The Puppeteer by

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<div class='cover-footer'>By Rafael Fernandes</div>

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# The Puppeteer 
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The seemingly bottomless powers of magic, the limitless ingenuity of the art of artifice. Few vocations marry these aspects of life as well as the mystical art of puppetry. 
 
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What was once but a small exercise meant for students of the school of necromancy, the simple art of controlling these arcane strings became easy enough to master that even those devoid of any magical talent could harness them with little help. And to help those people, so was the first puppet core created, a small metal frame built around a common blue salt stone.

With a single spark, a perfect catalyst is created to harness and augment the power of the arcane string. These cores quickly became an integral part of the puppeteer, some dedicating their entire lives in the pursuit of creating the perfect core.

### Puppets of Every Kind

With great craftsmanship, come thousands of creations. From wood, metal, stone, some puppets are even created out of nothing but paper and their core. The art of creating a puppet is a deeply personal one, and their shapes they can take are limitless.

There is but one thing uniting all puppeteers: dedication. Be it creating a world-rending construct, able to level kingdoms; a graceful marionette able to perform inhuman dances; or simply an indestructible core, all puppeteers are wholly dedicated in giving their hopes and dreams shape, placing part of their souls on every core they make.

### Simple Living
You might find several puppeteers who have given up on the life of an adventurer, choosing instead to devote themselves to their craft as artisans, as performers, or taking up a life of hermitage with their creations as their only friends.

Because of that, you will never fail to find materials for your puppets, some may even hold secret tools of only their own creation. As honorable it is to live a simple and quiet life, it is equally honorable to be devoted to spreading the knowledge of puppetry through the world.

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> ##### String of Many Worlds
> Throughout the D&D multiverse, puppeteers tend to change. Whether through the puppets they use, the physical of magical aspect of their strings, or simply the repair tools available for them to use. Talk with your DM in how this class can be incorporated into the world.

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### Creating a Puppeteer
To create a puppeteer, consult the following subsections, which give you hit points, proficiencies, and starting equipment. Then look at the Puppeteer table to see which features you get at each level. The descriptions of those features appear in the "Class Features" section.

#### Quick Build
You can make a puppeteer quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in Intelligence, followed by Dexterity. Second, choose either the guild artisan or the entertainer background.

<div class='footnote'>Part 1 | Introduction</div>

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##### The Puppeteer
| Level | Proficiency <br> Bonus | Class Features | Puppet Damage Dice | Spell Sieve Scrolls 
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| 1st | +2 | Puppet, Arcane String | 1d8 | — 
| 2nd | +2 | Spell Sieve | 1d8 | 1st level 
| 3rd | +2  | Puppet Core  | 2d8 | 1st level 
| 4th | +2  | Ability Score Improvement | 2d8 | 1st level 
| 5th | +3  | Healing-Core Transfer (2) | 2d8 | 2nd level 
| 6th | +3  | Puppet Core feature | 2d8 | 2nd level 
| 7th | +3  | Living Attunement | 3d8 | 2nd level 
| 8th | +3  | Ability Score Improvement | 3d8 | 2nd level
| 9th | +4  | Last Resort | 3d8 | 3rd level 
| 10th | +4  | Puppet Enhancement, Healing-Core Transfer (4) | 3d8 | 3rd level 
| 11th | +4  | Puppet Core feature | 4d8 | 3rd level 
| 12th | +4  | Ability Score Improvement |4d8 | 3rd level 
| 13th | +5  | Sudden Transposition | 4d8 | 4th level 
| 14th | +5  | Living Attunement (2) | 4d8 | 4th level 
| 15th | +5  | Everlasting Creation | 5d8 | 4th level 
| 16th | +5  | Ability Score Improvement | 5d8 | 4th level
| 17th | +6  | Puppet Core feature | 5d8 | 5th level
| 18th | +6  | One with the String | 5d8 | 5th level 
| 19th | +6  | Ability Score Improvement | 6d8 | 5th level |
| 20th | +6  | Eternal Cage | 6d8 | 5th level

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#### Hit Points
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- **Hit Dice:** 1d6 per puppeteer level
- **Hit Points at 1st Level:** 6 + your Constitution modifier
- **Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per puppeteer level after 1st

#### Proficiencies
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- **Armor:** Light armor
- **Weapons:** Daggers, darts, rapiers slings, light crossbows
- **Tools:** Carpenter's tools, smith's tools, tinker's tools, two types of artisan's tools of your choice
- **Saving Throws:** Dexterity, Intelligence
- **Skills:** Choose three from Animal Handling, Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Performance, Religion, and Sleight of Hand

#### Starting Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
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- *(a)* two daggers or *(b)* a light crossbow and 20 bolts
- *(a)* carpenter's tools or *(b)* smith's tools
- *(a)* dungeoneer's pack or *(b)* explorer's pack
-  a puppet and leather armor

> ##### Multiclassing and the Puppeteer
> If your group uses the optional rule on multiclassing in the Player's Handbook, here's what you need to know if you choose puppeteer as one of your classes.
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**Ability Score Minimum.** As a multiclass character, you must have at least an Intelligence score of 13 to take a level in this class.
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**Proficiencies Gained**. If puppeteer isn't your initial class, here are the proficiencies you gain when you take your first level as a puppeteer: light armor, carpenter's tools, smith's tools, tinker's tools.

<div class='footnote'>  Part 2 | The Puppeteer </div>

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## Class Features
As a puppeteer, you gain the following class features, which are summarized in the Puppeteer table.

### Puppet
*1st level puppeteer feature*

After countless days of work, you have created your first puppet, linking yourself with its magical core and forming a bond for life. See its game statistics in the Puppet stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places, along with your spellcasting ability. You use your Intelligence whenever your puppet refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for the puppet. You determine the puppet's appearance and material composition whenever you create one; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.
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Your puppet is used as an extension of your own character. Using a bonus action, you can activate your puppet, it remains active for 1 hour, until you dismiss it as a bonus action, or until you're incapacitated. While active, you can use your actions, bonus actions, or reactions to activate the puppet's abilities. Your puppet's damage dice increase as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Puppet Damage Dice column of the Puppeteer table. You can also have your puppet wield any simple or martial melee weapon.
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At the end of a long rest, you can repair your puppet or create a new one as long as you have carpenter's tools or smith's tools with you.

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### Arcane String
*1st level puppeteer feature*

Fragments of magic are weaved between yourself and your creation in the form of pure strands that emerge from the tip of your fingers.
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You learn the *mage hand* cantrip. When you cast it, your strings act as the spectral hand.

### Spell Sieve
*2nd level puppeteer feature*

While the  power of the magical arts has never been yours to master, you have learned how to store and use scrolls through your puppet. The Puppeteer table shows the level of spell scrolls that you can create place inside your puppet. You can have two different scrolls of any class at a time inside your puppet, and can place or replace them during a short rest.

Unlike with normal scrolls, you determine the spell's saving throw DC and attack bonus. Also unlike regular scrolls, your puppet cannot attempt to cast a spell scroll of a higher level than it can normally cast.

To create a spell scroll your must have a spellcaster that knows the spell, or a book or scroll to copy from.
You take a number of days equal to the spell's level to craft a spell scroll, and must have with you the corresponding materials. These  scrolls are custom made for your puppet, they can only be used with it, and will vanish if opened outside your puppet.

### Puppet Core
*3rd level puppeteer feature*

After setting your mind on your puppet's final form, you create its core, choosing from among the following: Armored-Core, Living-Core, String-Core, or Twin-Core, each of which is detailed after the class's description. Your choice grants you features at 6th level and again at 11th and 17th level.
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> ## Puppet
>*Medium Construct*
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> - **Armor Class** 15 (natural armor)
> - **Hit Points** 5 + your Intelligence modifier + five times your puppeteer level
> - **Speed** fly 40 ft. (up to 30 ft. away from you)
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>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|16 (+3)|15 (+2)|14 (+2)|10 (+0)|1 (-5)|1 (-5)|
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> - **Saving Throws** Con +2 plus PB, Int +0 plus PB
> - **Skills** Athletics +3 plus PB, Acrobatics +2 plus PB
> - **Damage Immunities** poison
> - **Condition Immunities** blinded, charmed, frightened, exhaustion, poisoned
> - **Proficiency Bonus (PB)** equals your bonus
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>  **Healing-Core.** During a short rest, you can heal your puppet using your hit dice, with a bonus equal to your spell attack modifier.
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>  **Vice-Like Grip.** Your allies have advantage on attacks against creatures grappled by the puppet.
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> ### Actions
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> ***Threaded Ram.*** *Melee Weapon Attack:* your spell attack modifier to hit, Reach 5ft., one target you can see. ***Hit:*** 1d8 + your spell attack modifier force damage.  If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, the puppet can attempt to grapple them.
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> ### Reaction
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> ***String Snare.*** The puppet attempts to grapple a creature that leaves its attack range.

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### Ability Score Increase
*4th level puppeteer 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.

### Healing-Core Transfer
*5th level puppeteer feature*

You learn to heal your allies in the same way you channel energy into your puppet's core. You can use your action heal up to two allies within 30 feet of you for 1d6 + your spell attack modifier.
You can use this feature once per long rest.

At 10th level, you can heal 4 allies in the same way.

### Living Attunement
*7th level puppeteer feature*

Your bond with your puppet has reached a new level, part of your soul transferred  into its core.

You can now give up one of your attunement slots to equip your puppet with one magical item that requires attunement. Furthermore, your puppet's attacks now count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

You are able to equip it with two magical items that require attunement at 14th level.

### Last Resort
*9th level puppeteer feature*

Charged with a will to win, your puppet can deliver an explosive charge with its dying breath. When your puppet is reduced to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to detonate its core, forcing each creature in a 20-foot-radius to make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw. Each creature takes 8d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. You have advantage on the saving throw.

The DC of the explosion increases to 18 and the damage to 12d6 fire damage at 15th level.

### Puppet Enhancement
*10th level puppeteer feature*

You have finally achieved a new stage for your puppet and its core, gaining the following features:
* Each Hit-Dice you use to heal yourself or your puppet heals for 2d6.
* Your puppet gains a +2 bonus to Armor Class.
* Your puppet can now be up to 60ft from you.

### Sudden Transposition
*13th level puppeteer feature*

The movement between you and your creation becomes like an effortless waltz. If an effect you can see forces you or an ally within 60 feet of you to make a saving throw, you can use your reaction to switch locations with your puppet, and have it perform the saving throw instead.

### Everlasting Creation
*15th level puppeteer feature*

Even as you fall, your puppet knows not to stop fighting until its body falls apart. If you fall unconscious while your puppet is active, you can still control it, and you do not have to make death saving throws until your puppet falls to 0 hit points. You suffer the normal effects of taking damage while at 0 hit points, and will die once you fail three death savings throws.

### One with the String
*18th level puppeteer feature*

After many sleepless nights, you discover how to place a puppet core inside you, turning your body into a living construct. Your body no longer ages, and can't be magically aged, and you no longer need food or water.

You can now use your puppet's actions, bonus actions, and reactions as if they were your own, and you gain a base AC of 17 as long as you aren't wearing armor. (your Dexterity modifier doesn't affect this number)

### Eternal Cage
*20th level puppeteer feature*

With your core's destructive power perfected, you have developed your greatest technique. As an action, you or your puppet can attempt to grab a Medium creature within 10 feet, forcing it to make a DC 18 Strength saving throw. If they fail, your core emerges, swallowing them whole and killing them instantly. You can use this feature once per long rest.

A creature is immune to this effect if it  has legendary actions. Such a creature instead takes 10d8 force damage from this feature instead, as the core pushes them 10 feet away from you.

<div class='footnote'> Part 2 | The Puppeteer </div>

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## Puppet Cores
The heart and soul of every puppet, their core is what gives them their strength, what connects you as one. Here are the core options you can choose from at 3rd level.

### Armored-Core
The Armored-Core focuses on creating the ultimate shield. Fear not in being flung into a battlefield, because your creation will always have your back.

#### Tightly-Wound String
*3rd-level Armored-Core feature*

As you bring your puppet closer to you, it becomes easier to tense and release its strings in order to better shield it from attacks. When your puppet is at least 5 feet from you, it gains a +3 bonus to its Armor Class. 
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At 11th level, the range increases to 10 feet, and the Armor Class bonus becomes +5.

#### Well-Timed Shield
*3rd-level Armored-Core feature*

When a creature you can see attacks a target other than your puppet that is within 10 feet of it, you can use your reaction to have the puppet switch places with the creature. You must decide to do this before the DM says if the attack hits or misses.

#### Hardened Frame
*6th-level Armored-Core feature*

After careful studying the marks on your puppet after every fight, you have conceived a new and stronger exterior:
* Your puppet now has advantage on all non-magical saving throws.
* Whenever you repair your puppet or create a new one after a long rest, choose bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing. Your puppet gains resistance to that type of damage.

#### Perfect Parry
*11th-level Armored-Core feature*

The perfect defense construct should also be equipped with the most powerful counter attack. Whenever an enemy within range misses an attack against your puppet, you can use your reaction to have them roll their damage dice as normal. Your puppet deals half of the result as force damage to the target.

#### Armored Empowerment
*17th-level Armored-Core feature*

Your puppet becomes a stronghold, even divided, able to protect everyone. As an action, you can split your puppet into four pieces for 1 minute, or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell), empowering up to four allies other than you within 60 feet with its powers. They gain the following features:
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* +5 bonus to Armor Class
* Attacks deal an extra 3d8 force damage once per turn
* Resistance to all damage types that the puppet resists

### Living-Core
The origin of your arcane string, those who devote themselves to create Living-Cores are compelled by the beyond. A single lifeless puppet is not enough, you yearn for an army at your side, each one a strand of your masterful tapestry.

#### Grave-Bound
*3rd-level Living-Core feature*

Your connection to the underworlds is able to infect every one of your creations. You and your puppet gain resistance to necrotic damage, and advantage on saving throws against undead creatures.

#### Limitless Puppets
*6th-level Living-Core feature*

You learn how to create simple improvised cores, perfect to use on a living puppet. You learn the *animate dead* spell and can cast it once per long rest. If your puppet ever falls during combat, you can use your reaction to connect your strings to any of your undead creations, empowering them with the power of your last puppet. That undead creature receives all stats and abilities of your regular puppet, its hit points remain the same however.
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At 11th level, you become able to cast *animate dead* twice per long rest.

#### Fueled by Death
*11th-level Living-Core feature*

With every living being that falls to the ground, you feel invigorated. Whenever an undead creature under your control drops to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to reanimate it back to unlife and restore all its hit points. You can use this feature once per short rest.

#### Glimpse into Perfection
*17th-level Living-Core feature*

After months of scouring for notes from master necromancers, you finally have enough information to recreate one of their masterpieces. By spending 1000 gp worth of materials over a week, you can construct a Boneclaw to use as a puppet.

This creature is not animate and can only be used as a puppet, it's statistics become the same as the Boneclaw's statistics, but it retains all features from this class. Once the puppet is destroyed, you must spend another week and another 1000 gp in materials to rebuild it.

<div class='footnote'> Part 3 | Subclasses </div>

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### String-Core
The String-Core is meant for those who want to control their enemies, stopping them in their tracks like a spider. With this core, even the mightiest of beasts can be trapped in your web.

#### Restraining Threads
*3rd-level String-Core feature*

Your control over the arcane string increases further. As an action you can attempt to grapple any creature up to 30 feet away from you. You can use your Intelligence (Arcana) for the grapple check. You can grapple creatures up to two sizes larger than you using this feature.

#### Awakened String
*6th-level String-Core feature*

Your puppet gains a new form, composed only by your strings. As a bonus action, you may activate your puppet, emerging from your hands in an unoccupied space 10 feet from you. This new puppet uses the Stringed puppet stat block. If it is dropped to 0 hit points, you can summon another one using your bonus action.

#### Fibrous Cocoon
*6th-level String-Core feature*

Imbued with your willpower, your string can become as hard as steel to shield yourself from attacks. When you or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you is attacked, you can use your reaction to cover them with your strings, giving them a +2 bonus to their Armor Class and reducing incoming damage by 2d8. You must decide to do this before the DM says if the attack hits or misses.
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At 11th level, the Armor Class bonus becomes +4 and the damage reduction becomes 4d8.

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#### Binding Web
*11th-level String-Core feature*

Like the thousands of arcane threads that are weaved through the world, your puppet can unfurl into a giant web.

As an action, you can have your puppet become a large string trap. Up to 5 Medium or Large creatures in a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on your puppet must make a DC 18 Strength check or be restrained for 1 minute. Your puppet can only restrain up to 2 Huge creatures and 1 Gargantuan creature with this feature and can still attack as normal.

A restrained creature can repeat this saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
You can use this feature once per long rest.

#### Smothering Chains
*17th-level String-Core feature*

Your string has become as sharp as a blade, and as strong as steel. Whenever you or your puppet successfully grapple or restrain a creature, you deal 4d8 force damage to it.

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> ## String Puppet
>*Medium Construct*
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> - **Armor Class** 17 (natural armor)
> - **Hit Points** 5 + your Intelligence modifier + five times your puppeteer level
> - **Speed** fly 60 ft. (up to 60 ft. away from you)
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>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|18 (+4)|20 (+5)|16 (+3)|19 (+4)|18 (+4)|20 (+5)|
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> - **Saving Throws** Con +3 plus PB, Int +4 plus PB
> - **Skills** Athletics +4 plus PB, Acrobatics +5 plus PB
> - **Damage Immunities** poison
> - **Condition Immunities** blinded, charmed, frightened, exhaustion, poisoned
> - **Proficiency Bonus (PB)** equals your bonus
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> <p>
>
>  **Healing-Core.** During a short rest, you can heal your puppet using your hit dice, with a bonus equal to your spell attack modifier.
> 
>  **Vice-Like Grip.** Your allies have advantage on attacks against creatures grappled by the puppet.
> 
> ### Actions
>
> ***Wire Rush.*** *Melee Weapon Attack:* your spell attack modifier to hit, Reach 10ft., one target you can see. ***Hit:*** 2d8 + your spell attack modifier force damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature,  the puppet can attempt to grapple them.
>
> ### Reaction
>
> ***String Snare.*** The puppet attempts to grapple a creature that leaves its attack range.

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### Twin-Core
One of the strongest cores, to mirror every movement, to double every attack, this power is reserved only for the most ruthless of puppeteers.
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#### Repeated Barrage
*3rd-level Twin-Core feature*

With every fight, your puppet's abilities increase, twice as strong as it was before. When your puppet takes the Attack action, you can make one additional melee attack using its Threaded Ram against another creature within range. You can do this once per turn, and once per puppet, and you do not add your spell attack modifier to this damage.

#### Binary Movement
*6th-level Twin-Core feature*

With every fight, your puppet's abilities increase, twice as strong as it was before. When you use your puppet's Attack action on your turn, you may attack twice instead of once.

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#### Core Reflection
*11th-level Twin-Core feature*

As your hammer strikes a newly built core, you look in awe as you have finally done it, you have split a core perfectly in half, allowing you to control two puppets at once.

As a bonus action you can activate two puppets at the same time, you control them simultaneously, but can use your bonus action instead of your action to have one of them attack using their Threaded Ram. Both puppets share their hit points, and once one falls, so does the other. Your Spell Sieve compartments are also split along the puppets, with each one having space for a single scroll.

#### Fractured Dance
*17th-level Twin-Core feature*

With blazing speed and control, your two puppets attack with as much fury as an entire army. As an action, you can give yourself advantage on all your puppet's attacks for 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell).

You can use this feature once per short rest.

## Optional Class Feature
After consulting with your DM, you may choose to take this feature at 1st level instead of the one in the Puppeteer table.

### Modulating Creation
Your puppet becomes a canvas for your creativity. It's stats become that of the Modulating Puppet, and can be increased with items and tools as shown in the Puppet Enhancements tables.

When you reach 10th level as a Puppeteer, your puppet receives +1 to all its stats and Armor Class, along with its other features.

#### **Puppet Enhancements Table**
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| Enhancement  | Effect | Cost
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|  Metal Plating | AC becomes 14 | 250 GP
|  Steel Reinforcing | AC becomes 16 | 1000 GP
|  Adamantine Case  | AC becomes 20 | 3000 GP
|  Spiked Armaments | Strength becomes 14 | 500 GP
|  String-Charged Pistons | Strength becomes 16 | 1500 GP
|  Seal of Giant Strength  | Strength becomes 18 | 2500 GP
|  Extra Articulations | Dexterity becomes 14 | 500 GP
|  Detachable Body Parts | Dexterity becomes 16 | 1000 GP
|  Compacted Core  | Dexterity becomes 18 | 3000 GP
|  Seal of Health | Constitution becomes 14 | 750 GP
|  Diamond Dusted Exterior | Constitution becomes 16 | 1500 GP
|  Attuning Gloves | Intelligence becomes 8 | 300 GP
|  Nerve Strands | Intelligence becomes 10 | 750 GP
|  Blood-Tainted Core  | Intelligence becomes 14 | 1250 GP

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> ## Modulating Puppet
>*Medium Construct*
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> - **Armor Class** 13 (natural armor)
> - **Hit Points** 5 + your Intelligence modifier + five times your puppeteer level
> - **Speed** fly 30 ft. (can only be up to 30 ft. away from you)
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>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|12 (+1)|10 (+0)|12 (+1)|7 (-2)|1 (-5)|1 (-5)|
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> - **Saving Throws** Con +0 plus PB, Int -2 plus PB
> - **Skills** Athletics +1 plus PB, Acrobatics +0 plus PB
> - **Damage Immunities** poison
> - **Condition Immunities** blinded, charmed, frightened, exhaustion, poisoned
> - **Proficiency Bonus (PB)** equals your bonus
> <p>
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>  **Healing-Core.** During a short rest, you can heal your puppet using your hit dice, with a bonus equal to your spell attack modifier.
> 
>  **Vice-Like Grip.** Your allies have advantage on attacks against creatures grappled by the puppet.
> 
> ### Actions
>
> ***Threaded Ram.*** *Melee Weapon Attack:* your spell attack modifier to hit, Reach 5ft., one target you can see. *Hit:* 1d8 + your spell attack modifier force damage. (damage dice increase as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Puppet Damage Dice column of the Puppeteer table.) If the target is a Medium or smaller creature,  the puppet can attempt to grapple them.
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> ### Reaction
>
> ***String Snare.*** The puppet attempts to grapple a creature that leaves its attack range.

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