The Dark Sun Player’s Handbook

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Dungeons & Dragons

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Chapter 1: Races of Athas

INTELLIGENT CREATURES INHABIT EVERY harsh, desolate corner of the world of Athas. Giants roam the Silt Sea, gith wander the mountains and canyons, and braxats and belgoi stalk the deserts, but few cultures have made as long of a lasting impact on the Tyr Region and its nearby environments, as the eight races described in this chapter have. Common or uncommon, they are all prominent racial types, and thus are available as player characters. But Athas is a world where the essential,fundamental nature of things has been twisted through years of unchecked, environmentally-abusive magic - many of the things you find familiar may be so in name only. Thus, your character will often meet single-minded dwarves, nomadic elves, brutish half-giants and sturdy muls among the bustling human settlements. Mingling among these common races are the members of somewhat uncommon species: a half-elven hermit visits the city of Nibenay, after a long trip in the scorching deserts of Athas, carrying a bunch of ancient artifacts. A group of savage halflings roam the streets, befuddled by the human culture they have just met for the first time. And an alien thri-kreen stands guard outside a watering hole, silent and imposing, its insectoid eyes never blinking.

Racial Traits

The description of each race includes racial traits that are common to members of that race. The following entries appear among the traits of most races.

Ability Score Increase

Every race increases one or more of a character’s ability scores.

Age

The age entry notes the age when a member of the race is considered an adult, as well as the race’s expected lifespan. This information can help you decide how old your character is at the start of the game. You can choose any age for your character, which could provide an explanation for some of your ability scores.

Alignment

Most races have tendencies toward certain alignments, described in this entry. These are not binding for player characters, but considering why your dwarf is chaotic, for example, in defiance of lawful dwarf society can help you better define your character.

Size

Characters of most races are Medium, a size category including creatures that are roughly 4 to 8 feet tall. Halflings are Small (between 2 and 4 feet tall) and Half giants are Large between (10-12 feet tall), which means that certain rules of the game affect them differently.

Speed

Your speed determines how far you can move when traveling (chapter 8) and fighting (chapter 9).

Languages

By virtue of your race, your character can speak, read, and write certain languages. Chapter 4 lists the most common languages of Athas.

 

 

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Dwarf

Cities of the dwarves were once as numerous as the caravan forts guarding the trade roads, but today not one exists. Likewise, no more than a handful of dwarf villages remain in the Tyr Region. Kled and the twin villages of North and South Ledopolus are the most prominent. The rest of the dwarf population lives in the city-states of the sorcerer-kings or among the slave tribes that wander the desert wastes. Dwarves of Athas have no lands on their own and live among the other folk of Athas. They reside both in cities and the countryside, and they tend to be builders and farmers instead of nomads or raiders. And despite the absence of their once marvelous cities and strongholds, they still possess a rich cultural history passed down from generation to generation in great sagas and secret traditions.

Stocky and Rugged

 Most dwarves have deep tanned complexions from  lives spent toiling in the hot sun, with wide, callused  hands and feet. They usually sport little or no hair; the  flowing beards commonly found in dwarven societies   of other worlds are never seen on Athas. Life in the   Athasian wastes has given the dwarves a rugged   look. They prefer simple and practical clothing that  is sturdy and unadorned, a set of clothes that shall be  worn over and over again in their span of toiling in the  harsh lands.

Laborious Folk

Dwarves embrace work with joy, often giving themselves over to a favorite cause of task. They are a stoic, single-minded people to whom compromise doesn’t come easy. Dwarf soldiers, laborers, and crafters are common, though members of this race can be found among the templars, nobles, merchants, and slaves. Dwarves are by nature industrious, skilled, and materialistic. They make excellent artisans and merchants, specializing in either the craftsmanship of handicrafts, weapons, and armour, or the trade thereof. While they can serve the city or their tribe as warriors, followers of the Way, or healers, their most important contribution to their community is as artisans or traders.

Persistent Minds

Dwarves are known for their stoicism and single-mindedness. They prefer to occupy themselves with meaningful tasks, and often approach these tasks with an intensity rarely seen in other races. Once they fix their minds on the task at hand, be it a challenging fit of engineering, an intricate work of craft, a struggle for survival, or a quest for revenge, it’s impossible to abandon it or leave the work half done. Dwarves will simply fail to listen to reason, and will treat any who hinder them as obstacles that must be removed. On the other hand, people who help a dwarf accomplish its task or share its goals are treated with respect and considered good companions.The commitment to a single task is called a dwarf’s focus. A dwarf will work to complete its focus above all else, for the compulsion to succeed is built into the dwarven nature. They literally live for their focus; if a dwarf dies without completing its focus, the need remains so strong that the dwarf may return as an undead to finish the task that drives it.

 

 

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Dwarf Names

A dwarf receives its name by the community leader, who usually grants it to them after they have completed their first focus, in accordance to their ancient traditions. Thus, they jealously strive to honour their names and never misuse or bring shame to it.

Male Names: Birgaz, Bontar, Brul, Caelum, Caro, Daled, Drog, Ghedran, Gralth, Gram, Hai, Jo’orsh, Jurgan, Kov, Krom, Lian, Lodo, Ltak, Lyanius, Murd, Nati, Portek,Rkard, Sa’ram, Sult, Veso.

Female Names: Ardin, Erda, Ghava, Greshin, Gudak, Fyra, Kesi, Lazra, N’kadir, Palashi, Vashara.

Dwarf Traits

Your dwarf character has an assortment of inborn abilities, part and parcel of Athasian dwarven nature.

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

Age. Dwarves mature at the same rate as humans, but they’re considered young until they reach the age of 35. On average, they live about 200 years.

Alignment. Most dwarves are lawful, believing firmly in the benefits of a well-ordered society. They tend to follow the established hierarchy of their community, devoting themselves to the regulations it imposes upon them.

Size. Dwarves stand between 4 and 5 feet tall and average about 200 pounds. Your size is Medium.

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

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 color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Dwarven Focus. Once per a short rest whenever you make an ability check or a saving throw, you may choose to roll a d4 and add it to the total,

You can choose to add the d4 after you make the ability check or saving throw, but before the outcome is determined.

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

Tool Proficiency. You gain proficiency with the artisan’s tools of your choice. Smith’s tools, brewer’s Supplies, or Mason’s tools.

Dwarven Toughness. Your hit points maximum increases by 1, and it increases by one everytime you gain a level.

Languages. You can speak Common and Dwarvish. Dwarvish is deep and throaty, composed of many guttural sounds and harsh exclamations. Dwarves value their language and rarely teach it to outsiders.

 

 

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   Elf

The elves of Athas are long-limbed sprinters who lead lives of thievery, raiding, trading, and warfare. As members of tribes that wander the sun-scorched lands, elves usually make a living as traders and herders and rarely stay in one place for long. Each of the city-states hosts an Elven Market — a never-ending bazaar where the elves (and others who deal in goods of dubious origin) sell their wares.

Most elf tribes make a living through herding, but merchants and raiders also ply the desert roads. Elf culture, while savage, is also rich and diverse. They have turned celebrating into an art form, and elf song and dance is some of the most beautiful and captivating in all of Athas.

Savage Beauty

Elves stand between 6 and 7 feet tall, with slender yet muscular builds. They have deeply etched features, with skint hat has been made rugged by the baking sun and the scouring sand. Unlike the elves of other worlds, the elves of Athas are not pale-skinned, delicate beings. Their pigmentation is as varied as the flesh of other races and as affected by the rays of the sun. They grow no facial or body hair, but the locks atop their heads come in all colors — from sun-bleached blond to red and brown to darkest black.

Elves prefer to dress in garb designed to protect them from the desert and the elements but also to showcase their tribal customs and traditions. Some also incorporate plunder from raids to enrich their native dress. Song and dance play a major part in the elven life, and the music they produce is captivating and seductive to non-elves.

Natural Wanderers

Elves are tireless desert rovers forged in the desert — burned dark by the sun, toughened by the swirling sand, and given strength and speed by the constant wind. There’s no racial unity among them. Within a given tribe, all elves are brethren, but outsiders —even other elves— are regarded as potential enemies. Outsiders can be accepted and perhaps even become friends, but trust takes time to develop and it is often associated with tests and great sacrifice.

Elves crave free, open spaces in which to run, so elf slaves wither in captivity if they can’t escape, a practice they always strive for, when captured. Travelers often see whole tribes runnings swiftly and with great endurance across the sandy wastes. Only rarely will an elf ride a crodlu or a kank as mount. To do so is dishonorable unless ill or gravely wounded. The custom of the elves is to keep up or be left behind, so those unworthy of following the elf runs are not considered to be strong and useful to the tribe.

Indolent and Unscrupulous

Most Athasians consider elves lazy and deceitful. It’s true that many elves dislike hard work and prefer to live in the moment, avoiding unpleasant tasks and drudgery. If work can wait for even another moment, then it will. For an elf, the future is a dark, deadly place, so it strives to make every now as enjoyable and full as possible. They also enjoy taking advantage of, steal from, lie to, or misdirect outsiders, not out of malice so much as a desire to separate the gullible from their items of value.

Still, elves do work. In some ways, they work harder than members of other races. While they detest hard labor and will never voluntarily set out to construct anything more durable than a tent or small hut, they will spend hours on end haggling and negotiating with potential customers. When it’s important to maintain a valuable trading relationship, elves honor their word and barter in good faith. But the moment they perceive an opportunity that is too good to pass up, they abandon their previous deals.

 

 

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Elf Names

Names are very important to elves, and they take a great deal of time and care before selecting one. Much thought goes into the selection of names, and tribal leaders consider naming young runners as one of their most solemn duties. Elven names are derived from two sources, the name of their tribe, and a given name based upon the elven tradition of a child’s first interesting thing while learning to run. While this might seem an easy task, tribal leaders watch for occurences that are both significant and that fit the child’s personality, for traditions hold that names help shape the elves they are given to. With the proper name, a young elf can grow to become a great elf. With the wrong name, the same elf will disappear in the wastes. Some childhood names are changed because of extraordinary actions undertaken during a youth’s rites of passage, but such changes do not happen very often.

Male Names: Abyuuk, Botuu, Coraanu, Dukkoti, Eevuu,Galek, Haaku, Ikan, Jaarati, Kathak, Lobuu, Mutami, Nuuko, Quaar, Radurak, Sorak, Traako.

Female Names: Alaa, Areela, Celba, Deryssa, Ekee, Elas, Enala, Esylk, Grissi, Guuta, Hukaa, Ittee, Jeila, Katza, Keelorr, Nuuta, Nysia, Tala, Utaa, Yalana.

Tribe Names: Clearwater, Night Runner, Shadow, SiltStalker, Silver Hand, Sky Singer, Swiftwing, Water Hunter, Wind Dancer.

Elf Traits

Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities,
the result of centuries of constant struggle in the Athasian harshlands.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Intelligence or Charisma score increases by 1.

Age. Although elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, they must pass the tribe’s rites of initiation, before they can be considered adults. An elf typically claims adulthood around the age of 20 and can live to be 120 years old.

Alignment. Elves value freedom, variety, and independence, so they lean strongly toward chaos.

Size. Elves range from 6 to over 7 feet tall and possess slender, muscular builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 40 feet.

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 color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Elf Run. By inducing an extraordinary state of grueling endurance, you gain the ability to travel long distances, sometimes for days at a time. You gain a +5 bonus to Constituion checks to avoid exhaustion as part of a forcedmarch.

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

Elven Resilience. You have a natural resistance to extreme temperatures and aren’t adversely affected by the heat of the day or the chill of the night. You never need to make a saving throw when exposed to extreme heat or cold.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Languages. You can speak Common and Elvish. Short, clipped words make up Elvish.

 

 

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Half-Elf

Humans and elves must deal with each other from time to time, and in some cases – whether by force or through genuine love – children are born of mixed parentage. These are the half-elves, beings who combine features of both races,creating something different in the process.

Born from two worlds but welcome in neither, half-elves struggle to find their place in a hostile land. While being the offspring of two races, they face prejudice and unwillingness from both sides. That, in conjuction with the lack of culture, has turned the half-elves into lonesome, self-sufficient folk.

Of Two Worlds

 Half-elves generally grow taller than their human  parents but rarely approach the height of their elf side.  They average well above 6 feet tall, though they tend   to inherit some of the bulk of their human half,   averaging at 140 pounds. In most cases,a half-elf   can pass itself off as a human, though telltale   features can be spotted that hint at its elven   heritage.

Half-elven coloration and features tend to lie   somewhere between their human and elven parents,   and thus show a variety even more pronounced than   that found among either race. Half-elf men can also   grow beards.

Natural Survivalists

Intolerance and social rejection has given the half-elf its greatest attribute – self-reliance. As a loner, usually without permanent residence, a half-elf survives the rigors of life in the wilderness completely on its own. The skills involved in survival are only half of the challenge they face – half-elves must also learn to deal with the absence of companionship, the complete lack of conversation and basic friendship. Consequently, these lonesome folk turn for companionship to the animal world, training beasts of the air and sands as servants and friends.

No Homeland

A half-elf’s life is typically hardened by the intolerance of others. Neither fully human nor fully elven, half-elves rarely find acceptance with either race. Elves are especially intolerant, going so far as casting out the mother of a half-elf child, while humans are more apt to welcome them as allies or partners, although they seldom accept them into their homes. More often than not, half-elves remain outsiders, forced to endure on society’s fringes.

 

 

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Half-Elf Names

Half-elves usually pick human or elven naming conventions. As a result of social rejection from both races, they often come up with twisted forms of human and elven names, or invent their own.

Male Names: Boaz, Brazin, Ero, Fyrian, Gathalimay, Laban,Lafus, Luris, Melestan, Mirch, Navarch, Poortool, Regg,Ruach, Solzak, Vok, Wek, Wheetan, Xutan.

Female Names: Alie, Arya, Aso, Drewet, Feera, Feykaar,Krysta, Lorelei, Mila, Ranis, Sareka, Thania, Vaerhirmana.

Half-Elf Traits

Your half-elf character has developed some qualities that setit apart from both humans and elves.

Ability Score Improvement. Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and two other ability scores of your choice increase by 1.

Age. Half-elves mature at the same rate humans do and reach adulthood around the age of 20. They can live to exceed a hundred years.

Alignment. Being self-sufficient and having spent most of their time in the wastelands has turned half-elves away from the extremes. Most of them lean toward neutral.

Size. Half-elves are taller than humans, standing well over 6 feet tall. They are on the lean side, however, averaging almost 160 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

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 color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Nomadic Life. You have proficiency in the Animal Handling and Survival skills.

Animal Friend. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the animal friendship spell once per day. If you use this ability on the same beast more than 1 day in a row, that beast has disadvantage on its saving throw.

Languages. You can speak Common and an extra language of your choice.

 

 

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Half-Giant

In some lost millennium, as a bizarre experiment or perhaps as some sort of curse, giants were magically crossbred with humans, producing a hardy race of towering creatures known as half-giants. Most of them are enlisted as gladiators or in the armies of the sorcerer-kings, while others are cast away and become thugs or mercenaries. Whatever their backstory, they more often than not prove to be mighty warriors.

Wherever they are, half-giants have to deal with the fact that they are somewhat big for the world around them, for things built for the use and convenience of humans don’t work in their hands.

Towering Hulks

 A half-giant is an enormous individual, standing  between 10 and 12 feet tall, and weighing close to a  ton. Simply put, a half-giant has inherited its size and   massive strength from its giant parent. Its human   background, along with human features, has   provided it with curiosity, and willingness to learn   and cooperate.

 Half-giant skin ranges from light brown to deep tan,  like certain tones of sand. They often shave their  heads or wear long knots, usually in black or brown  colors, though paler half-giants can be found with  sandy blonde hair.

Of No Culture

There is no half-giant culture common to all of their kind. On the contrary, having insufficient history and overall intelligence to have their own culture, half-giants tend to readily adopt the cultures of other creatures they admire or associate with. Half-giants are very imitative creatures, eager to fit into new situations as they present themselves.

Half-giants, however, aren’t as emotionally attached to objects or work as are other races. Whenever presented with a new situation, they examine the roles of the people there, determine where they might best fit in, and then start performing the tasks necessary. But if a situation isn’t beneficial, or if a half-giant can’t perform well in a given environment, it won’t imitate the nearby culture, prefering to moving on when it sees fit.

Fickle Minds

Half-giants switch attitudes very quickly, taking on new values to fit new situations. A half-giant whose peaceful farming life is disrupted by marauders may soon adopt the morals of the very renegades who sacked its village. Goals and lifestyles switch easily, usually based on the charismatic individual that crosses paths with the half-giant or as a reaction to a significant change around it.

 

 

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Half-Giant Names

A half-giant’s name depends on whether it’s free or enslaved. Free half-giants are likely to borrow the naming conventions of the people they interact with, whereas enslaved ones are usually given a human name.

Male Names: Crag, Den-du, Doorub, Gaanon, Gall, Garchom, Ghurs, Gigus, Hurgen, Jaryx, Junnai, Pegen,T’sor, Tah, Tak, Tutoc.

Female Names: Atrocla, Astara, Baraka, Camla, Er’the, G’rshun, Hezze, Katid, Mura, Ot, Romla, Tal, Vun, Zambia.

Half-Giant Traits

Your half-giant character has certain trais deriving from yourgiant ancestry.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 4 and your Constitution score increases by 2.

Ability Score Decrease. Your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores are all decreased by 1.

Age. Half-giants mature a little slower than humans, reaching adulthood around age 30. They age similarly slower and usually live longer than 150 years.

Alignment. Due to their fickle nature, half-giants do not lean toward any alignment. Most start out as neutral.

Size. Half-giants are hulking creatures that stand between 10 and 12 feet tall and weigh about 1,600 pounds. Your size is Large. As a large creature you take up a 10’ x 10’ space and your carrying capacity is double that of a Medium size creature. You also require four times the normal amount of food and water to sustain yourself.

All personal items, such as clothing, armor, and food, cost double for half-giant characters. Transportation and lodging, when they’re available at all, are also considerably more expensive. Most things aren’t built to support the weight of a half-giant, and even in the cities half-giants tend to camp outside for their own comfort and to avoid causing any damage.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Charm Susceptibility. Whoever created the half-giants bred them to be easily controlled by magic. You suffer disadvantage on saving throws against being charmed.

Intimidating. You have proficiency in the Intimidation skill.

Powerful Build. You can focus yourself to occasionally shrug off injury. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to roll a d12. Add your Constitution modifier to the number rolled, and reduce the damage by that total. After you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Giant Weaponry. You can wield much larger and deadlier weapons than the smaller races. Such weapons cost twice as much as normal but deal higher damage on a hit as shown on the table below

Base Damage	Giant Weapon Damage
1	1d4
1d4	1d6
1d6	1d8
1d10	1d12
1d12	1d12+2
2d6	2d6+2

Languages. You can speak Common. You speak in a low-pitched voice, and occasionally people find it difficult to understand you.

 

 

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Halfling

Today’s halflings bear little resemblance to their supposedly ancient forebears. Where once halflings filled the land in every direction, today they inhabit the slowly disappearing forests and jungles, like the Forest Ridge. Where once they were civilized masters of an advanced society, today they are feral, savage creatures as wild as the arid winds. They are more willing to eat a stranger in their lands than to welcome him.

Small and Primitive

Halflings are diminutive in stature, standing about 3 feet tall.They are muscled and proportioned like humans, but they have the faces of wise and beautiful children that never succumb to the rigors of age. They weigh between 50 and 60 pounds and are virtually always in peak physical condition. Their skin ranges between pale to tan and their hair is usually a brown or black mane. They have brown or hazel eyes, though blue are rarely found; such halflings are said to bear the life of the oceans inside them.

The appearances of the halflings are considered primitive by most of the other Athasian races; while their garments are usually a plain loincloth and occasionally a vest or shirt, halflings fancy painting their skins in various colors. They rarely tend to their hair, instead letting them grow in great lengths, and keeping them unkempt and dirty. Halfings sport no body hair.

Solidary and Ritualistic

Halflings possess a great deal of racial unity. Though divided politically into separate villages and communities, halflings have great respect for their race as a whole. Disputes between members of communities are most often settled peacefully, through ritual and custom. These custom are often directed by each tribe’s shaman, the spiritual leaders who hold positions of honor and respect above all other halflings.

On a personal level, halflings relate very well to one another, well enough to have built a considerable culture rich in art, song, and other expressive communication. Ritual and custom control every aspect of halfling life. Such is the diversity of their culture, that the rest of the races find it difficult to comprehend. More than a few times, a halfling will be frustrated by outsiders who can’t seem to grasp their abstract thinking and complicated concepts. Fortunately, halflings who have travelled widely outside their traditional home have a much greater tolerance toward those of “lacking” culture.

Self-Improvement

Halfling culture cares for each individual’s inner well-being and spiritual unity with race and environment. They have little concept of conquest or monetary wealth, and vices that other societies take for granted — such as greed and avarice— are particularly discouraged. Treasure that appeals to other characters holds little interest to a halfling. It is more concerned with promoting halfling culture, its own knowledge, or its inner well-being. A halfling will never lie to or betray another halfling.

Expanding Knowledge

Halflings face, at first, difficulties in adjusting to other customsand points of view, but as a generally open-minded race, they tend to be curious or confused by the actions of others rather than initially combative. Halfling adventurers will attempt to learn all they can about other cultures, but will almost never adopt those cultures as their own. Their shamans teach that the customs of others are no threat to their own, so a halfling adventurer will welcome the chance to learn another point of view, rather than instantly try to change it.

 

 

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Halfling Names

Halflings have a given name, provided to them by their community. They stick to that name as a mark of their heritage, even though they might adopt many different names from the other cultures.

Male Names: Cha, Derlan, Fullgrin, Lokee, Nok, Pauk,Pletaw, Purhas, Urga-zoltapl, Zivlil.

Female Names: Alansa, Anezka, Dokala, Grelzen, Horga,Jikx, Joura, La, Nasaha, Tar, Vensa.

Halfling Traits

All Athasian halflings share a number of traits common to their race.

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

Age. A halfling reaches adulthood at the same age as humans and generally lives a little longer than a century.

Alignment. Most halflings are lawful. They are
very orderly and traditional, leaning heavily on
the support of their community and the comfort
of their old ways.

Size. Halflings average about 3 feet tall and
weigh between 50 and 60 pounds. Your size
is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Halfling Athleticism. You can add your
Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength
modifier to all Athletics skill checks.

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

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

Innately Stealthy. You have proficiency in
the Stealth skill.

Savage Attacks. When you score a critical
hit with a 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 Halfling. The
Halfling language isn’t secret, but halflings loath
to share it with others. Since they only have
oral traditions, their literature is nonexistent.

 

 

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Human

Humans are the predominant race on Athas. They are a versatile breed, brilliant and exceptional as often as they are unremarkable and mundane. A resourceful and hardy race, they can be found in every social stratum and situation: city dweller or desert villager, herder or trader, noble or slave. Humans’ drive, ambition, and ingenuity help the race survive on the dying world and thrive under the rule of the sorcerer-kings.

Diverse in Appearance

There is no typical human in the Tyr Region. An individual can stand a little over 6 feet tall and weigh between 150 and 200 pounds. While they come in all shapes and sizes, they tend to reflect certain traits common to particular city-states. Humans in Draj, for example, have broad chins, bronze skin, and black hair that hardly ever grows on their faces. Humans from Gulg have dark brown skin and rounder features with thick, curly hair. And humans hailing from Balic bear tanned complexions, dark eyes, and grow finely-trimmed beards.

More diverse are the humans that have been subject to the abusive magic that devastated the land and twisted its appearance. These people show unusual physical traits —odd skin or eye color, lack of body hair, webbed fingers, or exaggerated features. While unusual, these traits are not uncommon and rarely elicit more than a glance.

A Multitude of Personalities

Humans are the most adaptable, ambitious, and individualistic people among the common races; even the tyranny of the sorcerer-kings hasn’t stamped out their diversity. Other races often don’t know what to expect when meeting a human for the first time, because predicting their behavior based on cultural norms is difficult. Their widely varying tastes, morals and customs is linked to their various different cultures, which are based around the seven city-states. Individually and as a group, humans can be adaptable opportunists, and they stay alert to changing political and social dynamics.

Bereft of Past

What generally passes for the history of Athas is actually a jumble of folklore and propaganda. Prohibited by the sorcerer-kings and templars from keeping written histories, most humans know only the stories told in their communities. These tales paint the despots as saviors, gods, or anointed champions who, through selfless actions, saved Athas from certain destruction. Many humans scoff at these tales, however, being more concerned with the problems of the present than devoting themselves to the lessons of the past.

Still, there are those who chafe against tyranny’s chains, but hold their tongues, seeing no reason to jeopardize the shelter, water, and food they receive in the city-states they usually live in return for their loyalty. The most daring, ambitious, relentless, or even foolish among them are usually the ones who defy the comforts of a city-state to choose the life of adventure.

 

 

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Human Names

Humans generally adopt the culture of the city-state they livein or close by.

Balic Male Names: Acamus, Agis, Charon, Dymas,Eurythion, Ibykos, Kaletor, Leocedes, Meles, Memnon,Pandaros, Sygaros, Theron, Xenophon, Zagreus.

Balic Female Names: Akantha, Amaltheia, Celandine,Damaris, Eris, Hekate, Iantha, Korinna, Maia, Ophelia,Persephone, Selene, Tanis, Xenia, Zenovia.

Draj Male Names: Acalan, Aztlac, Ezhual, Ilhuitl, Ixcahuani,Ixcanan, Matlal, Mezhua, Tenoc, Tlalli, Xonite, Yolotaca.

Draj Female Names: Aztalani, Chimali, Etalpalli, Izel,Matzatl, Talaxa, Tezcalal, Tlaloc, Xiomara, Xocah, Yasha.

Gulg Male Names: Akusa, Azizi, Dumaka, Ebo, Gahji,Gowon, Jafari, Hasani, Idi, Ishaq, Kokayi, Kwasi, Madu,Obasi, Obi, Poki, Ranaki, Tau, Useni, Yazid, Zikoma.

Gulg Female Names: Abayomi, Dulani, Esi, Fasani, Hasina,Izegbe, Jaha, Khadija, Marjani, Nailah, Panya, Rashida,Rukiya, Saada, Shani, Suma, Thema, Ulu, Zahara.

Nibenay Male Names: Acharya, Bora, Chakara, Kiri, Kosal,Kravann, Mao, Narin, Nhean, Phalla, Prak, Rith, Rithisak,Samay, Sann, Sokha, Sovan, Thom, Vannak, Veha, Vithu.

Nibenay Female Names: Akara, Chaya, Chariya, Dara,Kalliyan, Kannitha, Makara, Nakry, Rachana, Seda, Sikha,Sita, Sophea, Soriya, Sovanni, Thyda, Tola, Vanna, Vaeta.

Raam Male Names: Akhenaten, Amenhemet, Aosakar,Ehput-Ki, Khayu, Imhotep, Kenamon, Khamet, Merkha,Nakha, Nikhari, Pawara, Ramas, Semerkhet, Tetankha.

Raam Female Names: Aneksi, Dedeyet, Inhapi, Kemsiyet,Kiya, Maharet, Maia, Mekare, Nefertiti, Nephethys,Nithotep, Nulara, Raia, Sadeh, Senna, Sikara, Tuya,Tekharet.

Urik Male Names: Akiya, Anu, Dagan, Enki, Enkidu,Hamaru, Istaran, Kal, Lahar, Shamash, Tammuz, Zaqar.

Urik Female Names: Arah, Ashani, Enkara, Inanna, Iltani,Ishtar, Ninkasi, Ninkura, Shala, Shara, Tikanna, Zorah.

Human Traits

It’s hard to make generalizations about humans, but your human character has these traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your ability scores each increase by 1.

Age. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.

Alignment. Humans tend toward no particular alignment.The best and the worst are found among them.

Size. Humans vary widely in height and build, but most range between 5 feet and 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages. You can speak Common and one extra language of your choice.

 

 

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  Mul

Sterile crossbreeds of humans and dwarves, muls are well-known for their outstanding stamina. Accordingly, templars, noble families, and merchant houses breed them as slaves.

Combining dwarven toughness and human ingenuity, muls inherit the best features of both races. Although muls can serve in many ways, most find their lives shaped by a noble’s desire to create a worthy champion or a merchant’s calculated investment in a gladiator for the arenas.

Squat and Brawny

Muscular and fit, muls resemble powerfully built humans. Standing between 6 and 7 feet tall and weighing about 300 pounds, these half-dwarves bear heroic proportions — broad shoulders, powerful thighs, and thick arms. Both genders are hairless and hint at their dwarven ancestry, with strong, stern features and small, swept-back ears that come to subtle points. Mul skin and eye colors are as varied as they are inhumans, but many muls have a copper or deeply bronzed complexion, and few have noticeable gold flecks in their eyes.

Muls have little collective racial identity and adopt the dress and fashion of their homes. As products of the city-states where they are bred, they have no culture of their own. Some escaped slaves make a home for themselves among the desert tribes, but because no mul can start a family, they have no place to call their own.

Born into Slavery

All muls begin their lives as slaves. Slave holders throughout the Tyr Region have long known that tremendous hardiness and stamina result from mixing human and dwarven lines.Since muls make outstanding gladiators, slave warriors, and heavy laborers, enduring toil and hardships that would kill lesser folk, they are often most-sought.

Born to the slave pens, the task master’s whip takes the place of loving parents and family. For this reason, muls develop violent reactions. But when they perform well in the arena, they receive the most pampered treatment of any slaves. Consequently, some don’t see slavery as that a great hardship. However, those who have tasted the sweet air of freedom will fight to retain it.

Lust for Freedom

Muls who set their hearts on freedom are difficult to keep in chains. Some escape to the wilds and become raiders or join tribes of ex-slaves, wheras others who escape become mercenaries and sell their fighting skills to whomever they can. Muls who don’t flee captivity can win their freedom in the arena or by completing a dangerous task for their masters. A few highly prized gladiators receive so many privileges and comforts that they are effectively free, enjoying great latitude to go where they want and do as they wish.

Gruff and Taciturn

Muls are hard, driven, pragmatic folk with little remorse or sympathy in their hearts. Many grow up under the lash, subjected to brutal training for the arena or grinding toil in fields or quarries. As a result, muls have a hard time offering friendship and trust to anyone. More than a few muls, scarred by the hardships of their upbringings, spend their days as bitter, violent misanthropes. Others are suspicious, grasping mercenaries who have learned never to lift a finger on behalf of another person without establishing what they will gain from providing aid.

Despite their tendency to be sullen or self-centered, muls don’thave a particular enmity for any people and can learn to work alongside others. Growing up in the slave pits and the underclass of society taught them how to figure out who to trust, who not to, and how to gain favor and reputation among others, slaves or free people; their survival demanded nothing less.

 

 

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Mul Names

Muls favor one simple name, generally a human one or variants. They don’t have families, so they don’t get to pick a last name, but sometimes they use place names to denote their place of origin, like “Mersten of Nibenay” or “Tomak of Tyr”.

Male Names: Aram, Borthomar, Bost, Darok, Darus, Durn, Eben, Erekard, Gard, Harask, Marok, Morg, Rikard, Sanozar, Tomak, Uskan, Zedath, Zorus.

Female Names: Aisa, Aivel, Brithis, Callia, Demosis, Elina, Faivel, Himithis, Laivi, Mersten, Narisel, Raina, Reshel,Saditha, Tirshel, Uisel, Zerima.

Mul Traits

Your dwarven heritage manifests in a variety of traits you share with other muls.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength and Constitution scores are both increased by 2.

Age. Muls mature at the same rate as humans, reaching adulthood around 18. They seldom live past 85 years, though.

Alignment. The taskmaster’s whip has instilled a lawful attitude in most muls, although those who have fled from slavery are usually chaotic.

Size. Muls are taller and broader than humans, and they range from 6 to 7 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision: You can see in dim light within 60 feet of yourself as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Inexhaustible. You have advantage on all saving throws made to resist exhaustion. In addition, as an action you can reduce your current exhaustion by one level. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Relentless Endunrance. When you are reduced to 0 hitpoints but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. Once you use that trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Superior Resilience. You have advantage on saving throws against disease and poison, and you have resistance against poison damage.

Languages. You speak Common and one extra language of your choice.

 

 

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Thri-Kreen

“This one does not speak with the quivering soft shells that lay about all night. This one might eat you, but never speak.”

Thri‐kreen (“kreen” for short) are the strangest of the intelligent races of the Tyr region. These insectoid beings born from eggs possess a mindset very different from any humanoid being encountered. They roam the wastes in packs, hunting for food day and night, since they require no sleep. Thri‐kreen are quick and agile and make fearsome fighters, feared throughout the wastes. They refer to thri-kreen who have become city dwellers as “tohr-kreen,” meaning “settled person,” whereas thri-kreen means “wanderer-person.”

Insect Body

Mature Thri‐kreen stand about 7 feet tall, with a rough body length of 11 feet. Their four arms end in claws; their two legs are extremely powerful, capable of incredible leaps. However, kreen are unable to jump backwards. Their body is covered with a sandy– yellow chitin, a tough exoskeleton that grants the Thri‐kreen protection from blows. Their head is topped with two antennae, and their two eyes are compound and multifaceted. The kreen mouth consists of small pincers. Male and female Thri‐kreen are physically indistinguishable. Thri‐kreen usually do not wear clothing, but wear some sort of harness to carry weapons and food.

Many wear leg or armbands, or bracelets. Some attach rings on different places on their chitin, though this requires careful work by a skilled artisan. Pheromones release modifies their eye coloration: light for pleasant feelings and dark for distress. They are carnivores and become sick if eating plants, the only exception being a handful of common spices and fruit-based potions.

No Sleep Required

Since Thri‐kreen do not require sleep, they have difficulty understanding this state of “laziness” in others. Other behaviors of humanoids seem unnecessarily complex. A kreen’s life is simple: hunt prey. Kreen live for the hunt, and own only what they can carry. Their knowledge is largely passed by an instinctual racial memory shared with the clutch. At birth, they already know what animals make the best prey and ways to catch them.

A Different Perspective

The pack mentality dominates a kreen’s relation with others. Kreen hunt in small groups and will move to other areas rather than depopulate an area of prey. A kreen that joins a group of humanoids will often try to establish dominance in the group. This can be disconcerting to those unaware of the kreen’s behavior, since establishing dominance usually means making threatening gestures. Once the matter is settled, they will abide by the outcome. Thri‐kreen view humanoids as possible sources of food but rarely hunt them as humanoids are not simple prey. Many kreen have a particularly fond taste for elves; as such, meetings between these two races are often tense. However, once part of a clutch, Thri‐kreen will never turn on their humanoid friends, even in the worst of situations.

Kreen have a severe fear of any water smaller than a puddle as they cannot swim or float. They have no idea how to ride another creature and find the concept alien and non-sensical.

Racial Memory

Contrary to the variety of humans, thri-kreen are largely predisposed to tasks due to their racial memory. They have no wizards; their lack of natural sleep and need to hunt makes it impractical, but kreen take to psionics as a way of life and the hunt. They revere the elements and ancestral memory causes them to revere the Great One, a legendary leader from many clutches past.

 

 

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THRI-KREEN NAMES

The Kreen language is very different from those of the other intelligent races. They have no lips or tongues, and so cannot make the same sounds humanoids make. Kreen language is made up of clicks, pops, or grinding noises. They do not distinguish male and female names.

Names: Cha’ka, Chuka-tet, Drasna, Drik-chkit, Hakka, Ka’cha, Ka’tho, Klik-chaka’da, Lakta-cho, Qhak’cha, Qhik-ik-cha, Sa’Relka, T’Chai, Tak-tha.

Thri-kreen Traits

All thri-kreen have the following racial traits.

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

Age. Thri-kreen live much shorter lives than their human and demi-human counterparts. A thri-kreen matures quickly, reaching adulthood within 3-4 years of hatching. Most thri-kreen only live to be 30 years old, although some live marginally longer.

Alignment. Thri-kreen tend towards a chaotic nature, uncomfortable living by the rigorous societal standards the other races of Athas subject themselves to. It is rare that thri-kreen are evil, often seen as friendly and good by the other races of Athas.

Size. A full-grown thri-kreen stands about seven feet tall but can be as long as 7 to 9 feet, and can weigh between 450 to 470 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision: You can see in dim light within 60 feet of yourself as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Monstrosity Your creature type is monstrosity, rather than humanoid.

Natural Armor. When you aren’t wearing armor, your AC is 12 + your Dexterity modifier. You can still use a shield and gain this benefit.

Secondary Arms: You have two slightly smaller secondary arms below your primary pair of arms. The secondary arms can manipulate an object, open or close a door or container, pick up or set down a Tiny object, or wield a weapon that has the light property.

Sleepless. Thri-kreen do not require sleep and do not suffer exhaustion from lack of rest. When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours of it in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping.

Standing Leap. You can make a running long jump or a running high jump after moving only 5 feet on foot, rather than 10 feet.

Thri-kreen Weapon Training. You are proficient with the gythka, chatkcha

Languages. You speak Common and Kreen, Kreen is a language composed of clicks and whirring, antennae movements, and pheromone emissions that non-kreen find difficult to interpret and near impossible to duplicate.

 

 

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Chapter 2: Classes of Athas

From the lowliest slave to the highest templar, our fates are decided for us. The slave at the hands of the master, and the templar at the will of the king. Pray to Ral and Guthay that your children are born when the stars align to favor them. Few are those privileged to choose their own path of life, and cursed are those for they are bound by choice and have but themselves to blame for their misfortune. The bard addicted to his alchemical mixtures, the templar imprisoned for his crimes, and the gladiator sacrificed for the thrill of the fight. It is the choices that define who you are and how you die, regardless of who makes them.”

 

 

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Barbarian

Description

 Brutality is a way of life in Athas, as much in some of   the cities as in the dwindling tribes of Athas’ harsh   wastes. Cannibal headhunting halflings (who    occasionally visit Urik from the Forest Ridge)    express shock at the savagery and bloodshed of    the folk that call themselves “civilized” and live   between walls of stone. They would be more   horrified if they were to see the skull piles of Draj,   experience the Red Moon Hunt in Gulg, or watch a    seemingly docile house slave in Raam rage as she   finally “goes feral”, taking every frustration of her  short cruel life out on whoever happens to be closest  to hand. Some on Athas have turned their brutality  into an art of war. They are known as “barbarians” and they wear the name with pride.

Class Features

As a barbarian, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d 12 per barbarian level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d 12 (or 7) + your Constitution modifier per barbarian level after 1st

Proficiencies

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• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution
• Skills: Choose two from Animal Handling, Athletics, Endurance, Gambling, Intimidation, Nature, Perception, and Survival

Equipment

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

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• (a) a greataxe or (b) any martial melee weapon
• (a) two handaxes or (b) any simple weapon

 

 

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Rage

In battle, you fight with primal ferocity. On your turn, you can enter a rage as a bonus action.

While raging, you gain the following benefits if you aren’t w earing heavy armor:

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• You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
• When you make a melee weapon attack using Strength, you gain a bonus to the damage roll that increases as you gain levels as a barbarian, as shown in the Rage Damage column o f the Barbarian table.
• You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. If you are able to cast spells, you can’t cast them or concentrate on them while raging.

Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven’t attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken damage since then. You can also end your rage on your turn as a bonus action.

Once you have raged the number of times shown for your barbarian level in the Rages column of the Barbarian table, you must finish a long rest before you can rage again.

Unarmored Defense

While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Reckless Attack

Starting at 2nd level, you can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with fierce desperation. When you make your first attack on your turn, you can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so gives you advantage on melee weapon attack rolls using Strength during this turn, but attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn.

Danger Sense

At 2nd level, you gain an uncanny sense of when things nearby aren’t as they should be, giving you an edge when you dodge away from danger.

You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, you can’t be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.

Primal Path

At 3rd level, you choose a path that shapes the nature of your rage. Choose the Path of the Berserker, the Path of the Pit Fighter, or the Path of the Totem Warrior all are detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th levels.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score o f 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.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Fast Movement

Starting at 5th level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you aren’t wearing heavy armor.

Feral Instinct

By 7th level, your instincts are so honed that you have advantage on initiative rolls.

Additionally, if you are surprised at the beginning of combat and aren’t incapacitated, you can act normally on your first turn, but only if you enter your rage before doing anything else on that turn.

Brutal Critical

Beginning at 9th level, you can roll one additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack.

This increases to two additional dice at 13th level and three additional dice at 17th level.

Relentless Rage

Starting at 11th level, your rage can keep you fighting despite grievous w ounds. If you drop to 0 hit points while you’re raging and don’t die outright, you can make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, you drop to 1 hit point instead.

Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC increases by 5. When you finish a short or long rest, the DC resets to 10.

Persistent Rage

Beginning at 15th level, your rage is so fierce that it ends early only if you fall unconscious or if you choose to end it.

Indomitable Might

Beginning at 18th level, if your total for a Strength check is less than your Strength score, you can use that score in place of the total.

Primal Champion

At 20th level, you embody the power of the wilds. Your Strength and Constitution scores increase by 4. Your maximum for those scores is now 24.

 

 

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Primal Paths

Rage burns in every barbarian’s heart, a furnace that drives him or her toward greatness. Different barbarians attribute their rage to different sources, however. For some, it is an internal reservoir where pain, grief, and anger are forged into a fury hard as steel. Others see it as a spiritual blessing, a gift of a totem animal.

Path of the Berserker

For some barbarians, rage is a means to an end-—that end being violence. The Path of the Berserker is a path of untrammeled fury, slick with blood. As you enter the berserker’s rage, you thrill in the chaos of battle, heedless of your own health or well-being.

Frenzy

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you can go into a frenzy when you rage. If you do so, for the duration of your rage you can make a single melee weapon attack as a bonus action on each of your turns after this one. When your rage ends, you suffer one level of exhaustion.

Mindless Rage

Beginning at 6th level, you can’t be charmed or frightened while raging. If you are charmed or frightened when you enter your rage, the effect is suspended for the duration o f the rage.

Intimidating Presence

Beginning at 10th level, you can use your action to frighten someone with your menacing presence. When you do so, choose one creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. If the creature can see or hear you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or be frightened of you until the end o f your next turn. On subsequent turns, you can use your action to extend the duration of this effect on the frightened creature until the end of your next turn. This effect ends if the creature ends its turn out of line of sight or more than 60 feet away from you.

If the creature succeeds on its saving throw, you can’t use this feature on that creature again for 24 hours.

Retaliation

Starting at 14th level, when you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you. you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.

Path of the Pit Fighter

Pit fighters tend to be some of the strongest, toughest, and most dangerous adversaries in the arena. Battling for survival has been the only constant in their violent lives; they have little to lose or gain except their lives. Usually regarded asproperty to be bought and sold, these brutal warriors have nothing to fear and always lunge into battle.

Brawler

When you choose this path at 3rd level, you gain severalbenefits that make you a more effective in unarmed combat.

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• You can roll a d6 in place of the normal damage of yourunarmed strike. This die improves as you gain barbarian levels, increasing at 6th level (d8), 12th level (d10), and 18th level (d12).
• When you use the attack action to make an unarmed strike or attempt a grapple, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.

Reckless Abandon

Starting at 6th level, when you use Reckless Attack while raging, you also gain temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). They vanish if any of them are left when your rage ends.

Raging Charge

Beginning at 10th level, you can use the Dash action as a bonus action while raging.

Eye for an Eye

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Path of the Totem Warrior

The Path of the Totem Warrior is a spiritual journey, as the barbarian accepts a spirit animal as guide, protector, and inspiration. In battle, your totem spirit fills you with supernatural might, adding magical fuel to your barbarian rage.

Most barbarian tribes consider a totem animal to be kin to a particular clan. In such cases, it is unusual for an individual to have more than one totem animal spirit, though exceptions exist.

Spirit Seeker

Yours is a path that seeks attunement with the natural world, giving you a kinship with beasts. At 3rd level when you adopt this path, you gain the ability to cast the beast sense and speak with animals spells, but only as rituals.

Totem Spirit

At 3rd level, when you adopt this path, you choose a totem spirit and gain its feature. You must make or acquire a physical totem object- an amulet or similar adornment that incorporates fur or feathers, claws, teeth, or bones of the totem animal. At your option, you also gain minor physical attributes that are reminiscent of your totem spirit. For example, if you have a bear totem spirit, you might be unusually hairy and thickskinned, or if your totem is the eagle, your eyes turn bright yellow.

Your totem animal might be an animal related to those listed here but more appropriate to your homeland. For example, you could choose a hawk or vulture in place of an eagle.

Klar. While raging, you have resistance to all damage except psychic damage. The spirit of the Klar makes you tough enough to stand up to any punishment.

Kes-trekel While you’re raging and aren’t wearing heavy armor, other creatures have disadvantage on opportunity attack rolls against you, and you can use the Dash action as a bonus action on your turn. The spirit of the Kes-trekel makes you into a predator who can weave through the fray with ease.

Dagorran While you’re raging, your friends have advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature within 5 feet of you that is hostile to you. The spirit of the Dagorran makes you a leader of hunters.

Aspect of the Beast

At 6th level, you gain a magical benefit based on the totem animal of your choice. You can choose the same animal you selected at 3rd level or a different one.

Klar. You gain the might of a Klar. Your carrying capacity (including maximum load and maximum lift) is doubled, and you have advantage on Strength checks made to push, pull, lift, or break objects.

Kes-trekel. You gain the eyesight of a Kes-trekel. 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.

Dagorran. You gain the hunting sensibilities of a Dagorran. You can track other creatures while traveling at a fast pace, and you can move stealthily while traveling at a normal pace.

Spirit Walker

At 10th level, you can cast the commune with nature spell, but only as a ritual. When you do so, a spiritual version of one of the animals you chose for Totem Spirit or Aspect of the Beast appears to you to convey the information you seek.

Totemic Attunment

At 14th level, you gain a magical benefit based on a totem animal of your choice. You can choose the same animal you selected previously or a different one.

Klar. 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.

Kes-trekel. 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.

Dagorran. 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 melee weapon attack.

 

 

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Cleric

  Description

  Athas is a world which has no gods and which    needs no gods for its clerics are able to channel    the power of the very elements themselves. There    are four types of elemental clerics: Earth, Air,    Fire, and Water. Each has its own peculiar   strengths and weaknesses, as well as access to  powers and spells not available to the others. This  makes these environmental warriors an extremely  diverse and interesting class to play. Some are merely  power-hungry, some seek revenge, and some are  honestly struggling to save their dying planet and  reverse the ancient environmental disaster.  Regardless of motivation, every cleric under the dark  sun of Athas is a force to be reckoned with.

 

 

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Class Features

As a cleric, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

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• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: All simple weapons
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Endurance, Gambling, History, Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion

Equipment

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

• (a) a mace or (b) a warhammer (if proficient)
• (a) scale mail, (b) leather armor
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
• A shield and a holy symbol

Holy Symbols

A cleric’s element is his holy symbol. Earth clerics use smallchunks of granite, quartz, silver, gold, or any other kind of rare earth. Clerics of water always have a vial of pure water, wornabout the neck or mounted on a staff. Fire clerics use obsidian, often carved or melted into the shape of raging flames. The priests of air are the most fortunate of the elemental clerics, since they are not tied down by material possessions. The holy symbol of air is the cleric’s own breath.

Spellcasting

As a conduit for divine power, you can cast cleric spells.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the cleric spell list. You learn additional cleric cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column o f the Cleric table.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Cleric table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells o f 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of cleric spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the cleric spell list. When you do so, choose a number of cleric spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + your cleric level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 3rd-level cleric, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells o f 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of cleric spells requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your cleric spells. The power of your spells comes from your devotion to your deity. You use your W isdom whenever a cleric spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a cleric spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Ritual Casting

You can cast a cleric spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus for your cleric spells.

 

 

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Divine Domain

Choose one domain related to your deity: Air, Earth, Fire, or Water. Your choice grants you domain spells and other features when you choose it at 1st level. It also grants you additional ways to use Channel Divinity when you gain that feature at 2nd level, and additional benefits at 6th, 8th, and 17th levels.

Domain Spells

Each domain has a list o f spells—its domain spells— that you gain at the cleric levels noted in the domain description. Once you gain a domain spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you have a domain spell that doesn’t appear on the cleric spell list, the spell is nonetheless a cleric spell for you.

Elemental Speech

At 1st level all elemental clerics gain the ability to speak theprimordial dialect associated with their chosen domain.Auran (air), Aquan (water), Ignan (fire), or Terran (earth).

Channel Divinity

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to channel divine energy directly from your deity, using that energy to fuel magical effects. You start with two such effects: Turn Undead and an effect determined by your domain. Some domains grant you additional effects as you advance in levels, as noted in the domain description.

When you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which effect to create. You must then finish a short or long rest to use your Channel Divinity again.

Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your cleric spell save DC.

Beginning at 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity twice between rests, and beginning at 18th level. you can use it three times between rests. When you finish a short or long rest, you regain your expended uses.

Channel Divinity: Turn Undead

As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak a prayer censuring the undead. Each undead that can see or hear you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes any damage.

A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can’t willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. It also can’t take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there’s nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.

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.

Destroy Undead

Starting at 5th level, when an undead fails its saving throw against your Turn Undead feature, the creature is instantly destroyed if its challenge rating is at or below a certain threshold, as shown in the Destroy Undead table.

Destroy Undead

Cleric Level	Destroys Undead of CR…
5th	1/2 or lower
8th	1 or lower
11th	2 or lower
14th	3 or lower
17th	4 or lower

Divine Intervention

Beginning at 10th level, you can call on your deity to intervene on your behalf when your need is great.

Imploring your deity’s aid requires you to use your action. Describe the assistance you seek, and roll percentile dice. If you roll a number equal to or lower than your cleric level, your deity intervenes. The DM chooses the nature of the intervention; the effect of any cleric spell or cleric domain spell w ould be appropriate.

If your deity intervenes, you can’t use this feature again for 7 days. Otherwise, you can use it again after you finish a long rest.

At 20th level, your call for intervention succeeds automatically, no roll required.

 

 

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Divine Domains

All clerics worship the elemental planes and draw their magical energies directly from them. However, the backgrounds and motivations for clerics may be vastly different—the shaman witch doctors of the halflings, the mullahs of the trader caravans, and the healers among the slave tribes are all very different, but they’re all clerics.

Air Domain

Clerics who make pacts with the denizens of the Plane of Air are perhaps the most misunderstood of all the elemental clerics. They are wanderers, diviners, travelers, and mystics. Like the winds, their minds are constantly wandering, and they rarely seem focused on a current problem or situation. Some say that is because they are empowered by flighty patrons, and others say that repetitive viewing of the future drives one mad.

Air Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	feather fall, fog cloud
3rd	dust devil, gust of wind
5th	call lightning, fly
7th	conjure minor elementals, storm sphere
9th	conjure elemental, control winds
11th	investiture of wind
13th	whrilwind
15th	control weather

Bonus Cantrip

At lst level, you gain the gust cantrip if you don’t already know it.

Dance of the Winds

Starting at first level you gain the ability to momentarily become as insubtantial and swift as the wind. As a bonus action you can teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied spacethat you can see. You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Channel Divinity: Wind’s Guidance

Starting at 2nd level, you can fire or throw weapons with unnerring accuracy. When you make a ranged attack roll, you can use your Channel Divinity to gain a +10 bonus to the roll. You make this choice after you see the roll, but before the DM says whether the attack hits or misses.

Windborne Steps

At 6th level, your speed increases by 10 feet.

Divine Strike

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with the power of the storm. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 lightning or thunder damage (your choice) to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Avatar of Wind

At 17th level, you have flying speed equal to your current walking speed whenever you are not underground or indoors.

Earth Domain

Earth endures, and like the mountains and the drying plains,earth clerics must bear the brunt of the fight for Athas’ssurvival. Because air, fire, and water all depend on growingthings for their enrichment, and because earth alone mustsustain itself, it is the earth clerics who must carry on theburden of preventing the environmental holocaust loomingover Athas. For, if they do not preserve the land, will not thedeath of Athas weigh upon their shoulders?

Earth Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	earth tremor , shield
3rd	spider climb, spike growth
5th	erupting earth, meld into stone
7th	conjure minor elementals,stone shape
9th	conjure elemental, wall of stone
11th	investiture of stone
13th	forcecage
15th	earthquake

Proficiency

At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons and heavy armor.

Earth’s Resilience

At 1st level you are imbued with the strength and fortitude ofthe earth. This grants you two benefits:

• You gain a +1 bonus to AC.
• Your hit points maximum increases by 1, and it increasesby one everytime you gain a level.

Channel Divinity: Grasp of the Earth

Starting a 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to restrain your enemies. As an action you cause tendrils of earth to erupt from the ground and wrap themselves around any number of targets within 10 feet of you. All targeted creatures must succeed on a Strength saving throw ar be restrained by the earthen tendrils. A creature restrained by the plants can use its action to make a Strength check against your spell save DC. On a success, it frees itself.

 

 

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Elemental Ward

Starting at 6th level, when you or a creature within 30 feet of you takes acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, you can use your reaction to grant resistance to the creature against that instance of damage.

Divine Strike

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikeswith the power of the earth. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 damage of the same type dealt by the weapon to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Avatar of Stone

At 17th level, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing,and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons

Fire Domain

The most feared and unpredictable of the Athasian clerics are those of the Elemental Plane of Fire. Some say these individuals become crazed during initiation, and others say that one must be insane to petition the destructive lords of flame in the first place. Whatever the reason for their erratic nature, fire clerics are the most powerful and the most destructive of the elemental priests. Fire priests have earned their reputations for two reasons, they are very aggressive and very offensive. They will laugh maniacally while their enemies are incinerated, and they appear to thrive only when everything around them is being devoured by the fieryappetites of their patrons.

Fire Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	burning hands, searing smite
3rd	aganazzar’s scorcher , flame blade
5th	fireball,flame arrows
7th	conjure minor elementals, wall of fire
9th	conjure elemental, immolation
11th	investiture of flame
13th	fire storm
15th	incendiary cloud

Bonus Cantrip

At lst level, you gain the produce flame cantrip if you don’talready know it.

Fire Shaping

Beginning at 1st level, you can create pockets of relative safety within the area of your fire spells. When you cast aspell that deals fire damage, you can choose a number of creatures that you can see within the spells area of effect equal to 1 + the spell’s level. The chosen creatures auto-matically succeed on their saving throws against the spell and take no damage if they would normally take half damage on a successful save.

Channel Divinity: Destructive Wrath

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to wield the power of elemental fire with unchecked ferocity.When you roll fire damage, you can use your Channel Divinity to deal maximum damage instead of rolling.

Intense Flames

Starting at 6th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any spell that deals fire damage.

Divine Strike

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with the power of elemental flame. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 fire damage to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Avatar of Flame

Starting at 17th level you can use your action to activate an aura of pale fire that lasts for 1 minute or until you dismiss it using another action. You emit bright light in a 60-foot radius and dim light 60 feet beyond that. You have immunity to fire damage while this ability is active and your enemies have disadvantage on saving throws against any spell you cast that deals fire damage.

 

 

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Water Domain

Among the elemental brotherhood, none are more desperate than the lords of the Elemental Plane of Water. Millennia ago,these beings were happy, babbling through brook and floating leisurely in the vast, blue seas. Now they are claustrophobic, screaming for each drop lost to the parched earth. They know that they must quench the thirst of the land before their streams and rivers can return, but every spilled drop of water is yielded grudgingly. It must be so, for the Plane of Water has nearly perished. Clerics of the dying Plane of Water are few, still, they perform the age-old functions of water as healer and bringer of life.

Water Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	create or destroy water, cure wounds
3rd	lesser restoration, protection from poison
5th	water breathing, water walk
7th	conjure minor elementals, control water
9th	conjure elemental, mass cure wounds
11th	investiture of ice
13th	wall of ice
15th	regeneration

Bonus Cantrip

At lst level, you gain the shape water cantrip if you don’talready know it.

Disciple of Life

Also starting at 1st level, your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level.

Channel Divinity: Preserve Life

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to heal the badly injured. As an action, you present your holy symbol and evoke healing energy that can restore a number of hit points equal to five times your cleric level. Choose any creatures within 30 feet of you, and divide those hit points among them. This feature can restore a creature to no more than half of its hit point maximum. You can’t use this feature on an undead or a construct.

Blessed Healer

Beginning at 6th level, the healing spells you cast on others heal you as well. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit points to a creature other than you, you regain hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level.

Divine Strike

At 8th level, you gain the ability to disrupt the flow of water within a creature’s body, effectively poisoning their systems with your strikes. Once on each of your turns when you hit acreature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack todeal an extra 1d8 poison damage to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Avatar of Water

Starting at 17th level, when you would normally roll one or more dice to restore hit points with a spell, you instead use the highest number possible for each die. For example, instead of restoring 2d6 hit points to a creature, you restore 12.

 

 

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Druid

 

 

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Description

As the sorcerer-kings began their reign of
terror in earnest, their wars with clerics and
constant use of defiling magic eventually
attracted the attention of the druids. The
mysterious druids of the wastes were at first
no match for the kings, and their blood ran
freely over their guarded lands.But through
this painful experience, the druids began to find
ways to dampen the dark sorcerer’s defiling magic,
and were even able to win a few battles, battles now long forgotten by history. The king’s banded together after these setbacks, and chased the hated druids back into their wastes. There they were hunted to virtual extinction, and many thought that their order had vanished from Athas forever. Now, the few druids who will talk about the present say that they are biding their time in the mountains, in the deserts, and in the valleys of Athas. They train for battle, learning to fight the defilers’ magic, and carefully rebuilding their ranks. One day, maybe soon, they say, druids will rise from the earth with their ancient, fallen brothers and erase the mark of the sorcerer-kings from Athas, only then will they purge their bitter memories.

Class Features

As a druid, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

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• Armor: Light armor, shields (druids will not wear armor or use shields made of metal)
• Weapons: Simple Weapons
• Tools: Herbalism kit
• Saving Throws: Constitution, Wisdom
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Animal Handling, Endurance, Gambling, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, Stealth, and Survival

Equipment

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

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• (a) a wooden shield or (b) any simple weapon
• any simple melee weapon
• Leather armor, and a druidic focus

 

 

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Druidic

You know Druidic, the secret language of druids. You can speak the language and use it to leave hidden messages. You and others who know this language automatically spot such a message. Others spot the message’s presence with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check but can’t decipher it without magic.

Spellcasting

Drawing on the divine essence of nature itself, you can cast spells to shape that essence to your will.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the druid spell list. You learn additional druid cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Druid table.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Druid table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these druid spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of druid spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the druid spell list. When you do so, choose a number of druid spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + your druid level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 3rd-level druid, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can also change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of druid spells requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your druid spells, since your magic draws upon your devotion and attunement to nature. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a druid spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast a druid spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your druid spells.

Guarded Land

Every druid must choose one geographic feature to be their Guarded lands. The geographic features that a druid might make his guarded lands can vary widely. For instance, one may watch over a particular stretch of open desert, another may protect a belt of scrub grass within it, while still another might watch over a small oasis that borders on both. This connection to the land provides several abilities, all of which function only within the confines of the druid’s guarded lands.

• Starting at 1st level, the druid is under the constant effect of a pass without trace spell
• At 3rd level, the druid can cast speak with animals at will.
• At 5th level, the druid can cast speak with plants at will.
• At 7th level, The druid can live without water or food indefinitely, drawing noursihment directly from the life energy of the land

Wild Companion

At 2nd level you gain the ability to summon a spirit that assumes an animal form: as an action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to cast the find familiar spell, without material components.

When you cast the spell in this way, the familiar is a fey instead of a beast, and the familiar disappears after a number of hours equal to half your druid level.

 

 

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Wild Shape

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast that you have seen before. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Your druid level determines the beasts you can transform into, as shown in the Beast Shapes table. At 2nd level, for example, you can transform into any beast that has a challenge rating of 1/4 or lower that doesn’t have a flying or swimming speed.

Beast Shapes

Level	Max. CR	Limitations	Example
2nd	1/4	No flying or swimming speed	Zhackal
4th	1/2	No flying speed	Hatori
8th	1	—	Kes’trekel

You can stay in a beast shape for a number of hours equal to half your druid level (rounded down). You then revert to your normal form unless you expend another use of this feature. You can revert to your normal form earlier by using a bonus action on your turn. You automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

While you are transformed, the following rules apply:

• Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast, but you retain your alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also retain all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature. If the creature has the same proficiency as you and the bonus in its stat block is higher than yours, use the creature’s bonus instead of yours. If the creature has any legendary or lair actions, you can’t use them.
• When you transform, you assume the beast’s hit points and Hit Dice. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of hit points you had before you transformed. However, if you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form. For example, if you take 10 damage in animal form and have only 1 hit point left, you revert and take 9 damage. As long as the excess damage doesn’t reduce your normal form to 0 hit points, you aren’t knocked unconscious.
• You can’t cast spells, and your ability to speak or take any action that requires hands is limited to the capabilities of your beast form. Transforming doesn’t break your concentration on a spell you’ve already cast, however, or prevent you from taking actions that are part of a spell, such as call lightning, that you’ve already cast.
• You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. However, you can’t use any of your special senses, such as darkvision, unless your new form also has that sense.
• You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in your space, merges into your new form, or is worn by it. Worn equipment functions as normal, but the DM decides whether it is practical for the new form to wear a piece of equipment, based on the creature’s shape and size. Your equipment doesn’t change size or shape to match the new form, and any equipment that the new form can’t wear must either fall to the ground or merge with it. Equipment that merges with the form has no effect until you leave the form.

Druid Circle

At 2nd level, you choose to identify with a circle of druids: the Circle of the Land, the Circle of the Moon, Circle of the Shepherd, or Circle of the Wildfire all detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level

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.

Timeless Body

Starting at 18th level, the primal magic that you wield causes you to age more slowly. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year.

Beast Spells

Beginning at 18th level, you can cast many o f your druid spells in any shape you assume using Wild Shape. You can perform the somatic and verbal components of a druid spell while in a beast shape, but you aren’t able to provide material components.

Archdruid

At 20th level, you can use your Wild Shape an unlimited number of times.

Additionally, you can ignore the verbal and somatic components of your druid spells, as well as any material components that lack a cost and aren’t consumed by a spell. You gain this benefit in both your normal shape and your beast shape from Wild Shape.

 

 

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Druid Circles

Though their organization is invisible to most outsiders, druids are part of a society that spans the land, ignoring political borders. All druids are nominally m embers of this druidic society, though some individuals are so isolated that they have never seen any high ranking members of the society or participated in druidic gatherings. Druids recognize each other as brothers and sisters. Like creatures of the wilderness, however, druids sometimes compete with or even prey on each other.

At a local scale, druids are organized into circles that share certain perspectives on nature, balance, and the way of the druid.

Circle of the Land

The Circle o f the Land is made up of mystics and sages who safeguard ancient knowledge and rites through a vast oral tradition. These druids meet within sacred circles of trees or standing stones to whisper primal secrets in Druidic. The circle’s wisest members preside as the chief priests of communities that hold to the Old Faith and serve as advisors to the rulers of those folk. As a member of this circle, your magic is influenced by the land where you were initiated into the circle’s mysterious rites.

Bonus Cantrip

When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you learn one additional druid cantrip of your choice.

Natural Recovery

Starting at 2nd level, you can regain some of your magical energy by sitting in meditation and communing with nature. During a short rest, you choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your druid level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest

For example, when you are a 4th-level druid, you can recover up to two levels worth of spell slots. You can recover either a 2nd-level slot or two 1st-level slots.

Circle Spells

Your mystical connection to the land infuses you with the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to circle spells connected to the land where you became a druid. Choose that land—arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, or Underdark—and consult the associated list of spells.

Once you gain access to a circle spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn’t appear on the druid spell list, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.

Land’s Stride

Starting at 6th level, moving through nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through nonmagical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement, such those created by the entangle spell.

Nature’s Ward

When you reach 10th level, you can’t be charmed or frightened by elementals or fey, and you are immune to poison and disease.

Nature’s Sanctuary

When you reach 14th level, creatures of the natural world sense your connection to nature and become hesitant to attack you. When a beast or plant creature attacks you, that creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your druid spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature must choose a different target, or the attack automatically misses. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours.

The creature is aware of this effect before it makes its attack against you.

 

 

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Circle of lands

The landscape of Athas is very different than that of other worlds so Circle of the Land druids have a few new land types and associated bonus spells to choose from.

Cave

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	spider climb, web
5th	silence, stinking cloud
7th	greater invisibility, stone shape
9th	cloudkill, insect plauge

Forest

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	barkskin, spider climb
5th	call lightning, plant growth
7th	divination, freedom of movement
9th	commune with nature, tree stride

Grasslands

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	invisibility, pass without trace
5th	daylight, haste
7th	divination, freedom of movement
9th	conjure minor elementals, ice storm

Mountains

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	spider climb, spike growth
5th	lightning bolt, meld into stone
7th	stone shape, stoneskin
9th	passwall, wall of stone

Oasis

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	mirror image, misty step
5th	water breathing, water walk
7th	control water, freedom of movement
9th	conjure elemental, scrying

Rocky Desert

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	maximillian’s earthen grasp, spike growth
5th	water breathing, water walk
7th	stone shape, stoneskin
9th	transmute rock, wall of stone

Salt Flats

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	gentle repose, ray of enfeeblement
5th	feign death, speak with dead
7th	blight, vitriolic sphere
9th	antilife shell, contagion

Swamp

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	darkness, melf’s acid arrow
5th	stinking cloud, water walk
7th	freedom of movement, locate creature
9th	insect plague, scrying

Volcanic

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	heat metal, pyrotechnics
5th	fireball, protection from energy
7th	fire shield, wall of fire
9th	cloudkill, immolation

 

 

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Circle of the Moon

Druids of the Circle of the Moon are fierce guardians of the wilds. Their order gathers under the full moon to share news and trade warnings. They haunt the deepest parts of the wilderness, where they might go for weeks on end before crossing paths with another humanoid creature, let alone another druid.

Changeable as the moon, a druid of this circle might prowl as a great cat one night, soar over the treetops as an eagle the next day, and crash through the undergrowth in bear form to drive off a trespassing monster. The wild is in the druid’s blood.

Combat Wild Shape

When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you gain the ability to use Wild Shape on your turn as a bonus action, rather than as an action.

Additionally, while you are transformed by Wild Shape, you can use a bonus action to expend one spell slot to regain 1d8 hit points per level of the spell slot expended.

Circle Forms

The rites of your circle grant you the ability to transform into more dangerous animal forms. Starting at 2nd level, you can use your W ild Shape to transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as 1 (you ignore the Max. CR column of the Beast Shapes table, but must abide by the other limitations there).

Starting at 6th level, you can transform into a beast with a challenge rating as high as your druid level divided by 3, rounded down.

Primal Strike

Starting at 6th level, your attacks in beast form count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Elemental Wild Shape

At 10th level, you can expend two uses of Wild Shape at the same time to transform into an air elemental, an earth elemental, a fire elemental, or a water elemental.

Thousand Forms

By 14th level, you have learned to use magic to alter your physical form in more subtle ways. You can cast the alter self spell at will.

Beast Shapes of Athas

CR	Beast
0	Aprig
0	Critic
0	Erdlu
0	Hurrum
0	Z’tal
0	Baazrag
1/8	Sygra
1/8	Kes’trekel (fly)
1/8	Wezer drone (fly)
1/8	Yallix (fly)
1/8	Zhackal
1/4	Carru Cow
1/4	Kank Producer
1/4	Giant Beetle Bombardier
1/4	Rasclinn
1/4	Wezer soldier
1/2	Erdland
1/2	Kank soldier
1/2	Crodlu
1/2	Gorak
1/2	Hatori, lesser
1/2	Jhakar
1/2	Wezer queen
1	Crodlu War
1	Lirr
2	Carru Bull
2	Inix
2	Giant Beetle, Braxat
2	Razorwing (fly)
3	Baazrag Boneclaw
3	Cilops
3	Flailer
3	Fordorran
3	Kirre
3	Pterrax (fly)
4	Cha’thrang
4	Klar
5	Hatori Greater
6	Mekilliot

 

 

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Circle of the Shepherd

Druids of the Circle of the Shepherd commune with the spirits of nature, especially the spirits of beasts and the fey, and call to those spirits for aid. These druids recognize that all living things play a role in the natural world, yet they focus on protecting animals and fey creatures that have difficulty defending themselves. Shepherds, as they are known, see such creatures as their charges. They ward off monsters that threaten them, rebuke hunters who kill more prey than necessary, and prevent civilization from encroaching on rare animal habitats and on sites sacred to the fey. Many of these druids are happiest far from cities and towns, content to spend their days in the company of animals and the fey creatures of the wilds.

Members of this circle become adventurers to oppose forces that threaten their charges or to seek knowledge and power that will help them safeguard their charges better. Wherever these druids go, the spirits of the wil— derness are with them.

Speech of the Woods

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to converse with beasts and many fey.

You learn to speak, read, and write Sylvan. In addi‘ tion, beasts can understand your speech, and you gain the ability to decipher their noises and motions. Most beasts lack the intelligence to convey or understand sophisticated concepts, but a friendly beast could relay what it has seen or heard in the recent past. This ability doesn’t grant you friendship with beasts, though you can combine this ability with gifts to curry favor with them as you would with any nonplayer character.

Spirit Totem

Starting at 2nd level, you can call forth nature spirits to influence the world around you. As a bonus action, you can magically summon an incorporeal spirit to a point you can see within 60 feet of you. The spirit creates an aura in a 30-foot radius around that point. It counts as neither a creature nor an object, though it has the spectral appearance of the creature it. represents.

As a bonus action, you can move the spirit up to 60 feet to a point you can see.

The spirit persists for 1 minute or until you’re incapacitated. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

The effect of.the spirit’s aura depends on the type of spirit you summon from the options below.

Klar Spirit. The klar spirit grants you and your allies its might and endurance. Each creature of your choice in the aura when the spirit appears gains temporary hit points equal to 5 + your druid level. In addition, you and your allies gain advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws while in the aura.

Kes-trekel Spirit. The Kes-trekel Spirit spirit is a consummate hunter, aiding you and your allies with its keen sight. When a creature makes an attack roll against a target in the spirit’s aura, you can use your reaction to grant advantage to that attack roll. In addition, you and your allies have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks while in the aura.

Unicorn Spirit. The unicorn spirit lends its protection to those nearby. You and your allies gain advantage on all ability checks made to detect creatures in the spirit’s aura. In addition. if you cast a spell using a spell slot that restores hit points to any creature inside or outside the aura, each creature of your choice in the aura also regains hit points equal to your druid level.

Mighty Summoner

Starting at 6th level, beasts and fey that you conjure are more resilient than normal. Any beast or fey summoned or created by a spell that you cast gains the following benefits:

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• The creature appears with more hit points than normal: 2 extra hit points per Hit Die it has.
• The damage from its natural weapons is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Guardian Spirit

Beginning at 10th level, your Spirit Totem safeguards the beasts and fey that you call forth with your magic. When a beast or fey that you summoned or created with a spell ends its turn in your Spirit Totem aura, that creature regains a number of hit points equal to half your druid level.

Faithful Summons

Starting at 14th level, the nature spirits you commune with protect you when you are the most defenseless. If you are reduced to 0 hit points or are incapacitated against your will, you can immediately gain the benefits of conjure animals as if it were cast using a 9th-level spell slot. It summons four beasts of your choice that are challenge rating 2 or lower. The conjured beasts appear within 20 feet of you. If they receive no commands from you, they protect you from harm and attack your foes. The spell lasts for 1 hour, requiring no concentration, or until you dismiss it (no action required).

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

 

 

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Fighter

Description

Elite slave soldiers, champions of the arena,tribal warlords, and professionally trained noble swordsmen may come from diverse backgrounds but they are all fighters. As on other worlds, Athasian fighters are masters of weaponry and warfare.

Class Features

As a fighter, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d 10 per fighter level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d 10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per fighter level after 1st

Proficiencies

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• Armor: All armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution
• Skills: Choose two skills from Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, Endurance, Gambling, History, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, and Survival

Equipment

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

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• • (a) chain mail or (b) leather, longbow, and 20 arrows
• • (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial weapons
• • (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) two handaxes

 

 

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Fighting Style

You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Archery

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged w eapons.

Blind Fighting

You have blindsight with a range of 10 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn’t behind total cover, even if you’re blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.

Defense

While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Dueling

When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

Exotic Weaponry

You gain proficiency with all exotic weapons.

Great Weapon Fighting

When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee w eapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

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 ldlO + 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.

Protection

When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.

Superior Technique

You learn one maneuver of your choice from among those available to the Battle Master archetype. If a maneuver you use requires your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver’s effects, the saving throw DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).

You gain one superiority die, which is a d6 (this die is added to any superiority dice you have from another source). This die is used to fuel your maneuvers. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest.

Thrown Weapon Fighting

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

Two- Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Unarmed Fighting

Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage equal to ld6 + your Strength modifier on a hit. If you aren’t wielding any weapons or a shield when you make the attack roll, the d6 becomes a d8.

At the start of each of your turns, you can deal ld4 bludgeoning damage to one creature grappled by you.

Second Wind

You have a limited well of stamina that you can draw on to protect yourself from harm. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d 10 + your fighter level.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Action Surge

Starting at 2nd level, you can push yourself beyond your normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one additional action on top of your regular action and a possible bonus action.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. Starting at 17th level, you can use it twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.

Martial Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you strive to emulate in your combat styles and techniques. Choose Arcane Archer, Cavalier, Champion, Battle Master, or Eldritch Knight, all detailed at the end of the class description. The archetype you choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.

 

 

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Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 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.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 11th level in this class and to four when you reach 20th level in this class.

Indomitable

Beginning at 9th level, you can reroll a saving throw that you fail. If you do so, you must use the new roll, and you can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

You can use this feature twice between long rests starting at 13th level and three times between long rests starting at 17th level.

Martial Archetypes

Different fighters choose different approaches to perfecting their fighting prowess. The martial archetype you choose to emulate reflects your approach.

Battle Master

Those who emulate the archetypal Battle Master employ martial techniques passed down through generations. To a Battle Master, combat is an academic field, sometimes including subjects beyond battle such as weaponsmithing and calligraphy. Not every fighter absorbs the lessons of history, theory, and artistry that are reflected in the Battle Master archetype, but those who do are well-rounded fighters of great skill and knowledge.

Combat Superiority

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you learn maneuvers that are fueled by special dice called superiority dice.

Maneuvers. You learn three maneuvers of your choice. Many maneuvers enhance an attack in some way. You can use only one maneuver per attack. You learn two additional maneuvers of your choice at 7th, 10th, and 15th level. Each time you learn new maneuvers, you can also replace one maneuver you know with a different one.

Superiority Dice. You have four superiority dice, which are d8s. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain all of your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest. You gain another superiority die at 7th level and one more at 15th level.

Saving Throws. Some of your maneuvers require your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Student of War

At 3rd level, you gain proficiency with one type of artisan’s tools of your choice.

Know Your Enemy

Starting at 7th level, if you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside combat, you can learn certain information about its capabilities compared to your own. The DM tells you if the creature is your equal, superior, or inferior in regard to two of the following characteristics of your choice:

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• Strength score
• Dexterity score
• Constitution score
• Armor Class
• Current hit points
• Total class levels, if any
• Fighter class levels, if any

Improved Combat Superiority

At 10th level, your superiority dice turn into d10s. At 18th level, they turn into d12s.

Relentless

 Starting at 15th level, when you roll initiative and   have no superiority dice remaining, you regain 1   superiority die.

 

 

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Maneuvers

The maneuvers are presented in alphabetical order.

Brace. When a creature you can see moves into the reach you have with the melee weapon you’re wielding, you can use your reaction to expend one superiority die and make one attack against the creature, using that weapon. If the attack hits, add the superiority die to the weapon’s damage roll.

Commander’s Strike. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks and use a bonus action to direct one of your companions to strike. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you and expend one superiority die. That creature can immediately use its reaction to make one weapon attack, adding the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll.

Disarming Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to disarm the target, forcing it to drop one item of your choice that it’s holding. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it drops the object you choose. The object lands at its feet.

Distracting Strike. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to distract the creature, giving your allies an opening. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll. The next attack roll against the target by an attacker other than you has advantage if the attack is made before the start of your next turn.

Evasive Footwork.When you move, you can expend one superiority die, rolling the die and adding the number rolled to your AC until you stop moving.

Feinting Attack. You can expend one superiority die and use a bonus action on your turn to feint, choosing one creature within 5 feet of you as your target. You have advantage on your next attack roll against that creature before the end of your turn. If that attack hits, add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll.

Goading Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to goad the target into attacking you. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target has disadvantage on all attack rolls against targets other than you until the end of your next turn.

Lunging Attack. When you make a melee weapon attack on your turn, you can expend one superiority die to increase your reach for that attack by 5 feet. If you hit, you add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll.

Maneuvering Attack.When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to maneuver one of your comrades into a more advantageous position. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and you choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature can use its reaction to move up to half its speed without provoking opportunity attacks from the target of your attack.

Menacing Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to frighten the target. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Parry. When another creature damages you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and expend one superiority die to reduce the damage by the number you roll on your superiority die + your Dexterity modifier.

Precision Attack. When you make a weapon attack roll against a creature, you can expend one superiority die to add it to the roll. You can use this maneuver before or after making the attack roll, but before any effects of the attack are applied.

Pushing Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to drive the target back. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and if the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you push the target up to 15 feet away from you.

Quick Toss. As a bonus action, you can expend one superiority die and make a ranged attack with a weapon that has the thrown property. If you hit, add the superiority die to the weapon’s damage roll.

Rally. On your turn, you can use a bonus action and expend one superiority die to bolster the resolve of one of your companions. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature gains temporary hit points equal to the superiority die roll + your Charisma modifier.

Riposte. When a creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and expend one superiority die to make a melee weapon attack against the creature. If you hit, you add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll.

Sweeping Attack. When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to damage another creature with the same attack. Choose another creature within 5 feet of the original target and within your reach. If the original attack roll would hit the second creature, it takes damage equal to the number you roll on your superiority die. The damage is of the same type dealt by the original attack.

Trip Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to knock the target down. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and if the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you knock the target prone.

 

 

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  Cavalier

The archetypal cavalier excels at mounted combat. Usually born among the nobility and raised at court, a cavalier is equally at home leading a cavalry charge or exchanging repartee at a state dinner. Cavaliers also learn how to guard those in their charge from harm, often serving as the protectors of their superiors and of the weak. Compelled to right wrongs or earn prestige, many of these fighters leave their lives of comfort to embark on glorious adventure.

Bonus Proficiency

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, History, Insight, Performance, or Persuasion. Alternatively, you learn one language of your choice.

Born to the Saddle

Starting at 3rd level, your mastery as a rider becomes apparent. You have advantage on saving throws made to avoid falling off your mount. If you fall off your mount and descend no more than 10 feet, you can land on your feet if you’re not incapacitated.

Finally, mounting or dismounting a creature costs you only 5 feet of movement, rather than half your speed.

Unwavering Mark

Starting at 3rd level, you can menace your foes, foiling their attacks and punishing them for harming others. When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can mark the creature until the end of your next turn. This effect ends early if you are incapacitated or you die, or if someone else marks the creature.

     While it is within 5 feet of you, a creature     marked by you has disadvantage on any attack     roll that doesn’t target you.

    In addition, if a creature marked by you deals     damage to anyone other than you, you can make     a special melee weapon attack against the     marked creature as a bonus action on your next     turn. You have advantage on the attack roll, and     if it hits, the attack’s weapon deals extra     damage to the target equal to half your fighter     level.

  Regardless of the number of creatures you mark,  you can make this special attack a number of times  equal to your Strength modifier (a minimum of once),  and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish  a long rest.

Warding Maneuver

At 7th level, you learn to fend off strikes directed at you, your mount, or other creatures nearby. If you or a creature you can see within 5 feet of you is hit by an attack, you can roll 1d8 as a reaction if you’re wielding a melee weapon or a shield. Roll the die, and add the number rolled to the target’s AC against that attack. If the attack still hits, the target has resistance against the attack’s damage.

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

Hold the Line

At 10th level, you become a master of locking down your enemies. Creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they move 5 feet or more while within your reach, and if you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, the target’s speed is reduced to 0 until the end of the current turn.

Ferocious Charger

Starting at 15th level, you can run down your foes, whether you’re mounted or not. If you move at least 10 feet in a straight line right before attacking a creature and you hit it with the attack, that target must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be knocked prone. You can use this feature only once on each of your turns.

Vigilant Defender

Starting at 18th level, you respond to danger with extraordinary vigilance. In combat, you get a special reaction that you can take once on every creature’s turn, except your turn. You can use this special reaction only to make an opportunity attack, and you can’t use it on the same turn that you take your normal reaction.

 

 

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Champion

The archetypal Champion focuses on the development of raw physical power honed to deadly perfection. Those who model themselves on this archetype combine rigorous training with physical excellence to deal devastating blows.

Improved Critical

Beginning when you choose this archetype at 3rd level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Remarkable Athlete

Starting at 7th level, you can add half your proficiency bonus (rounded up) to any Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution check you make that doesn’t already use your proficiency bonus.

In addition, when you make a running long jump, the distance you can cover increases by a number of feet equal to your Strength modifier.

Additional Fighting Style

At 10th level, you can choose a second option from the Fighting Style class feature.

Superior Critical

Starting at 15th level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 18-20.

Survivor

At 18th level, you attain the pinnacle of resilience in battle. At the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier if you have no more than half of your hit points left. You don’t gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.

Warlord Archetype

Warlords are military commanders who rule through , guile, charisma, or intimidation (or a mix of all three). Their abilities are the same whether they lead a village militia, the armies of a city-state, or a slave rebellion.

Leadership

At 3rd level you gain proficiency in one of the following skills: Deception, Intimidation, or Persuasion (your choice).

Rallying Cry

Also starting at 3rd level, you learn how to inspire
your allies to fight on past their injuries. When you
use your Second Wind feature, you can choose up to three creatures within 60 feet of you that are allied
with you. Each one regains hit points equal to your fighter level, provided that the creature can see or
hear you.

Military Envoy

As the leader of a military band you have become a master of deception, diplomacy, or intimidation. At 7th level choose one of the following skills you arealready proficient in: Deception, Intimidation, or Persuasion.Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability checks you make using the chosen skill.

Inspiring Surge

Starting at 10th level, when you use your Action Surge feature, you can choose one creature within 60 feet of you that is allied with you. That creature can make one melee or ranged weapon attack with its reaction, provided that it can see or hear you. Starting at 17th level, you can choose two allies within 60 feet of you, rather than one.

Bulwark

Beginning at 15th level, you can extend the benefit of your Indomitable feature to an ally. When you decide to use Indomitable to reroll an Intelligence, a Wisdom, or a Charisma saving throw and you aren’t incapacitated, you can choose one ally within 60 feet of you that also failed its saving throw against the same effect. If that creature can see or hear you, it can reroll its
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Mystic

Description

Athas is a world full of those adept in the power of Psionics, but the true masters of the art are known as mystics. The power these men possess is considered dangerous to the sorcerer kings rule which in turn causes mystics to be hunted by those that serve the kings. Many Mystics are forced to live in isolation as hermits or hide among some of the free villages as seerers.

 

 

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Class Features

As a mystic, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d6 per mystic level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per mystic level after 1st

Proficiencies

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• Armor: None
• Weapons: Daggers, darts, slings, quarterstaffs, light crossbows
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Endurance, Gambling, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, and Religion

Equipment

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

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• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon

Psionics

As a student of psionics, you can master and use psionic talents and disciplines. Psionics are spell like abilities that stem directly from your mind.

Psionic Talents

At 1st level, you have 4 talents of your choice from the Psionic Talent list. You learn additional psionic talents of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Talents Known column of the mystic table.

Psionic Disciplines

The mystic table shows how many discipline slots you have to cast your psionic abilities of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these abilities , you must expend a slot of the discipline’s level or higher. You regain all expended discipline slots when you finish a long rest.

You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the psionic discipline list.

The disciplines Known column of the Mystic table shows when you learn more psionic disciplines of your choice. Each of these disciplines must be of a level for which you have discipline slots. For instance, when you reach 3rd level in this class, you can learn one new discipline of 1st or 2nd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the psionic disciplines you know and replace it with another discipline from the psionic discipline list, which also must be of a level for which you have discipline slots.

Psionic Ability

Intelligence is your psionic ability for your psionic disciplines. You use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a psionic discipline or when making an attack roll with one.

Discipline save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Discipline attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Font of Psionic Power

At 2nd level, you tap into a deep wellspring of Psionic power within yourself. This wellspring is represented by Psi points, which allow you to create a variety of magical effects.

Psi Points.

You have 2 psi points, and you gain more as you reach higher levels, as shown in the Psi Points column of the Mystic table. You can never have more psi points than shown on the table for your level. You regain all spent psi points when you finish a long rest.

Flexible Casting.

You can use your psi points to gain additional discipline slots, or sacrifice discipline slots to gain additional psi points. You learn other ways to use your psi points as you reach higher levels.

Creating Discipline Slots. You can transform unexpended psi points into one discipline slot as a bonus action on your turn. The Creating discipline Slots table shows the cost of creating a discipline slot of a given level. You can create discipline slots no higher in level than 5th. The created slots vanish at the end of a long rest.

Converting a discipline Slot to Psi Points. As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend one discipline slot and gain a number of psi points equal to the slot’s level.

Creating Discipline Slots

Discipline Slot Level	Psi Point Cost
1st	2
2nd	3
3rd	5
4th	6
5th	7

Mystic Focus

At 1st level you choose the focus of you psionic powers. You may choose between Psi Knight, Telepathy Focus or Telekinesis Focus.

 

 

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Metapsionics

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to twist your disciplines to suit your needs. You gain the following Metapsionics options.

You can use only one Metapsionics option on a discipline when you cast it, unless otherwise noted.

Careful discipline.

When you cast a discipline that forces other creatures to make a saving throw, you can protect some of those creatures from the discipline’s full force. To do so, you spend 1 psi point and choose a number of those creatures up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one creature). A chosen creature automatically succeeds on its saving throw against the spell.

Distant discipline.

When you cast a discipline that has a range of 5 feet or greater, you can spend 1 psi point to double the range of the discipline.

When you cast a discipline that has a range of touch, you can spend 1 psi point to make the range of the discipline 30 feet.

Empowered discipline.

When you roll damage for a discipline, you can spend 1 psi point to reroll a number of the damage dice up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one). You must use the new rolls.

You can use Empowered discipline even if you have already used a different Potent Psionic option during the casting of the spell.

Extended discipline.

When you cast a discipline that has a duration of 1 minute or longer, you can spend 1 psi point to double its duration, to a maximum duration of 24 hours.

Heightened discipline.

When you cast a discipline that forces a creature to make a saving throw to resist its effects, you can spend 3 psi points to give one target of the discipline disadvantage on its first saving throw made against the discipline.

Quickened discipline.

When you cast a discipline that has a casting time of 1 action, you can spend 2 psi points to change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting.

Seeking discipline.

If you make an attack roll for a discipline and miss, you can spend 2 psi points to reroll the d20, and you must use the new roll.

You can use Seeking discipline even if you have already used a different Potent Psionic option during the casting of the discipline.

Twinned discipline.

When you cast a discipline that targets only one creature and doesn’t have a range of self, you can spend a number of psi points equal to the discipline’s level to target a second creature in range with the same discipline. To be eligible for Twinned discipline, a discipline must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the discipline’s current level.

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.

Psionic Guidance

When you reach 5th level, you can tap into your inner wellspring of psionic power to try and conjure success from failure. When you make an ability check that fails, you can spend 1 psi point to reroll the d20, and you must use the new roll, potentially turning the failure into a success.

Mystic Restoration

At 20th level, you regain 4 expended psi points whenever you finish a short rest.

 

 

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Mystic Focus

Mystics chose to master one of three paths of focus for psionics, a Psi Knight, Telepathy or Telekensis.

Psi Knight

Choosing to wave some focus on psionics these powerful mystics put time into mastering a martial weapon of their choice, amplifying it with thier psionics to create a deadly combination.

Psionic Weapon

Starting at 1st level you may choose any martial or simple weapon type as your Psionic weapon. You gain proficiency with this weapon and while using this weapon it has the following properties:

• Ranged attacks with this weapon have advantage.

• If its a melee weapon it gains the thrown property (20/60), if it already has the thorwn property its range is doubled.

• You may teleport the weapon to your hand as a bonus action.

Psychic Infusion

Starting at 6th level you gain the ability to infuse your weapon with psionic energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with an attack from your psionic weapon, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 psychic damage. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

Psychic Shield

Starting at 6th level you materialize a shield of psionic energy around your body. As long as you wear no armor and are wielding your psionic weapon your AC becomes 13 + your Intelligence modifier.

War Psionics

Starting at 14th level when you use your action to cast a psionic discipline or make an attack with your psionic weapon, you may expend a psi point to make an attack with your psionic weapon.

Psionic Whirlwind

Starting at 18th level you may expend 4 psi points as an action and make 4 attacks with your psionic weapon.

 

 

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Telekinetic Focus

Kineticist mystics deal with with moving and manipulating the enviorment around them using telekinetic powers. They can hurl objects at dangerous speeds, form the earth around them, and even throw their enemies at higher levels.

Telekinetic Disciplines

Starting at 1st level, you learn additional disciplines when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown on the Telekinetic disciplines table. Each of these spells counts as a psionic discipline for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of disciplines you know.

Telekinetic Disciplines

Mystic Level	Discipline
1st	Telekinetic Catapult, Telekinetic Platform
3rd	Telekinetic Missles, Telekinetic Lift
5th	Telekinetic Freeze, Telekinetic Wave
7th	Telekinetic Crush
9th	Greater Telekinesis, Telekinetic Wall

Minor Telekinesis

You can use your action to manipulate or move one object within 30 feet of you. The object can’t weigh more than 10 pounds per mystic level, and you can’t affect an object being worn or carried by another creature. If the object is loose, you can move it up to 30 feet in any direction.

The object falls to the ground at the end of your turn if you leave it suspended in midair.

Additionally as a bonus action, you can try to telekinetically shove one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. When you do so, the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your intelligence modifier) or be moved 5 feet toward you or away from you. A creature can willingly fail this save.

Telekinetic Prowess

Beginning at 6th level, when you cast any discipline of 1st level or higher from your Telekinetic Disciplines feature, you can cast it by expending a discipline slot as normal or by spending a number of psi points equal to the discipline’s level.

Reflect Missle

Beginning at 6th level you can use your Reaction to slow or reflect the missile when you are hit by a ranged weapon Attack. When you do so, the damage you take from the Attack is reduced by 1d10 + your intelligence modifier + your mystic level.

If you reduce the damage to 0, your telekinetic power catches the missile in mid air. If you catch a missile in this way, you can spend 1 psi point to make a ranged Attack (range 20 feet/60 feet) with the weapon or piece of Ammunition you just caught, as part of the same Reaction. You make this Attack with Proficiency, regardless of your weapon Proficiencies.

Bulwark of Force

When you reach 14th level You can shield yourself and others with telekinetic force. As a bonus action, you can choose creatures, which can include you, that you can see within 30 feet of you, up to a number of creatures equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one creature). Each of the chosen creatures is protected by three-quarters cover for 1 minute or until you’re incapacitated.

Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend 4 psi points to use this feature again.

Psionic Implosion

At 18th level as an action, you can teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 120 feet of you. Immediately after you disappear, each creature within 30 feet of the space you left must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 3d10 force damage and is pulled straight toward the space you left, ending in an unoccupied space as close to your former space as possible. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and isn’t pulled. Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you spend 5 psi points to use it again.

 

 

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Telepathy Focus

Telepath mystics use their psionic powers to manipulate the minds of others. True telepathic masters can can even change memories of others with their powers.

Telepathic Disciplines

Starting at 1st level, you learn additional disciplines when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown on the telepathic disciplines table. Each of these spells counts as a psionic discipline for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of disciplines you know.

Telepathic Disciplines

Mystic Level	Discipline
1st	Beast Telepathy, Telepathic Order
3rd	Telepathic Spike, Telepathic Suggestion
5th	Telepathic Hypnosis, Telepathic Message
7th	Telepathic Compulsion
9th	Telepathic Bond, Telepathic Sentience

Telepathic Speech

At first level you can form a telepathic connection between your mind and the mind of another. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. You and the chosen creature can speak telepathically with each other while the two of you are within a number of miles of each other equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 mile). To understand each other, you each must speak mentally in a language the other knows.

The telepathic connection lasts for a number of minutes equal to your Mystic level. It ends early if you are incapacitated or die or if you use this ability to form a connection with a different creature.

Telepathic Prowess

Beginning at 6th level, when you cast any discipline
of 1st level or higher from your Telepathic
Disciplines feature, you can cast it by expending a discipline slot as normal or by spending a number
of psi points equal to the discipline’s level.

Psychic Defenses

When you reach 6th level you gain resistance to
psychic damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

Psionic Neuralizer

Beginning at 14th level you may manipulate the minds of those around you. By using 1 psi point you eminate a wave of telepathic energy in a 60 foot cone orginating from you. Any creature within range must make an intelligence saving throw. On a failed save the creature forgets any events that have transpired in the last hour of their lives. On a succesful save they do not suffer any memory loss.

Master of Telepathy

Beginning at 18th level you may cast the telepathy spell as if it was a cantrip.

 

 

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Ranger

Description

Though Athas is a land different from other D&D campaign worlds, the role of the ranger is largely unchanged. The wilderness is harsh and unforgiving, calling for skilled and capable men and women to master its ways - the ranger answers that challenge. A ranger’s motivations can vary greatly. For instance, human rangers are very often former slaves forced into the desert wilderness for simple survival. Halfling rangers, on the other hand, are an integral part of their aboriginal society,serving as advisors and trackers.

 

 

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Class Features

As a ranger, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d10 per ranger level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per ranger level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
• Skills: Choose three from Animal Handling, Athletics, Endurance, Gambling, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, and Survival

Equipment

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

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• (a) scale mail or (b) leather armor
• (a) two shortswords or (b) two simple melee weapons
• A longbow and a quiver of 20 arrows

Favored Enemy

Beginning at 1st level, you have significant experience studying, tracking, hunting, and even talking to a certain type of enemy.

Choose a type of favored enemy: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. Alternatively, you can select two races of humanoid (such as gnolls and orcs) as favored enemies.

You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track your favored enemies, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about them.

When you gain this feature, you also learn one language of your choice that is spoken by your favored enemies, if they speak one at all.

You choose one additional favored enemy, as well as an associated language, at 6th and 14th level. As you gain levels, your choices should reflect the types of monsters you have encountered on your adventures.

Natural Explorer

You are an unsurpassed explorer and survivor, both in the wilderness and in dealing with others on your travels. You gain the Canny benefit below, and you gain an additional benefit when you reach 6th level and 10th level in this class.

Canny (1st Level)

Choose one of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make using the chosen skill.

You can also speak, read, and write 2 additional languages of your choice.

Roving (6th Level)

Your walking speed increases by 5, and you gain a climbing speed and a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Tireless (10th Level)

As an action, you can give yourself a number of temporary hit points equal to 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1 temporary hit point). You can use this action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

In addition, whenever you finish a short rest, your exhaustion level, if any, is decreased by 1.

 

 

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Fighting Style

At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Archery.

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.

Blind Fighting.

You have blind sight with a range of 10 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn’t behind total cover, even if you’re blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.

Defense.

While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Druidic Warrior.

You learn two cantrips of your choice from the Druid spell list. They count as ranger spells for you, and Wisdom 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 Druid spell list.

Dueling.

When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

Exotic Weaponry

You gain proficiency with all exotic weapons.

Thrown Weapon Fighting.

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

Two-Weapon Fighting.

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Spellcasting

By the time you reach 2nd level, you have learned to use the magical essence of nature to cast spells, much as a druid does.

Spell Slots

The Ranger table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell Animal Friendship and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Animal Friendship using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the ranger spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Ranger table shows when you learn more ranger spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the ranger spells you know and replace it with another spell from the ranger spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your ranger spells, since your magic draws on your attunement to nature. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a ranger spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

 

 

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Ranger Conclave

At 3rd level, you choose to emulate the ideals and training of a ranger conclave. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th, and 15th level.

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.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Land’s Stride

Starting at 8th level, moving through nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through nonmagical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement, such those created by the Entangle spell.

Hide in Plain Sight

Starting at 10th level you may draw on the powers of nature to hide yourself from view briefly. As a bonus action, you can magically become invisible, along with any equipment you are wearing or carrying, until the start of your next turn.

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.

Vanish

Starting at 14th level, you can use the Hide action as a bonus action on your turn. Also, you can’t be tracked by nonmagical means, unless you choose to leave a trail.

Feral Senses

At 18th level, you gain preternatural senses that help you fight creatures you can’t see. When you attack a creature you can’t see, your inability to see it doesn’t impose disadvantage on your attack rolls against it.

You are also aware of the location of any invisible creature within 30 feet of you, provided that the creature isn’t hidden from you and you aren’t blinded or deafened.

Foe Slayer

At 20th level, you become an unparalleled hunter of your enemies. Once on each of your turns, you can add your Wisdom modifier to the attack roll or the damage roll of an attack you make against one of your favored enemies. You can choose to use this feature before or after the roll, but before any effects of the roll are applied.

 

 

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Ranger Conclaves

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you strive to emulate.

Beast Master Conclave

The Beast Master archetype embodies a friendship between the civilized races and the beasts of the world. United in focus, beast and ranger work as one to fight the monstrous foes that threaten civilization and the wilderness alike. Emulating the Beast Master archetype means committing yourself to this ideal, working in partnership with an animal as its companion and friend.

Primal Companion

This 3rd-level feature replaces the Ranger’s Companion feature.

You magically summon a primal beast, which draws strength from your bond with nature. The beast is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands. Choose its stat block-Beast of the Land, or Beast of the Sky-which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You also determine the kind of animal the beast is, choosing a kind appropriate for the stat block. Whatever kind you choose, the beast bears primal markings, indicating its mystical origin.

In combat, the beast acts during your turn. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes 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. You can also sacrifice one of your attacks when you take the Attack action to command the beast to take the Attack action. If you are incapacitated, the beast can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

If the beast has died within the last hour, you can use your action to touch it and expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher. The beast returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored. When you finish a long rest, you can summon a different primal beast. The new beast appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you, and you choose its stat block and appearance. If you already have a beast from this feature, it vanishes when the new beast appears. The beast also vanishes if you die.

Exceptional Training

Beginning at 7th level, on any of your turns when your primal companion doesn’t attack, you can use a bonus action to command the beast to take the Dash, Disengage, or Help action on its turn. In addition, the beast’s attacks now count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Bestial Fury

Starting at 11th level, when you command your primal companion to take the Attack action, the beast can make two attacks, or it can take the Multiattack action if it has that action.

Share Spells

Beginning at 15th level, when you cast a spell targeting yourself, you can also affect your primal companion with the spell if the beast is within 30 feet of you.

 

 

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Hunter Conclave

Some rangers seek to master weapons to better protect civilization from the terrors of the wilderness. Members of the Hunter Conclave learn specialized fighting techniques for use against the most dire threats, from rampaging ogres and hordes of orcs to towering giants and terrifying dragons.

Hunter’s Prey

At 3rd level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

Colossus Slayer. Your tenacity can wear down the most potent foes. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage if it’s below its hit point maximum. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn.

Giant Killer. When a Large or larger creature within 5 feet of you hits or misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction to attack that creature immediately after its attack, provided that you can see the creature.

Horde Breaker. Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature that is within 5 feet of the original target and within range of your weapon.

Defensive Tactics

At 7th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

Escape the Horde. Opportunity attacks against you are made with disadvantage.

Multiattack Defense. When a creature hits you with an attack, you gain a +4 bonus to AC against all subsequent attacks made by that creature for the rest of the turn.

Steel Will. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Multiattack

At 11th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

Volley. You can use your action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point you can see within your weapon’s range. You must have ammunition for each target, as normal, and you make a separate attack roll for each target

Whirlwind Attack. You can use your action to make melee attacks against any number of creatures within 5 feet of you, with a separate attack roll for each target.

Superior Hunter’s Defense

At 15th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

Evasion. When you are subjected to an effect, such as a red dragon’s fiery breath or a lightning bolt spell, that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on a saving throw, and only half damage if you fail

Stand Against the Tide. When a hostile creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature to repeat the same attack against another creature (other than itself) of your choice.

Uncanny Dodge. When an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the attack’s damage against you.

 

 

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Monster Slayer Conclave

You have dedicated yourself to hunting down creatures of the night and wielders of grim magic. A monster slayer seeks out vampires, dragons, evil fey, fiends, and other magical threats. Trained in supernatural techniques to overcome such monsters, slayers are experts at unearthing and defeating mighty, mystical foes.

Monster Slayer Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Monster Slayer Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Monster Slayer Spells

Ranger Level	Spells
3rd	Protection from Evil and Good
5th	Zone of Truth
9th	Magic Circle
13th	Banishment
17th	Hold Monster

Hunter’s Sense

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to peer at a creature and magically discern how best to hurt it. As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. You immediately learn whether the creature has any damage immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities and what they are. If the creature is hidden from divination magic, you sense that it has no damage immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities.

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

Slayer’s Prey

Starting at 3rd level, you can focus your ire on one foe, increasing the harm you inflict on it. As a bonus action, you designate one creature you can see within 60 feet of you as the target of this feature. The first time each turn that you hit that target with a weapon attack, it takes an extra 1d6 damage from the weapon.

This benefit lasts until you finish a short or long rest. It ends early if you designate a different creature.

Supernatural Defense

At 7th level, you gain extra resilience against your prey’s assaults on your mind and body. Whenever the target of your Slayer’s Prey forces you to make a saving throw and whenever you make an ability check to escape that target’s grapple, add 1d6 to your roll.

Magic-User’s Nemesis

At 11th level, you gain the ability to thwart someone else’s magic. When you see a creature casting a spell or teleporting within 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction to try to magically foil it. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC, or its spell or teleport fails and is wasted.

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

Slayer’s Counter

At 15th level, you gain the ability to counterattack when your prey tries to sabotage you. If the target of your Slayer’s Prey forces you to make a saving throw, you can use your reaction to make one weapon attack against the quarry. You make this attack immediately before making the saving throw. If the attack hits, your save automatically succeeds, in addition to the attack’s normal effects.

 

 

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Stalker Conclave

You are a shadow, an unseen hunter who stalks the cool desert nights and lightless chasms beneath Athas. The rangers of the Stalker Conclave hunt down the threats that plague the night.

Night Scout

At 3rd level, you master the art of the ambush. On your first turn during combat, you gain a +10 bonus to your speed, and if you use the Attack action, you can make one additional attack.

You are also adept at evading creatures that rely on darkvision. Such creatures gain no benefit when attemptingto detect you in dark and dim conditions. Additionally, when the DM determines if you can hide from a creature, that creature gains no benefit from its darkvision.

Shadow Magic

At 3rd level, you gain darkvision out to a range of 90 feet. If you already have darkvision, you increase its range by 30 feet.

You also gain access to additional spells at 3rd, 5th, 9th, 13th, and 15th level. Once you gain a deep stalker spell, it counts as a ranger spell for you but doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Stalker Spells

Ranger Level	Spells
3rd	Sleep
5th	Blur
9th	glyph of warding
13th	greater invisibility
17th	dream

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Iron Mind

At 7th level, you gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws.

Stalker’s Flurry

Starting at 11th level, once on each of your turns when you miss with an attack, you can make another attack.

Stalker’s Dodge

At 15th level, whenever a creature attacks you and does not have advantage, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the creature’s attack roll against you. You can use this feature before or after the attack roll is made, but it must be used before the outcome of the roll is determined.

 

 

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Rogue

Description

 Athas is a world of intrigue and treachery, of shady  deals and secretive organizations - it’s a rogue’s  paradise. Within the secure walls of the city states,   many typically roguish occupations have become   institutions unto themselves. Assassins, bards, and   thieves alike have become pawns of the wealthy,   deployed in deadly games of deceit between noble   families.

 Class Features

 As a rogue, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

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• Armor: Light armor
• Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords
• Tools: Thieves’ tools
• Saving Throws: Dexterity, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose four from Acrobatics, Athletics, Endurance, Gambling, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception, Performance, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth

Equipment

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

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• (a) a rapier or (b) a shortsword
• (a) a shortbow and quiver of 20 arrows or (b) a shortsword
• Leather armor, two daggers, and thieves’ tools

 

 

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Expertise

At 1st level, choose two of your skill proficiencies, or one of your skill proficiencies and your proficiency with thieves’ tools. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

At 6th level, you can choose two more of your proficiencies (in skills or with thieves’ tools) to gain this benefit.

Sneak Attack

Beginning at 1st level, you know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe’s distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack must use a finesse or a ranged weapon.

You don’t need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn’t incapacitated, and you don’t have disadvantage on the attack roll.

The amount of the extra damage increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Sneak Attack column of the Rogue table.

Thieves’ Cant

During your rogue training you learned thieves’ cant, a secret mix of dialect, jargon, and code that allows you to hide messages in seemingly normal conversation. Only another creature that knows thieves’ cant understands such messages.

In addition, you understand a set of secret signs and symbols used to convey short, simple messages, such as whether an area is dangerous or the territory of a thieves’ guild, whether loot is nearby, or whether the people in an area are easy marks or will provide a safe house for thieves on the run.

Cunning Action

Starting at 2nd level, your quick thinking and agility allow you to move and act quickly. You can take a bonus action on each of your turns in combat. This action can be used only to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.

Roguish Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you emulate in the exercise of your rogue abilities. Your archetype choice grants you features at 3rd level and then again at 9th, 13th, and 17th level.

Steady Aim

At 3rd level, as a bonus action, you give yourself advantage on your next attack roll on the current turn. You can use this bonus action only if you haven’t moved during this turn, and after you use the bonus action, your speed is 0 until the end of the current turn.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 10th, 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.

Uncanny Dodge

Starting at 5th level, when an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the attack’s damage against you.

Evasion

Beginning at 7th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon’s fiery breath or an Ice Storm spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Reliable Talent

By 11th level, you have refined your chosen skills until they approach perfection. Whenever you make an ability check that lets you add your proficiency bonus, you can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.

Blindsense

Starting at 14th level, if you are able to hear, you are aware of the location of any hidden or invisible creature within 10 feet of you.

Slippery Mind

By 15th level, you have acquired greater mental strength. You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws.

Elusive

Beginning at 18th level, you are so evasive that attackers rarely gain the upper hand against you. No attack roll has advantage against you while you aren’t incapacitated.

Stroke of Luck

At 20th level, you have an uncanny knack for succeeding when you need to. If your attack misses a target within range, you can turn the miss into a hit. Alternatively, if you fail an ability check, you can treat the d20 roll as a 20.

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

 

 

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Roguish Archetypes

Rogues have many features in common, including their emphasis on perfecting their skills, their precise and deadly approach to combat, and their increasingly quick reflexes. But different rogues steer those talents in varying directions, embodied by the rogue archetypes. Your choice of archetype is a reflection of your focus— not necessarily an indication of your chosen profession, but a description of your preferred techniques.

Assassin

You focus your training on the grim art of death. Those who adhere to this archetype are diverse: hired killers, spies, bounty hunters, and even specially anointed priests trained to exterminate the enemies of their deity. Stealth, poison, and disguise help you eliminate your foes with deadly efficiency.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with the disguise kit and the poisoner’s kit. Assassinate

Starting at 3rd level, you are at your deadliest when you get the drop on your enemies. You have advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn’t taken a turn in the combat yet. In addition, any hit you score against a creature that is surprised is a critical hit.

Infiltration Expertise

Starting at 9th level, you can unfailingly create false identities for yourself. You must spend seven days and 25 gp to establish the history, profession, and affiliations for an identity. You can’t establish an identity that belongs to someone else. For example, you might acquire appropriate clothing, letters of introduction, and official- looking certification to establish yourself as a member of a trading house from a remote city so you can insinuate yourself into the company of other wealthy merchants.

Thereafter, if you adopt the new identity as a disguise, other creatures believe you to be that person until given an obvious reason not to.

Impostor

At 13th level, you gain the ability to unerringly mimic another person’s speech, writing, and behavior. You must spend at least three hours studying these three components of the person’s behavior, listening to speech, examining handwriting, and observing mannerisms.

Your ruse is indiscernible to the casual observer. If a wary creature suspects something is amiss, you have advantage on any Charisma (Deception) check you make to avoid detection.

Death Strike

Starting at 17th level, you become a master of instant death. When you attack and hit a creature that is surprised, it must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your Dexterity modifier + your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, double the damage of your attack against the creature.

 

 

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Athasian Bard

Some rogues follow the path of the bard, an entertainer to the wealthy and powerful elite of Athas. You strive for flashy performances and exquisite works of art. Your poetics stir the hearts of your listeners. Your music raises their spirits or captures their sorrows. And your dances captivate them.

Few however can see that you are more than you seem;behind the veil of artistic ability, you lead a life of infiltration and assassination. You master the art of poison making, espionage, and blackmailing.

Bonus Proficiencies

Upon taking this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with the Performance skill as well as the poisoner’s kit and one musical instrument of your choice.

Sorcerous Words

When you reach 3rd level, you gain the ability to cast spellscalled “Sorcerous Words”. These words are a form of magic unique to bards and are more closely related to psionics than arcane or elemental magic. A list of all sorcerous word spells appears on the next page.

Spell Slots. The Athasian Bard Sorcerous Words table shows how many spells slots to have to cast your sorcerous words. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

Spells Known. You know two 1st level spells of your choice. The Spells Known column of the Athasian Bard Sorcerous Words table shows when you learn more spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be for a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your sorcerous words. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the DC for a sorcerous word you cast.

Spell Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier.

Verbal Casting. Despite what a spell’s description says, spells you cast using your Sorcerous Words feature only require verbal components, never somatic or material. On the other hand a creature needs to be able to hear your speech to be affected by your spells.

Beguiling Words

Starting at 9th level you can interweave sorcerous words into your speeches, making them far more powerful. If you spend at least a full minute speaking or singing as part of casting a sorcerous word spell all targets have disadvantage on any saving throw to resist the spell.

Countercharm

At 9th level, you gain the ability to use music or words of power to disrupt mind-influencing effects. As an action, you can start a performance or speech that lasts until the end of your next turn. During that time, you and any friendly creatures within 30 feet of you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened or charmed. A creature must be able to hear you to gain this benefit. The counter charm effect ends early if you are incapacitated or silenced

Expert Poisoner

At 13th level, your mastery at poisonmaking has induced you with strong resilience against poisons. You have resistance to poison damage and you’re not affected by the poisoned condition.

Split Enchantment

Starting at 17th level, when you cast a sorcerous word spell of 1st level or higher that targets only one creature, you can have it target a second creature.

 

 

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Inquisitive

As an archetypal Inquisitive, you excel at rooting out secrets and unraveling mysteries. You rely on your sharp eye for detail, but also on your finely honed ability to read the words and deeds of other creatures to determine their true intent. You excel at defeating creatures that hide among and prey upon ordinary folk, and your mastery of lore and your sharp eye make you well equipped to expose and end hidden evils.

Ear for Deceit

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you develop a keen ear for picking out lies. Whenever you make a Wisdom (Insight) check to determine whether a creature is lying, treat a roll of 7 or lower on the d20 as an 8.

Eye for Detail

Starting at 3rd level, you can use a bonus action to make a Wisdom (Perception) check to spot a hidden creature or object or to make an Intelligence (Investigation) check to uncover or decipher clues.

Insightful Fighting

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to decipher an opponent’s tactics and develop a counter to them. As a bonus action, you make a Wisdom (Insight) check against a creature you can see that isn’t incapacitated, contested by the target’s Charisma (Deception) check. If you succeed, you can use your Sneak Attack against that target even if you don’t have advantage on the attack roll, but not if you have disadvantage on it.

This benefit lasts for 1 minute or until you successfully use this feature against a different target.

Steady Eye

At 9th level, you gain advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) check if you move no more than half your speed on the same turn.

Unerring Eye

At 13th level, your senses are almost impossible to foil. As an action, you sense the presence of illusions, shapechangers not in their original form, and other magic designed to deceive the senses within 30 feet of you, provided you aren’t blinded or deafened. You sense that an effect is attempting to trick you, but you gain no insight into what is hidden or into its true nature.

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

Eye for Weakness

At 17th level, you learn to exploit a creature’s weaknesses by carefully studying its tactics and movement. While your Insightful Fighting feature applies to a creature, your Sneak Attack damage against that creature increases by 3d6.

 

 

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Scout

You are skilled in stealth and surviving far from the streets of a city, allowing you to scout ahead of your companions during expeditions. Rogues who embrace this archetype are at home in the wilderness and among barbarians and rangers, and many Scouts serve as the eyes and ears of war bands. Ambusher, spy, bounty hunter – these are just a few of the roles that Scouts assume as they range the world.

Skirmisher

Starting at 3rd level, you are difficult to pin down during a fight. You can move up to half your speed as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet of you. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks.

Survivalist

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Nature and Survival skills if you don’t already have it. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of those proficiencies.

Superior Mobility

At 9th level, your walking speed increases by 10 feet. If you have a climbing or swimming speed, this increase applies to that speed as well.

Ambush Master

Starting at 13th level, you excel at leading ambushes and acting first in a fight.

You have advantage on initiative rolls. In addition, the first creature you hit during the first round of a combat becomes easier for you and others to strike; attack rolls against that target have advantage until the start of your next turn.

Sudden Strike

Starting at 17th level, you can strike with deadly speed. If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make one additional attack as a bonus action. This attack can benefit from your Sneak Attack even if you have already used it this turn, but you can’t use your Sneak Attack against the same target more than once in a turn.

Thief

You hone your skills in the larcenous arts. Burglars, bandits, cutpurses, and other criminals typically follow this archetype, but so do rogues who prefer to think of themselves as professional treasure seekers, explorers, delvers, and investigators. In addition to improving your agility and stealth, you learn skills useful for delving into ancient ruins, reading unfamiliar languages, and using magic items you normally couldn’t employ.

Fast Hands

Starting at 3rd level, you can use the bonus action granted by your Cunning Action to make a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check, use your thieves’ tools to disarm a trap or open a lock, or take the Use an Object action.

Second-Story Work

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain the ability to climb faster than normal; climbing no longer costs you extra movement.

In addition, when you make a running jump, the distance you cover increases by a number of feet equal to your Dexterity modifier.

Supreme Sneak

Starting at 9th level, you have advantage on a Dexterity (Stealth) check if you move no more than half your speed on the same turn.

Use Magic Device

By 13th level, you have learned enough about the workings of magic that you can improvise the use of items even when they are not intended for you. You ignore all class, race, and level requirements on the use of magic items.

Thief’s Reflexes

When you reach 17th level, you have become adept at laying ambushes and quickly escaping danger. You can take two turns during the first round of any combat. You take your first turn at your normal initiative and your second turn at your initiative minus 10. You can’t use this feature when you are surprised.

 

 

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Templar

  Description

 Templars are the greatly feared disciples of the sorcerer-kings. Their organization is steeped in ancient tradition and treacherous politics, and the work they perform for the sorcerer-kings is governed by endless bureaucracy.

To city dwellers, the templars are the enforcers of the sorcerer-king’s will, allowed to run rampant, enforcing the local edicts with painstaking indifference, doling out punishment or even execution with the sorcererking’s blessing. An organization of wicked men looking out for their own wealth and power, the templars are overrun with corruption to the highest level—the sorcerer-kings generally turn a blind eye to bribery and scandal among the templars, provided terror is maintained among their subject populations.

 

 

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Class Features

As a Templar, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d10 per Templar level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per templar level after 1st

Proficiencies

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• Armor: All armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, Martial Weapons
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Deception, Endurance, Gambling, History, Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, and Persuasion

Equipment

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

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• (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial weapons
• (a) five javelins or (b) any simple melee weapon
• Bronze Chain mail

Fighting Style

At 1st level you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Archery

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged w eapons.

Defense

While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

Dueling

When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

Great Weapon Fighting

When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee w eapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

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 ldlO + 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.

Protection

When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.

Superior Technique

You learn one maneuver of your choice from among those available to the Battle Master archetype. If a maneuver you use requires your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver’s effects, the saving throw DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).

You gain one superiority die, which is a d6 (this die is added to any superiority dice you have from another source). This die is used to fuel your maneuvers. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest.

Thrown Weapon Fighting

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

Two- Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Unarmed Fighting

Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage equal to ld6 + your Strength modifier on a hit. If you aren’t wielding any weapons or a shield when you make the attack roll, the d6 becomes a d8.

At the start of each of your turns, you can deal ld4 bludgeoning damage to one creature grappled by you.

Templar’s Authority

At 1st level a templar picks a sorcerer king to serve. While within this sorcerer’s city state they are granted the following powers:

You can call upon a slave to do whatever he wants. Slaves who do not do as ordered by a templar face immediate death.

You can pass judgement upon a slave at any time. In any matter involving disobedience or the actions of a slave, a templar may judge, sentence, or pardon a slave as he sees fit, regardless of who owns the slave.

You can legally enter the house of a freeman. The freeman has no right to refuse the templar admission, under punishment of imprisonment and possible execution.

At 10th level these powers can be used in any city state across the world of Athas.

 

 

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Spellcasting

Begining at 2nd level you gain access to your city state’s templar libraries. Using these records you may record spells into your personal spell book.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Templar table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of templar spells that are available for you to cast. To do so, choose a number of templar spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your templar level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you’re a 5th-level templar, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 16, your list of prepared spells can include eight spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination, chosen from your spellbook. If you prepare the 1st-level spell Magic Missile, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of templar spells requires time spent studying your spellbook and memorizing the incantations and gestures you must make to cast the spell: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellbook

At 2nd level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level templar spells of your choice. (see Spellbook under wizard class for more info).

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your templar spells, since you learn your spells through dedicated study and memorization. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a templar spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast a templar spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell in your spellbook. You don’t need to have the spell prepared.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your templar spells.

Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher

Each time you gain a templar level, you can add two templar spells of your choice to your spellbook. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the templar table. On your adventures, you might find other spells that you can add to your spellbook.

Arcane Defilement

Starting at 2nd level, a templar can choose to defile as part of casting a templar spell of 1st level or higher. Defiling strips the surrounding land of its life energy, turning plant life in the area to lifeless ash. It also empowers the spell being cast greatly, providing one of the benefits from the Empowered Spell Effects list of the caster’s choice.

Empowered Spell Effects

• +1 to Spell Slot Level
• +2 to Spell Attack roll
• +2 to Spell Save DC
• Double spell duration

(see defilement under wizard class for more info on defilement effects).

Templar’s Postition

At 3rd level you choose a postition that you hold in service to the sorcerer king. The different postition choices are City Watch, Undertaker, and Fanatic

Position’s Authority

Your position allows you to excercise special abilities. Each position’s authority option provided by your position explains how to use it.

When you use your position’s authority, you choose which option to use. You must then finish a short or long rest to use your position’s authority again.

Some position’s authority effects require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your templars spell save DC.

Defiling Hands

At 3rd level you can siphon the energy from a living creature to heal yourself. You have a pool of siphoning power that replenishes when you take a long rest. With that pool, you can restore a total number of hit points equal to your templar level x 5.

As an action, you can touch a creature and draw power from the pool to restore a number of hit points to yourself and deal necrotic damage to the creature, up to the maximum amount remaining in your pool.

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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.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Ranked Authority

At 6th level the authority you have increases, and you gain the following powers within the your chosen city state:

You gain access to all areas in palaces and temples. Before that time the templar is restricted from areas such as libraries and council chambers unless ordered to go there by a high-ranked templar.

You can draw upon the city treasury for official investigations. The number of gold pieces you can draw from the treasury is equal to the roll of 5 (1d10) per Templar level, multiplied by his level, per month. For example, a 7th level templar would roll 7d10 then multiply the result by 10. Few questions are asked when gold is requisitioned, provided no attempt is made to withdraw funds more often than once per month.

You can accuse and pass judgement on a freeman. Judgement can be in the form of a fine, a stretch of time in the dungeons, enslavement, execution, or anything else the templar wishes. Failure to comply makes the judged freeman an outlaw who, if caught, will be executed.

Defiling Strike

At 11th level, whenever you hit a creature with a melee weapon, the creature takes an extra 1d8 necrotic damage.

High Ranked Authority

At 14th level the authority you have increases, and you gain the following powers within the your chosen city state:

You can accuse and pass judgement on a noble. Judgement can be in the form of a fine, a stretch of time in the dungeons, enslavement, execution, or anything else the templar wishes. Failure to comply makes the judged freeman an outlaw who, if caught, will be executed.

You can grant a pardon to any condemned man. Only the sorcerer king themself can nullify the pardons granted by such a character.

 

 

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Templar’s Postitions

Within their city states templars fill many roles essential to the city’s survival. These posititons garner different skills and abilities from undertakers to the city guards.

City Watch

Templars of the city watch are by far the most abundant and hated. They use their authority to enforce the laws and take advantage of the citizens of their city state.

Position’s Authority

When you take this Position at 3rd level, you gain the following two position’s authority options:

Champion Challenge. As a bonus action, you issue a challenge that compels other creatures to do battle with you. Each creature of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature can’t willingly move more than 30 feet away from you. This effect ends on the creature if you are incapacitated or die or if the creature is more than 30 feet away from you.

Abjure Enemy. As an action you may choose one creature within 60 feet of you that you can see. That creature must make a Wisdom saving throw, unless it is immune to being frightened.

On a failed save, the creature is frightened for 1 minute or until it takes any damage. While frightened, the creature’s speed is 0, and it can’t benefit from any bonus to its speed.

On a successful save, the creature’s speed is halved for 1 minute or until the creature takes any damage.

Relentless Pursuit

By 7th level, your supernatural focus helps you close off a foe’s retreat. When you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, you can move up to half your speed immediately after the attack and as part of the same reaction. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks.

Unyielding Judge

Starting at 15th level, you have advantage on saving throws to avoid becoming paralyzed or stunned.

Exalted Templar

At 20th level, your presence on the field of battle is an inspiration to those dedicated to your cause. You can use your action to gain the following benefits for 1 hour:

• You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons.

• Your allies have advantage on death saving throws while within 30 feet of you.

• You emanate an aura of menace in a 30-foot radius. The first time any enemy creature enters the aura or starts its turn there during a battle, the creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you for 1 minute or until it takes any damage. Attack rolls against the frightened creature have advantage.

This effect ends early if you are incapacitated or die. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Fanatic

Whether they believe what they preach or not, fanatic templars are tasked with promoting the sorcerer king of their city and ensuring the citizens belive in their king’s rightous rule.

Position’s Authority

When you take this Position at 3rd level, you gain the following two position’s authority options:

Inspiring Defilement. Immediately after you cast a spell and use your arcane defilement, you can use your position’s authority as a bonus action and distribute temporary hit points to creatures of your choice within 30 feet of you, which can include you. The total number of temporary hit points equals 2d8 + your level in this class, divided among the chosen creatures however you like.

Turn the Unfaithful. As an action, you present your sorcerer king’s symbol and speak of their power. Each humanoid that can see or hear you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes damage.

A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can’t willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. It also can’t take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there’s nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.

Aura of Devotion

Starting at 7th level, you and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you can’t be charmed while you are conscious.

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Fanatic Defense

When you reach 15th level, you can turn defense into a sudden strike. When you or another creature you can see within 10 feet of you is hit by an attack roll, you can use your reaction to grant a bonus to the target’s AC against that attack, potentially causing it to miss. The bonus equals your Charisma modifier (minimum of +1). If the attack misses, you can make one weapon attack against the attacker as part of this reaction, provided the attacker is within your weapon’s range.

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

Legend of the Sorcerers At 20th level, you can empower yourself with the legends — whether true or exaggerated — of the sorcerer kings. As a bonus action, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute:

• You are blessed with an otherworldly presence, gaining advantage on all Charisma checks.

• Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack and miss, you can cause that attack to hit instead.

• If you fail a saving throw, you can use your reaction to reroll it. You must use this new roll.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a 5th-level spell slot to use it again.

Undertaker

Undertakers are the most feared templars, even being feared by other templars. They clear the city of the dead and dieing, often taking the bodies out into the desert to be eaten or worse.

Position’s Authority

When you take this Position at 3rd level, you gain the following two position’s authority options:

Control Undead. As an action, you target one undead creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target must obey your commands for the next 24 hours, or until you use this Position’s Authority option again. An undead whose challenge rating is equal to or greater than your Templar level is immune to this effect.

Dreadful Aspect. As an action, you channel the darkest emotions and focus them into a burst of magical menace. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw if it can see you. On a failed save, the target is frightened of you for 1 minute. If a creature frightened by this effect ends its turn more than 30 feet away from you, it can attempt another Wisdom saving throw to end the effect on it.

Aura of death

Starting at 7th level you, as well as any undead within 10 feet of you, gain a bonus to melee weapon damage rolls equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +1). A creature can benefit from this feature from only one templar at a time.

At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

Supernatural Resistance

At 15th level, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons.

Dread Lord

At 20th level, you can, as an action, surround yourself with an aura of gloom that lasts for 1 minute. The aura reduces any bright light in a 30-foot radius around you to dim light. Whenever an enemy that is frightened by you starts its turn in the aura, it takes 4d10 psychic damage. Additionally, you and any creatures of your choosing in the aura are draped in deeper shadow. Creatures that rely on sight have disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures draped in this shadow.

While the aura lasts, you can use a bonus action on your turn to cause the shadows in the aura to attack one creature. Make a melee spell attack against the target. If the attack hits, the target takes necrotic damage equal to 3d10 + your Charisma modifier.

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Wizard

   Description

  Athasian wizards drain energy from the   surrounding soil. The method used labels the   wizard as a defiler or a preserver. Preservers have  the self–control to gather energy without destroying plants. Those who do not, or who feel no remorse about the damage caused, become Defilers. Defilers leave behind sterile soil and infertile ash when they cast spells.

Because of this, most wastelanders blame wizards for the desert landscape that dominates the Tablelands today, and their hatred extends to defilers and preservers alike. In the seven cities, arcane magic is outlawed and feared. Writing is illegal in the Tablelands, thus wizards have to go to great lengths to conceal their spellbooks, and they have refined this art to the point where even fellow wizards can be hard pressed to identify a spell book.

 

 

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Class Features

As a wizard, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

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• Hit Dice: 1d6 per wizard level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per wizard level after 1st

Proficiencies

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• Armor: None
• Weapons: Daggers, darts, slings, quarterstaffs, light crossbows
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Endurance, Gambling, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, and Religion

Equipment

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

• (a) a quarterstaff or (b) a dagger
• (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
• A spellbook

Spellcasting

As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook containing spells that show the first glimmerings of your true power.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. You learn additional wizard cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Wizard table.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Wizard table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of wizard spells that are available for you to cast. To do so, choose a number of wizard spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your wizard level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you’re a 3rd-level wizard, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination, chosen from your spellbook. If you prepare the 1st-level spell Magic Missile, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of wizard spells requires time spent studying your spellbook and memorizing the incantations and gestures you must make to cast the spell: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your wizard spells, since you learn your spells through dedicated study and memorization. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a wizard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast a wizard spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell in your spellbook. You don’t need to have the spell prepared.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells.

Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher

Each time you gain a wizard level, you can add two wizard spells of your choice to your spellbook. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the Wizard table. On your adventures, you might find other spells that you can add to your spellbook.

 

 

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Spellbook

At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level wizard spells of your choice.

Arcane Defilement

Starting a 1st level, a wizard can choose to defile as part of casting a wizard spell of 1st level or higher. Defiling strips the surrounding land of its life energy, turning plant life in the area to lifeless ash. It also empowers the spell being cast greatly, providing one of the benefits from the Empowered Spell Effects list of the caster’s choice.

Empowered Spell Effects

• +1 to Spell Slot Level
• +2 to Spell Attack roll
• +2 to Spell Save DC
• Double spell duration

Destructive Spell Effects

Defiling creates an area of ecological devastation around the caster dependant on the level of the spell slot expended and the abundance of vegetation in the area (see Area of Defilement table below).

All non-creature plant life in the area is turned to ash while plant creatures that are caught in the area of effect suffer 1d10 necrotic damage per level of the spell slot used, turning to ash if reduced to 0 hit points by this damage.

If a wizard casts more than one defiled spell from the same location, the radius of destruction expands even further with each defiled spell expanded the radius of defiled land by the distance indicated.

Defiled Terrain

The ash created by defiling magic is black and gray, completely devoid of life-giving elements. The ash itself is very light and usually blows away, leaving behind a lifeless, circular scar on the ground. Even with the ash gone, the defiling magic has leeched all life-giving nutrients from the soil, so that an area defiled may take many years to recover life, if it ever does.

Casting arcane spells in defiled terrain can be difficult as the wizard must draw energy from further away. If a wizard attempts to cast a spell while standing in an area of defiled terrain they must succeed on an Intelligence (Arcana) check or the spell fails. The DC for this check is equal to 10 plus the spell’s level.