Character creation

As a Warden, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per Warden level.
Hit Points at 1st level: 8 + your Constitution modifier.
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Warden level after 1st.

Proficiencies
Armour: Light armour, shields.
Weapons: Simple weapons, broadswords, long swords, short swords.
Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma.
Skills: Traditions, choose any other two.

Equipment
You start with the following extra equipment, in addition to equipment granted by your Standard of Living.

Poor or Frugal: Any simple weapon, a short bow with a quiver of 20 arrows, a leather jerkin.
Martial or Prosperous: A broad-, long- or short sword, a short bow or a great bow with a quiver of 20 arrows, a leather corslet, a shield.
Rich: A broad-, long- or short sword, a short bow or a great bow with a quiver of 20 arrows, a leather corslet, a shield or great shield.

Shadow Weakness
Lure of Power

Features @ Level 1 for a Warden
Warden’s Gift
You can inspire others through stirring words, through music or by your presence alone. To do so, use a bonus action on your turn. Choose one creature other than yourself that is within 60 feet of you and who can hear you. That creature gains one Gift die, a d6.

Once within the next 10 minutes, the creature can roll the Gift die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll or saving throw it attempts. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Gift die, but must decide before the Loremaster says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Gift die is rolled, it is lost. A creature may have only one Gift die at a time.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses after a long rest.

Your Gift die increases in size when you reach certain levels in this class. The die becomes a d8 at 5th level, a d10 at 10th level and a d12 at 15th level.

Ever Watchful
Wardens make a point of keeping up with the latest news both local and from afar, as well as making an effort to know the wise and the powerful. If you can freely travel about an area talking with locals and passing travellers for a few hours, you can make a DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) ability check with advantage.

Success indicates that you hear all the latest useful rumours, including news of trouble. Failure means you hear all the latest rumours and news, but cannot discern the true from the false. On a success, you can also glean the names, whereabouts and general appearances of all local influential individuals, households and factions, as well as what livery, colours and heraldry they typically bear, if any.

Dauntless Guardians
"…when dark things come from houseless hills, or creep from sunless woods, they fly from us."
You have been raised in a land dotted with desolate ruins and burial mounds. You have heard the dead whisper with cold voices out of lonely barrows, while ghostly lights dance on haunted hills. There are few among mortal Men who know more about evil spirits or fear them less than you do…

When you first select this virtue you learn how to See the Unseen. You may later reinforce your spirit with Strength of Will by learning it as your undertaking during a Fellowship phase. Finally, you reach the stature of a true Wraith Bane by training as a new undertaking during a later Fellowship phase.

See the Unseen
It is said that the Elven-wise can perceive shades and wraiths that are otherwise invisible to the eyes of Mortals. You have been taught to recognise the signs that betray the haunting of a restless spirit. You are automatically aware of the presence or proximity of ghosts, shades and wraiths of any kind. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Lore) ability check yields additional information on the nature of the haunting.

Strength of Will
In moments of fear, your will can strengthen your heart, so that you can withstand the great terror awakened in all Mortals by the denizens of the Unseen world.

When an Undead creature forces you to make a Wisdom saving throw against Corruption or any effect that may cause the Frightened condition, you may add your proficiency bonus to the check. If you roll either a 19 or 20 to pass the check, you can allow a number of companions equal to your Wisdom modifier to pass their own checks automatically.

Wraith Bane
In long centuries of secret strife, the things that hide among the ruins of Arnor have learnt to fear the fell Dúnedain. All of your attacks cause +2 damage to Undead creatures that can be affected by your weapons.

Endurance of the Dúnedain
"Hardy is the race of Elendil!"
The Dúnedain have long endured war against Mordor and the forces of the Great Enemy. They are slow to weary and endure burdens stoically. In battle they are fearsome foes, often able to fight on against overwhelming odds and in spite of grievous wounds.

When a blow reduces you to 0 hit points, but does not kill you outright, you may spend Inspiration to regain 1 hit point, remain conscious and continue to take actions.

Foresight of their Kindred
"And I say to you: if you pass the doors of Moria, beware!"
The Dúnedain still have in a measure the powerful foresight their ancestors possessed in full before their race was diminished. Some Dúnedain perceive the future in dreams, others catch sudden glimpses of what is to be with their waking eyes.

Raise your Wisdom score by 1 point.

Additionally, once every Adventuring phase, you may invoke your power of Foresight by spending Inspiration. When this happens, the Loremaster should give you a relevant piece of information regarding important events likely to occur during your current adventure. You can seldom foresee exactly what is to befall, but you may gain clear images of where you should go, places to be wary of, a wanderer you can trust and so forth.

If no such information is available – or the Loremaster prefers not to divulge it – once, before the current Adventuring phase is over, you may choose to automatically succeed at either an attack roll, a saving throw or an ability check (your Foresight led to a sudden bout of insight or deeper understanding that helped you at a key moment).

Royalty Revealed
Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. "Elendil!" he cried.

Northern Dúnedain only.
The Rangers of the North belong to a bloodline of Kings, but they have learnt to hide from their enemies in the twilight years of their kingdom. Should you choose to reveal your heritage, your noble bearing will cause your enemies to pause, and your allies to cast away their doubts.

You may take a bonus action to reveal yourself in battle, by shouting an ancestral battle-cry or unsheathing a weapon of high lineage, for example, or by showing a device or coat-of-arms during an encounter with someone.

Your allies within 10 feet immediately recover 1d6 + your Charisma modifier in hit points. Your enemies within 10 feet must make a Wisdom saving throw against a DC equal to 15+ your Charisma modifier. Failure means they are Frightened of you for 1 minute. While Frightened in this way, a creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it cannot willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. It also cannot take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If it has nowhere it can move, the creature can use the Dodge action.

Any enemy Frightened in this manner thereafter gains the Hatred (Dúnedain) Shadow Action and will seek to attack you and your kindred whenever given the opportunity.

In a social encounter, by revealing yourself, if the individual you are speaking with respects anything of the legacy of Númenor or the Dúnedain, you are treated as if you were Favoured by whomever you speak with. Additionally, you receive a +2 bonus to Charisma based proficiency ability checks until the end of the present encounter.

Both versions of this ability can each be used once during each Adventuring phase.

Sterner than Steel
He stood up, and seemed suddenly to grow taller. In his eyes gleamed a light, keen and commanding.
You resist Shadow corruption better than most, for your spirit is resolute, and your mind is not easily overthrown.Raise your Wisdom score by 1 point. You have advantage on Wisdom saving throws against Corruption.

Hit Dice: 1d10 per Wanderer level.
Hit Points at 1st level: 10 + your Constitution modifier.
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per Wanderer level after 1st.

Proficiencies
Armour: Light armour, medium armour, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: None.
Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution
Skills: Survival, plus choose three from Animal handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth and Traditions

Equipment
Poor: A leather corslet, a simple weapon, and a short bow or a great bow with a quiver of 20 arrows.
Frugal or Martial: Hide armour, a martial weapon, a shield, and a short bow or a great bow with a quiver of 20 arrows.
Rich or Prosperous: Corslet of mail, a martial weapon, a shield, and a short bow or a great bow with a quiver of 20 arrows.

Shadow Weakness: Wandering-madness

1st Level Abilities: Known Lands, Ways of the Wild

Known Lands

Long years spent roaming over the land have given you vast amounts fo knowledge about some of the regions of Middle-earth. You know the terrain of such lands like the backs of your hands and your lore can seem almost unnatural to any companions travelling with you. At 1st level, choose 3 regions + a number of regions equal to your Wisdom modifier from the Middle-earth maps. When you make an Intelligence or Wisdom check related to a land you know, your proficiency bonus is doubled if you are using a skill you are proficient in.

When you are travelling in one of your Known Lands you gain the following benefits:

-If any part of a journey passes through a land you know, the DC of your personal Event tests are lowered by 2.
-If the entire journey passes through lands you know and you act as Guide, you lower the Peril Rating of the Journey by 2.
-You have advantage when making Wisdom saving throws against Corruption caused by Blighted lands you know.
-You cannot become lost under normal circumstances.
-You know at least one place in each Known Land where you can safely take a long rest: a settlement where you have friends, perhaps, or a hidden cabin in the woods or simply a dry and defensible cavern or secret glade.
-You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) ability checks and can move stealthily at a normal pace.
-While tracking other creatures, you automatically learn their exact number, their sizes and how recently they passed through the area.

At both 6th and 10th level you choose an additional number of Known Lands equal to 1 + your Wisdom modifier, with a minimum of 1. With the Loremaster's permission, you can save these Known Lands until you start exploring new areas - once chosen, they cannot be changed.

Ways of the Wild

You have a great deal of experience travelling through the wilderness and surviving the various dangers that the wild constantly offers. At 1st level, you have advantage on all Wisdom (Survival) ability checks when tracking others through the wilderness.

If you act as a company's Guide on a journey, you are considered to be assuming all vacant travelling roles (you are considered to 'fill in' as the company's Hunter, Scout and Look-out at the same time, if no other companion is already covering that role).

At 6th level, your time in the Wild has taught you that only those that strike fast and hard live to fight another day. When fighting in the wilderness, your first round of attacks in every combat has advantage.

At 14th level, you can no longer be ambushed and cannot be surprised in the wilderness.