Ghosts are the unquiet spirits of the dead, who remain in the realm of the living to complete their unfinished business. Among undead, ghosts are particularly known for their terrifying appearance and their ability to possess the living.

To take the first level in this class, you must be dead and your original body must have been destroyed. You may lose a level in a different class to gain the first level in this class.

Corpse

Similar to a Revenant, you inhabit a corpse which you have returned a semblance of life to. While sustained by your spirit, it appears to be a living body (though noticeably pallid and cold to the touch). You gain the Return From Death feature described on page 14.

1st level: Medically Dead. You cannot be critically hit. Treat critical hits against you as if they were regular hits. Additionally. you gain resistance to poison damage, and you are immune to disease and the poisoned condition.

2nd level: No Metabolism. You do not require food or sleep, and you cannot be made to sleep through magical means. You gain the benefits of sleeping by spending 4 hours staring silently at other living creatures, contemplating the afterlife.

3rd level: Unliving Fortitude. Your Constitution score increases by 2, to a maximum of 20.

4th level: Face Off. When a creature approaches within 5 feet of you, you may spend your reaction to use your Frightening Visage against them.

5th level: Disgusting Visage. When you use your Frightening Visage against a creature, they catch a glimpse of your true rotting form. While they are frightened of you, they are also nauseated: their speed is halved and they gag silently when they attempt to speak. If they cast a spell with a verbal component it has a 50% chance to fail.

Ghost Tricks

At 1st level you gain the Green Flame Blade cantrip, plus two more from the following list. You gain another cantrip from the same list at 3rd and 5th levels.

You can cast these cantrips without verbal, somatic, or material components (except for Green Flame Blade, which still requires its material component).

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your Ghost spells.

The DC for your Ghost spells and class abilities is equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier.

Frightening Visage

At 2nd level, you learn to scare your enemies to death. As an action on your turn you can reveal your ghostly form to a creature within 30 feet that can see you. They take 2d10 psychic damage and become frightened of you for one minute. At the end of each of their turns they may attempt a Wisdom saving throw against your Ghost DC to end this effect early. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to your Frightening Visage for the next 24 hours.

You may use this feature a number of times per day equal to your levels in this class.

A Lich is a student of magic who extends their life beyond normal limits. Many aspiring liches turn to evil as they make dark bargains or engage in unholy research in their quest for eternal life, only to jealously guard the secrets they discover.

Sometimes, however, those secrets fall by chance or by fate into the hands of less corrupted souls. A rare few liches are even guided by the gods themselves. Neutral liches are rare, and good liches even rarer still, but both are possible.

In order to gain a level in this class you must have found or been given a Tome of Shadows containing the secrets of immortality. An aspirant who walks the path of a Lich without such knowledge is irrevocably transformed into a Nothic.

Spellcasting

As a Lich, you cast spells deciphered from your Tome of Shadows.

Soul Siphon

At 1st level you learn to draw strength from the death of others. When you deal necrotic damage with a cantrip, you gain temporary hit points equal to half the damage taken by one creature affected by your cantrip. These temporary hit points last for up to one minute.

Deathwave

Starting at 2nd level, when you cast a Necromancy spell you may unleash a wave of necrotic energy, causing all enemies within 20 feet of your Tome of Shadows to take necrotic damage equal to 1d6 per level of the spell slot expended (1d6 for a cantrip). Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Phylactery

At 3rd level you magically transform your Tome of Shadows into a phylactery, a personalized magical vessel that contains part of your soul. Choose the form that your phylactery takes:

• Familiar. Your phylactery is a magical beast of your choice whose CR is 1/8th of your level or less. It can speak your languages and has Intelligence, maximum hit points, and proficiency bonus equal to your own, but it cannot attack or carry you. Over a long rest, it can shift into the form of a different valid beast.
• Spellcasting Focus. Your phylactery is both an arcane and divine spellcasting focus. Once per day, while holding your phylactery, you may cast a known Lich spell as if from your highest level spell slot (up to 5th level) without expending a slot higher than usual.
• Trinket. Once per day, as an action, you may stare into your phylactery to forget one Lich spell you know, and learn a different one.
• Weapon. Your phylactery is a magic weapon of your choice which deals necrotic damage and has a bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to half your proficiency bonus. When you use your action to cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you may use a bonus action to make a single weapon attack with your phylactery.

Even in its new form, your Phylactery continues to function as your Tome of Shadows. If your Phylactery is lost, damaged, killed, or destroyed it reappears whole at your side after you complete a long rest.

Immortality

At 4th level you complete your transformation and become a fully fledged Lich. You gain the Immortal Regeneration feature detailed on page 14, which prevents you from dying as long as your Phylactery remains intact. Additionally:

• You no longer require sleep and cannot be forced to sleep by magical means. You gain the benefit of a long rest by spending 4 hours staring into your phylactery.
• You are immune to disease and the poisoned condition.

Lord of Death

Starting at 5th level, necrotic damage you deal ignores resistance and immunity.

You also learn the Summon Undead spell, and it doesn't count towards the number of Lich spells you know. Once per long rest you may cast Summon Undead from your highest level spell slot, without expending that slot. When you do so, it does not require concentration and it lasts until you complete your next long rest.

Lycanthropes are those afflicted by a bestial curse, which transforms them into a half-humanoid half-animal shape, during which they are overcome with feral instincts. A creature who is cursed with lycanthropy who chooses not to take levels in the Lycanthrope class experiences unpredictable transformations, during which they are not in control of their actions.

In order to take levels in this class, your character must have been cursed with lycanthropy.

Beast Kinship

Starting at 2nd level you tap into a sense of kinship shared amongst those aligned with your curse. You have advantage on all rolls made to influence any creatures listed in your curse's Summon Kin feature. These creatures will automatically recognize your curse, unless you disguise your nature with magic. If they recognize your curse they will be friendly towards you unless you demonstrate hostile intent.

Transformation

Starting at 2nd level, as an action, you can fully transform into your curse's hybrid form. While in your hybrid form, you can use your Bestial Attack freely without expending a use of it. Additionally you gain resistance to bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing damage from weapons that aren't silvered, and you gain a transformation bonus determined by your curse.

While transformed, you cannot speak, cast spells, or concentrate.

Your transformation lasts up to 10 minutes or until you revert back with an action. Once you use this feature you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest. When you reach 4th level in this class you can use this feature twice between long rests.

Summon Kin

Starting at 3rd level you can use your action to summon creatures from the feywild, as shown in your curse's Summon Kin feature. These creatures appear in an empty space within 30 feet and remain for up to 10 minutes, after which they disappear. They act immediately after your turn and follow your commands to the best of their abilities. All damage they deal counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical damage.

Once you use this feature you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest. At 5th, 11th, and 17th level you learn to summon more powerful beasts.

Carnage

Beginning at 5th Level, your Bestial Attack gains a bonus to damage rolls equal to your proficiency bonus, and an additional bonus to attack rolls equal to half that amount (rounded down).

Lycanthropic Curses

Revenant

Revenants are the vengeful spirits of those who died unjustly, who possess corpses and seek retribution with an unwavering will and supernatural abilities. All revenants are marked by their permanently bloodshot eyes.

To take the first level in this class, you must be dead and your original body must have been destroyed. You may lose a level in a different class to gain the first level in this class.

Stygian Magic

When you clawed your way back into the world of the living you learn to channel your malice into a form of magic.

Death Glare

At 2nd level you learn to focus your hatred into a glare that turns a foe's blood to ice. You gain proficiency in Intimidation (if you didn't have it already) and you double your proficiency bonus for any ability checks you make with Intimidation, as long as the subject of your check can see you.

As an action you may glare at a foe within 30 feet that can see you, causing them to become frightened of you until the start of your next turn. While frightened of you, their speed is reduced to 0 and they are paralyzed. On a successful Wisdom saving throw throw they are not paralyzed. When the effect wears off, the creature becomes immune to your Death Glare for the next 24 hours.

You may use this feature a number of times equal to your levels in this class, regaining all uses when you complete a long rest.

Hellish Smite

Starting at 3rd level, your weapons burn with your need for vengeance. Once per turn, when you hit with a melee weapon attack, you can deal an extra d8 radiant or necrotic damage (your choice).

Your Hellish Smite damage increases to 2d8 when you reach 5th level in this class.

Relentless

At 4th level, you learn to brush off death. When you start your turn with 0 hit points, you may expend a use of Death Glare to regain d10 hit points.

Execute

Beginning at 5th level, when you use your Action to cast a Revenant spell or use Death Glare, you can use a bonus action to make a single weapon attack.

Expanded Stygian Magic

At 5th level your Revenant spell list is expanded to include more spells.

Class Features

As a Stitcher, you gain the following class features

Mad Scientist

Starting at 1st level, you double your proficiency bonus when using Medicine. You may always roll Intelligence (Medicine) instead of Wisdom (Medicine).

Surgery

Starting at 1st level, you have learned to surgically modify yourself, replacing and upgrading your body parts as you see fit. You gain three modifications of your choice from the list of Stitcher modifications on the following page.

As you gain levels in this class you gain additional mods, as shown on the Stitcher class table.

When you gain a level in any class you can remove one of your modifications and replace it with another.

If your modifications requires a saving throw, the DC is equal to 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Intelligence modifier.

Healing Injections

Starting at 2nd level, you create 2 syringes of regenerative elixir when you finish a long rest. A creature can use a bonus action on their turn to inject a syringe into themselves or a creature within 5 feet, restoring d6 hit points per level you have in this class. These injections have no effect on undead or constructs. Unused injections break down into a pungent substance with no healing properties after 24 hours.

Extreme Modifications

Starting at 3rd level, you gain access to the extreme modifications listed on the following page.

Anatomist

Starting at 4th level, your attacks critically hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Medical Focus

At 5th level, you choose a medical focus: that of the Patchwork or the Experimenter.

Extreme Modifications

Acid Blood. When a creature within 5 feet of you damages you, they take acid damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Breath Attack (rank 1). You gain one of the following breath attacks, which you can use as an action on your turn. Your breath attack deals d6 damage, plus another d6 for every 2 levels you have (to a maximum of 11d6 at 20th level). (rank 2) You gain a second breath attack and the damage dice for both become d8s instead of d6s.

Acid: 30 foot line, Dexterity save for half damage.

Cold: 15 foot cone, Constitution save for half damage.

Fire: 15 foot cone, Dexterity save for half damage.

Lightning: 30 foot line, Dexterity save for half damage.

Thunder: 15 foot cone, Constitution save for half damage.

Extra Appendage (rank 1). You have an extra limb, such an arm on your back or a prehensile tail. It can hold objects and perform somatic components for spells, but is too weak to attack or hold a shield. Due it its awkward placement, it cannot help hold a two-handed weapon. (rank 2) Your extra appendage strengthens, allowing it to attack or hold a shield. When you take the attack action on your turn you can make one additional attack with your extra appendage, provided it is holding a weapon or nothing. You do not add your attribute modifier to this additional attack.

Expanded Cranium. Your Intelligence and Wisdom scores increase by 1 each, to a maximum of 20.

Integrated Weapon (rank 1) You embed a light weapon you are proficient with into your body. You can hold, wield, and reload it (if necessary) without using your hands. If it is a thrown weapon, it returns to you at the end of your turn. As a bonus action on your turn, you may attack with your Integrated Weapon. (rank 2) Your Integrated weapon counts as magical, gaining a bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to half your Proficiency bonus (unless it already had a bonus).

Lithe Frame. Your Dexterity score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. Your walking speed increases by 5.

Many Legs. You have extra limbs usable as legs. Your walking speed increases by 10. If you would be knocked prone, roll a d20. On a 10 or higher, you remain standing.

Pheromones. Your Charisma score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. You gain the Friends cantrip, which you can cast without any somatic or material components.

Powerful Frame. Your Strength and Constitution scores increase by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Second Head. You gain a second head, which can do everything your original head can. When you would fail a Wisdom, Intelligence, or Charisma attribute check or saving throw, you can reroll. If you do, you must take the new result. You can use this feature to reroll once, regaining the ability to do so when you finish a short or long rest.

Sockets. After completing a long rest, you may remove any other mod, and replace it with a different mod.

Venom. Once per turn, when you hit with an unarmed attack or natural weapon, your victim must pass a Constitution saving throw against your Stitcher DC or be Poisoned until the start of your next turn.

Wing (rank 1). You gain a weak pair of wings which you can flap to extend the range of a jump by 20 feet. They grant you a +1 bonus to AC while you aren't holding a shield. (rank 2) Your wings strengthen, granting you a 20 foot flying speed. You lose your wing's bonus to AC while you are flying.

Vampires are creatures cursed with a connection to undeath, and a thirst for blood.

In order to take levels in this class, your character must have been reduced to 0 Hit Points by the bite of a Vampire or a Vampire Spawn. A character who is reduced to 0 Hit Points in this way but who chooses not to take levels in the Vampire class experiences a lingering mental connection to the creature that bit them, until that creature is destroyed.

Bloodthirst

When you hit a living creature that has blood with your Bite, you may spend a number of hit dice up to your level in this class to drink your victim’s blood. Add your hit dice to the damage roll and you regain hit points equal to half the damage that the creature takes.

When you complete a long rest you regain all of your spent hit dice if you used Bloodthirst at least once in the past 24 hours. Otherwise you regain hit dice as normal.

Sanguine Magic

At 2nd level you unlock the hidden potential of blood.

Vampiric Metabolism

At 2nd level your metabolism alters to allow you to speed up and slow down at will. Your walking speed increases by 10 feet, and you appear convincingly dead while you remain still.

Undeath

At 3rd level you complete your transformation into a fully fledged Vampire. When you take bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage you may spend a Sanguis point to gain resistance to all the damage taken.

You also gain the Immortal Regeneration feature described on page 14, which prevents you from permanently dying unless a wooden stake is driven through your heart.

Beast Forms

Starting at 4th level you can cast Shapechange on yourself, without material components. You must choose from the forms of a Bat or a Rat. If you spend a Sanguis point while casting, you can additionally choose the forms of a Wolf, Giant Bat, Swarm of Bats or Swarm of Rats.

You can use this feature once, regaining the ability to do so when you complete a short or long rest.

Elder Blood

Starting at 5th Level you can spend additional Sanguis Points when casting a Vampire spell to cast as if from a spell slot whose level is equal to the number of Sanguine Points spent. When doing so, you cannot spend more Sanguine points than half your total level (rounded up).

Vicious Bite

Starting at 5th level, when you use your action to attack or cast a Vampire spell, you can use a bonus action to make a single attack with your Bite.

Immortal Regeneration

Vampire and Lich

You cannot be permanently killed unless certain conditions are met. When you die you enter a regenerative trance which lasts 24 hours. At the end of that period, you are returned to life with 1 hp. If you are missing critical body parts then they regenerate over the course of that period. If your body is totally destroyed, such as by the Disintegrate spell, then the regenerative trance lasts a week, during which you materialize a new body in a location that is safe and familiar to you.

While you have this feature you cannot be returned to life through any spell except for Wish and True Resurrection. If you are returned to life by True Resurrection, you lose all your levels in the class that granted this feature, and you gain equal levels in other classes of your choice.

Lich: You are permanently killed and your soul is obliterated if your phylactery is destroyed during your regenerative trance (or if it was already destroyed). During your trance, your phylactery gains immunity to non-magical attacks.

Vampire: You are permanently killed and your soul is obliterated if a wooden stake is driven through your heart during your regenerative trance. Your heart cannot be destroyed by any other means, and remains intact even if subjected to a spell such as Disintegrate.

Return From Death

Revenant and Corpse Ghost

If you die, you may bring yourself back to life over a 24 hour period, during which your soul severs its connection to your old body and possesses the nearest whole, fresh corpse most similar to your original. Your statistics and abilities do not change when you gain this new body, but any equipment remains with your old body.

However this process erodes your identity. To use this feature you must give up a level in a different class and replace it with a level in the class that granted this feature. If you cannot do so, then you cannot use this feature. A character that already has 5 levels in the class that granted this feature cannot do so without losing its mind entirely, becoming an NPC under control of the DM.

While you have this feature you cannot be returned to life through any spell except for Wish and True Resurrection. If you are returned to life by True Resurrection, you lose all your levels in the class that granted this feature, and you gain equal levels in other classes of your choice.