Chapter 1: Classes, Subclasses, & Features

This chapter will focus on player character options for classes, subclasses & additional class features.

• Arcane Warrior, a new class closely modeled after that Paladin class. This class is more "Arcane" in nature, becoming a more magical version of Eldritch Knight, but without the raw spell power of the Bladesinger Wizard.
• Demolitionist, an Artificer Subclass which focuses on Area of Effect damage via explosives and spells, and Siege damage. This could be your "Mad Bomber".
• Forgotten Artificer subclasses. A pair of subclasses which WotC made, but then abandoned when they came out with the official Artificer class in Eberron Rising from the Last War.
  • Archivist, an Artificer subclass centered entirely on information & the creation of sentience. There are two different versions, the "Closest Adaptation" which is as a direct translation from the UA to the most current version of Artificer as possible, and a "Modified" version which attempts to correct the inherent imbalance in the subclass which primarily stems from the invulnerable "pet/familiar".
  • Gunsmith, an Artificer class centered entirely on the creation and use of a magi-tech firearm. Much revision was required to this subclass to bring it up to the latest version of Artificer, and address a few inherent weaknesses/flaws it had.
• Revisions, and additions to artificer infusions can also be found within the Artificer section.
• Eldritch Knight Revised, an updated take on the Eldritch Knight fighter Subclass. This revision attempts to address the biggest flaw with this subclass. Its 7th level feature which comes late in the overall leveling scheme and is only a good choice for 4 levels (7, 8, 9, & 10). This revision was the original inspiration for the Arcane Warrior class.
• Hemomancy and Blood magic, another new class which uses hit points and hit dice instead of spell slots to fuel its spells.
• Kitchen Sink Monk, for everyone out there who wants to throw and use anything and everything at their disposal for their martial arts.
• Thug, a Rogue subclass which specializes in improvised gear, fighting dirty, being adaptable to many situations.
• Elementalist, a Sorcerer Subclass. Sometimes becoming an Elementalist, one who specialized in a specific element is a choice, sometimes it isn't. Regardless of how you came to walk this path, few can match your skill within your element.
• Favors, A Warlock subclass that specializes in support, disruption, and information gathering/exploiting.
• Prestige Classes, a type of class that was much smaller than a traditional class. Primarily seen in 3e and 3.5e, the only official prestige class is the Rune Scribe (probably one of my favorite classes). I have added two more options in the same vein.
  • Prestige Class: Brawler. For someone who fights in back allies or unarmed frequently. This class specializes in powerful unarmed strikes, with an aggressive stance.
  • Prestige Class: Wand Slinger. This prestige class could be considered "Artificer lite", as they specialize in the creation of simulacrum wands and the use of attunement and charge based magical items.
• Additional Starting Class Features is a list of features that I consider "core" to a class. As such I present them as options that a player can choose to take for free, at their discretion upon character creation.
• Sane Artificer Infusions, attempts to fix the inherently wonky progression of Infusions that WOTC made. I also added a few more options to add a sense of progression as you gain levels in Artificer.

Class Features

As an Arcane Warrior, you gain the following class features.

Might and Magic

Beginning at 1st level, you have 1 Arcane point, and you gain one additional point every time you level up, to a maximum of 20 at level 20. You regain a number of spent arcane points when you finish a short rest equal to half your Arcane Warrior level rounded up (minimum of 1), you regain all Arcane points at the end of a long rest. These arcane points are used to augment various skills and abilities of the Arcane Warrior.

The most basic use of Arcane points is to augment your physical attacks. Once per turn, on a successful weapon attack you may expend 1 Arcane point to add your Intelligence modifier or Proficiency bonus (your choice) as force damage to that attack, this attack's damage also counts as magical for the purposes of overcoming resistances.

Additionally, Over the course of a short rest you can bond with a piece of equipment. You may only be bonded with 2 pieces of equipment. As long as your bonded equipment is on the same plane of existence as you, you may summon & equip it as an action. Lastly, any equipment you are bonded with counts as a spellcasting focus for you.

Fighting Styles

Beginning at 2nd level you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose a fighting style from the list of optional features. You can't take the same Fighting Style option more than once, even if you get to choose again.

Spell Casting

As a student of Arcane Magic, you have a Spellbook containing Spells that show the first glimmerings of your true power.

Mystic Renewal

Beginning at 2nd level, you have learned to regain some of your magical energy by studying your Spellbook. Once per day when you finish a Short Rest, you can choose expended Spell Slots to recover. The Spell Slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than one quarter of your Arcane Warrior level (rounded up, minimum of 1), and none of these spells can be higher than 3rd level.

Arcane Decimation

Starting at 2nd level, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one spell slot to deal force damage to the target, in addition to the weapon's damage. The extra damage is 2d8 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d8 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 5d8. The damage increases by 1d8 if the target is an Elemental or Fey, to a maximum of 6d8.

Martial Casting

Starting at 5th level, when you use your action to cast an Arcane Warrior Spell of 3rd level or lower, you may choose to expend a number of Arcane points equal to twice the spell's level (0 for cantrips) to make a single weapon attack as a bonus action.

Additionally, any spells which require you to make a melee weapon attack as part of the casting have the same range as you have with your currently equipped melee weapon.

Extra Attack

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

Elemental Enhancement

Starting at 6th level, whenever you cast a spell that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or force damage you may choose to expend two Arcane points to capture some of the essence of that spell and channel it through your weapon for the next minute. While channeling this energy through your weapon, you deal that damage type instead of your weapon's physical damage type (Slashing, Piercing or Bludgeoning).

Additionally on a successful weapon attack that you are currently channeling through, you can expend a spell slot to deal an additional 1d6 of the channeled damage type for each spell slot level as additional damage.

Lastly, your weapon takes on certain additional aspects based on the channeled energy type for the duration.

Acid: Your weapon has acid flowing across it, this acid allows you to more easily cut through non-metal armor. Your first attack each round gains advantage to hit a creature that is wearing non-metallic armor.

Cold: Your weapon becomes encased in true ice, when you touch your weapon to a pool of water it can freeze up to a 5 ft cube. Additionally, your first attack each round gains advantage to hit a creature that uses natural or no armor.

Fire: Your weapon becomes wreathed in fire, this fire sheds bright light in a 10 foot radius, and an additional 20 feet of dim light. Additionally, your first attack each round gains advantage to hit a creature that uses natural or no armor.

Lightning: Your weapon arcs with electrical power. Once per round one of your attacks gains advantage to hit a creature that wears metal armor, or is made with metal such as some constructs.

Force: Your weapon fades and becomes partly ethereal while radiating a soft purple glow in a 15 foot radius. Within the radius of light shed by this weapon, invisibility is suppressed, and creatures on the ethereal plane can be seen if they were on the material plane, and the wielder of this weapon can attack a creature on the ethereal plane, as if they were on the material plane.

Improved Elemental Enhancement

Beginning at 11th level, the channeling of magic into your weapon has become second nature and more powerful. You may now channel energy from your Elemental Enhancement Feature for 10 minutes instead of 1 minute Additionally and you deal 1d6 extra damage of your most recently channeled element on each successful strike.

Arcane Empowerment

Beginning at 14th level you have learned how to temporarily empower a single piece of equipment. By expending four arcane points as a bonus action, you imbue the selected piece of equipment with a +1 magical enchantment that stacks with any other existing magical enchantments for the next 10 minutes.

Ascendant Step

Beginning at 18th level you have learned how to squeeze every bit of power out of your spell casting. Whenever you expend a spell slot you can, as a bonus action, expend six arcane points to teleport up to 30 feet and make one weapon attack.

Arcane Weaponry

At 20th level from the constant use of magic flowing through your weaponry, you have learned how to imbue even greater power into them. While channeling energy from your Elemental Energy feature the power you are able to channel is unrivaled. You gain 2 additional properties with the channeled weapon.

The first is your weapon gains a +1 enchantment that stacks with any other existing magical enchantments.

The second you can expend eight arcane points to automatically maximize any damage you would deal from an attack or spell that uses this weapon this round.

Lastly, whenever you roll for initiative and have no Arcane points remaining, you regain 4 Arcane points.

Spellblade Archetypes

An arcane warrior can follow one of three paths. The Abjurer, the Conjurer, and the Evoker. The Abjurer utilizes his magic to protect himself and his allies from those that would do harm. The Conjurer utilizes his magic to summon, and bring forth from the void that which he needs. The Evoker utilizes his magic to destroy those that would stand against him or do him harm.

Stabilized Conjuration

Beginning at 10th level, conjuration spells you cast lasts twice as long unless they are instantaneous. If the spell is instantaneous, it instead rebounds for half of its initial effect at the start of your next turn if you choose to do so. Additionally, when you cast a conjuration spell, you may spend 1 arcane point per target within the area of effect, by doing so those targets automatically succeed the saving throw if there is one. Once you use this feature you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Conjuration Mastery

Beginning at 15th level, your mastery of your "Conjurer" spell is legendary. When you cast your "Conjurer" spell any saving throw imposed by this spell is made at disadvantage, and any attack roll is made with advantage.

The Evoker

The Evoker specializes in offensive magics, increasing the potency of his damaging spells and effects.

Beginning at 3rd level when you choose this archetype, you are able to choose a Evocation spell from the Wizard or Sorcerer spell lists of first level or lower, and add it to your spellbook. This spell counts as an Arcane Warrior spell for you. This is your "Evoker" spell, as such this spell is always prepared and it doesn't count towards your prepared spells total.

Additionally, evocation spells you cast splash to 1 additional enemy within 5 feet of your target (or if it is an Area of effect spell, select one additional square/hex to include within the area of effect that is adjacent to an affected square/hex.) This "splash" damage utilizes the same saving throw as the original spell, and deals 1d4 + your intelligence modifier in damage of the same type as the spell you cast.

Artificer Subclasses

Artificer had two subclasses which never made it to a "published" state. The gunsmith & Archivist. Gunsmith needs tweaks to be brought up to be compatible with the current Artificer. Archivists needed small tweaks specifically to the manifest mind to be brought more in line.

This document will have the "closest" adaptation first, and the "modified" version of archivist at the end of the document. I personally recommend the modified version as it levels out the power curve of archivist, and gets modifies the invulnerable mind that you can deal damage through to no longer be invulnerable.

Archivist Subclass

Archivist was cut from the book Eberron Rising from the last war, which is unfortunate as it was a really cool concept and very "unified" in its theme as an information based utility subclass. Granted as written it did have a few balancing issues. This is the most directly translated version of archivist.

The First Warforged Minds

Warforged were originally created by House Cannith to fight as subservient beings, having limited self-awareness. The development of the autonomous warforged consciousness has been presented as an accidental breakthrough. However, rumors abound that it was the work of pioneering archivist Aaren d'Cannith, who planted the seed of autonomy in the warforged mind. This fact is now difficult to verify, for the development team's records were destroyed and Aaren d'Cannith disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Many believe that Aaren is still determined to help the warforged evolve and that he might be working with the sinister Lord of Blades.

Mind over Matter

At 5th level, your dedication to the mind and how to convey knowledge has greatly improved. As such your ability to to deal psychic damage has increased.

Psychic Damage. When you make a psychic damage roll for an artificer spell or for Information Overload, you gain a bonus to the damage roll equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum bonus of +1).

Mind Network

At 9th level, you've learned how to use your artifacts to access minds, and to communicate with holders of these objects over any distance.

Magical Telephony. While you have your Artificial Mind item on your person, you can communicate telepathically with anyone carrying an item bearing one of your artificer infusions, as the mind transmits your thoughts to each other. That person can also communicate telepathically with you as long as they have the item. This two-way communication can even cross planar boundaries.

Pure Information

At 15th level, your Artificial Mind is able to receive and transmit more information than ever before.

Mind Overload. When you expend a spell slot to increase the damage of Information Overload, the target must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC or be stunned until the end of your next turn.

Infoportation. As an action while your Artificial Mind magic item is on your person, you cause the mind to turn you into pure information, teleporting you to the unoccupied space nearest to the spectral mind or to an item bearing one of your artificer infusions, where you physically reappear.

You can teleport in this way once for free and must finish a long rest before doing so again. You can also use this special ability by expending a spell slot of 2nd level or higher.

Archivist (Modified version)

What are the best ways to store vast amounts of information? That question has occupied chroniclers and librarians for centuries. Scrolls and books were the finest information-storing methods for a long time, but the first Archivists imagined something greater: storing information in a real or an artificial mind. What library could match a mental archive capable of accessing information in seconds? As they work towards this goal, Archivists have become masters of storing knowledge and creating artificial intelligences fueled by magic. These techniques have yet to be perfected and institutionalized, and of all artificers, archivists are on the cutting edge of arcane science.

Artificial Mind

Mind over Matter

At 5th level, your dedication to the mind and how to convey knowledge has greatly improved. As such your ability to to deal psychic damage greatly increased, while other energy types improved in a minor way.

The Pen is Mightier Once per turn when you cast an artificer spell through your Calligrapher tools or Forgery kit or use an artificer ability, choose one target affected and roll 1d4. You gain a bonus to the damage or healing roll, against that creature, equal to the number rolled. If the spell or ability deals damage, you add the 1d4's result as additional psychic damage. If the spell or ability deals psychic damage innately, the 1d4 instead becomes 1d8.

Overwhelming Knowledge Whenever you deal damage with the Information Overload ability, you can expend a spell slot to deal extra damage to the target. The extra damage is 2d6 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d6 for each spell level higher than first.

Mind Network

At 9th level, you've learned how to use your artifacts to access minds, and to communicate with holders of these objects over any distance.

Magical Telephony. While you have your Artificial Mind item on your person, you can communicate telepathically with anyone carrying an item bearing one of your artificer infusions, as the mind transmits your thoughts to each other. That person can also communicate telepathically with you as long as they have the item. This two-way communication only requires that each party knows a language, and it can even cross planar boundaries.

Empowered Manifest Mind When you cast an artificer spell on your turn, you can cast it as if you were in the spectral mind's space, instead of your own, using its senses. Doing so causes the Manifested mind to shed bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet until the start of your next turn. You can cast a number of spells through your empowered Manifest mind a number of times per day equal to your Intelligence modifier (at least once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Pure Information

At 15th level, your Artificial Mind is able to receive and transmit more information than ever before.

Mind Overload. When you expend a spell slot to increase the damage of Information Overload, the target must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC or be "befuddled" (Befuddled causes the affected creature to have half movement, and disadvantage on attack rolls, skill checks, strength, dexterity, and intelligence, saving throws. Additionally attacks have advantage against the affected creature.) until the end of your next turn as its mind is nearly incapable of controlling its own body or deciphering what is real. If the target fails the saving throw by 5 or more it is instead stunned until the end of your next turn.

Infoportation. As an action while your Artificial Mind magic item is on your person, you cause the mind to turn you into pure information, teleporting you to the unoccupied space nearest to the spectral mind or to an item bearing one of your artificer infusions, where you physically reappear.

You can teleport in this way once for free and must finish a long rest before doing so again. You can also use this special ability by expending a spell slot of 2nd level or higher.

Demolitionist

Demolitionists are a different breed of Artificer. While most artificers use their knowledge, creativity and mechanical/magical knowhow to create new wondrous and sometimes dangerous things, a Demolitionist goes in the exact opposite direction. Anything a Demolitionist creates is typically as a means to an end to destroy or break things. Most individuals regard Demolitionists with a wary gaze, because they, like their creations, are typically quite unstable. Although when you need something to be destroyed either in a controlled or spectacular fashion, a Demolitionist has you covered.

Demolitionist, Artificer Subclass

A Demolitionist specializes in using magic and technology to create destruction over large areas. This destructive power seemingly comes with a price. The most skilled Demolitionists are also the most unstable personalities having a shorter fuse than even the most touchy of politicians. While certain industries and groups value their skills, few are willing to risk working with a Demolitionist long term or consistently due to their seemingly ubiquitous personality quirks

Gunsmith

Gunsmith was an interesting concept, a cross between a rogue & tinkerer. The original iteration of artificer had a few issues which were hammered out in the next UA and then finally in Eberron. As such Gunsmith is translated as closely as possible, any changes noted will be in blurbs. The biggest changes will be outlined here.

• The 1st and 3rd level abilities are combined into a single 3rd level ability.
• I have removed the bonus action to reload the Thunder Cannon every turn, instead opting for a reload 5.

Sane Artificer Infusions

Repeating Shot

Item: A simple or martial weapon with the ammunition property (requires attunement)

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it when it’s used to make a ranged attack, and it ignores the loading property if it has it.

The weapon requires no ammunition; it magically produces one piece of ammunition each time you make a ranged attack with it, unless you manually load it. The ammunition produced by the weapon vanishes the instant after the it hits or misses a target

Returning Weapon

Item: A simple or martial weapon with the thrown property (requires attunement)

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it, and it returns to the wielder’s hand immediately after it is used to make a ranged attack.

4th-level Artificer

6th-level Artificer

Magic Bomb

Prerequisites: 6th level, and a throwable object(s)

You infuse implosive power into an object which you can throw. As an action, you or any creature holding the Magic Bomb can throw it up to 60 feet away. Upon collision with any object or creature the magic bomb detonates affecting all creatures, objects, and structures in 20 foot radius. Each creature in this radius must make a Constitution save taking 2d6 thunder damage and 2d6 force damage and be pulled up to 10 feet towards where the magic bomb landed on a failed save or half as much damage and not pulled on a successful save. Objects & structures take double damage, and objects that aren't being held automatically fail this saving throw and fly to the center of the implosion.

At 11th level the damage increases to 3d6 thunder and 3d6 force.

You make a number of magic bombs equal to half your proficiency bonus rounded up, and at the conclusion of a short rest you can remake 1 magic bomb.

Repulsion Shield

Prerequisite: 6th-level artificer

Item: A shield (requires attunement)

A creature gains a +1 bonus to Armor Class while wielding this shield.

The shield has 4 charges. While holding it, the wielder can use a reaction immediately after being hit by a melee attack to expend 1 of the shield's charges and push the attacker up to 15 feet away. The shield regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Resistant Armor

Prerequisite: 6th-level artificer

Item: A suit of armor (requires attunement)

While wearing this armor, a creature has resistance to one of the following damage types, which you choose when you infuse the item: acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, or thunder.

Spell-Refueling Ring

Prerequisite: 6th-level artificer

Item: A ring (requires attunement)

While wearing this ring, the creature can recover one expended spell slot as an action. The recovered slot can be of 3rd level or lower. Once used, the ring can't be used again until the next dawn.

10th-level Artificer

14th-level Artificer

Replicate Magic Items

Using this infusion, you replicate a particular magic item. You can learn this infusion multiple times; each time you do so, choose a different magic item that you can make with it, picking from the Replicable Magic Items tables below. If a table has a level in its title, you must be of at least that level in this class to choose an item from the table.

In the tables, an item’s entry tells you whether the item requires attunement. See the item’s description in the Dungeon Master’s Guide for more information about it, including the type of object required for its making

14th Level Artificer Requirement

Fighter

Eldritch Knight Refined

Martial Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you strive to emulate in your Combat styles and techniques, such as Eldritch Knight. The archetype you choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.

Eldritch Knights

This Subclass of the Fighter relies on both strength of mind and strength of arm when battling its foes. When you choose Eldritch Knight, this shows the fruits of your rigorous mental training in the mystical arts. You gain the ability to cast spells using Intelligence as your casting stat. DCs for your spells are 8 + Intelligence modifier + proficiency.

You select your new spells from the Wizard spell list. You also gain proficiency with the Arcana Skill.

Spell Casting

As a student of Arcane Magic, you have gained the ability to learn and memorize spells.

War Magic

Starting at 7th level you select one elemental type from Acid, Cold, Fire, or Lightning. You intensely focus on the element that you choose, and become able to channel it through your equipment bond feature. You gain a second element of your choice at 13th level.

On a successful weapon attack on your turn you may choose to expend a spell slot to start channeling an elemental power through your weapon that you have focused on. Until the start of your next turn your weapon deals that damage type instead of your weapon's physical damage type (Slashing, Piercing or Bludgeoning), and gains a number of d4s additional damage of that type equal to the spell slot expended minus one (A first level spell gives 0d4, a 2nd lvl spell gives 1d4... etc).

Lastly, your weapon takes on certain additional aspects based on the channeled energy type for the duration.

Acid: Your weapon has acid flowing across it, this acid allows you to more easily cut through non-metal armor. Your first attack each round gains advantage to hit a creature that is wearing non-metallic armor.

Cold: Your weapon becomes encased in true ice, when you touch your weapon to a pool of water it can freeze up to a 5 ft cube. Additionally, your first attack each round gains advantage to hit a creature that uses natural or no armor.

Fire: Your weapon becomes wreathed in fire, this fire sheds bright light in a 10 foot radius, and an additional 20 feet of dim light. Additionally, your first attack each round gains advantage to hit a creature that uses natural or no armor.

Lightning: Your weapon arcs with electrical power. Once per round one of your attacks gains advantage to hit a creature that wears metal armor, or is made with metal such as some constructs.

Eldritch Strike

At 10th level, you learn how to make your weapon strikes undercut a creature's resistance to your spells. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, that creature has disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes against a spell you cast before the end of your next turn.

Arcane Charge

At 15th level you gain the ability to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see when you use your Action surge. You can teleport before or after the additional action.

You can also bring one willing creature with you, but your teleport distance decreases to 20 feet.

If you teleport next to a creature, your next attack against that creature has advantage to hit.

Improved Martial Casting

Starting at 18th level when you use your action to cast a spell, you gain the ability to make one weapon attack, OR cast any cantrip which requires a melee weapon attack or melee spell attack as a bonus action.

Reasoning for changes

Eldritch Knight always seemed like the weakest of the subtypes of fighter for a few reasons. First off they didn't feel.. magicy enough... This is partly due to being a 1/3rd caster with heavy restrictions on spell selection, and the fact that the vast majority of an eldritch knight's life, they are not using magic as part of their "attack rotation.

• The Weapon bond feature was really cool and I liked it, but felt that only bonding with a weapon seemed... oddly restricting. As such I opened it up to any equipment which includes armor, shields, adventuring gear, magic items... etc

• The primary issue with the Eldritch Knight I had was a lack of consistent use of magic... The War Magic trait being the biggest offender in my mind. Thus rolled it into lesser martial casting. War Magic, as written, allows an EK to make an attack as a bonus action, whenever he casts a cantrip. So straight up, this feature is only good from levels 7-10... as you get it at 7th, and Extra Attack (2) happens at 11. Extra attack is straight up better to use at all points, as you get to roll more d20s which means more chances to hit and apply damage with modifiers. This typically will deal more damage than an extra cantrip die would deal simply because of modifiers. Overall it feels like the war magic feature was just sub-par with not much thought going into it due to its relatively small lifespan of usefulness and "late" introduction.

• The other traits got small Quality of life buffs, both to tie into the new War Magic feature, and just to bring them up to par with what an archetype feature should be power wise.

Militia

A fighter is an individual, who for better or worse, has become adept at violence. Not all people choose this path, some it is thrust upon, others take naturally to it, others fall into this path with no training, and just to survive.

Militia, Fighter Subclass

A Militia fighter is one who through various circumstances finds themselves embroiled in violence. This violence could be sought after such as a farmhand turning to join or start a militia when raiding bands ransacked the farm they worked. A militia fighter could also be a highly adept soldier or military trained individual whose style just clashes with that of the rest of their unit. Regardless as to how someone becomes to identify as a Militia fighter, these individuals differ greatly from other fighters.

Hemomancy

There are many types of magic within the universe, you have your normal types of magic, being arcane, divine, and natural. You have your unusual types being eldritch, and force of personality/will. Amongst the unusual lies the magic of blood, using the life force contained within blood, be it your own or other creatures, to bend reality to your will. Blood magic can be, depending on the area, civilization, and other factors be normal, unusual, a lost art, a new discovery or straight up heresy. As such practitioners of this art are generally reclusive until they know the local disposition on their powers.

Class Features

As a Hemomancer, you gain the following class features.

Blood Magic

Beginning at 1st level you have unlocked the power behind blood and its various uses. You gain the Blood Magic Trait, and can now replicate the effects of magical spells. Spells you gain from Hemomancer can only be cast using the Blood Magic Trait, but spells gained from any other source can be cast using the Blood Magic Trait. If the spell you cast is not a Hemomancer spell it costs to cast is doubled using this feature. Any spells that you cast using the Blood Magic trait, which are gained from any other class or feature besides Hemomancer, that restore hit points, only restore a number of hit points equal to the hit points reduced when casting the spell.

See chapter 10 of the Player's Hand Book for the general rules of spellcasting and the end of this document for the Hemomancer's Spell list and Hemomancer specific spells.

Heomancers do not use spell slots or spell points like traditional casters; they instead expend hit points and/or hit dice to replicate the effects of spells. Use the following table to determine the cost for casting a hemomancer spell using the Blood Magic Trait. If casting a spell would result in reducing you to 0 hit points, and you remain at 0 hit points at the end of your turn, you then fall unconscious and start making death saving throws as normal.

Note: Unless otherwise stated in a spell or ability, when you expend a hit die you do not gain hit points. When you cast a spell with this feature and have temporary HP, you can choose to reduce your Temporary Hp rather than your Current HP. Additionally spells of 6th level and higher are extremely taxing on your body, as such you can typically only cast one of each level spell of 6th level and higher once per long rest. At level 19 you can cast a second 6th level spell, and at 20th level you can cast a second 7th level spell per long rest.

Crimson Tide

Starting at 2nd level you can augment spells you cast using the Blood Magic feature in a variety of ways. When you cast a spell you can also choose to expend a hit die as part of the spell, and choose one of the following options.

• Roll the expended hit die adding your constitution modifier you heal for this amount if the spell hits, or at least one creature fails the saving throw.
• Roll the expended hit die adding your constitution modifier and add the total to the damage. If the spell targeted multiple creatures, select one creature affected to take this additional damage.
• Roll the expended hit die adding your constitution modifier and add the total to your to hit.
• Increase the DC of your spell by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th 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.

If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.

Hemomancer Versatility

Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can also replace one of your skill proficiencies with a skill proficiency offered by your class at 1st level (the proficiency you replace needn't be from the class).

Unnatural Regeneration

Starting at 5th level, once a day when you complete a short rest, you can choose to restore a number of hit die equal to your proficiency bonus - 1. Additionally whenever you complete a long rest you regain all expended hit dice, excluding any dice expended as part of that rest for other Hemomancer class features.

Blood Poisoning

Starting at 10th level, whenever a creature which is not a construct or undead fails a saving throw from a spell using your Blood Magic Feature or Hemomancer ability, you poison their blood causing the affected creature to not be able to regain hit points until the end of your next turn. Additionally, until the start of your next turn the next successful attack or failed saving throw the creature makes, it takes additional damage equal to your proficiency bonus. The affected creature can take this additional damage a number of times equal to half your proficiency bonus.

Crimson Mastery

Starting at 20th level, any hit points or temporary hit points you gain from Hemomancer spells or abilities are doubled. Additionally, once per long rest as an action you can enter a state of unrivaled control. For the next minute the hit point and hit die cost of casting Hemomancer spells and abilities are reduced by half (rounded down), minimum of 0.

Hemomancer Dedications

Starting at 2nd level you have dedicated yourself to a particular type of Hemomancy. The Blood Drinker which focuses on survivability and regeneration similar to that of vampires. The Blood Knight which focuses on augmenting their martial prowess with their Blood Magic. The Blood Sculptor which focuses on extending their control of blood.

The Blood Knight

The Blood Knight seeks to combine their blood magic with martial prowess becoming a bloody force on any battlefield which they enter.

The Blood Sculptor

The Blood Sculptor seeks to extend their control of blood to create, control & destroy as their will dictates.

Bloody Reinforcement

Beginning at 6th level, the objects and creatures you create with your magic are further enhanced, their AC is increased by half your proficiency bonus (rounded down). Additionally whenever an object or creature you created using a Hemomancer spell or ability is destroyed you may expend your reaction to absorb their essence, as long as they are within 30 feet of you. Doing so grants you a number of temporary hit points equal to half of the object or creatures maximum hit points.

Blood Imbuement

Beginning at 14th level your familiarity of creating objects and creatures from magic has granted you unique insights into various Artisan Tools. You gain proficiency in the following tools: Smiths Tools, Alchemy Tools, Tinkerer's Tools. If you already have proficiency in one or more of these tools, your proficiency is now doubled with those tools. Additionally when you make an ability check with these tools to create an object you can choose one of the following additional features to imbue into it. You can only have a number of objects with this feature equal to your proficiency bonus.

• Iron Blood: The object's AC is increased by 5.
• Regenerative Blood: The object's HP is increased by 50.
• Augmenting Blood: The object conveys a +1 bonus if it is worn or wielded. This bonus is doubled if wielded by a Hemomancer.

Blood Fuel

Beginning at 18th level whenever you spend "Sculptor points" you gain a number of temporary hp equal to half of the number of points you expend. Additionally whenever you complete a short or long rest you generate 25 "Sculptor Points" and you no longer lose all "Sculptor Points" whenever you complete a long rest.

Lastly, creatures and objects you create that have bonus hit points from your Sculptor Points have advantage on all attack rolls, saving throws and ability checks.

Hemomancer Only Spells

Cantrips

1st level spells

2nd level spells

Expel

2-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: self (10 ft radius)
• Components: S, M (a bit of hose)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You expel a significant quantity of blood from your body before quickly pulling most of it back into you. All creatures within 10 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw taking 2d6 piercing damage and 2d6 necrotic damage on a failed saving throw, or half on a successful one. If at least one creature affected by this spell fails this saving throw you regain 2d6 hit points as you absorb the vitality from your victims.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the necrotic damage & hit point regeneration increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 2nd.

Siphon

2-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: touch
• Components: S, M (a syringe)
• Duration: concentration, up to 1 minute

You reach out and grasp an incapacitated creature, a creature you are grappling, or a creature grappling you, to transfer its vitality to you continuously. Make a melee spell attack, on a successful attack you establish a conduit through which their vitality flows into you. The creature takes 2d6 piercing damage and 1d4 necrotic damage, and you regain a number of hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt. As a bonus action on subsequent turns, as long you are still touching or within 5 feet of the creature which is still a valid target for this spell, you can extract more vitality dealing 2d4 necrotic damage, and regain a number of hit points equal to the amount of necrotic damage dealt.

If the creature is ever more than 5 feet away from you, escapes your grapple, or you escape their grapple, the spell ends immediately and the creature takes 1d6 piercing damage as the conduit is ripped out of it.

3rd level Spells

Hemogoblin

small Construct, Unaligned

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• Armor Class 11 + the level of the spell (natural armor)
• Hit Points 15 + 5 for each spell level above 3rd
• Speed 30ft +5 ft to for each spell level above 3rd.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
8 (-1)	14 (+2)	14 (+2)	4 (-3)	8 (-1)	4 (-3)

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• Damage Resistances Psychic
• Damage Immunities Poison, Necrotic
• Condition Immunities Poisoned
• Senses passive Perception 9
• Languages understands the languages you speak
• Challenge --

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Actions

Multi-Attack The Hemogoblin makes a number of Blood Dagger attacks equal to half this spell's level rounded down

Blood Dagger Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1d4 + 2 + half the spell's level rounded down as piercing Damage.

Hurl Self Ranged Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, reach 20 ft., one target. Hit: 1d4 +2 + half the spell's level rounded down as bludgeoning Damage. On a successful hit the goblin also starts climbing on the creature.

Enter Wound As an action, while climbing on a creature that is at half or less hit points, the hemogoblin enters its wounds and attempts to counter its movements. While the hemogoblin has entered a wound it cannot take any actions. At the start of each of the target creatures' turns it takes 2d4 necrotic damage and has one randomly determined effect applied to it by rolling 1d4. A creature who has a hemogoblin in it can use its action to make a DC 10 medicine check ripping the hemogoblin out of its wound.

1: the creature loses one attack

2: the creature staggers 5 feet in a random direction

3: the creature falls prone

4: the creature makes an attack against a random creature within its reach as a free action.

4th Level Spells

5th Level Spells

Monk

Rogue

Improvised Armor

Improvised armors are just that, improvised. They don't function as well as armor fashioned by a craftsman, but can be made quickly, easily and cheaply from almost any available materials you come across. Due to their improvised nature they restrict your movement less than a full set of armor. Typically improvised armor is similar to normal armor, but 1 AC less than its non-improvised counterpart, but higher maximum dexterity limits

The biggest problem with improvised armor is they can rapidly fall apart under harsh use. Whenever you are critically struck your AC decreases by 1. If this AC reduction would bring its AC to 10 the armor breaks and falls to the ground at your feet. You can repair damaged or broken improvised armor by spending at least 1 minute per AC lost repairing your improvised armor. All improvised armors may or may not grant disadvantage on stealth checks. This depends entirely on their construction and DM Discretion. For the purposes of feats and other features, Improvised Armor counts as Medium Armor.

Boilerplate Quite simply this is a plate of metal, lid, or hatch that you have roughly fashioned to be worn with the intent of protecting your chest. AC 11 + Dexterity Modifier (max 3)

Human Billboard This armor can be planks of wood, or other sturdy material that hangs over your chest and back by means of a rope or chains that rest on your shoulders. Better examples have straps which keep these objects from flapping about by fastening them together at their bottom near your waist AC 13 + Dexterity Modifier (max 3)

Armored Clothing A coat, shirt, or other garment which you have stitched or otherwise attached metal plates/objects, wooden planks/sticks, or other similar sturdy objects to help block or lessen blows against you. Depending on your skills & DM Discretion this armor could be also considered "concealed" as it may not be visible. AC 14 + Dexterity Modifier (max 3).

Armor Scraps Scraps of armor, usually mismatched, damaged, or ill-fitting, but still it is actual armor. AC 16 + Dexterity Modifier (max 1)

Improvised Shield An improvised shield is anything you hold in your hand that can be used to deflect or absorb blows. Be it a pot lid, a broken chair, or some poor sod you grabbed earlier. AC +1

Sorcerer

Elemental Ascendance

Starting at 14th level, your body takes on more properties of your Elemental Heritage.

Fire Elementalist: You are able to superheat your body. While superheated you gain a flying (hover) speed equal to your walking speed. In addition you can pass through non-magical flames and other heated materials with no ill effect.

Water Elementalist: You are able to chill your body. While chilled you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed and the ability to breathe water, you can also “swim” through solid ice as if it were difficult terrain. In addition you also ignore the effects of cold weather and snowy/icy terrain.

Air Elementalist: You are able to electrify your body. While electrified you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed, or convert your body to electricity to “jump” to a metal object within your movement speed that you can see. This jump consumes your movement speed like normal, but is a teleport-like ability similar to misty step. . In addition you can also pass through non-magical electricity with no harm.

Earth Elementalist: You are able to harden your body. While hardened your body takes on aspects of dirt and stone and you gain a burrow speed equal to your walking speed when burrowing through earth and stone, this burrow speed does leave a tunnel through earth and stone you pass through. In addition, while burrowing you do not need to breathe, eat or drink as your body gains its nourishment from the surrounding earth and stone.

Elemental Mastery

At 18th level, you gain mastery over your Elemental Heritage. You gain the following benefits based on your Elemental heritage.

Fire Elementalist: You gain immunity to fire, and damaging spells and abilities you use penetrate fire immunity, converting such immunity into fire resistance. In addition you may grant a number of creatures resistance to fire equal to your Proficiency bonus for 1 hour. Once you do so you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

Water Elementalist: You gain immunity to cold damage, and damaging spells and abilities you use penetrate cold immunity, converting such immunity into cold resistance. In addition you may grant a number of creatures resistance to cold equal to your Proficiency bonus for 1 hour. Once you do so you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

Air Elementalist: You gain immunity to the damage type you selected at 6th level, and damaging spells and abilities you use penetrate that immunity, converting such immunity into resistance. In addition you may grant a number of creatures resistance to the selected damage type equal to your Proficiency bonus for 1 hour. Once you do so you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

Earth Elementalist: You gain immunity to the damage type you selected at 6th level, and damaging spells and abilities you use penetrate that immunity, converting such immunity into resistance. In addition you may grant a number of creatures resistance to the selected damage type equal to your Proficiency bonus for 1 hour. Once you do so you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

Warlock

Prestige Classes

Brawler

Brawlers, back alley fighters, bouncers. There are many names for those that can hold their own in a fight, regardless if a weapon is nearby. These individuals generally have led a rough life where fighting is commonplace. Through necessity or by choice you have foregone wielding weapons in favor of using your own body as a weapon.

Prerequisites

In order to advance as a Brawler, you must meet the following prerequisites (in addition to the multiclassing prerequisites for your existing class

• Strength 13 Brawlers need to be strong to punch their way out of any situation.
• Constitution 13 Brawlers generally have lived a hard knock life, and are able to take a punch because of it.
• Proficiency in the Athletics skill Brawlers know how to throw their muscle and weight around.
• Character 5th level A Brawler is a hardened individual, and you must be a 5th-level character before you can gain levels in the Brawler prestige class.

Class Features

As a Brawler, you gain the following class features.

Wand Slinger

Wing Slingers are sought after due to their ability to extend the use of magic items beyond what is normally possible. This culminates in the ability to use a magical item with charges longer than is normally possible. See the Class table below for specifics.

Prerequisites

In order to advance as a Wand Slinger, you must meet the following prerequisites (in addition to the multiclassing prerequisites for your existing class

• Dexterity 13 Wand Slingers need agile fingers, and quick reflexes for the extended use of magic items.
• Intelligence 13 Wand Slingers need a sharp mind and a deep understanding of the weave.
• Proficiency in the Arcana skill Wand Slingers are required to know how the weave is contained within a magical item.
• Character 5th level A Wand Slinger is an experienced individual, and you must be a 5th-level character before you can gain levels in the Wand Slinger prestige class.
• Ability to cast a 1st level spell OR have a magical item with charges You must have knowledge of how magic is cast, whether that is through learning, innately, or through the use of magical items.

Class Features

As a Wand Slinger, you gain the following class features.

Additional Starting class features

Expanding upon UA/Normal class options. All the below options are granted automatically (with DM approval), if your character would have something else that fits better with the theme/backstory ask your DM for potential alternatives.

Chapter 2: Equipment, Races & Feats

This chapter introduces new equipment, new & modified feats, and races. The highlight of this section is the "Build a Race workshop". Which I created in an effort to allow far more variety in the race selection process both for players & GMs.

This races currently includes more warforged variants, an entire system for custom building races from scratch. The Equipment section includes New Trade/ Artisan Expanded Weaponry, Exotic Armors & Weapons, Improvised Armors, and Firearms.

The Feats section contains a variety of feats which I have modified due to them being underwhelming, overwhelming, or just needing more options. It also includes an expansive list of new feats to cover a wide range of playstyles and character archetypes, as well as racial feats.

Warforged Revived v1.0

Warforged are constructs built for a purpose, and thus excel within the realms which their specifications lie. There are 3 main types of warforged, the hulking Chargers, the slim scouts, and the generalized Standard models.

Do note that this document was created prior to the now Official *** Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron *** This document can now be considered an alternate type of warforged.

Variant Traits/Thoughts on Balance

A dungeon master always needs to look at overall balance. Should this version of warforged be viewed as too strong when compared to others. A more Toned down version can use any or all of the following changes to best suit your DM's definition of balanced

• Base Warforged ASI: Change the +2 in con to a +1 in Con.
• Standard Warforged: Change the +2 in a stat, to 2 +1s which can’t increase a stat more than a total of +2 for this race.
• Remove the armor integration part from Composite Construction

Clarification

The Living Construct Trait says that warforged are immune to poisons from non magical sources. I personally consider mundane poisons to be anything that comes from a beast, or basic/improved poisons. If the poison comes from a spell, or any class of creature that is not a beast it is considered magical.

The Heavy Frame Trait states that any physical movement effect that is unwilling is reduced by 5 ft. Examples of this could be grappling, or knockback from creatures using physical prowess. But a spell or other magical effect that knocks you back would remain unchanged such as Thunder Wave or Eldritch blast with the one of the two movement invocations.

Build a Race Workshop

Gnome, Rock

• Ability Scores +3
• Size Small -0.5
• Speed 25 ft -0.5
• Creature Subtype: Gnome 0.25
• Darkvision 0.5
• Cunning 2.0
• Artificer Lore 0.5
• Tinkerer 0.75
• Grand Total of 6
• Number of Racial Traits 4

Goblin

• Ability Scores +3
• Size Small -0.5
• Speed 25 ft -0.5
• Creature Subtype: Goblin 0.25
• Darkvision 0.5
• Fury of the Small 0.75
• Nimble Escape 2.0
• 1 Extra Language 0.25
• Grand Total of 5.5
• Number of Racial Traits 3

The "Point" Shop

0.75 point racial trait

• AC +1
• Armored Speed: Your speed is not reduced by wearing heavy armor
• Artisan's Intuition: When you make an Arcana check or an ability check involving artisan's tools, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check.
• The Bigger They Are (WGE): When you cast a spell that affects only beasts, it also affects monstrosities with an Intelligence score of 3 or lower.
• Cantrip: You know one cantrip of your choice from the cleric or wizard spell list. The cantrip uses that class's spellcasting ability when you cast it.
• Charge: If you move at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with a melee weapon attack on the same turn, you can immediately follow that attack with a bonus action, making one attack against the target with your unarmed or natural weapon.
• Cunning Intuition: When you make a Charisma (Performance) or Dexterity (Stealth) check, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check.
• Darkvision T2 120ft with sunlight sensitivity
• Daunting Roar: As a bonus action, you can let out an especially menacing roar. Creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you that can hear you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn. The DC of the save equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
• Deductive Intuition (WGE): When you make an Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Insight) check, you can roll one Intuition die, a d4, and add the number rolled to the ability check.
• Earth Walk: You can move across difficult terrain made of earth or stone without expending extra movement.
• Ever Hospitable: When you make a Charisma (Persuasion) check or an ability check involving brewer's supplies or cook's utensils, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check.
• Feline Agility: Your reflexes and agility allow you to move with a burst of speed. When you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the turn. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns.
• Fey Ancestry: You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.
• Forceful Presence: You can use your understanding of creative diplomacy or intimidation to guide a conversation in your favor. When you make a Charisma (Intimidation or Persuasion) check, you can do so with advantage. Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
• Fury of the Small: When you damage a creature with an attack or a spell and the creature's size is larger than yours, you can cause the attack or spell to deal extra damage to the creature. The extra damage equals your level. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
• Gifted Scribe: When you make an Intelligence (History) check or an ability check using a calligrapher's supplies, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check.
• Grovel, Cower, and Beg: As an action on your turn, you can cower pathetically to distract nearby foes. Until the end of your next turn, your allies gain advantage on attack rolls against enemies within 10 feet of you that you can see. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
• Hammering blows: Immediately after you hit a creature with a melee attack as part of the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attempt to shove that target with your horns. The target must be no more than one size larger than you and within 5 feet of you. Unless it succeeds on a Strength saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier, you push it up to 10 feet away from you.
• Hold Breath: You can hold your breath for up to 1 hour at a time.
• HP per level +1
• Hunter's Intuition: When you make a Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check.
• Imprint Prey (WGE): As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The target is imprinted in your mind until it dies or you use this trait again. Alternatively, you can imprint a creature as your quarry whenever you succeed on a Wisdom (Survival) check to track it. When tracking your quarry, double the result of your Intuition die. When your quarry is within 60 feet of you, you have a sense of its location: it can’t be hidden from you, gains no benefit from invisibility, and your attacks against it ignore half cover. Once you use this trait, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
• Intuitive Motion (WGE): When you make a Strength (Athletics) check or any ability check to operate or maintain a land vehicle, you can roll one Intuition die, a d4, and add the number rolled to the ability check.
• Intuitive Motion: When you make a Dexterity (Acrobatics) check or any ability check to operate or maintain a land vehicle, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check.
• Kefnet's Blessing: You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any Intelligence check you make that doesn't already include your proficiency bonus.
• Keen Smell: Thanks to your sensitive nose, you have advantage on Wisdom (Perception), Wisdom (Survival), and Intelligence (Investigation) checks that involve smell.
• Mask of the Wild: You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.
• Wards and Seals (WGE): You can use your mark to cast the alarm spell as a ritual. Starting at 3rd level you can cast arcane lock once with this trait and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
• Medical Intuition: When you make a Wisdom (Medicine) check or an ability check using an herbalism kit, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check.

1.0 point racial traits

• Ability Score Increase x1 (can be selected up to 4 times with no ability score being increased beyond +2)
• Aggressive: As a bonus action, you can move up to your movement speed toward a hostile creature you can see or hear. You must end this move closer to the enemy than you started.
• Amphibious: You can breathe air and water.
• Breath Weapon: You can use your action to exhale destructive energy. This produces a 15 foot cone or a 30 ft line dealing damage from the following list: Fire, Cold, Acid, Lightning, Poison, Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing.
• When you use your breath weapon, each creature in the area of the exhalation must make a dex or constitution saving throw. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 2d6 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 16th level. After you use your breath weapon, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.
• Burrow Speed. You gain a +10 burrow speed which allows you to dig through dirt, or loose rock. (can be selected up to 3 times, & may never exceed your normal walking speed)
• Chameleon Skin: You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide.
• Dual Mind: You have advantage on all Wisdom saving throws.
• Dwarven Resilience: You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage.
• Determined Stride (WGE): When you use the Dash action, difficult terrain doesn’t cost you extra movement on that turn.
• Fey Step: As a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest. When you reach 3rd level, your Fey Step gains an additional effect based on your season; if the effect requires a saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier: For the additional effects see Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes page 61.
• Goring Rush: Immediately after you use the Dash action on your turn and move at least 20 feet, you can make one melee attack with your natural weapons that deal piercing damage as a bonus action.
• Healing Hands: As an action, you can touch a creature and cause it to regain a number of hit points equal to your level. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.
• Healing Touch (WGE): As an action, you can draw power from your dragonmark to spend one of your Hit Dice and revitalize yourself or a creature you touch. Roll the die, add your Wisdom modifier, and the creature regains a number of hit points equal to the total. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
• Incisive Sense: You have advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) and Wisdom (Insight) checks.
• Integrated Protection T1: You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class. You can don only armor with which you have proficiency. To don armor other than a shield, you must incorporate it into your body over the course of 1 hour, during which you remain in contact with the armor. To doff armor, you must spend 1 hour removing it. You can rest while donning or doffing armor in this way. While you live, the armor incorporated into your body can't be removed against your will.
• Lucky: When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll.
• Magecraft (WGE): You can create a temporary magic item out of common materials. Choose a cantrip from the wizard spell list. Describe the item connected to it. As long as you possess the item, you know that cantrip. At the end of a long rest, you can replace it with a new item and select a new cantrip from the wizard spell list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these cantrips.
• Mind Link: You can speak telepathically to any creature you can see, provided the creature is within a number of feet of you equal to 10 times your level. You don't need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic utterances, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language. When you're using this trait to speak telepathically to a creature, you can use your action to give that creature the ability to speak telepathically with you for 1 hour or until you end this effect as an action. To use this ability, the creature must be able to see you and must be within this trait's range. You can give this ability to only one creature at a time; giving it to a creature takes it away from another creature who has it.
• Mountain Born: You have resistance to cold damage. You're also acclimated to high altitude, including elevations above 20,000 feet.
• Natural Weapons T4: 1d10 + str or 1d8 with finesse, & pick one damage type: bludgeoning, slashing, or piercing
• Nimbleness: You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.
• Other Movement Speed +15 ft movement to climbing or swimming (can be selected up to 4 times, with neither movement speed exceeding your normal walking speed)
• Resistance: You gain resistance to a damage type.
• Sense Threats: You can cast the detect magic and detect poison and disease spells, but only as rituals. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
• Sentry's Rest: When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn't render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.
• Shared Passage: As a bonus action, and using your movement you may teleport up to your movement speed. You can also bring along 1 character who is your size or smaller who is not encumbered. Once per long rest.

1.5 point racial traits

• Telepathic Insight: Your mind's connection to the world around you strengthens your will. You have advantage on all Wisdom and Charisma saving throws.
• Spellsmith You know the mending cantrip. You can also cast the magic weapon spell with this trait. When you do so, the spell lasts for 1 hour and doesn't require concentration. Once you cast the spell with this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
• Vigilant Guardian (WGE): As an action, you can designate an ally you can see as your ward. You have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Wisdom (Perception) checks made to spot threats to your ward. In addition, when you are within 5 feet of your ward, and that creature is the target of an attack that you can see, you can use your reaction to swap places with your ward. When you do, you become the target of the attack.

2.0 point racial traits

• Animal Enhancement: Your body has been altered to incorporate certain animal characteristics. You choose one animal enhancement now and a second enhancement at 5th level. {See Guild Master's Guide to Ravnica for the options page 20}
• Aquatic Adaptation: You have a swimming speed of 30 feet, and you can breathe air and water.
• Artisan's Expertise: You gain proficiency with two kinds of artisan's tools of your choice. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies. In addition, whenever you make an Intelligence (History) check related to the origin of any architectural construction (including buildings, public works such as canals and aqueducts, and the massive cogwork that underlies much of the construction of Ghirapur), you are considered proficient in the History skill and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.
• Bloodthirst: You can drain blood and life energy from a willing creature, or one that is grappled by you, incapacitated, or restrained. Make a melee attack against the target. If you hit, you deal 1 piercing damage and 1d6 necrotic damage. The target's hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken, and you regain hit points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. You also get one of the two following abilities (Feat of Blood, or Null Creation)
  • Feast of Blood: When you drain blood with your Bloodthirst ability, you experience a surge of vitality. Your speed increases by 10 feet, and you gain advantage on Strength and Dexterity checks and saving throws for 1 minute.
  • Null Creation: The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. A humanoid killed in this way becomes a null.
• Cunning: Advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, & Charisma saving throws.
• Darkvision T2 120ft
• Feat: Select a feat (If you take this, the maximum number of Ability score increases you may select is limited to two)
• Flying Speed: You gain a flying speed of 30 ft. You can't use your flying speed while you wear medium or heavy armor. (If your campaign uses the variant rule for encumbrance, you can't use your flying speed if you are encumbered.)
• Hawkeyed: You have proficiency in the Perception skill. In addition, attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls.
• Innate Spellcasting: Choose 1 cantrip, 1st level spell, and 2nd level spell. The spell uses that class's spellcasting ability when you cast it. You must finish a long rest in order to cast the spell again using this trait. The class you select this from uses that class's spellcasting ability.
• Integrated protection: Your body has built-in protective layers, which determine your Armor Class. You gain no benefit from wearing armor, but if you are using a shield, you apply its bonus as normal. You can alter your body to enter different defensive modes; each time you finish a long rest, choose one mode to adopt from the Integrated Protection table, provided you meet the mode's prerequisite.

3.0 point racial traits

• Poisonous Skin: Any creature that grapples you or otherwise comes into direct contact with your skin must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with you can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. You can also apply this poison to any piercing weapon as part of an attack with that weapon, though when you hit the poison reacts differently. The target must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or take 2d4 poison damage.
• Constructed Resilience: You were created to have remarkable fortitude, represented by the following benefits:
  • You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
  • You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.
  • You are immune to disease.
  • You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep.
• Undead Fortitude: If damage reduces you to 0 hit points, you must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5+the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, you drop to 1 hit point instead. (Requires the undead racial trait)

4.0 point racial trait

• Flying speed T2 You gain a flying speed of 50 ft. To use this speed, you can't be wearing medium or heavy armor.
• Magic Resistance You have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Detrimental Racial Traits

"Unofficial" Racial traits

These traits are typically pulled from monsters from either official or unofficial sources that I think are cool.

Exotic Armor, Augments, And Weapons

Improvised Armor

Improvised armors are just that, improvised. They don't function as well as armor fashioned by a craftsman, but can be made quickly, easily and cheaply from almost any available materials you come across. Due to their improvised nature they restrict your movement less than a full set of armor. Typically improvised armor is similar to normal armor, but 1 AC less than its non-improvised counterpart, but higher maximum dexterity limits

The biggest problem with improvised armor is they can rapidly fall apart under harsh use. Whenever you are critically struck your AC decreases by 1. If this AC reduction would bring its AC to 10 the armor breaks and falls to the ground at your feet. You can repair damaged or broken improvised armor by spending at least 1 minute per AC lost repairing your improvised armor. All improvised armors may or may not grant disadvantage on stealth checks. This depends entirely on their construction and DM Discretion. For the purposes of feats and other features, Improvised Armor counts as Medium Armor.

Boilerplate Quite simply this is a plate of metal, lid, or hatch that you have roughly fashioned to be worn with the intent of protecting your chest. AC 11 + Dexterity Modifier (max 3)

Human Billboard This armor can be planks of wood, or other sturdy material that hangs over your chest and back by means of a rope or chains that rest on your shoulders. Better examples have straps which keep these objects from flapping about by fastening them together at their bottom near your waist AC 13 + Dexterity Modifier (max 3)

Armored Clothing A coat, shirt, or other garment which you have stitched or otherwise attached metal plates/objects, wooden planks/sticks, or other similar sturdy objects to help block or lessen blows against you. Depending on your skills & DM Discretion this armor could be also considered "concealed" as it may not be visible. AC 14 + Dexterity Modifier (max 3).

Armor Scraps Scraps of armor, usually mismatched, damaged, or ill-fitting, but still it is actual armor. AC 16 + Dexterity Modifier (max 1)

Improvised Shield An improvised shield is anything you hold in your hand that can be used to deflect or absorb blows. Be it a pot lid, a broken chair, or some poor sod you grabbed earlier. AC +1

New Tools

New and Expanded feat list

This section contains all the new & modified feats that I have made or run across. These feats are in addition to all normal WOTC feats, if a feat is within the "changed" section, I would allow either option, but you cannot select both.

Changed Feats

Linguist (Inspired by DawnforgedCast)

You have studied languages and codes, gaining the following benefits

• Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• you learn three languages of your choice.
• you can ably create written ciphers. Others can't decode it unless you teach them, or they pass an Intelligence check (DC Equal to your Int+prof bonus), or use magic to decipher it.
• You gain advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against any spells that are cast which utilize a vocal component and which are spoken in a language that you understand.
• You are able to communicate basic ideas and principles to any creature as long as they have a language and you have spent at least 1 hour with them.

Martial Adept (From Myself)

You have martial training that allows you to perform special combat maneuvers. You gain the following benefits:

• You learn two maneuvers of your choice from among those available to the Battle Master archetype in the fighter class. If a maneuver you use requires your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver's effects, the saving throw DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).
• If you already have superiority dice, you gain two more; otherwise, you have two superiority dice, which use a d6. These dice are used to fuel your maneuvers. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest.
• At 9th level you gain an additional superiority die.

Savage Attacker (From Myself)

Your melee and thrown weapon attacks become especially fierce.

• Your critical strike range with melee and thrown weapons increases by 1.
• Your Critical strikes with melee and thrown weapons deal additional damage depending on your character level. At 1st level this additional damage is 1d4, at 5th level becomes 1d6, at 11th level becomes 1d8, at 17th becomes 1d10
• Once per turn on a successful melee or thrown weapon attack, you may choose to have a single weapon damage dice roll their maximum amount. You must choose to do so before damage is applied, but can choose to do so after damage is rolled. Example d4=4, d6=6, d8=8, d10=10, d12=12. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, you regain all uses after you complete a short or long rest.

Sharpshooter (From Myself)

• Attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls.
• Your ranged weapon attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover.
• You gain proficiency with a single Simple or Martial Ranged Weapon. Before you make an attack with a ranged weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add +10 to the attack’s damage. You may only use this feature once per round. OR you gain +1 to your critical strike range on all ranged weapon attacks (choose when you take this feat)

Skilled (From Myself)

• Select up to 3 skills or tools and gain proficiency in them, OR
• Select 1 skill to gain expertise, and 1 skill or tool to gain proficiency

Spell Sniper (From Myself)

You have learned techniques to enhance your attacks with certain kinds of spells

• Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell
• When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell's range is doubled.
• Your ranged spell attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover.
• You learn one cantrip that requires an attack roll. Choose the cantrip from the bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list. Your spellcasting ability for this cantrip depends on the spell list you choose from.
• Before you make an attack with a spell that requires an attack roll, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add +10 to the attack’s damage. You may only use this feature once per round. OR you gain +1 to your critical strike range on all spell attacks (choose when you take this feat)

Tenacious (Inspired by DawnforgedCast)

This feat is a combination of Durable and Tough. It does not stack with either of these two feats.

• Increase your constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you roll a hit Die to regain hit points, the minimum number of hit points you regain from the roll equals twice your constitution modifier (minimum of 2)
• Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to twice your level when you gain this feat. Whenever you gain a level thereafter, your hit point maximum increases by an additional 2 hit points.
• You may continue to push yourself even when past the point of exhaustion. When you have 1 or more levels of exhaustion you can choose to push yourself for 1 hour. While pushing yourself you ignore the last level of exhaustion you have. After that hour you gain 1 additional level of exhaustion. You can never reach exhaustion level 6 by using this trait so long as you still eat and drink normally if needed.

Weapon Master (From Myself)

You have practiced extensively with a variety of weapons, gaining the following benefits

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Choose 4 weapons with which you are proficient, you gain an additional +1 to hit and +1 to damage with those weapons. You don't need to choose all 4 weapons at the time you select this feat.
• Once per rest you may choose one of the following options when it would apply.
• When you make the attack action you are able to make 1 additional attack
• Ignore disadvantage on attack rolls this turn
• You may use your reaction to roll your weapon's damage die and reduce damage dealt to you by that number.

Force of Destiny. (Inspired by DawnforgedCast)

• You are able to retain a number of DM Inspiration equal to your proficiency bonus, you may gift your Marks of Destiny to other party members without them, and, if you roll a one using your Destiny die, you may reroll it, taking the new roll

Friend of the Wild. (Inspired by DawnforgedCast)

You acquire an animal companion capable of being trained, which improves as long as you travel together.

• Requires a player level of 6 or higher.
• Choose one beast of Challenge 1 or lower.
• The animal companion adds a number of extra Hit Die to its health equal to one half of your level and adds half of your proficiency bonus to its attack rolls, damage rolls, armor class, and saving throws.
• These numbers change as your level and proficiency bonus increase
• If your Wild Companion dies, you may gain a new Wild Companion or resurrect your old one the same way a Beast Master Ranger does.

The selection of animal companions is reliant on DM approval

Grappling Master (From Myself)

This should probably replace the sad Grappler Feat….

• Prerequisite: 13 Strength
• You have advantage on attacks against your grappled target.
• As a bonus action you can deal your strength modifier in damage to one creature that you have grappled.
• You can use your action to try to pin a creature grappled by you. To do so, make another grapple check. If you succeed, you and the creature are both restrained until the grapple ends.
• As a Reaction to taking damage from a source that you can see, you may attempt to use your grappled target, so long as it is no more than 1 size smaller than you, to take the brunt of the attack. Make a contested Grapple check with disadvantage, while the grappled target has advantage. If you succeed, you take half of the damage from that attack, the grappled target takes the other half and the damage then escapes your grapple. On a Failure the target escapes your grapple.

Magic Novice (From Myself)

You seek more knowledge in the magical arts as it has proven useful

• Prerequisite: Magic Initiate, Ability Score of 11 for the casting modifier of the chosen class
• You gain a cantrip & level 2nd-level spell, with either a 1st-level spell, or a second 2nd-level spell. You must select these spells from the class you selected for magic initiate.
• The spell you gain from this feat is always cast at its lowest level, unless you expend the appropriate spell slot to cast it at a higher level. If you are a non-caster class, you must complete a long rest before you can cast the spell at ANY level again. Example: Arcane Trickster and Eldritch Knight can use spellslots to cast these spells if they selected Wizard
• Your spellcasting ability for these spells depends on the class you chose: Charisma for bard, sorcerer, or warlock; Wisdom for cleric or druid: or Intelligence for wizard.

Magic Apprentice (From Myself)

You think you are a real caster now!

• Prerequisite: Magic Novice, Ability Score of 13 for the casting modifier of the chosen class
• You gain a 3rd-level spell, and one additional spell from spell levels of 0-3. You must select these spells from the Magic Initiate class you initially choose.
• The spell you gain from this feat is always cast at its lowest level, unless you expend the appropriate spell slot to cast it at a higher level. If you are a non-caster class, you must complete a long rest before you can cast the spell at ANY level again. Example: Arcane Trickster and Eldritch Knight can use spellslots to cast these spells if they selected Wizard
• Your spellcasting ability for these spells depends on the class you chose: Charisma for bard, sorcerer, or warlock; Wisdom for cleric or druid: or Intelligence for wizard.

Magic Journeyman (From Myself)

People mistake you for that class due to your magical abilities at this point… Stop confusing the commoners

• Prerequisite: Magic Apprentice, Ability Score of 15 for the casting modifier of the chosen class

• You gain a 4th-level spell, and can select up to two additional spells from spell levels of 0-3, or you can select a second 4th-level spell. You must select these spells from the magic initiate class you initially choose.

• The spell you gain from this feat is always cast at its lowest level, unless you expend the appropriate spell slot to cast it at a higher level. If you are a non-caster class, you must complete a long rest before you can cast the spell at ANY level again. Example: Arcane Trickster and Eldritch Knight can use spellslots to cast these spells if they selected Wizard

• Your spellcasting ability for these spells depends on the class you chose: Charisma for bard, sorcerer, or warlock; Wisdom for cleric or druid: or Intelligence for wizard.

Mending Affinity (Inspired by Tal'Dorei)

Your body has begun to adapt extremely well to healing itself through extraordinary means, gifting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When a creature uses a healer’s kit to stabilize you when you are dying, you also regain hit points equal to your proficiency modifier.
• Whenever you regain hit points as a result of a spell, potion, or class ability, you regain additional hit points equal to your proficiency modifier.
• You have advantage on death saving throws and your "critical" success for death saves becomes 18-20.

Minor Infusion (From Myself)

You have been exposed to the intricacies of magical infusion at some point in your life and are now able to replicate them. As such you gain the following benefits

• Prerequisite: 5th level character, have at least a 1st level spell slot, and 15 int
• You gain a +1 to your intelligence score with a maximum of 20.
• You gain 1 infusion of your choice from the following list. Enhanced Arcane Focus/Defense/Weapon, Repeating Shot, or Returning Weapon.
• Whenever you gain a level in any class you can swap this infusion for any other on the above list.
• You must obey all rules for infused items.

Monkey Style (Inspired by various 3.5e rules)

You are unusually adept at wielding large weapons.

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20
• You ignore the Heavy trait on weapons if you are small.
• You may wield a 2 handed melee weapon in a single hand. Your other hand can wield a light weapon.

Rapid Drinker (Inspired by Tal'Dorei)

Through a lifestyle of hard, competitive drinking, you’ve learned how to quaff drinks at an incredibly accelerated pace. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution by 1, to a maximum of 20
• You can drink a potion as a Bonus action, instead of as an action. If you can already drink potions as a bonus action you may now administer potions as a bonus action and drink them using your object interaction.
• You have advantage on any saving throws triggered by ingesting an alcoholic or dangerous substance.

Reactionary. (Inspired by DawnforgedCast)

You are extremely aware of the movements and actions of your foes and can react quickly to even the most minor of mistakes that leave your foes vulnerable

• By expending all your reactions you may take one reaction when you are surprised.
• You may take an additional number of reactions during combat equal to half of your proficiency bonus rounded down.
• These additional reactions must be utilized for additional attacks of opportunity and each foe may be attacked only once per round with this reaction.

Second Skin (Inspired by DM Guild unknown author)

You've become so accustomed to wearing your armor that it no longer feels like it's there, granting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20
• You don and doff armor in half the normal time, or a quarter the time if assisted.
• You can don or doff a shield using your free item interaction on your turn, instead of as an action.
• While moving at half your normal speed or resting you do not take any penalties or disadvantages to your ability checks normally imposed by wearing medium or heavy armor.
• You ignore your worn armor's weight when calculating your encumbrance or carrying capacity.

Thrown Arms Master (Inspired by Tal'Dorei)

You’ve honed your ability to lob weaponry into the fray, including weapons not meant for ranged combat. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Simple and martial melee weapons without the thrown property can be treated as if they have the thrown property. One-handed weapons have a range of 20/60, while two-handed weapons have a range of 15/30.
• Weapons that naturally have the thrown property increase their range by +20/+40.
• When you miss with a thrown weapon attack using a light weapon, the weapon immediately boomerangs back into your grasp.
• You can use your reaction to deflect or catch a thrown weapon when you are hit by it. When you do so, the damage you take from the attack is reduced by 1d4 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier. If you reduce the damage to 0, you can catch the thrown weapon if it is small enough for you to hold in one hand and you have at least one hand free. If you already have a feature or item that grants this reaction, you may add your proficiency bonus to that roll.

Improved Cleave (Myself)

You have learned how to control the momentum of your melee strikes to strike adjacent foes when you fell your current target. You gain the following benefits:

• Requirement: Cleave Variant Rule from the DMG
• Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever an attack reduces a creature to 0 hit points, any excess damage from that attack might carry over to another nearby creature. Choose another creature within your reach (without moving), if your original attack roll -1 would still hit, any excess damage is applied to the selected creature. Repeat this process, with cumulative loss of to hit, carrying over the remaining damage until there are no valid targets, you miss, or until the damage carried over fails to reduce a creature to 0 hit points.
• If the attack reduces a creature to 0 hit points from full hp, you ignore the -1 to hit, and you may move up to 5 feet towards another target without expending any movement to cleave into a new target. You may only benefit from this free movement once per round, but may expend up to 5 feet of your movement to continue this cleave to another creature within your reach, you may repeat this until you can no longer cleave.

TPK Gaming inspired feats

Focused casting

You have focused so heavily on a single type of spells that they are even more potent than normal.

• Prerequisite: The ability to cast spells of 2nd level or higher.
• Choose one non-physical damage type (acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, psychic, radiant, thunder). Spells that deal this type of damage gain a +1 bonus to your spell dc, or a +1 bonus to your spell attack modifier, but not both if both would apply (choose either DC or to hit when you cast the spell, but before any rolls are made).

Know thy enemy

Your intense focus on a specific enemy type has garnered stunning results.

• Prerequisite: Intelligence or Wisdom of 15
• Your Wisdom, or Intelligence score increases by 1 (to a maximum of 20)
• Choose a type of subtype of enemy (Humanoids {Dwarves, or Elves}, Undead {Zombies, or Skeletons}, Dragons {Red, or White}, etc), you gain this subtype as a Favored Enemy.
• You add half of your proficiency bonus (rounded down), to your AC when attacked by your Favored Enemy.
• You add +1 to your damage rolls against your favored enemy

Master of your Craft

Through years of hard work and dedication, you are now recognized as a master within your field.

• Prerequisite: Proficiency in a tool, and Intelligence of 13
• Choose a specific artisan tool, this tool gains the following benefits.
• You craft objects and items using this tool at twice the rate as normal.
• Any check you make with these tools is made with advantage.
• When crafting weapons, or armor, make a DC 20 check with your tools. If you succeed this check, they gain the effects of having a +1 to hit and damage, but still do not count as magical for the purposes of resistances unless the item you are creating is also a magic item.
• When crafting consumable items (such as a potion of healing, acid, alchemist fire, etc) make a DC 20 check with your tools. If you succeed this check the consumable is more potent than normal. This potency translates as an increase of its die size by one, gain one additional die to their effect, and double the number of uses if they have multiple uses (such as with a healer's kit). Example would be a healing potion that succeeds this check would be 3d6+2 rather than 2d4+2
• Any crafted item can be designed however you want for aesthetic purposes, this will not affect its utility or use.

Spell Shield

You have learned how to force the weave to form a protective layer around you.

• Prerequisite: The ability to cast spells
• As a bonus action, you may choose to sacrifice a spell slot of 2nd level or higher and gain a +1 bonus to your AC. This bonus AC lasts for the next minute, or until you have negated a number of hits equal to the spell slot you expended due to this bonus AC.

When you expend a spell slot of 4th level or higher, this bonus AC increases by an additional +1 for every even spell slot level (4, 6, 8).

Racial Feats

Aasimar: All Consuming Light (From Myself)

Your celestial heritage has burdened you with a power that threatens to consume you.

• Prerequisite: Aasimar (Scourge) race
• Your "Radiant Consumption" trait now has a number of uses equal to your proficiency bonus, and can now be activated as a bonus action.
• While your "Radiant Consumption'' trait is active, creatures within the bright light you shed are more vulnerable to radiant damage. Whenever they take radiant damage, they take an additional amount equal to your Charisma modifier, this extra radiant damage ignores resistances.

Aasimar: Light of Life (From Myself)

Your celestial heritage is more closely tied with the restorative powers of the higher planes. Through intense inner focus you have unlocked greater powers of healing.

• Prerequisite: Aasimar race
• Increase your Wisdom or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20
• Your "Hands of Healing" trait now has a number of uses equal to your proficiency bonus.
• When you use your "Hands of Healing'' ability, you may choose to expend two uses of "Hands of Healing" instead of one to let a wave of healing light wash out from you. Each creature within 15 feet of you regains a number of hit points equal to half your level, rounded up.
• Lastly your "Hands of Healing" trait gains a 30 foot range.

Aasimar: True Terror (From Myself)

Your celestial heritage is more closely tied with the darkness that tainted those who fell from the higher planes. This corruption can be expanded through intense inner focus.

• Prerequisite: Aasimar (Fallen) race
• Your "Necrotic Shroud" trait now has a number of uses equal to your proficiency bonus, and can now be activated as a bonus action.
• Creatures frightened by your presence remain so until you can no longer see them and they save against your DC, or "Necrotic Shroud" ends.
• Additionally these creatures lose half of their movement speed while they can see you.

Changeling: Broad Knowledge (From Myself)

Having so many personas means that you have numerous skills that would come with them.

• Prerequisite: Changeling
• You gain 1 skill proficiency, and 1 tool proficiency.
• Choose 1 skill you are not proficient in, you gain advantage on ability checks with that skill.
• Chameleon Skin: While unarmored and wearing minimal or no clothing you can attempt to hide even while in plain sight so long as you are not being actively observed while attempting to hide as your skin takes on the appearance of your surroundings.

Changeling: Comfortable in their skin (From Myself)

You have grown accustomed to living in someone else's form.

• Prerequisite: Changeling
• You gain proficiency in the Deception skill. If you are already proficient in the skill, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it.
• You have advantage on Charisma (Deception) and Charisma (Performance) checks when trying to pass yourself off as a different person.
• You gain the "Unsettling Visage" trait. When a creature you can see makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the roll. Using this trait reveals your shape shifting nature to any creature within 30 feet that can see you. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
• If you kill a humanoid with a non-ranged attack, you gain access to some of their memories that will aid you in passing yourself off as them. Such as basic mannerisms and friends/family members' names. You gain a +5 to deception or performance checks to pass yourself off as that person.

Firbolg: Destroyer of Nature (From Myself)

You have turned your ties with nature against it.

• Prerequisite: Firbolg
• Increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Wisdom by 1, to a maximum of 20
• When attacking beast or plant creatures you have advantage to hit. When a beast or plant creature is making a saving throw against a DC of yours, they have disadvantage against that saving throw.
• You learn the cantrip Bonfire with the following modifications: It automatically spreads to nearby non-creature plants within 5 feet of the bonfire. If a plant creature fails its saving throw against bonfire, it catches on fire. Plants that are on fire from your Bonfire burn as if they were part of the bonfire cantrip. Each additional round you maintain concentration the fire can spread another 5 feet to nearby plants. When you lose concentration or the spell ends all fires go out.

Gith: Greater Psionics (From Myself)

You are particularly adept at psionics.

• Prerequisite: Gith
• You gain the following spells: Starting at first level you gain Mind Sliver & Sword Burst. Starting at 5th level, you can cast Tasha's Mind Whip, and starting at 9th level, you can also cast Phantasmal Killer. Once you cast a spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest or expend the appropriate spell slot to do so again. Intelligence or Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells. These spells do not count against your spells or cantrips known or prepared.

Gith: Otherworldly Training (From Myself)

You have spent time training with your fellow gith.

• Prerequisite: Gith
• Increase one ability ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20
• You gain one of the following traits based on which type of Gith you are.
• Githzerai: Monastic Training. You gain a +1 bonus to AC while you aren't wearing medium or heavy armor and aren't using a shield. Many githzerai receive basic training from monks, and the monks among them are unmatched in their defensive abilities.
• Githyanki: Decadent Mastery. You learn one language of your choice, and you are proficient with one skill or tool of your choice. In the timeless city of Tu'narath, githyanki have bountiful time to master odd bits of knowledge.

Gnoll: Plains Hunter (From Myself)

You are accustomed to long distance running and short distance dashing from your time hunting with your pack.

• Prerequisite: Gnoll
• Increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution by 1, to a maximum of 20
• You may take the Dash action as a bonus action.
• You may move at a Fast travel speed without any of the detriments that normally come from it.

Gnoll: Bloodlust (From Myself)

You revel in battle and sometimes your frenzy overtakes you.

• Prerequisite: Gnoll
• Increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution by 1, to a maximum of 20
• You gain a bite attack. This bite attack deals 1d4 piercing damage and uses strength for your attack and damage modifiers. If you already have a bite attack, this feature increases its die size by 1.
• You gain the Rampage trait. When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on your turn, you can take a bonus action to move up to half your speed and make a bite attack.

Goblin: Position Swap (From Myself)

You use your small frame and sneaky nature to avoid blows against you.

• Prerequisite: Goblin
• Increase your Dexterity, or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20
• When a creature you can see targets you with an attack, you may choose another creature within 5 feet of yourself. Make a deception or sleight of hand check contested by the other creature's insight or perception check. If you win the skill contest you swap places with that creature, and the chosen creature becomes the target instead. You may only use this feature successfully once per short or long rest. You may attempt to use this feature again if you fail the skill contest.

Goblin: Trapper (From myself, inspired by Revenge of the Horde's Forest Goblin Trapper)

You were the trapper for your clan, as such you have great familiarity with laying and spotting traps.

• You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks made to detect the presence of traps.
• You have advantage on saving throws made to avoid or resist traps.
• You have resistance to the damage dealt by traps.
• You can set the following traps as a bonus action instead of as an action. Ball Bearings, Caltrops, and Hunting Traps.
• You can craft one of the following traps so long as you have access to basic materials such as wood, string, metal, or plant material. Hunting Trap, Punji Sticks, Trip Wire, Snare Trap.

Goliath: Larger than Most (From Myself)

The blood of giants flows through your veins, suddenly manifesting in a sudden growth spurt.

• Prerequisite: Goliath, 5th level
• Your size increases to large, you gain an additional 2d4 height in feet and 10d20 pounds in weight.
• You can now catch and throw rocks (boulders). You gain proficiency with these improvised weapons. Rocks and Boulders use your strength modifier for attack and damage rolls, have a range of 40/120 and deal 3d6 bludgeoning damage on hit. As a reaction to being the target of a thrown rock/boulder thrown by a creature your size or smaller, you can make an athletics check contested by the attack roll, if you win the contest you catch the rock/boulder and take no damage.
• You may now wield "Large size weapons" in addition to normal size weapons.

Goliath: Mountain’s Endurance (Inspired by Adam Bradford's Expanded Racial Feats)

Your ability to shrug off some injuries is legendary, even for your race.

• Prerequisite: Goliath
• Increase your Strength or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you use your Stone’s Endurance trait as a reaction to reduce damage, you now may choose to roll 3d4 instead of 1d12, while still adding your Constitution modifier. Alternatively, you can choose to gain resistance to the triggering attack’s damage type until the start of your next turn. If the triggering attack deals more than one type of damage, choose one. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, regaining all uses when you complete a short or long rest.

Grung: Poison Dart Frog (From Myself)

You are more closely related to highly poisonous frogs than that of your kin.

• Prerequisite: Grung
• Your "Poisonous Skin" trait becomes far more potent. Any creature that grapples you or otherwise comes into direct contact with your skin must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 1d6 poison damage and become poisoned for 1 minute. At the start of your turn any enemy that is still holding you takes an additional 1d6 poison damage. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with you can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. You can also apply this poison to any piercing weapon as part of an attack with that weapon, though when you hit the poison reacts differently. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw taking 3d6 poison damage on a failed saving throw or half on a successful save.
• Additionally your standing or running high jump is increased to 10 feet plus your strength or dexterity modifier, while your standing or running long jump is now 20 feet plus your strength or dexterity modifier.

Grung: Poison Toad (From Myself)

You have grown larger than your kin.

• Prerequisite: Grung, 5th level
• Your size becomes Medium, and your Movement speed increases by 5 feet.
• You gain a bite attack. This bite attack can use your Strength or Dexterity for the attack and damage rolls. On hit you deal 1d4 piercing and 1d6 poison damage, and the target is grappled (Escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, you can't bite another target. If you hit the same creature that you are grappling with your bite with another bite, and they are your size or smaller, you start to swallow them, restraining them in the process.
• While swallowing a creature that is one size smaller than you are, and you hit them with another bite attack, they are swallowed and your grapple ends on them. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the toad, and it takes 2d6 acid damage at the start of each of your turns. You can have only one target swallowed at a time. If you take more than 10 damage in a single turn from the swallowed creature you must make a DC 5 + the damage dealt constitution saving throw. On a failure you throw up the swallowed creature.

Hobgoblin: Breed for War (From Myself)

You were born and raised for the Hobgoblin war machine. As such you gain the following traits.

• Prerequisite: Hobgoblin
• When you make a weapon attack while within 5 feet of an ally, you gain 1d4 bonus to the attack roll.
• Formation Fighting: You are trained to fight in close formations where each soldier is responsible for the defense of those around them. When you are wielding a melee weapon or shield and aren’t incapacitated, allies within five feet of you gain a +1 bonus to their AC.
• If you already have this trait, you also gain the +1 AC.

Hobgoblin: War Magic (From Myself)

You were born and raised for the Hobgoblin war machine. As such you gain the following traits.

• Prerequisite: Hobgoblin
• When you cast a spell that affects an area, you may choose a number of creatures of your choice equal to your proficiency bonus, the selected creatures automatically succeed any saving throw against the spell you cast. You may use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus.
• When a creature within 15 feet of you casts a spell, you may expend your reaction and to amplify the effects of that spell. The spell gains 2d4 to its effects. You may use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus.
• You gain the ability to cast Aganazzar's Scorcher. You can cast this spell without expending a spell slot. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can't cast that spell in this way again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast this spell using spell slots you have of the appropriate level. Intelligence is your casting modifier for this spell.

Kalashtar: Dreamless (From Myself)

The spirit who is a part of you has taken a greater hold of you than normal.

• Prerequisite: Kalishtar
• Increase your Wisdom or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You no longer need to sleep, you may instead spend time you normally would sleep doing light activities.
• You gain the ability to cast Dream, but without the ability to make the messenger monstrous until you reach 9th level. You can cast this spell without expending a spell slot. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can't cast that spell in this way again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast this spell using spell slots you have of the appropriate level. Wisdom or Charisma is your casting modifier for this spell.

Kalashtar: Mind Delver (From Myself)

The spirit within you greedily delves for the knowledge hidden within other's minds.

• Prerequisite: Kalishtar
• Increase your Wisdom or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• • You gain the ability to cast Detect Thoughts without any Verbal, Somatic, or Material Components. When you do so using this feature, on a target you have Mind Linked with, that creature has disadvantage on any Wisdom Saving throw from Detect Thoughts, and doesn't realize you are delving their mind even on a success. You can cast this spell without expending a spell slot. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can't cast that spell in this way again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast this spell using spell slots you have of the appropriate level. Wisdom or Charisma is your casting modifier for this spell.

Kenku: Expert Lookout (From Myself)

Your sordid past has given you skills which others find enviable.

• Prerequisite: Kenku
• You gain proficiency in the Perception Skill. If you are already proficient in the skill, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it.
• While your allies are at least 30 feet away from you, and you are on lookout, you gain advantage on any perception checks to detect either danger or the law and you cannot be surprised.

Kenku: Information Relay (From Myself)

Your sordid past has given you skills which others find enviable.

• Prerequisite: Kenku
• You gain proficiency in the Deception Skill. If you are already proficient in the skill, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it.
• You can cause your voice to come from a location you can see within 30 feet of you.
• You can read any text within 30 feet of you, so long as it is in a language you know, if it is visible to you.
• As a bonus action, you can attempt to misdirect a creature within 30 feet of you. That creature must make an Insight check versus your Deception check, if you succeed, the next attack against that creature before the start of your next turn gains advantage. If you fail the check, the creature is immune to your misdirection for the next minute.

Kobold: All that glitters (From Myself)

Your heritage has granted you unique insights on how to find treasure.

• Prerequisite: Kobold
• Increase your Wisdom or Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you make an ability check to find treasure, you have advantage on that ability check.
• Whenever you find treasure you are able to scrounge up an additional 1d10 * your proficiency bonus in additional monetary pieces (such as gold, gems or other shiny objects).
• When you are resting on a "horde" you gain the effects of a long rest after spending a short rest, you may only receive this benefit once per week.

Kobold: Urd (From Myself)

Whether through evolution, magical manipulation, alchemical modification, or a fluke you have gained a set of wings.

• Prerequisite: Kobold
• You gain a 30 foot flying speed.
• You gain the ability to drop rocks on your enemies, as an attack you may drop a rock on a target directly below you. This attack uses your strength or dexterity modifier for the attack roll & damage (your choice). On hit the rock does 1d6 damage.

Leonin: Catlike Reflexes (From Myself)

You have embraced your lion heritage more so than your kin.

• Prerequisite: Leonin
• Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you take falling damage you may use your reaction to reduce the damage you take by 5 * your proficiency bonus and land on your feet. If you have the "Slow Fall" feature, this feature further reduces falling damage you take.
• While you are hidden, you may spend an action to ready a pounce. When a creature enters a space within 15 feet of you, you may choose to pounce, which allows you to jump up to 15 feet and perform a melee attack with your claws or a melee weapon which you are holding. If this pounce hits, the target must succeed a DC 13 strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

Leonin: Vicious Claws (From Myself)

Your claws are long and can secrete a poisonous substance.

• Prerequisite: Leonin
• When you attack with your claws you deal 2d4 slashing and the target must make a Constitution saving throw against your constitution DC (8 + Constitution Modifier + Proficiency Bonus) taking 1d6 poison damage on a failure.
• Whenever you critically strike with your claws the target takes an additional 2d6 slashing damage.
• Additionally you gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

Lizardfolk: Diverse Heritage (From Myself)

Lizardfolk come from many different areas, as such they have gained different traits.

• Prerequisite: Lizardfolk
• Increase an ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Additionally, choose one of the follow traits
• Blackscale: Whenever you make a successful melee attack with an unarmed or natural weapon you deal additional damage equal to your proficiency bonus as acid damage.
• Desert: You lose your swimming speed, but gain a 15 foot burrow speed and you ignore the effects of environmental extreme heat .
• Poison Dusk: You are never at risk of harming yourself when harvesting or applying poisons to weapons. Additionally you may apply poisons as a bonus action.

Lizardfolk: Tough Scales (From Myself)

Your scales are especially tough that help protect you against blows.

• Prerequisite: Lizardfolk
• Whenever you are using your natural armor to calculate your AC, you may also add half your Constitution modifier (rounded down) to your AC.
• Whenever you are using any other calculation for AC, you may further increase your AC by 1.
• Whenever you take non-magical slashing, piercing, or bludgeoning damage, you may reduce that damage by 3.

Locathah: Hardy Mucous Membrane (From Myself)

You have become adapted to living on land.

• Prerequisite: Locathah
• Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your Limited Amphibiousness trait has changed to the following: You can breathe air and water, but you need to be submerged at least once every 24 hours to avoid suffocating.
• If you were submerged in water within the last 8 hours, you are especially slimy and hard to grab. You have advantage on any check to resist or escape grapples & restraining effects. If an attack includes a grapple or restrain on hit, you may make a dexterity saving throw versus the attack roll, on a success you are not grappled or restrained.

Locathah: Sea Magic (From Myself)

You have the power of the sea flowing through you.

• Prerequisite: Locathah
• You gain the following spells: Starting at first level you gain Shape Water & Create or Destroy Water. Starting at 5th level, you can cast Water Breathing & Wall of Water, and starting at 9th level, you can also cast Control Water & Watery Sphere. Once you cast a spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest or expend the appropriate spell slot to do so again. Intelligence or Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells. These spells do not count against your spells or cantrips known or prepared.

Loxodon: Bull Elephant (From Myself)

You have grown to be significantly larger than your kin.

• Prerequisite: Loxodon & 5th level
• Your size increases to large, you gain an additional 2d4 height in feet and 10d20 pounds in weight.
• You may choose to walk using your arms in addition to your legs on your turn. When doing so you may not use weapons that turn, but gain an additional 10 feet to your movement speed. When walking on all 4 limbs, you also gain a Stomp Attack which uses your Strength modifier for the attack and damage rolls and deals 2d10 bludgeoning damage on hit. In addition you gain the following trait.
• Trampling Charge: If you move at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and then hit it with a stomp attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 12 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, you can make one stomp attack against it as a bonus action.
• You may now wield "Large size weapons" in addition to normal size weapons.

Loxodon: Thick Hide (From Myself)

Your hide is especially thick and it helps protect you against blows.

• Prerequisite: Loxodon
• Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you are using your Natural Armor trait, the calculation becomes 14 + your Constitution modifier
• Whenever you take non-magical slashing, piercing, or bludgeoning damage, you may reduce that damage by 3.

Minotaur: Maze Walker (From Myself)

You have an exceedingly good memory for the paths you have walked.

• Prerequisite: Minotaur
• Increase your Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You can always retrace your steps without fail, unless you were teleported or made lost via magical means.
• You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks made to detect the presence of traps.

Minotaur: Raging Bull (From Myself)

You have embraced the fury that comes with your heritage.

• Prerequisite: Minotaur, and 5th level
• Your size increases to large, you gain an additional 2d4 height in feet and 10d20 pounds in weight.
• You gain the ability to enter a "Blind Rage" as a reaction to taking damage. This Blind Rage lasts until the end of your next turn. While in this blind rage, you have disadvantage on perception checks, and you may deal extra damage equal to your proficiency bonus on a melee attack once per turn.
• Additionally, If you have the "Barbarian Rage" feature, you gain one additional use of it.

Orc: Berserker (From Myself, Inspired by Revenge of the Horde)

You have an anger problem, but it helps solve other problems.

• Prerequisite: Orc
• Brutal: Once per round, when you roll minimum damage with a successful melee weapon attack, you can roll the weapon’s damage dice again, adding that to the total damage.
• Healing Rage: Once per day you may heal a number of hit points equal to 5 times your proficiency bonus as a bonus action.
• Pain Powered Strikes: When you are below 25% of your maximum hit point total, you may make one additional attack when you take the attack action.

Orc: Raider (From Myself)

You lived or worked with an Orcish Raiding party.

• Prerequisite: Orc
• When you make a successful attack with a melee weapon, you may add 1d6 additional damage once per turn.
• You deal "siege" damage to doors and barricades.
• Traveling at a fast pace doesn't impose the normal -5 penalty on your passive Wisdom (Perception) score.
• You may travel for 4 additional hours before being subjected to the effects from a "Forced March".
• When you find a settlement or group of people, you can spend an hour watching them to learn the following information: The number of "warriors", their normal patrol routes, and an estimated difficulty of a raid on them.

Satyr: Life of the Party (From Myself)

You have spent much time partying and making merry.

• Prerequisite: Satyr
• Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Over the course of a short rest you can prepare and throw a small party for up to 6 willing creatures. Those who partake in the party regain one additional class feature more than normal or the first hit die they spend has its effect doubled (their choice).
• Whenever you attend a party, or gathering you are able to gather information much easier as you talk with the participants.
• Additionally any Charisma ability checks you make during a party are made with advantage.

Satyr: Talented Musician (From Myself)

You have spent much time playing instruments to wile away the time.

• Prerequisite: Satyr
• Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency in 3 instruments of your choice.
• You gain advantage on any check which requires playing an instrument or making/using music.

Shifter: Beast Kin (From Myself)

You feel as much at ease with beasts as you do with anything else.

• Prerequisite: Shifter
• You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with beasts. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them.
• You gain the ability to cast Animal Messenger & Summon Beast. Once you cast a spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest or expend the appropriate spell slot to do so again. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells. These spells do not count against your spells known or prepared.

Shifter: Weretouched protection (From Myself)

Your heritage does involve lycanthropy.

• Prerequisite: Shifter
• Increase your Strength, Dexterity or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• The number of temporary hit points you gain when you shift is doubled
• Whenever you take non-magical slashing, piercing, or bludgeoning damage, you may reduce that damage by 3.

Simic Hybrid: Additional Enhancements (From Myself)

Additional enhancements have recently been made.

• Prerequisite: Simic Hybrid
• Choose two of the following traits
• Increase one Ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain 1 additional arm that functions like any other.
• Limited Regeneration: you regain 1 hp per hour, and lost limbs will grow back over the course of 2 weeks.
• Chameleon Skin: When you are stationary for 1 minute or more, your skin blends in with your surroundings granting you advantage on stealth checks which require sight. When you move your skin reverts to its normal coloration.
• Squishy: You can squeeze through gaps and holes that are 1 foot across or more.
• Keen Ears: You gain advantage on perception checks that require hearing.
• Keen Eyes: You gain advantage on perception checks that require sight.
• Keen Nose: You gain advantage on perception checks that require smell.

Simic Hybrid: Ultimate Enhancement (From Myself)

You have gained one final enhancement.

• Prerequisite: Simic Hybrid, prerequisite 10th level.
• Increase one Ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain one of the following traits
  • Breath Attack: As an action, you can release a breath attack. Each creature in a 30-foot cone must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 6d6 fire, cold, or lightning damage (your choice) on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This damage increases by 2d6 when you reach 14th level (8d6) and 17th level (10d6). You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.
  • Wings: You gain a 50 ft flying speed. If you are wearing heavy armor this speed is reduced by 10 feet.
  • Burrowing: You gain a 20 ft burrow speed through dirt & stone.
  • Tremorsense: You gain a 20 ft tremorsense

Tabaxi: Cat’s Grace (From Myself)

Your feline heritage has granted you additional abilities.

• Prerequisite: Tabaxi
• Increase your Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you take falling damage, make a Dex save with a DC = to the falling damage. On a success you reduce the falling damage to 0 and land on your feet.
• You may use your Feline Agility feature changes to the following: Your reflexes and agility allow you to move with a burst of speed. This ability has two charges, when you move on your turn in combat, you may expend a charge to double your speed until the end of the turn. Whenever you move 0 feet on one of your turns you regain 1 charge. You may only extend one charge per turn.

Tabaxi: Cat’s Claws (From Myself)

Your feline heritage has granted you additional abilities.

• Prerequisite: Tabaxi
• Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your claws now deal 2d4 damage, and gain the finesse trait. Additionally, while you are grappling or restrained, you have advantage to hit the target which is grappling or restraining you with your claws.

Tortle: Venerable Tortoise (From Myself)

Through change in mindset, your metabolism, and aging now similarly match your non-sentient tortoise kin.

• Prerequisite: Tortle
• You lose 10 feet of movement speed.
• You gain resistance to poison damage and immunity to disease.
• You can now live to be 200 years old.
• You ignore the effects of old age.
• As your life progresses you constantly grow. At 50 years old you are now considered large, and may wield large weapons.
• At 150 years old your shell has become especially hard, your natural armor class is now 19.

Tortle: Snapping Turtle (From Myself)

You are more closely related to snapping turtles.

• Prerequisite: Tortle
• Increase your Strength or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain a bite attack with a range of 5 feet. This bite attack uses your strength modifier for attack and damage rolls. On hit you deal 1d8 piercing damage. You may use this attack while you are retracted into your shell.

Triton: Depth Dweller (From Myself)

You spent a long time towards the bottom of seas and oceans.

• Prerequisite: Triton
• Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain a darkvision of 60 feet, while underwater this darkvision increases to 120 feet.
• While underwater, you have advantage on perception checks to spot creatures which are hiding from you.

Triton: Inquisitive Collector (From Myself)

You greatly enjoy finding and acquiring curios for your collection

• Prerequisite: Triton
• Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When performing an ability check related to the lore or use of items which you can hold you have advantage on those ability checks.
• When searching ruins and debris you have advantage on any ability check to find items.
• You can accurately determine the origin and rough price of most objects.
• Your affinity for items has granted you one additional attunement slot.

Vedalken: Pursuit of Perfection (From Myself)

Your endless search to achieve the perfection that is always out of reach has granted you vast stores of knowledge

• Prerequisite: Vedalken
• Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Choose a skill or tool you are proficient in. This skill or tool now can use your intelligence instead of its original ability score. Additionally, You gain a number of "perfection" charges equal to your proficiency bonus. Before you make an ability check with your selected skill or tool you may choose to expend one of these charges to have rolled a 15 on your d20. You must choose to do so before making the ability check.

Vedalken: Embracing Failure (From Myself)

You understand that failure is but a part of the journey to an unreachable state of perfection.

• Prerequisite: Vedalken
• Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you fail an ability check with a skill or tool you are proficient in you gain a "failure counter". When you reach 5 failure counters, you gain one "Failure Charge". You may store a number of "Failure Charges" equal to your proficiency bonus. Whenever you fail an ability check with a skill or tool you are proficient in, you may expend your reaction and a "Failure Charge" to change your d20 roll to a 10, possibly turning a failure into a success.

Verdan: Chaos Theory (From Myself)

You were born from the chaos, which That-Which-Endures briefly held back.

• Prerequisite: Verdan, & 5th level.
• You gain the ability to cast Alter Self as an "At Will" spell. When you cast this spell with this trait, this spell does not require concentration, and the effects last until you choose them to end, but you cannot choose to use the Natural Weapon feature. You may choose to cast Alter Self normally, once you cast this spell normally with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest or expend the appropriate spell slot to do so again. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells. These spells do not count against your spells known or prepared.
• Additionally, you undergo one an additional mutation. This mutation grants you one feature of your choice from the list below.
  • You gain dark vision with a range of 60 feet.
  • You gain the ability to psychically ward yourself from harm. By expending your reaction you gain a +2 to your armor class or to a saving throw to the triggering effect. You can do so a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus and you regain all uses whenever you complete a short or long rest.
  • You gain +5 to your movement speed

Verdan: Fit into many groups (From Myself)

Your friendly and innocent nature allows you to easily fit into any group.

• Prerequisite: Verdan
• Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain expertise in the Persuasion skill.
• Additionally, you may use your Persuasion skill to become "Friendly" with individuals who would normally not be open to such relationships. The option and DC for this ability is up to DM discretion, not all individuals can be made "friendly" towards you.

Warforged: Built for Destruction (From Myself)

Through modifications you have made, come across, or just now gained access to you gain the following traits.

• Prerequisite: Warforged, 5th level
• Your size increases to large, you gain an additional 2d4 height in feet and 10d20 pounds in weight.
• When attacking objects and structures you deal Siege damage (Double damage). In addition, effects which move you against your will are reduced by 5 feet, or cost an additional 5 feet.
• You may now wield "Large size weapons" in addition to normal size weapons.

Warforged: Built to Last (From Myself)

Through modifications you have made, come across, or just now gained access to you gain the following traits.

• Prerequisite: Warforged
• You gain 1 additional hit point per level
• You gain one of the following 3 "modifications"
  • Terra Forged (Earth, Wood, Stone): You gain the following conditional immunities: Poisoned, Petrified, your form can not be altered against your will, and You gain tremor sense with a range of 10 feet.
  • Mithril Forged: Your movement speed increases by 5 feet, and you gain advantage on stealth checks to move silently.
  • Adamantine Forged: You are considered to be wearing Adamantine armor at all times (Critical strikes deal regular rather than critical damage)

Yuan-Ti: Coldblooded Cruelty (From Myself)

Your heritage has left you cold hearted.

• Prerequisite: Yuan-Ti
• When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points, you may expend your reaction to cast a cantrip or make a weapon attack against another creature within 30 feet of you that was an ally of the creature that was reduced to 0 hp.
• You gain advantage to resist the frightened condition, and advantage on intimidation checks.

Yuan-Ti Pureblood: Snakeblood (From Myself)

You have gained enough power to ascend to a higher rank of Yuan-Ti.

• Prerequisite: Yuan-Ti
• You gain the "Shapechanger" subtype & trait.
• You can use your action to polymorph into a Medium snake, or back into your true form. Your statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment you are wearing or carrying isn't transformed. You do not change form if you die.
• You gain a bite attack. This bite attack uses your Strength modifier for its attack and damage rolls. On hit it deals 1d4 piercing and 1d6 poison damage.

Index of new terminology

Chapter 3: Spells

This chapter introduces new spells for most classes, although primarily focusing on Arcane casters. The spells currently range from cantrips to 5th level spells.

Most spells on this list may be taken by Wizards, Sorcerers, or Warlocks (and Artificers if Artificers are allowed in your world). These four casters will be referred to as Arcane Casters for the purpose of this document. There are exceptions to this, and it will be noted right below the spell's name in bold text, primarily to expand those spells to the other caster classes.

Do note that if a spell has the (Modified) tag at the end of the spell name this spell is only available to those who would have it on their spell list normally. If the spell has (X Replacement) then this spell is intended to replace that spell. So far this only covers Fireball and Lightning bolt as both are massively outside the power curve, with both being the equivalent of 5th level spells at 3rd level both in area covered and damage dealt. Most replacements are meant to be "normalized" damage and more suited to the level at which they belong.

For me, normalizing a spell's damage generally means tossing a bunch of d4s at the problem until the expected average damage is around the same level as the recommended dice according to the DMG. This solves two issues, the wild inconsistency with few, but large dice, while still allowing for variance in damage dealt rather than just saying it deals X damage.

Regardless, this document is intended to fix spells which I feel are either below the curve, or above the curve in relative power, as per the DMG on page 283-284. As well as there are a few new spells which follow those base rules.

Cantrips

Throw Voice

0-level Transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: S, M (a cone with both ends open)
• Duration: 1 Round

You have learned how to both amplify and throw your voice to a location of your choosing through the aid of magic. While this spell lasts creatures hear your voice coming from a point of your choosing within range. As part of this check you can also change the volume of your voice to moderately quieter or louder than you are normally capable of. Creatures may make an insight or perception check versus your spell dc, alternatively they may make an intelligence saving throw (their choice) to see through this trick.

This spell increases its casting range by 10 feet when you reach 5th level (40 feet), 11th level (50 feet), and 17th level (60 feet).

True Strike (Modified)

0-level Divination

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You extend your hand and point a finger at a target in range. This spell differs from other spells as it is simply pointing at a target thus some targets might not realize this is a spell, while other creatures might assume any pointing is a spell. Make a spellcasting check (adding your proficiency bonus if you are proficient with insight), with a DC equal to 10 + the Challenge Rating of the creature (minimum of 1). On a successful check, your magic grants you a brief insight into the target’s defenses. For the next minute, or until you have made a number of attack rolls equal to your proficiency bonus, you gain advantage on your attack rolls against the target. The spell ends once you run out of advantaged attack rolls, or your concentration ends.

Wind Strike

0-level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: S, M (a melee weapon worth at least 1 sp)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You have learned how to augment your melee weapon attacks with magic granting them extended reach. Make a melee weapon attack as normal against a creature within 30 feet that you can see and is not behind total cover, doing so sends out a burst of wind at the target. This attack is a melee weapon attack, but the target creature would also be granted the benefits from cover as if it were a ranged weapon attack, and you suffer any detrimental effects to the attack roll as if you were making a ranged attack. If there are any creatures in this line they must make a dexterity saving throw against your spell dc to dodge this attack, on a failure they become the target of the attack instead. On hit the target takes damage as if you had struck them with a melee weapon attack as normal.

This spell's damage increases when you reach certain levels. At 5th level, the spell causes the melee weapon attack to deal an extra 1d8 slashing damage to the target on a hit. The damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level (2d8) and 17th level (3d8 ).

First Level Spells

Poison Nova

1st-level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (10 foot radius)
• Components: S, M (A rotten egg, or a poisonous mushroom)
• Duration: Instantaneous

Each creature in a 10 foot radius centered on you must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d8 poison damage. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage.

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st, and if they fail the constitution saving throw they are poisoned until the end of that creature's turn. If cast at 6th level or higher the creature is also stunned, a creature who is immune to poison or the poisoned condition is immune to the stun.

Witch Bolt (Modified)

1st-level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, M V, S, M (a twig from a tree that has been struck by lightning)
• Duration: Instantaneous

A beam of crackling, blue energy lances out toward a creature within range, forming a sustained arc of lightning between you and the target. Make a ranged spell attack against that creature. On a hit, the target takes 1d12 lightning damage, and on each of your turns for the duration, you can use your action to deal 1d12 lightning damage to the target automatically. The spell ends if you use your action to do anything else. The spell also ends if the target is ever outside the spell’s range at the end of your turn, or if it has total cover from you at any point.

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the initial damage increases by 1d12 for each slot level above 1st. At the end of your following turns you lose 1d12 damage to a minimum of 1d12 as the spell slowly weakens.

Second Level Spells

Third Level Spells

Manufacture

3rd-level Transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You convert raw materials into products of the same material. For example you could manufacture a ladder from a small pile of planks, or a crossbow from a pile of wood, iron, and hemp.

Choose raw materials that you can touch. You can manufacture a Medium or smaller object (contained within a 5 ft cube, or up to 25 square feet of connected material), given a sufficient quantity of raw material. If you are working with metal, stone, or another mineral substance, however, the fabricated object can be no larger than Small (contained within a single 5-foot cube). The quality of objects made by the spell is commensurate with the quality of the raw materials.

Creatures, objects that are currently being worn/carried, or magic items can’t be created or transmuted by this spell. You also can’t use it to create items that ordinarily require a high degree of craftsmanship, such as jewelry, weapons, glass, or armor, unless you have proficiency with the type of artisan’s tools used to craft such objects.

Fourth Level Spells

Fifth Level Spells

Prosthesis (Altered from a Reddit post)

5th-level Transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 hour
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a non-magical object of similar shape and size to the body part being replaced, worth at least 1000g which the spell consumes)
• Duration: 30 days

Throughout the casting time you touch one creature and hold the object against them in the space that the body part they are missing would be. During this process you inscribe arcane runes onto the object, which binds it to the creature. For the duration, the object acts as a replacement for the creature's missing body part, magically kept in place and reacting to mental commands as their missing limb would normally. The creature can remove the object as an action, which ceases to react to their mental commands. It can be re-attached as an action and functions as normal for the remaining duration.

While within an area where magic ceases to function, such as an anti-magic field or a null magic zone, the object doesn't react to commands given to it and does not remain magically connected to the creature.

When the spell ends the Prosthesis part falls off and is rendered non-magical. It may be salvaged for half of its initial value, or repaired and used again for this spell on the same creature for at a cost of 1g/day it was used as a Prosthesis.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell with a spell slot of higher level, the duration increases to 90 days with a 6th level slot, 180 days with a 7th level slot, and lasts until dispelled if cast with a 8th level slot.

Summon Modron

5th-level Conjuration

• Casting Time: Action
• Range: self (20 ft radius)
• Components: V, S, M (a component of a pentadrone who gave it willingly)
• Duration: 1 minute, concentration

The caster creates a rift to Mechanius. This rift pulls through a random squad of modron at the start of each of the caster's turns. If 20 or more "Modron" are summoned, any additional summons replace the most damaged or lowest health units.

These Modron are view the caster as a Modron of 1 rank higher than themselves for the duration of the spell, thus accepting any orders the caster gives them. The caster may use a bonus action to command all modron to do one task, or subdivide the tasks out per "rank" of modron. If no bonus action is taken to command the Modron, they act in accordance to their nature, continue the previously given task, or take the dodge action (DM discretion)

These modron take their turn immediately after the caster. When this spell ends all modron are forcibly recalled to Mechanus.

At the start of each turn roll the following dice. 1d4-2, 1d6-2, 1d8-2, 2d6-2, & 4d4-2. The Modron that appear are Penta Drone, Quadron, Tridron, Duodron, and Monodron in that order.

Chapter 4: Gm's Workshop

This chapter is for all the GM's out there. The first section is my "Standard" general homebrew compendium. Each campaign I run gets slightly different rules based on the world and game setting, but for the most part the rules present here are used.

The next section is about Gestalt characters which was a ruleset for previous editions which has not had an official implementation as of yet. This is my take on how Gestalt characters should be made for 5th edition. For those who do not know, a Gestalt character is a character that gains a level in two separate classes whenever they would normally level up.

General Homebrew Rules

This section is a compiled list of all the "normal" house rules I use in every game I run.

Racial Dark Vision, ASI Adjustment options

Spells

Full Caster Spell Points by level

Additional Action Options

Flanking

Cinematic Flanking Rules

• The player(s) must state how they wish to gain advantage via flanking. This could be jumping off a banister, swinging from a rope, coordinating with fellow players to "taunt" a creature to focus on only one of them, or any other such action which might be advantageous. Based on what the player(s) are attempting to do the DC and skill check will be decided by the GM. If the player gains flanking, they only gain it for that turn, and only for up to two attacks. On a failure, the player(s) have left themselves open to attack, and the first attack against that player(s) is made with advantage.

This variation of flanking is intended to make combat feel more dynamic and engaging, while sparking creative uses of the environment for the players/gm, while not stepping on the toes of other abilities such as Reckless Attack, stealth, or a variety of spells, which standard flanking rules laugh at as flanking is so easy to obtain.

Additional Action Options (271)

Climbing onto larger creature can be done by grappling, or If the size difference is large enough, a creature can attempt to climb the larger creature.

After making any ability checks necessary to get into position and onto the larger creature, the smaller creature uses a variant grapple attack and makes a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check contested by the target's Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. If it wins the contest, the smaller creature successfully moves into the target creature's space and clings to its body. While in the target's space, the smaller creature moves with the target and has advantage on attack rolls against it. The smaller creature can move around within the larger creature's space, treating the space as difficult terrain. The larger creature's ability to attack the smaller creature depends on the smaller creature's location, and is left to your description. The larger creature can dislodge the smaller creature as an action- knocking it off, scraping it against a wall, or grabbing and throwing it- by making a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the smaller creature's Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. The smaller creature chooses which ability to use.

Disarm A creature can use a weapon attack to knock a weapon or another item from a target's grasp. The attacker makes an attack roll contested by the target's Strength (Athletics) check or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. If the attacker wins the contest, the attack causes no damage or other ill effect, but the defender drops the item. The attacker has disadvantage on its attack roll if the target is holding the item with two or more hands. The target has advantage on its ability check if it is larger than the attacking creature, or disadvantage if it is smaller.

Overrun When a creature tries to move through a hostile creature's space, the mover can try to force its way through by overrunning the hostile creature. As an action or a bonus action, the mover makes a Strength (Athletics) check contested by the hostile creature's Strength (Athletics) check. The creature attempting the overrun has advantage on this check if it is larger than the hostile creature, or disadvantage if it is smaller. If the mover wins the contest, it can move through the hostile creature's space once this turn.

Shove Aside With this option, a creature uses the special shove attack from the Player's Handbook to force a target to the side, rather than away. The attacker has disadvantage on its Strength (Athletics) check when it does so. If that check is successful, the attacker moves the target 5 feet to a different space within its reach.

Tumble A creature can try to tumble through a hostile creature's space, ducking and weaving past the opponent. As an action or a bonus action, the tumbler makes a Dexterity (Acrobatics) check contested by the hostile creature's Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. If the tumbler wins the contest, it can move through the hostile creature's space once this turn.

Dodge

When you take the dodge action, in addition to its normal effects, you also gain advantage on acrobatics or athletics checks to repel grapel attempts. Note this does not change how you break an already established grapel.

Critical Strikes

• Roll Critical strikes as normal using vanilla rules.

Daily Powers/abilities

These are specially created abilities that will be gained through extraordinary circumstances, personal quests, quest rewards, rare tutors etc. If you are looking for inspiration on these types of abilities, consult 4th edition's daily powers.

Rest Rules

Various Miscellaneous Rules

Ripper Docs & Tattoo Attunement

Ripper docs come in one of two varieties, legal, and back alley. Each has their own benefits and detriments.

What a ripper doc does is replace some part of you with a magi-tech replacement. These replacements can do a variety of things, but due to the stress on the body there are a limited number of augmentations/replacements that can be done. This number is equal to your constitution modifier (minimum of 1).

Augments/replacements can be replaced, but if for example you replaced your entire arm with plasma cannon, you aren't getting that arm back, although you can always get a suitable replacement from the spell Prosthesis or from other powerful casters through Regenerate.

Tattoo magical items are utilizing their UA version of attunement. Any number of tattoos on you that require attunement only require a single attunement slot. Refer to the following tatoo chart for their body space requirement.

Encumbrance

We will be utilizing this variant rule.

The rules for lifting and carrying are intentionally simple. Here is a variant if you are looking for more detailed rules for determining how a character is hindered by the weight of equipment. When you use this variant, ignore the Strength column of the Armor table.

If you carry weight in excess of 5 times your Strength score, you are encumbered, which means your speed drops by 10 feet.

If you carry weight in excess of 10 times your Strength score, up to your maximum carrying capacity, you are instead heavily encumbered, which means your speed drops by 20 feet and you have disadvantage on ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws that use Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution.

Additionally, worn armor only weighs half as much as the listed weight when calculating encumbrance.

Treasure Tokens (Adventure league ripoff with modifications)

Treasure tokens is a new form of currency that can be gained from completing objectives/quests, doing favors, or other such actions. Additionally these tokens will be gained by turning in the cores or components of monsters you slay. The core's/components value is determined by their CR.

These tokens can be exchanged for magical items, or for gold (player's choice).

There are four tiers of points that can be acquired. T1 points can only be spent on t1 items, T2 points can be spent on either t2 or t1 items etc.

Most adventurer's "bank" their tokens with the primary guild or in some other institution. Purchasing tokens for gold is frowned upon as the tokens are a measure of one's skill.

Gestalt Ruleset

Chapter 5: Magic Items

This chapter is all about magic items. Most of these items are of my own creation which have been used throughout my campaigns. Some come from the rules of other GMs I have been a player for, while the rest were created by my players, either as a cool idea or as something for their characters.

Do note that I do not go by the WOTC standard of magical item rarity. I go by a personal philosophy that the rarer or more powerful the item it is, the higher "table" that item should belong to. This is reflected in my "Magic item tables" at the very end of this document, where tables and indexes really belong.

Magical Spheres, Tandy Wands

Spheres: Modular Magic Items

Sphere Rarity and Effects examples

Alternatively instead of choosing one of the effects listed below, you may select effects from magic items from WoTC published sources that match the rarity of the sphere. Note that if a sphere that contains such a property becomes damaged the effect might be destroyed or also damaged (subject to DM ruling).

Note the + to DC only applies to warlock spells.

Purchasing spheres (Optional)

If allowed, a gnomish merchant named Tim, or something far more gnomish may appear in town (90-100 on a d100 roll) that can sell these spheres. The spheres available are completely up to the DM, as are the costs, but here are some general rolling rules. (I suggest using a dice roller... for your own sanity)

Sphere Elemental types & Overcoming resistances

A sphere can grant a weapon/armor a bonus to damage or damage negation, or change it to be that element type. If a piece of gear is changed to that elemental type it now deals that elemental type, or grants resistance to that element.

When a sphere is inserted into a weapon, it only makes the weapon's damage "magical" for the purposes of overcoming resistances if the rarity of highest sphere inserted is at least Rare. Any damage added by a sphere such as +1/2 damage of x type is considered magical for the purposes of overcoming resistances.

Unstable combinations (Optional)

Spheres can be combined. To do so a player/creature must use their action to push the two spheres together. To determine the result of this action, roll 1d20.

• On a roll of 13 or higher the spheres combine taking up a number of slots = to the previous total of both spheres or 3, whichever is lower.
• On a roll of 12 or lower, roll an additional 1d20, on a 10 or higher have the player choose one sphere to save, while the other loses 3 quality levels. The saved sphere loses 1 quality level. On a 9 or lower GM determines which sphere loses 3 quality levels, and the other loses 1 quality level.
• On a roll of 9 or less GM rolls or determines which sphere loses 3 quality levels, the other loses 2 quality levels.
• On a roll of 5 or less gm determines if both gems lose 3 quality levels.

If a sphere's quality drops to 0 or less it explodes violently. As per the Inserting and Removing spheres section this deals a base 5d10 force damage. For each quality level lost directly prior to its explosion, add one more d10 of force damage. This damage cannot be negated or resisted in any way.

When spheres combine, their quality level is the average of the gems involved. For example if a Cracked (1) combines with a Perfect (5) then the new quality of the sphere is an Exceptional (3). This combination always rounds down. So if a (2) and a (3) combine, the new combo sphere will be a quality of (2).

Additionally if there are two different elemental or physical damage types present on the combined sphere refer to the table below for a new effect (Subject to GM Approval)

Tandy Wands, Wands for the common man!