Credits

Everything in this book is presented by myself, u/ilovegoodfood. Most of it is also made by myself, with much help from my friends, although I freely admit to taking reference from other places, homebrews, game systems and the like.

I will attempt to reference sources of inspiration in the relevant sections, giving credit where credit is due, as well as here.

Chapter 1: Races

The uncountable multiverses of Dungeons and Dragons, both official and player made, are crammed with variation. Different races, cultures and languages all vie for attention and notice amidst the great cities and kingdoms, the small villages and on the wondering paths of the wilderness.

Common Races

Elf: Jungle Elf

Anthropomorphic Races

Erina

"Here it is." The small librarian adjusted his spectacles with a paw and flipped open the book.

"According to this..." his words trailed away, the spines that covered his body rustled in alarm, rising slightly. "Oh my."

He carefully closed the book, not allowing the contents to be seen by his guest. Still looking shaken, he called quietly into the dimly lit passages of the underground warren turned library, "Can someone fetch Lore-Master Orrin please?

Mousefolk

The rotund farmer straightened up from his crops, leaning slightly on his pitchfork. He cocked his head to one side and squinted into the tall grasses and other underbrush that marked the edge of his small plot of land.

Something was bothering him, but he wasn't sure what it was. The grasses looked the same as always, swaying slightly in the breeze. He couldn't perceive greater detail at this distance.

Uncertainly, he began to slowly make his way back towards the small house of dried grasses that nestled between the distant rocks.

His ear flicked reflexively as something large moved through the grasses, mere moments after he had turned his back. With unexpected speed, he shot off across the neatly tended vegetable patches, dodging from side to side at random.

It wasn't until he had reached his home and barred the door behind him, that he peered out towards his pursuer. A bird hopped harmless about his freshly dug plot, looking for worms.

Ratfolk

Shae's slender ears perked up in alarm, rotating this way and that. The guards were entering the building!

Shae carefully lowered her slender paw into the bag, placing the stolen goods inside as quietly as she could. Wrapping her short claws around the neck of the bag, she leaped down from the stack of crates just as the beam of light from the guards' lantern swept over the area, landing lightly on her soft paws.

Before the clumsy humans had a chance to find her, she dashed for the rear entrance, her small cloaked form blending into the darkness, she climbed over crates and squeezed between barrels.

Slipping through the door into the the back alley, Shae paused to inspect her haul. It was less than she had hoped, but it would sell well on the black market. Smiling to herself, she slipped through a nearby grate and into the maze of sewer passages.

Sewer Dweller

Sewer dwellers are larger and more powerfully built than their wild counterparts, but just as they are stronger, they are also better at hiding among the shallows and alleys of civilization.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Extremely Stealthy. You gain proficiency in Dexterity (Stealth).

Ratfolk Resilience. You have advantage on saving throws against poison and you are resistant to poison damage.

Wilderness Dweller

Wilderness dwellers are familiar with the ebb and flow of the seasons, the growth of the plants and the roaming of the animals. While less capable in a straight up brawl, they are far better equipped to survive in the wilds.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

One with Nature. You gain proficiency in Wisdom (Survival) and Intelligence (Nature).

Speak with Small Beasts. Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas with small or smaller beasts.

Exotic Races

Children of the Sands

Kurish waited patiently beneath the sands, waiting for the faint vibrations to draw closer. They belonged to something small, not so small as to be unworthy, but not so large as to be a potential threat. It's footfalls drifted closer and Kurish tensed himself, waiting for it to come to exactly the right point.

The vibrations stopped and Kurish rushed forth from the sand, filling the air with sparkling silicate particles. Golden carapace glistening in the desert sun his pincers clamped down on the unfortunate lizard, the stinger struck home, deep into the side of Kurish's pray. Green poison oozed forth, the moment passed and the Scorpion and lizard both disappeared back into the churning sands.

Female Child Names

Varogh, Vashner, Veldin, Venth, Ventyr, Vish, Vler, Vortrana, Vraran, Vuren

Female Adult Names

Vaaroogh, Vaashneer, Veeldiin, Veenth, Veentyr, Viish, Vleer, Voortraana, Vraaraan, Vuureen

Family Names

In place of a family name, Children of the Sands use the name of local geological features, cities or roads to define themselves. As such, unrelated creatures from the same region will all share the same family name.

Children of the Sands Traits

Your Child of the Sands has a number of features in common with all other Children of the Sands.

Ability Score Improvement. Increase an ability score of your choice by 2.

Age. Children of the Sands reach maturity in as little as 13 years and live to roughly a century.

Alignment. Children of the Sands are usually Lawful Neutral, but their alignments can vary wildly.

Size. Children of the Sands vary in both height and length, but are typically between 5 and 6 ft. long. Regardless of where you fall on this scale your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Specialized Senses. You have blindsight to a range of 60 feet, but you are considered blind beyond this range. You also have tremorsense to a range of 10ft.

Inhuman. Your creature type is monstrosity instead of humanoid.

Predatory Burrower. You have a burrowing speed of 30 ft. Hard materials, such as stone, count as difficult terrain and artificial structures, such as foundations, floors and walls, require a skill check to break. If you are not above ground at the end of your turn, roll dice equal to your total hit dice. You loose hit points equal to one quarter of the result. If your hit points are reduced to 0 in this way, you fall unconscious for 1d4 hours. At the end of this time, if you are still buried, you die.

Natural Weapon. You have a powerful stinger as a natural weapon. You are proficient with this weapon, it has the finesse property and it deals 1d4 piercing damage plus 1d4 poison damage on a hit. It can be used both to perform melee attacks, even when out of ammunition, and ranged attacks. You naturally posses 10 ammunition and you regenerate 5 ammunition per short rest or all 10 ammunition per long rest.

Chapter 2: Classes

The lifestyles of the an Adventurer are as varied as the worlds they inhabit and the races they represent. Your class is both a profession and a result of the way you approach the world.

This section includes all of the classes that I have created and which I feel are ready for public use or larger scale testing. As with races, classes are an embedded component of the world. Both player's and DMs will have personal preferences for how a class is designed, the nature of its abilities and the way they are distributed and presented.

When considering a class listed here, make sure to read it through carefully, examine similar classes and compare their power levels, and if you are not sure about the effect of a particular ability, attempt to calculate or approximate the effect.

Barbarian: Primal Paths

The following Subclasses are for the Barbarian Class, found on pages 46-50 of the Player's Handbook.

Bard: Bard Colleges

The following Subclasses are for the Bard Class, found on pages 51-55 of the Player's Handbook.

Cleric: Divine Domains

The following Subclasses are for the Cleric Class, found on pages 56-63 of the Player's Handbook.

Druid: Druid Circles

The following Subclasses are for the Druid Class, found on pages 64-69 of the Player's Handbook.

Fighter: Martial Archetypes

The following Subclasses are for the Fighter Class, found on pages 70-75 of the Player's Handbook.

Metamorph

Hidden in the shrubbery, a dwarf with skin the color of forest leaves watches the bandits leave on their latest excursion. Perfectly blended into the underbrush, the dwarf follows, waiting for the right moment, and when it comes, he rushes forwards, his skin reverting to its usual hue and a great bone blade oozing from his right arms. He slashes at the surprised bandits, cutting into them with his bladed-arm, his flesh become weapon.

Standing at the head of a caravan, a human man shields the woman behind him with his body, his thick, leathery skin deflecting countless arrows. When they finally stop, he leaps into the air, great leathery wings sprouting from his back, and soars over the attacking archers.

Class Features

As a metamorph, you gain the following class features.

Metamorphosis

You have learned to untangle and reshape your body to suit your needs and wishes, inducing both rapid and long-term metamorphosis.

Rapid Metamorphosis

Starting at 1st level, you are able to expend your body's natural reserves to induce metamorphosis over an extremely short timespan.

You can perform a number of rapid metamorphoses as shown in the Metamorph table. You regain all expended rapid metamorphoses after you complete a long rest.

Reflexive Metamorphosis

From 2nd level, when you first enter initiative, you immediately gain temporary hit points equal to 1d4 + your Constitution modifier. You can also immediately perform one rapid metamorphosis.

After you gain temporary hit points from this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

Specialized Forms

At 3rd level, you choose to specialize in a subset of more advanced forms. Choose from Arcane Specialization, Predatory Specialization or Survival Specialization, which are all detailed at the end of the class description, but before the forms. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th and 14th levels.

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.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 13th level.

Suppress Forms

At 6th level you have learned to temporarily suppress and hide morphs. By maintaining concentration for a 10 minute long ritual, which can be part of a short rest, or spending a rapid metamorphosis as an action you can suppress the effects of any number of your active forms for the next hour.

The visible signs of the forms as well as any mechanical benefits are suspended until the hour ends or you recall them as an action. You can also recall them in place of the instant morph gained from the reflexive metamorphosis class feature. In either case, resuming your forms does not cost a rapid metamorphosis point or count against the number of metamorphoses you have performed in a day.

Improved Design

By 9th level you have an improved understanding of your own biology, the biology of other lifeforms and the biology of your metamorph forms.

You gain proficiency in medicine. If you are already proficient in medicine, you gain expertise in medicine.

Your metamorph forms gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls, +1 to your Form save DC and, if the form positively affects your AC, you gain a further +1 bonus to your AC.

Faster Metamorphosis

At 10th level, you have become more adept at changing your forms.

Changing your form as a ritual now takes only 10 minutes for you, suppressing a form or forms takes only 1 minute for you and a rapid metamorphosis can be performed as a bonus action instead of an action.

Expert Design

By 17th level you have an excellent understanding of your own biology, the biology of other lifeforms and the biology of your metamorph forms.

You gain expertise in medicine. If you already have expertise in medicine you can instead gain proficiency in either Nature or Survival. If you are already proficient in your choice of replacement skill, you instead gain expertise in that skill.

When you make an attack roll with a metamorph form, you score a critical hit on a 19 or 20 and you can roll one of the damage dice from your morph an additional time.

If the metamorph form imposes a saving throw on a target and that target rolls a natural 1, roll the damage dice twice, as if it was a critical hit.

If your morph positively affects your AC, you become immune to critical hits.

Advanced Forms

At 18th level you have such a high degree of mastery over your body that you can perform full-body transformations.

When you gain this feature, you learn one advanced from of your choice, included in the Forms Known column of the Metamorph table, detailed at the end of the class description.

You can never know more than one advanced form and you cannot change your selection after making it.

Specialized Forms

Survival Specialization

Specializing in survival forms is an observation of natural defense. Many more creatures are hunted than are hunters, and even the hunters need to survive the variable and harsh conditions that the world can through their way. All creatures have their own coping mechanisms, strategies and forms that allow them to survive, each as interesting as the next.

Metamorph Forms

These forms are available for any metamorph to learn.

Bone Shield (Arm)

You grow a bone shield from one of your arms. The shield acts exactly the same as any normal shield (see the Player's Handbook page 145).

While this form is active, you can use this hand to manipulate objects, such as moving an object or reloading a crossbow, but you cannot use it to use a shield or attack.

Additionally, you can make melee Form attacks with this form. On a hit you deal bludgeoning damage equal to your Constitution modifier.

Only one instance of this form can be maintained at any given time.

Camouflaged Skin

You change the color and patterning of your skin to match the natural colors of your surroundings.

While this form is active you have proficiency in Dexterity (Stealth). If you already have proficiency in this skill, double your proficiency bonus. Additionally, you are able to take the hide action even if you are only lightly obscured, even if you are being directly observed.

Evasive Reflexes

You increase the sensitivity of your natural reflexes, accompanied by the growth of thick blood vessels around your ears, eyes and nose, allowing you to better avoid weapon and spell attacks.

While this morph is active you can, when a creature that you are aware of makes an attack roll against you or uses a skill or spell that requires you to make a saving throw, expend your reaction to increase your AC or saving throw roll by your proficiency bonus for that attack.

You can make this choice immediately, or after the roll has been made, but before the DM tells you if the attack or saving throw was a success or failure.

Nocturnal Eyes

You grow your eyes larger, allowing them to better collect limited light. These large, disc-like eyes bulge slightly and they are dominated by two wide pupils.

While this form is active, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 30 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 your race, its range increases by 30 ft.

Sprinter's Legs

You alter the appearance and structure of your legs to more closely resemble those of a fast-running animal.

While this form is active your walking speed increases by 15 ft. and you are able to perform a long jump after moving only 5 ft. Additionally, the maximum length and height of both standing and long jumps are increased by a number of feet equal to your Constitution modifier.

Toughened Hide

You increase the toughness and thickness of your skin, transforming it into a thick, sturdy hide that protects you from damage. Your new hide also has a distinct coloration, player's choice.

While this form is active, your unarmored defense is calculated as 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier.

You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Arcane Forms

These forms are only available to metamorphs who have chosen the arcane specialization at 3rd level.

Electrical Discharge

You grow a series of narrow ridges all over your body. These ridges glow faintly as they absorb natural magic and convert it into electricity.

While this form is active, you emit faint light in a 10 ft. radius. Additionally, you can spend an action to discharge the stored electrical energy into your surroundings. All creatures in a 5 ft. sphere, centered on yourself, must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Form save DC. On a failed save, they suffer 3d4 lightning damage and, if they can see you, are blinded until the end of your next turn, or, on a successful save, they suffer half as much damage.

If a creature fails its saving throw, the energy arcs to all other creatures within 5 ft. of it, provided that the adjacent creature is not the metamorph who used this skill or that it has not already made a saving throw against this effect. These adjacent creatures must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Form save DC. On a failed save, it suffers 2d4 lightning damage, or, on a successful save, they suffer half damage. This chaining effect occurs only from the initially affected creatures that failed their saving throws.

Elemental Grasp

You grow a round organ that harnesses elemental energy on the back of one of your hands. The hand is enveloped in a faint arcane energy that crackles periodically.

While this form is active, you can make melee Form attacks with this form. On a hit, you deal 2d4 damage of one of the following types:

Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison or Thunder.

Roll a d6 to determine the damage type on each successful attack.

Evil Eye

You regrow one of your eyes into a magically sensitive organ. The eye's appearance changes, becoming a shining silver-grey orb devoid of any iris or pupil.

While this form is active, the magical energy around you that is associated with the holy and unholy forces of the multiverse gain a physical and visible coloration to you. Radiant or holy energy appears white while necrotic or unholy energy appears black.

By making a Wisdom (Perception) check that is contested by their Intelligence (Deception), you are able to visually identify whether a creature is Good or Evil.

You can also manipulate these energies to cause harm to creatures within 60 ft. You can make ranged Form attacks with this form. On a hit, you deal 1d8 necrotic or radiant damage. The damage type is of the players choice at the time they make the attack roll.

Flaming Hand

You grow a series of small glands over you hand that continuously emit a faint magical fire.

While this form is active, you can maintain these flames at three different levels of intensity:

Low Heat: The flames produce little or no heat, essentially acting as a flickering, glowing glove.

Hot: The flames produce an uncomfortable amount of heat, but do not harm you. Any flammable object that you touch must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your Form save DC or catch fire and you can perform melee Form attacks with these flames. On a hit, you deal 1d6 fire damage.

Searing: The flames are so hot that you burn yourself just by maintaining it. At the end of each of your turns, you suffer 1d6 fire damage. Any flammable object you touch immediately catches fire and you can perform melee Form attacks with these flames. On a hit, you deal 3d6 fire damage.

Regardless of the intensity of the flames, they always emit bright light in a 20 ft. radius and dim light for a further 20 ft.

To change the intensity of the flames, you must expend a bonus action.

Freezing Steps

You grow a series of bulbous organs along the sides of your legs and grasping claws from your toes and heel. These arcane growths drain heat energy from the ground you walk over, causing it to freeze.

While this form is active all terrain within 10 ft. of you temporarily becomes nonmagical difficult terrain. You are immune to the difficult terrain caused by ice and you can spend your reaction to thaw the ground for the duration of another creature's turn.

Additionally, you can, as an action, freeze a 20 ft. cube of terrain that is entirely within 60 ft. of you. This frozen area of terrain is nonmagical difficult terrain and can cause the surface of slow-flowing water, including streams, slow-flowing rivers and lakes, to freeze to a thickness that is safe to walk over. This difficult terrain persists for 1 minute. Any creature that was in the area when it first became frozen has its movement speed reduced to 0 ft. until the end of their next turn.

Incorporeal Shroud

You regrow the outer layers of your body with a shimmering blue energy.

While this form is active, you can, as a bonus action, force your body and all of your equipment, into an incorporeal state for the remainder of your turn.

While incorporeal, you can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. You suffer 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside an object or creature. If the entity is a creature, it also suffer 1d10 force damage. This damage does not include your Constitution modifier.

Phantom Limb

You grow a translucent phantom arm from magical energy. This arm is connected to your shoulder or back at all times, is visible to other creatures and obviously some kind of arcane effect.

While this form is active, you can use this hand to manipulate objects, but you cannot use it to use a shield or attack.

You can also use the arm to block incoming attacks. When a creature that you can see makes an attack roll against you you can spend your reaction to interpose your phantom limb. The phantom limb blocks damage from the attack equal to your Constitution modifier.

Addition, you can make melee Form attacks with this form. On a hit, you deal 1d6 force damage and, if the target is a creature, its movement speed is reduced by 10 ft.

Sickening Sight

You regrow one of your eyes into a magically sensitive organ. The white of the eye appears to be infected with a web of dark green fibers.

While this form is active you are able to see the energy flowing through nearby bodies. If you have line of sight to a creature, but they are obscured by darkness of either natural or magical origin, you are able to see the outline of the creature as a faint aura. This effect does not penetrate through invisibility or illusions.

Additionally, you can, as an attack, manipulate this energy remotely, up to a range of 60 ft. The target creature must make a Constitution saving throw against your Form save DC. On a failed save, they suffer 1d4 poison damage and are poisoned for 1d4 rounds, or, on a successful save, they suffer 1d4 poison damage but are not poisoned (see Appendix A: Conditions in the Player's Handbook, page 292).

Furthermore, you can spend your reaction to force a creature that is being healed and that you can see, to make a Constitution saving throw against your Form save DC. On a failed save, the roll to determine the amount that the target creature heals is made at disadvantage.

Predatory Forms

These forms are only available to metamorphs who have chosen the predatory specialization at 3rd level.

Mighty Roar

You expand your chest and lungs, reforming your ribs to accommodate the additional expansion.

While this form is active, you can spend your action to perform a mighty roar. All hostile creatures within 30 ft. of you must immediately spend their reaction to move their full movement distance away from you. Additionally, all hostile creatures within 60 ft. of you must make a Wisdom saving throw against your Form save DC. On a failed save, they have disadvantage against any target other than you for 1 minute.

A creature is immune to both effects if it can't see or hear you or if it can't be frightened.

Paralytic Needle (Arm)

You grow a large venom sack in your arm above the wrist, which connects to a concealed needle in the palm of your hand.

While this form is active, you can make melee Form attacks with this form. On a hit, you deal 1 piercing damage and, if the target is a creature, it must make a Constitution saving throw against your Form save DC. On a failed save, the creature is paralyzed for 1 minute. At the end of each of its turns, a creature paralyzed in this way can repeat its Constitution saving throw.

If you are able to lay your hand, palm in contact, against the skin of a creature that is unaware of your hostile intentions, the attack roll made with this form is an automatic critical hit.

Poison Spray

You grow a pair of glands along the side of your neck, connecting to your windpipe.

While this form is active, you can, as an action, exhale a 30 ft. line of noxious gas. Any creature in that line must make a Constitution saving throw against your Form save DC. On a failed save, they suffer 2d4 poison damage and are poisoned for 1d4 rounds, or, on a successful save, they suffer half as much damage and are not poisoned.

Poisonous Fangs

You grow a pair of highly poisonous fangs from your upper canines.

While this form is active, you can make melee Form attacks with this form. On a hit, you deal 1d4 piercing damage and, if the target is a creature, it must make a Constitution saving throw against your Form save DC. On a failed save it suffers 1d4 poison damage and is poisoned (see Appendix A: Conditions in the Player's Handbook, page 292) until the end of its next turn.

Sinew Whip (Arm)

You grow an extended sinew whip from one of your arms, connected to a series of tendons along the length of that arm. Fine bone blades protrude along its length.

While this form is active, you can make melee Form attacks with this form, up to a reach of 10 ft. On a hit, you deal 1d6 slashing damage.

Tentacle (Arm)

You regrow one of your arms into an elongated tentacle.

While this form is active, you can make melee Form attacks with this form, up to a reach of 10 ft. On a hit you deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage and, if the target is a creature, it must make a Strength or Dexterity saving throw, creature's choice, against your Form save DC. On a failed save, the creature is grappled by you. While a creature is grappled by you in this way, you cannot use the tentacle to attack another creature without losing grasp of the grappled creature, but you can continue to attack the grappled creature without losing grip of it.

You can use this tentacle to manipulate objects, but you cannot use it to use a shield or weapon.

Survival Forms

These forms are only available to metamorphs who have chosen the survival specialization at 3rd level.

Dislocatable Joints

You alter the structure of your joints and the surrounding tissue, making them appear thin and elongated.

While this form is active, you can add your Constitution modifier to any roll you make to escape a grapple.

Additionally, you are able to dislocated your joints while moving around. If you do this, your movement speed is halved and you are able to squeeze through any space that a creature one size smaller than you could fit through, so long as it is larger than your height divided by four, rounded up.

Exoskeleton

You grow a thick, highly mineralized, chitin exoskeleton over your entire body. The overlapping plates slightly limit movement but provide excellent protection. The exoskeleton also has a distinct coloration, player's choice.

While this form is active, your walking speed is reduced by 5 ft and you have disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. Additionally, your unarmored defense is calculated as 16 + your Constitution modifier.

You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

This exoskeleton is noticeably heavy, weighing 25 lb.

Eye in the back of your Head

You grow an additional eye in the back of your head.

While this form is active you have proficiency in Wisdom (Perception) and passive Wisdom (Perception). If you already have proficiency in one or both of these skills, you instead gain expertise in those skills.

Additionally, should any creature that you can see take the hide action while in initiative, even if behind any non-full cover, and its Dexterity (Stealth) check is lower than you passive perception, it is not hidden from you.

Horns

You grow an impressive pair of upswept horns from the top of your head.

While this form is active, if you move at least 20 ft. in a straight line to a creature and take the attack action against it, first make an additional attack with your horns. On a hit, the target suffers 1d6 piercing damage and must make a Strength or Dexterity saving throw, creature's choice, against your Form save DC. On a failed save, the creature is knocked prone.

Iron Stomach

You grow a series of protective and filtering tissues from your mouth down to your stomach. These tissues are visible as fine fibrous growths along your cheeks and tongue.

While this form is active, you are able to safely eat and drink unclean and uncooked food and water and you have advantage on all saving throws against ingested diseases, drugs (including alcohol) and poisons.

Poisonous Skin

You regrow your sweat glands, repurposing them for poison production.

While this form is active, any creature that makes an unarmed attack, or an attack with a natural weapon, against you, tries to grapple you or is grappling you, must make a Constitution saving throw against your Form save DC. On a failed save, they are poisoned for the next 1d4 rounds.

Regrowth

While not a growth in and of itself, you ready your body to perform rapid regrowth of damaged tissue across your entire body. This form has no visible component.

While this form is active, you can expend an action to regenerate hit points equal to 1d10 plus your Constitution modifier. Upon regaining hit points from this form, the form is dispelled.

The hit points regenerated increase by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10) and 17th level (4d10).

Second Skin

When you first activate this morph, you create an appearance and voice of a another humanoid. This humanoid can be of any race but cannot be more than 1 inch taller or shorter than yourself. You are not recreating an appearance that you have previously seen, this form is entirely new.

Each time you activate this morph thereafter, you regrow the outermost edges of your body, adopting the pre-selected appearance.

Each instance of this morph in your Morphs Known list can only hold a single appearance. If you wish, you can know this morph multiple times, each with a different appearance. Alternatively, you can spend 24 hours to unlearn an appearance and design a new one. While this process is in progress, you cannot use this morph and it must remain known to you.

Advanced Metamorph Forms

These forms are available for any metamorph to learn. You can gain only one of these forms and only when you gain the advanced forms class feature at 18th level.

Advanced Arcane Forms

These forms are only available to metamorphs who have chosen the arcane specialization at 3rd level. You can gain only one of these forms and only when you gain the advanced forms class feature at 18th level.

Mantle of the Elements

You grow a network of pulsing, nerve-like fibres on the surface of your skin. These fibre absorb and manipulate natural magic, changing its form.

Choose one of the following damage types:

Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison or Thunder.

You create a swirling shroud of magic energy about yourself, a 10 ft sphere with you at its center. Any creature that starts its turn inside the sphere takes 1d6 damage of the chosen type and must make a saving throw, dependent on the element selected, against your Form save DC or suffer the corresponding effect.

Advanced Survival Forms

These forms are only available to metamorphs who have chosen the survival specialization at 3rd level. You can gain one of these forms only when you gain the advanced forms class feature at 18th level.

Monk

The following Subclasses are for the Monk Class, found on pages 76-81 of the Player's Handbook.

Paladin: Sacred Oaths

The following Subclasses are for the Paladin Class, found on pages 82-88 of the Player's Handbook

Ranger: Ranger Archetypes

The following Subclasses are for the UA Revised Ranger Class, found on Wizards of the Coast's Unearthed Arcana Column (Direct Link).

They are made either in the style of the Ranger archetypes in Xanathar's Guide to Everything, which are slightly weaker in combat but have more interesting utility options and are also suitable for both types of Ranger, or in the style of the UARanger's ranger conclaves, which are much more strictly combat focused. They should be usable with either ranger, although they may appear slightly stronger than the ranger archetypes found in the Player's Handbook.

Rogue: Rogish Archetypes

The following Subclasses are for the Rogue Class, found on pages 94-98 of the Player's Handbook.

Sorcerer: Sorcerous Origins

The following Subclasses are for the Sorcerer Class, found on pages 99-104 of the Player's Handbook.

Warlock: Otherworldy PAtrons

The following Subclasses are for the Warlock Class, found on pages 105-111 of the Player's Handbook.

Wizard: Arcane Traditions

The following Subclasses are for the Wizard Class, found on pages 112-119 of the Player's Handbook.

Chapter 3: Personality and Background

Chapter 4: Equipment

Magic Items

Magical items, artifacts and weapons are a mainstay of the fantasy genre. Many such items are unique pieces of craftsmanship that have clearly defined properties based on how they were made or enchanted. Others are a result of the use of magical tools in their crafting, magical materials in their structure or ancient forms of workmanship that drift between known and mere myth.

The swords of great kings, etched with marking no one remembers how to read. The shield of an angel, emblazoned with power drawn directly from the heavens. A set of dice that change the nature of the world when rolled, made from the bones of an ancient evil.

These items make for powerful, iconic and interesting components of a campaign, character or life.

This section is dedicated to those items, detailing both systematic enchantments and unique, prescribed enchantments.

Materials

Fantastic materials have been a staple of the fantasy and science fiction genres since their inception. Often with impossible properties, spell imbued in metal or bone, or just a rarity and splendor that make them valuable icons. These materials are much sought after for the creation of weapons, armor and finery.

A magical material provides a systemic effect based on the type of item that is being forged. The rarity of these magical items is based on the type of magical material used, any masterwork crafting used to forge it and what enchantments are then placed upon it.

While they can be combined in any number of ways, the cost of and difficulty in making such items increases with accordance to their complexity and power.

Materials labeled as '(Official)' have been extrapolated from the Magic Items in the Dungeon Masters Guide and attempt to accurately represent those items. Materials without the label are designed by myself, but aim to fit into the lore and culture of their respective races.

The materials are presented in alphabetical order.

Chapter 5: Customization Options

Deceptive Fighter

The search for an opening, the back and forth blows, testing the defenses of an opponent. You have learned to manipulate this careful exchange to your advantage. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When a creature within 5 feet makes a melee attack against you, you can use your reaction to create an opening in your defenses. You allow the attack to hit you and make a melee weapon attack at advantage against the creature who attacked you, after the attack is resolved.

Elementally Attuned

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

When you gain this feat, choose one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, thunder. Then choose one of your classes that grants you spellcasting.

• All spells that deal damage of the chosen type are added to that class' spell-list for you. The spell must only deal that damage type, thus spells with a variable damage type, such as chromatic spray, cannot be gained through this feat.

You can select this feat multiple times. Each time you do so, you must choose a different damage type.

Enhanced Draconic Bloodline

Prerequisite: Sorcerer with the Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer's Origin

Through detailed study of your Draconic Bloodline and the application of sorcerery, you have managed to become a little more Dragon. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain the Draconic Breath Weapon of the Dragonborn, once per short rest.

You can use your action to exhale destructive energy. Your draconic ancestry determines the size, shape and damage type of the exhalation.

Expert

Be it through careful study, frequent use or even just an innate talent, you have come to posses full mastery of a particular skill. You gain the following benefits:

• Choose two of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

Graceful Power

Recognizing that combat includes a mixture of power and grace, you have come to adopt a more fluid style of fighting. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain Proficiency in Dexterity (Acrobatics).
• Attack rolls that use Strength gain a bonus equal to half of your Dexterity modifier, rounded up.

The bonus to the attack roll does not change the nature of the attack. If you are using Strength as the primary attribute, it is still a Strength attack. For example, you do not gain the benefits of sneak attack with a Strength weapon by way of this feat.

Mind-Caster

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

Over endless hours of practice you have learned to cast spells without the proper verbal or somatic components. You can cast a spell with the following benefits a number of times equal to your spellcasting ability:

• When casting a spell that has verbal and/or somatic components, you cast the spell without performing the verbal and/or somatic components.
• A creature near you cannot observe you casting a spell with their passive perception, unless the spell also has material components and you do not have a spellcasting focus.
• If a creature attempts to observe you casting a spell, they have disadvantage on their Wisdom (Perception) skill check.

You regain uses of this feature after you complete a long rest.

Monstrous Shapeshifter

Prerequisite: Druid

You have always had a deep affinity for the veracious and clever monstrosities of the world. You gain the following benefits:

• You can adopt the form of monstrosities using beast form, given that all other restrictions still apply and the CR of the monstrosity is lower than your allowed maximum CR for those features.

Mutable Magic

Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell

During your time as a spellcaster you have noticed that the forms and spells you know aren't as immutable as arcane literature would suggest. You gain the following benefits:

• You have a number of Sorcery Points equal to your proficiency bonus. You may never have more than your maximum number of sorcery points at any given time. You regain all spent sorcery points after a long rest.
• You gain the ability to twist your spells in a specific way. You gain one of the Metamagic options available to a sorcerer (Player's Handbook, page 102). This Metamagic cannot be exchanged for another. You can use only one Metamagic option on a spell when you cast it, unless otherwise stated by the Metamagic.

Powerful Grace

Recognizing that combat includes a mixture of power and grace, you have come to adopt a more balanced fighting style. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain proficiency in Strength (Athletics).
• Damage rolls that use Dexterity gain a bonus equal to half of your Strength modifier, rounded up.

The bonus to the damage roll does not change the nature of the attack. If you are using Dexterity as the primary attribute, it is still a Dexterity attack. For example, you do not gain the benefits of rage on a Dexterity weapon attack by way of this feat.

Thrown Weapons Master

Your skill and precision with thrown weapons makes any throwable object a deadly weapon. Your training grants you the following benefits:

• You gain a +1 bonus to ranged attack rolls you make with weapons that have the thrown property.
• If you have a free hand, you can draw and throw a weapon with both the thrown and light properties as part of the attack.
• The minimum damage dice of a thrown weapon is a d6.

Racial Feats

For official information of racial feats, see Xanathar's Guide, pages 73-75.

If your DM allows the use of Feats from Chapter 6 of the PHB and the use of the Racial Feats on page 73 of Xanathars Guide to Everything, the following racial Feats are available to you, depending on your race.

I also highly recommend using Expanded Racial Feats by /u/Anathemys. The Searing Radiance feat included here is a rebalanced version of Expanded Racial Feats' feat of the same name.

Chapter 6: Smooth Combat Variant

The rules detailed here are intended to improve the feel of combat. Some variant rules are expanded upon in order to make combat more detailed, while others are simplified or bypassed entirely to make half-casters play more smoothly. They are intended to be used as a set, but certain parts can be used in isolation or excluded at the DMs discretion.

Exposure

Rule. There are two levels of exposure. Partial exposure grants a -2 penalty to AC. Full exposure, which shouldn't be used against the players, applies a -5 penalty to AC.

The target is partially exposed to ranged attacks that pass through the three tiles directly behind it. The target is partially exposed to melee attackers, if it is engaged by at least two melee combatants that are spaced out by 120 degrees or more around the target.

When a hostile creature moves into melee with the target, the target may choose to turn and face that creature, or angle that would include that target.

Reasons. The optional flanking rules (See page 251 of the Dungeon Master's Guide) increase the 'to hit' chance against a flanked creature by an average of 3.5 for all attackers. This is not only very strong, but it also feels even stronger than it actually is during play.

The experience of the players when using flanking can very quickly become one of a fight being too easy when flanking, but too hard otherwise. Furthermore, when multiple hostile creatures flank the players, it can very quickly turn an easy or medium difficulty fight into a very bad situation that the player can do very little about. For these reasons, I have designed the Exposure system, which invokes negative cover in place of advantage.

Smooth Spellcasting (Optional)

Holy Symbols

Rule. A holy symbol that is used as a spellcasting focus must directly relate to that character's faith and be on display on their personage.

Reasons. Clerics and Paladins are able to use a symbol of their faith as a spellcasting focus. Both classes rely heavily on a balanced mixture of arcane and martial actions. As such they suffer the most from the rules as written in the Player's Handbook. Incidentally, the Player's Handbook allows the use of a symbol of their faith presented on their shield to be used as a spellcasting focus, which already circumvents sch restrictions.

It is important to remember that the Player's Handbook specifically requires such a holy symbol to be on display for it to be used as a spellcasting focus. An item such as a necklace must be worn above your armor, rings loose their effectiveness if worn under gloves or gauntlets and placing layers of clothing over embroideries or tattoos will prevent their use as a spellcasting focus. The simplest solution remains the use of an engraving on your armor, weapon or shield.

Example Some examples of the forms holy symbols can take are as follows; a wide variety of engravings on armor, weapons or jewelry, stitched designs on clothing, including gloves, masks and other external garments, or even tattoos can all be used as holy symbols.

Chapter 7: Spells

Spell Descriptions

The spells are presented in alphabetical order.