Blood Hunter

Blood Hunter Order

Choose an order of blood hunters, which reflects your relation with the hemocraft magic: Order of the Ghostslayer, Order of the Profane Soul, Order of the Mutant, or Order of the Lycan, all detailed at the end of the class description. The order you choose grants you features at 1st level, and again at 3rd, 7th, 10th, and 15th level.

Crimson Rite

You learn to invoke a rite of hemocraft to draw blood within yourself to recover some vitality. On your turn, you can use your bonus action to spend a Hit Die to regain hit points equal to one roll of your Hit Die + your Constitution modifier (with a minimum bonus of +1).

You can take this action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Fighting Style

At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Blood Maledict

You have survived a dangerous, long-guarded ritual that alters your life's blood, known as the Hunter's Bane, forever binding you to the darkness and honing your strength against it. This bane empowers your body to control and shape hemocraft magic, using your own blood and life essence to fuel your abilities

Blood Hunter Orders

There are a handful of secretive orders of blood hunters that guard their cryptic techniques and rituals. One must adhere to one of these orders to even be granted access to the Hunter’s Bane rite that starts their journey, and only once they’ve proven their dedication and ability will the secrets of the order begin to be revealed. It’s within these small, enigmatic sects that the real power of a blood hunter is learned.

Otherworldly Patron

When you reach 3rd level, you strike a bargain with an otherworldly being of your choice: the Archfey, the Fiend, or the Great Old One, each detailed in the Player’s Handbook, the Undying within the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide, the Celestial and Hexblade Curse in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything, and the Fathomless and the Genie in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. Your choice augments some of your order features.

Pact Magic

When you reach 3rd level, you can augment your combat techniques with the ability to cast spells. See chapter 10 of the Player’s Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 of the Player’s Handbook for the Warlock spell list.

Cantrips. You learn two cantrips of your choice from the warlock spell list. You learn an additional warlock cantrip of your choice at 10th level.

Spell Slots. The Profane Soul Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your warlock spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest.

For example, when you are 8th level, you have two 2nd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell witch bolt, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 2nd-level spell.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher. At 3rd level, you know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the warlock spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Profane Soul table shows when you learn more warlock spells of your choice of 1st level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what’s shown in the table’s Slot Level column for your level. When you reach 11th level, for example, you learn a new warlock spell, which can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class and order, you can choose one of the warlock spells you know and replace it with another spell from the warlock spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

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

Revealed Arcana

At 7th level, you gain two eldritch invocations of your choice. Your invocation options are detailed at the end of the Warlock class description, and you count half your blood hunter levels as class levels for prerequisite purposes. When you gain certain blood hunter levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Profane Soul Spellcasting table.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the invocations you know and replace it with another invocation that you could learn at that level.

Mystic Protection

At 10th level, your patron hones your defenses against related dangers, based on the pact you posses.

The Archfey. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

The Fiend. You have resistance to fire and poison damage.

The Great Old One. You have resistance to psychic damage, and you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts or determine whether you are lying.

The Undying. You have resistance to necrotic damage, and spells and other magical sources can't prevent you from regaining hit points.

The Celestial. You have resistance against radiant damage. Also, when you are forced to make a saving throw, you can use your reaction to roll a d6, and add the number rolled to the result. You can choose to do so after you roll the die for the saving throw, but before the DM tells you whether you succeed or fail. Once you use this ability you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Hexblade Curse. Strength (Athletics) checks made to grapple you are made at disadvantage. Also you can use a bonus action on your turn to turn invisible, along with any equipment you are wearing or carrying, until the beginning of your next turn. Once you use this ability you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

The Fathomless. You have resistance to cold damage. In addition, you gain a swimming speed of 40 feet, and you can breathe underwater.

The Genie. You have resistance to a damage type determined by your patron’s kind: bludgeoning (dao), thunder (djinni), fire (efreeti), or cold (marid). In addition, as a bonus action, you can give yourself a flying speed of 60 feet that lasts until the end of your turn, during which, opportunity attacks against you are made at disadvantage. Once you use this ability you must complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Rites of the Beneficiary

At 15th level, you receive the secret to summon with your hemocraft weapons that reflects the raw power of your patron. You learn the Cursed Weapon curse for your Blood Maledict feature. If you already know this curse, you learn a different blood curse of your choice. This doesn’t count against your number of blood curses known. Additionally, the Curse Weapon gains the following modifiers:

Frenzied (1 hemocraft die): When you use your action to cast a cantrip, you can immediately make one weapon attack with the Cursed Weapon as a bonus action.

Scarring (4 hemocraft dice): Whenever you hit a creature with the cursed weapon, that creature has disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes against a blood curse or spell you cast before the end of your next turn.

Order of the Mutant

The process of the Hunter’s Bane is a painful, scarring, and sometimes fatal experience. Those that survive find themselves irrevocably changed, enhanced. Some found this experience exalting, embracing the ability to alter one’s own physiology through a combination of hemocraft and corrupted alchemy. Over generations of experimentation, a splinter order of blood hunters began to emerge, one that focused on brewing toxic elixirs to modify their capabilities in battle, altering their blood and, over time, become something beyond what they once were. They called themselves the Order of the Mutant. Researching their targets to know their strengths and weaknesses, these blood hunters can alter their biology to be best prepared for the coming conflict.

Formulas. At 3rd level, you learn three mutagen formulas of your choice. Your formula options are detailed at the end of this order description. You gain an additional formula at 7th level, 10th level and 15th level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the formulas you already know and replace it with a new mutagen formula.

Order of the Lycan

Of the many terrible curses that plague the realm, few are as ancient or as feared as Lycanthropy. Passed through blood, this affliction seeds a host with the savage strength and hunger for violence of a wicked beast. The Order of the Lycan is a proud order of blood hunters who undergo “The Taming,” a ceremonial inflicting of lycanthropy from a senior member. These hunters then use their abilities to harness the power of the monster they harbor without losing themselves to it. Through intense honing of one’s own willpower, combined with the secrets of the order’s blood magic rituals, members learn to control and unleash their hybrid form for short periods of time. Enhanced physical prowess, unnatural resilience, and razor sharp claws make these warriors a terrible foe to any evil that crosses their path. Yet, no training is perfect, and without care and complete focus, even the greatest of blood hunters can temporarily lose themselves to the bloodlust.

Order of the Lycan Features

Level	Feature
1st	Bestial Attunement, Primal Senses
3rd	Hybrid Transformation, Primal Senses improvement
7th	Shapechanger Fortitude
10th	Advanced Transformation
15th	Rites of the Beast

Bestial Attunement

When you choose this order at 1st level, you choose a bestial attunement and gain its feature. You start showing minor physical attributes that reflects your attunement. You must choose between the following options: Feral, Predator or Swift. You also gain advantage on Wisdom and Charisma checks on social interactions with beasts and other lycanthropes in hybrid or animal form.

Primal Senses

Also starting at 1st level, you begin to adopt the improved abilities of a natural hunter. You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks depending on your bestial attunement. At 3rd level, your senses get heightened, gaining additional benefits.

Feral. You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing. At 3rd level, you can't be surprised by creatures within 10 feet of you, provided it can be sound in the radius.

Predator. You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smelling. At 3rd level, you gain advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks made to track other creatures, provided they can leave a feint track of smell.

Swift. You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight. At 3rd level, you can see up to 1 mile away with no difficulty, able to discern even fine details as though looking at something no more than 100 feet away from you.

Hybrid Transformation

At 3rd level, you begin to learn to control the lycanthropic curse that now lives in your blood. As a bonus action, you can transform into your hybrid form for up to 1 hour. You can speak, use equipment, and wear armor in this form. You can revert to your normal form earlier as a bonus action. You automatically revert to your normal form if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. While you have no uses available, you can spend one use of your Blood Maledict feature to use this feature again. While you are transformed, you gain the following features:

Resilient Hide. You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks not made with silver weapons. While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier.

Predatory Strikes. You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes. When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike, you can make an unarmed bite attack as a bonus action.

Your unarmed strikes deal 1d6 slashing damage, and your bite attack deals 1d8 piercing damage. The damage increases to 1d8 and 1d10 at 11th level, respectively.

Cursed Weapon

Blood Curse

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self

You conjure a weapon in your hand, formed from the same blood you sacrificed. The weapon can take any form from the Weapons table in the Player's Handbook. It deals the same amount and type of its mundane counterpart, but it counts as magical for purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. Once per turn, you may add an extra 1d4 damage to one attack you make with it.

If you create a weapon with the ammunition property, it produces it's own. When you drop the weapon or throw it, as well as when the ammunition impacts, it dissipates at the end of your turn, leaving a small blood stain.

When you invoke this curse or as a bonus action, you can morph the weapon into different forms, spending the hemocraft dice cost (1 in case of basic weapons when changing form). While the spell persists, you can use a bonus action to cause the weapon to reappear in your hand. You can do both effects using the same bonus action.

Defensive (1 hemocraft die): You create a melee weapon without the two-handed property and a shield. You are proficient with this shield.

Paired (1 hemocraft die): You create two melee weapons of the same type. You may deal the extra 1d4 damage once per turn with each weapon.

Serrated (2 hemocraft dice): You create a sharp great weapon that counts as a martial melee weapon, it deals 1d10 damage and has the cruel, reach and two-handed properties.

On your turn, when you hit a creature with this weapon, you may choose another creature within 5 feet of the target and within your reach. If you would hit that creature with the attack roll, you may deal the weapon's damage. You don't add your ability modifier to this damage, unless that modifier is negative. Additionally, when you score a critical hit to a creature with this weapon, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or it starts bleeding.

Chained (3 hemocraft dice): You create two blades connected to each other by a blood dripping chain. The weapon counts as two martial melee weapons, they deal 1d8 slashing damage, and has the brutal, finesse, light and thrown (range 20/60) properties.

Immediately after you hit a creature with this weapon, you may use a bonus action to grapple the target with it. If you hit the target twice this turn, you have advantage in your Strength (Athletics) check. If you succeed, you may pull the grappled creature up to 15 feet in a straight line towards you. You can't have more than one creature grappled in this way.

Entangling Curse

Blood Curse

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: 30 feet

You entangle a creature to yourself, creating an invisible force that binds it to you. Choose a creature within range that is no more than one size larger than you. For the duration, if the target attempts to move away from you, it must make a Wisdom saving throw, or be unable to move further than 20 feet away until the start of its next turn.

If the target starts its turn more than 20 feet from you, it must make a Strength saving throw, or be dragged 10 feet towards you. If the target succeeds in this saving throw for two turns in a row, the curse ends immediately.

When you invoke this curse, you can spend hemocraft dice up to your limit to add the following modifiers to Entangling Curse (you may add multiple modifiers). Take into account, invoking the curse already spends one of your dice.

Reaching (1 hemocraft die): You can use your bonus action to force the entangled creature to make a Strength saving throw. On a failure, the target receives 1d4 necrotic damage for each hemocraft die spent in total when you invoke this curse, and its pulled up to 10 feet in a straight line towards you.

Tighten (1-2 hemocraft die): The maximum range the target can move when failing the saving throw, and the range from which is dragged at the beginning of its turns, are reduced by 10 feet for each die spent, up to a minimum of 5 feet.

Magnified (1 or 3 hemocraft die): You can target creatures two sizes larger than you. Spending 3 hemocraft dice in this modifier makes you able to target creatures three sizes larger instead.

Tethering (2 hemocraft dice): If the entangled creature attempts to teleport or cross planar boundaries, it must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failure, the teleport or plane shift fails.

Fearful Curse

Blood Curse

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet

You understand the fragility of the creatures sanity, and you are able to touch whatever breaks it. Up to three creatures of your choice that you can see within range must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be shaken until the end of the curse.

When you invoke this curse, you can spend hemocraft dice up to your limit to add the following modifiers to Fearful Curse (you may add multiple modifiers). Take into account, invoking the curse already spends one of your dice.

Extended (1+ hemocraft die): You can target one additional creature for each die spent.

Marking Curse

Blood Curse

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: 120 feet

You place a curse on a creature that you can see within range. Until the curse ends, you deal an extra ld6 slashing damage to the target whenever you hit it with an attack.

When you invoke this curse, you can spend hemocraft dice up to your limit to add the following modifiers to Marking Curse (you may add multiple modifiers). Take into account, invoking the curse already spends one of your dice.

Grabbing (1 hemocraft die): The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw, or be restrained by hardened veins that lock it in place. At the end of its turn, the target can repeat the saving throw, ending this effect on a success.

Blinding (1 hemocraft die): The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw, or it becomes blinded. At the end of its turn, the target can repeat the saving throw, ending this effect on a success.

Tracking (2 hemocraft dice): For the duration, you know the location of the marked creature provided you are in the same plane of existence. Also, you can't have disadvantage on attack rolls against the target.

Punishing (3 hemocraft dice): For the duration and once per turn, after you hit a marked creature you can increase the size of the damage die dealt by this curse to 1d8 the first time, to 1d10 the second and up to a maximum of 1d12 after the third time you use this effect.

Protective Curse

Blood Curse

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 10 feet

Choose a willing creature within range to surround it with defensive blood magic. Until the curse ends, the creature gains 1d4 temporary hit points at the start of each of its turns. When the spell ends, the target loses any remaining temporary hit points from this spell.

When you invoke this curse, you can spend hemocraft dice up to your limit to add the following modifiers to Protective Curse (you may add multiple modifiers). Take into account, invoking the curse already spends one of your dice.

Fortifying (1+ hemocraft die): The target gains an additional 1d4 temporary hit points for each die spent.

Removing (1 hemocraft die): You cast the remove curse spell on the target.

Resistive (2 hemocraft die): Once before the curse ends, the target can roll a d10 and add the number rolled to one saving throw of its choice.

Explosive (3 hemocraft dice): Whenever the target loses the remaining temporary hit points granted by this curse, every creature within 5 feet of the target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw, or they take 1d6 fire damage. The amount of damage increases by 1d6 for each hemocraft die spent in total when you invoke this curse.

Puppeting Curse

Blood Curse

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet

Choose one creature within range to affect it with a silent mind parasite. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be affected by the curse. For the duration, you can you a bonus action to force an affected creature to use its reaction to make a melee attack against a creature other than itself that you mentally choose. The target can repeat its saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

When you invoke this curse, you can spend hemocraft dice up to your limit to add the following modifiers to Puppeting Curse (you may add multiple modifiers). Take into account, invoking the curse already spends one of your dice.

Distant (1+ hemocraft die): The range of the curse is increased by 30 feet for each die spent.

Surprising (1 hemocraft die): The target makes its first forced attack at advantage. It doesn't gain advantage on attacks against creatures that can't be surprised.

Twinned (2 hemocraft dice): When you invoke this curse, choose two creatures within range. If both targets are affected, you choose which one you force to attack. The curse ends when both creatures made their save, or the curse reaches its full duration.

Expeditious (3 hemocraft dice): You can use your reaction to force an affected creature to use its action to make a melee attack against a creature other than itself that you mentally choose.

Rupturing Curse

Blood Curse

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 5 feet

You create a wave of necromantic energy from your blood. Each creature within range, other than you, must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature's skin rupture. Whenever the creature willingly moves 10 feet, it takes 1d6 necrotic damage. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

When you invoke this curse, you can spend hemocraft dice up to your limit to add the following modifiers to Rupturing Curse (you may add multiple modifiers). Take into account, invoking the curse already spends one of your dice.

Enlarged (1+ hemocraft die): The range of the curse is increased by 5 feet for each die spent.

Pushing (1 hemocraft die): When you invoke this curse, a creature that fails its saving throw is pushed 10 feet away from you. This effect doesn't repeats on subsequent turns.

Lacerating (2 hemocraft dice): An affected creature is bleeding for the duration.

Contagious (3 hemocraft dice): If a ruptured creature you can see, fails the saving throw at the end of its turn, you can use your reaction to invoke this curse as though you were in the creature's space. This invocation doesn't require concentration, ends when the original curse does, it doesn't count against your blood curse uses and only has the Contagious modifier.

   Cruel. If a weapon with the Cruel property deals damage, you may reroll any of the weapon dice if it rolls a value of 1. You must use the new value even if it is also a 1. If you have the Great Weapon Fighting style, the two rerolls stack to 1-3 instead.

Magic Items

Magic items are presented in alphabetical order. A magic item’s description gives the item’s name, its category, its rarity, and its magical properties.

Cuirass of the Crimson Resilience

Armor (half plate), very rare (requires attunement by a blood hunter)

This dark half plate armor its filled with arcane stones that resonate with blood based magic. While wearing this armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC, and on your turn, you can use an action to regain all expended uses of your crimson rite feature. Once this special action is used, it can't be used again until the next dawn.

In addition, you can use an action to roll a d4 and lose a number of hit points equal to the number rolled. If you do so, you ignore the disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks imposed by the armor for 1 hour.

Blood Stealing Scythe

Weapon (scythe), rare (requires attunement by a blood hunter)

You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When you attack a creature with this weapon and roll a 20 on the attack roll, that target loses an unexpended Hit Die. A hit die lost in this way is then stored within this weapon, up to a maximum of 3 dice. You may use a hit die stored in this weapon as if it were yours. The weapon loses all stored hit dice at dawn.

In addition, you can use a bonus action to roll a d4 and lose a number of hit points equal to the number rolled. If you do so, you can morph the weapon into a different weapon of your choice for 1 minute. If you create a weapon with the ammunition property, it produces it's own. When you drop the weapon or throw it, as well as when the ammunition impacts, it dissipates at the end of your turn, leaving a small blood stain.

Conditions

The following definitions specify what happens to a creature while it is subjected to one of the new conditions.

Bleeding

• A bleeding creature has disadvantage on Constitution saving throws.
• Whenever a bleeding creature would regain hit points, it only regains half the amount it would normally do. (minimum of 1 hit point).

• At the start of its turn, a bleeding creature takes 1d4 slashing damage. If the creature has already been affected by the bleeding condition after its last long rest, the damage is increased to 1d8 instead. This damage is not considered magical, except stated by the source.
• As an action, a creature may attempt to seal the wound, by spending one use of a healer's kit and with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check. If the creature has already been affected by the bleeding condition after its last long rest, the DC of this check is increased to 15 instead.
• Creatures with no functional blood or immune to nonmagical slashing damage are immune to the bleeding condition.

Nauseated

• A nauseated creatures has disadvantage on its first attack roll or ability check on its turn.
• If a nauseated creature is subjected to an effect that causes it to become nauseated again, it becomes poisoned.
• A nauseated creature can spend its action to wretch to remove the nauseated condition.
• Creatures immune to the poisoned condition are immune to the nauseated condition.
• The shaken condition is affected by spell like protection from poison and similar effects, as a poisoned condition.

Panicked

• A panicked creature remains panicked as long as it is frightened. If it is no longer frightened, it stops panicking.
• The creature must Disengage or Dash with all its movement speed from the source of its fear, as well as any other dangers it encounters, along a random path. The creature uses the Dodge action anytime it can, and will attack or interact with obstacles, use special abilities including spells as a means of escape. If cornered, a panicked creature cowers and does not attack.
• A panicked creature can't use its reaction, except it directly enables to move away from the source of its fear.
• Unless a duration is stated, at the start of its turn, a panicking creature can attempt a Wisdom saving throw at save DC of the source of the fear. If it succeeds, it is no longer panicked. It may continue to feign panicking to surprise any pursuers.
• Creatures immune to the frightened condition are immune to the panicked condition.

Shaken

• A shaken creature has disadvantage on its first attack roll or ability check on its turn.
• If a shaken creature is subjected to an effect that causes it to become shaken again, it becomes frightened.
• If a frightened creature is subjected to an effect that causes it to become shaken again, it becomes panicked.
• Creatures immune to the frightened condition are immune to the shaken condition.
• The shaken condition is affected by spell like protection from evil and good and similar effects, as a frightened condition.

Slowed

• A slowed creature's speed is halved.
• The creature has a -2 penalty to its AC and Dexterity saving throws.
• The creature can't take reactions.
• On its turn, a slowed creature can use either an action or a bonus action, not both, and regardless of the creature's abilities or magic items, it can't make more than one attack during its turn.
• If the creature attempts to cast a spell with a casting time of 1 action, roll a d20. On an 11 or higher, the spell doesn't take effect until the creature's next turn, and the creature must use its action on that turn to complete the spell. If it can't, the spell is wasted.

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