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Patch 3.8 - Ranger's Path

This patch features revisions and additions to items, a (hopefully final) major overhaul to Ranger, and some other assorted changes.

Classes

Alchemist

New - Chemist Alchemists can now make magical potions in less time and using less money, similar to how Artificers can make magic items

Artificer

New - Artificer Specialisation: Eldritch Engineer A summoner Artificer that creates a swarm of Far Realm monsters

Barbarian

Nerf - Primal Path: Path of the Witchblood Eldritch Instincts can no longer trigger while you're incapacitated

Nerf - Battle Outlets: Biting Grit Biting Grit no longer functions if you're wearing armour.

Astromancer

Presentation - Extra Attack Now called Arcane Attack to differentiate it from other variants of Extra Attack

Bloodhunter

New - Bloodhunter Order: Order of the Clot A summoner Bloodhunter that sacrifices their own health to summon weak servants

Rework - Bloodhunter Order: Order of the Goreblade Bloodletting Bolt removed, replaced with a new feature that lets you customise your Goreblade with better traits and damage dice

Cleric

Nerf - Divine Domain: Peace Domain Emboldening Bold is now an augmentation to the bless spell, effectively reducing its power without actually making the ability itself much worse

Invoker

Buff - Divine Arms Divine Arms now last for 1 hour

Ranger

Ranger has gone through multiple huge changes over its life and this (hopefully) final change should bring it in line with what I'm looking for. Ranger's bevvy of largely useless features have been turned into optional side features called Talents, freeing up the rest of the class for actually good features.

Removed - Various Features Favoured Enemy, Natural Explorer, and a number of other features have been removed and turned into Natural Talents

New - Natural Talents Invocations for Ranger: Natural Talents take a number of fluff Ranger features and turn them into optional features.

New - Versatile Hunter Makes your Hunter's Quarry more flexible by letting you move it between downed enemies like you can with hex and hunter's mark, but only within a few minutes and letting you place it as a part of your Ambuscade without using a bonus action

New - Wild Assault Takes the options for Hunter's Multiattack, with a new added option: Rending Attack, and adds them to the main class

New - Ranger's Defence Takes the options for Hunter's Hunter's Defence and gives it to the base class

Adjustment - Ranger Conclave: Conclave of the Horizon Walker Portal Sense now gives you the spell detect portals for free and lets you cast it without a spell slot once per day

Removed - Ranger Conclave: Conclave of the Hunter Abilities either added as Natural Talents or added to the base class in Wild Assault or Ranger's Defence

Buff - Ranger Conclave: Conclave of the Swarmkeeper Gathered Swarm can no move you up to 10 feet. Writhing Tide now grants you a flying speed equal to your walking speed, but can only be used once per short or long rest.

Rogue

Buff - Daring Exploits Exploit Limits removed. Rogues can now spend 2-3 Gambit dice on Exploits as soon as you have the Gambit dice to spend on them

Sorcerer

Nerf - Focused Sorcery Now grants you half you maximum sorcery points after a short rest, but only once per long rest.

Warlock

Buff - Pact of the Chain Familiars now gain new hit point maximums equal to 5 + five times your Warlock level. To compensate the reaction ability to give them resistance to a damage type has been removed.

Rework - Otherworldly Patron: The Great Old One New 1st-level feature, Aberrant Presence lets you use a bonus action to bane an enemy's attacks and ability checks and then punishes them for failing attacks and checks. Furthermore, Create Thrall has been made incredibly spicy

Nerf - Eldritch Invocations: Void's Kiss Damage reduced by 1d10

Downtime Activities

New - Buying an Item DC modifiers for searching for specific types of magic items have been created

New - Crime Rules defined for Scams, a variant to Crimes

New - Research Can situationally use Charisma instead of Intelligence, but the DCs for doing so are higher

New - Selling Magical Services Downtime Activities for spellcasters who might otherwise have very little to do

Feats

New - Cunning Artisan Lets you make simple items during a short rest from scavenged materials like bone, wood, and stones

New - Mage Knight Grants you the cantrip extra attack available to Astromancers a limited number of times per day

Items

New - Alchemical Items and Poisons A section has been created for alchemical items and poisons, including rules on different ways you can apply them

Presentation - Equipment Size Armour and weapons for larger and smaller creatures are now on the Items page, rather than buried in the Rules page. Should make playing Large creatures easier now. It also means that Small characters get discounts on their armour.

New - Prosthetics New prosthetics options are now on the Injuries page

Buff - Spell Scrolls Spell scrolls can now be used by any one and a creature can instantly read a spell scroll if it's on their class's spell list

Buff - Weapons Certain weapons now have the Deadly trait, which increases their critical hit range. These weapons are: daggers, darts, greatclubs, morningstars, shurikens, sickles, slings, tridents

Races

Buff - Gnomes Regular gnomes now get a full suite of spells, rather than only minor illusion. They also get silent image and Nathair's mischief

New - Grung Added variant to Bullywugs

Buff - Reborn Now get darkvision and Knowledge from a Past Life works on tools

Rules

Rework - Action: Search New clarification on what exactly you can search for as an action

New - Action: Study Clarification on what kind of Intelligence checks you should be making for what topic

Gods of the Multiverse

An all new page featuring details on the deities of the various Material Planes within the multiverse.

Spells

Nerf - Althaea's Spellnode Area of effect reduced to 30 feet. Damage reduced to d8s and temporary hit points reduced to d4s

Removed - Astrabolts Too cumbersome

Buff - Compulsion You now have far greater control over individual targets and where they go

Rework - Contaminate Food and Drink Simplified and depowered

Nerf - Fear Now get a save at the end of the turn no matter what and save is with advantage if you can't see the caster

Rework - Find Traps Now grants you a +5 bonus to Intelligence and Wisdom checks made to find traps, rather than its formerly useless effect

Adjustment - Fury Gale Now extinguishes flames

Buff - Gentle Repose Given to Shaman

Buff - Gomez's Scattered Sand Is now a bonus action

Buff - Horrorblade Now deals more damage and grants the wielder a bonus action ability to frighten enemies

Nerf - Leomund's Tiny Hut Now grants no physical protection, making it far less of a free safety spell

Nerf - Lesser Restoration Can now only cure injuries once per day per target

Nerf - Modify Spell Can now only modify spells of 5th level or lower and modified spells end when their modifications end

Buff - Nether Void Now lets you disappear for a round, then reappear wherever is most convenient

Nerf - Permanency Now only works on spells with a duration of at least 1 minute

Buff - Reinforce Object Casting time reduced to 1 action. Level reduced from 3rd to 1st. Spell now scales faster

Buff - Shattersong Overall damage increased from d6s to d10s

Buff - Spider Climb Given to Druids

Rework - True Strike Is now a Spellblade spell as it is in OneD&D, making it very good on certain classes

Buff - Tseric's Seething Objection Now resolves before the triggering damage. Spell's damage slightly reduced

Buff - Weaken Gravity Area reduced. Spell level reduced from 3rd to 2nd.

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Patch 3.7 - Proud Wildbonder

This patch features a new class, the Bonded, various spell changes, and new rules for Bastions: proper bases.

Backgrounds

New - Ruined A ruined is someone whose life was ruined in some terrible event. Think of the thematic midpoint between Haunted One, Noble, and Urchin.

Classes

Barbarian

New - Primal Path: Path of the World Tree Summon aspects of the world tree to teleport enemies and allies.

Buff - Primal Path: Path of the Wild Soul All Wild Surge effects have been buffed with more effective scaling

Bonded

This class is designed around your Manifestation, a permanent Companion that is customisable with a creature type, invocation-style abilities, feats, and unique "evolved" forms that let it temporarily grow stronger.

Gunslinger

New - Gunslinger Trail: Bombardier Fire explosive rounds. Pretty self-explanatory.

Monk

New - Monastic Discipline: Dextrous Hand You can use Dexterity for Grappling and Shoving.

Rework - Monastic Discipline: Way of the Elements Taken inspiration from the OneD&D version. Redesigned around a new elemental stances that function similarly to Arms of the Astral Self.

Rework - Monastic Discipline: Way of the Long Death Completely redesigned around a deathly mantle ability that functions somewhat like Arms of the Astral Self

Rework - Monastic Discipline: Way of Shadow Redesigned around casting darkness and moving it, allowing you to teleport more easily without pre-existing shadows.

Wizard

Buff - Arcane Tradition: School of Necromancy You get to animate dead and create undead for free at the levels you would normally get access to them. Your undead also gain magical damage.

Feats

Buff - Magical Trick: You can now choose tinker

Spells

New Spells

Bar the Gate: Added from Sigil and the Outlands. Originally called gate seal

Create Undead: Returning redesigned to match the new changes to animate dead (see below)

Detect Portals: Added from Sigil and the Outlands. Originally called warp sense

Flock of Familiars: Added from Lost Laboratory of Kwalish, with some changes

Fount of Moonlight: A 4th-level spirit shroud-like spell for Astromancers, Bards, and Druids

Permanency: Make a spell permanent

Power Word Fortify: Bard spell that gives huge amount of temporary hit points spread around multiple creatures

Starry Wisp: Cantrip for Astromancers, Bards, and Druids

New Odic Spells

Dying Spark: Take energy from a dead or dying creature as a reaction to damage creatures around the dead or dying creature

Final Spark: High-damage AOE that is powered up the more spent and the more damaged you are

Fount of Life: Instantly resurrect any number of creatures around you

Ignite Soul: Damage over time spell that allows repeat saving throws until three are failed, after which it lasts for 1 minute

Life Grasp: Low-damaging spell that reduces speed to 0

Lotus of Death: A high-damage AOE that restores a significant amount of hit points to you

Ond Resurgence: Instantly grants you a short rest

Vital Lance: Line spell that hits the closest creature in the line, moving to the next if that creature succeeds. Also goes through solid surfaces

Reworked Spells

Buff - Acid Stream: Now available to warlocks

Buff - Antagonize: Now grants disadvantage on the next attack roll if they can't use their reaction to make the attack

Nerf - Consign: Can't send things to other planes

Clarification - Control Device: The device's task can take up to a minute

Rework - Disintegrate: Is now a line spell that affects the first target in the line. If its a creature that beats its save, the beam moves to the next target in the line

Rework - Dream of the Blue Veil: Is now a Mythic spell and doesn't require a creature or object from that world, just your knowledge of it

Nerf - Ego Whip: Doesn't give disadvantage on its own saving throws

Rework - Enrage: Now gives you bonus damage when you attack the creature instead of all creatures.

Nerf - False Blood: Is now a Mythic spell

Adjustment - Find Familiar, Find Steed, and Find Greater Steed: Your Familiar or Steed can now be an Elemental.

Buff - Geas: Can now deal damage multiple times per day. Now gives exhaustion (up to five levels) for each disobedience and the damage scales from 1d10 to 5d10 based on the exhaustion of the target.

Nerf - Genesis: Is now a Mythic spell

Nerf - Hayzenbyrg’s Unfathomable Intelligence: Is now a Mythic spell

Nerf - Levitate Landscape: Is now a Mythic spell

Buff - Metaburst: Buffed to 5d4 from 4d4

Clarification - Nystul's Diminutive Possession: Target must be free-standing and not affixed to anything

Rework - Poison Spray: Is now an attack roll with a range of 30 feet

Nerf - Planeshape: Is now a Mythic spell

Fix - Project Aspect: Removed a redundant line of text

Buff - Project Barrier: Is now a bonus action and lasts for 10 minutes

Nerf - Salvo: Radius reduced from 10 feet to 5 feet

Clarification - Stepping Stone: No. You can't stand on the rock as you attack with it

Nerf - Transcend: Is now a Mythic spell

Buff - Tsunami: Initial damage increased and the tsunami shrinks less each round

Buff - Wall of Ice: Now available to Druid and Sorcerer

Buff - Wildergrow: Explosion is now optional

Nerf - Wish: Is now a Mythic spell

Nerf - Xenogamy: Is now a Mythic spell

Rules

New - Bastions Adapted from rules in OneD&D playtests, Bastions are proper base-building mechanics for D&D 5e, including benefits for special facilities and managing those facilities.

New - Mythic Spells A new spell tag for spells that can't simply be learned or prepared. You have to gain them via scrolls, divine intervention, or being taught them

Rework - Passive Hearing and Smell Simplified

Rework - Siege Weapons Proficiency now applies to siege weapons too

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Patch 3.6 - Life and Limb

This patch features overhauls to multiple classes, many of which are inspired by changes made in One D&D Unearthed Arcana posts. It also features new and revised spells, new feats, and an update to the rules page.

Backgrounds

Small update to two backgrounds in accordance with a change to the rules.

Buff - Sailor and Soldier Now grant you a list of optional two proficiencies which includes siege weapons

Classes

Accursed

Buff - Curse: Darkened Soul Umbral Mutations have been buffed. Most notably, Dark Strike can now be used as a part of your bonus action to enter Shadowform.

Alchemist

New - Alchemical Pursuit: Botanist Previously an Artificer subclass, Botanist has been redesigned and ported over to Alchemist. You plant magic seeds that give allies temporary hit points which, at higher levels, you can animate as awakened shrubs.

Artificer

Artificer has received a major overhaul that should provide it with a more concrete class identity.

Rework - Magical Tinkering Magical Tinkering has been turned into a cantrip that artificers get for free called tinker.

Rework - Flash of Genius Flash of Genius is now artificer's core class feature that they get access to at 3rd level. It functions similarly to Channel Divinity and Channel Nature, in that it has multiple uses that scale with level and it recovers on a short rest. Flash of Genius has two abilities: Eureka Moment, which has the same effect Flash of Genius originally had of boosting ability checks reactively; and Retool, which lets you swap out your infusions over 1 minute. Many subclasses also use Flash of Genius in some way. At 7th level, you can use Eureka Moment to affect saving throws and you can use Retool once per day to swap a prepared spell.

Removed - Right Tool for the Job Right Tool for the Job has been removed from the base class and turned into a 1st-level spell called multitool. Unlike tinker, artificers don't get it for free. It must be prepared.

New - Artificer Specialisation: Agent A stealth-focused artificer that gains the ability to turn invisible for short periods of time, cast spells with no verbal or somatic components, phase through attacks, and teleport.

Revert - Artificer Specialisation: Armourer The extra armour models gained at 11th level have been removed and replaced with more features that enhance the Guardian and Infiltrator models.

Revert - Artificer Specialisation: Artillerist The extra kinds of Eldritch Cannon have been removed.

New - Artificer Specialisation: Stitcher A necromancy-based artificer that can create a powerful zombie minion from the corpses of enemies, splicing monster traits and attacks onto them.

New - Artificer Specialisation: Tattooist An artificer that gains access to all the Tattoo magic items for infusions, as well as the ability to place a magical mark on the battlefield that either protects allies or boosts damage against enemies.

New - Artificer Specialisation: Weaponsmith A martial artificer that enhances their weapons with special tricks. At higher levels, they can create a weapon that transforms between two shapes at will, each with its own trick.

New - Infusions Multiple new infusions have been added, including a bounce pad, x-ray goggles, an artificially intelligent helmet, a drone, and a demiplane maker.

Astromancer

New - Spellblade Exemplar Now gives you one free Spellblade cantrip at 5th level.

New - Astrological Sigil: Sigil of the Malign An astromancer that can bane their enemies with their sigil and damage those enemies when they fail checks.

Barbarian

New - Primal Path: Path of the Giant From Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants, Path of the Giant lets you grow to Large size, use thrown weapons, and hurl allies and enemies around.

Rework - Primal Path: Path of the Stormcaller Reworked to remove dead levels, add new spellcasting abilities, and overall empower the worse of the two storm abilities.

New - Primal Path: Path of the Whirling Death A barbarian that builds up flourish points they can spend on a variety of abilities, such as bonuses to AC, taunting effects, free movement, and an execute ability.

Buff - Battle Outlets: Reckless Attack Now gives you advantage on all attacks you make until the start of your next turn, so that it's symmetrical with the advantage enemies gain against you.

Bard

Bard has received a soft-rework, adding a few new features to the core class.

New - Folklore A fluff ability gained at 1st level that gives Bards a baseline level of knowledge on a very specific topic

Rework - Countercharm Moved to 8th level, but now also works on the frightened condition.

New - Bardic College: College of the Chorus A bard that gains special benefits when they're concentrating on spells, namely improvements to their Bardic Inspiration.

Removed - Bardic College: College of Lore College of Lore has been removed, with its core abilities collapsed into base bard. Cutting Words is gained at 5th level and Peerless Skill is gained at 12th level.

Cleric

Rework - Channel Divinity Harness Divine Power and Ward the Faithful have been removed. At 2nd-level, you now gain Turn Foe, whatever Channel Divinity options are provided by your subclass, and a new option: Divine Spark, which heals allies or damages enemies.

New - Holy Orders A third level feature that replaces the free proficiencies granted by certain Domains. Choose Protector for martial weapon, heavy armour, and tower shield proficiency, Scholar for skills and a free reroll of a mental ability check, or Thaumaturgy for a free cleric cantrip and an extra use of Channel Divinity once per day. The orders all improve at 8th level.

New - Divine Domain: Philosophy Gain points you can spend on buff and debuff effects, use your Channel Divinity to charm or frighten enemies or counter their spells.

Druid

After the previous update wasn't able to fix druid's problem with Wildshape, this update takes the previous version and the OneD&D changes and combines them together into a new version of druid.

New - Channel Nature Druid now has its own equivalent to Channel Divinity, which fuels its features instead of Wildshape.

Buff - Wild Companion Now available at 1st level and uses Channel Nature.

Rework - Wildshape Wildshape now has two options: Beast and Essence. Beast form is as it was previously, except it gives you a Ward instead of temporary hit points, you can cast spells in beast form, and most of the benefits of Moon druid have been ported over. Essence form grants you a flat bonus to AC and gives you a bonus action cantrip-like attack that lets you manipulate the terrain.

Furthermore, Wildshape now scales higher at 4th, 8th, and 10th level, all of which grant you two modes new abilities and benefits.

New - Healing Blossoms At 3rd-level, you can spend Channel Nature to heal allies in an area of effect.

New - Wild Resurgence At 15th level, you can use Healing Blossoms for free whenever you Wildshape.

Rework - Druid Circle: Circle of the Moon Grants you extra uses of Wildshape, makes your Beast form Ward more powerful, gives you the ability to make attacks from your form as a bonus action, and gives you bonus Radiant damage on attacks.

Buff- Druid Circle: Circle of Omens Now gains access to omen charges more easily.

Buff - Druid Circle: Circle of the Stars Now grants you its benefits when you're in Essence form.

New - Druid Circle: Circle of the Trees Lets you transform into a Huge tree instead of a Beast when you enter Beast form. Your form scales with level and protects allies that are near it.

Buff - Druid Circle: Circle of the Wildfire The Wildfire Spirit scales much better. Burning Bond is now available at 2nd level and Cauterizing Flames is now available at 6th level. Burning Heart, the new 10th-level feature, gives you resistance to fire damage and free healing whenever you use Burning Bond.

Fighter

Buff - Second Wind Now has multiple uses that scale with your level and can also be used to add a d10 to a failed ability check.

Removed - Fighter's Prowess Replaced by Second Wind's new effect

Rework - Indomitable Now costs a use of Second Wind, but lets you add half your fighter level to the rerolled saving throw.

Buff - Fighter Archetype: Eldritch Knight Now gains the extra attack cantrip with their bonded weapon at 5th level.

Buff - Fighter Archetype: Psi-Warrior Telekinetic Movement is now a bonus action.

Gunslinger

Buff - Take Cover Now available at 1st level

New - Fighting Styles Now gains access to Archery, Defence, and Two-Weapon Fighting.

New - Gunslinger Trail: Trail of the Safeguard Lets you mark an area for Covering Fire, which lets you attack anyone who steps into the area. At higher level, your Covering Fire area gives half cover to allies and you can attack enemies in the area who attack your allies too.

Rework - Gunslinger Trail: Trail of the Virtuoso Your trick points now don't stack damage and instead stack critical hit range. Ricocheting Shot has been moved to 3rd level. Perfect Shot now increases the damage of your critical hits. Curtain Call now lets you double your critical hit range at the cost of 4 grit points.

Monk

New - Monastic Tradition: Way of Truth Lets you extra threads of a creature's true name and use them to fuel various features.

Paladin

New - Sacred Oath: Oath of the Paragon Lets you be a more support-oriented paladin with temporary hit points, bonuses to Lay on Hands, and various other benefits.

Prism

Buff - Projection Illumination Now has a variable range that you can choose each time you use it.

Rework - Facet: Paroxys Facet Instead of grappling, the tendrils now slow enemies in the area, give them penalties to attack, and you can pull them around with your bonus action.

Rogue

New - Roguish Archetype: Faceless Gives you changeling-like abilities and mind-altering magic.

Buff - Roguish Archetype: Phantom Ghost Walk now gives you appropriate condition immunities.

New - Roguish Archetype: Slayer Lets you survey the battlefield to gain points you can spend for free attacks, advantage, and other benefits.

Buff - Daring Exploit: Poisoned Strike Lets you put an injury poison onto your weapon as a part of the attack. With more dice, you can give them disadvantage on their saving throw or you can apply a poison to another weapon.

Buff - Daring Exploit: Serrated Strike No longer requires a saving throw. Bleeding starts much lower at only equal to your proficiency bonus, but scales by d4s.

Sorcerer

Presentation - Metamagic The metamagic options are now at the end of the class, instead of in the middle.

New - Sorcery Incarnate Lets you use two Metamagics on a spell instead of one a few times per day.

Buff - Sorcerous Mastery Now instead of regaining sorcery points when you cast a high level spell, you can reduce the cost of one metamagic you use each turn by 1.

New - Sorcerous Origin: Paradox Redesigned by Finn, new Paradox lets you place damage-over-time effects on enemies and force allies or enemies to instantly take an extra "start of turn" and "end of turn."

New - Sorcerous Origin: Trickster Soul Teleport around and leave clones of yourself everywhere that you can attack through.

Buff - Metamagic: Extended Spell Now multiples the duration of a spell by an amount equal to 1 + the number of sorcery points you spent, instead of just doubling it.

New - Metamagic: Sharpen Spell Shrink an AOE spell's area and increase its damage.

Buff - Metamagic: Seeking Spell Now only costs 1 sorcery point, instead of 2.

Tactician

Buff - Perfect Plan Tactician now gets +1 Perfect Plan dice at all levels

Buff - Guiding Guile Triggers on an attack, rather than on a hit.

New - Strategic Focus: Boss Direct your allies to go beat someone up.

New - Strategic Focus: Standard-Bearer Mark an object with your standard and hit people with it. You can also inspire allies with bonus temporary hit points.

Warden

Rework - Channel Power Now gives you a Power Die whenever you spend a spell slot.

Warlock

New - Magical Cunning A new 2nd-level feature that lets you regain half your expended warlock spell slots over 1 minute once per day. At 20th level, you get them all back instead.

New - Contact Patron Gives you contact other plane for free at 9th level. You can contact your patron with it for free once per day.

Rework - Otherworldly Patron: The Archfey Now is focused around the spell misty step, with various abilities that empower it.

Buff - Otherworldly Patron: The Collector The 1st-level feature gives you more combat-oriented things to do with your Want.

New - Otherworldly Patron: The Seeker Lets you take extra limited turns, shield yourself from damage, and gives allies a chance to short rest more easily.

New - Eldritch Invocations Four new invocoations:

Bond of the Chain Master (5th, Pact of the Chain): Gives your familiar magical attacks and the ability to share spells with them.

Faithful Servant: Gives you unseen servant at will.

Gift of the Ever-Living Ones (7th): While you're bloodied, all healing on you is maximised.

Void's Kiss (5th): Lets you cause the target of your Eldritch Blast to explode, dealing damage in an area.

Feats

Rework - Arcanist Now lets you instantly identify spells if they're on your spell list and gives you advantage on checks to identify spells, magic items, and magic effects.

New - Dogged Resilience While you're bloodied, you gain a +1 bonus to AC, attacks, saves, and physical ability checks, and you can regain hit points with your weapon attacks once per turn.

Rework - Menacing & Silver-Tongued Instead of the wield attack-replacing ability, they now both let you reroll one failed Intimidation or Deception check respectively. It has a very slow recharge (7 days), but it's per-creature, so you can feasibly use it as much as you like against different targets.

New - Siege Training Gives you proficiency with siege weapons and lets you use them faster.

New - Skirmisher Lets you spend your unused movement like a Legendary Action.

New - Summoner Gives you access to more Summon spells, more hit points to your summons, and lets you concentrate on two Summon spells at once.

Races

Fix - Goblinoids Goblins now have a list of name examples.

New - Warped A new special lineage for those who have been mutated by aberrations.

Spells

New Spells

Abate (Cantrip): Slows enemies in an area

Amanuensis (1st): Copies writing quickly and easily. Can't be used to cheese Wizard spellbook stuff.

Amplify/Diminish (1st): Boost or weaken a spell that's being cast.

Arcane Bridge (2nd): Makes a bridge of magical force.

Bigby's Helping Hand (1st): Gives you an extra arm that can do more and more things at higher levels.

Bigby's Snapping Digits (2nd): A moving hand that snaps its fingers when you command it as a bonus action for mild thunder damage

Blinding Spittle (2nd): Ranged attack that blinds a creature until they use their action to end it.

Burrow (6th): Gives you a burrowing speed for an hour.

Concussion (1st): Drops a rock on someone's head.

Corrosive Blade (Cantrip, Spellblade): A new blade cantrip that shreds AC if they fail a saving throw.

Demise (7th): A necromancy spell that does damage over time and, if they fail three saving throws, just kills them outright!

Drain Life (Cantrip): Does necrotic damage and gives you temporary hit points.

Fast Attunement (3rd, Ritual, Artificer Only): Lets you attune to an item in 1 minute and swap out attunement if necessary.

Frostspear Blade (Cantrip, Spellblade): A new blade cantrip that has extra reach, pulls them closer, and punishes them if they try to escape.

Gale Foot (1st): Dash and Disengage as a bonus action.

Geyser (2nd): Blast people up into the air on a geyser and restrain them there for a round

Indalamar’s First Manoeuvre (2nd): Roll a d20 at the start of combat and replace someone's initiative with the result.

Ingress/Egress (3rd): Makes an illusory door on a wall that functions like a real door.

Invisibility Sphere (6th): Makes a sphere where everyone inside is invisible

Living Performance (2nd, Bard Only): Summon a ghost performer that concentrates on spells for you.

Mass Modify Memory (8th): Exactly what it sounds like.

Multitool (1st, Ritual, Artificer Only): Change tools into other tools.

Pressure Vortex (3rd): Make an AOE damage over time effect that knocks people prone and punishes people who are already prone. It even works on hovering creatures.

Rary's Mind Scan (6th): Take answers to questions straight from creature's brains.

Recharge (4th, Artificer Only): Put charges back into a magic items.

Ricocheting Arrow (2nd, Smite, Ranger Only): Lets your arrows bounce.

Skyward (1st): Launches someone into the air.

Solid Fog (4th): Fog cloud, except it costs 4x movement to move through, punishes attacks that pass through it, and acts as a cushion for big falls.

Spell Trap (9th): Counters spells like a 7th-level counterspell and gives you an equivalent-levelled spell slot back.

Sticks to Snakes (4th): Exactly what it sounds like

Stoneward Blade (Cantrip, Spellblade): A new blade cantrip that gives you a bonus to AC against the target's attacks.

Summon Avatar (8th, Summon, Cleric & Warlock Only): Summon an avatar of your god or patron. It can be either aberrant, divine, or fiendish.

Summon Giant Spirit (5th, Summon): Summon a kind of giant.

Summon Living Cantrip (1st, Summon, Sorcerer Only): Summon a construct that can cast one of your cantrips.

Tinker (Cantrip, Artificer Only): Replaces artificer's Magical Tinkering feature.

Total Protection from Energy (6th): Immunity to a damage type.

Umbral Rain (1st, Warlock Only): Does necrotic damage and creates magical darkness that lasts a round.

Ward Against Evil and Good (3rd): Zone that debuffs attacks made by specific creature types.

Vine Lashing (2nd, Druid Only): Multiple melee attacks that push or pull creatures.

Whirlwind Strike (1st, Smite): Does damage in an area and either pushes or pulls creatures that fail a save.

Wintergale (1st): Creates a zone of cold that damages enemies and halves their speed.

Wrack (4th): Does damage and blinds and stuns on a Wisdom saving throw.

Revised Spells

Rework - Animate Dead: Now just has a statblock ,rather than summoning regular zombies and skeletons.

Buff - Arcane Charge: Is now an action, but shooting the beam is free.

Buff - Awaken: Can now target any Beast or Plant with Intelligence 9 or less.

Buff - Cauterise: Now staunches bleeding.

Removed - Children of the Elements: Too wordy

Removed - Cloud of Spores: Busted

Buff - Crown of Stars: Improved area and damage

Buff - Dancing Lights: Now has the same duration as light

Buff - Dissonant Whispers: Now available to Warlocks too

Nerf - Façade: Ignore ends if you attack a creature or its allies

Removed - Gaea's Four Winds: Too wordy

Fix - Galoran's Glorious Gambit: Fixed wording

Removed - Ghostwalk: Too obtuse

Fix - Grasping Sprout: Fixed wording

Buff - Hail of Thorns: Radius increased to 10 feet

Buff - Mass Spare the Dying: Now matches current spare the dying

Buff - Mass Vicious Mockery: Damage increased

Fix - Maximilian's Stone Shrapnel: Fixed wording

Buff - Mind Spike: Damage increased and is optional. Is no longer concentration.

Fix - Nathair's Mischief: Fixed wording on third option for clarity

Buff - Otiluke's Freezing Sphere: Radius decreased, damage increased

Rework - Phantom Steed: Casting time reduced to 1 action, the steed is your Companion, and it vanishes instantly if it's damaged.

Buff - Planar Ally: Now available to Warlocks

Buff - Planar Binding: The creature is your Companion.

Buff - Primordial Ward: Boosted duration, no longer concentration

Buff - Project Image: Now 6th-level

Buff - Pulse Wave: Now a Strength save instead of a Constitution save

Buff - Ray of Sickness: Saving throw removed.

Buff - Resistance: Is now a bonus action

Nerf - Shield: Now only +3 if you're wearing medium or heavy armour

Buff - Sorcerous Burst: Now deals 1d6 + 1 damage, increasing by 1d6 + 1 at higher levels.

Buff - Sorcerous Ward: Now lasts 1 minutes

Buff - Stoneshatter: No longer concentration

Fix - Summon Fey: Now uses proper bonus actions in the stat block

Fix - Symbol: Discord is now a Wisdom saving throw instead of Constitution

Buff - Thunderous Charge: Range increased

Fix - True Shield: Fixed wording

Remove - Winding Wind: Too obtuse

Rules

Most notable is that the Rules page has been given a major visual and organisational overhaul. It should now be far more user-friendly.

Note that any rules change that significantly change a pre-existing character are optional.

Clarification - Verbal and Somatic Components If a spell has verbal or somatic components an the spell involves speaking or making gestures, those words or gestures ARE the verbal or somatic components. For example, the suggestion you make as a part of the suggestion spell is the verbal component for suggestion.

New - Spell Tags Two new spell tags have been introduced:

Spellblade: Special rules for booming blade, gale blade, green-flame blade, and the three new ones introduced this patch.

Summon: An indicational tag for the summon spells.

Rework - Heavy Heavy weapons now give you disadvantage on attack rolls with them if your Strength score is less than 13.

Rework - Knocking Creatures Unconscious Any attack can be nonlethal, even spell attacks, but to knock a creature unconscious without killing them and for them to be stable, it must be a melee bludgeoning weapon.

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Patch 3.5 - Reforge the Soul

This patch features reworks and expansions to a number of classes and mechanics. It namely focuses on adjusting past class reworks to better align with their initial design intention: namely Invoker, Monk, and Shaman, as well as a fundamental redesign of Bloodhunter that should finally give it some life. 

Alongside that, the patch also features new backgrounds, major additions to Downtime Activities, many spell balance adjustments, multiple new races, and big changes to rules, including the addition of a bonus feat for all 1st-level characters alongside a rework of Human to replace it as the de-facto best race in the game and multiple new keyworded mechanics.

BACKGROUNDS

All of the backgrounds now have new roll tables for added inspiration for your backstory

New - Artist Be a painter, a sculptor, or a writer.

New - Labourer For those that come from humble origins with no “Great Destiny”

CLASSES

BLOODHUNTER

Bloodhunter has always been fairly unpopular, namely because its base class isn’t overly interesting and almost all of its subclasses are fundamentally both very uninteresting and equally badly-designed. This total rework aims to recontextualize bloodhunter as less of a knock-off Witcher and more of a martial powered by occult blood magic.

Rework - Blood Maledict Multiple new and rebalanced blood curses, as well as a new mechanic for amplifying blood curses and activating Crimson Rites. Instead of dealing a negligible amount of damage to you, performing blood magic as a Bloodhunter now causes you to start bleeding.

New: Claret Touch This feature helps offset the extra damage you take from bleeding, by allowing you to instantly succeed on Medicine checks to staunch bleeding and significantly reducing your own current bleeding each turn. 

From 10th level on wards, you can even staunch bleeding as a bonus action a limited number of times per short or long rest.

Buff: Crimson Rite You now prepare a single crimson rite each day, rather than just picking a single one to have. From 5th level, you can prepare two each day.

Bloodhunter Orders Almost all of the old Bloodhunter have been either removed or completely redesigned.

New: Order of the Callous. Gain a magical ward that’s fuelled by you bleeding.

New: Order of the Exorcist. A cleric 3rd-caster that has a touch ability that lets you create effects similar to protection from evil and good and dispel evil and good

Rework: Order of the Ghostslayer. You can now enter a temporary ghostly state from 3rd level, which fuels all of your features.

New: Order of the Goreblade. You can create a weapon made of blood with unique properties.

New: Order of the Hemomancer. A wizard 3rd-caster that regains health on casting spells.

Minor Fixes: Order of the Lycan. The only of the eight-or-so original Bloodhunter subclasses that was any good. It’s been touched up a little, but is largely still the same.

New: Order of the Martyr. A healing-focused Bloodhunter that spends their own health to heal others

New: Order of the Shackle. You can conjure shackles or chains made from blood

INVOKER

After some testing, Invoker was found to be far too overloaded, both in abilities and in overall power, while some of its subclasses were lacking.

Removed - Summon Divinity Miracles were intended to be active ability versions of a Warlock’s invocations. They instead proved to be far too cumbersome and wordy, cluttering character sheets with many extra abilities for a class that was already a half-caster. They’ve been removed.

Removed - Arm of Gods The Invoker capstone was largely very uninteresting. It’s since been replaced with a new feature (also called Summon Divinity) that acts similarly to a 20th-level Paladin transformation with a more specific focus, but with no cooldown and a greater price.

Holy Visages Some of the Invoker subclasses have been altered, as shown below

Rework - Visage of the Fallen. Visage of the Fallen has had its 6th-level feature replaced with an ability that lets you stack a damage-over-time effect on that creature.

Buff - Visage of Radiance. Several Visage of Radiance features were fairly subpar due to their reliance on combat-healing. They’ve been changed to reflect better with 5e’s optimal healing strategy

New - Invoker Spells Invoker now has access to a suite of exclusive spells (see Spells later on in the patch notes), including several inspired by now-removed Miracles

MONK

While, the monk rework from Patch 2.6 was a big step of improvement, there were certain things from that rework that I thought fell short, namely some of the subclasses and the disparity of power between the Ki Techniques

Buff - Martial Arts Added the ability from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything that allows monks to make an unarmed strike as a bonus action after they use a Ki feature as their action.

Buff - Mind Focus Is now 1 action, rather than 1 minute

Buff - Monastic Traditions Two monastic traditions that were underwhelming after Patch 2.6 have been updated

Buff - Way of the Astral Self. Reduced the cost of Arms of the Astral Self and added a new 6th-level feature that allows you to repeat its AOE burst.

Buff - Way of the Coiled Serpent. Buffed Twisting Strike and turned Ghostvenom into a permanent buff to your abilities, rather than an ability you have to spend resources to debuff an enemy with

Ki Techniques Various Ki Techniques have been changed to better balance out their power.

New - Flying Strike. Lets you make a reaction attack against a creature when you fly, jump, or fall past them. Also works with Slow Fall

Buff - Guard Break. Removed the saving throw and increased the AC penalty

Buff - Intercepting Fist. Increased the effects area and allows you to move 5 feet before making the attack.

Buff - Ki Pulse. The distance pushed scales and the damage is increased.

Removed - Pinpoint Strike. Now split into three different techniques: Enfeebling Blow (Con), Overwhelming Blow (Str), and Stumbling Blow (Dex). Enfeebling Blow reduces a creature’s Str, Dex, and Con checks and saved by 1d6; Overwhelming Blow reduces a creature’s attack rolls by 1d6; and Stumbling Blow is reduces their speed to 0.

New - Quivering Palm. Takes the capstone of Open Hand Monk and turns it into a discipline with damage suitable to its new cost and level

Buff - Sweeping Strike. Now works automatically on Large or smaller creatures.

New - Wave of Ribbons. Shield for Monks, except it scales off of your proficiency bonus.

Monastic Disciplines Several new Monastic Diciplines have been created, while some others have been changed.

New - Deadly Third. Grants a small damage buff to the third hit against the same creature each turn.

New - Ki Weapon. Lets you make any martial melee weapon that lacks the heavy or special property a monk weapon

New - Combat Grapple. Allows you to replace any melee attack with a Grapple attempt

New - Swaying Step. Allows you pivot around creatures in melee very easily.

New - Expert Evasion. Lets you move up to your speed as a reaction after you succeed on a Dex save

New - Swift Action. Gives you +5 to initiative.

New - Unchecked Reflexes. Gives you an extra reaction for opportunity attacks.

MYSTIC

Various mystic features didn’t end when you fell unconscious. That has been fixed.

SHAMAN

Shaman has been tweaked and edited nearly a half-dozen times over the years. The last iteration was very close to what I wanted, but after some more time, I think I’ve found a final resting point for the class.

Removed - Shamanic Lessons One of the earliest mechanics of Shaman that went through many reworks, Shamanic Lessons proved to be more of an inhibitor for the class than a benefit and they’ve been removed. However, they live on as some of the new Shaman-exclusive spells.

Rework - Totemic Aspect The original baseline for Shamanic Aspects had them as static totems. This was later replaced with a passive aura that follows you for better utility and then again later re-added as a secondary mechanic. It’s now been reworked once against and moved down to 3rd level, giving you three main modes to your static aspect.

Buff - Versatile Aspects Moved from 15th level to 7th level.

Buff - Totemic Mastery Moved from 20th level to 18th level

New - Conduit of Souls A new capstone that gives you a bonus to your Wisdom score and infinite uses of your Shamanic Aspects.

Shamanistic Traditions Most of the shaman traditions have been reworked in some regard to reflect the new changes

Rework - Tradition of the Afterlife. Now has its own scaling statblock and mechanics that revolve around summoning many Wayward Spirits

Rework - Tradition of the Deep. The three monstrous alterations have been removed in place of three special ocean-themed abilities based around grappling, pushing, and proning creatures.

Rework - Tradition of Elements. Improved benefits to casting damaging spells and extra AOE bonuses that interact with Totemic Aspect

Rework - Tradition of Rebirth. The subclass now creates Wards (see Rules) that interact with each other more closely.

Rework - Tradition of War. New features revolving around hitting creatures with weapon attacks.

Shamanic Aspects Some new and reworked shamanic aspects are featured in this patch.

New - Decaying. Reduces enemy creature AC.

Nerf - Hallowed. No longer deals damage.

New - Shielding. Reduces enemy attack rolls

VANGUARD

Introduced in the last patch, Vanguard has proven to be both very fun and very powerful. These changes serve as minor nerfs to vanguard’s lower-level abilities.

Nerf - Tower Style Now only gives other creatures half cover

Nerf - Taunt Has a lower range and has more conditions that cause it to end early

DOWNTIME ACTIVITIES

Downtime Activities have proven to be fairly useful in several games over the past few years. This patch aims to add new ones and smooth over some of the clunkier ones.

Rework - Buying a Magic Item The tables are gone! They’ve been replaced with a bit of DM discretion and some tables that show what rarity items you’re getting.

New - Forging a Contruct Lets you create constructs, provided you have the blueprints!

Rework - Selling an Item No longer “Selling a Magic Item.” The same as before, but with rules for selling regular shit

New - Training a Mount Improve your mounts with different training traits that improve health, speed, and more.

FEATS

Certain feats have proven far too oppressive across games so far. This patch aims to fix the, while adding some new Feat options.

Buff - Close-Quarters Shooting Now gives a mobile-like effect to shooting a creature, stopping opportunity attacks from them

Buff - Defensive Duelling Now gives extra AC benefits if you’re dual-wielding or have a buckler

New - Divinely Favoured A cleric-oriented version of the Planar-Touched feats, giving you spells based on your alignment

New - Durable Returns as a Minor Feat

New - Fast Hands Lets you interact with two objects on your turn before you have to take the Use an Object action

Buff - Gunner Now a Minor Feat

Nerf - Historian No longer requires a check, but can be used only once per creature per day

New - Magical Trick Gives you one of the fluff cantrips like Presto, Minor Illusion, or Umbraturgy

Rework - Medic No longer requires a check, but targets only a single creature

Buff - Shield Master Now lets you use Shields as weapons and lets you make bonus action attacks with them.

New - Supernatural Resilience Gives you resistance to a damage type from: acid, cold, fire, lightning, necrotic, poison, radiant, or thunder.

New - Swimmer Gives you a swimming speed, bonuses to checks related to swimming, and lets you hold your breath for 10 minutes

New - Telekinetic Lets you cast mage hand and shove creatures as a bonus

New - Telepathic Fairly self-explanatory, but does also come with detect thoughts

New - Tinkerer Takes the old Rock Gnome trait and makes it a feat for Tinker’s tools (see Races)

New - Versatile Weapon Fighting Now gives you a reason to use a longsword one-handed without a shield by offsetting some of the AC penalty, increasing damage, and letting you make opportunity attacks against creatures that miss you with attacks

Buff - Weapon Master Now just gives you simple and martial weapons

RACES

This patch features a litany of new races and some very spicy changes to pre-existing races, namely the regicide of humans

New - Arcanoblood New new Special Lineage that makes you a magically-powered experiment

Rework - Human Humans now get a Minor Feat instead of a Major Feat at 1st level. They also gain a tool proficiency alongside their skill proficiencies and once per long rest they can roll a 20 on a death saving throw

Buff - Merfolk Merfolk now get darkvision

Rework - Minotaur New variant race, the Yikaria, with black magic powers

New - Oniblood A mutant monster race with animalistic traits and occult powers

New - Plasmoid Ooze race!

Removed - Rock Gnome Forest Gnomes are now the default, with Svirfneblins serving as variants (similar to Dwarves and Duergar)

New - Siren A harpy-descended race of flying singers

New - Thri-Kreen The bugs return!

RULES

This patch features several new keywords and one major rules change to feats

Buff - Crossbows The Loading keyword has been removed from crossbows. Bows have their niche with the Strung keyword, so Crossbows dealing more damage isn’t a big deal.

Buff - Flails Flails are now Reach weapons

New - Major Feat at 1st Level All characters now gain a major feat at 1st level!

New - Keywords The following mechanics are now keyworded:

Bloodied - While being bloodied does nothing on its own, certain features (let’s be honest, mainly Bloodhunter features and Toll the Dead) interact with things being Bloodied

Companions - Find Familiar, the Summon spells, and similar pet effects are now homogenised as Companions, who all work in the same way. They can be commanded without spending actions and act either immediately before or immediately after your turn each round

Wards - Arcane Ward, Solarium, and similar features are now a keyworded concept. Wards are magical effects with hit points that absorb damage on behalf of protected creatures

SPELLS

NEW SPELLS

Arboreal Protector. Summons an AOE ward that regains hit points each turn.

Create Spell. Allows you to turn a spell you’ve modified with modify spell into a permanently-learned spell.

Fast Friends. A more powerful, 3rd-level version of Charm Person

Galder’s Tower. Summon a three-story tower that lasts for a day.

Glowing Coin. Spend 1 gp to either distract people or create an area of light for a time

Mental Barrier. Gives you advantage on Int, Wis, and Cha saves and resistance to psychic as a reaction

Modify Spell. Lets you temporarily change things about a spell

Sorcerous Burst. A new sorcerer cantrip with variable damage type and exploding dice for damage

Sorcery Incarnate. Gives you sorcery points back and buffs your Metamagics

Tanglevine. An attack roll cantrip that deals no damage, but halves the target’s speed for a round

Unearthly Chorus. Creates an AOE that transfixes people with music

Invoker Spells

Angel’s Flight. Gain a variable flying speed based on whether you cast the spell as an action or as a bonus action

Anointed Armaments. Buff your Divine Arms with extra reach and damage.

Avenging Arms. A Smite spell that that surrounds the targets with magical weapons that deal damage over time

Divine Order. Command enemies in an AOE to move

Eradicating Arms. A Smite spell that creates an explosion of damage.

Erupting Arms. A Smite spell that hits a small AOE for damage

Godly Shelter. A reaction spell to damage or a saving throw that gives creatures you choose immunity to the damage and lets them automatically succeed on the save

Holy Vortex. An AOE around you that deals damage and pushes creatures away from you. Deals extra damage to Fiends and Undead.

Invigorating Arms. A Smite spell that gives another creature temp on hit.

Invoke Atonement. A bonus action spell that heals you 35 hit points and ends all bleeding on you.

Judging Palm. You punch someone for radiant damage, you learn its alignment, and you deal damage over time to it. The damage is optional.

Red Sun. A 20-foot-radius aura that causes enemies to take extra fire damage the first time they take damage each turn

Requiting Arms. A Smite spell that heals you on hit.

Sacred Punishment. You punch a creature for massive damage, potentially stunning them for a round.

Violet Sun. A 20-foot-radius aura that stops creatures from getting advantage on attacks against creatures in the area and reduces the first bit of damage they take each turn by 1d4.

Shaman Spells

Expectant Lesson. Gives you four d4s that you can distribute out to allied creature’s ability checks and saves.

Harsh Lesson. A damage over time effect that also banes the target’s attack rolls

Kind Lesson. Gives a creature temporary hit points and blesses their saving throws.

Painful Lesson. A reaction spell that punishes aggressive enemies with psychic damage that also banes their d20 tests.

Supporting Lesson. A reaction spell that lets a creature reroll a failed ability check and gain a d4 on it.

REWORKED SPELLS

Nerf - Allegro. Initial movement reduced to 10 feet.

Fix - Assisted Transposition. You can’t target objects that are being worn or carried

Buff - Bane. Now has no initial save. The targets can save at the end of each of their turns instead.

Rework - Consign. Has more visual cues to avoid abuse.

Rework - Contagion. Reverted to the original release 5e version, but all of the diseases are less cripplingly overpowered

Buff - Control Winds. Allows the area to be up to 100 feet

Buff - Creation. Now an action and has options for animal materials and regular metal

Rework - Cresting Waves. Reduced power and number of targets.

Buff - Crystalbreath. No longer concentration and doesn’t consume its component

Buff - Danse Macabre. The Undead deal magic damage

Nerf - Dark Star. Reduced damage

Buff - Darkvision. Now scales with targets

Buff - Dawn. You can now choose who’s damaged by the spell

Buff - Daylight. Now has optional concentration. If you do concentrate, the spell lasts less time, but it’s light is sunlight

Fix - Dazzling Soul. Wasn’t marked as a Smite spell, but now is

Buff - Enthrall. Instead of imposing disadvantage on Perception, now gives them a -10 to their passive

Buff - Evard’s Black Tentacles. Now available for Accursed and Warlock

Buff - Far Step. Now a 4th-level spell instead of a 5th

Buff - Find Familiar. Has a wider pool of familiar options.

Buff - Find Steed & Find Greater Steed. Has a wider pool of steed options and gives them extra hit points

Buff - Flame Spiral. Can now choose who is damaged

Buff - Flaming Sphere. Now occupies its space and also deals damage when creatures move near the sphere

Buff - Glyph of Warding. Reduced cost from 500 gp to 50 gp and reduced casting time from 1 hour to 10 minutes

Nerf - Goodberry. The berries only last 8 hours

Buff - Greater Restoration. Can reduce exhaustion level to 0, instead of only by 1.

Buff - Green-Flame Blade. Now hits creatures up to 10 feet away

Nerf - Grimlore’s Shadowblight. Doesn’t scale with target, instead scales with damage

Buff - Guardian of Faith. Maximum damage no scales with level

Fix - Heat Metal. Can now only target metal objects up to a certain size

Fix - Hunger of Hadar. Now creates magical darkness

Nerf - Hypnotic Pattern. Creates can now save at the end of each of their turns

Buff - Identify. Casting time reduced to 1 action

Buff - Immovable Object. Maximum weight of target scales with level

Buff - Jump. The target can now use your spellcasting ability instead of Strength for jumping

Buff - Leomund’s Secret Chest. Reduced cost of big chest from 5,000 gp to 500 gp and the spell doesn’t arbitrarily end

Fix - Leomund’s Tiny Hut. Wording fixed to allow for Large PCs

Buff - Maelstrom. Now does half damage on a failed save

Buff - Magic Circle. Hits Aberrations

Buff - Magic Weapon & Elemental Weapon. Can now affect and buff magic weapons.

Nerf - Magical Zone. No longer a ritual

Nerf - Magnify Gravity. Damage reduced

Rework - Manacle of Burden. Now actually works

Buff - Melf’s Acid Arrow. Now available to Sorcerer

Fix - Net. You can no longer make infinite nets

Buff - Power Word Heal. Has a built-in Revivify

Buff - Primal Armour. No longer concentration

Buff - Snapburst. Now available to Artificier and Sorcerer

Buff - Spare the Dying. Now a bonus action, ranged, and staunches bleeding

Buff - Spellweave. No longer an attack roll, just puts the mark on the target. Maximum tether range increased

Buff - Splinterblades. Spell wording simplified and damage increased

Buff - Stoneskin. Now available to Warden

Buff - Summon Celestial. Defender Celestial improved

Buff - Summon Elemental. All options improved and made more uniquely useful

Buff - Thorn Strike. Now scales

Rework - Verdant Ward. Now provides a ward instead of temporary hit points

Rework - Watery Tendril. Now works properly

Buff - Witch Bolt. Secondary damage increased to a d12.

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Patch 3.4 - Battletide Alchemist

This patch primarily features the addition of two new classes: Alchemist & Vanguards, as well as all of the content myself, Joe, and other writers developed for Drizzt’s Travelogue of Everything Vol. 2.

CLASSES

NEW: ALCHEMIST

“Brew” spells in a fashion similar to Vancian Magic from past editions of D&D with a full caster that combines powerful utility and challenging limitations.

Brew Casting Spend spell points to brew individual instances of spells, either after a long rest or midway through your adventuring day. For example, you could start the day brewing two Cure Wounds spells and one Thunderwave spell, or only one Cure Wounds spell and one Thunderwave spell, saving your remaining spell points to brew into something else later.

Brew Cycling A 5th-level feature that lets you convert already-brewed spells into another spell.

Alchemical Pursuit - Pursuit of the Creator: Create an alchemical homunculi servant that fights alongside you

Alchemical Pursuit - Pursuit of the Healer Administer First Aid in combat with more powerful healing spells

Alchemical Pursuit - Pursuit of Longevity Focus on melee combat with enhanced unarmed strikes

Alchemical Pursuit - Pursuit of the Mixologist Convert your brewed spells into Mystery Mixes with random, but useful effects

Alchemical Pursuit - Pursuit of Necrosis Empower weapon attacks with deadly spells

Alchemical Pursuit - Pursuit of the Transmuter Change the battlefield around you with battle alchemy

ARTIFICER

New: Artificer Specialisation - Puppeteer Create a small army of karakuri puppet servants

New: Artificer Specialisation - Time Tinkerer Build a Time Machine to manipulate the flow of time

BARD

New: Bardic College - College of Colors Use your Bardic Inspiration to paint the battlefield with color magic

CLERIC

New: Divine Domain - Harvest Domain Create blessed ground that protects your allies

New: Divine Domain - Shadow Domain Brought to you by ‘Bold Tech Create patches of magical darkness to control your enemies and slip out of danger

DRUID

New: Druidic Circle - Circle of the Planes Brought to you by ‘Bold Tech Attune yourself to a planar alignment: Chaos, Law, Negative, Neutral, or Positive, and summon aspects of those aligned planes around you in Planar Bubbles

New: Druidic Circle - Circle of the Primordial Sea Summon the power of the oceanic depths to protect allies and inhibit enemies

FIGHTER

New: Martial Archetype - Titanslayer Transform weapons into Titan Weapons, massive versions of pre-existing weapons that deal more damage and can do massive AOE effects

MONK

New: Monastic Order - Way of Boundless Spirit Summon soul orbs to kick at enemies

New: Monastic Order - Way of Secrets Learn ancient secrets and employ techniques of the mind, body, and soul

PALADIN

New: Sacred Oath - Oath of Silence Brought to you by ‘Bold Tech Create zones of silence and ward off the dead

RANGER

New: Ranger Conclave - Conclave of the Cloud Stepper Summon magical clouds that shoot lightning and let you ride them

New: Ranger Conclave -  Conclave of the Green Warden Brought to your by ‘Bold Tech Partially wildshape, giving you animal traits while maintaining your physical skills

ROGUE

New: Roguish Archetype - Luckstealer Brought to your by ‘Bold Tech You steal other people’s luck. It’s exactly what it says on the tin.

New: Roguish Archetype - Rapscallion Do villainous stuff. Like be extra sneaky and tie them up in ropes or something.

New: Roguish Archetype - Wyrm’s Fang Brought to your by ‘Bold Tech Do dragon stuff, namely get cash money

SORCERER

Nerf: Metamagic - Effortless Spell When you make a spell Effortless, it ends early if you use Effortless Spell again, or if you fall unconscious

New: Sorcerous Origin - Mythic Weapon You’re linked to a magical weapon of some kind that lets you do cool sword moves

New: Sorcerous Origin - Resonant Soul Get in tune with the frequencies of the world for extra thunder damage and pushing effects

TACTICIAN

New: Strategic Focus - Gambler Try your luck at dealing more damage and getting higher rolls

New: Strategic Focus - Medic Heal allies as a part of your Perfect Plan

New: Strategic Focus - Tyrant Scare the shit out of your enemies

NEW: VANGUARD

The opposite of a barbarian. You’re unkillable and you make sure that nobody else dies either. You can charge at enemies and Shove them around with ease.

Guardian If you Ready an action to Dash, you can attack a creature as a part of your movement. Also, whenever you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can Shove them as a part of the attack.

Fortitude You reduce incoming bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, you can Shove larger creatures, and when you Shove a creature, you have even more options as to what you can do

Rampant Charge When you move, you can Shove a creature as a part of the move to push them in a straight line for the rest of the move, Rein style!

Taunt Give an enemy disadvantage to hit anyone other than you

Vanguard Archetype - Arcane Guardian A third caster that can spend spell slots to give Wards to allies

Vanguard Archetype - Ardent Summon psionic walls to protect allies and redirect attacks meant for your allies

Vanguard Archetype - Brawler Become a master of making Athletics checks to Grapple people as well as Shoving them

Vanguard Archetype - Dreadlord Allow enemies to hit you and punish them in response with a magical curse

Vanguard Archetype - Juggernaut Slam directly through walls with an empowered Rampant Charge

Vanguard Archetype - Praetorian Set an ally as your Ward, moving with them and staunchly protecting them

Vanguard Archetype - Rimeguard Create massive walls of ice and summon swirling cold

Vanguard Archetype - Siphoner Draw your foes’ lifeforce to fuel your own

Vanguard Archetype - Templar Take damage in your allies’ stead

Vanguard Archetype - Vexator Challenge whole groups of enemies with an empowered Taunt

RACES

Buff - Dragonborn: Chromatic Chromatic Warding now gives you one free use of your Breath Weapon and while Chromatic Warding lasts, your Breath Weapon deals extra damage

Buff - Gnoll Rampage is now immediate and allows you to just make a weapon attack. A new feature, Gnoll’s Might, allows you to add a d4 to missed weapon attacks several times per day

New: Mastar A dogfolk race with good noses and a powerful howl

SPELLS

This patch primarily features new spells designed for the Alchemist class, some exclusive, some not. Alchemist exclusive spells will be marked with an (A).

New: Adhere (A) Create a sticky, adhesive surface in a 5-foot cube

New: Alchemical Fuse (A) Set a spell on a fuse to go off after a set amount of time

New: Alkahest (A) Massive acid damage over time on a single target

Buff: Arms of Hadar Target can’t take reactions until the end of the turn on a success

New: Atomise (A) Alchemist nuke

New: Blood Let (A) Cause a creature to start bleeding

New: Bottled Mana (A) Effectively allows you to give a creature a spell slot back for 1 hour

New: Bouncing Bomb (A) A fire bomb that explodes in three equidistant locations

Rework: Branding Smite Less damage, but grants the first attack made against the target each turn advantage for a round

Buff: Circle of Death Improved damage

New: Clot (A) A cantrip that grants temporary hit points and staunches bleeding immediately, while also reducing the next instance of bleeding that occurs

New: Concussive Bomb (A) A cantrip that deals no damage, but pushes creatures away from the chosen point

New: Confetti Bomb A tiny Hypnotic Pattern that lasts for 1 round

New: Control Device An Artificer spell that allows you to effectively Command a device

New: Death Cloud (A) A big scary AOE

New: Devil’s Eye (A) Gives Devil Sight!

New: Elixir of Iron (A) Grants AC and damage reduction to a single target

New: Elixir of Wrath (A) Grants increased damage and self-heal on weapon attacks

Nerf: Flame Strike Damage swapped from 4d8 fire plus 4d10 radiant to 4d10 fire plus 4d8 radiant.

New: Germ (A) Set a damage over time effect on an enemy

New: Healing Vapours (A) An AOE Healing Spirit for Alchemists

New: Honey Bomb Summon a swarm of bees

New: Iosis (A) Deal 3d6 damage of EVERY damage type except bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing. Has an extra special effect if you jump through some major hoops involving the spells: Melanosis, Leucosis, & Xanthosis

New: Ironskin Super Stoneskin!

New: Leucosis (A) Damage a creature and grant temporary hit points to other nearby allies

New: Lich Wine (A) Get creatures drunk in a spreading debuff

New: Longevity (A) De-age a creature at risk

New: Melanosis (A) Set a necrotic damage over time effect on a creature

New: Miasma (A) Create a growing AOE of damage

Rework: Mordenkainen’s Faithful Hound The hound can now move up to a set distance from its starting point to attack like a Bigby’s Hand

New: Nausea (A) Make a creature nauseous and potentially fall prone each turn

Buff: Negative Energy Flood More damage, less terrible

Buff: Phantasmal Killer More damage, added half damage on success.

New: Philtre (A) Real! Genuine! Love Potion!

New: Produce Poison Create a poison

New: Sap (A) Reduce a number of creatures’ speed and give them disadvantage on attacks and damage for a round

New: Smoke Bomb Create a momentary Fog Cloud effect

New: Snapboom A big explosion of light and sound

Rework: Snilloc’s Snowball Swarm Now sort of like six catapults in one

New: Summon Ouroboros (A) A summon spell that creates a creature that grants auras and moves allies and enemies around, rather than attacking

New: Swift Mist (A) Make a zone of double speed for a round

New: Toughskin (A) Mage Armor for Alchemists

Buff: Weird More damage

Buff: Witch Bolt Secondary damage buffed to a d12

New: Xanthosis (A) Create a timebomb on a creature that explodes with radiance after a round

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Patch 3.3 - Astral Drift

This patch features the newly revived Astromancer and a reworked Rogue, as well as some new content for Barbarian, Prism, and more.

CLASSES

ASTROMANCER

The new Astromancer has fully transformed into a full-casting martial, akin to Bladesinger from base 5e. Various parts of original Astromancer have been preserved, but a lot has been scrapped in favour of the new design. Subclasses are built around your Astrological Sigil, which give different benefits at the cost of spell slots.

Celestial Manifestation Summon your sigil. Enemies within 30 feet of your sigil that you attack grant you extra AC.

Special Extra Attack Extra Attack, but you can replace an attack with a cantrip!

Astrological Sigil - Sigil of the Asteroid Get a fighting style and Spatial Impact, which allows you to mark foes for extra damage.

Astrological Sigil - Sigil of the Crucible Gain extra AC and prevent damage with Astral Cradle

Astrological Sigil - Sigil of the Event Horizon Move enemies and inhibit movement with Celestial Displacement.

Astrological Sigil - Sigil of the Lodestar Summon your Cosmic Companion, a small Celestial creature that fights at your side.

Astrological Sigil - Sigil of the Voidwalker Void Rush across the battlefield like old Astromancer

Astrological Sigil - Sigil of the Watcher Create zones of amplified magic and cast from them with Gaze of the Stars.

BARBARIAN

New - Wild Ingenuity Use Strength instead of Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma for ability checks a few times each day.

Buff - Battle Outlets Battle Outlets Known now scales 1-1 with proficiency bonus.

New - Battle Outlet: Audacious Challenger Taunt an enemy you hit for a round

New - Battle Outlet: Barrelling Charge Push an enemy and follow along with them

Rework - Battle Outlet: Final Fortitude You add a d4 to a failed saving throw and start bleeding.

New - Battle Outlet: Unyielding Hold You restrain a creature you’re grappling. You are also restrained while you do this.

New - Battle Outlet: Violent Throw Throw someone you’re grappling

BARD

New - Bardic College: College of Scorn Give creatures Bardic Disdain, giving them penalties to rolls and dealing psychic damage to them.

Rework - Bardic College: College of Whispers Psychic Blades is now damage on the target of a spell or attack. New abilities, Uncanny Delusion forces rerolled saving throws on illusion and enchantment spells you cast, and Psychic Spears allows Psychic Blades do be used without spending your bonus action.

FIGHTER

New - Fighter’s Prowess You can choose one set of skills to gain prowess in, allowing you to spend Superiority and add d8s to checks with those skills.

Fluff - Fighter Archetype: Vanguard Renamed to Adamant to align with a class appearing in Patch 3.4

PRISM

New - Facet: Astral Facet An Astral Sea-themed facet that allows you to fly and deal damage in an astrolabe of magic

New - Facet: Gamma Facet Designed by Finn. This facet allows you do deal damage in an area of effect and mass-debuff enemies with radiation.

ROGUE

A rework I was saving for a later patch, but ended up designing here instead. The new rogue aims to address a lot of play experience issues echoed my almost everyone who’s ever played a rogue.

Clarification - Gambit Dice & “Performing a Sneak Attack” Rogue now runs off of a resource called Gambit Dice, which work much like the Prism’s Influence, in that they get it all back at the start of each of their turns. Gambit Dice are used to fuel Sneak Attack and Exploits.

Additionally, while Sneak Attack is no different to how it used to work (except that you can do it more than once per turn), “performing a Sneak Attack” is now a defined action that feeds into a lot of other rogue abilities.

Rework - Daring Exploits Strike Techniques now don’t always revolve around hitting things (hence the name change) and don’t scale completely with Gambit Dice. Instead, you can spend a limited amount of Gambit Dice on them for defined effects for every die spent. You can spend more at higher levels.

Also, Exploits can be used infinitely, but only once per round.

New - Second-Story Work Thief has been axed and almost all of its features have been repurposed in the main class. Second-Story Work now also allows you to use Dexterity for jumping.

New - Extra Attack While Rogue has lost some of its uniqueness as “the martial without extra attack,” it was frankly one of the main things holding it back.

Rework - Reliable Talent Reliable Talent now has set number of uses per short rest, not becoming infinite for ability checks until 14th level, but you now get it at 6th level

New - Use Magic Device Now in the main class at 10th level

New - Reliable Blade You can expend uses of Reliable Talent to use it on weapon attacks

New - Beguiling Action Once the 23rd-level Legendary Rogue ability, now available at 14th level at the cost of your Reliable Talent.

New - Rogue’s Reflexes Thief’s Reflexes moved to the main class. You now get two turns at the start of combat lmao

Buff - Elusive Instead of “people can’t have advantage,” now “everyone has disadvantage”

Buff - Stroke of Luck Now grants you one free crit per short rest.

Buff - Roguish Archetype: Arcane Trickster Mage Hand Legerdemain is now actually really strong

New - Roguish Archetype: Daredevil Gain Style Points to do cool stunts

Fluff - Roguish Archetype: Scoundrel Name changed from Ninja

Rework - Roguish Archetype: Scout Now gets actually interesting abilities

Rework - Roguish Archetype: Shadowblade Now basically works like base Echo Knight

SPELLS

Rework - Arcane Comet Launch the comet. If they fail, they take extra damage from the next spell

Buff - Arms of Hadar Made actually usable lmao

Buff - Beast Bond Now longer concentration

Buff - Beast Sense Moved to 1st level 

Buff - Bestow Curse Is now longer concentration and its duration starts and scales far faster

Rework - Blur Now isn’t concentration, but works like the Cloak of Displacement

Buff - Cause Fear An affected target has to run like Fear

Buff - Compelled Duel Now longer concentration

Rework - Clutter Was weird. Now isn’t. It creates difficult terrain.

Buff - Death Throe The target moves first, then either attacks or grapples

Rework - Decelerating Slash Reworked to be more consistent and less weird

Buff - Grease Setting it on fire is codified

Buff - Immolation Not concentration

Rework - Magnify Reworded to work properly

Rework - Orbicular Shield Now creates only one ward and the ward does damage when the spell ends

Buff - Produce Flame The attack can be melee OR ranged

Nerf - Purify Food and Drink Is no longer a ritual spell

Buff - Sapphire Hail Past nerf to damage reverted

Reword - Snapstar Wording fixed

Nerf - Spirit Shroud Fun fact: Spirit Shroud actually has two extra, very powerful effects. You 100% forgot they existed because that spell does not need them, so I axed them

NEW ASTROMANCER SPELLS

Axial Tilt Move faster and along vertical surfaces for a round

Celestial Synastry Link two creatures and choose effects for them both. The spell does more based on which effects you chose for each target.

Cloak of Stars A reaction or bonus action spell that makes a creature invisible for a round

Constellation Cloak Grant 5 temp. While they have the temp, they gain a d4 bonus to saves

Cosmic Corruption AOE spell that interrupts spellcasting

Dustcloud Strike Smite spell that gives disadvantage on attack rolls

Empty Expanse AOE spell that creates magical darkness and does damage over time

Equinox Create two AOEs, one light one shadow. They each damage and blind in their own way

Geomagnetic Aurora An spell that allows you to zap one creature near you every turn.

Gravitic Repulsion Push someone with a spell attack vs their Strength or Acrobatics

Lunar Strike A smite spell that shrouds an ally for 1 round, giving others disadvantage to hit them

Nebulous Shackle Reduce a creature’s speed to 0 for a round

Radiant Constellation Buff six creatures with AC, bless, and the ability to Benign Transposition between each other

Satellite Strike Smite spell that allows you to move toward the target first, then do extra damage if you reach them

Sidereal Leap You become FAST for a round

Solar Flare An AOE damage spell that blinds creatures it hits

Starry Strike Smite spell that grants guiding bolt advantage and extra damage to the next attack

Stellarcraft Thaumaturgy for Astromancers

Strength of the Cosmos Go fucko mode for a round and gain crazy benefits whenever you make an attack

Waxing Radiance Small AOE spell that grants you advantage on targets that fail

Wormhole Tunnelling A concentration spell that allows you to teleport each time you attack, but you return to your starting position at the end of the turn

RULES

Reversion - Flight Flying diagonally now costs you extra movement just like walking does

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Patch 3.2 - Hidden Stockpile

A relatively minor patch, featuring a number of smaller changes & additions to a variety of classes, including new subclasses, wording fixes, and similar.

CLASSES

ACCURSED

Rework - Curse of the Dark Soul Umbral Mutations have been adjusted so that they’re of similar power, with improved wording and power in some places.

ARTIFICER

Rework - Roboticist Reworked to be more in line with other pet classes. Augmentations have been removed in favour of selectable features for your servant at 5th and 18th level.

BARBARIN

New - Path of Hellfire Do big fiery AOEs and other hell-related things

New - Path of Pain Take damage, then hit a guy to get health back, because dying is cringe.

CLERIC

Rework - Fate Domain Changed to align with a recent UA. Tighter design.

DRUID

Removed - Nature’s Companion Felt clunky and tacked on.

New - Wild Companion Added from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, with a slight buff to compensate for the fact that Wild Shape is uses per long rest, instead of short rest like in base.

Buff - Circle of the Omen New feature, Ill-Fated End, allows you to bane a single creature for a round as a bonus action. Blood Moon Rising now gives omen stacks for each creature you damage. To compensate, Harbinger of Calamity is once per short or long rest.

GUNSLINGER

Rework - Grit Grit can only recover if you crit or drop a hostile creature, rather than any creature.

Removed - Dead Shot Awkward and annoying

New - Unending Grit Replaces Dead Shot. Recovers grit on initiative

Reword - Trail of the Musketeer Thread the Needle reworded to work more cleanly

Reword - Trail of the Pistolero Fists Full of Fire reworded. Bullet Storm nerfed to twice per turn.

Reword - Trail of the Spell Slinger Living Lead reworded

Rework - Trail of the Street Samurai Bullet Time now a 3rd-level feature alongside Gunkata. New 6th level feature for added mobility.

Rework - Trail of the Virtuoso Removed Inspiring Shot, replaced with Ricocheting Shot, allowing you to reroll missed attacks. Curtain Call now increases crit range based on your trick shooting stacks.

PALADIN

New - Oath of Darkness Hold people in place with shadow, make imprisoning bubbles, etc.

SORCERER

Buff - Origin Spells Sorcerous Origins now give two spells for every level up to 5th, rather than one spell every level up to 6th

New - Blighted Soul Origin Evil plant stuff. Gain temp for damaging enemies with spells, punish dudes for hitting you, etc.

Buff - Draconic Bloodline Origin Legendary Arcana allows you to cast 1st level spells from 10th, scaling in level by 1 at 14th and 18th. You can also spend sorcery points to use the feature multiple times. Additionally, added new options for gemstone dragon origin.

New - Lunar Magic Origin Move between three lunar phases: Full, Crescent, and New, with exclusive spells and abilities for each

WARDEN

New - Avenger Combat Discipline Offensive martial warden. Can brand enemies for extra damage.

Rework - Elementalist Combat Discipline Limit Break is now a 1st-level feature. Reaching limit gives you bonus damage on weapon attacks. Limit breaks now allow you to cast low-level spells for free.

Rework - Guardian Combat Discipline Now the defensive warden. Punish enemies for attacking your allies and grant enemies disadvantage to hit them if they’re nearby

WARLOCK

Nerf - The Hexblade Hexblade’s Curse damage is now once per turn, to bring it in line with all the other warlock origins that give bonus damage

Removed - Minions of Chaos Referenced a spell that has since been removed

Buff - One with Shadows Now actually works. Also it now lets you Hide as a bonus action while you’re invisible, which is neat

RACES

Rework - Aasimar Brought more in line to version offered in Monsters of the Multiverse, just less horribly balanced.

New - Gemstone Dragonborn Dragonborn that get weirder damage types and can hover for a bit

New - Implin Fiend goblins!

New - Shade A new Shadowfell-oriented lineage

SPELLS

New - House of Cards Build a card tower

Buff - Silvery Barbs Now a 2nd-level spell

New - Spirit of Death Summon a reaper that hones in on one target until they’re dead, then moves on to the next guy

New - Spray of Cards Deal damage or blind in a small AOE cone

New - Summon Warrior Spirit Summon a barbarian, fighter, monk, or rogue ghost to fight

Fix - Tasha’s Mind Whip Damage incorrectly unchanged from a past version

DOWNTIME ACTIVITIES

New - Taming a Beast Make friends with a Beast creature (or Monstrosity, if you’re feeling really brave).

RULES

Keyword Update - Hybrid Nature While it’s not a functional change, but instead of being a racial trait, Hybrid Nature is just implicit to all things that have more than one creature type. If you’re a Humanoid & Undead, you can be affected by things that affect Humanoids or Undead, regardless if it can’t normally affect the other. 

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Chronicle Entry XX002 - Hearts

As the Astral Fortress crumbles and collapses, falling into the open sea of Esprit below, many warriors of the Starblade Company still fight. A dragonborn leads a dance of dragons, while a squadron of wizards hold back hordes of the undead, with great warriors fighting at their sides. Among them all, perched atop one of the last surviving towers on the fortress, a lone assassin sits.

Drawing five crystal arrows from her quiver, she aims high for Stardust’s eye, yet the godly force that flows through her bow pulls her aim downwards, towards the swirling abyss that is Stardust’s Heart.

Trusting the mother of dragons’ guidance, she lets loose the five arrows, which soar into the sky on trails of light. As they spiral through the air, their intensity grows brighter. Every being on the fortress, living, dead, or somewhere in between, stops still and watches these five unerring comets sail towards their target.

The dragon titan herself takes notice all too late, as in a flash of light, the five arrows take the form of another creature. A five-headed dragon of immense proportions.

While Tiamat, Mother of Dragons, pales in comparison to Stardust’s size, her strength is a close match. She hurtles towards Stardust and clamps five sets of jaws into her flesh, tearing away great chunks of starry shell.

The two gods clash, their every swipe and snap sending shockwaves across the entire fortress.

For a moment, Tiamat has Stardust held at bay, before unleashing five powerful breath weapons directly into her heart. The sound that Stardust makes is more a scream of wrath than a roar, as the spinning vortex in her chest is torn asunder. The three rings of light flicker and fade, as a swirling blue portal is revealed within the shattered core.

Stardust unleashes a beam of eradicating light that tears Tiamat’s avatar asunder, and cleaving the already-ruined fortress in two. Yet, even in her victory, she is weakened. Tiamat’s wounds have left her vulnerable, if only for a time...

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Chronicle Entry XX001 - I Am Eternity

The sky cracks, splintering like glass, as a baleful light pours in from beyond. The cracks spider out all across the sky, before the horizon itself shatters into dust, revealing the source of the light beyond.

A titanic form looms over the entire fortress. Cloaked in a sky’s worth of glimmering stars, the creatures stretches out its immense wings, casting a grim glow that reaches out for miles in every direction.

While few in history have ever laid eyes upon her, there is no mistaking her: Stardust, Grandmaster of the Starblade Company.

All around her, shadows plummet from the world above: other dragons. Immense in their own right, but infantile when compared to Stardust’s impossible scale.

Looming high over the fortress, Stardust looks down upon you all and speaks.

After aeons of waiting, I am complete.

I must thank you, my brave soldiers, for bringing this reality into being. Without your aid, perhaps this end would never have come to pass. 

But now this universe must be rendered asunder, its every molecule obliterated and made anew. In my image will all things be reborn, as it was always meant to be.

The beings that arise from your ashes will know nothing of what came before, but I will be sure to remember you fondly, for you were my beloved instruments, knowingly or otherwise.

Now, my pawns, your long march is over. Sink to your knees and rest, for the epoch of eternity is upon you.

As Stardust speaks, she draws in her arms and latches her claws deep into her chest. Then, with one motion, she wrenches open a gaping hole at her heart, revealing a swirling orb of darkness within. Surrounding the orb are three concentric rings of light: one a sickly white, one a pale viridian, and the last an oozing, liquid crimson.

The orb pulses, its power felt to the very bone, as a great force washes over everything around you, pushing to the edges of the Astral Sea before vanishing into the beyond.

There's a moment of silence, just enough for a single breath, before a horrific groaning fills your ears. It surrounds you on all sides, as if the fabric of reality itself is creaking like rotten wood, before a chorus of destructive noise fills your mind. As you look around, like cloth and skin meticulously pulled apart, the boundaries between the planes is broken and each and every world that touches the Astral Sea is laid bare before you in macabre honeycomb of failing realities.

The pulsating, black heart at the centre of Stardust’s chest begins to draw in power from these other worlds, rending apart whatever it touches atom by atom and drawing their power into Stardust herself.

The fortress begins to break apart, with streets splintering and buildings collapsing into the Astral Sea below.

As many of your fellow Starblades begin to bear arms against the astral dragon, she speaks again:

You reject your purpose, pawns? Perhaps you are unworthy of being unmade so painlessly. Your twitching corpses will be fuel enough.

Bringing a claw down to the earth, Stardust traces a great ring of white light in the air. Upon its completion, the ring becomes a glowing portal, from which a horde of undead charge, their skin sallow and empty eye-sockets aglow with the same harsh light of the Tomorrow. Some bare familiar faces. Those honoured in statues of officers, while others bear the faces of fallen comrades that were once lost to the endless march.

Moments later, a series of draconic roars reach your ears, as five dazzling comets fall from the broken sky: one white, one blue, one black, one red, and one green. These glimmering, chromatic arrows plummet to the earth all across the fortress, and word quickly spreads of who needs them: Feather.

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Through sea and sky, Under moon and sun, The blades fall, And foes rise.

Boots march, Through sweat, blood, and tears, Nameless warriors, Unmade anew.

Through this act, I cast all away, Tomorrow a memory Nothing today.

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Chronicle Entry LG109 - A Warning

This Chronicle entry, recorded by High Chronicler Quill, is a transcription of a letter left by Senior Officer Feather before her recent departure

I hope that no one ever has to read this.

My name is Zye, and I have organised the destruction of the Starblade company.

During my time, and with the help of others... I hope to remove it’s existence from this life. But if for some reason the company manages to be resurrected, then please remember this...

We will never be equal to her. 

She is known as Stardust, but her real name is Lorex. Do not let her make you forget it. 

We are pawns to serve in her merciless quest for power and riches, and I am not proud of the things that I have done on her behalf. 

For those of you that read this letter and still stand at her side, know this: 

You are disposable and replaceable to her, so do not give her what she wants. Do you not play her game, for you are much stronger... much smarter than she gives you credit. 

Do not fall victim to losing your own self. She makes you believe that you have nothing, which in turn makes you stay. But there is always something to fight for outside these walls. You only need a small piece to realise it, and that small piece changed my cold and forbidding heart, forever. There are some people that will not accept the outcome, and that is understandable. Let them be angry, for it may not seem that what I did was for their future. Ultimately, I hope that over many centuries this will all be forgotten, like memory into myth. 

Just remember yourself. Remember who you were, before she tells you who you should be. Be strong enough to change things. Lorex will only break you if you let her.

As for Stardust’s loyalists, who will try and rally officers against me. You won’t see me coming until it’s too late.

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Patch 3.1 - Moment of Triumph

While it started as a more general patch, Patch 3.1 has turned into a total overhaul of the feat system, among other changes, specifically including some race changes from Mordenkainen’s Monsters of the Multiverse.

CLASSES

ARTIFICER

New - Artificer Specialisation: Demolitionist bomb

BARBARIAN

New - Barbarian Path: Path of Hellfire Slam the ground and make fire

Fix - Battle Outlet: Relentless Chase Is once per turn.

GUNSLINGER

Rework - Trail of the Pistolero: Fists Full of Fire Now works with new two-weapon fighting rules (and just works in general)

RANGER

New - Ranger Conclave: Conclave of the Arcane Archer Shoot a guy in up to NINE SPECIAL WAYS!

SORCERER

New - Sorcerous Origin: Fiendish Soul Mark people with hell. Then explode them.

WARLOCK

Buff - Pact Magic & Eldritch Invocations Increased the number of starting cantrips and invocations by 1

Nerf - Eldritch Invocation: Eldritch Smite Now doesn’t come back with expended spell slots, because holy shit. Instead comes back on a short or long rest.

RACES

Certain race changes from Mordenkainen’s Monsters of the Multiverse buff certain shit races in a number of ways and add general quality of life improvements

Rework - Innate Spells All races that gain innate spells can cast them using spell slots and can choose their spellcasting ability modifier

Rework - Racial Traits All racial traits that previous had uses now have proficiency bonus uses.

Buff - Genasi All genasi have been reworked/buffed across the board. Their spells are largely much better.

Rework - Hobgoblin Now grant martial proficiencies, bonuses to Helping, and a bonus to AC

New - Ogre Large lad. Muscle through saving throws

New - Special Lineage: Shade Shadow person with shadowy stuff

Rework - Tiefling Tieflings are now fully customisable, with a list of spells to choose from and three unique abilities.

FEATS

The new feats system allows for greater customisation and uniqueness, but allowing character to pick small buffs to their character for free.

New - Minor Feats Characters can pick a minor feat at 1st, 5th, 10th, and 15th level. The following feats have been turned into minor feats (and have add their ability score improvements removed):

Actor

Armoured

Athlete

Dungeon Delver

Keen Mind

Linguist

The Skill Feats (one for each skill)

Tavern Brawler

The Tool Feats (one for most tools)

Weapon Master

New - Artful Dodger Dodge as a bonus action a few times. Get more benefits for dodging. Great for monks?

Buff - Breach Manoeuvring Easier time moving. More damage

New - Defender Taunt enemies, stop them hitting your lads, and more cover for your lads

New - Interceptor Protection feat. Move to protect your lads

Buff - Savage Attacker Increases your critical hit range. Holy shit, it’s good now.

Buff - Slasher Bleeds on crit

New - Supernatural Feats Be touched by fey, fiends, celestials, law, or chaos.

New - Titan Build Use the new Large Lad Weapons™

SPELLS

New - Akordia’s Crescent Slash Three swooshes

Buff - Death Ward Now works with reducing to 0 without damage. Basically to make it stop you bleeding to death

Buff - Detect Thoughts Duration increased from 1 to 10 minutes

Nerf - Facade Misinterpret now stops if you harm a charmed creature’s allies

Rework - Flame Blade Works like shadow blade now. Sets dudes on fire on hit.

New - Gale Blade Anime booming blade

Nerf - Haste Now just incapacitates the target when it ends

Buff - Heal Cures bleeding now

New - Nova Explode with stars

Nerf - Polymorph Polymorphing an unwilling creature only lasts 1 minute

New - Shifting Earth Move dudes around like chess pieces

RULES

Rework - Critical Hits Features now increase your “critical hit range,” rather than say “you crit on a 19 or 20″

New - Excess Damage to Cover If a wall gets exploded by fireball and the wall was protecting you, it hits you with the leftover damage

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Patch 3.0 - Supreme Verdict Part 4: Rules

The patch is finally upon us. It’s taken 7-months and gruelling suffering, but here we are. For the sake of our collective sanity, the patch notes will be split into multiple parts.

Most changes made are opt-in for pre-existing characters meaning that you may choose whether or not to apply them to characters already in-play. (Created, but not-yet-played characters do not count as pre-existing characters)

Otherwise, changes will apply to all characters created in future

RULES

Clarification - AOEs while Large or Larger Prevents you from hitting yourself with arms of Hadar and similar spells.

New - Armour and Weapons for Large or larger Creatures Pretty much what it says on the tin

Rework - Fighting Style: Protection Now allows you to change the target to you, instead of grant disadvantage. High AC is encouraged!

Change - Flanking You can now flank a creature that is one size larger than you or smaller. (i.e. If you’re Medium, you can flank Large or smaller creatures. If you’re Large, you can flank Huge or smaller creatures)

New - Jumping You can now make Strength (Athletics) checks to jump further than your standard jumping distance.

Clarification - Keywords Certain terms have been officially keyworded with attached rulestext. This changes very little, it just makes templating things easier for me. The keyworded terms are:

Changing Die Size

Darkvision

Expertise

Low-Light Vision

Magical Darkness

Multiclassing Spell Slot Progression for Invokers, Wardens, and Warlocks

Turned

Wind Levels (Mild Wind, Strong Wind, Gale Wind)

Clarification - Verbal Spell Components You must speak clearly aloud.

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Patch 3.0 - Supreme Verdict Part 3: Spells

The patch is finally upon us. It’s taken 7-months and gruelling suffering, but here we are. For the sake of our collective sanity, the patch notes will be split into multiple parts.

Most changes made are opt-in for pre-existing characters meaning that you may choose whether or not to apply them to characters already in-play. (Created, but not-yet-played characters do not count as pre-existing characters)

Otherwise, changes will apply to all characters created in future

SPELLS

Many changes have been made to spells in this patch. Many old spells have been cut, spells from new books have been added, and new spells have been added to every class

NEW SPELLS

Spells from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, and Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos, as well as some other sources

CANTRIPS

Booming blade

Green-flame blade

Infestation

Lightning lure

Magic stone

1ST-LEVEL SPELLS

Time capsule

2ND-LEVEL SPELLS

Borrowed knowledge

Cure Disease

Forward/backward

Nathair’s mischief

Rime’s binding ice

Shadow blade

Summon beast

Wither and bloom

3RD-LEVEL SPELLS

Aganazzar’s jet stride

Iron wind strike

Silvery barbs

Summon fey

Summon ooze

Summon plant

Summon shadowspawn

Summon undead

4TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Novice

Raulothim’s psychic lance

Summon aberration

Summon construct

Summon draconic spirit

Summon elemental

5TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Control lesser weather

Greater ceremony

Summon celestial

Summon fiend

Yester

6TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Fizban’s Platinum Shield

7TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Draconic Transformation

Erase

NEW CLASS-EXCLUSIVE SPELLS

Most classes are under-represented in spell exclusivity. Most class-exclusive spells are Wizard spells, with the rest getting a small smattering of spells to themselves. Now they all have at least 5-10+

ACCURSED

Cursing Bolt

Essence Strike

Accursed Grasp

Wicked Bastion

Lifehunger

Withering Strike

Cursing Blast

Eerie Resilience

Bestow Greater Curse

Haunting Shade

ARTIFICER

Cherry Bomb

Arcane Charge

Create Munitions

Sonic Interference

Summon Microbots

Tesla Charge

Arcane Matrix

Lock On

Torque

Bubble Shield

Raze

Electromagnetic Pulse

Mechanical Enhancement

BARD

Allegro

Otto's Marching Band

Tremolo

Wordsmith

Grace Note

Ear Worm

Harmonize

Otto's Hypnotising Tune

Discord

Power Word Courage

Melodrama

Body Double

Symphony

CLERIC

Warding Incense

Sanctify

Renew

Spiritual Armour

Purify

DRUID

Petal Shuriken

Razorbramble

Wood Barrier

Chrysalis

Solarbeam

Column of Earth

Vine Grapple

Pollen Burst

Photosynthesis

Upheaval

INQUISITOR

Brand

Holy Spear

Castigate

Litany of Protection

Litany of Righteousness

Holy Edict

Litany of Bestowal

Litany of Rigour

Divine Grace

Litany of Resilience

Exile

Litany of Shelter

Greater Ceremony

Litany of Insight

Purge

ODIC

Lifejudder

Ond Pulse

Expose Lifeforce

Ond Shield

Lotus of Life

PALADIN

Shielding Smite

Punishing Smite

Project Aura

Guiding Smite

Syphoning Smite

Divine Shield

Greater Ceremony

PRISM

Dazzling Flash

Light Screen

Harsh Glow

Prismatic Pulse

Warmth

Light Binding

Lucent Step

Soothing Light

Projection Flare

Unleash Inner Radiance

RANGER

Primeval Awareness

Thorn Strike

Blossoming Strike

Primal Poultice

Heartseeking Strike

Windrush

Rending Strike

RUNESHAPER

Construe

Focus Brand

Defender Rune

Pulse Rune

Agility Rune

Inhibiting Seal

Barrier Insignia

Destruction Insignia

Chromatic Seal

Geyser Rune

Grace Insignia

Vulnerability Seal

SHAMAN

Mediumship

Mental Shadow

Project Aspect

Geistwave

Saviour Spirit

Ancestral Guardian

Ethereal Draw

Ghostward

Memory Lapse

Gift of the Dead

Part the Veil

Ancestral Weapon

Greater Ceremony

Spirit Storm

SORCERER

Metabolt

Metaburst

Althaea's Spellnode

Spellweave

Chaos Warp

Magic Barrier

Sorcerous Ward

Arcane Fusion

Althaea's Spellcore

Greater Arcane Fusion

Supreme Sorcery

WARDEN

Fire Lash

Nature's Brand

Crown of Regrowth

Elemental Roil

Energy Tendril

Nature's Abundance

Anchoring Strike

Primal Armour

Elemental Burst

Total Protection from Energy

WARLOCK

Aurelian Spear

Eldritch Pull

Fangs of the Night Serpent

Slicing Shadows

Baleful Light

Kezef's Soulhunter

Atropal Star

Malefic Prophecy

BUFFED SPELLS

CANTRIPS

Acid Splash

Frostbite

Poison Spray

Thunderclap

Umbraturgy

1ST-LEVEL SPELLS

Arms of Hadar

Ceremony

Charm person

Compelled duel

Cure wounds (spicy)

Jump

2ND-LEVEL SPELLS

Animal messenger

Clinging shadows

Cordon of arrows

Dust devil

Enthrall

Find traps

Insurmountable to surmountable

Melf's acid arrow

Snilloc's snowball swarm

Tasha's mind whip

Warding wind

3RD-LEVEL SPELLS

Conjure barrage

Erupting earth

Flame arrows

Magma splash

Melf's tranquilizing arrow

Ray of force

4TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Aura of purity

Bleed

Blight

Compulsion

Elemental bane

Grasping vine

Hypothermia

Mordenkainen's faithful hound

Phantasmal killer

Venomous bolt

Wall of fire

Widogast's web of flame

5TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Conjure volley

Contagion

Enervation

Forgotten pain

Mass cure wounds

Mislead

Negative energy flood

6TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Contingency

Drawmij's instant summons

7TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Celestial opposition

Divine word

Finger of death

Mordenkainen's sword

Umbral assault

8TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Abi-Dalzim's horrid wilting

Control greater weather

Glibness

Incendiary cloud

Maddening darkness

Mind blank

Telepathy

9TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Weird

NERFED SPELLS

CANTRIPS

Decaying veil

Eidolic chains

Toll the dead

3RD-LEVEL SPELLS

Thunderbolts

4TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Banishment

5TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Banishing smite

Bowgentle’s fleeting journey

Wall of force

Wall of stone

6TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Banshee’s wail

7TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Forcecage

8TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Antipathy/sympathy

Dark star

Divine avenger

9TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Mass heal

REWORKED SPELLS

CANTRIPS

Acid Splash

Decaying veil

Eidolic chains

Fortify

Frostbite

Poison Spray

Thunderclap

Toll the dead

Umbraturgy

1ST-LEVEL SPELLS

Blisterwind

Ceremony

Charm person

Compelled duel

Crystal resonance

Cure wounds

Jaunt

Jump

Outrage (rename to Enrage)

Provision

Ray of Light

Twilight

2ND-LEVEL SPELLS

Adderbite

Anchor/Buoy

Animal messenger

Blockade

Clinging shadows

Cordon of arrows

Dust devil

Entrall

Feral empowerment

Find traps

Id insinuation

Immovable object

Insurmountable to surmountable

Korrin's Fist

Lesser Restoration

Manacle of burden

Melf's acid arrow

Skywrite

Snilloc's snowball swarm

Tasha's mind whip

Warding wind

Wormhole plunge

Wounding bolt

Wraithstrike

3RD-LEVEL SPELLS

Aegis of Shielding (renamed to Aegis)

Blackened heart

Conjure barrage

Delay death

Erupting earth

Flame arrows

Freezing vortex

Intellect fortress

Magma splash

Melf's tranquilizing arrow

Onyx skull

Ray of force

Reaping smite

Skystrike

Spiritual chains

4TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Ashen pack

Aura of purity

Autochronosis

Bleed

Blight

Chains of affinity

Compulsion

Crimson cloak

Elemental bane

Grasping vine

Hypothermia

Mordenkainen's faithful hound

Orbital stones

Phantasmal killer

Shadowy Strike

Venomous bolt

Wall of fire

5TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Binding contract (renamed as Contract)

Bowgentle's Fleeting Journey

Brimstone

Conjure volley

Contagion

Enervation

Fallen Meteor

Forgotten pain

Greater Restoration

Lunar passage

Mass cure wounds

Mislead

Negative energy flood

Shadow stride

Wall of force

Wall of stone

White ice

6TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Aphotic armour

Banshee's Wail

Contingency

Drawmij's instant summons

Verisimilitude

7TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Erase

Forcecage

Jodariel's exiling impalement

Mirage arcane

Regenerate

Schism

8TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Antipathy/ sympathy

Arcane elevation

Black Star

Control greater weather

Divine avenger

Glibness

Incendiary cloud

Maddening darkness

Mantle of the undaunted

Mind blank

Telepathy

Whiteout

9TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Extinction

Grimlore's calamity

Mass heal

Weird

Wildfire

Worldrend

REMOVED SPELLS

CANTRIPS

Aether shock

Astral seal

Claws of the dragon

Corruption

Fumble

Hand of Wrath

Hat trick

Magical mask

Mirror burst

Prayer of pain

Prayer of warding

Relative momentum

Righteous reproach

Thorn shield

Virtue

Voidshield

1ST-LEVEL SPELLS

Aerosphere

Aether ray

Alacrity

Armour of Othrys

Aura of shade

Blade of grass

Covenant

Dead end

Deep pockets

Discern name

Enrage

Evard's lashing tongue

Gaea's hand

Injurious spellbook

Jinx

Lightning lure

Luck of the sea

Penance

Rapport Spores

Rebuke evil and good

Slicing leaves

Spoken Ward

Tutulary Totem

Vigilance

2ND-LEVEL SPELLS

Air bubble

Analyze blood

Analyze portal

Arm of the wild

Bigby's blistering barnacles

Cool metal

Corrode metal

Death's breath

Delphi's pendulum

Discover weakness

Dome of night

Echoed Pass

Far reach

Freeze frame

Frostfire

Gale of obscurity

Gift of gab

Glasswings

Glitterdust

Gomez's earwigging electrum

Holy hymnal

Howling downpour

Hunter's pace

Invalidate

Mental barrier

Mind thrust

Poisonstar

Possession

Pressure blade

Rays of radiance

See through Other Eyes

Skinchange

Skinscales

Spell Flux

Sporecaller's smite

Stolen breath

Transfix

Urchin's spines

Wyrd Reconstruction

3RD-LEVEL SPELLS

Acid Breath

Aegis of Assault

Aegis of Ensnarement

Aetherthread

Ameliorate

Battleshift

Blasphemy

Catnap

Conjure animals

Conjure lesser demons

Cruorstorm

Delphi's bones

Dryad's leap

Fallen soul

Fell

Find the gap

Flintflesh

Flowsight

Hardening

Icon of decay

Impede harm

Inhabiting charge

Korrin's brand

Last moments

Lingering flame

Mindfeast

Modify beast

Moon blade

Mummify

Night guardians

Nystul's talking wall

Pit of flame

Power word fall

Protection from negative energy

Ray of exhaustion

Sand blast

Shroud the mind

Skewering branch

Sticks to snakes

Stone sentinel

Storm vortex

Thunderous bellows

Umbral form

Wall of gloom

Weave necrosis

Writ of passage

Zone of swiftness

4TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Armour of brilliance

Bane bow

Beacon of false life

Bestow syphons

Caustic quicksand

Conjure greater demon

Conjure minor elementals

Conjure woodland beings

Delphi's looking glass

Embers

Energy ward

Forbidden obelisk

Iron spike of Dis

Mystic aurora

Rary's rapid replication

Soul grip

Stone sphere

Swarmtide

Transfigure

Tree strike

5TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Bless vessel

Conjure elemental

Conjure ooze

Conjure plant creature

Consign blood

Delphi's eyeglasses

Divine field

Enpower animal

Infernal calling

Manifest mimic

Mind spore

Petal flurry

Red tide

Reincarnate

Resistance against magic

Tenser's destructive blast

Vacuum burst

Valiance

Visage of terror

6TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Conjure fey

Syphon skill

7TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Awaken undead

Circle of vigour

Conjure celestial

Conjure invisible stalker

Gorgon's glare

Otiluke's siege sphere

8TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Flensing

Manufacture construct

Nel Zhim's magical vivisection

Vacuum

Vector blast

Wrathful castigation

9TH-LEVEL SPELLS

Astral projection

Hayzenbyrg's superposition

Quicksilver

Realmrift

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Patch 3.0 - Supreme Verdict Part 2: Races & Feats

The patch is finally upon us. It’s taken 7-months and gruelling suffering, but here we are. For the sake of our collective sanity, the patch notes will be split into multiple parts.

Most changes made are opt-in for pre-existing characters meaning that you may choose whether or not to apply them to characters already in-play. (Created, but not-yet-played characters do not count as pre-existing characters)

Otherwise, changes will apply to all characters created in future

RACES

Rework - Aarakocra Now split into three subraces: Eaglin, Owlin, and Vulturin. Owlin incorporated from Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos

Rework - Bugbear Long Arms replaced with Brute Strength, granting 1d4 weapon damage proficiency bonus times per short or long rest

New - Bullywug Noble frog lads

Buff - Centaur Centaur are now Large creatures

Rework - Dragonborn Reworked to work similar to those shown in Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons

New - Gnoll Wild hyena dudes

Buff - Goliath Added cold damage back. Stone’s Endurance now scales with your level.

Buff - Minotaur Minotaur are now Large creatures

Rework - Mousefolk Minor ability adjustments. Nimble Dodge removed.

New - Shardmind Psychic rock people.

SPECIAL LINEAGES

Special character races exclusive to certain campaign settings. Lineages override another race, allowing one to become a Human Dhampir, or a Dwarf Lycan, etc.

The Dhampir, Hexblood, and Reborn come from Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, while the Lycan comes from my book Van Richten’s Pocketbook Ravenloft.

Expect one more lineage, the Shade, in Patch 3.1

New - Special Lineage: Dhampir Vampire dudes

New - Special Lineage: Hexblood Children of hags, just much less gross

New - Special Lineage: Lycan Werewolves, but not broken

New - Special Lineage: Reborn Imagine getting reborn as a robot, a zombie, or a scarecrow, or whatever...

FEATS

New - Hardy: Grants benefits to Endurance checks and advantage on checked against a forced march

New - Pack Tactician: Grants benefits to moving towards creatures, improves flanking, and prevents you and your allies from being flanked

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Patch 3.0 - Supreme Verdict Part 1: Classes

The patch is finally upon us. It’s taken 7-months and gruelling suffering, but here we are. For the sake of our collective sanity, the patch notes will be split into multiple parts. 

Most changes made are opt-in for pre-existing characters meaning that you may choose whether or not to apply them to characters already in-play. (Created, but not-yet-played characters do not count as pre-existing characters)

Otherwise, changes will apply to all characters created in future

CLASSES

ACCURSED

Rework - Spellcasting Accursed now have a unique form of Innate Spellcasting, allowing them to cast all of their known spells once each every long rest.

Many old accursed abilities have been removed/reworked to coincide with this spellcasting change.

New - Black Magic Font Allows you to regain lost spells.

Nerf - Merciless Critical Moved to 7th level to make room for new features

Removed - Haunted Implements Added nothing to the class. Have been removed to make space for subclass abilities.

New - Accursed Essence New capstone. Grants essence on a crit and allows extra usage of your Black Magic Font feature.

Rework - Curses All of the subclasses have been fundamentally reworked in one way or another. To list them exhaustively here would be a waste of time.

New - Curse: Curse of Failing Fortune Dice math guy. Give yourself disadvantage on one thing to give them extra disadvantage on their thing. So on, so forth.

New - Curse: Curse of Fetid Flesh You can exude an aura of grossness and general unpleasantness

New - Curse: Curse of the Shattered Mind You can drive people insane by stabbing them.

BARBARIAN

Removed - Barbarian Path: Path of the Abomination Removed to make way for Path of the Beast.

New - Barbarian Path: Path of the Beast Added from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Rework - Barbarian Path: Path of the Destroyer 3rd and 6th level features swapped

Removed - Barbarian Path: Path of the Diamond Mind Removed because jank.

New - Barbarian Path: Path of Revelry Have fun in battle. Get stronger when you’re damaged and taunt enemies

CLERIC

Nerf - Divine Domain: Peace Domain It was broken. It’s probably fixed now. You no longer cream on your allies.

Nerf - Divine Domain: Twilight Domain Fuck you WotC

DRUID

Rework - Nature’s Boon Removed Nature’s Kindness and Nature’s Wrath due to their general power. Ability renamed to Nature’s Companion

New - Druid Circle: Circle of Dreams Incorporated from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

New - Druid Circle: Circle of Omens Generate Omen, a resource you can use to gain advantage on attacks and grant creatures disadvantage on saving throws against your spells

New - Druid Circle: Circle of Thunder Peel Tank Druid. Protect your allies by punishing enemies for attacking them with lightning bolts

New - Druid Circle: Circle of the Wind Gish Druid. Cast a spell, fly at a guy and stab them

FIGHTER

New - Martial Archetype: Psi Warrior Added from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Rework - Manoeuvres Manoeuvres reworked to be more consistent in power

MYSTIC

A subclassless class designed for maximum customisability. Level your character through Talent Points and Talent Trees, picking your abilities at whatever pace you like.

Thus, you can be whatever kind of psychic you like. Basically any “I am psychic” trope you can think of, you can probably do it.

RANGER

New - Ranger Conclave: Swarmkeeper Bees.

ROGUE

Buff - Roguish Archetype: Assassin It was garbage. I gave it actual abilities

New - Roguish Archetype: Inquisitive Added and significantly improved from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

New - Roguish Archetype: Mastermind Buffed across the board

New - Roguish Archetype: Phantom Added from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

New - Roguish Archetype: Soulknife Added from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Reworked - Roguish Archetype: Vigilante Abilities reworked to function around Strike Techniques

SORCERER

Rework - Shadowborn Hound of Ill-Omen instead allows you to cast summon shadowspawn.

Tweak - Wild Magic Table Certain options altered to further-balance the table’s odds of bad/neutral/good results

TACTICIAN

Designed to replace Scholar and Warlord, Tactician combines the flavour of both classes into a unique kind of martial support character. Execute your Perfect Plan by adding d4s to the attacks, checks, and saves of everyone that’s “in on your plan,” and Analyse your enemy’s every move

WARLOCK

Buff - Hexblade: Accursed Specter Now summons an actual guy with his own statblock instead of just an idiot specter. He scales well. The accursed specter can also be created via killing non-humanoids too

WIZARD

Buff - Arcane School: School of Conjuration Abilities improved overall

Buff - Arcane School: School of Enchantment Abilities improved overall

Buff - Arcane School: School of Illusion Abilities improved overall

REMOVED CLASSES

Animist Made redundancy due to the addition of new spells

Incarnate Convoluted to the point of being a pain in the ass

Partisan Lack of flavour depth

Occultist Poor mechanical application

Odysseer Lack of flavour depth

Paragon Lack of flavour depth

Pathoturge Terrible. It has since been integrated mechanically into Mystic

Scholar Removed to make way for Tactician

Warlord Removed to make room for Tactician 

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Chronicle Entry LE057 – 38/05/1203: The Next Step

This Chronicle entry, recorded by Major Captain, has been made to inform Senior Officers on current affairs.

Karsus is gone. With the aid of many of our brave Senior Officers, Stardust was able to annihilate him entirely. He will trouble us no longer.

The Material Plane is slowly rebuilding. It will likely take them years, perhaps even decades, but they will survive. Many smaller populations, tribal peoples and the sort, were able to stave off the madness by hiding underground, but larger nations have been torn apart. Curun has all but completely collapsed as they scramble to find an heir to the imperial throne. Cachiria has, even in their weakened state, declared themselves free of suzerainty. Diles and Duran’s endless squabbling has gone silent for now, and the democracy of Erku is teetering in the balance.

In this time of strife, the Material Plane will have need of our services now more than ever, something we are equipped to give. We’ve plans to step up our presence on the Material Plane with permanent strongholds, which we are currently conjuring into being with aid from our finest wizards.

I would like to thank all those who have played a part in the sealing of Karsus, big and small. Those truly loyal to the company have stepped up to plate and powered through great adversity.

The hardest part may be over, but the more complicated part is only just beginning.

Good luck to you all. – Major Captain

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Patch 2.13 - Illuminate History

This patch was pretty simple overall: "you have a bunch of unadded subclasses lying around. Put those in now." Outside of that, some minor balance tweaks to other things and some new rulings, as well as a brand new Backgrounds page!

BACKGROUNDS

The backgrounds page is one of the oldest vestiges of the old homebrewery documents and it’s needed an update for years. Each of the backgrounds has been altered to include more details and skill options, whilst also officially outlining that you can just ignore it all and make your own.

New - Investigator Find the truth and be an edgy noir protagonist

CLASSES

ARTIFICER

Rework - Artificer Specialisation: Mechanic Mechanic was extremely clunky before, but this update helps to streamline all its abilities into a much simpler (if less flavourful) form. Ultimately your Arcane Ride is more of an abstract idea than a physical game object, but is a lot more customisable.

BARBARIAN

New - Barbarian Path: Path of Euphoria Barbarians that just get lost in the moment. Why be mad, when you can be glad?

New - Barbarian Path: Path of the Witchblood Bayonetta barbarian? Yes.

RANGER

Rework - Ambuscade Ambuscade now gives a hasted Action and a bonus action, rather than half movement and a shit Action.

New - Ranger Conclave: Conclave of the Darkened Edgy ranger with evil markings and curses.

New - Ranger Conclave: Conclave of the Emissary Deliver divine messages (the message is that you’re going to shoot them in the face. it’s attached to the arrow-shaft.)

Buff - Ranger Conclave: Conclave of the Horizon Walker Planar Warrior changed to be an extra attack for minor damage. Ethereal Step given more uses.

SORCERER

New - Sorcerous Origin: Fey-Touched Grow plants to hide in and make mad illusions.

WARDEN

Rework - Combat Discipline: Elementalist Limit breaks are unique spell-like effects with individual shapes and secondary effects.

WARLOCK

New - Otherworldly Patron: The Deceiver Make teleportation tunnels, split into clones, and do other devilishly deceitful

WARLORD

Buff - Rallying Mark Now gives substantially more in the form of temporary hit points, rather than flat healing

FEATS

Buff - Sentinel Now allows you to attack creature’s within your weapon’s reach, rather than within 5 feet

SPELLS

New - Display Memory Show people your memories. Pretty simple stuff

New - Power Chord A new damaging cantrip for bards. Ranged spell attack for d8 thunder damage and a 5-foot push or pull.

New - Shadowy Strike A spicy ranger smite spell for free necrotic damage and range

RULES

Clarification - Stealth Established concrete scenarios for when to roll for Stealth