Edgerunners are close-quarters combatants who combine disciplined footwork with rugged cybernetic augmentations. They dart through danger, turn openings into punishing strikes, and use a reserve of practiced combat focus to keep moving when others would falter. Their niche is mobile melee pressure: an Edgerunner can reach vulnerable targets, disrupt their plans, and reposition without being locked into a stand-up fight.
Built to take the hit. Trained to never be where it lands.
Skirmisher
At a glance
Hit die d10
Dexterity
ConstitutionYou gain proficiency with simple weapons, martial weapons, light armor, and one artisan's tool of your choice. You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for attack and damage rolls with your unarmed strikes and melee weapons that lack the Heavy property.
You have a pool of Edge Dice, which are d6s. You have a number of them equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and regain all expended dice when you finish a Short or Long Rest. Once on each of your turns when you hit with an unarmed strike or melee weapon attack, you can expend one die to deal extra damage equal to the die and move up to 10 feet without provoking Opportunity Attacks.
As a Bonus Action, you can take the Dash or Disengage action. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, regaining all uses when you finish a Long Rest.
Choose an Edgerunner subclass. Your subclass grants features at levels 3, 6, 10, and 14.
Your unarmed strikes deal 1d6 damage instead of their normal damage. You can use Dexterity for their attack and damage rolls, and their damage becomes 1d8 when you have no weapon or shield in either hand.
Ability Score Improvement
When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can attack twice instead of once.
Your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. In addition, when you use Quickstep, you can move through the space of one creature your size or larger this turn, treating it as Difficult Terrain.
When you roll Initiative and have no Edge Dice remaining, you regain one Edge Die.
Ability Score Improvement
Your Edge Dice become d8s. Also, when you use an Edge Die on your turn, you can move up to 15 feet without provoking Opportunity Attacks instead of 10 feet.
You gain a feature from your Edgerunner subclass.
When a creature you can see hits you with an attack, you can take a Reaction and expend an Edge Die to reduce the damage by the number rolled plus your Dexterity modifier. If this reduces the damage to 0, you can move up to 10 feet without provoking Opportunity Attacks.
Ability Score Improvement
When you use Quickstep, you can also make one unarmed strike as part of the same Bonus Action.
You gain a feature from your Edgerunner subclass.
Your Edge Dice become d10s. When you roll Initiative and have fewer than two Edge Dice remaining, you regain Edge Dice until you have two.
Ability Score Improvement
Your unarmed strikes deal 1d8 damage, or 1d10 when you have no weapon or shield in either hand. When you use Edge Dice, you can apply their extra damage to a target within 10 feet if you can reach it with an unarmed strike.
When you roll Initiative, you regain all expended uses of Quickstep. Also, once on each of your turns when you hit with an unarmed strike or melee weapon attack, you can use Edge Dice without expending one, but the die deals no extra damage; you still gain its movement benefit.
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat for which you qualify, and you gain an Epic Boon feat for which you qualify.
Your Edge Dice become d12s. When you roll Initiative and have fewer than three Edge Dice remaining, you regain Edge Dice until you have three.
DexterityConstitutionDexterityConstitutionHit pointsHit Point Die: per Edgerunner level. Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier. Hit Points at Higher Levels: (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per Edgerunner level after 1st.
DefensesYour mobility, timing, and conditioning help you avoid or endure danger.
ArmorLight armor.
WeaponsSimple weapons and martial weapons.
ToolsOne artisan's tool of your choice. You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for unarmed strikes and melee weapons without the Heavy property.
Skill choicesAcrobatics, Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Survival
ResourceEdge Dice: a pool equal to your Proficiency Bonus, initially d6s, that grows in size as you level. You regain all expended dice on a Short or Long Rest, with additional Initiative-based recovery at higher levels.
MulticlassingTo multiclass into Edgerunner, you must have a Dexterity score of 13 or higher. You gain proficiency with light armor, simple weapons, and martial weapons when you take your first Edgerunner level. Edge Dice and class features that scale with Edgerunner level use only your Edgerunner levels.
Turn hard-won positioning into protection for your crew.
Make every opening a chance to change the battlefield.
Win the fight by deciding where it can happen.
Edgerunners are close-quarters combatants who combine disciplined footwork with rugged cybernetic augmentations.
They dart through danger, turn openings into punishing strikes, and use a reserve of practiced combat focus to keep moving when others would falter. Their niche is mobile melee pressure: an Edgerunner can reach vulnerable targets, disrupt their plans, and reposition without being locked into a stand-up fight.
You are a mobile melee combatant, not a stationary damage engine.
Use Quickstep and your Edge Dice movement to reach priority targets, escape unfavorable positions, and help allies by drawing attention. Save Edge Dice for turns when their damage or movement will change the fight; at higher levels, Reactive Guard gives you a valuable defensive use for them.
Most Edgerunners begin as fighters, couriers, guards, or arena combatants before seeking augmentation and formal instruction.
Initiation varies: some schools require a trial of disciplined movement under pressure, while informal mentors teach apprentices to maintain their own implants and understand the limits of their bodies.
Ordinary people may admire an Edgerunner's nerve while remaining wary of their visible augmentations.
In places where implants are common, they are often treated as capable professionals; in more traditional communities, people may mistake their hardware for a sign of violence or corporate control.
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