Final Fantasy

Warriors of Light

Welcome Warriors of Light,

This is Final Fantasy 14 a table-top rpg (TTRPG) in which you can and will live the story of your character along with your friends and/or family. This project started as a joke and my own defeatist mindset; but this project has been absolutely fun to make. The story can be anything you or your gamemasters decide. Want to be a villain? The heroes? Bystanders? This project aims for you to be you. Celebrate you.

This PDF book has the base races, jobs, backgrounds, religions, and anything else from the Final Fantasy 14 game itself. I took it upon myself to add some really fun additions to the game. I won’t spoil it as you continue reading, and it is definitely a lot of reading. Please do enjoy yourself. There’s so much within this book alone that I can’t wait for you to discover.

If you’re asking why I would make this when the actual game exists? Well, this is for people who maybe can’t play the online game. Plus, this is a TTRPG, mixing FFXIV and DnD into one coherent world for everyone to enjoy. Whether you are new to Dungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy 14, and/or a veteran of both. As stated earlier above, please be you. Fight, live, earn money, see the world come to an end, whatever the choices you make are yours and shouldn’t regret these decisions.

I really do hope that you enjoy playing this setting with your friends and/or family. I really do believe that this will bring lots of wonder and awe to your in-person table, or your virtual table. With all of the greetings and small explanation out of the way…

Welcome to Final Fantasy 14. Sincerely yours, ZaxaMAl.

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Table of Contents

Legal Disclaimer

I do not own the rights or permissions to neither the Dungeons & Dragons franchise nor the Final Fantasy franchise. This is simply intended as a fan project to bring both of these loved properties together. Please don’t sue me into oblivion.

Chapter 1: Races

The currently available races cover all playable races in the FFXIV MMO along with the presumed race. Each race is able to fit into most fantasy worlds without trouble, I will include a quick blurb for each here. Also with a few added races seen in the past Final Fantasy games.

Au Ra

The Au Ra hail from the east, and are marked by their scales and horns. These people have a stark difference in height between the the males and females of the species. The males tend to be much taller than the females and many other races, while the females on average are shorter than many of the other races. The dark scaled Xaela are nomads who travel the Azim Steppe and have developed a wide variety of customs which change from tribe to tribe. The light scaled Raen live largely integrated into modern society, giving up their nomadic ways for peaceful coexistence with the other races.

Elezen

The Elezen are elves who hail from Eorzea who call the lands of Gridania and Ishgard their home. Taller than regular elves, they have naturally good eyesight and are well intuned with the land. Over time they split into two groups, the Wildwood whom are light skinned and dextrous, skilled with a bow and live in either dense forests or their highly religious city-state homeland. Their relatives, the Duskwights, live in a series of twisting tunnels and ruins underground, coming up only to hunt for food or pillage before returning to their cavernous homes.

Galka

The Galka are a hulking race of powerful warriors. The sheer strength of their powerful physiques is second to none. They have used their skills to contribute to the construction and development of the numerous mines. Galka are asexual and do not reproduce in the same manner as other species. However, other races typically use the male pronoun to refer to Galka, as their physical appearance is more masculine than feminine. Sometime after a Galka dies (between a month and a year), the Galka’s soul is reincarnated into a new body in a Galkan settlement. The newly reincarnated Galka has no abilities or traits of the previous soul, and only hazy memories of its previous lives. Once a Galka’s soul has been reincarnated, the original galka cannot be raised from the dead.

Garif

The garif are a muscular race covered in thick brown hair. Abhorring machinery and material goods such as money, they live off the land, adorning themselves in simple, natural materials, such as leather, grass, wood and stone, and building their houses from the same materials. They often stand with a slight stoop, possibly from the weight of their masks. The masks are a vital part of garif customs and all garif receive a mask on the day they are born, which they wear until they die and will not remove, lend or sell. The great-chiefs wear more elaborate masks, wrought with metal and painted with pigments that most likely have come from the land. Despite their intimidating appearance, the garif are a peace-loving people, albeit physically capable of fighting and hunting thanks to their muscular bodies, thick fur and incredible hearing and sense of smell.

Garlean

The Garleans are physically strong and highly intelligent people who call the land of Ilsabard their home. They are marked by their third eye, a gem like growth in the center of their forehead. Unfortunately for them, the Garleans as a whole have great difficulty channeling aether through their bodies, which despite their physicality and intelligence, found themselves bowing to many other magic wielding races. They were eventually able to develop technology to make up for this lack of magical aptitude and turned the tables, establishing the Garlean Empire in Ilsabard, a dominate force which sought to invade the land of Eorzea.

Half-Breed

Half-breeds blend the two aspects of two races together. The only races that can’t participate in this are the Galka.

Hrothgar

The Hrothgar are powerful, feline people from the Northeast who had struggles when meeting the other races of the world as they were unable to speak the common tongue. They call Ilsabard their homeland and they walk two distinct paths, one of servitude and the other of freedom. These distinct paths and ways of life led to the Helions, warm coloured Hrothgar who serve in the name of their Queen, and The Lost, cool coloured Hrothgar who value freedom above all else.

Hyur

The Hyur have spread across the entirety of the world, making it difficult to trace what their homeland truly is. There are the average sized Midlanders, named for the elevation in which their sub species lived for many years, and the taller, more muscular highlanders, who lived in the high mountains for their declared homeland.

Lalafell

The Lalafell immigrated from Southern islands to Eorzea forming two distinct groups based on the geography their ancestors settled in. The darker skinned Dunesfolk formed the city state of Ul’dah in the deserts of Thanalan, while the lighter skinned Planesfolk settled and farmed the lands of La Noscea, a large island off the mainland of Eorzea. Both of these naturally charming folk found great success as merchants through history.

Mandragora

The enigmatic mandragora were first observed in the aftermath of the Seventh Umbral Era. It is not known whence they came, or if they even existed prior to the Calamity. They resemble a small, wide-mouthed fat child made from leaves, vines, tree bark, dirt, and pallid tubers.

Miqo’te

The Miqo’te are a second group of feline people who traveled to Eorzea across a frozen sea long ago. These proud people find pride in their natural hunting ability and have split into two distinct ethnic groups who worship the sun and moon respectively. The Seekers of the Sun live in warmer clients in patriarchal societies while The Keepers of the Moon live in dense forests, their tribes centering on matriarchs.

Moogle

Moogles are a resourceful race known to be skillful in mechanics and engineering; they were the first pioneers of airship construction. They are also skillful merchants, their cheerful disposition often charming potential customers. Moogles typically get no taller than 3 to 4 feet. They tend to have small eyes (like moles) and black, red, or purple bat-like wings. Their most distinguishing feature is a single black antenna that sticks up from the head with a small, usually red, ball (or “pompom”) at the end. Their ears are usually shaped like a cat’s, but sometimes they have longer rabbit-like ears. Most Moogles have white or pink fur. When speaking hume languages, they tend to end their sentences with the sound ‘kupo’. Moogles are mostly found in large cities, working as engineers, or serving aboard airships. They are avid storytellers and holders of many superstitions. Moogles also hate water, preferring instead to bathe in dust or sand.

Roegadyn

The Roegadyn are large, hulking people who hail from the mountains and the sea. The Sea Wolves are known as famed pirates and settled the coastal city state Limsa Lominsa, while the Hellsguard live in villages atop mountains and volcanoes, acting as keepers of the land, believing such locations to be portals to other worlds.

Varg

Sometimes mistakenly referred to as ‘Werewolves,’ the vargs are lean and powerful wolfmen, a mixture of human and bestial characteristics. Though they walk upright, long tails, lupine heads, and elegant fur leave little doubt as to their origins. In comparison to humes, vargs enjoy enhanced seeing, smell, and hearing; they can clearly recognize objects and movement at far greater distances, though their ability to sense color is significantly weaker. Like humes, vargs are at home in a wide range of habitats. While most commonly encountered in temperate climates, subspecies of this race can be found roaming sweltering tropical savannas, scraping out a minimal existence on misty moors, or braving arctic conditions. Fur colors and thicknesses vary accordingly, simultaneously serving as insulation and camouflage appropriate to a varg’s adopted surroundings

Viera

The Viera are lapine people who live in dense forests and act as the protectors of their home. With their more secluded nature, they generally avoid contact with the outside world, happily protecting the Golmore Jungles and Skatay Range, both found in the east. There are two distinct groups of Viera who developed slightly differently based on their homes, the Rava having darker skin while the Veena have far fairer skin, both groups blending into their respective environments better thanks to these adaptations.

Au ra

We Xaela are nomads who roam and live off the land. My tribe was no different. Yet though we did no harm to those whose lands we traversed, they treated us as vermin. In their ignorance, they feared us, and that fear manifested as spite and violence.

My loved ones and I were cursed at, spat upon, beaten, and worse. It was out of the desire to protect them that I began my research.

-Alaqa the Witch

The Au Ra are a misunderstood people due to their physical appearance. Their scaled bodies and horns led many to fear them, believing them to be descendants of dragons or demons. This fear led to hate, which gave way to violence, leaving these proud people fewer in number across much of the world. These conditions have led the Au Ra to value their families beyond all else.

Variable Size

Au Ra are characterized by their curved horns and intricate patterning of scales across their bodies. Sleek and powerful tails extend out from behind the Au Ra. There is a striking difference in height between the males and females of the race, the men ranging from just over 6 feet tall to 7 and a half feet tall, while the women are dwarfed, rarely coming close to 6 feet tall. Their faces contain sharp features and piercing eyes.

Divided By Blood

The Auri creation myth tells the tale of two beings, the dawn father and the dusk mother. The two kinds of Au Ra have beliefs about their connection to these beings. The dark scaled Xaela are a nomadic people who believe that the blood of the dusk mother courses through their veins.

On the Azim Steppe, their traditional garb varied widely from tribe to tribe. Each group had a special way to adorn themselves which had meaning to their group. Outside of the tribal roots, Auri tend to blend into the fashion style of the region they live.

The Xaela view themselves as free spirit folk, who roam the lands hunting, gathering, and battling against other roaming tribes, in honour of their ancestors. The light scaled Raen have instead decided to assimilate into Eastern society, though they are a minority, their loyalty and service has been a great boon to the culture they’ve ingrained themselves in.

Peaks, Valleys and Plains

The Auri homeland is known as Othard, a region to the far east. A majority of their homeland is covered by sprawling plains known as the Azim Steppe which dominates the region. The Xaela clans travel across this sea of grasslands in close knit tribes. The northern and western reaches of Othard are shielded with high mountain peaks and deep valleys shrouded in mist. It is from these mists that the Raen originally hailed. Today most live in civilized society or hidden villages allowing them to live peaceful lives.

For my family

An Au Ra may set off on an adventure for any number of reasons, a thirst of adventure, defense of their tribe or a mission for a master could send them on their path. This could go as far as searching for lost family members, or seeking revenge for a slight against their family.

It was consideration for their families which helped define the two bloodlines of the Au Ra. The Xaela sought to keep their traditional ways and use power to protect their families. The Raen felt that a peaceful livelihood amongst the other races of the world was the best approach to protect their community.

Au Ra Names

The Au Ra approach names in two strikingly different ways. The Xaela see many names shared across tribes, but there are as many spellings for the same name as there are tribes. Xaela take the name of their tribe as their surname. The Raen name themselves in their tongue in a way that their name carries meaning. Only those belonging to the ruling and warrior class of society legally have surnames, while commoners may take a surname, it is not legally recognized. Raen who are in power often take surnames related to their feats in battle, while commoners take names related to their profession. Those from outside the Hingan culture tend to use names common in their home region.

Male Raen Names. Tosetu, Keimei, Rakuyo, Hien, Genbu, Fugetsu, Unzan, Masatsuchi, Izuna, Sagan, Karaku. Chikamasa Rokuyari,Tanehiro,Yoshikore,Hidetake, Norishig.

Female Raen Names. Yachiyo, Kikyo, Awayuki, Narumi, Azami, Kurenai, Tsubaki, Chidori, Suzume, Mizuki, Ibuki.

Male Xaela Names. Arslang, Agasiletai, Chaghagan, Chuacenur, Bayan, Luvsan, Bujeg, Khalja, Charakha, Khaishan, Chigu, Jebke, Cirina, Narangerel, Ogul, Altan

Female Xaela Names. Boragchin, Narengawa, Chotan, Qoyar, Khorchi, Ogul, Checheyigen, Altun, Eji, Baguchi, Odchigin, Khorghosun, Yesun, Ariunbold, Bayar.

Clan Names. Adarkim, Bolir, Dalamiq, Khatayin, Oronir, Malqir, Khatayin, Ura, Goro, Oroq

Family Names. Yuzuka, Obinata, Yuzuka, Yatsurugi, Rokuyari, Godo, Tabito, Yumishi, Musa

Au Ra Traits

Your Au Ra character has a variety of natural abilities.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2.

Age. Despite their extraordinary physical features, the Au Ra live about as long as any of the other races of Eorzea, reaching physical maturity around the age of 16, and living to be around 80 years old.

Alignment. The Au Ra as a whole do not tend to neither good nor evil, or towards law or chaos. The Xaela tend strongly towards the chaotic lives of nomads outside of the laws of civilized city states, while the Raen enjoy the order provided by the law. Often times an Au Ra finds themselves to be the product of their upbringing.

Size. There is a large size disparity between men and women of the Au Ra. Males range anywhere from 6 and a half to 7 feet tall with a lean build dwarfing the females who rarely grow taller than 5 feet. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30ft.

Cranial Horns. You gain proficiency in the perception skill.

Scaled Bodies. When unarmored, your AC is equal to 11 + your dexterity modifier.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Common and Auri. The Auri language does not include numbered nouns or verbs, causing an Au Ra to mislabel things sometimes when speaking another language.

Subrace. The Auri bloodline has split into two distinct groups, the nomadic Xaela and the solitary Raen, divided by the divine blood of their creators the Dusk Mother and Dawn Father. Select one of the two subraces of Au Ra.

Xaela

As a Xaela, you’ve been hardened by your life on the road as a part of a nomadic tribe. A life of hunting and warring has led you to martial prowess and improved strength. You are more outgoing than your Raen counterparts and are much more willing to engage in battle to resolve a conflict. Xaela tribes are small but numerous, battling for territory against one another on the Azim Steppe. Despite a willingness to fight, Xaela do not seek war, it is merely a tool to settle differences.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Nomadic Instincts. You gain proficiency in the survival skill.

Savage Attacks. When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.

A Valuable Ally

The Au Ra are steadfast allies once they are befriended. Once an Au Ra calls you their friend, you are considered family to them. Their experiences with other races are fewer in number than most, but can appreciate the culture of the new lands.

Hyur. “Every Hyur is different in their own way. They’re an ambitious people who work hard for their future. We can live alongside them easily.”

Miqo’te. “Miqo’te don’t differ much from us. We both have an appreciation for what the natural world can provide us with. I’m sure our tribes would clash if they crossed paths in Othard though.”

Raen

The Raen live in harmony with the other civilized races of the East. They’ve assimilated fully into Doman culture, becoming valued for their unwavering determination to loyalty to their allies. They are largely looked upon favourably by the other races for their peaceful demeanor and respectable approach to life.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Polite Society. You gain proficiency in the Persuasion skill.

Unwavering Loyalty. You have advantage on saves against being charmed.

Elezen

For centuries, our nation has been punished for the sins of our forefathers. If our punishment is to end, I believe we must right the wrongs of antiquity and move forward as a nation united. Needless to say, my father did not share this opinion.

-Ser Aymeric de Borel, Lord Commander of the Holy See

The Elezen are a race divided within themselves, and their often arrogant attitudes keep the other races at an arms reach. The Wildwood live off the lush forests, using their keen eyes to hunt and gather in the dense woods. The Duskwights in contrast are notorious for thievery and pillaging, being the victims of prejudice within the Twelveswood. The Ishgardians have done away with the forest and founded an oligarchy and city state in Northern Eorzea.

Elegance and Pride

Long legs, slender bodies, pointed ears and sharp features are all marks of an Elezen. Only rivaling their otherworld appearance is the poise with which they carry themselves. Their tall, thin frames only differ within the race by the colour of their skin.

Difference of Opinion

The Elezen race is divided due to their pride. The Wildwood and Duskwights found they could not coexist and distanced themselves from one another. The Wildwood believing they are the true rulers of the forests in which they live and hold dominion. The Duskwights, who historically made their homes in the cavern systems of the forests have rejoined the surface but are eyed with great prejudice by their Wildwood brethren. The Ishgardians were a separate group of Elezen who founded a city state in the North and have a totally unique culture of their own, closed off from the rest of the world.

The Woods and the North

The forest which the Elezen live is the Black Shroud, a massive forest brought to order by the Wildwood, who protect the forest from poachers and other threats which would encroach on it. Duskwights, who disregard the need to protect the forest and hunt to their content. Looking to the Northern city state of Ishgard, towering spires, homes and a grand cathedral hide behind their giant gates. Living conditions in Ishgard are rough, as the poor go hungry in the lower levels of the city, while the wealthy live in exuberance, looking down on the less fortunate citizens, ruled by the religious teachings of the Holy See.

Honour and Vengeance

An Elezen may set out on an adventure for many different reasons. An Ishgardian hungry for revenge against the dragons may set out to seek greater strength, while a Wildwood may take up arms to defend their forest home from an encroaching threat against the Black Shroud. Duskwights may set out to gain honour and riches to support their family or to prove to the world they are more than just a thief. Perhaps you seek glory in battle, and head out to find this fame.

Elezen Names

Both the Wildwood and Duskwight clans of Elezen spell their names very similarly. Men’s names are longer and always in -loix, -aux, -mont, or -geant. A female’s name will always end in -ne, -ette, -elle, or -ie.

Despite the similarity in their first names, the Elezen tribes over time claimed sur names for either side. These surnames will never cross clans, but only those who live within the race will know the difference.

Male Elezen Names. Adeux, Beichault, Dreauchant, Eauplaux, Etrent, Gloffaux, Jodeaux, Joyent, Ulmant, Ulwex,

Female Elezen Names. Adreanne, Iflione, Eaupline, Eranne, Etrene, Moriene, Peronne, Cummone ,Phivonne ,Paxeonne

Elezen Surnames. Breaunojuste, Douvionne, Feajorins, Gehon, Glauvefand, Grurubont, Nahame, Prihaux, Shogamie, Zuhepane

Elezen Traits

Your Elezen character has a variety of natural abilities.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 2.

Age. Though Elezen are one of the longest standing races, they do not live much longer than anyone else. They reach physical maturity around age 18 and live into their nineties.

Alignment. Wildwood Elezen lean towards lawful alignments, be it their upbringing to protect the forest or life within the religious walls of Ishgard. Duskwight’s have embraced the wild way of living, leaning towards chaotic alignments, viewing laws as arbitrary things.

Size. Elezen are known for their tall slender bodies. Men can reach a maximum 6 feet 8 inches and rarely are shorter than 6 foot 3 inches. Women reach a maximum of 6 and a half feet and rarely shorter than 6 feet tall. Your size is medium.

Superb Hearing. You gain advantage when making a perception check using your hearing.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30ft.

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

Subrace. The Elezen come from two different clans. Select one of the three subraces of Elezen.

Wildwood

The Wildwood Elezen have become the protectors of the forest and masters of . Despite this, the Wildwood keep a tight hold on their homes, defending them aggressively. They have learned to live off land wherever they find themselves. Years of life in the forests of the Black Shroud has imbued them with various abilities.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Hawk Sight. The normal range of your ranged weapon is increased by 20ft. This cannot exceed the max range of the weapon.

Natural Shrewdness. You gain proficiency in the Insight skill.

Duskwight

Duskwights are Elezen whose ancestors made their home in the cavernous systems of the Black Shroud. Their light hair and dark skin sets them apart from the Wildwood and marks them to stand out. Duskwights are natural cave explorers after, their forefathers adapting to the caves of Gelmorra. The difficulty fitting into Gridanian society lead the Duskwights to build a reputation of banditry for themselves.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Cave Dweller. You gain advantage when making Stealth checks in caves or dim and dark lighting conditions.

Darkvision. Due to life in the caverns your eyes have adapted to help you see in the dark. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Ishgardian

The Elezen of Ishgard left the Twelveswood all together over a millenia ago to found the city state of Ishgard. These Elezen have found themselves embroiled in a thousand year war with dragons, and live a life balancing war and strict adherence to their laws.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Conscription. You gain proficiency with shortswords, shortbows and spears.

Halone’s Scriptures. You gain proficiency in the Religion skill.

Arrogance or Confidence?

The Elezen strongly believe in their abilities and their birthrights. Many races may see this as arrogance, but if you are able to see past their haughty attitudes, you will find a steadfast and reliable ally.

Au Ra. We Ishgardians have made a grave mistake. Despite their heretical appearance, we should not have let fear guide out hands. I hope we can make amends one day.

Hyur. “We were the first people of the woods, regardless of what they believe. Why the forest sends their chosen through the Hyur is beyond me, but I suppose we can be friends.”

Miqo’te. “They are skilled hunters, perhaps too skilled. We share the woods with these people in service to the forest. But the Keepers who break off from the clans and become poachers are as deadly as they come.”

Galka

In the creation myth of Vana’diel the children of the gods, the Ancients, attempted to gain entry to Paradise, however the Gate Keeper of Paradise rejected them and destroyed their entire civilization. The goddess, Altana, having awoken from her slumber, wept over the destruction of the ancient race. Her tears cleaned away the wreckage and five divine tears gave rise to the five enlightened races (Elvaan, Galka, Hume, Mithra, Tarutaru). The God of Twilight, Promathia, however, was disgusted by Altana’s weakness and so cursed the five races by bringing out their darkest emotions—the Elvaan’s arrogance, the Hume’s apathy, the envy of the Mithra, the cowardice of the Tarutaru, and the Galka’s rage and curse them to constant internal conflict.

-Creation Myth of Vana’diel

An all male society, Galka are considered to be among the first enlightened races. They mostly deal in construction and mining. Galka reproduce through reincarnation. Naming a Galka is quite simple as they take on Native American sort of names.

Racial Attributes:

Ability Score: +2 Str, +1 Con

Size: Medium

Speed: 20ft.

Languages: Common, Galkan.

Stability: Galkan tough bodies grant them +2 on saving throws poisons, spells, and spell-like abilities.

Imposing Figure: Galka are intimidating without even trying. They gain proficiency on the Intimidation Skill.

Low-Light Vision: 120 ft. vision.

Garif

This race of large-framed, well-muscled humanoids have bodies covered in thick fur. The Garif adorn themselves simply with ornaments of stone and bone, preferring natural objects over those crafted or otherwise unchanged from their original form. The one exception is their masks: each is unique, and is worn for the duration of the owner’s life. The Garif worship magicite as a sacred substance, and possess deep cultural knowledge of the stones.

Racial Attributes: +2 Con, +1 Wis

Size: Medium

Speed: 30 ft. on land

Languages: Common, Garif, and +1 of your choice.

Bond to the Land: Choosing to cherish and look after the land they settle on, garif are often much more at home within those lands. Pick deserts or plains, garif gain +2 to AC when in that chosen terrain. This choice is made at character creation, and cannot be changed. Animal Herder: Garif receive proficiency in Animal Handling.

Low-light Vision: 120 ft.

Weapon Familiarity: Garifs are proficient with longspears, shortspears, javelins, and tridents.

Garlean

Only a man of power can rightly steer the course of civilization. And in this land of creeping mendacity, that one truth will prove its salvation.

-Gaius van Baelsar, Legatus of the XIV Legion

The Garleans, who share the name of their Empire, are a people who had suffered greatly before finding the means to fight back, in doing so becoming conquerers in their own right. Garleans value advancement and ability, while looking down on those who are happy to sit in stagnation, and its this dogged dedication which has allowed them great success in the world.

Physical Description

The Garleans are a hearty people whose life under the imperial rule has provided them with strong bodies and minds. Their most striking feature though is the pearl like third eye which sits in the center of their forehead. This special third eye provides Garleans with improved spatial recognition. These two great assets were met only with a damning disadvantage, an extreme difficulty when manipulating magic. Though there are Garleans are capable of overcoming even this obstacle who go on to master aetherial manipulation as well.

Displaced Conquerers

The Garleans are a race of people who found themselves at a disadvantage in the world. Once living in the southern, warm reaches of Ilsabard, the Garleans found themselves forced north over time. Eventually they were forced to cross treacherous peaks which divided the north and south, leading to them settle in lands with long, bitter winters and short growing periods. Their misfortune would eventually lead to a great boon in the form of ceruleum, a fuel which they were able to take advantage of start a golden era of technology for themselves.

Advent of Magitek

As nearly all Garleans are unable to manipulate aether in their bodies, they found themselves defeated time and time again by those with an aptitude for magic. That was until the discovery of ceruleum, which after experimentation and engineering led the to the birth of magitek. This came in the creation of many machines and devices which could mimic magical effects and swung the pendulum in the Garleans favour. Within 50 years of the discovery they’d managed to form a vast empire which spanned three quarters of the great continents of Aldenard.

Why They Adventure

Garleans may adventure for a variety of reasons, but two stand out amongst all the possibilities. The first would be for the benefit of their empire, to act as an ambitious patriot who seeks to better Garlemand’s position in the world through hard work. The other may be to seek freedom from the chains of their society, coming from a rigid hierarchy where moving upwards is only possible by military activity leaves a bad taste in many people’s mouths, so in the name of freedom and peace some Garleans may break away from their homeland and chase their dreams.

Garlean Names

Garleans names often declare one’s title within the Empire as their middle name. Otherwise their traditional names find their roots in Latin, having both a first and last name.

Male Garlean Names. Aulus, Cid, Faust, Gaius, Ignatius, Kaius, Maxima, Nael, Nero, Noah, Quentin, Regula, Solus, Vitus, Zenos

Female Garlean Names. Adora, Alma, Belva, Cella, Elysia, Gloria, Julia, Livia, Lucia, Minerva, Octavia, Rheya, Silvia, Vesta

Garlean Middle Titles. van (Legatus), quo (Centurio), pyr (Assistant to Centurio), oen (veteran soldier), lux (head field engineer/medic), kir (veteran field engrineer/medic), jen (field engineer/medic), dus (civil servant), cen (artisan), bas (merchant), aan (person from annexed lands)

Garlean Surnames. Arvina, Asina, Baelsar, Brutus, Darnus, Gabranth, Galvus, Garlond, Hydrus, Junius, Lexentale, Messalla, Priscus, Scaeva

Garlean Traits

Your Garlean character has a variety of natural abilities.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2 and your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Age. Garleans live as long as the other races of Eorzea, reaching maturity around 18 years old and living on average to the age of 80.

Alignment. Garleans tend toward a lawful alignment as their roots trace back to a highly ordered Empire where title and rank were held in high regard.

Size. Garlean males on average tend to stand anywhere from 6 to 7 feet tall while their female counterparts tend to reach anywhere from 5 and a half to 6 feet tall. Your size is medium.

Imperial Education. You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice and one set of artisan’s tools of your choice.

Spatial Insight. You gain proficiency in the Investigation skill.

Third Eye. You gain proficiency in the Perception skill. Additionally, ranged weapon attacks you make have an increased normal range of 10ft.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30ft.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Common, Garlean and one extra language of your choice.

Half-Breed

Some races find their partner in life in other races. Half-Breeds embody strengths from the two. NOTES: The only race(s) players CANNOT be a half-breed of is: Galka, Mandragora, and Moogle.

Racial Attributes

Ability Score: Half-breed characters gain +2 and +1 from the two races the player chooses. The rule with this, the player can only choose one for each. Example: Hyur: +2 STR, +1 DEX and Elezen: +2 INT, +1 DEX… the player must choose one ability from the two. So, it could be +2 STR, +1 INT, vice versa, or +2 DEX, +1 INT, or vice versa.

Size: Medium or Small. Depends on the races chosen.

Base Speed: 30 ft. If the one or more base races have a fly, climb, or burrow speed, the Half-Breed gains half the movement amount instead or an average if both races possess both movement modes.

Languages: Half-Breeds speak Common and one other from their chosen base races.

For other Racial Traits: Players will be able to chose from the base races. Not all, DM will only allow 4 racial traits. 2 from each of the base races.

Hrothgar

During the Third Astral Era, Queen Gunnhildr united the fragmented tribes of Hrothgar to rise up and drove off the Allagans, eventually going on to found the nation of Bozja.

-Misija

Hrothgar had a difficult start in the world initially, lacking knowledge of the common tongue of the land, they often found themselves at odds with their more well spoken races of the world. In time these fiercely misunderstood people managed to learn the language of the land and peace was brokered between them and the other races. Afterwards, a friendly neighbourly relationship formed between their home nation of Bozja and the rest of the world.

Claws, Fur and Fury

The Hrothgar are a powerful people who boast broad frames, feline reflexes and fierce appearances which are marked by their sharp claws and pointed fangs. Their race suffers from having a large disproportion between the males and females of their kind, which males make up a staggering number of their kin. This has also led to the Hrothgar to adopt a matriarchy in their homeland which rallied many, but drove many away as well, leading to them becoming known as The Lost.

A Question of Servitude

The Hrothgar split into two distinct groups of people over their ways of life coming into conflict. The Helions, who are easily identified by the warm colours of their fur, were found mainly in the southern parts of their homeland and their lives revolved around their Queen. General most Helions are devout servants to their Queen.

In comparison The Lost boasted a more free spirited, nomadic life style, wanting to live their lives unbound by the whims of a Queen. As they live as nomads they often practice various professions from seasonal work, to mercenary, to merchant. Often they avoid professions which will force them to put roots down. Their fur is often coloured in cool hues, which is said to reflect their independence and the choice to leave the warm embrace of their Queen.

War Torn Homeland

The Hrothgar hail from a tropical region in Southern Ilsabard known as Bozja. Born of an intense struggle against the allagan empire centuries ago, Bozja is lead by Queen Gunnhildr, a title bestowed upon the woman with the greatest aptitude for a rare power of future sight, who goes on to select her successor. Due to a severe accident that leveled the capital city, Bozja has become a war torn land controlled by the Garlean Empire, dutifully fought for by a resistance of patriots trying to save their homeland.

Its My Life

The Hrothgar have seen their kind split based on lifestyle choices between servitude and freedom. This ideological decision drives these people forward, the Helions setting off on adventure in the name of their Queen to protect her or their homeland, while for The Lost adventure is a key part of their existence, needing to constantly travel to survive.

Hrothgar Names

Hrothgar names generally are shared between the Helions and the Lost, the difference in their naming stemming from traditional family names. The Helion clans are always three syllable names which begin with A, while the Lost always end their name in “-asch.”

Male Hrothgar Names. Borimir, Deyan, Grugur, Mikac, Ludevit, Novak, Semir, Sudimir, Svante, Taman

Female Hrothgar Names. Anja, Gunnhildr, Hana, Jana, Katarina, Maja, Milena, Petra, Teodora

Helion Family Names. Amilan, Aredna, Arodica, Asvana, Astana

The Lost Family Names. Irryasch, Mildasch, Ovasch, Petyasch, Piryasch, Zelasch

Hrothgar Traits

Your Hrothgar character has a variety of natural abilities.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2.

Age. Hrothgar tend to live about as long as most of their neighbouring races. They reach physical maturity around age 18 and live into their nineties.

Alignment. Helions lean towards lawful alignments, be it their upbringing to obey their Queen’s wishes and uphold her rule in her lands. The Lost have embraced life on the road and lean towards a more chaotic alignment. As always there are oddities within every group with Helions who shirk their servitude or members of The Lost putting down roots.

Size. Hrothgar are known to have tall, powerful frames marked by muscle and fur. At their tallest the Hrothgar stand at 7ft. tall while their low average heights sit around 6ft. 4inches tall. Generally they way over 260 lbs. Your size is medium.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when you are determining your carrying capacity and also the weight you are able to push, drag or lift.

Claws. Your sharp claws are a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Keen Smell. You have advantage on Perception checks that rely on smell.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30ft.

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

Subrace. The Hrothgar come from two different clans. Select one of the two subraces of Hrothgar.

Helion

The Helions come from a matriarchal society whose males greatly outnumber the females. These loyal and dutiful people will risk life and limb for their queen and bring that ferocious dedication to defend their friends. Helions often have a warm colour to their fur, reflective of the warm embrace from their queen.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Lionhearted. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Aggressive. As a bonus action, you can move up to your speed toward an enemy of your choice that you can see or hear. You must end this move closer to the enemy than you started.

The Lost

Scattered and worldly, The Lost hail from a bloodline of Hrothgar to left the matriarchy which their kind hails from and sought to strike out in the world. Often times they take on the roles of traders and mercenaries, preferring nomadic jobs and lifestyles which prevent them from setting down roots. Their cool coloured fur is said to show the loss of the warmth they had received from their Queen so long ago.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Contractor’s Life. You gain proficiency in the Persuasion skill.

Unbending. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed.

Hyur

Thal’s Balls…I’d forgotten what it was like to feel so alive! Not since leaving the Bloodsands have I had the privilege. Not since the Bull of Ala Mhigo hung up his swords. Back then, the outcome might have been different. But I do not begrudge you your victory. I know how far you have come, how much you have endured. Our fight only confirmed it. We shall have to do this again one day, when time allows.

-Raubahn Aldynn, The Bull of Ala Mhigo

Around 1000 years ago, the Hyur spread across the land in a great migration from the north. They made their homes wherever they could set their footing. Some took to the mountains, while others found a foot hold in any city which would accept them. Today the Hyur are one of the most populous races in the world.

Of Average Build

The Hyur are a race of average sized humanoids whom one may view as an average group of people, lacking distinguishing features such as pointed ears, immense size or horns. Over time Hyur have diverged into two distinct groups, the Midlanders and Highlanders. Midlanders are widespread across the land and come in all shapes and colours, becoming prevalent in all cities. Highlanders in comparison are taller than their Midlander counterparts, boasting a more powerful, muscular build.

A Matter of Location

The differences between the Midlanders and Highlanders was born from their homes long ago. The Highlanders are named for living at a high elevation, mountains in particular.

These tough living conditions lead to a heartier, more physically powerful people. The Midlanders lived at sea level and across the world, which minimized changes due to life in extreme conditions.

People of the World

Hyur as a whole make up a large percentage of the population in the world. Over a thousand years ago the Hyur immigrated in massive waves from their homelands and made their homes wherever their feet hit the ground. Highlanders are a special case within the Hyur, famed for their mountainous city of Ala Mhigo. In recent years, the Ala Mighans were forced from their homes to immigrate across the world, mixing into the cities across the world themselves.

Glory and Prosperity

The Hyur are a hardworking and ambitious people, no matter what walk of life they come from. It is for this reason that for every Hyur in the world, there could be a different reason to seek adventure. Some may head out on the road for the value of the journey itself, while others may do so in search of riches. Some Hyur may be adventuring on another’s behalf, perhaps their family sitting at home, or to defend their people from an imminent threat. In a world with so many possibilities, it does not take much convincing to bring a Hyur to action.

Hyur Names

The names of the Hyur are in the common tongue of the land. Midlander may take names which are appropriate for the culture in which they live while Highlanders take names which have a harshness in their pronunciation. As a surname, Midlanders will often take a descriptive name for their physical traits or profession. Highlanders prefer to earn their surnames in battle, using feats of martial prowess or names with violent imagery.

Male Midlander Names. Odard, Redwald, Kenward, Herebert, Acwuld, Edward, Roderic, Eadwine

Female Midlander Names. Rowena, Hilda, Agatha, Hrodwyn, Goldyna, Hounild, Edusa, Beyhild, Mathilda, Tonild, Somerhild, Rimilde

Male Highlander Names. Sigmundr, Arnar, Armond, Varin, Bard, Hordr, Ogmundr, Hallgrim, Thordr, Raubahn

Female Highlander Names. Marte, Cathrine, Yngvildr, Helene, Kolgrima, Katie, Myrun, Kaolin, Kaia, Kamilla

Midlander Surnames. Taylor, Faulkner, Browne, Parker, Forrest, River, Miller, Draper, Fletcher, Hill, Thatcher

Highlander surnames. Fury, Burne, Savage, Stronge. Strongaxe, Blood, Furor, Shatterfist, Strongblade, Ironwill

Hyur Traits

Your Hyur character has a variety of natural abilities tied to their heritage of being a diverse peoples.

Ability Score Increase. An ability score of your choice increases by 1.

Age. Hyur tend to live for approximately 75 years, reaching sexual maturity around age 16 and full maturity around 20 years old. Alignment. Overall the Hyur are a highly variable race, so it stands to reason that the Hyur tend to not lean towards neither good nor evil. The same could be stated about their impressions of law and chaos. They comfortably fall in line with the culture in which they are raised, but are generally good-hearted.

Size. Hyur tend to range in height from 5 feet to 6 and a half feet tall depending on their heritage. Midlanders struggle to pass 6 feet while highlanders easily pass it. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30ft.

Spread of Culture. You gain proficiency with a set of artisan’s tools, gaming set or musical instrument of your choice.

Versatility. You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Common and two other languages of your choice.

Subrace. The Hyur have changed over time based on where they lived over the past millennium. Select one of the two subraces of Hyur.

Midlander

As a Midlander, you are a child of possibility. The midlanders can live pretty well anywhere in the world and not seem out of place. Due to their ability to find comfortable lives anywhere, they have becoming highly adaptable and well educated.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 2.

Variable Education. You are proficient in an additional set of artisan’s tools of your choice.

Highlander

The warlike Highlanders see battle as the reason for life. They are no strangers to violence living in the mountains, over time making great conquests against various groups of people. Life in these tough conditions has hardened the Highlanders as a people, leading to naturally powerful builds.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2.

Naturally Honed Body. You gain proficiency in the Athletics skill.

Variant: Padjal

The Padjal are a rare occurrence born to Hyurian families who live in The Black Shroud. These children are grow white hued animal horns as they get older and were chosen by the elementals at birth. This places them in a position of holy reverence in Gridania. These people stop aging around their teens and have a natural latent power for conjury.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2.

Nature’s Blessing. You gain proficiency in the Nature skill.

Lalafell

But I will see them suffer no longer. The victory feast shall provide the stage on which I declare the dissoultion of the sultanate. ‘Tis mine intent that the ruling class of our golden city should take its place beside the common man in a fair and equitable republic. No more shall this nation bow to the whims of a privileged few.

-Nanamo Ul Namo, Sultana of Ul’Dah

The Lalafell are generally a cheery race of people. Long ago the Lalafells lived as masters of agriculture and spread across the land along trade routes, selling their produce becoming one of the most widespread races there is. In time the Dunesfolk went as far as establishing their own desert city-state known as Ul’Dah. These tiny folk are highly ambitious and are not afraid to take hold of opportunity when it appears before them.

Tiny Yet Mighty

Lalafell anatomy sees these kindly people rarely growing to be 3 feet tall. Their short bodies are rotund, with short feeble looking legs. But appearances can be deceiving as Lalafells bodies are highly efficient, allowing them to travel long distances on their short legs.

The Plainsfolk have larger, pointed ears which greatly improved their hearing, while the Dunesfolk developed a film which covers their eyes, protecting them from the sun and sand of the desert. Additionally, out of tradition, Dunesfolk sometimes place gemstones associated with their zodiac sign on their foreheads.

Products of the Land

The Lalafellin homelands produced two types of people, from which they take their names. The Plainsfolk started off as agriculturalists living their lives on their farms, eventually trading their goods across the land, leading for lalafells to spread across the world. The Dunesfolk began and remain as desert dwelling folk, their bodies adapting to the harsh conditions.

Rolling Planes and Towering Dunes

The Lalafell can trace their ancestry back to two key area. The Plainsfolk began as farmers on fertile lands across the southern seas, farming the fertile lands of their namesake. The Dunesfolk were not so lucky to have farmable land and instead turned to animal husbandry. Traditionally Dunesfolk built their homes on the backs of beasts of burden, traveling with their herds. Eventually the Dunesfolk founded a great city of wealth, where many Dunesfolk live today.

Family and Fortune

Lalafells care deeply for their small families and would do anything for them. They may set out on an adventure to support their families or in their defense. Not all Lalafells have such pure goals though as many contain a great deal of ambition in their tiny bodies. Merchants travel all over the land, researchers seeking knowledge in secret places, sellswords bravely take on jobs to prove themselves. Lalafells may be small, but they take on the world in a big way.

Lalafell Names

Both the Plainsfolk and the Dunesfolk name themselves using set rhyming schemes, ruled by rhythm and repetition. Syllables are combining in various combinations to form playful sounding names. This means that Lalafells generally do not have surnames unless they come from royalty, which adds their family name in the middle. Each gender and subrace of Lalafell have their own rule set detailed below. Each letter indicates a syllable or pair of syllables.

Lalafell Naming Convention

Male Plainsfolk Names. Budadi Yidadi, Egul Sagul, Erelo Forelo, Elehul Pedulehul, Gusis Shisis

Female Plainsfolk Names. Icucu Icu, Badada Bada, Usoso Uso, Kikuku Kiku.

Male Dunesfolk Names. Wowokima Chichikima, Sheshehici Rorohici, Hihihebo Ruruhebo, Tutushuhu Kukushuhu, Gogoreba Susureba

Female Dunesfolk Names. Ejaja Eja, Babayi Bayi, Rerega Rega, Chochosha Chosha, Bobochu Bochu, Lelepu Lepu

Lalafell Traits

Your Lalafell character has a variety of natural abilities derived from their ancestry.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2.

Age. These smallfolk are able to live just as long as the other races. Lalafells reach physical maturity around the age of 18, and live until their mid eighties.

Alignment. Generally speaking, Lalafells lean towards a good natured alignment, though some shrewd business men may push far away from this approach to life. Neither the Plainsfolk or Dunesfolk have a inclination to law or chaos, with individuals falling into all categories.

Size. Lalafells are a diminutive people who see no difference in height due to gender. Their heights on average range from 2 feet and 8 inches to just over 3 feet. Your size is small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25ft.

Cunning. You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against magic.

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

Languages. You can speak, read and write Common and one other language.

Subrace. The Lalafell come from two distinct groups of people. Select one of the two subraces of Lalafell.

Plainsfolk

As a Plainsfolk, you have spent some time working in agriculture, or have had information passed down to you from your family. Your highly sensitive ears and knowledge of farming has led to the development that sets you apart from your fellow Lalafell, the Dunesfolk.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.

Dunesfolk

As a Dunesfolk, you’ve adapted to the harsh desert environments and thrived. The land from which you hail is known for its riches and merchantry as much as its known for his corruption.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Dustshield. Your eyes have developed a film to protect them from desert conditions. You have advantage on saving throws against being blinded.

Land of Merchants. You gain proficiency in the Deception skill.

Spoiler Subrace

There is a third subrace option for Lalafells available in Appendix B of this book on page 113. This subrace reflects minor spoilers for the FFXIV MMO.

Mandragora

The enigmatic mandragora were first observed in the aftermath of the Seventh Umbral Era. It is not known whence they came, or if they even existed prior to the Calamity. They resemble a small, wide-mouthed fat child made from leaves, vines, tree bark, dirt, and pallid tubers.

Standard Racial Traits

Ability Score: DEX +2, WIS +1

Size: Small

Base Speed: 20 ft.

Languages: Common and Mandragoran

Hydrated Vitality: Mandragoras regain health when they are placed in water. They regain 2d4 HP (Add 1 Die every level after 3rd). Stagnant water, poisoned, or artificial water (water placed in a bag of holding) does not activate this ability.

Natural Armor: Naturally strong, fibrous skin grants Mandragora a +1 to their AC.

Plant Resistance: Mandragoras, while plant, have a lot more in common with most humanoids. They have resistance towards mind-effects effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects), paralysis, poison, and polymorph effects. They are also immune to sleep effects.

Sunlight Sustenance: A mandragora does not eat food, but must consume water. Furthermore, Mandragora are plants and require sunlight. 6-hours of sunlight and they will be considered full. A mandragora that is deprived of sunlight will become exhausted (encumbered), if the Mandragora goes for a month without sunlight, they will die.

Camouflage: All Mandragoras can camouflage with their environment.

Mandragora Sub-Races

Farm-Folk

Farm-Folk are Mandragora who are a mysterious bunch, but they are said to be reincarnations of past dead mandragora. These folks resemble veggies, fruits, flowers (tomatos, onions, apples, sunflowers, cotton). They love helping farmers tend to their farms in making sure all the produce will bring happiness and nourishment to small people (kids and small races).

Standard Racial Attributes:

Racial Stats:+2 DEX, +1 CHA

Rooted: Farm-Folk have the ability to reach their roots into the ground, lessening the time they need when it comes to Hydration by 10 minutes. FLOWER ONLY: Flower ones will be in full-bloom lessening sunlight intake from 6 hours to 2 hours. Spawn: Farm-Folk can spend time (long rests or as a downtime) to turn a small patch of ground into a small patch of fruits, veggies, plants, flowers. The ground must be near a watering source and receive plenty of sunlight.

Barker

Barkers are Mandragoras most commonly found in Forests, some jungles. They have bark like skin, making them really tough. They protect the trees in certain areas of forests, either blessed by a druid, white mages, the Fey, etc. Might not wanna mess with them, they definitely pack a punch.

Standard Racial Attributes:

Racial Stats: +2 CON, +1 STR

AC Bonus: Instead of a +1 to your AC bonus, you receive a +2.

Oxygen: Like trees, Barkers are capable of producing their own oxygen. Barkers can hold their breath for a super long time, have advantage against wind effects, and gaseous poisons.

Spawn: At the end of their lives, Barkers will return to the Forest, their ancestral home to be with their family. The Barker will root themselves and turn into trees. Any acorns, pinecones, or a fallen piece of bark has a chance of spawning a new Barker.

Desert-Walkers

Desert-Walkers are an interesting folk. They love to use mirages to mess with dehydrated individuals or anyone who spends a lot of time in the desert sun. They come in the form of cacti, succulents, tumbleweeds, and a few other desert plants.

Standard Racial Attributes:

Racial Stats: +2 DEX, +1 CHA

Natural Attack: Whether a cactus, tumbleweed, or something. These Mandragora shouldn’t be hugged or even touched. Natural thorns or needles will be the demise of any hallucinating wanderer. The natural attack deals #d4 (# equals the amount of thorns of needles stuck in the target.) piercing damage. What’s Water: You’ve grown accustomed to not having water for longer periods of time. Desert-Walkers can go without water for up to three months. Desert-Walkers also have a natural way of knowing where water is at all times.

Spawn: Desert-Walkers can live a lot longer than their cousins. They are able to bloom with beautiful bright red flowers. These petals will scatter into the wind and have a chance to spawn. If a flower petal remains on you, you’ll gain a new part.

Fungi

Fungi are swamp-dwelling mandragora. Usually in the resemblance of mushrooms. They tend to not like outsiders in their swamps. If an outsider is truly lost, they will help lead them out, but should the outsider look to do harm to the swamp, the outsider will mysteriously disappear. Some Fungi form bonds with Jungle dwelling Mandragora acting in the same goal of protecting their territory.

Standard Racial Attributes:

Racial Stats: +2 DEX, +1 INT

Spores: Fungi are able to spread spores whenever they are disturbed. As a reaction, a Fungi can launch poisonous spores in a 25 ft. cone. Deals 2d4 poison damage. On crit, the targets will start hallucinating. If the target dies from this attack, in 1d4 rounds, fungus will start to appear on the defeated targets to start decomposing the bodies. Has a chance of spawning a new Fungi to join the swamp family.

Poison: Fungi have a natural immunity to poison, resistance towards hallucinations and other mind-affecting attacks, and can spend 2 hours of downtime making vials of poisons and antidotes.

Only Water: Fungi don’t need the sun to stay alive, as long as they have a water source, they can survive. Also, the water can either be natural river water or stagnant, swamp water.

Miqo’te

The Nunh that I once fought also believed that his strrrength would save him. He was wrong, and I am now Nunh. Many years ago I joined the Company of Heroes to hone my skills instead of challenging my predecessor before I was ready. Even when I was young I understood that victorrrry goes to the patient, the cunning, the pragmatic.”

-U’odh Nunh, leader of the Drake Tribe

The Miqo’te are an aloof people who value their independence from the world. Centuries ago the Miqo’te migrated, Seekers spreading across the world in low numbers while Keepers finding dense forests as a new home. Traditionally they avoid the other races, but over time more and more Miqo’te have integrated into society with pockets of die hard traditional Miqo’te tribes surviving out in the world.

Lithe Hunters

The Miqo’te are a feline race with large catlike ears, fanged teeth and long tails. They have a highly tuned sense of smell and powerful legs, which have allowed them to become natural hunters. The Seekers of the Sun’s ears are wider with thicker fur, while the Keepers of the Moon’s ears are longer and stylized, with shorter fur. Futhermore, the eyes of the Seekers has developed such that the pupils are slit light, to help guard their eyes from the exposure of the sun, while the Keepers’ pupils have become large and rounded. Many more women are born into the tribes and clans of the Miqo’te people.

Of Suns and Moons

The Seekers or the Sun and Keepers of the Moon are two distinct ethnicities falling under the Miqo’te. Their cultures differ greatly down to the social structures of their groups. The Seekers live in male dominant societies centered around an alpha male known as the Nuhn, and worship the god Azeyma. In contrast the Keepers live in a matriarchal society and worship the goddess Menphina.

Arid Sands and Dense Woods

The hot, arid deserts of Southern Thanalan are home to one of the most famed tribes of the Seekers of the Sun. Seekers can be found anywhere across the world, barring cold regions with a harsh winter climate. Those who integrate into larger cities tend to discard their tribal ties and take up the social norms of the city in which they live. Keepers of the Moon have taken to the dense forests away from the heat of the sun.

Adventure Calls

The Miqo’te tend to differ on their approach to life depending on their ethnicity. The Seekers of the Sun are bold individuals who are quick to jump into action, but also become bored easily. This natural need for excitement may call a Miqo’te to action, leading them out into the world to explore. Those from traditional tribes may leave their tribe seeking to start their own clan of Seekers, becoming the alpha of their group.

Keepers are guarded and brooding, which may stall them from setting out on a journey, but when the need arises to protect family, friends or their home, a Keeper will stop at nothing to protect that which they cherish.

Miqo’te Names

Seekers of the sun use a simple naming convention. Male names are one or two syllables and preceded by a letter which is associated with the tribe. The extra aitches (H) we see in names such as represent a slight hissing/spitting sound that is made when the name is pronounced by the cat-like Miqo’te. Many of the other races in Eorzea cannot accurately reproduce this sound, so the aitches (H) end up going silent when read. They do not take a family name, but instead are given the name Tia at birth. A Tia may change their surname to Nunh by challenging the tribes breeding male and defeating him in battle. If successful the two trade titles. Female seekers’ first names are given in the same way with three or more syllables, but the surname is the first name of the breeding male who sired her.

The tribal prefix often gets dropped in casual conversation and with close friends and family.

The female Keepers use one to two syllable first names without a tribal prefix due to their small communities. Additionally in their culture the mother’s surname is passed on to the children. The males born into the Keepers’ communities take both of their mother’s names, adding a suffix to the end of their first name to indicate their birth order counting the males. It is rare that more than 3 suffixes are needed.

Male Seeker Names. I’wheto, S’ciwah, Q’tuja, P’fhemeh, I’chelu, B’cuhguh, S’tohm, S’ghut, M’bod, I’phur.

Female Seeker Names. C’nhamfaule, C’qhaalkamo, D’mhagsoo, G’ganni, H’yhaafoqu, J’gidhiju, K’jotnhu, L’keknhegu, M’yhaiabdu, N’zhamroli

Male Keeper Names. Axah’a, Gohkoh’to, Luhga’li, Mahgeh’sae, Mucih’ra, Nohpu’ir, Sahxa’wo, Suleh’ya, Vehse’zi, Wizo’tan.

Female Keeper Names. Nuhmu, Ota, Pehbi, Vehba, Yaba, Miko, Fafoh, Cehxi, Xarih, Ecih

Keeper Surnames. Dagnheive, Dopsha, Gauvro, Jadnhapo, Jhendaka, Khutnauyu, Phemfa, Mhento, Rheibfuqe, Ruyhaia.

Miqo’te Traits

Your Miqo’te character has a variety of natural abilities related to their natural physical traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.

Age. Miqo’te tend to live secluded, healthy lives reaching physical maturity around the age of 16, and living to be around 80 years old.

Alignment. Miqo’te who live within a traditional tribal setting lean towards a lawful alignment, adhering to the laws of their people. Those who are born or live in more diverse settings tend to lean in no particular direction.

Size. Miqo’te are a proud people with powerful leg muscles. Their slender builds distract from how powerful their bodies really are. On average males tend to range in height from 5 feet to 5 and a half feet tall, while females range from 4 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 3 inches Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30ft.

Darkvision. Your eyes have adapted to help you see in the dark. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Predation. You gain proficiency in the Perception skill.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Common and one language of your choice. When speaking Common, your pronunciation of “r” sounds are sometimes extended with a purr.

Subrace. The Miqo’te are made up of two distinct clans. Select one of the two subraces of Miqo’te.

Seekers of the Sun

As a Seeker of the sun, you come from a race of renowned hunters. The Seekers live in a patriarchal society which worships the sun and Azeyma. This past has given you the tools to become a deadly hunter, capable of wounding their marks with great efficiency.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Natural Athelticism. You gain proficiency in the Atheletics skill.

Graceful Speed. Your base walking speed is 35ft.

Keepers of the Moon

As a Keeper of the Moon, you come from a highly spiritual matriarchy. Your people worship and moon and the goddess Menphina. Many Keepers make use of war paint as they believe it helps to channel the power of the moon into their bodies. Keepers are renown for their tenacity in battle when defending their homelands, often pushing beyond their limits when pressed.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision has a radius of 120 ft.

Tenacity. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Moogle

Moogles are a resourceful race known to be skillful in mechanics and engineering; they were the first pioneers of airship construction. They are also skillful merchants, their cheerful disposition often charming potential customers. Moogles typically get no taller than 3 to 4 feet. They tend to have small eyes (like moles) and black, red, or purple bat-like wings. Their most distinguishing feature is a single black antenna that sticks up from the head with a small, usually red, ball (or “pompom”) at the end. Their ears are usually shaped like a cat’s, but sometimes they have longer rabbit-like ears. Most Moogles have white or pink fur. When speaking hume languages, they tend to end their sentences with the sound ‘kupo’. Moogles are mostly found in large cities, working as engineers, or serving aboard airships. They are avid storytellers and holders of many superstitions. Moogles also hate water, preferring instead to bathe in dust or sand.

Ability Score: +2 DEX, +1 CHA.

Size: Small

Base Speed: 20 ft. on land. 20 ft. fly speed.

Languages: Common, Moogle, and one more of your choice (except for druidic).

Good Merchant: Moogles seem to have the innate ability to identify the value of items and sell them at a good margin. Moogles gain a proficiency in Persuasion.

Low-Light Vision: Moogles can see twice as far as Hyur in conditions of dim light.

Gossip: Moogles love to gossip among themselves. If the player, playing as a Moogle, runs into another. The player may take some time to gossip. Exchanging information about people, lands, and even places for the best food. Sometimes, there’s no gossip. Moogles will show their loyalty to their king by performing the Moogle dance.

Scavenger: Choose either Perception or Investigation. Moogles gain advantage when looking for items to sell. This could be on looted bodies, hidden treasure, etc.

For the King: Every now and then, Moogles must make a pilgrimage to see the Moogle King.

Roegadyn

They sought to secure a place to breed and multiply, that their kind might survive. Self-preservation, as you say. But we have as much right to live and thrive as they. If our own survival is threatened, are we to lay down our arms and welcome oblivion? Nay.

-Admiral Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn

The Roegadyn are a physically powerful race of people with a thirst for life which few can rival. They live loudly with boisterous voices, larger than life goals and an unflinching approach to danger. Roegadyns are fearless explorers who long ago were the greatest pirates to sail the seas. Adventure is in their blood.

Size Matters

Roegadyn are enormous humanoids with a hulking muscular build. Men and women alike grow to tower over the other races. Partly due to their size, Roegadyn as a whole love competitions of strength and courage, challenging one another to push themselves and their bravery.

Their faces have fierce features and large flat noses. Due to their large size, Roegadyn tend to wear durable, flexible clothing which allows them to move easily.

Maritime Reavers, Volcanic Hermits

The Sea Wolves live up to their names through a storied history on the ocean. Most Sea Wolf communities can be found on the coast, as most make their living from the sea.

Be it sailing, naval service or mercenary work, the Sea Wolves continue to feel most at home when adventuring on board a ship. The Hellsguard in comparison live in land around the volcanic mountains of Abalathia. Here they guard the material plane from undead spirits trying to return home.

The Great Seas and Abalathia

The Roegadyn as an entire race hail from the Northern seas their name translating to people of the rain. These sea fairing people can be found living in coastal citites the world over living as sailors, mercenaries and pirates.

The Hellsguard live around the volcanoes of the Abalathia mountains, believing their home to be a sacred place related to the afterlife. Those Hellsguard who choose to leave their mountain homes can be found in large cities near these mountains, making a living as sellswords or chasing deeper knowledge of magic.

In Their Nature

The Roegadyn people are a boisterous race, seeking out challenges to test their power and bravery.

They rarely need much convincing to head into the heat of battle for a cause they believe in, though coin may help speed them along. Sea Wolves have a long history of pirating, looting and battle on ships of all sorts, giving them a deep seeded thirst for adventure.

Hellsguard grow up in solitude away from society, having no city to call their own. They may decide to head off in search of a more engaging existence by heading down their mountain and seeing what else the world has to offer.

Roegadyn Names

Sea Wolves and Hellsguard follow very different rules when it comes to naming conventions. Sea Wolves all derive their names by combining two words from their ancient Roegadyn Language. Women of the Sea Wolves also derive their names by combining two words, but the second word is always one of eight words. Sea Wolves form their surnames by taking their parent’s name and adding a third word; syn for males and wyn for females, indicating they are a son or daughter respectively.

Hellsguard on the other hand avoid their ancient language and use the common tongue. Their names are formed using two words as well, often drawing inspiration from nature. Women of the Hellsguard tend to use plant imagery in their names as well, but are not restricted to do so. Nearly all Hellsguard abandon their family names, refusing to be defined by their ancestors in the past.

Male Sea Wolf Names. Klynnahct, Flazfolg, Roehahtyn, Broenstymm, Haergeiss, Nedyrsatz, Unsynfarr

Female Sea Wolf Names. Rhotbryda, Hezzwyb, Rhenbryda, Grynegeim, Ketenbryda, Skaenswys, Swozthota, Wyznthota, Rhotbryda, Trahggeim

Male Hellsguard Names. Aware Sun, Major Wind, Blue Yew, Grateful Forest, Surprised Cavern, Bright Island, Flawed Lake, Fearless Oak, Dirt Snow, Stark Crow

Female Hellsguard Names. Soft Pea, Obedient Apple, Honored Eclipse, Orange Autumn, Silly Feather, Carefree Locust, Secret Lavender, Careful Vapor, Optimistic Blossom, Innocent Daffodil.

Roegadyn Traits

Your Roegadyn character has a variety of natural abilities which all members of their race have.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2.

Age. Though physically larger than the other races, the Roegadyn do not live any longer; reaching full maturity around the age of 20 and living into their eighties.

Alignment. Roegadyn have no heavy leaning towards good or evil. The Sea Wolves value the chaotic nature of adventuring and lean towards this alignment, while the Hellsguard look to laws of their ancestors to guard the sacred volcanoes they’ve lived near for ages.

Size. Roegadyns are a massive people who grow much taller than their fellow races. Males grow as tall as 7 and a half feet tall, while women can grow to be 7 foot 3 inches talls. Despite your powerful builds and great height, your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30ft.

Brave. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when you are determining your carrying capacity and also the weight you are able to push, drag or lift.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Common and Roegadyn.

Subrace. The Roegadyn have settled into two distinct lifestyles. Select a subrace based on where you come from.

Seawolf

Fearless sailors of the sea. The Sea Wolves have a storied history of being a great sailors. No coastal cities were safe in the past when the Sea Wolves came to town. A history of sailing and pirating has left the Sea Wolves with inherent abilities.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Sailor’s Swimming. You have advantage when making Athletics (swimming) checks.

Toughness. Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

Hellsguard

The elusive Hellsguard live around then volcanoes located within Abalathia’s Spine. They have lived in solitude for hundreds of years guarding the volcano from spirits seeking passage from the world of the dead into their own world, over time granting magical abilities.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Magical Knowledge. You gain proficiency with the Arcana skill.

Volcanic Children. You know the Firebolt cantrip. At 3rd level you learn the Burning Hands spell and may cast it at the 2nd level once before requiring a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the Heat Metal spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a Long Rest. Charisma is your spell casting ability for these spells.

Varg

Sometimes mistakenly referred to as ‘Werewolves,’ the vargs are lean and powerful wolfmen, a mixture of human and bestial characteristics. Though they walk upright, long tails, lupine heads, and elegant fur leave little doubt as to their origins. In comparison to humes, vargs enjoy enhanced seeing, smell, and hearing; they can clearly recognize objects and movement at far greater distances, though their ability to sense color is significantly weaker. Like humes, vargs are at home in a wide range of habitats. While most commonly encountered in temperate climates, subspecies of this race can be found roaming sweltering tropical savannas, scraping out a minimal existence on misty moors, or braving arctic conditions. Fur colors and thicknesses vary accordingly, simultaneously serving as insulation and camouflage appropriate to a varg’s adopted surroundings.

Racial Attributes

Size: Medium

Base Speed: 30 ft.

Languages: Vargs begin play speaking Common and Lupin.

Fearless: Vargs gain resistance to mind-effects.

Natural Armor: Vargs have a +1 natural armor bonus.

Lycanthropy Resistance: Vargs are immune to the curse of lycanthropy. Varg’s natural attacks count as silver for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction, and a varg may spend a standard action and touch a lycanthrope to give that lycanthrope an insight bonus equal to half the Varg’s level plus his WIS mod (min. +1) to the target’s check to change back to human form.

Keen Senses: Vargs recieve a Perception skill proficiency.

Wolf Empathy: Choose between Animal Handling or Diplomacy for when you deal with wolves, dire wolves, and other types of wolves.

Bite: Vargs gain a natural bite attack, dealing 1d4 points of damage. The bite is a primary attack, or a secondary attack if the Varg is wielding manufactured weapons.

Darkvision: Vargs can see perfectly in the dark up to 60 feet.

Varg Sub-Races:

Gnoll: +2 STR, +1 INT. Gnolls are a race of hulking, humanoids that resemble hyenas in more than mere appearance; they show a striking affinity with the scavenging animals, to the point of keeping them as pets, and reflect many of the lesser creatures’ behaviors. Gnolls are capable hunters, but are far happier to scavenge or steal a kill than to go out and track down prey. This laziness impels them to acquire slaves of whatever type is available, whom they force to dig warrens, gather supplies and water, and even hunt for their gnoll masters.

Kitsune: +2 DEX, +1 CHA. Kitsune, or fox folk, are a vulpine race known for their love of both trickery and art. Despite an irrepressible penchant for deception, kitsune prize loyalty and make true companions. They delight in the arts, particularly riddles and storytelling, and settle in ancestral clans, taking their wisdom from both the living and spirits.

Viera

The Viera may begin as part of the Wood, but it is not the only end that we may choose.

-Fran the Sky Pirate

The Viera are a beautiful and mysterious folk, shrouded in mystery as many spend most of their lives in the Woodlands they call home. Their tall, slender bodies adorned with rabbit-like traits creates an air of grace amongst them. Long, high angled feet require high-heeled shoes and dextrous clawed fingers help to draw a striking image of the Viera.

Separate Paths

The Viera are a race of both males and females, but outside of necessary meetings to keep their race continuing onwards and taking the male children who have reached adulthood, they lead separate lives. The males of the Viera live secretive, lonely lives in which they shun everyone, even their own kin to fully pursue their sacred role as a Wood-warder. The Wood-warders patrol the Golmore Jungle and ensure no outsiders reach their former homes. That isn’t to say the women are defenseless though, as the female Viera are as capable as the men, but turn their attention to defend their young and homes.

People of the Wood

The word Viera itself means “people of the wood” and true to their name, in different forests of Dalmasca. Both the Rava and the Veena boast tall, lithe frames and graceful traits of rabbits. The Rava make their home in the Golmore Jungle and grew to have umber skin and dark hair, allowing them to more easily blend in with the forest. In stark contract the Veena have very light skin and fair hair help them blend in with the Skatay Range they call home. On average the Veena are shorter than their Ravan counterparts.

Of Jungles and Forests

Both the Rava and Veena clans make their homes exclusively in the Golmore Jungle, or the primeval forests which line the southwestern foothills of the Skatay Range, respectively. Both locations are large, sprawling canopies of forest which provide them with all the Viera need to survive. In addition to the thick forest canopy, the Skatay Range boasts white mountains which the Veena has grown to use as a secondary home. Both the Rava and Veena guard their homes with violence and without prejudice, anyone who enters their forest homes may be privy to a hostile reception.

The Green Word

The Viera’s set of laws are considered to be the laws of the forest in which they live. The Viera take jobs under this set of laws and restrict themselves from having contact with the world outside of their forest. Among many other restrictions the Viera subject themselves to, some find their ways off putting. If a Viera chooses to leave the forest they are considered an outsider from that day forward. These strict laws often drive Viera with a fire in their heart away to seek adventure.

Viera Names

Viera names are often short in nature, normally only 4 characters long. The letter “J” is used as a vowel in their tongue creating confusion at times for those who are not familiar with the Viera language. Despite close attention to purity in their bloodlines, the Viera do not worry about lineage and do not have family names.

Male Viera Names. Atan, Morn, Tjln, Frjn

Unsure as to true examples of male names but will give some example names until official material is released

Female Viera Names. Fran, Jote, Mjrn, Kryn, Ktjn

Viera Traits

Your Viera character has a variety of natural abilities.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.

Age. Viera reach physical maturity at the same pace as all the other races, but once reaching adulthood live roughly three times as long as the other races, approximately 240 years.

Alignment. The Trueblooded Viera tend toward a Lawful nature, as they have a strict code of staying within the woods and living their lives, while adventurers who leave home tend towards a more Chaotic alignment as they’re a people who live outside of tradition.

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Size. The Rava are tall and lithe people who reach an average height just over 6ft. tall, while the Veena are shorter, with an average height around 5ft. 8 inches tall. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 35ft.

Lapine Hop. Your maximum high jump and long jump distances are 10ft. higher than how it would be normally calculated.

Lucky. When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can re-roll the die and must use the new roll.

Mask of the Wild. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.

Speak with Small Beasts. Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas with Small or smaller beasts.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Common and Viera.

Subrace. The Viera’s bloodline has split into two distinct groups, the dark skinned Veena and the fair skinned Rava.

Rava

Making their home in the Gelmore Jungle, the Rava are a tall, powerful race with an intimating presence about them. Their powerful bodies and unrelenting tactics in the forest make the Rava powerful friends and more dangerous foes.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Powerful Presence. You gain proficiency in the Intimidate skill.

Veena

Hailing from the forests which grow about the Skatay Range, the Veena defend their home with just as much vigor as the Rava, but have a much easier time if they leave their homes due to their more average size and softer appearance. Due to the rise of war near their homeland, many Veena left the Skatay Range, joining many pockets of civilization.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Approachable. You gain proficiency in the Persuasion skill.

Languages

Ascians

Au Ra

Common

Common (Miqo’te common with ‘r’ stretched as a purr)

Dravanians

Druidic (Druids only)

Sylvan (Fae Folk)

Galka

Garif

Lupine

Moogle

Roegadyn

Viera

Chapter 2: Classes

Multiclassing

The tables on the next page show the requirements to multiclass and the proficiencies gained when doing so.

Multiclassing Prerequisites

Multiclassing Proficiencies

Arcanist

A lightly armoured Hyur maneuvers through the battlefield alongside his carbuncle companion. The carbuncle dashes ahead and lets out a burst of magical energy, dazing their foes and creating an opening for their allies, swaying the battle in their favour.

A quiet Miqo’te woman carefully scratches notes into her research tome. After a long times passes, she wipes the sweat from her brow as a shining avian figure bursts forth from another plane, ready to heed her every command.

A carefully launched arrow catches the the Lalafell’s ally. Invoking a few words and raising their grimoire to the sky, healing magics close the wound, allowing their friend to fight on.

These skillful magic users take on many roles on the battlefield, be it a commander of their allies, a medic or a destructive force. Through careful planning and preparation an Arcanist becomes an indomitable force to stand against.

Magic Through Research

Arcanists work hard to explore the secrets of magic, only through deep understanding of formulas and geometrical figures can they produce magical effects. Their tomes and grimoires are filled with fascinating formulas and diagrams, which when fed magical energy from the arcanist’s body burst forth into powerful spells. Ever thirsty for greater knowledge, an Arcanist seeks knowledge and then puts it to the test.

Borrowed Power

One thing which sets the Arcanist apart from other spell casters is their usage of summoning companions. Early in their studies an Arcanist learns to summon forth a magical servant. This is the first major task of an Arcanist and helps to sharpen their powers. The companion borrows some of the arcanist’s power and in return gives the caster an unwavering ally on the field of battle.

Creating an Arcanist

An arcanist’s path begins with a few formulas scrawled in a tome and a large amount of time practicing their craft, researching to unlock greater power to have at their disposal. You must consider what was your arcanist’s call to action? Perhaps their thirst for knowledge couldn’t be satisfied at their desk, or they saw that their abilities could help the world in another way. Perhaps they uncovered some information that they must investigate or acted upon.

Whatever the cause which brought the arcanist out into the world, they do so with their research in hand and companion by their side.

Quick Build

You can make a Arcanist quickly by following these suggestions. First make Intelligence your highest ability score, following with Constitution. Second take the Sage background. Third, take the Acid Splash, Mage Hand and Prestidigitation cantrips.

Class Features

As an Arcanist, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: None
• Weapons: Daggers, darts, slings, quarterstaffs, light crossbows
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, and Religion.

Equipment

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

• (a) quarterstaff or (b) a dagger
• (a) a grimoire which acts as your spell casting focus
• (a) a scholar’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack

Spell Casting

Level requirement and general description. See chapter 10 of the PHB for the general rules of spellcasting and the end of this document for the Arcanist spell list.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know 3 cantrips of your choice from the Arcanist spell list. You learn additional Arcanist cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Arcanist table.

Spellbook

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

Your Spellbook

You add to your spellbook as You gain levels reflect the arcane research You conduct on your own, as well as intellectual breakthroughs You have had about the nature of the multiverse. You might find other spells during your adventures. You could discover a spell recorded on a scroll in an evil wizard’s chest, for example, or in a dusty tome in an ancient library.

Copying a Spell into the Book. When You find a arcanist spell of 1st level or higher, You can add it to your spellbook if it is of a level for which You have spell slots and if You can spare the time to decipher and copy it. Copying a spell into your spellbook involves reproducing the basic form of the spell, then deciphering the unique system of notation used by the mage who wrote it. You must practice the spell until You understand the sounds or gestures required, then transcribe it into your spellbook using your own notation.

For each level of the spell, the process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp. The cost represents material components You expend as You experiment with the spell to master it, as well as the fine inks You need to record it. Once You have spent this time and money, You can prepare the spell just like your other spells.

Replacing the Book. You can copy a spell from your own spellbook into another book. For example, if You want to make a backup copy of your spellbook. This is just like copying a new spell into your spellbook, but faster and easier, since You understand your own notation and already know how to cast the spell. You need spend only 1 hour and 10 gp for each level of the copied spell. If You lose your spellbook, You can use the same procedure to transcribe the spells that You have prepared into a new spellbook. Filling out the remainder of your spellbook requires You to find new spells to do so, as normal. For this reason, many mages keep backup spellbooks in a safe place.

The Book’s Appearance. Your spellbook is a unique compilation of spells, with its own decorative flourishes and margin notes. It might be a plain, functional leather volume that You received as a gift from your master, a finely bound gold-edged tome you found in an ancient library, or even a loose collection of notes scrounged together.

Preparing and Casting Spells

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

To do so, choose a number of arcanist spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your arcanist level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you’re a 3rd-level arcanist, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an lntelligence of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination, chosen from your spellbook. If you prepare the 1st-level spell magic missile, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot.

Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells. You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of arcanist 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 Arcanist spells. 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 Arcanist spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Ritual Casting

You can cast any Arcanist spell you know as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a magical grimoire, tome or other similar equipment as an arcane focus (found in chapter 5 of the player’s handbook) for your Arcanist spells.

Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher

Each time you gain an Arcanist level, you can add two Arcanist 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 Arcanist table. On your adventures, you might find other spells you can add to your spellbook (see “Your Spellbook”).

Tactics

Beginning at the 1st level, you have developed a head for tactics during battle. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

You learn your first tactic at 1st level from the following list. You learn additional tactics at the 2nd, 6th, 10th and 14th level. Some tactics may require you be at least a certain level or have taken a specific specialization. When you level up you may exchange one of your known tactics for another.

Advantageous. When rolling initiative, you may expend one use of tactics to increase an ally or your own initiative roll by your proficiency bonus. You may only do so once per initiative roll.

Aetherial Barrier. When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 15ft. of you or your aetherial ally, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll.

Blessing of Nym (Scholar and White Caller only). When you cast a spell which recovers hit points or is from the Nymian Scholar expanded spell list, you may cast it through your aetherial ally. Your eidolon acts as the point of origin for the spell and your touch-based spells may be cast as though you were standing where your eidolon is.

Bombarding. (Tactician only). When you take the Attack action or cast a spell, as a bonus action, you may direct one of your companions to strike. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature can immediately use its reaction to make one weapon attack.

Castle (10th Level Required). As a bonus action, your aetherial ally and a willing creature within 30ft. of it instantaneously switch positions. This does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

Carbuncle Bind (Tactican Only). When your carbuncle lands a melee attack, as part of its action you may empower it. You attempt to bind the target creature to your carbuncle. The target of your carbuncle’s attack must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a binding ethereal chain bursts forth from the carbuncle, shackling the target. The creature may not move more than 5ft away from the carbuncle for 1d4 rounds.

Carbuncle Shine (Tactician Only). As a bonus action you cause your carbuncle to shine brightly. All creatures who can see the carbuncle within 10ft. must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is blinded for 1d4 rounds.

Deployment Tactics. (Tactician only). As a bonus action, select two friendly creatures who can see and hear you. They may move up to half their movement speed without provoking attacks of opportunity.

Devotion (Summoner and Black Caller only, 10th Level Required). When a creature within 10ft. of your aetherial ally attacks another creature with a melee attack successfully, as a reaction you may add your Intelligence modifier and proficiency bonus to the damage roll.

Elemental Attunement (Summoner and Black Caller only). As an action, you may grant resistance to fire, cold, lightning, poison or sonic damage to yourself or a creature within 5ft. of you for a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Emergency Tactics (Scholar only, 10th Level Required). When a creature you can see takes damage, as a reaction you may cast a spell which restores hit points to its target.

Excogitation (Scholar only). When you cast a healing spell, you may delay the effect by up to 1 minute. The spell effect activates after the target takes a total amount of damage declared by you when you use this tactic. If the creature reaches 0 hit points or less the healing spell takes effect immediately.

False Fear (Tactician Only, 6th Level Required). When your carbuncle lands an attack, as part of their attack you may empower it further. You attempt to attack their mind. The creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC, on a failed save their mind is infested with an illusion causing them to become frightened of the carbuncle until the end of your next turn.

Holistic Awe (White Caller Only, 10th Level Required). Your Arcs can freely pick you up to fly for 10-minutes. Should the time run out while you are flying, your Arc will return you safely to the ground.

Logsitics Preparation. As a bonus action, all allied creatures within 20ft. of you or your aetherial ally gain 10ft. of movement until the start of your next turn.

Nymian Preparation (Scholar only, 6th Level Required). When you cast a spell which recovers hit points, instead of healing the target, they gain temporary hit points equal to half the amount of hit points that would have been healed. The healing spell must require the caster to roll dice to decide the amount of hit points recovered. If any die results in its maximum value, the creature gains temporary hit points equal to the full amount of hit points healed.

Plan of Attack. As a reaction, you may add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll of an allied creature within 10ft. of you.

Quick Summoning (14th Level Required). As an action, you may summon an aetherial ally as though you just completed a long rest. You may do so once, use of this tactic recovers after a long rest.

Rouse. When your aetherial ally takes its action within 30ft. of you, as part of their action you may empower it further. For a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier, add your Intelligence modifier to the damage rolls and healing effects of your aetherial ally.

Sacrifice. While your aetherial ally is out, you may sacrifice your actions to give your aetherial ally up to two actions.

Spreading Strike (6th Level Required). When your aetherial ally takes the attack action, as part of their action you may empower them. They may make a second attack on a creature 5ft. from the first target.

Spur (Summoner only). When your Egi takes an action, as part of their action you may empower them. They gain advantage on their attack roll. The additional damage from your proficiency bonus is doubled for this attack.

Switching Step (6th Level Required). As a bonus action, you may switch places with your aetherial ally instantly if they are within 60ft. of you. This does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

Tactical Position (Tactician Only). You may use the help action as a bonus action.

Tri-bind (Summoner Only, 6th Level Required). As an action all creatures within 10ft. of your aetherial ally must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Spell Save DC or become restrained for 1 minute. As an action on their turn an affected creature may make a Strength saving throw to end the effect.

Virtues (White Caller, Black Caller, 6th Level Required). For a number of times equal to your intelligence modifier, you can spend a bonus action to freely switch between your aetherial allies. Regain all uses after a long rest, and regain half on short rests.

Arcanist Specialization

At 2nd level, you choose a specialization to focus on as an Arcanist: Tactician, Summoner Nymian Scholar, Black Caller, or White Caller all detailed at the end of the class description. Your archetype choice grants you features at the 2nd, 6th, 10th and 14th level.

Aetherial Ally

Beginning at 2nd level you learn to summon an aetherial creature to assist you in battle. The creature is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands. Depending on your selected archetype you are able to summon specific creatures. Tacticians are able to summon carbuncles, summoners are able to summon Egis, nymian scholars are able to summon Eos or Selene, Black Callers are able to summon Demis and White Callers are able to summon Arcs. Select the relevant stat block when summoning your aetherial ally. These summons use your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

Descriptions of your aetherial allies can be found alongside the provided stat blocks at the end of the class description.

In combat, your aetherial ally acts during your turn. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. You can also sacrifice one of your attacks when you take the Attack action to command the beast to take the Attack action. If you are incapacitated, the beast can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

If your aetherial ally is reduced to 0 hit points, its body dissipates into a fog of magical energy which remains intact for one minute. You can use your action to touch it and expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher. Aetherial ally’s body returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored.

You summon your aetherial ally when you complete a long rest. At this time you can summon a different aetherial ally. The new summon appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you, and you choose its stat block. If you already have an aetherial ally from this feature, it vanishes when the new summon appears. The summon also vanishes if you die.

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.

Grand Design

Beginning at 18th level, the maximum number of tactics you may use before a rest increases by 2.

According To Plan

Beginning at the 20th level, you recover half of your expended tactics uses when you roll for initiative.

The Aetherial Ally

The Arcanist’s most prized companion is the one they bring forth into the world. Through the use of grimoires and magical formulas, Arcantists have learned how to bring forth a magical ally to fight alongside them. Depending on the area of study an Arcanist specializes in, they are able to summon different allies. A Tactician has learned to bring forth a carbuncle, a Summoner has learned to bring forth elemental egis, and a Nymian Scholar has learned to summon a special type of fey.

Tactician

Most arcanists walk the path of the Tactician, highly intelligent spell casters who assist their allies by organizing their forces and swaying battle with tactical maneuvers. In the tradition of arcanists, the tactician who brings forth a carbuncle, to help dictate the pace of battle.

Field Commander

Beginning at the 2nd level, you have opted to take up the blade alongside the book to protect yourself on the battle field. You gain proficiency in light armor, shields, simple and martial weapons. You may use your weapon as a casting focus to satisfy the somantic component. You gain one extra hitpoint when you level up, including reaching the 2nd level.

Additionally, when you select a new tactic according to the Tactics feature, you select two tactics. You regain any expended uses of Tactics when you complete a short or long rest.

Tactical Eye

Also beginning at 2nd level, when you use the Help action to aid an ally in attacking a creature, the target of that attack can be within 30 ft. of you, if the target can see or hear you.

Strategic Preparation

Beginning at the 6th level, if you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside combat, you can learn certain information about its capabilities compared to your own.

The DM tells you if the creature is your equal, superior, or inferior in regard to two of the follow characteristics of your choice:

• Strength score
• Dexterity score
• Constitution score
• Intelligence score
• Wisdom score
• Charisma score
• Armor Class
• Current hit points
• Class levels (if any)

At the DM’s discretion, you might also realize you know a piece of the creature’s history or one of its personality traits, if it has any.

Chain Stratagem

Beginning at the 10th level, when an ally is attacking a creature whom is affected by your Help action, their attack lands a critical hit on a die result 19 or 20.

Carbuncle’s Sacrifice

Beginning at the 14th level, you are able to sacrifice your carbuncle to recall the magic energy which makes up its body and calm your mind. Your carbuncle is unsummoned and you recover half the expended uses of your Tactics feature.

Summoner

A summoner has directed their studies towards harnessing the powers of elementals from another plane, summoning fragments of their strength as Egis to serve them.

Egi’s Boon

Beginning at the 2nd level, while you have your Ifrit Egi summoned you know the Firebolt Cantrip and have resistance against fire damage. While you have your Garuda Egi summoned you know the Thunderclap cantrip and have resistance against thunder damage. While you have your Titan Egi summoned you know the Magic Stone cantrip and have resistance against bludgeoning damage.

Channeled Casting

Beginning at the 6th level, when you cast a spell you may cast the spell as if you were standing where your egi is. Spells which use you as their point of origin may instead use your egi as the point of origin. These spells do not cause damage to your egi. You can use this feature three times. You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Fester

Beginning at the 10th level, when you cast a spell that deals damage and requires a target creature to make a saving throw, if it fails you may deal additional necrotic damage to the target creature equal to #d8, where # is equal to your Intelligence modifier. You can use this feature three times. You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Enkindle

Beginning at the 14th level, as an action you are able to call on your egi to release the great power hidden within it, unleashing a devastating attack. You must then finish a short or long rest to use Enkindle again. The power is described in the creature description at the end of the class description.

Nymian Scholar

Some arcanists decide to research the use of their magic in the medical arts. These arcanists come to be known as nymian scholars, specializing in the lost healing magic of Nym. They call on the fey of this lost city, summoning them to assist them on the field of battle.

Expanded Spell List

Your specialization as an scholar lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn an arcanist spell. The following spells are added to the arcanist spell list for you.

Expanded Spell List

Critical Heal

Starting at the 2nd level, your healing spells have the potential to cause a critical heal. When you cast a healing spell and one of the die results in its highest possible result. Roll another die of the same value and add that number to the amount of hit points recovered. A critical heal may only occur once per healing spell.

Nymian Healer

Starting at 6th level, your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains additional hit points equal to your proficiency bonus + the spell’s level.

Adloquiem

Starting at the 10th level, when you cast a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, you may expend one us of tactics to empower the heal. Your healing spell creates a protective ward on the creature, granting them temporary hit points equal to the hit points recovered for 10 minutes. If a critical heal occurred, the target gains additional temporary hit points equal to half of the amount of hit points recovered.

Nymian Savior

Starting at the 14th level, when you cast a healing spell which will not grant temporary hit points, that creature gains 1d10 temporary hitpoints.

Black Caller

Some Arcanists have chosen to dip their magic and knowledge into the dark arts that Black Mages use. As a result, the Black Caller can summon Demis: Demi-Doomtrain and Demi- Hades. You can spot Black Callers from all-black attire; and their grimoire is just black leather with a dark red accent. At times, people can see a ghostly visage of a devil for a split second.

Spellcasting: Black Callers use the Black Mage’s spell list.

Expanded Spell List

Demi’s Boon: Upon reaching 2nd level, the Black Caller can summoner their eidolons. When you summon Demi-Doomtrain, you know the Sapping Sting cantrip and have resistance towards necrotic damage. Summoning Demi-Hades, you know the Thunderclap cantrip and have resistance towards sonic damage.

Nothing Personal: At level 3 and as an action, Black Callers can sacrifice their eidolon to regain spell slots. If you do, your must wait one round to summon your eidolon. Black Callers can do this a number of times equal to their Intelligence-mod. Resets after a long rest. Note: Black Callers cannot rinse and repeat this process. To activate this ability again, you must wait 1 round when you’ve summoned your eidolon.

Breaking In: At level 5 Choose an elemental type: Fire, Ice, Thunder, Lightning, Acid, or Poison. Spells and eidolon attacks associated with the elemental type chosen ignore resistance. Later at levels 10 and 15, you choose another elemental type. Be aware that these are set-in-stone and cannot be changed during rests or re-summoning your eidolons.

Boosted: At the 10th-level and as a standard action, the Black Caller can spend their turn concentrating on boosting their eidolon’s next attack by +5 to the attack roll.

Outstretched: At level 15, Black Callers can now summon their eidolons 15 ft. away/

Outburst: At level 17, summoning your eidolon causes a 5 ft. area to explode when the eidolon occupies that space. Demi-Hades deals 4d10 thunder damage and causes deafness. Demi-Doomtrain deals 4d10 necrotic damage, occupants in the blast radius that die by this will have their souls be collected by Demi-Doomtrain for #d6 temporary hit points, where # equals defeated occupants. You may use this a number equal to your INT-mod.

White Callers

Much like Black Callers, White Callers dip their grimoires in holy magic used by White Mages. As a result, they are blessed with Arcs. Arc-Alexander and Arc-Madeen. You can spot White Callers by their white and gold robes; and their grimoires are white and gold with purple accents. Other times, people can faintly see a phantom halo above the White Caller.

Spellcasting:

White Callers use the White Mage’s spell list.

Expanded Spell List

Blessing of Arc: Upon reaching level 2 with this specialization, the White Caller can now summon their Arcs. At this point, the White Caller is expected to know the ritual by heart, just needs a holy symbol (this will be attatched the grimore as a bookmark) as a reuseable spell component.

Heavy Duty: At fifth level, your healing spells and spell-like healing abilities gain an extra 2 dice. You have advantage on medicine checks. At levels 10, 15, and 20, add and extra 2 dice to your healing spells and spell-like healing abilities.

Guarded: At 10th-level, you may spend a spell slot to add an extra effect to your healing spells from: Shield, Remove Curse, Absorb Elements, or Aura of Life.

Tip-Top Shape: At 15-level, you may sacrifice your turn to boost your eidolon’s damage or healing by 2d10. This ability works with Guarded.

Love for Life: Much like the Black Caller, White Caller’s eidolons can now be summoned in a 10 ft. explosion. Both erupt in 4d10 holy damage to hostile enemies. The White Caller and any allies caught in the explosion, instead gain 4d10 HP. This does not work with Guarded or Tip-Top Shape. You may use this a number equal to INT-mod.

Astrologian

A slender Elezen woman draped in fine robes sits in a dark room across from a man who feels he has lost his way. Smiling she releases her Planisphere and a flurry of arcana cards into the air. From the squall of cards she draws and divines the man’s fate, instilling in the lost soul a sense of peace and hope for the future.

A Roegadyn man stands behind his allies on the battlefield. He raises his Star Globe to the sky and begins to channel energy into his trust tool. Using the power of the stars above, soothing energy radiates outwards, enveloping his allies, bringing them succor in the heat of battle.

A well versed Auri Astrologian stands before a congregation of people. She has come to spread the word of her rare new art, offering understanding of the future through the power of the stars. It has become her sacred duty to bring the stars into view for the common people.

Whether they stand behind their allies granting them the blessing of the stars and moons of the universe, or standing alongside them on the front line, Astrologians manipulate the fates of both friends and foe to find success.

Wielders of Fate

The first task of all Astrologians is to gain a mastery over using the deck of sixty. To them, fortunetelling is a tool which allows them to interpret the stars themselves. Their deck is based on the constellations that they study. The Astrologians are gifted a divining deck when they begin their study from their master. They act as a conduit for the magic energy gathered by their star globes, passing the empowering magic from the stars to their allies.

An Elegant Tool

The Star Globe is a tool used by Astrologians which allows them to locate and draw in power from the stars. The globes are formed by large rings of precious metal and lenses. The rings are marked using a large spread of precise markings and which allows the user to find and map the stars in order to draw power without a view of the sky.

Creating an Astrologian

Astrologians hail from a faraway island where knowledge is viewed as the greatest virtue. Astrologians are usually scholars by trade, and specialized in the study of astromancy. Often they find themselves born into the scholar’s life or into highborn families. Sometimes low born apprentices find themselves working beneath a master of astromancy and learn how to tap into the magic of the stars. Astrologians are blessed with the ability to read the future. Through the use of the deck of sixty and the stars they are capable of tapping into the future, though the farther they look, the less clear things become. Some Astrologians travel the land to share this gift of foresight with everyone, while others seek out opportunities to spread their young order of magic around the realm. Others track down allies and adventure, as the stars had mandated that the Astrologian set out on a quest for a task which they cannot see the end of. Astrologians borrow power from the cosmos, and in return seeks to see that the will of the stars is done.

Quick Build

You can make an Astrologian quickly by following these suggestions. First make Wisdom your highest ability score, following with Constitution. Second take the sage background. Third, take the Dancing Lights, Sacred Flame, Guidance and Truestrike cantrips and the first level spells Cure Wounds and Divine Favor.

Class Features

As an Astrologian, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: None

• Weapons: Daggers, Darts, Slings, Quarter Staffs, Light Crossbows

• Tools: Divination Deck

• Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Deception, Insight, Persuasion, History, Religion

Equipment

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

• a dagger
• a Star Globe
• a Divination Deck
• (a) a explorer’s pack or (b) a scholar’s pack

Spellcasting

As a student of astrology, you can cast Astrologian spells. See chapter 10 of the PHB for the general rules of spellcasting and the end of this document for the Astrologian spell list.

Cantrips

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

Preparing and Casting Spells

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

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

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

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

Spellcasting Ability

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

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

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Ritual Casting

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

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a star globe, planisphere or other similar tools as an arcane focus (found in chapter 5 of the player’s handbook) for your astrologian spells.

Draw

Beginning at the 1st level, as an action you are able to draw a card from your deck of sixty and empower an ally according to the drawn card.

Roll 1d6, the number shown corresponds to the drawn card. Once drawn, you may apply the empowering effect to yourself or another creature within 30ft. that you can see. The card releases the energy within and the card returns to the deck.

The effect of the boon lasts for a number of rounds equal to your Wisdom ability modifier with a minimum of 1 round. You must use temporary resources within this time otherwise they are lost. A creature may only have one Draw effect affecting them at a time. A new effect replaces the old effect.

The Available Draws column of the astrologian table shows the number of times you can draw cards for your astrologian level. You regain all of your expended uses of draw when you finish a long rest.

Astrologian Archetype

At 2nd level, you choose a sect to study as an Astrologian: Diurnal Sect, Nocturnal Sect or Fortuneteller, all detailed at the end of the class description. Your archetype choice grants you features at the 2nd, 6th, 10th and 14th level.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Shuffle

Beginning at the 5th level, when you use the Draw feature, as a bonus action you may reroll the result of the d6 before applying its effect. You may only use the new result.

Spread

Beginning at the 11th level, when you use the Draw feature, as a bonus action you may set a drawn card aside for later use, adding it to your spread. You may have a number of cards in your spread equal to your Wisdom modifier.

On your turn, as a bonus action you may play any card from your spread. The cards in your spread lose their power when you complete a long rest.

Double Draw

Beginning at the 17th level, when you use the Draw action, you may draw and use two cards. Each card consumes an available draw. As a bonus action you may place one or both cards into your spread.

Time Dialation

Beginning at the 18th level, as an action, you may expend an available Draw to reapply a Draw effect on a creature within Draw range.

The Deck of Sixty

Beginning at the 20th level, when you roll initiative you recover a number of available draws equal to your Wisdom modifier.

The Heavenly Paths

When an Astrologian is early on in their studies, they select a sect of stars from which they will draw their powers from. The stars were mapped using the positions of the sun and moon, and these two sects are reflective of their reference points. The Diurnal Sect uses the sun as their reference point, creating their star maps with the sun being the key to navigation, while the Nocturnal Sect uses the moon as the reference point. An Astrologian may choose to minimally study the stars and focus their efforts into their tarot deck, learning advanced techniques on how to manipulate fate as a Fortuneteller.

Diurnal Sect

Your study of astrology has led you to studying under the Diurnal sect. Students of this sect focus on developing their understanding of the stars and their fortune telling in reference to the sun. Reflective of the life the sun provides those of the land, students of the Diurnal Sect focus on improving their ability to heal and support their allies.

Fortunate Healing

Beginning at the 2nd level, whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, you may expend an available draw to further empower the heal. The creature regains additional hit points equal to 1d6 + your Wisdom modifier.

Eyes of Azeyma

Also beginning at the 2nd level, you may expend an available draw to assist you in revealing dangers of the area. As an action you may do a quick reading to scan for traps in the area, giving you advantage on perception checks for 1 minute.

Diurnal Benefic

Beginning at the 6th level you are able to empower your healing spells with the power of the sun. When you cast a spell of the 1st-level or higher that restores the hit points of an ally, you may leave a regenerative effect on all affected allies. After the spell is cast, the affected creatures recover 1d6 hit points at the start of their turn for a number of rounds equal to your Wisdom ability modifier. You must then finish a short or long rest to use Diurnal Benefic again.

Lightspeed

Beginning at the 10th level, you may cast a 1st, 2nd or 3rd-level spell you have prepared as a bonus action by spending a number of available draws equal to the level of the spell you wish to cast.

Sun’s Fortune

Beginning at the 14th level, when you use the Fortunate Healing feature, the additional healing becomes 6 + your Wisdom Modifier. Additionally, you may roll 1d6 and apply the appropriate effect as if you had used the Draw action.

Noctournal Sect

Students of the Noctournal Sect have chosen to unravel the mysteries of the night sky and how the moon influences the world and fate. As seekers of knowledge, the Noctournal Sect tries to unravel the unknown, akin to chasing the dark side of the moon. In their efforts, students of this sect have taken to focusing on preventative measures and offensive magics.

Mage of Menphina

Beginning at the 2nd level, you have trained your body alongside your mind, gaining prowess in the martial arts to survive on the battle field. You have proficiency with one handed simple and martial weapons, light and medium armor. You gain 1 extra hit point when you level up.

As a bonus action you may spend one draw to help you predict how your enemy will react to your presence. You do not provoke attacks of opportunity until your next turn.

Noctournal Benefic

Beginning at the 6th level you can empower your spells with the magic of the moon. When you cast a spell of the 1st-level or higher that restores the hit points of an ally, you may leave a shielding effect on all affected creatures. After the spell is cast, your all affected creatures gain temporary hit points equal to #d4 where # is equal to your Wisdom ability modifier. You must then finish a short or long rest to use Noctournal Benefic again.

Malefic Attunement

Beginning at the 10th level, when you make a melee weapon attack, you may cast a spell as a bonus action. You do not have disadvantage on ranged attack roles if a hostile creature is within 5ft. of you.

Lunar Rage

Beginning at the 14th level, you touch a willing creature or yourself and bless them with the power of the Noctournal Sect. Weapon attacks made by the selected creature deal an additional 2d6 force damage for 1 minute. At the start of each of the affected creature’s turns, they roll 1d6 + your Wisdom modifier and gain that many temporary hit points. You must then finish a long rest to use grant Lunar Rage again.

Fortuneteller

Some Astrologians turn away from the study of the cosmos and instead turn their attention to fate and the Deck of Sixty. Such Astrologians are known as Fortunetellers and develop innovative ways to make use of the tarot, even bending fate to their will.

Minor Arcana

Beginning at the 2nd level, you have learned to take advantage of the minor arcana of your tarot deck. When you use the Draw feature, on a die result 1, 3 or 5 you may use the card to make a ranged Spell attack that deals 1d6 + your Wisdom modifier force damage to a creature within 30ft. of you that you can see. On a die result 2, 4 or 6 you may use the card to heal 1d6 + your Wisdom modifier hit points to a creature within 30ft. of you that you can see. The potency of this effect increases to 2d6 at 6th level, 3d6 at 10th level and 4d6 at the 14th level.

Skillful Readings

Beginning at the 6th level, you are able to use your arcana cards to more effectively tell the future. When casting a Divination spell, you may spend a number of available draws equal to the spell’s level in place of expending a spell slot.

Stacked Deck

Beginning at the 10th level, you have learned how to bend the results of your fortune telling. When you use the Draw ability, you may roll 2d6 and select which die is the true result of the card.

Sleeve Draw

Beginning at the 14th level, as an action you may make use of each of your card drawing effects. Roll 6d6 and select 3 results. Two are added to your Spread and one may be used for the Draw or Minor Arcana effect. This expends three uses of the Draw action. You must then finish a short or long rest to use Sleeve Draw again.

Bard

Humming as she traces her fingers over an ancient monument in a long-forgotten ruin, an Elezen in rugged leathers finds knowledge springing into her mind, conjured forth by the magic of her song—knowledge of the people who constructed the monument and the mythic saga it depicts.

A stern Hyur warrior bangs his sword rhythmically against his scale mail, setting the tempo for his war chant and exhorting his companions to bravery and heroism. The magic of his song fortifies and emboldens them.

Laughing as she tunes her cittern, a Lalafell weaves her subtle magic over the assembled nobles, ensuring that her companions’ words will be well received.

Whether scholar, skald, or scoundrel, a bard weaves magic through words and music to inspire allies, demoralize foes, manipulate minds, create illusions, and even heal wounds.

Class Features

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8 per bard level

Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per bard level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: Light armor

Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords

Tools: Three musical instruments of your choice

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 rapier, (b) a longsword, or (c) any simple weapon (a) a diplomat’s pack or (b) an entertainer’s pack (a) a lute or (b) any other musical instrument Leather armor and a dagger

Spellcasting

You have learned to untangle and reshape the fabric of reality in harmony with your wishes and music. Your spells are part of your vast repertoire, magic that you can tune to different situations. See Spells Rules for the general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing for the bard spell list.

Cantrips

You know two cantrips of your choice from the bard spell list. You learn additional bard cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Bard table.

Spell Slots

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

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

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know four 1st-level spells of your choice from the bard spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Bard table shows when you learn more bard spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the table. For instance, when you reach 3rd level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

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

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your bard spells. Your magic comes from the heart and soul you pour into the performance of your music or oration. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a bard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

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

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast any bard spell you know as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a musical instrument (see the Tools section) as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.

Bardic Inspiration

You can inspire others through stirring words or music. To do so, you use a bonus action on your turn to choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you who can hear you. That creature gains one Bardic Inspiration 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 roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Bardic Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration 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 Bardic Inspiration 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.

Jack of All Trades

Starting at 2nd level, you can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn’t already include your proficiency bonus.

Song of Rest

Beginning at 2nd level, you can use soothing music or oration 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.

Bard College

At 3rd level, you delve into the advanced techniques of a bard college of your choice: the College of Lore detailed at the end of the class description or another from the Player’s Handbook or other sources. 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 bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

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.

Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

Font of Inspiration

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

Countercharm

At 6th level, you gain the ability to use musical notes or words of power to disrupt mind-influencing effects. As an action, you can start a performance 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).

Expertise

At 10th level, choose two more of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.

Magical Secrets

By 10th level, you have plundered magical knowledge from a wide spectrum of disciplines. Choose two spells from any classes, including this one. A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Bard table, or a cantrip.

The chosen spells count as bard spells for you and are included in the number in the Spells Known column of the Bard table.

You learn two additional spells from any classes at 14th level and again at 18th level.

Magical Secrets

At 14th level, you have plundered magical knowledge from a wide spectrum of disciplines. Choose two spells from any classes, including this one. A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Bard table, or a cantrip.

The chosen spells count as bard spells for you and are included in the number in the Spells Known column of the Bard table.

You learn two additional spells from any classes at 18th level.

Magical Secrets

At 18th level, you have plundered magical knowledge from a wide spectrum of disciplines. Choose two spells from any classes, including this one. A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Bard table, or a cantrip.

The chosen spells count as bard spells for you and are included in the number in the Spells Known column of the Bard table.

Superior Inspiration

At 20th level, when you roll initiative and have no uses of Bardic Inspiration left, you regain one use.

Bard Specializations:

Bards aren’t just normal storytelling bards. They have their own niches. Some choose to be masters of the pen, some musical instruments, and some theater arts. See below for perhaps your style.

College of the Skald

The skald is a long line of warrior-poets, storytellers, and heroes. They bring the lore of past wars, ancient monsters, and forgotten kings wherever they go. They can compose poetry, and recite ancient epics to inspire their comrades, as well as allow themselves to become a conduit of pure emotion. Their study of ancient rhymes isn’t focused and rigid, but fluid, and ever changing. They focus as much on the emotion that poems inspire as much as the poems themselves.

Proficiencies:

Weapons and Armor:

Skalds are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, light and medium armor, and shields (except tower shields). A Skald can perform bard songs while wearing light or medium armor and even using a shield.

Skalds are innately proficient in two skills of your choice: Performance, History, Insight, Religion, or Acrobatics.

Song of Strength:

At 7th level, a skald can use their Bardic Inspiration to inspire his allies to superhuman feats of strength. All allies within 60 feet and can hear the skald may add half the bard’s level to a Strength check. By expending 1 Bardic Inspiration, the Skald can also grant the effect of a +10 speed bonus to himself and his allies.

Dirge of Doom:

At 12 level, a Skald can use his raging song to create a sense of growing dread in his enemies causing them to become shaken. This only affects enemies that are within 30 feet and the skald continues his raging song. This stacks with other mind effects except another Dirge of Doom. The Skald must roll for an Intimidation check and has advantage on this roll. The Skald can spend 1 Bardic Inspiration to reroll, but must take the result of the second roll.

Song of the Fallen:

At 18th level, a Skald can temporarily revive dead allies to continue fighting, with the same limitations of the Revivify spell. The Skald selects a defeated ally within 60 feet and expends 1 round of Bardic Inspiration to bring that ally back to life. The Skald may also revive multiple allies at the same time or over successive rounds. Doing so, the Skald must expended 1 round of Bardic Inspiration per revived ally per round to maintain this effect. Please note: if an ally or allies are healed to full after this effect, they are deemed as living and don’t die when combat is over.

Master Skald:

At 20th level, a Skald’s Inspire Rage no longer gives allies a penalty to AC, not limits what skills or abilities they can use. Instead of +2 STR, CON and +1 Will Save, allies can use those bonuses towards other scores and abilities. Finally, when making a full attack, affected alies may make an additional attack each round.

College of the Skysinger

Members of the College of the Skysinger are adventurers who travel the world acting not only as entertainers but as agents of remembrance and soothesayers for souls who’ve not yet moved on.

Members of the college are tasked with the mission of traveling the world to record history through poetry and verse, ensuring the harsh truths of history are not swept away. At the same time these bards must help lost souls who’ve suffered the tragedies of the past find peace.

The college of the Skysinger was the dream of a famed archer who inadvertently caused the deaths of his comrades. To cope with his grief he turned to the poetic arts and traveled the world trying to atone for his sins by delivering restless spirits to a peaceful slumber. He hoped to one day return to the place where his friends were lost, and lay their souls to rest.

To honour this legendary bard and archer, members of the College often take up the bow alongside their instruments.

Bonus Proficiencies

Beginning at the 3rd level, you gain proficiency with long bows, the history skill and one other skill of your choice.

Troubadour’s Paean

Beginning at the 3rd level, you learn to protect your allies with your songs. A creature that has a Bardic Inspiration die from you can roll that die to gain temporary hit points equal to the result when an attack or spell targets the creature. While those temporary hit points are protecting the creature, they gain advantage against Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma based saving throws.

Scars of History

Beginning at the 6th level, you gain advantage on checks regarding the history of battles and tragedies.

You are able to to channel your intuitive knowledge of tragedy into song. When you cast a spell, you may expend a Bardic Inspiration die to cause a creature to strike with hesitation. Select a creature within 60ft. of you that can hear you. That creature must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature’s mind is wrought with sorrow causing it to hold back. Until your next turn, when the creature makes a damage roll their damage is reduced by an amount equal to the Bardic Inspiration die + your Charisma ability modifier. The creature becomes immune to this effect for one hour afterwards. If successful, they are unaffected by your performance and become immune to the effect for one hour.

Wanderer’s Ballad

Beginning at the 14th level, when you cast a spell you may expend one Bardic Inspiration die to further inspire your allies. Select an allied creature within 60ft. of you that can hear you. Their critical hit range increases by 1 for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma ability modifier. If the creature is under another effect which increases their crit range prior to the effects of Wanderer’s Ballad, simply add the next lowest number to your crit range. For example, a fighter with a crit range of 19 or 20 affected by this ability has a crit range of 18, 19 or 20.

Songstress

A few in life choose to mark the great moments in history in a powerful song. Images of bravery, strength, honor and valor all accentuated by the beautiful and vivid portrayal laced amongst the powerful melody recounted by the songstress. And yet, for some this is not enough. For she who has heard the alluring and hypnotizing call of Althena’s Song, it becomes difficult not to be entranced. The songstress who wishes to further explore the powerful and magical potential of this song, often focus their studies and training so that they may become dramaturges. With a keen mind and a powerful voice, she guides her party, enhancing their innate capabilities, while keeping their minds free from even the most powerful enchantments. Despite the female-focused name, the archetype is not female only. The male version is known as Songster.

Songstress has two choices of skill proficiencies: Performance, Stealth, Survival, Perception, or Deception.

Limning Verse:

At 3rd level, the songstress can sing a song that causes fiends to glow with an aura of silvery light. Creatures with an evil alignment, outsiders, or deemed hostile within 10 feet of the songstress have a pale glow the surrounds and outlines the subjects. Outlined subjects shed light as candles. The affected beings have disadvantage on stealth checks and cannot benefit from concealment provided by darkness (a 2nd-level or higher spell of darkness functions normally). This light does not have any special effects on undead or dark-dwelling creatures vulnerable to light. The songstress can also change the color of the outline depending on her choice. At 4th level and every four levels thereafter, the range of this ability increase by 10 feet, to a maximum of 60 feet at 20th level.

Dedicated Performance

At 5th level, a songstress must choose a way of performance (sing) as her dedicated performance. At 6th level, the songstress gains a bonus on Performance (sing) checks made as part of a dedicated performance equal to her Bard level. This bonus increases by 1 per maximized Perform skill at 10th level and every four levels thereafter, to a maximum of a +4 bonus towards her performance checks.

Devilbane Refrain:

At 5th level, the songstress learns how to mimic aspects of a mantra or a prayer hymn with her Bardic Inspiration, enhancing her allies’ ability to combat devils, fiends, outsiders, and undead. Allies must be within 30 feet of the songstress and need to hear her sing for this ability to work. Natural and manufactured weapons wielded by allies are treated as if they were silver for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction. At 14th level, allies’ natural and manufactured weapons also gain the benefit of being holy, dealing extra radiant damage.

Shattering Crescendo:

At 15th level, the songstress learns to sing at frequencies capable of shattering magical effects. As an action, a songstress can use 2 Bardic Inspiration to attempt to dispel spells targeting her or her allies. This ability also extends to illusions, necromancy, enchantments, and anything magic. This functions as Dispel Magic, using the bard’s level as her caster level. At 17th level, the songstress would only need to expend 1 Bardic Inspiration.

Black Mage

A Lalafell stands before a horde of kobolds, blood thirsty they dash towards him. With a few skillful waves of his staff, a large fire ball erupts from the gem inlaid at the end of the staff, causing a massive fiery explosion, leaving nothing but ash.

A woman wearing dark robes grins as she waves her wand before a guard refusing her entry. With a few choice words and a spell, the guard happily steps aside, unlocking the passage bowing to her as she passes.

An Elezen laughs at the umbral hue of his magics as he unleashes a fireball empowered by dark magics upon his foes, his demonic servant chuckling at his side watching the dust settle.

A black mage is a powerful ally who wields forbidden magic. This raw energy manifests itself into devastating spells and effects. Their power is only rivaled by their thirst to increase that power.

A Dark Past

In days long past, there existed an powerful clan of mages and their arcane art known as black magic—a potent magic of pure destructive force born forth by a sorceress of unparalleled power. Those who learned to wield this instrument of ruin came to be called black mages, out of both fear and respect for their gift. Yet great power served to corrupt the judgment of mortal man, and so he unknowingly set out upon the path of ruin.

Adventurers who take the black will become agents of devastation, capable of annihilating those who oppose them through little more than the force of their will.

Ties to the Void

In order for a mage to don the black, they must extensively research what they call the void. This is another plane of existence from which Black Mages draw knowledge from in order to unlock power within themselves. Most black mages are able to explore the knowledge gained from the void through tomes and texts now, but some who thirst for new power may attempt to tap into the void directly. Black Mages continue to grow within their craft through continuing their study of the dark arts.

Creating a Black Mage

Black Mages are earnest in their desires and reasons for taking the black. More often than not it is in the pursuit of power or out of sheer curiousity. You must know why you are pursuing this power, or why you are curious about the dark arts. You must also decide where you began to dip your toes into the world of black magic. Did you join a cult of mages who studied the art? Perhaps a proper school which provides the proper materials to explore black mage. Maybe you were taken under the wing of a mentor who has mastered the art.

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Quick Build

You can make a black mage quickly by following these suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. Second, choose the sage background. Third, choose the mage hand, light, and ray of frost cantrips, along with the following 1st-level spells for your spellbook: burning hands, charm person, feather fall, mage armor. magic missile, and sleep.

Class Features

As a Black Mage, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: None
• Weapons: Daggers, Darts, Slings, Quarter Staffs, Maces, Light Crossbows
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Deception, History, Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, Religion.

Equipment

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

• (a) a dagger
• a spell casting focus (a cane, staff, wand or similar object)
• (a) an explorer’s pack or (b) a scholar’s pack
• a spellbook

Spell Casting

As a student of Arcane Magic, you have a Spellbook containing Spells that show the first glimmerings of your true power.

Cantrips

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

Spellbook

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

Your Spellbook

The spells that You add to your spellbook as You gain levels reflect the arcane research You conduct on your own, as well as intellectual breakthroughs You have had about the nature of the multiverse. You might find other spells during your adventures. You could discover a spell recorded on a scroll in an evil wizard’s chest, for example, or in a dusty tome in an ancient library.

Copying a Spell into the Book. When You find a wizard spell of 1st level or higher, You can add it to your spellbook if it is of a level for which You have spell slots and if You can spare the time to decipher and copy it. Copying a spell into your spellbook involves reproducing the basic form of the spell, then deciphering the unique system of notation used by the mage who wrote it. You must practice the spell until You understand the sounds or gestures required, then transcribe it into your spellbook using your own notation.

For each level of the spell, the process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp. The cost represents material components You expend as You experiment with the spell to master it, as well as the fine inks You need to record it. Once You have spent this time and money, You can prepare the spell just like your other spells.

Replacing the Book. You can copy a spell from your own spellbook into another book-for example, if You want to make a backup copy of your spellbook. This is just like copying a new spell into your spellbook, but faster and easier, since You understand your own notation and already know how to cast the spell. You need spend only 1 hour and 10 gp for each level of the copied spell. If You lose your spellbook, You can use the same procedure to transcribe the spells that You have prepared into a new spellbook. Filling out the remainder of your spellbook requires You to find new spells to do so, as normal. For this reason, many mages keep backup spellbooks in a safe place.

The Book’s Appearance. Your spellbook is a unique compilation of spells, with its own decorative f10urishes and margin notes. It might be a plain, functionalleather volume that You received as a gift from your master, a finely bound gilt-edged tome You found in an ancient library, or even a loose collection of notes scrounged together.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Black Mage table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest. You prepare the list of black mage spells that are available for you to cast.

To do so, choose a number of black mage spells from your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your black mage level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you’re a 3rd-level black mage, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an lntelligence of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination, chosen from your spellbook. If you prepare the 1st-level spell magic missile, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot.

Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells. You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of black mage 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 Black Mage 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 Black Mage spell you cast and when making an Attack roll with one.

Ritual Casting

You can cast a Black Mage 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 a rod, cane, wand or other similar equipment as a Spellcasting focus for your Black Mage Spells.

Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher

Each time you gain a Black Mage level, you can add two Black Mage 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 Black Mage table. On your Adventures, you might find other Spells that you can add to your Spellbook (see “Your Spellbook”).

Manafont

At 1st level, you have unlocked the secrets of storing magical energy in your body and utilizing it to assist your spell casting.

Mana points

You have one Mana point, and you gain more as you reach higher levels, as shown in the Mana Points column of the Black Mage table. You can never have more mana points than shown on the table for your level. You regain all spent mana points when you finish a long rest.

Leylines

When you cast a spell, the residual mana from your spell temporarily creates a leyline, which can be manipulated with your manafont.

If you cast a spell last turn and have not moved or taken any other actions during your turn, you may spend a number of mana points equal to that spell’s level to cast an evocation spell equal to or lower than that level without expending a spell slot. Your turn immediately ends after casting the spell. You can cast spells in this way no higher in level than 5th.

Magical Discipline

At 2nd level, you choose the discipline you belong to as a Black Mage. Mhachi, Enchanter, or Void Mage, all detailed at the end of the class description. Your archetype choice grants you features at the 2nd, 6th, 10th and 14th level.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Surecaster

Beginning at the 18th level, as a bonus action, you may expend 5 mana points to achieve an impregnable state of mind. You pass all concentration checks automatically for the next 10 minutes.

Resonating Aether

Beginning at the 20th level, you regain half your missing mana points when you roll initiative.

Bringers of the end

Unabated use of black magic lead to the downfall of the society in which black mages find their roots alongside the white mage’s overuse of white magic. Black Mages wield incredibly destructive powers which set their world on a path to destruction once before, and careless use of this power could do so again. The Mhachi specializes in powerful, destructive magic, an Enchanter uses charms and poison to cripple their foes, and a Void Mage has focused their studies on manipulating the void to gain greater magical strength.

Mhachi

The Machi are mages who specialize in the destructive arts. The Mhachi are the ones who created the art of Black Magic. Through deep introspection, they’ve learned to use their manafont to increase their destructive power.

Expanded Spell List

Your specialization as a Mhachi lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a blackmage spell. The following spells are added to the blackmage spell list for you.

Expanded Spell List

Unstable Aether

Beginning at the 2nd level, when you cast a spell, you may spend one mana point to reroll any damage die which resulted in a 1 or 2. You must use the resulting rolls.

Polygot

Beginning at the 6th level, your magical studies have warped your mind and understanding of the world. You can read all writing.

Aetherial Manipulation

Beginning at the 10th level, you are able to more effectively manipulate your Leylines. Your movement is no longer restricted when making use of your Leylines feature. Casting a spell with the effect of Leylines still immediately ends your turn.

Additionally, if you expended a spell slot during your last turn, as a bonus action, you may spend one mana point to magically teleport back to the location you were standing in when you cast the spell if the space is unoccupied.

Devestating Force

Beginning at the 14th level, when you roll damage for a spell and roll the highest number possible on any of the dice, choose one of those dice, roll it again and add that roll to the damage. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Enchanter

While many Black Mages focus their studies on the destructive arts, the Enchanter has shifted their study to empower their allies and weaken their allies through the use of powerful magics.

Expanded Spell List

Your specialization as an Enchanter lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a blackmage spell. The following spells are added to the blackmage spell list for you.

Expanded Spell List

Point of Influence

Beginning at the 2nd level, you are able to use your Leylines feature for both enchantment and evocation spells.

Silvered Tongue

Beginning at the 6th level, your focus on enchantment magic has improved your speech. You gain proficiency in one of the following skills: deception, intimidation, persuasion. If you are already proficient in that skill, you gain expertise with it. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses the chosen skill. Additionally, you may use Intelligence as your ability score for the selected skill.

Unshaken Will

Beginning at the 10th level, when you must make a wisdom saving throw, you may spend 1 mana point to gain advantage on the saving throw.

Deep Influence

Beginning at the 14th level, when you cast an enchantment spell, you may spend 1 mana point to cause the target to have disadvantage on their saving throw.

Void Mage

A Void mage is a Black Mage who has focused their research on harnessing the power of The Void and the dark creatures who live within it. This has granted the Black Mage proficiency over dark magic which they wield with authority.

Expanded Spell List

Your specialization as a Void Mage lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a blackmage spell. The following spells are added to the blackmage spell list for you.

Expanded Spell List

Void Casting

Beginning at 2nd level, when you cast a spell, you may spend one mana point to change the damage type of the spell to necrotic. When you change the damage type of your spell in this way it does additional damage equal to your Intelligence ability modifier. This bonus applies to your spell once.

Void Sense

Beginning at 6th level, you have learned to borrow power from the void to improve your senses and causing your eyes to glow with dim red light. You may spend 1 mana point to gain darkvision out to 60ft. for one hour. If you already have darkvision, the range is increased by 60ft. Additionally, you gain advantage on perception checks that use your eyes while under this effect.

Ebony Offense

At 11th level, necrotic damage you deal is unaffected by resistances. As a bonus action, you may spend a mana point to overcome necrotic damage immunity for your next spell.

Bloody Veil

Beginning at the 14th level, when you kill a creature with a spell of first level or higher with necrotic damage, you gain temporary hit points equal to the spell’s level multiplied by your Intelligence ability modifier.

Magus

Magus are known as the Dreaded Armies the World Over, the Enders of Kingdoms, the Avatars of Ragnarök, the Disciples of Catastrophe. Whatever names they are given to these mages, they are the ultimately bringers of great destruction and mayhem, and many worlds bear the scars of their passing. While any black mage is capable of destructive uses of magic, the magus takes it well past the limit that defines reason. While these dangerous souls are often villains of Lowest Order and savages against all that is civilized, many are simply brutal pragmatics that see the ability to cause large scale destruction as a useful tool for advancement in martial societies.

Big Damage

At 1st, 5th, 9th, 13, and 17th level, the magus increases the destructive scale for a number of his spells. He selects one of the following area-types each time he gains this class ability. Any time he casts a damaging area-effect spell, he gains the listed benefit. He may take the same area-type multiple times, its effects stack.

Burst: Increase radius by 5 feet.

Cone: Increase cone-radius by 10 feet.

Cylinder: Increase radius by 5 ft and height by 10 ft.

Line: Increase the lines length by 20 feet or its width by 5 ft.

Wall: Increase length by 10 ft. and height by 5 ft.

Damage Control

At 3rd level, when the Magus invokes Elemental Shield to defend against a radius spell her has casted, he doubles its efficiency. At 10 levels, the magus’s elemental shield triples the amount, and at 17th level, it quadruples.

Destructive Mastery

At 4th, 8th, 12th, and 16th levels, Magus gain the Elemental Adept feat. The Magus cannot choose the same elemental damage type twice, instead must select a new one.

Mass Destruction: At 5th level, the Magus knows the Widen Spell metamagic feature. If the Magus already chose this feat, then they may select another metamagic option. At 10th level, the usage of the Widen Spell increases by 1. At 15th level, increases the radius of area-effect spells by +5. At 20th level, the Magus receives +1 usage and another +5 radius.

Living Catastrophe:

At 20th level, the magus becomes a mortal instrument of mayhem and destruction, and as long as he exists, the world will never be safe. The magus increases the Widen Spell metamagic feat by +2 usage and +15 radius.

Blue Mage

After careful preparation and intensive study, a man wearing blue robes makes careful notes of a dangerous beast just outside of the reach of an arrow. When their study is complete they make the call and their allies strike out against the beast, listening to the insights the researcher had found.

A woman wearing tough leather armour mixed with long following lengths of blue fabric skillfully strikes out with the scimitar. With grace and power, the woman unleashes one of the many monstrous souls she’s absorbed, shrouding their foe in flames.

The Blue Mage is a curious soul who has entwined their life with that of the monsters and beasts who roam the world. Whether writing a chronicle of all the monsters in the world, or stealing their powers to defend their homes from the beasts, Blue Mages make for clever, vicious and dependable allies who can find a place of comfort anywhere on the battle field.

Ode to Monsters

The Blue Mage’s trademark ability is their uncanny mastery over the souls of monsters. Lore Keepers craft their magic to mimic the skills of monsters, while Fell Guards and Masked Carnevallians go a step forward and absorb the life force of monsters and use it to fuel their magic. Regardless of approach, Blue Mages are renowned for fighting like monsters, unsettling their enemies and at times even their allies.

Gift of the Whalaqee

Blue Magic finds its roots in the New World, a sacred form of magic practiced by the Whalaqee tribe. They consider the powers of monsters to be that of nature and absorb their powers. They’ve also learned to store monster magic in totems to pass power on to other Blue Mages easily.

Creating a Blue Mage

When creating a Blue Mage one must consider how you came to know of Blue Magic. Did you meet a strange wanderer who assisted you in your studies? Perhaps you encountered a legendary beast when at a young age, affecting you in unforeseen ways. You must also consider the role that you will serve in the world in relation to monsters. Are your pursuits scholarly or are they of a more protective nature? Perhaps you seek out rare monsters to better yourself as a warrior.

Quick Build

You can make a Blue Mage quickly by following these suggestions. First make Intelligence your highest ability score, following with Dexterity or Constitution. Second take the Sage background. Third choose the cantrips Fire Bolt and Prestidigitation. Fourth add two monster links to your research journal, one combining Burning Hands and Grease, the other combining Sleep and Witch Bolt.

Class Features

As a Blue Mage, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light Armour
• Weapons: Simple Weapons, Longswords, Scimitars, Shortswords
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Dex, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Animal Handling, Arcana, History, Intimidation, Nature, Perception, Survival

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Equipment

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

• a dagger
• (a) a longsword or (b) scimitar
• a cane spell casting focus
• a set of clothes
• a components pouch
• leather armour
• (a) an explorer’s pack or (b) a scholar’s pack
• a research journal

Azure Lore

Your research and experience with monsters and magic has granted you spellcasting abilities. See chapter 10 of the PHB for the general rules of spellcasting and the end of this document for the Blue Mage spell list.

Cantrips

You know two cantrips of your choice from the blue mage spell list. You learn additional blue mage cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Blue Mage table.

Spell Slots

The Blue Mage table shows how many spell slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your blue mage spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest.

For example, when you are 5th level, you have two 3rd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell thunderwave, you must pend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 3rd-level spell.

Monster Links

As a Blue Mage, you develop your spellcasting based on the abilities of monsters. A Monster Link is research linking the traits and abilities of creatures to pairs of spells to emulate their magical properties.

Each monster link you develop grants you two spells while you are you accessing them. When you gain a Blue Mage level, you take the opportunity to further develop your research and may create a new monster link, adding another pairing of spells from the blue mage spell list to your research journal as a pair. You may have any number of monster links in your research journal but may only access a number of monster links per the Monster Link Capacity column of the Blue Mage table, knowing the spells associated with the links you are currently accessing.

At the end of a long rest of which you spent two hours focused on studying, you may exchange one of your monster links you are accessing for another.

Research Journal

At first level, you have a research journal with two monster links created by you.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

The number of spells you are able to cast is dependent on the number of Monster Links you are currently accessing. While accessing a monster link, you gain access to both spells that make up the monster link. At first level you are able to access one of your monster links, your ability to access more monster links at once growing as you gain levels in Blue Mage.

Your Research Journal

The monster links you’ve discovered are kept in your research journal. As you further your research alone, you may encounter the works of other blue mages or peers who share their findings.

Copying a Monster Link into the Book. When you find the research notes of a peer, or a tome with well detailed monster links, you can copy the pair of spells into your research journal if you have spell slots of the appropriate level and the spare time to decipher and copy the notation. Copying a spell involved reproducing the basic form of the spells, then understanding the unique style of the blue mage who wrote it. For each level of the spells, the process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp. The cost represents the material components you expend as you experiment with the spell to master it, as well as the fine inks you need to record it. Once you have spent this time and money, you can access the monster link just like your own monster links.

For each level of the spell, the process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp. The cost represents material components You expend as You experiment with the spell to master it, as well as the fine inks You need to record it. Once You have spent this time and money, You can prepare the spell just like your other spells.

Replacing the Book. You can copy a monster link from your own research journal into another book-for example, if you want to make a backup copy of your research. This is just like copying a new monster link into your journal, but fast and easier, since you understand you own notation and already know how to cast the spells. You need spend only 1 hour and 10gp for each level of the copied spells in order to copy a monster link you are currently accessing. Filling out the remainder of your research journal requires you to find new monster links to do so, as normal. For this reason, many blue mages keep back up copies of their research in a safe place.

Book’s Appearance. Your research journal may take any style of tome you wish. A Lore Keeper like has a well kept tome used for taking notes in the field, while the Fell Guard may carry a durable grimoire to record their experiences.

Spellcasting Ability

Your spell casting ability for your blue mage spells changes depending on which blue mage calling you select. As a Lore Keeper, Intelligence is your spell casting ability, as a Fell Guard Wisdom is your spell casting ability and as a Carnevallian your spell casting ability is Charisma. You use the associated ability whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use the ability modifier for the associated ability when setting the saving throw DC for a blue mage spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a cane adorned with some kind of arcane focus at its handle as your spell casting focus.

Blue Mage Calling

At 1st level, you choose the type of Blue Mage you’ll become: the Lore Keeper, Fell Guard or Masked Carnevallian. Both are detailed in the next section of the class description. Your choice grants you features at the 3rd, 6th, 10th and 14th level.

Libra

Also at 1st level, as an expert on monsters and beasts, you are able to discern certain traits about monsters you encounter. If you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside combat, you can learn certain information about its capabilities compared to your own. The DM tells you if the creature is your equal, superior, or inferior in regard to two of the following characteristics of your choice:

• Strength Score
• Dexteriy Score
• Constitution Score
• Armor Class
• Current hit points
• Total class levels (if any)

Additionally, you may spend 1 minute after combat studying a creature’s corpse to ascertain the same information.

Monster Mimicries

As your research into monsters continues, you learn how to use your magics to mimic their abilities.

At 2nd level, you gain two Monster Mimicries. Your Monster Mimicry options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain blue mage levels, you gain additional mimicries of your choice as shown in the Monster Mimicries Developed column of the Blue Mage table.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the mimicries you have developed and retool your knowledge, replacing it with another mimicry you could learn at that level.

Elite Monster Link

At 11th level, you have made a major breakthrough in emulating creatures of legend. You theorize an Elite Monster link that you commit to memory. Choose one 6th-level spell from the blue mage spell list as this Elite Monster link.

You can cast your elite monster link spell once without expending a spell slot. You must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

At higher levels, you gain more blue mage spells of your choice that can be cast in this way: one 7th-level spell at the 13th level, one 8th-level spell at the 15th level, and one 9th level spell at the 17th level. You regain all uses of your Elite Monster Links when you finish a long rest.

Deep Azure

At 20th level, you may exchange your monster links when you complete a short rest. Additionally, you can spend 1 minute of highly intensive meditation, regaining all of your expended expended spell slots from your Azure Lore feature. You must then finish a long rest to use Deep Azure again.

The Azure Path

As you come to better understand the monsters of the world, you eventually must choose what path you will walk alongside your research. To treat the creatures of the world as subjects for research and chronicle their existence as a Lore Keeper, or to realize the danger of these creatures and stand against them as a Fell Guard. Some blue mages choose to bring the monstrous magics to the masses, combining the marvels of monsters with showmanship as Masked Carnevallians.

Lore Keeper

You have taken on the duty of becoming a Lore Keeper, researchers who seek out and chronicle the monsters of the world to the finest details possible. In doing so you’ve learned to create magical bonds which allow you to borrow their power or emulate their magical effects. Be it the fiery breath of a drake or the climbing ability of a spider, you know how to cast spells which pay homage to the beasts you’ve dedicated yourself to.

Azure Knowledge

Beginning at 1st level, you may select an additional two cantrips from the blue mage spell list and add them to your cantrips known list. These do not count against the Cantrips Known in the blue mage class table.

Focused Assessment

Starting at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Investigation skill. If you already have proficiency in the Investigation, you gain expertise in it, doubling your proficiency bonus.

Additionally, you may use Libra as an action on a creature. You also have gained an eye for spotting weaknesses and strengths, allowing you to learn additional types of information:

• Damage resistances
• Damage vulnerbilities
• Damage immunities.

Quick Assessment

Beginning at the 6th level, as a bonus action you are able to use Libra during combat on a creature that is within 30ft. of you.

Extracurricular Studies

Beginning at the 10th level, you may learn two spells of your choice from any class. A spell you choose must be of 5th level or lower, or a cantrip. The chosen spells count as blue mage spells for you.

Ace Tutor

Beginning at the 14th level, you are able to read the subtle movements of monsters and beasts from afar. As an action you can offer advice on how to approach a beast or monster within 30ft of you, that you have used Libra on.

Choose an ally within 60ft. of you, until your next turn they have advantage on attack rolls against that creature.

Fell Guard

Fell Guard Blue Mages are adventurers who travel the world battling monsters and beasts, bathing in their essence to absorb their power and use it to further defend the world from those same beasts. The exposure to this monstrous power, sometimes referred to as fell energy, comes at a risk. Fell Guard must balance the number of monsters whose energy they tap into or else they’ll lose themselves to the power. Walking the line between monster and man, these magical warriors take major risks to protect the world.

Azure Guard

Beginning at 1st level, you may use one handed melee weapons a spell casting focus for your blue mage spells.

Additionally, you gain proficiency with medium armour and martial weapons. When you level up you gain an additional two hit points.

Monstrous Vanguard

Beginning at 3rd level, you choose a fighting style focus to assist you in the type of monster you prefer to hunt.

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

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

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

Survival Tactics

Beginning at the 6th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

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

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

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

Azure Corruption

Beginning at the 10th level, you’ve learned to influence your body using monstrous magics. When you create a monster link, you may substitute one of your spells learned with one of the following damage resistances: Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison, or Thunder. You may only gain two resistances from your monster links at one time, and may only include one resistance within a single monster link.

Absorb Ability

Beginning at the 14th level, you have learned to drain the natural abilities of your prey. As an action, a you draw energy out of a creature you touch. The creature must make a charisma saving throw against your spell save DC or receive a -2 reduction to an ability score of your choice on a failed save. On a success, the creature becomes immune to this effect for 1 minute. You gain a +2 bonus in the reduced ability score. This change in ability score lasts 10 minutes and may only be used once a day. Failed attempts do not expend the use of this ability.

You must then finish a long rest to use Absorb Ability again

Masked Carnevallian

The powerful and outlandish magics of the Blue Mage provide their practitioners with a large variety of magic few have seen before. As such, some Blue Mages mix their monstrous magic with showmanship, becoming a Masked Carnevallian.

Monster Carnival

Beginning at 1st level, you can inspire others through performing with monstrous magics. To do so, you use a Bonus Action on Your Turn to choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you who can see and hear you. That creature gains one Carnevallian Inspiration 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 roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls The D20 before deciding to use the Carnevallian Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Carnevallian Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Carnevallian Inspiration 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 Carnevallian Inspiration 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.

Dramatic Recovery

Beginning at 3rd level, when you are hit by a melee attack, you may use your reaction and spend one Carnevallian Inspiration die to move 5ft. backwards away from the attacker and roll the Carnevallian Inspiration die, reducing the damage you take by the result.

Entertainer’s Intuition

Beginning at 6th level, when making a Charisma related skill check on a creature you have used the Libra feature on, you have adavantage on the check.

Traveling Troupe

Beginning at 10th level, a creature who has one of your Carnevallian Inspiration die may spend it when they take damage. The damage taken is reduced by the die’s result.

Monstrous Confidence

Beginning at 14th level, creatures who use your Carnevallian Inspiration die add your Charisma modifier to the die result.

Monster Mimicries

If a monster mimicry has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn the mimicry at the same time you meet its prerequisites.

Adamantoise Shell

You can cast Mage Armor on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Ahriman’s Gaze

Prerequisite: 3rd level

You can cast Hold Person once using a blue mage spell slot.

Bad Breath

You develop a breath weapon you may use as your action. Your breath weapon is a 15ft. cone. Any creature in range must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. Your breath weapon deals poison damage. A creature takes 2d6 damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 16th level. Each time the damage of your breath weapon increases, the range also increases by 5ft.

Additionally, a creature who fails their saving throw becomes poisoned or blinded for 1 minute. You choose the additional effect when you decide to take this action.

You must finish a long rest to use Bad Breath again.

Blood Siphon

Prerequisite: 5th level

You can cast Vampiric Touch using a blue mage spell slot.

Behemoth’s Destruction

Prerequisite: 9th level

You can cast Destructive Wave once using a blue mage spell slot.

Bomb Detonation

Prerequisite: 5th level

You can cast Fireball at will centered on yourself. You automatically take half the damage of the spell.

Cactuar Needles

When you are attacked by a melee weapon attack, as a reaction you may release a flurry of aetherial needles from your body in a 5ft. radius around you. All creatures in range must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Spell Save DC, taking 1d10 damage on a failure and half as much on a success. Creatures who fail this saving throw become poisoned for one minute.

Crab Grab

When you use your Attack action to grapple a creature of your size or smaller, you gain advantage on your Strength (athletics) check.

Chocobo’s Dash

You can cast Expeditious Retreat at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Choco Cure

You can cast Cure wounds using a blue mage spell slot.

Coblyn’s Shatter

Prerequisite: 3rd level

You can cast Shatter at will centered on yourself. You do not take damage from the spell.

Couerl Blaster

Prerequisite: 5th level

You can cast Lightning Bolt using a blue mage spell slot.

Drake Breath

Prerequisite: 3rd level

You can cast Aganazzar’s Scorcher using a blue mage spell slot.

Flan’s Body

You can cast Absorb Elements at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

You must finish a long rest to use Flan’s Body again.

Funguar’s Nature

Prerequisite: 9th level

You can cast Speak with Plants at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Gremlin Tongue

You can cast Viscious Mockery. You gain proficiency in the Deception skill.

Goblin Operations

You gain proficiency in the Sleight of Hand and Stealth skills.

Goobbue Sneeze

Prerequisite: 5th level

You can cast Stinking Cloud using a blue mage spell slot.

Mandragora Shriek

Prerequisite: 9th level

You can cast Confusion using a blue mage spell slot.

Mantis Claws

Prerequisite: 5th level

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

Mindflayer’s Blast

Prerequisite: 9th level

As an action, you release a blast of psychic energy from your mouth. All creatures in a 15ft. cone make an Intelligence saving throw against your Spell Save DC. On a failure, they become stunned for 1 minute. They may repeat the save as an action on their turn.

You must finish a long rest to use Mindflayer’s Blast again.

Mimic’s Nature

You can cast Disguise Self at will, without expending a spell slot of material components.

Pom Cure

You can cast Healing Word using a blue mage spell slot.

Ochu Vines

You can cast Entangle using a blue mage spell slot.

Opo-opo Athletics

You gain proficiency in the Athletics and Acrobatics skills.

Sahagin’s Curse

Prerequisite: 7th level

You can cast polymorph using a blue mage spell slot. You may only select Frog or Giant Frog as the new form. You must finish a long rest to use Sahagin’s Curse again.

Succubus Charm

Prerequisite: 9th level

You can cast Charm Person at will, without spending a spell slot or material components. A creature that resists this effect becomes immune to this spell cast by you for 1 hour.

Frog’s Legs

Prerequisite: 9th level

You can cast jump on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Tonberry’s Grudge

When you attack a creature who is stunned or paralyzed with a melee weapon, you deal bonus damage equal to the the average damage of the weapon’s damage die.

Undead Touch

You can cast inflict wounds using a blue mage spell slot.

Worm Sense

Prerequisite: 15th level

You gain 30ft. of Tremorsense. You can detect and pinpoint the origin of vibrations within a 30ft. radius, provided that you and the source of the vibrations are in contact with the same ground or substance. Tremorsense can’t be used to detect flying or incorporeal creatures.

Zu’s Rage

Prerequisites: 9th level

As an action, you leap 20ft. from your current location at blinding speed, delivering a leaping strike with a melee weapon. Once you land, you may make one melee weapon attack against a creature in range. This attack does bonus damage equal to your spell casting ability modifier.

Corsair

Out on the open waters, a light fog rolls into the port. A ship bearing no flags comes into port, workers running back and forth on the ship. The quartermaster taking the wheel, the captain standing tall and proud. A loud shot can be heard followed by some whistling, the once grand-standing merchant ship is now pummeled by cannonballs. Fire rains from the sky over the military encampment. A unified roar fills the air and breaking through the merchant ship is a pirate ship. A soldier looks through their spyglass to see a man. Brown hair, a black eye patch, and three pistols. Shots can be heard and swords clash down at the port. Atop the pirate ship, a single flag waves. Adorned with black and a white skull.

Song has been Sung

The call of the sea has reached your ears. The promise of fortune and adventure has raised those who answer the song. Hexguns are masters of firearms, Merchants are masters of persuasion and money, while a long forgotten group has resurfaced: Aqua-Bearers, masters of the elements. Goes to show anyone can be a pirate.

Creating a Corsair

When creating a Corsair, how did you start? Did you blindly sign up, are your the child of a captain, or were you born into being a Corsair? You should also consider what piracy means to you. Some consider it to be freedom and fighting injustice, while for others it’s freedom to do whatever you want.

Quick Build

You can make a Corsair quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Dexterity your highest ability score, following with Constitution or Charisma. Second take the Sailor background.

Class Features

As a Corsair, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light Armor
• Weapons: Cutlass, Rapiers, Scimitars, Short Swords, Simple Weapons, Whips.
• Tools: Game set: Dice set or Playing Card set. Navigator’s Tools. Vehicles (Water).

• Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, History, Perception, Sleight of Hand, Stealth, or Survival.

Equipment

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

• a) Cutlass & Pistol or b) choose a simple weapon & Shield
• a) flask or b) spyglass
• a set of clothes
• Light armour
• (a) an explorer’s pack or (b) a dungeoneer’s pack

Schooner

At 2nd level, Corsairs are expected to be in charge of their own ships. You have a ship, decked out with cannons on deck, hammocks, crates, barrels, etc.

Code of Conduct

Upon choosing this job, the player must agree to the code. The GM has the freedom to make these codes, but generally, the code is a set of rules/guidelines that pirates must embody in behavior, intelligence, and be proper.

Yes, the GM has the authority to make their own code of conduct, but he’s a few examples of what Corsairs are like:

Befriend others wisely Respect your fellow pirates. Knowingly targeting and sinking other pirate ships is strictly forbidden. Killing a surrendered enemy is not allowed Every crew member has an equal share in any treasure found. Trading products fair and square means that the seller can do whatever they like with the product, this includes reselling the product to others for profit. etc…

Brig

At 5th level, Corsairs have knowledge on how to upgrade their ships. Turning the ship from a Schooner to a Flagship. More cannons, reinforced hull, stronger mast, choice of either a battering ram or mounted mortars.

Animal Ally

At 5th level, the Corsair gains an animal ally. This ally has a max CR 0.

Flagship

At 10th level, the ship can be upgraded again with a choice of either an upgraded battering ram, upgraded mortars, or upgraded below decks with customized rooms and more storage.

Frigate

At 15th level, the ship can be upgraded again with a choice of upgraded below decks or front/back cannons. At 20th level, the final tier of the ship to become a Man-O-War. Upgraded everything with a final choice of two from the following: Triple cannons, Four mounted mortars, Hull made of the strongest wood and metal in the world, More crewmate quarters (this is for the extra deckhands needed to sail the ship), front flame-thrower (basic), or mounted harpoons.

Aye, Captain!

At 15th level, you are recongized as a captain. Whether, you be a pirate or a merchant, you are the captain of the ship. Rule with a fair iron fist, and stay strong in the face of danger. Trust your crew, and in return, your crew will respect you.

Man-O-War

At 20th level, the final tier of the ship to become a Man-O-War. Upgraded everything with a final choice of two from the following: Triple cannons, Four mounted mortars, Hull made of the strongest wood and metal in the world, More crewmate quarters (this is for the extra deckhands needed to sail the ship), front flame-thrower (basic), or mounted harpoons.

Piece of 8

At 20th level, you are a captain, but your efforts have been noticed and seen by many others along your journey. Stories have filled the lungs and wet the lips of every bard in every town. Parents tell children the courageous acts you and your allies have done, along with the obstacles you’ve had to overcome as a captain. Congratulations captain, you are now a Lord of the Sea.

Corsair’s Life

Below are three specializations the Corsair can take: Hexagun, Aqua-Bearer, and Merchant. Choose one at level 2.

Hexagun

The Hexagun is a master of any firearms; both large and small. From pistols to cannons, the Hexagun is as if touched by both Apollo and Artemis. As a Hexagun, you are equipped with a Hexagun. A gun with six barrels, fires as a shotgun, but a 35 ft. range cone. As a standard action, you can fire. You must take a standard action to reload.

Forged

When you choose this subclass, you have knowledge in how to make your own firearms. Crafting materials and forge are needed.

Black Powder

At 5th level, Hexaguns can add black powder to their firearms that sets their ammunition on fire. Black powder can also be added to cannons for explosive ammunition.

Port Side

At 10th level, Hexaguns can reload their on-person firearms as a move action. The time it takes for them to reload cannons is lessened from a full-round action to a standard action. At level 15, cannons can now be reloaded as a move action.

Fire All

At 17th level, Hexaguns are true masters of firearms. They have able to dual-wield pistols. Reloading is still a move action. They are able to reload two cannons at once.

Aqua-Bearer

These Corsairs are known as Sea Witches. Sea Witches know a lot about the folklore, gods, and monsters of the sea. From curses, blessings, to lore. These Aqua-Bearers are no joke. Both Men and Women can be Aqua-Bearers.

Touch of Destiny

At 2nd level, Aqua-Bearers have a pouch of bones that they can shake and read the future. Land-dwellers may see this as an immorale practice and fake, but other Corsairs know to not mess with these readings. The pouch of bones is considered a “Gaming” set.

Spellcasting

The Aqua-Bearer’s gains spells. Can be found in the “Spells Chapter”

Expanded Spell List

Character Advancement

Aquatic Wild Shape

Starting at 6th level, the Aqua-Bearer can shapeshift into an aquatic animal. In order to turn into an aquatic beast, you must have seen and interacted with the aquatic animal. You may wild shape twice and must complete a short rest to regain one use or a long rest to gain two.

Beast Shapes

At 6th level, the Max CR is ½. You can stay in this beast form for number of hours equal to half your Corsair level (rounded down minimum of 1). 3 levels after 6, your wild shape gains a CR level (9th level, Max CR 1, 12th level Max CR 2, at 15th level Max CR 3, at 18th level, you can only pick Giant Crocodile or Giant Shark as your last wild shape beast) . You may freely revert back to your normal self whenever as a free action, or wait for the time to run out. You automatically revert back to your normal self if your HP is 0, you are unconscious, or die. Here are some rules:

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

All Aboard

At 14th level, you have two uses to teleport the entire ship and crew to a location that you have been to already. This teleportation spell works as Teleportation Circle, but you only have two uses. These uses can be restored with a short rest for one and a long rest for both.

True Believer

At 20th level, you have proven to be a powerful Aqua-Bearer. Other Aqua-Bearers may recongize you and the novice may ask for your guidance, to be their mentor. Most Aqua-Bearer’s when they reach this level and are in their 40s onward, will find a harbor city to settle down and teach others who have the same gift as you. The Aqua-Bearer will protect the harbor city fiercely. Below, you will find special abilities. Like other strong Aqua-Bearers, you can only choose two and cannot be replaced. These abilities can be used a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (rounded down) and must take 2-round actions to concentrate on using these abilities. Please note that opponents can roll to successfully escape these powers.

The Kraken: You’ve proven to yourself that you love and have a fascination with aquatic animals. Nobody will wonder or question why you’re talking to a starfish. In your anger or out of protection, this ability spells out doom for those at sea. You may send a kraken or a leviathan made entirely out of water to crush your opponents. 4d10 Bludgeoning damage. Opponents within 120 ft. of the Aqua-Bearer.

Calypso: This ability brands you as the goddesses follower. A single lightning bolt strikes the water, creating a vortex. Any unlucky ships at sea will be dragged, unless they roll a natural 20 on a d20 to escape. If the opponents are on land, lightning will strike the ground in the form of a hand, as if Calypso herself shows her wrath. Opponents must be within 120 ft. of the Aqua-Bearer. The vortex is a 45 ft. radius and 4d10 bludgeoning damage. Opponents on land will receive 4d10 lightning damage.

Fire All: You are proven to be a true pirate, 23 cannonballs made entirely of water will be launched at your opponents. 120 ft. line in a 45 ft. width. Deals 4d10 bludgeoning damage. These cannonballs can also be fired as mortar in a 50 ft. radius, raining fiery cannonballs on ships and large groups on land.

Curses and Curses: You are true to your witch blood. You may choose two-three items to place a curse on. These items can be on your person, another player’s items, the ship, or use all three to place a curse on the town. The curse can be whatever of your choosing (GM has to approve and can make adjustments), these curses can be destroyed either by killing you or performing specific rituals.

Storm Chaser: You’re more in love with the weather than the sea. In a 60 ft. line, the Aqua-Bearer sends out three columns of lightning. Deals 3d10 lightning damage. Leaves a scorch mark on the ground. The lines are 10 ft. wide.

Art of Life: You’ve become a minor healer in your town or started when you’ve been on your adventure. You have a natural gift for healing through potions that you’ve brewed, healing spells, and you know the druidcraft spell, but only the part about spawning plants. The plants that spawn are either coastal plants or kelp if you are in the open sea.

Fairy the Souls: You’ve gone close to death on your adventures, that or you’ve picked up a fascination for the dead. You’ve studied it so much that you can be friends with ghosts, give funeral rites to help the people in your harbor town or on the ship a safe passage into the afterlife. Some of these ghosts may offer to protect you, when you activate this part of your ability, two ghosts will materialize and can attack opponents. They have the same weaknesses as ghosts and the same stats as ghosts.

Merchant

An interesting way of living. Buying and/or making products to sell for more products. You know money, the markets, and well… your world revolves around money. Either out of greed or you were taught by a mentor, you’re a traveling merchant. You tend to like trading out on the open sea, it’s more private that way.

Wealth

Merchants start with an extra 1000 Gil.

Barter

When you pick this specialization at level 2, you have advantage on persuasion. If you don’t already have these skills, choose one of Deception or Persuasion to be proficient in.

Stolen Goods

Also at level 2, whenever you make a melee attack, you can use a free action to swindle more Gil off of your opponents. If your opponent is a beast, instead, you gain extra crafting materials. If you swindled one target already, they cannot be again.

Con Artist

At 2nd level, the Merchant has a way with words that can trick opponents into surrendering or make the opponents think the Merchant is on their side. The opponents will leave the Merchant alone. From here, the Merchant is free to roleplay.

Payroll

The Merchant has the ability to pay their way out of any trouble. They can also haggle their way to a suitable price. GM can designate who and who can’t be bribed.

Storefront

At level 4, the Merchant must select two to a maximum of three products they are selling. The products can be potions, equipment, farmed items (wheat, meat, veggies), sugar, rum, other drinks, or whatever else they can think of that’s profitable. Could even sell fine fabrics if they want it to be. Also, the Merchant gains a free bag of holding. If the Merchant loses the bag, they must visit a guildhall or can spend a long rest crafting the bag of holding. Also, the Merchant can come up with their store name. Have fun.

Appraisal

At level 4, the Merchant knows the Identify spell for free. They also have advantage on History, Insight, Investigation, and Perception checks. They can use these features to gain information from an individual: name, height, age, wealth, lifestyle choices, and etc.

Good Business

At level 6, the Merchant has gained some renown out on the open waters. The Merchant’s store inventory refreshes in 3 days. They can also have shops on land that they can be the owner. The Merchant gains a specialized bag that allows them to place sellable items in their shop.

Last Shot

At 10th level, the Merchant can use a free action between rounds to make an attack. The Merchant can use this a number of times equal to their Dexterity modifier. Long rests refill this number.

Shower in Wealth

At level 15, the Merchant can flaunt their wealth. They can shower themselves in Gil or cause a distraction both in and out of combat. If in combat, the Merchant can toss Gil at their opponents making them distracted as if under a hallucination. If out of combat, a horde of citizens will crowd the area that has been riddled with Gil.

Famous

Look at you… a Merchant at level 20. You’ve made it. You’ve become a successful business. You’ve taken all the right steps. You are now passively gaining income well into your retirement. You are recongized by the Merchant guildhall and are welcome to be a leader. If you’ve failed to be a business, well… that’s on you. Careful how you conduct yourself. Merchant sharks and the vultures you’ve hired to run your businesses are constantly circling you. If you double-crossed pirates, they’ll be hunting you. It’s not a matter of Gil anymore, you’ve double-crossed a pirate mate, and therefore, must pay with your blood. But good luck to you.

Golden Opportunity

At 20th level, the Merchant’s ranged attack rolls with pistols deal an extra 2d4 piercing damage. On a crit of 20, the ranged attack strikes an important body part of their target.

Dancer

The light of the room dims, and the spotlights focus on the lightly dressed woman who makes her way across the stage. With a large smile, she moves effortless along with the music, filling everyone’s hearts with joy and pushing them to stay determined in whatever challenges they have.

Amid the chaos of the battlefield a maiden expertly slides in and out of combat, soothing her allies’ wounds and empowering their wills to continue fighting.

Dressed in fine clothing with their trusty blade at their side, the seemingly sweet woman dances through a group of would-be assailants behind her establishment, cutting them down with ease wielding her signature scimitar.

Dancers have harnessed magics and arts, combining them into a spectacle which turns the battlefield into a show, and it is by their graceful movements which which their allies are guided to a happy conclusion.

Of Silk and Steel

Dancers draw from many different sources and backgrounds, combining them into a single package which covers a wide variety of situations. Using small weapons to pick away at their unwitting foes as their dances debilitate their marks while filling their allies with power. Though a rarity on the battle field few forget the sight of a skilled dancer at work.

Ornaments of Power

Dancers perform their magical feats not through a stave or rod, but rather specially made jewelry worn on the wrists and ankles. As they dance around the battle field they move their bodies in specific patterns to manipulate the magical power within their bodies and to gather residual magic in the environment. Once they’ve gathered the required magic they must keep moving to keep their spell active, channeling the magic further.

Creating a Dancer

Dancers are passionate people dedicated to their craft. Spending years practicing has gifted them with the ability to weave spells and their passions together into a gorgeous display of skill. When creating a Dancer, you must consider where they have honed their craft. Did they pick up the profession naturally, teaching themselves over long hours, or did they study beneath some kind of mentor? One must consider their motivations, does your Dancer seek fame and fortune, or do they want to bring the gifts of joy to the masses. Perhaps they are going on their journey in an attempt to hone their craft even further.

Quick Build

You can make a Dancer quickly by following these suggestions. First make Dexterity your highest ability score, following with Charisma. Second take the Entertainer background.

Class Features

As a Dancer, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light Armor
• Weapons: Chakrams, Rapiers, Scimitars, Short Swords, Simple Weaons, Whips.
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, Deception, Insight, Perception, Performance, and Persuasion.

Equipment

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

• (a) two daggers or (b) two chakrams
• a (a) whip or (b) scimitar
• a set of bracelets and anklets for spell casting
• a set of clothes
• a (a) costume or (b) light armour
• (a) an explorer’s pack or (b) a entertainer’s pack

Dazzling Dance

At 1st level, as you fight you build towards empowering your movements further. When you use the Attack action against a hostile creature, you gain a charge of Dazzling Dance. You may hold a number of Dazzling Dance charges equal to your Charisma modifier. Your charges dissipate one minute after combat ends.

Additionally, you may spend 1 Dazzling Dance charge to take the Dash or Disengage action as a bonus action.

Flourish

Also beginning at 1st level, once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with a ranged weapon attack if you have advantage on the Attack roll. The Attack must use a finesse 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 Flourish Damage column of the Dancer table.

Unarmoured Defense

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

Spellcasting

By 2nd level, you have learned to draw on in latent magical energies around you into your bangles and use it to cast spells. See Spells Rules for the general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing for the Dancer spell list. Preparing and Casting Spells.

Preparing and Casting Spells

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

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

For example, if you are a 5th-level Dancer, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Charisma of 14, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

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

Dance Magic

As a Dancer, when you cast a Dancer spell you do not have to fulfill the verbal component of the spell. You must spend 10ft. of movement alongside your spell slot to cast a spell or to maintain a spell. See chapter 10 of the PHB for the general rules of spellcasting and the end of this document for the Dancer spell list.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your Dancer spells, since their power derives from the strength of your convictions. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a Dancer spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

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

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a bangles, anklets or other jewelry inlaid with gem stones (see the Adventuring Gear section) as a spellcasting focus for your Dancer spells.

Whirling Steel

Also at 2nd level, you can spend 1 hour attuning your recently discovered magics with up to two finesse throwing weapons. When you throw a weapon you are attuned with, it returns to your hand after the attack is resolved.

Dancer Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose a style which dictates your growth as a dancer. The Paragon focuses on mastering and pushing the limits of dance as an art. The Exoctic Wonder mixes blade work into their dance moves, mixing martial prowess with grace. The Peace Bringer seeks to bring succor and support to their allies in the heat of battle.

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.

Uncanny Dodge

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

Evasion

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

Motivating Mambo

Beginning at the 10th level, you’ve learned how to empower your allies in the heat of battle via your dances. When you use the Help action you can expend one Dazzling Dance charge to add your Charisma modifier to their roll.

Additionally, you may spend 1 Dazzling Dance charge to use the help action as a bonus action.

Bewildering Grace

Beginning at the 13th level, as an action you perform a mysterious dance whose effects you cannot predict. Roll a d20 die and resolve the effect. Spells cast with Bewildering Grace do not consume spell slots. Non-spell effects from Bewildering Grace last one hour. 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.

Bewildering Grace Effects

Bewildering Grace Effects

Spell Dancer

Beginning at the 14th level, when you cast a spell you gain a number of Dazzling Dance charges equal to half the level (rounded down) of the expended spell slot. You do not gain Dazzling Dance charges from Bewildering Grace.

Stage Presence

Beginning at the 18th level, you’ve become so accustomed to performing both for crowds and amongst the chaos of the battlefield, you are rarely caught unaware of your surroundings and can protect yourself from the tricks of assailants. Attackers cannot attack you with advantage unless you are under the conditions: grappled, incapacitated, paralyzed or petrified. Additionally when knocked prone, it only costs 5ft. of movement to get back up.

Rythmic Heart

Beginning at the 20th level, when you roll initiative you gain 2 Dazzling Dance charges.

The World Stage

A Dancer who has chosen a life of adventure is an ambitious master of their art. As they travel they will learn new and innovative ways to work their passion into their journey across the land. The paragon seeks overall mastery of dance, while the Peace Bringer hopes to relieve their allies. The Exotic Wonder seeks to mix their dances with martial expertise. No matter the role a Dancer finds themselves in, you can be certain they are pouring their heart into every action they take and choice they make.

Paragon

You’ve devoted your training to dance as an art form itself, staying a purist of dance. Your singular focus will allow you to reach mastery few ever hope to achieve in your discipline.

Inspiring Salsa

Beginning at the 3rd level, as a bonus action you can spend up to 2 Dazzling Dance charges to inspire an ally within 5ft. of you. Your ally may add a bonus to any attack roll, saving throw or ability check they make equal to twice the number of charges used to inspire them one time. At 10th level you may spend any number of Dazzling Dance charges in the same way.

Magic of Movement

Beginning at the 6th level, when you cast a spell, you may spend a number of Dazzling Dance charges equal to the spell level instead of spending a spell slot. Spells cast using this feature do not generate Dazzling Dance charges.

Improvised Flow

Beginning at the 11th level, when you make a concentration check you may spend a Dazzling Dance charge to roll with advantage.

Forte Fusion

Beginning at the 15th level, you have learned how to mix known dances into new exciting combinations. You are able to cast a second spell which requires concentration without ending the first. To do so you use your action to spend 1 Dazzling Dance charge to cast the second spell alongside the required spell slot. Each turn you concentrate on the second spell, you must use your action to spend once Dazzling Dance charge and spend 10ft. of movement per spell.

Peace Bringer

You’ve learned to effectively wield restorative spells while dancing across the battle field. Offering relief and joy in even the worst situations.

Succor Swing

Beginning at 3rd level, your magical dances are capable of healing wounds. You have a pool of healing power that replenishes when you take a long rest. With that pool, you can restore a total number of hit points equal to your Dancer level × 5.

As an action, you can perform for a creature within 5ft. of you and draw power from the pool to restore a number of hit points to that creature, up to the maximum amount remaining in your pool.

Refreshing Round

Beginning at the 6th level, you’ve further developed your healing abilities. When you use your Succor Swing feature, you may target any number of creatures within 10ft. of you.

Safe Haven Hop

Beginning at the 11th level, you may select Aura of Life, Aura of Purity or Aura of Vitality and cast it without spending a spell slot. You can use this feature a number of times equal to half your Charisma modifier, rounded down (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

The Solace Swing

Beginning at the 15th level, you may spend Dazzling Dance charges to restore your pool of healing power. For each point spent you recover points to your pool equal to your Charisma modifier.

Exotic Wonder

You’ve trained in an exotic dancing style which incorporates weapons into your routines. You mix martial knowledge with graceful steps to create an awe inspiring dance which devastates your foes.

Flourishing Swing

Beginning at 3rd level, your melee weapon attacks with finesse weapons activate your Flourish feature.

Fighting Style

Beginning at the 3rd level, You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

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.

Fleet Foot

Your movement speed increases by 5ft.

Two-Weapon Fighting

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

Double Step

Beginning at the 6th level, whenever you use the Attack action, you may spend 1 Dazzling Dance charge to make an extra melee weapon attack.

Flawless Flow

Beginning at the 11th level, you may make a melee weapon attack as a bonus action after casting a spell.

Lamia Bite

Beginning at the 15th level, you may spend 4 Dazzling Dance charges prior to making a weapon attack. Doing so increases the critical hit range of your attack rolls for the remainder of the turn, lowering the threshold by 4.

Dark Knight

An Auri man dives into the front line of his foes. Recklessly, he swings his blade with great might, cleaving through foe after foe. The enemy scatters, claiming they battled a demon that day.

A downtrodden woman stands behind an ebony clad Hyur. Despite seeming to be on his last legs his exhaustion leads him to pull greater strength to protect the weak against those who had been pursuing.

A lalafellin woman stands before a strange demon, clad in dark heavy armour and cloth, she weaves shadow magics before to unleash dark magics to put an end to the demon and silently protect the nearby village from its wrath.

It is a dark knight’s freedom from the bounds of the law which make these dark avengers so effective. Unconcerned with what is lawful, a dark knight is concerned with what is ethical in their view. Those who spread tyranny and injustice best prepare for a visit from a dark knight who aims to set things right and break the chains of oppressors.

Protecting the Meek

A Dark Knight is a knight who has taken up arms to serve the downtrodden. They serve no lords or institutions, believing no one is exempt from justice, no matter what their position in society. They protect the commonfolk from not only banditry and wild beasts, but from corrupt men who seek to oppress them. In return, Dark Knights are often fed and housed by those they protect, or rely upon bounty hunting and raiding looters to support themselves.

Internal Darkness

When an adventurer chooses the path of a Dark Knight they understand that they are renouncing their rights to be a regular member of society. They belong to no society, acting as paragons of justice who see no allegiance. To assist them in their quest, Dark Knights are able to sacrifice their own life force to power a well of darkness within themselves. They cause themselves great pain and exhaustion in order to allow dark power to course through their body which they harness in a variety of ways.

Creating a Dark Knight

Dark Knights are natural adventurers, living outside the law to see their goals to fruition. They may live within a remote village protecting the inhabitants from bandits, while the land’s knights turn a blind eye to their plight, or they may travel the world seeking out institutionalized injustice and smiting it with violence. Dark Knights act on behalf of the common folk, and do so not expecting praise nor admiration. They are aware that they will not be celebrated in the history books like Paladins would be. Instead they expect to be demonized by history and happily accept this fact. One seeking to become a Dark Knight must be introduced to it through some means, be it an ancient tome with their rituals recorded or a mentor to impart their knowledge.

Quick Build

You can make a Dark Knight quickly by following these suggestions. First make Strength your highest ability score, following with Charisma. Second take the Folk Hero background.

Class Features

As a Dark Knight, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: All Armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple and Martial Weapons
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Arcana, History, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, Survival.

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Equipment

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

• (a) chain mail or (b) hide
• (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial weapons
• (a) a short bow and 20 arrows or (b) two daggers
• (a) an explorer’s pack or (b) a dungeoneer’s pack

Well of Darkness

Beginning at the 1st level, you are able to draw on the darkness in your heart and use it as power. You have a number of Well of Darkness points shown for your Dark Knight level in the Well of Darkness Points column of your Dark Knight table. You regain all of your expended uses of your Well of Darkness when you finish a long rest.

Certain features make use of your Well of Darkness and require your target to make a saving throw, the saving throw is calculated as follows.

When using spells which require you to make a ranged spell attack, your spell attack modifier is calculated as follows.

Darkside

Also beginning at 1st level, as a bonus action you may spend one Well of Darkness point to fill your body with dark power for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma Modifier. When you make a melee weapon attack while under the effect of Darkside, you deal additional necrotic damage as indicated on the Class Table.

Fighting Style

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

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, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

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.

Two-Weapon Fighting

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

Burning Blood

Also beginning at the 2nd level, as a bonus action you may expend one of your hit die and roll it. You recover Well of Darkness points equal to the result. You cannot exceed your maximum number of Well of Darkness points.

Dark Knight Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose which path of the dark knight to follow. The Blackblood focuses on martial ability, relying on powerful swordplay over magical arts. The Abyss Knight lets the dark powers within themselves flow freely, letting them become more powerful the more dire their situation is, and the Dark Magus uses that inner darkness to cast powerful magical spells alongside their stellar sword skill.

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.

The Blackest Night

Beginning at the 7th level, as a bonus action you may expend one Hit Die to create a barrier which protects you or a creature within 30ft. of you. Roll the expended hit die, the target gains temporary hit points equal to the die result + your Charisma modifier.

Fight or Flight

Beginning at the 9th level, you are able to spend 2 Well of Darkness points to cast the Cause Fear or Compelled Duel spells.

Curse of the Abyss

Beginning at the 10th level, on your turn you may use a bonus action to curse a creature. The curse lasts for 1 minute. The curse ends when the creature dies, you die or are incapacitated. Until the curse ends, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain a bonus to damage rolls against the cursed target. The bonus equals your proficiency bonus.

• Any attack roll you make against the cursed target is a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20.

• If the cursed target dies, you regain hit points equal to your Dark Knight level + your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 hit point) and 1 Well of Darkness point.

You must then finish a long rest to use Curse of the Abyss again.

Abyssal Communion

Beginning at 13th level, you may spend 6 Well of Darkness points to cast Rary’s Telepathic Bond.

Quietus

Beginning at the 14th level, you strike with a swirl of dark energy. As an action, you may spend 2 Well of Darkness points to make a melee weapon attack to all creatures within 10ft. of you. You may expend one hit die and roll it to deal additional necrotic damage equal to the result to all creatures attacked.

Dark Mind

Beginning at the 15th level, you gain proficiency in the Wisdom saving throw.

Stalwart Soul

Beginning at the 18th level, your body becomes fueled by your inner darkness. At the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier if you have no more than half of your hit points left. You don’t gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.

Living Dead

Beginning at the 20th level, when you are reduced to 0 Hit Points but not killed outright, instead of becoming incapacitated, you may expend one hit die and recover hit points equal to the result + your Constitution modifier.

The Lonley Path

Dark Knights set off on their quest knowing it will be a difficult one full of challenges and sorrow. They’ll stand against foes they’d have no hope to defeat alone and indulge the darkness in their hearts in order to grasp greater power to complete their mission.

Blackblood

Blackbloods are Dark Knights who seek great power and presence on the battlefield. They spend their time perfecting their martial abilities, and then infusing their peerless skill with power drawn from the darkness which resides in their hearts.

Plunge

Beginning at 3rd level, as a bonus action you may spend one Well of Darkness point to fill your body with a burst of dark power, allowing you to jump to an unoccupied space beside a target within 20ft. of you.

You may jump over obstacles or creatures up to 10ft. tall while moving to the target creature. This movement does not provoke attacks of opprunity. When you land you may make a melee weapon attack against the creature.

Piercing Intimidation

Beginning at 6th level, when making an Intimidation skill check, you may spend 1 Well of Darkness point to gain assistance from your inner darkness. Roll your Darkside damage die and add the result to the result of your check.

Soul Eater

Beginning at 11th level, once per turn when you make a melee weapon attack, you may choose to recover hit points equal to half the damage dealt by your Darkside feature’s bonus damage, rounded down.

Ravaging Darkness

Beginning at the 17th level, you add your Charisma modifier to the bonus damage of your Darkside feature.

Abyss Knight

Abyss Knights are warriors who sneer in the face of suffering, using techniques which injure themselves in order to deliver devastating damage to their opponents.

Dark Burst

Beginning at 3rd level, you are able to weaponize your own life energy to unleash a burst of dark energy against your foes. While under the effect of Darkside, as an action, you may spend 2d4 hit points to cast the Burning Hands spell. When cast in this way, the spell deals necrotic damage instead of fire, and does not ignite flammable objects. Use the Well of Darkness DC when casting the spell.

You are able to cast the spell at higher levels by increasing the damage you take by 1d4 for each increase in casting level. You may only increase the spell level up to a number of levels equal to your Charisma modifier.

Adversity

Beginning at 6th level, you become fueled by the suffering you endure in battle. For every 20 hit points you are missing, you gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls up to a maximum equal to your Charisma modifier.

Additionally you gain resistance to necrotic damage.

Supernatural Sense

Beginning at 11th level, you may cast the Detect Good and Evil spell at will. You may also cast Detect Thoughts at will on a willing creature or spend 2 Well of Darkness points to cast it on an unwilling creature.

Dark Star

Beginning at 17th level, damage from all sources is reduced by your current Adversity bonus. When you cast Burning Hands using the Dark Burst feature, you deal bonus damage equal to your Charisma Modifier + your Adversity bonus. Additionally, you may change the range from a 15ft. cone to a 30ft. line. You reference the Adversity bonus after spending your hit points to use Dark Burst feature.

Dark Magus

As a Dark Magus, you have decided to focus on manipulating your Well of Darkness. Doing so allows you to convert your own life force into powerful Dark Arts.

You know two Dark Arts at 3rd level, detailed in the Dark Arts section below. You learn one additional Dark Art of your choice at the 6th, 11th and 17th level. Additionally you know the Toll the Dead cantrip. Also, your maximum number of Well of Darkness points is increased by a number equal to your Charisma modifier.

Casting Dark Arts. Using the dark magical energy from within, you are able to cast spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spell casting. To cast one of these spells you use its casting time and other rules, but you don’t need to provide material components for it.

Once you reach the 6th level in this class, you can spend additional Well of Darkness point to increase the level of a Dark Art that you cast, provided that the spell has an enhanced effect at a higher level. The spell’s level increases by 1 for each additional Well of Darkness hit die you spend. The default casting level of these spells is at the lowest possible level.

The maximum number of Well of Darkness point you can spend in this way (including the base cost and the additional points you spend to increase the level) is determined by your Dark Knight level, as shown in the Spells and Well of Darkness Points table.

Spells and Well of Darkness Points

Dark Arts

The Dark Arts list is presented in alphabetical order. If the magic requires a level, you must be that level in this class to learn the spell.
Abyssal Drain. (17th Level) You can spend 6 Well of Darkness points to cast Contagion.
Creeping Darkness. You can spend 2 Well of Darkness points to cast Darkness.
Damning Curse. You can spend 1 Well of Darkness points to cast Bane.
Dark Dance. You can spend 2 Well of Darkness points to cast Mirror Image.
Dark Passenger. (11th Level) You can spend 3 Well of Darkness points to cast Lightning Bolt. The spell deals necrotic damage.
Delirium. You can spend 2 Well of Darkness points to cast Suggestion.
Edge of Shadow. You can spend 2 Well of Darkness points to cast Shatter.
Flood of Darkness. (17th Level) You can spend 6 Well of Darkness points to cast Negative Energy Flood.
Helter Skelter. (11th Level) You can spend 4 Well of Darkness points to cast Hypnotic Pattern.
Power Slash. (6th Level) You can spend 3 Well of Darkness points to cast Elemental Weapon.
Reprisal. You can spend 2 Well of Darkness points to cast Hellish Rebuke.
Salted Earth. (6th Level) You can spend 3 Well of Darkness points to cast Hunger of Hadar.
Scourge. You can spend 1 Well of Darkness points to cast Hex.
Shadow Skin. (11th Level) You can spend 4 Well of Darkness points to cast Shadow of Moil.
Shadow Wall. (17th Level) You can spend 6 Well of Darkness points to cast Wall of Force.
Syphon Touch. (6th Level) You can spend 3 Well of Darkness points to cast Vampiric Touch.

Unleash. You can spend 1 Well of Darkness points to cast Arms of Hadar.
Unmend. You can spend 1 Well of Darkness points to cast Magic Missile.

Dragoon

An Elezen man stands before a fierce dragon, it roars out and begins to take off in order to gain the advantage. With a massive leap the man lands atop the dragon and forces it back to the ground, creating an opening for his allies.

A Hyur cloaked in scale mail whirl’s their spear around a cluster of enemies keeping them at bay. When the time is right they unleash a plume of fiery breath from beneath their helm, singing their targets.

A Viera woman runs and leaps high into the sky, magical wings forming on her body. With grace, she travels the currents of the wind, happily flying about as she exercises her new found freedom.

These fearless warriors stand against dragons, demons, fiends and any other threats who would raise a hand against their homelands. Dragoons use their command of both the sky and ground to strike down their foes with deadly strikes.

Dragonbane

The Dragoon was a soldier born out of need in a distant land. Their homeland has been locked in a war against dragon kind for hundreds of years, leading to their soldiers to specialize in battling back against dragons. Their most notable ability is the Dragoon Jump, which is powered by a magical gem each Dragoon receives upon completing their basic training.

Masters of the Sky

The Dragoons have been blessed with the ability to soar high into the air like those they have taken up arms to destroy. These warriors are able to crash down from the sky using their weapons and body weight to drive any skyborn into the ground, or cause great damage to those already on land. Wings will not grant you safety from a Dragoon.

Creating a Dragoon

When creating a Dragoon, consider what brought them down the path of a specialized knight. They may have shown a certain aptitude which allowed them to become a dragoon with ease, or perhaps were born into the role due to the history of their homeland. A dragoon may have decided upon this path due to the stories of famed dragoons of legends, hoping to become as powerful and respected as the knights they had heard about while they were growing up. You must consider as well how the Dragoon came to possess the blessed gem in their possession granting them their jumping prowess.

Consider why a Dragoon would choose to head out on an adventure. Are they seeking a specific dragon, hoping to slay an enemy of their nation? Could your dragoon have unfinished business with a dragon from their past? Sometimes a dragoon may set out for the sake of journeying around the land.

Quick Build

You can make a Dragoon quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Strength your highest ability score, following with Dexterity. Second take the Soldier background.

The Dragoon

| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Trances | |:—:|:—:|:—|:—:|:—:|:—:|:—:|:—:|:—:|:—:|:—:|:—:|:—:|:—:|:—:| | 1st | +2 | Dragoon Trance, Jump | 2 | | 2nd | +2 | Fighting Style, Lancet | 2 | | 3rd | +2 | Dragoon Archetype | 3 | | 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 3 | | 5th | +3 | Heavy Thrust, True Thrust | 3 | | 6th | +3 | Stall | 4 | | 7th | +3 | Archetype Feature | 4 | | 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | | 9th | +4 | High Jump | 4 | | 10th | +4 | Crash Landing | 4 | | 11th | +4 | Archetype Feature | 4 | | 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | | 13th | +5 | Chaos Thrust | 5 | | 14th | +5 | Invigorate | 5 | | 15th | +5 | Archeytpe Feature | 5 | | 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | | 17th | +6 | Dragonfire Dive | 6 | | 18th | +6 | Battle Litany | 6 | | 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 6 | | 20th | +6 | One with the Sky | 6 |