Ironfist
Ironfist
Sheet
AC 12 · HP 23 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- Animal HandlingWIS
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
11 featuresBonus action
- RageLevel 1
You can enter a supernatural rage as a Bonus Action if you are not wearing Heavy armor. While raging, you have Advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, your melee weapon and Unarmed Strike damage using Strength gains a bonus of 2, and you have Resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage. Your Rage lasts up to 10 minutes, ending early if you do not attack, force an enemy to make a saving throw, or use a Bonus Action to extend it on your turn. You can use Rage twice, regaining all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.
Always on
- Unarmored DefenseLevel 1
While you are not wearing any armor, your base Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.
- Weapon MasteryLevel 1
You gain the ability to use the mastery properties of two kinds of Simple or Martial weapons of your choice. Ironfist has mastered the Greataxe and Handaxe.
- Danger SenseLevel 2
You have Advantage on Dexterity saving throws unless you have the Incapacitated condition.
- Reckless AttackLevel 2
When you make your first attack roll on your turn, you can attack Recklessly. Until the start of your next turn, you have Advantage on Strength-based attack rolls, but attack rolls against you have Advantage.
- TraitDragonbornDraconic Ancestry, choose one dragon ancestor that determines your Breath Weapon and Damage Resistance. Ironfist's ancestry is bronze, granting lightning damage.
- TraitDragonbornBreath Weapon, replace one attack with a 15-foot cone or 5-foot-wide, 30-foot-long line. Creatures in the area make a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw, taking 1d10 lightning damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one. You can use this feature twice, regaining all uses after a Long Rest.
- TraitDragonbornDamage Resistance, you have Resistance to lightning damage.
- TraitDragonbornDarkvision, you can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light, without discerning color.
- TraitDragonbornDraconic Flight becomes available at character level 5. It lets you manifest spectral wings for limited flight after using your Breath Weapon.
- Savage AttackerSoldier
Once per turn when you damage a creature with a weapon, you can roll the weapon's damage dice twice and use either total. You can use this benefit only once per turn.
Gear
10 itemsWeapons
- GreataxeA heavy two-handed axe used both as a battlefield weapon and a symbol of authority.
- 4×HandaxeLight thrown axes suitable for close combat or ranged attacks.
- SpearA light spear suitable for throwing or close combat.
- ShortbowA shortbow with a quiver containing twenty arrows.
Tools
- Gaming SetA gaming set used to pass time on watch and maintain friendly rivalries with fellow soldiers.
Gear
- Explorer's PackA pack containing bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, torches, rations, waterskin, and other adventuring necessities.
- 20×ArrowArrows for the shortbow.
- Healer's KitSupplies for treating wounds in the field.
- Common ClothesA durable set of ordinary clothes bearing a faded military sash.
Purse
- 29×Gold PiecesLoose starting currency.
Appearance
Ironfist is a broad-shouldered blue-bronze dragonborn with polished scales that catch the light like hammered metal. His horns sweep back in a neat, symmetrical crown, and he keeps the short ridges along his jaw carefully cleaned and oiled. He wears practical scale mail over a dark red soldier's sash, with a heavy greataxe secured across his back. Within a minute of meeting him, most people notice that he repeatedly checks the knot of his sash whenever he is thinking, nervous, or preparing for violence.
Mannerisms
Ironfist keeps his back perfectly straight even while resting, checks the knot of his red sash whenever he is troubled, and addresses strangers by rank or role before learning their names. When anger rises, he becomes quieter rather than louder.
Personality
Ironfist is steady, direct, and protective. He speaks in concise military phrases, remembers everyone's position in a room, and instinctively places himself between danger and weaker companions. He has a dry sense of humor that appears at the least expected moments, usually when everyone else is too frightened to laugh.
Ideals
Duty. Strength has meaning only when it is used to protect those who cannot protect themselves. A law that abandons the innocent has already broken faith with its purpose.
Bonds
The surviving members of Ironfist's old squad are his family. He will cross any distance to answer a call for help from one of them, and he has sworn to protect the abandoned village whose people first taught him what service truly means.
Flaws
Ironfist obeys rules long after they have stopped serving justice. When confronted with hypocrisy, he becomes blunt, confrontational, and dangerously certain that his own judgment is the only honest one in the room.
Quirks
Background
Ironfist was hatched in a border garrison where dragonborn auxiliaries served as scouts, shield bearers, and living standards for a kingdom that valued discipline more than bloodline. His first lessons were not in rage, but in formation drills, watch rotations, and the solemn duty of standing between civilians and danger. He earned his name during a winter retreat when he held a broken gate closed with one hand while his squad evacuated a village through the other side of the fort. The soldiers who saw it swore that his fist struck the iron bar hard enough to ring like a bell. His temper became a weapon only after years of learning to contain it. Ironfist discovered that fury was not the opposite of discipline, but something discipline could aim. During a disastrous skirmish against raiders, his commander ordered a retreat and then abandoned a group of wounded recruits. Ironfist disobeyed, carried three soldiers out under fire, and broke the commander's jaw when the man tried to stop him. He was discharged rather than executed, thanks to the testimony of the rescued soldiers. Now he travels as a wandering protector, determined to prove that law exists to defend the helpless, not to excuse those who hide behind rank.
“His first lessons were not in rage, but in formation drills, watch rotations, and the solemn duty of standing between civilians and danger.”
- Background
- Soldier
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Species
Dragonborn
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