Planeswalker

By Foxtail Foundry

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Created by FadeShock

 

 

Planeswalker

Though many rangers from anywhere have plenty of time away from civilization to cultivate their own experiences, a Planeswalker is one who goes beyond that, walking the fine edges between the Material Plane and the Outer Planes. These fine lines often have the elemental planes bleed into the Material Plane, often causes a mass of chaotic effects. Within these outer reaches, a ranger must do all they can to survive - often calling upon the elementals themselves.

Planeswalker Magic

3rd-level Planeswalker feature

You learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Planeswalker Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells you know

Planeswalker Spells

Ranger Level	Spells
3rd	Absorb Elements, Resistance
5th	Rime’s Binding Ice
9th	Wind Wall
13th	Conjure Minor Elementals
17th	Wall of Stone

Form Sprite

3rd-level Planeswalker feature

Your ties to the elements allows you to call upon some of its power. As an action, you can summon an elemental sprite that uses one of the following elements:

Element
Acid
Cold
Fire
Force
Lightning
Necrotic
Poison
Radiant
Thunder

The sprite is tiny in size and you choose its appearance and elemental type when you summon it. The sprite chosen stays by your side and grants various benefits based on its type. A summoned sprite lasts for 1 minute or until dismissed (no action required), and you can change its elemental type as a bonus action.

You can only have one sprite active at a time, unless a feature states otherwise.

A sprite can be dispelled if affected by some form of antimagic, such as dispel magic or antimagic field.

Elemental Attunement

Your sprite passively grants you a measure of its power that you may use. You gain a bonus cantrip based on your sprite’s current element. As there are multiple options for each element, you can only select one cantrip, though you may swap this cantrip to the other cantrips within the element as a bonus action. Cantrips gained from this feature are treated as ranger spells for you and do not count against your known cantrips if applicable.

Element	Cantrip
Acid	Acid Splash, Primal Savagery+
Cold	Frostbite+, Ray of Frost+
Fire	Control Flames, Fire Bolt
Force	Eldritch Blast+, Mage Hand
Lightning	Booming Blade+, Lightning Lure+
Necrotic	Sapping Sting+, Toll the Dead+
Poison	Infestation+, Poison Spray
Radiant	Dancing Lights, Sacred Flame
Thunder	Thaumaturgy, Thunderclap+

Planar Infusion

3rd-level Planeswalker feature

In addition to your attunement, your sprite also bolsters you with the elements. While you have your sprite summoned, you gain certain benefits based on the chosen element of the sprite.

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In addition, once per turn when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can deal an additional 1d6 damage based on the sprite’s element (a Thunder sprite deals thunder damage, a Necrotic one necrotic damage, and so on). This damage increases to 1d8 when you reach 11th level in this class.

Planesward

7th-level Planeswalker feature

The power of the elements bolsters your defense against them. While your sprite is active, you gain resistance against a damage type based on your sprite’s element, as listed below.

Element	Damage Resisted
Acid	Acid
Cold	Fire
Fire	Cold
Force	Force
Lightning	Lightning
Necrotic	Radiant
Poison	Poison
Radiant	Necrotic
Thunder	Thunder

Greater Sprite

11th-level Planeswalker feature

Your sprite grows stronger, allowing you to make use of more of its powers. The Planar Infusions for each element grows stronger certain ways:

Element	Feature
Acid	The affected creature also becomes seared until the effect wears off
Cold	The slowing increases to half the creature’s movement speed
Fire	You are immune to being blinded and can see through heavy obscurement provided you are within the sprite’s light
Force	Push force increases to 10 feet
Lightning	Lightning damage increases from 1d8 to 1d12, and the creature the lightning arced to to is shocked until the start of your next turn if they failed their saving throw
Necrotic	If any additional healing from this infusion would go over your hit point maximum, it is converted to temporary hit points. Additionally, the healing increases from your proficiency bonus to twice your proficiency bonus
Poison	When you weaken a creature with this infusion, you can also force it to make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC, becoming poisoned until the weaken ends on a failure
Radiant	Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you may decide to grant yourself a +1 bonus to your AC, to your saving throws, or to your ability and skill checks until the start of your next short or long rest
Thunder	You can now hover while using the flying speed and do not need to end your turn on the ground. Your maximum flying height also increases from 30 feet to 60 feet with this flying speed

Additionally, the duration of sprites you summon with Form Sprite increases from 1 minute to 10 minutes.

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Boundless Elements

15th-level Planeswalker feature

Your control over the chaos allows you to gift some of it to others or create an outburst. As part of the action used to summon a sprite, you can instead assign it to aid an ally within 60 feet of you. The target creature gains the benefits instead of you, including the bonus cantrips (using your spell save DC and spell attack modifier when they cast the cantrips) and can use the features associated with the sprite for the duration, or until they move more than 60 feet away from you, at which point the sprite returns to your side. You can reassign the sprite to another target within 60 feet of you as a bonus action.

Allies with a sprite assigned to them cannot change the element of the sprite unless you use your bonus action to do so.

Swarm of Sprites

15th-level Planeswalker feature

When you summon a sprite, you can choose to summon a number of sprites equal to your Wisdom modifier + half your proficiency bonus (rounded down). You gain the elemental benefits of each sprite for their duration. You can assign any number of sprites summoned this way to your allies as well.

Once you’ve used this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest or until you expend a spell slot of 4th level or higher to use it again.

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Optional Features

Various homebrewed features that can be used in order to enhance Planeswalker’s theme further.

Ranger Variations

Some ranger variants don’t give the ranger Extra Attack, so if that is the case and you plan to

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use Planeswalker, add this feature as part of

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its progression.

20th Level Capstone

If using the Conclave Capstone optional feature from my Ranger tweaks, here is the capstone.

Compatibility with Fade’s Ranger

The bonus damage from Planar Infusion instead changes the bonus damage of your Favored Enemy to the damage type associated with your sprite’s element.

Alter the text for the bonus spells to say that they are always prepared and do not count against the number of spells you can have prepared at any given time.

Alter the spell slot text in Swarm of Sprites to “…or until you expend 4 spell points to use it again.”

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Further Clarifications

For the sake of saving space, some more specific things are not mentioned in the main brew, so as such, they are placed here. For all intents and purposes, these are meant to be part of the main brew and not simply intentions, so this is RAW, not RAI.

Bonus Action Swapping

Many features in this brew say you can swap its properties as a bonus action. No, you can’t couple everything into one bonus action, that’s not how it works.

Embrace the Elements and Swarm of Sprites

If using Embrace the Elements, the additional sprites summoned through Swarm of Sprites is on top of the extra sprites from Embrace the Elements, so you have two times your Wisdom modifier + half your proficiency bonus if you use Swarm of Sprites with Embrace the Elements.

Multiple Sprites and Bonus Damage

If you are benefitting from multiple sprites at a time through some means and use the bonus damage from Planar Infusion (or are deciding the damage type for Favored Enemy if using the compatibility for my overhaul to Ranger), you simply choose whichever one of your sprites you have summoned to determine the damage for that instance. For example, maybe you have a Fire sprite and a Thunder sprite, so this turn you want to deal fire damage and select that, then for your next turn opt for thunder damage.

Multiple Sprites and Infusions

If you have multiple of the same sprite through some means, their infusions and benefits (such as Elemental Attunement and Planesward) don’t stack - you can only benefit from one instance of each element at a time. As such, if you have two Necrotic sprites following you at the time, you only benefit from one of them.

Maximum Flying Height

Quoted from my combat overhaul:

“Unless a feature, spell, etc. says otherwise, by default, creatures that can fly can only fly to a maximum height of 60 feet from the ground.

When flying off of areas higher than a given creature’s maximum flying height, the creature can remain flying at that greater height so long as it remains within 15 feet of some surface, such as a ledge or cliff. However, it slowly descends downwards at a rate of 30 feet per turn until it meets its maximum flying height if it does not end its turn on that ledge or cliff, unless something else is holding the creature aloft, or it can hover.”

Thematic Spells

If replacing the cantrips in Elemental Attunement with the more thematic cantrips, here is the list of spells.

 

 

Conditions Dictionary

List of custom conditions that are not present in the base game. Refer to here for when a new condition is noted on, usually in bold.