Summoner 0.2

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Class Features

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

Summon Entity

You gain the ability to call forth an entity from a distant plane of power to aid you. You can call forth this entity as a bonus action at any time. This entity is conjured from another plane, but you serve as its conduit to the material plane, straining your body and limiting its power. It forms in an empty space of your choice within 30 feet of you.

Calling it forth requires you to spend hit points. You can spend a minimum of 1 and a maximum of hit points equal to half your Summoner level (rounded up). The Summoned Entity gains current and maximum hit points equal to twice the number of hit points expended. On your turn (including the turn it was summoned), it can move up to its movement speed following your mental will (no action required), but takes no other actions unless you spend your action commanding it to attack, dodge, or dash.

Its form and creature type varies based your Planes of Study feature, but it takes the form of a small creature. It is generally considered to have at least one hand, or hand equivalent (such as mouth or tentacle), that can be used to grapple, perform object interactions, or hold items, but it does not have proficiency with any weapon or armor beyond what it might be summoned with. It uses your spellcasting modifier for any attack roll or saving throw. The other statistics and abilities of the Summon are contained within its stat block.

If the entity is reduced to 0 hit points, it vanishes until it is summoned once more. A summon lasts for up to 1 minute per Summoner level you have, you use this ability again, or until it is dispelled as an action. If the summoned entity is more than 100 times your summoner level feet from you at the end of your turn, it automatically vanishes, returning to its home plane. If the summon entity returns own plane without being reduced to 0 hit points (either by the end of the duration or as an action), you can regain hit points equal to half of its current hit points (rounded down). This cannot exceed the number of hit points invested in conjuring it.

While the summoned entity is manifested, it has the abilities of a familiar (as per the find familiar spell) or an unseen servant (as per the unseen servant spell), though it remains a visible, small sized, creature of its normal creature type and attributes, and in combat shares your turn, acting only on your commands.

Plane of Study

When you gain this feature, you select a plane of study as the source of your summoned entities from the following list of planes. The source of your summon determines the creature type, and damage type. It will also impact special abilities your Summon gains at later levels.

Additionally, when you gain the Spellcasting feature at 2nd level, you learn additional spells based on your Field of Study. These spells do not count against your spells known. If you know the language a Plane of Study grants, you can select another language of your choice.

Bestial

Creatures called from planes of nature and untamed wilderness, these include exemplars of arachnids, beasts, and bugs. When you learn this plane of study, you learn Sylvan.

• Creature Type: Beast
• Damage Type: Piercing (fangs) or Slashing (claws)
• Resistance Type: None

Celestial

Celestial summons are typical minor archeons or small celestial creatures. When you select this as your plane of study, you learn Celestial.

• Creature Type: Celestial
• Damage Type: Radiant (varies)
• Resistance Type: Radiant

Elemental

Elemental summons are whips of elemental power, made up of earth, fire, water, or air. When you select this as your plane of study, you learn Primordial.

• Creature Type: Elemental
• Damage Type: Your choice of Bludgeoning, Cold, Fire, or Lightning (touch)
• Resistance Type: Acid, Cold, Fire, or Lightning (based on damage type).

Fey

Fey summons are small pixies and fairies, armed with shortswords or bows (your choice). When wielding bows, the attack becomes a ranged weapon attack dealing 1d6 + your spellcasting modifier instead. When you learn this plane of study, you learn Sylvan.

• Creature Type: Fey
• Damage Type: Slashing (if melee) or Piercing (if ranged).
• Resistance Type: None.

Infernal

Infernal summons are lesser devils, armed with slashing claws. When you learn this as your plane of study, you learn Infernal.

• Creature Type: Fiend (devil)
• Damage Type: Slashing (claws)
• Resistance Type: Fire

Nature

Calls for plants from untamed realms of endless growth. Summoned entities called forth from this plan have a movement speed of 5 feet, but gain 3 hit points per hit point spent on conjuring them. When you learn this plane of study, you learn Sylvan.

• Creature Type: Plant
• Damage Type: Bludgeoning (slam)
• Resistance Type: None

Undeath

Calls forth beings from planes of shadow and death that crave the life from the living. Shades, ghosts, shadows all serve as examples of this type of creatures. When you select this as your plane of study, you learn Celestial.

• Creature Type. Undead
• Damage Type. Necrotic
• Resistance Type. Necrotic

Spellcasting

As part of your study of magical conjuration, you gain the ability to cast spells at 2nd level. The spells you learn are limited in scope, primarily concerned with enhancing your abilities and devastating your foes.

Inventory

Additionally at 2nd level, you gain access to a small private subspace that can be used to store and summon items. Placing an item into or removing an item from this special subspace requires an action. You can only store items that you can touch and that are not being worn or carried by other creatures. When an item is summoned, it is summoned either into your hand, or immediately adjacent to you.

When you gain this feature, you can only store tiny items (such as a potion or dagger) in your inventory. This increases to small sized items (such swords or breastplates) at 5th level, medium sized items (such polearm or set of plate armor) at 9th level, and large sized items (such as rafts or wagons) at 13th level.

You can store a number of items in your Inventory equal to your Summoner level (counting each individual item), and they can have a total maximum weight of 20 times your Summoner level.

Subclass

At 3rd level, you choose a subclass that represents how you wish to use your power as a Summoner, selecting from Converger, Invoker, Binder, or Controller.

Esoteric Secrets

Additionally at 3rd level, you learn your first Esoteric Secret. Esoteric Secrets are special enhancements that Summoners can learn to enhance their summons, learn new ways of controlling them, or making them more uniquely suited to your vision. Some esoteric secrets are limited by subclass or plane of study choices.

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. You can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

Free Labor

At 6th level, with a special ritual taking 1 minute , you can call forth menial summons that assist with basic tasks. They have the properties of an unseen servant though they are visible, taking on the nature of your Plane of Study.

You can gain a number of hours of labor equal to your Summoner level, either having one minion assist you for a number of hours equal to your Summoner level, or having a number of minions equal to your Summoner level assist you for 1 hour.

Channeled Recovery

Additionally at 6th level, when you take a short rest and roll one or more hit dice to recover hit points, you regain additional hit points equal to your spellcasting modifier.

Summon Ally

At 9th level, you gain the ability to use your summoning powers more locally. As an action, you can summon a willing creature you are familiar with within 500 to an empty space within 5 feet of you. The number of allies you can summon and the range you can summon them from increases at 13th level to up to 3 willing creatures from up to 1 mile, and again at 17th level to up to 6 willing creatures from up to 100 miles, or back to their home plane at your location irrespective of distance if they are not currently on it.

Once you do this, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Expanded Horizons

Beginning at 10th level, you can select a second plane of study. You can not conjure your Summoned Entity from either of your selected planes, and gain the associated spells known from both lists.

Reverse Summon

Starting at 15th level, you gain the ability reverse your summoning process to cast plane shift without expending a spell slot, though must expend hit points equal to the level or CR of any creature transported this way.

Once you use this ability, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

Universal Knowledge

Your extensive planar dealings lead you to develop mastery of a third Plane of Study. Additionally, you learn all the languages associated with Planes of Study that you don't already know (Abyssal, Celestial, Primordial, Sylvan and Infernal).

Your familiarity with planar creatures gives you advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Charisma (Persuasion) ability checks involving customs, rituals, or comprehension.

Conjure Cataclysm

At 20th level, you gain the ability to summon forth a cataclysmic entity from one of your Planes of Study to a space within 300 feet. This special summoned creatures is Huge sized. Any creature that is within the area it is summoned must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 8d8 damage of a type related to the Plane of Study used to call it forth on failure, or half as much on success.

The called forth creature has 200 hit points, an AC of 20, and uses your spell casting modifier for all attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws, but automatically succeeds saving throws against spells of 3rd level and below, and is immune to all conditions. It takes its turn immediately after your turn each round while it persists.

It can move up to 20 feet in a direction of your choice and unleashes devastation in a 5-foot radius around it. All creatures, objects that are not been worn or carried, and structures within the area of the area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 8d8 of a type related to the Plane of Study used to call it forth on failure, or half as much on success. Structures take twice as much damage.

Each round the entity persists on the plane, it grows larger and more destructive, with its size and damage shown on the table below.

It remains manifested until its hit points are reduced to zero, or it has taken a number of turns equal to your Intelligence ability score modifier. You can attempt to send it back early as an action, making a DC 20 spellcasting ability check.

The nature of the entity varies, but is typically an aspect of some greater power on that plane, an avatar of its wrath or embodiment of its destruction. Once you call this entity forth, you cannot do again until one week has passed.

Subclasses

Summon Customizations

Divine Empowerment (Celestial). Once per turn, when the summoned entity hits an attack (or special ability such as Lunge), it can grant an allied creature 1d6 temporary hit points as a bonus action.

Elemental Form (Elemental). The summoned entity gains the ability to move through the spaces of other creatures without treating them as difficult terrain. It deals 1d6 damage of its elemental type to the first creature it moves through on its turn.

Elemental Reflection (Elemental, Infernal). The summoned entity reflects 1d4 elemental damage of its elemental type (fire for Infernal) when hit by melee attacks.

Evasive (Fey). When the summoned entity is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.

Grasping Tendril (Aberration, Nature). When the summoned entity makes an attack, it can make a grappling attempt as a bonus action. It uses your spell casting modifier for all grappling checks.

Immunity (Elemental). The summoned entity gains immunity to the damage type it has resistance to.

Lashing Strikes (Abyssal, Infernal, Nature). The summoned entity gains a new weapon, such as a vine, tail, or tentacle. This weapon has a reach of 10 feet, and deals 1d4 slashing damage on hit. When you usee your action to direct it to attack, it can additionally make a single attack with this weapon as a bonus action.

Ranged (Any). Gives a ranged attack based on its type. All ranged weapons have a normal range of 60 feet, and a maximum range of 180 feet.

Resistance (Any). The summoned entity gains resistance to one of the following damage types of your choice: Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison, or Thunder.

Winged. If the creature is summoned as Small sized, it gains a flying speed equal to its movement speed. If it summoned as Medium size, its jumping distance is doubled and it does not take falling damage. If it is summoned as a Large sized creature, any falling damage it takes is halved.

Unleashed Assault

Additionally at 3rd level, your Bound Entity gains a special attack it can use in place of an attack made as part of its action. This special attack is fueled by your magic, and requires a spell slot to activate. The nature of this special attack depends on its size:

• Lunge (Medium or smaller). The summoned entity charges up to 15 feet before slamming its target. The target must make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC. On failure, it takes damage equal to your summon's attack plus 1d8 for each level of the spell slot spent and is knocked prone. On success, it takes half as much damage is not knocked prone.

• Cleave (Large or larger). The summoned entity cleaves up three adjacent creatures within within 10 feet of it. The target creatures must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. On failure, they take damage equal to your summon's attack, plus 1d8 for each level of the spell slot spent. On success, they take half as much damage.

You can use this special attack without expending a spell slot once, treating it as if activated by 1st level spell slot. You regain the ability to use it this way again after completing a short or long rest.

Empowered Summon

Beginning at 5th level, the Summoned Entity can attack twice, instead of once, when you command it to attack.

Planar Influence

Starting at 7th level, the contractual bond you've formed influences you. While you have the summon from Contractual Entity manifested, you gain a power based on its plane of Origin.

• Abyssal: Poison Dweller. You gain resistance to poison damage and advantage on saving throws against becoming poisoned.
• Bestial: Animal Senses. You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell or sound.
• Celestial: Touch of Grace. As an action, you can touch a creature at 0 hit points and heal them for 1 hit point.
• Elemental: Elemental Resistance. You gain resistance to the damage type of your Summoned Entity.
• Fey: Flickering Warp. As a bonus action, you can teleport up to 5 feet.
• Infernal: Magic Resistance. You gain advantage on saving throws against spells with a spell level equal to or lower than your proficiency bonus.
• Nature: Boundless Vitality. You have advantage on Death saving throws, and your hit point maximum cannot be reduced.
• Undeath: Hollow Soul. You gain resistance to necrotic damage and undead creatures have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks against you.

Physical Manifestation

Some Summoners gain a physical manifestation of their Planar Influence, taking the form of a minor quirk or visual change. This is an optional variant feature that does not have a major mechanical impact. Listed below are some examples, but the results vary.

• Abyssal. Sharpened nails and teeth, horns, spikes along the arms.
• Bestial. You grow animal like ears or horns, and your eyes resemble those of the creature you've called forth.
• Celestial: Golden or silver hair, skin, or eyes, or a halo of light.
• Elemental: Hair that turns to wisps of flame or mist at the tips, cold, hot, or crackling breaths.
• Fey: Vibrantly colored hair or eyes, antlers or animal-like ears.
• Infernal. Red hued skin and horns, glowing eyes.
• Nature. Your hair turns green and your skin gains patches with a bark like texture.

Channeled Power

Starting at 14th level, when you command the Bound Entity to take an attack on your turn, you can direct it to cast a spell from the related planar Spell Table (the spells you learn from that Plane of Study) in place of one attack. It expends your spell slot to do so, using your spellcasting modifier, but the spell originates from its location.

The Summoned Entity gains hit points equal to five times the level of the spell slot when casting spells this way (as if you used that spell slot to restore its hit points).

Binder Esoteric Secrets

Elemental Worker (Elemental). You as an action you can direct your summoned entity to cast manipulate air, manipulate fire, manipulate earth, or manipulate water (based on its Elemental type).

Intertwined Soul (Any). While you have your Summoned Entity manifested, you and it gain resistance to all damage, but take damage equal to the damage taken by the other.

Sacrificial Summon (Any). While your Summoned Entity is manifested, if you take damage that would reduce you to zero hit points, you can instead be reduced to 1 hit point, redirecting any excess damage to your Summoned Entity. This redirects all excess damage, even if that damage exceeds the Summoned Entities current hit points.

Spatial Exchange (Any). While your Summoned Entity is within 60 feet of you, as a bonus action, you can swap places with your Summoned Entity.

Reactive Control (Any). When a creature moves out of reach of your summoned entity, you can use your reaction to command it to make an opportunity attack against the moving creature.

Controller

A Controller calls forth legions at their command, sending waves of summons against their foes to drown them in overwhelming numbers. They may not be able to call down the greatest power in each of their summoners, but with an army at their disposal, the power of each summon is less critical. While called Controllers, it is the battlefield they control, and not each individual summon. They rely on basic directions and redundancy, though can exert more overt control over their summons in brief bursts.

Zone Reinforcement

Additionally at 3rd level, when you create a Zone of Control by summoning forth multiple Summoned Entities, you can expend a spell slot to call forth yet more entities. You call for a number of additional entities equal to the spell slot expended, and gain a bonus effect based on the spell slot spent. You can choose to gain the effect of a lower level spell slot instead of the slot level spent.

Responsive Swarm

Beginning at 5th level, you can issue two commands to your swarm of summoned entities within your Zone of Control with your action, instead of one. You can issue to two different commands, or you can issue the same command multiple times.

Planar Manifestation

Starting at 7th level, your zone of control gains a new effect based on the Plane of Study. You can use this effect once, after which you must complete a short or long rest before using it again.

• Abyssal: Demonic Frenzy. As a reaction to one or more Summoned Entities being destroyed, as long as you have one or more remaining, you can cause them to immediately make a Swarm Attack against a creature that destroyed one.
• Bestial: Pack Assistance. As a reaction to an allied character attacking a creature within the Zone of Control, you can direct the summoned entities to assist them, allowing them to roll an additional d20 as part of their attack roll for reach creature that is assisting them (up to a maximum of three additional dice).
• Celestial: Life Gift As a reaction to an allied character being reduced to zero hit points or making a death saving throw in your Zone of Control, you can have your Summoned Entities infuse them with life, healing them for 2d8 hit points.
• Fey: Myriad Illusions. As a reaction to a creature attempting to attack while inside your Zone of Control or attempting to move out of it, you can attempt to confuse them with illusions orchestrated by your summoned entities. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On failure, if they were attempting to attack, you can cause it to target another creature within range, or miss. If they were attempting to exit the Zone of Control, they are instead teleported to the center of it.
• Infernal: Hellfire Pyre. As a reaction to a creature ending its turn within your Zone of Control, you can have your Summoned Entities bring forth a pyre of hellfire to burn it. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. On failure, it takes 2d6 fire damage and 2d6 necrotic damage. On success, it takes half as muchd amage.
• Nature: Grasping Zone As a reaction to a creature attempting to leave the Zone of Control you can force it to make a Strength saving throw. On failure, it becomes restrained until the end of your next turn.
• Undead: Graveyard Recruitment. As a reaction to a creature dying within your Zone of Control you can call forth an additional Summoned Entity as part of the swarm without expending any hit points (the Summoned Entity has 2 hit points).

Swarm Frenzy

Starting at 14th level, you expend a spell slot as a bonus action to send your swarm of summoned entities into a frenzy until the start of your next turn. This frenzy lasts a number of turns equal to the level of the spell slot spent. For the duration, you can issue a third command as part of your action for the swarm to execute, the summoned entities gain resistance to all damage while in the Zone of Control, and you can use your Planar Manifestation ability without expending a use of it.

Controller Esoteric Secrets

Little Helpers

While you are within your own Zone of Control, you gain advantage on any Strength (Athletics) check, and gain a climbing speed equal to your movement speed. If your summoned entities can fly, you gain a flying speed equal to half their movement speed, as long as you have four or more summoned entities.

Pile On (New Swarm Action) (requires 2 or more Summoned Entities).

You gain a new command you can issue to your summoned entities in a Zone of Control, Pile On. All of the Summoned Entities grapple a target, using your Spellcasting ability score for initiating the Athletics check. This grapple ignores the normal size restrictions of grappling a target, but the number of summoned entities requires is doubled for each size of the target larger than Medium (4 for Large, 8 for Huge, etc). You have advantage on the initial grapple check if you have more then minimum number of Summoned Entities to grapple the target creature.

On success, the targets movement speed is reduced to 0 until they break the Grapple (escape DC equal to your Spell Save DC). It breaks early if all Summoned Entities are reduced to 0 hit points, or the grappled creature is no longer within the Zone of Control.

Converger

Convergers are those that combine their own power with that of their summoners, wrapping themselves in the planar powers they call forth like a cloak. Imminently dangerous, it takes but a slip in control for their conjured powers to tear them asunder, but in this danger they also seek to eliminate the greatest weakness of other summoners... fleshy body that is the source of the otherworldy conjurations.

Empyrean Ascension

Starting at 14th level, you gain the ability to empower your Spirit Mantle when you assume it by expending a spell slot of 1st level or higher. When you do so, you can become a large sized creature.

You gain additional temporary hit points equal to twice the spell slot level (three times if you become a large sized creature), and a series of escalating benefits based on the level of the spell slot expended. You gain the effects of the spell slot level, and all lower level spell slot effects. The benefits persist for as long as the form persists:

Converger Esoteric Secrets

Bow to the Inevitable.

You learn the shield spell.

Swift Spirit

While under the effect of Spirit Mantle, your movement speed increases by 5 feet.

Invoker

Invokers are those that pull forth extraplanar forces for one reason: power. Their creations are unstable and volatile, which they view as a feature and not a bug, and release an explosion of their planar power when they are returned to their own plane as their overflowing power can no longer be contained. The onslaught of Invoker is a stream of planar explosions, seeking out their targets before overloading, making them a feared force on the battlefield. The collateral damage of their approach makes some reluctant to count them an ally, but their power second to none.

Some Invokers would call this a misunderstanding, and simply note that they look into the depths of planar powers Summoners can reach, not as restrained and bound by cautious thoughts like 'what if it explodes' like other Summoners, but the result tends to look the same.

Legion of Doom

Starting at 14th level, you gain the ability to call forth multiple Summoned Entities at once in a surge of power. When you use Summon Entity, you can expend a spell slot to call forth additional Summoned Entities. These Summoned Entities are particularly unstable, and explode if they remain at the end of your turn. You call forth a number of additional Summoned Entities equal to the spell slot expended, and they have hit points equal to twice the level of the spell slot level.

Invoker Esoteric Secrets

Concussive Burst.

When a creature fails a saving throw against a Living Bomb detonation, you can knock them 5 feet away from the source of the explosion.

Energy Recycling.

You are healed for 1 hit point each time a Summoned Entity you called for detonates.

Harbinger.

You are immune to the effects of your Summoned Entity detonations.

To the Skies.

Your summoned entities gain a flying speed equal to their movement speed.

General Esoteric Secrets

The following are a list of Esoteric Secrets that are available to all Summoners.

Defensive

Your Summoned Entity's AC increases by 1.

Item Magician

You can add or remove items from your Inventory as an object interaction.

Strengthened Spells

Your mastery over conjuration makes your spell constructs able to lift more weight. The following spells are modified in the following ways: mage hand can lift up to 50 pounds (up from 10 pounds), unseen servant gains a Strength of 10 (up from 2), and the weight and size limit of floating disk is doubled.

Summoner's Will (prerequisite: 9th level Summoner).

Once per turn, when a Summoned Entity would be reduced to 0 hit points, you can make a Intelligence saving throw with a DC equal to 5 + the damage taken. On success, the Summon is instead reduced to 1 hit point.

Quick Command.

You can use your bonus action to command the Summoned Entity to attack. Once use do this, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Summoner Spell List

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