As a d10 hit dice front line character, you'll use your Rise to the Challenge class feature to select targets for your offensive and defensive class options, allowing you to hinder enemies and protect your allies.

Your Questing ability will also allow you to ignore exhaustion mechanics, gain bonuses to resist anything that would sway you from your quest, and provide you with the strength to overcome any challenge to see your quest fulfilled!

More than anything, the Champion is the quintessential chivalric knight, though the archetypes certainly let you explore some interesting themes. Like the Mystic Champion acting as a mage-hunter, or the Revolutionary seeking to change the world for the better!

Acting much like an adept (or monk) with ranged attacks, the Gunslinger uses unique firearms based fighting styles and their Grit mechanic to perform special defensive maneuvers, not unlike a monk's ki. With options like Bite the Bullet, Hit the Deck, and the Hognose Flop they're tricky combatants to pin down and prefer to stay at range.

With archetypes like Bushwhacker and Pistolero, you'll find a distinctly Western vibe to the class which plays into a lot of wild west tropes in naming conventions that provide easy to understand underlying mechanics that make them excellent combatants, even if you slap crossbows into their hands to maintain your late Middle Ages fantasy vibe!

The Sentinel is, without a doubt, the most design intensive class I've ever had the pleasure of making. Rather than use an animal companion like some ranger or druid designs, the sentinel has a humanoid companion to fulfill a lot of narrative tropes from movies, novels, and videogames. And that companion has a whopping 10 classes to choose from!

This is a great class for players who enjoy playing around with action economy and battlefield control, but it's also just a fun class on its face! And it has an extra special perk tied to it as well. If anyone's niblings or someone brings their significant other to sit in on the game, you can hand them direct control over your companion character to play for a session or just a combat as an introduction to the game!

The first character class I designed for this book was originally meant to represent those big mass combat scenes where the human archers fire a volley of arrows at a passing dragon before a contingent of elf mages fling various magical effects. The Warcaster is a militarized mage, trained to act as artillery against various magical threats when buying massive quantities of +1 arrows just really isn't an option!

Mechanically similar to an archer throwing around lightning and fire, they also manipulate the environment through their Legerdemains and the ability to Redirect Power to try and swap the targets of hostile spells off their friends and onto their enemies!

(This class has access to additional cantrips from the Spells from the Forgotten Vault by Purple Martin Games. These cantrips are reprinted at the end of the Warcaster class entry, with permission, for your convenience!)

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