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unlock:🐾 Feline Fencer

Prerequisite: Dexterity 13 or higher

Your swashbuckling style is a dance of dodges and parries—light, lethal, and impossible to pin.

• Dexterity +1 (to a maximum of 20).

• Dodge Reflexes: When you use the Dodge action, you gain a +2 bonus to AC until the start of your next turn.

• Parry Riposte: If you're wielding a finesse weapon, you can us

• e your reaction when a creature hits you with a melee attack to attempt a parry:

  • Roll a d20 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier.

  • If your result equals or exceeds the attack roll, you negate that hit completely and immediately make a melee weapon attack against that creature (you don’t add ability mods to this attack’s damage).

• Evasive Momentum: If your parry attack hits, you can use a bonus action to move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks.
  
  

  🔹 Level 3 Upgrade: Whisker’s Widened Guard

  • Your Dodge Reflexes AC bonus increases to +3.

  • When you use Parry Riposte, gain advantage on the attack you make as part of the riposte.
    
    

    🔹 Level 5 Upgrade: Silent Prowler

    • When you successfully parry, you can immediately Hide as part of the same reaction (no action required).

    • While hidden, your first melee attack gains advantage.

    🔹 Level 7 Upgrade: Feline Slip

    • As a reaction when hit by a ranged or melee attack while wearing light or no armor, you can halve the attack’s damage.

    • Can be used once per level.
      
      

      🔹 Level 9 Upgrade: Nine Lives Dash

      • When you take the Dodge action, you can Dash as a bonus action this turn.

      • If you do so, you gain advantage on all Dexterity saving throws until the start of your next turn.

      🐾 Level 11 Upgrade — “Steel Whisker Mastery”

      • Double Parry Reaction: You can use your Parry Riposte twice per round (but only once per attacker).

      • Deflective Grace: When you parry an attack successfully, reduce the damage you take by Dexterity modifier + proficiency bonus (in addition to negating the hit), and immediately make a free, unmodified melee attack against the attacker.

      • Lithe Repositioning: If you take Dodge on your turn, you gain Uncanny Movement: you can move up to 10 ft as a reaction, without provoking opportunity attacks, immediately after any creature ends its turn within 5 ft of you.
        

        🔹 Level 15 Upgrade: Felinic Flourish

        • When you make a Parry Riposte, you can choose to forgo the free attack to instead stun the target (make a Con save; DC = 8 + your proficiency + Dex mod).

        • Once per long rest.
          

          🔹 Level 19 Upgrade: Puss’ Final Crescendo

          • When you use Parry Riposte, you can choose to spend a reaction to unleash a second riposte (free melee attack, no damage mod), but you cannot use Evasive Momentum this turn.

          • If both ripostes hit, you may move up to half your speed without provoking opportunity attacks.