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If an Echo Knight fighter turns invisible, do their echoes also turn invisible?
The Echo Knight fighter's Manifest Echo feature description says (EGtW, p. 183):
Your echo has AC 14 + your proficiency bonus, 1 hit point, and immunity to all conditions.
And strangely, "...
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Can an Echo Knight fighter's echo ever fail a saving throw?
Of course it can fail saving throws
If it couldn't fail a saving throw, it wouldn't have specified the text you quoted:
If [your echo] has to make a saving throw, it uses your saving throw bonus for ...
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If a prone Echo Knight fighter makes a ranged attack from the echo's space, and the echo is not prone, would the attack be made without disadvantage?
No. The Echo Knight is still making the attack; it's just coming from the Echo's Space.
Per the phrasing of the Manifest Echo feature (emphasis mine):
When you take the Attack action on your turn, ...
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Does the Echo Knight fighter's Unleash Incarnation feature add another attack to the additional Attack action from the Haste spell?
Unleash Incarnation cannot exceed haste's limit
Haste states that the target
gains an additional action on each of its turns. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), ...
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Does an Echo Knight fighter's echo provoke an opportunity attack when it moves?
The Echo does provoke opportunity attacks
To start with, creature is not a strictly defined term in the game. Since D&D 5e uses natural language as opposed to strictly defined language, we need to ...
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Does the Echo Knight fighter's Legion of One feature allow each echo to use Unleash Incarnation?
The knight gains the ability to make an extra attack, not the echoes.
The echo knight is who is granted the extra attack by Unleash Incarnation and the feature says this extra attack is granted, if ...
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Can an Echo Knight move its echo vertically or through walls?
The echo can move in any direction
This class isn't worded well. The feature says you can command the echo to move but the echo is an object and doesn't have any modes of movement or speed. We also ...
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If an Echo Knight fighter makes an attack from their echo's space and hits a paralyzed enemy, is it automatically a critical hit?
Yes. "The attack originates from the echo's space" means we treat the attacker as being in the echo's space for rules purposes.
The Echo Knight fighter's Manifest Echo feature states (EGtW, ...
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Will a Reckless Attack give advantage on attacks against a manifested echo of an Echo knight?
The "Reckless Attack" barbarian class feature says:
Starting at 2nd level, you can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with fierce desperation. When you make your first attack on ...
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Can a Dhampir echo knight's echo use vampiric bite to restore hit points to the echo knight?
The Echo never actually bites anything; you bite as if from its space
The Manifest Echo feature states:
[...] When you take the Attack action on your turn, any attack you make with that action can ...
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Can the Echo of the Echo Knight fighter be used to teleport across planes?
This works.
Since there is no challenge to having the echo be 15 feet away from you when you discharge the bag of holding bomb, this just works. You are teleported to the Astral Sea, leaving your echo ...
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Can an Echo Knight fighter's Manifest Echo move through another creature's space?
Sometimes; it's complicated
The echo's movement in relation to other creatures is governed by a slightly obscure set of rules: The echo is not a creature, but it occupies its space, which is an ...
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Can you attack while using Echo Avatar?
The Echo Knight requires a lot of work.
I've played an Echo Knight, and then later DM'd for an Echo Knight. My experience with the subclass has been that the DM is going to be making a lot of rulings. ...
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When the War Caster feat lets my Echo Knight fighter cast a spell instead of the Manifest Echo feature's opportunity attack, where is it cast from?
The spell is cast from your own space.
As you point out, the Echo Knight fighter's Manifest Echo feature says, in part (EGtW, p. 183; emphasis mine):
When you take the Attack action on your turn, any ...
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Can the Lucky feat be used on attacks made against an Echo Knight's Echo?
In general, your echo cannot use your feats.
First, from the description of the echo knight subclass, the echo is not “you”:
This echo is a magical, translucent, gray image of you.
It is only an ...
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Can an Echo Knight with the War Caster feat use spells in place of opportunity attacks made by their Echo?
Yes, they can cast a spell instead of an opportunity attack when an enemy moves away from their echo
The War Caster feat (PHB, p. 170) states that you can cast a spell instead of making an opportunity ...
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Do increases (or other changes) to an Echo Knight fighter's movement/speed also apply to the echo?
You can move your echo 30 feet, regardless of your speed.
The Echo Knight’s Manifest Echo feature states (EGtW, p. 183):
On your turn, you can mentally command the echo to move up to 30 feet in any ...
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Do I understand the mechanics of how Echo Knight works?
This works, but some of the details differ
You have a lot of steps in your description. To see if each one of them is conforming to the rules of Echo Knight (all p. 183, Explorer's Guide to Wildemount)...
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For a multiclassed Ancestral Guardians barbarian/Echo Knight fighter, how do the Ancestral Protectors and Manifest Echo features interact?
You are making the attack from the echo's space.
This is spelled out in the feature description of Manifest Echo:
When you take the Attack action on your turn, any attack you make with that action ...
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What happens after an Echo Knight fighter grapples using its echo?
Echo Knight is sloppy and is going to require some work from your DM
At this point, we can't avoid saying it. Usually, WotC writes very tightly and with great purpose. Echo Knight, however, has a lot ...
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Can a Bladesinger/Echo Knight MC cast attack cantrips through his Echo from his echo's location?
Yes, you can cast a cantrip (one that requires an attack roll!) From the echo's space in this situation.
You hit the nail on the head by looking at that other question. As long as it doesn't say a ...
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Distribution of fall damage between the falling and the fallen upon. How does it apply when the damage is reduced by other means?
RAW, the impacted creature also takes reduced damage
The way the Tasha's Cauldron of Everything optional rule works is you roll the total falling damage and then divide by 2:
any damage resulting ...
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Is the Echo of a Echo Knight actually a creature?
The echo is not a creature.
The echo is defined as an image, and nowhere in its description as a creature or object if not only by some degreee of inference. If the echo was a creature, the feature ...
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If an Echo Knight fighter has a bow equipped, can they make an opportunity attack from the echo's space with a dagger, then use the bow on their turn?
Rules-as-written, looks like yes.
I'm not sure that it matters that the character is an Echo Knight; the same question would arise for any player with a two-handed ranged weapon and the Thrown Weapon ...
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Can the Echo Knight's Echo's size dictate what it can grapple?
You need to find another way to create a Huge echo, but ask your DM
Assuming your DM allows grappling with your echo, then yes, its size will determine what you can grapple with it. The grapple rules (...
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Does an Echo Knight fighter's echo provoke an opportunity attack when it moves?
The language is unclear
The language around the Echo Knight does not give us a clear answer here. Usually, creatures are called creatures and other mechanics are called out for what they are as well.
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What happens after an Echo Knight fighter grapples using its echo?
The grapple ends immediately
Given the fact that a grapple is an attack, which the rules permit the echo to do
No. Echos cannot attack. You can perform an attack as if you were in the echos space. ...
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Does the bonus damage from Spirit Shroud apply to an Echo's opportunity attacks?
Yes.
You quoted the necessary text: "as if you were in the echo's space". It's not the echo making the attack, but you attacking as if you were in its space. As a further indication, spirit ...
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Can the Echo Knight's Echo make Ability Checks?
Not really
The skills are:
Strength
Athletics
The echo does not need (nor can it) climb or jump or swim, etc. It simply is moved 30 feet at a time by the knight. No check is required for this.
The ...
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Can an Echo Knight fighter's Manifest Echo move through another creature's space?
It is unclear, so the table needs to decide
Unfortunately, this mechanic of the Echo Knight is incredibly unclear as to how to adjudicate these things for moving it. I have reviewed other potential ...
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