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Max Locke: Writer and creator

The images used in this document are almost entirely licensed by Wizards of the Coast within D&D sourcebooks or Magic: the Gathering cards. As a result, I am using them as an extension of the Open Gaming License.

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"Gorgan Creature" by CrystalSully on DeviantArt

"Barbarian, Path of the Fractured" by Angevere on DeviantArt (Classes, Barbarian)

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"Gunslinger" by Bryan Syme

"Vanitas" by Elvira Shatunova on ArtStation

"Dunamancer Weaver" by Irina Nordsol Kuzmina

"Just a dwarf doing dwarf things" by astajsic [@stajsica]

"So Owlbears are extremely ferocious predators, but sometimes... they just chill" by u/Marta_Beegee on reddit

"Remnants members" by Biagio D'Alessandro

"The Calamity" by Kent Davis

"Vestiges" by Kent Davis

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Contents

Preface: Step-By-Step Characters

Your first step toward playing a character in a game of Dungeons & Dragons is to imagine and create a character of your own. Your character is a combination of game statistics, roleplaying hooks, and your imagination. You choose a species (such as human or halfling) and a class (such as fighter or wizard). You also invent the personality, appearance, and backstory of your character. Once completed, your character serves as your representative in the game, your avatar in the Dungeons & Dragons world.

The following steps are presented in this order for the purposes of introducing new players to the game and getting them comfortable with the mechanics.

Once you are familiar with the system, it can often be better to begin with your character's background by skimming the Background Features list, working from there

Step 1: Choose a species

Every character belongs to an species, one of the many types of intelligent humanoids in the D&D world. Some species also have races, such as mountain dwarf or wood elf, as a part of their ancestry. Ancestry is the combined nature of your character's species and cultural circumstance of birth.

The ancestry you choose contributes to your character’s identity in an important way, by establishing a general appearance and the natural talents gained from their culture and genetic makeup. Your character’s ancestry grants particular traits, such as special senses, proficiency with certain weapons or tools, proficiency in one or more skills, or the ability to use minor spells.

These traits sometimes synergise with the capabilities of certain classes (see step 2). For example, the racial traits of lightfoot halflings make them exceptional rogues, and high elves tend to be powerful wizards. Sometimes playing against type can be fun, too. Goliath rogues and mountain dwarf wizards, for example, can be unusual but memorable characters.

Your ancestry also increases one or more of your ability scores, which you determine in step 3. Note these increases and remember to apply them later.

Step 2. Choose a Class

Every adventurer is a member of a class. Class broadly describes a character’s vocation, what special talents they possess, and the tactics they are most likely to employ when exploring a dungeon, fighting monsters, or engaging in a tense negotiation.

Your character receives a number of benefits from your choice of class. Many of these benefits are class features — capabilities (including spellcasting) that set your character apart from members of other classes.

You also gain a number of proficiencies: armour, weapons, skills, saving throws, and sometimes tools. Your proficiencies define many of the things your character can do particularly well, from using certain weapons to telling a convincing lie.

Step 3. Determine Ability Scores

Much of what your character does in the game depends on their six abilities:

Metallic Dragonborn

You partake of the heritage of metallic dragons, the heirs of Bahamut.

Ability Score Bonus. Increase one ability score by 2 and increase a different one by 1, or you increase three different scores by 1.

Metallic Ancestry. You trace your ancestry to a metallic dragon, granting you a special magical affinity. Choose one type of dragon from the Metallic Ancestry table. This determines the damage type for your other traits as shown in the table.

Breath Weapon. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with an exhalation of magical energy in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC = 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, the creature takes 1d10 damage of the type associated with your Metallic Ancestry. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.

This damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).

Metallic Breath Weapon. At 5th level, you gain a second breath weapon. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with an exhalation in a 15-foot cone. The save DC for this breath is 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. Whenever you use this trait, choose one breath weapon type:

Enervating Breath. Each creature in the cone must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or become incapacitated until the start of your next turn.

Repulsion Breath. Each creature in the cone must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed 20 feet away from you and be knocked prone.

Slowing Breath. Each creature in the cone must make a Constitution saving throw or be unable to use reactions, have its speed halved, and be only able to use either an action or a bonus action on its turn, not both. These effects last for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect early on a success.

Once you use your Metallic Breath Weapon, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Drakeblood

Drakebloods possess elongated teeth attached to poisoned glands and have vestigial webbing beneath their armpits. They are descended from Wyverns rather than 'true' dragons.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Intelligence score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Wyvern Resistance. You have resistance to Poison damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against poison.

Envenomed Bite. You can make unarmed strikes using your Bite, with the Finesse property. It deals 1d4 piercing damage on a hit instead of the bludgeoning damage usual for unarmed strikes. Also on a hit, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier) or take 1d6 Poison damage and become poisoned for 1 minute. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the target is paralysed while poisoned in this way, ending the paralysis early if it takes damage. The poison damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

Untrue Dragon You can take Ancestry Feats associated with skink, kobolds, and naga as well as dragonborn.

Dual Ancestry

Walking in two worlds but truly belonging to neither, half-bloods combine what some say are the best qualities of their combined ancestries. Many of these become adventurers, achieving greatness for their mighty deeds and notoriety for their unconventional start in life.

Mixed Traits

Your features and traits are a combination of each of your parents' species. Often, however, half-bloods end up being infertile.

Ability Score Bonus. Three ability scores of your choice each increase by 1.

Age. Half-bloods age at much the same rate as their fastest-maturing parent, but live much longer, however, gaining the larger life expectancy of the two parents.

Size. Half-bloods tend to be from 5 to 6 feet tall, but can range anywhere from 3 to 8 feet. Your size is Small or Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Thanks to your heritage from at least one side, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Lifelong Versatility. If neither of your parents have Darkvision, you gain proficiency in two skills of your choice or four weapons of your choice, replacing the Darkvision trait.

Dual Ancestry. You inherit three ancestry features from your parents, as detailed in the recommended ‘Variable Traits’ below.

Languages. You can read, speak, and write Common, and two other languages of your choice - usually one from each parent.

Variable Traits

You gain three traits from your parents species' features. They cannot all be derived from the ancestry of only one parent. The following are some of the most common:

Amphibious (Various). You can breathe water as well as air. You also have a swim speed equal to your walking speed

Brave (Halfling or Kobold). You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Climber (Various). You have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

    Deep Resilience (Svirfneblin, Duergar, or Derro). You have advantage on saving throws against illusions
and against being charmed or paralyzed.

Innate Spellcasting (Various). You can cast one 2nd-level spell once, and it recharges after a short or long rest. The spell and its spellcasting ability are determined by your parentage (such as Misty Step for an Eladrin, or Levitate for an Air Genasi).

Fleet of Foot (Various). Your base walking speed increases by 5 feet.

Flight. If both your parents are naturally capable of flight, you can gain a fly speed equal to your walking speed. You can take only one other Variable Trait when you gain this trait.

Fey Ancestry (Various). You have advantage on saves to resist being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.

Limited Telepathy (Kalashtar, Ghostwise Halfling, or Gith). You can telepathically speak to any creature within 30 feet. You do not have to share a language to speak, however, they must be able to speak a language.

Magical Insight (Gnome or Vedalken). You have advantage on all Wisdom and Charisma saving throws.

Natural Weapon (Various). You have horns, claws, talons, tusks, sharp teeth, or a tail that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Nimble (size Small). You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours and can take the Disengage action as a bonus action.

Powerful Build (size Medium). You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple.

Powerful Leaps (Grung, Harengon, or Satyr). Your long jump is up to 25 feet and your high jump is up to 10 feet, with or without a running start.

Resistance (Various). You gain resistance to the same damage type as your parent. If you gain resistance to Poison, you also have advantage on saving throws against poison

Superior Darkvision (Various). Your Darkvision range increases to 120 feet. However, you have Sunlight Sensitivity, giving you disadvantage on Attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Tough (Dwarf or Human). Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 again every time you
    gain a level.

Dwarf

Kingdoms rich in ancient grandeur, halls carved into the roots of mountains, the echoing of picks and hammers in deep mines and blazing forges, a commitment to clan and tradition, and a burning hatred of goblins and orcs – these common threads unite all dwarves.

Dwarf Traits

Dwarves are solid and enduring like the mountains they love, weathering the passage of centuries with stoic endurance and little change; determined and loyal, dwarves are true to their word and decisive in action, sometimes to the point of stubbornness.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Constitution score increases by 2

Age. Dwarves mature at the same rate as humans, but they're considered young until they reach the age of 50. On average, they live about 350 years.

Size. Dwarves stand between 3 and a half and 4 and a half feet tall and average about 150 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet. Your speed is not reduced by wearing heavy armour.

Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Dwarven Resilience. You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance to poison damage.

Dwarven Tradecraft. You have proficiency with the battleaxe, handaxe, light hammer, and warhammer, and you gain proficiency in a single Artisan's tool of your choice.

Forgecunning. You feel a warm aura whenever any magic items are within 15 feet of you, and can tell how many and in what direction from you they are. You can cast the identify spell once with this trait, requiring no verbal or material components, regaining the use of this feature when you complete this long rest.

Outsize Might. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple. Wielding an Unwieldy weapon doesn't impose disadvantage on attack rolls.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Dwarvish.

Dwarven Roots

Roots were the names of dwarven clans of old, burrowing into mountains like the roots of a tree. Over time they developed into biologically distinct races. Choose one of the following:

Azerblood

Azerblood dwarves descended from groups of elemental azer who found dwarven mates on the material plane. These red-haired dwarves channel heat into air around them.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Fire Resistance. You have resistance to fire damage.

Inner Fire. You know the burning hands cantrip. Once you reach 5th level, you can cast the heat metal spell once per day as a 2nd-level spell. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Duergar

Duergar are pale, grey dwarves whose ancestors were transformed by centuries living in the deepest places of the Underdark, further altered when mind flayers and other cosmic horrors invaded and experimented on them. In time, they liberated themselves from their aberrant tyrants, forging a new life for themselves in the Underdark and beyond.

Superior Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Deep Resilience. You have advantage on saving throws against illusions and against being charmed or paralyzed.

Duergar Magic. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Enlarge/Reduce spell on yourself once with this trait, using only the spell's enlarge option. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the Invisibility spell on yourself once with this trait. You don't need material components for either spell, but you can't cast them while you're in direct sunlight, although sunlight has no effect on them once cast. You regain the ability to cast these spells with this trait when you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on Attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Hill Dwarf

As a hill dwarf, you have keen senses, deep intuition, remarkable resilience, and a tenacity and drive uncommon even among other dwarves.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Wisdom score increases by 1

Dwarven Toughness. Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

Fleet of Foot. Your base walking speed increases to 30 feet.

Korred

These goat-legged dwarves descended from groups of duergar who found satyr mates as they wandered from Shaedar to Faerie. No other dwarf compares to the weight of reverence for their braided locks as a korred.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Charisma score increases by 1

Earthen Fey. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed and petrified.

Stone Camouflage. You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in rocky terrain.

Command Hair. Over the course of a short or long rest, you can create a 50-foot-long rope woven out of your braided beard hair. As a bonus action you can command your rope, if within 30 feet of it, to move up to 20 feet and entangle a Large or smaller creature that you can see. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or become grappled by the rope (escape and save DC 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your Proficiency bonus). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained. You can use a bonus action to release the target, which is also freed if you die or become incapacitated. A rope of korred hair has AC 20 and 20 hit points. It regains 1 hit point at the start of each of your turns while it has at least 1 hit point and you are alive. If the rope drops to 0 hit points, it is destroyed.

Once you create a beard-hair rope, you cannot create another one until a week has passed. If attuned to a belt of dwarvenkind, you can instead create a rope this way each time you finish a long rest. You cannot have more than one korred rope at once.

Mountain Dwarf

As a mountain dwarf, you're strong and hardy, accustomed to a difficult life in rugged terrain. You’re probably on the tall side (for a dwarf), and tend toward lighter colouration having spent a great deal of time within mountains.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Strength score increases by 2

Dwarven Armour Training. You have proficiency with light and medium armour.

Nidavellir

Dwarves of the lowest plane of Ysgard, the Nidavellir are the origin of the dwarven reverence for achieving mastery of a craft. No greater smiths of wondrous items exist in the multiverse over.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Wisdom score increases by 1

Artisanal Intuition. Whenever you make a History check related to the origin of any architectural construction (including buildings, public works such as canals and aqueducts, and even the massive cogwork that underlies much of the construction of Mechanus), you can use your Wisdom instead of Intelligence modifier, and you are considered proficient in the History skill and add double your proficiency bonus to these checks.

Nidavellir Resilience. You have advantage on saving throws against spells and effects which attempt to teleport you, or alter your form or plane, against your will.

Nidavellir Spellcasting. If you have the spellcasting or pact magic feature, the following spells are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)

Nidavellir Spells

Cantrips: Control Flame, Mould Earth

1st-level: Tenser's Floating Disk, Unseen Servant

2nd-level: Arcane Lock, Heat Metal

3rd-level: Dispel Magic

4th-level: Banishment

5th-level: Bigby’s Hand

Elf

Elves are a magical people of otherworldly grace, living in places of ethereal beauty, in the midst of ancient forests or in silvery spires glittering with faerie light, where soft music drifts through the air and gentle fragrances waft on the breeze. Elves love nature and magic, art and artistry, music and poetry.

Elf Traits

Like the branches of a young tree, elves are flexible in the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and comprom ise to resolve differences before they escalate to violence. But when the need arises, elves reveal a stern martial side, drilled into them from birth, demonstrating skill with sword, bow, and strategy.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Dexterity score increases by 2

Age. Although elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old; within the feywild, elves live almost indefinitely.

Size. Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.

Trance. Elves do not sleep. Instead they meditate deeply, remaining semi-conscious, for 4 hours a day. The Common word for this meditation is "trance." While meditating, you dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive after years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit a human would from 8 hours of sleep.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Elven.

Elven Vein

Your heritage flows into the past much as marble
is run with rich dark lines.
Choose one of the following:

Drow

Descended from an earlier race of dark-skinned
elves who worshipped the sun and bathed in its
light, the drow were tricked into abandoning
the surface world, led by the goddess Lolth
down the path to evil and corruption. Having
thrown off the shackles of the Mother of Spiders
and banished the heretics to Pandemonium,
they have built their own civilization in the
depths of the Underdark.

The drow have purple-toned skin that resembles polished jasper and stark white or pale lilac hair.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Charisma score increases by 1

Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision has a range of 120 feet, instead of 60.

Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of the attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Drow Magic. You know the Dancing Lights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Faerie Fire spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the Darkness spell once and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Drow Weapon Training. You have proficiency with rapiers, shortswords, whips, and hand crossbows.

Eladrin

Eladrin are elves native to the Feywild, a realm of beauty, unpredictable emotion, and boundless magic. An eladrin is associated with one of the four seasons and has coloration reminiscent of that season, which can also affect the eladrin's mood:

Autumn: peace and goodwill

Winter: contemplation and dolor

Spring: cheerfulness and merriment

Summer: boldness and aggression

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    Ability Score Bonus. Your Charisma score increases by 1

Cantrips. You know one cantrip of your choice from the Bard or Druid spell list. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Fey Step. As a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

When you reach 3rd level, your Fey Step gains an additional effect based on your season; if the effect requires a saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier.

The seasonal effects are as follows:

Autumn. Immediately after you use your Fey Step, up to two creatures of your choice that you can see within 10 feet of you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by you for 1 minute, or until you or your companions deal any damage to it.

Winter. When you use your Fey Step, one creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of you before you teleport must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Spring. When you use your Fey Step, you can touch one willing creature within 5 feet of you. That creature then teleports instead of you, appearing in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you.

Summer. Immediately after you use your Fey Step, each creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of you takes fire damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 damage).

High Elf

As a high elf, you have a keen mind and a mastery of at least the basics of magic. Many of the older high elves are haughty and reclusive, clinging to the edifice of a now long-gone decadent, arcane past.

Ability Score Bonus. Intelligence score increases by 1

Cantrips. You know two cantrips of your choice from the Wizard spell list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability.

Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.

Extra Language. You can read, speak, and write one additional language of your choice.

Moon Elf

Much paler than most elves, Moon elves have alabaster skin sometimes tinged with blue, often with hair of silver-white, grey, or blue. One of the more common and sociable elven veins, they are often encountered among other species.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Wisdom score increases by 1

Incisive Instinct. You have advantage on Investigation, Insight, and Perception checks.

Blessing of the Moonweaver. You know the Light cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast Sleep once, and it recharges after a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast Invisibility (Self Only) once, and it recharges after a long rest. You do not need the material components required of the spells. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Dream Guide. You sleep when you rest unlike normal elves; when you finish a long rest, you add 1d4 to a single type of skill check of your choice for 8 hours.

Gnome

A constant hum of busy activity pervades the warrens and neighbourhoods where gnomes form their close-knit communities. Louder sounds punctuate the hum: a crunch of grinding gears here, a minor explosion there, a yelp of surprise or triumph, and especially bursts of laughter.

Gnomish Paths

The lines of a gnome's ancestry, they say, is a spiritual journey that all must walk. Choose one of the following:

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Bonny Gnome

The absolute pinnacle of the gnomish stereotype, bonny gnomes live to have a good time and improve the lives of those who encounter them.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Charisma score increases by 1

Meal of Champions. You gain proficiency in Cook's utensils or Brewer’s supplies. During a long rest, you can prepare a meal for your allies. When the rest completes, up to 6 creatures of your choice who ate the meal gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your level.

Skipping Step. Your walking speed increases to 30 feet.

Forest Gnome

Forest gnomes tend to be friendly with other good-spirited woodland folk, and they regard elves and good fey as their most important allies. These gnomes also befriend small forest animals and rely on them for information about threats that might prowl their lands.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Dexterity score increases by 1

Natural Illusionist. You know the Minor Illusion cantrip. Intelligence is your spellcasting modifier for it.

Speak with Small Beasts. Through sound and gestures, you may communicate simple ideas with Small or smaller beasts.

Rock Gnome

As a rock gnome, you have a natural inventiveness and hardiness beyond that of other gnomes. Rock gnomes make up the largest proportion of the gnomish population.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Constitution score increases by 1

Artificer's Lore. Whenever you make an Intelligence (History) check related to magical, alchemical, or technological items, you can add twice your proficiency bonus instead of any other proficiency bonus that may apply.

Tinker. You have proficiency with artisan tools (tinker's tools). Using those tools, you can spend 1 hour and 10 gp worth of materials to construct a Tiny clockwork device (AC 5, 1 hit point). The device ceases to function after 24 hours (unless you spend 1 hour repairing it to keep the device functioning), or when you use your action to dismantle it; at that time, you can reclaim the materials used to create it. You can have up to three such devices active at a time. These devices otherwise follow the guidance for, and produce the effects of, the Magical Tinkering feature of a 1st-level artificer, but the devices are considered to be non-magical.

Redcap

The redcap, powrie, or dunter is a type of cantankerous gnome found in the borders of the feywild. They tend to inhabit ruined castles or shacks, especially those that were the homes of tyrants or wicked creatures. The nickname comes from their tendency for soaking their caps in the blood of their homes' former tenants.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Strength or Charisma score increases by 1.

Outsize Might. You count as one Size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple. Also, wielding an Unwieldy weapon doesn't impose disadvantage on your attack rolls.

Ironbound Pursuit. When you use your action to Dash, if you end your movement within 5 feet of a creature you can make one attack of opportunity against that creature as a reaction.

Spelljammer Arknaut

Makers of Spelljammers, autognomes, skyships, and Githyanki astral warfleets, the Arknaut shipbuilders are unparalleled - indeed, they alone remember the secret to the creation of floating islands. It is said they were taught in ages long passed by the celestial Reigar of Wildspace

Ability Score Bonus Your Dexterity score increase by 1.

Slight Build. Due to your hollow bones, you weigh half as much as normal, and are considered one size smaller when determining the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures which can grapple you.

Hollow Bones. You can make a long jump equal to a number of feet equal to five times your Strength score with or without a running start. You can make a high jump equal to 10 + your Strength modifier with or without a running start. Additionally, you fall half as fast as normal.

Arknaut Combat Training. You have proficiency with the flail, lance, trident, and war pick. You also gain proficiency with Air Vehicles or Spelljammers, if available.

Astral Magic. Your ancestors' prolonged exposure to the astral sea has granted you innate magical abilities. You know the gust or mending cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the longstrider spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you learn either the earthbind or levitate spell. You can cast the chosen spell once and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Svirfneblin

Deep gnomes, or svirfneblin, are natives of the Underdark and are suffused with that subterranean realm’s magic. They can supernaturally camouflage themselves, and their svirfneblin magic renders them difficult to locate. These abilities have enabled them to survive for generations among the perils of the Underdark.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Dexterity score increases by 1

Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision has a range of 120 feet, instead of 60.

Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on Attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Gift of the Svirfneblin. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the Disguise Self spell with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the Nondetection spell with it, without requiring a material component. Once you cast either of these spells with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait. You can also cast these spells using spell slots you have of the appropriate level.

Cavern Camouflage. You have advantage on Dexterity (stealth) checks to hide in rocky terrain and within dim light and darkness.

Goblin

Long before the god Maglubiyet conquered them, early goblins served in the court of the Queen of Air and Darkness, one of the Shadowfell’s archfey. Goblins thrived in her dangerous domain thanks to a special boon from her — a supernatural knack for finding the weak spots in foes larger than themselves and for getting out of trouble.

Since Maglubiyet's death at the hands and spears of Gruumsh, many goblins pursue their own destinies, escaping the plots of both archfey and gods.

Hobgoblin

Goblins experiencing prolonged stress of war, persecution, and strife for numerous generations produce larger offspring with visibly red skin. War is the lifeblood of hobgoblins; its glories are the dreams that inspire them, its horrors don't feature in their nightmares. Cowardice is more terrible to hobgoblins than dying, for they carry their living acts into the afterlife. A hero in death becomes a hero eternally.

Hobgoblin Traits

Hobgoblins are generally taller than regular goblins but not quite as big as bugbears. They have curved, pointed ears and noses that turn bright red or blue during displays of emotion.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Intelligence score increases by 1

Goblinoid. Hobgoblins retain the Age, Speed, Darkvision, and Languages features of being a Goblin.

Size. Hobgoblins are between 5 and 6 feet tall and weigh between 150 and 200 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Martial Training. You are proficient with two martial weapons of your choice and with either shields or medium armour.

Martial Advantage. You can deal an extra 2d6 damage to a creature you hit with a weapon attack if that creature is within 5 feet of an ally that isn’t incapacitated. You can use this trait only once per round.

Saving Face. Hobgoblins are careful not to show weakness in front of their allies, for fear of losing status. If you miss with an attack roll or fail an ability check or a saving throw, you can gain a bonus to the roll equal to the number of allies you can see within 30 feet of you (maximum bonus of +5). Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Goliath

At the highest mountain peaks dwell the reclusive goliaths, wandering a bleak realm of rock, wind, and cold. Their bodies look as if they are carved from mountain stone and give them great physical power. Their hearts are infused with the cold regard of their frigid realm, leaving each goliath with the responsibility to earn a place in the tribe or die trying.

Goliath Traits

Distantly related to giants and infused with the supernatural essence of their ancestors’ mountainous home, goliaths have a wide array of skin tones resembling different types of stone.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1

Age. Goliaths have lifespans comparable to humans. They enter adulthood in their late teens and usually live less than a century.

Size. Goliaths are between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 280 and 340 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Natural Athlete. You have proficiency in the Athletics skill.

Stone's Endurance. You can focus yourself to occasionally shrug off injury. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to roll 1d12. Add your Constitution modifier to the number rolled, and reduce the damage by that total.

Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

At 11th level, you roll 2d12 instead of 1d12.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple.

Mountain Born. You’re acclimated to high altitude, including elevations above 20,000 feet. You can hold your breath for twice as long as normal and you are resistant to cold damage.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Giant.

Halfling

The comforts of home are the goals of most halflings'
lives: a place to settle in peace and quiet, far
from marauding monsters and clashing
armies. Others form nomadic bands that
travel constantly, lured by the open road and
the wide horizon to discover the wonders
of new lands and peoples. Halflings work
readily with others, and they are
loyal to their friends, whether
halfling or otherwise. They can display
remarkable ferocity when their friends,
families, or communities are threatened.

Halfling Traits

Halflings are an affable and cheerful people. They cherish the bonds of family and friendship as well as the com forts of hearth and home, harboring few dreams of gold or glory.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Dexterity score increases by 2

Age. A halfling reaches adulthood at the age of 20 and generally lives into the middle of his or her second century.

Size. Halflings average about 3 feet tall and weigh about 40 pounds. Your size is small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Naturally Lucky. When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die. You must use the new result, even if it is a 1.

Brave. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Nimble. You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common & Ori

Halfling Family Trees

To a halfling, the wellbeing of your family and those you care about is all that matters. Choose one of the following:

Lightfoot

Lightfoots are more prone to wanderlust than other halflings, and often dwell alongside other races or take up a nomadic life; having spread the farthest, they are considered to be the most common variety, even if they're not actually the highest proportion of the halfling population.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Charisma score increases by 1

Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are only obscured by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.

Stout

As a stout halfling, you’re hardier than average and have some resistance to toxins. Some say that stouts have dwarven blood - whether true or not, they have historically maintained strong ties to the clans of the Mountain dwarfs.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Constitution score increases by 1

Stout Resilience. You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance to poison damage.

Derro

The derro were another unfortunate group that was long held by mind flayers in the underdark. With blue-gray skin, and hair of white, yellow, or pale tan in color, Derro also lack both irises and pupils, showing uniformly pale eyes.

Bitter Madness. When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you rolls an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can use your reaction to force them to reroll the d20 (or both if at advantage or disadvantage). This replaces the Naturally Lucky feature.

Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can
see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were
bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light.
You can't discern colour in darkness.

Underdark Traveller. You have a climbing
speed equal to your walking speed as long
as you are not wearing heavy armour.

Madman's Resilience You have resistance
to psychic damage, and your emotions and
thoughts cannot be read or altered; creatures
that attempt to take 1d10 psychic damage. You
also have advantage on saving throws against
illusions & against being charmed or paralyzed.

Ghostwise

Ghostwise halflings are the rarest of their kin, found only in the plains and a few isolated forests, often living near crossed leylines; many ghostwise carry a piece of their birthland with them at all times.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Wisdom score increases by 1

Silent Speech. You can speak telepathically to any creature within 30 feet of you. The creature understands you only if the two of you share a language. You can speak telepathically in this way to one creature at a time. At 5th level, this increases to a 60-foot range.

Unstable Magic. You know the Chaos Bolt spell, and can cast it once per long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell. When you cast Chaos Bolt by any means, you can expend one of your Hit Dice and roll it. If you roll an even number, you gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the number rolled. If you roll an odd number, the closest creature within 30 feet of you takes force damage equal to the number rolled. If no other creatures are in range, you take the damage.

Lotusden

Long tied to the natural heart of the Lotusden in the deepest of jungles, these halflings have adapted to live symbiotically with the laws of the wilds.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Children of the Woods. You know the Druidcraft Cantrip. At 3rd level, you can cast the Entangle spell once per long rest. At 5th level, you can cast the Spike Growth spell once per long rest. These spells don't require the material components normally required. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Timberwalk. Ability checks made to track you are at disadvantage and you can move through difficult terrain made of non-magical plants and overgrowth without expending extra movement.

Talloen

These northern tribes of halflings are cunning survivors who revere the Old Powers, and who are at home in hardship. Abandoned halflings who survive in the wild also often exhibit these traits.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Plains Hunter.
            You have advantage on Dexterity (stealth) checks to
              hide in natural foliage, and on checks made to recall                 or ascertain information about Beasts.

            Ancestral Guidance. Your connection to those who
                  lived before guides your knowledge of the world.
                  You can use your Wisdom instead of Intelligence
                    when making History, Nature and Religion checks.       Furthermore, you can cast the Guidance cantrip at will. It has a casting time of 1 bonus action and a range of 30 feet when you cast it.

Yondallan

The patron of small-folk, the matron of hearth and harvest bestows her gifts to those of her faith who deserve it.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Ever Hospitable. Whenever you roll a Charisma (Persuasion) check or an ability check involving Artisan’s Tools, roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the total ability check.

Helper’s Magic. You know the Prestidigitation cantrip. You can also cast Find Familiar (ritual only, no Material components required) and Unseen Servant with this trait. Once you cast either spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell again until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your Spellcasting Ability for these spells.

Spells of the Smallfolk. If you have the Spellcasting or Pact Magic class features, the spells on the Helper's Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class.

Helper's Spells

Cantrips: Guidance

1st-level: Goodberry, Sleep

2nd-level: Aid, Calm Emotions

3rd-level: Leomund's Tiny Hut

4th-level: Guardian of Faith

5th-level: Hallow

Human

Perhaps it is because of their comparatively short lives that Humans strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder Ancestries, and that's why they build their mighty empires on the foundation of conquest and trade. Whatever drives them, humans are the innovators, the achievers, and the pioneers of many worlds.

Specialised Trait

You gain one of the following options of your choice:

Versatile. Your ability scores each increase by 1. This replaces both the Ability Score Bonus and Natural Talent features.

Brave. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Innate Intuition. Whenever you make a skill check in an ability score of your choice (chosen at 1st level; it cannot be changed) or an Ability Check involving Artisan's Tools you're proficient with, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the total ability check.

Magewright. You know two cantrips of your choice from the Cleric, Druid, or Sorcerer spell list. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for them.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple.

Studied. You gain proficiency in a   number of
skills, tools, or languages of your choice equal to
your Intelligence modifier. Whenever    your
modifier increases, you gain another
(minimum 1 proficiency, maximum 6).

Tough. Your hit point maximum
increases by 1, and it increases by 1
again every time you gain a level.

Verdant-Tinged Blood. You have
advantage on saving throws made to
resist being charmed, possessed, or put
to sleep.

Fleet of Foot. Your base walking speed
is 35 feet.

Splinter Races

While still human, some groups diverted
from the rest of their kind a long time ago,
displaying different traits. Choosing a
splinter group forfeits the Natural Talent and
Specialised features.

Northlander

Expert fishermen of the mountainous northern isles, the Northlanders are adapted to the permanent winter. Nothlander warriors are almost exclusively female, earning their raiders the nickname of 'Valkyries.'

Ability Score Bonus. Your Strength, Constitution, or Wisdom score increases by 1

Natural Mariner. You can hold your breath for twice as long, you have a swim speed equal to your walking speed, and you have proficiency in Navigator's tools and Water vehicles.

Northern Resilience. You gain proficiency in either Strength or Constitution saving throws.

Child of Frost. You are naturally adapted to cold climates and to extreme elevations, as described in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. You can speak, read, and write Giant, having been raised alonside Goliaths.

Yuan-Ti Pureblood

The remains of an ancient, decadent human empire; the Obyrith taught them profane, cannibalistic rituals to mix their flesh with that of snakes, producing these ophidian hybrids.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Innate Spellcasting. You know the Poison Spray cantrip. You can cast Animal Friendship and Speak with Animals an unlimited number of times with this trait, but you can target only snakes with it. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Magic Resistance. You have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Kobold

Kobolds are often dismissed as cowardly, foolish, and weak, but these little reptilian creatures actually have a strong social structure that stresses devotion to the tribe, are clever with their hands, and viciously work together in order to overcome their physical limitations.

Kobold Traits

Whatever their relationship to dragons, kobold scales tend to be rust colored, although the occasional kobold sports a scale color more akin to that of a chromatic or a metallic dragon. Kobolds feel emotion intensely, but fleetingly; regardless of the emotion expressed, their passion resonates with draconic power.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1

Age. Kobolds reach adulthood at age 6 and can live up to 120 years but historically rarely do so.

Size. Kobolds are between 2 and 3 feet tall and weigh between 25 and 35 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You have a burrowing speed of 20 feet through mud and soil, and 5 ft. through stone.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Pack Tactics. You have advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of your allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.

Drake Tongue. You have proficiency in either the Persuasion, Deception, or Intimidation skill.

Descendant of Dragons. You gain one Draconic Legacy trait, choosing from the adjacent list.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Draconic.

Draconic Legacy

The kobold connection to dragons can manifest in unpredictable ways in an individual kobold. Choose one of the following legacy options when you select this ancestry:

Brave. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened and on checks made to contest Intimidation.

Innate Spellcasting. You know one cantrip of your choice from the sorcerer spell list. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this cantrip.

    Bahamut's Roar. As a bonus action, you let out a roar at your enemies, as though you were a True Dragon. All creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn. Also until the end of your next turn, you and all your allies have advantage on attack rolls against any creatures frightened in this way. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Twitchy Hoarder. You can add your Intelligence or Charisma modifier (minimum 1) to checks relating to things being taken from you or your allies (including passive Perception), as well as to Initiative checks.

Incubated Brood. You take half as much damage from any breath weapon.

Tooth of Tiamat. As a bonus action, you can touch a simple or martial melee weapon and infuse it with one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. For the next minute, the weapon deals an extra 1d8 damage of the chosen type when it hits. After you use this bonus action, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Scaled Hide. Your AC increases by 1 when you are not wearing Medium or Heavy armour.

Sauricide. You deal an additional weapon die of the attack's damage type to reptiles and dragon type creatures when you hit them with weapon attacks.

Great Wyrm's Might. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift. You can make unarmed strikes with your tail. When you hit with it, the strike deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier bludgeoning damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. Also, wielding an Unwieldy weapon doesn't impose disadvantage on your attack rolls.

Vengeful Assault. When you take damage from a creature in range of a weapon you are wielding, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against that creature. Once you have used this ability, you cannot use it again until you have completed a short or long rest.

Artifact Sensitivity. You can cast Identify, Detect Magic, or Locate Object once as a bonus action, without requiring any components or expending a spell slot. You regain the use of this ability when you finish a short or long rest.

Inner Dragon. As a bonus action, you can gain Blindsight out to a range of 10 feet for 1 minute. Once you have used this ability, you cannot use it again until you have completed a short or long rest.

Orc

Orcs are one of the Materium’s youngest natural ancestries, and are said to have been born from elves seared by the blood of Gruumsh, the Ruiner, when Corellon pierced the dark god’s eye on the field of battle. Orcs and half-orcs do feel a certain pull toward violence and anger. But the simple truth is that there is no curse of ruin. No supernatural power drives orcs to kill. Rather, they are simply victims of the same selfish, violent impulses that corrupt all mortal beings, and can be as civilised or as wild as anyone else.

Orc Traits

Orcs are tall, standing head and shoulders above most humans, and are generally twice as broad. They often accentuate their bulging muscles by wearing tight-fitting bands and accessories around the thickest parts of their arms and necks. Their skin color ranges from forest-grey to almost neon green.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Strength score increases by 2, and either your Constitution or Wisdom score increases by 1

Age. Orcs reach adulthood at age 16 and live up to 80 years.

Size. Orcs stand easily 8 feet tall and corded with powerful muscles, weighing up to 280 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Rushdown. You can take the Dash action as a bonus action. You must end movement taken this way closer to a hostile creature than you started.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple.

Relentless Endurance. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Savage Attacks. When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon's damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Uruk.

Skink

The Skink, a species
of humanoid lizard, possess an
alien and inscrutable mindset, their
desires and thoughts driven by a different set of basic principles than those of warm-blooded creatures. Their dismal swamp homes might lie hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement, but the gap between their way of thinking and that of the smooth-skins is far greater.

Skink Traits

These lizardfolk have colorful scales and exhibit a wide array of scale patterns. Oftentimes, skink exhibit crests down their spines of brilliant hues that contrast with the rest of their colouration. Their individual facial features are as varied as those of lizards.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1

Age. Skink reach maturity around age 14 and rarely live longer than 60 years.

Size. Skink are a little bulkier and taller than humans, and the colourful frills males develop make them appear even larger. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed of 30 feet.

Rending Jaws. Your fanged maw is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

In battle, you can throw yourself into a vicious feeding frenzy. As a bonus action, you can make a special attack with your bite.

Cunning Artisan. As part of a short rest, you can harvest bone and hide from a slain beast, construct, dragon, monstrosity, or plant creature of size Small or larger to create one of the following items: a shield, a club, a javelin, or 1d4 darts or arrows. To use this trait, you need a blade, such as a dagger, or appropriate artisan's tools, such as leatherworker's tools. If you have access to gunpowder and have proficiency in Tinker’s Tools, you can also make 1d6 light firearm rounds

Hold Breath. You can hold your breath for up to an hour.

Hunter's Lore. You gain proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Nature, Perception, Stealth, and Survival.

Natural Armour. You have tough, scaly skin. When you aren't wearing armour, your AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armour to determine your AC if the armour you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armour.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
            Draconic.

Warforged

The warforged were built to fight in the Insurgence. The first warforged were mindless automatons, but House Cannith devoted vast resources to improving these steel soldiers. An unexpected breakthrough produced fully sentient soldiers, blending organic and inorganic materials. Warforged are made from bone and metal, but they can feel pain and emotion. The internal components used in different generations of the warforged’s manufacture can vary wildly; one might have an actual beating heart in its chest cavity, while another might be powered by intricate clockwork gears or a large Residuum crystal.

Forge Iteration

You gain one forge iteration, depending on the period in which you were built, from the following:

MK. I: Warforged

A typical warforged between 30 and 300 years old, built by artificers as soldiers for the calamity from organic material salvaged from the dead.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Purposeful Design. You gain one skill proficiency and one tool proficiency of your choice. You also gain a +1 bonus to your Armour Class regardless of what you're wearing or wielding.

Centaur

Roamers at heart, centaurs love open spaces and the freedom to travel. As much as they can, centaurs run. They race the wind, hooves thundering and tails streaming behind them. As a Centaur you gain the following traits:

Changeling

Changelings can shift their forms with a thought. Many changelings use this gift as a form of artistic and emotional expression.

A casual shape — one created on the spur of the moment, with no depth or history — is called a mask. A mask can be used to express a mood or to serve a specific purpose and then might never be used again. However, many changelings develop identities that have more depth, crafting whole personas complete with histories and beliefs. A changeling adventurer might have personas for many situations, including negotiation, investigation, and combat.

Changeling Traits

In their true form, changelings appear faded, their features almost devoid of detail. It is rare to see a changeling in that form, for a typical changeling changes their shape the way others might change clothes.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Charisma score increases by 2 In addition, one other ability score of your choice increases by 1.

Age. Changelings mature slightly faster than humans but share a similar lifespan — typically a century or less. While a changeling can transform to conceal their age, the effects of ageing affect them similarly to humans.

Size. In their natural forms, changelings average between 5 to 6 feet in height, with a slender build. Your size is Medium. You have the creature type Humanoid (Shapechanger)

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Fey. Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid,
and you have advantage on saving throws against
being charmed.

Shapechanger. As an action, you can change your appearance and your voice. You determine the
specifics of the changes, including your
colouration, hair length, and sex. You can also
adjust your height and weight, but not so much
that your size changes. You can make yourself
appear as a member of another species, though
none of your game statistics change. You can't
duplicate the appearance of a creature you've
never seen, and you must adopt a form that
has the same basic arrangement of limbs that
you have. Your clothing and equipment aren't
changed by this trait.
You stay in the new form until you use an action
to revert to your true form or until you die.

Changeling Instincts. You gain proficiency
with one of the following skills of your choice:
Deception, Insight, Intimidation, and Persuasion.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write
Common, either Sylvan or Undercommon, and
        one other language of your choice.

Exiled Illithid

You are an outcast, and serve no elder brain colony. In the Astral Sea or the Void of space where distances are huge, this is not a totally uncommon incident.

Mind-Flayer Traits

Other people don't tend to like Illithid, but most will respect you out of fear. As an Illithid you gain the following traits:

Ability Score Bonus. Your intelligence increases by 2.

Age. As illithid are parasitic hive creatures, individual age is scarcely recorded, and nigh inconceivable to a mind flayer, though they mature from their tadpole form a week after they reach the brain of a living creature. A mind flayer has the life expectancy of the body of the creature from which it is spawned.

Alignment. Illithid are used to the confines of the hive mind, valuing order and law, and embodying the selfish, evil values of the elder brain. Exiled from the hive, you may retain these values or choose to reject them entirely.

Size. Illithid are approximately the size of the creature whose body was used as the progenitor, though they often grow or shrink a little to be between five and seven feet tall, averaging about 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Accustomed to the depths of the Void and the Underdark, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Menacing. You are proficient in the Intimidation skill.

Alhoon Psionics. You know the Mage Hand cantrip, and the hand is invisible when you cast the cantrip with this trait. When you reach 3rd level, you gain one Psionic Energy
die, which is a d6, and you gain another at 5th level; if you later gain more Psionic Energy dice, you add
these dice to that pool. You learn two 1st-level
Warlock or Wizard spells and can cast them at
their lowest level by expending a Psionic Energy
die. You regain all of your expended Psionic
Energy dice when you finish a short or long
rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting
ability for these spells. When you cast
them with this trait, they don't require
components.

Tentacles. You have four tendrils at the
end of each long, rubbery, boneless arm.
You can use an attack as part of the Attack
action or an attack of opportunity to attempt
to grapple a creature within 5 feet of you with
your tentacles, making a contested Athletics
check against the target’s Athletics or
Acrobatics. On a success, you also deal
psychic damage equal to 1d4 + your
Intelligence modifier, and you can't use
your tentacles on another target until
the grapple ends.

Additionally, you can use your
action to try to pin a creature
grappled by your tentacles.
When you do so, the creature
must make an Intelligence saving
throw against your Alhoon
Psionics DC. On a failed save,
the creature is stunned until
the start of your next turn, and
both you and the creature are restrained until the grapple ends.

Extract Brain. If you kill a creature with your tentacles during a grapple, you can consume the fresh brain and sense the mire of its fleeting emotions and thoughts. While consuming a fresh brain you learn one piece of simple information you seek, typically less than 10 words, from the brain. The brain only knows only what it knew in life, including the languages it knew. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or repetitive. The brain can't maintain a conversation, and it can't speculate about future events. Consuming a creature's brain in this way either restores a number of total spell slot levels equal to your Intelligence modifier, or restores that number of your Hit Dice worth of hit points (as if taking a short rest and expending that number of hit dice).

Languages. You can speak telepathically to any creature you can see within 60 feet of you. You don't need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic messages, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language or be telepathic itself. Creatures without telepathy can receive and respond to these telepathic messages but can't initiate or terminate a telepathic conversation.

You can speak, read, and write Undercommon. You can speak Deep Speech, and read and write its (very rarely)
    written form, Qualith.

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Firbolg

Firbolgs are fey-oriented half-giants, having descended from a line of goliath that wandered into the timeless verdant wilds of Faerie. Their tribes cloister in remote forest strongholds, preferring to spend their days in quiet harmony with the woods. When provoked, firbolgs demonstrate formidable skills with weapons and druidic magic.

Firbolg Traits

Fey magic still thrums inside a firbolg, even one who has never lived under the boughs of a great forest. A firbolg’s magic is an obscuring sort, which allowed their ancestors to pass through a forest without disturbing it. So deep is the connection between a firbolg and the wild places of the world that they can communicate with flora and fauna.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1

Age. As giantkin related to the fey, firbolg have long lifespans. A firbolg reaches adulthood around 30, and the oldest of them can live for over 500 years.

Size. Firbolg are between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 240 and 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Firbolg Magic. You can cast Detect Magic and Disguise Self with this trait, using Wisdom as your spellcasting ability for them. Once you cast either spell, you can't cast it again with this trait until you finish a short or long rest. When you use this version of disguise self, you can seem up to 3 feet shorter than normal, allowing you to more easily blend in with humans and elves.

Hidden Step. As a bonus action, you can magically turn invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack, make a damage roll, or force someone to make a saving throw. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple.

Speech of Beast and Leaf. You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with beasts and plants. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Sylvan, and Giant.

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Genasi

Those who think of other planes at all consider them remote, distant realms, but planar influence can be felt throughout the world. It sometimes manifests in beings who, through an accident of birth, carry the power of the planes in their blood. The genasi are one such people, usually the offspring of genies and mortals.

Elemental Origin

You are aligned with one of the four elemental planes:

Air Genasi

Air genasi typically have light blue skin, hair, and eyes. A faint but constant breeze accompanies them, tousling the hair and stirring the clothing. Some air genasi speak with breathy voices, marked by a faint echo. A few display odd patterns in their flesh or grow crystals from their scalps.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Dexterity score increases by 1

Unending Breath. You can hold your breath indefinitely while you’re not incapacitated.

Mingle with the Wind. You can cast the Levitate spell once with this trait, requiring no material components, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Earth Genasi

Elemental earth manifests differently from one individual to the next. Some earth genasi always have bits of dust falling from their bodies and mud clinging to their clothes, never getting clean no matter how often they bathe. Others are as shiny and polished as gemstones, with skin tones of deep brown or black, or with smooth metallic flesh, dull iron skin spotted with rust, a pebbled and rough hide, or even a coating of tiny embedded crystals.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Strength increases by 1.

Earth Walk. You can move across difficult terrain made of earth or stone without expending extra movement.

Merge with Stone. You can cast the Pass without Trace spell once with this trait, requiring no material components, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Fire Genasi

Nearly all fire genasi are feverishly hot as if burning inside, an impression reinforced by flaming red, coal-black, or ash-grey skin tones. The more human-looking have fiery red hair that writhes under extreme emotion, while more exotic specimens sport actual flames dancing on their heads. Fire genasi voices might sound like crackling flames, and their eyes flare when angered.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Intelligence score increases by 1

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. Your ties to the Elemental Plane of Fire make your darkvision unusual: everything you see in darkness is in a shade of red.

Fire Resistance. You have resistance to fire damage.

Reach to the Blaze. You know the Produce Flame cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Burning Hands spell once with this trait as a 1st-level spell, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Water Genasi

Most water genasi look as if they just finished bathing, with beads of moisture collecting on their skin and hair. They smell of fresh rain and clean water. Blue or green skin is common, and most have somewhat overly large eyes, blue-black in colour. A water genasi’s hair might float freely,
    swaying and waving as if underwater. Some have voices
      with undertones reminiscent of whale song or trickling
      streams.

    Ability Score Bonus. Your Wisdom score increases by 1

    Acid Resistance. You have resistance to acid damage.

    Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.

    Swim. You have a swimming speed of 30 feet.

  Call to the Wave. You know the Shape Water cantrip.
      When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Create or
        Destroy Water spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this
            trait, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when
            you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting
              ability for these spells.

Gith

Long ago, groups of elves ventured from the Feywild to the Astral Plane to be closer to their gods. Before there were githyanki or githzerai, these creatures were a single elven race who eventually became enslaved by the illithids. Whether these tall, gaunt creatures were peaceful or savage, cultured or primitive before the illithids enslaved and changed them, none can say. Not even the original name of their culture remains from that distant time.

Gith Xenos

The warlike githyanki and the contemplative githzerai are a sundered people – two cultures that utterly despise one another.

Githyanki

The brutal githyanki are trained from birth as warriors. Because nothing ages on the Astral Plane, these gith who inhabit that plane can be very old, and their longevity gives them an unusual perspective on the passage of time. Some are prone to melancholy, while others might display an absence of feeling.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Strength score increases by 2

Alignment. Githyanki tend toward lawful evil. They are aggressive and arrogant, and they remain the faithful servants of their lich-queen, Vlaakith. Renegade githyanki tend toward chaos.

Decadent Mastery. You learn draconic and one other language of your choice, and you are proficient with one skill or tool of your choice. In the timeless city of Tu'narath, githyanki have bountiful time to master odd bits of knowledge.

Martial Prodigy. You are proficient with light and medium armour and with shortswords, longswords, and greatswords.

Githyanki Psion You can expend one Psionic Energy die to cast the Jump or Misty Step spell.

Githzerai

In their fortresses within Limbo, the githzerai hone their minds to a razor's edge.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Wisdom score increases by 2

Alignment. Githzerai tend toward lawful neutrality. Their rigorous training in psychic abilities requires an implacable mental discipline.

Mental Discipline. You have advantage on saving throws against the charmed, frightened and stunned conditions. Under the tutelage of monastic masters, githzerai learn to govern their own minds.

Githzerai Psion You can expend one Psionic Energy die to cast the Mage Armour or Detect Thoughts spell.

Grung

Grungs are aggressive frog-like humanoids found in rainforests and tropical jungles. They are fiercely territorial and see themselves as superior to most other creatures. Grung society is a caste system. Each caste lays eggs in a separate hatching pool, and juvenile Green grungs join their siblings upon emergence from the hatchery. Over time, their colours change to reflect their passions and proficiencies, delineating their caste.

Grung Traits

All grungs are a dull greenish grey when they are born, but each individual takes on the colour of its caste as it grows to adulthood.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Dexterity score increases by 1 and your Constitution score increases by 1

Age. Grungs mature to adulthood in a single year, but have been known to live up to 50 years.

Size. Grungs stand between 2 ½ and 3 ½ feet tall and average about 30 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed. You have a walking speed of 25 feet. Your sticky fingers and toe pads, or light webbed feet, give you either a climb or swim speed equal to your walking Speed.

Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.

Natural Resistance. You are resistant to poison damage and have advantage on saves made to resist the poisoned condition.

Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples you, or which hits you with an unarmed strike or natural weapon attack, takes 1d4 poison damage. At the start of each of your turns, you also deal this poison damage to any creature grappling you or any creature grappled by you. The skin's poison damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 11th level (2d4).

Standing Leap. Your long jump is up to 25 feet and your high jump is up to 15 feet, with or without a running start.

Water Dependency. If you take any points of fire damage during a day, you suffer 1 level of exhaustion at the end of your next long rest. You can recover from this exhaustion only through magic or by immersing yourself in water for at least 1 hour.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Aquan.

Embodied Caste

Grung caste is divided by the colourful markings a growing grung develops to reflect their personality. While its hierarchical roots have been long left behind, certain mannerisms and behaviours still develop these markings in grung over time. You gain one of the following features:

Green

The most common and versatile, all grungs are born green.

Observant & Athletic. You have proficiency in the Athletics and Perception skills. You also gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed; if you already have a swim speed, your base movement speed increases by an additional 5 feet.

Poison Immunity. Your natual resistance is heightened. You have immunity to poison damage and the poisoned condition.

Fleet of Foot. Your base walking speed increases to 30 feet.

Blue

Blue grungs are known for their unusual size and strength, sometimes called Great Horned Toads.

Powerful Build. Your size is Medium instead of Small. In addition, You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple. Finally, your walking speed and jump distances increase by 5 feet.

Thunderous Croak. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a bellow which is audible out to a range of 100 feet. Each creature within 10 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, a creature takes 1d10 thunder damage and is deafened for 1 minute. On a success, a creature takes half as much thunder damage and isn’t deafened. At the end of each of its turns, a deafened creature can make another Constitution saving throw, ending the effect on a success. Grungs are immune to the effects of this croak.

The damage of your croak increases by 1d10 at 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).

Purple

Once the main hunters of grung society, Purple grung now usually specialise into long-range fighters and assassins.

Slick Skin. You have tough, bumpy skin, which is made slippery by the poison you secrete. When you aren’t wearing armour, your AC is 12 + your Dexterity modifier. A shield’s benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armour. While unarmoured, you can add your Constitution modifier to any check made to escape a grapple or restraint.

Grung Weapon Training. You gain proficiency with the spear, javelin, blowgun, and nets.

Poison Dart Frog. You can add your Poisonous Skin damage to damage rolls made with blowguns. This poison damage overcomes resistance to poison, and treats immunity as resistance.

Red

Red grungs often find that they have a knack for survival in the wild, herbalism, or for natural magics.

Bushcraft. You gain a single tool proficiency, and either an additional language of your choice or proficiency in the Arcana, Medicine, Nature, Religion, or Survival skills.

Shamanic Spells. You learn two Druid cantrips of your choice. You also learn a single 1st-level Ranger spell, which you can cast once without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to cast this spell in this way, or can change the chosen spell, when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability modifier for these spells.

Orange

Traditionally the first into battle, Orange grungs often become soldiers.

Potent Poison. You can add your Poisonous Skin damage to damage you deal with your Unarmed strikes.

Mesmerising Chirr. As an action, you can inflate and retract your neck to create a low rhythmic croak, producing vibrations powerful enough to penetrate through walls. Each humanoid or beast that is within 15 feet of you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your Constitution modifier + your Proficiency bonus) or be charmed by you until the end of your next turn. While Charmed this way, a creature is also Stunned. Grungs and creatures which are resistant or immune to psychic or thunder damage are not affected by this feature. Creatures do not need to hear or see you to be affected, but are unaffected if behind a creation of magical force such as a Shield or Wall of Force spell.

You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1), regaining all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Gold

Golden grungs would likely tell you they're gold for a reason; they tend towards positions of leadership.

Authoritative. You gain proficiency in the Insight, Intimidation, or Persuasion skill.

Increased Resilience. You do not become exhausted by exposure to fire damage. In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, exhausted, paralyzed, stunned, or put to sleep.

Kenku

Haunted by an ancient crime that robbed them of
their wings, the flightless kenku wander the world
as vagabonds and burglars who live at the edge of
human society. Kenku suffer from a sinister reputation
that is not wholly unearned, but they can prove to
be valuable allies.

Kenku Traits

Feathered folk who resemble ravens, kenku are blessed with keen observation and supernaturally accurate memories. Some of them paint their genesis as a curse, being a flightless bird people doomed to mimic other people’s creations. Other kenku recite cryptic but beautiful poems about their advent being a blessed event in which they were sent into the multiverse to observe and catalog its many wonders.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1

Age. Kenku have shorter lifespans than humans. They reach maturity at about 12 years old and can live to 60.

Size. Kenku are around 5 feet tall and weigh between 90 and 120 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Expert Forgery. You can duplicate other creatures' handwriting and craftwork. You have advantage on all checks made to produce forgeries or duplicates of existing objects.

Kenku Training. You are proficient in your choice of two of the following skills: Acrobatics, Deception, Stealth, and Sleight of Hand.

Mimicry. You can mimic sounds you have heard, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds you make can tell they are imitations with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check opposed by your Charisma (Deception) check.

Vestigial Wings. When you fall at least 10 feet above the ground, you can use your reaction to extend your wings to glide horizontally a number of feet equal to your walking speed, and you take 0 damage from the fall. You determine the direction of the glide.

Languages. You can read and write Common and Auran, but you can speak only by using your Mimicry trait.

Loxodon

With the heads- trunks, tusks, ears, and faces-of elephants, and hulking bipedal bodies covered by thick, leathery skin loxodon are gentle giants. Each of their hands has four thick digits, and their feet are the flat-bottomed, oval-shaped feet of elephants.

Loxodon Traits

Loxodons are often oasis of calm in a chaotic world. They hum or chant in sonorous tones and move slowly or sit in perfect stillness.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Strength or Constitution score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1

Age. Loxodons mature at the same rate as humans, however, they are considered mature by their people at 60 years old. Their lifespan can be as long as 450 years.

Size. Loxodons are between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 300 and 400 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple.

Hardy Serenity. You have advantage against being frightened, stunned or poisoned, and on checks made to resist being intimidated.

Natural Armour. You have thick, leathery skin. When you aren't wearing armour, your AC is 12 + your Constitution modifier. You can use your natural armour to determine your AC if the armour you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armour.

Trunk. You can grasp things with your trunk, and you can use it as a snorkel. It has a reach of 10 feet, and it can lift a number of pounds equal to five times your Strength score. You can use it to do the following simple tasks: lift, drop, hold, push, or pull an object or a creature; open or close a door or a container; grapple someone; or make an unarmed strike. It can't wield weapons or shields, or do anything that requires manual precision, such as using tools or magic items or performing the somatic components of a spell.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and either Giant, Therian, or Terran.

Merfolk

An amphibious species, born and at home in the water but comfortable on dry land, they have long fins extending from their shoulders, forearms, middle backs, and calves. The hairlike growths on their heads are either thick and bristly like the needles of a sea urchin, or long and wavy, resembling fine seaweed, typically in any number of vivid hues.

Merfolk Traits

All merfolk can breathe air or filter oxygen from the water, and they can walk on land or swim with equal ease.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Age. Merfolk mature at the same rate humans do and reach adulthood around the age of 20. They live considerably longer than humans, though, usually well over 100 years.

Size. Merfolk are significantly taller than most humans, standing between seven and eight feet tall and averaging about 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You also have a swimming speed of 45 feet.

Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.

Emissary of the Sea. Aquatic beasts have an extraordinary affinity with your people. You can communicate simple ideas with beasts that can breathe water. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Aquan, and one additional language of your choice.

Racial Depths

Merfolk are actually two separate races. The green
merfolk favour the land, walking among the trees
and savouring the sunlight that filters through the
leaves, while the red merfolk are more at home in
the waters of the deep sea and cavernous lakes
of the underdark.

Green Merfolk

The patterns on the teal to swamp-green skin
of Green Merfolk suggest the colours of the tree
frogs common in the rainforest, as do their eyes of
orange, lime green, or sky blue. Their fins are relatively
short and thick. They climb trees with ease, move through undergrowth unhindered, and use magic to shape vines
and branches to their will. They prefer to dwell in
shallow waters, spending a fair amount of time on land.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.

Mask of the Wild. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking Speed. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by shadow, foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.

Control of Air and Water. A child of the shallows, you can call on the magic of elemental air and water. You know one cantrip of your choice from the Druid spell list. You can also cast Fog Cloud with this trait. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast Gust of Wind with it; starting at 5th level, you can cast Wall of Water this way. Once you cast a levelled spell with this trait, you can’t cast that spell again until you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells

Red Merfolk

Red merfolk generally have lilac chests and pale pink faces, shading to dark blues and purples on their backs and limbs. They are often muscled and blubbery, insulated against the freezing deep-ocean waters, or lean and sinewy to withstand crushing oceanic pressures. Their eyes are violet, and their long, thin, and elegant fins resemble scarves or veils of fine fabric, but are tougher than seasoned leather. They swim easily, even against strong currents, and clamber over corals and through rapids with ease.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Constitution score increases by 2.

Vision of the Deep. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light, even when obscured by fluid such as thick dust or deep water. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Powerful Build. You count as one Size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple. This is doubled while both you and the target you're holding are fully submerged.

Impact Resistance. You have thick, blubbery flesh. When you aren't wearing medium or heavy armour, you have resistance to bludgeoning damage.

Guardians of the Depths. Adapted to even the most extreme ocean depths, you have resistance to cold damage and are unaffected by immense atmospheric pressures.

Minotaur

Minotaurs are barrel-chested humanoids with heads resembling those of bulls. Their horns range in size from about 1 foot long to great, curling weapons easily three times that length. Some minotaurs, known as budding-horns, grow sprawling antlers; others grow a single great horn from their forehead instead.

Minotaur Traits

Minotaur horns range in size from about 1 foot long to easily three times that length. Minotaurs often carve their horns to sharpen their edges, etch symbols of power into them, or sheathe them in bronze to prevent them from shattering during battle.

Thick hair extends down minotaurs’ necks and powerful backs, and some have long patches of hair on their chins and cheeks. Their legs end in heavy, cloven hooves, and they have long, tufted tails.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Strength or Intelligence score increases by 1

Age. Minotaurs mature and age at about the same rate as humans.

Size. Minotaurs average over 6 feet in height, and they have stocky builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple.

Goring Horns. Your horns are natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

If you move at least 20 feet in a straight line toward a target and then hit it with an attack using your horns on the same turn, unless it succeeds on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier), you can push it 10 feet away from you or knock it prone at your feet. You can then make an additional melee weapon attack against the target as a part of that Attack action, even if the
  target succeeded on the saving throw.

Labyrinthine Recall. You can perfectly recall any path you
      have travelled, and you’re immune to the Maze spell.

  Savage Attacks. When you score a critical hit with a
      melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s
      damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra
              damage of the critical hit.

            Beast King’s Cleaver. You can use Two-Weapon fighting even if the weapons you’re holding do not have the Light property, provided they do not have the Unwieldy property.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one of either Giant, Uruk, Therian, or Abyssal.

Myconid

Myconids are a species of ambulatory fungus creatures. They are known for their peacefulness and appreciation of quiet, making their homes in the darker corners of the world

Myconid Traits

Myconids speak no audible language, so their names are often descriptions of their appearance, like Caphead or Dimplefoot.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Wisdom score increases by 1 and your Constitution score increases by 2.

Age. Myconids grow slowly over long periods of time. The oldest myconids can live several centuries.

Size. Myconids stand between 2 and 12 feet tall and weigh between 80 and 400 pounds. Your Size is Small or Medium. Depending on your Size you are either a Sprout, Adult, or Sovereign, respective of your height.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Superior Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of the attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Myconid Magic. Though you lack a mouth, you may still cast spells that require verbal components. While casting a spell with a verbal component you glow blue, casting a dim light in a 25 foot radius, but do not actually make a sound. You cannot cast spells with verbal components in magical darkness.

    Rapport Spores.
As an action you may
produce a cloud of
psionically-active spores.
All creatures within 30 feet
of you with an Intelligence of 2
or higher that aren't undead,
constructs, or elementals can
communicate telepathically
with you and with one another,
as long as the creatures share
a language and are within 30 feet
of each other. The spores’ effect lasts on a
creature until the creature finishes a long rest.

Pacifying Spores. As an action, you can eject spores at one creature you can see within 5 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn. The DC for the save is equal to 8 + your Proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

If you are a Sovereign, you can replace this trait with the Powerful Build trait.

If you are a Sprout, you can replace this with the Nimble trait.

Nimble. You can move through the space of any creature that is of a Size larger than yours.

Hallucination Spores. As an action, you can eject spores at one creature you can see within 15 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, the creature hallucinates as though a major image spell was visible to them. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. The DC for the save is equal to 8 + your Proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.

Once you use this trait, you can't use it
again until you finish a long rest.

Languages. You can read and
understand Common and
Undercommon, but cannot normally
speak or write them. Writing can,
  however, be taught to you.

Theria

Theria are mammalian humanoids driven by
curiosity to collect interesting artifacts, gather
tales and stories, and lay eyes on all the
world's wonders. Ultimate travellers, the
inquisitive Theria rarely stay in one place for
long. Their natural curiosity and cultural values
of exploration pushes them to leave no secrets
uncovered, no treasures or legends lost.

Race

That which links the Theria is their general appearance; lightly furred, with protruding ears and tails. It is the specifics of these features which distinguishes them from one another.

Gnoll

Most closely resembling human-hyena hybrids, gnolls are obligate carnivores. Between that and their habitual gibbering, is believed by some that gnolls had traces of demonic blood - perhaps further evidenced my their likeness to the Demon Prince Yeenoghu.

Feral. The damage die of your natural weapons increases by one step at 5th level, 11th level, and 17th level. If this increases beyond 1d12, the weapon deals 1d10 + 1d4 damage; you increase one die at a time if they are stepped-up again from that point.

Rampage. When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on your turn, you can use your bonus action to move up to half your speed and make a melee weapon attack.

Bloodrage. When you are reduced below half your maximum hit points, you gain +1 AC bonus and a bonus to weapon damage rolls equal to half your Proficiency bonus (rounded down) for 1 minute. Once you use this trait, you cannot use it again until you have finished a long rest.

Fiendish Cackling You can speak, read, and write Abyssal.

          Hadozee

          In addition to being natural climbers, the simian
          hadozee - also known as the Oz - have feet and tails that
  are as dexterous as their hands.

You do not gain the Darkvision trait usual to Theria.

Prehensile Limbs. Your tail and feet are abnormally
    capable of manipulating objects and using tools. Your tail
      can support your weight and balance. You gain a climb
            speed equal to your walking speed, and can cast spells,
                    use items, and make attacks as normal even
            while climbing.

Monkey's Paw. You can use your reaction when a creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw to give them disadvantage on the roll. You can use this ability once, regaining the use of it when a creature you can see within 60 feet of you rolls a 1 on a d20.

Springtail. You do not begin to take fall damage until you have fallen a number of feet equal to twice your High Jump. In addition, you have advantage on checks and saving throws made to climb, to resist being moved, or to initiate, maintain, or escape a grapple.

Harengon

Harengons are taller than most theria, with the characteristic long feet and ears of the rabbits they resemble and fur in a variety of colors.

Hare-Trigger. You can add your proficiency bonus to your initiative rolls.

Lucky Footwork. When you fail a Dexterity saving throw, you can use your reaction to roll a d4 and add it to the save, potentially turning the failure into a success. You can't use this reaction if you're prone or your speed is 0.

Rabbit Hop. Your long jump is up to 30 feet and your high jump is up to 15 feet, with or without a running start.

Kitsune

Usually with stark aubern and shock-white fur, these graceful canid people also occasionally grow multiple tails.

Sly Talents. You have proficiency in two of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Insight, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, or Stealth

Fox’s Cunning. You have advantage on either Wisdom or Intelligence saving throws. You choose this when you make your character and cannot change it afterwards.

Dancing Grace. Your base movement speed increases to 35 feet, and you can add your Dexterity modifier to the distance you jump.

Tortle

What many tortles consider a simple life, others might call a life of adventure. Tortles are born near sandy coastlines, but as soon as they're able to walk on two legs, they become nomad survivalists eager to explore the wilderness, experience its many wonders, put their skills to the test, and make new acquaintances.

Tortle Traits

These turtle folk live on many lands, most often journeying up and down coasts, along waterways, and across the sea. Tortles exhibit the same range of coloration and patterns found among turtles, and many tortles enjoy adorning their shells in distinctive ways.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1

Age. Young tortles crawl for a few weeks after birth before learning to walk on two legs. They reach adulthood by the age of 15 and live an average of 50 years.

Size. Tortle adults stand 5 to 6 feet tall and average 450 pounds. Their shells account for roughly one-third of their weight. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Claws. Your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Hold Breath. You can hold your breath for up to 1 hour at a time. Tortles aren't natural swimmers, but they can remain underwater for some time before needing to come up for air.

Natural Armour. Due to your shell and the shape of your body, you are ill-suited to wearing armour. Your shell provides ample protection, however; it gives you a base AC of 17 (your Dexterity modifier doesn't affect this number). You gain no benefit from wearing armour, but if you are using a shield, you can apply the shield's bonus as normal.

Shell Defence. You can withdraw into your shell as an action. Until you emerge, you gain a +4 bonus to AC, and you have advantage on Strength and Constitution saving throws. While in your shell, you are prone, your speed is 0 and can't increase, you have disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws, you can't take reactions, and the only action you can take is a bonus action to emerge from your shell.

Survival Instinct. You gain proficiency in the Survival skill. Tortles have finely honed survival instincts.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Aquan.

Treant

Treants take their names from a variety of sources. Many name themselves, being awoken with a grasp of multiple languages. Others are named by friends, both humanoid and fey. Whatever the source, most names combine two words based on a characteristic unique to the treant’s personality or build.

Treant Traits

Though treants do not have a true sex, they typically present as consistently either more feminine or masculine throughout their lives - but not exclusively. Treants are as varied as the trees from which they grow, but in general all have the following traits.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Strength and Constitution scores both increase by 1.

Age. Treants can grow to many hundreds or thousands of years old, their magic sustaining them far beyond the normal lifespan of their tree ancestors. Most treants awaken within the first century of their sprouting, and it is while a treant is young and small that they travel the world.

Size. Treants continue to grow steadily for the entirety of their lives. Most treant saplings are between 7 and 8 feet tall when they leave their forest homes and weigh 300-700 lbs. Your Size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

False Appearance. While you remain motionless, you are indistinguishable from a normal tree. Instead of sleeping, you enter an inactive state for 4 hours each day. You do not dream in this state; you are fully aware of your surroundings and notice approaching enemies and other events as normal.

Natural Armour. Your tough bark protects you from harm. While unarmoured, you gain a +1 bonus to your AC.

Powerful Build. You count as one Size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple.

Tree Whisperer. You can speak, read, and write Common, and Druidic. Through your own treeish nature, you can communicate simple ideas with plants of all kinds. Plants might be able to perform tasks on your behalf, at the DM's discretion. They are unable to uproot themselves and move about, but they can freely move branches, tendrils, and stalks.

Treefolk. You are considered a plant instead of a humanoid. Instead of eating or breathing normally, you harness the sun's energy and surrounding
oxygen to create your own food. You can
survive a number of days equal to your
Constitution modifier (minimum 1)
without sunlight or oxygen before
starving or suffocating. You must
drink twice as much water as a
normal humanoid, but can take
in this water through your
root-like feet during travel or
other activities if it is available.
You can discern the purity of
water and the fertility of soil
by touching it, and might be
affected by it as any other
Plants in the area would.

Floral Copse

A treant's copse, its close-knit family of other treants, determines the ruggedness of its form and the litheness of its limbs. Choose one of these races.

Evergreen

Evergreen treants include the cedars, cypresses, firs, junipers, pines, and spruces. They are taller and thinner than other treants, possessing lithe bodies and fast reflexes. The wood of their bodies is oily and soft, but better able to resist the freezing conditions of winter.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Hasty Movement. Your base walking speed is 40 feet.

Winterised. You're acclimated to high altitude, including elevations above 20,000 feet. You're also naturally adapted to cold climates; you are resistant to cold damage, but vulnerable to fire damage.

Greensinger

Found most commonly within the feywild and rarely elsewhere, Greensingers, known also as Spriggans, hold the same treant respect for the value of life and growth, but view it as a process of creativity - plants are the universe's greatest sculptors, and they are their own medium. Oddly, almost all greensingers are olive treants, but are always fruiting or flowering trees otherwise.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Feyflower Resistance. You have advantage on saving
      throws against spells and other magical effects, and
      against being charmed.

  Fey Darkvision. You have superior vision in dark and dim
        conditions. You can see in darkness within 120 feet of
    you as if it were bright light, and in color.

Efflorescence. As an action, you create a grand display
        with your petals for 1 minute. For the duration, you can
        add your Charisma modifier (minimum 1) to any
        Wisdom checks and saving throws you make. Once you
        use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish
      a long rest.

            Ironwood

    The warriors of the treant people, Ironwoods are usually
    larger and stronger than their kin. These treants include
    the great redwoods, the dark-oaks, and the mahoganies.
    They are, however, the fewest of the treant races.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Strength score increases by 1 again.

Steel Bark. While you aren't wearing armour, your base AC is 13 + your Constitution modifier. You can use your natural armour to determine your AC if the armour you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal.

Rooted Sentinel. As long as you are in direct contact with the ground, any attempt made to move you against your will has the distance moved reduced by half. Furthermore, if prone on the ground, your speed cannot be greater than 0, you cannot be moved against your will, you have advantage on Strength saving throws and disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws, and your Stalwart Skin AC becomes 16.

Leshen

Gifted with a closeness to Maelora that others of their kin often do not possess, Leshens are disposed heavily towards the earthen sorcerous or druidic practises. Often lither and more limber than their brethren, these Treants include the yew and willow trees, though can even be known to extend to mistletoe and grapevines. Guardians of nature, Leshens often retreat toward ruins and sites of magical power hoping to repel incursions against the natives of their forest.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Ruin Delver. You have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. In addition, you have advantage on checks to move through and learn information about abandoned structures. Your movement is unimpeded by nonmagical difficult terrain if it is caused by any kind of plant, and you will not take damage if they have thorns, spines or a similar hazard. You also have advantage on ability checks and saving throws to escape being grappled or restrained by magical and nonmagical plants, such as those of the Entangle spell.

Guardians' Blessing. Without outside forces, Leshens can live for 3 to 5 millennia, with some claiming to be closer to 8000. Such a large timescale can make verification difficult for such claims. Your size is Small. When you reach 5th-level, your size becomes Medium. When you reach 15th-level, your size becomes Large.

Leshen Magic. You know the thorn whip cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast Entangle once, and it recharges after a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast Enlarge/Reduce (self only) once, and it recharges after a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting
ability for these spells.

Blackroot

Rage-filled treants are rare, but their wrath corrodes the land around them making it hostile to all but the plants themselves. Once a treant devolves into a blackroot, it is rarer still that they ever return.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Bitter. You have advantage on attacks of opportunity.

Host of Blackbriars. Creatures who hit you with a melee attack or begin their turn grappling you take 1d4 magical piercing damage. In addition, your melee weapon attacks are considered to have the Bleed property when you hit a creature who is engaged in a Grapple with you.

Seed of Rage. When you reach 3rd level, as a bonus action on your turn you can manifest a blight upon the world around you. For the next minute, weapon attacks you make deal an additional 1d8 necrotic damage, and you are resistant to any one damage type of your choice. Once you have used this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

Hexblood

Hexbloods are individuals infused with eldritch magic, fey energy, or mysterious witchcraft. While many hexbloods gain their ancestry after making a deal with a hag, others reveal their nature as they age— particularly if a hag influenced them early in life or even before their birth.

Hexblood Traits

Some who become hexbloods gain their deepest wishes but eventually find themselves transformed. For example: ears that split in forked points, skin in lurid shades, long hair that regrows if cut, and an irremovable living crown. Along with these marks, hexbloods manifest hag-like traits, such as darkvision, and a variety of magical methods to beguile the senses and avoid the same.

Ability Score Bonus. Increase one ability score by 2 and increase a different one by 1, or increase three different ability scores by 1.

Creature Type. You are a Fey, and have advantage on saving throws against being charmed. You are the same size and weight as a creature of your base species. You mature at the same rate as normal, but can live up to twice as long as your base species.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

    Ancestral Legacy. If you replace
your species' traits with this ancestry,
you can keep the following elements
of that ancestry: any languages and
skill or tool proficiencies you
gained from it, and any climbing or
swimming speed you gained from it.
If you had a flying speed, you can
forfeit the Hex Magic feature to
retain it. If you don't keep any of
those elements or you choose this
ancestry at character creation, you
gain proficiency in two skills of
your choice.

Darkvision. You can see in dim
light within 60 feet of you as if it were
bright light and in darkness as if it were
dim light. You discern colours in darkness as grey shades.

Hex Magic. You can cast the Disguise Self and Hex spells with this trait. Once you cast either of these spells with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast these spells using any spell slots you have. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells (choose the ability when you gain this ancestry).

Eerie Token. As a bonus action, you can harmlessly remove a lock of your hair, one of your nails, or one of your teeth. This token is imbued with magic until it is destroyed or you use this feature again. While the token is imbued this way, you can take these actions:

Telepathic Message. As an action, you can send a telepathic message to the creature holding or carrying the token, as long as you are within 10 miles of it. The message can contain up to twenty-five words.

Remote Viewing. If you are within 10 miles of the token, you can enter a trance as an action. The trance lasts for 1
  minute, but it ends early if you dismiss it (no action required) or are incapacitated. During this trance, you can see and hear from the token as if you were located where it is. While you are using your senses at the token's location, you are blinded and deafened in regard to your own surroundings. When the trance ends, the token is harmlessly destroyed.

Resonant Connection. If you have even a tiny piece of a creature or an object in your possession, such as a lock of hair or a splinter of wood, you can turn it into your Eerie Token. While holding or carrying the token, you know the most direct route to that creature or object if it is within 1 mile of you.

Once you create a token using this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, at which point your missing part regrows.

Languages. You can now speak, read, and write Sylvan or Undercommon

Hollowed One

Poised between the worlds of the living and the dead, Hollowed Ones retain a shred of their grip on life yet are endlessly tested by vicious hungers and the cursed existence of undeath.

As a Hollow, the void left behind in your corporeal shell by your departed soul is filled with the strange magic of the ever-present supernatural forces of the worlds of D&D.

Hollow Traits

Some hollows exhibit the scars of fatal ends, their ashen flesh or bloodless veins making it clear that they’ve been touched by death. Some hollows are failed sires of vampires, ghouls which gained sentience, or liches who lived so long they forgot themselves completely. Others still are marvels of magic or science, being stitched together from disparate beings or bearing mysterious minds in manufactured bodies.

Ability Score Bonus. Increase one ability score by 2 and increase a different one by 1, or increase three different ability scores by 1.

Revenance. You retain your size and creature type, though you give off necromancy magic under the effect of a Detect Magic spell, and you register as undead to spells and other effects which detect or harm the undead. In addition, at 3rd level, you gain an Echoing Manifestation of your choice.
You can also keep the following elements of your base species from life: any languages and skill proficiencies you gained from it, and any climbing or swimming speed you gained from it. If you had a flying speed, you can forfeit gaining an Echoing Manifestation feature to retain it.

If you don't keep any of those elements, you gain darkvision out to a distance of 60 feet instead.

    Knowledge from a Past Life. You temporarily remember glimpses of the past, perhaps faded memories from ages ago or a previous life. When you make an
ability check that uses a skill, you can roll a d6
immediately after seeing the number on the d20
and add the number on the d6 to the check. You
can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses
when you finish a long rest.

Deathless Nature. You have been unnaturally
withheld from death, a fact represented by the
following traits:

You have advantage on saving throws against
      disease and being poisoned, and you have
      resistance to poison damage.

You have disadvantage on death saving
      throws.

You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe, but
      you are insatiably stricken with strong urges
      to consume living flesh.

You don't age, and effects that would
      cause you to age don't work on you.

You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put
      you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4
      hours if you spend those hours in an inactive,
      motionless state, during which you
      retain consciousness.

Echoing Manifestations

Either a shred of what you used to be clings to you, guiding its empty vessel, or whatever necromantic influence or encounters with mysterious immortals might have transformed your character has now begun to take hold. You gain one of the following Manifestations at 3rd level, and another at 5th level.

Death Touch. You can focus on the hollow space within to draw the souls from your foes. As an action, make a single unarmed strike. On a hit, the target takes an additional 1d10 necrotic damage. The damage increases by 1d10 at 5th-level (2d10), 11th-level (3d10), and 17th-level (4d10).

Empty Husk. You are immune to the charmed and frightened conditions but are vulnerable to psychic damage.

Enduring Awareness. You know the distance and direction between you and any creature directly involved in causing your death. This awareness fails if the creature is on another plane of existence or if there is no mortal responsible. This shred of humanity grants you immunity to effects which would turn undead, and grants undead creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you advantage on saving throws against effects that turn undead.

Gouged Shell. You can use your reaction to cause a critical hit against you to become a normal hit. Once you use this trait, you must finish a short rest before you can use it again.

Haunting Wail. When you are hit by an attack roll, you can use your reaction to channel your haunting spirits, letting their voices howl through you. If the attacker isn't deafened, add your Proficiency bonus to your AC against that attack, potentially causing it to miss. Once you cause an attack to miss this way, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest

Inevitable. When you hit a creature making death saving throws with an attack, they die instantly

Liminal Purge. Damaging effects that originate from you extend into the Ethereal Plane, hurting creatures within. In addition, as an action, you can touch a creature other than yourself and end one Possession effect on them.

Poltergeist. As a bonus action, you can transform yourself
    into a translucent being, appearing like a silhouette formed
      of pale light. Your transformation lasts for 1 minute or
      until you end it (no action required). During it, your speed
      becomes 0, but you gain a flying speed of 40ft and can
      hover. You can move through other creatures and objects
        as if they were difficult terrain. You take 5 (1d10) force
        damage if you end your turn inside an object. Once you
        use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish
        a long rest.

    Shallow Grave. When you regain hit points while at
      0 hit points, you can immediately spend and roll a number
        of hit dice up to your proficiency bonus, regaining
      additional hit points equal to the combined total of the
  results.

Souleater. At the end of a turn in which you damaged a
  creature with a soul, you gain temporary hit points equal to
      your Proficiency bonus. Creatures of CR greater than
      your level are immune to this ability.

    Soulsight. You can see into the Ethereal Plane when you are on the Material Plane, and vice versa, within the range of your darkvision. Any living Beast, Dragon, Humanoid, Giant, or Monstrosity within this range produces a red aura, even if behind total cover. You know the type of any being whose presence you sense this way, but not its identity. Within the same radius, you also detect the presence of any place or object that has been consecrated or desecrated, as with the hallow spell.

Spirits’ Whispers. You learn the Message cantrip if you don't already know it, and require no components to cast it. When you cast the spell, the messages are delivered by a whispering spirit of the dead rather than you or the target's voice. Your spellcasting ability for this spell

Thought for Food. If you devour at least one mouthful of brain from a deceased creature, for the next 24 hours, you can experience memories of their life as if you had cast the detect thoughts spell upon the creature. The target creature does not make a saving throw, and you experience a memory of theirs as a vision from their own perspective. The nature of the vision is determined by the DM. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest

Undead Fortitude. You lose all other creature types and become only Undead. If damage reduces your hit points to 0, you must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless that damage is radiant or a critical hit. On a success you have 1 hit point instead.

    Unsettling Presence. As a bonus action, you can unsettle a creature you can see within 15 feet of you. The target has disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes within the next minute, and has disadvantage on all attacks against you until it is forced to make a saving throw. Constructs, undead, and creatures that can't be frightened are immune to this feature. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Vampiric Bite. Your fanged bite is a natural weapon, which counts as a simple melee weapon with which you are proficient, but you can attack with it only once each round. You can add your Constitution modifier, instead of your Strength modifier, to the attack and damage rolls when you attack with this bite. It deals piercing damage on a hit instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for unarmed strikes, plus an additional 1d8 necrotic damage. While you are missing half or more of your hit points, you have advantage on attack rolls you make with this bite.
When you attack with this bite and hit a creature that isn’t a Construct or an Undead, you can empower yourself: You either regain a number of hit points, or gain a bonus to the next ability check or attack roll you make, equal to the necrotic damage dealt by the bite. You can empower yourself with this bite a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Kalashtar

The kalashtar are a compound race created from the union of humanoids and renegade spirits of the lost dead. Kalashtar are seen as wise, spiritual people with great compassion for others and are often revered as sages. There is an unmistakable alien quality to the kalashtar, however, as they are haunted by the conflicts of their otherworldly spirits.

Soulbound

You gain additional traits depending on the type of soul to which you're linked:

Quori Dreamer

Your soul has been claimed by a Quori spirit; a separate entity adrift from the plane of dreams.

Entwined Existence. The Quori has symbiotically bound its own mind to yours, rather than being a soul entwined with your own. It isn't a separate creature and relies on you to survive, but cannot be targeted by spells and effects, and cannot take damage except in the Astral Sea. It has its own Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. The DM sets the Quori spirit's abilities or determines them randomly (2d8 +4). The Quori spirit can see and hear using your senses. It has its own goals and will try to steer you towards them, with a methodology dependent on its personality. The Quori spirit speaks and understands Deep Speech, as well as one other language you speak. It can communicate with you and vice versa at will. If you die, so does your Quori spirit. If you are subsequently returned to life, your Quori spirit revives as well. If you are raised as an undead, your Quori takes control of the soulless corpse.

Dual Mind. You have advantage on checks made to recall information.

Sustained Corporeality. Your Quori spirit has a vested interest in your survival and takes steps to ensure it. When you fail a saving throw, you can choose to have your Quori spirit expend one of your Hit Dice to roll it and add the number rolled to the saving throw, potentially turning the failure into a success. If it uses this feature on a death saving throw, you succeed on the save and regain 1 hit point regardless of the number rolled on the d20. Once you succeed on a saving throw due to this trait, the Quori spirit can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Demidritch

You are the very child of the starborn horrors, and can feel their influence writhe in the back of your mind.

Withered Frame. You count as one size lesser when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift, as well as for the type of weapons you can ably wield.

Eldritch Psionics You know the Mage Hand cantrip, and the hand is invisible when you cast the cantrip with this trait. When you reach 3rd level, you gain one Psionic Energy die, which is a d6, and you gain another at 5th level; if you later gain more Psionic Energy dice, you add these dice to that pool. You learn one 1st-level Warlock spell and can cast it at its lowest level by expending a Psionic Energy die. At 5th level, you learn a 2nd-level Warlock spell which you can cast this way. You regain all of your expended Psionic Energy dice when you finish a short or long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells. When you cast them with this trait, they don't require components.

Alien Mind. If a creature tries to read your thoughts or alter your memories, that creature must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw against your Eldritch Psionics DC or be stunned for 1 minute. The stunned creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Kyrian

You are inhabited by the remnant of some ancient creature once lost in, and adapted to, the astral sea. Your mind exists in realms greater than the mere materium. Only slivers of this immense dimensional understanding are accessible to your mere mortal consiousness.

Minor Patronage. You gain a single Wizard or Warlock cantrip of your choice. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for that spell.

Spacetime Rupture. Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to tear the fabric of reality asunder, drawing your enemies toward you. Your transformation lasts for 1 minute or until you end it as a bonus action. When you take this action, all creatures within 10 feet of you other than yourself must make a Strength saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your Intelligence modifier + your proficiency bonus) or take a number of d6 force damage equal to your proficiency bonus, halved on a successful save. During your transformation, you shed bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet, and you generate a powerful gravitational field in a 20-foot-radius around you; creatures within the field moving in any direction other than straight toward you treat that movement as though it’s through difficult terrain.

Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Reiga

You have become host to a spiritual
parasite from deep wildspace.

All-Seeing Eyes. You often have many
more eyes than normal for your species, though
your sight extends far beyond normal even
when they're shut. You can see
normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical,
to a distance of 60 feet. You also gain
blindsight out to a range of 10 feet, and you are immune to the blinded condition.

Everwatching. You gain proficiency in the Perception skill. You can maintain watch during a long rest even while sleeping, but only within the range of your blindsight.

Esthesial Glory. When viewed from the ethereal plane, you appear to be surrounded by a cloud of glowing, colorful motes that change colour in random patterns, called a glory. You can use an action to change the way you appear to spells and magical effects that detect creature types, such as a paladin’s Divine Sense or the trigger of a symbol spell. You choose a creature type and other spells and magical effects treat you as if you were a creature of that type, in addition to being humanoid. You maintain the new creature type until you use this ability again, or until you dispel it as an action.

Spliced Hybrid

Transmutative and druidic mages are known on occasion to use magic to fuse different life forms together, such as in the creation of Owlbears. In recent years, they have extended this research to humanoid subjects, magically transferring the traits of various creatures into humanoids. The goal of the so-called Guardian Project is to build a Magebred army of superior beast-men soldiers, perfectly adapted to a variety of combat situations. These hyper-evolved specimens are called Hybrids, though if indoctrinated they sometimes call themselves legionnaires.

Hybrid Traits

Ability Score Bonus. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and another ability score of your choice increases by 1.

Age. Hybrids are created at adulthood from any starting species. Their maximum life expectancy is reduced to about 75% of what is normal for a creature of their species as a result of the extended testing.

Size. Hybrids are the same size of the species that they were created from. Your size is Small or Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Mortal Canvas. If you replace your species' traits with this ancestry, you can keep the following elements of that species: any languages and skill or tool proficiencies you gained from it, and any climbing or swimming speed you gained from it. If you had a flying speed, you can forfeit the 5th-level Grafted Enhancement feature to retain it. If you don't keep any of those elements or you choose this ancestry at character creation, you gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice

Grafted Enhancements

Your body has been implanted repeatedly with residuum, and the body parts of other creatures have been spliced to your nervous system. You choose two enhancements now and one at 5th level.

Abyssal Skin (1st level). You are, in part, infused with fiendish vigour. You gain resistance to either cold, fire, or lightning damage. Cannot be taken alongside Godskin or Natural Resilience.

Acid Spit (5th level). As an action, you can spray acid from glands in your mouth, targeting one creature or object you can see within 30 feet of you. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw against a DC of 8 + you proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier. The target takes acid damage equal to 2d10 + your Constitution modifier if they fail. The damage increases to 3d10 at 11th level and 4d10 at 17th level.

Amphibious Adaptations (1st level). Developing gills or a semipermeable membranous skin, you can breathe air and water and you gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed.

Amorphous (5th level). You can squeeze through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide, provided you are wearing and carrying nothing. You also have advantage on ability checks you make to initiate or escape a grapple. As an action, you can reshape your body to give yourself a head, one or two arms, one or two legs, and makeshift hands and feet, or you can revert to a limbless blob. While you have a humanoid shape, you can wear clothing and armour made for a Humanoid of your Size. As a bonus action, you can extrude a pseudopod that is up to 6 inches wide and 10 feet long or reabsorb it into your body. As part of the same bonus action, you can use this pseudopod to manipulate an object, open or close a door or container, or pick up or set down a Tiny object. The pseudopod contains no sensory organs and can’t attack, activate magic items, or lift more than 10 pounds.

Armoured Hide (1st level). While you aren’t wearing armour, your hardened carapace gives you a base Armour Class of 13 + your Dexterity modifier.

Chameleonic Skin (1st level). As an action, you can change the colour and texture of your skin to match that of your surroundings, giving you advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in those surroundings.

Shifter

Shifters are sometimes called the weretouched,
as they are the offspring of humanoids and
lycanthropes. They are humanoids with a
bestial aspect; while they cannot fully
change shape they can temporarily
enhance their animalistic features – a
state they call shifting. Whatever their
origins, shifters walk on the knife’s edge
between the wild within and the world
around them.

Shifter Traits

Ability Score Bonus. Increase one ability
score by 2 and increase a different one by 1,
or increase three different ability scores by 1.

Age. Shifters are quick to mature both physically and emotionally, reaching young adulthood at age 15. They rarely live to be more than 70% of their species' life expectancy.

Size. Shifters range from 5 to almost 7 feet tall, depending on their race. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Ancestral Legacy. If you replace your species' traits with this ancestry, you can keep the following elements of that species: any languages and skill or tool proficiencies you gained from it, and any climbing or swimming speed you gained from it. If you had a flying speed, you instead gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.

Darkvision. You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Keen Senses. You have advantage on Perception checks which rely on hearing or smell.

Shifting. As a bonus action, you can assume a more bestial appearance. This transformation lasts for 1 minute, until you die, or until you revert to your normal appearance as a bonus action. When you shift, you gain temporary hit points equal to your level + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 temporary hit point). You also gain benefits that depend on your Primal Heritage, described below. Once you shift,     you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Natural Weapon. While shifted, your unarmed
strikes are considered Natural Weapon attacks.
They deal 1d6 damage on a hit of your choice
of either bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing
as appropriate for the natural weapon.

Languages. You can speak, read, and
write Therian.

        Primal Heritage

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              Beasthide

                      Stoic and solid, a beasthide shifter draws
                        strength and stability from the beast within.
                        Beasthide shifters are typically tied to the
                        bear or the boar, but any creature known for
                      its toughness could apply.

                Shifting Feature. Whenever you shift, you gain
                  1d6 additional temporary hit points and,
                      while shifted, you count as one size larger when
                    determining your carrying capacity, the weight
                    you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures
                  you can grapple.

              Longtooth

            Longtooth shifters are fierce and aggressive, but they form deep bonds with their friends. Many longtooth shifters have canine traits that become more pronounced as they shift, but they might instead draw on tigers, hyenas, or other predators.

Shifting Feature. While shifted, you can use your elongated fangs to make an unarmed strike as a bonus action. In addition, the damage die of your Natural Weapon attacks increases by one step (e.g. from 1d6 to 1d8)

Mountainborn

Often compared to satyrs, these goat-like shifters are at home at precarious heights, often growing small horns as they shift.

Shifting Feature. While shifted, you do not take damage from falling 30 feet or less, and have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

Swiftstride

Swiftstride shifters are graceful and quick. Typically feline in nature, they are often aloof and difficult to pin down physically or socially.

Swift Stride. Your walking speed increases by 5 feet.

Shifting Feature. While shifted, your walking speed increases by an additional 5 feet. Additionally, you can move up to 10 feet as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet of you. This movement doesn’t provoke
              opportunity attacks.

Wildhunt

Wildhunt shifters are sharp and insightful. Some are constantly alert, ever wary of possible threats. Others focus on their intuition, searching within. Wildhunt shifters are excellent hunters, and they also tend to become the spiritual leaders of shifter communities.

Mark the Scent. As a bonus action, you can mark one creature you can see within 10 feet of you. Until the end of your next long rest, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make to find the marked creature, and you always know the location of that creature if it is within 60 feet of you. You can’t use this trait again until you finish a short or long rest.

Shifting Feature. While shifted,
you have advantage on Wisdom-
based ability checks, and have
either a climbing or swimming
speed equal to your walking speed.
You cannot change your choice,
as it depends on the beast
you're tied to.

Feral

Some shifters lose
themselves to the ever-       present
gnawing of the beast within, always on
the verge of shifting, often as a result of
isolation or personal trauma. Such
people are often nomadic, so must
improvise much of their ways
of living.

Wild Reflexes You add half your Proficiency bonus (rounded down) to your Dexterity saving throws, even if already proficient.

Shifting Feature. You can shift as a reaction when you are required to roll for initiative. While shifted, any roll of 9 or lower on the d20 you make for initiative checks is considered to be a 10.

Tiefling

Horned, lithe, and sporting skin colours of every shade imaginable, the tailed tieflings are not scarce in any city. Their appearance and their nature are not their fault but the result of a fiendish sin, the procreation of devils and demons with mortal humanoids. Tieflings may also be the result of infernal pacts with such beings, the nature of which permanently alters their bodies into these horned humanoids.

Tiefling Traits

Their appearance and their nature are not their fault, but they and their children, and their children's children will always be held accountable.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Charisma score increases by 2, and your Intelligence score increases by 1

Age. Tieflings typically mature at the same rate as humans, regardless of their base species, but live a few years shorter.

Size. Tieflings are always between five and seven feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Thanks to your infernal heritage, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Hellish Resistance. You have resistance to fire damage.

Magical Blood. You gain one Fiendish Legacy option (below). Charisma is your spellcasting ability for any spells gained from your Fiendish Legacy, and they don't require a focus or any material components to cast.

Languages. You can speak,
read, and write Common and
Infernal.

Fiendish Legacy

Feral Tiefling

Over time, the blood of the damned becomes diluted and untraceable to its fiendish heritage. You may just as easily be the spawn of an incubus as the 100th descendant of either a yochlol, a Fiendish Warlock, or Asmodeus himself.

Appearance. You exhibit accursed features, such as the following suggestions: small horns; fangs or sharp teeth; a forked tongue; catlike eyes; six fingers on each hand; goat-like legs; cloven hooves; a forked tail; leathery or scaly skin; red or dark blue skin; cast no shadow or reflection; exude a smell of brimstone.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Dexterity score, instead of your Charisma, increases by 2.

Natural Weapon. You have developed a natural weapon of your choice, such as horns, claws, or vicious teeth, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with your natural weapon, you deal bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (depending on the type of natural weapon) equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Accursed Blood

You may take only one of the following features:

Brood of the Ten-Thousand. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, and you become resistant to force and necrotic damage rather than fire.

Chaos Demon. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Chaos Bolt spell once as a spell of level equal to ⅓ your character level. You gain an additional use of this feature at 5th level. You regain any expended casts of this spell when you finish a long rest.

Devil's Tongue. You know the Vicious Mockery cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Charm Person spell once as a 2nd-level spell. Once you reach 5th level, you can also cast the Enthrall spell once. You must finish a long rest to cast these spells again with this trait.

Draining Kiss. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Vampiric Touch spell once, though you make an Unarmed Strike rather than a spell attack to hit. You gain an additional use of this feature at 12th level. You regain any expended casts of this spell when you finish a long rest.

Kostchtchie’s Might. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity, the weight you can push, drag, or lift, and the creatures you can grapple.

Lashing Tail. Your semi-prehensile tail is tipped with a bony blade. Immediately after a creature within 10 feet of you deals damage to you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to make an unarmed strike against that creature with your tail. If you hit, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. Furthermore, grappling a creature with your tail does not restrict the use of your hands.

Sleepless. While asleep, you are tormented by visions. You cannot be put to sleep or forced to dream by magic, and you gain the same benefit a human would from 8 hours of sleep from only 4. You also have advantage on rolls made to resist exhaustion and magical effects which attempt to read or alter your mind.

Demonic Princeling

All abyssal tieflings trace their bloodline to the demon princes of the Abyss. These tieflings have the following additional features.

Ability Score Bonus. Your Constitution score increases by 1

Abyssal Arcana. You know two cantrips of your choice from the Sorcerer or Warlock spell lists. When you reach 3rd level, you can also cast a 1st-level spell. At 5th level, you can cast a 2nd-level spell.

d8	School of Magic
1	Abjuration
2	Conjuration
3	Divination
4	Enchantment
5	Evocation
6	Illusion
7	Necromancy
8	Transmutation

When attempting to cast a spell using this feature, roll a d8. The number rolled corresponds to the school of magic, as shown in the table. The spell can be any spell of your choice from the Sorcerer or Warlock spell list, provided it is of the determined school.

At 11th level, when casting a spell this way you can instead roll a d3 to determine the level of the cast spell.

You can cast a spell gained from this trait only once until you complete your next long rest. You can cast a cantrip gained from this trait at will, as normal. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these innate spells.

Abyssal Fortitude. Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Abyssal instead of Infernal

Subclasses

The Artificer

Masters of invention, artificers use ingenuity and magic to unlock extraordinary capabilities in objects. They see magic as a complex system waiting to be decoded and then harnessed in their spells and inventions. You can find everything you need to play one of these inventors in the next few sections. Artificers use a variety of tools to channel their arcane power. To cast a spell, an artificer might use alchemist's supplies to create a potent elixir, calligrapher's supplies to inscribe a sigil of power, or tinker's tools to craft a temporary charm. The magic of artificers is tied to their tools and their talents, and few other characters can produce the right tool for a job as well as an artificer.

You must have an Intelligence score of 13 or higher in order to multiclass in or out of this class.

Class Features

As an artificer, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d8 per artificer level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per artificer level after 1st

Proficiencies

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• Armour: light armour, medium armour, shields
• Weapons: simple weapons, firearms
• Tools: thieves’ tools, tinker’s tools, one type of artisan’s tools of your choice

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• Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Sleight of Hand

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• any two simple weapons
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) a pepperbox and 20 light rounds
• (a) studded leather armour or (b) scale mail thieves’ tools and a dungeoneer’s pack

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Magical Tinkering

At 1st level, you've learned how to invest a spark of magic into mundane objects. To use this ability, you must have thieves' tools or artisan's tools in hand. You then touch a Tiny nonmagical object as an action and give it one of the following Minor Imbuements of your choice.

The chosen property lasts indefinitely. As an action, you or a creature you allow can touch the object and end the property early, or can change the effect produced by the imbued property (for example, recording a new message or changing the produced sound from one kind of bird to another). Unless otherwise dispelled, this effect can be deactivated using an action.

Minor Imbuements

• The object sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet.
• Whenever tapped by a creature, the object emits a recorded message that can be heard up to 10 feet away. The message records when you bestow this property on the object, and the recording can be no more than 6 seconds long.
• The object continuously emits your choice of an odour or a nonverbal sound (wind, waves, chirping, or the like). The chosen phenomenon is perceivable up to 10 feet away.
• A static visual effect appears on one of the object's surfaces. This effect can be a picture, up to 25 words of text, lines and shapes, or a mixture of these elements, as you like.

Bestow Magic

At 5th level in this class, you can instead bestow any single harmless cantrip of your choice into the items. You do not need to know the cantrip to produce this effect in an item, but the spell must not be able to deal damage, imbue magic in another object, or heal, statistically enhance, or produce a condition effect in any creature. The cantrip can be activated or deactivated as an action while holding the item, and is considered to use your artificer spell save DC.

You can bestow magic on multiple objects, touching one object each time you use this feature, though a single object can only bear one property at a time. The maximum number of objects you can affect with this feature at one time is equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1). If you try to exceed your maximum, the oldest property immediately ends, and then the new property applies.

Spellcasting

You've studied the workings of magic and how to cast spells, channelling the magic through objects. To observers, you don't appear to be casting spells in a conventional way; you appear to produce wonders from mundane items and outlandish inventions.

Artificer Specialist

At 3rd level, you choose the type of specialist you are. Your choice grants you features at 5th level and again at 9th and 15th level.

The Right Tool for the Job

At 3rd level, you've learned how to produce exactly the tool you need: with thieves' tools or artisan's tools in hand, you can magically create one set of artisan's tools in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. This creation requires 1 hour of uninterrupted work, which can coincide with a short or long rest. Though the product of magic, the tools are nonmagical, and they vanish when you use this feature again.

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. Alternatively, you may take a feat in place of the ASI, provided you fulfil its prerequisites.

Tool Expertise

At 6th level, your proficiency bonus is now doubled for any ability check you make that uses your proficiency with a tool.

Flash of Genius

At 7th level, you've gained the ability to come up with solutions under pressure. When you or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an ability check or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to add your Intelligence modifier to the roll.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Magic Item Adept

When you reach 10th level, you achieve a profound understanding of how to use and make magic items:

• You can attune to up to four magic items at
  once.
• If you craft a magic item
  with a rarity of common or
  uncommon, it takes you a quarter
  of the normal time, and it costs
  you half as much of the
  usual gold.

Spell-Storing Item

At 11th level, you can now store a spell in an object. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one simple or martial weapon or one item that you can use as a spellcasting focus, and you store a spell in it, choosing a lst- or 2nd-level spell from the artificer spell list that requires 1 action to cast (you needn't have it prepared).

While holding the object, a creature can take an action to produce the spell's effect from it, using your spellcasting ability modifier. If the spell requires concentration, the creature must concentrate. The spell stays in the object until it's been used a number of times equal to twice your Intelligence modifier (minimum of twice) or until you use this feature again to store a spell in an object.

Magic Item Savant

At 14th level, your skill with magic items deepens more: You can attune to up to five magic items at once. You ignore all class, race, spell and level requirements on attuning to or using a magic item.

Magic Item Master

Starting at 18th level, you can attune up to six magic items at once.

Soul of Artifice

At 20th level, you develop a mystical connection to your magic items, which you can draw on for protection:

• You gain a +1 bonus to all saving throws per magic item you are currently attuned to.
• If you're reduced to 0 hit points but not killed out-right, you can use your reaction to end one of your artificer infusions, causing you to drop to 1 hit point instead of 0.

Artificer Specialisations

Alchemist

An Alchemist is an expert at combining reagents to produce mystical effects. Alchemists use their creations to give life and to leech it away. Alchemy is the oldest of artificer traditions, and its versatility has long been valued during times of war and peace.

Tool Proficiency

When you adopt this specialisation at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with alchemist's supplies. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Alchemist Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Alchemist Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don’t count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Alchemist Spells

level	Spells
3rd	Healing Word, Ray of Sickness
5th	Flaming Sphere, Melf's Acid Arrow
9th	Gaseous Form, Mass Healing Word
13th	Blight, Death Ward
17th	Cloudkill, Raise Dead

Chemically Bolstered

At 3rd level, your body has become numb to the constant ingestion of vile chemicals which slowly have imbued you with resilience. You gain resistance to acid damage and poison damage, and you have advantage on saving throws made to resist the poisoned condition.

You can use your bonus action to administer a potion or other consumable item to a creature within reach.

Alchemical Elixir

You begin to uncover esoteric alchemical formulae that temporarily alter your mental and physical abilities. Beginning at 3rd level, you choose to learn four alchemical formulae. You gain an additional formula at 7th level, 11th level, 15th level, and 18th level.

Additionally, when you gain a new alchemical formula, you can choose one of the formulae you already know and replace it with a new alchemical formula.

Creating an alchemical elixir requires you to have alchemist supplies on your person; you can concoct a single Elixir when you finish a short or long rest. Starting at 7th level, the number of Elixirs you can create when you finish a rest increases to two, and you can create three Elixirs at 15th level.

As a bonus action you can consume a single Elixir, and gain its effects and side effects which last until you finish a short or long rest, unless otherwise specified. While one or more Elixirs are affecting you, you can use an action to focus and flush the toxins from your system, ending the effects and side effects of all Elixirs.

Elixirs are designed for your biology and have no effect on other creatures. They are also unstable by nature, losing their potency over time and becoming inert if not used before you finish your next short or long rest.

Strange Metabolism

Beginning at 5th level, your body has begun to adapt to toxins and venoms, ignoring their corroding effects. You gain immunity to poison damage and the poisoned condition. In addition, you can instil a burst of adrenaline to temporarily resist the negative effects of an elixir. As a bonus action, you can choose to ignore the side effect of an elixir affecting you for 1 minute. Once you use this feature to resist side effects, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 13th level, you are also immune to Acid damage and to being diseased.

Restorative Reagents

Also at 5th level, you can incorporate restorative necromantic alchemy into some of your works. You can expend one Hit Die when you create an elixir during a rest to create a Restorative Reagent. This is an additional elixir which does not count against the number you have crafted that rest. Whenever a creature drinks a Restorative Reagent, the creature regains a number of hit points equal to 2d6 + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 hit point). This is the only elixir which other creatures can drink and still gain the effects, and which has no side effects.

This healing increases by 1d6 when you reach 11th level (4d6) and 17th level (8d6).

Unstable Concoctions

Starting at 9th level, you can create additional alchemical elixirs on the fly by expending a spell slot of 1st-level or higher for each one. When you do so, you use your action to create the elixir you choose in an empty flask you touch, and you roll an additional side effect from the Experimental Instabilities table. This effect lasts for the full duration of the elixir. Both the elixir and the side effect can be removed together if the drinker is targeted by a remove curse or greater restoration spell (or other similar magics), but the additional Instability cannot be flushed out of your system like a normal side effect.

Chemical Mastery

By 15th level, you have been exposed to so many chemicals that they pose little risk to you, and you can use them to quickly end certain ailments:

• When making Unstable Concoctions, you can roll twice on the Experimental Elixir table and choose the effect of either die.
• When you are forced to make a Constitution saving throw, you can add a bonus equal to your Intelligence modifier to the roll, having long prepared to resist the effect.
• Whenever you heal or deal acid, fire, necrotic, or poison damage to a creature by casting a spell using your alchemist's supplies as the focus, or from imbibing an alchemical elixir, you gain a bonus to one roll of the effect equal to your Intelligence modifier plus the number of items you’re attuned to.

Alchemical Formulae

Beasthood

You gain advantage on Perception and Investigation checks using any of the five senses, and on checks made to track creatures. You also gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. At 15th level, you have advantage on weapon attack rolls against any creature that doesn't have all its hit points.

Side Effect. You have disadvantage on checks and saves made to resist radiant or thunder damage, and against being blinded or deafened.

Blackblood

If an aberration, celestial, elemental, fiend, or undead creature successfully hits you with a melee attack, your blood will hurt them as it's spilled, dealing acid damage to them equal to your Intelligence modifier. If that attack was a bite attack, the creature takes double the damage and can't regain hit points from the attack.

Side Effect. You gain vulnerability to Radiant damage

Brute

Whenever you hit a target with a strength-based weapon attack, you deal an additional 1d4 weapon damage. At 11th level, the extra damage increases to 1d8.

Side Effect. You have disadvantage on Intelligence saving throws and vulnerability to Psychic damage.

Bulette

Bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage you take from nonmagical attacks is reduced by your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1).

Side Effect: You sink immediately in fluids and have a swim speed of 5 ft., ignoring any effects which would increase it.

Bulwark

You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to twice your Artificer level for 1 minute.

Side Effect. Your movement speed is reduced by 15 feet while you have temporary hit points from the Bulwark elixir active.

Cat’s Eye

Prerequisites: 7th level
Empowers your darkvision, giving you the ability to see in magical darkness within its range, to see invisible creatures and objects as if they were visible, and see into the Ethereal Plane. Ethereal creatures and objects appear ghostly and translucent.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Constitution saving throws.

Celerity

Your Dexterity score increases by 3, as does your Dexterity maximum. This bonus increases by 1 at 11th level (+4) and 18th level (+5).

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Wisdom saving throws.

Cerebral

You can add your Intelligence modifier to all Wisdom and Charisma ability checks.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on all Strength and Dexterity ability checks.

Coagulant

You are immune to damage from the Bleed weapon property and from non-magical damage-per-round effects for 1 hour.

Side Effect. You have disadvantage on saving throws made to resist poisons and disease for 1 hour and cannot be immune or resistant the their effects for the duration.

Conversant

You gain advantage on Intelligence ability checks.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Wisdom ability checks.

Cruelty

Prerequisites: 11th level
When you use the Attack action, you can make an additional weapon attack as a part of the Attack action.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws.

Deftness

You gain advantage on Dexterity ability checks

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Wisdom ability checks.

Dirvish

Prerequisites: 7th level
For a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier, your speed is doubled, you gain a +2 bonus to your AC, you have advantage on Dexterity saving throws, and you gain an additional action on each of its turns. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action.

Side Effect. When this alchemical effect ends, you are stunned until the end of your next turn.

Draconian

Prerequisites: 7th level
You gain a bonus to your AC equal to one-fifth of your Artificer level (rounded down), as draconic scales burst from your skin. This has no effect if you’re wearing heavy armour.

Side Effect. You take poison damage equal to your Artificer level, overcoming resistance and immunity to poison, and your Hit Point Maximum is reduced by that amount.

Embers

You gain resistance to fire damage.

Side Effect. You gain vulnerability to cold damage.

Empyrean

You gain resistance to radiant and necrotic damage.

Side Effect. You gain vulnerability to force and psychic damage.

Hexbreaker

You have advantage on saving throws against spells and magical effects.

Side Effect. Weapon attacks made against you score a critical hit on a roll of 19-20.

Hippocampus

You can breathe underwater and you have a swim speed equal to your walking speed.

Side Effect. If you take fire damage within 1 hour, you gain 1 level of exhaustion when you finish your next short or long rest.

Impermeable

You gain resistance to piercing damage.

Side Effect. You gain vulnerability to slashing damage.

Insomnium

You no longer need to sleep and cannot be forced to sleep or dream until you finish a long rest. Taking a short or long rest takes half as long as normal.

Side Effect. For each level of exhaustion you gain, you gain an additional level.

Juiblecean

You gain resistance to acid damage.

Side Effect. You gain vulnerability to lightning damage

Longclaw

Your melee weapon attacks gain a 10-foot bonus to their Reach. At 11th level, your Reach increases by 15 feet instead.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Strength saving throws.

Lucidity

You are immune to being charmed and do not suffer the effects of madness. At 11th level, you are also immune to having your emotions, thoughts, and memories read or altered.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Constitution saving throws

Luck

You can reroll one d20 roll of your choice within 10 minutes. You must use the new roll. At 11th level, you are instead able to grant yourself advantage on one roll of your choosing once per round for the duration. At 15th level, d20 rolls of 19 are considered to be rolls of 20 for the duration.

Side Effect. d20 rolls of 2 are considered to be rolls of 1 for 1 hour. Starting at 15th level, rolls of 3 are also considered to be rolls of 1 this way.

Marilith

Prerequisites: 15th level
Greatly improves reaction speed. You can take one reaction on every turn in combat, and when you are hit by an attack while holding a melee weapon or shield you're proficient with, you can use your reaction to add your proficiency bonus to your AC for that attack.

Side Effect. You have disadvantage on Strength-based ttack rolls and ability checks, and Strength-based damage you deal is halved.

Mobile

You are immune to the grappled and restrained conditions. At 11th level, you are also immune to the paralyzed condition.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Strength ability checks.

Nighteye

You gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, this increases its range by 60 additional feet. At 7th level, you don’t suffer disadvantage to your Wisdom (Perception) checks in a lightly obscured area.

Side Effect. You gain sunlight sensitivity (detailed in the Dark Elf section on page 24 in the Player’s Handbook).

Nothic

The first time you would roll damage dice for a spell within 1 minute after drinking this elixir, instead of rolling dice, you can use the highest number possible for each die.

Side Effect. The next attack that hits you within 1 minute deals twice as much damage to you.

Obsidian

At the end of each of your turns, you gain a cumulative +1 bonus to your weapon damage rolls, to a maximum equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down). The bonus is reset if your turn ends and you haven't attacked a hostile creature or taken damage since your last turn.

Side Effect. You have a penalty to your AC equal to the attack roll damage bonus gained from this elixir.

Percipient

You gain advantage on Wisdom ability checks.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Charisma ability checks.

Potency

Your Strength score increases by 3, as does your Strength maximum. This bonus increases by 1 at 11th level (+4) and 18th level (+5).

Side Effect. You have disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws.

Precision

Prerequisites: 11th level
Your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19-20.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Strength saving throws.

Rapidity

Your speed increases by 10 feet. At 11th level, you make attacks of opportunity with advantage, and any opportunity attack made against you is made with disadvantage.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Intelligence ability checks.

Reconstitution

The next time you spend hit dice to regain hit points, you regain an additional number of hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier per hit die spent.

Side Effect. You gain 1 level of exhaustion after you next complete a short or long rest.

Resolve

You cannot be frightened, and you have advantage on Wisdom saving throws.

Side Effect. You can be charmed even if normally unable, and you have disadvantage on saving throws made to resist being charmed

Sagacity

Your Intelligence score increases by 3, as does your Intelligence maximum. This bonus increases by 1 at 11th level (+4) and 18th level (+5).

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Charisma saving throws.

Snake's Eye

Prerequisites: 7th level
You can see heat signatures, even through walls, allowing you to detect warmblooded creatures within 60 feet for 1 hour. This sense can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt. You can percieve this way even when blinded.

Side Effect. If you take cold damage within 1 hour, you gain 1 level of exhaustion when you finish your next short or long rest.

Shielded

You gain resistance to slashing damage.

Side Effect. You gain vulnerability to bludgeoning damage.

Sting

When you score a critical hit with a weapon attack, you gain a bonus to that weapon's damage roll equal to your Artificer level.

Side Effect. You gain a penalty to saving throws against spells and magical effects equal to half your Proficiency bonus (rounded down).

Transcendence

Your mind races and time slows to a crawl around you, gaining a bonus to initiative equal to your Intelligence modifier. You also have advantage on checks and saving throws you make to stave off exhaustion and paralysis, and on ability checks to appraise or inspect anything that is small or highly detailed.

Side Effect. Your Strength score is reduced by your Intelligence modifier (minimum penalty of 1) for 1 minute.

Tressym

You can detect poisons by taste. You are immune to the disease and poisoned conditions, and resistant to poison damage for 1 hour. At 11th level, you are also immune to the stunned condition.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on Wisdom saving throws

Trollblood

Prerequisites: 7th level
For 1 minute, at the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier + your proficiency bonus if you have at least 1 hit point. At 15th level, any hit points you would regain above your hit point maximum are instead gained as temporary hit points.

Side Effect. Your speed decreases by 10 ft for 1 minute.

Unbreakable

You gain resistance to bludgeoning damage.

Side Effect. You gain vulnerability to piercing damage.

Vermillion

You gain an additional number of Hit Dice (d10s) equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Side Effect. You gain disadvantage on death saving throws.

Vilebrew

Prerequisites: 7th level
For 1 hour, Constitution and Wisdom saving throws against your Artificer spells are made at disadvantage.

Side Effect. At the start of your turn 10 minutes after consuming this elixir, you are paralysed until the start of your next turn.

Witherling

Prerequisites: 11th level
For 1 hour, when you are at half your hit point maximum or below, your weapon attacks deal two additional weapon dice of weapon damage.

Side Effect. You gain 2 levels of exhaustion when you finish your next short or long rest

Armourer

An artificer who specialises as an Armourer modifies armour to function almost like a second skin. The armour is enhanced to hone the artificer's magic, unleash potent attacks, and generate a formidable defence. The artificer bonds with this armour, becoming one with it even as they experiment with it and refine its magical capabilities.

Armourer Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Armourer Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Armourer Spells

Level	Spells
3rd	Magic Missile, Thunderwave
5th	Mirror Image, Shatter
9th	Hypnotic Pattern, Lightning Bolt
13th	Fire Shield, Greater Invisibility
17th	Passwall, Wall of Force

Arcane Armour

Beginning at 3rd level, your metallurgical pursuits have led to you making armour a conduit for your magic. As an action, you can turn a suit of armour you are wearing into Arcane Armour, provided you have smith's tools in hand. The armour continues to be Arcane Armour until you don another suit of armour or you die. For the purposes of applying Infusions only, your Arcane Armour is considered a suit of armour, a construct, and a vehicle.

You gain the following benefits while wearing this armour:

• If the armour normally has a Strength requirement, the arcane armour lacks this requirement for you.
• You can use the arcane armour as a spellcasting focus for your artificer spells.
• The armour attaches to you and can’t be removed against your will, although you can retract or deploy the helmet as a bonus action. It also expands to cover your entire body, replacing any missing limbs and functioning identically to a body part it is replacing.

Armour Model

Beginning at 3rd level, you can customise your Arcane Armour. When you do so, choose one of the following armour models: Guardian or Infiltrator. The model you choose gives you special benefits while you wear it.

Each model includes a special weapon. When you attack with that weapon, you can add your Intelligence modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, to the attack and damage rolls.

You can change the armour's model whenever you finish a short or long rest, provided you have smith's tools in hand.

Guardian

You design your armour to be in the front line of conflict. It has the following features:

Thunder Gauntlets. Each of the armour's gauntlets counts as a simple melee weapon while you aren't holding anything in it, and it deals 1d8 thunder damage on a hit. A creature hit by the gauntlet has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you until the start of your next turn, as the armour magically emits a distracting pulse when the creature attacks someone else.

Defensive Field. As a bonus action, you can gain temporary hit points equal to your level in this class, replacing any temporary hit points you already have. You lose these temporary hit points if you doff the armour. You can use this bonus action a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Infiltrator

You customise your armour for subtle undertakings. It has the following features:

Lightning Launcher. A gemlike node appears on one of your armoured fists or on the chest (your choice). It counts as a simple ranged weapon, with a normal range of 90 feet and a long range of 300 feet, and it deals 1d6 lightning damage on a hit. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with it, you can deal an extra 1d6 lightning damage to that target.

Powered Steps. Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.

Dampening Field. You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. If the armour normally imposes disadvantage on such checks, the advantage and disadvantage cancel each other, as normal.

Jetstepper

You customise your armour for exploration and mobility. It has the following features:

Piton Claws. Your hands grip knuckledusters mounted with large spikes, which are built into the gauntlets. You have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, but cannot hold any weapons or shields in your hands while you climb. In addition, your unarmed strikes deal an additional 1d6 piercing damage on a hit and deal double damage to objects and structures. You cannot use your traction claws to climb and attack in the same round.

Shoulder-Mounted Propellor. You have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Rocket-Powered Boots. Your jump distance is tripled. Additionally, the damage you take from falling is halved.

Extra Attack

Starting at 5th level, you can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Armour Modifications

At 9th level, you learn how to use your artificer infusions to specially modify your Arcane Armour. That armour now counts as separate items for the purposes of your Infuse Items feature: armour (the chest piece), boots, helmet, and the armour's special weapon.

Each of those items can bear one of your infusions, and the infusions transfer over if you change your armour's model with the Armour Model feature.

In addition, the maximum number of items you can infuse at once increases by 2, but those extra items must be part of your Arcane Armour.

Perfected Armour

At 15th level, your Arcane Armour gains additional benefits based on its model, as shown below.

Guardian. When a Huge or smaller creature you can see ends its turn within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to magically force the creature to make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC, pulling the creature up to 30 feet toward you to an unoccupied space. If you pull the target to a space within 5 feet of you, you can make a melee weapon attack against it as part of this reaction. You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Infiltrator. Any creature that takes lightning damage from your Lightning Launcher glimmers with magical light until the start of your next turn. The glimmering creature sheds dim light in a 5-foot radius, and it has disadvantage on attack rolls against you, as the light jolts it if it attacks you. In addition, the next attack roll against it has advantage, and if that attack hits, the target takes an extra 1d6 lightning damage.

Jetstepper. You can combine the full power of all of your jets for 1 minute as a bonus action. You have a flying speed equal to twice your walking speed. While flying in this way you do not provoke attacks of opportunity from
moving, and you have advantage on
Dexterity checks and saving throws.
Once you use this ability, you cannot use
it again until you finish a long rest,
unless you expend a spell slot of
3rd-level or higher to use it again.

Artillerist

An Artillerist specialises in using magic to hurl energy, projectiles, and explosions on a battlefield. This destructive power is valued by armies in the wars on many different worlds. And when war passes, some members of this specialisation seek to build a more peaceful world by using their powers to fight the resurgence of strife.

Eldritch Cannon

Also at 3rd level, you've learned how to create a magical cannon. Using woodcarver's tools or smith's tools, you can take an action to magically create a Small or Tiny eldritch cannon in an unoccupied space on a horizontal surface within 5 feet of you. A Small eldritch cannon occupies its space, and a Tiny one can be held in one hand. Once you create a cannon, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest or until you expend a spell slot to create one. You can have only one cannon at a time and can't create one while your cannon is present.

The cannon is a magical object. Regardless of size, the cannon has an AC of 18 and a number of hit points equal to five times your artificer level. It is immune to poison damage and psychic damage. If it is forced to make an ability check or a saving throw, treat all its ability scores as 10 (+0). If the mending spell is cast on it, it regains 2d6 hit points. It disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points or after 1 hour. You can dismiss it early as an action. When you create the cannon, you determine its appearance and whether it has legs. You also decide which type it is, choosing from the options on the Eldritch Cannons table.

On each of your turns, you can take a bonus action to cause the cannon to activate if you are within 60 feet of it. As part of the same bonus action, you can direct the cannon to walk or climb up to 15 feet to an unoccupied space, provided it has legs.

Eldritch Cannon

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Flamethrower. The cannon exhales fire in an adjacent 15-foot cone that you designate. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 2d8 fire damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. The fire ignites any flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried.

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Force Ballista. Make a ranged spell attack, originating from the cannon, at one creature or object within 120 feet of it. On a hit, the target takes 2d8 force damage, and if the target is a creature, it is pushed up to 5 feet away from the cannon.

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Protector. The cannon emits a burst of
positive energy that grants itself and
each creature of your choice within
10 feet of it a number of temporary hit
points equal to 1d8 + your Intelligence
modifier (minimum of +1).

Arcane Firearm

At 5th level, You know how to turn a wand, staff, or
rod into an arcane firearm, a conduit for your
destructive spells. When you finish a long rest,
you can use woodcarver's tools to carve special
sigils into a wand, staff, or rod and thereby
turn it into your arcane firearm. The sigils
disappear from the object if you later carve
them on a different item. The sigils otherwise
last indefinitely.

You can use your arcane firearm as a
spellcasting focus for your artificer spells.
When you cast an artificer spell through the
firearm, you gain a bonus to one of the spell's
damage rolls equal to your Intelligence modifier
(minimum 1).

Explosive Cannon

Starting at 9th level, every eldritch cannon you create is
more destructive: The cannon's damage rolls all increase by 1d8. As an action, you can command the cannon to detonate if you are within 60 feet of it. Doing so destroys the cannon and forces each creature within 20 feet of it to make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 3d8 force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

Fortified Position

By 15th level, you’re a master at forming well-defended emplacements using Eldritch Cannon:

• You and your allies have half cover while within 10 feet of a cannon you create with Eldritch Cannon, as a result of a shimmering field of magical protection that the cannon emits.
• You can now have two cannons at the same time. You can create two with the same action (but not the same spell slot), and you can activate both of them with the same bonus action. You determine whether the cannons are identical to each other or different. You can't create a third cannon while you have two.

Battle Smith

Armies require protection, and someone has to put things back together if defences fail. A combination of protector and medic, a Battle Smith is an expert at defending others and repairing both materiel and personnel. To aid in their work, Battle Smiths are accompanied by a steel defender, a protective companion of their own creation. Many soldiers tell stories of nearly dying before being saved by a Battle Smith and a steel defender.

Extra Attack

Starting at 5th level, you can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

You can forfeit one of your attacks when you take the Attack action to have your Steel Defender make a single Force-Empowered Rend.

Arcane Jolt

At 9th level, you've learned new ways to channel arcane energy to harm or heal. When either you hit a target with a magic weapon attack or your steel defender hits a target, you can channel magical energy through the strike to create one of the following effects:

• The target takes an extra 2d6 force damage.
• Choose one creature or object you can see within 30 feet of the target. Healing energy flows into the chosen recipient, restoring 2d6 hit points to it.

You can use this energy a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), but you can do so no more than once on a turn. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Improved Defender

At 15th level, your Arcane Jolt and steel defender become more powerful:

• The extra damage and the healing of your Arcane Jolt both increase to 4d6.
• Your steel defender gains a +2 bonus to its Armour Class.
• Whenever your steel defender uses its Deflect Attack, the attacker takes force damage equal to 1d4 + your Intelligence modifier.

Forge Adept

As a Forge Adept, you carry on ancient traditions of the fire giant smiths, creating mystical weapons and armour, strengthening allies on the battlefield, and bringing down enemies with weapons tempered with soul energy.

Improved Battlefist

By 9th level, you have modified your battlefist in both mundane and magical ways. It gains the following benefits:

• When you infuse your battlefist, you can apply two infusions to it at a time. If both infusions grant bonuses to your attack rolls or armour class, you gain only the greater bonus.
• Creatures grappled by your battlefist are also restrained until the grapple ends.
• Your battlefist is also a shield, increasing your armour class by 2. You can use it to make unarmed strikes even while you are using it as a shield. You can now also infuse it as if it were a shield.
• The maximum number of items you can infuse at once increases by 1, but the extra infusion must be applied to your battlefist.

Construct Apotheosis

When you reach 15th level, you have modified your form to the point of becoming nearly impervious to the weaknesses of flesh. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain resistance to poison damage and psychic damage, and you are immune to the poisoned condition.
• If you are affected by a spell or magical effect, you can choose to consider yourself a construct instead of your other creature types.
• When you expend a spell slot to cast an artificer spell, you may choose to gain resistance to all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage until the start of your next turn.
• You can cast the Antilife Shell and Investiture of Stone spells without expending a spell slot, without preparing the spell, and without material components, provided you use your battlefist as the spellcasting focus. Once you cast either spell with this feature, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest.

Maverick

In the world of artifice, the Maverick is a jack of all trades and master of none. A Maverick is always experimenting with new designs, forever abandoning yesterday’s work in pursuit of a new obsession — although their idiosyncratic techniques can rarely be replicated by others.

Armourer Schematic: Hellion Model

Prerequisites: 6th-level Armourer
Item: Jetstepper Arcane Armour

This Arcane Armour mode sacrifices armour and mobility, preferring instead to rain destruction on foes from long range with heavy weaponry. It has the following features:

Exoskeletal Mountings. You can ignore the Two-handed property on firearms and heavy crossbows.

Bombardment. As a bonus action, you can assume a braced firing stance if you are standing on a solid surface or climbing using your Piton Claws. While in this stance, you can use a bonus action to make a single ranged weapon attack. Additionally, attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls, your speed becomes 0, you can’t be knocked prone, and you cannot be pushed or pulled by any effect. As a bonus action, you can exit this stance.

Armourer Schematic: Titan Model

Prerequisites: 6th-level Armourer
Item: Guardian Arcane Armour

This Arcane Armour mode is focused on close quarters combat with its ironclad defense. It has the following features:

Exoskeletal Mountings. You can ignore the two-handed property on a single melee weapon you’re holding.

Rebuff. When you hit a creature that is no more than two sizes larger than you with a melee weapon attack, you can immediately use a bonus action to force it to make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, you can push the creature up to 15 feet away from you.

Bulwark. Your current and maximum hit points increase by an amount equal to your artificer level. When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you, you can use your reaction to move up to half your movement speed. At the end of this movement, if you are within 5 feet of the target of the attack, you can force the attack to target you instead. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks.

Armourer Schematic: Valkyrie Model

Prerequisites: 6th-level Armourer
Item: Infiltrator Arcane Armour

This Arcane Armour mode is adept at skirmishing in mobile battlefronts. It has the following feature:

Blitz. You can Dash or Disengage as a bonus action. When you Dash, your jumping distances are tripled until the end of your turn, and if you move at least 10 feet in a straight line straight toward a target before hitting it with a weapon attack, it takes an extra 1d8 lightning damage. You can deal this extra damage only once on each of your turns.

Blackout. You can cast the Pass Without Trace spell using the Arcane Armour (self only) without somatic or material components and without requiring your concentration. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 2nd-level or higher to use it again.

Arresting Rope

Item: A length of rope

You speak the command word and specify a target within 20 feet, and the arresting rope animates and attempts to tie up the target. It either ties up the target completely, or only lassos the target, leaving the other end in your hand, your choice. The target creature must succeed on a Strength or Dexterity saving throw against your artificer Spell save DC, becoming grappled on a failed save. It may repeat this save at the end of each of its turns, freeing itself on a success.

Beholder's Eye

Prerequisites: 18th-level artificer

Item: an eyeball, with the white plated in gold worth at least 50 gp

You can point the eye at a creature, casting Disintegrate on it without requiring material components and expending a spell slot. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Boots of the Winding Path

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: A pair of boots (requires attunement)

While wearing these boots, a creature can teleport up to 15 feet as a bonus action to an unoccupied space the creature can see. The creature must have occupied that space at some point during the current turn.

Bracers of Hercules

Prerequisites: 18th-level artificer

Item: a set of bracers or gauntlets

While wearing these bracers, a creature can cast Tenser's Transformation on themselves. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Broad-Magic Focus

Prerequisites: 14th-level artificer

Item: any focus

You can cast any Artificer spell you do not have prepared throught his focus by expending an additional spell slot of at least 1st-level.

Chronomancer’s Apprentice

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer

Item: any tiny object

You create a trinket suffused with minor chronomancy. As an action while you wear or carry the object, you can cast either Haste or Slow without expending a spell slot. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Crossbow Spider

Prerequisites: 6th-level Artillerist

Item: an eldritch cannon and either a light or hand crossbow, or a one-handed firearm

An infused cannon gains the following properties:

• The eldritch cannon absorbs the ranged weapon into its frame, and you can activate it to have it make a ranged weapon attack using the integrated weapon against a creature it can perceive within the weapon’s short range.
• It can hold up to 10 pieces of ammunition at once, which you can refill over the course of 1 minute.
• If the integrated weapon is magical, you can have the cannon activate the abilities it possesses as if you were holding the weapon in the cannon’s space. You must be attuned to the weapon to do so if it requires attunement.

At 6th level, the cannon can make two attacks with the integrated weapon when activated, and its ammo capacity is doubled.

At 10th level, you can reload the weapon ammunition as an action.

Dancing Weapon

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer

Item: any melee weapon

You use an action to speak the command word allowing this weapon to attack independently for 1 minute. For this duration, the weapon floats in the air and fights independently of you.

You may use a bonus action to move the weapon up to 20 feet and make a melee attack as though you were holding it, and you may use your reaction to allow the weapon to make an opportunity attack from the weapon’s location, following the normal attack of opportunity rules. You must complete a short or long rest before you can use this ability again.

Duergar Armament

Item: a belt, set of gauntlets or bracers, or circlet

You can cast Enlarge/Reduce on yourself without expending a spell slot. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 1st-level or higher.

Energy Weapon

Item: Rod, Wand or Staff (requires attunement)

The focus you choose becomes a martial weapon of raw magical power. A plane of energy extends from the Focus, as though the focus was the weapon's shaft. It is a 1d8 damage melee weapon and inflicts a damage type of your choice which is not bludgeoning, piercing, psychic, or slashing damage on a hit. The focus has a +1 bonus to all melee attack and damage rolls made with it. The bonus increases to +2 at 10th-level in this class. Choose one of the following options:

Mage Blade (sword). Rod - gains the light, finesse and versatile (1d10) properties.

Force Lash (whip). Wand - gains the finesse and reach properties.

Psi Pike (polearm). Staff - uses 1d10 damage die; gains
the two-handed, finesse and reach properties.

Enhanced Ammunition

Item: up to 12 pieces of ammunition, or a weapon with the Reload (2+) property

You can use this infusion at the end of a long rest, or as an Action by expending an artificer spell slot. If performing this at the end of a long rest you are considered to have expended a slot of the highest level available to you.

1st-level: +1 ammo (attack and damage)

2nd-level: +1 ammo, deals +1d6 force damage on a hit

3rd-level: +2 ammo, deals +1d6 force damage on a hit

4th-level: +2 ammo, deals +2d6 force damage on a hit

5th-level: +2 ammo, deals +3d6 force damage on a hit

The ammunition remains enchanted until used, or until you use this infusion again.

Enhanced Protection

Item: A suit of armour or a shield

A creature gains a +1 bonus to Armour Class while wearing (armour) or wielding (shield) the infused item.

The bonus increases to +2 when you reach 10th level in this class, and to +3 at 18th level

Enhanced Focus

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: any focus

This spellcasting focus grants a +1 bonus to the spell Save DC and attack modifier of spells cast with it.

The bonus increases to +2 when you reach 12th level in this class, and to +3 at 18th level

Ethereal Phaser

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer

Item: Any tiny object

You saturate an object with the magic of the border ethereal. As an action while wearing or carrying the object, you can cast Blink (no concentration required) or Dimension Door without expending a spell slot. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Flame Sprayer

Prerequisites: Arcane Firearm feature

Item: an eldritch cannon

You can cast Dragon’s Breath as though you were in the cannon’s space without expending a spell slot and without requiring concentration. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 2nd-level or higher.

Flashbang

Prerequisites: Arcane Firearm feature

Item: an eldritch cannon

As an action, your arcane cannon produces a flash of blinding sunlight. All creatures within 20 feet of the cannon must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or be blinded until the end of your next turn. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 1st-level or higher.

Focal Firearm

Item: A rod, staff or wand (requires attunement)

The focus you choose becomes a firearm suffused with magical power, known colloquially as a Blik. A moulded handle extends near-perpendicular to the focus, connecting to a wand which runs parallel to the focus, as though the focus was the weapon's barrel. It is a ranged weapon (firearm), requiring no ammunition, and inflicts a damage type of your choice which is not bludgeoning, piercing, psychic, or slashing damage on a hit. The properties of the Blik depend on the focus.

Pistol. (Wand) - Damage die: 1d6; Properties: Range (60/120), Light, Misfire 1, Firearm

Shotgun. (Rod) - Damage die: 1d10; Properties: Range (120/300), Two-Handed, Misfire 2, Firearm

Long-rifle. (Staff) - Damage die: 1d8; Properties: Range (300/600), Two-Handed, Misfire 2, Firearm

The focus grants a +1 bonus to all ranged spell and weapon attack rolls made with it. The bonus increases to +2 at 10th level in this class.

In addition, the wielder ignores half cover when making a spell attack cast from the Blik. While a misfired Blik is jammed, it makes spell attacks with disadvantage.

Form of the Forge

Prerequisites: 14th-level Forge Adept

If you are wearing or wielding a Wondrous Item made from your Infusion feature, you can destroy it as a bonus action and encase your body in glowing hot liquid metal for 1 minute. While in this form your AC cannot be below 20 and any melee attacks that you make deal an additional amount of fire damage equal to half your Artificer level. You are also immune to Fire damage and have resistance to Slashing, Bludgeoning, and Piercing damage from non-magical attacks. You also retain any of the effects of the destroyed Infusion until the effect is over. After the effect ends the metal cools and solidifies giving you the restrained condition until you use an action to break free

Great-Weapon Golem

Prerequisites: 10th-level Battle Smith

Item: your Steel Defender

You affix a large melee weapon of your choice to a limb of your construct, such as a maul at the end of their tail or a set of sickles for fingers. The construct gains the following attack option, under your control:

Great Weapon. Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, reach 10ft., one target. Hit: 2d8 + its Strength modifier bludgeoning, slashing, or piercing damage (as applicable)

Greater Construct Enhancements

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: one construct you created

You can take this infusion multiple times, but must choose one different option from the list, or a different construct, each time you do. You can apply multiple enhancements to a single construct.

Electrified Exterior. When a creature hits your construct or the driver with a melee attack, the driver can use their reaction to force them to make a Constitution saving throw. If they fail, they take 3d6 lightning damage and are Paralyzed until the start of their next turn. If they succeed, they only take half the damage and are not Paralyzed. This ability can be used an amount of times equal to your Intelligence modifier per long rest.

Elemental Absorption. When it’s forced into a Saving Throw against an effect that deals cold, fire, or lightning damage, the construct has advantage on the save.

Enchanted Frame. The construct is resistant to bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage dealt by non-magical weapons. In addition, the bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage dealt by your construct is also considered magical.

Floodlights. Your construct can use its action to produce a 30-foot cone of bright light, disorienting your opponents, and 30-feet of dim light extending beyond that in the cone (total of 60ft.). When a creature within the bright light makes an attack roll, you can make your construct use their reaction to remove an amount equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) from the roll, potentially turning a hit into a miss. This light remains for 1 minute, and after it runs out you must wait 1 hour before it can be used again.

Golem Plating. You infuse the carapace of your construct with one of the following enhanced versions of golem hide:

Flesh. The construct gains immunity to lightning damage

Stone. A creature the constuct hits with an attack has its speed reduced by 10 feet until the end of its next turn.

Clay. A creature the constuct hits with an attack cannot regain hit points until the start of your next turn.

Iron. The construct gains immunity to fire damage

Martial Battle Sequencing. Your construct can take one additional attack when it takes the Attack action on its turn.

Shield Guardian. When you would take damage while you have the Construct within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to conjure it to you (momentarily sharing your space) and, transposing it between you and the source of damage, it takes the damage instead of you. If the attack deals more damage than it has hit points, you take the remainder of the damage. The construct is then moved to the nearest unoccupied space.

Stable. Whenever an effect would knock your construct Prone, it can make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw to avoid being knocked Prone.

Suspension Springs. Creatures within your construct do not take fall damage if it falls from any significant height.

Threatening Aura. Enemies within 20 feet of your construct have disadvantage on opportunity attacks against creatures also within that range, other than your construct.

Thruster Jets. Your construct can take the Dash or Disengage action as a bonus action on its turns.

Guardian Plate

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer

Item: Any piece of armour or apparel

You gain proficiency on a saving throw of your choice. If you can see the source of the effect, you also gain advantage on these saving throws.

Hair of the Dog

Prerequisites: 14th-level Alchemist

Item: A vial of alcoholic liquid.

You can use your action to pour this potent elixir down the throat of a creature that is dying or has died within the last minute. The creature returns to life with 1 hit point, consuming the mixture.

Helm of Awareness

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: A helmet (requires attunement)

While wearing this helmet, a creature has advantage on initiative rolls. In addition, the wearer can’t be surprised, provided it isn’t incapacitated.

Hermean Armour

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer

Item: breastplate, chain shirt, or other fortified chestpiece

You gain a flying speed equal to your movement speed.

Homunculus Servant

Item: A gem or crystal worth at least 100 gp

You learn intricate methods for magically creating a special homunculus that serves you. The item you infuse serves as the creature's heart, around which the creature's body instantly forms. You determine the homunculus's appearance. Some artificers prefer mechanical-looking birds, whereas some like winged vials or miniature, animate cauldrons.

The homunculus is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See this creature's game statistics in the Homunculus Servant stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

In combat, the homunculus shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the homunculus can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

The homunculus regains 2d6 hit points if the mending spell is cast on it. If you or the homunculus dies, it vanishes, leaving its heart in its space.

Impact Gauntlets

Item: a single gauntlet, bracer, handwrap, or knuckleduster.

This fist-weapon uses minor graviturgy to amplify the force of your punches. Unarmed Strikes made with the ‘gauntlet’ have the Light and Finesse properties and deal an additional 1d4 force damage on a hit.

Furthermore, when you hit with the impact gauntlet, you can forgo dealing damage to push the target up to 15 feet in a straight line away from you.

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Homunculus Servant

Tiny construct, Unaligned

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• armour Class 13 (natural armour)
• Hit Points 1 + your Intelligence modifier + your artificer level
• Hit Dice a number of d4s equal to your artificer level
• Speed 20 ft., fly 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
4 (-3)	15 (+2)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	7 (−2)

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• Saving Throws Dex +2 plus PB
• Skills Perception +0 plus PB x 2, Stealth +2 plus PB
• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities exhaustion, poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10 + (PB x 2)
• Languages understands the languages you speak
• Challenge -
• Proficiency Bonus (PB) equals your bonus

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Actions

Force Strike. Ranged Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, range 30 ft., one target you can see. Hit: 1d4 + PB force damage.

Channel Magic. The homunculus delivers a spell you cast that has a range of touch. The homunculus must be within 120 feet of you.

Improved Alterations

Prerequisites: 6th-level, Weapon Alterations infusion

The following options are added to the list of properties you can infuse into a weapon, and you can infuse one weapon with one of these properties when you take this infusion:

Hunters' (Ranged weapon only). You may use your reaction to make an attack of opportunity with this weapon against a creature moving within 30 feet of you.

Piercing. You have a +1 bonus to attack rolls against enemies with shields, natural armour, or heavy armour using this weapon. At 10th level, this bonus increases to +2, and to +3 at 14th level.

Radiant. While holding it, the wielder can take a bonus action to cause it to shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. The wielder can extinguish the light as a bonus action. As a reaction immediately after being hit by an attack, the wielder can expend 1 charge and cause the attacker to be blinded until the end of the attacker's next turn, unless the attacker succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. The weapon has charges equal to your Intelligence modifier, and regains all expended charges when the wielder finishes a long rest.

Reinforced. The weapon's damage die increases by one size (d8 to d10, d10 to d12, etc). This applies to any secondary damage types, and also increases the Versatile damage, if applicable. If the weapon's damage die is a d12 or 2d6, this property changes it to 1d6 + 1d8.

Vicious. Your hits with this weapon deal an extra damage die of damage of the weapon’s type.

Wrathful (Melee weapon only). You have advantage on attacks with this weapon against any creature you start your turn over 20 feet away from.

Item Transposition

Item: any shield, wondrous item, or weapon which already requires attunement

You can use your bonus action to summon or dismiss this item to/from a pocket dimension while you are attuned to it.

Kinetic Mine

Prerequisites: Arcane Firearm feature

Item: an eldritch cannon

You can cast Shatter or Thunderwave as though you were in the cannon’s space without expending a spell slot. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 1st-level or higher.

Lantern of Guiding Light

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer

Item: A lit lantern (requires attunement)

This lantern sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. Friendly creatures within the light can benefit from the effect of the guidance spell once per turn.

Magebane Shackles

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: a set of manacles

A creature wearing these manacles cannot cast spells with somatic components, and is immune to effects that would teleport them, or alter their plane or form. The DC for breaking these shackles is 5 greater than normal, and the manacles are immune to all damage types except force damage.

At 10th level, the manacles are immune to the effect of spells of 2nd-level or below

At 14th level, the manacles are immune to spells of 5th-level or below.

Mage Cannon

Prerequisites: Arcane Firearm feature

Item: an eldritch cannon

An infused cannon gains the following properties:

• You can use it as a spellcasting focus if it is within 60 feet of you. You can cast artificer spells originating from the cannon.
• Artificer spells with a casting time of 1 reaction and a range of self can instead affect a single creature within 10 feet of an eldritch cannon.
• Spells cast through an eldritch cannon are considered to be cast with your arcane firearm focus.

Magical Core

Prerequisites: 14th-level artificer

Item: any Tiny item

When you select this infusion, choose any 1st-level spell. You can cast this spell from the item without expending a spell slot or requiring material components. You can use this ability at will. The spell uses your spell attack bonus and save DC.

Magic Mechanic

Prerequisites: Mending cantrip

Item: tinkers tools or an arcane focus

When you cast the Mending cantrip using this item targeting a Construct, it heals the construct for 2d6 hit points. This increases to 3d6 at 5th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 17th level.

Magustaff

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: focal staff or rod

This focus is considered a magical quarterstaff, granting a +1 bonus to melee attack rolls using it, and a +1 bonus to AC while unarmoured.

At 10th level, both bonuses increase to +2

At 14th level, both bonuses increase to +3

Marksman Chamber

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: any weapon with the Ammunition property

This weapon does not require physical ammunition; upon readying this weapon, a spectral arrow, bolt, or round is notched that acts as magical ammo of its normal type.

Mind Sharpener

Item: A suit of armour or robes

The infused item can send a jolt to the wearer to refocus their mind. The item has 4 charges. When the wearer fails a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell, the wearer can use its reaction to expend 1 of the item's charges to succeed instead. The item regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Mobile Greaves

Prerequisites: any pair of shoes or boots

Your base movement speed is increased by 10 feet while wearing this item.

Nullifier Cannon

Prerequisites: 10th-level Artillerist

Item: an eldritch cannon

You can cast Counterspell or Dispel Magic as a reaction or action respectively as an Artificer spell as though you were in the eldritch cannon’s place, without expending a spell slot. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 3rd-level or higher.

Overdrive Core

Prerequisites: 10th-level Armourer
Item: Arcane Armour

You can push your Arcane Armour to its limits. As an action, you can activate your Arcane Armour’s Overdrive ability, which grants you effects based on its model, as shown below. This ability requires a loud vocal component, and you must be wearing your Arcane Armour to use it.

Jetstepper. You gain advantage on your ranged weapon attacks for 1 minute.

Infiltrator. You cast the haste spell on yourself without somatic or material components and without requiring your concentration.

Guardian. You cast the enlarge/reduce spell on yourself without somatic or material components and without requiring your concentration. While you are under the effect of the spell, you gain temporary hit points equal to your artificer level at the end of each turn.

Once you have used an Overdrive ability, you cannot use that armour’s Overdrive ability again until you have finished a long rest.

Pathfinder’s Boon

Item: A stick of chalk, charcoal, or graphite

Any marks made on surfaces with this material become magically enchanted with positional magic. The user always knows the direction and distance to these marks, as long as they’re within 1,000 feet. Only 10 marks can exist at a time; if an 11th mark is made, the 1st vanishes- and so on.

Permanent Mutation

Prerequisites: 10th-level Alchemist

Item: Self

You can spend 1 hour mutating your body with alchemist's supplies. Once this ritual is completed, you gain the effects and side effects of one Alchemical Elixir of your choice indefinitely. You do not need to know the formula of the chosen elixir to gain its effects this way. Ending or changing this infusion removes the mutation applied to your body, so the ritual must be undertaken again to regain this infusion.

Philosopher’s Stone

Prerequisites: 18th-level Alchemist

Item: a gemstone worth at least 250 gp

The Philosopher’s stone has a number of charges equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1). By expending 1 charge as a bonus action, you can activate the Philosopher's Stone to apply one of the following effects:

• You or a creature that you can see regains 13 (3d8) hit points.
• You or a creature that you can see gains advantage on any attack roll they make. This effect lasts until the creature hits with an attack, which deals an extra 9 (2d8) force damage.
• You or a creature that you can see gains advantage on the next saving throw that they make.
• You or a willing creature that you can see teleports to an unoccupied space within 60 feet of you that you can see.
• You or a willing creature that you can see becomes invisible until they make an attack, cast a spell, or until the Philosopher's Stone is used.

You can only activate a single effect at a time.

Alternatively, you can forgo the activation of the Philosopher's Stone and crush it in your hand as an action. When you do so, you choose to apply one of the following effects afterwards:

• You cast an 8th-level spell of your choosing that does not require concentration.
• You cast a spell of 5th-level or lower. If the spell requires concentration, you do not need to concentrate on the spell, and the spell lasts for its full duration.
• You and any friendly creature that you can see regains 27 (6d8) hit points.
• You greatly empower a creature's weapon. The next attack that is made with this weapon that hits deals an extra 44 (8d10) force damage. If the weapon is non-magical, it breaks due to the immense force behind this magical empowerment.

After breaking the Philosopher's Stone, the magic stored inside is released. Any creature within 20 feet of you, including you, takes 11 (2d10) force damage and must roll on the Wild Magic Sorcerer's Wild Surge table.

Potion Bender

Prerequisites: 6th-level Alchemist, the Shape Water cantrip
Item: a set of Alchemist's Supplies

You learn to magically control your elixirs, allowing you to apply them to your allies all over a battlefield. As a bonus action, you can turn a potion, elixir, or any other fluid you have on your person into a floating ball of liquid, sending it to an ally within 30 feet of you and granting them the effect.

Potion-Specialised Supplies

Prerequisites: 6th-level Alchemist
Item: a set of Alchemist's Supplies

Whenever you drink a potion or elixir, you gain temporary hit points equal to 1d10 + your Intelligence modifier. If the consumable already grants temporary hit points, the temporary hit points from the two sources stack for this instance only.

In addition, when you create Alchemical Elixirs after a long rest, you can create one additional item so long as the additional Elixir does not have a level prerequisite.

Power Surge

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer

Item: any focus

Once per long rest, you can use a spell slot to cast any Wizard or Druid spell you know of up to 2 levels higher than that of the spell slot expended.

Primordial Cannon

Prerequisites: 10th-level Artillerist

Item: an eldritch cannon

Elemental Blast (Recharge 5-6). Ranged Spell Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, range 90ft., one target. Hit: 4d8 damage of your choice of cold, fire, lightning, necrotic, radiant, or thunder damage.

Proficient Item

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: any object (requires attunement)

The wearer gains proficiency in a number of skills, weapons, or tools of their choice equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1).

Repeating Shot

Item: Any weapon with the ammunition property (requires attunement)

This magic weapon grants a + 1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it when it's used to make a ranged attack, and it ignores the loading property if it has it.

If you score a critical hit on a ranged weapon attack using this weapon, you can make an additional ranged weapon attack against the same target. If you roll a 1, or the weapon Mifires (if applicable), the round ricochets from the chamber back at you; you become the target of the attack you had just made, and it automatically hits you.

Replicate Magic Item

Using this infusion, you replicate a particular magic item. You can learn this infusion multiple times; each time you do so, choose a magic item that you can make with it, picking from the Replicable Items tables. A table's title tells you the level you must be in the class to choose an item from the table. Magic items replicable using this feature cannot be weapons, armour, or spellcasting foci, and they cannot be sigle-use items like potions or spell scrolls.

Repulsion Shield

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: A shield (requires attunement)

A creature gains a +1 bonus to Armour Class while wielding this shield. The shield has 4 charges. While holding it, the wielder can use a reaction immediately after being hit by a melee attack to expend 1 of the shield's charges and push the attacker up to 15 feet away. The shield regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Retractable Greatshield

Prerequisites: 6th-level Battle Smith

Item: your Steel Defender

You integrate a large plate of dragon-breath-tempered steel into your construct, allowing it to extend or retract a massive metal shield as a bonus action on its turn, or as both its and your reaction to an attack targeting it. Extending the shield increases the construct’s AC by 2, though decreases its movement speed by 10 feet. At 11th level, you ignore the movement decrease. While out, the construct also gains the Shield Bash attack option, and the Shield Parry reflex (which requires both your reaction and the construct’s):

Shield Bash. Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 1d8 + the construct’s Strength modifier bludgeoning damage, and the target must succeed a DC (10 + your PB + the construct’s Strength modifier) Strength saving throw or be knocked 10 feet away and fall prone. If the creature is Huge or larger, it has advantage on this saving throw. On a successful save, the target is not moved and does not fall prone.

Shield Parry. The construct must not have its Greatshield extended to take this reaction. As a reaction when the construct or a creature within 5ft. of it is targeted by an attack, the construct extends the greatshield in the way, imposing disadvantage on the attack.

Returning Weapon

Item: A simple or martial weapon with the thrown property

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it, and it returns to the wielder’s hand immediately after it is used to make a ranged attack.

Ritualist Fetish

Item: any piece of jewellery, apparel, or armour

The additional time to ritual cast spells is reduced to 1 minute whilst wearing this item.

Shaman Stone

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: crystal ball

Increases the power of cantrips, dealing additional spell-type damage to foes equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Shock Generator

Prerequisites: Arcane Firearm feature

Item: an eldritch cannon

An infused cannon gains the following property: You can use a bonus action to cast Lightning Lure or Shocking Grasp as though you were in the cannon’s space.

Skeleton Key

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer

Item: a tiny object, usually a key

You infuse a weapon with powerful smuggler’s magics. As an action while wearing or carrying this item, you can touch it to a surface to cast Arcane Lock, Darkness, Knock, or Silence on that surface, requiring no concentration and without expending a spell slot. In addition, you can cast Passwall in this way once, regaining the use of the spell when you finish a long rest.

Smoke Bomb

Item: Any object with the Thrown property

When this item hits with a ranged attack from being thrown at a target, you can use your reaction to cause thick black smog to pour from the object. This effect is identical to the Fog Cloud spell centred around the object, but it’s non-magical, does not require concentration, has a duration of 1 minute, and a creature within the fog is under the effect of a Darkness spell. This effect ends early if you throw the infused object again.

Spell Link

Item: any arcane focus

You gain an additional 1st-level spell slot. This spell slot is refreshed on a long rest.

At 6th level, this increases to a 2nd-level slot. At 10th level, it increases again to a 3rd-level slot, and then to a 4th-level slot at 14th level.

Spell-Refuelling Ring

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: A ring (requires attunement)

While wearing this ring, the creature can recover one expended spell slot as an action. The recovered slot can be of 3rd level or lower. Once used, the ring can't be used again until the next dawn.

Stink Bomb

Prerequisites: 10th-level Alchemist, Smoke Bomb infusion

Item: a smoke bomb

Your smoke bomb produces the effect of a Stinking Cloud spell rather than a Fog Cloud spell.

At 18th level, the bomb can produce the effect of a Cloudkill spell instead.

Superior Alterations

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer, Weapon Alterations infusion

The following options are added to the list of properties you can infuse into a weapon:

Beacon (Melee weapon only). You can use an action to plant this weapon in the ground. For the next 1 minute, whilst your weapon remains planted, the weapon glows with a divine light, shining bright light in a 30-foot radius, and dim light for an additional 30-foot. All allies within 15 feet gain a +1 bonus to their AC, and their attacks deal 1d6 additional force damage. Any ally that can draw line of sight to the weapon can take a bonus action to move up to half their movement towards the weapon. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks. You must complete a short or long rest before you can use this ability again

Enchanted The weapon ignores resistance to one of its damage types (your choice upon making the alteration).

Envenomed Each creature damaged by this weapon must succeed on a Constitution save against your spell save DC or suffer 2d6 poison damage at the start of each of their turns for 1 minute. An afflicted creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on themselves on a success. If the creature's saving throw is successful they are immune to this effect for the next 24 hours.

Homing (Ranged or Thrown weapon only). You may attack creatures within the weapon's close range even if you cannot see them, provided you know they are there. These attacks are made at disadvantage. Any creature targeted this way counts as being in ¾ cover.

Jagged The weapon scores a critical hit on a roll of 19-20.

Jarring Any enemy that you make a weapon attack against with this weapon cannot make attacks of opportunity against you until the beginning of your next turn.

Rallying You can use an action to raise this weapon in the air and let out a war cry bolstering your allies. For the next minute your weapon lets off a shining bright light for 30 feet, and all allies within the light gain advantage on Wisdom saving throws and are immune to the frightened condition. Any ally moving directly towards you during this time can increase their movement speed by 10 feet. You must complete a short or long rest before you can use this ability again

Slayer’s When you select this infusion, choose a single creature type such as dragons, beasts, fey, humanoids, monstrosities, or aberrations. This is not an exhaustive list. Your weapon attacks from this weapon deal 3d6 additional weapon-type damage to all creatures of this type.

Spellbreaker Attacks with this weapon deal an additional 2d6 force damage when you hit against spellcasters. Concentration checks made against damage from this weapon have disadvantage.

Superior Construct Enhancements

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer, Construct Enhancement infusion

Item: one construct you created

You can take this infusion multiple times, but must choose one different option from the list below or a different construct each time you do. You can apply multiple enhancements to a single construct.

Awakened Engine. The construct gains an Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma score of 12, unless already higher, and it can speak one language of your choice. Its alignment is Lawful Neutral, but accepts commands from you. You can use a bonus action to order the construct to control itself, or to return to your command. The construct loses its condition immunities to be charmed, frightened, paralysed and unconscious. If the construct drops to 0 hit points, it’s unconscious until it regains at least 1 hit point.

Barbed Armour. The construct is covered with wicked spikes. The first time on a turn that the construct moves within 5 feet of a target, or that a creature moves within 5 feet of the construct, that target takes 1d10 piercing damage.

Displacer Illusion. You can activate this magical device as a bonus action, causing the construct to project an illusion that makes it appear near its actual location, causing attack rolls against the construct to have disadvantage. If the construct is hit by an attack, this illusion dispels until the start of your next turn.

Forcefield Generator. You provide an arcane core of abjurative shielding to your construct. It gains a number of temporary hit points at the start of each of its turns equal to your Intelligence modifier + your Proficiency bonus. It does not gain this benefit when at 0 hit points. This effect is stopped for 1 minute if dispelled or within an area of antimagic.

Mounted Ballista. Your construct gains a mounted ballista that can be used instead of its normal attack. This attack cannot target a creature within 30 feet of your construct. Ballista Bolt. Ranged Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, range 100/300 ft, one target. Hit: 2d8 + PB piercing damage.

Percussion Disks. The construct launches a load of percussion disks to 5 points within 60 feet of it. Each creature in a 15-foot-radius sphere centred on each point must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC; on a failed save, the creature takes 4d8 thunder damage and is pushed 10 feet away from the point of origin. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and isn't pushed. A creature only makes one save and takes damage from one disk if within multiple regions, but the push effect compounds. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Spider Legs. Tucked up snugly within the shell are 8 mechanical legs, folded up tightly in a claw-like position. Activated or deactivated an action, the legs fold out and stand, lifting the construct 4 feet off the ground, allowing it to move across the ground in the same manner a spider does. The construct can move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings, gaining a climbing speed equal to its walking speed while the legs are out.

Supplement Wonders

Prerequisites: 14th-level artificer

Item: A wondrous item with charges or uses per day

As a bonus action while holding the object in your hand, you can expend a spell slot of any level you possess. Expending slots this way restores a number of charges or per-day uses of features to the item equal to the expended slot level.

An Item cannot have more charges than its maximum, so any extra charges are shed instantly.

Synergistic Focus

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer

Item: any focus

Reduces the spell slot level required to cast spells at 6th-level or lower by 1 (minimum 1st-level slot expended) when cast using this focus (minimum of 1st-level slot expended). A creature casting spells with this focus can use this ability a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, regaining all expended uses when they finish a long rest.

Telepathic Link

Item: Any weapon or focus (requires attunement)

The weapon gifts you the ability to communicate telepathically with any willing creature within 60 feet that you can see.

Tenacious Focus

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: any focus

Casters add your Intelligence modifier to checks made to dispel or counter spells cast using this focus, or to resist such effects.

Thruster Jets

Prerequisite: 10th-level artificer
Item: A Large or smaller construct or vehicle

This vehicle has a flying speed of 50 feet. The vehicle can fly for up to 10 minutes, all at once or in several shorter flights, each one using a minimum of 1 minute from the duration. If the vehicle is flying when the duration expires, the vehicle falls.

Trapped Spell

Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer

Item: any focus

when you finish a short or long rest you can store one spell you know in this weapon. You can, as a bonus action, release this spell from the focus. You do not need to
expend a spell slot, and you ignore any verbal or
somatic components.

Ultimate Alterations

Prerequisites: 14th level, Weapon Alterations infusion

The following options are added to the list of properties you can imbue into a weapon:

Hateful When you add this property, choose one creature type other than humanoids. Attack rolls with this weapon are made with advantage against creatures of the chosen type. This doesn't apply if the target has legendary or lair actions.

Linked *Prerequisites: attunement to the weapon While attuned to this weapon, you can't be disarmed of it unless you are incapacitated. As long as it resides on the same plane of existence, you can summon this weapon as a bonus action on your turn, causing it to teleport instantly to your hand. Alternatively, if you are within 100 feet of it, you may use your action to teleport yourself over to where it is instead.

Nimble Whenever a creature provokes an opportunity attack from you, this weapon allows you to make an attack against it without expending your reaction.

Staggering. Whenever a creature is hit with this weapon, they must make a Strength saving throw (DC 8+ your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, the target is then either knocked prone or pushed 10 feet away from you (your choice).

Trueseeing You have 30 feet of truesight when holding this weapon.

Vanishing Rabbit

Prerequisites: 6th-level Artillerist

Item: an eldritch cannon

After it has been activated, the eldritch cannon teleports 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can perceive within range. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 1st-level or higher.

Wayward Compass

Item: any Small or Tiny object (requires attunement)

Attuned creatures can exactly pinpoint the Compass' current distance and direction from them as long as they're on the same plane of existence. The needle of the compass always points toward them.

Weapon Alterations

Item: Any weapon

The infused weapon gains one of the following properties. You can choose the same weapon for multiple instances of this infusion at once, choosing different properties each time, up to a maximum number of alterations on a single weapon equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1).

Aerodynamic (Melee weapon only). The weapon is streamlined and stabilised. It gains the Thrown property, with a range of 10/30. If it is not already light, it gains the Light property.

Barbaric. When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with this weapon, you gain advantage on your next attack.

Blindside. When you have advantage on an attack roll made with this weapon, you deal an additional 1d6 damage of the weapon type. You can use this feature only once each turn. At 10th-level, this increases to 2d6

Duelist’s (Melee weapon only). When you are targeted by a melee attack you can see, you can use your reaction to add 1 to your AC until the start of your next turn. This bonus increases to +2 at 6th level and +3 at 10th level

Giant-Bane. Your weapon attacks deal an additional 1d6 damage to creatures of large size or larger.

Hidden. You can use an action to turn this weapon into a mundane version of itself. During this period it cannot be seen by the detect magic spell or similar, and loses all abilities. You can use an action to speak the weapon’s command word, restoring it to its magical form.

Icebane (Melee weapon only). The first time you hit a creature with this weapon on a turn, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to your Artificer spell save DC. Upon failure, it is Slowed (as the Slow spell) until the end of its next turn.

Juggernaut (Unwieldy weapon only). You deal double damage against objects and structures with attacks made by this weapon.

Leomund’s. When a command word is spoken, the weapon shrinks down, taking the form of a tiny sized trinket of your choice. Speaking the command word again returns the weapon to its normal form.

Occult. When rolling damage for this weapon, you can choose to add your Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma modifier (your choice) instead of its usual ability modifier.

Precise. You can reroll weapon attack damage dice from this weapon. You must accept the second result.

Quickshot (Ranged weapon only). The first time you hit a target with an attack from this weapon on your turn, you gain advantage on your next attack with this weapon until the end of your turn.

Reach (Melee weapon only). Increase the range of this weapon by 5 feet for 1 minute. For the duration, the weapon inflicts an additional 1d4 force damage. You must complete a short or long rest before you can use this ability again.

Rotten (Melee weapon only). The first time you hit a creature with this weapon on a turn, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to your Artificer spell save DC. Upon failure, it takes 1d6 poison damage and is poisoned until the end of its next turn.

Sharpshot (Ranged weapon only). When making attacks with this weapon, your target’s cover counts as being one degree lower than it is. For example ¾ cover counts as ½ cover. This has no effect against creatures not in cover.

Stern (Unwieldy weapon only). At the beginning of your turn, you can declare you are using this ability. Until the beginning of your next turn, you gain a +2 bonus to your AC, and your movement speed is reduced to 0. You cannot take any reactions whilst this ability is in effect.

Transfused (Melee weapon only). The damage dealt by this weapon is one of the following types, chosen when you infuse the weapon: cold, fire, force, necrotic, or radiant damage.

Whirlwind (Melee weapon only). You can use your action to perform a melee attack against each creature within melee range.

Willful Focus

Prerequisites: 14th-level artificer

Item: any focus

When you fail a concentration check, you can choose to pass instead. Once you have used this feature 3 times, you must finish a long rest before you can use this ability again.

Wondrous Green Cube of Power

Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer

Item: A 2-inch cube of glass, and 5 gp of emerald dust

You can use an action to speak the command word and throw this slimy green cube to a point on the ground within 60 feet of you, transforming it into a Gelatinous Cube. If the space where the creature would appear is occupied by other creatures or objects, or if there isn't enough space for the creature, the figurine doesn't become a creature.

The creature is friendly to you and your companions. It understands your languages and obeys your spoken commands. If you issue no commands, the creature defends itself but takes no other actions.

The cube stays a creature for 10 minutes, at the end of which it reverts to its object form. It reverts early if it drops to 0 hit points or if you use an action to speak the command word again while touching it. When the creature becomes an object again, its property can't be used again until you complete a long rest.

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. Alternatively, you may take a feat in place of the ASI, provided you fulfil its prerequisites.

Instead of increasing ability scores as detailed above, you may increase one ability score of your choice by 1 and gain one fighting style available to you.

Path of the Battlerager

Known as Kuldjargh (literally "axe idiot") in Dwarvish, battleragers are dwarf followers of the gods of war and take the Path of the Battlerager. They specialise in wearing bulky, spiked armour and throwing themselves into combat, striking with their body itself and giving themselves over to the fury of battle.

Restriction: Dwarves Only. The battlerager fills a particular niche in dwarven society and culture alone. Your DM can lift this restriction to better suit the campaign.

Reckless Abandon

At 6th level, whenever you use Reckless Attack while raging, you gain temporary hit points equal to half your Barbarian level (rounded down) until the end of your next turn.

Spiked Retribution

Also at 6th level, the piercing damage inflicted by your spiked armour is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity.

Fastball Charge

Beginning at 10th level, your jump distance is doubled and you can take the Dash action as a bonus action while you are raging. If you run at least 20 feet in a straight line while wearing spiked armour before hitting with a melee attack, you deal additional piercing damage equal to your barbarian level. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn.

Mourning Star

Using a grappling hook, tail, whip, or chain, starting at 14th level you can attack by swinging around a point you choose within 10 feet of you as an action. All creatures in a 15-foot-radius, 5-foot-high cylinder around that point must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 + your Strength modifier + your Proficiency bonus). On a failed save, each creature falls prone and takes 6d8 piercing damage. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage but is not knocked prone. You end the action on the opposite side of the point you chose, 10 feet away from the point. When you take this action, you become dizzy until the end of your next turn, incurring the following traits:

• Your speed is halved.
• You have a -2 penalty to your AC and Dexterity saving throws.
• You can't take reactions.
• You have disadvantage on all attack rolls and ability checks.

You once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest, unless you expend one use of your Rage feature.

Path of the Beast

Of the many terrible curses that plague the realm, few are as ancient or as feared as Lycanthropy. Barbarians who walk the Path of the Beast draw their rage from a bestial spark burning within their souls. That beast bursts forth in the throes of rage, physically transforming the barbarian. Such a barbarian might be inhabited by a primal spirit or be descended from shape-shifters, dragons, or a cursed bloodline.

Bestial Soul

Beginning at 6th level, the feral power within you increases, causing the natural weapons of your Form of the Beast to count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

You can also alter your form to help you adapt to your surroundings. When you finish a short or long rest, choose one of the following benefits, which lasts until you finish a short or long rest:

Manta Fins. You gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed, and you can breathe underwater.

Spider Climb. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, and you can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Spry Leaps. You can jump as a bonus action. Your long jump increases by 10ft., and your high jump increases by 5ft.

Siege Monster. Your natural weapons deal double damage to objects and structures.

Predatory Strikes. You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls made with your unarmed strikes. This bonus increases by 1 at 11th level (+2) and 18th level (+3).

Defensive Spines. Thick quills burst from your back. When a creature grapples you, and at the start of every turn it begins grappling you, the grappler takes 1d8 piercing damage.

Fleet. Your movement speed increases by 10 feet, and you are not affected by nonmagical difficult terrain.

Lycan Regeneration. At the start of each of your turns, before you roll for bloodlust, you regain hit points equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1) if you have at least 1 hit point and no more than half of your hit points left.

Feral Weapons. You can manifest all your Form of the Beast natural weapons at once while raging, and can draw or stow any number of them as a bonus action. You can also manifest one of your Form of the Beast natural weapons even while not raging.

Path of the Juggernaut

Juggernaut barbarians are siege engines in their own right, able to stand their ground and move their foes into positions of weakness. While raging, they make any battlefield their domain, shoving their foes over mountainsides and destroying even the strongest structures with their attacks.

Path of the Storm Herald

Typical barbarians harbour a fury that dwells within. Their rage grants them superior strength, durability, and speed. Barbarians who follow the Path of the Storm Herald learn instead to transform their rage into a mantle of primal magic that swirls around them. When in a fury, a barbarian of this path taps into nature to create powerful, magical effects.

Storm Aura

At 6th level, you emanate a stormy, magical aura while you rage, granting you resistance to lightning and thunder damage. The aura extends 10 feet from you in every direction, but not through total cover. If a creature of your choice starts their turn within the aura, or moves into it on their turn, the target must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). The target takes 1d6 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 2d6 at 10th level, 3d6 at 14th         level, and 4d6 at 18th level.

Furthermore, at                 18th level the radius of the
aura increases                   to 30 feet.

Roaring Storm

At 10th level, you learn to use your mastery of the storm to bolster others. Each creature of your choice other than you deals an additional 1d6 lightning damage with all their weapon attacks while they are within your Storm Aura.

Storm Caller

Also at 10th level, you can slip through the battlefield like a lightning bolt through the skies. As a bonus action on your turn while raging, you can expend one use of your Rage to cast Thunderstep or Lightning Bolt, using your Aura save DC.

Raging Storm

At 14th level, the power of the storm you channel grows mightier, lashing out at your foes. Immediately after a creature in your aura hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes lightning damage equal to your Barbarian level, or takes half as much thunder damage and is pushed 10 feet away from you.

Path of the Tanarukk

Few creatures leave a greater trail of devastation in their wake than the Tanarukk, the resulting abyssal devolution of orc and their kin through the influence of Gruumsh. Through zealotism in his name, pure sadism, or simply the lust to see the world burn, these barbarians become angels of ruin at the smallest provocation.

Restriction: Orcs Only. The Tanarukk is a genetic mutation of orc blood, or a gift from Gruumsh to his most devout. Your DM can lift this restriction to better suit the campaign.

Ire of Ruin

Also at 3rd level, you naturally manifest destruction upon the weak, unleashing a cull upon them with your fury. When you hit with a weapon attack while raging, you can use your bonus action to increase the attack’s weapon damage by 1d6 and reduce the target’s speed by 10 feet until the end of its next turn.

The damage you can inflict with this feature increases when you reach 6th level (1d10), 10th level (2d8), and 14th level (2d10).

Butcherer

At 6th level, you draw strength from death, empowering you to bring the world crumbling down around you. Whenever you score a critical hit or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points, you can use one of the following features:

Bloodrush. As a reaction, you can move up to your speed and make a melee weapon attack against a creature within range. You deal additional damage if you hit as though you used your Ire of Ruin feature.

Weeping Weapon. The weapon used to score the critical hit gains the Bleed property for the next minute. If it already has the Bleed property, its critical hit range increases by 1 instead.

Gore. You are fed by the sapping of life. You regain a number of hit points equal to half your Barbarian level (rounded down) + your Constitution modifier. Hit points gained this way which exceed your hit point maximum are gained as temporary hit points.

Bleeding Eye. Closing one eye, the other begins to weep blood. As a reaction, you force a creature within 30 feet of you who can see you to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, they are frightened of you for the next minute. They can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on themselves on a success.

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Saving throws that you force creatures to make from your Tanarukk features have a DC equal to 8 + your Constitution modifier + your Proficiency bonus.

Stench of Death

By 10th level, the stink of rotting blood saturates every pore of your being. Hostile creatures that start their turn within 10 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw or be Poisoned until the start of their next turn.

Furthermore, creatures below their hit point maximum have disadvantage on checks made to hide from you, and you have advantage on all contested Wisdom and Charisma checks made against wounded creatures, such as to track, seach for, or intimidate them.

Finally, melee weapon attacks you make against creatures who are poisoned or below half of their hit point maximum score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Bloodlust

By 14th level, you walk as an executioner upon fields of war. As an action, you can make a melee weapon attack against a creature half your movement speed or less away from you below its hit point maximum, rushing up to them. You can then leap that distance from that target to a different wounded creature within that range of the last target. You can only attack a creature once each with this feature. Damage you deal from these attacks all deal your Ire of Ruin bonus damage on a hit. You can repeat this process until there are no more valid targets, or until you have hit a number of targets with attacks equal to your Constitution modifier.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Aspect of the Beast

At 6th level, you gain a magical benefit based on the totem animal of your choice.

Bear. While raging, you have resistance to all damage except psychic damage. The spirit of the bear makes you tough enough to stand up to any punishment.

Dragon. You gain resistance to your totem dragon's damage type. If you already have resistance to this type, then you reduce damage of that type by an amount equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1) after halving the damage.

Eagle. You gain the eyesight of an eagle. You can see up to 1 mile away with no difficulty, able to discern even fine details as though looking at something no more than 100 feet away from you. Additionally, dim light doesn't impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks.

Elk. Whether mounted or on foot, your travel pace is doubled, as is the travel pace of up to ten companions while they're within 60 feet of you and you're not incapacitated. The elk spirit helps you roam far and fast.

Ram. You can add your Constitution modifier to Athletics checks, and can fall 20 feet without taking damage.

Shark. You know the exact location of any creature within 30ft. of you as long as they have a heartbeat, and you ignore any imposed disadvantage while you attack these creatures with a Reckless Attack.

Spider. When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack while raging, the creature you hit becomes paralysed until the start of your next turn. You cannot impose this upon a creature that is already paralysed.

Tiger. You gain proficiency in two skills from the following list: Athletics, Acrobatics, Stealth, and Survival. The cat spirit hones your survival instincts.

Viper. You gain proficiency in the Persuasion and Deception skills, and your proficiency bonus is doubled. You also gain a natural weapon (bite) attack, dealing 1d6 + STR Piercing damage on a hit. If you already have a natural bite, the damage die increases by 1 step instead (1d10 to 2d6)

Wolf. You gain the hunting sensibilities of a wolf. You can track other creatures while travelling at a fast pace, and you can move stealthily while travelling at a normal pace.

Spirit Walker

At 10th level, you can cast the Commune with Nature and Phantasmal Steed spella, but only as rituals. When you do so, a spiritual version of the animal you chose for Totem Spirit or Aspect of the Beast appears to you to convey the information you seek or transport you to your destination.

Totemic Attunement

At 14th level, you gain a magical benefit based on a totem animal of your choice.

Bear. While you're raging, any creature within 5 feet of you that's hostile to you has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you or another character with this feature. An enemy is immune to this effect if it can't see or hear you or if it can't be frightened.

Dragon. While you're raging, when you hit a creature with a melee attack you can create a burst of intense energy in a 10-foot-radius sphere around that creature as a bonus action. Each creature other than you in that area takes 3d6 damage of the type associated with your totem dragon.

Eagle. While raging, you have a flying speed equal to your current walking speed. This benefit works only in short bursts; you fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft.

Elk. While raging, you can use a bonus action during your move to pass through the space of a Large or smaller creature. That creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your Strength bonus + your proficiency bonus) or be knocked prone and take bludgeoning damage equal to 1d12 + your Strength modifier.

Ram. While raging, you have advantage on Strength and Constitution saving throws, and immunity to the Prone condition.

Shark. When you make a melee attack against a creature below its hit point maximum while you’re raging, you score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Spider. You can climb on difficult surfaces including upside down without the need for an ability check. Additionally, you are immune to the Grappled condition while raging.

Tiger. While you're raging, if you move at least 20 feet in a straight line toward a Large or smaller target right before making a melee weapon attack against it, you can use a bonus action to make an additional melee weapon attack against it.

Viper. Your melee weapon attacks while raging inflict additional poison damage equal to 1d8 + your Constitution modifier. You gain immunity to poison damage and the poisoned condition while raging.

Wolf. While you're raging, you can use a bonus action on your turn to knock a Large or smaller creature prone when you hit it with a melee weapon attack.

Path of the Zealot

Some deities inspire their followers to pitch themselves into a ferocious battle fury. These barbarians are zealots – warriors who channel their rage into powerful displays of divine power.

Rage Beyond Death

Beginning at 14th level, the divine power that fuels your rage allows you to shrug off fatal blows. While you're raging, having 0 hit points doesn’t knock you unconscious. You still must make death saving throws, and you suffer the normal effects of taking damage while at 0 hit points. However, if you would die due to failing death saving throws, you don’t die until your rage ends, and you die then only if you still have 0 hit points.

Path of Wild Magic

Many places in the multiverse abound with beauty, intense emotion, and rampant magic; the Feywild, the Upper Planes, and other realms of supernatural power radiate with such forces and can profoundly influence people. As folk of deep feeling, barbarians are especially susceptible to these wild influences, with some barbarians being transformed by the magic. These magic-suffused barbarians walk the Path of Wild Magic. satyr, tiefling, aasimar, and genasi barbarians often seek this path, eager to manifest their otherworldly magic.

Magic Awareness

When you choose this path at 3rd level, as an action, you can open your awareness to the presence of concentrated magic. Until the end of your next turn, you know the location of any spell or magic item within 60 feet of you that isn’t behind total cover. When you sense a spell, you learn which school of magic it belongs to.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Wild Surge

Also at 3rd level, the magical energy roiling inside you sometimes erupts from you. When you enter your rage, roll on the Wild Magic table to determine the magical effect produced.

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If the effect requires a saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.

Bolstering Magic

Beginning at 6th level, you can harness your wild magic to bolster yourself or a companion. You are resistant to force damage while raging.

As an action, you can touch one creature (which can be yourself) and confer one of the following benefits of your choice to that creature: For 10 minutes, the creature can roll a d4 whenever making an attack roll or an ability check and add the number rolled to the d20 roll. Roll a d4. The creature regains one expended spell slot, the level of which equals the number rolled or lower (the creature’s choice, up to their slot maximum).

You can take this action a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Unstable Backlash

At 10th level, when you are imperilled during your rage, the magic within you can lash out; immediately after you take damage or fail a saving throw while raging, you can use your reaction to roll on the Wild Magic table and immediately produce the effect rolled. This effect replaces your current Wild Magic effect.

Controlled Surge

At 14th level, whenever you roll on the Wild Magic table, you can roll the die twice and choose which of the two effects to unleash. If you roll the same number on both dice, you can ignore the number and choose any effect on the table.

Wild Magic Surge