House of Kings
Warmages who train in the House of Kings specialize
in tactics and strategy, learning age-old maneuvers
to give them the edge in combat. Natural-born
leaders, Kings work best with a cadre of supporters
to perform their tactics and overwhelm the enemy.
Moreso than all other warmages, those in the House
of Kings treat life and death as little more than a
game of strategy to be understood and conquered.
BONUS PROFICIENCIES
When you choose this house at 3rd level, you
gain proficiency with medium armor, battleaxes,
longswords, tridents, lances, and warhammers.
BATTLE TACTICS
At 3rd level, you learn stratagems that are fueled by
special dice called Battle dice.
Battle Dice. You have two battle dice, which are
d8s. A battle die is expended when you use it. You
regain all of your battle dice when you take a short or
long rest, or when you roll initiative.
Your battle die changes and more battle dice
become available when you reach certain levels in
this class, as shown on the table below.
Warmage Level Battle Dice
3rd 2d8
7th 3d8
13th 3d10
19th 4d10
Using Battle Dice. Once per turn, you can
expend a battle die to perform a stratagem of your
choice. Your stratagem options are detailed at the
end of the subclass description.
Saving Throws. When a stratagem calls for a
saving throw to resist its effects, use your spell save
DC.
LEAD FROM THE FRONT
Starting at 7th level, you and each friendly creature
within 100 feet that can see you ignores nonmagical
difficult terrain.
TACTICAL MASTER
Starting at 10th level, friendly creatures within 10 feet
of you add your Intelligence modifier to saving throws
against spells and magical effects that deal damage.
STRATAGEM: CHECKMATE
At 15th level, you learn the following maneuver:
When you hit a creature with a weapon or spell
attack, you can use your bonus action and expend a
battle die to direct one of your companions to strike.
When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can
see or hear you that is within reach of the creature
you hit. That creature can immediately use its
reaction to make one weapon attack or cast a cantrip
requiring an attack roll, adding the battle die to the
attack’s damage roll.
GRANDMASTER
Beginning at 18th level, when you roll initiative,
choose a number of friendly creatures equal to your
Intelligence modifier that can hear or see you to
gain a battle die. Once within the next 10 minutes,
the creature can roll the die and add the number
rolled to one ability check, attack roll, damage roll,
or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until
after it makes the roll before deciding to add the
battle die, but must decide before the GM declares
the roll’s outcome. Once the battle die is rolled, it is
lost. A creature can have only one battle die from this
feature at a time.
STRATAGEMS
The stratagems are presented in alphabetical order.
Blitz. As a bonus action, when you hit a
creature with an attack, you can expend one battle
die to maneuver one of your comrades into a more
advantageous position. Choose a friendly creature
who can see or hear you. That creature can use
its reaction to move up to half its speed without
provoking opportunity attacks from the target of
your attack.
Check. When you hit a creature with an attack,
as a bonus action you can spend one battle die to
force that creature to flee. The target must make a
Charisma saving throw. A creature that is immune
to being charmed automatically succeeds this saving
throw. On a failed save, the target must immediately
use its reaction, if available, to move up to half its
speed directly away from you.
Flash of Brilliance. When you make an
Intelligence or Wisdom ability check, you can
expend and roll one battle die to add its result
to your ability check. You can choose to use this
stratagem after the ability check is rolled but before
the GM declares whether the result was a success or
failure.
Gambit. When you hit a creature with an attack,
you can expend one battle die to give your allies an
opening. The next creature other than you to make
an attack against the target adds the battle die to their
attack roll.
Mystic Counsel. You can use a bonus action
and expend one battle die to give counsel to a
creature that can hear you within 30 feet. Once in the
next minute when the creature makes a saving throw
against a spell it can choose to roll the battle die and
add its result to the saving throw.
Stalemate. When you hit a creature with an
attack, as a bonus action you can expend one battle
die to hold that creature in place. Until the end of
its next turn, the target can’t willingly move unless it
first takes the Disengage action.