The Pyromancer

Class Features

As a pyromancer, you gain the following class features.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the pyromancer spell list. You learn additional pyromancer cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Pyromancer table.

Spell Slots

The Pyromancer table shows how many spell slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your pyromancer spells, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest. For example, when you are 5th level, you have two 3rd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell burning hands, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 3rd-level spell.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

At 1st level, you know two 1st-level spell of your choice from the pyromancer spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Pyromancer table shows when you learn more pyromancer spells of your choice of 1st level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what's shown in the table's Slot Level column for your level. When you reach 6th level, for example, you learn a new pyromancer spell, which can be 1st, 2dn, or 3rd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the pyromancer spells you know and replace it with another spell from the pyromancer spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have a spell slot.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your pyromancer spells, so 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 pyromancer 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

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your pyromancer spells.

Fire Affinity

At 1st level, you can use your action to briefly control fire or heat, causing one of the following effects of your choice:

• Create a harmless, instantaneous sensory effect related to fire, such as a puff of smoke.
• Instantaneously light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
• Warm up to 1 pound of nonliving material for up to 1 hour.
• Cause a small fire to shape itself as you wish while you concentrate

Burning Fury

At 1st level, you can enter or exit a state of heightened affinity with the plane of fire. When you enter this state, you suffer damage equal to your level and your hit point maximum goes down by the same amount. Your hit point maximum returns to normal once you exit the state and cannot be restored otherwise. When you exit the state, no hit points are regained.

While you are in this state, you gain the following effects:

• Your countenance changes--your eyes may turn black or begin to glow, your skin may darken like burning wood or you may seem to be surrounded by wisps of flame.
• You can add an amount equal to your Burn Die to any fire damage rolls from your pyromancer spells and abilities unless otherwise noted.
• You gain resistance to cold damage.

Fiery Path

At 2nd level, you choose a particular path of focus for your burgeoning mastery of fire. Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

Conflagrations

In your pursuit of mastery over fire, you have discovered Conflagrations, techniques and achievements that imbue you with power from the Plane of Fire. There are seven Flows of Conflagration with two Conflagrations per Flow.

At 2nd level, you gain one Conflagration of your choice that you qualify for. When you gain certain pyromancer levels, you gain additional Conflagrations of your choice that you qualify for, as shown in the Conflagrations Known column of the Pyromancer table.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the Conflagrations you know and replace it with another Conflagration of your choice that you qualify for.

When both Conflagrations of any two Flows are attained, a Synergy Conflagration also becomes available. The Active Synergies column of the Pyromancer table shows how many of your available Synergy Conflagrations you may have active at any time. Active Synergy Conflagrations are chosen after a long rest.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 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. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Embrace the Flame

At 5th level, your kinship with fire allows you to shield yourself from its destructive effects. When you are using Burning Fury, you gain resistance to fire damage. At 15th level you gain immunity to fire damage.

Overpowering Flames

At 9th level, your fiery effects have become so intense that they can even burn creatures normally resistant. When you are using Burning Fury, any fire damage caused by your pyromancer spells and abilities ignores fire resistance. At 18th level, any fire damage caused by your pyromancer spells and abilities treats immunity to fire damage as resistance to fire damage, causing half damage.

Charged Fire

At 13th level, you can create fires of cataclysmic intensity. When you use a spell slot to cast a spell from the pyromancer spell list, you can increase the damage die for any fire damage dealt as part of the spell--d6's become d8's, d8's become d10's, and d10's become d12's. You can use this feature once before completing a short or long rest. You can use this feature one additional time at 16th and 19th level before completing a short or long rest.

One with the Flame

At 20th level, you can use your affinity with the flame to move through the air. When you are using Burning Fury, you gain a fly speed of 30 feet. You can also move on lava as if it were solid ground.

Fiery Paths

Pyromancers all share a bond with the flame that reaches to the Plane of Fire itself, but each must ultimately choose a path that purifies and refines different aspects of that power. Many ways exist, but the most follow one of two paths: that of the devastator and that of the disruptor.

Fire Trap

At 6th level, whenever you could create a disrupting pyre, instead you can create a mark visible only to you that lasts one minute. When the space the mark is in is stepped on by a creature, a blast of flame erupts from it and spreads outward. Any creature within 5 feet of the space is affected as if it had entered the space of one of your pyres. Only one fire trap can be placed in a single space.

Consume Pyre

Upon reaching 10th level, you have learned to manipulate your pyres and traps with careful precision. As a bonus action, or with your reaction when a threatening creature (DM's decision) steps within 5 feet of your disrupting pyres or fire traps, you can cause one of your disrupting pyres or fire traps to explode as if it were an activated fire trap.

Heat Sensitivity

Starting at 14th level, your flames can leave your enemies vulnerable to further sources of heat. Whenever you force a creature that you can see to make a saving throw against one of your pyromancer spells or abilities, you can cause that creature to gain disadvantage on saving throws to resist fire damage until the beginning of its next turn. You can use this ability once before completing a short or long rest. You can use this feature one additional time at 16th and 19th level before completing a short or long rest.

Conflagrations

Volcano Conflagration - Volcano's Blasting Rock

Prerequisite: 3rd level

Your spells hit with such force that nearby enemies are also burned. When you hit a creature with a pyromancer spell attack that deals fire damage, you can suffer damage equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down) to attempt to damage another creature with the same attack. Choose another creature within 5 feet of the original target and make the same attack roll against it. On a success, it takes the same damage as the original target.

Volcano Conflagration - Eruption of Volcano

You can bathe the entire battlefield with your fires. When you use a pyromancer spell slot to cast a spell that causes damage to creatures in an area of effect and forces them to make a saving throw, you can use your bonus action to suffer damage equal to your Burn Die and increase the area of effect listed in the spell description by 5 feet.

Wind Conflagration - Force of Wind

Explosions from your fires can throw enemies like rag dolls. When you deal fire damage to one or more creatures as a result of a pyromancer spell or class feature, you can move one of those creatures up to 15 feet in a straight line unless it succeeds on a Strength saving throw.

Wind Conflagration - Shockwave

Enemies are thrown to the ground from the force of your fires. When you deal fire damage to one or more creatures as a result of a pyromancer spell or class feature, you can suffer damage equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down) to knock prone one of those creatures unless it succeeds on a Strength saving throw.

Synergy Conflagration - Ashen Respite

Prerequisite: Two Spark and two Ash conflagrations

Through grit and quickness you have learned to avoid harm. When you are hit with an attack, with your reaction you can gain resistance to any nonmagical piercing, slashing, and bludgeoning damage you suffer as a result of that attack. You can use this feature twice before completing a short or long rest.

Synergy Conflagration - Barrier Wings of the Phoenix

Prerequisite: Two Volcano and two Ash conflagrations

Your fires can swirl to quench harmful effects around you and your allies. When you are inside an area of effect that would deal fire or cold damage, with your reaction you can suffer damage equal to your Burn Die to grant up to 6 creatures in that area of effect resistance to that damage. You can use this ability once before completing a short or long rest.

Synergy Conflagration - Buffeting Wings of the Dragon

Prerequisite: Two Inferno and two Wind conflagrations

Your fires explode with violent force. When a creature fails a saving throw against one of your Wind Conflagrations, that creature takes bludgeoning damage equal to your Charisma modifier.

Synergy Conflagration - Burning Proscription

Prerequisite: Two Glass and two Ash conflagrations

Your fires leave your enemies weak. When you cause fire damage to a creature, you can use a bonus action to suffer damage equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down) and cause that creature to be unable to gain hit points until the beginning of your next turn if it fails a Constitution saving throw. You can use this ability twice before completing a long rest.

Synergy Conflagration - Chamber in the Firestorm

Prerequisite: Two Volcano and two Spark conflagrations

You have learned to shape your fires to spare your friends. When you cast a pyromancer spell and/or use a feature that deals fire damage within an area of effect, you can protect creatures in the area from that damage. For each creature you choose to take zero damage, you suffer damage equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down).

Synergy Conflagration - Embers Swirling in the Gust

Prerequisite: Two Wind and two Ash conflagrations

Your fires can create ash-filled gusts that hinder your foes. When you are targeted for a melee attack by a creature, with your reaction you can force that creature to either change the target of that attack to another creature or object within the reach of that attack or drop its weapon, if any, unless it succeeds on a Dexterity saving throw. After successfully using this ability you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

Synergy Conflagration - Empathic Cauterization

Prerequisite: Two Inferno and two Ash conflagrations

You have learned to sacrifice yourself to cause your fires to intervene for a friend. When another creature within 30 feet of you that you can see suffers damage from an attack, with your reaction you can suffer damage equal to your Burn Die, to reduce the damage to that creature by half.

Synergy Conflagration - Fire Tongue's Grace

Prerequisite: Two Inferno and two Spark conflagrations

You have learned to dart away from harm like a tongue of fire. When you suffer damage from a creature's melee attack, you can take the Disengage action as a bonus action on your next turn. If you do, your speed increases by 5 feet during that turn.

Synergy Conflagration - Fire Typhoon's Draft

Prerequisite: Two Spark and two Ring conflagrations

You can cause your fires to pull enemies off balance. When a creature misses a melee attack against you, with your reaction you can suffer damage equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down) to impose disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws made by that creature until the end of its next turn. Also, that creature can't make opportunity attacks against you during your next turn.

Synergy Conflagration - Haste of the Salamander

Prerequisite: Two Spark and two Glass conflagrations

You can use your fires to harry enemies and catapult yourself at the same time. When you cause fire damage to one or more creatures as a result of a pyromancer spell or class feature, you can use a bonus action to reduce the speed of one of those creatures by 15 feet and add the same amount to your speed until the end of your next turn.

Synergy Conflagration - Heavy Smoke from the Mountain

Prerequisite: Two Volcano and two Glass conflagrations

You can use your fires to darken the vision of your enemies. When you cause fire damage to one or more creatures as a result of a pyromancer spell or class feature, you can suffer damage equal to your Burn Die to cause those creatures' vision to be reduced to 5 feet until the end of their next turn if they fail a Constitution saving throw. This ability has no effect on creatures that can't see. Once you use this ability successfully, you can't use it again until completing a short rest.

Synergy Conflagration - Phoenix Chain Wind

Prerequisite: Two Spark and two Wind conflagrations

You can let your friends escape harm by momentarily dodging into the plane of fire. When a friendly creature within 30 feet of you is attacked, with your reaction you can suffer damage equal to your Burn Die to impose disadvantage on that attack roll. Whether the attack succeeds or fails, the friendly creature then vanishes in a cloud of ash and reappears in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of you. You must complete a short rest before using this ability again.

Synergy Conflagration - Reward of the Coals

Prerequisite: Two Inferno and two Glass conflagrations

You have learned to cause enemies to blunder into your fires. Once per turn, when you have imposed disadvantage on a creature's attack and it misses with that attack, you can suffer damage equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down) to cause damage to that creature equal to your Burn Die plus your Charisma modifier.

Synergy Conflagration - Roast for the Feast

Prerequisite: Two Inferno and two Ring conflagrations

You have learned to make enemies vulnerable to fire. When you hit a creature with a pyromancer spell attack, with your bonus action you can make that creature suffer additional damage from fire. Until the end of your next turn, any fire damage rolls made against that creature are increased by an amount equal to 1 for every die rolled. You can use this ability twice before completing a short or long rest.

Synergy Conflagration - Shards of Churning Obsidian

Prerequisite: Two Glass and two Ring conflagrations

You can use swirling bits of volcanic glass to weaken a foe's defenses. Once per turn, when a creature makes an attack and has disadvantage as a result of one of your pyromancer spells or abilities and it misses with that attack, you can suffer damage equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down) to reduce that creature's AC by 5 until the end of its next turn unless it succeeds on a Dexterity saving throw.

Synergy Conflagration - Stockade of Searing

Prerequisite: Two Volcano and two Ring conflagrations

Your fires can reach uncannily evasive foes. When you roll damage resulting from a pyromancer spell or ability, affected creatures do not benefit from any abilities or effects that would reduce the damage beyond what the spell or ability description states for a successful saving throw. Damage resistance and damage immunity work as normal.

Synergy Conflagration - Stunning Clash of Burning

Prerequisite: Two Wind and two Glass conflagrations

You can cause your fires to slam into opponents so forcefully as to leave them senseless. When you cause fire damage to a creature, you can use a bonus action to suffer damage equal to your Burn Die and cause that creature to be incapacitated unless it succeeds on a Wisdom or Constitution saving throw (your choice). It can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns to end the effect. You must complete a long rest before using this ability again.

Synergy Conflagration - The Bonfire Burns Low

Prerequisite: Two Ring and two Ash conflagrations

You have learned to make your fires harder to avoid by sacrificing their energy. When you use a pyromancer spell slot to cast a spell that causes fire damage and forces a creature to make a saving throw to resist that damage, you can impose disadvantage on that saving throw. Subtract from that spell's damage total an amount equal to 1 for every damage die rolled. You can use this feature once before completing a short rest.

Synergy Conflagration - The Flame's Blossom

Prerequisite: Two Inferno and two Volcano conflagrations

You can cause your fires to explode and incinerate other creatures near your target. When you hit a target with a pyromancer cantrip that deals fire damage, you can suffer damage equal to your Burn Die to attempt to damage creatures near the original target. Other creatures within 5 feet suffer the same damage as the original target unless they succeed on a Dexterity saving throw for half.

Synergy Conflagration - Uneven Overpressure

Prerequisite: Two Wind and two Ring conflagrations

You can coordinate with allies against creatures pushed by your fires. When you move an enemy at least 5 feet with one of your Conflagrations, you can suffer damage equal to your Burn Die to cause that enemy to provoke an opportunity attack from each hostile creature whose reach it leaves except for you. You can use this ability once before completing a short rest.

Synergy Conflagration - Weight of the Heat

Prerequisite: Two Volcano and two Wind conflagrations

You can use your fires to slow your enemies as if they were weighed down. When you force creatures to make a saving throw as a result of one of your pyromancer spells, you can suffer damage equal to your Burn Die to cause all creatures that fail that saving throw to have their speed reduced by 15 feet until the end of their next turn.

Pyromancer Spells

• 0th: Control Flames, Dead Man's Detonation, Fire Bolt, Create Bonfire, Dancing Lights, Engulfing Grasp, Fireclap, Spark of Retribution

• 1st: Burning Hands, Firewave, Shield, Meteor Burst, Smoke Cloud, Marking Flames

• 2nd: Aganazzar’s Scorcher, Ashen Step, Blur, Chain Blast, Fire Swarm, Flaming Sphere, Mirror Image, Pyrotechnics, Scorching Ray,

• 3rd: Fireball, Flame Arrows, Protection From Energy, Melf’s Minute Meteors, Blink, Haste

• 4th: Fire Shield, Wall of Fire, Volcanic Storm, Dimension Door, Volcanic Sphere

• 5th: Immolation, Cloud of Embers, Conjure Elemental (fire)

Smoke Cloud (Fog Cloud)

1st level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Up to 1 hour

You create a 20-foot-radius sphere of smoke centered on a point within range. The sphere spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured. It lasts for the duration or until a wind of moderate or greater speed (at least 10 miles per hour) disperses it.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a slot of 2nd or higher, the radius of the cloud increases by 20 feet for each slot level above 1st.

Marking Flames (Faerie Fire)

1st level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V
• Duration: Up to 1 minute

Each object in a 20-foot sube within range is outlines in red or blue light (your choice) resembling fire. Any creature in the area when the spell is cast is also outlined in light if it fails a Dexterity saving throw. For the duration, objects and affected creatures shed dim light in a 10-foot radius.

Any attack roll against an affected creature or object has advantage if the attacker can see it, and the affected creature or object can't benefit from being invisible.

Fire Swarm (Snilloc's Snowball Swarm)

2nd level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 90 feet
• Components: V, S, M
• Duration: Instantaneous

Each creature in a 5-foot radius sphere centered on a point must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 3d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a slot of 3rd or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 2nd.

Ashen Step (Misty Step)

2nd level conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Components: V
• Duration: Instantaneous

Briefly surrounded by hazy ash, you teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see.

Volcanic Storm (Ice Storm)

4th level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 300 feet
• Components: V, S, M
• Duration: Instantaneous

A hail of volcanic rock pounds the ground in a 20-foot-radius, 40-foot-high cylinder centered on a point within range. Each creature in the cylinder must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 2d8 bludgeoning damage and 4d6 fire damage on a successful one. Rocks turn the storm's area of effect into difficult terrain until the end of your next turn.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a slot of 5th or higher, the bludgeoning damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 4th.

Volcanic Sphere (Storm Sphere)

4th level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 150 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

A 20-foot-radius sphere of swirling volcanic rock appears. Every creature in the sphere when it appears or that ends its turn there must pass a Strength saving throw or take 2d6 bludgeoning damage. The sphere's space is difficult terrain. As a bonus action, you can cause a bolt of fire to shoot up to 60 feet from the center of the sphere. Make a ranged spell attack. You have advantage if the target is in the sphere. On a hit, the fire bolt deals 4d6 fire damage.

Cretures within 30 feet of the sphere have disadvantage on Perception checks made to listen.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a slot of 5th or higher, the damage increases for each of its effects by 1d6 for each slot level above 4th.

Cloud of Embers (Cloudkill)

5th level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Up to 10 minutes

You create a cloud of burning embers in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point. It spreads around corners. It lasts for the duration or until strong wind disperses it. Its area is heavily obscured.

When a creature enters the fog for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Dexterity saving throw. It takes 5d8 fire damage on a fail, or half on a success.

The cloud moves 10 feet away from you at the start of each of your turns, rolling along the ground. The cloud sinks to the lowest level of the land.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a slot of 6th or higher, the bludgeoning damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 5th.

Dead Man's Detonation

cantrip evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 15 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

Choose a location within range, from which 5-foot cube explosion will erupt when you cease concentrating on this spell or if you move further than 15 feet from the location. You can end concentration at any time (no action). When the explosion erupts, make one melee spell attack roll against all creatures in the cube, if any. On a hit, a target creature takes 1d8 fire damage and is pushed up to 10 feet in a direction you choose. If a creature is pushed into a wall or something sturdy, it takes an additional 1 point of bludgeoning damage.

The fire damage increases by 1d8 and the bludgeoning damage increases by 1 when you reach 5th, 11th, and 17th level.

Chain Blast

2nd level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

Three fiery blasts erupt near one or more targets of your choice. Make a ranged spell attack for each blast. On a hit, a creature takes 1d8 + 1 fire damage and its speed is reduced by 10 feet on its next turn. If a creature's movement is reduced to 0, it is also knocked prone.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a slot of 3rd level or higher, you create an additional blast for each slot level above 2nd.