Feats

Occultist

Cultist

The dark tradition of a cultist is one that seeks power at any cost. They are those prepared to give up everything for power, dedicated themselves to mysterious rituals, forbidden techniques, and whispered taboos in order to grasp hold of ancient and terrible powers. Masters of sacrifice, blood magic, and willing to cast aside their humanity (or relevant equivalent!) they are driven beyond what most would consider rational, but beyond the limiting walls of reason they find new powers.

Boon of Burning Eyes (3rd Level)

You sacrifice a 3rd level spell slot, gaining the ability to cast eyes of immolation^K at-will without expending a spell slot.

Boon of Fiendish Vigor (3rd level)

You sacrifice a 3rd level spell slot, gaining 5 current and maximum hit points. If you regain hit points by spending Hit Dice at the end of a short rest, you regain an extra 1d6 hit points.

Boon of Fury (3rd Level)

You sacrifice a 3rd level spell slot, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Boon of Demonic Resistance (4th level)

You sacrifice a 4th level spell slot, gaining resistance to one of acid, cold, fire, or poison damage. You can select this boon multiple times.

Boon of Telepathy (4th level)

When you gain this feature, you can communicate telepathically with any creature you can see within 30 feet of you. 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. Creatures you communicate with can reply in kind.

Boon of Unholy Strength (4th level)

You sacrifice a 4th level spell slot, making your Strength ability score equal to your Spell Casting ability score.

Boon of Resilience (5th Level)

You sacrifice a 5th level spell slot, gaining proficiency in a saving throw of your choice.

Boon of Unholy Weapon (6th level)

You sacrifice a 6th level or higher spell slot, increase the damage of your melee weapon attacks by 1d8 necrotic damage.

Boon of Demonic Wings (6th level)

You sacrifice a 6th level spell slot, causing demonic wings to erupt from your back. You gain a flying speed of 30 feet.

Boon of Unholy Nature (7th level)

You sacrifice a 7th level spell, gaining resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical sources.

Boon of Magic Resistance (8th level)

You sacrifice an 8th level spell slot, granting you advantage on saving throws against spells and magical effects.

Sacrificial Casting

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the Hemomancy, granting you the feature and the included ability to cast Blood Magic spells with your hit points.

Sanguine Power

Beginning at 6th level, when you deal piercing or slashing damage to creature that has blood, you can use the blood of the creatures you damaged to fuel blood magic spells until the end of your next turn, reducing the hit points needed to cast spells by up to half the piercing or slashing you've dealt in that time.

Demonic Ascension

Starting at 14th level, you can fully invest into the rites of your dark faith, being granted a form of terrifying power. As a bonus action, you transform into a demonic form for 1 minute, gaining the following benefits:

• While in this form you have resistance to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
• Your movement speed increases by 10 feet.
• You optionally can become large sized for duration, increasing your weapon attack damage by 1d4.
• Each time you kill a creature, the duration of the demonic form increases by 1 minute.

Once you assume this form, you cannot assume it again until you complete a long rest.

Cultist Specific Rites

Cultist's Touch (Prerequisite: 7th-level Cultist)

When you use your action to cast a cantrip with a range of touch, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

Demon Within (Prerequisite: 15th-level Cultist)

The first time you drop to 0 hit points, you assume your Demonic Ascension form (not counting as a use of the feature) and regain half your maximum hit points. Once this effect is triggered, you cannot trigger it again until you complete a long rest.

Empowered Blood Magic (Prerequisite: 5th level Cultist)

When you deal damage with a spell that has a blood magic tag, you can add your Spellcasting modifier to the damage dealt.

Boon Seeker (Prerequisite: Cultist)

You can make one additional sacrifice to receive a boon using your Dark Dedication feature.

Zealous Conviction

You gain advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

Unholy Gift (Prerequisite: Cultist)

Once per turn, when you expend your own hit points to cast a spell using Blood Magic, you can cause one allied creature other than yourself within 30 feet to gain temporary hit points equal to the sacrificed hit points.

Zealous Dedication (Prerequisite: Zealous Conviction, 12th level Cultist)

When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can make a Spellcasting ability check with a DC of 5 + the damage taken. On success, you are reduced to 1 hit point instead.

On failure, you can expend a spell slot to increase the value rolled by an amount equal to the level of the spell slot, potentially during a failure into a success. Once you spend a spell slot to do so, you cannot do so against until you complete a short or long rest.

Witch Options

The witch subclass of the Occultist clas gains an additional coven option:

Additional Witch Specific Rites

Malicious Transfusion. (Prerequisite: Red Coven)

When you familiar redirects damage, you can target unwilling creatures. When you do so, the target creature must make a Charisma saving throw. On failure, it takes the redirected damage as normal, and the amount transferred can exceed its current hit points. On success, it takes half the redirected damage, and you take the other half the redirected damage.

Bathed in Blood. (Prerequisite: Red Coven)

When you take damage as part casting blood magic (from contributing the material component or through the Blood Magic rite) it does not provoke a Concentration check if you are concentrating on a spell.

Additionally, you gain temporary hit points equal to the hit points expended.

Sanguine Sacrifice (Prerequisite: Red Coven)

When you restore hit points with an Occultist spell, you can increase the hit points restored by up to your Occultist level by spending an equal number of your own hit points (equal to the total number of additional hit points restored across all targets if the spell targets multiple targets).

Sanguine Secrets (Prerequisite: Red Coven, Hemomancer rite)

You can cast spells without the Blood Magic tag using the Hemomancer rite.

Sanguine Vitality. (Prerequisite: Red Coven)

Your rich diet of the blood of your enemies empowers you. Your maximum hit points are increased by 1 for each Occultist level you have.

Stolen Life (5th-level Red Coven)

You can touch a recently deceased corpse, drawing last fragments of life out of it. When you do so, you recover hit points equal to the creatures CR or levels, and can optionally assume it's appearance as if by the disguise self spell, but with an indefinite duration. You can store a number of stolen appearances this way equal to your Wisdom modifier, assuming any of them as an action. You can end the illusion or assume a different stored appearance as an action.

Witch's Fangs. (Prerequisite: Red Coven)

As an action, you grow long canine fangs and attempt to bite a creature within 5 feet of you, making a melee spell attack. On hit, the target takes 1d4 piercing damage and 1d4 necrotic damage, and you gain temporary hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt.

The piercing and necrotic damage increase by 1d4 at 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).

Starting at 6th level, you can apply your Witch's Touch feature to attacks made with this feature.

Hemorrhaging Curse

1st-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: N/A
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: S, M (something from the target creature (such as blood, hair, or scales) which the spell consumes and a drop of your blood worth at least 1 hit point, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You curse a target with unclosing wounds. If the target has taken piercing or slashing since the end of their last turn or takes piercing or slashing damage for the duration of the spell, its hit points are reduced by 1d8 at the end of each of its turns for the duration. This damage cannot be stopped by first aid, staunching the wound, or any non-magical means, but is ended if the creature is restored to full hit points by magical healing or the spell ends.

Rupturing Curse

3rd-level necromancy (blood magic, curse)

• Classes: N/A
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: S, M (something from the target creature (such as blood, hair, or scales) which the spell consumes and a drop of your blood worth at least 2 hit point, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You invoke a curse on a creature you can see within range, rupturing their tendons. For the duration, the creatures hit points are reduced by 2d4 for each 5 feet they move. Creatures without blood are immune to this curse.

Bloodline Curse

5th-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: N/A
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S, M (something from the target creature (such as blood, hair, or scales) which the spell consumes and a drop of your blood worth at least 5 hit point, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

You invoke a curse on a creature's bloodline. Up to 5 creatures of your choice (other than the target) of the same creature type within range are bound to that creature by a magical curse. If a creature is directly related (ancestor, descendant, or sibling) to the target creature, the range at which they can be cursed with this bond increases to 1 mile.

When that creature becomes bloodied (reduced to less than half its maximum hit points) and again if that creature dies, all creatures effected by the curse must make a Charisma saving throw, taking 5d6 + twice the cursed creature's CR (or level) necrotic damage on failed save, or half as much on success. This curse has no effect on creatures without blood.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell with a 6th level slot or higher, the number of creatures you can target increases by 1 for each level above 5th. When using a 9th level spell slot, the range at which you can target a related creature can be unlimited, though you must be aware of the target's existence.

Warden

Blood Magic Spells

Transfuse Life

1st-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: S, M (a splash of your blood worth 5 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You infuse a creature you touch with life divested from the blood used in the material component of the spell, causing the target to regain 1d8 + the number of hit points expended on the spell.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the amount of hit points restored increases by 1d8 and the amount of hit points used in the casting of this spell (and consequently the amount restored by this spell to the target) increases by 5.

Blood Divination

2nd-level divination (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: S, M (a drop of your blood worth at least 2 hit points which the spell consumes, and another creature's blood)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You can drop a single drop of your blood into another creatures blood while casting this spell to created a magical resonance. This tells you the creature's current condition (if it is alive, wounded, or dead), its creature type, its general distance from you (nearby, distant, or far away), and its general direction.

If the blood is more than 24 hours old, the spell becomes more difficult, and you must pass DC 10 spellcasting check to gain any information, with the DC increasing to 15 if the blood is more than a week old, and 20 if the DC is more than a month old.

Morbid Puppet

2nd-level transmutation (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: S, M (a drop of your blood worth at least 2 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: 1 minute

You can seize control of the blood within a freshly (within the last minute) deceased Medium or smaller sized corpse or unconscious creature. For the duration, as a bonus action you can make the corpse or creature move up to 20 feet, and make a single melee attack, using your spell casting modifier for the attack roll. If the corpse is carrying a weapon or has a natural weapon, it deals the weapon's damage (not gaining any special modifiers to that damage the living creature may have had with that weapon). Otherwise it makes a slam attack dealing 1d6 (or 1 for a Tiny sized creature) + your spellcasting modifier damage.

If a creature that was unconscious regains consciousness during the duration of the spell, they can make a Charisma saving throw at the end of each of their turns to regain control of their body. You can end this spell at any time (no action required).

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell with a 4th or higher level spell slot, you can target a Large sized corpse.

Vampiric Blade

2nd-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: S, M (a melee weapon worth at least 1 sp and a splash of your blood worth up to 10 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: 1 hour

You drain your own life essence to empower the weapon used in the casing of the spell with life drinking power. You sacrifice up to 10 hit points (included in the material components. When you do so, your weapon attacks deal an additional 1d8 necrotic damage, and you regain hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt, until you have dealt necrotic damage equal to twice the hit points invested.

The reduction in maximum hit points lasts until you complete a short or long rest.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, you can invest up to 10 additional hit points in the casting, it deals an additional 1d8 necrotic damage on hit for each additional 10 hit point invested (minimum 20 to deal 2d8)

Compelled Convulsion

2nd-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: S, M (a drop of your blood worth at least 2 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You attempt to briefly take control of the blood of a creature within range you can see. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. On failure, you can force the creature to use its reaction to move up to 10 feet (or its movement speed, whichever is less) and make a single weapon attack against a target of your choice within reach. Creatures without blood are immune to this effect.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, you can target an additional creature for each level above 2nd

Blood Explosion

3rd-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: S, M (a splash of your blood worth at least 3 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous

Targeting a Medium or larger corpse of a creature that had blood that has been slain within the last minute, you seize control of the blood within it causing it to explode into piercing crimson lances. Make a ranged spell attack against up to 4 creatures of your choice within 30 feet of the corpse. On hit, creatures take 3d8 piercing damage and 3d8 necrotic damage. A corpse cannot be targeted with this spell again.

At Higher levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each spell slot level above 3rd.

Sanguine Spears

3rd-level transmutation (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: S, M (a splash of your blood worth at least 6 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You transform some of your blood into three floating spears of crimson power. While you have one or more spear remaining, as an action or bonus action you can launch one of the spears at a creature within range making a range spell attack. On hit, the target takes 3d6 necrotic damage, and you regain 5 hit points.

At High Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, for each spell slot level above 3rd, you can sacrifice 2 additional hit points to create an additional spear.

Blood Clone

4th-level transmutation (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: S, M (a splash of your blood worth at least 10 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You spill some of your own blood, creating a tiny creature that looks like a smaller replica of yourself. This creature has 10 hit points, and a flying speed of 30 feet, otherwise sharing your ability scores, skills, and senses, besides having a Strength of 1, and being unable to hold or use objects. In combat, this creature acts immediately after your turn.

While it exists, you can cast spells as if you are in the location of your blood clone. As a bonus action while it exists, you can cause it to explode in a bloody mist, and teleport yourself to its location if you there is room for at the target space (if there is not, the spell ends and you are not teleported). If you teleport to its location, you regain hit points equal to the remaining hit points it had.

While you have hit points invested in this clone, you cannot regain those hit points. The clone ceases to exist if you create a new blood clone, or you end it early as a bonus action.

Exsanguinate

4th-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a splash of your blood worth at least 4 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You drain a creature of blood, causing it to burst forth from it. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. On failure, its current and maximum hit points are reduced by 6d6. On success, their current hit points are reduced by half as much, and their maximum hit points are not reduced. If the target is bloodied (if their current hit points is less than half their maximum hit points), the hit point reduction is increased to 12d6

Any reduction to maximum hit points is removed when they complete a long rest, or by the effects of the greater restoration spell. A creature without blood is immune to this spell.

At Higher levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the hit point reduction is increased by 1d6 for each level over 4th.

Ichorous Blood

4th-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: S, M (a splash of your blood worth at least 4 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: 10 minutes

You transmute your blood into sluggish black ichor, which forms a layer of armor as you bleed. You gain 8 temporary hit points, and for the duration of the spell, you reduce any bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage you take by 4 (to a minimum of 1 damage), and any time you are hit with a melee attack, the attacker takes 4 acid damage.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell with a 5th level or higher spell slot, the damage reduction and acid damage dealt to attackers increases by 1 for each level over 4th.

Macabre Marionette

4th-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: S, M (a splash of your blood worth at least 4 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You attempt to control a creature's movements by using the blood to marionette them to your commands. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the target fails their saving throw, for the duration of the spell you can use your bonus action force them to spend their reaction to move up to 20 feet (or their movement speed, whichever is less) and make a single weapon attack.

Until the target breaks free of the spell, they cannot use their own reaction. At the end of each of the target's turns, they can repeat the saving throw against the spell, ending it on success.

Explode Heart

5th-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: S, M (a splash of your blood worth at least 6 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You point at a creature and attempt to make their heart explode in a violent spasm. If the target creature has fewer than 20 hit points, their heart explodes and they die. If they have more than 20 hit points, the target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed saving throw it takes 10d6 necrotic damage and are stunned until the start of your next turn. On a successful save, they take half as much damage and are not stunned. If this damage reduces them to 0 hit points, they die.

Creatures without a heart are immune to effect, though at your GM's discretion similar organs or functions (such as a golem's magic core) may qualify as a heart.

Life Link

5th-level abjuration (blood magic)

• Classes: Cleric, Occultist, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: S, M (a splash of your blood worth at least 5 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You link the life of two creatures you can see within range for the duration of the spell, selecting either an life link or inverse life link, with the following effects based on which option you select:

• Life Link: When one target regains hit points so does the other target, and one target takes damage, the other target takes an equal amount of damage as necrotic damage.
• Inverse Life Link: When one target loses hit points the other gains and equal number of hit points, when one target regains hit points (other than from this effect), the other takes an equal amount of necrotic damage.

Regardless of the option, the link lasts until the spell ends, or the link has transfered 50 hit points of healing or damage to the other target.

*At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell with a 6th level spell slot or higher, the number of hit points the link can transfer increases by 10 for each level above 5th.

Sanguine Doom

6th-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: Cleric, Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: S, M (a splash of your blood worth at least 6 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You target a point within range. Darkness washes over an a 30 foot radius area extinguishing all lights (including lights caused by magical effects of a lower level) as blood rains down above. Creatures and objects that are not being worn or carried within the area take 4d6 acid damage, and creatures must make a Wisdom saving throw against being cursed with doom.

On failure, the creature gains the doomed curse, and the next time they are hit with an attack roll, that attack becomes a critical hit. On success, they suffer no further effect.

Strige Swarm

6th-level conjuration (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: S, M (a splash of your blood worth at least 10 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You conjure a swirling swarm of magical Striges that swirl around within 20 foot radius of the target point. Creatures with blood other than the caster that start their turn within the area or enter it for the first time during a turn must make a Dexterity saving throw. On failure, they are drained of their blood by the swirling storm of Striges, reducing their hit points by 4d4 + 12 damage and restoring 4 hit points to the caster. On a successful save, they half as much damage and restore 2 hit points to caster.

As a bonus action on each of their turns for the duration of the spell, the caster and move the swirling swarm of Striges up to 30 feet in any direction.

Devouring Mist

7th-level necromancy (blood magic)

• Classes: Occultist, Warlock, Wizard
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: S, M (a splash of your blood worth at least 15 hit points, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: 1 round

You turn into a 15 foot radius swirling cloud of blood mist. While in this form, you have a 60 foot flying speed and you have resistance to all damage besides radiant, force, and psychic damage, but cannot take any actions.

The first time on a turn a creature enters this cloud of blood mist (including from your movement), they must make a Constitution saving throw. On failure, they take 6d8 necrotic damage, and you regain 5 hit points. On a success, they take half as much damage, and you regain 3 hit points.

At the start of your next turn, you reform into your previous form.

Greater Blood Rituals

Blood Magic Items

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