Class Features

As a Defiler, you gain the following class features

Pact Magic

At 1st level, you have forged a connection with a profane source of power, granting you access to dark powers and forbidden knowledge that allows you to cast spells like a Warlock.

Abyssal Acuity

At 1st level, When you make an ability check using Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma you can choose to roll your Bale die, which begins as a d4 and grows as you gain levels as shown on the Defiler class table, and add the roll to your total check.

You can choose to use this feature after you roll the check but before you know whether you succeeded or failed.

You can use this feature once and regain the ability to do so when you finish a short or long rest. You can choose to use this feature while you have no uses remaining by reducing your current hitpoints by an amount equal to the number rolled on the Bale die.

Vitality Transfusion

At 1st level, using your profane connection, you can transfer vitality between yourself and others. You have a number of charges of this feature equal to your Defiler level + 1. As an action or in place of one of your attacks as part of the attack action you can reach out and touch a creature, expending a number of charges up to your Charisma modifier and rolling a number of Bale Dice equal to the number of charges expended.

You or the target creature (Your choice) takes necrotic damage equal to the total roll, and the creature who didn't take the necrotic damage regains hitpoints equal to the necrotic damage taken.

If you use this feature on an unwilling creature you must make a Melee Spell Attack. Critical hits made with this feature are treated as normal hits instead. If you miss with an attack using this feature you do not expend charges.

You regain expended uses of this feature when you finish a long rest.

If you or a willing creature has resistance to necrotic damage when you use this feature on yourself or them you (or the willing creature) can choose to ignore your (or their) resistance.

Fighting Style

You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose a Fighting Style from the list of optional features. You can't take the same Fighting Style option more than once, even if you get to choose again.

Blind Fighting

You gain Blindsight out to a range of 10’

Interception

When a creature you can see hits a target, other than you, within 5 feet of you with an attack, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage the target takes by 1d10 + your proficiency bonus (to a minimum of 0 damage). You must be wielding a shield or a simple or martial weapon to use this reaction.

Thrown Weapon Fighting

You can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as part of the attack you make with the weapon.

In addition, when you hit with a ranged attack using a thrown weapon, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll.

Profane Warrior

You learn two cantrips of your choice from the Warlock spell list. They count as Defiler spells for you, and Charisma is your spellcasting ability for them. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of these cantrips with another cantrip from the Warlock spell list.

Balefire Brand

Additionally at 2nd level, you gain the power to mark certain creatures as your foe to slay. As a bonus action you can choose one creature you can see within 30' of you and cause it to become branded by this feature, for 1 minute, until you lose concentration (As if you were concentrating on a spell), or until you use this feature again, you are subject to the following effects:

• You have disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures other than the branded creature.
• You add half your proficiency bonus (Rounded up) to attack rolls you make against the branded creature
• You deal additional Necrotic damage equal to your Bale Die each time you hit the branded creature with a weapon attack.
• While you maintain concentration on this feature you can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn to transfer the brand to a different creature you can see within 30'. You can also transfer the brand as a reaction when the branded creature is reduced to 0 hitpoints.

You can concentrate on your brand and a spell simultaneously, making a single concentration check for both, losing concentration on both effects on a failure. Your Balefire Brand can also be dispelled by a Dispel Magic or Remove Curse spell. Your brand is treated as a spell with a level equal to half your Defiler level (Maximum of 9th) for the purposes of Dispel Magic.

Once you use this feature you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest. While you have no uses remaining you can expend a Pact Slot to use it again.

As you gain levels in this class the duration of the brand increases, increasing to 10 minutes at 5th level, and to 1 hour at 9th level.

Profane Devotion

At 3rd level you devote yourself to a foul master or dark cause, granting you features at 3rd, 7th, 11th, and 15th level.

Fetid Resilience

At 3rd level, due to the profane power flowing through your veins you are immune to diseases and have resistance to necrotic damage.

When you reach 14th level you become immune to being Charmed, Frightened, or Possessed against your will.

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.

Martial Versatility

At 4th level, Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can replace a fighting style you know with another fighting style available to deflilers. This replacement represents a shift of focus in your martial practice.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th Level, you can Attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on Your Turn.

Doomsayer

Starting at 6th level, your presence spells doom for those around you. Whenever a creature within 10 feet of you must make a saving throw, you can choose to inflict a penalty to the creature's saving throw equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of -1 penalty). You must be conscious to inflict this penalty.

The range of this feature increases to 30' at 18th level.

Blackened Spellcraft

At 10th level, you can exchange your life force for power. As a bonus action you can roll your Bale Die, reduce your current hitpoints by the roll and regain an expended pact slot.

You can use this feature once, and regain the ability to do so again when you finish a long rest. When you reach 15th level you can use this feature twice per long rest rather than once.

Shadow Stalk

At 14th level, as a bonus action you can teleport up to 60' to an unoccupied space you can see within 5' of a creature branded by your Balefire Brand.

Indomitable Predator

At 18th level, each time you deal damage using your Balefire Brand feature you regain hitpoints equal to the damage dealt.

Eternal Damnation

At 20th level, your Balefire Brand dooms creatures affected by it. When a creature branded by your Balefire Brand starts their turn they take Psychic damage equal to three rolls of your Bale Die.

Devotee of Blood

You have devoted yourself to a vampire lord or have otherwise sought to draw on the dark powers of blood magic.

Devotee of The Reaper

You have devoted yourself to upholding the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, destroying any who would tarnish the cycle.

Eyes of The Reaper

Additionally at 3rd level, As a bonus action you can open your eyes to the veil. For 1 minute you gain darkvision out to a range of 60' and can see invisible creatures and creatures on the ethereal plane within that same range. While this feature is active you can target and attack creatures on the ethereal plane as if they were on your plane.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier, regaining expended uses on a long rest.

Executioner

At 3rd level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20. When you score a critical hit you deal additional radiant damage equal to one roll of your Bale die, this damage is not doubled as part of the critical hit.

Additionally, you deal Radiant damage rather than Necrotic with your Balefire Brand and Vitality Infusion features.

Aura of The Reaper

At 7th level, when a creature within 10' of you is reduced to a number of hitpoints equal to your Charisma modifier or less you can choose to have the creature be reduced to 0 hitpoints instead, if the creature is an undead you can choose to use this feature when it is reduced to a number of hitpoints equal to double your Charisma modifier or less.

The range of this feature increases to 30' at 18th level.

Reaper's Efficiency

At 11th level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 18, 19, or 20 on the d20 and the additional radiant damage from your Executioner feature increases to two rolls of your Bale die.

In addition, whenever an undead creature would force you to make a saving throw you do so with advantage. If you succeed the saving throw the creature who forced you to make the saving throw takes Radiant damage equal to two rolls of your Bale die.

All Meet their End

At 15th level, when you score a critical hit on a creature branded by your Balefire Brand they must make a Constitution saving throw or be Stunned until the end of their next turn.

Devotee of Tyranny

You have devoted yourself to a tyrannical lord or yourself have become one. You seek to enforce order with an iron fist and punish any who would oppose you and your cause.

Devotee of The Infernal

You have devoted yourself to the forces of one of the various hells.

Hellfire Brand

When you choose this devotion at 3rd level, a creature branded by your Balefire Brand feature loses any resistance it has to Necrotic or Fire damage.

Additionally, you can choose when you deal damage with your Balefire Brand for the additional damage to be fire or necrotic damage.

Brimstone Chain

At 3rd level you can summon a chain forged of dark steel and brimstone as a bonus action or in place of an attack as part of the attack action and throw it at a creature you can see within 30'. Make a melee spell attack against the creature, on a hit the creature is pulled up to 30' closer to you if it was one size larger than you or smaller, or pulled up to 10' closer to you if it was more than one size larger than you.

If you score a critical hit with this feature the creature's movement speed is reduced by 10' until the end of your next turn.

Forked Tongue

Additionally at 3rd level, when you use Abyssal Acuity on a Persuasion or Deception check you don't expend the use of the feature nor do you reduce your hitpoints if you had already expended your use of Abyssal Acuity.

Additionally, you learn to read, write, and speak Infernal or a different language of your choice if you already know Infernal.

Infernal Conduit

At 7th level, when a creature you can see within 30' is reduced to 0 hitpoints you can use your reaction to grant a creature of your choice temporary hitpoints equal to your Bale Die + your Charisma modifier. The temporary hitpoints last until the end of the creature's next turn and so long as it has the temporary hitpoints its movement speed doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity.

Fiendish Constitution

At 11th level, you gain resistance to poison and fire damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Defiler Spell List

Adding more spells to the defiler spell list: The defiler draws spells from the Warlock and Paladin spell lists, if you use a document that adds additional spells consider adding spells that appear on the Warlock or Paladin spell lists that fit thematically with the Defiler to its spell list.