Class Features

As a Phobiamancer, you gain the following class features

Aspect of the Spider

At 1st level, you can manifest a characteristic of Spiders. Four spider-like legs sprout from your back. These legs are long enough to be able to reach in front of you, but flexible and compact enough to be able to fold up and be hidden by most clothes and armor, but require some sort of exit from whatever garment you're wearing to be effective.

These legs can be used to make a Spider Strike attack, which is a melee weapon attack that does 1d6 piercing damage. If you hit, the target must make a Constitution save vs your Fright DC or take an additional 1d6 Poison damage. At 5th level, this attack does an additional 1d6 Piercing damage and is considered magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

You can also use these legs to move along shear surfaces while keeping your arms free, gaining a Climb Speed equal to your walk speed. You must have at least three free legs to move in this manner. Finally, you ignore movement restrictions caused by webbing.

Eight-Legged Friend

At 1st level, you learn the Find Familiar spell. When you cast this spell, you must select a Spider as the Familiar's form. This Familiar can use the Attack action as normal for a Spider.

Spider Colony

At 5th level, you invite a Swarm of Spiders (Monster Manual) to live on and about your person. This Swarm obeys your verbal and nonverbal commands as long as it is within 60 feet of you, acting immediately after you in initiative. While the spiders are sharing your space, they are considered to be an object being worn or carried for the purposes of targeting or spells. In addition, while sharing your space, the Spiders cushion blows against you; you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

If your colony is lost or destroyed, you can call a new Swarm to your service when you complete a Long or Short rest. At 5th level, you can have one Swarm at a time. At 9th and 15th levels, you gain a second and third Swarm at a time, respectively.

Arachnid Affinity

Starting at 5th level, you are always under the effects of the Speak with Animals spell, and can cast Animal Friendship at-will, but both of theses spells only effect Spiders, Scorpions, or other natural Arachnids.

Broken Swarm

At 9th level, twice between Long Rests, you can break your body down into a swarm of spiders as an action. You become a number of Swarm of Spiders equal to your Proficiency bonus, all of which you control. When you do so, you can choose whether your equipment merges with these new forms, or falls to the ground. You retain all Phobiamancer class features in this form, as long as the Swarms are able to physically perform them. When you move, you can move any number of your Swarms up to their speed, and when you use an Action, all Swarms use an Action simultaneously. You can only use a bonus action once on your turn this way.

You can revert back to your normal form as a Bonus Action, choosing which Swarm's space to reappear in, as the Spiders of other Swarms rapidly scuttle to your position to reform the whole. When the last of these Swarms reaches 0 HP, you reform in that Swarm's space, or an adjacent space if it was occupying another creature's.

When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of hit points you had before you transformed. However, if you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form. For example, if you take 10 damage in Spider form and have only 1 hit point left, you revert and take 9 damage. As long as the excess damage doesn't reduce your normal form to 0 hit points, you aren't knocked unconscious.

You can choose to break only part of your body, such as an arm or a leg, into a Swarm, as a bonus action, creating a Swarm of Spiders under your control that acts on your initiative, but losing that part, and the equipment worn by that body part does not merge with the Swarm. When you transform a body part this way, your current and maximum health are reduced by 22.

If the Swarm created this way ends its turn in your space, you can re-merge with it, increasing your current health by the amount of health the Swarm has, and restoring your maximum by 22. If a Swarm created this way dies, you can regrow the body part during a Short Rest by calling a new Swarm of Spiders, restoring your maximum HP.

You can use this part of Broken Swarm as many times per day as you like, but you cannot create a new Swarm or become new Swarms while a body part is transformed. You cannot use this feature to restore limbs or body parts lost by means other than this feature.

Dark Confinement

As an action on your turn, you can conjure shadowy tendrils to arrest a creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself. These shadows are only partially physically, primarily attacking a subject's mind to constrain their body. The target must succeed on a Fright Save or become Grappled until the end of their next turn. In addition, a creature that fails their save suffers 2d6 Psychic damage, or half as much on a success.

Shadow Slip

You have advantage on checks and saves made to avoid becoming Grappled or Restrained.

Iron Maiden

Beginning at 5th level, you can conjure a shadowy prison around a Large or smaller creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Dexterity save against your Fright DC. On a failure, the target suffers 3d6 Piercing damage and is blinded, deafened, and restrained, and has total cover against all attacks and effects while in the prison. On subsequent turns, you can use a bonus action to cause the target to take 2d6 Piercing damage.

The prison lasts for 1 minute, until you dismiss it (no action), or until the creature uses an action to make a Strength(Athletics) check against your Fright DC, breaking out on a success. You can only have one prison conjured at a time; conjuring a new one causes all others to disappear.

Mind Cage

Beginning at 9th level, you can entrap multiple creatures simultaneously in illusory confines. As an action, a number of creatures equal to your Charisma modifier that you can see within 30 feet of you must all make Fright Saves. On a failure, a creature suffers 3d6 Psychic damage and is Incapacitated, or half damage on a success. This effect lasts for one minute, and you must Concentrate on it as if on a spell. The condition ends for a creature if it takes any damage.

Chains of Darkness

Begininning at 13th level, you can use an action to surround yourself with spectral chains. These chains last for 1 minute and extend in a 15-foot radius from you. Each creature (other than you) that enters the area or starts their turn there must succeed on a Strength save against your Fright DC or become Restrained until the end of their turn, or until the end of their next turn if they entered on another creature's turn.

In addition, while the chains persist, you may use an action to make a melee spell attack against a creature within 20 feet of you, using Charisma as your modifier. On a hit, the attack does 4d6 Bludgeoning damage. This attack cannot be used to make an Attack of Opportunity.

The chains persist for 1 minute, and once you have used this ability, you must complete a Long Rest until you can conjure them again.

Domain of Closure

At 17th level, you've gained the ability to recreate your worst fear for all to experience. As an action, you create a 20-foot radius dome of impenetrable darkness around you.

Nothing can physically pass through the dome. It is immune to all damage and can’t be dispelled by dispel magic. The dome is filled with magical darkness, but you and any number of creatures you choose can see normally within the Dome. In addition, the interior of the dome is considered difficult terrain for all creatures except for you.

Finally, at the end of each of their turns, all creatures other than you in the dome must make a Fright save. On a failure, a creature takes 6d6 Psychic damage, or half as much as a success. The creatures you initially chose to be unaffected by the darkness have advantage on this save.

The dome lasts for 1 minute, or until you dismiss it on your turn (no action).

Wound Wraith

As an action, you can summon a spectral undead entity to your service in an unoccupied space you can see within 30 feet of you. The Wraith has a number of HP equal to your Charisma modifier + three times your level, and an AC of 10 + your Charisma modifier. When the Wraith appears, you can cause it to make a melee spell attack using your Proficiency and Charisma. On a hit, the target suffers 1d6 Necrotic damage + your Charisma modifier. As an action on your turn, you can direct the Wraith to move up to 60 feet and repeat this attack against a creature you can see. The Wraith can never be more than 60 feet away from you.

Whenever the Wraith suffers damage, the creature that damaged it must succeed on a Fright save or take 1d6 Psychic damage. When you reach 5th level, the Wraith can attack twice, instead of once, when you direct it to attack, and its retaliation damage increases by 1d6.

The Wraith is considered an Undead for the purposes of spells and effects that consider creature types. The Wraith disappears when it reaches 0 HP, when you fall unconscious, when you use an action to dismiss it, or after 1 hour. Each time you summon it, it appears at full health, and once you have summoned it twice, you must complete a Long Rest before summoning it again.

Corpse Control

At 5th level, you can cast the Animate Dead spell. Once you have done so, you must complete a Long Rest before doing so again. At 9th and 13th level, you can cast this spell an additional time between rests.

Undead Ally

Beginning at 5th level, undead have difficulty harming you. If an undead targets you directly with an attack or spell, that creature must make a Fright Save. On a failed save, the creature must choose a new target or forfeit the attack or spell. In a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours. An undead is also immune to this effect for 24 hours if you target it with an attack or harmful spell. (Note that area effects, such as Fireball, do not count as targeting with a harmful spell).

Corpsespeaker

At 9th level, you can cast Speak With Dead. You can cast this spell twice, and regain all uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Echoes of the Dead

Starting at 9th level, when you see a creature die within 60 feet of you, you can take control of their dead Spirit as a reaction. A Spirit appears in that creature's space that is of the same size and appearance as the slain creature, but translucent and intangible. The Spirit is an Undead, but has no HP and can't take damage or be the target of attacks. Whenever a creature hostile to you leaves the Spirit's reach, the Spirit can make an Attack of Opportunity against that creature using one of the attack it had in life. On a hit, the attack does Necrotic damage instead of its normal damage type. Additional damage, such as poison applied to a weapon, or fire from a magic sword, are not applied to this attack, but effects such as Grapples or Trips associated with the attack are.

Defy Death

Starting at 13th level, when you fall to 0 HP, instead of falling unconscious, your Spirit separates from you body. You maintain your full suite of actions, bonus actions, and movement, but cannot move more than 30 feet from your body. Your spirit form is immune to damage, but cannot physically interact with anything, though you can be seen and heard. While in this state, you are considered to be an Undead. Your body must still make Death Saving Throws as normal at the end of your turn, and if you reach 3, you die. Likewise, your body can be attacked and take damage, and potentially die. If your body dies while you are in this form, you die, and your souls is cursed to wander the land as a ghost. Once you have used this ability, you must complete a Long Rest before using it again.

Domain of Death

At 17th level, as an Action, you can corrupt the area around you in a 20-foot radius, summoning phantasms of death. The area moves as you move, always centered on you, and within the area, the ground appears to be covered in slowly writhing corpses. The area is considered difficult terrain for all creatures other than you and your Wraith. All creatures that enter the area or start their turn there must make a Strength save against your Fright DC. On a failure, a creature suffers 2d6 Bludgeoning damage and 2d6 Necrotic damage and is Restrained by the corpses. On a a success, a creature takes half damage and is not restrained.

When you create the area, you can choose any number of creatures to be immune to its effects.

While in the area, you and all Undead controlled by you have advantage on all attacks, and gain temporary hit points equal to twice your Charisma modifier at the start of each of their turns.

This effect lasts for 1 minute or until you end it as an action, and you must complete a Long Rest before using it again.