Drake Knight

The Drake Knight subclass assumes that the Guard Drake creature type is either a naturally reproducing species, or that the knight managed to acquire the dragon scales and materials mecessary to create one.

Drake Knights are a subclass intended to appeal to players who like the idea of playing a dragon rider and provide them an aesthetically similar alternative while lessening the impact such a character would have on the importance and danger of dragons in the setting, and the work the DM would have to put into balancing for it.  Drake Knights early on are supposed to feel like a rider and mount growing in cooperation.  Later levels will include upgrades to the mount to make it feel more like a dragon and keep it relevant against stronger enemies.

Rider Drake

At 3rd level, you can perform a ritual by spending 8 hours of work, 50 gold pieces worth of rare chemicals and 1 pound of dragon scales, which you've had since the beginning of your journey in preparation for this. At the end of the 8 hours you create a Guard Drake to serve as your companion, using the stat block of the Guard Drake and any of its variants from Volo's Guide to Monsters. You can only have one Drake that benefits from your Bonded for Battle feature at a time. If your drake is ever slain, you can magically resurrect it by spending 4 hours of work, rare chemicals, and 1 pound of its scales, or a piece of it's body calling forth it's spirit and creating a new body for it.

Drake Knight Training

At 3rd level you learn how to speak, read, and write in Draconic.  Additionally, you gain proficiency in the Animal Handling skill.  When you use the Animal Handling skill against dragon-type creatures you gain double your proficiency bonus.

Bonded for Battle

At 3rd level, you magically bond with a Drake that is friendly to you, enabling it to be a stronger ally in combat. In combat, it moves and acts on your initiative. You can order it to move up to its speed (no action required), use your action to command it to use any standard action, use your bonus action to have it make a single attack with its Tail or Bite, and it can make opportunity attacks using its own reaction.

A Bonded Drake receives the following benefits:

• The Drake becomes proficient in any saving throw you are proficient in.
• You add your proficiency bonus to the Drake's Attack rolls, damage rolls, AC and to any skills or saving throws it is proficient in.
• Its hit point maximum equals the hit points in its stat block, or four times your fighter level, whichever is highest.
• The Bonded Drake magically enlarges to Large size.

Your drake shares your alignement and gains a bond. It also has one personality trait and flaw of your choice. Its bond is always, “The fighter who travels with me is a beloved companion for whom I would gladly give my life".

Elemental Empowerment

Beginning at 7th level, your drakes natural weapon attacks become magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical damage.  It also gains the ability to channel elemental energy to perform different maneuvers. Your drake has a number of discharge uses equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down), and regains all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.  Use the Dragonborn breath weapon table for your corresponding Drake type.

Elemental Breath: As an action you can command your drake to exhale a destructive blast of elemental energy.  The breaths damage, Saving Throw, and area of effect is determined by the type chosen.

Elemental Weapon: As an action your Drake can wreathe both of you in their element, granting an extra 1d6 of their elemental damage type to both your and its weapon attacks for 1 minute.  At 10th level this bonus damage increases to 2d6.  At 15th level this bonus damage increases to 3d6.

Wyrmflight

At 10th level your Drake has grown strong enough to better manifest its draconic origins.  Your Drake grows large leathery dragon wings granting it a flying speed of 60 ft.  Additionally, if an effect or attack would force you off your Drake or knock your Drake prone you and your drake have advantage on the saving throw.

Dreadful Drake

Starting at 15th level you can use your Action to command your drake to exude a terrifying aura to a distance of 30 feet. For 1 minute each hostile creature that starts its turn within the aura must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw DC = 8 + your Drake's Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus, or be frightened until the aura ends. A creature that succeeds on this saving throw is immune to the aura for 24 hours. Once you use this feature you can't use it again until you finish a short ot long rest.

Legendary Duo

When you reach 18 level you can use your action to transform your drake and empower yourself. While transformed your drake gains the following benefits.

• It grows to Huge size.

• It can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you command it as a bonus action.

• Once, when your drake fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

• While within 5ft of your Drake you can use your reaction to strike any enemy that attacks your Drake and is within your weapon's range, additionally your Drake can do the same for you when within 5ft.

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Once you use this feature you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.