Playing Vistani:

Secrets of the Caravans

By Chris Sims
Illustrations by Jason A Engle

The Vistani share their secrets—both magical and

otherwise—only with those who are also vistani. Once you
have been welcomed into a vistani caravan and accepted
as a member, you undergo a ritual led by a vistani elder.
During the ritual, some of your blood is shared with that of
someone in the caravan. As your blood mingles with that of
the vistani, your eyes grow dark, and you become one with
the rest of the caravan, which grants you access to the feats,
powers, and other options available to all vistani.

Feats
Being a Vistani means having the Vistani Heritage
feat, which is a bloodline feat. All bloodline feats are
noted as such in the feat’s name. You can have blood-
line feats of only one type, so if you choose the Vistani
Heritage feat, you cannot have feats from other blood-
lines (such as dhampyr). An assortment of unique
bloodline feats, which require the Vistani Heritage
feat, are available to Vistani.

Vistani Heritage [Vistani Bloodline]

Prerequisite: Humanoid race
Benefit: You gain evil eye of the Vistani as an
encounter power. Additionally, you gain a +2 bonus
to Diplomacy checks made against other Vistani. You
have mastered the Vistani Blooding ritual and can
perform it.

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Evil Eye of the Vistani Feat Power
You cast a baleful look upon your enemy, forcing it to cower
before you.
Encounter ✦ Charm
Minor Action Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma + 3 vs. Will
Level 11: Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma + 6 vs. Will
Level 21: Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma + 9 vs. Will
Hit: Until the end of your next turn, the target grants combat
advantage to you and cannot willingly move closer to you.
Heroic Tier Feats
These feats are available to any character who meets
the prerequisites. They are meant, in a way, to be a
guide to common class and feature choices among
heroic Vistani. Some allow you to master certain
rituals as if you had the Ritual Caster feat or make
alchemical items as if you had the Alchemist feat. To
perform a ritual, you must still acquire the ritual and
master it; to make an alchemical item, you must still
acquire the formula and learn it. Your level still limits
whether you can perform a ritual or make an alchem-
ical item. The DM can modify the list of rituals and
alchemical items available to you as he or she sees fit.
Advantageous Eye
[Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Vistani Heritage
Benefit: When you hit a target with your evil eye of
the Vistani, the target grants combat advantage to all
your allies for the duration of the power.
Black Vistani Cat [Familiar, Vistani
Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Any arcane class, cat familiar,
Vistani Heritage
Benefit: Your evil eye of the Vistani can originate
from your active cat familiar. Using evil eye of the
Vistani in this way does not provoke opportunity
attacks.
Cosmic Eye [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Sorcerer, Cosmic Magic class fea-
ture, Vistani Heritage
Benefit: Evil eye of the Vistani deals fire and radiant
damage equal to your Cosmic Power damage bonus.
Covenant Eye [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity class feature,
Vistani Heritage
Benefit: As a free action, you can expend your use
of your Channel Divinity class feature to regain the
use of evil eye of the Vistani.
Enmity’s Eye [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Avenger, Vistani Heritage
Benefit: When you use evil eye of the Vistani
against your oath of enmity target, you do not provoke
opportunity attacks from that target. If no other
enemy is adjacent to you when you do so, you make
two attack rolls, taking either result. If you hit, you
deal 1d6 radiant damage in addition to the power’s
normal hit effect.
Playing Vistani
Eye of Paranoia [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Vistani Heritage
Benefit: When you hit a target with your evil eye
of the Vistani, the target cannot make opportunity
attacks or immediate action attacks for the duration
of the power.
Eye Wand [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Wizard, Wand of Accuracy class
feature, Vistani Heritage
Benefit: If you miss with an attack roll modified
by your Wand of Accuracy class feature, you can
use evil eye of the Vistani, if available, as a free action
against the target you missed.
Fell Vistani Hound [Vistani
Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Ranger, wolf beast companion,
Beast Mastery class feature, Vistani Heritage
Benefit: While you are flanking an enemy, your
wolf has combat advantage against that enemy.
Maledictor’s Eye [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Invoker, Covenant of Malediction
class feature, Vistani Heritage
Benefit: When you hit a target with evil eye of the
Vistani, you can slide the target 1 square. Until the
end of your next turn, whenever the target misses
with an attack roll, you can slide the target 1 square
as a free action.
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Nature’s Vindictive Eye [Vistani
Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Druid, Wild Shape class feature,
Vistani Heritage
Benefit: You can use evil eye of the Vistani while in
beast form as a minor action that does not provoke
opportunity attacks.
Orb of the Eye [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Wizard, Orb of Imposition class
feature, Vistani Heritage
Benefit: You treat evil eye of the Vistani as though it
were an at-will wizard spell for the purposes of your
Orb of Imposition.
Vestige of Vistan [Vistani
Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Warlock, vestige pact, Vistani
Heritage
Benefit: You add Vistan to your primary vestiges,
gaining access to the following pact boon when
Vistan is your active vestige.
Vistan Pact Boon: When an enemy under the effect
of your Warlock’s Curse drops to 0 hit points, you can
slide a different creature currently affected by your
Warlock’s Curse a number of squares equal to your
Charisma modifier.
Warlock’s Eye [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Warlock, Vistani Heritage
Benefit: When you hit with evil eye of the Vistani,
you can add the extra damage from your Warlock’s
Curse, even if you have already used your extra curse
damage this turn.
Vestige of Vistan
The vestige of Vistan has a nebulous feel—varied
emotions, indeterminate gender, and so on—
shaped by the many myths surrounding this
legendary Vistani figure. The vestige might not
be a specific entity, but instead it could be a
blend of power gathered from Vistani collective
belief and mysticism. Contact with this vestige
leads to a desire to move and to capricious
behavior. Vistani often call the triggering of the
pact boon the “dance of Vistan.”
Vistani Fencer [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Vistani Heritage
Benefit: You gain a +4 bonus to damage rolls with
melee or close attacks with a light blade or a heavy
blade against a target currently affected by your evil
eye of the Vistani.
Vistani Guardian
[Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Vistani Heritage
Benefit: You can master and perform binding or
warding rituals as though you had the Ritual Caster
feat. Once per day, you can ignore the component cost
of a binding or warding ritual your have mastered of
your level or lower.
Playing Vistani
Vistani Healer [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Vistani Heritage
Benefit: You can master and perform restoration
rituals as though you had the Ritual Caster feat. Once
per day, you can ignore the component cost of a resto-
ration ritual you have mastered of your level or lower.
Vistani Jongleur [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Vistani Heritage
Benefit: You can master and perform Bard rituals
as though you had the Ritual Caster feat. Once per
day, you can ignore the component cost of a ritual you
have mastered of your level or lower that has Bard as
a prerequisite.
Vistani Knife Fighting [Vistani
Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Vistani Heritage
Benefit: When you miss the target of your evil eye
of the Vistani with a melee or close attack with a light
blade, you can choose to either shift 1 square or move
your speed as a free action.
Vistani Pathfinder [Vistani
Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Vistani Heritage
Benefit: You can master and perform exploration
and travel rituals as though you had the Ritual Caster
feat. Once per day, you can ignore the component cost
of an exploration or travel ritual you have mastered of
your level or lower.
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Vistani Seer [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Vistani Heritage
Benefit: You can master and perform divination
and scrying rituals as though you had the Ritual
Caster feat. Once per day, you can ignore the com-
ponent cost of a divination or scrying ritual you have
mastered of your level or lower.
Vistani Thief [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Vistani Heritage
Benefit: You can master and perform decep-
tion rituals as though you had the Ritual Caster feat.
Once per day, you can ignore the component cost of
a deception ritual you have mastered of your level or
lower.
Wild Magic Eye [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: Sorcerer, Wild Magic class feature,
Vistani Heritage
Benefit: Evil eye of the Vistani deals damage of
the same type as your current Wild Soul damage
type, and the damage is equal to your Chaos Power
damage bonus.
Paragon Tier Feats
Any feat in this section is available to a character of
11th level or higher who meets the prerequisites.
Mark of the Evil Eye [Vistani
Bloodline]
Prerequisite: 11th level, fighter, Vistani Heritage
Benefit: Whenever you would make an attack
as the result of your Combat Challenge feature, you
can use evil eye of the Vistani, if available, on the same
target as a free action without provoking opportunity
attacks before making your attack.
Prophetic Preparation [Vistani
Bloodline]
Prerequisite: 11th level, wizard, Vistani Heritage
Benefit: Once per day, as a free action, you can
swap one daily attack spell you didn’t prepare in
place of one you did prepare. Also once per day, as a
free action, you can swap one utility spell you didn’t
prepare in place of one you did prepare. You choose
the replacement spell at the time you use it.
Epic Tier Feats
Any feat in this section is available to a character of
21st level or higher who meets the prerequisites.
Persistent Eye [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: 21st level, Vistani Heritage
Benefit: : Instead of lasting until the end of your
next turn, the target of your evil eye of the Vistani
grants you combat advantage and cannot willingly
move closer to you (save ends).
Vistani Foresight [Vistani Bloodline]
Prerequisite: 21st level, Vistani Heritage
Benefit: You gain +2 to initiative. Additionally,
you gain an additional action point after an extended
rest.
Playing Vistani
Paragon Path
Vistani heroes vary widely in their pursuits, but the
Vistani execrator is distinct to Vistani culture.
Vistani Execrator
“I am the lurking sickness in your veins, the lurking fear in
your mind, and the lurking stain on your soul. From me
you’ll receive no less than you deserve.”
Prerequisite: Any arcane class or Covenant of
Malediction class feature, Vistani Heritage
Rumor and legend speak of horrifying Vistani curses.
Few are willing to put these dark parables to the test.
Threat of ill fortune or a wasting disease is enough to
keep the Vistani safe from numerous threats
Folk do well to heed the folktales, because the sto-
ries are true. Of this fact you are living proof.
Although many a Vistani knows the magic to place
a lasting curse on someone who has offended the
clan, you are something more. In an instant, with but
a glare and an oath, you can turn fortune against your
adversaries. Those who dare raise their hands against
you soon see the folly of their actions.
Any who show you the respect and camarade-
rie you deserve have little to fear. While standing
beside you or watching your back, your allies benefit
from the bad luck you hurl at your foes. They could
even say that you bring them good fortune instead
of afflicting enemies. Despite the reality, with a sly
Vistani smile, you might let them believe this is true.
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Vistani Execrator Features
Cursed Action (11th level): When you spend
an action point to make an attack, you gain combat
advantage against each of your targets.
Sight Beyond Sight (11th level): Whenever
an effect would blind you, you can make one saving
throw to remove that effect as a free action, even if
that effect doesn’t normally allow a save. Additionally,
you ignore concealment for any creature within 5
squares of you.
Master of the Vistani Curse (16th level): You
can use evil eye of the Vistani one additional time per
encounter.
Vistani Execrator Powers
Isolating Curse Vistani Execrator Attack 11
You lay an imprecation on your adversary, driving its friends
too far away to offer protection and opening your foe to
attack.
Encounter ✦ Implement, Psychic
Standard Action Ranged 10
Primary Target: One creature
Primary Attack: Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 2d8 + Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier psychic
damage. Until the end of your next turn, the target grants
combat advantage, and any enemy within 3 squares of the
target takes a –4 penalty to attack rolls and cannot regain
hit points.
Playing Vistani
Fumbling Curse Vistani Execrator Utility 12 About the Author
Chris Sims is a mysterious person who wanders the lands
With a word, you turn a sure strike into a glancing blow that
and travels the mists between varied duties as a member of
momentarily throws your opponent off balance.
RPG R&D for Wizards of the Coast. He is independent of the
Daily bonds that shackle the lords to their domains and the folk to
Immediate Interrupt Personal their dreary, oppressed existence. One might say he is among
Trigger: An enemy hits or misses you with an attack the strangest characters in RPG R&D, because in spirit he is
Effect: Whenever the target makes an attack roll (including the free. His works include writing, development, editing, and
attack roll that triggered this power), roll 1d6 and subtract general troublemaking for D&D Insider, as well as parts of
the result from the target’s attack (save ends). Dungeon Master’s Guide®, Martial Power™, Monster Manual 2®,
Eberron Campaign Guide® and Eberron Player’s Guide®, and a
Deadly Repercussions Vistani Execrator Attack 20 few official D&D® adventures.
Your curse attracts doom to your enemies, and it rewards with
continued pain their insolent attacks against you and your
allies.
Daily ✦ Implement, Psychic
Standard Action Close burst 2
Target: Each enemy in burst
Attack: Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma vs. Will
Hit: 3d8 + Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier psychic
damage.
Miss: Half damage.
Effect: The target grants combat advantage and has ongoing
10 damage (save ends both). Until the target saves against
this effect, once each turn when the target hits an ally, roll
1d6. The target takes a penalty to saving throws equal to
the result of this roll until the end of your next turn.
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