Class Features

As a clown, you gain the following class features

Persona

At 3rd level, you begin to form your clown persona and choose what form of clown you will be: Act of Acrobat, Act of Cheerleader, Act of Comic, Act of Harlequinn, Act of Jester, Act of Mascot, Act of Mime, Act of Pierrot, or Act of Ringmaster each of which is detailed at the end of the class's description. Your choice grants you features at 6th level and again at 10th level, 14th level, and climaxing at the powerful Dying feature at 20th level.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 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. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Joy and Terror

Starting at 4th level, you are able to exploit the danger a creature would be in with humor or with terror. When a creature would take halved damage from a spell due to resistance or succeeding a dexterity saving throw, you may use your reaction to cast the spell Cause Fear or Tasha's Hideous Laughter on that creature as if it were a prepared clown spell. You may use your momentum die to increase that spells spell save DC.

Visage

At 5th level, you have perfected the make up of your clown guise. At the end of a long rest or the start of your day, you can apply make up using your disguise kit. While the make up is on, your stealth checks are made with disadvantage and your performance checks are made with advantage. You can take 10 minutes or a long rest to remove this make up, while it is not applied, your stealth checks are made with advantage instead.

This make up remains even when you would take facial injury, be doused in water or ice, or if your body is completely destroyed, the make up remaining on whatever is left of your face.

Theatrics

Starting at 5th level, your body has grown flexible and limber enough to disadvantage other's abilities when they would try to harm you. When an attack would miss you or you would take the dodge action on your turn, you can spend a momentum die to use your reaction, making all creatures that would attack you or cast a spell that would put you in their target's range to decrease their attack roll or Spell save DC by that amount.

Entertainer's Cap

At 6th level you have finally earned your entertainer's cap, a hat of your own specification, made majorily of cloth that is always on your person and cannot be lost. When worn, this cap grants only one of the three following effects until the end of your next long rest.

• You can cast 2 cantrips as an action per turn.
• You can roll Charisma as your saving throw instead of Strength, Constitution, Wisdom, or Intelligence.

Bonk

Upon reaching 7th level, you become a talented crafter of rubber or balloon weaponry. If you or an ally would hit with a weapon from your Prop Work feature, you can either treat that as a successful shove action regardless of the creature's size, a weapon that deals force damage equal to your Charisma modifier, or successfully deafen the creature if possible and deal 2d6 thunder damage to that creature. The damage can be increased by spending your momentum die.

If this attack would be a critical, instead, knock out the creature if it has less hit points than twice your clown level or incapacitate the creature and deal force damage equal to your Charisma modifier.

Bounce

Starting 7th level, you are a great deal more bouncy than the average humanoid. If you would take fall damage and land on another creature, that creature takes the fall damage instead. If you would take fall damage and not land on a creature, you bounce that many feet in any direction instead and any creature or object you collide with shares the remainder feet in damage on a failed Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, if they succeed you take the damage alone.

The DC or damage can be increased by spending your momentum die.

Honk

Beginning at 9th level, you learn how to let out a menacing honk that terrifies all. As an action, you let out a deafening honk and creatures within a 40 foot circle originating from your position must make a constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, they take 4d6 thunder damage, become deafened, and gain disadvantage on their next attack. On a success, if they are already deafened, or if their ears are covered beforehand, they take half as much damage and no other effects.

The DC or damage can be increased by spending your momentum die.

Assimilate

At 9th level you can reach into the inner clown that exists in all people. As an action, make a performance check against the Wisdom of a number of targets equal to your proficiency. Those you succeed against become charmed and must dance, juggle, do handstands, or laugh instead of making their movement action. They fall prone when trying to use a bonus action or reaction, and they must make a Wisdom Saving Throw against your spell save DC to escape this charm. If they succeed they cannot be charmed this way for 24 hours.

Surprising Depths

Starting at 12th level, you have a knack for switching your personality to better match the situation you are in, befuddling enemies. Once per short rest, when you would choose to fail a Charisma or Wisdom saving throw, you can choose to not be charmed, frightened, or to be teleported to a distance of up to 60 feet in any direction you wish. Make a performance check against the caster or attacker's perception, if they succeed they see through your ruse, if they fail, they are non the wiser.

Prestige

At 13th level, you have become recognized for the clown you are. Through trial and tribulation, you are now able to spend your downtime to perform for others and your name is known for miles, you earn enough to support a Aristocratic lifestyle (10 gp minumum per performance).

Your props granted by the Prop Work feature do not expire unless actively destroyed.

You gain an additional proficiency to any two skills you are already proficient in.

When casting a 1st level clown spell, if it does not deal any damage, you may expend a momentum die to cast it as a 3rd level spell, this still expends a 1st level spellslot. Casting of a higher spell slot than 3 for these would still use the new spell slot cast.

For Example, if you cast color spray as a 4th level spell it uses a 4th level spell slot, but if you cast it as a 3rd level spell it only uses a 1st level spell slot.

Applause

Beginning at 14th level, you are the star attraction of any stage, whether it would be the stage of battle or the theatrical stage. As bonus action you can grant a momentum die to as many friendly creatures as you like up to the maximum you are storing.

They may expend this die as a reaction to increase their AC (until the end of the turn), Spell save DC (until the end of the turn), Attack, Movement Speed, or Saving Throw roll. Granting momentum dice counts as having expended them for you and others cannot store more than one momentum die.

Curtain Call

Starting 17th level, with a dazzle of magical light that sparks the emotions of others. While of combat, you and your allies may make a collective performance check. All hostile or potentially hostile creatures within 150 feet now see you and must make a collective wisdom saving throw. If you succeed, they are surprised and each party member who agreed to making the check gains a Momentum Die. If you fail, you gain momentum dice equal to the number of party members who helped.

Crashendo

At 18th level, you explode into a cosmic inferno of emotional energy, damaging, enthralling, and scaring all that view your splendorous act. Once per long rest, as an action, all creatures that can see you must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. You can increase this DC using your momentum die.

All creatures that are hostile towards you that fail must attack you for their action or move closer to try to attack you and gain disadvantage on attacking any other creature, 10 feet less movement speed attacking any other creature, and grants advantage to other creatures that would roll saving throws for their spells and features.

All creatures that are hostile towards you that succeed become frightened by you.

All creatures that are friendly towards you that fail gain the Sentinel feature, the Pack Tactics feature, and deal an additional 2d6 thunder damage to their attacks.

All creatures that are indifferent towards you or are friendly and succeed become charmed by you.

These effects persist until you would be brought down to 0 hit points or until 1 hour has passed.

Clown Subclasses:

Inspiration

At 3rd level, the Cheerleader may choose to grant a momentum die to a friendly creature instead of gaining one as per their momentum feature.

Give me a C-L-O-WN!

At 6th level, each player that has a momentum die can spend their momentum die as a reaction to aid you in a cheer. All players that spend this die must make a check of their choice against your spell save DC.

• If no players pass, lose all your remaining momentum.

• If one player passes, then refund the momentum dice spent.

• If two players pass, then increase their next roll by their proficiency.

• If three players pass, each player is refunded their reaction and gain double their proficiency on rolls for their next turn.

• If four or more players pass, each player is refunded their reaction and gains the action surge and second wind features .

Pride Crusher

Starting 10th level, the Cheerleader may grant hostile creatures momentum dice whenever an attack would miss the Cheerleader. No hostile creature may gain more than one momentum die. The next roll a hostile creature would make is decreased by the momentum die, expending it.

Poise

Beginning at 14th level, as an action the Cheerleader may expend all momentum dice on all creatures within 50 feet of them. Rolling all the dice to do one of the following effects.

• Regain Spellslots in levels adding up to the number rolled on the dice.
• Friendly creatures with 50 feet of you gain temporary hitpoints equal the number rolled on the dice.
• Hostile creatures of your choice with hitpoints adding up to the number rolled on the dice become stunned.

Dying Laugh - Doll Face

At 20th level, your death is such a beautiful sight that those who behold you are are petrified in awe. While at 0 hit points, hostile creatures within 45 feet of you must make a wisdom saving throw against your spell save or becomes stunned. Each time you fail a death save, you may choose a stunned creature and within 30 feet of you, it becomes petrified.

Act of Comic:

The Comic is the original clown. A clown which is capable of bringing joy and happiness to all those around them through humor. Whether throwing pies or having a seemingly endless amount of props to combat the enemies of comedy.

Bottomless Cap

Starting at 6th level, your cap has an interior space considerably larger than its outside dimensions. Your cap can hold up to 500 pounds, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet. The cap weighs 1 pound, regardless of its contents. Retrieving an item from the cap requires an action.

If the cap is overloaded, pierced, or torn, it ruptures and is destroyed, and its contents are scattered in the Astral Plane. To remake your cap you must perform a ritual of dancing and throwing pies to appease the jester gods. If the cap is turned inside out, its contents spill forth, unharmed, but the cap must be put right before it can be used again. Breathing creatures inside the cap can survive up to a number of minutes equal to 10 divided by the number of creatures (minimum 1 minute), after which time they begin to suffocate.

Placing a your bottomless cap inside an extra dimensional space created by a handy haversack, portable hole, or similar item instantly destroys both items and opens a gate to the Astral Plane. The gate originates where the one item was placed inside the other. Any creature within 10 feet of the gate is sucked through it to a random location on the Astral Plane. The gate then closes. The gate is one-way only and can’t be reopened. Can contain any number of non damaging, non-magical items

Dangerous Game

Beginning 10th level, your props can form into different objects of varying hilarity. Your Prop Work feature gains the following additional transformations:

• False Teeth Trap: You may target a point that you can see within 60 feet of you. All creatures within 15 feet originating at that point must make a dexterity saving throw against your spell save. If they fail, they move at half their movement until the start of your next turn.
• Black Powder Cake: You may make a ranged attack using strength or dexterity to throw your prop in the form of a black powder cake. If you hit, then you blind the creature if it has eyes. If you use a momentum die to increase this roll, you may throw a lit match or torch afterwards. You make another attack using strength or dexterity and deal 4d6+ your spellcasting modifier fire damage.

Up-Dog

Starting at 14th level you are able to set up a group for a joke, knowing well if they fall for it, they are done for. You attempt target a number of creatures up to your proficiency and offer them a hook for a hilarious joke. They must each make an intelligence saving throw to attempt to answer the punch line to this joke against your Spell Save DC. If none of the targets succeed, you deliver the punchline unopposed, all targeted creatures with less than your maximum hit points in remaining hit points drop to 0 hit points but do not go into a dying state.

Dying Laugh - Confetti!

At 20th level, when you would be put into the dying state, you begin inflating like a balloon. When you would fail a death save, increase your size once from Medium to Large, Large to Huge, etc. When stabilized, reduce your size down to medium. Each increment you decrease by heals friendly creatures within 20 feet of you by your Charisma + your charisma modifier. If you would die, you explode into a shower of confetti. All creatures within 15 feet of you must make a dexterity saving throw against your spell save. Those that fail take 3d6 thunder damage, are deafened, and are blinded for 6 rounds. The area within 15 feet of your corpse is blanketed in shredded colorful paper.

Act of Harlequinn:

The Harlequinn, much like the comic is an age old traditionalist. Instead of being a master of conjured objects. They are the master of sleight of hand, mimickry, and the mystical Cards of Fate.

Act of Jester:

You are the jester, master of tinkering boxes, annoying others and tumbling out of danger.

Act of Mascot:

Short Explanation about how it works.

Act of Mime:

The Mime is the act of sacrifice. You give up your voice to better all of your acts to a fine point, performing illusory magics conmpletely indistinguishable from the real thing.

Act of Pierrot:

Short Explanation about how it works.

Act of Ringmaster:

Short Explanation about how it works.

Clown Spells

Clown Spells Cont.