Veil Duelist

Every feeling has its place. Every opening has its moment.

Lore Overview

A Veil Duelist does not empty the heart before drawing steel. They gather every tremor into a single point. Longing becomes distance measured; anticipation becomes the pause before a parry; release becomes the step that finally carries them beyond the blade.

Choose this Calling to play a precise martial striker and skirmisher who commits to one opponent. Your Conviction is expressed through chosen attention. Rising Arousal offers sharper timing, but spending that pressure sacrifices proximity to your Last Measure. Libido buys deliberate bursts of composure rather than more attacks.

Subclass Features

The Chosen Line

3rd-Level Subclass Feature

Gain proficiency in Acrobatics or Insight. As a bonus action, choose one hostile creature you can see within 30 feet. It becomes your chosen opponent for 1 minute, until you are incapacitated, or until you choose another. Only one opponent can be chosen at a time. This designation does not compel the creature to fight you.

Veiled Play. When designating an opponent, you may gain 1 Arousal to increase your speed by 5 feet until the end of this turn.

Unveiled Play. When designating an opponent, you may spend 1 Libido to force it to make an EROSave. On failure it gains 1 Arousal; on success none. This cannot compel it to duel.

Measured Opening

3rd-Level Subclass Feature

Once on each of your turns when you hit your chosen opponent with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one Technique Die. Add it to the damage, then move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks from that opponent. This movement uses your speed and cannot exceed your remaining movement.

Veiled Play. After resolving this feature, you may gain 1 Arousal to gain advantage on your next EROSave before the start of your next turn.

Unveiled Play. Before resolving this feature, if you have at least 2 Arousal, you may reduce Arousal by 1 to increase its movement to 15 feet and prevent opportunity attacks from all creatures during that movement. The movement still uses your speed.

Ritual and Social Identity

3rd-Level Subclass Feature

In the Rite of the Single Thread, spend 10 minutes matching breath and slow weapon forms with one willing companion. Once per long rest, both participants gain advantage on their next Wisdom (Insight) check to understand one another within 8 hours.

Veiled Play. Each participant may gain 1 Arousal when the rite ends.

Unveiled Play. Each willing participant may reduce its Arousal by 1. Resolve any Climax already triggered before a reduction; the rite neither restores Libido nor extends Last Measure.

Breath Before Steel

7th-Level Subclass Feature

When your chosen opponent misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and expend one Technique Die to make one melee weapon attack against it, if it is within your reach. On a hit, add the die to the damage. The die is spent even if you miss.

Veiled Play. After a hit, you may gain 1 Arousal to move 5 feet without opportunity attacks from your chosen opponent.

Unveiled Play. Before making this attack, you may spend 1 Libido to gain advantage on it. This grants no Arousal or additional reaction.

Courtesy of the Veil

7th-Level Subclass Feature

After observing a willing creature’s sparring, dance, or formal address for 1 minute, you have advantage on your next Wisdom (Insight) check to understand its stated concern during the next hour. This cannot reveal secrets or establish that a statement is true. You can use this benefit a number of times equal to PB per long rest.

Veiled Play. When completing the observation, you may gain 1 Arousal to grant the willing subject advantage on its next EROSave within 1 hour.

Unveiled Play. When completing the observation, you may spend 1 Libido to let the willing subject reduce its Arousal by 1. Each subject may receive this reduction once per long rest.

Still Point

10th-Level Subclass Feature

When you make a saving throw against being charmed or frightened, you may expend one Technique Die and add its roll after seeing your roll but before the outcome is declared. You cannot apply this feature and Iron Resolve to the same save.

Veiled Play. You may also use this feature’s Technique Die on an EROSave, with the same timing and restriction against combining it with Iron Resolve.

Unveiled Play. Once per turn, after succeeding on an EROSave against your chosen opponent, you may reduce your Arousal by 1. This option does not add a Technique Die to that save.

The Unbroken Interval

15th-Level Subclass Feature

Once per short or long rest, when you use Measured Opening, you may roll its Technique Die without expending it. All other restrictions apply.

Veiled Play. Once per short or long rest, after your own Climax resolves while you are conscious, you may move up to half your speed without opportunity attacks, requiring no action. This does not extend Last Measure.

Unveiled Play. Once per short or long rest, after your own Climax resolves, you may spend 1 Libido to regain one expended Technique Die, up to your normal maximum. This does not restore this feature’s ordinary free-technique use.

One Decisive Moment

18th-Level Subclass Feature

Once per long rest, as a bonus action, enter a perfect interval for 1 minute; it ends early if you are incapacitated. During it, Measured Opening’s damage die is rolled twice and you choose either result, and your chosen opponent has disadvantage on opportunity attacks against you.

Unveiled Play. once during this interval, after resolving your own Climax, you may spend 1 additional Libido to use Measured Opening once before the end of your next turn without expending a Technique Die. You must still hit, obey its once-per-turn limit, and pay the additional Libido after the normal Climax loss. Multiple free-use effects on the same technique do not produce extra uses or recovered dice.

Veiled Play. Once during the perfect interval, after your own Climax resolves, your chosen opponent has disadvantage on its next attack against you before the end of your next turn. This neither grants a free technique nor extends Last Measure.