Accursed

While still alive, your skeleton was animated with dark magic by a particularly skilled and cruel necromancer. While it doesn't bear true intelligence or sentience, your skeleton wished to be free of its fleshy prison, rebelling against you. Eventually, it began using its animating magics to grow bone spurs that would calcify your muscles and pierce your flesh, doing anything it could to escape. Before it could cause your death and shed your skin to join its master, you somehow managed to break the necromancer's control and come to an accord with your bones. It is still animated within you, and you may occasionally still have conflicting interests, but you've learned to work together for your mutual survival. After all, they say that two is better than one, and you can use its ability to manipulate calcium to your advantage...

Starting at 2nd level, your increasing mastery of your curse causes you to learn a particular spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Animation Curse Spells table. See the Spellcasting class feature for how curse spells work.

Starting at 3rd level, each weapon you create with your Bone Spurring counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage while you wield it.

Additionally, you can empower the bone objects you create with your curse's animating energy. When you create an object with your Bone Spurring or as a bonus action while holding one of your bone objects, you can expend a spell slot to empower it until it leaves your hand. The empowered effect depends on the type of bone object.

Also starting at 3rd level, when you take damage other than psychic damage, you can expel a sudden burst of bones from your skin. Each creature of your choice within 5 feet of you must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 piercing damage and become cursed as though it failed the saving throw against your Calcifying Strike.

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^'24. If you have no remaining uses of this feature, you can expend a Hit Die to use it again.

The range increases by 5 feet when you reach certain levels in this class: 11th level (10 feet), and 17th level (15 feet).

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Starting at 11th level, your skeleton grows bone armor over your skin to protect you both. At the start of each of your turns, you gain temporary hit points equal to half your accursed level.

Starting at 15th level, you can use your skeleton's animating energy to restore your own vitality. As an action, you can expend a spell slot to regain a number of your expended Hit Dice equal to the slot's level.

At 20th level, you can use your action to create and expel up to ten skeletons from your body into unoccupied spaces of your choice within 60 feet of you. Each skeleton remains for 1 hour or until it is reduced to 0 hit points, at which point it crumbles into a pile of bones.

The skeletons are friendly to you and your companions and obey your commands. As a bonus action, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each skeleton. You decide what action they will take and where they will move. If you issue no commands, the skeletons only defend themselves against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the skeletons continue to follow it until their task is complete.

The only attacks the skeletons can make are melee weapon attacks or grapples, gaining a bonus to Strength (Athletics) checks made to grapple and to weapon attack rolls equal to your curse ability modifier (minimum +1). If one of the skeletons hits a creature or successfully grapples it, the target becomes cursed as though it failed its saving throw against your Calcifying Strike.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest^'24, unless you expend ten Hit Dice to use it again.

Your body is an explosive with a fuse of unknown length, most likely due to angering a powerful fire entity like Elemental Fire Lord Imix, an archpriest of the Cult of Eternal Flame, an efreeti, or a god of fire like Kothuss. You never knew when it would finally be time for the first to burst out of you, annihilating you and everything in the immediate vicinity, but you could always feel the flames building in a slow crescendo within you, like it is using your body and soul as kindling. By some means, though, you learned to harness this inner inferno, and can now use it to your own ends. After all, fire is so beautiful to behold, and you cannot help but to wonder how gorgeous the world would look when bathed in your glorious flame...

Starting at 2nd level, your increasing mastery of your curse causes you to learn a particular spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Combustion Curse Spells table. See the Spellcasting class feature for how curse spells work.

At 3rd level, you learn to concentrate the heat of your inner flame into your palm. As an action, you can magically ignite a flammable object you touch with your hand, provided it isn't being worn or carried by another creature.

You can also use this feature to attack your enemies without harming your allies. As an action, you can make a melee spell attack against a target within your reach. On a hit, the target takes fire damage equal to your Flame Burst damage + your curse ability modifier.

Starting at 3rd level, when you use your Flame Burst, you can expend a spell slot to increase its radius and potency. Its radius increases to 20 feet for a 1st-level spell slot, to 30 feet for a 2nd-level, to 60-feet for a 3rd-level, to 90 feet for a 4th-level, and to 120 feet for a 5th-level spell slot.

Additionally, when you expend a spell slot with this feature, if a creature succeeds on its saving throw against the Flame Burst, it takes half the damage.

Starting at 5th level, you can cause your flames to burn so hot that you even scorch yourself. Once during each of your turns when you deal fire damage with an accursed class feature or accursed spell, you can choose to take an amount of fire damage up to your accursed level (minimum 1). If you do, the damage roll increases by an amount equal to twice the fire damage you chose to take. Fire damage you take from this feature can't be reduced or prevented in any way, but doesn't require you to make a Constitution saving throw to maintain your concentration.

At 11th level, you gain enough control over your flames that you can create pockets of safety within them for your companions. When you use an accursed class feature or cast an accursed spell that deals fire damage, you can choose a number of creatures you can see up to half your accursed level. Each of the chosen creatures automatically succeeds on any saving throw it makes against the feature or spell this turn, and takes no damage if it would normally take half damage on a successful save.

At 15th level, your flames become hot enough to burn objects resistant to fire. Your accursed class features and accursed spells ignore resistance to fire damage.

At 20th level, whenever you deal fire damage to a target other than yourself with an accursed class feature or accursed spell, the target takes an additional 2d8 fire damage.

Additionally, when you use your Overheat, the feature or spell ignores any immunity to fire damage that a target may have this turn.

Whether it was a poorly worded wish from a djinn, an ill-advised deal with a devil or fey, or an ancient ritual you may not have studied carefully enough, you managed to attain a boon coveted by archmages everywhere: true immortality, a way to live long enough to learn all there is to know and ever will be. While you can still be killed, you always return, and you will never grow older or lose your beauty. For the first few centuries, maybe even for the first few millennia, it was everything you ever dreamed of: no permanent consequences, no more living in fear of death, never having to worry about the seconds ticking away.

Eventually, though, you came to see immortality for what it truly is: a curse that ensures that there is never an end to your torment. No matter what happens, each dawn resets your physical form to its state at the moment you were cursed. You could do nothing but watch as everyone you ever cared about withered and died, you ran out of new things to discover and explore, and you began to grow apathetic and withdrawn as the world around you changed so much that you could no longer recognize or relate to it. You're an artifact of a long gone era, and now there's nothing left for you to do but to finally see what happens if you don't come back...

Starting at 2nd level, your increasing mastery of your curse causes you to learn a particular spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Immortality Curse Spells table. See the Spellcasting class feature for how curse spells work.

By 3rd level, you have dabbled in nearly every trade, even if only for the purpose of alleviating your boredom. You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make using a skill or tool that doesn't already include your proficiency bonus.

At 3rd level, the adventuring you have done in pursuit of ending your curse forces you to focus your training, mastering combat skills that you may only have previously dabbled in. Choose one of the following disciplines.

At 5th level, you recall skills of ages past through contemporary training, gaining an additional benefit depending on the discipline you chose as your Adventuring Discipline.

Starting at 11th level, you can temporarily share the restorative magic of your curse with another creature. When you finish a long rest^'24, you can choose a willing creature within 30 feet of you. That creature gains the effects of your Undying feature until it returns to life or until you finish your next long rest^'24.

At 15th level, you learn to tap into your curse's magic to revert damage you have sustained. As an action, you can regain a number of hit points equal to half your hit point maximum.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest^'24 before you can use it again.

By 20th level, you have lived so long with your curse that it evolves one final time. You gain a sixth Malediction Metamorphosis of your choice, given that you meet its prerequisites.

You, or one of your ancestors, managed to earn the ire of a powerful magical entity — whether it be a hag matron, a celestial deity, or an archmage — that cursed your family line with poor luck. You're constantly losing possessions as though they've vanished into the aether, you injure yourself in the most improbable of ways, and it always rains if you've forgotten your cloak. You've learned, however, that the magic that surrounds you simply alters probability, and have discovered that you can manipulate it and even potentially shift its polarity to good luck. Perhaps, if you gain enough control over this power, you may even be able to alter fate...

Starting at 2nd level, your increasing mastery of your curse causes you to learn a particular spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Misfortune Curse Spells table. See the Spellcasting class feature for how curse spells work.

At 3rd level, you learn to take finer control over your own luck, though the threads of fate aren't fond of being manipulated. When you fail an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, you can use your reaction to reroll, potentially changing the failure to a success with your curse's magic. Once you use this feature, you can't use it to affect the same type of roll again until you fail a different roll of the same type.

For example, if you use this feature to reroll an attack roll, you can't use this feature on an attack roll again until you miss with a different attack roll.

Starting at 5th level, when a creature succeeds on its saving throw against a jinx imbued by your Unfortunate Accident, it takes half the damage, but suffers no additional effects from your Jinx.

Starting at 11th level, you can foist your curse's effects onto others. When another creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an ability check or attack roll, you can use your reaction to magically impose disadvantage on the roll. If a creature can see you when you use this feature, it knows that you are the source of the bad luck.

Starting at 15th level, you can bend fate to make others supernaturally lucky. When another creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll or saving throw, you can use your reaction to magically grant advantage to the roll. If a creature can see you when you use this feature, it knows that you are the source of the good luck.

At 20th level, you become a master at weaving the threads of fate. In combat, you get a special reaction that you can take once on every creature's turn, except your turn. You can use this special reaction only to use one of your Curse of Misfortune features, and you can't use it on the same turn that you take your normal reaction.

Upon your death, a necromantic ritual was performed on your body as it was buried. Your organs were removed and placed in canopic jars, your corpse treated with preserving oils and wrappings, and your body imbued with reanimating magics. After the ritual was completed, you were sealed in a temple or tomb to act as its guardian, only animating upon conditions set by the practitioner that performed your ritual.

Perhaps you earned this punishment by invading the crypt of a mummy lord, displeased the priest of a death cult or one who serves a god of death, or committed high crimes against a vengeful emperor. Regardless of how you became a mummy, upon one of your reanimations, you somehow regained self-awareness, found your organs and replaced them within yourself, and managed to return to a semblance of life while breaking the compulsion of the animating magicks. You've discovered that the workings used to preserve you have their perks, though, and that you still have access to a mummy's horrific powers...

Starting at 2nd level, your increasing mastery of your curse causes you to learn a particular spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Mummification Curse Spells table. See the Spellcasting class feature for how curse spells work.

At 3rd level, you learn to tap into the necromantic magicks suffusing your body and the instincts imbued in your mummy form to remain constantly alert to danger. You require only half as much sleep as normal, and while you're conscious, you can't be surprised except by magical means. You also gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet.

Also at 3rd level, you rediscover the power to terrify your enemies with merely a look. As an action, choose one creature within 60 feet of you that can see you. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn. A creature that succeeds on the saving throw is immune to this feature for the next 24 hours, unless you use your reaction and expend a spell slot to prevent the immunity.

Starting at 5th level, when you use your Dreadful Glare, you can use your Rot Fist as part of the same action this turn.

Starting at 11th level, when you would gain a level of exhaustion, you can use the energies that sustain you to prevent yourself from gaining it. 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^'24.

At 15th level, the magicks injected by your Rot Fist become far more insidious. When you deal necrotic damage to a creature with your Rot Fist, you can force it to succeed on a Constitution saving throw or become cursed with mummy rot. The curse lasts until the cursed creature dies or the curse is removed by the remove curse spell or similar magic. A creature cursed with mummy rot can't regain hit points, it takes 1d6 necrotic damage at the start of each of its turns, and whenever it takes necrotic damage, its hit point maximum is reduced by the same amount. If a creature dies while cursed with mummy rot, its body turns to dust.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest^'24 or you expend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to use it again.

At 20th level, you learn to draw on the full reservoir of the powers granted to you by the dark ritual that turned you into a mummy. You gain the following benefits:

You spent unknown years, maybe even decades or centuries, as a statue — a literal stone shell of your former self. You may have angered a vengeful god or powerful spellcaster, fell victim to a gorgon's breath, or caught the gaze of a medusa. No matter how you were petrified, you eventually regained conscious awareness, though not the ability to move or awareness of your surroundings. This lack of stimulus and utter isolation drove you to near madness, if it didn't entirely tear your sanity apart, before you realized that though the nature of your curse is converting biological matter to stone, it should be possible to reverse the polarity of its magic. Somehow accessing this ability, you managed to return yourself to flesh and escape your stony prison. Armed with the knowledge that you can convert yourself between stone and flesh at will, you are excited to get rolling back into the world, though a part of you does miss the comforting permanence of stone...

Starting at 2nd level, your increasing mastery of your curse causes you to learn a particular spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Petrification Curse Spells table. See the Spellcasting class feature for how curse spells work.

At 3rd level, all the time you've spent holding your breath grants you greater lung capacity. You can hold your breath for twice as long before you start suffocating.

Starting at 3rd level, you can use your momentum to empower your slams. Once during each of your turns when you move at least 15 feet straight toward a creature, object, or structure and then hit it with your slam, the attack deals an extra 1d10 damage to the target. If the target is no more than one size larger than you, it must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

If the target is two or more sizes larger than you, any speed you have becomes 0 for the rest of the turn, and you gain a +1 bonus to the slam's damage for every 5 feet of movement you lost.

The damage increases by 1d10 when you reach certain levels in this class: 11th level (2d10), and 17th level (3d10).

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Starting at 5th level, when you become petrified by an effect other than your curse, you can use the tricks you learned in conquering your curse to return to your original flesh form after 10 minutes, provided that the effect causing the condition would normally have a longer duration.

The time you must spend before you can return to your flesh form decreases when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1 minute at 11th level, and to until the end of your next turn at 20th level.

At 11th level, you gain the following benefits while in stone form:

Starting at 15th level, you can move through the space of any creature that is prone without using any additional movement. If you successfully knock a creature prone with your Rolling Boulder, you can use the feature a second time this turn, provided that the attack has a different target.

At 20th level, the rock that makes up your stone form becomes harder than diamond, and just as eternal. While in your stone form, you have resistance to all damage except psychic damage, you don't age, and you can hold your breath indefinitely without suffocating.

You, or perhaps a loved one, angered a powerful spellcaster, hag, or other fey creature, causing them to curse you to sleep forever and wake no more. Whether you found a loophole in the curse's magic or you battled through a land of ephemeral dreams back to the world of the waking, you eventually regained consciousness. Now you spend your fleeting waking moments trying to live the life you've only been able to dream of. After your long slumber, you're trying to make the most out of your waking hours, but a quick nap does sound good right about now...

Starting at 2nd level, your increasing mastery of your curse causes you to learn a particular spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Somnolence Curse Spells table. See the Spellcasting class feature for how curse spells work.

Starting at 3rd level, you have a mystical mastery over the waking world informed by the time you spend lucid dreaming. When you sleep for at least 8 consecutive hours, you can learn any one spell of your choice that is of a level you can cast. Chosen spells count as accursed spells for you but don't count against your number of accursed spells you know. Immediately after you cast a spell you learned through this feature, you forget it. You also forget any spells you learned through this feature when you use it to learn spells again.

When you reach certain levels in this class, you learn additional spells when you use this feature. At 5th level, you learn a total of two spells. At 11th level, you learn a total of three spells.

Also starting at 3rd level, when you finish a long rest^'24 where you slept uninterrupted the entire time, you gain one relaxation level. You can have a maximum number of relaxation levels equal to your proficiency bonus. When you would take a level of exhaustion and you have one or more levels of relaxation, you lose a relaxation level instead.

In addition, you can use an action and expend any number of relaxation levels. When you do, you gain the following benefit of your choice:

Once you use this feature to gain a benefit, you can't gain the same benefit again until you finish a long rest^'24.

Starting at 5th level, you can use an action to choose an unconscious or stunned creature within 30 feet to experience vivid nightmares, causing it to take 2d8 psychic damage. If taking damage would normally end the unconscious or stunned condition, this damage doesn't cause that to happen.

This damage increases by 1d8 at 11th level (3d8) and again at 17th level (4d8).

Also starting at 5th level, you gain a total of two relaxation levels when you finish a long rest^'24 if you slept uninterrupted the entire time.

Once you reach certain accursed levels, you gain a further relaxation level when you finish such a long rest^'24: 13th level (three relaxation levels) and 20th level (four relaxation levels).

Starting at 11th level, immediately after you take damage, you can use your reaction to fall unconscious until the start of your next turn or the next time you take damage, whichever comes first. While asleep, you have resistance to all damage except psychic. If you sleep until the start of your next turn, you wake with a number of temporary hit points equal to half your accursed level.

Starting at 15th level, you can cast a spell you chose with your Lucid Dreaming feature without expending a spell slot. Once you use this feature to cast a spell, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest^'24.

At 20th level, you can use an action to sleep deeply, spreading a contagious somnolence amongst those near you. When you do, you immediately fall unconscious. During this time, you have resistance to all damage except psychic and cannot be woken unless you wish to be. At the end of each of your turns for the duration, you gain a relaxation level and each creature of your choice within 30 feet of you is targeted as if you had used your Fulminating Fatigue feature on it. While you remain unconscious due to this feature, you can still use your action, though the only action you can take is to use your Night Terrors feature.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

One of the most common curses suffered by adventurers and explorers is attuning to a cursed object. Many suffer the inconvenience only so long as it takes to get a remove curse spell cast on themselves, but for some reason you chose to remain attuned to a cursed weapon. Perhaps you didn't have the connections or money to have the spell cast, or maybe there was something compelling about the weapon's history that made you reluctant to part with it. Regardless of your reasons, you've embraced your connection with the weapon, despite its annoying tendency to never leave you alone, and have dedicated yourself to mastering it. You may have become a bit obsessed with the combination of magic and martial might the weapon contains, and want to explore just how far it can take you...

Starting at 2nd level, your increasing mastery of your curse causes you to learn a particular spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Armament Curse Spells table. See the Spellcasting class feature for how curse spells work.

Starting at 3rd level, due to your greater bond with your curse armament, you can draw further power from it when you strike. Once during each of your turns when you hit with a curse armament attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d6 damage.

Additionally, you can coax the magicks of your curse into another melee weapon over the course of a short or long rest. Before you begin the rest, you choose a nonmagical melee weapon in your possession, which can be a weapon with the heavy property. You must remain in contact with your curse armament and the chosen weapon for the duration of the rest. At the end of the rest, the chosen weapon becomes your new curse armament and your previous curse armament loses all of the properties granted to it by your curse.

At 3rd level, envious of the advances you've made by tapping into its magic, your curse armament begins to hunger for its own growth in power. When you attune to a magic melee weapon, you can choose to feed it to your curse armament, causing the consumed weapon to be absorbed within your curse armament, which gains its magical properties. For example, if you feed a flame tongue to your curse armament, it gains the flame tongue's ability to ignite by speaking a command word, shedding light and dealing additional fire damage while it is ignited as detailed in the item's description. While your curse armament has a magic item consumed this way, it counts as magical for the purpose of spells you cast.

When you feed a magic weapon to your curse armament this way, you still count as being attuned to the consumed weapon. Your curse armament regurgitates the consumed weapon, losing the weapon's properties, if you feed it a different magic melee weapon, if you become unattuned from the consumed weapon, or if you use your action to cause it to regurgitate the weapon.

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

At 11th level, your expertise with your curse armament allows you to adopt a style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Starting at 15th level, once during each of your turns when you hit a creature or object with a ranged attack using your curse armament, you can teleport to the nearest unoccupied space to the target. Your curse armament then reappears in your space.

At 20th level, when you take the Attack or Cast a Spell action on your turn or use your reaction to make an opportunity attack, you can make an additional attack with your curse armament as part of the same action or reaction.

At 20th level, your curse armament can have up to two magic melee weapons consumed at the same time. If you attempt to feed it a third, it regurgitates your choice of one of the two weapons it currently has consumed.

If both of your curse armament's consumed weapons grant a bonus to attack and damage rolls using the weapon, you use the higher of the two bonuses, not the combination. For example, if your curse weapon has consumed a weapon +2 and a weapon +3, you will receive a +3 bonus to your attack and damage rolls using your curse armament, not a +5 bonus.

You were not born, nor were you cursed. Instead, you lurched to life with electricity crackling in the air around you. Your creator intended you to be a perfect specimen of their own kind, but when the stitched together corpses you're made of gained sentience, you were only a grotesque facsimile of true life. Your presence is deeply unsettling to others, including your creator, who may have abandoned you shortly after your animation. Despite their persistent rejections, you long to find a place among other humanoids, though you sometimes wonder if you aren't more like the monster they see you as...

Starting at 2nd level, your increasing mastery of your curse causes you to learn a particular spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Created Curse Spells table. See the Spellcasting class feature for how curse spells work.

Starting at 3rd level, you recall fragmented memories from one of the creatures whose body you are made up of. Choose a skill or two tools. You gain proficiency in that skill or with those tools.

Also at 3rd level, once per turn when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can deal an additional 1d6 lightning damage to the target. When you do, until the end of your next turn, the target has disadvantage on all attack rolls against creatures other than you.

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

At 11th level, you gain resistance to lightning damage. Immediately after you take lightning damage, you gain that many temporary hit points. You lose any remaining temporary hit points from this feature after 1 minute.

In addition, when you deal damage with a melee weapon attack while you have temporary hit points, you can choose to expend a number of your temporary hit points up to half your accursed level. When you do, the melee weapon attack deals additional lightning damage equal to the temporary hit points expended.

Starting at 15th level, the maximum value of your Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores increases from 20 to 22.

In addition, each time you finish a long rest^'24, you can choose to decrease your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution ability score by 2 to increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution ability score by 2, to a maximum of 22.

At 20th level, you can use a bonus action to grasp at the spark of eternal life. When you do, you gain the following benefits for the next minute:

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest^'24 before you can use it again. You regain the use of this feature early if you use the reaction granted by your It's Alive! feature.