The Watcher Class

Level - Proficiency Bonus - Class Features - Cantrips known
1 +2 Fight Smarter, Fighting Style -
2 +2 Here to Kill Monsters,
Silver Is for Monsters -
3 +2 Hmmmm, Watcher School -
4 +2 Ability Score Improvement -
5 +3 Multiattack -
6 +3 Arcane Scraps 3
7 +3 Watcher School Feature 3
8 +3 Ability Score Improvement 3
9 +4 Then I Die 3
10 +4 Force of Will 4
11 +4 Multiattack (2),
Watcher School Feature 4
12 +4 Ability Score Improvement 4
13 +5 Safeguard 5
14 +5 Always Outnumbered 5
15 +5 Iron Skin 5
16 +5 Ability Score Improvement 5
17 +6 Watcher School Feature 5
18 +6 I Am What They Say I Am 6
19 +6 Ability Score Improvement 6
20 +6 Multiattack (3) 6

Fight Smarter
At 1st level, you can substitute your Strength and Dexterity
modifier with your Intelligence modifier when making melee
or ranged weapon attacks and damage rolls.

Fighting Style
At 1st level, you learn one of the following fighting styles.
You can change your selected fighting style when you gain a
level in any class.
Natural Attacks. Your unarmed strikes deal 1d6
bludgeoning damage + your Strength modifier. If you
have a natural attack such as bite or claws that deal less
than 1d6, increase the damage to 1d6.
Swift Strike. You can make an additional attack as a
bonus action provided the weapon does not have the
heavy property.
Staying Alive. You can add half your proficiency bonus
to your AC (rounded down) while you are wearing
armour that you’re proficient with.
Distant Strike. You can add your proficiency bonus to
damage rolls for attacks made with ranged weapons.
Move! As a reaction, you can swap places with a willing
creature within 5 ft. of you that has been targeted by
an attack or spell. You swap places with them and cause
the attack or spell to target you instead. This must be
declared after the target is declared but before the attack
is rolled.

Here to Kill Monsters
Watchers specialise in hunting and stopping monsters of
all shapes and sizes. At 2nd level, select a number of the
following creature types equal to your proficiency bonus:
Monstrosity
Aberration
Ooze
Construct
Fiend
Undead
You gain advantage on Intelligence checks to recall
information about your selected creature types and on
Wisdom (Survival) checks to track them.
At 5th level, when targeting creatures of those types, you can
reroll all damage results and use either result.

Silver Is for Monsters
At 2nd level, you treat your silver sword as magical for the
purposes of overcoming damage resistances while you are
wielding it.

Hmmmm
At 3rd level, there are few surprises left in the world to a
Watcher. That and it has become part of their image to
never let the world get under their skin. You are immune to
the frightened condition.

Watcher School Feature
Whether through direct tutorage by another Watcher,
spending time with a group of Watchers or through
discovering first-hand a preferred method of hunting, each
Watcher eventually reaches a point where they begin to
tailor their approach to better suit their talents. At 3rd level,
you select a Watcher School and gain the listed benefits. You
gain additional benefits at 7th level, 11th level, and 17th
level as detailed under your selected school.

The Watchers have no centralised leadership or formal
training regiment, but there are differing schools of thought
on how best to match the magnitude of the dangers they
face on a daily basis. Some schools have informal methods
of entry being passed from Watcher to Watcher. Others
are collected into manuals, scrolls, and stories that can be
pieced together by those who know where to look. When
Watchers come across another of their order, they find that
some share the same tactics and method

Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and
19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice
by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice
by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20
using this feature.

Multiattack
At 5th level, when you take the attack action, you make an
additional attack. You gain an additional attack at 11th and
at 20th level.

Arcane Scraps
At 6th level, through practical experience and a few close
scrapes, you have been able to piece together enough
magical knowledge to turn the minor feats magical students
perfect to your purposes. Shunning more advanced casting,
Watchers instead focus on the speed of their delivery often
pairing their use with a slash of blade.
You learn a number of cantrips from the Cleric or Wizard
spell list equal to your proficiency bonus. Intelligence is your
spellcasting ability for this feature. If you take the Attack,
Dodge, or Dash action, you can cast one of these cantrips
that normally has a casting time of an action as a bonus
action. When you gain a Watcher level, you can swap one
known cantrip with another one.

Then I Die
Watchers choose to live a dangerous life—death could be
over the next hill and every day they choose to seek it out.
More often than not, when hit by a blow that would kill
another creature, Watchers just seem annoyed.
At the 9th level, when you are reduced to 0 hit points you
instead drop to 1 hit points and may immediately take an
action as if it were your turn.
You must complete a short or long rest before you can use
this feature again. You gain an additional use of this feature
at 18th level.

Force of Will
At 10th level, you have faced enough trials and monsters
that you can resist even the most tempting enchantments.
You gain proficiency in saving throws using Charisma. If
you are already proficient, instead you become proficient
in saving throws using Intelligence. At 16th level, you gain
proficiency in saving throws using Intelligence. If you are
already proficient in Intelligence saving throws, you gain
proficiency in saving throws of one type of your choice.

Safeguard
At 13th level, when a friendly creature within 30 ft. of
you is reduced to 0 hit points, you can as a reaction
immediately either:
Move up to half your speed towards the friendly creature.
Make a single attack targeting the creature that reduced
the friendly creature to 0 hit points, if in range.

Always Outnumbered
Watchers often work alone or in small groups. Being
outnumbered is expected, leading to those that live long
enough to find ways of mitigating their prey’s advantages
in numbers. At 14th level, creatures targeting you gain no
benefit from outnumbering you with melee attacks provided
they are of a creature type from your Here to Kill
Monsters feature.

Iron Skin
At 15th level, if you don’t move during your turn, you may
add +5 to your AC against any attacks aimed at you until
the start of your next turn.

Practiced Silver
At 17th level, when targeting a creature of the same type
as those currently selected from your Here to Kill Your
Monsters feature, you deal additional damage equal to
a number of d6s equal to your proficiency bonus on a
successful attack with your silvered sword.

I Am What They Say I Am
At 18th level, you trigger a critical hit on a roll of a 18-20 on a
weapon or spell attack roll. When you trigger a critical hit, you
treat all damage dice as having rolled their maximum value.

The Ant School teaches the Watcher to specialise in working
with a team, protecting their team from harm, and using a
momentary burst of strength to overcome larger foes. Senior
Watchers of the Ant School use their wits to perform feats of
strength that younger members can only dream of.
Defending the Nest. At 3rd level, when a creature makes
a successful attack against a friendly creature within 10
ft., you can use your reaction to reduce the damage by
an amount equal to your Intelligence modifier + your
proficiency bonus.
Wrath of the Swarm. At 7th level, you gain advantage on
attack rolls if you have more friendly creatures within 10 ft.
than the targeted hostile creature has allies.
Defend the Many. At 11th level, if a friendly creature within
10 ft. is reduced to 0 hit points, as a reaction you can choose
to take the damage that creature would have received instead.
Never Outmatched. At 17th level, creatures larger than you
do not gain advantage on attempts to grapple or restrain you.

Students of the Wasp School specialise in mobility and using
the speed of their attacks to overcome their foes. Popular
among younger Watchers, the school requires extreme
physical conditioning to achieve its impressive feats. Many
who witness a practitioner of the Wasp School’s arts believe
the Watcher is under the effect of some form of magic, as
they move with such grace and precision.
Seizing the Moment. At 3rd level, when you successfully
make a melee weapon attack against a creature, you can
immediately move 5 feet. This movement does not provoke
attacks of opportunity.
Stripes of Speed. At 7th level, your movement speed is
increased by an amount equal to 5 ft. multiplied by half
your proficiency bonus (rounded up).
Buzzing of Steel. At 11th level, if you do not make an
attack action during your turn, you may instead make two
reactions that turn.
Lingering Wound. At 17th level, when you damage a
creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend
your bonus action to attempt leaving a lasting wound. The
targeted creature must immediately make a Constitution
saving throw against your Watcher Save DC. On a failure, the
creature suffers disadvantage on all attack rolls and saving
throws until the end of your next turn. If you score a critical
hit on a creature, it automatically fails the saving throw.

Students of the Spider School focus on ensuring they
are able to recover from short skirmishes with their prey,
whittling their foes down with poison and timed strikes,
and preventing the foe from fleeing while slowly closing their
web. Although this is not the most popular approach among
Watchers, given the number of creatures who resist most
poisons and the danger of transporting the components
of the poisons, the Spider School persists. The legendary
Watcher, Esther the Very Blonde, is believed to have been
the first to use the Spider techniques while confronting the
burrowing beast of Kalthe.
The Web’s Nest. At 3rd level, you gain the following benefits:
You can reroll hit dice spend during a short rest and use
either result.
While taking a short or long rest, you gain advantage on
Wisdom (Perception) checks to detect creatures that
approach your camp.
You gain a climb speed equal to your walking speed.
Webbed Strikes. At 7th level, when you hit a creature with
an attack of opportunity, the creature must immediately
make a Strength saving throw against your Watcher DC. On
a failure, the creature’s speed is reduced to 0 until the start
of your next turn. On a successful saving throw, the creature
treats your melee range as difficult terrain.
Poisoned Blades. At 11th level, you deal an additional 2d8
poison damage when you hit a creature with a melee attack.
If the creature is immune to poison damage, it must make a
Constitution saving throw against your Watcher DC. On a
failure, the target is paralysed until the start of your next turn.
Closing the Web. At 17th level, when you miss with a
melee weapon attack, you gain advantage on the next melee
weapon attack that targets the same creature.