Soulstitcher
Artificer Specialist
Crafters of Undead
Though trained in the dark arts of necromancy, soulstitchers are not mere necromancers. They use their tools to reweave the spirit of the creatures they create on a metaphyisical level. They are often sought by powerful and ambitious undead, such as Vampire Lords, to create for them a dread army.
Tool Proficiency
When you adopt this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with leatherworker's tools or weaver's tools. If you already have these proficiencies, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan’s tools of your choice.
Soulstitcher Spells
Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Soulstitcher Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don’t count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.
Soulstitcher Spells
| Artificer Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 3rd | cause fear, inflict wounds |
| 5th | blindness/deafness, ray of enfeeblement |
| 9th | animate dead, vampiric touch |
| 13th | blight, sickening radiance |
| 17th | danse macabre, negative energy flood |
Stitch Undead
By 3rd level, you have mastered the art of forging an undead servant. Using your leatherworker's tools or weaver's tools, you can take an action to transform a corpse within 5 feet of you into an undead of your choice with a CR equal to 1/4th your level (rounded down). Your servant is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands.
In combat, your undead servant shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take one of the actions in its stat block or the Dash, Disengage, Help, Hide, or Search action.
If your undead servant has died within the last hour, you can use your leatherworker's tools or weaver's tools as an action to revive it, provided you are within 5 feet of it and you expend a spell slot of a level equal to its CR or higher. Your undead servant returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored.
Once you create an undead servant, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest or until you expend a spell slot of a level equal to its CR or higher. If you already have an undead servant from this feature, the first one immediately becomes hostile to you.
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Necrotic Savant
At 5th level, you develop a mastery in corrupting a creature's life force. Whenever you cast a spell using your leatherworker's tools or weaver's tools as the spellcasting focus, you can add an additional 1d4 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) necrotic damage to one of the spell’s damage rolls.
One with the Forged
Starting at 9th level, you forge a mental connection with your undead servant:
- You can communicate telepathically with your undead servant as long as you are on the same plane of existence.
- As an action, you can see through your undead servant's eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that the undead servant has. During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses.
- When you cast a spell with a range of touch, your undead servant can deliver the spell as if it had cast the spell. Your servant must be within 100 feet of you, and it must use its reaction to deliver the spell when you cast it. If the spell requires an attack roll, you use your attack modifier for the roll.
Necrotic Mastery
By 15th level, you have spent so much time dealing with undead and the forces that animate them that they pose little danger to you, and you can channel the vitality of a fallen foe into your undead servants:
- You have resistance to necrotic damage, and your hit point maximum can’t be reduced.
- When an enemy you can see dies within 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction to give your undead servant, if it is within 60 feet of you, temporary hit points equal to the enemy’s number of Hit Dice. Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until the start of your next turn.
Credits
- Art: Liliana, Dreadhorde General by Chris Rallis