The Kalay have no customary patronymic or matronymic system and thus there is no surname at all

The most recently arrived of Thule’s human peoples, the Lomari came to the primeval continent only a few short generations ago, migrating from lands over the ocean. They are comparatively few in number and are dominant in only one city, Lomar. There are no savage or barbaric Lomari tribes, but Lomari freeholds and homesteads are scattered throughout the hills south of the Kalayan Sea. Already these outposts are adopting more of the ways of their barbaric neighbors, although it is too soon to say that they have forgotten civilized ways.

Lomari are generally tall and long-legged, although not quite so tall or heavily built as Atlanteans or Nimothans. They have dark complexions ranging from a warm brown to a jet black, with African features, dark eyes, and black hair. Men generally dress in cotton kilts, often dyed in bright colors, while women favor long, sleeveless dresses. Both typically add long, loose robes when faring into cooler regions. Most Lomari men consider themselves warriors and wear arms and armor everywhere outside their homes.

The Lomari are a martial race; war and conquest are the pillars of their society, and civic life revolves around the honors (and plunder) each warrior wins in the city’s endless campaigns. In personal dealings, the Lomari tend to be courteous, honorable, and generous. They are nearly as pious as the Kalays, and as moderate in behavior as the Dhari. However, Lomari are very proud and can be quick to take offense; a Lomari is likely to respond to an insult by challenging the offender to a deadly duel.

Examples of Lomari Names

Male Names. Adelio, Alaric, Alex, Andrea, Bailey, Beno, Bente, Charles , Clove, Conrad, Derek, Dwight, Eike, Faber, Finn, Frederick, Harlan, Haydn , Jarvis, Johannes, Kellen, Kim, Maxi, Milo, Otis, Robin, Rocco, Romy, Ryker , Sascha, Stefan, Voss, Wolf

Female Names. Ada, Alex, Alviria, Andrea, Bailey, Bente, Clarissa, Clove , Eda, Eike, Elsa, Evi, Gratia, Gretchen, Heidi, Ingrid, Ivana, Juliane , Karla, Katja, Kim, Lenore, Maude, Maxi, Mika, Millie, Robin, Romy, Sascha , Sofia, Tilly, Toni, Voss, Winola

Surnames. Ackles, Aimar, Aldane, Averne, Balfager, Baygents, Benningfield, Bodily, Bryer, Burkhart, Bux, Clebsch, Coish, Corpus, Downing, Earlbaum, Emor Eymor, Fogg, Gast, Gentsch, Haag, Helthon, Hengeston, Henkeston, Hildegard Hingeston, Hinxstone, Holloway, Hyndestan, Hyndeston, Immers, Ivey, Kebel, Legler Lumb, Marschall, Morgade, Pyron, Rockhold, Runds, Scharnke, Sercombe, Speier, Stogner, Vigh, Widukind, Woehrle, Wykes

NIMOTHAN

Fierce warriors of the northern lands, Nimothans are a people without a homeland. The island of Nimoth now lies under the encroaching glaciers, and for decades the old kingdom of the Nimothan people has been abandoned to the ice. Migrating southward, the Nimothan tribes have carved out new lands for themselves along Thule’s northern coasts in places such as Nim, Rime, and the chiefdoms of the Thousand Teeth with bloody axes and burning brands. A southerly branch of the tribe conquered old Atlantean holdings in southern Thule long ago, and now makes up most of the population of the predatory city of Marg. However, even city-dwelling Nimothans are barbarians at heart, scorning civilization and its decadent ways.

Nimothans are tall and strongly built; the average man is more than 6 feet in height, and it’s not unusual for Nimothan women to reach 6 feet as well. They are very fair-skinned, although those who travel extensively in southerly lands can eventually acquire a light tan. Their hair is light brown, blond, or red, and their eyes are usually blue or gray. Nimothan men take pride in growing the largest beard or mustache they can, and both men and women usually braid their hair.

Bold, boastful, and given to extravagant gestures, Nimothans laugh loudly, fly into sudden rages, fall into crushing melancholy, or hurl themselves into mad ventures at the blink of an eye. Most other people in Thule are convinced that the Nimothan race is touched by madness. Nimothans are quick to settle differences with contests of strength, fisticuffs, or edged weapons, but they rarely hold grudges for long.

Examples of Nimothan Names

Male Names. Anders, Andreas, Arne, Bjørn, Christian, Daniel, Einar, Eirik , Erik, Espen, Fredrik, Frode, Geir, Gunnar, Håkon, Hans, Harald, Helge, Jan , John, Jon, Jonas, Kjell, Knut, Kristian, Lars, Leif, Magnus, Marius, Martin , Morten, Nils, Odd, Olav, Ole, Øystein, Øyvind, Per, Rolf, Rune, Steinar , Stian, Svein, Terje, Thomas, Tom, Tor, Tore, Trond

Female Names. Anita, Ann, Anna, Anne, Åse, Astrid, Aud, Bente, Berit, Bjørg , Camilla, Elin, Elisabeth, Ellen, Else, Eva, Gerd, Hanne, Hege, Heidi, Hilde , Ida, Inger, Ingrid, Jorunn, Julie, Kari, Karin, Kristin, Kristine, Laila , Linda, Liv, Maria, Marianne, Marie, Marit, Mona, Monica, Nina, Ragnhild , Randi, Reidun, Silje, Solveig, Stine, Tone, Tove, Turid, Wenche

This serves as your character background—it’s your character’s origin story, and describes how other people in the setting see your character.

Bearer of the Black Book

The Black Book holds dark wisdom within its pages, for any who dare open it and read the ever-changing ink scrawl within. The Black Book is an artifact, and it’s your duty—or curse—to carry it with you and add to its eldritch lore.

Tool Proficiency: Your choice of a gaming set or a musical instrument
Equipment: The Black Book, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp

Skill Training (1st level): You are trained in Arcana and History, topics discussed at length within the book.

Eldritch Power (1st level): You gain a bonus spell slot of the highest level you can normally cast. If you cannot cast spells as an occultist or magician, you instead learn chill touch and true strike; you can use these spells at will. The Black Book holds many arcane secrets.

Hidden Insight (6th level): The Black Book can act as a focus and material component for any divination spell. The book is not consumed when used as a material component in this way.

Secret Lore (10th level): Once per day, you can cast legend lore by simply consulting the book. You need not know the spell or otherwise be able to cast it.

Beastfriend

You are a loner, more comfortable in the silent company of a loyal animal friend than among people, who are complicated and unpredictable. You see things in the world around you that most others miss, and possess a seemingly supernatural ability to train animals of all kinds.

Tool Proficiency: One type of musical instrument
Equipment: A staff, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): You gain training in Animal Handling and Survival, and you learn the Urgan language. You possess an unusual empathy for animals, and you understand how and where they live.

Animal Rapport (1st level): You can use the Animal Handling skill to influence both domesticated and wild animals. In general, you can only guide wild animals toward behavior they might normally exhibit anyway. For example, a successful check might convince a predator to head off in search of easier prey, convince a territorial beast such as a muskox to ignore an intrusion instead of charging, or drive herd animals away from danger. If the wild animal is undecided, the DC of the check is 10. If the animal is committed to the behavior you are trying to change, the DC is 20. If you are dealing with a number of creatures at once (for example, a herd or pack), the DC increases by 5.

Deep Rapport (6th level): When you use the Animal Handling skill, you charm the animal if you succeed. It remains charmed for 24 hours, until you dismiss it or charm a different animal, or until you or one of your companions harms it.

Animal Companion (10th level): You gain a loyal servant in the form of a wolf, panther, raptor, or similar animal. This functions like the ranger’s beast companion feature except that you can also choose a Large animal suitable for use as a mount (for example, a riding horse, warhorse, dire wolf, Thulean elk, or giant lizard). Your effective ranger level is equal to your character level –4.

Dhari Hunter

Leading a life close to nature, you are quick, keen- eyed, inured to hardship, and intimately familiar with the plants and animals of your favored hunting grounds. Your spear or bow is your companion; you are fearless in the face of any wilderness hazard or natural danger. Few indeed can match your woodcraft or your endurance.

Tool Proficiency: Herbalism kit
Equipment: A hunting trap, an herbalism kit, a beast-hide cloak, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): You are trained in Stealth and Survival. To be a successful hunter, one must understand every aspect of game behavior— including what else might be hunting the game you seek—but the first rule of the hunt is to not let yourself be seen, heard, or smelled by the beast you are stalking.

Hunter’s Strike (1st level): When you attack a target that is not aware of you or has not acted yet in the encounter, you can choose to perform a hunter’s strike. You gain advantage with the strike, and if you hit, you deal maximum damage with your weapon. You can use Hunter’s Strike once per short or long rest.

Dhari Chieftain (10th level): You become the chief of your tribe or establish a new tribe of your own. You gain sufficient followers to call for raids; your followers are equivalent to tribal warriors. Your tribe numbers a couple of hundred warriors, spouses, and children, and your tribal lands cover about 1,000 square miles. In its own lands, your tribe is almost impossible to locate or attack, and it is quite capable of getting along without you for long periods of time if you continue to adventure.

Escaped Slave

The vile practice of slavery is endemic throughout Thule. Some slaves are resigned to their lot and make the best of things that they can, but that was never your way. You spent years dreaming of freedom, and making plans to escape your bondage. Now that you are your own master, you can go anywhere you want and make anything you want of yourself. You are poor, desperate, and surrounded by enemies—but you are determined to die a free man.

Tool Proficiency: Thieves' Tools
Equipment: A a set of common clothes, a trinket of special significance, and 1 sp.

Skill Training (1st level): Years of oppression have imparted hard lessons in how to endure your labors and deceive your masters. You are trained in your choice of two of the following skills: Athletics, Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Deception

Blend with the Crowd (1st level): You excel at looking like you’re where you’re supposed to be and doing what you’re supposed to be doing—casual observers mistake you for a poor laborer, field slave, or house servant and pay you no mind. You can use an action on your turn to become hidden by blending into any modest crowd of laborers or servants, such as a typical city street, a tavern, a work gang, or the slaves attending to a noble banquet. You can’t use this ability in combat unless you are out of the line of sight of your enemies. You gain advantage on Charisma/Deception checks to pass yourself off as part of the crowd while you’re blending if someone has reason to be suspicious.

You can use Blend with the Crowd once, and then you must finish a short rest before you can use it again.

Brotherhood in Bonds (6th level): You enjoy only one significant advantage in life: the friendship, admiration, and sympathy of the vast majority of Thule’s slaves. Even those who do not dare to attempt escape are always looking for other ways to strike back at their masters, and are willing to take deadly risks to help you. You have advantage on any ability or skill check made to interact with slaves.

New Identity (10th level): Your days as a slave are long behind you; you are no longer at risk of being returned to captivity, and have made a new place for yourself in the world. Choose one of the following narratives: Dhari hunter, free blade, jungle trader, panjandrum, Quodethi thief, or soothsayer. You gain the 6th-level feature of the narrative you choose as your new identity. When you reach 15th level, you gain the 10th-level benefit of the narrative you chose for your new identity.

Free Blade

Whether you’re a professional mercenary with a careful eye for the odds or a bored barbarian looking for adventure, you keep your sword loose in the scabbard and your coinpurse where you can see it. You’re ambitious, resourceful, and pragmatic—all the gold in the world is worthless to a dead man. Above all, you are a great believer in the power of opportunity. No matter where you are or what you’re doing, you never stop looking for your next big chance. If it involves making enemies or breaking laws, so be it.

Tool Proficiency: One type of gaming set, vehicles (land)
Equipment: Traveler’s clothes, a gaming set of your choice, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): Your travels and business associations have provided you with a certain breadth of knowledge. You gain a bonus language selected from the following: High Atlantean, Dhari, Kalayan, Lomari, Nimothan, Urgan. You are also trained in Intimidation.

Opportunist (1st level): You gain advantage on all opportunity attacks.

Sellsword (6th level): Whenever you are paid gold for your services, you get 50% more gold. In addition, you gain advantage on skill checks made to interact with mercenaries or other soldiers for hire.

Company of Blades (10th level): You have worked for, with, and against many other sellswords and earned their respect. You now have a company of elite warriors at your call. The warriors of your company are equivalent to berserkers or legionaries; you can choose which you prefer. When you reach 15th level, they improve to veterans.

Golden Sea Corsair

As a corsair, you live outside the law and are recognized by all civilized lands (and more than a few of the tribal peoples) as an enemy of all mankind, deserving of nothing less than a swift execution should you ever fall into the hands of the authorities or tribal elders. Even if you are not personally a vicious brute, you understand that the day you show weakness is the day you die, whether at the hands of your would-be victims or under the knives of your own comrades. Yet, despite the enmity of all good people and the fellowship of brutes and murderers, you have something beyond price: absolute freedom. You kneel to no one.

Skill Bonuses (1st level): Thanks to your experience as a pirate on the high seas, you are trained in Acrobatics and Athletics.

Cutthroat Strike (1st level): When you attack a creature that is threatened by at least one of your allies (in other words, it’s within your ally’s reach), you can choose to perform a cutthroat strike. You gain advantage on the attack, and if you hit, the target becomes frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

You can use Cutthroat Strike once per short or long rest.

Infamy (6th level): As word of your exploits gets around, you gain the respect of other pirates, merchants, and outlaws of the coastal regions around the Kalayan Sea and along the Atlantean Ocean. You gain advantage on all skill checks made to interact with people familiar with your reputation.

Pirate Terror (10th level): Your former shipmates make you captain of your own ship. You can sail with them whenever you need sea transportation, since your crew keeps your ship in a nearby port or will readily steal one if you need something sooner. Your crew provides you with raiders any time you are aboard your ship, and the spoils your crew obtains provides you with a moderate income (see Followers and Income, under narrative benefits). Your raiders are equivalent to bandits. Once per three years, you can summon an army in the form of a corsair fleet.

Guardian of the Nine

Some of Thule’s faiths call it scripture and to others it’s heresy, but there’s a belief among the Guardians of the Nine that millennia ago, the Great Old Ones rose and walked the earth, and only by combining forces did the gods defeat them. This diminished the gods as well, which is why deities do not (or cannot) manifest in the world anymore either. The Guardians of the Nine will do anything to ensure that the Great Old Ones, individually or collectively, never threaten the world again.

Tool Proficiency: none
Equipment: Emblem of the Guardians, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): You are trained in Arcana and Investigation. Unraveling the true purpose of a mad cult requires a combination of occult lore and attention to detail.

Mind Clearing (1st level): When you fail a Wisdom or Charisma saving throw, you can use a combat reaction to reroll your saving throw. You must abide by the results of the second save. You can use Mind Clearing once, and then you must complete a short rest before you can use it again.

Banisher of Horrors (6th level): You gain a +1 bonus to attacks, defenses, and saving throws when you’re battling creatures with the extraterrene trait.

Elder Scribe (10th level): You gain the ability to inscribe an elder sign. Creating an elder sign requires an 8-hour ritual that must be performed under the correct astrological alignment, and a suitable piece of a rare type of soapstone. You can assume that the proper conditions occur about once per year, although if an elder sign you create is lost or destroyed, you may be able to replace it sooner (GM’s discretion).

Ice Reaver

As one of these northern raiders, you are at home in the frozen lands. Your world is simple: The strong survive, and the weak perish. You regard the city-folk of the south as soft and decadent, and despise their hedonistic ways even when you choose to sell your axe or spear as a mercenary. The gods gave you the power to strive and to slay when you were born, and you intend to carve your way to greatness with your bloody sword or axe.

Tool Proficiency: One type of gaming set, vehicles (water)
Equipment: A trophy taken from a fallen enemy (a dagger, broken blade, or piece of a banner), a set of bone dice or deck of cards, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): You are proficient in Intimidation, and one other skill appropriate to your tribe: Athletics or Animal Handling. Ice reavers are renowned for their violent ways, and you are familiar with the hard terrain of your home.

Reaver’s Charge (1st level): You can perform a Reaver’s Charge before initiative is rolled in an encounter, as long as you are not surprised, or as a bonus attack when you reduce an enemy to 0 hit points (or less) with a melee attack. When you perform a Reaver’s Charge, you move up to your speed and make a melee attack.

You can use Reaver’s Charge once, and then you must complete a short rest before you can use it again.

Renowned Raider (6th level): Your name is known among the fighting peoples of Thule, and your reputation precedes you. When you make a skill or ability check to interact with barbarians, mercenaries, or outlaws, you gain tactical advantage.

Reaver Chief (10th level): You can call for raiders from your homeland to go marauding with you (including a ship if they are a seafaring people). Your raiders are equivalent to tribal warriors. Once per three years, you can raise a horde for a major attack. See Followers, under narrative benefits.

Some devoted worshipers of a god are content to join the rank-and-file priesthood, while others join obscure sects or orders (like the Guardians of the Nine, above). You feel the call of your patron deity deeply, though— so deeply that you want to bask in every glory and revelation your god has to offer. Over time, you’ll learn secrets scarcely imaginable to more ordinary worshipers. You’ll grow ever closer to understanding the very mind of the god you worship. And perhaps most importantly, you’ll ascend through the religious hierarchy to a place where the rank-and-file worshipers may start venerating you.

Tool Proficiency: none
Equipment: A holy symbol (a gift to you when you entered the priesthood), a prayer book or prayer wheel, 5 sticks of incense, vestments, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): You are trained in Religion, as well as one additional skill related to your god’s portfolio: Athletics (Tarhun), Deception (Ishtar), History (Nergal), Insight (Asura), Intimidation (Tiamat), Medicine (Kishar), Persuasion (Mithra), Stealth (Set), or Survival (Herum).

Healing Blessing (1st level): You can use an action to heal yourself or another with a touch. You can heal hit points equal to your character level per day, and need not use all of your blessing at once. (For example, at 5th level, you could heal two times, restoring 2 and 3 hit points). If the recipient is someone other than you, they also gain the benefit of a resistance spell until the end of your next turn.

Inner Circle (6th level): You are initiated into the senior priesthood of your temple. All subordinates in your temple hierarchy follow your orders. Priests and adherents from other temples that share your deity regard you as an authority figure or honored guest and do their best to accommodate your requests. If an interaction skill check is necessary to influence your fellow priests or worshipers, you gain advantage on the check.

Keeper of the Shrine (10th level): Worshipers of your god raise funds to build a shrine to your deity and to you. They consult with you on its location and construction, though they possess only ordinary building techniques and craftsmanship. The shrine, once completed, can serve as a “home base” for you. While there, you have a reasonable expectation of safety, insofar as anyplace in Thule can be considered “safe.” You gain a company of bodyguards; half are priests, and half are legionaries. At 15th level, your followers improve to knights.

Jungle Trader

Lots of people call themselves “traders” or “merchants” in Thule, but you don’t have much in common with the farmer bringing his vegetables downriver or the wagoneer selling ceramic pots from village to village. You favor high-margin cargoes and dangerous routes. You’re also comfortable with speculation—you’ll observe a shortage and buy (or otherwise “acquire”) the available supply. Everything from spices to silks to alchemical reagents to magic-imbued materials is in your hands just long enough for you to get it to the buyer and collect your profit.

Tool Proficiency: Any one musical instrument or gaming set of your choice
Equipment: One set of traveler’s clothes, detailed maps from one geographic area of Thule, and a pouch containing 5 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): You are trained in Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, and Survival.

Estimate Value (1st level): You can use an action to carefully study an item and determine its value. This functions as an identify spell, with no component cost. If the item studied is not magical, you instead determine its value in gold pieces (and where in Thule it will most likely command the highest price). You can use Estimate Value once per day.

Profit Margin (6th level): Whenever you sell a gem, art object, or magic item for gold, you obtain 10% more than the standard price.

Trade Empire (10th level): Over the course of your career, you have created a network of local trade agents, factotums, and business partners—a continental trade empire with you at its head. The activities of your trade network provide you with a high income. In addition, your personal wealth is accessible in any city of Thule. Local counting-houses and moneychangers are aware of your resources and can serve as a route by which you can draw on your treasure, no matter where it is actually kept.

Katagian Pit Fighter

Some gladiator arenas are thinly disguised execution chambers, with criminals and the poor herded to their death for sport. But the “pits” of the city-state of Katagia are more sporting than most, with well trained combatants that often survive the match even if they lose. You are one of those gladiators, capable of fighting man or beast for the cheering masses and winning or losing in crowd-pleasing fashion.

Tool Proficiency: Disguise kit, one type of musical instrument
Equipment: An inexpensive but unusual weapon or a musical instrument (one of your choice), the favor of an admirer (love letter, lock of hair, or trinket), a costume, and a pouch containing 15 gp

Will to Live (1st level): As a Reaction, when you receive damage that would have reduce your hit points to 0 and began accumulating critical damage points, you can instead heal hit points equal to your level to bring yourself back to 0 hit points.

You can use Will to Live once per short Rest.

Killer Instinct (6th level): When an enemy within 5 feet of you falls prone, you can use a combat reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the prone enemy.

Expert Trainer (10th level): You’ve started to attract would-be gladiators who want to fight like you do. You gain a company of followers; you can choose berserkers or legionaries. Choose a “home pit” where you can find these thugs whenever you need them. Your trainees handle their own upkeep, and they hang on your every word, doing whatever you say unless it’s obviously suicidal. When you reach 15th level, your followers improve to veterans.

Myrmidon

Atlantis is no more, and the Atlantean holdings on Thule are dwindling, but you are part of one of Atlantis’s great gifts to Thule: the Myrmidons, heavily armored elite troops. Each myrmidon “century” had its own fighting styles and legendary history, and the Atlanteans’ enemies on Thule were so impressed that they started training “myrmidon” units of their own and adopting at least some of the Atlantean trappings. Now the phrase “myrmidon” means “elite trooper” and doesn’t necessarily indicate an Atlantean heritage. You are an elite trooper in one of Thule’s organized militaries (even if you’re on detached duty to enable independent adventuring). Those who see your raised weapon or heavy armor know they’re facing the best of the best.

Tool Proficiency: Vehicles (land)
Equipment: A dagger that belonged to a fallen comrade, a folded flag emblazoned with the symbol of Atlantis, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): You are trained in Animal Handling and Medicine. You know how to handle mounts in battle, and you’ve learned how to deal with typical battlefield injuries.

Inspiring Example (1st level): When you hit with a melee or ranged weapon attack, you can use a bonus action to inspire each ally within 30 feet of you. Until the beginning of your next turn, inspired creatures add 1d4 to attack rolls, dodge and parry rolls, ability checks, and saving throws. You can use Inspiring Example once, and then you must finish a short rest to regain the ability.

Patrol Leader (6th level): You gain the ability to summon a raid, which takes the form of soldiers from your century temporarily placed under your command to garrison your home base or patrol in whatever area you are operating in. Your followers are equivalent to guards.

Centurion (10th level): You become commander of your myrmidon century. Your gain a company of legionaries. At 15th level, your followers improve to veterans. In addition, once per three years you can call an army to your banner. You are expected to keep your century employed, either as mercenaries or in the service of your home city; they can handle routine duties while you are away.

Panjandrum

Panjandrums are not selfless civil servants, and certainly don’t live under any vow of poverty. Many postings or positions—for example, the collection of taxes, oversight of building or purchasing, or responsibility for customs and duties—offer vast potential for enriching yourself. Many of your fellow panjandrums maneuver constantly for these prized titles, or jockey for positions in which they can sell their influence or access to the highest levels of government. Whether you choose to live like a high prince or crusade against the excesses of your fellows is up to you.

Tool Proficiency: none
Equipment: A set of fine clothes and a pouch containing 5 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): You are trained in Investigation and Persuasion. Panjandrums are highly educated and are frequently called upon to solve difficult problems, or negotiate with important people from many different stations.

Panjandrum’s Command (1st level): On your turn, you can use a bonus action to allow one creature within 30 feet of you to move up to his or her speed as a combat reaction. The creature you command also gains temporary hit points equal to your level, which last for 1 hour.

You can use this ability once, and then you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

Magistrate (6th level): You are empowered to arrest, charge, try, and sentence criminals. You can’t use these powers against nobles, priests, or your fellow panjandrums without first obtaining a special writ from the highest authorities. In other cities you can use these powers against criminals from your home city, but you need the approval of the local authorities to do so.

This ability allows you to command city guards to take people into custody. You command sufficient followers to summon a raid when needed in your home city. Overzealous use of these powers can lead to a lot of trouble, and more senior panjandrums may release your prisoners or commute your sentences.

Quodethi Thief

Many thieves are content to serve as loyal rank-and- file guild soldiers, taking their orders from more senior thieves and rising or falling with the guild’s fortunes. You are more ambitious than that; you’re willing to take orders for now, but some day you intend to be the one giving the orders. If that means climbing the guild ladder with hard work, sharp wits, and a keen eye for opportunity, well and good. If it turns out that your advancement is blocked, then maybe you’ll just have to strike out on your own and establish your own guild somewhere.

Tool Proficiency: One type of gaming set, thieves’ tools
Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a belt pouch containing 15 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): You gain training in Acrobatics and Deception. No one can lie like a thief born and raised in the streets, and at an early age you learned the value of sure feet and a good sense of balance.

Thief’s Feint (1st level): When you make a melee or ranged attack on your turn, you can perform a thief’s feint. You gain advantage on the current attack roll, and after the attack, you can use a bonus action to disengage.

You can use Thief’s Feint once, and then you must finish a short rest before you can use it again.

Reputation (6th level): When you make an interaction skill check with criminal elements in your home city (or other areas where you spend a lot of time), you gain tactical advantage—you’ve earned a reputation that other thieves and outlaws respect. Your bonus also applies to checks made to intimidate or bluff common citizens, who are likewise aware of the fact that you mean business. On the down side, the authorities know your name and are generally hostile toward you.

Guildmaster (10th level): You become the leader of your thieves’ guild or establish a new guild of your own. You gain a hidden guild stronghold protected by secret entrances, deadly traps, and trained guard- beasts. You gain enough followers to provide you with a company of enforcers who are equivalent to bandit captains, plus a high income from your cut of the guild’s activities. Your thieves are initially very loyal, but if you fail to provide strong leadership, you may face challenges from the lower ranks.

Sacred Slayer

The temples of Thule are not places where faithful priests minister to the poor and needy. Behind the public traditions of religious festivals and public alms, they are secretive cabals that jealously protect their power and privileges. Some of this protection is obvious: Fortress-like temple compounds, influential friends at court, and armies of temple soldiers. But most temples also employ agents who are less obvious, and you are one of these. Dedicated to the service of your god, you are a bodyguard, inquisitor, spy, and— when the situation requires it—assassin who kills the enemies of your temple.

Tool Proficiency: Poisoner’s kit
Equipment: A poisoner’s kit, a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): You are trained in Religion and Stealth. The tenets of your faith guide your actions, and you find that staying out of sight makes your work easier.

Slayer’s Strike (1st level): When you attack a target you have advantage against, you can choose to perform a slayer’s strike. If you hit, you deal maximum damage with your weapon. In addition, if the target is a special enemy of your god, it must attempt a Constitution save (DC 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your level bonus). On a failed save, you double the damage of your attack against the target.

You can use Slayer’s Strike once, and then you must complete a short rest to regain it.

Planar Ally (10th level): Once during each character level at 10th level and above, you can conjure a celestial being, elemental, or fiend even if you are not normally able to cast a conjuring spell. This is equivalent to planar ally, but the maximum CR of the creature you conjure is equal to one-half your character level. (The GM may allow higher-level monsters or longer duration if the scenario warrants the special attention of your deity.) In general, your deity only provides allies that are close to his or her alignment.

Many people claim to have the gift of foresight, but only a few have any real talent. Soothsayers who truly possess the gift are highly sought-after. Kings, great chieftains, and high nobles keep talented soothsayers as valued advisors, and frequently consult with them on all sorts of decisions. You enjoy the trust and confidence of a high-ranking patron, and need not concern yourself with finding a place to live or selling your talents by reading palms in the bazaar.

Tool Proficiency: none
Equipment: A bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): You gain training in Insight and Religion. The best soothsayers understand that many who seek out their services already know the answers to the questions they ask, and need only a little encouragement to see the truth for themselves.

Foretelling (1st level): You can perform a foretelling for one ally within 30 feet. This requires one minute, and you cannot foretell for yourself. Roll d20 twice and record the results. You can substitute one of these d20 rolls for a d20 roll made by the target ally or made by an enemy attacking the target ally. The target ally need not be in sight, and you do not need to be able to take an action or even be aware of the ally’s situation—you performed your foretelling earlier, and now it is unfolding.

You can create a foretelling once per day, and substitute up to two d20 rolls with each foretelling.

Hear Sooth (6th level): Your reputation as a soothsayer leads powerful individuals to seek out your assistance. When you interact with merchants, nobles, and other potential patrons, you gain advantage.

In addition, you gain a moderate income from wealthy patrons who request your counsel).

Prophecy Revealed (10th level): Once during each character level at 10th level and above, you gain a special insight into an important situation or challenge you face by recognizing the signs of old prophecies coming true or discerning the meaning of a powerful omen. If the GM determines that there is no additional information or special insight available, you do not expend this use of the ability.

Tribal Outcast

As an outcast, you are alone and friendless. Behind you lies some dark tragedy or mortal enemy; ahead, an uncertain future. You have learned that the only person you can rely on is yourself. You may turn your back completely on your people and plunge into experiencing civilization in every way you can, or you might choose to honor your people’s ways even though you are no longer one of them. Either way, you can’t go home again.

Tool Proficiency: Any one musical instrument or gaming set of your choice, native to your homeland
Equipment: One set of traveler’s clothes, a small trinket or piece of jewelry worth 10 gp in the style of your homeland’s craftsmanship, and a pouch containing 5 gp

Skill Bonuses (1st level): Wandering the wilderness has honed your outdoor skills. You are trained in Nature and Survival.

Lone Wolf’s Strike (1st level): If no creatures other than you are adjacent to a creature, you can use your action to perform a Lonely Strike. You gain advantage on the attack, and if you hit, the target falls prone if it is Large or smaller.

You can use Lone Wolf’s Strike once, and then you must complete a short rest to regain it.

A New Identity (6th level): You pick up the practices of a new life, and while you’ll always have your heritage, you have new experiences that mold you. You gain the 1st-level Skill Bonuses from a second narrative.

Triumphant Return (10th level): Your former tribe is ready for reconciliation. Whether you accept the offer is up to you, but as a token of sincerity, you have been given a tribal heirloom. Work with your GM to choose an appropriate magic item, which is yours until you return it to your tribe. Tribal heirlooms usually are uncommon or rare magic items.

Allowable Archetypes

• Fighter: Battle Master, Champion
• Barbarian: Berserker
• Rogue: Assassin, Inquisitive, Mastermind, Scout, Swashbukler, Thief

Barbarian

Hit Points

Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 4 per barbarian level after 1st

Unarmored Defense

While you are not wearing any armor, you add double your Constitution modifier to all your hit locations.

Fighter

Hit Points

Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 3 per fighter level after 1st

Starting Equipment

Ringmail replaces chainmail as an option

Fighting Style: Defense

While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to your Dodge and Parry reactions.

Fighting Style: Two-Weapon Fighting

You are considered ambidextrous

Battle Master Maneuvers

Evasive Footwork.

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

Rally

That creature gains temporary hit points equal to the superiority die roll.

Rogue

Hit Points

Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 2 per rogue level after 1st While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to your Dodge and Parry reactions.

Almost every assassin has at least some familiarity with useful poisons, and is happy to incorporate them in the tools of his or her trade. However, some go on to study the dark lore of poisons with the dedication of a true artist. The poisoner specializes in the crafting and application of lethal substances, killing with a pinprick or a single sip instead of hacking his or her quarry to pieces like a crude butcher. To smile in the face of the marked man and slay without having even been noticed—that is the poisoner’s art.

Alternate Feature (Sneak Attack). When you choose the poisoner archetype, you lose the rogue’s sneak attack feature, and no longer deal bonus damage if you have advantage on your attack. Instead, you rely on lethal toxins to do your dirty work. You gain the following abilities:

Poison Use (3rd level). You are proficient with the poisoner’s kit. You know how to use it to concoct minor poisons, and you can safely handle poisons to envenom your weapons. As you advance in level, you learn recipes for new poisons that you can create with your poisoner’s kit, and your poisons become more potent.

The save DC for poisons you create is 8 + your Intelligence modifier + your proficiency bonus. The damage you deal depends on the poison recipe and your level (see Poison Recipes, below).

Gaining Recipes: You begin with the recipe for bitterroot oil. You learn the recipe for snakesblood at 7th level, blinding powder at 9th level, and shadowvenom at 13th level.

Crafting Poison: You create your poisons during downtime and when you take long rests. Your poisons are volatile, and lose potency a week after creation. Some recipes require unique reagents such as mandrake root, blood moss, or other expensive materials, which can be readily purchased from apothecaries or tribal medicine men.

For ease of play, you can assume that you have sufficient time during a long rest to brew enough poison to last for a typical adventuring day. Whether you make one, five, or ten poisoned attacks in a day, you had time to make that much poison ahead of time. You only need to track the money you spend on poisons with expensive components.

Poisoned Blades (3rd level). You can apply your poison to one piercing or slashing weapon you wield as a bonus action. The next time you hit a creature with the poisoned weapon, you also apply the effects of the poison. A successful hit expends that dose of poison.

Distilled Toxins (9th level). Your poisons ignore damage resistance against poison.

Kiss of Death (13th level). You can distill a poison so potent that a tiny needle suffices for a lethal dose. To use the needle, you must be within 5 feet of the target, and neither you nor your target can be in combat. If you succeed on a Dexterity/Sleight of Hand check against the target’s Passive Perception, the target does not notice your attack; if the target has reason to be wary of you, you have disadvantage on your skill check. The effect depends on which poison recipe you employ, but is delayed by 1d10 minutes (it takes some time for the smaller dose to make its way into the bloodstream).

Sharing Poison

If a poisoner shares her poisons with allies, poison doses should be tracked more closely. You can assume a poisoner can brew enough poison to create 13 doses each day. Doses she gives to others are obviously not available for her own use. In addition, most other characters find it more difficult to use poison in combat. Characters who aren’t proficient in the use of a poisoner’s kit must use a combat action to apply poison to a weapon, and are at risk of poisoning themselves in combat—any time a nonproficient character rolls a 1 on an attack roll with a poisoned weapon, she is subject to the poison’s effect.

Poison Descriptions

As an expert poisoner, you know how to brew some of the most toxic substances to be found in Thule.

Bitterroot Oil: The most basic of poisons, bitterroot can be brewed from substances found in your poisoner’s kit.

Snakesblood: While less overtly lethal than bitterroot oil, a dose of snakesblood can lock up a victim’s muscles, preventing them from easily escaping. Snakesblood requires special ingredients that cost 50 gp per dose.

Blinding Powder: This powder cannot be applied to a weapon. Instead it is prepared as a small packet to create a cloud of stinging, toxic dust in the air. As a bonus action, you can throw a dose of blinding powder to fill a 10-foot cube next to you. Each living creature with eyes in the area is a target for the attack. Blinding powder requires ingredients that cost 100 gp per dose.

Shadowvenom: A thick, black paste, this fearsome poison can disable the toughest of foes with crippling pain. A dose of shadowvenom requires special ingredients worth 200 gp.

Conqueror

The Conqueror is a mighty warrior, dangerous in hand-to-hand combat, but his true strength lies in his ability to bolster his allies with battle-cries, set up formations for teamwork, and to find and exploit the weaknesses of his enemies.

Conquerors are found wherever there is conflict.

Class Features

As a Conqueror, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d10 per Conqueror level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 3 per Conqueror level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: All armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Deception, Intimidation, Investigation, History, and Persuasion

Equipment

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

• (a) a two-handed martial weapon or (b) a one-handed martial weapon and a shield
• (a) five javelins or (b) five bags of caltrops
• A diplomat’s pack
• Chain mail and a banner
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Renew Vigor. From 1st level, your inspiring leadership can restore vigor to those battered and bruised in battle. As an action, you can give a short speech and restore lost hit points to an ally within 5 feet, up to that creature’s maximum hit points. You can restore a total number of hit points equal to five times your conqueror level per long rest. You can distribute the hit points among your allies as you see fit, but you must spend a separate action for each recipient.

Fighting Style. At 2nd level, you adopt a 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.

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 weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

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.

Battle Cry. Starting at 2nd level, you can take a bonus action to inspire your allies within 30 feet with a mighty battle cry. Until the start of your next turn, the first hit of each ally that hits with a weapon attack automatically scores a critical hit. You can use this ability a number of times per long rest equal to your Charisma bonus.

Courage. At 3rd level, you become immune to being frightened.

Archetype. When you reach 3rd level, you must select an archetype from among those listed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 15th, and 20th 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.

Aura of Protection. Starting at 6th level, whenever you or a friendly creature within 10 feet of you must make a saving throw, the creature gains a bonus to the saving throw equal to your Charisma modifier (with a minimum bonus of +1). You must be conscious to grant this bonus.

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

Improved Find Weakness. At 9th level, you can choose to focus on one creature within 60 feet as an action. If you make a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check (DC 15), you learn the creature’s list of immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities (choose one of the three categories per attempt).

Rallying Cry. At 9th level, once per short rest, you can spend a reaction to give all allies within 60 feet a bonus action on their next turn. The bonus action can only be used to take a Dash or Disengage action.

Aura of Courage. Starting at 10th level, you and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you can't be frightened while you are conscious.

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

Improved Battle Cry. By 11th level, your battle cry has a range of 60 feet and applies to all hits by your allies until the start of your next turn, not just each ally’s first hit.

Authority. Starting at 13th level, as an action once per short rest, you can issue an order to any creature within 60 feet. The creature must succeed at a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma bonus) or be affected as per a command spell.

Steel Will. Beginning at 14th level, you can use your action to end one mind-affecting spell on yourself or on one willing creature that you touch. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Breach Defenses. At 17th level, as a bonus action once per long rest, you can temporarily remove a creature’s resistance to one damage type. The creature must be within 30 feet when you use this ability, and the effect lasts for 1 minute.

The following conqueror archetypes are available:

Strategist

Your mastery of strategy and tactics allows you to control the battlefield.

Battlefield Awareness. At 3rd level, you add your Intelligence bonus to your initiative score.

False Retreat. At 7th level, you can use a reaction to designate an ally within 60 feet that takes the disengage action. That ally gains a bonus attack against an opponent within reach. You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Intelligence bonus per long rest.

Outflank. At 15th level, once per short rest, you can spend an action to give all allies within 60 feet advantage on attack rolls against opponents if the ally has at least one other ally within 5 feet of the opponent and the other ally is not incapacitated. The effect lasts until the start of your next turn.

Hold the Line. At 20th level, once per short rest, you can spend an action to give all enemies within 60 feet disadvantage on attacks against you and your allies until the start of your next turn.

Tyrant

With ruthless determination, you conquer all before you.

To Hear the Lamentations. Starting at 3rd level, you gain 1d8 temporary hit points whenever you reduce an opponent to 0 hit points.

Reckless Brutality. At 7th level, 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.

Bloodbath. At 15th level, once per long rest, you can confer the following benefit upon all allies within 60 feet: Once on each of the ally’s turns when he makes a weapon attack, he 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 his weapon. The benefits last until there are no more enemies left standing within sight.

Rule of Fear. At 20th level, once per short rest, you emanate an aura of menace in a 30-foot radius for up to 1 minute. 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 (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma bonus) or become frightened of you for 1 minute or until it takes any damage. Attack rolls against frightened creatures have advantage.

Courtier

Courtiers include decadent nobles, shadowy spymasters, sullen temptresses, and scheming eunuchs. Their mix of social skills, powers of suggestion, knowledge of secret lore, and dabbling in sorcery, make them formidable opponents or valuable allies. Courtiers are found in the cities and courts of most nations.

Class Features

As a Courtier, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per Courtier level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 2 per Courtier level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor
• Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, shortswords, whips
• Tools: Disguise kit, forgery kit, poisoner's kit

• Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma
• Skills: Choose any three

Equipment

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

• (a) a shortsword, (b) a whip, or (c) any simple weapon
• (a) a diplomat's pack or (b) a scholar's pack
• (a) a vial of basic poison or (b) fine clothes
• Leather armor and a dagger

That creature gains one Cunning Advice die, a d6. Once within the next 10 minutes, the creature can roll the die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack, parry or dodge roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Cunning Advice die, but must decide before the GM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Cunning Advice die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Cunning Advice die at a time.

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

Your Cunning Advice die changes when you reach certain levels in this class. The die becomes a d8 at 5th level, a d10 at 10th level, and a d12 at 15th level.

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. At 7th level the extra damage increases to 2d6, and at 11th level the extra damage increases to 3d6.

Jack of All Trades. Starting at 2nd level, you can add half your proficiency die to any ability check you make that doesn't already include your proficiency bonus.

Revitalize Companions. Beginning at 2nd level, you can use an inspiring speech or other performance to help revitalize your wounded allies during a short rest. If you or any friendly creatures who can hear your performance regain hit points at the end of the short rest by spending one or more Hit Dice, each of those creatures regains an extra 1d6 hit points. The extra hit points increase when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d8 at 9th level, to 1d10 at 13th level, and to 1d12 at 17th level.

Archetype. At 3rd level, you must choose an archetype from among those detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th and 14th level.

Expertise. At 3rd level, choose two of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency die is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies. At 10th level, you can choose another two skill proficiencies to gain this benefit.

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.

Font of Advice. Beginning when you reach 5th level, you regain all of your expended uses of Cunning Advice when you finish a short or long rest.

Countercharm. At 6th level, you gain the ability to use your powers of persuasion to disrupt mind-influencing effects. As an action, you can start an oration 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 performance ends early if you are incapacitated or silenced or if you voluntarily end it (no action required).

Bearer of the Scorpion Chalice. By 10th level, longtime exposure to various poisons and other substances have made you immune to poison damage and to the poisoned condition.

Peerless Skill. Starting at 14th level, when you make an ability check, you can expend one use of Cunning Advice. Roll a Cunning Advice die and add the number rolled to your ability check. You can choose to do so after you roll the die for the ability check, but before the GM tells you whether you succeed or fail.

Iron Will. When you reach 18th level, you become immune to being frightened or charmed.

Superior Advice. At 20th level, when you roll initiative and have no uses of Cunning Advice left, you regain one use.

The following courtier archetypes are available:

Magician

Magicians, astrologers and soothsayers are common in the courts, offering their advice and services to nobles in exchange for funding their arcane study and research.

Forbidden Lore. At 3rd level, you gain the Magic Initiate feat as a bonus feat. If you already have the Magic Initiate feat, choose one 2nd-level spell to add to your list of known spells.

Astrological Omens. At 6th level, you add bestow curse and divination to your list of known spells. Alternatively, you can learn one 3rd-level spell of your choice.

Alchemical Secrets. At 14th level, you add creation and clone to your list of known spells. Alternatively, you can learn one 4th-level spell of your choice.

Seducer

The seducer is a rake or temptress who uses the power of sensuality to attract and control others. The seducer’s charm is used to get men and women to do his or her bidding; such seduction techniques are weapons, as keen and deadly as any blade.

Distracting Beauty. At 3rd level, your Armor Class when wearing no armor and not carrying a shield becomes 10 + your Dexterity bonus + your Charisma bonus.

Seduction. At 6th level, once per long rest, you may use your attraction to influence a creature, equivalent to casting a suggestion spell. If you have had previous intimate contact with the target creature, it suffers disadvantage on its saving throw.

Kiss of Domination. At 14th level, once per short rest, you may attempt to kiss a humanoid within reach by making a melee attack roll. If you hit, and the target fails a Wisdom saving throw, you establish dominance over the target as per a dominate person spell.

Spymaster

Found in cities and courts of every civilized and decadent land, spymasters are masters of diplomacy as well as deceit.

Cutting Words. At 3rd level, you learn how to use your wit to distract, confuse, and otherwise sap the confidence and competence of others. When a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a damage roll, you can use your reaction to expend one of your uses of Cunning Advice, rolling a Cunning Advice die and subtracting the number rolled from the creature's roll. You can choose to use this feature after the creature makes its roll, but before the GM determines whether the attack roll or ability check succeeds or fails, or before the creature deals its damage. The creature is immune if it can't hear you or if it's immune to being charmed.

Treacherous Strike. At 6th level, you deal 1d6 extra points of poison damage whenever you hit with a melee weapon attack.

Network of Spies. At 14th level, once per week, you can employ your extensive web of spies and informants to bring you knowledge about a person, place or object, equivalent to casting a legend lore spell, with the material component cost represented by bribes.

Nomads roam freely in areas most city- dwellers would consider inhospitable wastelands. Not bound by the laws of civilized men, they often raid and plunder lone travelers, caravans, and even walled cities. But they have their own codes of honor, and under certain circumstances must offer hospitality to all who ask for it. Nomads are known for the swiftness of their attacks, and they quickly travel vast distances on their mounts.

Class Features

As a Nomad, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per Nomad level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 2 per Nomad level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, Martial weapons
• Tools: Poisoner's Kit, Healing Kit

• Saving Throws: Constitution, Dexterity
• Skills: Choose three from Animal Handling, Deception, Hide, Insight, Medicine, Perception, Stealth, Survival

Equipment

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

• (a) a light crossbow and case with 20 bolts or (b) a Long Bow with a quiver and 20 arrows
• (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
• (a) a scimitar or (b) two daggers
• Leather armor and a vial of basic poison

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

Sneak Attack: 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.

Endurance: A nomad is able to push himself further without suffering the normal affects associated with exposure, starvation and physical endurance.

A nomad treats all levels of exhaustion as though they were 1 less than they really are. Exhaustion level 1 is treated as though the nomad is not exhausted.

Fast Movement: A nomad’s land speed is faster than the norm for his race. At 2nd level, the nomad adds +5 feet to his speed. This benefit applies only when he is wearing no armor, light armor, or medium armor and not encumbered.

The nomad’s fast movement bonus also applies to any mount the nomad rides. It does, however, stack with the barbarian’s Fast Movement ability (but note that the speed increase gained from the barbarian class does not apply to the mount).

The nomad gains additional speed increases at 6th, 11th and 18th level.

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 weapons.

Defense: While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to your Dodge and Parry reactions.

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.

Two-Weapon Fighting: When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack. You are considered ambidextrous

Mounted Skirmisher: You are difficult to pin down while mounted. You can move up to half your speed as a reaction while mounted and an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet of you. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks

In addition, when a nomad rides mounts that are not trained for battle (such as heavy horses, light horses, as opposed to warhorses) into combat, they are not frightened. The nomad is not required to make the usual animal handling check to control such untrained mounts in combat.

Survivalist: You gain proficiency in the Nature and Survival skills if you don’t already have it. If you already have proficiency in either one or both of these skills, you may replace this skill(s) with one of your choice.

Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either Nature or Survival.

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.

Extra Attack: You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Uncanny Dodge: When an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to take the dodge action. This ability can be used while mounted.

Evasion (Ex): At 9th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as an ancient 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. This ability can be used while mounted.

Vanish: A nomad of 13th level 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.

Ferocious Charger: You can run down your foes while mounted. 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 12 + your proficiency die) or be knocked prone. You can use this feature only once on each of your turns.

Hide in Plain Sight): While in any sort of natural terrain, a nomad of 17th level or higher level can use the Hide action even while being observed.

Arcane magic is rare and perilous in Thule. Sorcery, and theurgy are not things that should be studied by humans. They belong to earlier ages, when prehuman races such as serpentmen, rakshasas, genies, and other evil creatures dabbled in arcane power. But these grim and frightening arts pale in comparison to the sort of magic that you dare to study. You have pushed past the earthly black arts in pursuit of alien teachings millions of years older, the dark wisdom of terrible races from beyond the stars. Perhaps you seek the power to protect the world from such unearthly threats—or perhaps you seek to harness their power for your own selfish purposes.

Class Features

As an Occultist, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d6 per Occultist level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1 per Occultist level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light
• Weapons: Simple
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
• Skills: You gain Arcana and Religion as class skills. Choose one more from History, Insight, Investigation, and Medicine
• Languages: Choose one bonus language from Benthic, Draconic, or Mi-Go.

Equipment

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

• (a) a quarterstaff, (b) a shortsword or (c) a dagger
• (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
• (a) a scholar’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• (a) leather armor or (b) fine clothes
• 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. You learn additional cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Occultist table.

Spellbook

At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level spells of your choice. Your spellbook is the repository of the spells you know, except your cantrips, which are fixed in your mind.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Occultist 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 in addition to a number of spell points equal to the spell slot used. The number of maximum Spell Points a character can have at any time is equal to 2 + their Intelligence modifier + Caster Level.

You regain all expended spell slots after you finish a long rest and all spell points up to your current maximum. After a short rest, you will regain Spell Points equal to your proficiency bonus.

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

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of 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 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 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 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 spells.

Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher

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

Potent Lore: You can spend a bonus action on your turn to increase the level of the next spell you cast this turn by 2. This affects all level-based variables of the spell you are casting, including resisting counterspell attempts. By calling upon the arcane secrets of alien races, Occultists can create unexpectedly powerful magical effects.

You can use Potent Lore once, and then you must complete a short rest before you can use it again.

Focus Powers: At 2nd level, an occultist learns the base focus power from both of his two chosen implements (see Implements below) and can select one more focus power from the list of those available to him through either implement.

Whenever the occultist unlocks the secrets of a new implement, he gains the base power of that implement. In addition, at 4th level and every 2 levels thereafter, he learns a new focus power selected from the options granted by all of the implements he knows. The occultist can use focus powers only by expending spell points (see Mental Focus).

Unless otherwise noted, the DC for any saving throw against a focus power equals 10 + 1/2 the occultist’s level + the occultist’s Intelligence modifier. The occultist can’t select a focus power more than once. Some focus powers require him to reach a specific occultist level before he can choose them.

Implements: At 2nd level, an occultist has unlocked the secrects of two implement. At 3rd level and every 4 occultist levels thereafter, the occultist unlocks one additional implement, to a maximum of seven implements at 19th level.

Each implement is represented by a small list of objects. When an implement is unlocked, the specific form of the implement must also be chosen from that list. As implements were once powerful magical artifacts from ages past, their form cannot simply be changed at will. However, if an occultist locates another apparent mundane item that could also be made into an implement of the same kind (as determined by the Object Reading Avility), they can replace their current implement with the new one after a long rest.

Each implement also grants a base focus power. This power is added to the list of focus powers possessed by the occultist (see Mental Focus below). In addition, each implement grants access to a number of other focus powers that the occultist can select from using his mental focus class feature.

See the list of implements below for a complete list of implements and their focus powers.

He can divide this mental focus between his implements in any way he desires. If an implement is lost or destroyed, the focus invested in it is lost as well, though the occultist still refreshes those spell points normally.

Once mental focus is invested inside an implement, the implement gains its resonant power, and the occultist can expend the mental focus stored in the implement to activate the associated focus powers he knows. If a resonant power grants a bonus that varies based on the amount of mental focus invested in the implement, the bonus is determined when the focus is invested, and is not reduced or altered by expending the mental focus invested in the item. Once all of the mental focus in an implement has been expended, it loses its resonant power until mental focus is once again invested in the implement.

The implement grants its resonant power to whoever possesses it; the occultist can lend the implement to an ally to assist that ally, but can’t expend that implement’s focus on focus powers until he retrieves the implement.

The occultist refreshes his mental focus once each day after receiving at least 8 hours of sleep. After refreshing his mental focus, the occultist must spend 1 hour preparing his implements and investing them with this power.

Any focus power the occultist activates with spell points that were not invested inside the implemenet at the beginning of the day costs twice as much to use (and to maintain, if applicable). The occultist can expend his unfocused spell points through an appropriate implement on any focus power he knows, but an implement he didn’t invest any focus in at the start of the day grants no resonant power.

Magic Item Skill: Due to your focus on unlocking the magical secrets and mysteries of the world, 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.

Object Reading: At 3rd level, an occultist learns how to read information from items he examines.

Examining an item in this way requires him to spend 1 minute handling the item. If the item is a magic item, the occultist learns its properties and command word (if any) as if he had successfully examined the item using detect magic and succeeded at an Arcana check. This ability does not reveal whether the item is cursed unless the occultist’s class level is equal to or greater than the caster level of whomever cursed the item. If the item has any historical significance, the occultist learns one piece of information about its past (as determined by the DM). Finally, if the item was last used no longer than 1 day ago per the occultist’s class level, the occultist learns one piece of information about the last creature to use the item. This information might be a glimpse of the creature’s appearance, a brief vision of what it saw while using the item, or perhaps its emotional state when it last used the item. The DM determines what information is gained in this way.

Shift Focus: At 5th level, an occultist gains the ability to shift his mental focus (invested spell points) from one implement to another, though some of the focus is lost along the way. Shifting mental focus removes a number of spell points from one implement and adds the same number – 1 to another implement; this takes 1 minute of quiet contemplation while touching both implements. The occultist can shift his mental focus only from one implement to another implement. Unlike expending focus normally, this shift can reduce the effect of a resonant power in the implement from which the mental focus was taken. It will also add to the resonant power of the implement to which the focus is added.

Mystic Signs: Through mystic gestures and motions, you can identify yourself as an initiate in unearthly lore to creatures that are otherwise hostile to humans and their ilk. You begin any interaction with intelligent extraterrene or extraplanar creatures with an attitude one step better than would otherwise be the case (Hostile becomes Indifferent, Indifferent becomes Friendly, and so on).

Arcane Condensation: You can cast a spell for half the number of spell points (Rounding down).

After using this feature, you must complete a short or long rest before using it again.

The Stars Are Right: Once during each character level at 10th level and above, you can call upon powerful alien entities to perform services for you. This functions as planar ally, except that you can use the spell even if you are not normally able to cast it, and you call an extraterrene creature instead of a planar creature. You can conjure an extraterrene creature whose CR is no higher than one-half your character level.

Arcane Concentration: Your focus is legendary. Whenever you would lose your concentration on a spell, you can instead choose to maintain your focus by expending a spell slot of a level greater level or equal to the spell you are concentrating on.

Spell Mastery: You have achieved such mastery over certain spells that you can cast them at will. Choose a 1st-level spell and a 2nd-level spell that are in your spellbook. You can cast those spells at their lowest level without expending a spell slot or using spell points when you have them prepared. If you want to cast either spell at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot and spell points as normal.

By spending 8 hours in study, you can exchange one or both of the spells you chose for different spells of the same levels

Implement Mastery: At 20th level, an occultist learns to master one of his implements. He selects one implement. Whenever he uses a focus power from that implement, the DC to resist any of the effects increases by 4 and he treats his occultist level as 4 higher when determining the effects and duration of that power. In addition, the occultist gains 4 extra points of mental focus, but these points must always be invested in implements mastered. He can’t save these points or expend them for any ability other than the focus powers of those implements.

Signature Spells: When you reach 20th level, you gain mastery over two powerful spells and can cast them with little effort. Choose two 3rd-level wizard spells in your spellbook as your signature spells. You always have these spells prepared, they don’t count against the number of spells you have prepared, and you can cast each of them once at 3rd level without expending a spell slot or using any spell points. When you do so, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

If you want to cast either spell at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot as normal.

Implements

Talisman

Talisman implements are objects associated with protection and wards.

Objects(s): Amulet, armor, bell, bracers, brooch, cloak, holy symbol, shield.

Resonant Power(s): Each time the occultist invests spell points into a Talisman implement, it grants the following resonant power. The implement’s bearer gains the benefits of this power until the occultist refreshes his focus.

Warding Talisman: The implement wards against adverse effects. Whoever wears (or holds, for bells) the implement gains a +1 bonus on saving throws for every 2 spell points invested in the implement, to a maximum bonus of 1 + 1 for every 4 occultist levels you possess.

Base Focus Power: All occultists who learn to use a Talisman implement gain the following focus power.

Mind Barrier: As a bonus action, you can expend 1 spell point to create a shield of mental energy around you that protects you from harm. The shield adds 2 temporary hit points per occultist level you possess. It lasts until the start of your next turn or until exhausted, whichever comes first.

You can activate this ability as a reaction, but doing so costs 2 spell points instead of 1

For example, if you are 5th level, the mind barrier protects you from 10 points of damage; if you are hit by an attack that would deal 12 points of damage, the mind barrier is exhausted and you take 2 points of damage.

Focus Powers: In addition to gaining the base focus power, occultists who learn to use a Talisman implement can select from the following focus powers when choosing the powers gained from their focus powers class feature.

Aegis

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus and touch a suit of armor or a shield to grant it an enhancement bonus to the item's AC. The bonus is equal to 1 + 1 for every 6 occultist levels you possess (to a maximum bonus of +4 at 18th level). Enhancement bonuses gained via this ability stack with those of the armor or shield, to a maximum total enhancement bonus of +5. You can also imbue the armor or shield with any one armor or shield special ability that has an equivalent enhancement bonus less than or equal to your maximum bonus granted by this ability by reducing the granted enhancement bonus by the appropriate amount.

The item must have an enhancement bonus of at least +1 (from the item itself or from aegis) to gain an armor or shield special ability. In either case, these bonuses last for 1 minute.

Enhancement bonuses applied to shields impart their bonus to any parry or shield bash attack rolls.

Loci Sentry

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to set a ward about an area. This area has a maximum radius of 10 feet + 5 feet per occultist level you possess. Whenever a creature enters the area, a sentry manifested by your psyche appears and strikes out at the intruder. The affected creature must succeed at a Will save or be incapacitated for 1 round. You are immediately aware of the sentry’s activation. The sentry lasts for up to 1 hour per occultist level you possess, or until triggered. When you set the sentry, you can set any number of specific creatures to be immune to the sentry and thus avoid triggering it.

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to unravel a magical effect. This functions as a targeted dispel magic spell, but you must be adjacent to the effect to unravel it. If the effect is created by psychic magic, you receive a +5 bonus on your ability check to unravel it. If the effect targets an object in your possession, you automatically succeed at the check.

Energy Shield

You must be at least 3rd level to select this focus power

As a bonus action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to surround yourself with a shield that protects you from energy damage. Whenever you take acid, cold, electricity, or fire damage, the shield absorbs the damage (as protection from energy). The energy shield can absorb up to 3 points of energy damage per occultist level you possess. This shield lasts for 1 minute or until its power is exhausted. Its effect doesn’t stack with itself or with protection from energy.

You can activate the energy shield as a reaction by expending 2 points of mental focus instead of 1.

Planar Ward

You must be at least 5th level to select this focus power

As an action, you can expend 2 points of mental focus to surround yourself with a planar ward. Creatures not native to the plane that you are currently on take a –4 penalty on attacks against you, and you receive a +4 bonus on saving throws against the spells and spell-like abilities of such creatures. This ward lasts for 1 minute.

Globe of Negation

You must be at least 11th level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can expend 3 points of mental focus to create a stationary globe of negation. This globe is 10 feet in diameter and cancels any spell effect that is cast into or through its area. This functions as a globe of invulnerability, but it affects spells of any level. The globe can negate a total number of spell levels equal to your occultist level, after which the globe collapses. Spells that exceed the number of remaining levels remove all remaining levels, but are weakened; any creatures targeted by such spells receive a +4 bonus on any saving throws against the spells’ effects. The globe lasts for a number of rounds equal to your occultist level. It has no effect on spells originating within the globe—only on those that enter its area as or after they are cast.

Eldritch Eye

Eldritch Eye implements are objects that grant powers related to foresight and remote viewing.

Objects: Book, crystal ball, goggles, harrow deck, headband, lenses, planchette.

Resonant Power: Each time the occultist invests mental focus into a divination implement, the implement grants the following resonant power. The implement’s bearer gains the benefits of this power until the occultist refreshes his focus.

Third Eye: The implement allows its bearer to notice that which can’t easily be seen. The implement grants a +1 bonus on Perception checks per 2 points of mental focus stored in it, to a maximum bonus equal to the occultist’s level. If the occultist is 3rd level or higher and stores at least 3 spell points in it, the implement also grants low-light vision. If the occultist is 5th level or higher and stores at least 6 points of mental focus in it, the implement also grants darkvision 60 feet. (If the bearer already has darkvision, the implement increases the range of the darkvision by 30 feet.) If the occultist is 7th level or higher and stores at least 9 points of mental focus in it, the implement also grants the effects of see invisibility. If the occultist is 13th level or higher and stores at least 12 points of mental focus in it, the implement also grants blindsense 60 feet. If the occultist is 19th level or higher and stores at least 15 points of mental focus in it, the implement also grants blindsight 30 feet.

Base Focus Power: All occultists who learn to use an Eldritch Eye gain the following focus power:

Sudden Insight: As a bonus action, you can expend 1 spell point to gain an insight into your immediate future. You can use this foreknowledge to gain advantage on any ability check, attack roll, or skill check. You can use your foreknowledge only once per turn, and if it’s not used by the end of your turn, the insight fades and you gain no benefit.

Focus Powers: In addition to gaining the base focus power, occultists who learn to use the Eldritch Eye implement can select from the following focus powers when choosing the powers gained from their focus powers class feature.

Future Gaze

As a standard action, you can gain an insight into the future by expending 1 point of mental focus. This functions as augury, using your occultist level as the caster level.

Powerful Connection

When casting a divination spell (such as scrying) that imposes a penalty on saving throws based on the physical connection you have to the target, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to double the penalty from a possession, garment, or body part. In addition, When casting any other divination spell that allows a saving throw, you can increase the DC of that save by 2 by adding an object, garment, or body part that belonged to the target as a focus component for the spell and expending 1 point of mental focus.

You must be at least 3rd level to select this focus power.

As a reaction, you can protect yourself from harm by expending 1 point of mental focus. You can use this ability whenever you are the target of an attack or are required to attempt a saving throw against a special ability, spell, or trap. Doing so grants you an insight bonus to your AC or on your saving throw equal to 1/2 your occultist level. This bonus applies only to the next attack against you or saving throw you attempt, and if not applied by the end of the round, the protection fades and you gain no benefit.

Mind Eye

You must be at least 5th level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to create a mind eye—a magical sensor through which you can see and hear. The mind eye is invisible and its size is Fine, giving it an AC of 18. Any amount of damage to the eye destroys it, but it can be harmed by only spells or magic weapons. The eye moves with a fly speed of 60 feet with perfect maneuverability and can travel up to 1 mile away from you. You must concentrate as a standard action to direct the eye and receive sensory images through it. The mind eye sees as your eyes see, including any additional senses you possess (such as darkvision or see invisibility). The mind eye lasts for 1 minute per occultist level you possess.

Object Seer

You must be at least 7th level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to gain insight into an object in your possession. You can ask one question, but that question must be tied in some way to the object, such as the nature of its power, the identity of the creature that last possessed it, or even where the object was when a certain event took place. You always receive an answer from the psychic impressions imprinted upon the item, but they are sometimes cryptic or misleading.

Deception

Deception implements allow the occultist to befuddle the mind and charm his foes.

Objects: Censer, crown, helm, musical instrument, necklace.

Resonant Power: Each time the occultist invests mental focus into a Deception implement, the implement grants the following resonant power. The implement’s bearer gains the benefits of this power until the occultist refreshes his focus.

Glorious Presence: The implement invokes the presence of those who have worn it in the past. The implement’s wearer gains a +1 competence bonus on all Charisma-based skill checks and ability checks for every 2 points of mental focus invested in the implement, to a maximum bonus of 1 + 1 for every 4 occultist levels you possess.

Base Focus Power: All occultists who learn to use Deception implements gain the following focus power.

Cloud Mind: As a standard action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to cloud the mind of one foe within 30 feet. That foe is dazed for 1 round if the number of Hit Dice it possesses is less than or equal to or your occultist level. If it has more Hit Dice than your occultist level, it is staggered for 1 round instead. The foe can attempt a Wisdom saving throw to negate the effect. Whether or not it succeeds at the save, the target is then immune to this effect for 1 day. This is a mind-affecting effect.

Focus Powers: In addition to gaining the base focus power, occultists who learn to use enchantment implements can select from the following focus powers when choosing the powers gained from their focus powers class feature.

Inspired Assault

As an action, you can inspire a living creature with a touch by expending 1 point of mental focus. The creature receives a morale bonus on attack rolls equal to 1 + 1 for every 6 occultist levels you possess (to a maximum bonus of +4 at 18th level). This bonus also applies on saving throws against fear effects. This bonus lasts for 1 minute.

Mental Discord

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to disrupt the mind of one living creature within 30 feet. The creature can attempt a Wisdom Saving Throw to negate the effect. If it fails the save, the creature can’t concentrate on any spell effects and must succeed at a concentration check to cast any spell (DC = 15 + double the spell level). The affected creature takes a –4 penalty on this check if the spell includes a thought component. The creature takes a –2 penalty on all Will saving throws while under this effect. This effect lasts for 1 round per occultist level you possess.

Obey (Sp)

As an action, you can issue a command to one living creature by expending 1 point of mental focus. This functions as command. The target must be within 30 feet and capable of understanding your order. The target can attempt a Wisdom save to negate this effect. If the creature is the same creature type as you, it takes a –2 penalty on this saving throw.

You must be at least 3rd level to select this focus power.

By expending 1 point of mental focus as an action, you can lull a living creature into a deep mental slumber, forcing it to view the world as a dream.

The target must be within 30 feet of you, and it can attempt a Wisdom saving throw to negate the effect. If it fails the save, the creature falls asleep, although it still perceives the world around it as a dream. This doesn’t cause the creature to fall prone, but it does drop whatever it is holding. The creature can’t take any actions while in this state, but it isn’t helpless— it perceives danger as part of its dream. The creature remains asleep for a number of rounds equal to your occultist level or until it takes any amount of damage, which immediately wakes it.

At the end of each of its turns, it receives another Wisdom saving throw to end the effect. The creature can be manipulated or examined without waking it, but it can’t be moved from its square without waking it. This is a mind-affecting compulsion effect. Regardless of whether it succeeds at the save, the target is then immune to this effect for 24 hours.

Forced Alliance

You must be at least 5th level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can alter a living creature’s mind, causing it to see you as a friend and ally. If the creature is the same creature type as you, this power requires you to expend 1 point of mental focus; if it’s not, you must expend 2 points instead. The creature can attempt a Wisdom save to negate this effect. If it fails the saving throw, the creature treats you as an ally and doesn’t attempt to harm you (although your allies are not protected). You can call on the creature to aid you directly, but while doing so the creature can attempt a new Will save at the end of each round to end the effect. This effect otherwise lasts 1 round per occultist level you possess. This is a mind-affecting charm effect.

Binding Pattern

You must be at least 7th level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to create a binding pattern of psychic energy that causes a living creature to become paralyzed. The target must be within 30 feet of you, and it can attempt a Wisdom saving throw to negate the effect. If it fails the save, it is paralyzed for 1 round for every 2 occultist levels you possess. At the end of each of its turns, it can attempt another Will save to end the paralyzed effect and instead be staggered for the remaining duration. This is a mind-affecting compulsion effect.

Dark Ruse

Dark Ruse implements allow the occultist to distort the senses and cloak creatures from sight.

Objects: Crystal, hat, mask, prism, ring.

Resonant Power: Each time the occultist invests mental focus into a Dark Ruse implement, the implement grants the following resonant power. The implement’s bearer gains the benefits of this power until the occultist refreshes his focus.

Distortion: The implement allows its bearer to distort his form and location, protecting him from harm. As an action, the bearer can cause his body to become blurred, shifting and wavering to all who can see him. Any attacks made against the bearer are made at disadvantage. This effect lasts until the next time the bearer makes an attack.

Base Focus Power: All occultists who learn to use Dark Ruse implements gain the following focus power.

Minor Figment: As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to create a minor figment. This can function as either a ghost sound or minor illusion. In either case, the effect lasts for a number of rounds equal to your occultist level. If you are 7th level or higher, the figment lasts for a number of minutes equal to your occultist level, and you can cause the figment to change once during its duration when a specified condition occurs.

Focus Powers: In addition to gaining the base focus power, occultists who learn to use illusion implements can select from the following focus powers when choosing the powers gained from their focus powers class feature.

Cloak Image

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to hide your appearance behind an illusion, as disguise self. The effect lasts for 1 minute per occultist level you possess. At 5th level, you can instead expend 2 points of mental focus to appear as a creature of a different type, but you must remain the same size. At 7th level, you can expend 1 additional point of mental focus to target a willing creature other than yourself with this ability.

Color Beam

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to unleash a beam of cascading colors at any one target within 30 feet. Doing so requires a ranged touch attack. If the beam hits, the target is blinded for 1 round if it has a number of Hit Dice equal to or lower than your occultist level. A foe with a number of Hit Dice greater than your occultist level is instead stunned for 1 round. The foe can attempt a Wisdom save to negate the effect. Regardless of whether it succeeds at its save, the target is then immune to this effect for 1 day. This is a mind-affecting illusion effect.

You must be at least 5th level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to cloak an area in illusion, allowing you to change the area’s appearance. You can affect up to one 5-foot cube area for every occultist level you posses, changing the appearance in a way that seems natural to the surroundings, subject to DM discretion. You could, for example, hide a door or passageway, make a table appear to be covered in food, or even create the illusion of a pit. You can’t make creatures or objects invisible with this power, but you can change the appearance of an object or create an illusion for creatures to hide behind. This functions as major image, and creatures that physically interact with the illusion in any way can attempt a Wisdom save to see through the mirage.

Masquerade

You must be at least 7th level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to take on the appearance of another creature that you touch. If the creature is not friendly to you, this requires a melee touch attack, but the target doesn’t receive a saving throw to negate the effect. You gain a bonus on Deception checks equal to your proficiency bonus, but only to look like the creature touched.

This bonus doesn’t stack with the bonuses from spells or abilities like disguise self. While using this ability, you can change your disguise as an action by touching a different creature and assuming its appearance. You can end this effect at any time. This effect lasts for 10 minutes per occultist level you possess, but you can renew the duration at any time by expending 1 additional point of mental focus.

Shadow Beast

You must be at least 9th level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can call forth a beast made of shadow by expending 1 point of mental focus. This functions as Phantasmal Killer, but everyone can see the beast created, not just the target. For every 2 additional levels you possess beyond 9th, this focus power is treated as though the spell slot increased by 1. The creatures remain for 1 round per occultist level you possess.

Spirit

Spirit implements can control undead and harm the living.

Objects: Bone, coin, doll, drum, robe, skull.

Resonant Power: Each time the occultist invests mental focus into a Spirit implement, the implement grants the following resonant power. The implement’s bearer gains the benefits of this power until the occultist refreshes his focus.

Necromantic Focus: The implement grants its possessor greater power over the undead. Whoever possesses the implement can control an additional 2 Hit Dice of undead for every point of mental focus invested in the item (to a maximum number of Hit Dice equal to 4 × your occultist level). Any spellcaster who bears the implement can add it as an additional focus component for a necromancy spell he casts to create undead. If he does so, he can create an additional number of HD of undead equal to the additional HD the implement allows him to control.

Undead creatures take a –1 penalty on saving throws against spells cast by the bearer of this implement for every 4 points of mental focus invested in this implement.

Base Focus Power: All occultists who learn to use necromancy implements gain the following focus power.

Mind Fear: As a standard action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to cause a living creature to succumb to fear. The target must be within 30 feet of you, and it can attempt a Wisdom saving throw to negate the effect. If the target fails the save and has a number of Hit Dice less than or equal to yours, it is frightened for 1d4 rounds. If the target fails the saving throw and has a number of Hit Dice greater than yours, it is instead Stunned for 1d4 rounds. This is a mind-affecting fear effect.

Focus Powers: In addition to gaining the base focus power, occultists who learn to use Spirit implements can select from the following focus powers when choosing the powers gained from their focus powers class feature.

Necromantic Servant

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to raise a single human skeleton or human zombie from the ground to serve you for 10 minutes per occultist level you possess or until it is destroyed, whichever comes first. This servant has a number of hit points equal to 1/2 your maximum hit point total (not adjusted for temporary hit points or other temporary increases). It also uses your base attack bonus and gains a bonus on damage rolls equal to 1/2 your occultist level. At 5th level, whenever the necromantic servant would be destroyed, if you are within 100 feet + 10 feet per level of the servant, you can expend 1 point of mental focus as a reaction to cause the servant to return to full hit points.

At 9th level, when you take a reaction to restore your servant, it splits into two servants. You can have a maximum number of servants in existence equal to 1/2 your occultist level.

At 13th level, the servant gains a Buff, Combat or Warding feat for which they meet any prerequisites.

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to create a soulbound puppet from a bone, doll, or skull. If you use a bone or a skull, your power builds a Tiny or Small flesh puppet around it that vaguely resembles the original creature from which the bones were taken. If the object is a doll, the doll comes to life. Treat this as a homunculus servant, using your occultist level to determine its powers and abilities. You can have no more than one soulbound puppet active at any given time.

The soulbound puppet remains animated for 10 minutes per occultist level you possess.

Flesh Rot

You must be at least 3rd level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can make a melee touch attack and expend 1 point of mental focus to cause the flesh of a living creature to rot and wither. If the attack hits, the target takes 1d6 points of damage + 1 point per occultist level you possess. For every 4 occultist levels you possess beyond 3rd, the target takes an additional 1d8 points of damage (to a maximum of 5d6 at 19th level). If you miss with the melee touch attack, this power is wasted with no effect.

Spirit Shroud

You must be at least 3rd level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to surround yourself with a shroud of spirit energy. You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to 1d6 + your occultist level. This shroud lasts for 1 minute per occultist level or until the temporary hit points are expended, Whichever comes first. These temporary hit points stack with those from other sources, but not with those gained through multiple uses of this ability. At 4th level, as long as the shroud remains, you also gain a resistance bonus on all saving throws against death effects, fear effects, and any spells or effects that deal negative energy damage (if the spells or effects allow a save). This bonus is equal to 1 + 1 for every 4 occultist levels you possess beyond 4th.

Psychic Curse

You must be at least 5th level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to curse a living creature within 30 feet. You can choose one of the following effects: memory lapse, mental block, or pain confusion. If you choose memory lapse, the target loses its memory of the past 1 hour per occultist level you possess. If you choose mental block, you can proscribe one specific action, such as attacking with a type of weapon, casting a specific spell, or something else suitably specific (subject to the DM’s discretion). The target can’t take that action without first succeeding at a Wisdom save. If it fails, it can take other actions instead. If it attempts the prohibited action again on subsequent rounds, it gains a cumulative +2 bonus on the save until it succeeds. If you select pain confusion, the creature is confused for 1d4 rounds whenever it is damaged by a critical hit. The target can attempt a Wisdom save to negate this effect. This effect lasts for 1 day per occultist level you possess. A creature can’t be under the effects of more than one psychic curse at a time.

This is a mind-affecting curse effect.

Pain Wave

You must be at least 7th level to select this focus power.

As a standard action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to unleash a wave of pain. This wave hits all creatures other than you in a 20-foot-radius burst centered on a point that you designate within 100 feet. All living creatures in this area are wracked with pain, gaining the Stunned condition for 1 round per occultist level you possess. Affected creatures can attempt a Wisdom save to reduce the duration to just 1 round. This is a mind-affecting pain effect.

Catalyst

Catalyst implements can alter the properties of both objects and creatures.

Objects: Belt, boots, sandals, vest, weapon.

Resonant Power: Each time the occultist invests mental focus into a Catalyst implement, the implement grants the following resonant power. The implement’s bearer gains the benefits of this power until the occultist refreshes his focus.

Physical Enhancement: The implement enhances its bearer’s body. When you invest mental focus in the implement, select a physical ability score. The implement grants a +2 temporary enhancement bonus to that physical ability score for every 3 points of mental focus invested in the implement (to a maximum of +2 at 1st level, plus an additional 2 for every 6 occultist levels you possess).

Legacy Weapon: As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus and touch a weapon to grant it an enhancement bonus. The bonus is equal to 1 + 1 for every 6 occultist levels you possess (to a maximum of +4 at 18th level). Enhancement bonuses gained by this ability stack with those of the weapon, to a maximum of +5.

You can also imbue the weapon with any one weapon special ability with an equivalent enhancement bonus less than or equal to your maximum bonus by reducing the granted enhancement bonus by the appropriate amount. The item must have an enhancement bonus of at least +1 (from the item itself or from legacy weapon) to gain a weapon special ability. In either case, these bonuses last for 1 minute.

Focus Powers: In addition to gaining the base focus power, occultists who learn to use transmutation implements can select from the following focus powers when choosing the powers gained from their focus powers class feature.

Philosopher’s Touch

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus and touch a weapon, causing it to gain the properties of a special material. You can cause the weapon to be treated as cold iron or silver for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction for 1 minute per occultist level you possess.

At 4th level and every 4 levels thereafter, You can touch an additional weapon as part of using this ability to grant that weapon the same benefit (still expending only 1 point of mental focus).

At 11th level, you can cause any weapon affected by this ability to act as if it were adamantine instead (but only for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction, not for overcoming hardness).

Burst of Speed

As a bonus action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to grant yourself a burst of speed. This increases your land speed by 20 feet for 1 round. This ability does not stack with itself.

Quickness

You must be at least 5th level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to grant supernatural quickness and reflexes to yourself or a willing living creature you touch.

This functions as haste, but the bonus to dodge and parry increases to +2. This effect lasts for 1 round per one half the occultist level you possess (minimum of 1).

Telekinetic Mastery

You must be at least 9th level to select this focus power.

As an action, you can expend 1 point of mental focus to grant yourself telekinetic power. This functions as telekinesis, except you don’t need to concentrate on the effect to maintain it, and using any one of its effects is a standard action. This effect lasts for 1 round per occultist level you possess.

Modified Feats

Defensive Duelist

When you are wielding a finesse weapon with which you are proficient and another creature hits you with a melee attack, you can double the proficiency die added to your Dodge or Parry reaction for that attack, potentially causing the attack to miss you.

Dual Wielder

You have mastered fighting with two weapons, gaining the following benefits:

• You gain +1 to your Parry reactions.
• You can use two-weapon fighting even when the one-handed melee weapons you are wielding aren’t' light.
• You can draw or stow two one-handed weapons when you would normally be able to draw or stow only one.
• You are considered ambidextrous

Great Weapon Master

You've learned to put the weight of a weapon to your advantage, letting its momentum empower your strikes and deflect incoming blows. You gain the following benefits:

• Before you make a melee attack with a heavy weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add +10 to the attack's damage. Attacks that are made with this bonus are treated as though they were made with a weapon one size larger for the purposes of being parried.
• While parrying with a heavy weapon that you are proficient with, you receive a +1 bonus to the parry roll.

Healer

You are an able physician, allowing you to mend wounds quickly and get your allies back in the fight. You gain the following benefits:

• When you use a healer's kit to stabilize a dying creature or a creature suffering from Blood Loss, that creature also regains 1 hit point.
• As an action, you can spend one use of a healer's kit to tend to a creature and restore 1d6 + 4 hit points to it, plus additional hit points equal to the creature's maximum number of Hit Dice. The creature can't regain hit points from this feat again until it finishes a short or long rest.

Inspiring Leader

Prerequisite: Charisma 13 or higher

You can spend 10 minutes inspiring your companions, shoring up their resolve to fight. When you do so, choose up to six friendly creatures (which can include yourself) within 30 feet of you who can see or hear you and who can understand you. Each creature can gain temporary hit points equal to half your level (rounded down, minimum of 1) + your Charisma modifier. A creature can't gain temporary hit points from this feat again until it has finished a short or long rest.

Sharpshooter

You have mastered ranged weapons and can make shots that others find impossible. You gain the following benefits:

• Attacking at long range doesn't impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls.
• Making a called shot doesn't impose the -5 penalty on your ranged weapon attack rolls.
• Your ranged weapon attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover.
• Before you make an attack with a ranged weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add +10 to the attack's damage.

Tough

Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to your level when you gain this feat. Whenever you gain a level thereafter, your hit point maximum increases by an additional 1 hit points.

Bloodlust

The more blood and gore on the battlefield, the better. Each death makes you stronger, until only you stand amid the corpses strewn in your path. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength score by 1 (maximum 20).
• When your weapon attack results in an enemy falling unconscious or dying, you gain advantage on your next attack roll in the same combat. If you somehow kill more than one enemy with a single attack, you still get tactical advantage on only one future attack.
• If your critical hit results in an enemy falling unconscious or dying, you gain advantage on your next roll, and you heal an amount equal to half the damage you dealt. You can heal this way once per encounter.

Deadly Reputation

Prerequisite: Charisma 13 or Fame 13

You have carefully cultivated a reputation as someone who shouldn’t be crossed. A signature move, an intimidating catch-phrase, the public humiliation of those with whom you have a score to settle—these are the ingredients of your story, and it’s a well-known story indeed. Your deadly reputation provides the following benefits:

• Increase your Fame score by 2 or your Charisma score by 1 (maximum 20).
• You are proficient in skill checks based on Fame.
• You can use a combat action to scare your enemies by identifying yourself and making a threatening display. Any enemy within 30 feet that understands your words must make a Charisma save or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn. The save DC is equal to 8 + your Fame or Charisma modifier + your proficiency bonus (if you are trained in Intimidation). You can use this ability once, and then you must rest before you can use it again.

Desperate Reserve

When the chips are down and the situation looks dire, you rise to the occasion. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution score by 1 (maximum 20).
• If you fail a saving throw, you gain advantage on the next saving throw that uses the same ability score during this encounter.
• When you have less than one-quarter of your maximum hit points (rounded down), your first weapon attack each round deals an extra 1d8 damage if it hits.

Devoted Followers

Prerequisite: Followers

You inspire amazing loyalty in your followers, leading by example and fighting by their side. They are your shieldmates and your brothers in battle, ready to give their all for you. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Charisma score by 1 (maximum 20).
• Your followers add 1d4 to their attack rolls and saving throws when they are within 10 feet of you.
• You can use your combat reaction to add 1d4 to your Armor Class or to a follower’s Armor Class if you are within 10 feet of your follower when you or your follower is attacked.

Your followers include any members of an elite company, raid, army, or horde you command. Other player characters in your party are not your followers. However, the GM may decide that some NPC allies or henchmen count as your followers for purposes of this feat, especially if they have some reason to look to you for leadership in battle.

Fate's Friend

Call it fortune, luck, the blessings of the gods, the favor of the Great Old Ones . . . whatever the reason, you can instinctively manipulate the tiniest events in battle to your advantage. You gain the following benefits:

• Whenever you roll a natural 20, you can turn it into a 19 and give yourself 1 Fate Point. You also get a Fate Point whenever you roll a natural 1.
• Whenever you roll a natural 19, you can spend a Fate Point and turn it into a 20. Whenever you roll a natural 18, you can spend 3 points to turn it into a 20.
• You can have a maximum of 5 Fate Points at one time, and you lose a Fate Point after every long rest.

Highborn

Prerequisite: Power 13

You were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. In civilized lands, your family belongs to the higher ranks of the aristocracy; in barbaric lands, you are instead the son or daughter of a powerful and well-respected chieftain with hundreds of spears at his command. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Fame score by 2 and your Power score by 2 (maximum 20).
• If your narrative provides followers, you may use the highest of your Charisma, Fame, or Power scores to determine their number.

Prerequisite: Proficiency with poisoner’s kit

You have studied many strange and exotic formulas for brewing poisons, mastering venoms few have ever heard of. Every creature has its own inimical substances, and you know a surprising number of these susceptibilities. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence score by 1.
• You now have resistance to poison damage, thanks to your long-term exposure to many common toxins.
• Choose one of the following types: celestial, elemental, fiend, undead. You learn how to incorporate special ingredients into your venoms that are especially inimical to the creature type you select. Poisons you craft ignore the poison immunity or resistance of the chosen creature type.

Spymaster

Prerequisite: Followers or Power 13

News, rumors, secrets—these are the coins with which common thieves and mighty princes alike build their empires. You have established a network of reliable informants in key locales throughout your home city (and, potentially, nearby cities as well) who send you reports on people and events of interest to you. When you choose this feat, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence score by 1 and your Power score by 2 (maximum 20).
• You are proficient in skill checks based on Power.
• You can make Power/Insight or Power/Investigation ability checks to gather rumors or compare competing versions of a story and determine their veracity.

Strong Mind

Prerequisite: Wisdom 13 or Sanity 13

More than a few bold freeblades or cunning sorcerers have lost their minds (or their lives) when the supernatural horrors lurking in Thule’s shadows overwhelmed their sanity. You are made of sterner stuff, and have the ability to shrug off horrors that would shatter the minds of lesser heroes. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain tactical advantage on saves against madness and on saves against becoming frightened.
• Increase your Sanity score by 2 (maximum 20).
• You are proficient in Sanity saves.
• You gain tactical advantage on saves against becoming frightened.

Tactician

You have studied the art of leading warriors in battle. You have a keen eye for defensive terrain, a knack for spotting weaknesses in enemy formations, and the ability to make quick and accurate decisions in the thick of the fray. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence score by 1 (maximum 20).
• You and your allies gain a +2 bonus on initiative rolls.
• You gain tactical advantage on battle rolls and morale checks when you command a force

Tireless

Prerequisite: Constitution 13

Through sheer grit and years of hardship and survival under the most grueling conditions, you have learned to push on through fatigue that would cripple a lesser hero. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution score by 1 (maximum 20).
• Reduce any exhaustion penalty you suffer by 2 levels (for example, if you have 4 exhaustion levels, you only suffer the penalty of 2 exhaustion levels).

Warhammer Master

You master the warhammer. You gain the following benefits:

• When you hit a creature with a warhammer, the creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be knocked prone.
• You can use your warhammer to knock away a foe’s shield. If you hit a creature that’s using a shield, you can have the attack deal no damage and force the creature to drop its shield.

Fell Handed

You master the handaxe, battleaxe, greataxe, warhammer, and maul. You gain the following benefits when using any of them:

• You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls you make with the weapon.
• Whenever you have advantage on a melee attack roll you make with the weapon and hit, you can knock the target prone if the lower of the two d20 rolls would also hit the target.
• Whenever you have disadvantage on a melee attack roll you make with the weapon, the target takes bludgeoning damage equal to your Strength modifier (minimum of 0) if the attack misses but the higher of the two d20 rolls would have hit.
• If you use the Help action to aid an ally’s melee attack while you’re wielding the weapon, you knock the target’s shield aside momentarily. In addition to the ally gaining advantage on the attack roll, the ally gains a +2 bonus to the roll if the target is using a shield.

Blade Mastery

You master the shortsword, longsword, scimitar, rapier, and greatsword. You gain the following benefits when using any of them:

• You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls you make with the weapon.
• You gain a +1 bonus to all parry attempts made with the weapon.
• When you make an opportunity attack with the weapon, you have advantage on the attack roll.

Flail Mastery

The flail is a tricky weapon to use, but you have spent countless hours mastering it. You gain the following benefits.

• You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls you make with a flail.
• As a bonus action on your turn, you can prepare yourself to extend your flail to sweep over targets’ shields. Until the end of this turn, your attack rolls with a flail gain a +2 bonus against any target using a shield.
• When you hit with an opportunity attack using a flail, the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be knocked prone.

Spear Mastery

Though the spear is a simple weapon to learn, it rewards you for the time you have taken to master it. You gain the following benefits.

• You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls you make with a spear.
• When you use a spear, its damage die changes from a d6 to a d8, and from a d8 to a d10 when wielded with two hands. (This benefit has no effect if another feature has already improved the weapon’s die.)
• You can set your spear to receive a charge. As a bonus action, choose a creature you can see that is at least 20 feet away from you. If that creatures moves within your spear’s reach on its next turn, you can make a melee attack against it with your spear as a reaction. If the attack hits, the target takes an extra 1d8 piercing damage, or an extra 1d10 piercing damage if you wield the spear with two hands. You can’t use this ability if the creature used the Disengage action before moving.
• As a bonus action on your turn, you can increase your reach with a spear by 5 feet for the rest of your turn.

Magic in Blood & Tears is both restricted and dangerous. Magic users are limited in the number of spells they may cast per day, thus making the decision to cast a spell more significant.

Spell Points

The number of maximum Spell Points a character can have at any time is equal to 2 + their Intelligence modifier + Caster Level.

Casting Spells

A character can cast any spell they have memorized, provided they also have enough spell points to cast it. A spell costs a number of spell points equal to the level of the spell slot it would have occupied.

For Example

If the occultist Michor still has one 1st level spell slot, one 2nd level spell slot and one 3rd level spell memorized, but only 3 Spell Points remaining, he has a choice. Michor could cast the 1st level spell, leaving two Spell Points remaining, which would also allow him to cast the 2nd level spell on his next turn, leaving him with 0 Spell Points remaining. Michor could also have chosen to cast the 3rd level spell, using all of his 3 Spell Points remaining.

Regaining Spell Points

After a short rest, you will regain Spell Point equal to your proficiency bonus. After a long rest, you will regain all spell up to your current maximum.

Cantrips

You can cast a free number of cantrips per day equal to your Intelligence modifier + your proficiency die. After a long rest, you will get your free castings back. If you don't have any free castings left, every cantrip you cast will cost 1 Spell Point.

Many spells have been adjusted for these rules. If the character receives damage from an area spell such as Gelid Fog, you reduce the damage you received by your Constitution modifer in addition to the Armor Point total from all four body hit locations, unless otherwise stated.

All aspects of existing spells fucntion as normal except for the revisions indicated below.

Chill Touch

The Chill Touch cantrip ignores armor and deals d6 damage instead of d8.

Circle of Death

The circle of death spell ignores armor and deals 4d6 damage.

Color Spray

Roll 3d10; the total is how many hit points of creature this spell can effect.

At Higher Level. Roll an additional 1d10 for each slot level above 1st.

Enhance Ability

Bear's Endurance.

It also gains 1d6 temporary hit points.

False Life

You gain 1d4 temporary hit points for the duration.

At Higher Levels. You gain 2 additional temporary hit points for each slot level above 1st.

Geas

The geas spell ignores armor.

Harm

The harm spell ignores armor and deals 6d6 damage.

Heat Metal

The heat metal spell ignores armor.

Haste

The target gains a +1 bonus to its reaction to Dodge or Parry and has advantage on Dexterity saving throws. Also, instead of an additional action, the target can make an additional Dodge or Parry reaction.

Heroism

A creature gains temporary hit points equal to half your spellcasting ability modifier (rounded up) at the start of each of its turns.

Inflict Wounds

The Inflict Wounds spell ignores armor and deals 1d8 damage. It increases its damage by 1d8 if higher spell slots are used.

Mage Armor

The target receives a 3 armor point bonus to all its locations.

Mirror Image

The duplicate's AC is your Size AC.

Phantasmal Killer

The phantasmal killer spell ignores armor and deals 2d6 damage on its initial hit. It increases its damage by 1d6 if higher spell slots are used.

Shield

The caster receives a 5 armor point bonus to all its locations.

Sleep

Roll 3d8; the total is how many hit points of creatures this spell can affect.

At Higher Levels. Roll an additional 1d8 for each slot above 1st.

Spare the Dying

If the target is dying or suffering from Blood Loss, the creature becomes stable and is no longer affected by Blood Loss.

Unseen Servant

The unseen servant has AC 15.

Wall of Ice

The wall has AC 3, 2 APs, and 14 hit points per 10-foot section, and it is vulnerable to fire damage.

Wall of Stone

Each panel has AC 3, 5 APs, and 14 hit points per inch of thickness.

Serpent Magic

Seeking Serpent

1st-level Spell - Black Magic
transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Target: Self
• Components: V, S, M (special ammunition)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
• Saving Throw: no
• Spell Resistance: no

Using a specially prepared weapon, the next ranged weapon attack you make during the spell’s duration briefly transforms into a living serpent. You gain advantage on your attack roll. If you hit, the weapon deals damage as normal for its type, and the target must make a Constitution save. On a failure, the target suffers an additional 3d4 poison damage and becomes poisoned until the end of its next turn.

Seeking serpent can only be used with a throwing weapon or piece of ammunition that deals piercing damage—for example, a dart, javelin, arrow, or crossbow bolt. The weapon or ammunition must be carved in a snake-like shape, and costs 10 gp. If you miss with your attack, the weapon or ammunition is not expended and instantly reverts to its inert form. Otherwise, the weapon wriggles away from the creature struck and then disappears in a dark puff of smoke.

At Higher Levels. When you cast seeking serpent as a higher-level spell, increase the poison damage by 2d4 for each spell slot level above 1st level.

Serpent Fingers

1st-level Spell - Black Magic
transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: -
• Target: Self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 round
• Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (see below)
• Spell Resistance: Yes

You transform the fingers of both of your hands into writhing nests of venomous serpents. Each of your digits divides and lengthens into anywhere from one to three snakes, each extending one to two feet from your hand. Your ability to cast spells with somatic components is unimpeded, and you can use your serpent fingers to grasp and wield objects (although fine motor control such as delicate writing or lockpicking is not possible).

Your serpent fingers give you two natural bite attacks, one for each hand. Your attack bonus is equal to your caster level plus your key ability modifier, and you deal 1 point of piercing damage when you hit. Any creature you bite must succeed on a Fortitude save or take an additional 1d6 poison damage. (If you hit the same creature twice in the same round, it only becomes poisoned once.)

For every two caster levels you have, the poison lasts 1 additional round, dealing its damage again at the end of the target’s turn, to a maximum of 4 additional rounds at 8th level.

Backbiter Curse

2nd-level Spell - Black Magic
enchantment

• Casting Time: Reaction
• Range: 5 Feet
• Target: one creature that just hit you
• Components: V
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Saving Throw: None
• Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell causes a creature that hit you with a melee attack to repeat the attack against itself. This attack uses the same attack roll bonus, including modifiers, as the attack against you, and deals the amount of damage dealt to you by the triggering attack.

Viper Form

2nd-level Spell - Grey Magic
transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Target: one creature that just hit you
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
• Saving Throw: No
• Spell Resistance: No

You assume the form of a Tiny poisonous snake. The duration depends on how long you maintain concentration, and the only form you can take is that of a poisonous snake—not a good choice for a pitched battle, perhaps, but exceedingly handy for getting into tight spaces, hiding, or spying without being seen. You revert to your normal form when your concentration ends.

At Higher Levels. When you cast viper form as a 3rd-level spell, you can take the form of a giant poisonous snake.

5th-level spell - Black Magic
School conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 round
• Range: close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
• Target: one creature that just hit you
• Components: V, S, M/DF (a severed snake head)
• Duration: concentration + 2 rounds
• Saving Throw: see text
• Spell Resistance: No

You summon a mass of vipers or constrictors that attacks all other creatures within its area. (You may summon the swarm so that it shares the area of other creatures.) You can direct the swarm with a minor action to move up to 20 feet. The swarm otherwise remains where you it was summoned. The snakes are either venomous vipers or entangling constrictors (you choice when you cast the spell). Creatures in the swarm are distracted (spellcasting or concentrating on spells within the swarm’s area requires a caster level check, DC = 20 + spell level). On your turn, each creature in the swarm’s space takes 1d6 damage and an additional effect depending on the type of swarm you summoned:

Vipers: The creature is also poisoned (injury; save Fort DC 15, frequency 1/rd. for 6 rounds, effect 1d2 Con, cure 2 consecutive saves).

Constrictors: The target is entangled as long as it remains in the swarm. If you have access to Pathfinder Roleplaying Game:

Bestiary 3, you can have the swarm function as a venomous snake swarm, substituting the constrictors’ ability for the swarm’s poison.

Star Theurgy

Contagious Madness

6th-level Spell - Black Magic
School enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Effect:
• Target:
• Components: V, S, M (tiny bag of marbles)
• Duration: Concentration (up to 1 minute)
• Saving Throw: none
• Spell Resistance: No

Your magic overwhelms the mind of a foe, sending him or her into a berserk fury—as well as anyone your target attacks in his or her madness. Choose one creature within range. That creature must make a Wisdom save. If the save fails, the creature flies into a berserk rage. It treats all other creatures as enemies, and on its turn it moves to the nearest creature it can see and makes a melee attack. The berserk creature gains advantage on its attack rolls, but any attacks against it also gain advantage.

Any creature hit by a melee attack from a creature affected by this spell must make a Wisdom save, or suffer the same effect.

At the end of each of its turns, a creature affected by this spell can attempt a new Wisdom save to end the effect. The spell ends when no more creatures are under its effect, or when you cease concentrating.

Extraterrene Calling

6th-level Spell - Black Magic
School conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 round
• Range: close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
• Effect: one or two called extraterrene creatures, totaling no more than 12 HD, which cannot be more than 30 ft. apart when they appear
• Target: one creature that just hit you
• Components: V, S, M (offerings worth 1,250 gp plus payment)
• Duration: instantaneous
• Saving Throw: none
• Spell Resistance: No

This spell functions like lesser extraterrene calling, except that you may call a single extraterrene creature of 12 HD or less, or two creatures of the same kind whose HD total no more than 12.

Special: Your patron deity must be a Great Old One.

4th-level Spell - Black Magic
School conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 round
• Range: close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
• Effect: one called extraterrene creature of 6 HD or less
• Target: one creature that just hit you
• Components: V, S, M (offerings worth 500 gp plus payment)
• Duration: instantaneous
• Saving Throw: none
• Spell Resistance: No

By casting this spell, you call out to your patron Great Old One to send you an extraterrene creature. You may ask the creature to perform one task in exchange for a payment from you. Tasks might range from the simple to the complex. You are able to communicate with the creature called for the purposes of establishing this bargain.

On behalf of the Great Old One it serves, the creature called requires a payment for its services. The payment depends on the nature of the Great Old One, and may involve valuable gifts, living sacrifice, or some other action or service that you provide that aligns with the entity’s goals and can be completed within an agreed upon timeframe. The bargaining takes at least 1 round, so any actions by the creature begin in the round after it arrives.

At the end of its task, or when the duration bargained for expires, the creature returns from whence it came. When you use a calling spell that calls an air, chaotic, earth, evil, fire, good, lawful, or water creature, it is a spell of that type.

Special: Your patron deity must be a Great Old One.

Group Telepathy

3rd-level Spell - Grey Magic
School divination

• Casting Time: 1 standard action
• Range: close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
• Effect: one called extraterrene creature of 6 HD or less
• Target: you plus one creature per three levels
• Components: S, M (a small seashell)
• Duration: 1 round/level
• Saving Throw: Will negates
• Spell Resistance: yes

Each target gains the ability to communicate telepathically over limited distance for a short time. The target can communicate regardless of language with any creature within 50 feet. Affected creatures also take a –2 penalty to Will saves against charm, compulsion, or mind-affecting effects, and the attacks and abilities of extraterrene creatures.

Spectral Tentacles

3rd-level Spell - Black Magic
School abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Effect: one called extraterrene creature of 6 HD or less
• Target: you plus one creature per three levels
• Components: V, S, M (bit of octopus tentacle)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
• Saving Throw: No
• Spell Resistance: No

You conjure writhing, ghostly tentacles that sprout from your shoulders, menacing nearby foes and protecting you from attack. As long as the spell lasts, you can use a combat reaction to shield yourself against weapon attacks; roll 1d4 and add the result to your parry roll.

In addition, your tentacles serve as weapons; as an action, you can make two tentacle attacks. The tentacles have a reach of 10 feet and use your magic attack bonus. If you hit, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d8 + your spellcasting ability modifier, and the target is restrained.

You can restrain up to three targets at a time (you grow additional spectral tentacles so that you can hold some targets while continuing to attack others). A creature restrained by your tentacles can spend an action to break free by attempting a Strength or Dexterity check (its choice) against your save DC.

Animate Blades

1st-level Spell - Black Magic
School transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 standard action
• Range: medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
• Effect: one called extraterrene creature of 6 HD or less
• Target: see text
• Components: V, S
• Duration: concentration (up to 1 round/level)
• Saving Throw: no
• Spell Resistance: no

You animate a number of unattended objects, causing them to levitate in the air and strike at targets you designate of their own accord. Each object must weigh 10 pounds or less, and you can animate a number of objects equal to 2 + your Intelligence or Charisma modifier. You can control (and thus attack with) a number of the animated objects equal to half your caster level (round down). Items you animate but do not actively control hover in the air, but do nothing else. On your turn, you can move each controlled object up to 100 feet and make one attack with it. You can concentrate multiple objects on one target or divide the objects among multiple targets.

Weapons you control strike with an attack bonus equal to your caster level plus your key ability modifier, and deal normal damage (for example, a dagger strikes for 1d4 damage and threatens a critical hit on a natural 19 or 20). Improvised weapons such as fist-sized stones, heavy branches, or even sturdy bottles deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage if used in this way, and do not suffer the normal improvised weapon attack penalty. If you roll a natural 1 when attacking with a weapon or object in this manner, that object is “dropped” and you can no longer control it with this spell.

The most common use of animate blade is to animate the daggers and swords of fallen warriors found on a battlefield or in a crypt; hence the name. However, the magic of the spell does not discriminate between blades, cudgels, rocks, or other potential weapons of the right size.

Bloodlust Cloud

4th-level Spell - Black Magic
School enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 standard action
• Range: medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
• Effect: A mist rises in a 20-ft. radius, 20 ft. high
• Target: see text
• Components: V, S, M
• Duration: concentration (up to 1 round/level)
• Saving Throw: see text
• Spell Resistance: yes

A cloud of red vapors rises at your command. The cloud obscures all sight, including darkvision, beyond 5 feet. A creature in the cloud within 5 feet has concealment. Creatures farther away have total concealment.

Any creature below half its maximum hit points that ends its turn in the bloodlust cloud makes a melee attack against a random adjacent creature unless it makes a successful Will save.

Defy Death

4th-level Spell - White Magic
School necromancy

• Casting Time: Reaction
• Range: personal
• Effect:
• Target: you
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 minute/level
• Saving Throw: no
• Spell Resistance: no

You gain the ability to temporarily ignore terrible wounds and sustain your life through necromantic means. While this spell is in effect, critical injuries are received, but you postpone rolling on the Critical Injury table until the duration of the spell ends.

You may cast this spell immediately when you are reduced to 0 hit points or less, or fail a massive damage saving throw.

Draining Mist

4th-level Spell - Black Magic
School necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 standard action
• Range: close (25 ft. + 5 ft./level)
• Effect:
• Target: 1 creature/2 levels, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart.
• Components: V, S, M (a leech)
• Duration: instantaneous
• Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
• Spell Resistance: yes

You surround yourself with a sinister red mist that drains the life from all nearby creatures and feeds it to you. Each target takes 2d6 necrotic damage unless it succeeds on a Fortitude save. You gain temporary hit points equal to 2 times the number of targets that take damage from this spell (maximum 10 temporary hit points). This attack ignored armor.

Mark of Guarding

1st-level Spell - Grey Magic
School Abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Effect:
• Target:
• Components: V, S, M (a bear claw)
• Duration: Special
• Saving Throw: no
• Spell Resistance: no

You place a protective rune on a melee weapon to safeguard its wielder. The mark lasts for 24 hours, but is inactive until the wielder uses a reaction or bonus action as part of a parry to invoke its power.

The activated mark provides a +1 bonus to the wielder’s saving throws and the wielder gains a +4 to his parry attempt against the triggering attack.

The effect lasts for 1 minute once activated, and then the mark fades away.

Mark of Might

2nd-level Spell - Grey Magic
School Transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Effect:
• Target:
• Components: V, S, M (a pinch of mammoth fur)
• Duration: Special
• Saving Throw: no
• Spell Resistance: no

You place a spell of crushing impact on a weapon that the wielder can call upon in battle. The mark lasts for 24 hours, but is inactive until the wielder uses a bonus action to invoke its power. When the mark is activated, the wielder doubles the weapon’s damage dice (for example, a great- axe with a mark of might deals 2d12 damage). In addition, any target struck must make a Strength save (caster’s DC) or be knocked prone.

The effect lasts for 1 minute once activated, and then the mark fades away.

Baleful Mark

4th-level Spell - Grey Magic
School necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Effect:
• Target:
• Components: V, S, M (a serpent fang)
• Duration: Special
• Saving Throw: no
• Spell Resistance: no

You place a specific and deadly curse upon a weapon, making it especially dangerous to a particular type of foe. You must specify the creature type when you cast the spell. You can choose any creature type except humanoid; for humanoids, you must specify the race, such as elf, human, or troglodyte. The mark lasts for 24 hours, but is inactive until the wielder uses a bonus action to invoke its power.

Once activated, the wielder may score a critical hit on a roll of 18-20. If a creature of the type susceptible to the mark suffers a critical hit from the active weapon, it must make a Constitution save (caster’s DC) or suffer an additional 5d8 necrotic damage and become stunned until the end of the wielder’s next turn. The effect lasts for 1 minute once activated, and then the mark fades away.

Mark of Victory

6th-level Spell - Grey Magic
School enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Effect:
• Target:
• Components: V, S, M (pinch of lion fur)
• Duration: Special
• Saving Throw: no
• Spell Resistance: no

You craft a powerful rune for a weapon that serves to protect the wielder and see him or her through to victory. The mark lasts for 24 hours, but is inactive until the wielder uses a bonus action to invoke its power. When the mark is activated, the wielder gains advantage on attack rolls and saving throws, and cannot become frightened.

In addition, any creature hit by the active weapon must make a Wisdom save (caster’s DC) or become frightened. A creature frightened by this effect drops whatever it is holding, and must use its combat action to move away from the wielder by the safest route on each of its turns. At the end of each of its turns, the creature may attempt a new Wisdom save to end the effect.

The mark’s effect lasts for 1 minute once activated, and then the mark fades away.

Shivering Cold

1st-level Spell - Black Magic
School transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Effect:
• Target:
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 round
• Saving Throw: no
• Spell Resistance: no

You cause the temperature to plummet in a small area, wracking creatures within with uncontrollable shivers. The area of effect is a 20-foot cube. Roll 3d8 to determine the number of hit points affected by this spell. Creatures are affected in order of their current hit points, beginning with the creature with the lowest hit points in the area.

Each creature affected by your spell suffers the effects of 3 exhaustion levels. (These exhaustion levels do not stack with any other exhaustion effects the creature may be suffering.) Subtract the creature’s hit points from the total affected by the spell, then move on to the creature with the next lowest hit points. If a creature has more hit points than the spell can affect, it isn’t affected.

At the end of each affected creature’s turn, it reduces the exhaustion level caused by shivering cold by 1 (thus creatures will usually be affected for 3 rounds).

Higher Levels: When you cast this spell with a higher-level spell slot, add 1d6 to the effect for each spell slot. This damage ignores armor

Ice Claw

3rd-level Spell - Black Magic
School conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Effect:
• Target:
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
• Saving Throw: no
• Spell Resistance: no

Choose a target space that you can see within range. A gyre of blowing snow and ice forms in the target space and condenses into a Medium-sized clawed hand of ice which rakes at one creature in its space. The target must make a Constitution save. On a failed save, the target takes 1d10 slashing damage and is restrained for the duration of the spell.

As an action, you can use the claw to freeze the restrained target, who must make a Constitution save. It takes 2d6 cold damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This damage ignores armor. You can also use an action to release the claw’s current target, move the claw to a different target space within range, and attack a different creature.

A restrained target can break out of your ice claw by making a Strength check against your save DC. If the check succeeds, the target escapes and is no longer restrained.

Glacial Bulwark

5th-level Spell - White Magic
School abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Effect:
• Target:
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 minute (see below)
• Saving Throw: no
• Spell Resistance: no

You encase yourself or a willing ally in a rough-hewn block of ice that protects the creature within—long enough for a brief respite, at any rate. While within the ice, you are restrained, but you can still cast spells, use gear, and do anything else that’s reasonable for someone stuck in a closet-like space. The ice itself provides total cover in both directions, so it’ll be difficult for attacks to reach within the ice, or for attacks to emerge from it.

The ice is transparent enough that the target can see what’s going on nearby, and anyone nearby can see who’s within the ice. Enemies can attack the ice directly; it is AC 5 and has 5 hp per caster level; it’s immune to cold damage but vulnerable to fire damage. The creature within the ice can end the spell early by dealing 1 damage to the inside of the ice block, because it has a crystalline structure that makes it brittle and easy to break from the inside. If the ice is destroyed, the spell ends early.

Gelid Fog

6th-level Spell - Black Magic
School conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Effect:
• Target:
• Components: V, S, M (a dried pea)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
• Saving Throw: no
• Spell Resistance: no

You create a billowing cloud of freezing fog in a sphere with a 20-foot radius, centered on a point within range. The fog heavily obscures its area. It can spread around corners or seep down into low-lying areas, and lasts for the duration or until dispersed by a strong wind.

The fog quickly coats all surfaces with a rime of slick ice, making the ground inside difficult terrain. When a creature enters the spell’s area or starts its turn inside, it must make a Constitution save and a Dexterity save. It takes 2d6 cold damage on a failed Constitution save, or half as much damage on a success. The creature falls prone if it fails its Dexterity save.

Higher Levels: When you cast this spell with a higher-level spell slot, add 1d6 to the damage dealt for each spell slot level above 6th level.

This spell ignores armor.

Whenever your hit points are reduced to 0, you no longer fall unconscious and begin dying. Instead, you begin to take critical damage. Each time you suffer critical damage, you suffer one or more critical effects. Critical damage is cumulative and remains with you until you heal naturally over time or receive medical attention or magical healing.

There are four critical types of tables: Energy, Impact, Slashing, and Thunder. As there are several types of damage for Energy, the DM may have to adjust the description of the critical damage to better suit the damage to the damage type received.

Damage Type Critical Table

Injuries

Here are descriptions of injuries you may receive.

Blood Loss

When you suffer blood loss, you must make a death saving throw as described in the Player's Handbook. You do not fall unconscious.

Broken Ribs

This has the same effect as Internal Injury, except that the save DC is 10.

Example

Caspian is hit with an arrow to his right arm. After accounting for his Constitution modifier and armor, Caspian suffers 10 points of piercing damage. Since he only has 8 hit points left, he is now at -2 hit points and suffers 2 points of critical damage to his right arm. The DM consults the critical damage 2 line of Impact Critical Effects - Arm which says that Caspian suffers a deep bruise to his arm. Later in combat, Caspian is hit with a longsword to his left leg. After accounting for his Constitution modifier and armor, he suffers 3 points of slashing damage. Caspian has now suffered 5 total points of critical damage. The DM consults the critical damage 5 line of Slashing Critical Effect - Leg and determines that Caspian's leg is opened up in a spray of blood, exposing bone, sinew and muscle. He takes 1 level of exhaustion, his speed is halved for 1 hour and he suffers a Limp and a Minor Scar.

Festering Wound

Your hit point maximum is reduced by 1 every 24 hours the wound persists. If your hit point maximum drops to 0, you die. The wound heals if you receive magical healing.

Alternatively, someone can tend to the wound and make a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check once every 24 hours. After five successes, the wound heals.

Horrible Scar

You are disfigured to the extent that the wound can't be easily concealed. You have disadvantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks and advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks.

Magical healing of 6th level or higher, such as heal and regenerate, removes the scar.

Internal Injury

Whenever you attempt an action in combat, you must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, you lose your action and can't use reactions until the start of your next turn. The injury heals if you receive magical healing or if you spend ten days doing nothing but resting.

Limp

Your speed on foot is reduced by 5 feet. You must make a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw after using the Dash action. If you fail the save, you fall prone. Magical healing removes the limp.

Lose an Arm or a Hand

You can no longer hold anything with two hands, and you can hold only a single object at a time. Magic such as the regenerate spell can restore the lost appendage.

The missing ear doesn't have any adverse effect. Magical healing of 6th level or higher, such as heal or regenerate, repairs the scar.

Lose an Eye

You have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight and on ranged attack rolls. Magic such as the regenerate spell can restore the lost eye. If you have no eyes left after sustaining this injury, you're blinded.

Lose a Foot or Leg

Your speed on foot is halved, and you must use a cane or crutch to move unless you have a peg leg or other prosthesis. You fall prone after using the Dash action. You have disadvantage on Dexterity checks made to balance. Magic such as the regenerate spell can restore the lost appendage.

Minor Scar

The scar doesn't have any adverse effect. Magical healing of 6th level or higher, such as heal and regenerate, removes the scar.

Healing

As you accumulate damage, you progress through three different states: lightly damaged, heavily damaged, and critically damaged.

Lightly Damaged

You are considered lightly damaged if you have taken damage equal to or less than half your hit points (rounded up). When you are lightly damaged, you heal damage normally

Heavily Damaged

You are considered heavily damaged if you have taken damage less than half your hit points but haven't taken critical damage. When you are heavily damaged, you can spend one or more Hit Dice at the end of a long rest, up to the maximum number of Hit Dice. You don't regain any hit points after a short rest. Magical healing heals you normally.

Once your damage is equal to or less than half your hit points (rounded up), you become lightly damaged.

Critically Damaged

You are critically damaged if you have received damage in excess of your hit points. When you are critically damaged, you heal 1 point after a long rest. When you receive magical healing, you heal 1 point of critical damage for each 5 points of magical healing you receive.

Once all critical damage has been healed, you become heavily damaged instead.

Slow Natural Healing

Characters don’t regain hit points at the end of a long rest. Instead, a character can spend Hit Dice to heal at the end of a long rest, just as with a short rest.

Healer’s Kit Dependency

A character can’t spend any Hit Dice after finishing a short rest until someone expends one use of a healer’s kit to bandage and treat the character’s wounds.

Massive Damage

When a creature takes damage from a single source equal to or greater than double its hit point maximum, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or suffer a random effect determined by a roll on the System Shock table. For example, a creature that has a hit point maximum of 30 must make that Constitution save if it takes 15 damage or more from a single source.

System Shock

Monster have been altered. A table shows new armor class, armor points, and hit points for each monster. Monsters that had their abilities changed are also detailed.

Monster hit points are calculated by using the table below. First hit die always includes Constitution modifier.

Monster Hit Points

Monster Hit Locations

Several monsters have different kinds of hit locations due to their form. In the monster table, the locations are given for a humanoid form but you can look at the body type of the monster and give it a hit location accordingly.

Abominations

This hit location is for creatures with no definable form.

Beasts, Eight-legged

This hit location table consists eight appendages, a body (or thorax), a head, and tail (or abdoment).

Beasts, Four-legged

This hit location table consists of a head, torso, four legs (or appendages), and a tail.

Beasts, Six-legged

This hit location table consists of a head, torso (or thorax), six appendages, and a tail (or abdomen).

Bipedal

This body profile consists of a head, torso, two appendages (usually legs), and a tail.

Dibrachium

This body profile consists of a head, main body (or torso), two appendages (pectoral fins or arms), and a tail.

This body profile consists of a head, torso, two legs, two arms, two wings, and a tail.

Humanoid with an Additional Body Part

This body profile consists of two arms, two legs, a head, a torso, and an additional body part (such as a tail, extra head, or appendage, a tentacle, etc.)

Serpentine

This body profile consists of a head, torso, and a tail.

Monster Descriptions

Damage Resistance

If the monster has damage resistance, the damage is reduced if there is damage left after AP and Constitution modifier. For example, a deva takes 19 points of radiant damage. Its AP 3 and +4 Constitution modifier reduces this damage to 12 (19 - 7). The deva takes 6 points of radiant damage.

Damage Vulnerability

If the monster is vulnerable to a certain type of damage, the damage is doubled after AP and Constitution modifier. For example, a skeleton takes 10 points of bludgeoning damage. Its AP 1 and +2 Constitution modifier reduces this damage to 7. The skeleton takes 14 points of bludgeoning damage.

Rare Languages

Most people in the known world are bilingual to a greater or lesser extent. They know the language of their home city or tribe and converse fluently in that tongue. They also know some amount of “Common” or “Low” Atlantean, a simple version of the High Atlantean language.

Speakers of Common Atlantean get by with a couple of thousand words and some standard phrases, but can converse well enough for all but the most complicated or nuanced concepts. The more isolated barbarians have little use for a common language, and it’s not unusual to find that particularly reclusive or hostile tribes don’t understand any Atlantean at all.

Abyssal and Infernal: Not native to the Earth, and known only because demons, devils, and other creatures from other dimensions sometimes find their way into the world.
Benthic: A prehuman language spoken by the ancient civilizations of the seas. The written form is a fantastically ancient glyph system referred to as Pnakos, known principally for its appearance in the Pnakotic Manuscripts.
Celestial: The language of the gods and their servants. The holiest tomes and scrolls in existence contain passages written in Celestial.
Dhari: The language of human tribes and cities of Dhari ethnicity. The written form is based on the language of the serpent-people.
Draconic: The language of the serpentmen. Debased forms of this tongue are spoken by troglodytes and kobolds.
Dwarven: The language of the dwarf race. Its runes are used (rarely) as the basis for writing in Nimothan and Giant.
Elven: The language of the elven people. It is important in arcane studies.
Giant: An old and almost forgotten language, rarely encountered in the current day.

High Atlantean: When Atlantis reigned as the supreme power in the lands of the Atlantean Sea, its language was known by all but the most isolated and backwards savages. The waning influence of Atlantis in the current day means that Atlantean is slowly falling out of use throughout Thule. It is still a language of scholarship, science, and many occult studies.
Kalayan: The language of humans of Kalayan ancestry, most notable the city of Quodeh. Kalayan was strongly influenced by Elven and still uses the Elven alphabet.
Khazistanean: The language of humans of the Khazistani ancestry.
Lomari: Humans of Lomar speak this tongue. It is unrelated to any other languages in Thule.
Low Atlantean: The “common tongue” of Thule and nearby lands.
Mi-Go: Known to only a handful of scholars and cultists, most of whom are not entirely sane. The strange and sinister mi-go are among the most widely traveled of the extraterrene races that visit the Earth, and their language—generally unpronounceable by humans— serves as a common tongue among the alien races that occasionally visit Thule. Nabastissean: The language of humans of the Nabastissean ancestry.
Nimothan: Human tribes and cities of Nimothan descent speak this language. The written form is based on dwarven runes.
Rakshasan: The proud and cruel race of rakshasas do not teach their language to people of lesser races, but a few libraries in Thule hold examples of their writings.
Susrahnian: The language of humans of the Susrahnite ancestry. The Sea Reavers around Xoth speak a dialect of Susrahnian.
Urgan: The primitive language of the beastmen, gnolls, and the more intelligent beasts and apes. There is no written form.
Yar-Ammonite: The language of humans of the Yar-Ammonite ancestry