Mortal and Monster

Abominations are torn between the morality of their mortal selves and the urges of their monstrous curse, the conflict between the mortal self and the monster within becomes a choice for some, struggle against the monster or let it become who you are. Those who struggle may find themselves isolated from others, as to prevent their urges from ever bubbling to the surface. While those who embrace their monster become psychopaths bent on their passions, murder and bloodshed are only the tips of the iceberg when it comes to their vileness.

Good Intentions Within Curses

Not everything evil is bad, sometimes there are those who use their curse for the betterment of themselves and others while having to hold their bad intentions at bay. Often, Abominations begin their lives as good people, but their intentions are swayed over time, and by the end of their journey they may not be who they were long ago.

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: None
• Weapons: Simple Weapons

• Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Perception, and Survival

Equipment

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

• (a) a Dagger or (b) any Simple Weapon
• (a) a Sling and 20 Sling Bullets or (b) any Simple Weapon
• An Explorer's Pack.

Supernatural Defense

At 1st level, while not wearing armor and not wielding a shield, your AC is equal to 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier.

Unnatural Senses

At 1st level, your senses open up to the hidden channels that underly the mortal senses. You gain the following benefits while conscious.

• You gain an additional bonus to initiative equal to your Wisdom modifier.
• You gain Darkvision up to 30ft, if you already have darkvision you instead increase your Darkvision range by 10ft.
• You gain an additional bonus to your Passive Perception equal to your Charisma modifier.

Additionally, at 11th level you gain the ability to cast Detect Magic and See Invisibility as an action at-will without need of material components, these spells end at the start of your next turn.

Harrowing Physicality

Starting at 1st level, you grow claws, fangs, or any other unnatural extensions of yourself, you may cause these features to become hidden or revealed at-will (No action required). Your Unarmed Strikes gain the Finesse property and now deal 1d4 Piercing, Slashing damage, or Bludgeoning damage (Your Choice) whenever you make an attack while revealed.

Your Unarmed Strikes deal increasing damage while you level-up, refer to the Abomination Class Chart to see whenever the damage of this feature increases.

Heinous Affliction

At 2nd level, you choose the embodiment of a magical curse that forever taints your physicality, choosing from the Curse of the Beast, the Curse of Crimson, the Curse of the Dark Spirit, or the Curse of the Beautiful. Your choice grants you additional features at 2nd level and additional benefits at 3rd, 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

Mortal Disposition

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to tap into the dark sides of your curse, allowing you to extend yourself past your humanity and into the corruption that roots itself within. You gain access to two special mechanics called Absolution and Scourge Dice, Absolution being the measure of your remaining humanity and Scourge Dice being your ability to corrupt yourself for power.

Curse of the Beast

Carnage and bloodshed follows you wherever you may tread, forever haunting you as you leave behind a trail of ruined lives and desecrated corpses. You've become a Lycanthrope, and your curse is one of aggression and flesh.

Vampiric Weakness

At 2nd level, your mind and body are changed by your affliction, you gain the following disadvantages:

• Sunlight Sensitivity: While in direct sunlight, you gain disadvantage on Attack Rolls and Ability Checks. Additionally, while in sunlight you gain vulnerability to Radiant damage.
• Forbiddance: You cannot enter a residence without invitation from an occupant.
• Harmed by Running Water: Whenever you end your turn in running water, you take 5 points of Acid damage.

Charming Gaze

Starting at 2nd level, your gaze along stirs the hearts of others. You learn the Friends cantrip and you may cast it without need of Somatic or Material components, Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Additionally, at 3rd level you may expend 1 Scourge Die and cast Charm Person without need of Verbal or Somatic components.

Feast of Crimson

Also at 2nd level, you gain the ability to feast on the life essence of other living beings. Whenever you strike a non-undead creature using Harrowing Physicality, you may choose to spend 1 Scourge Die and regain an amount of hit points equal to the number rolled on the die + your Constitution modifier.

Transformation of the Vampire

Staring at 3rd level, you gain the ability to assume a monstrous humanoid form. Whenever you use your Horrific Transformation feature you gain the following benefits for 1-Hour:

• Your physical form is altered: You grow fangs as long as daggers, your eyes turn to a dark crimson that pierces through the darkness, and your skin turns deathly pale. You gain advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks, although you gain disadvantage on all other charisma checks while transformed.
• You regain double the amount of hit points whenever you use Feast of Crimson.
• You gain vulnerability to damage from Silver weapons.
• You gain resistance to Necrotic damage.
• Whenever you end your turn in direct sunlight or in standing water, you take 10 Radiant or 10 Acid damage respectively.

Additionally, whenever you're reduced to 0 hit points while Transformed you come under the effect of the Gaseous Form spell until either dead, brought up to 1 hit points, or are stabilized. While under the effect of Gaseous Form in this way you are still considered dying, but your movement speed is equivalent to your land speed and you may normally use your movement and action, but you may only use your action to take the Disengage action.

When Gaseous Form would end, you revert back to your true form, your Transformation ended.

Unearthly Attraction

Starting at 6th level, you carry an unnatural attraction that seemingly others gravitate towards, allowing your dark power to sway their minds easily.

You learn the following spells: Hold Person, Crown of Madness, or Enthrall. You learn the spell you've picked and you may expend 1 Scourge Die to cast it without using Somatic or Material components.

However, whenever you do so you must reveal your vampiric nature to others. When you first cast the spell and while the spell is active, your eyes turn blood red, your skin turns pale, and fangs protrude from your mouth. You have disadvantage on all Charisma ability checks, with the exception of the charmed creature (If it is charmed) and Charisma (Intimidation) checks. You revert back to your true form 1 round after the spell ends.

Ward of Midnight

At 6th level, you've become attuned to the shadows of the world, they bend to protect your body from harm. While in Darkness or Dim Light, you gain resistance to non-magical Bludgeoning, Slashing, or Piercing damage.

Dark Regeneration

Starting at 10th level, your body begins to rapidly repair itself while under duress. Whenever you take damage from a hostile creature, you regain 10 hit points at the start of your next turn. This feature is suppressed if you've taken Radiant damage or if you've started your turn in direct sunlight.

Create Spawn

At 14th level, you've learned how to bend another's death to your servitude. You may touch a humanoid creature that you've killed using Harrowing Physicality within the last minute. That creature is then raised as a Vampire Spawn and is considered under the effect of the Dominate Person spell.

The Vampire Spawn may roll a Wisdom saving throw at the end of every month, on a success the creature is broken from your command and regains control of itself. The Vampire Spawn may be hostile towards you, and if the creature kills you and drinks your blood, the creature gains levels in this class equal to your own.

You may control a number of Vapire Spawn equal to your Charisma modifier (Minimum of one).

Duality of the Wendigo

At 2nd level, the spirit within you fights for individuality just as you do, and at times control won't be yours. Your Wendigo has a personality of it's own, at the end of this PDF you must roll for additional Personality Traits, Ideals, and Flaws. The Wendigo is considered to be controlled by the DM, and whenever the Wendigo wishes to take control you must make a Charisma saving throw against your own Scourge Die DC, on a failure you lose control of your body as the Wendigo takes control.

At the start of every turn, you may repeat the save to take control again. The Wendigo may only attempt to take control once per long rest.

Darkness Availed

Starting at 2nd level, you've gained a certain control over aspects of the wendigo, allowing you to tap into the inner shadow that haunts you. Whenever you make an attack using Harrowing Physicality you may choose to cause the attack to deal Necrotic damage isntead of the usual damage type. In addition, you may use your Charisma modifier for attack and damage rolls made using Harrowing Physicality.

As part of this feature, you also gain Omens, fragments of the Wendigo's power. Whenever you strike a creature using Harrowing Physicality you may choose to expend a Sourge Dice to invoke an Omen you know.

When you first gain this feature you learn two Omens of your choice, learning more as you gain levels in this class. You may only invoke an omen once per round and you may only affect a creature with a single omen at a time and it cannot be targeted by the same omen until you finish a short or long rest.

Whenever you invoke an Omen, you expend a Scourge Dice. Some Omens have prerequisites, you cannot learn an omen if you don't meet the prerequisite.

As you level up, you learn additional Omens. Starting at 6th level you learn two additional Omens, at 10th level you learn on additional Omen, and at 14th level you learn one final Omen.

Transformation of the Wendigo

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to momentarily control the Wendigo and assume the horrible form of the spirit within. Whenever you use your Horrific Transformation feature you gain the following benefits for 1-Hour:

• Your physical form is altered: Black smoke pours off of your body and flows around you and your eyes glaze over with black or gray. You gain advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks, although you gain disadvantage on all other charisma checks while transformed.
• At the start of your turn you become Invisible. This Invisibility ends whenever you make an attack or cast a spell.
• You gain resistance to Necrotic and Cold damage.
• You gain vulnerability to Radiant damage.

Additionally, whenever you would be reduced to 0 hit points you may choose to use your reaction to instead be reduced to 1 hit point, however whenever you do so you reduce your hit point maximum by the amount of damage that would've knocked you unconscious, regaining your maximum whenever you finish a short or long rest.

Eclipsed Transposition

Starting at 6th level, you've learned how to warp your body into an incorporeal form, but only for brief moments. As an action you gain the ability to move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, at the end of your turn you return to your normal form. If you end your turn inside an object you take 1d10 Force damage and are shunted out to the nearest unoccupied space.

Whenever you use this feature you appear as an black incorporeal form of yourself, black smoke billows off of your form while incorporeal.

Once you use this ability you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Rending Darkness

Starting at 6th level, your shadow has learned how to strike even through those who would resist it. Your Darkness Availed feature ignores resistances and treats immunity to Necrotic damage as resistance instead.

Ghastly Rousing

Starting at 10th level, you've learned how to turn the fallen to a shadow of their former selves. As an action, you raise a Shadow from the body of a dead creature who has died within the last minute. The Shadow answers your commands and shares your initiative. You are able to telepathically give commands to the Shadow as long as you're on the same plane of existence (No action required). If you are unable to give the Shadow a command, it will continue it's previous command or will it's action to attack the nearest creature.

The Shadow lasts for a number of hours rolled on a Scourge Die, you may only have 1 Shadow raised at a time. You may additionally dismiss the Shadow as a bonus action.

Claws of Nightfall

Starting at 14th level, you've gained the ability to cause spectral claws to rake creatures from farther away. Whenever you would deal Necrotic damage using Harrowing Physicality and Darkness Availed your reach extends by 5ft.

Master of Shades

Also at 14th level, Your ability to muster the spirits of the dead improves. Shadows summoned via your Ghastly Rousing feature gain temporary hit points equal to your Abomination level and are granted the benefits of Rending Darkness. In addition, you may summon and command up to two additional shadows at a time.

Rive

You inflict a violent wound that festers with necrotic energy. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the creature takes Necrotic damage equal to a Scourge Die + your Abomination level at the start of it's turn for 1-Minute. At the end of the creature's turn it may repeat the save, ending on a success.

Torment.

Crippling pain begins to weigh down the creature. The target creature must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the creature's movement is halved for 1-Minute. Whenever the creature willingly moves it takes 1d4 + your Charisma modifier per 5ft of spent movement. Once this feature has dealt damage equal to 5 x your Abomination level, the effect ends. This feature may be ended early by spells such as Lesser Restoration.

Scar.

You strike a painful mark accross the creature, lowering the targets defenses for but a moment. For all creatures other than you, attack rolls against the creature have advantage until the start of your next turn.

Carve.

You cause spectral claws to lash out from you. Every creature within 5ft of you must make a Dexterity save, this includes the target of the attack. On a failure, a creature takes Necrotic damage equal to a Scourge Die + Half your Abomination level. On a success, a creature takes half damage.

Corrupt.

Sowing vile darkness into the creature, you cause their vital essence to fade. The target creature receives half the amount of magical and non-magical healing from all effects for 1-Minute. At the end of an affected creatures turn they may make a Charisma saving throw, ending this effect on a success.

Languish.

Prerequisite: Level 6

A vile affliction begins to tear away at the vitality of the creature. The target creature must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, you cause the creature to reduce their hit point maximum equal to the amount of Necrotic damage taken from the attack (if any) and double the number rolled on a scourge die. If you reduce a creature's hit point maximum to 0, it dies. This reduction lasts a number of hours equal to your Abomination level.

Delirium.

Prerequisite: Level 6

Reaching into the mind of the creature, you tear away their perception of reality. The target creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the creature suffers disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks for one minute, repeating the save at the end of its turn.

Siren's Song

Starting at 2nd level, you've learned how to embolden another's heart with false courage. As a bonus action you may spend 1 Scourge Die to emit a haunting, but strangely beautiful song to a creature that can hear you within 60ft. That creature gains temporary hit points equal to your Scourge Die + your Charisma modifier for 1-minute.

Invigorating Decadence

Starting at 2nd level, you've learned how to carve pain from another so you may soothe the wounds of another. Whenever you strike a creature using Harrowing Physicality you may choose to spend 1 Scourge Die to cause a friendly creature within 30ft of you that you can see to regain hit points equal to double the amount rolled on a Scourge Die + your Proficiency modifier.

Transformation of the Lamia

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to turn yourself to a haunting figure of intimidating beauty and horrific grace. Whenever you use your Horrific Transformation feature you gain the following benefits for 1-Hour:

• Your physical form is altered: Your hair glows and flows with an unnatural wind that whirls around you as an aura of strange sunlight that exemplifies your beauty. You gain advantage on Charisma saving throws and Charisma ability checks, you don't gain advantage on a charisma check when interacting with a creature with immunity to the Charmed condition.
• Friendly creatures within 10ft of you gain advantage on saving throws against the Frightened and Charmed conditions.
• Creatures who damage you take Psychic damage equal to your Charisma modifier.
• You gain resistance to Psychic damage.
• You gain vulnerability to damage from Silvered weapons.

This transformation ends early whenever you're reduced to 0 hit points.

Horrific Visage

Starting at 6th level, you've learned how to alter your physical beauty to rebuke your attackers. Whenever you're subject to an attack roll within 30ft of you, you may use your reaction and expend 1 Scourge Die to reduce the attack by a number rolled on a Scourge Die.

A creature is immune to this feature if the creature is Blinded or if the creature has averted their gaze.

Ensorcell

Also starting at 6th level, you've learned how to bend the heart of a creature to your wishes. You learn the Suggestion spell and may cast it by spending 1 Scourge Die, you additionally may cast the spell without need of Somatic or Material components. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this feature.

Dark Loathing

Starting at 10th level, your physical beauty causes those who fear you to truly witness your horridness. Creatures who are Frightened of you have their speed reduced to 0 and take Psychic damage at the end of their turn equal to a Scourge Die + your Charisma modifier.

Aura of Alluring Beauty

Starting at 14th level, your physical form is a beacon of natural enchantment, causing those who gaze upon you to become entranced. While conscious, you gain an aura extends 10ft from you, but not through total cover. You may choose to end or activate your aura as a bonus action.

Whenever a creature within your aura looks at you, they must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Scourge Die DC or be stunned while within your aura. A stunned creature may reroll their saving throw at the end of their turn, ending the condition upon a success.

A creature aware of this feature may choose to avoid looking at you, causing their attack rolls against you to have disadvantage.

Whispers of Betrayal

Starting at 14th level, your beguiling beauty allows you to influence your attackers momentarily. Whenever you affect a creature with your Horrific Visage feature and the creature misses their attack roll against you, you may choose for the attack to target another creature within range, rerolling the attack with an additional bonus equal to your Charisma modifier (Minimum of 0).

Obsession of the Revenant

At 2nd level, you form an obsession for vengeance over a creature, a number of creatures, or an organization that you create with your DM. Discuss what happened with these people of interest and your motivation to extract vengeance for their past deeds; what do you wish to accomplish in your quest for vengeance? How far will you go to achieve this goal? Who were you before, and why has this obsession manifested itself in this way?

Once you have determined this with your DM, discuss how you will track your obsession down. Ultimately, the DM has final say over how this will be accomplished. At the end of this PDF will be a few options for you to choose, if none of the options please you, come up with your own creative way to keep track of your obsession.

Warrior of Undeath

At 2nd level, due to your past life, you know how to effectively arm yourself. You gain the following benefits and proficiencies:

• You gain proficiency with light armor, medium armor, and shields. While wearing armor (But not wielding a shield), you gain an bonus to your AC equal to half your proficiency bonus (Rounded up).
• You gain proficiency with Martial weapons. While wielding a weapon of which you are proficient with, you may replace the damage die of the wielded weapon with the damage die of your Harrowing Physicality, as shown in the Harrowing Physicality column of the Abomination table.

Additionally, your mortal form has been drastically changed. Your creature type is now considered Undead, spells and features that affect or can't affect undead now apply to you.

Breath of the Undying

Starting at 2nd level, you gain the ability to manifest the spark of life within yourself, invigorating you with emboldened life or protecting you from damage that would devastate others.

As an action, you may expend a Scourge Die and gain hit points and increase your maximum health by an amount equal to your Scourge Die + your Constitution modifier for 1-minute. Once you take this action you cannot take it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Alternatively; whenever you take damage, you may use your reaction to spend 1 Scourge Die to reduce the damage taken by an amount equal to double the amount rolled on a Scourge Die + your Constitution modifier.

Transformation of the Revenant

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to summon the searing vengeance hidden within. Whenever you use your Horrific Transformation feature you gain the following benefits for 1-hour:

• Your physical form is altered: Your skin turns a ghastly gray, your eyes burn with a searing hatred, and your essence of undeath manifests for all to see. You gain advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks, although you gain disadvantage on all other charisma checks while transformed.
• You gain resistance to non-magical Slashing, Piercing, and Bludgeoning damage.
• You gain immunity to the Poisoned condition.
• You gain vulnerability to Radiant damage and damage taken from Silvered weapons; resistance to either type of damage doesn't apply.

Additionally, you cannot be reduced below 1 hit point as long as the damage taken is a type of damage you have resistance to. This can be bypassed if the damage taken is from a critical hit or if the damage is greater than your Abomination level + double your Proficiency bonus.

Undead Mortality

Starting at 6th level, your mortality has begun to shift further into your undead nature. You no longer require food, air, drink, or sleep.

Additionally, you gain immunity to effects that turn undead.

Grasp of the Grave

Starting at 6th level, your vengeance sears those who defy you. Whenever you use your Breath of the Undying feature to reduce the damage of an attack, you may choose to cause the creature who attacked you to be rebuked in a shroud of necromantic energy.

The creature must be within 30ft of you and you must be able to see them. The target creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your Scourge Die DC or take Necrotic damage equal to the total rolled as part of Breath of the Undying. On a success, the creature takes half damage.

Dark Regeneration

Starting at 10th level, your body begins to rapidly repair itself while under duress. Whenever you take damage from a hostile creature, you regain 10 hit points at the start of your next turn. This feature is suppressed if you've taken Radiant or Fire damage.

Vengeful Tenacity

Starting at 14th level, your mortal vessel has become inured to it's physical limits. While your hit point maximum is increased by Breath of the Undying, you gain immunity to the following conditions: Exhausted, Frightened, Deafened, or Paralyzed, and any critical hit against you becomes a normal hit.

Maddened

Whenever you fail a Humanity Save, you become Maddened for 1-Minute. While Maddened, you must roll on the following table to determine the ramifications of your broken spirit.

Curse of the Beast Abominable Insanity

Curse of Crimson Abominable Insanity

Wendigo Personality Traits

Wendigo Ideals

Wendigo Flaws

Variant: Curse of Crimson

Variant: Curse of Vengeance

The following are potential variant rules to use in place of the original class features.

Let's Start Off With This...

The Abomination was designed to be an extremely customizable class with many different builds, ranging from a brutish playstyle reminiscent of Barbarians to the elusive playstyle of Trickster Rogues. The possibilities are many, with key ability scores focusing on Charisma and Constitution being the main recommendation for all playstyles, treating all Wisdom, Strength, and Dexterity as the beginning path to how you'll be playing Abomination.

This class is mean't to fit the thematic of several horror archetypes, and as such, the features of this class are focused on the intended style of play and the general theme of the several subclasses.

Multi-Classing

Things in this class may be a little overpowered at first glance, and for some this may be a playground for creating builds that may be game breaking that I haven't forseen when making the Abomination, to prevent this, I made a small compromise that I hope many will understand:

The Abomination cannot be, by my original design, multi-classed.

As such, this class won't be changed to fit the narrative of multi-classing in my design. I've attempted to word features to prevent abuse if some would wish to multi-class, but there exists no absolute balance to the class multi-class wise.

In my personal games, I have no issue with having overpowered characters (By 12th level characters become insanely powerful by default anyways).

Scourge Dice

Basically, Scourge Dice are an infinite pool of dice that fuel your more "dangerous" features. Using a Scourge Dice requires you to roll it regardless of it's effect on the feature, as whenever you use a Scourge Dice feature you must make a reduction to your Absolution.

For example, the Ensorcell feature for the Lamia requires a Scourge Dice but has no active use for it in the feature but regardless, you must roll the Scourge Die and make the reduction.

Absolution

Absolution is the core of the Abomination class. Like Ki for the Monk, keeping track of Absolution is vital for this class to function. Whenever you roll a Scourge Die you must make a reduction to you Absolution equal to the number you rolled.

Whenever you