The Blood Hunter Revisited

• Hit Dice: 1d10 per blood hunter level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per blood hunter level after 1st

Blood Hunter Order

At 3rd level, you commit to an order of blood hunter martial focus. Choose Order of the Gravewalker, Order of the Lycan, Order of the Mutant, or Order of the Profane Soul, all detailed at the end of the class description. The order you choose grants you features at 3rd level, and again at 7th, 11th, and 15th level.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

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

Brand of Castigation

At 6th level, whenever you damage a creature with your Crimson Rite feature, you can choose to sear an arcane brand of hemocraft magic into it (no action required).

You always know the direction and rough distance to the branded creature as long as it’s on the same plane as you, and each time the branded creature deals damage to you or a creature you can see within 5 feet of you, the branded creature takes psychic damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

Your brand lasts until you dismiss it, or you apply a brand to another creature. Your brand counts as a spell for the purposes of dispel magic, and the spell level is equal to half your blood hunter level (maximum of 9th level spell).

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

Grim Psychometry

When you reach 9th level, you have a supernatural talent for discerning the history surrounding mysterious objects or places touched by evil.

You can meditate for 1 minute to gain visions of an object's darker past you are touching, or a location you are present in. The information gleaned often come in fragments and in the form of memories by the creatures interacting with the object or location in question, making it difficult to decipher their true meaning.

Dark Augmentation

Starting at 10th level, you can draw upon the blood magic that suffuses your body in order to reinforce your physical and mental resilience.

Whenever you make a saving throw against an effect you are aware of, you can choose to roll your hemocraft die and add it to the result. However if you do, you also lose an equal amount of hit points. This damage can’t be reduced in any way.

You can choose to use this feature after seeing the initial roll but before any of the roll's effects occur.

Brand of Tethering

Starting at 13th level, the psychic damage from your Brand of Castigation increases to twice your proficiency bonus.

In addition, it costs double its movement for a branded creature you can see to move further away from you, and if a creature branded by you attempts to teleport or leave their current plane via ability, spell, or portal, they take 4d6 psychic damage and must make a Wisdom saving throw against your hemocraft save DC. On a failure, the teleport or plane shift fails.

Impervious Soul

At 14th level, the blood magic within you has steeled your mind and soul.

You can no longer be charmed, frightened, and possessed.

Sanguine Mastery

Upon becoming 20th level, you hone your control over blood magic, mitigating your sacrifice and empowering your capability.

Once per turn, whenever a blood hunter feature requires you to roll a hemocraft die, you can reroll the die and use either result.

In addition, whenever you score a critical hit with a weapon attack empowered by your Crimson Rite, you regain one expended use of your Blood Maledict feature.

Blood Curse of the Anxious

As a bonus action, you magnify the adrenaline in the body of a creature within 30 feet of you, making them susceptible to forceful influence. Until the end of your next turn, all creatures have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks directed at the target creature.

Amplify. The next Wisdom saving throw the target makes before this curse ends has disadvantage.

Blood Curse of Binding

As a bonus action, you can attempt to bind a creature you can see within 30 feet of you that is no more than one size larger than you. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your hemocraft save DC or have their speed be reduced to 0 and they can't use reactions until the end of your next turn.

Amplify. This curse lasts for 1 minute and can affect a creature regardless of their size. At the end of each of its turns, the cursed creature can make another Strength saving throw. On a success, the curse ends.

Blood Curse of Bloated Agony

As a bonus action, you curse a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you to painfully swell until the end of your next turn. For the duration of this curse, the creature has disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity checks, and suffers 1d8 necrotic damage if it makes more than one melee or ranged attack during its turn.

Amplify. This curse lasts for 1 minute. At the end of each of its turns, the cursed creature can make a Constitution saving throw against your hemocraft save DC. On a success, the curse ends.

Blood Curse of the Exorcist

As a bonus action, you can choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you that is charmed, frightened, or possessed. The target creature is no longer charmed, frightened, or possessed.

Amplify. The creature that charmed, frightened, or possessed the target of your curse suffers 3d6 psychic damage and must make a Wisdom saving throw against your hemocraft save DC or be stunned until the end of your next turn.

Blood Curse of Exposure

When a creature you can see within 30 feet is hit by an attack or spell, you can use your reaction to temporarily weaken their resilience against it. Until the end of the turn, the target loses resistance to the damage types of the triggering attack or spell.

Amplify. The target instead loses invulnerability to the damage types of the triggering attack or spell, but gains resistance to them until the end of the turn.

Blood Curse of the Eyeless

When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, you can use your reaction to roll one hemocraft die and subtract the number rolled from the creature's attack roll. You can choose to use this feature after the creature's roll, but before the DM determines whether the attack roll succeeds. The creature is immune if it is immune to blindness.

Amplify. You apply this curse to all of the creature's attack rolls until the end of the turn. You roll a new hemocraft die for each affected attack.

Blood Curse of the Fallen Puppet

When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you drops to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to give that creature a final act of aggression. That creature immediately makes a single weapon attack against a target of your choice within its attack range.

Amplify. You can first move the cursed creature up to half their speed, and you grant a bonus to the cursed creature's attack roll equal to your proficiency bonus.

Blood Curse of the Howl

As an action, you unleash a blood-curdling howl. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet of you that can hear you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your hemocraft save DC or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn. On a roll of 5 or lower, they are stunned while frightened in this way. A creature that succeeds on this saving throw is immune to this blood curse for the next 24 hours.

Amplify. This curse lasts for 1 minute. At the end of each of its turns, a cursed creature can make a Wisdom saving throw against your hemocraft save DC, ending the curse on itself on a success.

Blood Curse of the Iron Shackles

As a bonus action, you can mark a creature you can see within 30 feet of you. If the creature is polymorphed or has otherwise changed its shape, they must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your hemocraft save DC or revert to their true form. If the creature attempts to change its shape before the end of your next turn, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your hemocraft save DC or the attempt fails.

Amplify. When the creature fails its Wisdom saving throw, it is also stunned until the end of your next turn.

Blood Curse of the Marked

As a bonus action, you can mark a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you. Until the end of your turn, whenever you deal rite damage to the target, you roll an additional hemocraft die of rite damage.

Amplify. The next attack roll you make against the target before the end of your turn has advantage.

Ritual of the Deathless

When you join this order at 3rd level, you under go the ritual of the deathless, gaining the following benefits:

• You gain Darkvision up to a range of 60 feet.
• You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, frightened, and possessed.
• You have advantage on death saving throws.
• You only need to eat and drink half the usual amount, and you can hold your breath for up to an hour.
• When you take a long rest, you only need to spend four hours sleeping and can spend the remaining four hours doing light activity, such as keeping watch.

At 11th level, you also gain the following benefits:

• You have resistance to necrotic damage, but you also have vulnerability to radiant damage.
• You have advantage on saving throws against disease and being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
• You are immune to ability damage and your hit point maximum can't be reduced.
• You no longer need to eat, drink, or breathe.
• You no longer need to sleep and can spend all 8 hours of a long rest doing light activity. Magic can't put you to sleep.

Curse Specialist

Beginning at 3rd level, your ancient order teaches advanced mastery over blood curses and how to connect to a creature's true essence.

You gain an additional use of your Blood Maledict feature. In addition, your blood curses can target any creature, whether it has blood or not. (You no longer need to amplify it.)

Eyes of the Grave

Also at 3rd level, you gain the ability to occasionally sense the presence of the undead, whose destruction your order has sworn to fulfill.

As an action, you can open your awareness to magically detect undead. Until the end of your next turn, you know the location of any undead within 60 feet of you that isn’t behind total cover and that isn’t protected from divination magic. This sense doesn’t tell you anything about a creature’s capabilities or identity.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Ethereal Step

Upon reaching 7th level, you can magically step into the veil between the planes.

As a bonus action, you can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, as well as see and affect creatures and objects on the Ethereal Plane until the end of your next turn.

You take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside an object, and if you are inside an object when this feature ends, you are immediately shunted to the nearest unoccupied space that you can occupy and take force damage equal to twice the number of feet you were moved.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Brand of the Exorcist

Beginning at 11th level, your Brand of Castigation now exposes a fragment of your foe's essence, leaving them vulnerable to your Crimson Rite.

Whenever you damage a branded creature with your Crimson Rite, your weapon deals one additional hemocraft die of rite damage. In addition, the branded creature can't move through creatures or objects.

Rite Revival

Upon reaching 15th level, you learn to protect your fading life by absorbing your blood rite.

When you are reduced to 0 hit points, but not dead, you are automatically stabilized at the beginning of your turn.

While you have an active Crimson Rite, but don't die outright, the rite ends and you drop to 1 hit point instead. If you have rites active on multiple weapons, you choose which one ends.

Lycan Mark

Starting when you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you begin to adopt the improved abilities of a natural predator.

You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.

In addition, regardless of your form, your natural Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.

Hybrid Transformation

Also at 3rd level, you begin to learn to control the lycanthropic curse that now lives in your blood.

If you aren't wearing heavy armor, you can use a bonus action to 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, or die.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Stalker's Prowess

At 7th level, the influence of your lycan mark deepens.

Regardless of your current form, your speed increases by 10 feet and your jump distance is doubled.

In addition, while in your hybrid form, you gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls made with your unarmed strikes. This bonus increases to +2 at 11th level and to +3 at 17th level.

Brand of the Voracious

At 11th level, your Brand of Castigation now binds your foe to your hunter's thirst for savagery.

While in your hybrid form, your attacks have advantage against a creature branded by you.

Transformation Mastery

Starting at 15h level, you learn to unleash and control more of the beast within.

You can use your Hybrid Transformation feature an unlimited number of times, and your hybrid form lasts until you revert to your normal form, fall unconscious, or die.

In addition, at the start of each of your turns while in your hybrid form and before you roll for bloodlust, you regain hit points equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier (minimum 1) if you have no more than half of your hit points left. You don't gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.

Mutagencraft

At 3rd level, you begin to uncover forbidden alchemical formulas that temporarily alter your mental and physical abilities.

Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can concoct two mutagens you know the formula for (see below).

As a bonus action you can consume a single mutagen, and the effects and side effects last until you finish a short or long rest, unless otherwise specified. While one or more mutagens are affecting you, you can use an action to focus and flush the toxins from your system, ending the effects and side effects of all mutagens.

Mutagens are designed for your biology and have no effect on other creatures. They are also unstable by nature, losing their potency over time and becoming inert if not used before you finish your next short or long rest.

The number of mutagens you can concoct when you finish a rest, and the number of formulas you know, increases as you gain levels in the blood hunter class, as shown on the Mutagencraft table below.

Aether

You gain a flying speed of 20 feet and can hover.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on Strength checks and saving throws.

Alluring

You have advantage on Charisma checks and saving throws.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on initiative rolls.

Celerity

Your speed increases by 10 feet.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on Intelligence checks.

Conversant

You gain advantage on Intelligence checks and saving throws.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on Wisdom checks and saving throws.

Cruelty

When you use the Attack action, you can make an additional weapon attack as a bonus action.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma checks and saving throws.

Deftness

You gain advantage on Dexterity checks and saving throws.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on Wisdom checks and saving throws.

Embers

You gain resistance to fire damage.

Side effect. You gain vulnerability to cold damage.

Gelid

You gain resistance to cold damage.

Side effect. You gain vulnerability to fire damage.

Impermeable

You gain resistance to piercing damage.

Side effect. You gain vulnerability to slashing damage.

Mobility

You gain immunity to the grappled and restrained conditions. At 11th level, you also are immune to the paralyzed condition.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on Strength checks and saving throws.

Nighteye

You gain darkvision for up to 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, this increases its range by 60 additional feet.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Percipient

You gain advantage on Wisdom checks.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on Charisma checks.

Potency

You have advantage on Strength checks and saving throws.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on Dexterity checks and saving throws.

Precision

Your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19-20.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on Strength checks and saving throws.

Reconstruction

At the start of each of your turns when you have at least 1 hit point but fewer hit points than half your hit point maximum, you regain hit points equal to your proficiency bonus.

Side effect. Your speed decreases by 10 ft for 1 hour.

Sagacity

You have advantage on Intelligence checks and saving throws.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on Charisma checks and saving throws.

Shielded

You gain resistance to slashing damage.

Side effect. You gain vulnerability to bludgeoning damage.

Swiftness

You have advantage on initiative rolls.

Side effect. You have disadvantage on Wisdom saving throws.

Otherworldly Patron

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you strike a bargain with an otherworldly being.

Choose one Patron from the list of Warlock Patrons. You gain additional features as described by the Pact Boons feature.

Pact Boons

You gain the patron's listed features normally granted at 1st level — excluding the Expanded Spell List.

You use your blood hunter level in place of the warlock level, your proficiency bonus in place of your Charisma modifier, and your hemocraft save DC as your warlock spell save DC for your Patron's features.

You gain additional patron features at 7th, 11th, and 15th level, normally gained by a warlock at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

If you enrage or openly defy your patron's wishes, you risk temporary losing these patron features until you have reconciled with your patron.