What is the Echo Knight? - Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount for D&D 

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PC: So, why does this verison of me have an eyepatch? Did I lose it during a revolutionary uprising against an oppressive leader in your timeline? Echo: No. You used the sending stone in bed at 4 am and you dropped it on your face like a dumbass.

UA class variants, Rune knight and now the Echo Knight...this is the best timeline to play fighter

The fact that people in the comments are likening this to so many different characters is proof in itself that this idea deserved to be made into a subclass, IMO

I can't believe Matthew actually went and invented a Stand User class. The absolute mad lad.

When you realise Matt has made everyone’s D4C Monk dreams come true

Echo knights: can pull other versions of themselves from other dimensions and use them to fight Now mix it with astral self monk and you'll have D4C

"Summon versions of yourself that you could've become from slightly different timelines." This would be so perfect for a Dark Souls inspired campaign.

So, Ciri? Or maybe a little flavor of Celebrimbor and Talion from Shadows of Mordor? That's pretty sick.

Can’t wait to play as Funny Valentine when this comes out

IS THIS THE WORK OF AN ENEMY STAND

And now we can all play as Dave Strider

There are so many awesome builds this class can help create: Zed and Ekko from League of Legends are the immediate thought, and plenty of people have already pointed out the JoJo possibility. I'm personally excited to finally build Isaac from Skullgirls.

"An Echo Knight is able to tap into those dying timelines and temporarily pull a version of themselves from that timeline" The nature of humanity is just that every so often someone accidentally invents Homestuck again.

From a Role Play perspective, there is an awesome amount of flavor available here. I would play every Echo having at least one distinctive alteration. Full range from different gender to different alignment. The fun part would be throwing things out there, without explaining fully what caused the differences.

Reminds me of the Flash using a time remnant of himself to fight with

Matt mercer: Casually create one of the best and most interesting subclasses

Oh please I need this, I'm in love ever since matt used the descriptions of the echo knight

One of the coolest additions. This is definitely a something I want to play.

About the mischievous DM part. Yeah, what if the Echo Self isn't really cooperative, having its own will and desires.

Oh this is the perfect subclass for Dave Strider

Sweet Matt! I made an NPC just like this 2 years ago in one of my campaigns. A lot of people hoped I made a playable class or wanted more information on him when the campaign was over. Looking forward to where you drew inspiration from. From a Matt to another Matt, /salute

Funny Valentine would like a word with you

Virgil just made his way to d&d

MATT BRILLIANT JOB ON ECHO KNIGHT.... the creative impetus to create such a meaning full subclass must have been one truly eureka moment. love the concept and excited to play with it in the future

Damn Matt, referencing Langoliers!

This sounds really cool - very excited to see this!

Dang the Echo Knight really does make me like Funny Valentine

I REALLY want to see the crunch on this to see how easily i can blend it with a monk!

This explains a lot from Campaign 2, and it sounds very cool to play.

I've got an Echo Knight/ Shadow Monk thats gonna let me live out my Naruto dreams. Truly wouldn't feel right without this subclass, so thanks Matt

This is huge. Love these new subclasses.

I love everything that I am hearing about this new sourcebook, and I also love that he said "timey wimey".

China Mieville has a character you can base this on in his book "The Scar." The warrior in question calls it possibility mining.

So a gunslinging Echo Knight would be like a Grammaton Cleric? :P

Oh man Echo Knight plus Bladesinger... ideas are forming!

I’m going to have so much fun with this!

First DnD Module I've preordered.

So many Dave Striders just got rolled up...

I thought of a great RP element of this class. What if in everytime you summon a echo, your link to those possible version of yourself gets stronger and stronger, and eventually an echo replaces you? And you now have a multiple personality of sorts, and then each time an Echo pops up, it's actually your true self trying to fight to get back to this reality

I genuinely had a character concept of someone who is a spell sword that was able to talk to the ghost of himself who had just time travelled back to the past before dying. With the blade that the character is using being literally partly forged with the ashes of his future self. This subclass is absolutely perfect. Before I was struggling to decide between a full wizard, eldritch knight, warlock etc.

So excited for this!

The concept actually reminds me almost of the concept of a Time Remnant from The Flash

This kind of reminds me of Firefight from the Reckoners series by Brandon Sanderson. I must say I AM STOKED!

Yes!! Matt knows Langoliers! That's awesome.

Ive always wanted to make a summoner subclass for fighter (or just a new class all together). Where you could summon creatures/like a skeletal knight or something and use them to fight along side you.

Echo Knight sounds like an existential crisis waiting to happen.

Ok so it's homestuck-based time travel. Neat.

I'm playing an Echo Knight at the earliest possible chance.

Matt referenced The Langoliers, I love him!

I read this as a homebrew subclass around half a year ago on Reddit, I bet he took inspiration from that.

Uggh I want a peek at them!

I will play this. Wish me good luck.

I like this sort of flavor for the conjuration school minor conjuration. When I conjure an object, I'm getting it from a dimension where that object was where it needed to be.

Already pre-ordered this book. Mark 17th can’t come soon enough.

I associate this subclass with rolling dice - you roll and whatever happens, all of the other versions of your roll exist in other timelines... so it's cool to pull aid from your other rolls as well.

Duuuuuude. I've been wanting to write a "clone" class for awhile, but I never knew how to flavor it. This is it! Thanks Matt.... for stealing my idea :'( ... ;) Jk, brilliant idea.

I love the idea of it. I just feel like the class could be explained better (anti magix fields, Warcaster Opportunity Attacks, can you teleport into your Echo using Avatar Mode)

This is distinctly similar to Ekko from LoL as one example, although Ekko himself is also pulled from other sources. I think it's a pretty cool concept brought into DnD :)

Now this was the class I was hoping for, its sounds great. My worry is the abilities don't sound too crazy and kind of like a few others we already have. So I really hope they are expanded on or very different. But other then that I am hyped for this subclass.

This subclass has a great rp hook. Some spell or effect could cause an echo to manifest a nega-Matt into existence for a great arch-enemy.

Alas, now I can play as Ciri.

This kinda makes me wonder if Matt is drawing inspiration from China Miéville! Big Uther Doul vibes

Dang, I have so many ideas for this in combat. You can keep the enemies away from your casters, and still be on the front, wrecking face.

I'd probably create a character like this as having had a pivotal moment in their life where they had a big choice to make. Kind of like an evil twin, or good twin depending on who the main character would be.

So I wonder something: If you're an Echo Knight and can take alternate versions of yourself from an alternate timeline, could your alternate version of yourself from another timeline take YOU to them? Like, I know that Matt says the other timelines are decaying and all, but as long as they are not COMPLETELY decayed, the alternate Echo Knight is still an Echo Knight, and MAYBE, just maybe, he could tap into your (main) timeline and drag YOU into one of his fight? (oh my god I just though of the absolute best story plot for an Echo Knight! So you're an Echo Knight but from an alternate, main timeline. And you know the timeline you got dragged to is decaying, and your mission is to turn this alternate timeline into the main timeline, because you're stuck in it (maybe your alternate self who dragged you died before you went back, and that severed the connection? You guys have fun with it! :p ). That'd be a fun story! I'm looking for a new DnD game right now; if the DM allows it I'll try to pull that story in there! :p lol)

Oh the possible shenanigans you can do with this subclass

All I can think while watching this is steins;gate

Would make for a great villian, as you'll never know if what you're fighting is really him or the echo, unless of course the echo has some sort of translucent shadoy effect to differentiate it, which can be solved with some simple illusion magic.

Fighters are getting more love and flavor.....dammit I said I wasn't going to cry but it's just so beautiful! 😭😭😭

Oh this is going to be good this is going to be real good.

I’ve made a character based off of Zenos from FFXIV and took the fighter class with Echo Knight to replicate his ability to somehow copy himself. This also adds to the feeling of the character basically being a one man army of incredible power

I can’t believe Dave from Homestuck is a D&D class now

I would absolutely use this, either as a player or DM, to have the Echos be very different what-ifs of the Echo Knight summoning them. One might be randomly be a pirate with an eye patch, another could be horribly mutated beastial creature, another could be very clearly be a servant of a great evil. Mechanically I would change nothing and the player would still control the Echoes' actions, but it could be very fun "there but for the grace of God goes I" sort of situation. Sort of like a Rick and Morty adventure with the different kinds of Ricks.

Subclass of fighter? I just want to make sure. They never mention it specifically in the video.

Idea for an Echo Knight: Your character is a Doppelgänger who recently came into maturity, and is going to take the identity of its first person. They find someone and take them back to their lair. What the Doppelgänger doesn’t know is that the lair is an old necromancer hideout. When your character tries to take its victim’s identity it is overwhelmed by their emotions, and forgets what they were, actually thinking that they are that person. Their Echo on the other hand, is actually that victim haunting the character to do specific tasks in their stead.

I invented the expose knight. It fights by spilling tea and being fabulous

It kinda reminds me of the Diablo II assassin class; specifically the shadow discipline skill path.

Is there going to be an errata coming out for the Echo Knight? There seems to a lot questions that are not answered. It says you can do and attack but what weapon, the one your using? What if you have a bow or its magical, what if you previously cast Shadow Blade? I see the stats for the echo but can you buff it after you summon it, bless, aid etc?

I HAVE WANTED THE ECHO KNIGHT AS A PLAYABLE CLASS SINCE MATT INTRODUCED DUNAMANCY

I'm intrigued by the mechanical implications of this... Is it like the "Lucky" feat, where an echo of a weapon "hitting" replaces a miss? Is it like the "Boots of the Winding Path", where you teleport to a spot you previously occupied mere moments before? ...can you pull a copy of yourself from another timeline to take a fatal blow, similar to an illusion wizard's "Illusory Double"?

Matt is just a blessing to DnD; dude literally makes whole new classes, subclasses, and (bad to some) standards of play.

OK, I have a bunch of questions about the Echo Knight mechanics. I'm playing a combo EchoKnight/Gloomstalker in a campaign that uses Fantasy Grounds for battle maps. We are very tactical in our game play with RP sort of there to set up the combats. I've raised a few questions on how the mechanics of using the Echo work and our DM has had trouble making decisions about it because there is so little discussion out there on the boards. Here's the issue: How realistic is the Echo? Would a enemy creature see the Echo as a independent threat or would it see it as a duplicate of me? It occupies its own space and so it's more than just an illusion. The answer effects how useful the Echo is beyond the teleport ability and speaks to target selection by enemy creatures. Unlike the Mirror Image spell where the mirrors all exist in the same space as the caster and do exactly the same thing as the caster, the Echo seems to be able to move on its own, and be able to make a melee attack separate from the main character. Does the Echo move realistically? What about when its moving on the ground vs in the air? If the Echo makes a ranged attack is the arrow real or is it a gray translucent part of the Echo? If it's real when does it become real? Is it when the arrow is knocked, or when it leaves my square or when it hits? If I take the Dodge action, does the Mirror also Dodge? Can I make an attack and have the Echo dodge? What happens if my character drops an item or weapon? Does the Echo also drop the item? The answer to all these sorts of questions impacts the realism of the Echo and thus the usability/functionality of the Echo in our game. So, someone, please help!

So you telling me that I can pull all my past character :p

K'thriss D'rowb is apparently an echo knight. Good on him.

I experienced an Echo Knight for the first time last night and I think the unlimited nature of the Manifest Echo (instead of linking it to their proficiency modifier) make it an overpowered feature. They get to move it around the board, “teleport,” attack, and create a new Echo with virtually no significant cost to their action economy.

Im about to create a Noob Saibot character in DnD and its going to be amazing

Aaah... The Homestuck Dave Strider class.

I wonder how this will synergize with The Reflectionist on the DMsGuild?

I can already see some hilarious potential with this subclass just by how they describe it playing. If your deviding your actions up amongst you and your clone then I'd love to see your clone grapple and restrain a Target then you action surge attack said Target with advantage. Good? No. Basically the same as attacking him twice with action surge but with extra steps. Though is it cool to pin your target with your shadow time clone as you curb stomp their face in? Yes. Want to play this with the unarmed fighting style fighter then I can play as Noob saibot.

Can you just release this as the long form interview it clearly is please?

Matt mercer fr just made funny valentine

I now realize home much home brewing has gone into this mighty nein journey.

I sincerely appreciate Matt’s use of “themself” here. Just normalizing it which I think is pretty cool

I need help with the echo knight i have a pc that is a death domain cleric/ echo knight and i need to know if you can use your echo and cast inflict wounds as you would a familiar cashing it through them not them casting it but actually using them to as of catching it through them them using the touch portion

Is there anywhere where how the echo knight synergies with other rules is? I have seen some stuff on reddit, but is there an official thing from Matt? Is it just a fight buddy or can it do more? Can it be heavy dm dependant?

Been using cleric of trickery with blur

Echo Knights can make the opportunity of attack reaction. Can they take other reactions too? Like if I'm using the Sentinel feat, can my echo hit somebody that hit an ally 5 ft from them, or nah because they're an object and not an ally? Also can you use bonus actions with your echo like action surge? If my my College of Swords Bard dies, I'd like to make one of these as a variant human with the Shield Master and Sentinel feats, and use the protection fighting style. I feel like I could use the echo abilities to get to people faster, but not be the defender that my physical character is. Cool class either way.

The echo avatar have darkvision if the character have ?

So...a stand? Between this, Way of the Astral Self, and Kalashtar we are getting more and more JoJo into D&D and I’m here for it.