Tamer

Infusers meld the power of the elements with their companions through the act of summoning How you came across this power is anyone's guess. Perhaps you took a tumble across the Elemental Flux during an inter-planar voyage, were born with some primordial heritage, or were tutored by an elementalist wizard However it happened, you have the ability to empower those with which you are most closely bonded: your companions.

Your companions gain the ability to unleash a torrent of elemental energy in a devastating blow. When you infuse a companion at the end of a long rest, it gains an action option corresponding to the chosen element The DC for the saving throw equals your tamer spell save DC.

Once a companion uses one of these actions, it can't use any action granted by this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

Your companion gains resistance to the element with which it is infused When your companion takes damage of that type, you can use your reaction to bolster its defences, granting it immunity to that damage type, including against the triggering damage, until the start of your next turn Once you use this reaction, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Sometimes, more is better As an action, you can infuse your companion with a second element for 1 minute, choosing from the options in the Infuse feature. Your companion gains the benefits of the Infuse, Elemental Discharge, and Primordial Shield features for both of the elements with which it is infused. If you activate your Primordial Shield feature while Unstable Fusion is active, your companion gains immunity to both damage types Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 18th level, a companion can use this action twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.

Whether it be through a non-stop litany of encouraging aphorisms, exaggerated movements, and hands signals, or through a calm, telepathic reinforcement, a leader exhorts their companions to ever greater feats of brilliance Leaders believe that with the right support and teamwork, no task is impossible for their menagerie of companions. Whether you swear by positive reinforcement, craft meticulous pre-fight gameplans, or ruthlessly punish mistakes, communication and motivation are your watchwords.

You can push your companion beyond its normal limits for a moment When you use an action or bonus action to command your companion, you can extol it to exert greater effort. On your companion's turn, it can take one additional action of your choice.

Once your companion has benefited from your use of this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before that same companion can benefit from it again.

When an attacker that you can see hits your companion with an attack, you can use your reaction to bolster your companion's resilience. As a reaction, you companion fortifies itself, halving the attack's damage against it.

As an action, you can summon a second companion from a vessel you are holding to an unoccupied space you can see within 30 feet of you When you use an action or bonus action to command your companion, you can command both of them simultaneously, giving a different command to each.

The two companions take their turns simultaneously. At the start of their turn, you can mentally choose one creature you can see (no action required). Both your companions have advantage on attack rolls against this creature until the end of their turn.

After being summoned for 1 minute, or if your second companion is ever more than 100 feet away from you, the second companion is dismissed. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

You can push your companion beyond its normal limits for a moment. When you use an action or bonus action to command your companion, you can extol it to exert greater effort. On your companion's turn, it can take one additional action of your choice.

Your companions can now benefit from Action Surge twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.

Whether through the tutelage of a lich, a career as a gravedigger, or an innate affinity for the world beyond, you have learnt to manipulate the very essence of life. You can strip it from those that would do you harm, and imbue it in those that serve your aims. Weaving threads of necromantic magic around bone, flesh, and sinew, you create gruesome facsimiles of life—undead puppets that move to the rhythm of the threads you pull.

You learn how to use your taming magic to temporarily raise new allies and bind them to your will You learn the animate dead spell, you always have it prepared, it doesn't count against the number of spells you know, and you can cast it once without using a spell slot. After you do so, you can't cast it in this way again until you finish a long rest.

When you issue a command to your companion using either a bonus action or action, you can issue the same command to any creatures you have created with animate dead so long as the creatures are within 100 feet of you.

You learn to channel life force between you and your companions. As an action while your summoned companion is within 100 feet of you, you can deal necrotic damage to your companion up to a value equal to twice your tamer level. This damage can't be reduced in any way. You then regain hit points equal to the damage dealt. Alternatively, you can deal the necrotic damage to yourself and restore hit points to your summoned companion equal to the damage you took.

As an action, you tap into deep pools of necromantic energy, imbuing your companion with an aura of undeath for the next minute. While imbued with this aura, your companion can, as a bonus action on its turn, force one creature it can see within 15 feet of it to make a Constitution saving throw against your tamer spell save DC. On a failure, the creature takes 4d8 necrotic damage and your companion gains a number of temporary hit points equal to half the damage dealt.

In addition, for the duration, when your companion would be reduced to 0 hit points, it doesn't fall unconscious Instead, it is reduced to 1 hit point and gains one failed death saving throw. If your companion gains three failed death saving throws during the minute, or five failed death saving throws if it has the undead type, it immediately dies. At the end of the minute, your companion drops to 0 hit points, falls unconscious and is stable.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Once you reach 18th level, when you cast this spell using this feature, the creature you animate has the statistics of a ghast (if Medium or smaller) or a minotaur skeleton (if Large or larger).

Tamers follow various Training Paradigms that define their bond with their companions or the companions themselves. The paradigm you choose reflects your approach.

7th-Level Sensei Feature

With a flourish, your companion can perform a series of complicated martial combinations, flitting between targets with lightning speed. As an action, your companion moves up to its speed (this movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks) and can make up to six Martial Strike attacks, each of which must be against a different target. Until the end of its turn, the companion's movement does not provoke opportunity attacks.

Once a companion uses this action, it can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest. Starting at 18th level, a companion can use this action twice between each of your short or long rests.

10th-Level Sensei Feature

You have learnt to use your mental connection to shield your companion from pain and fatigue. Whenever your companion takes bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, you can reduce the damage it takes by an amount equal to your tamer spellcasting ability modifier (minimum reduction of 1). You can't use this feature while you are incapacitated.

14th-Level Sensei Feature

As an action, you can infuse one summoned companion with your own spirit. For 1 minute, it can make four Martial Strike attacks when it takes the Attack action on its turn instead of three, it can take two bonus actions on each of its turns, and it gains temporary hit points equal to your spellcasting ability modifier (minimum 1) at the start of each of its turns. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Through really tiny stitches, you alter the physiology of your subjec– er... companions, in an unending quest for perfection. Many Splicers delve into the world of adventuring in the hopes of discovering exciting new improvements with which to augment their companions. Your foray into the world of biomancy, whether through wizarding school, working with biosmith artificers, or as the surgical assistant to a mad scientist, has resulted in a singular observation: subjects are much more malleable when they're psychically bonded to you.

You can upgrade each of your companions with exotic organs and appendages. At the start of a long rest, you can choose one of the following upgrades for each of your companions. At the end of the long rest, the biomantic meld completes, and your companion gains the associated action optional. The DC for the saving throw equals your tamer spell save DC.

Once a companion uses one of these actions, it can't do so again until it finishes a short or long rest.

You augment your companions with a highly adaptive mutagen, allowing them to gain the strengths of foes they defeat and confer it to your other companions through a synchronous quantum biomantic link.

As an action, you can command your companion to consume the corpse of a non-swarm creature that has been dead for less than 1 minute. Choose one of the consumed creature's damage resistances, damage immunities, or condition immunities (except immunity to exhaustion. All of your companions gain resistance to one damage type to which the slain creature was resistant or immune, or gain immunity to one condition to which the creature was immune.

After you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. When you use this feature again, your companions lose any benefit they had previously gained from this feature Consuming a corpse in this way prevents it from being harvested for components.

As an action, you trigger a hidden, internal switch within your companion, triggering a cascade of rapid mutations that lasts for the next minute, with the following results:

After the minute elapses, your companion falls unconscious for 1d4 hours and gains 2 levels of exhaustion. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 18th level, a companion can use the Modular Upgrades I action twice before a rest.