```metadata
title: Playing Card Jester
description: ''
tags:
  - ''
systems:
  - 5e
renderer: legacy
theme: 5ePHB

```

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> ## Playing Card Jester
>*Medium humanoid (any), any chaotic alignment*
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> - **Armor Class** 15 (unarmored)
> - **Hit Points** 88 (16d8 + 16)
> - **Speed** 30ft.
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>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|12 (+1)|20 (+5)|13 (+1)|14 (+2)|16 (+3)|17 (+3)|
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> - **Saving Throws** Str +4, Dex + 8
> - **Skills** Acrobatics +8, Deception +6, Performance +6
> - **Senses** passive Perception 13
> - **Languages** Common, Sylvan
> - **Challenge** 6 (2,300 XP)
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> ***Prop.*** The jester uses a full set of 52 playing cards, which should be referenced out of game with a consistent physical or digital set.
>
> ***Battle Cards.*** When it rolls initiative at the beginning of combat, the jester shuffles its deck and draws 5 cards into its hand. At the beginning of each of its turns, the jester draws 1 card. 
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> ***Card Magic.*** Once each turn, the jester may discard a card from its hand to cast a spell of the corresponding suit, ignoring spell components. The spell slot consumed by the casting is determined by the card's rank: a numbered card grants a 1st level spell slot, a face card 2nd, and an ace 3rd. 
> - **Spades.** *disguise self, silent image, blindness/deafness, invisibility, misty step*
> - **Hearts.** *cure wounds, sleep, enthrall, lesser restoration, prayer of healing, hypnotic pattern*
> - **Diamonds.** *mage armor, shield, shield of faith, counterspell, dispell magic*
> - **Clubs.** *magic missile, hellish rebuke, scorching ray, fireball*
>
> ***Lithe.*** The jester can take the Dash, Dodge, or Disengage actions as a bonus action on each of its turns. 
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> ### Actions
> ***Multiattack.*** The jester makes two attacks.
>
> ***Card Whip.*** *Melee Weapon Attack:* +8 to hit, reach 10ft., one target. *Hit:* 5 (0+5) slashing damage. 
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> ***Card Toss.*** *Ranged Weapon Attack:* +8 to hit, range 20/60, one target. *Hit:* The jester discards one card from its hand. The target takes piercing damage equal to its number (10 if it is a face card, 11 if it is an ace). 
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> ***Mulligan.*** The jester discards as many cards from its hand as it chooses, then draws until it has 5 cards again.
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> ##### Variant—Wild Cards
> Playing Card Jesters are bards who have aschewed traditional means of performance and magic in favor of a newer and zanier tradition. Many started as grifters or gamblers. These jesters may adopt an element of their previous card games into their fighting style.
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> Wild Card jesters gain the following trait: 
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> **Vengeful Flush.** At the beginning of its turn, the jester may play any sets of cards either in a row (ex: 6 of hearts, 7 of hearts, 8 of hearts) or of a kind (ex: 6 of hearts, 6 of spades, 6 of clubs) from its hand face-up on the table. On subsquent turns, new sets can be placed or new cards can be added to existing sets.
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>Each card played face-up this way increases the damage of the jester's "Card Whip" attack, according to the card's rank: number cards add 1d6 slashing, faces add 1d8, and aces add 1d10.

**Credit:** "Jester Jazz" by MaR-93, design by filmatra