Artificer - The Expanded Toolbox

# Artificer: Expanded Toolbox v2.2

### What is the Expanded Toolbox?

The Expanded Toolbox is additional resources for the [Alternate Artificer](https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-LAEn6ZdC6lYUKhQ67Qk) as written by /u/KibblesTasty.

While the Alternate Artificer upgrade system encourages customization, a reoccuring ask is for more upgrades, so here we are: this is what it says on the tin - an Expanded Toolbox to draw from when building your Artificer based on things I have used, have seen suggested, or simply think are good ideas that didn't make it into the primary document.

> ##### Balance Disclaimer!
> Using the Expanded Toolbox for the Revised Artificer is not, nor is intended to be, power neutral, for the simple reason that more options is *always* more power.
>
> Moreover, there is two reasons that something appears here instead of the main document:
> * Either is *new content* that is not yet tested to the level of rigor to make it into the main document, or...
> * It is specialized content that might not be suitable for all games.
> 
> I don't include anything here that I think is completely outrageous or unbalanced, but items from this document should be considered on a case-by-case basis. Use this document the same way you would use Unearthed Arcana content. This is essentially my version of that.

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### Table of Contents:

* Runesmith 
* Cursesmith
* Spells
* Additional Upgrades
* Common Inventions
* Feats
* Backgrounds
* Notable Homebrew

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## Class Features
The following are extended options for the base class that are either new changes be considered for the base class (maked as Playtest) or being considered for inclusion as Variant Class Features.

### Cross Disciplinary Knowledge
*Playtest Feature*

At 6th level, you can expand on your knowledge across fields. You can craft one of the following: a Thundersmith's Stormforged Weapon, an Infusionsmith's Animated Weapon, Blasting Rod, or Infused Weapon, a Potionsmith's Alchemical Reagent Pouch and Alchemical Fire or Alchemical Acid, **a Warsmith's Gauntlet with the Martial Grip, Power Fist or Force Blast Upgrade (note: this does not give Artificial Strength)** or an Unrestricted Gadgetsmith Upgrade.

If you select a Stormforged Weapon, you gain proficiency with that weapon and knowledge of how to make ammunition for it (if required). You cannot apply Infused Weapon to another weapon granted by this class.

If this selection is lost or destroyed, you can remake it following the rules for remaking the select item in subclass.

### Class Upgrades
*Optional Class Feature*

You can take one of these class wide upgrades in place of a subclass upgrade.

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**Shield Proficiency**

You gain proficiency with shields.

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**Tool Proficiency**

You gain proficiency in a tool of your choice.

> ##### Note: Tool Expertise 
> Note that as the Artificer gives Expertise in any tool proficiency gained by this class, this would give expertise in the tool selected.

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### Cursemith
A Cursesmith's power is invariably marked by the dark decisions they've made; some ignore this lingering darkness, pursuing the heights of power their reckless creation allows. Others leverage the twisted side effects themselves, believing there are no mistakes, only opportunities. Darker still are those that truly embrace the darkness of their twisted creations, becoming twisted creations themselves.

A Cursesmith is not always evil, but they walk a path that dangles precariously over evil, making it an easy thing to fall into. They may be Lawful, but the laws they respect are rarely those of normal mortal society that might get in the way of their dark delving.

#### Cursesmith's Proficiency
When you choose this specialization at 1st level, you gain proficiency with one crafting tool of your choice, and learn one language of your choice from Infernal, Abyssal, Deepspeech, or Primordial.

#### Forbidden Artifact
At 1st level, you set yourself apart from other Artificers by seizing power that others dare not wield. You partake a dark ritual investing enormous power into an melee weapon and intertwining it with your very soul, bestowing it with great power, but twisting and corrupting it. The weapon becomes permenantly bound to you. You have proficiency with the weapon.

When you perform the rite, you instill one of the following awakening powers into the artifact: Empowered, Living, Necrotic, or Eldritch (listed below).

As a bonus action, you can awaken the weapon, invoking the awakened power and the cursed property until you suppress it again. You can suppress it as a bonus action, but if it has been awakened for more than 1 minute, you must pass a DC 10 Charisma save to return its dormant state.

##### Empowered

When awakened, the weapon hums with great power, dealing additional 1d4 damage of the weapons damage type. The extra d4 is maximized when attacking objects or structures.
 
##### Living

When awakened, your weapon morphes into a writhing living form. Select two of Abhorrent Life, Grip, Reach, or Split. It gains these properties while awakened.

##### Necrotic

When awakened, the weapon is enshrouded in dark energy. Each time you hit a creature with it, it inflicts a stack of necrotic rot on the creature. At the end of a creature's turn it takes a 1d4 damage per stack of necrotic rot on it and makes a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a success, the stacks on removed. On a failure, they remain. You can have a maximum number of stacks on a creature equal to your proficiency modifier.

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> ##### Tracking Necrotic Rot
> My favorite way to track this is just place the d4 next to the creature each time it gets a stack as it gives a great feeling of impending doom, but if you have a less absurd collection of d4s on hand, simple tic marks can suffice.

##### Eldritch
When awakened, it glows with magical power. When awakened, you can release magical blasts of power from the weapon that deal damage equal to the weapons damage dice. Select from cold, fight, lightning or necrotic for its damage type. In place of making an attack with this weapon, you can release this energy as a ranged spell attack. The ranged spell attack has a range of 120 feet. You can apply your Intelligence modifier to damage done with this attack.

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#### Cursed Path
Starting at 3rd level, the path you've chosen begins to claim your body and soul - some could call it a curse, some could call further opportunity. Select a path from the following:

##### Curse Bearer
You can draw deeply on the dark energy, attempting to master its power. When you awaken your forbidden artifact, you can afflict yourself with *bane*. When you do so, you deal an additional 1d6 necrotic damage on attacks with your Forbidden Artifact.

Additionally, when you suffer the effects of *bane* or any curse effect of one of the items granted by this class, you can suppress the effect ignore the negative consequence of the effect. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses on a long rest. If the curse is an ongoing effect, suppressing it suppressing it until the start of your next turn.

##### Curse Bringer
Once per turn when you deal damage with your Forbidden Artifact in its Awakened Form, you can leave a lingering malignity on that target. The target must make a Charisma saving throw or suffer the effect of *bane* until the start of your next turn.

Additionally, when you suffer the effect of any curse effect of one of the upgrades granted by this class, as a reaction, you can force another creature within 30 feet to make a Charisma saving throw or suffer the same effect. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses on a long rest.

##### Curse Eater
You consume the darkness of your Forbidden Artifact, destroying it. You gain a natural melee weapon. On hit, this weapon deals 1d8 damage of your choice of bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (selected when you gain this feature), and 1d4 necrotic damage.

You can awaken the power gained from the weapon to your natural weapon as well as the effect of the Forbidden Artifact curse. You can additionally absorb any item you create with this subclass, innately gaining its effect and curse. At the start of your turn while you are not incapacitated you regain temporary hit points equal to 1 + the number of curses you are currently afflicted by.

When you gain temporary hit points from this feature, you can instead regain 1d4 + the number of curses you are currently afflicted with hit points. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses on a long rest.

#### Damned Affinity
Additionally at 3rd level, magical items granted by this subclass that require attunement do not count against your attunement total if that item is cursed.

#### Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

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#### Unlimited Power
Starting at 14th level, you can select a second Awakening Property for your Forbidden Artifact. When you awaken it, you can awaken either property, or awaken both properties at the same time. When you awaken both properties at the same time, the weapons power rages out of control and begins to eat your soul, dealing 1d8 necrotic damage to you at the end of each turn it is awakened. This damage cannot be resisted.

> ##### Consumed Unlimited Power
> The Unlimited Power upgrade applies the same for a Curse Eater. They can awaken either power, or both, with the same consequences.

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##### Unrestricted Upgrades

**Eldritch Magic**

*Prerequisite: Artifact with the Eldritch Property*

Select a spell with an attack roll from the Wizard spell list that deals the same damage type as your weapon (when awakened). You can apply any secondary effect of that cantrip to your weapon's attack roll (for example, applying *chill touch's* secondary effect to a weapon that deals necrotic damage).

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**Eldritch Blade**

*Prerequisite: Artifact with the Eldritch Property*

Your weapon is wreathed in power while awoken, allowing you to make melee spell attacks in place of ranged spell attacks with it against creatures in reach of the weapon.

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**Abhorrent Life**

When awakened, your Forbidden Artifact takes a life of its own, writhing and lashing on its own at your mental direction. You can apply your Intelligence modifier to the to attack and damage roll of the weapon where you usually apply your Strength or Dexterity modifier.

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**Abhorrent Grip:**

When awakened, your Forbidden Artifact can twist around binding targets. When you hit an attack with it, you can attempt to grapple the target as a bonus action. If you have the Abhorrent Life mutation from this upgrade, you can make an Intelligence (Athletics) check to initiate or contest the grapple. You cannot attack other creatures while grappling a creature with this weapon.

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**Abhorrent Reach:**

When awakened, your Forbidden Artifact stretches and flexes unnaturally in seeking its targets. It's range increases by 5 feet.

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**Abhorrent Split:**

*Prerequisite: Forbidden Artifact with damage die of d8 or higher*

When awakened, your Forbidden Artifact splits into multiple writhing branches. The weapons damage dice convert to smaller increments based on the table below:

| Damage Dice | Awakened Damage Dice |
|:-----------:|:--------------------:|
| 1d12 or 2d6 | 3d4                  |
| 1d10        | 1d6 + 1d4            |
| 1d8         | 2d4                  |

It can attack other creatures even while grappling or restraining a creature with the Abhorrent Grip mutation from this upgrade, but loses one damage die (starting with its smallest) for each creature it is grappling or restraining.

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**Blood Rites**

Delving your dark path, you formulate a way to form temporary containers of magical power using blood. Select three ritual spells from the Wizard spell list; you gain the ability to cast these spells as Ritual Spells. You can only take spells of a level you could normally cast at the level you take this talent.

To cast these spells as rituals, you require fresh blood; this can be provided by an creature that has been slain in the last hour, or by a creature (including yourself) providing it at a cost of 1d4 slashing damage.

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**Helm of Invulnerability** *You can only wear 1 Helm at a time*

*Attunement, Cursed*.

You forge a helmet, making yourself invulnerable... almost. As reaction to taking to bludgeoning piercing or slashing damage, you can become immune to bludgeoning piercing and slashing damage until the start of your turn. Once you use this upgrade, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

**Curse:** Whenever this helm prevents damage, you take necrotic damage equal half the damage you would have taken. This damage cannot resisted.

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**Helm of Madness** *You can only wear 1 Helm at a time*

*Attunement, Cursed*.

With great madness comes great power. As a bonus action, you can allow the madness to take your mind. You can immediately move up to your movement speed and make a single weapon attack. Once you use this upgrade, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

**Curse:** When you activate this helm, your AC and bonus to saving throws is reduced by 5 until the start of your next turn.

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**Helm of Omniscience** *You can only wear 1 Helm at a time*

You make a helm granting your unlimited knowledge. As a bonus action, you can gain the effect of *foresight* until the start of your next turn. Once you use this helm, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

**Curse:** When you activate this helm, your mind becomes overloaded, causing you to take 1d6 psychic damage when you make a roll that benefits from *foresight* until the start of your next turn.

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**Dark Magic**

You record some of the foulest effects your experiments have had, codifying them into magical spells. You learn the following spells. They are Inventor spells for you, but do not count against your spells known.

| Spell Level  | Spells Learned |
|:---:|:-----------:|
|  1st  | *crippling agony^K^*, *cause fear* |
|  2nd  | *blindness/deafness, ray of enfeeblement* |
|  3rd | *rain of spiders, hungar of hadar* |

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**Ring of Gilded Lies**

*Attunement, Cursed*.

You create a ring that magically enhances your social abilities. Some of them. When your roll Deception or Performance, you gain the effects of *guidance* for the roll.

**Curse**: When you roll for Persuasion, roll a d4 and subtract it from the result.

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**Shadowed Shades**

You make a set of specticles. While wearing them, you can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.

**Curse:** You treat all light as dim light for the purposes of vision while wearing them.

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**Whispers of the Night**

After tinkering with the properties of your Artifact, you can hear it... whisper. You can hear that too, right? You gain the ability to cast *guidance* and *message*, but the message is always delivered in a haunting, unearthly, or creepy voice.

You can amplify these whispers to cast *dissonant whispers* without expending a spell slot. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

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**Cursing Rod**

You make a twisted magical rod that can dispense curses. Select one of *rotting curse*, *binding curse*, or *befuddling curse* when you create this item. You can cast that curse once using it without expending a spell slot. Once you do so, you cannot od so again until you complete a short or long rest.

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**Vampiric Infusion**

You delvelop a dark infusion you can work upon a weapon. As a bonus action, you can expend a spell slot infusing a weapon you touch with vampiric thirst for the next minute. When the wielder of the blade rolls damage with a weapon attack using the infused weapon, they deal 1d8 additionally necrotic damage, and regain hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt + your Intelligence modifier. This effect can occur a number of times equal to the spell slot used on the infusion.

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**Form of the Fiend**

As an action, you can expend a spell slot to assume the form of a fiend from the following list. The transformation lasts for a number of rounds equal to your spell casting modifier and requires your concentration to maintain, as if concentrating on a spell, or until you drop to 0 hit points or dies. The new form can be a fiend from the following table based on the level of spell slot spent. The you game statistics, excluding mental ability scores, are replaced by the statistics of the chosen fiend. You retains your alignment and personality.

You assume the hit points of your new form. When you reverts to your normal form, you returns to the number of hit points you had before you transformed. If you reverts as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form. As long as the excess damage doesn't reduce your normal form to 0 hit points, you aren't knocked unconscious.

You do not gain any spells the form can cast, legendary actions, or legendary resistances it might have. Your gear melds into the new form. The creature can't activate, use, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of its equipment.

| Spell Slot Level | Fiend Options |
|:----------------:|:-------------:|
| 1st              | Imp           |
| 2nd              | Spined Devil  |
| 3rd              | Bearded Devil |
| 4th              | Babau  |
| 5th              | Barlgura

##### 5th Level Upgrades

**Ghostgrasp Gloves** *You can only wear 1 set of Gauntlets at a time*

*Cursed, Attunement*

When you pull on these pale white gloves, your hands become ethereal, ghostlike appendages that drift and float from your wrists. You can interact with objects with you hands with a range of 10 feet, including picking up objects, opening doors, or grappling foes; you can attack with these hands at range only if wielding light weapons.

**Curse**: You have disadvantage on grappling checks and the amount you can lift or drag with your hands is halved as things slip through them.

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**Mantle of the Beast**

*Attunement, Cursed*

You forge magical mantle by seeping it in the blood beasts. By dripping it in the blood of a beast slain within the past week, you can gain one trait of that beast for an hour while wearing the mantle (such as Keen Senses or Spiderclimb).

**Curse:** When you activate it's power by dipping it in the blood of a beast, the languages you can speak become the languages the beast could speak (you still can understand any language you could previously understand) until the effect ends.

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**Skeletal Gauntlets** *You can only wear 1 set of Gauntlets at a time*

You forge a pair of gauntlets that cause your hands to appear as skeletal appendages of dark metal. While wearing these gauntlets, if you grapple a creature, at the start of its turn it takes 1d6 necrotic damage, and cannot regain hit points until the start of the of its next turn. Additionally, you have advantage against any check or save that would disarm you.

While wearing these gauntlets, you can cast the *grip of the dead* spell.

**Curse:** The death grip these gloves have make it difficult to let go of things. You have disadvantage on the first attack you make with a thrown weapon on your turn or on any ability check to throw an object.

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**Soul Transfer Token**

You create a dark magic object that allows you cast *possess corpse*. Once you use this upgrade, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

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**Soul Ring**

You create a ring to store your soul. While wearing this ring, you have advantage on death saving throws. If you another creature dons the ring. You can absorb yourself your body and equipment into the ring. When you do so, it gains weight equal to one tenth of your weight (including your equipment).

While another creature is wearing the ring, you can attempt to posses them. They make a Charsima saving throw. Your body vanishes and you become incapicated for the duration, and they become under the effect of *dominate monster*. A creature can choose to fail their save against this.

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**Vicious Effigy**

You learn the *cruel puppetry* spell and can cast it once without expending a spell slot. Once you use this upgrade, you cannot do so again until you complete a long rest.

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##### 9th Level Upgrades

**Amulet of Exiling**

You forge a magical amulet that causes creatures to phase from reality to varying degrees of permanency. You can use this amulet to cast *banish* or *blink* without expending a spell slot. Once you use the amulet to cast a spell, you cannot use it to cast a spell against until you complete a long rest.

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**Aspect of the Damned**

*Prerequisite: Curse Eater, 2 upgrades consumed*

The powers you have pilfered for your soul have tainted it... naturally this gives you great power. In addition to the powers you have gained from your upgrades, select two of the following powers to permanently gain:

* **Aberrant Life:** You no longer count as a humanoid creature, your creature type becomes aberration.
* **Creature of Darkness**: Your eyes become inky black pools. You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.
* **Hungering Soul**: Once per turn on your turn while you are grappling or grappled by another creature, you can inflict 1d8 necrotic damage on them as you sap their life force through the contact. Any healing they receive that turn is reduced by half.
* **Physical Mutation**: The darkness within warps your body, you can choose an unrestricted Fleshsmith upgrade (it must be one that affects your body).
* **Unlife**: You have found yourself in an odd half living state. You gain resistance to necrotic damage, and you no longer need to consume food.

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**Spell Eating Ring**

You make a magical item that consumes magic around you. You can activate the item, casting *counterspell* or *dispel magic* against a target within 15 feet of you. Any spell you that is stopped or ended by the effect, you can choose to consume, restoring 1d4 hit points to you per level of the spell, or gain the effect of the spell stopped or ended yourself until the end of your next turn if it could effect a creature and had a duration other than instantaneous. A spell stolen in this way does not require concentration to maintain, but lasts only a number of turns equal to your Intelligence modifier or the spells duration, whichever is shorter.

Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete long rest.

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**Ring of Nightmares**

*Attunement, Cursed*

You forge a ring of, well, pure evil. It can bring the horrifying nightmares to life in reality in a way that you don't quite understand, but is very effective. When you invoke a nightmare, you can cast *hunger of hadar*, *rain of spiders*, *summon lesser demons*, or *enemies abound* without expending a spell slot. Once you use the ring to invoke a nightmare, you cannot use it until you complete a long rest.

**Curse:** You cannot choose the nightmare invoked. When you invoke a nightmare, roll 1d4 (1: *hunger of hadar*, *rain of spiders*, 3 *summoner lesser demons*, 4 *enemies abound*)

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**Shadow Vessel**

You create a container filled with an inky shadow. You can open the container to cast *summon shadowspawn* without expending a spell slot. You can expend a spell slot of a higher level to cast the spell at the level of the expended spell slot plus one level. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete long rest.

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##### 11th Level Upgrades

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**Consuming Power**

*Attunement, Cursed*

You create a worn magical item - such as a set of bracers, bands or a ring - that leverages a dark bargain. Souls for power... starting with bits of your own.

As a bonus action, you allow it feed its consumption from your own soul. You can decrease your Charisma ability score by up to your Proficiency modifier, increasing your Strength ability score by an amount equal to your decreased Charisma. You cannot increase your Strength beyond its normal maximum in this way. This lasts until you use an action to reclaim your Charisma from the item.

Whenever you slay a creature of CR 1/4 or higher, you gain +1 current and maximum Strength ability score.  Both of these effects fade after 1 minute without killing a creature.

**Curse:** At the end of each turn your strength is increased by weapon, you take 1 + the amount of additional maximum Strength you have gained Necrotic damage. This damage cannot resisted.

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**Weapon Apotheosis**

When you awaken your weapon, it deals an additional 1d6 necrotic damage on damage rolls.
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**Ghost Cloak** *You can only wear 1 cloak at a time*.

*Attunement, Cursed*

You forge an item that chips away at your bounds to the material world around you. At the start of your turn while carrying the item, you can choose to slip those bonds entirely, stepping in the etheral plane. Moving through creatures does not impose a movement penalty, and you can move through objects up to 5 feet thick as difficult terrain. If you end your turn in another creature or objects space, you are moved to the nearest available space taking 1d10 force damage per five feet moved.

Once you activate this item, you cannot activate it again until you complete a short or long rest.

**Curse:** After leaving the Ethereal plane, until the start of your next turn you appear vaguely translucent, all damage you deal is reduced by half and you have resistance to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage.

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**Blood Cloak** *You can only wear 1 cloak at a time*.

*Attunement, Cursed*

You forge a blood red cloak that drinks blood to empower you. Unfortunately mostly your blood. When you take damage from bludgeoning or piercing damage while below half of your maximum hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to half the damage taken. If you hit a creature while you have these temporary hit points, you can add them to your damage roll.

**Curse:** If you ar healed while you have these temporary hit points, the temporary points are lost and the healing is reduced by the amount of temporary hit points lost.

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##### 15th Level Upgrade

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**Curse Numbness**

*Prerequisite: Curse Bearer*

You become immune to the effects of *bane*, *hex*, and *bestow curse* even when self inflicted.

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**Undying Creature**

*Prerequisite: Curse Eater*

You gain twice as many temporary hit points at the start of your turn from Curse Eater (or recover twice as many hit points when recovering hit points with it). You gain temporary hit points from the feature even when incapacitated.

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**Pandemic of Despair**

*Prerequisite: Curse Bringer*

If a target becomes effected by *bane* (either the spell or the effect from Curse Bringer) you can force a creature within 5 feet of it make a saving throw against the same effect, repeating indefinitely as long as there is targets. If a target fails their save, they become effected by the same effect as the initial target.

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**Exude Darkness**

You allow the power of your artifact to leak out. Whenever you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you gain the effect of *shadow of moil* for a number of turns equal to the level of the spell cast. This effect does not require concentration to maintain.

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**True Artifact**

So long ago you forged great power. Now you realize its full potential. Your cursed weapon becomes a true artifact, any bonus to attack and damage rolls lower than +3 it has is replaced by a bonus of +3, it gains two additional properties from the following list:

* While attuned to this artifact, you are immune to disease.
* While attuned to this artifact, you can't be charmed or frightened.
* While attuned to this artifact, you can cast a 1st or 2nd level spell of your choice once per short rest without expended a spell slot (spell chosen when this upgrade is selected).
* While attuned to this artifact, you can treat a 1 on a Death Saving throw as a 20.
* While attuned to this artifact, one of your ability scores (chosen when this upgrade is selected) increases by 1, to a maximum of 24.

When you select this upgrade, you can select the condition in which your weapon can be destroyed. Your weapon can no longer be permanently destroyed by any other means. This means can be absurd or implausible, but must be something potentially possible.

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## Cursesmith Spells

#### Cruel Puppetry
*3rd-level necromancy (ritual)*
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- **Classes:** Occultist
- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 120 feet.
- **Components:** V, S, M (a small humanoid doll worth at least 5 gp and something from the target creature (such as blood, hair, or scales) both of which the spell consumes)
- **Duration:**  Concentration, up to 1 minute
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You attempt to bind a creatures soul to a doll, linking the creature to the doll in a sympathetic link. The target must make a Charisma saving throw. On failure, the creature becomes bound to the doll. On a successful save, the creature is not bound and the spell ends.

As part of casting the spell when the creature fails the save, and on subsequent turns using your action until the spell ends, you can perform one of the following actions:
* Hold the doll still, causing the creature to be Restrained until start of your next turn.
* Force the doll to move, causing the creature to move 15 feet in a direction of your choice that it can move.
* Smash the doll, causing it take 4d6 bludgeoning damage.
* Rip the doll in half, ending the spell, destroying the doll, and dealing 4d12 necrotic damage.

Each time after the first you use an action to manipulate the doll, after the effect takes place, the creature can repeat the Charisma with disadvantage, ending the effect on a successful save.

Once a creature has been targeted by this spell, they cannot be targeted again for 24 hours.

**At Higher Levels:** When cast with a 5th level spell slot or above, the range of the spell becomes unlimited, as long as the target is on the same plane as the caster.

#### Possess Corpse
*3rd-level necromancy*
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- **Classes:** Occultist
- **Casting Time:** 1 action
- **Range:** 30 feet.
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:**  Concentration, up to 10 minutes.
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You target a corpse of a dead humanoid or beast, and temporarily transfer your soul into it. If the corpse has been dead for more than 24 hours, animating it as a skeletal or zombie version of itself. You retain your mental Ability Scores, alignment, and personality, but your other game statistics are replaced by its.

You cannot cast any spells the creature had, and do not get any special abilities unique to that instance of the creature (you become the generic version of that creature has presented in the game Statistics or the closest available option).

You cannot target a corpse or become a creature that has a higher CR than your character level or the level of the spell slot this spell is cast with.

When you cast the spell can choose to leave your body behind, or cause it to fade away into the ethereal realm for the duration of the spell. If you cause it fade it away, it reappears within 5 feet of the creature you were inhabiting when the spell ends. Either way, when the spell ends you return to your body regaining your normal game statistics.

#### Rain of Spiders
*3rd-level conjuration*
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- **Classes:** Druid, Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
- **Casting Time:** 1 bonus action
- **Range:** 60 feet
- **Components:** V, S, M (a spider leg)
- **Duration:**  Concentration, up to 1 minute.
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A vertical column of spiders begins to rain down in 20 foot radius, 40 foot high cylinder, centered on a location you specify. A Swarm of Spiders (Monster Manual, pg 334) descends onto each creature within the cylinder.

This swarm is considered to be climbing on the target creature and moves with them, even if they leave the affected area, and takes its turn immediately after that creature's turn. A creature can make use its action to attempt to get them off, making a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check against the spell save DC of the caster.

The swarm will attack the creature it fell on if it can, or move to chase them if it has been knocked off of them. Any spiders that remain when the spell ends disappear.

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### Runesmith
A Runesmith is an Artificer that has narrowed their focus to working a specific language of magic - powerful Runes that can channel long lasting power. These Runes come in many shapes and forms, the lore behind from many sources.

A Runesmith can be a knight, his runes splashed with gleaming power across his armor, or a scholar lending their power to the companions, marking potent runes on their weapons before standing back, or even a strange tatooed mystic, their runes tattooed across their very body.

Runesmiths are not inherently good or evil, though their rigorous attention to detail and patience tend to make them more inclined to a Lawful perspective.

#### Runesmith Proficiency
When you choose this specialization at 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons as well as smith's tools or calligrapher's supplies (based on your preferred method of marking runes. You learn one additional exotic language of your choice.

#### Runic Marks
Starting at 1st level, you can mark magical runes, imbuing the things they are marked onto with magic. A rune can be marked on a weapon, on a suit of armor, or directly onto yourself, as a type of runic tattoo.

The affected creature of a rune is the creature wielding the weapon or armor it is marked on, or you if the rune is directly marked on you. You can mark one rune on a weapon or set of armor, but there is no limit to the number of runes that can be marked on a creature.

If a rune is marked on a creature, select if you are effected by the weapon (affecting your natural weapons or unarmed strikes) or armor (effecting your natural armor).

You know the following runes, and can learn more from upgrades. You can mark your runes during a long rest, and can have two runes marked at a time, gaining the ability to have an additional rune marked at 3rd level (to three runes), 5th level (to four runes), and 14th level (to five runes). These last until you mark a new rune, with the oldest rune fading when you mark a new one after reaching your maximum number of runes. Upgrades that grant a new Runes does not increase this number, just expands the range of Runes you can mark.

##### Runic Effects
Each rune grants a passive ability based on what is marked on that enhances the ability of what it is marked on, and has an active ability that can be activated as an action or in place of an attack as part of the Attack action while it is marked.

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##### Rune of Power

An imposing rune that speaks to raw power. It has the following effects:

* *Active* **(Empower)**: The next attack of the affected creature before the start of your next turn deals an additional 1d8 + Intelligence modifier force damage.

##### Rune of Fire

An swirling rune that represents fire and burning. It has the following effects:

|     Target     | Effect | 
|:------:|:------:|
| **Weapon**| The first time per turn the weapon deals damage, that damage deals an additional 1d4 fire damage. |
| **Armor** | When the affected creature is by a melee weapon attack, they can use their reaction to deal 1d4 fire damage to the attacker. | 
* *Active* **(Explode)**: Creatures within a 5-foot radius of the affected creature must pass a Dexterity saving throw, or take 1d8 fire damage.

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##### Rune of Lightning

A jagged rune that manipulates energy and controls lightning. It has the following effects:

|     Target     | Effect | 
|:------:|:------:|
| **Weapon**| The first time per turn the weapon deals damage, that damage deals an additional 1d4 lightning damage. |
| **Armor** | The effected creature gains 5 feet of movement speed. | 
* *Active:* **(Hasten):** During the affected creature's turn, they gain an additional action that can be used to attack (one weapon attack with a light weapon or unarmed strike only), dash, disengage, hide, or use an object.

##### Rune of Warding

A stalwart rune that wards off harm. It has the following effects:

* *Active* **(Master):** The affected creature gains 1d4 + your intelligence modifier temporary hit points; the creature already has temporary hit points greater than this, the amount increases by your intelligence modifier.

#### Runic Flare
Starting at 3rd level, you can activate a rune as a bonus action. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all uses when complete a short or long rest.

#### Runic Path
Additionally at 3rd level, you can specialize in a certain application of runes, selecting from the following Runic Paths:

##### Runic Knight
You have proficiency with weapons or armor that are marked with your runes.

##### Runic Mystic
When you mark a rune on yourself, you gain both the weapon and armor effects of it. You add your Intelligence modifier, instead of your Strength modifier, to the attack and damage rolls when you attack with unarmed strikes.

##### Runic Sage
You gain the ability channel the runic power of runes that are on armor or weapons you are wearing, or on yourself. You can use the runes you've marked to channel magic. You gain the following spells based on which runes you've marked.

#### Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

You can activate a rune using its active property in place of one or both attacks.

####  Twin Flares
Starting at 14th level, once per turn, when you use the active property of a Rune or Glyph, you can cause the active effect of any two Runes or Glyphs

#### Runesmith Upgrades

##### Unrestricted Upgrades

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**Animate Inscription**

You mark special inscription on yourself or an item in your position to represent a familiar. You can spend a hit die to give it life and cast *find familiar* using this rune. When you cast *find familiar* in this way it does not require a spell slot or require material components, and the casting time is one action.

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**Arcane Glyph**

Learn how to translate a spell you know with a target of self into a glyph that can marked on a creature or piece of armor. As a special 1 minute ritual your can expend a spell slot of the spells level and mark this glyph on a creature. This glyph has no passive effect, but when activated with an action, it casts the stored spell as if the creature the glyph was marked on cast the spell.

Alternatively, the a creature marked with this glyph or wearing armor marked with this glyph that is aware of it's presence can use this glyph to cast the spell marked within as if they cast the spell stored using a magical item.

The glyph immediately fades after the spell has been cast (the spell lasts as normal). The glyph fades when the Runesmith that marked it completes a long rest.

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**Channel Magic**

You can cast a spell of range Touch on a creature marked by one of your Runes, wearing armor marked by one of your Runes, or wielding a weapon marked by one of your Runes, regardless of the distance between you.

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**Glyph Magic**

You learn the ability to cast a glyph. You learn the following spells. These spells are Inventor spells for you, but do not count against your spells known.

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**Rune of Blood**

An esoteric run that binds the essence of life. It has the following effects:

|     Target     | Effect | 
|:------:|:------:|
| **Weapon** |Each time the weapon deals damage to a creature, it stores one charge, up to a maximum number of charges equal to your Intelligence modifier. |
| **Armor**  | If the affected creature is hit by a critical hit or reduced to zero hit points, the rune stores one charge, up to a maximum number of charges equal to your Intelligence modifier. |
* ***Active***: *Revitalize*, The affected creature can immediately expend 1 hit dice, rolling it and regain health as normal. All charges of the rune are consumed, restoring additional hit points to the affected creature for 1d4 per charge consumed.

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**Rune of Gravity**

A complex run that manipulates the interactions of objects to change gravity. It has the following effects:

|     Target     | Effect | 
|:------:|:------:|
| **Weapon** |Marking this one a weapon adds or removes the heavy property. If you remove the heavy property from a melee weapon with this rune, you can also remove the two-handed property. |
| **Armor**  | Any time the affected creature would be moved against their will, they can use their reaction to stay where they are, as long as the movement is not falling. |
* ***Active***: *"Pull"*, All creatures within 20 feet of the affected creature are dragged 5 feet toward the affected creature.

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**Rune of Returning**

A weapon you mark with this rune is under the effect of *returning weapon* spell. This rune does not count against the runes you can mark, though you can only have it marked on one weapon at a time.

##### 5th Level Upgrades

**Duplicate Rune**

For one of the runes you mark, you can mark it on two different items or creatures counting it as a single use of instance of marking that rune. This applies to a single application (not a single type of rune).

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**Paried Effects**

You can mark two runes on a weapon or set of armor.

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**Rune Shield**

If you or any of your the items you are wearing are marked with a Rune of Warding, you can cast the *shield* spell.

##### 9th Level Upgrades

**Perfected Form**

The number of runes you can mark at the same time increases by one.

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**Mystic Flare**

*Prerequisite: Runic Mystic*

The first time you use a Runic Flare on your turn, it does not require a bonus action.

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**Runic Aegis**

*Prerequisite: Rune Knight*

You gain temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier when you use a Runic Flare.

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**Rune Magic**

*Prequisite: Rune Sage*

You gain access to more powerful magic through your runes.

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##### 11th Level Upgrade

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**Primal Emphasis**

The size damage dice of runes that deal Lightning, Cold, or Fire damage increases by one step (for example from a d4 to a d6). This applies to both their passive and flared effect.

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**Linguistic Structure**

You can mark up 3 Runes on a single item.

##### 15th Level Upgrades
**Reckless Flare**

As an action, you flare all of your marked runes and glyphs, after the active effect, all of your Runes fade and must be marked once again.

You cannot do this again until you complete a long rest.

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**Glyph of Force**

You learn the spell *wall of power*. It is an Inventor spell for you and does not count against your spells known.

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##### List of Glyphs

#### Glyph of Absorption
*1st level abjuration(glyph)*
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 - **Casting Time:** 1 bonus action.
- **Range:** 5 feet.
- **Components:** S
 - **Duration:**  1 minute.
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 You draw an ethereal mark in the air at a point within range. Creatures within 10 feet of this glyph have resistance to all damage, but this glyphs damage equal to the damage those creature's take (after resistance). The Glyph has 10 hit points. If the glyph is destroyed, it fades without detonating and the spell ends.
 
As an action, you can detonate the glyph. Any creature within 15 feet of this glyph must make a Dexterity saving through, or take Force damage equal to half the amount of damage the Glyph has absorbed. After using this action, the spell ends.

The spell ends early if you until you deactivate it with a bonus action.
 
**At Higher Levels** When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the glyph absorbs 5 additional hit points for each slot level above 1st

#### Glyph of Fire
*1st level evocation(glyph)*
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- **Casting Time:** 1 bonus action.
- **Range:** 5 feet.
- **Components:** S
- **Duration:**  1 minute.
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You draw an ethereal mark in the air at a point within range. Any creature that starts their turn within 5 feet of this glyph takes 1 fire damage.

As an action, you can force all creatures within 15 feet of this glyph must make a Dexterity saving through, taking 3d6 fire damage on failure, or half as much on success. After using this action, the spell ends.