Martyr

Kill in the Shadows, Die in the Shadows

Like other Martyrs, you were chosen to accomplish great things and die for a noble cause. However, you were not destined for glory; no one will ever know your name. Martyrs chosen for the Burden of Anonymity work in the shadows to influence the world for the greater good, and will inevitably die in the shadows, unknown to all. Your divinely-appointed task might be secret, such as assassination or infiltration, and your role as a Martyr might be incognito, even to your allies. Anonymous Martyrs might disguise themselves as Paladins, mercenaries, or Rogues with hidden agendas and abundant conspiracies.

When you make an attack or damage roll that is improved by your Sacrifice feature against a target that can't see you, you don't take Radiant damage from using the feature and the target is magically silenced on a hit. Until the start of your next turn, the target can't speak, has the Deafened condition, and can't cast any spell that includes a Verbal component.

When you take damage or use your Undying Conviction, you can convincingly fake your death. You teleport up to a known location within 10 miles of you at the same time that a duplicate corpse appears to take your place. The corpse is indistinguishable from you and wears nonmagical duplicates of your clothing and equipment. You can choose for the corpse to realistically bleed, mutter incoherently, and breathe shallowly for up to a minute. The corpse is unaffected by spells and other magical effects. The corpse and its clothing and equipment vanish after 10 days, or when you dismiss it as a Magic action or use this feature again.

Furthermore, if you covertly notify the GM, you can also convince other players of your death. You can roll Death Saving Throws as normal, ignoring successes, temporarily prepare a new character sheet, and so on.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Your skill at remaining unseen grants you the following benefits.

Ascend to Godhood

The gods have set an arduous path for your life, replete with labors, challenges, and trials designed to test your morality and resolve. You likely won't succeed. However, if you best the gods' trials and die in marvelous glory, you will ascend to the afterlife as a demigod.

Perhaps the gods envision you as a replacement for a recently-deceased god, or perhaps they raise dozens of demigods to do their bidding across the planes of existence. Regardless of your status, immortality after death awaits.

You gain a Climb Speed and Swim Speed equal to your Speed. Additionally, Difficult Terrain doesn't cost you extra movement.

Your legendary deeds have imbued your most iconic equipment with supernatural blessings. You choose three pieces of equipment to be your Aegis, Oracle, and Xiphos. These items might have been at your side for years, have been used to accomplish one of your labors, or even be trophies taken from your mightiest foes. Once you use your Aegis, Oracle, or Xiphos, you can't use that relic again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

The power of demigods flows through your veins, granting you the following benefits.

Seek Redemption Through Sacrifice

For all the wrong you have done in your life, the gods have graced you with an undeserved second chance. Your burden is to atone, to undo all the evils you have done in your life, and to seek redemption before the gods. How you accomplish this is your choice, so long as you remove any dark marks you leave behind. Ultimately, your final martyrdom might be a grand act, averting a great disaster or banishing a force of evil, or it might be as humble as redirecting the life of an evil person and causing them to seek redemption, passing the torch to a new Martyr of Atonement.

You can take a Magic action to transfer negative effects from any number of willing creatures within 60 feet of yourself to you.

If a chosen effect forced the original target to make a saving throw to avoid or end it, you make that saving throw against it with Advantage. On a success, the effect ends; on a failure, the effect ends for the original target and affects you instead as if you were the original target.

You can transfer multiple negative effects of the same type to yourself, affecting you only once each time you use this feature.

You can transfer the following negative effects.

You gain the following benefits.

You gain a special Reaction that you can only take to use Reprisal or Redirection. You can only take one Reaction per turn. Once you take this special Reaction, you can't take it again until the start of your next turn.

Glimpse the Future of the 'Verse

In a moment of revelation, your mind was opened to the vast, unfathomable cosmic forces that underpin the multiverse. You could see it all: a cataclysm yawning in the future, a knot of pathways forward, and your purpose among it all. No matter the outcome, you never survive.

Ever since, a sliver of foresight has quivered in your mind, along with the spark of psionic potential. You can pull on the invisible tethers of the multiverse to move things, and you feel yourself being pulled toward destinations unknown. The 'Verse itself has a grand design, and there's nothing you can do to escape it.

Once per turn when you make an attack roll and roll a 18 or 19 on the d20, you can turn the roll into a 20.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by taking 5 Radiant damage (no action required). This damage ignores Resistance and Immunity, and bypasses Temporary Hit Points.

When you use your Reprisal, you can deal Psychic damage instead of Necrotic or Radiant damage. When you do so, the creature has Disadvantage on the next D20 Test it makes before the end of your next turn.

Whenever you start your turn, you can choose to see into the immediate future (no action required). Until the start of your next turn, you have Advantage on D20 Tests and other creatures have Disadvantage on attack rolls against you.

You can use this feature 10 times and regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Leave Catastrophic Plagues and Disasters in Your Wake

A grim task awaits those shouldering the Burden of Calamity. These Martyrs spark wars, conjure floods, raise plagues of locusts, call down fire and brimstone, and set apocalypses in motion. As benevolent as the gods might seem, their mercy is tempered with disasters such as these, events that the gods deem necessary to cleanse unjust societies or wipe the slate clean for new advancements. Martyrs of Calamity are therefore harbingers of doom, the first omen of terrible things to follow.

As a Magic action, you can manifest a harmless, temporary omen within a 1-mile radius of yourself for 1 hour. This might include creating an eclipse on command, forming the clouds into a terrible face, conjuring pests, transforming water into blood, or causing the earth to tremble. For the duration, you add 1d4 to D20 Tests you make.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

A creature with the Magic Resistance trait has Disadvantage, instead of Advantage, on saving throws against your Martyr spells.

You can call upon the gods' malice to create a sweeping disaster. You can cast Control Weather, Earthquake, Fire Storm, or Storm of Vengeance without taking Radiant damage or expending a spell use.

Once you use this feature to cast one of these spells, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

Wreak Havoc and Disrupt the Status Quo

Martyrs of Discord are chosen at random to sow chaos wherever they travel. They light things on fire, commit petty crimes, and even murder when the fancy strikes. Apt to follow their own predilections, Martyrs of Discord are unified only by their charge to disrupt the status quo as much as possible.

No one is certain why the gods make Martyrs of Discord in the first place. Perhaps it is at the whim of one capricious or evil god, or perhaps the gods desire a balance between chaos and law, and must sometimes stoke the fire to restore this balance.

You have a coin infused with the tides of chaos. Whenever you or an ally makes a D20 Test, you can flip a coin to add a bonus to the roll. The bonus equals +4 on heads, or +1 on tails.

Once you use the coin, the coin passes to the GM, who can use it to add a bonus to any D20 Test made by a creature under their control. Once the GM uses the coin, it passes back to you, and so on. When you finish a Short or Long Rest, you regain the coin, whether or not the GM has used it.

You can use your Havoc! without taking Radiant damage and, whenever you roll on the Havoc! table, you can roll twice and use either number.

When you use your Sacrificial Strike, you can deal an extra 2d10 Radiant damage instead of 10 Radiant damage, or 4d10 damage instead of 20.

Additionally, if you roll the highest number of any damage die for this attack, you can roll another of that die and add it to the damage. You can add a maximum of 10 dice to the attack's damage roll in this way.

Get Famous

You were destined to see your name in lights, to be the talk of the town, to be a superstar. Unfortunately, the gods also chose you to go out in a blaze of glory. The Burden of Fame entails a life of renown matched only by royalty, coupled with incredible duties undertaken in the public eye. Your flame burns brightly for half as long, but when your journey is complete, nobody will forget your name.

You gain a bonus to your Armor Class equal to the number of creatures with the Charmed condition within 30 feet of you, to a maximum of your Wisdom modifier.

You can cast Mass Suggestion without taking Radiant damage or expending a spell use. Once you cast the spell with this feature, you can't do so in this way again until you finish a Long Rest.

Whenever you start casting the spell, you can modify it so that it doesn't require Concentration. If you do so, the spell's duration becomes 1 minute for that casting and the spell can target up to 100 creatures within range.

Your unparalleled stardom grants you the following benefits.

Pull Pranks and Crack Jokes

When bacchanal and trickster deities believe that the mortal realm has gotten too self-serious, they call upon a Martyr of Levity to lighten the mood. These impish Martyrs are given license to joke, prank, and romp about the world with extraordinarily vague directives. Perhaps they have been commanded to pull a prank or tell a joke so ludicrous that history remembers it forever. Or perhaps the Martyr is themselves the butt of a larger joke, a walking parable about fate's blunders. Sadly, the Martyr's death usually serves as a punchline.

Once per turn when a creature you can see makes an Opportunity Attacks against you, you can make a melee attack against the creature. Your attack precedes the triggering attack.

You can cast Mass Suggestion without taking Radiant damage or expending a spell use. Once you cast the spell with this feature, you can't do so in this way again until you finish a Long Rest.

Whenever you start casting the spell, you can modify it so that it doesn't require Concentration. If you do so, the spell's duration becomes 1 minute for that casting and the spell can target up to 100 creatures within range.

When you use your Reprisal, instead of dealing Radiant or Necrotic damage to the attacker, you can force the attack to hit another creature other than the attacker within the attack's range.

Heal the Sick and Wounded

When the suffering of the world grows too heavy and the cries of the anguished grow too loud, the gods deliver a Martyr to ease the strife and bring peace to the masses. This burden, however, has no end. A Martyr may spend all their days healing the sick and driving demons out of the possessed, but they will scarcely impact the world at large. Indeed, the onus upon them is not to mend every wound or comfort every widow, but to provide hope in the darkest of times that the gods have not forsaken their people, that peace will soon reign, and that light will be victorious.

When you finish a Long Rest, choose a number of creatures you can see up to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1) to receive one of the following blessings of your choice. Each creature need not receive the same blessing. An unused blessing is expended when a blessed creature finishes a Long Rest.

As a Magic action, you emanate a radiant light in a 30-foot Emanation that lasts for 1 minute or until you have the Incapacitated condition. Choose Aberrations, Celestials, Elementals, Fey, Fiends, or Undead.

Whenever the Emanation enters the space of a creature of the chosen type and whenever such a creature enters the Emanation or ends its turn there, it takes 4d6 Radiant damage. A creature takes this damage only once per turn.

Additionally, while in the Emanation, creatures of your choice have Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects created by creatures of the chosen type.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by taking 30 Radiant damage. This damage ignores Resistance and Immunity, and bypasses Temporary Hit Points.

Whenever you cast a spell that restores Hit Points to a creature, that creature regains additional Hit Points on the turn you cast the spell equal to your Martyr level. If this healing exceeds the creature's Hit Point maximum, it gains Temporary Hit Points equal to excess healing, up to a maximum of your Martyr level.

Undertake a Journey of Discovery

The gods have tasked you with exploring the far reaches of the world, to venture where no soul has gone before, and bring back the discoveries waiting to be found there. You might be tasked to map an undiscovered continent, discover a straight between distant cities, or sail the edge of the oceans, but peril and adventure regardless await. You are unlikely to return from your journey, but your expedition will not have been in vain as long as your odyssey is remembered.

You can cast Misty Step without taking Radiant damage. When you do so, you can choose to teleport to a space occupied by a willing creature within range that doesn't have the Incapacitated condition. You both teleport, swapping places.

Whenever you move into a space 30 feet or further away from where you started your turn, you are enveloped in a blur of speed. Until the start of your next turn, attack rolls against you have Disadvantage and you don't take Radiant damage from your Sacrificial Strike.

When you roll Initiative, you can cast Haste on yourself without taking Radiant damage or expending a spell use. When you cast the spell, it doesn't require Concentration and, when the spell ends, you don't have the Incapacitated condition and your Speed isn't 0.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by taking 30 Radiant damage (no action required). This damage ignores Resistance and Immunity, and bypasses Temporary Hit Points.

Regenerate and Regrow the Natural World

When the natural world is threatened by the needs of growing industry, the ravages of war, or a catastrophic event, the gods may choose a Martyr to protect the wild places of the world. Martyrs with this burden don't seek to prevent the destruction of the world; that would be impossible given the number of factors that threaten it. Instead, those tasked with the Burden of Rebirth give their lives to regenerate what has been razed, ushering in new life in places devastated by death.

Difficult Terrain doesn't cost you or allies within 30 feet of yourself extra movement. Additionally, you and allies within 30 feet of you are immune to the Entangle, Spike Growth, and Plant Growth spells.

As a Bonus Action, you can enter a state of natural regeneration, granting your the following for 1 minute. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Death is only the beginning for you. You gain the following benefits.

Liberate Others and Slay Tyrants

Kings and leaders are bound by an unspoken covenant to the gods to govern their people justly and peacefully. When a monarch turns their back on the gods, embraces tyranny, or uses cruel measures against their own people, a Martyr is called to end their reign. Rarely does a Martyr of Revolution come with peaceful measures, for when a king must fall, only the sword can provide the necessary leverage.

Such Martyrs are not only called to battle kings; any person of influence that oppresses others and abuses their power might wrong the gods enough to earn the ire of a Martyr. In dark times, a Martyr might be tasked with clearing a continent of despots and oppressors, calling for a full-scale military campaign of liberation.

You and your allies within a 30-foot Emanation centered on you gain a bonus to Initiative rolls equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum bonus of +1). The aura is inactive while you have the Incapacitated condition.

Once per turn when you reduce an enemy to 0 Hit Points, choose one of the following benefits.

When you use your Sacrificial Strike, choose one of your allies within 30 feet of yourself who can see or hear you. The ally can take a Reaction to make one attack using a weapon.

Prevent a Looming Disaster, or Die Trying

The gods have seen a great cataclysm on the horizon and tasked you with protecting the world from catastrophe. The coming end may entail the collapse of a kingdom, the arrival of an evil entity, or the quiet vanishing of a village, temple, or way of life. However destructive or temperate, the coming cataclysm disrupts the gods' plans or threatens their hold on the mortal plane. To this end, the gods imbue you with ancient and powerful spells, tools once gifted only to prophets. The life of a Martyr is always forfeit, so long as the cataclysm can be forestalled or defeated.

The Radiant damage you take from casting spells listed on the End Spells table is reduced by 10, to a minimum of 5.

When you cast a level 1+ Martyr spell, you can take 10 Radiant damage to use one of the following benefits. This damage ignores your Resistance and Immunity, and bypasses your Temporary Hit Points.

When you take damage from an enemy you can see within 30 feet of yourself, you can take a Reaction to cast a level 1-3 Martyr spell. The spell must deal damage, have a casting time of an action or Bonus Action, and target that creature or include it in its area. The Radiant damage you take from casting the spell is decreased by the amount of triggering damage (minimum 0).

Bring a Prophet's Message to the World

Tasked with unveiling the world's deceptions and delivering to the people a profound truth, Martyrs carrying the Burden of Truth face an endless battle with disillusionment and lies. Such a Martyr must earn the people's hearts and minds, turning their favors away from evil influences and toward divine ones. It is an uphill battle, but one that rarely requires grievous violence except in the most dire of circumstances.

Martyrs of Truth are often deemed prophets, for their gods entrust them with knowledge of the future, insights into the past, and sagacious perspective on the present. Such information is proof of their messages' divine origin and is a necessary balm, for the truths such Martyrs are called to preach are often a bitter pill for listeners to swallow.

You have Blindsight with a range of 30 feet.

You can cast Word of Force, Word of Terror, and Word of Transience once each without taking Radiant damage or expending a spell use.

Once you cast one of these spells without taking Radiant damage, you must finish a Short or Long Rest before you can cast the spell in that way again.

When you use your Sacrificial Skill, you gain a +5 bonus to all D20 Tests you make until the end of the current turn.

Rule with an Iron Fist

When malevolent gods find the world pacified and defenseless, they send a Martyr of Tyranny to conquer its kingdoms, subjugate the weak, and spread misery with their blade. Once unleashed, this Martyr stops at nothing to establish an empire to rule over with an iron fist. They demand submission from their foes and pledges of fealty from their allies, taking gleeful satisfaction with every power grab and malicious turn. It isn't enough to rule: they must be feared, and any resistance must cower in their shadows. Only then will the gods let them die, likely stabbed in the back by someone crueler or more pitiless.

When you roll Initiative, or as a Magic action on your turn, you can lay a chilling gaze upon a creature you can see within 60 feet of yourself. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or have the Frightened condition until the end of its next turn.

Once on each of your turns, immediately after you use your Sacrificial Strike, you can gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to the amount of Radiant damage you take.

You can cast Dominate Beast, Dominate Monster, or Dominate Person once without taking Radiant damage or expending a spell use. When you cast one of these spells using this feature, you gain the following benefits. Once you cast one of these spells without taking Radiant damage, you must finish a Long Rest before you can cast the spell in that way again.