Transient

Equipment

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

• (a) two shortswords or (b) two simple weapons
• (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
• (a) a crystal or (b) a component pouch
• (a) 5 javelins (b) 20 darts or (c) a sling and 20 sling bullets
• leather armor

Alternatively, you may start with 4d4 x 10 gp to buy your own equipment.

Planestep

Starting at 1st level, you learn to attune parts of your body to the border Ethereal. As a bonus action, you partially merge with the border Ethereal Plane. While in this state, you cannot attack or cast spells, and you take half damage from effects in your original plane. You can end this effect at the end of your current turn or at the start of your next turn.

The number of times you can use this is shown on the transient table. When you finish a short or long rest, you regain all expended uses.

Conveyance

Additionally, at 1st level, you learn how to converse with extraplanar beings that may not know how to speak Common, by using universal hand gestures. You may use hand motions to speak with creatures that don't share a language with you if they have an Intelligence score equal to or higher than 10, taking 10 times as long as a normal conversation would.

Preparing and Casting Spells

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

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

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

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

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your transient spells, drawing power from the various planes. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a transient spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Resonance Spells

You gain resonance spells at the transient levels listed.

Wand of the Elements

When you choose the Elemental Planes as your planar resonance at 3rd level, you learn to unleash strands of the Elemental Planes with destructive force.

As a bonus action, you can coalesce the traces of Elemental Planes into a shard of destructive power. When you create the shard, you can choose to make it deal fire, cold, thunder, or force damage. The shard counts as a simple melee weapon with which you are proficient, and can be used as a spellcasting focus. It deals 1d8 damage on a hit and has the finesse, light, and thrown (range 20/60) properties. The shard dissipates at the end of your turn if it is not in your hand.

Brave the Elements

At 7th level, you gain the ability to join one of the Elemental Planes with yours. As an action, you can turn an area of 30-foot radius into difficult terrain for 1 minute. You ignore this difficult terrain. Additionally, you can choose one of the additional effect:

Fire. When a hostile creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it is engulfed in flames and must make a Dexterity saving throw against your transient spell save DC. It takes 2d10 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Water. You can select a number of creatures in the area up to your Intelligence modifier to ignore the difficult terrain and become able to move through solid objects (such as the ground) as if they were water. Additionally, the area becomes heavily obscured with fog.

Earth. You create a number of stone pillars up to your Intelligence modifier, each 5 ft in diameter and 10 ft tall, in unoccupied spaces within the difficult terrain. Each pillar has an armor class of 17 and 30 hit points, and is immune to poison and psychic damage.

Air. You can select a number of creatures in the area up to your Intelligence modifier to ignore the difficult terrain and instead gain a 10 ft bonus to movement speed. Additionally, ranged weapon attacks that pass through the difficult terrain are at disadvantage.

Once you've used this ability, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Infuse with the Elements

At 15th level, you learn to use the Elemental Planes for your abilities instead of the Ethereal. When you use your Spatial Rift feature, attacks that pass through the portal deal an additional 1d6 fire, cold, thunder, or force damage.

Additionally, when you reappear after using your Planewalk feature, you can inflict one of the following effects:

Fire. All creatures within 10 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw against your transient spell save DC. A creature takes 1d10 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Water. All Large or smaller creatures within 10 feet of you must make a Strength saving throw against your transient spell save DC or become grappled as ice binds them to the ground.

Earth. A statue of you made from mud appears where you disappeared, occupying the space where you used your Planewalk feature. If the statue takes any damage, or as a bonus action on your subsequent turns, you can make the statue explode into stone shards. Each creature within 10 feet of the statue must make a Dexterity saving throw against your transient spell save DC. A creature takes 2d6 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Air. All Large or smaller creatures within 10 feet of you must make a Strength saving throw against your transient spell save DC or be pushed back 10 feet.

Elemental Mastery

At 20th level, you gain the ability to manifest the purest form of your element. As a bonus action, you can cast the spell investiture of flame*, investiture of ice*, investiture of stone*, or investiture of wind* at lowest level without expending a spell slot. If cast this way, the spell does not require concentration, and you can swap between the four spells as a bonus action.

Once you've used any of this ability, you must complete a long rest before you can use any of them again.

THE TRANSIENT ––– SUBCLASS

Resonance Spells

You gain resonance spells at the transient levels listed.

Blessed Light

When you choose the Celestial Planes as your planar resonance at 3rd level, you gain the ability to use holy symbols as your spellcasting focus. Additionally, you gain proficiency in medium armors and shields.

Additionally, when you cast a spell that restores hit points to a creature, that creature gains a bonus to their next weapon attack it makes before the start of your next turn. This bonus is equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Brilliant Halo

At 7th level, you gain the ability to bless your allies with the light of the Celestial Planes. You have a pool of healing power that replenishes when you take a long rest. With that pool, you can restore a total number of hit points equal to your transient level × 5.

As a bonus action, you can bestow a shimmering halo to a creature within 30 feet of you. At the start of their turn, they draw power from your pool and regain a number of hit points up to your Intelligence modifier. While wearing the halo, the creature gains a bonus to Charisma (Persuasion) checks equal to your Intelligence modifier.

You can dismiss the halo or move it from one creature to another as a bonus action.

Selfless Spirit

At 15th level, you learn to use the Celestial Planes for your abilities instead of the Ethereal. When you hit a creature with a melee or ranged weapon attack through your Spatial Rift feature, the target sheds dim light in a 5-foot radius. The next attack roll made against this target before the end of your next turn has advantage.

Additionally, when you reappear after using your Planewalk feature, you can reappear in a place already occupied by an ally. When you do so, your ally is moved to the nearest unoccupied space and regains 4d6 hit points. If you reappear in an unoccupied space, you instead regain 2d6 hit points.

Angelic Favor

At 20th level, you embrace the divinity of the Celestial Planes. As an action, you can cast holy aura at lowest level without expending a spell slot. If cast this way, the spell does not require concentration.

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

THE TRANSIENT ––– SUBCLASS

Resonance Spells

You gain resonance spells at the transient levels listed.

Diabolic Servitude

When you choose the Fiendish Planes as your planar resonance at 3rd level, you gain fiendish allies. When you cast find familiar, you can choose for your familiar to take on the form of an imp or a quasit. Your familiar's gains a bonus to its hit points equal to your transient level.

Additionally, when you take the Attack action, you can forgo one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to use its reaction to mke one attack of its own. If your familiar hits a creature, that creature has disadvantage on saving throws against any spell you cast before the end of your next turn.

Desecrated Earth

At 7th level, you gain the ability to join one of the Fiendish Planes with yours. As an action, you can fill an area of 30-foot radius with unholy energy for 1 minute.

Fiends within this area deal an additional 1d4 fire damage on attacks and gain a 1d4 bonus to attack rolls.

Once you've used this ability, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Into the Maw of Hell

At 15th level, you learn to use the Fiendish Planes for your abilities instead of the Ethereal. When you use your Spatial Rift feature and your familiar is within range, you can choose instead to switch locations with your familiar.

Additionally, when you reappear after using your Planewalk feature, you can force all creatures within 10 feet of you to make a Charisma saving throw against your transient spell save DC or be transported to the Lower Planes. On a failed save, the creature dissapears 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 2d6 psychic damage as it reels from its horrific experience.

Irresistable Summons

At 20th level, you master the art of forcefully bringing beings of extraordinary power into your plane. As an action, you can cast gate at lowest level without expending a spell slot. You can use it to target a specific creature, drawing it to your side of the portal.

Once you've used this ability, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

THE TRANSIENT ––– SUBCLASS

Resonance Spells

You gain resonance spells at the transient levels listed.

Clinging Darkness

When you choose the Dark Planes as your planar resonance at 3rd level, you gain the ability to see normally in dim light or darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.

Additionally, you become invisible while you are using your Planestep feature in dim light or darkness. If you are invisible when your Planestep ends, you have advantage on the first attack you make before the end of your turn.

Dance of Shadows

At 7th level, you gain the ability to join one of the Dark Planes with yours. As an action, you can suppress all magical lights created by spells of 3rd level or lower within an area of 30-foot radius for 1 minute.

All creatures within this area appear as dark featureless shapes with muffled and indistinguishable voices. Whenever a hostile creature chooses a target, it must make an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your transient spell save DC or choose at random from among the creatures it can see within range.

Once you've used this ability, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Touch of Darkness

At 15th level, you learn to use the Dark Planes for your abilities instead of the Ethereal. When you use your Spatial Rift feature, the portal takes on your appearance, and can be moved using your movement speed. Attacks that pass through the portal deal an additional 1d6 necrotic damage.

Additionally, when you reappear after using your Planewalk feature, you can force all creatures within 10 feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your transient spell save DC or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Dark Suspicions

At 20th level, you bring madness from the Dark Planes. As an action, you can cast maddening darkness* at lowest level without expending a spell slot. If cast this way, the spell does not require concentration.

Once you've used this ability, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

Resonance Spells

You gain resonance spells at the transient levels listed.

Equal Treatment

When you choose the Planes of Order as your planar resonance at 3rd level, your lawful magic holds all beings to the same standards. When you cast a spell that requires more than one creature to make a saving throw, one target is chosen at random to make the saving throw. If they fail or succeed, all creatures affected also fail or succeed.

Absolute Law

At 7th level, you gain the ability to shift things toward their natural order. You can replace any attack roll, damage roll, saving throw, or ability check made by you or a creature that you can see with the average value of the dice (rounded down). You can choose to do this after you roll the die, but before the outcome is determined.

Once you've used this ability, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Rule of Law

At 15th level, you learn to use the Planes of Order for your abilities instead of the Ethereal. When you use your Spatial Rift feature, attacks that pass through the portal cut reliably. Choose one dice from the damage roll and maximize it.

Additionally, when you reappear after using your Planewalk feature, you can force creatures creatures within 10 feet of to make a Wisdom saving throw against your transient spell save DC or become cut off from its source of magic. The creature is unable to cast any spells until the end of your next turn.

Dueling Grounds

At 20th level, you channel the Planes of Order to create a fair field of battle. As an action, you can cast antimagic field at lowest level without expending a spell slot. If cast this way, the spell does not require concentration.

Once you've used this ability, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

Resonance Spells

You gain resonance spells at the transient levels listed.

Chaos Warp

When you choose the Planes of Disorder as your planar resonance at 3rd level, your planar magic can unleash surges of untamed magic. When you end your Planestep feature, the DM can have you roll a d20. If you roll a 1, roll on the Wild Magic Surge table to create a random magical effect. A Wild Magic Surge can happen once per turn.

Grip of Chaos

At 7th level, you learn to protect yourself using energies from the Planes of Disorder. When you are targeted by a spell that targets only you, you can redirect it to another target at random from among the creatures you can see within range.

Once you've used this ability, you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Defender of Chaos

At 15th level, you learn to use the Planes of Disorder for your abilities instead of the Ethereal. When you use your Spatial Rift feature and have advantage on an attack roll that passes through the portal, you can roll on the Wild Magic Surge table if you roll a 1 on either of the d20.

Additionally, when you reappear after using your Planewalk feature, you can roll directly on the Wild Magic Surge table.

Chaoslace

At 20th level, you manifest the Planes of Disorder as you please. As an action, you can cast prismatic spray at lowest level without expending a spell slot. If cast this way, the spell does not require concentration.

Once you've used this ability, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.