOTED SPIRIT
Faith and piety are not just for holy men. The school
of the Devoted Spirit finds power in the purity of one’s
body and mind, letting one’s essence reach out and
effect the world around you.
Stance: While concentrating on this school’s
stance, a friendly creature of your choice within 30
feet of you regains 2 hit points every time you hit a
hostile creature with a melee weapon attack.
Vanguard Strike (1): When you hit a creature with
a melee weapon attack, you can mark them. The next
attack against that creature before the end of your
next turn is made with advantage.
Shield Block (2): When a creature other than
yourself within 10 feet of you is the target of a melee
weapon attack that would hit it, you can use your
reaction to give that creature a +5 bonus to its AC
until the end of its next turn.
Entangling Blade (3): When you hit a creature
with a melee weapon attack on your turn, you can
entangle it with your very spirit as a bonus action. The
creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a
failed save, the creature is restrained for 1 minute. At
the end of each of its turns, it can make this save
again to end the effect early.
Daunting Strike (5): When hit a creature with a
melee weapon attack on your turn, you can strike
with unmatched ferocity as a bonus action. The
creature must make a Constitution saving throw. On
a failed save, it has disadvantage on all ability checks
and attack rolls for 1 minute. The creature can make
another save at the end of its turn to end this effect
early.
Aura of Triumph (6): As a bonus action, pick a
number of creatures within 30 feet of you. For the
next minute while you concentrate on this school,
each successful attack roll one of the creatures makes
restores 4 hit points to it.
Strike of Righteous Vitality (7): When you drop a
creature to 0 hit points with a melee weapon attack on
your turn, you can drain its spirit to bolster your own
as a bonus action. You gain a pool of hit points equal
to the target’s hit point maximum, which you can
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spend to restore hit points to yourself and any
number of creatures within 30 feet of you.
Once you use this maneuver, you cannot use
another maneuver that requires 7 adept points until
you finish a long rest.
DIAMOND MIND
No matter how sharp the blade, a dull mind leads to
sloppy cuts. The Diamond Mind’s students know this
to be true. Perceptiveness and discipline of thought
give you unmatched control of your body and the
world around you.
Stance: While concentrating on this school’s
stance, when a creature misses you with an attack, it
has disadvantage on all other attacks against you
until the end of your next turn.
Nightmare Blade (*): When you make a melee
weapon attack on your turn, you can expend 1 or
more adept points as a bonus action. On a hit, your
attack deals an extra 1d6 damage of the same type
dealt by the weapon for each adept point you spent,
and a number of attacks against that creature equal
to the adept points you spent are made with
advantage until the end of your next turn.
Bounding Assault (1): You can take the Dash
action as a bonus action.
Disrupting Blow (3): When you hit with a melee
weapon attack on your turn, you can attempt to stun
the target as a bonus action. The target must make a
Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the
creature is incapacitated until the end of your next
turn. On a successful save, the creature is immune to
this maneuver until you finish a long rest.
Time Stands Still (5): You stop time around you
for but a moment. You gain another action for this
turn. Once you use this maneuver, you cannot use it
again until you finish a long rest.
Avalanche of Blades (6): When you hit a creature
with a melee weapon attack on your turn, you can
create a barrage of attacks as a bonus action. You can
make extra attacks against the target until you miss
with one, with each attack having a cumulative -2
penalty to its attack roll.
IRON HEART
Power can be found in one’s very steel. A blade is itself
the source of power for Iron Heart disciples, who
concentrate on the reflections of their blades to
perform superhuman feats with their weaponry.
Stance: While concentrating on your Iron Heart
stance, your speed increases by 10 feet. Your reach
with melee weapon attacks increases by 5 feet.
Steel Wind (*): As an action, you can spend 2 or
more adept points to target multiple creatures with an
attack. Choose a creature within your reach for each
adept point you spend and make a melee weapon
attack. Each creature that the attack roll would hit
takes damage from the attack.
Disarming Strike (2): When you hit a creature
wielding a weapon with a melee weapon attack on
your turn, you can attempt to disarm it. Pick an item
the creature is holding. The creature must make a
Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the creature
drops the item.
Wall of Blades (2): When you are the target of a
melee weapon attack, you can use your reaction to try
to parry it. Make a melee weapon attack with
advantage. Your AC against the incoming attack is
equal to the result of your attack roll.
Lightning Recovery (3): When you make a melee
weapon attack on your turn and miss, you can use a
bonus action to make the attack again with
advantage.
Iron Heart Endurance (3): You can regain hit
points equal to your martial adept level as a bonus
action.
Iron Heart Surge (5): As an action, you can end
one condition currently effecting you. You can do this
even if the condition otherwise prevents you from
taking actions.
Strike of Perfect Clarity (7): When you make a
melee weapon attack, you can use your bonus action
to strike with extreme precision. Make the attack with
advantage. If you hit, you can roll each of the damage
dice for the attack three times. Once you use this
maneuver, you cannot use another maneuver that
requires 7 adept points to activate until you complete
a long rest.
SETTING SUN
To the students of the Setting Sun, strength is an
illusion. Letting go of the idea of personal strength
allows one to use an opponent’s strength against
them, to great result.
Stance: While concentrating on this stance, when
a creature attacks you with a melee weapon attack
and misses, you can immediately move 5 feet without
provoking opportunity attacks.
Mighty Thrust (2): When you hit a creature with a
melee weapon attack, you can force them back. The
creature must make a Strength saving throw. On a
failed save, the creature is pushed 10 feet away from
you.
Clever Positioning (2): When a willing creature
within 5 feet of you is the target of a melee weapon
attack, you can use your reaction to swap places with
it. You become the target of the attack.
Mirrored Pursuit (3): When a creature you can see
within 30 feet of you moves farther away from you,
you can match its movement as a reaction. You can
move up to your speed, following it.
Scorpion Parry (3): When you are the target of a
melee weapon attack, you can use your reaction to
aim the attack at another creature. Choose one
creature within 5 feet of the attacking creature. That
creature becomes the new target of the attack.
Tornado Throw (7): As an action, you whip your
opponents away from you. Each creature within 5 feet
of you must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed
save, it gets thrown 30 feet away from you, lands
prone, and takes 6d6 points of bludgeoning damage.
On a successful save, the creature is only thrown 15
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feet away, does not land prone, and takes half as
much damage.
Once you use this maneuver, you cannot use a
maneuver that requires 7 adept points until you
complete a long rest.
SHADOW HAND
The power of deception is not to be underestimated.
The Shadow Hand teaches that the most effective blow
is one against an opponent who does not even know
they are in danger.
Stance: While concentrating on this school’s
stance, whenever you and any allies are within 5 feet
of the same creature, you and those allies have
advantage on attacks against that creature. Once per
turn when you hit a creature with a melee weapon
attack you have advantage on, you deal another 2d6
damage of the same type dealt by the weapon.
Enervating Shadow Strike (*): When you hit a
creature with a melee weapon attack on your turn,
you can spend 1 or more adept points to drain them of
energy. You gain 5 temporary hit points per adept
point you spend, up to as much damage as you dealt
with the attack. These temporary hit points last for 1
hour or until you stop concentrating on this school.
One With Shadow (1): When you make a Dexterity
(Stealth) check, you can spend 1 adept point to give
yourself advantage on the roll.
Shadow Jaunt (2): As an action while you are
standing in a dim light or darkness, you can teleport
to another area in dim light or darkness up to 50 feet
away.
Cloak of Deception (3): As an action, you can
channel your martial power to warp light around you.
You become invisible for 1 minute or until you make
an attack or cast a spell.
Hand of Death (5): When you hit a creature with a
melee weapon attack on your turn, you can strike
them with the fear of death as a bonus action. The
creature must make a Constitution saving throw. On
a failed save, the creature is paralyzed and takes 4d6
necrotic damage, or half as much on a successful
save. At the end of the target’s turn, it can make
another saving throw to end the paralysis early.
Five-Shadow Creeping Ice Enervation Strike (7):
When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack
on your turn, you can pierce your enemy’s very soul
as a bonus action. The creature must make a
Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the
creature has disadvantage on all attack rolls, ability
checks, and saving throws and its speed is halved.
These effects last for the 1 hour. Every 10 minutes,
the creature can attempt another save to end these
effects early.
Once you use this maneuver, you cannot use a
maneuver that requires 7 adept points to activate
until you complete a long rest.
STONE DRAGON
The Stone Dragon looks to the peaks of the world for
inspiration, teaching the powers of strength and
endurance to outlast and crush any foe.
Stance: While concentrating on the Stone Dragon’s
stance, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. Any Strength-
based melee weapon attacks you make deal an extra
1d6 points of damage of the same type dealt by the
weapon.
Stone Vise (2): When you hit a creature with a
melee weapon attack, you can stop it in its tracks. The
creature must make a Strength saving throw. On a
failed save, the creature’s speed becomes 0 until the
end of its next turn.
Mountain Avalanche (3): When you hit a creature
with a melee weapon attack, you can knock to the
ground with the power of your attack. The creature
must make a Strength saving throw or fall prone.
Earthquake Strike (5): As an action, you channel
your martial power into the ground, causing the
ground to shake. Creatures within 30 feet of you must
make a Strength saving throw. Each creature takes
3d6 bludgeoning damage and falls prone on a failed
save, or takes half as much damage on a successful
one.
Stone Hide (6): As an action, you can harden your
skin to be as strong as stone. For 1 minute while you
concentrate on this school, you gain resistance to
bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
Mountain Tombstone Strike (7): When you hit a
creature with a melee weapon attack on your turn,
you can strike with the force of a mountain as a
bonus action. The creature must make a Constitution
saving throw. Roll 2d6. The creature takes a penalty
to its Constitution score equal to the result on a failed
save, or half as much on a successful one. The
creature’s current and maximum hit points drop by 3
times the penalty to its Constitution score. If the
creature’s Constitution score would drop to 0 or lower,
it dies.
Once you use this maneuver, you cannot use a
maneuver that requires 7 adept points until you
complete a long rest.
TIGER CLAW
Consciousness is the enemy of instinct. The Tiger
Claw school teaches that victory is not found in the
sphere of the mind but in the lower levels of one’s
psyche, where a wild animal desires a hunt.
Stance: While concentrating on this stance, you
gain smell-based blindsight out to 30 feet. When you
make a successful melee weapon attack, you can
immediately move 5 feet without provoking
opportunity attacks.
Sudden Leap (*): As a bonus action, you can
spend 1 or more adept points to make a long or high
jump without a running start. Your long jump is 5 feet
per adept point spent, and your high jump is half as
high.
Claw at the Moon (1): When you make a long or
high jump before making a melee weapon attack on
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your turn, you can spend 1 adept point to deal an

extra 1d8 points of damage per 5 feet you traveled
with that jump.
Fountain of Blood (3): When you drop a creature
to 0 hit points with a melee weapon attack on your
turn, you can strike fear into the heart of your other
enemies as a bonus action. Choose a number of
creatures within 30 feet of you. Each of those
creatures must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a
failed save, those creatures are frightened of you for 1
minute. At the end of a creature’s turn, it can make
another saving throw to end the effect early.
Feral Death Blow (7): When you make a long or
high jump before making a melee weapon attack on
your turn, you can spend 7 adept points to slay the
creature outright. If the attack hits, you deal damage
as normal, and the creature must make a
Constitution saving throw. The creature drops to 0 hit
points on a failed save, or takes an extra 8d8 damage
of the same type your weapon dealt on a successful
one.
Once you use this maneuver, you cannot use a
maneuver that requires 7 adept points until you
complete a long rest.
WHITE RAVEN
Strength in numbers is not to be underestimated. If
you lead those willing to follow, their strength will
make you great, and your leadership will bring them
to greatness. The school of the White Raven focuses
on such wisdom.
Stance: While concentrating on this stance,
creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you gain a
+2 bonus on any saving throws they make.
Douse the Flames (1): When you hit a creature
with a melee weapon attack on your turn, you can
momentarily calm them. The creature cannot take
reactions until the start of its next turn.
Leading the Attack (1): When you hit a creature
with a melee weapon attack on your turn, can give an
opening to your allies. The next attack against the
creature before the end of your next turn by a
creature other than you is made with advantage.
Battle Leader’s Charge (2): You can take the
Disengage action as a bonus action.
Swarm Tactics (3): As a bonus action, you can
allow a creature of your choice within 30 feet of you to
move up to its speed or make a melee weapon attack
as a reaction. You can choose one more creature for
this benefit for each adept point you spend beyond 3.
War Master’s Charge (7): As a bonus action, you
can command all of your allies to charge. As a
reaction, choose a number of creatures within 60 feet
of you that can hear you. Each of those creatures can
use its reaction to move up to its speed and a make a
melee weapon attack, dealing an extra 2d6 damage of
the same type dealt by its weapon.
Once you use this maneuver, you cannot use a
maneuver that requires 7 adept points until you
complete a long rest.