Barbarian Path Archetype

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Path of the Spellzerker

Channel the untapped magical power within your Ancestral roots

Path Features

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know three 1st-level Sorcerer spells of your choice, two of which you must choose from the conjuration or evocation spells on the sorcerer spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Spellzerker spellcasting table shows when you learn more sorcerer spells of 1st level or higher. Each of these spells must be from the conjuration or evocation school, and 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 come from any school of magic.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the sorcerer spells you know with another spell of your choice from the sorcerer spell list. The new spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots, and it must be a conjuration or evocation spell, unless you're replacing the spell you gained at 3rd, 8th, 14th, or 20th level from any school of magic.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your sorcerer spells. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a sorcerer spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier

Rage-Bound Spellcasting

Through intense training, you are able to cast certain spells while you are raging. The casted spells must be from the Spellzerker class, and you cannot maintain concentration on any spell while you are raging. Any spell that requires concentration will automatically end at the end of your turn, unless you choose to end your rage before then.

Tempered Green-Flame Blade

Starting at 3rd Level, You may choose the type of damage that Green-Flame Blade does, It can be Fire, Acid, Cold, Lightning, or Thunder. You may change the type of damage it deals each time you finish a long rest.

Brazen Resistance

Starting at 6th level, you gain resistance to the element you currently have chosen for your Green-Flame Blade while raging.

Whenever you change your damage type for the cantrip with the Tempered Green-Flame Blade feature, your resistance while raging changes to match it.

Conduit Strikes

You've become so accustomed to sending magical energy through your blade, that you can now follow it's lead and guide your swings through the resonance of the flame.

Starting at 6th level, when you use the attack action to cast Green-Flame Blade while raging, you may use your extra attack feature to make one melee attack, but only on the secondary target of your spell, provided they are within attacking range of you.

Bloodied Strikes

The runes scattered across your body have begun to pulse with magical energy, allowing you to tap into them in exchange for some of your life force.

Starting at 10th level, while raging, whenever you cast a spell that deals damage, you may choose before the attack to add your constitution modifier to the damage roll. After the attack is made (whether it hits or not), you take damage equal to your charisma modifier.

Additionally, if you use this ability with Green-flame Blade, you may make an extra attack on the target even if they are outside of your normal weapon range, and the range of the damage splash increases from 5 feet to 10 feet.

The Blood Price

You've amassed so many etched runes, that you can start to draw energy from all of them at once to overload your magical energy.

Starting at 16th level, If you are raging at the start of your turn, you may choose to reduce your current and max hit points to gain an additional temporary spell slot for that turn, up to 9th level. You may only use that spell slot to cast a spell from the Spellzerker subclass.

The amount of health required is equal to Xd10 hit points, where x is equal to the level of the spell slot you choose. If this ability reduces you to 0 hit points, you finish casting the spell before you fall unconscious.

Your maximum hit points cannot be reduced below 1, and this reduction in maximum hit points cannot be restored by magical means. Your maximum hit points are restored to full after you finish a long rest.

You may use this feature a Number of times equal to your Constitution Modifier, You regain all uses once you finish a long rest.