The Spiritist

At first hesitant, the gnome slowly reached for her bigger ethereal hand in his smaller flesh one. The moment of contact of what would have been a mundane handshake, the spirit had flowed into his being in a flash of light, the following moments were a short of a rush of pure mortal experience for the gnome. Knowledge he never had, memories he never lived, powers he never wielded, feelings he never felt all played before and through him as if it was his life.

Finally what is the grandest purpose to living and dying can they conclude?

As the spirit is being channeled in your body, the only things it can do is experience your senses, and speak. Languages the soul used in life is translated to yours, and it can converse to anyone who talks to your channeling body, but is not inclined to give straight or truthful answers. As the channeling is going you experience a flow of random memories the soul had in life, you can gleam into any particular memories the soul had if you focus your will towards certain ideas, places, people, things the soul had experienced with a check of your Spiritist spell modifier against the souls highest mental modifier.

The channeling last for 10 minutes.

You can only allow a spirit to channel through you a number of times equal to your Spiritist spell modifier, and regain 1 use once per long rest.

You personally always have the speak with dead spell prepared, the spell doesn't count towards your total spells prepared and you never have to cast it with a spell slot or material components.

Choose one way of the Spiritist that will determine how you collect and apply the knowledge you learn to determine your spellcasting ability for your Spiritist career.

Philosopher:

Ever wondering and theorizing the behaviors, challenges, and outcomes of the dead of what they did in life.

You apply these lessons in the trials and errors of your own life to make favorable repeats of the past and avoid the less favorable ones: Your spellcasting ability is Wisdom.

Erudite:

By focusing on the practical, and logical actions, enriching knowledge and streaks of genius the dead did for favorable outcomes in their life.

You apply these lessons to expand your natural mental ability, and curiosity for the unknown to be an ever better student in the learning theater of life: Your spellcasting ability is Intellect.

You can interact and utilize your kindred spirits in more ways besides spellcasting with your spiritist features.

Cantrips.

You know three Spiritist cantrips of your choice. Ray of Frost, Prestidigitation, Light are recommended.

You can spend one Kindred Communion charge on each communion once before having to take a long rest.

When you spend a Kindred Communion charge on this communion you can use it again for free before the end of your next long rest.

Level 14 Communion: Call of the Kindred

As a Bonus action you instantly manifest anew all of your Kindred Spirits that were dispersed, slain, or any active Kindred Spirits that you choose, and immediately remake their prepared spell list to your liking.

Level 17 Communion: Spiritual Revelry

As a magic action you enhance your Spirit Trail, and Spirits March cantrips to be able to be used with a bonus action, action or reaction and allowing Kindred Vex/Kindred Gift to be applied to creatures by contact an additional 3 times per combat round for 1 minute.

Level 3: Spiritist Subclass

You gain a Spiritist subclass of your choice: Embark on Journey of Conflict, Journey of Prosperity, Journey of Domination, or Journey of Fellowship are detailed after this class’s description.

While in the Ethereal Plane Ghosts, Spirits and those who can come and go from the plane as they choose may come to you offering either advice, lessons, information on something important, conversement, a request, criticism of your adventuring ways, threats, or just to be rude and mean, especially if it’s a being you or your party has killed in its life.

Level 3: Spells of Conflict

Through ascertaining the victories of conflicts from the souls of the afterlife you culminate extra spells at the Spiritist level listed in the Conflict spell table below that you always have prepared in all of your Kindred Spirits at a certain level, and gain the ability to cast one of the spells from the table at the highest spell level you have without spending a spell slot once per long rest.

Level 3: Vexing Spellcraft

You learn how to weave the vex’s your spirits give enemies with spells to devastating effect.

Level 3: Spells of Prosperity

Through following along the enjoyments of prosperity from the souls of the afterlife you culminate extra spells at the Spiritist level listed in the Prosperity spell table below that you always have prepared in all of your Kindred Spirits at a certain level, and gain the ability to cast one of the spells from the table at the highest spell level you have without spending a spell slot once per long rest.

Level 3: Abundance Abound

You’ve learned how to give much greater rewards with your magic by infusing them with positive spiritual energy.

Level 3: Spells of Domination

Through studying the effects and power of Domination from the souls of the afterlife you culminate extra spells at the Spiritist level listed in the Domination spell table below that you always have prepared in all of your Kindred Spirits at a certain level, and gain the ability to cast one of the spells from the table at the highest spell level you have without spending a spell slot once per long rest.

Level 3: Vexing Stupor

By infusing your spirit’s with memories of submission they cause creatures to have a 1d4 reduction to Mental saves against your spells that inflict, charmed, incapacitated, and frightened conditions for every unique aspected Spirit Vex they have turns of.

Level 3: Exertion of Spiritual Will

You learned how to guilefully make people susceptible to influence through your spirits gifts.

Level 14: Kindred Communion: Kindred Possession

As a magic action you send one of any of your Kindred Spirits to attempt to possess a creature that you can see within 80 feet of the spirit you choose that isn’t undead, or a construct.

The creature must make a wisdom save against your Spiritist spell save dc or be charmed as it loses all control of its being to the Kindred Spirit possessing it while they remain fully conscious throughout the process.

The creature has the same negative saving throw penalties from your Spirit Stupor feature on all of this communions saving throws.

On the possessed creature’s turn you can issue verbal commands at no action cost that the Kindred Spirit will make the target do to the best of its ability, the actions can only be what you figure out it can do with a investigation check or seen it done, unless you issue a command to make the spirit read the creatures combat memories and speak to you all of its actions at the cost of the action the possessed creature had that turn.

The creature is affected by your choice of either Kindred Vex or Gift of the Kindred Spirit possessing when you activate this communion, gaining turns of either at the moment of possession and end of their turns.

You can cast spells from the creature as if they were a Kindred Spirit and doing so doesn't spend their action.

When the creature takes damage from sources other than Kindred Vex the target can make another wisdom save.

When a creature successfully saves against the possession or when the duration expires, the Kindred Spirit is expelled to the nearest safe space and the creature can’t be possessed again until the end of their next long rest.

Effect Lasts for 4 turns, when you use a kindred communion charge on this communion you can use it again for free before the end of your next long rest.

You have begun a spiritual path from the experiences and knowledge you gained so far from yourself and the dead that to build, learn, and protect anything truly exceptional in this world you need all the hands possible to contribute, so you turn your focus on gathering and strengthening every hand you can get as possible.

You no longer need to concentrate on the spell that summoned the creature and the duration of the spell that the creature originated from is now infinite.

The Creature has an extra action on its turn.

The Creature Grows to Large size if it was smaller than large size and Huge size if it was equal to large size.

You can always telepathically command it to use any of its actions or use its actions on creatures that trigger Opportunity attacks from it with no action cost on your part.

The Creature gains a bonus to AC, and to hit equal to half your proficiency bonus rounded up, and bonus health of 1 per your spiritist level.

The Creature always has the aspected Kindred Gift of the Kindred Spirit inside them.

You can cast spells from the creature as if they were a Kindred Spirit and doing so doesn't spend their action and any Kindred Communions that affect all Kindred Spirits affect the Kindred Champion but not when a communion targets a single spirit.

The Kindred Champions attacks make creatures roll against Kindred Vex once per turn.

The Creature is immune to charms, fear and any attempts of binding or control effects that would control what the creature would do because of the unconditional love it has for you from the Kindred Spirit inside them.

Once per short rest, when you are under the conditions of charmed, frightened, proned, grappled, restrained, stunned, and paralyzed when the creature turn begins it will immediately use the disengage action with +80 movement speed to try to touch you and end any of the conditions on you.

The Kindred Champion can only move a total feet of 90+10 times your proficiency modifier before it starts taking 1d12 force damage for every turn it spends beyond the limit.

You can manually dismiss the summoned creature with another magic action ending its designation as a Kindred Champion and manifesting your Kindred Spirit inside them to the nearest safe space.

Should the Kindred Champion be slain the Kindred Spirit inside them is slain and you get more backlash damage of a slain Kindred Spirit equal to the spell level of the designated Kindred Champion.

Effect lasts until the designated Kindred Champion is dismissed or slain but you can only have one creature be your Kindred Champion.

When a Kindred Champion is dismissed you regain use of this communion after a long rest.