Puppet Show

3rd-level Puppeteer Feature

You gain proficiency with the Performance skill. If you
already have this proficiency, you instead gain proficiency
with one musical instrument of your choice.
Additional, when you use your Magical Tinkering feature,
you can choose to create a tiny wooden doll instead.
Once on each of your turns as a bonus action, you can
mentally command the doll to move up to 15 feet and
performs simple tasks, as the Unseen Servant spell. The doll
has AC 10, 1 hit point, and a Strength of 2, and it can't attack.
Macabre Marionette
3rd-level Puppeteer Feature
You have create your first masterpiece, a macabre
marionette. It is friendly to you and your companions, and it
obeys your commands. See this creature's game statistics in
the macabre marionette stat block, which uses your
proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the
Puppeteer creature's appearance; your choice has no effect on its game
statistics.
A puppeteer specializes in using silent magical puppets to You control your macabre marionette with magical strings,
entertain and terrify its audience. The techniques to create while the strings are attached, you can use your marionette as
these puppets would appall many if the original ways were a spellcasting focus. If your marionette is more than 120 feet
widely known. The true style for construction is to preserve away from you, the strings break and the marionette
and prepare a corpse, yet more squeamish members immediately become unconscious, you can reattach your
construct the puppets with other materials such as feather, strings to a marionette you create as a bonus action. The
fur, and bark. strings are invisible unless a creature success on a
Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC
Tools of the Trade or can see invisibility.
3rd-level Puppeteer Feature In combat, the marionette shares your initiative count, but
You gain proficiency with carpenter’s tools. If you already it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use
have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn
of artisan's tools of your choice. is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your
turn to command it to take another action. That action can be
Puppeteer Spells
one in its stat block or some other action. If you are
3rd-level Puppeteer Feature incapacitated, the defender can take any action of its choice,
not just Dodge.
You always have certain spells prepared after you reach A macabre marionette is capable of manipulating simple
particular levels in this class, as shown in the Puppeteer nonmagical objects and has proficiency with simple melee
Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but weapons and firearms.
they don't count against the number of artificer spells you At the end of a long rest, you can create a new macabre
prepare. marionette if you have an intact humanoid corpse and your
carpenter’s tools with you. If you already have a macabre
Puppeteer Spells marionette from this feature, the first one immediately
Artificer Level Spell perishes. The marionette also perishes if you die.
3rd Command, Puppet
Magical Marionette
5th Gentle Repose, Tasha's Mind Whip - TCE 5th-level Puppeteer Feature
9th Animate Dead, Enemies Abound - XGE
The weapon attacks of your macabre marionette count as
13th Dominate Beast, Compulsion magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and
17th Danse Macabre - XGE, Dominate Person immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. The marionette
can use magical items create by you and can attune to one of
your Infuse Item.
In addition, when you cast a spell with a range other than
self, the spell can originate from you or your macabre
marionette.

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9th-level Puppeteer Feature
As an action, you can perform a final show for your enemies.
Make a Performance check, each hostile creature within 30
feet of you or your macabre marionette must make an
Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes
4d10 + your performance roll psychic damage and is stunned.
On a successful save, a target takes half as much damage and
isn't stunned.
A stunned target can make an Intelligence saving throw at
the end of each of its turns. On a successful save, the
stunning effect ends.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you
finish a long rest.
Puppet Master
15th-level Puppeteer Feature
Your skills as a puppeteer have reached the greatest extent
possible. You can create and control up to two macabre
marionette.
In combat, the marionettes shares your initiative count, but
they takes their turn immediately after yours, as a group. You
can command one or both at the same time on your turn as a
bonus action.
Spell Descriptions
The following information supplements the spell descriptions
found in chapter 11 of the Player’s Handbook.
Puppet
1st-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: S
Duration: Instantaneous
Classes: Bard, Warlock, Wizard
Subclasses: Aberrant Mind Sorcerer, Arcane Trickster
Rogue, Eldritch Knight Fighter, Puppeteer Artificer
Your gesture forces one humanoid you can see within
range to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save,
the target must move up to its speed in a direction you
choose. In addition, you can cause the target to drop
whatever it is holding. This spell has no effect on a humanoid
that is immune to being charmed.
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Contact: @Lillian_V13
Macabre Marionette
Medium construct, any evil alignment
Armor Class 12 (natural armor)
Hit Points 2 + five times your artificer level (the
puppet has a number of Hit Dice [d8s] equal to
your artificer level)
Speed 30 ft., fly 10 ft. (hover)
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
11 (+0) 15 (+2) 10 (+0) 4 (-3) 10 (+0) 7 (-2)
Saving Throws Dex +2 + PB
Skills Intimidation +2 + PB, Performance +2 + PB,
Stealth +4 + PB
Proficiency Bonus equals your bonus
Damage Vulnerabilities fire
Damage Immunities acid, poison, psychic
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion,
frightened, poisoned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages understands the languages you speak
Demountable. If the macabre marionette dies, its
body falls into a pile of parts (corpse, leather straps,
wood pieces, and screws), leaving behind its
weapons and anything else it was carrying.
Ventriloquism. A puppeteer can use its bonus action
to speak though the macabre marionette.
Actions
Handaxe. Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack
modifier to hit, reach 5 ft., one target you can see.
Hit: 1d6 + PB slashing damage.
Terrifying Glare. The marionette targets one creature
it can see within 30 feet of it. If the target can see
the marionette, it must succeed on a Wisdom
saving throw against your spell save DC or become
frightened until the end of the marionette's next
turn. If the target fails the saving throw by 5 or
more, it is also restrained for the same duration. A
target that succeeds on the saving throw is
immune to this effect for the next 24 hours.
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