Class Features

As a Yahrnam Hunter you gain the following benefits:

Blood of Yahrnam

As a hunter you begin your journey with a transfusion of the healing blood of Yahrnam, the experience is traumatizing, filled with terrible dreams and feverish hallucinations and uneasiness. Many don't survive the process, but you certainly did, but the experience signed you both physically and mentally. Upon gaining this feature, you may assign a +2 to a physical ability score (choose among Strength, Dexterity or Constitution) or you may split it in two +1 to separate physical scores. However your mind remains forever scarred by the experience post transfusion, therefore you have to assign a -1 to one of your mental ability score (choose among Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma). Your physique is at the apex of its form, therefore your physical ability scores may reach 24, but your mind will never recover from the horrors it has seen, therefore your mental score can't go higher than 18. As a hunter, you become immune to any form of non magical illness.

Firearms Proficiency

Firearms are very different from the traditional ranged weapons, they use peculiar quicksilver bullets imbued in the hunter's blood as ammo. This is made so the projectiles do an incredible amount of damage to the hunter's prey. As a hunter, when you use a firearm you may add your dexterity modifier to the damage roll. As an attack action, the hunter may hit with a melee weapon and the shoot with your firearm as a bonus action.

As a hunter, you may choose upon character creation to take one of the 2 simple firearms as starting weapon, then you have to buy or craft the others in order to upgrade.

• Bullets consumed Indicates the amount of quicksilver bullets consumed per fire shot.
• Magazine Indicates the amount of bullets that can be fired before needing to reload the weapon.
• Weapon Type Indicates the accessibility and rarity of a weapon (some special weapons follow unique rules). Simple weapons are available upon character creation, while advanced and special weapons are available later in the game as they represent the apex of hunter's technology.
• Reloading You can reload a firearms in 2 ways: by giving up your movement, you may fill the entire magazine with bullets, or you can use a bonus action to load up to 5 bullets.
• Gatling This weapon has a special rule, if you shoot with it, you have to stay still and focus to keep a steady aim, furthermore your entire attack action is used upon firing the weapon.

Insight Points

As a hunter, you become to tap into the eldritch powers inherited with the blood of Yahrnam, this allows you to surpass the limits of your own mortal mind, seeing things that would normally be invisible and unlocking a limited arcane potential. You unlock a pool of insight points that gradually increases with your hunter level (according to the class table), these points allow you to cast a limited amount of spells and to use magical effects specific to the hunter class. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability, if any spell has a saving throw its DC is 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier. If you have any spell attack you use your Wisdom modifier + your proficiency bonus to determine the roll to hit. You regain the expended insight points after a long rest. You can cast the following spells by paying the amount of insight points:

• Hunter's Mark (1 point)
• Longstrider (1 point)
• Blur (2 points)
• Misty Step (2 points)
• Haste (3 points)

In additions to the previous spells you gain the following spell like effects, accessible only to hunters:

• Beast Roar (2 points): As a bonus action, you touch your vocal chords infusing them with eldritch energy, unleashing a bestial roar that deafens the enemies and push them 10 feet away, unless they pass a Strength saving throw. If an enemy fail the save by 5 or more its knocked prone after being pushed. A successful save negates all the ill effects.
• Accursed Brew (2 points) As an action, you focus arcane and nefarious energy into you hand and can shoot it as a projectile with a 30 feet range. You make a ranged spell attack, on a successful hit the target takes 10 (3d6) poison damage. This damage increases by 1d6 for each 4 hunter levels you possess.
• Blacksky Eye (1 point) As an action, you fire a projectile of arcane energy from your eyes, hitting an enemy within 60 feet of you. You roll a ranged spell attack and deal 1d8 force damage on a successful hit. This damage increases by 1d8 for each 4 hunter levels you possess.
• Empty Phantasm Shell (3 points) As a bonus action, you infuse your melee weapon with arcane energy, making it a +1 magical weapon. This bonus lasts a number of rounds equal to your wisdom modifier. This spell like effect is considered like a concentration spell.
• Executioner's Gloves (3 points) As an action, you summon 3 vindicative spirits made of pure flame that can chase up to 3 different enemies. The targets have to roll a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d6 fire damage per spirit hitting them.
• Tornitus Static (2 points) As a bonus action, you imbue your melee weapon with lightning. For a number of rounds equal to your Wisdom modifier, your attacks deal 1d6 extra lightning damage. Treat this effect as a concentration spell.
• Tornitus Lightning (5 points) As an action, you make a ranged spell attack and cast a powerful bolt dealing 18(4d8) lightning damage on a successful hit, to an enemy within 60 feet.
• Choir Bell (3 points) You may cast lesser restoration, but only on yourself.
• Choir Remedy (5 points) You may cast greater restoration, but only on yourself.
• Augur of Ebrietas (5 points) As an action, you may summon spectral tentacles and tendrils to hit an enemy within 15 feet of you. Targets in the area of effect of the augur have to roll a Strength saving throw or take 13 (3d8) force damage and be knocked prone. A successful save halves the damage and negates the knocking down.
• Grasp of Ebrietas (3 points) As an action, you summon the tentacles and tendrils of Ebrietas to grapple enemies within 15 feet of you. You make an opposing Athletics check using your Wisdom modifier instead of your Strength, to grapple an enemy. Treat this effect as a concentration spell to keep the tendrils materialized. Furthermore, while holding the tentacles active, you may not use your off-hand weapon. Losing concentration makes the tentacles disappear.
• Madaras Call (4 points) As an action, you whistle summoning a large spectral snake that bites an enemy within 30 feet of you. The target has to roll a Dexterity saving throw or take 18 (4d8) piercing and force damage.
• A Call Beyond (7 points) As an action, you raise your hands to the sky, calling the power of the ancient astral beings. A nova of arcane energy explodes, shooting 8 projectiles working as the spell "magic missile" dealing 1d4+1 force damage per projectile.

Hunter's Archetype

Starting level 3rd, you may choose among 3 Hunter's Archetype: Arcanist, Beast or Gunslinger. You gain benefits from your archetype at level 7th, 15th and 20th. (See the specific pages for more info)

Hunter's Prey

As a hunter you face the horrors that haunt Yahrnam, spacing between crazed humanoids, blood starved monstrosities and eldritch horrors. As you gain experience fighting them, you are more proficient into dealing extreme damage to them. Your first attack each round against an enemy applies the following effects:

• Starting level 3rd you gain humanoids as your chosen prey. This class feature allows you to inflict 2 bonus damage to the creatures of the chosen type.
• Starting level 6th, you gain monstrosities as chosen prey, your bonus damage dealt to humanoids and monstrosities is increased to 4.
• Starting level 13th, you gain aberrations as chosen enemy and your bonus damage against them and the previous chosen preys is increased to 6.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. (Remember the limitations and the boost coming from the Yahrnam's Blood Trait)

Extra Attack

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

Hunter's Speed

Starting level 6th, you start to master your enhanced senses and physique, your speed reaches beyond human levels, therefore you gain proficiency in the Dexterity saving throw and you gain an additional 10 feet of movement.

Hunter's Runes

You gain access to the Runes of Caryll, which are ancient eldritch words from the language of great old ones holding extreme power. Starting level 9th, the at level 18th, you may choose one of the following runes and receive the corresponding benefit by painting them on your body:

Hunter's Riposte

When you are targeted by an enemy attack and successfully perform a Hunter's Dodge, instead of moving 5 feet in an adjacent square, you may counterattack the enemy, by shooting it with your firearm or off-hand weapon. If you manage to hit the enemy with these attack, you have advantage on your next roll to hit against said enemy.

Visceral Attack

Starting level 10th, when you score a critical hit, you roll an extra die of damage.

Brutal Critical

Starting level 11th, you score critical hits on a roll of 19 or 20.

Blood Tribute

Starting level 14th, you are able to tap into your bestial bloodlust, therefore inflicting wounds upon your enemies partially heal you. Note down the amount of hit points for the current round, you are able to recover half of the hit points lost in this way by dealing damage with you melee weapon attacks to the enemies. If you don't recover the maximum amount of hit points allowed by this feat, you are unable to recover them in the following turn. You reset the counter for the next turn.

Monster's Slayer

Starting level 14th, you are used to killing creatures far bigger and stronger than you. For this reason you gain advantage on rolls to hit creatures that are bigger than you. (Other option, you gain advantage against your chosen preys)

Blood Alchemy

Yahrnam blood is a mysterious mixture created with profane alchemy, after a long study you are able to imitate the formula, but not replicating it to perfection (it means you aren't able to create other hunters). Starting level 17th, you may craft these peculiar blood vials from enemy remains, they function as regular healing potions and cost half their price to craft. If you use the blood vials, you regain a number of hit points according to the potion level, meanwhile normal creatures who don't possess the blood of Yahrnam have a violent reaction or refusal, they start puking and most likely will contract an illness carried by the creature used to make the blood vials.

Hunter's Archetypes

Hunter's Trick Weapons

Trick weapons count as weapons the hunters (and hunters only) are proficient with, with only few exceptions. These weapons are divided in tiers and that makes their price or rarity to go up. A hunter may choose one trick weapons among the basic ones if he/she wants, then to upgrade said weapon it needs a special smith that is capable to treat the weapon correctly without breaking the mechanism to transform it. Transforming a trick weapon requires a bonus action, the same goes for any special ability that replaces the transformation. If the weapon forces a saving throw, the DC is equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + you dexterity or strength modifier. Almost all weapons may be used both with strength or dexterity except the ones who are two handed and heavy, that obviously require strength to be wielded.

Legendary Weapons

These weapons belonged to Legendary hunters, therefore they are harder to come by or find by chance. Maybe some of them can be associated with quests or specific requests from important NPCs. If these are available in shops they should be prized possessions and treated as at least rare items with a cost of at least 500 gp up to a maximum of 1000 gp and no more.

• Burial Blade Legendary weapon belonging to German the First Hunter, this curved sword deals 1d8 slashing damage. When transformed becomes a scythe that deals 1d12 slashing damage and can be used to trip the opponents as a bonus action after hitting with an attack. Furthermore, while in scythe form you gain 5 feet of extra range and you may score a critical hit on a 19 or 20.
• Ludwig's Holy Blade: A longword hilt/greatsword sheath combo that deal respectively 1d8 (1 handed) or 1d10 (2 handed) slashing damage and 2d6 slashing damage. You may use a bonus action to put the longsword in its sheath and use it as a greatsword. The same applies to the opposite (unsheating the longsword and use it as such).
• Simon's Bow-Blade A curved blade dealing 1d8 slashing damge. When transformed becomes a longbow, dealing 1d8 piercing damage. It may use both arrows or quciksilver bullets to fire.
• Whirling Saw A weapon built by heretics, functioning as a mace dealing 1d8 bludgeoning damage. When transformed it gains 5 feet of extra range and becomes a circular saw dealing 1d10 slashing damge. As a bonus action after successfully hitting an enemy you may have the saw start spinning and deal another 1d10 slashing damage without needing a roll to hit.