5th edition point buy

A true classless, leveless system inspired by "Buy the Numbers" by Spencer "The Sigil"
Colley, S. T. Cooley Publishing.
Written by Stefen R. Swanner

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 Chapter One: Character Fundamentals

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his chapter will deal with the basics of Hit dice Table
Character Creation: purchasing of Race, Hit Hite Dice XP Cost First Hit Dice
Dice, weapon/armor proficiencies, tool 1d4 18 36
proficiencies, skill proficiencies and ability
score increases. Players should create a level 1 1d6 24 48
character like they normally would by choosing 1d8 30 60
a Race and a Background. After those are
chosen, they player should decide their Ability scores with the 1d10 36 72
GM. The most common way of doing so is using the 4d6 1d12 42 84
method: each Ability Score gets 4d6 rolled with the lowest
number dropped. It is at this point that every player should be Proficiency
asking, "How are the character generated if we need xp to
buy abilities?" Well that's easy, each character recieve 450 Additional proficiencies past what is given in the character's
"Genesis Points"(or GP) to purchase abilities, Hit Dice and class and background can also be purchased with xp. Since
other things. This simulates that character's experience weapons and armors function differently in aspect compared
throughout their life until this point in time. to skills and tools, they each have their own chart
Proficiency Table
Effective Character Levels Proficiency Prerequisite XP Cost
Since this system does away with Classes and All Simple Weapons None 15
Levels, and that everything in D&D is very much
Level-based, it would be a good idea to mention All Martial Weapons All Simple 25
this. Have the players record two seperate XP Weapons
fields: one is for the Total XP Gained for the Single Weapon of None 5 per
campaign, the second would be for Available XP Choice weapon
for them to spend on purchases. The Total XP
Gained is to record that character's Effective Shields None 10
Character Level (ECL). Light Armor None 15
Medium Armor Light Armor, 15
Shields
Races Heavy Armor Medium Armor 30
With these rules, all races should be usuable as long as the
GM accepts them in their campaign. Races will give their Skills Table
usual bonuses, traits and ability score increases as they 1 10 10
normally would. The only exception to this general rule is
Variant Human, and any race that gives a feat on generation. 2 40 50
These races instead gets the bonus, traits, ability score 3 90 140
increases, and instead of the feat they get an extra 50gp. 4 160 300
Hit Dice 5 250 550
The xp cost for Hit Dice (HD) is pretty self explained. The 6 360 910
cost to purchase an individual HD is equal to the "size" of the 7 490 1,400
die multiplied by the character's new total of HD. The 8 640 2,040
exception to this rule is the first HD, which is doubled
because the character gains the full roll plus the Con 9 810 2,850
modifier. A character does NOT have to purchase the same 10 1,000 3,850
HD at each purchase, there is no "lock" on this. They might
choose to purchase a d12 first (84xp, 12hp + Con modifier), 11 1,210 5,060
then a d8 (30xp X 2 total, 1d8 + Con modifier), and then a 12 1,440 6,500
d10 (36xp X 3 total, 1d10 + Con modifier) for the last, using a 13 1,690 8,190
total of 252xp.
14 1,960 10,150
15 2,250 12,400
16 2,560 14,690
17 2,890 17,850
18 3,240 21,090

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Tool Proficiency Ability Score Increases
Additional tool proficiencies follow the same equation as the Ability scores themselves can be raised after the initial
Skill Proficiency chart: character creation stage by spending xp. This also removes
the ability score cap of 20. Each ability score increase is
Tool Proficiencies Table raised by one point.
Number of Tools XP Cost Total XP This model covers all Ability Scores. If a character were to
1 10 10 raise their Strength score, they would pay 120 xp if this was
their first Ability Score increase. Afterwards, each increase
2 40 50 also increases the cost needed to purchase, even if the
3 90 140 increase is for a different Ability Score.
4 160 300 Ability Score Increases
5 250 550 Attribute
Increase XP Cost Total XP
6 360 910
1st 120 120
7 490 1,400
2nd 240 360
8 640 2,040
3rd 360 720
9 810 2,850
4th 480 1,200
10 1,000 3,850
5th 720 1,800
Saving Throw Proficiency Afterwards Add Previous increase amount
120 added
Having proficiency in a saving throw can potentially mean the
difference between life and death. Such as dodging the A variant to this ruling is Seperated Tracking. Instead of
molten breath of a ramping Fire Dragon, or the Chain tracking the total number of Ability Score increases to
Lightning spell of a crazed Wizard trying to steal yur magic determine xp costs, this variant is used to track the increases
items. The equation for this is The new total number of only within each Ability Score seperately. If this variant is
Saving Throw Proficiencies squared, then multiplied by used, then increase the cost price by 150%. This variant
100 XP. The following chart will show it for simplicity: allows a character to raise several Ability Scores more
Saving Throw Table cheaply then the standard method.
Total Number of XP Total Variant Ability Score Increase
Saving Throws Cost XP
Attribute
1 100 100 Increase XP Cost Total XP
2 400 500 1st 180 180
3 900 1,400 2nd 360 540
4 1,600 3,000 3rd 540 1,080
5 2,500 5,500 > ##### Time to 4th 720 1,800
Drop Knowledge
5th 900 2,700
Afterwards Add Previous increase amount
Proficiency Scores 180 added
Effective Character Level Proficiency Score
A second variant is the Diminishing Returns. Instead of
1-4 +2 the above two methods, the character must first pay half of
5-8 +3 the base cost (for the first increase) then multiply that by the
9-12 +4
new Ability Score Modifier. So a character that wants to
increase their Wisdom score from a 15 to a 16 as a first time
13-16 +5 increase would pay 60xp X 3 (or 180xp total). If they wanted
17-20 +6 to increase that same score from 16 to 17 they would pay
120xp X 3 (or 360xp).
The last variant is a combination of the above two
variants. Have each increase depend on the Diminishinh
Returns rule, but have it tracked seperately for each Ability
Score.

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 Chapter Two: Simple Special Abilities
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hese abilites are those that are, well, simple to
understand without asking too many
questions, and those that do not offer any
options to further improve their power. For
example, abilities like this include the
"Ranger's" Colossus Slayer ability or the
"Monk's" Unarmored Defense (Monk) trait.
Neither of these can be upgrade any further, and are pretty
straightforward in their effects. The abilities from the UA
Ranger is included in place of the standard Ranger. Unless
stated otherwise, Abilities cannot be taken more than one
time.
The format for these abilities are simple to follow as well.
For example
Example Skill
Prerequisite: If an Ability requires another ability purchased
before purchasing this one, it will be listed here, If not then
it will say "None"
XP Cost: This is where the required amount of XP needed to
purchase the Ability will be listed. Simple Abilities will just
say a flat amount like "600 cp." Complex Abilities will say,
for example "600 xp, see below."
This is where the skill details will be that explains the text
from the PHB to avoid confusion.
-A-
Abjuration Savant
Prerequisite: Spellbook
XP Cost: 200 xp
The gold and time you must spend to copy an abjuration
spell into your spellbook is halved.
Once you purchase this ability, you cannot purchase
another from a different school of magic.
Additional Magical Secrets
Prerequisite: Magical Secrets
XP Cost: 600 xp
You learn two spells of your choice from any spell list,
including your own. You must choose spells of a level that you
can cast at the time you purchase this feature, or as a cantrip.
The chosen spells count as Arcane, Spontaneous, Charisma-
based spells for you and do not count to the number of spells
known.
Alter Memories
Prerequisite: Enchantment Savant
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You gain the ability to make a creature unaware of your
magical influence on it. When you cast an enchantment spell
to charm one or more creatures, you can alter one creature’s
understanding so that it remains unaware of being charmed.
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Additionally, once before the spell expires, you can use
your action to try to make the chosen creature forget some of
the time it spent charmed. The creature must succeed on an
Intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC or lose a
number of hours of its memories equal to 1 + your Charisma
modifier (minimum 1). You can make the creature forget less
time, and the amount of time can’t exceed the duration of
your enchantment spell.
Animal Companion
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Spontaneous,
Wisdom-based caster
XP Cost: 300 xp
You learn to use your magic to create a powerful bond with
a creature of the natural world.
With 8 hours of work and the expenditure of 50 gp worth
of rare herbs and fine food, you call forth an animal from the
wilderness to serve as your faithful companion. You normally
select you companion from among the following animals: an
ape, a black bear, a boar, a giant badger, a giant weasel, a
mule, a panther, or a wolf. However, your DM might pick one
of these animals for you, based on the surrounding terrain
and on what types of creatures would logically be present in
the area. The DM might also have an expanded list based on
their setting, talk to the DM before deciding on a companion.
At the end of the 8 hours, your animal companion appears
and gains all the benefits of your Companion’s Bond ability.
You can have only one animal companion at a time. If your
animal companion is ever slain, the magical bond you share
allows you to return it to life. With 8 hours of work and the
expenditure of 25 gp worth of rare herbs and fine food, you
call forth your companion’s spirit and use your magic to
create a new body for it. You can return an animal companion
to life in this manner even if you do not possess any part of its
body.
If you use this ability to return a former animal companion
to life while you have a current animal companion, your
current companion leaves you and is replaced by the restored
companion.
Arcane Charge
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as an Arcane,
Spontaneous, Intelligence-based caster, Action Surge
XP Cost: 1,500 xp
You gain the ability to teleport up to 30 feet to an
unoccupied space you can see when you use Action Surge.
You can use this teleport before or after the addition action.
Arcane Recovery
Prerequisite: Spellbook, Ability to cast Arcane Spells
XP Cost: 100 xp
You have learned to regain some of your magical energy by
studying your spellbook. Once per day when you finish a
short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover.
The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or
less than half your ECL (rounded up), and none of the slots
can be 6th level or higher.
For example, if your ECL is 4 you can recover up to 2 levels
worth or spell slots. This can be either a 2nd level spell slot
or two 1st level spell slots.
Arcane Ward
Prerequisite: Abjuration Savant
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can weave magic around yourself for protection. When
you cast an abjuration spell of 1st level or higher, you can
simultaneously use a strand of the spell’s magic to create a
magical ward on yourself that lasts until you finish a long
rest. The ward has hit points equal to twice your ECL + your
Intelligence modifier. Whenever you take damage, the ward
takes the damage instead. If this damage reduces the ward to
0 hit points, you take any remaining damage.
While the ward has 0 hit points, it can’t absorb damage, but
its magic remains. Whenever you cast an abjuration spell of
1st level or higher, the ward regains a number of hit points
equal to twice the level of the spell.
Once you create the ward, you can't create it again until you
finish a long rest.
Archdruid
Prerequisite: Wild Shape
XP Cost: 2,000 xp
You can now use Wild Shape and unlimited number of
times.
Aspect of the Beast
Prerequisite: Totem Spirit
XP Cost: 600 xp
You gain a magical benefit based on the totem animal of
your choice. You can choose the same animal you selected
with Totem Spirit or you may choose a different one.
Bear. You gain the might of the bear. Your carrying
capacity (including maximum load and maximum lift) is
now doubled, and you have advantage on Strength checks
made to push, pull, lift, or break objects.
Eagle. You gain the eyesight of an eagle. You can see up to
1 mile away with no difficulty, able to discern even fine
details as though looking at something no more than 100
feet away from you. Additionally, dim light does not
impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception)
checks.
Wolf. You gain the hunting sesnibilities of a wolf. You can
track other creatures while traveling at a fast pace, and
you can move steathily while traveling at a normal pace.
Assassinate
Prerequisite: Sneak Attack
XP Cost: 300 xp
You are your deadliest when you get the drop on your
enemies. You have advantage on any creature that has not
taken a turn in the combat yet. In addition, any hit you score
against a creature that is surprised is a critical hit.
Aura of Courage
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Divine spells.
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you can not be
frightened while you are conscious.
Aura of Devotion
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Divine spells.
XP Cost: 700 xp.
You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you can not be
charmed wile you are conscious.
Aura of Protection
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Divine spells.
XP Cost: 600 xp
Whenever you or a friendly creature within 10 feet of you
must make a saving throw, the creature gains a bonus to the
saving throw equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of
+1). You must be conscious to grant this bonus.
Aura of Warding
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Divine spells.
XP Cost: 700 xp
Ancient magic lies so heavily upon you that it forms an
eldritch ward. You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you
have resistance to damage from spells.
Avatar of Battle
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Spontaneous,
Charisma-based caster
XP Cost: 1,700 xp
You gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing
damage from non-magical weapons.
Avenging Angel
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 2,000 xp
You can assume the form of an angelic avenger. Using your
action, you undergo a transformation. For 1 hour, you gain
the following benefits:
Wings sprout from your back and grant you a flying speed
of 60 feet.
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 You emanate an aura of menace in a 30-foot radius. The
first time any enemy creature enters the aura or starts it's
turn there during a battle, the creature must succeed on a
Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you for 1
minute or until it takes any damage. Attack rolls against
the frightened creature has advantage.
Once you use this feature, you can not use it again until you
finish a long rest.
Awakened Mind
Prerequisite: Otherworldly Patron (Old One)
XP Cost: 10 xp
Your alien knowledge gives you the ability to touch the
minds of other creatures. You can communicate
telepathically with any creature you can see within 30 feet of
you. You don’t need to share a language with the creature for
it to understand your telepathic utterances, but the creature
must be able to understand at least one language.
Bardic College
Prerequisite: Bardic Inspiration
XP Cost: 300 xp
Upon purchase, choose one of the option below. The
options represent an individual Bardic College, a loose
association created to preserve traditions and stories. You
may only purchase this feature once, locking you to a single
Bardic College.
College of Lore. Members of the College of Lore know
something about almost everything, collecting small bits
of knowledge from sources as diverse as scholarly tomes,
court dealings, and peasant tales. When you join the
College of Lore, you gain proficiency with three skills of
your choice.
College of Valor. Members of the College of Valor are
daring skalds whose tales keep alive the memory of the
great heroes of the past. and thereby inspire a new
generation of heroes.* When you join the Colloge of Valor,
you gain proficiency with martial weapons, shields, and
medium armor.
Battle Magic
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as an Arcane,
Spontaneous, Charisma-based caster
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You have mastered the art of weaving spellcasting and
weapon use into a single harmonious act. When you use your
action to cast an Arcane, Spontatneous, Charisma-based
spell list, you may make one weapon attack as a bonus action.
Beast Spells
Prerequisite: Wild Shape
XP Cost: 1,800 xp
You can now cast your spells in any shape you assume
using Wild Shape. You can perform the somatic and verbal
components of a spell while in a beast shape, but you are not
able to provide material components.
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Beast's Defense
Prerequisite: Animal Companion
XP Cost: 700 xp
While your companion can see you, it has advantage on all
saving throws.
Beguiling Defenses
Prerequisite: Otherworldly Patron (Fey)
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
Your patron teaches you how to turn the mind-affecting
magic of your enemies against them. You are immune to
being charmed, and when another creature attempts to
charm you, you can use your reaction to attempt to turn the
chamr back on that creature. The creature must succeed on a
Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be
charmed by you for 1 minute or until the creature takes any
damage.
Bend Luck
Prerequisite: Font of Magic, Wild Magic Surge
XP Cost: 600 xp
You have the ability to twist fate using your Wild Magic.
When another creature you can see makes an attack roll,
ability check, or saving throw, you can use your reaction and
spend 2 sorcery points to roll 1d4 and apply the number
rolled as a bonus or penalty (your choice) to the creature's
roll. You can do so after the creature rolls but before an
effects of the roll occur.
Benign Transposition
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells
XP Cost: 600 xp
You can use your action to teleport up to 30 feet to an
unoccupied space that you can see. Alternatively, you can
choose a space within range that is occupied by a Small or
Medium creature. If that creature is willing, you both teleport,
swapping places.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
finish a long rest or you cast a conjuration spell of 1st level or
higher.
Blessed Healer
Prerequisite: Divine Domain: Life
XP Cost: 600 xp
The healing spells you cast on others now heal you as well.
Whenever you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores
hit points to a creature other than you, you regain hit points
equal to 2 + the spell's level.
Blindsense
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
If you are able to hear, you are aware of the location of any
hidden or invisible creature within 10 feet of you.
Channel Divinity (Cleric): Charm
Animals and Plants
Prerequisite: Channel Divinty (Cleric)
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can use your Channel Divinity feature to charm
animals and plants.
As an action, you present your holy symbol and invoke the
name of your deity. Each beast or plant creature that can see
you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw.
If the creature fails it's saving throw, it is charmed by you for
1 minute or until it takes damage. While it is charmed by you,
it is friendly to you and other creatures you designate.
Channel Divinity (Cleric): Cloak
of Shadows
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric)
XP Cost: 600 xp
You can use your Channel Divinity to vanish.
As an action, you become invisible until the end of your
next turn. You become visible if you attack or cast a spell.
Channel Divinity (Cleric):
Destructive Wrath
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric)
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can use your Channel Divinity to wield the power of
the storm with unchecked ferocity.
When you roll lightning or thunder damage, you can invoke
use your Channel Divinity to deal maximum damage instead.
Channel Divinity (Cleric): Guided
Strike
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric)
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can use your Channel Divinity to strike with
supernatural accuracy. When you make an attack roll, you can
use your Channel Divinity to gain a +10 bonus to the attack
roll. You make this choice after you see the roll but before the
DM declares if the attack misses or hits.
Channel Divinity (Cleric): Invoke
Duplicity
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric)
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can now use your Channel Divinity to create illusory
duplicate of yourself.
As an action, you create a perfect illusion of yourself that
lasts for 1 minute, or until you lose your concentration (as if
you were concentrating on a spell). The illusion appears in an
unoccupied space that you can see within 30 feet o f you. As a
bonus action on your turn, you can move the illusion up to 30
feet to a space you can see, but it must remain within 120
feet o f you.
For the duration, you can cast spells as though you were in
the illusion’s space, but you must use your own senses.
Additionally, when both you and your illusion are within 5
feet o f a creature that can see the illusion, you have
advantage on attack rolls against that creature, given how
distracting the illusion is to the target.
Channel Divinity (Cleric):
Knowledge of the Ages
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric)
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can use your Channel Divinity (Cleric) feature to tap
into a divine well of knowledge. As an action, you choose one
skill or tool. For 10 minutes, you have proficiency with the
chosen skill or tool.
Channel Divinity (Cleric): Preserve
Life
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric)
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can use your Channel Divinity to heal the badly injured.
As an action, you present your holy symbol and evoke
healing energy that can restore a number of hit points equal
to 5 times your ECL. choose any creatures within 30 feet of
you, and divide those equally among them. This feature can
restore a creature to no more than half it's maximum hit
points. You can not use this feature on an undead creature or
construct.
Channel Divinity (Cleric):
Radiance of the Dawn
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric)
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can use your Channel Divinity feature to harness
sunlight, banishing darkness and dealing radiant damage to
your foes.
As an action, you present your holy symbol, and any
magical darkness withing 30 feet of you is dispelled.
Additionally, each hostile creature within 30 feet of you must
make a Constitution saving throw. A creature rakes radiant
damage equal to 2d10 + your ECL on a failed saving throw,
and half as much damage on a successful one. A creature
that has total cover from you is not affected.
Channel Divinity (Cleric): Read
Thoughts
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric)
XP Cost: 600 xp
You can use your Channel Divinty (Cleric) feature to read a
creature's thoughst. You can then use your access to the
creature's mind to command it.
As an action, choose one creature that you can see within
60 feet of you. That creature must make a Wisdom saving
throw. If it succeeds, you can not use this feature again on it
until you finish a long rest
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 If the creature fails it's save, you can read it's surface
thoughts (those foremost in it's mind, reflecting it's current
emotions and what it is actively thinking about) when it is
within 60 feet of you. This effect lasts for 1 minute.
During that time, you can use your action to end this effect
and cast Suggestion on the creatuer without using a spell
slot. The target automatically fails it's saving throw against
the spell.
Channel Divinity (Cleric): War
God's Blessing
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric)
XP Cost: 600 xp
When a creature within of 30 of you makes an attack roll,
you can use your reaction to grant that creature a +10 bonus
to their attack roll, using your Channel Divinity. You make this
choice after you see the roll but before the DM declares if it
misses or hits.
Channel Divinity (Paladin)
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Spontaneous,
Charisma-based caster, A holy token of a religion
significant to the character.
XP Cost: 150 xp
Your nature allows you to channel divine energy to fuel
magical effects. When you use your Channel Divinity, you
choose which option to use. You can use only 1 option in a
single use of this feature. You must then finish a short or long
rest to use this feature again.
Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws.
When you use such an effect from this class, the DC is equal
to your spell save DC as a Divine, Spontaneous, Charisma-
based caster.
Channel Divinity (Paladin): Abjure
Enemy
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Paladin)
XP Cost: 300 xp
As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak a
prayer of denunciation, using your Channel Divinity. Choose
one creature within 60 feet of you that you can see. That
creature must make a Wisdom saving throw, unless it is
immune to being frightened. Fiends and undead have
disadvantage on this saving throw.
On a failed save, the creature is frightened for 1 minute or
until it takes damage. While frightened, the creature's speed
is 0, and it can not benefit from any bonus to it's speed.
On a successful save, the creature's speed is halved for 1
minute or until it takes damage.
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Channel Divinity (Paladin):
Nature's Wrath
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Paladin)
XP Cost: 300 xp
You can use your Channel Divinity to invoke premeval
forces to ensare a foe. As an action, you can cause spectral
vines to spring up and reach for a creature within 10 feet of
you that you can see. The creature must succeed on a
Strength or Dexterity saving throw (it's choice) or be
restrained. While restrained by the vines, the creature
repeats the saving throw at the end of each of it's turns. On a
success, it frees itself and the vines vanish.
Channel Divinity (Paladin): Sacred
Weapon
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Paladin)
XP Cost: 300 xp
As an action, you can imbue one weapon that you are
holding with positive energy, using your Channel Divinity. For
1 minute, you add your Charisma modifier to attack rolls
made with that weapon (with a minimum bonus of +1). The
weapon also emits bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim
light 20 feet beyond that. If the weapon was not already
magical, it becomes magical for the duration of this feature.
You can end this effect on your turn as a part of any other
action. If you are no longer holding or carrying this weapon,
of if you fall unconscious, the effect ends.
Channel Divinity (Paladin): Turn
the Faithless
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Paladin)
XP Cost: 300 xp
You can use your Channel Divinity to utter ancient words
that are painful to fey and fiends that hear it. As an action,
you present your holy sumbol, each fay or fiend within 30 feet
of you that can hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw.
On a failed save, the creature is turned for 1 minute or until it
takes damage.
A turned creature must spend it's turns trying to move as
far away as it can, and it can not willingly move to a space
within 30 feet of you. It also can not take reactions. For it's
action, it can only use the Dash action or try to escape from
an effect that prevents it from moving. If there is nowhere to
move, the creature can use the Dodge action.
If the creature's true form is concealed by an illusion,
shapeshifting, or other effect, that form is reavealed while it is
turned.
Channel Divinity (Paladin): Turn
the Unholy
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Paladin):
XP Cost: 300 xp
As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak a
prayer censuring fiends and undead, using your Channel
Divinity. Each fiend or undead that can see or hear you
withing 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If
the creature fails it's saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute or
until it takes damage.
A turned creature must spend it's turns trying to move as
far away as it can, and it can not willingly move to a space
within 30 feet of you. It also can not take reactions. For it's
action, it can only use the Dash action or try to escape from
an effect that prevents it from moving. If there is nowhere to
move, the creature can use the Dodge action.
Channel Divinity (Paladin): Vow of
Emnity
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Paladin)
XP Cost: 300 xp
As a bonus action, you can utter a vow of emnity against a
creature you can see within 100 feet of you, using your
Channel Divinity. You gain advantage on attack rolls against
the creature for 1 minute or until it drops to 0 hit points or
falls unconscious.
Circle forms
Prerequisite: Wild Shape
XP Cost: 200 xp
The rites of your Circle grant you the ability to transform
into more dangerous animals. The CR limitations of Wild
Shape is torn apart and rebuilt. The CR limitations of your
Wild Shape ability now equals you ECL divided by 3, rounded
down. For example, a character has an ECL of 20 and has
purchased Wild Shape, they can transform into any beast
with a CR of 2 or lower. A different character has a ECL of 20
and has purchased Wild Shape and Circle Forms, they can
transform into any beast with a CR 6 or lower. The other
limitations still apply.
Cleansing Touch
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You can use your action to end one spell on yourself or one
willing creature that you can touch.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Charisma modifier (minimum of once). You regain all
expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Cloak of Shadows
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,100 xp
You have learned to become one with the shadows. When
you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use your
action to become invisible. You remain invisible until you
make an attack, cast a spell, or are in an area of bright light.
Combat Inspiration
Prerequisite: Bardic Isnpiration
XP Cost: 300 xp
You learn to inspire others in battle. A crature that has a
Bardic Inspiration die from you can roll that die and add the
number rolled to a weapon damage roll it just made.
Alternatively, when an attack roll is made against the
creature, it can use it's reaction to roll the Bardic Inspiration
die and add thenumber rolled to it's AC against that attack,
after seeing the roll but before the DM determines the
outcome.
Combat Wild Shape
Prerequisite: Wild Shape
XP Cost: 200 xp
You gain the ability to use Wild Shape on your turn as a
bonus action, rather than as an action.
Additionally, while you are transformed by Wild Shape, you
can use a bonus action to expend a spell slot to regain 1d8 hit
points per level of the slot expended.
Command Undead
Prerequisite: Necromancy Savant
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You can use magic to bring undead under your control,
even those created by other spellcasters. As an action, you
can choose one undead that you can see within 60 feet of
you. That creature must make a Charisma saving throw
against your spell save DC. If it succeeds, you can’t use this
feature on it again. If it fails, it becomes friendly to you and
obeys your commands until you use this feature again.
Intelligent undead are harder to control in this way. If the
target has an Intelligence of 8 or higher, it has advantage on
the saving throw. If it fails the saving throw and has an
Intelligence of 12 or higher, it can repeat the saving throw at
the end of every hour until it succeeds and breaks free.
Companion's Bond
Prerequisite: Animal Companion
XP Cost: 300 xp
Your animal companion gains a variety of benefits while it
is linked to you.
The animal companion loses its Multiattack action, if it has
one.
The companion obeys your commands as best it can. It
rolls for initiative like any other creature, but you determine
its actions, decisions, attitudes, and so on. If you are
incapacitated or absent, your companion acts on its own.
When using your Natural Explorer feature, you and your
animal companion can both move stealthily at a normal pace.
Your animal companion has abilities and game statistics
determined in part by your level. Your companion uses your
proficiency bonus rather than its own. In addition to the areas
where it normally uses its proficiency bonus, an animal
companion also adds its proficiency bonus to its AC and to its
damage rolls.
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 Your animal companion gains proficiency in two skills of your
choice. It also becomes proficient with all saving throws. For
each level you gain after 3rd, your animal companion gains an
additional hit die and increases its hit points accordingly.
Whenever you improve your Ability scores, your
companion’s abilities also improve. Your companion can
increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or it can
increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal,
your companion can’t increase an ability score above 20
using this feature unless its description specifies otherwise.
Your companion shares your alignment, and has a
personality trait and a flaw that you can roll for or select from
the tables below. Your companion shares your ideal, and its
bond is always, “The ranger who travels with me is a beloved
companion for whom I would gladly give my life.”
Your animal companion gains the benefits of your Favored
Enemy feature, and of your Greater Favored Enemy feature if
you have them purchased. It uses the favored enemies you
selected for those features.
Companion traits
1d6 Trait
1 I’m dauntless in the face of adversity.
2 Threaten my friends, threaten me.
3 I stay on alert so others can rest.
4 People see an animal and underestimate me. I use
that to my advantage.
5 I have a knack for showing up in the nick of time.
6 I put my friends’ needs before my own in all things.
Companion Flaws
1d6 Flaw
1 If there’s food left unattended, I’ll eat it.
2 I growl at strangers, and all people except my ranger
are strangers to me.
3 Any time is a good time for a belly rub.
4 I’m deathly afraid of water.
5 My idea of hello is a flurry of licks to the face.
6 I jump on creatures to tell them how much I love
them.
Keeping Track of Proficiency
When you gain your animal companion, its
proficiency bonus matches yours. As you increase
your proficiency bonus, remember that your
companion’s proficiency bonus improves as well,
and is applied to the following areas: Armor Class,
skills, saving throws, attack bonus, and damage
rolls.
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Conjuration Savant
Prerequisite: Spellbook
XP Cost: 200 xp
The gold and time you must spend to copy a conjuration
spell into your spellbook is halved.
Once you purchase this ability, you cannot purchase
another from a different school of magic.
Controlled Chaos
Prerequisite: Wild Magic Surge
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You gain a modicum of control over the surges of your wild
magic. Whenever a roll is made on the Wild Magic Surge
table is made, you may roll again and use either number.
Coordinated Attack
Prerequisite: Animal Companion
XP Cost: 500 xp
You and your animal companion form a more potent
fighting team. When you use the Attack action on your turn, if
your companion can see you, it can use its reaction to make a
melee attack.
Corona of Light
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Prepared,
Wisdom-based caster
XP Cost: 1,700 xp
You can use your action to activate an aura of sunlight that
lasts for 1 minute or until you dismiss it using another action.
You emt bright light in a 60-foot raidus and dim light for
another 30 feet. Your enemies in the bright light have
disadvantage on saving throws against any spell that deals
fire or radiant damage.
Countercharm
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as an Arcane,
Spontaneous, Charisma-based caster
XP Cost: 600 xp
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 wthin 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 recquired).
Create Thrall
Prerequisite: Otherworldly Patron (Old One)
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You gain the ability to infect a humanoid’s mind with the
alien magic of your patron. You can use your action to touch
an incapacitated humanoid. That creature is then charmed by
you until a remove curse spell is cast on it, the charmed
condition is removed from it, or you use this feature again.
You can communicate telepathically with the charmed
creature as long as the two of you are on the same plane of
existence.
Cunning Action
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 200 xp
Your quick thinking and agility allow you to move and act
quickly. You can take a bonus action on each of your turns in
combat. This action can be used only to take the Dash,
Disengage, or Hide actions.
Cutting Words
Prerequisite: Bardic Inspiration
XP Cost: 300 xp
You learn how to use your wit to distract, confuse, and
otherwise sap the confidence from others. When a creature
that you can see within 60 feet from you makes an attack roll,
ability check, or a damage roll, you can use your reaction to
expend a use of Bardic Inspiration, rolling the Bardic
Inspiration die and subtracting the number rolled from the
creature's roll. You can choose to use this feature after the
creature makes it's roll, but before the DM determines the
outcome. The creatur is immune if it can not hear you or if it
is immune to being charmed.
Dampen Elements
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells
XP Cost: 600 xp
When you or a creature within 30 feet of you takes Acid,
Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Thunder damage, you can use your
reaction to grant resistance to the creature against that
instance of the damage.
Danger Sense
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 200 xp
You gain an uncanny sense of when things nearby are not
as them should be, giving you an edge when you dodge away
from danger.
You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against
effects that you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this
benefit, you can not be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.
Dark Delirium
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane spells
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You can plunge a creature into an illusory realm. As an
action, choose a creature that you can see within 60 feet of
you. It must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell
save DC. On a failed save, it is charmed or frightened (your
choice) by you for 1 minute or until your concentration is
broken (as if concentrating on a spell). Tis effect ends early if
the creature takes any damage.
Until this illusion ends, the creature thinks it is lost in a
misty realm, the appearance of which you choose. The
creature can see and hear only itself, you, and the illusion.
You must finish a short or long rest before you can use this
feature again.
Dark One's Blessing
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 100 xp
When you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points, you
gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier +
your ECL (minimum of 1).
Dark One's Own Luck
Prerequisite: Otherworldly Patron (Fiend)
XP Cost: 600 xp
You can call on your patron to alter fate in your favor. When
you make an ability check or a saving throw, you can use this
feature to add 1d10 to your roll. You can do so after seeing
the result but before any of the roll's efects occur.
Once you use this feature, you can not use it again until you
finish a short or long rest.
Death Strike
Prerequisite: Assassinate
XP Cost: 1,700 xp
You become a master of instant death. When you attack
and hit a creature that is surprised, it must make a
Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your Dexterity modifier
+ your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, double the
damage of your attack against the creature.
Defensive Tactics
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 700 xp
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.
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 Deflect Missles
Prerequisite: Ki, Martial Arts
XP Cost: 300 xp
You can use your reaction to deflect or catch the missle
when you are hit by a ranged weapon attack. When you do so,
the damage you take from the attack is reduced by 1d10 +
your Dexterity modifier + your ECL.
If you reduce the damage to 0, you can catch the missle if it
is small enough to hold in one hand and you have at least one
hand free. If you catch a missle in this way, you can spend 1
Ki point to make a ranged weapon attack with the missile you
just caught, as part of the same reaction. You make this
attack with proficiency, regardless of your weapon
proficiencies, and the missle counts as a "Monk" weapon for
the attack.
Diamond Soul
Prerequisite: Ki
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
Your mastery of Ki grants you proficiency in all saving
throws.
Additionally, whenever you make a saving throw and fail,
you can spend 1 Ki point to reroll it and take the second
result.
Disciple of Life
Prerequisite: Divine Domain: Life
XP Cost: 100 xp
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 eqal to 2 + the
spell's level.
Divination Savant
Prerequisite: Spellbook
XP Cost: 200 xp
The gold and time you must spend to copy a divination
spell into your spellbook is halved.
Once you purchase this ability, you cannot purchase
another from a different school of magic.
Divine Health
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Divine spells
XP Cost: 300 xp
The divine magic flowing through you makes you immune
to disease.
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Divine Intervention
Prerequisite: Divine Domain
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
You can call on your deity to intervene on your behalf when
your need is great.
Imploring your deity's aid requires you to use your action.
Describe the assistance you seek, and roll a percentile dice. If
you roll a number lower than your ECL, your deity
intervenes. The DM chooses the nature of the interventon:
the effect of any Divine spell or spell on your Domain Spell
List would be appropriate.
If your deity intervenes, you can not use this feature again
for 7 days. Otherwise, you can use it again after you finish a
short or long rest.
Divine Sense
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 100 xp
The presence of strong evil registers on your sense like a
noxious odor, and powerful good rings like heavenly music in
your ears. As an action, you can open your awareness to
detect such forces. Until the end of your next turn, you know
the location of any Celestial, Fiend, or Undead within 60 feet
of you that is not behind total cover. You know the type
(Celestial, Fiend or Undead) of any being whose presence you
sense, but not it's identity (The vampire Count Strahd von
Zarovich, for instance). Within the same radius, you also
detect the presence of any place or object that has been
consecrated of desecrated, as with the Hallow spell.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 +
your Charisma modifier. When you finish a long rest, you
regain all expended uses.
Divine Smite
Prerequisite: Ability to cast cast Divine spells.
XP Cost: 200 xp
When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you
can expend a spell slot to deal radiant damage to the target,
in addition to the weapon's damage. The extra damage is 2d8
for a 1st-level slot, plus 1d8 for each spell slot higher than
1st, to a maximum of 5d8. The damage increases by 1d8 if
the target is Undead or a fiend.
Draconic Ancestor Dragon Wings
Prerequisite: Font of Magic Prerequisite: Dragon Ancestor
XP Cost: 100 xp XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You choose one type of Dragon as your ancestor. The You gain the ability to sprout a pair of dragon wings from
damge associated with each dragon is used by features your back, gaining a flying speed equal to your current speed.
purchased later. You can create these wings as a bonus action on your turn.
They last until you dismiss them as a bonus action on your
Draconic Ancestry turn.
Dragon Breed Damage Type You can not manifest your wings while wearing armor
Black Acid unless the armor is made to accommadate them, and
clothing not made to accommodate your wings might be
Blue Lightning destroyed when you manifest them.
Brass Fire
Bronze Lightning Durable Summons
Copper Acid Prerequisite: Conjuration Savant
Gold Fire
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
Green Poison
Any creature that you summon or create with a conjuration
spell has 30 temporary hit points.
Red Fire
Silver Cold Elder Champion
White Cold Prerequisite: Ability to cast Divine spells, Channel Divinity.
XP Cost: 2,000 xp
You can speak, read, and write Draconid.Additionally, You can assume the form of an ancient force of nature,
whenever you make a Charisma check when interacting with taking on the appearance you choose. For example, your skin
dragons, your proficiency bonus is doubled if it applies to the might turn green or take on a bark-like texture, your hair
check. might become leafy or moss-like, or you might sprout antlers
or a line-like mane.
Draconic Presence Using your action, you undergo a transformation. For 1
Prerequisite: Dragon Ancestor minute, you gain the following benefits:
XP Cost: 1,800 xp At the start of each of your turns, you regain 10 hit points.
You can channel the dread presence of your draconic Whenever you cast a Divine spell that has a casting time
ancestor, causing those around you to become awestruck or of 1 action, you can cast it using a bonus action instead.
frightened. As an action, you can spend 5 Sorcery Points to
draw on this power and exude an aura of awe or fear (your Enemy creatures within 10 feet of you have disadvantage
choice) to a distance of 60 feet. For 1 minute or until you lose on saving throws against your Divine spells and Channel
your concentration (as if you were casting a concentration Divinity features.
spell), each hostile creature that starts it's turn in this aura
must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed (if Once you use this feature, you can not use it again until you
you chose Awe) or frightened (if you chose fear) until the aura finish a long rest.
ends. A creature that succeeds on this saving throw is
immune to your aura for 24 hours. Eldritch Master
Draconic Resilience Prerequisite: Pact Boon, Pact Magic
Prerequisite: Draconic Ancestor XP Cost: 2,000 xp
XP Cost: 100 xp You can draw on your inner reserver of mystical power
As magic flows through your body, it causes physical traits while entreating your patron to regain expended spell slots.
of your dragon ancestors to emerge. Your hit point maximum You can spend 1 minute entreating your patron for aid to
increases by 1 and further increases by 1 whenever you regain all your expended spell slots from your Pact Magic
purchase a hit die. feature. Once you regain spell slots with this feature, you
Also, parts of your skin are covered by a thin sheen of must finish a long rest before you can do so again.
dragon-like scales. When you are not wearing armor, your AC
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 Eldritch Strike Entropic Ward
Prerequisite: Weapon Bond Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane Spells
XP Cost: 1,000 xp XP Cost: 600 xp
You learn how to make your weapon strikes undercut a You learn to magically ward yourself against attack and to
creature's resistance to your spells. When you hit a creature turn an enemy’s failed strike into good luck for yourself.
with a weapon attack, that creature has disadvantage on the When a creature makes an attack roll against you, you can
next saving throw it makes against a spell you cast before the use your reaction to impose disadvantage on that roll. If the
start of your next turn. attack misses you, your next attack roll against the creature
has advantage if you make it before the end of your next turn.
Elemental Affinity Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
finish a short or long rest.
Prerequisite: Draconic Ancestor
XP Cost: 600 xp Evasion
When you cast a spell that deals damage of the type Prerequisite: Uncanny Dodge
associated with your draconic ancesorm add your Charisma XP Cost: 700 xp
modifier to that damage. At the same time, you can spend 1
sorcery point to gain resistance to that damage type for 1 You can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects,
hour. 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
Elemental Wild Shape Dexterity saving throw to take half damage, you instead take
no damage if you succeed on the saving throw and only half if
Prerequisite: Wild Shape you fail.
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
You can expende two uses of Wild Shape at the same time Evocation Savant
to transform into an Air, Earth Fire, or Water elemental. Prerequisite: Spellbook
Elusive XP Cost: 200 xp
The gold and time you must spend to copy an evocation
Prerequisite: None spell into your spellbook is halved.
XP Cost: 1,800 xp Once you purchase this ability, you cannot purchase
You are so evasive that attackers rarely gain the upper hand another from a different school of magic.
against you. No attack roll has advantage against you while
you are not incapacitated. Expert Divination
Empowered Evocation Prerequisite: Divination Savant
XP Cost: 600 xp
Prerequisite: Evocation Savant Casting divination spells comes so easily to you that it
XP Cost: 1,000 xp expends only a fraction of your spellcasting efforts. When you
You can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage roll cast a divination spell of 2nd level or higher using a spell slot,
of any evocation spell you cast. you regain one expended spell slot. The slot you regain must
be of a level lower than the spell you cast and can’t be higher
Empty Body than 5th level.
Prerequisite: Ki Expertise
XP Cost: 1,800 xp
You can use your action to spend 4 Ki points to become Prerequisite: None
invisible for 1 minute. During that time, you also have XP Cost: 100 xp
resistance to all damage except Force damage. Choose two of your skill proficiencies, or one of your skill
Additionally, you can spend 8 Ki points to cast the Astral proficiencies and your proficiency with theive's tools if you
Projection spell without needing material components. If you have it. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability
do so, you can not take any other creature with you. check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.
Enchantment Savant Fast Hands
Prerequisite: Spellbook Prerequisite: Cunning Action
XP Cost: 200 xp XP Cost: 300 xp
The gold and time you must spend to copy an enchantment You can use the bonus action granted by Cunning Action to
spell into your spellbook is halved. make a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check, use your Thieve's
Once you purchase this ability, you cannot purchase Tools to siarm a trap or open a lock, or take the Use an
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Fast Movement
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 500 xp
Your speed increases by 10 feet while you are not wearing
heavy armor.
Favored Enemy
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 100 xp
You have significant experience studying, tracking, hunting,
and even talking to a certain type of enemy commonly
encountered in the wilds.
Choose a type of favored enemy: beasts, fey, humanoids,
monstrosities, or undead. You gain a +2 bonus to damage
rolls with weapon attacks against creatures of the chosen
type. Additionally, you have advantage on Wisdom (Survival)
checks to track your favored enemies, as well as on
Intelligence checks to recall information about them. If you
choose Humanoids, you must further specify, for example you
can choose humanoid twice with each enemy being a
Goblinoid (goblin and hobgoblin) and Orc. Or they can be
Kobolds and Humans, or Orcs and Elves, etc.
When you gain this feature, you also learn one language of
your choice, typically one spoken by your favored enemy or
creatures associated with it.
Feral Instinct
Prerequisite: Rage
XP Cost: 700 xp
Your instincts are so honeed that you have advantage on
initiative rolls.
Additionally, if you are surprised at the beginning of
combat and are not incapacitated, you can act normally on
your first turn, but only if you enter a rage before doing
anything else that turn.
Feral Senses
Prerequisite: Primeval Awareness
XP Cost: 1,800 xp
You gain preternatural senses that help you fight creatures
you can’t see. When you attack a creature you can’t see, your
inability to see it doesn’t impose disadvantage on your attack
rolls against it.
You are also aware of the location of any invisible creature
within 30 feet of you, provided that the creature isn’t hidden
from you and you aren’t blinded or deafened.
Fey Presence
Prerequisite: Otherworldly Patron (Fey)
XP Cost: 100 xp
Your patron bestows upon you the ability to project the
beguiling and fearsome presence of the fey. As an action, you
can cause each creature in a 10 fot cube originating from you
make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. The
creatures that fail the saving throw are all charmed or
frightened (your Choice) until the end of your next turn.
Once you use this feature, you can not use it again until you
finish a short or long rest.
Fiendish Resilience
Prerequisite: Otherworldly Patron (Fiend)
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
You can choose one damage type when you finish a short
or long rest. You gain resistance to that damage type until you
choose a different one with this feature. Damage from
magical weapons or silvered weapons ignored this
resistance.
Focused Conjuration
Prerequisite: Conjuration Savant
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
While you are concentrating on a conjuration spell, your
concentration can’t be broken as a result of taking damage.
Foe Slayer
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 2,000 xp
You become an unparalleled hunter. Once on each of your
turns, you can add your Wisdom modifier to the attack roll or
the damage roll of an attack you make. You can choose to use
this feature before or after the roll, but before any effects of
the roll are applied.
Font of Inspiration
Prerequisite: Bardic Inspiration
XP Cost: 500 xp
You regain all expended uses of Bardic Inspiration when
you finish a short or long rest.
Frenzy
Prerequisite: Rage
XP Cost: 300 xp
You can go into a frenzy when you rage. If you do so, for the
duration of your rage you can make a single weapon melee
weapon attack as a bonus action on each of your turns after
this one. When your rage ends, you suffer one level of
exhaustion.
Greater Favored Enemy
Prerequisite: Favored Enemy
XP Cost: 600 xp
You are ready to hunt even deadlier game. Choose a type of
greater favored enemy: aberrations, celestials, constructs,
dragons, elementals, fiends, or giants. You gain all the
benefits against this chosen enemy that you normally gain
against your favored enemy, including an additional language.
Your bonus to damage rolls against all your favored enemies
increases to +4.
Additionally, you have advantage on saving throws against
the spells and abilities used by a greater favored enemy.
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 Greater Portent
Prerequisite: Portent
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
The visions in your dreams intensify and paint a more
accurate picture in your mind of what is to come. You roll
three d20s for your Portent feature, rather than two.
Grim Harvest
Prerequisite: Necromancy Savant
XP Cost: 200 xp
You gain the ability to reap life energy from creatures you
kill with your spells. Once per turn when you kill one or more
creatures with a spell of 1st level or higher, you regain hit
points equal to twice the spell’s level, or three times its level if
the spell belongs to the School of Necromancy. You don’t gain
this benefit for killing constructs or undead.
Hide in Plain Sight
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
You can remain perfectly still for long periods of time to set
up ambushes.
When you attempt to hide on your turn, you can opt to not
move on that turn. If you avoid moving, creatures that attempt
to detect you take a −10 penalty to their Wisdom (Perception)
checks until the start of your next turn. You lose this benefit if
you move or fall prone, either voluntarily or because of some
external effect. You are still automatically detected if any
effect or action causes you to no longer be hidden.
If you are still hidden on your next turn, you can continue
to remain motionless and gain this benefit until you are
detected.
Holy Nimbus
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Divine spells.
XP Cost: 2,000 xp
As an action, you can emanate an aura of sunlight. for 1
minute, bright light shines from you in a 30-foot radius, and
dim light shines 30 feet beyond that.
Whenever an emeny creature starts it's turn in this bright
light, the creature takes 10 radiant damage.
In addition, for the duration you have advantage on saving
throws against spells cast by fiends or undead.
Once you use this feature, you can not use it again until you
finish a short or long rest.
Hunter's Prey
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 300 xp
You gain one of the following features of your choice.
Colossus Slayer. Your tenacity can wear down the most
potent foes. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack,
the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage if it’s below its hit
point maximum. You can deal this extra damage only once
per turn.
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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.
Hurl Through Hell
Prerequisite: Otherworldly Patron (Fiend)
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
When you hit a creature with an attack, you can use this
feature to instantly transport the target through the lower
planes. The creature disappears and hurtles through a
nightmare landscape
At the end of your next turn, the target returns to the space
it previously occupied, or the nearest unoccupied space. If the
target is not a fiend, it takes 10d10 psychic damage as it reels
from it's horrific experience.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you
finish a long rest.
Hypnotic Gaze
Prerequisite: Enchantment Savant
XP Cost: 200 xp
Your soft words and enchanting gaze can magically
enthrall another creature. As an action, choose one creature
that you can see within 5 feet of you. If the target can see or
hear you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against
your wizard spell save DC or be charmed by you until the end
of your next turn. The charmed creature’s speed drops to 0,
and the creature is incapacitated and visibly dazed.
On subsequent turns, you can use your action to maintain
this effect, extending its duration until the end of your next
turn. However, the effect ends if you move more than 5 feet
away from the creature, if the creature can neither see nor
hear you, or if the creature takes damage.
Once the effect ends, or if the creature succeeds on its
initial saving throw against this effect, you can’t use this
feature on that creature again until you finish a long rest.
Illusion Savant
Prerequisite: Spellbook
XP Cost: 200 xp
The gold and time you must spend to copy an illusion spell
into your spellbook is halved.
Once you purchase this ability, you cannot purchase
another from a different school of magic.
Illusory Self
Prerequisite: Illusion Savant
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
You can create an illusory duplicate of yourself as an
instant, almost instinctual reaction to danger. When a
creature makes an attack roll against you, you can use your
reaction to interpose the illusory duplicate between the
attacker and yourself. The attack automatically misses you,
then the illusion dissipates.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you Improved Divine Smite
finish a short or long rest.
Prerequisite: Divine Smite
Impostor XP Cost: 1,100 xp
Prerequisite: Proficiency with Disguise Kit You are so suffused with righteous might that all your
XP Cost: 1,300 xp melee weapon strikes carry divine power with them.
You gain the ability to unerringly mimic another person's Whenever you hit a creature with a melee weapon, the
speech, writing, and behavior. You must spend at least 3 creature takes an extra 1d8 radiant damage. If you also use
hours studying these three components of the person's your Divine Smite with an attack, you add this damage to the
behavior; listening to their speech, examining handwriting extra damage of your Divine Smite.
and observing mannerisms. Improved Duplicity
Your ruse is indiscernible to the casual observer. If a wary
creature suspects something is amiss, you have advantage on Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric): Invoke Duplicity
any Charisma (Deception) check you make to avoid detection. XP Cost: 1,700 xp
You can create up to four duplicates of yourself, instead of
Improved Abjuration one, when you use Invoke Duplicity. As a bonus action on
Prerequisite: Abjuration Savant your turn, you can move any number of them up to 30 feet, to
XP Cost: 1,000 xp a maximum range of 120 feet.
When you cast an abjuration spell that requires you to Improved Expertise
make an ability check as a part of casting that spell (as in
Counterspell and Dispel Magic), you add your proficiency Prerequisite: Expertise
bonus to that ability check. XP Cost: 600 xp
Choose two of your proficiencies (skills or thieve's tools if
Improved Aura of Courage you have it) that you did not pick with Expertise. Your
Prerequisite: Aura of Courage proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check made using
XP Cost: 1,800 xp either of the chosen proficiencies.
The range of Aura of Courage increases to 30 feet. Improved Flare
Improved Aura of Devotion Prerequisite: Warding Flare
XP Cost: 600 xp
Prerequisite: Aura of Devotion
XP Cost: 1,800 xp You can now use your Warding Flare feature when a
creature that you can see within 30 feet of you attacks a
The range of Aura of Devotion is increased to 30 feet. creature other than you.
Improved Aura of Protection Improved Minor Illusion
Prerequisite: Aura of Protection Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane spells
XP Cost: 1,800 xp XP Cost: 200 xp
The range of Aura of Protection becomes 30 feet. You learn the Minor Illusion cantrip. If you already know
this cantrip, you learn a different arcane cantrip of your
Improved Aura of Warding choice. The cantrip does not count against your number of
Prerequisite: Aura of Warding cantrips known if applicable.
XP Cost: 1,800 xp When you cast Minor Illusion, you can create both a sound
and an image with a single casting of the spell.
The range of Aura of Warding is increased to 30 feet.
Improved War Magic
Improved Critical
Prerequisite: War Magic
Prerequisite: None XP Cost: 1,800 xp
XP Cost: 300 xp When you use your action to cast a spell, you can make one
Your weapon attacks now score a critical hit on a roll of 19 weapon attack as a bonus action.
or 20.
Indomitable Might
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,800 xp
If your total for a Strength check is less than your Strength
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 Infiltration Expertise
Prerequisite: Proficiency with Disquise Kit.
XP Cost: 900 xp
You can unfailingly create false identities for yourself. You
must spend 7 days and 25gp to establish the history,
profession, and affiliations for an identity. You can not
establish an identity that belongs to someone else. For
example, you might acquire appropriate clothing, letters of
introduction, and officialy-looking certificates to establish
yourself as a member of a trading house from a remote city
so you can insinuate yourself into the company of the other
wealthy merchants.
Thereafter, if you adopt the new identity as a disguise,
other creatures believe you to be that person until given an
obvious reason not to.
Instinctive Charm
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane Spells
XP Cost: 600 xp
When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes
an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to divert
the attack, provided that another creature is within the
attack’s range. The attacker must make a Wisdom saving
throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the
attacker must target the creature that is closest to it, not
including you or itself. If multiple creatures are closest, the
attacker chooses which one to target. On a successful save,
you can’t use this feature on the attacker again until you
finish a long rest.
You must choose to use this feature before knowing
whether the attack hits or misses. Creatures that can’t be
charmed are immune to this effect.
Intimidating Presence
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
You can use your action to frighten someon with your
menacing presence. When you do so, choose one creature
within 30 feet of you that can see or hear you. It must
succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your
proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or be
frightened of you until the end of your next turn. On
subsequent turns, you can use your action to extend the
duration of this effect on the frightened creature until the end
of your next turn. This effect ends if the creature ends it's
turn out of line of sight or more than 60 feet away.
If the creature succeeds on it's saving throw, you can not
use this feature on that again for 24 hours.
Inured to Undeath
Prerequisite: Necromancy Savant
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
You have resistance to necrotic damage, and your hit point
maximum can't be reduced. You have spent so much time
dealing with undead and the forces that animate them that
you have become inured to some of their worst effects.
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Jack of All Trades
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can add half of your proficiency bonus, rounded down,
to any ability check you make that does not already include
your proficiency bonus.
Ki-Empowered Strikes
Prerequisite: Martial Arts
XP Cost: 600 xp
Your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of
overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks
and damage.
Land's Stride
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 600 xp
Moving through non-magical difficult terrain costs you no
extra movment. You can also pass through nonmagical plants
without being slowed by them and without taking damage
from them if they have thorns, spines or similar natural
hazard.
In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against
plants that are amgically created or manipulated to impede
movement, such as those create by the Entangle spell.
Lay on Hands
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Divine spells.
XP Cost: 100 xp
Your blessed touch can heal 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 5 x your ECL.
As an action, you can touch a creature and draw power
from this divine pool to restore a number of hit points to that
creature, up to the maximum amount of remaining points in
your pool.
Alternatively, you can spend 5 points from this pool to cure
the target of one diseas or neutralize one poison affecting it.
you can cure multiple disease and neutralize poisons with a
single use of this feature, expending points separately for
each one.
This feature has no effect on Undead and Constructs.
Mage Hand Legerdemain
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Mage Hand, Dexterity 16 or
higher, Cunning Action
XP Cost: 300 xp
When you cast Mage Hand, you can make the spectral
hand invisible, and you can perform the following additional
tasks with it:
You can stow on object the hand is holding in a container
worn or carried by another creature.
You can retrieve an object in a container worn or carried
by another creature.
 You can use Thieve's Tools to pick locks and disarm traps
at range.
You can perform one of these tasks without being noticed
by a creature if you succeed on a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand)
check contested by the creature's Wisdom (Perception)
check.
In addition, you can use the Bonus action granted by
Cunning Action to control the hand.
Magical Ambush
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells
XP Cost: 900 xp
If you are hidden from a creature when you cast a spell on
it, the creature has disadvantage on any saving throw it
makes against the spell this turn.
Malleable Illusions
Prerequisite: Illusion Savant
XP Cost: 600 xp
When you cast an illusion spell that has a duration of 1
minute or longer, you can use your action to change the
nature of that illusion (using the spell’s normal parameters
for the illusion), provided that you can see the illusion.
Master of Nature
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric): Charm Animals and
Plants
XP Cost: 1,700 xp
You gain the ability to command animals and plant
creatures. While creatures are charmed by your Channel
Divinity (Cleric): Charm animals and Plants feature, you can
take a bonus action on your turn to verbally command what
each of those creatures will do on it's next turn.
Master Transmuter
Prerequisite: Transmuter's Stone
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You can use your action to consume the reserve of
transmutation magic stored within your transmuter’s stone in
a single burst. When you do so, choose one of the following
effects. Your transmuter’s stone is destroyed and can’t be
remade until you finish a long rest.
Major Transformation. You can transmute one
nonmagical object—no larger than a 5-foot cube—into
another nonmagical object of similar size and mass and of
equal or lesser value. You must spend 10 minutes
handling the object to transform it.
Panacea. You remove all curses, diseases, and poisons
affecting a creature that you touch with the transmuter’s
stone. The creature also regains all its hit points.
Restore Life. You cast the Raise Dead spell on a creature
you touch with the transmuter’s stone, without expending
a spell slot or needing to have the spell in your spellbook.
Restore Youth. You touch the transmuter’s stone to a
willing creature, and that creature’s apparent age is
reduced by 3d10 years, to a minimum of 13 years. This
effect doesn’t extend the creature’s lifespan.
Mindless Rage
Prerequisite: Rage
XP Cost: 600 xp
You can not be charmed of frightened while raging. If you
are charmed of frightened when you enter your rage, the
effect is suspended for the duration of the rage.
Minor Alchemy
Prerequisite: Transmutation Savant
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can temporarily alter the physical properties of one
nonmagical object, changing it from one substance into
another. You perform a special alchemical procedure on one
object composed entirely of wood, stone (but not a gemstone),
iron, copper, or silver, transforming it into a different one of
those materials. For every 10 minutes you spend performing
the procedure, you can transform up to 1 cubic foot of
material.
After 1 hour, or until you lose your concentration (as if you
were concentrating on a spell), the material reverts to its
original substance.
Minor Conjuration
Prerequisite: Conjuration Savant
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can use your action to conjure up an inanimate object
in your hand or on the ground in an unoccupied space that
you can see within 10 feet of you. This object can be no larger
than 3 feet on a side and weigh no more than 10 pounds, and
its form must be that of a nonmagical object that you have
seen. The object is visibly magical, radiating dim light out to 5
feet.
The object disappears after 1 hour, when you use this
feature again, or if it takes any damage.
Misty Escape
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane spells
XP Cost: 600 xp
You can vanish in a puff of mist in response to harm. When
you take damage, you can use your reaction to turn invisible
and teleport 60 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see.
You remain invisible until the start of your next turn or until
you attack or cast a spell.
Once you use this feature, you can not use it again until you
finish a short or long rest
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 Multiattack
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,100 xp
You gain one of the following features of your choice.
Volley. You can use your action to make a ranged attack
against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point you
can see within your weapon’s range. You must have
ammunition for each target, as normal, and you make a
separate attack roll for each target.
Whirlwind Attack. You can use your action to make melee
attacks against any number of creatures within 5 feet of you,
with a separate attack roll for each target.
Natural Explorer
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 100 xp
You are a master of navigating the natural world, and you
react with swift and decisive action when attacked. This
grants you the following benefits:
You ignore Difficult Terrain.
You have advantage on initiative rolls.
On your first turn during combat, you have advantage on
attack rolls against creatures that have not yet acted.
In addition, you are skilled at navigating the wilderness.
You gain the following benefits when traveling for an hour or
more:
Difficult terrain doesn’t slow your group’s travel.
Your group can’t become lost except by magical means.
Even when you are engaged in another activity while
traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking), you
remain alert to danger.
If you are traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a
normal pace.
When you forage, you find twice as much food as you
normally would.
While tracking other creatures, you also learn their exact
number, their sizes, and how long ago they passed
through the area.
Natural Recovery
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Prepared,
Wisdom-based caster
XP Cost: 200 xp
You regain some of your magical energy by sitting in
meditation and communing with nature. Durring a short rest,
you choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots
can have a combined level equal to or less than half your
ECL, and no slots can be 6th level or higher. You can not use
this feature again until you finish a long rest.
For example, as a caster with an ECL of 4, you can recover
up to two levels worth of spell slots. You can recover a single
2nd-level slot or two 1st-level slots.
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Nature's Sanctuary
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Prepared,
Wisdom-based caster
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
Creatures of the natural world sense your connection to
nature and become hesitant to attack you. When a beast or
plant creature attacks you, that creature must make a
Wisdom saving throw against your Spell Save DC. On a
failed save, the creature must choose a different target, or the
attack automatically misses. On a successful save, the
creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours.
The creature is aware of this effect before it makes it's
attack against you.
Nature's Ward
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
You can no longer be charmed, or frightened by elementals
or fey, and you are immune to poison and disease.
Necromancy Savant
Prerequisite: Spellbook
XP Cost: 200 xp
The gold and time you must spend to copy an necromancy
spell into your spellbook is halved.
Once you purchase this ability, you cannot purchase
another from a different school of magic.
Open Hand Technique
Prerequisite: Ki
XP Cost: 300 xp
You can manipulate your enemy's Ki when you harness
your own. Whenever you hit a creature with one of the
attacks granted by Flurry of Blows, you can impose one of
the following effects on that target:
It must succeed on a Dexterity Saving throw or be
knocked prone.
It must make a Strength saving throw. If it fails, you can
push it up to 15 feet away from you.
It can not take reactions until the end of your next turn.
Opportunist
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,700 xp
You can exploit a creature's momentary distraction when it
is hit by an attack. Whenever a creature within 5 feet of you is
hit by an attack made by a creature other than you, you can
use your reaction to make a melee attack against that
creature.
Overchannel
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane Spells
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You can increase the power of your simpler spells. When
you cast a spell of 5th level or lower that deals damage, you
can deal maximum damage with that spell.
The first time you do so, you suffer no adverse effect. If you
use this feature again before you finish a long rest, you take
2d12 necrotic damage for each level of the spell, immediately
after you cast it. Each time you use this feature again before
finishing a long rest, the necrotic damage per spell level
increases by 1d12. This damage ignores resistance and
immunity.
Pact Boon
Prerequisite: Otherworldly Patron
XP Cost: 300 xp
Your Otherworldly Patron has bestowed a gift upon you for
your loyal service. You gain one of the following features of
your choice.
Pact of the Chain
You learn the Find Familiar spell and can cast it only as a
ritual. The spell does not count against your number of spells
known.
When you cast the spell, you may choose one of the normal
forms for your familiar, or one of the following ones: Imp,
Psuedodragon, Quasit, or Sprite.
Additionally, when you take the attack action, you can forgo
one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to make one
attack of it's own.
Pact of the Blade
You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your
empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon
takes each time you create it (see Chapter 5 of the PHB for
weapon options). You are considered proficient with it while
you wield it. This weapon counts as magical for the purpose
of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical
attacks and damage.
Your pact weapon disappears if it is more than 5 feet away
from you for 1 minute or more. It also disappears if you use
this feature again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action
required), or if you die.
You can transform one magical weapon into your pact
weapon by performing a special ritual while holding it. You
perform this ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be
done during a short rest. You can then dismiss the weapon,
shunting it into an extradimensional space, and it appears
whenever you create your pact weapon thereafter. You can
not affect an artifact or sentient weapon in this way. The
weapon ceases being your pact weapon f you die, if you
perform the 1 hour ritual on a different weapon, or if you use
a 1 hour ritual to break your bond to it. The weapon appears
at your feet if it is in the extradimensional space when the
bond breaks.
Pact of the Tome
Your patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows.
When you gain this feature, choose three cantrips from any
spell list. While this book is on your person, you can cast
those cantrips at will. They do not count against your number
of cantrips know.
If you lose your Book of Shadows, you can perform a 1
hour ceremony to recieve a replacement from your patron.
This ceremony can be performed during a short or long rest,
and it destroys the previous book. The book turns to ash
when you die.
Pact Magic
Prerequisite: Otherworldly Patron
XP Cost: 150 xp
You have lost the ability to choose which spell slots to
purchase. This feature makes the maximum spell slot
available to you 5th level. Once you purchase this feature, you
can not purchase any spell slots above 5th level. If you have
already purchased spell slots above 5th level before
purchasing this feature, you get all expended XP refunded
from those purchases. You can not purchase the Ritual
Casting feature after purchasing Pact Magic, and if you have
already purchased it before purchasing this feature, you get
that expended XP refunded and lose Ritual Casting.
Peerless Skill
Prerequisite: Bardic Inspiration
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
When you mke an avility check, you can spend one sue of
Bardic Inspiration. Roll a Bardic Isnpiration die and add the
number rolled to your ability check. You can choose to use
this feature after you roll the die for the ability check, but
before the DM determines the outcome.
Perfect self
Prerequisite: Ki
XP Cost: 2,000 xp
When you roll for initiative and have no Ki points
remaining, you regain 4 Ki points.
Persistent Rage
Prerequisite: Rage
XP Cost: 1,500 xp
Your rage is so fierce that it ends early only if you fall
unconscious of when you choose to end it.
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 Portent
Prerequisite: Divination Savant
XP Cost: 200 xp
Glimpses of the future begin to press in on your awareness.
When you finish a long rest, roll two d20s and record the
numbers rolled. You can replace any attack roll, saving throw,
or ability check made by you or a creature that you can see
with one of these foretelling rolls. You must choose to do so
before the roll, and you can replace a roll in this way only
once per turn.
Each foretelling roll can be used only once. When you
finish a long rest, you lose any unused foretelling rolls.
Potent Cantrip
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Cantrips
XP Cost: 600 xp
Your damaging cantrips affect even creatures that avoid the
brunt of the effect. When a creature succeeds on a saving
throw against your cantrip, the creature takes half the
cantrip’s damage (if any) but suffers no additional effect from
the cantrip.
Potent Spellcasting
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Prepared,
Wisdom-based caster
XP Cost: 800 xp
You now add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you
deal with any cantrip you cast of the Cleric Spell list.
Primal Champion
Prerequisite: Rage
XP Cost: 2,000 xp
You embody the power of the wilds. Your Strength and
Constitution scores both increase by 4. Your maximum for
those scores is now 24.
Primal Strike
Prerequisite: Wild Shape
XP Cost: 600 xp
Your attacks in Beast form count as magical for the
purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to non-
magical attacks and damage.
Primeval Awareness
Prerequisite: Favored Enemy
XP Cost: 300 xp
Your mastery of ranger lore allows you to establish a
powerful link to beasts and to the land around you.
You have an innate ability to communicate with beasts, and
they recognize you as a kindred spirit. Through sounds and
gestures, you can communicate simple ideas to a beast as an
action, and can read its basic mood and intent. You learn its
emotional state, whether it is affected by magic of any sort, its
short-term needs (such as food or safety), and actions you can
take (if any) to persuade it to not attack.
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You cannot use this ability against a creature that you have
attacked within the past 10 minutes.
Additionally, you can attune your senses to determine if any
of your favored enemies lurk nearby. By spending 1
uninterrupted minute in concentration (as if you were
concentrating on a spell), you can sense whether any of your
favored enemies are present within 5 miles of you. This
feature reveals which of your favored enemies are present,
their numbers, and the creatures’ general direction and
distance (in miles) from you.
If there are multiple groups of your favored enemies within
range, you learn this information for each group.
Projected Ward
Prerequisite: Arcane Ward
XP Cost: 600 xp
When a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you
takes damage, you can use your reaction to cause your
Arcane Ward to absorb that damage. If this damae reduces
the ward to 0 hit points, the warded creature takes any
remaining damage.
Purity of Body
Prerequisite: Ki
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
Your mastery of the Ki flowing through you makes you
immune to diseas and poison.
Purity of spirit
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Divine spells.
XP Cost: 1,500 xp
You are always under the effects of a Protection from Evil
and Good spell.
Quivering Palm
Prerequisite: Ki, Martial Arts
XP Cost: 1,700 xp
You gain the ability to set up lethal vibrations in someone's
body. When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you
can spend 3 Ki points to start these imperceptible vibrations,
which last for a number of days equal to your ECL. The
vibrations are harmless unless you use your action to end
them. To do so, you and the target must be on the same plane
of existence. When you use this action, the creature must
make a Constitution saving throw. If it fails, it is reduced to 0
hit points. If it succeeds, it takes 10d10 necrotic damage.
You can only have one creature under the effect of this
feature at a time. You can choose to end the vibrations
harmlessly without using an action if you choose.
Reckless Attack
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with
fierce desperation. When you make your first attack on your
turn, you can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so gives you
advantage on melee weapon attack rolls that use Strength
during this turn, but all attack rolls against you have
advantage until your next turn.
Relentless Avenger
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 700 xp
Your supernatural focus helps you close off a foe's retreat.
When you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, you can
move up to half of your movement speed immediately after
the attack and as part of the same reaction. This movement
does not provoke opportunity attacks.
Relentless Rage
Prerequisite: Rage
XP Cost: 1,100 xp
Your rage can keep you fighting despite grievous wounds. If
you drop to 0 hit points while you are raging and you do not
die outright, you can make a DC 10 Constitution saving
throw. If you succeed, you instead drop to 1 hit point.
Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC
increases by 5. When you finish a short or long rest, the DC
resets to 10.
Reliable Talent
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,100 xp
You have refined your your chosen skills until they
approach perfection. Whener you make an ability check that
let's you add your proficiency bonus, you can treat a d20 roll
of 9 or lower as a 10.
Remarkable Athlete
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 700 xp
You can add half your proficiency bonus (rounded down) to
any Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution check that you make
that does not already use your proficiency bonus.
In addition, when you make a running long jump, the
distance you cover increases by a number of feet equal to
your Strength modifier.
Retaliation
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
When you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet
of you, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon
attack against that creature.
Ritual Spellcasting
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells
XP Cost: 100 xp
You can cast any spell you know as a ritual if that spell has
the Ritual tag.
Sculpt Spells
Prerequisite: Evocation Savant
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can create pockets of relative safety within the effects
of your evocation spells. When you cast an evocation spell
that affects other creatures that you can see, you can choose
a number of them equal to 1 + the spell’s level. The chosen
creatures automatically succeed on their saving throws
against the spell, and they take no damage if they would
normally take half damage on a successful save.
Second Wind
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 100 xp
You have a limited well of stamina that you can draw on to
protect yourself from harm. On your turn, you can use a
bonus action to regain hitpoints equal to 1d10 + your ECL.
Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long
rest before you can use it again.
Second-Story Work
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 300 xp
You gain the ability to climb faster than normal. Climbing
no longer costs you extra movement.
In addition, when you make a running jump, the distance
you cover increases by a number of feet equal to your
Dexterity modifier.
Shadow Arts
Prerequisite: Ki
XP Cost: 300 xp
You can use your Ki to duplicate the effects of certain
spells. As an action you can spend 2 Ki points to cast
Darkness, Darkvision, Pass Without Trace, or Silence
without providing material components. Additionally, you
gain the Minor Illusion cantrip if you do not already know it.
Shadow Step
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 600 xp
You gain the ability to step from one shadow into another.
When you are in dim light or darkness, as a bonus action you
can teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space that you
can see that is also in dim light or darkness. you then have
advantage on the first melee attack you make before the end
of your turn.
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 Shapechanger
Prerequisite: Transmutation Savant
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
You add the Polymorph spell to your spellbook, if it is not
there already. You can cast Polymorph without expending a
spell slot. When you do so, you can target only yourself and
transform into a beast w hose challenge rating is 1 or lower.
Once you cast polymorph in this way, you can’t do so again
until you finish a short or long rest, though you can still cast it
normally using an available spell slot.
Slow Fall
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 400 xp
You can use your reaction when you fall to reduce any
falling damage you take by an amount equal to five times your
ECL.
Sorcerous Restoration
Prerequisite: Font of Magic
XP Cost: 2,000 xp
You regain 4 expended sorcery points whenever you finish
a short or long rest.
Soul of Vengeance
Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Paladin)
XP Cost: 1,500 xp
The authority with which you speak your Vow of Emnity
gives you greater power over your foe. When a creature
under the effect of your Vow of Emnity makes an attack, you
can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack afainst
that creature if it is within range.
Spell Bombardment
Prerequisite: Ability to cast arcane spells
XP Cost: 1,800 xp
The harmful energy of your spells intensifies. When you
roll damage for a spell and roll the highest number possible
on any dice, choose one of those dice and roll it again. You
may add that roll to the damage dealt. You can use this
feature only once per turn.
Spell Mastery
Prerequisite: Spellbook
XP Cost: 1,800 xp
You have achieved such mastery over certain spells that
you can cast them at will. Choose a 1st-level spell and a 2nd-
level spell that are in your spellbook. You can cast those
spells at their lowest level without expending a spell slot
when you have them prepared. If you want to cast either spell
at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot as normal.
By spending 8 hours in study, you can exchange one or
both of the spells you chose for different spells of the same
levels.
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Spell Resistance
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You have advantage on saving throws against spells.
Furthermore, you have resistance against the damage of
spells.
Spell Thief
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as an Arcane,
Spontaneous, Intelligence-based caster
XP Cost: 1,700 xp
You gain the ability to magically steal the knowledge of how
to cast a spell from another spellcaster.
Immediately after a creature casts a spell that targets you
or include you it's area of effect, you can use your reaction to
force the creature to make a saving throw using it's
spellcasting ability modifier. The DC equals your spell save
DC. On a failed save, you negate the spell's effect against you,
and you steal the knowledge of the spell if it is at least 1st
level and of a level that you can cast (It does not need to be
included in your spell list). For the next 8 hours, you know the
spell and can cast it using your spell slots. The creature can
not cast that spell until the 8 hours has passed.
Once you use this feature, you can not use it again until you
finish a long rest.
Spellbook
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane spells
P Cost: 150 xp
his follows the same spellbook rules for Wizards found
in the PHB. *
The spells that you add to your spellbook reflect the arcane
research you conduct on your own, as well as the 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 room, for example, or a dusty tome in an
ancient library.
Copying a spell into the spellbook. * When you find an
arcane spell of 1st level or higher, you can add it to your
spellbook. You must have the spell slots required to cast it
and it must be of a spell list that you can cast. Plus you
must have the spare time needed 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 caster who wrote it. You must
practice the spell until you understand the sounds and
gestrues required, then transcribe it into your spellbook using
your own notations.
For each level of the spell, the process takes 2 hours and
costs 50gp. The cost represents the material componentsyou
expend as you expirement with the spell to master it, as well
as the fine inks you need to record it. Once you have spent
the required time and money, you can prepare the spell just
like your other spells.
 Replacing the spellbook. * You can copy a spell from Spirit Seeker
your own spellbook into another book, for example, if you
want to make a backup copy of your spellbook. This is just Prerequisite: None
like copying a new spell, but faster and easier, since you XP Cost: 300 xp
understand your own notations and already know how to Yours is a path that seeks attunement with the natural
cast the spell. You need only spend 1 hour and 10gp for world, giving you kinship with beasts. You gain the ability to
each level of the copied spell. cast the Beast Sense and Speak With Animals spells, but
If you lose your spellbook, you can use the same procedure only as rituals.
to transcribe the spells you have currently prepared into a
new spellbook. Filling out the remainder of your spellbook Spirit Walker
requires you to find new spells to do so. For this reason, Prerequisite: Totem Spirit
many arcane casters keep backup spellbooks in safe palces. XP Cost: 1,000 xp
The book's appearance. * Your spellbook is a unique You can cast the Commune with Nature spell, but only as a
compilation of spells with it's own decorative flourishes ritual. When you do so, a spiritual verson of the animal you
and margin notes. It might be a plain, functional leather chose for Totem Spirit appears to you to convey the
volume that you recieved as a gift from your master, a information.
finely bound gilt-edged tome you found in an ancient
library, or even a loose collection of notes scrounged Split Enchantment
together after you lost your previous book.
Prerequisite: Enchantment Savant
Spells in the spellbook. * Your spellbook starts with 100 XP Cost: 1,000 xp
pages. This spellbook contains 6 spells of 1st level from
the Wizard Spell List. all other pages are blank, to write When you cast an enchantment spell of 1st level or higher
more spells down as you discover them. you can also that targets only one creature, you can have it target a second
purchase spells to copy into your spellbook. Each spell creature.Ability Detail
purchased this way follows the Spells Known table to
determine XP cost, exlained later in this document. It Stalker's Dodge
takes 2 hours and 50gp to write a spell down, as explained Prerequisite: None
above. XP Cost: 1,500 xp
Whenever a creature attacks you and does not have
Spellcasting Focus advantage, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells on the creature’s attack roll against you. You can use this
XP Cost: 100 xp feature before or after the attack roll is made, but it must be
used before the outcome of the roll is determined.
You can use one object to act as a spellcasting focus for
your spells. This object will vary depending on your Stalker's Flurry
spellcasting type and spell list, as shown on the spellcasting
Focus Chart below. Prerequisite: None
Spellccasting Focus Chart
XP Cost: 1,100 xp
Spell spellcasting Once on each of your turns when you miss with an attack,
List Spellcasting type Focus you can make another attack.
Bard Arcane, Spotaneous, Charisma- Musical
based Instrument Stillness of Mind
Cleric Divine, Prepared, Wisdom- Holy Symbol Prerequisite: None
based XP Cost: 700 xp
Druid Divine, Prepared, Wisdom- Druidic Focus You can use your action to end one effect on yourself that is
based causing you to be charmed of frightened.
Paladin Divine, Prepared, Charisma- Holy Symbol
based Storm of Claws and Fangs
Sorcerer Arcane, Spontaneous, Charisma- Arcane Focus Prerequisite: Animal Companion
based XP Cost: 1,100 xp
Wizard Arcane, Prepared, Intelligence-
based
Arcane Focus Your companion can use its action to make a melee attack
against each creature of its choice within 5 feet of it, with a
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 Stormborn Stand Against the Tide. When a hostile creature misses
you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to force
Prerequisite: Wrath of the Storm that creature to repeat the same attack against another
XP Cost: 1,700 xp creature (other than itself) of your choice.
You now have a flying speed equal to your current walking Uncanny Dodge. When an attacker that you can see hits
speed whenever you are not underground or indoors. you with an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the
attack’s damage against you.
Stroke of Luck Superior Inspiration
Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: Bardic Inspiration
XP Cost: 2,000 xp XP Cost: 2,000
You have an uncanny knack for succeeding when you need When you roll initiative and have no uses of Bardic
to. If your attack misses a target within range, you can turn Inspiration left, you regain one use.
the miss into a hit. Alternatively, if you fail an ability check,
you can treat the d20 roll as a 20.
Once you use this feature, you can not use it again until you Supreme Healing
finish a short or long rest. Prerequisite: Divine Domain: Life
XP Cost: 1,700 xp
Student of War When you would normall roll one or more dice to restore
Prerequisite: None hit points with a spell, you instead use the highest number
XP Cost: 300 xp possible for each die. For example, instead of restoring 2d6
You gain proficiency with one type of artisan's tools of your hit points to a creature, you restore 12.
choice.
Supreme Sneak
Stunning Strike Prerequisite: Proficiency in Stealth
Prerequisite: Ki XP Cost: 900 xp
XP Cost: 500 xp You have advantage on a Dexterity (Stealth) check if you
You can interfere with the flow of Ki in an opponent's Body. move nomore than half your speed on the same turn.
When you hit another creature with a melee weapon attack,
you can spend 1 Ki point to attempt a Stunning Strike. The Survivor
target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be Prerequisite: None
stunned until the end of your next turn. XP Cost: 1,800 xp
Superior Beast's Defense You have attained the pinnacle of resilience in battle, At the
start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to 5 +
Prerequisite: Beast's Defense you Constitution modifier if you have no more than half of
XP Cost: 1,800 xp your hit points left. You do not gain this benefit if you have 0
Whenever an attacker that your companion can see hits it hit points.
with an attack, it can use its reaction to halve the attack’s
damage against it. The Third Eye
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane Spells
Superior Critical XP Cost: 1,000 xp
Prerequisite: Improved Critical You can use your action to increase your powers of
XP Cost: 1,500 xp perception. When you do so, choose one o f the following
Your weapon attacks now score a critical hit on a roll of 18- benefits, which lasts until you are incapacitated or you take a
20. short or long rest. You can’t use the feature again until you
finish a rest.
Superior Hunter's Defense Darkvison. You gain Darkvision with a range of 60 feet.
Prerequisite: None Ethereal Sight. You can see into the Etheral Plane within
XP Cost: 1,500 xp a range of 60 feet from you.
You gain one of the following features of your choice. Greater Comprehension. You can read any language
Evasion. When you are subjected to an effect, such as a except druidic and thieve's cant.
red dragon’s fiery breath or a lightning bolt spell, that allows
you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half See Invisibility. You can see invisible creates and objects
damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on a within 10 feet of you that are in line of sight.
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Thief's Reflexes
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,700 xp
You have become adept at laying ambushes and quickly
escaping danger. You can take two turns furing the first round
of any combat. You take your first turn at your normal
initiative and your second turn at your initiative minus 10. You
can not use this feature when you are surprised.
Thought Shield
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,000 xp
Your thoughts can’t be read by telepathy or other means
unless you allow it. You also have resistance to psychic
damage, and whenever a creature deals psychic damage to
you, that creature takes the same amount of damage that you
do.
Thousand Forms
Prerequisite: Wild shape
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You have learned to use magic to alter your physical body
in more subtle ways. you can cast the Alter Self spell at will.
Thunderbolt Strike
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 600 xp
When you deal lightning damage to a Large or smaller
creature, you can also push it up to 10 feet away from you.
Tides of Chaos
Prerequisite: Wild Magic Surge
XP Cost: 100 xp
You can manipulate the forces of chance and chaos to gain
advantage on one attack roll, ability check, or saving throw.
Once you do so, you must finish a long rest before you can
use this feature again.
Any time before you regain the use of this feature, the DM
may roll on the Wild Magic Surge table immediately after you
cast a spell of 1st level or higher in order to regain the use of
this feature.
Timeless Body
Prerequisite: Ki
XP Cost: 1,500 xp
Your Ki sustains you so that you suffer none of the frailty of
old age, and you can not be aged magically. You can still die of
old age, however. In addition, you no longer need food or
water.
Timeless Body
Prerequisite: Ability to access Druid Spell List
XP Cost: 1,800 xp
The primal magic you wield causes you to age more slowly.
For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year.
Tongue of the Sun and Moon
Prerequisite: Ki
XP Cost: 1,300 xp
You learn to touch the ki of other minds so that you
understand all spoken languages. Moreover, any creature that
can understand a language can understand what you say.###
Totem Spirit
Prerequisite: Rage
XP Cost: 300 xp
Choose a totem spirit. You must make or acquire a physical
totem object, an amulet or adornment, that incorporates fur
or feathers, claws, teeth, or bones of the chosen animal. At
your option, you also gain minor physical atributes that are
reminiscent of your totem spirit. You might be unusually
hairy and thick skinned like a bear or have bright yellow eyes
identical to an eagle's.
Your totem animal might be related to those listed here, but
more appropriate to your homeland. For example you may
choose a hawk or vulture in place of an eagle.
Bear. While you are raging, you have resistance to all
damage types except psychic damage. The spirit of the
bear makes you tough enough to stand up to any
punishment.
Eagle. While you are raging and are not wearing heavy
armor, other creatures have disadvantage on opportunity
attack rolls against you, and you can use the Dash action
as a bonus action on your turn. The spirit of the eagle
makes you into a predator who can weave through the fray
with ease.
Wolf. While you are raging, your friends have advantage
on melee attack rolls against any creature within 5 feet of
you that is hostile. The spirit of the wolf makes you a
leader of hunters.
Totemic Attunement
Prerequisite: Totem Spirit
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You gain a magical benefit based on the totem animal of
your choice. You can choose the same animal you selected
with Totem Spirit or you may choose a different one.
Bear. While you are raging, any creature within 5 feet of
you that is hostile to you has disadvantage on all attack
rolls against targets other than you or another character
with this feature. An enemy is immune to this effect if it
can not hear or see you, or if it can not be frightened.
Eagle. While you are raging, you have a flying speed equal
to your current walking speed. This benefit only works in
short bursts, you fall if you end your turn in the air and
nothing is holding you up.
Wolf. While you are raging, you can use your bonus action
on your turn to knowck a Large or smaller creature prone
when you hit it with a melee weapon attack.
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 Tranquility
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 800 xp
You can enter a special meditation that surrounds you with
an aura of peace. At the end of a long rest, you gain the effect
of a Sanctuary spell that lasts until the start of your next long
rest (the spell can end early as normal). The saving throw DC
for the spell equals 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your
proficiency bonus.
Transmutation Savant
Prerequisite: Spellbook
XP Cost: 200 xp
The gold and time you must spend to copy an
transmutation spell into your spellbook is halved.
Once you purchase this ability, you cannot purchase
another from a different school of magic.
Transmuter's Stone
Prerequisite: Minor Alchemy, Transmutation savant
XP Cost: 600 xp
You can spend 8 hours creating a transmuter’s stone that
stores transmutation magic. You can benefit from the stone
yourself or give it to another creature. A creature gains a
benefit of your choice as long as the stone is in the creature’s
possession. When you create the stone, choose the benefit
from the following options:
Darkvision out to a range of 60 feet, as described in
chapter 8
An increase to speed of 10 feet while the creature is
Unencumbered
Proficiency in Constitution saving throws
Resistance to acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage
(your choice whenever you choose this benefit)
Each time you cast a transmutation spell of 1st level or
higher, you can change the effect of your stone if the stone is
on your person.
If you create a new transmuter’s stone, the previous one
ceases to function.
Unarmored Defense (Barbarian)
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 100 xp
While you are not weaing armor, your Armor Class equals
10 + you Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier.
You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.
Unarmored Defense (Monk)
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 100 xp
While you are wearing no armor and not wielding a shield,
your AC equals 10 + your Dexerity modifier + your
Wisdom modifier.
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Uncanny Dodge
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 500 xp
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.
Undead Thralls
Prerequisite: Necromancy Savant
XP Cost: 600 xp
You add the Animate Dead spell to your spellbook if it is
not there already. When you cast animate dead, you can
target one additional corpse or pile o f bones, creating
another zombie or skeleton, as appropriate.
Whenever you create an undead using a necromancy spell,
it has additional benefits:
The creature’s hit point maximum is increased by an
amount equal to your Caster Level.
The creature adds your proficiency bonus to its weapon
damage rolls.
Underdark Scout
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 300 xp
You master the art of the ambush. On your first turn during
combat, you gain a +10 bonus to your speed, and if you use
the Attack action, you can make one additional attack.
You are also adept at evading creatures that rely on
darkvision. Such creatures gain no benefit when attempting
to detect you in dark and dim conditions. Additionally, when
the DM determines if you can hide from a creature, that
creature gains no benefit from its darkvision.
Undying Sentinel
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,500 xp
When you are reduced to 0 hit points and are not killed
outright, you can choose to drop to 1 hit point instead. Once
you use this feature, you can not use it again until you finish a
long rest.
Additionally, you suffer none of the drawbacks of old age,
and you can not be aged magically.
Use Magic Device
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 1,300 xp
You have learned enough about the workings of magic that
you can improvise the use of items even when they are not
intended for you. You ignore all "Class", race, and "Level"
requirements on the use of magic items.
Vanish
Prerequisite: Cunning Action, Hide in Plain sight
XP Cost: 1,400 xp
You can’t be tracked by nonmagical means, unless you
choose to leave a trail.
Versatile Trickster
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Mage Hand.
XP Cost: 1,300 xp
You gain the ability to distract targets with your Mage
Hand. As a Bonus action on your turn, you can designate a
creature within 5 feet of the spectral hand created by the
spell. Doing so gives you advantage on attack rolls against the
creature until the end of the turn.
Visons of the Past
Prerequisite: Divine Domain: Knowledge
XP Cost: 1,700 xp
You can call up visions of the past that relate to an object
you hold or your immediate surroundings. You spend at least
1 minute in meditation and prayer, then receive dreamlike,
shadowy glimpses of recent events. You can meditate in this
way for a number of minutes equal to your Wisdom score and
must maintain concentration during that time, as if casting a
spell.
Object Reading. Holding an object as you meditate, you
can see visions of the object's previous owner. After
meditating for 1 minute, you learn how the owner
acquired and lost the object, as well as the most recent
significant event involving the object and the owner. If the
object was owned by another creature in the recent past
(within a number of days equal to your Wisdom score),
you can spend 1 additional minute for each owner to learn
the same information about that creature.
Area Reading. As you meditate, you see visions of recent
events in your immediate vicinity (a room, street, tunnel,
clearing, or the like, up to a 50-foot cub), going back a
number of days equal to your Wisdom score. For each
minute you meditate, you learn about one significant even,
beginning with the most recent. Significant events
typically involve powerful emotions, such as battles and
betrayels, marriages and murders, births and funerals.
However, they might also include more mundane events
that are nevertheless important in your current situation.
Once you use this feature, you can not use it again until you
finish a short or long rest.
War Magic
Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane spells
XP Cost: 700 xp
When you use your action to cast a cantrip. you can make
one weapon attack as a bonus action.
War Priest
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Prepared,
Wisdom-based caster
XP Cost: 100 xp
Your god delivers bolts of inspirations to you while you are
engaged in battle. When you use the Attack action, you can
make one weapon attack as a bonus action
You can use this feature a number of times per day equal to
your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all
expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Warding Flare
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Prepared,
Wisdom-based caster
XP Cost: 100 xp
You can interpose divine light between yourself and an
attacking enemy. When you are attacked by a creature within
30 feet of you that you can see, you can use your reaction to
impose disadvantage on the attack roll, causing light to flare
before the attacker before it hits or misses. An attacker that
can not be blinded is immune to this feature.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Wisdom modifier, with a minimum of once. You regain all
expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Weapon Bond
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as an Arcane,
Spontaneous, Intelligence-based caster
XP Cost: 300 xp
You learn a ritual that creates a magical bond between
yourself and one weapon. You perform the ritual over the
course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. The
weapon must be within your reach throught the ritual, at the
conclusion of which you touch the weapon and forge the
bond.
Once you have bonded a weapon to yourself, you can not be
disarmed of that weapon unless you are incapacitated. If it is
on the same plane of existence, you can summon that
weapon as a bonus action on your turn, causing it to teleport
instantly to an open hand.
You can have up to two bonded weapons, but can summon
only one at a time with your bonus action. If you attempt to
bond a thrid weapon, you must first break the bond with on of
the other two.
Wholeness of Body
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 600 xp
You gain the ability to heal yourself quickly. As an action,
you can regain hit points equal to three times your ECL. You
must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.
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 Wild Magic Surge
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Spontaneous, Arcane,
Charisma-based caster
XP Cost: 100 xp
Your spellcasting can unleashe surges of untamed magic.
Immediately after you cast a sorcerer spell of 1st or higher,
the DM can have you roll a d20. If you roll a 1, the DM rolls
on the Wild Magic Surge table to create a random magical
effect.
Wild Shape
Prerequisite: Ability to access the Druid Spell-list
XP Cost: 200 xp
You can use your action to magically assume the shape of a
beast that you have seen before. You can use this feature
twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or
long rest.
Your ECL determines the beasts you can transform into, as
shown in the Wild Shape Table below. At ECL 2, for example,
you can transform into any beast that has a CR of 1/4 or
lower that does not have a flying or swimming speed.
Wild Shape Table
Effective Max
Character Challenge
Level Rating Limitations Example
2 1/4 No flying or Wolf
swimming speed
4 1/2 No Flying Speed Crocodile
8 1 ----- Giant
Eagle
Wild Shape Challenge Rating
As seen above, the Max Challenge Rating of a Beast
you can turn into is equal to your ECL divided by 8,
rounded down. For example, a character with an
ECL of 20 can use their Wild Shape feature to
transform into a beast with a CR of 2
You can stay in the Beast's shape for a number of hours equal
to half your ECL, rounded down. You then revert to your
normal form unless you espend another use of this feature.
You can revert to your normal form earlier by using a bonus
action on your turn. You will automatically revert if you fall
unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.
While you are transformed, the following rules apply:
Your game statistics are replaced by the stats of the beast
you transformed into, instead you retain your alignment,
personality, and Mental (Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma)
scores. You also retain all of your skill and saving throw
proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature.
If the creature has a higher proficiency score than you and
the bonus in it's 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 not use them
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When you transform, you assumethe beast's hit points and
Hit Dice. When you revert back to you rnormal form, you
return to the number of hit points you had before you
transformed into the creature. However, if you revert back
as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage
carries over to your normal form. For example, if you take
10 damage in beast form and have only 1 hit point left, you
revert back to your normal form and take 9 damage. As
long as the excess damage doesn't reduce your normal
form to 0 hit points, you are not knocked unconscious,
You can not cast spells, and your ability to speak or take
action that requires hands are limited to the capabilities of
your beast form. Transforming does not break
concentration on a spell you have already cast, however, or
prevent you from taking actions of part of a spell you are
concentrating on.
You retain the benefit of any feature from "Class," race, or
other sourceand can use them if the new form is
physically capable of doing so. For example, if you have
the Rage ability and then transform into a Beast, you can
still rage. However, you can not use any special senses,
such as darkvision, unless your Beast form also has that
sense.
You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in
your space, merges into it, or is worn by it. Worn
equipment functions as normal, but the DM decides
whether it is practical for the new form to wear a piece of
equipment, based on that creatures shape and size. Your
equipment does not change size or shap to match the new
form, and any equipment that the new form can not wear
must either fall to the ground or merge with it. Equipment
that merges with the form has no effect until you revert
back.
Wrath of the Storm
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Prepared,
Wisdom-based caster
XP Cost: 100 xp
You can thunderously rebuke attackers. When a creature
within 5 feet of you that you can see hits you with an attack,
you can use your reaction to cause the creature to make a
Dexterity saving throw. The creature taks 2d8 lightning or
thunder damage (your choice) on a failed save, and half as
much on a successful one.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Wisdom modifier, with a minimum of once. You regain all
uses when you finish a long rest.
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omplex abilities take their name seriously. These You may use this feature a number of times equal to your
abilities are those that require additional XP to Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all
"upgrade", being those that stacked according to expended uses when you finish a long rest.
level gain, etc. Abilities like this include a
"Rogue's" Sneak Attack, or the Ki feature of Bardic Inspiration Table
"Monk". Bardic Isnpiration Die XP Cost Total XP
d6 100 100
Example Skill d8 500 600
Prerequisite: If an Ability requires another ability purchased d10 1,000 1,600
before purchasing this one, it will be listed here, If not then d12 1,500 3,100
it will say "None"
XP Cost: This is where the required amount of XP needed to
purchase the Ability will be listed. Simple Abilities will just Brutal Critical
say a flat amount like "600 cp." Complex Abilities will say, Prerequisite: None
for example "600 xp, see below." XP Cost: 675 xp, see below
This is where the skill details will be that explains the text You can roll one additional weapon damage die when
from the PHB to avoid confusion. determining the extra damae for a critical hit with a melee
weapon attack.
-A- Brutal Critical Table
Action Surge Number of Extra Dice XP Cost Total XP

Prerequisite: None 1 900 900

XP Cost: 150 xp
You can push yourself beyond your normal limits for a
moment. On your turn, you can take on additional action on
top of your regular action and a possible bonus action. The
number of additional actions is shown in the Action Surge
Table below.
All expended uses of this feature are regained after
finishing a short or long rest.
Action Surge Table
Uses Per Day XP Cost Total XP
1 200 200
2 1,700 2,100
Bardic Inspiration
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as an Arcane,
Spontaneous, Charisma-based caster.
XP Cost: 75 xp
You can inspire others through stirring words or music. To
do so, you use a bonus action on your turn to choose one
creature rather than yourself within 60 feet of you who can
hear you. That creature gains one Bardic Inspiration die, as
shown below on the Bardic Inspiration Table.
Once, within the next 10 minutes, the creature may 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
dife, but must decide before the DM determines the outcome
of the roll. Once the Bardic Inspiration dice is rolled, it is lost.
A creature may only have one Bardic Inspiration die at any
given time.
2 1,300 2,200
3 1,700 3,900
Channel Divinity (Cleric)
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Prepared,
Wisdom-based caster, A holy token of a religion significant
to the character.
XP Cost: 75 xp
You gain the ability to channel divine energy directly frm
your deity, using that energy to fuel magical effects. When
you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which effect to
create based on your purchased features. You may use
Channel Divinity a number of times per day as shown in the
Channel Divinity Table below. Your regain all uses of Channel
Divinity after completing a short or long rest. For effects that
require saving throws, they use your Divine, Prepared,
Wisdom-based caster spell save DC.
The following, and any ability with the Channel Divinity
(Cleric) tag, can be used as an action unless otherwise noted.
Channel Divinity (Cleric) tags will be in the ability names for
ease of recognition.
Turn Undead
As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak a
prayer censuring the undead. Each undead that can see or
hear you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving
throw. If the undead fails it's saving throw it is turned for 1
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 A turned creature must spend it's turn trying to move as far XP Total
away from you as it can, and can not willingly move to a Spell Cost XP
space within 30 feet of you. It also can't take reactions. For Blur, Silence 300 300
it's action, it can only use the Dash action or try to escape
from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there is Create Food and Water, Protection from
Energy
500 800
nowhere to move, the undead can use the Dodge action
instead. Blight, Hallucinatory terrain 700 1,500

Channel Divinity Table Insect Plague, Wall of Stone 900 2,400

Uses Per Day XP Cost Total XP
Forest Spell Table
1 100 100 Spell XP Cost Total XP
2 600 700 Barkskin, Spider Climb 300 300
3 1,800 2,500 Call Lightning, Plant Growth 500 800
Divination, Freedom of Movement 700 1,500
Circle Spells
Commune with Nature, Tree Stride 900 2,400
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Prepared,
Wisdom-based caster Grassland Spell Table
XP Cost: 225 xp Spell XP Cost Total XP
Your mystical connection to the land infuses you with the Invisibility, Pass Without a Trace 300 300
ability to cast certain spells. The following tables will let you
purchase access to Circle Spells connected to the land where Daylight, Haste 500 800
you trained. Consult your DM about that land -- Arctic, Divinination, Freedom of Movement 700 1,500
Coast, Desert, Forest, Grassland, Mountain, Swamp, or
Underdark -- and consult the associated table for the list of Dream, Insect Plague 900 2,400
spells you can purchase. Once a region is decided, you can
not choose another. Mountain Spell Table
Also, when you purchase this ability, you learn one Spell XP Cost Total XP
additional cantrip from the Druid spell list of your choice. Spider Climb, Spike Growth 300 300
Once you gain access to a Circle Spell, you always have it
prepared, and it does not count against the number of spells Lightning Bolt, Meld into Stone 500 800
you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that Stone Shape, Stoneskin 700 1,500
does not appear on your spell list, the spell is considered a Passwall, Wall of Stone 900 2,400
Druid Spell for you and uses your Wisdom modifier.
Due to the nature of your connection to the lnd, your amgic
might have indicators of your upbringing. For example, a Swamp Spell Table
character was trained in the Arctic wastes and casts Spike Spell XP Cost Total XP
Growth. Instead of rock spires, giant ice daggers would erupt Darkness, Melf's Acid Arrow 300 300
from the ground enveloping the ground, and surrounding Water Walk, Stinking Cloud 500 800
them in a thin fog.
Freedom of Movement, Locate Creature 700 1,500
Arctic Spell Table
Insect Plague, Scrying 900 2,400
Spell XP Cost Total XP
Hold Person, Spike Growth 300 300 Underdark Spell Table
Sleet Storm, Slow 500 800 Spell XP Cost Total XP
Freedom of Movement, Ice Storm 700 1,500 Spider Climb, Web 300 300
Commune with Nature, Cone of Cold 900 2,400 Gaseous Form, Stinking Cloud 500 800
Greater Invisibility, Stone Shape 700 1,500
Coast Spell Table
Cloudkill, Insect Plague 900 2,400
Spell XP Cost Total XP
Mirror Image, Misty Step 300 300
Water Breathing, Water Walk 500 800
Control Water, freedom of Movement 700 1,500
Conjure Elemental, Scrying 900 2,400

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Combat Superiority Maneuver List
Commander's Strike. When you take the Attack action
Prerequisite: None on your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks and use a
XP Cost: 225 xp, see below bonus action to direct one of your companions to strike.
You learn maneuvers that are fueld by special dice called When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see
Superiority Dice. or hear you and expend on superiority die. That creature
can immediately use it's reaction to make one weapon
Maneuvers attack, adding the superiority dice to it's damage roll.
You learn maneuvers of your choice based on the Maneuver Disarming Strike. When you hit a creature with a
Table below, which are detailed at the end of this feature. You weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to
can only use a single maneuver per attack. you can learn attempt to disarm the target, forcing it to drop one item of
additional maneuvers as detailed below. your choice that it's holding. You add the superiority die to
Maneuver Table your weapon's damage roll, and the target must make a
Number of Maneuvers Known XP Cost Total XP
Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it drops the
chosen object. The object land's at it's feet.
1 125 125
Distracting Strike. When you hit a creature with a
2 150 275 weapon attack, you can expend on superiority die to
3 175 450 distract the creature, giving your allies an opening. You
4 200 650
add the superiority die roll to your attack's damage roll.
The next attack roll against the target by an attacker other
5 225 875 than you has advantage if the attack is amde before the
6 250 1,125 start of your next turn.
7 275 1,400 Evasive Footwork. When you move, you can expend one
8 300 1,700 superiority die, rolling the die and adding the number
rolled to your AC until you stop moving.
9 325 2,025
Feinting Attack. You can expend one superiority die and
Superiority Dice use a bonus action on your turn to feint, choosing one
You have a number of superiority dice, all of which are d8s. A creature within 5 feet of you as your target. You have
superioirity die is expended when you use an ability that calls advantage on your next attack roll against that creature. If
for it, like a maneuver. You regain all of your expended that attack hits, add the superiority die to the attack's
superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest. damage roll.
Superiority Amount Table Goading Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon
Number of Superiority Dice XP Cost Total XP
attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to
goad the target into attacking you. You add the superiority
1 300 300 die to attack's damage roll, and the target must make a
2 550 850 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target has
disadvantage on all attack rolls against targets other than
3 800 1,650 you until the end of your next turn.
4 1,050 2,700
Lunging Attack. When you make a melee weapon attack
5 1,300 4,000 on your turn, you can expend one superiority die to
6 1,550 5,550 increase your reach for that attack by 5 feet. If you hit, you
add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.
Saving Throws Maneuvering Attack. When you hit a creature with a
Some of your maneuvers might require your target to make a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to
saving throw to resist the maneuver's effects. The saving maneuver one of your comrades into a more
throw DC is calculated as follows: advantageous position. You add the superiority die to the
Maneuver Saving Throw DC = 8 + your Proficiency attack's damage roll, and you choose a friendly creature
Bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice). who can see or hear you. That creature can use its
reaction to move up to half its speed without provoking
Superiority Dice opportunity attacks from the target of your attack.
After a while, you might wish to increase the size of your
superiority dice themselves. Menacing Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon
attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to
Superiority Dice Table frighten the target. You add the superiority die to the
Superiority Dice XP Cost Total XP attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a Wisdom
d10 1,000 1,000
saving throw. On a failed save, it is frightened of you until
the end of your next turn.
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 Parry. When another creature damages you with a melee Deep Stalker Spells
attack, you can use your reaction and expend one XP Cost Total XP
superiority die to reduce the damage by the number you Disguise Self 300 300
roll on your superiority die + your Dexterity modifier.
Rope Trick 500 800
Precision Attack. When you make a weapon attack roll
against a creature, you can expend one superiority die to Glyph of Warding 900 1,700
add it to the roll. You can use this maneuver before or after Greater Invisiblity 1,300 3,000
making the attack roll, but before any effects of the attack Seeming 1,700 4,700
are applied.
Pushing Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon Destroy Undead
attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to
drive the target back. You add the superiority die to the Prerequisite: Channel Divinity (Cleric)
attack's damage roll, and if the target is Large or smaller, it XP Cost: 375 xp
must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you When an undead fails it's saving throw against your Turn
push the target up to 15 feet away from you. Undead feature, the creature is instantly destroyed if it's
Rally. On your turn, you can use a bonus action and challenge rating is at or below a certain threshold, as shown
expend one superiority die to bolster the resolve of one of in the Destroy Undead table below.
your companions. When you do so, choose a friendly Destroy Undead Table
creature who can see or hear you. That creature gains Destroys Undead of CR... XP Cost Total XP
temporary hit points equal to the superiority die roll +
your Charisma modifier. 1/2 or lower 500 500
1 or lower 800 1,300
Riposte. When a creature misses you with a melee attack,
you can use your reaction and expend one superiority die 2 or lower 1,100 2,400
to make a melee weapon attack against the creature. If 3 or lower 1,400 3,800
you hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage
roll. 4 or lower 1,700 5,500

Sweeping Attack. When you hit a creature with a melee
weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to
attempt to damage another creature with the same attack.
Choose another creature within 5 feet of the original
target and within your reach. If the original attack roll
would hit the second creature, it takes damage equal to
the number you roll on your superiority die. The damage
is of the same type dealt by the original attack.
Trip Attack. When you hit a creature with a weapon
attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to
knock the target down. You add the superiority die to the
attack’s damage roll, and if the target is Large or smaller, it
must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you
knock the target prone.
Deep Stalker Magic
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Spontaneous,
Wisdom-based caster
XP Cost: 225 xp access, see below
You gain darkvision out to a range of 90 feet. If you already
have darkvision, you increase its range by 30 feet.
You also gain access to additional spells at according to the
table below. Once you gain a deep stalker spell, it doesn’t
count against the number of spells you know.
Disciple of the Elements
Prerequisite: Ki, Martial Arts
XP Cost: 225 xp access, see below
You learn magical disciplines that harness the power of the
four elements. A discipline requires you to spend Ki points
each time you use it.
You know the Elemental Attunement discipline and one
other elemental discipline of your choice, which are detailed
in the "Elemental Disciplines" section at the end of this
feature.
Whenever you learna new elemental discipline, you can
also replace one discipline you already know with a different
one.
Casting Elemental Spells. Some elemental disciplines
allow you to cast spells. See chapter 10 in the PHB for the
general rules of spellcasting. 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 5th ECL, you can spend additional ki
points to increase the level of an elemental discipline spell
that you cast, provided that the spell has an enhanced effect
at a higher level, as burning hands does. The spell's level
increases by 1 for each additional ki point you spend. For
example, if you are a 5th-ECL character and use Sweeping
Cinder Strike to cast burning hands, you can spend 3 ki
points to cast it as a 2nd-level spell (the discipline’s base cost
of 2 ki points plus 1).
The maximum number of ki points you can spend to cast a
spell in this way (including its base ki point cost and any
additional ki points you spend to increase its level) is
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Spells and Ki Points Table Fist of the Unbroken Air. You can create a blast of
ECL Maximum Ki Points for a Single Spell compressed air that strikes like a mighty fist. As an action,
5-8 3
you can spend 2 ki points and choose a creature within 30
feet of you. That creature must make a Strength saving
9-12 4 throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 3d10 bludgeoning
13-16 5 damage, plus an extra 1d10 bludgeoning damage for each
additional ki point you spend, and you can push the creature
17-20 6 up to 20 feet away from you and knock it prone. On a
successful save, the creature takes half as much damage, and
Disciplines Table you don’t push it or knock it prone.
Number of Known Disciplines XP Cost Total XP Flames of the Phoenix (ECL 11). You can use 4 Ki points
2 300 300 to cast Fireball.
Gong of the Summit (ECL 6). You can spend 3 Ki points
3 600 900 to cast Shatter.
4 1,100 2,000 Mist Stance (ECL 11). You can spend 4 Ki points to cast
5 1,700 3,700
Gaseous Form on yourself only.
Ride the Wind (ECL 11). You can spend 4 Ki points to
cast Fly on yourself only.
Elemental Disciplines River of Hungry Flames (ECL 17). You can spend 5 Ki
The elemental disciplines are presented in alphabetical order. points to cast Wall of Fire.
If a discipline requires a level, your ECL must equal the Rush of the Gale Spirits. You can spend 2 Ki points to
required level to learn the discipline. cast Gust of Wind.
Breath of Winter (ECL 17). You can spend 6 Ki points to Shape the Flowing River. As an action, you can spend 1 ki
cast Cone of Cold. point to choose an area of ice or water no larger than 30 feet
Clench of the North Wind (ECL 6). You can spend 3 Ki on a side within 120 feet of you. You can change water to ice
points to cast Hold Person within the area and vice versa, and you can reshape ice in the
Elemenal Attunement. You can use your action to briefly area in any manner you choose. You can raise or lower the
control elemental forces nearby, causing one of the following ice’s elevation, create or fill in a trench, erect or flatten a wall,
effects of your choice: or form a pillar. The extent of any such changes can’t exceed
Create a harmless, instantaneous sensory effect related to half the area’s largest dimension. For example, if you affect a
air, earth, fire, or water; such as a shower of sparks, puff of 30-foot square, you can create a pillar up to 15 feet high,
wind, spray o flight mist, or a gentle rumbling of stone. raise or lower the square’s elevation by up to 15 feet, dig a
trench up to 15 feet deep, and so on. You can’t shape the ice
Instantaneously light or snuff out a candle, torch, or small to trap or injure a creature in the area.
campfire. Sweeping Cinder Strike. You can spend 2 Ki points to
cast Burning Hands.
Chill or warm up to 1 pound of nonliving material for up Water Whip. You can spend 2 ki points as a bonus action
to 1 hour. to create a whip of water that shoves and pulls a creature to
Cause earth, fire, water, or air that can fit within a 1-foot unbalance it. A creature that you can see that is within 30
cube to shape into a crude form you design. This item feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed
lasts for 1 minute. save, the creature takes 3d10 bludgeoning damage, plus an
extra 1d10 bludgeoning damage for each additional ki point
Eternal Mountain Defense (ECL 11). You can spend 5 Ki you spend, and you can either knock it prone or pull it up to
points to cast StoneSkin.* 25 feet closer to you. On a successful save, the creature takes
Fangs of the Fire Snake. When you use the Attack action half as much damage, and you don’t pull it or knock it prone.
on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to cause tendrils o f Wave of Rolling Earth (ECL 17). You can spend 6 Ki
flame to stretch out from your fists and feet. Your reach with points to cast Wall of Stone.
your unarmed strikes increases by 10 feet for that action, as
well as the rest of the turn. A hit with such an attack deals fire
damage instead of bludgeoning damage, and if you spend 1 ki
point when the attack hits, it also deals an extra 1d10 fire
damage.
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 Spells XP Cost Total XP
Divine Domain
Bless, Cure Wounds 100 100
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Prepared,
Wisdom-based caster Lesser Restoration, Spiritual Weapon 300 400
XP Cost: 75 xp, see below Beacon of Hope, Revivify 500 900
Choose a Domain that best suits your character: Death Ward, Guardian of Faith 700 1,600
Knowledge Life, Light, Nature, Tempest, Trickery, or War. Mass Cure Wounds, Raise Dead 900 2,500
Each domain is given a list of Domain spells as well as other
features when you choose to purchase it. You may only have a
Domain chosen. Once you choose and purchase a Domain, Light
you lose the ability to choose another Domain and are locked Gods of Light promote the ideals of rebirth and renewal,
to your chosen Domain. If you have a Domain Spell that does truth, vigilance, and beauty, often using the symbol of the sun.
not appear on your current spell list, then it uses your Some of these gods are portrayed as the sun itself or as a
Wisdom modifier. Spells on the Domain Spell lists do not charioteer who guides the sun across the sky. Others are
count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. tireless sentinels whose eyes pierce every shadow and see
They are a gift of your faith and are always prepared. To through every deception. Some are gods of beauty and
purchase spells from your Domain Spell List, they must be of artistry, who teach that art is a vehicle for the soul's
a spell level that you can currently cast. If not, they can not be improvement. Followers of a god of light are enlightenev
purchased. souls infused with radiance and the power of their god's
The Domains are as follows: discerning vision, charged with chasing away lies and
burning away the darkness.
Knowledge When you choose the Light Domain, you can the Light
The gods of knowledge value learning and understanding cantrip if you don't already know it.
above all. Some teach that knowledge is to be gathered and Light Domain Spells
shared in libraries and universities, or promote the practical Spells XP Cost Total XP
knowledge or craft and invention. Some hoard knowledge
and keep it's secrets to themselves and their followers. And Burning Hands, Faerie Fire 100 100
some promise their followers that they will unlock the secrets Flaming Sphere, Scorching Ray 300 400
of the multiverse and gain tremendous power. Followers of
these god study esoteric lore, collect old tomes, delve into the Daylight, Fireball 500 900
secret places of the world, and learn all they can. Guardian of Faith, Wall of Fire 700 1,600
When you choose the Knowledge Domain, you learn two Flame Strike, Scrying 900 2,500
languages of your choice. You also become proficient in your
choice of the two following skills: Arcana, History, Nature, or
Religion. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability Nature
check you make with either of those two skills. Gods of nature are as varied as the natural world itself, from
inscrutable gods of the deep forests to friendly gods
Knowledge Domain Spells associated with particular springs and groves. Druids revere
Spells XP Cost Total XP nature as a whole and might server one of these gods,
Command, Identify 100 100
practicing mysterious rites and reciting all-but-forgotten
prayers in their own secret tongue. But many of these gods
Augury, Suggestion 300 400 have priests as well, champions who take a more active role
Nondetection, Speak with Dead 500 900 in advancing the interests of a particular nature god. These
followers might hunt the evil monstrosities that despoil the
Arcane Eye, Confusion 700 1,600 woodlands, bless the harvest of the faithful, or wither the
Legend Lore, Scrying 900 2,500 crops of those who anger their gods.
When you choose the Nature Domain, you learn one
Life cantrip from the Druid Spell List of your choice. You also
The Life domain focuses on the vibrant positive energy - one gain proficiency with Heavy Armor and one of the following
of the fundamental forces of the universe - that sustains all skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Nature, or Survival.
life. The gods of life promote vitality and health through Nature Domain Spells
healing the sick and wounded, caring for those in need, and Spells XP Cost Total XP
driving away the forces of death and undeath. Almost any
non-evil god can claim influence over this domain. Animal Friendship, Speak with Animals 100 100
When you choose the Life Domain, you gain proficiency Barkskin, Spike Growth 300 400
with Heavy Armor.
Plant Growth, Wind Wall 500 900
Life Domain Spells Dominate Beast, Grasping Vine 700 1,600
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Tempest When you choose the War Domain, you gain proficiency
Gods who fall under the Tempest Domain govern storms, with Martial Weapons and Heavy Armor.
sea, and sky. They include gods of lightning and thunder, gods War Domain Spells
of earthquakes, some fire gods, and certain gods of violence, Spells XP Cost Total XP
physical strength, and courage. In some pantheons, a god of
this domain rules over other deities and is known for swift Divine Favor, Shield of Faith 100 100
justice delivered by thunderbolts. In the pantheons of Magic Weapon, Spiritual Weapon 300 400
seafaring people, gods of this domain are ocean deities and
the patrons of sailors. Tempest gods send their clerics to Crusader's Mantle, Spirit Guardians 500 900
inspire fear in the common folk, either to keep those folk on Freedom of Movement, Stoneskin 700 1,600
the path of righteousness or to encourage them to offer Flame Strike, Hold Monster 900 2,500
sacrifices of propitiation to ward off divine wrath.
When you choose the Tempest Domain, you gain
proficiency with Martial Weapons and Heavy Armor. Divine Strike
Tempest Domain Spells Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Prepared,
Spells XP Cost Total XP
Wisdom-based caster
XP Cost: 600 xp
Fog Cloud, Thunderwave 100 100
You gain the ability to infuse your weapon attacks with
Gust of Wind, Shatter 300 400 divine energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a
Call Lightning, Sleet Storm 500 900 creature with a weapon attack, you can case the attack to
deal an extra magical damage.
Control Weather, Ice Storm 700 1,600
Destructive Wave, Insect Plague 900 2,500 Divine Strike Table
Damage amount XP Cost Total XP
Trickery 1d8 800 800
Gods of Trickery are mischief-makers and instigators who 2d8 1,400 2,200
stand as a constant challenge to the accepted order among
both gods and mortals. They’re patrons of thieves, When you use this feature, you may choose what type of
scoundrels, gamblers, rebels, and liberators. Their clerics are energy damage it deals on each use. Choose from Radiant,
a disruptive force in the world, puncturing pride, mocking Cold, Fire, Lightning, Thunder, Poison, or the damage type of
tyrants, stealing from the rich, freeing captives, and flouting the weapon. You can choose a different type each time this
hollow traditions. They prefer subterfuge, pranks, deception, feature is used.
and theft rather than direct confrontation.
When you choose the Trickery Domain, you can use your Eldritch Invocations
action to touch a willing creature other than yourself to give it
advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. This blessing lasts Prerequisite: Otherworldly Patron
for 1 hour until you use this feature again. XP Cost: 150 xp access, see below
Trickery Domain Spells In your study of occult lore, you have unearthed Eldritch
Spells XP Cost Total XP Invocations, fragments of forbidden knowledge that imbue
you with an abiding magical ability.
Charm Person, Disquise Self 100 100
Mirror Image, Pass Without Trace 300 400 Eldritch Invocation Table
Number of Invocations XP Cost Total XP
Blink, Dispel Magic 500 900
1 100 100
Dimension Door, Polymorph 700 1,600
2 200 300
Dominate Person, Modify Memory 900 2,500
3 500 800
War 4 700 1,500
War has many manifestations. It can make heroes of ordinary 5 900 2,400
people. It can be desperate and horrific, with acts of cruelty
and cowardice eclipsing instances of excellence and courage. 6 1,200 3,600
In either case, the gods of war watch over warriors and 7 1,500 5,100
reward them for their great deeds. The priests of such gods 8 1,800 6,900
excel in battle, inspiring others to fight the good fight or
offering acts of violence as prayers. Gods of war include When you purchase Invocations, you choose which one you
champions of honor and chivalry as well as gods of gain. Also when you purchase additional Invocations, you
destruction and pillage and gods of conquest and domination. may choose one of the invocations you already know and
Other war gods take a more neutral stance, promoting war in replace it with another invocation you could don't already
all its manifestations and supporting warriors in any know.
circumstance. The Invocations are listed below.
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 Agonizing Blast
Prerequisite - Ability to cast Eldritch Blast.
When you cast Eldritch Blast, add your Charisma modifier
to the damage it deals on a hit.
Armor of Shadows
Prerequisite - None
You can cast Mage Armor on yourself at will, without
expended a spell slot or material components.
Acendant Step
Prerequisite - ECL 9
You can cast Compulsion once using a spell slot. You can
not do so again until you finish a long rest.
Book of Ancient Secrets
Prerequisite - Pact of the Tome feature
You can now inscribe magicial rituals in your Book of
Shadows. Choose two 1st level spells that have the Ritual tag
from any spell list, they do not need to be from the same spell
list. The spells appear in the book and do not count against
the number of spells you know. With your Book of Shadows
in hand, you can any spell you know as a ritual if it has the
ritual tag. You may only cast the chosen spells as rituals
unless you learned them some other way.
On your adventures, you can add other Ritual tagged spells
to your Book of Shadows. When you find such a spell, you
can add it to the Book if the spell's level is equal to or less
than half your ECL (rounded up) and if you can spare the
time to transcribe the spell. For each level of the spell, the
transcription proccess takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp for the
rare inks to copy it.
Chains of Carceri
Prerequisite - ECL 15, Pact of the Chain feature
You can cast Hold Monster at will - targeting a celestial,
fiend, or elemental - without expending a spell slot or material
components. You must finish a long rest before you can use
this invocation on the same creature again.
Devil's Sight
Prerequisite - None
You can see normally in darkness, both magical and
mundane, to a dinstance of 120 feet.
Dreadful Word
Prerequisite - ECL 7
You can cast Confusion once using a spell slot. You can not
do so again until you finish a long rest.
Eldritch Sight
Prerequisite - None
You can cast Detect Magic at will, without expending a
spell slot.
Eldritch Spear
Prerequisite - Ability to cast Eldritch Blast
When you cast Eldritch Blast, the range is increase to 300
feet.
Eyes of the Runekeeper
Prerequisite - None
You can now read writing of any language.
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Fiendish Vigor
Prerequisite - None
You can cast False Life on yourself at will as a 1st-level
spell, without expending a spell slot or material components.
Gaze of Two Minds
Prerequisite - None
You may use your action to touch a willing humanoid and
perceive through their senses until the end of your next turn.
As long as the creature is on the same plane of existence as
you, you may use your action on subsequent turns to
maintaint this connection, extending the duration until the
end of your next turn. While perceiving through the other
creature's senses, you benefit from and special senses
possessed by that creature. You are blinded and Deafened to
your own surroundings while using this feature.
Life Drinker
Prerequisite - ECL 12, Pact of the Blade feature
When you hit a creature with your pact weapon, the
creature takes extra necrotic damage equal to your Charisma
modifier (minimum of 1).
Mask of Many Faces
Prerequisite - None
You can cast Disguise Self at will, without expending a
spell slot.
Master of Myriad Forms
Prerequisite - ECL 15
You can cast Alter Self at will, without expending a spell
slot.
Minions of Chaos
Prerequisite - ECL 9
You can cast Cojure Elemental once, without using a spell
slot. You can not do so again until you finish a long rest.
Mire the Mind
Prerequisite - ECL 5
You can cast Slow once without using a spell slot. You can
not do so afain until you finish a long rest.
Misty Visions
Prerequisite - None
You can cast Silent Image at will, without expending a spell
slot or material components.
One With the Shadows
Prerequisite - ECL 5
When you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can
use your action to become invisible until you move or take an
action or a reaction.
Otherworldly Leap
Prerequisite - ECL 9
You can cast Jump on yourself at will, without expending a
spell slot or material components.
Repelling Blast
Prerequisite - Ability to cast Eldritch Blast
When you hit a creature with Eldritch Blast, you can push
the creature up to 10 feet away from you in a straight line.
Sculptor of Flesh Fighting Style
Prerequisite - ECL 7
You can cast Polymorph once using a spell slot. You can Prerequisite: None
not do so afain until you finish a long rest. XP Cost: 150 xp, see below
You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty.
Sing of Ill Omen Choose one of the following options, though you ca not take
Prerequisite - ECL 5 an option more than once.
You can cast Bestow Curse once using a spell slot. You can
not do so again until you finish a long rest. Archery.
You gain a +2 bonus to all attack rolls you make with ranged
Thief of Five Fates weapons
Prerequisite - None
You can cast Bane once using a spell slot. You can not do Defense.
so again until you finish a long rest. While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to your
AC.
Thirsting Blade
Prerequisite - ECL 5, Pact of the Blade feature Great Weapon Fighting.
If you do not already have the Extra Attack feature, you can When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you
attack with your pact weapon twice, instead of once, make with a melee weapon wielded with two hands, you can
whenever you take the attack action on your turn. reroll the die and mst use the new roll, even if it is a 1 or 2.
The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property
Visions of Distant Realms for you to gain this benefit.
Prerequisite - ECL 15
You can cast Arcane Eye at will without expending a spell Protection.
slot. When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you
this turn that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction
Voice of the Chain Master to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be
Prerequisite - Pact of the Chain feature wielding a shield.
You can communicate telepathically with your familiar and
perceive through your familiar's senses as long as you are on Two-Weapon Fighting.
the same plane of existence. When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your
Additionally, while percieving through your familiar's ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.
senses, you can speak through your familiar in your own
voice, even if you familiar is normally incapable of speech. Fighting Style Table
Number of Fighting Styles XP Cost Total XP
Whispers of the Grave 1 500 500
Prerequisite - ECL 9
You can cast Speak with Dead at will, without expending a 2 1,000 1,500
spell slot. 3 1,500 3,000
4 2,000 5,000
Witch Sight
Prerequisite - ECL 15
You can see the true form of any shapechanger or creature Font of Magic
concealed by Illusion or Transmutation magice while the Prerequisite: Ability to cast Arcane spells
creature is within 30 feet of you and within line of sight. XP Cost: 150 xp access, see below
Extra Attack You tape into a deep wellspring of magic within yourself.
This wellspring is represented by sorcery points, which allow
Prerequisite: None you to create a variety of magical effects.
XP Cost: 375 xp, see below
You can now attack mulitple times, instead of once, Sorcery Points
whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. The You can now purchase sorcery points, and you gain more as
number of attacks taken in this action is shown on the Extra you purchase them, as shown in the Sorcery Points table.
Attack Table below. You regain all spent sorcery points when you finish a long
rest.
Extra Attack Table
Total Number of Attacks XP Cost Total XP Flexible Casting
2 500 500
You can use your sorcery points to gain additional spell slots,
or sacrifice spell slots to gain additional sorcery points. You
3 1,100 1,600 learn other ways to use your sorcery points from different
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 Creating Spell Slots. Indomitable Table
You can transform unexpended sorcery points into one spell Uses Per day XP Cost Total XP
slot as a bonus action on your turn. The Creating Spell Slots 1 900 900
table shows the cost of creating a spell slot of a given level.
You can create spell slots no higher than 5th level. 2 1,300 2,200
3 1,700 3,900
Creating Spell Slots Table
Spell Slot Level Sorcery Point Cost
Ki
1st 2
Prerequisite: None
2nd 3 XP Cost: 150 xp access, see below
3rd 5 Your training allows you to harness the mystic energy of Ki,
4th 6 your access to this energy is represented by a number of Ki
5th 7 points. You can spend these points to fuel various Ki features.
You start knowing three such features, Flurry of Blows,
Converting a Spell Slot into sorcery
Patient Defense, and Step of the Wind.
points.
You learn more Ki features as you purchase them with XP.
When you spend a Ki point, it is unavaliable until you finish a
As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend one spell slot short or long rest, at the end of which you draw all your
and gain a number of sorcery points equal to the slot's level. expended Ki points back into your body. You must spend at
Sorcery Points Table least 30 minutes of the rest meditating to regain Ki points.
Amount of Sorcery Points XP Cost Total XP
Some of your Ki features require your target to make a
saving throw to resists the feature's effects. The saving throw
2 200 200 DC is calculated as follows: Ki save DC = 8 + your
3 300 500 proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier.
4 400 900 Ki Points Table
5 500 1,400 Total Ki Points XP Cost Total XP
6 600 2,000 2 200 200
7 700 2,700 3 300 500
8 800 3,500 4 400 900
9 900 4,400 5 500 1,400
10 1,000 5,400 6 600 2,000
11 1,100 6,500 7 700 2,700
12 1,200 7,700 8 800 3,500
13 1,300 9,000 9 900 4,400
14 1,400 10,400 10 1,000 5,400
15 1,500 11,900 11 1,100 6,500
16 1,600 13,400 12 1,200 7,700
17 1,700 15,100 13 1,300 9,000
18 1,800 16,900 14 1,400 10,400
19 1,900 18,800 15 1,500 11,900
20 2,000 20,800 16 1,600 13,500
17 1,700 15,200
Indomitable 18 1,800 17,000
Prerequisite: None 19 1,900 18,900
XP Cost: 675 xp, see below 20 2,000 20,900
You can reroll a saving throw thT you failed. If you do so,
you must use the new roll, and you can not use this feature Flurry of Blows. Immediately after you take the Attack
until you finish a long rest. This feature can be used multiple action on your turn, you can spend 1 Ki point to make two
times a day, as show on the Indomitable Table below. unarmed strikes as a bonus action.
Patient Defense. You can spend 1 Ki point to take the
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 Step of the Wind. You can spend 1 Ki point to take the Certain monasteries use specialized forms of the "monk"
Disengage or Dash action as a bonus action on your turn, weapons. For example, you might use a club that is two
and your jump distance is doubled for the turn. lengths of wood connected by a short chain (called a
nunchaku), or a sickle with a shorter, straighter blade (called
Magical Secrets a kama). whatever name you choose for your "monk" weapon,
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as an Arcane, you can use the game statistics provided for the weapon in
Spontaneous, Charisma-based caster. Chapter 5 of the PHB.
XP Cost: 750 xp, see below
Metamagic
You have plundered magical knowledge from a wide
spectrumof disciplines. You may choose spells from any spell Prerequisite: Font of Magic
list, including one you already have, as shown on the Magical XP Cost: 225 xp access, see below
Secrets Table. The spells you choose must be of a level that You gain the ability to twist your spells to suit your needs.
you can cast at the time of purchasing this ability. You gain a number of the following Metamagic options of
The chosen spells count as Arcane, Spontaneous, your choice as shown on the Metamagic Table. You can
Charisma-based spells for you and are included in the choose more options by purchasing them.
number of spells you know.
Careful Spell. When you cast a spell that forces other
Magical Secrets creatures to make a saving throw, you can protect some of
Total Bonus Spells XP Cost Total XP those creatures from the spell’s full force. To do so, you
2 1,000 1,000 spend 1 sorcery point and choose a number of those
creatures up to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one
4 1,400 2,400 creature). A chosen creature automatically succeeds on its
6 1,800 4,200 saving throw against the spell.
Distant Spell. When you Cast a Spell that has a range of
Martial Arts 5 feet or greater, you can spend 1 sorcery point to double
Prerequisite: Unarmored Defense (Monk) the range of the spell. When you Cast a Spell that has a
XP Cost: 75 xp access, see below range of touch, you can spend 1 sorcery point to make the
range of the spell 30 feet.
Your practice of martial arts gives you mastery of combat
styles that use unarmed strikes and "monk" weapons, which Empowered Spell. When you roll damage for a spell, you
are shortswords and any simple weapon that does not have can spend 1 sorcery point to reroll a number of the
the Two-Handed or Heavy property. You gain the following damage dice up to your Charisma modifier (minimum of
benefits while you are unarmed or wielding only "monk" one). You must use the new rolls. You can use Empowered
weapons and you are not wearing armor or a shield: Spell even if you have already used a different Metamagic
option during the casting of the spell.
You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack
and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and "monk" Extended Spell. When you Cast a Spell that has a
weapons. Duration of 1 minute or longer, you can spend 1 sorcery
point to double its Duration, to a maximum Duration of 24
You can replace the damage die of your unarmed strikes hours.
or "monk" weapons with a die as shown below. This die
can change as you purchase higher die sizes, as shown in Heightened Spell. When you Cast a Spell that forces a
the Martial Arts Table below. creature to make a saving throw to resist its effects, you
can spend 3 sorcery points to give one target of the spell
Martial Arts Table disadvantage on its first saving throw made against the
Die Size XP Cost Total XP
spell.
d4 100 100 Quickened Spell. When you Cast a Spell that has a
Casting Time of 1 action, you can spend 2 sorcery points
d6 500 600 to change the Casting Time to 1 Bonus Action for this
d8 1,100 1,700 casting.
d10 1,700 3,400 Subtle Spell. When you Cast a Spell, you can spend 1
sorcery point to cast it without any somatic or verbal
When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strik or a Components.
"monk" weapon, you can make one unarmed strike as a
bonus action. For example, if you take the Attack action and
attack with a quarterstaff, you can also make an unarmed
strike as a Bonus action, assuming you have not already
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 Twinned Spell. When you Cast a Spell that Targets only The Oath of the Ancients is as old as the race of elves and the Fi
one creature and doesn’t have a range of self, you can rituals of druids. sometimes called fey knights, green knights, sw
spend a number of sorcery points equal to the spell’s level or horned knights, paladins that swear this oath cast theit lot ev
to target a second creature in range with the same spell (1 with the side of the light in the cosmic struggle against No
sorcery point if the spell is a cantrip). To be eligible, a spell darkness because they love the beautiful and life-giving things m
must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at of the world, not necessarily because they believe in
the spell’s current level. For example, Magic Missile and principles of honor, courage, and justice. They adorn their By
Scorching Ray aren’t eligible, but Ray of Frost is. armor and clothing with images of growing things —leaves, of
antlers, or flowers—to reflect their commitment to
MetaMagic Options preserving life and light in the world.
Aount of MetaMagics XP Cost Total XP
Tenets of the Ancients
2 300 300
The tenets of the Oath of the Ancients have been preserved
3 1,000 1,300 for uncounted centuries. This oath emphasizes the principles
4 1,700 3,000 of good above any concerns of law or chaos. Its four central
principles are simple.
Mystic Arcanum Kindle the Light. Through your acts of mercy, kindness,
Prerequisite: Pact Boon, Pact Magic and forgiveness, kindle the light of hope in the world,
XP Cost: 825 xp access, see below beating back despair.
Your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an Shelter the Light. Where there is good, beauty, love, and
arcanum. Choose a spell from the Warlock spell list as this laughter in the world, stand against the wickedness that
arcanum, as described below. would swallow it. Where life flourishes, stand against the
You can cast this arcanum spell once without expending a forces that would render it barren.
spell slot. After finishing a long rest, you regain all uses of Preserve Your Own Light. Delight in song and laughter,
your Mystic Arcanum. in beauty and art. If you allow the light to die in your own
Mystic Arcanum Table heart, you can’t preserve it in the world.
Arcanum Spell level XP Cost Total XP Be the Light. Be a glorious beacon for all who live in
6th 1,100 1,100 despair. Let the light of your joy and courage shine forth in
7th 1,300 2,400
all your deeds.
8th 1,500 3,900
Oath of the Ancients Spells
9th 1,700 5,600 Spells XP Cost Total XP
Ensnaring Strike, Speak with Animals 300 300
Oath Spells Moonbeam, Misty Step 500 800
Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as a Divine, Spontaneous, Plant Growth, Protection from Energy 900 1,700
Charisma-based caster.
XP Cost: 225 xp, see below. Ice Storm, Stoneskin 1,300 3,000
Each of the below oaths has a list of associated spells. You Commune with Nature, Tree Stride 1,700 4,700
gain access to these spells as specified in their respective
tables. Once you gain access to an oath spell, you always have Oath of Vengeance
it prepared. Oath spells do not count against the number of The Oath of Vengeance is a solemn commitment to punish
spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to an oath those who have committed a grievous sin. When evil forces
spell that does not appear on your current spell list, then it slaughter helpless villagers, when an entire people turns
uses your Charisma modifier through this feature. against the w ill of the gods, when a thieves’ guild grows too
You may only have 1 chosen oath spell list. Once you violent and powerful, when a dragon rampages through the
choose and purchased an oath spell list, you lose the ability to countryside—at times like these, paladins arise and swear an
choose another Oath spell list and are locked to the chosen Oath o f Vengeance to set right that which has gone wrong.
one. To these paladins— sometimes called avengers or dark
knights—their own purity is not as important as delivering
Oath of the Ancients justice.
Tenets of Vengeance
The tenets of the Oath of Vengeance vary by paladin, but all
the tenets revolve around punishing wrongdoers by any
means necessary. Paladins who uphold these tenets are
willing to sacrifice even their own righteousness to mete out
justice upon those w ho do evil, so the paladins are often
neutral or lawful neutral in alignment. The core principles of
the tenets are brutally simple.
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 Restitution. If my foes wreak ruin on the world, it is Otherworldly Patron
because I failed to stop them. I must help those harmed by
their misdeeds. Prerequisite: Ability to cast arcane spells
Oath of Vengeance Spell List
XP Cost: 75 xp access, see below
Spells XP Cost Total XP The beings that serve as patrons to Warlocks are mighty
inhabitants of other planes of existence - not gods, but almost
Bane, Hunter's Mark 300 300 godlike in power. Various patrons give their Warlocks access
Hold Person, Misty Step 500 800 to different powers and invocations, and expect significant
Haste, Protection from Energy 900 1,700
favors in return.
Some patrons collect Warlocks, doling out mystic
Banishment, Dimension Door 1,300 3,000 knowledge relatively freely or boastin of their ability to bind
Hold Monster, Scrying 1,700 4,700 mortals to their will. Other patrons bestow their power only
grudgingly, and might make a pact with only one Warlock.
####Oath of Devotion The Oath of Devotion binds a Warlocks who serve the same patron might view each other
paladin to the loftiest ideals of justice, virtue, and order. as allies, siblings, or as rivals.
Sometimes called cavaliers, white knights, or holy warriors, Once you choose a Patron using this feature, you cannot
these paladins meet the ideal of the knight in shining armor, change your decision or choose again. Spells learned this
acting with honor in pursuit of justice and the greater good. way are not counted against spells prepared or spells known.
They hold themselves to the highest standards of conduct, Spell slots are still required to cast spells learned this way.
and some, for better or worse, hold the rest of the world to
the same standards. Many who swear this oath are devoted to The Archfey
gods of law and good and use their gods’ tenets as the Your patron is a Lord or LAdy of the fey, a creature of legen
measure of their devotion. They hold angels—the perfect who holds secrets that were forgotten before the mortal races
servants of good—as their ideals, and incorporate images of were born. This being's motivations are often inscrutable, and
angelic wings into their helmets or coats of arms. sometimes whimsical, and might involve a striving for greater
magical power or the settling of age-old grudges.
Tenets of Devotion
Archfey Expanded Spells
Though the exact words and strictures of the Oath of Spells XP Cost Total XP
Devotion vary, paladins of this oath share these tenets.
Faerie Fire, Sleep 100 100
Honesty. Don’t lie or cheat. Let your word be your
promise. Calm Emotions, Phantasmal Force 300 400
Blink, Plant Growth 500 900
Courage. Never fear to act, though caution is wise.
Dominate Beast, Greater Invisibility 700 1,600
Compassion. Aid others, protect the weak, and punish
those who threaten them. Show mercy to your foes, but Dominate Person, Seeming 900 2,500
temper it with wisdom.
The Fiend
Honor. Treat others with fairness, and let your honorable You have made a pact with a fiend from the lower planes of
deeds be an example to them. Do as much good as existence, a being whose aims are evil, even if you strive
possible while causing the least amount of harm. against them. Suceh beings desire the corruption or
Duty. Be responsible for your actions and their destruction of all things, ultimately including you. The only
consequences, protect those entrusted to your care, and beings powerful enough of forming this kind of pact are
obey those who have just authority over you. Balors, Pit Fiends, Ultroloths and similarly powerful fiends.
This goes without saying tha demon lords and archdevils may
form pacts as well.
Oath of Devotion Spell List
Spells XP Cost Total XP Fiend Expanded Spells
Spells XP Cost Total XP
Protection from Evil and Good, Sanctuary 300 300
Burning Hands, Command 100 100
Lesser Restoration, Zone of Truth 500 800
Blindness/Deafness, Scorching Ray 300 400
Beacon of Hope, Dispel Magic 900 1,700
Fireball, Stinking Cloud 500 900
Freedom of Movement, Guardian of Faith 1,300 3,000
Fire Shield, Wall of Fire 700 1,600
Commune, Flame Strike 1,700 4,700
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 The Great Old One Rage Amount
Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly Rage Amount XP Cost Total XP
foreign to the fabric of reality. It might come from the Far 2 100 100
Realm, the space beyond reality, or it could be one of the
elder gods known only in legends. It's motives are 3 300 400
incomprehensible to mortals, and it's knowledge so immense 4 600 1,000
and ancient that even the greates libraries pale in 5 1,200 2,200
comparison to the vast secrets it holds. The Great Old One
might be unaware of your existence or entirely indifferent to 6 1,700 3,900
you, but the secrets you have learned allow you to draw your Unlimited 2,000 5,900
magic from it.
Great Old One Expanded Spells Sneak Attack
XP Total Prerequisite: None
spells Cost XP XP Cost: 150 xp
Dissonant Whispers, Tasha's Hideous
Laughter
100 100 You know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe's
distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra damage to
Detect Thoughts, Phantasmal Force 300 400 one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on
Clairvoyance, Sending 500 900 the attack roll. This damage is shown in the table below. The
attack must use a Finesse or a ranged weapon.
Dominate Beast, Evard's Black Tentacles 700 1,600 You do not need advantage on the attack roll if another
Dominate Person, Telekinesis 900 2,500 enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy is not
incapacitated, and you do not have disadvantage on the attack
Rage roll.
The amount of damage increases with each purchase of
Prerequisite: None this ability, as shown below.
XP Cost: 75xp, see below
Sneak Attack Table
In battle, you fight with primal ferocity. On your turn, you Sneak Attack Damage XP Cost Total XP
can enter a rage as a bonus action.
While raging, you gain the following benefits if you are not 1d6 100 100
wearing heavy armor: 2d6 300 400
You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength 3d6 500 900
saving throws. 4d6 700 1,600
When you make a melee weapon attack using Strength,
you gain a bonus to the damage as shown below in the 5d6 900 2,500
Rage Damage Table. 6d6 1,100 3,600
You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing
damage. 7d6 1,300 4,900
8d6 1,500 6,400
If you are able to cast spells, you can not cast them or
concentrate on them while raging. 9d6 1,700 8,100
Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are 10d6 1,900 10,000
knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you have not
attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken Song of Rest
damage since then. You can also end your rage on your turn
as a bonus action. Prerequisite: Ability to cast spells as an Arcane,
Once you have raged a number of times shown on your Spontaneous, Charisma-based caster.
Rage Amount table below, you must finish a long rest before XP Cost: 150 xp
you can rage again You can use soothing music or oration to help revitalize
Rage Damage Table your wounded allies durinf a short rest. If you or any friendly
Rage Damage XP Cost Total XP creatures who can hear you regian hit points at the end of a
short rest, each of those creatures regains hit points equal to
+2 100 100 the dice shown on the Song of Rest Table.
+3 900 1,000
Song of Rest Table
+4 1,600 2,600 Die Healed XP Cost Total XP
1d6 200 200
1d8 900 1,100
1d10 1,300 2,400
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Unarmored Movement
Prerequisite: None
XP Cost: 150 xp access, see below
Your speed increases by the amount shown on the
Unarmored Movement Table below while you are not
wearing armor or wielding a shield. This bonus increases as
you purchase more, as shown below.
At ECL 9, you gain the ability to move along vertical
surfaces and across liquids on your turn without falling
durring this movement, as long as you end your movement on
stable ground.
Unarmored Movement Table
Increased Speed XP Cost Total XP
+10 200 200
+15 600 800
+20 1,000 1,800
+25 1,400 3,200
+30 1,800 5,000

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 Chapter 4: Spellcasting
P
erhaps the most daunting and difficult area of
this system - or at least the one with the most
book keeping - is the spellcasting. To minimize
the confusion and the effort, keep in mind that
there are four basic factors to track when
determining how each spellcaster works.
Access to Spell Lists
A character purchases their access to a spell list one list and
one level at a time. A character must meet the minimum
caster level requirements (explained later) to gain access to a
given level of a spell list. For example, a character must have
a minimum caster level of one for the appropriate spell list to
even access the spell list at all.
Spell Slots
These are, of course, what powers the spells of Dungeons
and Dragons. They are what a "Wizard" or "Cleric" would use
to prepare their daily spells, or what a "Sorcerer" or "Bard"
would use to spontaneously caster their magics. Each spell
slot has a particular spell level associated with it.
Spells Known
For spontaneous casters ONLY. Spells known are required
for spontaneous casters to use their spellcasting powers.
They must have access to the appropriate level of a spell list
to know a given spell.
Caster Types
Spellcaster in the "Core" rules can each be represented by
four basic variables. The one probably most recognizable is
the Arcane / Divine variable. For classic example, a
"Wizard" is an arcane caster while a "Cleric" is a divine
caster.
The second is Prepared / Spontaneous casters. The
before mentioned "Wizards" and "Clerics" are both prepared
casters, which means they both must spend 1 minute per
spell level for each spell they choose to prepare each morning
before adventuring in order to cast them. "Bards" and
"Sorcerers" are both spontaneous casters, they choose which
spell to cast in an isntant's notice as they burn away the spell
slot required to use that spell.
The third variable is the mental attribute tied to each
caster as their spellcasting modifier. This is usd to determine
Spell attack bonuses and Spell save DCs. These mental stats
are Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma. In the "Core" rules,
the only casters to ever use Wisdom are divine casters (by
that same token, any caster that uses Wisdom is considered
to be a Divine caster). But that doesn't mean divine casters
ONLY use Wisdom, "Paladins" have changed over the past
editions and now use Charisma for their divine justice.
Arcane casters use either Intelligence or Charisma.
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The fourth variable is considered "unofficial", but is still
important determining costs later on, and also converting
existing characters to this system. A caster is either a Minor
caster, Intermediate caster, or a Major caster. The highest
available spell a Minor caster will have acecss to on their
class tables are 4th level spells (Warlock, Eldritch Knight).
The highest available spell an Intermediate caster will have
access to on their class table are 5th level spells, but usually
have abilities to augment these (Paladin, Ranger). The
highest available spell a Major caster will have access to on
their class table are 9th level spells (Wizards and Sorcerers).
The "Core" classes are defined below using all four of
these variables:
"Core Classes"
Class Variables
Bard Arcane, Spontaneous, Charisma-based, Major
caster
Cleric Divine, Prepared, Wisdom-based, Major
caster
Druid Divine, Prepared, Wisdom-based, Major
caster
Eldritch Arcane, Spontaneous, Intelligence-based,
Knight Minor caster
Paladin Divine, Spontaneous, Charisma-based,
Intermediate caster
Ranger Divine, Spontaneous, Wisdom-based,
Intermediate caster
Trickster Arcane, Spontaneous, Intelligence-based,
Rogue Minor caster
Sorcerer Arcane, Spontaneous, Charisma-based, Major
caster
Wizard Arcane, Prepared, Intelligence-based, Major
caster
Warlock Arcane, Spontaneous, Charisma-based, Minor
caster
Caster Levels
The most fundamental "unit of measure" as to the
competence of a spellcaster is their caster level. As a
character's caster level goes up, so does the ability to cast
better spells. As a character gains levels increases in the
"Core" rules, they can choose a class to put that level and that
class gets more powerful spells unlocked. In this system,
characters may instead up their caster level in a way that
increases their power in several areas at once. The formula
loks complex, but once you gain an understanding of the
"basic four variables", it becomes a lot easier to follow.
A character's caster level in this system is defined by three
of the four parameters listed before: Arcane / Divine,
Prepared / Spontaneous, and Int / Wis/ Cha base. A
character must choose at least one entry of each of the three
parameters, and may choose more than one entry for any of
them. A character's caster level DOES NOT give spell slots,
those are explained later.
The base cost to gian a caster level (including the character's
first caster level) is simply 10 x the new caster level x the
total number of chosen parameters applies to the chose
caster level.
Here's an example: The character wants a caster level as a
1st level "Wizard". If they choose to do so, they would have to
have a caster level as an Arcane, Prepared, Int-based
spellcaster. That's a single parameter for each of the three
required categories, so the XP cost is 10 x 1(the new wizard
caster level) x 3(Arcane, Prepared, Int-bsed) or 30xp. To
have the equivalent of a 2nd level "Wizard", it would require
an additional 10 x 2(the new qizard caster level) x
3(Arcane, Prepared, Int-bsed) or 60xp, being 90xp total to
go from no caster level to a 2nd level "Wizard".
Similarly, gaining a caster level of a 1st level "Cleric" would
require 10 x 1(new cleric caster level) x 3(Divine,
Prepared, Wis-based) or 30xp.
However, gaining the ability to cast spells as both a 1st
level "Wizard" and a 1st level "Cleric" at the same time would
require 10 x 1(new total caster level) x 5(Arcane, Divine,
Prepared, Int-based, Wis-based) or 50xp. Gaining the 2nd
casting level as both a 2nd level "Wizard" and "Cleric"
requires 10 x 2 x 5 or 100xp. It should be noted that
purchasing "multiple casting levels" is often a little less
expensive than purchasing the same levels individually.
Access to Spell Lists
Caster levels alone, of course, are not enogh to cast spells
(though they might be sufficient enough to learn other
abilities). The next thing a characte must purchase is "Access
to a Spell List". Even if a character has purchased 5 caster
levels in all 7 parameters, they have not yet purchased access
to a spell list, so they can not cast spells yet.
Simply put, purchaseing access to a spell list means that a
character purchases the ability to cast spells of a particular
level from that chosen spell list. Characters purchase access
to each level of a spell list individually. Spell lists have
prerequisites that must be satisified before access to a
particular list can be purchased, and the cost for access to a
particular list depends on the spell list type (Minor,
Intermediate, Major) and the spell level on that list that the
character wishes to purchase.
Prerequisites
In order to to purchase access to spells of level X on a
particular spell list, that character must already have
access to spells of level X - 1 on that same that same spell
list. This requirement is waived for any cantrips on a spell
list, or any 1st level spells if no cantrips are present.
In order to to purchase access to spells of level X on a
particular spell list, that character must have a caster level
of of at least 2X - 1 (minimum of one) and have the same
parameters of that spell list.
In order to to purchase access to spells of level X on a
particular spell list, that character must have a minimum
numver of spell slots for level X - 1; for minor spell lists,
the minimum is one, for intermediate the minimum is 2,
and for major the minimum is 3. This rule is subject to the
same waive as the first rule.
Costs to Access Spell Lists
The XP cost to access purchase access a spell of a given level
from a particular spell list varies o the type of spell list it is.
Purchasing access to a minor spell list has a cost of 25 x
(the spell level to be access, squared).
Purchasing access to an intermediate spell list has a cost
of 50 x (the spell level to be access, squared).
Purchasing access to a major spell list has a cost of 100 x
(the spell level to be access, squared).
When purchasing access to cantrips, multiply the base cost
by 1/4 (or 0.25) instead of mulptiplying 0 squared. For
example: access to "Wizard" cantrips (a major spell list) has
an XP cost of 100 x 0.25 or 100 x 1/4 which equals 25xp.
Access to the 1st level spells of a "Wizard" spell list, if the
requirements are met, cost 100 x 1^2 or 100xp. Access to
2nd level "Wizard" spells cost 100 x 2^2 or 400xp.
Purchasing Spell Slots
Once a character has a caster level to power their spells and
has purchased access to a spell list, they can begin to
purchase spell slots, though this can be done without
purchasing access to a spell list). The cost of the spell slot
depends on the level of the spell slot being purchased and the
total amount of spell slots already purchased of that level. The
tables below list the costs of spells from 1st level spells to 9th
level for completeness. Previous editions had seperate slots
for 0 level spells, but 5th edition "core" rules state that
cantrips can be cast at any put without using a slot, so they
are not incluced in these tables. In "core" rulings, not all spell
lists reach 9th level spells, however a GM might wishe to
create their own spell list and make it available under one of
the categories, hence the need fr all spell slots to be shown in
all tables.
Spell slots are always purchased for a single specific spell
list. A character who has slots for "Cleric spells" can not use
them to cast "Wizard spells", even if they have access to both
spell lists.
Major Spell List
Slot Level XP Cost
1st 5 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +3)
2nd 10 x (new total of 2nd level spell slots + 6)
3rd 15 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +9)
4th 20 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +12)
5th 25 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +15)
6th 30 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +18)
7th 35 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +21)
8th 40 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +24)
9th 45 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +27)
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 Intermediate Spell List
Slot Level XP Cost
1st 5 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +2)
2nd 10 x (new total of 2nd level spell slots + 4)
3rd 15 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +6)
4th 20 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +8)
5th 25 x (new total of 1st level spell slots +10)

Minor Spell List

Slot Level XP Cost
1st 5 x (new total of 1st level spell slots + 1)
2nd 10 x (new total of 2nd level spell slots + 2)
3rd 15 x (new total of 1st level spell slots + 3)
4th 20 x (new total of 1st level spell slots + 4)

For example if you have bought access to the "Sorcerer"

spell list (Arcane, spontaneous, Cha-based, major caster) then
to determine the number of spells you would know total, just
take a look at the "spells known" section of the table in the
class description. Since you still must purchase access to a
particular spell list's different levels and purchase each spell
slot individually, do not worry about those sections of the
table. Your Arcane, spontaneous, Cha-based caster level will
replace the Sorcerer level to determine the amount of spells
you know. While since the Spell List you are bought access
for, Major Caster, you would need to follow the table for a
Major Spell List.

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