Eastern Blade Arts (2024)

Speed and precision are the principles of those who practice the Way of the Eastern Blade. Striking your opponent before they strike you, moving as quick as lightning. In order to realize this ideal, practitioners study various techniques to increase their speed and forgo those that would increase their physical strength. The one thought when it comes to battle is to be like lightning.

Level 3: Blessed by the Storm

Through your years of training, your body has become resistant to lightning damage as you've strived to perfect your art. 

Level 3: Intense Focus

As a bonus action, you focus on and study a creature you can see within 30 feet of you. For the next minute, attacks you make against that creature are made with advantage. If the creature were to die or you lose sight of it, you may use your bonus action to choose another creature you can see within 30 feet. 

Level 7: Flash Step

As a bonus action, you disappear in a flash of lightning and reappear at a point you can see within 60 feet. If a creature is within 5 feet of the space you reappear in, they must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 4d6 lightning damage, or half as much on a success. 

Damage increases by 2d6 at 10th level, 15th level, and 18th level (max 10d6). 

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per Long Rest

Level 10: Eastern Style: Thunder Bison

As an action, you pulse energy into the area around you. Each creature within 30 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw, or become marked until the start of their next turn. At the start of that creature's turn, a thunderous boom emanates from their body and they take 5d8 thunder damage. If a creature is within 5 feet of a marked creature, they must make a Constitution saving throw or become deafened until the end of their next turn. 

You can use this a number of times equal to your Proficiency modifier per Long Rest. 

Level 15: Eastern Style: Zero Stance

As an action, you enter into a concentrative stance for the next minute, gaining the following effects:

• Your speed becomes 0
• You are unable to be forcefully moved from the spot you are currently in
• You gain tremor sense out to 30 feet
• When you are hit with an attack, you gain a reaction that allows you to make an attack against the creature that hit you

Level 18: Eastern Style: Thunderbolt

As an action, you call upon the storm within you and expel the energy in a burst of lightning. Choose a creature you can see within 30 feet of you. They must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 10d8 lighting damage, or half as much on a success. 

You can use this feature twice per Long Rest.