Chapter 1: Races

The Underdark was the vast network of underground caverns and tunnels underneath the surface of Abeir-Toril. It was home to a host of evil beings driven deep into the caverns at the end of the age of demons.

The Underdark was not one giant cavern under Faerûn, but rather, many huge networks of caverns and caves. The Underdark was extremely dangerous, especially to those not native to it. There were the usual dangers associated with caverns: claustrophobia, occasional poor air circulation, and getting lost. There was no light except for occasional patches of fluorescent fungi; most Underdark inhabitants either had highly developed senses other than sight or had developed darkvision. Food could be extremely difficult to find, and much of the natural vegetation was poisonous.

In addition to those dangers, the Underdark was also the home of many predators and often-hostile races, including aboleth, beholders, cloakers, derro, drow, duergar, dwarves, illithids, kuo-toa, driders, and svirfneblin.

Hated by the Drow

Kuo-toa are disliked by many races, but the ones who hate them the most are the drow. Ever since the day the two races met, they have tried to kill one another on sight, making kuo-toa and drow friendships be close to impossible. Illithids also have a disdain towards kuo-toa, believing them to simply be slaves that should have died out long ago.

Kuo-Toa Names

Kuo-toa names consist of three parts, a first name, a family name, and a clan name. The first name is often used like a nickname for the individual, the family name is similar to humanity's last names, and clan names are from their society. They are all strung together into one name when spoken together, such as Galiefeddlemosh. Clan names are typically four letters long, but the other names have no such restrictions.

Myconid

Also called "mushroom men" or "fungus ones", myconids are intelligent, ambulatory fungi that live in the Underdark and the deepest, darkest depths of forests, seeking enlightenment and deploring violence. If approached peacefully, myconids gladly provide shelter or allow safe passage through their colonies. Violence taints their melds, so the myconids enter battle only in defense or as a last resort, viewing violence as part of the abhorrent nature of fleshy outsiders.

Instead, the moving plants prefer a peaceable lifestyle, finding joy in pastoral commonality and shared happiness. Living in circles of roughly twenty myconids or settlements of larger groups, myconids cultivate nonsentient mushrooms and myconid sprouts in gardens. The precise 8-hour divisions of leisure, work, and melding creates a satisfying, if regimented, existence for these creatures, which regard such a lifestyle as completely ideal.

Spore Servant

Plant (same size as in life), unaligned

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• Armor Class same as in life
• Hit Points same as in life
• Speed same as in life but reduced by 10 ft., to a minimum of 5 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
same as in life	same as in life	same as in life	2 (-4)	6 (-2)	1 (-5)

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• Saving Throws none
• Skills none
• Damage Vulnerabilities same as in life*
• Damage Resistances same as in life*
• Damage Immunities same as in life*
• Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, frightened, paralyzed, any immunities it had in life
• Senses blindsight 30 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 8; loses all other senses it had in life
• Languages loses all languages it knew in life
• Proficiency Bonus (PB) +2

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Plant Brain. The servant loses all traits and actions it had in life, and it loses proficiency in any equipment, items, or weapons it had in life.
    The servant can attack with natural strike by using its claws, fists, tail, talons, or other limbs. It is proficient with this attack.
    The servant cannot regain hit points from any source. The servant does not regain hit points by completing a short or long rest.

Obedience. Despite having no languages, the servant responds to orders given to it via a myconid's rapport spores. The servant gives highest priority to the myconid who created it, or the most powerful myconid if its creator is absent.

Actions

Natural Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 + STR to hit, reach 5 ft. (10 ft. if servant is Large or larger), one target. Hit: 2 + STR (1d4 + STR) bludgeoning damage, or 4 + STR (2d4 + STR) bludgeoning damage if servant is Large or larger.

*The spore servant gains one level of fire vulnerability. If it had fire immunity in life, it has fire resistance as a servant. If it had fire resistance in life, it has fire vulnerability as a servant. If it had fire vulnerability in life, there is no change.

Philsophy of Scholarship

Your background likely explains how you became a scholar and what series of events set you on that path, but why did you continue down that path? What drives your never-ending search for knowledge? Each scholar must answer this question for themselves.

Quick Build

You can make a scholar quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Intelligence your highest ability score, followed by Dexterity. (Some scholars who focus on melee combat make Strength higher than Dexterity.) Second, choose the sage background.

Class Features

As a scholar, you gain the following class features.

Multiclassing and the Scholar

If your group uses the optional rule on multiclassing in the Player's Handbook, here's what you need to know if you choose scholar as one of your classes.

Ability Score Minimum. As a multiclass character, you must have at least an Intelligence score of 13 to take a level in this class, or to take a level in another class if you are already a scholar.

Proficiencies Gained. If scholar isn't your initial class, here are the proficiencies you gain when you take your first level as a scholar: light armor, simple weapons, and one skill from the scholar skill list.

Pursuit

At 1st level, you choose the scholarly pursuit on which you have focused your learning. Choose Explorer, Inventor, Philosopher, Physician, Planar Sage, or Tactician, detailed at the end of the class description. The pursuit you choose grants you features at 1st level, and again at 3rd, 6th, 13th, and 18th level.

Practica

Your studies have exposed you to research and theory on any number of subjects, but applying that knowledge to the real world requires an extra level of dedication.

Beginning at 2nd level, you master three practica of your choice. Your practica options are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain scholar levels, you master new practica of your choice, as shown in the Practica column of the Scholar table.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the practica you know and replace it with another for which you meet the requirements. You cannot replace practica that allow you to learn a language.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level and again at 8th, 10th, 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.

Boundless Intellect

Beginning when you reach 5th level, you regain all of your expended intellect dice when you finish a short or long rest.

Field Research

Starting at 7th level, if you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside of combat, you can learn information about its capabilities. Choose a reference creature of the same type that you have seen, and the DM tells you if the creature you are researching is equal, superior, or inferior to the reference creature in regard to two of the following characteristics of your choice:

• Strength score
• Dexterity score
• Constitution score
• Intelligence score
• Armor Class
• Maximum hit points
• Total class levels (if any)

Moment of Genius

Beginning at 9th level, when you use a gambit you can choose to take the highest value on your intellect die instead of rolling. The intellect die is still expended as normal.

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

Inventor

The Inventor pursuit is taken up by scholars who are creators at heart. More than mere artisans, Inventors draw upon their intellect and a broad array of tools and disciplines to create things which are wholly new.

Invention Type: Combat Device

Design your combat device by selecting properties in each of the following categories described below: Durability, Effect, Activation Type, and Target. If your combat device requires a saving throw, it uses your gambit save DC.

Invention Type: Improved Tool

Design your improved tool by first selecting the kind of tool you would like to improve from the list of tools in the Player's Handbook. You may choose any kind of tool except vehicles and gaming sets. Once you have selected a type of tool, apply one of the enhancements from the list below.

Your improved tool can be built from scratch with materials costing the same amount as a normal tool of that type during a long rest. Alternatively, you can modify an existing tool of that type for an amount equal to half of the price of that tool.

Automation. The tool can work automatically if you spend ten minutes configuring it for the task at hand. It can make an ability check to complete its task using your Intelligence modifier and proficiency bonus.

Ease of Use. The tool can be used effectively even by someone not trained in its use. When a creature makes an ability check with the tool, it can add your proficiency bonus to the roll if the ability check doesn't already include the creature's proficiency bonus.

Refinement. The tool can improve the work of even a master. A creature proficient with that type of tool adds half your proficiency bonus to ability checks that use the tool in addition to any bonus granted by their own proficiency or expertise.

Invention Type: Skill Aid

Design your skill aid by first selecting the skill that you wish your invention to assist. You may choose any skill other than Arcana, History, Nature, and Religion. Once you have selected a skill, choose one of the effects for the aid from the list below.

Your skill aid can be built with materials worth 50 gp over a long rest. If a creature using your skill aid to assist an ability check rolls a natural 1 on that check, the aid breaks. It can be repaired during a short or long rest with materials worth 25 gp.

Basic. A creature trained in the use of this aid gains a bonus to ability checks that make use of it equal to half your proficiency bonus, rounded down.

Enhanced. A creature trained in the use of this aid can activate it as a bonus action to gain advantage on the next relevant ability check it makes before the end of its next turn. This function can be used twice before it needs to be reset during a short or long rest.

Powered. A creature trained in the use of this aid can activate it as a bonus action and on the next relevant ability check it makes before the end of its next turn, it can treat the number on the die roll as a 20. The aid can be used once before it needs to be reset during a long rest.

Invention Type: Weapon

Design your weapon by using each of the tables on the right to choose properties for it. Each property has a die modifier. When you've finished selecting properties, add the die modifiers together and consult the weapon damage table to determine the damage die for your weapon. If the die modifier total of the weapon appears in the ranges for two different damage dice options, you can choose which of the damage dice your weapon uses.

Your invention is not considered simple or martial, and only you are considered proficient with it. At your DM's discretion, you may be able to instruct someone in its use over a sufficiently long period of downtime.

You can build your weapon during a long rest with materials worth 100 gp. If your weapon uses ammunition, choose whether it uses a standard ammunition type, such as arrows or sling bullets, or if it uses a unique ammunition type. If it uses unique ammunition, you can craft up to 10 pieces during a short rest. Each piece of ammunition requires materials worth 2 sp.

A weapon with the heavy property must also have the two-handed property. A weapon with the light property cannot have the two-handed property. A ranged weapon cannot have the versatile property.

A weapon with the reload property can be used a limited number of times before it needs to be reloaded with an action or a bonus action. A melee weapon can have the thrown property, an ammunition property, or neither. A ranged weapon must have either an ammunition property or the thrown property. A ranged weapon can only have the finesse property if it also has the thrown property.

Philosopher

Scholars who choose the Philosopher pursuit walk varied paths. Some are teachers or advisers. Some are leaders in their own right. What they share in common is that above all they are devoted to the study of their fellow humanoids, and particularly to how they think.

Physician

The Physician pursuit is chosen by scholars who wish to apply their minds to the art of healing. They use their extensive and specialized knowledge to accomplish feats of healing and restoration usually only possible with magic.

Double Shift

At 18th level, once per day when you finish a short rest, you can recover a number of expended medicine points equal to half your scholar level.

Treatments

All treatments require you to have physical contact with the target, and to have your medical kit in hand. Your treatments are only effective on beasts and humanoids.

Antidotes, Tinctures, & Cold Water. As an action, you can spend 2 treatment points to end one disease or one condition afflicting a creature. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.

If you spend 8 treatment points and expend 100 gp worth of rare medicinal ingredients such as herbs, distilled chemicals, and plant extracts, you can instead reduce the target's exhaustion level by one, or end an effect on it that is causing it to be charmed or petrified, or has reduced one of the target's ability scores or hit point maximum.

Induce Catalepsy. You can spend one minute and 4 treatment points to administer drugs that put a willing target into a cataleptic state that is indistinguishable from death. This state lasts for one hour, or until you administer an antidote which you create while inducing the effect.

For the duration, the target appears dead to all outward inspection and to spells used to determine the target's status. The target is blinded and incapacitated, and its speed drops to 0. The target has resistance to all damage except psychic damage. If the target is diseased or poisoned when you administer the treatment, or becomes diseased or poisoned while under the treatment's effect, the disease and poison have no effect until treatment ends.

Painkillers. You can spend one minute and 3 treatment points to administer painkillers to up to 3 willing creatures. Each target's hit point maximum and current hit points increase by 5 for the next 8 hours. This treatment has no effect if the target is already under its effects, or under the effects of the Aid spell.

You can spend up to 6 additional treatment points when administering this treatment. For every two additional points spent, the current and maximum hit point increase granted by this treatment increases by a further 5.

Rest and Mend. Over a short rest, you can spend 2 treatment points to treat up to six creatures of your choice, including yourself. Each target regains hit points equal to 2d8 + your Intelligence modifier.

You can spend up to 3 additional treatment points when administering this treatment. For each additional point, the healing increases by 1d8.

Resuscitate. As an action, you can spend 5 treatment points and expend 300 gp worth of rare medicinal ingredients such as herbs, distilled, chemicals, and plant extracts to revive a creature that has died within the last minute.

Stabilizing Concoction. As an action, you can spend 8 treatment points to administer a concoction to a willing creature that grants it a measure of protection from death for 8 hours.

The first time the target would drop to 0 hit points as a result of taking damage, the target instead drops to 1 hit point, and the treatment ends.

If the treatment is still in effect when the target is subjected to an effect that would kill it instantaneously without dealing damage, that effect is instead negated against the target, and the treatment ends.

Tend Wounds. You can spend 1 minute and 1 treatment point to treat the wounds of a willing creature. The creature regains a number of hit points equal to 1d10 + your Intelligence modifier.

You can spend up to 4 additional treatment points when administering this treatment. For each additional point, the healing increases by 1d10.

Triage. As an action, you can spend 1 treatment point to apply emergency medical treatment to a willing creature. It regains hit points equal to 1d6 + your Intelligence modifier.

You can spend up to 4 additional treatment points when administering this treatment. For each additional point, the healing increases by 1d6.

Planar Sage

Planar Sages stand furthest apart among scholars who follow their various pursuits. The study of planes beyond the Prime Material carries the inherent danger of encountering otherworldly creatures with great powers. To survive these encounters, a Planar Sage must draw upon not just lore, but magic of all types, from the arcane to the divine.

Planar Sage vs Wizard

On the surface, the Planar Sage shares much in common with the wizard. They both record their spells in spellbooks and rely on their Intelligence to cast spells. But they diverge in important ways.

The Planar Sage is at once more focused and more generalized than the wizard. The Sage studies magic more holistically, exploring not just the arcane, but the divine and the elemental as well. They sacrifice the heights of power available to wizards and other dedicated casters like clerics and druids, but tap all sources of magical power equally.

Besides a scholarly interest in studying magic in all its facets, this broad approach is in service to the Planar Sage's chosen field of study: the planes and the extraordinary beings that inhabit them.

Planes Hunter

At 6th level, you learn the planes hunter gambit. When you target a celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead creature with an attack, you can expend an intellect die and add it to the attack roll. Alternatively, if you cast a spell or use a scholar feature that forces a creature of one of those types to make a saving throw, you can expend an intellect die and subtract it from the creature's saving throw.

In either case, you must expend the intellect die before the attack or saving throw is rolled.

Advanced Planar Magic

When you reach 13th level, you add the plane shift spell and one other spell from the list below to your spellbook. You can cast each of these spells once without using a spell slot. You must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

Choose one of the following: dispel evil and good, planar binding, forbiddance, or planar ally.

Planes Tripper

When your reach 18th level, you add either the astral projection or gate spell to your spellbook. You can cast this spell once without using a spell slot. You must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

Crippling Blow

Prerequisite: 17th level

You know how to turn a perfect strike into a devastating attack. When you roll maximum damage on a weapon's damage dice, double the damage of your attack against the creature.

Cruel Intellect

Prerequisite: Tactician pursuit

When you roll an intellect die to add to an attack or damage roll, you can reroll the intellect die once, but you must use the second result.

Cunning Aim

You can use Intelligence instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of weapons made with a light weapon, quarterstaff, or unarmed strike. If you are an Inventor, you can also apply this benefit to any ranged weapon invention that you invent.

Cynicism

Prerequisite: 7th level, Philosopher pursuit

Whenever you or a friendly creature within 30 feet of you must make a saving throw, the creature gains a bonus to the saving throw equal to half your Wisdom modifier (rounded up, with a minimum bonus of +0). A creature must be able to see or hear you to gain this bonus.

This feature does not stack with the paladin's Aura of Protection feature.

Deft Improver

You gain proficiency with improvised weapons, and half-cover functions as well for you as three-quarters cover.

Deliberate Step

Prerequisite: 5th level

Your movement speed increases by 10 feet, and nonmagical difficult terrain no longer slows your movement.

Dogged

When exhausted, you suffer the effects as if your level of exhaustion is one lower. You suffer no negative effects from a single level of exhaustion. Additionally, you cannot be stunned.

Exotic Physiology

Prerequisite: Physician pursuit

Choose one of the following types of creatures: celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, or plants. Your treatments are effective on creatures of this type.

Expedition Mastery

Prerequisite: 5th level, Explorer pursuit

If you spend at least one day traveling in a specific type of terrain (arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, or the Underdark), you gain the following benefits until you spend at least one day traveling a different type of terrain.

• Difficult terrain doesn't slow your group's travels.
• Your group can't become lost except by magical means.
• You remain alert to danger even when you are engaged in another activity while traveling, such as foraging, navigating, tracking, or mapping.

If you have a detailed map of the region you are traveling through, you can ignore the require of one-day's travel before benefitting from this feature.

Extra Attack

Prerequisite: 5th level

You can attack twice, instead of once, when you take the attack action.

Extraplanar Contact

Prerequisite: 9th level, Planar Sage pursuit

You add the contact other plane spell to your spellbook. You can cast it as normal once, and then you must finish a long rest before you can do so again. You may also cast it as a ritual without requiring a rest afterwards.

Extraplanar Detection

Prerequisite: 5th level, Planar Sage pursuit

You add the detect evil and good spell to your spellbook, if it does not already have it. You can cast this spell at will and it does not count against your number of prepared spells.

Extraplanar Diplomacy

Prerequisite: Planar Sage pursuit

When you learn this practicum select one of the following types of extraplanar creatures: celestials, elementals, fey, or fiends. You have advantage on Charisma checks made to interact with creatures of that type.

Extraplanar Summoning

Prerequisite: 14th level, Planar Sage pursuit

When you cast a conjuration spell that allows you to summon celestials, elementals, fey, or fiends, you can cast that spell as if you had used a spell slot two levels higher than the level you actually use. For example, you can cast the conjure animals spell with a 3rd-level spell slot as if you had used a 5th-level spell slot, even if you have no 5th-level spell slots.

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

Fool Me Never

Prerequisite: 14th level, Explorer pursuit

When you use the fool me once gambit, you reduce the triggering damage by an additional amount equal to twice your scholar level.

Hardy

Prerequisite: 11th level

You can ignore the effects of poison and disease. If you become poisoned or diseased and this practicum is replaced before the condition is removed, you immediately begin to suffer its effects.

Immersion Learning

Prerequisite: Explorer pursuit

When you learn this practicum, select a skill with which you are not proficient. When you make ability checks that use that skill, you can add half your Intelligence modifier, rounded down, to the roll.

Incisive Strikes

Prerequisite: 11th level

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, the creature takes extra damage equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

Infallible Expertise

Prerequisite: 11th level

When you make an ability check that lets you add half your proficiency bonus or your full proficiency bonus, you can treat a d20 roll of 4 or lower as a 5. When you make an ability check that lets you add double your proficiency bonus, you can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.

Kinaesthetics

You gain proficiency with the Acrobatics and Athletics skills. If you are already proficient with either of these skills, you instead add double your proficiency bonus to ability checks you make that use that skill.

Additionally, you when you learn this practicum choose either climbing or swimming. That form of movement no longer costs you extra movement.

Linguist

You learn to speak, read, and write three languages of your choice. You may learn this practicum multiple times, selecting different languages each time. This practicum cannot be selected with the Explorer's Adaptable feature.

Machiavellian

You gain proficiency with the Deception and Intimidation skills. If you are already proficient with either of these skills, you instead add double your proficiency bonus to ability checks you make that use that skill. Additionally, you have advantage on saving throws made to resist being charmed.

Masterful Hand

Prerequisite: 7th level, Inventor pursuit

When you make an ability check with a tool to which you add your proficiency bonus, you can expend an intellect die and add it to the roll.

Measured Assault

Prerequisite: 14th level, Tactician pursuit

Your force multiplier feature now recharges when you finish a short or long rest, but only allows you to grant a number of extra attacks equal to half your Intelligence modifier (rounded up).

Natural Cartography

Prerequisite: 9th level, Explorer pursuit

When outdoors, you can spend 10 minutes to study your nearby surroundings to extrapolate knowledge about the land within 3 miles of you. In caves and other natural underground settings, the radius is limited to 300 feet. From a suitable vantage point with a high elevation and clear sightlines, you can accomplish this task in just 1 minute. This ability doesn't function where nature has been replaced by construction, such as in dungeons and towns.

You gain knowledge of up to three facts about any of the following subjects as they relate to the area.

• terrain and bodies of water
• prevalent plants, minerals, animals, or peoples
• buildings

For example, you could determine the location of major sources of safe drinking water, the location of any nearby towns, and the location of goblin camps in the area.

Naturalist

You gain proficiency with the Animal Handling and Survival skills. If you are already proficient with either of these skills, you instead add double your proficiency bonus to ability checks you make that use that skill. Additionally, you can read the basic mood and intent of beasts. You learn its emotional state, whether it is affected by magic of any sort, its short-term needs (such as food or safety), and actions you can take (if any) to persuade it not to attack. You cannot use this ability against a creature that you have attacked within the past 10 minutes.

One Move Ahead

Prerequisite: 17th level

You must know the Incisive Strikes practicum to learn One Move Ahead.

Once per turn, you can use incisive strikes to add your Intelligence modifier to the attack roll instead of the damage roll when you make a weapon attack. You must choose to use this practicum before making your attack roll.

Practiced Practitioner

Prerequisite: 14th level, Physician pursuit

Choose one of the tailored treatment options. Using it costs 1 less treatment point for you. You can learn this practicum multiple times, choosing a different tailored treatment option each time.

Psychological Profile

Prerequisite: 11th level

If you spend at least one minute conversing with a creature or observing it in a social situation, you can analyze its speech and body language to determine how best to interact with it. The DM tells you whether Deception, Intimidation, Performance, or Persuasion is most likely to have a favorable impact on the creature's disposition toward you. For the next hour, you have advantage on checks in that skill directed at the creature. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Rapid Response

Prerequisite: 5th level, Physician pursuit

You can take the Dash action as a bonus action on your turn. When you do, you do not provoke opportunity attacks for the rest of your turn, but the only action you can take is to administer a treatment.

Renaissance Man

You gain proficiency with one type of artisan's tools and one instrument or gaming set of your choice. You learn to speak, read, and write one language of your choice. You may learn this practicum multiple times, selecting different options each time. This practicum cannot be selected with the Explorer's adaptable feature.

Rhetoric

You gain proficiency with the Performance and Persuasion skills. If you are already proficient with either of these skills, you instead add double your proficiency bonus to ability checks you make that use that skill.

Additionally, if spend at least ten minutes speaking or performing, allies of your choice (up to twice your Intelligence modifier) gain a d6 which they can add to the next ability check, attack roll, or saving throw they make. A creature can only benefit from this ability once per short rest.

Scholastics

You gain proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Arcana, History, Nature, and Religion. If you are already proficient with either of these skills, you instead add double your proficiency bonus to ability checks you make that use that skill.

Additionally, if you fail an ability check that uses one of your chosen skills, you can make the check once more during your next short or long rest.

You can learn this practicum twice, selecting different skills each time.

Skepticism

Prerequisite: 5th level, Philosopher pursuit

You have advantage on saving throws against illusions, and advantage on Intelligence checks made to see through them. If you see through an illusion, but an ally who can hear you does not, you can give them advantage on any saving throws Intelligence checks to see through the illusion. This does not require an action on your part.

Sophism

Prerequisite: Philosopher pursuit

You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any Charisma check you make that doesn't already include your proficiency bonus.

Spatial Awareness

You gain proficiency with the Perception and Investigation skills. If you are already proficient with either of these skills, you instead add double your proficiency bonus to ability checks you make that use that skill.

Additionally, you can perfectly recall any path you have traveled since learning this practicum.

Stoicism

Prerequisite: 14th level, Philosopher pursuit

You can use your Clear Mind feature to allow a charmed or frightened ally within 30 feet who can see and hear you to make a new saving throw to end the effect that is causing it to be charmed or frightened. This saving throw is made with advantage. If the ally fails its new save, you cannot use this feature again to end the same effect until the ally has completed a short or long rest.

Additionally, when an ally within the same range is critically hit, you can use a reaction to grant it temporary hit points equal to your scholar level. This has no effect if the critical hit reduces the ally to 0 hit points.

Tactical Retreat

Prerequisite: 5th level, Tactician pursuit

You can take the Disengage action as a bonus action on your turn. When you do so, any creature you target with a weapon attack on the same turn is unable to make opportunity attacks until the start of its next turn, and allies within reach of a creature affected in this way can immediately use their reaction to move up to half their speed.

Toxicology

Prerequisite: 7th level, Physician pursuit

Your medical kit also functions as a poisoner's kit, and you are considered proficient in its use. You can spend 2 treatment points to create a caustic poison that can coat one slashing or piercing weapon or up to three pieces of ammunition. A creature hit by the poisoned weapon or ammunition must make a Constitution saving throw versus your gambit save DC or take 1d8 poison damage. Applying the poison takes an action, and once applied, the poison retains its potency for 1 minute before drying. Once prepared, the poison loses its potency after 8 hours if it is not applied.

Tradecraft

You gain proficiency with the Sleight of Hand and Stealth skills. If you are already proficient with either of these skills, you instead add double your proficiency bonus to ability checks you make that use that skill.

Additionally, you gain proficiency with thieves' tools.

Trail Medicine

As an action, you can expend one charge of healer's kit or one treatment point from your medicine kit to grant a willing creature temporary hit points equal to your scholar level. Once a creature has gained temporary hit points from this feature, it cannot do so again until it finishes a long rest.

Troubleshooter

Prerequisite: 14th level, Inventor pursuit

When you attempt a field repair and fail, you recover the expended intellect die.

Universal Languages

Prerequisite: 14th level

You can communicate and understand simple ideas and concepts when speaking to creatures that have an Intelligence score of 7 or higher, even if you do not share a language. You can also glean basic information from written samples of languages that you do not know. The DM may have you roll an Intelligence check if you attempt to read, communicate, or understand more complex ideas in an unknown language. At the DM's discretion, failure may result in misinterpretation.

Vigilant

Prerequisite: 7th level

You add your Intelligence modifier to your initiative rolls, and your passive Perception score gains a bonus equal to your Intelligence modifier for the purposes of determining whether or not you are surprised.

Message from Creator (Kyle Grant)

This original scholar class has been tested over hundreds of hours of actual play. Many thanks to my players, especially those who took up the experimental mantle of the scholar, and to all who have given feedback on the many iterations of the class.

I am confident that this version of the scholar will serve your table well. That said, while the class is complete that does not mean it must ever be finished. The latest version of the scholar can always be found on dmsguild.com.

If you have any questions about the scholar, or if you want to share your experiences with it, you can leave a comment on the dmsguild page, or you can message me on reddit, at /u/wdalright.

Artificer

Cleric

At 1st level, a cleric gains the Divine Domain feature, which offers you the choice of a subclass. The following options are available to you when making that choice: Occult Domain.

Chapter 3: Feats

Special Ingredients

For a spell without material components, you can also discuss alternative special ingredients with your DM if those ingredients make more thematic sense with your character or your adventure.

Verbal and Somatic Components

For a spell with a verbal or somatic component, consider how an alchemist, not a spellcaster, may provide such a component. This can be as simple as reading a recipe or throwing an empty flask. Don't be afraid to get creative!

Transportable Sentry

Prerequisites: Artillerist artificer specialist

You may craft a sentry pod over 1 hour with 100 gp worth of materials. The sentry pod lasts indefinitely but you may have only one at a time. As an action, you may deploy the sentry pod, commanding it to fly to an unoccupied space you can see within 120 feet. When it reaches its destination, the sentry pod unfurls into an activated sentry.

The sentry shares your initiative count but acts after your turn. If it is forced to make an ability check or a saving throw, treat all its ability scores as 10 (+0). While the sentry is active, it may use its reaction to duplicate the effects of your Eldritch Cannon or some of your Artillerist Spells, but at reduced effectiveness.

As an action, while within 5 feet of your active sentry, you may deactivate it, causing it to fold back into a sentry pod. You may pick up your deactivated sentry pod while within 5 ft. of it, no action required. If the sentry has deactivated as a result of being reduced to 0 hit points within the last hour, you can use your woodcarver's tools as an action to repair it. Otherwise the sentry pod is irreversibly broken—you may salvage up to 25 gp worth of materials from it to craft a new sentry pod.

At 15th artificer level, you may have up to two sentry pods at a time. You may use one action to deploy both sentry pods, and you may deploy them to different locations.

Barbarian

The following feats are available to characters at 4th barbarian level or higher. You must meet any prerequisite specified in a feat to take that feat.

Characters at 20th barbarian level that take a feat that increases either their Strength or Constitution score can increase it up to 24, as per their Primal Champion feature.

Totemic Adaptation

Unhinged Frenzy

Prerequisites: Path of the Beserker

When your rage ends after using your Frenzy feature, you can make a Constitution saving throw to avoid gaining a level of exhaustion (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). The DC increases by 2 after each time you use the feature, resetting after you finish a long rest.

Wrath of the Storm

Prerequisites: Path of the Storm Herald

You crackle with the power of the storm, ever ready to unleash its wrath. You gain a number of d6's equal to half your barbarian level (rounded up). As a bonus action while you're raging, you can expend any number of dice. When you do so, an effect occurs determined by your Storm Aura feature.

The damage is totaled by the number of dice you choose to expend. The DC of a saving throw imposed by these effects equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier. You regain all expended dice at the end of a long rest.

Desert. You gather your rage and explode in a storm of fire. Creatures within 10 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw or take fire damage equal to the total damage of d6's you rolled. On a success, a creature takes half damage. Flammable objects within range that aren't being worn or carried are ignited.

Sea. You bellow, unleashing a lance of lightning in a 5 by 30-foot line. Creatures within the area must make a Dexterity saving throw or take lightning damage equal to the total damage of d6's you rolled. On a success, a creature takes half damage. Until the end of its next turn, the first creature in the blast that fails its saving throw makes its next attack roll with disadvantage.

Tundra. You unleash a 15-foot cone of frigid air. Creatures within the area must make a Constitution saving throw or take cold damage equal to the total damage of d6's you rolled. On a success, a creature takes half damage. On a failure, its movement speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end of its next turn.

Can't Play the Player Spells

Culinary Artist

Prerequisites: College of Creation

Some bards channel the Song of Creation through their cooking, bolstering others with boons and bread, infusing every meal with their own magic.

You gain proficiency in cook's utensils and can use them as improvised weapons, with which you're proficient. You treat these weapons as if they have the finesse property.

Additionally, during a short or long rest, you can infuse food you prepare with your cooking utensils with magic. Characters that consume a ration's worth of food gain the following benefits, which last for 8 hours. A creature can't gain these benefits more than once in a 24-hour period.

• The creature's hit point maximum is increased by your Song of Rest die, starting with 1d6.
• The creature has advantage on Constitution saving throws against poison, paralysis, and exhaustion.
• The creature can add your proficiency bonus to the next death saving throw they make.

Dancing Steel

Prerequisites: College of Swords

The crucible of battle is yours to dance in. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can use a Blade Flourish once without using a Bardic Inspiration die. This Blade Flourish must be made by the end of your next turn, other-wise it is lost.
• You learn a number of spells as you gain levels in this class. The spells count as bard spells for you, but not against the number of bard spells you know. See the Dancing Steel Spells table.

Dirge of Mortality

Prerequisites: College of Whispers

As an action, you can expend a charge of your Bardic Inspiration to play a dirge–a funerary song that harkens to a man's mind that there is no escape from death itself. You can choose a number of creatures up to your Charisma modifier within 60 feet that can hear you, subjecting them to a Charisma saving throw against your Bard spell save DC. On a failure, despair overwhelms them. Their maximum hit points are reduced by half your bard level (rounded down) + the result of your bardic inspiration die. A creature whose hit point maximum is reduced to 0 by the dirge dies and its soul is sent to the Shadowfell. After 1 hour, their hit point maximum is restored.

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

Additionally, you learn a number of spells as you gain levels in this class. The spells count as bard spells for you, but not against the number of bard spells you know. See the Dirge of Mortality Spells table.

Orator

Prerequisites: College of Eloquence

The power of the written word is to be respected; the power of the spoken word is to be feared. Your bardic magic can trace its roots back to the single word that sparked Creation itself. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Charisma or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You can use your own voice as a bardic focus for your spellcasting.
• Whenever you speak, you can use a bonus action to magically cause your voice to boom up to three times as loud.
• You learn the vicious mockery and thunderclap cantrips which don't count against the number of bard cantrips you know. You can add your Charisma modifier to the damage of vicious mockery. Additionally, the range of thunderclap is increased to 15 feet; when you cast it, you can choose a number of creatures up to your Charisma modifier to automatically succeed on their saving throw.

Skald's Song

Prerequisites: College of Valor

Men shall immortalize you in song and legend. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you score a critical hit with a weapon attack, you can use your reaction to rally your allies. Creatures of your choice (up to your Charisma modifier) within 60 feet that can hear you gain a +1 bonus to their AC that lasts until the end of their next turn.
• You learn a number of spells as you gain levels in this class. The spells count as bard spells for you, but not against the number of bard spells you know.

Stolen Esoterica

Prerequisites: College of Lore

As a diligent student of esoteric lore, you can focus your studies on one forbidden subject, such as fey lore or demonology. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You learn one cantrip of your choice from the spell list of any class. It counts as a bard cantrip for you and doesn't count against the number of cantrips you know.
• You can choose one area of study from the options in the table to the right, learning a number of spells as you gain levels in this class. The spells count as bard spells for you, but don't count against the number of bard spells you know. See the Stolen Esoterica spell tables.
• You learn the language associated with your choice of study, as determined by the Stolen Esoterica: Languages table.

Cleric

The following feat is available to characters at 4th cleric level or higher.

Tempest Domain

    Domain spell. wall of water

Immediate Enhancement. When you use your Destructive Wrath to deal maximum damage, you may use your reaction to move up to your speed without provoking opportunity attacks. You then cast one of the following cantrips once (your choice): booming blade, lightning lure, shocking grasp, or thunderclap.

Lingering Effect. You know the cantrip you chose for your immediate enhancement. It counts as a cleric cantrip and does not count against the number of cleric cantrips you know.

Trickery Domain

    Domain spell. major image

Immediate Enhancement. When you use your Invoke Duplicity, you create an additional perfect illusion of a creature you touch (other than you). That creature controls the illusion and gains all of its benefits, as if they had used your Invoke Duplicity, but they do not have to maintain concentration to keep up the illusion. Both illusions disappear if your concentration is broken.

Lingering Effect. When you cast one of your domain spells by expending a spell slot, you may use your reaction to gain the effect of the mirror image spell (one duplicate only) for 1 minute. If you already have a mirror image duplicate from any source, you gain an additional duplicate instead and the duration of the spell effect is refreshed to 1 minute. You cannot have more than three images active at a time.

Twilight Domain

    Domain spell. hypnotic pattern

Immediate Enhancement. The number of temporary hit points granted by your Twilight Sanctuary increases by an amount equal to half your cleric level (rounded down).

Lingering Effect. You may take the Hide action as a bonus action.

War Domain

    Domain spell. haste

Immediate Enhancement. When you use your Guided Strike on an attack roll of 10 or higher, the attack is considered a critical hit. In addition to any other effects from a critical hit, you also deal radiant damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

Lingering Effect. When you cast divine favor by expending a spell slot you also gain the effect of shield of fath on the next attack against you until the start of your next turn. The additional effect is lost if your concentration is broken.

Druid

The following feats are available to characters at 4th druid level or higher. You must meet any prerequisite specified in a feat to take that feat.

Fighter

The following feats are available to characters at 4th fighter level or higher. You must meet any prerequisite specified in a feat to take that feat.

Psionic Surge

Prerequisites: Psi Warrior martial archetype

You have learned to concentrate your psionic powers. Increase your Strength, Constitution, or Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Additionally, when you use certain Psionic Powers, you may enhance the effect (see the descriptions below). Once you enhance a Psionic Power you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest, unless you expend a Psionic Energy die to do so.

Protective Field. The shield grants a number of temporary hit points to up to two creatures of your choice within 30 feet of you. The number is equal to half of the damage reduction given by the Protective Field.

Psionic Strike. Make a melee weapon attack on each other hostile creature within 5 feet of the target of your Psionic Strike. On hit, a target takes force damage equal to half the damage done by the Psionic Strike.

Rune of Lanaxis

Prerequisites: Rune Knight martial archetype

You have learned to inscribe a permanent rune onto your body, similar to a tattoo, a testament to your endurance and skill in rune carving. This rune emulates the power of Lanaxis, the titan son of Annam All-Father.

You can invoke the rune as a bonus action to become an Avatar of Lanaxis. For 10 minutes, you gain the benefits of your Giant's Might, you have a +2 bonus to AC, a number of temporary hit points equal to half your maximum hit points, and advantage on all saving throws and ability checks. For the duration, you are also immune to the following conditions: blinded, deafened, incapacitated, stunned, paralyzed, and poisoned.

You can't invoke this rune unless you are able to invoke all of your other runes. Once you invoke this rune you can't do so

again until you finish a long rest. You can't invoke any of your other runes until you finish a short or long rest.

Mortals were not meant to be such a conduit. When the effect of the invocation ends, you gain one level of exhaustion. You can remove this level of exhaustion at the end of a short rest only if you have one level. If you have two or more levels, you must a complete a long rest to remove this level of exhaustion.

Sword and Sorcery

Prerequisites: Eldritch Knight martial archetype

Your studies and diligent practice have proven fruitful. You gain the following benefits:

• Any spell with the word "smite" or "strike" in its name is considered a wizard spell for you. You can learn these spells even if they are not from the abjuration or evocation school.
• When you make a spell attack roll while wielding your Bonded Weapon, you can instead channel the spell through your bonded weapon. Instead of the spell's normal roll, the type of attack that you choose to make determines if the roll is a melee or ranged attack roll, and the weapon's range, rather than the spell's, determines the attack's range. You also replace your spell attack bonus with your bonded weapon's attack bonus. If the attack hits, you inflict the spell on the target, but you do not apply the weapon's effects. If the attack misses and the spell applies additional effects after a miss, those effects occur as normal.
• When you use your Arcane Charge, you can instead cast steel wind strike without expending a spell slot.

Unbreakable Resolve

Prerequisites: Samurai martial archetype

To taste salt and blood upon your lips, to hear the crowds roar your name, to watch your rivals fall—these are your only earthly pleasures. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency in the Performance skill. When you make an ability check using this skill, your proficiency bonus is doubled.
• When you miss with a weapon attack, you can use your reaction to add a bonus to the attack equal to your Charisma modifier. If your attack then hits, you deal additional damage equal to half your Charisma modifier (rounded up, with a minimum bonus of +1).

Warbringer

Prerequisites: Battle Master martial archetype

Like a blade against a whetstone, you've honed your tactics. You gain the following benefits.

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You learn three additional Battle Master maneuvers of your choice.
• You gain additional superiority dice equal to your half your proficiency bonus (rounded up).

Monk

The following feats are available to characters at 4th monk level or higher. You must meet any prerequisite specified in a feat to take that feat.

Sword Saint

Prerequisites: Way of the Kensei

Your otherworldly grace and your mastery with a weapon are peerless, granting you the following benefits:

• You gain a +1 bonus to the attack and damage rolls made with your kensei weapons. The maximum bonus granted to these weapons by your Sharpen the Blade feature increases to +4.
• Your ki allows you to duplicate certain spells. As an action, you can expend 2 ki points to cast the blur spell or the mirror image spell.

Way of the Wasted Monkey

Prerequisites: Way of the Drunken Master

Yours is an art misunderstood by many. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• While you aren't wearing any armor or wielding a shield, you gain a +1 bonus to your AC.
• While you have a mouthful of alcohol, you can use an action to expend 1 ki point to expel the alcohol and light it on fire. Creatures within a 15-foot cone must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Ki save DC. On a failure, a creature takes 3d6 fire damage, or half as much damage on a success. You can also expend additional ki points to increase this damage by 1d6 per ki point expended. The total damage cannot exceed 6d6.

Paladin

The following feats are available to characters at 4th paladin level or higher. You must meet any prerequisite specified in a feat to take that feat.

On a Pale Horse

Prerequisites: Oathbreaker

Your empty heart roils with darkness, twisting your body and soul into a foul mockery of life itself. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you cast the find steed spell, your steed can take on the form of a warhorse skeleton. When you cast the find greater steed spell, your steed can take the form of a nightmare. You can add your proficiency bonus to the steed's AC.
• You have advantage on saving throws to avoid the effects of exhaustion.
• You no longer need to eat, drink, or sleep. To gain the benefits of a long rest, you can spend all eight hours doing a light activity.

Stand As One

Prerequisites: Oath of the Crown

When the drums thunder and the enemy takes to the field, it's you that others look to. As a champion of the crown, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength, Constitution, or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• The number of hit points restored by your Turn the Tide feature increases to 1d10 and can affect creatures that can't hear you.
• Aura of Allegiance. Starting at 7th level, up to four creatures of your choice within 10 feet of (excluding yourself) gain a +1 bonus to their AC while you are conscious. You suffer a penalty to your AC equal to the number of creatures affected by this ability. Starting at 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

Vessel of the Fey

Prerequisites: Oath of the Ancients

Your oath has given you deeper connections to the Feywild. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You can use your Channel Divinity feature twice per short rest, up from once.
• You gain advantage on saving throws against being poisoned and resistance to poison damage.
• Magic cannot put you to sleep.
• You can speak, read, and write Sylvan.

Ranger

The following feats are available to characters at 4th ranger level or higher. You must meet any prerequisite specified in a feat to take that feat.

Favored Adversary

The Land Provides

Prerequisites: Natural Explorer ranger class feature

Your heart is with the land, and your bond with it waxes. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You learn three cantrips of your choice from the druid spell list. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these cantrips.
• Whenever you finish a long rest, you can choose a terrain from your favored terrains of your Natural Explorer feature, learning a number of spells associated with that terrain until you finish another long rest. You must be at or above the listed ranger level to learn the spell. These spells count as ranger spells for you, but not against the number of ranger spells you know. When you finish another long rest, you can change to another terrain among your other favored terrains.

Nest Guardian

Prerequisites: Swarmkeeper ranger archetype

Using a quarterstaff, lantern, or similar object, you can form a mobile den for a swarm of tiny beasts. Choose one of the options below, gaining the benefits listed for that option. You may change this option each time you complete a long rest. The number of uses indicates the number of times you may use that benefit before you must finish a long rest.

Rouse Swarm. As an action, you can rouse the indicated swarm type, which defends you. The swarm lasts for one hour or until it's reduced to 0 hit points. The swarm is friendly to you and your allies, acts on your initiative, and obeys your verbal commands.

You can use an action to see through the swarm's eyes and hear what it hears, gaining any of its special senses. The swarm must stay together in one space to act as your vessel.

Otherworldly Magic

Prerequisites: Fey Wanderer ranger archetype

You have learned how to draw on your fey qualities to imbue your magic with additional effects. When you start to cast one of your Fey Wanderer Spells, you can choose to augment the effect. Once you augment the effect of a spell, you can't augment that spell again until you finish a long rest.

Charm Person. The target makes the Wisdom saving throw with disadvantage.

Misty Step. Immediately after you disappear, you turn invisible and leave a misty image of yourself in the space you left, which lasts until the start of your next turn. You are invisible only as long as your image exists.

As long as your image exists, when a creature attacks you, it must attack the image instead, unless the image is out of range of the creature, the creature can see you, or the creature can discern that your image is an illusion with a successful Wisdom (Perception) check against your hunter spell save DC. If a creature is forced to attack the image, the attack automatically hits, destroying the image in a puff of mist.

Dispel Magic. The first ability check you make as part of this spell has its DC reduced by 1.

Dimension Door. The casting time is one bonus action, instead of one action.

Mislead. For the duration, you can use your bonus action to turn your double invisible (if it is visible) or visible (if it is invisible).

Planar Magic

Prerequisites: Horizon Walker ranger archetype

You have learned how to draw on the energy of the multiverse to imbue your magic with additional effects. When you start to cast one of your Horizon Walker Spells, you can choose to augment the effect. Once you augment the effect of a spell, you can't augment that spell again until you finish a long rest.

Protection from Evil and Good. You cast the spell without material components. Additionally, up to two additional creatures of your choice within 5 feet of the target gain the effects of the spell.

Misty Step. The range increases to 60 feet.

Haste. Both you and the target gain the effect of the spell, but while you concentrate on the spell, you have disadvantage on any Constitution saving throw you make to maintain your concentration.

Banishment. The target makes its Charisma saving throw with disadvantage.

Teleportation Circle. For the next hour you can cast the spell again without expending a spell slot, but you return to the location of the first circle you drew. You can dismiss this augment at any time during this hour (no action required).

Predator and Prey

Prerequisites: Monster Slayer ranger archetype

Yours is the thrill of the hunt, the chase of predator and prey, a chase as timeless as the dance between the sun and moon. You gain the following benefits:

• You learn the hunter's mark spell if you didn't already know it; if you did, you can learn another ranger spell of your choice. It doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.
• When you can see the target of your hunter's mark spell, you no longer need to concentrate on the spell; it ends immediately, however, if you fall unconscious. If you can no longer see the target, you must maintain concentration on the spell until you can see the target again; if you are already concentrating on a spell, you must choose between it and hunter's mark. You must also concentrate on hunter's mark if its duration exceeds one minute.
• When you hit a creature under the effects of your hunter's mark spell and that creature belongs to your favored enemies, you deal an additional +1 damage.

The Studied Huntsman

Prerequisites: Hunter ranger archetype

By studying your foes, you excel in exploiting their weaknesses. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength, Dexterity or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you score a critical hit against a creature that belongs to your list of favored enemies, you can deal additional damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.
• You learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Studied Huntsman Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Unleash the Beast

Prerequisites: Beast Master ranger archetype

The wild cannot be tamed, but the beasts that lurk in its shadows can. You’re capable of bonding with greater beasts, and gain the following benefits:

• The maximum CR of your companion increases to CR 1/2 and can be a size of Large or smaller.
• When reduced to 0 hit points, your beast makes death saving throws, adding your proficiency bonus to the roll.
• You learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Unleash the Beast Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Waylay

Prerequisites: Gloom Stalker ranger archetype

Your ambushes are even deadlier. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your Dread Ambusher feature gives you an increase of 20 feet, instead of 10 feet, to your walking speed. Additionally, the additional attack taken on the first turn of combat deals an extra 1d10 damage, instead of 1d8 damage.

Rogue

The following feats are available to characters at 4th rogue level or higher. You must meet any prerequisite specified in a feat to take that feat.

Soul Conduit

Prerequisites: Phantom roguish archetype

You have enhanced your connection to departed souls, allowing improved use of your soul trinkets. You gain the following benefits:

• If your rogue level is 8th or lower when you take this feat, you gain the Phantom roguish archetype feature Tokens of the Departed, but at reduced effect. You do not have advantage on death saving throws and Constitution saving throws if a soul trinket is on your person. You cannot destroy a soul trinket to ask the spirit associated with the trinket a question. Starting at 9th rogue level, you gain the full features of Tokens of the Departed.
• Starting at 9th rogue level, as a bonus action, you can destroy one of your soul trinkets that's on your person to expend one of your rogue Hit Dice and regain 4 hit points.
• Starting at 13th rogue level, an action, you can destroy two of your soul trinkets that are on your person to cast the mirror image or shadow blade spell. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
• Starting at 17th rogue level, as an action, you can destroy three of your soul trinkets that are on your person to cast the steel wind strike spell. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

True Detective

Prerequisites: Inquisitive roguish archetype

Yours is a one-track mind consumed by obsession. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence score or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you use your Insightful Fighting feature, you can instead make an Intelligence (Investigation) check, rather than a Wisdom (Insight) check.
• While your Insightful Fighting applies to a creature, you deal bonus damage once per round when you hit it with a weapon attack. This bonus is equal to either your Intelligence or Wisdom modifier (your choice, and a minimum bonus of +1).

Sorcerer

The following feats are available to characters at 4th sorcerer level or higher. You must meet any prerequisite specified in a feat to take that feat.

Wild Magic Mastery

Prerequisites: Wild Magic sorcerous origin

You channel the chaos, gaining the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you cause a Wild Magic Surge, you can use your reaction to contain the surge, then unleashing it on a subsequent turn of yours as a bonus action. You can only hold one Wild Magic Surge at a time. You must decide to contain a surge before rolling on the Wild Magic Surge table. After 1 minute, any Wild Magic Surge you are holding is unleashed.
• When you take this feat, roll a d6 once on each of the Wild Magic Attunement tables. You learn the indicated spell, which counts as a sorcerer spell for you, and does not count against the number of spells you know. You must have spell slots for that spell's level to learn it. Whenever you finish a long rest, you roll a d6 on each table again and replace the previous spell you learned from that table with the new spell you just rolled.

Patron Identity

The feat Enhanced Patronage presented here narrows down and fleshes out the identity of a warlock's patron. When you take this feat, you choose a particular patron identity.

If the patron identities provided do not match the one you have created for your character, discuss with the DM how to change the flavor of the feat to be more appropriate. However, you should not change the actual benefits provided by the feat.

Enhanced Patronage

Choose one of the identities below for your otherworldly patron, gaining all of the listed benefits.

Solar

A solar guides you on your path to redemption, using you as a torch to light the darkness. Its light, whether you welcome it or not, shines now in your very soul. You gain the following benefits:

• You learn the word of radiance cantrip; it counts as a warlock spell for you but not against your number of cantrips known.
• You can cast the shield of faith spell once per long rest without expending a warlock spell slot.
• Immediately before or after you use your Healing Light feature, you can manifest a pair of angelic wings, which last until the end of your turn. When you manifest these wings, you can fly up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks.

Sphinx

Your patron is a humble guardian of the gods' most sacred secrets and treasures: a sphinx whose eternal vigil has necessitated the use of mortals.

The sphinx has gifted you with its thunderous roar. As an action, you can roar; until you finish a long rest, subsequent roars grow louder and its effects direr, as detailed below. When you roar, you choose up to three creatures within 30 feet of you that can hear you, subjecting each to an effect below.

First Roar. Each creature that fails a Wisdom saving throw is frightened of you until the start of your next turn.

Second Roar. Each creature that fails a Wisdom saving throw is frightened and deafened by you until the start of your next turn. One target of your choice that failed its saving throw is also paralyzed until the end of its next turn.

Third Roar. Each creature must make a Constitution saving throw or take 2d10 thunder damage and is knocked prone. On a success, a creature takes half as much damage and isn't knocked prone. Once you roar a third time, you cannot roar again until you finish a long rest.

Fathomless Patronage

Fiend Patronage

Incubus/Succubus

Sadism is the flavor of all fiends, for there is power in suffering, a power you too can harvest. You gain the following benefits:

• Once per turn when you gain temporary hit points from your Dark One's Blessing feature by reducing a creature to 0 hit points through a warlock spell, you can also regain hit points equal to 1 + the slot's level. If you slew the target with a warlock cantrip or weapon attack, you regain only 1 hit point.
• You learn every spell of your patron's Expanded Spell List as you reach certain levels in this class. These spells don't count against the number of warlock spells you know.
• You learn to read, write, and speak your choice of either Infernal or Abyssal.

Djinni

Imbued with the power of air, you gain the following benefits:

• You learn the gust cantrip, which counts as a warlock spell for you, but not against the number of cantrips you know.
• You can cast each of the chromatic orb (thunder only) spell as a warlock spell without expending a spell slot. Once you cast this spell in this way, you can't it in this way again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast this spell using a spell slot you have of the appropriate level.
• When you cast the thunderwave spell, you can push targets that fail the saving throw an additional 5 feet. Once you improve thunderwave in this way, you can't again until you finish a short or long rest.

Efreeti

Imbued with the power of fire, you gain the following benefits:

• You learn the control flames cantrip, which counts as a warlock spell for you, but not against the number of cantrips you know.
• You can cast each of the chromatic orb (fire only) spell as a warlock spell without expending a spell slot. Once you cast this spell in this way, you can't it in this way again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast this spell using a spell slot you have of the appropriate level.
• When you cast the burning hands spell, you can increase the range to a 25-foot cone. Once you improve burning hands in this way, you can't again until you finish a short or long rest.

Marid

Imbued with the power of water, you gain the following benefits:

• You learn the shape water cantrip, which counts as a warlock spell for you, but not against the number of cantrips you know.
• You can cast each of the chromatic orb (cold only) spell as a warlock spell without expending a spell slot. Once you cast this spell in this way, you can't it in this way again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast this spell using a spell slot you have of the appropriate level.
• When you cast the fog cloud spell, you can designate up to three creatures of your choice that can see through the fog, as if it were not heavily obscuring the area. Once you improve fog cloud in this way, you can't again until you finish a short or long rest.

Great Old One Patronage

• When you cast the spell, you can choose if the spell deals psychic or radiant damage against a creature subjected to the spell.
• You are unaffected by the spell's effects and can move freely through its area without suffering any ill effects of the spell.

Undead Patronage

Undying Patronage

Wizard

The following feat is available to characters at 4th wizard level or higher.

Racial Feats

This section introduces a collection of special feats that allow you to explore your character's race further. These feats are each associated with a race, as summarized in the Racial Feats table. A racial feat represents either a deepening connection to your race's culture or a physical transformation that brings you closer to an aspect of your race's lineage.

The cause of particular transformation is up to you and your DM. A transformational feat can symbolize a latent quality that has emerged as you age, or a transformation might be the result of an event in the campaign, such as exposure to powerful magic or visiting a place of ancient significance to your race. Transformations are a fundamental motif of fantasy literature and folklore. Figuring out why your character has changed can be a rich addition to your campaign's story.

Blazing Soul

Prerequisites: Genasi (Fire)

Growing a greater connection to the element of fire, you gain the following benefits:

• Your Constitution or Intelligence score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you deal fire damage, you can choose to expend a Hit Die and add it to the roll.
• You learn the control flames cantrip. Constitution is yourspellcasting ability for this spell.

Blessing of the Sea

Prerequisites: Elf (Sea) or Triton

Gaining the blessing of some powerful entity of the waters, be it Thassa of Theros or Deep Sashelas of Faerûn, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution or Charisma score by 1, to amaximum of 20.
• You learn the shape water cantrip and can cast the create or destroy water spell once with this trait, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a short or long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Brute Accuracy

Prerequisites: Orc

Whether you've been blessed with the martial prowess of Gruumsh, or are a chosen warrior of the Ghaash'kala of Eberron, your weapon attacks have increased in precision. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Constitution score by 1, to amaximum of 20.
• Whenever you make a melee attack roll and miss, you can instead turn that roll into a hit. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Brute Force

Prerequisites: Bugbear

Yearning to prove your prowess on the battlefield, you gain the following benefits:

• Your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you deal damage with a melee weapon, you can choose to deal one additional damage die and add it to the total. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus and regain all expended uses whenever you finish a long rest.

Burnished Shell

Prerequisites: Tortle

Your shell has hardened over your time adventuring. You gain the following benefits:

• Your Natural Armour is now calculated as 15 + your proficiency bonus. Slashing damage you’d take from non-magical weapons is reduced by 3.

Corrupted Sanctitude

Prerequisites: Aasimar (Fallen)

Tainted further by darker powers, you’ve fallen even further from grace. Whenever you deal damage with an attack roll, you can choose to expend a Hit Die to add it to your damage roll. The extra damage dealt is necrotic, and you also gain a number of temporary Hit Points equal to the Hit Die’s roll + your Constitution modifier.

Divine Healing

Prerequisites: Aasimar (Protector)

The touch of the Upper Planes has stretched to your influence. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Wisdom or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your Healing Hands feature now has a range of 30 feet, and now heals a number of Hit Points equal to twice your level. Additionally, you now regain use of this feature whenever you finish a short or long rest.

Draconic Flight

Prerequisites: 8th level, Dragonborn or Kobold

You sprout draconic wings. With your wings, you have a flying speed of 30 feet as long as you aren't over encumbered. You cannot use this speed if your armor isn’t designed to compensate for the wings.

Entropic Blood

Prerequisites: Verdan

You have grown a greater connection with That-Which-Endures, and your black blood now has strengthened. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution or Charisma by 1, to amaximum of 20.
• You have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Faunic Charm

Prerequisites: Satyr

Always having time to celebrate, you gain the following benefits:

• Your Charisma score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• If you already have Bardic Inspiration dice, you gain 1 more; otherwise, you gain two Bardic Inspiration dice, which are d6's. These dice can be given to others as a bonus action, (per the bard feature, Bardic Inspiration). You regain all uses of your Bardic Inspiration whenever you finish a long rest.

Feline Agility

Prerequisites: Tabaxi

Becoming more agile, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your base long jump is up to 25 feet and your base high jump is up to 15 feet, with or without a running start.
• If you would take damage from falling, treat the damage as if you fell 20 feet less.

Fey Kin

Prerequisites: Elf (Eladrin)

Growing a stronger connection to the courts of the Feywild, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score by1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain an additional use of your Fey Step feature. You can change the season you embody during a short rest.

Grung Poison

Prerequisites: Grung

Your toxic poison has increased potency, gaining additional effects. A creature poisoned by you suffers an additional effect that varies depending on your skin color. This effect lasts until the creature is no longer poisoned by you.

Green. The poisoned creature can't move except to climb or make standing jumps. If the creature is flying, it can't take any actions or reactions unless it lands.

Blue. The poisoned creature must shout loudly or otherwise make a loud noise at the start and end of its turn.

Purple. The poisoned creature feels a desperate need to soak itself in liquid or mud. It can't take actions or move except to do so or to reach a body of liquid or mud.

Red. The poisoned creature must use its action to eat if food is within reach.

Orange. The poisoned creature is frightened of its allies.

Gold. The poisoned creature is charmed by you and can speak Grung.

Hag Origins

Prerequisites: Hexblood

The hag who created you has left a permanent imprint, granting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You can cast additional spells using your Hex Magic feature, based on the type of hag that created you.

Hallowed Radiance

Prerequisites: Aasimar (Scourge)

Volatile holy light burns within you. Whenever you use your Radiant Consumption feature, the radius for it increases by 5 feet. Additionally, the damage dealt by this feature is doubled.

Heavenly Guidance

Prerequisites: Aasimar

The gods and Celestials of the Upper Planes are watching over you. Whenever you make a saving throw, you can choose to reroll that saving throw and add your proficiency bonus to the new roll, potentially changing the outcome. You can use this feature after the initial roll, but before the DM tells you if you succeeded or not. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Imitation Expert

Prerequisites: Kenku

A master of mimicry, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You have advantage on Charisma (Deception) checks when using your Mimicry trait.
• Whenever you see a creature make an ability check using a skill or tool with which they're proficient, you can choose to gain proficiency with the same skill or tool until you finish a long rest. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Kin of Gith and Dragon

Prerequisites: Gith (Githyanki)

Infused with the blood of red dragons at birth, you’ve become a duthka'gith, gaining the following benefits:

• Your Strength or Constitution score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain resistance to fire damage.
• You grow red dragon scales on your body. When not wearing armor, your AC is calculated as 13 + your Dexterity modifier.
• You gain darkvision to a range of 60 feet.
• You can speak, read, and write Draconic.

Light As Air

Prerequisites: Genasi (Air)

Growing a greater connection with the element of air, you gain the following benefits:

• Your Constitution or Dexterity score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain a flying speed of 20 feet. To use this speed, you can't' be wearing medium or heavy armor and can't be over encumbered.
• You learn the gust cantrip. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Loxodon Tusks

Prerequisites: Loxodon

You've learned to use your tusks as a dangerous weapon, gaining the following benefits:

• Your tusks become natural weapons, with which you can make unarmed attacks. When you attack with your tusks, you deal bludgeoning or piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, rather than the regular damage for an unarmed strike.
• Your Natural Armor is now calculated as your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.

Lycanthropic Heritage

Prerequisites: Shifter

The blood of your lycanthropic heritage strengthens. You gain the following benefits:

• Choose one of the ability scores affected by your subrace’s Ability Score Increase. Increase this ability score by 1, to amaximum of 20.
• Choose a shifter subrace other than your own. When you shift, you also gain the benefits of its Shifting Feature, in addition to your own.
• While shifted, you can use your action to expend a Hit Die and regain a number of Hit Points equal to the roll + your Constitution modifier. You can use this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per shift.

Malicious Tactics

Prerequisites: Goblin

The martial prowess of a goblin boss is much greater than your average goblin. You've mastered these combat tactics.

When a creature you can see targets you with an attack, you can use your reaction to choose another creature within 5 feet of you. You and that creature swap places, and the chosen creature becomes the target instead. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Militaristic Prowess

Prerequisites: Hobgoblin

Born to fight, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You deal an extra 1d4 damage to creatures you hit with weapon attacks if that creature is within 5 feet of an ally that isn't incapacitated. This bonus becomes 1d8 if two or more allies are within 5 feet of the target.

Monastic Training

Prerequisites: Gith (Githzerai)

Receiving greater training in defense from githzerai monks, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain a +2 bonus to AC while you aren't wearing medium or heavy armor and aren't using a shield.

Natural Defenses

Prerequisites: Myconid

As a mushroom of the Underdark, you've learned to use your intricate fungi powers to ward off attackers and blend in with your surroundings.

• Bioluminescence. As a bonus action, you can emit dim light in a radius of 20 feet centered on you. You can end this effect as a bonus action. Once per day, you can cause the dim light to become bright light, no action required. This bright light lasts for one minute or until you end it as a bonus action.
• Toxic Spores. You secrete toxic spores that stick to your body. When a creature touches you or hits you with a natural weapon, you can choose to deal 1d6 poison damage to it. Furthermore, when you hit a target with an unarmed strike, you can choose to deal an additional 1d6 poison damage.
• Vegetal Camouflage. You have advantage on Stealth checks to hide in leafy, forested, fungal, or wooded terrain.

Nine Lives

Prerequisites: Leonin or Tabaxi

When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, roll 1d20. On a roll of 9 or lower, roll a Hit Die. You instead drop to a number of Hit Points equal to the Hit Die roll. Note the number you rolled on the d20. If you use this feature again and roll any number you have previously noted, this feature instead has no effect.

One With the Seas

Prerequisites: Genasi (Water)

Growing a greater connection to the element of water, you gain the following benefits:

• Your Constitution or Wisdom score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Pride Exemplar

Prerequisites: Leonin

Loyal to your people, you gain the benefits related to your pride's group.

Ironmanes. You are ferocious and daunting. Your Strength or Constitution score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. Additionally, you gain proficiency with the Intimidation skill if you aren't already. The range of your Daunting Roar increases to 30 feet and its save DC increases by 1.

Sun Guides. You are tranquil and peaceful. Your Wisdom or Charisma score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. Additionally, you gain proficiency with the Animal Handling or Nature skill (your choice) and your proficiency modifier is doubled when you make an ability check using either skill, and can spend a minute studying the wildlife in your area (plants and/or animals) to accurately determine the weather for the next 1d4-1 days.

Swiftclaws. You are swift and cunning. Your Dexterity or Intelligence score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20. Additionally, your walking speed increases by 5 feet, you gain proficiency with the History skill if you aren't already proficient, and you can spend 1d6 x 10 minutes to study a book, piece of architecture, message, or similar work to completely memorize it.

Psi Disciple

Prerequisites: Gith

Your psionic training is more advanced than most Gith and has granted you innate spellcasting as described below. Intelligence is your innate spellcasting ability.

• You learn one cantrip from the sorcerer spell list and can cast it without any components.
• You learn one 1st-level spell from the sorcerer spell list. You can innately cast this spell without expending a spell slot and without any components. Once you cast this spell in this way, you can't cast this spell in this way again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast this spell using spell slots you have of the appropriate level, but you must provide any components.

Psychic Link

Prerequisites: Kalashtar

Being able to tap into others' psyche, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Wisdom or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you use your Mind Link feature, you can make a psychic link to them. For the next minute, whenever that creature makes a saving throw, you can use your reaction to give them a bonus to their saving throw equal to your proficiency bonus. Once you do so, the effect ends.

Rigorous Precision

Prerequisites: Vedalken

Every imperfection is a chance for improvement. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you make an ability check made with your Tireless Precision skill or tool, add 1d6 to the total, instead of 1d4.
• Choose one skill with which you’re proficient. Whenever you make an ability check with the chosen skill, roll 1d4 and add the number rolled to the check's total.

Sea Adept

Prerequisites: Locathah

As one who's ever familiar with the seas, you gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• As long as you're submerged in water, any die rolled to heal you resulting in a 1 or 2 is instead treated as a 3.
• Accustomed to living in the depths, you gain darkvision to a range of 60 feet.

Serpentine Exemplary

Prerequisites: Yuan-Ti Pureblood

Though you are only a mere Pureblood, Sseth smiles upon you. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Serpent Bite. Your bite is a natural weapon with which you can make unarmed attacks. It deals 1d4 piercing damage and poison damage equal to your proficiency modifier.
• Snake Form. You can use your action to polymorph into a Medium snake or back into your true form. Your statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment you are wearing or carrying isn't transformed. If you die, you stay in your current form.

Simic Mutation

Prerequisites: Simic Hybrid

Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20. As an apex of evolution, you also gain one of the following benefits. You can choose this feat multiple times.

Elusive Form

Your skin is covered in a dark, slippery substance. Whenever you make a Dexterity ability check or saving throw, roll 1d4 and add it to the total.

Toxic Resistance

You gain immunity to poison damage and have advantage on saving throws made against becoming poisoned or diseased.

Skirmishing Augmentations

Prerequisites: Warforged

Receiving permanent scout-like enhancements, you gain the following benefits.

• Increase your Dexterity or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Your walking speed increases by 5 feet.
• When you are traveling alone for one hour or more, you can move stealthily at a normal pace. (See chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook for information about travel pace.)
• You have advantage on initiative rolls. If you would already have advantage, you instead go first in the initiative order.

Spectral Jaunt

Prerequisites: Elf (Shadar-Kai)

Further blessed by the Raven Queen, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain an additional use of your Blessing of the Raven Queen feature.
• You regain all uses of your Blessing of the Raven Queen feature whenever you finish a short or long rest.

Stone Skinned

Prerequisites: Genasi (Earth)

Growing a greater connection to the element of earth, you gain the following benefits:

• Your Strength or Constitution score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You can add your Constitution modifier to your AC instead of your Dexterity modifier (to a maximum of +2 when using medium armor) when calculating AC.
• You learn the mold earth cantrip. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Sylvan Camaraderie

Prerequisites: Firbolg

Becoming further attuned with nature, you gain the following benefits:

• Your Wisdom score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you use your Speech of Beast and Leaf feature, you can choose to make a DC 14 ability check, using Wisdom (Animal Handling) for beasts or Wisdom (Nature) for plants. If you succeed, the beast or plant can communicate back with you, and you can understand it. You must reattempt this roll every time, even if it’s with the same beast or plant.

Trampler

Prerequisites: Centaur

You’ve become a force of reckoning on the battlefield, as an equine warrior. Whenever you hit a creature with an attack roll made with your hooves, that creature must make a Strength saving throw with DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier. On a failed save, the target is knocked prone. The target has disadvantage on this saving throw if the attack was a part of your Charge feature.

Undaunted

Prerequisites: Lizardfolk

Cold and calculated, you gain the following benefits:

• You become immune to the frightened condition.
• You have advantage on all Wisdom saving throws.

Unsettling Visage

Prerequisites: Changeling

Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20. Additionally, being able to shapeshift at will, you are able to subtly change before an enemy, unsettling them. When a creature you can see makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the roll. You must use this feature before knowing whether the attack hits or misses. Using this feature reveals your shapeshifting nature to any creature within 30 feet that can see you. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Vampiric Charm

Prerequisites: Dhampir

You have tapped into your vampiric origins, granting you innate spellcasting as described below. Charisma is your innate spellcasting ability.

• You know the friends cantrip. You can cast this spell without material components.
• You learn the charm person spell at 3rd level and the suggestion spell at 5th level. You can innately cast each of these spells, requiring no material components. You can cast each of these spells without expending a spell slot. Once you cast either of these spells in this way, you can't cast that spell in this way again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast these spells using spell slots you have of the appropriate level.

Visions of Rebirth

Prerequisites: Reborn

As a Reborn ages, they lose more of their memories from their previous life, but they are able to catch more detailed glimpses of those they do recall. You gain the following benefits:

• When you use your Knowledge from a Past Life feature, you can roll a d8, instead of a d6.

Warcaller

Prerequisites: Minotaur

The might of Mogis flows in your veins, granting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Strength or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• Whenever you take the attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to let out a frightening bellow. Each creature you dealt damage to this turn must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier) or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn.
• Labyrinthine Recall. You can perfectly recall any path you have traveled.

Other Feats

Deft Disarmer

Traps are a deadly art and you're nothing short of an artist. Having mastered this medium, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain blindsight out to a range of 10 feet.
• You have resistance to the damage taken by traps.
• When you make a Dexterity check with thieves' tools to disarm a trap, you can add double your proficiency bonus to the check.
• You can search for traps even while moving at a fast pace.

Grizzled Globetrotter

Not even the worst of the wilderness can break your body or spirit. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain a swimming and climbing speed equal to your walking speed.
• You can hold your breath for up to 10 minutes.
• You no longer suffer the effects of extreme heat and extreme cold and you are naturally acclimated to high altitudes (including elevations above 20,000 feet).

Tenacious Trapper

It isn't enough for you to lay out a bear trap or a snare; your very magic bends itself to make deadlier traps. You gain the following benefits:

• You can add your proficiency bonus to the DC of caltrops, ball bearings, and hunter traps you lay, as well as any other traps you set up.
• You gain the mending cantrip.
• You learn an additional spell when you reach certain character levels, as shown in the Keen Explorer table. You can cast each of these spells without expending a spell slot. Once you cast any of these spells in this way, you can't cast that spell in this way again until you finish a long rest.

Treasure Hunter

Wise men like to say that not all that glitters is gold, but you'll be the judge of that. Yours is a pursuit that takes you from intricate vaults to haunted temples. You gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on saving throws against being cursed, such as by cursed items or the hex spell. Additionally, you have advantage on saving throws against being possessed.
• You learn an additional spell when you reach certain character levels, as shown in the Keen Explorer table. You can cast each of these spells without expending a spell slot. Once you cast any of these spells in this way, you can't cast that spell in this way again until you finish a long rest.

Last Rites

You have been blessed with greater vitality and magic to better stave off untimely deaths. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Constitution or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• When you or a creature of your choice within 60 feet of you rolls a 19 or 20 on a death saving throw, they regain a number of hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier.
• When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points, you can choose to subject the creature to the effects of a gentle repose spell without expending a spell slot.

Law of Averages

Prerequisites: The ability to cast a cantrip

Combined with your magical talents, your skills as a logician transcend the normal laws of physics. You gain the following benefits:

• Whenever you cast a cantrip with a damage roll that targets a single creature, you can choose to deal the average damage of the spell (rounded down). You can choose to do so after you cast the spell but before you make the damage roll.
• When you make a saving throw and the d20 is 9 or below, you can instead treat the result as a 10. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Mantle of Seasons

Attuning yourself to the ebb and flow of seasons, you embody the primordial magic associated with each one. When you take this feat, you align yourself to a season of your choice, gaining the benefits listed below. Upon finishing each subsequent long rest, you align to the next season: spring, summer, autumn, or winter, in that order. After you finish a long rest while aligned to the season of winter, you align to the season of spring. You gain the benefits of a season only while you are aligned to it.

While aligned to a season, you gain a cantrip and resistance to a damage type. Additionally, when you deal damage of that type with a spell of 1st level or higher, you deal an additional +2 damage of that type. (See the table below.)

Any cantrip you gain from this feat does not count against the number of cantrips you know. The spellcasting ability for any spell you gain from this feat is Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma (your choice). You make this choice when you take this feat.

Mantle of Seasons

Mantle of Thorns

The wilds welcome you as one of their own. You learn the thorn whip cantrip if you didn't already know it. It doesn't count against the number of cantrips you know. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma (your choice).

Additionally, as an action, you can coat yourself in an aegis of thorns. These thorns have their own pool of hit points, which is equal to 3 x your character level. If a creature hits you with a melee attack, the thorns can take the damage instead of you. So long as the thorns have any remaining hit points, the attacker also takes magical piercing damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

Whenever a creature starts its turn grappling you or grappled by you while the thorns still have hit points, that creature takes magical piercing damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

The thorns last for a number of hours equal to half your character level (rounded down) or until their hit points are depleted. Once you coat yourself in an aegis of thorns, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Mantle of Winds

Prerequisites: Spellcasting or Pact Magic feature

You attune to the wind, that invisible, omnipresent force that carries warmth and wrath across the world. You gain the following benefits:

• You learn the gust cantrip if you don't already know it. It doesn't count against the number of cantrips you know. Its spellcasting ability is Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma (your choice). When a creature fails its Strength saving throw against the spell, the target also takes 1d4 force damage. This damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).
• When you take damage, you can use your reaction to fly up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. When you do so, you can't cast spells other than cantrips until the end of your next turn.
• The following spells are added to your class spell list for you: control winds, feather fall, fly, freedom of movement, and gust of wind.

Natural Performer

You have become skilled in the performing arts. Choose one of the specialties below, gaining the listed benefits.

Poisoncraft

Men of "honor" call the use of poison a coward's art, but such is the way of the wild and of survival of the fittest. You gain the following benefits:

Serenity

Prerequisites: The ability to cast at least one spell

Time spent mastering your spellcasting abilities has allowed you to focus more effectively on spells that require concentration, granting the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You may add your spellcasting ability modifier to any Constitution saving throw you make to maintain concentration on a spell.

Weapon Expert

You have mastered how to use an exotic weapon. Increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20. Then choose one weapon below, gaining the listed benefits. You may take this feat multiple times, choosing a different weapon each time.

When you first take this feat, and only when you first take this feat, you gain a number of expert points equal to your character level. You gain 1 expert point each time you gain a character level, to a maximum of 20. When you spend an expert point, it is unavailable until you finish a long rest, at the end of which you regain all of your expended expert points.

Some of the features below require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature's effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Chapter 4: Adventuring