D&D 5E How would you make a Jedi in 5e?

[Zaruthustran]

Monk. Way of Open Hand. The prequels integrated the "force push" and kicks/punches into the saber-fighting. Way of Open hand's "push/prone when flurry" replicates this.

Add in three levels of Warlock for the magic-blade-on-demand. And the invocations. And the telepathy. For spells, go with the cantrips Mage Hand and Friends. And for 1st level: Suggestion, Hex, Expeditious Retreat, and Witch Bolt.

If multiclass isn't your thing, I still think Monk is the way to go. Pick up Magic Initiate for Mage Hand and Friends (these are must-haves), and either Charm Person, Expeditious Retreat, or Witch Bolt for the 1st level spell.

 

[Minsc]

Someone already has HERE, and it's beautifully presented too. He's tweaking and updating it soon based on feedback from other players.

There is some truly great 5e stuff on the Unearthed Arcana and DnDNext/5e reddits.

That's neat, but I need to do it with official material and UA stuff only.

Minor tweaks may be allowed.

 

[Ahrimon]

If that's the case I would like to re-recommend using the monk as the base then using the UA/DMG rules to add rapiers, allow martial arts and flurry of blows to be used with light and monk weapons, remove the unarmed strike, and alter the elemental monks spells to be more Jedi-appropriate. If you feel that the rapier is not enough on it's own to replace the unarmed strike you could add the fighters +2 to damage with a weapon but make it apply to any monk weapon only (even if dual wielded for the folks that like that style of Jedi.)

The only thing it really looses is the lightsaber and if that was a big enough sticking point you could add in the warlocks pact blade for a summon-able blade or add a simple cantrip that they get for free that creates a glowstick that is mechanically a rapier.

 

[DJCupboard]

Given the diversity of jedi as represented (everything from acrobatic rogues to heavily armoured wizards), my representation of a jedi would be:

Make any character you feel like.
Give them a sun blade.
Have them make proclamations involving the light side and dark side and the force.

Done.

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