Step #3: Ability Scores and Proficiencies

The standard way to determine your monster's ability scores is very simple; they each have a base value of 10, and you can distribute 12 Ability Score Improvement Points into your ability scores as you see fit. You can also reduce an ability score by 2 to raise another by 1, but you cannot reduce any score below 4 or raise any score above 15 using Ability Score Improvement Points at character creation. (Scores can be raised above 15 by lowering another ability score or using points, however.) Scores can be raised up to 30 using Ability Score Improvements after character creation, and you can spend as many points as you wish on these points during character creation.

Step #4: Choose Traits

Traits are what give your player character pizzazz. They provide it with it's unique abilities and features, which it can use in all of its adventures. Things like an ettin's extra head, a basilisk's gaze, or a dragon's breath are all Traits. When you create your player character, you may choose any Trait from the list of Teir 1 Traits. There is no restriction on what Traits you can choose this way; any creature may choose any Trait to begin with. Traits also cannot be removed, so choose carefully! They are a part of your player character forever.

Point Reductions

Below the Point-Buy section is the Point Reduction section. This section is filled with a number of negative effects you can impose upon your player character in return for extra points. You may reduce your Spent Points by the value listed beside the negative effect when you choose it. At character creation, you may choose any of the Point reductions. Keep in mind that it may be difficult to play the game if you choose too many. Your DM may wish to impose a limit on Point Reductions; a common limit is -15 chosen from the list below.

Additionally, whenever you gain a new Trait, you are given a number of optional Point Reductions. If you choose to take any of them, they are applied to your player character at the same time that your Trait is.

Raising Your Point Cap

A player character's Point Cap rises by 1 at the end of each week, representing your natural growth and development. Besides this natural growth, there are a couple ways that a player character can gain points. Whenever a player character defeats another creature, that player character and every other character in it's party adds half of that creature's Challenge Rating to their Point Cap. Keep track of fractional Point Cap increases; they add up, although you cannot spend fractional points.

Your DM will also reward you for navigating traps, social encounters, perilous areas, and other dangerous situations with Point Cap increases; they should be modest with these rewards, but not too stingy.

Spending Points In the Game

Whenever your Point Cap increases, you can't spend points right away. When your Point Cap increases to equal or surpass the Point Cap value of the next Challenge Level shown on the table above, you can then spend Points and distribute any Ability Improvement, skill +1s, or saving throw +1s as part of your next long rest. You can also choose a new Trait as part of the long rest. You gain the benefits of all of these new developments when you finish your long rest.

As an optional rule, your player character could suddenly find a burst of new determination inside of them at an ideal moment. You can spend 1 point as a bonus action on your turn; if you do, you can spend a number of points up to your Challenge Level, the effects of which arrive immediately.

Hit Points / Hit Dice

Your hit points and hit dice mechanically work in exactly the same way that they do as they are described in the 2014 Player's Handbook. However, when you first create your player character, instead of getting a hit die from their level, they begin with 2d6. However, unlike Vanilla 5e, you take the average of ALL of your hit dice to calculate your hit point maximum, without taking the maximum value from the first. That means that 2d6 hit dice would yield a hit point maximum of 7, or (3.5 + 3.5). You also add your Constitution bonus to the average of each die; if your Constitution score was 12 {+1}, your hit dice would be written as 2d6 + 2, and your hit point maximum would be 9, instead of 7. If you would gain more hit dice, you add your Constitution modifier to the average of those as well.

You can get more hit dice by spending points for them, and you gain another hit die every time your Challenge Level increases. Extra hit dice increase both your hit point maximum and current hit points when you get them.

Size

You begin as a Small creature with a d6 hit die size.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Armor Class

Your base armor class is 10 + your Dexterity Modifier.

Damage Types

Listed are all the types of damage in D&D, seperated into a couple categories. If an ability says that it would deal a 'category' of damage, choose a single damage type from that category when you choose the ability; the ability deals that damage type forevermore.

Damage Dice Class

The phrase 'damage dice class' is used below, in a couple places. The progression listed here is the proper progression of damage dice classes. If something 'increases its damage dice class,' it moves one place up on the following progression. When a damage dice class increases, you can choose any one of the listed dice pools to roll as damage dice. Make this choice when your damage dice class increases. It then stays the same until your damage dice class increases again.

If you increase the 'size' of a die, the progression is listed below.

Weapon Proficiency

• 1 point. Get +1 proficiency with one type of simple weapon. (S)
• 2 points. Get +1 proficiency with one type of martial weapon. (S)
• 1 extra point (2 or 3 points) if raising past +3.
• 1 extra point (3 or 4 points) if raising past +6.

Saving Throw Proficiency

• 2 points. Gain +1 proficiency in one type of saving throw. (S)
• 1 extra point (3 points) if raising past +3.
• 1 extra point (4 points) if raising past +6.

Armor Proficienies

• 2 points. Gain proficiency with either light armor or shields. (S)
• 3 points. Gain proficiency with medium armor.
• 4 points. Gain proficiency with heavy armor.

Example Character: Hook-Claw

Miriam has found a group, and is excited to begin a new game with them. They have decided to play in the Forgotten Realms, and they want a typical fantasy D&D experience. They have also decided that they want their group to stick together because they have formed a bond together; they each have their own goals, but they have decided to help each other obtain theirs. Miriam has always enjoyed when dragons come up in her Vanilla D&D games, so she decides that she wants to play a white dragon. She chooses the name of this dragon to be Hook-Claw.

When Miriam begins character creation, she first solidifies an idea of what she would like her white dragon to be; she would like it to fly, breath ice, and have dangerous claws and teeth. She also references the statblock of a white dragon; it will help guide her decisions during the character creation process.

In Step 2, she chooses her player character's Type. Not a very hard decision; she chooses Dragon. Now, she is afforded a choice between three Traits that represents the fact that Hook-Claw is a Dragon; Glide, for a set of fledgling wings, Energy Blast, to represent a breath weapon, or Keen Senses, in honor of a Dragon's heightened awareness. She decides to take the Energy Blast Trait, and chooses the 'cold' damage type, the 'cone' area pattern, and the 'Constitution' saving throw. Now, whenever Hook-Claw gets into a dicey situation, they can exude a cone of damaging cold energy to weaken their foes.

In Step 3, Miriam takes a closer look at Vanilla white dragons. She notices that in general, a white dragon's Strength and Constitution are very high, but it's Intelligence and Dexterity are lower. Her ability scores all start at 10; she has 12 ability points to distribute to all of her stats. She spends 4 of these points increasing her Strength to 14 {+2}, and 4 to increase Constitution to 14 {+2}. Last, she increases her Dexterity by 2 points, to 12 {+1}, and her Wisdom by 2, to 12 {+1}. She leaves her Charisma and Intelligence ability scores at 10; white dragons usually aren't special in these areas.

She also gets to choose Hook-Claws skills and saving throws; she has six +1 skill points and four +1 saving throw points to spend. She decides to give Hook-Claw a +3 proficiency bonus to Perception, a +2 proficiency bonus to Athletics, a +2 proficiency bonus to Intimidation, and a +1 proficiency bonus to Survival. She also decides to give Hook-Claw a +2 proficiency bonus to Strength and Constitution saving throws.

In Step 4, Miriam gets to select her first Trait. She can select any Trait from the Tier 1 list (except Energy Blast). Because a white dragon has superb fighting skills, she decides to choose the Natural Weapon Trait; Hook-Claw has deadly, hooked claws, after all. Now, their Natural Weapon (Claws) deals 1d8 + 2 slashing damage on a hit.

In Step 5, she begins to look at the Point-Buy section. She spends points in the following ways;

• 3 points: One extra hit die.
• 3 points: An additional +2 proficiency bonus to hit with her Claws.
• 3 points: Resistance to cold damage.
• 1 point: Acclimated to cold enviornments.
• 3 points: +2 Natural Armor, for an AC of 13.
• 1 point: +1 save DC for Energy Blast, to 11.
• 3 points: Increase damage dice class of Energy Blast, to 4d6.
• Total: 18 points

Miriam notices that she has spent points past her Point Cap of 15; to remedy this, she decides to take a couple Point Reductions.

• -1 point: -2 when making (Dexterity) Sleight of Hand checks.
• -1 point: -2 when making (Charisma) Performance checks.
• -1 point: -2 when making (Charisma) Persuasion checks.

In Step 6, Miriam gets to choose what equipment Hook-Claw will have. Of course, she decides that Hook-Claw will have what all dragons crave; a hoard. Because Hook-Claw is so young, however, this hoard is meager. She rolls 2d4 and 1d6 to determine how much cash is in this hoard, for a total of 8. As such, their hoard consists of 8 gold pieces, a carpenter's toolkit stolen from a frightened villager, a pile of salted meat similarly stolen from a lone caravan, and a piece of cloth that Hook-Claw can use as a covering (the dragon version of common traveler's clothes.) All of this is kept, along with the rest of the groups' items and at the discussion of the group, inside the small cave that they have designated as their base.

Step 7 is the final measure of your player character; you put together all the decisions you have made thus far. She makes a few final decisions, like Common and Draconic for languages, and then, Hook-Claw is complete. Here's what Hook-Claw's character sheet looks like:

Strength

Constitution

Speed Increase

• 2 points. Increase walking speed by 5 feet. (S)
• 3 points. Can ignore difficult terrain when you Dash. (O)

Reach

• 3 points. Your reach increases by 5 feet. (S)

Evasion

• 3 points. You take no damage if you succeed on a Dexterity saving throw to only take half damage.
• 2 points. You take only half damage if you fail the save.

Initiative Increase

• 1 points. Increase your initiative by +1. (S)

Bodily Finesse

• 1 point. Your unarmed strikes and Natural Weapons can use either Str or Dex.

Extra Action

• 3 points. Once per long rest, you can take an extra Action on your turn.
• 3 points. One more time per long rest. (S)
• 3 points. You can take another reaction on every turn in combat. (S) (O)

Catfall

• 1 point. Reduce the effective distance you fall by 10 feet whenever you would take fall damage. (S)

Monstrous Leap

• 2 points. As an action, you can jump 15 feet into an unoccupied space you can see.
• 1 point. Increase this distance by 5 feet. (S)

Flyby

• 3 points. You do not provoke oppurtunity attacks when you fly out of an enemies reach.

Parry

• 2 points. As a reaction to getting hit by an attack, you can add 1 to your AC, potentially causing the attack to miss. You must be wielding a melee weapon to parry.
• 2 point. Raise the number you add to your AC by 1. (S)

Nimbleness

• 1 point. You can move through the space of any creature larger than yourself as though it was difficult terrain.

Darkvision

• 2 points. You gain darkvision out to 60 feet, as described in the Player's Handbook.
• 1 point. Increase by 30 feet. (S)
• 3 points. You can see through magical darkness.

Truesight

• 4 points. You gain truesight out to 10 feet.
• 3 points. Increase by 5 feet. (S)

Sensitive Fingers

• 1 point. You can read printed writing without using your eyes as long as at least one of your fingers is touching it. Additionally, you have advantage on Investigation or Perception checks that would rely on your touch sensitivity.

Angelic Sense

• 2 points. You instantly know if a creature you can see within 120 feet of you speaks a knowling lie.

Careful Aura

• 3 points. Whenever you have an Aura active, you can choose to leave one creature inside the radius unaffected.
• 3 points. You may choose one extra creature to leave unaffected. (S)

Extra Attunement

• 2 points. You gain an additional attunement slot. (S)

Skill Proficiency

• 1 point. Get +1 proficiency bonus with a skill. (S)
• 1 extra point (2 points) if raising past +4.
• 1 extra point (3 points) if raising past +8.

Weapon Proficiency

• 1 point. Get +1 proficiency with all simple weapons. (S)
• 2 points. Get +1 proficiency with all martial weapons. (S)
• 1 extra point (2 or 3 points) if raising past +3.
• 1 extra point (3 or 4 points) if raising past +6.

Saving Throw Proficiency

• 2 points. Gain +1 proficiency in one type of saving throw. (S)
• 1 extra point (3 points) if raising past +3.
• 1 extra point (4 points) if raising past +6.

Armor Proficienies

• 2 points. Gain proficiency with either light armor or shields. (S)
• 3 points. Gain proficiency with medium armor.
• 3 points. Gain proficiency with heavy armor.

Other Proficiencies

• 2 points. Gain proficiency with one language, tool, or vehicle.

Elemental Specialty

• 2 points. Whenever you would deal a certain type of elemental damage with a natural ability or spell, increase the damage you deal by 1.

Bound Item

• 2 points. You bind one item to your essence. When you choose this, choose one item that you are wearing or carrying. As a bonus action, you can cause that item to teleport to a space within 5 feet of you, or into one of your free hands. If the item is targeted by the dispel magic spell, you cannot call the item back for an hour.

Telepathy

• 2 points. You gain telepathy out to 30 feet. You can communicate words, ideas, or images to any creature within this range, as long as it has an Intelligence score of 3 {-4} or higher.
• 1 point. Increase this range by 10 feet.

Protected Mind

• 1 point. Your thoughts or emotions cannot be read by supernatural means. Your presence can still be detected magically, however.

Ambusher

• 2 points. On the first turn of combat, you automatically score a critical hit if you hit a creature that has not yet taken their turn in combat.

Labyrinthine Recall

• 1 point. You can perfectly recall any path you have traveled.

Charisma

Point Reductions

Listed below are all the point reductions.

Reduced Manual Dexterity

• -2 points. You have disadvantage on Sleight of hand checks, and need to use two hands for tasks that would normally take one.
• -4 points. You automatically fail Sleight of hand checks, cannot cast spells with somatic components, and cannot perform acts of fine manipulation with your hands.

Slow

• -1 point. You have a -2 bonus to your initiative modifier. (S)

Obvious

• -2 points. You have disadvantage on Stealth checks, and can be tracked easily.
• -4 points. You automatically fail Stealth checks, and creatures automatically succeed at tracking you.

Untalented

• -1 point. You gain a -2 bonus to a skill. (S)

Short-sighted

• -2 points. You have disadvantage on attack rolls made against targets more than 30 feet away, and disadvantage on Perception checks made to observe objects more than 30 feet away.

Hungry

• -2 points. You require 2 times the amount of daily food and water you would normally need. You cannot take this point reduction if you have the Adaptive Body Trait.

Cowardly

• -1 point. Whenever you become frightened, you cannot move or make attacks against the source of your fright.

Animal Fright

• -1 point. Animals are wary in your presence. You have disadvantage on Animal Handling checks, and must spend at least one day bonding with a Beast steed with an Intelligence of 5 or less before it allows you to ride it.
• -2 points. Animals are frightened of you. You automatically fail Animal Handling checks, and Beasts with an Intelligence of less than 5 will not allow you to ride them. Beasts with an Intelligence of less than 5 have disadvantage on saving throws made to resist being frightened by you.

Harmless

• -2 points. Your unarmed strikes deal 1 + Str mod bludgeoning damage. You cannot choose the Natural Weapon trait when your Challenge Level increases, except if you choose it along with the Item (-1) SPR. In that case, do not reduce your spent points by 1.

Wind Suseptibility

• -1 point. If you are struck by a strong gust of wind, you have disadvantage on all attack rolls and ability checks you make until the end of your next turn.

Magic Nature

• -3 points. You are a being infused with magic. If you are targeted with the dispel magic spell, you must make a Constitution, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw against the caster's spellcasting save DC. On a failure, you fall unconcious for one minute. You also fall unconcious if you are inside an antimagic field.

Traits

• If a Trait has point options listed under its description, you can only purchase options below the top option if you have purchased the option above the one you would like to purchase, or it is marked with (O).
• If a Trait would give an option between multiple types of saving throws, choose one when you choose the Trait. If a creature is forced to make a saving throw against the trait, they always have to make the type of saving throw you chose when you chose the Trait.
• If a Trait says that it deals a group of damages, like 'physical' or 'elemental' damage, choose one damage type from that group. That Trait then deals the same damage type from then on.
• The separation of Traits into External and Internal have no inherent effect on gameplay.

Whenever you gain a Trait, you can choose to apply Specialized Point Reductions to that Trait. Specialized Point Reductions function exactly like Point Reductions except you can choose them whenever you gain a Trait, and they only apply to the Trait that you chose them along with. If you would gain a higher-Tier Trait that would require a lower-Tier Trait as a prerequisite, the higher-Tier Trait has all the Specialized Point Reductions that the lower-Tier Trait had. Below is the list of Specialized Point Reductions.

Tier 1 Internal Traits

• Background - You have roots in a profession or lifestyle.
• Condition - You can curse or disease creatures.
• Create Thrall - You can charm creatures to your side.
• Creation - You can produce material from nothing.
• Darkness (A) - You can shroud yourself in darkness.
• Deathtouch - You can cause damaging energies at a touch.
• Debilitate - You can inflict your enemies with debilitating conditions.
• Disintegrate - You can turn material or creatures into a fine dust.
• Energy Blast - You can damage an area with elements.
• Energy Field (A) - You surround yourself with a damaging element.
• Healing - You can grant others health.
• Invisibility - You can hide yourself from view.
• Keen Senses - Your awareness increases.
• Light (A) - You can radiate light.
• Limited Incorporeality - You can enter an incorporeal state.
• Magic Dampening - Magic around you is less effective.
• Magic Sensitivity - You can sense magic and magic-users.
• Persistent Body - Your body has no requirements.
• Petrify - You can turn creatures to stone.
• Psionic - Your mind is open to others.
• Rampage - You gain momentum when killing.
• Regeneration - You heal from wounds faster.
• Relentless - You are difficult to kill.
• Restraints - You can restrain creatures.
• Shapechanger - You can alter your shape.
• Single-Minded Focus - Your focus cannot be shaken during combat.
• Size Increase - You become Medium.
• Soldier - You can wield weapons well.
• Spellcasting - You can cast spells.
• Spry - You are very hard to pin down in combat.
• Stench (A) - You smell bad.
• Teleportation - You can teleport instantly.
• Undying - You come back after death.

Adhesive

Whenever a creature hits you with a melee attack, they must make a DC (9 + your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution modifier) Strength or Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, they become grappled by you. This form of grappling does not require you to have any free hands. A creature can end this grapple by dropping the weapon they used to attack you.

Amorphous

Your body is formless. You can move through openings at least one inch wide at their narrowest point without squeezing, and you are immune to the prone condition.

Amphibious

You can breathe air and water, and gain a swimming speed of 30 feet.

• 1 point. Increase your swim speed by 10 feet. (S)

Brute

You are specialized at battering down your opponents. Whenever you hit a creature with a melee attack, you can expend one use of this Trait. If you do so, you count as having successfully Shoved them as part of the same attack. You can use this Trait a number of times equal to 1 + this Traits Tier, and you regain any expended uses when you complete a long rest.

• 2 points. When you successfully Shove a creature and choose to push them 5 feet, they move an additional 5 feet. (S)

Bulwark

You cannot be pushed or knocked prone. Additionally, whenever an ally is within 5 feet of you, they gain a +1 bonus to their Armor Class.

• 3 points. Increase the AC bonus by 1. (S)

Chameleon Skin

Your skin is reactive to the enviornment around you, you are shrouded by a veil of shadows, or you possess some other supernatural means of cloaking yourself. You gain a +3 bonus to any Dexterity (Stealth) checks you make, and can attempt to Hide even when only lightly obscured.

Charge

If you move 20 feet in a straight line before hitting a creature with a melee attack on the same turn, the target of this attack takes an additional 1d6 bludgeoning damage from that attack. The target of this attack must also make a DC (9 + your Strength modifier) Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution saving throw. On a failure, they are knocked prone.

• 2 points. Increase the damage dice class of the extra damage. (S)
• 1 point. Increase the save DC by 1. (S) (O)

Constrict

You can crush creatures with your grapple. Whenever a creature begins its turn grappled by you, it must make a DC (9 + your Strength modifier) Strength or Constitution saving throw. On a failure, it takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage. If you have a Tail, you can now grapple creatures with your Tail.

• 1 point. Increase the save DC by 1. (S)
• 2 points. Increase the damage dice class by one. (S) (O)
• 3 points. Whenever you make a successful attack with your Natural Weapon, you can make a grapple attempt against the target as part of the same attack.

Climb

You have a supernatural climbing ability. You gain a climb speed of 20 feet. You climb on impossible surfaces, like perfectly flat stone or upside down, as though it was difficult terrain. This form of climbing does not require the use of your hands.

• 1 point. Increase your climbing speed by 10 feet. (S)

Displacement

You can cause illusions to disguise your location. As an action, you can become displaced for the next minute. Whenever a creature makes an attack roll against you during this time, there is a 50% chance their attack misses, no matter what they roll. You can use this ability a number of times equal to 1 + this Trait's Tier, and you regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.

Durable

You gain +3 Natural Armor. Your Dex cannot increase your AC by more than 2.

• 1 point. Gain a +1 bonus to your Natural Armor.

Elemental Form

Whenever a creature touches you or hits you with an attack while within 5 feet of you, they take 1d4 elemental damage.

• 3 points. Increase the damage dice class by one. (S)
• 1 point. Change the damage type to a spiritual type. (O)

Fearsome

You can naturally inspire fear in your enemies. As a bonus action, you can force a creature within 30 feet of you that you can see to make a DC (9 + your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier) Wisdom or Charisma saving throw. On a failure, they become frightened of you for a minute. You have advantage on melee attack rolls against creatures you frighten with this Trait. They can repeat this saving throw at the end of every turn. You can use this ability a number of times equal to 1 + the Traits Tier, and you regain any expended uses when you complete a long rest.

• 1 point. Increase the save DC by +1. (S)
• 1 point. Increase the range of this ability by 10 feet. (S) (O)

Glide

You have wings, or some other apparatus which allows you to catch the air. When falling, you can move two feet horizontally for every one foot you fall. Additionally, you become immune to fall damage.

Items as Natural Weapons

It is possible to apply the Item (-1) SPR to the Natural Weapon Trait. If you choose a weapon as the Trait's Item, use the following rules:

• While you wield your Natural Weapon, it does not use the stats of the weapon you chose. It is treated as though it were a normal Natural Weapon, except it is not part of your body.
• You cannot be disarmed of your Natural Weapon unless you choose to be.
• If other creatures wield your Natural Weapon, it functions as a normal weapon for them.

Previously existing creatures with Items as Natural Weapons include Balors, Flinds, and Bheur Hags. These weapons all take on special properties in their owners' grasp.

Background

You have experiences rooted in an upbringing, occupation, or lifestyle. You gain proficiency in either two sets of tools, two instruments, or a combination of the two, and you learn a third language. Additionally, you gain a +2 bonus to social rolls made to interact with others who share the same background. You also gain a single piece of equipment that reflects your background; this piece of equiptment cannot be worth more than 3 gp.

Condition

You can inflict your enemies with a sickly disease or horrible curse. As an action, you can force a creature within 5 feet of you that you can see to make a DC (9 + your Dexterity, Wisdom, Intelligence, or Charisma modifier) Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, or become diseased or cursed for the next 24 hours. The disease or curse has a minor but noticable effect which persists for the entirety of its duration. Listed below are some examples. You can use this Trait a number of times equal to (1 + Trait's Tier), and you regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.

• You know how far away the diseased/cursed creature is from you.
• The creature has disadvantage on saving throws of a single ability.
• The creature takes an extra 1d4 damage from damage of a specific type or attacks from a specific creature.
• The creature has disadvantage on saving throws to resist a certain condition.

• 1 point. You can expend a usage against a creature you hit with a Natural Weapon attack.
• 1 point. Increase the save DC by 1. (S) (O)

Create Thrall

As an action, you can force a humanoid within 30 feet to make a DC (9 + your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier) Wisdom or Charisma save. On a failure, they become charmed by you for an hour. While charmed this way, they obey all commands you give them, except actions which would directly put their life at risk. They have advantage on this save if you are enemies with them. They can make this save again if you harm them in any way, and they roll with advantage. Creatures realize they were charmed by you if they succeed on saving throws made this way. The maximum amount of creatures you can have charmed this way is equal to your Challenge Level. If you charm creatures past this limit, the thrall that had been charmed the longest loses the charmed condition.

• 1 point. Raise DC by 1. (S)
• 1 point. Increase range by 10 feet. (S) (O)

Creation

You can create substance from nothing. As an action, you can fill up a 5-foot cube within 5 feet of yourself with some form of material; this material must be extremely common in the setting, of which a 5-foot cube of could not be sold for any meaningful monetary gain. Some examples are rock, seawater, ice, or grass. You cannot create this material in the same space that a creature is occupying. The cube of this material has 40 hit points and a damage threshhold of 5, although your DM may deicde it has less or more depending on the material. This material must be created attached to a fixed surface within range. You can also form your creation into shapes, but nothing more complex than another roughly geometric shape. You can use this Trait a number of times equal to 1 + this Tiers Trait, and you regain any expended uses when you complete a long rest.

• 3 points. Whenever you use this Trait, you can fill another, adjacent 5 foot cube with the same material. (S)
• 2 points. Increase the range of this ability by 5 feet. (S) (O)

Darkness (A)

At the beginning of your turn, you can choose to cause darkness to spill from you. Magical darkness fills a 10 foot radius around you, and moves with you. This darkness counts as magical darkness, and as such, is impenatrable by nonmagical light sources, cantrips, or darkvision. Creatures fully surrounded by this darkness count as being blinded. Light from a higher-level spell can cut through it, however. The effective level of this darkness is (this Traits Tier x 2 -1). You can use this Trait a number of times equal to 1 + this Traits Tier, and you regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.

• 3 points. Increase the radius of this darkness by 5 feet. (S)
• 1 point. Increase the effective level of this Trait by +1. (O)

Deathtouch

You can inflict deadly energies at a touch. As an action, you can force one creature within 5 feet of you to make a DC (9 + your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier) Dexterity, Constitution, or Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, they take 5d8 necrotic damage, or half as much on a success. If this damage reduces a creature to 0 hit points, they die instantly. You can use this ability a number of times equal to 1 + this Traits Tier, and you regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

• 3 points. Increase the damage dice class by two. (S)
• 1 points. Increase the range of this ability by 5 feet. (S) (O)