Necromancer

Corpse Cavalry

Your training for mounted combat grants you the following benefits.

Charnel Shield

When you take damage from a creature you can see, you can take a Reaction and expend a number of points from your Charnel Touch pool up to half the damage dealt. Reduce the damage by the number of points expended.

Skull Jar

Your spirit jar is your own magically preserved head. Even without your head, your senses aren't inhibited. You can see and hear from where your head once was and your disembodied voice booms from the stub of your neck.

Blindsight

If you are carrying your skull jar, you have Blindsight with a range of 120 feet.

Damage Resistance

You and youe mount have Resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage.

Nightmare

When you perform your Animate Thralls ritual, you can summon a Nightmare. You command this creature as your thrall and it counts as Undead for the purpose of your Necromancer features. In combat, it functions as an independent mount while you ride it (as defined in the rules on mounted combat).

Blood Ascendant Spells

Your necromantic ambitions ensure you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Necromancer level specified in the Blood Ascendent Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Charnel Drain

When you reduce an enemy to 0 Hit Points with your Charnel Touch, you regain Hit Points equal to your Intelligence modifier + your Necromancer level (minimum of 1).

Bat

You transform into a bat. Your game statistics are replaced by the Bat stat block, but you retain your creature type, Hit Points, Hit Point Dice, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, class features, languages, and feats.

Mist

You transform into a Medium cloud of mist. While shape-shifted, you can't speak, manipulate objects, or take any actions. You have a Fly Speed of 20 feet and can hover, and can enter and occupy the space of another creature. You have Resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage, Immunity to the Prone condition, and Advantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws. You can pass through narrow openings, but treat liquid as though they were solid surfaces.

Coffin Jar

Your spirit jar is a coffin filled with grave dirt. When you drop to 0 Hit Points, you reform in your coffin after 1 hour. You are permanently weakened until you finish a Long Rest in the coffin. While weakened, your Hit Point maximum is reduced to 1, and you drop to 0 Hit Points if you begin your turn in sunlight.

Regeneration

At the start of each of your turns, you regain 10 Hit Points. You don't gain this benefit if you have 0 Hit Points or are in sunlight.

Spider Climb

You can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Additionally, you gain a Climb Speed equal to your speed.

Vampiric Speed

Your Speed is doubled.

Corpse Florist Spells

Your necromantic ambitions ensure you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Necromancer level specified in the Corpse Florist Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Garden of the Grave

When you perform your Animate Thralls ritual, you can choose to plant corpse flowers in any of your thralls, causing each such thrall to have the following benefits.

Charnel Entangle

When you deal 5 or more damage with Charnel Touch, the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or have the Restrained condition until the end of your next turn as weeds and brambles grasp at it.

Spirit Flowers

Your spirit jar is a set of thirteen immortal flowers of different types located in places important to you. Each one has a specific weakness, which you must discuss with your GM. When you drop to 0 Hit Points, you reform in the soil at your nearest spirit flower.

Petal Stride

Flowers sprout from the ground in a 30-foot Emanation originating from you. You can use a Bonus Action on your turn to step into a flower and teleport to any other flower you can see within 30 feet of you. When you do so, you can choose any number of friendly Plants within 30 feet of you and cause them to teleport to flowers you can see within range.

Regeneration

At the start of each of your turns, you regain 10 Hit Points. You don't gain this benefit if you have 0 Hit Points or you are in Darkness.

Crone Spells

Your necromantic ambitions ensure you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Necromancer level specified in the Crone Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Charnel Curse

When you deal 5 or more damage with Charnel Touch, the target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be cursed. While cursed, the target subtracts 1d6 from D20 Tests it makes. At the end of each of the target's turns, it can make a Wisdom saving throw against the curse, ending the effect on a success. The curse lasts for 1 minute or until you use this feature to curse another creature or choose to dismiss it (no action required).

Conceal Thralls

As a Magic action, you can expend 10 Charnel Touch points to give your thralls the Invisible condition until the start of your next turn. This condition ends early for a thrall that makes an attack roll or deals damage.

Thrall Transposition

As a Magic action, you can choose one of your thralls within 30 feet of you. You both teleport, swapping places.

Accursed Touch

When you deal 25 or more damage with Charnel Touch, the target has Disadvantage on saving throws until the start of your next turn, and your thralls have Advantage on attack rolls against the target.

Flying Broom

You can use a Magic action to enchant a mundane object—such as a broom, cauldron, or rug—with the power of flight. While holding this item, you have a Fly Speed equal to 60 feet, as long as you aren't wearing Medium or Heavy armor. This object remains enchanted until you use this benefit to enchant a different object.

Baba Yaga Spells

You can expend Charnel Touch points to cast one of the spells from the following table without a spell slot.

Cyber Spells

Your necromantic ambitions ensure you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Necromancer level specified in the Cyber Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Construct Corpses

When you perform your Animate Thralls ritual, you can choose to animate any of your thralls as Constructs, causing each such thrall to have the following benefits.

Charnel Blaster

You can make your Charnel Touch as a ranged spell attack with a range of 30 feet, instead of as a melee spell attack. This attack ignores Half Cover and Three-Quarters Cover.

Shutdown

You can cause the device to malfunction and become disabled until you use this ability to restore functionality to it.

Hack

You can attempt to hack the device. You have Advantage on Intelligence (Data) checks you make to hack technology infected with your daemon process and you don't require an Interface Rig to do so.

Remote Operation

You can remotely operate the device within its normal parameters. You can only perform unauthorized operations, such as opening a locked door or disabling an alarm, if you have hacked the device.

Autonomous Operation

You can instruct your daemon to act autonomously. You describe a circumstance, such as a character entering a few keystrokes of data or a certain amount of time passing, and one of the other operations detailed in this list to be performed in response. Your daemon can remember up to eight such circumstances and responses.

Soul Device

A computing device, such as an Arcane Terminal, houses your soul and acts as your spirit jar. You can upload your soul to a connected Arcane Terminal or Datapad in an upload ritual that you perform over the course of 10 minutes. The device inhabited by your soul bears the invulnerability typical of your spirit jar.

Radiant Immunity

Your body is supported by a hardlight lattice, granting you Immunity to Radiant damage.

Infect Construct

As a Magic action, your body becomes immaterial and you attempt to infect a Large or smaller Construct you can see within 10 feet of yourself. This target makes a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. A Construct with a Challenge Rating of 10+ automatically succeeds on this save.

If the Construct fails its saving throw, you disappear and infect it. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the Construct, though you retain your alignment and your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You retain your own class features and feats. If the target has any class levels, you can't use any of its class features.

The infected Construct can repeat its saving throw every 8 hours. On a success, the infarction ends and you are ejected from the body. The infection also ends if the Construct drops to 0 Hit Points, you are forced out by an effect like the Antivirus spell, or you choose to end it as a Magic action. A Construct that succeeds its saving throw against your infection is immune to your Infect Construct for 24 hours.

Inhabit Technology

You can take a Magic action to inhabit a piece of Magical Technology such as an Arcane Terminal or Datapad that you can see within 5 feet of you. You disappear and gain control over the device. While inhabiting the device, you can't be targeted by any attack, spell, or other effect, and you can perform any function the device is capable of, without first hacking into it. As a Bonus Action, you can transfer yourself to any other piece of Magical Technology that is connected to the current device, or end the inhabitation. The inhabitation ends early if the device is destroyed or if you are forced out by an effect like the Antivirus spell. When the inhabitation ends, you reappear within 5 feet of the inhabited device.

Dead Mist Spells

Your necromantic ambitions ensure you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Necromancer level specified in the Dead Mist Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Charnel Consumption

When you deal 5 or more damage with Charnel Touch, you can instead choose to lose an equal number of Hit Points instead of expending Charnel Touch Points.

Because of the soul-draining nature of the Dead Mists, you can't regain Hit Points from any spell you cast.

Mistborne Regeneration

You can restore your life essence by feeding upon the Dead Mists. As a Magic action, you can expend 5 or more Charnel Touch points. You regain 1d8 Hit Points for every 5 Charnel Touch points expended.

Damage Resistance

You gain Resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage.

Gaseous Body

Your lich form is gaseous and indistinct. You can enter and occupy the spaces of other creatures. Additionally, you can pass through small holes, narrow openings, and even mere cracks, though you treat liquids as though they were solid surfaces.

Fly Speed

You gain a Fly Speed equal to your Speed. You can't fall and remain hovering in the air even when you have the Incapacitated or Stunned conditions.

Master of the Mists

Once on each of your turns when you deal Necrotic damage to an enemy with your Charnel Touch or a Necromancer spell, you drain some of the target's life essence with the Dead Mists. You regain Hit Points equal to 2d6 + your Intelligence modifier, up to a maximum of the Necrotic damage dealt.

Combat Research

Your training in the art of war grants you the following benefits.

Charnel Resilience

When you deal Necrotic damage with your Charnel Touch, you gain Temporary Hit Points equal to the Necrotic damage dealt.

Damage Resistance

You gain Resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage.

Two Extra Attacks

You can attack three times instead of once whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Peerless Necrotic Damage

When you deal Necrotic damage with Charnel Touch or a Necromancer spell, it ignores Resistance and Immunity to Necrotic damage.

Footloose

Your necromantic dancing grants you the following benefits.

Backup Dancers

Each of your thralls gains the ability to take the Dance action, which allows it to dance until the start of its next turn. When one or more of your thralls are dancing, your dancers give you a bonus to your AC, damage rolls, and D20 Tests that use Dexterity or Charisma, as shown on the Backup Dancers table. You also gain a number of benefits as shown in the Benefits column of the Backup Dancers table.

Charnel Groove

When you deal 5 or more damage with Charnel Touch, the target is compelled to dance, spending all of its movement to do so without leaving its space, until the start of your next turn.

Dance-Off

You take a Magic action and expend 20 Charnel Touch points to magically challenge up to ten creatures you can see within 60 feet of you to a dance competition. Each creature you challenge makes a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 8d6 Psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Moonwalk

You can cast Freedom of Movement on your thralls or yourself without a spell slot.

Smooth Criminal

Your Dexterity and Charisma scores increase by 4, to a maximum of 25.

Overlord Spells

Your necromantic ambitions ensure you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Necromancer level specified in the Overlord Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Charnel Aura

As a Bonus Action, you can expend 5 or more Charnel Touch points to create an empowering aura in a 30-foot Emanation originating from you until the start of your next turn. Undead you control within the Emanation gain a bonus to D20 Tests, damage rolls, and AC. This bonus equals +1 for every 5 Charnel Touch points expended, to a maximum of +3.

Possession

If you drop to 0 Hit Points, you can choose to possess a nearby body instead of reforming at your spirit jar. When you do so, choose a Humanoid or one of your thralls within 120 feet of yourself. A Humanoid must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC or be possessed. A creature that succeeds its saving throw against your Possession is immune to your Possession for 24 hours.

When you possess a body, you control it, but a Humanoid target retains awareness. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the body, though you retain your alignment and your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You retain your own class features and feats. If the target has any class levels, you can't use any of its class features.

A possessed Humanoid can repeat its saving throw every 8 hours. On a success, the Possession ends and you are ejected from the body. The Possession also ends if the body drops to 0 Hit Points or you choose to end it as a Magic action.

Domination Spells

You can expend Charnel Touch points to cast one of the spells from the following table without a spell slot.

Pale Master Spells

Your necromantic ambitions ensure you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Necromancer level specified in the Pale Master Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Charnel Empower

When you deal damage with a level 1+ Necromancy spell, you can expend a number of Charnel Touch points up to a maximum of your Necromancer level plus your Intelligence modifier. One target of the spell takes extra Necrotic damage equal to the number of Charnel Touch points expended.

Intelligent Intimidation

You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill, if you didn't have it already. Additionally, you gain a bonus to checks using this skill equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum bonus of +1).

Frightening Gaze

As a Bonus Action, you can expend 10 Charnel Touch points to fix your horrific gaze on a creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or have the Frightened condition for 1 minute. The target repeats the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the condition on itself on a success.

Devour Soul

When you reduce an enemy to 0 Hit Points, you can immediately devour its soul (no action required). Roll a d8 and regain expended spell slots of your choice whose combined level is no greater than the number rolled. Once you use this benefit, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

A creature whose soul is devoured can't be restored to life by any means short of a Wish spell.

Magic Resistance

You have Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Paralyzing Touch

When you deal 30 or more damage with Charnel Touch, the target has the Paralyzed condition until the start of your next turn.

Pharaoh Spells

Your necromantic ambitions ensure you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Necromancer level specified in the Pharaoh Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Holy Symbol

You can use a Holy Symbol as a Spellcasting Focus for your Necromancer spells.

Channel Divinity

You can channel your pseudo-divinity to fuel magical effects. You start with one such effect: Ankh of Radiance, which is described below. You gain additional effect options at higher Necromancer levels. Each time you use this class's Channel Divinity, choose which Channel Divinity effect from this class to create.

You can use this class's Channel Divinity twice. You regain one of its expended uses when you finish a Short Rest, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest. You can also restore one use of it by expending 15 Charnel Touch points (no action required).

Avatar

At a point within range, you manifest a Huge illusory avatar for 1 minute. You determine the avatar's appearance. It mimics your movements and projects your speech in a booming voice.

Gathering Storm

Clouds gather and churn overhead for 1 minute. You determine the appearance of the clouds and whether they are accompanied by thunder, lightning, or a light rain.

Sun and Moon

You can brighten or darken the sun or moon for 1 minute. Within range, you can change Darkness to Dim Light and Dim Light to Bright Light, or vice versa.

Canopic Jars

Your spirit jar is a set of four canopic jars containing your stomach, lungs, intestines, and liver. Each one has a specific weakness, which you must discuss with your GM. Your rejuvenation is only stopped when all four canopic jars are destroyed. When you are destroyed, you reform at your sarcophagus.

Magic Resistance

You have Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Mummy Rot

When you deal 20 or more damage with Charnel Touch, the target is cursed. While cursed, the target can't regain Hit Points, its Hit Point maximum doesn't return to normal when finishing a Long Rest, and its Hit Point maximum decreases by 3d6 every 24 hours that elapse. A creature dies and turns to dust if reduced to 0 Hit Points by this attack.

Whirlwind of Sand

As a Bonus Action, you can transform into a whirlwind of sand, move up to 60 feet, and revert to your normal form. While in whirlwind form, you are Immune to all damage and to the Grappled, Petrified, Prone, Restrained, and Stunned conditions. Equipment you are wearing or carrying remains in your possession.

Charnel Toxin

When you deal 5 or more damage with Charnel Touch, the target has the Poisoned condition until the start of your next turn.

Necrotoxin

When you cast a Necromancer spell or use a Necromancer feature that deals Poison damage or gives the Poisoned condition, it ignores Resistance to Poison damage and Immunity to the Poisoned condition.

Vile Congregation

Leagues of vermin cling to your skin and swarm over others nearby. Whenever an enemy within 5 feet of you makes a D20 Test you can subtract 1d4 from the roll.

Gore Burst

When you drop to 0 Hit Points, your body explodes in a shower of necromantic energy.

Each creature you choose within 20 feet of you makes a Dexterity saving throw against your Necromancer spell save DC. On a failed save, a creature takes 5d10 Poison damage and 5d10 Necrotic damage and has the Poisoned condition until the start of your next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage.

Master of Disease

When you deal 25 or more damage with Charnel Touch, the target has the Poisoned condition and is cursed for 1 minute. Choose two of the following effects which afflict the target while it is cursed. At the end of each of its turns, the target can make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC, ending the curse and the Poisoned condition on a success.

Bleeding

Each time the target takes damage, it takes an extra 1d6 Necrotic damage

Disadvantage

Choose one ability. The target has Disadvantage on ability checks and saving throws made with that ability.

Garbled

The target can't speak coherently or cast spells with a Verbal component.

Red-Eye

The target has the Blinded condition beyond 10 feet.

Unsteady

The target has the Prone condition at the end of each of its turns.

Skilled Surgeon

You gain proficiency in the Medicine skill, if you didn't already have it. Additionally, you gain a bonus to checks using this skill equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum bonus of +1).

Spell-Stitching

You can inscribe magical effects into your thralls with gruesome Spell-Stitches. You can expend Charnel Touch points to apply Spell-Stitches to your thralls over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a Short or Long Rest. The number of Charnel Touch points required to apply each stitch is listed in parentheses. Each thrall can have a maximum of two stitches, which last until the thrall dies or you apply a new stitch to replace it.

Charnel Voltage

When you deal 5 or more damage with Charnel Touch, you can deal Lightning damage instead of Necrotic damage and cause the energy to arc to a second creature within 5 feet of the target. The second creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or take Lightning damage equal to half of the number of Charnel Touch points expended. A creature that takes Lightning damage from this feature can't make Opportunity Attacks until the start of its next turn.

Golem Body

Your spirit jar is your artificial golem body. It has a specific weakness, which you must discuss with your GM. Your rejuvenation is only stopped when your body is completely destroyed using its weakness. When you drop to 0 Hit Points, you temporarily die and reanimate with half of your Hit Points after 1 hour.

Gruesome Physicality

Your Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores become 20 if they weren't already higher.

Damage Resistance

You gain Resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage.

Self-Stitches

You can apply any number of Spell-Stiches to yourself as a Magic action, expending Charnel Touch points as normal. Spell-Stitches applied in this way last until you finish a Long Rest.

Reaper Spells

Your necromantic ambitions ensure you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Necromancer level specified in the Reaper Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Charnel Veil

When you deal 5 or more damage with Charnel Touch, you gain the Invisible condition until the start of your next turn.

Inactive

You can't take any action, Bonus Action, or Reaction, other than to leave the form.

Immunities

You have Immunity to the Grappled and Prone conditions.

Difficult Target

Attacks against you have Disadvantage.

Invisible in Darkness

While entirely in Darkness, you have the Invisible condition to any creature that relies on Darkvision to see you in that Darkness.

Speed

Your Speed doubles and you gain a Climb Speed equal to your Speed. You can move across difficult surfaces, including ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. As a shadow, you can only move along surfaces; you can't jump or fly.

Gear

Your equipment merges with your Umbral Form and has no effect until you leave the form.

Death's Touch

When you use your Charnel Touch and roll an 11 or higher on the d20 for the attack roll, you hit the target, regardless of its AC.

Fell Flight

You gain a Fly Speed of 60 feet.

Grim Harvest

When you kill a Medium or Small creature that isn't Undead using Charnel Touch, you rip its soul from its body, which animates as a Specter under your control and counts as one of your thrall.

Slaymates

You can bind the souls of the dead into Construct vessels—porcelain dolls, clockwork toys, wooden puppets, and stuffed animals. When you perform your Animate Thralls ritual, you can create one or more Slaymates. You command these creatures as your thralls and they count as Undead for the purpose of your Necromancer features. Additionally, two slaymates count as one thrall for the number of thralls you can control and the number of Undead you can store in your Dead Space.

Charnel Puppet

You can use a Magic action and expend 5 or more Charnel Touch points to animate two Slaymates under your control for every 5 points expended, which count as your thralls. These slaymates appear within your space or in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you.

Clockwork Body

Your soul is bound to a Construct body with your statistics. Your type is Construct, instead of Undead.

Clockwork Immunities

You have Immunity to the Blinded, Charmed, Deafened, Frightened, Paralyzed, and Stunned conditions.

Spell Immunities

You have Immunity to three spells of your choice, which you select when you build the clockwork body.

Backup Body

You can spend 10 days and materials worth 1,000+ GP to build an additional clockwork body to act as a safeguard against death. Whenever you die, your soul transfers to another clockwork body of your choice that you have built. If you have no clockwork bodies available, you reform at your spirit jar in the body of a Slaymate, but you retain your alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, and the ability to build a clockwork body.