Acolyte

The Acolyte is one of the faithful. Their beliefs and ideals burn pure and hot within their heart. They have a cause to believe in, be it a faith, religion, or simple system of beliefs to which they are divinely committed. Faith can move mountains and work other miracles, and the Acolyte is the instrument through which these wonders manifest.

Faith powers the Acolyte, providing a conduit through which they gain the ability to cast divine spells. This ability comes through calm reflection, meditation, or fervent prayer. The Acolyte might believe that the spells they wield come to them from a higher power, or they might believe that they come from deep within their own being, unlocked through their consideration of the ultimate forces of the universe.

Select this advanced class if you want your character to become an individual whose faith in themself or a higher power provides spellcasting ability.

Practiced Rites

You are so practiced at certain divine spells so frequently that they take almost no effort to invoke. At 2nd level, choose two 1st level spells from the cleric spell list to become Practised Rites. You always have the chosen spells prepared, and they don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. You choose additional Practiced Rites when you reach certain acolyte levels, as shown in the Practised Rites table.

Disciple of Life

Starting when you choose this advanced class at 2nd level, your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 + the spell's level.

Channel Divinity

When you take this advanced class at 2nd level, you gain the ability to channel divine energy directly from your deity, using that energy to fuel magical effects. You start with two such effects: Turn Undead and an additional effect of your choice. Your Channel Divinity options are detailed at the end of this advanced class.

When you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which effect to create. You must then finish a short or long rest to use your Channel Divinity again.

Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this advanced class, the DC equals your acolyte spell save DC.

Beginning at 7th level, you can use your Channel Divinity twice between rests, and beginning at 18th level you can use it three times between rests. When you finish a short or long rest, you regain your expended uses.

Channel Divinity Option

At 6th level, you learn an additional Channel Divinity option of your choice.

Destroy Undead

Starting at 6th level, when an undead fails its saving throw against your Turn Undead feature, the creature is instantly destroyed if its Challenge Rating is at or below a certain threshold, as shown in the Destroy Undead table.

Divine Intervention

Beginning at 10th level, you can call on your deity to intervene on your behalf when your need is great.

Imploring your deity's aid requires you to use your action. Describe the assistance you seek, and roll percentile dice. If you roll a number equal to or lower than your level, your deity intervenes. The GM chooses the nature of the intervention; the effect of any cleric spell or cleric domain spell would be appropriate.

If your deity intervenes, you can't use this feature again for 7 days. Otherwise, you can use it again after you finish a long rest.

At 18th level, your call for intervention succeeds automatically, no roll required.

Potent Spellcasting

Starting at 10th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.

Divine Plan

At 14th level, you can entreat your deity for celestial guidance as an action. For the next minute, you gain advantage on all ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws. After you use this ability, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Channel Divinity Options

When you learn a new Channel Divinity option, you may choice from the following:

Knowledge of the Ages

You can use your Channel Divinity to tap into a divine well of knowledge. As an action, you choose one skill or tool. For 10 minutes, you have proficiency with the chosen skill or tool.

Preserve Life

You can use your Channel Divinity to heal the badly injured. As an action, you present your holy symbol and evoke healing energy that can restore a number of hit points equal to five times your cleric level. Choose any creatures within 30 feet of you, and divide those hit points among them. This feature can restore a creature to no more than half of its hit point maximum. You can't use this feature on an undead or a construct.

Radiance of the Dawn

You can use your Channel Divinity to harness sunlight, banishing darkness and dealing radiant damage to your foes. As an action, you present your holy symbol, and any magical darkness within 30 feet of you is dispelled. Additionally, each hostile creature within 30 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes radiant damage equal to 2d10 + your cleric level on a failed saving throw, and half as much damage on a successful one. A creature that has total cover from you is not affected.

Turn Undead

As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak a prayer censuring the undead. Each undead that can see or hear you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes any damage.

A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can't willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. It also can't take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there's nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.

Modifying Acolytes

If you want your acolyte character to specialize in a particular form of divine magic, you can replace some of their advanced class features with those of cleric subclasses. Apply the following steps:

1. Replace the Acolyte's "Practiced Rites" 2nd level feature with the Domain Spells of the subclass.
2. Replace the Acolyte's "Bonus Proficiency" and "Disciple of Life" 2nd level features with the 1st level features of the subclass.
3. Set the second Channel Divinity option the Acolyte gains at 2nd level to the Channel Divinity option the subclass gains at 2nd level.
4. Replace the Acolyte's "Channel Divinity Option" 6th level feature with the 6th level feature of the subclass.
5. Replace the Acolyte's "Potent Spellcasting" 10th level feature with the 8th level feature of the subclass.
6. Replace the Acolyte's "Divine Plan" 14th level feature with the 17th level feature of the subclass.

Chosen

The Chosen has a destiny they can’t deny. A champion arises in every generation to combat the forces of darkness and defeat otherworldly creatures. The Chosen is that champion. They have a knack that leads them deeper into the places of darkness and an ability that attracts the attention of evil creatures everywhere. The Chosen may not immediately recognize their destiny, but eventually his calling will become clear as the tide of darkness rises.

In the world of the Chosen, otherworldly creatures are hardly alive at all, they are simply pure evil obstacles to be overcome. The Chosen is called to fight these creatures and protect the world from the encroaching darkness.

Select this advanced class if you want your character to dedicate themself to fighting otherworldly creatures.

Chosen Magic

At 2nd level, you learn additional an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Slayer Spells table. The spell counts as a paladin spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of paladin spells you know.

Divine Toughness

Starting at 2nd level when you choose this advanced class, your hit point maximum increases by 2, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level in this class.

Favored Enemy

Beginning at 2nd level when you choose this advanced class, you have significant experience studying, tracking, hunting, and even talking with a certain type of supernatural creature. Choose a type of favored enemy: aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead.

You add 1d4 to damage rolls with weapon attacks against creatures of the chosen type. Additionally, you have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track your quarry, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about them.

When you gain this feature, you also learn one language of your choice, typically one spoken by your favored enemy or creatures associated with it. However, you are free to pick any language you wish to learn.

You choose one additional favored enemy, as well as an associated language, at 6th and 14th level. As you gain levels, your choices should reflect the types of monsters you have encountered on your adventure.

Supernatural Sense

You are uncannily aware of otherworldly creatures and the true nature of reality.

As an action, you can open your awareness to detect such forces. Until the end of your next turn, you know the location of any of your favored enemies within 60 feet of you that is not behind total cover. You know the type of any being whose presence you sense, but not its identity. Within the same radius, you also detect the presence of any place or object that has been consecrated or desecrated, as with the hallow spell.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 + your Charisma modifier. When you finish a long rest, you regain all expended uses.

Fighting Style

When you reach 6th level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take the same Fighting Style option more than once, even if you get to choose again.

Chosen's Resistance

At 6th level, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

Empowered Weapon

Beginning at 6th level, you can empower a single weapon in your possession for 1 minute as a bonus action. While empowered, attacks from this weapon deal an additional 1d8 points of damage, and attacks with the weapon are considered magical. The empowered weapon only deals this additional damage when wielded by you.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Veteran Hunter

At 10th level, your bonus to damage rolls against all your favored enemies increases to 1d6. Additionally, you have advantage on saving throws against the spells and abilities used by a favored enemy.

Predestination

Beginning at 10th level, otherworldly forces guide you towards your destiny. By spending 10 minutes in meditation, you can cast the divination spell. Once you have used this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Inescapable

Starting at 10th level, you won't let any foes escape you. When a creature within 30 feet of you moves, you may use your reaction to move up to your speed and make a single weapon attack against that creature. If your attack hits, that creature's speed is reduced to 0 until the end of their next turn, in addition to the attack's normal effects.

Greater Empowered Weapon

Starting at 14th level, your ability to empower your weapons improves. You now deal an additional 2d8 damage when attacking with an empowered weapon, and when you deal additional damage with an empowered weapon you may choose for that damage to be radiant, force, or necrotic damage.

Fateful Ward

Beginning at 14th level, you are always under the effects of a protection from evil and good spell.

Word of Slaying

At 18th level, you can cast divine word as an action. Once you use this feature you can't cast it again until you've finished a long rest.

Gunslinger

The Gunslinger knows everything there is to know about handguns of all types. Whereas the Martial Artist develops their body into a perfect weapon, the Gunslinger trains their mind and body to work in concert with their handguns. Their pistols become an extension of themselves.

The Gunslinger can be a mercenary or a modern-day knight, defending the weak and the innocent with a pair of blazing pistols instead of a sword and shield.

Select this advanced class if you want your character to excel with handguns or other fast-shooting ranged weapons

Take Aim

By taking a minute to steady yourself, you can take deadly aim at a target. Starting at 2nd level, you can Take Aim at a target within range as a bonus action on your turn. Until the start of your next turn, your ranged attacks suffer no penalty for long range against this target, and you treat three-quarters cover as half cover and half cover as no cover for the purposes of your ranged attack rolls against the target.

Defensive Position

Starting at 6th level, you are able to make the most of small amounts of cover. When you are in half cover, you can use a bonus action to take up a defensive position. While in a defensive position, you treat half cover as three-quarters cover for yourself. This effect ends when you next move.

Utility Shot

At 6th level, you can quickly and precisely shoot small objects. Once per turn, you may replace one of your normal attacks with a utility shot. Make a ranged weapon attack targeting a Tiny or Small object within the range. This object is considered to have an AC of 10 or the AC of the creature that is carrying the object if applicable, whichever is higher. On a hit, a Tiny nonmagical object is destroyed instantly, and a Small or magical object is flung 15 feet away.

Extra Attack

Starting at 10th level, you can attack three times rather than twice, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Shoot on Two

At 10th level, you've been in enough showdowns to know the value of shooting first. If the target of your Take Aim feature makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to make one weapon attack against them. You make this attack immediately before they make their attack roll. If your attack hits, the target has disadvantage on attack rolls against you until the start of your next turn, in addition to the attack's normal effects.

Deadly Aim

Beginning at 14th level, you treat three-quarters cover as half cover and half cover as no cover for the purposes of your attack rolls using ranged weapons.

Additionally, when you Take Aim at a target your ranged attacks ignore half and three-quarters cover, and you gain advantage on your first attack using a ranged weapon against the target before the start of your next turn. If this attack hits, it is a critical hit.

Fast Loading

Beginning at 14th level, once per turn when you take the Attack action, you may reload one firearm you are holding as part of that action. Additionally, when you use your action or bonus action reload a firearm, you may reload another firearm as part of that action.

Bullseye

You have a reputation for never missing your target. Starting at 18th level, if you make an ranged weapon attack roll and miss, you can reroll it. You can use this feature only once on each of your turns.

Hail of Bullets

Beginning at 18th level, you are able to fire off many shots in quick succession. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can opt to take up to 6 attacks, rather than three.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Telepath

The Telepath manifests mental powers associated with touching other minds, moving objects with a thought, and influencing the thoughts of others. These powers represent a different use for the energy produced by the mind and body of all living things. For the Telepath, mental powers take the form of thoughts made real. Through meditation and strict mental discipline, they find a deep reservoir of power within themself — power that can be tapped to turn a thought into a strong defense or a deadly weapon.

Select this advanced class if you want your character to master the psionic art of mental contact.

ESP

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to probe other creatures’ minds. You can cast detect thoughts once using this ability. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Whenever you cast detect thoughts, whether using this ability, your Psionics feature, or from some other ability, it has the following modifications:

• It does not require concentration.
• The benefits that require you to use an action instead require the use of a bonus action.
• If you use the option to probe deeper and the target fails its Wisdom saving throw, it is vulnerable to psychic damage you inflict until the end of your next turn.

Inner Focus

Beginning at 2nd level, you are able to regain some of your mental energy by briefly clearing your mind. Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose to recover a number of psi points equal to your level.

Psychokinesis

Starting at 6th level, you gain the ability to transform your thoughts into tangible force. You can cast telekinesis once using this ability. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Whenever you cast telekinesis, whether using this ability, your Psionics feature, or from some other ability, it has the following modifications:

• It does not require concentration.
• The benefits that require you to use an action instead require the use of a bonus action.
• The spell’s duration is 1 minute, and you cannot choose a new target after selecting your initial one. This restriction no longer applies once you reach 10th level.

Mental Assault

You are skilled at using your powers to open up a psychic highway between you and your target.

Beginning at 6th level, whenever you deal psychic damage to a creature, you can spend a psi point to gain advantage on the next attack roll you make against that target before the end of your next turn.

Expanded ESP

At 10th level, your proficiency with invading the minds of others grows. You gain the following additional benefits when you cast the spell:

• The spell now targets a number of creatures equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1).
• If you use the option to probe deeper and the target fails its Wisdom saving throw, you can choose to charm or frighten it instead of making it vulnerable to psychic damage. It makes another Wisdom saving throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect you choose effect with a successful save. the effect also ends immediately if it takes damage from you or your allies.

Thought Shield

Starting at 10th level, your thoughts can't be read by telepathy or other means unless you allow it. You also have resistance to psychic damage, and whenever a creature deals psychic damage to you, that creature takes the same amount that you do.

Power Surge

Beginning at 14th level, you are capable of straining your mind and body past their limits when in dire straights. On your turn, you can spend 2 psi points to enter a power surge as a bonus action.

While in a power surge, you gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Intelligence checks and Intelligence saving throws.
• When a creature you can see makes an attack roll or saving throw, you can use your reaction to spend a psi point to impose disadvantage on that roll.
• You add your Intelligence modifier to any damage you deal with your psion cantrips.
• You have a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

Additionally, at the end of each of your turns, you consume one psi point maintaining your empowered state.

Your power surge lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if you run out of psi points. If your power surge ends because you run out of psi points, you suffer one level of exhaustion. You can also end your power surge as a bonus action.

Superior Psychokinesis

At 14th level, you master the full potential of your mind to project physical force into the world. When you cast telekinesis and each time you select a new target for the spell, you can instead choose a number of targets up to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of one).

Brainmelter

At 18th level, you can attempt to crush the mind of a creature as an action. The target takes 5d10 psychic damage and must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the creature’s Intelligence and Charisma scores become 3. The creature can’t cast spells, activate magic items, understand language, or communicate in any intelligible way. The creature can, however, identify its friends, follow them, and even protect them. AFter 1 hour, the creature can repeat its saving throw against this spell. If it succeeds on its saving throw, the effect ends.

Second Nature

Starting at 18th level, you have become so accustomed to your powers that using them requires almost no effort at all.

Choose 4 spells you know of 2nd-level or lower. The psi point cost for casting those spells is each reduced by 2.

Psion Spells

Dominate Person
Dream
Far Step
Geas
Hold Monster
Mislead
Modify Memory
Scrying
Seeming
Skill Empowerment
Steel Wind Strike
Synaptic Static
Telekinesis
Transmute Rock
Wall of Force

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