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Byzantine
2016-03-07, 08:59 PM
Welcome!

Inspired by Volga of Hyrule Warriors and adepts of Shadowrun, I present the Dragon Knight! Suffused with the blood of dragons, as they grow in strength, they focus more and more of their power onto their form.

Raw Goggle Doc with running changelog (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTHKmvv-X0wlm8MD-KSfEaAtZIP5eo7TNMnsDixcziw/edit#)
PDF via Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/s/1mfj9y4t1zbkwub/The%20Dragon%20Knight.pdf?dl=0)
Web version via Natural Crit's Homebrewery (optimized for Chrome) (http://www.naturalcrit.com/homebrew/share/Nk-vJ2f5x)

Background
The Dragon Knight began life as a Martial Archetype for fighters in a Legend of Zelda campaign I run. The theme was there, and I knew what I wanted it to do, but cramming all the different physical transformations into 5 levels seemed crowded. Not wanting to scrap the entire idea, I worked on fleshing it out further, to discover it's niche. Eventually, it became clear that the easiest way to make it work how I wanted was to make it an entirely new class. Separating it from it's roots in Zelda, I worked on adapting it and balancing against the other classes of 5e.

Conceptually, Draconic Reserve is designed after Ki, and many of their powers are meant to be used in conjunction with each other.

As of right now, 5-6 months later, I'm content with where it is, but I want input from others. Included above is; 1 complete class, 1 homebrew fighting style and 2 expanded content archetypes for the core class.

Oramac
2016-03-08, 12:11 PM
I like it! Though I think there's too many Draconic Transformation options.

Is there a way to download the PDF from Natural Crit?

Byzantine
2016-03-08, 05:09 PM
The only way to get the PDF from Natural Crit would be to go to print view and export it as such. It's a touch clunky in that regard.

Is it because it's written so often? If so, I completely understand that. If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.

Oramac
2016-03-09, 09:01 AM
Is it because it's written so often? If so, I completely understand that. If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.

I just feel like there's too many of them. I'm all for having options, but having 5 of those on top of the Rites and everything seems like a bit much.

Personally, I'd definitely keep the Wings and Tail. The other 3 I could take or leave.

OTOH, I'm just one guy, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt.