The Toon Class

Reality Warpers

Toons have the ability to harness the magic of creativity and art into their own bodies. This power allows them to "toonify" themselves and perform supernatural feats that defy the laws of reality and physics.

These feats can include anything from stretching their bodies like rubber in an unnatural manner, holding items that are far too big for their pockets, or taking an absurd amount of physical abuse only to come back from being sliced in half or squashed flat like paper.

They are often considered to be neigh immortal due to the fact that their powers comes from the fact they do not follow our normal laws of reality but it has been shown that an absurd amount of damage can kill the toons. There was once a case where a substance known as Dip was used as a sort of acidic toon melter, which could permanently kill and end toons for good.

Following Your Own Path

It is a misconception that toons only exist to entertain and amuse the masses. Once someone has been toonified, they have the free will to use their powers however they please, often seeing themselves as a major character in the story of life due to the fact that toons are usually created to tell stories.

This can be anything from seeing themselves as a villain, a hero, or even something a bit more niche like the love interest to another person.

Generally, a toon's reasoning for becoming a toon is their own. It could be because they want to be an entertainer and wish to use their reality warping powers for jokes or laughs. They could have a want for untold powers. They could have always been a toon from the start and had no choice in how they were created or they could have been cursed by a more powerful toon or even toonified themselves solely with their creativity and love for the art form.

However it is that someone became a toon, they all have their reasons, simple or not.

Creating a Toon

When deciding on the toon class, think about how it is that you became a toon in the first place. Perhaps you were created as most classic cartoons were, from a simple idea, a creation of someone else, or perhaps you were cursed by a far more powerful toon into becoming a toon yourself.

What is your relationship with your reality warping powers and how do you choose to use them? Perhaps your character is even aware of the fact that they are fictional and everything they do is influenced by this.

How did your toon character become an adventurer? It could be the classic tale of the toon hero trying to act out his or her own story, or maybe you're only in it for your own personal gain or pleasure. Maybe you're traveling to face a rival toon or perhaps to learn new stories as inspirations for your art or gags.

Is your character's reality warping power a subject of oppression or are people generally used to the idea that forces of creativity can become a physical manifestation? What does society see you as?

Class Features

As a toon, you gain the following class features

Boomerangyness

Whenever you throw a weapon with the thrown property, you gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls with that weapon. Additionally, on a hit, the thrown weapon will return to you.

Bullet Sponge

You gain an additional Slapstick Die. Additionally, when you use a Slapstick Die to reduce damage, you can expend any number of Slapstick Die rather than just an amount equal to your proficiency bonus.

Fudd-Like

You gain proficiency in firearms, additionally, once per turn, when you make an attack roll with a firearm and you roll the weapon's misfire score, you may re-roll your attack. (This feature uses the homebrew firearm rules from Matthew Mercer's Gunslinger Fighter Subclass)

Rubber Hose

Your arms and legs extend an additional 5ft. Because of this, you may use your arms and legs to make a melee weapon or unarmed strike attack as if the weapon had the reach property, make grapple or shove attempts, or to interact with distant objects. This feature does not stack with weapons that have the reach property or with abilities that give additional reach such as the Bugbear's "Long Limbed" racial feature.

Spinach Arms

You ignore the heavy property of weapons and you ignore the lance's special property.

Switching the Sheets

After you roll initiative, you may either choose to re-roll your initiative, or force a creature you can see within 60ft to re-roll theirs.

Antagonist

The antagonist often views themselves as an evil doer or a villain of some sort. Whether it be because they see themselves as evil or if they are conventionally evil, however, every antagonist has a different point of view on what they consider evil such as something as mundane as rigging a game for the prize money, to destroying an innocent town for its resources.

Soulmate

Starting at 3rd level, you can establish a creature as your "Soulmate" by performing a ritual around them that takes at least one hour of time to perform.

You can re-perform the ritual on another creature to establish that creature as your Soulmate, however, you can only have one Soulmate at a time. As a reaction, when your Soulmate takes damage, you can expend Slapstick Die to reduce the damage your Soulmate has taken.

Lovely Assist

Starting at 3rd level, you may use the Help action as a bonus action when your Soulmate is within 30ft of the target creature.

Jealousy

Starting at 7th level, you and your Soulmate have advantage on saving throws against being charmed so long as you are within 60ft of your Soulmate.

Taking the Hit

Starting at 15th level, whenever your Soulmate takes damage, as a reaction, you can choose for half of the damage to be dealt to you instead. You may expend Slapstick Dice as part of this reaction to reduce the damage either you or your Soulmate have taken.

Power of Love

Starting at 20th level, you can unleash the power of your love to allow your Soulmate to continue fighting with their full power. As an action when your Soulmate is within 60ft of you, you can restore one of the following resources. Your Soulmate must have this resource in order for you to restore it.

• One of any Spell Slot level.
• Half of your Soulmate's maximum Ki points. (Rounded up)
• Half of your Soulmate's maximum Sorcery points (Rounded up)
• All of your Soulmate's maximum Bardic Inspiration uses (Rounded up)
• Two Channel Divinity uses
• Half of your Soulmate's maximum Lay on Hand's health pool. (Rounded up)
• Half of your Soulmate's maximum Slapstick Die (Rounded up)
• One use of any feature that can only be used once per long rest except this feature.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Hero Fame

Starting at 3rd level, you have advantage on Charisma (Performance) or Charisma (Deception) checks when you are talking about your acts of heroism, whether they be true or not.

Hero Style

Starting at 3rd level, you gain an additional feature based on which Toon Fighting Style you selected.

Boomerangyness: When you hit a creature with a thrown weapon, as a bonus action, you may throw another.

Bullet Sponge: When you roll your Slapstick Die to reduce damage, you may roll d12s instead of d10s.

Fudd-Like: You learn a trick shot as per the rules of the Gunslinger Fighter Archetype. You only have two grit points.

You regain these expended grit points each time you roll a 20 on the d20 roll for an attack with a firearm, or deal a killing blow with a firearm to a creature of significant threat (DM’s discretion).

You regain these expended grit points after a short or long rest. Your DC for this trick shot is determined by your Gag save DC.

Rubber-Hose: When you roll a melee attack action on your turn, you can expend a number of Slapstick Die equal to your proficiency modifier. For every Slapstick Die expended, the range of your attack is increased by 5ft.

Spinach Arms: When using a weapon with the Heavy property, you roll a critical hit on a 19 or a 20.

Switching the Sheets: You add a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your proficiency bonus.

Heroes Never Die

Starting at 7th level, as part of your reaction when expending Slapstick Die to reduce damage, reduce the damage by an additional 1d10.

Flair

Starting at 15th level, when you hit a creature with an attack, roll a Charisma (Performance) check, if you roll higher than 15, your next attack roll has advantage. You may only use this feature once per turn.

Plot Armor

Starting at 20th level, you've become a beloved icon and as such, have gained Plot Armor. Whenever you would take lethal damage or fail enough death saving throws to kill you, you may instead use your reaction to recover to 1 hit point. When you do this, you gain 2 levels of exhaustion. You can not use this feature to prevent yourself from dying of old age

Backgrounder

Starting at 3rd level, you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to blend into a crowd. Additionally, you do not have disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks while wearing heavy armor.

Extra Gag

Starting at 3rd level, you gain an additional gag from the gag list. This gag does not count against your number of maximum gags.

Without Notice

Nobody expects you to do anything of note as a background character, because of this, starting at 7th level, creatures have disadvantage on saving throws against your gags if you are hidden from the creature.

Gag Combo

Starting at 15th level, when you use a gag that requires you to use an action, you can use the Hide action as a bonus action.

Blend-In

Starting at 20th level, you become so good a being a background character, that you go unseen perfectly. When you use the Hide action on your turn, you become invisible until the start of your next turn.

Tragic Backstory

Starting at 3rd level, you have an overwhelming angst from your tragic backstory, and the sheer uncreativity causes physical harm to those around you. When you roll initiative, you may target a hostile creature that rolled lower than you, that creature must succeed a Wisdom saving throw against your Gag Save DC.

On a failed save, expend a number of Slapstick Die equal to your proficiency modifier, roll them, and deal psychic damage equal to the amount rolled to the hostile creature.

If you selected the Switching the Sheets toon fighting style, you may determine the outcome of this feature after determining the outcome of the the Switching the Sheets toon fighting style.

Stealing the Spotlight

You feel the need to be star of literally every situation regardless of whether or not it involves you.

Starting at 7th level, when you roll initiative, the first hostile creature above you in the initiative order is forced below you. This feature occurs before your Tragic Backstory feature.

Literally Cheating

Starting at 15th level, you cannot help but to change your stats in the middle of the game. When you finish a long rest, you may do one of the following things

• Increase your AC by 2
• Increase one of your Ability Scores by 2 to a maximum of 20
• Add +2 to your initiative rolls
• Deal 1d6 additional slashing damage when you hit a creature with a weapon attack or a gag.

Your chosen effect lasts until you finish another long rest.

Final Move

Starting at 20th level, you get to perform your super special edgy move. As an action, target a space you can see within 60ft. You quickly teleport to that space, creating a line of edgyness between your current space and the target space. Each creature in that line must succeed a Dexterity saving throw against your Gag Save DC or take 10d6 slashing damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful save.

You must finish a long rest before using this feature again.

Corner Eyes

Prerequisite: 3rd level, Edgelord Toonish Trope
You spend so much time brooding in the shadows and in the corners of pubs that your eyes have adjusted. You gain 60ft of darkvision or 120ft of darkvision if you already had darkvision.

Teleports Behind You

Prerequisite: 10th level, Edgelord Toonish Trope
As a bonus action, you may spend three Slapstick Die to teleport to a space within 5ft of a target creature.

2nd Level Gags

3rd Level Gags

Background Attack

Prerequisite: 6th Level, Background Character Toonish Trope
When you deal damage to a creature with a weapon while the creature is unaware of you, you can expend a Slapstick Die to deal an additional 2d4 damage to that creature.

Background Blur

Prerequisite: 6th Level, Background Character Toonish Trope
As an action, you can expend two Slapstick Die to give yourself advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks for 1 minute.

Bubble Helmet With Propeller

Prerequisite: 6th Level
You gain a swim speed of 30ft and can breathe underwater.

Chaos Clock

Prerequisite: 6th Level
As an action, you can expend four Slapstick Dice to cast the Haste or Slow spell.

Charisma is your spellcasting modifier for these spells.

Ink Morph

Prerequisite: 6th Level
As an action, you can expend five Slapstick Dice to transform into a inky creature for 1 minute as per the rules of the Druid's Wild Shape feature.

When you select this gag, select a creature type as well. Your selected creature type is the only creature type you can transform into. When you select the humanoid creature type, you instead select two humanoids you can transform into.

You can transform into any CR 1/2 creature from your chosen creature type without a flying speed. You can only use this gag twice per short or long rest.

When you use this gag at 8th level, you can select creatures with a flying speed. You can select this gag multiple times to gain an additional creature type to transform into.

Laughing Shield

Prerequisite: 6th Level, An Open Hand to Wield the Shield.
You create a sentient shield that laughs and taunts targets. As a bonus action, you can expend two Slapstick Dice to target a creature that can hear the shield within 60ft.

That creature must succeed a Charisma saving throw have disadvantage on it's next attack roll, ability check, or saving throw.

Figure 8 Running Shoes

Prerequisite: 14th Level
As a bonus action, on your turn, you can expend a Slapstick Die to take the dash action.

McGuffin

Prerequisite: 14th Level
You gain access to a magic item of rare quality or lower. It must be a magic item you can attune to and nobody can attune to this magic item by you.

Portable Wings

Prerequisite: 14th Level
You gain a flying speed of 30ft.

Resistance

Prerequisite: 14th Level
You gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (your choice) from non-magical weapons or attacks.

Toon Madness

Prerequisite: 14th Level
As an action, you can regain two Slapstick Die. When you do so, roll on the Long Term Madness table. This madness lasts until you finish a long rest.

Anvil Caller

Prerequisite: 18th level
As an action, you can expend 7 Slapstick Die to cause an anvil to appear 100ft in the air up to 120ft away from you, landing in a 5ft square. If you summon the anvil indoors, it simply falls from the top of the ceiling.

The anvil falls down, crashing through objects on it's way until it hits the ground. If a creature is in the 5ft square when it lands, that creature must succeed a Dexterity saving throw or be hit by the anvil, taking 10d8 bludgeoning damage and being knocked prone on a failed save. On a successful save, a creature takes half damage and is not knocked prone.

The anvil remains in the area for 1 minute before vanishing or until another anvil is summoned.

Death Ray of Villainy

Prerequisites: 18th Level, Antagonist Toonish Trope
As an action, you can expend 7 Slapstick Dice to summon a 60ft tall cylinder in a 20ft area up to 120ft away from you. Each creature in that area must succeed a Dexterity saving throw or take 8d8 lightning damage or half as much on a successful save.

This gag deals double damage to structures. If a creature or object in the death ray falls to 0 hit points, they disintegrate completely.

Plot Hook Finder

Prerequisite: 18th Level
As an action, you can expend 10 Slapstick Die to ask your DM a question about a person, place, or thing that you are aware of. Your DM must answer truthfully.

If you attempt to use this more than once per long rest, you gain two levels of exhaustion and your maximum hit points are reduced by 3d10 until you finish a long rest.

Differences Between the Original and Redux

The original Toon class was a little too unfocused with how it's main mechanic, Hammerspace Points and Hammerspace Items, and its secondary mechanic, Slapstick Dice interacted. Originally, the class was meant to be a sort of tanky utility character with very low damage output but was underpowered and was not good for either role due to the fact that the class's two main mechanics did not synergize well.

With this redux, the goal of the class changes to allow players to have a sort of "tanky warlock" experience. The idea being that you're meant to balance between choosing to reduce damage using your Slapstick Dice, or using your gags for utility and damage. So, with this big change, Hammerspace Items and Hammerspace Points are removed but some of the mechanics of the old class lives on in the Gags.

Some Hammerspace Items were repurposed as Gags and the secondary ability of the Hammerspace feature itself was repurposed into a gag.

Unfortunatly, with this big mechanical change, the Side Character subclass and it's overreliance on the Hammerspace mechanic could not fit into this new class, however, replacing it is the Background Character, a stealthy toon that blends into the background.

Nextly, another big change is how archetypes or as they are called in the redux, "toonish tropes" are handled. Archetypes used to work on a Bard style leveling system but now they work on a Paladin style leveling system. I felt this approach was more appropriate specifically because of how Paladin subclasses aquire their last feature at 20th level, and when you think about it, a cartoon character's strongest powers come in very late into the story.

Lastly, how the Toon handles weapons and equipment has changed as well. Rather than only being proficient with Warhammers, Mauls, and Simple Weapons, they use all martial weapons and even firearms if you select the Fudd-Like Toon Fighting Style.

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