Player Character Background: Justiciar
You have served your city as a lawmaker or as an advocate or high-level enforcer of the law. Wielding a position of legal authority above mere guards and soldiers, you have exerted rulership over others, brought criminals to justice according to the law, or represented your fellow citizens in government; or perhaps you exploited your status for your own political gain or to benefit your allies. Whatever your motivations, y...
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Arcane Tradition: Spellbinding
Spellbinders have an undying thirst for magical knowledge. After studying tirelessly to gather a sufficient understanding of the various wizard traditions, these wizards move on to researching the spells of all disciplines, be they arcane or divine.
Their spellbook functions as a secondary branch of their intellect, allowing them to cause some spells they have studied to manifest incarnate each day by mere ...
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Arcane Tradition: Eldritch Lore
Wizards of the Eldritch Lore tradition dedicate their lives to studying the mysteries of realms beyond this reality. They willfully wade into inky black seas of unspeakable horrors in search of forgotten secrets.
Many find these wizards to be increasingly eccentric, aloof, or even standoffish as they delve deeper and deeper into their esoteric studies, but there is one fact that all agree upon—it is unde...
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Otherworldly Patron: The Elder Elemental (Leviathan/Water)
The Elder Elementals are beings of cataclysmic power that wield promises of utter devastation. Your pact with a Leviathan emboldens you with the strength of the sea and tides.
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Otherworldly Patron: The Elder Elemental (Phoenix/Fire)
The Elder Elementals are beings of cataclysmic power that wield promises of utter devastation. You are driven by the undying passion of a Phoenix to unleash a blazing inferno upon your foes.
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Otherworldly Patron: The Elder Elemental (Zaratan/Earth)
The Elder Elementals are beings of cataclysmic power that wield promises of utter devastation. You exude the hulking, stony presence of a Zaratan, crushing foes who cross your path.
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Otherworldly Patron: The Elder Elemental (Elder Tempest/Air)
The Elder Elementals are beings of cataclysmic power that wield promises of utter devastation. Your pact with an Elder Tempest has granted you an affinity for the howling storms of the sky.
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Otherworldly Patron: The Divine Beast
Your patron is an exceptionally good and powerful entity from the Beastlands. The creature you have made a pact with may resemble an enormous and glorious specimen of a more mundane beast from the Prime Material Plane. Some examples of such demigod-like celestial beasts include the hal-yun (wolf), jentigu (tiger), kojaku (gorilla), leqiri (elk), and remnin (eagle).
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Sorcerous Origin: Seasonal Sorcery
Your innate magic is derived from the natural flow of the seasons. Sorcerers blessed with this arcane gift can often trace their birth to the height of a seasonal event—the autumnal or vernal equinox or the winter or summer solstice—or to the influence of powerful fey magic.
Some seasonal sorcerers remain aligned with a particular season for their entire lives, while others ritually shift their form...
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Roguish Archetype: Knave
You hone and refine your expertise with playing cards, understanding that their power and utility is far beyond a mere game. Rogues who pursue this archetype are often quick-witted and expert tricksters, be it with their hands or their silver tongue. Knaves most commonly find their way in society as entertainers, con artists, or captivating storytellers—always planning their next scheme.
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Ranger Archetype: Dragon Apprentice
Dragon Apprentices dedicate themselves to respecting dragons in all their ferocity and all their mysterious splendor. They learn from dragons and seek to emulate the virtues of those they align themselves with.
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Sacred Oath: Oath of Purification
The Oath of Purification requires a steadfast commitment to truth, regardless of what others, including those in positions of authority, view to be right and just. Paladins who dedicate themselves to this oath believe in revealing the truth by any means necessary, and purging the world of those who would obscure it.
Sometimes referred to as Truth Knights, Sanctifiers, or Emberblades, those who swear this...
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Monastic Tradition: Way of Transcendence
Monks of the Way of Transcendence follow a tradition that emphasizes a path of personal growth and enlightenment and ultimately, absolute understanding. Its principles are most embodied by the pursuit of true freedom: body, mind, and spirit. Their lofty goals eventually manifest outwardly, granting them the ability to hover effortlessly just off the ground—a mark of progress on their spiritual journey.
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Monastic Tradition: Way of the Unbroken Stone
Monks who follow the Way of the Unbroken Stone are driven to unceasingly interpose themselves between the weak and those who would do them harm. They remain steadfast in the face of even the gravest of threats—an unwavering pillar of courage and tenacity.
Monasteries that teach this tradition are often located among the mountains or rocky shores as a constant reminder to their followers of ...
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Martial Archetype: Magicutioner (Scorn Knight)
A magicutioner is a trained destroyer of all things magic. Often driven by a personal vendetta against spellcasters, animosity toward magic items, or unadulterated hatred for magic itself, they seek to annihilate it at every turn. Magicutioners will only begrudgingly use magic items or accept magical assistance when they have no other choice.
Spellcasters—be they arcane or divine—tremble...
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Martial Archetype: Cosmic Knight
The extraordinary Cosmic Knights are fighters who can tap into their deep connection with the cosmos to manifest supernatural power. Sometimes referred to as void warriors or star fighters, these specialized combatants harness their attunement to the underlying forces of the multiverse to artfully weave their martial mastery with magical effects as they manipulate and devastate their foes.
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Druid Circle: Circle of the Calamity
To an outsider, the Circle of the Calamity seems like a paradox—druids who simultaneously revere nature and emulate that which destroys it. However, these druids see themselves as agents of balance, upholding the natural order of the world. Sometimes druids of this circle may even resort to drastic, destructive measures in order to restore civilized lands to their natural, wild state.
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Divine Domain: Far Domain (now "Infinity Domain")
To follow the Far Domain is to embrace the understanding that everything known and accepted as fact by the inhabitants of this reality—including even the greatest of the deities worshiped by mortals—is not the all-encompassing truth for all beings that have ever existed. Clerics of this domain pursue the deities and god-like beings of these foreign realms, known and unknown, with awe and reverence, entreatin...
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Divine Domain: Balance Domain
The Balance domain is centered upon establishing true equality throughout the multiverse, and eschewing all bias: good and evil, law and chaos. Followers of this domain often embody an introspective and even-tempered lifestyle. Many neutral deities, such as Khaylûs and Oghma, claim influence over this domain, but it is also especially prevalent among clerics who worship no particular deity—instead choosing to serve the natural f...
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Bard College: College of Bravado
Bards of the College of Bravado excel at making inflated displays of bravery, particularly in the face of tremendous peril. Their tales and artistic performances are among the most boastful and boisterous of any bard, and they have no qualms romanticizing even the most mundane of stories.
Some outside the College of Bravado view their demeanor as an annoyance—something to be met with rolling eyes and ha...
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Bard College: College of Linguistics
Bards of the College of Linguistics are expert translators, elocutionists, and cryptographers. In their bardic studies, they research not only how they can most effectively inspire their friends with their spoken and written word, but also how they can best manipulate the utterances and resonances of their spells to maximize their impact.
Despite their profound magical abilities, these bards prefer le...
2021-01-30 21:40:41 +0000 UTC
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Primal Path: Path of the Tribal Hunter
Many barbarians may identify themselves as hunters—hunters of revenge, hunters of glory, hunters of physical superiority—but only barbarians of the Path of the Tribal Hunter are true masters on every front. Emboldened by the teachings and tactics of their tribes’ chieftains and war heroes, they pursue their prey with an unparalleled primal focus, seeking to prove themselves worthy of both power and respect.
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Primal Path: Path of Least Resistance
For many barbarians, battle is chaotic—an untamed frenzy of bloodshed that they unleash upon their foes. For those who adhere to the Path of Least Resistance, it is calculated, deliberate, and systematic.
Your rage grants you supreme insight into the most precise path to neutralizing your quarry, as well as the unrivaled determination to execute your goals. Nothing stands in the way of your fervor....
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Duergar Alternatives ◈ The friendly Deep Dwarves and the ruthless, mage-hunting Duergar Penetrants
(December 31, 2019)
Subraces: Deep Dwarf, Duergar Penetrant
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Vîtorem Race
The vîtorem are a race of sentient beings from a mysterious demiplane—divorced from the planar multiverse and referred to only as “The Shroud.” Little is known of this plane, vîtorem society, or even how they look in their natural form; rather, they are known only by their dealings and interactions through other creatures in the known multiverse.
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Rakshasa Tiefling Subrace
Extravagant and cunning, tieflings of rakshasa descent seek power through influence first and combat prowess second. Many have lightly furred skin, and some even sport impressive horns, but the quintessential trait of all rakshasa tieflings is their feline eyes. They are notoriously vindictive and wholeheartedly reject subservience.
2021-01-28 17:06:24 +0000 UTC
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Sahuagin Race
Subraces: Brachian, Malenti, Proselyte, Sacrosanct, Sekolin
The sahuagin, with their webbed, clawed hands and feet and dozens of dagger-like teeth, are among the most ferocious and terrifying water-dwelling creatures. Their insatiable goals to conquer the seas and surrounding coasts are perfectly exemplified by the shark-like manic state they enter at the sight and smell of blood. The cut-throat, even cannibalistic, nature of their society...
2021-01-28 17:03:48 +0000 UTC
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Rivener Race
Whether by a stroke of luck or sheer force of will, riveners are the result of an incomplete or failed attempt by kaortis to convert the creatures and environment of this dimension to be more like their own.
The kaorti are an alien people from the Far Realm. They are said to have originated from a group of ancient elves who opened a Vast Gate to puncture the barrier between reality and the outer madness. Within minutes of passing through the gate to enter t...
2021-01-28 17:01:23 +0000 UTC
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Nagaran Race
Subraces: Guardian, Spirit, Water
The nagaran are an intelligent, serpentine race originally created by nagas and infused with their essence as a show of nagan superiority over the other reptilian races and their respective humanoid kin. All nagaran bear a long, snake-like body and a flared hood—an expanded neck, which they can exaggerate further in a menacing display of intimidation.
2021-01-28 16:59:41 +0000 UTC
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Half-Orc Variant Races
Heritages: Dragonborn, Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Half-Elf, Halfling, Tiefling, Aarakocra, Genasi, Goliath, Tortle, Aasimar, Bugbear, Kenku, Kobold, Lizardfolk, Tabaxi, Triton, Yuan-ti Pureblood, Gith, Changeling, Kalashtar, Shifter, Warforged
create a half-orc character whose non-orc ancestor is any of a number of humanoid races.
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