Courtsword

A Courtsword is a kind of warrior common throughout Oda, but closely associated with northern Tradelands. The Courtsword trains himself to fight without any conscious thought or effort. They fight purely on their well-honed instincts. The monastic quality of their training produces excellent warriors and instills the values of loyalty, bravery and obedience. Because of these traits, Courtswords are valued as bodyguards to many powerful and influential figures.

Hit Dice

Hit Die

D12 per Courtsword Level

Hit Points at 1st Level

12 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels

D12 (or 7) + your Constitution modifier per barbarian level after 1st

Proficiencies

Saving Throws

Strength and Constitution

Skills

Choose any 2

Armor

Light, Medium, and Shield

Weapons

Simple and Martial

Tools

None

Equipment

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

• any Martial Weapon
• 2 Daggers or any Simple Weapon
• Wheel-lock Pistol or Shortbow
• Explorer’s Pack

Courtsword Level Advancement Table

Abilities

No Mind

In battle, you fight on pure instinct and can react without effort. On your turn, you can enter No Mind as a bonus action.
While in No Mind, you gain the following benefits if you aren’t wearing heavy armor:

• You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
• When you make a melee weapon attack using Strength, you gain a bonus to the damage roll that increases as you gain levels as a Courtsword, as shown in the No Mind Damage column of the Courtsword table.
• You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
  If you are able to cast spells, you can’t cast them or concentrate on them while in No Mind.
  Your state of No Mind lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven’t attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken damage since then. You can also end your No Mind on your turn as a bonus action.
  Once you have entered No Mind the number of times shown for your Courtsword level in the No Mind column of the level advancement table, you must finish a long rest before you can enter No Mind again.

Unarmored Defense

While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Danger Sense

At 2nd level, you gain an uncanny sense of when things nearby aren’t as they should be, giving you an edge when you dodge away from danger.
You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, you can’t be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.

Instinctual Attack

Starting at 2nd level, when you make your first attack on your turn, you can decide to attack without conscious effort. Doing so gives you advantage on melee weapon attack rolls using Strength during this turn, but attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn.

Sword School

At 3rd level, you choose a Sword School that shapes the nature of your No Mind. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th levels.

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.
Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

Extra Attack

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

Fast Movement

Starting at 5th level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you aren’t wearing heavy armor.

Pure Instinct

By 7th level, your instincts are so honed that you have advantage on initiative rolls.
Additionally, if you are surprised at the beginning of combat and aren’t incapacitated, you can act normally on your first turn, but only if you enter your No-Mind before doing anything else on that turn.

Effortless Power

Beginning at 9th level, you can roll one additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack.
This increases to two additional dice at 13th level and three additional dice at 17th level.

Insensate

Starting at 11th level, your No Mind can keep you fighting despite grievous wounds. If you drop to 0 hit points while in No Mind and don’t die outright, you can make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, you drop to 1 hit point instead.
Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC increases by 5. When you finish a short or long rest, the DC resets to 10.

Persistent No Mind

Beginning at 15th level, your No-Mind is so complete that it ends early only if you fall unconscious or if you choose to end it.

Subconscious Power

Beginning at 18th level, if your total for a Strength check is less than your Strength score, you can use that score in place of the total.

Combat Enlightenment

At 20th level, you embody the power of the subconscious. Your Strength and Constitution scores increase by 4. Your maximum for those scores is now 24.