Death Knight, 3rd Variant (5e Class)

Death Grip

Starting at 1st level, you can harness the energy that surrounds and binds all matter, allowing you to draw targets towards you. Using a bonus action, you can force a hostile creature within 30 feet to make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the target is pushed up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

You gain a number of uses of this feature equal to your Death Knight level, regaining uses after completing a long rest.

Runeforging

Also at 1st level, you gain the ability to craft and affix powerful magical runes upon your weapons. On the hands of any other creature, a runic weapon have no other properties, functioning as a regular weapon.

Runeforging require you to have smith's tools in hand, and is a process that take 1 hour to complete. A weapon can only have a single rune at the same time. You can only affix a new rune onto a weapon after taking 1 hour to remove the previous one.

You know two runes, and learn one additional rune at 5th, 11th and 20th levels.

Runic Magic

Starting at 2nd level, you gain the ability to draw upon the magical power of runes to unleash magical effects.

Runes

You start by having two runes, gaining more as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Runes column on the class table. Runes recharge on a long rest, and can be used to generate magical effects called Rune Features.

Runic Power

When you use a Rune, you gain 10 runic power. You can use your runic power to activate Runic Powers, that are described down below. You lose all your runic power after completing a short or a long rest.

Specialization

When you reach 3rd level, you commit yourself to a specialization. You can choose between Blood, Frost or Unholy. Your specialization grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th, 15th and 18th levels. You can choose another specialization at 5th level.

On a Pale Horse

Starting at 3rd level, you are as hard to stop as death itself. Any mount controlled by you gain additional 20 feet of movement.

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.

Death's Advance

Starting at 5th level, you can use a Bonus Action to Dash. In addition, when you use this Bonus Action, you are immune to effects that forcefully move you, against effects that reduce your movement speed and against the paralyzed condition. These benefits last until the end of your next turn.

You can use this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain your uses after completing a long rest.

Dark Command

At 6th level, you can use a bonus action to force a creature within 30 feet to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the target have Disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures other than you until the end of its next turn.

After succeeding this save, a creature is immune to this effect for the next 24 hours

Lichborne

At 10th level, you can draw upon unholy energy to become an undead. As a bonus action, you gain the following benefits:

• Your type changes o undead.
• You become immune to the frightened and charmed conditions, and you can't be targeted by magical sleep.

Once you use this feature, you can't do it again until you finish a short or a long rest.

Raise Ally

At 14th level, you can use an Action to pour dark energy into a dead target within 40 feet, reuniting spirit and body and allowing them to re enter battle. The target regains half its maximum hit points, and recover any features that would be recovered on a short rest.

Once you use this feature, you can't do it again until you finish a long rest.

Specialization

Runic Magic

Runeforging Runes

Rune of Razorice

Once per turn when you hit a creature with this a weapon engraved with this rune, you cause additional 1d4 cold damage and brand it with the mark of razorice. The mark lasts until the end of your next turn, and for the duration, any time that creature takes cold damage, it takes additional 1d4 damage.

Rune of the Fallen Crusader

Once per turn when you are at half your maximum number of hit points or lower, you regain 1d4 hit points. When you regain hit points in this manner, until the end of your next turn you cause additional 1d4 damage with your melee weapon attacks using Strength.

Rune of the Stoneskin Gargoyle

When wielding a weapon engraved with this rune, you can use your reaction to increase your AC in 1d4 when you are attacked. In addition, when using this reaction, you gain temporary hit points equal to the number rolled in the die.

Rune of the Unending Thirst

prerequisite 5th level

When you take the Attack action and attack with a weapon engraved with this rune, you can make an second attack as part of that action.

In addition, when you reduce a creature to 0 hit points using this weapon, you can move up to 10 feet and make an additional attack as a bonus action.

Rune of Sanguination

Rune of the Apocalypse

Rune of Hysteria

Rune of Spellwarding

Multiclassing

Prerequisites. To qualify for multiclassing into the Death Knight class, you must meet these prerequisites: Strength 13 and Wisdom 13

Proficiencies. When you multiclass into the Death Knight class, you gain the following proficiencies: Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple melee weapons, martial melee weapons.

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