Path of the Berserker

The Path of the Berserker is the Barbarian path with no creed, captain, pack or faith behind the rage. Its followers are frontier wildmen who did not fit inside a barracks, dock-fighters who take tournament bouts because they cannot get a wage-card signed, and survivors of failed colonies. Of the Barbarian paths, it deals the most damage and takes the most in hit points and exhaustion in return.

Level 3. Frenzy When you enter a Rage, you can choose to enter a Frenzy. For the duration of that Rage, you can make one additional melee weapon attack as a bonus action on each of your turns. When the Frenzy ends, whether the Rage ended on its own, you were knocked Unconscious or you dismissed it, you gain one level of the Exhausted condition. A Rage without a Frenzy does not impose exhaustion.

Level 7. Brutal Recovery When you finish a short or long rest, you can remove one level of the Exhausted condition. When you finish a short rest, you can also spend one Hit Die without rolling it and instead recover hit points equal to its maximum value plus your Constitution modifier.

Level 11. Endless Fury Your number of Rages no longer follows the Barbarian's Rages per long rest progression. Instead, you can Rage a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus plus 1. At 20th level, Primal Champion replaces this feature.

Level 15. Whirlwind Attack Once per turn while raging, when you take the Attack action, you can replace one of its attacks with a Whirlwind: a single melee weapon attack roll made against every creature of your choice within 5 feet of you. Make one attack roll and compare it to each target's AC separately, then apply damage to each target you hit. Damage riders that apply once per turn, such as Sneak Attack, apply to only one target of your choosing. You can use Whirlwind Attack a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier per long rest (minimum 1).

Level 18. Unbroken Rage While raging, you cannot be Incapacitated, Stunned or Paralyzed. If an effect would impose any of those conditions on you, the effect is suspended for the duration of the Rage and resolves normally when the Rage ends. Levels of the Exhausted condition from Frenzy do not apply while you are raging and take effect only when your Rage ends. If the levels you have accumulated exceed the normal maximum of 6, you fall Unconscious for 1 hour when the Rage ends instead of dying.

Path of the Champion

The Path of the Champion is the Barbarian path of the ring. It comes out of Halcyion garrison fight-nights, Black Meridian pit circuits, and the frontier practice of settling a claim by putting two people inside a rope circle and letting the onlookers bet. Its features all work against one named opponent, the Rival.

Level 3. Single Combat At the start of your turn while raging, you can name one creature you can see as your Rival. Until your Rage ends or you name another, you have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks against your Rival, and the first time each turn you hit your Rival with a melee weapon attack you deal extra damage equal to your Rage Damage bonus. While your Rival is within 5 feet of you, other creatures do not gain advantage on attack rolls against you because you cannot see them.

Level 7. Rival Terror When you reduce your Rival to 0 hit points, or when your Rival fails a saving throw you forced, each creature hostile to you within 30 feet that can see it must make a Wisdom saving throw against a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier. On a failure, the creature is Frightened until the end of your next turn. A creature that succeeds is immune to this feature for 24 hours.

Level 11. Rival Defense When your Rival makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to add your proficiency bonus to your AC against that attack, before you know whether it hits. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all uses on a long rest.

Level 15. Battle Reserve While raging, if you end your turn with fewer than half your hit points remaining and your Rival is still standing, you gain temporary hit points equal to twice your Barbarian level. This can happen once per Rage.

Level 18. Undisputed Your Rival has disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures other than you. When your Rival drops to 0 hit points while you are raging, your Rage does not end when its normal duration expires. It lasts until no creature hostile to you is within 30 feet. You can name a new Rival on that same turn without spending your action.

Path of the Hunt

Recommended for: Strongly thematic for Zyrrak ancestry, whose physiology already supplies the predator's senses the path's features assume. Non-Zyrrak walkers of this path can take it if their fiction supports the predator-instinct framing (death-world humans, vat-grown apex strains, etc.).; Zyrrak

The Path of the Hunt is the narrowest of the Barbarian paths, a Rage aimed at one creature. It comes most naturally to the Zyrrak, whose physiology already supplies the predator's senses it assumes, but death-world humans and vat-grown apex strains walk it too. A follower can add 4d6 to the blow that takes the quarry below half its hit points.

Level 3. Apex Mark As a bonus action, including the same bonus action you use to enter Rage, you designate one creature you can see within 60 feet as your Marked Prey. The mark lasts until the prey is reduced to 0 hit points, until you mark a different creature, or until 1 hour passes.

While a creature is your Marked Prey:

Your melee weapon attacks against it deal an extra 1d6 damage of the weapon's damage type.

You know its general direction and approximate distance from you while it is within 1 mile, provided you are on the same plane.

You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) and Wisdom (Perception) checks made to track it.

Level 7. Pursuit When your Marked Prey moves on its turn, you can use your reaction to move up to half your speed toward it without provoking opportunity attacks from other creatures. While raging and within 30 feet of your Marked Prey, you ignore difficult terrain and can move through the space of creatures one size category larger than you, though you cannot end your turn in their space.

Level 11. Killing Stroke When you hit your Marked Prey with a melee weapon attack and the attack would reduce it to half its hit point maximum or lower, you can choose to deal an extra 4d6 damage of the weapon's damage type. You can use Killing Stroke a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest. If the attack reduces the prey to 0 hit points, the use is not expended.

Level 15. Hunt Aura While you are raging, allies within 30 feet of you who can see your Marked Prey have advantage on attack rolls against that creature. You can also share your Marked Prey's location wordlessly with a number of willing allies equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1). While within 30 feet of you, each of them has the same direction-and-distance awareness of your Marked Prey that you have.

Level 18. Apex Form Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you can enter a 1-minute Apex Form. For the duration:

Your walking speed increases by 20 feet and you gain a climb speed equal to your walking speed.

You have blindsight out to 30 feet.

Your melee weapon attacks against your Marked Prey deal an extra 1d10 damage of the weapon's damage type (in addition to the Apex Mark bonus).

You can use Apex Mark and Killing Stroke without spending the action or reaction they normally require. On a hit, you choose whether to apply them.

If your Marked Prey is reduced to 0 hit points during Apex Form, you can immediately designate a new Marked Prey as a free action.

The form ends early if you fall Unconscious, if you end your Rage, or if you dismiss it as a free action.

Path of the Raider

The Path of the Raider is the Barbarian path of the boarding action. Raiders fight off scarred sublight hulks and salvaged voidsuits, and their doctrine has one step: get aboard, do damage and be gone before the response squadron arrives. Norskan war-captains walk the path, and so do frontier free fleets, privateer crews holding a letter of marque and corsair gangs with no paperwork. The first melee hit after a Rage begins adds 1d8.

Level 3. Boarding Charge When you enter Rage, the first melee weapon attack you make on that turn or the following turn deals an extra 1d8 damage of the weapon's damage type on a hit. While raging, you can also take the Dash action as part of the same bonus action you used to Rage, provided your first movement on that turn is toward a hostile creature.

Level 7. Boarding Advantage You have advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that is within a vessel, station or fortified structure that it considers its own: a ship's crew aboard their ship, garrison troops in their fort, a House guard in their House. You also have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made to force open sealed doors, hatches or bulkheads, and you ignore difficult terrain caused by debris, crash wreckage or the artificial gravity quirks of a damaged vessel.

Level 11. Battle Cry When you score a critical hit or reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a melee weapon attack while raging, each ally within 30 feet of you who can see or hear it gains temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus (minimum 1). This effect can trigger no more than once per round, even if you score multiple critical hits.

Level 15. Raid Leader While you are raging, allies within 30 feet of you who can see or hear you gain a +1 bonus to melee weapon attack rolls. When an ally within 30 feet of you reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on their turn, you can use your reaction to move up to your speed without provoking opportunity attacks.

Level 18. Legendary Raider Once per long rest, as a bonus action on your turn, you can declare an Execution Moment against a single creature you can see within 30 feet. The next melee weapon attack you make against that creature before the end of your next turn automatically hits and is a critical hit, provided you are raging when you make it, and deals extra damage equal to your Barbarian level. A kill made this way enters the public record of your raid (Federation strike-listings, Black Meridian corsair-boards, frontier wanted posts), and you have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks for the next 30 days against creatures that have heard of it.

Path of the Wild

The Path of the Wild is the oldest Barbarian tradition still practiced in inhabited space, and it survives on backwaters the Federation never reached. Its followers grew up alongside beasts, in feral colony-creches, through coming-of-age rites or in the survival weeks after a ship went down. They wear pelt and bone and file their teeth, and over the years the body begins to change to match. The path is found on unaligned worlds, in Vanir shaman lineages and among Zyrrak hunt-elders.

Level 3. Wild Aspect Choose one of the following beast aspects to bond with you.

Claws of the Hunter. Your unarmed strikes count as natural weapons that deal 1d6 slashing damage and use your Strength modifier. They are considered melee weapon attacks for the purposes of Rage, Extra Attack, and similar features.

Eye of the Hawk. You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight. At long range (beyond 150 feet), you do not suffer disadvantage on ranged weapon attacks against creatures you can see clearly in bright or natural light.

Fur of the Ursine. You have resistance to cold damage. You can ignore the first 5 feet of difficult terrain on each of your turns, and you have advantage on saving throws against environmental cold.

You can change your Wild Aspect during a long rest spent in contact with the wild, such as a forest, an open void with stars visible or a death-world ridge. The GM decides whether a place qualifies.

Level 7. Pack Leader You have advantage on Wisdom (Animal Handling) and Charisma (Intimidation) checks against beasts. Nonhostile beasts of Power Rating equal to or less than your proficiency bonus will not attack you unprovoked, and you can issue simple commands (one or two words) to friendly beasts as a free action on your turn. A beast companion, mount or other animal ally under your command gains temporary hit points equal to your Barbarian level whenever you enter Rage.

Level 11. Wild Companion Once per long rest, as an action, you can call a beast to fight beside you. You summon a beast with a Power Rating equal to half your Barbarian level (rounded down, minimum 1) within 30 feet of you. The beast is friendly to you and your allies, rolls its own initiative, and acts on its turn under your command. It vanishes after 1 hour, when it is reduced to 0 hit points, or when you dismiss it as a bonus action. Choose a form that fits your Wild Aspect and where you are, such as a void-canine in space or a frontier hill-cat in the wilderness.

Level 15. Half-Form While raging, you can spend a bonus action to enter a Half-Form: a partial transformation into the beast that bonded to you. Until the Rage ends or you dismiss the form as a free action, your size increases by one category (up to Large), your walking speed increases by 10 feet, your natural weapons (or, if you do not have Claws of the Hunter, your unarmed strikes) deal 1d10 slashing damage, and you gain a climb speed equal to your walking speed.

You can still wield weapons and use equipment in Half-Form, but armor that does not accommodate the size change is treated as ill-fitting (no AC benefit). You can enter Half-Form once per Rage.

Level 18. Beast of Legend Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you can fully transform into a beast for 1 minute. You become a Large or Huge beast appropriate to your Wild Aspect, such as a colossal dire canine for Claws, a stormhawk for Eye or a great void-ursine for Fur. While transformed:

Your hit point maximum increases by 4 × your Barbarian level for the duration. Lost hit points are restored from this pool first.

Your natural weapon attacks deal 2d10 slashing or piercing damage and you gain Multiattack (two attacks per Attack action) in addition to the Barbarian's Extra Attack, for a total of three attacks per Attack action.

Your walking speed becomes 50 feet and you gain a climb speed and a swim speed of the same value.

You have advantage on Strength checks and saves, and your Strength score becomes 22 if it was lower.

You can speak only with other beasts. You understand languages spoken to you but cannot reply in them.

The form ends early if you fall Unconscious, if your Rage ends, or if you dismiss it as a free action. When the form ends, any temporary hit points from the form are lost and any damage taken is subtracted from your normal hit points up to your normal maximum.

Path of the Zealot

Recommended for: Strongly thematic for Halcyion Federation devout. Other characters may follow this path if their fiction supports faith-driven barbarian rage, e.g., heretic crusader-defectors, frontier evangelists, or Covenant infiltrators who took the form without the faith.; Halcyion Federation

The Path of the Zealot is the Barbarian path whose rage is devotional. Its followers are devotees whose certainty became mania, soldiers who watched a colony fall, preachers who picked up a maul when the homily ran out, and ecclesiastical enforcers turned loose by their chaplains. The path grants no spells and asks for no doctrine, and it is most common among the devout of the Halcyion Federation.

Level 3. Crusader's Vow When you enter Rage, you can declare a brief creed that names a hostile presence, such as 'For the colonies of Tessari,' 'Against the Ebon Creed' or 'In the name of First Light.' Until the Rage ends, you add your Charisma modifier (minimum +1) to the damage roll of each melee weapon attack you make against a creature that the creed names or implicates. The GM decides unclear cases, and the Federation's enemies are broadly understood to count.

While raging under a declared creed, you shed dim light in a 10-foot radius.

Level 7. Faith of Steel While raging, you are immune to the Frightened condition, and each ally within 10 feet of you who can see or hear you has advantage on saving throws against being Frightened. If an ally within 10 feet of you would become Frightened while you are raging, the condition does not take effect.

Level 11. Burning Conviction Once per turn while raging, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can make the Rage Damage bonus on that hit radiant damage instead of the weapon's damage type. The target also ignites with holy fire and takes additional radiant damage equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1) at the start of its next turn. Ignitions do not stack.

Level 15. Holy Berserk While raging, at the start of each of your turns you gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier + your proficiency bonus (minimum 1). These temporary hit points do not stack from turn to turn, and each turn's pool replaces the previous one. Your Rage resistance extends to radiant and necrotic damage.

Level 18. Radiant Avatar Once per long rest, as a bonus action on your turn, you can enter a 1-minute Avatar Form. For the duration:

Your melee weapon attacks deal an additional 2d8 radiant damage on a hit.

You shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet.

Each ally within 30 feet of you regains hit points equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1) at the start of each of their turns. This healing works on allies at 0 hit points and stabilizes them automatically.

You are immune to the Charmed, Frightened and Stunned conditions.

Your Rage does not end during the Avatar Form, even if its normal duration expires.

The form ends early if you fall Unconscious, if your Rage ends, or if you dismiss it as a free action.

College of Lore

The College of Lore is the Bard College of scholars and curators. Lore Bards work in court libraries, abbey archives, legal-aid offices and the back rooms of used-data shops in the spinward sectors. Their channeling rests on cited authority, and a Lore Bard's chant is half song and half index.

Level 3. Cutting Words You gain proficiency with three additional skills of your choice.

Additionally, when a creature you can see and hear within 60 feet makes an attack roll, ability check, or damage roll, you can use your reaction to expend one use of Bardic Inspiration, roll the die and subtract the result from the creature's roll. You can use this feature after the creature makes its roll, but before the GM determines whether the roll succeeds or fails (and before damage is rolled, for a damage roll). The creature is immune if it cannot hear you or if it is immune to being Charmed.

Level 7. Additional Magical Secrets You learn two spells of your choice from any class. A spell chosen must be of a level you can cast, or a cantrip. The chosen spells count as Bard spells for you, and they are additional spells known beyond your normal spells-known limit (these do not count against the Magical Secrets pool gained at 10th level).

Level 11. Peerless Skill When you make an ability check, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration, roll your Bardic Inspiration die and add the result to the check. You can do this after seeing the d20 result but before the GM declares whether the check succeeds. If the check still fails after the Inspiration die, the use is not expended.

You can also include one tool proficiency of your choice among your Expertise choices. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for ability checks you make with that tool.

Level 15. Verbal Mastery As a bonus action on your turn, you can choose one creature within 60 feet that can hear and understand you. That creature has disadvantage on Charisma saving throws until the start of your next turn. You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).

You also have advantage on Charisma (Persuasion, Deception and Intimidation) checks made against creatures that have heard you speak for at least 1 minute in the preceding hour.

Level 18. Untold Tale Once per long rest, you can spend 10 minutes performing an act of narrative reframing, such as a told tale, a published correction, a courtroom intervention or a viral broadcast. The performance rewrites one minor detail of recent history in the social and legal record of a community within range of it, such as a city precinct, a starship's complement or, if you can reach broadcast tools, an interplanetary news cycle. The detail must be a discrete factual claim of moderate consequence, such as the identity of an unknown bystander, the order of two events at a recent crime scene or the attribution of a published anonymous quote. For 30 days after the performance, the affected community accepts the new detail as if it had always been true. Physical records, sworn memories and direct supernatural divinations can resist it (a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC to recall the original), and forensic work, arcane or technological, at 9th level or higher reveals the alteration on inspection.

This does not change physical reality. It cannot rewrite events of major historical consequence, such as a war, the death of a head of state or a publicized atrocity, and it cannot create new physical evidence. You can renew the 30-day window by repeating the performance.

College of the Frontier

The College of the Frontier is the Bard College of the long road. Frontier Bards sit at the campfire of a homestead one month, in the wardroom of an independent freighter the next, and in the chapel of a Halcyion missionary outpost the month after, and their songs and reputations travel ahead of them by comm-net and by retelling. The College draws its channeling from the hospitality codes that make the long road survivable.

Level 3. Frontier Standing Frontier worlds recognize you as a member of a loose mutual-aid kinship of road-singers. In any settlement of fewer than 50,000 inhabitants, any frontier outpost, any independent freighter with fewer than five crew, and any small chapel or homestead in the spinward sectors, you can expect basic hospitality from at least one local: shelter for the night, a meal, the chance to perform for room and board, and one piece of local gossip or rumor.

In a qualifying location, you can attempt a Charisma (Performance or Persuasion) check at DC 12 once per day to invoke Frontier Standing. On a success, you receive the hospitality above and can ask one targeted question about the local situation. The standing is reciprocal. If you refuse aid to another Frontier Bard in genuine need, your standing drops for the next 30 days, and the GM can rule that your checks to invoke it are made at disadvantage during that period.

You also gain proficiency in Survival if you do not already have it.

Level 7. Travel Map You carry an annotated map: a chart, a folded star-plot, a personal travel journal or a digital atlas linked to the Frontier Bards' shared knowledge base. Consulting and updating the Map takes 10 minutes.

The Map grants you the following abilities:

When you arrive in a new settlement, outpost or notable terrain feature, you can make a DC 15 Wisdom (Survival) or Intelligence (Investigation) check to recall whether a Frontier Bard has been there in the last year and what they noted. If one has, the GM gives you a useful clue or warning.

Once per long rest, before setting out on a journey, you can spend 10 minutes with the Map to learn the rough hazards of the planned route: one significant terrain hazard, one likely encounter type and one notable landmark. You and any allies traveling with you have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to navigate the route, and you cannot become lost on the route by nonmagical means.

When you finish a long rest, you can transcribe new observations from the day into the Map. One Frontier Bard NPC, anywhere in the spinward sectors, will read these notes within 1d6 weeks, and the GM can use this as a narrative hook.

Level 11. Frightening Tale As an action, you begin to tell a Tale of the Black, sustaining the performance for up to 1 minute (a bonus action each round sustains it). Each hostile creature within 30 feet of you that can hear and understand you must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC at the start of each of its turns during the performance, or be Frightened of you until the start of its next turn.

A creature that succeeds on the save is immune to this use of Frightening Tale for the next 24 hours. Creatures immune to the Frightened condition, Deafened creatures and creatures that cannot understand any language you speak are unaffected. The performance ends early if you are Incapacitated, silenced, or end it as a free action. You can use this feature once per short or long rest.

Level 15. Frontier Hero When you and your allies enter combat, each ally within 60 feet who can see or hear you (and who knows you are present) has advantage on their initiative roll. You also have advantage on your own initiative roll.

On the first round of any combat, allies who benefited from the initiative bonus also gain a Bardic Inspiration die from you at no cost. The die works as normal Bardic Inspiration and does not count against your uses per rest. The bonus applies once per combat, on the first round only.

Level 18. Living Legend The effects below always apply once you have this feature.

You have advantage on Charisma (Persuasion, Deception, Intimidation and Performance) checks made against any creature that has heard of you. The GM decides who has heard of you. By default, creatures have heard of you in any frontier setting, on any independent freighter, in any roadside outpost, and in any community of fewer than 50,000 inhabitants where you have spent at least one night in the last year.

Once per long rest, when an attack would hit you, you would be killed outright, or you would fail a saving throw that would reduce you to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to invoke Living Legend. The attack misses, or the failed save instead succeeds at the minimum DC. Within 24 hours, an onlooker (a witnessing ally, a frontier bystander or the GM) supplies a story to explain it: a song fragment, a rumor or a sworn account. The incident also grows your reputation in a way the GM can make mechanically meaningful later.

You can compose, broadcast or perform a Living Legend ballad, a 1-hour performance that needs a basic recording or a live audience of at least one. Within 1d6 weeks, as the GM decides, the ballad reaches a community of your choice in the spinward sectors. That community gives you Frontier Standing without a check: the hospitality is enthusiastic, and the community can give dangerous aid if asked.

College of the Stars

The College of the Stars is the Bard College tuned to the sky. Stars Bards carry a stellar focus, such as a sky-disc, a tuning fork or a holo-lens, and tune their instruments to the local star or a familiar constellation. Their performances are best at certain hours and altitudes, and a Stars Bard will play at the open hatch of a docked freighter at three in the morning because the angle is correct. The College's channeling weakens when its constellation is below the horizon.

Level 3. Star-Sight You carry a stellar focus (an inscribed sky-disc, a tuning fork tuned to a star, a holo-lens) that lets you read the sky as a working instrument.

You gain darkvision out to 60 feet if you do not already have it. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet. In addition, you can spend 1 minute observing the sky (the unobstructed local star or constellation, or a sufficiently detailed stellar projection) to gain one of the following benefits of your choice, which lasts until your next long rest:

You have advantage on Perception checks made at ranges beyond Close, and on Investigation checks made to recognize landmarks, ships or objects at long distance.

You mentally overlay a named constellation pattern on the battlefield as a tactical aid. Allies within 30 feet of you can add your Charisma modifier (minimum +1) to a single attack roll once per round, choosing to do so after the d20 is rolled but before the result is declared. This benefit can be used a number of times per day equal to your proficiency bonus.

Only one Star-Sight benefit is active at a time.

Level 7. Constellation Inspiration Each Bardic Inspiration die you grant gains one constellation rider of your choice from the following list, chosen when you grant it:

Archer's Inspiration. The holder can add the rolled die to the damage of one successful ranged attack made within the next 10 minutes. The rider does not cost a second use of Bardic Inspiration, and the holder chooses whether the die is used for its standard purpose or for the rider.

Chalice Inspiration. When the rolled die is used for any purpose, the holder also regains hit points equal to the die's result.

Wyrm Inspiration. When the rolled die is used on a successful saving throw or ability check, the next attack roll against the holder before the start of your next turn has disadvantage.

Wanderer Inspiration. The holder can add the rolled die to a Dexterity, Wisdom or Intelligence check related to travel, navigation or finding a hidden creature or object. If used this way, the holder also moves up to half their speed without provoking opportunity attacks immediately after the check is resolved.

Riders do not cost additional uses of Bardic Inspiration.

Level 11. Astral Spell Once per turn, when you cast a spell under an unobstructed sky, you can channel starlight through it. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest. An unobstructed sky is open atmosphere with visible stars, a low-light environment where stars are visible, or any vacuum outside a solid hull. The spell's damage rolls deal an additional 1d8 radiant damage per two spell levels, rounded up (cantrips deal an additional 1d8). If the spell deals no damage, its save DC increases by 1 for that casting.

As a 10-minute ritual, you can attune a portable Astral Lens to the local star or a constellation pattern. For 24 hours, while the lens is on your person, the unobstructed-sky requirement counts as met indoors as well. You can hold one Astral Lens attunement at a time.

Level 15. Voice of the Spheres Once per long rest, as an action, choose either Mass Charm or Mass Alert.

Mass Charm. Each humanoid within 60 feet that can hear you and understand a language you speak must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, the target is Charmed by you for 10 minutes or until you or an ally harms it. On a success, the target is unaffected and immune to this feature from you for 24 hours. The Charmed condition ends if you ask the target to take an action that is obviously and seriously harmful to the target or a close associate. Until then, Charmed targets are friendly and likely to comply with reasonable requests.

Mass Alert. Each ally within 60 feet that can hear you has advantage on their next initiative roll and gains a number of d4s equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1). The ally can add these dice to attack rolls or saving throws made within the next 1 minute, and can split the dice among several rolls.

Level 18. Singer of the Stars Once per long rest, as an action, you begin a Stellar Resonance performance that lasts up to 1 minute. The performance ends early if you are Incapacitated, silenced, or end it as a free action. Sustaining the performance after the initial action requires a bonus action each round.

While the performance is sustained, all allies within 120 feet of you who can hear you (or receive transmitted communication from you, in vacuum or other comm-only environments) gain the following benefits:

+1 to attack rolls, damage rolls and saving throws.

Resistance to radiant and necrotic damage.

Whenever an ally finishes a turn within the performance's range with fewer than half their hit points remaining, they regain hit points equal to your Charisma modifier plus their proficiency bonus. This triggers at most once per ally per turn.

Once per round per ally, when an attack would reduce the ally to 0 hit points, the ally is instead reduced to 1 hit point and immediately gains a Bardic Inspiration die of your current die size. This effect can trigger only once per ally per casting of Singer of the Stars.

While sustaining the performance, you can also cast a Bard spell of 5th level or lower as a bonus action once per round, in addition to your normal action.

College of Valor

The College of Valor is the Bard College that fights alongside the people whose deeds it records. Halcyion regimental cantors, Norskan skald-warriors, Aurelion battlefield-laureates and frontier company-singers who keep a unit's roster as a sung list all belong to it.

Level 3. Bonus Proficiencies You gain proficiency with medium armor, with shields, and with martial weapons (including the martial firearms category).

Level 3. Combat Inspiration A creature holding a Bardic Inspiration die from you can also use it in the following ways:

Roll the die and add it to a weapon damage roll the creature makes on a hit. The die is rolled when the damage is rolled.

As a reaction after an attack roll is made against it, and before the GM declares a hit or miss, roll the die and add the result to the creature's AC against that attack only. If the attack misses as a result, the Bardic Inspiration die is expended.

Level 7. Extra Attack When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make two weapon attacks instead of one.

Level 11. Inspiration Strike When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration, roll your Bardic Inspiration die and add the result to the damage as extra damage of the weapon's damage type. The use is expended whether or not the damage drops the target.

When you grant a Bardic Inspiration die to an ally within 30 feet as a bonus action, that ally can use their reaction to immediately make one weapon attack. The attack does not use up the die, which stays with the ally for normal Combat Inspiration use.

Level 15. Battle Magic When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of the attacks with the casting of a Bard spell that has a casting time of 1 action and targets a single creature with an attack roll or a saving throw. You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).

When you cast a leveled Bard spell using a slot of 3rd level or higher, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action on the same turn.

Level 18. Heroic Anthem Once per long rest, as an action, you begin a Heroic Anthem, a sustained performance of war-poetry, hymn or anthem (you choose the form to suit the unit and the moment). The Anthem lasts up to 1 minute and ends if you are Incapacitated, silenced, or end it as a free action.

While the Anthem is sustained, you and each ally within 60 feet who can hear you gain the following benefits:

5 + your Charisma modifier temporary hit points at the start of each of the ally's turns. These do not stack across turns.

+1 to attack rolls, damage rolls and saving throws.

Immunity to the Frightened and Charmed conditions.

A Bardic Inspiration die (the die size for your Bard level) at the start of each of the ally's turns if they have none. This die can be used only while the Anthem is sustained and is lost when the Anthem ends.

Sustaining the Anthem from round to round requires a bonus action each round, and you can still take actions, reactions and movement normally on those rounds. You regain a use of this feature after a Tier IV+ heroic moment as the GM adjudicates, such as a battle won against long odds, a decisive sacrifice averted or the rescue of a major NPC.

College of Whispers

The College of Whispers is the Bard College every other College disavows in writing and harbors in practice. Whisper Bards trade in secrets and false identities. The Aurelion court keeps them as confessors and as poisoners, syndicates keep them as fixers, and corporations call them public relations consultants.

Level 3. Psychic Blades When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration to roll your Bardic Inspiration die and deal additional psychic damage equal to the die roll plus your Charisma modifier. You declare the use of Psychic Blades after the attack hits but before damage is rolled. The target does not gain the die. The target also hears a single sentence of its own deepest insecurity or shame, whispered in its own voice. This has no mechanical effect.

Psychic Blades draws on the same pool of uses as Bardic Inspiration, and the damage die is your current Bardic Inspiration die.

Level 7. Mantle of Whispers When a humanoid dies within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to capture a Mantle of Whispers, an impression of the deceased's surface identity: voice, mannerisms, memories of the last hour and the cadence of their speech. You can hold one Mantle at a time, and capturing a new one releases the previous.

As an action, you can don your Mantle to assume the captured individual's identity. While wearing the Mantle, you appear, sound and broadly act like the captured individual to any observer. You can respond to surface questions about their last hour with full accuracy, and other questions plausibly enough to deceive casual scrutiny. You can drop the Mantle as a free action at any time. The Mantle lasts up to 1 hour of worn time per capture, cumulative across multiple donnings.

The Mantle fails against close family or intimate associates of the captured individual who inspect you carefully (Insight check at DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier, with advantage if they have known the individual for a year or more), magical truth-detection of caster level 5 or higher, biometric scanners that read subdermal or genetic markers, and true sight. It succeeds against voice-print analysis and video matching at standard confidence levels, casual to moderate verbal interrogation, and most security systems below Tier IV.

Level 11. Shadow Lore As an action, choose one creature within 30 feet that can hear and understand you. Whisper to it (in any language you share, or through any communication spell you can confirm) a piece of dark knowledge, true or fabricated, that pertains specifically to the target. The target makes a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, it is Frightened of you for 1 hour and treats you as a Charmed friend for as long as it stays Frightened. It will not attack you and will reluctantly cooperate with your social requests, within the limits the Charmed condition places on direct harm to the target or close associates.

The whisper must be plausible to the target, and a fabrication must be close to a real fear or guilt the target holds. The GM decides plausibility. If the whisper is not plausible, the target has advantage on its save.

The target does not remember the specific whispered content after the effect ends, but knows it heard a whisper it found terrifying. The effect ends if you attack the target, if the target is harmed by you or an ally, or after 1 hour. You can use Shadow Lore a number of times per long rest equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).

Level 15. Eye-Spies You have a network of small informants: gossip-traders in tavern kitchens, news-aggregator hobbyists on Echelon nets, low-level Halcyion vergers who owe you a song, and a dozen others. The network keeps running between adventures and asks for courtesies instead of money: a song, a favor, the occasional protection.

While in any settlement of 5,000 inhabitants or more, or with access to any open communications network, you can invoke Eye-Spies once per long rest. State a single question: one specific person's recent whereabouts within the last week, the current location of a known object, whether a specific rumor about a public figure is true, or a piece of regionally circulating gossip about an ongoing event. After 1d6 hours, the network returns a reply that is accurate, partially accurate, or 'not known yet', as the GM rules. The Eye-Spies cannot find what is genuinely unknown to mortal informants, cannot respond to questions requiring magical divination, and cannot reliably penetrate Tier IV+ security or active counter-intelligence cover.

The GM can also tell you, between sessions or at the start of one, that an Eye-Spy contact has brought you a relevant lead.

Level 18. Whisper-Queen Coronet Choose one of the following options when you gain this feature, and the choice is permanent:

The Coronet of Names. You can don any Mantle of Whispers you have ever captured (you must have captured it yourself), not only the most recent. You retain up to ten Mantles in memory, and older Mantles fade. While you wear a Mantle, the duration limit does not apply.

The Coronet of Silence. Once per long rest, as an action, you can speak a single sentence at a creature within 60 feet. If the sentence is a true and pointed accusation about the target, the target makes a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC with disadvantage. On a failure, its voice fails for 24 hours: it cannot speak above a whisper, vocalize spells, give commands or summon aid by voice. A successful Greater Restoration, Remove Curse or equivalent effect ends it early.

The Coronet of Confession. Once per long rest, you can force a creature within 30 feet that can hear and understand you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, the target speaks aloud, truthfully, one secret of moderate consequence that it has been keeping from those within earshot. The target is aware afterward that it spoke and cannot prevent it once the save has failed. This feature does not extract battle-critical or system-protected information from the unwilling, such as Tier IV+ secrets, classified state intelligence or magically warded oaths. It reliably extracts personal secrets that cause shame.

Stormsong Skald

The Stormsong Skalds are the Bard College of one story told a hundred ways: the Twilight of Creation, when the Pantheon of Primus and the Dragon Realms put down the Elementari and sealed what survived into the four elemental planes. A proper recitation requires weather, and a Stormsong performance brings its own. Skalds are frequently right about things they had no way to know, such as a name spoken in verse three days before it mattered, and the tradition says the audience claims that on the Skald's behalf.

Level 3. Storm Recitation You know the whole recitation of the Twilight of Creation. You gain proficiency in the History skill and the Lore skill if you do not already have them. When you finish a long rest, choose cold, lightning or thunder. Until your next long rest you have resistance to that damage type, and any Bard spell you cast can deal that type instead of its own. While you perform aloud, a low weather front follows you out to 20 feet: rain, wind or a static charge, obvious to anyone watching.

Level 7. Stormsong Inspiration When you grant a Bardic Inspiration die, you can attach a storm rider, chosen when you grant it. Thunder. When the holder spends the die on a damage roll, the target is pushed 10 feet away and makes a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC, falling Prone on a failure. Frost. When the holder spends the die on any roll, one hostile creature within 30 feet of them has its speed reduced by 10 feet until the end of its next turn. Squall. The holder can instead spend the die as a reaction to gain a flying speed equal to their walking speed until the end of their next turn. Attaching a rider does not cost a second use of Bardic Inspiration.

Level 11. Spoken Omen Once per short rest, as a bonus action, you speak a line of the recitation over a creature you can see within 60 feet and name the outcome. If the target is an ally, then for 1 minute the first time it makes an attack roll or a saving throw on each of its turns, it rolls a d6 and adds the result. If the target is an enemy, then for 1 minute the first time it makes an attack roll or a saving throw on each of its turns, it rolls a d6 and subtracts the result. A creature can be under only one omen at a time.

Level 15. Storm Front Once per long rest, as an action, you call a storm out of the tale. For 1 minute, a 30-foot-radius storm is centered on you and moves with you. The area is lightly obscured to every creature except you and your allies, and it is difficult terrain for hostile creatures. At the start of each of your turns, you can direct one stroke at a creature in the area. It makes a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 4d8 lightning damage on a failure and half as much on a success.

Level 18. Borrowed Voice Once per long rest, as an action, you stop choosing your words, and something older finishes the recitation for you. For 1 minute, your spell save DC increases by 2, your Bard spells of 5th level and lower cost no spell slot, and every ally within 30 feet who can hear you has advantage on saving throws and adds your Charisma modifier to their damage rolls. When the minute ends, you gain one level of the Exhausted condition, and you do not remember any of what you said.

Dark Dominion

The Dark Dominion is the working priesthood of the Ebon Creed, and clergy outside the Creed now use the name too. Dominion clergy hold endings as their jurisdiction: the executioner's chaplain, the plague-ward priest who signs the last order, the syndicate funeral celebrant who knows which mourner paid for the coffin. Their theology holds that an ending administered properly is a service rendered.

Level 3. Necrotic Training Domain Spells. You always have the following spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

Cantrips: Grasp, Pebble

1st level: Shear

2nd level: Spire

5th level: Boulder

6th level: Feedback

You can cast each one once you can cast spells of its level.

Reaper's Tools. You gain proficiency with martial weapons. You also learn one Ether Channel cantrip of your choice. When you cast that cantrip and it deals damage, the damage type becomes necrotic. If the cantrip normally targets one creature, you can also target a second creature within 5 feet of the first, making one combined attack roll for both at disadvantage.

Spell Divinity: Touch of Death. When you hit a creature with a melee attack, you can expend one use of Spell Divinity to deal an extra 3d8 + your Cleric level necrotic damage to the target. This damage ignores resistance to necrotic damage from non-magical sources.

Spells Grasp, Pebble, Shear, Spire, Boulder, Feedback

Level 7. Inescapable Destruction The necrotic damage you deal with Cleric spells, cantrips and Spell Divinity options ignores resistance to necrotic damage. A creature immune to necrotic damage takes half of that damage instead of none. Weapon damage and damage from items are unaffected.

Level 11. Spell Divinity: Mark of Mortality As an action, you mark one creature you can see within 60 feet with the Reaper's sigil. The creature must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, it takes 6d8 necrotic damage and is marked for 1 minute or until you mark another target. On a success, it takes half as much damage and is not marked. While a creature is marked, it has disadvantage on saving throws against necrotic damage from any source, and each time it takes necrotic damage it loses additional hit points equal to your Cleric level. This loss is not separate damage and cannot be resisted.

Level 15. Divine Strike Once on each of your turns, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can deal an extra 2d8 necrotic damage. The extra damage increases to 3d8 at Cleric level 18. It is part of the weapon attack's damage and not a separate effect.

Level 18. Avatar of Death Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you assume the Reaper-Avatar Form for 1 minute. While in this form, each hostile creature that starts or ends its turn within 10 feet of you takes 2d6 necrotic damage, with no save. When you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points with a spell or melee attack, you regain hit points equal to half the damage dealt by that final blow (minimum 1), up to your hit point maximum. You have resistance to necrotic and poison damage, and you cannot be Frightened or Charmed. The form ends early if you fall Unconscious or end it as a free action.

Divine Adjudicator

The Divine Adjudicator is the Cleric Domain of the magistrate. An Adjudicator holds a commission from their god to answer questions on the ground: whether a claim is honest, whether a crossing was lawful, whether the thing wearing a dead man's face has any standing. They sit in theocratic courts and military tribunals, and on the frontier they are often the only court there is.

Level 3. Writ of Office You gain proficiency in the Insight and Persuasion skills. You know when a creature you can see and hear knowingly tells you a falsehood, though not what the truth is. You also know whether a creature within 60 feet is an undead, a fiend or an aberration, even if you cannot see it.

Level 7. Finding Against As a bonus action, you enter a finding against one creature you can see within 60 feet. Until the end of your next turn, your attacks and your allies' attacks against it are made with advantage if it is undead, a fiend or an aberration, and you add your Wisdom modifier to the first damage roll each turn against it. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all uses on a long rest.

Level 11. Spell Divinity: Summary Judgement As an action, you present your holy symbol and pronounce sentence. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet that you can see must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, a creature takes radiant damage equal to 2d8 + your Cleric level and is Frightened until the end of its next turn. An undead, a fiend or an aberration that fails the save takes double that damage and is also Restrained until the end of its next turn. On a success, a creature takes half damage and is not otherwise affected.

Level 15. Unholy Bane Undead, fiends and aberrations have disadvantage on saving throws against your spells. You have resistance to necrotic damage and to damage from attacks made by undead, fiends and aberrations. An undead, fiend or aberration that starts its turn within 10 feet of you cannot regain hit points until the start of its next turn.

Level 18. Avatar of the Verdict As an action, you pronounce a final verdict on one undead, fiend or aberration you can see within 60 feet. The creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, it is destroyed if its hit points are at or below half its maximum. If it succeeds, or if it fails with hit points above half its maximum, it instead takes 10d8 radiant damage and is Incapacitated until the end of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Domain of Knowledge

The Domain of Knowledge is the Cleric Domain of registries, annotated prophecies and sealed archives. Knowledge-clerics walk archive-spires lighting catalog-lamps, keep the Tech-Priest hymnals current, and sit through ten-hour Mythar-echo testimonies writing down what was said and what was almost said. Their power runs through the Ether Channel, the Channel of information.

Level 3. Archive Training Domain Spells. You always have the following spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

Cantrips: Grasp

1st level: Shear

2nd level: Veil

3rd level: Counter

4th level: Dispel

5th level: Shift

You can cast each one once you can cast spells of its level.

Languages and Lore. You learn two languages of your choice and gain proficiency in two of these skills: Arcana, History, Nature or Religion.

Spell Divinity: Knowledge of the Ages. As an action, you call on the archive. For 10 minutes, you have proficiency in one skill or tool of your choice, and your proficiency bonus is doubled for it (expertise). As a free action, you can extend the effect once by 1 minute without spending another use of Spell Divinity.

Spells Grasp, Shear, Veil, Counter, Dispel, Shift

Level 7. Spell Divinity: Read Thoughts As an action, you choose one creature you can see within 60 feet that is not protected from divination. The creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, for 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as on a spell), you can read its surface thoughts, meaning the words it is forming and the images it is considering, whenever it is within 60 feet of you. While the effect lasts, you can use a bonus action on a later turn to probe deeper. The creature repeats the save. On a failure, you can ask the GM up to three direct questions about its current memories or intentions and receive truthful answers, which may be incomplete, and the creature is unaware of the probe. On a success, the creature learns that a divine agent probed it, but not who.

Level 11. Spell Divinity: Visions of the Past You spend 1 minute in meditation with an object you are touching or in a location you are standing in. At the end of the minute, you receive a vision of significant events involving that object within the past century, or that location within the past decade. The vision is fragmentary and sensory, you do not control it, and the GM narrates it. You can extend the vision's reach by meditating for more minutes, up to 1 hour. Each additional minute reaches back an additional century for an object or an additional decade for a location.

Level 15. Aura of Insight While you are conscious, each ally within 30 feet of you who can see you adds your Charisma modifier (minimum +1) to Wisdom and Intelligence saving throws. In addition, allies within 30 feet of you have advantage on Intelligence (Investigation), Intelligence (History) and Wisdom (Insight) checks. The aura ends if you are Incapacitated or reduced to 0 hit points.

Level 18. Avatar of Knowledge Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you assume the Scribe-Avatar Form for 1 minute. While in this form, you can see Invisible creatures and objects within 60 feet, including those in the Ether or in the early stages of a planar Shift. You know whenever a creature within 30 feet of you that you can see or hear knowingly speaks a lie. You learn only that what was said is false, not the truth. You can read, speak and understand all languages, including encrypted or magically obscured ones, and cryptography of Tier IV or lower is parsed at reading speed. You have advantage on saving throws against effects that would charm, confuse or magically obscure your senses. The form ends early if you fall Unconscious or end it as a free action.

Domain of Nature

The Domain of Nature is the Cleric Domain of the part of the pantheon that made things grow. A Nature cleric differs from a Druid in serving a god who made the wild and holds opinions about its upkeep. They bless the seed-vaults on colony ships, walk the terraforming lines on worlds two centuries from breathable, and on the frontier they are the ones who tell a settlement that a valley is not theirs to clear.

Level 3. Green Ordination You gain proficiency in your choice of Animal Handling, Nature or Survival, and you learn one Druid cantrip of your choice, which counts as a Cleric spell for you. In addition, one beast, plant or fungal creature of your choice within 30 feet that can see and hear you is friendly toward you and your companions for 1 hour. The effect ends if you or your allies harm it.

Level 7. Charm of the Wild As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak the name of the growing world. Each beast and plant creature within 30 feet that can see or hear you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be Charmed by you for 1 minute or until it takes damage. While Charmed this way, a creature regards you as a friendly acquaintance. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Level 11. Spell Divinity: Quickened Growth As an action, you cause the ground in a 20-foot radius within 60 feet of you to become overgrown for 10 minutes. The area is difficult terrain for creatures hostile to you, and it provides half cover to any creature within it. Once on each of your turns while the growth stands, you can use a bonus action to have it lash one creature within it. That creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or take 2d8 bludgeoning damage and be Restrained until the end of its next turn.

Level 15. Poison Ward You and allies within 10 feet of you have resistance to poison damage and advantage on saving throws against being Poisoned. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit points, one creature of your choice within 30 feet of you, other than the spell's target, also regains hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Level 18. Avatar of the Green As a bonus action, you take a living, growing form for 1 minute. For the duration, your walking speed increases by 20 feet, you gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, and you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks. At the start of each of your turns, you and each ally within 30 feet of you regain 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier hit points. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Domain of Order

The Domain of Order is the Cleric Domain of people who write rules down and hold all parties to them, including their god. Code-priests, oath-registrars, Axiom Combine liturgists who treat a well-formed procedure as a devotional act, and frontier circuit-clerics riding between claims with a ledger and a sidearm all serve it. Their conviction is that an agreement is real and a signature binds.

Level 3. Voice of Authority You gain proficiency in the Persuasion skill and with one gaming set or one artisan's tool of your choice. Once on each of your turns, when you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that targets an ally, that ally can use its reaction to make one weapon attack. You also know when a creature has broken an oath, contract or formal agreement it made in your presence.

Level 7. Embodiment of the Law As a reaction when a creature within 30 feet makes an attack, casts a spell or moves in a way that breaks an agreement it made with you or your allies, you can impose disadvantage on that roll or halve that movement. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all uses on a long rest.

Level 11. Spell Divinity: Order's Demand As an action, you present your holy symbol and issue a binding command. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet that you can see must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or obey a command you choose from the following for 1 minute: stop attacking, drop what it is holding, or move to a place you designate within its speed. A creature that takes damage or is ordered to harm itself repeats the save at the end of that turn.

Level 15. Precedent When a creature succeeds on a saving throw against one of your spells, you can record the exception. The next time that creature makes a saving throw against any of your spells before you finish a long rest, it has disadvantage on the save. In addition, the weapon attack that Voice of Authority lets an ally make deals extra damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Level 18. Avatar of Order As a bonus action, you establish an ordered field in a 30-foot radius around you for 1 minute. Within it, no creature can teleport, take the Dash action or be moved against its will by an effect it did not choose. Every creature of your choice has advantage on saving throws against being Charmed or Frightened, and the ground is difficult terrain for hostile creatures. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Domain of the Moon

The Domain of the Moon is the Cleric Domain of Deimos, who watches the Plane of Oblivion where the dead are guided and judged. Moon clergy hold the near side of that passage: they wash the body, record the name, and stand the vigil that keeps a death from becoming a haunting and a grave from becoming a resource. They serve the whole cycle and are as hostile to a raised corpse as any Paladin, on the grounds that undeath is a body kept from its appointment. Creed mortuaries, barrow-wardens and frontier settlements where the nearest ordained anyone is also the gravedigger employ them.

Level 3. Death Rites Domain Spells. You always have the following spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

Cantrips: Grasp, Ember

1st level: Beam

2nd level: Veil, Dazzle

3rd level: Counter

4th level: Transfusion

5th level: Raise Dead

You can cast each one once you can cast spells of its level.

Sense the Disturbed. As an action, you open your senses to the undead and to lingering souls. For 1 minute, you know the location of each undead creature and unquiet spirit within 60 feet that is not behind total cover, and you know its general type (skeletal, ghostly, necrotic construct and so on) but not its specific identity.

Spell Divinity: Path to the Grave. As an action, you curse one creature you can see within 30 feet. The creature gets no saving throw against the curse. The next time any creature hits the cursed target with an attack, the damage that attack deals to the target is doubled and the curse ends. Splash damage, damage to other creatures and rider effects are not doubled. The curse also ends if the target is not hit within 1 minute or if you use this option again first.

Spells Grasp, Ember, Beam, Veil, Dazzle, Counter, Transfusion, Raise Dead

Level 7. Critical Ward When you or an ally you can see within 30 feet of you is hit by a critical hit, you can use your reaction to turn it into a normal hit. All damage and effects of the attack apply as if it had been a normal hit. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. You can use it on yourself even if the attack would reduce you to 0 hit points. It does not prevent the attack's damage, only the critical-hit doubling.

Level 11. Spell Divinity: Eyes of the Moon As an action, you open your sight to the dead. For 1 minute, you know the exact location of each undead creature, unquiet spirit and ongoing necromantic effect within 60 feet of you, even through total cover, and you know the type of each, as with Sense the Disturbed. During this time, you can use a bonus action to identify the specific creature type or named undead of one such entity if you have knowledge of it. The GM can call for an Intelligence (Religion) check against a set DC for obscure or unique entities.

Level 15. Keeper of Souls When a hostile creature you can see within 60 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points, you collect a fragment of its spirit. As a free action, you can distribute hit points among any allies within 60 feet of you, yourself included, in a total equal to the creature's Power Rating or level (minimum 1, maximum your Cleric level), divided as you choose. No ally can be brought above its hit point maximum. You can use this feature once per turn, and you must distribute the hit points before the next creature in the initiative order acts.

Level 18. Avatar of Deimos Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you assume the Grave-Avatar Form for 1 minute. While in this form, critical hits against you and against allies within 30 feet of you who can see you become normal hits. This aura applies before Critical Ward, so Critical Ward uses are not expended against those hits. At the start of each of your turns, you choose one ally within 30 feet of you, and that ally regains 2d8 + your Wisdom modifier hit points. You cannot choose the same ally on consecutive turns. Undead creatures within 30 feet of you have disadvantage on attack rolls against you and your allies, and you have resistance to necrotic damage. The form ends early if you fall Unconscious or end it as a free action.

Domain of the Sun

The Domain of the Sun is the Cleric Domain of Helios, god of life and creation, the twin of Deimos. Sun clergy take the opening half of the cycle: they are present at births, at plantings, at the commissioning of a hull and at a colony's first morning, and their theology holds that creation is a continuous event that requires witnesses. Sun-temples ordain them by the hundred and sun-choirs ordain a handful.

Level 3. Solar Training Domain Spells. You always have the following Sun Channel spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

1st level: Beam

2nd level: Dazzle

3rd level: Flare

4th level: Wall of Flame

5th level: Lance

6th level: Pyre

You can cast each one once you can cast spells of its level.

Sun-Forged Discipline. You gain proficiency with heavy armor and with martial firearms whose damage type is fire or radiant.

Daylight Cantrip. You learn the cantrip Ember. It does not count against your cantrips known. While you hold a holy symbol of a sun deity or a Halcyion solar relic, the bright-light radius of your Ember is doubled.

Spells Beam, Dazzle, Flare, Wall of Flame, Lance, Pyre, Ember

Level 7. Spell Divinity: Solar Pulse As an action, you present your holy symbol and release a pulse of stellar Rift Energy in a 30-foot-radius emanation centered on you. Each hostile creature in the area must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 3d8 radiant damage on a failure or half as much on a success. You and your allies in the area are healed for 3d8 hit points, with no save. The pulse sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet for 1 minute, and it ends magical darkness of 5th level or lower in the area. The radiant damage and the healing increase by 1d8 at Cleric levels 11, 15 and 18.

Level 11. Sun Ward You have resistance to fire damage and radiant damage. While you are conscious and the sky overhead is unobstructed, or you are within 30 feet of an active solar-equivalent radiation source of Tier IV or higher, each ally within 30 feet of you who can see you gains darkvision out to 60 feet if it does not already have it and has advantage on saving throws to end the Blinded condition on itself. These benefits end if you are reduced to 0 hit points or Incapacitated.

Level 15. Solar Restoration Once per long rest, when an ally you can see within 60 feet is reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can use your reaction to channel a sunburst through them. The ally regains 1 hit point, stands up if Prone, and can immediately do one of the following: move up to half its speed, take the Dodge action or take the Disengage action. A bright corona surrounds the ally until the end of its next turn. The first creature to make a melee attack against the ally during that time takes 4d8 radiant damage, with no save, before the attack resolves.

Level 18. Avatar of the Sun Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you assume the Solar Form for 1 minute. While in Solar Form, you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed and can hover. You shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. The first time each turn that a hostile creature enters a space within 10 feet of you or starts its turn there, it takes 2d10 radiant damage. You have resistance to all damage except force and necrotic damage, and you have advantage on Constitution saving throws to maintain concentration on a spell. The form ends early if you fall Unconscious or end it as a free action.

Domain of War

The Domain of War is the Cleric Domain of the firing line: war-priests, legion-chaplains and the shipboard confessors of any fleet that still keeps one. War-clerics hold that somebody has to bless the rifle so the soldier does not have to, and they speak the rites over a wounded squadmate while incoming fire chips the bulkhead. Their gods include patron saints of last stands, war-crowns and frontier deities whose only commandment is that the column comes home.

Level 3. Battle Training Domain Spells. You always have the following spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

Cantrips: Ember, Static

1st level: Beam, Spark Bolt

2nd level: Dazzle, Stun Shot

3rd level: Flare

5th level: Lance

You can cast each one once you can cast spells of its level.

Soldier's Carriage. You gain proficiency with heavy armor and with martial weapons.

Spell Divinity: Guided Strike. When you or an ally you can see within 30 feet makes an attack roll, you can add +10 to the roll after the die is rolled and before the GM says whether it hits or misses. You use your reaction to do this for an ally, and no action for your own attack.

Spells Ember, Static, Beam, Spark Bolt, Dazzle, Stun Shot, Flare, Lance

Level 7. War Priest When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to make one melee or ranged weapon attack with a weapon you are proficient with. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. A short rest restores one expended use. The bonus attack uses your normal attack roll and damage and is not a spell.

Level 11. Spell Divinity: War God's Blessing As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak a battle-rite. For 1 minute, you and each ally within 30 feet of you who can see or hear you have advantage on saving throws against being Frightened and on saving throws to maintain concentration on a spell while taking damage in combat. The effect ends early if you are reduced to 0 hit points or are Incapacitated.

Level 15. Weapon Resistance You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from weapon attacks, whether mundane or magical. This resistance does not apply to damage from spells, environmental effects, or unarmed strikes by creatures of Power Rating 17 or higher.

Level 18. Avatar of War Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you assume the Battle-Avatar Form for 1 minute. While in this form, you gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls with weapons you are proficient with, and you have advantage on initiative checks and on Strength checks. The first time each turn you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack, you can immediately move up to half your speed without provoking opportunity attacks. You cannot be Frightened. The form ends early if you fall Unconscious or end it as a free action.

Spirit Sage

The Spirit Sage is the Cleric Domain of the translator, working across the border between the Prime Plane, the Spirit Plane and the Plane of Oblivion. Sages sit the seance in vigil-houses and frontier kitchens, know which corridor of a station has something standing in it, and can tell a haunting from a memory from a thing pretending to be either. The work is mostly listening to voices with every reason to want things and no reason to be accurate, and a Sage's value is knowing which parts to believe.

Level 3. Seance You gain proficiency in the Insight and Religion skills. You can perform a seance over 10 minutes to address the spirit of a creature that died within the last week, provided you can touch its remains or a significant possession of it. The spirit answers up to three questions truthfully but briefly, within what it knew in life. Once you have questioned a spirit, you cannot question it again until you finish a long rest.

Level 7. Spirit Sight You can see and speak with incorporeal spirits, invisible creatures and creatures on the Spirit Plane within 60 feet as though they were plainly visible, and you can address them in any language you know. In addition, once per short or long rest, you can use a bonus action to step partway out of the Prime Plane. Until the end of your next turn, you can move through creatures and objects as difficult terrain, and you have resistance to all damage. If the effect ends while you are inside an object, you are pushed to the nearest unoccupied space.

Level 11. Spell Divinity: Call the Standing Dead As an action, you call the spirits of a place to stand with you. For 1 minute, spirits fill a 20-foot radius centered on a point you can see within 60 feet. The area is difficult terrain for creatures hostile to you. A hostile creature that starts its turn there takes 2d8 necrotic or radiant damage (your choice) and must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be Frightened until the end of its turn. Allies in the area are not slowed by the terrain and take no damage.

Level 15. Planar Passage Once per long rest, over 1 minute, you can move yourself and up to five willing creatures into the Spirit Plane or the near reaches of the Plane of Oblivion, arriving at the point corresponding to where you left. You can return by the same means. You always know the way back and how long you have been gone in Prime Plane time.

Level 18. Avatar of the Seam You have resistance to necrotic and radiant damage, you cannot be surprised by any creature you have seen through the seam, and you can end the Charmed, Frightened or Possessed condition on yourself as a free action. When you drop to 0 hit points, you can become incorporeal instead of falling. For 1 minute you are a spirit with your own statistics and can take no actions except moving and speaking. At the end of that minute, you return to your body with 1 hit point if it has not been destroyed. Once you use this reprieve, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Tech-Priest

The Tech-Priest is the Cleric Domain that holds a machine to be an instance of creation and a working tool to be a completed rite. Halcyion Federation foundry-temples ordain them, Aurelion arsenals keep them on retainer, and frontier shops have one who does the blessing and the calibration in the same pass. They anoint the barrel before they consecrate the firing-pin, and if asked whether the ritual does anything measurable, they will show the tolerances.

Level 3. Forge Training Domain Spells. You always have the following spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

Cantrips: Ignite, Polish

1st level: Plasma Bolt, Tug

2nd level: Cauterize, Iron Skin

3rd level: Brand

5th level: Wall of Plasma

You can cast each one once you can cast spells of its level.

Forge-Wright Training. You gain proficiency with smith's tools and with heavy armor.

Spell Divinity: Artisan's Blessing. Over 1 hour at a working forge or fabricator, you can perform a rite to create one non-magical metal item, such as a weapon (simple or martial), a piece of armor, a tool, a length of chain or a key, provided you have raw materials worth about the item's normal value. The rite consumes the materials. The item is of standard manufacture, not masterwork, and fully functional. You can also use the rite to repair a damaged metal item to full integrity, consuming only enough raw material to restore the damaged part.

Spells Ignite, Polish, Plasma Bolt, Tug, Cauterize, Iron Skin, Brand, Wall of Plasma

Level 7. Soul of the Forge You have resistance to fire damage. While you are wearing heavy armor, your Armor Class increases by 1. This bonus does not stack with similar bonuses from other Domain or class features.

Level 11. Spell Divinity: Consecrate Weapon As an action, you touch one weapon. For 1 hour, the weapon is consecrated as a Tier IV armament. It counts as magical for overcoming resistance to non-magical damage. A creature wielding it gains a +1 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls, as for the masterwork quality, which does not stack with an existing bonus higher than +1. When that creature rolls the maximum on a damage die for the weapon, it rolls one additional damage die of the same type. The creature gains these bonuses only if it is proficient with the weapon. If the weapon is already Tier IV or higher, the consecration grants only the additional damage die.

Level 15. Divine Strike Once on each of your turns, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can deal an extra 2d8 fire damage. The extra damage increases to 3d8 at Cleric level 18. It is part of the weapon attack's damage and not a separate effect.

Level 18. Avatar of the Forge Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you summon a Forge-Construct to fight beside you for 1 minute. The construct appears in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you. It is a Large object-creature of consecrated metal with AC 18 and hit points equal to 4 × your Cleric level. It is immune to fire and poison and resistant to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from non-magical attacks. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to direct it to move up to 30 feet, make one melee attack or take the Dodge action. The attack uses your spell attack bonus, has a reach of 10 feet, and deals 3d8 + your Wisdom modifier bludgeoning damage on a hit. If you do not direct it, it stays in place. The construct vanishes when the minute ends, when it is reduced to 0 hit points or when you dismiss it.

Ancestral Guardian

The Ancestral Guardian is the Druid Circle whose tether is a lineage: a clan, a crew, a colony's founding roster. Its Inner Grove is a barrow, a memorial wall or a ship's roll of honor. Guardians raise no dead and object to being called necromancers. What they call on is a habit of protection that has outlived the people who had it.

Level 3. Ancestral Protectors The first time on each of your turns that you hit a creature with a weapon attack or damage it with a spell, spectral warriors gather around it until the start of your next turn. During that time it has disadvantage on attack rolls against anyone other than you, and any damage it deals to a creature other than you is halved.

Level 7. Spirit Shield As a reaction when a creature you can see within 30 feet takes damage, you can have your ancestors shield it and reduce that damage by 2d6. The reduction increases to 3d6 at 11th level and 4d6 at 15th. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all uses when you finish a long rest.

Level 11. Ancestral Counsel Over 10 minutes and at a place of significance to your lineage, you can put a question to the dead of your line. You receive a truthful reply limited to what any of them knew in life. The reply reflects the era it comes from and can be out of date. You can do this once per long rest.

Level 15. Vengeful Ancestors When a creature's damage is reduced by your Spirit Shield, the spectral warriors strike it. The creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or take force damage equal to the amount by which the damage was reduced.

Level 18. Ancestral Host Once per long rest, as an action, you can call on all of your ancestors for 1 minute. Spectral figures fill a 30-foot radius around you and move with you. Allies inside gain a +2 bonus to AC and to saving throws. A creature hostile to you that starts its turn inside must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be Frightened until the end of its turn. While the effect lasts, you cannot be moved against your will, and you do not fall Unconscious from dropping to 0 hit points.

Circle of the Beast

The Circle of the Beast is the Druid Circle that makes Wild Shape the center of the practice. Beast Druids go out for seasons at a time and come back with a gait that takes a week to lose. Its members include frontier trackers who hunt in the shape of their quarry, Zyrrak hunt-elders who have worn four kinds of predator, and colony wardens who patrol in a form with better night vision than a person has.

Level 3. Combat Wild Shape You can use Wild Shape as a bonus action instead of an action. The Power Rating limit on your beast forms is raised: Power Rating 1 at 3rd level (forms with a flying speed are not yet allowed), Power Rating 2 at 6th level, Power Rating 3 at 9th level (forms with a flying speed are allowed), Power Rating 4 at 12th level, Power Rating 5 at 15th level and Power Rating 6 at 18th level. These limits replace the standard Druid Wild Shape progression.

While in Wild Shape, you can also use a bonus action to expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher and regain 1d8 hit points per level of the slot expended. The hit points are restored to your beast form's hit point total.

Level 7. Wild Heart When you transform with Wild Shape, you immediately gain temporary hit points equal to 3 × your Druid level. These temporary hit points are in addition to the beast form's hit points and are lost when the form ends.

While in beast form, you have advantage on saving throws to maintain concentration on a spell, and on saving throws against being Frightened, Charmed, or forced from your form by external transmutation.

Level 11. Elemental Wild Shape You can now expend two Wild Shape uses at once to assume the form of an air, earth, fire or water elemental of Power Rating equal to or less than your Druid level divided by 3 (rounded down). Elemental forms last up to 1 hour and follow all other Wild Shape rules. While in elemental form, you have the elemental's damage resistances and immunities, movement modes and special attacks. You cannot cast leveled spells in elemental form until you gain Beast Spells (Druid 18). You can take an elemental form once per short rest.

Level 15. Thousand Faces As an action, you can alter your appearance: height (within one size category), build, skin tone, hair, voice, scent and small biometric markers, within the limits of your underlying anatomy (a Halcyion's neural-jack cabling does not vanish unless covered). The change lasts until you change it again or end it as a free action. It does not fool close physical inspection, biometric scanners or true-sight. It does fool casual observation, voice-print matching at conversational confidence levels, and identification at a distance. While in a beast form, you can also adopt the markings, coloration and signal-patterns of a specific named individual of that species you have observed.

Level 18. Apex Form Once per long rest, you can assume a massive apex form for 10 minutes: a fusion of beast and elemental one size category larger than your standard form, its body sheathed in pale silver light. While in this form:

Your hit point maximum increases by 50. You gain that many hit points when the form begins and lose them when it ends. Your current hit points are reduced proportionally if needed, but this loss alone cannot reduce you below 1 hit point.

You have a walking speed of 50 feet, a swimming speed of 50 feet and a climbing speed of 30 feet. You ignore difficult terrain.

Your unarmed strikes deal 2d10 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice) bludgeoning or slashing damage. Once per turn, you can add 2d10 cold or radiant damage to a hit.

You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from non-magical, non-Rift sources, and to cold damage.

You can cast leveled spells in this form (Beast Spells applies), and your spell save DC increases by 1.

Allies within 30 feet of you who can see you have advantage on Wisdom saving throws and on saving throws against being Frightened.

The form ends early if you are reduced to 0 hit points, if you drop to your form's hit point limit with no hit points of your normal form remaining, or if you end it as a free action.

Circle of the Bloom

Recommended for: Bloom Druids most commonly originate from annexed or contested Myrrhiam frontier worlds, but unaffiliated channelers anywhere may take this Circle at GM discretion.; Myrrhiam Bloom, Frontier, Independent

The Circle of the Bloom is the Druid Circle attuned to fungal hiveminds, and most of all to the Myrrhiam Bloom, the distributed cognition that converts worlds the way a forest converts a fallen tree. Some Bloom Druids are full members of an annexed sub-hive. Most are unaffiliated channelers who have learned to read fungal signal at the edges of contested worlds well enough to predict where the Bloom will spread next, and to slow it by feeding it a false signal. Many cultures find them unsettling, including some of their own Druidic peers.

Level 3. Spore Patch You can summon and shape a controlled patch of living spores. As an action, choose a point within Close range that you can see. A 10-foot-radius patch of spore cloud fills that area for 1 minute, and the area is lightly obscured (creatures within or behind the cloud are partially concealed). When a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, it takes 2d6 poison damage and is Poisoned until the end of its next turn. You and your allies are immune to this effect. The damage increases by 1d6 at Druid levels 7 (3d6), 11 (4d6), 15 (5d6) and 18 (6d6). You can use Spore Patch a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest. You can also expend a spell slot of 2nd level or higher to extend the patch's duration to 10 minutes and its radius to 20 feet.

Level 7. Hivemind Link You can establish a limited, one-way listening link to nearby fungal-aligned creatures and biomes. As a 10-minute ritual during a short or long rest, you attune to your current location. While you are within 1 mile of the attunement point (or within any Myrrhiam-converted area, at any distance), you can sense the rough emotional state and aggregate intent of any fungal-aligned creatures in the area. You also have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks made to predict or track the Bloom's spread. You have disadvantage on Stealth checks made against Myrrhiam-aligned creatures once they have detected you at all, because they read your channeling signature. Hostile Bloom-mind nodes can try to read back: if a node attempts to invade your cognition during this contact, you make a Wisdom saving throw against the node's DC or grant the node access to your surface thoughts for 1 minute.

Level 11. Bloom Ward You become a node of the Bloom. You gain resistance to poison damage and to necrotic damage, and immunity to the Poisoned condition. In addition, when a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to release a reflexive spore-puff: the attacker takes 2d8 poison damage and must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or be Poisoned until the end of its next turn. You can use this reaction a number of times per long rest equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1).

You can also, as an action, summon a small spore-construct ally, a fungus-clad humanoid silhouette of Power Rating 1, with statistics equivalent to a Druid-summoned mid-tier nature ally, for 1 hour or until it is reduced to 0 hit points. You can summon one spore-construct per long rest.

Level 15. Rot or Renew As an action and by expending a spell slot of 1st level or higher, you touch one creature within your reach and choose one of two effects.

Rot. The target makes a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, it takes 4d8 necrotic damage and its movement speeds are halved until the end of its next turn. On a success, it takes half damage and its speeds are unchanged. The damage increases by 1d8 per slot level above 1st.

Renew. The target regains 4d8 hit points, ends one disease or one poison effect on itself, and gains 5 temporary hit points. The healing increases by 1d8 per slot level above 1st. Renew has no effect on an unwilling creature.

You can use this feature as often as you have spell slots to spend.

Level 18. Become Bloom Once per long rest, as an action, you can become a localized expression of the Bloom-mind for 1 minute. During this time:

You and the area within 30 feet of you fill with a slow, twilight-colored spore haze. Allies in the area have resistance to necrotic and poison damage. A hostile creature that enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, it takes 3d8 necrotic damage and is Poisoned until the end of its next turn.

You can move through other creatures' spaces, you ignore difficult terrain, and you have a flying (hover) speed of 30 feet.

Once per turn as a bonus action, you can anchor a Bloom-Mark on one creature you can see within Close range. A Bloom-Marked creature has its movement speed reduced by 10 feet, takes 1d8 necrotic damage at the start of each of its turns, and is visible to you through any obscurement while marked. The mark lasts until the form ends or the creature dies. When it dies, a spore-bloom erupts from the corpse and produces a 5-foot spore patch, as if you had cast it.

You can speak with the Bloom-aligned dead within 30 feet as if using the speak with dead spell, with no time-since-death restriction.

The form ends early if you are reduced to 0 hit points.

Circle of the Pack

The Circle of the Pack is the Druid Circle that keeps its own shape and asks the animal. The practice is a long apprenticeship in a language that is never written down: what a herd does before it bolts, which of two predators gives way, how to make a request of an animal that is free to refuse. Frontier settlements call a Pack Druid when a migration is coming through and they want no fight. A Pack Druid has little to do in a sealed room.

Level 3. Speak the Pack You can communicate simple ideas to beasts, and understand what they communicate back, at will. You gain proficiency in Animal Handling if you do not have it, and your proficiency bonus is doubled for any check you make with it.

Level 7. Call the Pack As an action and by expending a spell slot of 1st level or higher, you call beasts to you. Choose a number of beasts of Power Rating 1/4 or lower whose combined Power Rating does not exceed the slot level. They appear in unoccupied spaces within 30 feet, are friendly to you and your allies, act on your initiative, and obey your spoken commands. They remain for 1 hour, until you dismiss them, or until they are reduced to 0 hit points.

Level 11. Pack Tactics Beasts you have summoned or that are friendly to you have advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one other creature friendly to you is within 5 feet of it. In addition, once on each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to command every beast under your control to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage or Help action.

Level 15. Large Beast Call Call the Pack can now summon a single beast of Power Rating equal to half your Druid level, rounded down, instead of a group. Whichever you choose, summoned beasts gain temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier and add your proficiency bonus to their damage rolls.

Level 18. Unbidden Pack Once per long rest, when you are reduced to 0 hit points or when combat begins, beasts come to your side. You summon beasts as though you had cast Call the Pack with a 6th-level slot, without spending a slot or an action. They remain for 1 hour and are not under your command. They fight on your side, and the GM plays them as animals acting on their own.

Circle of the Spores

The Circle of the Spores is the Druid Circle of the third kingdom, the fungi, which move material between the plants that take the light and the animals that eat them. Spores Druids work the underside: the mycelial mats that pass sugar between trees, the rot that turns a fallen hull into soil, and the compost decks of colony ships that feed a colony in its fourth year. Some have contact with the Myrrhiam Bloom and some avoid it.

Level 3. Halo of Spores You are surrounded by a cloud of spores that you control. As a bonus action, one creature you can see within 10 feet must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or take 1d6 poison damage. The damage increases to 1d8 at 7th level, 1d10 at 11th, and 1d12 at 15th. You have advantage on saving throws against being Poisoned and against disease.

Level 7. Symbiotic Entity As an action, you can expend a use of Wild Shape to invest yourself with spores instead of taking a beast form. For 10 minutes you gain temporary hit points equal to four times your Druid level, your Halo of Spores damage doubles, and your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 poison damage. The effect ends early if you lose all the temporary hit points.

Level 11. Fungal Infestation When a beast or humanoid of Power Rating 1 or lower dies within 10 feet of you, you can use your reaction to raise it. It rises with 1 hit point at the start of your next turn, acts on your initiative, and obeys your commands for 1 hour before collapsing. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all uses on a long rest.

Level 15. Spreading Rot Your Halo of Spores extends to a 30-foot radius, and you can choose any number of creatures within it when you use it instead of one. In addition, you no longer need to breathe, and you have resistance to poison damage.

Level 18. Fungal Body You are immune to the Blinded, Deafened, Frightened and Poisoned conditions, and you cannot suffer a critical hit unless you have 0 hit points. In addition, when you would drop to 0 hit points while Symbiotic Entity is active, you instead drop to 1 hit point and the effect ends. Once you do that, you cannot do it again until you finish a long rest.

Circle of the Stars

The Circle of the Stars is the Druid Circle whose biome is the sky. Its Inner Grove is a hemisphere of stars, and the constellations it recognizes are the patterns that appear the same in Aurelion ephemerides, Halcyion sky-litanies, frontier voidwalker tattoos and the memory of the oldest elves. Stars Druids slip their casting into the shape of a constellation and let the constellation cast through them.

Level 3. Star Map You craft and carry a personal Star Map: an inscribed disc, holo-pattern, retinal overlay or chart-tattoo. The Map is your spellcasting focus and gives you these cantrips, which you always know: a minor light cantrip (your choice from the Druid or Sorcerer cantrip list), a minor divination cantrip, and a minor radiant-damage cantrip.

As a bonus action, you can invoke one of three Constellation Aspects. An Aspect lasts 10 minutes or until you invoke a different one.

The Archer. Whenever you cast a spell that requires an attack roll, you deal an additional 1d8 radiant damage on a hit.

The Chalice. Whenever you cast a spell that restores hit points, one creature healed by the spell (you choose) regains additional hit points equal to 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier.

The Wyrm. Your spell save DC increases by 1, and you shed dim starlight in a 5-foot radius. Constructs and undead have disadvantage on saves against your spells while you are in the Wyrm aspect.

You can invoke a Constellation Aspect a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus.

Level 7. Cosmic Omen When you finish a long rest, roll a d6, your Cosmic Omen die. On an even roll the omen is Weal, and on an odd roll it is Woe. Until your next long rest, you have a number of Omen tokens equal to your proficiency bonus.

As a reaction when a creature you can see within 30 feet makes an attack roll, ability check or saving throw, you can spend one Omen token to apply the omen. Under Weal, the target rolls a 1d6 and adds it to the roll. Under Woe, the target rolls a 1d6 and subtracts it from the roll. If a creature has more than one eligible roll at the same instant, it chooses which roll Woe applies to. Allies can benefit from Weal, and enemies can suffer Woe. You choose the target each time you spend a token, but Weal can only help and Woe can only harm.

Unused Omen tokens are lost when you finish a long rest and roll a new die.

Level 11. Twin Aspects Your Constellation Aspect feature changes in these ways.

You can have two Aspects active at once and gain the benefits of both.

When you change Aspects on your turn (as a bonus action), the new Aspect immediately gives its benefit to up to two allies within 30 feet until the start of your next turn. For the Archer, an ally adds 1d8 radiant damage to their next attack within that window. For the Chalice, the ally regains 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier hit points immediately. For the Wyrm, the ally has advantage on saving throws against being Frightened until the start of your next turn.

Constellation Aspect uses recover on a short rest as well as a long rest.

Level 15. Star Body While you have any Constellation Aspect active, your body is translucent and shot through with points of starlight. You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from non-magical, non-Rift sources, and once per turn when you hit a creature with a spell attack or melee weapon attack, you deal an additional 1d10 radiant damage. Your spell save DC also increases by 1, which stacks with the Wyrm aspect's bonus for a +2 total while you are in the Wyrm aspect.

Level 18. Stellar Aspect Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you assume a Stellar Aspect form for 10 minutes, your silhouette filling with a moving constellation. Choose one of three forms. Each gives all of the following benefits in addition to your normal Constellation Aspect of the same name:

Archer-sphere. You gain a flying (hover) speed of 30 feet. Once per turn as a bonus action, you can make a single ranged spell attack as a Star-Arrow, dealing 4d10 radiant damage on a hit, with a range of Medium.

Chalice-sphere. You and allies within 30 feet who can see you have advantage on death saves and on saves against being reduced below 0 hit points. At the start of each of your turns, one ally of your choice within 30 feet regains hit points equal to 2d8 + your Wisdom modifier.

Wyrm-sphere. Your spells deal an additional 2d10 damage to undead and constructs. Once per round, when a hostile creature within 30 feet fails a save against one of your spells, you can immediately impose the Frightened condition (of you) on that creature until the end of its next turn, with no additional save.

The form ends early if you are reduced to 0 hit points.

Circle of the Void

The Circle of the Void is the Druid Circle that holds vacuum to be a biome with residents: ice-crawlers in the cometary halo, lichen that eats hard radiation on a nameless moon, bacterial mats in a wrecked hull that have been eating the wreck for two hundred years. The other circles found the claim offensive until the Void proved it. A Void Druid's Inner Grove is a place with no air in it.

Level 3. Vacuum-Bond You take no damage from exposure to hard vacuum, near-vacuum, or the cold of deep space, and you do not need to breathe. You gain resistance to cold damage, and you can move across the outside of a vessel or asteroid as though it were level ground, with a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

Level 7. Vacuum Survey Over 10 minutes, you can survey a vacuum environment within 1 mile and learn what lives in it, how long it has been there, and what would kill it. In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against radiation, disease and poison, and you can grant that benefit to a number of creatures equal to your proficiency bonus for 8 hours by touching each of them.

Level 11. Void Ward As an action and by expending a spell slot of 1st level or higher, you lay a Void Ward in a 10-foot radius centered on a point within 60 feet. It lasts 10 minutes. Inside it there is breathable air, survivable pressure and no ambient hazard, regardless of what is outside. Creatures hostile to you that enter or start their turn inside it take cold damage equal to 1d8 per level of the slot spent.

Level 15. Void Salvage When a creature within 30 feet drops to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Druid level. The next spell you cast before the end of your next turn costs no material component and does not consume a slot if it is 2nd level or lower. This can happen once per turn.

Level 18. Ice Column Once per long rest, as an action, you become a moving column of ice and starlight for 1 minute. You have a flying speed of 60 feet and can hover. You are immune to cold damage and resistant to all other damage. Any creature that starts its turn within 10 feet of you takes 3d8 cold damage. You can cast Druid spells with a range of touch at a range of 30 feet.

Circle of the Wilds

The Circle of the Wilds is the Druid Circle of dirt underfoot: temperate forest, deep-grass plain, alpine ridge, mangrove tideline. It is the oldest Circle in living memory and the most decentralized. Each grove keeps its own records, and the groves confer by smoke, by signal-pollen and by Druidic messages carried on migratory birds. A Wilds Druid's features work best on ground claimed as an Inner Grove.

Level 3. Biome Spells Your Inner Grove biome gives you a small list of bonus spells specific to that terrain. They are always prepared and do not count against your prepared limit. The list changes when you change your Inner Grove biome on a long rest. Examples: forest (entangle, barkskin, plant growth), grassland (faerie fire, longstrider, haste), mountain (spike growth, stone shape, wall of stone), coast (fog cloud, water walk, control water), arctic (ice knife, sleet storm, cone of cold), swamp (entangle, stinking cloud, insect plague). The full list for each biome is in the Druid spell catalog. While you are within your Inner Grove biome, you also gain proficiency in Survival if you do not already have it, and your movement leaves no trail that can be detected except by Druidic or comparable means.

Level 7. Natural Recovery Once per long rest, during a short rest of at least 10 minutes spent within your Inner Grove biome (or within 30 feet of a body of natural soil, fresh water or living vegetation in any biome), you can recover expended spell slots. The slots you recover have a combined level of up to half your Druid level, rounded up. For example, at 7th level you can recover one 4th-level slot, two 2nd-level slots, or four 1st-level slots. None of the slots can be 6th level or higher.

Level 11. Natural Immunity You are immune to poison damage, to the Poisoned condition, and to diseases of natural origin. You also cannot be Charmed or Frightened by elementals or fey, and spells of the Sun, Earth, Water and Ether Channels deal one die less of damage to you (minimum 1 die).

Level 15. Sentinel of the Wild While you are within your Inner Grove biome, you and any allies within 30 feet gain a +2 bonus to AC and resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from non-magical, non-Rift sources. Additionally, once per long rest, when a hostile creature within 60 feet of you in the biome casts a spell, you can use your reaction to try to counter it: make a spellcasting ability check (1d20 + your spell attack modifier) against a DC of 10 + the level of the spell being cast. On a success, the spell fails and its slot is expended.

Level 18. Land Avatar Once per long rest, as an action, you become the avatar of your Inner Grove biome for 1 minute, your body sheathed in the materials of the place: bark and lichen, dust and rust, salt crust, fungal armor, ice rime, or whatever else the biome offers. While in Land Avatar form:

You can increase your size category by one step.

Your walking speed increases by 10 feet. Within your Inner Grove biome, you ignore difficult terrain entirely, and spells you cast that produce terrain effects have their area doubled.

You gain temporary hit points equal to 5 × your Druid level when the form begins.

Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack or a spell, you can add 2d10 damage of a type suited to your biome: bludgeoning for earth, cold for ice, fire for desert, slashing for forest, or poison for swamp.

You can speak with and roughly direct any non-sapient biome-native creature within 60 feet, as if using Biome Speech without the time cost.

The form ends early if you are reduced to 0 hit points or you end it as a free action.

Arcane Artificer

Recommended for: Strongly thematic for characters of the Halcyion Federation; not enforced as a hard requirement.; Halcyion Federation

The Arcane Artificer is the Engineer Discipline built on the position that Rift energy is a material: it can be wound into a coil, annealed into a plate and stored in a housing. Artificers come from workshop lineages, from prototype divisions that were shut down and from frontier shops where a thing has to work in vacuum or the owner does not come home.

Level 3. Infused Item You gain proficiency in the Arcana skill. Your Apparatus also works as a spellcasting focus for any channeler who holds it. When you finish a long rest, you can infuse one item you touch. For the next 24 hours, the item counts as a magic item for overcoming resistance, and whoever wields it gains a +1 bonus to one ability check, attack roll or saving throw of your choice made with it.

Level 7. Device Spells You learn three spells from the Wizard spell list, each of 2nd level or lower. They do not count against the number of spells you know, and they are Engineer spells for you. You cast them through a device: you must be holding a tool, weapon or piece of hardware to cast each one, and each costs its usual Charges.

Level 11. Stored Spell Once per long rest, you can store a spell of 3rd level or lower in an object you have worked on for 10 minutes. Any creature holding the object can release the stored spell as an action, using your spell save DC and your spell attack bonus. The object holds one spell at a time, and the spell remains until it is released or you store another.

Level 15. Federation Authority You have advantage on Charisma checks made with artificers, shipwrights, armorers and their guilds, and any workshop you can reach sells you parts at cost. You can also maintain two infusions from Infused Item at once instead of one.

Level 18. Last Orders When you are reduced to 0 hit points and not killed outright, your Apparatus keeps working for one more round under your last instruction. On that round, it can take one action you could have taken, using your statistics. You can maintain three infusions from Infused Item at once, and your infused items no longer expire after 24 hours, and they stay infused until you infuse another item in their place.

Combat Engineer

The Combat Engineer is the Engineer Discipline of sappers and pioneers: the soldiers who arrive ahead of the line, weld the breach plate to the truck cab by lamplight, drop the bridge across the trench, and rig the building behind them to come down if the retreat goes badly. Halcyion Federation forward-deployment teams, Aurelion siege detachments and frontier militias defending a ridge with what was in the back of the truck all field them. A Combat Engineer's Charges go into structures and devices that stay on the field.

Level 3. Field Fortification You gain proficiency with martial weapons. As an action, you can spend 1 Charge to construct a barrier of welded plate, prefab paneling or compacted debris at a point within 30 feet. The barrier measures 10 feet × 10 feet × 5 feet, has AC 15 and hit points equal to 5 × your Engineer level, and provides three-quarters cover to creatures behind it. It lasts 10 minutes or until destroyed. You can have a number of Field Fortifications deployed at once equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1). Your Apparatus also counts as smith's tools and tinkerer's tools for construction, repair and demolition work.

Level 7. Sentry Turret As an action, you can spend 2 Charges to deploy a Sentry Turret within 15 feet of you. The Turret has AC 14 and hit points equal to 3 × your Engineer level. It has a single ranged attack action that you direct with a bonus action, using your spell attack modifier and dealing 1d10 + your Intelligence modifier ballistic, lightning or plasma damage at Close range (your choice at deployment). Its alert sensor gives you advantage on initiative if the Turret is deployed within 60 feet when combat begins. The Turret lasts 10 minutes, until destroyed or until you deploy another. If you also have a Combat Apparatus deployed (Combat Apparatus, Engineer 14th level), you can direct both with the same bonus action.

Level 11. Explosive Charges During a short or long rest, you can craft Tier II to IV explosive charges, using 25 gm of components per charge, up to a number of charges equal to your proficiency bonus. You can throw a charge to Close range or place it as an action. It detonates when you command it (a bonus action), on a timer or on a trigger you set. A charge explodes in a 15-foot-radius sphere. Each creature in the area makes a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 4d6 explosive damage on a failure or half as much on a success. Structures and barriers in the area take maximum damage. You can keep charges in storage, but unused charges decompose safely within 30 days.

Level 15. Field Bunker Once per long rest, as an action, you can deploy a Field Bunker centered on a point you can see within 30 feet. The Bunker is a fortified emplacement measuring 20 feet × 20 feet × 10 feet, built of welded plate, sensor screens and pre-routed power conduits. It has AC 17 and hit points equal to 10 × your Engineer level. It provides three-quarters cover to creatures inside and total cover from one direction of your choice. You or an ally inside the Bunker has advantage on Constitution saving throws and resistance to explosive damage. The Bunker lasts 1 hour or until reduced to 0 hit points.

Level 18. Siege Master The deployment time for all your Combat Engineer features (Field Fortification, Sentry Turret and Field Bunker) is reduced to a bonus action. Your Sentry Turrets gain a second attack each round, still directed with a single bonus action. The damage of your explosive charges is doubled against fixed structures, vehicles and constructs. Once per long rest, when you would be reduced to 0 hit points, you instead drop to 1 hit point and immediately deploy a Field Bunker centered on yourself at no Charge cost. The Bunker stands until you take a long rest.

Cybersmith

The Cybersmith is the Engineer Discipline of the back-alley surgeon on Tier III and IV worlds: clinic-runners who broke a corporate contract, frontier mechanics who learned biology by necessity, ripperdocs who can flush a black-market wetware install on a folding table by candlelight. A Cybersmith fuses the work to flesh, their own and other people's.

Level 3. Cybernetic Surgery You gain proficiency in the Medicine skill if you do not already have it. You can install, maintain and tune cybernetic augments without clinic-grade equipment, needing only your Apparatus and 1 hour of work per slot of augment instead of the surgery hours the augment lists. You also gain one cybernetic slot at no cost, and you can install one Tier III or lower cybernetic augment into yourself at character creation or during the next downtime, paying only material costs.

Level 7. Integrated Apparatus You can graft your Apparatus directly into your body as a forearm mount, a sub-dermal lattice or a chest-cavity reactor, your choice. While it is integrated, it cannot be disarmed, dropped or separated from you without surgery, and you regenerate 1 additional Charge on a short rest (this stacks with Apparatus Guard at 10th level). You also gain resistance to one damage type, chosen when you integrate it from fire, lightning, kinetic and plasma, representing the augment's installed shielding. You can re-tune the resistance during a long rest spent in workshop conditions.

Level 11. Modular Augments Your number of cybernetic slots increases by 2, in addition to your normal allotment, and can go past the standard cap. When you install a cybernetic augment into yourself or a willing ally, you can add one Modular Benefit from this list: +1 to checks with one skill associated with the augment site, +5 feet to walking speed (leg sites only), one additional concealed compartment (any site), or a low-light visual overlay (head and eye sites only). You can reallocate Modular Benefits during 1 hour of work in a workshop.

Level 15. Augment Adept Cybernetic augments you install, in yourself or in others, gain one of the following enhanced effects, chosen per augment at installation: the augment occupies one fewer cybernetic slot (minimum 0), the augment grants an additional +1 to its associated check (stacking with its standard benefits), or you can remotely power the augment down as a reaction while within 30 feet of it. You also have advantage on Medicine and Technology checks made to diagnose, repair or modify any installed cybernetic in any creature.

Level 18. Whole-Body Convergence Once per long rest, as an action, you can enter Convergence for 1 minute. During this time, you gain temporary hit points equal to twice your Engineer level, you have advantage on all Constitution saving throws, and your walking speed increases by 10 feet. You regenerate 1 Charge at the start of each of your turns, up to your normal maximum. You have resistance to the damage type you currently have selected through Integrated Apparatus. When Convergence ends, you gain one level of exhaustion that cannot be removed except by a long rest spent in clinic-grade conditions.

Field Engineer

The Field Engineer is the Engineer Discipline without a specialty. Most long-running crews have one: the person who patched the coolant line with cargo strapping, talked the airlock into cycling, set the bone, and then asked what was for dinner. Damage-control ratings, frontier claim-hands and expedition techs are sent out before anyone knows what will go wrong, and the Discipline trades depth for speed and a tolerance for improvisation that specialists read as recklessness.

Level 3. Improvised Fix You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice from Investigation, Medicine, Perception, Sleight of Hand and Survival, and with one set of tools of your choice. Once per short or long rest, as an action and at no Charge cost, you can improvise a repair from materials at hand: restore hit points equal to 1d8 + your Engineer level to one damaged object, construct or vehicle, or end one malfunction affecting it.

Level 7. Improvised Tools You treat any tool set as though you were proficient with it, and you can substitute an improvised equivalent for any tool set you lack without penalty. You can also cast any Engineer spell you know using an object within reach as its focus, so losing your Apparatus does not stop you casting.

Level 11. Fast Hands Once on each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to take the Use an Object action, administer a consumable to yourself or a creature within 5 feet, or make one check with a tool set.

Level 15. Second Attempt As a reaction, when you or an ally within 30 feet fails an ability check made with a tool set, or a saving throw against a hazard from a machine, vehicle or structure, you can spend 2 Charges to have that creature reroll it and use the second result. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all uses on a long rest.

Level 18. Salvage Build At the end of a short or long rest, you can build one improvised device from any wreckage at hand, which takes ten minutes of that rest. Choose a common or uncommon item of your Engineer level's tech tier or lower. It functions for 24 hours or until you build another, and it needs no attunement. In addition, once per long rest you can restore a destroyed construct, vehicle or piece of equipment to 1 hit point and working order, provided its pieces are present.

Mechanist

Recommended for: Strongly thematic for campaigns featuring crews, vessels, mecha, or starships as ongoing fixtures. Features assume the engineer has regular access to at least one Bound Vessel; in vehicle-light campaigns, the GM should allow re-skinning the bond toward a large mecha, train, ground convoy, or similar.

The Mechanist is the Engineer Discipline of engine rooms, hangar decks, chassis pits and gantries. Aurelion solar-cruisers run on Mechanists tuning the heliosail array between watches, Halcyion Federation tenders keep them on the plasma furnaces at every shift change, and frontier haulers keep one aboard because the nearest help can be twelve parsecs away. A Mechanist's Apparatus is often built into the machine.

Level 3. Bound Vessel You bind your Apparatus to one vehicle, mech or vessel of size Large or larger that you have spent at least 8 hours tuning, such as a starship, gunship, transport or mecha. The bond lasts until you transfer it, which takes 8 hours of work on a new vessel, or until your Bound Vessel is destroyed.

While aboard your Bound Vessel:

You have advantage on all checks made to operate, repair, navigate or diagnose the vessel and its subsystems.

You always know the vessel's current hit points, fuel and charge state, and the operational status of each of its named systems (engines, weapons, shields, life support, hyperdrive, sensors and so on).

You can use the vessel's hull and conduits as your channeling focus. You do not need your handheld Apparatus to cast spells while you are physically connected to the vessel (touching a bulkhead, jacked into a console or seated at a control station).

When you complete a short rest with your Bound Vessel in active maintenance (you in the engine bay, hands on the deck), you regenerate 1 additional Charge.

Level 7. Emergency Repair As an action, you can spend 1 Charge to patch a damaged system with channeled paste and jury-rigged conduit. Choose one of the following effects:

Hull Mend. Your Bound Vessel, or any vessel, ground vehicle or large construct you can touch, regains hit points equal to 3d8 + your Engineer level. If you use this on a non-creature, it repairs that many points of structural damage instead.

System Restart. One named system on your Bound Vessel that has been disabled, destroyed or critically damaged is restored to operational (at 1 hit point if it was destroyed). A given system can be restored by Emergency Repair only once per combat encounter.

Adjacent Patch. One ally within 30 feet who is wearing armor, riding a mount or piloting a vehicle regains 2d8 + your Intelligence modifier hit points as you stabilize the load-bearing equipment around them.

You can spend 2 additional Charges (3 in total) to use Emergency Repair as a bonus action instead of an action.

Level 11. Combat Tuning As a bonus action, you can spend 2 Charges to choose one of the following Combat Tunings, which apply to your Bound Vessel for 1 minute:

Overdrive. The vessel's speed and maneuverability increase by 50 percent. The first attack roll the vessel makes each round has advantage.

Hardened Shields. The vessel gains temporary hit points equal to 4 × your Engineer level. Energy and explosive damage against the vessel is halved while these temporary hit points remain.

Targeting Lock. The vessel's weapons deal an additional 2d8 damage per hit, and the vessel's pilot can reroll one missed weapon attack roll per round.

A vessel can have only one Combat Tuning active at a time, and activating a new one ends the previous one. When the duration ends, the vessel suffers minor structural strain. The GM decides the effect, with 2d8 hull damage and disadvantage on the next maintenance check as the default.

Level 15. Vessel Power While aboard your Bound Vessel:

Your Charge maximum increases by your proficiency bonus. The bonus Charges come from the vessel's auxiliary power systems and refresh only when you take a long rest aboard the Bound Vessel.

You can cast Engineer spells of up to 3rd level by spending the vessel's main-battery power instead of your Charges, which bypasses the normal Charge cost entirely. The vessel takes 1d8 hull damage per spell level cast this way, and you must be physically connected to the vessel (hand on bulkhead, jacked in or at a system station).

When the Bound Vessel takes damage that would reduce it below half its hit points, you can use your reaction to spend 2 Charges and reduce the incoming damage by 2d10 + your Intelligence modifier, routing the energy through your own spell pool. You take 1d6 force damage as feedback.

A vessel cannot be Bound by more than one Mechanist at a time. If you and another Mechanist try to bind the same vessel, the most recent binding takes precedence.

Level 18. Hyperdrive Lock Once per long rest, as an action while aboard your Bound Vessel, you can spend 5 Charges to initiate a Hyperdrive Lock, a single-jump emergency translocation of your Bound Vessel and everything aboard it.

The vessel and all creatures and cargo within it instantly travel to any location you have personally visited on the vessel's normal-space transit network (a docked port, a stable orbital position or a known star-route waypoint). The jump ignores intervening obstacles, fuel reserves and ordinary jump-window constraints. It does not cross planar boundaries.

In tactical-scale vessel combat, the GM can instead run this as a one-shot reposition: the Bound Vessel moves up to 10 times its normal movement allowance, ignoring intervening enemies and obstacles, and arrives with all systems functional except the hyperdrive, which is offline for 24 hours.

After the jump, the Hyperdrive system on the Bound Vessel is offline for 24 hours, or until you complete a long rest and 4 hours of repair work, whichever is longer. You cannot use Hyperdrive Lock again until you complete a long rest.

Technologist

The Technologist is the Engineer Discipline that went into the machine instead of under it. Halcyion signals officers, Echelon audit-breakers, Axiom catalogers who talk to synthetic minds in their own protocol, and frontier operators whose whole practice is a battered deck and a spool of tap-line all belong to it. The Discipline is about access to systems and about leaving no trace in them.

Level 3. Deck Interface You gain proficiency in the Investigation skill and with a Hacker's deck if you do not already have them. Your Apparatus also works as a deck: you can interface with any powered system you can touch, and you have advantage on ability checks made to identify what a device does, what network it belongs to, and when it last reported in.

Level 7. Remote Interface You no longer need to touch a system to work on it. As an action, you can spend 1 Charge to interface with any powered device you can see within 60 feet as though you were holding it. If the device is defended, make an Intelligence check against the defending system's DC. On a success, you can take one action through it, such as opening or sealing a door, blinding a sensor for one round or reading its most recent log.

Level 11. System Purge As an action, you can spend 2 Charges to purge one construct, cybernetic implant, drone or vehicle system you can touch. The target ends one of the following effects that affect it: the Charmed condition, the Frightened condition, a hostile effect controlling its actions, or one ongoing malfunction imposed by a spell or hostile intrusion. An unwilling construct can make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC to resist.

Level 15. Network Aura As a bonus action, you can spend 2 Charges to establish a Network Aura in a 30-foot radius for 1 minute. While it holds, you and allies within it have advantage on saving throws against effects from constructs and powered devices, hostile sensors and turrets within the radius have disadvantage on attack rolls, and you know the location of every powered device in the radius whether or not you can see it.

Level 18. System Takeover Once per long rest, as an action, you can take control of a system. Target one construct, vehicle, drone, turret or station system within 60 feet. It must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or come under your control for 1 minute, acting on your initiative and obeying your commands. A construct with an Intelligence of 8 or higher repeats the save at the end of each of its turns. When the effect ends, the system reports the intrusion to whoever owns it.

Bounty Hunter

The Bounty Hunter is the Gunslinger Specialty that works off a board: Echelon shadow-contractors, Black Meridian crew-leads on retainer, Halcyion reservist marksmen with a better-paying side gig, and freelancers with verified-reputation tags. They are the shooters the frontier's lone legends call when a job is too large for one gun, and they keep their gear immaculate and their crew alive because a dead crewmember is a lost referral. The contract Mark they declare on a target adds 1d6 to their firearm hits against it.

Level 3. Contract Mark At the start of any encounter, or any time you have one minute to study a target, you can declare one creature within Close range as your Mark. Your firearm attacks against the Mark deal an additional 1d6 damage of the weapon's type, and you have advantage on the first attack roll you make against the Mark each round. A Mark lasts until the creature is reduced to 0 hit points, you finish a short rest or you declare a new Mark. You also gain proficiency in your choice of Insight, Investigation or Persuasion.

Level 7. Combat Medic You have a field-medic loadout. As a bonus action, you can spend one Field Kit charge to restore 2d6 + your Dexterity modifier hit points to a willing creature within Melee range. The target also gains a +1 bonus to AC and saving throws until the end of its next turn. You have a number of Field Kit charges equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended charges when you finish a long rest. If a creature you treat with Field Kit is at 0 hit points, the healing also stabilizes it.

Level 11. Trade Knowledge You have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks to assess, identify or gather information about criminal syndicates, corporate security contracts, mercenary outfits, bounty boards and any other organization that hires professional shooters. Your Contract Mark damage increases to 2d6. You can also locate the local Bounty Hunter network (the bar, the broker or the broadcast frequency) in any settlement, station or fortified position large enough to support one. This takes 1 hour and access to a comms unit or a tap-room, and the GM decides what counts as large enough.

Level 15. Crew Loyalty While at least one allied creature is within 30 feet of you and can see or hear you, each such ally gains a +1 bonus to attack rolls and saving throws. When an ally within 30 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points and you know they are in trouble, you can use your reaction and expend one Field Kit charge to stabilize them at range and restore 1d6 + your Dexterity modifier hit points. You do not need line of sight.

Level 18. Fearsome Reputation When you roll initiative, or the first time in a combat you take the Attack action against a creature, each hostile creature within Close range whose Power Rating or class level is lower than your Gunslinger level must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Trick Shot DC or be Frightened of you until the end of its next turn. A creature that succeeds is immune to this feature from you for 24 hours. Outside combat, NPCs in mercenary, corporate-security or syndicate contexts recognize you on sight, and you have advantage on Charisma checks you make in their professional space.

Frontier Marksman

The Frontier Marksman is the Gunslinger Specialty that fills in where there is no court. Marksmen appear in the moss-covered townships of post-collapse Earth, in the dust harbors of the Free Belt, and in the mining colonies where corporate contracts do not quite reach. Some wear issued marshal stars. Many wear stars they made themselves and back with the speed of their draw, and they give a target one chance to walk before they shoot, because the offer has to be made in front of witnesses.

Level 3. Vigilante's Mark As a bonus action, you can mark one creature you can see within Long range as your Vigilante's Mark. The mark lasts until the creature is reduced to 0 hit points, you finish a long rest or you mark a new target. While the mark is active, you can see the marked creature through partial cover and light obscurement. Your firearm attacks against it deal an additional 1d6 damage of the weapon's type. You also have advantage on the first Wisdom (Survival) or Intelligence (Investigation) check you make in any 24-hour period to find or follow it. You can have only one Vigilante's Mark at a time.

Level 7. Quickdraw Reflex When a creature you can see within Close range takes a hostile action against you or an ally within 30 feet of you, such as drawing a weapon, beginning a spell, calling for backup or raising a comms unit, you can use your reaction to make one firearm attack against that creature. If you have not yet acted in the current combat, or no combat has begun, you can take this reaction even though you have not had a turn. You make the attack as the threat resolves.

Level 11. Long Range Advantage You have advantage on firearm attack rolls against creatures at Long or Extreme range that meet any of these conditions: they have not yet taken a turn in the current combat, they are unaware of you, or you have studied them for at least 1 minute before the engagement. You also have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks against creatures that recognize you by reputation or description, such as through your Vigilante's Mark history, your marshal badge or a wanted poster. The GM decides what counts.

Level 15. Frontier Justice As an action, you can declare one creature within Close range to be Called Out. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Trick Shot DC or be Frightened of you for 1 minute, repeating the save at the end of each of its turns. While Frightened by this effect, the creature cannot take the Dash action to move away from you and cannot make ranged attacks against you. Allies and bystanders within Close range who can see you gain a +2 morale bonus to AC against attacks from the Called Out creature until the effect ends.

Level 18. Witnessed Kill Once per long rest, when you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a firearm attack and at least one other hostile creature within Close range can see it happen, each such observer must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Trick Shot DC or be Frightened of you until the end of its next turn and have disadvantage on the first attack roll it makes against you in the next minute. In addition, you cannot be Surprised while you have at least one round in the chamber and a hand free to draw.

Outlaw Gunman

The Outlaw Gunman is the Gunslinger Specialty of the shooter on the board. Some earned the warrant: coach-line robbers on the frontier runs, Black Meridian gun-hands who took the wrong contract from the wrong broker, deserters who shot an officer on the way out. Some did not, and the warrant is a piece of Federation paperwork that was cheaper to sign than to check.

Level 3. Wanted You have a standing price on your head. You have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks against any creature that knows who you are and on Wisdom (Perception) checks to notice someone watching or following you. When you take the Attack action against a creature that has not yet acted in combat, your first attack roll against it has advantage.

Level 7. Never Cornered When a creature you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to move up to half your speed without provoking opportunity attacks, and the attack deals half damage to you. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Level 11. Outnumbered You gain a bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls with ranged weapons equal to the number of creatures hostile to you within 30 feet, to a maximum of your proficiency bonus.

Level 15. Slip Away When you are reduced to half your hit points or fewer, or when you reduce a creature to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to take the Hide action even if you have no cover, provided there is an obstruction, dust, smoke, darkness or a crowd within 10 feet of you. Until the start of your next turn, a creature that has not already located you cannot find you with a Wisdom (Perception) check.

Level 18. Notoriety Any creature that can see you and knows your bounty must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Trick Shot DC at the start of its turn or lose its reaction until the start of its next turn. In addition, when you drop to 0 hit points, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. Once you do, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Sharpshooter

The Sharpshooter is the Gunslinger Specialty of the single long-range shot. Counter-sniper detachments, solar-shooters trained on outer balconies, and assassins kept on retainer for any contract that calls for a single round from a thousand meters all belong to it, and a Sharpshooter will sit a ridge for two days to get one clean shot. The Specialty assumes distance, and most of its features stop helping inside Close range.

Level 3. Steady Shot On your turn, you can forgo your bonus action to gain advantage on the next firearm attack roll you make before the end of your turn with a weapon that has the two-handed, heavy or sniper property. You lose the advantage if, before the attack resolves, you move more than 5 feet, are forced to make a saving throw against being knocked Prone or Restrained, or take damage from any source.

Level 7. Spotter's Eye As a bonus action, you mark one creature you can see within Long or Extreme range as a Spotted Target. Until the end of your next turn, the first attack roll made against the Spotted Target each round by you or an ally has advantage, and on a hit the attack deals an additional 1d6 damage. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1) per short rest. The mark fades if you and the Spotted Target lose mutual line of sight before the duration expires.

Level 11. Headshot Your critical hit range with firearms is 19 or 20. When you score a critical hit with a firearm against a creature at or below half its hit point maximum, roll the weapon's damage dice three times instead of twice and add modifiers once.

Level 15. Phase Bullet Once per turn, when you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can declare the shot a Phase Bullet. The attack ignores all cover short of total cover (full walls, fortifications and vehicles considered as cover) and ignores up to 4 feet of intervening soft barrier (foliage, dust, smoke, light atmosphere, glass, paneling). Total cover still blocks the shot. You can use Phase Bullet a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest.

Level 18. System-Wide Shot Once per long rest, as an action, you can take a System-Wide Shot. Choose one creature you can identify by sight, scope, drone feed or another reliable optical or digital feed, anywhere in the same star system, provided you have a clear enough fix to make the shot. The GM decides what counts, and line of sight through a relay drone or an orbital optic is sufficient. Make one firearm attack against the target with advantage, ignoring all cover short of total cover and all range penalties. On a hit, the attack deals its normal damage plus an additional 8d10 damage of the weapon's type, and the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your Trick Shot DC or be knocked Prone and Stunned until the end of its next turn. Local authorities will know the shot happened, even if they cannot trace it to you.

Trickshot

The Trickshot is the Gunslinger Specialty of the carnival circuit, the Black Meridian arena pit and the broadcast bounty-shows of the outer Echelon worlds. Trickshots learned that a watching crowd is a weapon: cameras change behavior and applause changes morale. They twirl the pistol because the twirl hides the angle of the shot, and they laugh because a laugh is a sound that does not match a gunshot.

Level 3. Showmanship You learn one additional Trick Shot of your choice from the Trick Shot list, so you start with 3 instead of 2. When you apply a Trick Shot rider to a hit and at least one creature other than the target can see you, the target has disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes against any effect from you or an ally before the end of your next turn.

Level 7. Spotlight While at least three creatures in the current encounter can see you, whether enemies, allies or bystanders, and you are the focus of attention (not hidden and not behind cover that obscures you), you have advantage on Charisma (Performance, Deception, or Intimidation) checks and on the first firearm attack roll you make each round. You can also use the Help action as a bonus action by performing a flourish that distracts one creature within Close range that can see you. An ally who attacks that creature before the end of your next turn gains the normal benefit of the Help action.

Level 11. Trick Shot Chain When you apply a Trick Shot rider to a firearm hit, you can spend a second use of Trick Shot to Chain a second rider you know to the same attack. Both riders resolve. The target makes any required saving throws separately for each rider, at the same DC. Before 17th level you can Chain at most once per turn. At 17th level, Chain works with your Improved Trick Shots feature: a chained attack can have two riders, and you can Chain on a second attack in the same Attack action, for a maximum of four riders in a single Attack action.

Level 15. Crowd Bonus While at least three allies, bystanders or audience members within Close range of you can see you and are not actively hostile, you and all allies within 30 feet of you gain a +2 bonus to initiative rolls and have advantage on saving throws against being Frightened, and you regain one expended use of Trick Shot at the start of each of your turns, up to your normal maximum. If the crowd disperses, dies or can no longer see you, the benefits end until the conditions are met again.

Level 18. The Pose Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you can strike The Pose. Until the start of your next turn, ranged attacks cannot hit you, and any attempt misses. Hostile creatures within Close range that can see you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Trick Shot DC or be unable to take reactions until the end of their next turn. On your next turn, you can take the Attack action twice, as if by Action Surge, with each attack able to have a Trick Shot rider per your Improved Trick Shots feature. The Pose ends immediately if you take damage or move more than 5 feet before your next turn.

Weapons Specialist

The Weapons Specialist is the Gunslinger Specialty of the armory: military armorers, corporate weapons-research staff, and pirate refitters salvaging solar-rifle prototypes. Specialists speak heat dissipation, magnetic confinement and dwell-time the way a Frontier Marksman speaks caliber and grain, and they can strip and reassemble anything issued in the last four tech tiers in the dark. The tuning is the Specialist's own and lapses in anyone else's hands.

Level 3. Energy Tuning You gain proficiency in the Technology skill if you do not already have it. You spend an hour each day tuning the magnetic coils and heat sinks of any Tier III or higher energy or plasma firearm you wield. While tuned, the weapon deals an extra 1d6 damage once per turn when you hit with it, in your hands only. The bonus is yours and lapses for any other wielder. You also have advantage on Technology checks to identify, repair or modify energy-class firearms, and you can scavenge usable parts from a damaged energy weapon in half the normal time.

Level 7. Overcharge Shot As a bonus action, you overcharge an energy or plasma weapon you are holding. You gain the Overcharged condition, and the weapon counts as a Rift-augmented weapon for that condition. Your next attack with that weapon before the start of your next turn has advantage, and on a hit it is a critical hit and deals an extra 2d8 damage of the weapon's energy type. You have disadvantage on saving throws until the end of your next turn. After the shot the weapon is Overheated and cannot be fired until you spend an action venting it or finish a short rest. You can use Overcharge Shot a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier, and you regain all uses when you finish a long rest.

Level 11. Heat Sink Mastery Your energy weapons do not become Overheated from your own normal fire. They still overheat from Overcharge Shot or external sabotage. When Overcharge Shot overheats a weapon, the cooldown is halved: venting takes a bonus action instead of an action, or the weapon finishes venting after one round in which you do not fire it. You also have resistance to fire damage and plasma damage.

Level 15. Phase Shot Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an energy or plasma firearm attack, you can declare the shot a Phase Shot. The attack ignores all AC bonuses from physical armor, including Tier IV powered armor, and ignores all cover that is not at least three feet of magnetically shielded plating. The target's base AC, Dexterity bonus and shields from spell effects still apply. You can use Phase Shot a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest.

Level 18. Stellar Discharge Once per long rest, as an action, you can vent your weapon's entire capacitor in a single shaped discharge. Choose a line 5 feet wide and up to Long range, starting at your weapon. Each creature in the line must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Trick Shot DC, taking 12d8 plasma damage on a failure or half as much on a success. Solid cover in the line is reduced by one step: total cover becomes three-quarters cover, three-quarters cover becomes half cover, and half cover is destroyed. The discharge destroys your weapon unless it is a Tier V firearm or is otherwise rated for stellar venting, as the GM decides. Even a rated weapon is Overheated for the remainder of the encounter and needs a long rest to be fully restored.

Way of Enlightenment

The Way of Enlightenment is the Monk tradition of seclusion. Its practitioners take a cell, a cave or a sealed compartment on a long transit and spend years there in breath-work and sitting. The Aurelion contemplative orders train them by the dozen. The frontier produces about one a generation, often someone who was alone for years.

Level 3. Surface Thoughts You have advantage on saving throws against being Charmed or Frightened, and you can end either condition on yourself as a bonus action. You can also spend 1 Ki and take an action to read the surface thoughts of one creature you can see within 30 feet for 1 minute. You learn its mood and its immediate intention, but not its plans.

Level 7. Astral Step As a bonus action, you can spend 2 Ki to project your senses to a point of your choosing within 120 feet. Until the end of your turn, you see and hear from that point as though you stood there. If you move this turn, you can teleport to any unoccupied space you saw from that point.

Level 11. Mind Ward You are immune to being Charmed. Any creature that reads your thoughts, scries on you or tries to detect your location must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Ki save DC. On a failure, the attempt fails and the creature takes 3d8 psychic damage. You also no longer need to sleep, though you must still meditate for 4 hours to gain the benefit of a long rest.

Level 15. Projection You can spend 4 Ki and 10 minutes to leave your body. Your astral form can travel up to 1 mile from your body and pass through solid matter. Nonmagical means cannot harm it, it cannot attack, and only creatures that can perceive the Spirit Plane can see it. Your body stays behind, Unconscious but stable. You can return to your body instantly at will, and you return at once if it takes damage.

Level 18. Enlightenment As an action, you can spend 5 Ki to learn the answer to one question about a creature, object or place you can see. The answer must be a fact, not a prediction. Once per long rest, when you would be reduced to 0 hit points, you can instead vanish until the start of your next turn. You take no damage from the triggering effect, and you return to an unoccupied space within 30 feet.

Way of the Body

The Way of the Body is the oldest and plainest of the Monk traditions. It has no lineage secret and no element, only a form performed daily for decades, and its teachers hold that a body trained without shortcuts outlasts one that took them. It is taught in garrison halls and in single rooms above frontier workshops. The syllabus is the same in both: stand correctly, breathe correctly, strike once, and repeat the next day.

Level 3. Open Hand Technique When you hit a creature with an attack from Flurry of Blows, you can choose one of the following effects:

Sweep. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your Ki save DC or be knocked Prone.

Push. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your Ki save DC or be pushed up to 15 feet away from you.

Stillness. The target cannot take reactions until the end of your next turn.

You can apply only one effect per hit, but each Flurry of Blows attack in the same turn can use a different one.

Level 7. Wholeness of Body Once per long rest, as an action, you regain hit points equal to three times your Monk level. You cannot use this feature while you have 0 Ki remaining.

Level 11. Tranquility At the end of a long rest, you gain a Sanctuary effect that lasts until your next long rest. A creature that attacks you must first make a Wisdom saving throw against your Ki save DC. On a failure, it must choose a new target or lose the attack. The effect ends the second time it blocks an attack. It also ends if you attack a creature, force a creature to make a saving throw with one of your features, or deal damage to a creature.

Level 15. Quivering Palm When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 3 Ki to set up vibrations of Ki within it. The vibrations last for a number of days equal to your Monk level. As an action at any time in that window, including immediately after the hit, you can release them. The target makes a Constitution saving throw against your Ki save DC. On a failure, it takes 10d10 + Wisdom modifier necrotic damage and is Stunned until the end of your next turn. On a success, it takes half damage and is not Stunned. The damage is force damage against constructs. Only one creature can be affected by Quivering Palm at a time, and setting it on a second target ends the first one's vibrations harmlessly.

Level 18. Empty Hand Once per long rest, when you would take damage, you can use your reaction and spend 4 Ki to enter the Empty Hand stance until the end of your next turn. While in the stance, you are immune to all damage except force, radiant and rift damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against being moved, knocked Prone or Grappled. The first attack you make in the stance has advantage, and on a hit it deals an extra 4d10 damage of the strike's type. You can end the stance early as a free action.

Way of the Drunken Master

The Way of the Drunken Master is a Monk tradition built on a lurching, off-balance walk that keeps an opponent from lining up a strike. It is taught in frontier taverns, in the Black Meridian pit circuits and in one Halcyion monastery that does not discuss the matter. Some practitioners drink, and most of the good ones stopped years ago and kept the walk.

Level 3. Drunken Footwork You gain proficiency in the Performance skill and with brewer's supplies. Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, your walking speed increases by 10 feet until the end of that turn, and moving out of a hostile creature's reach does not provoke opportunity attacks for the rest of that turn.

Level 7. Tipsy Sway When a creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to redirect it to a different creature within 5 feet of you. The original attack roll is compared against the new target's AC. If you are Prone, you can also stand up by spending only 5 feet of movement.

Level 11. Lucky Stumble When you make an ability check, attack roll or saving throw with disadvantage, you can spend 2 Ki to cancel the disadvantage. Once on each of your turns, you can also spend 1 Ki as part of your movement to fall Prone and stand again. Each creature that has an opportunity attack against you must then succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Ki save DC or lose that attack.

Level 15. Sidestep When a creature within 5 feet of you targets you with an attack, it must first succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Ki save DC. On a failure, it loses the attack and you move it 5 feet in a direction of your choice. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Level 18. Drunken Flurry Once per short rest, when you use Flurry of Blows, you can make up to three additional attacks with it, if each attack targets a different creature. Opportunity attacks against you are made with disadvantage.

Way of the Earth

The Way of the Earth is the Monk tradition of waiting for the opponent to come. Earth monks train in weighted stances on ground they have chosen, and they hold that the fighter who has to cross the distance has already lost. They keep monasteries in Nordvergur deep-holds and on the ballast decks of colony ships, places with mass to draw on.

Level 3. Stone Fist Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage that ignores resistance to nonmagical damage. You can also spend 1 Ki as part of an attack to force the target to make a Strength saving throw against your Ki save DC. On a failure, the target is pushed 10 feet or knocked Prone, your choice.

Level 7. Working the Ground As an action, you can spend 2 Ki to work the ground. A 20-foot square within 30 feet becomes difficult terrain for 1 minute. Each creature in the square when you use this feature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your Ki save DC or be Restrained until the end of its next turn.

Level 11. Set Stance While you are standing on solid ground and have not moved this turn, you cannot be moved against your will and you have advantage on Strength saving throws. Any creature that hits you with a melee attack takes bludgeoning damage equal to your Martial Arts die.

Level 15. Halting Blow When a creature within 5 feet of you tries to move away, you can use your reaction and spend 1 Ki to end its movement. It takes bludgeoning damage equal to your Martial Arts die plus your Strength or Dexterity modifier.

Level 18. Avatar of the Earth Once per long rest, as an action, you can spend 5 Ki to plant yourself for 1 minute. For the duration, your speed is 0 and cannot be changed, you have resistance to all damage, and all squares within 15 feet of you are difficult terrain for creatures hostile to you. Any creature that starts its turn within 15 feet of you must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your Ki save DC or be knocked Prone.

Way of the Ether

The Way of the Ether is the Monk tradition that the three elemental ways regard with suspicion. Ether-Rifting is native to the Rift, so an Ether monk works on the seam of the world instead of on any of its contents. Their halls stand where the Rift runs close to the surface, and a technique that works one season may need to be re-derived the next because the Rift moves.

Level 3. Ether Step As a bonus action, you can spend 1 Ki to teleport up to 20 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Your unarmed strikes can deal force damage instead of bludgeoning damage, and they can hit creatures on the Spirit Plane as though those creatures were fully present.

Level 7. Out of the Moment When you are targeted by an attack or a spell, you can use your reaction and spend 2 Ki to step out of its moment. You are not there when it arrives, so you take no damage and suffer no effect from it, and you reappear in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of where you stood at the start of your next turn. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Level 11. Blind Step You have resistance to force damage, and you can see Invisible creatures and objects within 60 feet. Your teleports from Ether-Rifting techniques no longer require line of sight, as long as you have been to the destination or can describe it in detail.

Level 15. Shared Step When you teleport, you can bring along one willing creature you are touching. Once on each of your turns, after you teleport, your next unarmed strike before the end of that turn deals an extra 2d6 force damage.

Level 18. Avatar of the Ether Once per long rest, as an action, you can spend 5 Ki to slip out of the moment for 1 minute. For the duration, you can take one additional action on each of your turns, you cannot be surprised, and opportunity attacks cannot target you. Any creature that hits you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Ki save DC or be unable to perceive you until the start of its next turn.

Way of the Lost Self

The Way of the Lost Self is the Monk tradition of students who kept going past the point where the doctrine said a serene person would be waiting. The student dissolves the attachments in the prescribed order and continues past the end of the list. What remains has no ambition, no fear and no objection to dying or killing, and no capacity for cruelty, since cruelty takes an interest in the outcome. Contemplative traditions warn students about this result and produce it anyway, and the monasteries that produce one rarely admit it.

Level 3. Fearless You are immune to the Frightened and Charmed conditions. When you take damage that would not reduce you to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction and spend 1 Ki to reduce that damage by your Martial Arts die plus your Wisdom modifier. You then take 1d6 psychic damage that cannot be prevented.

Level 7. Fight On You do not fall Unconscious when you drop to 0 hit points. You keep acting, and you take one automatic death saving throw failure at the start of each of your turns. You return to normal only when you are healed above 0 hit points, and the third failure kills you.

Level 11. Unreadable Creatures have disadvantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks made against you. Spells and effects that detect your alignment, thoughts or emotions return no information. You have advantage on attack rolls against any creature you have not yet attacked this combat.

Level 15. Borrowed Ki You can spend Ki you do not have, up to a number of points equal to your Wisdom modifier on a single turn. You take 1d10 psychic damage for each point spent this way. This damage cannot be reduced or prevented, and it can reduce you to 0 hit points.

Level 18. Release Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you can spend 4 Ki to drop all restraint for 1 minute. For the duration, your speed doubles, you can make one additional attack whenever you take the Attack action, you have resistance to all damage, and you cannot regain hit points. When the minute ends, you take 4d10 psychic damage that cannot be reduced or prevented.

Way of the Mantra

The Way of the Mantra is the Monk tradition that uses the voice to direct Rift Energy. Its teachers hold that breath, voice and intention make a single instrument, and that a tuned voice projects Rift Energy as cleanly as a wizard's gesture. It is practiced in religious orders, where it doubles as public liturgy, by stage-trained channelers, and by frontier preacher-fighters who picked it up from someone passing through. A Mantra monk cannot work in silence, because every spell is spoken aloud.

Spellcasting Mantra spells cost Ki: 2 for a 1st-level spell, 3 for a 2nd-level spell and 4 for a 3rd-level spell. Spell save DC = 8 + proficiency bonus + WIS modifier.

Level 3. Mantra Spells You learn 2 cantrips of your choice from the Cleric or Sorcerer cantrip lists, and three 1st-level spells from the Mantra Spell list, which is every spell that lists Monk among its classes. You learn one more Mantra spell at Monk levels 7, 10, 13, 16 and 19, of any level you can cast. You cast Mantra spells with Wisdom, so your spell save DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier and your spell attack modifier equals your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier. A Mantra spell costs Ki instead of a spell slot: 2 Ki for a 1st-level spell, 3 Ki for a 2nd-level spell and 4 Ki for a 3rd-level spell. You can cast 1st-level spells from Monk level 3, 2nd-level spells from level 7 and 3rd-level spells from level 13. When you gain a Monk level, you can swap one cantrip or Mantra spell you know for another you could learn. Every Mantra spell requires an audible, sustained recitation as its verbal component, so you cannot cast it silently.

Level 7. Mantra of Awakening Once per short rest, as an action, you intone a Mantra of Awakening. Each ally within 30 feet of you who can hear you gains the following benefits for 1 minute. Their walking speed increases by 10 feet. They have advantage on the next saving throw they make against being Charmed, Frightened or Stunned. The first attack roll they make on each of their turns has a +1 bonus. The Mantra ends early if you are silenced, fall Unconscious or end it as a free action. You do not gain its benefits.

Level 11. Elemental Strike Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an unarmed strike or monk weapon, you can spend 1 Ki to deal an extra 2d8 damage of a type you choose when you hit: fire, cold, lightning, thunder, radiant, force or rift. An opposing channeler within Close range who can hear you can identify the damage type with a successful Arcana check, or another check the GM allows, against a DC equal to your spell save DC.

Level 15. Echo Spell When you cast a leveled spell from your Mantra Spell list, you can spend 2 additional Ki to make the spell Echo. An Echo spell stays at its point of effect for a number of rounds equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). At the start of each of your turns until the Echo expires, the spell takes effect again at its origin, and creatures still in the area make new saving throws and take newly rolled damage. The Echo ends early if you are silenced for a full round of the Echo or cast another Mantra spell. You can have only one Echo active at a time.

Level 18. Final Mantra Once per long rest, as an action, you can spend 6 Ki to speak a Final Mantra, a single syllable that rings through every conducting surface within 60 feet of you. Each creature of your choice within 60 feet makes a Constitution saving throw against your Ki save DC. A creature takes 12d8 thunder damage on a failure or half as much on a success, and is Deafened until the end of its next turn. All sound-based illusions and concealment effects within 60 feet end. For 1 hour, or until your next long rest if that comes sooner, you cannot speak louder than a murmur. Silent communication such as gestures, telepathy and writing is unaffected.

Way of the Planewalker

The Way of the Planewalker is the Monk tradition of travel between planes on foot. A Planewalker goes out through the Spirit Plane, along the edge of the Rift and briefly into the near reaches of places that were not built for visitors. The halls stand on thin ground, often somewhere inconvenient, and the forms are all footwork.

Level 3. Step Beyond As part of your movement, you can spend 1 Ki to phase through a single obstacle no thicker than 5 feet, such as a wall, a door, a Halcyion containment field of Tier III or lower, or a thin Mythar-warded surface (the GM decides). You emerge on the other side and spend movement equal to the obstacle's thickness, then you can continue moving. You take 1 force damage per 5 feet of obstacle you pass through. If you would end your movement inside an obstacle, you return to your starting space and the Ki is not spent.

Level 7. Etheric Sight As a bonus action, you can spend 1 Ki to attune your sight to the etheric register for 10 minutes. For the duration, you can see Invisible creatures and objects within 60 feet, and you can see ethereal or partly etheric creatures within 60 feet. You also see the layout of physical obstacles up to 30 feet beyond any wall, floor or ceiling you can see, as a monochrome silhouette with no detail. Rift-active surfaces, such as places recently channeled on, Rift-warded areas and active gear, are visible to you within 60 feet. Your eyes turn reflective while the attunement lasts.

Level 11. Phase Strike Your unarmed strikes and monk weapon attacks ignore half cover, three-quarters cover and total cover that is no thicker than 5 feet, and that cover does not block your line of sight for resolving them. You still need to perceive the target, which Etheric Sight can provide. Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an unarmed strike or monk weapon, you can spend 1 Ki to deal an extra 2d8 force damage.

Level 15. Etheric Passage Once per long rest, as an action, you can spend 4 Ki to open an Etheric Passage between your location and a place you have been to and can still locate in your mind, such as a room you have stood in, a stretch of corridor you have walked or a beach you remember well. You and up to five willing creatures within 10 feet of you step through and emerge at the destination. The trip takes 1 minute on foot for those passing through. Observers at either end see a brief opening that closes behind the last creature through. The Passage cannot cross planar boundaries the GM rules to be hard sealed, such as active Mythar planar locks, Halcyion strategic ward grids of Tier V and certain Continuum Crystal interfaces.

Level 18. Etheric Form Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you can spend 5 Ki to enter Etheric Form for 1 minute. While in Etheric Form:

You exist partly on the Spirit Plane. You can move through solid objects and creatures as if they were difficult terrain, and you take 1d6 force damage per 5 feet you move through a solid object.

You are Invisible to creatures that lack truesight, etheric sight or comparable detection.

You can attack and be attacked normally, but attacks against you have disadvantage unless the attacker can see ethereal targets.

Your unarmed strikes deal an extra 1d8 force damage and can target ethereal and incorporeal creatures normally.

Etheric Form ends early if you fall Unconscious, are subjected to a banishment effect of 5th level or higher, or end it as a free action. When it ends, you move to the nearest unoccupied space if you are inside a solid object.

Way of the Sun

The Way of the Sun is the youngest of the four elemental Monk traditions and the least secretive. Halcyion sun-temples teach the forms publicly, on the reasoning that anyone who can hold the posture for six hours has already selected themselves. Sun monks train at dawn and fight in the open. The discipline is heat management: a Sun monk learns to hold more energy than a body should and to release it in one burst.

Level 3. Radiant Strikes Your unarmed strikes shed light in a 10-foot radius. You can spend 1 Ki as part of an attack to have the strike deal radiant damage instead of its usual damage type and to force the target to make a Constitution saving throw against your Ki save DC. On a failure, the target is Blinded until the end of your next turn.

Level 7. Solar Release As an action, you can spend 2 Ki to release stored heat in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in the cone makes a Dexterity saving throw against your Ki save DC, taking 3d8 radiant damage on a failure or half as much on a success.

Level 11. Sunlit Defense You have resistance to radiant and fire damage. While you are in bright light, your walking speed increases by 10 feet and you gain a bonus to AC equal to your proficiency bonus against ranged attacks.

Level 15. Lingering Light Once on each of your turns, when you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 1 Ki to leave the light on it. Until the end of your next turn, the creature sheds light in a 10-foot radius, cannot benefit from being unseen, and takes an extra 2d8 radiant damage the first time it is hit each turn.

Level 18. Avatar of the Sun Once per long rest, as an action, you can spend 5 Ki to become a source of light for 1 minute. For the duration, you shed bright light in a 30-foot radius, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed, your unarmed strikes deal an extra 2d8 radiant damage, and any creature that starts its turn within 10 feet of you takes 2d8 radiant damage.

Way of the Wanderer

The Way of the Wanderer is the Monk tradition that owns nothing and stays nowhere. Its followers hold that ownership distorts sight: once a valley becomes someone's valley, they stop seeing the valley. Wanderers walk with a bowl, a robe and a staff along colony roads, through station concourses and across the long empty stretches between, taking work for meals until staying starts to feel like living somewhere. Other traditions find them irritating and slightly enviable, and they are among the best-informed people on any frontier, because few people guard their tongue in front of someone who will be gone in a week.

Level 3. Bowl and Road While you carry no more than 20 pounds of gear and wear no armor, your walking speed increases by an additional 10 feet, you ignore difficult terrain, and you have advantage on Constitution saving throws against exhaustion from travel, weather, hunger or thirst.

Level 7. Local Knowledge You have advantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks made to gain food, shelter or passage, and on Charisma (Deception) checks made to be taken for a local. Once per short or long rest, after you spend 10 minutes in an inhabited place, you can learn one useful current fact about it, such as who holds power, what worries the place or where the trouble is.

Level 11. Road Lore When you fail a saving throw against a hazard of terrain, weather, climate or an unfamiliar creature's natural attack, you can use your reaction and spend 1 Ki to reroll it.

Level 15. Leave No Mark You leave no tracks, scent trail or heat signature unless you choose to, and you cannot be tracked by nonmagical means. Creatures have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks to notice you while you move at your full speed through a natural or crowded environment.

Level 18. Merge with Surroundings Once per long rest, as an action, you can spend 5 Ki to merge with your surroundings for 1 minute. For the duration, you have resistance to all damage, you can move through creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, and you cannot be moved against your will. Any creature that ends its turn within 10 feet of you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Ki save DC or be unable to take hostile action against you until the start of its next turn.

Way of the Water

The Way of the Water is the Monk tradition of yielding ground. Water monks train in the surf, in flooded practice halls and on Aesir tidal platforms where the floor moves. The tradition holds that force should be steered, and its forms are built on the half-step, the small give that turns an opponent's committed weight into a mistake. Water monks are the most patient fighters of the four elemental ways, and the hardest to spar against.

Level 3. Water Redirect You gain a swim speed equal to your walking speed, and you can breathe underwater. When a creature within 5 feet of you misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and spend 1 Ki to redirect it. The attacker must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your Ki save DC or take cold damage equal to your Martial Arts die and be moved 10 feet to a space of your choice.

Level 7. Moving Sheath As an action, you can spend 2 Ki to surround yourself with a sheath of moving water for 1 minute. For the duration, you have resistance to fire damage, you can move through the space of any creature, and the first time each turn you enter a hostile creature's space, it must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your Ki save DC or be knocked Prone.

Level 11. Yielding Step You have resistance to cold damage. When you take damage from an attack, you can use your reaction and spend 1 Ki to reduce the damage by your Martial Arts die plus your Wisdom modifier and move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks.

Level 15. Flurry Step When you use Flurry of Blows, you can move 5 feet between each strike without provoking opportunity attacks. A creature you hit twice in the same turn must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your Ki save DC or have its speed reduced to 0 until the end of its next turn.

Level 18. Avatar of the Water Once per long rest, as an action, you can spend 5 Ki to turn your body to water for 1 minute. For the duration, you have resistance to all damage, you are immune to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks, you can move through any space a liquid can flow into and through any creature's space, you cannot be Grappled or Restrained, and you can take the Attack action from inside a creature's space without leaving it.

Oath of Honor

The Oath of Honor is the Paladin Oath that can be sworn without a temple. Its tenets are to keep one's word, protect the defenseless, never strike from behind and account for what was done. Halcyion officers swear it alongside their commission, and frontier arbiters swear it because a settlement needs one person whose statement can be relied on. It is the least mystical of the Oaths and has no god behind it.

Level 3. Oath Spells and Divinity Oath Spells. You always have the following spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

Paladin level 3: Ember (cantrip), Beam (1st)

Paladin level 5: Dazzle (2nd), Veil (2nd)

Paladin level 9: Counter (3rd), Flare (3rd)

Paladin level 13: Dispel (4th)

Paladin level 17: Radiance (5th)

Spell Divinity: Sacred Weapon. As an action, you empower your weapon with the oath. For 1 minute (or until you drop the weapon or use this feature again), the weapon gains the following properties:

You add your Charisma modifier (minimum +1) to attack rolls made with it.

It sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. This counts as sunlight.

It counts as consecrated when overcoming resistance to non-Rifted weapons and against effects that ward against unholy or unjust weapons.

Spell Divinity: Turn the Unholy. As an action, you raise your oath-token. Each fiend, undead or Rift-aberrant creature within 30 feet of you that can see or hear you must make a Wisdom save against your spell save DC. On a failure, the creature is Turned for 1 minute. It must spend its turns trying to move as far from you as it can, cannot willingly move within 30 feet of you, and cannot take reactions. It can take only the Dash action or attempt to escape from an effect that prevents movement. The effect ends if the creature takes damage.

Spells Ember, Beam, Dazzle, Veil, Counter, Flare, Dispel, Radiance

Level 7. Aura of the Given Word You and each ally within 10 feet of you that can see or hear you are immune to being Charmed. If a creature is already Charmed when it enters the aura, or when you gain this feature, the condition is suspended while it remains in the aura.

At Paladin level 18, the aura's range increases to 30 feet.

Level 11. Purity of Spirit You gain the following permanent benefits:

Any Detect Evil and Good effect or equivalent Rift-sense detects you as Good and Lawful (or the equivalent virtue tags in your culture). This cannot be falsified or suppressed against your will, and you cannot disguise your alignment.

Aberrations, fiends and undead have disadvantage on attack rolls against you.

You are immune to disease, to being Charmed and to possession.

You have advantage on saving throws against being put to magical sleep, being Paralyzed and being compelled by spell effects.

Level 15. Spirit of Justice You have advantage on all saving throws against effects that would charm you, frighten you or compel your actions, including possession, suggestion and dominate effects.

Whenever you succeed on a saving throw against such an effect, you can use your reaction to give one ally within 30 feet of you advantage on their next saving throw against a similar effect, made within the next minute.

You cannot be lied to about facts you know first-hand. When someone speaks such a falsehood in your hearing, you become aware that the statement contradicts what you witnessed. You learn only that the statement contradicts your direct experience, not what the truth is.

Level 18. Unimpeachable Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you surround your head and shoulders with a Holy Nimbus of bright light for 1 minute. While the nimbus is active:

You shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. This counts as sunlight.

Each enemy that starts its turn within 30 feet of you and can see you makes a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 10 radiant damage on a failure and half as much on a success.

Each ally that starts its turn within 30 feet of you regains hit points equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).

You have advantage on saving throws against spells cast by fiends, undead, or aberrations.

You have resistance to necrotic and radiant damage.

The nimbus ends early if you fall Unconscious, dismiss it as a free action, or are reduced to 0 hit points.

Oath of Piety

Recommended for: Strongly thematic for paladins of Aurelios or Halcyion ancestry. Other characters may swear the Sun oath if their fiction supports it, e.g., a frontier knight who took the oath at a stellar shrine, a convert from another faith who found the Sun first.; Aurelios, Halcyion

The Oath of Piety is the oldest form of the Paladin Oath. A person kneels, names a god of the Pantheon of Primus and is accepted, and the character of the Paladin varies with the god. Helios sends out Paladins who arrive at dawn and stand in front of whatever is coming, and Deimos sends few, who go to the Creed. Pious Paladins follow a rule handed down through a chain of authority that ends above them, and the power can be withdrawn.

Level 3. Oath Spells and Divinity Oath Spells. You always have the following spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

Paladin level 3: Ember (cantrip), Beam (1st)

Paladin level 5: Dazzle (2nd), Cauterize (2nd)

Paladin level 9: Flare (3rd)

Paladin level 13: Wall of Flame (4th)

Paladin level 17: Lance (5th)

Spell Divinity: Sun Strike. As a bonus action, you designate a creature you can see within 60 feet as the Marked Sunbearer. For 1 minute (or until you are Incapacitated or use this feature again), your weapon attacks against the marked target deal additional radiant damage equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum +1) on a hit. The marked target sheds dim light in a 5-foot radius for the duration. It cannot benefit from being Invisible or from magical darkness as concealment against you.

Spell Divinity: Dawn's Cleansing. As an action, you raise your oath-token to the light. Choose any number of allies within 30 feet of you that can see you. Each chosen ally regains 1d6 + your Charisma modifier hit points and has one of the following conditions ended on it: Blinded, Charmed, Frightened or Poisoned (you choose for each ally).

Spells Ember, Beam, Dazzle, Cauterize, Flare, Wall of Flame, Lance

Level 7. Aura of the Named God Each ally within 10 feet of you who can see or hear you adds your Charisma modifier (minimum +1) to saving throws against being Blinded or Frightened and has resistance to radiant damage while in the aura.

While you are conscious, the aura also sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet, and this light counts as sunlight. At Paladin level 18, the aura's range increases to 30 feet.

Level 11. Consecrated Strike Once per turn when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, the strike deals an additional 1d8 radiant damage. This damage stacks with the extra damage from Improved Divine Smite. Against creatures vulnerable to sunlight or radiant damage, the additional die becomes 1d10.

Level 15. Aspect of the Divine You gain the following permanent benefits:

You are immune to fire damage.

You have advantage on saving throws against radiant damage and against effects that would Blind you.

Bright light shed in your presence counts as sunlight.

You can survive extreme heat, including direct stellar exposure short of a star's photosphere, without taking environmental damage.

Level 18. Apotheosis Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you take on a stellar form for 1 minute. While transformed:

You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

You shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. This counts as sunlight.

You have advantage on attack rolls.

At the start of each of your turns, each hostile creature within 10 feet of you takes 1d8 radiant damage (no save). Creatures vulnerable to sunlight take 2d8 instead.

At the start of each of your turns, each ally within 30 feet of you regains hit points equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).

Your weapon attacks deal an additional 1d6 radiant damage (this stacks with Consecrated Strike).

The form ends early if you fall Unconscious, dismiss it as a free action, or are reduced to 0 hit points.

Oath of Retribution

The Oath of Retribution begins with one thing that happened: a colony, a ship, a person or a betrayal with a name attached. The Oath is the decision to hold that grievance for the rest of one's life. Every other Paladin order regards it as a controlled fall, and Retributive Paladins know this and do not change course. They are patient over years and will accept a lesser good today for the debt paid in full later.

Level 3. Oath Spells and Divinity Oath Spells. You always have the following spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

Paladin level 3: Static (cantrip), Spark Bolt (1st)

Paladin level 5: Overload (2nd), Stun Shot (2nd)

Paladin level 9: Flare (3rd), Tendril (3rd)

Paladin level 13: Nimbus (4th)

Paladin level 17: Thunderbolt (5th)

Spell Divinity: Vow of Enmity. As a bonus action, you point at a creature you can see within 30 feet and speak its name into your oath. For 1 minute (or until you are Incapacitated, the target drops to 0 hit points, or you use this feature again), you have advantage on attack rolls against that target. The vow is audible. The target hears its name spoken into the oath and can identify you as the source.

Spell Divinity: Abjure the Forsworn. As an action, you present your oath-token and denounce a creature you can see within 60 feet. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, it is Frightened of you for 1 minute (it can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success). On a success, the target is unaffected and immune to this Spell Divinity for 24 hours. Fiends, undead and creatures the GM rules you have a personal grievance against have disadvantage on the saving throw.

Spells Static, Spark Bolt, Overload, Stun Shot, Flare, Tendril, Nimbus, Thunderbolt

Level 7. Relentless While you are pursuing the target of your Vow of Enmity, you do not provoke opportunity attacks from creatures other than that target. When you hit the target with an opportunity attack, you can move up to half your speed immediately after the attack as part of the same reaction, and this movement does not provoke opportunity attacks.

Your walking speed increases by 10 feet while you have an active Vow of Enmity.

Level 11. Reprisal When a creature under your Vow of Enmity attacks an ally other than you, you can use your reaction to make one melee weapon attack against that creature, provided it is within your reach.

If you have no active Vow of Enmity, you can instead use this reaction against any hostile creature within reach that attacks an ally, but the attack is made without advantage.

Level 15. Retributive Smite When you use Divine Smite against a creature under your active Vow of Enmity, the smite deals an additional 2d8 radiant damage. Your Divine Smite damage against the marked target also ignores resistance to radiant damage, but not immunity.

The first time each turn you hit your marked target with a melee weapon attack, you regain hit points equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).

Level 18. Avenging Angel Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you assume the form of an Avenging Angel for 1 minute. While transformed:

You gain a flying speed of 60 feet and hover.

You have advantage on attack rolls against any creature under your active Vow of Enmity.

When you activate this form, you can designate up to three creatures you can see within 60 feet as Forsworn Targets in addition to your existing Vow of Enmity (if any). These creatures must each make a Wisdom save against your spell save DC or be Frightened of you for the duration. A Frightened creature can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns.

Frightened creatures cannot move closer to you and have disadvantage on attack rolls while they can see you.

Your weapon attacks deal an additional 1d8 radiant damage on a hit.

The form ends early if you fall Unconscious, dismiss it as a free action, or are reduced to 0 hit points.

Oath of the Beyond

The Oath of the Beyond is the Paladin Oath sworn to what lies past the gods: cosmic entities that predate the Pantheon of Primus and have never negotiated with it, the things at the far edge of the Rift, the intelligences the Netherveil is a symptom of, whatever the Mythar were listening to. Its Paladins make no claim that their patrons are benevolent. They hold that the patrons are truthful. Other Paladins find them difficult to be near for long.

Level 3. Dread Presence As a Spell Divinity option, you let a little of the Beyond through. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or take psychic damage equal to 2d8 plus your Paladin level and become Frightened until the end of its next turn.

Level 7. Aura of the Far Dark You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you have resistance to psychic damage and advantage on saving throws against being Charmed or Frightened by aberrations. The radius increases to 30 feet at 18th level.

Level 11. Smite of the Outer Rift Your Divine Smite can deal psychic damage instead of radiant. When it does, the target must also succeed on an Intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC or be unable to take reactions until the end of its next turn.

Level 15. Beyond Sight You can see invisible creatures within 60 feet, and you cannot be surprised. Once per long rest, you can ask your patron one question about a matter not present. The reply is true and arrives in an oblique form.

Level 18. Beyond Form Once per long rest, you can open yourself to the Beyond for 1 minute. During that time, you have a flying speed of 30 feet and can hover, you have resistance to all damage, and any creature that starts its turn within 30 feet of you and can see you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or take 3d8 psychic damage and become Frightened until the end of its turn.

Oath of the Ebon Creed

Recommended for: Strongly thematic for paladins aligned with or sworn to the Covenant of the Ebon Creed. Other characters may take this oath if their fiction supports it, e.g., a former Crusader who broke their oath and rewrote it, an exile who found discipline only in the darker creed.; Covenant of the Ebon Creed

The Oath of the Ebon Creed is the Paladin Oath of the Covenant of the Ebon Creed, which venerates Deimos. Its Paladins are the armed half of a funerary order: they stand the vigil, escort the body and end anything that has cheated the crossing. Within the Creed the Dark Dominion supplies the executioners and this Oath supplies the honor guard. Creed Paladins attend many deaths each year, and their grimness is a professional habit.

Level 3. Oath Spells and Divinity Oath Spells. You always have the following spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

Paladin level 3: Grasp (cantrip), Shear (1st)

Paladin level 5: Veil (2nd), Unseen (2nd)

Paladin level 9: Counter (3rd)

Paladin level 13: Dispel (4th)

Paladin level 17: Shift (5th)

Spell Divinity: Dread Lord. As an action, you speak with the Crown's authority. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet of you that can see or hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failure, a creature is Frightened of you for 1 minute. A Frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. On a success, a creature is immune to your Dread Lord for 24 hours.

Spell Divinity: Mark of the Crown. As a bonus action, you designate a creature you can see within 60 feet as Crown-Marked. For 1 minute (or until you are Incapacitated or use this feature again), the marked target cannot regain hit points, and the first time each turn you hit the target with a weapon attack, you deal an additional 1d8 necrotic damage.

Spells Grasp, Shear, Veil, Unseen, Counter, Dispel, Shift

Level 7. Necrotic Smite When you use Divine Smite, you can choose for the damage to be necrotic instead of radiant. Creed doctrine holds that the necrotic form strikes deeper against Halcyion and Sun-aligned targets.

Once per short rest, when you deal necrotic damage with Divine Smite to a creature with hit points equal to or less than 25 percent of its hit point maximum, the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or drop to 0 hit points. This effect does not work on creatures whose hit point maximum is greater than 100.

Level 11. Aura of Hate Each ally within 10 feet of you that has dealt damage in the current round adds your Charisma modifier (minimum +1) to the damage of the first melee weapon attack it makes on each of its turns.

You and any undead or fiend allies within 10 feet of you add your Charisma modifier to every melee weapon damage roll, not only the first each turn.

At Paladin level 18, the aura's range increases to 30 feet.

Level 15. Soul Bond Whenever you deal necrotic damage with a weapon attack or with Divine Smite, you regain hit points equal to one-third of the necrotic damage dealt (rounded down). This healing cannot exceed your Paladin level per turn.

You also have resistance to necrotic damage. You have advantage on saving throws against being Charmed by good-aligned celestials, against radiant damage and against effects that would compel you to act against your oath.

Level 18. Avatar of the Creed Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you assume the Avatar of the Ebon Creed for 1 minute. While transformed:

The area within 30 feet of you is dim light regardless of the normal lighting.

Each hostile creature within 30 feet of you that can see you must succeed on a Wisdom save against your spell save DC at the start of each of its turns or be Frightened of you until the start of its next turn.

Your weapon attacks deal an additional 2d6 necrotic damage on a hit. This stacks with the damage from Crown-Marked.

When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a weapon attack or smite, you gain temporary hit points equal to half the creature's hit point maximum (to a maximum of your Paladin level × 2).

You have resistance to all damage except radiant and force.

You have a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

The form ends early if you fall Unconscious, dismiss it as a free action, or are reduced to 0 hit points.

Oath of the Knight

Recommended for: Strongly thematic for paladins of the Halcyion Federation. Other characters may swear the Knight's oath if their fiction supports it, e.g., a defector who kept the discipline, or a frontier knight who took the oath under a Federation chaplain in the field.; Halcyion Federation

The Oath of the Knight is the institutional Paladin Oath: trained in a chapter-house, invested in a ceremony with witnesses and entered in a book. Halcyion Federation orders produce most Knights and Aurelion courts produce the rest, and both produce them slowly. A Knight's oath is to the order as much as to whatever the order serves.

Level 3. Oath Spells and Divinity Oath Spells. You always have the following spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

Paladin level 3: Ember (cantrip), Beam (1st)

Paladin level 5: Cauterize (2nd), Dazzle (2nd)

Paladin level 9: Flare (3rd)

Paladin level 13: Wall of Flame (4th)

Paladin level 17: Lance (5th)

Spell Divinity: Holy Brand. As a bonus action, you present your holy symbol or oath-token and designate a creature you can see within 60 feet as your Branded Quarry. For 1 minute (or until you are Incapacitated or use this feature again), the target emits a faint corona of Rift-light visible to all who can see it. Allies have advantage on attack rolls against the Branded Quarry, and the quarry cannot benefit from being Invisible, in dim light, or in magical darkness as concealment against you or your allies. A creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC to leave the Branded Quarry's line of sight for more than 1 round. On a failure, it is compelled to remain visible.

Spell Divinity: Crusader's Oath. As an action, you speak the binding clause of your oath. Each ally within 30 feet of you who can hear you gains +2 to attack rolls and saving throws until the end of your next turn.

Spells Ember, Beam, Cauterize, Dazzle, Flare, Wall of Flame, Lance

Level 7. Aura of Faith Each ally within 10 feet of you who can see or hear you adds your Charisma modifier (minimum +1) to saving throws against being Frightened or Charmed. At Paladin level 18, the aura's range increases to 30 feet.

Level 11. Charge When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can move up to 30 feet as part of the same action (before, between or after your attacks) without provoking opportunity attacks from creatures you move past. The first attack you make during a Charge that hits adds +1d8 radiant damage to its damage roll. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Level 15. Unbreakable Faith You are immune to the Frightened condition. As a reaction when an ally within 30 feet of you is about to be Frightened or fails a saving throw against being Frightened, you can give that ally immunity to the Frightened condition for 1 minute and end any Frightened condition on it. You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier per long rest (minimum 1).

Level 18. Rift-Light Avatar Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you take the form of a Rift-Light Avatar for 1 minute. While transformed:

You gain temporary hit points equal to your Paladin level + your Charisma modifier at the moment of activation, and again at the start of each of your turns (they do not stack).

You have advantage on attack rolls.

You shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet, and you and your weapons appear haloed in Rift-light.

Each ally within 30 feet of you regains hit points equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1) at the start of each of their turns.

Your melee weapon attacks deal an additional 1d8 radiant damage on a hit.

The form ends early if you fall Unconscious, dismiss it as a free action, or are reduced to 0 hit points.

Oath of the Nine

The Oath of the Nine is the Paladin Oath that was signed. Its Paladins hold a contract with one of the Nine and insist that a pact with a devil is a transaction: somebody needed power on a deadline, somebody offered terms, and the rest is contract law conducted at the point of a sword. They read every clause, because a clause they overlook is one that will be enforced, and they are often the most reliable people in a room.

Level 3. Binding Clause As a Spell Divinity option, you invoke a clause of your contract. One creature you can see within 30 feet must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC or be bound for 1 minute. It cannot willingly move more than 30 feet from where it was when you invoked the clause, and it takes 2d8 fire damage the first time each turn it attacks anyone other than you.

Level 7. Aura of Terms You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you have resistance to fire damage, and creatures that break an agreement made with you within the radius take fire damage equal to your paladin level. The radius increases to 30 feet at 18th level.

Level 11. Fire Smite Your Divine Smite can deal fire damage instead of radiant, and against a creature that has broken a promise to you it deals an extra 2d8.

Level 15. Offer of Terms Once per long rest, you can make a formal offer to one creature that can understand you. If it accepts, both parties are bound. Neither can knowingly break the agreement without taking 6d8 psychic damage, and you both know instantly when it is broken and by whom.

Level 18. Enforce Contract Once per long rest, you can call in the contract for 1 minute. During that time, you have resistance to all damage, your weapon attacks deal an extra 2d8 fire damage, and any creature that has broken an agreement with you has disadvantage on attack rolls and saving throws while it can see you.

Oath of the Slayer

The Oath of the Slayer is the Paladin Oath that names a quarry and swears not to stop. For most Slayers the quarry is undead. Many hunt fiends or aberrations, and a few hunt a bloodline, an order or a class of person defined by one act. A Slayer whose quarry is the walking dead is welcome anywhere, and a Slayer whose quarry is a family is watched.

Level 3. Name the Quarry As a Spell Divinity option, you name your quarry aloud. For 1 minute, you have advantage on attack rolls against creatures of your chosen quarry that you can see, and they cannot regain hit points while within 30 feet of you.

Level 7. Aura of the Hunt You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you have advantage on saving throws against effects created by your quarry, and your quarry cannot gain the Invisible condition against you or hide from you within that radius. The radius increases to 30 feet at 18th level.

Level 11. Marked Quarry Your Divine Smite deals an extra 1d8 damage against your quarry, and an extra 2d8 if the quarry is undead or a fiend. You always know the direction of the nearest creature of your quarry within 1 mile.

Level 15. Quarry Recovery Once per short or long rest, when you reduce a creature of your quarry to 0 hit points, you regain a use of Spell Divinity and one expended spell slot of 3rd level or lower.

Level 18. Final Hunt Once per long rest, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute. You have a flying speed equal to your walking speed. Your critical hits against your quarry occur on a roll of 19 or 20. Any creature of your quarry that starts its turn within 30 feet of you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or become Frightened until the end of its turn.

Oath of the Sovereign

The Oath of the Sovereign is the Paladin Oath that someone other than the Paladin can revoke. Sovereigns swear to a monarch, a chancellor, a federation charter or a colony's founding compact, and the tradition is judged by whether the thing they swore to deserved it. Aurelion houses raise them from childhood, and Halcyion's constitutional guard swears the modern version at commissioning.

Level 3. Sovereign Challenge As a Spell Divinity option, you invoke the authority you serve. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet that can hear you must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC or be unable to attack anyone other than you until the end of your next turn.

Level 7. Aura of the Crown You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you add your Charisma modifier, minimum +1, to the first attack roll or saving throw each of you makes on your turn. The radius increases to 30 feet at 18th level.

Level 11. Take the Blow When an ally within 30 feet of you is hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to have the attack hit you instead, taking the damage in their place. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all uses on a long rest.

Level 15. Word of Office You have advantage on Charisma checks made with creatures that recognize the authority you serve. Once per long rest, you can issue a command to a creature with Intelligence 4 or higher. The creature must obey the command for 1 minute unless it succeeds on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. The command must be lawful under the authority you invoke.

Level 18. Standard of the Realm Once per long rest, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute. Allies within 30 feet of you gain temporary hit points equal to your Paladin level at the start of each of their turns. You cannot be Charmed or Frightened. Any creature that attacks an ally within 30 feet of you takes radiant damage equal to your Charisma modifier.

Oath of the Warden

The Oath of the Warden is the Paladin Oath sworn to somewhere: a pass, a station, a stretch of road, a settlement of four hundred people who did not ask for a Paladin and got one. The Oath is to that ground and the people standing on it. Wardens are the least mobile Paladins and the hardest to remove, and on the frontier locals treat one as part of the geography.

Level 3. Hallowed Ground As a Spell Divinity option, you can consecrate a 30-foot radius around a point you can see within 60 feet for 1 minute. Creatures hostile to you have their speed halved inside it and cannot teleport into or within it. You and allies inside it cannot be forcibly moved.

Level 7. Aura of the Watch You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you gain a bonus to saving throws against being Frightened, Charmed or forcibly moved equal to your Charisma modifier, minimum +1. The radius increases to 30 feet at 18th level.

Level 11. Defensive Strike When a creature within 5 feet of you attacks someone other than you, you can use your reaction to make one melee weapon attack against it, and it has disadvantage on that attack roll.

Level 15. Home Ground You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Wisdom (Survival) checks made within a place you have watched for at least a month, and you always know when a hostile creature crosses into it. While you are within that place, you also regain hit points equal to your Charisma modifier at the start of each of your turns if you have at least 1 hit point.

Level 18. Immovable Stand Once per long rest, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute. Your walking speed is halved and cannot be reduced further. You have resistance to all damage. Allies within 30 feet of you have resistance to the damage of any attack you can see coming. Any creature that tries to move past you within 10 feet must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or have its movement end.

Oathbreaker

The Oathbreaker is the Paladin after the oath. Breaking the oath does not take the power back, and the orders do not publish that fact. Another force holds the line where the oath used to, and the orders have no explanation for it. Some Oathbreakers fell on purpose and are worse for it. Others were released by a god that went silent, or kept a promise so exactly that it destroyed what it was meant to protect. The chapter-houses maintain that an Oathbreaker is a lost cause and keep records that suggest otherwise.

Level 3. Dread Command As a Spell Divinity option, you turn what is left of the oath outward. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or become Frightened for 1 minute, repeating the save at the end of each of its turns. Undead you choose instead obey your commands for that duration.

Level 7. Aura of the Fallen You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you add your Charisma modifier, minimum +1, to the first weapon damage roll each of you makes on your turn. The radius increases to 30 feet at 18th level.

Level 11. Fallen Smite Your Divine Smite can deal necrotic damage instead of radiant, and when you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with it you regain hit points equal to your Charisma modifier.

Level 15. Unbound You cannot be compelled by magic to keep a promise. You have advantage on saving throws against effects that would bind, charm or command you, and you always know when a creature is trying to hold you to an agreement.

Level 18. Fallen Form Once per long rest, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute. You have resistance to all damage. Your critical hits occur on a roll of 19 or 20. Any creature that starts its turn within 30 feet of you and can see you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or become Frightened until the end of its turn.

Warden of the Wylds

The Warden of the Wylds is the Paladin Oath that is an arrangement instead of a doctrine. Somewhere in the Plane of Faewyld an archfae took an interest, terms were agreed, and a mortal walked back out with a fae obligation. Wardens are courteous to a degree other Paladins find unnerving, because they have learned what a careless sentence costs, and they keep the wild places on behalf of something that lives in them. Asked who their patron is, a Warden declines to say the name aloud.

Level 3. Oath Spells and Divinity Oath Spells. You always have the following spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day:

Paladin level 3: Pebble (cantrip), Icicle (1st)

Paladin level 5: Frost (2nd), Bramble (2nd)

Paladin level 9: Harden (3rd)

Paladin level 13: Quicksand (4th)

Paladin level 17: Wall of Stone (5th)

Spell Divinity: Wild Speech. As an action, you invoke the covenant and gain the ability to speak with beasts and with creatures bound to the wild for 10 minutes. During that time, you can understand and speak with any beast, plant creature or wild-aligned entity. How much a creature can say is limited by its intelligence. A canine cannot discuss philosophy, but it can tell you about threats, hunger, territory and any concrete knowledge it holds.

Spell Divinity: Mark of the Covenant. As a bonus action, you designate a creature you can see within 60 feet as a Quarry of the Wild. The creature must be one whose presence violates the covenant: an aberration, an undead, a defiler, or a creature you and the GM agree fits the oath's grievance. For 1 minute (or until you are Incapacitated or use this feature again), you have advantage on tracking the quarry, and the first weapon attack you make against it on each of your turns deals an additional 1d8 damage of your weapon's damage type.

Spells Pebble, Icicle, Frost, Bramble, Harden, Quicksand, Wall of Stone

Level 7. Wild Companion Once per long rest, you can use a bonus action to summon a Wild Companion, a beast spirit that takes physical form for 1 hour or until it is reduced to 0 hit points. Choose its form when you summon it: a canine, a hawk, a small ursine, a great cat, a serpent, or another beast of size Tiny to Medium that the GM approves.

The Wild Companion has the following:

Its hit points equal your Paladin level × 4, its AC is 14, and its speed is 40 feet (or a fly speed of 60 feet if winged). It has one natural weapon attack with your proficiency bonus to hit, dealing 1d8 + your Charisma modifier damage.

It acts on your initiative count, on a turn immediately after yours.

You direct its actions as a free action on your turn. If you do not, it takes the Dodge action.

It can follow simple commands and reports back what it has seen.

If the Wild Companion is killed, the spirit returns to the wild, and you can summon a new companion (possibly in a different form) after your next long rest.

Level 11. Storm Resistance You have advantage on saving throws against lightning, cold and thunder damage, and you have resistance to one of those three damage types. You choose the damage type when you gain this feature, and the choice cannot change.

You can move through difficult terrain caused by nonmagical plants, snow, mud or rough ground without spending extra movement, and you have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks made in wild terrain.

Level 15. Quarry Smite When you use Divine Smite against a creature that is a beast you have marked as Quarry of the Wild, an aberration, or an undead, the smite deals an additional 2d8 damage of the smite's normal damage type.

When your Wild Companion hits a creature marked as your Quarry of the Wild, the companion's attack deals an additional 1d8 damage.

Level 18. Avatar of the Wylds Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you assume the Avatar of the Wild for 1 minute. While transformed:

You gain natural weapons, claws or fangs (your choice), dealing 2d6 + Strength modifier slashing or piercing damage on a hit. You can attack with them as if they were your equipped weapon for the purpose of Extra Attack and Divine Smite.

You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed and ignore difficult terrain caused by natural features.

You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception, Survival, Animal Handling and Insight) checks related to the wild.

When you activate this form, you summon 1d4 Wild Allies, small spirit-beasts that appear within 30 feet of you and last for the duration. Each has 20 hit points and AC 13, and makes one melee attack with +5 to hit for 1d6 + 3 damage. They act on your initiative count under your direction.

You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from nonmagical sources.

Your walking speed increases by 20 feet.

The form ends early if you fall Unconscious, dismiss it as a free action, or are reduced to 0 hit points. The Wild Allies depart with the form.

Ace Aviator

The Ace Aviator is the Pilot Specialty of small-craft dogfighting, where a tight turn buys the two seconds of firing solution the rest of the flight missed. Aces have flown solar-skiffs through coronal flares, run interceptors through atmospheric reentry, or grown up barnstorming frontier airfields in patched-together hoppers. They prefer single-seat craft to crew-served ones and the merge to any layered defense.

Level 3. Aerial Superiority While you are piloting your Bonded Vessel in three-dimensional movement (flight, low gravity, or void), you gain a +2 bonus to AC against attacks from creatures or craft that cannot match your altitude, vector, or attitude. Vehicle-mounted weapons you fire in atmospheric or void combat can attack targets one range band beyond their listed range without disadvantage. You also ignore disadvantage on Piloting checks caused by adverse weather, turbulence, or non-standard atmospheric conditions.

Level 7. Flip-and-Fire Once per round, while piloting your Bonded Vessel, you can execute an inverted reversal as part of your movement. Your craft pivots end-for-end without spending movement, presenting its weapons to a target you were fleeing from or that was pursuing you. You can immediately take the Attack action with a vehicle-mounted weapon as a bonus action, and the target has disadvantage on its next attack roll against you until the start of your next turn.

Level 11. Missile Break When you or your Bonded Vessel is targeted by a guided projectile, area-effect ordnance, or any attack with a tracking or lock-on mechanism, you can use your reaction to make a DC 14 Piloting check. On a success, the attack misses you entirely. If the attack would have hit another target in its path, the GM rolls against that secondary target as if it were the original. You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your Dexterity or Intelligence modifier (whichever is higher, minimum 1).

Level 15. Sky-Marshal While piloting your Bonded Vessel, you can designate a cylindrical zone with a 1,000-foot radius and unlimited height, centered on your vessel, as your controlled airspace. Allied craft within the zone gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls and Piloting checks, and hostile craft within the zone have disadvantage on Piloting checks made to break a target lock you have established. The zone moves with you and lasts as long as you remain at the controls.

Level 18. Legendary Ace Once per long rest, you can declare a Legendary Pass, a sequence of three consecutive maneuvers. For the next three rounds, you can take a bonus action each turn to make a vehicle-mounted weapon attack, you automatically succeed on any Piloting check you make to evade incoming fire, and your Bonded Vessel's movement speed is doubled. At the end of the Legendary Pass, your Bonded Vessel takes 1 level of vehicle strain (the GM determines the exact effect, such as reduced top speed or a damaged subsystem until repaired).

Beastrider

The Beastrider is the Pilot Specialty for worlds where an engine is a liability: dust that eats bearings, atmospheres that corrode a fuel line in a week, terrain no repulsor was built for. What Beastriders ride varies by biome and culture. Zyrrak pack-riders, hunt-cavalry on worlds that never industrialized, and frontier drovers who cross a continent a year all belong to the Specialty. A rider paired with one mount for ten years no longer gives it commands.

Level 3. Beast-Bond Your Bonded Vessel is a riding-mount creature (Large or larger, from a species the GM approves). You and your Beast-Bond share a nonverbal mental link while within 1 mile of each other. You can communicate simple emotional states and short imperative commands (stay, follow, attack, hide) without speech, and you can pinpoint each other's exact location. You gain proficiency in Animal Handling if you do not already have it, and you have advantage on Animal Handling checks made with your Beast-Bond or with creatures of its species. If your Beast-Bond dies, you can replace it after a long rest. A mourning period of one tenday is recommended.

Level 7. Charging Lance When you are mounted on your Beast-Bond and your mount moves at least 20 feet in a straight line toward a target before you attack, your first melee attack against that target on the same turn gains a +2 bonus to the attack roll and deals an additional 2d6 damage on a hit. If the target is Large or smaller, you can also force it to make a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity or Strength modifier, whichever is higher) or be knocked Prone. The mount can also make a hoof, horn, claw, or tusk attack against the same target as a bonus action, without using your action economy.

Level 11. Shared Initiative While you are mounted, your Beast-Bond shares your initiative count and acts on your turn instead of its own. The mount can take one action and one bonus action per round at your direction, in addition to its movement. Once per turn, you can dismount or remount as part of your movement at no additional movement cost. While you and your Beast-Bond are linked, when either of you succeeds on a saving throw, you can use your reaction to give the other the benefit of that success.

Level 15. Rallying Cry Once per short rest, you can use a bonus action while mounted on your Beast-Bond to sound a rallying cry: a horn, a shout, a war-call, or your mount's keening. All allies within 60 feet of you who can hear or sense the cry gain temporary hit points equal to your Pilot level + your Charisma or Intelligence modifier (whichever is higher). All mounts and allied beasts within 60 feet gain advantage on their next attack roll, saving throw, or check. Hostile beasts and untrained mounts within 60 feet must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma or Intelligence modifier) or be Frightened of you and your Beast-Bond until the end of your next turn.

Level 18. Awakened Mount Once per long rest, you can use a bonus action to awaken your Beast-Bond's mind for 1 minute. During that time, your mount understands spoken language, can speak in short phrases with whatever vocal apparatus it has, and can take its own actions with tactical judgment, separate from your direction. Its Intelligence score becomes 12 for the duration, and its attacks deal an extra 2d6 damage. When the minute ends, the mount returns to its normal cognition, and you gain a permanent +1 bonus to Animal Handling checks made with that Beast-Bond. The GM decides how much of what it understood the mount remembers.

Drone Operator

The Drone Operator is the Pilot Specialty for pilots who fly from outside the vehicle. Drone-clerics treat their swarm as a congregation, corporate operatives run surveillance flights that triangulate a target across an arcology, and frontier prospectors send mining drones into the dangerous work while they sit at a folding table with a kettle on. Every feature the Specialty grants applies to the drones, and the Operator's own body stays at the table.

Level 3. Drone Swarm You operate a small drone swarm: three Tiny remote-controlled drones tethered to your Bonded Vessel, which serves as their carrier and recharging cradle. Each drone has 5 hit points, AC 14, and a flight speed of 40 feet, and operates within 500 feet of you. As a bonus action on your turn, you can issue commands to your drones. Each drone can take one action per round: Attack with an integrated light weapon for 1d6 damage of a chosen type, Scout for surveillance, Help an ally, Dash, or Disengage. If a drone is destroyed, you can rebuild it during downtime at little cost, and lost drones do not disable the feature. You can add drones beyond the starting three through downtime fabrication, up to a maximum equal to your Intelligence or Dexterity modifier (whichever is higher) + 2.

Level 7. Drone-Jack Once per short rest, you can attempt to hijack a hostile drone, automated turret, or other small autonomous machine within 500 feet of you. The target must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier) or fall under your control for 1 minute. The hijacked unit acts on your initiative count and obeys your commands. Constructs, awakened or Riftbound machines, and Tier V autonomous units have advantage on this save and cannot be hijacked for longer than 1 round. You can control only one hijacked unit at a time, and hijacking a second releases the first.

Level 11. Swarm Tactics When a drone of yours is within 5 feet of a target, allies attacking that target gain the benefit of the Help action automatically, with no drone action required. You and your drones also share one initiative count. On your turn, you can take your action, your bonus action, and one action per drone, in any order.

Level 15. Remote Seizure Once per long rest, you can attempt a remote takeover of a vehicle, mech, or non-sentient craft within 1 mile of you. The target's pilot, if any, makes a contested Intelligence check against your Intelligence + proficiency bonus. If the vehicle is empty or autonomous, you take the controls for up to 10 minutes. If you succeed against a piloted vehicle, you override its controls for 1 round, and on later rounds the original pilot can use an action to retake control with an opposed Intelligence check. The takeover does not work against Riftbound, sentient, or sacrosanct vessels (for example, Aurelion ceremonial craft warded by the High Magisterium).

Level 18. Swarm Senses You can perceive (sight, sound, and other senses) through any of your drones as if you were physically present at its location, and you can shift your active perception between drones as a free action on your turn. While your swarm is deployed, you can speak through the drones, which have small speaker units. If you can cast spells, you can cast spells that are not Touch range with a drone as the point of origin, using your normal range and line-of-sight rules from the drone's position. You can use class features that target enemies you can see, using the drone's perception. Your own body remains where it is and remains vulnerable.

Mech Pilot

The Mech Pilot is the Pilot Specialty that wears its vessel. Frame-knights walk articulated three-ton chassis, ceremonial sentinels walk ornate ones built to be looked at, and frontier salvagers walk patched mining mechs retrofitted with arc-welders and small-arms mounts. A pilot who has spent long enough in the same chassis stops thinking about which limb fires the cannon. For the Specialty's features, the chassis counts as the Pilot's body.

Level 3. Mech-Bond Your Bonded Vessel is a piloted mech or powered-armor chassis (Tier III at character creation, scaling with downtime upgrades). While piloting your Mech-Bond, you treat the mech's Strength score as your own for carrying capacity, breaking objects, and Athletics checks made by the mech. You use the mech's chassis for AC and hit points, and your own reflexes for attack rolls and Piloting checks. Embarking and disembarking take 1 minute outside combat or 1 action in combat. While you are inside your Mech-Bond, you cannot be targeted by attacks that bypass the mech's hull, because the chassis hit point pool absorbs them first. Area effects that engulf the mech still affect you.

Level 7. Stomp As an action while piloting your Mech-Bond, you can stomp a Large or smaller creature within reach. The target must make a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity or Intelligence modifier, whichever is higher). On a failure, it takes bludgeoning damage equal to 2d8 + your chassis's Strength modifier and is knocked Prone. On a success, it takes half that damage and is not knocked Prone. The stomp counts as a melee attack for the purpose of triggering other features that need a melee attack.

Level 11. Gyro-Stabilization Your Mech-Bond ignores difficult terrain caused by rubble, debris, mud, low-gravity surfaces, or unstable footing. You have advantage on saving throws to avoid being knocked Prone, shoved, Grappled, or moved against your will while piloting your Mech-Bond. In zero-gravity environments, your Mech-Bond's thruster pack lets it treat null-G as standard movement, and routine maneuvering requires no Piloting checks.

Level 15. Overcharge Once per short rest, you can use a bonus action to overcharge your Mech-Bond's powerplant for 1 round. Until the start of your next turn, all weapon attacks made by the Mech-Bond deal an extra 2d6 damage of the weapon's type, the mech's movement speed is doubled, and you have advantage on all melee attacks made through the chassis. At the end of the round, your Mech-Bond takes 4d6 strain damage to its chassis hit points, which cannot be reduced, and one randomly determined nonvital subsystem goes offline until repaired during downtime (the GM rolls or chooses).

Level 18. Autonomous Mode Your Mech-Bond can operate without your direct input for short periods. Once per long rest, you can use a bonus action to set up to 1 minute of autonomous operation. During that time, your Mech-Bond keeps functioning under preset instructions even while you are disembarked, Unconscious, or otherwise unable to pilot. It takes one action per round at your direction, or per the standing order you set if you cannot communicate, and uses your statistics for its attacks. It defends itself if threatened and obeys its last clearly understood command.

Smuggler

The Smuggler is the Pilot Specialty of the captain whose freighter, crew and cargo are all theirs and whose contract technically is not. A veteran Smuggler has rebuilt the same corvette three times, knows the customs officer at every minor port within fifty parsecs, and has taught their gunner to lie to authorities with a straight face.

Level 3. Confidante At the end of a long rest, choose one crewmember of your Bonded Vessel to be your Confidante for the next 24 hours. While you and your Confidante are both aboard your Bonded Vessel, the Coordinated Crew bonus they receive from you increases by an additional +1 (so +2 at 5th level, +3 at 14th), and you have advantage on Insight checks made to detect deception aimed at either of you. Before 5th level, you and your Confidante each gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls and saving throws while both are aboard your Bonded Vessel. You also gain proficiency in Persuasion if you do not already have it.

Level 7. Crew Reroll Once per short rest, when a crewmember of your Bonded Vessel within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can use your reaction to let them reroll the result and take the higher of the two. You must be able to see or speak to them, including by comms. You can use this feature on yourself only if you are at the controls of your Bonded Vessel at the time.

Level 11. Port Contacts Your name is known at frontier ports, free stations, and gray-market exchanges. When you arrive at a port the GM judges to be frontier or criminal-adjacent in character, you can spend 10 minutes asking after favors, leads, or local intelligence. You learn one piece of useful local information (a rumor, contact, or threat) without rolling, and you can attempt to call in a small favor (an overnight berth, expedited clearance, a tip on a job) with a successful DC 13 Charisma check. Agents of factions you have crossed hear of your arrival within a day.

Level 15. Ghost Ship Ordinary tracking cannot find your Bonded Vessel. While you are aboard and at the controls (or have designated a trusted crewmember at the controls), it does not appear on standard sensor sweeps, port-authority manifests, or magical scrying that targets the vessel by location. Targeted scrying that names you or another crewmember aboard still works normally. Specialized military sensors, or those of the Aurelion High Magisterium, can pierce the cover with a contested Investigation or Riftcraft check against your Intelligence or Dexterity modifier + your proficiency bonus.

Level 18. Steady Crew While you are conscious and aboard your Bonded Vessel, your trusted crew (designated by Crew Captain or any Confidante currently in effect) are immune to the Frightened condition and have advantage on saving throws to maintain concentration on tasks (piloting, gunnery, system operation) while under fire. When a trusted crewmember would drop to 0 hit points from a single instance of damage, they drop to 1 hit point instead. Each crewmember can benefit from this last effect once per long rest.