A veilblade turns combat into a conversation with possible futures. Reading intent through flashes of foresight, they cross the battlefield in paired-blade patterns and make each cut land where an enemy is about to be. Their psychic disciplines are martial techniques, not spells: the class excels at mobile melee damage, defense, and short bursts of battlefield control.
Two blades, one heartbeat ahead.
Mobile dual-wielding striker with reactive defense, psychic disruption, and limited foresight.
At a glance
Insight points
Hit die d10
Dexterity
IntelligenceYou gain proficiency with light armor, simple weapons, and martial weapons. Choose two skills from Acrobatics, Athletics, Insight, Perception, Performance, and Stealth.
You gain a pool of Insight points equal to your Veilblade level + your proficiency bonus, regaining all spent points when you finish a short or long rest. Your Veilblade save DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier; when a feature calls for an attack, use your Intelligence modifier. You also learn two Psychic Forms from the Psychic Forms list, learning another at levels 5, 9, 13, and 17; you can replace one known form whenever you gain a Veilblade level.
While wielding a separate light melee weapon in each hand, you can draw or stow both as part of the same action. Once on each of your turns when you take the Attack action and attack with a light weapon, you can make one additional attack with a different light weapon as part of that action; this extra attack does not add your ability modifier to its damage unless that modifier is negative.
You can read the immediate intent of creatures you can see within 30 feet. You have advantage on initiative rolls, and when a creature you can see makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction and spend 1 Insight point to impose disadvantage on that roll.
Choose a subclass. Your choice grants features at levels 3, 6, 10, and 14.
Ability Score Improvement
You learn one additional Psychic Form. Your paired-blade extra attack now adds your ability modifier to its damage.
You gain your subclass feature. In addition, your Speed increases by 10 feet while you aren't wearing Heavy armor.
When you use First Glimpse, you can move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks from the attacker. You can use this movement before or after the attack roll.
Ability Score Improvement
You learn one additional Psychic Form. Once per turn when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can spend 1 Insight point to deal an additional 2d8 Psychic damage to it.
You gain your subclass feature. Also, your weapon attacks count as magical for overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
When you roll initiative and have no Insight points remaining, you regain 2 points. You can also communicate telepathically with a creature you can see within 60 feet if you share a language.
Ability Score Improvement
You learn one additional Psychic Form. Your Thought-Cut deals 3d8 Psychic damage instead of 2d8.
You gain your subclass feature. When you use First Glimpse, you can spend 2 Insight points to turn the triggering attack into a miss instead of imposing disadvantage.
When you roll initiative, you can choose a number of creatures you can see up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum one). Until the end of your first turn, those creatures can't surprise you, and you have advantage on the first attack roll you make against each of them.
Ability Score Improvement
You learn one additional Psychic Form. Once on each of your turns when you spend Insight on a Veilblade feature, you can move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks.
When you use Thought-Cut, you can affect two creatures you hit this turn, spending 1 Insight point for each. The damage increases to 4d8 Psychic damage.
You gain an Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat for which you qualify. You also gain an Epic Boon feat or another feat for which you qualify.
At the start of each of your turns, if you have no Insight points remaining, you regain 2 points. Once per turn when you hit with a weapon attack, you can use Thought-Cut without spending Insight.
DexterityIntelligenceDexterityIntelligenceHit points per Veilblade level; Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier; Hit Points at Higher Levels: (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per Veilblade level after 1st.
DefensesVeilblade save DC = 8 + proficiency bonus + Intelligence modifier.
ArmorLight armor.
WeaponsSimple and martial weapons.
ToolsNone.
Saving ThrowsDexterity and Intelligence.
SkillsChoose two from Acrobatics, Athletics, Insight, Perception, Performance, and Stealth.
Skill choicesAcrobatics, Athletics, Insight, Perception, Performance, Stealth
ResourceInsight points: a pool equal to your Veilblade level + your proficiency bonus, recovered on a short or long rest. Several high-level features restore or waive costs in limited circumstances.
MulticlassingPrerequisite: Dexterity 13 and Intelligence 13. When you multiclass into Veilblade, you gain light armor, simple weapons, and martial weapons proficiency. You gain the class's Insight pool and features according to your Veilblade level; features that require a Veilblade save DC use the formula in Psychic Forms.
Martial psychic techniques known as forms; unless a form says otherwise, using one requires the action or reaction specified and costs the listed Insight points.
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, spend 1 Insight point to deal an extra Psychic damage and prevent it from taking reactions until the start of its next turn.
As a bonus action, spend 1 Insight point to take the Disengage action and teleport up to 15 feet to an unoccupied space you can see.
When a creature you can see within 30 feet makes an attack roll, use your reaction and spend 1 Insight point to give that creature a penalty to the roll equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1).
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, spend 1 Insight point to force a Strength saving throw. On a failure, it is pushed up to 10 feet and has its Speed reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.
As a bonus action, spend 1 Insight point to gain + your Intelligence modifier temporary Hit Points. They last for 1 minute.
As a bonus action, spend 1 Insight point to choose a creature you can see within 60 feet. Until the start of your next turn, you know its location while it remains within 60 feet, even if it is Invisible or hidden, provided it isn't behind Total Cover.
You see the next opening and make it inevitable.
Your rhythm binds companions into one moving pattern.
Your blades cut through certainty as well as flesh.
A veilblade turns combat into a conversation with possible futures.
Reading intent through flashes of foresight, they cross the battlefield in paired-blade patterns and make each cut land where an enemy is about to be. Their psychic disciplines are martial techniques, not spells: the class excels at mobile melee damage, defense, and short bursts of battlefield control.
Stay mobile, attack with both blades, and spend Insight at decisive moments rather than hoarding it.
Use First Glimpse and defensive forms to survive close combat, then turn a key hit into a disruption or burst of psychic damage. Your foresight is strongest when it informs choices, not when it replaces them.
A prospective Veilblade usually begins with a discipline of paired-weapon practice, dance, or acrobatics.
Initiation comes when the student learns to perceive an opponent's intention as a physical rhythm, then acts on that perception without losing awareness of the present. Traditions differ on whether this first glimpse is taught, awakened, or survived.
Ordinary people may admire a Veilblade's grace while worrying that their private intentions are being read.
Communities often welcome their uncanny warning of danger, then blame them when a vision fails to come true.
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