Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d6 per necromancer level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per necromancer level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armour
• Weapons: Simple Weapons
• Tools: Alchemist’s Supplies, Herbalism Kit

• Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion and Religion

Equipment

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

• (a) a quarterstaff or (b) a dagger

• (a) a padded armor or (b) a hide armor

• (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus

• (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack

• If you roll for gold: 5d4*10 gp

Spellcasting

You have learned to commune with death itself, and doing so grants you access to the magic of necromancy. Your casting modifier is Charisma

Soul Syphon

At 2nd level, whenever a Small or a larger creature with a soul dies within 30 feet of you, you can store that creature's soul inside your own body. The range of this ability increases to 60 feet at 6th level, 90 feet at 10th level and 120 feet at 14th level. You can store a number of souls each round equal to your spellcasting modifier. The maximum number of souls you can have stored is equal to your necromancer level. These souls are used to fuel your other class abilities. Tiny creatures like rats don't have big enough souls to make use of. Ask your DM if you are unsure if a creature's soul is usable, or if it possesses one.

After a soul is consumed by any of your features, it is freed and the creature can be brought back to life with resurrection spells. All of your stored souls are freed when you die

At 2nd level, you can choose one way to consume your souls. You can choose an additional way at 6th and 14th level.

• Mana Recovery. As a Bonus Action you can consume any number of souls and regain a spell slot (up to 5th level) which level equals half of the souls consumed (Rounded down)

• Life Recovery. As a Bonus action, you can consume any number of souls and regain hitpoints equal to three times the number of souls consumed

• Soul Reap. When you cast a spell which deals damage, you can choose to consume any number of souls to consume and deal 1d2 extra damage per soul consumed to one of the spells targets

• Knowledge Reap. As an action you can consume a soul you have stored of a creature with an intelligence score of 6 or higher. You learn everything this creature knew in life, and gain one proficiency in a skill or a tool the creature was proficient in, or one of the languages it knew in life. These memories and proficiencies fade after 24 hours.

Death Standing

Beginning at 2nd level, all spells that restore hitpoints are considered Necromancer spells to you. In addition you learn the Spare the Dying cantrip (it doesn't count against your number of cantrips known) and its range is 30 feet.

Additionally, your spells and abilities can restore hitpoints to undead creatures.

Life on Demand

Beginning at 6th level, you can accelerate the body's natural healing when it is needed the most. As an action, a creature you touch can expend a number of its hit dice equal to your spellcasting modifier (minimum of 1) to regain hit points. After you use this feature you must finish a short or long rest before using it again.

At 10th level, you can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1). You regain all expanded uses upon finishing a short or a long rest.

Life Transfer

Creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you have advantage on death saving throws and saving throws against abilities of undead creatures.

Additionally, you can use an action to transfer hitpoints between any two willing non-undead non-construct creatures you touch.

Death's Door

Beginning at 14th level, you can decide to ignore death if it's too inconvenient. If a creature within 5 feet of you that you can touch (including you) drops to 0 hit points, you may use your reaction to cause that creature to drop 1 hit point instead. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Heart of the Swarm

Starting at 2nd level, you gain access to the Hive Swarm. The Hive Swarm chosen uses your body as its hive. You can summon the swarm from your body in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you as a bonus action. It uses it's own initiative and you can command it verbally (no action required) and if you are incapacitated, it will do its best to protect you and itself from harm. In areas where it would use its proficiency bonus, it uses your proficiency bonus instead. It also uses your proficiency bonus when calculating its AC.

Transportational Metamorphosis

Beginning at 6th level, your Hive Swarm adapts its movement options. You choose one of the following features for your Hive Swarm:

• Flyby. Your Hive Swarm gains flying speed equal to its walking speed. At 12th level, the Hive Swarm's movement doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity.

• Burrow. Your Hive Swarm gains burrowing speed equal to its walking speed. At 12th level, when the Hive Swarm is suspected to a Dexterity saving throw, it can use its reaction to burrow 5 ft underground if the soil is soft enough (DM's choice) and gain advantage on the saving throw. The Hive Swarm stays burrowed until the beginning of its next turn. While underground it has Full Cover.

• Fin and Claw. Your Hive Swarm gains swimming speed and climbing speed equal to its walking speed and can breathe underwater. At 12th level, your swarm can destroy any non-reinforced, non-magical wall or roof in one minute that is up to three feet thick, creating a hole large enough for a medium creature to pass through. More time is required for thicker walls or larger holes.

Specialized Metamorphosis

Upon reaching 10th level, your Hive Swarm has evolved its offensive capabilities to better suit a role of your choice. You choose one of the following features for your Hive Swarm:

• Diseased. When the Hive Swarm hits with a melee attack, it can force the target to make a Constitution saving throw against your Necromancer DC. On a failure, roll a 1d4 and apply one of the following condition to the target:

(1) Blindness, (2) Deafness, (3) Cripple (halved movement), (4) 1 point of Exhaustion.

The disease lasts for one minute. The creature can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns, ending one of the diseases on a success. If you have multiple diseases, you roll to remove only the oldest disease.

• Cloaking. The Hive Swarm can use a bonus action to turn invisible until it deals damage. Additionally, you always see what your swarm sees and hear what they hear.

• Frenzy The Hive Swarm gets Multiattack (1).

Hive Swarm

Medium swarm of tiny undead, unaligned

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• Armor Class 12 + its Dexterity modifier + your proficiency bonus (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 22 (5d6+5) modifier + 1d6+1 (or 5) per Necromancer level
• Speed 20 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
9 (-1)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)	2 (-4)	8 (-1)	1 (-5)

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• Saving Throws Same as the Swarmer
• Damage Resistances Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Charmed, Frightened, Grappled, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained, Stunned
• Senses Darkvision 60 Ft., passive Perception 9

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Actions

Swarm.. The swarm can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny creature. The swarm can't regain hit points or gain temporary hit points apart from taking short or long rests.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: 2 + your proficiency bonus to hit, reach 0 ft., one target. Hit: (2d8) piercing damage. This attack’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (3d8), 11th level (4d8), and 17th level (5d8). If the Hive Swarm is below half of its hitpoint maximum, the damage dice is a d4 instead of a d8.

Unholy Resistance

Beginning at 2nd level, the time you've spent wielding negative energy has made itself a part of you. You have resistance to necrotic damage and your hit point maximum cannot be reduced. At 5th level, this feature extends to any undead under your control.

Legion

Beginning at 6th level, the negative energy you use to summon your undead is fortified within them. Undead you control use your proficiency bonus for their attack rolls, as well as saving throws you are proficient in, unless they already benefit from a bigger bonus.

In addition, whenever you cast a spell or use an item to raise more than one undead, you may raise one additional undead creature.

Undead Resolve

Beginning at 10th level, your bond with the dead has strengthened their resolve against that which is holy. Undead you control have advantage on Wisdom saving throws against Turn Undead attempts. In addition, undead you raise add your proficiency bonus to their Armor Class if they are not wearing armour, and gain a burrowing speed of 5 ft.

Lord of the Dead

At 14th level, you've reached the epitome of raising undead. Your undead creatures no longer have a damage vulnerability and gain additional maximum hit points equal to your necromancer level.

Spirit Wells

Beginning at 2nd level, you've discovered the negative energies within the dead and found a way to put them into good use. As a bonus action, you can turn a corpse withing 30 feet into a well of your choice known to you. Afterwards, the corpse will radiate negative energy in a 10 feet radius sphere for 1 minute. All creatures within the area of effect will be affected. When a well has been activated, the corpse can no long be used to be revived, reanimated or turned into another well. At 2nd level you can choose to use 2 of the following wells.

• Well of Blood. Prerequisite: 9th level

A creature that ends its turn within the well gains hitpoints at the end of their turn equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1). This heal can trigger a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus.

• Well of Blindness.

A creature within the range of the well is blinded as long as it stays inside of it.

• Well of Darkness.

The darkness spell emanates from the corpse for the duration.

• Well of Ruin.

A creature within the range of the well get a decreased Armor Class, losing 3 AC as long as they stay inside the well's range.

• Well of Protection.

A creature within the range of the well get a increased Armor Class, gaining 3 AC as long as they stay inside the well's range.

• Well of Suffering. Prerequisite: 5th level

A creature within range of the well takes necrotic damage at the end of their turn equal to twice your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1).

• Well of Silence. Prerequisite: 5th level

Sound is muted within range of the well, with no sound being allowed to enter or exit the well as if under the Silence spell

• Well of Profane.

The first time each turn a creature within range of this well takes damage, they take an extra 1d10 necrotic damage. This damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).

• Well of Misfortune. Prerequisite: 11th level

Creatures within the range of the well have disadvantage on saving throws against magic.

• Well of Fortitude. Prerequisite: 11th level

Creatures within range of the well have advantage on saving throws against magic.

Bloodbag Army

At 6th level, you learn how to use your undead not only as soldiers but as life savers as well. As a action, you kill an undead under your control, absorbing their life essence and transferring that energy to another. As long as the undead and a ally are within 30 feet of you, your ally regains hit points equal to the amount of hit points the undead had.

You can use this ability once per long rest.

Life Leech

At 10th level, as a bonus action, you may emit a life leeching aura in a 30 foot radius around you for 1 minute. You may select any number of creatures to be immune to this aura. All other creatures that start their turn in this aura must make a Constitution saving throw against your necromancer spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature takes 1d6 necrotic damage and you gain temporary hit points equal to the total damage dealt. Once you use this feature, you can not use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Additionally, you can now force your Wells to move. On your turn, you can use your bonus action to move a Well up to 30 ft on the ground.

Avatar of Samedi

You raise a permanent undead follower under your control. Choose a skeleton or zombie. This undead is self-conscious, obedient, has an intelligence and wisdom scores of 10 and can talk all languages you can. It is also an active well of your choice. You can change which well your follower is as if you were making a new well. If your follower dies, you can resurrect them with Animate Dead, or create a new one after a long rest. You can communicate with it telepathically. As an Action, you can see through your Avatar’s eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn. During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own sen⁠ses and can talk through your Avatar.

Death's Hand

At 2nd level, you acquire the training necessary to effectively arm yourself for battle. You gain proficiency with medium armor and martial weapons.

Reaper's Shroud

At 2nd level, you gain a pool of dark energy. When you would gain temporary hit points, you can store those hit points into your pool. You can store a maximum amount of temporary hit points equal to 4 times your Necromancer level. Whenever you finish a long rest, your pool is emptied and set to equal your level. If you end a short rest with less then your level in temporary hit points in your pool, you gain enough to equal your level. As a bonus action, you can entwine yourself with dark energies, tapping into undeath.

When you activate this feature, your pool is emptied, and you gain the following benefits.

• You gain temporary hit points equal to your pool.
• You ignore resistance to necrotic damage.
• Once during each of your turns, when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw, and if the saving throw fails, the target is poisoned until the end of your next turn.

This feature's benefits last for as long as you have any temporary hit points.

Extra Attack

Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Mastery of Life Force

At 10th level, your mastery over necrotic energies reaches out even further to damage your foes. While you are in your Reapers Shroud, when you use your Life Tap feature, you can enhance it in one of the following ways.

• Reap. Target all creatures within 5 feet of you with your Life Tap feature. Make a separate roll for each creature.

• Edge of Darkness. You shoot out a 30 ft long, 5 ft wide line in front of yourself, targeting each creature within it with your Life Tap feature. Make a separate attack roll for each creature.

When you would gain temporary hit points from using this feature, they are instead transferred to your pool.

Spirit Link

Starting at 14th level, when a creature within 5 feet of you damages you, you can use your reaction to magically substitute a greater animated dead's health for your own, causing yourself to not take damage. This damage to your undead can't be reduced or prevented in any way.

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