Undead Racials
Ability Score increase. Con +2, any +1 (Str)
Ageless. You do not age, and Effects that would make you age do not work on you.
Alignment. Undeath appear among all parts of the spectrum. Some use their awakened selves to create a world where they wouldn't have died in the first place, other take revenge on the people they feel have wronged them.
Size. Your size is and skeletal appearance is dependent upon the race you were before you died.
Speed. Your base speed is 30 feet, whether small or large your skeletal form has made it easier for you to move around as a small being but a bit harder to maneuver as you grow larger.
Darkvision. The lack of actual eyes is unsettling to look at but has its advantages to those who require keen senses. You can see through darkness within 60 feet.
Undead Nature. Being a creature that is no longer living grants you the following benefits.
• You are immune to disease.
• You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.
• You are undead, but for spell purposes you are designated a humanoid. You can still be affected by channel divinities.
Languages. You can read and write common, the language of your previous race, and 1 exotic language of your choice.
Unsettling appearance. Being undead isn't common place among the denizens of society... yet. While not completely covering your undead appearance you have disadvantage on all charisma based checks. Beware, depending on the world your Dungeon Master is running denizens may be completely hostile to your race.
Poison Connoisseur. Undeath with their atypical healing require poison to heal on the fly. Most who adventure keep hordes of different poisons to heal up on the fly. Many even dabble in the brewing of their own to satisfy their needs. Some more rare and deadly poisons may have different effects on your new body, more than just healing. It would be difficult to ascertain how a new poison may affect you without testing it. So prepare your taste buds... or lack there of as you may have no choice but to become and expert on the subject.
Undead Fortitude. If damage would reduce you to 0 hit points, you may make a constitution Saving throw with a DC of 5 + the Damage taken, unless that damage is radiant. On a success you drop to 1 hit point instead. You can use this feature successfully once per short rest.
Fleshless healing. The circumstances of your magically created life has lead to some complications when it comes to typical healing magic. Typical healing, ie. Healing word, deal damage to you instead of heal while poisons are the only way way your body can be healed on the fly. This includes enemy spells or dangerous concoctions. However you require adequately powerful poisons to repair your body. Poisons need to be of uncommon rarity and magical poison needs to come from leveled spells to effect you. In addition you are vulnerable to radiant damage.
Replacement Limbs. As an effect of your undead nature. You have the ability to remove and replace limbs when necessary. Additionally you can control a limb that you have connected with if you remove it purposefully, ie. a hand, arm, your head, etc. While in this state the detached limb has stats based on one of the following stat blocks.
Hand/Arm
Ac 10+Dex
HP 1/4 your original hitpoints
Speed 20ft. Climb 5ft
Opposable thumbs. In this state your hand/arm can effect a simple object, ie. open a door, pull a lever, as an action. You however must maintain eye contact with your arm to make it move and affect it.
Head
AC 10
HP 1/4 your original hitpoints
Speed 0ft.
Out of Body. You can continue to move your body as normal with your head detached. As long as you remain in visual/audio contact with it.
Dangerous Game. If your head is dropped to 0 hp you and your body immediately fall unconscious and begin death saving throws. However if your body drops below 0 hp, your head remains conscious. in this state your body is no longer considered your body until your head is reunited with it. if your body becomes destroyed or unrecoverable you will need to find a new body.
When a limb is destroyed or lost you can replace it with another dead humanoids limb by attuning to its use for 1 hour. This is up to your Dungeon Master's Discretion.
Backgrounds
+1 ability score increase of your choice (Cha)
+2 ability score cap increase of your choice (Cha)
A bonus skill, tool, instrument or vehicle proficiency of your choice. (Skill)
Feats
Armored stealth (Requires proficiency in Stealth)
Gain Expertise in Stealth
You ignore the stealth penalty for wearing heavy armor
+1 to Dexterity, to a max of 20
Heavily Armored
Prerequisite: Proficiency with medium armor
You have trained to master the use of heavy armor, gaining the following benefits:
• Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with heavy armor.
Metamagic Adept
Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic feature
You've learned how to exert your will on your spells to alter how they function:
• You learn two Metamagic options of your choice from the sorcerer class. You can use only one Metamagic option on a spell when you cast it, unless the option says otherwise. Whenever you reach a level that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can replace one of these Metamagic options with another one from the sorcerer class.
• You gain 2 sorcery points to spend on Metamagic (these points are added to any sorcery points you have from another source but can be used only on Metamagic). You regain all spent sorcery points when you finish a long rest.
Resilient
Choose one ability score. (Con) You gain the following benefits:
• Increase the chosen ability score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency in saving throws using the chosen ability.
Warcaster
Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell
You have practiced casting spells in the midst of combat, learning techniques that grant you the following benefits:
• You have advantage on Constitution saving throws that you make to maintain your concentration on a spell when you take damage.
• You can perform the somatic components of spells even when you have weapons or a shield in one or both hands.
• When a hostile creature's movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction to cast a spell at the creature, rather than making an opportunity attack. The spell must have a casting time of 1 action and must target only that creature.
Metamagic
Subtle Spell
When you cast a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to cast it without any somatic or verbal components.
Transmuted Spell
When you cast a spell that deals a type of damage from the following list, you can spend 1 sorcery point to change that damage type to one of the other listed types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, thunder.
Eldritch Invocations
Repelling Blast
Prerequisite: eldritch blast cantrip
When you hit a creature with eldritch blast, you can push the creature up to 10 feet away from you in a straight line.
Improved Pact Weapon
Prerequisite: Pact of the Blade
You can use any weapon you summon with your Pact of the Blade feature as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.
In addition, the weapon gains a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls, unless it is a magic weapon that already has a bonus to those rolls.
Finally, the weapon you conjure can be a shortbow, longbow, light crossbow, or heavy crossbow.
Thirsting Blade
Prerequisites: 5th level, Pact of the Blade
You can attack with your pact weapon twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Bard
Bardic Inspiration
You can inspire others through stirring words or music. To do so, you use a bonus action on your turn to choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you who can hear you. That creature gains one Bardic Inspiration die, a d6.
Once within the next 10 minutes, the creature can roll the die and add the number 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 Bardic Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Your Bardic Inspiration die changes when you reach certain levels in this class. The die becomes a d8 at 5th level, a d10 at 10th level, and a d12 at 15th level.
Jack of All Trades
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Starting at 2nd level, you can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn't already include your proficiency bonus.
Song of Rest (d6)
Beginning at 2nd level, you can use soothing music or oration to help revitalize your wounded allies during a short rest. If you or any friendly creatures who can hear your performance regain hit points by spending Hit Dice at the end of the short rest, each of those creatures regains an extra 1d6 hit points.
The extra hit points increase when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d8 at 9th level, to 1d10 at 13th level, and to 1d12 at 17th level.
Magical Inspiration
2nd-level bard optional feature
If a creature has a Bardic Inspiration die from you and casts a spell that restores hit points or deals damage, the creature can roll that die and choose a target affected by the spell. Add the number rolled as a bonus to the hit points regained or the damage dealt. The Bardic Inspiration die is then lost.
Bard College
At 3rd level, you delve into the advanced techniques of a bard college of your choice from the list of available colleges. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th and 14th level.
College of Lore
Bards of the College of Lore know something about most things, collecting bits of knowledge from sources as diverse as scholarly tomes and peasant tales. Whether singing folk ballads in taverns or elaborate compositions in royal courts, these bards use their gifts to hold audiences spellbound. When the applause dies down, the audience members might find themselves questioning everything they held to be true, from their faith in the priesthood of the local temple to their loyalty to the king.
The loyalty of these bards lies in the pursuit of beauty and truth, not in fealty to a monarch or following the tenets of a deity. A noble who keeps such a bard as a herald or advisor knows that the bard would rather be honest than politic.
The college's members gather in libraries and sometimes in actual colleges, complete with classrooms and dormitories, to share their lore with one another. They also meet at festivals or affairs of state, where they can expose corruption, unravel lies, and poke fun at self-important figures of authority.
Bonus Proficiencies
When you join the College of Lore at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with three skills of your choice.
Cutting Words
Also at 3rd level, you learn how to use your wit to distract, confuse, and otherwise sap the confidence and competence of others. When a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a damage roll, you can use your reaction to expend one of your uses of Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die and subtracting the number rolled from the creature's roll. You can choose to use this feature after the creature makes its roll, but before the DM determines whether the attack roll or ability check succeeds or fails, or before the creature deals its damage. The creature is immune if it can't hear you or if it's immune to being charmed.
Expertise
At 3rd level, choose two of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.
At 10th level, you can choose another two skill proficiencies to gain this benefit.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th 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.
If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.
Bardic Versatility
4th-level bard optional feature
Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can do one of the following, representing a change in focus as you use your skills and magic:
Replace one of the skills you chose for the Expertise feature with one of your other skill proficiencies that isn't benefiting from Expertise.
Replace one cantrip you learned from this class's Spellcasting feature with another cantrip from the bard spell list.
Bardic Inspiration (d8)
At 5th level, your Bardic Inspiration die changes to a d8.
Font of Inspiration
Beginning when you reach 5th level, you regain all of your expended uses of Bardic Inspiration when you finish a short or long rest.
Warlock
Pact Magic
Your arcane research and the magic bestowed on you by your patron have given you facility with spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the warlock spell list.
Otherworldly Patron
At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being chosen from the list of available patrons. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.
The Hexblade
You have made your pact with a mysterious entity from the Shadowfell—a force that manifests in sentient magic weapons carved from the stuff of shadow. The mighty sword Blackrazor is the most notable of these weapons, which have been spread across the multiverse over the ages. The shadowy force behind these weapons can offer power to warlocks who form pacts with it. Many hexblade warlocks create weapons that emulate those formed in the Shadowfell. Others forgo such arms, content to weave the dark magic of that plane into their spellcasting.
Because the Raven Queen is known to have forged the first of these weapons, many sages speculate that she and the force are one and that the weapons, along with hexblade warlocks, are tools she uses to manipulate events on the Material Plane to her inscrutable ends.
Expanded Spell List
The Hexblade lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
Hexblade Expanded Spells
Spell Level Spells
1st shield, wrathful smite
2nd blur, branding smite
3rd blink, elemental weapon
4th phantasmal killer, staggering smite
5th banishing smite, cone of cold
Hexblade's Curse
Starting at 1st level, you gain the ability to place a baleful curse on someone. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The target is cursed for 1 minute. The curse ends early if the target dies, you die, or you are incapacitated. Until the curse ends, you gain the following benefits:
You gain a bonus to damage rolls against the cursed target. The bonus equals your proficiency bonus.
Any attack roll you make against the cursed target is a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20.
If the cursed target dies, you regain hit points equal to your warlock level + your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).
You can't use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.
Hex Warrior
At 1st level, you acquire the training necessary to effectively arm yourself for battle. You gain proficiency with medium armor, shields, and martial weapons.
The influence of your patron also allows you to mystically channel your will through a particular weapon. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one weapon that you are proficient with and that lacks the two-handed property. When you attack with that weapon, you can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls. This benefit lasts until you finish a long rest. If you later gain the Pact of the Blade feature, this benefit extends to every pact weapon you conjure with that feature, no matter the weapon's type.
Eldritch Invocations
In your study of occult lore, you have unearthed eldritch invocations, fragments of forbidden knowledge that imbue you with an abiding magical ability.
At 2nd level, you gain two eldritch invocations of your choice. A list of the available options can be found on the Optional Features page. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the invocations you know and replace it with another invocation that you could learn at that level.
If an eldritch invocation has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn the invocation at the same time that you meet its prerequisites. A level prerequisite refers to your level in this class.
Pact Boon
At 3rd level, your otherworldly patron bestows a gift upon you for your loyal service. You gain one of the following features of your choice.
Pact of the Blade
You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon takes each time you create it (see chapter 5 for weapon options). You are proficient with it while you wield it. This weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
Your pact weapon disappears if it is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die.
You can transform one magic weapon into your pact weapon by performing a special ritual while you hold the weapon. You perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. You can then dismiss the weapon, shunting it into an extradimensional space, and it appears whenever you create your pact weapon thereafter. You can't affect an artifact or a sentient weapon in this way. The weapon ceases being your pact weapon if you die, if you perform the 1-hour ritual on a different weapon, or if you use a 1-hour ritual to break your bond to it. The weapon appears at your feet if it is in the extradimensional space when the bond breaks.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th 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.
If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.
Eldritch Versatility
4th-level warlock optional feature
Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can do one of the following, representing a change of focus in your occult studies:
Replace one cantrip you learned from this class's Pact Magic feature with another cantrip from the warlock spell list.
Replace the option you chose for the Pact Boon feature with one of that feature's other options.
If you're 12th level or higher, replace one spell from your Mystic Arcanum feature with another warlock spell of the same level.
If this change makes you ineligible for any of your Eldritch Invocations, you must also replace them now, choosing invocations for which you qualify.
Class/Racial Features & Traits