MULTIVERSATILITY

Player Options Pack

by
FEDERICO PILLERI

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 FOREWORD
When I first started playing D&D one of my
favorite activities was to think about new rules
and class options. And so, when the Dungeon
Masters Guild become a thing, I was eager to
submit my 5th edition works to the community.
No one sold really that much, certainly not
after I made all my contributions available in a pay
what you want format, but to expand the preexisting
rules still remains a hobby of mine. Some of my first
works are now blatantly out of date, and often full
with typos, shabby wording, and plain mistakes, but I
never had the dedication to rewrite them all. Until
now.
Multiversatility – Player’s Options
Pack is a bundle ff all my previous works as
much as it is a fresh start for new projects. The
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previous player’s options have been revised and
tweaked, and I have adjusted the wording to
avoid a few sad issues. Artworks are now more
of a contribution to the text rather than an
expedient to increase the number of pages.
When new, official options came out and
overlapped with my drafts, I re-purposed them
as a more specific niche.
Multiversatility – POP is organized in
three main sections: the first addresses races
and subraces, the second introduces new
subclasses and class variants, while the third
one focuses on backgrounds, feats and familiars.
From now on all my new class options
will come as updates of Multiversatility – POP.
 INDEX

FOREWORD......................................................................................................................................................................................2

INDEX..................................................................................................................................................................................................3

NEW RACES.......................................................................................................................................................................................6
CHILD OF THE SEA..................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
CHILD OF THE SEA TRAITS...............................................................................................................................................................................................8
ANCIENT BLOOD............................................................................................................................................................................................................8
DEEPBORN........................................................................................................................................................................................................................9
SIRENID..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................9
DHAMPIR..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
DHAMPIR TRAITS...............................................................................................................................................................................................................12
LOVEBORN.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................13
TAINTED ONE...............................................................................................................................................................................................................13
FARSPAWN................................................................................................................................................................................................. 15
FARSPAWN TRAITS...........................................................................................................................................................................................................16
FARSPAWN VARIANTS.............................................................................................................................................................................................17
DEFORMITIES OF THE BODY................................................................................................................................................................................18
DEFORMITIES OF THE MIND................................................................................................................................................................................19
FEYBLOOD.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 20
FEYBLOOD TRAITS.............................................................................................................................................................................................................22
FEYBLOOD VARIANTS..............................................................................................................................................................................................22
FAIRY FEATURES........................................................................................................................................................................................................23
GALADHEMA.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 25
GALADHEMA TRAITS........................................................................................................................................................................................................27
KOBELYN..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28
KOBELYN TRAITS...............................................................................................................................................................................................................30
ARKHE..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................30
GOBHE..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................31
THALATTA......................................................................................................................................................................................................................31
NEW SUBRACES............................................................................................................................................................................32
DWARVEN SUBRACES......................................................................................................................................................................................................33
BRASSKIN DWARF......................................................................................................................................................................................................33
DEEP DWARF (CLOCKWORKED)........................................................................................................................................................................34
OATHSWORN DWARF...............................................................................................................................................................................................35
PACTBOUND DWARF................................................................................................................................................................................................36
SPELLWRIGHT DWARF............................................................................................................................................................................................37
UPLAND DWARF (UPLANDER)............................................................................................................................................................................38
ELVEN SUBRACES...............................................................................................................................................................................................................39
NEFARIOUS FOLK (DOSHAPHALA)....................................................................................................................................................................39
SAVAGE ELF (MALINASYA)....................................................................................................................................................................................40
SEA ELF (SAMUDRIYA)............................................................................................................................................................................................41
VENERABLE ELF (MANYAVARNA).....................................................................................................................................................................42
WANDERING ELF (CARACAPANTHA)..............................................................................................................................................................43
WINGED ELF (SAPAKSHA).....................................................................................................................................................................................44
HALFLING SUBRACES.......................................................................................................................................................................................................46
MELLON HALFLING...................................................................................................................................................................................................46
TAINTED HALFLING..................................................................................................................................................................................................47
VARIANT ORCS......................................................................................................................................................................................... 49
ORC, CORRUPTED ONE....................................................................................................................................................................................................49
CORRUPTED ORC TRAITS.......................................................................................................................................................................................49
ORC, FREE FOLK..................................................................................................................................................................................................................51
FREE ORC TRAITS.......................................................................................................................................................................................................51
CLASS OPTIONS.............................................................................................................................................................................53

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 BARBARIAN................................................................................................................................................................................................ 54
VARIANT CLASS: WHIRLWIND....................................................................................................................................................................................54
NEW PRIMAL PATHS.............................................................................................................................................................................. 55
PATH OF THE BRUTAL BRAWLER.............................................................................................................................................................................55
PATH OF THE CURSED.....................................................................................................................................................................................................56
PATH OF DISCIPLINE........................................................................................................................................................................................................57
PATH OF MADNESS............................................................................................................................................................................................................58
BARD............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 60
VARIANT CLASS: LORESEEKER...................................................................................................................................................................................60
VARIANT CLASS: WORDSEER.......................................................................................................................................................................................61
NEW BARDIC COLLEGES....................................................................................................................................................................... 62
COLLEGE OF DANCE..........................................................................................................................................................................................................62
COLLEGE OF DEMAGOGY................................................................................................................................................................................................63
COLLEGE OF THE EXEMPLAR.......................................................................................................................................................................................64
COLLEGE OF THE FARSHOOTING BRIGHTNESS.................................................................................................................................................65
COLLEGE OF THE HARLEQUIN....................................................................................................................................................................................66
COLLEGE OF LAUGHTER ETERNAL...........................................................................................................................................................................68
COLLEGE OF PRISTINE UTTERANCE........................................................................................................................................................................69
COLLEGE OF SHANTIES...................................................................................................................................................................................................71
CLERIC.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 74
VARIANT CLASS: CONTEMPLATIVE..........................................................................................................................................................................74
QUICK VARIANT: DIVINE STRIKE...............................................................................................................................................................................75
NEW DIVINE DOMAINS......................................................................................................................................................................... 75
CREATION DOMAIN...........................................................................................................................................................................................................75
DARKNESS DOMAIN..........................................................................................................................................................................................................76
DESTRUCTION DOMAIN..................................................................................................................................................................................................77
PASSION DOMAIN...............................................................................................................................................................................................................78
PRESERVATION DOMAIN...............................................................................................................................................................................................79
REST DOMAIN.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................80
SOLEMNITY DOMAIN........................................................................................................................................................................................................82
DRUID........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 84
NEW DRUID CIRCLES............................................................................................................................................................................. 84
CIRCLE OF APOSTASY.......................................................................................................................................................................................................84
CIRCLE OF THE ENERGY WITHIN...............................................................................................................................................................................87
FIGHTER...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 89
VARIANT MARTIAL ARCHETYPE: ELDRITCH DRAGOON...............................................................................................................................89
FIGHTING STYLE OPTIONS............................................................................................................................................................................................90
NEW MARTIAL ARCHETYPES............................................................................................................................................................. 90
JUGGERNAUT........................................................................................................................................................................................................................90
PUGILIST.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................91
MONK............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 93
NEW MONASTIC TRADITIONS........................................................................................................................................................... 93
WAY OF MERCY....................................................................................................................................................................................................................93
WAY OF ENLIGHTENMENT............................................................................................................................................................................................94
WAY OF MADNESS..............................................................................................................................................................................................................95
PALADIN...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 97
FIGHTING STYLE OPTION...............................................................................................................................................................................................97
NEW SACRED OATHS............................................................................................................................................................................. 97
OATH OF APOCALYPSE....................................................................................................................................................................................................97
OATH OF BALANCE............................................................................................................................................................................................................99
OATH OF LIBERTY...........................................................................................................................................................................................................101
OATH OF MORTALS.........................................................................................................................................................................................................102
OATH OF TYRANNY.........................................................................................................................................................................................................104
OATH OF WARDING........................................................................................................................................................................................................106
RANGER..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 108
FIGHTING STYLE OPTIONS.........................................................................................................................................................................................108
VARIANT CLASS: A RANGER WITHOUT SPELLS...............................................................................................................................................108
RANGER ARCHETYPES SPELLS.................................................................................................................................................................................110
NEW RANGER ARCHETYPE............................................................................................................................................................... 111
LIMINAL WARDEN..........................................................................................................................................................................................................111
ROGUE........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 113

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 VARIANT ROGUISH ARCHETYPE: ARCANE RASCAL......................................................................................................................................113
NEW ROGUISH ARCHETYPE............................................................................................................................................................. 114
BLASPHEMER.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................114
SHIFTY ONE.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................116
WRETCH...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................117
SORCERER................................................................................................................................................................................................ 118
NEW SORCEROUS ORIGINS............................................................................................................................................................... 118
FAIRY BLOODLINE...........................................................................................................................................................................................................118
FATED BLOODLINE.........................................................................................................................................................................................................119
IMPLANTED ONE..............................................................................................................................................................................................................120
WARLOCK................................................................................................................................................................................................. 122
VARIANT CLASS: FAUSTIAN.......................................................................................................................................................................................122
NEW PACT BOONS...........................................................................................................................................................................................................123
PACT OF THE AEGIS................................................................................................................................................................................................123
PACT OF THE CONCOCTIONS.............................................................................................................................................................................123
PACT OF THE CONTRACTS..................................................................................................................................................................................123
PACT OF THE VISIONS...........................................................................................................................................................................................124
NEW PATRONS....................................................................................................................................................................................... 124
THE ANCIENT SCALED ONE........................................................................................................................................................................................124
THE ARCHMAGE...............................................................................................................................................................................................................126
THE ASCENDANT.............................................................................................................................................................................................................127
THE FATE ITSELF.............................................................................................................................................................................................................129
THE LORD OF CHAOS.....................................................................................................................................................................................................130
THE LORD OF ORDER.....................................................................................................................................................................................................133
THE MOTHER NATURE.................................................................................................................................................................................................134
THE PHOENIX.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................136
NEW ELDRITCH INVOCATIONS................................................................................................................................................................................137
WIZARD..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 139
NEW ARCANE TRADITIONS.............................................................................................................................................................. 139
ERUDITE...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................139
SCHOOL OF DARK MAGIC.............................................................................................................................................................................................140
SCHOOL OF WHITE MAGIC..........................................................................................................................................................................................141
SPELLPLATE.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................142
BACKGROUNDS..........................................................................................................................................................................144
NEW BACKGROUNDS........................................................................................................................................................................... 144
INQUISITOR.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................144
PLAGUE DOCTOR..............................................................................................................................................................................................................146
PLANAR REFUGEE...........................................................................................................................................................................................................148
REBORN................................................................................................................................................................................................................................150
EXPANDED BACKGROUND SKILLS................................................................................................................................................ 153
FEATS.............................................................................................................................................................................................154

SPELLS...........................................................................................................................................................................................159
SPELL LISTS............................................................................................................................................................................................. 159
SPELL DESCRIPTIONS......................................................................................................................................................................... 160
FAMILIARS...................................................................................................................................................................................163
CRUORINGO........................................................................................................................................................................................................................163
EYE STALKER.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................164
FEATHERED DOG.............................................................................................................................................................................................................165
GREMLIN..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................165
GUIDING LIGHT.................................................................................................................................................................................................................166
HOUND...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................167
MOON CAT...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................167
PHOENIKIN..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................168
UNBORN................................................................................................................................................................................................................................169
WINGED CAT......................................................................................................................................................................................................................170

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 NEW RACES

The following races, complete with their own cultural balance, as they represent the
subraces, are designed to be added to an uncommon and obscure offspring of
existing campaign world without unsettling its preternatural creatures.

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 CHILD OF THE SEA
“The sweet murmur of refreshing water that
caresses your lungs… nothing could compare.”
The waters of the world are wide and deep, as
well as unknown to those who live above,
dwelling on dry land and adventuring only
briefly over the surface of the sea. And yet many
races call the depths of the oceans their home,
for numerous are the dwellers of the reef.
Usually they avoid any contact with the surface
folk, for conflict will certainly follow should
such different civilizations meet each other.
Those who dwell above often fear and
hate all the sea folk, for among them there are
some violent and vile races, true monsters and
horrors whose raids left their marks on history
and legends alike.
Sometimes however the contacts
between humans and waterborne races are
quite friendly, and bear the sweet fruit of a
child. The result of such unions is a so-called
child of the seas, a member of a rare and
enigmatic race of mixed heritage that possesses
the blessing of the oceans. Sadly, such half-
blooded babies are often abandoned by their
mothers; the ocean in vast and uncharted, and
perhaps those poor souls will never know their
true parents... and sometimes this is a real
blessing.
AS MULTIFARIOUS AS THE
WAVES
Many are the sentient beings that inhabit the
oceans and roam its depths, and every child of
the seas displays the traits of their marine
parent. Typically, they possess webbed fingers
and toes, while their lungs are equally capable
of breathing air and water; some children of the
sea, however, show no webbing, or possess
retractable webs, while others have little,
functional fins along their limbs, or exhibit little
gills across their neck.
Usually, those traits match in giving to a
single child of the seas a greater or lesser
human appearance, but as noted before the
members of this alleged “race” display no such
thing as a common appearance. Skin, eyes and
hair color are equally various, often reflecting
the hue inherited from the land-dwelling
parent.
However, the most beautiful of the
shades children of the sea display are those that
reflect their waterborne nature: coral-red or
ultramarine hair, aquamarine or teal eyes, even
pale green skin.
SECLUDED, BELOVED, OR HATED
As they grow, children of the sea tend to fall into
two broad categories: those whose
“deformities”,according to the human eye, are
non-existing or easy to conceal, and those
whose otherness cannot be denied. Among the
latter, some children of the sea unequivocally
betray the heritage of vile, savage and despised
monstrous humanoids. Their ichthic or
batrachian features are enough to brand them
as outcasts.
On the contrary, the children of the sea
that display the heritage of a siren or a mermaid
are usually admired, and often ships contend to
have them on board as living “lucky charms”.
LONGING FOR THE OCEAN
All the children of the sea share an inborn
affinity with water in all its form: even before
they learn to walk, they are capable of
swimming with a confidence that many
grownup sailors lack.
Thus, many of them seek their destiny
across the seas: the ocean is their second, if not
first, home, the only place where they can be
really free, where their diversity becomes an
advantage; the vast, unexplored expanse of
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water where they hope to find the truth about Languages. You can speak, read, and
their heritage. write Aquan (a dialect of Primordial) and
Common; you gain an innate understanding of
the language of elemental water from your
CHILDREN OF THE SEA NAMES
inhuman parent.
As children of the sea are typically born and Subrace. Three subraces of children of
raised among humans, their names tend to the sea are found among the worlds of D&D:
reflect the tradition of the society they grew ancient bloods, deepborns and sirenids. Choose
into. Only those who are raised among their one of these subraces.
marine parents possess peculiar names,
according to the culture that raised them. ANCIENT BLOOD
Some of those names are evocative
Aquan words... while others reflect the madness Ancient blooded children of the sea are not, in
that lies at the darkest depths of the oceans. fact, human half-breeds. For their marine parent
is not an inhuman creature, but a peculiar
human being, one of the last inhabitants of a
CHILD OF THE SEA TRAITS long forgotten land, one whose existence
transcended into myth many centuries ago. So
Your child of the sea character has certain
advanced was the civilization of those humans
characteristics in common with all other
that, according to the legends, the gods
children of the sea.
themselves feared them, and decided to punish
Ability Score Increase. Your
their hubris by striking down their land; some
Constitution score increases by 1.
of them, however, still live, hidden deep
Age. Children of the sea mature and age
underwater in the ruins of their ancient cities.
at the same rate as humans; according to
Regardless of the truth, you could pass
legends, when they die they are born anew
for a common human being, as very few ancient
among their sea-faring parents, but there are no
blood display non-retractable webs. Your
facts to prove this myth.
intellect, however, cuts you above common
Alignment. The legacy of a child of the
sea does not predict their alignment: children of
the sea are free to pursue their own dreams and
ideals.
Size. Children of the sea are about the
same size as humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet
tall. Your size is Medium. Here’s how to
determine your height and weight randomly,
starting with rolling a size modifier:
Size modifier = 2d10
Height = 4 feet 8 inches + your size modifier
in inches
Weight in pounds = 110 + (2d6 x your size
modifier)
Speed. Your base walking speed in 30
feet.
Amphibious. You can breathe air and
water.
Swim. You have a swimming speed of
30 feet.

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human beings, as does the arcane lore that you You gain an unharmed attack with your bite
somehow seem to know. that deals 1d4 piercing damage on a hit; when
Ability Score Increase. Your you use the Attack action to make a melee
Intelligence score increases by 2.
Secrets of the Past. You have
proficiency in the Arcana and History skills.
Some memories are deep-rooted in the mental
schemes you inherited from your sea-delving
parent.
Strong-Minded. You have advantage on
saving throws against being charmed, and
magic can't detect nor read your thoughts;
telepathy works with you only if you allow it.

DEEPBORN
Deepborn children of the sea are the spawn of
the less humanoid and benevolent races of the
oceans, those who live deep below the surface
and are often regarded as fiends or aberrations.
Very often, a deepborn displays features
that not too vaguely suggest their heritage, such
as big, round, fish-like eyes, few – if any – facial
and body hair, or scaly skin; furthermore, their
teeth are sharp and deadly as the ones of a
shark.
Despite those quite unsettling traits,
deepborns are not monsters, and they often
pridefully embrace the cause of mankind
against their horrible ancestors.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength
score increases by 2.
Darkvision. You can see in dim light
within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light,
and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't
discern color in darkness, only shades of grey.
You inherited the eyes of your waterborne
parent, accustomed to the darkness of deep
water.
Inhuman Physiology. You gain
Advantage on all saving throws against poison,
as your mixed heritage makes your blood more
resistant to toxins.
Keen Senses. You have proficiency in
the Perception skill.
Shark-Like Teeth. Your numerous,
sharp and pointy teeth are a fearsome weapons.
attack, you can use a bonus action to make a
single unharmed attack with your bite.
Slippery Skin. You have advantage in
ability checks and saving throws made to
escape a grapple.
SIRENID
Sailors and fishers tell tales of the beauty of
merfolk and sirens, the breathtaking inhabitants
of the sea whose flawless features conquer even
the coldest heart.
When an enamored human is lucky
enough to achieve their dream, and the union
bears fruit, the resulting baby is a sirenid child
of the sea: beautiful beyond words for the
standards of both the parent races, a sirenid has
the potential to act as a bridge between two
worlds.
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma
score increases by 2.
Beautiful Beguiler. You have
proficiency in one between the Deception and
Persuasion skills.

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 Siren's Songs. You know the friends
cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast
the charm person spell once with this trait and
regain the ability to do so when you finish a
long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can
also cast the suggestion spell once with this trait
and regain the ability to do so when you finish a
long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability
for these spells.
Include children of the sea in your campaign
if...
… you want to focus on what represents the
better part of a livable world, its oceans and their
inhabitants.
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… you would like to hint at an Atlantis-like
human civilization.
… you like the novels of a certain writer from
Providence and would gladly hint at them.
Play a child of the sea if...
… you want to play a sailor with a really strong
connection to the sea, one that even on land
remains a true mariner.
… you want your character to be the typical,
stereotyped charmer.
… you want to offer your Dungeon Master an
interesting story hook regarding your true
ancestors.
 DHAMPIR
“The childe who's born from life and death alike, milk-white are instead pitch black, dark as the
He bears the mark of grave within his soul. night that spawned them.
His kiss of blood the sweetest death, his gift Eyes and hair colors are more variable,
The curse he feels within, unquenched thirst.” usually ranging from red to white; black hair
and yellow eyes are not unheard of, and some
Among the undead abominations that plague dhampirs are lucky enough to inherit those trait
the Material World vampires are perhaps those from their living parent.
whose charade is the most lifelike. Their nature,
however, is a predatory one, their farce of life
one that requires constant blood sacrifices:
their very existence is a cancer that drys out
and corrupts natural life. Other undeads are
mockeries of life; vampires are a plague aimed
to consume it.
Thence it's not unexpected that
vampires, only among the undead strains, are
capable of giving life; for their essence is
mingled with blood, and blood is the life. Not
every race, however, is capable of combining
itself with undeath: only humans are adaptable
enough to procreate a child tainted by
vampirism, and only if the nonliving sire is of
human ancestry.
Those children are called usually
dhampir, dhampyr, or simply half-vampires; for
half of their legacy comes from the undead
parasites that walk the night. POWER OF BLOOD
Despite such marks of diversity, the
CURSED FROM BIRTH
half-vampire acquires some gifts from their
While a vampire is cursed and condemned to immortal sire. All dhampirs tend to display
such an existence at the dawn of its life, a better reflexes than common human beings, and
dhampir is born with the curse in his veins. some of them reveal an unnatural strength, the
Even as a fledgling, among the normal appetites strength of the grave. Other dhampyrs posses
they feel the lust for blood, drinking the red strong personalities and a tantalising look, as
ichor along with mother’s blood in order to well as a lesser version of a vampire's
survive and grow. intoxicating charm.
The light of the sun, while not deadly, is All half-vampires are equally capable of
painful for them to bear, and their very feeding on blood, a practice they must commit
appearance betrays an unnatural parentage. daily in order to remain in their prime. For
The skin of a dhampire is very pale, being among the many powers granted by the legacy
burned and not tanned by sunlight, and gains of vampires there is an unnaturally extended
some complexion only when the child is well lifespan, as long as they are willing to feed on
feed. Those few dhampirs whose skin is not the blood of the living to sustain themselves.

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FEARED AND AVOIDED
Given their peculiarities, dhampires don't reach
adult age unless serious efforts are made by
their parents in order to protect them. Most
villagers will surely burn the spawn of hell at
stake, along with its family, so the true nature of
a half-vampire must be kept a well-guarder
secret.
Even when fully grown, a dhampir will
always have to keep the utmost secrecy about
their parentage and abilities. For, when their
true nature and appetites are discovered, half-
vampires are met with fear, hate and
superstition, and they are often chased off the
cities by an angry mob, right into the welcoming
embrace of their undead parents.
Indeed the most scheming vampires
often generate dhampirs in order to use them as
pawns and emissaries when, predictably
rejected by mankind, they'll seek acceptance
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among the undead. Dhampirs that embrace
their dark heritage show the colors of true
villains, their evil nourished by hate and
disdain.
However, should a half-vampire
embrace their human legacy and sharp
resentment as a weapon against undeath, the
half-monster will be regarded as a true, full-
fledged hero. Such dhampirs are well-known for
their skills as vampire hunters; for nobody
understands evil like those who suffered its
cruelty even before they were born.
DHAMPIR NAMES
Living among humans, dhampirs tend to be
named like common human beings, ad best
suited for their country and culture. Many half-
vampire, however, bear no family name, as they
were rejected by their kin, or adopt a peculiar
second name best suited to describe their dual
nature.
Sometimes, the name of a dhampir will
be imposed by the undead parent, thus
reflecting ancient naming traditions, or the vile
schemes behind the conception of this
unfortunate child.
DHAMPIR TRAITS
Your dhampir character has certain
characteristics in common with all other half-
vampires.
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity
score increases by 1.
Age. Dhampirs mature at the same rate
as humans, but age sensibly slower and usually
live more than half past a century.
Alignment. Some dhampirs inherit the
vile nature of their undead progenitor, while
others fight against it and become prized
undead hunters, freeing the world from the
scourge of their brethren. While a good half-
vampire is a conscious companion, the natural
bloodlust of an evil one produces a true villain.
Most half-vampires tend towards neutrality,
driven by their opposite legacies.
 Size. Dhampirs are about the same size
as humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall. Your
size is Medium. Here’s how to determine your
height and weight randomly, starting with
rolling a size modifier:
Size modifier = 2d10
Height = 4 feet 8 inches + your size modifier
in inches
Weight in pounds = 110 + (2d4 x your size
modifier)
Speed. Your base walking speed in 30
feet.
Darkvision. As a true child of the night,
you have superior vision in dark and dim
conditions. You can see in dim light within 60
feet of you as if it were bright light, and in
darkness as if it were dim light. You can't
discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Bloodlust. In addition to the normal
appetites and thirst of a normal human being,
you need to satiate periodically your own
bloodlust in order to avoid exhaustion. It is
enough to drink a cup of blood once a day, even
from an animal, in order to satiate this thirst.
Embrace of Shadows. Adept at moving
in the dark like darkness itself, you have
proficiency in the Stealth skill.
Sunlight Vulnerability. You have
disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks
as long as you are in direct sunlight. Thick
clothes or simple shadow remove this penalty,
but you still suffer disadvantage on attack rolls
and Perception checks that rely on sight if the
target of your attack or whatever you are trying
to perceive is in direct sunlight.
Vampire Bite. You can use your action
to bite the neck of a grappled, unconscious or
willing target, drinking his blood to restore your
own energies. The target takes 1d4 necrotic
damage, and you regains the same amount of hit
points. The damage increases to 2d4 at 6th
level, 3d4 at 11th level and 4d4 at 16th level. If
you are unconscious, an adjacent ally can use
his action to cut his own wrist and let you drink
his blood, activating your vampire bite with
himself as the target.
After you use your vampire bite, you
can't use it again until you complete a short or
long rest.
Languages. You can speak, read, and
write Common and one extra language of your
choice. Half-vampires live among humans, and
learn to speak as they do.
Subrace. Two subraces of dhampirs are
found among the worlds of D&D: loveborns and
tainted ones. Choose one of these subraces.
LOVEBORN
While not always the fruit of genuine passion,
these dhampirs are born from a natural act of
lovemaking. These half-vampires, be them the
spawn of affection, simple lust or vile coercion,
are known as loveborn.
Thanks to the act of their conception,
loveborn dhampirs inherit the most charming
aspects of vampires, including their seductive
looks.
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma
score increases by 2.
Seduction of the Blood. You know the
friends cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you
can cast the charm person spell once with this
trait and regain the ability to do so when you
finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you
can also cast the alter self spell once with this
trait and regain the ability to do so when you
finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting
ability for these spells.
TAINTED ONE
Despite their facade of life, few vampires are
capable of true acts of procreation, and it is
nearly unheard of a female vampire who bare a
child. But sometimes, when a pregnant woman
is bitten by a vampire and survives the
experience, the taint of vampirism nevertheless
infects her unborn baby.
Later on, if the fetus survives, it
becomes a strange dhampir, a child “gifted” with
the most unnatural powers of a vampire and its
undead strength.
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 Ability Score Increase. Your Strength
score increases by 2.
Power of the Blood. You know the
message cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you
can cast the fog cloud spell once with this trait
and regain the ability to do so when you finish a
long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can
also cast the spider climb spell once with this
trait and regain the ability to do so when you
finish a long rest. Constitution is your
spellcasting ability for these spells.
Include dhampirs in your campaign if...
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… vampires play a pivotal role in your world,
along with their schemes, progeny and
bloodlines.
… you like grim adventures, where even the
greatest heroes have dark secrets and unnatural
needs.
Play a dhampir if...
… you like to play tormented characters with
morbid tastes.
… you want to stay in the darkness and be the
darkness.
… you wanted to play a vampire, but your
Dungeon Master said: “NOPE!”
 FARSPAWN
“My… child? No, that thing is certainly not
related to me! It’s a monster, an abomination
spurned by the Gods themselves!”
Something is rotten in your bloodline. What is
the secret of your infamous ancestor? Why did
your father leave behind a promising career as
an adventurer to settle down with a peasant girl
in the most remote town of the kingdom?
Where the stars shining unnaturally bright the
midnight you were born? And what about that
old prophecy regarding – what was it? – the Far
Realm?
Whether the case, you were still young
when the first signs of your heritage were
noticed: a vestigial limb, a little tentacle where
body-hair should have been, a strange eye color
or an unnatural complexion, even a not-quite-
so-red blood. Your internal organs are perhaps
misplaced, and you may have one more finger
or one less toe, or your deformities are so
obvious that you can't conceal them. Sometimes
you hear a strange, alien voice in your head, and
small objects seem to move by themselves in
your presence. Clearly, you are not a common
human being.
Were you shunned or did you family try
to protect you? Were you branded a sick
monster and chased away by your own folk, or
were you seen as a fine laboratory specimen by
someone who you trusted? Whether the case,
you grew up to be alone, feared and mistrusted.
But, as an adventurer, you could became
a hero, and discover something about the
inhuman legacy you carry.
its best to trace back the origin of the unlucky
event that bounds an unborn human with the
very essence of that distant plane of existence.
A solid and reassuring fact is that the
horrors of the Far Realm don't breed with
mankind – usually – and thus the birth of
farsapwn is not the fruit of a blasphemous
physical conjoining, but of a cursed mark left by
that plane over a single, doomed mortal. In
some instances a real anathema can be traced
back, as a certain heir of a certain bloodline was
cursed to bear the seed of the Far Realm.
Sometimes long-forgotten prophecies or
rambling madmen foresaw the birth of a
specific farspawn. Thus some scholars believe
the birth of farspawn to be unrelated to events
in the Material Plane, corresponding with the
turning of Strange Aeons in the Far Realm.
Finally, some other times vile cults, swore to the
aberrant plane, execute unspeakable rituals in
order to provide themselves with a farspawn
child.
For, willingly or not, those unlucky souls
are cursed to act as beacons that anchor the
insanity of the Far Realm to the mortal world.

GRIM PROPHECIES
Heritage, legacy, lineage... all those are empty
words when addressing the voluptuous abyss of
madness and alien geometries of ever-changing
flesh known as the Far Realm. And yet to
understand how farspawn are born the mind of
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MADNESS AND DISFIGUREMENT
The essence of what exists within the Far Realm
transcends material definitions of shape,
substance and logic. And, when this
conglomeration of coexisting possibilities
touches a human fetus, the unborn child is
reshaped – or rather misshaped – according to
the whims of semi-conscious, ever-changing
matter.
Mind and body end up being utterly
deformed by the raw forces that transform the
human-to-be into a farspawn. Lumps, vestigial
limbs and cracked skin are only a few of the
many disfigurements that can brand a farspawn.
However, the worst of the scars left by the Far
Realm are those inside the mind, the everlasting
madness that will always plague a farspawn
with the whispers and reflexes of alien
unreality.
FARSPAWN NAMES
Being born like humans among humans,
farspawn are generally named according to the
traditions of their communities. Given their
appearance, however, farspawn are often
denied a proper name, and instead they are
referred to with some offensive epithet based
on their deformities; such farspawn, of course,
lack a family name.
When the birth of a farspawn was
instigated, planned and supervised by some
aberrant cult, the newborn's name is given by
the cult leaders according the their schemes and
visions, based on whatever insane ideas pushed
them to await the birth of the Far Realm's child.
Finally, the most insane among
farspawn rename themselves in Deep Speech, a
language that they innately understand, a
language so vile and alien that few humans
could properly speak it without chocking. And
the fact that farspawn speak it fluently is quite
significant of their true nature.
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FARSPAWN TRAITS
Your farspawn character shares certain
characteristics with all other farspawn.
Ability Score Increase. Your
Constitution score increases by 1, and your
Intelligence increases by 2.
Age. Farspawn mature much faster than
humans, reaching adulthood around the age of
12, but then they age sensibly slower and
sometimes live nearly two centuries.
Alignment. A dark voice whispers in
your soul, a voice that urges you towards evil.
For a farspawn to choose the path of goodness
is an endless struggle, but from their knowledge
of ultimate inhuman evil comes out the
willpower of a true hero. Farspawn equally
bend towards chaos and order, two opposites
whose influence is hard to deny when felt in the
blood itself.
Size. Farspawn are about the same size
as humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall. Your
size is Medium. Here’s how to determine your
height and weight randomly, starting with
rolling a size modifier:
Size modifier = 2d12
Height = 4 feet 6 inches + your size modifier
in inches
Weight in pounds = 105 + (2d4 x your size
modifier)
Speed. Your base walking speed in 30
feet.
Darkvision. Your alien, inhuman eyes
are remarkably good at night vision, not
hindered even by utter darkness. You can see in
dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were
bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim
light. You can't discern color in darkness, only
shades of gray.
Inhuman Powers. You know the mage
hand cantrip (the hand is invisible). When you
reach 3rd level, you can cast the arms of Hadar
spell once with this trait and regain the ability
to do so when you finish a long rest. When you
reach 5th level, you can also cast the crown of
madness spell once with this trait and regain the
ability to do so when you finish a long rest.
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these
spells.
Unnatural Resistance. You have
resistance to poison and psychic damage.
Perpetual Nightmares. Madness, half-
memories, horrific calls and ill-fated visions
have always plagued your sleep; over time, you
learned to live with them, finding out that when
you indulge your nightmares sleep-time is more
effective. Whenever you take a long rest, you
can choose to ignore and fight your nightmares,
or embrace them; if you resist, you need 8 hours
of sleep to complete a long rest. If you indulge
your night madness, 4 hours of screams,
maniacal laughs and creepy somnambulism will
be enough for you, but it will be impossible for
everybody else to rest properly in your
proximity.
Languages. You can speak, read, and
write Common and Deep Speech.
once with this trait and regain the ability to do
so when you finish a long rest. When you reach
5th level, you can also cast the hold person spell
once with this trait and regain the ability to do
so when you finish a long rest. Intelligence is
your spellcasting ability for these spells. This
trait replaces the Inhuman Powers trait.
Living Portal. You know the dancing
lights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you
can cast the arms of Hadar spell once with this
trait and regain the ability to do so when you
finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you
can also cast the blur spell once with this trait
and regain the ability to do so when you finish a

FARSPAWN VARIANTS
Many are the unnatural powers displayed by
individual farspawn, for the madness of the Far
Realm knows no bonds nor limits. The Dungeon
Master may permit the following variants for
your farspawn character, although Fated Birth
and Flexible Bones are mutually exclusive, as
well as Mind Over Matter, Living Portal, Second
Sight, and Telepathy.
Fated Birth. You were marked since
birth or before, doomed to be the warlock and
mortal agent of some aberrant power. Your
Constitution score increases by 1, and your
Charisma score increases by 2. This trait
replaces the Ability Score Increase trait. Also,
Charisma becomes your spellcasting ability for
your racial spells.
Flexible Bones. Your bones are capable
of turning and folding in unnatural shapes and
angles. Your Dexterity score increases by 1, and
your Intelligence score increases by 2. This trait
replaces the Ability Score Increase trait.
Mind Over Matter. You know the mage
hand cantrip (the hand is invisible). When you
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long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability
for these spells.This trait replaces the Inhuman
Powers trait.
Second Sight. You know the true strike
cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast
the detect magic spell once with this trait and
regain the ability to do so when you finish a
long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can
also cast the see invisibility spell once with this
trait and regain the ability to do so when you
finish a long rest. Intelligence is your
spellcasting ability for these spells. This trait
replaces the Inhuman Powers trait.
Telepathy. You know the friends
cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast
the Tasha’s hideous laughter spell once with this
trait and regain the ability to do so when you
finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you
can also cast the detect thoughts spell once with
this trait and regain the ability to do so when
you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your
spellcasting ability for these spells. This trait
replaces the Inhuman Powers trait.
DEFORMITIES OF THE BODY
As far as aberrant deformities and unnatural
features go, if you need a help deciding which
ones will affect your farspawn character you
could always roll one or more times on each of
the following tables – or choose from them the
features that most catch your imagination.
Unsettling Details
d6 Unsettling Details
1 You are totally sterile, often lacking any
reproductive system.
2 You have no fingernails in one or more of
your limbs.
3 Your intestine and urinary system are the
same, and so you defecate a foul smelling
guano.
4 In your eyes the colors of sclera and iris are
inverted.
5 You have one less or more finger or toe in
one or more of your appendages.
6 A short tentacle protrudes from your navel.
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Lesser Deformities
d6 Lesser Deformities
1 You grow teeth on your tongue.
2 Your feet lack of heels.
3 Little bone excrescences protrude from
your joints.
4 You feed from a lamprey-like appendages
placed under your tongue.
5 Your eyes are placed over short and flexible
stalks that protrude from the sockets.
6 You grow hair on the palm of your hands
and feet.
Greater Deformities
d6 Greater Deformities
1 Your mouth opens vertically rather than
horizontally.
2 Small, blind eyes open all over your skin.
Perhaps something else gazes through
them.
3 You have no skin at all, but an odd-looking
chitin covers and protects your body.
4 Your have fat, flexible tentacles in place of
fingers.
5 Your skin is translucent, making all your
organs and entrails visible.
6 You grow short, thin tentacles in place of
body and facial hair.
Unnatural Features
d6 Unnatural Features
1 Your foot marks instantly fill with maggots
and worms.
2 When a mirror reflects your figure, there is
always something else at your side.
3 While other animals don't seem to dislike
your presence, cats inexorably hiss at you.
4 Wherever you sleep, nightmares plague the
inhabitants of the place till you remain
there.
5 When they see you for the first time,
children start laughing hysterically.
6 Madmen across the world seem to
instinctively know your name.

DEFORMITIES OF THE MIND
The very essence of farspawn is infused with
the utter insanity of the Far Realm, making
them very susceptible to madness. While
madness is, by definition, polyhedric and
multifaceted, if you want to play a deranged
character, and if you need a little help deciding
the specific insanity – or insanities, why have
just one? – that afflict your character, you could
always roll on the following table or choose
from it
Madness
d8 Madness
1 “I trust the voices in my head over my
companions. After all, I just met them,
while the voices were always with me,
always.”
2 You find it hard to distinguish between
corpses and living beings. You could
converse with a cold, dead body and try to
bury a still breathing person.
3 “It's not that I fear the night, but among the
stars there are its hungry, sleepless eyes,
and I don't want them to see what I am
doing when I don't invite it to do so.”
4 Whenever you see sprinkled blood, you feel
the urge to laugh maniacally and clap your
hands.
5 “Beware the sparrows! They eat worms,
and so the worms can reach their brains
and control them! The worms! Its worms!
They know!”
6 You have an irrational fear of water, for in
deep water its star-spawns sleep. You'll
never wash yourself willingly, and you
prefer to drink alcohol rather than water –
a habit that strongly contributes to your
strange behaviors.
7 “Well, I think you are all right, but my twin
Lumpy doesn't like you. You know Lumpy,
right? It's right here, protruding between
the ribs, say hello Lumpy!”
8 When you speak with someone, you stare
at their shadow rather than at the face:
from your point of view, bodies are just the
colorful shapes cast by shadows.
Include farspawn in your campaign if...
… you would like the Far Realms and its denizens,
of perhaps even “simple” aberrations, to play a
major role in your campaign setting.
… humans are the only race of your world, but
you want to offer some choice to your players.
… you really, really like the aforementioned
Solitary of Providence, and you would like to hint
at some of his most “human” villains.
Play a farspawn if...
… you want to play a really inhuman character,
one that isn’t a simple “monster race”.
… you like the challenge of a totally deranged
character, whose madness could even became
humorous while still hinting at the tragedy of
their conception.
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 FEYBLOOD
“Come here, and don’t worry. Let’s dance in the
meadow, it would be a shame to waste such a
beautiful moonlight!”

Someone among your ancestors wasn't human.

You had a fairy grandmother, perhaps, or your
grand-grand-mother never quite explained
where she met the stranger who become her
husband. Perhaps everyone in your family is
just a dull, plain human, but you suffered from a
grave illness while just a baby, and your parents
sought the help of the mysterious lady in the
woods.
Anyway, you grew up to be different
from other children – and perhaps even siblings.
In the best case, something in your eyes, hair,
traits or complexion is not quite human, and
while still young you were capable of true
miracles concerning the natural world: flowers
blossomed as you touched them, the birds
singed with you... the whole natural world
seemed someway familiar to you. This could
have been a gift, as you became a prominent
member of your community, a true blessing for
your family, or a curse, as you were rejected and
seen as a freak by most human beings.
Either the case, soon you reached
adulthood and felt a strange wanderlust, the
desire to discover the truth behind your
heritage... perhaps your fey ancestor is still
alive, after all, and you are eager to meet them.

children whole generations after the first union.

COUNTLESS APPEARANCES
Despite their common denomination as
members of the same races, no two feyblood are
alike, for, more than humans, fairies come in
many shapes and appearances: different
heritages produce differently looking children.
The mingle of mortals and fey-folk often
produces results that go beyond the simple
fusion of the two creatures, for the nature of
fairies goes beyond the concept of human
heredity, as proven by the birth of feyblood
As a matter of fact, the most plain-looking half-
fairies are those who inherit the appearance
from their human blood: they may display a
somehow feral or gently charming look,
depending on their heritage, but they can pass
for common humans. As many of the fey-folk
possess more or less almond-shaped eyes and
pointed ears, the most mundane feyblood can
pass themselves for elves or half-elves, a
charade good enough to fool the members of
other races who are not very familiar with the
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 When the legacy of the fairy is stronger,
however, the feyblood cannot possibly pass for
a human, nor for an elf: such children display
some anomalies from birth, but those became
more and more undeniable as they grow,
reflecting the multifarious facets of nature and
fairies. Some feyblood display the traits of
animal, some others those of plant: bark-like
skin or leaf-like air, as well as fur and horns or
hooves, are equally represented by individuals
of different heritage.
There are those half-fairies that can be
recognized as descendants of a specific type of
fey, such as a satyr or a dryad, but more often
feyblood are marked as heirs of the whole fairy
folk.
LEGENDARY CHANGELINGS
When a feyblood displays a remarkably foreign
appearance since the cradle, and the human
parents have no idea of the true lineage behind
such an infant, the child is often branded as a
changeling, a spawn of their own that
mischievous fairies exchanged with the true
human baby.
Those changelings are feared and
despised by parents that don't recognize them
as their own, and they are often abandoned in
the woods for their supposed fairy parents to
take, exchanging them back with the human
child.
Luckily for them, abandoned feyblood
are typically adopted by the most kind
inhabitants of the woods, even by fairies
themselves: nymphs, satyrs and pixies
recognize changelings as kindred, and raise
them as their own; once they reach adulthood,
the children of men will leave the company of
fey-folk and try their best to integrate, as a
foreigner, in human society.
When it is a druid or ranger that adopts
the supposed changeling, the child will often
grow to follow the footsteps of the adoptive
parent, acting as a guardian of the forest where
they were raised.
LONGING FOR THE FEYWILD
Every feyblood feels within their soul the call of
the ancestral homeland of fairies, the plane of
existence known as the Feywild. The subtle
whispers and seductions of the distant and fair
thicket echoed through generations, instilling
feeling, ideals and desires that the mortals
struggle to understand, urges that only in the
realm of fairies can be truly satisfied.
For a feyblood it may be perfectly
normal to stroke the bark of a tree or the hair of
a new acquaintance as a greeting, to spend the
night laughing under the stars or to dance and
sing in the rain. Strong and unpredictable mood
swings make it difficult, even to close friends, to
truly understand a half-fairy.
And, when the fey that begot them was a
member of the Unseelie Court, the inborn urges
of the feyblood tend to be much more cruel and
bloodthirsty, often suggesting acts of such a
wicked vileness that few humans could even
conceive. How the individual half-fey reacts to
such tendencies, however, is up to them.
FEYBLOOD NAMES
All feyblood, even those who descend directly
from the fairy folk, are usually named by the
human parent or parents, and thus their names
follow the habits of the society they were born
and raised in. Despite the custom, however,
sometimes the human parent of a feyblood
names the child according to the memories of
the fey that begot them, producing highly poetic
and quite unusual names. Only the rare
“changelings” that are raised by fairies receive a
fairy name, typically a compound name in
Sylvan referring to the salient capabilities and
traits of the child.
In many cases, feyblood decide to
rename themselves after they discover the truth
about their heritage, in order to better reflect
their dual nature – or at least the way they
perceive it.
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 you finish a long rest. Charisma is your
FEYBLOOD TRAITS
spellcasting ability for these spells.
Your feyblood character has certain Languages. You can speak, read, and
characteristics in common with all other fey- write Common, Sylvan and one extra language
blooded humans. of your choice.
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity
score increases by 1, and your Charisma FEYBLOOD VARIANTS
increases by 2.
Age. Feyblood mature slightly faster As noted before, there isn't something as a
than humans, reaching adulthood around age typical feyblood. And, while usually all the
15, and then age sensibly slower and usually members of this quite loose race share the same
live more than two thousands years. characteristics, some of them have traits that
Alignment. The mischievous nature of differ from the standard ones. The Dungeon
their heritage bends all feyblood towards chaos, Master may permit the following variants for
as they live for freedom, creativity and beauty. your feyblood character, although Force of
Usually they are of good or neutral alignment, Nature and Whispers-Knower are mutually
but some twisted feyblood are as evil as the exclusive, as well as Blessings of Nature,
most vile fey. Mischievous Magic, and Winged.
Size. Feyblood are about the same size Little Folk. You descend from one of the
as humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall. Your most diminutive and reclusive of fairies, and
size is Medium. Here’s how to determine your thus you are shorter than the typical human,
height and weight randomly, starting with
rolling a size modifier:
Size modifier = 2d10
Height = 4 feet 6 inches + your size modifier
in inches
Weight in pounds = 100 + (1d6 x your size
modifier)
Speed. Your base walking speed in 30
feet.
Darkvision. Your eyes are naturally
capable of seeing the world in the pale light of
the moon, and to admire the beauty of the night.
You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as
if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it
were dim light. You can't discern color in
darkness, only shades of gray.
Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on
saving throws against being charmed, and
magic can't put you to sleep.
Magic of the Fairies. You know the
druidcraft cantrip. When you reach 3rd level,
you can cast the charm person spell once with
this trait and regain the ability to do so when
you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level,
you can also cast the invisibility spell once with
this trait and regain the ability to do so when

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usually no taller than 4 feet. Your size is Small
rather than Medium; however, you gain
proficiency in the Stealth skill. Here’s how to
determine your height and weight randomly,
starting with rolling a size modifier:
Size modifier = 2d4
Height = 3 feet + your size modifier
inches
Weight in pounds = 30 + (1d4 x your size
modifier)
Force of Nature. You descend from one
of the most sturdy but less physically appealing
of the fairies. Your Dexterity score increases by
1, and your Strength score increases by 2. This
trait replaces the Ability Score Increase trait.
Whispers-Knower. Thanks to your
heritage, you possess an inborn insight greater
than the average human's one. Your Wisdom
score increases by 2, and your Charisma score
increases by 1. This trait replaces the Ability
Score Increase trait.
Blessings of Nature. You know the
druidcraft cantrip. When you reach 3rd level,
you can cast the animal friendship spell once
with this trait and regain the ability to do so
when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th
level, you can also cast the alter self spell once
with this trait and regain the ability to do so
when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your
spellcasting ability for these spells. This trait
replaces the Magic of the Fairies trait.
Mischievous Magic. You know the
minor illusion cantrip. When you reach 3rd level,
you can cast the disguise self spell once with this
trait and regain the ability to do so when you
finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you
can also cast the invisibility spell once with this
trait and regain the ability to do so when you
finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting
ability for these spells. This trait replaces the
Magic of the Fairies trait.
Winged. You have butterfly-like wings
sprouting from your shoulder blades. You have
a flying speed of 40 feet, but you can't fly while
wearing medium or heavy armor. This trait
replaces the Magic of the Fairies Trait.
FAIRY FEATURES
Many are the features that characterize
feyblood, ranging from the most seducing ones
to nearly hideous deformities. If you need a help
visualizing a proper appearance for your half-
in fairy character, you could always roll on the
following tables – or choose from them the
features that most catch your imagination.
Build
d6 Build
1 Normal, plainly human-like.
2 Delicate, slim and gracious.
3 Thin, really too slim for a human.
4 Slender, too tall and somehow creepy.
5 Athletic, well-proportioned in musculature.
6 Chubby, cute but a bit overweight.
Skin
d4 Skin
1 Normal, of a common human complexion.
2 Of an extravagant, inhuman shade.
3 Bark-like.
4 Covered by a short fur.
Features
d4 Build
1 Plain human features.
2 Delicate and elfin.
3 Keen and somehow unsettling to behold.
4 Thick, strong features.
Body Hair
d6 Build
1 Usual human body hair.
2 Thick, bristle-like body hair.
3 No body hair.
4 Fur-like body hair.
5 Feather-like body hair.
6 Leaf-like or grass-like body hair.
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 Include feyblood in your campaign if...
Hair … humans are the only race of your world, but
d6 Build you want to offer some choice to your players.
1 Plain human hair. … the influence of the Feywild plays an
2 Hair of a shade not found in humans. important role in your adventures, and it’s quite
common for fairies to mingle with mortals.
3 Hair of one or more peculiar bright colors.
… you are not scared of potentially flying
4 Feather-like hair.
characters.
5 Leaf-like or grass-like hair.
6 No hair. Play a feyblood if...
… you want to play a fairy character, but you find
Ears
elves to be overused.
d4 Build
1 Plain human ears. … you want to play a druid with a really strong
bond to the natural world, or a non druid
2 No lobe.
character that still possesses a strong bond with
3 Pointed ears nature.
4 Animal ears.

Eyes
d6 Build
1 Plain human eyes.
2 Plain color, slit pupils.
3 Unusual color.
4 Unusual color, slit pupils.
5 No sclera.
6 Slit pupils, no sclera.

Characteristic Features
(you can choose or roll 1d4 – 1 times on the following
table)
d8 Build
1 Short animal tail.
2 Paws as feet.
3 Cloven hoofs.
4 Horns or antlers.
5 Thick, claw-like nails.
6 Short fangs.
7 Smell like moss or musk.
8 Smell like blossomed flowers.

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 GALADHEMA
“My health was always excellent, and so I never
saw a healer until the time I fell from the roof
and broke my legs; the sawbones had to operate,
and only then I discovered that I wasn’t human
at all.”
To create life, replicating the miracle that gave
origin to the mortal races, is the dream of many
an ambitious savant – not to corrupt or splice
existing creatures, nor to shape a mindless pile
of stone animated by an elemental spirit, nor
reanimating a corpse in a parody of its previous
existence, but shaping inert matter into a
perfected humanoid shape, capable of the
ultimate accomplishment: to possess a soul, and
trick even itself into believing to be a mundane
creature.
Usually even the most sophisticated
procedures and rituals result in barely
conscious abominations that incessantly scream
from their deformed mouths, but sometimes the
promethean dream of mortal creating mortal is
achieved, either by ingenuity, relentless hubris,
or sheer luck. Somehow surprisingly most of
these man-made mortals share a few common
features, a fact that led the sage to classify them
as a single new race: the galadhema.
A LIVING WORK OF ART
The most striking trait shared by all galadhemas
is their resemblance to humankind: despite the
best – and worst – efforts of their would-be
shapers, it seems impossible to grant the same
degree of sentience and autonomous life to a
nonhumanoid figure, or to make it truly mortal
and living without reproducing the internal
organs and structure of the human body. A few
elven-like or dwarven-like, and even smaller
and larger galadhemas are known to exist, but
they are the rarest among the rare. This has
lead a few scholars to speculate that the soul
inhabiting a galadhema is not created by the
maker, but comes in fact from a deceased
human.
Whether the case, where galadhemas
differ is in the exact materials they are carved
from, and as some would say matter clearly
matters. While constructs could be crafted from
graft of living or dead flesh, for a proper
galadhema to be born their body must be
fashioned with rare metals, gems and precious
stone, shaped into a perfect replica of a human;
different base material result in different inborn
capabilities for the new galadhema as soon as
life is infused into them. Stone becomes flesh,
gems become eyes and lips and glands, as the
metal chiseled heart starts beating and the
lungs expand for the first breath.
Even when they become living tissues,
the base materials of a galadhema somehow
retain their previous hue, often resulting in
impossible complexions and exotic eye color. In
choosing the right materials it is even possible
to create a galadhema that is virtually
indistinguishable from a true human, at least
until age starts – or should start – to take its toll:
for, as long as they eat and drink properly,
galadhemas’ bodies remain unaltered by the
passing of time, their hair never going gray, the
features of their youth still engraved on their
octogenarian faces.
MANY QUESTIONS, FEW
ANSWERS
The specific process behind the creation of a
single galadhema is always a mystery, for no
two of them are alike, even when devised by the
same creator. Nevertheless, the existence of
every galadhema poses the same disturbing
question: how is it possible for mortal magic to
grant a true, sentient soul to unliving matter
without stealing a deceased one?
And yet this is just the most obvious
mystery posed by the created: the more they
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live, the more they discover how inherently
human and at the same time inhuman. The very
moment they are created, galadhemas have the
body of an adult – or a child, or an elder…
whether the case, the one they will always live
with – and the mind of a newborn. In a few year
their intellectual faculties mature and, by the
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time they are five, they have reached the mental
age of a young adult.
Most galadhemas, however, remember
nothing of their upbringing, and many of them
even have false memories of a completely
mundane, and utterly false, life. This could well
be a final suggestion implanted by their creator,
in the same way every galadhemas feels a
natural disposition towards certain skills, but
the fact remains that this convenient amnesia
prevents many a galadhema to investigate their
origins.
REMARKABLE ABOMINATIONS
For many pious devotees the very existence of a
galadhema is a sin against nature and against
the gods that created the mortal races. Even
among those that salute the birth of
galadhemas, many are those who see them as
nothing more than a scientific novelty, a daring
experiment but certainly not a sentient
creature.
For these reason, galadhemas tend to
keep their true nature a secret: many a loved
one has shunned them after learning of how
they came into being. Should a galadhema be
accepted, they could lead a perfectly mundane,
albeit unnaturally long, life, even bearing or
siring children of their own.
GALADHEMA NAMES
A galadhema is usually given a name by their
creator; such names usually tend to follow
human convention, and even when galadhemas
rename themselves they choose mundane
names. A few galadhemas choose instead a new
name that refers to the material they were
fashioned from, their “real family”.
Galadhema Names: Amethyst, Bronze,
Emerald, Goldenbrow, Gypsum, Jet, Marble,
Ironguts, Onyx, Rock, Silverheart, Sulphur, Zinc.
GALADHEMA TRAITS Languages. You can speak, read, and
write Common and one other language of your
Your galadhema character has certain choice.
characteristics in common with all other fey-
blooded humans. Include galadhema in your campaign if...
Ability Score Increase. Your … you like the philosophical implications of a
Constitution score increases by 1, and one other world where mortals can create life.
ability score of your choice increases by 2. … your campaign world has a very advanced
Age. While being virtually born adult, magic and technological level, and living
galadhemas usually need at least 5 years of life androids are commonplace.
to mature into adulthood. Galadhemas are … an ancient civilization left some very living
known to live as long as three centuries. testament of their ingenuity.
Alignment. Despite being sometimes
created with a specific role in mind, galadhemas Play a galadhema if...
soon mature into being their own beings, and so … you want to play an android, versatile and
they show no tendency towards a specific resilient.
alignment. … you are intrigued by the ambiguity of an
Size. Galadhemas are generally about inhuman character that believes to be perfectly
the same size as humans, ranging from 4 to 7 human.
feet tall. Your size is Medium. Here’s how to … you are thrilled by the possibility of
determine your height and weight randomly, interpreting a character whose very birth is a
starting with rolling a size modifier: riddle wrapped in a mystery.
Size modifier = 2d10
Height = 4 feet 8 inches + your size modifier
in inches
Weight in pounds = 120 + (2d8 x your size
modifier)
Speed. Your base walking speed in 30
feet.
Living Construct. Your living flesh and
organs retain some of the strength of the
materials they were shaped from. You gain the
following benefits:
• You have advantage on saving throws
against being poisoned, and you have resistance
to poison damage.
• You are immune to disease.
• You can sustain yourself with rotten or
even non edible food, such as bark and dirt, as
long as you have a suitable way of ingesting it.
• Your hit point maximum increases by
1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a
level.
Implanted Proficiencies. You gain
proficiency with one skill and one tool of your
choice.

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 KOBELYN
“They say that I mutter at their work, that I am
an ignorant blasphemer, that I corrupt
everything with a simple gaze… it’s envy, sheer
resentful envy.”
Legends around the worlds of the Material
Plane speak of a now extinct race of tricksters,
diminutive humanoids of great magical abilities
and even greater proficiency, whether as
metalworkers or knaves.
These mythical shapeshifters were
called with many names by different cultures,
and didn’t share a single culture themselves.
Kobaloi, telkhines, kobeholt, gobelini, kobelyn…
given their ancient names, some scholars of
Multiversal lore have proposed that these
humanoids were the common ancestors of
goblinoids, kobolds and gnomes, a conjecture
that all interested parties strongly reject.
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Despite all the issues their existence and
cataloging poses, some secluded kobelyn still
exist, living at the edges of humanoid
civilizations and struggling to keep the legacy of
their once prosperous kind.
AN ESTRANGED LITTLE FOLK
The typical kobelyn is a short fellow, usually 3
to 4 feet tall with a muscular build and long,
thick body air. The head and the hands are
slightly disproportionate, with strongly marked
features and nimble fingers that never rest. Only
male kobelyn have face hair, and typically grow
long sideburns and beards. The complexion
ranges from fair to tanned, and the typical hair
color are usually dark, from jet-black to auburn,
even if white haired kobelyn are not unheard of.
The appearance of kobelyn is usually
quite unkempt, as they favor efficiency and
practicality over fashion: a long shirt and a
pair of trousers, with the occasional cloak
or apron and of course the tools of their
trade, constitute the typical kobelyn
apparel. Even the most accomplished
goldsmith wouldn’t usually wear their own
masterwork jewels. As most of them are
capable of altering their size or shape,
kobelyn favor baggy clothes and loose
apparel, that further enhance their shabby
looks.
HERMITS AND MASTERS
Little or no attention is payed by kobelyn
to the habits of the society they live within:
they are usually content with being alone
and practicing their chosen craft. Every
kobelyn in fact practices a single craft with
peerless skill, so that their work quickly
become the stuff of legends and are much
sought after by the other races. Where
dwarven craft is the result of a long,
centuries-long tradition and development
within a highly structured society, the work of a
kobelyn is their and their alone.
Rather than sheer genius, it’s tireless
practice and fine-tuning that produces kobelyn
masterwork: every single artisan – and every
single kobelyn is an artisan of sorts – works
constantly to improve their craft, pursuing this
single goal for all their live. Other races soon
learn to leave kobelyn masters to their own
devices, employing their services when needed
and avoiding annoying them. After all every
kobelyn knows a thing or two about magic in
order to make their presence scarce, should the
need arise.
A few kobelyn choose to pursue a craft
that stems from their magical gifts, and embrace
a life of crime, their aim always set to more
daring heists. These knaves are responsible for
the bad reputations of their kind, even if their
goal is not the loot, but the sheer skill required
for a proper theft. Other kobelyn set for even
more exotic – from their point of view – crafts,
such as wizardry, exploration, or
warmongering, and find peculiar interest in
mingling with other humanoids in order to
improve their related skills. Most kobelyn
adventurers come from these callings, but it’s
not unheard of from a kobelyn artisan to decide
that in order to reach a better understanding of
their art they need to spend a few years as an
adventurer, field-testing their own creations in
the most extreme conditions.
Nevertheless, loneliness and
individualism usually are kobelyn’s favored
companions, as they feel no need to search
others of their own nor to establish kobelyn
communities. And yet their lives are so long that
most kobelyn sooner or later meet with others
of their kind; in the proper circumstances, these
brief meeting result in the birth of a young one.
One of the parent would then devote a dozen
years to looking after their offspring, providing
to the newborn until they are able to provide for
themselves, and have decided what craft they
want to pursue. Parent and child would then
depart, perhaps destined to never cross paths
again, without an ounce of regret: even a few
centuries of life are like the blink of an eye for
those that pursue utter perfection in their art.
AT THE EDGES OF REALITY
Were the sages to ask the kobelyn rather than
ramble endlessly, they would discover that
according to kobelyn lore their kind was one of
the first races of the world, often trusted with
tasks of the utmost importance by the gods
themselves. Back then they possessed a proud
culture, and were the inventors of all the arts
and crafts that were then passed to the other
races. This lasted until the gods decided to cut
short kobelyn civilization, and plagued them
with countless calamities. Every single kobelyn
tried to survive and cope as they could, and so
the different folks and self-centered disposition
of their kind were established.
The fact is, no known chronicles
corroborate the kobelyn myths, not even the
great libraries of immortal scholars beyond the
Material Plane. And, given their secluded ways
and very slow rate of birth, kobelyn should have
been long extinct were their race so ancient.
And yet they exist in their perpetual degrading
state, as the ideal missing link between
goblinoids, gnomes, and kobolds, a missing link
that no one would ever seek were not for the
existence of the kobelyn themselves. Those who
are versed in Multiversal lore and don’t shiver
at the idea of countless Material Planes theorize
that the kobelyn are the scattered remains of a
long-gone civilization from a backwater world
that has been forgotten, scattered across the
Multiverse by their inherent magic. A few
scholars further postulate that, as objective time
has no meaning in the Multiverse at large,
kobelyn could emerge at any time from their
home world into another Material Plane.
And what about the strange similarities
that some point out between kobelyn and the
three aforementioned races? Well, in the
Multiverse everything is possible… even for
something that should not be to became real as
more and more people believe it.
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KOBELYN NAMES
Kobelyn names are often obscure to the kobelyn
themselves, as they inherited naming customs
from the ancient times. Male and females use
the same names with a different suffix. Among
the other races, kobelyn often employ a
nickname that alludes to their craft, sometimes
a euphemism of sort.
Given their nonexistent social structure,
Kobelyn have no use for family names.
Nevertheless, when they encounter one of their
own, they identify themselves with their given
name, followed by the folk they belong to,
followed by the name of the parent they grew
up with, followed by all their ancestors.
Thus the adventurer known as “Skulker Demis”
would formally introduce themselves as “Demis
of the thalattha, son of Albhoya, daughter of
Dwopedya, daughter of Nebhis, son of Prialuya,
daughter of Kerkasis” to another kobelyn.
Male Names: Akis, Deukis, Gnois,
Kerdis, Kerkasis, Nebhis, Noghodis, Pezdis,
Sekwis, Weidis.
Female Names: Aikya, Albhoya, Demya,
Dwopedya, Gwenya, Medhuya, Nobhya,
Prialuya, Semya, Swesorya.
Nicknames: Amiable, Blacksmith,
Fletcher, Gaffer, Goody, Jeweler, Kind, Pleasing,
Sage, Skulker, Sly, Tinkerer, Wisecracker,
Wyrmtongue.
KOBELYN TRAITS
Your kobelyn character has certain
characteristics in common with all other
kobelyns.
Ability Score Increase. Your
Intelligence score increases by 2.
Age. Kobelyn mature slightly faster than
humans and reach adulthood at age 12. They
live well over a century, sometimes up to 250
years.
Alignment. Kobelyn tend towards
loneliness and neutrality, their mischievous
deeds and rigorous crafts somehow balancing
themselves.
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Size. Kobelyn are between 3 and 4 feet
tall and weigh about 40 pounds. Your size is
Small. Here’s how to determine your height and
weight randomly, starting with rolling a size
modifier:
Size modifier = 2d6
Height = 2 feet 10 inches + your size
modifier in inches
Weight in pounds = 35 + your size modifier
Speed. Your base walking speed in 30
feet.
Craftmaster. You are proficient with
one tool of your choice. Whenever you make an
ability check with this chosen tool, roll a d4 and
add the number rolled to the check’s total.
Deft. You can take the Search or Use an
Object action as a bonus action.
Tricky Touch. You know the mage
hand cantrip. Intelligence is your spellcasting
ability for this cantrip.
Languages. You can speak, read, and
write Common and one other language of your
choice.
Subrace. Three subraces of kobelyn are
found among the worlds of D&D: arkhe, gobhe,
and thalatta. Choose one of these subraces.
ARKHE
The arkhe are the most secluded of the kobelyn
subraces, and the ones that most likely still
carry the memory of when their kind were the
chosen servants of the gods, or the first
blacksmiths of the world. An arkhe hair are
usually fair, if not white, and often well
groomed. A few of the Old Folk kobelyn even
establish small communities of their own,
reminiscent of times long gone.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom
score increases by 1.
Ancient Memories. You have
proficiency in the Arcana skill.
Vanishing Act. You can cast the
invisibility spell on yourself once with this trait,
requiring no material components, and you
regain the ability to cast it this way when you
finish a long rest. Intelligence is your
spellcasting ability for this spell.
GOBHE
The gobhe are stout, often shaggy, and
sometimes the worst of scoundrels among
kobelyn. Gobhe usually live in humanoid cities,
and tend to keep to themselves so much that
they often go unnoticed until they decide to
make their presence manifest. Sometimes a
gobhe decides to squat into a particularly large
and comfortable house, helping the inhabitants
with their craft in exchange of food.
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity
score increases by 1.
Malleable Form. You can cast the
enlarge/reduce spell on yourself once with this
trait, requiring no material components, and
you regain the ability to cast it this way when
you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your
spellcasting ability for this spell.
Skulker. You have proficiency in the
Stealth skill.
Shapeshifting. You can cast the alter
self spell once with this trait, requiring no
material components, and you regain the ability
to cast it this way when you finish a long rest.
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for this
spell.
Include kobelyn in your campaign if...
… you want to mix up the usual race roster with
something that apparently doesn’t fit.
… house goblins are literally a thing in your
campaign.
… you are intrigued by a race whose very idea
derived from an etymology. Philologist power!
Play a kobelyn if...
… you like the idea of your character being one of
a kind, more or less.
… the possibility of calling every single gnome,
goblin, or kobold “my child” intrigues you.
… you want your character to be old, and odd.

THALATTA
Is common opinion that there is no such thing
as the typical thalatta: the most blatantly
magically gifted among their kind, these
kobelyn share no common feature apart from a
tendency to travel through every means at their
disposal. Most kobelyn adventurers come from
the thalatta folk, and their shapeshifting gift is
perhaps the truth behind the legends of horned
and finned kobelyn.
Ability Score Increase. Your
Constitution score increases by 1.
Nimble Fingers. You have proficiency
in the Sleight of Hand skill.

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 NEW SUBRACES
Elves, dwarves, halflings and orcs, along with
humans, are found across most of the worlds of
Dungeons & Dragons. But, as implied by the
“multi” in Multiverse, everything could be
different and yet remain the same in a
multifaceted kaleidoscope of reflections: the
stars of the infinite Material Planes are as
different as the mortal eyes that gaze upon
them. But a difference with no rules to
corroborate it becomes only a cosmetic factor:
different campaign worlds need different
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subraces. Diversity should be encouraged by
rules, and must not be a struggle to play a sub
optimal character against all odds.
So here they came, a bunch of new
subraces that range from the predictable to the
– I hope –refreshingly new, both in mechanics
and flavor. Some of them have been heavily
redesigned since they first came out, as new,
official rules were released to fill their previous
niche.
 DWARVEN SUBRACES
The typical dwarf adventurer is a heavy-
armored warrior or cleric, usually equipped
with an axe or a hammer to further enhance the
stereotype of a sturdy, traditionalist and
conservative folk, whose only joys are the rude
pleasures of beer and liquor. Both the hill and
mountain dwarves encourage this type of
character. The gray dwarves, despite being
surely not as good hearted as their kin, are still
a darkened version of the former stereotype: a
sturdy, proud, and stubborn folk, a race whose
features encourage you to play some kind of
warrior.
When you consider all the different
elven subraces that usually exist in most of the
D&D worlds, you would think that dwarves
need a bit of love too, wouldn’t you?
BRASSKIN DWARF
“You have to do better than this, dragon! Your
fire is colder than an icy mountain peak!”
Brasskin are a strange kind of dwarves that
show remarkable affinities with the elemental
creatures known as azers: their skin is naturally
tanned and light makes it shine like metal, while
their eyes and hair show the red and yellow
shades of flame itself.
Given that azers are crafted rather than
born, scholars still debate about the exact
origins of brasskin, as the resemblance is too
striking to be overlooked, and yet nobody could
tell how it was possible for dwarves and azers
to interbreed, as the latter don't breed at all.
Sages believe that potent magic was at work
behind the origins of this strange subrace, but
no one has a real clue about the birth of such a
splice. Was it the natural influence of the
Elemental Fire that somehow overlapped with
the Earth predisposition of the dwarves? Or is it
a curse cast down by giants? Or the ongoing
effect of a ritual to first fight the flames of red
dragons?
For a brasskin dwarf possesses an
inborn resistance to fire and blaze, a feature
that is surely helpful in the forge but that,
combined with the superior physical strength of
this subraces, could be the mark of a chosen
flame-breathing monsters’ slayer.
Individual brasskin are documented
through all the chronicles of dwarven history;
as they are incapable of breeding true, their
birth is always an unexpected event. As nearly
every documented brasskin lived an astonishing
life, becoming a renowned artisan, hero or
leader, the members of this subrace could
expect to be treated with regards by the
common dwarfs, given that they meet the great
expectations the community has for them.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength
score increases by 1; your muscles are as strong
as metal.
Extra Language. You can speak, read,
and write Ignan (a dialect of Primordial) in
addition to Common and Dwarfish.
Fireforged. You have resistance to fire
damage. Your very body is somehow
impervious to the flames, further highlighting
your ties with the creatures of elemental fire
known as azers.
Include brasskin in your campaign if...
… you want to suggest a deeper connection
between the mortal races and the elemental
planes.
… your dwarves are a mysterious folk, that holds
many secrets and perhaps is not totally related to
the other mortal races.
Play a brasskin if...
… you want your dwarf to be a true champion,
one whose birth foretold the greatness of the
battles won crossing, inured, the flames of hell.
… you find the common dwarves to be a bit too
common for the idea of character you have in
mind.
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DEEP DWARF (CLOCKWORKED)
“Give me a moment there, please… here, done, it’s
opened. Surface locksmiths are certainly a lazy
folk, aren’t they? Even as a child I could design a
better mechanism”
When the most deep-delving of dwarves met
the horrors of the Underdark and the voracious
attentions of the mind flayers, some of them
turned to the gods and prayed for salvation;
others, cut down from their surface brethren by
the very horrors they had to fight, decided to
delve yet deeper, seeking solace in places so
remote that not even the illithid had established
any community in their dark corners.
It was a strenuous, extenuating journey,
a migration of whole clans that faced scarcity
and ambushes on daily basis; it was then that
the deep dwarves started to adapt themselves.
The first implants were crude works, grafted
out of necessity with what materials they could
salvage: for the clans to survive, no one had to
be left behind, and till the heart was still beating
every single dwarf, man or woman, elder or
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child, had to play their part. Finally, as they
reached the mantle, the journey of the deep
dwarves come to an end: the mind flayer and
other races had long since stopped pursuing
them, deeming the miserable profit not worth
the effort, and yet new dangers and predators
awaited them in the extreme layers of the
Underdark.
By then, the clans had abandoned every
idea of themselves as being of mere flesh and
bones; and, when it was not necessity to impose
graft and implants, it was fashion and ease to
suggest further enhancements and modification.
Secluded in their isolation, with a potentially
endless source of metals and basic materials,
deep dwarves became the ultimate artificers
and clockworkers: deprived of divine magic by
their shunning the gods, they soon developed a
new kind of magic based on solid, tangible
mechanisms, a magic whose basic implement
could be grafted into their own bodies.
When some deep dwarves finally
emerged from their isolation and meet their
former kin, establishing strong bonds especially
with the gray dwarves, they had become a new
and astonishing subrace: their cerulean eyes
gazed with awe at sunlight, and their pale, red-
tanned skin, burnt by the schorcing light of
magma, was grafted with clocks and gears that
seemed to be part of their own bodies, fueled by
their own bloodstream and brains. It’s not too
astonishing that they were branded “the
clockworked”, nor that their occasional
ambassador or traveler between surfaces
dwarves is often seen as an alien curiosity
rather than as a distant kin.
Ability Score Increase. Your
Intelligence score increases by 1. You are a well-
trained engineer in a world of simpletons.
Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision
has a radius of 120 feet.
Expert Clockworker. Having always
meddled with clocks and gears since you were
young, you gain proficiency with the thieves’
tools and the tinker’s tools.
 Extra Language. You can speak, read,
and write Undercommon in addition to
Common and Dwarfish.
Sunlight Sensitivity. You have
disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom
(Perception) checks that rely on sight when you,
the target of your attack, or whatever you are
trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.
Tricks of Clocks. The gears and
clockworks grafted in your body grant you the
ability to replicate certain spells and magic
tricks. You know the mending cantrip. When
you reach 3rd level, you can cast the expeditious
retreat spell once with this trait and regain the
ability to do so when you finish a long rest.
When you reach 5th level, you can also cast the
knock spell, targeting a single object that you
touch, once with this trait and regain the ability
to do so when you finish a long rest.
Constitution is your spellcasting ability for
these spells.
Include clockworked in your campaign if...
… you want to drastically advance the tech level
of the dwarves, a race that dealt in
craftsmanship for millennia and could not
possibly be still at Middle-Age level.
… you want a race of good, if a bit strange, folk to
come from the Underdark, to overturn the
stereotype of only bad people living under the
surface.
Play a clockworked if...
… you are interested in a rational character that
upholds the flame of reason and science in a
world of magic and superstition.
… you want to play a cyberpunk dwarf.
Cyberpunk dwarf. ‘Nuff said.
OATHSWORN DWARF
“In the days of yore, we were the chosen priests,
the rightful speakers of the god. We still follow
the tradition, we still honor the oath swore by
ours forefathers.”
In dwarven culture, tradition is very important:
a clan is a family as much as it is a guild devoted
to a specific profession, a field in which its
members are highly specialized. What strangers
don't know, however, is that among such a
conservative race even the call of the gods may
became a family tradition: the sons and
daughters of those who swore an oath of service
to the gods are expected to do the same, and the
heirs of priests are encouraged to be their
successors at the shrine.
Generations of traditions thus gave birth
to families and clan whose expected role is that
of ministers of the faith; and, while not every
member of these clans will one day be chosen
by the gods to be their cleric and a miracle-
worker, all the oathsworn dwarves learn in
their youths the fundamental orations and
prayers of their traditional cult, and are thus
rewarded with the ability to manifesting a small
ounce of divine power. It is among the
oathsworn that the few monastic traditions
native to dwarves were born, and the wisdom of
the clan is renowned and respected by rulers
and common folk alike.
Whether they embrace the role that
dwarven society expects from them or not,
members of these clans are useful and trusted
companions for those who heed to their
sometimes pompous words.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom
score increases by 1; theological truths and
speculations were a fundamental part of your
upbringing.
Cantrip. The gods always reward their
followers, and thus you are capable of casting
one cantrip of your choice from the cleric spell
list. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for it.
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 Extra Language. You can speak, read,
and write Celestial in addition to Common and
Dwarfish. For every oathsworn dwarf must be
able to speak with the gods.
Include oathsworns in your campaign if...
… you want the society of dwarves to be sound
and unchanging, with different clans that hold
the same position within their society since it was
first established.
… your dwarves are a pious and religious folk,
whose culture revolves around the adoration of
their creators and forefathers.
Play an oathsworn if...
… you want to play an interesting dwarf monk, a
sturdy fist-fighter with a rosary in one hand and
the blood of the heathens in the other.
… you want your character to be a pious devotee,
but not necessarily a cleric.
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PACTBOUND DWARF
“We were in dire need, and we asked, we begged
Moradin for help. He didn't answer. But
something else did. May its name be blessed
forever in the depths! Ya! Ya!”
Grim was the fate of the dwarves, when the
aberrant horrors of the Underdark assaulted
and enslaved them. However, not all the clans
fell prey to the enemies: they all prayed the
gods of their fathers for help, but when the gods
kept silent some dwarves were desperate
enough to raise their preys to other entities,
entities that were closer to them as the depths
of the abyssal underworld were their home.
And, from the unspeakable horrors that
first spawned their very assailants, came
salvation for the desperate dwarves. The
ancient being gave them the power to resist and
counterattack the enemy, the strength to
survive in the direst recesses of the Underdark,
the curse to be slaves for life. For, in escaping
deep below, these dwarves found themselves
entrapped by the cities of their enemies, unable
to reach the surface and join the other clans,
unable to find salvation without subjugation to
a greater evil. Centuries and generations of
servitude shaped a new lineage of dwarves, a
breed tainted by madness and dire need, a race
of albino degenerates that revel in a madness
that disgusts even the gray dwarves, those who
suffered enslavement and broke their chains by
themselves.
While the majority of the – fittingly
named – pactbound dwarves are vile and
deranged cultists, some of them reject the way
of their kind and struggle to a new life, a life free
from their legacy... a legacy whose dubious
“blessings” will nevertheless haunt them
forever.
Ability Score Increase. Your
Intelligence score increases by 1. For you have
seen, and you know things, things that while
eroding your sanity greatly opened your mind.
 Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision
has a radius of 120 feet.
Blessings of the Deep Lord. The gifts of
the Unearthly Savior run deep in your blood.
You know the minor illusion cantrip. When you
reach 3rd level, you can cast the arms of Hadar
spell once with this trait and regain the ability
to do so when you finish a long rest. When you
reach 5th level, you can also cast the alter self
spell once with this trait and regain the ability
to do so when you finish a long rest. Intelligence
is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
Extra Languages. You can speak, read,
and write Deep Speech and Undercommon in
addition to Common and Dwarfish. The tongues
of the Underdark horrors are you native ones.
Nightmares of Madness. As the
inherited memories accompany you forever,
your sleep is plagued by nightmares and half-
forgotten recollections of what the pact forced
you and your kin to do. Nightmares, sleepwalk
and horrible screams are your companions at
night. Whenever you take a long rest, you can
choose to ignore and fight these nightmares, or
embrace them; if you resist, you need 2
additional hours to calm yourself, and so you
will need 10 hours to complete a long rest. If
you succumb to your dreams, 8 hours of
screams, maniacal laughs and creepy
somnambulism will be enough for you, but it
will be impossible for everybody else to rest
properly in your proximity.
Sunlight Sensitivity. You have
disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom
(Perception) checks that rely on sight when you,
the target of your attack, or whatever you are
trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.
Include pactbounds in your campaign if...
… you want to expand the background of the
most cruel of dwarves, hinting at a grimmer
truth that hides in the abysses of the underdark.
… your campaign will be focused in the deepest
recesses of the underworld, and you need more
diversity than a single race of deep-delving
dwarves.
Play a pactbound if...
… you want to play the darkest side of dwarfkind,
a cruel – albeit not necessarily evil – reflection of
the common, grumpy but good-hearted, dwarves.
… you like to play a dwarven hero who struggles
with the dark heritage of a race of vile cultists, a
heritage that will be there forever despite the
best efforts of the hero.
SPELLWRIGHT DWARF
“But of course it could be dangerous, you fool.
This is a portal after all, potent magic is at work
here. And now, please, keep silent: I need to
concentrate on the right formula.”
Some dwarven clans, often shunned and
condemned by their own clan, have long since
practiced the arcane arts. Often seen as vile
mages, they are more commonly dedicated
scholars that live in seclusion within the secrecy
of their own hidden cities, for very few dwarven
communities will accept them.
Spellwright dwarves claim to be the
follower of the ancient way, the last keepers of
the forgotten dwarven wizard tradition, while
the other clans say that they are a seditious
group that left behind the pristine ways of their
proud folk in order to study the fancy spells of
elves and dragons. And perhaps both claims are
true, for there is a whole Multiverse out there,
an endless canvas where everything is possible.
Ability Score Increase. Your
Intelligence score increases by 1. Spellwright
clans put great effort in the education of the
young.
Cantrip. Every spellwright dwarf
possesses a basic magical training. You know
one cantrip of your choice from the wizard spell
list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it.
Extra Language. You can speak, read,
and write Draconic in addition to Common and
Dwarfish. The ancient tongue of magic is well
known among your clan, and often employed
when secrecy is essential.
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Include spellwrights in your campaign if...
… you are sick with the stereotype of not-magic-
dealing dwarves, and want a fresher subrace to
encourage this new, interesting match of race
and class.
… you would like to further differentiate dwarven
clans, based on their tradition and culture.
Play a spellwright if...
… you want to play a dwarven wizard, and not
the full-armorer I’ll-break-you-with-blade-and-
magic kind of, but rather the usual, hieratic-
robed type of wizard.
… you want you dwarf to come from a secretive
clan that give them an edge in most situation, a
useful magical edge.
UPLAND DWARF (UPLANDER)
“Surface-dwelling dwarves. Yes, surface. They
don’t excavate halls, instead living in stone-
crafted palaces built over the plateaus, and they
prefer to be herders rather than miners. But they
remain dwarves at heart: proud, too stubborn for
their own good, and the best warriors I ever
met.”
Not all the dwarves live in seclusion inside their
mountain – or hill – cities, dug up inside deep
caves and hidden from the outside world. Some
mountain and hill clans, many generations ago,
decided to try a different life, a life that traded
the harshness and the embrace of the stone for
the warmer embrace of the sun and the greater
perils of the wilderness. Some stories tell a
different tale, a tale of ban and exile, an exile
that quickly became self-imposed as the
different culture diverged forever.
Whether the case, the dwarves quickly
adapted to a new life in a place where food was
easier to find, but where danger could come
from any direction. Building their megalithic
palaces and villages, reminiscent of the
grandeur of subterranean dwarven
architecture, atop elevations and tablelands,
they were quickly branded as “upland dwarves”
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both by their cave-dwelling cousins and by the
amazed outlanders that first saw their imposing
homes standing out against the sky.
The need to deal with the risks of
wilderness and savage lands quickly made them
the ultimate survivors, a clan of shepherds more
than capable of defending their flock against
wolves and marauders alike. Hill dwarves could
be sturdier, mountain dwarves could be
stronger and used to literally live in armor, but
no dwarves knows their land as good as the
uplanders do.
Sturdy, stubborn and proud even
beyond the standard of dwarves, the uplanders
are nevertheless content to live in their harsh
plateaus, dealing with all the savage humanoids
that the wilderness can throw against them, and
seldom mingle with other people. When they
do, however, they are regarded as trusted and
valiant friends… but those who mock their
peculiar accent will surely meet their fists, or
worse.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength
score increases by 1. Hard work doesn’t scare
you, and when you hit you hit really hard.
Harsh Life. You have proficiency in the
Survival skill.
Stubborn. You have advantage on
saving throws against being charmed or
frightened.
Include uplanders in your campaign if...
… in your worlds there is at least one dwarven
culture that has lived for century above the
surface, or in secluded uplands.
… you have recognized what the “dwarven
village” below is, and want a similar culture to be
part of your campaign setting.
Play an uplander if...
… you want to play the ultimate dwarven ranger,
a woodsman that comes from a culture of
dwarves used to the harsh life of the wilderness.
… you have recognized at least one of the not so
hidden inspiration behind this subrace, and you
absolutely want to roll with it.
 ELVEN SUBRACES
For a strange reason, there seem to be
more ideas of “elf” than the variation of this
word are: from the tall, strong, immortal elves
of Tolkien to Goethe’s Erlking, and from the
diminutive fairies of tales to Moorcock’s
debauched hedonists, many are the inspirations
behind this D&D race. The game itself added its
own peculiar subraces, such as the sea elves and
the winged one.
The following options aim to provide
rules for many of the iconic “elves” of D&D and
fantasy in general. For their naming, I used
Sanskrit as I find that the Hindu culture offers
many interesting hints to portray a different
kind of elven society. And, as you will find out,
two of the following subraces are loosely based
on such a suggestion.
NEFARIOUS FOLK (DOSHAPHALA)
“Their cries of pain, such a subtle pleasure. No
substance, not even the sweetest of ichors will
ever match this ecstatic sensation.”
seems to satiate their lust for unearthly
sensations.
While these decadent villains usually
constitute a secluded, shunned and despised
minority among the elven folks, in some
unlucky worlds across the Multiverse
doshaphalas are the only known elves, and so
the elven race as a whole is feared and
mistrusted by the natives of those lands.
Thus, even when single elves try to
leave this grim legacy behind and struggle to
became heroes, they are still seen as pointed-
eared skinny fiends by those who suffered
under the tyranny of doshaphalas. And yet a
hero is someone who defies great obstacles
across the path to glory, and which obstacle is
greater than prejudice and the inborn cruelty
inherited by their own folk?

There is a secret that all elvenkind tries his best

to hide, the secret of their vile and corrupted
surface brethren. While the drows are
universally known and feared, most people
know nothing about the sadistic ways of this
folk, whose very name is forbidden across elven
cultures and referred to only by allusions and
euphemisms.
Doshaphalas were originally high elves,
but soon they left behind the way of their kind
to pursue a new path made of nefarious power,
decadent pleasures, and unbridled corruption.
Thanks to the dark pacts they forged with many
a Fiend Lord, the doshaphalas are a threat that,
were not for their predisposition to idle
debauchery, would subjugate whole continents.
Still, they often lord it over vast legions of
nonelven slaves, miserable wretches whose life Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma
is worse than death: no pleasure is too extreme score increases by 1. You are as charming as a
for the doshaphalas, and there is no taboo in devil, as the fiends your forefathers made a pact
abusing their servant in whatever manner with.

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 Drug Addiction. You have advantage on
saving throws against poison, and you have
resistance to poison damage; in addition, you
gain proficiency with the poisoner's kit. Drugs,
poisons and similar substances are of common
usage among the doshaphalas, and you are used
at brewing them as well as sustaining their
worst effects.
Inured to the Worst. You have
advantage on saving throws against being
frightened; among your people you have seen
literally everything, and there is no evil, no
horror, no abomination that could easily scare
you.
Cruel Weapon Training. You have
proficiency with the longsword, shortsword,
whip, shortbow, and longbow. The weapon
training of your folk comprehends the whip, a
tool often used in your culture to punish and
humiliate the slaves and those of lower
standing.
Include doshaphalas in your campaign if...
… you are tired of drows, and yet you need a vile
subrace of elves to act as willing servants of a
greater evil.
… you need surface dwelling evil elves.
… you need an inhuman folk whose tradition
alone speak of darkness, suffering and deranged
pacts.
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Play a doshaphala if...
… you want to play a hero or an anti-hero that
struggles constantly against their inborn nature
and the traditions inherited from a vile legacy.
… you want to play an albino warlock in pact
with a fiend, whose pact blade will be black and a
thousand times more evil than your PC.
SAVAGE ELF (MALINASYA)
“We didn't see them coming. Our scout was the
first to fall. They come out of the frigging trees, I
swear it!”
Sometimes wood elves are called wild elves, but
in the most pristine of forests, in the coldest of
snow-covered mountains, in the most isolated
corners of the earth still dwell the vicious and
nearly forgotten savage elves.
They could be the original subrace, a
cruel people whose cannibalistic ways are the
heritage of a crude time when elves had to
strive with now unknown perils. Or perhaps
they are the degenerated kin of common wood
elves, whose seclusion doomed them to such a
brutal destiny. In different places of the
Multiverse both conjectures could be true;
certainly, whether fur-clad and snow-delving,
naked jungle marauders, or cruel desert
ravagers, malinasya across the Million Sphere
tend to share the same traits, and the same
savage predisposition to beastly cruelty.
Savage elves are feared by explorers and
adventurer alike, for the menace of their tribes
is something not to take lightly: many an
expedition met a tragic end at the hands of a
malinasya marauder party, typically after
mistaking its members for wood elves.
Conversely, the bad reputation of their savage
kin meant trouble for those elves of the wild
that were mistaken for malinasya and killed on
the spot by remorseless scouts.
Some members of this subrace, despite
every prejudice, reject the life of their kind and
try their best to live among the civilized folk,
typically acting as mercenaries or exotic
adventurers, often hiding their true heritage
even to their companions.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength
score increases by 1. You are sturdier than the
typical elf.
Fleet of foot. Your base waling speed
increases to 35 feet.
Mask of the Wild. You can attempt to
hide even when you are only lightly obscured by
foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other
natural phenomena.
Primeval Weapon Training. You have
proficiency with the club, greatclub, spear,
shortbow, blowgun, and net.
Include malinasyas in your campaign if...
… you need a tribe of primitive and degenerate
elves to inhabit the ruins of a once great elven
city deep in the woods.
… you are tired of stereotypes and want to
substitute the usual orcs and goblins with
something new, something that isn’t a color-
coded villain.
Play a malinasya if...
… you want to play an elf warrior that doesn't
give a damn about finesse, a true champion of
the jungle with pointed ears.
… you want your PC to be a noble savage that
struggles against a sinister reputation.
SEA ELF (SAMUDRIYA)
“Sometimes I feel sorry for my land-dwelling
cousins: they will never feel the breath of the
undercurrents, they will never gaze at the
majestic beauty of the reef.”
During their age-long history, elven civilizations
spawned through the whole world. Whether
forced by fate or incited by curiosity, some
tribes decided to settle down below the sea;
perhaps they were escaping from a cataclysm
that destroyed their ancestral lands, perhaps
their lands themselves were sunken
underwater by earthquakes and tsunamis; or,
more astonishingly, when their explorers first
reported about the marvels of undersea, the
whole tribes decided to establish a new home in
the waters.
Different tribes and folks of sea elves
across the Multiverse surely have different
backstories. Anyway, all the samudriyas used
powerful magic to adapt themselves to their
new underwater life, developing the ability to
breath water; generations born and raised
under the sea shaped them as the most vigorous
among the elves, capable swimmers with
delicate features and athletic bodies.
As samudriyas never lost their ability to
breath air, some of their cities are built both
above and below the water, and many of them,
during their centuries-long lives, spend some
time in the dry land, curious about a world that
is exotic to them as the depths of the sea are for
humans and dwarves.
While the pale, often water-like
complexion of sea elves sets them apart from
their land-dwelling kin, a samudriya is always
recognizable as an elf, and often treated as
such. Proud, curious and carefree, a sea elf
makes an excellent adventurer.
Ability Score Increase. Your
Constitution score increases by 1. The depths of
the oceans aren’t a place for the feeble ones.
Amphibious. You can breathe air and
water.
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 Swim. You have a swimming speed of
40 feet.
Underwater Weapon Training. You
have proficiency with the spear, trident, light
crossbow, net and hand crossbow. Your culture
abandoned the usual elf weapons for other
ones, more useful during undersea battles.
Extra Language. You can speak, read,
and write Aquan (a dialect of Primordial) in
addition to Common and Elvish.
Include samudriyas in your campaign if...
… your campaign setting includes an Atlantis-like
elven civilization, its greatest city lost to the
ocean but not yet deserted by its former
inhabitants.
… the waters of your worlds are as much
populated as the dry land, with a plethora of
races dwelling both above and below the sea.
Play a samudriya if...
… you want your PC to be an elf, and a really
exotic one, one that looks with marvel at even the
most mundane aspects of land-dwelling life.
… you want to play with a trump card during a
pirate campaign. Everyone loves pirate
campaigns!
through the ages by the ritualized memorization
of complex hymns and prayers.
Manyavarnas are often dark skinned
and fair eyed, a peculiar match that sets them
apart from other subraces. Their appearance
and culture, anyway, seem to hint to a strong
connection with high elves, but the venerables
do their best to set themselves apart from other
subraces. They are typically unkempt and
untidy, with long, uncut and uncured hair that
cover bodies marked by an ascetic life, but
when a manyavarna decides to live among other
elves, often acting as a priest or officiant, he or
she takes care of displaying a look fitting of a
chosen among the great.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom
score increases by 1. Introspection and
theological studies were the focus of your
upbringing.
Cantrip. Through stern meditation,
abstinence and ritual chagrin, you proved
yourself worthy of manifesting a fragment of
divine magic. You know one cantrip of your
choice from the cleric spell list. Wisdom is your
spellcasting ability for it.

VENERABLE ELF (MANYAVARNA)

“I'm not surprised of the toils all us elfin folks
have to suffer: the lesser ones all but forgot the
proper ways to please the gods, as well as the
rightful patterns to guide their own meditations
in order to improve themselves.”

Even among the elves, a people known for their

mistrust of strangers and their sense of
superiority, there is a separate caste whose
seclusion and xenophobic views are quite
legendary, and considered excessive even by
their kin.
These self-proclaimed venerable elves
spend their lives in meditation, kindling their
sacred flames and honoring the old traditions of
their folk. Even their young can recall fragments
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 Secrets of the Plants. You have
proficiency with the herbalism kit. The hymns
of your caste speak of the virtues of every plant.
Traditional Elf Weapon Training. You
have proficiency with the spear, scimitar,
shortsword, dart, shortbow, and longbow.
While other elven folks favor the longsword,
your people still trains with the scimitar, a
weapon dating back to ancient metallurgy.
Include manyavarnas in your campaign if...
… you want an elven culture to first establish one
or more monk traditions.
… your elves are divided in castes, and you want
a priest cast separated from standard high elves.
Play a manyavarna if...
… you want to play an elf that thinks even other
elves his lesser, a hero whose pride constantly
treats to be his downfall.
… you want to play an elven monk or divine
caster who is part of a generations-lasting
tradition – and generations, among elves, are
quite something.
WANDERING ELF (CARACAPANTHA)
“Come on, you can trust me. Sure, my kin has a
bad reputation, but it’s not our fault if the world
is for the strong to reap. We are not enslaving
conquerors, we have no homeland to defend by
slaying intruders; we choose a different way, a
way that sometimes requires… secrecy.”
Bards and poets sing of the marvels of elven
lands, of blazing marble cities whose impossible
towers reach to the sky, of pristine forest where
the trees themselves were shaped by growth in
order to accommodate their centuries-old
masters. The elves, for the human commoner,
are a fair folk that inhabits a true fairy land.
And then there are the outcasts, the
vagrant with no land, the wanderers with no
home, the restless nomads that seem to defy
every belief regarding elvenkind. Alone, in small
groups or, more often, organized in caravans, by
cart or by vagon or even on foot, these
caracapantha, the “wandering wanderers”, are
constantly moving from one land to another,
oblivious of wars and borders, inured to the
mistrust of those who see them as scoundrels
and vagrants.
In time, their travels will bring them
back to the places they have already visited, and
for someone as long-lived as an elf this means
letting whole human generation pass before
going back: the friends they had are long dead,
even the town may lay in ruin, and the caravan
will settle there in the ghost town, adding to the
bad reputation of the wandering elves as rascals
and jinx. They are a proud folk, and they are not,
as someone says, “too lazy to settle down and
toil like us”, nor “too much of a bunch of
cowards to go back and retake their homeland”:
the existence of a whole wandering culture, an
elven culture capable of adapting to constant
change without losing itself, is not a small feat
to maintain, and the life of a homeless wanderer
is certainly not a life for the lazy and the
coward.
It would be easier to settle down, and in
the centuries many caracapantha communities
seemed to have done it, but what for the short-
lived races is a whole life for the wandering
elves is just an albeit long-lasting stop during
their endless journey. From their point of view,
even a years-long adventurer career is just a
brief hiatus during the travel.
Some scholars find a striking parallelism
between the caracapantha and the strange
vistani of Ravenloft: both are a folk of
wanderers with an inborn charisma and an
undeserved bad reputation, as well as a
predisposition for magic. Perhaps the two folks
are related, perhaps not; or, perhaps, there is a
missing link between them that is lost in the
vast infinitude of the Multiverse.
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma
score increases by 1. Despite their bad
reputation, wandering elves are good at making
friends and always manage to get by.
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 Entertaining Fellow. You gain
proficiency with one musical instrument or one
type gaming set of your choice.
Extra Language. You can speak, read,
and write one extra language of your choice.
Magic of the Wanderers. A flicker of
magic grants every caracapantha some minor
spellcasting abilities. You know the friends
cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast
the bane or the bless spell once with this trait
and regain the ability to do so when you finish a
long rest, targeting a single creature. Charisma
is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
Wandering Elf Weapon Training. You
have proficiency with the shortsword,
shortbow, and longbow. Your culture
abandoned the use of the longsword, as it favors
diplomacy over violence.
Include caracapanthas in your campaign if...
… you want to twist stereotypes and create a
world where the proudest of races is a refugee
folk, shunned by the humans that are usually
scorned by elves.
… in the ancient history of your campaign world
there was a proud elven kingdom that fell into
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ruin, its survivors scattered by the cataclysm that
destroyed their home.
Play a caracapantha if...
… you want to play an elf, but you don’t want
your character to be the arrogant one – rather,
you prefer the challenge to play an outcast, and
an elven one!
… you like the idea of a good-hearted rascal, a
rogue who favors trickery and diplomacy over
stealth and violence.
WINGED ELF (SAPAKSHA)
“She was... beautiful. Like an angel. An elven
angel. She disappeared behind the peak, the one
with those ruins. Tomorrow I'm going there, will
you come with me?”
These feathered elves are perhaps the most
reclusive member of their race, a proud and fair
folk that lives in seclusion where those unable
of flight cannot even hope to reach them: even
other elves are not welcome into their cities, as
the sapaksha are extremely reluctant to involve
themselves with others; they are not evil or
uncaring, they simply want to be left alone.
For the prospective of winged elves,
while they could assist the other races in their
battles, “soil-dwellers” won't even be capable of
helping them in their aerial struggles. And so
they believe that it is for the mutual good that
the two kinds of flying and earthbound elves
remain separated, at least until dire
circumstances require a brief alliance. The
coming of a rescuing warband of sapaksha
when everything seemed lost inspired many a
poem, as the saviors flied away even before they
could be thanked properly.
Winged elves are perhaps the most
aesthetically gifted of their race: their build and
features are delicate and refined, the very
paragon of elfin visage. Hair, eyes and feathers
all come in varied hues, that mingle with the fair
shade of the skin in what appears to elf and
humans – who at times dubbed sapaksha
“angelfs” – as nearly absolute perfection.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma
score increases by 1. You are beautiful beyond
words, and your shyness adds to the attractive
mystery of your reputation.
Aerial Weapon Training. Winged elves
favor the less cumbersome weapons that they
can use during flight. You have proficiency with
the spear, shortsword, shortbow, and hand
crossbow.
Flight. You have a flying speed of 30
feet. To use this speed, you can't be wearing
medium or heavy armor.
Thin Build. Your hollow bones, while
necessary for flight, strongly compromise your
build. You count as one size smaller when
determining your carrying capacity and the
weight you can push, drag, or lift.
Include sapakshas in your campaign if...
… you need to populate the mountain peaks when
the first elven cities were founded with
unforgettable inhabitants.
… flying cities are, in your campaign, a common
sight.
Play a sapaksha if...
… you want to play an elf who walks literally
above common folks.
… you want to explore ruins, dungeons and
savage lands from a different prospective.
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 HALFLING SUBRACES
Among the main D&D races, the halfling
stand as a testament of Tolkien’s works’
influences in the game. Where other
“inspirations” had to change their name for legal
issues, the race of “half men” keeps a name that
you could read in The Lord of the Rings as an
epithet for the same creatures. However, as the
Professor’s legacy stands true, it is hard to
imagine D&D’s halflings as something different
from Tolkien’s ones; some campaign setting
tried to, but the nontolkienish halfling soon
became something new, something different.
For better or worse, the halflings are
still tied to The Hobbit and its sequels. And so,
rather than defying this heritage, I decided to
embrace it: here you will find two halfling
subraces that wink at Tolkien’s works, two
options designed to fill into a very specific niche
that, I’m sure of it, needs no further
introduction.
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MELLON HALFLING
“I regret my haste, I would have loved to be able
to linger in the library, but we have no time. Our
mission is of the utmost importance. There will
be time when we get back to finally delve into the
shelves and their secrets.”
Most halflings live across human and dwarven
settlements, and only the wandering
community visit from time to time the
magnificent elven kingdoms. There is, however,
an exception to this rule: some halfling families
were long ago accepted into elfish cities and
nations not as passing visitors, not as hired
workers, but as estimated members of the
community.
The eminent members of these families
were named mellon, “friends”, thanks to some
great services they rendered to the elves, and in
time the name stuck to their descendants. When
compared to other halfling families, the mellon
tend to be more reflective and pensive than
most lightfoot and stout, and they can speak
Elvish with no inflection at all, often composing
touching poetry that rivals the works of the
elves themselves. Their sweet talks, however,
pales in comparison to the force of will that
every single mellon possesses, an inner strength
that goes beyond the proverbial bravery of the
halflings and that hints at some great suffering
that forever marked the family.
Time and generation may pass, but what
made an adventurer a mellon to the elves,
remains, and will eventually surface back in
their heirs that decide to take back the
adventuring career.
Ability Score Increase. Your
Intelligence increases by 1. Thanks to the
constant exchange with the elven culture, you
possess a keen and sharp mind.
Extra Language. You can speak, read,
and write Elvish in addition to Common and
Halfling.
 Persuasive. You have proficiency in the
Persuasion skill. Despite being less expansive
than other halflings, you have a knack for
finding the right words for every situation.
Strong Will. You have advantage on
saving throws against being charmed.
Include mellon in your campaign if...
… you use the halfling subraces to differentiate
the families that live within different cultures:
lightfoot with humans, stouts with dwarfs, and
mellon with elfs.
… you need a subrace to represent a family of
halflings that favors lore and knowledge over
secrecy and a quiet life.
Play a mellon if...
… you want to play a halfling sage, or even a
halfling wizard.
… you prefer your halfling character not to be the
stereotypical midget thief, nor the typical bare-
footed merry fellow, but rather a contemplative
hero with a strong heart.
TAINTED HALFLING
“I saw the eyes, I swear it. Those fiery eyes
flashing in the dark, I can’t forget them. Pardon
me, but I can’t believe that this… this thing is
related to me.”
As sages have often pointed out, halflings
possess an inborn resistance to darkness and
corruption that would shame many self-
proclaimed heroes: even in the gloomiest of
shadows, they can keep going and carry on,
overcoming every obstacle. But this very
resilience could became a weakness, for as a
halfling gets inured to the corruption of
darkness this vile taint will slowly take root in
their heart, subtly at first, till the very spirit of
the unlucky fellow will be forever marked by
corruption.
Most races would not be still alive by
then, but a halfling can. Usually it is only a poor
sod to be infected by such a taint, a single
individual that the community will promptly
shun and distance from, but throughout history
there were circumstances when whole halfling
communities were corrupted by utter darkness,
and thus the tainted subrace was born.
Where halflings are regarded as
incarnations of the joy of life, tainted ones are
vileness made flesh: their bodies are twisted,
their minds vicious, their word treacherous and
their motivation utterly egoistic. Despite this,
tainted halflings share a loose bonds with
members of their community, as they all toil
towards mutual survival; but, should a single
member of the community, even a close relative,
became a burden or a treat, they will be quick to
dispose of the weak link of their chain, typically
integrating it into their food chain. For
cannibalism is not the first, nor the worst of
common taboos that tainted halflings break and
assume as habits.
Given their cruel ways, and their small
numbers, one would wonder how are such
debased and ultimately weak creatures capable
of surviving in a world full of heroes and greater
evils. The answer is that, as most halflings do,
they are good at hiding themselves, and their
true motive too: the inner corruption doesn’t
always manifest itself on the outside, and some
wandering halfling communities are in fact
clans of debased marauders and cannibals,
always on the run from their rightful demise.
Others, the most deranged and hideous ones,
hide themselves in the darkest caves of the
Earth, and often offer their services to a
powerful master in order to survive.
The tainted halfling adventurers are a
handful at most, as very few of them would
reject their corrupted life, and even fewer
would be accepted by a traditional adventuring
party. Still, among monstrous and vile ravagers,
a tainted halfling would be a proper addition.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength
increases by 1. You tap into a savage prowess
that most halfling will never achieve.
Heart of Darkness. You have resistance
against necrotic damage.
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 Superior Darkvision. Your eyes are
adapted to a life in the darkness, both
metaphorical and actual ones. You can see in
dim light within 120 feet as if it were bright
light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You
can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of
gray.
Sunlight Sensitivity. You have
disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom
(Perception) checks that rely on sight when you,
the target of your attack, or whatever you are
trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.
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Include tainted halflings in your campaign
if...
… you want to illustrate the corruption that took
root in the halfling community during some
tragic historical events.
… you like to insert an evil subrace for every
common adventurer race, to show that evil can
took root almost everywhere and that personal
choices are what, ultimately, makes the
difference.
Play a tainted halfling if...
… you want to play a ruthless marauder that
seeks its precious treasure.
… you are sick with the
chubby, good halfling
fellow stereotype, and
want to play something
totally different.
 VARIANT ORCS
If the field of traditional portrait and
D&D rendering there is no race whose
reputation is as bad as the orcs’ one. In fairy
tales, orcs and ogres (the two words are strictly
related) are the quintessential boogeymen, and
in Tolkien’s works the orcs and goblins are
literally hopeless vileness made flesh, a race
born from mutilation, slavery, and corruption,
an evil folk beyond any hope of redemption.
But, since the time of the porcine-
snouted orcs of the first D&D iteration, the
fantasy culture has changed much, and in many
works the orcs are portrayed in a different,
better light. The orc race presented on Volo’s
Guide, however, suffers from trying to be good
for both the vile, bestial, cruel orcs and the bold,
strong and valiant ones -a “vanilla” race. Only
recently the new Eberron campaign setting
finally introduced official and not mentally-
impaired orcs.
But, should you prefer subtly different
races for different orc concepts, here they come.
ORC, CORRUPTED ONE
“It was during the famine, Jorason and the others
were isolated in the mountains by the sudden
storm. It was not until spring that we were able
to reach their cabin, and we expected to find no
one alive. When we opened the door, the stench
of death almost suffocated us: the floor was
littered with dried blood and gnawed human
bones. Of the woodsmen party, only Jorason
remained, having feed on his deceased
companions… but he was now an orc!”
Many legends, ancient inscriptions, and
mythical chronicles, both in prose and in verses,
speak about the wicked mutation that
transformed one or more humanoids into a
crooked, vile creature of pure evil, one that was
soon to be called an orc. The orc race that
currently inhabits the world however, while
sharing many traits with the orcs of these
testaments, is adamant in its believe that the
orcs were created ex novo by their god,
Gruumsh, and that their ancestors were never
anything less than orcs themselves.
The vileness of the so called “corrupted”
orcs, according to the chronicles, exceeded that
of the orc race, nor they seemed to be driven in
their plunder by any religious zeal.
Furthermore, the sources disagree in regard of
the specific appearance of the corrupted ones:
many of them seemed to be bent and hunched
humanoids, others had animal features and fur,
while some could pass for mundane, albeit
bulky, humans. The current orcs resemble a
stabilization of those ancestral monsters, one
that has become a race of its own and doesn’t
manifest as a perversion of other humanoids.
Despite this, corrupted orcs still live and
prey upon the weak. Be it as lone predators or
as small families and communities of
degenerated, photo-phobic cannibals, they
quietly come to be even now, their savagery
further adding to the notoriety of Gruumsh’s
ones. And a few sages point out the clear
influence of an evil, extremely powerful will
behind their transformation… and to the
similarities between the word “orcs” and the
name “Orcus”, the Demon Prince of undead and
lord of corpse feeders.
CORRUPTED ORC TRAITS
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength
score increases by 2, your Constitution score
increases by 1.
Age. Orcs reach adulthood at age 12 and
live up to 50 years.
Alignment. Unlike the common orcs,
the corrupted ones are ravaging villains and
vicious raiders with no regards for the weaker
ones. They are always evil, and usually chaotic
evil.
Size. As common orcs do, corrupted
ones are usually over 6 feet tall and weigh
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between 230 and 280 pounds. Your size is
Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30
feet.
Superior Darkvision. You can see in
dim light within 120 feet as if it were bright
light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You
can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of
gray.
Aggressive. As a bonus action, you can
move up to your speed towards an enemy of
your choice that you can see or hear. You must
end this move closer to the enemy than you
started.
Flesh-Tearing Fangs. Your bestial
snout is filled with deadly fangs, that you can
use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit, you
deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your
Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning
damage normal for an unarmed strike. As a
bonus action, after a melee attack, you can make
an additional unarmed attack with your fangs.
Powerful Build. You count as one size
larger when determining your carrying capacity
and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
Silent Nightmare. You are trained in
the Intimidation and Stealth skills.
Sunlight Sensitivity. You have
disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom
(Perception) checks that rely on sight when you,
the target of your attack, or whatever you are
trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.
Languages. You can speak, read, and
write Common and Orc.
Include corrupted orcs in your campaign if...
… you find the mundane
orcs are now too
overdone, and you want
a subtly different race of
true monsters to haunt
the nightmares of your
players.
… you want corruption
and taint to be, in your
campaign setting, a
tangible darkness that
could potentially pervert
and infect anyone.

Play a corrupted orc

if...
… you want to play a
true boogeyman (and
the other players agree,
of course).
… you want to defy even
utter and ultimate taint,
in playing a hero that
seeks salvation from a
corruption that will be
forever within their soul.

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ORC, FREE FOLK
“Yes, I’m an orc, and no, I’m not going to split
your skull and carve it into an offering for my
lord Gruumsh. Not all the orcs are murderous
zealots, you know?”
As the Sage of Shadowdale once pointed out, an
orc life is a god-ridden life – and the orc gods
are a bunch of evil, cruel deities. Influenced by
their creed of violence and ruthless oppression,
orc society is often nothing more than a gang of
ravagers and murderous slavers. The call of
Gruumsh and the orders of his equals are a
constant snarl that rages in the dreams of every
orc, and of many half-orcs too, eroding their
sanity and replacing any glint of empathy with a
furious urge to conquer and despoil.
The orcs who gave up the ways of their
kind had to learn how to quench their inner
fury, and to do this under the pressure of a
“civilized” society that sees them as glorified
bipedal beasts, thus further increasing their
angst in trying to resist the urge to resume their
previous ways. For an orc to really blend into a
different society, many pointed out, the voice of
Gruumsh must first be suppressed.
And this was a chance that, in the
boundless Multiverse, found a way to happen
more than once. Some orc tribes were enslaved
and their priest executed, depriving orc gods
from their spokesman – and of the urge to
waste time with such spineless servants to let
others capture them. Other clans fortuitously
found their way to a different plane of existence,
one where their gods had no power at all, and
were thus set free from their presumptuous
voices, lost in the vastness of the Million
Spheres.
Only seldom do orc communities choose
to leave all their rites and practices behind,
discovering empathy between themselves and
an affection that goes beyond comradeship and
eventually blossoms into true feelings and
emotions; this, however, is the path of freedom
more often walked by very small groups of orcs,
such as a couple that discovers a fondness
quickly escalating into love. The ultimate
freedom, however, will not be theirs, but for
their children to experience: only those who
never heard the call of Gruumsh, that were not
risen to be his servants and warriors, will live
beyond his clutches.
Compared to common orcs, the “free
folk” has a quieter disposition: their temper is
still what even a dwarf would call short, and to
insult them would still be to dare one’s fate, but
in their souls there is no trace of the savage
eagerness to fight and plunder, the aggressive
goad that drives the charges of their pious
brethren. Instead, the physical prowess of the
free orcish folk gets exercised through a more
careful military training. Gone the proverbial
rage that the gods instilled into their ancestors,
the mental capabilities of free orcs suffer no
impairment, despite the bias of other races into
accepting the “savage humanoids” as their peer.
As long as the followers of Gruumsh are
prevalent among the orcs, the free folk will have
to face prejudice from both sides, as an
iconoclastic blasphemer among the orcs and as
a blood thirsting beast among “civilized” races.
But, if no one struggles to change the
way of things, they will not change by
themselves.
FREE ORC TRAITS
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength
score increases by 2, and your Constitution
score increases by 1. Gone is the unending rage
that dulled the mind of your ancestors.
Age. Orcs reach adulthood at age 12 and
live up to 50 years.
Alignment. The orcs of the free folk are
no more the slaves of Gruumsh, and His dark
dictates are harbored no more within their
souls. As such, free orcs tend towards neutrality
rather than evil, with an equal predisposition
for both chaos and law.
Size. Orcs are usually over 6 feet tall and
weigh between 230 and 280 pounds. Your size
is Medium.
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 Speed. Your base walking speed is 30
feet.
Darkvision. You can see in dim light
within 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in
darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t
discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Impetuous. As a reaction, after you are
targeted by an enemy attack, you can move up
to your speed towards the enemy that triggered
your reaction. You must end this move closer to
the enemy than you started.
Orc Weapon Training. You have
proficiency with the handaxe, battleaxe, and
greataxe.
Powerful Build. You count as one size
larger when determining your carrying capacity
and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
Strong and Menacing. You are trained
in the Athletics and Intimidation skills.
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Languages. You can speak, read, and
write Common and Orc.
Include free orcs in your campaign if...
… you had enough with the whole “orcs are
inherently evil” mantra, and want you campaign
setting to comprehend at least an orc culture
that lives on par with dwarves, elves, halflings
and humans.
… you find it lame, and perhaps even a bit racist,
that the orcs are ruled to be dumber than every
other race.
Play a free orc if...
… you want to play a strong, proud orc, but you
find that having the “greenskin” labeled as a
dumber race is not so encouraging.
… you are too hardcore to settle down with
playing a half-orc.
 CLASS OPTIONS
The following class options are certainly
unbalanced toward certain classes, especially
the warlock, but I took care in providing new
balanced and interesting choices for every
character. In this new draft I took care in
correcting some balance issues that plagued my
previous works.
You will find more than 30 new
subclasses, along with new fighting styles and
some other class variants. These options are no
evenly distributed among the different classes,
as the original idea was to grant some more
versatility where I found it was lacking: some
classes already possess very broad archetypes
that could cover different character concepts,
while others are so specific that they don’t offer
enough margin – or, to be honest, I find that
some classes tantalize my imagination more
than others.
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 BARBARIAN
When you first take a level as a barbarian, you
may instead choose to became a whirlwind, a
variant class that uses most of the main features
as detailed on the Player’s Handbook.
VARIANT CLASS: WHIRLWIND
Barbarians are clearly Strength-weapon based,
as both their signature feature and their
capstone focus on this ability. And what about a
Dexterity-based barbarian, a nimble savage that
unleashes a flurry of strikes upon the enemy?
Well, here comes the whirlwind. Their “rage” is
a relentless flurry, a dervish’s dance of strikes
so fast the mortal eye could not follow them.
Yes, a whirlwind remains a brute at core, a
warrior without finesse as someone would put
it; but it’s a damn fine warrior nevertheless.
A whirlwind has all the usual class
features of the barbarian, with the following
exceptions.
proficiencies
Armor: Light armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, Animal
handling, Intimidation, Nature, Perception, and
Survival.
RAGE
While raging, instead of the usual ones, you gain
the following benefits if you aren’t wearing
medium or heavy armor:
• You have advantage on Dexterity
checks and Dexterity saving throws.
• When you make a melee weapon
attack using Dexterity, you gain a bonus to the
damage roll that increases as you gain levels as
a barbarian, as shown in the Rage Damage
column of the Barbarian table.
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As for the following Primal Paths, the
former Paths of Legend, they are available to
every barbarian character, whirlwind or not.
• You have resistance to bludgeoning,
piercing, and slashing damage.
OVERWHELMING CRITICAL
Beginning at 9th level, you can roll one
additional weapon damage die when
determining the extra damage for a critical hit
with a melee attack made with a light or finesse
weapon.
This increases to two additional dice at
13th level and three additional dice at 17th
level.
ROLL WITH IT
Starting at 11th level, your enhanced reflexes
help you roll with a potentially deadly attack. If
you drop to 0 hit points while you’re raging and
don’t die outright, you can make a DC 10
Dexterity saving throw. If you succeed, you drop
to 1 hit point instead.
Each time you use this feature after the
first, the DC increases by 5. When you finish a
short or long rest, the DC resets to 10.
INVALUABLE GRACE
Beginning at 18th level, if your total for a
Dexterity check is less than your Dexterity
score, you can use that score in place of the
total.
PRIMAL CHAMPION
At 20th level, you embody the deadly grace of
the wilds. Your Dexterity and Constitution
scores increase by 4. Your maximum for those
scores is now 24.
 NEW PRIMAL PATHS
PATH OF THE BRUTAL BRAWLER
“Yeah, he started all those fancy movements with
his hands and that ridiculous dance of kicks and
chops. I took one or two hits, then replied with a
single cross, right on the jaw. He's still drooling
the floor.
Damned spineless monks... bring me another
beer.”
Those who follow the Path of the Brutal
Brawler are perhaps the most savage of the
barbarians: while other warriors prefer to fight
with weapons, they are deadly even with their
bare hands.
As you enter and progress along this
path, you became an accomplished brawler, one
whose impressive martial skills come not from
discipline and self attuning, but from the primal
rage and savagery that burn within your spirit.
You learn how to hit, and hit hard, with your
unarmed strikes, and during a rage you are
capable of beating every enemy into
submission.
A brutal brawler is perhaps the ultimate
tavern brawler... but your skills will be equally
useful – and deadly – into the dungeons.

BRAWLING RAGER
Starting when you
choose this path at 3rd
level, your unarmed
strike uses a d6 for
damage. Furthermore,
during a rage, you can
make a single unarmed
strike or grapple attack
as a bonus action on each
of your turns.

HULKING FIST-
FIGHTER
Beginning at 6th level,
your unarmed strike uses
a d8 for damage, and
your unarmed strikes
count as magical for the
purpose of overcoming
resistance and immunity
to nonmagical attacks
and damage.
You also gain proficiency
in the Athletics skill; if
you are already
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you gain proficiency in one of the two following
skills: Acrobatics and
Intimidation. Furthermore, your proficiency
bonus is doubled for any Athletics check you
make during a rage.
RECKLESS CHARGE
Beginning at 10th level, your unarmed strike
uses a d10 for damage, and you can take the
Dash action as a bonus action while you are
raging.
BEAT INTO SUBMISSION
Starting at 14th level, your unarmed strike uses
a d12 for damage, and while you are raging, you
can use a bonus action on your turn to knock a
Large or smaller creature prone when you hit it
with an unarmed strike attack.
PATH OF THE CURSED
“It was the mind flayer. I was only seven years
old, I don’t remember the details. All I know is
that they did… something… to me. Thankfully I
was rescued by an adventuring party, and I really
have no memory of what happened… at least, not
until my rage kicks on.”
Your past harbors a dark secret, a
wretched experience you don’t like to speak
about, for this tragedy left a grim mark on your
life. Perhaps you were kidnapped and
experimented upon by aberrations or dark
mages, or you were once possessed by a demon
or another vile fiend. Perhaps you were a
willing test subject, or you were simply too
young to remember exactly what happened
during such a traumatic experience.
Anyhow, your body and soul were
scarred and somehow twisted by your ordeal,
and now that you tap into primeval wrath to
fuel your battle prowess you have started
showing unusual powers and capabilities.
Perhaps you developed such inner strength to
endure the suffering, perhaps the whole reason
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behind your cruel past was to implant your
being with such powers.
Your capabilities may be great, but you
still count yourself among the cursed… and you
long for the day when you will be able to finally
exact revenge for the past.
ALL THAT FLOWS WITHIN THE BLOOD
As you embrace the legacy of your own cursed
past, a strange energy pervades you whenever
you enter a rage. Starting when you choose this
path at 3rd level, while raging you gain
resistance to necrotic, poison, and psychic
damage.
Furthermore, a drop of your blood, or
the froth from your foaming mouth, or even
your mere presence, is enough to harm those
around you. At the end of each of your turns you
spend in a rage, each creature within 5 feet of
you takes damage equal to half your barbarian
level. This damage is necrotic, poison, or
psychic; you choose the type of damage when
you gain this feature.
PRETERNATURAL STAMINA
Something inside your body grants you a hidden
toughness whenever your fury would normally
put you in harm’s way. Starting at 6th level,
when you use Reckless Attack while raging, you
also gain temporary hit points equal to your
Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). They
vanish if any of them are left when your rage
ends.
I’VE SUFFERED WORSE
Starting at 10th level, the combined effect of
your past ordeal and your present training
makes you immune to disease and poison.
NEVER GOING DOWN AGAIN
Beginning at 14th level, the inner strength that
made you survive your ordeal becomes an asset
you can rely on – or, perhaps, you discover the
final side effect of the experiments you were
subjected to.
 While raging, having 0 hit points doesn’t
knock you unconscious. You still must make
death saving throws, and you suffer the normal
effects of taking damage while at 0 hit points.
However, if you would die due to failing death
saving throws, you don’t die until your rage
ends.
PATH OF DISCIPLINE
“When I enter a rage, I set aside my humanity in
order to became a monster, a slaughtering beast
that revels in the smell of blood. Only my stern
discipline sets me aside from the bloodthirsty
creatures we hunt down.”
When the battle rages on, you rage with
it, your blade arm a crazed coryphee in the
dance of blood and death. But, when the clash is
over and the survivors lick their wounds, you
become an utterly different person. For the
greatest struggle you fight is against yourself,
against the inner wrath that makes you a raging
warrior, fearful in the battlefield but prone to
the violent rampages that have cost much to
many a legendary barbarian.
Fearful of what you become during a
fight, you devoted yourself to vigorous exercises
and a severe discipline aimed at putting in a
cage the beast within you until its dire character
is needed. Perhaps you hail from a civilized
land, and those compromises are what keeps
you a productive member of the community
even when no bloodshed is needed, or perhaps
you abandoned your ancestral homeland in
order to learn the constrained ways from off-
land fighters, fearful of what the sagas convey
about many a proud warrior that lost their
temper during a banquet.
Someone would look down at you as a
spineless coward that fears their own shadow…
but they will soon discover that your battle
skills are as honed as theirs, if not better. For,
when you choose to fight, you unleash the
blood-frenzied soul of a true barbarian.
FIGHTING STYLE
Upon entering this path at 3rd level, you temper
your wrath with the dedicated exercise
associated to a Fighting Style. Choose one of the
following options. You can’t take a Fighting
Style more than once, even if you later get to
choose again.
defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1
bonus to AC.
dueling
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one
hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2
bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.
great weapon fighting
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an
attack you make with a melee weapon that you
are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the
die and must use the new roll, even if the new
roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the
two-handed or versatile property for you to
gain this benefit.
two-weapon fighting
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you
can add your ability modifier to the damage of
the second attack.
vengeful strikes
When you are wielding a melee weapon, and a
creature you can see within 5 feet hits you with
a melee weapon attack, you can use your
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reaction to inflict damage equal to your
proficiency bonus to the attacking creature. The
damage is of the type inflicted by the weapon
you are wielding.
A PLACATING PRACTICE
Upon entering this path at 3rd level, you learn a
new language of your choice, or you gain
proficiency with one type of artisan’s tool or
musical instrument of your choice. A new habit
to focus on helps you placate your fury.
DISCIPLINED LEARNER
By 6th level, as a way to distract yourself from
the wrath of battle, you have trained to master
new noncombat skills. You gain proficiency in
two skills from the following list: Acrobatics,
History, Perception, and Persuasion.
EVASIVE RAGER
Beginning at 10th level, you can take the
Disengage action as a bonus action while you
are raging. Despite your state of mind, you have
the lucidity to move out of harm’s way, and the
potential to become even more deadly as you
evade enemy ambushes to engage new targets.
COUNTERATTACK
Starting at 14th level, when you take damage
from a creature that is within 5 feet of you, you
can use your reaction to make a melee weapon
attack against that creature. A split second is
enough for you to act, as you can think with
clarity even while raging in the midst of battle.
PATH OF MADNESS
“I saw many a barbarian during my days as an
adventurer, but someone like him? This drooling
idiot that swings a hammer while laughing,
making faces and sticking his tongue out? Not a
chance. He's speaking of tea parties with
pumpkin octopuses fried in dragon milk, did you
hear him? How could an orc possibly know about
tea parties? We must be extremely cautions: he
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may be our ally, but he is surely a dangerous ally
with such an unstable mind.”
There is a thin border between battle frenzy,
the bloodletting rage of the battlefield that
every barbarian learns to harness, and true
madness. A thin border that every warrior puts
great effort not to cross, for beyond that even
the steadiest of the champions will lose himself,
overwhelmed by an insanity not of this world,
an insanity not of his own, a primeval force of
madness whose subtle and unsettling call we
can still hear.
Those among the barbarians who follow
the Path of Madness decided to answer the call,
and they crossed the border, so that insanity
may embrace and engulf them into its abyss.
Whether they are willing subjects of madness,
or they mind slipped away descending into it,
barbarians who follow this path gain incredible
capacities in battle... at the price of their own
sanity. But, as they say, sanity is for the weak.
WRATH OF THE MADMAN
Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level,
during a rage you gain resistance to psychic
damage: your mind slippers away, lost into the
depths of your insanity, and you are thus less
susceptible to effects that damage your psyche.
Furthermore, during a rage you can
literally descend into madness, acting like a
frenzied killing machine whose very presence
acts as a catalyst for fear and insanity, your
attacks too unsettling to suffer. If you do so, for
the duration of your rage when you hit a target
with a melee weapon attack you can use a
bonus action to impose disadvantage to all its
attack rolls till the start of your next turn.
However, when you rage ends you are
confused (as for the spell confusion) for 1
minute: the whispers and visions and
hallucinations summoned by your madness
wouldn't simply go away for a while.
RESILIENCE OF THE SHATTERED MIND
Beginning at 6th level, you can't be charmed or
frightened while raging, and during a rage you
are immune to the confusion spell. If you are
charmed or confused or frightened when you
enter your rage, the effect is suspended for the
duration of the rage.
HEAR THE VOICES
At 10th level, you can cast the contact other
plane spell, but only as a ritual; you gain
advantage to the Intelligence saving throw
imposed by the spell. When you enter a rage,
however, you can automatically cast the contact
other plane spell, with no action required; in
this case, you can freely ask one question per
round of rage, up to a maximum of five
questions; if you do so, you have to make the
saving throw imposed by the spell when your
rage ends, after you asked all your questions.
BEHOLD MADNESS INCARNATED
Starting at 14th level, when you are raging and
you are hit by a melee attack, or you are subject
to an effect that inflicts psychic damage or reads
your thoughts, you can use your reaction to
automatically confuse the attacker (as by the
confusion spell) till the end of its next turn. For
when they gaze into the abyss of your madness,
your madness also gazes into them.
Friendly Reminder: Effects of Confusion
A confused creature can't take reactions and must
roll a d10 at the start of each of its turns to
determine its behavior for that turn.
Result of 1. The creature uses all its movement to
move in a random direction. To determine the
direction, roll a d8 and assign a direction to each die
face. The creature doesn't take an action this turn.
Result of 2-6. The creature doesn't move or take
actions this turn.
Result of 7-8. The creature uses its action to make a
melee attack against a randomly determined
creature within its reach. If there is no creature
within its reach, the creature does nothing this turn.
Result of 9-10. The creature can act and move
normally.
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 BARD
As every bard knows, words and music are the College of Lore and the College of Valor, are
much more than pleasant vibrations of air; collective names for different congregations
there is a magic in every sentence and note, a that share the same disposition, others
magic that a precious few can harness. The represent in fact proper branches of bardic
Multiverse is an echoing chant, a reverberation teaching, their songs and secrets handed down
of the first word ever uttered. The typical bard from master to pupil through history. Such is,
learns how to insert their own songs into this for example, the College of Swords.
chant, repeating minor patterns of musical Among the following colleges you will
power that are granted magical properties by find both the common and the rare, ranging
the strong character of the singing magician. from the merry to the ominous. Each of them
Some bards, however, were granted the offers interesting new features or combinations
power access such an ancient magic not by their of features, tailored to convey an interesting
own musical talent, but by the vision of this type of bard while still maintaining power
ever-echoing melody granted by a greater balance.
power, a deity that blessed them with an
unusual and amazing gift. Other individual
followed their own way into discovering the
ultimate chant, and learned to channel the
power of bardic magic through words alone,
without the help of any music but the patterns
of their own memories. Just like not every
minstrel is a bard, not every bard carries a lute.
Anyway, what really defines and
characterizes different bards, giving rise to
schools, academies, and loose brotherhoods, are
the different bard colleges. While some, such as

VARIANT CLASS: LORESEEKER

A loreseeker is an archaeologist, a scholar of
ancient and forgotten knowledge, an adventurer
more interested in the story behind a treasure
than in its value in gold pieces. Loreseekers
know a bit about everything, but they display
peerless skills in their own fields. They learned
to harness magic from ancient texts and
forgotten rhymes, or thanks to a brilliant and
often impromptu understanding of the Music of
Creation. Scholars at core, they can offer the
right advice for nearly every situation. Wizards
spend their time studying and developing spells
that alter the natural order, the names of their
creator renowned across the Multiverse. A
loreseeker, on the contrary, casts their spell in
accordance with the melody of words and silent
notes reverberating through the worlds. Plus,
loreseekers make excellent archaeologists.
A loreseeker has all the usual class
features of the bard, with the following
exceptions.
PROFICIENCIES
Tools: None
Languages: Three of your choice
Saving Throws: Dexterity, Intelligence
SPELLCASTING
It is your knowledge of ancient magic that
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universe but your own understanding of the
words of power behind the fabric of existence
itself.
SPELLCASTING ABILITY
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your
bard spells. Your magic comes from your
understanding of the ancient lore and from your
ability to draw from it. 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
bard spell you cast and when making an attack
roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Intelligence modifier
VARIANT CLASS: WORDSEER
A wordseer is a prophet, a chosen scholar of the
divine who saw the very fabric of existence and
can proudly say: “I saw, hence I know.”
Wordseers can be true prophets,
secluded oracles, or even holy minstrels whose
poems and compositions are granted by the
gods. Whether the case, their magic is strong
and their advice convey wisdom, their spells
coming from a progressively expanding
understanding of the visions granted by the
deities. While a cleric is the speaker of a specific
god or pantheon, a divine agent chosen by a
certain party to uphold Their will, the mystical
visions of a wordseer come with no strings
attached. When a mortal gains the power to
hear the Music of the Spheres not even the gods
could hinder such a vision.
A wordseer has all the usual class
features of the bard, with the following
exceptions.
PROFICIENCIES
Tools: One musical instrument of your choice
Languages: Two of your choice
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Intelligence modifier
ADVICE FROM THE SAGE
This class feature works exactly as the Bardic
Inspiration feature, but you can use this feature
a number of times equal to your Intelligence
modifier (a minimum of once), rather than a
number of times equal to your Charisma
modifier.
FURTHER FEATURES
Whenever a bardic spell, a College feature, or a
similar class feature refers to your Charisma
modifier or Charisma score, use instead your
Intelligence modifier or your Intelligence score.
When a similar feature refers to your bardic
inspiration feature, use instead your advice
from the sage feature.
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
SPELLCASTING
It is your understanding of the visions granted
to you, your own ability to recall the sacred
hymns and the inspired music you composed
that empowers your spells.
SPELLCASTING ABILITY
Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your
bard spells. Your magic comes from your visions
and from the sacred words you learned.
You use your Wisdom whenever a spell
refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition,
you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the
saving throw DC for a bard spell you cast and
when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Wisdom modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Wisdom modifier
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THUS SPOKE THE SEER
This class feature works exactly as the Bardic
Inspiration feature, but you can use this feature
a number of times equal to your Wisdom
modifier (a minimum of once), rather than a
number of times equal to your Charisma
modifier.
FURTHER FEATURES
Whenever a bardic spell, a College feature, or a
similar class feature refers to your Charisma
modifier or Charisma score, use instead your
Wisdom modifier or your Wisdom score. When
a similar feature refers to your bardic
inspiration feature, use instead your thus spoke
the seer feature.

NEW BARDIC COLLEGES

COLLEGE OF DANCE UNARMORED DEFENSE
Beginning when you choose this college at 3rd
The basic teachings of every bard start with level, your unhindered movements posses an
music and songs, relying on the arcane power inborn grace that makes you literally dance
that properly tuned melodies could unleash. So, among enemy blows. While you are wearing no
for most bards, dancing is just a physical armor and not wielding a shield, your AC equals
accompaniment to their ethereal words, a 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Charisma
minor manifestation of art that holds no real modifier.
power.
A few of them, however, display a
stronger inclination for dance, and they soon
wonder if the same magic channeled by songs
and ballads could be harnessed by an artful
melody of steps. Those who persist in this fancy
soon discover that, like the silent characters of a
scroll can channel spells, so could their finely
tuned promenades and choreography. Quick,
nimble, charismatic and athletic, nevertheless
no two students of the College of Dance are
alike, for they all infuse in their own movement
a personal touch.
But, whether a virtuoso of the finest
waltz, a jolly barn dancer, or a fiercer
practitioner of tribal dances, every one of them
shares the same knacks and features.

ACROBAT EXTRAORDINARY
When you join this college at 3rd level, you gain
proficiency with the Acrobatics skill, if you
didn’t already have it. Furthermore, your
proficiency bonus is doubled for any check you
make that uses your Acrobatics skill.

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MELODY OF STEPS
Also at 3rd level, you learn to substitute an
intricate choreography of steps and turns for
the subtle words of bardic magic. As long as you
can move and are not restrained, you can
substitute verbal (V) components with somatic
(S) components for any bard spell you cast. If
the spell already has both verbal and somatic
components, however, you can’t change them
and you are still forced to chant its mystic
words.
INSPIRING DANCE
Also at 3rd level, your moves and steps are
enough to inspire others. When you use a bonus
action to grant your Bardic Inspiration, as long
as they see you target creatures don’t need to be
able to hear you. Furthermore, when you grant
Bardic Inspiration you can also move up to half
your speed; this movement doesn’t provoke
opportunity attacks.
When you reach 6th level, your speed
also increases by 10 feet as long as you have any
use of Bardic Inspiration left. Finally, when you
reach 14th level, you can move up to your full
speed when you use your Bardic Inspiration.
UNCANNY DODGE
Starting at 6th level, when an attacker that you
can see hits you with an attack, you can use
your reaction to halve the attack’s damage
against you.
EVASION
At 14th level, you can nimbly dance out of the
way of certain area effects, such as a white
dragon’s icy breath or a fireball spell. When you
are subject to an effect that allows you to make
a Dexterity saving throw to take only half
damage, you instead take no damage if you
succeed on the saving throw, and only half
damage if you fail.
COLLEGE OF DEMAGOGY
Gregarious, easygoing, skillful, persuasive, and
often flamboyant and with too much self-
esteem: bards make ideal politicians and
spokesmen. Especially in those community
where real power is held in accordance to the
people’s whims, and a nobody could aspire to
become mayor or bailiff, an enterprising bard
has the best chances to become the real power
behind the people’s shared throne.
Many centuries ago, in the first
democracies even established, schools of
rhetoric were founded in order to teach the
skills required for demagogy, the art of leading
the people – no matter what the ends, as long as
the pupils payed their fee. Even with the ups
and downs of democratic regimes through
history, the orators’ teachings were not lost. The
occasional bards that study speech and
harangues not just as fine works of prose, and
that share a strong drive towards a more
resourceful approach to public life, are
collectively referred to as the College of
Demagogy. Even when the course of action is
uncertain, they make excellent leaders, capable
of leading an adventuring party as well as a
merchant guild or a city council.
And this, should their ends be anything
but righteous, makes them extremely dangerous
– for adversaries and allies alike.
RHETORIC PROWESS
When you join this college at 3rd level, you gain
proficiency with the Deception and Persuasion
skills, if you didn’t already have it. Furthermore,
your proficiency bonus is doubled for any check
you make that uses either of these skills.
SHARED INSPIRATION
Also at 3rd level, you learn to touch the
heartstrings of many individuals at once, with
crafty words that inspire each one as if they
were tailored for them.
When you use a bonus action to grant
Bardic Inspiration, you can grant the Bardic
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Inspiration die to a number of creatures up to
your Charisma modifier (minimum 2) within 30
feet. The Bardic Inspiration die that you grant,
however, becomes a d4.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use
again until you finish a short or long rest. Note
that, as long as you have any remaining use of
your Bardic Inspiration, you can use it normally
without Shared Inspiration.
Your Shared Inspiration die changes
when you reach certain levels in this class. The
die becomes a d6 at 5th level, a d8 at 10th level,
and a d10 at 15th level.
COMPELLING SPEECH
At 6th level, you gain the ability to deliver an
oration so touching that even your enemies,
upon hearing your remarks, have a hard time
resisting your suggestion.
As a bonus action, you cast command,
without expending a spell slot, and you start a
brief but intense harangue that takes up to 1
minute; your Compelling Speech ends abruptly
if your concentration is broken (as if you were
concentrating on a spell), or if for any reason
you can’t speak. During this time, you can cast
command as a bonus action on each of your
turns, without expending a spell slot.
Furthermore, all your Bardic Inspiration
dice spent during your Compelling Speech can
be rerolled it they rolled a 1 or a 2.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use
it again until you finish a long rest.
ARGUMENTUM AD HOMINEM
By 14th level, a few words are all you need to
make an ally out of an enemy, utterly crushing
the self-esteem of those who have the audacity
of opposing you.
As an action, you utter a brief weighty
sentence focused towards a single creature of
your choice within 30 feet of you. The target
must make a Wisdom saving throw against you
spell save DC. It automatically succeeds if it
doesn’t share a language with you or if it can’t
hear you. On a successful saving throw, the
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target is briefly shaken by your sentence, and is
incapacitated until the end of your next turn.
On a failed saving throw, the target is
charmed by you for the next 8 hours or until
you or your allies attack it, damage it, or force it
to make a saving throw. Thanks to your skills in
both rhetoric and magic, what others perceived
as a brief statement was enough to completely
change, albeit briefly, the way the target of your
Argumentum Ad Hominem sees you.
The charmed creature sees you as a
reliable ally and a trustworthy friend that has
its best interest at heart, and it will act
accordingly. The target will follow your
commands at its best, but it won’t risk its life for
you or fight for you, unless it was already
inclined to do so. It grants you favors and gifts it
would offer to a close friend.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use
it again until you finish a long rest.
COLLEGE OF THE EXEMPLAR
According to their fiercest critics – and
sometimes to their friends and companions, too
– all bards are grandstanding attention-seekers.
After all, who needs a showman without an
audience? More often than not, a bard’s
grandeur is legitimate only as long as it
concerns their artistic performance: the tales
about daring duels, courageous victories, and
otherworldly travels are at best poetic license,
at worst lies and plain boasting. Many a bard’s
chronicles were belied by their own
companions, and as artists themselves tell,
every time a poet speaks it’s a swindle.
A few bards’ boasting, however, is not
vain babble. Rather than lie about themselves,
or compose pieces and ballads about the lives of
others, these bards decided to turn their own
lives into a piece of art. The College of the
Exemplar teaches to its member to always the
best at what they do, if not better; their own
actions must speak louder than any singing
voice, and such achievements should be the real
inspiration for their companions’ exploits.
Enemies will soon cower in fear of an exemplar
and, as their fame increases, their deeds will be COLLEGE OF THE FARSHOOTING
praised all over the lands, as “exempla” that will
incite the younger generations of adventurers. BRIGHTNESS

PEERLESS SKILLS In some worlds of the Multiverse there was

When you join this college at 3rd level, you gain once a human civilization that revered a
proficiency with a new skill of your choice. peculiar sun deity: this god was the patron of
Furthermore, your proficiency bonus is doubled arts, especially of music and songs, as well as
for any check you make that uses this skill the great divine archer, dispenser of death and
pestilence as well as of His healing rays. Some of
LEAD BY EXAMPLE the attributes of this human god reverberate
with the patron and creator of the elven race,
Also at 3rd level, you learn how to make the
Corellon Larethian, and so the practices
best out of your most astonishing acts and
associated with their cults have spread in
victories. Every time you score a critical hit, or
countless realities thanks to the pious efforts of
whenever you roll a natural 20 on an ability
humans and elves alike.
check or a saving throw, you can immediately
The most rigorous devotees of this
use one Bardic Inspiration die from your
shared tradition, however, are not priests nor
reserve and grant it to one creature without
clerics, but bards, the members of the College of
spending any action. When used, this Bardic
the Farshooting Brightness, the name most
Inspiration die grants the maximum bonus
often associated with this divine paradigm. As
possible without need to be rolled.
the Farshooting Brightness favors chord
Furthermore, whenever a creature
instruments, in order to the musician to be free
spends one of your Bardic Inspiration dice to
grant itself ts bonus, it also gains temporary hit
points equal to said die’s roll + your Charisma
modifier.

EXTRA ATTACK
Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice,
instead of once, whenever you take the Attack
action on your turn.

SPIRITS-SHATTERING SCOWL
When you reach 14th level, for an enemy to rise
arms against you means to be forced to
withstand your greatness and cope with their
petty vileness in striking you.
When you are hit by a melee attack, you
can use your reaction to deal psychic damage to
the attacker. The damage equals your bard
level. The attacker must also make a Charisma
saving throw against your bard spell DC. On a
failed save, the attacker is frightened by you
until the end of your next turn.

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to sing, so do them; as their divine patron fights
with bows, so do them; as Apollon-Larethian is
caring in His protection and deadly in His wrath,
so are they.
BONUS PROFICIENCIES
When you join this college at 3rd level, you gain
proficiency with two chord musical instruments
of your choice. Furthermore, you gain
proficiency with the heavy crossbow and the
longbow.
RHAPSODY EXPERTISE
At 3rd level, whenever you make a Charisma
(Performance) check, and you accompany your
voice with a chord instrument, your proficiency
bonus is doubled for the check.
NOTES OF LIGHT
Also at 3rd level, you learn to emulate your
patron with astonishing performances of art
and magic.
Whenever you are maintaining
concentration on a spell, attacking at long range
doesn’t impose disadvantage on your ranged
weapon attack rolls.
Furthermore, you can use the following
Notes of Light options. You can use only one
Notes of Light option per turn.
Arrows of Pestilence. When you hit a
creature with a ranged weapon attack, you can
expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to
cause the weapon to deal extra poison damage
to the target you hit. The damage equals the
number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die.
The target must also make a Constitution saving
throw against your spell save DC or be poisoned
until the end of your next turn.
Radiant Healing. When you cast a spell
that restores the target’s hit points, you can
expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to
restore extra hit points equal to the number you
roll on the Bardic Inspiration die.
Searing Brightness. When you hit a
creature with a ranged weapon attack, you can
expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to
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cause the weapon to deal extra radiant damage
to the target you hit. The damage equals the
number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die.
The target must also make a Constitution saving
throw against your spell save DC or be blinded
until the end of your next turn.
EXTRA ATTACK
Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice,
instead of once, whenever you take the Attack
action on your turn.
VOLLEY OF BRIGHTNESS
Starting at 14th level, whenever yo use a Notes
of Light option, you can roll a d6 and use it
instead of expending a Bardic Inspiration die.
Furthermore, whenever you grant Bardic
Inspiration to a creature, it immediately regains
lost hit points. The damage healed equals to the
number you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die.
COLLEGE OF THE HARLEQUIN
All bards are performers, but they are
distinguished by the outlook they have, and by
the tone of their performances. Many bards
favor a jolly aptitude towards life, and the
occasional slapstick comedy, but few of them
linger extensively in the trivial humor of
carnivals and clowns. To become a jester you
don’t need to be a bard, and a bard is so much
more than a common buffoon!
And yet some bards are known to adopt
the corny gags of a fool as their favored, if not
unique, genre. Worse, they always wear the
mask and dress of a folk masquerade’s
character, the tatterdemalion club-wielding
trickster servant Harlequin! Truly, a dumb
charade unworthy of a proper bard: every
twisting fool could be a Harlequin, the role
doesn’t require any poetic skill at all. To such
critics, a member of the College of the Harlequin
answers with a sly smile, saying that they don’t
“dress like a Harlequin”, they “act like The
Harlequin”.
 The dark truth behind this enigmatic
statement requires a closer look at the
Harlequin’s domino mask, whose dark brow
protrudes over the eyes like a small set of horns
would do. In fact, the denomination of this
unsuspicious character was once Hellaquin, an
ominous name that immediately recalls the
Nine Hells. The legends about the infernal Herla
King and his host, the Wild Hunt of damned
souls, are still told around campfires; and the
sages across the Planes speak in awe of
Alichino, apparently a lesser devil noble of
Malbolge, that nevertheless retains his place
from unaccountable centuries despite Baator’s –
literally – infernal politics.
Bards from the College of the Harlequin
are in fact the last remnant of a secretive cult,
aiming to propitiate – or perhaps mock and
avert with apotropaic laughter – the feared
archdevil. Of this secret, out of the college, only
a chosen few are part; potential candidates are
chosen by expert Harlequins among those bards
who favor slapstick comedy and jet show
promising qualities towards a better
understanding of their important role.
To act like the Harlequin is to become
the Harlequin, to channel his powers on the
Material World is to employ them towards the
ends of mortals. To be a harlequin is the only
way to avert Alichino’s eyes from Earth. And to
risk one’s soul is a small price to pay in order to
save one’s own world.
half your speed. This movement doesn’t
provoke opportunity attacks.
Alternatively, you can use this reaction
to make a melee weapon attack against a target
within your reach.
TUMBLE AWAY
Starting at 6th level, you can disappear in a
thick, netherworldly fog to evade enemy
attacks. When you take damage, you can use
your reaction to teleport up to 60 feet to an
unoccupied space you can see. You leave behind
a 20-foot-radius sphere of fog centered on your
previous position; this sphere spreads around
corners, and its area is heavily obscured for
everybody but you. This fog dissipates at the
end of your next turn.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use
it again until you finish a short or long rest.
HOST OF THE HERLA KING
Starting at 14th level, when a creature within 30
feet of you falls to 0 hit points, or fails a death
saving throw, you can use your reaction to

TWIRLING FOOL
When you join this college at 3rd level, your
training as a stage acrobat makes you an ever
moving target, and you are nearly impossible to
pin down. While you are wearing no armor and
not wielding a shield, your AC equals 10 + your
Dexterity modifier + your Charisma modifier.

SLAPSTICK INSPIRATION
Also at 3rd level, whenever a creatures uses one
of your Bardic Inspiration dice within 60 feet of
you, you can use your reaction to move up to

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summon from the netherworld the hellish host
of the dead presided by Alichino. For an intense
moment, a thick haze covers the area within 30
feet of you, ominous shapes of riding devils and
wailing corpses gallopping through the fog. The
fallen creature immediately dies, its soul
dragged away by the host. Every creature of
your choice within the area must make a
Charisma saving throw; on a failure, it takes 8d8
necrotic damage, and is frightened by you until
the end of your next turn; on a success, the
target takes only half damage and is not
frightened.
Furthermore, while the Host of the
Herla King rides its ghastly promenade, you
gain all the benefits of a short rest, and you can
spend hit dice to heal yourself.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use
it again until you finish a long rest.
“Ha!”
“Ha!”
“Ha!”
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COLLEGE OF LAUGHTER
ETERNAL
“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense
that the world was mad.”
Rafael Sabatini
The objective of every self-respecting bard is to
raise the spirits and strike the chords of the
audience with every exhibition. Fear, joy, love,
and hate are only a few of the colours in a good
performer’s palette.
Every bard will eventually choose a
specific emotion as the focus of their favorite
works, but few entertainers devote themselves
to a single sentiment. But, as every specialist
could tell, focusing on a restricted scope often
paves the way to the achievement of uncanny
capabilities in the chosen field.
Should a bard choose to focus on the
most direct of emotions, joy, and on joy’s most
obvious expression, laughter, the capabilities
would be the ones associated with the so called
College of Laughter Eternal. To be able to
inspire a deadly cackle with a single word, to
face death as a big joke and avert it with a single
laugh… these are the tricks that a proper
trained bard could pull off. Let the others call
the performer a fool or a vulgar jester; they will
soon pay the price of their arrogance, one
painful laugh at a time.
BONUS SPELLS
When you join this college at 3rd level, you
learn the vicious mockery cantrip and the
Tasha’s Hideous Laughter spell. They don’t
count against your number of cantrips or spells
known.
DEATH’S GRIN
Also at 3rd level, you learn how to imbue a
deadly compulsion into your Tasha’s Hideous
Laughter spell. At the start of each of its turn, a
creature affected by your laughter spell takes
psychic damage equal to your Charisma
modifier; this damage doesn’t trigger a saving
throw.
KILLING JOKES
At 3rd level, you learn how to empower your
own jokes with Bardic Inspiration, changing
even the most trivial quip into a deadly gag. You
can expend one of your uses of Bardic
Inspiration to use one of the following actions;
regardless of the chosen action, your Killing
Jokes work only if the target creature is able to
hear you.
You can use deliver only one Killing Joke
per turn.
Distracting Pun. When an attack roll is
made against you, but before knowing whether
it hits or misses, you can use your reaction to
roll a Bardic Inspiration die and subtract the
number rolled from the attack roll. If you do so,
the attacker suffers psychic damage equal to the
number rolled with the Bardic Inspiration die.
Deadly Punchline. When you cast a
spell that targets a single creature, you can use a
bonus action to roll a Bardic Inspiration die and
subtract the number rolled from the creature’s
saving throw against that spell. You must
expend your Bardic Inspiration use before the
target rolls its saving throw. Whether the target
succeeds or fails the saving throw against your
spells, before the spell’s activation it
immediately suffers psychic damage equal to
the number you rolled with the Bardic
Inspiration Die.
GRINNING FOOL
At 6th level, have advantage on saving throws
against being charmed or frightened, as well as
on saving throws against having your thoughts
detected. Furthermore, you gain resistance to
psychic damage, and the psychic damage caused
by you ignores resistance and does half damage
even against targets that are immune to psychic
damage.
THE LAST LAUGH
Whether by careful planning, literal fool luck, or
even the blessing of the – dubious – forgotten
god Lhul’z, starting at 14th level, you can avert
impending death with sheer laughter.
When you are reduced to 0 hit points,
before falling unconscious, you can use your
reaction to erupt in mad, contagious cackle and
deliver the greatest joke of all. You immediately
regain hit points equal to half your hit point
maximum, and then you stand up if you so
choose. Each creature of your choice that is
within 30 feet of you and that can hear you
takes psychic damage equal to 2d8 + your
Charisma modifier, and is knocked prone by
overwhelming laughter.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use
it again until you finish a long rest.
COLLEGE OF PRISTINE
UTTERANCE
Every learned bard knows that their powers
come from the echo of the pristine, Original
Words that put the existence of the Multiverse
into being, an act of such a magnitude that even
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after countless eons its power lingers in the
worlds, its magic forever reverberating.
Most bards are content with this
knowledge and a very little understanding of
how, metaphysically speaking, their magic
works: as long as they can harness such power,
they really don’t need to understand everything
about it. A precious few bards, however, are not
satisfied by this shallow consciousness: they are
not content to merely be able to practice magic
with their songs, they must know why in some
circumstances an otherwise mundane tune
becomes a magical spell. As more often than not
is true for many arcane and mystical pursues, to
investigate the nature of the Pristine Utterance
is not an easy task, but it is one that certainly
grants its own reward.
To seek out the correct articulation and
the proper meaning of the Pristine Utterance is
an unending quest, one that no seeker has ever
completed. But even the scrambled fragments of
truth achievable by a mortal are enough to
empower their spells: as a bard’s magic comes
from the eternal memory of the Original Words,
to better understand them is to better manifest
their own power. A song, sometimes, could be
the real key to unlock ultimate arcane power.
POLYGLOT SAVANT
When you join this college at 3rd level, you
learn three more languages of your choice.
There is a spark of the Pristine Utterance in
every speech, and every mastered tongue will
help your research.
ARTICULATE MAGIC
Also at 3rd level, you learn to substitute simple
words of power for the required movements of
any spell you cast. As long as you can speak, you
can substitute somatic (S) components with
verbal (V) components for any spell you cast. If
the spell already has both verbal and somatic
components, however, you can’t change them
and you are still forced to execute any gesture
and movement it requires.
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UTTERANCE OF POWER
At 3rd level, you learn to improve your own
spells with a subtle echoing of the First Words.
Whenever you cast a spell on your turn,
you can use one of the following Utterance of
Power options of your choice. You can use only
one Utterance of Power per turn.
Utterance of Awe. If the spell targets an
enemy creature, you can expend one of your
Bardic Inspiration to deal extra psychic damage
to that creature. The damage equals the number
you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die. The target
also subtracts the number rolled from any
attack roll it makes until the start of your next
turn.
Utterance of Might. If the spell targets
an enemy creature, you can expend one of your
Bardic Inspiration to deal extra psychic damage
to that creature. The damage equals the number
you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die. As the
power of your magic forces it to its knees, he
target must also make a Strength saving throw.
On a failed save, you knock the target prone.
Utterance of Confidence. If the spell
targets an ally, you can expend one of your
Bardic Inspiration to restore that ally’s hit
points. The damage healed equals the number
you roll on the Bardic Inspiration die plus your
Charisma modifier. The ally also adds the
number you rolled to their next ability check,
attack roll, or saving throw made until the start
of your next turn.
When you reach 14th level, the damage
caused by your Utterance of Power changes
from psychic damage to force damage.
Furthermore, spells influenced by an
Utterance of Power are immune to silence and
similar effects: their verbal component pierces
trough every magical stillness.
WORDS TO BE HEEDED
At 6th level, you gain the ability to harm your
enemies with simple whispers.
As a reaction, when you are attacked by
a creature within 60 feet of you who can hear
you, you force the attacker to make a Wisdom
saving throw. It takes 2d8 psychic damage on a
failed save, or half as much damage on a
successful one. For 1 minute, as long as the
targets keeps attacking you or your allies, and
remains within range, you can use your reaction
to force it back again to make a Wisdom saving
throw against the same damage.
When you reach 14th level, the damage
caused by your Words to Be Heeded changes
from psychic damage to force damage.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use
it again until you finish a long rest.
A DEADLY LAST WORD
Starting at 14th level, your last words are
infused by the power of a powerful, nearly
unbreakable curse.
If you are reduced to 0 hit points or are
incapacitated against your will, you can
immediately cast a 9th level bestow curse spell
against a target within 60 feet, without
expending a spell slot nor using an action.
Should you die, the curse can’t be lifted until
you are resurrected, unless by a wish or equally
powerful magic effect.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use
it again until you finish a long rest.
COLLEGE OF SHANTIES
A seaman, a singer, a trusty mate with quick
reflexes and a big heart: this is the ideal bard
from the College of Shanties, a hero whose
words lead and inspire their companions to
always act at their best.
Before being studied and applied by bards of
every calling across the worlds, shanties were
simple sea song with a mechanism of call and
response: the main singer, the shantyman,
would direct their companions both in the
chorus and in the chores required to sail a ship.
The voice and wits of a proper shantyman
would support sailors during their exhausting
manual labor, and many a seaman found that a
good shanty could inspire them to complete
nearly impossible tasks.
As soon as bardic colleges started to study and
catalog sea shanties, it became clear that the
same principles could be used to lead
adventurer parties. And so many a bard spent
at least a few months aboard a ship, learning
from the sailors and taking the role of
shantyman, in order to learn the basis of an art
that would lead their companions against
impossible odds – for what is a seaman life, if
not a constant struggle with the impossible
odds posed of the ocean?
SEAMAN
Starting when you join this college at 3rd level,
you add twice your proficiency bonus to
Strength (Athletics) you made to swim or to
climb the cordage of a ship, and to Dexterity
(Acrobatics) checks you make to balance on
the rigging or to stay upright on the rocking
deck of a ship. Furthermore, you gain
proficiency with vehicles (water).
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 To be a shantyman means to know your
way around the deck, first and foremost.
CALL AND RESPONSE
At 3rd level, you infuse the call and response
rhythm of shanties with your bardic inspiration.
When you use a bonus action to grant
Bardic Inspiration to a creature, that creature
can use its reaction to move up to its speed, or
to take the Attack or Use an Object action. If the
creature decides to use the Attack action, the
granted Bardic Inspiration die can be added to
the damage roll for that attack, and must be
used before the start of your next turn.
LOOK OUT MATE
At 6th level, you gain the ability to utter a
mystical warning that saves your companions
from certain death. As a reaction when a
creature you can see within 30 feet of you that
can hear you suffers a critical hit, you can turn
the hit into a normal hit. Any effects triggered
by a critical hit are canceled.
You can use this feature a number of
times equal to your Charisma modifier
“Me, a devilish scoundrel? What is a devil,
preacher? A devil is nothing more than a fallen
angel, and this is the issue: the very existence of
devils teaches us that angels can fall, that there is
no such thing as pure and absolute Good. If even
the paradigm of goodness can fall, Good is not
perfect. No: angels are living creatures, as we
are, and make mistakes as we do.
The only difference is that when angels do a
mistake a devil is born, and mortals have to
suffer because of it.
Think about your theology: the oh so wretched
evil of primordial Chaos what could produce?
The Abyss, a place of madness and unfettered
violence, the very land fighting against itself. And
what did fallen angels create? Literally Hell.
There would be no Hell were not for fallen angels.
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(minimum of once). You regain all expended
uses when you finish a long rest.
STRONG LUNGS
Starting at 6th level, when you run out of breath
or are chocking, you can survive for a number of
rounds equal to twice your Constitution
modifier (minimum of 2 rounds). Accidents
happen at sea, after all.
BALLAD OF SHAME UNENDING
When you 14th level, the very act of striking you
down is enough to invoke a supernatural curse
on whoever dared attack the shantyman.
If you are reduced to 0 hit points or are
incapacitated against your will, you can
immediately cast a 9th level bestow curse spell
against a target within 60 feet, without
expending a spell slot nor using an action.
Should you die, the curse can’t be lifted until
you are resurrected, unless by a wish or equally
powerful magic effect.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use
it again until you finish a long rest.
When a powerful angel makes a mistake and an
Archdevil is born Hell breaks loose – quite
literally! Hell, a place were mortals are
methodically chained and tortured for the sake of
punishment.
You see, preacher, I don’t believe in chains and
punishment. No one among us does. Pirates? Yes,
we are. Marauders? Quite so, sometimes.
Scoundrels? Of course. But devils? Not even close,
priest. We believe in freedom, and in freedom for
everybody. Not just in our own freedom, not in
our freedom to the detriment of others. We are
not “devils”, nor “demons”.
So, you see, you are free to go. We won’t kill you.
The cargo is ours, of course, but you and the crew
are safe, albeit a bit bruised.
Go, and spread the tale!”
“I saw, hence I know, hence I speak. With my word I can render true what is not not
My word is truth, what I deny is falsehood. true.”

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 CLERIC
The cleric is, among the classes in the Player's
Handook, one of the most versatile ones. Still, as
D&D worlds span for decades of stories and
chronicles, and as the rules of the games try to
catch the legends and myths of countless real
world religions, the domains provided so far
VARIANT CLASS: CONTEMPLATIVE
The humble friar that, when not adventuring,
returns to his monastery where hard work is its
own pay. The secluded scholar that translates
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tend to be sometimes inadequate to the
endeavor.
This works aims to provide seven new
domains, along with some quick variants, to
expand the possibility of the cleric's class.
holy texts so that everybody may access the
word of god.
Not all the chosen of the gods are
militant champions, holy warriors clad in steel
that deal swift death to the enemies of the Faith.
Sometimes, deities bless a man of peace, a
scholar or even a humble artisan, with the
power to work miracles in their name.
A contemplative has all the usual class
features of the cleric, with the following
exceptions.
PROFICIENCIES
Armor: Light Armor
Weapons: All simple weapons
Languages and Tools: A single language or tool
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
Skills: Choose three from History, Insight,
Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion
UNARMORED DEFENSE
Beginning at 1st level, while you are wearing no
armor and not wielding a shield, your AC equals
10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Wisdom
modifier. Your god protects you with divine
majesty, and whispers to your soul the right
path to avoid incoming attacks.
BONUS PROFICIENCY
If the selected domain would grant you
proficiency with heavy armors, you instead gain
proficiency with shields and you can use them
without losing the benefits of your Unarmored
Defense class feature.
 QUICK VARIANT: DIVINE STRIKE
The Death and Trickery Domains grant a Divine
Strike feature that in some instances seems very
odd while compared to some of the deities
associated with those domains.
The following quick variants are meant
to be used as simple tools to make those
domains more consistent with the associated
gods.
For gods of trickery associated more
with pranks and frauds rather than murder and
poisoning, such as Loki or Hermes, replace the
Divine Strike domain feature with the following.
DIVINE STRIKE
At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your
weapon strikes with the unsettling energies of
trickery itself. Once on each of your turns when
you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can
NEW DIVINE DOMAINS
CREATION DOMAIN
Every race and culture has its own creation
myths, and reveres its own patron deities as the
creators of more or less everything that exists.
Often those myths are nothing more than
glorified, parochial legends, but a few powerful
gods are in fact the rightful creators of one or
more worlds: other divinities created lesser
beings, but the existence of the Material Plane is
the work and gift of those almighty, secluded
deities. Creator gods, such as Brahma, aren't
usually revered by masses of faithful, nor they
possess organized churches or cult.
Nevertheless, they lend their blessing and
powers to a selected few mortal agents, the
chosen prophets and heralds of Creation itself.
cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 psychic
damage to the target. When you reach 14th
level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.
For gods of death associated with
plagues, pestilences and diseases rather than
undeath and necromancy, such as Morgion,
replace the Divine Strike domain feature with
the following.
DIVINE STRIKE
At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your
weapon strikes with the essence of poison and
disease. Once on each of your turns when you
hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can
cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 poison
damage to the target. When you reach 14th
level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.
CREATION DOMAIN SPELLS
Cleric Level Spells
1st create or destroy water, find familiar
3rd find steed, spiritual weapon
5th create food and water, revivify
7th fabricate, stone shape
9th animate objects, creation
WHISPERS OF THE CREATION
When you choose this domain at 1st level, you
learn the druidcraft and prestidigitation
cantrips. You also gain proficiency in two sets of
tools of your choice.
CHANNEL DIVINITY: CHARM
ANIMALS AND PLANTS
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel
Divinity to charm animals and plants: the lesser
creatures are easily influenced by your stature
as a chosen agents of the Creator.
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 As an action, you present your holy
symbol and invoke the name of your deity. Each
beast or plant creature that can see you within
30 feet must make a Wisdom saving throw. If
the creature fails its saving throw, it is charmed
by you for 1 minute or until It takes damage.
While it is charmed by you, it is friendly to you
and other creatures you designate.
CREATION UNENDING
Beginning at 6th level, you gain a greater
proficiency in channeling healing magic. When
you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that
restores hit points to a creature other than you,
you regain hit points equal to 2 + the spell's
level.
POTENT SPELLCASTING
Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom
modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric
cantrip.
SECRETS OF CREATION
At 17th level, you are enlightened with a basic
understanding of powerful magic strictly
related to the creation of the Multiverse, a magic
that normally no cleric could wield. You add the
four new spells noted below, one for each level
from 6th to 9th, to your list of domain spells.
Like your other domain spells, they are
always prepared and count as cleric spells for
you.
SECRETS OF CREATION SPELLS
Spell Level Spell
6th move earth
7th magnificent mansion
8th demiplane
9th wish
DARKNESS DOMAIN
Darkness, say the fools, is not an entity by itself,
but a mere absence of light. Those fools will
typically meet an excruciating death by the
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hands of those forces that in darkness live and
revel, for Darkness is in the Multiverse a power
equal to Light. Many gods are associated with
darkness, and many of them are cruel, vicious
deities with no regard of mortal life. However,
despite common association, darkness isn't a
mere attribute of evil: its substance transcends
the concepts of good and evil, and represents
the primal, arcane force that pervaded
everything before the birth of light.
Deities of darkness, such as Hecate and
Set, confer great magical powers to their chosen
agents, humans gifted with a shard of darkness
that makes them one with the night.
DARKNESS DOMAIN SPELLS
Cleric Level Spells
1st hex, unseen servant
3rd darkness, darkvision
5th fear, hunger of Hadar
7th black tentacles, phantasmal killer
9th dream, modify memory
BLESSINGS OF DARKNESS
At 1st level, you gain darkvision within 60 feet,
and your eyes can see even through magical
darkness. You also gain proficiency in one of the
following skills of your choice: Deception or
Stealth.
CHANNEL DIVINITY: EMBRACE OF
DARKNESS
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel
Divinity to suppress light and damage your
enemies with the freezing embrace of darkness.
As an action, you present your holy
symbol, and any magical light within 30 feet of
you is dispelled. Additionally, each hostile
creature within 30 feed of you must make a
Constitution saving throw. A creature takes cold
damage equal to 2d10 + your cleric level on a
failed saving throw, and half as much damage
on a successful one. A creature that has total
cover from you is not affected.
CHANNEL DIVINITY: CLOAK OF
DARKNESS
Starting at 6th level, you can use your Channel
Divinity to vanish within invisible darkness.
As an action, you become invisible until
the end of your next turn. You become visible if
you attack or cast a spell.
POTENT SPELLCASTING
Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom
modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric
cantrip.
fate. When the right time comes, and a new
cosmic cycle must start anew, entire planes
must meet their ultimate doom, bathed in blood
and utterly destroyed by the chosen agents of
apocalypse, the gods of destruction and their
mortal heralds.
Gods like Shiva and Apep are not
necessarily evil, but nevertheless their mission
is to shatter entire worlds so that new ones can
start anew. Clerics of the destruction domain
tend to be menacing individuals, great warriors
gifted with powers that herald the incoming
doom.

ON DARK WINGS DESTRUCTION DOMAIN SPELLS

At 17th level, you have a flying speed equal to Cleric Level Spells
your current walking speed whenever you are 1st burning hands, inflict wounds
underground or in darkness. 3rd cloud of daggers, shatter
5th call lightning, fear
DESTRUCTION DOMAIN 7th blight, ice storm

Everything in the Multiverse obeys to a single, 9th cloudkill, flame strike

enormous cosmic law: all that is born must die.
Humans meet death in a few decades, elves last BONUS PROFICIENCIES
some centuries, and dragons outlast At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial
civilizations, but even the gods are cast down by weapons and heavy armor.

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TREMENDOUS GAZE
Also at 1st level, you can channel divine power
to destroy those who try to halt your mission.
When a creature within 5 feet of you that you
can see hits you with an attack, you can use
your reaction to cause the creature to make a
Constitution saving throw against your spell
save DC. The creature takes 2d8 fire, necrotic or
thunder damage (your choice) on a failed saving
throw, and half as such damage on a successful
one.
You can use this feature a number of
times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a
minimum of once). You regain all expended
uses when you finish a long rest.
CHANNEL DIVINITY: HAND OF DOOM
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel
Divinity to utterly destroy your unfortunate
targets.
When you hit a creature with a melee
attack, you can use Channel Divinity to deal
extra fire, necrotic or thunder damage (your
choice) to the target. The damage equals 5 +
twice your cleric level.
CHANNEL DIVINITY: AGENTS OF RUIN
At 6th level, when a creature within 30 feet of
you hits an enemy with a melee attack, you can
use Channel Divinity to deal extra fire, necrotic
or thunder damage (your choice) to the target.
The damage equals 5 + twice your cleric level.
DIVINE STRIKE
At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your
weapon strikes with the divine energy of ruin.
Once on each of your turns when you hit a
creature with a weapon attack, you can cause
the attack to deal an extra 1d8 fire, necrotic, or
thunder damage (your choice) to the target.
When you reach 14th level, the extra damage
increases to 2d8.
CATALYST OF DOOM
At 17th level, your god grants you the power to
act as the chosen agent of destruction, the
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ultimate destroyer of the current world and the
instrument of eternal renewal. You add the four
new spells noted below, one of each for 6th and
9th level and two of 8th level, to your list of
domain spells. Like your other domain spells,
they are always prepared and count as cleric
spells for you.
CATALYST OF DOOM SPELLS
Spell Level Spell
6th disintegrate
8th earthquake, tsunami
9th meteor swarm
PASSION DOMAIN
Love, lust, fear, rage... the mortal soul echoes the
superhuman passions of the gods. Some deities
are imperturbable and detached, but there are
among the gods those that trifle with the
feelings of mortals and divinities alike, proud of
their influence over minds and bodies.
The clerics of gods like Aphrodite, Freya,
and Dionysus are blessed by their patrons with
the power to shape the passions and feelings of
mortals like molten wax, spreading the words of
their deities with a more gentle approach than
militant proselytism. And yet they remain
capable warriors of the faith, for they can strike
the soul of their enemies as well as their body.
PASSION DOMAIN SPELLS
Cleric Level Spells
1st animal friendship, charm person
3rd crown of madness, suggestion
5th fear, tongues
7th compulsion, confusion
9th dream, Rary’s telepathic bond
PASSIONATE BLESSINGS
At 1st level, you learn one additional language
and gain proficiency in one musical instrument
of your choice. You also become proficient in
your choice of two of the following skills:
Deception, Intimidation, Performance, and
Persuasion.
Your proficiency bonus is doubled for
any ability check you make that uses either of
those skills.
CHANNEL DIVINITY: EVERYTHING
YOU WANT
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel
Divinity to align yourself with the passions and
inner desires of a selected creature.
As an action, you choose one creature
that you can see within 60 feet of you. For 10
minutes, you have advantage on Charisma skill
checks that target that creature.
CHANNEL DIVINITY: READ THEIR
FEELINGS
At 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity
to read a creature's thoughts. You can then use
your access to the creature's psyche to
command it.
As an action, choose one creature that
you can see within 60 feet of you. That creature
must make a Wisdom saving throw against your
spell save DC. If the creature succeeds on the
saving throw, you can't use this feature on it
again until you finish a long rest.
If the creature fails its save, you can read
its surface thoughts (those foremost in its mind,
reflecting its current emotions and what it is
actively thinking about) when it is within 60
feet of you. This effect lasts for 1 minute.
During this time, you can use your
action to end this effect and cast the suggestion
spell on the creature without expending a spell
slot. The target automatically fails its saving
throw against the spell.
DIVINE STRIKE
At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your
weapon strikes with divine energies that
unsettle the soul as they harm the body. Once
on each of your turns when you hit a creature
with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack
to deal an extra 1d8 psychic damage to the
target. When you reach 14th level, the extra
damage increases to 2d8.
MASTER OF PASSIONS
Starting at 17th level, when you cast an
enchantment spell of 1st to 5th level that
targets only one creature, the spell can instead
target two creatures within range and within 5
feet of each other. If the spells consumes its
material components, you must provide them
for each target.
PRESERVATION DOMAIN
A cosmic cycle starts with the creation and ends
with the destruction of entire planes of
existence. However, while the worlds last,
during the age long aeons of thriving life, the
worlds must be protected and kept safe. Gods
are often regarded as the protectors of mortals,
but few among them are in fact the protectors of
whole planes of existence, often the preservers
of Multiverse itself.
Gods like Vishnu sometimes assume
mortal shape in order to intervene personally in
the mortal world, but they usually act through
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their chosen miracle-workers, the preservation
clerics. Through magic, weapons and often mere
words of wisdom, the heralds of preservation
gods keep their home world safe until it is ripe
for destruction, the necessary and inescapable
doom of every plane of existence. When a new
cycle will be set in motion, the preservation
gods will once again guard and protect the new
Multiverse, as they did before and will always
do.
PRESERVATION DOMAIN SPELLS
Cleric Level Spells
1st bless, protection from evil and good
3rd lesser restoration, warding bond
5th beacon of hope, remove curse
7th guardian of faith, polymorph
9th greater restoration, reincarnate
BONUS PROFICIENCY
When you choose this domain at 1st level, you
gain proficiency with heavy armor.
can also end one spell of your choice on that
creature. The level of the spell you end must be
equal to or lower than the level of the spell slot
you use to cast the healing spell.
POTENT SPELLCASTING
Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom
modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric
cantrip.
UNYIELDING CHAMPION
At 17th level, you gain resistance to
bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage
from nonmagical weapons.
REST DOMAIN
Many among the mortals see death as a curse,
an impending doom that that condemns them
all. Many deities, however, teach that death is
not the source of suffering, but its end; not a fate
of torments, but a promise of rest. Whoever is

COUNSELOR AND DEFENDER

Also at 1st level, you gain the resistance cantrip.
You also gain proficiency in one of the following
skills of your choice: Insight, Medicine, or
Persuasion.

CHANNEL DIVINITY: PRESERVE LIFE

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel
Divinity to heal the badly injured.
As an action, you present your holy
symbol and evoke healing energy that can
restore a number of hit points equal to five
times your cleric level. Choose any creatures
within 30 feet of you, and divide those hit points
among them. This feature can restore a creature
to no more than half of its hit point maximum.
You can't use this feature on an undead or a
construct.

BREAKER OF CURSES
Starting at 6th level, when you restore hit points
to an ally with a spell of 1st level or higher, you

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born will soon or later die, even the gods will
fall someday, at the turning of aeons.
Deities like Osiris act as judges of the
dead, offering eternal peace to the deceased;
other gods, like Hermes and Odin, are
psychopomps themselves, guiding the mortals
during their last journey towards the lands of
death. Clerics of the deities of rest often act as
undertakers, but they are equally renowned as
the healers that assist those on the deathbed:
the rest domain teaches to ease the suffering of
those who are passing away, to fight death till
there is even a tiny hope, but to exhale in peace
the final breath with the knowledge that, like
life, death is a necessary part of the natural
order.
REST DOMAIN SPELLS
Cleric Level Spells
1st detect poison and disease, false life
3rd gentle repose, hold person
5th feign death, speak with dead
7th death ward, staggering smite
9th hold monster, reincarnate
BONUS PROFICIENCY
At 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy
armor.
FUNERAL RITES
Also at 1st level, you learn the spare the dying
cantrip. You also gain proficiency in the
Medicine skill. For there is no justice in death if
the deceased was killed before the proper end
of their days.
CHANNEL DIVINITY: FINAL SHROUD
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel
Divinity to evoke a shroud of divine energy that
damages your enemies and gives peace to your
allies.
As an action, you present your holy
symbol, and any ally of yours with 0 hit points
within 30 feet of you is automatically stabilized.
Additionally, each hostile creature within 30
feed of you must make a Constitution saving
throw against your spell save DC. A creature
takes necrotic damage equal to 2d10 + your
cleric level on a failed saving throw, and half as
much damage on a successful one. A creature
that has total cover from you is not affected.
UNDENIABLE CALL
Starting at 6th level, whenever you channel
negative energy your magic is capable of laying
to rest even those creatures that are normally
beyond the grasp of death. Necrotic damage
dealt by your cleric spells and class features
ignores resistance to necrotic damage.
DIVINE STRIKE
At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your
weapon strikes with the divine energy of death.
Once on each of your turns when you hit a
creature with a weapon attack, you can cause
the attack to deal an extra 1d8 necrotic damage
to the target. When you reach 14th level, the
extra damage increases to 2d8.
SECRETS OF THE DECEASED
Starting at 17th level, you can call up visions of
the past that relate to a corpse you touch. You
spend at least 1 minute in meditation and
prayer, then receive dreamlike, shadowy
glimpses of the events regarding the deceased.
You can meditate in this way for a number of
minutes equal to your Wisdom score and must
maintain concentration during that time, as if
you were casting a spell.
Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Last Breaths. Touching the corpse, you
can see visions of its death. After meditating for
1 minute, you learn its cause of death, as well as
its eventual killer and the identity of the
deceased. If the corpse was reanimated through
necromancy, you can spend 1 additional minute
to learn who was that animated it as an undead.
Everlasting Memories. As you meditate,
you see visions of the most important events in
the life of the deceased whose corpse you are
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touching. For each minute you meditate, you
learn about one significant memory, beginning
with the most recent. Significant memories
typically involve powerful emotions, such as
battles, betrayals, marriages, and other
important rites; however, they might also
include mundane events that were nevertheless
important for the deceased. Anyway, your
visions can't go back more than a number of
months equal to your Wisdom score.
SOLEMNITY DOMAIN
Every pantheon has its sovereign, the greatest
and most powerful among the gods the one
whose majesty is revered by entire nations,
often identified with the sky itself.
Zeus, Jupiter, Dyeus, Ra-Horakhty...
often different populations use different names
for a deity that they recognize as the same, for –
according to mortals – who could be greater
than the greatest among the gods? Clerics of
gods of solemnity wield tremendous powers
themselves, acting as unyielding sentinels
against every monstrosity and blasphemy that
challenges their divine patron.
SOLEMNITY DOMAIN SPELLS
Cleric Level Spells
1st Command, feather fall
3rd enlarge/reduce, see invisibility
5th fly, spirit guardians
7th dominate beast, guardian of faith
9th circle of power, geas
BONUS PROFICIENCIES
At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial
weapons and heavy armor.
WRATHFUL MAJESTY
Also at 1st level, you can channel divine power
to punish those who dare attack you. When a
creature within 5 feet of you that you can see
hits you with an attack, you can use your
reaction to cause the creature to make a
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Wisdom saving throw against your spell save
DC. The creature takes 2d8 radiant damage on a
failed saving throw, and half as such damage on
a successful one.
You can use this feature a number of
times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a
minimum of once). You regain all expended
uses when you finish a long rest.
CHANNEL DIVINITY: EDICT OF THE
LORD
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel
Divinity to rebuke otherwordly creatures in the
name of your deity.
As an action, you present your holy
symbol, and one celestial, elemental, fey, or
fiend of your choice that is within 30 feet of you
must make a Wisdom saving throw against your
spell save DC, provided that the creature can see
or hear you. If the creature fails its saving
throw, it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes
any damage.
A turned creature must spend its turns
trying to move as far away from you as it can,
and it can't willingly end its move in a space
within 30 feet of you. It also can't take reactions.
For its action, it can only use the Dash action or
try to escape from an effect thtat prevents it
from moving. If there's nowheere to move, the
creature can use the Dodge action.
After you reach 5th level, when a
creature fails its saving throw against your Edict
of the Lord feature, the creature is also banished
(as in the banishment spell, no concentration
required) if it isn't on its plane of origin and its
challenge rating is at or below a certain
threshold, equal to that of your Destry Undead
class feature.
GENEROUS BLESSINGS
As befitting your stature as an agent of the king
among gods, divine forces sustain and protect
you even when you selflessly ease the suffering
of others. Beginning at 6th level, when you cast
a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit
points to a creature other than you, you regain
hit points equal to 2 + the spell's level.
POTENT SPELLCASTING
Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom
modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric
cantrip.
ON EAGLE'S WINGS
At 17th level, you have a flying speed equal to
your current walking speed whenever you are
not underground or indoors.
“Why did I start adventuring only in my middle
years? Because I had no talent at all before my
forties, before… that day. I was married, you
know, with the most beautiful and wisest woman
of all the shire. And we had a daughter; she was
my pride, such a clever and joyful young lady.
Alas, it was not to last.
Back then I was a minor constable, and a very
scrupulous one; sadly, I was too scrupulous for
some of my superiors. When they found out that I
couldn't be bought, they decided to remove me
from office. Permanently.
It was a full moon night, and we were just
returning from a banquet. Our carriage suddenly
stopped, and we heard a thud. The coachmen
didn’t answer, and so we came out of the
carriage, and we saw them.
Two assassins; the coachmen had been their first
victim but, no doubt, I was the target. As they
were beating me up, I shout at them to be quick
and spare my family, but they just laughed.
Our daughter, our smart, beautiful daughter was
the first to fall. They said that I had to pay, that I
had to watch them both die before me. And then
they went for my wife.
I was there, beaten and helpless as I clung to her,
as I heard her gasping for air, blood all over her
gown. She died in my arms. I knew I was next,
and I rejoiced, for I could not imagine a life
without her.
But then I heard a voice, a voice the like of which
I had never heard before. And then… then there
was the power, a surge of power such as I
couldn’t even imagine.
I easily vanquished the assassins, but my family…
they were both gone.
So, you understand, there is nothing for me out
there, no one awaits me at home. There are only
these powers, and the lives I can save with them.
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 DRUID
Most druid circles focus on what represents the
proper, usual natural world, from dreams to
animals to different environments. But life is
part of the circle of nature as much as death and
NEW DRUID CIRCLES
CIRCLE OF APOSTASY
The Circle of Apostasy is the dark and corrupted
face of the Circle of the Land, a congregation of
druids whose heretical views made them the
very scourge they once swore to fight.
Inspecting and contemplating the most
controversial aspect of nature, they ended up
enmeshed with what an orthodox druid would
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decay, and the inner energies hidden beneath
everything sometimes harbor truly unnatural
forces.
consider pure blasphemy, hence their
reputation of apostates.
This circle offers a path to power, one
that could easily seduce a young druid into
accepting its ways. Apostates, of course,
maintain no formal organization, nor they have
common (un)holy places to revere. But they are
anyway divided into four main sects, as if four
dark voices were clearly speaking among the
whispers only them can heard. Those sects are
the Circle of Beyond, the Circle of Death, the
Circle of Decay and the Circle of the
Netherworld.
For the Circle of Death the real meaning
of life is its end, for there will be no life without
death. And so these druids encourage, revere
and spread the work of the Grim Reaper, for
this, they believe, is the cruel but necessary way
of nature. Great is their power over death, and
they are perhaps the only druids that view
undeads as tools rather than abominations.
The Circle of Decay reveres the
inevitable decay and putrescence as the only
means towards a new, promising life, for new
blossoms always sprouts from decay, and
nothing is capable of arousing renewal as a
corrupted drop of pus, the putrescence that
strengthens the worthy and thins the herd of
the weak.
The Circle of the Netherworld was born
from an excessive and insane interest on the
fate of the souls and spirits, an interest that
drove many druids to linger with the most vile
of the outsiders in order to extort their utmost
secrets. A member of this circle gains great
power over the weak-minded, and knows how
to bind powerful outsiders to his or her will, but
the very soul of this druid is condemned to an
eternity of suffering in the Lower Planes.
However, the most vile of all the
apostates are perhaps those of the Circle of
Beyond, for their madness transcended the
nature of this world to embrace the not-so-
natural order of the Far Realm, the very bane of
mortal worlds. And yet, if it is the natural order
that imposes the survival of the fittest and the
strongest, the denizens of the Great Beyond will
be the true inheritors of the earth.
As a member of this circle, your magic is
influenced by the dark power whose influences
on the natural world you choose to revere.
access to circle spells connected to your own
apostasy.
Once you gain access to a circle spell,
you always have it prepared, and it doesn't
count against the number of spells you can
prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell
that doesn't appear on the druid spell list, the
spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.
CIRCLE OF BEYOND
Druid Level Circle Spells
3rd crown of madness, misty step
5th hunger of Hadar, lightning bolt
7th confusion, Evard's black tentacles
9th contact other plane, scrying

BONUS CANTRIP
When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you CIRCLE OF DEATH
learn one additional cantrip based on your Druid Level Circle Spells
3rd Blindness/deafness, hold person
specific circle, as noted below.
5th animate dead, speak with dead
BONUS CANTRIP 7th blight, death ward
Circle Bonus cantrip
9th antilife shell, cloudkill
Circle of Beyond dancing lights
Circle of Death chill touch
CIRCLE OF DECAY
Circle of Decay poison spray
Druid Level Circle Spells
Circle of the Netherworld thaumaturgy 3rd Melf's acid arrow, ray of enfeeblement
5th Stinking cloud, vampire's touch
FORBIDDEN SHAPES 7th blight, vitriolic sphere
The blasphemous rites of your circle grant you 9th cloudkill, contagion
the ability to transform into forbidden forms,
that no druid would ordinarily assume. You can
CIRCLE OF THE NETHERWORLD
convert your flesh into living wood, or divide
Druid Level Circle Spells
your consciousness between innumerable
3rd darkness, suggestion
lesser animal forms.
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your 5th fear, magic circle
Wild Shape to transform into a single plant 7th banishment, phantasmal killer
creature, or into a swarm of beasts. The shapes 9th contact other plane, planar binding
you can assume are still subject to the
limitations of challenge rating and special
movement based on your level.
SHAPE OF CORRUPTION
As your power grows, so does your ability to
integrate druidic rites with forbidden formulas
CIRCLE SPELLS
and blasphemous powers, in order to assume
Your specific circle grants you vile powers
unnatural and corrupted forms with your Wild
linked to the apostasy that made you a heretical
Shape feature. Starting at 6th level, when you
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use your Wild Shape, you can choose to alter the CIRCLE OF DECAY
type of the creature you transform into to better New Type ooze
reflect the vile nature of your own circle. If you Resistance to acid damage
do so, you gain resistance to a damage type Possible Features purulent swellings, fluid flesh
determined by your circle.
Furthermore, your corrupted shape is
CIRCLE OF BEYOND
such an abomination against the natural order
New Type fiend
than the plants themselves try to avoid you.
When you are in Wild Shape, moving through Resistance to poison damage
nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra Possible Features distorted, humanoid features
movement; you can also pass through
nonmagical plants without being slowed by NATURE'S BANE
them and without taking damage from them if When you reach 10th level, you are immune to
they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard. poison and disease. Furthermore, you can't be
charmed or frightened by elementals or fey, nor
CIRCLE OF BEYOND by the creatures associated with your specific
New Type aberration
circle.
Resistance to psychic damage
Possible Features distorted facial features, tentacles CREATURES
Circle Creature Type
Circle of Beyond aberrations
CIRCLE OF DEATH
New Type undead Circle of Death undeads

Resistance to necrotic damage Circle of Decay oozes

Possible Features rotting flesh, exposed bones Circle of the Netherworld fiends

LIVING APOSTASY
When you reach 14th level, the border
between your own shape and the ones
you assume with your powers
becomes labile. You continuously gain
resistance to the damage associated
with your circle and, while you
assume your Shape of Corruption, you
gain immunity to that damage.
Furthermore, you can cast the
alter self spell at will, but the forms
you assume are always influenced by
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CIRCLE OF THE ENERGY WITHIN
According to the legends, the founder of the
Circle of the Energy Within was a gith foundling
raised by a community of druids. During their
training, the foundling’s inborn psionic abilities
unsealed the path to an enlightening new
understanding of the natural world. The gith
druid could psionically interact with the matter
around them, both living and inanimate, and
soon heard the echo of an overwhelming energy
hidden within everything. Some rocks and lands
were stronger, literally rife with it, but this new
radiance of power could be found everywhere.
In learning to channel their newfound power,
the gith druid established the Circle of the
Energy Within.
Some tales say that the once foundling
raised to became the arch-druid of their group,
the first Circle of the Energy Within, while
others assert that they were shunned and
banished from their old community, and that
they founded a proper circle only after a long
pilgrimage. Some scholars utterly refuse this
legend, or at least suppose that the new druidic
tradition wasn’t founded, but rather discovered
many times by those druids who could sense
the hidden flow of the inner force.
As of today, there isn’t a unique circle, and
perhaps the followers of the energy within
wield a power far greater than their mythical
master did. According to some, they could even
bring forth the end of the world!
BONUS CANTRIP
When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you
learn the mage hand (the hand is invisible)
cantrip, and this is a druid cantrip for you.
SAVANT OF HIDDEN RADIANCE
Starting at 2nd level, you learn to harness the
energy hidden within the natural world as a
deadly radiance.
As a bonus action, you can surround
yourself with an aura of radiance that sheds
bright light in a 10-feet radius. While this aura
of radiance is manifest, when a creature you can
see moves into a space within 10 feet of you or
starts its turn there, you can use your reaction
to deal 1d4 radiant damage to that creature
unless it succeeds on a Constitution saving
throw against your druid spell save DC. The
radiant damage increases to 1d6 at 6th level,
1d8 at 10th level, and 1d10 at 14th level.
Furthermore, when you cast a druid
spell or a druid cantrip that deals fire damage,
you can change its damage type to radiant.
IF FLOWS FROM WITHIN
At 2nd level, you gain the ability to enhance
your radiant aura with druidic magic. As an
action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape
feature to empower your radiance, rather than
transform into a beast form, and you gain 4
temporary hit points for each level you have in
this class. While this feature is active, you gain
the following benefits:
- When you deal your Savant of Hidden
Radiance damage, roll the damage die a second
time and add it to the total.
- Your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6
radiant damage to any target they hit.
These benefits last for 10 minutes, until
you lose all these temporary hit points, or until
you use your Wild Shape again.
PSIONIC SPELLS
Your latent psychic abilities manifest as
powerful spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level
you gain access to new spells, as shown in the
Psionic Spells table.
Once you gain access to a psionic spell,
you always have it prepared, and it doesn't
count against the number of spells you can
prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell
that doesn't
appear on the
druid spell list,
the spell is
nonetheless a
druid spell for
you.
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PSIONIC SPELLS
Druid Level Psionic Spells
3rd levitate, see invisibility
5th haste, slow
7th guardian of faith, fire shield
9th hold monster, telekinesis
PRETERNATURAL RADIANCE
At 6th level, you gain resistance to radiant
damage. In addition, when you cast a spell that
deals radiant damage, or use your Savant of
Hidden Radiance feature, you ignore the target’s
resistance to radiant damage, and deal half
damage event to targets immune to radiant
damage.
SECRETS OF THE INNER RADIANCE
When you reach 10th level, you are immune to
poison and disease, and when you cast a spell
that deals radiant damage, you can add your
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Wisdom modifier to the damage dealt by that
spell.
MASTERY OF THE ENERGY WITHIN
Starting at 14th level, you can unleash a deadly
radiance from your body. When you are hit by a
melee attack, you can use your reaction to deal
radiant damage to the attacker. The damage
equals your druid level, and ignores resistance
and immunity to radiant damage. The attacker
must also make a Constitution saving throw
against your druid spell save DC. On a failed
save, the attacker is poisoned until the end of
your next turn.
“This hidden power, this energy within me… it’s
too much, too much to bear. This accursed light!
My companion, that good-for-nothing ranger,
said it was my fault he was bald, that his pet
could tolerate space radiation but he could not.
Bah. Blathering nonsense.
And yet now that I am alone I miss him, I miss
them all.
They say they couldn’t, and wouldn’t, follow
me through the Cursed Cave of Unseen Light.
I called them cowards, they called me a
delusional fool, and we parted with so much
hate and contempt...
… how I miss their company now! Now that
I’m here, now that I have reached my
destination, now that I am alone with my
long-sought treasure. The Disk of Power, I
feel it buzzing with my neck hair, I could
almost see it shine with the Unseen Light
that fills the whole cave.
It’s heavy, heavier than it looks, and bright,
brighter than the finest steel. A simple
carving digs through its face, the carving of
a small circle surrounded by three small
crowns.
The Disk of Power, the Source of Unseen
Light is mine now! Now I am the Arch-
Druid…
… if only I could get out of this blasted cave!”
 FIGHTER
The fighter is one of those classes whose
existing archetypes are already broad enough to
cover different character ideas. Hence I initially
offered only a minor variant and some extra
VARIANT MARTIAL ARCHETYPE: ELDRITCH DRAGOON
This simple variant of the eldritch knight is
good to represent a fighter that discovers (or
finally decides to accept) that magic flows in
their bloodline. Rather than study it as a wizard,
they awaken it from their own blood and soul as
a sorcerer does.
Thus they uses all the eldritch knight class
features, with the following exceptions.
SPELLCASTING
When you reach 3rd level, you augment your
martial prowess with the ability to cast spells.
See chapter 10 for the general rules of
spellcasting and chapter 11 for the sorcerer
spell list.
Cantrips. You learn two cantrips of your
choice from the sorcerer spell list. You learn an
additional sorcerer cantrip of your choice at
10th level.
Spell Slots. Your spells slot work exactly
as those of a normal eldritch knight.
Spells Known of 1st-level and Higher.
You know three 1st-level sorcerer spells of your
fighting styles. This new update, however, also
includes a few brand new martial archetypes
designed to offer new interesting combat
experience, as well as a new fighting style.
choice, two of which you must choose from the
abjuration and evocation spells on the sorcerer
spell list. The Spell Known column of the
Eldritch Knight Spellcasting table shows when
you learn more sorcerer spells of 1st level of
higher. Each of these spells must be an
abjuration or evocation spell of your choice, and
must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
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 sorcerer spells you
know with another spell of your choice from the
sorcerer spell list. The new spell must be of a
level for which you have spell slots, and it must
be an abjuration or evocation 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 sorcerer spells,
since you draw from your own soul the power
to cast them. You use your Charisma whenever
a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In
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addition, you use your Charisma modifier when
setting the saving throw DC for a sorcerer spell
you cast and when making an attack roll with
one.
FIGHTING STYLE OPTIONS
When you choose a fighting style, the following
styles are added to the list of available options.
You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than
once, even if you later get to choose again, but
you can take and combine different Fighting
Styles.
free hand fighting
When you are fighting with a free hand that
doesn’t wield a weapon nor a shield, you can
use a bonus action to take the Use an Object
action.
NEW MARTIAL ARCHETYPES
JUGGERNAUT
A Juggernaut is an unstoppable, overwhelming
force whose advance cannot be halted nor
resisted, and this is the better word to describe
some fighters. Juggernauts relentlessly charge
into melee, shaking off enemy attacks before
showing their martial superiority in a deadly
display of force. And, as many veterans would
say, few things are more fearsome than a
charging bulwark about to cleave you in two.
LIVING BULWARK
Beginning when you choose this archetype at
3rd level, when you use your Second Wind
feature you also gain resistance to all damage
until the start of your next turn.
UNBURDENED
Starting at 3rd level, your speed is never
reduced by wearing heavy armor, and you count
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Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Charisma modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Charisma modifier
shield-wielding
When you are wielding a shield, you can wield a
weapon with the other hand ignoring the two-
handed property.
vengeful strikes
When you are wielding a melee weapon, and a
creature you can see within 5 feet hits you with
a melee weapon attack, you can use your
reaction to inflict damage equal to your
proficiency bonus to the attacking creature. The
damage is of the type inflicted by the weapon
you are wielding.
as one size larger when determining your
carrying capacity and the weight you can push,
drag, or lift. Juggernauts are notorious for the
ease they move with even while wearing
cumbersome looking armor.
FEROCIOUS TACKLE
At 7th level, you always maintain a momentum
that burst into a reckless charge whenever you
enter combat. You have advantage on initiative
rolls. Additionally, if you are surprised at the
beginning of combat and aren’t incapacitated,
you can act normally on your first turn, but only
if you move at least 10 feet in a straight line
before doing anything else on that turn.
RELENTLESS BULK
By 10th level, even to stop your advance
becomes a difficult task. At the start of your first
turn of each combat, or when you reduce a
creature to 0 hit points, you can take the Dash
action as a bonus action. If you take this action, the unarmed warrior’s demise. The archetypal
opportunity attacks provoked by you are made pugilist is a fighter that constantly trains in
with disadvantage until the end of your turn. order to reach the peak of physical condition,
You simply can’t be stopped. learning how to deliver ferocious unarmed
blows as strong as a maul: armor and shield
RECKLESS CHARGE become complementary to their strikes and
Starting at 15th level, you can trample your pins, and the resulting fighting style is, if not too
enemies like a living engine of destruction. elegant, quite efficient.
If you move at least 10 feet in a straight line
before attacking a creature in melee and you hit BONUS PROFICIENCY
it with the attack, the target must succeed on a When you choose this archetype at 3rd level,
Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. The your gain proficiency with the Athletic skill. If
DC for this saving throw is equal to 8 + your you are already proficient in Athletic, you gain
proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier, and proficiency in one of the two following skills:
you can use this feature only once on each of Acrobatics and Insight.
your turns.
EXPERT BRAWLER
MIGHTIER THAN DEATH Starting at 3rd level, your unarmed strike uses a
When you reach 18th level, even death isn’t d4 for damage, or a d6 if you are wearing an
strong enough to hold you. If you take
damage that reduces you to 0 hit points
and doesn’t kill you outright, you can use
your reaction to delay falling unconscious,
and you can immediately take an extra
turn, interrupting the current turn. While
you have 0 hit points during that extra
turn, taking damage causes death saving
throw failures as normal, and three death
saving throw failures can still kill you.
When the extra turn ends, you fall
unconscious if you still have 0 hit points.
Once you use this feature, you
can’t use it again until you finish a long
rest.

PUGILIST
Every proper fighter learns the basics of
unarmed combat, but combatants across
the worlds of course prefer to focus on
armed training, as weapons are far more
efficient and deadlier than fists and kicks.
Only through rigorous training a warrior
could become so adept at unarmed
fighting that their jabs could compete
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armor. This damage increases to 1d6, or 1d8 if
you are wearing armor, at 10th level, and to
1d10, or 1d12 if you are wearing armor, at 18th
level. You can also treat your unarmed strikes
as a melee weapon with the finesse or heavy
property.
UNARMED RIPOSTE
Also starting at 3rd level, when a creature
within 5 feet of you hits or misses you with an
attack, you can use your reaction to
immediately make an unarmed attack or a
grapple against that creature immediately after
its attack, provided that you can see the target.
PRETERNATURAL ATHLETE
By 7th level, your whole body is a
formidable, flexible weapon. Your
unarmed strikes count as magical for
the purpose of overcoming resistance
and immunity to nonmagical attacks
and damage, and you gain proficiency
in Dexterity saving throws.
UNCANNY DODGE
At 15th level, when an attacker that you can see
hits you with an attack, you can use your
reaction to halve the attack’s damage against
you.
A THOUSAND JABS
Starting at 18th level, you can strike with
virtually every part of your body, and you are
trained to do so as a split second response. In
combat, you get a special reaction that you can
take once on every creature’s turn, except your
turn. You can use this special reaction only to
make an unarmed strike as an opportunity
attack, and you can’t use it on the same turn
that you take your normal reaction.

PINCHING PAIN
At 10th level you learn to strike
where it really hurts. When you hit a
creature with an unarmed attack, that
creature has disadvantage on the next
attack it makes against you before the
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 MONK
The monk is a very peculiar class, characterized possible to devise new monastic traditions that
mainly by an unarmed fighting style and by an focus on one single aspect of this broad
Orientalist(ish) flavor. Given these premises, it’s inspiration.

NEW MONASTIC TRADITIONS

Once you reach 5th level in the monk
WAY OF MERCY
class, you can spend additional ki points to
The Way of Mercy originated from the Way of increase the level of your spells. The spell's level
the Open Hand when a powerful master decided increases by 1 for each additional ki point you
to devote his great and quite deadly skills to a spend. The maximum of ki points you can spend
higher purpose, foregoing all the violence in in the same spell is 3 at 5th level, and raises to 4
order to shape a new art, a monastic tradition at 9th level, to 5 at 13th level, and to 6 at 17th
focused on healing the sick and cease the level.
suffering.
Monks of the Way of Mercy have great
knowledge of the pressure points in the
humanoid body, and could adapt their art even
to different creatures, but they don't use this
skill as a tool of violence; even when they fight
an enemy, they prefer to avoid any bloodletting,
unless it is strictly necessary. For this reason
they are reverend and beloved by the common
folk, as true beacons of light in a cruel world.

PRESSURE POINTS
Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd
level, you master the basics of the healing
techniques based on pressure points, and you
know exactly which body parts you have to
touch in order to channel the ki into powerful
spell-like effects.
If you don't already know it you gain the spare
the dying cantrip. Furthermore, as an action you
can spend 2 ki points to cast cure wounds (cast
as a 2th level spell), enhance ability, lesser
restoration, or protection from poison as a spell SECRET PRESSURE POINTS
that requires no material nor verbal
As you reach 6th level, your mastery of pressure
components but works only at touch against a
points increases and you master the ability to
single target.
touch the secret points to disable and submit
Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for
your enemies without having to harm them. As
these spells, and the saving throw DC for them
an action, you can spend 4 ki points to cast hold
equals 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your
person or bestow curse as a spell that requires
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no material nor verbal components but works
only at touch against a single target.
As noted before, Wisdom is your spellcasting
ability for these spells, the saving throw DC for
them equals 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your
proficiency bonus, and you can increase their
level by spending additional ki points.

TRANQUILITY
Beginning at 11th level, you can enter a special
meditation that surrounds you with an aura of
peace. At the end of a long rest, you gain the
effect of a sanctuary spell that lasts until the
start of your next long rest (the spell can end
early as normal). The saving throw DC for the
spell equals 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your
proficiency bonus.

MASTERY OF PRESSURE POINTS

By 17 level, you have mastered the fine art of
pressure points, and you can heal every
wound, ease any suffering, or halt every
enemy in its tracks with a mere touch of the
secret spots of the body. As an action, you can
spend 6 ki points to cast greater restoration or
hold monster as a spell that requires no material
nor verbal components but works only at touch
against a single target.
As noted before, Wisdom is your spellcasting
ability for these spells, and the saving throw DC
for them equals 8 + your Wisdom modifier +
your proficiency bonus.
WAY OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Every monk gains power through meditation
and self perfection, but many traditions see
asceticism as an instrument towards an end,
this end being often the achievement of a
greater martial prowess. The Way of
Enlightenment, however, teaches to consider
meditation its own end, self perfection the only
objective of the true ascetic.
Through stern practices, the followers of
this monastic tradition are capable of achieving
the uttermost secret of existence and, like the
saints and masters of the past, they become
Enlightened themselves.
TRUE REVELATION
Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd
level, you attain the first glimpses of a
revelation that encompasses every other,
granting you the capability to channel your ki in
order to understand for a short time single
fragments of lore that you normally don't
possess. As a bonus action, you can spend 1 ki
point and choose a language or tool, or 2 ki
points and choose a skill; for 10 minutes, you
have proficiency with the chosen skill or tool, or
you are able to speak, read and understand the
chosen language.
SHARED ENLIGHTENMENT
As you reach 6th level, you have learned how to
share with others fragments of the revelation
that enlightens your spirit, uttering words of
wisdom that grant a single, unparalleled
moment of clarity. To do so, you must spend 3 ki
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creature other than yourself within 60 feet of
you that can hear you. That creature gains one
Enlightenment die, a d6.
Once within the next 10 minutes, the
creature can roll the die and add the number
rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving
throw it makes. The creature can wait until after
it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the
Enlightenment die, but must decide before the
DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once
the Enlightenment die is rolled, it is lost. A
creature can have only one Enlightenment or
Bardic Inspiration die at a time.
Your Enlightenment die changes as you
gain levels, matching the Martial Arts column of
the Monk table.
AURA OF SANCTITY
Beginning at 11th level, you can enter a special
meditation that surrounds you with an aura of
peace. At the end of a long rest, you gain the
effect of a sanctuary spell that lasts until the
start of your next long rest (the spell can end
early as normal). The saving throw DC for the
spell equals 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your
proficiency bonus.
BRIGHT NIMBUS OF THE
ENLIGHTENED
At 17th level, you are capable of manifesting
externally your inner enlightenment as a
radiant nimbus, the true sign of your superior
stature. You shed bright light in a 30-foot radius
and dim light for an additional 30 feet. You can
extinguish or restore the light as a bonus action.
If a creature hits you with a melee attack
while this light shines, you can use your
reaction to deal radiant damage to the creature.
The radiant damage equals your Wisdom
modifier + half your monk level.
WAY OF MADNESS
Among the monks, there are those who lost
their way, entrapped within the turmoil of a
mind whose discipline crumbled when trying to
confront too soon with mysteries too great to
comprehend. Cosmic Balance requires for Chaos
to countervail Law, for Darkness to countervail
Light, for Oppression to countervail Freedom,
and to Madness to countervail Discipline. Thus,
those monks who deviate from the right path
end up as followers of the Way of Madness, a
non-tradition properly referred to by many a
master as the Wrong Way.
The Way of Madness, grants access to
visions of beyond, glimpses of the Far Realm
whose ever-changing lies, for the follower of
this monastic tradition, take the place of the
universal truths once sought. And, where
madness crawls, twisted powers will soon
follow.
FEED ON THEIR LAST BREATH
Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd
level, you create a bond with dark, insane forces
that feed on the suffering of your enemies.
When you reduce a creature within 5 feet of you
to 0 hit points, you can spend 1 ki point (no
action required) to steal part of its last breath
and gain temporary hit points equal to your
Wisdom modifier + your monk level (minimum
of 1 temporary hit point). Furthermore, while
those temporary hit points last, if a creature hits
you with a melee attack, you can use your
reaction to deal cold damage equal to your
Wisdom modifier to the creature.
BEACON OF MADNESS
At 6th level, you gain the ability to act, for a
brief moment, as a conduit for the absolute
insanity of the Far Realm to manifest. As an
action, you can spend 2 ki points to force each
creature within 30 feet of you that can see you
to succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against
DC equals 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your
proficiency bonus or be confused, as by the
confusion spell, until the end of your next turn.
DEATH IS A LIE
Beginning at 11th level, when you are reduced
to 0 hit points, you can expend 1 ki point (no
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action required) to have 1 hit point instead. The
claws of death can no longer touch you, as your
true essence is linked to something that goes
beyond the mortal plane.
SUMMON THE CRAWLING DARKNESS
At 17th level, you are capable of opening a
direct pathway with the contorting, tentacular
madness of the Far Realm. As an action, you can
spend 6 ki points to cast Evard’s black tentacles
as a spell that requires no material components.
The saving throw DC for the spell equals 8 +
your Wisdom modifier + your proficiency
bonus.
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Friendly Reminder: Effects of Confusion
A confused creature can't take reactions and must
roll a d10 at the start of each of its turns to
determine its behavior for that turn.
Result of 1. The creature uses all its movement to
move in a random direction. To determine the
direction, roll a d8 and assign a direction to each die
face. The creature doesn't take an action this turn.
Result of 2-6. The creature doesn't move or take
actions this turn.
Result of 7-8. The creature uses its action to make a
melee attack against a randomly determined
creature within its reach. If there is no creature
within its reach, the creature does nothing this turn.
Result of 9-10. The creature can act and move
normally.
 PALADIN
In 5th edition, we finally have the paladin as a
full-fledged class, free from any alignment
attachment: if a paladin is the champion of a
god, and every god can bestow its power upon a
mortal, then even the non-lawful, non-good
deities should be able to do so. However, when
it comes to player options, we have for now only
a few “not so pure but still good” oaths, and the
only clearly evil paladin option makes it an
FIGHTING STYLE OPTION
When you choose a fighting style, the following
style is added to the list of options.
vengeful strikes
When you are wielding a melee weapon, and a
creature you can see within 5 feet hits you with
NEW SACRED OATHS
OATH OF APOCALYPSE
Paladins of the Oath of Apocalypse are not the
usual champions in a shiny armor, and their
coming is not echoed by cries of joy. For these
paladins swore an oath to be the warriors of the
ultimate battle, the champions of Doomsday,
and to act in the meantime as the harbingers of
the incoming Apocalypse. Often called black –
and bleak – knights, doom knights, or even grim
reavers, they bring death and destruction in
their wake, but are nevertheless powerful allies
when a hard battle must be fought; however,
their allies must be wary, for the bleak knights
will not hesitate to raise their sword against
their former comrades, according to the whims
of their gods, the – often evil – immortal lords of
Apocalypse that always fight the Eternal
Struggle to hasten the end of the Mortal World.
And yet Apocalypse and utter destruction are
necessary for rebirth and renewal to sprout.
Oathbreaker, a blasphemer that set aside any
former devotion to any gods: evil deities grant
to their champions the same power as the good
one do. And this is inconsistent at best.
Hence come the following oaths, aimed
at granting new interesting options that explore
different paladin concepts, be it a humanist
champion, a ruthless reaver or the protector of
a certain temple.
a melee weapon attack, you can use your
reaction to inflict damage equal to your
proficiency bonus to the attacking creature. The
damage is of the type inflicted by the weapon
you are wielding.
TENETS OF APOCALYPSE
Although the vows, as well as the precise
objective of the Oath of Apocalypse may vary,
paladins of this oath usually share these tenets.
Some orders and some deities, of course, put
more or less emphasis in one or more tenet.
Crush, Kill, Destroy. You are not a
protector nor a defender, you are an agent of
incoming doom, and doom comes for us all. You
don't create, you don't protect, you deal in
destruction.
Burn to the Ground. Even the gods are
slayed by the Fate, so why should you spare the
mortals? Every institution, every civilization,
every creatures is doomed. You execute the
sentence of Fate.
Feel No Hate. You are not an avenger.
You are an agent of doom not because you enjoy
pointless destruction, but because this is your
duty. Harbor no harsh feelings for those you kill.
Nihilism. Everything will wither,
everyone will die. Don't feel attachment, don't
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hold dear, will sooner than later die.
Retribution. You reap what you sow.
The ultimate doom will be merciless to those
who showed no mercy.
OATH SPELLS
You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.
OATH OF APOCALYPSE SPELLS
Paladin Level Spells
3rd bane, inflict wounds
5th cloud of daggers, spiritual weapon
9th animate dead, call lightning
13th blight, phantasmal killer
17th flame strike, destructive smite
CHANNEL DIVINITY
When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain
the following Channel Divinity options.
Instrument of Death. As an action, you
can imbue one weapon that you are holding
with the power of entropy, using your Channel
Divinity. For 1 minute, you add your Charisma
modifier to attack rolls made with that weapon
(with a minimum of +1). The weapon also sheds
a quivering red radiance, and emits bright light
in a 20-foot radius and dim light 20 feet beyond
that. If the weapons is not already magical, it
becomes magical for the duration.
You can end this effect on your turn as a
part of any other action. If you are no longer
holding or carrying this weapon, or if you fall
unconscious, this effect ends.
I Spell Doom. As an action, you channel
the essence of doom, death and destruction to
compel your enemies to fight on. Each creature
of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of
you must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a
failed save, the target can't willingly move more
than 30 feet away from you. This effect ends on
the creature if you are incapacitated or die or if
the creature is moved more than 30 feet away
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AURA OF DESTRUCTION
Starting at 7th level, you and every creature
within 10 feet of you, friend or foe, gain a bonus
to melee weapon damage rolls equal to your
Charisma modifier (minimum of +1). A creature
can benefit from this feature from only one
paladin at a time.
At 18th level, the range of this aura
increases to 30 feet.
UNYIELDING WARRIOR
Starting at 15th level, when you are reduced to
0 hit points and are not killed outright, you can
choose to drop to 1 hit point instead. Once you
use this ability, you can't use it again until you
finish a long rest.
Additionally, you suffer none of the
drawbacks of old age, and if you are resurrected
through magic you suffer none of the penalties
associated with raise dead, resurrection and
similar spells.
THE ULTIMATE BATTLE
At 20th level, you gain the ability to act as a true
beacon of Apocalypse, the catalyst of the
ultimate battle that will consume the world, an
unstoppable machine of destruction that leads
the harbingers of doom. You can use your action
to gain the following benefits for 1 hour:
• You have resistance to bludgeoning,
piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical
weapons.
• Your allies have advantage on death
saving throws while within 30 feet of you.
• You have advantage on Constitution
saving throws, as do your allies within 30 feet of
you.
This effect ends if you are incapacitated or die.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again
until you finish a long rest.
OATH OF BALANCE
Balance is, to put it simple, a flickering thing, an
ephemeral ideal that could only be momentarily
achieved before the next swing of fate tosses all
dreams of equilibrium away. For the Cosmic
Balance to triumph Evil and Ruin must be kept
on check, but the same is true for Good and Life.
Chaos and Law are two faces of the same medal,
but every cosmic force tries to unsettle the
precarious arms of the Cosmic Balance to its
favor. To be a champion of balance is a perilous
call, but to swore the oath of Balance, to
proclaim oneself a full-fledged Knight of the
Balance and serve Its cause along with a
compass of moral decency, is to embrace
perhaps the hardest of lives. The mission of a
Knight of the Balance is never over, for the
Multiverse is endless and eternal, and the
schemes of opposing cosmic forces never stop.
TENETS OF BALANCE
Very few deity officially encourage the birth of
an order of paladins sworn to the oath of
Balance, as the gods themselves are among the
cosmic forces that struggle to win the Eternal
Game of the Multiverse. Hence there isn’t any
formal order for a Knight of the Balance to join,
and this constitutes a personal call, one
answered by every singular champion in their
own ways and with their own precepts.
Nevertheless, most paladins swore to this oath
usually honor the following tenets.
Protect the Mortals. Act in such a way
that you treat mortals, whether in your own
person or in the person of any other, never
merely as a means to an end, but always at the
same time as an end.
Restore the Balance. Whenever the
Balance is throw off, fight without malice nor
hate against the forces that keep it unbalanced,
whoever may they be. Unchecked God is
dangerous as much as unchecked Evil.
Maintain the Balance. Whenever the
Balance is still, keep it that way. Know that
Balance is the dynamic effort of opposing forces
kept in check, and treasure every moment of
stillness, albeit brief.
Destroy the Balance. Should the cause
of Balance became an excuse, a mere pretext to
pretext to force one’s will above the others, or
even one of the Cosmic Forces themselves, with
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Multiverse, destroy the corrupted Balance so WARS
that a new, better one could be established.
Beginning at 7th level, you and friendly
creatures within 10 feet of you have resistance
OATH SPELLS to damage from spells.
You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed. At 18th level, the range of this aura
increases to 30 feet.
OATH OF BALANCE SPELLS
Paladin Level Spells PURITY OF BALANCE
3rd comprehend languages, detect evil and
Starting at 15th level, you are always under the
good
effects of a protection from evil and good spell.
5th moonbeam, zone of truth
9th magic circle, nondetection WARRIOR AT THE EDGE OF TIME
13th banishment, freedom of movement At 20th level, you can albeit briefly embrace
17th dispel evil and god, teleportation circle your true nature as a Knight of the Balance, an
Eternal Champion that awaits for the ultimate

CHANNEL DIVINITY
When you take this oath at 3rd level, you
gain the following Channel Divinity options.
A Thousand Memories. You can use
your Channel Divinity to invoke the wisdom
of the previous Knight of Balance and tap
into their knowledge. As an action, you
choose one skill or toll. For 10 minutes, you
have proficiency with the chosen skill or
tool. You could instead choose a language
whom you will be able to speak, read, and
write for the next 10 minutes.
Suffer the Tilt. You can use your
Channel Divinity to make those that would
tilt the Balance suffer the consequences of
their actions. Immediately after an attacker
within 30 feet of you deals damage with an
attack against a creature other than you
within the same range, you can use your
reaction to force the attacker to make a
Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the
attacked creature regains hit points equal to
half the damage received, and the attacker
takes force damage equal to half the damage
it just dealt. On a successful save, the
attacked creature regains hit points equal to
half the damage received, but the attacker
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cosmic battles. You can use your action to gain
the following benefits for 1 minute:
• You have resistance to all damage.
• Your can take the Help action as a
bonus action.
• Whenever a creature hits you with an
attack, it takes force damage equal to you
Charisma modifier.
Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a long rest.
OATH OF LIBERTY
The greatest among the gifts that the gods
bestowed upon mortals was, is, and will always
be, their freedom. Freedom to choose their own
path, freedom to be sinful or virtuous, even the
freedom to ultimately defile the gods
themselves and suffer the rightful punishment.
The only liberty that no one should possess is
the license to deprive others of their own
freedom. As a paladin of the Oath of Liberty you
swore to uphold these principles: you are an
agent of freedom among the oppressed, the
merciful hand of those benevolent gods that
seek new followers not through fear or
coercion, but through the noble deeds of their
devotees.
TENETS OF LIBERTY
Despite the precise wording may vary, all the
paladins of the Oath of Liberty are swore to
respect those tenets.
Respect Freedom. Every being should
be free to make their own choice; always offer
your counsel, if asked, but never dictate your
orders.
Respect Life. To kill a mortal is to
utterly deprive them of any freedom; stay your
sword hand, for some mistakes cannot be
undone. Resort to violence only when there are
no other means to prevent a greater evil.
The Freedom of Many. When in doubt,
always choose the greater goods: the more
persons will have their freedom protected by
your action, the better your deed will be.
Sometimes a life has to be sacrificed for the
freedom of many.
Atone for Your Mistakes. Yours is a
path of leniency, but sometimes those you spare
will prove themselves unworthy of your mercy;
in those cases you must be swift in making
amend, lest a noble act of yours has dire
consequences.
OATH SPELLS
You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.
OATH OF LIBERTY SPELLS
Paladin Level Spells
3rd alarm, protection from evil and good
5th calm emotions, pass without trace
9th nondetection, spirit guardians
13th death ward, freedom of movement
17th dispel evil and good, greater
restoration
CHANNEL DIVINITY
When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain
the following Channel Divinity options.
Break the Chains. You can use your
Channel Divinity to release an ally from the
clutches of any effects that restricts its freedom.
As a bonus action, you speak a quick prayer and
choose an allied creature within 30 feet of you
that can hear you and that is suffering from the
charmed, frightened, paralyzed, or restrained
condition. The target is set free from that effect,
and for 1 minute gains advantage to saving
throws against being charmed, frightened,
paralyzed, or restrained.
Move Out. Thanks to the blessing
bestowed by your god, you can help your allies
escape any dire combat situation. As an action,
you can use your Channel Divinity, while rising
your holy symbol and uttering an encouraging
prayer, in order to bestow great mobilities to all
the friendly creatures of your choice within 30
feet that can see or hear you. Each creature can
use its reaction to move up to half its speed
without provoking opportunity attacks.
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AURA OF FREEDOM
Starting at 7th level, you and friendly creatures
within 10 feet of you can't be charmed while
you are conscious.
At 18th level, the range of this aura
increases to 30 feet.
UNBOUND
Starting at 15th level, you and friendly creatures
within 10 feet of you have advantage on saving
throws against being paralyzed or restrained.
At 18th level, the range of this aura
increases to 30 feet.
UNCHAINED WE STAND
At 20th level, you roam the battlefield as the
champion of literal and metaphoric liberty, an
inspirational herald of freedom clad in
quicksilver-like steel.
You can use your action to gain the following
benefits for 1 hour:
• When you are subject to an effect that
allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to
take only half damage, you instead take no
damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and
only half damage if you fail.
• You can take the Disengage action as a
bonus action.
• You have advantage on Wisdom saving
throws, as do your allies within 30 feet of you.
This effect ends if you are incapacitated or die.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again
until you finish a long rest.
OATH OF MORTALS
According to many of their former comrades,
those paladins who choose the Oath of Mortals
are no better than the vile Oathbreakers, for
they rejected whatever allegiances to the
greater powers they possessed, and now openly
defile the gods. However, while an Oathbreaker
follows no rule rather than their own whims
and desires, a follower of the Oath of Mortals
gave up the former, god-spoken tenets in order
to embrace a new life philosophy, centered
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around the bonds of kinship that all the mortals
share between them, the very ties that set them
apart from the immortal gods and their
unearthly, chosen servants. From the point of
view of those paladins, it is their true duty, as
mortals, to embrace the cause of all mortal kind
and use their powers to protect the weak, to
avenge the fallen, and to grant a better life to
those that still breath and live. And, somehow,
those who follow the Oath of Mortals are still
capable of harvesting their former divine
power; perhaps a greater, unspoken deity
secretly favors them above the servants of
lesser gods, lost in their petty squabbles, or
perhaps it is their faith in mortals that makes
them a receptacle for the same power that is
granted to the gods by the worshiping of
mortals. Either the case, those paladins remain
true and stalwart heroes, trusted protectors of
mortal kind and uncompromising upholders of
the same tenets they used to follow... however,
they act no more in the name of the gods, but of
the whole mortal races.
TENETS OF MORTALS
Whatever your previous tenets were, you now
embrace those new ones.
Kinship. Despite the differences, all
mortal races share a common bond, for they all
inhabit the same world and will ultimately meet
the same fate. Be conscious of this kinship, but
don't let your compassion became leniency.
Independence. Mortals should rely only
on each other, the grace and blessings of deities
should not be sought nor accepted. You have
not to be blasphemous, but the gods should play
no part in your life.
Self-Determination. All mortals should
be free to walk their own path, with no
interferences from above – or below. The
Mortal Plane is the place of mortals, not the
playground nor the chessboard for the
immortals' squabbles.
OATH SPELLS
You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.
OATH OF MORTALS SPELLS your Channel Divinity. Each creature of your
Paladin Level Spells choice that can hear you within 30 feed of you
3rd healing word, protection from evil and regains hit points equal to 1d6 + your Charisma
good modifier (minimum of 1) if it has no more than
5th gentle repose, warding bond half of its hit points.
9th create food and water, magic circle
13th banishment, death ward
SELFLESS PROTECTOR
Starting at 7th level, when a creature within 5
17th greater restoration, raise dead
feet of you takes damage, you can use your
reaction to magically substitute your own
CHANNEL DIVINITY health for that of the target creature, causing
When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain that creature not to take the damage. Instead,
the following Channel Divinity options. you take the damage. This damage to you can't
Begone, Immortals. As an action, you be reduced or prevented in any way.
utter words of
banishment that are
painful for immortal
creatures to hear. Each
celestial, fey, and fiend
that can see or hear you
within 30 feed of you
must make a Wisdom
saving throw. If the
creature fails its saving
throw, it is turned for 1
minute or until it takes
damage. A turned
creature must spend its
turns trying to move as
far away from you as it
can, and it can't
willingly move to a
space within 30 feed of
you. It also can't take
reactions. For its action,
it can only use the Dash
action or try to escape
from an effect that
prevents it from
moving. If there's
nowhere to move, the
creature can use the
Dodge action.
Carry On. As a
bonus action, you can
ease the suffering of
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UNTOUCHABLE
Beginning at 15th level, you are always under
the effects of a protection from evil and good
spell.
BEACON OF MORTAL KIND
At 20th level, you can extend your power into
an invisible and yet effective magical shield that
protects you and your fellow mortals from any
nearby outsider.
You can use your action to gain the
following benefits for 1 minute:
• Your allies within 30 feet of you are
under the effects of a protection from evil and
good spell.
• Your have advantage on saving throws
against spells cast by aberrations, celestials,
feys, or fiends, as do your allies within 30 feet of
you.
• You can use a bonus action to harm the
immortals and boost the mortals within a range
of 30 feet of you. Every ally of your choice
regains 10 hit points, if it has no more than half
of its hit points, and every aberration, celestial,
fey, or fiend within range takes 10 force
damage.
This effect ends if you are incapacitated or die.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again
until you finish a long rest.
OATH OF TYRANNY
The natural order is a constant struggle that
ensures the survival of the strongest; rights,
laws and civilization are not meant to change
this fundamental, universal mandate, but are
mere tools to establish a stronger authority and
make it last until it outlives its strength. A true
leader must be powerful, feared, and respected
– or not be at all. Those are the fundamental
teachings of the gods that first inspired the Oath
of Tyranny, the protectors of mortal and
immortal dictators alike; consequently, their
champions are not protectors nor saviors, but
rather enforcers, cruel executors of a higher will
that leaves no room to leniency nor piety.
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Honor-bound and devoted, paladins of the Oath
of Tyranny are granted – nearly – unlimited
powers when it comes to impose their will over
their enemies or to punish the defilers of what
they stand for.
TENETS OF TYRANNY
The tenets of the Oath of Tyranny are brutal,
simple and meaningful: a coherent code to be
followed blindly.
Be Strong. The weak perishes, the
strong prevails; this is the natural order of
things. Hone yourself to be stronger than the
fodder, unless you'll perish. Your duty is to
prevail, no matter what.
Be Merciless. Mercy is a pointless lie
that lets the weak live on. Have no mercy, give
no quarter, ask no quarter if defeated. To grant
freedom to the weak is to invite disaster upon
them and yourself alike.
Obey and Dictate. The strong rules, the
weak obeys: this is order, this is the
fundamental law. Your duty is to lead those
below your stature, and to obey those above
you; no deceit, no trickery should be suffered to
let the weak rule. Improve your stature by
strengthening yourself.
OATH SPELLS
You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.
OATH OF TYRANNY SPELLS
Paladin Level Spells
3rd bane, command
5th hold person, zone of truth
9th animate dead, fear
13th compulsion, locate creature
17th geas, hold monster
CHANNEL DIVINITY
When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain
the following Channel Divinity options.
Cower in Fear. As an action, you
channel the strength of your violent devotion
into a wave of pure terror that annihilates the
will of the weak. Each creature of your choice
within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom
saving throw if ti can hear or see you. On a
failed save, the target is frightened of you for 1
minute. If a creature frightened by this effect
ends its turn more than 30 feed away from you,
it can attempt another Wisdom saving throw to
end the effect on it.
Keep Enemies Closer. You utter an
order that prevents your enemies to escape.
Each creature of your choice that you can see
within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom
saving throw. On a failed save, a creature can't
willingly move more than 30 feet away from
you. This effect ends on the creature if you are
incapacitated or die or if the creature is moved
more than 30 feed away from you.
TORMENTOR
By 7th level, there is no escape from your
clutches. When you hit a creature with an
opportunity attack, you can move up to half
your speed immediately after the
attack and as part of the same reaction.
This movement doesn't provoke
opportunity attacks.
UNCHALLENGED TYRANT
At 20th level you stand as the epitome of
despotic power, the ultimate dictator whose
power knows no rival. You can use your action
to gain the following benefits for 1 minute:
• Attack rolls against you are made with
disadvantage, and you can't be charmed.
• When a creature within 30 feet of you
misses you with an attack roll, you can use your
reaction to force it to make a Wisdom saving
throw. On a failure, the target is charmed by you
until the end of its next turn or until you use the
following feature.
• During your turn, you can use a bonus
action to inflict 2d10 necrotic damage to a
charmed target; this damage ends the charmed
condition, but you regain hit points equal to half
the damage inflicted.
This effect ends if you are incapacitated or die.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again
until you finish a long rest.

BEAT INTO SUBMISSION

Starting at 15th level, you gain the
ability to subjugate a humanoid's mind
with the sheer power of your violent
might. When you incapacitate a
humanoid with an attack, you can use a
bonus action in order to submit its
consciousness to your imperious will.
That creature must make a Charisma
saving throw against your spell save
DC; if it succeeds, the target is
frightened by you; if it fails, it is
charmed by you.
Both effect last until a calm
emotions spell is cast on the target, if
the charmed or frightened condition is
removed from it, or if you use this
feature again.

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OATH OF WARDING
To take the Oath of Warding is to commit your
life to protect one of the holiest vestiges of your
deity in the Material World. Be it a relic, a
sanctuary, or even the god's reincarnated
avatar, the object of the Oath of Warding is
served by an order of devoted paladins, swore
to forfeit their lives in order to ensure the safety
of their ward. As they share a more intimate
bond with their deity than most paladins, those
who took the Oath of Warding are used to
answer only to their god, without the mediation
of priest, clerics or prophets. Should their
prized ward get lost, the paladin would embark
in an endless quest in order to retrieve it, and
they'll never give up till they have reattained it.
TENETS OF WARDING
As you swore the Oath of Warding, you
embraced the following tenets.
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Swore to Protect. Your ultimate duty is
to protect your ward, be it a relic, a sanctuary or
a person. You'll suffer no harm to your ward.
Life on the Line. You stand ready to
struggle, to suffer, even to sacrifice your own
life in order to protect your ward.
The Greater Good. No purpose is higher
than to serve and protect your ward. Every
other task, mission and objective is trivial when
your ward is endangered.
Never Give Up. Should your ward be
damaged, harmed, or lost, your duty is to
retrieve and secure it. Your life is not to be
wasted in a pointless sacrifice of atonement, but
must be spent to uphold your duty and your
oath.
OATH SPELLS
You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.
OATH OF WARDING SPELLS
Paladin Level Spells
3rd alarm, sanctuary
5th augury, warding bond
9th magic circle, spirit guardians
13th divination, guardian of faith
17th commune, hallow
CHANNEL DIVINITY
When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain
the following Channel Divinity options.
Armor of the Hallowed. As an action,
you surround yourself with the sacred aura of
your god, using your Channel Divinity. For 1
minute, at the start of each of your turns you
gain temporary hit points equal to your
Charisma modifier + half your paladin level.
While clad in divine majesty, you also shed a
holy radiance, and emit bright light in a 20-foot
radius and dim light 20 feet beyond that.
You can end this effect on your turn as a
part of any other action. If you fall unconscious,
this effect ends.
Drive Them Out. As an action, you
manifest the virtue of your deity as a majestic
aura that strikes your enemies with awe and
fear. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet
of you must make a Wisdom saving throw if ti
can hear or see you. On a failed save, the target
is frightened of you for 1 minute. If a creature
frightened by this effect ends its turn more than
30 feed away from you, it can attempt another
Wisdom saving throw to end the effect on it.
I AM YOUR SHIELD
Starting at 7th level, when a creature within 5
feet of you takes damage, you can use your
reaction to magically substitute your own
health for that of the target creature, causing
that creature not to take the damage. Instead,
you take the damage. This damage to you can't
be reduced or prevented in any way.
TILL MY LAST BREATH AND BEYOND
Starting at 15th level, when you are reduced to
0 hit points and are not killed outright, you can
choose to drop to 1 hit point instead. Once you
use this ability, you can't use it again until you
finish a long rest.
Additionally, you suffer none of the
drawbacks of old age, and if you are resurrected
through magic you suffer none of the penalties
associated with raise dead, resurrection and
similar spells.
THE MAJESTY WITHIN
By 20th level you have developed a bond so
close with your ward and the divine power that
emanates from it that you can briefly manifest a
fraction of this might from within your soul. You
can use your action to unleash this aura, that for
1 minute shines bright light in a 30-foot radius
from you, and dim light 30 feet beyond that.
While the light shines, you and your
allies within bright light regain 10 hit points at
the start of each of your turns. Furthermore, any
enemy creature that starts its turn in the bright
light takes 10 radiant damage.
This effect ends if you die. Once you use
this feature, you can't use it again until you
finish a long rest.
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 RANGER
The ranger class certainly has some issues, at
least in the common perception, and yet it
remains a solid choice for many players. Given
FIGHTING STYLE OPTIONS
When you choose a fighting style, the following
style is added to the list of options.
free hand fighting
When you are fighting with a free hand that
doesn’t wield a weapon nor a shield, you can
use a bonus action to take the Use an Object
action.
VARIANT CLASS: A RANGER WITHOUT SPELLS
Some rangers are hunters rather than natural
wardens, or perhaps they lack the specific
mystical disposition needed to commune with
the powers of nature and harness their blessing
as spells. They are nevertheless incredible
warriors, capable of holding their own in battle
and especially deadly in their favored terrain,
against their favored enemies.
If you choose this variant, you ignore all
the Spellcasting features of the ranger, as well
as the class features that refer to your spells.
Instead you gain the following features.
COMBAT SUPERIORITY
At 2nd level, you learn maneuvers that are
fueled by special dice called superiority dice.
Maneuvers. You learn two maneuvers
of your choice, which are chosen from the list of
maneuvers available to fighters with the Battle
Master archetype. Many maneuvers enhance an
attack in some way. You can use only one
maneuver per attack.
You learn one additional maneuver of
your choice at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels.
Each time you learn a new maneuver, you can
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the hot water the ranger skillfully surfs over,
the new introduced options include just a few
optional tweaks to the base class.
vengeful strikes
When you are wielding a melee weapon, and a
creature you can see within 5 feet hits you with
a melee weapon attack, you can use your
reaction to inflict damage equal to your
proficiency bonus to the attacking creature. The
damage is of the type inflicted by the weapon
you are wielding.
also replace one maneuver you know with a
different one.
Superiority Dice. You have three
superiority dice, which are d8s. A superiority
die is expended when you use it. You regain all
of your expended superiority dice when you
finish a short or long rest.
You gain another superiority die at 5th
level and one more at 9th and 17th level.
Saving Throws. Some of your
maneuvers require your target to make a saving
throw to resist the maneuver’s effects. The
saving throw DC is calculated as follows:
Maneuver save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice)
HERBALIST
At 2nd level, you also gains proficiency in the
Herbalist Tools, and your proficiency bonus is
doubled for the checks you make to use the
Herbalist Tools with the plants of your favored
terrains.
Furthermore, you can use infusions and
poultices, made from fresh or dried plants, to
ease the pain of yours and your wounded allies
during a short rest. If you or any friendly
creatures who you treat regain hit points at the
end of the short rest, each of those creatures
regains extra hit points equal to the number you
roll on your superiority die. If you are in one of
your favored terrains, and you can employ the
fresh plants that you know so well, you and
your allies regain the maximum hit points
possible.

RIGOROUS HUNTER
By the time you reach 2nd level, your mastery at
exploring and hunting at your own conditions.
You can add your proficiency bonus to the
damage roll of an attack you make against one
of your favored enemies.
Furthermore, whenever you are in your
favored terrain, you add your proficiency bonus
to your initiative checks, as well as to the DC
and damage rolls of the traps you personally
set.

PRIMEVAL AWARENESS
Beginning at 3rd level, you can use your action
and expend one superiority die to focus your
awareness on the region around you. For 1
minute, you can sense whether the following
types of creatures are present within 300 feet of
you (or within up to 1 mile if you are in your
favored terrain): aberrations, celestials,
dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead.
This feature doesn’t reveal the creature’s
location or number.

EXPERT HERBALIST
Starting at 9th level, you have advantage on
saving throws against poison and have
resistance to poison damage. Additionally, your
herbalist treatments now remove the poisoned
condition from you and your allies.

IMPROVED SUPERIORITY DICE

When you reach 13th level, your superiority
dice turn d10s. At 20th level, they turn into
d12s.

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RELENTLESS
Starting at 17th level, when you roll initiative
and have no superiority dice remaining, you
regain 1 superiority die.
BEAST MASTER: COMMON RESPITE
Beginning at 15th level, whenever you regain
hit points your beast companion regains the
same amount of hit points if the beast is within
30 feet of you. This feature replaces Share
Spells.

RANGER ARCHETYPES SPELLS

The Xanathar’s Guide to Everything
introduced a new archetype spells feature for HUNTER SPELLS
the ranger. The following features are meant to Ranger Level Spells
be added to the Hunter and to the Beast Master. 3rd guiding bolt
5th hold person
HUNTER MAGIC 9th elemental weapon
Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional 13th blight
spell when you reach certain levels in this class,
17th hold monster
as shown in the Hunter Spell table. The spell
counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn’t
count against the number of ranger spells you BEAST MASTER MAGIC
know. Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional
spell when you reach certain levels in this class,
as shown in the Beast Master Spell table. The
spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it
doesn’t count against the number of ranger
spells you know.

BEAST MASTER SPELLS

Ranger Level Spells
3rd healing word
5th enlarge/reduce
9th revivify
13th dominate beast
17th awaken

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LIMINAL WARDEN
“He who fights with monsters should look to it
that he himself does not become a monster. And if
you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes
into you.”
Every ranger is a protector of the civilized lands
that dwells in the wilderness in order to divert
the threats that come from there. To do so often
means to embrace the very habits of the
monstrous beasts the ranger fights against. But,
as far as bestial means to civilized ends go, it is
only the archetypal Liminal Warden that goes
beyond the breaking point, accepting the very
form of a shapeshifting monster in order to
defend what they hold dear.
LIMINAL WARDEN MAGIC
Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional
spell when you reach certain levels in this class,
as shown in the Liminal Warden Spell table. The
spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it
doesn’t count against the number of ranger
spells you know.
LIMINAL WARDEN SPELLS
Ranger Level Spells
3rd healing word
5th spider climb
9th vampiric touch
13th polymorph
17th antilife shell
FERAL SENSES
When you choose this archetype at 3rd level,
your gain proficiency with one of the following
skills: Insight, Perception, or Survival. Choose
one of these three skills you have proficiency
with; your proficiency bonus is doubled for any
ability check you make that uses the chosen
proficiency.
LIMINAL SHAPE
Also at 3rd level, you gain the ability to briefly
shapeshift yourself into a feral form that
combines your humanoid traits with the feature
of a savage beast. On your turn, you can use a
bonus action to assume your Liminal Shape and
gain the following benefits:
• Your speed increases by 10 feet.
• You gain temporary hit points equal to
twice your ranger level.
• Your teeth and nails protrude as sharp
fangs and claws; your unarmed strike deals 1d6
piercing or slashing damage (your choice), and
you can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the
attack and damage rolls of your unarmed
strikes.
• When you use the Attack action, or
when you use your action to cast a spell, you
can make an unarmed attack as a bonus action.
• You have advantage on Wisdom
(Perception) checks that rely on hearing or
smell.
• You have disadvantage on Intelligence
and Charisma ability checks, except Intelligence
(Nature) and Charisma (Intimidation) checks.
Your Liminal Shape lasts for 10 minutes.
It ends early if you are knocked unconscious,
and you can’t otherwise revert back before it
expires.
Once you use this feature, you must
finish a short or long rest before you can use it
again.
UNARMORED DEFENSE
Starting at 3rd level, while you are not wearing
any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your
Dexterity modifier + your Wisdom modifier.
You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.
FERAL SENSES
By 7th level, you have developed a sixth sense
for ambushes and a subtly pervasive bloodlust,
so that you have advantage on initiative rolls.
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Additionally, if you are surprised at the
beginning of combat and aren’t incapacitated,
you can act normally on your first turn, but only
if you acquire your Liminal Shape before doing
anything else on that turn.
INFUSED FLESH
At 7th level, your unarmed strikes count as
magical for the purpose of overcoming
resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks
and damage
RELENTLESS BEAST
Starting at 11th level, your Liminal Shape gives
you the sturdiness of a fearsome beast. If you
“The horde of Trakhazk the Cruel always avoids
Springoak Forest and the few hamlets scattered
around the woods. According to their legends,
Springoak is ansolwos, unsafe: they say that a
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drop to 0 hit points while you’ve assumed your
Liminal Shape and don’t die outright, you can
make a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw. If you
succeed, you drop to 1 hit point instead.
Each time you use this feature after the
first, the DC increases by 5. When you finish a
short or long rest, the DC resets to 10.
UNSTOPPABLE BEAST
At 15th level your seem to literally regain your
strength the more you are wounded and
desperate. You regain hit points equal to 1d6 +
half your ranger level if you end your turn in
combat with fewer than half of your hit points
remaining and you aren’t incapacitated.
she-that-is-not-woman guards the forest, and
that he is the one who bit off Trakhazak’s hand. I
think it’s safe to assume that we know where our
friend retired to.”
 ROGUE
The rogue is another class whose archetypes
are especially broad, and could offer solid rules
to many different character concepts. The
VARIANT ROGUISH ARCHETYPE: ARCANE RASCAL
This simple variant of the arcane trickster is
good to represent a rogue that discovers (or
finally decides to accept) that magic flows in
their bloodline. Rather than study it as a wizard,
they awaken it from their own blood and soul as
a sorcerer does.
Thus they uses all the arcane trickster class
features with the following exceptions.
SPELLCASTING
When you reach 3rd level, you gain the ability to
cast spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules
of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the sorcerer
spell list.
Cantrips. You learn three cantrips:
mage hand and two other cantrips of your
choice from the sorcerer spell list. You learn an
additional sorcerer cantrip of your choice at
10th level.
following, minor tweak is only a simple variant
archetype.
Spell Slots. Your spells slot work exactly
as those of an arcane trickster.
Spells Known of 1st-level and Higher.
You know three 1st-level sorcerer spells of your
choice, two of which you must choose from the
enchantment and illusion spells on the sorcerer
spell list. The Spell Known column of the Arcane
Trickster Spellcasting table shows when you
learn more sorcerer spells of 1st level of higher.
Each of these spells must be an enchantment or
illusion spell of your choice, and must be of a
level for which you have spell slots.
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 sorcerer spells you
know with another spell of your choice from the
sorcerer spell list. The new spell must be of a
level for which you have spell slots, and it must
be an enchantment or illusion 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 sorcerer spells,
since you draw from your own soul the power
to cast them. 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 sorcerer 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
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The Spell Known column of the
BLASPHEMER
Blasphemer Spellcasting table shows when you
The archetypal Blasphemer is an insufferable learn more cleric spells of 1st level of higher. A
mockery of pious devotion made flesh, for this spell you choose must be of a level no higher
rogue possess undeniable magic powers, divine than what’s shown in the table’s Slot Level
magic powers, without any special bond with column for your level. When you reach 13th
the gods. In fact, the Blasphemers’ name comes level, for example, you learn a new cleric spell,
from the harsh contempt they often display which can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level.
towards clerics and other divine spellcasters, The spells you learn at 9th, 15th, and
but most Blasphemers are usually not so prone 20th level come from the warlock spell list.
to theological question, such as the true nature Whenever you gain a level in this class,
of the font of power they tap on. They have you can replace one of the spells you know with
magic powers, they use them how they see fit another spell of your choice. The new spell must
without strings attached nor repercussion, and be of a level for which you have spell slots, and
that’s enough. it must be from the cleric spell list, or from the
warlock spell list if you’re replacing the spell
SPELLCASTING you gained at 3rd, 9th, 15th, or 20th level.
When you reach 3rd level, you gain the ability to
BLASPHEMER SPELLCASTING
cast divine spells. See chapter 10 for the general
rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the Rogue Cantrips Spells Spell Slot
Level Known Known Slots Level
sorcerer spell list.
3rd 3 2 1 1st
Cantrips. You learn three cantrips:
thaumaturgy, one cantrip of your choice from 4th 3 2 1 1st
the cleric spell list, and one other cantrip of 5th 3 3 1 1st
your choice from the warlock spell list. You 6th 3 3 2 1st
learn an additional cleric or warlock cantrip of
7th 3 4 2 2nd
your choice at 10th level.
Spell Slots. The Blasphemer Spellcasting 8th 3 4 2 2nd
table shows how many spell slots you have. The 9th 3 5 2 2nd
table also shows what the level of those slots is; 10th 4 5 2 2nd
all of your spell slots are the same level. To cast
11th 4 6 2 2nd
one of your Blasphemer spells of 1st level or
highter, you must expend a spell slot. You regain 12th 4 6 2 2nd
all expended spell slots when you finish a short 13th 4 7 2 3rd
or long rest. 14th 4 7 2 3rd
For example, when you are 7th level,
15th 4 8 2 3rd
you have two 2nd-level spell slot. To cast the
16th 4 8 2 3rd
1st-level spell healing word, you must spend one
of those slots, and you cast it as a 3rd-level spell. 17th 4 9 2 3rd
Spells Known of 1st-level and Higher. 18th 4 9 2 3rd
You know two 1st-level spells of your choice, 19th 4 10 2 4th
one from the cleric spell list and one from the
20th 4 11 2 4th
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 powerful artifacts. You ignore all class, race, and
Spellcasting Ability. Charisma is your level requirements on the use of magic items.
spellcasting ability for your cleric and warlock
spells, since your magic comes from your ability SIPHON SPELL
to forcibly draw power from an unwilling – or At 17th level, you gain the ability to impromptu
uncaring – source. You use your Charisma siphon magic power from another spellcaster.
whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting Immediately after a creature casts a
ability. In addition, you use your Charisma spell that targets you or includes you in its area
modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a of effect, you can use your reaction to force the
sorcerer spell you cast and when making an creature to make a saving throw with its
attack roll with one. spellcasting ability modifier. The DC equals your
spell save DC. On a failed save, you negate the
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your spell’s effect against you, and you steal the
Charisma modifier
knowledge of the spell if it is at least 1st level
and of a level you can cast (it doesn’t need to be
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
a cleric or warlock spell). For the next 8 hours,
your Charisma modifier
you know the spell and can cast it using your
spell slots. The creature can’t cast that spell
HURT THE SMITTEN
until the 8 hours have passed.
Starting at 3rd level, you can use the bonus Once you use this feature, you can’t use
action granted by your Cunning Action to cast it again until you finish a long rest.
your thaumaturgy cantrip and force one
creature within 30 feet to make a Charisma
saving throw against your spell save DC. If it
fails, you can use your Sneak Attack against that
target even if you don’t have advantage on the
attack roll, but not if you have disadvantage on
it.
This benefit, but not the usual effect of
thaumaturgy, lasts for a number of rounds equal
to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1 round)
minute or until you use this feature against a
different target.

DEBILITATING STRIKE
Starting at 9th level, the excruciating pain from
your attacks distracts the enemy from the
threat of your spells. If you dealt Sneak Attack
damage against a creature, that creature has
disadvantage on any saving throw it makes
against your spells until the end of your next
turn.

ELDRITCH CHARLATAN
By 13th level, your mastery of poached magic is
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SHIFTY ONE
“Nobody is my name. My mother and my father
call me Nobody, and all my companions as well.”
Those who follow the archetype of the Shifty
One are notorious, even among rogues, because
no trick nor scheme is above them. They are
capable of anything and versed in everything,
no skill is too trivial for them, no detail so
insignificant that it could not be pivotal in
potential ruse. Legends flourish around this or
that Shifty One, legends about how they tricked
a titan or escaped a dragon’s cave with the
wyrm’s most prized treasure. And yet, despite
their knack for deception and their calling for
greatness, most Shifty Ones ultimately long for
the most simple of pleasures: the love of their
significant ones, the soil of their homeland
below their feet, and that peaceful life they
would spare no ruse to
maintain.
DEADLY DECEIT
At 3rd level, you gain the ability to feint and
trick your enemies with grievous consequences.
As a bonus action, you make a Charisma
(Deception) check against a creature you can
see that isn’t incapacitated, contested by the
target’s Wisdom (Insight) check. If you succeed,
you can use your Sneak Attack against that
target even if you don’t have advantage on the
attack roll, but not if you have disadvantage on
it.
This benefit lasts for 1 minute or until
you successfully use this feature against a
different target.
IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE
Starting at 9th level, you have advantage on any
Charisma (Deception) and Wisdom (Insight)

WELL-VERSED
When you choose this
archetype at 3rd level, you
can add half your
proficiency bonus,
rounded down, to any
ability check you make
that doesn’t already
include your proficiency
bonus. You also learn one
language of your choice.
Additionally, you
can unerringly mimic the
speech patterns and
accent of a creature that
you hear speak for at least
1 minute, enabling you to
pass yourself off as a
native speaker of a
particular land, provided
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check if you move no more than half your speed
on the same turn.
SHARP MIND
By 13th level, you are so accustomed to
cheating and lying that even magic trickery
can’t foil you. As an action, you sense the
presence of illusions, shapechangers not in their
original form, and other magic designed to
deceive the senses within 30 feet of you,
provided you aren’t blinded or deafened. You
sense that an effect is attempting to trick you,
but you gain no insight into what is hidden or
into its true nature.
You can use this feature a number of
times equal to your Intelligence modifier
(minimum of once), and you regain all
expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.
MASTER OF DECEPTION
Starting at 17th level, your thoughts can’t be
read by telepathy or other means, unless you
allow it. You can present false thoughts by
succeeding on a Charisma (Deception) check
contested by the mind reader’s Wisdom
(Insight) check.
Additionally, no matter what you say,
magic that would determine if you are telling
the truth indicates you are being truthful if you
so choose, and you can’t be compelled to tell the
truth by magic.
WRETCH
They say that curiosity killed the cat, but this cat
burglar made it out alive – barely, and certainly
not unscratched. The memory of that haunting,
fateful heist will linger forever: whether a single
jewel, a whole treasure, or a few grave goods,
the cursed loot left a scar on the wretched one’s
very soul, but it was worth it. For the rogue
survived the doom that should have felled them,
and they soon learned to tap into the
experience. A wretch is not the most daring or
rogues, and certainly not the most charming
one, but is tenacious, resourceful, and deadly.
This cat survived their own curiosity,
and learned to do it again.
ALL PATCHED UP
When you choose this archetype at 3rd level,
you gain proficiency in the Intimidation and
Medicine skills if you don’t already have it. Your
proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability
check you make that uses either of those
proficiency.
CROOKED AND LETHAL
Starting at 3rd level, when you deal Sneak
Attack damage to a creature, that also suffers
necrotic damage equal to half your rogue level.
When you reach 9th level, your sneak attack
damage becomes magical for the purpose of
overcoming resistance and immunity to
nonmagical attacks and damage.
NINE LIVES
Starting at 9rd level, you can reroll a saving
throw that you fail. If you do so, you must use
the new roll, and you can’t use this feature again
until you finish a long rest.
You can use this feature twice between
long rests starting at 13th level and three times
between long rests starting at 17th level.
FOOL ME TWICE
Starting at 13th level, you can use a bonus
action on your turn to gain advantage on the
next Wisdom (Insight) check you make during
the same turn.
TENACIOUS UNDERDOG
Starting at 17th level, when you have fewer than
half of your hit points remaining, if a creature
hits you with a melee attack, you can use your
reaction to deal necrotic damage to the
creature. The necrotic damage equals your
Dexterity modifier (minimum 1).
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 SORCERER
Sorcerer origins are interesting class features,
as they could completely change the flavor of a
class with only a few minor features. Among the
NEW SORCEROUS ORIGINS
FAIRY BLOODLINE
One of your ancestors came from the Feywild,
or perhaps struck a deal with a powerful fairy
creature, you are certain of that. Or perhaps it
was a simple matter of conjunction of the
spheres, and when you were born – or
conceived – the borders between the Material
Plane and the land of fey were particularly thin.
Were you taken by the fae and then given back
to your parents after a spark of magic was
instilled within you? Whether the case, the
essence of the Feywild is the source of your
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following origins you will find both the generic,
as in “I am a sorcerer but no one of my
ancestors was so special”, and the specific.
power as a sorcerer, as well as the reason of
your exuberant, irrepressible, and sometimes
utterly crazy personality.
At your option, you can pick from or roll
on the Fairy Bloodline Quirks table to create a
quirk for your character.
FAIRY BLOODLINE QUIRKS
d6 Flaw
1 You laugh. Often. Too often. But your
happiness and your laughter are
infectious.
2 You love to sleep under the stars,
especially when there is a full moon, or a
new moon, or a crescent moon.
3 You speak with plants and animals as if
they were people.
4 When angered you became wicked, and
you are quick to take offense.
5 You have a predilection for jokes and
cruel pranks. It’s not your fault if they fall
for it.
6 You partake of every pleasure of life
without giving a damn about the future.
NATURAL TRICKSTER
At 1st level, you learn the druidcraft and minor
illusion cantrips, and they don’t count against
your number of cantrips known.
In addition, when your Spellcasting
feature lets you learn or replace a sorcerer
cantrip or a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher,
you can choose the new spell from the druid
spell list or the sorcerer spell list. You must
otherwise obey all the restrictions for selecting
the spell, and it becomes a sorcerer spell for
you.

A FAIRY GRIN
Starting at 1st level, you manifest the beguiling
and fearsome presence of the fey. As a bonus
action, you can cause a single creature within 30
feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw
against your sorcerer spell save DC. If the
creature fails the saving throw it is charmed or
frightened by you (your choice) until the end of
your next turn.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use
it again until you finish a short or long rest.
GONE WITH THE WIND
Starting at 6th level, you can vanish as a dream
in response to harm. When you take damage,
you can use your reaction and spend 2 sorcery
points to turn invisible and teleport up to 60
feet to an unoccupied space you can see. You
remain invisible until the end of your next turn
or until you attack or cast a spell.
DREAMS OF THE FEYWILD
Beginning at 14th level, you can harness power
from the dreamscape intertwined with the
Feywild, even using it to perceive the real
world.
When you finish a short rest, you can
cast one of the following spells, without
expending a spell slot or requiring material
components: dream (with you as the messenger,
albeit in a fairy shape), scrying, or seeming.
FAIRY SELF
At 18th level, you truly embrace your nature as
one of the great among the fey-touched. You
gain resistance to poison and psychic damage,
and you can’t be charmed, frightened, or
poisoned.
You can also use a bonus action to
manifest magical, fairy wings and gain a flying
speed of 60 feet. As an action, you can reduce
your flying speed to 30 feet for 1 hour and
choose a number of creatures within 30 feet of
you equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier. The
chosen creatures gain a magical flying speed of
30 feet for 1 hour. Once you reduce your flying
speed in this way, you can’t do so again until
you finish a short or long rest.
FATED BLOODLINE
“Born on the first day of the year, the firstborn of
a twin and a triplet shall wield the magic of
blood, and the Five Dragon Lords shall finally be
vanquished.”
Among your ancestors there were no dragons
nor outsiders, and no special event marked your
birth of your early years, as your destiny as a
sorcerer was already written before you were
born. Whether prophecies foretold of your
arcane prowess or a simple, trivial matter such
as your birth order doomed you to magic,
eldritch power flows within your veins and
always will. Some sorcerers of fated bloodline
came from families that, conscious of their
arcane birthright, encouraged their magical
career; others were not so lucky and only after
years of struggle and odd accidents finally
embraced their destiny. Some were destined to
greatness, others were doomed to bring great
ruin. But foretelling is a fickle art, and
prophecies could always lie… or be rewritten by
bold adventurers!
At your option, you can pick from or roll
on the Fated Bloodline Omens table to create an
omen regarding character.
FATED BLOODLINE OMENS
d6 Flaw
1 Mages across the world look at you as a
once future master.
2 Animals and children are scared by you.
3 You always win at every game of chance.
4 Every extraplanar entity you meet seems
to know your name.
5 There is a star that only you can see.
6 A local noble fears your very existence,
and you have to fend off their hired
assassins.
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BONUS PROFICIENCIES
At 1st level, you learn a bonus language of
your choice. You also gain proficiency with
two skills among the Arcana, Intimidation,
History, and Religion skills.

MANIFEST DESTINY
Starting at 1st level, when you make an
attack roll, an ability check, or a saving
throw and you roll a 20, you gain
temporary hit points equal to your
Charisma modifier + your sorcerer level
(minimum of 1).

AGAINST ALL ODDS

Starting at 6th level, you have the ability
to claim your birthright and strive for
success against all the odds. When you
make an attack roll, an ability check, or a
saving throw, you can spend 2 sorcery
points to roll 1d4 and apply the number
rolled as a bonus to your roll. You can do
so after you roll but before any effects of
the roll occur.

A SEALED FATE
Beginning at 14th level, you have the ability to
carry on towards your destiny regardless of
tampering from mortal magic. You have
advantage on saving throws against spells;
furthermore, you have resistance against the
damage of spells.
AVOIDING DOOM
At 18th level, you gain the ability to overcame
every obstacle and instantly recover from
impending doom, as fate promises more twists
before your destiny unfolds completely. As a
bonus action when you have fewer than half of
your hit points remaining, you can regain a
number of hit points equal to half your hit point
maximum.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use
it again until you finish a long rest.
IMPLANTED ONE
You weren’t born with magic, but it was grafted
into you, quite literally, as an ancient artifact or
some other power source fused with your very
flesh and bone. Was it a willing process, the last
resort of a desperate aspiring mage to finally
master arcane power, or the fortuitous result of
a horrible accident? Either way, magic is now
part of your nature, and the same source that
fuels your spells grants you a preternatural
resistance, as if it didn’t want to be parted from
you. As sorcerers go, you aren’t the most
conventional one, but your powers are not to be
trifled with.
At your option, you can pick from or roll
on the Implanted One Oddities table to create
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IMPLANTED ONE ODDITIES
d6 Flaw
1 You refer to yourself with the plural.
2 Arcanists and scholars tried to dissect
you. More than once.
3 You eat your share of food, and your
power source’s too. Were not its needs
so peculiar...
4 When you cough you spark, glitter, or
otherwise emit raw magical waste.
5 You have your magic source’s agenda to
uphold.
6 You spend your free time in museums
and academies. As a living exhibition.
ARCANE FLESH
As the implanted artifact accepts you, its
eldritch power strengths your body and infuses
your very flesh with magical protections. At 1st
level, your hit points increase by 1 and increase
by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this
class. Furthermore, when you aren’t wearing
armor, your AC equals 13 + your Dexterity
modifier.
of your turn, you can instead spring back to
your feet with a burst of radiant energy. You
regain hit points equal to half your hit point
maximum, and then you stand up if you so
choose. Each creature of your choice that is
within 30 feet of you takes force damage equal
to 2d6 + your Charisma modifier, and it is
frightened by you until the end of the current
turn.
UNFETTERED SOURCE
Beginning at 18th level, you can make the magic
within you flow through your spells as a
potentially endless flow of power. When you
roll damage for a spell and roll the highest
number possible on any of the dice, choose one
of those dice, roll it again ad add that roll to the
damage. You can use the feature only once per
turn.

BONUS PROFICIENCIES
Starting at 1st level, you gain proficiency with a
set of artisan tools of your choice. The magical
source grafted within you still needs to be taken
care of, after all.

POTENT CANTRIP
Starting at 6th level, the source of your power
corroborates your cantrips beyond your highest
expectations. When a creature succeeds on a
saving throw against your cantrip, the creature
takes half the cantrip’s damage (if any) but
suffers no additional effect from the cantrip.

ELDRITCH HEALING
Beginning at 14th level, your eldritch power is
so attuned to your body that it could potentially
save you from the brink of death. When you
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 WARLOCK
Pacts & Patrons is, by far, my most successful
5th edition work. It includes new pact boons,
new patrons, and new eldritch invocations,
VARIANT CLASS: FAUSTIAN
The faustians took their name from a legendary
ancient warrior, one so notorious that many
ballads, novels and plays were inspired by his
life and demise. For this is a cautionary tale, the
story of a warlock that struck a pact with
Mephistopheles and was ultimately outsmarted
by the archdevil, his soul dragged to the Nine
Hells for all the eternity.
Faustians don’t seek a trust pact with a
patron intrigued by their personality, for they
know that ultimately every patron, even the
most benevolent ones, have their own interests
at core and treat their mortal servants as mere,
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along with a few bonus familiars. All these
options all have been included in the following
pages.
disposable pawns. A faustian applies to the
signing and clauses of their pact the same
rigorous method that wizards apply to the study
of arcane magic; for, as the faustians believe, it
is ultimately possible for a warlock to outsmart
its own patron. And, as mortal warlocks study
their schemes, all their patrons laugh.
A faustian has all the usual class features
of the warlock, with the following exceptions.
PROFICIENCIES
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
SPELLCASTING ABILITY
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for
your warlock spells. 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 warlock 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
FURTHER FEATURES
Whenever a warlock spell, a Patron or Pact
feature, or a similar class feature refers to
your Charisma modifier or Charisma score,
use instead your Intelligence modifier or
your Intelligence score.
 NEW PACT BOONS
PACT OF THE AEGIS
You can use your action to create an eldritch
armor that surrounds and protects you. While
you are protected by the aegis, your AC equals
10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Charisma
modifier. You can't activate your pact of the
aegis if you are already wearing an armor.
The eldritch armor granted by the pact
of the aegis can't be removed, but it disappears
if you dismiss it (no action required), or if you
die.
You can transform one magic armor into
your pact aegis by performing a special ritual
while you wear the armor. You must be
proficient with the chosen armor, and you
perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour,
which can be done during a short rest. You can
then dismiss the armor, shunting it into an
extradimensional space, and it appears
whenever you create your pact aegis thereafter.
You can't affect an artifact or a sentient item in
this way. The armor ceases being your pact
aegis if you die, if you perform the 1-hour ritual
to a different armor, or if you use a 1-hour ritual
to break your bond with it. The armor appears
at your feet if it is in the extradimensional space
when the bond breaks.
PACT OF THE CONCOCTIONS
Your patron grants you proficiency with one of
your choice among the Alchemist's Supplies, the
Herbalism Kit, and the Poisoner's Kit, as well as
the ability to conjure a magical pact cauldron, in
which you are proficient, that you can use as
either of those tools.
You can perform a 1-hour ritual to
create a pact cauldron within 10 feet of you.
Your cauldron disappears if it is more than 10
feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also
disappears if you dismiss it (no action
required), or if you die.
Furthermore, when you are crafting
something using your cauldron, you make
progress every hour in 25-gp increments. You
must still spend the proper raw material in
order to craft the item. If you dismiss the
cauldron while still working on a concoction, it
remains safely stored into the cauldron until
you create it again.
PACT OF THE CONTRACTS
Your patron grants you the ability to act as a
proxy pact dealer for minor contracts of power.
You can use a bonus action to magically propose
a verbal covenant to a target creature within 30
feet of you.
Until the start of your next turn, the
target can then agree on the contract and gain
advantage on a single attack roll, saving throw,
or ability check. Should the target accept your
favor, you can use a reaction to inflict necrotic
damage to the target equal to your Charisma
modifier (minimum 1 necrotic damage);
furthermore, you regain hit points equal to the
damage inflicted to the target.
You can have only one of such contracts
active at a time.
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PACT OF THE VISIONS
You patron grants you the ability to behold brief
glimpses of the near future. Whenever you
finish a short rest, roll one d20 and record the
number rolled. You can replace any attack roll,
NEW PATRONS
THE ANCIENT SCALED ONE
The sage scholars that devoted their lives to the
ancient tongues have since long established that
the very name of “dragons” wasn’t initially
referred to the majestic, death-breathing
winged lizards everybody knows about and
fears, but was a generic word for “serpents”.
Furthermore, the very name of “dragons” and
“drakes” hinted at their fearsome, unblinking
and hypnotic eyes, whose very gaze was as
deadly as their poison and breath. The original
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saving throw, or ability check made by you or a
creature that you can see with your foretelling
roll. You must choose to do so before the roll.
When you finish a short rest, you lose
the unused foretelling roll.
Drakones, as mythologist call them, are
supposed to have been the forefathers of
modern-day dragons, wyverns, and drakes, as
well as hydras and nagas; perhaps the ancient
snakes that the Yuan-ti culture sought to
emulate were in fact those Drakones, or their
more reclusive progeny that still lives in the
world. While today most of the reptile creatures
have lost any kinship, the atavistic memory of
their ancestors lives on… as do a very few
Ancient Scaled Ones, dreaded beings gifted with
pristine power whose alien mentality is not
above forging pacts with the lesser, mammal
races in order to advance their own
unfathomable agendas. Many of the “sleeping”
entities revered by the yuan-ti qualify as
Ancient Scaled Ones, as do monstrous figures
such as Apopis, Jö rmungandr, Typhon, Vrtra,
Nidhogg, Python, and Lotan the Leviathan.
As an optional way to add more flavor to
your character, you can pick from or roll on the
following table of flaws associated with
warlocks of the Ancient Scaled One.
ANCIENT SCALED ONE FLAWS
d6 Flaw
1 While speaking, you can’t avoid hissing
whenever you utter an S.
2 You are used to “taste the air” of every
place by letting your tongue out, as
snakes do.
3 You prefer to eat your meals whole and
with a single morsel, eventually spitting
out non edible parts. And you prefer to
eat them still living.
4 You are prone to long sleeps and
catnaps, preferably immediately after
having your meals.
5 You either stand still or move with quick,
jerky gestures.
6 Every chat with you becomes a staring
contest against your cold, unblinking
eyes.
EXPANDED SPELL LIST
The Ancient Scaled One lets you choose from an
expanded list of spells when you learn a
warlock spell. The following spells are added to
the warlock spell list for you.
ANCIENT SCALED ONE EXPANDED SPELLS
Spell Level Spells
1st command, sleep
2nd protection from poison, see invisibility
3rd haste, nondetection
4th freedom of movement, polymorph
5th cloudkill, dominate person
SCALE-KIN
Starting at 1st level, you learn the poison spray
cantrip, and it doesn't count against your
number of cantrips known.
Additionally, entire portions of your
skin convert into the cold and resilient scales of
a reptile. When you aren’t wearing armor, your
AC equals 13 + your Dexterity modifier.
SHED THE SKIN
Starting at 6th level, you can shed your old skin
and spring back on your feet, ready to fight
back, even when everything seemed lost. When
you succeed on a death saving throw you can
spend a hit dice to regain hit points, and you can
then use a bonus action to cast poison spray,
spitting your caustic blood against the enemy.
Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a short rest.
SERPENT’S RESISTANCE
Starting at 10th level, you gain resistance
against poison damage. Additionally, you gain
advantage on saving throws against being
charmed, paralyzed, or poisoned.
Furthermore, you age at a slower rate.
For every 10 years that pass, your body ages
only 1 year, and when you use your Shed the
Skin feature you reverse any magical aging
effect you suffered.
WHEREVER SCALED ONES CAN GO
Beginning at 14th level, more and more
serpentine scales cover your skin and your very
physiology realigns itself to the one of your
patron, and your bond of kinship encompasses
every reptilian creature. You can hold your
breath for 15 minutes, you gain a swim speed
equal to your current speed, and a climb speed
equal to half your current speed.
In addition, you gain the ability to
sprout a pair of bird or dragon-like wings from
your back, gaining a flying speed equal to your
current speed. You can create these wings as a
bonus action on your turn. They last until you
dismiss them as a bonus action on your turn.
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 You can’t manifest your wings while
wearing armor unless the armor is made to
accommodate them, and clothing not made to
accommodate wings might be destroyed when
you manifest them.

THE ARCHMAGE
You tried to study magic as a wizard, but you
simply had not the required knack, the right
inclination to succeed in your studies. Instead,
you turned to a higher power, a legendary
wizard that somehow exists even centuries
after its great deeds in the past. The Archmage
accepted your devotion, and proposed you a
pact that you promptly accepted. Now, in
exchange of powerful arcane magic offered by
your patron, you act to fulfill its agenda in
recovering powerful artifact, thwarting the
schemes of ancient enemies, and ultimately
granting even more power to your master.
Potential Archmages include Merlin, Morgan Le
Fay, and the Trismegistus; Elminster and
Khelben Blackstaff; and even the notorious EXPANDED SPELL LIST
Master of Past and Present. The Archmage lets you choose from an
As an optional way to add more flavor to expanded list of spells when you learn a
your character, you can pick from or roll on the warlock spell. The following spells are added to
following table of flaws associated with the warlock spell list for you.
warlocks of the Archmage.
ARCHMAGE EXPANDED SPELLS
ARCHMAGE FLAWS Spell Level Spells
d6 Flaw 1st detect magic, shield
1 You are very secretive about any 2nd Nystul's magic aura, rope trick
knowledge you posses.
3rd Leomund's tiny hut, phantom steed
2 You openly disregard any mage other
4th arcane eye, Mordenkainen's private
than your patron.
sanctum
3 Sometimes you display your powers only
5th Bigby's hand, teleportation circle
for the pleasure of showing the gifts
granted by your pact.
4 You value the Archmage wisdom, as well SECRETS OF THE SKILLFUL MAGICIAN
as your own, far above those of the gods At 1st level, you learn the prestidigitation
and their servants. cantrip, and it doesn't count against your
5 You tend to become irrational and number of cantrips known.
violent if someone despises your patron. Furthermore, when you cast a spell that
requires a saving throw to be resisted, you can
6 You have a compulsion to use your magic
even for the most mundane of tasks.
impose disadvantage to the first saving throw
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use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
MINOR MISLEAD
Starting at 6th level, you can instantly vanish in
response to harm. When you take damage, you
can use your reaction to turn invisible and
teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space
you can see, You remain invisible until the start
of your next turn or until you attack or cast a
spell.
Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a short or long rest.
ARCANE WARD
Starting at 10th level, you can choose one
damage type when you finish a short or long
rest. You gain resistance to that
damage type until you choose a
different one with this feature.
Damage from magical weapons,
silvered weapons, or
adamantine weapons ignores
this resistance.
THE ASCENDANT
Many warlocks serve those who are in fact
demigods, either fallen divinities or
enterprising fiends. Your patron is a demigod
too, and their only true objective is to finally
ascend a became a proper deity. In order to
achieve this ambition, the Ascendant needs
more and more followers, legions of devoted
mortals and revering worshipers that profess
their faith. As the Ascendant is not yet a full-
fledged god, and can't provide spells to their
devotees, you were chosen to be Their voice and
Their sword. Potential Ascendant entities to
enter a pact with include enterprising half-gods,
such as an empyrean, powerful mortal warlords

SECRETS OF SPELL
RESISTANCE
Starting at 14th level, you have
advantage on saving throws
against spells.
Furthermore, when a
creature damages you with a
spell you can use your reaction
to grant yourself resistance
against that spell damage, and
that creature takes the same
amount of damage that you do.

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lately revered as deities, such as an emperor, or
even entire mortal races, such as mankind.
As an optional way to add more flavor to
your character, you can pick from or roll on the
following table of flaws associated with
warlocks of the Ascendant.
ASCENDANT FLAWS
d6 Flaw
1 You are blasphemous towards the gods:
after its ascension, your patron will
submit them all.
2 Whenever something goes well, you fell
the urge to pray and thank your patron,
whose mighty hand surely made the
deed possible.
3 You are an unbearable preacher, always
speaking about the ways of your patron.
4 You have a compulsion to always
perform the sacred rites of your patron,
even when urgency would dictate
otherwise.
5 You engage in endless theological
disputations with every priest you meet,
party members included.
6 You often threat not to help your allies
unless they pray to your patron for help.
EXPANDED SPELL LIST
The Ascendant lets you choose from an
expanded list of spells when you learn a
warlock spell. The following spells are added to
the warlock spell list for you.
ASCENDANT EXPANDED SPELLS
Spell Level Spells
1st command, sanctuary
2nd warding bond, zone of truth
3rd beacon of hope, create food and water
4th compulsion, guardian of faith
5th hallow, raise dead
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AGENT OF THE ASCENDANT
Starting at 1st level, you learn the thaumaturgy
cantrip, which counts as a warlock cantrip for
you.
Your patron grants you the ability to
scare its foes and to subjugate the weak to its
will. As a bonus action when you cast the
thaumaturgy cantrip, you can cause each
creature in a 10-foot cube originating from you
to make a Wisdom saving throw against your
warlock spell save DC. The creatures that fail
their saving throws are all charmed or
frightened by you (your choice) until the end of
your next turn.
Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a short or long rest.
BLESSINGS OF THE LORD
Starting at 6th level, you can call on your patron
to alter fate in your favor. When you make an
ability check or a saving throw, you can use this
feature to add a d10 to your roll. You can do so
after seeing the initial roll but before any of the
roll's effect occur.
Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a short or long rest.
BY THY GRACE WE ENDURE
Starting at 10th level, whenever you finish a
long or short rest you and up to five creatures
you can see at the end of your rest, gain
temporary hit points. These temporary hit
points equal your Charisma modifier + half your
warlock level.
FORCED RAPTURE
Starting at 14th level, when you hit a creature
with an attack, you can use this feature to
instantly transport the target to the presence of
your patron. The creatures briefly disappears
and is delivered to bear the mighty gaze of the
Ascendant.
At the end of your next turn, the target
returns to the space it previously occupied, or
the nearest unoccupied space. The target takes
10d10 radiant damage from the experience of
its forced rapture.
Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a long rest.
THE FATE ITSELF
Rather than a specific entity, your patron is Fate
Itself. Destiny choose you to act as an agent of
doom, or perhaps the harbinger of fortune and
good luck. You can read and discern the threads
of Fate, and your patron granted you the ability
to subtly alter them, choosing which one will
became real among the endless possible futures.
Or perhaps every action of yours, as well as
every mortal and immortal deed alike, was
preordained by Fate Itself long before you were
born, and what you perceive as your free
choices are in fact your destined actions.
As an optional way to add more flavor to
your character, you can pick from or roll on the
following table of flaws associated with
warlocks of Fate Itself.
FATE ITSELF FLAWS
d6 Flaw
1 You offer to divine the ultimate fate of all
your new acquaintances.
2 You act rashly and don't give a damn
about the consequences of your actions.
3 Even when your life is at risk, you are
reluctant to struggle against the
inevitable: perhaps your death was
preordained.
4 You don't want them to tell you the
odds, never.
5 You feel the urge to always struggle
against the inevitable, even when it
seems pointless: you, and you alone, are
the chosen instrument of Fate.
6 You compulsively engage in every game
of chance you know, no matter how big a
loser you are.
EXPANDED SPELL LIST
The Fate Itself lets you choose from an
expanded list of spells when you learn a
warlock spell. The following spells are added to
the warlock spell list for you.
FATE ITSELF EXPANDED SPELLS
Spell Level Spells
1st bane, bless
2nd augury, gentle repose
3rd bestow curse, feign death
4th divination, death ward
5th geas, reincarnate
FORTUNE AND DOOM
Starting at 1st level, when you reduce a hostile
creature to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit
points equal to your Charisma modifier + your
warlock level, and you gain advantage on your
next ability check. However, whenever you
reach 0 hit points you have disadvantage on
your first death saving throw.
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 Furthermore, you gain proficiency in a
set of gaming tools of your choice, typically a
game of chance like dice or cards.
THE HAND OF FATE
Starting at 6th level, your patron entrusts you
with the power to alter destiny in your favor.
When you make an ability check or a saving
throw, you can use this feature to add a d10 to
your roll. You can do so after seeing the initial
roll but before any of the roll's effect occur.
Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a short or long rest.
ABOVE AN UNTIMELY END
As a chosen agent of Fate Itself, you cannot die
before the proper time. Starting at 10th level,
you have resistance to necrotic damage, and
your hit point maximum can't be reduced. In
addition, you are immune to being magically
aged.
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BEHOLD YOUR OWN DEATH
Starting at 14th level, when you hit a creature
with an attack, you can use this feature to
briefly force the target to experience the
circumstances of its own death. This ordeal
reels the target and, even if it instantly forgets
about the precise details of its passing,
fragmented memories still linger into its mind;
the target takes 10d10 psychic damage,
potentially dieing from the shock caused by the
very experience of its incoming death.
Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a long rest.
THE LORD OF CHAOS
Your master is one of the Lords of Chaos, the
Black Dukes of Entropy feared by many and
called idiotic almighty fools by a few brave ones,
whose entrails are typically found scattered
around the floor. For the Lords
of Chaos are not evil, and their
very existence is in fact
necessary for the Cosmic
Balance and the constant
rebirth of life from death and
decay, but they follow a
pattern of thoughts impossible
for the mortal mind to grasp.
Demons are agents of Chaos, as
many celestials are, for
different tasks require
different emissaries. And, for
the Lords of Chaos, the voluble,
fleeting mortals are among the
most beloved of servants. Of
course the affection of a Duke
of Chaos is at best a mixed
blessing, but a blessing
nevertheless for the
enterprising warlock.
As an optional way to
add more flavor to your
character, you can pick from or
roll on the following table of
flaws associated with warlocks of the Lords of warlock spell. You then regain the use of this
Chaos. feature.

LORDS OF CHAOS FLAWS FLICKERING MAGIC

d6 Flaw Starting at 1st level, whenever you cast a spell
1 When you speak you alternate between
that inflicts damage, you may invoke the powers
all the languages you know, creating an
of Chaos to alter the very essence of the spell.
impossible pidgin.
Furthermore, when you suffer damage from a
2 You make a point of mocking the law, spell, you can use your reaction to let you
even when you have no reason to not chaotic powers surge and alter that spell.
abide by it. Whether the case, roll a d12 and change the
3 You feel the physical to indulge all your type of the damage caused by the spell
fascinations, however flickering. according to the number rolled.
4 You change everyday the way you dress,
your hairstyle, and your make-up.
5 You openly despise the gods of Law,
even when it would be wise to be
discreet.
6 You display your emotions in the most
blatantly conspicuous way, and you have
very frequent mood swings.

EXPANDED SPELL LIST

The Lords of Chaos lets you choose from an
expanded list of spells when you learn a
warlock spell. The following spells are added to
the warlock spell list for you.

LORDS OF CHAOS EXPANDED SPELLS

Spell Level Spells
1st color spray, Tasha’s hideous laughter
2nd alter self, enlarge/reduce
3rd nondetection, water walk
4th confusion, polymorph
5th creation, seeming

TIDES OF CHAOS
Starting at 1st level, you can invoke the forces of
Chaos to gain advantage on one attack roll,
ability check, or saving throw. Once you do so,
you must finish a long rest before you can use
this feature again. Any time before you regain
the use of this feature, the DM can have you roll
on the Wild Magic Surge table (on page 104 of
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FLICKERING MAGIC Imploring your patron’s aid requires
d12 Flaw you to use your action. Describe the assistance
1 Bludgeoning, piercing or slashing (your you seek, and roll percentile dice. If you roll a
choice) magical damage number equal to or lower than your warlock
2 acid damage level, your patron intervenes. The DM chooses
3 cold damage the nature of the intervention; the effect of any
warlock spell or patron spell would be
4 fire damage
appropriate. If your patron intervenes, you can’t
5 force damage use this feature again for 7 days. Otherwise, you
6 lightning damage can use it again after you finish a long rest.
7 necrotic damage
8 poison damage FLESH OF CHAOS
At 14th level, you are so familiar with the
9 psychic damage
energy of Chaos catalyzed by your patron that
10 radiant damage they somehow infuse with your body: you can’t
11 thunder damage be blinded, deafened, frightened, or poisoned,
12 instead of dealing damage, the spell and any critical hit against you counts as a
restores lost hit points to its target up to normal hit instead, unless you’re incapacitated.
a maximum equal to the damage it would
have caused

BLESSINGS OF CHAOS
At 6th level, the absent blessings of your
patron help you ward against enemy
attack. When a creature makes an attack
roll against you, you can use your
reaction to impose disadvantage on that
roll. If the attack misses you, your next
attack roll against the creature has
advantage if you make it before the end
of your next turn.
Once you use this feature, you
can't use it again until you finish a short
or long rest. Any time before you regain
the use of this feature, the DM can have
you roll on the Wild Magic Surge table
(on page 104 of the Player’s Handbook)
after you cast a warlock spell. You then
regain the use of this feature.

DIRECT INTERVENTION
Starting at 10th level, you can call on
your patron to take an active role and
intervene on your behalf when your
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THE LORD OF ORDER
You have sworn yourself to one of the distant,
enigmatic Lords of Law, sometimes called the
White Dukes of Order, an enigmatic force that
operate in the Multiverse to uphold the cause of
uncontested law. The Lords of Order are
somehow above the lords of Mechanus, and
both angels and devils heed their call. You have
no special link with your Patron: whether you
like it or not, you are merely a cog in the perfect
machine that will reduce the Million Sphere to a
harmonious singularity. Some would call the
Lords of Order evil, other would revere them as
the greatest among the gods; from your point of
view, it’s enough for them to be and grant you
power: you owe them obedience, as dictated by
your pact, but you are not compelled to revere
them.
As an optional way to add more flavor to
your character, you can pick from or roll on the
following table of flaws associated with
warlocks of the Lords of Order.
LORDS OF ORDER FLAWS
d6 Flaw
1 You maintain a perfect, rigid diction,
preferring not to speak rather than have
your words distorted by emotions.
2 Wherever you go, you uphold the local
law – even if it is the worst possible law!
3 You openly despise the differences
between living creatures; it’s not that
you are a racist, but everything would be
better if everyone was identical.
4 You always dress in the same way, and
always eat the same foods at the same
time.
5 You openly despise the gods of Chaos,
even when it would be wise to be
discreet.
6 You do your best to hide your emotions:
you would not shed tears over a fallen
friend, nor be moved to compassion or
hatred.
EXPANDED SPELL LIST
The Lords of Order lets you choose from an
expanded list of spells when you learn a
warlock spell. The following spells are added to
the warlock spell list for you.
LORDS OF ORDER EXPANDED SPELLS
Spell Level Spells
1st command, identify
2nd locate object, zone of truth
3rd clairvoyance, glyph of warding
4th locate creature, guardian of faith
5th geas, planar binding
SUBSUME TO SINGULARITY
Starting at 1st level, when you reduce a hostile
creature to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit
points equal to your Charisma modifier + half
your warlock level (minimum of 1).
ORDERLY INFLUENCES
Starting at 1st level, whenever you cast a spell
that inflicts damage, you may choose to not roll
for damage but instead inflict the medium
damage that the spell’s dice would cause.
Furthermore, whenever you would make an
attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw
with advantage, you could forego the advantage
in order to gain a +5 bonus to the roll. Likewise,
whenever you would make an attack roll, an
ability check, or a saving throw with
disadvantage, you could roll a single die and
suffer a -5 penalty to the roll.
DIRECTING THE MINIONS
At 6th level, when a creature within 30 feet of
you makes an attack roll, you can use your
reaction to grant that creature a +10 bonus to
the roll. You make this choice after you see the
roll, but before the DM says whether the attack
hits or misses.
Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a short or long rest.
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STEADFAST SERVANT
When you reach 10th level, you became as
steadfast and immovable as your patron wishes.
You can’t be charmed or frightened, and your
hit points maximum can’t be reduced.
JUST ANOTHER COG
At 14th level, you gain the ability to subjugate a
vanquished foe, turning it into another servant
of your master. You can use your action to touch
an incapacitated humanoid. That creature is
then charmed by you until a remove curse spell
is cast on it, the charmed condition is removed
from it, or you use this feature again.
You can communicate telepathically
with the charmed creature as long as the two of
you are on the same plane of existence.
THE MOTHER NATURE
Your patron is not an otherworldly entity, nor
an alien being, for you forced a pact with the
essence of the natural world, an undeniable
force of life and renewal usually referred to as
Mother Nature. Whether you picture your
patron as a proper feminine figure, the great
caring – or savage – mother of all that exists in
nature, or you use her name as a metaphor for
the impersonal forces that animate the world,
you manifest great powers, and some of the
spells you cast are very unusual for a warlock.
Perhaps, the entity you revere as Mother Nature
is in fact a former goddess of a long-forgotten
pantheon, or a powerful nymph that intends to
use your actions to further increase her power
and influence over the world. Not surprisingly,
warlocks of Mother Nature don’t go along too
well with druids: according to most circles, their
personal bond with the supposed All-Mother,
and the strange power they channel trough it,
makes even the most well-meaning warlock
appear as an overzealous, idolatrous fool.
As an optional way to add more flavor to
your character, you can pick from or roll on the
following table of flaws associated with
warlocks of Mother Nature.
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MOTHER NATURE FLAWS
d6 Flaw
1 You don't simply speak with plants, you
enter into a discussion with them, even if
they don't reply. And you do so in public.
2 You value the life of an animal above a
humanoid's one, for they are closer to
nature.
3 You avoid eating plants and vegetables,
preferring instead to feed on other living
creatures – humanoids included.
4 When you meet someone, you smell
your new acquaintance, especially their
rear end, just as an animal would do.
5 You avoid any food or tool that required
what you perceive as animal
exploitation.
6 The law of the survival is the only law
you follow, for it is the law of nature.
EXPANDED SPELL LIST
The Mother Nature lets you choose from an
expanded list of spells when you learn a
warlock spell. The following spells are added to
the warlock spell list for you.
MOTHER NATURE EXPANDED SPELLS
Spell Level Spells
1st entangle, goodberry
2nd animal messenger, beast sense
3rd meld into stone, speak with plants
4th dominate beast, grasping vine
5th commune with nature, tree stride
EMBRACING NATURE'S GIFTS
Starting at 1st level, your learn the druidcraft
and shillelagh cantrips, and they count as druid
cantrips for you.
Additionally, plants and animals have
difficulty harming you. If a beast or a plant
targets you directly with an attack or a harmful
spell, that creature must make a Wisdom saving
throw against your spell save DC (a creature
needn't make the save when it includes you in
an area effect, such as a breath weapon). On a created or manipulated to impede movement,
failed save, the creature must choose a new such as those created by the entangle spell.
target or forfeit targeting someone instead of
you, potentially wasting the attack or spell. On a MOTHER NATURE'S PROTECTION
successful save, the creature is immune to this When you reach 10th level, you are immune to
effect for 24 hours. A beast or plant is also poison and disease. Furthermore, you gain
immune to this effect for 24 hours if you target resistance to poison damage.
it with an attack or a harmful spell.
SPONTANEOUS REJUVENATION
ONE WITH THE WILDS When you reach 14th level, the blessings of
Starting at 6th level, your pact with Mother Mother Nature enable you to quickly regenerate
Nature grants you an inborn ability to survive your health. On your turn, you can use a bonus
into the wild, as your bond extends to the whole action to regain hit points equal to 1d8 + your
natural world. You gain proficiency in one of the warlock level. Additionally, if you put a severed
following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, body part of yours back in place when you use
Nature, or Survival. this feature, the part reattaches.
Furthermore, moving through Once you use this feature, you can't use
nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra it again until you finish a short or long rest.
movement. You can also pass through
nonmagical plants without being slowed by
them and without taking damage from them if
they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.
You leave no tracks or other traces of your
passage, unless you wish so, and you can't be
tracked except by magical means.
In addition, you have advantage on
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THE PHOENIX
The mythical bird of fire, the Phoenix,
incarnates the promise of a flame that does no
harm but instead restores, the true essence of
rejuvenation. The true nature of the Phoenix,
however, is a matter of debate among the
scholars, for someone intend it to be a mere
metaphor, while others believe that there is a
whole race of phoenix birds, peculiar beasts but
nevertheless no more astonishing than the
average phase spider. However, you laugh at the
idiocy of those scholars, for the Phoenix is your
patron, and a powerful supernatural creature.
Of course, your master is not a dull elemental or
a red-feathered bird that simply resurrects
itself, but the very essence behind every single
phoenix, a being of great power that channels
fire, light, and restoration. In exchange of your
devotion, the Phoenix granted you a spark of its
own power, a spark that sustains your life and
your pact magic.
As an optional way to add more flavor to
your character, you can pick from or roll on the
following table of flaws associated with
warlocks of the Phoenix.
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PHOENIX FLAWS
d6 Flaw
1 You are afraid of the dark, and must
always have a light source at hand.
2 You are reckless, and you often put your
life and the lives of your friends in
jeopardy; after all, death is not the end.
Not for you. Or at least you firmly believe
so.
3 When someone dies you have a
compulsion to set afire the corpse, so
that the deceased may be born anew.
4 You refer to the sun as your “Big Bro”,
and you are very sad when it doesn't
show up its face.
5 You are fond of literally playing with fire,
too fond for your own good.
6 You don't want to use your fire and
radiant powers against particularly
wicked enemies, as you believe that
doing so will restore their health.
EXPANDED SPELL LIST
The Phoenix lets you choose from an expanded
list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The
following spells are added to the warlock spell
list for you.
PHOENIX EXPANDED SPELLS
Spell Level Spells
1st burning hands, guiding bolt
2nd continual flame, flame blade
3rd daylight, revivify
4th fire shield, death ward
5th flame strike, raise dead
MARK OF THE PHOENIX
Starting at 1st level, you gain the first benefit of
the Phoenix force that branded you as its
warlock. You have resistance to radiant damage,
and when you cast a spell that deals radiant
damage or fire damage, you add your charisma
modifier to the damage dealt. Additionally, you
know the dancing lights and light cantrips; they
count as warlock cantrips for you.
 Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a short or long rest.
RISEN FROM THE ASHES
Starting at 6th level, your link with the Phoenix
allows you to rise anew after the most grievous
injuries. When you would make a death saving
throw, you can instead spring back to your feet
within a burst of flames. You immediately stand
up (if you choose so), and you regain hit points
equal to half your hit point maximum. All hostile
creatures within 30 feet of you take 10 + your
Charisma modifier fire damage and are blinded
until the end of your next turn.Once you use this
feature, you can't use it again until you finish a
short or long rest.
UNYIELDING FLAME
When you reach 10th level, you are so attuned
with you patron that you gain resistance to fire
damage.
NEW ELDRITCH INVOCATIONS
These new invocations can be learned by your
warlock character; while some of them are
generics, other are based on the new pact
boons. If an eldritch invocation has
prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it.
You can learn the invocation at the same time
that you meet its prerequisites. A level
prerequisite refers to the level in this class.
BEAST CHARMER
You can cast animal friendship once using a
warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until
you finish a long rest.
BREWED BLESSINGS
Prerequisite: 3rd level, Pact of Concoctions
feature
While adjacent to your pact cauldron, you can
cast the enhance ability spell using a warlock
spell slot.
Furthermore, you age at a slower rate.
For every 10 years that pass, your body ages
only 1 year, and you are immune to being
magically aged.
FLAMES OF THE PHOENIX
Starting at 14th level, you can channel the
flames of your patron, the Phoenix, into a fiery
explosion that burns your enemies while
reinvigorating you and your friends.
As an action, you engulf every creature
within 30 feet of you into your Phoenix area.
You and every ally of your choice within the
range can spend (no action required) up to your
Charisma modifier (minimum 1) of your
remaining hit dice to regain lost hit points. All
the enemies within range must make a
Dexterity saving throw; they take 3d10 fire
damage and 3d10 radiant damage on a failed
save, or half as much damage on a successful
one.
Once you use this feature, you can't use
it again until you finish a long rest.
BLOODED THE SHIELD
Prerequisite: Pact of the Aegis feature
As a bonus action, you can spill your own blood
and sacrifice your own health to increase the
protection granted by your Pact of the Aegis; if
you do so, your hit points maximum is reduced
by 1 per level until you dismiss your eldritch
armor, but your AC becomes 11 + your
Dexterity modifier + your Charisma modifier.
BLOODTHIRST
Prerequisite: Pact of the Blade feature
As a bonus action, you can spill your own blood
and sacrifice your own health to increase the
power of your pact weapon; if you do so, your
hit points maximum is reduced by 1 per level
until you dismiss your pact weapon, but you
automatically cast the magic weapon spell on it
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(no action required) at a level equal to your
warlock spell slot level.
CALL OF THE WOODLANDS
Prerequisite: 7th level
You can cast the conjure woodland beings spell
once using a warlock spell slot. You can't do so
again until you finish a long rest.
CURSE OF THE WRATHFUL SKIES
Prerequisite: 5th level
You can cast the call lightning spell once using a
warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until
you finish a long rest.
DANSE MACABRE
Prerequisite: 5th level
You can cast the animate dead spell once using a
warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until
you finish a long rest.
DARK HEALING
You can cast cure wounds once using a warlock
spell slot, but after receiving your healing touch
the target is automatically poisoned until the
start of your next turn. You can't do so again
until you finish a long rest.
DIVERT THE STREAM OF DESTINY
Prerequisite: 12th level, Pact of the Visions
feature
You can alter your foretelling roll by an amount
equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1),
either adding or subtracting it from the dice
result. The modified foretelling roll can’t exceed
20, nor be lower than 1, and it never counts as a
natural 20 or as a natural 1.
HORRORS TO BEHOLD
Prerequisite: 15th level
You can cast fear at will, without expending a
spell slot or material components.
IN A FIERY EXPLOSION
Prerequisite: 5th level
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You can cast the fireball spell once using a
warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until
you finish a long rest.
INELUCTABLE CLAUSE
Prerequisite: 7th level, Pact of the Contracts
feature
The damage inflicted by your Pact of the
Contracts feature ignores resistance to necrotic
damage, and deals half damage even to targets
immune to necrotic damage.
REVENGE OF THE BITING AEGIS
Prerequisite: 7th level, Pact of the Aegis feature
When you finish a short or long rest you can
choose one damage type; while your eldritch
armor is active and an enemy hits you with a
melee attack, you can use your reaction to inflict
damage of the chosen type equal to your
Charisma modifier to the attacker.
SECRET RECIPE
Prerequisite: Pact of Concoctions feature
All the potions of healing you create with your
pact cauldron restore extra hit points equal to
your Charisma modifier.
WHISPERS OF THE PROVOCATEUR
Prerequisite: 15th level
You can cast suggestion at will as a 2nd-level
spell, without expending a spell slot.
WILD COMPANION
Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Chain feature
When you cast the find familiar spell, your
familiar can take the form of any Medium or
smaller beast or plant with a CR of 1 or lower.
WINDS OF WINTER
Prerequisite: 7th level
You can cast the ice storm spell once using a
warlock spell slot. You can't do so again until
you finish a long rest.
 WIZARD
When it comes to the wizard, the arcane
tradition whose need is most deeply felt is
perhaps one for generalist wizards that equally
focus on all eight schools of magic without
NEW ARCANE TRADITIONS
ERUDITE
More than other wizards, an erudite is a scholar
at core. Rather than focus their studies on a
single school of magic, the erudite aims at
obtaining a better understanding of the whole
picture: they may certainly lag behind a
specialist in a single field, but they are equally
adept at using and defending against every
known magic spell. Not surprisingly, most
archmages come from the tradition of erudites.
BONUS PROFICIENCIES
When you select this tradition at 2nd level, you
gain proficiency with two skills of your choice
among the Arcana, History, Insight,
Investigation, Medicine, Nature, and Religion
necessarily being war wizards. Hence comes the
arcane tradition of the erudite; the white and
dark mage just followed.
skills. You also learn two extra languages of
your choice.
ECLECTIC SAVANT
Beginning when you select this tradition at 2nd
level, the time you spend copying a new spell
into your spellbook is halved. Each time you
gain a wizard level, you can add one extra
wizard spell of your choice to your spellbook for
free, up to a total of three extra spells per level.
Furthermore, the number of spells you
can memorize and prepare now equals twice
your Intelligence modifier + your wizard level
and, when you use your Arcane Recovery class
feature, you can recover one extra spell level
worth of spell slots. This amount increases to
two extra spell levels at 6th level, 3 extra spell
levels at 10th level, and 4 extra spell levels at
14th level. None of the spell slots recovered can
be 6th-level or higher.
EXPERTISE
At 2nd level, choose one of your Intelligence
related skill proficiencies. Your proficiency
bonus is doubled for any ability check you make
that uses the chosen proficiency.
At 6th, 10th, and 14th level, you can
choose another skill proficiency to gain this
benefit.
UNRAVEL THE ARCANE VEIL
At 6th level, you add the counterspell and dispel
magic spells to your spellbook if they aren’t
here already. When you cast dispel magic, you
can target one additional creature, object of
magical effect.
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successfully counter or dispel the effects of
magic using the aforementioned spells, you
regain hit points equal to 2 + the level of the
countered or dispelled spells.
ASTONISHING MEMORY
Starting at 10th level, your memory and
recollection for spells is so amazing that it
apparently defies the most basic rules of magic.
When you are concentrating on a spell, and you
cast another spell that requires concentration,
you don’t automatically lose concentration on
the first spell. You can still maintain the effects
of a single spell at a time but, if the Duration of
the first spell is not expired, you can use a bonus
action to end your concentration on the second
one and recall the first spell you were
maintaining concentration on.
You can’t keep memory of more than
two concentration spells at a time: should you
cast a third one, the durations of the first one
will automatically expire.
HOWLS OF THE DEAD
Starting at 2nd level, you are enshrouded by an
echo of every last creature you defeated, a howl
of their departed soul that you can unleash on
your enemies. When a creature you can see
moves into a space within 10 feet of you or
starts its turn there, you can use your reaction
to deal 1d6 necrotic damage to that creature
unless it succeeds on a Constitution saving
throw against you spell save DC. The necrotic
damage increases to 1d8 at 6th level, 1d10 at
10th level, and 1d12 at 14th level.
You also gain darkvision with a range of
60 feet.
FEED ON THE VANQUISHED
Beginning at 2nd level, whenever you reduce a
hostile creature to 0 hit points with a spell or
your Howls of the Deceased class feature, you
gain temporary hit points equal to your

SPELL RESISTANCE
Starting at 14th level, you have advantage on
saving throws against spells. Furthermore, you
have resistance against the damage of spells.

SCHOOL OF DARK MAGIC

What is dark magic? Most people would say that
it is any magic that dabbles with demons and
death, notably necromancy and conjuration. But
even the spells used to resurrect the fallen are,
strictly speaking, necromantic, and the same
spell could be used to contact a fiend as well as
a celestial. For dark magic is not a single school
of spells, but a predisposition to employ every
form of magic with grim means, testing its
power with a morbid curiosity that the common
rabble would certainly despise. Not all “dark
mages” are evil, but they means certainly tend
to be at least arguable, if not utterly vile, even
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Intelligence modifier + half your wizard level them. And, in doing so, they discover amazing
(minimum of 1). powers.

INESCAPABLE GANGRENE MERCIFUL HEALER

Starting at 6th level, your ability to channel Starting at 2nd level, you learn additional spells
negative energy becomes more potent. Necrotic whenever you gain an additional Arcane
damage dealt by your wizard spells and howls Tradition feature, as shown in the Merciful
of the defeated class feature ignores resistance Healer Spell table. You add these spells to your
to necrotic damage. spellbook, and for you they are wizard spells.
You also learn the spare the dying cantrip, and it
SHROUD OF THE DECEASED is a wizard cantrip for you.
Starting at 10th level, the lingering memories of Furthermore, you gain proficiency with
your victims floating around you became an one skill of your choice among Diplomacy and
intangible veil that protects and empowers you. Medicine.
You have resistance to necrotic damage, and
your hit point maximum can’t be reduced. MERCIFUL HEALER SPELL
Furthermore, you can see normally in Wizard Level Spells
2nd sanctuary
darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a
distance of 60 feet. 6th revivify
10th greater restoration
THROUGH THE NETHERWORLD 14th regenerate
At 14th level, you gain the ability to cross the
border between the dark corners of the world
and, in so doing, drag along the breaths of your
enemies. When you are in dim light or darkness,
as a bonus action, you can force every creature
of your choice within to be targeted by your
Howls of the Deceased class feature; you then
magically teleport up to 60 feet to an
unoccupied space you can see that is also in dim
light or darkness.

SCHOOL OF WHITE MAGIC

More than a clear list of spells, white magic is a
calling, a calling to use magic to help those in
need and to protect those who can’t protect
themselves. More than anything, white magic is
the voluntary acceptance of many self restraints
and the unselfish use of arcane power for the
good of others. The School of White Magic
ultimately leads to a path of renunciation. White
mages are of course still capable of wielding the
most notorious signature wizard spells, of
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HEALING CHARM
At 2nd level, you gain the option to renounce to
your arcane power in order to sustain your
companions in their suffering. As an action, you
sacrifice a spell slot to heal one creature you can
see within 60 feet of you. The target
immediately regains 1d6 hit points per level of
the spell you used for your Healing Charm.
BANEBREAKER
Starting at 6th level, when you restore hit points
to an ally with your Healing Charm feature, you
can also end one spell of your choice on that
creature. The level of the spell you end must be
equal or lower than the level of the spell slot
you use to activate Healing Charm.
GRACIOUS RESPITE
At 10th level you can cast greater restoration
without expending a spell slot and without
consuming its material component.
Once you cast greater restoration in this
way, you can’t do so again until you finish a
short or long rest, though you can still cast it
normally using an available spell slot.
INHERENT SANCTITY
When you reach 14th level, you literally radiate
peace, so that even the most vicious of enemies
hesitates before rising the hand against you.
When a creature you haven’t attacked nor cast a
spell against attacks you, that creature must
make a Wisdom saving throw against your
wizard spell save DC. On a failed save, the
creature must choose a different target, or the
attack automatically misses. On a successful
save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24
hours.
The creature is aware of this effect
before it makes its attack against you.
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SPELLPLATE
Wizards traditionally avoid to wear armor of
any kind: it’s heavy, cumbersome, and requires
an arduous training in order to be worn while
casting spells. After all, proper magic could do
almost everything, including protecting the
spellcaster. In some worlds across the
Multiverse it is even taboo for wizards to train
in armor or weapon usage! And yet what is the
quintessence of wizardry if not creative
ingenuity, the firm conviction that through
rigorous study the impossible will be made
possible? Spellplates are the rare but not
unheard of wizards that train with books and
steel alike, and constitute a loose tradition of
armored mages.
BONUS PROFICIENCIES
When you adopt this tradition at 2nd level, you
gain proficiency with light and medium armor.
Furthermore, when you reach 6th level, you
gain proficiency with heavy armor.
ARMORED SYNERGY
At 2nd level you learn to treat your armor as
something more than a mundane protection
from physical attacks. You can use the armor
you are wearing as your arcane focus, and while
wearing armor you add your Intelligence
modifier (minimum of +1) to any Constitution
saving throw you make to maintain your
concentration on a spell.
Furthermore, when you are wearing an
armor you can use your Intelligence score,
rather than you Strength score, to determine
the amount of weight you can bear and as the
required score to wear heavy armor without
being slowed down.
LINGERING IN METAL
Starting at 6th level, the magic of your spells
channeled through your armor lingers for a few,
precious moments, strongly enhancing the
cuirass’ resistance. When you use your action to
cast a spell while wearing armor, until the start
of your next turn you reduce any damage you
receive by an amount equal to the level of the
cast spell.
For example, if during your turn you
cast fireball and are then attacked for 14
damage, you instead suffer only 11 damage.
STURDY SPELLS
Beginning at 10th level, the magic you channel
resonates with your plate and mail. While you
are wearing armor and you maintain
concentration on a spell, you have a +2 bonus to
AC and all saving throws.
RELEASE THE FLUX
Starting at 14th level, when you are hit by a
melee attack, you can use your reaction to deal
force damage to the attacker. The damage
equals your wizard level. The attacker must also
make a Strength saving throw against your
wizard spell save DC. On a failed save, the
attacker is pushed in a straight line up to 10 feet
away from you.
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 BACKGROUNDS
My first custom content for the DM Guild was,
back in 2016, a new background, the inquisitor.
One more followed soon after, and then a whole
NEW BACKGROUNDS
INQUISITOR
Your job is to detect, apprehend, and condemn
the wicked; as a full-fledged agent of the
Inquisition, you are part of a larger group, a
notorious and feared organization. Typically,
inquisitors hunt down heretics and enemies of
the faith, but not all inquisitorial orders are
religious in nature: many political authorities
maintain their own private police of inquisitors,
sworn to detect and punish conspirators against
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new bundle with new and revised background
options. You fill find them all in the following
pages.
the crown. Perhaps your enemies are not
sinners or rebels, but something far more dark
and evil that your order swore to eradicate from
the world.
Whether the case, as an inquisitor you
are sanctioned to act as detective, judge and
jury. Feared and hated, you are nevertheless
respected by those you stand to protect.
Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from Insight,
Intimidation, Investigation, and Religion
Tool Proficiencies: Thieves’ Tools
Languages: One of your choice
Equipment: A badge of service (a
holy symbol or a symbol of the
authority you represent), a prayer
book or a law book, a scroll of
authorization (to act as a
sanctioned inquisitor), manacles, a
set of office clothes, a set of
common clothes, a belt pouch
containing 10 gp
FEATURE: SANCTIONED
INQUISITOR
Your position and your office are
known to those who serve or obey
the same authority as you do. That
same authority gave you the right
to investigate with any mean and
to rightfully condemn those you
find guilty.
In some cases you will have to
cooperate with other inquisitors
or similar agents, especially when
dealing with an influential suspect,
but even when not judge and jury you are a
trusted and respected detective, one that
nobody would dare to cross as long as he falls
under his jurisdiction. Nobody short of your
direct superiors can defy your judgment.
INQUISITORIAL ORDER
What was the specific nature and purpose of the
order you swore into? You and your DM can
decide it based on your campaign setting, or you
can choose or roll on the table below to
determine what is your order like.
INQUISITORIAL ORDER
d8 Inquisitorial order
1 Religious order hunting down heretics
among the faithful.
2 Religious order dedicated to detect the
enemies of the faith.
3 Secret religious order directed by the High
Priest himself.
4 Fiend-hunting order.
5 Aberration-hunting order.
6 Secret police of the crown.
7 Order of inquisitors swore to a dark entity.
8 Evil order dedicated to the eradication of
one or more races.
SUGGESTED CHARACTERISTICS
Feared, hated and nevertheless respected,
inquisitors are key figures in grim and dark
times. They bear a great power, but must be
careful not to misuse such influence.
PERSONALITY TRAIT
d8 Personality Trait
1 I prefer to maintain my affiliation a secret
as long as I can. Nobody expects the
Inquisition.
2 I tend to pose too many questions, even
when I am not on duty.
3 There is no such thing as innocence, only
degrees of guilt.
4 My instinct never betrayed me, first
impression is the best impression.
5 Everyone has his secrets, I must uncover
them.
6 I can't tolerate those that assume no
responsibilities for their own actions.
7 I need to know all the available information
before emitting a verdict.
8 I tend to annotate every detail, even the
most insignificant ones.
IDEAL
d6 Ideal
1 Cruelty. When in doubt, I condemn them
all: God will know Their own. (Evil)
2 Leniency. Every sinner must be granted a
chance to redeem themselves. (Good)
3 Strictness. It is not my will that judges, I am
the executor of a higher will. (Neutral)
4 Pliability. Every subject is a different case, I
must bear no prejudice. (Chaotic)
5 Protection. My duty is to drive out the
wolves that prey upon the herd. (Any)
6 Authority. Should I have doubts, I will
always know who to turn to have in order
to unravel them. (Lawful).
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BOND practiced before entering the career of an
d6 Bond adventurer.
1 My master, the one who taught me when I Part academic, part folk healer, part
was still a novice, has lost their way. medicine man, you roamed the land to offer you
2 I personally granted for a redeemed assistance during plague outbreaks, seeing
convict, and I am now responsible for their quite your share of death and suffering even
actions.
before your adventurer days. And, during your
3 I delivered a harsh condemnation, and now service as a plague doctor, you acquired many
the family of the victim wants to make me
skills that will be very useful in your new
pay for it.
career. For clerics and priests run out of spells,
4 Even if we haven't seen each other for but your science will not be stopped by any
years, my fellow inquisitors can always
count on me.
hindrance, and many a companion will soon be
thanking you for your well-timed aid.
5 A young novice of the Inquisition looks at
me as an example.
Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, plus one from
6 The members of a different faction within
Investigation and Perception
the Inquisition are always breathing down
my back. Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism kit, poisoner's
kit
Equipment: A healer's kit, a herbalist kit, a set
FLAW of protective clothes (designed to avoid
d6 Flaw contagion, they are waxed or made of leather
1 I have a secret in the closet that could turn
and often associated with a pair of gloves and a
me from inquisitor to accused.
very peculiar mask), a sample associated with a
2 I find lack of faith disturbing.
3 I'm not new to use my authority in order to
pursue personal goals.
4 I can't suffer those who profess ideas
different from mine.
5 I'm sure that there is a secret conspiracy
against the Inquisition.
6 Those who are not with me are against me.

PLAGUE DOCTOR
Miracles happen, but not for everyone: the gods
grant their healing magic to few, precious
individuals, and so in times of need their divine
blessings are not enough to halt the spread of
plagues and infections. Plague doctors
originated in times of dire need, when the
spreading of a vicious pox proved too sudden
and wide to be halted by spells: there were
simply too few magic healers to heal everyone.
So, from practice and theory alike, a new
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rare illness you intend to study, and a belt
pouch containing 10 gp
IDEAL
FEATURE: RESPECTED HEALER
In every hamlet, town or city there is always
someone that needs a good doctor. You can
make a living by offering your services to the
afflicted, be it by the soup offered by the farmer
whose daughter had chicken pox, or the
banquet offered in your honor by the rich
merchant you helped with a “personal matter”.
While you know every major pox,
illness, and disease, some supernatural or long
forgotten plagues will require every inch of
your time in order to be kept at bay. Were you
to discover a nonmagical cure against the most
vicious plagues, your name will became truly
immortal.
SUGGESTED CHARACTERISTICS
Plague doctors lead their life in strict contact
with death itself; they must come to term with
the demise of those they couldn't save. How this
shaped the characteristics of the single plague
doctor largely depends on their own ideals and
personality.
BOND
PERSONALITY TRAIT
d8 Personality Trait
1 My profession taught me to be very
detached, from patients and companions
alike.
2 Life is a fickle light, we must enjoy it while it
lasts.
3 People think of me as a jinx, and perhaps
they are right: with no plague, there would
be no doctor.
4 I take note of the physical health of
everybody; they'll thank me later for this.
5 I prefer not to attract too much attention,
unless my work is needed.
6 I'm always eager to help.
7 Nothing is more satisfying than the
gratitude of my patients.
8 I simply love black humor, even if nobody
gets nor likes my jokes.
d6 Ideal
1 Greed. I don't give a damn about them and
their suffering: all that matters is the
money they pay me with, and the power I
hold over their life. (Evil)
2 Selflessness. If a doctor is needed, I offer
my help with no regard for my own health:
I swore to do what is best for my patients,
not for me. (Good)
3 Delusion. Death is the true enemy of every
doctor, and I will be the one to finally
defeat it. (Any)
4 Cruelty. The progress of medicine requires
some sacrifices: what is the excruciating
pain and suffering of a few patient in front
of a huge breakthrough? (Evil)
5 Fraternity. When facing a plague, all
mortals are alike; we should remember this
fact even when our lives are safe. (Good)
6 Resignation. Every mortal must die; I can
only delay the inevitable. (Any)
d6 Bond
1 I'm haunted by the memory of a young
patient that I could not save.
2 Sometime ago I was “invited” me to assist
an infamous criminal. I fear I have not
heard the last of them.
3 I have a sort of rivalry with a colleague,
dating back to our apprentice days.
4 Some years ago I saved a hamlet from a
quite vicious infection; the inhabitants
consider me a hero.
5 I fell in love with a patient. Even if this is
not very professional, I long for the chance
to see my beloved again.
6 I fear I have discovered a new plague, a
very insidious and dangerous one, and
sadly I have yet to find an effective
treatment against it.
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FLAW
d6 Flaw Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, plus one from
1 I fear contagion, any contagion, like death Deception, Persuasion, Stealth, and Survival
itself. Languages: Two of your choice
2 First I get paid, then I offer my help. Equipment: A keepsake from your home plane,
3 I cannot suffer uncleanness, when I have to a trinket you collected from a distant Plane of
touch something dirty I feel the urge to Existence, a bedroll, a set of traveler’s cloths,
wash my hands, even in a dungeon. and a belt pouch containing 10 gp
4 Clerics, gods and their miracles have just to
shut up: where was healing magic when my
patients got ill?
5 I can't refuse a call for help, no matter the
situation.
6 I tend to speak quite too often about the
most disgusting details of my profession.

PLANAR REFUGEE
Most people know nothing of the Million
Spheres that extend over the Multiverse; even
among those few scholars who know, typically
only the mightiest adventurers have ventured
upon a journey towards a different plane of
existence. Common folk, to put it simply, don’t
travel the Million Sphere, and spend their whole
lives in the usual, dull Material Plane they were
born on.
You, however, are not “most people”,
and your background is the most uncommon,
for you left your home world behind and
roamed across the Multiverse before setting
down in the plane you currently inhabit. FEATURE: PLANAR SIXTH SENSE
Perhaps curiosity drove you to explore a Your roaming across the Million Sphere taught
strange portal with no turning back, or you you a thing or two about portals and extra-
were trapped in a conjunction of the spheres planar journeys. By the subtlest changes in the
that cast you elsewhere. Or, as it too often air, by the thinnest glares and reverberations,
happens, war and cataclysms forced you to you are able to detect the presence of a portal of
abandon your home plane and seek shelter in a any kind within your perception range.
distant world. By examining the thus detected portal,
Whether the case, you are a stranger in you are able to speculate brief glimpses of its
the strange land that your companion call probable destination: you recognize any plane
home; before reaching this plane you had your that you have already visited, and you have a
good share of ordeal and tribulation, in order to sixth sense for discerning a safe destination
survive among the powerful denizens of the from one that will probably spell trouble for you
Million Spheres, the outsiders of legend that and your party.
play the Game of Fate with the lives and souls of
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 Anyway, after you planar ordeal, you are
inured to the most strange features and
denizens of the Multiverse. Usually…
SUGGESTED CHARACTERISTICS
Planar refugees are survivors of an unusual
kind, for it was not their might that ensured
their safety, but the knack they developed at
navigating among the strange places of the
Million Spheres, dealing unscathed with alien
and extra-planar beings whose power could
annihilate whole mortal cities. As most
wayfarers do, planar refugees often long for
their lost home, and yet the inborn curiosity of
mortals drives them to explore the farthest
planes, an overwhelming zeal to explore the
Multiverse pursuing the most obscure
knowledge.
PERSONALITY TRAIT
d8 Personality Trait
1 I’m curious about the most mundane of
habits and costumes – they are so different
from the ones I once knew.
2 I’m very reserved: during my peregrination
I had many acquaintances, but few true
friends.
3 I’m too much exuberant, and I like to have
a friend in every town.
4 Sometimes I am really verbose about my
long-lost home plane and the days I spent
there.
5 My old habits are hard to break, even when
they prove to be socially awkward.
6 I formally introduce myself by all the names
I earned during my planar journeys.
7 I often made jokes and references about
bits of obscure planar lore.
8 I compare every new experience and
acquaintance to the ones I had back at
home.
IDEAL
d6 Ideal
1 Nostalgia. One day I will be back to my
home plane, no matter the obstacles. (Any)
2 Compassion. Suffering from constant
homesickness, I fell compelled to comfort
those who suffer from a loss. (Good)
3 Freedom. I’m not from this Plane of
Existence. I’m not bound to its rules.
(Chaotic)
4 Cosmic Balance. There are strict laws that
rule the Million Spheres, and for good
reason. (Lawful)
5 Pillage. This strange, new plane is mine to
plunder and loot. (Evil)
6 Curiosity. I’m always eager for new
experiences. (Any)
BOND
d6 Bond
1 A fiend once offered me its help. I couldn't
refuse its proposal, and I’m supposed to
repay this debt sooner or later.
2 Strange as it may sound, I’m in love with
an outsider.
3 I left my significant others in my home
plane; I long to see them again.
4 During my journeys I joined a league of
planar adventurers.
5 In an Outer Plane I met a departed soul
that asked me to watch over their living
relatives.
6 Somewhere out there there is someone
that can send me back to my home plane. I
know it.
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FLAW
d6 Flaw
1 Compared to my home plane, this place
makes me sick, and I have no qualms to
manifest this feeling.
2 I have seen much; compared to me,
everybody else is an ignorant simpleton.
3 Only I know true suffering and loss,
everybody else is just a crybaby.
4 I suffer of nightmares about the things I had
to do in order to survive in the Outer
Planes.
5 Every mention of my home plane catches
my attention, even the most obvious of
scams.
6 I often pretend not to speak the language
of this Material Plane, and express myself
with my mother tongue.
REBORN
You harbour the memories of a whole life, a life
you lived before the one you were born into and
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still keep living. This is not, you are certain, the
first time your soul was covered in flesh and
walked in the Mortal World.; most disturbing of
all, you keep the memory of your death, and of
what happened after your own demise.
The Great Beyond is a mystery to every
mortal, but not for you; as you grew up,
memories of your previous life emerged upon
your mind, and this peculiar knowledge shaped
you into the person you are now much more
than your family and the environment you lived
in. You were surely a strange child, as you
happened to know things that you shouldn’t
even fathom. Being reborn made you an outcast
among your fellow, fresh-new souls with no
memory of a previous existence. Or did holy
men and priests crowd you with questions and
assertions, using your existence to prove the
truth of their cult’s dogmas?
Whether the case, you want answers,
answers about what you are and why you, and
you alone, had such unsettling memories. In
order to find the truth about yourself, you
decided to embrace the career of an adventurer.
Perhaps you will one day meet the gods and the FEATURE: MEMORIES OF A LIFETIME
Lords of the Outer Planes in person: they will
Despite what you may claim, you don’t
surely know your answers.
remember perfectly what happened during
your previous existence – it was literally a
Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from History,
lifetime ago, and more. You have the main
Insight, Investigation, and Religion
frame, but small details tend to be fuzzy, at
Languages: One of your choice
least, and for you déjà vus are the norm, only
Tool Proficiencies: One of your choice
that in this case you have really already seen the
Equipment: A set of traveler clothes, a dubious
thing that triggered your memory.
tome about death and reincarnation, and a belt
However, this means that you will have
pouch containing 15 gp
frequent flashes of remembrance about small
but important details: perhaps you already set
THE GREAT BEYOND foot into that dungeon, or you used to hang out
Priest and sages may speculate, but you were at this town’s famous inn. A long-lived creature,
dead, and you keep an albeit fragmented like an elf or a dragon, could be an old
memory of what lies after death, the much acquaintance of yours, and what is now ancient
feared Great Beyond. What happened to your lore could have been common knowledge back
soul between your two lives? You and your DM in your days of yore.
can decide it based on your campaign setting, or The memories of your previous lifetime
you can choose or roll on the table to the side to vary from the trivial to the utmost essential, and
determine what was your impression of the sometimes new perceptions will trigger
Great Beyond. important memories borrowed deep into your
consciousness.
THE GREAT BEYOND
d8 The Great Beyond
1 Your soul underwent a long purifying ritual
before being reincarnated in a new body.
2 You joined your god as one of Their blessed
saints, singing hymns in the bliss of heaven.
3 You were tormented by fiends to atone for
your previous sins.
4 You had to bargain in order to obtain a
second chance on Earth before meeting
your final doom.
5 You were forced to fight as cannon fodder
in a battle between the lords of the Outer
Planes.
6 You traveled the Outer Planes, but met no
gods at all.
7 You remember just a vast nothingness
where your soul floated alone and,
surprisingly, at peace.
8 You have no memories of an afterlife. Was
it because you forgot, or there is no
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SUGGESTED CHARACTERISTICS
To be reborn means to constantly live with the
memory of what you did and experience during
a previous lifetime. Your whole existence is
shaped by how you let the memories of a
concluded life influence the new one: will
unfulfilled business haunt you even now?
PERSONALITY TRAIT
d8 Personality Trait
1 I tend to act like an old geezer despite the
age of my current self.
2 I’m very secretive, always cautious not to
betray myself with an out of date allusion
that could disclose my true identity.
3 When in a hurry I speak my now archaic
vernacular.
4 I secretly mock priests and clerics: they
believe, I know.
5 I know I am special, for I am one of the few
enlightened souls capable of rebirth.
6 I believe that every mortal is destined to
reincarnate someday; perhaps they already
have and simply don’t remember.
7 I’m very curious about what happened
between my two lives: there is so much
history I must catch on!
8 I see myself as an old, sage grandparent.
IDEAL
d6 Ideal
1 Freedom. If not even death could stop me,
what stronger authority could?(Chaotic)
2 Self Redemption. I was granted a second
chance to atone to my past misdeeds.
(Good)
3 Unleashed. They killed me, but here I am,
back again. I’ll enjoy toying with this world
once more. (Evil)
4 Closure. I had many unfulfilled issues back
when I first died; it’s time to address them.
(Any)
5 Release. I am trapped in a cycle of death
and rebirth, and I want to break free. (Any)
6 Cyclical Order. My rebirth is part of the
Cosmic Order of birth, death, and rebirth.
(Lawful)
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BOND
d6 Bond
1 The relatives of my past self still live.
2 I share the same appearance of my
previous incarnation, and I was quite
famous back then.
3 During my previous existence I left quite a
mark on history, such that my former
identity is somehow notorious even now.
4 I have an extra-planar patron to thank for
my second chance.
5 There is an old possession that I want to
reclaim at all costs.
6 My loved one is out there, perhaps trapped
in undeath, perhaps reincarnated just like
me.
FLAW
d6 Flaw
1 I loath this new, decadent age: the world
was much better back then!
2 An old enemy knows about my rebirth, and
is still hunting me.
3 I dislike modern innovation and
technologies: windmills? Spyglasses? No,
thank you.
4 There is a small and yet fundamental detail
about my previous life that I just can’t
recollect. Perhaps I fear what I would
remember.
5 The agents of the Netherworld are trying to
capture back my soul.
6 I am way too careless and put my life on
the line way too often; after all, I already
escaped death once, didn’t I?
 EXPANDED BACKGROUND SKILLS
Many of the backgrounds introduced by the
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, instead of
providing two fixed skills as the first ones given
by the Player's Handbook, let the players choose
among a pool the skills their adventurer will be
trained on. Here comes a possible list of
expanded skill list for the Player’s Handbook’s
backgrounds.
Acolyte: Religion, plus one from Insight,
Medicine, and Persuasion.
Charlatan: Deception, plus one from Insight,
Performance, and Sleight of Hand.
Criminal: Choose two form Deception,
Intimidation, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth.
Entertainer: Performance, plus one form
Acrobatic, Animal Handling, and Sleight of
Hand.
Folk Hero: Choose two from Animal Handling,
Athletics, Persuasion, and Survival.
Guild Artisan: Choose two from History,
Perception, and Persuasion.
Hermit: Choose one from from Arcana, Religion,
and Nature, plus one from Medicine and
Survival.
Noble: Choose two from Deception, History,
Intimidation, and Persuasion.
Outlander: Survival, plus one from Animal
Handling, Athletics, and Stealth.
Sage: Choose two from Arcana, History, Nature,
and Religion.
Sailor: Athletics, plus two from Deception,
Perception, and Survival.
Soldier: Athletics, plus one from Animal
Handling, Intimidation, or Medicine.
Urchin: Choose two from Insight, Persuasion,
Sleight of Hand, and Stealth.
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 FEATS

The following feats are partially aimed at
providing new options for the previously
introduced new races, but many of them are
available for every character regardless of their
origin.
Note that, with your DM permission, you
may used some of the racial feats introduced by
the Xanathar’s Guide to Everything for some
of the races detailed here, such as half-orc feats
for orcs or human feats for half-blooded
humans.

BLESSED BY THE WAVES • You can wrap or unwrap a cloak, a

cape, a trench, or a similar garment around your
Prerequisite: Child of the Sea
You have a mystical link with the deep ocean
that harbors your enigmatic forefathers. You
learn the message cantrip. You also learn the fog
cloud and water walk (but you can target only
yourself with it) spells, each of which you can
cast once without expending a spell slot. You
regain the ability to cast these two spells in this
way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is
your spellcasting ability for all three spells.

BLOOD MAGIC
Prerequisite: Dhampir
You have, in time, improved your own implants
and devised new uses for the existing ones.
With your Power of Blood or Seduction of Blood
trait you can now cast magic weapon at will, by
simply sprinkling it with your blood. You can
also cast on yourself each of the following spells
once with this trait and regain the ability to do
so when you finish a long rest: spider climb and
gaseous form.

CLOAK AND DAGGER MASTER

You have mastered fighting with a light blade
and a cloak wrapped around your free arm. You
gain the following benefits:
• Increase your Strength or Dexterity
score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain a +1 bonus to AC when you
are fighting with a finesse or light weapon with
a cloak, a cape, a trench, or a similar garment
wrapped around your free arm.
free arm at the same time as you draw or stow a
finesse or light weapon.
CLOCKWORK-IMPROVED
Prerequisite: Dwarf (clockworked)
You have, in time, improved your own implants
and devised new uses for the existing ones.
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cast feign death on yourself at will, without
needing a material component – you can
literally suspend and jump-start yourself! You
can also cast on yourself each of the following
spells once with this trait and regain the ability
to do so when you finish a long rest: jump, see
invisibility, and spider climb.
DIRTY FIGHTER
You gain the following benefits:
• Increase your Strength or Dexterity
score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your unarmed strike uses a d4 for
damage.
• When you make a melee attack against
a creature you can take a bonus action to make
an unarmed strike against the same target.
• When a creature hits you with a melee
attack, you can use your reaction to make an
unarmed strike against the attacker.
FIERY SOUL
Prerequisite: Dwarf (brasskin)
Your blood boils with Elemental Fire, so much
that it manifests as powerful magic. You learn
the produce flame cantrip. You also learn the
burning hands and continual flame spells, each
of which you can cast once without expending a
spell slot. You regain the ability to cast these
two spells in this way when you finish a long
rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for
all three spells.
INTOXICATING BEGUILER
Prerequisite: Feyblood
You are a paragon of whatever a fay could be.
You gain the following benefits:
• Increase your Wisdom or Charisma
score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with a musical
instrument of your choice.
• You learn the suggestion spell and can
cast it once without expending a spell slot. You
regain the ability to cast it in this way when you
finish a short or long rest. Charisma is your
spellcasting ability for this spell.
MARTIAL ARTS ADEPT
You are trained in martial arts that allow you to
fight and win even when unarmed. You gain the
following benefits:
• Your unarmed strike uses a d4 for
damage, and you can use Dexterity instead of
Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your
unarmed strikes.
• You gain 1 ki point, that you can spend
to perform certain special action.
• Immediately after you take the Attack
action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to
make two unarmed attacks as a bonus action.
• You can spend 1 ki point to take the
Disengage or Dodge action as a bonus action on
your turn.
MENTALIST
Prerequisite: Charisma 13 or higher
You learn the friends cantrip; in addition, you
can cast the charm person and detect thoughts
spells once at their lowest level, and you must
finish a long rest before you can cast them in
this way again. Charisma is your spellcasting
ability for these spells.
PARLOR TRICKSTER
Prerequisite: Intelligence 13 or higher
You learn the prestidigitation cantrip; in
addition, you can cast the detect magic and rope
trick spells once at their lowest level, and you
must finish a long rest before you can cast them
in this way again. Intelligence is your
spellcasting ability for these spells.
RETIARIUS
You are adept at fighting with a net. You gain
the following benefits:
• When you attack with a net and you
are also wielding another weapon you can make
your normal number of attacks.
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 • When you hit a creature with a net,
you can use a bonus action to move up to half
your speed towards the target and make a
melee attack against it with a light, reach, or
thrown weapon.
• You can treat a net as a martial
weapon that deals 1d4 damage with the finesse,
light, and reach properties.
• During a short rest, you can reinforce a
net with 2 sp worth of materials; a reinforced
net adds your proficiency bonus to the DC of the
Strength check to evade from it and to its AC.
• During a short rest, you can repair a
broken net with 2 sp worth of materials.
SILENT SCREAMER
Prerequisite: Farspawn
Your mere existence is like a wound on the
fabric of reality, and you harness its screams to
fuel your magic. You gain the following benefits:
• Increase your Intelligence or Charisma
score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you roll psychic damage for a
spell you cast, you can reroll any roll of 1 on the
fire damage dice, but you must use the new roll,
even if it is another 1.
• Whenever you cast a spell that deals
psychic damage, you can make the world
scream louder until the end of your next turn.
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Any creature within 10 feet of you that hits you
with a melee attack takes 1d4 psychic damage.
SLINGSHOOTER
In your hands the humble sling becomes a
fearsome weapon, one that could fell an
armored giant with ease. You gain the following
benefits:
• You treat the sling as a simple weapon
that deals 1d8 bludgeoning damage with the
ammunition, (range 90/360), and light
properties.
• You can reload your sling even if you
are wielding a shield.
• When making an attack with a sling,
you use your choice of your Strength or
Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage
rolls. You must use the same modifier for both
rolls.
• When you attack with a sling and miss, you
can use a bonus action to deal bludgeoning
damage equal to your proficiency bonus to the
target.
TORCH BEARER
You favor the use of torches, lamps and lanterns
as both illuminations and weapons. You gain the
following benefits:
 • You can see in the dim light cast by a
lamp, a lantern, or a torch with no penalties, as
if it was bright light.
• You are proficient with attacks made
with lanterns and torches.
• You treat lanterns as light weapons
that inflict 1d4 bludgeoning damage, and
torches as light weapons that inflict 1d4 fire
damage.
• When a creature hits you with a melee
attack, you can use your reaction to make a
melee attack with a lantern or a torch against
the attacker.
TRICKSTER ANTIC
Prerequisite: Kobelyn
You are the epitome of your kind, a master of
both magic and crafts.
You gain the following benefits:
• Increase your Dexterity or Intelligence
score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with a tool of
your choice.
• You learn the phantasmal force spell
and can cast it once without expending a spell
slot. You regain the ability to cast it in this way
when you finish a short or long rest. Intelligence
is your spellcasting ability for this spell.
TRUE BELIEVER
Prerequisite: Wisdom 13 or higher
You learn the thaumaturgy cantrip; in addition,
you can cast the sanctuary and gentle repose
spells once at their lowest level, and you must
finish a long rest before you can cast them in
this way again. Wisdom is your spellcasting
ability for these spells.
UNDERDOG
Prerequisite: Constitution 13 or higher
You don’t really shine in battle, unless your life
is on the line: you may pass for a loser but,
when in dire need, you turn the tides of battle
and fight viciously till your last breath. When
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you have fewer than half your hit points you
gain the following benefits:
• You can take a bonus action to use the
Dodge action.
• You add half your proficiency bonus,
rolled down, to all the damage you cause with
your attacks.
• When you are reduced to 0 hit points
you can use your reaction to take the Attack
action.
WHIP MASTER
Prerequisite: Dexterity 13 or higher
You are adept at fighting with a whip, a most
uncommon weapon that you could use as an
extension of your arm. You gain the following
benefits:
• When you hit a creature with a whip,
you can use a bonus action to attempt to
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grapple the target, even if it’s beyond your
reach.
• While wielding a whip, you can use a
bonus action to take the Use an Object action
within the reach of your whip.
• While wielding a whip, you add twice
your proficiency bonus to any Strength
(Athletics) check you make to climb or, given
the presence of handholds, to jump.
WILD HEART
Prerequisite: Wisdom 13 or higher
You learn the druidcraft cantrip; in addition, you
can cast the animal friendship and animal
messenger spells once at their lowest level, and
you must finish a long rest before you can cast
them in this way again. Wisdom is your
spellcasting ability for these spells.
 SPELLS

The creation of new spells is apparently easier Nevertheless, this section introduces only a
than the elaboration of a new class archetype or handful of spells: the aim is not to overwhelm
race, as there are far more example and they the players with new options, but to offer them
have a lesser impact to the single character. a few interesting options.

SPELL LISTS
The following spell lists shows which spells can spell can be cast as a ritual, the ritual tag also
be cast by characters of each class. A spell’s appears in the parentheses. No, no one is right
school of magic is noted in parentheses. If a now.

BARD PALADIN WARLOCK

4TH LEVEL 2ND LEVEL 2ND LEVEL
Martyrdom (evocation) Arms of the Giant (transmutation) Arms of the Giant (transmutation)
5TH LEVEL 4TH LEVEL 3RD LEVEL
Wicker Man (conjuration) Martyrdom (evocation) Frozen in Time (transmutation)
6TH LEVEL 5TH LEVEL 4TH LEVEL
Redraft (divination) Wicker Man (conjuration) Wicker Man (conjuration)
5TH LEVEL
CLERIC RANGER Gruesome Demise (necromancy)
6TH LEVEL
4TH LEVEL 2ND LEVEL
Enclose in Time (transmutation)
Martyrdom (evocation) Arms of the Giant (transmutation)
8TH LEVEL
5TH LEVEL 5TH LEVEL
Offering to the Flame (conjuration)
Wicker Man (conjuration) Wicker Man (conjuration)
8TH LEVEL
Offering to the Flame (conjuration) WIZARD
SORCERER
2ND LEVEL
2ND LEVEL
DRUID Arms of the Giant (transmutation)
Arms of the Giant (transmutation)
3RD LEVEL
2ND LEVEL 3RD LEVEL
Frozen in Time (transmutation)
Arms of the Giant (transmutation) Frozen in Time (transmutation)
4TH LEVEL
4TH LEVEL 4TH LEVEL
Time Skip (abjuration)
Martyrdom (evocation) Time Skip (abjuration)
5TH LEVEL
5TH LEVEL 5TH LEVEL
Gruesome Demise (necromancy)
Time Removal (transmutation) Gruesome Demise (necromancy)
Time Removal (abjuration)
Wicker Man (conjuration) Time Removal (abjuration)
6TH LEVEL
8TH LEVEL 6TH LEVEL
Enclose in Time (transmutation)
Offering to the Flame (conjuration) Enclose in Time (transmutation)
Redraft (divination)

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 SPELL DESCRIPTIONS
ARMS OF THE GIANT
2nd-level transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a piece of rubber)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
Your magic distorts and enlarges a creature’s
arms, greatly enhancing the target’s combat
efficiency. The reach of all the target’s melee
attack increases by 5 feet, as well as the reach of
its opportunity attacks. Furthermore, the
target’s unarmed strikes become magic natural
weapon, and inflict 1d4 extra damage.
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ENCLOSE IN TIME
6th-level transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 90 feet
Components: V, S, M (a broken hourglass)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Choose a creature that you can see within range.
The target must succeed on a Constitution
saving throw or be paralyzed for the duration.
At the start of each of its turns, the target can
choose to act normally until the end of its turn,
but by doing so it suffers 4d8 force damage.
At the end of each of its turns, the target
can make another Constitution saving throw. On
a success, the spell ends on the target.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this
spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, you
can target one additional creature for each slot
level above 6th. The creatures must be within
30 feet of each other when you target them.
FROZEN IN TIME
3rd-level transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a broken hourglass)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Choose a humanoid that you can see within
range. The target must succeed on a
Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for
the duration. At the start of each of its turns, the
target can choose to act normally until the end
of its turn, but by doing so it suffers 4d6 force
damage.
At the end of each of its turns, the target
can make another Constitution saving throw. On
a success, the spell ends on the target.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this
spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you
can target one additional humanoid for each
slot level above 3rd. The creatures must be
within 30 feet of each other when you target
them.
GRUESOME DEMISE
5th-level necromancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (a fragment from a
gravestone)
Duration: Instantaneous
You afflict a nearby creature with a pain so
unbearable that its agony, aggravated by magic,
is enough to damage the bystanders. The target
must make a Constitution saving throw. It takes
8d8 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as
much damage on a successful one.
The first target’s agony then magically
affects up to three creatures, each of which
must be within 30 feet of the first target and
must be able to see and hear it. The secondary
targets must make a Wisdom saving throw. A
secondary target takes 6d8 psychic damage on a
failed save, or half as much damage on a
successful one. This saving throw is made with
disadvantage if the damage was enough to
reduce the primary target to 0 hit points of
fewer. This spell has no effect on undead or
constructs.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this
spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, one
additional bystander is affected by the
secondary effect for each slot level above 5th
level.
MARTYRDOM
4th-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take in
response to being damaged
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
You shed your blood and, by your suffering,
your allies are reinvigorated. Choose up to six
creatures of your choice that you can see within
range. Each target regains hit points equal to
3d6 + your spellcasting ability modifier. This
spell has no effect on undead or constructs.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this
spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the
healing increases by 1d6 for each slot level
above 4th.
OFFERING TO THE FLAME
8th-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: touch
Components: V, S, M (a small wicker doll)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
You conjure the visage of a flaming wicker idol
that envelops a creature within range that you
can see. The target must succeed on a Strength
saving throw or be stunned for the duration.
You can use a bonus action to force the target to
move up to its speed and to make an attack
against a creature that you mentally choose, as
if it were not stunned. At the start of each of its
turn, the target suffers 4d10 fire damage.
At the end of each of its turns, the target
can make another Strength saving throw. On a
success, the spell ends on the target.
REDRAFT
6th-level divination
Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take in
response to a creature within range making an
ability check, an attack roll, or a saving throw
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a golden hourglass,
worth at least 250)
Duration: Instantaneous
You slightly alter the flow of time, rewriting
what has just passed. The target must
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immediately remake the roll that triggered this
spell. You can grant advantage or impose
disadvantage to this new roll. An unwilling
creature must make a Wisdom saving throw to
avoid the effect.
You can cast this spell after the die is
rolled, but before the DM says whether the roll
succeeds or fails.
TIME REMOVAL
5th-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: touch
Components: V, S, M (an hourglass filled with
silver powder worth at least 50 gp)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You briefly seclude a creature from the flow of
time, making it literally disappear until the end
of the spell. An unwilling target must succeed on
an Intelligence saving throw or disappear, its
subjective time halted, until the spell expires. At
the end of each of its turns, the target can make
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another Intelligence saving throw. On a success,
the spell ends on the target.
When the spell expires, the target returns to the
space it previously occupied, or the nearest
unoccupied space.
TIME SKIP
4th-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take in
response to being targeted with an attack or a
spell by a creature withing range
Range: touch
Components: V, S, M (an hourglass filled with
silver powder worth at least 50 gp)
Duration: Instantaneous
You avoid impending danger by briefly
secluding yourself from the flow of time.
Immediately before being affected by the
triggering effect you disappear, and at the start
of your next turn you return to the space you
previously occupied, or the nearest unoccupied
space.
WICKER MAN
5th-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: touch
Components: V, S, M (a small wicker doll)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You conjure the visage of a flaming wicker idol
that envelops a humanoid within range that you
can see. The target must succeed on a Strength
saving throw or be stunned for the duration.
You can use a bonus action to force the target to
move up to its speed and to make an attack
against a creature that you mentally choose, as
if it were not stunned. At the start of each of its
turn, the target suffers 2d10 fire damage.
At the end of each of its turns, the target
can make another Strength saving throw. On a
success, the spell ends on the target.
 FAMILIARS

Familiar Faces was a small work of mine

dedicated to Conan, my dog, and Logan, my cat,
that detailed a few new familiars well suited for
any warlock character. It found its way into
Pacts & Patrons, and was hence included in
Multiversatility – POP. Last winter Conan, my
faithful, dumb, smelly, and lovable Conan,
passed away; and so, please, even if it’s no one’s
familiar include a little hound in your
adventures. Do it for Conan.

Visually identical to a common flamingo, a

CRUORINGO
cruoringo possesses an unnatural lust for
blood: the reddish hue of its plumage derives
Small monstrosity, unaligned
not from a diet rich in shrimps, but from the
Armor Class 12
precious fluid it feeds on.
Hit Points 39 (6d6 + 18)
At closer examination, the body of a
Speed 10 ft., fly 60 ft. cruoringo is found to be literally covered in tiny
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA blood vessels: they run through its flesh,
6 (-2) 15 (+2)16 (+3)3 (-4) 12 (+1)7 (-2) through its skin and within its feathers. The
Skills Perception +3, Stealth +4 tongue of the creature is rather a subtle
Senses passive Perception 13 proboscis capable of sucking the blood of the
Languages - prey.
Many druids speculate that cruoringos
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
aren’t natural animals, but the result of some
magical experiments – or, perhaps, the alien
Blood Frenzy. The cruoringo has advantage on spawn of a far distant world.
melee attack rolls against any creature that isn’t As vampires often take a fancy on
at full hit points. cruoringos both as pets and food resources,
Blood Spray. A creature that hits the cruoringo some necromancers and warlocks who enter a
with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it is pact with a bloodlusting undead favor them as
sprinkled by its blood and must succeed on a DC familiars
13 Charisma saving throw or suffer
disadvantage on all attack rolls for 1 round. If a
creature's saving throw is successful, the
creature is immune to the blood spray of bloody
flamingos for the next 24 hours.
Bloodsucker. If the cruoringo hits a creature
with an attack and has advantage on attack rolls
against that creature, the target takes an extra 5
(2d4) damage from the attack, and the bloody
flamingo regains hit points equal to that
amount.

ACTIONS
Beak. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5
ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4+2) piercing damage.

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above more conventional animals and constantly searching for a creature to “adopt”
creatures. them.
Eye stalkers are curious and, despite not
to bright, tend to argue intensely with their
host, often acting as an angst-ridden teenager
EYE STALKER would with a foster parent. In fact, the very act
of detaching itself from the beholder that
Tiny aberration, lawful neutral spawned it, could be interpreted as the
Armor Class 16 (natural armor) rebellion of an adolescent against family and
Hit Points 10 (3d4 + 3) parents.
Perhaps eye stalkers are the paragon of
Speed 0 ft., fly 20 ft. (hover)
beholderkin ultimate madness: a body that no
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA more perceives itself as a whole, its very
6 (-2) 17 (+3)12 (+1)9 (-1) 11 (+0)7 (-2) appendages developing consciousness and
Skills Perception +2, Stealth +6 going away from the main body.
Condition Immunities prone As beholders do, eye stalkers come in
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception every form and shape: some have proper stings
12 at the end of their bodies, while others possess
Languages understands Deep Speech and lamprey mouths or even humanoid fangs. Some
Undercommon but can't speak them, telepathy scholars believe that every eye stalker starts
30 ft. with a sting that slowly develops into a mouth,
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP) and that this process is part of the development
of the eye stalker into a new, full-fledged
Attach. An eye stalker can attach itself to the
head of a willing subject, typically to the temple,
entering a symbiotic relation with the target's
brain. While attached, the eye stalker and the
host can freely communicate through telepathy,
and the host gains advantage on Perception
checks that rely on sight, but the eye stalker
can't make perception checks nor sting attacks
on its own. The attaching process requires a full
minute, and inflicts 1 piercing damage to the
host; while the eye stalker is attached, this
damage can't be recovered. The eye stalker can
detach from the host as a bonus action, inflicting
1 psychic damage.
ACTIONS
Sting. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 0
ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage.
Eye Ray. The eye stalker shoots its magical eye
ray at one creature it can see within 90 feet of it.
Wounding Ray. The target must make a
DC 13 saving throw, taking 5 (2d4) necrotic
damage on a failed save, or half as much damage
on a successful one.

Eye stalkers are an uncommon type of

beholderkin, the unlikely result of an eyestalk
gaining consciousness and detaching itself from
the main body. Eye stalkers, while unwillingly
to return to the main beholder that originated beholder.
them, as to any other beholderkin, are

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FEATHERED DOG
Medium beast, unaligned
Armor Class 13
Hit Points 11 (2d8+2)
Speed 40 ft., fly 60 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
13 (+1)17 (+3) 12 (+1) 4 (-3) 15 (+2)8 (-1)
Skills Perception +4
Senses passive Perception 14
Languages -
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)
Flyby. The dog doesn't provoke opportunity
attack when it flies out of an enemy's reach.
Keen Hearing and Smell. The dog has
advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that
rely on hearing or smell.
ACTIONS
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) piercing damage. If
the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC
11 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
Feathered dogs are majestic, loyal and useful
pets, whose small numbers contribute to their
value and appreciation. Fierce and yet playful
guardians, feathered dogs are especially valued
by the small races as useful flying steeds and
familiars.
GREMLIN
Tiny fey, chaotic evil
Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
Hit Points 5 (2d4)
Speed 20 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
7 (-2) 16 (+3)11 (+0)13 (+1)8 (-1) 10 (+0)
Skills Perception +1, Sleight of Hand +7, Stealth
+5
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Common, Sylvan, Undercommon
Challenge 1/8 (25 XP)
Ruin. The gremlin's melee weapon attacks deal
5 (2d4) extra points of damage against objects.
Sapper. The gremlin has proficiency with the
thieves tools, and doubles the proficiency bonus
while using them.
Tricky Attack. If the gremlin hits an enemy with
a weapon attack while invisible, the target must
pass a DC 13 Intelligence saving throw or be
stunned until the end of its next turn.
ACTIONS
Blowgun. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit,
range 10/40 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing
damage.
Tricky Tools. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit,
reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 bludgeoning,
piercing, or slashing damage.
Invisibility. The gremlin magically turns
invisible until it attacks or casts a spell, or until
its concentration ends (as if concentrating on a
spell). Any equipment or item the gremlin
wears or carries is invisible with it.
Gremlins are tricky, evil fairies with a true
fascination with humanoid arts and craft... a
fascination that they express by hacking and
smashing every object they could.
While usually they don't point their
discussable attentions towards living beings –
usually! –, gremlins show no regards to the
safety of those that rely on the items they
target: for them it is all a big game, and if
someone dies when the wheels detach from the
cart, or if the bridge breaks under the weight of
the pilgrims' procession, gremlins laugh at the
good prank and are utterly incapable of
expressing empathy towards those who
suffered from their tricks. Someone says that
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gremlins are agents of the natural world, sent to
punish humanoids (especially dwarfs, humans,
and gnomes) for their unnatural technologies,
while others believe that those fairies are
simply one of the less kind examples of the fairy
folks, with no elaborate reason behind their acts
other than their own fun.
“It’s not my fault, really, you know? Jerrys wanted
to play and, well, you know how it gets when
Jerrys plays: it gets messy. Forbid Jerrys from
playing? No, thank you. I am pretty happy being
alive, and I don’t want to die with a pair of
scissors in my gullet!”
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GUIDING LIGHT
Tiny celestial, neutral good
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 2 (1d4)
Speed 20 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
1 (-5) 19 (+4)10 (+0)12 (+1)15 (+2)13 (+1)
Skills Insight +4, Religion +4
Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire, thunder;
bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from
nonmagical weapons
Damage Immunities necrotic, radiant, poison
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion,
frightened, poisoned
Senses blindsight 120 ft., truesight 30 ft.,
passive Perception 12
Languages Celestial, Common, telepathy 60 ft.
Challenge 1/8 (25 XP)
Radiant Essence. The guiding light sheds bright
light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an
additional 20-foot radius. This light can't be
suppressed willingly nor through darkness
magic.
ACTIONS
Cleansing Light (Recharge 4-6). Ranged
Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 30/60 ft., one
target. Hit: 3 (1d6) radiant damage, and the
target sheds dim light in a 5-foot radius,
granting advantage to attack rolls against it, till
the start of the guiding light's next turn.
Light of Guidance. The guiding light blesses
with radiance one willing target within 60 feet;
the target sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius
and dim light for an additional 5-foot radius till
the end of its next turn, and gains advantage to a
single ability check or saving throw made while
shining from the light of guidance.
Guiding lights are agents sent by the celestial
powers to lead mortals towards the path of
virtue. As good redeems its own, and like gods
celestials often act in strange ways, often a
guiding light is provided as a familiar to a
somehow dubious individual, in order to guide
the chosen humanoid towards a greater path.
While they are not particularly strong
nor resilient, guiding lights act as trusted
advisers and mentors to those wise enough to
pay attention to their counsels.

HOUND
Small beast, unaligned
Armor Class 13
Hit Points 4 (1d6 + 1)
Speed 50 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
12 (+1)16 (+3)12 (+1)3 (-1) 12 (+1)7 (-2)
Skills Perception +3, Sleight of Hand +7, Stealth
+5
Senses passive Perception 13
Languages –
Challenge 1/8 (25 XP)
Keen Hearing and Smell. The hound has
advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that
rely on hearing or smell.
Pack tactics. The hound has advantage on an
attack roll against a creature if at least one of
the dog's allies is within 5 feet of the creature
and the ally isn't incapacitated.
ACTIONS
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 3 (1d4+1) piercing damage. If
the target is a medium or smaller creature, it
must succeed on a DC 11 Strength saving throw
or be knocked prone.
While smaller than mastiffs, hounds are often
preferred as hunting dogs thanks to their great
speed and agility, and are often trained to hunt
in pack against stronger animals, such as boars.
Thanks to their inborn grace and elegance,
hounds are often favored as pets by nobility.
MOON CAT
Tiny fey, neutral
Armor Class 13
Hit Points 4 (1d6 + 1)
Speed 40 ft., climb 30 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
3 (-4) 17 (+3)10 (+0)13 (+1)12 (+1)12 (+1)
Skills Perception +3, Stealth +5
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages Moon Cat, Sylvan
Challenge 1/8 (25 XP)
Moon Jump. As a bonus action, the cat can
magically shift from the Material Plane to the
Feywild, or vice versa. While bounded to a
mortal as a familiar, however, the moon cat
loses this capability.
Keen Smell. The cat has advantage on Wisdom
(Perception) checks that rely on smell.
ACTIONS
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5
ft., one target. Hit: 1 slashing damage.
Teleport (Recharge 4-6). The cat magically
teleports, along with any equipment it is
wearing or carrying, up to 40 feet to an
unoccupied space it can see. Before or after
teleporting, the cat can make one claws attack.
The common folk erroneously calls moon cat
the mysterious pusses that sometimes seem to
simply disappear, only to reappear somewhere
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else in a blink: according to superstition, those
cats disappear because they jump to the moon,
and from the moon back to earth's surface.
Moon cats, however, share no bound
with the moon, nor with the Material Plane:
they are in fact natives of the Feywild, capable
of teleporting out of reality or back into their
home plane. Much more intelligent than
earthling cats, those kittens are capable of
speaking, but rarely do so. They usually flee to
the Material Plane in order to avoid harm, but
sometimes they leave the Feywild only to enjoy
the higher status they possess among mortal
pusses, and the liking of humanoids that love
beautiful cats. For they are the best kittens in
the whole Multiverse, or at least they believe so.
Yes, the tabby is Logan and the hound was
Conan. Together they made quite a crossover.
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PHOENIKIN
Tiny monstrosity, unaligned
Armor Class 13
Hit Points 10 (3d4 + 3)
Speed 10 ft., fly 60 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
5 (-3) 16 (+4)12 (+1) 4 (-3) 15 (+2)8 (-1)
Skills Perception +4
Damage Resistances cold
Damage Immunities fire, radiant
Condition Immunities exhaustion
Senses passive Perception 14
Languages -
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
Flyby. The phoenikin doesn't provoke
opportunity attack when it flies out of an
enemy's reach.
Regeneration. The phoenikin regains 1 hit
point at the start of its turn. If the phoenikin
takes necrotic damage, this trait doesn’t
function at the start of the phoenikin’s next
turn. The phoenikin dies only if it starts its turn
with 0 hit points and it doesn’t regenerate.
ACTIONS
Beak or Talons. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit,
reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage
plus 7 (2d6) fire damage.
Phoenikin is the collective name for various
species of small birds that share a strong bond
with the highest essence of life and immortal
fire. Believed by many a scholar to be a minor
offspring of the phoenix, or perhaps the missing
link between the legendary avian creature and
mundane birds, phoenikin are much
appreciated as exotic and dangerous pets, as
well as familiars by those who prefer a more
endurable companion.
In the wild, phoenikin are tireless flying
predators that feed on small animals, cocky
enough to defend their nests against larger
predators. Different species of phoenikin adapt
differently to captivity, and some of them have
since become a relatively common sight in
noble houses across the world.

UNBORN
Tiny undead, neutral evil
Armor Class 11 (natural armor)
Hit Points 11 (2d4 + 6)
Speed 5 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
3 (-4) 8 (-1) 17 (+3)8 (-1) 9 (-1) 13 (+1)
Damage Vulnerabilities radiant
Damage Immunities necrotic, poison
Condition Immunities exhaustion, frightened,
poisoned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9
Languages Undercommon, telepathy 30 ft.
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces the
unborn to 0 hit points, it must make a
Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the
damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or
from a critical hit. On a success, the unborn
drops to 1 hit point instead.
ACTIONS
Life Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +0 to hit,
reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) necrotic, and
the unborn regains hit points equal to the
damage caused. The target must succeed on a
DC 13 Constitution saving throw or its hit point
maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the
damage taken.
REACTIONS
Wail. The unborn releases a tearful wail, the cry
of an undead who was never alive. The wail has
no effect on constructs and undead. All other
creatures within 30 feet of the unborn that can
hear it must make a DC 13 Constitution saving
throw. On a failure, a creature takes 5 (2d4)
necrotic damages and is frightened until the end
of its next turn; on a success, it takes only half
damage and is not frightened.
Few horrors are so chilly as the very existence
of the undead monstrosities properly called
unborns. Those abominations appear as
undead fetuses, constantly wailing and
contorting their half-rotten limbs. How a
magician could be so cruel against life itself to
create such a blasphemy is beyond
understanding for the minds untouched by a
psychopathic's madness.
However, as scholars of necromancy
argue, no mortal magic can possibly pervert in
undead a life that has not yet blossomed, and
thus the origin of unborns may be different. As
those creatures are often provided as familiars
to those warlocks that dabble in pacts with
powerful undeads, they are perhaps the spawn
of a different plane of existence, where
everything is born to undeath. A slightly less
unsettling possibility.
“You want a creepy tale? Are you sure? Well, here
goes nothing: it is one of my worst experiences,
and it still gives me nightmares.
Do you remember the bleak week, when a cabal
of necromancers literally raised hell over the
capital? I was just a novice back then, so I didn’t
fight firsthand against the mages, but the temple
sent me and my comrades to help the survivors
and clean up some of the mess after the big shots
vanquished the bad guys. It was a real mess,
believe me: magical duels and rampant demons
tend to be quite disastrous. The few buildings still
standing were charred by fire, most of them were
unstable mazes, and we had to venture there in
order to rescue the survivors and terminate the
surviving undead. Charming, right?
I won’t tell you about the foul smells, about the
rotting corpses we were forced to step on among
the debris, or about the half-starved ghoul that
devoured one of my friends. No: you know what is
the most terrifying memory of those days?
A survivor, a still breathing woman, oblivious of
everything, that, sitting among the corpses, was
cradling her undead baby!”
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 Flyby. The cat doesn't provoke opportunity
WINGED CAT
attack when it flies out of an enemy's reach.
Keen Smell. The cat has advantage on Wisdom
Tiny beast, unaligned
(Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Armor Class 14
Hit Points 5(2d4) ACTIONS
Speed 40 ft., fly 60 ft., climb 30 ft. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5
5 (-3) 18 (+4)10 (+0)4 (-3) 14 (+2)8 (-1) ft., one target. Hit: 1 slashing damage.
Skills Perception +4, Stealth +6
Senses passive Perception 14 Winged cats, sometimes affectionately named
Languages - feathered whiskers, are little fluffy kitten
Challenge 1/8 (25 XP) provided with wings and the ability to fly. Those
Aerial Assault. If the cat is flying and dives at cats are brighter than the usual puss, and far
least 30 feet straight toward a target, it can use more fierce in defending their territory. They
one bite attack and two claws attacks against it. are particularly prized as pets and as familiars.

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“I spent the better part of my life – and I am quite
old, kiddo, believe me – journeying across the
Multiverse, and I have jet to find an answer to the
questions that first set me in motion.
The more I think about it, and the more I realize
how ignorant I am about the Planes, the
creatures that inhabit them, the gods, and the
bonds that tie them all. Is time really just an
illusion? Is it true that the opposed are the same?
I rode dragons among the knights of Krynn, and
roamed the cruel sands of Athas, I got drunk at
Waterdeep and Sharn… and I went beyond, even
beyond! I traveled trough the Mists with the
Vistani, I saw the giant space hamsters and the
phlogiston ships, I crossed the Moonbeam Roads
and sought the Blade and the Staff…
… and jet here I am, none the wiser, too old to
continue with my travels, a simple vessel of
memories with no residual strength. I was a
champion, a villain, a lover, and a scoundrel, but
now I am just an old fool. Perhaps I was always a
fool, after all.
Why I’m telling you this? I will not be long for
this world, my dear. I am long-lived, but I’m not
eternal. I will soon depart for my final journey,
and it would be a shame for all my adventures to
be forgotten. You want to become an adventurer
yourself, don’t you? Well, take heed of my
ramblings then, and treasure them.”
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 The Multiverse
Awaits: The Choice
Is Yours!
A whole Multiverse exists out there, a
whole Multiverse of friends, enemies, and
monsters, a Multiverse that is yours to
explore!

Among these pages you will find:

• 8 new races, along with 22 subraces.
• 8 variant for base classes, and more than
50 new archetypes for the existing classes!
• 19 new feats.
• 10 new spells.
• 10 new familiars.
… and much more!

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