CURSED CLASSES

EVEN CURSIER
 CURSED CLASSES
EVEN CURSIER
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Written by Steve Fidler, Bryan Holmes,

E. R. F. Jordan, Ryan Langr, Jackson Lewis,
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 Contents
Introduction ....................................1 Vampire ............................................ 40
Path of the Blood Ritual ........................41
Ceremorph .........................................4 Path of the Strigoi.................................... 43
Manifestation of Aberrant Offspring.8
Manifestation of Madness..................... 10 Spells .................................................44
Manifestation of Taming ........................ 11
Spell Descriptions ........................46
Covenborn........................................12 1st Level Spells............................................ 46
Blood of the Dusk Coven ........................ 17 2nd Level Spells .......................................... 46
Blood of the Green Coven ...................... 18 3rd Level Spells........................................... 47
Blood of the Night Coven ......................19 4th Level Spells .......................................... 48
5th Level Spells............................................ 51
Bound Spirit .................................... 22 7th Level Spells ...........................................52
Iron Golem ....................................................23
9th Level Spells ...........................................52
Mimic Bound ................................................ 24
Floraspawn ..................................... 26 Magic Items ......................................53
Alraune ..........................................................27 Backgrounds ...................................58
Corpse Flora.................................................29 Illithid Exile ................................................58
Dabbler...........................................................59
Lich ....................................................30
Pathway of the Phylactery .................... 31 Credits..............................................60
Pathway of the Shadow ...........................32
Lycanthrope ....................................33
Calling of the Werebat........................... 34
Calling of the Werebison........................ 35
Calling of the Wereshark....................... 35
Calling of the Werewyvern ...................36
Revenant.......................................... 37
Route of the Chosen .................................38
Route of the Unfulfilled........................39
Introduction
our fascination with unlife has consumed
you for most of your days. You have finally
reached the pinnacle of power, you are
about to become a lich! What does that
mean for a character who has taken this
path? From the standard rules, the
character wouldn’t be allowed to multiclass. Let's now
say that multiclassing is allowed, will that make your
character a level 14 sorcerer and level 1 lich? These
rules work best when taken early in your adventuring
career; a few levels of fighter certainly won’t hurt your
Lycanthrope and just a small excursion into revenant
can add a lot of flavor to a ranger character. Remember
that leveling in a cursed class represents giving in or
adopting the power of the curse to use for yourself. The
higher level you become, the more likely you are to
appear changed by the properties of your curse.
There are some circumstances where your
transformation should be more complete, where you
give up on your old life and dive headlong into the new
one. The example of our lich is just one which benefits
from the concept of ‘reclassing’. Reclassing has been
around in Dungeons & Dragons as a house rule for
as long as many of us have been playing. The storied
tale is of a fighter wanting to join the order of paladins
or the humble ranger who falls into a life of crime and
becomes a rogue. In many circumstances this decision
involves a lot of careful management from a Dungeon
Master and a player. It may even include a shifting of
ability scores to make the new class viable in play.
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Cursed Classes has some viable roleplay options that
allow not only for reclassing, but also for shuffling
ability scores. Every one of the cursed class options
reflects a change that happens after a traumatic event,
often your death. The magic that now permeates you
could be responsible for a dramatic change in your
mind and body. Many of the cursed classes reset the
clock to 0 and represent new beginnings.
If you plan to allow reclassing for your characters, as
a Dungeon Master, I highly recommend you look into
the power levels of each cursed class. Many of them
follow standard progression of abilities found in the
core classes, but there are still some shifts to the overall
power level.
A bound spirit could have an issue remembering their
previous life when moving to their new body. This
could be represented through reclassing them fully into
a bound spirit. It’s also possible that many of their
modifications, or even the original build of the body,
represents a higher power level to start, so that it isn’t
strange to suddenly be a 7th-level bound spirit the
moment you enter your new physical shell.
Ceremorphs are likely forced into their change
through ceremorphosis. Something has happened
during this process to change the very nature of your
body. An increase in intelligence is entirely possible.
Mental ability scores that are hard to explain in other
cursed classes could easily shift with the expansion of
your mind. Ceremorphs are naturally built for
reclassing as their change is both mentally and
physically consuming.
 Covenborn are changed through rituals and magic,
sometimes of their own volition, other times through
forced corruption. Their physical form and even their
mind can change during reclassing, which makes it
somewhat simple to reclass them. At the same time,
understand that the change from something else into a
covenborn is not a particularly pleasant experience.
Floraspawn come with the excuse of death in order to
reclass. Waking up in a changed body after you have
been infested with russet mold or any other manner of
plant like transformation is the perfect explanation for
new powers. Floraspawn characters remain one of the
easiest to explain reclassing with.
Liches are both simple and complex depending on the
class they were previously. A wizard reclassing into a
lich is nearly a perfect transition during the reclass. A
sorcerer or bard can also work, though it requires a bit
of reworking to explain the change in magic ability and
the new prime ability scores you will need. A lich will
very often be the result of self inflicted cursing, outside
of something like the Pathway of the Phylactery.
Lycanthropes who reclass often do so by giving in to
their bestial nature and embracing it. They are one of
the easier characters to multiclass with, especially for a
somewhat more martial class. Reclassing can be seen as
somewhat of a natural process, ignoring your old life in
favor of the new one, it can also be seen as a tool to
change your character unwillingly into something they
are not. Changing ability scores through the violent
transformation of your flesh is an easy explanation for
revising your character.
Revenants have the advantage of death on their side
for reclassing. A change in ability scores could come
from the body atrophying as much as the change to
semi-undeath may enrich the body with new found
power. Both mentally and physically, the revenant
could have a change in ability scores during its
reclassing.
Vampires are driven by their hunger. Their emotions
can have such a profound influence on the mind, their
undeath will no doubt allow their physical attributes to
change as well. Again, the rebirth of a vampire allows
for an easy explanation for their reclassing. I still
strongly recommend you consider multiclassing a
vampire, as some of the most interesting vampires hold
onto fragments of their past life to guide the new one.
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Cursed Doesn’t Mean Evil
Most adventurers are more wary than to approach a
hag or an illithid with open arms and a friendly smile.
Even if not all individuals mean them ill, they
understand that with all of the kidnapping and brain-
eating, these creatures built bad reputations. The same
could be said for vampires, lycanthropes, the unliving,
and so on; they generally mean bad news for those who
cross their paths.
However, adventurers are not ordinary people.
Whether an adventurer becomes afflicted with a curse
at the start of their story, or many years into their
journeys, they are not required to bend themselves to
follow the preconceived notions of their kind. Even if
they feel new, strong urges to nibble on tasty grey
matter, they have the power to resist those urges and
continue living their lives on their own terms.
The Good Covenborn
Covenborn are not hags. While they may share the
same magical roots, a covernborn is not innately evil
and is not driven to the same depths of darkness as a
hag. Though a covenborn could surely choose to walk
the path of evil, their choices are their own and they
could just as easily turn their energies toward doing good.
It is a common fallacy that ugliness equates to
evilness. People want to believe that the worst parts of
the world are detectable at a glance and that creatures
or people who would do them harm are obvious and
easy to avoid. This way of thinking gets a lot of people
hurt or taken advantage of, but it particularly hurts
those who were not blessed with beauty. A covernborn
may tangle their hair with weeds and filth and take up a
whimsically dark name like Wilburt Wormtongue or
Grandma Bitterberry, but that doesn’t mean they don’t
still have love and kindness in their hearts.
The Good Ceremorph
One of the most terrifying factors of the illithid is their
propensity for consuming the brains of their victims.
Their feeding goes beyond murder, consuming one’s
innermost thoughts and most precious memories,
violating the sanctity of the self. Illithids are, beyond a
shadow of a doubt, evil creatures.
Due to their imperfect transformations, the
ceremorph does not require brains in order to survive.
Though the consumption of grey matter is still an
important part of their arsenal of abilities, and brains
may look undeniably scrumptious at a glance, a
ceremorph with adequate self-control can always
choose to abstain. By picking and choosing targets, such
as only devouring the brains of those who used their
gift of intelligence for evil, a ceremorph can still be a
good person.
Multiclassing Why Classes?
To qualify for a new class you must meet the ability One of the most common questions asked of the
score prerequisites for both your current class and your original Cursed Classes book was, undoubtedly, “Why
new one, as shown in the Multiclassing Prerequisites not races?” It’s a very reasonable question to ask; after
table. For example, a fighter who decides to multiclass all, becoming a vampire, bound spirit, or some other
into the lycanthrope class must have both Strength or afflicted being is a powerful transformation to one’s
Dexterity and Constitution scores of 13 or higher. body, or even the core of one’s being. However, the
Without the full training that a beginning character creators of Cursed Classes felt that there was a conflict
receives you must be a quick study in your new class, between the spirit of the transformation and the actual
having a natural aptitude that is reflected by higher- mechanics of it.
than-average ability scores. Our goal throughout the process of designing Cursed
MULTICLASSING PREREQUISITES Classes has always been to build things that feel as
Class Ability Score Minimum though they fit smoothly into the fifth edition of
Bound Spirit Strength 13 Dungeons & Dragons. When new mechanics and
Ceremorph Intelligence 13 systems are designed, they must still feel familiar.
Covenborn Constitution 13 and Charisma 13 While there are no mechanics in fifth edition for
Floraspawn Strength 13 or Constitution 13 changing one’s race, the ability to add levels is at the
Lich Intelligence 13 core of the game, along with multiclassing.
Lycanthrope Constitution 13 Furthermore, expanding the powers and abilities of a
Revenant Wisdom 13 race are presented in a very limited format, such as a
Vampire Charisma 13 tiefling collecting new spells as they gain levels.
Classes seemed to be the most functional way to
Barbarian Strength 13 introduce these curses, allowing the afflicted to learn
Bard Charisma 13 control and eventual mastery over their new found
Cleric Wisdom 13 power. Classes also allow an adventurer to retain the
Druid Wisdom 13 core of who they are, even after their changes; a
Fighter Strength 13 or Dexterity 13 halfling who unlocks their covenborn power does not
Monk Dexterity 13 and Wisdom 13 cease to be a halfling and will retain all of their existing
Paladin Strength 13 and Charisma 13 traits, from their diminutive size to their innate luck.
Ranger Dexterity 13 and Wisdom 13 That being said, we acknowledge that this is far from
Rogue Dexterity 13 the only way to build an afflicted adventurer.
Sorcerer Charisma 13 Dungeons & Dragons is, and always has been, about
Warlock Charisma 13 the world that you want to create, and everything we
Wizard Intelligence 13 do should function as a stepping stone for players and
Dungeon Masters on the way to their own perfect game.

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Ceremorph
The thief scrambles down the darkened alley,
desperately trying to escape the angry town guards.
Unbeknown to him, an ally is helping him from the
shadows. He leaps, intending to clear a dividing fence.
Just as it looks as though he’ll slam into the barbed wire
at the top, he suddenly gains altitude and he lands like a
cat on all fours, his movements enhanced by the
watcher in the shadows.
A cloaked figure stands in front of the orcish family.
Long have they been the target of hatred and bigotry
by the rest of the town. Now one such harasser has
finally grown bold enough to confront them directly.
As he swings his fist at the silent sentinel, thick slimy
tentacles erupt from the hood and constrict the
attacker’s face. The attacker barely has time to scream
before a ring of jagged teeth dig deep into his forehead.
A horde of roving hobgoblins have cornered their
next unfortunate victim, a young goliath. As the
vanguard forces slowly surround her, the war-mages
prepare a volley of arcane bombardment. Just before
they unleash their magic, the goliath’s eyes flash a pale
blue and an area of shimmering energy appears around
them. They release the energy and the spells backfire,
detonating in their faces. The goliath smiles as her
form turns slimy and becomes tentacled.
Terrifying and powerful, the ceremorph is a
fearsome foe to face. While the process of
ceremorphosis is grueling and possibly fatal, the
ceremorph is rewarded with awe-inspiring psionic
powers and the natural weapons of the illithid. Some
welcome this change with open arms, finally gaining a
chance to enact their will upon the world. Others reject
this change, often choosing to hide their changed forms
in fear of persecution.
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A Twisted Birth
Ceremorphs are made through a process called
ceremorphosis, in which a small tadpole-like creature is
implanted in the brain of a humanoid creature. The
tadpole spends a certain amount of time burrowing
into the brain of its host, devouring it and essentially
becoming the creature’s brain. Once the creature’s
brain is replaced, the second stage of the
transformation begins. The creature’s internal organs
melt away, forming entirely alien structures. The face
of the creature melts into a barely recognizable mass of
tentacles and teeth. The ceremorph is complete.
A Sickness on the Hive
You’re not like other ceremorphs; their loyalty is
immediately apparent to the collective. No, you’ve been
cast out, like detritus, by the elder brain for your
deviance. The elder brain, it seems, is fickle in who fits
its cookie-cutter mold of perfection. Whatever
affliction marks you as an outsider, it reviles the
collective so much that they’ve stricken you from the
records, not even the all knowing illithids will
remember you.
Creating a Ceremorph
When creating a Ceremorph, think about how your
character came into contact with the hive. Were they a
reclusive hermit that just happened to live too close to
a new colony? Were they a deranged cultist, obsessed
with ascending to a greater form in order to become
closer to their chosen deity? Finally, consider what
exactly drove the elder brain to expel them from the
hive. This will help in choosing your manifestation.
Whisper Of The Hive
Though you are not a member of any mind flayer hive,
you still feel certain urges to follow the norms of illithid
society. It’s likely these aspects were communicated to
you through the original process of ceremorphosis or
were absorbed during a brief brush with a hive mind
before your rejection.
WHISPERS
d6 Whisper
1 You keep a funerary jar, and etch major events
of your life on its surface, like a diary of your
accomplishments. Though you will likely
receive the final arrangements befitting
someone of your race or faith, or at least an
adventurer’s burial, you hope that your brain
will be placed in the jar upon your death.
2 You over-explain things to people because you
assume they can’t grasp your full meaning
without a psychic bond between you.
3 You long for connectivity with others,
sometimes coming across as clingy in your
search for family or a ‘hive’ of your own.
4 Dissenting opinions cause you a great deal of
stress. You can’t stand to see friends argue
with one another, and go out of your way to try
to smooth things over and get everyone on the
same page.
5 For a very brief time, you knew what it meant
to be so connected to others as to feel what
they felt. Now that the connection is broken,
nothing ever feels quite the same. You have a
great deal of difficulty discerning peoples’
emotions, even when they seem obvious to
others.
6 You consistently seek out minions to control.
You feel most at ease when giving orders and
seeing them obeyed, even if the orders are
small and mundane tasks like “hand me that
book” or “close the door”.
Tendrils
An autonomic behavior is something that one does
without conscious behavior or control, like blinking, or
breathing. Though people can control these things,
they tend to function without awareness. Your face
tentacles tend to have their own autonomic behaviors,
which may distract or disturb others to varying degrees.
TENDRIL BEHAVIORS
d6 Behavior
1 Your tendrils tend to faintly sway as if resting
on a gentle ocean.
2 When examining an object closely, you have a
tendency to ‘look with your tendrils’, rubbing
them all over the object.
3 You tend to casually groom yourself with your
tendrils. They smooth your hair, they pick at
your teeth, or straighten your shirt collar.
4 Your tendrils tend to wring each other like
hands when you’re nervous.
5 When you become agitated, your tendrils tend
to move sharply, smacking against your
shoulders, chest, or jaw, like an annoyed cat
flicking their tail around.
6 You can’t help that your tendrils tend to pet
other peoples’ heads when you stand too
close. You’re not trying to eat anybody, it’s just
a habit.
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Creed
Illithid society is grouped into ideological factions
called creeds, which work in pursuit of specific goals.
Though you are not a member of illithid society, and
are free from any such factions’ control, your
malfunctioned tadpole still possesses those leanings.
Whatever creed your tadpole was destined for now
influences your own behaviors.
CREEDS
d6 Creed
1 Your tadpole was a Gatherer, and you feel a
drive to bring people together, to encourage
discussion and unification. To you, there’s
nothing better than for people to work as a
collective.
2 Your Creative tadpole has left your mind
sparking with ideas. Whether in the pursuit of
magic, machinery, or art, you feel a constant
flow of inspiration and a need to express your
creativity in the world.
3 You are driven by a Thorough Biter tadpole to
analyze situations, figuring out the root of
failures, predicting worse case scenarios, and
strategizing how to improve. You aren’t
comfortable with a plan unless you have three
or four backup plans.
4 Your Awaiter tadpole has instilled you with a
deep patience. You like to plan ahead,
sometimes months or even years in advance,
visualizing your goals and constantly working
toward them. You are always thinking about
how you can build toward your ideal future.
5 Your tadpole was a Nourisher, and you love to
care for others. While cooking or providing
food for others is a great joy to you, you also
feel fulfilled by keeping others calm and at
peace, or by teaching them, much the same as
a true Nourisher would prepare thralls for
ceremorphosis.
6 You feel the influence of a Darkener tadpole.
You despise the daylight, and though it doesn’t
cause you any physical harm, you take shelter
from it as though it could. Nothing in the world
would make you happier than for the sun to
just go away.
THE CEREMORPH
Master —Spell Slots per Spell Level —
Proficiency Cantrips Spells
Level Features Mind
Bonus Known Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
Points
1st +2 Recondite Genesis, Aberrant Mind — — — — — — — —
2nd +2 Psionics, Mastermind 2 2 — — — — — —
3rd +2 Manifestation 2 3 2 2 — — — —
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 2 4 3 3 — — — —
5th +3 Channeler 2 5 3 3 — — — —
6th +3 Manifestation Feature 2 6 4 4 2 — — —
7th +3 Devour Skill 2 7 4 4 2 — — —
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 2 8 5 4 3 — — —
9th +4 Devour Essence 2 9 5 4 3 — — —
10th +4 — 3 10 6 4 3 2 — —
11th +4 Manifestation Feature 3 11 6 4 3 2 — —
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 3 12 7 4 3 3 — —
13th +5 Mind Shield 3 13 7 4 3 3 — —
14th +5 — 4 14 8 4 3 3 1 —
15th +5 Manifestation Feature 4 15 8 4 3 3 1 —
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 4 16 9 4 3 3 2 —
17th +6 Improved Mind Shield 4 17 9 4 3 3 2 —
18th +6 Manifestation Feature 4 18 10 4 3 3 3 1
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 4 19 10 4 3 3 3 1
20th +6 Ulitharid 4 20 11 4 3 3 3 2

Quick Build Recondite Genesis

If you want to create a ceremorph quickly, follow these
steps. First, make Intelligence your highest ability
score, followed by Constitution. Then choose the sage
background. Finally, choose the mind blast spell as one
of your starting spells.
Class Features
As a ceremorph, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per ceremorph level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your
Constitution modifier per ceremorph level after the 1st
Proficiencies
Armor: Light armor
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Deception, Insight,
Perception, Persuasion, Stealth
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to
the equipment granted by your background:
• 1 simple weapon
• Your choice of 5 javelins or 2 handaxes
• Leather armor
• Monster hunter’s pack
Something went wrong. You should be a full illithid,
but now you're just a sickness on the hive. Starting at
1st level, your ceremorphosis begins. Your form is
changed to an illithid. While conscious, unless a
creature is immune to psychic damage, you can choose
if they see your illithid form, or your pre-ceremorph
form. You gain the following benefits.
Psionic Barrier. You project a barrier of pure psionic
energy, providing slight protection. When calculating
AC while wearing light or medium armor, you can
choose to add your Intelligence or Dexterity Modifier.
Natural Weapons. You gain a set of tentacles lining
your mouth. As a bonus action, you can make a grapple
attack with these tentacles, using Intelligence
(Athletics) instead of Strength (Athletics). You also gain
a bite attack, which you can only use if you have a
creature successfully grappled by your tentacles. You
can choose to use your Strength or Dexterity modifier
for this attack roll. On a successful hit, you deal 2d6
piercing damage.
Aberrant Mind
Your mind is an endless expanse. Starting at 1st level,
you can telepathically speak to any creature within 60
feet of you that you can see. In order for the creature to
understand you, you and the creature must share at
least one language.

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Psionics
Starting at 2nd level, you learn to cast spells in an
entirely unique way, through the power of your mind.
Cantrips
You know two cantrips of your choice from the
ceremorph spell list. You learn an additional cantrip of
your choice at higher levels, shown on the Cantrips
Known column of the Ceremorph table.
Spell Slots
The Ceremorph table shows how many spell slots you
have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast
one of these ceremorph spells, you must expend a slot
of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended
spell slots when you finish a long rest.
For example, if you know the 1st-level spell lesser
mind blast and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot
available, you can cast lesser mind blast using either slot.
Spells Known of 1st Level and
Higher
At 3rd level, you know two 1st-level spells of your
choice from the ceremorph spell list, one of which must
be lesser mind blast.
The Spells Known column of the Ceremorph table
shows when you learn more ceremorph spells of your
choice. The spell must be a level for which you have
spell slots.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you
can choose one of the ceremorph spells you know and
replace it with another spell from the ceremorph spell
list, which also must be of a level for which you have
spell slots.
Spellcasting Ability
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your
ceremorph spells, since you create your spells by the
power of your mind. You use your Intelligence
whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In
addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when
setting the saving throw DC for a ceremorph spell you
cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Intelligence modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Intelligence modifier
Psionic Focus
When you cast your ceremorph spells, you do not need
to meet the verbal, somatic, or material components for
the spell. The only exception for this rule is if the spell
specifies a material cost for the material component, as
this item will be consumed to fuel the strength of the spell.
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Mastermind
Additionally at 2nd level, you learn to leverage your
burgeoning psionic abilities to make yourself a better
leader and strategist through the use of special abilities.
You have a special resource, called mastermind points
with which to fuel these abilities. You gain more
mastermind points at the levels shown on the
Mastermind Points column of the Ceremorph table.
You can never have more mastermind points than
shown on the table for your level. You use your spell
save DC if one of these abilities calls for a saving throw.
Your mastermind points are replenished after a short or
long rest.
Extract Brain. As an action, you can consume the
brain of a creature who has been dead for no more than
12 hours. This process takes 1 minute, during which
time you can ask the DM three yes or no questions, and
the memories of the creature provide the answers (as
determined by the DM). If the creature died no longer
than 1 minute prior to you eating their brain, you also
gain a mastermind point. If you reduce a creature to
zero hit points with your bite attack, you can extract
their brain as a bonus action instead of an action.
Telepathic Link. At the end of a long rest, you can
spend 1 mastermind point and designate a single
willing friendly creature by touching them. Until the
end of your next long rest, you share a telepathic bond
with that creature, and are able to communicate with it
freely using your telepathy even if it does not share a
language with you, as long as it is within 1 mile of you.
While under the effects of the bond, you can use an
action to see through your bonded creature's eyes and
hear what it hears until the start of your next turn,
gaining the benefits of any special senses (darkvision,
blindsight, etc.) that the creature has. Starting at 11th
level, you can spend an additional mastermind point to
extend the range of your telepathic link to a planar length.
Helpful Nudge. You learn how to subtly enhance your
bonded creature’s abilities. As a reaction to your
bonded creature making an ability check or attack roll,
you can expend 1 mastermind point to grant them
advantage on the roll. You must have a clear line of
sight to your bonded creature in order to use this
ability. Starting at 11th level, you can spend an
additional mastermind point to make your bonded
creature automatically succeed on their saving throw.
You must finish a short rest before spending
mastermind points in this way again.
Telepathic Bolster. You can spend 1 mastermind point
as a bonus action to telepathically bolster your bonded
creature. For the next hour, your bonded creature has
advantage on Dexterity checks and saving throws.
Additionally, at 11th level, you can spend an extra
mastermind point to allow your bonded creature to add
your Intelligence modifier to their initiative bonus.
Manifestation
At 3rd level, your malfeasance that caused you to be
cast out from the elder brain fully manifests. Choose
your manifestation from Madness, Taming, or
Aberrant Offspring all detailed at the end of the class
description. The archetype you choose grants you
features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 11th, 15th, and
18th level.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level,
you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2,
or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by
1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above
20 using this feature.
Channeler
Starting at 5th level, you’ve learned to combine your
telepathic acumen and your psionic spellcasting to
achieve deadly tactical success. When you spend a spell
slot to cast a ceremorph spell, you can also choose to
expend a number of mastermind points equal to the
level of the spell. When you do so, you can choose for
the spell to originate from your bonded creature.
Additionally, when you cast a psionic cantrip, you add
your Intelligence modifier to the damage roll.
Devour Skill
Starting at 7th level, whenever you use your Extract
Brain feature, you also gain proficiency with one skill
or toolset that the creature possessed. This proficiency
lasts until the end of your next long rest, or until you
use Extract Brain on a different creature.
Devour Essence
Starting at 9th level, you learn to extract the very
essence out of the brains you devour. When you use
your Extract Brain feature, you can choose to spend 2
mastermind points to temporarily gain a single
resistance, immunity, or saving throw proficiency that
the creature possessed. This lasts for 1 hour, or until
you use this feature again.
Mind Shield
Starting at 13th level, as a bonus action you can spend a
mastermind point to gain advantage on saving throws
against spells and other magical effects for 1 minute.
Additionally you gain resistance to psychic damage.
Improved Mind Shield
At 17th level, your resistance to psychic damage
becomes immunity and you are immune to being
charmed.
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Ulitharid
At 20th level, your ceremorphosis has reached its own
unique zenith. When you use your Telepathic Link
feature, you can choose to expend an additional
mastermind point to designate a second creature. Using
a feature that benefits your bonded creature benefits
both of these creatures as well. Furthermore, the range
of your telepathy increases to 120 feet.
Additionally, when you use your Extract Brain
feature, you gain 20 temporary hit points.
Manifestations
Illithids organize themselves by ideology into groups
known as creeds, each furthering their own
philosophies in different ways. Even if the
ceremorphosis is incomplete, no two failures come out
the same.
Manifestation of Aberrant
Offspring
There exists a form of ceremorphs who never went
through the ceremorphosis process, but instead one or
both their parents were in the initial stages of the
process during procreation. The end result is an
aberrant offspring, a ceremorph that has altered genetic
code that allows them to harness their ancestry to
unleash devastating psionic abilities. Much like a
sorcerer, their latent power may go undiscovered
through most of their lives until suddenly their innate
power is awoken.
Thoughtful Empathy
At 3rd level, your unique combination of heritage
allows you to be a better leader by forming empathic
links to characters. You can spend 1 additional
mastermind point to use any of your mastermind
abilities on creatures to whom you have a clear line of
sight, regardless if you are bonded with that creature. In
addition, you may now use Helpful Nudge a number of
times equal to your Intelligence modifier, still
expending 1 mastermind point and regaining all uses at
the end of a short rest.
Psionic Explosion
Starting at 6th level, you dig deep into the latent
psionic power inside to unleash it into a devastating
outward blast. Each creature in a 30-foot-radius sphere
centered on you must make an Intelligence saving
throw or take 4d8 psychic damage and be stunned until
the end of their next turn.
A bonded creature automatically succeeds on its
saving throw against the explosion. Once you use this
feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
This damage increases to 6d8 at 10th level, 8d8 at
15th level, and 10d8 at 20th level.
Soothe the Mind
At 11th level, your connection with the minds of your
allies can sense debilitating effects and work to remove
them. You gain the following mastermind ability.
Clear the Mind. You learn how to remove negative
effects hindering the mind of your bonded creature. As
an action, you may expend 1 mastermind point to allow
a character to repeat a saving throw against the
following effects: charmed, frightened, and stunned. In
addition, they may add your Intelligence modifier to
the result.
You may now use this ability number a of times equal
to your Intelligence modifier, regaining all uses at the
end of a short rest.

Mind Over Matter

At 15th level, you now have the ability to shape your
Psionic Explosion, allowing you to choose a number of
creatures up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of
one creature) that will automatically succeed on its
saving throw against the explosion.
In addition, you may choose to replace the damage
and stunning effect with a wave of soothing empathetic
emotion. Creatures that fail the saving throw instead
are subjugated to the effects of the calm emotions spell
for 1 hour.
Lastly, the Psionic Explosion feature may now be
used once per short rest.

Sense of Self
Starting at 18th level, you learn to fully read the
emotions and feelings of those around you to the extent
of bolstering them where they may falter. Using a
bonus action, you reach out with emotion infused
psionics to gain the following benefits for 1 minute:
• Every friendly creature within 30 feet of you counts
as a bonded creature.
• You can sense each bonded creature’s location even
outside of line of sight.
• There is no limit on how many times you may use the
Helpful Nudge ability, however the mastermind
cost remains.
• For the duration, each bonded creature has advantage
on saving throws to avoid the charmed or
frightened condition.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until
you finish a long rest.

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Manifestation of Madness
The specialized talents of your tadpole manifest
themselves, granting you additional powers and
abilities. In particular, your tadpole enjoys the sensation
of chaos. Whenever a mind flayer colony isn’t sure
what to do next, they often send in agents to create
chaos and observe the results before making a decision.
Spread Madness
Starting at 3rd level, you erupt with psionic power and
cause incoherent sounds and images to manifest
themselves in the minds of creatures around you by
expending 1 mastermind point. Each creature who can
see and hear you must succeed on a Wisdom saving
throw. On a failure, a creature cannot take reactions
until the start of its next turn.
Mental Shielding
Starting at 3rd level, your mind is more aware of
attempts of intrusion. You have advantage on saving
throws against effects that impose any of the following
conditions: charmed, frightened, or stunned.
At 9th level, choose one of those conditions. You are
immune to that condition. At 17th level, choose
another condition and become immune to that
condition as well.
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Conjure Faerzress
Starting at 6th level, your chaotic soul can tie itself to
the twisted portions of the weave. Expend six
mastermind points. A sphere of faerzress with a 20-foot
radius springs into existence centered on you. It does
not move with you and lasts a number of minutes equal
to your ceremorph level. When the effect disappears, it
leaves behind a carpet of luminous edible mushrooms.
This area is always filled with dim light. Creatures
within the area have advantage on saving throws
against divination spells and effects. Teleportation
spells cast to move creatures into or out of the area
force the caster to succeed on a Constitution saving
throw or the spell fails.
Any time a spell is cast from a creature within the
area, it must roll 1d20. On a 1, the spell is randomly
swapped with another spell the creature could cast.
Mesmerize
Starting at 11th level, you can project a 30-foot cone of
magical energy by expending 3 mastermind points.
Creatures in this cone must succeed on a Wisdom
saving throw or become charmed by you for 1 minute.
While charmed in this way, the creature must roll 1d6
at the start of each of its turns.
d6
1-2
Mesmerization
The creature is driven to attack the closest
creature, excluding you.
3-4 The creature tries to use all of its movement. Roll
1d8 to determine the direction it travels.
5-6 The creature stands still and takes no actions.
At the end of each of its turns, a creature can attempt
a new saving throw, ending the charmed condition on a
success.
Chaotic Casting
Starting at 17th level, you can expend 12 mastermind
points to create a magical chaos. Any creature within 60
feet who can cast spells and who can see you must
succeed on a Constitution saving throw.
On a failure, start with their highest level spell they
can cast and roll 1d6. On a 5 or 6, the spell is cast.
Otherwise, move onto the next spell and so on until a
spell has been cast. Once a spell has been cast, move
onto the next creature who failed their saving throw
and so on until all spells have been cast.
If a spell has any requirements, such as determining a
target, the DM can determine this randomly. Spells
with a material component that have a gold cost have
no effect when cast.
Manifestation of Taming
The specialized talents of your tadpole manifest
themselves, granting you additional powers and
abilities. In particular, your tadpole enjoys the sensation
of controlling every situation, manipulating
encounters like a chessboard, and using creatures like
mindless chattel.
Short Term Thrall
Starting at 3rd level, whenever you reduce a creature to
0 hit points, you can expend 2 mastermind points. If
you do, the creature does not become unconscious or
die. Instead the creature gains temporary hit points
equal to twice your ceremorph level and obeys your
verbal or telepathic commands. If given no command,
it defends itself. At the start of each of its turns, the
creature loses 1 temporary hit point. If it is further than
60 feet away from you, it loses all temporary hit points
instead. When the creature reaches 0 temporary hit
points, it dies.
Mind Blank
Starting at 3rd level, whenever you deal psychic damage
to a target, you can expend 1 mastermind point. If you
do, the target must make an Intelligence saving throw.
On a failure, the target becomes iIncapacated until the
end of your next turn.
At 9th level, the target becomes stunned instead.
Mass Control
Starting at the 11th level, if a creature gains the
incapacated, stunned, or charmed condition from one
of your class features, you can expend 4 mastermind
points to make the effect permanent until you or one of
your allies attacks the target or casts a spell on them.
Enhanced Link
Starting at 17th level, in addition to your Telepathic
Link target, any creature that is incapacitated, stunned,
or charmed by you also counts as being linked to you.
Additionally, as a reaction when any linked creature
ends their turn without using their action and bonus
action, or if they have movement remaining, you can
do one of the following:
• Use any of their remaining movement.
• Use their action, if it hasn’t been used this turn.
• Use their bonus action, if it hadn’t been used this turn.
If the creature is charmed or incapacitated and
unwilling to do this, make a contested Intelligence
check. If you lose, the feature fails.

Mental Domination
Starting at the 6th level, any creature affected by your
Mind Blank can be given an order. Expend 2
mastermind points and give the creature a simple
command. Instead of becoming incapacatated or
stunned, the creature becomes charmed by you. Each
turn it must try to accomplish the given order. At the
end of each of its turns, it can attempt a Wisdom saving
throw, ending the effect on a success.

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Covenborn
The tiefling awoke with a start, damp with sweat and
clinging to her bedsheets. Her dreams were filled with
terrible visions: scenes of burning villages, clashing
steel, and a shadow that rolled over the sky and
suffocated the land from above. She considered
dismissing the visions as just that—figments of half-
remembered nothings—but she knew she didn’t have
that luxury. Her dreams were rarely wrong, and she
had best prepare.
In the back of the room, the elven woman allowed
her illusion to fade, much to the shock and awe of her
companions. She had been wearing this face for
months, bending her voice and the way she moved
until she was nothing like the woman underneath. But
she was tired, and they had earned her trust, so she
allowed them to peek beneath the veil of her deception.
The dwarf wasn’t sure exactly why they were
standing over the sleeping form of their traveling
partner, but they felt drawn to the sight like a selkie to
the water. They listened to their instincts: cautiously,
they reached out and pulled—not with their hands, but
with their mind—and slowly but surely, they felt the
fabric of their partner’s dreams begin to twist in their
grip. They lurched back, surprised and a little guilty—
but that night would stay with them for years to come.
Not all hags fall naturally into their role as prophet
and witch of the weird. Some awaken to the power in
themselves, and feel their transformation over the
stretch of months or years; others are cursed by deities,
devils, and other hags, their beauty robbed and
perverted. These creatures are referred to as
“covenborn.” No matter their origin, a covenborn is a
force even the fates must reckon with.
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The Threads of Fate
Many covenborn see the world as constructed of a
thousand tiny strings, bonding each and every person
and object and place to each other. These strings are
the threads of fate, and by manipulating them,
covenborn bring misery and misfortune to their
adversaries. Some covenborn take to this calling with
glee, and see themselves as weavers or loomers of
fate itself.
However, misery needn’t be the end result of
manipulating the threads of fate. Other covenborn take
great caution whose strings they pull upon, carefully
setting up a chain of events that bring misfortune to
one but justice and good luck to many. These
covenborn realize that fate is much more vast than any
one person can know, and see themselves only as a
small part of a large and storied tapestry of fateful events.
Weird Magic
The oldest and strangest tradition of hags is “weird
magic”—the process of coaxing out the inherent
magical properties in baubles, trinkets, and other
oddities. Many cultures view this as a lesser or heretical
form of magic than spellcasting, but those who practice
it are keenly aware of its chaotic potential. Even
covenborn that receive no training or guidance from
hags or others of their kind feel drawn to the act of
weird magic, performing it with the innate ease of a
born natural.
Creating a Covenborn
When creating your covenborn, consider the nature of
their transformation. Was their descent into hagdom
always part of their blood? Were they cursed by
another for their vanity, or hubris? Or was it a simple
matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Do they accept their transformation or resist it? Do
they grieve for their lost beauty, or do they feel
liberated from the lust and jealousy of others? Did they
ever feel beautiful to begin with?
Covenborn feel an innate connection to the weird
magic hidden in baubles and misplaced things. Has your
hag always felt drawn to strange items, or is this a new
phenomenon? How does this connection express itself?
Do the items speak to them, show them visions, burn
with lights and colors, or is it subtle intuition?
Twisted Aesthetics
Like hags, those of the covenblood tend to have an
attraction toward the vile. They prize that which is
ugly, the same way ordinary people prize what is
beautiful. You’re willing to do very strange things in the
pursuit of what you consider fashion.
TWISTED AESTHETICS
d6 Aesthetic
1 A mud pack is excellent for the skin. No, you
don’t wash it off.
2 Combing one’s hair backwards whilst inserting
twigs and brambles to create a ‘rat’s nest’ is
not only stylish, but prone to attracting
beneficial pests like spiders or small mice.
3 You wouldn’t be caught dead in plain clothes
without a hint of mold or bloodstains on them.
4 You’re very protective of your long nails, and
prone to crying if you break one. After all, it
takes a long time to grow them long enough to
curl in spirals!
5 You like to get creative with your tongue-
dyeing. Different berries or mixtures may turn
it green, black, blue, or purple. For truly special
occasions when you want to make a good
impression, you like to dye your tongue in
stripes.
6 You tend to tug on your ears, nose, or other
skin in order to encourage it to stretch and
form wrinkles. Life’s too short to patiently wait
to develop jowls.
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A Taste For The Disgusting
Though you may not crave the taste of flesh like a hag,
you still feel certain changes in your tastes. You are still
fully capable of eating mundane foods, and travel
rations are no less appetizing to you than they were
before you discovered the secrets of your blood, but
you now long for certain bizarre ‘treats’.
DISGUSTING TASTES
d6 Taste
1 Mold and mildew scraped off the pages of a
damp book is excellent when spread on toast.
2 A sachet of moldy berries, dirt, and twigs, tied
shut with a rat’s tail, makes for an excellent tea
bag. Steep in brown water for five minutes,
serve promptly with stale crumpets.
3 Aged cheese? Boring. Aged wine? Yawn. The
real delicacy is aged chicken. Hang a few thighs
off the back of the wagon so the party won’t
know where the smell is coming from.
4 You keep a carefully-tended composting jar in
your belongings, and add to it frequently,
making sure it gets plenty of time in the sun
too. It’s your favorite condiment.
5 For some reason, anything thrown out of a
tavern or eaterie is better than what they put
on the table. Waste not, want not!
6 Fresh water is disgusting to you. You have to
maintain your own canteen when traveling. It’s
like your party keeps trying to poison you, with
all of this mosquito-larva-free stuff.
Trinkets
Your weird magic allows you to draw the inherent
magical properties out of all manner of strange items.
However, you don’t collect these bizarre trinkets solely
for their magical potential; in fact, you likely stumbled
on their power in the process of collecting them for
their aesthetic appeal. In addition to your own weird
magic, you may carry some strange trinkets with you
just because you enjoy them.
TRINKETS
d6 Trinket
1 You like wearing necklaces and other jewelry
made from beads and charms of questionable
origin. Some are glass, some are clay, and some
seem to be stranger materials, like the skulls of
small creatures, owl pellets, etc.
2 You favor a box that folds open into a tiny doll
house, complete with furniture, accessories,
and little posable dolls. You have a tendency to
leave it set up with bizarre scenes unfolding, to
the discomfort of your allies.
3 You have a needlepoint kit. You have a
penchant for churning out encouraging
sentiments like ‘Bless This Burrow’ and ‘Live,
Laugh, Lacerate.’
4 Your deck of playing cards, though technically
a viable deck, features strange suits, and the
exquisitely detailed artwork can be described
as bizarre, crude, or even maddening.
5 You maintain a spoon collection. They range
from a tiny delicate stirring spoon taken from a
noble girl’s toy tea set, to a gnarled wooden
paddle used by a witch to stir her cauldron.
Wherever you travel, you always seek out a
new spoon to commemorate the event.
6 You like keeping a book collection, but those
are hard to travel with. Instead you just tear
the covers off of the books and keep those. It’s
honestly one of the more monstrous things
you do.
THE COVENBORN
—Spell Slots per Spell Level —
Proficiency Weird Spells
Level Features
Bonus Items Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
1st +2 Twisted Claws, Unarmored Defense — — — — — — —
2nd +2 Spellcasting, Weird Magic 2 2 2 — — — —
3rd +2 Coven Blood, Dark Jinx (d6) 2 3 3 — — — —
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 2 3 3 — — — —
5th +3 Extra Attack 3 4 4 2 — — —
6th +3 Dark Jinx (8) 3 4 4 2 — — —
7th +3 Coven Blood feature 3 5 4 3 — — —
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 4 5 4 3 — — —
9th +4 Weird Revitalization 4 6 4 3 2 — —
10th +4 Dark Jinx (d10) 4 6 4 3 2 — —
11th +4 Coven Blood feature 4 7 4 3 3 — —
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 5 7 4 3 3 — —
13th +5 — 5 8 4 3 3 1 —
14th +5 Coven Blood feature 5 8 4 3 3 1 —
15th +5 Dark Jinx (d12) 5 9 4 3 3 2 —
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 6 9 4 3 3 2 —
17th +6 — 6 10 4 3 3 3 1
18th +6 Weird Resilience 6 10 4 3 3 3 1
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 6 11 4 3 3 3 2
20th +6 Invoke the Fates 6 11 4 3 3 3 2

Quick Build
You can make a covenborn quickly by following these
suggestions. First, Charisma should be your highest
score, followed by Strength or Constitution. Second,
choose the sage background.

Class Features
As a covenborn, you gain the following class features.

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

Proficiencies
Armor: Light armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: Weaver’s tools

Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma

Skills: Choose three from Arcana, Deception, Insight,
Nature, Perception, and Stealth

Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to
the equipment granted by your background:
• Your choice of a quarterstaff and a dagger or any
simple weapon
• Your choice of an explorer’s pack or a scholar’s pack
• Weaver’s tools

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Twisted Claws
Beginning at 1st level, your nails twist into long, jagged
claws, akin to those of a hag. Your claws are natural
weapons that deal 2d4 slashing damage on a hit. You
are proficient in the use of your claws, and add your
Strength modifier to attack and damage rolls with them.
Unarmored Defense
Also at 1st level, you are bestowed with the tough,
magical skin of a hag. While you are not wearing any
armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity
modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a
shield and still gain this benefit.
Spellcasting
By 2nd Level, you have learned to draw foul magic
from the strangest corners of the planes and channel it
into spellcasting through sheer will. See chapter 10 of
the Player’s Handbook for the general rules of
Spellcasting and the end of this class description for the
covenborn spell list.
Casting Spells
The Covenborn table shows how many spell slots you
have to cast your spells. To cast one of your covenborn
spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a slot of
the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell
slots when you finish a long rest.
For example, if you are a 5th-level covenborn, you
have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a
Charisma of 14, your list of prepared spells can include
four spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If
you prepare the 1st-level spell witch bolt, you can cast
it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell
doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells.
Spells Known of 1st Level and
Higher
You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the
covenborn spell list.
The Spells Known column of the Covenborn table
shows when you learn more covenborn spells of your
choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which
you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th
level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or
2nd level.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you
can choose one of the covenborn spells you know and
replace it with another spell from the covenborn spell
list, which also must be of a level for which you have
spell slots.
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Spellcasting Ability
Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your
covenborn spells, since their power derives from the
force of your will. You use your Charisma whenever a
spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you
use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving
throw DC for a covenborn spell you cast and when
making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your Proficiency Bonus +
your Charisma modifier
Spell Attack modifier = your Proficiency Bonus +
your Charisma modifier
Ritual Casting
You can cast a covenborn spell as a ritual if that spell
has the ritual tag, you know the spell, and at least two
other willing creatures are present to conduct the ritual
with you. The creatures must remain within 30 feet of
you for the entire casting time of the spell, and do
nothing but help you cast the spell. The creatures do
not need to be able to cast spells to help you in this way.
Spellcasting Focus
You can use weaver’s tools as a spellcasting focus for
your covenborn spells.
Weird Magic
In your travels, you have begun to feel drawn to strange
trinkets and objects—and further, you have learned to
draw out their inherent magical properties. This
process is called “weird magic”, and it is the ancient
tradition of hags and their covens.
At 2nd level, you gain two Weird Items of your
choice. Your Weird Item choices are detailed at the end
of the class description. Weird Items are considered
magic items, though they require no attunement. To
use a Weird Item, it must be in your possession. If a
Weird Item is lost or destroyed, you can recreate it at
the end of a long rest spent with working your
weaver’s tools.
Creatures other than you can’t use your Weird Items,
as they lack the inherent connection to these trinkets
that you possess. When you die, a Weird Item becomes
mundane after a number of days equal to your
Charisma modifier have passed.
When you gain certain covenborn levels, the number
of Weird Items you can have at once increases, as
shown in the Covenborn table. Additionally, when you
gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the
Weird Items you possess and replace it with another
Weird Item that you could gain at that level. A level
prerequisite refers to your level in this class, not
character level.
Coven Blood
At 3rd level, your transformation into a particular type
of hag deepens, and you discover the nature of your
weird blood: Blood of the Dusk Hag, Blood of the
Green Hag, and Blood of the Night Hag, all detailed at
the end of the class description. The archetype you
choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th,
11th and 14th level.
Dark Jinx
Starting at 3rd level, you can place the bane of your will
on other creatures with ease, bringing them misfortune
and pain. As a bonus action while you are holding your
weaver’s tools, you can jinx a creature you can see
within 60 feet of you. You form a thread of fate that
connects you to the creature, in the form of a Jinx
die (a d6).
At any point in the next 10 minutes, when the
creature makes an attack roll, ability check, or damage
roll, you can use your reaction to sever the thread,
bringing misfortune to the creature. You roll the Jinx
die and subtract the result from the creature’s roll. You
can wait until after the roll is made to decide to sever
the thread, but you must declare your intention to do so
before the DM resolves the roll’s results. For instance,
if the DM declares that the enemy attacks an object, you
can sever the thread after you know the damage total,
but must do so before you know if the item is broken.
Once you sever the thread, the Jinx ends and the Jinx
die is expended.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to
your Charisma modifier (minimum of once). You
regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Your Jinx die changes when you reach certain levels
in this class. The die becomes a d8 at 6th level, a d10 at
10th level, and a d12 at 15th level.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level,
you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2,
or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by
1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above
20 using this feature.
Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking
this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.
Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of
once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
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Weird Revitalization
At 9th level, you have become adept at channeling
weird magic to reinforce the depths of your will. As an
action, you can destroy a Weird Item to regain one
expended Jinx die. You lose use of the destroyed Weird
Item until you spend time recreating it, as normal.
Weird Resilience
At 18th level, you have advantage on saving throws
made against spells and other magical effects.
Invoke the Fates
At 20th level, you can turn to the fabric of fate itself,
attempting to bend it in your favor. When a creature
you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll,
ability check, or saving throw, you can use your
reaction to twist the threads of fate, making a DC 20
Charisma check. On a success, you can choose to
replace the result of the roll with any number between
1 and 20. The creature still adds any relevant modifiers,
bonuses, or penalties to the roll, and you may select
which die to replace during advantage or disadvantage.
If you succeed when using this feature, you can’t use
it again for another seven days. Otherwise, you can use
it again after you finish a long rest.
Coven Blood
The blood—and by extension, the transformation—of a
covenborn reflects the nature of its curse. A covenborn
cursed in the depths of its despair might find itself
infused with the tragic blood of a green hag;
meanwhile, a covenborn that discovers its weird magic
through dreams and prophetic visions might carry the
blood of a dusk hag in its veins. As a covenborn’s
transformation progresses and it learns to master its
curse, the call of its blood will deepen, lending it unique
and fearsome powers akin to those of a hag.
When a covenborn gathers with other covenborn,
they are typically drawn to others of the same blood,
forming a group called a coven. These covens range
from guilds of arcanists and researchers to explorers
and defenders of nature. Rarely, a hag will lead a group
of covenborn as their mentor, forming a more
powerful and unified coven than any three hags could
accomplish alone.
Blood of the Dusk Coven
Those who bear covenblood are infused with profane
magical power, but none more in divination and
dreams than the dusk coven. The dusk coven prey on
the dreams of individuals, choosing to take advantage
of their defenseless state to siphon memories or simply
subsist on the magic of dreams. Their skin becomes
distinctly weathered and grey-ish in tone, only
becoming flushed to its natural color for a brief period
after feeding.
Dusk Blood Magic
Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when
you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the
Dusk Blood Coven Spells table. The spell counts as a
hag spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the
number of hag spells you know.
DUSK BLOOD COVEN SPELLS
Covenborn Level Spells
3rd sleep
5th silence
9th gaseous form
13th divination
17th dream
Atropine Dream
Starting at 3rd level, you lace your claws and weave
your jinxes with a numbing agent. After dealing
damage with your claws against a target that bears your
jinx, roll your Jinx die. If the result is greater than the
target’s remaining hit points, they fall unconscious for 1
minute and your jinx ends. A creature that is reduced to
0 hit points is unaffected by this unless they were dealt
non-lethal damage. This unconscious state ends early if
the sleeper takes damage or if someone uses an action
to shake or slap the sleeper away. Constructs, undead,
and creatures immune to being charmed aren’t affected
by this feature. A creature that is immune to magical
sleep is instead stunned until the end of their next turn.
The number of Jinx die you roll when determining if
the target falls unconscious increases as you gain levels
in this class. Two Jinx die at 7th level, three at 11th
level, and four at 14th level.
Peer Past the Veil
At 7th level, you can project yourself into the dreams of
sleeping creatures. As an action, you touch a creature
that is unconscious and choose one of the following
options.
Dream Seed. You plant a memory of yourself within
the target’s mind. This can be a pleasant memory, after
which, when the creature is conscious, they are
charmed by you for the next 24 hours or until you or
your allies deal damage or take a harmful action against
the creature; or a nightmarish one, after which, when
the creature is conscious, they are frightened by you for
the next 24 hours.
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Memory Glimpse. You glimpse a memory from the
creature’s mind. You can declare a specific memory you
are looking for, or a type of memory, otherwise the
DM determines the memory you find. This must be an
event that occured within the last 24 hours.
Steal Breath. You lean over the creature and draw its
breath into you. This feature does not affect constructs
or undead. The target takes 2d8 + your Charisma
modifier psychic damage, and you regain half as many
hit points. The creature immediately awakens if the
damage does not reduce them to 0 hit points.
Future Correction
At 11th level, your dreams allow you to see beyond the
present and influence the future. During a long rest
when you spend at least 4 hours sleeping, you weave
this knowledge into your jinxes. You can choose to roll
a number of d10s equal to your Charisma modifier and
note the total as your Jinx Pool. When you use your
bonus action to jinx a creature, choose a number of
points from this pool no greater than the size of your
Jinx die. When you use your reaction to sever the
woven thread, instead of rolling your Jinx die, subtract
the number of points you chose from the creature’s
roll instead.
As an action, you can forsake the future as you’ve
seen it. You take psychic damage equal to the amount
remaining in your jinx pool, and regain an expended
use of your Dark Jinx feature for every 5 points of
damage you take (maximum equal to your Charisma
modifier).
Sleepstep
At 14th level, you can use the dreams of creatures as a
network to travel unbidden. You touch an unconscious
creature as an action, disappearing into their mind as a
cloud of gas. After 1 minute, you appear adjacent to
another sleeping creature within 1 mile. This can either
be a specific creature you choose, or you can declare a
location (such as a town by name) and the DM
determines the exact location of the creature. The
creature whose dreams you exit from need not be
humanoid, a small critter or sentient object that dreams
also works for the purpose of this feature.
You can also pull 5 additional willing creatures into
the dream with you, but must complete a long rest
before you can do so again.
Blood of the Green Coven
Lurking in swamps and withered woods and preying
upon the empathy of others, those who carry the blood
of the green coven are known for their deceit, as well as
their craving for the suffering of others. Their voices
betray their green skin and gnarled appearance,
sometimes sounding sweet, sometimes powerful, but
always working to lure the unsuspecting into their
traps. There is no sweeter sound to the green coven
than the lamentations of one brought to the lowest
point of hopelessness.
Green Blood Magic
Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when
you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the
Green Blood Coven Spells table. The spell counts as a
hag spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the
number of hag spells you know.
GREEN BLOOD COVEN SPELLS
Covenborn Level Spells
3rd illusory script
5th pass without trace
9th meld into stone
13th hallucinatory terrain
17th mislead
Morbid Mockingbird
Beginning at 3rd level, you master the ability to mimic
sounds with your voice, from a fair maiden crying for
help, to the growl of a hungry dragon. You gain
advantage on Charisma (Deception) and Charisma
(Performance) checks when mimicking the
vocalizations of other creatures. In order to accurately
mimic the voice of a specific person, or the sounds
made by a specific creature, you must have heard the
person speaking, or heard the creature making the
sound, for at least one minute. A successful Wisdom
(Insight) check contested by your Charisma
(Deception) check allows a listener to determine that
the effect is faked.
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Amphibious
Additionally at 3rd level, you can breathe and speak
normally underwater.
Shadow Stitch
Starting at 7th level, as a bonus action while holding
your weaver’s tools, you can make a melee attack
against a creature within 5 feet of you. On a successful
hit, that creature’s shadow is stitched to the ground,
their movement is reduced to zero, and they cannot
take reactions until the start of your next turn. Shadow
Stitch does not work in total darkness.
Commiseration
At 11th level, when using your Jinx feature, you make a
play on the creature’s empathy. The jinxed target must
succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your spell
save DC or be charmed by you for the next hour. This
charm effect ignores immunity. While charmed in this
way, the creature takes pity on you and will not attack
you or target you with harmful abilities or magical
effects, and you have advantage on ability checks to
interact socially with the creature. If harmed by you, or
asked to do something contrary to its nature, the target
ceases to be charmed in this way. When the spell ends,
the creature knows it was charmed by you. Triggering
the effect of the jinx or allowing it to lapse does not
break the charmed effect.
Weird Embroidery
Beginning at 14th level, as a bonus action while holding
your weaver’s tools, you may expend a usage of Jinx to
stitch the shadow of a creature that you can see within
30 feet. This creature is restrained for up to an hour, or
until they succeed on a Charisma saving throw against
your spell save DC. The creature can repeat this saving
throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the
effect on a success.
Blood of the Night Coven
Those who awaken the covenblood of the night have,
in some way, been touched by fiends. Whether this
curse comes from direct interaction, sharing ancestry
with them, or a random mutation from interacting
with the weave doesn’t matter, for better or for worse
their blood is mixed with a fiend’s.
While some within this coven choose to succumb to
the effects of their co-mingled blood, many actively
seek to fight against it, using their newfound powers to
fight against that which cursed them. Few are so
equipped to battle the fiendish influences in the world
as the coven blood of the night.
Night Blood Magic
Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when
you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the
Night Blood Coven Spells table. The spell counts as a
covenborn spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the
number of covenborn spells you know.
NIGHT BLOOD COVEN SPELLS
Covenborn Level Spells
3rd hellish rebuke
5th Aganazzar’s scorcherXGtE
9th summon lesser demonsXGtE
13th wall of fire
17th infernal callingXGtE
Birthed in Flame
Also at 3rd level, your blood has been touched by a
fiend. You have nightly dreams of the glories of hell and
the demon wastes, granting you valuable insight in
manipulating your own body. You gain resistance to
fire damage. When you cast a spell that deals damage,
you can choose to have that spell deal fire damage
instead of it’s normal damage type. You can use this
ability a number of times equal to your Charisma
modifier (minimum of 1) per long rest.
Fiend-Friend
By 7th level, your influence with fiends has grown. You
can speak, write, and understand both Infernal and
Abyssal. You have advantage on Charisma checks
against fiends, and on saving throws against charm
effects cast by fiends. When you successfully save
against a charm effect cast by a fiend, you may move 10
feet in any direction without provoking an attack of
opportunity.
Pain of Fire
At 11th level, you learn to empower your jinxes with
the scorn of fire. You ignore the fire immunity and
resistance of creatures who you are connected to
through your Jinx feature.
Mistress of Fire
At 14th level, your body personifies the glory and
power of fire. You gain a number of abilities that show
your control over flame.
• You gain immunity to fire damage.
• Once per short or long rest, you can cast investiture of
flame without expending a spell slot or components.
• When you cast a spell that deals fire damage, you can
reroll any 1’s on the damage die once.

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Weird Items
At 2nd level, covenborn gain the ability to draw out the
magical properties of trinkets and baubles, turning
them into Weird Items. If a Weird Item has
prerequisites, you must meet them to create it. You can
create the Weird Item at the same time that you meet
its prerequisites. A level prerequisite refers to your level
in this class.
Animal Effigy
When you create this effigy, choose one beast to model
it after. As an action, you can crush this effigy and cast
the conjure animals spell without expending a spell slot
or material components, summoning one of the chosen
beast. You do not have to concentrate on the spell when
it is cast in this way. The maximum CR of this beast is
equal to one-fourth your level in this class (rounded
down).
Once you use the effigy in this way, you must recreate
it before you can use it again.
Beacon Beetles
These two scuttling beetles are connected by a weak
but persistent psychic link. As an action, you can touch
a creature to embed the beetle in its skin. Two
creatures with beetles embedded in their skin can
communicate telepathically while they are within 120
feet of each other. The creatures must share a language
to communicate in this way.
The beetle can only be removed by you, a remove curse
spell, or a dispel magic spell.
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Claw of Atropos
When you hit a creature connected to you by a Jinx die
with your Claw attack, add your Charisma modifier to
the damage it deals.
Dormant Chrysalis
As an action, you can crush this chrysalis and cast
polymorph on a creature you can see without expending
a spell slot or material components.
Once you use the chrysalis in this way, you must
recreate it before you can use it again.
Eye of the Familiar
This petrified eye has an unusual sway over beasts of
the Feywilds. Over the course of 1 hour, you can use
this eye to cast the find familiar spell without expending
a spell slot or material components. When you cast the
spell in this way, the familiar that appears is always
considered a fey.
Additionally, while you are seeing through your
familiar’s senses, you can use your Dark Jinx feature to
place a Jinx on a creature within 60 feet of the familiar
that it can see, even if that creature isn’t within 60 feet
of you or within your sight.
If this eye is destroyed, the familiar disappears
instantly, and can’t be summoned again until you
recreate the eye again.
Jar of Death Slugs
Prerequisite: 5th level
This jar is full of ravenous slugs. You can make a ranged
attack roll with the jar as a thrown weapon with a
normal range of 20 feet and a far range of 60 feet. On a
hit, the creature takes 3d6 piercing damage and is
covered in slugs for 1 minute. Until a creature uses its
action to remove the slugs, the target takes an
additional 1d6 piercing damage at the beginning of each
of its turns. The effect ends early if the creature takes
fire damage.
Once you use the jar in this way, you must recreate it
before you can do so again.
Peering Eye
As an action, you can peer through this petrified eye,
seeing the world as if you were standing in the eye’s
space. If you are within 120 feet of the eye, you can
cause it to rotate, giving you a full view of its
surroundings. You are blinded to your own senses
when you look through the eye in this way.
If this eye is destroyed by anyone but you, you are
blinded for 1d6 rounds.
Ribbon of the Steed
Prerequisite: 9th level
Over the course of 1 minute, you can affix this ribbon
to a Medium or Large nonmagical object to transform
it into a magical mount. You determine the appearance
of the mount: a statue might spring to life, a tree might
twist itself into a wooden horse, or a broom might
levitate off the ground but otherwise remain
unchanged.
The mount is a construct with 10 (3d6) hit points,
immunity to poison and psychic damage, resistance to
bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from
nonmagical attacks, a walking speed of 60 feet, and a
flying speed of 40 feet. It obeys your verbal commands
(no action required), but can only take the Dash,
Disengage, or Hide actions. The mount is suitable to
carry one Medium creature or two Small creatures, but
only you are able to direct it, unless you explicitly give
another creature permission to control the mount.
If the ribbon is removed or destroyed, the object
becomes mundane again.
Seed of Snaring Thorns
Prerequisite: 12th level
As an action, you can throw this seed to cast the
grasping vine spell without expending a spell slot or
material components. When cast in this way, the vine
created by the spell is lined with razor-sharp thorns.
When a creature fails its saving throw against the spell,
you can choose to deal 3d8 piercing damage to the
target if you wish.
Once you use the seed in this way, you must recreate
it before you can use it again.
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Shard of Living Glass
As an action, you can smash this shard of glass on the
ground and cast the cloud of daggers spell without
expending a spell slot or material components. When
cast in this way, the spell creates a cloud of glass shards
that respond to your commands. You can move the
cloud up to 30 feet in any direction as a bonus action on
each of your turns until the spell ends. If this
movement brings the cloud into a creature’s space, that
creature doesn’t take damage until the start of its turn.
Once you use the shard in this way, you must recreate
it before you can use it again.
Vermin Bone
As an action, you can snap this bone to conjure a
swarm of vermin that surround you for 1 minute or
until you lose concentration, as if concentrating on a
spell. The swarm surrounds you in a 10-foot radius,
and can consist of rats, insects, worms, or some other
Tiny creature of your choice. For the duration, you
gain the following benefits:
• The swarm aids your movement, allowing you to
ignore difficult terrain.
• You have advantage on attack rolls against creatures
in the swarm’s area.
• Any creature that moves within the swarm on its
turn or starts its turn there takes 1d10 necrotic
damage as the swarm razes it.
Once you use the bone in this way, you must recreate
it before you can use it again.

Bound Spirit
I’ve seen many people swear loyalty and
profess dedication to a cause. I cannot count how many people
I have seen die for their beliefs. But, nothing compares to
those who choose to live for their beliefs, to dedicate an
eternity to them, sworn to a single-minded goal.
—Roam, cleric of Selune
Eternal life is a subject of intense debate. There are
those who consider it a curse rather than a boon, and
those who would sacrifice anything for it. The fear of
death is not solely the territory of the short-lived races,
either, and nearly every mortal being finds themselves
pondering that mortality at some point. The bound
spirit is a person who has chosen to walk a unique path,
exchanging the frailties of their mortal body for one
made of iron, stone, or ensorceled flesh that can be
stitched or replaced on demand.
When this exchange is made willingly, it is often out
of loyalty to a cause. However, not all bound spirits
choose their path. Some bound spirits have become
enslaved to their containers by accident, or were
forcibly installed in their new bodies by someone who
thought they could control their spirit.
Your character may have come from any walk of life
before becoming bound. Consider how they may view
the changes in their body, their new outlook on life and
death, and how willingly or unwillingly their transition
was made.
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Guardianship
The bound spirit is an enduring defender, designed to
protect a locale for ages. Entire generations of acolytes
have been brought up, trained, served, and passed on in
a temple, while the bound spirit still guards their halls.
You were built for a purpose, regardless of how long or
how briefly you were able to fulfill it.
GUARDIANSHIPS
d6 Guardianship
1 You were installed as the guardian of a temple,
protector of the faithful.
2 Your dedication was to a druid circle.
3 You were tasked with the protection of a
treasury filled with coins and valuables.
4 You were the guard of a prison designed to
hold the worst offenders, including powerful
mages.
5 You were guardian of a castle, sworn to
protect the royal line in perpetuity.
6 Nothing. Your purpose remained unfulfilled
after your creation.
Dissonance
As a bound spirit, you no longer require many of the
necessities of life, such as air, or sustenance. You can
still attempt to emulate these acts, either for your own
comfort, or to try to put others at ease, however, they
no longer come easy to you, and may instead be more
off-putting.
DISSONANCES
d6 Dissonance
1 Instead of sleeping, you lay still for six hours,
perfectly unmoving, eyes open but unblinking.
You make an occasional ‘snore’ that is more
akin to the creak or groan of a settling
foundation.
2 You take meals with your allies, but you do not
consume the food, instead pushing bits of it
against your lips until the food is mashed, and
then disposing of it later.
3 On occasion, to seem as though you still
breathe, you inhale deeply and let out an
exaggerated sigh. It makes a faint, hollow
whistling noise.
4 You drink with your companions, but the water
or ale dribbles down your chin, or leaks from a
crack or seam in your side.
5 Your nights are restless and you have a skewed
sense of the passage of time. You are
sometimes surprised when your companions
wake ‘so soon’ after a full night’s rest, and at
other times you worry if they’ll ever wake
again after an hour or two.
6 You have maintained your senses even if
you’ve lost your appetite, and still crave the
taste of food, even if you wind up spitting it out
after you’ve chewed it to a fine mash.
Voice
As a bound spirit, you speak with a voice that does not
necessarily come from air being blown across vocal
cords, but instead from more arcane or strange sources.
Your voice may be one of the few things that resembles
your original form, or it may have transformed as
drastically as the rest of you.
GUARDIANSHIPS
d6 Guardianship
1 Your voice seems disembodied, as if it floats
somewhere around you, but is not coming
directly from your body.
2 The voice that echoes out of your body sounds
muffled, as if buried deep under metal, stone,
or flesh.
3 Your voice wavers and sounds as though it’s
rattling. The feeling of your body gently
vibrating as you speak is palpable.
4 You have difficulty controlling your volume.
Your voice booms even when you attempt to
speak in a whisper.
5 Your voice sometimes cracks and vanishes, and
when it returns, it almost sounds like a
different person is speaking.
6 Your voice does not match your appearance at
all, being as ill-fitting as a tiny voice coming
from a giant, a booming voice coming from a
mouse, or a crass and loud dwarf shouting
from the frame of a tiny elven girl.
Bound Body
At 1st level, the bound spirit gains the Bound Body
feature. The following options are available to a bound
spirit in addition to those offered in the original Cursed
Classes: the Iron Golem and the Mimic Bound.
Iron Golem
Iron golems are often deemed the mightiest of all the
golems, forged for battle to sunder the ground beneath
their feet, cleave enemies, and leave devastation within
their wake. The iron golem comes armed with
enormous blades, and an internal system to exhale
poisonous fumes. They are the last, and often only, line
of defense, unbreakable thanks to the strongest of
metals that form their towering bodies.
Iron Form
Because your body is entirely iron, you are ill-suited for
wearing any additional armor. You have a base AC of
18 + your proficiency bonus (your Dexterity modifier
doesn’t affect this number). You gain no benefit from
wearing armor. However, whenever you take the Dash
action, you only gain 15 feet of extra movement due to
your lumbering form. You have a sword bound to one
of your arms. This weapon cannot be removed and
deals 1d10 slashing damage and has the reach and
versatile properties (1d12).
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Poison Breath
At 1st level, you gain the ability to use an action to
exhale a large cloud of poisonous gas in a 15-foot cone.
Each creature in that zone must make a Constitution
saving throw (DC = 10 + your proficiency bonus),
taking 2d6 acid damage on a failed save or half as much
on a success. If the saving throw is failed by 5 or more,
the creature becomes poisoned. You can use this feature
twice, and you regain all expended uses of it when you
finish a long rest.
This damage increases to 4d6 at 5th level, 6d6 at 10th
level, and 8d6 at 15th level.
Enormous Reach
At 7th level, your proficiency with fighting enemies
beyond your reach increases greatly, as you learn to by
reshape your body. If you move 5 feet or less this turn,
you may use a bonus action to increase the reach of
your bound weapon by 5-foot. Any attacks you hit with
using this extended range deal an extra weapon die of
damage, however until the start of your next turn your
AC is reduced by 4.
Sentient Breath
At 14th level, you have gained the ability to stay
connected with your gaseous shape enough to control
it. It now forms to fill a 5-foot-diameter sphere lasting
for 1 minute, and as a bonus action you can move it up
to 15 feet. Creatures that are completely within the
cloud at the start of their turn must make the
Constitution saving throw or take the damage outlined
in the Poison Breath ability.
A moderate wind (at least 10 miles per hour)
disperses the cloud after 4 rounds. A strong wind (at
least 20 miles per hour) disperses it after 1 round.
Towering Invulnerability
Beginning at 18th level, you emboldened the alloys
across your body, becoming a near unstoppable force.
Using your action, your spirit enhances the adamantite
to gain the following benefits for 1 minute:
• You become immune to the following damage types:
fire, poison, psychic; bludgeoning, piercing, and
slashing.
• You are immune to the charmed, exhaustion,
frightened and paralyzed conditions and from being
knocked prone.
• Your base AC is increased to 25.
• You may use your Poison Breath ability as a bonus
action.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until
you finish a long rest.
“Blood and flesh all suffer with age.
My form can be reforged or reinforced; I am tireless. The
perfect defender. I am yet to find a detriment to my bound
soul.”
—The Bulwark, Bodyguard
Mimic Bound
Usually, apex predators are thought of as large,
indomitable forces who throw their might around to
terrorize and dominate their ecosystem. Yet, there is
strength in subtlety. Mimics are monstrous creatures
that take the form of everyday mundane objects,
awaiting the perfect opportunity to strike. This
aptitude is born of a singular and innate sense of
survival and subsistence.
The physiology of a mimic is a mystery to most.
Capture a mimic alive, and it wants to stay in its
immutable form. Slay one, and it reverts immediately.
This barrier of research has led powerful mages to
attempt to create sentient, intelligent, or at least
subservient mimics through rituals and alchemy. The
mimic bound is the result of such experiments. Rather
than start from scratch, transmuters and necromancers
work to imbue a humanoid form with the subtle power
of a mimic.
Pseudopod
Starting at 1st level, your form allows you to make your
Constructed Nature attack with a pseudopod at a range
of 10 feet.
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Immutable Imitation
Also at 1st level, choose the form of a container that is
no larger than the natural size of your race. This could
be an amphora, barrel, chest, or other mundane object.
Features of this object are always present in your
humanoid form, such as a tattoo of a latch or thick
bands of metal strapping around your neck and waist.
As a bonus action on your turn, you can shift between
your humanoid form and a form indistinguishable from
the object.
When you shift into your object form, you also take
the Hide action as part of the bonus action. Any
creature that didn’t see you transform has disadvantage
on Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence
(Investigation) checks to detect you. In addition:
• Your AC is equal to 10 + your Constitution modifier
+ your Dexterity modifier.
• You have resistance to psychic and poison damage
(and are immune to the poisoned condition,
suppressing its effects while in this form but not
removing it completely.)
• You can’t cast any spells.
• Your speed becomes 10 feet.
The only actions you can take in this form are to use
your bonus action to change back into your humanoid
form or to make an attack with pseudopod. Once per
turn, you can deal an extra 1d8 damage to one creature
you hit with a pseudopod attack from this form. The
attack must be against a creature that you are hidden
from. You don’t need to be hidden from the creature if
another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that
enemy isn’t incapacitated, and you don’t have
disadvantage on the attack roll. The amount of extra
damage increases as you gain levels in this class,
becoming 2d8 at 5th level, 3d8 at 9th level, 4d8 at 13th
level, and 5d8 at 17th level.
Demistomach
At 7th level, you act as an extraplanar container while
in your object form. The container has an interior
space considerably larger than its outside dimensions,
roughly 3 feet in diameter at the mouth and 10 feet
deep. Your extraplanar space can hold up to 1500
pounds, not exceeding a volume of 128 cubic feet. The
weight of your contents does not affect your overall
weight. If your container becomes overloaded, you
suffer a level of exhaustion and regurgitate the last
items ingested until you are no longer overloaded. If
your body is destroyed, or you die, the contents spill
forth and fill the area around you.
To add objects to your extraplanar space, you must
use your action and pseudopod to consume the object.
To retrieve an item, you must use your action to
regurgitate it. Another creature can’t add objects into
your extraplanar space unless you allow them to.
Pseudopod Grappling
Also at 7th level, when you attack with your pseudopod
on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attempt to
grapple the target.
Devour
At 14th level, you can attempt to devour a creature you
have grappled as an action. If you are in your humanoid
form, you partially transform a toothy opening to draw
the target into. The target must make a Strength saving
throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Strength modifier). On a failed save, the creature is
restrained by your mouth. A creature that is restrained
this way can use their action to repeat the saving throw,
ending the restrain on a successful save.
While a creature is restrained this way, you can use
your bonus action to continue consuming them,
dealing 2d10 piercing damage. When a restrained
creature is reduced to 0 hit points and killed, its body
falls lifeless in your mouth. You can use your action to
devour their body, storing it in your internal
demiplane. You regain a number of hit dice equal to the
creature’s CR (rounded down). If this would bring you
above your maximum amount of hit dice, you can roll
the remaining hit dice and gain that many temporary
hit points.
Soul Capture
At 18th level, you can draw the souls of others into
your container’s demiplane. When you use your Soul
Escape feature, the body left behind is your object form.
If any creature moves to within 10 feet of your body,
you can use your reaction to snap back to your form
and make a pseudopod attack against the triggering
creature. In addition, when you are possessing a
creature, you can use your action to attempt to pull
their soul into your body. Make a contested Charisma
check. If you fail, the possession ends early. However, if
you succeed, you drag the spirit of the creature you had
possessed into your demiplane. Its body falls lifeless to
the ground. While trapped this way, you can
communicate with the creature’s spirit telepathically. It
must answer your questions truthfully, as if under the
effects of the zone of truth spell. The only action the
spirit can take on its turns is to attempt to break free,
repeating the contested Charisma check and returning
to its body if it wins. A creature’s spirit is automatically
released after 10 days have passed.
Body Augmentations
At 3rd level, the bound spirit gains the Body
Augmentations feature. Here are new options for that
feature, in addition to those offered in the original
Cursed Classes.
If a body augmentation has a prerequisite, you must
meet it to learn the augmentation. You can learn the
augmentation at the same time that you meet its
prerequisite. A level prerequisite refers to your level in
this class.
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Acid Spray
Prerequisite: Iron Golem
Your Poison Breath ability is replaced with Acid Spray,
which sprays a 5-foot wide line of acid 25 feet long.
Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving
throw (DC = 10 + your proficiency bonus), taking the
damage specified in the Poison Breath ability on a failed
save or half as much on a success.
In addition, any nonmagical weapon made of metal
or wood that is hit by the acid begins to corrode,
gaining a -1 penalty to all damage rolls using that weapon.
Additional Arms
Prerequisite: Flesh Golem, Iron Golem, Suit of Armor
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you
take the Attack action.
Ice Breath
Prerequisite: Iron Golem
Your Poison Breath ability is replaced with Ice Breath,
which releases a 15-foot cone of cold.
Each creature in that area must make a Constitution
saving throw (DC = 10 + your proficiency bonus),
taking the damage specified in the Poison Breath ability
on a failed save or half as much on a success.
In addition, any creature that takes damage has their
movement speed reduced by 10 foot until the end of
their next turn.
Magical Resistance
Prerequisite: Flesh Golem, Iron Golem, Mimic Bound,
Suit of Armor
You may use a reaction to gain advantage on saving
throws against spells and other magical effects, until the
start of your next turn. This feature can be used only
once per short rest.
Reinforcement
Prerequisite: Mimic Bound, Suit of Armor
You gain a +2 bonus to your AC.
Shifting Armaments
Prerequisite: Iron Golem
The blade bound to your hand can be shaped according
to your will. As a bonus action you may alter your blade
to one of the following:
• Blade. Your bound weapon now deals slashing
damage.
• Point. Your bound weapon now deals piercing
damage.
• Maul. Your bound weapon now deals bludgeoning
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Floraspawn
“Under the right circumstances, everyone can
flourish and blossom into the perfect version of themselves.
With me, I guess it is just a little more literal!”
—Nedla Summerboot, Floraspawn Florist
Floraspawn are connected to the natural world in a way
that is unique only to themselves. While druids and
rangers may speak with plants and animals, floraspawn
understand the fertility of soil, the purity of the rain,
and the changing of the seasons in a way that few other
creatures could. Though the bodies of floraspawn are
transformed and not replaced, keeping all of their racial
traits, the metamorphosis can be profound. Nearly all
floraspawn arrive at their power through death, losing
their lives before being revived by nature’s power. In
this way, some floraspawn may feel alien to others of
their race, as they are less and less the people they were,
and more and more a part of nature.
Nature is, for the most part, a neutral entity. At their
core, most plant’s only goal is to survive and propagate.
Some floraspawn may take this literally, seeking to
introduce others to the spores, seeds, or magic that
transformed them. Other floraspawn may seek to
propagate their existence in other ways, by spreading
knowledge, accumulating fame, or making a palpable
impact on the world.
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Your floraspawn character may fall anywhere on the
spectrum of a person who is becoming one with nature
or a plant who only vaguely remembers how to be a
person. The death one suffered before their
transformation may have a deep impact on where they
lie on that spectrum, and may inform their outlook on
humanoid creatures and civilization as a whole.
Attracting Nature
Nature is woven into every fiber of your being, and
many peaceful creatures begin to perceive you as flora
rather than a humanoid. Whereas an ordinary person
may drive away wildlife by their scent or sounds, you
may have to do some real work to keep animals from
nipping at your foliage. Or, alternatively, you may walk
comfortably among these creatures, providing them
shelter and a modest amount of nourishment.
NATURAL ATTRACTIONS
d6 Attraction
1 Bees and other pollinators.
2 Birds.
3 Caterpillars and butterflies.
4 Aphids and pests.
5 Spiders.
6 Woodland herbivores, like deer.
Scent
Whether covered in fungus, made of wood and bark, or
sprouting blossoms from your skin, you are very much
engulfed in nature. This change in your body has been
accompanied by changes to your scent, which may be as
strong as any perfume one might wear.
SCENTS
d6 Scent
1 You smell sweet, like fresh honey.
2 You carry the delicate scent of roses.
3 You have a pungent, musty smell, like mold.
4 You smell strongly of sweetness and spice, like
cloves.
5 You have a foul, rotting smell, like a stinkhorn
mushroom.
6 You smell like fresh cut grass.
Voice of Nature
Through synthesis, you collect nutrients and energy
from soil, water, and sunlight, and thus you are always
connected to the forces of nature around you. This
connection provides you with certain unique traits or
senses.
VOICES OF NATURE
d6 Voice
1 The cycle of life is evident in your every
movement. Tiny weeds, wildflowers, or fungi
spring up on the ground trailing your
footsteps, flourishing for only a few seconds
before withering and dying.
2 You have a sense of what nature craves or
what troubles it. With some accuracy, you can
intuit the quality of the soil, the length of a
drought, or the stress of an infestation by the
cries of the flora.
3 You enjoy collecting potted plants and you talk
to them as if they were friends. Your plants do
seem to be visibly perkier and healthier after
you’ve had a good long chat.
4 There is nothing you hate more than seeing a
harvest taken before it is fully ripe. Though
you respect the circle of life and the
dependence of living creatures on their food
source, you also feel as though even plants
should be allowed to live to the fullest.
5 You show the same fondness and respect for
earthworms or ants that most people do for
dogs or cats. You’d stop a marching army to
make sure they didn’t crush a centipede
crossing the road.
6 Your greatest luxury in life is to take a mud
bath. It’s so comforting and relaxing that you
imagine that one day, even nobles will be doing
it.
Way of the Wood
At 1st level, the floraspawn gains the Way of the Wood
feature. The following options are available to a
floraspawn in addition to those offered in the original
Cursed Classes: the Alraune and the Corpse Flora.
Alraune
Alraune are humanoid creatures who resemble flowers
or root plants, such as mandragoras, rafflesias, or
hibiscus. The creation of alraune happens through
ingestion of an alraune’s succulent nectar. Cautionary
tales tell of unsuspecting explorers being lured into a
garden by the alluring scent or whimsical, melodious
humming of an alraune disguised as a wondrously
beautiful flowering plant. When the explorer parts the
petals to find the pool of glistening nectar, the desire to
drink from it becomes almost overwhelming.
Once a creature drinks from the alraune’s nectar, they
might fall victim to the ill effects of its toxins, such as
paralysis, or even death. The alraune might consume
the creature for sustenance while it is paralyzed or
dying, or on rare occasions, the alraune might simply
wait to see if the creature can survive the effects of
the nectar.
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In the case that a creature survives the effects of the
alraune’s nectar, there have been known cases of such
creatures transforming into alraune themselves. The
metamorphosis of such a creature happens rather
quickly, taking full effect within a tenday. The creature
that survives the alraune’s nectar grows petals, typically
of a similar coloring and style to the alraune from
which it drank the nectar. Limbs become more stalk-
like. Petals may sprout from the waist or stomach area
and droop downward, or from the head like hair. In
some cases, the entire face and head of the creature
becomes more flower-like.
The newly transformed creature is now able to create
their own nectar to lure prey its way, though this
creature’s nectar may not be as strong as the alraune
who created them, at least not for a very long time.
Nectar Reservoir
Starting at 1st level, you have a small amount of nectar
that collects somewhere on your body, covered lightly
by grown petals. The nectar is not internal (like blood)
but your petals can obscure its location. The nectar
concentrates as a liquid that can be gathered into a
container, about a pint (⅛ gallon) of liquid. If your
nectar reservoir is emptied, it refills when you complete
a long rest.
Nectar removed from your reservoir loses any class
features that affect it after 1 minute. Nectar cannot be
returned to your reservoir to regain its features. If your
nectar is removed from your reservoir in its entirety (1
pint or ⅛ gallon) and contained in a watertight
container (such as a pitcher), any features that affect
your nectar are extended to affect the container with
the collection of your nectar, but only for up to 1
minute. An aura is a 10-foot radius from the nectar’s
container, and a creature who fails a saving throw
against the nectar’s effects is affected by the nectar and
its container, instead of you as the source.
Your nectar begins with one feature, Nectar Aura,
and gains more features as you gain levels in this class.
Some of your nectar features require your target to
make a saving throw to resist the feature’s effect. The
saving throw for your Nectar features will also use your
Synthesis Pool Save DC. Your new Pool Save DC is
calculated as follows:
Pool Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Charisma modifier.
Nectar Aura. While in your reservoir, your nectar
gives off a scented aura in a 10-foot radius from
yourself. A creature who cannot smell is not affected by
this aura. Any creature within your nectar aura must
succeed on a Constitution saving throw or suffer
disadvantage on weapon attacks against you while they
remain within the nectar aura.
Enticing Nature
Beginning at 1st level, your transformation into a floral
entity makes you enigmatically enticing. You gain
proficiency in the Persuasion and Performance skills.
Alluring Nectar
At 3rd level, you can cause your nectar to charm
creatures within your nectar aura. As an action, you can
expend 6 points from your synthesis pool to infuse your
nectar aura with a sweet scent. The expended points
from your synthesis pool are consumed. They do not
become temporary hit points and are lost. Any creature
currently within your nectar aura must succeed on a
Constitution saving throw or be charmed by you for 10
minutes or until they are moved out of your nectar aura.
Nectar-Infused Weapons
At 7th level, as a bonus action, you can coat your
weapon in your nectar. Choose an effect for the nectar
to have on your weapon from the options listed below.
The nectar gives the effect to your weapon for a
duration of 1 minute. You can use this feature a number
of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum
1). You regain all expended uses of this feature when
you complete a long rest.
Toxic Nectar Coating. You cause the nectar coating
your weapon to be filled with toxins. If you hit a
creature with a melee weapon attack while your
weapon is coated with Toxic Nectar, you deal an
additional 2d8 poison damage.You can expend 10
synthesis pool points to increase the damage by 1d8
poison damage for every 10 points that you expend.
The expended points from your synthesis pool are
consumed. They do not become temporary hit points
and are lost.
Blinding Nectar Coating. The nectar coating your
weapon will invade a target’s nervous system, causing
temporary blindness. If you hit a creature with a melee
weapon attack while your weapon is coated with
Blinding Nectar, the target must succeed on a
Constitution saving throw or be blinded for 1 minute.
“Apparently asking someone
if they’re a tree-shaped elf or an elf-
shaped tree is considered impolite in
some circles.”
—Volo
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Sweet-Scented Coating. You cause the nectar
coating your weapon to be loaded with sweet
pheromones. If you hit a creature with a melee weapon
attack while your weapon is coated with Sweet-Scented
nectar, the creature is compelled not to hurt you. For 1
minute, the creature has disadvantage on attack rolls
that target you.
Toxic Nectar
At 14th level, if a creature spends 1 minute or longer
within your nectar aura, they must succeed on a
Constitution saving throw or be compelled to drink
from your nectar.
The creature takes 4d10 poison damage and is
poisoned from drinking your nectar. If you expend 20
points from your synthesis pool, the creature is also
paralyzed after drinking your nectar. The expended
points from your synthesis pool are consumed. They do
not become temporary hit points and are lost.
Powerful Nectar
At 18th level, the aura of your nectar is increased to a
20-foot radius. Any creature who ingests your nectar
must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or begin
to die as the power of your nectar has reached toxic
levels. The creature suffers one level of exhaustion for
each hour that passes after consuming your nectar.
Resting does not reduce levels of exhaustion gained
from this feature. The process of dying from the nectar
can only be stopped by magic such as the greater
restoration spell. Creatures that are immune to
exhaustion are still affected by this feature.
Corpse Flora
The corpse flower is an affront to life: a rotting,
necrotic plant that hates the living and absorbs the flesh
of the recently deceased to sustain itself. On occasion, a
corpse flower attempts to infect a creature that isn’t
dead. Most of the time, this fills the creature with
poison and decay, killing it and raising it as a thrall
under the plant’s control; however, a rare few creatures
refuse to give in to the call of death, escaping the
clutches of the corpse flower. These creatures undergo
a slow and tremendously painful transformation,
becoming a fusion of plant and animal, life and death—a
corpse flora.
As a corpse flora, you feel a hunger for the flesh of
living creatures. When you succumb to this hunger,
you feel your body strengthening with the power of
rot, gaining access to powerful poisons and control
over undead thralls.
Harvest the Dead
Starting at 1st level, you learn to break down and
absorb the flesh of living things. You gain a new way to
activate your Synthesis feature. As an action, you can
touch the corpse of a Small or larger creature that has
died in the past 24 hours and absorb it into your form,
activating your Synthesis regeneration. When you
absorb a corpse, any items or equipment it is wearing
or carrying are ejected onto the ground at your feet.
You cannot absorb a construct or creature that was
undead in this way.
Halt Necrosis
Also at 1st level, you can delay death and rot’s claim on
the living. You know the spare the dying cantrip.
Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.
At 7th level, this feature improves. You know the
gentle repose spell, and can cast it as a ritual without
the need for material components.
Rotting Form
At 7th level, you have become accustomed to rot and
decay. You are resistant to necrotic damage.
Additionally, when you absorb corpses into your
form, you break down some of the body instantly,
gaining a burst of vitality. When you absorb a corpse
with your Harvest the Dead feature, your synthesis pool
immediately gains 2d6 temporary hit points.
Corpse Thrall
At 14th level, you can infuse corpses with your essence,
reanimating it. As an action, you can touch the corpse
of a Small or larger creature that has been dead for no
longer than 24 hours and choose any number of
temporary hit points. Your synthesis pool loses the
chosen amount, and the corpse returns to life as a
zombie or skeleton (your choice) with temporary hit
points equal to the chosen amount. Constructs and
undead can’t be raised in this way.
A corpse raised by you obeys your verbal commands,
acting at the end of your turn on initiative. You can
control a number of corpses up to your Constitution
modifier (minimum of one). If you try to raise another
corpse when you are controlling the maximum number,
the oldest corpse dies when the new one is raised.
The corpse lasts for 24 hours or until its temporary
hit points are reduced to 0, at which point the corpse is
reduced to ashes and can’t be raised in this way again.
Grave Form
At 18th level, you have become one with rot and decay.
You are immune to necrotic damage, and your hit point
maximum can’t be reduced by any means.
Additionally, the amount of temporary hit points you
regain immediately when you absorb a corpse increases
to 4d6.

Stench of Death
At 3rd level, your body is suffused with the stench of
the dead, allowing you to sicken living creatures. As an
action, you can spend 5 temporary hit points from your
synthesis pool to create a 10-foot radius halo of rot
centered on you. When a creature enters the area for
the first time on its turn or starts its turn there, it must
succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take poison
damage equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum
of zero) and be poisoned until the beginning of its next
turn. Once a creature succeeds on its saving throw
against the halo, it can’t be poisoned by it again for
24 hours.
Your pool cannot regenerate hit points while the halo
is active. At the beginning of each of your turns, the
halo consumes another 5 temporary hit points from
your synthesis pool. The halo lasts for 1 minute, until
dismissed as a bonus action, or until your pool can no
longer supply the cost of the halo.

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Lich
"People get all kinds of ugly ideas about
undeath, darling. All those musty tombs, and sinister
deathtraps. What they don't tell you, sweetie, is that you're
allowed to be dead and relevant. You could stand to lose that
cloak, for one thing, they fell out of fashion quite some time
before I died and even I'm not talented enough to reanimate
THAT trend."
—Desdemona, Couture Lich
Good things come to those who wait, but better things
are earned by those who plot and bide their time.
Patience is an important virtue, but the lich
understands that the waiting itself is not the important
part, but instead, they value the preparation and
planning that that comes with waiting for the proper
time to act. Though impatient and over-eager liches
assuredly exist, they are few and far between, as the
process of becoming a lich and maintaining one’s
undeath is not a quick one.
Though one might imagine that liches have no room
for vanity, having accepted a rotting corpse for a body
in exchange for nigh-immortality, this is a shallow
perception. Many liches choose to adorn themselves
with the kind of finery that can only be collected over a
span of decades or centuries, sometimes setting large
gemstones into their hollow eye sockets, or cladding
their gaunt and skeletal figures with luxurious robes.
Even newly formed, “young” liches may seek out this
kind of ornamentation to make up for their otherwise
decrepit appearances.
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While liches are almost universally evil people, your
lich doesn’t have to be. Given the concept of a curse,
your lich may not have fully understood what they
were undertaking, or may have had their undeath
thrust upon them. While it can be hard to justify
stealing the souls of others to prolong one’s own life, a
well-meaning lich may limit their soul-stealing only to
those who would visit harm upon others.
Phylactery
A lich’s phylactery can take on many forms. While the
traditional forms are amulets or small boxes, these are
only the most common examples. Even a Pathway of
the Wastes lich, whose phylacteries are made of their
own internal organs placed in jars, has some creative
leeway with the design of their phylactery so long as
they are sealable containers. The primary requirement
of a phylactery is that it is an object that can carry
silver-etched arcane sigils of naming, binding,
immortality, and dark magic, on their interior.
PHYLACTERIES
d6 Phylactery
1 Your personal phylactery takes the form of a
mundane looking clay jar, sealed with a large
cork and capped with a scrap of burlap. Inside,
the jar is encrusted with silver sigils and
jewels, and the interior shines with a sickening
light.
2 Your choice of phylactery is a mourning ring,
like the kind used to carry a pinch of cremation
ashes, or a locket of hair of the deceased.
Inside your locket, however, are the arcane
etchings that preserve your own life.
3 Your phylactery is a small wooden chest with
metal bracing. It has been ensorceled to
appear as a small mimic, with nipping teeth to
keep away any fingers that might investigate
its contents. Beyond this illusion, the interior
of the box is decorated with sigils carved into
actual teeth.
4 Your preference is a phylactery that you can
hide in plain sight. You have chosen a crystal
ball, which you may frequently use for
performing tricks and focus illusions upon.
From the outside, the ball appears filled with
storm clouds, but when you will them to calm,
the silver etchings within can be seen.
5 Your phylactery resembles a small crate of
scrolls, packed tightly enough together to
resemble a honeycomb. Each rolled slip of
paper within the crate is etched with arcane
symbology, and their order of placement is
quite specific.
6 You prefer a very ornate phylactery. Yours is a
box so heavily encrusted with jewels, etchings,
seals, strips of paper, and gold and platinum
ornamentation, one might have difficulty
figuring out how to open it.
Eerie Keepsakes
The preservation of life is vital to most liches. In
addition to the phylacteries that preserve their own
existence, many liches keep souvenirs like phylacteries
of memory. Even as their bodies degrade, they work to
preserve what was once considered an important part
of their identity. Or, they seek to create the idealized
body they did not have in life.
EERIE KEEPSAKES
d6 Keepsake
1 You were always proud of your hair. You
maintain it and brush it every day, even if it’s
no longer attached to your head.
2 A tattoo reminds you of your wild youth, and
beloved memories. Even as your skin wrinkles,
sags, and rots away, you keep that tattoo as a
stretched leathery patch on your sleeve.
3 You always wanted green eyes. You’re just
waiting for one more to complete your set.
4 Once upon a time, you envied the bright and
cheerful smiles of others, and were
uncomfortable with your own. Now, you have
the option of smiling with whatever teeth you
choose. Though perhaps you should have a few
less rows of them, or perhaps less jagged
ones…
5 You keep a collection of fingers on a string
around your wrist to remind you of the people
they once belonged to. However, you’ve
forgotten them anyway, so now you just make
up stories about each of them.
6 You have a few extra phylacteries on hand.
They aren’t yours.
Eccentricities
It takes a special kind of special to desire lichdom.
Whether you were an eccentric person in life, or these
oddities came to the surface when faced with the
realities of trying to preserve your life through magic,
you have developed some unusual behaviors.
ECCENTRICITIES
d6 Eccentricity
1 You can memorize vast fields of knowledge,
but your ability to recall it is lacking. You often
remember facts long after they would’ve been
useful.
2 You’ve always had a particular fondness for
extra-small versions of things. Their diminutive
cuteness fills you with joy! Miniature books,
tiny familiars, shrunken heads…
3 Your own body is like a lump of moldable clay
to you. You see nothing wrong with inserting
pieces of carved bone in your face to give
yourself higher cheekbones or embedding
precious gems in your eyes in the pursuit of
fashion.
4 You hate it when anyone interrupts you talking
to yourself. After all, you’re your best sounding
board.
5 What’s the point in living forever if you outlive
your own legend? You feel compelled to
inscribe your name on things to perpetuate
your own fame, even if no one else in the world
would understand the context. Your own name
is your favorite battlecry.
6 You have a hollow space in your rib cage that
you treat like a pocket, to carry around books,
a coin purse, or something more mundane, like
a needlepoint project to pass the time.
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Immortal Pathway
At 3rd level, the lich gains the Immortal Pathway
feature. The following options are available to a lich in
addition to those offered in the original Cursed Classes:
the Pathway of the Phylactery and the Pathway of the
Shadow.
Pathway of the Phylactery
The pathway of the phylactery is not one that is often
willingly chosen, it is for those who become a living
phylactery for a powerful lich. They become a
container for trapped souls, to be the lifeforce of some
far away lich who knows of their every move and
action. However, it does have some benefits. There are
those who know how to tap into the souls that live
inside them, using them for their own gain. It is
entirely possible that they become even more powerful
than the lich had intended. What a surprise that’ll be.
Mirror of Their Soul
When you choose this pathway at 3rd level, the true
lich that uses you as a phylactery continually works to
ensure souls are trapped within you. This occasionally
grants you information from the lich. You can choose
to gain advantage on any Intelligence check. You may
only use this feature a number of times equal to your
Intelligence modifier per long rest.
At the end of every long rest, your phylactery gains
1d4 additional souls. In addition, health gained using
Soul Consumption is increased to 1d6. As a phylactery,
there is a 10% chance that one soul may be consumed
by the true owner of the phylactery, if the owner true
owner of the phylactery is killed, they reappear within
1d8 days of being killed beside you.
Exchange of Souls
At 3rd level, if your phylactery is full, you may
exchange the soul with a suitable creature that dies
within 60 feet of you. Before the exchanged soul is
freed you may choose one of the following options:
• Harvest the soul to grant 1d10 + your lich level
temporary hit points.
• Ask the soul three questions, to the effect of a speak
with dead spell.
• Your next spell deals an additional 1d6 necrotic
damage.
You may use this feature a number of times equal to
your Intelligence modifier per short or long rest.
Soul Entrapment
At 6th level, you may use an action to make a melee
spell attack against a creature within 5 feet. If this attack
hits, the creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving
throw against your spell save DC or have their soul
trapped within you for 1 hour. A creature with their
soul trapped is considered unconscious. Any damage
dealt to the trapped soul’s body allows them to repeat
the saving throw to try and escape. In addition, half of
the damage inflicted to the body is also dealt to you as
the trapped soul feels pain and thrashes about.
At the start of their turn while their soul is trapped,
you have the option to reduce their maximum hit
points by 1d10. If you do, the creature has a chance to
repeat the Wisdom saving throw to escape. If their
maximum hit points are reduced to 0, they are killed
and their soul is claimed by the phylactery. You may use
this ability once per long rest.
Open the Phylactery
At 14th level, you may open the phylactery inside you
in order to release the souls to drain power from
others. As an action, you can consume any number of
charges in order to temporarily release some souls
trapped within you. For each soul released, choose a
target creature. Any creature can have multiple souls
targeting them. At the start of a target creature’s turn,
they make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell
save DC. On a failure their maximum hit points are
reduced by 1d6 per soul, or half as much on a success.
If a creature is reduced to 0 hit points by this feature,
their soul and all the other souls are returned to the
phylactery. You may use this ability only once, and
regain use after you finish a long rest.
Pathway of the Shadow
The shadowfell is a realm full of mysteries and secrets.
To the novice, it seems like a lifeless desolate landscape
and that wouldn’t be far from the truth. For a being
who is willing to root themselves to this forlorn place,
obscure knowledge awaits. Shadow liches are one
example of these beings, corrupting their phylactery
with shadowstuff.
SHADOW LICH SPELLS
A number of new shadow-based spells, tailored to the theme
of the Pathway of the Shadow lich, have been added to the
class’s spell list and made available to all liches. You can find
this updated list in the Spells chapter.
Tied to the Shadows
Starting at 3rd level, having bound part of your
phylactery with the Shadowfell, you can access your
phylactery provided you are within an area of darkness.
Additionally, provided you’ve captured at least 1 soul
charge in your phylactery since your last long rest, you
have a dark nimbus around you. This nimbus turns
bright light into dim light, and dim light into darkness
in a 5-foot radius centered upon you. While this
nimbus exists, you gain a darkvision of 60 feet. You can
suppress or resume this effect as a bonus action.
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Shadow Sight
Starting at 3rd level, shadows become like portals to
your eyes. As an action you can see and hear through
any area of dim light as though you were standing at
any point within it. You must be able to see the area of
dim light from where your body is physically located.
Additionally, provided you’ve captured at least 1 soul
charge in your phylactery since your last long rest, you
can peer into the shadowfell by looking through areas
of darkness. While doing so, you gain the blinded and
deafened conditions, but you can see and hear the area
around your mirror location in the Shadowfell. If
you’re on the Shadowfell plane, you can use this trait to
see the same location but on the material plane.
Shadow Sublimation
Starting at 6th level, if you are in an area of dim light or
darkness and you cast a spell, you can use a number of
soul charges from your phylactery equal to the level of
the spell. If you do, you can target any creature, object,
or location that is also in an area of dim light or
darkness that you can see within 120 feet, even if they
would be out of range for that spell.
Additionally, provided you’ve captured at least 1 soul
charge in your phylactery since your last long rest, you
can cast spells that require a verbal component without
speaking, or cast spells that require a somatic
component without moving. For spells that have both,
you can only remove one component or the other, but
not both. You must be in an area of darkness to use this
class feature.
Master of Shadows
Starting at 14th level, your mastery over shadows is
complete. You gain the following benefits:
• You can access your phylactery as long as you are in
an area of dim light or darkness.
• You can expend 7 soul charges from your phylactery
as an action, teleporting yourself to the mirror
location on the Shadowfell or the material plane.
• You can cast spells of 1st level or higher from the
Shadowfell to the material plane (or vice versa) by
expending a number of soul charges equal to the level
of the spell from your phylactery.
• You can collect souls from the material plane even
while on the Shadowfell.
• Souls collected from the Shadowfell give you two
soul charges.
“You do not become a lich if you’re easily
haunted by the wailing of souls, over time you can ignore it
almost entirely. Almost. A small sacrifice for greater good,
that’s what I have to tell myself.”
—Torrig Baneaxe, Mayor of Afflicton

Lycanthrope
“See, I thought raising a child was tough.
I don’t think anything can prepare you for a child that turns
into a wolf at night. Teething issues had a new meaning.“
—Vono Greybark, Deputy Warden
Though no two people are the same, one can generally
assume certain commonalities between adventurers
who walk similar paths. For example, most druids have
a lot in common with other druids, and bards may find
themselves at home in the company of other bards. The
same cannot necessarily be said of lycanthropes. While
one might imagine that a wererat and a werebear have
few common interests between them, the same could
be said for a pair of werewolves; the way that one came
into their lycanthropy, their treatment by society, and
their willingness to hide or embrace their curse, can all
have a profound impact on a lycan.
Regardless of how a lycanthrope feels about their
curse, the rise of the moon is an inescapable
inevitability, and the way one deals with their
impending transformation is often informed by other
aspects of their life. When primal instincts take over,
some lycanthropes become the truest versions of
themselves, free of the decorum and behaviors thrust
upon them by society. They can pursue their passions
with reckless abandon or allow their emotional wounds
to bleed openly rather than hiding them away.
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Your lycanthrope could be wild and free, or struggle
to baffle down their instincts and primal callings,
creating a dissonance that makes it difficult for them to
achieve full mastery of their power. This helps add a
new layer of drama to their personal story arc, allowing
them to come to terms with their lycanthropy as they
gain levels and power.
Wild Tendencies
Though you are not a wild animal, and you do not
always show the obvious signs of your lycanthropy,
certain aspects of your animalistic side still bleed into
your humanoid life. Others may view them as simply
eccentric traits, but to those who know of your
lycanthropic curse, these tendencies become more
obvious.
WILD TENDENCIES
d6 Tendency
1 Your taste in food has changed; you prefer
things raw, if not still moving.
2 Your sense of smell isn’t drastically better in
your humanoid form, but you still feel the urge
to sniff things.
3 You have a strong instinct to chase anything
that runs.
4 You are territorial about anything that belongs
to you.
5 You have developed a strong denning or
nesting instinct, and you like to build small and
cozy shelters to curl up in.
6 You are highly motivated by food and your
friendship is easily won with a few treats.
Kinship
Some lycanthropes feel a certain kinship with the
animals they transform into, while others feel put off
by them. The relationship between a lycanthrope and
their cousins within nature can be a strange one at times.
KINSHIPS
d6 Kinship
1 You are not a beast yourself, but you have a
deep understanding and feeling of closeness
toward the beasts you transform into. You
cannot bring yourself to harm them or permit
harm to be done to them.
2 Your lycanthropic transformations have given
you a better insight into a certain breed of
beasts, and you are apt to use this information
to your advantage when hunting them.
3 You find yourself more at peace among
animals than people, feeling as though their
thoughts, instincts, and intentions are more
pure. Given the choice, you’d rather your time
with them than in humanoid society.
4 You despise the creatures that you resemble
and you take out your hatred of your own
lycanthropy upon them. Given an opportunity
to hunt or drive them away, you will take it.
5 Your lycanthropy comes so naturally that you
sometimes forget you are in your humanoid
form. You are prone to approaching your kin
beasts even when you are not transformed,
and are shocked if their reaction is negative.
6 Though you feel a strong kinship with the
beasts, you do your best to ignore it. Even
when they approach you peacefully, you feign
anger or annoyance to try to drive them away.
Hearing The Call
Every lycanthrope experiences their primal calling
differently. For some, it is a painful experience, and for
others it is blissful. This can have a strong impact on
the way they view their transformation.
THE CALLINGS
d6 Calling
1 You view the moon as your enemy. Your primal
calling feels like a wild creature clawing at the
back of your mind, scraping at its cage, trying
to break free. You struggle to maintain control.
2 You have accepted your transformations as a
part of your life and you do what you can to
prepare for them. You hide away from the
moon when it is inconvenient, you lock
yourself away in secrecy, and do your best to
hide from those you might endanger.
3 Your lycanthropy is something you hope to
learn to control. You separate yourself from
others when you change in order to
experience the transformation unhindered
and hopefully learn to master it.
4 You try to ignore your curse. Your primary
strategy is to pretend it doesn’t exist. You don’t
take steps to prepare yourself for it, because
then you’d have to wrestle with everything
else that comes with the process.
5 Letting yourself be taken over by the power of
the moon is a joyous event and there is no
better feeling for you than giving in. You long
to run free through the woods, following your
instincts and answering the call of the full
moon.
6 You are generally unaware of your
transformations. When you become fully
taken over by the lunar call, you black out.
When you awaken later, you realize that
something strange has happened, but you feel
better trying to forget about it and going on
about your day.
Primal Calling
At 1st level, the lycanthrope gains the Primal Calling
feature. The following options are available to a
lycanthrope in addition to those offered in the original
Cursed Classes: the Calling of the Werebat, the Calling
of the Werebison, the Calling of the Wereshark, and
the Calling of the Werewyvern.
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Calling of the Werebat
Creatures of darkness, but not dark of heart,
lycanthropes bitten by the bat find it easier than most
to hide their nature. Having a natural affinity for the
night means they can ply their trade when most of the
world is sleeping. Adept in the arts of stealth and with a
considerable extra sensory perception, they often find
employment as spies, scouts, and even assassins.
Primal Calling
When you use your transformation feature at 1st level,
your animal form is a giant bat. In your hybrid or
giant bat forms, you gain a bite attack. You are
considered proficient with this attack as well as with
slings and rapiers. You are proficient in Intelligence
saving throws.
Bat Flight
When your primal form improves at 6th level, gain a
flying speed of 30 feet. You have blindsight out to 60 feet.
Anti Coagulant
At 12th level, you gain a claw attack which does 1d6
slashing damage. When a creature takes damage from
your claw or bite attack, they must succeed on a
Constitution saving throw. The DC for this saving
throw is 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Constitution modifier. If a creature fails this save they
take 1d4 necrotic damage at the start of each of their
turns for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving
throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the
effect on themselves on a success.
Scout of the Night
At 18th level, your blindsight increases to 120 feet and
you have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks to
detect hidden creatures. Also, you have advantage on
Intelligence (Investigation) checks made to discern
illusions and other magical effects.
Calling of the Werebison
Of the more unique forms of lycanthrope, the
werebison is content to be passive while not
threatened. When provoked however, they attack with
the rampage of a stampeding bull. Their speed and
stamina are nearly unparalleled, and their sharp horns
can pierce even the toughest armor. While this curse
can cultivate deep loyalty in the lycanthrope, if you
anger them, get out of the way and keep moving!
Primal Calling
When you use your transformation feature at 1st level,
your animal form is an auroch. In your hybrid or
auroch forms, you gain a gore attack. You are
considered proficient with this attack as well as with
whips and crossbows. You are proficient in Strength
saving throws.
Rampage of the Form
When your primal form improves at 6th level, you can
empower your gore by charging. If you move at least 20
feet straight toward a target and then hit it with your
gore attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra
2d8 piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must
succeed on a Strength saving throw with a DC of 8 +
your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier or be
knocked prone.
Stampede of One
At 12th level, your movement speed increases by 20
feet. As long as you move at least 30 feet during your
turn, opportunity attacks have disadvantage against you.
Hybrid Juggernaut
At 18th level, creatures make their saving throws
against your charge at disadvantage.
When you move you can choose to double your
movement speed until the end of your next turn. For
every 10 feet beyond 20 feet you move in a straight line
toward a target, your gore deals an additional 2d8
damage. You can use this ability again when you finish
a short or long rest.
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Calling of the Wereshark
While it is hard for the wereshark to resist the lure of
blood, many manage to live relatively normal or
mundane lives. Adept in water and tending toward
more dangerous careers, a Wereshark’s entire form is
bred for killing.
If a wereshark wants to completely forsake their
capacity for killing, they’ll avoid any instance in which
they encounter blood. For, while they can achieve a
veneer of docility and normalcy in everyday life, once
they smell blood, their primal urge to hunt is nearly
overwhelming.
Primal Calling
When you use your transformation feature at 1st level,
your animal form is a shark. In your hybrid or shark
forms, you gain a bite attack. You are considered
proficient with this attack as well as with tridents and
javelins. You can breathe underwater while in your
hybrid or shark forms. You are proficient in Charisma
saving throws.
Taste for Blood
When your primal form improves at 6th level, your
swim speed increases by 30 feet. You gain blindsight
out to 30 feet. Your melee attack rolls against any
creature that has less than it’s maximum hit points deal
an additional 1d6 damage. This damage increases by
1d6 at 11th level (2d6 total) and again at 17th level
(3d6 total).
Predator’s Fury
At 12th level, when you take damage from a weapon
attack, your swim speed is doubled, and your walking
speed increases by 10 feet until the end of your next
turn. You cannot gain the benefits of this feature more
than once per turn. Your blindsight increases to 60 feet,
and you have advantage on Wisdom (Perception)
checks that rely on smell.
Hunter of the Deep
At 18th level, your swim speed increases another 30
feet. When you make an attack against a creature that
has less than it’s maximum hit points, you critical strike
on an 19-20 and when you score a critical hit with a
melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s
damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra
damage of the critical hit.
“Ripping off clothes? Panting noises?
Throwing themselves at anything with a pulse? Ma'am, you
are describing half the town, you'll need to be more specific."
—Anastasia Bilge, Occult Detective
Calling of the Werewyvern
Rare within the realms are tales of lycanthropes capable
of shifting not into beast, but into dragon. These are
fearsome creatures who stalk the skies, silently gliding
on moonlit nights and attacking unsuspecting travellers
caught alone. Their form is generally a more slender,
lithe build when compared to a full grown wyvern, but
their temper is no less fierce.
Primal Calling
Starting at 1st level, when you use your
Transformation feature instead of an animal form you
can become a wyvern wyrmling (see below). You
gain a natural sting attack that deals 1d6 piercing
damage. You are considered proficient with this attack,
as well as with tridents. You are proficient in Wisdom
saving throws. While in your hybrid form, if you’re not
wearing armor, your AC becomes 10 + your Dexterity
modifier + your Wisdom modifier.
Aerial Acrobatics
Starting at 6th level, while in your animal or hybrid
forms, your fly speed becomes 30. Additionally, you are
resistant to poison damage and have advantage on
saving throws against poison. Your sting attack gains
the reach weapon property.
Draconic Pedigree
Starting at 12th level, while in your hybrid or animal
form, you can take the Disengage action as a bonus
action. You gain resistance to poison.
Additionally, when you hit with your sting attack, you
can choose to deliver a powerful poison. The target
must make a Constitution saving throw or become
poisoned for 1 minute. The DC for this saving throw is
8 + your proficiency modifier + your Wisdom
modifier. At the end of each of its turns, a creature may
attempt saving throw again, ending the condition on
a success.
Full Potential
At 18th level, when you shapeshift, your type is now
dragon instead of beast.
Additionally, when you take your animal form, you
gain the following benefits:
Your size is Large instead of Medium.
The save DC for your poison increases by 2.
You gain a claw attack and a bite attack in addition to
your sting attack. If you use your Attack action to attack
with one of your natural attacks, you can use your
bonus action to make an additional attack with each of
your other natural attacks.

Wyvern Wyrmling
Medium beast, unaligned

Armor Class 11
Hit Points 6 (1d6 + 3)
Speed 30 ft.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA

15 (+2) 13 (+1) 16 (+3) 5 (-3) 14 (+2) 7 (-2)

Skills Perception +4
Senses passive Perception 14
Challenge 0 (10 XP)

Keen Sight. The wyvern wyrmling has advantage on Wisdom

(Perception) checks that rely on sight.

ACTIONS
Sting. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.

Revenant
“Before death you have a bucket list of things
you want to do, you know, see the world, slay a dragon, that
sort of thing. After death… It gets so much easier. Mine only
reads one thing now - revenge.”
—Gwen Morello, Revenant, Lycanthrope Slayer
Unlike the typical revenant recorded in the notes of
monster hunters, the revenants of which we speak are
not limited to a single year in which to achieve their
goals. Furthermore, these goals need not be as simple as
taking revenge on their murderer, but instead can
involve sweeping changes in the world, like restoring
the works of a library that was burned, or protecting an
ousted royal bloodline until it can be restored to the
throne. A revenant’s unlife can be every bit as fulfilling
as their life was, if not more, now that they have
freedom from the mortal coil.
Unlife touches each person differently, and no two
people react the same. Some are deeply changed, while
others retain most of their original personalities. Some
are as calm and serene as the grave itself, while others
take their new found durability as an excuse to be
reckless.
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Give a great deal of thought to your revenant’s goal,
which is at the heart of why they were not able to die.
Your revenant’s purpose does not need to be an all-
consuming obsession, but it should still inform their
personality and decisions. Though they may be willing
to take a detour, no revenant would ever be willing to
fully abandon their dedication to whatever brought
them back to unlife; to do so would be akin to losing a
part of one’s soul.
Quirks of Unlife
Though death no longer holds you, it has still stolen
many things from you. As you walk the world unliving
and unchained, you have lost some of the traits that
once made you seem so alive to others.
QUIRKS OF UNLIFE
d6 Quirk
1 Your skin always feels cold.
2 Your gaze is glassy, and sometimes it appears
to others as though you are looking through
them.
3 Though your body still needs sustenance to
function, you don’t know thirst or hunger and
must be reminded to take care of yourself.
4 You pay little attention to your own gaping
wounds, unless they are imminently
endangering your existence.
5 You only blink once every five minutes or so.
6 When tired or distracted, you have a tendency
to shuffle and groan, resembling the undead
rather than the unliving.
Sworn Enemies
Be it a foe responsible for your demise, or simply one
that plagued you during your previous lifetime, there
are certain enemies you cannot abide. Your sworn
enemy could be a specific person, those who pursue a
particular walk of life like thievery, or possibly an
entire species.
SWORN ENEMIES
d6 Sworn Enemies
1 You are obsessed with learning more about
your foe, and what makes them tick. You
collect books, stories, and knowledge about
them, all the better to hunt them with.
2 You have a visceral reaction to your foe. Even
the mention of them can stiffen your back and
curl your lip into a snarl.
3 Signs of your foe make you feel sick. You
cannot stand the smell or sight of them and
feel queasy just talking about them for long.
4 Even the suggestion of your foe’s presence
makes you twitchy. Your fingers curl and you
feel ready to jump at a moment’s notice.
5 You talk excessively about your foe. Even if
you have already shared all of your knowledge
about them, you continue to go on about the
depth of your hatred for them.
6 You see a semblance of your foe in everything.
Any tracks, sounds, or signs that could possibly
be construed as resembling your foe will be
interpreted as a clear sign of them.
Memories
Your previous life may feel as though you left it ages
ago, or it may burn as vividly in your mind as though
each event happened only yesterday. Memories can be
strange and fickle things for ordinary people, and even
stranger still for revenants.
MEMORIES
d6 Memory
1 The moment of your death does not leave your
memory for long, and every time you sleep,
your last glimpses of your dream are reliving
the moment your life came to an end before
you wake.
2 You remember your childhood more vividly
than anything that happened to you as an
adult. You are drawn to anything that reminds
you of your youth, your childhood home, or the
children you were friends with.
3 Your memories feel like out-of-body
experiences. You often do not realize you’re
seeing the events through the eyes of
someone other than yourself, until you see
yourself in them. You do not know why your
memories always seem to be second-hand.
4 You don’t remember the actual event of your
death. Though you are certain it must have
been traumatic to necessitate your undeath,
you cannot recall exactly what happened to
you at all.
5 Your memories feel so vivid that you
sometimes are surprised to realize that you
are, in fact, unliving. It seems like only
yesterday that you were so full of life!
6 You are fully amnesiac and remember nothing
of your life prior to your undeath. Events
sometimes spark brief recollections, but you
feel as though you’re never getting the whole
picture.
Route of Retribution
At 3rd level, the revenant gains the Route of
Retribution feature. The following options are available
to a revenant in addition to those offered in the original
Cursed Classes: the Route of the Chosen and the Route
of the Unfulfilled.
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Route of the Chosen
While other revenants are sustained by their own will,
you have been rescued from death by the will of
another, more powerful entity. Your contract has been
forged, willingly or not, in exchange for the
opportunity to walk the world again and seek your
vengeance. You have become a part of a deity’s grand
agenda.
Sworn Prey
At 3rd level, the deity that raised you from death has a
vendetta against a particular type of creature. When
you gain this feature, choose one of the following
creature types: aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey,
fiends, or undead. The chosen creature type is your
sworn prey, and you gain the following benefits:
• When using your Prey feature on your sworn prey,
you learn an additional characteristic.
• When making a Wisdom (Survival) check to track a
creature, you automatically learn the creature’s type if
it is your sworn prey.
Zealous Revitalization
Starting at 6th level, your deity invigorates you when
you act according to their will. When you reduce a
creature to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points
equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of one). If
the creature is your sworn prey, you gain twice as many
temporary hit points.
Divine Wrath
At 11th level, your strikes are suffused with divine will.
The first time you hit a creature with a weapon attack
on each of your turns, the attack deals an additional 1d8
radiant or necrotic damage (your choice when you gain
this feature). If the target is your sworn prey, every
attack you make deals this additional damage, not just
your first attack each turn.
Providence
At 15th level, you can beckon to the deity that raised
you for guidance. You can cast the commune spell once
without expending a spell slot or material components.
Once you cast the spell in this way, you can’t do so
again until you finish a long rest.
Fear of the Divine
At 18th level, you have become a beacon of divine awe.
When a creature that is frightened of you can see you at
the beginning of its turn, it takes radiant or necrotic
damage (the same as your Divine Wrath feature) equal
to half your revenant level.
Route of the Unfulfilled
The powerful magic that compels beings to obey the
demands of cruel masters usually dies when the target
of their enchantment does. Rarely, perhaps even
stubbornly, that magic continues to perpetuate within,
generating just enough power to keep the reborn
going. With their death, they no longer need to obey
the siren call of magic that once forced them to act, but
they continue to feel its presence all the same.
"I've tried ending it myself, you know.
It doesn't work. One time I convinced a dragon to eat me,
but I just ended up waking up half-way through the process
- it was so much worse than you would think. The smell
still haunts me."
—The Headless Knight

Failed Geas
Starting at 3rd level, lingering magical energies in your
body show you the mark of enchantment. If any
creature suffers from the charmed condition, they glow
brightly to your sight and you learn the same
information about them as though they were your prey,
provided they are within 60 feet.

Faceless Stranger
Starting at 6th level, you can hide your identity from
others as long as their mind is currently befuddled. As
long as you are conscious, you constantly benefit from
the alter self spell, but only the change appearance
effect and only in the eyes of your prey and creatures
who have the charmed condition.
You can use your action to force a creature within 5
feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 +
your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier). On a
failure, they become charmed by you. The creature
regards you as an interesting stranger who poses no
threat. This lasts as long as you are concentrating on
the effect (like concentrating on a spell) and you can see
each other.
Additionally, you deal 1d6 more damage to your prey
or creatures charmed by you. This increases to 2d6 at
the 11th level, and 3d6 at the 17th level.

Obey
Starting at 11th level, you can give a creature who is
charmed a command as a bonus action. They must
succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your
proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier) or follow
the directive as long as they remain charmed.
The creature can choose to make a new saving throw
at the end of each of its turns. On a failure, they suffer
2d6 psychic damage. On a success, they are no longer
charmed. If the target is your prey, it has disadvantage
on this saving throw.

Distracting Aura
Starting at 15th level, you can use the Help action to
provide an ally advantage when attacking your prey,
even if that prey isn’t within 5 feet. You can charm
creatures with your Faceless Stranger trait at a range of
15 feet.

Friends are Foes

Starting at 18th level, charmed creatures count as prey
for all of your abilities.

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Vampire
“I cannot put it to words how blood tastes.
Imagine the finest vintage of wine and that delightfully
warm feeling of a hearty meal, all merged into one. It’s
intoxicating. It's a good thing I ate before you arrived.”
—Blanchefleur Slate, Innkeeper
Few monsters have been so romanticized as the
vampire. Most imagine them as beautiful creatures, as
opposed to a gaunt and rotting lich or zombie. They’re
often thought of as elegant, powerful, and seductive,
but the attraction to these qualities often blinds people
to the other side of the coin. Vampires have a
propensity toward obsession, and their romantic nature
is often a veil to hide their controlling nature. Though
most stories of vampires are cautionary tales, it can be
easy for people to latch onto the shallower ideals. But
do not be fooled: at their core, they are still monsters.
Your vampire needn’t be as monstrous as the
vampires of legend. Your vampiric adventurer is most
likely a new, ‘young’ vampire who has only recently
come into their power, or only recently been freed
from the control of a sire. Without decades or centuries
of time to form obsessions or learn to manipulate
others for their own pleasure, they may instead be
more interested in the hunt for blood than the hunt for
power or adoration.
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Your Sire
Most vampires don’t simply appear out of thin air; it is
a curse that is passed on when a vampire chooses to
take one into their eternal servitude. Some are prolific
about the creation of vampire spawns, while others
consider it a blessing only granted to those worthy.
Regardless, your vampirism certainly came from
somewhere.
YOUR SIRE
d6 Sire
1 Your sire was a noble seeking to raise an army,
but they were assassinated before their plans
could come to fruition, leaving you and your
vampiric kin free to your own devices.
2 You were an undying servant. After a couple of
centuries of boredom, your master decided to
free you from their service.
3 You were turned by a vampire who was
nearing the end of their own life and cared
naught for their immortality any longer. They
turned you, and instructed you in all the ways
of your being before they sought their own
end and left you as their heir.
4 Your sire was lonely, tired of spending an
eternity watching everyone around them grow
old and die. However, when they realized that
controlled puppets didn’t make for good
friends, they freed you from your bond to
them.
5 You were turned by a stranger, who set you
free almost immediately with no instruction or
guidance on how to navigate your new found
blessings and curses.
6 You never had a sire. Your vampirism came
from another source like an arcane item, a deal
with a devil, or the influence of a dark god.
Preferred Feeding Style
There are various ways to hold a knife and fork, and
while some take great care to use the right spoon for
each course of a meal, others use it to shovel food into
their gullets. A vampire can enjoy their crimson feast in
any number of ways, and some may consider the way in
which they consume to be just as important as what is
being consumed.
PREFERRED FEEDING STYLES
d6 Style
1 A dignified prick of the fangs at the neck or
wrist is enough to draw a meal from. You’re not
a beast, and you needn’t make things messy.
2 There is nothing quite like ripping into flesh
and drinking all of the life one has to offer; it’s
positively invigorating.
3 Blood that pumps through a racing heart is
ideal. There is no more exquisite seasoning
than terror.
4 You see no reason to give up your civility
simply because you’re a vampire. Blood
drained into a cup or bowl is ideal.
5 Blood is not only a meal, but a comfort and a
luxury. You would bathe in it if you could,
though it takes quite a lot to fill a tub.
6 The most delicious sanguine is that which is
freely given. Without lies, enchantments, or
manipulation, the best blood is offered by a
friend, a lover, or a dedicated follower.
Guilty Pleasures
What good is living forever if you’re not enjoying your
life? With an eternity to look forward to, one could
easily become bored if they let themselves slip into
monotony. Many vampires seek pleasures beyond the
ordinary. Some of these pleasures may be seen as
strange or taboo, while others are no different from
mortal pleasures, though taken to the extreme.
GUILTY PLEASURES
d6 Guilty Pleasure
1 While blood is your primary source of
nutrition, that doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy
food. On the contrary, you see no reason not to
enjoy regular feasts upon every delicacy one
can imagine.
2 Your body remains unchanged though your
soul ages with each passing decade and you
have become obsessed with youth. You are
fascinated by toys, nursery rhymes, and
children’s games. One could easily accuse you
of childish behavior.
3 It’s all about the hunt. Whether pursuing a
bounty, a meal, or simply for sport, there is no
greater joy than to track down a mark that is
doing everything in their power to evade you.
You equate all things in life to hunting.
4 Art is the next best thing to immortality. You
consider yourself a true patron of the arts,
collecting paintings and sculptures, studying
great sonatas, collecting designer clothing, and
so on. You enjoy paying artists in their lifetimes
to create great works and you will keep their
legend alive long after they are gone from this
world.
5 Your vampirism has not robbed you of your
faith. Your dedication to your deity remains
absolute even if the tenants become twisted in
your mind to justify your own existence. You
consider yourself among the most pure of
believers, and draw others to worship through
you as their sacred leader.
6 As a vampire, you are a noble outcast. It is your
greatest pleasure to provide shelter to the
broken, the beaten, and the damned. You seek
to create a collection, nay, a family of those
that society considers freaks. You surround
yourself with a royal court of the different and
twisted.
Dark Path
At 3rd level, the vampire gains the Dark Path feature.
The following options are available to a vampire in
addition to those offered in the original Cursed Classes:
the Path of the Blood Ritual and the Path of the Strigoi.
Path of the Blood Ritual
While most vampires see their curse as an affliction of
the body, a rare few see it as a magical ailment and turn
to the arcane arts to master their powers. These
vampires learn to channel their curse into magic,
drawing on a profound well of dark energy to cast
spells of a profaned and unusual nature, akin to those of
a warlock.
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Spellcasting
When you reach 3rd level, you learn to express your
curse in the form of spells.
Cantrips. You learn two cantrips of your choice from
the warlock spell list. You learn an additional warlock
cantrip of your choice at 10th level.
Spell Slots. The Blood Ritual Spellcasting table
shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells
of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you
must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You
regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long
rest.
For example, if you know the 1st-level spell shield
and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available,
you can cast shield using either slot.
Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher. You know
three 1st-level warlock spells of your choice, two of
which you must choose from the conjuration,
enchantment, and necromancy spells on the warlock
spell list.
The Spells Known column of the Blood Ritual
Spellcasting table shows when you learn more warlock
spells of 1st level or higher. Each of these spells must be
a conjuration, enchantment, or necromancy spell of
your choice, and must be of a level for which you have
spell slots. For instance, when you reach 7th level in
this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd
level.
The spells you learn at 8th, 14th, and 20th level can
come from any school of magic.
Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can
replace one of the warlock spells you know with
another spell of your choice from the warlock spell list.
The new spell must be of a level for which you have
spell slots, and it must be a conjuration, enchantment,
or necromancy spell, unless you're replacing the spell
you gained at 3rd, 8th, 14th, or 20th level from any
school of magic.
Spellcasting Ability. Charisma is your spellcasting
ability for your warlock spells, since your spells require
you to shape your curse with your force of will. You use
your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your
spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma
modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a
warlock spell you cast and when making an attack roll
with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Charisma modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Charisma modifier
 BLOOD RITUAL SPELL SELECTION
The warlock spell list is limited, especially when only
considering spells from the conjuration, enchantment, and
necromancy schools. By including the expanded spell list
provided within Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, you can relax
these restrictions. Additionally, the soul drain and syphon
blood spells provided in the spells chapter are especially
suited to the Path of the Blood Ritual vampire.

BLOOD RITUAL SPELLCASTING Esoteric Link

Vampire Cantrips Spells —Spell Slots per Spell Level — At 10th level, your mastery of necromancy allows you
Level Known Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th to peer into the minds of those you’ve created. As an
3rd 2 3 2 — — — action, you can perceive the world through the senses
4th 2 4 3 — — — of a creature created by your Spawning feature, seeing
5th 2 4 3 — — — through its eyes and hearing through its ears. While
6th 2 4 3 — — — perceiving the world in this way, you are blinded and
7th 2 5 4 2 — — deafened to your own senses.
8th 2 6 4 2 — — Additionally, while your spawn is within 30 feet of
9th 2 6 4 2 — — you, you can spend 1 blood point to cast a spell through
10th 3 7 4 3 — — it, causing the spell to originate from the spawn instead
11th 3 8 4 3 — — of you. If the spell requires the target to be within your
12th 3 8 4 3 — — line of sight, seeing a creature through your spawn’s
13th 3 9 4 3 2 — senses counts as having line of sight. Also, if the spell
14th 3 10 4 3 2 — targets the caster, you can cause the spell to target the
15th 3 10 4 3 2 — spawn instead of you by casting it in this way.
16th 3 11 4 3 3 —
17th 3 11 4 3 3 — Dark Protection
18th 3 11 4 3 3 — At 13th level, you can use your curse to shield yourself
19th 3 12 4 3 3 1 from harm. When a creature or effect you can see deals
20th 3 13 4 3 3 1 damage to you, you can expend a spell slot to reduce the
Blood Magic damage by an amount equal to your Charisma modifier
+ (4 × the slot’s level). You cannot use this feature while
Also at 3rd level, you learn to draw the arcane essence
out of blood, casting spells using the vitality of other in direct sunlight, nor to reduce any damage caused by
creatures. When you cast a warlock spell, you can your curse.
expend blood points to cast the spell instead of
expending a spell slot. The Blood Point cost is equal to
Blood Ward
At 17th level, your body is wrought with dark power,
the level of the spell.
warding you against magic. You have advantage on
Dark Warrior saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
At 7th level, you can effortlessly weave magic into your
combat. When you use your action to cast a cantrip,
you can make a bite or claw attack as a bonus action. "Beauty. Immortality. A cast iron reason
never to go out in daylight again. Can you really call it a
curse?"
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Path of the Strigoi
The Strigoi are the grandfathers of vampires, and can
be truly considered vampires in name only. They lack
most of the charisma of the modern vampires, instead
relying on brute strength and savagery to feed.
Although they are technically vampires, some legends
say that they are also the progenitors of werewolves,
and even fairies. But that can’t possibly be true, can it?
Monster Progenitor
At 3rd level, your beastly nature fully manifests. As an
action, you assume a savage form, growing thick wiry
hair over your body and sharper, sickle-like claws. You
gain the following features until you revert to your
original form as a bonus action:
Rending Claws. Your Claw attack now deals 1d6
damage.
Powerful Bite. When you make a Bite attack, you
can instead attempt to grapple the creature. You
maintain this grapple with your mouth. You cannot
speak while maintaining this grapple.
Nightmare Composure. You lose your Sunlight
Aversion feature while in this form, but you are
vulnerable to silvered weapons. Additionally, you
cannot regain blood points while in this form.
Elder Speed
At 7th level, you learn how to use your superior speed
to your advantage. By spending 1 blood point, you can
take the Dash or Hide action as a bonus action.
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Ambush
At 10th level, you draw upon your ancient knowledge
to ambush your prey. When you use your claws to take
the Attack action on your first turn in combat, you can
choose to leap up to your movement speed at a creature
before making your attack. If this claw attack hits, you
may make an additional attack with your claws as part
of the same action.
Whelm
At 13th level, you learn to harness your feral might to
whelm your opponents. By spending 1 blood point as
an action, you utter a commanding howl. Each creature
within a 30 ft radius of you must make a Wisdom
saving throw using your Bloodthirst save DC. On a
success, nothing happens. On a failure, choose one of
the following effects:
Dominate. Each creature’s speed is reduced to 0 until
the end of your next turn.
Fear. Each affected creature is frightened of you until
the end of your next turn.
Alpha
At 17th level, your true nature manifests. Your
transformed Bite attack now deals 1d10 piercing
damage and you no longer have to revert to your
normal form to feed. Additionally, when you use your
Spawning feature, you can expend 1 extra blood point
to grant your Vampire Spawn the ability to ignore its
Sunlight Hypersensitivity trait at the cost of inflicting
vulnerability to damage from silvered weapons.
Spells Scrying
Seeming
Counterspell
Dispel Magic
This chapter lists the magic spells of all adventurers Synaptic StaticXGtE Fear
found in Cursed Classes: Even Cursier, as well as new Telekinesis Fireball
spells that are unique to this book and its classes. Spells Gaseous Form
marked in superscript are referenced outside of the Cleric Spells Hypnotic Pattern
Player’s Handbook. The CC2 tag refers to spells Lightning Bolt
3RD LEVEL Magic Circle
presented later in this chapter, while XGtE references Displace CurseCC2 Plant Growth
spells from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, and UA Remove Curse
refers to Unearthed Arcana. 4TH LEVEL Speak with Dead
Out of Body ExperienceCC2 Speak with Plants
Bard Spells Magic Missile Root-SightCC2 Vampiric Touch
Sleep Weird ElixirCC2
1ST LEVEL Storm of FlumphsCC2 9TH LEVEL
Claws of DarknessCC2 Soul BindCC2 4TH LEVEL
Scimitar of ShadowsCC2 2ND LEVEL Arcane Eye
Blur Covenborn Spells Blight
2ND LEVEL Calm Emotions Charm Monster
Kreshenk’s Shadow Crown of Madness 1ST LEVEL
Communication SporesCC2
MaskCC2 Darkness Armor of Agathys
Confusion
Net of ShadowsCC2 Hold Person Bad OmensCC2
Greater Invisibility
Kreshenk’s Shadow Burning Hands
3RD LEVEL Phantasmal Killer
MaskCC2 Cause Fear
Blend With ShadowsCC2 Polymorph
Mental BarrierUA Chaos Bolt
Guardian ShadowCC2 ProphecyCC2
Mind ThrustUA Charm Person
Ring of ThornsCC2
Net of Shadows Claws of DarknessCC2
4TH LEVEL Root-SightCC2
Phantasmal Force Comprehend Languages
Out of Body ExperienceCC2 Shadow of Moil
Psychic ResonanceCC2 Detect Magic
Shadow SpidersCC2 Shadow SpidersCC2
Shatter Detect Poison and Disease
Shadow TheftCC2 Shadow TheftCC2
Telekinetic SlamCC2 Disguise Self
Shadow WallCC2 Stone Shape
Thought ShieldUA Dissonant Whispers
Wings of GloomCC2 Entangle
Fog Cloud 5TH LEVEL
5TH LEVEL 3RD LEVEL Animate Objects
Hellish Rebuke
Shadow SprayCC2 Blend With ShadowsCC2 Cloudkill
Hex
Clairvoyance Cone of Cold
Inflict Wounds
7TH LEVEL Fear Contagion
Ray of Sickness
Mantle of ShadowsCC2 Haste Dominate Person
Silent Image
Shadow BlightCC2 Hypnotic Pattern Fated DoomCC2
Speak with Animals
Major Image Geas
9TH LEVEL Tasha’s Hideous Laughter
Mind BlastCC2 Hallucinogenic SporesCC2
Soul BindCC2 Unseen Servant
Nondetection Hold Monster
Witch Bolt
Protection from Energy Insect Plague
Ceremorph Spells Psionic BlastUA 2ND LEVEL Legend Lore
Psychic LanceCC2 Alter Self Modify Memory
CANTRIPS (0 LEVEL)
Blade Ward Augury Scrying
Firebolt 4TH LEVEL Blindness/Deafness
Friends Compulsion Crown of Madness Druid Spells
Guidance Confusion Darkness
Dimension Door 4TH LEVEL
Mage Hand Hold Person Communication SporesCC2
Message Ego WhipUA Invisibility
Greater Invisibility Wings of GloomCC2
Mind SliverUA Maximilian’s Earthen
Minor Illusion Hallucinatory Terrain Grasp
Out of SyncCC2 Melf’s Acid Arrow 5TH LEVEL
Shocking Grasp Hallucinogenic SporesCC2
Phantasmal Killer Phantasmal Force
Stoneskin Protection from Poison
1ST LEVEL Summon MinionCC2 Scorching Ray Lich Spells
Bane
Burning Hands See Invisibility CANTRIPS (0 LEVEL)
CatapultXGtE 5TH LEVEL Spike Growth Chill Touch
Cause FearXGtE Bigby’s Hand Suggestion Control Flames
Charm Person Geas Web Dancing Lights
Command Greater Mind BlastCC2 Fire Bolt
Dissonant Whispers Hold Monster 3RD LEVEL Frostbite
Id InsinuationUA Intellect FortressUA Bestow Curse Infestation
Lesser Mind BlastCC2 JauntCC2 Call Lightning Light

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Mage Hand Melf’s Acid Arrow Scrying 5TH LEVEL
Mending Mind Spike Seeming Shadow SprayCC2
Message Mirror Image Shadow SprayCC2
Minor Illusion Misty Step Soul TrapCC2 Warlock Spells
Poison Spray Net of ShadowsCC2 Synaptic StaticXGtE
Prestidigitation Phantasmal Force Teleportation Circle 1ST LEVEL
Ray of Frost Ray of Enfeeblement Wall of Force Scimitar of ShadowsCC2
Shocking Grasp Scorching Ray 2ND LEVEL
Spare the Dying See Invisibility 6TH LEVEL Kreshenk’s Shadow
Toll the Dead Shadow Blade Arcane Gate MaskCC2
Soul DrainCC2 Circle of Death Soul DrainCC2
1ST LEVEL Spider Climb Create Undead Syphon BloodCC2
Absorb Elements Syphon BloodCC2 Disintegrate
Alarm Web Eyebite 4TH LEVEL
Armor of Agathys Harm Displace CurseCC2
Arms of Hadar 3RD LEVEL ScatterXGtE Out of Body ExperienceCC2
Bane Animate Dead Soul CageXGtE Shadow SpidersCC2
Burning Hands Bestow Curse Shadow WallCC2
Cause Fear Blend with ShadowsCC2 7TH LEVEL Wings of GloomCC2
Chromatic Orb Clairvoyance Crown of StarsXGtE
Claws of DarknessCC2 Counterspell Delayed Blast Fireball 5TH LEVEL
Color Spray Dispel Magic Etherealness Soul TrapCC2
Command Displace CurseCC2 Finger of Death
Comprehend Languages Enemies AboundXGtE Mantle of TwilightCC2 7TH LEVEL
Detect Magic Erupting EarthXGtE Mirage Arcane Mantle of TwilightCC2
Disguise Self Fear Plane Shift Shadow BlightCC2
Dissonant Whispers Feign Death Power Word Pain
9TH LEVEL
Earth Tremor Fireball Prismatic Spray
Soul BindCC2
Expeditious Retreat Fly Reverse Gravity
False Life
Feather Fall
Gaseous Form
Guardian ShadowCC2
Shadow BlightCC2
Teleport
Wizard Spells
Find Familiar Life TransferenceXGtE 1ST LEVEL
Fog Cloud Magic Circle 8TH LEVEL Claws of DarknessCC2
Ice Knife Melf’s Minute Meteors Antimagic Field Scimitar of ShadowsCC2
Identify Speak with Dead Earthquake
Jump Stinking Cloud Feeblemind 2ND LEVEL
Mage Armor Tongues Maddening DarknessXGtE Kreshenk’s Shadow
Magic Missile Vampiric Touch Power Word Stun MaskCC2
Protection from Evil and Net of ShadowsCC2
Good 4TH LEVEL 9TH LEVEL Syphon BloodCC2
Ray of Sickness Arcane Eye Gate
Scimitar of ShadowsCC2 Banishment Power Word Kill 3RD LEVEL
Shield Blight Psychic ScreamXGtE Blend With ShadowsCC2
Silent Image Compulsion Soul BindCC2 Shadow GuardianCC2
Tasha’s Hideous Laughter Death Ward Time Stop
Witch Bolt Dimension Door Weird 4TH LEVEL
Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere Wish Displace CurseCC2
Out of Body ExperienceCC2 Out of Body ExperienceCC2
2ND LEVEL
Arcane Lock Shadow of MoilXGtE Ranger Spells Shadow SpidersCC2
Shadow SpidersCC2 Shadow TheftCC2
Blindness/Deafness 1ST LEVEL
Shadow TheftCC2 Shadow WallCC2
Blur Scimitar of ShadowsCC2
Shadow WallCC2 Wings of GloomCC2
Cloud of Daggers
Crown of Madness Stoneskin
Wings of GloomCC2
Sorcerer Spells 5TH LEVEL
Darkness Shadow SprayCC2
Darkvision 1ST LEVEL
5TH LEVEL Soul TrapCC2
Detect Thoughts Scimitar of ShadowsCC2
Earthbind Antilife Shell
7TH LEVEL
Enlarge/Reduce Cloudkill 2ND LEVEL
Mantle of TwilightCC2
Flaming Sphere Danse MacabreXGtE Net of ShadowsCC2
Shadow BlightCC2
Gentle Repose Dominate Person
Hold Person EnervationXGtE 3RD LEVEL 9TH LEVEL
Knock Hold Monster Blend With ShadowsCC2 Soul BindCC2
Kreshenk’s Shadow Legend Lore
Negative Energy FloodXGtE 4TH LEVEL
MaskCC2
Planar Binding Wings of GloomCC2
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Spell Descriptions
These spells are organized by spell level and presented
in alphabetical order.
1st Level Spells
Bad Omens
1st-level divination
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a crumpled tea leaf)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You twist the fate of a creature within range towards
destruction. The target must succeed on a Charisma
saving throw or be cursed for the duration. Whenever
the cursed creature is hit with a weapon attack, it takes
1d6 psychic damage in addition to the attack’s normal
damage.
A remove curse spell can end this effect early.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a
spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the additional damage
increases by 1d6 for every two slot levels above 1st.
Claws of Darkness
1st-level illusion
Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a claw dipped in ink)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
Touching a willing creature, the claw melts and
becomes a black pool that travels from your hand, along
the length of the creature’s limbs. These shadow claws
are long extensions of the creature’s own arms. Until
the spell ends, that creature adds your spellcasting
modifier to their unarmed damage and the reach of
their unarmed attacks increases by 5 feet.
Lesser Mind Blast
1st-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (15-foot cone)
Components: V,S
Duration: Instantaneous
You magically emit a wave of psychic energy in a 15-
foot cone. Each creature inside the area of effect must
make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failure, the
creature takes 2d6 psychic damage and is stunned until
the end of your next turn. On a success, the creature
takes half damage and is not stunned.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a
spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases
by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st
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Scimitar of Shadows
1st-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 5 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 minute
You shape nearby shadows into the form of a simple or
martial melee weapon. This weapon looks like the
mundane version, but weighs nothing and deals cold
damage instead of its usual damage type, plus additional
necrotic damage equal to your spellcasting modifier.
Storm of Flumphs
1st-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V,S,M (an eyestalk from a flumph)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Somehow, you’ve learned the secret to summoning a
swarm of these small aberrations. When you cast this, a
swarm of tiny flumphs spring into existence in a 10-
foot radius. Any creature that starts its turn within this
radius must make a Constitution saving throw or be
poisoned for 1 minute. Creatures that are poisoned in
this way can make another Constitution saving throw
at the end of its turns, ending the effect on a success.
2nd Level Spells
Kreshenk’s Shadow Mask
2nd-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: S
Duration: 10 minutes
Pulling the target’s shadow around their body, it covers
them as a dark disguise. The target has their features
blurred by the magic of the spell, making it impossible
to recall their features. This does not interfere with the
target or their ability to function in any way.
Net of Shadows
2nd-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a small web made of thread)
Duration: 1 minute
You reach out magically, causing the target’s shadow to
reach out and restrain them like a mass of writhing
shadowed ropes. The target must succeed on a
Dexterity saving throw or become restrained and prone
until the spell ends. As an action, the target or any
other creature can attempt a Strength (Athletics) check
against your spell save DC to end the effect. You can
end the effect as a bonus action.
Psychic Resonance
2nd-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V,S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You reach out telekinetically and strike a resonance
throughout the body of a single creature within range.
The target creature must make a Constitution saving
throw. On a failure, the creature takes 2d10 psychic
damage and whenever they take damage on their turn
from a weapon attack, they take an extra 1d4 psychic
damage. On a success, the creature takes half damage
and nothing further happens.
Soul Drain
2nd-level necromancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You target a creature that you can see within range,
attempting to drain the very essence of their soul. The
target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or
have their hit point maximum reduced by 2d10, and on
each of your turns for the duration, you can use your
action to reduce their hit point maximum by 1d10
automatically.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 3rd level or higher, the hit point maximum
reduction increases by 1d10 for each slot above 2nd level.
Syphon Blood
2nd-level necromancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
You draw out the blood of one target within range.
Make a ranged spell attack. On a hit, the target takes
3d6 necrotic damage and must make a Constitution
saving throw. On a failed save, the target's health is
reduced by half the necrotic damage dealt and you
regain that many hit points.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6
for each slot above 2nd level.
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Telekinetic Slam
2nd-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V,S
Duration: Instantaneous
You slam down on a point within range with your
psychic power. Every creature in a 15-foot radius of the
point must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a
failure, they take 3d6 bludgeoning damage and are
knocked prone. On a success, they take half damage and
are not knocked prone.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a
spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by
1d6 for each slot level above 3rd.
3rd Level Spells
Blend with Shadows
3rd-level transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: S
Duration: 10 minutes
Transforming your body and all of your equipment
into a shadow, you become two-dimensional and blend
into another shadow. While in this form you cannot be
found without the assistance of magic. You cannot
interact with any object or creature, but you can still
talk. Spells and attacks cannot target you, but if a spell
or effect includes the shadow you are blended with, it
affects you as well.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 4th level or higher, the duration increases by 10
minutes for each spell slot above 3rd.
Displace Curse
3rd-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch / 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 minute
At your touch, all the curses affecting one creature or
object end. For the next minute, you may designate
another creature or object within 30 feet to be cursed. If
the target is a creature, it must make a Wisdom saving
throw or suffer the effects of the curse for 1 minute. A
remove curse spell ends this effect.
Guardian Shadow
3rd-level conjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a pair of scissors)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
Using your scissors, you carefully separate your shadow
which animates on its own. The shadow obeys your
commands, and acts independently of you until the
spell ends. The shadow has your statistics, but does not
have access to any of your feats, class features, or
equipment. Instead, it has its own equipment that is a
shadowy version of your own, functioning as the
mundane versions of those items as well as the
following benefits:
• The shadow’s AC is equal to your spell save DC
• The shadow has the same number of hit points as
you.
• The shadow has resistance to all damage types except
force, poison, psychic and radiant damage.
• The shadow is vulnerable to radiant damage.
• The shadow is immune to poison and psychic
damage.
• The shadow is immune to all conditions except
grappled, paralyzed, and restrained.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 5th level or higher, the duration of this spell
becomes “Concentration, up to 1 hour”.
If you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or
higher, the duration of this spell becomes
“Concentration, up to 8 hours”.
If you cast this spell using a spell slot of 9th level or
higher, the duration of this spell becomes
“Concentration, until dispelled”.
If cast using a 9th-level slot every day for a year and a
day, the duration becomes “Until dispelled”.
Mind Blast
3rd-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (30-foot cone)
Components: V,S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You magically emit a rippling wave of psychic energy in
a 30-foot cone. Each creature inside the area of effect
must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failure,
the creature takes 3d8 psychic damage and is stunned
for 1 minute. On a success, the creature takes half
damage and is not stunned. A stunned creature can
repeat the saving throw at the end of its turns, ending
the effect on a success.
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Psychic Lance
3rd level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V,S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You lash out at a creature within range with a blistering
lance of psychic energy, attempting to telekinetically
nail them to the ground. The target creature must make
a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, the creature
takes 5d10 force damage and its speed is reduced to 0
for the duration of the spell. On a success, the creature
takes half damage. An affected creature can repeat the
saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the
effect on a success.
Weird Elixir
3rd-level transmutation
Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a glass container, and
powdered jade worth at least 100 gp, which the spell
consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
You touch a glass container and store a spell in it as a
potent brew. Choose a spell of 3rd level or lower and
cast it as part of creating the elixir. The spell must have
a target of “Self”. The spell being stored has no
immediate effect when cast in this way. Instead, it
appears in the glass container as a magical liquid, the
appearance of which reflects the nature of the spell. A
creature can identify what spell is stored in the elixir
with a successful Intelligence (Arcana) check against
your spell save DC.
When the elixir is consumed, the stored spell is cast
on the drinker, using your spellcasting ability modifier
if required. If the spell requires concentration, the
drinker must concentrate as if it were casting the spell.
An unused elixir lasts for up to 24 hours, after which
it disappears.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a
spell slot of 4th level or higher, you can store any spell
of up to the same level as the slot you use in the elixir.
4th Level Spells
Communication Spores
4th-level divination
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (10-foot radius)
Components: V, S, M (clump of tongue mushroom)
Duration: 1 hour
You release a puff of spores around you. The spores
only affect creatures with an Intelligence of 2 or higher.
Affected creatures can communicate telepathically with
one another while they are within 30 feet of each other.
Out of Body Experience
4th-level necromancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minute
You temporarily remove your soul from your body for
up to the duration. While outside your body, it ceases
to move. As a disembodied soul, you have incorporeal
movement allowing you to move through creatures and
objects as if they were difficult terrain. You have a fly
(hover) speed of 40 feet. You take 1d10 force damage if
you end your turn inside an object.
In addition, you become resistant to the following
damage types: acid, fire, lightning, thunder;
bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical
attacks. However, as a soul you may not cast spells or
take the attack action. Once the duration is up, your
soul instantly returns to your body.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 5th level or higher, the duration increases by 10
minutes for each spell slot above 4th.
Out of Sync
4th-level abjuration
Casting time: 1 action
Range: 30 ft
Components: V,S, M (a pocket watch that is either 1
second too fast or too slow)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You harness the power of your mind to shove a
creature within range in between dimensions. The
target creature must succeed on a Charisma saving
throw or the creature is pushed out of sync, suffering
disadvantage on Dexterity checks and saving throws
and halving their speed for the duration. Roll a d20 at
the beginning of each of the creature’s turns for the
duration of the spell. On a roll of 11 or higher, the spell
functions as normal. On a roll of 10 or lower, the spell
ceases to function for this round, or until you roll an 11
or higher. If you roll a 1, the spell ends immediately.
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Prophecy
4th-level divination
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a crystal worth at least 500 gp)
Duration: 8 hours
You reach into the fates for knowledge about the
future. Choose three allies you can see within range.
Each creature rolls a d20 and saves the result as a
“prophecy”. At any point before the spell ends, the
creature can replace a roll of the d20 with their
prophecy. The spell then ends for that creature.
A creature can only hold one prophecy at a time. If it
is targeted with this spell again while holding a
prophecy, it loses that prophecy and rolls again for the
new casting of the spell.
Ring of Thorns
4th-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You create a ring of thorny vines that wrap themselves
around you for the duration. When a creature within 5
feet of you hits you with a melee weapon attack, the
thorns lash out at it, dealing 1d8 piercing damage.
Additionally, when you cast this spell, choose a
creature you can see within range. Thorny vines shoot
from your ring and lash at the creature. The target
must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d8
piercing damage on a failed save or half as much
damage on a successful one. On each of your turns until
the spell ends, you can use your action to lash a creature
within range in this way again.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a
spell slot of 5th level or higher, the damage increases by
1d8 for each slot level above 4th.
Root-Sight
4th-level divination
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (embedded root of a tree)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You touch the branch of a tree. Once before the spell
ends, you have blindsight out to 3 miles. While
concentrating on this spell, you are aware of your
surroundings and can perceive the effects of events
happening within range.
Shadow Spiders
4th-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 40 feet
Components: V, S, M (a spider’s egg sack)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You crush the egg sack in your hand, and target the
shadows surrounding a creature of your choice within
range. The shadows become a swarm of spiders that
begin crawling all over the target. Whenever the target
tries to cast a spell or make an attack roll, they must
make a Constitution saving throw. The spell or attack
is lost on a failure and this spell ends.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 5th level or higher, this spell ends after the
creature fails an additional saving throw for each slot
level above 4th.
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Shadow Theft
4th-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 15 feet
Components: V, S, M (a pair of scissors)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
Using your scissors, you separate the shadow of
another creature within range, which animates on its
own. The shadow obeys your commands, and acts after
you on your initiative. The shadow has the statistics of
the target, but does not have access to feats, class
features, or equipment. Instead, it has its own
equipment that is a shadowy version of the targets,
functioning as the mundane versions of those items as
well as the following benefits:
• The shadow’s AC is equal to your spell save DC
• The shadow has the same number of hit points that
the target does when you cast the spell.
• The shadow loses all resistances, vulnerabilities, and
immunities except as noted below.
• The shadow has resistance to all damage types except
force damage or damage it is vulnerable or immune to.
• The shadow is vulnerable to radiant damage.
• The shadow is immune to poison and psychic
damage.
• The shadow is immune to all conditions except
grappled, paralyzed, and restrained.
Shadow Wall
4th-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (A square of black silk)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
A wall made of shadow springs into existence at a point
you choose within range. The wall appears in a vertical
barrier and can be angled as you choose. It can be free
floating or rest on a solid surface. You can form it into a
hemispherical dome or a sphere with a radius of up to
10 feet, or you can shape a flat surface made up of ten
10-foot-by-10-foot panels. Each panel must be
contiguous with another panel. The wall is 1/4 inch
thick, is immune to all damage, and lasts for the
duration. The wall blocks visibility for all creatures
except those you choose within 10 feet when casting
the spell.
Creatures who walk through the wall must succeed
on a Wisdom saving throw or they are filled with a
great sadness, becoming Incapacitated until the start of
their next turn.
Summon Minion
4th-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V,S, M (a bone from the creature you
summon)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
You utter eldritch curses, summoning a humanoid or
beast from your aberrant reserves. You choose the
creature’s type, which must be one of challenge rating 5
or lower, such as an intellect devourer or a gith’yanki
warrior. The creature appears in an unoccupied space
you can see within range, and the creature disappears
when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends.
Roll initiative for your minion. When you summon
it, and on each of your turns, you can issue a verbal or
telepathic command to it (no action required), telling it
what it must do on its next turn. If you issue no
command, it uses its turn to take the Dodge action.
Wings of Gloom
4th-level transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a raven’s feather)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
Thick black shadows billow up around you like clouds.
These begin to thin out, fitting your body like a skin-
tight suit of armor with large black wings. Until the
spell ends, you gain a fly speed of 60 feet, you have
advantage on stealth checks unless you’re in an area of
bright light, and as a reaction when you take damage
during this time, you can reduce the damage to 0 and
the end the spell immediately.
When the spell ends, you fall if you are still aloft
unless you can stop the fall.
5th Level Spells
Fated Doom
5th-level divination
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 90 feet
Components: V, S, M (a focus worth at least 1,000 gp,
such as a mirror, orb, or crystal)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You foretell tidings of doom for up to three creatures
that can hear and understand you within range. Each
creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or
be frightened for the duration.
A creature frightened in this way takes 2d10 psychic
damage at the beginning of each of its turns. A
frightened creature can repeat its saving throw at the
end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on
a success.
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If this damage reduces a target to 0 hit points, the
target is cursed, falling into a catatonic state. It is
rendered unconscious until the curse is broken,
requiring no food or water to sustain itself. The curse
can’t be broken by a dispel magic spell, but it can be
ended by a remove curse or greater restoration spell.
Greater Mind Blast
5th-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self (60-foot cone)
Components: V,S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You erupt with psychic rage in a 60-foot cone. Each
creature in the area of effect must make an Intelligence
saving throw. On a failure, they take 6d8 psychic
damage and are paralyzed for 1 minute. On a success
they take half damage and are not paralyzed. A
paralyzed creature can repeat the saving throw at the
end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.
Hallucinogenic Spores
5th-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You create a cloud of hallucinogenic spores that form in
a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point within
range. The cloud spreads around corners and lasts for
the duration or until a wind of moderate or greater
speed disperses it.
When the cloud appears, each creature in it must
make a Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1
minute. Each poisoned creature is incapacitated while it
hallucinates. The creature may repeat the saving throw
at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself
on a success and becoming immune to the spell’s effects
for 24 hours. A creature must make this saving throw
when it enters the spell’s area for the first time each
turn or ends its turn there if it is not already immune to
the effect.
The cloud moves 10 feet directly away from you in a
direction that you choose at the start of each of your turns.
Jaunt
5th-level conjuration
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: 10 feet
Components: V,S,M (a petrified central beholder eye,
worth at least 1,000 gp)
Duration: Instantaneous
You learn how to focus your psychic potential to rend
space to your liking. As part of casting this spell, you
must spend 10 minutes in a meditative ritual to focus
your psychic energy. At the end of this ritual, you name
a place that you have physically seen within the past
week within 10 miles of you. You and up to five willing
creatures that you see within range are instantly
transported there.
Shadow Spray
5th-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (60-foot cone)
Components: V, S, M (a handful of tears)
Duration: Instantaneous
A wave of negative energy erupts from your hand and
rushes outwards. Each creature in a 60-foot cone must
make a Wisdom saving throw. A creature takes 4d4
cold damage plus 4d4 necrotic damage on a failed
saving throw, or half as much on a successful one.
Additionally, creatures who fail this saving throw
become incapacitated, weeping uncontrollably as they
are overcome with sadness.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 6th level or higher, the cold and necrotic damage
increase by 1d4 each, for each spell slot above 5th.
Soul Trap
5th-level necromancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a small humanoid shaped idol)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You target one creature that you can see within range
to temporarily trap their soul away. The creature must
succeed a Wisdom saving throw or have their soul
trapped away. While a creature has their soul trapped,
they are considered unconscious. Any damage dealt to
the creature’s body instantly ends this spell's effects.
At the start of your turn, while you are concentrating
on this spell you may choose to reduce the creature’s
maximum hit points by 1d12. If you do, the creature
has a chance to repeat the Wisdom saving throw to
escape. If their maximum hit points are reduced to 0,
they are killed.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d12
for each slot above 5th level.
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7th Level Spells
Shadow Blight
7th-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 100 feet
Components: V, S, M (onyx dust worth 1,500 gp)
Duration: Concentration, until dispelled
You cause all the shadows surrounding a target within
range to become wrapped tightly by them, as though
they were wrapped in silk cloth. At the start of each of
its turns, the creature must succeed on a Constitution
saving throw or take 1d8 cold plus 1d8 necrotic damage
as the shadows leech their life force away. Creatures
killed by this spell raise up as shadows that cannot
attack you until 24 hours have passed. You do not
otherwise have control over these creatures.
9th Level Spells
Soul Bind
9th-level abjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a body in which to store the
soul; made of flesh, stone, iron, and humanoid shaped)
Duration: Until dispelled
You target a creature that has died within the last
minute. The creature’s soul is removed from their body
and placed into a target body that you can see within
range. The target gets to make a Wisdom saving throw
or be bound by the spell. While affected by the spell,
the creature doesn’t need to breathe, eat, or drink, and
it doesn’t age. It retains its alignment, Intelligence,
Wisdom, Charisma, proficiencies, and languages.
However depending on the body the soul is placed in, it
will have the remaining statistics of one of the
following: mimic, iron golem, stone golem,
gargoyle, flesh golem, or animated armor.
The ritual can be cast again to return a trapped soul
into its original body, assuming the body has been
preserved by a gentle repose or similar effect.
Magic Items
The light that shines in an adventurer’s eyes when they
open a chest of treasure is like nothing else. Any pile of
loot could be filled with coin, jewels, or something far
more spectacular. Could it be a sword that burns like a
torch? Perhaps a seemingly bottomless bag for carrying
all of their goodies? Or, maybe a wand of some
extraordinary power?
Of course, every adventurer knows they might wind
up with a cursed item, like a ring that sinks its teeth
into their knuckle and won’t let go, or a pair of slippers
that scream loudly when you take a step. Still, the
potential rewards are usually worth the risk, and even a
cursed item’s usefulness may outweigh its flaws.
Barkbite Shield
Armor (shield), rare
This shield is made from a dark gnarled root that spirals
around itself to form a shield and handle. While
equipped, you have a +1 bonus to your AC in addition
to the shield’s normal AC. In addition, you may cast the
entangle spell on a creature within 15 feet of you with a
spell save DC of 14. Once you use this feature, it can’t
be used until the next dawn.
Curse. Once wielded, the shield’s roots grip and bind
to your arm. Not easily removed, attempting to remove
the shield requires you to make a DC 15 Strength
saving throw, taking 28 (5d10) bludgeoning damage on
a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.
Chalice of Dark Sustenance
Wondrous item, uncommon
This stone cup has three humanoid skulls engraved into
its side, each one with elongated fangs. As a bonus
action, you can raise the cup in a toasting gesture to
have the chalice slowly fill with blood. The chalice can’t
be used this way again until the next dawn.
Curse. The blood is provided by a devil, and drinking
the blood is to sign an unwritten contract. A fiend will
keep track of how often the chalice appears. When the
devil appears, the drinker of the blood is automatically
under the effects of a geas spell, and must do as the
fiend commands.
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Collar of Lunar Control
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a lycanthrope)
This oversized silver band has a number of spikes
lining the inside. While attuned to this collar, you can
choose to automatically succeed a Lunar Sensitivity
check to unwillingly transform into your beast or
hybrid form. If you do, you suffer 1d4 piercing damage
from the collar.
Curse. While you are transformed into your hybrid
or beast form, any damage from silvered weapons you
receive forces you to make a Wisdom saving throw.
The DC for this save equals 10 or half the damage you
take, whichever number is higher. Failing the save
forces you to transform back into your humanoid form.
Coven’s Seeing Eye
Wondrous item, rare
As a bonus action, you can hold the eye up to your face
and gain truesight for one minute. Invisible creatures
within 30 feet of you that you can see with this
truesight must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving
throw or become frightened of you. After using the eye
this way, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Curse. At the start of a frightened creature's turn, roll
a d20. On a 1-4, you and the target creature must each
succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw or suffer
3d10 psychic damage.
Crystalised Ceremoprh Necklace
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a ceremorph)
Encased in solid gemstone, a illithid tadpole is entirely
frozen and tied to a necklace. While you are attuned to
this necklace, you can use the Helpful Nudge
mastermind ability an additional time before needing a
short rest. In addition, your bonded creature may add
+1 to any Dexterity checks, saving throws, or
initiative rolls.
Curse. For as long as you are attuned to this necklace,
an elder brain within 10 miles knows your intentions,
movements, and actions.
Cursed Eye of Rotting Insight
Wondrous item, uncommon
This simple necklace chain coils around an oversized
green eye. While wearing this necklace, you can target
a creature you can see within 30 feet and force it to
make a DC 14 Charisma saving throw. If the creature
fails, it takes 2d6 necrotic damage and you learn one
fact or secret about the target as described by the DM.
The target automatically succeeds if it is immune to
being charmed. Once you use this feature, it can’t be
used again until the next dawn.
Curse. Due to the curse on the eye, anytime you learn
a fact or secret, it is always about something that would
lead you to dislike or hate the creature.
Dagger of the Night
Weapon (dagger), rare (requires attunement by a vampire)
You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made
with this magic weapon. When you hit a creature with
this blade, as a bonus action you can absorb the blood
from the dagger to regain 1 blood point and deal 1d6
necrotic damage to the creature. If the creature is
unaware of your presence, you instead regain 2 blood
points and deal 3d6 necrotic damage.
Curse. The dagger heightens your sensitivity to
sunlight, causing all damage dealt against you while in
direct sunlight to deal an additional 2 radiant damage.
Dead Man’s Noose
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement of a revenant)
This noose is frayed, blackened by dirt and long dried
blood. While holding the noose, you may target a
creature you’ve targeted as prey that can see you and
force it to succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or
become frightened of you. In addition, you may use a
bonus action to make a grapple attack using the noose
against a creature you’ve identified as prey. This attack
has advantage.
Curse. The noose still holds the cursed spirit of a
revenant; for as long as it is in your position you are
unwilling to part with the noose, keeping it on your
person at all times. Every night you have a 20% chance
of having a nightmare related to the noose. When you
awake you suffer 1 point of exhaustion.
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Emphatic Orb
Wondrous Item, very rare (requires attunement)
This orb has 5 charges for the following properties. It
regains 1d4 charges daily at dawn. If you expend the
orb’s last charge, roll a d20. On a result of 1, the orb
crumbles into ashes and is destroyed.
Sense Negative Emotions. You can expend 1 charge and
use an action to peer into the orb’s depths and speak its
command word. For 10 minutes after speaking the
orb’s command word, you have advantage on Wisdom
(Insight) checks. The orb grants you superior
emotional sensing power, as well as the power to cause
other creatures to feel certain emotions, as described
below. You can more strongly feel the negative
emotions of creatures within 10 feet of you for the
duration. Your negative emotions, such as fear, anxiety,
sadness, anger, and disgust, as well as the negative
emotions of creatures within 10 feet of you, are
amplified for the duration.
Cause Strife. You can expend 2 charges and awaken a
sense of panic in one creature you can see within 60
feet of you. The target must succeed on a DC 15
Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you for
1 minute. The frightened target can repeat the saving
throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect
on itself on a success.
Exert Emotion. You can expend 2 charges and cause a
creature to feel a certain emotion. Choose one creature
you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must
succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be
affected by one of the emotion options you choose:
• Anxiety. The target becomes fretful and anxious.
They suffer disadvantage on Dexterity checks for 1
minute.
• Sorrow. The target bursts into sorrowful tears and
blubbering. They can not coherently speak through
their tearful outburst, which lasts for one minute.
The target cannot complete spells that require a
verbal component for the duration.
• Anger. The target is overwhelmed with feelings of
rage and anger. They must spend their next turn
attacking the creature nearest to them, even if they
must spend their entire movement to do so and even
if the creature nearest to them is an ally of theirs.
• Disgust. The target is consumed by feelings of
disgust. They are knocked prone, and vomit violently
until the end of their next turn. All attack rolls and
skill checks the creature makes until the end of their
next turn are made with disadvantage while they vomit.
Arcane Focus. A sorcerer, warlock, or wizard can use
the emphatic orb as a spellcasting focus, as described in
chapter 10 of the Player’s Handbook.
Destroying the Orb. The emphatic orb appears fragile,
but it is impervious to most damage. A disintegrate
spell or the damage from a +3 magic weapon is
sufficient to destroy the emphatic orb.
Enchanter’s Golem Gemstone
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a bound spirit)
This fist-sized gemstone slots into the chest of any
bound spirit, locking into place as if perfectly crafted.
While attuned to it, you may select an additional body
augmentation (that you meet the prerequisites for).
Curse. When using the body augmentation gained by
the gem, there is a 20% chance that you become
stunned until the start of your next turn. While
stunned, you begin to see memories of another soul, a
golem who worked in the service of an enchanter until
they were destroyed unfulfilled.
Finder of Monsters
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
This device mimics a compass. However, it depicts
images of monsters being slain behind the glass and
uses a miniature blade to point. There is a small gem-
lined recess in the middle. If blood of a creature is
placed inside this recess, you can track the creature.
Afterward, the recess closes and the blood cannot be
removed, until the creature is slain.
While blood is inside you may locate that creature, or
the nearest creature of a specific kind, similar to the
effects of a locate creature spell. However, no amount of
running water will stop your ability to track them and
if you are outside of 1,000 feet, you can learn their
direction once every hour.
Curse. The moment a creature's blood is placed in the
device, you feel the urge to hunt the creature to the
ends of the earth. At the end of 24 hours, if you have
not slain the creature, you suffer 1 point of exhaustion.
This point remains regardless of how much you rest,
however it vanishes the moment you are within 60 foot
of the tracked creature.
Font of Desires
Wondrous item, rare
The engravings around the side of the font all depict
images of natural beauty, nature, humanoids, and
animals. When filled with water, the water turns a
glistening golden hue.
You may submerge your head underwater to cast the
scrying spell, which will last for 1 minute. However, if
you choose a creature as the target that you desire, the
creature’s Wisdom saving throw DC is reduced by 5.
Once the font has been used this way, it can’t be used
again until the next dawn.
Curse. While using the font, roll a d20. On a result of
3 or less you must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving
throw or feel charmed by the font, compelled to keep
your head underwater. You will continue to keep your
head submerged until you drown or are otherwise
removed from the font.
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Hag-Hexed Ring
Ring, very rare (requires attunement)
While wearing this ring, your appearance is changed,
as if by the Change Appearance effect of the alter self
spell. Your appearance becomes more hag-like. You
have a hunch to your posture, and your skin becomes
sallow and covered in warts. Your face becomes elderly
in appearance with severe wrinkling. Your fingernails
become more claw-like.
Curse. Once you don this ring, you can’t doff it unless
you are targeted by the remove curse spell or similar magic.
Helm of the Forgotten Knight
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
This masked helm is without markings, free of dents
and signs of battle. While attuned to the helm, it
whispers guidance to you in the heat of battle. This
grants you a +2 bonus to any Strength or Dexterity
saving throws made during combat. In addition, you
have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks.
Curse. There is a soul trapped within the helm, and
each time you fall asleep or enter trance you must
succeed a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or the soul
takes over your body for four hours. You have
disadvantage on this saving throw.
Kobold Gem of Fortuitous Flight
Wondrous item, uncommon
This fist-sized gem has a crude depiction of wings
carved into one flat side. While holding this gem, you
can speak its command word to gain a flying speed of
30 feet until the start of your next turn. Once you use
this feature, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Curse. When flying with this feature, there is a 50%
chance of it automatically failing once you pass 20 feet
above ground.
Lumberjack’s Axe of Lycanthrope
Slaying
Weapon (greataxe), rare
This otherwise unassuming woodchopping axe bears a
number of dents in the blade. When you deal damage
to a lycanthrope while using this axe, you deal an
additional 4d8 slashing damage that ignores all resistances.
Curse. While you are within 60 feet of a lycanthrope
in hybrid form, you must use your entire movement to
chase the lycanthrope. In addition, if you become
afflicted with lycanthropy, you suffer 1d6 psychic
damage any time you attempt to hold the axe.
Mask of the Dead
Wondrous Item, rare (requires attunement)
While you are attuned to this mask, you can use it to
collect the memories of the dead and replay them in
your mind when you wear the mask on your face.
Absorb Memory. When you place this mask on a
corpse that has died within the last 2 years, it absorbs
the memories of the moments leading up to the corpse’s
death. It can only absorb 10 minutes of memory,
leading up to the corpse’s exact moment of death. It
takes 10 minutes for the mask to absorb the memories.
If the mask does not remain on the corpse’s face or skull MASK OF
for the full 10 minutes, the memory transfer is THE DEAD
incomplete, and cannot be attempted again for 7 days.
The mask can only hold one memory at a time.
View Memory. Once the mask has absorbed the
memory of a corpse, you can wear the mask and view
the memory. You perceive the memory as if you were
the corpse that the memory was taken from. You see
the corpse’s death as if it is happening to you while
viewing the memory with the mask on. You are unable
to remove the mask for the full duration of the memory
viewing. Once the memory is viewed in its entirety,
you fall unconscious for 1 minute, and the mask is
empty and can receive a new memory from a new corpse.

Remnants of Failure HELM OF THE

Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a lich) FORGOTTEN
KNIGHT
A green paned lantern, most of its side now shattered,
this was once a phylactery. You can choose to place
souls into this phylactery, increasing the maximum
number of soul charges you can store by 4. In addition,
any souls consumed from this phylactery grant 1d6 +
your Intelligence modifier instead.
Curse. If four or more souls are kept within the
phylactery for longer than 24 hours, its soul charge
capacity will increase by one every dawn. Once the
capacity reaches 7, on the next dawn it is full, a lich’s
body begins to reform nearby. You lose your
attunement to the remnants of failure as the lich
regains control of it.

Sanguine Needle
Wondrous item, uncommon
This delicately designed needle has a built-in container
for storing blood. You can make a melee weapon attack
with the sanguine needle to deal 1 piercing damage to a
creature. You may then use your bonus action to drain
blood from the creature. The blood is magically stored,
stopping it from drying out or congealing.
Any creature can then empty the needle as a bonus
action to drink the blood inside. A vampire will regain COVEN’S
a day’s sustenance from drinking it, and regain 1 SEEING EYE
expended blood point.

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Scythe of the Ever-Harvest
Weapon (scythe), rare (requires attunement by a barbarian)
While you wield this scythe, your rage does not end if
you haven't attacked a hostile creature or taken damage
since your last turn. You also maintain your composure,
appearing as if you are not raging at all.
Curse. At the start of each combat, you must succeed
on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or each turn you go
without dealing damage with the scythe causes you to
suffer psychic damage equal to 1 + the number of turns
without dealing damage.
Soul Shawl
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement by a hag)
This stitched cloak was once a hag’s soul bag. Now
repurposed, it still bears the essence of its past usage.
When a creature dies within 30 feet of you, you can use
your reaction to capture its soul within the soul shawl.
Only one soul may be within the soul shawl at a time.
For as long as the soul is trapped within, you can use a
bonus action to bolster yourself using the soul’s life
experience. Make your next ability check with
advantage. If you don’t use this benefit before the start
of your next turn, it is lost.
Once per day, you may communicate with the soul,
however it can only respond in a sentence or two and
will likely be very cryptic.
Curse. The shawl slowly corrupts the soul claimed
inside, turning them bitter and evil. Each time the soul
shawl is used with a soul inside, roll a d20. On a result of
5 or less the soul vanishes. It was deemed corrupted
enough to be delivered to the Nine Hells.
VENGEFUL
WOODCUTTER’S
AXE
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Vengeful Woodcutter’s Axe
Weapon (handaxe), rare (requires attunement)
Magic Weapon. The vengeful woodcutter’s axe is a
magic weapon that grants a +2 bonus to attack and
damage rolls made with it.
Curse. Whenever you deal damage to a tree or plant
creature with this axe, roll a d6. On a result of 6, an
awakened tree magically appears in the nearest
unoccupied space near you. It is hostile toward you and
will attack you until either you or it are killed.
Wand of Spores
Wand, rare (requires attunement of a floraspawn)
This wand is covered in spores and fungal growths that
occasionally pulsate. The wand has 7 charges for the
following properties. The wand regains 1d6 + 1
expended charges daily at dawn.
Blindness/Deafness. While holding this wand, you
can use an action to expend 2 charges, causing a 10-foot
area to fill with spores and causing blindness or
deafness as per the blindness/deafness spell (save DC 14).
Confusion. While holding this wand, you can use an
action to expend 4 charges to cast the confusion spell at
4th level.
Blight. While holding this wand, you can use an
action to expend 7 charges to cast the blight spell at 4th
level. After using the wand to cast this spell, it instantly
crumbles to ash.
Curse. Any creature that dies after being hit by any
spell from this wand eventually raises as a myconid.
These myconids still recall memories of their past life
and actively detest the owner of the wand.
Backgrounds
Everyone starts somewhere. Even if your story truly
began when you became an adventurer, who you are as
a person was still built over the years prior. Whether
you have carried your affliction since birth, or were
struck with it at the beginning of your adventurers,
your background still colors your life and personality.
Illithid Exile
Suitable for ceremorphs.
You were once part of an illithid colony, one cog in a
grand psychic machine waging war on the rest of
existence. You lived an eventful life there—one full of
fear, paranoia, and self-serving ambition. But as the
process of ceremorphosis progressed, you felt less and
less suitable for the hive. Something was wrong, and to
your horror, everyone knew it.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Insight
Languages: Deep Speech, Undercommon
Equipment: An abacus, an illithid mantle and mucus-
proof robes, a pair of goggles, a bauble recognizable
only to illithids, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Reason for Exile
As soon as your difference was found out by your
illithid peers, you were cast out of the colony to
complete your transformation alone. Roll on the table
below to determine why you were exiled, or work with
your DM to find another reason.
d6 Reason for Exile
1 You showed empathy for a non-illithid
creature, hiding it from the wrath of the hive
mind.
2 You questioned a direct order from the elder
brain.
3 You held onto your attachments from your
previous life, refusing to let them fade as you
transformed.
4 You accidentally exposed the colony to a gith
raiding party, risking the destruction of the
hive.
5 You secretly continued to worship a non-
illithid deity.
6 You refused to take psionic slaves, believing
the practice was wrong.
Feature: Walk the Hiveroad
During your time in the illithid colony, you learned to
use the Hiveroad, a network of secret caves and tunnels
that traverse the underground. You know how to
recognize the hidden entrances of the Hiveroad and can
use them to travel through any region where illithids
have built colonies in half the normal time.
Suggested Characteristics
Illithid exiles share many of the traits common to full-
fledged mind flayers, with a key bond or belief that
differentiates them. Some illithid exiles also retain traits
from their past lives, leading to a strange hybrid of the
mundane and alien.
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d8
1
Personality Trait
I see strange patterns in things that seem
random to other people.
2 Manners and polite body language seem
pointless to me.
3 I gauge the standpoint of everyone else in the
room before I speak.
4 I find it extremely difficult to read the
expressions of those without tendrils on their
face.
5 I’m continually surprised when people think of
me as an individual.
6 Even the simplest magic is bizarre and
confusing to me.
7 I have an idiom for every situation.
Unfortunately, they only make sense in Deep
Speech.
8 Nothing is equal to me. I think of everything in
terms of superior and inferior.
d6 Ideal
1 Liberty. No creature should be subservient to
another. (Good)
2 Revenge. I will destroy my former masters—
and anyone else who gets in my way. (Evil)
3 Self. I am unique, and I refuse to be anything
but myself. (Any)
4 Life. All living things, not just illithids, deserve a
chance to thrive. (Neutral)
5 Rebellion. Tyrants, be they monarchs or
hiveminds, must be toppled. (Chaotic)
6 Order. Harmony is worth pursuing, even if
mind flayers have perverted its execution.
(Lawful)
d6 Bond
1 I remember shreds of my former life, and will
do anything to discover the rest.
2 I was exiled with another ceremorph. We will
never hurt each other the way the colony hurt
us.
3 I have seen beauty in the Underdark, and I
want to protect it from the wrath of the hive.
4 An illithid helped me escape the colony.
Someday I will come back to help them escape
too.
5 I must find a way to reverse my ceremorphosis
so I can return to the family I left behind.
6 I am haunted by the acts that the elder brain
forced me to commit, and will atone for them
forever.
d6 Flaw
1 I’m incapable of making decisions without
consulting others.
2 I know what lingers in the dark, and it terrifies
me to no end.
3 After being a part of the hivemind, I can’t trust
my own thoughts.
4 When I deem someone superior to me, I follow
their orders without question.
5 I am ruthless when it comes to achieving my
goals—a trait that remains from my days in the
colony.
6 I am desperate to be accepted by my peers.
Dabbler
Suitable any cursed class, as well as sorcerers and warlocks
Be it magical, mechanical, or any other material, you've
always been fond of taking things apart to figure out
how they work. Your curiosity will always get the
better of you and there's no use trying to avoid it. Be
forewarned that tinkering with scrolls or potions may
inflict you with a curse, deciphering an eldritch book
might bind you to an otherworldly menace, tinkering
with strange armor may find your soul locked inside
one, or wild botanical experiments may see you infested
with spores. But, every strange twist in life is just a new
opportunity to experiment, even on yourself.
Skill Proficiencies: Investigation, Sleight of Hand
Tool Proficiencies: Tinker’s tools and one other type
of artisan’s tools.
Equipment: A set of tinker’s tools, traveler’s clothes, a
disorganized pile of notes bound with twine, a box of
tiny drawers for organizing objects like pretty pebbles
or bits of string, and a pouch containing 5 gp
Feature: Beginner’s Luck
Once per long rest, if you are using a tool you are
proficient in to try something you have never done
before, you have advantage on the roll
Suggested Characteristics
Dabblers of any age view the world with the same
wide-eyed wonder as a child, and like a child, they
interact with their world through constant
experimentation. A dabbler is unlikely to accept that
something is the way it is at face value, either
mechanically or socially, and does not hesitate to push
any limits they approach.
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d8 Personality Traits
1 I fall in and out of interest in projects with ease.
2 I like magic or mechanics because I can expect
consistent results. People not so much.
3 I always expect things to go wrong. I’m seldom
properly prepared for them, but I always
expect it.
4 Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly;
it’s better than not doing it at all!
5 I’m a perfectionist, and if I can’t do it perfectly, I
probably won’t finish it at all. If my
concentration is broken, there’s no point in
trying to get it back.
6 The best way to get me to do something is to
tell me that I’m incapable.
d6 Ideal
1 Revolution. New discoveries can change the
world for the better. (Lawful)
2 Chaos. I just want to see sparks fly. (Chaotic)
3 Infamy. Being known for your discoveries is
almost as good as being feared for them. (Evil)
4 Optimism. Screwing up is the first step to
becoming skilled at something. (Any)
5 Self-Sacrifice. Studying whatever afflictions
befall me can help others. (Good)
6 Independence. Nobody can tell me not to.
(Chaotic)
d6 Bond
1 I mended my best friend's broken toy when we
were children, and I've never stopped wanting
to put smiles on faces.
2 A fire was started when I was mixing potions
haphazardly, and it will be difficult to atone for
the damages I caused.
3 One of my most valuable possessions is a book
of extensive notes I keep on my findings.
4 I spent my youth fixing broken equipment to
keep my family's business running. I'll do
anything to support my family.
5 One of my ramshackle creations hurt someone
once, and I'm apprehensive of anyone
interacting with my work.
6 I only remember waking up after an explosion,
possibly of my own making. Now I'm trying to
figure out who I was before it happened.
d6 Flaw
1 Even if I know it's a trap, I can't help wanting to
trigger it to see what it does.
2 A tiny taste of a potion may be enough to tell
what it is, but I can't truly know its
characteristics without pouring it on things,
rubbing it between my fingers, smelling it,
dilluting it in water, etc.
3 You call it kleptomania, I call it saving it to
tinker with later.
4 I sometimes stare at people uncomfortably
while lost in thought.
5 The age, rarity, and value of an item means
nothing to me when I'm inspired to tinker.
6 I'm overly confident in my ability to put things
back together.
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