Justice Seekers

Inquisitors have a powerful sense of justice and seek to punish those who threaten the innocent or perform other evil deeds. Their intense dedication to bringing justice gives them the ability to cast divine spells tailored to tracking the iniquitous and resisting evil.

These agents of the divine are exceptionally skilled in both combat and knowledge surrounding dangerous beasts and individuals. Using their wit, an inquisitor gathers information as they travel to understand their foe so that they can be ready for whatever lies ahead. Each inquisitor has various means of preparing for specific foes, such as specialized tactics or magical preparations, that they use to gain the upper hand before fighting even begins.

Uproot the Wicked

Although inquisitors are often dedicated to a diety or church, they often act above the normal rules and conventions of that faith. They answer to their deity and their own sense of justice alone, and are willing to take extreme measures to meet their goals.

Inquisitors tend to move from place to place, seeking and following leads on enemies and researching emerging threats. As a result, they often travel with others in adventuring parties, whether to mask their presence or to seek strength in numbers to defeat a particularly dangerous foe. Inquisitors often work with other members of their faith when possible, but no one is above their suspicion and prying eyes.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d10 per inquisitor level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per inquisitor level after 1st.

Judgments List

Condemnation. You gain an intense, penetrating focus on your quarry. Judged creatures have a penalty to saving throws to resist your spells equal to your wisdom modifier.
Destruction. You are filled with divine wrath. You gain a bonus to weapon damage rolls equal to your wisdom modifier against judged creatures.
Healing. You are surrounded by a holy light, healing wounds you sustain. When you take damage from judged creatures, the damage you take is reduced by an amount equal to your wisdom modifier.
Justice. Your are spurred to bring justice to the unholy. You gain a bonus to attack rolls against judged creatures equal to half of your wisdom modifier (rounded up).

Protection. You are enveloped by a protective aura. You gain a bonus to AC equal to half your wisdom modifier (rounded up) against attack rolls from judged creatures.
Purity. You resolve yourself against the foul taint of your foes. You gain a bonus to saving throws against spells and other effects from judged creatures equal to your wisdom modifier.
Smiting. You call upon holy powers to smite the wicked. Choose either acid, cold, fire, lightning, necrotic, poison, or radiant. Your weapon attacks against judged creatures deal that damage type and count as magical.

Monster Lore

Beginning at 1st level, you have a strong intuition for the behaviors of all kinds of abominable creatures, granting you the following benefits:

• You may use your wisdom modifier in place of intelligence for arcana, history, nature, and religion checks made to learn or recall information about a creature's strengths/weaknesses, abilities, tactics, behaviors, etc.
• You may perform one of the above checks as a bonus action on your turn. You have advantage on these checks if the target is currently one of your "judged creatures".
• You automatically know a creature's type when you perform an arcana, history, nature, or religion check about a creature and get a result of 10 or higher, unless that creature is magically disguised.

Fighting Style

At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options.

You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Archery

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.

Defense

While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Dueling

When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

Great Weapon Fighting

When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

Protection

When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.

Two-Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Inquisitor table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these Inquisitor spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of inquisitor spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the inquisitor spell list. When you do so, choose a number of inquisitor spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + half your inquisitor level (minimum of 1 spell). The spells must be a level for which you have spell slots.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of inquisitor spells requires time strategizing about the foes ahead and choosing the tools needed to find and defeat them: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your inquisitor spells. You use your wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an inquisitor spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

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Spell Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +

your Wisdom modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +

your Wisdom modifier

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus for your inquisitor spells.

Inquisition

At 3rd level, your tactics for rooting out your foes becomes more specialized. Inquisitors are grouped into various inquisitions based on their skills and strategies for culling threats to their faith. The inquisition you choose grants you features at levels 3, 7, 11, and 15.

Bane of Evil

Beginning at 3rd level, whether through alchemical concoctions, martial strategization, or other means, you prepare yourself to deal with a particular brand of foe in your downtime. When you complete a long or short rest, choose one creature type (e.g. humanoids, monstrosities, elementals, fiends, etc.). Your weapon attacks deal 1d6 extra damage to creatures of that type until your next rest.

At 10th level, you may choose two creature types when you complete a rest, and the extra damage increases to 2d6.

Heavy Armor

At 3rd level, when you choose this inquisition, you gain proficiency in heavy armor.

Trial by Combat

Beginning at 3rd level, you call your foes to meet you in honorable combat. You gain the following judgment option:

Trial by Combat. Your foes are compelled by your presence to target you. Judged creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures other than you. Similarly, you have disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures other than the judged creatures.

Bolstering Presence

Beginning at 7th level, you can perform inspiring deeds of bravery to bolster your allies' confidence. Once per long rest, when you hit a hostile creature with a weapon attack, you may choose to give all creatures of your choice that can see you (including yourself) temporary hit points equal to your inquisitor level plus your wisdom modifier.

Fearless Champion

At 11th level, you become invulnerable to a fear of evil and danger. You gain immunity to the frightened condition.

Masterful Combatant

Beginning at 15th level, you are exceptionally skilled at defeating your foes in honorable combat. You have advantage on attack rolls against creatures affected by your Trial by Combat judgment.

Arcane Emphasis

At 3rd level, you refine your practice of the arcane in order to better counter those who would use it for evil. You gain proficiency in arcana (or another inquisitor class skill if already proficient), and you learn two cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list.

In addition, when you learn an inquisitor spell, you can choose the new spell from the wizard spell list or the inquisitor spell list. These are inquisitor spells for you.

Rebuke Witchcraft

At 3rd level, you learn to quench impure magics. You gain the following judgment option:

Rebuke Witchcraft. You condemn the unholy use of magic amongst your foes. When a judged creature attempts to cast a spell, they must first make a wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature must take a different action and cannot cast spells until the beginning of their next turn. On a success, this judgment effect ends for that creature.

Sanctity of Magic

At 7th level, you learn to resist the influence and effects of vile magic. You have advantage on saving throws to resist spells and magical effects from judged creatures.

Witch Trial

Beginning at 11th level, you can magically detect the presence of those with a command over magic. You gain the following benefits:

• You always have the spell detect magic prepared, which does not count against your number of Inquisitor spells prepared.
• When you cast detect magic, its area extends to 60 feet and the spell additionally reveals a magic aura around anyone with the ability to cast at least one spell. You learn the source of magic for any creature revealed in this way, which could be their spellcasting class, their race, etc.

Suppress Magic

Beginning at 15th level, you are able to suppress the weave of magic around creatures either to protect them against harmful magics or to prevent them from casting spells. Once per long rest, as an action, you can create a personal antimagic field around a creature of your choice within 30 feet (including yourself). The field lasts for up to 1 minute, requiring your concentration to maintain.

This field functions identically to the one created by the spell antimagic field except that it only affects a single creature instead of an area. Specifically, a creature affected by this field cannot be affected by magic, objects they are wielding or wearing become nonmagical, and they cannot cast spells.

An unwilling target of this antimagic field can make a saving throw using their spellcasting ability against your spell save DC (e.g. a wizard would make an intelligence saving throw). If a creature has multiple spellcasting ability scores, they choose which to use for the saving throw. On a successful save, the field does not form, that creature is immune to this field for 24 hours, and your use of suppress magic is not expended.

Specialized Adversary

At 3rd level, you devote considerable effort towards understanding one type of creature so that you can better rid the world of their foul presence. Choose any creature type, such as aberration or undead to become your specialized adversary. You always deal bane damage to creatures of that type.

In addition, you gain proficiency in arcana, history, nature, or religion checks (your choice). Your selection should be based on your selection of specialized adversary (e.g. if your specialized adversaries are undead or fiends, you might choose religion). If you are already proficient in your first choice, you may choose one of the other skills.

Monster's Bane

Beginning at 3rd level, you are especially dedicated to destroying foul creatures. You gain the following judgment option:

Monster's Bane. You deftly target the weaknesses of your foes. When you deal bane damage to a judged creature, the size of the extra damage die/dice increases from a d6 to a d12.

Adept Counter

Beginning at 7th level, you are always prepared to punish the mistakes and openings of your specialized adversaries. When a creature belonging to your specialized adversary type misses an attack roll against any target, you may use your reaction to make a weapon attack against the triggering creature.

Prepared Hunter

Beginning at 11th level, you are an expert in knowledge regarding your specialized adversary, granting you the following benefits:

• You are considered proficient whenever making an arcana, history, nature, or religion check about your specialized adversary.
• You add double your proficiency bonus to any of the above checks when they are about your specialized adversary.

Exploit Weakness

Beginning at 15th level, you learn to exploit the weaknesses of creatures you are prepared to fight, entirely removing their ability to fight back. Once per round, when you deal bane damage to a creature, you can force that creature to make a constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, that creature is stunned until the end of your next turn.

Stern Visage

Beginning at 3rd level, your stern and intimidating presence unnerves the feeble hearted and guilty. You gain proficiency in intimidation (or another inquisitor skill if already proficient).

In addition, you may use your wisdom modifier in place of charisma for intimidation checks.

Punish Transgression

Beginning at 3rd level, you empower yourself to punish the sins and crimes of the iniquitous. You gain the following judgment option:

Punish Transgression. When judged creatures deal damage, you add half the damage dealt (rounded down) to a "punishment" value. When you next hit a judged creature with a weapon attack, you deal extra damage equal to the current punishment value, which is then reset to 0.

Punishment has a maximum value equal to your inquisitor level plus your wisdom modifier. Its value is reset to 0 when the judgment effect ends.

Make an Example

Beginning at 7th level, your brutal punishments strike fear into transgressors. Once per short or long rest, when you deal extra damage with the punish transgression judgment, you can cause all hostile creatures within 30 feet of your target to make a wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, a creature is frightened and may repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

Brutal Tactics

At 11th level, you develop brutal strategies to harm your foes as efficiently as possible. Your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Execution

Beginning at 15th level, your attacks are empowered by your calling as justicar to execute the wicked. When you score a critical hit against a judged creature, you additionally deal necrotic damage equal to your inquisitor level plus two times your wisdom modifier.

Persuasive Orator

Beginning at 3rd level, you are trained in public oration to bring your faith to others. You gain proficiency in persuasion (or another inquisitor class skill if already proficient).

In addition, you may use your wisdom modifier in place of charisma for persuasion checks.

Conversion

Beginning at 3rd level, you take every opportunity to convince your foes of the might of your faith. You gain the following judgment option:

Conversion. Once per round on your turn, you may replace an attack with an attempt to sway your judged creature to yield. When you do so, the target makes a wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, you deal nonlethal psychic damage equal to 2d6 plus your wisdom modifier. A judged creature that cannot understand you automatically succeeds on the saving throw.

If this damage reduces your target to a number of hit points equal to or less than your inquisitor level, the creature is charmed and stops fighting you and your allies. If you or an ally damage the charmed creature, the effect ends and they may continue fighting.

Charming a foe in this manner does not typically mean the target is converted to your faith. Generally, at your DM's discretion, the creature is convinced of your power and the power of your god and is surrendering to avoid their wrath.

Invigorating Sermon

Beginning at 7th level, when you complete a long or short rest, you may choose to deliver a rousing sermon to your allies. Creatures of your choice that listen to the sermon gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your inquisitor level plus your wisdom modifier. In addition, these creatures have advantage on the next saving throw they make before their next rest.

Foundation of Faith

Beginning at 11th level, you are unfalteringly confident in the tenets of your faith. You gain proficiency in and have advantage on charisma saving throws.

Words of Mercy

Beginning at 15th level, your utterances are laced with merciful healing power. When you use the conversion judgment to attempt to sway a creature, you may use your bonus action to choose up to six creatures within 60 feet. Those creatures regain hit points equal to 1d4 plus your wisdom modifier. You may do this a number of times equal to your wisdom modifier between long rests.

Covert Agent

Beginning at 3rd level, you have practiced tactics for getting to your target, whether it be through silver-tongued trickery or soft-footed stealth. You gain proficiency in disguise kits and either stealth or deception (your choice). You may gain proficiency in another inquisitor skill if you are already proficient in both.

Assassinate Heretic

Beginning at 3rd level, you learn to make deadly attacks by catching your foes off guard. You gain the following judgment option:

Assassinate Heretic. Once per turn, when you have advantage on an attack roll against a judged creature, or when another enemy of the judged creature is within 5 feet of it, your attack deals Xd6 extra damage, where X is equal to your wisdom modifier.

Backup Plan

At 7th level, you learn to cut and run when plans go awry to avoid bringing unwanted attention to your faith or church. On your turn, you can hide, disengage, or dash as a bonus action.

Infiltrator

Beginning at 11th level, your skill in the covert arts makes you very difficult to discover. Choose either deception or stealth (you must be proficient in the chosen skill). Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check that uses the chosen skill.

End the Apostate

Beginning at 15th level, you are a master of assassinating unwary foes. When you hit a surprised creature under the effect of the assassinate heretic judgment, it must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, double the damage of your attack against the creature.