Nyx Vale
Nyx Vale
Sheet
AC 16 · HP 204 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- AthleticsSTR
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- PerceptionWIS
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
23 featuresBonus action
- Second WindLevel 1
You can push yourself to regain stamina in the middle of a fight. As a bonus action, you regain 1d10 + 20 hit points. You can use this feature three times per long rest at level 20.
Reaction
- Telekinetic MasterLevel 15
You can turn an enemy's motion against itself, using your reaction and psionic talent to reduce or redirect harm, reflecting your mastery of psychic battlefield control.
Always on
- Second Wind, Tactical Mind
When Bonus action or ability check
Spend a use of Second Wind to regain hit points and trigger Tactical Mind for high-pressure escapes or crucial skill checks.
- Action SurgeLevel 2
When Your turn
Take one additional action on your turn, enabling devastating burst turns, rapid repositioning, or chained control effects.
- Psionic StrikeLevel 3
When Hit with a weapon attack
Use Psionic Strike after a weapon hit to add forceful psychic damage and alter enemy positioning.
- Telekinetic Barrier
When Reaction to taking damage
Manifest a defensive psionic barrier to reduce incoming damage for yourself or an ally.
- Fighting StyleLevel 1
Choose one Fighting Style, which defines your preferred way of wielding weapons and armor. This build assumes Dueling, reflecting a precise close-quarters combat style.
- Weapon MasteryLevel 1
You have learned several weapon techniques. This character is assumed to know mastery with longsword, hand crossbow, rapier, and unarmed strike. Weapon mastery lets you apply special properties tied to those weapons during combat.
- Tactical MindLevel 2
When you make an ability check, you can expend a use of Second Wind to add a d10 to the roll after seeing the d20, potentially turning a failure into a success.
- Psi WarriorLevel 3
Choose the Psi Warrior archetype. You manifest psychic force through disciplined motion, force, and protective mental barriers.
- Psionic PowerLevel 3
You have one more way to direct your psionic power. You gain Psionic Power dice, which fuel your Psi Warrior features and recharge on a Long Rest. Your psionic energy die scales with level, reaching d12 at high levels.
- Telekinetic AdeptLevel 3
You can protect yourself or an ally with telekinetic force, creating a brief psionic barrier that reduces damage from an incoming hit.
- Psi-Powered LeapLevel 7
You can project your mind to communicate silently and move objects at a distance, representing the disciplined telepathic and telekinetic training of the Psi Warrior.
- Telekinetic MovementLevel 7
Your mind can assist your body in movement, granting enhanced jumps and fluid repositioning in combat and while infiltrating secure spaces.
- Guarded MindLevel 10
You have learned to brace your body and mind against harm, protecting nearby allies with psionic interference when needed.
- Potent PsionicsLevel 10
Your telekinetic force becomes more potent, improving the damage and reliability of your psionic strike techniques as your fighter level increases.
- Bulwark of ForceLevel 15
Your psionic abilities can now be used to defend yourself with greater efficiency and flexibility, reinforcing your role as a frontline control fighter.
- Telekinetic MasteryLevel 18
Your mind and body act with extraordinary speed. When combat begins, you can react before the enemy expects it, and your psionic strikes have become fearsome tools of restraint and displacement.
- Improved Extra AttackLevel 20
At the pinnacle of your martial training, you fight with relentless precision, superior endurance, and a psychic command over the battlefield that few can match.
- TraitHumanResourceful, gain Heroic Inspiration after each Long Rest.
- TraitHumanSkillful, gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.
- TraitHumanVersatile, gain one Origin feat of your choice.
- Criminal ContactCriminal
You have a reliable network of underworld contacts who can supply information, safe houses, forged papers, or illicit goods when you reach them through the right channels.
Spells
3 spellsSpellcasting. Nyx Vale casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 19, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , ,
Gear
7 itemsWeapons
- LongswordA versatile martial blade suited to close-quarters combat and precise dueling.
- Hand CrossbowA backup ranged weapon for silent takedowns and close-in shots.
Armor
- ShieldA shield used to improve defense when she chooses to fight in the open.
Tools
- Thieves' ToolsA set of lockpicks and thieves' implements carried from her criminal life.
- Playing Card SetA gaming set used for gambling, misdirection, and reading opponents.
Gear
- 20×Crossbow BoltsBolts for the hand crossbow.
- Modern Prison ClothesDark modern clothing altered for prison wear and covert movement.
Appearance
A shaved-headed human woman with a lean, lethal build, her body covered in dense black and gray tattoos that map scenes of escape, circuitry, prison bars, and broken chains. She wears modern, utilitarian clothes modified for stealth and movement, with a prison-issued restraint scar at one wrist and a calm, assessing stare that never stops measuring distances, exits, and weak points.
Mannerisms
She speaks softly and rarely wastes words, but when she does, her tone is clipped, deliberate, and almost surgical. In conversation her eyes track doors, windows, hands, and reflected surfaces before they settle on the speaker. When thinking, she taps one tattooed finger against the inside of her wrist as if counting invisible heartbeat intervals.
Personality
Controlled, observant, and fiercely protective of the helpless, Nyx presents as cold until someone proves they are vulnerable or being cornered. Then she becomes startlingly direct, almost tender in the way a knife can be tender, precise about what must be cut away. She hates wasted motion, lies told for convenience, and anyone who mistakes silence for submission.
Ideals
Freedom is not a luxury, it is a right. No one gets to own another person, shape their mind, or decide that desperation makes cruelty acceptable.
Bonds
She will not abandon prisoners, captives, or anyone bought and sold as property. She keeps a hidden list of names, the people who were taken by the ring she exposed, and she intends to bring every one of them home or burn the network that took them.
Flaws
Nyx never fully trusts a system, a promise, or a person in authority. She would rather act alone and risk everything than explain herself, and that pride has cost her allies she might otherwise have kept. When she sees an unjust cage, literal or metaphorical, her judgment narrows to a blade point, and she can become reckless in the pursuit of breaking it open.
Quirks
Background
Nyx Vale learned early that every locked door has three answers, a key, a lie, or enough force to make the lock regret existing. She was born in the narrow, fluorescent-lit sprawl of a city that sold justice like a luxury good, and she grew up surviving on quick hands, quicker eyes, and a gift that made other people nervous. When stress sharpened her thoughts, objects lurched in the air, guard dogs whimpered before she touched them, and a whispered intention could become a shove strong enough to save her life. She became a thief, a courier, and eventually a fixer for people who could not afford to be seen. Her tattoos were collected over years, each one a marker for a job, a betrayal, or a vow she intended to keep. Her last job was supposed to be simple, extract a ledger from a private security vault and disappear before the alarms noticed the theft. Instead, the vault belonged to a ring of psychic traffickers and blackmail brokers, and Nyx decided, with characteristic arrogance, to steal their entire future. She got caught because she came back for the children they kept as living keys. The court called her a criminal. The gang called her dangerous. The prison called her a problem. Nyx calls it unfinished business. Even behind bars, she has turned her cell into a training ground, her body into a weapon, and her mind into a siege engine. She waits for the day the right door opens, or the wrong one breaks.
“She became a thief, a courier, and eventually a fixer for people who could not afford to be seen.”
- Background
- Criminal
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Species
Human
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