⠀CreatorWorks'

⠀CreatorWorks' Classic Monsters

Table of Contents
Welcome 3
Vampire: The Blood Drinker 4
Werewolf: The Shapechanger 16
Ghost: The Memory 23
Golem: The Alchemical 31
Mortal: The Prey 42
Backgrounds 44
Race 46
Wealth 49
Skills and Tools 50
Armor and Weapons 51
Merits & Flaws 52
Credits & Legal 55
 Something is out there in the night...
...and that something is you. This book contains rules for playing
classic monsters in a modern gothic-punk horror setting, using the
most popular roleplaying system in the world. Rules for Vampire,
Werewolf, Ghost, and Golem (a-la Frankenstein's Monster) are
included, with rules for additional classes such as Mummy and
Monster Hunter to be added later.
Here at the start, let's define some terms:
Devastating Damage
Certain types of supernatural damage is especially Devastating to
its target. Devastating damage causes the target's maximum hit
points to be reduced by the damage dealt in addition to its other
effects. The following types of damage are always Devastating:
The necrotic damage dealt by a Vampire's bite.
Damage dealt by the bite or claw of a Werewolf in War form.
Fire damage dealt to a Vampire, Werewolf, or Golem.
Radiant damage dealt to a Vampire or Demon.
Damage dealt to a Werewolf by a silvered weapon.
Damage dealt to a Fey by a cold iron weapon.
Some class features can also cause damage to be Devastating.
Maximum hit point reduction can only be healed by spending hit
dice; it is not healed by a long rest and can't be healed by magic.
Rampage
As a Classic Monster, you have a Monstrous Curse that burns
inside you, coiled and ready to pounce. Controlling this Curse is a
major theme of playing these types of characters. When that
control slips, your character has a chance to Rampage.
At certain times called out in the mechanics, or at appropriate
story moments at DM discretion, your character may be called to
make a Rampage check, which is a Wisdom saving throw at a DC
determined by the circumstance calling for the check. On a failure,
your character Rampages for the next minute.
There are three types of Rampage: Anger, Terror, and Thirst.
Anger Rampage means you are enraged beyond reason, and you
lash out with murderous intent at anything or anyone nearby.
While in an Anger Rampage you do not distinguish friend from
foe, and you spend each turn attacking the creature nearest to you.
A Terror Rampage comes with the Frightened condition, and
while Terror Rampaging you must flee from the source of your
fear by any means necessary, attacking anyone or anything that
gets in your way. Thirst Rampage is usually only experienced by
Vampires and Strigoi; while Thirst Rampaging you must attack
and drink from the nearest source of Blood, regardless of friend or
foe or keeping your true nature hidden.
Creature Types
Vampires, Ghosts, and Mummies are creature type Undead.
Werewolves in Human and Wolfman form are creature type
Humanoid (shapechanger), in Wolf and Direwolf form are
creature type Beast (shapechanger), and in Warwolf form are
creature type Monstrosity (shapechanger).
Witches, Hunters, Hedge Mages, Strigoi, and all other Humans
are creature type Humanoid.
Golems are creature type Construct.
Demons are creature type Fiend. Theoretically, a redeemed or
not-fallen Angel would be creature type Celestial.
Faeries are creature type Fey.
Aliens are creature type Aberration.
All animals native to the Material Plane are creature type
Beast. Other planes may contain Dragons, Monstrosities, etc.
Holy Water and Consecrated Ground
Holy Water created by a spell functions as true Holy Water. Holy
Water merely blessed by a devout priest who can't cast spells only
functions in this way on targets who are vulnerable to Holy Water.
Similarly, an area consecrated by the hallow spell has its effects
for all creatures of the types chosen by the spellcaster who
consecrated it; ground that is considered holy merely by being a
church or other sacred ground only has such effects on those who
are vulnerable to or phobic of Holy Ground.
Spellcasting
In modern times, the weave of reality allows for a certain amount
of magic, but not all of it. Generally, magic at a higher level than
one fourth a creature's character level, or of 6th-level or higher
regardless of character level, can only happen by warping or
breaking reality in some way, or by cheating. Witches hack the
system with the power of their belief; Vampire Blood Wizards,
being descended from Witches, have some of this hacking folded
into their Blood; Faeries can cast at higher levels but only in the
Feywild, or by tearing some of the Feywild into the Material Plane
by casting as a Nightmare; Demons are those who wrought
Creation from nothing, so they can work some higher level magic
through the weave that they created. Hedge Mages, Werewolves,
Strigoi, and all others who use magic can't cast spells higher than
one fourth their character level, maximum 5th-level.
What a horrible night to have a curse...
 Vampire
The Blood Drinker
Vampire
V
ampires are humans who have been killed and
reanimated by another Vampire. Some say that
Cain, the first murderer, was also the first Vampire;
others believe differently. Vampires are nocturnal,
taking damage from sunlight, and they must drink
Blood to survive. They hide in plain sight, maintain-
ing the illusion that Vampires do not exist, to
protect themselves from the humans who would destroy them.
Class Features
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per Vampire level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + Constitution modifier
per Vampire level after 1st
Proficiencies
Weapons: Simple weapons
Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
Skills: Choose three from Arcana, Athletics, Deception, History,
Insight, Intimidation, Perception, Persuasion, Religion, Sleight
of Hand, and Stealth.
Thirst
A Vampire is defined, first and foremost, by the Thirst for Blood.
Every Vampire is always at least a little bit hungry, as their Curse
yearns for that next warm red drink. Others can sense this hunger
in your aura, giving you the Mark of the Predator Flaw.
You have a Blood Die, with a size for your level as shown on the
Vampire table. Certain Vampire features require you to "spend a
Blood Die", to draw on your inner Blood reserves to fuel your
vampiric abilities. To spend a Blood Die, roll a die of the
appropriate size and take the result in necrotic damage. This
damage can't be reduced or prevented in any way.
You have retractable fangs which you can use to make unarmed
strikes using Strength or Dexterity for the attack and damage
rolls. On a hit, instead of 1 bludgeoning damage, they deal piercing
damage with a damage die equal to your Blood Die size, and once
per turn you can add an additional Blood Die of necrotic damage.
The necrotic damage increases by an additional Blood Die at 5th
level (2d6), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d10). The necrotic
damage is Devastating, and you regain hit points equal to half the
necrotic damage dealt this way. After the bite, as a bonus action
you can lick the wound away, leaving no trace. A creature bit this
way who is not already fighting you is immediately charmed by
you, as supernatural ecstasy flows through their veins. The charm
lasts for one hour, and usually causes them to rationalize what
happened as something other than being bitten by a Vampire.
When you drink at least one ounce of fresh blood in some other
way, you regain 1d8 hit points per ounce. You must have drank at
least one ounce of blood since you last regained hit points from
resting to gain the full benefits of a rest. If you have not, you can't
use hit dice to heal on a short rest, you regain only half as many hit
points on a long rest, and a long rest does not heal exhaustion.
If you have fewer than half your hit points remaining, your
hunger becomes strong enough that it has a chance to trigger your
Curse. When in the presence of a living human, the DM can have
you make a DC 10 Rampage Check. On a success, the DM can't
ask for a Rampage Check this way for the next hour; on a failure,
you enter a Thirst Rampage for the next minute or until you have
at least half your hit points remaining.
If you have fewer than a quarter of your hit points remaining,
you must make a DC 15 Rampage check the first time each hour
you see or smell a living human, and the DM can have you make
such a check when in the presence of other sources of Blood,
including other Vampires. Once again, on a success, the DM can't
ask for a Rampage Check this way for the next hour; on a failure,
you enter a Thirst Rampage for the next minute or until you have
at least half your hit points remaining.
Blush of Health
You can spend 1 Blood Die to cast alter self (change appearance)
without components to look like yourself as a living healthy human
Swiftness
You can spend 1 Blood Die to Dash or Disengage as a bonus
action and your jump distance is doubled for the turn.
Vigor
Whenever you make a Strength or Dexterity check, you can spend
1 Blood Die and add the result to the roll. You can do this after the
d20 is rolled, but before the DM declares whether it succeeds.
Sunlight Sensitivity
You have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Perception checks
that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever
you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight. Whenever you see
an open flame, you must make a Terror Rampage check, DC 8 for
a candle, 11 for a torch, 13 for a campfire, and so on.
Starting at 3rd level, whenever you start your turn in direct
sunlight, you take one Blood Die of radiant damage, plus an
additional Blood Die for every two Vampire levels beyond 3rd (1d4
at 3rd level, 2d6 at 5th level, 3d6 at 7th level, etc.). Being radiant,
this damage is Devastating to you.
Spellcasting
You can use the power of the Blood to cast some spells.
Blood Magic
To cast a Vampire Spell, you must spend a number of Blood Dice
equal to the level of spell you wish to cast. You can cast spells as
though using a higher level spell slot by spending additional Blood
Points. You can't cast spells this way at a higher spell level than
your Max Spell Level as shown on the Vampire table.
Cantrips
You know two cantrips of your choice from the Vampire Spell List
at the end of this class description. You learn an additional
Vampire cantrip of your choice at 4th level, and again at 10th level.
Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher
At 1st level, you know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the
Vampire spell list. The Spells Known column of the Vampire table
shows when you learn more Vampire spells of your choice of 1st-
level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher
than your Max Spell Level as shown for your Vampire level on the
Vampire table. When you reach 5th level, for example, you learn a
new Vampire spell, which can be 1st- or 2nd-level.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose
one of the Vampire spells you know and replace it with another
spell from the Vampire spell list, which also must be of a level no
higher than your Max Spell Level.
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 Vampire
Proficiency Cantrips Spells Max Spell Blood
Level Bonus Features Known Known Level Powers Die
1st +2 Thirst, Sunlight Sensitivity, Spellcasting, Bloodline 2 2 1st — d4
2nd +2 Powers 2 3 1st 2 d4
3rd +2 Hibernation, Ichor 2 4 1st 3 d4
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 3 5 1st 3 d4
5th +3 Blood Thrall 3 6 2nd 4 d6
6th +3 Ability Score Improvement 3 7 2nd 4 d6
7th +3 Bloodline Feature, Turn 3 8 2nd 4 d6
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 3 9 2nd 5 d6
9th +4 — 3 10 3rd 5 d6
10th +4 Bloodline Feature 4 10 3rd 5 d6
11th +4 — 4 11 3rd 6 d8
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 4 11 3rd 6 d8
13th +5 — 4 12 4th 6 d8
14th +5 Ability Score Improvement 4 12 4th 7 d8
15th +5 Bloodline Feature 4 13 4th 7 d8
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 4 13 4th 7 d8
17th +6 — 4 14 5th 8 d10
18th +6 Bloodline Feature 4 14 5th 8 d10
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 4 15 5th 8 d10
20th +6 — 4 15 5th 11 d12

Spellcasting Ability Powers

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your Vampire spells. 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 Vampire 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
Bloodline
Your Bloodline is your Vampiric lineage, the line of Vampiric
heritage from which you were sired. It is popular to declare that
there are 13 Bloodlines, though in truth there are many more, and
there is much debate over which 13 are the "true Bloodlines".
Seven Bloodlines are defined at the end of this class description; if
you wish to use one not listed there, work with your DM to design
a subclass for it, using the ones described there as a guide.
Your Bloodline grants you a Weakness and other features at 1st
level, and additional features at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th levels.
The Blood gives you the ability to cause powerful magical effects.
At 2nd level, you gain two Powers of your choice from the list at
the end of the class description. You gain additional Powers of
your choice at higher levels as shown on the Vampire Table.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose
one of the Powers you know and replace it with another Power
that you could learn at that level.
A level prerequisite in a Power refers to Vampire level, not
character level.
Hibernation
At 1st and 2nd level, you are what is known as a Red-Blood,
undead but still relatively easy to kill. By 3rd level, the Blood has
blackened in you, and you have become a true Vampire.
You gain resistance to cold, necrotic, and poison damage. When
you are brought to 0 hit points or killed, so long as your Maximum
Hit Points are greater than 0, you do not die or roll death saves.
Instead you instantly stabilize and fall into Hibernation, which is a
sleep nearly indistinguishable from death.

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In addition, you no longer need to eat, drink, or breathe, your body
no longer ages, and you can't be aged magically. Welcome to
immortality. Even a wooden stake through your heart merely puts
you into Hibernation until the stake is removed. True Death only
comes for you when your Maximum Hit Points are brought to zero
(usually through Devastating damage such as from fire or
sunlight), or if you are beheaded with a called shot critical hit.
When you are brought to True Death, your body crumbles to ash.
Finally, each dawn you are supernaturally compelled to fall into
this sleep of death, to rise the following dusk. You can smell the
approaching dawn an hour before sunrise, giving you time to find
shelter and safety while you sleep. You can resist this compulsion
for one hour with a Wisdom saving throw, DC 8 plus your Vampire
level, and you can repeat this save each hour to continue staying
up, falling into Hibernation until sunset on a failure. You can't rise
from Hibernation while you have 6 levels of exhaustion.
Eat Food?
Red-Blooded Vampires can eat and digest food as
humans can, though they must still drink blood to fully
benefit from a rest as described in the Thirst feature.
Starting at 3rd level, however, if a Vampire consumes
anything other than Blood or magic potions, they
immediately vomit it back up. There is a Merit that you
can take, called "Eat Food", to mitigate this.
Ichor
Starting at 3rd level, as an action you can spend a Blood Die to
produce one ounce of a sanguine black liquid called Ichor, which is
Blood magically enhanced by your vampiric essence. By itself,
Ichor's only special property is that it is delicious and addictive to
any other than you who drink it (requiring a Constitution save at
your Vampire spell save DC upon tasting it to avoid addiction), but
it is also a component of many Vampire Powers. Ichor loses its
potency 24 hours after it is produced, though there are Powers
that can preserve it for longer.
Ability Score Improvement
At 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th and 19th level,
you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can
increase two ability scores of your choice by 1, or you can choose a
Feat or 5 Bonus Points worth of Merits.
Blood Thrall
Starting at 5th level, your Blood is strong enough to create Blood
Thralls. This can be useful, but can often bring complications.
Anyone who drinks at least one ounce of your Ichor must
succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw or be charmed by
you for 24 hours. If they fail this save on three consecutive nights,
they are Thralled by you. The charm becomes permanent, though
it can be removed with a greater restoration or wish spell.
You can cast the suggestion spell at will on anyone Thralled by
you in this way, and they have disadvantage to save against it.
A humanoid Thralled this way becomes a Strigos.
A Thralled creature can make a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw
after 10 days of not drinking any of their master's Ichor, and again
every 24 hours after that, breaking the bond on a success. If they
ever drink the master's Ichor, they must wait 10 days to try again.
Turn
Starting at 7th level, your Blood is strong enough to sire new
Vampires. This is usually a bad idea, but sometimes there are
good reasons to want to do such a thing.
To sire a Vampire, first you must drain a creature of all of their
Blood, meaning you must use your bite damage to reduce their
Maximum Hit Points to zero. Then, you must feed their corpse an
ounce of your Ichor and spend a number of Blood Dice equal to
the creature's number of hit dice. You and the corpse then make
opposing Constitution checks; if you succeed, the body rises as a
Vampire of your Bloodline. If you fail by 5 or less, the body rises as
a Clanless Vampire. If you fail by more than 5, the Turning fails
and the body dies its True Death. A willing victim may voluntarily
allow you to win the contest, though in this case you still roll
against DC 8, creating a Clanless on a failure.
Generation
The closer in lineage you are to The First Vampire, the
more powerful your Blood is to start, though these
differences can be overcome with time and experience.
It is assumed, unless you work out otherwise with your
DM, that player characters are 13th Generation.
Your starting level upon being Turned is influenced by
your Generation, as follows:
Generation Starting Level Generation Starting Level
15th 1 11th 3-5
14th 1-2 10th 4-7
13th 1-3 9th 5-9
12th 2-4 8th 6-11
Bloodlines
There are far too many Bloodlines to describe them all here. A
selection of Bloodlines are described below; if you wish to use a
Bloodline not listed here, work with your DM to design a subclass
for it, using the ones described here as a guide.
Clanless
The Clanless are Vampires in whom, for whatever reason, no
signs of the sire's Bloodline show in the progeny.
Weakness: None
Clanless have no Bloodline Weakness as they have no Bloodline.
However, they are often looked down on by other Vampires, and
extremists may even seek to hunt you down and kill you.
Expanded Spells
For the Vampire spells you learn at 1st, 7th, and 15th levels, you
can choose a spell from any Bloodline's Spell List.
Bonus Powers
At 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th levels, you gain a bonus Power. For
these bonus Powers, as well as for the two Powers you get at 2nd
level, you are considered to be a member of every Bloodline for the
purpose of meeting prerequisites. For all other Powers, you are
considered to be a member of no Bloodline.
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 Arcadian
Arcadian is said to be a Fey Bloodline, and indeed if a Faerie is
successfully Turned, they invariably become Arcadians regardless
of their sire. Arcadians have an affinity for enchantment and
illusion magic, and have a strange power over dreams.
Weakness: Cold Iron Vulnerability
Like the Fey, you take Devastating damage from cold iron weapons
Expanded Spells
Arcadian Vampire spells are on the Vampire Spell List for you.
Hypnotic Gaze
At 1st level you gain the Mesmerize Power, not counting against
your number of Powers.
Dream Magic
Magic that affects the mind comes easier for you. Starting at 7th
level, whenever you spend Blood Dice to cast an enchantment or
illusion spell, choose one of the Blood Dice rolled. You gain
temporary hit points equal to the result of the chosen die.
Psychic Vampire
Starting at 10th level, once on each of your turns when you deal
psychic damage to a creature, you can cause that damage to
become Devastating. If you do, you regain hit points equal to half
the psychic damage dealt this way. If you regain at least 5 hit
points this way, this counts as drinking an ounce of blood.
Dream Portal
Starting at 15th level, by drinking the blood of a sleeping creature,
you can enter the Feywild through its dreams. You enter the part of
the Feywild that closest approximates what the creature is
currently dreaming of - though you can travel to other parts of the
Feywild during your stay - and you remain in the Feywild until the
creature either wakes or dies, at which point you reappear in an
unoccupied space adjacent to the creature's body.
If you stay in the part of the Feywild where the affected creature
is dreaming, you can shape its dreams by altering the magic there.
Treat this as casting the dream spell targeting the affected
creature, without spending Blood Dice or material components
and without entering into a trance.
Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a
long rest.
Muddle Memories
At 18th level, creatures you influence magically (such as with
charm person) remain unaware of being influenced even if the
spell or effect says otherwise.
Additionally, you can cast modify memory on a creature
charmed by you without spending Blood Dice or material
components. The memory targeted must be within the period of
time they have been charmed by you. Once you do this, you can't
do so again until you finish a long rest.
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Berserker
Berserker Vampires harness the Rage of their Curse to turn their
bodies into weapons. They strike out at their enemies with fist and
fang, terrifying to their foes but also to their friends, as they are
more prone to Rampages than their calmer brethren. Werewolves
who are successfully Turned invariably become Berserkers.
Weakness: Short Temper
You have disadvantage on Anger Rampage checks.
Expanded Spells
Berserker Vampire spells are on the Vampire Spell List for you.
Rage
In battle, you fight with primal ferocity. On your turn, you can
spend a Blood Die to enter a Rage as a bonus action.
While raging, you gain the following:
Advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
Disadvantage on Wisdom checks and Wisdom saving throws.
When you make a melee weapon attack using Strength, you
gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll. This bonus increases to +3
at 10th level, and +4 at 15th level.
You have resistance to all damage that isn't Devastating.
You can't cast or concentrate on spells.
Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked
unconscious or if you use your bonus action and succeed on a DC
13 Wisdom save to end it on your turn.
If you are raging and there are no visible enemies to chase or
attack, you must make a DC 13 Anger Rampage Check to avoid
turning on allies and bystanders.
Flurry of Blows
At 7th level, when you take the Attack action on your turn, if you
are unarmed or wielding only simple weapons you can make one
unarmed strike as a bonus action, or you can spend 1 Blood Die to
make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.
Brutal Critical
Beginning at 10th level, you can roll one additional weapon
damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit
with a melee attack.
This increases to two additional dice at 15th level and three
additional dice at 18th level.
Retaliation
Starting at 15th 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.
Indomitable Might
Starting at 18th level, if your total for a Strength check is less than
your Strength score, you can use that score in place of the total.
Bestial
Bestial Vampires live in the wilds, abandoned buildings, or sewers,
alongside the rats and wolves and bats. They are closer to the
animal aspect of their Curse than other Vampires, and are the only
ones to master Wild Shape.
Weakness: Bestial Features
You gain the Deformed Flaw at the 2 point level for no Bonus
Points. Your deformity is an animal feature of some kind; wolf
ears, rat teeth, etc. This can be hidden with Blush of Health.
Expanded Spells
Bestial Vampire spells are on the Vampire Spell List for you.
Bestialism
At 1st level you lose the Mark of the Predator Flaw.
In addition, you gain your choice of the Wild Shape or Animal
Companion Power, ignoring prerequisites and not counting
against your total number of Powers.
Improved Bestialism
At 7th level, the Power you chose at 1st level with your Bestialism
feature is improved.
If you chose Animal Companion, your Animal Companion
learns to speak and understand one language you speak, and you
can communicate with it telepathically as long as you are on the
same Plane of Existence.
If you chose Wild Shape, you can use Wild Shape as a bonus
action on your turn rather than an action. You also choose an
additional form to be able to take with Wild Shape, which can be
of CR 1/2 or less and can have a flying speed.
Beckon Beasts
Starting at 10th level, you can spend a Blood Die as an action to
cast conjure animals, except the summoned beasts are not fey
spirits but actual beast creatures from the area nearby. The DM
chooses the creatures based on what is available in the area.
The spell is cast as though using a spell slot of a level equal to
half the Blood Die result (round down) plus 3. Once you use this
feature, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest,
and you can't do so again within a five mile radius for 24 hours.
Greater Bestialism
At 15th level, the Power you chose at 1st level with your Bestialism
feature is further improved.
If you chose Animal Companion, your Animal Companion is
considered undead, takes Devastating damage from fire and
radiant damage, and gains the Vampire Hibernation feature.
If you chose Wild Shape, you choose an additional form to be
able to take with Wild Shape, which can be of CR 2 or less and
can have a flying speed.
Master Bestialism
At 18th level, the Power you chose at 1st level with your Bestialism
feature is further improved.
If you chose Animal Companion, you can use your action and
spend a Blood Die to summon your Animal Companion to an
unoccupied space within 10 feet of you as long as you are on the
same plane of existence. In addition, you and your Animal
Companion have advantage on attacks targeting a creature within
5 feet of the other if the other is not incapacitated.
If you chose Wild Shape, you can Wild Shape without spending
Blood Dice, and you choose an additional form to be able to take,
which can be of CR 2 or less and can have a flying speed.
Blood Wizard
The Blood Wizards are wielders of powerful magics that others
can scarcely comprehend. It is said they are descended from
powerful Witches who were Turned, and learned to use the Blood
to reclaim some of their previous power.
Weakness: Deficient Ichor
Your Ichor, while powerful for Spellcasting, is weak for Thralling.
Other Vampires have advantage on resisting being Thralled by
you, and you have disadvantage on resisting being Thralled.
Expanded Spells
Wizard spells are on the Vampire Spell List for you.
Blood Wizardry
Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can spend a Blood
Die to create a number of Blood Points equal to 1 plus the die
result. These Blood Points last until expended or until the start of
your next short or long rest. You can spend a Blood Point in place
of spending a Blood Die for casting Vampire spells.
At 1st, 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level, you gain an additional
Spell Known. At 7th and 15th level, your Max Spell Level as
shown on the Vampire table increases by 1. However, to cast a
spell at a level higher than shown for your level on the Vampire
table or a spell not listed on the Vampire spell list, you must
expend one ounce of your own fresh Ichor as a material
component consumed by the spell. At 18th level, you need only use
the Ichor as a spellcasting focus for these purposes, and it is not
consumed by the spell.
When you cast a spell at 6th or 7th level by spending Blood
Points or Blood Dice, you can't cast a spell at that level again by
spending Blood Points or Blood Dice until you finish a long rest.
Metamagic
At 7th, 10th, and 15th level, you gain one Metamagic option from
among those available to a Sorcerer, using Blood Points in place
of Sorcery Points. At 18th level, you gain two additional
Metamagic options, and you can apply a single Metamagic option
to a spell without expending Blood Points once with this feature,
and regain the ability to do so when you finish a short or long rest.
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 Necromancer
The Necromancers are powerful practitioners of death magic.
Their mastery over the power of undeath makes them figures of
both awe and fear among other Vampires.
Weakness: Deep Hibernation
The energy of death courses so strongly through you that your
sleep of death clings to you when you wake. You gain one level of
exhaustion when you wake from Hibernation, which lasts until you
finish a short or long rest.
Expanded Spells
Necromancy spells are on the Vampire Spell List for you.
Necromancy
At 1st, 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level, you gain an additional Spell
Known, which must be from the Necromancy school of magic.
Necromastery
Necrotic damage dealt by necromancy spells you cast ignores
resistance to necrotic damage and treats immunity to necrotic
damage as resistance.
Reanimate
At 7th level you learn the animate dead spell, and can cast it once
with this feature without spending Blood Dice. At 15th level you
can cast it twice with this feature instead of once. You regain
expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Eyes of the Dead
Starting at 10th level, as an action you can see through the eyes of
any undead currently under your command and hear what it hears
until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special
senses that it has. During this time you can deliver commands to
that undead telepathically, and you are deaf and blind with regard
to your own senses.
Death Parley
Starting at 15th level, you can cast speak with dead at will without
spending Blood Dice or material components.
The Quivering
At 18th level, your command of necromancy is so complete that
you can take control of a skeleton even before its owner is
technically deceased. As an action, you can touch a Small or
Medium human-shaped vertebrate creature and spend three Blood
Dice, forcing them to make a Constitution saving throw at your
Vampire spell save DC. On a failure they take 10d10 necrotic
damage - which benefits from your Necromastery feature - and
must immediately use their reaction to take one action of your
choosing, as you force their skeleton to make the necessary
movements against their muscles and tendons. On a successful
save they take half as much damage and are not forced to use their
reaction. In either case, if the damage brings them to 0 hit points,
they are killed outright as their skeleton rips itself from their body
to perform the commanded action, and then remains in your
service as though a pile of bones targeted by animate dead.
Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a
long rest. You can only have one skeleton in your service from this
feature at a time; if you use this feature again, the previous
skeleton is released from your control unless you cast animate
dead to reassert control over it.
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Shadowmancer
The Shadowmancers are followers of darkness and watchers of
the night. They are the keepers of tradition and loremasters for all
Vampirekind.
Weakness: Cast No Reflection
You gain the Cast No Reflection Flaw for no Bonus Points.
Expanded Spells
Shadow Vampire spells are on the Vampire Spell List for you.
Shadowsight
At 1st level, you gain the Shadowsight Power, not counting against
your number of Powers.
Shadow Lair
At 7th level, you gain the ability to sink into shadow and lie in wait.
You can cast meld into stone as a ritual, or as an action by
spending 3 Blood Dice, if you are in an area of dim light or
darkness, even if the surface or object is not stone.
Shadow Walk
At 10th level, you gain the ability to step between shadows. When
you are in dim light or darkness, as an action you can spend a
Blood Die to magically teleport to an unoccupied space up to the
die result x 50 feet away that is also in dim light or darkness.
Shadow Slide
At 15th level you gain the ability to merge with your own shadow.
As an action while in an area of bright light, you step into the
shadow you cast. As a shadow you can slide along floors, walls,
even ceilings, as long as you stay in areas of bright light. You can
take no actions except Dash or Hide, but you have advantage on
any Stealth or Deception checks to appear to be an ordinary
shadow. You return to your normal form after one hour, when you
are in an area of dim light or darkness, or if you end it early as a
bonus action.
Once you use this feature you can't do so again until you finish a
short or long rest.
Blot the Sun
Starting at 18th level, you can create a column of starlit twilight
regardless of the time of day. As an action, spend three Blood Dice
and choose one of them. A column of dim light appears centered
on a point you choose within 120 feet of you, with a radius of the
chosen Blood Die result x10 feet and a height of 100 feet. The
column dims bright light as easily as it lightens darkness.
Sunlight, even magical sunlight, can't pierce the column, and the
time inside it is always considered evening for the purposes of
forced Hibernation.
On each of your turns, you can use your action to move the
column up to 60 feet in any direction. The column lasts for one
minute, after which it fades unless you spend a Blood Die to
extend it for another minute. After it fades, you can't use this
feature again until you finish a long rest.

Powers
Unless otherwise noted, you can't take the same Power more than
once.
Animal Companion
Prerequisite: Bestial Bloodline
You gain the Animal Companion Merit. You can choose a
Swarm of Beasts instead of a Beast to be your Companion.
Armor of Shadows
You can cast mage armor on yourself at will, without expending
Blood Dice or material components.
Beckon
Prerequisite: 9th level, Charisma 13 or higher
As an action, you can spend three Blood Dice and choose a
creature you are familiar with, speaking their name out loud as
though beckoning to a lover. If the chosen creature is on the same
plane of existence, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw at
your Vampire spell save DC or feel an irresistible urge to come
find you, wherever you are, though they will not take suicidal
actions to do so. This does not reveal to them your exact location,
but as they follow the urge they will find themselves drawn in the
right direction to come to you, even if you change location. This
compulsion lasts until they reach your side, until you end it as a
bonus action, or until dawn.
Blood Focus
You can use one ounce of fresh Blood as a spellcasting focus.
Blood Preserve
Prerequisite: 5th level, Blood Wizard Bloodline
As a one hour ritual, you can fill a specially prepared crystal
bottle with one ounce of Ichor and stopper it, causing it to keep its
potency for seven days rather than 24 hours. You can also use this
ritual to keep ordinary Blood fresh for up to 72 hours.
Disease Carrier
You are an asymptomatic carrier of Sewer Plague. The saving
throw to resist the disease is your Vampire Spell Save DC.
Ear for Lies
You have advantage on Insight checks to spot a lie.
Evasion
Prerequisite: 7th level, Dexterity 13 or higher
When you are subjected 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.
Eyes of the Rune Keeper
You can read all writing.
Eyes of the Serpent
As an action, you can make eye contact with a creature and
paralyze them with your gaze. They must succeed on a Charisma
saving throw at your Vampire spell save DC or be incapacitated
until the end of your next turn. You can use your action on
subsequent turns to maintain this effect, the creature making a
new saving throw each time. Once the creature succeeds, you can't
use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.
Fast Movement
Your movement speed is increased by 10 feet
Gaze of Two Minds
You can use your action to touch a willing humanoid and perceive
through its senses until the end of your next turn. As long as the
creature is on the same plane of existence as you, you can use
your action on subsequent turns to maintain this connection,
extending the duration until the end of your next turn. While
perceiving through the other creature's senses, you benefit from
any special senses possessed by that creature, and you are blinded
and deafened to your own surroundings.
Ghostsight
Prerequisite: 7th level
As an action, you gain the ability to see through the Ethereal
Plane. Solid objects, invisible creatures, and creatures in the
Border Ethereal all appear as overlapping translucent images.
This special sight has a range of 30 feet, is not impeded by
darkness, magical or otherwise, and lasts for 1 minute or until
your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell).
During that time, you have disadvantage on Perception checks as
the sight of things overlapping transparently is overwhelming.
Once you use this Power, you can't use it again until you finish a
short or long rest.
Healing Ichor
Prerequisite: 3rd level
When a creature drinks your Ichor, they regain hit points equal
to 1d8 plus your Charisma modifier. A creature who gains this
benefit can't do so again until it finishes a short or long rest.
Heightened Senses
You gain the Keen Senses Merit at the 2 Point level. You can take
this Power multiple times.
Mesmerize
As an action you can target one humanoid you can see within 30
feet of you. If the target can see you, the target must succeed on a
Wisdom saving throw at your Vampire save DC or be charmed by
you. The charmed target regards you as a trusted friend to be
heeded and protected. Although the target isn't under your control,
it takes your requests or actions in the most favorable way it can,
and it is a willing target for your bite attack.
Each time you or your allies do anything harmful to the target, it
can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a
success. Otherwise, the effect lasts 24 hours or until you are
destroyed, are on a different plane of existence than the target, or
take a bonus action to end the effect.
Misty Escape
Prerequisite: 9th level, Bestial Bloodline
When you drop to 0 hit points, rather than falling into
Hibernation, you transform into a cloud of mist. While in mist
form, you can't take any actions, speak, or manipulate objects. You
are weightless, have a flying speed of 20 feet, can hover, and can
enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. In addition, if air
can pass through a space, the mist can do so without squeezing,
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 though it can't pass through water. You have advantage on
Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws, and you are
immune to all nonmagical damage except from sunlight.
You remain conscious in mist form for two hours despite having
0 hit points, ideally using this time to move to a safe place. When
you take any damage or at the end of the two hours, you revert to
your normal form and fall into Hibernation as normal.
One With Shadows
Prerequisites: 10th level
When you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use
your action to become invisible until you take an action or a
reaction, or are in an area of bright light.
Serpent's Bite
Prerequisite: 5th level
Choose Serpent Venom or Drow Poison. You can expend 1
Blood Point when you hit with a bite attack to cause your fangs to
inject one dose of the chosen poison. You must finish a short or
long rest before you can do this again. You can take this Power a
second time; if you do, you can choose when you spend the Blood
Point which type of poison to inject.
Shadow Play
Prerequisite: Shadowmancer Bloodline
You can control the size and shape of the shadows around you,
within 5 feet times half your Vampire level (round down) from you.
The shadows must be naturally cast by a light source, but you can
move and reshape them at will. This change is not merely
cosmetic, but alters the light level in the affected area.
Shadowsight
You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical,
to a distance of 120 feet.
Taste for Blood
Prerequisite: Blood Wizard Bloodline
By tasting a Vampire's Blood or Ichor, you can learn certain
things about them. The target Vampire makes a Charisma saving
throw at your Vampire spell save DC. On a success, you learn only
one item from the following list; on a failure you learn two items,
plus one more for each 5 by which they failed:
1. Bloodline Vampire level
2. Sire's Name Remaining hit points*
3. Sire's lineage One Power known
*At time of sample collection, as an approximate percentage to the nearest 10%
You must learn items on the numbered list in order, though they
can be before or after or between the items on the bulleted list.
You can choose "One Power Known" multiple times, learning a
different Power each time if available, chosen by the DM.
This feature can only be used on a sample of fresh Blood or
Ichor; if the sample is not fresh, you learn no knowledge or
possibly incorrect knowledge at DM discretion. Once you use this
feature, you can't use it with the same sample again, or with a
sample from the same source until you finish a long rest.
If the creature is not a Vampire, you only learn what type of
creature it is. This does not require a saving throw, but if it is
something other than a human or Vampire, ingesting their Blood
may have unpleasant side effects at DM discretion, such as an
Anger Rampage roll from Werewolf Blood or odd hallucinations
from Faerie Blood.
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Vampire Claws
Prerequisite: 5th level, Strength or Dexterity 13 or higher
Your nails become retractable claws similar to your fangs. You
can use them to make unarmed strikes using Dexterity or
Strength for the attack and damage rolls. On a hit they deal
slashing damage with a damage die equal to your Blood Die size.
In addition, you can attack twice instead of once when you take
the Attack action. You can take this Power a second time at 11th
level, increasing the number of attacks from two to three.
Vampiric Toughness
Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to twice
your level. Whenever you gain a level, your hit point maximum
increases by an additional 2 hit points.
Uncanny Dodge
Prerequisite: 5th level, Dexterity 13 or higher
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.
Unshakable Calm
You gain the Serenity Merit at the 2 point level.
Wild Shape
Prerequisite: Bestial Bloodline
Choose a Medium Beast creature of CR 1/4 or less that does
not have a flying speed, such as a Wolf or a Swarm of Rats. As an
action you can spend a Blood Die to magically assume the shape
of the chosen creature. You can stay in beast shape for a number
of hours equal to half your Vampire level (rounded up). You then
revert to your normal form unless you expend another 2 Blood
Points. You can revert to your normal form earlier by using a
bonus action on your turn. You automatically revert if you fall
unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.
While you are transformed, the following rules apply:
Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast,
but you retain your your hit dice, hit points, alignment,
personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores.
You also retain all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies,
in addition to gaining those of the creature. If the creature has
the same proficiency as you and the bonus in its stat block is
higher than yours, use the higher bonus. If the creature has any
legendary or lair actions, you can't use them.
You can't cast spells, and your ability to speak or take any
action that requires hands is limited to the capabilities of your
beast form. Transforming doesn't break your concentration on
a spell you've already cast, however, or prevent you from taking
actions that are part of such a spell (e.g. call lightning).
You retain the benefit of any features from class, background,
etc. and can use them if the new form is physically capable of
doing so. However, you can't use any of your special senses,
such as darkvision, unless your new form also has that sense.
You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in your
space, merges into your new form, or is worn by it. Worn
equipment functions as normal, but the DM decides whether it
is practical for the new form to wear a piece of equipment,
based on the creature's shape and size. Your equipment doesn't
change size or shape to match the new form, and any
equipment that the new form can't wear must either fall to the
ground or merge with it. Equipment that merges with the form
has no effect until you leave the form.
Strigoi
A Strigos is a human who has been corrupted by Vampire Blood.
Every Strigos becomes this way by being Thralled to a Vampire,
though with DM permission you can start play having already
broken free from the bond to your master.
Class Features
As a Strigos, you gain the following class features
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per Strigoi level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + Constitution modifier
per Mortal level after 1st
Proficiencies
Weapons: Simple Weapons
Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
Skills: Any two of your choice
Thirst
As a Strigos, you are addicted to Ichor, which is the empowered
Blood of a Vampire. It is this Ichor flowing through your veins that
gives you your powers, and drives you constantly to look for more.
If you are Thralled to a Vampire, they will happily provide you with
Ichor, as every time you drink it the bond is refreshed; if you are
independent, finding Ichor is a much more difficult process.
Fortunately, you won't die from not drinking Blood; you will simply
cease to be a Strigos and become Human again.
You have a Blood Die, with a size for your level as shown on the
Strigoi table. Certain Strigoi features require you to "spend a
Blood Die", to draw on your inner Blood reserves to fuel your
abilities. To spend a Blood Die, roll a die of the appropriate size
and take the result in necrotic damage. This damage can't be
reduced or prevented in any way. If you have fewer than half your
hit points, you can't spend Blood Dice.
When you drink at least one ounce of Ichor, you regain 1d8 hit
points per ounce. Eight ounces of fresh human blood can serve the
same purpose, but once it has it can't again until you drink at least
one ounce of Ichor. When you finish a short or long rest, if you
haven't regained hit points from drinking Blood or Ichor in this
way since your last rest, you can't spend Blood Dice until you do.
When you gain a character level, it can't be in this class unless
you have consumed at least one ounce of Ichor in the last month.
After each full month without consuming Ichor, one of your Strigoi
levels is replaced with a Mortal level.
Spellcasting
You can use the power of the Blood to cast some spells.
Blood Magic. To cast a Vampire Spell, you must spend a
number of Blood Dice equal to the level of spell you wish to cast.
You can cast spells as though using a higher level spell slot by
spending additional Blood Points. You can't cast spells this way at
a higher spell level than your Max Spell Level as shown on the
Strigoi table.
Cantrips. You know one cantrip of your choice from the
Vampire Spell List. You learn an additional Vampire cantrip of
your choice at 4th level, and again at 10th level.
Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher. At 1st level, you know
one 1st-level spell of your choice from the Vampire spell list. Any
time you drink Ichor from a Vampire, its Bloodline's Expanded
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 Strigoi
Proficiency Cantrips Spells Max Spell Blood
Level Bonus Features Known Known Level Powers Die
1st +2 Thirst, Spellcasting 1 1 1st — d4
2nd +2 Powers 1 1 1st 1 d4
3rd +2 Timeless Body 1 2 1st 1 d6
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 2 2 1st 1 d6
5th +3 — 2 3 1st 2 d6
6th +3 — 2 3 1st 3 d6
7th +3 — 2 4 2nd 3 d8
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 2 4 2nd 3 d8
9th +4 — 2 5 2nd 4 d8
10th +4 — 3 5 2nd 5 d8
11th +4 — 3 6 2nd 6 d8
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 3 6 2nd 6 d8
13th +5 — 3 7 3rd 6 d10
14th +5 — 3 7 3rd 7 d10
15th +5 — 3 8 3rd 8 d10
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 3 8 3rd 8 d10
17th +6 — 3 9 3rd 9 d10
18th +6 — 3 10 3rd 9 d10
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 3 11 4th 9 d12
20th +6 — 3 12 4th 11 d12

The Spells Known column of the Strigoi table shows when you
learn more Vampire spells of your choice of 1st-level and higher. A
spell you choose must be of a level no higher than your Max Spell
Level as shown for your Vampire level on the Vampire table. When
you reach 7th level, for example, you learn a new Vampire spell,
which can be 1st- or 2nd-level.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose
one of the Vampire spells you know and replace it with another
spell from the Vampire spell list, which also must be of a level no
higher than your Max Spell Level.
Spellcasting Ability. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for
your Vampire spells, since you cast them by consuming and
digesting Ichor. You use your Constitution whenever a spell refers
to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Constitution
modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a Vampire spell you
cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Constitution modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Constitution modifier
Powers
The Blood gives you the ability to cause powerful magical effects.
At 2nd level, you gain one Power of your choice from among
those available to a Vampire. Any time you drink Ichor from a
Vampire, you are considered to be a member of its Bloodline for
the purpose of meeting Power prerequisites from then on. You
gain additional Powers of your choice at higher levels as shown on
the Strigoi Table.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose
one of the Powers you know and replace it with another Power
that you could learn at that level.
A level prerequisite in a Power refers to Strigoi level, not
character level.
Timeless Body
By 3rd level, the Ichor in your system preserves your body and
prevents it from aging. You do not age and you can't be aged
magically as long as you continue regularly drinking Ichor. At the
end of a full month without drinking Ichor, you lose the benefit of
this feature until your next drink of Ichor. If your true age is
greater than 100 but less than 250, at the end of a full month
without drinking Ichor you instead begin rapidly aging at 10 times
the normal rate. If your true age is 250 or more, at the end of a full
month without drinking Ichor your body crumbles to dust.
Ability Score Improvement
At 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th level, you can
increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase
two ability scores of your choice by 1, or you can choose a Feat or
5 Bonus Points worth of Merits.

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Vampire Spell List Arcadian Vampire Spell List
Level Spell
Cantrips 3rd-Level
Light Clairvoyance 0th dancing lights, minor illusion
Message Dispel Magic 1st faerie fire, silent image
Ray of Frost Fear
Thaumaturgy Haste 2nd mirror image
True Strike Sleet Storm 3rd hypnotic pattern, major image
Slow
1st-Level Tongues 4th hallucinatory terrain, phantasmal killer
Bane Vampiric Touch 5th dream, seeming
Charm Person Water Walk
Command Berserker Vampire Spell List
Comprehend Languages 4th-Level
Detect Magic Blight Level Spell
Detect Poison and Disease Compulsion
Expeditious Retreat Confusion 0th shillelagh
False Life Dimension Door 2nd heat metal, shatter
Fog Cloud Freedom of Movement
Inflict Wounds Ice Storm Bestial Vampire Spell List
Jump Polymorph
Sleep Level Spell
5th-Level
2nd-Level Cloudkill 1st animal friendship, speak with animals
Blindness/Deafness Cone of Cold 2nd alter self
Blur Contagion 3rd conjure animals, gaseous form
Calm Emotions Dominate Person
Darkvision Geas 4th dominate beast, faithful hound, giant insect
Detect Thoughts Hallow 5th commune with nature, insect plague
Enthrall Hold Monster
Hold Person Mislead
Invisibility Modify Memory Shadow Vampire Spell List
Knock Passwall Level Spell
Levitate Scrying
Misty Step Telekinesis 0th minor illusion
Ray of Enfeeblement 1st silent image
See Invisibility
Silence 2nd darkness
Spider Climb 4th black tentacles
Suggestion
Werewolf
The Shapechanger
Werewolf

W
erewolves are humans or wolves cursed by the bite
of another Werewolf to be neither and both,
trapped between the civilized world of men and the Werewolf
savage world of wolves. They have live tribal lives in Prof. Rage Rage
the wilderness, seeking harmony with nature and Level Bonus Points Damage Features
the spirits, yet they must combat the tug of 1st +2 2 +2 Heritage, Phase, Rage
civilization from their human side, and the fires of
Rage from their Curse burning within. 2nd +2 2 +2 Shapeshifting, Regeneration
3rd +2 3 +2 Phase Feature
Class Features 4th +2 3 +2 Ability Score Improvement
Hit Points 5th +3 3 +2 Extra Attack
Hit Dice: 1d10 per Werewolf level 6th +3 4 +2 Ability Score Improvement
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + Constitution modifier 7th +3 4 +2 Phase Feature
per Werewolf level after 1st 8th +3 4 +2 Ability Score Improvement
Proficiencies 9th +4 4 +3 Brutal Critical (1 die)
Weapons: Simple weapons 10th +4 4 +3 Phase Feature
Tools: Herbalism kit
Saving Throws: Strength, Wisdom 11th +4 4 +3 Land's Stride
Skills: Choose two from Animal Handling, Arcana, Athletics, 12th +4 5 +3 Ability Score Improvement
Intimidation, Nature, Perception, Religion, and Stealth.
Phase Feature,
Heritage 13th +5 5 +3
Brutal Critical (2 dice)
Choose your Heritage from among Human-Born, Wolf-Born, or 14th +5 5 +3 Ability Score Improvement
Mule, all detailed at the end of the class description. 15th +5 5 +3 Relentless
Phase 16th +5 5 +4 Ability Score Improvement
Choose your Phase from among New, Crescent, Half, Gibbous, or 17th +6 6 +4 Brutal Critical (3 dice)
Full, all detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice 18th +6 6 +4 Feral Senses
grants you features as you gain levels in this class.
19th +6 6 +4 Ability Score Improvement
Rage 20th +6 7 +4 Phase Feature
In battle, you fight with primal ferocity. On your turn, you can
spend one Rage point to enter a Rage as a bonus action.
While raging, you gain the following:
Advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
Disadvantage on Wisdom checks and Wisdom saving throws.
When you make a melee weapon attack using Strength, you
gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll. This bonus increases as
you gain levels in this class.
You have resistance to all damage that isn't Devastating.
You can't cast or concentrate on spells.
Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked
unconscious or if you use your bonus action and succeed on a DC
13 Wisdom save to end it on your turn.
If you are raging and there are no visible enemies to chase or
attack, you must make a DC 13 Fury Frenzy Check to avoid
turning on allies and bystanders.
You have a number of Rage points as indicated for your
Werewolf level on the Werewolf table. You regain all expended
Rage points when you finish a short or long rest.

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 Shapeshifting
At first level, you are infected with Lycanthropy, but the Curse has
not yet fully matured in you. It is unknown whether or not you will
ever experience the First Shift. Starting at 2nd level, the First Shift
becomes possible, followed by countless more to come.
As an action on your turn, you can attempt to Shift into one of
your five forms: Human, Wolfman, Warwolf, Direwolf, or Wolf.
To Shift, make a Wisdom saving throw; on a 13 or higher, you
can take Human, Wolf, or Warwolf form; on a 15 or higher, you
can take Wolfman or Direwolf form. If you fail, you can spend a
Rage point to succeed instead (or on a success, you can spend a
Rage point to Shift instantly). If you fail the save and do not spend
a Rage point, no action is spent but you can't try again this turn.
Shapeshifting is a physically taxing ordeal; when you Shift, you
are incapacitated until the start of your next turn while your bones
crack and grow and rearrange themselves, your flesh expands and
builds pounds of muscle out of nowhere, and thick fur sprouts
from every centimeter of your skin. If you spent a Rage point, you
can use that Rage to Shift instantly without becoming incapacit-
ated, but you gain a level of exhaustion if you do so.
Any worn equipment that can't fit your new form falls to the
ground at your feet; nonmagical equipment that can't do so freely
(such as clothing) is destroyed in the process.
You can still spend your Bonus Action to Rage on the same turn
you shapeshifted despite being incapacitated. If you spent a Rage
point to shapeshift you do not need to spend an additional point to
enter a Rage on the same turn. If you are already raging, you
automatically succeed any attempt to shift into Warwolf form.
You automatically succeed any attempt to take your Heritage
form, and you revert to your Heritage form when you die. When
you fall unconscious, you can make a DC 17 Wisdom save to stay
in your current form, otherwise you revert to your Heritage form.
Human
The Human form is basically indistinguishable from that of an
ordinary human being; in this form, the Werewolf can travel
through cities and crowds without being discovered.
Wolfman
The Wolfman form is taller, hairier, and beefier than most humans.
In Wolfman form, your size is still Medium (barely), but your
Strength score is increased by 4 (to a maximum of 24), you gain
natural armor of +1, your base walking speed is increased by 5
feet, and you gain bite and claw attacks with a d4 damage die.
However, unless magically disguised, you have disadvantage on all
attempts to pass for human in dim light or darkness, and such
attempts automatically fail in bright light.
This quarter-form is uncomfortable, inflicting one level of
exhaustion after each 24 straight hours in this form.
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Warwolf
The Warwolf is the true war form of the Werewolf, the form for
when no solution save violence will do. A hybrid of human and
wolf, infused with the superhuman strength of this warrior race,
the Warwolf is one of the most efficient killing machines in the
world. Humans suffer such terrifying ancestral memories when
witnessing an angry Warwolf that they often break down into
hysterics, forcing themselves to forget that such a monster exists.
In Warwolf form, your size is increased to Large, your Strength
score is increased by 6 (to a maximum of 26), your Dexterity score
is increased by 4 (to a maximum of 24), you gain natural armor of
+2, your base walking speed is increased by 10, and you gain claw
attacks with a d6 damage die and a bite attack with a d8 damage
die. Ordinary humans flee from you unless they succeed on a DC
20 Wisdom saving throw.
If a human or wolf takes damage from your Warwolf form's bite
attack, it must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or
contract the Curse of Lycanthropy.
The Warwolf form is very taxing unless you are a Mule,
inflicting one level of exhaustion after each 4 straight hours in this
form, and when you shapeshift out of Warwolf form, if you are not
exhausted, you gain one level of exhaustion.
Direwolf
The Direwolf is the massive wolf of nightmare, a throwback to
prehistoric days when the dire wolves were the size of ponies. In
Direwolf form, your size is still Medium (barely), but your Strength
and Dexterity scores are increased by 2 (to a maximum of 22), you
gain natural armor of +1, your base walking speed is increased by
15 feet, you gain bite and claw attacks with a d6 damage die, and
you have advantage on Perception or Nature checks for tracking
or hunting. In this form you can only speak Wolfspeak, and you
can't perform the verbal or somatic components of spells.
This quarter-form is uncomfortable, inflicting one level of
exhaustion after each 24 straight hours in this form.
Wolf
The Wolf form allows the Werewolf to hunt and live among wolf
packs, or to call on the speed and superior senses of the wolf. In
Wolf form, your size is Medium, your Dexterity and Wisdom
scores are increased by 2 (to a maximum of 22), your base walking
speed is increased by 10 feet, you gain gain claw attacks with a d4
damage die and a bite attack with a d6 damage die, and you have
advantage on Perception checks related to smell. In this form you
can only speak Wolfspeak, and you can't perform the verbal or
somatic components of spells.
Regeneration
Starting at 2nd level, you regain 10 hit points at the start of each of
your turns while in Warwolf form. If you take damage from a
silvered weapon, this feature doesn't function on your next turn.
Ability Score Improvement
At 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th and 19th level,
you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can
increase two ability scores of your choice by 1, or you can choose a
Feat or 5 Bonus Points worth of Merits.
Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once,
whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Brutal 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.
This increases to two additional dice at 13th level and three
additional dice at 17th level.
Land's Stride
Starting at 11th level, moving through nonmagical difficult terrain
costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through non-
magical plants without being slowed by them and without taking
damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.
In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against plants
that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement,
such those created by the entangle spell.
Relentless
Starting at 15th level, if you roll for Initiative and have no Rage
points remaining, you regain 1 Rage point.
Feral Senses
At 18th level, you gain preternatural senses that help you fight
creatures you can't see. When you attack a creature you can't see,
your inability to see it doesn't impose disadvantage on your attack
rolls against it. You are also aware of the location of any invisible
creature within 30 feet of you, provided that the creature isn't
hidden from you and you aren't blinded or deafened.

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 Heritage
Your Heritage is your parentage and what form you were born in.
Human-Born
You are a Human who was bitten by a Werewolf in War form.
Until level 10, you have advantage on rolls to masquerade as
human, but you have disadvantage on social rolls to interact with
wolves, spirits, and Wolf Werewolves. Starting at level 10, you have
assimilated enough as a Werewolf that these no longer apply.
Wolf-Born
You are a Wolf who was bitten by a Werewolf in War form.
Until level 10, you have advantage on rolls to masquerade as a
wolf, but you have disadvantage on social rolls to interact with
humans and Human Werewolves. Starting at level 10, you have
assimilated enough as a Werewolf that these no longer apply.
Mule
Mule Werewolves are the deformed and sterile progeny of two
Werewolves who bred with each other. Werewolves breed true
with humans or wolves, but when they breed with each other their
Curses double up and mutate the offspring. Mules are born in
Warwolf form and have a special affinity for it, but they are always
sterile, have some kind of mutation or deformity, and are a mark of
shame on their parents and their tribe.
Mules have no special advantage or disadvantage on social
interaction or masquerading. Instead they take no exhaustion from
using or leaving Warwolf form as it is their Heritage form, and
they must take at least 3 points of Flaws (for no Bonus Point
reward) to represent their Mule deformity. What Flaws may be
taken for this is ultimately at DM discretion, but their effect must
be visible (though it may be able to be hidden with a disguise) and
representative of a physical or magical mutation. Points of Mule
deformity Flaws beyond 3 may award Bonus Points, though how
many are permitted is at DM discretion.
Phases
Your Phase is the phase of the moon you were born under. Your
choice grants you features as you gain levels in this class.
New Moon
New Moon Werewolves are the Tricksters, born outside of Luna's
light. Their ways are mysterious, but they serve their tribe in times
where Tooth and Claw are not appropriate.
Moonshadow
At 1st level, you gain proficiency with Stealth and with Thieves'
Tools. If you are already proficient, you gain expertise instead.
In addition, you can Hide as a bonus action on your turn.
Sneak Attack
Beginning at 3rd level, you know how to strike subtly and exploit
distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to
one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the
attack roll and it uses a finesse, ranged, or natural weapon.
You don't need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of
the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn't incapacitated, and
you don't have disadvantage on the attack roll.
The amount of the extra damage increases as you gain levels in
this class, to 2d6 at 7th level, 3d6 at 10th level, 4d6 at 13th level,
and 5d6 at 20th level.
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Expertise
At 7th level, and again at 13th level, choose two of your skill
proficiencies. You gain expertise with those skills.
One with Shadows
Starting at 10th level, when you are in an area of dim light or
darkness, you can use your action to become invisible until you
take an action or a reaction, or are in an area of bright light.
Reliable Talent
At 20th level, whenever you make an ability check with proficiency,
you can treat a d20 roll of 2 to 9 as a 10.
Crescent Moon
As the crescent moon pierces the night, so does the Crescent
Moon Werewolf pierce the soul. The mystics of the Werewolves,
they understand the Spirit world better than anyone, and often this
understanding leads to a greater knowledge of that which lies
within as well.
Spellcasting
Through the power of your connection to nature and the spirits,
you have the ability to cast some spells.
Cantrips. At 1st level, you know one cantrip of your choice from
the druid or sorcerer spell lists. You learn additional such cantrips
as you gain levels in this class, as shown on the Crescent table.
Spell Slots. The Crescent table shows how many spell slots you
have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these
spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You
regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
Additionally, as a bonus action on your turn, you can spend a
number of Rage points to restore a spell slot of that level.
For example, if you know the 1st-level spell burning hands and
have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast
burning hands using either slot.
Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher. You know two 1st-level
spells of your choice from the druid spell list, one of which may be
from the sorcerer spell list instead. The Crescent table shows
when you gain additional druid spells of your choice. Each of these
spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For
instance, when you reach 7th level in this class, you can learn one
new spell of 1st or 2nd level. The spells you learn at 8th, 14th, and
20th level can be from the sorcerer spell list instead of druid.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose
one of the spells you know and replace it with another spell from
the druid spell list (or the sorcerer spell list if you are replacing
one of your sorcerer spells), which also must be of a level for
which you have spell slots.
Spellcasting Ability. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for
your Werewolf spells, as they come from your understanding of
nature and the spirits. You use your Wisdom score whenever a
spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your
Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a
Werewolf 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
Ritual Caster
You have learned a number of spells that you can cast as rituals. Crescent / Gibbous
These spells are written in a ritual book, which you must have in Cantrips Spells
hand while casting one of them. Level Known Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
At 1st level, your ritual book contains two 1st-level spells of your
choice from the druid or wizard spell lists. You add another spell 1st 1 — — — — —
to your book at 7th level of 2nd-level or lower, at 10th level of 3rd- 2nd 1 — — — — —
level or lower, and at 13th level of 4th-level or lower. You must
choose your spells from the druid or wizard spell lists, and they 3rd 2 3 2 — — —
must have the ritual tag. 4th 2 4 3 — — —
If you come across a spell in written form, such as a magical
spell scroll or a Witch's spellbook, you might be able to add it to 5th 2 4 3 — — —
your ritual book. The spell must be on the druid or wizard spell 6th 2 4 3 — — —
list, the spell's level can be no higher than one quarter your level
(rounded up), and it must have the ritual tag. The process of 7th 2 5 4 2 — —
copying the spell into your ritual book takes 2 hours per level of 8th 2 6 4 2 — —
the spell. In the same way, you can inscribe any spell you learn 9th 2 6 4 2 — —
from this class in the book if it has the ritual tag.
10th 3 7 4 3 — —
Focused Rage 11th 3 8 4 3 — —
At 10th level, you learn to partially harmonize your rage and your
spellcasting, gaining the following benefits: 12th 3 8 4 3 — —
You can concentrate on a spell even while raging. 13th 3 9 4 3 2 —
When you fail a concentration check, you can spend a Rage 14th 3 10 4 3 2 —
point to reroll and use the second result.
15th 3 10 4 3 2 —
Beast Spells 16th 3 11 4 3 3 —
At 20th level, you can perform the somatic and verbal components
of a spell while in any form. 17th 3 11 4 3 3 —
18th 3 11 4 3 3 —
Half Moon 19th 3 12 4 3 3 1
The Half Moon Werewolves forever seek a balance, to see all sides
of things. They act as the judges and ambassadors for the 20th 3 13 4 3 3 1
Werewolves, maintaining sight of purpose at all times.
Natural Diplomat
At 1st level you are a master of mediation and diplomacy. When Quelled Rage
you make a Charisma check to try to bring peace or understanding While rage is useful, sometimes cooler heads must prevail.
between two or more creatures, you can treat a d20 roll of 2 to 9 Starting at 7th level, you can cast the calm emotions spell as an
as a 10. (You can be one of the two or more creatures.) action on your turn by spending a Rage point.
Animal Companion Beast Allies
At 3rd level, you gain the Animal Companion Merit for no Bonus Starting at 10th level, you can spend a Rage point as an action to
Point cost. If you already have the Animal Companion Merit, you cast conjure animals, except the summoned beasts are not fey
gain 4 Bonus Points to spend on other Merits instead. spirits but actual beast creatures from the area nearby. The DM
chooses the creatures based on what is available in the area.
The spell is cast as though using a spell slot of a level equal to
your remaining Rage points (after spending) plus 3.
Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a
short or long rest, and you can't do so again within a five mile
radius for 24 hours.
Universal Speech
At 13th level you become able to communicate with any creature.
As an action on your turn, you can spend a Rage point to cast
tongues on yourself without components.
Nature's Sanctuary
At 20th level, spirits and creatures of the wild know better than to
attack you. When a beast, plant, or spirit creature attacks you, that
creature must make a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed
save, the creature must choose a different target, or the attack
automatically misses. The creature is aware of this effect before it
makes its attack against you.
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Gibbous Moon
The artists, the singers, the poets, the dancers... The Gibbous
Moon Werewolves remind their kin of the joys of life, and inspire
them in their fight against corruption.
Bardic Inspiration
You can inspire others through stirring words or music. To do so,
use a bonus action on your turn to choose one creature other than
yourself within 60 feet of you who can hear you. That creature
gains one Bardic Inspiration 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 Bardic Inspiration die, but must
decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once
the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have
only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended
uses when you finish a long rest, or early if you spend a Rage point
as an action on your turn.
Your Bardic Inspiration die changes when you reach certain
levels in this class. The die becomes a d8 at 7th level, a d10 at 13th
level, and a d12 at 20th level.
Spellcasting
Through the power of your connection to nature and the spirits,
you have the ability to cast some spells.
Cantrips. At 1st level, you know one cantrip of your choice from
the druid or bard spell lists. You learn additional such cantrips as
you gain levels in this class, as shown on the Gibbous table.
Spell Slots. The Gibbous table shows how many spell slots you
have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these
spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You
regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
Additionally, as a bonus action on your turn, you can spend a
number of Rage points to restore a spell slot of that level.
For example, if you know the 1st-level spell burning hands and
have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast
burning hands using either slot.
Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher. You know two 1st-level
spells of your choice from the druid spell list, one of which may be
from the bard spell list instead. The Gibbous table shows when
you gain additional druid spells of your choice. Each of these
spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For
instance, when you reach 7th level in this class, you can learn one
new spell of 1st or 2nd level. The spells you learn at 8th, 14th, and
20th level can be from the bard spell list instead of druid.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose
one of the spells you know and replace it with another spell from
the druid spell list, which also must be of a level for which you
have spell slots.
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Spellcasting Ability. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your
Werewolf spells, as they come from your interaction with nature
and the spirits. You use your Charisma score whenever a spell
refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your
Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a
Werewolf 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
Song of Rest
Beginning at 3rd level, you can use soothing music or oration to
help revitalize your wounded allies during a short rest. If you or
any friendly creatures who can hear your performance regain hit
points by spending Hit Dice at the end of the short rest, each of
those creatures regains extra hit points equal to a roll of your
Bardic Inspiration die.
Countercharm
At 10th level, you gain the ability to use music or words to disrupt
mind-influencing effects. As an action, you can start a performance
that lasts until the end of your next turn. During that time, you and
any friendly creatures within 30 feet of you have advantage on
saving throws against being frightened or charmed, and are
immediately granted such a saving throw even if one would not
normally be allowed. A creature must be able to hear you to gain
this benefit. The performance ends early if you are incapacitated
or silenced or if you voluntarily end it (no action required).
Font of Inspiration
At 20th level, whenever you roll initiative you gain 4 uses of Bardic
Inspiration. If these are not used in the next minute, they are lost.
Full Moon
The Full Moon Werewolves are the warriors. Like their namesake,
there is nothing of subtlety to the Full Moons. They are the
champions of battle and the vanguard of war.
Primal Fortitude
Your Werewolf hit dice are d12s instead of d10s.
Reckless Attack
Starting at 3rd level, you can throw aside all concern for defense to
attack with abandon. When you make your first attack on your
turn, you can decide to attack recklessly. This gives you advantage
on melee weapon attack rolls using Strength during this turn, but
attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn.
Action Surge
Starting at 7th level, you can push yourself beyond your normal
limits for a moment. On your turn, you can spend a Rage point to
take one additional action, but only once per turn.
Extra Attack (2)
Starting at 10th level, you can attack three times instead of twice
whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Indomitable
Beginning at 13th 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.
Extra Attack (3)
At 20th level, you can attack four times instead of three whenever
you take the Attack action on your turn.
Ghost
The Memory
 Ghost
G
hosts are the spirits of the dead who linger in the
Ethereal Plane rather than passing on to the next
life because they cling to some unfinished business
on the Material Plane. They are defined by their
Drives, which spur them forward; their Anchors,
which hold them back; and their Shade, which
wishes always to drag them down toward Oblivion.
Class Features
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d12 per Ghost level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d12 (or 7) + Constitution modifier
per Ghost level after 1st
Proficiencies
Saving Throws: Charisma, Constitution
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Deception, History, Insight,
Intimidation, Nature, Perception, Performance, Persuasion,
Religion, or Stealth.
Ethereal
As an undead spirit, you do not need to eat, drink, or breathe. You
are resistant to cold and necrotic damage and immune to poison
damage. You are native to the Ethereal Plane, by default unable to
interact with the Material Plane. To even see into it you must
travel from the Ethereal Plane to the Border Ethereal where you
can peer through the Threshold to see a ghostly reflection of the
Material Plane and observe the goings on there.
While in the Border Ethereal, you are invisible to the Material
Plane, but you can see and hear into it with reasonable clarity for
60 feet, and lightly obscured by gray fog for another 60 feet beyond
that. You can't affect or be affected by anything on the Material
Plane unless the effect states otherwise. You can pass through
creatures and objects as though they are difficult terrain, but you
take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside an object. If
you pass through a creature, that creature may feel an odd sense
of presence - a cold sweat, a chill down their spine, a prickle at the
back of the neck - as though something undefinable is there.
Pneuma
In death, your spirit self is defined by three things: Your Drive,
which spurs you forward; your Anchor, which holds you back; and
your Shade, which drags you down toward Oblivion.
Drive
Your Drive is your driving goal, the thing you left undone in life that
you wish to complete in death. Work with your DM to determine
your Drive; with DM permission, you may have more than one.
Higher level features will grant you bonuses for pursuing your
Drive, and you must fulfill or move past it to Pass On.
Anchor
Your Anchor is the thing you care about enough that it ties you to
the world of the living. It can be a person, an object, or a place.
Work with your DM to determine your Anchor; with DM
permission, you may have more than one. You always know the
location of your Anchor relative to you if it is on the same plane of
existence as you, or if it is on the Material Plane and you are in the
Border Ethereal. Higher level features will grant you bonuses for
slumbering in your Anchor, and you must overcome your ties to it
(or it must be destroyed) for you to Pass On.
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Shade
Your Shade is all the worst parts of you - your darkest desires and
most self-destructive tendencies - made manifest as a second
personality in your head. It taunts, torments, and tempts you, with
the ultimate goal of dragging you down into Oblivion.
Whenever you reach 0 hit points or would be killed, instead of
dying, your Shade drags you through a portal into a nightmare
realm pulled from your own subconscious where you undergo a
Wrack, a nightmare of horrors from your past and deepest fears
that you must overcome. The nature of this challenge is always
mental or emotional rather than physical, and is up to the DM to
design. Your Constitution score is permanently reduced by 1 if you
pass, or by 1d4 if you fail. Either way, you are then returned to
where you were as though only one minute had passed, with your
hit points restored to your maximum (which may be lower now)
and all other effects cleared from you (including Manifest).
If your Constitution score ever reaches zero, you are dragged
kicking and screaming into Oblivion, to become a Spectre if you
are lucky, or else to cease existing altogether.
Passing On
The unspoken goal of every Ghost is to Pass On; to complete or
move on from your Drives, overcome or outlast your Anchors, and
resist the influence of your Shade to finally leave this undead
existence and go to whatever lies Beyond. No one knows for sure
by what method this is achieved, though Wracks are thought to
play a part in it somehow. Whether and how you can ever Pass On
is at DM discretion.
Manifest
As an action on your turn while in the Border Ethereal, you can
force yourself through the Threshold to Manifest an incorporeal
form on the Material Plane. While Manifested you are visible on
the Material Plane as a ghostly apparition approximating your
appearance from just before your death, but the details are too
blurry to identify hand signs or facial expressions, and any sound
you make is muffled beyond comprehension and no louder than a
whisper. You can be targeted by effects from the Material Plane,
but you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing
damage from nonmagical weapons.
If you end your turn inside a creature while Manifested, the
creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw at your
Ghost spell save DC (see below) or take 2d6 cold damage. The
cold damage increases by 1d6 at 5th level (3d6), 11th level (4d6),
and 17th level (5d6).
You can stay Manifested for a number of minutes equal to your
Ghost level, after which you must finish a short or long rest before
you can Manifest again. Your Manifestation ends early if you are
knocked unconscious or if you end it early as a bonus action.
Ghost
Proficiency
Level Bonus Ectoi Features Cantrips Known Spells Known Max Spell Level
1st +2 — Ethereal, Pneuma, Manifest — — —
2nd +2 2 Memoriam, Spellcasting, Ectoi 2 3 1st
3rd +2 3 Guild 2 3 1st
4th +2 3 Ability Score Improvement 3 3 1st
5th +3 4 Uncanny Dodge 3 4 2nd
6th +3 4 Guild Feature 3 4 2nd
7th +3 5 Evasion 3 5 2nd
8th +3 5 Ability Score Improvement 3 5 2nd
9th +4 6 — 3 6 3rd
10th +4 6 Guild Feature 4 6 3rd
11th +4 7 — 4 7 3rd
12th +4 7 Ability Score Improvement 4 7 3rd
13th +5 8 — 4 8 4th
14th +5 8 Guild Feature 4 8 4th
15th +5 9 — 4 9 4th
16th +5 9 Ability Score Improvement 4 9 4th
17th +6 10 — 4 10 5th
18th +6 10 Restless 4 10 5th
19th +6 11 Ability Score Improvement 4 11 5th
20th +6 15 — 4 11 5th

You can carry items from the Ethereal Plane with you when you
Manifest, but they drift back across the Threshold with you when
your Manifestation ends. Any items native to the Material Plane on
your person when your Manifestation ends drop to the ground on
the Material Plane in the square you were standing.
Memoriam
You are a reflection, an incarnation of memory. Starting at 2nd
level, you have a number of Memoriam Points equal to your Ghost
level, which you can expend to power various features. You regain
all expended Memoriam Points when you finish a long rest if at
least one living person remembers your living self (as opposed to
remembering your Ghost). You regain all expended Memoriam
Points when you finish a short or long rest if you spent that rest
slumbering in your Anchor, or if you spent at least a full hour
pursuing your Drive since you last regained Memoriam.
Focused Phasing
You can spend 2 Memoriam Points as a bonus action on your turn
to ignore difficult terrain, including that imposed by passing
through creatures or objects, until the end of your turn. You do not
take damage from ending this turn inside an object.
Phantom Swiftness
You can spend 1 Memoriam Point to take the Disengage or Dash
action as a bonus action on your turn, and your jump distance is
doubled for the turn.
Phantom Defense
You can spend 1 Memoriam Point to take the Dodge action as a
bonus action on your turn.
Spellcasting
You can use the power of your Memoriam to cast some spells.
Cantrips
You learn two cantrips of your choice from the Ghost spell list. You
learn an additional Ghost cantrip of your choice at 11th level.
Casting Spells of 1st-Level and Higher
To cast one of your Ghost spells of 1st level or higher, you must
expend a number of Memoriam Points equal to the spell's level or
higher. You can cast a spell as though using a higher level spell slot
by expending additional Memoriam Points. You cannot cast spells
at a level higher than that indicated in the Max Spell Level column
of the Ghost table. You use your own Memoriam as a spellcasting
focus for these spells.
Spells Known of 1st-Level and Higher
You know three 1st-level Ghost spells of your choice.
The Spells Known column of the Ghost table shows when you
learn more Ghost spells of 1st level or higher. Each of these spells
must be of a level you can cast using Memoriam Points. For
instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one
new spell of 1st or 2nd level.
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 Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the
Ghost spells you know with another spell of your choice from the
Ghost spell list. The new spell must be of a level you can cast
using Memoriam Points.
Spellcasting Ability
Choose Charisma or Wisdom to be your spellcasting ability for
your Ghost spells. You use the chosen ability whenever a spell or
feature refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use the
chosen ability modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a
Ghost spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Charisma or Wisdom modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Charisma or Wisdom modifier
Ectoi
As a Ghost, you have access to various magical powers fueled by
your Memoriam. You gain two Ectoi of your choice at 2nd level,
and you gain an additional Ectos of your choice at certain levels in
this class, as shown on the Ghost table.
Guild
The Stygian Guilds are divided by their study of the different
schools of magic. Even if you do not officially join a Guild, you
must choose a school of magic to focus on. Your choice grants you
features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.
Ability Score Improvement
At 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th and 19th level,
you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can
increase two ability scores of your choice by 1, or you can choose a
Feat or 5 Bonus Points worth of Merits.
Uncanny Dodge
Starting at 5th 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
Starting at 7th level, when you are subjected 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.
Restless
Starting at 18th level, you require only ten minutes to gain the
benefits of a short rest and only two hours for a long rest.
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Guilds
The Evokers', Necromancers', and Transmuters' Guilds are
detailed here. You can find subclasses for the other Schools of
Magic elsewhere if you know where to look.
Evocation
The Evokers' Guild is on hard times, as the elements are stunted
and cold in the Ethereal Plane. Where the living master Fire and
Acid and Thunder, Ghosts are limited primarily to Cold, and a little
Lightning. That said, the frigid powers of a Ghost Evoker can stop
their enemies dead in their tracks.
Evocation Savant
At 3rd level, and again at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level, you learn
an additional Ghost spell from the evocation school of magic that
doesn't count against your number of spells known.
Sculpt Spells
You can create pockets of relative safety within the effects of your
evocation spells. When you cast an evocation spell that affects
other creatures that you can see, you can choose a number of
them equal to 1 + the spell's level. The chosen creatures
automatically succeed on their saving throws against the spell, and
they take no damage if they would normally take half damage on a
successful save.
Potent Cantrip
Starting at 6th level, your damaging cantrips affect even creatures
that avoid the brunt of the effect. When a creature succeeds on a
saving throw against your cantrip, it takes half the cantrip's
damage (if any) but suffers none of the cantrip's other effects.
Empowered Evocation
Beginning at 10th level, you can add your spellcasting ability
modifier to one damage roll of any Ghost evocation spell you cast.
Overchannel
Starting at 14th level, you can increase the power of your simpler
spells. When you cast a Ghost spell of 1st through 3rd-level that
deals damage, you can deal maximum damage with that spell.
The first time you do so, you suffer no adverse effect. If you use
this feature again before you finish a long rest, you take 2d12 force
damage for each level of the spell, immediately after you cast it.
Each time you use this feature again before finishing a long rest,
the force damage per spell level increases by 1d12.
Necromancy
The Necromancers' Guild are sometimes referred to as the
Artificers, or, in whispered, fearful tones, the Soulforgers. Where
Necromancy in the world of the living pertains to controlling or
even reanimating the dead, such power over death in the world of
the dead is an overwhelming and terrifying notion.
Necromancy Savant
At 3rd level, and again at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level, you learn
an additional Ghost spell from the necromancy school of magic
that doesn't count against your number of spells known.
Grim Harvest
When you reduce a Ghost or other incorporeal undead to 0 hit
points or kill it outright with an attack or spell, you can spend a
number of Memoriam Points equal to half its Constitution score
(round up) to capture its ectoplasm rather than allowing it to be
dragged down into a Wrack. You harvest a number of pounds of
raw ectoplasm equal to the creature's number of hit dice.
Soul Forging
You gain proficiency with Soulforger's Tools, a proficiency that
cannot be gained in any other way. By expending pounds of raw
ectoplasm, Memoriam Points, and hours of concentration with
Soulforger's Tools, you can craft a Relic item.
A Relic is a magic item obviously forged from ectoplasm. The
following table shows the ectoplasm, Memoriam, and time
requirements to craft each rarity of item:
Ectoplasm Memoriam Time Rarity
1 pound 1 point 1 hour Common
5 pounds 2 points 24 hours Uncommon
20 pounds 5 points 720 hours Rare
60 pounds 11 points 7,200 hours Very Rare
120 pounds 17 points 72,000 hours Legendary
360 pounds 20 points 720,000 hours Artifact
The required time does not have to be spent consecutively, but
times longer than 1 hour must be spent in 8 hour increments. If
your concentration is interrupted, progress from the interrupted
increment is lost and must be repeated later. You must spend the
required pounds of ectoplasm at the start of the process, and the
required points of Memoriam all at once at the end to complete it.
Undead Thralls
At 6th level, you learn to craft Soulsteel Chains, an uncommon
Relic item that requires attunement, which takes the form of a set
of manacles connected to a collar. As an action, you can fasten a
Soulsteel Chain around a willing or incapacitated creature. While
an undead creature is bound by a Soulsteel Chain you are attuned
to, it is charmed by you and follows your orders to the best of its
ability, except suicidal ones. Unattuned Soulsteel Chain can be
unlocked with a DC 20 Thieves' Tools check; attuned Soulsteel
Chain can only be unlocked by the creature attuned to it.
Soulsteel Chain can be carried across the Threshold by
Manifesting and left there. They function even if the attuned
creature is on a different plane of existence.
Oblivion Smite
Starting at 10th level, whenever you deal damage to a creature
with a necromancy spell, you can spend additional Memoriam
Points to deal additional necrotic damage. The extra damage is
2d8 for 1 Memoriam Point, plus 1d8 for each Memoriam Point
beyond the first, to a maximum of 5d8.
If the target is undead, the damage increases by 1d8 (to a
maximum of 6d8), ignores resistance to necrotic damage, and
treats immunity to necrotic damage as resistance.
Additional Thralls
Starting at 14th level, you can attune to a number of Soulsteel
Chains equal to your spellcasting ability modifier (minmum 1)
without them counting against your number of attuned items.
Transmutation
The Transmuters' Guild focuses on harnessing the power of the
elements and exerting control over them. They specialize in
altering the state of energy or matter, changing the nature of a
thing or changing it from one thing into another.
Transmutation Savant
At 3rd level, and again at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level, you learn
an additional Ghost spell from the transmutation school of magic
that doesn't count against your number of spells known.
Decay
You can cause an object to superficially age and rot. You can cause
metal to rust, wood to gray and splinter, paint to fade and chip, etc.
These effects are permanent but purely aesthetic, however, by
spending 1 Memoriam Point and 10 minutes of concentration
while targeting a nonmagical object no larger than 5 times your
Ghost level feet in any dimension, you can cause the object to
actually age by one year, plus one year for each consecutive 10
minutes of concentration and additional Memoriam Point (2 years
the second, 3 years the third, etc.) If you end this concentration
voluntarily upon completing a 10 minute increment, the aging is
permanent; if your concentration is interrupted early, the object
gradually reverts to its original state over the next 24 hours.
You can use this feature on an object in the Material Plane even
while you are in the Border Ethereal.
Horrifying Visage
As an action, you can force each non-undead creature within 60
feet of you that can see you to make a Wisdom saving throw at
your Ghost spell save DC. On a failure, they are frightened of you
for 1 minute. If the save fails by 5 or more, the target also ages 1d4
× 10 years. A frightened target can repeat the saving throw at the
end of each of its turns, ending the frightened condition on itself
on a success. If a target's saving throw is successful or the effect
ends for it, the target is immune to your use of this feature for the
next 24 hours. The aging effect can be reversed with a greater
restoration spell, but only within 24 hours of it occurring.
Plasmorph
At 10th level, you learn the polymorph spell (if you already know it,
you learn another Ghost spell of your choice of a level you can cast
with Memoriam Points). You can cast polymorph without
expending a spell slot. When you do so, you can target only an
incorporeal undead and transform it into a beast whose challenge
rating is 1 or lower, except it is still an incorporeal undead.
Once you cast polymorph 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 Memoriam Points.
Master Plasmorph
Starting at 14th level, when you cast polymorph using your
Plasmorph feature, if you concentrate on the spell for the full
duration, you can choose for the transformation to last until
it is dispelled.
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Aura of Misfortune
When an enemy creature within 10 feet of you rolls a 20 on an
attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, they must reroll the die
and use the new roll. While Manifested, the aura's range is
increased to 30 feet.
This feature can affect the Material Plane while you are in the
Border Ethereal.
Darkvision
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. If you already have darkvision from
another source, you gain the effects of taking this Ectos a second
time instead.
If you take this Ectos a second time, you can see normally in
darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.
Deathsense
As a bonus action, you can spend a Memoriam Point and focus
your senses on a single creature you can see within 30 feet of you.
You know any conditions that creature is suffering from (charmed,
exhausted, etc.), any poisons or diseases it is afflicted with, and its
approximate percentage of remaining hit points (nearest 10%).
Dread Gaze
As an action, lock eyes with a creature you can see who can see
your eyes who is within 30 feet of you. They must make a Wisdom
saving throw at your Ghost spell save DC or be paralyzed until the
end of your next turn. You must then finish a short or long rest
before you can do this again.
Eidolon
You have advantage on all rolls to resist or combat the influence of
your Shade (such as Rampage checks when provoked, etc.).
Ethereal Defense
Your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your
spellcasting ability modifier.
Fast Movement
Your movement speed is increased by 10 feet.
Levitation
You can cast levitate on yourself at will while not Manifested, or by
spending 1 Memoriam Point while Manifested, without providing
components.
You can take this Ectos a second time at 7th level. If you do, you
can cast fly on yourself at will while not Manifested, or by spending
2 Memoriam Points while Manifested, without providing
components.
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Lifesense
As an action, you can spend a Memoriam Point to sense life force.
Until the end of your next turn, you know the location of any beast,
humanoid, or undead within 60 feet of you that is not behind total
cover. You know the type (beast, humanoid, or undead) of any
being whose presence you sense, but not its identity.
This feature can also sense other living things, such as dragons
or monstrosities, but unless you are already familiar with such
creatures, you will likely not be able to identify the type, only
knowing that it is not a beast, humanoid, or undead.
One with Shadows
When you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use your
action to become invisible until you take an action or a reaction, or
are in an area of bright light.
Plasmic Toughness
Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to twice
your level. Whenever you gain a level, your hit point maximum
increases by an additional 2 hit points.
Plasmus
This Ectos enhances your ability to Manifest through the
Threshold. You can spend 2 Memoriam Points to Manifest again
even if you have not rested yet. When you Manifest, your
Manifestation is clear enough to recognize facial expressions and
hand signals, and your spells and features can affect targets on the
Material Plane. If you spend 1 Memoriam Point as you Manifest,
or as a bonus action while Manifested, for the duration your hands
become solid enough for simple interactions with the Material
Plane. Treat this as using the mage hand cantrip, except there are
two spectral hands and they are still connected to your body.
You can take this Ectos a second time at 5th level. If you do, your
Manifestation is clear enough to pass for your living self as you
were just before your death, with whatever wounds you died with
appearing as visible but long healed scars, but only from further
than 5 feet away. Up close, a faint translucence is noticeable, and
of course you are still incorporeal. Your hands become mage hand
soild while Manifested without needing to spend a Memoriam
point, and if you do spend a Memoriam point in the same way your
hands solidify further, allowing for full range of interaction such as
wielding a weapon or lifting an object with your full Strength score
You can take this Ectos a third time at 11th level. If you do, your
Manifest duration is measured in hours instead of minutes. In
addition, when you Manifest you can spend an additional
Memoriam Point for your Manifestation to appear solid to all
senses. While Manifested this way, your Manifest duration is
measured in minutes instead of hours, but you are indistinguish-
able from your living self. You are warm to the touch and you can
performatively breathe, drink, and even eat, though you still do not
need to. The only way that nonmagical senses can detect that you
are not your living self is to notice your lack of heartbeat, which
requires checking your pulse with a successful Perception or
Medicine check at a difficulty of your Ghost spell save DC.
Possession
You can spend a Memoriam Point to possess an inanimate
nonmagical object you can see within 5 feet of you that is no larger
than 5 feet in any dimension. While you possess the object, you
are aware of your surroundings as if you were in the object's
space. Your incorporeal form can't be targeted by any attack, spell,
or other effect; spells and effects that would do so target the
possessed object instead. You can't move or use reactions. The
only action you can take is to leave the object as a bonus action.
This happens automatically if the object is broken or destroyed.
You can communicate telepathically with anyone who is touching
or carrying the object. The object counts as magical - and if it is a
weapon it has a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls - while you
are possessing it. After one hour you are expelled from the object
and returned to the Border Ethereal unless you spend another
Memoriam Point to extend the effect for another hour.
You can take this Ectos a second time at 5th level. If you do, you
can spend 2 Memoriam Points to force one beast creature you can
see within 5 feet of you to make a Charisma saving throw at your
Ghost spell save DC. On a failure, the creature is possessed by
you; your incorporeal form disappears, and the target is
incapacitated and loses control of its body. You now control the
body, but this doesn't deprive the target of awareness. Your
incorporeal form can't be targeted by any attack, spell, or other
effect; spells and effects that would target you target your
possessed body instead. You use your game statistics in place of
the possessed creature's, with the addition of any special actions
that are part of the creature's body, such as a wolf's bite attack. You
don't automatically gain access to the creature's knowledge, class
features, or proficiencies, but you can communicate with the
creature telepathically from inside their mind, including being able
to target them with magic, so they can share knowledge or skill
with you if they can be convinced to. A creature possessed this way
is permitted an additional saving throw at the end of each of its
turns, ending the possession on a success. If the creature drops to
0 hit points or is killed while you are possessing it, the possession
ends and any excess damage carries over to your incorporeal
form. For example, if the body takes 10 damage and had only 1 hit
point left, your incorporeal body takes 9 damage. After one minute
you are expelled from the creature and returned to the Border
Ethereal unless you spend another 2 Memoriam Points to extend
the effect for another minute.
You can take this Ectos a third time at 11th level. If you do, the
duration of object possession is increased from one hour to 24
hours, and the duration of beast possession is increased from one
minute to one hour, with a save allowed at the end of each minute
instead of each turn. In addition, you can spend 3 Memoriam
Points to target a non-beast creature for possession as though it
was a beast creature, with a possession duration of one minute
and a new save at the end of each of its turns as before.
Finally, at 17th level you can take this Ectos a fourth time. If you
do, you can spend 4 Memoriam Points while in the presence of
your own remains to possess them, reanimating yourself as a
Revenant. The power of your Memoriam restores the body to the
state it was immediately before death, healing wounds and rot and
even reconstituting from ashes if necessary. Though your
reconstituted body is undead, to nonmagical senses it is nearly
indistinguishable from your living self. You are warm to the touch
and you can performatively breathe, drink, and even eat, though
you still do not need to. The only way that nonmagical senses can
detect that you are not alive is to notice your lack of heartbeat,
which requires checking your pulse with a successful Perception
or Medicine check at a difficulty of your Ghost spell save DC.
While reanimated this way, treat your Strength and Constitution
scores as 18 and your Dexterity score as 14. You have resistance
to necrotic and psychic damage and immunity to poison damage
and the charmed, exhaustion, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, and
stunned conditions, but fire and radiant damage are Devastating
to you. Your unarmed strikes have a damage die of 2d6 instead of
1, and when you take the Attack action with an unarmed strike you
can make an additional unarmed strike as a bonus action. You
regain 10 hit points at the start of each of your turns; if you take
Devastating damage, you do not regain these hit points at the start
of your next turn. Only if you start your turn with 0 hit points and
do not regenerate are you forced from your body into a Wrack,
after which you cannot possess your body again for 24 hours.
If you are in the Border Ethereal, you can possess targets in the
Material Plane. Otherwise your target must be on the same plane
of existence as you. You can't possess incorporeal targets.
Requiem
You can cast the silence spell centered on yourself without
spending Memoriam Points or providing components. The spell
moves with you, staying centered on you for the duration.
Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a
short or long rest.
Shadow Play
You can control the size and shape of the shadows around you,
within 5 feet times half your Ghost level (round down) from you.
The shadows must be naturally cast by a light source, but you can
move and reshape them at will. This change is not merely
cosmetic, but alters the light level in the affected area. You can use
this feature to affect the Material Plane while you are in the
Border Ethereal by spending 1 Memoriam Point.
Spider Climb
You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. You can
use this speed to move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and
upside down along ceilings, all while leaving your hands free.
Tranquility
Prerequisite: 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 at your Ghost spell save DC that lasts until the
start of your next long rest (the spell can end early as normal).
Unshakable Calm
You gain the Serenity Merit at the 2 point level.
Whisper
When Manifested, your voice is no longer muffled beyond
comprehension, allowing you to communicate with those who are
near enough to hear you whisper. By spending one Memoriam
Point as a bonus action, you can whisper through the Threshold
this way for the next minute without Manifesting.
Also, while Manifested, you can spend one Memoriam point to
unleash a loud scream that can be heard from quite a distance, but
it is too brief to contain more than one word, and parsing the word
from the scream requires a successful Perception check, DC 8
plus 1 for every 10 feet of distance from you.
If you have the Plasmus Ectos at least twice, you can speak at a
normal volume while Manifested, though there is a faint echo to
your voice that is noticeable with a Perception check at a difficulty
of your Ghost spell save DC.
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Ghost Spell List
Cantrips 2nd-Level 3rd-Level 4th-Level
Chill Touch Alter Self Animate Dead Arcane Eye
Dancing Lights Augury Bestow Curse Banishment
Guidance Blindness/Deafness Clairvoyance Black Tentacles
Light Blur Counterspell Blight
Minor Illusion Calm Emotions Dispel Magic Compulsion
Ray of Frost Darkness Fear Confusion
Resistance Darkvision Glyph of Warding Control Water
Shocking Grasp Detect Thoughts Haste Death Ward
Spare the Dying Enhance Ability Hypnotic Pattern Dimension Door
Thaumaturgy Enthrall Lightning Bolt Divination
Gentle Repose Major Image Freedom of Movement
1st-Level Heat Metal Nondetection Greater Invisibility
Charm Person Hold Person Phantom Steed Ice Storm
Command Invisibility Protection from Energy Locate Creature
Comprehend Languages Knock Remove Curse Phantasmal Killer
Detect Evil and Good Lesser Restoration Sending Resilient Sphere
Detect Magic Locate Object Slow
False Life Magic Weapon Speak with Dead 5th-Level
Feather Fall Mirror Image Spirit Guardians Animate Objects
Fog Cloud Misty Step Stinking Cloud Antilife Shell
Grease Moonbeam Tongues Couldkill
Identify Pass without Trace Vampiric Touch Cone of Cold
Inflict Wounds Protection from Poison Water Breathing Contact Other Plane
Jump Ray of Enfeeblement Water Walk Contagion
Longstrider See Invisibility Dispel Evil and Good
Mage Armor Shatter Dream
Protection from Evil and Good Silence Hold Monster
Purify Food and Drink Spider Climb Insect Plague
Sanctuary Suggestion Legend Lore
Silent Image Web Modify Memory
Sleep Zone of Truth Scrying
Seeming
Telekinesis
Telepathic Bond
Wall of Force
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 Golem
The Alchemical
 Golem
G
olems are artificial constructs which have been
brought to life through the strange and terrible
power of lightning. While this can happen by
accident, the most common way for a Golem to
come into being is to be built and animated by
another Golem, in their endless instinctual
irresistible effort to perfect the alchemy that they
themselves were born from to create the Ultimate Lifeform.
Class Features
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d12 per Golem level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d12 (or 7) + Constitution modifier
per Golem level after 1st
Proficiencies
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: Alchemist's supplies, any one other tool of your choice
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Constitution
Skills: Choose one from Arcana, Medicine, or Science, and
choose 2 from Arcana, Athletics, Deception, Intimidation,
Medicine, Nature, Perception, or Science.
Construct
While you are now a living creature - needing to eat, breathe,
sleep, etc. - you were not born in the normal way. Rather, your
body was constructed from inanimate parts, and then brought to
life with the help of lightning. Your creature type is Construct, you
have immunity to lightning damage, and whenever you are
subjected to lightning damage you take no damage and regain a
number of hit points equal to the lightning damage dealt.
Choose which type of material your body was constructed from
before it was animated, from among Plant, Frost, Clay, Stone,
Metal, or Flesh, all detailed at the end of this class description.
Regardless of the material your body was initially constructed
from, the lightning that animated it transformed that body into one
approximating the appearance of an ordinary human, albeit an
especially large and strong one. You are at least six feet in height
and weigh at least two-hundred pounds, but from at least 5 feet
away you can pass for a human. Up close, however, traces of your
true origin are clearly noticeable; ice flecks on your skin, straw in
your hair, scars where your fingers were stitched to your hands, or
other similar details belie your artificial nature.
As a construct, your fists hit harder than those of a normal
human. Your unarmed strikes use a damage die as shown for your
level in the Slam column of the Golem table.
Alchemical Magic
Golems use a blend of magic and science to perform feats which
are very similar to spellcasting. All Alchemist spells (including
cantrips) have a Material component, even if the spell usually does
not, and are cast by mixing these components into an Extract,
which is then usually drunk, though it could also be smeared or
thrown, depending on the spell.
Cantrips
You know two cantrips of your choice from the Alchemist spell list.
You learn an additional Alchemist cantrip of your choice at 4th
level and again at 10th level. You use Alchemist Cantrips the same
way you use Alchemist Extracts of 1st-level and higher, but you
don't have to prepare them ahead of time.
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Formulaebook
At 1st level, you have a Formulaebook containing four 1st level
Alchemist spells of your choice. Each time you gain a Golem level,
you can add two Alchemist spells of your choice to your
Formulaebook. These spells must be of a level for which you can
prepare extracts, as shown on the Golem table. On your
adventures, you might find other spells that you can add to your
Formulaebook (see the "Your Formulaebook" sidebar).
Extracts
The Golem table shows how many levels of extracts you can have
prepared at a time, as well as the maximum level of extract you
can prepare. For example, at 5th level you can have any number of
extracts prepared whose combined total spell levels are less than
or equal to ten, each of which can be 1st- or 2nd-level.
You can prepare extracts at the end of a short or long rest; you
must spend at least 30 minutes of the rest in concentration with
your Formulaebook and Alchemist's Supplies in order to do so.
When you prepare an extract, you can prepare it at a higher level
so that when it is used the spell is cast as though using a higher
level spell slot. If you prepare more extracts than your allowed
maximum, a number of your extracts of your choice immediately
become inert and useless so that you only have your allowed
number of extracts prepared. All spell components must be
provided when the extract is prepared, after which the spell is
ready to be cast at any time. You must make all choices for the
spell (other than target) when preparing the extract (for example,
choosing between Enlarge and Reduce).
Extracts detect as magical as though they were potions.
Extracts with harmful effects also detect as poisons.
The spell is cast by using the extract as an action, which usually
requires drinking it, smearing it on a creature or object, or
throwing it at a target (as indicated in the Alchemist spell list).
Using an Extract counts in all ways as casting a spell (it can be
countered with counterspell, for example), but does not require
components (as these were spent when preparing the extract) and
can be done by anyone capable of drinking, smearing, or throwing
it. The user uses their own game statistics for throwing or
smearing, but the spell is cast using your game statistics no matter
who uses the extract. Concentration spells use your concentration
no matter who uses the extract. Be careful who you give your
concentration extracts to!

Your Formulaebook
The spells that you add to your Formulaebook as you
gain levels reflect the alchemical research you conduct
on your own, as well as intellectual breakthroughs you
have had about the nature of the physical world. You
might find other spells during your adventures. You
could discover a spell recorded on a scroll in a Witch's
lair, for example, or in a dusty tome in an ancient library.
Copying a Spell into the Book. When you find an
Alchemist spell of 1st level or higher, you can add it to
your Formulaebook if it is of a level for which you can
prepare extracts and if you can spare the time to
decipher and copy it.
Copying a spell into your Formulaebook involves
reproducing the basic form of the spell, then
deciphering the unique system of notation used by the
spellcaster who wrote it. You must practice the formula
until you understand the steps and ingredients required,
then transcribe it into your Formulaebook using your
own notation. The process takes 2 hours for each level
of the spell. Once you have finished the process, you
can prepare the extract just like your other spells.
You can follow this same process to reverse engineer
a potion you find, spending the same amount of time
and gold to reverse engineer the formula for preparing
that potion as an extract, assuming it has an equivalent
Alchemist spell.
Replacing the Book. You can copy a spell from your
own Formulaebook into another book - for example, if
you want to make a backup copy of your Formulaebook.
This is just like copying a new spell into your
Formulaebook, but faster and easier, since you
understand your own notation and already know how to
brew the extract. You need spend only 1 hour for each
level of the copied spell.
If you lose your Formulaebook, you can use the same
procedure to transcribe the extracts that you have
prepared into a new Formulaebook. Filling out the
remainder of your Formulaebook requires you to find
new spells to do so, as normal. For this reason, many
Golems keep backup Formulaebooks in a safe place.
The Book's Appearance. Your Formulaebook is a
unique compilation of alchemical formulae, with its own
decorative f1ourishes and margin notes. It might be a
plain, functional leather volume that you received as a
gift from your master, a finely bound gilt-edged tome
you found in an ancient library, or even a loose
collection of notes scrounged together after you lost
your previous Formulaebook in a mishap.
Spellcasting Ability
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your Alchemist spells,
since you learn your spells through dedicated study and
memorization. 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 an extract you
prepare or cantrip you cast.
Spell Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Intelligence modifier
You do not make spell attacks for Alchemist spells. Instead, your
extracts have up to three methods of use from among drink,
smear, or throw, all described at the start of the Alchemist spell list
after this class description.
Discoveries
In your studies of the natural and magical sciences, you have
unearthed alchemical discoveries, fragments of hidden knowledge
about the nature of science and magic.
At 2nd level you gain two Discoveries of your choice from the
options detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain
certain Golem levels, you gain additional Discoveries of your
choice, as shown in the Discoveries column of the Golem table.
Keraunos
As Prometheus stole fire from the gods, the Modern Prometheus
has stolen lightning from the heavens and laced it through your
veins to give you life. Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to
channel some of this lightning.
At 3rd level you learn shocking grasp as a Keraunos cantrip.
At 10th level you learn lightning bolt as a Keraunos spell. You
can cast it once with this feature and regain the ability to do so
when you finish a long rest.
At 13th level you gain a 4th-level spell slot, and at 17th level you
gain a 5th-level spell slot. You can expend these spell slots to cast
any Keraunos spell you know, and you regain them when you
finish a long rest.
Constitution is your spellcasting ability for your Keraunos spells,
and you can cast them without material components. If a Golem
ever regains hit points from damage you deal with a Keraunos
spell, you take necrotic damage equal to the hit points regained, as
your inner fire is drained to recharge theirs. This necrotic damage
can't be reduced or prevented in any way.
Ability Score Improvement
At 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th and 19th level,
you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can
increase two ability scores of your choice by 1, or you can choose a
Feat or 5 Bonus Points worth of Merits.
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 Golem
Proficiency Cantrips Levels of Max Extract
Level Bonus Features Slam Discoveries Known Extracts Level
1st +2 Construct, Alchemical Magic 1d4 — 2 2 1st
2nd +2 Discoveries 1d4 2 2 4 1st
3rd +2 Construct Feature, Keraunos 1d4 3 2 6 1st
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 1d4 3 3 8 1st
5th +3 — 1d6 4 3 10 2nd
6th +3 Ability Score Improvement 1d6 4 3 12 2nd
7th +3 Construct Feature 1d6 5 3 14 2nd
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 1d6 5 3 16 2nd
9th +4 — 1d6 6 3 18 3rd
10th +4 Keraunos 1d6 6 4 20 3rd
11th +4 Construct Feature 1d8 7 4 21 3rd
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 1d8 7 4 22 3rd
13th +5 — 1d8 8 4 23 4th
14th +5 Ability Score Improvement 1d8 8 4 24 4th
15th +5 Construct Feature 1d8 9 4 25 4th
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 1d8 9 4 26 4th
17th +6 — 1d10 10 4 27 5th
18th +6 Construct Feature 1d10 10 4 28 5th
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 1d10 11 4 29 5th
20th +6 — 1d12 15 4 30 5th

Construct In addition, choose one type of favored terrain: arctic, coast,

Plant
Plant Golems are also called Scarecrows, and are constructed
from dead plant matter, often wood and straw with a carved
pumpkin for a head. As long as you do not move or take actions,
you can appear to be simply a scarecrow. You have a +10 bonus to
any Stealth or Deception checks to go undetected in this way.
You can speak with plants as though you shared a language. In
addition, whenever you finish a short or long rest, if you spent at
least 30 minutes of that rest with your feet anchored in fresh soil,
you are considered to have eaten enough food for that day.
Deft Explorer
You are a master of navigating the natural world, and at 1st level
you gain the following benefits when traveling for an hour or more:
Difficult terrain doesn't slow your group's travel.
Your group can't become lost except by magical means.
Even when you are engaged in another activity while traveling
(such as foraging or tracking), you remain alert to danger.
When traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.
When you forage, you find twice as much food as normal.
While tracking creatures, you learn their exact number, their
sizes, and how long ago they passed through the area.
desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, underground, or
urban. Your choice should reflect the source of the plants your
body was constructed from. When you make an Intelligence or
Wisdom check related to your favored terrain, your proficiency
bonus is doubled if you are using a skill that you're proficient in. In
addition, you have the following benefits while in that terrain:
You ignore difficult terrain.
You have advantage on initiative rolls.
On your first turn during combat, your first attack against a
creature that has not acted has advantage.
Land's Stride
Starting at 7th level, you have advantage on saving throws against
plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede
movement, such those created by the entangle spell.
In addition, while in your favored terrain you can pass through
nonmagical plants without being slowed by them and without
taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, etc.
Natural Awareness
At 11th level you learn commune with nature as a Keraunos spell.
You can cast it as a ritual while in your favored terrain. While in
other terrain you can cast it as a ritual once with this feature, and
you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

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Vanish
Starting at 14th level, you can Hide as a bonus action. In addition,
when in your favored terrain, you can appear to be natural local
plantlife instead of a scarecrow with your Plant Construct feature.
Nature's Sanctuary
When you reach 18th level, creatures of the natural world sense
your connection to nature and become hesitant to attack you.
When a beast or plant creature attacks you, that creature must
make a Wisdom saving throw against your Keraunos spell save
DC. On a failed save, the creature must choose a different target,
or the attack automatically misses. The creature is aware of this
effect before it makes its attack against you.
Frost
Frost Golems are also called Snowmen, and are constructed from
packed snow and ice. As long as you do not move or take actions,
you can appear to be simply a snowman. You have a +10 bonus to
any Stealth or Deception checks to go undetected in this way.
You have immunity to cold damage, and whenever you are
subjected to cold damage you take no damage and regain a
number of hit points equal to the cold damage dealt. However, you
also have vulnerability to fire damage.
Frostwalker
Starting at 3rd level, you ignore difficult terrain from snow and ice.
In addition, when you step onto the surface of water, you can
freeze a 5 foot diameter platform of ice beneath your foot, which
can support the weight of one Medium or smaller creature at a
time. If the water is calm, the platform is stable and lasts for one
minute before melting away. If the water is not calm, the platform
is considered difficult terrain as it is jostled by the water's
movements, and it breaks into pieces at the end of your next turn.
You can create a number of platforms this way equal to your
Golem level, after which you must finish a short or long rest before
you can create another one.
Igloo
Starting at 7th level, you learn tiny hut as a Keraunos spell. You
can cast it as a ritual while in snowy terrain. While in other terrain
you can cast it as a ritual once with this feature, and you regain the
ability to do so when you finish a long rest. The color of the dome
is always white as snow.
Ice Punch
Starting at 11th level, once on each of your turns, when you deal
damage with an unarmed strike, you can deal an additional Slam
die of cold damage.
Freezing Aura
At 15th level, you gain the ability to surround yourself in freezing
winds flecked with ice shards. You can summon this aura as a
bonus action on your turn. The aura is considered difficult terrain,
and when a creature starts its turn there or enters it for the first
time on its turn it takes 3d10 cold damage.
The aura has a radius of 10 feet and stays centered on you for
the duration. It lasts for one minute or until you lose concentration
on it as though concentrating on a spell. Once you use this feature,
you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.
Clay
Clay Golems are also called Mudmen, and are constructed from
soft earth. As long as you do not move or take actions, you can
appear to be simply a clay statue. You have a +10 bonus to any
Stealth or Deception checks to go undetected in this way.
Your earthen flesh is malleable and you have control over its
appearance. You can cast alter self (change appearance) at will
without concentration and with a duration of "permanent". You
can change your height but not your weight or total body mass.
Earthglide
Starting at 3rd level, you have a burrowing speed equal to your
walking speed. You can use this speed only to move through
nonmagical soft earth (such as dirt or mud, but not stone or fired
clay). You don't disturb the material you move through this way.
Stonemeld
At 7th level you learn meld into stone as a Keraunos spell and can
cast it as a ritual.
Molded Fists
At 11th level, you gain the ability to mold the clay of your hands
into more powerful weapons. As a bonus action, you can shift one
or both of your fists into a hammer, axe, or spike. This lasts for one
minute, or until you shift it back early as a bonus action. While
shifted this way, an unarmed strike with that hand uses two Slam
dice for damage instead of one, and the damage is bludgeoning,
slashing, or piercing, as appropriate to the chosen weapon.
Sculpt Self
At 15th level you learn polymorph as a Keraunos spell. You can
cast it twice on yourself using this feature, and regain all expended
uses when you finish a short or long rest. You don't gain a
swimming or flying speed this way, even if the chosen beast has
one. While polymorphed this way, you keep your own Wisdom,
Intelligence, and Charisma scores, as well as your Earthglide
feature. You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in
your space, merges into your new form, or is worn by it when you
transform. Worn equipment functions as normal, but the DM
decides whether it is practical for the new form to wear a piece of
equipment, based on the creature's shape and size. Your
equipment doesn't change size or shape to match the new form,
and any equipment that the new form can't wear must either fall to
the ground or merge with it. Equipment that merges with the form
has no effect until you leave the form.
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Stone
Stone Golems are also called Gargoyles, and are constructed from
carved solid stone. As long as you do not move or take actions, you
can appear to be simply a stone statue. You have a +10 bonus to
any Stealth or Deception checks to go undetected in this way.
You sink like a stone in water and can't swim. However, you can
breathe water as easily as air, and you can walk at your normal
speed while underwater.
Waterspout
At 3rd level you gain the ability to draw water into your stone body,
purify it, and store it for later. Any time you are in contact with
water, you can use your action to draw it into yourself, magically
filtering and desalinating it, up to the maximum you can store. You
can store a number of gallons of water equal to your Constitution
score. Water stored this way is made clean and fresh, and is
affected by a purify food and drink spell.
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You can use an action to produce water from your inner stores
from your hands or mouth. The water stops pouring out at the
start of your next turn. Choose from the following options:
Stream. You produce 1 gallon of water.
Fountain. You produce 5 gallons of water.
You can drink water directly from your inner stores without
needing to produce it first.
Geyser
At 7th level, you gain an additional option to use with your
Waterspout feature:
Geyser. You produce 30 gallons of water that gushes forth in a
geyser 30 feet long and 1 foot wide. As you can't store 30
gallons at once, to use this option you must be in contact with a
body of water with enough volume to draw the difference from,
pulling it in and expelling it as part of the same action. Each
creature in the line must succeed on a Strength saving throw at
your Keraunos spell save DC or take a Slam die of bludgeoning
damage and fall prone. Each object in the line that isn't being
worn or carried and that weighs no more than 200 pounds is
either knocked over or pushed up to 15 feet away from you.
Stoneskin
At 11th level you learn stoneskin as a Keraunos spell, and you can
cast it on yourself at will.
Gargoyle Wings
At 15th level, you gain the ability to sprout a pair of stone wings
from your back, gaining a flying speed equal to your walking
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.
You can't manifest your wings while wearing armor unless the
armor is made to accommodate them, and clothing not made to
accommodate them might be destroyed when you manifest them.
Metal
Metal Golems are also called Robots, and are constructed from
plates and gears and wires of copper and bronze and steel. As long
as you do not move or take actions, you can appear to be simply a
metal statue. You have a +10 bonus to any Stealth or Deception
checks to go undetected in this way.
You have resistance to piercing and slashing damage, and to
bludgeoning damage from nonmetal weapons. Magical attacks
overcome these resistances.
Constructed Weaponry
Starting at 3rd level, as a bonus action you can produce in one or
both of your hands any simple or martial weapon that doesn't have
the two-handed or heavy property. If the weapon has the
ammunition property, it produces its own ammunition. The
weapon and ammunition are made entirely of non-silver metal
(steel, bronze, lead, etc.). This weapon can't leave the hand it was
produced from, and you can have no more than one such weapon
in each hand at a time. The weapon stays in your hand until you
retract it as a bonus action.
You are considered proficient with weapons you produce this
way, and you can use your Slam die in place of the weapon's
damage die if you wish.
Starting at 11th level, you can produce firearms with your
Constructed Weaponry feature as though they were martial
weapons. Starting at 15th level, weapons you produce can have
the two-handed or heavy property, but you must produce such a
weapon in both hands at once.
Database Scan
Starting at 7th level, as an action you can focus your senses on a
creature you can see within 30 feet of you. You learn that
creature's type. You can use your action on subsequent turns to
maintain your focus, learning additional information, as follows:
2nd turn: Its number of hit dice
3rd turn: The number and types of weapons it is carrying
4th turn: Its surface thoughts, as the detect thoughts spell
In addition, you can scan the area around you for signs of life.
As an action, you can focus your senses on the area around you.
Until the end of your next turn, you know the number of creatures
within 60 feet of you that are not behind total cover. You do not
learn their types, locations, or identities.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Intelligence modifier (minimum once). You regain all expended
uses when you finish a long rest.
Laser Blast
At 11th level you learn scorching ray as a Keraunos spell. You can
cast it once with this feature, and regain the ability to do so when
you finish a short or long rest.
Toxic Gas
At 15th level you learn cloudkill as a Keraunos spell. When you
cast it as a Keraunos spell, it is centered on you, and you take no
damage from it. You can cast it once with this feature, and regain
the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.
Flesh
The least likely to come about by accident, Flesh Golems are also
called Frankensteins - after the infamous doctor known for being
the first to accomplish this feat - and are constructed rather
macabrely from pieces of other dead bodies. As long as you do not
move or take actions, you can appear to be simply a corpse. You
have a +10 bonus to any Stealth or Deception checks to go
undetected in this way.
Your flesh is living enough that healing spells and potions can
affect you as though you were not a construct.
Preserve Flesh
At 3rd level you learn gentle repose as a Keraunos spell and can
cast it as a ritual.
Speak with Flesh
At 7th level you learn speak with dead as a Keraunos spell. You
can cast it once with this feature, and regain the ability to do so
when you finish a short or long rest.
Animate Flesh
At 11th level you learn animate dead as a Keraunos spell. You can
cast it as a ritual, but only to create a zombie, and you must be in
contact with the corpse for the full casting time.
Gangrenous Touch
At 15th level you learn contagion as a Keraunos spell. You can cast
it once with this feature, and regain the ability to do so when you
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 The Great Work
Every Golem has the inborn need to create another of
its kind. This is often interpreted initially as a need for
companionship, for friendship or love, but many
Golems have met each other or even succeeded in
creating a new Golem, but neither of these acts fulfil
the urge. The other is always not quite right, not fully
complete, imperfect in some way. It may scratch the
itch for a moment, but the urge to create always returns.
Over time each Golem comes to the same inevitable
conclusion: it is not merely about finding or creating
another Golem, it is about creating a Perfect Golem.
Finding the perfect combination of alchemy, magic, and
science - and most importantly, the perfect lightning
strike - to create The Ultimate Lifeform. This pursuit has
come to be called among Golems "The Great Alchemy"
or simply "The Great Work".
To create a new Golem requires at least 200 pounds
of material components of the correct material for the
chosen Construct type (plant, clay, etc.). It must then be
molded into the shape of a body using an Intelligence
check with the appropriate Skill or Tool (Medicine,
Stoneworker's Tools, etc.) with a DC of 25. If the check
fails, you know the body is not quite right, and you can
try again with the same materials 24 hours later.
With a successful check, you have assembled the
body well enough that it is ready to be animated. This
requires dealing at least 50 lightning damage to the
body in a single strike; this is possible to accomplish
with your own Keraunos, but unlikely, and if you
succeed you immediately drop to 1 hit point and take
two levels of exhaustion as a piece of your inner fire is
carved away to animate your new creation. Because of
this, many Golems seek to attract natural bolts of
lightning instead.
A newly created Golem is not charmed by you, nor
under your influence in any way. It is its own individual
being, and acts as the DM chooses based on its
personality, which comes about naturally and without
regard to the wishes of its creator.
The irresistible impulse to pursue The Great Work is
not represented in game mechanics - there is no
enforced punishment for not creating a new Golem
every specific period of time - but the urge should be
roleplayed at all times. Your Golem wants to reproduce,
and to do so perfectly, so eventually and inevitably they
will be drawn to attempt to do so.
Rules for creating a new Golem are detailed above,
but rules for achieving The Great Work and perfecting
The Ultimate Lifeform are not. It is left entirely to the
DM to decide how - or even if - such a thing can
actually be accomplished.
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Alchemist Discoveries
Each Discovery can be taken only once unless noted otherwise.
Each time you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of
your Discoveries with a new one you could learn at that level.
Acid Resistance
You gain resistance to acid damage. If you take this Discovery a
second time, you gain immunity to acid damage.
Animal Companion
You gain the Animal Companion Merit. You must build your
Animal Companion the same way you would build a new Golem. It
uses the game mechanics of the chosen beast except that its
creature type is Construct and it has the base Construct feature of
its material type.
Awakened Intellect
Prerequisite: 18th level
Your Intelligence Score and Maximum Intelligence Score
increase by 2. You can take this Discovery up to twice.
Blood Tincture
You learn how to deliver extracts through the bloodstream rather
than the digestive system. As an action, you can smear any drink
extract you have prepared on a piercing or slashing weapon; the
next time that weapon deals damage to a creature within one
minute of applying the extract, its spell is cast on that creature.
After the spell is cast this way or after one minute has passed
since the application, the extract becomes inert.
If you take this Discovery a second time, the extract becomes
inert after the second casting instead of the first.
Concentrated Venom
Prerequisite: 5th level
Any time a creature takes poison damage from a poison you
crafted, an extract you prepared, or an Alchemist cantrip you cast,
it must make a Constitution save at your Golem spell save DC or
become poisoned for one minute.
Constructed Defense
Your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your
Constitution modifier.
Constructed Toughness
Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to twice
your level. Whenever you gain a level, your hit point maximum
increases by an additional 2 hit points.
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 gray. If you already have
darkvision from another source, you gain the effects of taking this
Discovery a second time instead.
If you take this Discovery a second time, you can see normally in
darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.
Extra Attack
Prerequisite: 5th level, Strength or Dexterity 13 or higher
You can attack twice instead of once when you take the Attack
action. You can take this Discovery a second time at 11th level,
increasing the number of attacks from two to three.
Fast Movement
Your movement speed is increased by 10 feet.
Healing Draught
Whenever you prepare extracts, you can prepare one cure wounds
(D) extract that does not count against your number of extracts
prepared. It becomes inert the next time you make such an extract.
If you take this Discovery a second time, you can prepare two
such extracts, and their healing power can affect constructs.
If you take this Discovery a third time, you can prepare three
such extracts, and their healing power can affect undead.
Heightened Senses
You gain the Keen Senses Merit at the 2 Point level. You can take
this Discovery multiple times.
Indomitable
Prerequisite: 9th 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 take this Discovery a second time at 13th level and a
third time at 17th level, gaining an additional use of this feature
between rests each time.
Indomitable Might
Prerequisite: 18th level
If your total for a Strength check is less than your Strength
score, you can use that score in place of the total.
Masked Draught
Prerequisite: 11th level
You gain the ability to prepare a special extract that, when
mixed with another one of your extracts, prevents both extracts
from being detected. Nonmagical detection (such as taste or smell)
automatically fails. Magical detection is affected by a dispel magic
of the special extract's spell level.
Mixed Drink
Prerequisite: 9th level
You can prepare a special Mixed Extract, which combines two
extracts in one. Both extracts must have the drink method, and are
cast at the same level. This counts as one extract for determining
how many levels of extracts you have prepared, but you can only
have one Mixed Extract prepared at a time. Drinking this Mixed
Extract casts and targets the drinker with both spells at once.
Permanency
Prerequisite: 18th level
When you prepare an extract with a duration longer than
instantaneous that does not require concentration, you can
replace its duration with "until dispelled". After you use this
feature, you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.
Philosopher's Stone
Prerequisite: 18th level
You create a Philosopher's Stone, which looks like a rough-cut
blood-red gemstone about the size of a chicken egg.
Once per day during a short rest, you can use a Philosopher's
Stone and Alchemist's Supplies to brew 8 ounces of a liquid called
the Elixir of Life, which looks like softly glowing liquid gold and
tastes like celestial honey. Drinking 8 ounces of this liquid halts all
aging, including magical aging, for one week. There is no benefit
to drinking the Elixir of Life in greater quantities or frequency
than 8 ounces per week.
In addition, once per day during a short rest you can use a
Philosopher's Stone and Alchemist's Supplies to transmute up to
one pound of solid gold from the same weight of lesser metals.
If you lose your Philosopher's Stone, you can create a new one
by spending 720 hours of concentration with your Formulaebook
and Alchemist's Supplies. These hours do not need to be
consecutive, but must be spent in 8 hour increments. You can also
create another Philosopher's Stone by taking this Discovery a
second time. (This does not allow you to use a Philosopher's
Stone more often, but it gives you a backup in case you lose one.)
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 Practiced Digestion
Prerequisite: 5th level
When you consume a potion, poison, extract, etc. that rolls dice
to determine its effects (such as healing or damage), you can roll
for the effects twice and choose either result.
Pure Body
You become immune to disease.
Rage
Whenever you prepare extracts, you can prepare an additional
extract that allows you to fight with primal ferocity. You can only
have one such extract prepared at a time. You can drink this
extract to enter a rage as a bonus action.
While raging, you gain the following:
Advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
Disadvantage on Wisdom checks and Wisdom saving throws.
When you make a melee weapon attack using Strength, you
gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll. This bonus increases to +3
at 10th level, and +4 at 15th level.
You have resistance to all damage that isn't Devastating.
You can't cast or concentrate on spells.
Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked
unconscious or if you use your bonus action and succeed on a DC
13 Wisdom save to end it on your turn.
If you are raging and there are no visible enemies to chase or
attack, you must make a DC 13 Fury Frenzy Check to avoid
turning on allies and bystanders.
Reckless Attack
You can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with fierce
desperation. When you make your first attack on your turn, you
can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so gives you advantage on
melee weapon attack rolls using Strength during this turn, but
attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn.
Regeneration
Prerequisite: 18th level
You regain hit points equal to your Constitution modifier at the
start of each of your turns. When you take this Discovery, choose
two damage types (such as fire or acid). When you take damage of
either type, your Regeneration does not function on your next turn.
You can regrow missing limbs, including your head, regaining one
missing limb per short rest. You need only make death saving
throws on turns where your Regeneration does not function.
If you have or gain resistance or immunity to one or both of the
chosen damage types from a permanent feature (such as from
race or class, but not from a spell or potion), the DM can have you
choose a different damage type to replace it.
Retaliation
Prerequisite: 15th 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.
Slow Release
The duration of extracts you prepare is doubled.
Toxin Tolerance
You gain resistance to poison damage and advantage on saving
throws to avoid the poisoned condition. If you take this Discovery
a second time, you gain immunity to poison damage and to the
poisoned condition.
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 Cantrips Lesser Restoration (D)
Alchemist Spell List Acid Splash (T) Levitate (D)
Guidance (D) Magic Mouth (S)
Alchemist spells prepared as extracts or cast as cantrips can be Light (S) Protection from Poison (D)
used in one of up to three ways, called a "method". These methods Mending (S) See Invisibility (D)
are drink, smear, and throw. Poison Spray (T) Shatter (T)
Drink Resistance (D) Silence (T)
Spells with the drink method are cast when the extract is Shillelagh (S) Spider Climb (D)
consumed by a creature, and target the creature who consumes it. Spare the Dying (D) Web (T)
Such an extract can be mixed into food or drink without changing 1st-Level 3rd-Level
its effectiveness, but if mixed into a potion or another extract, both Alarm (S) Animate Dead (S)
become inert (or explode or have other strange effects, at DM Bane (S,T) Create Food and Water (S)
discretion). Bless (D,S) Daylight (S)
Smear Charm Person (D) Dispel Magic (D,S)
Comprehend Languages (D) Fireball (T)
Spells with the smear method are cast when the extract is applied Detect Magic (D) Haste (D)
to a creature, object, or surface, and target the creature or object Detect Poison and Disease (D) Magic Circle (S)
or surface it is applied to. If the target is unwilling, you must hit Disguise Self (D) Nondetection (D,S)
them with a melee attack (you can use Strength or Dexterity for Entangle (T) Protection from Energy (D,S)
this attack; you are proficient with this attack, others generally are Expeditious Retreat (D) Remove Curse (D,S)
not). If you miss, the extract is spilled and lost. Faerie Fire (T) Revivify (D)
Throw False Life (D) Stinking Cloud (T)
Spells with the throw method are cast by throwing the extract at a Fog Cloud (T) Tiny Hut (S)
target, which can be a creature or object or a point in space within Grease (T) Tongues (D)
range, depending on the spell. Identify (S) Water Breathing (D)
Illusory Script (S) Water Walk (S)
Spells with the throw method that use a spell attack or that Inflict Wounds (D)
automatically hit a target have a range of (20/60) regardless of the Jump (D) 4th-Level
spell's listed range, and are delivered with a thrown attack (you are Longstrider (D) Arcane Eye (S)
proficient with this attack, others generally are not). A willing Purify Food and Drink (S) Blight (T)
target can cause their Dexterity modifier to be subtracted from, Sleep (D) Death Ward (D)
rather than added to, their AC for the purpose of this attack. Fabricate (S)
Spells with the throw method that use a saving throw and do 2nd-Level Freedom of Movement (D,S)
not target an area have their range altered as above; after the first Acid Arrow (T) Greater Invisibility (D)
range increment, the targets have advantage on their saving throw. Alter Self (D) Polymorph (D)
Spells with the throw method that target an area have a Arcane Lock (S) Stoneskin (S)
maximum range as the second range increment above. Barkskin (S)
Blindness/Deafness (T) 5th-Level
Blur (D) Animate Objects (S)
Calm Emotions (D) Antilife Shell (D)
Continual Flame (S) Awaken (S)
Darkness (T) Cloudkill (T)
Darkvision (D) Contagion (D,S)
Detect Thoughts (D) Geas (D)
Enhance Ability (D) Greater Restoration (D)
Enlarge/Reduce (D) Mislead (D)
Gentle Repose (S) Modify Memory (D)
Invisibility (D) Passwall (S)
Knock (S) Raise Dead (D)
Teleportation Circle (S)
Mortal
The Prey
Mortal

M
ortals are ordinary humans without any
magical ability. They are subject to the Veil,
meaning they likely don't believe magic Human
exists at all, or if they do they think of it in Prof. Bonus
terms of crystals and astrology or miracles Level Bonus Features Points
and religious devotion, and would reject the 1st +2 — —
idea of a Vampire, Werewolf, Golem, etc.
2nd +2 Bonus Points 2
Class Features 3rd +2 — 3
As a Mortal, you gain the following class features 4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 3
Hit Points 5th +3 — 3
Hit Dice: 1d6 per Mortal level 6th +3 — 4
Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + Constitution modifier 7th +3 — 5
per Mortal level after 1st 8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 5
Proficiencies 9th +4 — 5
Saving Throws: One of your choice 10th +4 — 6
Skills: Any two of your choice
11th +4 — 7
(Blank First Level)
Mortals start play with only the features from Race, Background, 12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 7
and Merits and Flaws. 13th +5 — 7

Bonus Points 14th +5 — 8

As you gain levels in this class, you gain additional Bonus Points 15th +5 — 9
to spend on Merits, as shown on the Human table. For every 2 16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 9
Bonus Points gained by this feature, you may also take 1 point of
Flaw for another additional Bonus Point. These Bonus Points do 17th +6 — 9
not need to be spent immediately, but can be saved up over time. 18th +6 — 10
With DM permission, you can spend Bonus Points gained by
this feature to buy away Flaws in addition to buying new Merits. 19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 11
Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can sacrifice one of 20th +6 — 16
your Merits, gaining Bonus Points equal to its cost.
Ability Score Improvement
At 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th level, you can
increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase
two ability scores of your choice by 1, or you can choose a Feat or
5 Bonus Points worth of Merits.
Backgrounds,
Skills, and
Equipment
Backgrounds, Skills, and Equipment

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n modern times, Backgrounds like "Folk Hero" or "Noble Athlete
(Knight)" aren't really appropriate, and several new types
of tools and equipment are available. Because of this, Athletes include amateur athletes of Olympic quality and
presented here are new rules for Backgrounds, Skills, and professional athletes of all types, including gymnasts, weight
Equipment to use for modern times. trainers, wrestlers, boxers, martial artists, swimmers, skaters, and
those who engage in any type of competitive sport.
As an athlete, you gain the following benefits.
Backgrounds Skill Proficiencies
The following Backgrounds are appropriate to modern times. You You are proficient with Athletics and Performance.
can build a custom background with your DM based on these. Feature: Echoes of Victory
Academic You have attracted admiration among spectators, fellow athletes,
and trainers in the region that hosted your past athletic victories.
Academics include librarians, archaeologists, scholars, professors, When visiting anywhere your reputation preceds you, there is a 50
teachers, and other education professionals. percent chance you can find someone there who admires you and
As an academic, you gain the following benefits: is willing to provide information or temporary shelter.
Skill Proficiencies Equipment
You are proficient with Perception and one of the following: Wealth: 2-6
History, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Religion, or Science. Example equipment: Sports car, smartphone, exercise machines
You can speak an additional language if you wish.
Feature: Researcher
When you attempt to learn or recall a piece of knowledge, if you do
not know that information, you often know where and from whom
you can obtain it. Usually, this information comes from a library,
research laboratory, university, or an expert in that field of
knowledge. Your DM might rule that the knowledge you seek is
secreted away in an almost inaccessible place, or that it simply
cannot be found.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-4
Example equipment: Smartphone, laptop, briefcase or backpack,
sedan or minivan of low to medium quality
Adventurer
Adventurers include professional daredevils, big-game hunters,
relic hunters, explorers, extreme sports enthusiasts, field
scientists, thrill-seekers, and others called to face danger for a
variety of reasons.
As an adventurer, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Perception and Nature.
You can speak an additional language if you wish.
You are proficient with two firearms or vehicles of your choice.
Feature: Wanderer
You have an excellent memory for maps and geography, and you
can always recall the general layout of terrain, settlements, and
other features around you. In addition, you can find food and fresh
water for yourself and up to five other people each day, provided
that the land offers berries, small game, water, and so forth.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-3
Example equipment: Beat up truck or motorcycle with trailer,
flip-phone, hunting rifle, military surplus rucksack and med kit

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 Blue Collar
Blue collar occupations include factory work, food service jobs,
construction, service industry jobs, taxi drivers, postal workers,
and other jobs that are usually not considered to be desk jobs.
As a blue collar worker, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Insight, Persuasion, and any two tools.
Feature: Working Class
You have a contact that acts as your liaison to a union or
association. You know how to reach your contact at all times. Your
contact can provide you with the means to requisition equipment
used in manufacturing or shipping.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-3
Example equipment: Flip-phone, beat-up car or truck, tools,
work clothes with sturdy shoes or boots
Celebrity
A celebrity is anyone who, for whatever reason, has been thrust
into the spotlight of the public eye. Actors, entertainers of all types,
newscasters, radio and television personalities, and more fall
under this background.
As a celebrity, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Performance, with either Deception or
Persuasion, and with either a disguise kit or a musical instrument
of your choice.
Feature: By Popular Demand
You can always find a place to perform, usually in a nightclub or
bar but possibly at a festival or theatre, or even at a private party.
At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or
comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the
establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition,
your performance makes you something of a local figure. When
strangers recognize you in an area where you have performed,
they typically take a liking to you.
Equipment
Wealth: 3-7
Example equipment: Nice car, fancy clothes, smartphone
Race?
This document assumes a setting where everyone is
Human, but in theory other settings could allow any 5e
compatible Races. A modern fantasy setting might have
Elf Vampires and Dwarf Werewolves, etc. For the default
setting, Variant Human is recommended as the base
race of every person, as it is versatile enough to cover a
wide breadth of racial heritages while still all falling
neatly under the umbrella of Human:
ASI: One Ability Score of your choice is increased by +2.
Size: Your size is Medium.
Feat: You gain one feat of your choice.
Skilled: You gain proficiency with one skill of your choice.
Languages: You can speak, read, and write one language that
you and your DM agree is appropriate for your character,
most likely Common/English. For language variety, the
optional Linguistics Rules are recommended.
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Creative
The creative covers all types who fan their creative spark into a
career. Illustrators, copywriters, cartoonists, graphic artists,
novelists, magazine columnists, actors, sculptors, game designers,
musicians, screenwriters, photographers, and web designers all
fall under this background.
As a creative, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Insight, Performance, and two of the
following tools: computers, a type of artisan’s tools, or a musical
instrument of your choice.
Feature: Body of Work
You can always find a place to display your creations, usually in a
gallery, but sometimes in private shows or at convention centers.
At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or
comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the
establishment), as long as you are on hand for the display. In
addition, your creativity makes you something of a local figure.
When strangers recognize you in an area where your creations
have been showcased, they typically take a liking to you.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-4
Example equipment: Laptop, smartphone, musical instruments,
recording equipment, art supplies
Criminal
This illicit background reveals a background from the wrong side
of the law. This occupation includes con artists, burglars, thieves,
crime family soldiers, gang members, bank robbers, and other
types of career criminals.
As a criminal, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with two of your choice from among Deception,
Stealth, or Sleight of Hand; thieves’ tools, and a gaming set.
Feature: Criminal Contact
You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your
liaison to a network of other criminals. You know how to get
messages to and from your contact, even over great distances;
specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt officials, and
seedy characters who can deliver messages for you.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-3
Example equipment: Smartphone, backup burner flip-phone,
Dilettante Entrepreneur
Dilettantes usually get their wealth from family holdings and trust Entrepreneurs have an obsession about being their own boss.
funds. The typical dilettante has no job, few responsibilities, and at They believe in themselves, have an abundance of confidence, and
least one driving passion that occupies his or her day. That the ability to acquire the funds necessary to bankroll their newest
passion might be a charity or philanthropic foundation, an ideal or moneymaking venture. These small to large business owners have
cause worth fighting for, or a lust for living a fun and carefree a knack for putting together business plans, gathering resources,
existence. and getting a new venture off the ground. They rarely want to stick
As a dilettante, you gain the following benefits. around after the launch, however, as they prefer to put their
energies into the next big thing.
Bonus Languages As an entrepreneur, you gain the following benefits.
You learn two additional languages of your choice.
Skill Proficiencies
Feature: Daddy’s Money You are proficient with Insight and Persuasion.
While you have significant financial resources of your own, you
can also draw on your family’s resources in a pinch. However, this Feature: Network
assistance is rarely without strings attached. You have a network of contacts in the business and financial world
Equipment that you can use as a source of information, loans, or equipment
Wealth: 4-8 requisitions, usually in return for favors.
Example equipment: Nice car, fancy clothes, smartphone Equipment
Doctor Wealth: 2-6
Example equipment: Smartphone, laptop, medium to nice car
A doctor can be a physician (general ­practitioner or specialist), a
surgeon, or a psychiatrist. Financier
As a doctor, you gain the following benefits. This background is for those who make money with money, either
Skill Proficiencies by buying and selling investments or by managing such
You are proficient with Insight, Medicine, and your choice of investments for somebody else.
pharmacist’s tools or surgical tools. As a financier, you gain the following benefits.
Feature: Medical Access Skill Proficiencies
You have access to medical equipment that you might not You are proficient with Persuasion, Deception, and computers.
otherwise be able to requisition, such as x-ray machines and
medical labs. In addition, you can write prescriptions for various Feature: Networking
substances that are otherwise illegal to obtain. You have connections in high places. If you need resources or
something fixed, the right person is usually just a phone call and a
Equipment quick bribe away.
Wealth: 2-6
Example equipment: Medium to nice car, scrubs and masks, Equipment
medical equipment, smartphone Wealth: 5-10
Example equipment: Smartphone, laptop, nice car, nice suit
Emergency Services
Rescue workers, firefighters, paramedics, hazardous material
handlers, and emergency medical technicians fall under this
category. As an emergency services provider, you gain the
following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Athletics, Medicine, and civilian ground
vehicles
Feature: First Responder
You have a rank from your career as a emergency services
provider. Active and former emergency services personnel still
recognize your authority and influence, and they defer to you if
they are of a lower rank. You can invoke your rank to exert
influence over other personnel and requisition simple equipment
for temporary use. You can also usually gain access to events and
locations where your rank is recognized.
Equipment
Wealth: 1-4
Example equipment: Low to medium quality car, first aid kit,
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 Investigator
There are a number of jobs that fit within this background,
including investigative reporters, photojournalists, private
investigators, police detectives, criminologists, criminal profilers,
espionage agents, and others who use their skills to gather
evidence and analyze clues.
As an investigative, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Perception, Insight, evidence kits, civilian
ground vehicles, and a firearm of your choice.
Feature: Connected
When you attempt to learn or recall a piece of information, if you
do not know that information, you often know where and from
whom you can obtain it. Usually, this information comes from an
anonymous informant, a law enforcement agency, or criminal
contacts. Your DM might rule that the information you seek is
almost impossible to get out of your sources, or that it simply
cannot be found.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-4
Example equipment: Police cruiser or similar company car,
sidearm pistol or taser, evidence kit, magnifying glass
Law Enforcement
Law enforcement personnel include uniformed police, state
troopers, federal police, federal agents, SWAT team members, and
military police.
As law enforcement, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Perception, Athletics, civilian ground
vehicles, and two firearms of your choice.
Feature: Thin Blue Line
You have a rank from your career as a law enforcement officer.
Active and former law enforcement officers still recognize your
authority and influence, and they defer to you if they are of a lower
rank. You can invoke your rank to exert influence over other
officers and requisition simple equipment for temporary use. You
can also usually gain access to events and locations where your
rank is recognized.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-3
Example equipment: Police cruiser or SWAT Humvee, police
issue shotgun and pistol, kevlar vest, riot shield and helmet
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Military
Military covers any of the branches of the armed forces, including
army, navy, air force, and marines, as well as the various elite
training units such as Seals, Rangers, and Special Forces.
As military personnel, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Athletics, Nature, firearms, grenades, and
one type of military vehicle of your choice.
Rank & Privilege
You have a rank from your career in the military. Active and former
military officers still recognize your authority and influence, and
they defer to you if they are of a lower rank. You can invoke your
rank to exert influence over other officers and requisition simple
equipment for temporary use. You can also usually gain access to
events and locations where your rank is recognized.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-3
Example equipment: Humvee or APC, pistols and assault rifles,
body armor, nightvision goggles, fatigues with combat boots
Religious
Ordained clergy of all persuasions, as well as theological scholars
and experts on religious studies fall within the scope of this
starting occupation.
As a religious figure, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Religion, Insight, and your choice of
Deception, Intimidation, or Persuasion.
Feature: Faith Community
You command the respect of those who share your faith, and you
can perform the religious ceremonies of your order. You and your
companions can expect to be received favorably at a temple,
shrine, or other established presence of your faith. Those who
share your religion will offer their personal and financial support
to a limited degree.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-4
Example equipment: Vestments, scriptural texts, holy symbol
Rural
Farm workers, hunters, and others who make a living in rural
communities fall under this category.
As a rural worker, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Animal Handling, Nature, commercial
ground vehicles, and hunting rifles.
Feature: Live Off The Land
You have a feel for the countryside, and you can always recall the
general layout of terrain, small towns, and other features around
you. In addition, you can find food and fresh water for yourself and
up to five other people each day, provided that the land offers
berries, small game, water, and so forth.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-3
Example equipment: Overalls and work boots, hunting rifle,
tractor, beat-up truck
Student
A student can be in high school, college, or graduate school. They
could be in a seminary, a military school, or a private institution. A
college-age student should also pick a major field of study.
As a student, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with two of the following: History, Medicine,
Nature, Performance, Religion, or Science; and with computers,
and either a musical instrument or a language of your choice.
Feature: Student ID
Your student ID gives you access to services and discounts that
are not available to the general public, as well as access to school
resources such as libraries, laboratories, and conference spaces.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-4
Example equipment: Smartphone, laptop, beat up car, backpack
Technician
Scientists and engineers of all types fit within the scope of this
starting occupation.
As a technician, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Perception, Science, electrician's tools, and
mechanic's tools.
Technical Tap
Electronic and mechanical devices just seem to work better when
you’re around, but when they misbehave, sometimes all it takes is a
swift kick in the right area to set things right.
Equipment
Wealth: 0-3
Example equipment: Smartphone, work clothes with sturdy
shoes, beat up car, tools
White Collar
Office workers and desk jockeys, lawyers, accountants, insurance
agents, bank personnel, financial advisors, tax preparers, clerks,
sales personnel, real estate agents, and a variety of mid-level
managers fall within the scope of this background.
As a white collar worker, you gain the following benefits.
Skill Proficiencies
You are proficient with Insight, and your choice of Deception or
Persuasion.
Comfort of Conformity
You are familiar with the etiquette and adherence to protocol that
comes with working in an office environment. While in such an
environment, no one questions your presence, and entry level
workers are likely to respond in a submissive manner... especially
if you have a clipboard.
Equipment
Wealth: 1-5
Example equipment: Smartphone, laptop, business suit, sedan
Wealth
In modern times, micromanaging every copper piece and length of
rope is a less ideal way to track equipment and wealth. Instead,
you have a Wealth rating from 0 to 10, representing your standard
of living, as follows:
0
Working poor: You live paycheck-to-paycheck, or you have
no income and survive on odd jobs and begging.
Lower class: You’ve got a small apartment, perhaps a cheap
1
vehicle, and a working-class income.
Middle class: You’ve got an apartment, some savings, a
2
vehicle, and enough money for occasional indulgences.
Wealthy: You either own or have decent equity in some
3 property, plus a vehicle, investments, and savings. You
could maintain a 1-point standard of living indefinitely.
Millionaire: You own a large house, some property, at least
4
two vehicles, and notable levels of savings and investments.
Welcome to the 1%: As a multimillionaire, you’ve got
5
substantial holdings, investments, and savings.
6 Hollywood money: Whatever you want, you’ve got it.
7 Billionaire: You can influence an entire industry.
8 Bill Gates level wealth: You own companies.
9 Bruce Wayne level wealth: You own governments.
10 Jeff Bezos level wealth: You own everything.
You should work out with your DM based on your Wealth and
Bakcground what kinds of items you have on your person at a
given time, and what kinds of items you have access to at your
home base, but you don't have to micromanage every object; with
DM permission you can "remember" that you had something on
hand or at home if it makes enough sense.
Each Background has a range of starting Wealth ratings to
choose from. Pick the one that best suits your character's
backstory; for each point you choose below the maximum for your
Background, you get 1/2 a Bonus Point for choosing Merits.
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 Skill Proficiencies Artisan's Tools
The Abilities listed here are suggestions. Most rolls with these Tool Ability Example
skills will be made using the listed Ability modifier, but the DM is
welcome to make exceptions in special circumstances. Alchemist's Supplies Int Identify or brew a potion
Cha or Paint a landscape or portrait
Skills Artist's Supplies
Dex Create a logo or banner
The 16 main skills are as follows: Int or
Brewer's Supplies Identify or brew an alcohol
Wis
Skill Ability Example
Int or
Animal Wis or Cook's Utensils Cook a meal
Train or calm a wild animal Dex
Handling Cha
Int or Rewire a broken appliance
Arcana Int Know about or understand magic Electrician's Tools
Dex Hotwire a public telephone
Str or Int or Investigate a crime scene
Athletics Jump, Climb, Lift something heavy Evidence Kits
Dex Dex Tamper with gathered evidence
Deception Cha Tell a convincing lie Glassblower's Tools Dex Create a glass bottle
History Int Recall information about something Hacking Tools Int Break into an electronic safe
Insight Wis Read a person's intent Int or Cut a gemstone
Jeweler's Tools
Str or Dex Design and craft an amulet
Intimidation Influence someone through fear
Cha Int or
Leatherworker's Tools Saddle a horse
Int or Understand a poison or disease Dex
Medicine
Wis Dress and bind a wound Int or
Fix a carburetor
Int or Follow tracks through unknown terrain Mechanic's Tools Str or
Nature Rebuild an engine
Wis Recognize and find edible plants Dex
Int or Notice someone sneaking up on you Int or Find your way across an ocean,
Perception Navigator's Tools
Wis Find a hidden door or trap Wis desert, or other wilderness
Cha or Int or
Performance Sing, Dance, Give a speech Pharmacist's Tools Identify or prepare medication
Dex Dex
Persuasion Cha Influence someone with an argument Int or Identify the type or age of clay
Potter's Tools
Dex Make a vase
Int or
Religion Know about a god or faith Str or Build a brick wall
Wis Stoneworker's Tools
Dex Carve a stone sculpture
Science Int Understand physics, chemistry, etc.
Int or Operate on an infection
Sleight Surgical Tools
Dex Palm an item, Pickpocket, Juggle Dex Stitch a wound
of Hand
Int or
Stealth Dex Hide, Move silently Tailor's Tools Knit a sweater, Patch jeans
Dex
Int or Design and build a clockwork toy
Tools Tinker's Tools
Dex Maintain or upgrade a firearm
Tool proficiencies are a special type of Skill proficiency that Int or Build a metal desk
requires the use of the appropriate tool to even attempt the roll. Welder's Tools
Str Repair a tear in a car door
General Tools Int or
Build a shed, Cut down a tree,
Woodworker's Tools Str or
Tool Ability Example Whittle a stake
Dex
Look up information
Computers Int
Diagnose and fix a glitch Gaming Sets
Int or Tool Ability Example
Disguise Kit Design or apply a disguise
Dex
Dice Int or Cha Liar's Dice, D&D, Exalted
Int or
Forgery Kit Copy or falsify a document Board Games Int or Cha Monopoly, Ticket to Ride
Dex
Herbalism Kit Wis Brew a healing potion Card Games Int or Cha or Wis Poker, Baccarat, Tarot

Int or Video Games Int or Dex Halo, Skyrim, Minecraft

Poisoner's Kit Create or apply a poison
Dex
Thieves Tools Dex Pick a lock, Disarm a trap

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Musical Instruments Martial Weapons
It is usually a Charisma or Dexterity check to play a musical Few people are proficient with Martial Weapons in modern times,
instrument. These listed here are just examples, there are many as Firearms have almost entirely supplanted their use. However,
more types of instruments your DM might allow proficiency with. some still learn fencing for sport, for example, so stats for these
weapons are provided in case they are needed.
Tool Example Tool Example
Weapon Damage Properties Example
String (Strum) Guitar, Ukelele String (Bow) Violin, Cello
Battleaxe 1d8 S versatile (1d10) fireman's axe
String (Pick) E. Guitar, Bass Brass Tuba, Trumpet
Blowgun 1P ranged (25/100) —
Percussion Drums, Bells Woodwind Flute, Oboe
ranged (150/600),
Keyboard Piano, Keytar Weird Tech Theremin Bow and Arrow 1d8 P hunting bow
two-handed
Vehicles Crossbow 1d10 P
ranged (100/400),
—
two-handed, loading
It is nearly always a Dexterity check to drive a vehicle.
Tool Example Flail 1d8 B — cat-o-nine-tails
Civilian Ground Sedan, Pickup Truck, Motorcycle Greataxe 1d12 S heavy, two-handed —
Civilian Water Canoe, Kayak, River Raft Greatsword 2d6 P/S heavy, two-handed nodachi
Civilian Air Cesna, Hang Glider Lance 1d12 P reach, special —
Commercial Ground Tractor, Semi-Truck Longsword 1d8 P/S versatile(1d10) katana
Commercial Water Speedboat, Yacht, Freighter Maul 2d6 B heavy, two-handed —
Commercial Air Airliner, 747 Pickaxe 1d8 P versatile(1d10) —
Military Ground Humvee, APC heavy, reach, pike, glaive,
Polearm 1d10 P/S
two-handed halberd
Military Water Destroyer, Carrier, Submarine
Rapier 1d8 P/S finesse fencing foil
Military Air Fighter, Bomber, Helicopter
cavalry saber,
Armor Tank Shortsword 1d6 P/S finesse, light
scimitar
Armor Warhammer 1d8 B versatile(1d10) sledgehammer
Armors of leather, chain, and plate have mostly gone by the Whip 1d4 S finesse, reach —
wayside. Stats for them exist if you know where to find them but Firearms
such armors are unlikely to be found in modern times, and nobody
is likely to be proficient with them anymore. Instead three types of Firearms are the standard of deadly weaponry in modern times.
armor are available that do not require proficiency: Every firearm does Piercing damage and has the ammunition and
Armor Benefit loading properties. Clip is the number of shots that can be made
with a weapon before a character must reload it using an action or
Kevlar Vest AC: 12 + Dex a bonus action (character's choice). Specific versions of each
Kevlar Full Body Armor AC: 15 + Dex (max 2) weapon may have a different Clip rating.
A weapon that has the burst property can make a single-target
Riot Shield AC +2 attack, or it can spray a 10-foot-cube area within normal range
Walking around openly armored in modern times, especially with shots. Each creature in the area must succeed on a Dexterity
carrying a shield, is likely to raise questions. saving throw with a DC of 8 plus your Proficiency bonus plus your
Dexterity modifier or take the weapon's normal damage. This
Weapons action uses ten pieces of ammunition.
Weapon Damage Range Clip Properties Example
Simple Weapons
Old Pistol 1d10 30/90 1 — Flintlock
Simple weapons are easy to use. Most people are proficient with
them (Witches are a notable exception). Damage types are Musket 1d12 40/120 1 two-handed Arquebus
abbreviated: Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing. Auto-Pistol 2d6 50/150 15 burst MP5
Weapon Damage Properties Example two-handed,
Auto-Rifle 2d8 80/240 30 AK-47
Club 1d4 B light police baton heavy, burst

finesse, light, Pistol 2d8 40/120 6 — Colt 45

Dagger 1d4 P/S hunting knife
thrown(20/60) Rifle 2d10 80/240 5 two-handed Springfield
Handaxe 1d6 S light, thrown(20/60) hatchet Shotgun 2d12 10/30 2 two-handed, heavy Remm. '89
Light Hammer 1d4 B light, thrown(20/60) claw hammer Sniper Rifle 2d12 0/300 1 two-handed, heavy Sharps '74
Quarterstaff 1d6 B versatile(1d8) walking stick
A Sniper Rifle's first range increment is 0, thus a shot with it has
Spear 1d6 P
thrown(30/120),
javelin
disadvantage by default; it is expected that you will use an Aim
versatile(1d8) action or the Sharpshooter feat (or both) to counteract this.
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Flaws
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Merits
. and Flaws
This system assumes the use of this optional ruleset, and the
following additional Merits and Flaws are included for use with it:
Merits
1 Deceptive Aura
Prerequisite: Non-humanoid creature type
Your aura is unusually human for a supernatural creature.
Nonmagical effects and senses treat you as a mere humanoid,
though magic can still see and affect you for what you truly are.
1 Eat Food
Prerequisite: Vampire
You have the capacity to eat food and even savor its taste. While
you cannot derive any nourishment from eating regular foods, this
ability will serve you well in pretending to be human.
1 Healing Touch
Prerequisite: Vampire
Normally vampires can only seal the puncture wounds left from
drinking blood by licking them. With but a touch, you can achieve
the same effect.
2 Fair Wolfman
Prerequisite: Werewolf
Your Wolfman form can pass for human, though a somewhat
larger and hairier human than average. You have no penalty to
disguising yourself as human in Wolfman form.
3 Calm Heart
You are naturally calm and do not easily fly off the handle. You
have advantage on all Rampage checks. Berserker Vampires may
not take this Merit.
3 Mixed-Morph
Prerequisite: Werewolf
You have especially fine control over your shapeshifting allowing
you to shift specific parts of yourself rather than your entire body
at once. For example, you could shift your larynx and tongue to
allow you speak human language in Wolf form, or your hands and
nails to gain your Wolfman claw attack in Human form. Doing so
requires an action and Wisdom save as though changing form, but
with a DC of only 11, and it does not incapacitate you.
5 Unbondable
You are immune to being Thralled by Vampires. Blood Wizard
Vampires cannot take this Merit.
7 Metamorph
Prerequisite: Werewolf
Shapechanging for you is as easy as breathing. You can change
forms as an action at will without needing to make a Wisdom save
or spend a Rage point, doing so does not incapacitate you, and the
quarter-forms do not exhaust you.
Feats
Classic Monsters assumes the use of the optional Feat
rules, however, any feat (or Merit) that grants the use of
a spell requires DM approval, and should have a good
reason. Shadow Touched would be appropriate for a
Shadowmancer Vampire for instance, and Fey Touched
(in mechanics with a change in flavor) would work well
for a Demon or Ghost, but neither of these feats would
be appropriate for a Golem as it doesn't fit with their
style of magic. A feat or Merit should not grant
spellcasting to a character that can't already cast spells,
usually should not grant a spell not on their spell list,
and certainly should not grant spellcasting to a Mortal.
Flaws
-1 Animal Musk
Prerequisite: Werewolf
You have the odor of an animal, even in Human form. Whenever
you are indoors or in a crowd of people, you make all Charisma
checks at disadvantage. Outdoors or in situations where you can
distance yourself from humans, your odor is not noticeable.
Wolves and wolf-born Werewolves take little notice of this Flaw.
-1 to -5 Beastsign
Your supernatural form shows on your mortal body. A one-point
Flaw would be a slight bluish cast to the skin of a Troll, a two-point
Flaw would be permanent Vampire fangs, a three-point flaw would
be Wolfsign such as hairy pentagramed palms, and a five-point
Flaw would be a pair of ram-like Demon's horns.
For strange eyes specifically, 1 point means your eyes are a
startling color, maybe emerald green, violet, or yellow. For 3
points, your strangely colored eyes also glow in their color. The
color may be hidden with colored contacts, but the glow must be
hidden by a stronger covering such as sunglasses.
Any of these features may make it difficult to explain yourself to
mortals. While most people may simply wonder at these bizarre
physical manifestations, Hunters who know what to look for may
suspect your true nature.
-1 to -5 Echoes
You are linked on a fundamental level with the folklore associated
with your supernatural type, and as such you display odd
phenomena and/or weaknesses. Work with your DM to determine
the nature and Bonus Point value of your Echoes. This Flaw
should not be used to duplicate the effects of any other Flaws, but
can be used to fill in any gaps not already covered by other Flaws.
-1 to -3 Forced Transformation
Prerequisite: Werewolf
Certain circumstances force you to undergo an uncontrollable
shift in form. You may delay the change for one hour by spending a
Rage Point, but once you have been forced to change you may not
change back until the triggering situation has passed. You may use
the following examples, or work with your DM to design your own.
1: Alcohol intoxication forces you into Wolfman form
2: The touch of the full moon's light forces you into Warwolf form
3: The full moon being in the sky forces you into Warwolf form
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-1 Short
You are well below average height (4' 6" or less), and find this
world is not built for people of your stature. Your size is Small
instead of Medium, and you and the DM should make sure your
height is taken into account in all situations.
-2 Dull Bite
Prerequisite: Vampire
For some reason your fangs never developed fully, or they may
not have manifested at all. Your bite's piercing damage is 1 rather
than using your blood die. Clanless and high Generation vampires
often manifest this Flaw.
-2 Need Invitation
Prerequisite: Vampire
You can't enter a private dwelling until invited by one who lives
there or one who own the property. The only way to revoke an
invitation is to consecrate the dwelling as with the hallow spell.
-2 Thralled
You are Thralled to a vampire. Your master may or may not treat
you badly, but your will is not entirely your own. This knowledge
gnaws at you, even as you find yourself lost in devotion to your
vampiric master. Strigoi cannot take this Flaw.
-2 Vulnerable to [Material]
You suffer Devastating wounds from any weapons (bullets, knives,
etc.) made of or coated with a specific material, and the mere
touch of such objects discomfits you. Common examples are
silver, cold iron, holy water, or crosses; less common examples
would be garlic, wolfsbane, gold, or oil of mistletoe. Werewolves
automatically have this effect with silver, Faeries automatically
have this effect with cold iron, and Demons automatically have
this effect with holy water and crosses.
If you are vulnerable to Holy Water, even Holy Water merely
blessed by a devout priest functions as though created by magic.
-2 Vulnerable to Holy Ground
Any location considered sacred - churchyards, temples, etc. - are
considered to have been consecrated by the Hallow spell for you.
You must be a Fiend or Undead to take this Flaw, and Demons
automatically have this effect.
-3 Fourteenth Generation
Prerequisite: Vampire
You were created five or fewer years ago by a member of the
Thirteenth Generation. You are likely Clanless, for your blood is
probably too thin to pass down the distinguishing characteristics
of a Bloodline. Whenever you spend Blood dice, you lose one
additional hit point per die spent.
-3 Victim of the Veil
You refuse to believe you are a supernatural creature. You remain
convinced that there is some logical scientific explanation for your
condition, and spend as much time as you can searching for it.
Rolls for taking any overtly supernatural action (shapeshifting,
spellcasting, etc.) are at disadvantage. This Flaw must be
roleplayed at all times.
-4 Fifteenth Generation
Prerequisite: Clanless Vampire
Whenever you spend Blood dice, you lose two additional hit
points per die spent. What’s more, you lose and can't gain the
Blood Bond and Embrace features.
The weakening of the Curse of Caine has compensations,
though. Radiant damage, even from sunlight, is not Devastating
for you, and you gain the benefits of the Eat Food Merit. Strangest
of all, once in a while you might actually have a child the normal,
human way... though it will hardly be a normal, human child.
-4 Grip of Terror
Prerequisite: Vampire
There is no ecstasy in your bite — only terror and pain. Victims
of your bite do not automatically become charmed by you, and will
likely struggle and shriek while you attempt to feed, requiring you
to grapple with them for as long as you wish to take their blood.
-4 Mule Sire
Prerequisite: Non-Mule Werewolf
You are the parent of a Mule cub from an illicit relationship with
another Werewolf. Work with your DM to determine the
circumstances surrounding the birth of the child — who the other
parent is, when this happened, if you are attempting to raise the
child yourself, or if the cub was fostered out to avoid further
embarrassment. You have disadvantage on any Charisma checks
targeting Werewolves who know of your shame, and you must take
responsibility for your cub’s welfare. You will likely be unable to
hold any important position or be trusted with important tasks in
Werewolf society, no matter how you strive to prove yourself.
If a character sires or bears a Mule cub during the events of the
chronicle, the penalties of this Flaw may apply, but no bonus
points are granted for it.

Credits
Written and designed by Caleb Wichman, with advice and suggestions
from the Storyteller's Vault Monday Writers' Group.
Inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula, the werewolf myth, ghost stories, Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, Robert Louis
Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Universal
Classic Monsters movies, Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and
Angel, and the World of Darkness series of roleplaying games.
Cover images by Bram Clark.
Art on pages 17, 18, and 31 are licensed from stock.adobe.com.
All other art is from Unsplash.com.
Ad layout with assistance from Debra Leonard.
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