Inspirations, Homages, and Rip-Offs

I make many references when I make homebrew stuffs, and the scion class is no exception. I am taking leavs out of many flims, books, video games, and even Japanese anime and manga (I am not called Weeaboo Whoever for nothing.) to create stuffs for the class. To name a few:

• H. P. Lovecraft and many of his works for the general concept. The Alhazred Equation and the Unfathomable Idol are also dedictated to his works.

• Fate series, notably Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero, especially Gilgamesh for the inspiration of the Esoteric Armory feature. Yes, you are not mistaken, it is Gate of Babylon.

• Flash Gordon for the Ming Ring. I only watched some parts of it yet, not the whole thing, but from what I have watched I guess I understand why John and Ted went crazy when Sam J. Jones showed up in the party.

• The Mummy for the Talisman of Hamunaptra. It is one of my favorite film and I consider it as the pinnacle of the 90s horror/action flick. I am totally waiting for the third film and the remake. (Because there are only three Mummy films so far, and one of them was back in 1932.)

• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the Diodati Formula. Oh, and while I'm at it, I must also thank Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Mary Godwin, Johnson William Polidori, Claire Clairmont, and that stormy nights between June 10 to November 1, 1816.

Quick Build

You can make a scion quickly by following these suggestions. First, Charisma should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the noble background.

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: None
• Weapons: Daggers, darts, slings, quarterstaffs, light crossbows
• Tools: One artisan's tool or musical instrument of your choice

Legacy Magic

Starting at 2nd level, your peculiar background grants you ability to cast spells.

Spell Slots. The Scion table shows how many spell slots you have and what level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level.

To cast one of your scion spell of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short rest or long rest.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher. At 2nd level, you know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the scion spell list, which is described at the end of the class description.

The Spells Known column of the Scion table shows when you learn more scion spells of your choice of 1st level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what is shown in the table's Slot Level column for your level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the scion spells you know and replace it with another spell from the scion spell list, which also must be of a level no higher than what is shown in the table's Slot Level column for your level.

Spellcasting Ability. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your scion spells. You use your Charisma modifier whenever a scion spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a scion spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Ability Score Improvement

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

Bequeathed Legacy

When you reach 10th level, you can fuel your legacy with your innate magical energy. When you use a feature of your legacy that requires you to expend a scion spell slot, or when you cast a spell granted by your legacy, you can do so without expending a spell slot, as if you have expended a 1st-level spell slot.

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.

Transcendent Descendant

By 15th level, your extraordinary heritage grants you peculiar level of longevity and vitality. For every 10 years that pass, you ages only 1 year. Additionally, you cannot be aged magically, your hit point maximum cannot be decreased, and you need only half as much food and water to survive.

Heir to the Weird

At 20th level, you fully embrace your legacy as a part of yourself, and become the true and complete heir of your heritage.

When you finish a short rest or long rest, you can choose to gain two 5th-level spell slot. You can only use these spell slots to cast one of the spells granted by your legacy, or use the effect of your legacy.

You lose all spell slots gained this way when you start a shot rest or long rest. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Esoteric Heritages

The scion's power comes from their ancestors, and their heritages and legacies. The scion's heritage represents the deeds and misdeeds done and undone by their predecessor, now bequeathed upon th scion, regardless of their desire.

Legacy of Might

When you choose this heritage at 1st level, and again whenever you gain a scion level after 1st, your hit point maximum is increased by 1.

Esoteric Armory

Also starting at 1st level, you gain the Esoteric Armory legacy.

The Esoteric Armory is a collective term for a list of weapons and armors that are stored in the pocket dimension for your legacies.

As an action, you can summon one weapon or armor of your choice from the pocket dimension. The summoned item appears in your empty hand if it is a weapon or a shield, or wears itself on you if it is an armor. You are proficient in all weapons and armors you summon with this legacy.

Any item you summoned with the Esoteric Armory returns to the pocket dimension if it is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more or if you die. You can dismiss one or more items without using an action.

Throughout the adventure, you can add up to three magic weapons, shields, or armors into the Esoteric Armory. You perform a special ritual while you hold the item. The ritual takes 1 hour, which you can be done during a short rest or long rest. You can then dismiss the item into the pocket dimension, and retrieve it at will. You cannot add an artifact or a sentient item in this way. The item added this way ceases to be a part of your Esoteric Armory if you die or if you perform the 1-hour ritual to break the bond. When the bond breaks, the item appears at your hand if it was in the pocket dimension.

Weaponized Arsenal

Starting at 3rd level, when you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make a special ranged weapon attack by summoning a melee weapon that does not have the heavy or two-handed properties from the Esoteric Armory and magically throwing it against one target you can see within the normal range of 30 feet and long range of 90 feet. The weapon is considered to have the thrown property for this attack, if it does not have one already.

You use your Charisma, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage roll for this attack. After the attack, the weapon returns to the pocket dimension, regardless of whether it hits or misses the target.

Warrior of the Legacy

By 6th level, You can make two weapon attacks with any weapon summoned with the Esoteric Arsenal, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Additionally, all nonmagical weapons from your Esoteric Armory count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Protective Arsenal

When you reach 14th level, when you first don an armor you summoned from the Esoteric Arsenal, you can choose one of the following benefits:

• You gain temporary hit points equal to twice your scion level. You lose all temporary hit points gained this way when you take off the armor.
• Choose one of the following damage types: bludgeoning, piercing, slashing. Until you take off the armor, you gain resistance to the chosen damage type.

Champion of the Legacy

At 18th level, you can summon up to two weapons or armors of your choice from your Esoteric Arsenal as a bonus action.

Additionally, the range of your Weaponized Arsenal attack increases to normal range of 60 feet and long range of 180 feet, and targeting a creature within 5 feet of you does not impose disadvantage to the ranged attack roll you make with your Weaponize Arsenal.

Finally, bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage dealt with any of the weapons summoned from your Esoteric Arsenal ignores the target's resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage.

The Diodati Formula

A glass vial with peculiar writings scribed on the surface. The vial is surprisingly durable, and the writing cannot be erased by any means. The writing is normally illegible, but a creature that has the Intelligence score of 4 or higher can understand that it is a sign of warning.

You can perform a 1-hour ritual with the Diodati Formula, by containing water with the vial. The ritual can be performed over the course of a short rest or long rest. After the ritual, the water in the vial is transformed into potion. The potion loses its magical properties after 1 hour or when it is spilled out of the vial except by drinking.

A humanoid creature can use a bonus action to drink the potion from the Diodati Formula. When ingested, the creature enters a magical trance that lasts for 1 minute or until it is incapacitated. While in the trance, the creature gains the following benefits:

• It gains temporary hit points equal to your scion level plus your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1). It loses all temporary hit points gained this way when the trance ends.
• It gains advantage in Strength checks and saving throws.
• It ignores the penalty from exhaustion, although it still dies at six levels of exhaustion.
• When it hits a creature with a melee weapon attack on its turn, it can use a bonus action to move up to its walking speed toward another hostile creature it can see and make one melee weapon attack against it.

When the trance ends, the creature gains one level of exhaustion, and it cannot benefit from the potion again until it finishes a short rest or long rest.

Everblaze Shard

A piece of sulfer contained in a pitch-black metal container. The sulfer is lit ablaze, and the fire that cannot be put off by any means. The container of the Everblaze Shard completely locks out the heat and light of the sulfer.

While you have the Everblaze Shard on your person, you can use an action to magically ignite one flammable object you touch.

While you have the Everblaze Shard on your person, you can use a bonus action to empower a weapon or three pieces of ammunitions with the sulfuric blaze. When you hit a creature with an empowered weapon or ammunition before the end of the turn, the target must make a Constitution saving throw. The target takes 2d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.

Additionally, while you have the Everblaze Shard on your person, you can cast the following spells by expending a scion spell slot: burning hands, hellish rebuke.

The Hamelin Flute

A wooden flute, with numerous images of rodents carved on the surface. The tone of the flute is eerily soothing and serene.

You are proficient with the Hamelin Flute, and when you make a Charisma (Performance) check by playing a song with the Hamielin Flute, you are considered to proficient in the Performance skill and your proficiency bonus is doubled for the check.

As an action, you can use the Hamelin Flute to play an upbeat tune that bolsters your allies until the end of your next torn. During that time, whenever a friendly creature within 10 feet of you makes an ability check, an attack roll, or a saving throw, it adds half your Charisma modifier to the d20 roll (minimum of +1). 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 ends it (no action required).

Additionally, while you have the Hamelin Flute on your person, you can cast the following spells by expending a scion spell slot: dissonant whispers, Tasha's hideous laughter.

Hand of Glory

A dismembered and mummified hand of a humanoid creature, whose identity is unknown. The hand is flexible for a stiffened corpse piece.

When you use a bonus action to hold the thieves' tools to the Hand of Glory, the hand springs to life and manipulates the tool as if it is proficient in the tool. When you use the thieves' tools this way, you are considered proficient in the thieves' tools, and your proficiency bonus is doubled when you make an ability check using the thieves' tools.

You can hold other tools of you choice to the Hand of Glory as a bonus action, which can manipulate them as if it is proficient in them. When you use the tools this way, you are considered proficient in the tool. The Hand of Glory can hold only one tool at a time.

Additionally, while you have the Hand of Glory on your person, you can cast disguise self at will, without expending a spell slot.

Light of the Spirited Souls

A small lantern decorated with silhouettes of vines, butterflies, and elves.

The Light of the Spirited Souls casts bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet beyond that. You can use an action to lower the hood, reducing the light to dim light in a 5-foot radius, snuff the light entirely, or reignite the light.

Medallion of Triumph

A medallion made out of brass, gold, and other valuable metals. The medallion has a bas-relief of the symbol of courage, honor, and victory.

The Medallion of Triumph has two uses. While you have the Medallion of Triumph on your person and wielding a weapon you are proficient in, you can use one of the following options:

• When you make a weapon attack, you can expend one use of the medallion to gain a +2 bonus to the attack roll. Alternatively, you can expend one scion spell slot to gain a bonus to the attack roll equal to +1 plus +1 per spell slot level, to a maximum of +5.
• When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one use of the medallion to gain a +4 bonus to the damage roll. Alternatively, expend one scion spell slot to gain a bonus to the damage roll equal to +2 plus +2 per spell slot level, to maximum of +10.
• When a creature you can see targets you with a melee attack, you expend one use of the medallion as a reaction to gain a +2 bonus to your Armor Class for that attack. Alternatively, you can expend one scion spell slot as a reaction to gain a bonus to your Armor Class for that attack equal to +1 plus +1 per spell slot level, to a maximum of +5.

You regain all expended uses of the Medallion of Triumph when you finish a short rest or long rest with the medallion on your person.

The Ming Ring

A silver ring shaped like a serpent biting its own tail. At the crown of the serpent are two diamonds that gleam in a peculiar way when exposed to the moonlight.

While you are wearing the Ming Ring, your unarmed strikes deal 1d6 damage, and when you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can expend one scion spell slot as a bonus action to make one unarmed strikes per spell slot level. If you do so, you can only make up to two unarmed strikes granted this way to a same creature.

Additionally, while you are wearing the Ming Ring, you can cast feather fall on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot.

Obsidian Shiv

A dagger made out of crudely cut piece of obsidian. The edge seems rough, but is actually very sharp, and can cut through many hard substances like a hot knife through butter.

You are proficient with the Obsidian Shiv, which is a magical dagger.

Once on each of your turn when you hit a creature with the Obsidian Shiv, you can choose to deal an additional 2d6 damage with the attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. Alternatively, you can expend one scion spell slot to deal an additional damage by 1d6 plus 1d6 per spell slot level, to a maximum of 5d6.

Pagan Headdress

A headdress made out of a skull, bones, feathers, furs, talons, and other various body parts of numerous beasts and monstrosities. The skull is at the center of the headdress.

While you are wearing the Pagan Headdress, you gain the following benefits when traveling for an hour or more:

• Difficult terrain does not slow your group's travel.
• Your group cannot become lost except by magical means.
• If you are traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a normal trace.

When a beast or plant creature attack you while you are wearing the Pagan Headdress, you can expend one scion spell slot as a reaction to force the attacker to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature must choose a different target, or the attacker takes 1d6 plus 1d6 psychic damage per spell slot level when the attack hits you.

Additionally, while you are wearing the Pagan Headdress, you can cast the following spells by expending a scion spell slot: ensnaring strike, entangle.

Seven-League Boots

A pair of leather boots. It is indistinguishable from a pair of ordinary leather boots except for its sole, which is heavily weathered yet surprisingly durable.

While you are wearing the Seven-League Boots, your walking speed is increased by 10 feet, and you can take the Dash or Disengage action as a bonus action.

Once on each of your turn while you are wearing the Seven-League Boots, you can expend one scion spell slot as a bonus action to teleport into an unoccupied space you can see within 10 feet of you. If you teleport into 5 feet away from a creature, you can force the creature to make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes thunder damage equal to 1d6 plus 1d6 per spell slot level and is knocked prone. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and is not knocked prone.

Additionally, while you are wearing the Seven-League Boots, you can cast either of the following spells on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot: longstrider, jump.

Talisman of Hamunaptra

A golden talisman decorated in a style often discovered in the ancient civilization that prospered in the hot, arid deserts. Notable feature of the talisman is the bas-relief of a human skull at the center, and the hieroglyphic scripture beneath it that reads, "Death is only the beginning."

Unfathomable Idol

A statuette made out of peculiar, black-green crystal, depicting an otherworldly creature. There are numerous bas-reliefs in various scripts, which forms the following sentences when read in Deep Speech: We may sleep for now. We are never dead. We will return.

While you have the Unfathomable Idol on your person, you can communicate telepathically with any creature within 10 feet of you. You do not need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic messages, but it must be able to understand at least one language.

As an action, you can present the idol and expend a scion spell slot to scramble one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The creature must make a Wisdom saving throw, taking psychic damage equal to 1d8 plus 1d8 per spell slot level (maximum of 6d8) on a failed save and half as much damage on a successful one. If the creature fails on the saving throw, it is also charmed or frightened by you (your choice) for 1 minute or until your concentration is broken (as if concentrating on a spell).

Additionally, while you have the Unfathomable Idol on your person, you have advantage on Wisdom saving throws against enchantment spells, and you gain resistance to psychic damage.

The Vendetta Puppet

A small doll made out of ragged cloths, strings, and buttons. The stomach is ripped apart, revealing the stuffed cotton in the doll.

You can perform a 1-minute ritual with the Vendetta Puppet and a portion of body part from a creature of your choice, which must be small enough to stuff into the puppet. THe ritual can be performed over the course of the short rest or long rest. After the ritual, the puppet embodies a curse toward the owner of the stuffed body part, and all other creatures of the same type. The curse lasts for 1 hour or until you perform another ritual to curse other creature.

While you have the Vendetta Puppet on your person, creatures of the type which is cursed by the puppet has disadvantage on saving throws from your scion spells or features of your legacies, and you automatically know the direction to the cursed target's location, as long as it is within 100 feet of you. If the target is moving, you know the direction of its movement.

Additionally, while you have the Vendetta Puppet on your person, you can cast the following spells by expending a scion spell slot: hex, huner's mark.

The Volcanic Forgemaster

A large, heavy hammer with a two-handed handle. The head of the hammer is made out of steel, and its surface is perpetually cracked and molten in the core. The molten head can be observed, but it is never spilled.

You are proficient with the Volcanic Forgemaster, which is a magical warhammer. When you hit a creature with the Volcanic Forgemaster, you can expend one scion spell slot as a bonus action to deal extra bludgeoning, fire, or thunder damage (your choice) with the attack. The damage equals 1d8 plus 1d8 per spell slot level, to a maximum of 6d8.

Additionally, while you are wielding the Volcanic Forgemaster, you can cast the following spells by expending a scion spell slot: searing smite, thunderous smite.

1st Level

• charm person
• comprehend languages
• expeditious retreat
• illusory script
• unseen servant
• witch bolt

2nd Level

• crown of madness
• darkness
• hold person
• invisibility
• levitate
• misty step
• shatter
• spider climb

3rd Level

• counterspell
• dispel magic
• fear
• fly
• gaseous form
• magic circle
• major image
• remove curse
• tongues

4th Level

• banishment
• dimension door
• hallucinatory terrain
• phantasmal killer

5th Level

• contact other plane
• hold monster
• passwall
• scrying
• telekinesis

Prerequisites

To qualify for an artificer class, you must meet the ability score proficiencies for the artificer class, as shown in the table below.

Proficiency Bonus

When you multiclass into the artificer class, you gain the following proficiencies as shown in the table.

Class Feature: Spellcasting

When you multiclass into the scion class and gain both the Legacy Magic and the Pact Magic feature from the warlock class, you determine your available spell slots by adding together all your levels in the warlock class and half your levels (rounded down) in the scion class. Use this total to determine your sepll slots by consulting the Multiclass Pact Magic/Legacy Magic table below.