Ability Score Increase

When determining your character's ability scores, unless stated otherwise, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy. You can't raise any of your scores above 20.

Languages

Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character.

Creature Type

Every creature in D&D, including each player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. A race in this chapter tells you what your character's creature type is. These types don't have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn't work on a Construct or an Undead.

Cyborg Origins

Cyborgs have varied reasons for replacing their own body parts. Some may have done so as part of a life saving medical procedure, one where a normal prosthetic limb couldn’t help. Many well-known adventurers and explorers, where travelling the dangerous and unknown is their whole livelihood, adopt to augment their bodies as a pragmatic choice. Still, others are forced against their will. Totalitarian nations and regimes will create super soldiers to keep control over the populace. The Cyborg Origins table gives suggestions for the reasons your character has for turning into this lineage.

Startouched

"My grandparents were terrestrials, ordinary humans when they moved here, so I’m a little relieved that I was touched. Not that I have anything against others in the city who aren’t like me. It’s just that, changing into this, these stars on me, it’s an unwritten rite of passage here. It shows that you really do belong here among the stars. I’ll be forever grateful to be able to show it."

Startouched Origins

Almost all startouched can trace their origins back to Wildspace in the Astral Plane. The unique magical energy that permeates the environment, one that lacks air and is yet teeming with life, transforms creatures that repeatedly expose themselves to its potent magic. Settlements in Wildspace will often have startouched communities, and spelljamming ships may sport one or two startouched crew. However, on more conventional planetary bodies in more conventional earthbound settlements, their sightings are rare and often revered and feared in equal measure. The Startouched Origins table gives suggestions for the reasons your character has for turning into this lineage.

Startouched Traits

Your startouched character has the following traits.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Age. A startouched’s lifespan doesn’t differ from their previous race’s life expectancy. However, like most adventurers in the D&D multiverse, their lifespan is typically about a century, given its inherent occupational hazards.

Alignment. Many startouched see the stars that cover their body as a blessing by the gods that reside in the Astral Plane. As such, most startouched are good aligned. However, neutral or evil aligned startouched aren’t uncommon either.

Size. You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you gain this lineage.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Ancestral Legacy. If you replace a race with a startouched, you can keep the following elements of that race: any skill proficiencies you gained from it and any climbing, flying, or swimming speed you gained from it.

If you don't keep any of those elements or you choose a startouched at character creation, you gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.

Astral Resistance. You have resistance to force damage and psychic damage.

Constellation Show. You know the dancing lights cantrip. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it (choose when you select this race).

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Nebulous Form. As a bonus action, you can take on a nebulous form that lasts for 1 minute, until you die, or until you end it early as a bonus action. While you are in this form, you gain a flying speed of 10 feet, during which you can hover. You can also move through creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, but you take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside a creature or an object (this damage can’t be reduced in any way). Additionally, when you cast the dancing lights cantrip, you don’t require concentration.

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

Unusual Nature. You don’t require air.

Struggling For Acceptance

Unlike other Humanoid races that sport animalistic features, an evolved beast is the opposite: that is, an animal that sports some Humanoid features. As such, many still treat this race, reflexively or otherwise, as one would an ordinary animal. Evolved beasts are usually talked down to or treated as someone lesser. Given their mysterious origins and the initial lack of acceptance as a race by other Humanoids, many ended up shaping their identity through their own animal likeness. This, however, only perpetuated the stereotype of evolved beasts as only animals that can talk.

Evolved beasts are composed of many different types of animals. All of them can talk, are intelligent, and possess Humanoid limbs of some kind. There are three common types:

• Avions are a group of evolved beasts that encompass birds that can fly. Avions are unable to use their arms to their full potential, owing to the mismatched biology.
• Canines are evolved beasts that come from dogs. The treatment canines receive is a double-edged sword. While a friendly dog’s reputation means they are more accepted among civil communities, it also makes it hard for others to treat a canine as an actual person.
• Cetaterra are evolved beasts that come from dolphins and porpoises. As aquatic evolved beasts, they are able to transform their limbs into humanoid arms and legs on land.

Subtle Changes

While an evolved beast’s limbs are what this race is most known for, they possess nuanced differences from their bestial counterparts. For one, they are just as intelligent as any other race. While evolved beasts can converse with other animals, many describe the experience as if talking to someone with severely reduced mental faculties. Another notable difference is that evolved beasts share similar life spans to other Humanoid races, rather than their animal counterparts, though they still mature at the same rate. This extended lifespan allows evolved beasts to be in their prime for much longer before suddenly experiencing rapid ageing in the latter years of their natural life.

Evolved Beast Names

An evolved beast’s name is usually derived from a pronounced bestial feature or from something in their environment that they have taken a liking to. This naming practice stems from the race’s early attempts in searching for their identity.

In more recent times, evolved beasts that live amongst other Humanoids will choose to adopt native naming conventions in order to better fit in.

Evolved Beast Names: Purple Starfish, Whitest of Teeth, Ashen Feather, Colourful Crest, Sharpened Blade of Grass

Avion

An avion has the following traits.

Size. Avions can be anywhere between 2 to 4 feet tall, possess a wingspan of up to 7 feet depending on its animal species, and weigh between 10 and 40 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your walking speed is 10 feet.

Flight. Because of your wings, you have a flying speed of 30 feet. You can't use this flying speed if you're wearing medium or heavy armour.

Keen Sight. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Polymorphic Hands. You have two arm appendages tucked underneath your wings. These limbs allow you to interact with objects like other Humanoid races. Due to the limbs’ unnatural anatomy, you must use two hands when wielding a weapon or shield. You also cannot wield a weapon with the heavy property, and you don't gain any benefits posed by wielding a weapon with two hands.

Unsuited Build. You count as one size smaller when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Canine

A canine has the following traits.

Size. Canines are considered Small, being anywhere from 2 to 5 feet long and between 30 to 150 pounds depending on its species.

Speed. Your walking speed is 40 feet.

Bite. You have sharp teeth that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Keen Hearing and Smell. You have advantage on
Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or
smell.

Pack Tactics. You have advantage on an attack
roll against a creature if at least one of your allies
is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't
incapacitated.

Polymorphic Hands. You have two arm appendages located on the sides of your chest, sprouting in front of your forelegs. These hands allow you to interact with objects like other Humanoid races. Due to the limbs’ unnatural anatomy, you must use two hands when wielding a weapon or shield. You also cannot wield a weapon with the heavy property, and you don't gain any benefits posed by wielding a weapon with two hands.

Cetaterra

A cetaterra has the following traits.

Size. Cetaterra range between 5 to 8 feet and weigh anywhere between 150 and 350 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Hold Breath. You can hold your breath for 20 minutes.

Polymorphic Limbs. You have limbs that automatically transform depending on whether you are on land or underwater. On land, you have arms that allow you to interact with objects like other Humanoid races, and legs that allow you to walk. In the water, these limbs transform into fins and a tail respectively, and you gain a swim speed of 50 feet, but lose your walking speed. You can also change one or both sets of limbs as a bonus action.

Sonar. As an action, you can let out high pitched sound waves to find creatures and passageways. You know the location of any hidden or invisible creatures within 30 feet of you unless they are behind total cover. You also know the location of any traps or secret doors. You can’t use this trait if you are deafened.

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

CHAPTER 1 | RACES

Artificer

The artificer receives new features and subclasses in this section.

Artificer Specialists

At 3rd level, an artificer can choose a specialisation, which offers you the choice of a subclass. This collection offers the following options to choose from: Nanoassembler, Powerline, and Programmer.

Powerline Spells

Programmer

The Programmer is an artificer specialises in transcribing and changing the attributes of spells and objects using an esoteric arcane language that is known to some, and practiced by fewer. Using this language, it can make existing spells work in completely different ways and alter the way a weapon interacts when being used.

Deployable Cover

• Item: A 10-foot pole

A creature holding this item can use an action to place the pole on a solid surface and deploy a solid metal wall which is 20 feet wide, 10 feet high, and 1 foot thick. The wall is opaque, has an AC of 10 + your proficiency bonus, and a number of hit points equal to four times your artificer level. The creature that deployed the wall can retract it as an action. When the wall is reduced to 0 hit points, it retracts and can’t be used again until the mending spell is cast on it or a creature proficient in smith’s tools spends 1 minute using the tools to repair it.

At 6th level in this class, when a creature deploys the cover, it can choose one side of the wall to be transparent. A creature on that side of the wall can see through the wall.

Electric Net

• Item: A net

This net is a magic item that has AC 10 + your proficiency bonus and a number of hit points equal to your artificer level.

A creature can use a bonus action to attach this net onto a bow weapon. The next time a creature makes a ranged attack with that weapon, the net shoots out along with the ammunition. On a hit, the target is restrained by the net and at the end of each of its turns, takes 1d4 lightning damage for 1 minute. The target can use its action to make a Strength check against your spell save DC to free itself. Reducing the net’s hit points to 0 ends the effect and renders it useless. While at 0 points, the net can’t be used until the mending spell is cast on it or a creature proficient in smith’s tools spends 1 minute using the tools to repair it.

Elemental Arcane Focus

• Item: A Rod, Staff, or Wand (Requires Attunement)

This item has 4 charges. When a creature casts a spell that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage using this magic item as the spellcasting focus, it can expend 1 charge to change the damage type to one of the other listed types. The item regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Energy Shield

• Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer
• Item: A Shield (Requires Attunement)

A creature gains a +1 bonus to Armour Class while wielding this shield.

When the wielder takes acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, it can use its reaction to reduce the damage taken by 1d10 + your proficiency bonus.

Explosive Weapon

• Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer
• Item: A Simple or Martial Weapon with the range or thrown
• property (Requires Attunement)

Once on each of the wielder’s turns, when it fires ammunition from the weapon (if it has the range property) or throws the weapon (if it has the thrown property), the wielder can have the target and each creature within 5 feet of the target make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, regardless of whether the attack hits or misses. On a failed save, the creature takes 1d6 fire damage.

The fire damage increases to 2d6 when you reach 14th level in this class.

Floating Cape

• Item: A Cloak or Robes (Requires Attunement)

This magic item has 4 charges. When the wearer is knocked prone, it can use its reaction and expend 1 charge to immediately get up from prone. As part of the same reaction, the wearer can give itself a flying speed of 10 feet until the start of its next turn and move up to this distance without provoking opportunity attacks. The item regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.

Goggles of Clarity

• Item: A Pair of Goggles or Glasses

While wearing these goggles, the wearer can see through lightly obscured areas, such as dim light, patchy fog, or moderate foliage, as if the area isn’t obscured.

Goggles of Light

• Item: A Pair of Goggles or Glasses

This item has 4 charges. While wearing them, the wearer can use a bonus action and expend 1 charge to emit bright light in a 15-foot cone from the goggles for 1 hour. The wearer can end the light early as a bonus action. The goggles regain 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.

At 10th level in this class, the bright light dispels magical darkness.

Helm of Willpower

• Item: A Helmet (Requires Attunement)

This helmet has 4 charges. When the wearer makes a saving throw against being charmed or frightened, the wearer can use its reaction to expend 1 charge and make the roll with advantage. The helmet regains 1d4 charges daily at dawn.

Lightning Gauntlets

• Item: A Pair of Gloves or Gauntlets (Requires Attunement)

When the wearer makes an unarmed strike, it deals lightning damage equal to 1d8 + the wearer's Strength modifier on a hit.

At 10th level in this class, when the wearer hits a creature with the gauntlets, the lightning can arc toward a second creature that the wearer can see within 5 feet of the first. The second creature takes lightning damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

Med Bay

• Item: A bedroll (Requires Attunement)

This magic item has 3 charges. When a creature takes a short rest in this bedroll and spends its Hit Dice, it can expend 1 charge and use the maximum number instead of rolling. A creature can also expend 1 charge to remove a disease or one of the following conditions afflicting it: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned. The item regains 1d3 charges daily at dawn.

At 10th level in this class, the item has 6 charges and regains 1d6 charges daily at dawn.

Mesh Layer

• Item: A Suit of Armour or a Shield

This item has 6 charges. As a bonus action, the wearer (armour) or wielder (shield) can use a bonus action and expend 1 charge to give itself a number of temporary hit points equal to 1d4 + your proficiency bonus. If the armour is doffed or the shield isn’t wielded, the temporary hit points are lost. The item regains 1d6 expended charges daily at dawn.

Mind Stimulant

• Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer
• Item: A Helmet (Requires Attunement)

This helmet has 4 charges. Whenever the wearer makes an ability check using Intelligence or Wisdom, it can expend 1 charge to roll a d4, adding the number rolled to the ability check. The helmet regains 1d4 charges daily at dawn.

Penetrating Weapon

• Item: A Simple or Martial Weapon with the range or thrown
• property

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. When the wielder makes a ranged attack with the weapon, it ignores half and three-quarters cover.

Protective Arcane Focus

• Prerequisites: 14th-level artificer
• Item: A Rod, Staff, or Wand (Requires Attunement)

While holding this item, a creature gains a +1 bonus to AC and saving throws.

When a creature holding this item makes a saving throw against a spell or harmful effect, it can use its reaction to make the saving throw with advantage. If the creature succeeds on the roll and the spell or effect deals half damage on a successful save, it instead deals no damage. Once this property is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Seeking Weapon

• Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer
• Item: A Simple or Martial Weapon (Requires Attunement)

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. When the wielder makes an attack roll with this weapon and misses, the wielder can use a bonus action to reroll the attack roll against a different target within the weapon’s reach if it’s a melee attack, or a different target within 30 feet of the first target if it’s a ranged attack.

Sentry Suit

• Item: A Suit of Armour (Requires Attunement)

This armour alters the wearer’s biological functions so as to not require sleep. To gain the benefits of a long rest, the wearer can spend all 8 hours doing light activity, such as keeping watch.

Shoulder Mounted Weapon

• Prerequisites: 10th-level artificer
• Item: A Simple or Martial Weapon with the ammunition
• property (Requires Attunement)

This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. As an action, a creature can mount the weapon onto its shoulder. It can also detach the weapon as an action, and the weapon can’t be removed against the creature’s will.

While the weapon is attached in this way, the weapon reloads itself automatically if it has the loading property and if the creature has enough ammunition for the weapon. The creature can also use a bonus action to make a ranged attack from it.

Stabilising Armour

• Prerequisites: 6th-level artificer
• Item: A Suit of Armour (Requires Attunement)

This armour has 3 charges. As a bonus action, the wearer can expend 1 charge to regain a number of hit points equal to
1d4 + your Intelligence modifier. The armour regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.

Path of Ire

Barbarians that follows the Path of Ire are set off at the tiniest bit of verbal aggression. Those that follow this path allow one’s emotions to go unchecked, using any and all perceived slights as an excuse to enter a rage and violently assert its own opinions at the expense of everyone else. One should, however, not see this spontaneity as a weakness that can be easily manipulated. On the contrary, the rage of this barbarian can be so convincing and feverish that it can whip up other people around it into a similar frenzy.

College of Skepticism

Bards of the College of Skepticism always question the motivations of others. Their stories warn of treating anything at face value and the potential dangers of naivete. While usually seen as seeds of needless discontent in many communities, few value their cautious perspective, particularly those in positions of power where such ways of thinking are key to their survival. Bards of this college are known for their ability to create and discern deceptions and ruse, both physical and mental ones.

Resonant Voice

1st-level Message Domain feature

You project a voice that others find hard to resist. You always have the command spell prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of cleric spells you can prepare each day. When you cast the spell, you don’t need to share a language with the target. You can cast this spell without expending a spell slot a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Channel Divinity: Invoke Connection

2nd-level Message Domain feature

You can use your Channel Divinity to speak with others over long distances.

You and another willing creature within 5 feet of you conduct a 10 minute ritual. Creatures with an Intelligence score of 3 or lower are unable to take part. At the end of the ritual, you and the chosen creature are linked and can speak telepathically with each other while you are within a number of miles of each other equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1 mile). You must all know a language (though it needn’t be the same one) and be on the same plane of existence to communicate. When you use this Channel Divinity option, you regain that use of Channel Divinity when you finish a long rest.

When you reach 6th and 18th level, you can have one more creature join the ritual, taking one additional use of your Channel Divinity.

As an action, a creature can hear what another linked creature hears and learn its surface thoughts, as long as it is willing, and it knows its thoughts and senses are being accessed by others. Multiple creatures can access its senses and learn its thoughts at the same time. A listening creature can use an action to return to its own senses or until the other creature blocks them out.

If a creature is outside the range of all other linked creatures, the effect ends for the creature that is out of range. This telepathic connection lasts until you finish a long rest. It ends early if you die or are beyond range of all other linked creatures.

Enhanced Connection

6th-level Message Domain feature

The telepathic connection you’ve created with your allies allows you to better coordinate with each other. You and creatures linked through your Invoke Connection can issue commands which are represented by a pool of d4s equal to your cleric level.

Whenever you or a linked creature makes an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, any other linked creature can use its reaction to roll a d4 from this pool and add the number rolled to the d20 (multiple creatures can use their reactions at once). You must be able to see the linked creature or sense its intentions (such as by learning its surface thoughts) to use this reaction.

You regain all expended dice when you finish a long rest.

Potent Spellcasting

8th-level Message Domain feature

You add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.

Final Word

17th-level Message Domain feature

Your word has absolute power over others. You are immune to any spells or effects that would try to silence you. You also add the power word kill and power word heal spells to your cleric spell list, which count as cleric spells for you.

Transportation Domain

The Transportation Domain holds deities that are responsible for safe passage and smooth journeys. These gods-examples of which appear on the Transportation Deities table-ensure that no person is unjustly impeded in undertaking a journey.

Clerics of this domain have the power to aid others who are traveling and provide them with shelter. They bring law and order to otherwise perilous roads.

Atmokinesis

14th-level Circle of Extremes feature

Your mastery over the weather has given you resistance to the elements. While your Wild Weather is active, you and creatures that you choose to be immune to the saving throw effects of your Wild Weather gain resistance to the associated damage type indicated in the Wild Weather table.

At 15th level in this class, you always have the control weather spell prepared, and it doesn’t count toward the number of druid spells you can prepare each day.

• Adrenal Gland (10th level only). You can better regulate your flight or fight response. When you are reduced to half your current hit points or less, you can use your reaction to immediately take an extra turn, interrupting the current turn. When you do so, you can’t cast spells other than cantrips until the end of your next normal turn.
•         You can use this feature once per use of Adaptive Shape.
• Amphibious Form. You adapt your body to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
• Bear Claws (6th level only). Each of your hands grows large claws, which you can use as a weapon if the hand is empty. It deals 1d6 slashing damage on a hit. Once on each of your turns when you attack with a claw using the Attack action, you can make one additional claw attack as part of the same action.
• Bioluminescent Shock. You are able to illuminate yourself. As a bonus action, you can emit bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet. While you are emitting this light and a creature you can see within 5 feet of you hits you with an attack, you can immediately deal 1d4 lightning damage to the creature.

• Bloodhound (6th level only). You have the senses of a ruthless predator. When you hit a creature with a natural weapon from your adaptation, you can choose to mark that creature. Once on your turn, while a creature is marked in this way, you have advantage on your first weapon attack you make against it, provided the weapon is from one of your adaptations. The creature also can’t hide from you and can't benefit from being invisible.
•         You can only have one creature marked at a time. If you mark a new creature, the previous creature is no longer marked.
• Chameleon Skin (6th level only). You can change your skin’s pigmentation to blend into your surroundings. When you are damaged by an attack or spell, you can use your reaction to turn invisible until the end of your next turn, or until you make an attack or cast a spell.
• Condor Wings (10th level only). You grow large wings from your back that can support your weight. You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed. To use this speed, you can't be wearing medium or heavy armour.
• Feline Movement. You gain agile reflexes that allow you to move quickly. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, and you can move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks as a reaction when a creature ends its turn within 5 feet of you.
• Giant Horns. You grow giant horns on your head which you can use as weapons. It deals 1d8 bludgeoning damage on a hit. While you have these horns, you can use the Shove action as a bonus action.
• Goat Hooves. Your legs change to a digitrade structure and your feet turn into hooves. Your walking speed increases by 10 feet and you have advantage on Strength and Dexterity saving throws made against effects that would knock you prone.
•         In addition, your hooves can be used as weapons. It deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage on a hit. If you move at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and hit it with this weapon on the same turn, that target must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, you can make another attack with your hooves against it as a bonus action.
• Hawk Eyes. Your eyes can absorb more light and discern greater detail. You can see up to 1 mile away with no difficulty, able to discern even fine details as though looking at something no more than 100 feet away from you. Additionally, dim light doesn't impose disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks.
• Intimidating Pattern. You grow markings or appendages that can frighten other creatures. As an action, you can show off this pattern. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this ability replaces one of them. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet of you that can see you must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature becomes frightened for 1 minute. It can repeat this saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to your Intimidating Pattern for the next 24 hours.

• Owl Sight. You have darkvision out to a range of 300 feet. In that radius, you can see in dim light as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light.
• Pack Leader. Your gait is that of an alpha in a hunting pack, and other creatures are emboldened by your presence. Creatures of your choice within 5 feet of you have advantage on the first attack roll they make on their turn if you aren't incapacitated.
• Resin Carapace (6th level only). You develop thick skin that can’t be easily penetrated. You gain a +1 bonus to AC. Additionally, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage that you take from nonmagical weapons is reduced by 3.
• Serpentine Senses (10th level only). You possess the beneficial traits of a snake. You gain blindsense out to a range of 30 feet. You can also move through the space of any creature that is of your size or larger.
• Spiky Tail. You grow a lashing, spiny tail, which you can use as a weapon. It deals 1d8 piercing damage on a hit and has the reach property. If a creature you can see within 10 feet of you hits you with an attack roll, you can use your reaction to swipe your tail and roll a d8, applying a bonus to your AC equal to the number rolled, potentially causing the attack to miss you.
• Strong Jaw (6th level only). You grow a snout to accommodate your enlarged jaw, giving yourself immense biting power and the ability to use it as a weapon. It deals 2d6 piercing damage on a hit and if the creature is of your size or smaller, you can attempt to grapple it using your jaws. While a creature is grappled in this way, you can use an action to try and restrain it by making another grapple check. If you succeed, the creature is restrained until the grapple ends.
• Sure-Limbed. Your limbs are able to gain extra purchase for better footing. Moving through nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through nonmagical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.
•         In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against terrain effects that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement, such those created by the entangle spell.

Ghost Operative

The Ghost Operative is a fighter that excels in covert operations, possessing exceptional abilities of espionage
and subterfuge. Masters of stealth, these fighters are
usually deployed as part of clandestine operations
where institutions can exercise plausible deniability.
In events of alleged kidnappings and assassinations,
the involvement of a Ghost Operative is always
suspected, but can never be fully proven.

Additional
Fighter Options

This section offers additional features you can gain as a fighter when you reach certain levels in this class, including additional options for your Fighting Style feature.

Aura of Evanesce

7th-level Oath of Conspiracy feature

You emit a wispy aura while you’re not incapacitated. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to magically become invisible until the start of your next turn. In addition, any ally who takes damage within 5 feet of you can use its reaction to magically become invisible until the start of their next turn.

When you reach 18th level in this class, the range of the aura increases to 15 feet.

Word of Manipulation

15th-level Oath of Conspiracy feature

You’ve learned to lace your words with magic to make others more susceptible to you. Whenever a creature makes a saving throw against you for spells and effects that would charm or frighten it, you can impose disadvantage on the roll.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Figure of Enigma

20th-level Oath of Conspiracy feature

You transform into the embodiment of mystery and elusiveness. As an action, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute:

• Once before the start of your next turn, when a creature you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction and cause that attack to miss.
• You have advantage on Charisma checks and saving throws, as do your allies within 30 feet of you.
• You emanate an aura of compliance in a 30-foot radius. The first time a hostile creature enters the aura or starts its turn there, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or become charmed by you for 1 minute or until it takes any damage. While a creature is charmed by you, you can use a bonus action to have it move up to its speed and make an attack roll against a target of your choice. You can also sacrifice one of your attacks when you take the Attack action to command the creature to make an attack roll. If you don’t give the creature a command, it is incapacitated and has a speed of 0.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a 5th-level spell slot to use it again.

Oath of Stewardship

Paladins of the Oath of Stewardship believe that wider civilization can’t be entrusted with new technologies, believing their own hands are best suited to handle them. They see civilization's penchant for war and conflict, concluding that giving access to such advances will only lead to society’s destruction. Paladins of this order track new innovations in magic and technology, and proceed to hide them away if such advancements would lead to a leap-frog in society’s development.

Additional
Paladin Options

This section offers additional features you can gain as a paladin when you reach certain levels in this class, including additional options for your Channel Divinity and Fighting Style feature.

Cosmic Reading

7th-level Stargazer feature

You use the stars in the night sky as a guide for yourself and others, gaining the following benefits.

Starry Message. You use the night sky to communicate over long distances. You learn the skywrite spell, which counts as a ranger spell for you and doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells you know. If it is nighttime or if the sky is dark, you can choose to expend a mote to cast the spell without expending a spell slot, as you use your mote’s light to write your message. You don’t concentrate on the spell when you cast in this way, but the message disappears if you cast this spell again.

Shining Fortune. You use the stars to foresee future events. At the start of a long rest, if you have at least one mote remaining, you can cast the divination spell without expending a spell slot or material components. Once you cast in this way, you can’t do so again for the next 7 days, unless you choose to start with four fewer motes at the end of your current long rest.

Dazzling Constellation

11th-level Stargazer feature

You can link up your motes in a beautiful display of lights. When you hit a creature with your Comet Strike, or when a creature fails its saving throw against a feature from your Twinkling Motes, you can choose to illuminate the target in cosmic light. While a target is marked in this way, it sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet, and it can’t hide or benefit from being invisible. If you have two or more creatures marked in this way and you hit a marked creature, you can deal radiant damage to it to any other linked creature equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1 damage).

A creature marked in this way can make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC at the end of each of its turns. On a successful save, it is no longer marked by the light.

Star Child

15th-level Stargazer feature

You have been blessed with the presence of the stars. You gain resistance to radiant damage.

In addition, while you have at least one mote remaining, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed, during which you can hover.

Additional
Ranger Options

This section offers additional features you can gain as a ranger when you reach certain levels in this class, including additional options for your Fighting Style feature.

Additional Fighting Styles

2nd-level ranger feature

When you choose a fighting style, you can also choose from one of the following options.

Animal Soul

6th-level ranger feature, which works with the Animal Bond feature

Your close bond with your animal companion has changed your own body. You gain the benefits of any traits possessed by the animal.

In addition, you can use an action to see and hear through the animal’s senses for up to 1 minute as long as you are within 120 feet of each other (as if you’re concentrating on a spell). During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses. You can end this effect early as an action. You can use this action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Animal Vengeance

10th-level ranger feature, which works with the Animal Bond feature

You punish anyone that tries to separate you from your animal companion. When a creature you can see makes an attack roll against the animal while the animal is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to make one weapon attack against the creature.

In addition, the first time a creature you can see reduces the animal’s hit points to 0, you gain advantage on all weapon attack rolls against that creature until the end of your next long rest. You must finish a long rest before you gain this benefit again.

Spellcraft

6th-level Metallic Soul feature

You’re able to create additional effects for your magic. When you cast a spell using smith’s tools as the spellcasting focus, you can spend 1 sorcery point to use a Metamagic option you don’t know yet. You must have enough sorcery points to use that option, which you spend when you use it, and you can only use one option on a spell unless otherwise noted.

Electroplating

14th-level Metallic Soul feature

You can transfer your metallic properties onto others. As an action, you can spend 2 sorcery points and touch a willing creature (including yourself), bestowing one benefit from your Steel Skin feature. A creature can only be affected by one benefit from this feature at a time. If you use this feature when a creature is already affected, the old benefit immediately ends and the new one is applied. This benefit lasts until the creature finishes a long rest.

Hardened Exterior

14th-level Metallic Soul feature

Your innate magic has made you more durable. You gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks.

Magnetic Field

18th-level Metallic Soul feature

You use your magic to project a powerful magnetic field. As an action, each creature in a 30-foot radius sphere centred on yourself must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC, with disadvantage if a creature wearing or holding a metallic object, or be paralyzed until the start of your next turn. A metal object not being worn or carried automatically fails this saving throw. If a creature is paralyzed while in the air, it hovers in its space and falls to the ground at the start of your next turn.

As part of the same action, you can choose one of the following effects to occur:

Armour Removal. If a creature paralyzed by this feature is wearing armour or wielding a shield made of metal, you can doff the armour and remove the shield, discarding the items in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the creature (which can also be in the air).

Force Attack. If a creature paralyzed by this feature is wielding a melee weapon made of metal, you can force it to make an attack against itself or another creature within 5 feet of it. You can also use a metal weapon not being worn or carried to make an attack. You make a melee spell attack for each target, dealing 1d10 force damage on a hit.

Attract or Repel. You can magically throw each creature a number of feet equal to your Charisma score away from the sphere in a direction you choose. Alternatively, you can pull each creature in a straight line toward a point in the sphere that you choose, ending in an unoccupied space as close to the point as possible, even if the space is in the air.

Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you spend 8 sorcery points to use it again.

Light Wave Manipulation

6th-level Orbital Space feature

Your magic gives you the ability to intensify or block out light. As an action, you can spend 2 sorcery points to use one of the following abilities:

Solar Flare. You project an aura of light. This aura is centred on you and moves with you, emitting bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet, for 1 minute (as if concentrating on a spell). Additionally, you and creatures of your choice in the bright light can deal an extra 1d6 radiant damage the first time it makes a damage roll for an attack or spell on its turn.

Event Horizon. You blot out incoming light. You cast the darkness spell centred on your position, without using a spell slot or material components. The source of the darkness is a Small sized floating bead, which cannot be moved but can be covered. When you cast in this way, you can see through the darkness created by the spell.

Warlock

The warlock recieves new features and subclasses in this section.

Otherworldly Patrons

At 1st level, a warlock gains the Otherworldly Patron feature, which offers you the choice of a subclass. This collection offers the following options for you to choose from: Artificial Intelligence and Capitalist.

Pact of Knowledge

Your patron has allowed you access to its vast repository of knowledge. You gain proficiency in three skills of your choice, which can also be tool proficiencies. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can choose to change one of the proficiencies gained from this feature with another.

Pact of the Mind

Your patron unlocks the untapped potential of your mind, giving you the following benefits:

• You learn the mage hand cantrip, which doesn’t count against the number of warlock cantrips you know. You can cast it without verbal or somatic components, and you can make the spectral hand invisible. If you already know this spell, its range increases by 30 feet when you cast it.
• As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. You can speak to it telepathically for 1 minute while within this range. You must share a language for the creature to understand you; this doesn't give the creature the ability to respond to you telepathically. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and you regain expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Otherworldly Comprehension

Prerequisite: 9th-level warlock, Pact of Knowledge feature

You can cast skill empowerment once on yourself without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Subconscious Scream

Prerequisite: 9th-level warlock, Pact of the Mind feature, Psion Waves invocation

Whenever you cast a spell that deals psychic damage, you can add your Charisma modifier to one damage roll of the spell (minimum of +1).

In addition, when dealing psychic damage using a spell, you can forgo rolling and deal maximum damage. You must finish a long rest before you can use this benefit again.

Overseeing Presence

Prerequisite: 12th-level warlock, Pact of Knowledge feature, Voice of Guidance invocation

When you take the Help action on your turn, you can choose a creature within 30 feet of you as long as it can see or hear you.

Mind Drinker

Prerequisite: 12th-level warlock, Pact of the Mind feature, synaptic static spell

When you cast synaptic static, you can modify the spell so that if a creature fails its saving throw, it rolls a d8 instead of a d6, subtracting the number rolled whenever it makes an attack roll or ability check, as well as its Constitution saving throws to maintain concentration on a spell. You must finish a long rest before you can use this benefit again.

Null Desire

Prerequisite: 15th-level warlock

You are immune to being charmed or frightened.

Truthsayer

Prerequisite: 15th-level warlock

You can cast zone of truth at will, without expending a spell slot.

Visual Calculus

Prerequisite: 15th-level warlock, Pact of Knowledge feature

When you or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, you can use your reaction to ignore the die roll and decide whether the number rolled is the minimum needed to succeed or one less than that number (your choice). You must finish a long rest before you can use this benefit again.

Strength of Mind

Prerequisite: 15th-level warlock, Pact of the Mind feature

You can cast telekinesis without using a spell slot. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a short or long rest.

Boots of the Earth

Wondrous Item, Uncommon (Requires Attunement)

These boots have 5 charges and regain 1d4 + 1 charges daily at dawn. While wearing these boots, you gain tremorsense out to a range of 10 feet as long as you are standing on rock, dirt, or soil. You can also cast the mold earth cantrip at will, or expend 1 charge as an action to cast the earth tremor spell (save DC 12).

Boots of Sudden Impact

Wondrous Item, Rare

While wearing these boots, when you’re falling from a distance no higher than 200 feet, you can use your reaction to immediately fall to the ground. When you do, you take no fall damage, and each creature within 10 feet of you when you land must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes bludgeoning damage equal to the fall damage you would have otherwise taken and falls prone. On a successful save, it takes half damage and doesn’t fall prone. After you use this reaction, you have a speed of 0 until the end of your next turn.

Clairvoyant Stones

Wondrous Item, Uncommon

These magic stones come in pairs, with each stone in a pair carved sporting a different colour and pattern to make it harder to identify matching pairs. While you touch one stone, you can use an action to cast the clairvoyance spell from it. The sensor is the other stone, which turns invisible when the spell is cast.

Once clairvoyance is cast through the stones, they can't be used again until the next dawn. If one of the stones in a pair is destroyed, the other one becomes nonmagical.

Pinprick of Deterrence

Wondrous Item, Uncommon

This tiny pin can be magically affixed to nonmagical objects no larger than Small, or on part of an object that serves to grant access to something (such as a door knob or a secret lever on a bookshelf). When you do so, the pin turns invisible and can’t be removed. When a creature other than you touches the object, the pin activates and the sleep spell is cast on it. If the creature falls unconscious, it does so for 1 hour or until it takes damage or is shaken awake. A creature can succeed on a DC 14 Intelligence (Investigation) check to spot the pin. Once the pin is used in this way, it disappears and leaves no trace.

Potion of Adrenaline

Wondrous Item, Rare

When you drink this potion, you gain 4d4 + 4 temporary hit points which lasts for 1 minute. Once during this duration, if you are brought down to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you instead drop to 1 hit point instead.

Positron Bow

Weapon (Any Bow), Very Rare (Requires Attunement)

This magic weapon is marked with carvings of lightning bolts and is infused with crackling energy. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.

The bow has 7 charges and regains 1d6 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the weapon, you can use a bonus action to expend 1 or more of the bow’s charges to cast lightning arrow (save DC 16). You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend.

If you expend the last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the bow’s engravings disappear and it turns into a nonmagical weapon.

Railgun

Weapon (Firearm), Legendary (Requires Attunement)

This ranged magic weapon has an elongated barrel and is made entirely out of composite magic metals. The weapon also sports an oversized stock so that a creature can firmly press the weapon against its shoulder to take the full brunt of its recoil. The weapon requires no ammunition.

The weapon has a normal range of 1000 feet and no long range, and it has the heavy and two-handed properties. The weapon ignores all cover, and deals 1d12 piercing damage on a hit (you still make an attack roll with disadvantage if you can’t see a creature behind total cover). In addition, the weapon ignores resistance to piercing damage. Hit or miss, the target and each creature within 15 feet of it must make a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 3d8 thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

You can use an action to cast the catapult spell from the weapon as a 9th-level spell (save DC 18) as the weapon magically creates an object used for the spell. Once this property is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Spell Descriptions

The spells in this collection are presented in alphabetical order, separated by spell level.

Backdoor

2nd-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a door handle)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 8 hours

You implant a strand of your magical energy inside someone’s mind. You choose a creature you can see within range to make a Charisma saving throw, and it does so with advantage if it is hostile to you or your companions. On a failed save, you plant a piece of your magical energy inside its mind. On a successful save, the target knows you tried to access its mind, and it can sense the direction to your location for 1 minute.

As an action, while the spell lasts, you can use an action to see and hear through its senses for up to 1 minute. While perceiving through the creature’s senses, you gain the benefits of any special senses possessed by that creature, though you are blinded and deafened to your own surroundings. When you return to your own senses, the spell ends.

3rd level

Blue Light

3rd-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: S, M (an unlit torch and a blue quartz worth 10 gp)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You momentarily fill a 30-foot cube within range with intense fractals of glowing blue light. Each creature in the area who sees the light must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature breaks its concentration if it was already concentrating. It also can’t fall unconscious for the next 24 hours, unless it’s from the result of a spell. The creature doesn’t gain the benefits of a short or long rest when it fails its saving throw against the spell.

A creature can only be affected by one instance of the spell. If an affected creature fails its saving throw against a new instance of the spell, the time it takes before it can fall unconscious again is reset. Casting the lesser restoration spell on an affected creature removes the spell’s effects.

Rupturing Blast

3rd-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (30-foot cone)
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You clap your hands and unleash a wave of sonic energy in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 4d8 thunder damage, is pushed back 10 feet, and falls prone. It is also deafened until the end of your next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage, and suffers none of the other effects.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 3rd.

Advanced Backdoor

5th-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a door handle and a key)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 24 hours

You implant a strand of your magical energy inside someone’s mind. You choose a creature you can see within range to make a Charisma saving throw, and it does so with advantage if it is hostile to you or your companions. On a failed save, you plant a piece of your magical energy inside its mind. On a successful save, the target knows you tried to access its mind, and it can sense the direction to your location for 1 minute.

As an action, while the spell lasts, you can use an action to see and hear through the target’s senses for up to 1 hour, all at once or in several shorter sessions, each one using a minimum of 1 minute from the duration. While perceiving through the target’s senses, you gain the benefits of any special senses possessed by it, though you are blinded and deafened to your own surroundings. You can return to your own senses as an action.

6th level

Mass Clairvoyance

6th-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 1 mile
• Components: V, S, M (a focus worth at least 300 gp, either a jeweled horn for hearing or a glass eye for seeing)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

You create up to three invisible sensors within range in locations familiar to you (a place you have visited or seen before) or in an obvious location that is unfamiliar to you (such as behind a door, around a corner, or in a grove of trees). The sensor remains in place for the duration, and it can't be attacked or otherwise interacted with.

When you cast the spell, you choose seeing or hearing and one of the invisible sensors. You can use the chosen sense through the chosen sensor as if you were in its space. As an action, you can both switch between seeing and hearing, and between any of the sensors you’ve created.

A creature that can see the sensor (such as a creature benefiting from see invisibility or truesight) sees a luminous, intangible orb about the size of your fist.

    At the end of the blast, a mushroom cloud 400 feet tall emerges from its epicentre. Additionally, each creature and object in the spell’s area that isn’t buried or securely fastened must make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature or object is hurled up to 30 feet away from the blast and lands prone, taking 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet travelled.

Classes: Sorcerer, Wizard