You were not just built to function. You were built to evolve. As a practitioner of the Combat Shell Directive, you’ve learned to tap into the latent architecture within your own frame—an echo of your true design, activated only through precision control.

The Forms of the Combat Shell are deployable constructs integrated into your physical body. These enhancements reflect your operational ethos: precision, adaptability, and force efficiency. While others reach inward to manifest soul energy, you simply release what was always built in.

A.M.B.E.R: Auxiliary Limb Conduit

3rd-level Combat Shell Directive feature

You can project physical appendages from your modular system via the Auxiliary Limb Conduit. As a bonus action, expend 1 Charge Point to deploy them. When you do so, each creature of your choice within 10 feet must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take force damage equal to two rolls of your Martial Arts die.

These limbs emerge from reinforced channels in your back or forearms. You may customize their design—aesthetic plating, functional tools, hydraulic arms, etc. They deactivate if you are incapacitated or destroyed. While active:

• You can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength modifier when making Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
• You can use the auxiliary arms to make unarmed strikes.
• When you make an unarmed strike with the arms on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal.
• The unarmed strikes you make with the arms can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls, and their damage type is force.

A.M.B.E.R: Tactical Visage Array

6th-level Combat Shell Directive feature

You may deploy the Tactical Visage Array—a reinforced modular mask that activates advanced sensory, interpretive, and communicative protocols. As a bonus action, or as part of the same bonus action used to activate A.M.B.E.R: Auxiliary Limb Conduit, you may spend 1 Charge Point to enable the array for 10 minutes. The array deactivates early if you are incapacitated or destroyed.

The visage physically encases your face with a hardened, arcane-mechanical plate—its exact design is yours to determine. While active, it grants the following enhancements:

Sensor Uplink. You can see normally in both magical and nonmagical darkness up to 120 feet.

Tactical Processing. You gain advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Charisma (Intimidation) checks.

Directed Transmission. You may direct your voice to a single creature within 60 feet, allowing only that creature to hear you. Alternatively, you may amplify your voice to broadcast up to 600 feet.

A.M.B.E.R: Fullframe Synchronization

11th-level Combat Shell Directive feature

With both your armature and visage systems engaged, your core stabilizers initiate Fullframe Synchronization—a process by which your entire combat shell is harmonized into a single, fluid system. This deployment requires no action and manifests as reinforced plating and internal energy conduits forming a hardened modular exosuit over your frame. Its exact appearance is determined by you.

While synchronized, you gain the following system enhancements:

Deflection Matrix. When you take acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, or thunder damage, you may use your reaction to deflect it. When you do, reduce the damage by 1d10 + your Wisdom modifier (minimum reduction of 1).

Kinetic Surge Actuator. Once per turn when you hit a target with A.M.B.E.R: Auxiliary Limb Conduit, you may deal extra force damage equal to your Martial Arts die.

A.M.B.E.R: System Omega

17th-level Combat Shell Directive feature

Your internal systems have reached full adaptive capacity. As a bonus action, you may expend 5 Charge Points to engage A.M.B.E.R: System Omega, simultaneously deploying your full modular suite: Auxiliary Limb Conduit, Tactical Visage Array, and Fullframe Synchronization. This awakened form lasts for 10 minutes, or until you are incapacitated or destroyed.

While Overdrive is active, you gain the following system-wide upgrades:

Reinforced Plating. Your modular armor plates lock into full alignment, granting you a +2 bonus to your Armor Class.

Servo Barrage. When you use the Extra Attack feature to make two attacks, you may instead make three attacks—so long as all are performed using A.M.B.E.R: Auxiliary Limb Conduit.