Credits

  Lead Designer: Phil Robinson
  Additional Writing for Chapter 4: James Ager, Ernest L,
  Cameron MacAskill, robbdylanc, Nicole Robinson, Sue
  Robinson, Indy Tsang

  Editor: Indy Tsang

  Art Direction: Phil Robinson
  Gourmet Icon Design: Nicole Robinson
  Gourmet Icon Graphics: Adriano Emerick
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  Cover Illustrator: Hồ Tiến Quang
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  especially to my players for years of great games and great
  bravery in being the first to taste test the fruits of my labor;
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  project, not to mention many others; to my magnificent and
  generous wife, Nicole, for all the lent ears and great ideas
  over so many years; and to Nova, star-powered little pirate
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  ready to be tended to. Where would I be without any of you?

  Playtesters: James Ager (or "The Fabulous and Enticingly
  Enigmatic Blaahu Blaa, Legendary Founder of the Society
  of the Questing Knives"), "Modo", Enrico, Ernest L as
  "Pepper" & others, mitrelef as Fhearghachd as "Madam
  Zara", "Ggg the Gathering Goblin Gourmet", Grainne,
  Hannah, Josh Humphries, "Petrichor" and his many trifles,
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  "Vostock Iakobashvili", Andrew Wheate, Christina Wheate

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Quick Build

You can make a gourmet quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Constitution your highest ability score. Your next highest score should be Wisdom. Finally, choose either the Folk Hero or Guild Artisan background.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d12 per gourmet level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 12 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d12 (or 7) + your Constitution
• modifier per gourmet level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, shields.
• Weapons: Simple weapons, tridents, nets.
• Tools: Cook’s utensils.
• Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose three from Animal Handling, Insight,
• Medicine, Nature, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, or Survival.

Starting Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) five daggers, or (b) a simple weapon of your choice.
• (a) an explorer’s pack, or (b) a diplomat’s pack.
• A set of padded armor and a shield.
• A set of cook’s utensils, an iron pot, and 10 days of rations.

If you forgo this starting equipment, as well as the items offered by your background, you start with 3d4 x 10 gp to buy your equipment.

Class Features

As a gourmet, you gain the following class features, which are summarized in the Gourmet table.

Guts

1st-level gourmet feature

When a creature you can see attacks a target that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to interpose yourself between the attack and its intended target, making yourself the target of the attack roll instead. You must make this decision before the attack is determined to hit or miss.

Stock Up

1st-level gourmet feature

A good cook wastes not and wants not. Your ingredients come not only from the pantry, but also from the creatures you encounter on your adventures. As a gourmet, you build up a stock of special dice called Ingredient Dice by harvesting slain creatures. These dice fuel your other abilities, detailed later in this class.

At the end of a long rest, you gain a number of ingredient dice equal to twice your proficiency bonus, which are d6s. At 6th level, these ingredient dice turn into d8s. At 14th level, they turn into d10s.

With cook’s utensils, a dagger, or a weapon that deals slashing damage in hand, you can begin the process of harvesting additional ingredient dice from the remains of a creature within 5 feet of you, so long as it died within the last 24 hours and is one of the following types of creature: aberration, beast, dragon, elemental, fiend, fey, giant, humanoid, monstrosity, ooze, or plant. The process takes 1 minute per creature, at the end of which you gain an ingredient die equal to the size of its Hit Dice.

For example, if you harvest a Tiny creature, you gain 1d4 as an ingredient die. If the creature is Small, you gain 1d6, and so on. Ingredient dice serve as the key components of your dishes. It is assumed that you combine them with other sundries that you gather on your journey.

The maximum number of ingredient dice you can store is shown in the Stock column of the Gourmet table. If you exceed your Stock maximum when you gain a new ingredient die, you must choose ingredient dice in your stock to discard until you no longer exceed it.

Adding Ingredients to your Stock

Unlike a class feature such as Bardic Inspiration, your Stock isn't necessarily replenished to its maximum upon completing a short or long rest. Therefore, it is important for both players and DMs looking to use the Gourmet to consider the ease of access to this resource. If a campaign is unlikely to feature many creatures to harvest, consider allowing alternate methods to gather ingredients. Fresh stock could be bought in town, for example.

Campfire Cook

1st-level gourmet feature

Your culinary skills are crucial to extending the stamina of your companions. Luckily, you have learnt to cook almost anywhere.

As long as you have access to your cook's utensils at the end of a long rest, you can expend any number of ingredient dice in your Stock to create a meal. A meal comprises a pool of temporary hit points equal to the total number rolled on the expended ingredient dice + your Wisdom modifier. Choose any number of friendly creatures (which can include yourself) within 30 feet of you to partake of the meal. You serve a number of temporary hit points to each creature from your meal as you see fit. A single creature can gain a maximum number of temporary hit points per meal equal to 5 x your gourmet level. Temporary hit points served from your meal last until the start of a creature's next long rest.

As you gain levels in this class, the quality of your cooking will improve and the value of your meal will multiply, as shown in the Meal Multiplier column of the Gourmet table. Apply this multiplier when determining the total number of temporary hit points in one of your meals.

For example, as an 5th-level gourmet with a Wisdom score of 17, you might roll 7 ingredient dice of varying sizes for a total of 27 points. Adding your Wisdom modifier of 3 brings this to a total of 30 points, before you apply your Meal Multiplier for a pool totaling 60 temporary hit points. To three different creatures, you choose to grant 15, 20, and 25 temporary hit points respectively.

Culinary Specialty

2nd-level gourmet feature

Choose a culinary specialty: Aberrant Cuisine, Beast Cuisine, Cannibal Cuisine, Capricious Cuisine, Elemental Cuisine, Gelatinous Cuisine, Hellish Cuisine, Industrial Cuisine, Monstrous Cuisine, Ordning Cuisine, Quartermaster's Cuisine, Rare Cuisine, or Vegetarian Cuisine, each of which is detailed after the class’s description. Your choice grants you features at 6th level, and again at 10th and 14th level.

Chef's Technique

2nd-level gourmet feature

Cleavers, knives, or tenderizers: a good cook uses their tools with precision. Choose either bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage. You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with melee weapons that deal your chosen damage type.

In addition, your proficiency bonus is now doubled for any ability check you make that uses your proficiency with cook's utensils.

Discerning Taste

3rd-level gourmet feature

You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks that rely on taste or smell in regard to prepared food or drink.

Lunch Rush

3rd-level gourmet feature

You can take charge of a busy situation with decisive momentum. Instead of moving as normal on your turn, you can convert your movement into a bold rush. The path of your rush is a straight line equal in width to your space and equal in length to your movement speed. Every creature in the line must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier) or be knocked prone. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity. While rushing, you ignore difficult terrain created by moving through a creature’s space, but walls and other solid surfaces arrest your momentum.

Starting at 5th level, you can choose to expend one ingredient die when making your Lunch Rush. Any creature that fails its save and is knocked prone takes bludgeoning damage equal to the number rolled on the expended die.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses at the end of a long rest.

Ability Score Improvement

4th-level gourmet feature

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

Fodder Break

5th-level gourmet feature

You can now quickly prepare small meals and snacks to refuel your companions throughout the day. During a short rest, you can expend an ingredient die to grant a friendly creature within 30 feet of you temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier + the number rolled on the expended ingredient die. The temporary hit points created by this meal do not replace those granted by your Campfire Cook feature, but instead are added to them. You can bolster up to six creatures this way per short rest, expending one ingredient die per creature.

Epicurean Physique

5th-level gourmet feature

Your adventurous diet has made you remarkably robust. You become immune to poison and disease from ingested sources.

In addition, at the start of each of your turns you can choose one of the following benefits. The benefit you choose lasts until the start of your next turn:

• Robust Blows. By throwing your weight behind your blows, you can add your Constitution modifier to the damage rolls of your melee attacks.
• Sturdy Defense. By tensing yourself to withstand punishment, you can reduce the damage you take from weapon attacks by an amount equal to your Constitution modifier.

Wine & Dine

7th-level gourmet feature

You are able to exploit the natural bonhomie shared between those who break bread. While eating a meal at the same table, or within similar proximity to, another creature with an Intelligence score of 8 or higher, you gain advantage on Wisdom (Insight) or Charisma (Persuasion) checks made against that creature.

Hustle

7th-level gourmet feature

You will ignore minor pains common to the kitchen and the battlefield when time is of the essence. You gain resistance to acid, cold, and fire damage if you have moved since the beginning of your last turn.

Varied Palate

9th-level gourmet feature

You gain proficiency in one new skill of your choice.

In addition, choose one type of creature detailed in the Stock Up class feature. You gain two ingredient dice, instead of one, when harvesting from this creature type.

Gusto

10th-level gourmet feature

A creature that partakes of a meal created using your Campfire Cook feature has its exhaustion level, if any, decreased by 1.

Breakfast of Kings

11th-level gourmet feature

You can expend 8 ingredient dice to cast the heroes’ feast spell, without needing material components. When you do so, you can choose to expend an additional ingredient die for each creature partaking of the feast to grant advantage to all Charisma saving throws as part of the feast’s benefits.

Baker's Dozen

13th-level gourmet feature

You can treat any d12 or d20 roll of 12 as a 13.

Great Gusto

15th-level gourmet feature

A creature that partakes of a meal created using your Campfire Cook feature now has its exhaustion level, if any, decreased by 2.

Seasoned Adventurer

17th-level gourmet feature

Your vast experience grants you proficiency in Wisdom and Dexterity saving throws.

Secret Ingredient

18th-level gourmet feature

When you roll initiative and have no ingredient dice remaining, you regain 1 ingredient die. Roll a d6 to determine its size according to the table below:

d6 Roll	Ingredient Die
1	d4
2	d6
3	d8
4	d10
5	d12
6	d20

Way to the Heart

20th-level gourmet feature

You can reinvigorate your well-fed companions with a rousing display of bravery. As an action once per long rest, you can immediately grant temporary hit points equal to 10 x your Wisdom modifier to any friendly creatures that can see you within 120 feet, so long as they retain at least 1 temporary hit point granted by your Campfire Cook or Fodder Break features. These temporary hit points replace those granted by your other gourmet features.

Culinary Specialty

Every gourmet personalizes their craft. They may have been formally trained in a particular style of regional cuisine, or they might simply let their own tastes guide their work. As adventurers, gourmets often find that their skill sets translate into an affinity with preparing different kinds of creatures. Gourmets value novel experiences, with no two exactly alike in style. Nonetheless, they will generally fall into one of the categories described below.

Aberrant Cuisine

Starting off a little strange, yes: but the amuse-bouche is meant to excite the palate.

                HIPPOCAMPER

All gourmets have adventurous appetites. Those who chase the taste of aberrant cuisine push the palate beyond ordinary comprehension. They are fascinated by the possibilities of strange or otherworldly foods that rarely find their way onto the Material Plane. These cooks are often obsessive about recording the details of their dives into the unknown, though such recipes are unlikely to be written in a legible hand, or to be recognized as edible at all. Many gourmets of this ilk exude an unsettling, invasive air. A steady diet of foodstuffs outside of mortal comprehension can wreak bizarre changes to the tastebuds... and the mind.

Unorthodox Palate

2nd-level Aberrant Cuisine feature

Your preferences have resulted in particular skill when it comes to hunting and harvesting aberrations. You gain two ingredient dice, instead of one, when harvesting from a creature with the aberration tag.

Esoteric Method

2nd-level Aberrant Cuisine feature

You follow your tastes down a peculiar path that leaves common wisdom far behind. Whenever a gourmet feature uses your Wisdom modifier, you can use your Intelligence modifier instead.

Parasitic Delicacy

2nd-level Aberrant Cuisine feature

Your meals host an unearthly component that lingers in the body. Friendly creatures that partake of a meal created using your Campfire Cook feature form a shared mental network with one another that lasts 12 hours, or until the start of your next long rest. They can communicate telepathically with other creatures that consumed the meal up to a range equal to your Intelligence modifier x 100 feet (minimum 0). Creatures with an Intelligence score of 2 or less are unable to join the network.

As an action while your network is active, you can expend an ingredient die to detect creatures that can be harvested using your Stock Up feature. You learn the location, as well as the type, of any such creature within 60 feet of you. The probe can penetrate barriers, but 2 feet of rock, 2 inches of any metal other than lead, or a thin sheet of lead blocks you.

False Hunger

6th-level Aberrant Cuisine feature

You learn to trigger the panic of starvation in your foes by invading their sensory centers with psychic tastes and smells. When a hostile creature moves within 10 feet of you for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make an

Acquired Taste

6th-level Aberrant Cuisine feature

Your palate has developed enough to take in psychic flavours as well as physical ones. When you are harvesting from a creature, you can forgo adding any ingredient dice to your stock and instead instantly consume part of that creature, gaining some of its recent memories. You can choose one of the creature’s skill proficiencies, if it had any, and substitute its bonuses for your own for 1 hour. For up to 10 minutes after consumption, you can explore the memories of events that the target experienced within the last 24 hours. You can hone in on particular events that lasted no more than 10 minutes in detail. Otherwise, you gain a general summary of the creature’s experiences. You can recall what you learned afterwards as accurately as if accessing your own memories.

Substitute

10th-level Aberrant Cuisine feature

When a creature that forms part of your Parasitic Delicacy network is forced to make an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, they can choose to use the save modifier of any other creature currently in the network in place of their own. Multiple creatures can choose the same modifier to use at the same time.

Saves can be substituted in this way a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 0). If multiple creatures substitute a save at the same time, each creature expends a use of this feature. You regain all expended uses after completing a long rest.

Brain Food

14th-level Aberrant Cuisine feature

Your unusual diet has wrought permanent changes upon your mind. You become immune to hostile telepathy. If a creature attempts to breach your mind or contact you telepathically without prior consent, you become aware of this, as well as the general direction and distance to the source of the signal, but are otherwise unaffected.

In addition, your Intelligence score increase by 2. Your Intelligence score maximum is now 22.

Beast Cuisine

Simple, salty, satisfying. Sign me up.

                HIPPOCAMPER

Chefs who choose this specialty favor rustic, countryside cooking: luscious roasts, thick-cut bacon butties, soups, stews, and barbeques. They are often expert hunters as well as cooks, and excel in identifying and tracking the finest game to serve as a centerpiece. Guests to such a gourmet's table leave feeling fit to burst and as strong as an ox.

 A human beast gourmet
 nets the catch of the day

Carnivore's Palate

2nd-level Beast Cuisine feature

Your preferences have resulted in particular skill when it comes to hunting and harvesting beasts. You gain two ingredient dice, instead of one, when harvesting from a creature with the beast tag.

Hearty Meals

2nd-level Beast Cuisine feature

Whenever a creature receives temporary hit points from one of your gourmet features, it can immediately expend 5 temporary hit points to decrease its exhaustion level by 1. Multiple levels of exhaustion can be cured simultaneously, with temporary hit points expended separately for each level.

Bait Quarry

2nd-level Beast Cuisine feature

You use hunting techniques to help secure foes. When you intercept an attack using your Guts feature, you can expend an ingredient die to immediately grapple the attacking creature, so long as you would ordinarily be able to do so.

When you are grappling a creature, you can use the Attack action to make a special melee attack and attempt to restrain it with a rope, chain, trap, or similar. If you’re able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them. Make a Wisdom (Animal Handling) check contested by the target’s Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics). If you succeed, the target is restrained. The effect persists even if you release your hold on the creature. The creature can use an action to attempt to break free, as if from a grapple, by contesting your original roll again. On a success, it is no longer restrained.

Extra Attack

6th-level Beast Cuisine feature

You can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Wild Roast

6th-level Beast Cuisine feature

Your cooking enriches the natural succulence of your protein-packed ingredients. When you create a meal using your Campfire Cook feature, you can choose one effect of the enhance ability spell. A number of creatures of your choice equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of 1) that partake of the meal gain this effect. The effect does not require concentration to maintain, and persists so long as a creature retains temporary hit points from your meal. If the Bear’s Endurance effect is chosen, the 2d6 additional temporary hit points are rolled separately for each creature affected, and are added to the total of temporary hit points they receive from your meal.

Starting at 10th level, you can choose a different effect of the spell to grant to each creature that partakes of the meal.

Game Cook

10th-level Beast Cuisine feature

Your talents as hunter and cook are equally honed. When you hit a creature of a type you are able to harvest with a weapon attack, you can opt to target its vital points and prematurely expend its ingredient die, adding the number rolled + your gourmet level to your total damage for the attack. An ingredient die targeted in this way cannot be harvested later.

If the creature you target is of a type that you can harvest two ingredient dice from, instead of one, you can prematurely expend one or both dice when targeting it with this feature.

Choice Cuts

14th-level Beast Cuisine feature

You now treat creatures as one size larger for the purposes of harvesting or prematurely expending ingredient dice. For example, Tiny creatures now offer 1d6, Small creatures 1d8, and so on. The size of an ingredient die cannot exceed d20.

Cannibal Cuisine

No sense in being squeamish about these things.

                HIPPOCAMPER

Some societies, including the cold-minded Lizardfolk, have normalized the practice of eating other humanoids. These cultures are few and far-between ‐ most civilizations agree it is one of the ultimate taboos. But desperation creates strong stomachs, and icy hearts. Individuals with a talent for cooking can become grim gourmets when faced with starvation. Some pursue this craft purposefully, as the butchers and blood-ministers of cults or communities dedicated to wicked gods. Whatever the path taken ‐ neutral, regrettable, or reprehensible ‐ the genuine skill of a cannibal gourmet must be acknowledged. From a questionable pantry, they can cook up recipes that are worryingly moreish.

Grisly Palate

2nd-level Cannibal Cuisine feature

Your preferences have resulted in particular skill when it comes to hunting and harvesting humanoids. You gain two ingredient dice, instead of one, when harvesting from a creature with the humanoid tag.

Personal Chef

2nd-level Cannibal Cuisine feature

You learn how to shadow a target you have marked for consumption. As a bonus action, choose a creature that you can see within 120 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Wisdom (Insight) check (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier). On a failure, the target is marked by your bloodlust for 24 hours. A marked target has disadvantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Wisdom (Perception) checks related to you. Once per turn when you hit the marked target with a weapon attack, you can immediately make a second attack against the same target as part of the same action. If necessary, you draw a new weapon or piece of ammunition as part of this attack. This attack is a critical hit on a roll of 19 or higher.

The target ceases being marked if it dies, you mark another creature, or if you choose to release it as a bonus action.

You can use this feature twice. You regain all expended uses at the end of a short or long rest.

Cannibal's Craving

2nd-level Cannibal Cuisine feature

When you are harvesting from a creature, you can forgo adding an ingredient die to your stock and instead instantly consume it, recovering a number of hit points equal to the number rolled on the consumed ingredient die + your Constitution modifier.

 Dragonborn cannibal Vostock Iakobashvili, trusty
 cleaver in hand, eyes up his next meal

Taste for Blood

6th-level Cannibal Cuisine feature

Creatures that you feed gain an enhanced appetite for violence until the start of their next long rest. Once per turn, when a creature that has partaken of your most recent Campfire Cook meal misses an attack against a target within 30 feet and the target is missing any of its hit points, the creature can reroll its attack against that target.

Hungry Stare

6th-level Cannibal Cuisine feature

Try though you might, sometimes your predilections can be hard to hide. It is evident when you have hunger on the brain. If you have not eaten for 4 hours or more, you gain advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks against humanoids.

Butcher's Mentality

10th-level Cannibal Cuisine feature

Your mind is by now completely dissociated from the horrors you see inflicted by your own blades. When you deal damage to a creature with an attack, you gain resistance to psychic damage and gain a +1 bonus to your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws until the start of your next turn.

Voracious

14th-level Cannibal Cuisine feature

Your hunger for blood has become equal to that of a berserker. If the second attack granted by your Personal Chef feature is a critical hit, you can expend an ingredient die to make a third attack against the same target as part of the same action. If necessary, you draw a new weapon or piece of ammunition as part of this attack. This attack is a critical hit on a roll of 18 or higher.

Capricious Cuisine

Delights, ah, and dangers both in the realms of the Fey, whether that's a court or a kitchen. Yet so worth the risk.

                HIPPOCAMPER

The power to charm, to manipulate, is a tempting reward for the years required to learn a fine craft. Some gourmets seek just such opportunities. They use their culinary skills to practice a kind of black magic, constructing alluring feasts and blending potions of ill intent. These cooks know that the fruits of the conniving fey are the secret to many double-edged delights. They also emulate the tricky nature of such creatures: drawing in, pampering, and deceiving their patrons with the subtle spice of sylvan magic... always ready to turn on them the moment a tantalizing advantage presents itself.

Decadent Palate

2nd-level Capricious Cuisine feature

Your preferences have resulted in particular skill when it comes to hunting and harvesting fey. You gain two ingredient dice, instead of one, when harvesting from a creature with the fey tag.

Witches' Brew

2nd-level Capricious Cuisine feature

You have a talent for tricking guests invited to your table. You gain proficiency with the poisoner's kit. By spending thirty minutes with your cook's utensils and either alchemist's supplies, a herbalism kit, or a poisoner's kit, you can create a meal using the same method as your Campfire Cook feature, and secretly fill it with bewitching poisons. The meal’s value equals half of its usual total (rounded down).

Up to six creatures of your choice that partake of the meal must make a Constitution saving throw against (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier). On a success, a creature notices a bad taste in the food but is otherwise unaffected. On a failure, a creature is charmed by you for a number of hours equal to your Wisdom modifier, or until you or your companions do anything harmful to it. The charmed creature regards you as a good friend. In addition, the meal’s value is subtracted from a creature’s maximum hit points for the duration. When the effect ends, the creature knows it was charmed by you.

The meals true contents can be revealed by a detect poison and disease spell, but cannot be guarded against by effects such as protection from poison or purify food and drink.

  A capricious gourmet
  draws attention with
  one hand, and her blade
  with the other

Beckoning Aroma

2nd-level Capricious Cuisine feature

Alchemical Gastromancy

2nd-level Elemental Cuisine feature

Sticky Hands

2nd-level Gelatinous Cuisine feature

Whenever you create a meal using your Campfire Cook feature, you gain a climb speed equal to your walking speed that lasts for 8 hours. You can cling to and move upside down along ceilings while climbing. You also gain advantage on Strength or Dexterity checks and saving throws made to grab or keep hold of an object for the duration.

As an action, you can give these benefits of this feature to a creature that you touch. The shared benefit lasts for 1 hour. Once you extend this benefit to another creature, you can’t do so again until you next use your Campfire Cook feature, or unless you choose to give up your own benefits to do so.

                     A solo raspberry trifle
                     prowls for leftover morsels

Mold Master

2nd-level Gelatinous Cuisine feature

You can use your cook’s utensils to create living jellies of your own. During a short or long rest, you can expend ingredient dice to create a pool of hit points using the same method as your Campfire Cook feature. From this pool, you draw hit points to create one or more batches of sickly trifles. A batch appears in an unoccupied space on a horizontal or vertical surface within 5 feet of you. This creature is a Medium swarm of Tiny oozes, and uses the batch of sickly trifles stat block. When you create a batch, choose a flavor: Rubbery, Sour, or Sticky Sweet. The trifles in a batch have their appearance influenced by the chosen flavor, which determines one of the traits in the batch's stat block. Trifles disappear when a batch drops to 0 hit points, and can't be harvested for ingredient dice.

When you use your Campfire Cook feature, you can also create batches of sickly trifles by converting 5 or more temporary hit points from the meal into hit points for a batch.

A batch lasts until the start of your next long rest. The maximum number of batches you can control at once is equal to your proficiency bonus. If you create a new batch while at this maximum, the oldest batch immediately dissolves.

On each of your turns, you can take a bonus action to command any batches you control to move up to their speed and take actions from their stat block. If not commanded, the batches do nothing.

A batch of trifles can be carried in a vessel appropriate for a Tiny creature until commanded to move with its own speed.

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Batch of Sickly Trifles

Medium swarm of Tiny oozes, neutral

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• Armor Class 8
• Hit Points equals your gourmet level + 5 or more hit points allocated from your pool
• Speed 10 ft, climb 10 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	6 (-2)	12 (+1)	1 (-5)	6 (-2)	1 (-5)

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• Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire, piercing, poison, psychic, slashing
• Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone
• Senses Blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), Passive Perception 8
• Languages understands only your commands
• Challenge __   Proficiency Bonus equals your bonus

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Amorphous Swarm. The batch can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and it can't gain hit points or temporary hit points. The batch can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Spider Climb. The batch can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

(Sour Only). The batch adds your proficiency bonus to the damage it deals, and hit points it loses, when it uses its Slather action to successfully slather a creature.

(Sticky Sweet Only). Every foot of movement while in the batch's space costs 1 extra foot.

Actions

Slather. The batch moves up to its speed. Whenever the batch enters a creature's space, the trifles attempt to cover the creature in the slime that makes up their own bodies. The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier). On a failed save, the creature takes 1d4 + your Wisdom modifier acid damage, and is slathered. The slathered creature has its speed reduced by 10 feet and gains disadvantage on ability checks until someone takes an action to wipe off the offending slime. The batch loses hit points equal to the number rolled on the d4 whenever it successfully slathers a creature.

Congeal (Rubbery Only). The batch moves up to its speed. If the batch ends its movement in an unoccupied space, the trifles gather into a wobbling mass and lose their Amorphous Swarm property. Before the end of your next turn, a creature can bounce off the congealed trifles to double its jump distance. The impact returns the batch to its usual form.

Bellyful of Jelly

6th-level Gelatinous Cuisine feature

Forked Tongue

2nd-level Hellish Cuisine feature

You have cajoled your way to culinary prowess by the force of your personality. Whenever a gourmet feature uses your Wisdom modifier, you can use your Charisma modifier instead.

You can also speak, read, and write Infernal. Whenever you make a Charisma (Persuasion) check concerning the negotiation of a deal or the exchange of goods, you gain advantage on the check.

Pact Lunch

2nd-level Hellish Cuisine feature

Your meals carry within them an unspoken contract, agreed and entered into between those that share the food. All creatures that partake of your Campfire Cook meal are bonded in an invisible pact with each other and yourself until the end of their next long rest. When a creature that forms part of this pact hits a target with an attack, it can choose to steal 5 temporary hit points from any creature in the pact, other than you, within 120 feet of itself, to increase the damage of that attack by 1d8.

Starting at 10th level, up to 2d8 extra damage can be added to the attack. At 14th level, up to 3d8 can be added. Each additional d8 costs a further 5 temporary hit points.

Any creature, including yourself, that is part of the pact when it dies and is not revived within 1 minute has its soul claimed by your hellish tutor for use in the Nine Hells.

Signature Dish

6th-level Hellish Cuisine feature

Your powers of culinary commerce now further enable the spread of your tutor's influence. Whenever you create a meal using your Campfire Cook feature, you gain resistance to damage of the type associated with your hellish tutor. The resistance lasts until the start of your next long rest.

One willing creature that partakes of your meal can choose to give up resistance to a damage type it permanently benefits from and gain the benefits of this resistance instead. If you agree to the exchange, you lose the benefits of this resistance and gain the benefits given up by the other creature. The exchange lasts until the start of your next long rest.

If you later grant the same creature temporary hit points again with a gourmet feature, you can choose to swap back the exchanged resistances at the same time.

Hellforged Utensils

6th-level Hellish Cuisine feature

You learn to perform a ritual that exchanges one weapon you carry for another crafted in the forges of your hellish tutor’s circle. You perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be taken during a short rest. The weapon must be within your reach throughout the ritual, at the conclusion of which the weapon vanishes, and is replaced with an exact copy that was spawned in the Nine Hells.

The hellforged weapon is magical for the purposes of overcoming resistances and immunities while you wield it. If you deal additional damage with a weapon attack using the hellforged weapon due to your Robust Blows, that damage becomes the type associated with your hellish tutor.

 You can exchange a number of weapons in this way equal to your proficiency bonus. If you try to exceed your maximum number of exchanged weapons, the oldest exchanged weapon immediately vanishes to be replaced by its mundane counterpart, and then the new exchange takes place.

Bottomless Pit

10th-level Hellish Cuisine feature

As an action, you offer your own temporary hit points as a sacrifice to attract the appetite of a powerful fiend associated with your tutor. Expend a number of your own temporary hit points of your choice to summon a black portal that forces its way through the planes in a 15-foot-radius, 60-foot-high cylinder centered on a point you can see within 60 feet of you. The inside of the portal is in complete magical darkness that cannot be dispelled, and from within it emanates the hungry calls of some powerful denizen of the Nine Hells. Its space is considered difficult terrain. The portal holds a well of hit points equal to 3 x the number of temporary hit points you sacrificed. It has an AC of 8 + your Charisma modifier and automatically fails all saving throws. It is immune to all conditions, as well as damage of the type associated with your hellish tutor.

A creature that can see the portal within 120 feet of it must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) when it attempts to make an attack or cast a harmful spell. On a failure, any attacks or harmful spells it makes must be directed at the portal. Creatures that are bonded with you through your Pact Lunch feature are immune to this effect.

The portal persists for 1 minute, or until its well of hit points is depleted.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest before you can do so again.

Soul Food

14th-level Hellish Cuisine feature

A small slice of the soul exchange is now yours to barter. Whenever a creature that forms part of your Pact Lunch kills another creature, or dies itself, within 1 mile of your location, you feel the rush of its passing as a ringing in your own being. When this happens, you can expend an ingredient die as a reaction to trap the deceased creature’s soul, as if by the soul cage* spell. When it is cast this way, the spell can capture the soul of any creature of a type that can be harvested using your Stock Up feature. The spell traps the soul inside a small item of food created by the casting, and it remains trapped there for up to 24 hours, even once it has been fully exploited by the means of the spell.

At any time while the soul is trapped, you can expend a number of ingredient dice equal to the deceased creature’s total class level (if it has one) or CR to restore it to life in a new copy of its body. The restored creature appears unconscious in an empty space adjacent to you with 1 hit point. Otherwise, when the 24 hours are up, the soul is sent on to the appropriate level of the Nine Hells to be claimed by your tutor.

You can have a number of souls trapped equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1). If you attempt to trap a new soul while at your maximum, the attempt fails.

Preservative

10th-level Industrial Cuisine feature

Thanks to the proprietary additives in your recipe, creatures who partake of your Campfire Cook meal gain the effects of the death ward spell.

Industry Standard

14th-level Industrial Cuisine feature

You have perfected your on-the-go cooking methods to a degree of rigor that any food regulator would be proud of. When rolling more than one of the same size of ingredient die for your Campfire Cook feature or for any of your oven golem’s actions, you may pick one of the dice rolled and count all other dice of the same size as if they had rolled the same number.

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Oven Golem

Small construct, neutral

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• Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 2 + your Wisdom modifier + five times your gourmet level (the golem has a number of Hit Dice [d6s] equal to your gourmet level)
• Speed 20 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	6 (-2)	14 (+2)	6 (-2)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Saving Throws Con +2 plus PB, Cha plus PB
• Skills Athletics + 2 plus PB
• Damage Resistances fire
• Damage Immunities poison, psychic
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, poisoned, petrified
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages understands the languages you speak
• Challenge __   Proficiency Bonus (PB) equals your bonus

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Aura of Pleasant Warmth. While the golem is not inert, it constantly radiates the earthy heat of the hearth. It and creatures within 15 feet of it suffer no ill effects from cold climates, as described in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.

Limited Fire Absorption. Whenever the golem is subjected to fire damage, it can choose to expend one of its stored ingredient dice to take no damage and instead regain a number of hit points equal to the fire damage dealt.

Actions

Charred Shot (expend 1-3 stored ingredient dice). Ranged Weapon Attack: your Wisdom modifier + PB to hit, range 30/90 ft., one target you can see. Hit: number rolled on expended ingredient dice + PB fire damage.

Eezee Bake. The golem cooks any number of stored ingredient dice of the same size to transform them into golem-fired goodies, which can be retrieved by any friendly creature within 5 feet of it as an action. A golem-fired goodie is an edible object roughly the size of a bun. It lasts for 24 hours before becoming inedible. When consumed by a creature as an action, a goodie restores a number of hit points equal to your PB + a number rolled on the ingredient die used to create it.

Reactions

Smokescreen. When the golem takes damage as the result of an attack, it can expend one of its stored ingredient dice to create a 20-foot radius sphere of dark smoke centered on itself. The sphere spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured. It lasts for 1 minute or until a wind of moderate or greater speed (at least 10 miles per hour) disperses it. If the golem would be reduced to 0 hit points by the damage it takes, it can still choose to use this reaction before falling to 0 hit points.

Monstrous Cuisine

Hardy and resourceful cooks, these. They'll manage to rustle something up, come brain or spine.

                HIPPOCAMPER

In a world filled with strange and dangerous monsters, it only took so long for someone to ask: if you survived eating the sting of a manticore, what would it taste like? Gourmets who specialize in monster cuisine are tough (and often heavily-scarred) cooks who are as ready to wrestle gorgons as they are to knead dough. They are the first to try untested, possibly poisonous, ingredients, and dive into the lairs of local horrors without hesitation to source their meat. For them, the price of life or limb is no object in the pursuit of bold cooking.

Daredevil's Palate

2nd-level Monstrous Cuisine feature

Your preferences have resulted in particular skill when it comes to hunting and harvesting monstrosities. You gain two ingredient dice, instead of one, when harvesting from a creature with the monstrosity tag.

Bonus Proficiencies

2nd-level Monstrous Cuisine feature

You gain proficiency with medium armor and martial weapons.

Pungent Elxir

2nd-level Monstrous Cuisine feature

You learn to boil the glands and giblets of your foes down into a bracing bile reminiscent of troll oils. At the end of a long rest, you create a small, yellowish elixir in an empty flask or waterskin. The elixir lasts until the end of your next long rest. As a bonus action, you can consume the elixir to gain a regenerative effect that lasts for 1 minute. While the effect is active, you regain hit points equal to half your gourmet level at the start of each of your turns. If you take acid or fire damage, the regenerative effect doesn’t function at the start of your next turn. If you start your turn with 0 hit points and are able to regenerate, the effect ends immediately afterward.

If a creature other than yourself consumes one of your elixirs, they do not gain its effects, and must succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 hour.

Whet Appetite

6th-level Monstrous Cuisine feature

Whenever you expend ingredient dice during a short or long rest, you can use the leftovers to glaze a melee weapon with a poison which lasts for 8 hours. When you hit a creature with an attack using the poisoned weapon, you deal one die of poison damage to the target, in addition to the weapon’s damage. The die is equal in size to the largest ingredient die you expended during the rest.

When a creature takes this additional damage, you can expend an ingredient die to force it to make a Constitution saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your

Wisdom modifier). On a failure, the creature is poisoned for 1 minute. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the condition on a successful save.

Monstrous Medley

6th-level Monstrous Cuisine feature

You can now turn the natural abilities of your foes against them through your culinary experience. When you create a meal using your Campfire Cook feature, you can choose two conditions from the following list: blinded, charmed, deafened, paralyzed, petrified, or poisoned. A creature that partakes of the meal gains advantage on saving throws against the chosen conditions for 12 hours, or until it is knocked unconscious.

At 10th level, you become permanently immune to two conditions of your choice, selected from those listed.

  A dwarf monster gourmet returns
  from "the pantry"

Cast-iron Stomach

10th-level Monstrous Cuisine feature

When you intercept an attack using your Guts feature and the attack hits you, you can treat the damage of the attack as though your Sturdy Defense is active.

In addition, you can reroll a Constitution saving throw that you fail once per long rest. You must accept the new result.

Raw & Bloody

14th-level Monstrous Cuisine feature

Your skill and savagery allows you to instantly tear an ingredient die free from a creature you are able to harvest when you slay it. As a bonus action when you perform this special harvest, you can emit a guttural roar that evokes the very monsters you slay. All hostile creatures that can hear you within 60 feet must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + the maximum roll for your specially harvested ingredient die). Creatures that fail the saving throw are frightened of you for 1 hour. At the end of each of its turns, a creature can make a further Wisdom saving throw. On a success, the effect ends. A creature that succeeds on its saving throw is immune to this effect for 24 hours.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest before you are able to use it again.

Ordning Cuisine

Agreeing to seconds is effectively suicide.

                HIPPOCAMPER

Giant cooking — as with their smithing, their art, and their war — is structured through their heirarchy, the Ordning. Hill giants eat every bone and lump of gristle. Frost giants rankle at cooked food, since they find the warmth of freshly-killed flesh to be hot enough. Cloud giants have pickier tastes still. You know these things, and you understand how to supply feasts to massive masters, for you have spent a great portion of your life in their shadows as a servant. As a non-giant, you are, of course, at the very bottom rung of the pecking order: a honorary initiate to the Ordning at best ‐ or a mostly ignored slave at worst. However, you have been able to pick up a great deal of guarded craft from the giants you catered to, much as you might pick up scraps fallen from their titanic tables.

Feeding the Massive

2nd-level Ordning Cuisine feature

Your time serving the giants has taught you how to provide for enormous creatures with even bigger appetites. You gain two ingredient dice, instead of one, when harvesting from creatures of size Large or larger.

Underfoot Advantage

2nd-level Ordning Cuisine feature

Thanks to the attentive hours you have spent waiting behind table legs taller than yourself, you gain the following benefits:

• You can speak, read, and write Giant.
• You gain advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks when attempting to Hide within 30 feet of a creature of size Large or larger, as long as you are at least one size smaller than it.
• You learn the magic stone cantrip. Wisdom is your spellcasting modifier for this spell. When you cast it, you mark each stone with a rune derived from the markings upon giants’ throwing boulders.

               A gnomish servant tries                to sate the hunger of                their hill giant master

Maat Menu

2nd-level Ordning Cuisine feature

You have adapted the recipes of the giants ‐ their maat or "good" food ‐ down to size for all. Choose two of the menu options below to enhance the meals you create. Your choices must be adjacent to one another: if you served a Cloud Giant in your previous station, you will know nothing of the tastes of the Hill Giants, but you may well have cooked for a Fire Giant employed in their castle, or a Storm Giant welcomed as a rare guest. When you reach 10th and 14th level in this class, you learn one additional menu option. The new option you choose must be adjacent to one of your previous choices.

Each time you use your Campfire Cook feature to create a meal, you choose which menu option to prepare. A creature that partakes of your meal gains the benefit of the chosen menu option, which lasts until the start of its next long rest.

If you grant a creature temporary hit points using your Fodder Break when you gain that feature at 5th level, you can choose to swap the benefit to another menu option you know. The new option must be the same for all creatures you expend ingredient dice on during the Fodder Break.

Maat Menu Options

Here are the options for the Maat Menu feature. A creature must retain temporary hit points from your gourmet features to activate these effects. Each effect can be activated only once per round.

Hill (Hunger). A creature can roll a number of d4s up to your Meal Multiplier and add the number rolled to one attack roll it makes. The number rolled is immediately subtracted from the creature’s remaining temporary hit points.

Stone (Artistry). A creature can roll a number of d4s up to your Meal Multiplier and add the number rolled to one ability check it makes. The number rolled is immediately subtracted from the creature’s remaining temporary hit points.

Frost (Potency). When it successfully hits a target with a weapon attack, a creature can roll a number of d4s up to your Meal Multiplier and add the number rolled to the attack's damage. The number rolled is immediately subtracted from the creature’s remaining temporary hit points.

Fire (Craft). When it is targeted by an attack, a creature can roll a number of d4s up to your Meal Multiplier. The creature gains a bonus to its AC equal to half the total number rolled (a minimum of 1). The bonus lasts until the start of the creature's next turn, and is included against the triggering attack. The total number rolled on the dice is immediately subtracted from the creature’s remaining temporary hit points.

Cloud (Novelty). On its turn while it is not incapacitated, a creature can expend 5 temporary hit points to teleport the same number of feet to a point it can see in any direction. Multiple increments of 5 temporary hit points can be expended at once, up to a maximum number of temporary hit points equal to 5 x your gourmet level.

Storm (Atmosphere). On its turn, a creature can roll a number of d4s up to your Meal Multiplier, creating a thrum of power with a radius in feet equal to 5 + the number rolled. Hostile creatures within the area take lightning damage equal to your Wisdom modifier. The number rolled is immediately subtracted from the activating creature’s remaining temporary hit points.

Scaling Service

6th-level Ordning Cuisine feature

Extra Attack

6th-level Quartermaster's Cuisine feature

You can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Logistical Insight

6th-level Quartermaster's Cuisine feature

Your training in supply solutions comes to the fore in a tight spot. As a bonus action, you can make a Wisdom (Survival) check on an area of terrain you can see that fits within a 150-foot cube, contested by a d20 rolled by the DM. If a spell within the area is affecting the terrain, the spell’s level is added to the contesting roll. If you succeed, you ignore difficult terrain within the chosen area, and you gain advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks related to climbing, swimming, jumping, or otherwise traversing the environment within the chosen area. These benefits last for 10 minutes. You must concentrate on them as if concentrating on a spell. Creatures of your choice share these benefits while they are within 60 feet of you and can hear you.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest before you can do so again.

Fortified Discipline

10th-level Quartermaster's Cuisine feature

Those who bond over food are better bonded as a unit on the field. A creature that partakes of your Campfire Cook meal gains advantage on saving throws against being frightened until the start of its next long rest, or until it is incapacitated. Whenever a creature with this benefit succeeds on a saving throw and is within 10 feet of an ally it can see, it gains the benefits of half cover until the end of its next turn.

Deploy Reserves

14th-level Quartermaster's Cuisine feature

Through the trust you have earned among your comrades, you can to call on them to dig deep to push for victory. As a bonus action, you can expend an ingredient die and bellow an order. A creature within 60 feet of you that can hear you and retains temporary hit points from your gourmet features can use its reaction to expend all of its remaining temporary hit points and immediately take an extra action following the end of your turn. Actions taken by multiple creatures in this way are resolved according to initiative order.

Once a creature completes its additional action, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it gains one level of exhaustion.

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

Rare Cuisine

Recherché, deluxe, haute, hoity-toity... yes, they love their big words written in impossible loopy script, but I do love eating whatever it is they describe.

                HIPPOCAMPER

Trained in exclusive dining clubs or renowned restaurants, practitioners of this cuisine exude confidence in their cooking ability and use it to express their affluence. And nothing is as tellingly rich as dragon meat. Meals crafted with such select ingredients are known to light a fire in the belly and leave a delightful aftertaste that can linger on the tongue for hours. Some consider chefs of this school to be snobbish, but, like all gourmets, they are fueled by a deep love of excellent cooking. Dragon parts are often sought for their rumored mystical or medicinal properties ‐ but gourmets know that the true value of such a trophy is released by the flame.

Refined Palate

2nd-level Rare Cuisine feature

Your preferences have resulted in particular skill when it comes to hunting and harvesting dragons. You gain two ingredient dice, instead of one, when harvesting from a creature with the dragon tag.

Rich Blood

2nd-level Rare Cuisine feature

While you retain temporary hit points granted by your gourmet features, your body takes on a slight lustrous sheen, and you add half of your Wisdom modifier (rounded down) as a bonus whenever you make a Charisma check. As a bonus action while under this benefit, you can expend an ingredient die to add the same bonus to your AC for 1 minute.

Expensive Taste

2nd-level Rare Cuisine feature

You have also developed the dragons’ famous nose for gold. You can use your action to inhale and open your olfactory channels to detect treasures. Until the end of your next turn, you detect the presence and direction of any precious gemstones, gold, platinum, or silver objects within 100 feet of you. You know the type of material and gain a general sense of its quantity. Your sense of smell can penetrate most barriers, but is blocked by 1 foot of solid stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier. When you finish a long rest, you regain all expended uses.

Bated Breath

6th-level Rare Cuisine feature

You can now concoct recipes that mimic the rare taste of dragon cuisine. When a creature partakes of a meal created using your Campfire Cook feature, it gains a stored version of the 2nd-level spell dragon’s breath* that remains stored for 8 hours, or until the creature is knocked unconscious. Wisdom is your spellcasting modifier for this spell.

As a bonus action, a creature can release this spell to instantly cast it upon themselves. The stored spell is then consumed. When the spell is cast in this way, it does not require material components or concentration.

Garnish

6th-level Rare Cuisine feature

Nothing you serve to friend or foe would be complete without some added draconic flair. Whenever you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you deal additional damage equal to your Wisdom modifier. The additional damage dealt is your choice of acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder damage.

Chef's Scales

10th-level Rare Cuisine feature

Your high-end diet has nurtured magic in your blood that you can use to rebalance a situation moving out of your control. When a creature that retains temporary hit points from one of your gourmet features is within 60 feet of you and rolls a 1 on an attack roll or saving throw, you can use your reaction to expend an ingredient die and imbue it with a sudden wealth of energy. Translucent, colored scales bloom on its body, granting it a +2 bonus to AC until the end of its next turn. The next attack roll or saving throw it makes before the end of its next turn is automatically a 20.

Hoard Cuisine

14th-level Rare Cuisine feature

Your appetites are now practically indistinguishable from those of a true dragon. You gain proficiency in Charisma saving throws, and you can now consume gold as if it were ordinary food. For every 1000gp that you eat, your hit point maximum and your Charisma score increase by 1. You can gain a maximum of 50 additional hit points in this way. Your Charisma score maximum is now 22.

             A greedy gourmet bites off
            a little more than he can chew

Vegetarian Cuisine

There's a rogue in Sharn who works jobs out of her favourite vegan deli. She shows up at noon whenever she has a contract, eats, shoots, and leaves.

                HIPPOCAMPER

Adventurers who pursue this craft are innovators with the humble, unsung vegetable. The provisions of nature are many, and a skilled cook can make a varied, vibrant menu sourced from all its earthy corners. Specialists in vegetarian cuisine are experts at selecting and preparing a bounty of greens that will enhance the overall health benefits of their guests: baking, grilling, steaming, or frying up a colorful culinary experience that boasts an extra zing in every bite, and puts an extra spring into every diner's step.

Green Palate

2nd-level Vegetarian Cuisine feature

Your preferences have resulted in particular skill when it comes to hunting and harvesting plants. You gain two ingredient dice, instead of one, when harvesting from a creature with the plant tag.

Cultivate

2nd-level Vegetarian Cuisine feature

Your skill in botany allows you to nurture high-quality ingredients from natural sources. You gain proficiency in the Nature skill. When you end a long rest in terrain capable of sustaining plant life, you add one extra ingredient die to your stock, which is a d8.

At 6th level, this ingredient die becomes a d10. At 14th level, it becomes a d12.

Zest & Zeal

2nd-level Vegetarian Cuisine feature

Your food invigorates guests with extra energy that can be expressed in sudden bursts of speed. A creature that retains temporary hit points from your Campfire Cook meal has its movement speed increased by 10 feet. This bonus increases to 15 feet at 10th level, and to 20 feet at 14th level.

Whenever it makes a a Dexterity (Acrobatics) check, Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check, or a Dexterity saving throw, a creature can expend 5 temporary hit points granted by your gourmet features to add your Wisdom modifier to the result. Whenever it does so, its movement speed increases by 10 feet until the end of its next turn.

Full-bodied Fling

6th-level Vegetarian Cuisine feature

The number of ingredient dice you can expend when making your Lunch Rush increases to a maximum of two. At 14th level, it increases to a maximum of three.

 In addition, when you move at least 15 feet straight towards a creature and then make an attack against it on the same turn, the creature takes bludgeoning damage equal to your Robust Blows bonus, regardless of whether the attack hits or misses.

Compost

6th-level Vegetarian Cuisine feature

Also starting at 6th level, you can expend 4 ingredient dice to cast the plant growth spell as if it were a ritual.

You must complete a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Sensational Flavor

10th-level Vegetarian Cuisine feature

Your cooking equally thrills and enhances the senses. A creature that partakes of your Campfire Cook meal gains darkvision out to a distance of 60 feet until the start of its next long rest. If it already has darkvision, its range increases by 60 feet. While a creature retains temporary hit point from your gourmet features, it adds your Wisdom modifier to initiative rolls, and it cannot be surprised.

Organic Efficiency

14th-level Vegetarian Cuisine feature

You have become a boundless dynamo of energy. Your lively constitution affords you the following benefits:

• Your movement speed is permanently increased by 5 feet.
• You gain additional uses of your Lunch Rush feature equal to your Wisdom modifier.
• When you would normally roll one or more ingredient dice to deal damage to creatures knocked prone by your Lunch Rush, you instead use the highest number possible for each die. For example, instead of dealing 1d6 + 1d10 bludgeoning damage, you deal 16.

  A halfling vegetarian
  strolls home

Now, Added Flavors

Rather than be rich in gold or rich in friends, I only wish for riches enough to employ a good cook, so that I might — imagine! — get to dine on the richest delicacies until the end of my days.

      —Dalim Zhunn, the Lean Rogue of Ratsnest.

Nutritional Inspiration

If you are looking for a personal hook to help create your gourmet character, this section provides opportunities for adding detail to their backstory. You can roll on the tables below or choose from them to round out an archetypal gourmet, or bounce off the ideas presented to take your character in an atypical direction.

Gourmets are often unsung heroes; their gifts taken for granted as an everyday necessity, as plain as bread or cheese. But they are not mere providers. Good food raises morale like nothing else. Great food can dispel exhaustion as surely as a long night's sleep in a downy bed. And truly inspired food excites the imagination and the senses. More than anything, the enjoyment of excellent cooking bonds those who share it.

Even as they support their party, each gourmet has their own legacy to carve. Some live life largely as boisterous hosts, while others might stew quietly in personal turmoils, or be concocting grand ambitions for which their craft is a means to an end. Whoever they are, whatever the reasons they cook and adventure, this section should help bring out the flavor of your gourmet character.

Favored Utensil

Many chefs, be it out of fond nostalgia, some misplaced samurai affect, or simply for good marketing, swear by a signature tool of their trade. Gourmets are subject to the same habits, but for them a trusted utensil can mean much more than it would in an ordinary kitchen.

On the road, items that prove useful in varied scrapes are highly valued. Perhaps your favored utensil is also your go-to weapon when a fight breaks out — or perhaps it was a gift that reminds you of home when the lights are few and the nights are long. Consider tying your favored utensil to your gourmet's culinary speciality, and think about what instinct drives them to reach for it first.

Favored Utensils

d6	Utensil
1	A knife that doesn't dull easily. It cuts kindling as  well as it chops vegetables.
2	This cleaver belonged to your father, and his father  before him, and his father before him...
3	A lucky spoon. You always manage to find it by the  gleam of moonlight upon the bowl.
4	A chopping board that has caught a bandit's blade  more than once.
5	The wood of this rolling pin is hard to identify, but  it makes an incredibly satisfying sound.
6	This whisk was a parting gift from your mentor.  Gods rest their troubled soul.

Sense Memory

Locked in the mind as surely as it was once savored on the tongue, a sense memory of some emotionally charged dish is what many gourmets return to, time after time, meal after meal: the bedrock of their passion in the craft.

A sense memory can be visual, aromatic, even aural, but it almost always refers back to some pivotal moment in a gourmet's life that connects their soul to food. The meal that was served at the moment of this memory might not have even been very good. What matters is the powerful sense of nostalgia, excitement, or perhaps even trauma it carries.

Sense Memory

d6	Memory
1	The taste of ratatouille takes you back to your  farmhouse childhood and mother's cooking.
2	The crackle of crusty bread brings back unwelcome  reminders of invaders crunching their way across  the remains of your family bakery.
3	The smell of roasting meat reminds you of the  campfire that you and your best friend last sat  around together, all those years ago.
4	Overpowering garlic: not to everyone's liking. But  always to his.
5	You had never tried dessert, never had anything  more than scraps, until that night at the palace.
6	The faintest sound of sprinkling salt conjures the  particular gestures of your teacher, their finishing  flourish over a deep tray ready for the oven.

Indulgence

A cook's hours are long; an adventuring gourmet's are no better, and the beds are often awful. Who can be blamed for a little indulgence at the end of the day?

If your character has a penchant for sneaking secret treats, consider the severity, and the cost, of the habit. Sugar is a vice all too easily found in a kitchen, but it could be hard to come by on the open road. Is your indulgence a source of satisfaction, or shame? Perhaps your preferred relaxation food reflects poorly on your tastes among judgmental contemporaries. How your character considers their own indulgences can say a lot about them to others.

Indulgence

d6	Indulgence
1	Darkest chocolates of exorbitant price.
2	Pungent tobacco, guaranteed to one day ruin your  sense of taste and smell.
3	Crackling — and it has to be hot, salty, and crisp.
4	Snack sticks mass-produced by a city guild.
5	Raw root vegetables: potatoes, carrots, onions...  anything.
6	Some of the wine did make it into the stock, yes.

Effusive Adventurers

Though they spent many millenia hidden away from the world, the aulter are glad to be out in it. Having outgrown their cultural naivety, they make for confident explorers, inured as they are to many of the ordinary challenges of such work.

An aulter traveler will often carry at least one brood of future children upon their fingers or secured in other jewelery. The experiences of their journeys can thus be passed on early to the next generation. They will guard these jewels like nothing else, but will only return them to their vault when the time comes that they are too large to carry.

Fellow adventurers, particularly those of a mercenary bent, are likely to find an aulter companion to be a fortuitous addition to any party. They eschew most material possessions, but bring with them an unparalleled confidence for financial affairs, and are generous sharing bounties once their needs have been met. Not to mention that they often have a wonderful sense of humor.

Aulter Names

Where a family or formal name is needed, an aulter is most likely to attribute themselves a surname connected to their working role at home. The equivalent of a rural human Tiller, Fisher, or Farmer, the translation from Terran might roughly equate to Carvewright, Silver-Sower, or Carer.

An aulter given name tends towards full, resonate sounds that carry well through their vast vaults and ring with fine clarity from the crystals and stalactites. Aulter of any gender might have one of the following names: Bor-Dio-Bor, Co Shi, Do-Vann, Eorhota, Kiolung, Pung-Nigh, Songa, Van-Vo, Van-High, or Yohnd.

Aulter Traits

Your Aulter character is granted the following traits by its golden form.

 Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2.

Age. Within their gem-like eggs, an Aulter matures to roughly the size of a human child over 100 to 150 years. Once they hatch, they grow to adulthood over a few decades, and live on untarnished for six or seven centuries.

Size. Aulter average between 4 and a half and 5 and a half feet tall. Their metallic flesh makes them deceptively heavy for their size, weighing in somewhere between 300 and 500lbs. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 25 feet.

Gilded Thumb. You have a gift for growing metals like a farmer would crops. As an action, you can bury a metal coin in 1 cubic foot of loose earth or among loose stones and imbue it with your gift. After 8 hours have passed, roll 1d4. On a 1, the seed has failed to take and remains as it was. On any other result, the planted coin has sprouted into a number of coins equal to the result of the roll, which you can dig up as an action. You can plant coins in this way a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.

Starting at 5th level, your very presence enriches the land. When you remain within one area no larger than a half-mile radius for 10 days, all natural metals in the area up to 1 mile below ground become enriched for 1 year. Metal deposits yield twice the normal amount of ore when mined.

Golden Tongue. You have a casual confidence discussing matters of money that is difficult to counter. You have advantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks made with regards to buying, selling, or trading items where the payment is expected in material coin.

Mountain's Bounty. You don’t need to eat ordinary food: instead, you can subsist off copper, silver, or gold coins, or similar metal objects, equal in worth to 5sp per day.

Soft Metal. You have resistance to bludgeoning damage. You lose this resistance when you have taken bludgeoning damage a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of once), and regain it again after completing a long rest.

Untarnishable. You have resistance to necrotic damage.

Languages.You can speak, read, and write Common, Terran, and one language of your choice.

Craft Elves

My uncle, you know, was a terrible cobbler, and an even more terrible worrier. He lost most of his hair the year I finally moved out of town to the academy, frantic over paying his debts and filling his orders with what scraps of shoddy material he'd sourced for a pittance. He was truly an awful organizer of even the basic and necessary arrangements.

And then, one morning, so he claimed, he simply came downstairs and it was all sorted out. Row upon row of wonderful shoes to sell ‐ the envy of every shop window. His troubles ended, for a time.

He attributed it to some fey boon: work done in the night by tiny hands. Well, yes and no. He was a terrible mathematician, too... one rarely finds an idiot in only two dimensions. Never could put two and two together that his miracle occurred but a week after he hired that well-meaning gnome girl in the shop as a clerk.

        —Thomas Aarne Wild, magical historian

Variable Subrace

The craft elf is a subrace available to both elves and gnomes, the basic traits of which can be found in Chapter 2 of the Player's Handbook. The traits of the craft elf represent a set of shared skills and attributes that transcend other differences between the two groups. Craft elves might be found among both races on some worlds, among just one on others, or, at the DM's discretion, among another group entirely as a subrace option. In some settings, craft elves might represent the undervalued working class in a rigidly divided hierarchy; in another, they might be have a folkloric bent as the granters of wishes to those very same kind of craftspeople. Yet another campaign might place them as the loyal workforce of a great, good-natured fey of the north with a large annual quota to meet. The interpretation of the craft elf as a character concept is highly flexible, and the tone settled upon will determine what other racial traits work best in combination with its template for a given adventure.

Craft Elf Traits

As a craft elf, the following traits aid you in your work.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Everything's a Nail. You have proficiency with the light hammer, war pick, heavy crossbow, and hand crossbow.

Fruits of Labor. A job well done is its own reward. When you succeed on an ability check with a skill or a tool you are proficient in, you gain temporary hit points equal to half of your level, rounded down (a minimum of 1).

Handiwork. You gain proficiency in one skill or two tools of your choice.

Fairy

The groom had drawn the hag's ire, all right ‐ that were as plain as his face on the floorboards or his guts on the ceiling. How her choice o' foul deliverance had snuck in past paid-up guards at every corner, that weren't so much.

Fathmir reckoned it could'a come up through the grounds, down where they backed onto the woods at the end of the gardens. But his Lordship insisted it couldn't be so: an' when he showed us down there I could see for why. They were flittin' between the houses slung up among the briars, leaving a twinkle o' that tell-tale magic on the mornin' dew. They sized us up as we approached, and I spied Fathmir push down a little laugh out the corner of me eye. Pretty dull of him. It weren't just fairy dust glintin' at their sides.

                —Gumdar Ingotshoe,
            The Case of the Banderhobb's Bite

Elusive folk that are nonetheless ubiquitous across the world, the fairies were said to first travel to the Material Plane from the Feywild on the dancing glimmers of reflected sunbeams. Innately magical creatures, they can lift and wield objects (and even individuals) that seem physically beyond their diminutive size. Though they are known in folklore for their tricksy sense of humor and glittering magic, many fairies dream of bolder ventures as legends: and they have the spunk and the strength to make it as truly pint-sized powerhouses.

It's a Small World

Although fairies maintain a strong connection to the Feywild, they have fostered an infatuation with the mortals of the Material Plane over the centuries. The wonder of imaginative belief that a fairy light sparks in humanoids young and old is like ambrosia to these fey folk, and as a result they are much happier than their pixie or sprite cousins to live close to mortals. Fairy communities might grow at the bottom of a wild garden or beneath the floorboards, and fairy heroes are more than willing to carry their weight in battles for the land.

Villages lucky enough to abut a fairy colony have a charmed life: friendly fairies make for reliable advisors on matters of unusual magic, loyal defenders against those who would dash the good spirits of the town, and joyful company to anyone able who enjoys a little light and whimsy in life.

Glimmers of Hope

Like many fey beings, fairies are finely tuned to emotions, of both themselves and others. Sparks of delight, particularly

Fairy Names

Above all, a fairy enjoys music in a name. They will take inspiration from nature, from entertaining tricks, or from the oddities of their ancestral home, but the best name for a fairy is one that trip-tips off the tongue. Other races (the gnomes notwithstanding) might sometimes find their names a little amusing ‐ but truly, that is part of the point.

A fairy cares little if its name sounds particuarly feminine or masculine to the ear of another. What matters is how it rings on the air before it gets there. Dewdrop, Sparkabell, Tink, Bluebutton, and Zippity-doo-da are often-sung favorites.

Fairy Traits

Your fairy character has the following traits as a result of its fey origins.

Creature Type. You are a Fey.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Intelligence or Charisma score increases by 1.

Age. Fairies mature to adulthood within a year, and can live for almost 1000 years if they remain in good humor.

Size. A fairy normally measures between 10 around 14 inches tall. Your size is Tiny, although with your quick, zig-zag movements, you have a reach of 5 feet with melee weapons.

Speed. Your walking speed is 15 feet.

Distracting Sting. A creature you hit with a melee attack has disadvantage on the first attack roll it makes against a creature other than you before the end of its next turn, so long as you are within 5 feet of it and not incapacitated when it makes the attack.

Faetherweight. You cannot wield weapons with the heavy, special, or two-handed properties. When wielding a weapon that does not have the light property, you must use two hands to do so. You can use a weapon with the versatile property in this way, but any attack you make with the weapon's larger damage die (as when a larger creature wields it with two hands) is made at disadvantage. You lose this trait if your size increases beyond Tiny.

Fairy Dust. You know the dancing lights cantrip. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the levitate spell once without expending a spell slot, and requiring no material components. You regain the ability to cast the spell in this way when you finish a long rest. When you cast the spell in this way, you can target only objects, beasts, or humanoids, but you can target a maximum number of objects or creatures that are within 10 feet of each other equal to your proficiency bonus with each casting. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Spritely. On a turn where you move but take no actions, other than the Help, Dash, or Search actions, your movement speed increases by 10 feet until the end of that turn.

 

The Joy of Flight. Happy feelings uplift you literally as well as figuratively. You have a flying speed of 30 feet. If you are frightened or suffering from one or more levels of exhaustion, you lose this flying speed.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan.

Playing as a Tiny Character

Size is no judge of character, but there's no getting around the fact that Tiny player characters are unusual. Here are some rules to remember as you head out with big ambitions for adventure:

• A Tiny creature has its carrying capacity ‐ as well as the weight it can push, drag, or lift ‐ halved compared to Medium or Small creatures. As a quick rule of thumb, your carrying capacity is your Strength score multiplied by 7.

• A Tiny creature can squeeze through a space of around 6 inches in size. If reduced in size by a spell or effect, a Tiny creature shrinks to 1 inch.

• Appropriately sized weapons and armor use less material: but they are comparatively more fiddly to make and maintain than average equipment. You can treat equipment costs as normal to represent this, so long as a town has someone able and willing to supply such things.

• A Tiny character needs only a quarter as much food and water as a Medium sized character needs each day to survive.

Half-Dwarf

Aw, sure, sure, they're a real riot. Can put the hooch away like almost nobody else oughta try if they like their insides, an' they'll split yours wide open once they get going. Never heard nobody call out the stick up a dwarf lord's ass as much 'cept maybe an elf ‐ only they're actually funny. It's all fair game an' fair play to 'em. Yeah, yeah... about as down-to-earth as they come. Makes sense.

Plus, you know, if you get caught up in a real riot, that's five and a half feet of unmovable muscle you can tuck yourself behind for the price of a beer. That's good company.

             —"Dame" Dangerous Shyleaf,
       interviewed for The Real Portcliff Underworld

As tall and quick-minded as their human parents, but as robust as a dwarf, half-dwarves combine some of the best traits of both of their lineages. They are rarely seen ‐ even more rarely than half-elves or half-orcs ‐ and often overlooked, mingling easily into the populations of whichever parent culture they are raised in. Most often, half-dwarves settle in human towns and cities, for they rarely inherit the darkvision that dwarves find so useful in the mines and deep mountain halls of their ancestors. A half-dwarf has much to weigh as they grow: balancing the traditions of one culture versus the progressive drive of the other, all while working

out what to do with a life that neither of their parents can truly relate to. Adventure often calls to a half-dwarf coming of age who needs to find this path. It is a lifestyle that fully exercises the incredible strengths they have inherited and made their own.

Stone & Savvy

To other peoples, half-dwarves may blend into a crowd, appearing to be nothing more than an unusually tall dwarf or a remarkably stocky human. But to humans and dwarves who know each other, the lineage is obvious. Half-dwarves stand out for the unique combination of traits that makes them quite different from either parent, and much more than a meeting in the middle of the two races. Their muscles are incredibly dense on a tall frame, giving them almost unrivaled stamina without losing the flexibility of their human side. A half-dwarf can work seemingly without effort through conditions that would slow down even the hardiest of colleagues. They are predisposed to be hirsute, but unlike a traditional dwarf, they might shave to better fit in with human standards of grooming, or sometimes eschew body hair altogether in an attempt to distinguish themselves from a distant dwarven heritage.

Typically raised in ports, mining towns, or trading hubs, they experiment with leveraging their physical skill in a variety of roles, taking the exacting quality of dwarven craftmanship and applying its sensibilities to fields their hall-born ancestors never would have dreamed of.

Hard Work and No Play

While they might prove to be just as adept as any dwarf in the arts of stonework or forging, it isn't often that a half-dwarf

Forging Ahead

Half-dwarves may be rare, but their natural toughness and knack for problem solving tend to ensure they live through their most daring days. With a longevity that outstrips that of humans, they see their homes and the people in them change over generations while their own legacy remains unknown. As age settles in, so too does the old dwarven desire for permanence reassert itself. Half-dwarves are not content to leave their own mark unbuilt.

Some fall to old touchstones, returning to play a part in the cultures of their parents ‐ even while they remain apart from them. Dwarven trading companies can employ them on the surface. Human artisans might be able to make good use of the lessons they learned at the hearth and adapted for themselves. But others are keen to be the architects of their own world. Though they are few in number, half-dwarves can build phenomenal things, bringing the best of the monolithic methodology of the dwarves out of the mountain shadows in a bold new direction. They invest their hard-earned gold, time, and experience into ventures of their own that, like them, stand apart from either humans or dwarves. They might found construction companies, train apprentices in advanced craft methods of their own design, or carve out a legacy in the theater of war as a tireless field commander. Wherever they stake their claim, a hardened half-dwarf is certain to dig in and persevere until they excel.

Half-Dwarf Names

Half-dwarves usually have a name composited from their dual heritage. This normally takes the form of a human first name and dwarven surname, or vice versa. Because the rungs of human and dwarven society that mix most are craftspeople and traders, half-dwarf surnames often reflect a vocation, no matter which side they derive from. Some take great pride in a clan name, and wield it as a stamp of pride. Others would rather divorce themselves from these associations entirely, preferring human names and titles.

Hivebody Traits

Your hivebody character has a number of unique attributes as the result of its unusual being.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 2.

Age. A hivebody comes of age the moment an awakened queen is born or made by other means. The lifespan of a queen is short by the reckoning of other sapient species, ranging anywhere from 5 to 15 years. But her successor may well choose to inhabit the same nest, and the hivebody will continue. Drones grow, work, and die over the span of around 150 days and are constantly reproduced.

Size. Sustainable animated hives can be built in two sizes, Medium or Small. Choose either size, as detailed below.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Brittle. Your body is a reconstituted organic husk, riddled with hollow tunnels. You have a -1 penalty to your AC.

Incensed Host. When you are hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to release a swarm of angered drones that fill the air 5-feet around you for 1 minute. Hostile creatures that enter the area for the first time on a turn or end their turn there must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus). A creature takes 1d6 piercing damage and poison damage equal to your Constitution modifier on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The piercing damage increases to 2d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 6d6 at 16th level. You can use this reaction once, and must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

Land of Milk and Honey. You can use your worker drones to gather edible detritus or nectar over the course of the day to sustain yourself with piecemeal nutrition. Determine with your DM a suitable food for your colony. If traveling over suitable terrain, you can forgo the need for food and water by collecting sustenance such as this from local sources with your drones. You can also eat and drink as normal.

Battlefield Scavengers

There is no kingdom of the kobblek. Their reputation as vultures is unfair, but not entirely unearned, as their nomadic bands are often found scouring battlefields of the recent past for useful body parts. A remarkable quirk of their physiology allows (and encourages) them to modify themselves with the limbs, sense organs, and even internal workings of other humanoids. Each kobblek bears their own assortment of body parts that they have assimilated to help attain their own self-image. Occasionally, kobblek will be accused of graverobbing, but most are neither foolish nor cruel enough to perform such crimes. Their bands are attracted to borderlands and other regularly contested territories where mass bloodshed is common: all the better for a strong supply of body parts that will keep the entire community whole. It is a sad fact, following the kobblek like superstition, that they most thrive when others are dealing with times of intense strife ‐ though it is no fault of theirs.

Frightening Combinations

It is rare for a kobblek to find welcome in a town or city. They believe that their ways are part of the cycle of life ‐ just the same as the crows that come to feast ‐ taking the energy of another into themselves until their time comes as well. But most humanoid cultures have a more squeamish view: and they don't take kindly to seeing the eyes of a brother, a parent, or a lover return to town in the face of a bizarre stranger. Even when these social pitfalls can be avoided, an average kobblek cuts an alarming figure in the imaginations of others, activating gut responses against asymmetry and mutation. Most kobblek who move in larger societies go cloaked, and many fashion or transplant hair onto themselves to help cover their features. The most distinctive, and hard to hide, are their butterfly-like ears and thick, stubby tails, which are rarely replaced even on heavily modified kobblek.

Hand-Me-Downs

Kobblek children, sometimes called kubs, have short, spindly arms and legs that grow rapidly to allow them to join the travels of their band. Just as human children lose their first set of baby teeth, these "milk limbs" are also lost as a kobblek youth comes of age. As the day approaches, they begin to assemble new body parts for themselves, found or gifted by the band, to prepare for adulthood. While they can come from many sources, a young kobblek is expected and encouraged to shape the direction of their own body. But the most important part of a kub's coming of age is the receiving of a family heirloom: a body part that has proven especially useful to their line and has been passed down through several generations to those coming into their prime. Time takes its toll, and not everything about the heirloom may work as it originally did, but the preservation and giving of these parts is

a deeply honored tradition for every kobblek. When times are good, a youth may even be gifted a fresh part selected from the preserved stores the band carries, enabling them to begin their own legacy. When times are tough, parents will literally give an arm and a leg to see their offspring into a brighter future.

Nervous Curiosity

A kobblek that understands their body well can replace almost any part of it without much ill effect, extending an elastic psychic connection into new limbs or organs to use as their own. Occasionally they will feel a returning twinge that tugs on their interest. An itch in the muscles for an old activity, or perhaps a craving for something particular in a repurposed stomach. The wish to explore these impulses is what might lead some kobblek to dare infiltrating larger humanoid settlements ‐ or take them away from the band on the path of the adventurer.

Kobblek Names

Kobblek take ownership of their existence as composite beings, and their names reflect this. Among themselves, they might share affectionate, personal nicknames, but in their dealings with others they have found it best to lean into this identity, hoping to disarm the fear and distrust so frequently aimed at them with a touch of wry amusement. Equally, their names are a statement of wholeness ‐ declaring that they are not simply thieves of body parts, but that each distinct part comes together to create who they are as an individual.

Sometimes, two or more kobblek will swap names, as they might swap body parts. It is a very personal decision, made between those who have deep trust in one another, and know what it means to take on a piece of their partner.

A kobblek of either gender may have one of these general-use names: Addley, Amalga, Clik, Fews, Hybe, Joihn, Kombo, Masch, Manteau, Medley, Missellaini, Miks, Mod, Polley, Sim, Stikt, Tag, or Uni.

Kobblek Traits

Your uniquely interchangeable biology grants you the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. Two different ability scores of your choice increase by 1.

Age. Kobblek children mature slightly slower than humans, and begin to lose their milk limbs at around 11 years of age. Their ability to transplant new organs into themselves can keep them in good health, but most live to 60 at best.

Size. An adult kobblek's height might vary depending on what limbs they have, but they stand on average just above or below 5 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Muscle Memory. You gain proficiency in one of the following skills: Acrobatics, Athletics, or Sleight of Hand. Alternatively, you gain proficiency in one type of tool of your choice.

Anatomical Heirloom. You have been handed down the ancestral treasure of your family in the form of a specific body part, which takes the form of one or two eyes, one to four limbs, a sizable patch of skin, or an internal organ such as lungs, any of which must be derived from a humanoid creature. You decide the exact source and appearance of your heirloom. Your choice grants you one of the following traits:

      Otherworldly
         Dwarves

                  "Course she were a
                  a dwarf. Did you not
                  witness that simply
                  wondrous beard?"
                     — Navis of Sigil,
                    planar researcher

                  A sturdy back, a
                  stalwart heart, and
                  stern dedication to
                  their values: these
                 traits make dwarves
                 invaluable allies on any
                 world. They are a
                people of unmoving ‐ or                  glacially changing ‐                   tradition, but across                   different planes of                 existence and reflections
   of the material world, striking variations of dwarvenkind
 do thrive. Their core values tend to remain true, even when their kingdoms are built on very different foundations. Below are three subraces of dwarf found in far-flung parts of the multiverse, but unmistakeably dwarven nonetheless.

Arcadian Dwarf

Exemplifying the dwarven ideal of the dedicated holy warrior, the legions housed in the mountain kingdoms of Arcadia in the Outer Planes form a bulwark of righteousness against chaos throughout creation. Arcadia has long existed as a nexus of the greatest dwarf gods, including their gods of battle and honor. Dwarves born here are celestial beings that are inevitably brave and kindhearted.

Creature Type. Your creature type is Celestial.

            Ability Score Increase. Your
             Charisma score increases by 1.

            Bravery of Arcadia. You can
                cast the divine favor and
                heroism spells with this
                trait. Starting at 3rd level,
                 you can also cast the
                 calm emotions spell
                 with it. Once you cast
                 any of these spells with
                 this trait, you can’t cast
                 that spell with it again
                until you finish a long
                rest. Charisma is your
                spellcasting ability for
                these spells.

                Lawful Vigilance. You
                  have advantage on
               Intelligence (Investigation)
               checks made to detect
               illusions.

Primordial Dwarf

With gem-bright eyes, sometimes metallic or obsidian-tinged skin, and hair so wild and vibrant it could be mistaken for leaping flame, the primordial dwarf clans found between the Planes of Earth and Fire resemble the elements themselves as much as they do other dwarves. Connected to the evil Azer, or perhaps transformed to do battle with them, these dwarves carve out kingdoms in territory contested by powerful forces of untamed nature.

Creature Type. Your creature type is Elemental.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Boiling Blood. You have resistance to fire damage. Whenever you take fire damage, a creature that touches you or hits you with a melee weapon attack before the end of your next turn takes fire damage equal to half of the damage you took, as your body sheds the excess heat. You lose this trait when you have taken fire damage a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier, and regain it again after completing a long rest.

Metalken. The benefits of your Stonecunning trait are applied to metalwork as well as stonework.

Salt Dwarf

On some worlds, the dwarvish gift for adventure and love of treasure finds its home on the water, rather than in stone caverns. A salt dwarf retains the same skill with masonry as any other. They build phenomenal island fortresses, and on the planet of Spindel they even sculpt massive stoneclad ships with which to traverse the all-encompassing underland ocean. The deep is always a salt dwarf's second home: be it subterranean or submarine.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Dwarven Depth Training. You’re accustomed to diving the ocean depths. You can hold your breath for a number of hours equal to your Constitution modifier, and you can see even in murky water with no light as normal using your darkvision. In addition, you suffer no
adverse effects from swimming
at depths greater than 100 feet
(as described in Chapter 5 of
the Dungeon Master's Guide),
or from any sudden increases
or decreases in water pressure.

Sea Legs. You gain
proficiency with water
vehicles and navigator's
tools.

Family First

Pangong who find themselves outside of a troupe can find life difficult, given their inherent yearning for the family unit. Outsiders tend to read the pangong as naive creatures, and can seek to take advantage of them. However, as natural travellers with hardy constitutions and happy hearts, they have the potential to be great friends and assets to any who accept them. They are more than capable of defending themselves, and anyone they take under their protection in a found family, with their mighty physical gifts.

Pangong Names

Pangong have no surnames, but they do ascribe importance to certain titles. Gangfhar is the most prestigious, as a troupe leader, but there are also the Waysfhars, who guide their families both spiritually and geographically. Energetic entertainment is so beloved by the pangong that a skilled player or athlete able to rally the troupe from a long day into a whirling evening is hailed as a Gegangle-Rangler. If more specificity is needed after a pangong's name and possible title, they will give their troupe: "of Yolie's troupe" tells other pangong who their gangfhar is, and from there the general prosperity and reputation of the troupe can be ascertained.

Male Names: Banny, Dexxy, Drumro, Fellup, Howdhu, Hurly, Salu, Thro, Zeek.

Female Names: Belha, Bolha, Chittie, Daxi, Deelyhe, Gwellie, Lulho, Yolie.

Pangong Traits

Your pangong character has traits that enable it to cope with the perils of a spartan world.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Young pangong have soft plates, and rely on their parents for protection. They crawl for a few weeks after birth before learning to walk on two legs. They reach adulthood by the age of 15 and live an average of 60 years.

Size. Pangong adults stand around 6 feet tall hunched over and average 450 pounds. Head to tail, pangong can be more than 8 feet long. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Claws. Your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

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

Natural Armor. Due to your hard plates and the shape of your body, you are ill-suited to wearing armor. Your plates provide ample protection, however; they give you a base AC of 16 (your Dexterity modifier doesn’t affect this number). You gain no benefit from wearing armor, but if you are using a shield, you can apply the shield’s bonus as normal.

Curl Up. You can curl into a defensive ball as a bonus action. Until you emerge, you gain a +3 bonus to AC, you have advantage on Constitution saving throws, and disadvantage on Strength saving throws or ability checks made against effects that would move you against your will. While you are curled up, you can move by rolling, but you can’t take reactions or further bonus actions, and the only action you can take is an action to emerge from your ball.

If you move downhill on your turn when in your ball, your movement speed increases by 10 feet. Upward inclines are considered difficult terrain for you when in your ball.

Stamina of the Sands. You have advantage on saving throws against exhaustion.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and two other languages of your choice. Pangong are ill-suited to using delicate writing instruments, and typically write in the sand with their claws when they have need to.

Sigathur

When I woke myself from clawing at the sheets... just sheets... Cellar was in my room at the nightstand. I didn't know how long they'd been watching, but I knew they'd have seen some of what I'd just seen. They handed me a tin cup of water. I took it. While I was drinking, before I was awake enough to ask what the hell they thought they were doing, they sat down on the end of the bed, hands clasped, and cocked their glistening head at me with that strangely fluid motion. The sunlight warped off their skin like an oily residue of the dream.

"We should go back. Deal with the Shattershields. Before they chase you out of sleep altogether."

I swallowed. I glared at them. Damn, but my throat was so dry.

"Maybe you should just leave me be, Cel," I croaked.

"Come on," they said with a wan smile. "I know that you know it's a good idea."

"Yeah," I frowned, "you're just full of those."

"I know! They laughed. "I know."

                 —Shanairra Lilygold,
                     Out of Otheria

Sigathur Traits

As a rare form of life, you have a number of traits that mark you out as exceptional among other races.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Sigathur are born physically much the same as they die, but their temperaments mature noticeably over time, making their elders and their youths quite distinctive. A sigathur can live as long as the ideas they draw into themselves continue to generate psychic energy in the worlds: some are as old as agriculture, others are snuffed out with a passing trend.

Size. Sigathur are lighter than they appear, and their nebulous human-like forms stand on average from 3 to 4 feet tall. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Dream Mana. When you finish a long rest, you regain 1 additional Hit Die, and reduce any levels of exhaustion by an additional 1 for each friendly creature that slept within 30 feet of you while you slept. If you draw nourishment in this way, you do not need to eat or drink for the next 24 hours. In addition, you can choose one cantrip known by a friendly creature that slept within 30 feet of you while you slept. You know and can cast the cantrip until the start of your next long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Notional Being. You have resistance to poison damage and psychic damage.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common. When you finish a long rest, you can choose one language known by a creature that has contributed to your Dream Mana feature. You can speak, read, and write in that language until the start of your next long rest.

Subrace. Sigathur display different traits depending on their age, depending on whether their psychic energy is newly inspired or more refined. Choose one these subraces.

Inspired Sigathur

Freshly spawned from a true eureka moment, young sigathur approach life with a slapdash enthusiasm. Their own efforts might sometimes fall short in execution, but their verve for ambitious pursuits is infectious to those around them.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Novel Pursuits. When you finish a long rest, you can choose one tool proficiency. A friendly creature that has contributed to your Dream Mana feature must be proficient in the chosen tool. You gain proficiency in the chosen tool until the start of your next long rest.

When Inspiration Strikes. When you successfully hit with an attack, you can use a bonus action to choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you who can see or hear you. Once within the next minute, the creature can roll 2d4 and add the higher of the two numbers rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the dice, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the dice are rolled, this effect is lost. Once you use this trait, you must complete a long rest before you can do so again.

Refined Sigathur

With age comes the wisdom of hard work and revision. Older sigathur know that ambition must make adjustments when it meets reality, and that a good idea must be polished time and again to truly create a worthwhile contribution to the world. Their methods may not be as inspiring to the casual onlooker, but their results speak volumes.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Developed Theorem. Starting at 3rd level, when you choose a cantrip to learn from a creature that contributes to your Dream Mana feature, you can also choose one 1st-level spell the creature knows. You can cast the chosen spell once with this trait before your next long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can choose one 1st-level and one 2nd-level spell in this way, and can cast each spell once with this trait before the start of your next long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Thoughtful. As a bonus action, you can assess a situation that you have some knowledge of to mull it over from all angles. Before the end of your next turn, you can roll 2d4 and add the higher of the two numbers rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw you make with which you are proficient. You can wait until after you roll a d20 before deciding to use the dice, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the dice are rolled, this effect is lost. Once you use this trait, you must complete a long rest before you can do so again.

Symbietle

"It's disgusting and parasitic, yes, but it is useful. A bit like you, Gurshwurt."

           —Havilar Norixius, friend to goblins

Symbietle Traits

A host bonded to a symbietle gains the following traits:

  Parasitic Bond. At the end of each long rest, you lose 1 Hit Die to the symbietle. If the symbietle is at 0 hit points at the end of a long rest, you must expend 1 additional Hit Die to revive it. If you are unable to expend the additional Hit Die, the symbietle perishes.

Symbulated Flight. You gain a flying speed of 25 feet, and can hover. To use this speed, you can’t be wearing heavy armor. Any armor you are wearing must be modified to allow the symbietle to protrude through it. Your flight depends upon the health of your symbietle: it has an AC of 10 + your Dexterity modifier, immunity to all conditions, and hit points equal to 1 + the number rolled on the Hit Die it claims from you at the end of a long rest. The symbietle can be targeted separately from you, but it uses your modifiers if it is forced to make a saving throw. If it is reduced to 0 hit points, you lose your flight speed. A symbietle at 0 hit points can only be revived by expending a Hit Die at the end of a short rest. The symbietle gains hit points equal to the number rolled on the expended die, which becomes its new hit point maximum.

Height and Weight

You can roll for your character's height and weight on the Random Height and Weight table. The roll in the Height Modifier column adds a number (in inches) to the character's base height. To get a weight, multiply the number you rolled for height by the roll in the Weight Modifier column and add the result (in pounds) to the base weight.

Random Height and Weight

Race	Base Height	Base Weight	Height Modifier	Weight Modifier
Aulter	4'5"	275 lb.	+2d6	x (3d8) lb.
Fairy	0'8"	1.5 lb.	+1d6	x 0.25 lb.
Half-Dwarf	5'5"	175 lb.	+2d6	x (2d4) lb.
Hivebody (Medium)	4'8"	110 lb.	+2d8	x (1d4) lb.
Hivebody (Small)	2'1"	20 lb.	+2d12	x 1 lb.
Kobblek	4'7"	105 lb.	+2d4	x (2d4) lb.
Pangong	6'2"	225 lb.	+2d12	x (2d6) lb.
Sigathur	2'8"	25 lb.	+2d10	x 1 lb.

Symbietle Sacrifices

Race	Trait Sacrificed
Dragonborn	Damage Resistance
Dwarf	Dwarven Resilience
Elf	Fey Ancestry
Gnome	Gnome Cunning
Half-Elf	Fey Ancestry
Halfling	One trait from your subrace other  than Ability Score Improvement
Half-Orc	Relentless Endurance
Human	Any two +1s to an ability score
Human (Variant)	Feat
Tiefling	Hellish Resistance
Genasi	One trait from your subrace that  grants the ability to cast a spell
Goliath	Mountain Born or Stone's Endurance
Aasimar	Celestial Resistance
Bugbear	Powerful Build
Firbolg	Firbolg Magic or Hidden Step
Goblin	Darkvision
Hobgoblin	Darkvision
Kenku	Kenku Training
Kobold	Darkvision
Lizardfolk	Natural Armor
Orc	Powerful Build
Tabaxi	Feline Agility
Triton	Guardians of the Depths
Yuan-ti Pureblood	Magic Resistance
Gith	Githyanki Psionics or Githzerai  Psionics
Aulter	Untarnishable
Half-Dwarf	Dwarven Resilience
Hivebody	Land of Milk and Honey, and Long  Live the Queen
Kobblek	Emergency Autotomy
Sigathur	Notional Being

Tick, Tock

5th-level Watchmaker feature

Once per turn when you miss with an attack you make as part of the Attack action or as part of casting a spell of 2nd-level or lower, the energy of an alternative outcome is temporarily stored in your timepiece. The next time you successfully hit with an attack roll you make before the end of your next turn, you can roll additional damage dice equal to any you would have rolled for the previously missed attack, and add the result to the damage dealt.

Spellwinding Dial

9th-level Watchmaker feature

You refine the mechanisms turned by the trapped hours inside your timepiece, enabling you greater control over local chronology, and even other magic. You can now use your wondrous timepiece in the following ways:

Delaying Dial. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 charge and choose one creature, object, or magical effect within 30 feet of you that you can perceive. Any spell on the target that has a duration of 1 minute or longer has its duration doubled, to a maximum duration of 12 hours.

Hastening Hands. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 charge and choose one creature, object, or magical effect within 30 feet of you that you can perceive. Any spell of 3rd level or lower on the target that has a duration of 1 minute or longer has its remaining duration halved. For each spell of 4th level or higher on the target, make an ability check using your spellcasting ability. The DC equals 10 + the spell's level. On a successful check, the spell's duration is halved. You can affect the same target multiple times using this bonus action.

Seize the Moment. You can stop the clock for a single target within 30 feet of you, freezing it temporarily in time. As an action, you can expend 1 charge and choose either a creature or an object that is neither worn nor carried. If the target is unwilling, it can make a Constitution saving throw. On a success, this feature has no effect.

If the target is a creature, everything it is wearing and carrying is frozen with it.

A target you freeze in time vanishes from reality for a number of turns up to your Intelligence modifier (a minimum of 1). For each turn the target is frozen after the first, your timepiece expends 1 further charge. The target returns to the ordinary flow of time when the maximum number of turns are exceeded, when your timepiece runs out of charges, or when you die. You can end the effect yourself at any time (no action needed).

 A Dwarf Watchmaker
 makes some time
 for tinkering

Timekeeper

15th-level Watchmaker feature

Working with the time contained inside your creation has granted you apparent decades of specialized study into temporality. You gain the following benefits:

• Once per turn, you can use your Precise Timing feature without expending a charge from your wondrous timepiece. When you do so, you can choose to expend additional charges to roll a number of extra d12s equal to the number of charges expended, from which you can choose your result.
• When you target a creature or object with an action or bonus action granted by your wondrous timepiece, roll 1d12. The target either regains hit points or takes force damage (your choice) equal to the number rolled.

Violent Protest

3rd-level Path of the Radical feature

You are ever-ready to strike back at the aggressive
hand of oppression. When a hostile creature you can see
moves towards another creature within 60 feet of you, or targets it with an attack or spell, you can use your reaction
to enter your rage and move up to half of your speed.

Firebrand

3rd-level Path of the Radical feature

Your passion blazes hot enough to burn anyone who stands in your way. When you are attacking recklessly and you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, the weapon deals additional damage equal to your Charisma modifier.

Impassioned Speech

6th-level Path of the Radical feature

The righteous fury in your raised voice makes your message all the more convincing to potential converts. As an action, you can expend one use of your Rage to add 3 x your rage damage bonus to any Charisma (Intimidation) or Charisma (Persuasion) check you make for 10 minutes.

Revolutionary

10th-level Path of the Radical feature

You can now use your Violent Protest feature to enter your rage when initiative is rolled. When you do so, choose any number of friendly creatures within 60 feet of you that can see or hear you. The chosen creatures gain a bonus to their initiative roll equal to your rage damage bonus.

Incite Outrage

14th-level Path of the Radical feature

With the conviction of your ire, you can work up a crowd into an incensed, determined mob. When you enter your rage, you can choose a number of other willing creatures you can see within 30 feet of you equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one creature). For 1 minute, or until your rage ends, each creature that accepts this feature gains the full benefits of your rage, as long as they are not wearing heavy armor or concentrating on a spell.

Once this effect ends on a creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it gains one level of exhaustion.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

Simmering Tension

Political turmoil can create rich, impactful story elements for a campaign. If you intend to choose the Path of the Radical for your barbarian character, discuss with your DM how the ongoing struggle that drives them might tie into the larger narrative ‐ and maybe even change the world. A peasant uprising or a cultural upheaval is a built-in story hook with consequences just as potent as any tale revolving around a god, oath, or patron.

    Bard

           Professional spellweavers of the old
           school, bards enrapture and enchant by
           the spinning of yarns and the recital of
         song. Hitting the right mood for the moment is key: an adventurer caught on a flat note, or foot, is likely to break more than their stride. Included here are two colleges that represent extremes of artistic philosophy concerned with preparation: one that emphasizes the art of instantaneous creativity, and one that prefers to lay out the flow of a story from the very start to the very end.

Bard Colleges

At 3rd level, a bard gains the Bard College feature. The following options are available to you, in addition to the options offered in the Player’s Handbook, Xanathar's Guide to Everything, and Tasha's Cauldron of Everything.

College of Improv

If you can convince one of these fellows to rise from the table ‐ and it won't take much ‐ you're in for dinner and a show like you've never quite witnessed before. There is no guarantee, mind, that it will be any good.

                 HIPPOCAMPER

                  Wood Elf
                   Improvisator

Collaborative Storytelling

3rd-level College of Improv feature

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

Channel Divinity: Spread the Wealth

2nd-level Parity Domain feature

You can use your Channel Divinity to divide gold among the deserving.

When a creature you can see within 120 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points, you can use your Channel Divinity as a reaction to redistribute any monetary wealth it is carrying to the surrounding area with immediate force. All creatures other than yourself within 30 feet of the target must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes force damage equal to 1d2 x the value of gold, silver, or copper pieces carried by the target (up to a maximum value of the chosen coinage equal to 5 times your cleric level). On a success, a creature takes no damage, and immediately gains a number of coins equal to one quarter of the damage rolled.

Channel Divinity: Equal in Life

6th-level Parity Domain feature

You can use your Channel Divinity to take from those with excess and give to those in need.

As an action, you raise your holy symbol, and a wave of cosmic balance ripples out 5 feet from you in all directions. The creature with the highest number of remaining hit points in the area becomes the target of balance. If the target is unwilling, it can make a Constitution saving throw. On a success, your Channel Divinity has no effect.

Starting with the creature with the lowest hit points, each other creature within the area rolls 1d10, regaining hit points equal to the number rolled. The target of balance takes force damage equal to the roll, which cannot be reduced in any way. If the target's hit points become equal to or lower than the hit points of any other creature within the area after taking a die of this damage, the effect immediately ends, and no further dice are rolled.

Potent Spellcasting

8th-level Parity Domain feature

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

Impartial Intervention

17th-level Parity Domain feature

As a trusted champion of charity, you are granted oversight of your god's mission for universal fairness. Once on each of your turns, you can choose one creature that you can see within 60 feet of you. Until the start of your next turn, whenever the creature makes an attack roll or saving throw, it can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.

Once you target a creature with this effect, you cannot target the same creature again for 1 minute.

Travel Domain

The footprints they leave on their unending pilgrimage are a road for the forlorn to follow. If ever you fear you have nowhere left to go... let them lead you forward.

                 HIPPOCAMPER

The desire to explore: to put boot to dirt or deck and track the miles beneath one's years, is found among every people. To travel is a chance to experience new vistas of creation and expand your horizons in more ways than one. Of course, not every cause of travel lies in leisure. Folk on every world rely on the travel of trade for their livelihoods. And bitterly repeated across the multiverse is the story of those forced to leave their homes and migrate, often over vast distances, towards a hope of safety elsewhere. Prayers for good fortune and a fair harbor fly fast and thick to the gods of travelers.

Whether it is about the journey or the destination, clerics of these deities ‐ examples of which appear in the Travel Deities table ‐ are dedicated to assisting pilgrims and pioneers everywhere. They provide protection on troubled roads, a guiding star towards the right wind, and distances diminished by the ease of good company. Open-minded, adventurous, and always willing to pitch in, they are worldly souls of well-worn soles who will never tire of the trail.

   Half-Elf Cleric
    of Travel

Travel Deities

Domain Spells

1st-level Travel Domain feature

Passing of the Seasons

6th-level Circle of Seasons feature

Your seasonal spirit waxes and wanes with the passage of time, affording you power drawn directly from the energy of change. Whenever you change the season your cloak embodies, the spirit adds an additional 1d4 the next time it assists you, up to a maximum of 4d4. After the spirit assists you, the count of any additional dice is reset to 0.

Now when moving between certain seasons, you can activate one of the following effects as part of the same bonus action you use to change the season your cloak embodies:

Thaw (Winter to Spring.) Any creature holding one or more
  winter's dice expends them immediately and regains a
  number of hit points equal to the number rolled.

Burgeon (Spring to Summer.) You make a single weapon
  attack against a target within range. The range of attacks
  made by friendly creatures within your atmosphere,
  including this one, extends by 5 feet until the end of your
  next turn

Fall (Summer to Autumn.) Creatures of your choice within
  your atmosphere must succeed on a Strength saving
  throw against your druid spellcasting DC or be knocked
  prone by a powerful downdraft of bitter wind.

Bare (Autumn to Winter.) You can momentarily expose both
  your enemies and yourself like leafless trees. Choose a
  creature within your atmosphere. The first time that either
  you or the chosen creature takes damage from an attack
  before the start of your next turn, the target has
  vulnerability to all of that attack’s damage, and then the
  effect ends.

        Druids of the Seasons

Controlled Climate

10th-level Circle of Seasons feature

The range of your cloak's atmosphere increases to 15 feet.

In addition, when a creature within your atmosphere takes cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, you can use your reaction to have your spirit expunge the unwanted element. All creatures within your atmosphere reduce the damage taken of the triggering type by 1d4 x your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of 1 damage).

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

Herald of Years

14th-level Circle of Seasons feature

As a trusted guardian of ephemeral nature, time marches with you as it marches on. Both your spirit and yourself gain the following benefits from your many cycles of fearless growth and rebirth:

• The die you roll when your spirit assists you becomes a d12.
• Unless you choose to let them, creatures within your atmosphere cannot be affected by anything which prevents their normal passage forward through time, such as the slow spell or similar magic.
• If time is frozen by the time stop spell or similar magic, you can continue to act normally even while other creatures cannot.

Circle of the Sun

If you're going to worship anything, it might as well be the sun. It grows your food, lights your days, and it looks great as a big symbol on a robe.

                 HIPPOCAMPER

The sun watches over all life, gifting its energy to the growth of the smallest plankton and the widest wealds; and from there its light is spread from the very bottom to the very top of the animal food chain. Druids of the Circle of the Sun venerate its power and cultivate its gift by nurturing the plants that first receive it. They gather when the dawn's touch first warms the ground and work through the day until sunset, absorbing every last ray of light they can and observing the bounty from the days before. Over time, trusting in the constant growth given by the sun's radiance, these caretakers can restore even a blighted landscape into a verdant kingdom of cultivated light.

Circle Spells

2nd-level Circle of the Sun feature

Absorbing the sun's power like the plants you care for grants you access to certain spells. At 2nd level, you learn the light cantrip. When you cast it, the light has the natural qualities of sunlight.

You also learn an additional spell of 1st level or higher when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Circle of the Sun Spells table. Once you gain access to one of these spells, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn’t appear on the druid spell list, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.

Circle of the Sun Spells

Druid Level	Spells
2nd	bless, entangle, light
3rd	moonbeam (appears as sunlight), spike growth
5th	daylight, hypnotic pattern
7th	aura of life, grasping vine
9th	awaken, dawn*

Wild Growth

2nd-level Circle of the Sun feature

The gift of solar nourishment is yours to offer. As an action, you can expend one use of your Wild Shape feature to imbue a seed with the enriching energy of the sun, rather than assuming a beast form.

You can throw the seed to an unoccupied space you can see on the ground within 60 feet of you, where it magically sprouts into a plant with a challenge rating as high as 1 that you have seen before. Alternatively, you can cause the seed to sprout into an empowered plant of your own devising. See

                   Human Druid
                     of the Sun

this creature’s game statistics in the Sunbloom Plant stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. Whenever you do so, choose a form: Flower, Tree, or Vine. The plant resembles a large flora specimen of your choice in the chosen form, which determines some of the traits in its stat block.

A plant you sprout using this feature in an area of sunlight adds an extra 1d10 to its hit points and hit point maximum. The plant regains hit points equal to your druid level at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point and is in sunlight or running water.

In combat, the plant shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. The only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the plant can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

A plant sprouted using this feature withers when it drops to 0 hit points, or becomes inanimate after 1 hour.

Starting at 6th level, you can choose to sprout a plant with a challenge rating as high as your druid level divided by 3, rounded down.

Solar Symphony

6th-level Circle of the Sun feature

You and your plants share a glimmer of solar magic that empowers your spells when you work together. Hostile creatures within 15 feet of plants that you have magically created or manipulated, such those created by the entangle spell or your Wild Growth feature, have disadvantage on saving throws against your circle spells.

In addition, you can use a bonus action to cause a plant creature you have magically created that is on the ground within 60 feet of you and has not moved since the start of its last turn to vanish into the earth and reappear in an unoccupied space on the ground within 15 feet of you or another plant you have magically created within range.

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

Megaflora

10th-level Circle of the Sun feature

When you magically create a plant using your Wild Growth feature, it can now gain any number of the following benefits:

• Its size category increases by one.
• The reach of its attacks increases by 5 feet.
• Once on each of its turns, one of the plant's attacks can deal an extra 1d4 damage to a target on a hit.

In addition, the area affected by your druid spells that magically create or manipulate plants is increased by 5 feet.

Sundrenched

14th-level Circle of the Sun feature

You have become saturated in life-giving energy from bathing in the sun's rays. You no longer need to eat, and you and any plants you create gain resistance to slashing, radiant and necrotic damage. In addition, although you emit no light, the area 30 feet around you in all directions counts as an area of sunlight while you have at least one Hit Die remaining.

Wild Growth Sprouts

Listed here are examples of plant creatures you can sprout using your Wild Growth feature, noted with the environment they might be seen in. A monster with an asterisk ( * ) next to its name appears in Volo's Guide to Monsters.

LEVELS 2+
Gas Spore (underdark); Myconid Adult (underdark); Needle Blight (forest); Shrieker (underdark); Thorny* (forest, swamp); Twig Blight (forest); Vegepygmy* (forest; swamp); Vine Blight (forest).
LEVELS 6+
Awakened Tree (forest); Myconid Sovereign (underdark); Vegepygmy Chief* (forest, swamp).
LEVELS 15+
Shambling Mound (forest, swamp); Wood Woad* (forest, mountain)

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Sunbloom Plant

Large plant

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• Armor Class 11 + PB (natural armor) + 2 (Tree only)
• Hit Points 10 + five times your druid level
• Speed 0 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	9 (-1)	16 (+3)	4 (-3)	15 (+2)	10 (-1)

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• Saving Throws Strength +3, Constitution +3, plus PB
• Damage Vulnerabilities fire (Tree only)
• Damage Resistances radiant
• Condition Immunities blinded, deafened, frightened, poisoned (Flower only), prone
• Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), Passive Perception 12
• Languages understands Druidic
• Challenge __   Proficiency Bonus equals your bonus

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Protective Shade (Tree only). Whenever a ranged attack that deals fire, lightning, or radiant damage is made against a target within 10 feet of the plant, the plant becomes the target of the attack instead.

Rooted. The plant has advantage on saving throws and contested ability checks against any effects that would move it involuntarily.

Trailing Tangle (Vine only). When a creature moves within 15 feet of the plant, the plant can use its reaction to make a Lashing Whip attack against it.

Actions

Highfever Pollen (Flower only). Ranged Spell Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, range 20/30 ft., one target. Hit: 1d6 + PB poison damage, and the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC = 11 + PB), or become poisoned until the end of its next turn.

Lashing Whip (Vine only). Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 2d4 + PB slashing damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled (escape DC = 11 + PB).

Soporific Scent (Flower only). The plant can cast the charm person and sleep spells at will. The maximum level at which it can cast the spells equals half of your proficiency bonus, rounded up.

Walloping Limb (Tree only). Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 1d10 + PB bludgeoning damage.

Diamond Edge

7th-level Jewelist feature

You hone your mobile armory to the same crystalline sharpness as your mind. Any weapons carried by you or stored within your mindseye at the end of a long rest become magical for the purposes of overcoming resistances and immunities while you wield them. This benefit lasts until the start of your next long rest.

Advanced Stratagem

7th-level Jewelist feature

Your skill in etching information grows ever more precise. When you are creating a stratagem to store inside your mindseye, one additional creature of your choice that remains within 5 feet of you for the duration can store its own stratagem at the same time, following the same conditions that you follow. When you execute your stratagem and the creature is within 30 feet of you, it can choose to use its reaction to move up to half its speed and execute its own stratagem immediately after yours is resolved.

The number of creatures that can join you in creating and executing a stratagem in this way increases to two starting at 10th level, and to four starting at 18th level. If multiple creatures wish to execute their stratagems following your own, you choose the order in which their reactions are taken.

Prismatic Defense

10th-level Jewelist feature

At 10th level, your mindseye gains additional protective properties. When you summon items using your Multifaceted feature, you are briefly surrounded by a gem-like shield of hard light that refracts magic. Until the start of your next turn, you have advantage on saving throws against spells, and any creature making a spell attack against you has disadvantage on the attack roll. If you succeed on a saving throw against a spell or a spell attack misses you, an additional effect might occur, as determined by rolling a d3:

1: Some of the spell's energy is converted into a dazzling gleam of destructive force. Each creature within 30 feet of you must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 1d6 radiant damage per level of the spell on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

2: The spell's energy refracts through your defense and flashes brightly from one of its facets. Each creature in a 15-foot cone originating from you must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature is blinded for 1 minute. At the end of each of its turns, the creature can make a Constitution saving throw. On a success, the effect ends.

3: If the spell affects an area or has multiple targets, it fails and has no effect. If the spell targets only you, it has no effect and is reflected back at the caster, using the spell slot level, spell save DC, attack bonus, and spellcasting ability of the caster.

        Aasimar Jewelist

Fatal Flaw

15th-level Jewelist feature

By locating and exploiting its weakest point, you can shatter an enemy's defense. As part of the Attack action, you can make an Intelligence (Investigation) or a Wisdom (Insight) check against the AC of a creature you can see. If you succeed, you can target the creature's flaw, adding your proficiency bonus twice, instead of once, to attack rolls you make against it until the end of your turn. The target has vulnerability to the damage of the first attack you make that successfully hits it before the effect ends.

Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest before you can do so again.

Perfect Stratagem

18th-level Jewelist feature

As part of the same reaction you use to execute a stratagem, you can expend one use of your Multifaceted feature to summon any equipment you have stored within your mindseye. If one of your allies executes its own stratagem when you have opened your mindseye in this way, it can also summon any equipment it chooses stored within your mindseye, instantly equipping it or replacing its own equipment as detailed in your Multifaceted feature.

Warlord

They feast like kings ‐ which some of them are ‐ and they fill a room like the promise of a thunderstorm. Often stern, unapologetic, arrogant, terrible in their actions... and utterly magnetic.

                 HIPPOCAMPER

Tyrants, warmongers, heroes, geniuses: a warlord might be any or all of these things. No matter why they do it, what they do is lead, and fight, and do both well. Warlords extend the palpable influence of their mighty personalities across a battlefield, stamping it with the bloody hallmark of their strategies. They are often well-read in the arts of war, but what a warlord needs more than their letters is simply the verve and viscousness to encourage others to step up and do or die. Whether they be a country noble clad in gleaming plate beside their standard bearer, a guerilla commander in rolled-up shirtsleeves at the underground war room table, or a mountain chief swathed in shaggy furs atop the rocks, a warlord cuts a striking figure even among other fighters.

A warlord is most assured of victory when they can dictate the rules of engagement. They will carefully select the territory upon which battle will take place, declaring the most

 A human Warlord directs his troops

advantageous spot to defend, or the most necessary to capture. And while their ego is an essential part of their ability to lead troops, it is not to get in the way of strategy. Their decisions must encompass the entire field of combatants, rather than just themselves. A warlord directs others to strike more often than they move on their own into attack: although when the moment comes, they are ready to lead from the front with ruthless prejudice.

Conqueror's Instruction

3rd-level Warlord feature

You have added signals and skills to aid in the heat of battle or the acceptance of surrender to your vast arsenal. You learn Sign and one other language of your choice. You also gain proficiency in your choice of the Intimidation or the Persuasion skill.

Territorial

3rd-level Warlord feature

Wherever you lay your claim, you brook no resistance. As a bonus action, you can declare a territory in a 10-foot radius sphere centred on you or one of your allies that you can see within 90 feet of you. Whenever you or one of your allies deals damage to a target in the declared territory on your turn, the target takes an additional 1d4 damage.

Declared territory lasts for 24 hours, or until you use this feature again.

Battlefield Command

3rd-level Warlord feature

Oath Spells

3rd-level Oath of Perseverance feature

You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed in the Oath of Perseverance Spells table. See the Sacred Oath class feature for how oath spells work.

Oath of Perseverance Spells

Paladin Level	Spells
3rd	healing word, heroism
5th	continual flame, warding bond
9th	aura of vitality, revivify
13th	aura of life, death ward
17th	greater restoration, wall of stone

Channel Divinity

3rd-level Oath of Perseverance feature

You gain the following two Channel Divinity options. See the Sacred Oath class feature for how Channel Divinity works.

Try, Try Again. When a creature within 30 feet of you fails an ability check or attack roll, you can use your Channel Divinity as a reaction to encourage greater efforts. Until the end of your next turn, the creature adds your Charisma modifer to all ability checks or attack rolls (your choice).

Turn from Stones and Splinters. As a bonus action, you can use your Channel Divinity to steel yourself against futile violence. For 1 minute, you gain a damage threshold equal to your paladin level. You have immunity to all damage unless you take an amount of damage that equals or exceeds this threshold. The effect ends early if you fall unconscious.

Aura of Persistence

7th-level Oath of Perseverance feature

You emanate an aura of forthrightness and solidity. When you and any creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you take damage, the damage is reduced by a number equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of 1).

At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

Onwards and Upwards

15th-level Oath of Perseverance feature

Life knocks you down sometimes, but it can't keep you down. When you’re prone, you can stand up by spending 5 feet of movement, rather than half your speed. When you do so, you can use your reaction to inspire creatures of your choice within 30 feet of you that can see you, granting them the same benefit until the end of their next turn and 1d6 temporary hit points.

                     Human Paladin
                    of Perseverance

Impenetrable Optimism

20th-level Oath of Perseverance feature

Your spirited outlook galvanizes you against life's woes. Even in the darkest hours, you are a beacon of positivity to your allies, as sturdy as untarnished metal. Using your action, you undergo a transformation. For 1 hour, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain a damage threshold of 20. When you use your Channel Divinity to Turn from Stones and Splinters while transformed in this way, your damage threshold doubles to 40 for the duration of the Channel Divinity.
• You cannot be incapacitated while you are conscious.
• Friendly creatures within 30 feet of you cannot be stunned.

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

Extinguish

15th-level Cinderwatch feature

The suppressive powers of your protective spells must be able to dampen the mightiest energies. Whenever you cast a non-damaging spell that affects an area, exposed flames in the area are immediately extinguished. In addition, choose a number of creatures, objects, or magical effects within the area of the spell up to your Wisdom modifier. Each target is suppressed in one of the following ways of your choice:

• It loses all temporary hit points and increases to its maximum hit points, and it regains the minimum number of hit points possible from any healing. While it is outside the area of your spell, a target can make a Constitution saving throw against your ranger spell save DC at the end of each of its turns. On a success, this suppression ends, although any temporary hit points or additional maximum hit points lost are not regained.
• On its turn, regardless of the creature's abilities or magic items, it can't make more than one melee or ranged attack. While it is outside the area of your spell, a target can make a Constitution saving throw against your ranger spell save DC at the end of each of its turns. On a success, this suppression ends.
• All magical effects and spells affecting it are targeted as if by the dispel magic spell, cast at its lowest level.

                A tiefling firefighter
                of the Cinderwatch

Dreamcatcher

Is there any wild so dense and dangerous as the darkened forests of our own minds?

                 HIPPOCAMPER

Bearing a strong connection to the Astral Plane, the Feywild, or a spiritual awareness that opens their senses to the whimsy and worries of others, rangers that work as Dreamcatchers guard the border between reality and pysche, treading the treacherous hollows of both the waking and dreaming worlds. Night terrors and other forces of the imagination that prey on the minds of mortals become their prey in turn. The dreams of certain creatures, the legendary beholders among them, can even manifest in reality: and a ranger of this archetype will be waiting to meet them. A Dreamcatcher has a sharpened sense of empathy with which they can track threads of imaginative power, and a spiritually enhanced skill at arms that allows them to strike at the psychic strength of their foes. As watchers over the threshold of the subconscious, they can wield both hopeful and despairing elements of the worlds within. In some locales they are known as Believers or Listeners; in others, they are called Nightmare Riders. When a Dreamcatcher dances through the twilight on the hunt, nothing is truly certain ‐ except for the presence of the bizarre.

Chase the Feeling

3rd-level Dreamcatcher feature

You can sense when reality ravels in the direction of dreaming. Whenever a spell is cast within 120 feet of, you know the origin of the spell, as well as its school of magic. If the origin of the spell is a creature or object within range, you can gain advantage on the next attack roll or ability check you make against that target before the end of your next turn.

You can gain advantage this way a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Dreamcatcher Magic

3rd-level Dreamcatcher feature

You learn the minor illusion cantrip if you don’t already know it.

You also learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Dreamcatcher Spells table. Each spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Dreamcatcher Spells

Ranger Level	Spell
3rd	faerie fire, minor illusion
5th	detect thoughts
9th	hypnotic pattern
13th	hallucinatory terrain
17th	modify memory

Dreamcatcher Oddities

Gloaming Hunt

3rd-level Dreamcatcher feature

Your weapons can strike at the strange darkness of the subconscious to either contain it or soothe those it haunts. You gain one of the following features of your choice.

Dream Guide. Your influence causes a creature's hopes and dreams to bubble to the surface, where you can snatch them for the creature to follow. As a bonus action, choose one creature within 30 feet of you. If the target is unwilling, it can make an Intelligence saving throw against your ranger spell save DC. On a success, this feature has no effect. The creature's dream emerges as an intangible form 5-feet in diameter invisible to all other creatures except you. You can discern only its vague shape. The dream can pass through creatures and objects, and lasts until the start of your next turn. As part of the same bonus action you use to draw out the dream, you can move it up to 30 feet to point you can see. The dreaming creature has advantage on attack rolls against a target that shares space with its dream, and disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks against targets that do not.

Drive Away Darkness. Your defense brings soothing security of mind, as your blows banish the hidden fears that wear away at a creature's endurance. As a bonus action taken when you successfully hit a creature with a weapon attack, choose another creature within 15 feet of your target that can see it. The chosen creature can immediately expend 1 of its Hit Dice, regaining a number of hit points equal to the number rolled + your Wisdom modifier.

 Strike the Shadow. You can target the shadow of a creature as though it were a living extension of its being. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The next time you hit that creature on this turn with a weapon attack, all damage dealt by the attack becomes psychic damage, and the creature must make an Intelligence saving throw against your ranger spell save DC. On a failed save, the target takes additional psychic damage equal to one roll of its Hit Die, and its speed is reduced to 0 until the end of its next turn as you pin its shadow with your weapon. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and its speed is not reduced.

Sentinel of the Psyche

7th-level Dreamcatcher feature

Nothing that lurks in the mortal mind has any power to surprise you now. You gain resistance to psychic damage and proficiency in Intelligence saving throws.

As a reaction when a creature within 30 feet of you takes damage or makes an Intelligence saving throw, you can choose to lose these benefits until the end of your next turn and grant them to that creature for the duration.

   A dragonborn Dreamcatcher
   on the hunt for errant
   nightmares

Fleeting as a Dream

11th-level Dreamcatcher feature

You flit on the flow of imagination to bear messages across minds and time, or to run down your quarry. You gain a flying speed equal to twice your walking speed. You fall if you end your turn in the air more than 30 feet away from another creature with an Intelligence score of 3 or higher.

In addition, you can cast the dream spell once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When cast in this way, you cannot choose a creature other than yourself to enter the dream trance.

Ephemeral Outstrider

15th-level Dreamcatcher feature

Your spirit is forever dappled in the fickle light of dreaming. You gain one of the following features of your choice. When you take part in a dream spell, you can replace your choice for both this feature and for your Gloaming Hunt feature.

Bizarre Phantasmagoria. The endless metamorphosis of dreaming energizes your hunt. You learn the polymorph spell. It doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells you know. You can also cast it once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Once per turn when you successfully hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cast the spell on the target as part of the same action, requiring no components. If you do so, the spell’s duration becomes 1 minute for that casting, which does not require concentration. When a creature transformed in this way reverts to its normal form, it takes psychic damage equal to five rolls of its Hit Die.

Liminal Being. You stalk the fading divide between the waking mind and retreating dreams, where memory evaporates like mist. Whenever a creature loses sight of you, you can choose for it to forget your existence for up to 24 hours. Its memories of you return the next time it sees you.

Additionally, you can use your action to choose a creature within 60 feet of you that cannot see or remember you and attempt to draw it into further forgetfulness. The creature must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw against your ranger spell save DC or lose all memory of a number of creatures or objects you choose equal to 1 + your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of 1). The chosen creatures or objects cannot be visible to the target. These memories return after 24 hours; if the target sees a forgotten creature or object before the duration ends, it has no recollection of it.

Terrible Visitation. As an action, you can summon forth a nightmare under your telepathic control. The nightmare has the statistics provided in the Monster Manual, though it is a construct, instead of a fiend. Additionally, it can understand any languages you speak, and you can choose to replace the resistance to fire damage it confers to anyone riding it with resistance to another type of damage. The nightmare remains for 1 minute, or until you dismiss it early as an action.

While riding the nightmare, your weapon attacks deal an additional 1d10 psychic damage, and a creature you damage with a weapon attack must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your ranger spell save DC, or become frightened of you until the end of its next turn.

Once you summon the nightmare, you can’t summon it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 4th-level or higher to do so again.

    Rogue

           Action makes a rogue: the thrust of
           intrigue, dalliances in the dark of night,
           and deeds that require a deft hand.
         Their skills, and their lifestyles, lead them through a constant pitter-patter of secrets and stories. A rogue has much to tell you, if you can convince them to talk. By no means must a roguish sort be a criminal, but their curiosity inevitably leads them to cross boundaries. Included below is a character option for those who do so frequently, with a flagrant disregard for authority.

Optional Class Feature

You gain class features in the Player’s Handbook when you reach certain levels in your class. This section offers an additional feature that you can gain as a rogue. Unlike the features in the Player’s Handbook, you don’t gain the feature here automatically. Consulting with your DM, you decide whether to gain the feature in this section if you meet the level requirement noted in the feature’s description.

Versatile Aptitude

4th-level rogue feature

Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can do one of the following, as you retrain the skills you need for your work:

• Replace a skill proficiency you have with proficiency in a different skill of your choice from the list of skills available to rogues at 1st level.
• Move the benefit of your Expertise feature from one of your skill proficiencies, or your proficiency with thieves’ tools, and apply it instead to another skill proficiency or your proficiency with thieves' tools that does not already have this benefit.

Roguish Archetype

At 3rd level, a rogue gains the Roguish Archetype feature. The following Roguish Archetype is available to you, in addition to the options offered in the Player’s Handbook, Xanathar's Guide to Everything, and Tasha's Cauldron of Everything.

Smuggler

Knights in shining armor come in all stripes ‐ cleric, paladin, fighter ‐ but there are some situations in life where holy religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good smuggler at your side.

                HIPPOCAMPER

Blockade Runner

3rd-level Smuggler feature

Moving and talking fast is the bread and butter of your business. You gain proficiency with land and water vehicles if you don't already have it. You can choose these proficiencies when selecting new skills for your Expertise feature. In addition, you gain proficiency with your choice of the Deception or Persuasion skill.

Expert Concealment

3rd-level Smuggler feature

You can conceal a number of Tiny objects up to your proficiency bonus on your person or in a vehicle that you own in such a way that they cannot be found. You can conceal an object in this way on your person as an action, or take 1 minute to secure it within a vehicle. A creature other than you is unable to locate a concealed object without the aid of the locate object spell or similar magic, unless you tell them where it is hidden. A creature other than you that is aware of the object's location has disadvantage on any Intelligence (Investigation) checks made to find it, contested by your Dexterty (Sleight of Hand) or Dexterity (Stealth) roll.

In addition, you can take 8 hours and 50gp of materials to modify a vehicle of size Large or larger that you own with a specialized compartment. The compartment can be used to hide a Small or Medium creature or object using this feature. A Large vehicle can accommodate one such compartment; a Huge vehicle up to two, and a Gargantuan Vehicle up to four. A creature hidden in the compartment using this feature concealed from detection and location as usual, although excessive noise or movement can alert those nearby to its presence. A hidden creature's Dexterity (Stealth) roll is used in place of yours if another creature aware of the compartment attempts to locate it.

One Shot First

3rd-level Smuggler feature

Keeping a hair trigger is smart insurance for someone in your line of work. As a reaction whenever initiative is rolled, you can draw a weapon and make a single weapon attack against a creature you can see within range. If necessary, you also load ammunition into your weapon as part of this reaction.

Scoundrel

9th-level Smuggler feature

You possess a disarming charm that ruffles feathers. A creature you are talking to within 10 feet of you and that understands you has disadvantage on Charisma (Deception) checks made against you.

In addition, a creature that takes your Sneak Attack damage on your turn has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks against you until the start of your next turn.

 A Tortle Smuggler
  negotiating her terms

High Speed

A campaign with a smuggler ought to include a good chase scene or two. Review the expanded Tool Proficiencies rules in chapter 2 of Xanathar's Guide to Everything with your DM to make the most of your skill with land and water vehicles. Expertly avoiding hazards and pulling incredible stunts can help your party to duke it out with pursuers on any side of the law.

The Long Con

13th-level Smuggler feature

You're no stranger to unusual methods of getting past a secured gate, or getting out of dodge. As an action, or as reaction taken when you take damage, you can fake your demise. For up to 24 hours, you appear dead to all outward inspection and to spells used to determine your status. For the duration, you are blinded, your speed is 0, and you have resistance to all damage except psychic damage. If you are diseased or poisoned when you use this feature, or become diseased or poisoned whilst under its effect, the disease or posion has no effect on you until the effect ends. You can end the effect on yourself as an action.

You can use this feature once, and regain the ability to do so upon completing a long rest.

Clean Getaway

17th-level Smuggler feature

The element of surprise is never lost: merely concealed until you need it most. Whenever you succeed on a saving throw and take no damage as a result of your Evasion feature, you can use your reaction to move up to your speed and make one weapon attack against the creature or object that forced the save. If you can apply your Sneak Attack damage to this attack, the target is stunned until the end of your next turn.

Waterborn Metamagic

3rd-level Storm Sorcery feature

Like the waves, your power swells and breaks over its targets with staggering force. You gain the Heightened Spell Metamagic option. See the Metamagic class feature in the Player’s Handbook for how Metamagic works. You cannot replace this option, and it does not count towards your number of options known.

When you use the Metamagic option granted by this feature, you can reduce the cost of sorcery points required to use it by 1. Once you do so, you must complete a short or long rest before you can do so again.

Wild Metamagic

3rd-level Wild Magic feature

The magic within you is always surging: its unpredictability matched by its unbridled energy. You gain the Empowered Spell Metamagic option. See the Metamagic class feature in the Player’s Handbook for how Metamagic works. You cannot replace this option, and it does not count towards your number of options known.

When you use the Metamagic option granted by this feature, you can reduce the cost of sorcery points required to use it by 1. Once you do so, you must complete a short or long rest before you can do so again.

                     A torch gifted by
                      a fiendish patron

    Warlock

           Raw power is a rare resource on any
           world ‐ even those alive with magic.
          Some would kill for it; some would
         trade anything for it, or work away their life for it. Benevolent or baleful though their designs may be, all warlocks are joined by this circumstance: the need for power, and, therefore, the drive to get involved with those beings that trade in it. Such is the stuff that drives stories, grand and intimate. And the patrons of these individuals tend to have a certain bent towards drama, as well. A warlock's relationship with their patron, and by extension, their relationship with power, is often a defining one in their life of adventure. But power doesn't always lie with those of a singular mind... or of a mind scrutable by mortal means at all. Included below, along with other occult secrets that all patrons might bequeath, are two magical forces that invite warlocks to be a part of their multiplicate bodies, gaining ‐ and sometimes giving ‐ power as part of a larger whole.

Optional Class Features

You gain class features in the Player’s Handbook when you reach certain levels in your class. This section offers additional features that you can gain as a warlock. Unlike the features in the Player’s Handbook, you don’t gain the features here automatically. Consulting with your DM, you decide whether to gain a feature in this section if you meet the level requirement noted in the feature’s description. These features can be selected separately from one another; you can use some, all, or none of them.

Pact Boon Option

3rd-level warlock feature

When you choose your Pact Boon feature, the following option is available to you.

Pact of the Torch

Your patron grants you a spark of their presence in the form of a torch, a lantern, or another source of light that can be held in one hand. When you are holding the torch, you can use an action to ignite it, providing bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. The torch burns until you are incapacitated, or until you use an action to extinguish it. If you make a melee attack with the burning torch and hit, it deals 1 fire damage. Touching the burning torch to a flammable object that isn't being worn or carried causes it to ignite.

Creatures of your choice gain advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened while they remain in the bright light provided by the torch. The light of the torch is magical, and is considered to be an area of light created by a spell of equal level to your warlock spell slots for the purposes of dispelling the darkness spell and similar magic.

If you lose the torch, you can perform a 1-hour ceremony to receive a replacement from your patron. This ceremony can be performed during a short or long rest, and it destroys the previous torch. The torch crumbles to ash when you die.

Eldritch Invocation Options

When you choose eldritch invocations, you have access to these additional options.

Arcane Cabal Expanded Spells

Spell Level	Spells
1st	command, magic missile
2nd	zone of truth, knock
3rd	nondetection, sending
4th	fabricate, leomund's secret chest
5th	dispel evil and good, geas

Gilded Member

1st-level Arcane Cabal feature

As a fully-fledged member of your eldritch organization, you gain the following benefits:

Revenue Stream. At the end of each long rest, you gain a number of gold pieces equal to your warlock level + your proficiency bonus. As an action, you can commune with your patron to request an advance on a number of days' pay up to your Charisma modifier, instantly gaining the amount of gold for those days. You then lose the benefit of this feature until you finish a number of long rests equal to 1 + the number of days requested.

Proprietary Magicks. As an action, you can expend a warlock spell slot and pay a fee in gold pieces equal to 2d4 x the spell slot's level to cast any spell from the Arcane Cabal Expanded Spell list , even if you don’t know it. The spell must be of a level you can cast. The fee is whisked through the ether to your patron's pocket. You must complete a short or long rest before you can use this feature again.

Expanded Operations

6th-level Arcane Cabal feature

You now have additional power and responsibility over the resources of the cabal, affording you the following benefits:

Summon Hirelings. Over 1 minute, you can perform a ritual to summon underlings in the employ of the cabal to assist you. You can summon a number of messengers or untrained hirelings up to your warlock level, or half as many skilled hirelings. A hireling you summon uses the statistics of a cultist provided in the Monster Manual, although it adds twice your Charisma modifier to its maximum and total hit points.

As your subordinates, hirelings require payment to carry out tasks, the rates of which are detailed in the Services section in chapter 5 of the Player's Handbook. If payment is not provided up front, the hirelings will vanish. Paid hirelings are friendly to you and your companions, and will help you as directed within their ability. They are willing to follow you into dangerous locales, but will not risk their lives for you unless persuaded and compensated to do so. In combat, hirelings roll their own initiative as a group. By default, their priority is to defend themselves or hide.

The hirelings remain until their task is complete, you cease paying them, or you dismiss them as an action. You can choose to dismiss individual hirelings or entire groups. Hirelings require new payment at dawn of each day, which you can magically provide to them wherever they are, as long as they are on the same plane of existence.

                         Tiefling warlock of
                         an Arcane Cabal

 Once you perform this ritual, you can’t perform it again until you finish a long rest, unless you spend a warlock spell slot to do so again.

Occult Investment. As an action, you can invest a portion of your power in another. Choose one creature within 5 feet of you to grant one of your warlock spell slots. While the creature has the spell slot, it can use it to cast a spell that you know using your spellcasting ability modifier. If the spell slot is unused, it expires at the end of your next short rest.

As a bonus action, you can buy back the invested spell slot early by expending gold pieces equal to 2d4 x the level of the spell slot. A spell cast using the invested spell slot gains one of the following bonuses (chosen by you when you cast the spell):

• +2 bonus to the spell attack roll.
• +2 bonus to the saving throw DC of the spell when cast.
• Deals additional damage on one roll of the spell equal to twice your Charisma modifier.

You can benefit from one invested spell slot at a time. An invested spell slot that is not used loses its benefits at the end of your next long rest.

Delegate Responsibility

10th-level Arcane Cabal feature

Color Out of Place

1st-level Enigmatic Chromata feature

You can stain space itself in your patron's colors. As a bonus action, you can create a 15-foot chromatic cube at a point you can see within 90 feet of you. The space inside the cube is filled with dim light tinted in one of the colors that you control, chosen when you create the cube. Everything within its space is visible only in shades of the chosen color. A creature inside the chromatic cube's space gains advantage on saving throws against spells from the school of magic associated with the cube's color, and resistance to the associated damage type. In addition, the only spells it can cast while inside the cube's space must be of the associated school of magic or deal the associated damage type.

A creature is unaffected by a chromatic cube if it relies on senses other than sight, such as blindsight, or if it can perceive illusions as false, as with truesight.

When you cast a warlock spell of the associated school of magic or damage type from inside a chromatic cube's space or that targets a creature inside a chromatic cube's space, roll 1d6. The spell gains a bonus to one damage roll, or to the spell save DC of the spell on the turn you cast it (your choice), equal to the number rolled.

A cube you create with this feature lasts for 1 hour. It vanishes early if you die, or if you create another cube of the same color within 90 feet of it.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 + your proficiency bonus, and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Transmute Tone

1st-level Enigmatic Chromata feature

A light touch of your magic can tint simple items more permanently in shades of your preferred palette. As an action, you can touch a nonmagical object of size Small or smaller and change one or more of its colors to one of those you have control over. The changes last until you are incapacitated, or until removed by the dispel magic spell or similar magic.

Chromatic Mosaic

6th-level Enigmatic Chromata feature

Your command over the color spectrum broadens. You can now use an action, rather than a bonus action, to expend a use of your Color Out of Place feature and create as many chromatic cubes as there are colors that you control. Each cube must be tinted a different color. You can arrange the cubes how you like, stacking them vertically or horizontally, though each cube must touch at least one other on a side.

As an action while you can see one of your cubes, you can energize it to unleash a magical effect upon any creatures or objects inside it. Each creature inside the cube must make a Constitution saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. The resulting effect depends on the color of the cube. When you energize a cube, it vanishes.

  Red. A creature takes fire damage equal to 3d8 + twice your warlock level on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The energy ignites flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried.

Orange. A creature takes 3d8 acid damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. On a failed save, nonmagical armor worn by the target is partly dissolved and takes a permanent, cumulative −1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.

Yellow. A creature takes 3d8 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. On a failed save, a creature cannot take reactions until the end of its next turn.

Green. A creature takes 3d8 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. On a failed save, a creature is poisoned for 1 minute. It can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the condition on a success.

Blue. A creature takes 3d8 cold damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. On a failed save, a creature has its movement speed reduced by 15 feet for 1 minute. It can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

Indigo. A creature takes 3d8 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. On a failed save, a creature is restrained until the end of its next turn.

Violet. A creature takes 3d8 psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. On a failed save, a creature is teleported to a point you choose within 5 feet of one of the cubes created by this feature.

Spectral Shimmer

10th-level Enigmatic Chromata feature

You can react to danger in a flash, subjecting attackers to a dizzying array of defensive magic. As a reaction when you are hit by a melee attack, you can deal 1d8 damage to the attacking creature for each of your patron's colors that you control. The damage of each d8 is the type associated with each color. If either you or the attacking creature are within the space of one of your chromatic cubes, the attacking creature takes an additional 2d8 damage of the cube's associated damage type.

If you roll an 8 on any of the dice, the creature that damaged you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your warlock spell save DC or become blinded until the end of its next turn.

A creature takes no damage if it can't see you, if it relies on senses other than sight, such as blindsight, or if it can perceive illusions as false, as with truesight.

You can use this reaction once, and must complete a short or long rest before you can do so again, unless you expend a use of your Color Out of Place feature to use it again.

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Refraction

14th-level Engimatic Chromata feature

Having absorbed all seven strands of your patron's power, you now grow close to your own iridescent ascension. You learn the prismatic spray spell. It counts as a warlock spell for you and can be cast using your Mystic Arcanum feature, but it doesn't count against the number of spells you choose using that feature. You can also cast it once without using a spell slot, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Whenever you would cast the spell, you can choose to bend its magic through your own body instead, causing you to refract into seven duplicates of colored light for 1 minute. Each duplicate represents one of your patron's colors and appears up to 30 feet away from you, connected to your body by a faintly shimmering beam of light. Your body glows white, shedding bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet. Each duplicate sheds colored light in the same radius. On each of your turns, you can move your duplicates up to your speed, although they cannot move more than 30 feet away from you or behind total cover. You must concentrate on this effect as if concentrating on a spell.

While the duplicates exist, you are immune to all damage except force damage. A duplicate's AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier, and it has 1 hit point. A duplicate can be damaged only by the associated damage type of its color, or by a spell cast from the associated school of magic. It ignores all other damage, conditions, and effects. When a duplicate is destroyed, its light returns to you, and you can once again be damaged by the damage type or school of magic associated with the color of the destroyed duplicate. The effect ends when all of the duplicates have been destroyed.

Open Book

2nd-level School of Thought feature

You have learned to skim a well-read mind like any other tome. As a bonus action, you can focus your thoughts on a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you and attempt to peruse its magical knowledge. Make an Intelligence (Investigation) check. The DC equals 11 + the level of spells you are hoping to peruse. On a success, you learn the name and effect of each spell of the chosen level or lower that the target can cast. If a spell you find appears on the wizard spell list, you can make a mental note of the spell's formula by storing it within an empty room of your memory palace.

You can add a spell you have stored in your memory palace in this way to your spellbook as normal if it is of a spell level you can prepare. The gold and time you must spend to copy a spell found in this way into your spellbook is halved.

Hold Thought

6th-level School of Thought feature

By opening the doors to your own spacious mind, you can ease the mental load of spellcasting for another. As a bonus action, you can choose a creature within 30 feet of you that is concentrating on a spell. If the target is unwilling, it can make an Intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC. On a success, this feature has no effect.

You maintain concentration on the target's spell in its stead by storing it inside an empty room of your memory palace. You can continue to concentrate on one other spell of your own while you have a spell stored in this way. If you lose concentration on either spell for any reason other than willingly choosing to end it, both spells end.

Once you concentrate on two spells at once, you must complete a short or long rest before you can do so again.

Enduring Ego

10th-level School of Thought feature

When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can temporarily transfer your consciousness into the mind of another creature within 60 feet of you. When you do so, your body is unconscious but stable as your mind divorces from it. You can maintain concentration on spells, making a Constitution saving throw as normal against the triggering damage to do so when you use this feature.

In this state you are intangible and cannot be targeted by any means. You cannot take any actions, bonus actions, or reactions, other than to use your Hold Thought or Open Book features. You perceive through your host creature's senses, and you gain the benefits of any special senses that it has. You can communicate telepathically with any other creature within 60 feet of it. Your telepathic utterances are in a language you know, and a creature understands you only if it knows that language. It can respond in kind. Your host is not aware of your presence unless you choose to communicate with it. If you choose to allow it to do so, the host can use your Intelligence saving throw modifier in place of its own whenever it is forced to make an Intelligence saving throw.

Your consciousness can persist in this state for up to 1 hour. If your body regains hit points, you immediately return to it if it is on the same plane of existence. When the effect ends, you die if you have not returned to your body.

Sympathetic Revelation

14th-level School of Thought feature

You can attempt to cast spells beyond your understanding by using the knowledge of another. As an action taken when you find a spell with a casting time of 1 action in a creature's mind using your Open Book feature, you can cast it at its lowest level. The spell chosen must be 5th-level or lower, but does not need to be on the wizard spell list.

The spell is cast as if by you, using your spell save DC, spell attack bonus, and spellcasting ability. If your target has a spell slot of the required level for the chosen spell, that spell slot is used instead of your own to cast the spell.

If the spell is a wizard spell and of a spell level you can prepare, you can immediately replace one of your prepared wizard spells with it.

Once you use this action, you must complete a long rest before you can do so again.

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Additional Proficiencies

The variety of skills, weapons, armor, languages, and tools that your D&D character can specialize in already covers an expansive array of scenarios. The additional options presented here provide depth for areas unexplored by the selection of proficiencies given in the Player's Handbook.

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