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Welcome to the BETA-Test . 1 Kitsune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Paladin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Introduction Nishikin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Oath of the Yojimbo . . . . . 162
Oniborne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Ranger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Kaiju Battle Mechanics . . . 7 Lion Turtle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Ronin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Ryujin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Rogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Bakekujira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Tengu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Tamaya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Kabuto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Sorcerer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Koi Dragons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Spirit Caller . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Raiju . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Optional Class Features . . . . 128
Tamer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Ubusuna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Barbarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Sensei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Path of the Kaiju . . . . . . . . 130
Combo Attacks . . . . . . . . . 33 Warlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Bard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
The Shinigami . . . . . . . . . . 183
Harvesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Harvesting College of Hanabi . . . . . . . 132
Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
College of Masks . . . . . . . . 134
Crafting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Crafting Shinobi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Bender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Disciple of Ferocity . . . . . . 146 Backgrounds & Feats . . . 189
Enchanting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Disciple of Fortification . . . 147 Backgrounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Equipment & Prostheses . . 57 Disciple of Fusion . . . . . . . 150 Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Disciple of Invigoration . . . 152 Racial Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Prostheses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Cleric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Familiars . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Weapon Masteries .
Masteries . . . . . . . 67 Shrine Warden Domain . . . 154
Druid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Magic Items .
Items . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Races
Circle of the Yokai . . . . . . . 156 Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Enkoh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Fighter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Fuyohren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Creatures of the Yokai
Skeletal Blade . . . . . . . . . . 158
Hanamori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Realms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Realms
Monk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Haniwa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Legal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Way of the Eight Gates . . . 160
Isetsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Credits
Lead Designers: Mohammed Bellafquih, William Earl, Max Wartelle
Additional Design: João Araújo
Writers: João Araújo, William Earl, Dai Jia Rong He, Max Wartelle
Cultural Consulting: Dai Jia Rong He, Yo Shionoya-Frank
Sensitivity Consulting: Nala J. Wu, Rue Dickey
Editing: PhyleaHomebrews, Max Wartelle
Proofing: Jessic Gombart
Formatting & Layout: Sally Clark, Kwanpo “Ari” Cheng
Cover Illustrator: Ognjen Sporin
Interior Illustrators: Chaouki “Ciao” Titouhi, Drageljevic Aleksa,
Martin Kirby-Jackson, Michelle Mueller, Mukhlis “Sinlaire” Nur,
Ognjen Sporin, Phan Tuan Dat, Rajaa Al-Subairi, Rastislav Le,
Richard Nguyen, Souhaib Zekri
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Welcome to the BETA-Test
This is the BETA-release document for Ryoko’s Guide to
the Yokai Realms. Similar to Unearthed Arcana released by I was reading the karasu tengu and saw
other publishers, this is a playtest document, designed to
they’re way too overpowered.
collect your thoughts and experiences so we can ensure
the final book is reflective of what you want to see. We’ve
already playtested extensively among ourselves, but doubt- This feedback isn’t helpful because it doesn’t point to a
less, as a community, together we will find new ways to specific feature that is potentially problematic for us to work
present information in a clearer way, tweak the balance of on, and it hasn’t been informed by actual playtest experience.
features that are too effective or a little lacking, and correct
any grammar or spelling errors. As a BETA-test, this is not Give a page number and paragraph
the final version of Ryoko’s Guide. Some material that was when pointing out grammar errors
unlocked as Stretch Goals across the kickstarter campaign,
such as the Disciple of Fusion bender subclass and weapon This is a simple one, but telling us “yo, I noticed a spelling
mastery system, will be added in a future update. error in this book”, is hard for us to correct. A great example
of grammar feedback might look like this:
What Is Useful Feedback?
On page 152, in the third paragraph, you
As you explore Ryoko’s Guide to the Yokai Realms and Wrath
of the Kaiju, we are particularly interested in your personal misspelt the word “failure” lol.
playtest experience. There are a lot of us, so to ensure we
get the maximum value out of your playtesting, here’s a few
things to consider when you explore the BETA. Take your time to explore the book
We get it; who wants to read when you can dive right in and
Use gameplay to inform your feedback get playing, right? That said, Ryoko’s Guide and Wrath of the
When exploring a new book, it’s impossible not to form Kaiju are not designed to be beginner books, and they intro-
opinions at a first glance. Maybe a feature seems a little duce some fairly complex ideas and systems as they expand
overtuned, or a stat block seems underpowered. But then, on the core rules of 5th edition. Please take the time to read
upon playing it, the limitations and virtues of these new and familiarise yourself with the new mechanics, and read
ideas become clear. This is why it’s extremely important to adventures and stat blocks in full before running them. This
play the material you leave feedback on. When leaving feed- will save a lot of confusion and prevent wasted playtesting
back, provide the context in which you tested it and then time—oftentimes, the answer can be found within the book.
your thoughts. An example might look like this: With that in mind, if you’re ever not sure on how some-
thing works, even if it is explained in the book, that’s great
feedback for us! It shows we need to devote more time to
My players and I ran a few one-shot adven-
explaining exactly how something should work and com-
tures using the races in Ryoko’s. We found municate it to you more clearly. A good example of such
the red oniborne, karasu tengu, kitsune, and feedback might look like this:
lion turtle worked great, but we found the
isetsu’s Brittle Shell trait a little powerful in I read through the rules on kaiju fighting a
the very early game, particularly on backline couple of times, and even ran a couple of the
supporting builds. Maybe the bonus to AC adventures that close with a kaiju fight, but
could scale with proficiency somehow, rather I’m still confused about the Chaos Threshold.
than being a flat +2? Is the Chaos Threshold a vulnerable area?
This feedback is excellent because it clearly explains what For what it’s worth, no, Chaos Threshold isn’t a vulner-
was tested and what the problem was. It even suggests a able area, but if you were confused about that, or anything
solution. This isn’t necessary, but it’s helpful to get an idea else after a read through or two, it tells us we need to find a
of what you might want to see in a feature that you feel isn’t way to communicate things more clearly.
working. A less useful piece of feedback might look like this:
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Introduction Rule Zero
Ryoko’s Guide to the Yokai Realms is your toolbox (it can
be a sentient toolbox if you wish to get into the spirit of
things), bursting with new mechanics, classes, races, feats,
“Oh, yikes, more adventurers.
spells, weapons, creatures, magic items, backgrounds, and
Look, I should probably have worked out a just about everything else you could imagine. You are in
charge of what you take from this toolbox and can change
gentle way to say this by now, but chances are
anything that you wish, leaving behind whatever you don’t
high you’re going to die… like, quite soon. Don’t need. If there is an AC that seems a little low, a creature stat
panic though! In the unlikely event you survive block that would work perfectly for another being you have
long enough to read it, I’ve prepared some very in mind, or a kaiju vulnerability that can be reshaped to
useful information. Not to brag, but of the four make an epic character moment, then craft and chisel away
adventurers who proofread my notes, two are still what’s here until it’s perfect for your games. Remember: if
you’re all having fun, you’re doing it right!
alive, and the two that died provided extremely
helpful (albeit harshly worded) feedback in their
dying moments. It turns out koi dragons aren’t Structure
vulnerable to tickling, but I stand by my assertion This book has three parts:
that it was worth a try. Part One: New Mechanics is the aptly named section ded-
icated to expanding the core 5e system with new concepts and
In this guide you’ll find everything you need to get rulings. Kaiju Battle Mechanics, Combo Attacks, Prostheses,
along in the Yokai Realms. It’s a dangerous place, and the Weapon Mastery System all fall into this section.
sure, but it’s also beautiful, exciting, and there’s Part Two: Player Options is for the player characters.
a tea place down the road that makes the best This section introduces playable races, subclasses, the new
matcha in the multiverse. In my book you’ll find bender class, and backgrounds for character creation.
notes on the people and creatures who live here, Part Three: The Toolbox is everything else. The treasure,
new magic, weapons, and, most importantly, new spells, and creatures with which to populate your world.
ways to fight.
I should also mention that there are these things
Formatting & Features
called kaiju—giant monsters with the power to wipe Ryoko’s Guide uses enhanced formatting to improve the
entire civilisations off the map. Rule one of fighting gaming and reading experience.
them is don’t, but rule zero is: if you’re gonna die Formatting. This book uses bolding and italics to help the
anyway, may as well go down swinging! When your reader identify key information at a glance. Dice calculations
(“1d10 + 5 cold damage”), check modifiers (+7 to hit”), con-
back is against the wall, and you’re facing down a
ditions that are being applied (“fall prone”), areas & distanc-
three-hundred-tonne beetle the size of a palace, es (“a 10-foot radius”), and checks and saving throws (“DC
the knowledge in this tome might just save your 21 Dexterity saving throw”) are bolded. Spell names (“water
life. Heck, you may even win, and be able to craft wyrm”), magic items (“kaijurigama”), foreign languages (“a
up one heck of a weapon to show for it. certain je ne sais quoi”), and book names (“Wrath of the Kaiju
and Ryoko’s Guide to the Yokai Realms”) are italicised.
If you survive, I’m doing a tea and biscuits social Language. The content herein is written in British
at my place next Thursday. Bombuku is gonna be English; spellings such as “armour class” and “paralysed” are
there; he’s a great engineer, and will be able to used across the book.
craft prostheses for any limbs you might be missing Non-standard Ability Checks. Ryoko’s Guide breaks from
by that point. Drop by if you’re still alive—we can the standard association of abilities and skills, allowing you
share stories!” to be creative in how you mix and match them. For exam-
ple, Arcana is typically an Intelligence check. However, if a
— Ryoko sorcerer or bard is examining a magic item, you might ask
for an Arcana (Charisma) check to reflect their spellcasting
ability and expertise. If you do, the player makes a Charis-
ma check and, if they have proficiency in the Arcana skill,
adds their proficiency bonus to the result.
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Kaiju Battle Mechanics
“Kaiju are like natural disasters; they aren’t Kaiju Behaviour & Chaos
something one can simply conquer. You ‘win’ if
you’re still alive when the earth stops shaking.”
Threshold
Although kaiju can’t be defeated by brute force alone,
attacking a kaiju can provoke changes in its behaviour.
Some kaiju transform to battle adventurers in new ways, or
Overview gain mighty, new abilities as they take damage. Heroes must
always be ready to adapt their tactics and think on their feet
Kaiju are colossal, apex monsters of the Yokai Realms. Man- to survive a kaiju’s evolving onslaught.
ifestations of primal magic, their mere presence can shatter
Chaos Threshold. Instead of a regular hit point pool, a
the ecological balance of an entire continent. Snow-capped
kaiju has a Chaos Threshold, a pool of hit points separate
mountains are decapitated with the swipe of a claw, a valley
from those of its vulnerable areas. Whenever a kaiju takes
is drowned as a slumbering behemoth dams a river, and a
damage to a location other than a vulnerable area, this dam-
civilisation is decimated by a rampaging colossus.
age is dealt to the kaiju’s Chaos Threshold. When the Chaos
Due to their immense power and size, entering into bat- Threshold is reduced 0, the kaiju is not defeated, but begins
tle with a kaiju is unlike battling any other creature. Kaiju to Rampage instead, adopting a new behaviour described in
have ability scores, actions, traits, and a challenge rating, its Behaviour table.
like smaller creatures, but defeating them a kaiju is a far
Behaviour Table. A kaiju’s stat block is accompanied
more complex endeavour. Characters must scale the kaiju,
by a table that details the new behaviour it adopts when a
target vulnerable areas, and deplete its Chaos Threshold.
triggering event occurs, such as the party exploiting one of
As the battle progresses, a kaiju’s behaviour and tactics will
the kaiju’s vulnerable areas. The behaviours aren’t listed in
evolve in response to player actions. In its death throes, a
any particular order; how players approach a fight will dic-
kaiju attacks recklessly, and the party must deliver a well-
tate how a kaiju’s behaviour evolves. When a kaiju finishes a
timed Finishing Blow to secure victory.
long rest, it loses any behaviours it has gained.
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Example - Bakuryo
Bakuryo, the Ascendant Cascade is a dragon kaiju with a
Chaos Threshold of 250. When her Chaos Threshold is
reduced to 0, her Rampage behaviour is triggered, causing
her to enter her Water Form, transforming her abilities and
tactics, and altering the nature of the battle.
Bakuryo Behaviours
Behaviour Trigger Effect
Bakuryo enters her Water Form.
Bakuryo’s Chaos Threshold is She aims to whelm as many crea-
Rampage
reduced to 0 hit points tures as possible, drowning and
crushing them within herself.
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Death Throes. When all of a kaiju’s vulnerable areas are
Rules Reminder: Mounts
exploited, it enters its death throes, desperately fighting Once during your move, you can mount a creature
with no sense of self-preservation. In addition to unique that is within 5 feet of you or dismount. Doing so
effects included in each kaiju’s Behaviour table (see Kaiju costs an amount of movement equal to half your
Behaviour & Chaos Threshold on page XX), the kaiju has
speed. For example, if your speed is 30 feet, you
advantage on all weapon attacks, and the value an attacker
must roll on a d20 to score a critical hit against the kaiju is must spend 15 feet of movement to mount a horse.
reduced by 2. For example, a creature that normally needs Therefore, you can’t mount it if you don’t have 15
to roll a 19 or 20 to score a critical hit would instead score a feet of movement left or if your speed is 0 feet.
critical hit on a roll of 17-20.
If an effect moves your mount against its will while
Finishing Blow. While in its death throes, a kaiju can be
defeated with a Finishing Blow. To deliver a Finishing Blow, you’re on it, you must succeed on a DC 10 Dex-
the kaiju must take sufficient damage on a single turn, as terity saving throw or fall off the mount, land-
shown by the Finishing Blow number in its stat block. ing prone in a space within 5 feet of it. If you’re
When this occurs, the kaiju is defeated. knocked prone while mounted, you must make the
Death Rattle. The death of a kaiju leaves a mark upon same saving throw.
the world. On initiative count 20 of the round following
a Finishing Blow, the effects listed in the Death Rattle If your mount is knocked prone, you can use your
section of the kaiju’s appendix entry take effect. This may reaction to dismount it as it falls and land on your
manifest as a ruinous wave of necrotic energy withering all feet. Otherwise, you are dismounted and fall prone
life for miles around, or as a more subtle erosion of magic in a space within 5 feet of it.
and wonder across the world at the destruction of such an
awesome behemoth.
Moving on Kaiju
As Gargantuan creatures, kaiju are battlefields unto them-
Unwilling Mounts
selves. Scaling a kaiju allows creatures to reach vulnerable Ryoko’s Guide introduces a new type of mount, in
areas, take cover from attacks, and move with the kaiju as it addition to the standard ‘controlled’ and ‘independ-
tears across the landscape.
ent’ mounts in 5th edition: unwilling. A creature
Mounting a Kaiju. Before a creature can move across a on an unwilling mount doesn’t gain any benefits it
kaiju, the creature needs to mount it, using the normal rules would normally gain from being mounted, and an
for mounted combat. If a creature flies, drops, or teleports
unwilling mount doesn’t gain any beneficial effects a
onto a kaiju on their turn, the creature can use movement
equal to half its speed to catch itself and become mounted rider might impart to a mount.
on the kaiju. A creature that is on a kaiju but isn’t mounted
on it immediately falls prone in the nearest unoccupied
Movement. Players can use the kaiju schematic presented
space to the kaiju. Some items and prostheses, like the
in each kaiju’s appendix entry to see how far their characters
grappling hook and climbing claws (see page XX), allow
must climb to reach various parts on the kaiju’s body. After
creatures to mount and move across kaiju more easily.
a creature has mounted a kaiju, the creature moves with the
kaiju as it moves. If a kaiju is conscious, any part of its body
is treated as difficult terrain for a creature mounted on it.
Creatures with a climbing speed ignore this difficult terrain.
Kaiju Cover. A kaiju can feel creatures on its body. Even
if a creature is in a position on a kaiju that the kaiju can’t see,
the kaiju can attack that creature without suffering disadvan-
tage. However, be it because a creature’s location on the kaiju’s
body makes it harder for the kaiju to reach it, or because the
kaiju doesn’t want to damage itself with its own strikes, crea-
tures mounted on a kaiju have half cover (+2 bonus to AC)
against the kaiju’s melee weapon attacks. Like other obstacles,
the GM might also rule that certain parts of the kaiju’s body
also provide cover against effects originating outside the kaiju.
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Scaling and Falling. Reaching a kaiju’s vulnerable areas GM: It’s about 60 feet from you; you can feel the
may require an adventurer to scale the creature. To repel booming thuds of its beat ripple across the
unwanted passengers, all kaiju have a special bonus action: creature’s entire body.
Shake Off. The DC of this saving throw is equal to 10 + the
kaiju’s Proficiency Bonus, and is listed in the kaiju’s stat block. Humperdink: Perfect! First, I’m going to brace
Shake Off. The kaiju twists and shakes its body violent- myself against the kaiju again by using 15 feet
ly. Each creature mounted on it must succeed on a of movement, and then I’m going to cast el-
Strength or Dexterity saving throw (creature’s choice) dritch blast through the Heart, Bon Jovi style.
or be thrown off, landing prone in an unoccupied
space within 5 feet of the kaiju. GM: Okay, the Heart has half cover behind the ribs.
Make an attack roll.
Bracing
A gnome grips a ship’s rigging as the vessel plunges down Humperdink: I get advantage on the first of my
the face of an enormous wave; a dragon rider presses her eldritch blast attacks because I’m braced.
knees into the flank of her scaled mount a moment before
it executes a barrel roll; and a titan-slaying hero plants his GM: Absolutely. Roll it out.
feet wide, hefting his axe for a killing blow. Whatever the
Humperdink: That’s a 25 to hit on the first roll,
situation, bracing yourself can improve your odds of not
plunging a thousand feet to an untimely demise. 27 to hit on the second, and 28 on the third!
Brace. You can brace yourself using surfaces or objects GM: Your beams all thread between two ribs and
in your immediate vicinity by spending an amount of hit—roll damage for each.
movement equal to half your speed. When you do so, you
are braced until the start of your next turn: your speed is 0 Humperdink: 36 force damage, total.
feet, and you have advantage on ability checks and saving
throws you make to avoid being moved against your will. GM: Your brutal barrage of blasts, in conjunction
This condition ends when you move away from the surface with the damage the Heart took last round,
or object you used to brace yourself, or when you become is enough to severely wound Iminada. The
incapacitated. You can’t brace yourself on a creature unless kaiju twists wildly in the air, and you feel the
that creature is Gargantuan. If you are braced on a creature, thundering pulse of its Heart rise to fervorous
the first attack roll you make against that creature before the
speed before suddenly falling silent. Iminada’s
start of your next turn has advantage.
Heart vulnerability is exploited!
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Preparing For Battle
Understanding a kaiju’s behaviour, physiology, and history is
crucial in discovering its vulnerabilities. The Clues section of
each adventure inWrath of the Kaiju details how the GM can
convey this knowledge to the players. In addition, a creature
A Gargantuan Adventure
can use an action to make an Intelligence (Insight) or Every kaiju comes with its own epic adventure in
Wisdom (Survival) (DC equal to 10 + the kaiju’s Proficien- the Wrath of the Kaiju adventure book, which can be
cy Bonus) while it is within 90 feet of a kaiju and can see it, run at three different levels of play. Each adventure
identifying one visible vulnerable area on a success.
comes with history, locations, battle maps, NPCs,
clues, encounters, loot, and plot hooks to place ka-
Variable Level Encounters iju battles in the context of a living, dynamic world
In order for kaiju battles to be implemented at different for players to explore.
levels of play, every kaiju stat block has three variations,
each at a different challenge rating (CR). All these variations
share the same Vulnerable Areas table. The column at the Ryoko's Guide offers statistics for the highest CR
right shows the statistics for each vulnerable area (AC and variation of each kaiju. Their respective variations
hit points) for each CR. For example, Bakuryo has three
can be found in Wrath of the Kaiju.
stat block variations: CR 14, 21, and 27. At CR 21, her Up-
turned Scale vulnerable area has AC 20 and 45 hit points.
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Behaviours & Vulnerable Areas
Iminada has two vulnerable areas: her Body and her Heart. Unlike other kaiju, her Chaos Threshold starts at a negative value;
she must be healed up to 0 in order to fully manifest and begin her rampage.
Raiko Behaviours
Behaviour Trigger Effect
Iminada’s Ethereal Bite and Tail Swipe attacks deal extra necrotic damage.
Iminada’s Chaos Threshold Vulnerable Areas. Iminada’s Body and Heart vulnerable areas can be
Rampage
is raised to 0. targeted and damaged.
Lost Features. Ethereal Vanishing bonus action.
Effect. A circular wave 100 feet tall converges on Iminada’s location.
Iminada’s Body vulnerable Each other creature within 500 feet of Iminada must succeed on a DC
Imploding Current
area is exploited. 18 Strength saving throw or take 28 (8d6) bludgeoning damage and be
pulled to the nearest unoccupied space within 30 feet of Iminada.
Iminada’s Heart vulnerable Lost Features. Song of Desolation action and Undying Beat
Shattered Heart
area is exploited. legendary action.
Iminada falls prone in the nearest unoccupied sea water to her.
Iminada has two exploited Lost Features. Iminada loses her flying and swimming speeds.
Death Throes
vulnerable areas. Finishing Blow. Iminada is destroyed when she takes damage equal to
her Finishing Blow in a single turn.
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Iminada, The Sovereign Undead Mourning Tide. A melancholy aura spreads around Iminada. At
the start of Iminada’s turn, each creature within 1 mile of Im-
Gargantuan Undead (Kaiju), Chaotic Neutral
inada that is not at least waist deep in sea water must succeed
Armour Class 22 (natural armour) on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw or be cursed. While
Chaos Threshold -150 (see Forced Resurrection) cursed in this way, its creature type is Undead, and it can’t regain
Finishing Blow 90 hit points. At the end of each long rest, the creature can repeat
Speed 5 ft., fly 60 ft. (hover), swim 60 ft. the saving throw, ending the curse on itself on a success. Once
Vulnerable Area Identification DC 18 a creature succeeds on the saving throw, it is immune to Imi-
nada’s Mourning Tide for the next 24 hours. Spells that remove
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA curses only suspend the curse for 24 hours.
23 (+6) 19 (+4) 29 (+9) 12 (+1) 21 (+5) 18 (+4) Sovereign Undead. Iminada is immune to any effect that
turns Undead. Iminada can detect the presence, direction, and
Saving Throws Str +14, Int +9, Wis +13 distance of all Undead within 1,000 feet of her.
Skills Perception +13
Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire Actions
Damage Immunities necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, slashing, and Multiattack. Iminada makes two Tail Swipe attacks or one Tail
piercing from nonmagical attacks Swipe attack and one Ethereal Bite attack.
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, paralysed, petrified,
poisoned, stunned Ethereal Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 10 ft.,
Senses truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 23 one target. Hit: 28 (4d10 + 6) force damage, plus 11 (2d10)
Languages — necrotic damage if Iminada is rampaging.
Challenge 26 (115,000 XP across all phases) Prof Bonus +8 Tail Swipe. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 20 ft., up to
two targets within 20 feet of each other (use separate attack
Forced Resurrection. Iminada begins combat with a negative roll for each target). Hit: 16 (4d4 + 6) force damage, plus 11
Chaos Threshold. This value can never decrease and, whenever (2d10) necrotic damage if Iminada is rampaging.
Iminada would regain hit points, her Chaos Threshold is instead
Song of Desolation. All dead flesh and corporeal Undead with-
raised by an amount equal to the hit points that would have
in 20 miles of Iminada (other than herself) take 82 (15d10)
been restored (maximum of 0). Iminada can be targeted by
necrotic damage that ignores resistances and immunities. This
spells and effects that restore hit points or revive the dead even
damage is halved for each mile a creature is away from Iminada
if she is unwilling or the effect doesn’t usually affect Undead.
(minimum of 1). If this action deals more than 175 necrotic
Spells with the power to revive the dead, such as revivify, or that
damage in one use, Iminada regains one expended use of Leg-
don’t specify a number of hit points, such as greater restoration,
endary Resistance. Lost when Heart exploited.
raise Iminada’s Chaos Threshold by an amount equal to ten
times the spell’s level. Bonus Actions
Potions. As an action, a creature within reach of Iminada can Ethereal Vanishing. Iminada and all creatures mounted on her
douse a potion of healing on her, restoring hit points to her as teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space Iminada can see.
if she consumed it. Alternatively, a creature within 60 feet of Lost while Rampaging.
Iminada can use an action to make a DC 14 Dexterity (Ath-
letics) check, smashing a thrown potion against her bones on a Shake Off. Iminada twists and shakes her body violently.
success, raising her Chaos Threshold as above. Each creature currently scaling her must succeed on a DC 16
Strength or Dexterity saving throw (creature’s choice) or
Kaiju Force. Iminada can use an action to move through any be thrown off, landing prone in the nearest unoccupied space.
object or magical barrier as though it were difficult terrain, de-
stroying it in the process. In addition, she deals double damage Legendary Actions
to objects and structures, and her weapon attacks are con-
Iminada can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options
sidered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and
below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time
immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Iminada regains
Kaiju Fortitude. Iminada is immune to any spell or effect that spent legendary actions at the start of her turn.
would alter her form or move her to another plane of exist-
Attack. Iminada makes one Ethereal Bite or Tail Swipe attack.
ence against her will.
Launch. Iminada flies up to half her flying speed without pro-
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If Iminada fails a saving throw,
voking opportunity attacks.
she can choose to succeed instead.
Undying Beat (While Heart Isn’t Exploited). Iminada’s
heartbeat thuds with an intoxicating rhythm. Each creature
within 500 feet of Iminada that can hear it must succeed on
a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw or immediately move up
to its speed directly towards her. Undead with a CR or level
lower than Iminada’s CR automatically fail this saving throw.
Lost when Heart exploited.
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BE
Kabuto
The clang of metallicised chitin is a surefire indicator of the Experience
presence of male kabuto wrestling over a female’s egg clutch. Player characters earn experience differently when fighting
Kabuto is the term used for the loosely related assortment kaiju. Use the following table to award experience based
of horn-bearing beetles native to the Tofuoka Hills. From upon milestones achieved, divided among the party.
the tiniest rhinoceros beetle to the huge také kabuto, and
even a legendary kaiju kabuto, all of these arthropods share Nomi XP Milestones
a few traits.
Criteria Total XP
Nomi Chaos Threshold reduced to 0 25,000 XP
Like all kaiju kabuto, Nomi is hermaphroditic, displaying Abdomen exploited 25,000 XP
both the acid spraying capabilities of female kabuto and the Eyes exploited 16,500 XP
horn and wrestling propensity of males. With their thick Wings exploited 16,500 XP
adamantine-chitin plating, gallons of acid, and a horn some
20 feet long, Nomi is a formidable creature. But naturists Nomi defeated 7,200 XP
the world over struggle to decide how to classify them; sure, Total 90,200 XP
they have six legs, but they also have two additional arms
replete with opposable thumbs, a true monstrosity!
Nonlethal Ending
Lair Actions If Nomi ends their turn prone and restrained by a creature
Nomi’s lair is its hatching ground. In the act of acidifying a that is grappling them, they give up and tap the ground.
pool of water to be able to rear its eggs, Nomi suffuses the If released, Nomi leaves the area and does not return for
area with magic that it can use to elicit lair actions. 10d100 years.
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TA
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Behaviours & Vulnerable Areas
Nomi has three vulnerable areas: their Abdomen, Eyes, and Wings.
Nomi Behaviours
Behaviour Trigger Effect
Nomi’s exterior carapace is destroyed, reducing their AC as well as that
of their Abdomen and Eyes vulnerable areas by 5.
Nomi’s Chaos Threshold is
Rampage Gained Features. Airborne Jaunt bonus action and Take Flight
reduced to 0.
legendary action.
Vulnerable Areas. Nomi’s Wings vulnerable area can be targeted.
Effect. Each creature within 30 feet of Nomi must make a DC 18 Dexter-
ity saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) acid damage on a failed save, or half as
Nomi’s Abdomen vulnera- much damage on a successful one. Three acid pools appear in locations
Acid Burst
ble area is exploited. of Nomi’s choice within 60 feet of them (see Acid Pool trait).
Lost Features. Acid Spray action.
Nomi’s Eyes vulnerable area Lost Features. Blind Charge legendary action and darkvision. They are
Directionless
is exploited. considered blind beyond the radius of their tremorsense.
Nomi falls prone.
Nomi’s Wings vulnerable
Dashed Wings Lost Features. Airborne Jaunt bonus action and Take Flight
area is exploited.
legendary action.
Nomi falls prone.
Lost Features. Burrowing speed, and their walking speed is reduced to 5
Nomi has three exploited feet. Additionally, they lose their proficiency in the Athletics skill, and
Death Throes
vulnerable areas. they have disadvantage on Athletics and Acrobatics checks.
Finishing Blow. Nomi is destroyed when they take damage equal to their
Finishing Blow in a single turn.
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Nomi, The Adamantine Charge Stomp. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target.
Hit: 17 (4d4 + 7) bludgeoning damage.
Gargantuan Monstrosity (Kaiju), Chaotic Neutral
Toss. Nomi throws one creature it is grappling with their pincer
Armour Class 25 (natural armour) a number of feet equal to 2d6 × 10 in any direction. If the
Chaos Threshold 150 Finishing Blow 70 creature collides with an obstacle that prevents it from moving
Speed 40 ft., burrow 40 ft. the full distance, it takes 24 (7d6) bludgeoning damage before
Vulnerable Area Identification DC 17 falling down.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA Acid Spray (Recharge 5-6). Nomi sprays a wave of acid from
their abdomen in a 120-foot cone. Each creature in the area
25 (+7) 16 (+3) 24 (+7) 9 (-1) 18 (+4) 17 (+3) must make a DC 22 Dexterity saving throw, taking 50
(20d4) acid damage on a failure, or half as much damage on a
Saving Throws Str +14, Dex +10, Con +14, Wis +11
success. Three Acid Pools appear centred on points of Nomi’s
Skills Athletics +14, Intimidation +10, Perception +11
choice in the area of the cone. Lost when Abdomen exploited.
Damage Resistances slashing
Damage Immunities acid, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and Bonus Actions
slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren’t adamantine
Condition Immunities charmed, paralysed, petrified, poisoned Airborne Jaunt (Only while Rampaging). Until the end of
Senses darkvision 120 ft., tremorsense 120 ft., passive Percep- the next turn, Nomi gains a flying speed equal to their walking
tion 21 speed, and their Wings vulnerable area is targetable. While
Languages — Nomi is flying, the first time a creature that is below Nomi
Challenge 23 (90,200 XP across all phases) Prof Bonus +7 comes within 30 feet of them on a turn, it must make a DC 22
Strength saving throw. It takes 18 (4d8) bludgeoning damage
Acid Pool. A number of Nomi’s attacks and traits create acid and is knocked prone on a failed saving throw, or takes half as
pools: 5-foot-radius circles of corrosive liquid that last for much damage and is not knocked prone on a successful one.
1 hour. A creature that enters an acid pool for the first time Lost when Wings exploited.
on a turn or starts its turn there takes 25 (10d4) acid dam- Shake Off. Nomi twists and shakes their body violently. Each
age. A nonmagical object that is in a pool on initiative count 0 creature currently scaling them must succeed on a DC 15
is destroyed. Strength or Dexterity saving throw (creature’s choice) or
Kaiju Force. Nomi can use an action to move through any be thrown off, landing prone in the nearest unoccupied space.
object or magical barrier as though it were difficult terrain,
destroying it in the process. In addition, they deal double Legendary Actions
damage to objects and structures, and their weapon attacks are Nomi can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options
considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time
and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Nomi regains
Kaiju Fortitude. Nomi is immune to any spell or effect that spent legendary actions at the start of their turn.
would alter their form or move them to another plane of exist- Attack. Nomi makes one Pincer attack or uses their Toss.
ence against their will. Blind Charge. Nomi lowers their head, picking a direction. Until
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If Nomi fails a saving throw, the end of the next turn, Nomi’s Eyes vulnerable area is not
they can choose to succeed instead. targetable. At the end of the next turn, Nomi charges, moving
Trampling Charge (1/Turn). If Nomi moves at least 20 feet in the chosen direction until they collide with a creature or
straight toward a creature and then immediately hits it with an obstacle, or move a distance equal to their walking speed.
Adamantine Armblade attack, that target must succeed on a DC If Nomi collides with a creature’s space, that creature must
22 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target make a DC 22 Strength saving throw. On a failure, the
is prone, Nomi can make one Stomp attack against it (no action creature takes 27 (5d10) bludgeoning damage and is knocked
required). prone and grappled by Nomi (escape DC 22), who pins it
down using one leg. While grappled in this way, the creature
Actions is restrained. If Nomi collides with a solid object, like a thick
Multiattack. Nomi makes two Adamantine Armblade attacks. wall, they take 27 (5d10) bludgeoning damage and lose one
unspent legendary action (regaining it as normal at the start of
Adamantine Armblade. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach
their next turn). Lost when Eyes exploited.
10 ft., one target. Hit: 23 (3d10 + 7) slashing damage. This attack
scores a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 and ignores the effects Take Flight (Only while Rampaging). Nomi ends the grap-
of adamantine armor. pled and restrained conditions on themself, gains a flying speed
equal to their walking speed until the end of this turn, and
Pincer. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target.
can immediately fly up to that speed. This movement doesn’t
Hit: 14 (2d6 + 7) piercing damage, and the creature is grap-
provoke opportunity attacks. Until the end of the next turn,
pled (escape DC 22). Until the grapple ends, the creature is
their Wings vulnerable area is targetable.
restrained, and Nomi can’t target another creature with their
Pincer attack.
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BE
Koi Dragons
Koi dragons are the spirits of waterways in the Yokai Apokoilypse. Unnaturally large koi fish swim to the wa-
Realms. Their long, sinuous bodies are like the lengths of ter’s edge, spraying water and gravel at creatures. Each
grand rivers, their limbs and claws the nourishing tributar- creature of Bakuryo’s choice within 15 feet of any body
ies. The rustle of their scales sliding over one another is like of water near the shrine must succeed on a DC 18
the noise of a rushing stream and their mottled colouration Dexterity saving throw or be blinded until initiative
is likened to a koi fish. In fact, it is said that when a koi count 20 of the following round.
dragon moves on from this plane, one of the river’s koi will Mireball. A ball of mud launches up, landing on any
turn against the tide of the river, swimming upstream and point within the lair. It explodes with the effects of the
growing into the watercourse’s new draconic avatar. mireball* spell (save DC 18).
Water Whip. Up to three tendrils of water whip at near-
Bakuryo by creatures. Each tendril makes a melee spell attack
(+10 to hit) against different creatures within 30 feet of
Bakuryo is the shepherd of the Hakuryu valley, a benevolent one of the bodies of water on the map. On a hit, a crea-
soul that revels in the harmony of sky, water, and earth. She ture takes 14 (4d6) slashing damage and, if it is Large
prizes perseverance in the face of adversity. Farmers that toil or smaller, must succeed on a DC 18 Strength saving
in fields (and pursue sustainable farming practices) might throw or be pulled 25 feet towards that body of water.
find themselves invigorated when they drink from the river
*See page 261
or their crops spared from a devastating drought by a drag-
on’s divine rain. Though a Bakuryo’s physical form may be
Experience
elsewhere, she knows all that happens near her rivers’ banks.
Player characters earn experience differently when fighting
Lair Actions kaiju. Use the following table to award experience based
Within and near the fourth shrine, Bakuryo can exert her upon milestones achieved, divided among the party.
influence to manipulate the environment to take lair actions.
Lair Actions. On initiative count 20 (losing initiative Bakuryo XP Milestones
ties), Bakuryo takes a lair action to cause one of the following
Criteria Total XP
effects. She can’t take the same action two rounds in a row.
Chaos Threshold reduced to 0 33,000 XP
Fins exploited 21,000 XP
Upturned Scale exploited 21,000 XP
Water Form exploited 25,000 XP
Bakuryo defeated 15,000 XP
Total 115,000 XP
Death Rattle
When Bakuryo’s third vulnerable area is exploited, she en-
ters her death throes. She immediately falls prone and loses
her flying and swimming speeds. She can then be killed by
taking 70 damage in a single turn (a ‘finishing blow’).
A Nonlethal Option. After Bakuryo’s Upturned Scale
vulnerable area has been exploited, and as long as she’s not
in her Water Form, a character within reach of the under-
side of Bakuryo’s jaw can make a Strength check to re-right
the scale. The DC for this check is 28 in phase 1, or 18 in
phase 3.
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BE
TA
v2
Behaviours & Vulnerable Areas
Bakuryo has three vulnerable areas: her Fins, Upturned
Scale, and Water Form.
Bakuryo Behaviours
Behaviour Trigger Effect
Bakuryo ends the grappled and restrained conditions on herself and enters her
Bakuryo’s Chaos Threshold Water Form (see statistics).
Rampage
is reduced to 0. Vulnerable Areas. Bakuryo's Water Form can be targeted. Her Fins and Upturn
Scale can no longer be targetd.
Effect. A torrential downpour begins in a 10-mile radius of the kaiju, lightly
obscuring anything beyond 30 feet and heavily obscuring anything beyond 60
Heavenly Bakuryo’s Water Form vul- feet.
Cascade nerable area is exploited Vulnerable Areas. Bakuryo's Fins and Upturned Scale can be targeted again.
Lost Features. While in her Water Form, Bakuryo can't use her Breath Weapon
Action.
Bakuryo’s Fins vulnerable Gained Features. Bakuryo gains her Hollow Roar bonus action.
Hollow Roar
area is exploited Lost Features. Bakuryo loses her Breath Weapon action.
Bakuryo falls prone.
Bakuryo has three exploited Lost Features. Bakuryo loses her flying and swimming speed.
Death Throes
vulnerable areas Finishing Blow. Bakuryo is killed when she takes damage equal to her Finishing
Blow in a single turn.
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Bakuryo, The Ascendant Actions
Cascade Multiattack. Bakuryo uses her Rapture. She then uses her
Gargantuan Dragon, Lawful Good
Breath Weapon if charged, or makes one Bite attack, one Claw
attack, and one Tail attack.
Armour Class 22 (natural armour) Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +18 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit:
Chaos Threshold 250 Finishing Blow 70 23 (2d12 + 10) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) radiant damage.
Speed 60 ft., fly 80 ft., swim 120 ft.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +18 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target.
Vulnerable Area Identification DC 18
Hit: 24 (4d6 + 10) slashing damage.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +18 to hit, reach 30 ft., one target.
30 (+10) 19 (+4) 30 (+10) 20 (+5) 24 (+7) 27 (+8) Hit: 21 (2d10 + 10) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a crea-
ture, it must succeed on a DC 26 Strength saving throw or
Saving Throws Con +18, Wis +15, Cha +16 be knocked prone.
Skills Insight +15, Intimidation +16, Perception +15, Religion +13 Breath Weapon (If Fins are Glowing). Bakuryo discharges
Damage Resistances fire, radiant, thunder a devastating burst of energy in a 300-foot cone and her
Damage Immunities bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from Fins stop glowing (see Breath Weapon Charge bonus action).
nonmagical attacks Each creature in that area must make a DC 26 Constitution
Condition Immunities charmed, frightened saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 78 (12d12)
Senses truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 25 damage of the type of energy Bakuryo charged. On a successful
Languages all, telepathy 300 ft. save, a creature takes half as much damage.
Challenge 27 (115,000 XP across all phases)
Rapture (Recharge 5-6). In a dazzling burst of white light,
Proficiency Bonus +8
Bakuryo attempts to seize command of the spirits of nearby
Kaiju Force. Bakuryo can use an action to move through any creatures. Each creature within 120 feet of Bakuryo must
object or magical barrier as though it were difficult terrain, succeed on a DC 24 Charisma saving throw or have its
destroying it in the process. In addition, Bakuryo deals double body overwhelmed with divine magic, causing it to be blinded,
damage to objects and structures. Bludgeoning, piercing, and deafened, restrained, and lifted 30 feet in the air where it
slashing damage Bakuryo deals is magical for the purposes of hovers in place. This effect lasts until the end of this turn. Once
overcoming resistance and immunity. a creature succeeds on a saving throw against this effect, it is
immune to Bakuryo’s Rapture for the next 24 hours.
Kaiju Fortitude. Bakuryo is immune to any spell or effect that
would alter her form, move her against her will, or move her to Bonus Actions
another plane of existence against her will.
Breath Weapon Charge. Bakuryo begins charging her fins,
Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If Bakuryo fails a saving throw, choosing either radiant or thunder. Her fins glow orange if
she can choose to succeed instead. charging thunder, and yellow if charging radiant. At the start
Water Form of her next turn, her Breath Weapon becomes charged. If she
doesn’t use her Breath Weapon action by the end of her next
While in her Water Form, Bakuryo can't use her Breath Weap- turn, it ceases to be charged.
on action and gains the following traits. Bakuryo can’t take this bonus action if she has discharged her
Fluid Form. Bakuryo has immunity to all damage types except Breath Weapon this turn.
cold, force, and lightning, she can enter a hostile creature’s space Hollow Roar (When Water Form Exploited). Each creature
and stop there, and she can move through a space as narrow within 60 feet of Bakuryo must succeed on a DC 18 Constitu-
as 1 inch wide without squeezing. Her Fins and Upturned Scale tion saving throw or take 26 (4d12) thunder damage.
vulnerable areas aren’t targetable, she can’t be scaled, and she
Shake Off. Bakuryo twists and shakes her body violently. Each
can’t use her Breath Weapon action.
creature mounted on her must succeed on a DC 18 Strength
Freezable. When Bakuryo takes 20 or more cold damage in a or Dexterity saving throw (creature’s choice) or be thrown
single turn, she freezes. Until the end of her next turn, she is re- off, landing prone in the nearest unoccupied space.
strained, and she loses the immunity to nonmagical bludgeon-
ing, piercing, and slashing damage granted by her Fluid Form. Legendary Actions
Whelming Force. The first time on her turn that Bakuryo enters Bakuryo can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the op-
a Large or smaller creature’s space, that creature must succeed tions below. Only one legendary action option can be used at
on a DC 26 Strength saving throw or become grappled by a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Bakuryo
her (escape DC 18). While grappled in this way, that creature regains spent legendary actions at the start of her turn.
has full cover from attacks and effects that originate outside of Attack. Bakuryo makes one Claw or Tail attack.
Bakuryo, is restrained, is unable to breathe unless it can breathe
water, and takes 28 (8d6) force damage at the start of each of its Hurricane Spiral. Bakuryo uses Shake Off, and then moves up
turns. Bakuryo can have no more than five Large creatures or ten to half her speed without provoking opportunity attacks.
Medium or smaller creatures grappled in this way at one time.
If Bakuryo exits her water form while grappling a creature, that
creature is thrown from her body, landing prone in an unoccu-
pied space within 5 feet of Bakuryo.
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Behaviours & Vulnerable Areas
Raiko has three vulnerable areas: his Bracers, Storm Form, and Tempest Orbs.
Raiko Behaviours
Behaviour Trigger Effect
Raiko enters his Storm Form, splitting into a number of Elemental crea-
tures equal to the number of player characters. Each Elemental appears
Raiko’s Chaos Threshold is
Rampage in the nearest unoccupied space to each player character, its ‘focus’. Each
reduced to 0 hit points.
Elemental mirrors its chosen player character’s size and initiative count,
taking its turn immediately before that player character.
Raiko exits his Storm Form.
Raiko’s Storm Form vulnera- Effect. Each creature within 120 feet of where Raiko appears that is not be-
Eye of the Storm
ble area is exploited. hind full cover must succeed on a DC 18 Strength saving throw or be knocked
prone. Creatures that are flying have disadvantage on this saving throw.
Raiko’s Bracers vulnerable
Thunderless Lost Features. Thunderclap action.
area is exploited.
Raiko’s Tempest Orbs vul-
Ungrounded Gained Features. Galvanic Fracture trait.
nerable area is exploited.
Raiko’s speed falls to 0 feet, and he falls prone.
Raiko has three exploited Lost Features. Galvanic Charge bonus action.
Death Throes
vulnerable areas. Finishing Blow. Raiko is destroyed when he takes damage equal to his
Finishing Blow in a single turn.
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Raiko, the Infinite Tempest Actions
Gargantuan Elemental (Kaiju), Chaotic Neutral Multiattack. Raiko makes two Claws attacks and one Stomp
Armour Class 20 (natural armour) attack. He can replace any number of attacks with Bolt attacks.
Chaos Threshold 240 Finishing Blow 85 Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target.
Speed 60 ft., climb 60 ft Hit: 21 (4d6 + 7) slashing damage plus 13 (3d8) lightning
Vulnerable Area Identification DC 18 damage.
Stomp. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA on the ground. Hit: 33 (4d12 + 7) bludgeoning damage. Each
25 (+7) 21 (+5) 24 (+7) 18 (+4) 23 (+6) 25 (+7) creature within 10 feet of the target takes 13 (3d8) lightning
damage as lightning earths itself through them. Creatures wear-
Saving Throws Dex +13, Con +15, Wis +14, Cha +15 ing metal armour take twice as much lightning damage.
Skills Acrobatics +13, Athletics +15, Intimidation +15, Percep-
tion +14 Bolt. Ranged Spell Attack: +15 to hit, range 120 ft., one target.
Damage Immunities lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, Hit: 31 (7d8) lightning damage.
and slashing from nonmagical attacks Thunderclap (Recharge 4-6). Each creature within 40 feet
Condition Immunities charmed, deafened, exhaustion, para- of Raiko must make a DC 24 Constitution saving throw. A
lysed, petrified, stunned creature takes 90 (20d8) thunder damage and is deafened for
Senses darkvision 120 ft., tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception 24 1 minute on a failed save, or takes half as much damage and
Languages All isn’t deafened on a successful one. Lost when Bracers exploited.
Challenge 25 (165,000 XP across all phases)
Proficiency Bonus +8 Bonus Actions
Galvanic Charge. Raiko and all creatures scaling him shift into
Conductive. Raiko has advantage on attack rolls againsts a bolt of pure, crackling energy, move in a straight line 10 feet
targets made of metal or wearing metal armour. Creatures wide, passing through creatures and objects, and reform in an
made of metal or wearing metal armour have disadvantage unoccupied space up to 120 feet away. Each creature Raiko
on saving throws against Raiko’s Galvanic Charge, Galvanic moves through in this way must succeed on a DC 23 Dexter-
Fracture, and Static Pulse. ity saving throw or take 18 (4d8) lightning damage. Lost when
Galvanic Fracture (Only If Raiko’s Ungrounded Behaviour all vulnerable areas exploited.
Is Active). At the start of each of Raiko’s turns, each creature Static Pulse. A furious current of electricity ripples across
within 120 feet of Raiko (including himself) must make a DC Raiko’s body. Each creature scaling Raiko must succeed on a
23 Dexterity saving throw as bolts of lightning chaotically DC 16 Constitution saving throw or take 18 (4d8) lightning
spiral through the air. The creature with the lowest result takes damage, be unable to take reactions until the start of its next
45 (10d8) lightning damage. turn, and be thrown off, landing prone in the nearest unoccu-
Kaiju Force. Raiko can use an action to move through any pied space.
object or magical barrier as though it were difficult terrain, de-
stroying it in the process. In addition, he deals double damage to Legendary Actions
objects and structures, and his weapon attacks are considered Raiko can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options
magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time
to nonmagical attacks and damage. and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Raiko regains
Kaiju Fortitude. Raiko is immune to any spell or effect that spent legendary actions at the start of his turn.
would alter his form or move him to another plane of existence Attack. Raiko makes one Claws or Bolt attack.
against his will.
Charge. Raiko uses his Galvanic Charge.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If Raiko fails a saving throw, he
can choose to succeed instead. Storm Form
Prideful. If Raiko hears a comment that he deems to be insult- While in his Storm Form, Raiko splits into a number of Elemen-
ing or derogatory towards himself (GM’s discretion), then, while tals equal to the number of player characters, which appear
he can see the source of that insult and the source is within 30 adjacent to a player character, their ‘focus’. These Elementals use
feet of himself, Raiko has disadvantage on attack rolls against the storm elemental* statistics, but have only 90 hit points each.
creatures other than the source of the insult until the end of his Each elemental mirrors its focus’ size and initiative count, taking
next turn, or until he hears another comment that satisfies the its turn immediately before its focus.
conditions of this trait, whichever comes first. *See Wrath of the Kaiju
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Magatsuchi Behaviours & Vulnerable Areas
Magatsuchi has three vulnerable areas; its Goldenheart, Telepathic Connection, and Spirit Lanterns.
Magatsuchi Behaviours
Behaviour Trigger Effect
Vulnerable Areas. Magatsuchi’s Goldenheart vulnerable area becomes
Magatsuchi’s Chaos Thresh- targetable.
Rampage
old is reduced to 0.
Gained Features. Animate Plants lair action.
Effect. Magatsuchi immediately uses its Whomping Whirl and Constrict
Magatsuchi’s Goldenheart Tomb legendary action options (targeting every tomb created; no leg-
Broken Heart vulnerable area is exploit- endary actions required).
ed.
Lost Features. Heart of Gold bonus action and Razorleaf action.
Effect. Each creature within 300 feet of Magatsuchi must succeed on a
Magatsuchi's Spirit Lan- DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or be possessed by the kodama until the
Dark Night of the
terns vulnerable area is end of its next turn.
Soul
exploited.
Lost Features. Lantern Flare action.
Effect. Creatures animated by Magatsuchi’s Animate Plants lair action
Magatsuchi’s Telepathic immediately fall to 0 hit points.
Psychic Disruption Connection vulnerable area
is exploited. Lost Features. Animate Plants lair action and Dissonant Echo bonus
action.
Magatsuchi’s speed falls to 0 feet.
Lost Action. Tomb of Roots and Constrict Tomb legendary action options,
Magatsuchi has three ex-
Death Throes and all lair action options.
ploited vulnerable areas.
Finishing Blow. Magatsuchi is destroyed when it takes damage equal to
its Finishing Blow in a single turn.
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BE
Magatsuchi, The Aureate Heart Lantern Flare. Ranged Spell Attack. +12 to hit, range 120
ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d8 + 6) radiant damage. This attack
Gargantuan Plant (Kaiju,Yokai), Chaotic Neutral
ignores half and three-quarters cover and, on a critical hit, a
Armour Class 19 (natural armour) target is blinded until the end of its next turn. Lost when Spirit
Chaos Threshold 100 Finishing Blow 75 Lanterns exploited.
Speed 40 ft. (see Wandering Earth) Razorleaf (Recharge 5-6). With a whip of its branches,
Vulnerable Area Identification DC 16 Magatsuchi flicks a torrent of amber-tipped leaves in a 120-foot
cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 21 Dexteri-
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA ty saving throw, taking 42 (12d6) slashing damage on a failure,
25 (+7) 5 (-3) 30 (+10) 15 (+2) 20 (+5) 23 (+6) or half as much damage on a success. Lost when Goldenheart
exploited.
Saving Throws Str +13, Dex +3
Damage Immunities poison Bonus Actions
Condition Immunities charmed, paralysed, petrified, poisoned, Heart of Gold. With a wispy golden bolt, Magatsuchi heals
prone, restrained, stunned another Plant it can detect within 300 feet of itself. The Plant
Senses tremorsense (see Earthsense), passive Perception 15 regains 19 (3d8 + 6) hit points. Lost when Goldenheart exploited.
Languages —
Challenge 20 (53,900 XP across all phases) Prof Bonus +6 Dissonant Echo. One creature of Magatsuchi’s choice within
120 feet of it, as well as each creature scaling Magatsuchi, must
Earthsense. Magatsuchi’s tremorsense extends throughout the make a DC 14 Charisma saving throw. On a failure, a crea-
earth, plants, and buildings to which it is connected, as well as ture takes 10 (3d6) psychic damage and is paralysed until the
the ground 60 feet beyond this matter. start of its next turn. Creatures scaling Magatsuchi that are par-
Kaiju Force. Magatsuchi can use an action to move through any alysed in this way immediately fall, landing prone in the nearest
object or magical barrier as though it were difficult terrain, de- unoccupied space. Lost when Psychic Connection exploited.
stroying it in the process. In addition, it deals double damage to
objects and structures, and its weapon attacks are considered
Legendary Actions
magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity Magatsuchi can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the op-
to nonmagical attacks and damage. tions below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a
Kaiju Fortitude. Magatsuchi is immune to any spell or effect time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Magatsuchi
that would alter its form or move it to another plane of exist- regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
ence against its will. Attack. Magatsuchi makes one Lantern Flare attack.
Kodama Infused. The connection between the kodama and Tomb of Roots. Magatsuchi grows a cage of woody material
Magatsuchi can be interrupted by psychic assaults. If Magatsuchi around one Huge or smaller creature within 180 feet of it
takes 20 or more psychic damage in a single turn, it loses one that is within 10 feet of the ground, which must succeed on
legendary action, which it regains at the start of its next turn as a DC 21 Dexterity saving throw or be trapped inside. The
usual. If it has no legendary actions to lose, it can’t take bonus root tomb provides three-quarters cover from effects on the
actions on its next turn. other side of it. The root tomb has AC 15, 20 hit points, vul-
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Magatsuchi fails a saving nerability to fire damage, and immunity to piercing, poison,
throw, it can choose to succeed instead. and psychic damage. Lost when all vulnerable areas are exploited.
Wandering Earth. Magatsuchi’s many roots allow it to animate a Constrict Tombs (Costs 2 Actions). Magatsuchi constricts all of
large expanse of earth. The speed represented here is the speed its tombs of roots. Each creature trapped in a root tomb takes
at which this earth can move. Magatsuchi (the tree) does not 16 (3d10) bludgeoning damage and is restrained until it
move relative to the objects and creatures that occupy this earth. leaves the root tomb. Lost when all vulnerable areas exploited.
Whomping Whirl (Costs 2 Actions). Magatsuchi flails in a
Actions whirl of crushing branches. Each creature within 30 feet of
Multiattack. Magatsuchi makes one Branch Slam attack and Magatsuchi must make a DC 21 Dexterity saving throw.
four Lantern Flare attacks. On a failure, a creature takes 16 (3d10) bludgeoning damage
and is pushed 30 feet away from Magatsuchi. On a success, a
Branch Slam. Melee Weapon Attack. +13 to hit, reach 30 ft.,
creature takes half as much damage as is not pushed.
one target. Hit: 25 (4d8 + 7) bludgeoning damage, and the tar-
get must succeed on a DC 21 Strength saving throw or be
pushed 30 feet away from Magatsuchi.
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CHAPTER 3
combo attacks
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Combo Attacks collaborator in a combo attack, they can’t instigate or collabo-
rate in another combo attack until they finish a long rest.
Combo attacks are a way for player characters to perform Combo attacks also require participants to be familiar
impactful, collaborative actions in combat. Through team- with each other. Only characters who have spent at least one
work, adventurers can perform extraordinary actions and week adventuring together, over which time they observe
players can experience incredible, cinematic moments, re- one another’s fighting style and movements, have the inte-
flecting their characters’ bonds as companions and warriors. gral knowledge required to perform combo attacks together.
Combo attacks are a place for players to explore freely
and creatively. The scale and spectacle of a combo attack Combo Actions
may vary depending on the level of realism your game
There are multiple ways for combo attacks to operate,
adheres to. GMs should use these rules as a guide on bal-
depending on how those participating in the combo attack
ancing combo attacks, working with players to allow them
assist the instigator. Collaborators within reach of the
the freedom to craft their own combo attacks in a way that
instigator can enhance the combo attack in different ways to
enhances combat.
those at a distance, or to those who cast spells.
Each Combo action has a prerequisite, usually dictating
the maximum distance a collaborator can be from the in-
A Deadly Addition stigator’s target to assist. For ease of use, Combo actions are
Combo attacks are a “power upgrade” to an divided into Melee, Ranged, and Spellcasting options. Any
player character can collaborate using any Combo action,
adventuring party’s arsenal. These rules are written
provided they meet the prerequisite and are an ally of the
primarily for players to explore, but the GM may instigator.
wish to give enemy teams (or other nonplayer
Devastating Strikes. No matter the Combo action used,
characters) access to combo attacks too, evening
the threshold for the instigator to score a critical hit on their
the playing field with devastating, tactical manoeu- initiating attack roll is reduced by 1 for each collaborator
vres on both sides. assisting them. For example, if two player characters collab-
orate with the instigator on a combo attack, the critical hit
threshold is reduced by 2, so the instigator scores a critical
Enemy combo attacks should be saved for significant hit on a roll of 18, 19, or 20.
encounters, used as a storytelling device to communicate
the relationship between enemies, prepared in advance so
that they can be narrated swiftly and dramatically, and never
Melee Combos
used more than once per encounter. Enemy combo attacks When you use your reaction to collaborate on a combo
should never have more than four participants (one instiga- attack, you can choose one of the following Combo actions:
tor and three collaborators).
Unison Onslaught
Performing a Combo Attack Prerequisite: The instigator’s target is within your reach.
Combo attacks are spectacular moments of synchronised Collaborator’s Action. You make a swift melee weapon
combat virtuosity performed by player characters in combat, attack against the target, striking in unison with your ally.
and each participant can alter or enhance it in a unique way. On a hit, you deal damage as normal, but you don’t add
Initiating a Combo Attack. A combo attack can be ini- your ability modifier to the damage of the attack, unless
tiated whenever a player character makes an attack on their that modifier is negative.
turn, before the die is rolled but after the attack is declared. Combo Effect. Whether you hit or miss, your attack
The character who makes that attack is instigating the com- serves as a potent distraction. The instigator can roll an ad-
bo, so they are referred to as the instigator. ditional d20 as a part of their attack roll, choosing between
Participating in a Combo Attack. Other player charac- it or their own roll.
ters who can see the instigator can each use their reaction to
enhance the attack by performing a Combo action (presented Goading Rush
below). A character who assists in this way is referred to as a Prerequisite: You are within 15 feet of the instigator’s target.
collaborator. In the case of a combo attack with more than one
Collaborator’s Action. You charge into the fray, tearing
collaborator, the collaborators take their reactions in initiative
the target’s attention away from your ally and onto yourself.
order. Once any collaborators have taken their reactions, the
You move towards the target of the attack, ending your
instigator makes their attack roll to finish the combo attack.
movement as close to them as possible as you distract them
Limitations. Participating in a combo attack is an exhaust- with a goading insult.
ing endeavour. Once a player character is an instigator or a
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Flinchshot Combo Effect. The instigator can roll an additional d20
as a part of their attack roll, choosing between it or their
Prerequisite: The instigator’s target is within range of a ranged or
thrown weapon you are wielding. own roll. In addition, until the end of the instigator’s turn,
they don’t provoke opportunity attacks from the target.
Collaborator’s Action. You make a swift ranged weapon
attack, perfectly timed to momentarily distract an enemy. Disarming Combination
On a hit, you deal your weapon’s damage as normal, but
Prerequisite: The instigator’s target is within range of a ranged or
you don’t add your ability modifier to the damage of the
thrown weapon you are wielding.
attack, unless that modifier is negative.
Collaborator’s Action. You attempt to strike an ob-
Combo Effect. Hit or miss, your attack serves as a potent
ject the target is holding with a ranged attack, potentially
distraction. The instigator can roll an additional d20 as part
knocking it loose from its grasp.
of their attack roll, choosing between it or their own roll.
Combo Effect. The target makes a Strength saving
Suppressing Fire throw with disadvantage (DC equals 8 + instigator’s pro-
ficiency bonus + instigator’s Strength modifier). On a failed
Prerequisite: The instigator’s target is within range of a ranged or
thrown weapon you are wielding. save, it drops one item it is holding (your choice).
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Spellcasting Combos Combo Effect. The instigator gains a bonus to all saving
throws equal to the level of the spell slot expended until the
A spellcaster can collaborate in a combo attack while they start of their next turn.
are within 90 feet of the instigator by choosing one spell the
spellcaster can cast and expending a spell slot of any level. Enchantment
The effect of the combo attack depends on the school of
magic the chosen spell belongs to. Prerequisite: You are within 90 feet of the instigator, have an unex-
pended spell slot, and know or have prepared an enchantment spell
of 1st level or higher.
Abjuration
Prerequisite: You are within 90 feet of the instigator, have an unex-
Collaborator’s Action. You expend one spell slot.
pended spell slot, and know or have prepared an abjuration spell of Hypnotic magic weaves through the force of the instigator’s
1st level or higher. attack to strike the target’s mind.
Collaborator’s Action. You expend one spell slot. Combo Effect. The target must make a Wisdom saving
Sparkling magic shimmers around the instigator’s body, throw against your spell save DC. The target has a pen-
fortifying them with temporary, spectral armour. alty on its saving throw equal to the level of the spell slot
expended. On a failed save, it is charmed by the instigator
Combo Effect. The next time the instigator takes damage until the end of the instigator’s next turn. This effect ends
within the next minute, that damage is reduced by an early if the instigator deals any damage to the target.
amount equal to five times the level of the spell slot expend-
ed, and the armour disappears. Evocation
Biomancy* Prerequisite: You are within 90 feet of the instigator, have an unex-
pended spell slot, and know or have prepared an evocation spell of
Prerequisite: You are within 90 feet of the instigator, have an 1st level or higher.
unexpended spell slot, and know or have prepared a biomancy spell
of 1st level or higher. Collaborator’s Action. You expend one spell slot. The
instigator’s attack bursts with bright, magical energy.
Collaborator’s Action. You expend one spell slot. The
instigator’s strike is imbued with toxic pathogens. Combo Effect. On a hit, the instigator’s attack deals extra
acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, or damage of
Combo Effect. The target must make a Constitution a type that appears in an evocation spell you can cast (your
saving throw against your spell save DC. The target has a choice). The extra damage equals 1d8 per level of the spell
penalty on its saving throws to avoid or end this effect equal slot expended.
to the level of the spell slot expended. On a failed save, it is
poisoned for the next minute. It can repeat this saving throw Illusion
at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.
Prerequisite: You are within 90 feet of the instigator, have an unex-
*See page xx
pended spell slot, and know or have prepared an illusion spell of 1st
level or higher.
Conjuration
Collaborator’s Action. You expend one spell slot. Spi-
Prerequisite: You are within 90 feet of the instigator, have an unex- ralling illusions cloak the instigator in darkness, dazzling
pended spell slot, and know or have prepared a conjuration spell of
light, or another visual effect, obscuring their form and
1st level or higher.
movement.
Collaborator’s Action. You expend one spell slot. Your
Combo Effect. The instigator adds a bonus to their
magic spirals around the instigator, wrenching them from
attack roll equal to the level of the spell slot expended, and
harm’s way after they make their attack.
their movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks until
Combo Effect. Immediately after the instigator makes the end of the turn.
their attack against the target, they can choose to teleport to
an unoccupied space that they can see within a number of Necromancy
feet equal to 10 x the level of the spell slot expended.
Prerequisite: You are within 90 feet of the instigator, have an unex-
pended spell slot, and know or have prepared a necromancy spell of
Divination 1st level or higher.
Prerequisite: You are within 90 feet of the instigator, have an Collaborator’s Action. You expend one spell slot. Your
unexpended spell slot, and know or have prepared a divination spell
magic courses through the instigator, wrenching the life-
of 1st level or higher.
force of their target and channelling it back to the source of
Collaborator’s Action. You expend one spell slot. Your the damage.
magic enhances the senses of the instigator with supernatu-
ral precognition.
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Combo Effect. On a hit, the instigator’s attack deals
extra necrotic damage equal to 1d4 per level of the spell slot Humperdink: I initiated a combo earlier today
expended. The instigator then gains temporary hit points
with Luctecia, so I can’t collaborate on another
equal to the necrotic damage dealt by this effect.
one until we have a long rest.
Transmutation GM: Ah, of course!
Prerequisite: You are within 90 feet of the instigator, have an unex-
pended spell slot, and know or have prepared a transmutation spell Ryoko: But I can help! I’m 70 feet away and have a
of 1st level or higher. spell slot. I’m going to collaborate with a spell
Collaborator’s Action. You expend one spell slot. Your combo!
magic bursts as a force of raw adrenaline in the instigator.
GM: What spell are you choosing, and what slot
Combo Effect. Immediately after completing their at- level are you expending?
tack, the instigator can take another action. This action can
only be used to take the Dash, Disengage, Dodge, Hide, or Ryoko: I’ll expend a 2nd-level spell slot, choosing
Use an Object action. burning hands, which is evocation and lets me
If you expend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, this add fire damage to Nephelle’s damage roll, if
action can instead be used to take the Attack action (grapple the attack hits.
or shove only).
GM: Okay, that’s everyone who can collaborate.
If you expend a spell slot of 5th level or higher, this
Nephelle, make your attack roll, with an extra
action can instead be used to take the Attack action (one
weapon attack only) or Cast a Spell action (cantrip only). d20 thanks to Kortov’s Combo action.
Example Combo Attack would be 2d8 for a 2nd-level spell slot, is dou-
bled to add 4d8 fire damage to the attack.
GM: Okay players, the dodomeki is finally bloodied. Nephelle: 2d10 slashing + 4d8 fire + 3 for a total
Nephelle, you’re next. of… 32 damage!
Nephelle: I’m gonna use my action to attack the GM: With a fierce battle cry, Kortov launches
dodomeki! It’s time to finish her off; I call out Nephelle through the air.You feel yourself
for our classic combo attack Flaming Guillotine! hanging in the air for a transcendent moment
of weightlessness, before bringing your long-
Humperdink: That’s what we’re calling it now?
sword slashing down at the dodomeki from
GM: Okay, you call out to initiate a combo attack. above. As you bring your longsword lashing
Is anyone going to collaborate with Nephelle? down, you feel a blast of scorching heat as the
blade ignites in flame, cleaving through the air
Kortov: I’m standing next to Nephelle, so I use
and into the yokai.
my reaction to collaborate with Ally Launcher,
tossing her over the dodomeki, and she can Nephelle: Do I look badass?
roll an extra d20 as part of this attack roll!
GM: You look extremely badass! But the fiend is
GM: That’s right! Humperdink, are you going to not defeated. The dodomeki lets out a screech
collaborate? of fury and lunges towards you, its eyes burn-
ing with hateful vengeance!
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CHAPTER 4
harvesting
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Harvesting
This section details the core concepts of Harvesting, allowing GM: In addition to the plethora of scales, blood,
you to introduce the system to your table. flesh, fat, and bone, you can harvest the
dragon’s liver, heart, two eyes, two horns, four
Harvesting Rules pouches of claws, four pouches of teeth, and,
After a creature is slain, its components must be harvest- of course, its breath sac. Because this crea-
ed quickly before their magic fades. There are five steps ture is particularly potent, you can also try to
involved in this process. extract its essence—a difficult process.
Step 1 - Description
Step 2 - Harvest List
When a creature dies, the GM consults the harvest table cor-
responding to the creature’s type and determines which of the The harvesters then quickly decide what they want to harvest
listed components are available to be harvested. and in which order. This order is known as the harvest list.
Example. In the example below, the party wishes to har- Example. The party chooses to harvest the following
vest a dragon they have slain. The GM consults the Dragon components in the listed order: a pouch of teeth, two eyes,
Harvest table (page 43) and decides that the dragon has the breath sac, and then the essence.
the following components on offer: 1 breath sac, 1 heart, 1
liver, 2 eyes, 2 horns, 4 pouches of claws, 4 pouches of teeth, 10 Gurf: I want the eyeses. And all the teef!
bones, as well as scales, blood, flesh, and fat. Because a young
red dragon is CR 10, one can also harvest robust essence Mizzard: Very well, Gurf, but let’s not forget the
from it (see page 45 for more on essence). breath sac we came here for! And we’ll need
essence to be able to make the more powerful
Dragon Harvest ‘rare’ versions of items. We’ll take a pouch of
Component DC Components teeth, the two eyes, the breath sac, and then
5 EyeE+, fleshE, phial of bloodE+ the essence, in that order.
BoneE+, eggE, fatE+, pouch of claws, pouch
10
of teeth Step 3 - Harvest DCs
15 Horn, liverE, pouch of scales After the party has created its harvest list, the GM calculates
20 HeartE+ the Harvest DCs. They list out the chosen components in
25 Breath sacv the order the party wishes to harvest them and sequentially
add each Component DC to the total of all the previous
Component DCs. The Component DC represents how
hard a component is to harvest.
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Time Limit. For harvesting to yield magical compo- Carving. Skill with a knife is the proven method of
nents, a harvester must begin harvesting a corpse within harvesting components. A creature attempting to harvest a
1 minute of the creature’s death and, once it has begun corpse makes a Dexterity check. The skill applicable to the
harvesting, not cease harvesting the corpse for the duration check depends on the type of creature, as shown in the Crea-
of the check. As the shortest harvest time of any creature is ture Types and Associated Skills table. A creature attempting
5 minutes, a character only has time to harvest one creature this Carving check is known as the carving harvester.
after a battle before the other creatures have degraded.
Assessment check = 1d20 + Intelligence modifier +
Assessment and Carving proficiency bonus (if applicable)
The Harvesting check is the summed total of two ability Carving check = 1d20 + Dexterity modifier +
checks: Assessment and Carving. A single creature can choose
proficiency bonus (if applicable)
to make both checks; if it does so, it makes these checks with
disadvantage. With all Harvesting checks, the skill used for Harvesting check = Assessment check result +
the check depends on the type of creature the characters are Carving check result
attempting to harvest. For example, Beasts require a Survival
check while Aberrations require an Arcana check.
Spells and Buffs. For a spell or magical effect to have
any influence on the outcome of harvesting, it must affect
Creature Types and Associated Skills
a harvester for the entire duration of the Harvesting check
Creature Type Skill (see Creature Size and Harvest Time table on page 40).
Aberration Arcana For this reason, spells with a duration of 1 minute, like bless
and guidance, never confer their bonus to the result of the
Beast Survival
check. A spell like enhance ability, which lasts 1 hour, could
Celestial Religion confer its advantage to a Harvesting check so long as the
Construct Investigation spell begins before the check starts and does not end until
Dragon Survival after the check is completed.
Elemental Arcana
Fey Arcana Helpers
Fiend Religion Creatures not involved in assessment or carving can help!
Giant Medicine The number of creatures that can help depends on the size
Humanoid Medicine of the creature being harvested (see table below). If a helper
Monstrosity Survival has proficiency in the skill associated with the monster’s
Ooze Nature type, the helper adds its proficiency bonus to the Harvesting
check’s result. If the helper doesn’t have this proficiency,
Plant Nature
it adds half its proficiency bonus rounded down, instead.
Undead Medicine Helpers must help for the entire duration of the harvesting
procedure to add this bonus. This takes the place of the
Assessment. To correctly assess how best to extract Help action, which has no effect in Harvesting or Crafting.
and store creature components, a character must make an
Intelligence check. The skill applicable to the check depends Harvesting and Helpers
on the type of creature, as shown in the Creature Types and
Associated Skills table. A creature attempting this Assess- Creature Size Maximum Number of Helpers
ment check is known as the assessing harvester. Tiny 0
Small 1
Medium 2
Large 4
Huge 6
Gargantuan 10
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Construct Harvest
Unusual Anatomy Component DC Components
If a creature has some interesting anatomy not on 5 Phial of bloodE+, phial of oilE+*
the appropriate harvest table, you can grab the
10 FleshE+, plating, stone
component and DC from a different creature type’s
15 BoneE+, heartE, liverE, gears
harvest table.
20 BrainE+, instructions
25 Lifesparkv
Aberration Harvest
*Regarding edible components: phials of oil are fat.
Component DC Components
Dragon Harvest
5 Antenna, eyeE+, fleshE, phial of bloodE+
BoneE+, eggE, fatE+, pouch of claws, pouch of Component DC Components
10
teeth, tentacle 5 EyeE+, fleshE, phial of bloodE+
15 HeartE, phial of mucus, liverE, stinger BoneE+, eggE, fatE+, pouch of claws, pouch
10
20 BrainE+, chitin, hide, main eyev of teeth
15 Horn, liverE, pouch of scales
Beast Harvest 20 HeartE+
25 Breath sacv
Component DC Components
AntennaE+*, eyeE+, fleshE, hair, phial of
5 Elemental Harvest
bloodE+
Antler, beak, boneE+, eggE, fatE+, fin, horn, Component DC Components
10 pincer, pouch of claws, pouch of teeth,
talon, tusk 5 EyeE+, primordial dustE+*
HeartE+, liverE+, poison gland, pouch of 10 BoneE+
15
feathers, pouch of scales, stinger, tentacle 15 Volatile mote of air/earth/fire/waterv
20 Chitin, pelt 25 Core of air/earth/fire/waterv
*Regarding edible components: antennae can be used as eyes. *Regarding edible components: primordial dust is spice.
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Component DC Components
Giant Harvest
5 Phial of sapE+*, tuberE*
Component DC Components Bundle of rootsE+*, phial of waxE*, pouch of
E E+ 10
5 Flesh , nail, phial of blood hyphaeE+*, pouch of leaves
10 BoneE+, fatE+, tooth Poison glandE+*, pouch of pollenvE+*, pouch
15
15 HeartvE+, liverE+ of sporesvE+*
20 Skin 20 BarkE+*, membraneE+*
Humanoid Harvest *Regarding edible components: sap is blood, tuber is flesh, roots and
hyphae are bones, wax is fat, poison glands are livers, pollen and spores
are spice, bark and membranes are hearts.
Component DC Components
5 Eye, phial of bloodE+ Undead Harvest
E+ E
10 Bone , egg , pouch of teeth
Component DC Components
HeartE+, liverE+, pouch of feathers, pouch
15 5 EyeE+, boneE+, phial of congealed bloodE+
of scales
20 BrainE+, skin 10 Marrow, pouch of teeth, rancid fatE
15 Ethereal ichorE+*, undying fleshE+
20 Undying heartvE+
Monstrosity Harvest
*Regarding edible components: ethereal ichor is spice.
Component DC Components
AntennaE+*, eyeE+, fleshE, hair, phial of
5
bloodE+
Antler, beak, boneE+, eggE, fatE+, fin, horn,
10 pincer, pouch of claws, pouch of teeth,
talon, tusk
HeartE+, liverE+, poison gland, pouch of
15
feathers, pouch of scales, stinger, tentacle
20 Chitin, pelt
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Essence
Essence is required to craft more powerful magic items. It
comes in five forms: frail, robust, potent, mythic, and deific.
These essences are required to craft items of uncommon, rare, Essence & Balance
very rare, legendary, and artifact rarity, respectively. Whilst
essence can be extracted from all creature types, the essence Because essence can only be gained by harvesting
available depends on the creature’s Challenge Rating (CR). CR 3 or higher creatures, it acts as a gating mech-
The following harvest table can be appended to all the mon- anism to limit the power of items the party can
ster harvest tables in this section. craft. If you want an especially high magic campaign,
consider decreasing the CR at which essence can be
Creature Component
Components Item Rarity harvested. This will allow more powerful items to
CR DC
be crafted at lower levels. If you want a low-magic
3-6 25 Frail essence Uncommon
campaign, do the opposite.
7-11 30 Robust essence Rare
12-17 35 Potent essence Very rare GM Tip: Boss Essence. When it comes to crafting,
only an essence’s rarity matters, not the creature it
18-24 40 Mythic essence Legendary
comes from. The most valuable parts of boss mon-
25+ 50 Deific essence Artifact
sters are their unique components, not their essence!
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BE
CHAPTER 5
crafting
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TA
v2
Crafting Tool Proficiency. Proficiency with a tool isn’t necessary
to attempt a Crafting check that requires that tool. If a
The crafting rules below provide what you need to know to character does not have the required proficiency, it can still
craft each item in this book. You can’t enchant an ascendant make the check, albeit with disadvantage. At the GM’s
dragon armour breastplate without first creating a breast- discretion, this disadvantage can be avoided if the character
plate. Within this guide, there are two types of crafting, receives guidance from a book or a creature with the requi-
each associated with a type of crafting check: site proficiency.
• Manufacturing is the creation of mundane (nonmag- Difficulty & Flavour. Mundane items have a manufac-
ical) items from raw materials by a creature proficient turing DC associated with their item type; the more complex
with a tool using a Manufacturing check. the item, the higher the DC. See the Manufacturing DC &
Time table on page 49-50 for the full breakdown.
• Enchanting is the magification of a mundane item by a
spellcaster to give it magical powers using an Enchant- Check. To manufacture an item, a creature must gather
ing check. the required equipment, materials, and tools, and spend the
Forging, detailed in Heliana’s Guide, is where both these requisite time crafting the item. This time need not be con-
processes are combined, allowing a non-spellcasting craftsper- tinuous. At the end of the crafting time, a creature makes a
son to work magic into raw materials as the item takes shape. Manufacturing check using proficiency with the appropri-
ate tool. A success on this check results in a completed item.
Manufacturing
A failure results in a non-functioning item or, if you use the
quirks optional rule from Heliana’s Guide, a functioning
item with one or more flaws.
Despite an adventurer’s best efforts, they’re probably going
to end up with one or two pieces of nonmagical gear. Some-
Breastplate Manufacturing
one needs to make those items, and the following man-
Materials: 130 gp steel ingots & leather
ufacturing rules put that power in the players’ hands. To
Time: 40 hours
manufacture a mundane item, a creature needs three things:
Tools: smith’s tools
materials, a tool, and time. In some cases, at the GM’s
Manufacturing check: DC 18
discretion, a creature might also need auxiliary equipment.
Strength or Constitution
Let’s take a breastplate as an example.
(smith’s tools)
Materials & Cost. As a rule of thumb, the material cost
of an item is one-third of its purchase value. A breastplate,
valued at 400 gp, requires 130 gp of materials. The GM
has great latitude in deciding what these mundane mate-
rials might be. The Manufacturing DC & Time table on
pages 49-50 summarises the material cost of different
mundane items.
Potion and spell scroll bases are unique in that
there is no base item to compare the material cost
to. The cost of these magic items’ nonmagical
materials is 2 gp and 3 gp, respectively.
Abilities & Tools. Manufacturing an item
requires a tool. The tool required depends on the
item’s type. The GM has considerable leeway in
deciding if a tool is applicable or not, and has the
final say on the tool required for any item. In addition,
different tools require different abilities to use them. Some
tools, like carpenter’s tools, grant a choice of abilities, much
like how finesse weapons let you choose Strength or Dex-
terity when making an attack roll. See the Tools and Their
Products table on the next page for a breakdown of tools,
abilities, and item types.
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BE
Miscellaneous indicates the item could belong to any category. Usually such items specify a material from which they are made. The category this
most often applies to is wondrous items.
*This is a new item category introduced in Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting and present in Motes of the Divine.
Chaouki “Ciao” Titouhi & Mohammed Bellafquih
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Manufacturing DC & Time
Material
Item Type Tool Time DC Item Value#
Cost
Adventuring gear Varies Varies 2 hours 11 Varies
Arrows (20) 3 sp Carpenter or woodcarver 1 hour 13 1 gp
Bolts (20) 3 sp Carpenter or woodcarver 1 hour 13 1 gp
Ammunition Firearm shot (20) 1 gp Smith 1 hour 13 3 gp
Needles (50) 3 sp Carpenter or woodcarver 1 hour 13 1 gp
Sling bullets (20) 1 cp Mason or smith 1 hour 13 4 cp
Armour Shield 3 gp Carpenter, smith, or woodcarver 8 hours 13 10 gp
Padded 2 gp Leatherworker or weaver 8 hours 13 5 gp
Light Armour Leather 3 gp Leatherworker 16 hours 15 10 gp
Studded leather 15 gp Leatherworker 24 hours 17 45 gp
Hide 3 gp Leatherworker 8 hours 13 10 gp
Chain shirt 17 gp Smith 16 hours 15 50 gp
Medium Armour Scale mail 17 gp Smith 24 hours 17 50 gp
Breastplate 130 gp Smith 40 hours 18 400 gp
Half plate 250 gp Smith 80 hours 19 750 gp
Ring mail 10 gp Smith 16 hours 15 30 gp
Chain mail 25 gp Smith 32 hours 16 75 gp
Heavy Armour
Splint 70 gp Smith 40 hours 18 200 gp
Plate 500 gp Smith 200 hours 20 1,500 gp
Instrument 20 gp Carpenter, tinker, woodcarver 16 hours 15 60 gp
Potion base 2 gp Alchemist, brewer, herbalism 2 hours 15 5 gp
Ring Varies** Jeweller 8 hours 15 Varies**
Rod, staff, wand Varies** Varies 8 hours 17 Varies**
Spell scroll base 3 gp Calligrapher, cartographer, painter 2 hours 15 10 gp
Claw* 2 gp Smith 3 hours 14 5 gp
Club 3 cp Carpenter or woodcarver 0.25 hours 14 1 sp
Dagger 7 sp Smith 1 hour 14 2 gp
Greatclub 7 cp Carpenter 0.5 hours 14 2 sp
Handaxe 2 gp Smith 3 hours 14 5 gp
Javelin 3 sp Carpenter, smith, or woodcarver 1 hour 14 1 gp
Knuckle duster* 3 sp Smith 1 hour 14 1 gp
Simple Melee
Light hammer 7 sp Mason or smith 1 hour 14 2 gp
Weapon
Mace 2 gp Mason or smith 3 hours 14 5 gp
Quarterstaff 2 sp Carpenter, smith, or woodcarver 0.5 hours 14 5 sp
Sickle 3 sp Smith 1 hour 14 1 gp
Spear 3 sp Carpenter, smith, or woodcarver 1 hour 14 1 gp
Spiked cestus* 1 gp Smith 2 hours 14 3 gp
Spiked knuckle duster* 6 sp Smith 2 hours 14 2 gp
War crescent* 2 gp Smith 4 hours 14 6 gp
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Material
Item Type Tool Time DC Item Value#
Cost
Crossbow, light 8 gp Tinker 12 hours 14 25 gp
Dart (x20) 3 cp Carpenter or woodcarver 1 hour 14 1 sp
Simple Ranged
Shortbow 8 gp Carpenter or woodcarver 12 hours 14 25 gp
Weapon
Sling 3 cp Weaver or leatherworker 0.25 hours 14 1 sp
Slingshot* 7 cp Carpenter or woodcarver 0.5 hours 14 2 sp
Battleaxe 3 gp Smith 6 hours 17 10 gp
Chakram* 3 gp Smith 6 hours 17 10 gp
Flail 3 gp Smith 6 hours 17 10 gp
Glaive 7 gp Carpenter, smith, or woodcarver 12 hours 17 20 gp
Greataxe 10 gp Smith 18 hours 17 30 gp
Greatsword 17 gp Smith 24 hours 17 50 gp
Halberd 7 gp Carpenter, smith, or woodcarver 12 hours 17 20 gp
Lance 3 gp Carpenter, smith, or woodcarver 6 hours 17 10 gp
Longsword 5 gp Smith 8 hours 17 15 gp
Maul 3 gp Mason or smith 6 hours 17 10 gp
Morningstar 3 gp Smith 6 hours 17 10 gp
Martial Melee
Nunchaku* 3 gp Carpenter, smith, or woodcarver 6 hours 17 10 gp
Weapon
Pike 3 gp Carpenter, smith, or woodcarver 6 hours 17 10 gp
Rapier 8 gp Smith 12 hours 17 25 gp
Scimitar 3 gp Smith 6 hours 17 10 gp
Shortsword 3 gp Smith 6 hours 17 10 gp
Starknife* 3 gp Smith 6 hours 17 10 gp
Tetherhook* 5 gp Smith 8 hours 17 15 gp
Trident 2 gp Carpenter or smith 3 hours 17 5 gp
Twinblade* 17 gp Smith 24 hours 17 50 gp
War pick 2 gp Smith 3 hours 17 5 gp
Warhammer 5 gp Mason or smith 8 hours 17 15 gp
Whip 7 sp Leatherworker 1 hour 17 2 gp
Blowgun 3 gp Carpenter or woodcarver 6 hours 17 10 gp
Crossbow, hand 25 gp Tinker 40 hours 17 75 gp
Martial Ranged
Crossbow, heavy 17 gp Tinker 24 hours 17 50 gp
Weapon
Longbow 17 gp Carpenter or woodcarver 18 hours 17 50 gp
Net 3 sp Weaver 1 hour 17 1 gp
Blunderbuss* 50 gp Tinker 36 hours 19 150 gp
Musket* 30 gp Tinker 36 hours 19 100 gp
Magitech
Pistol* 70 gp Tinker 48 hours 19 200 gp
Firearm
Revolver* 250 gp Tinker 96 hours 19 750 gp
Rifle* 330 gp Tinker 120 hours 19 1,000 gp
Wondrous item*** Varies** Varies*** 8 hours 15 Varies**
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Enchanting
spellbook; for bards, benders, rangers, sorcerers, tamers, and
Enchanting involves extracting the magical power from
warlocks, this means having the spell in their list of known
monster components and applying them to mundane items.
spells; and for clerics, druids, and paladins, this means any
In practice, this can take the form of physically grafting
spell in their list.
the components to the item or, for the magically inclined,
direct transfer of magical power. Skills. As with harvesting, the skill associated with the
Enchanting check depends on the type of creature the
Materials. The required materials for enchanting are: a
component was harvested from. So, if you’re making an
mundane item, a magical component, and an essence. The
ascendant dragon armour breastplate, which requires a pouch
first two are determined by the item’s recipe, while the latter
of Dragon (koi) scales as its component, you would make
is determined by the item’s rarity (see Enchanting Rarity,
an ability check using Survival. See the Creature Types and
DC, and Time table).
Associated Skills table for the full breakdown.
Essence. While magic items gain their nuances from the
Unlike harvesting, only creatures with a spellcasting ability
monster components used in their creation, the amplitude
can enchant, as the ability used in the crafting check must
of the item’s power is derived from a substance known as
be the creature’s spellcasting ability (typically Intelligence,
essence. The more rare the item, the more powerful it is, and
Wisdom, or Charisma). A wizard (whose spellcasting ability is
the more potent the essence required.
Intelligence) enchanting a breastplate into an ascendant dragon
If you use a rarer essence than required for a particular armour would thus make an Intelligence (Survival) check.
item, the item gains the rarity of the essence used, affect-
ing the time and DC required to make it (see below). For Creature Types and Associated Skills
example, if you make a helm of telepathy using a robust essence,
it would be rare instead of uncommon, requiring 80 hours Creature Type Skill
instead of 20 hours to craft. At the GM’s discretion, the Aberration Arcana
power of the item can be increased accordingly, perhaps by Beast Survival
increasing the DC of the saving throws to match the new Celestial Religion
rarity (from DC 13 to 15), or even adding other effects. Construct Investigation
Difficulty & Time. The DC and time required for the Dragon Survival
Enchanting check depend on the rarity of the magic item Elemental Arcana
being crafted and whether or not it has attunement; the Fey Arcana
rarer the item, the more difficult and time consuming it is Fiend Religion
to craft. This is broken down in the Enchanting Rarity, DC,
Giant Medicine
and Time table. Enchanting doesn’t have to be done all in
one go—a typical enchanter might only work for 8 hours Humanoid Medicine
each day. Monstrosity Survival
Ooze Nature
Spell Scrolls. Spell scrolls are unique in that the creature
crafting the spell scroll also needs to know the spell they are Plant Nature
crafting. For wizards, this means having the spell in their Undead Medicine
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BE
Check. To enchant an item, a creature must gather the Flaws. When an item is being enchanted, it is easy for
required materials and spend the requisite time crafting complex magic to go awry, or mischievous yokai to manipu-
the item. This time need not be continuous. At the end of late or even inhabit the item, giving it unusual quirks. When
the entire enchanting time, a creature makes an Enchant- you make an enchanting check, subtract the crafting DC
ing check with its spellcasting ability using proficiency with from the check’s result, and consult the Number of Flaws
the appropriate skill. A success on this check results in a Gained table to determine the number of flaws the item
completed enchantment. On a failure, the enchantment can gains. Then, roll a d20 on the Enchanting Flaws table to de-
still take hold, but the item gains a number of flaws based termine which flaws the item gains, re-rolling any duplicates.
on the difference between the result of the check and the
check’s DC (see Number of Flaws Gained table). Success or Number of Flaws Gained
failure, the essence and component are consumed.
Enchanting Check Result
Number of Flaws Gained
Minus Crafting DC
Ascendant Dragon Armour
(Breastplate) Enchanting -13 or less Total failure, item destroyed
Rarity: rare -12 to -9 Three flaws
Materials: breastplate, pouch of Dragon (koi) scales, robust -8 to -5 Two flaws
essence -4 to -1 One flaw
Time: 80 hours 0 or more No flaws
Enchanting check: DC 18 spellcasting ability (Survival)
If the item is attuneable, then the quirk is only applied
Quirks: Flaws to a creature while it is attuned to the item. If the item is
Unlike standard ability checks, succeeding or failing a craft- consumable (e.g., a potion, magical meal, or scroll), then
ing check doesn’t mean that you do or don’t make the item. the quirk is present for the duration of the item’s effect or, if
Instead, the item can end up having quirks; properties that the item has no duration (like a potion of healing), 1 hour.
affect the item in favourable or detrimental ways. Unhelp- If the item is neither attuneable nor consumable, then the
ful quirks are known as flaws, while advantageous ones are quirk is active while the item is in the creature’s possession,
referred to as boons. whether it is being held, carried, or worn.
Enchanting Flaws
d20 Flaw
Unlucky. The item (or you, if the item is consumable) exudes an aura of terrible luck. You have disadvantage on ability
1
checks you make with gaming sets and die rolls based purely on luck (GM’s discretion).
Scrappy. The item gains the ability to shout insults and a desire to witness combat. At the perfect time to initiate
conflict, the item (or you, if the item is consumable) speaks words chosen to antagonise a potential foe within 100 feet
2
of it that can hear it. After it has started combat in this way once (GM’s discretion), it can’t do so again until you finish a
long rest.
Covetous. The item is especially alluring. A creature that sees this item must succeed on a DC 8 Wisdom saving throw
3 or try to steal it. If the item is consumable, the creature tries to steal something from you, instead of the item itself. A
creature that succeeds on this saving throw is immune to this property of this item forever.
Nyctophobic. The item is scared of the dark. When you are in darkness, this item (or you, if the item is consumable)
4
shivers with fear. Creatures have advantage on Perception checks that rely on hearing to detect you.
Cowardly. The item has enhanced self-preservation tendencies. When you become frightened, roll a d20. On a 1-10,
the item magically detaches itself from you and flies 30 feet directly away from the source of your fear, landing on the
5
ground or colliding with the first creature or object in its path. If the item is consumable, you must instead immediate-
ly use your reaction to run as far as you can up to your speed away from the source of your fear.
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d20 Flaw
Gluttonous. The item is fuelled by money. Whenever you finish a long rest, you must give the item money, which it
consumes. If you do not, it loses all its magical properties and effects until the end of your next long rest, when it can
6
be fed again and regain the properties. The amount of money depends on the item’s rarity: common, 1 cp; uncommon,
1 sp; rare, 1 gp; very rare, 10 gp; legendary, 100 gp; artifact, 1,000 gp.
Diminished. The item carries a quirk of diminution magic. When you roll initiative, roll 1d4. On a 4, you are affected as
7
if by the reduce option of the enlarge/reduce spell for 1 minute, after which you return to your normal size.
Songful. The item has an irresistible urge to perform. When you roll initiative, the item (or you, if the item was consum-
8 able) begins singing for 1 minute. For the duration, you gain no benefit from being hidden or being invisible against
creatures that can hear, and you have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on being able to hear.
9 Lethargic. The item is extremely lazy. You have a d4 penalty to initiative rolls.
Pacifistic. The item has one rule: you cannot kill a creature. If you reduce a creature to 0 hit points, that creature falls
unconscious and is stable. Spells that kill creatures (such as power word kill) fail if you attempt to cast them. If an allied
10 creature attempts to kill another creature in your presence, you must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or do
everything in your power to prevent the killing. Once you succeed on this saving throw, you automatically succeed on
all subsequent saving throws to resist the effect for the next 24 hours.
Over Dramatic. When you take damage from a critical hit, you fall prone as the item (or you, if the item was consuma-
11
ble) throws itself to the ground in a dramatic fit of despair.
Possessive. The item is incredibly possessive. If the item doesn’t normally require attunement, it requires attune-
12 ment to confer any benefit or to be consumed. If the item already requires attunement, attuning to it counts as being
attuned to two magic items.
Heavy. The item carries traces of gravity magic. If you have a climbing or flying speed, it is reduced by 10 feet. In addi-
13
tion, if you take damage from a fall, that damage is doubled.
Bungled. The item squirms under pressure, robbing you of the ability to capitalise on good fortune. When you score a
14
critical hit, it is treated as a normal hit instead. This property can’t then trigger again until the next dawn.
Egotistical. The item (or you, if the item was consumable) develops extreme egotism. You cannot act as a collaborator
15 for Combo Attacks*, only initiate them. In addition, you receive no benefit from your Weapon Mastery features, unless
this item is a weapon, in which case you only receive benefits from them with this weapon.
Rivalrous. The item is eager to form an all-consuming rivalry. After you hit a creature with an attack roll, you have
16 disadvantage on attack rolls against any other creatures for 1 minute, and this property can’t trigger again until then.
The effect ends early if that creature falls to 0 hit points.
Garish. The item attempts to help you hide, but is woefully incompetent. Your skin and clothing shifts hue to always
17
not blend in with the background. You have disadvantage on Stealth checks against creatures that rely on sight.
Negligent. The item carries a curse of fumbled aid. You cannot stabilise creatures, and any attempt you make to stabi-
18 lise a creature deals 1 force damage to it. Whenever you roll one or more dice to restore hit points with a spell or magic
item, you must subtract 1d4 from the roll.
Enormous Hat. The item comes with a “gift”: an enormous, spectral, feathered hat that appears on your head. You
19 have disadvantage on Intimidation checks, and you gain no benefits from other headwear you wear, such as helmets
or goggles.
Plutocratic. The item is dedicated to the battle against classism. You have advantage on attack rolls against creatures
who earn more than 50 gold pieces a day, or possess personal wealth in excess of 10,000 gold pieces. You also have
20
disadvantage on Charisma checks made to interact with such creatures. Each time you first encounter a creature that
meets these specifications, you must make a DC 15 Charisma saving throw. On a failure, you reflexively insult it.
*See page XX
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TA
BE
Crafting Summary
Manufacturing
Enchanting
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CHAPTER 6
EQUIPMENT
& PROSTHESES
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Equipment & Prostheses
The Yokai Realms brim with opportunity—both for the
intrepid adventurers willing to brave its dangers, and for
the ingenious craftsmen who supply them with the tools
necessary to succeed. Consumables such as firecrackers and
smokebombs can create much-needed distractions, while a
hookshot or parachute will be invaluable should you find
yourself plummeting from atop a mighty kaiju. Twisted
yokai and evil spirits will taste the sting of brand new weap-
onry, such as nunchaku, kusarigama, and shuriken. Finally,
a carefully sculpted prosthesis can take the place of a lost
limb, or simply enhance an existing one.
Equipment
The smell of gunpower being refined from bat guano, the
clang of metal as a smith bends a hookshot into shape, and
the soft kiss of silk sewn into a life-saving parachute; the
artifice of the Realms is as varied as its inhabitants. This
section details the new gear adventurers can acquire, as well
as the weapons unique to this land of trcikery and wonder.
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v2
TA
BE
While the hook is attached, you have advantage on abil- New Weapon Properties
ity checks made to move along the rope, such as to climb
a vertical surface, swim against a current, or walk against a Ryoko’s Guide introduces four new weapon properties: Ad-
strong wind, and you can’t move or be moved more than aptable, Attached, Parry, and Thrown Versatility.
the hookshot’s range away from the point to which the Adaptable. This weapon can be used with differing
hook is attached. If you’re falling, you stop falling and be- techniques, allowing it to deal different types of damage.
come suspended from the surface the hook is attached to. A damage type in parentheses appears with the property—
Ōdzutsu Shot. These fist-sized spheres of solid iron are when a creature makes a weapon attack with this weapon, it
ammunition for the ōdzutsu. Each is 1 to 2 inches in diam- can choose to deal the weapon’s alternative damage type.
eter and weighs 1/5 pounds. Attached. You can’t be disarmed of this weapon, but don-
Parachute. A parachute is usually folded into a special- ning or doffing the weapon takes an action. You can use a
ised backpack, or a dedicated compartment in an adventur- hand equipped with this weapon to hold items, but can’t at-
ing backpack. As a reaction when you fall from a height of tack with the weapon while doing so. Additionally, you have
100 feet or higher while wearing such a backpack, you can disadvantage on attack rolls using other weapons held in
deploy the parachute to slow your rate of descent to 60 feet a hand equipped with this weapon and on Sleight of Hand
per round. If you land while the parachute is deployed, you checks using the hand that is equipped with this weapon.
take no falling damage. Parry. This weapon has been designed to help you parry
Once the parachute has been deployed, it can be refolded blows. While wielding this weapon in your offhand, you
over the course of 10 minutes, or cut loose as an action. can use your reaction when you are hit by a melee attack to
A creature that drags a deployed parachute behind it as it gain a +2 bonus to AC against the triggering attack, poten-
moves has its speed halved. tially causing it to miss.
Smokebomb. As an action, you throw one of these Scourge. This weapon adds 5 feet to your reach when
small, spherical pellets to create a 5-foot radius cloud of you attack with it, as well as when determining your reach
smoke centred on a point within 30 feet of you. The area of for opportunity attacks with it. Like the Reach property, the
the smoke is heavily obscured and lasts until the end of your Scourge property extends your effective attack radius, but
next turn or until dispersed by a moderate wind (at least 10 through a length of flexible material rather than a long stiff
miles per hour). material. To reflect this difference, the whips’ Reach proper-
ty has been replaced with Scourge.
Thrown Versatility. This weapon is better used for
thrown ranged weapon attacks than for melee weapon
attacks. A damage value in parentheses appears with the
property—the damage when the weapon is used to make a
ranged weapon attack.
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New Weapons
The following table presents the new weapons introduced
in Ryoko’s Guide. Additional details for each weapon can be
found in their respective sections.
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BE
Chakram Nunchaku
Chakrams are martial melee weapons, consisting of a cir- Nunchaku are martial melee weapons composed of two
cular blade with a sharp outer edge. They deal 1d4 slashing hard batons connected to one another by a short chain or
damage on a hit, count as monk weapons, and have the Fi- tether. They deal 1d6 bludgeoning damage on a hit, count
nesse, Light, Thrown (range 30/90), and Thrown Versatility as monk weapons, and have the Finesse, Versatile (1d8),
(1d6) properties. and Special: Flourish properties.
Special: Flourish. When you are wielding the nuncha-
Claw ku in two hands and take the Attack action on your turn,
Claws are simple, bladed melee weapons worn as gloves that you can attempt to flourish with the weapon immediately
deal 1d6 slashing damage on a hit and have the Attached before you make your first attack. To flourish, make a DC
and Light properties. 13 Dexterity check, adding your proficiency bonus if you
are proficient with nunchaku. On a success, you gain a +2
Kusarigama bonus to the first attack roll you make this turn. On a fail-
ure, you deal bludgeoning damage to yourself equal to your
Kusarigama are martial melee weapons consisting of a sickle
proficiency bonus and gain no bonus from your flourishes
attached to a heavy counterweight by a metal chain. They
this turn.
deal 1d4 slashing damage on a hit, count as monk weapons,
and have the Versatile (1d6) property. They also have the
Special: Counterweight property.
Ōdzutsu
Ōdzutsu are martial ranged weapons consisting of handheld
Special: Counterweight. While wielding a kusarigama
cannons, traditionally made of forged iron or cast bronze.
with two hands, you can use a bonus action to attack with
They deal 2d10 bludgeoning damage on a hit, and have the
its counterweight. This attack has a reach of 10 feet and
Ammunition (range 150/600), Two-handed, and Special:
deals 1d4 bludgeoning damage on a hit. You don’t add your
Long Reload properties.
ability modifier to the damage of this attack, unless that
modifier is negative. Special: Long Reload. After an attack is made using this
weapon, it must be reloaded. Due to the weight and size of
Meteor Hammer this weapon and its ammunition, reloading the weapon takes
two actions, which don’t need to be taken consecutively.
Meteor hammers are martial melee weapons that consist of
a length of chain or rope attached to a weight at one or both
ends. They deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage on a hit, count as
monk weapons, and have the Finesse, Reach, and Scourge
properties.
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Rope Dart
Rope darts are martial melee weapons that consist of a length
of chain or rope attached to a sharp dart at one end. They
deal 1d4 piercing damage on a hit, count as monk weapons,
and have the Finesse, Reach, and Scourge properties.
Sai
Sai are martial melee weapons consisting of three sharp,
metal prongs, with the longer one at the centre and a small-
er one on each side. They deal 1d4 piercing damage, count
as monk weapons, and have the Finesse, Light, and Parry
properties.
Shuriken
Shuriken, also known as throwing stars, are martial ranged
weapons—several sharp spikes or blades set in a circular
pattern, usually around a central ring. They deal 1d4 pierc-
ing damage on a hit, count as monk weapons, and have the
Finesse, Light, and Thrown (range 20/60) properties.
Tessen
Tessen are martial melee weapons consisting of folding
fans reinforced with wood or metal. The edges contain
razor-sharp blades, but they can also be used as bludgeon-
ing weapons when closed. They deal 1d4 slashing damage
on a hit, count as monk weapons, and have the Adaptable
(bludgeoning), Finesse, and Light properties. They also have
the Special: Fan Shield property.
Special: Fan Shield. When you are hit by an attack
made with a projectile that weighs less than 2 pounds, such
as a thrown dagger, dart, arrow, or bullet, while holding this
weapon, you can use your reaction to open the tessen and
attempt to deflect the projectile. You gain a +2 bonus to AC
against the triggering attack, potentially causing it to miss.
Tonfa
Tonfa are martial melee weapons consisting of a wooden or
metallic baton with a perpendicular handle. They deal 1d6
bludgeoning damage on a hit, count as monk weapons, and
have the Light and Parry properties.
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Prostheses
Ryoko’s Guide to the Yokai Realms introduces a new item
type: prostheses, along with unique rules for equipping and
using such items. In the context of this book, a prosthesis is
an item that functions as a replacement or augmentation for
a limb or other body part. Prostheses are divided into two
categories: mundane and magical.
Mundane Prostheses
Mundane prostheses are nonmagical and fully mechanical
in nature, which results in a number of limitations:
• A mundane prosthesis can be used to replace a missing
limb, but not augment an existing one or add a new
limb that a member of the species wouldn’t normally
have. For example, a human can’t use a mundane tail
prosthesis to gain the functionalities of a tail, but a
ryujin that has lost its tail can.
• A mundane prosthesis can replicate motor functions,
but can’t relay sensation. For example, a mundane
prosthetic eye can turn in its socket, but doesn’t grant
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Types of Prostheses
Several types of mundane and magical prostheses exist,
each with useful properties that allow them to serve other
functions in addition to acting as a limb or body part. For
example, a clever pickpocket might conceal his ill-gotten
spoils in a hidden compartment within his prosthetic leg, or
a grizzled warrior might extend a blade from her prosthetic
arm to fight off a band of roving pillagers.
The table below details the types of mundane prostheses
available, as well as the properties that each one has and
what limbs it can replace or enhance.
Adventuring Prostheses
Prosthesis Properties Cost Arm Leg Tail
Advanced Hookshot (15 ft.), Integrated (any), Launch (1d6*, 15 ft.) 100 gp*** x
Basic Integrated (any) 50 gp*** x
Cannon Blast (1d6*, 20 ft.) 150 gp x
Climbing Claw Mobility (climb 20 ft.) 75 gp x x x
Combat Arm Hookshot (20 ft.), Launch (1d6**, 20 ft.), Melee (1d6**, 5 ft.) 150 gp x
Grappling Hook Hookshot (40 ft.) 100 gp x x
Smokeshot Integrated (stash), Obscure 90 gp x x x
Steelsinger Hookshot (30 ft.), Launch (1d6**, 30 ft.) 125 gp x
Streamcutter Mobility (swim 20 ft.) 75 gp x x x
Wartail Melee (1d6**, 10 ft.) 100 gp x
*Work with your GM to choose one damage type from acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder that fits the prosthesis.
*Work with your GM to choose one damage type from bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing that fits the prosthesis; if the item has an integrated
weapon, the damage type of the Launch property should match the weapon’s damage type.
**In addition to the price of the integrated object
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Prosthesis Properties Alternatively, you can fire the hook at another creature
at least two sizes larger than you, making an attack roll
Like weapons, prostheses have special properties that dictate with the prosthesis. You’re considered proficient with the
how they function. Properties commonly found on prosthe- attack, which uses your Strength or Dexterity modifier for
ses include the following: the attack roll. On a hit, it deals no damage, but the hook
Blast (XdX, X ft.). This prosthesis is capable of discharg- attaches to the target. A creature within 5 feet of the hook
ing powerful explosive blasts. The prosthesis is a ranged can use an action to forcefully detach the hook with a suc-
weapon that uses your Dexterity modifier for the attack cessful DC 10 Strength or Dexterity check.
and damage rolls. If you’re proficient with a martial ranged While the hook is attached, you have advantage on abil-
weapon, you’re considered proficient with this weapon. The ity checks made to move along the rope, such as to climb
information in parentheses notes the attack’s damage dice, a vertical surface, swim against a current, or walk against a
damage type, and range, respectively. strong wind, and you can’t move or be moved more than
Alternatively, you can use an action to fire the cannon the hookshot’s range away from the point to which the
and propel yourself a distance up to the range of the blast hook is attached. If you’re falling, you stop falling further
in a straight line in any direction, dealing no damage. As than the range at which you shot the hookshot and become
normal, this movement can provoke opportunity attacks. suspended from the surface the hook is attached to. In ad-
dition, until the hook is reeled back in, the prosthesis can’t
Hookshot (X ft.). This enhancement consists of a metallic hold anything or be used to make attacks, and you can’t use
hook or similar tool attached to a spool of chain, rope, or or benefit from objects integrated into the prosthesis (such
wire. The number in parentheses is the range of the hook- as attacking with a weapon or benefitting from a shield’s
shot. If the prosthesis isn’t being used to hold an item, you bonus to AC).
can shoot the hook at a fixed surface within range as a bonus
action, or as a reaction when falling. The hook then attaches Integrated (X). The object in parentheses is integrated
to that surface until you use a bonus action to detach the into the prosthesis, and can’t be separated from it, ex-
hook and reel the rope back in, or until the rope is destroyed. changed for another integrated object, or used to make
The rope is an object with AC 10 and 10 hit points. ranged attacks by throwing it. As a bonus action, you can
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extend or retract the integrated object, allowing it to be
used or concealed, respectively. While an object is extended
from an arm or hand prosthesis, you can manipulate it as if
you were holding it, and your hand is not considered free. A
prosthesis can only have one object integrated into it, which
can be:
• A weapon without the heavy property
• A shield
• A set of tools or handheld item that can conceivably fit
within the prosthesis (GM’s discretion)
• An orb, rod, or wand
• A stash: a concealed storage space within the prosthesis,
up to 35 inches cubed in volume, that can be used to
store Tiny objects, such as rings, phials of liquid (e.g.
potions), smoke bombs, pieces of ammunition, or a bag
of caltrops or ball bearings. The user of the prosthesis
can stow or retrieve an item from the stash as a bonus
action. A creature can find this secret compartment with
a successful DC 11 Intelligence (Investigation) check.
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CHAPTER 7
WEAPON
MASTERIES
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Weapon Masteries
Weapon mastery is a system that grants new techniques to attack roll bonuses if the weapon is magical, or other effects
warriors, representing their dedication to combat and skill currently affecting you or the weapon. Note that it does not
with a favoured weapon property. It opens up new path- include any bonuses that rely on die rolls, such as the effect
ways for players to explore creativity, flavour, and gameplay of the bless spell.
options, as well as correcting some of the power imbalance
between martial and spellcasting classes that can emerge at Martial save DC = 8 + proficiency bonus + ability
higher levels.
modifier + other attack roll bonuses
Saving Throws. Whenever you use an advanced tech- Every weapon in this book has at least one property with
nique that forces a target to make a saving throw, it is an associated technique tree.
against your martial save DC, which is calculated using any
modifiers to your attack rolls with the weapon you are using Unarmed Strikes
to perform the technique This includes your proficiency Unarmed strikes are a unique case. Despite not being a
bonus, your ability modifier (typically Strength or Dexteri- weapon, unarmed strikes benefit from the Pugilist tech-
ty, but effects like the shillelagh cantrip could change this), nique tree as if they had the Pugilist property.
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1
Included for players using L’Arsene’s Ledger of Treasures and Trinkets
2
See page xx - xx for more details.
3
Despite not being a weapon, unarmed strikes benefit from the Pugilist technique tree as if they had the Pugilist property.
4
Although this item does not have the Scourge property, it counts as a Scourge weapon for the purposes of weapon mastery (see page XX).
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Learning Advanced Techniques
Example
When you reach martial level 2, you learn one tier 1 ad-
vanced technique. As you increase in martial level, you learn Gurf is a 2nd-level barbarian and is therefore a
more techniques, including more powerful ones at higher martial level 2 player character. Gurf chose to learn
tiers, as shown in the Weapon Mastery Progression table. the Fortified Position advanced technique from the
Reach skill tree, reflecting the time spent decapitat-
Weapon Mastery Progression
ing foes with his favoured weapon: the glaive.
Techniques Maximum
Martial Level Gurf gains two more levels in the barbarian class,
Known Technique Tier
2nd 1 1 meaning he is now a martial level 4 character,
allowing him to choose another advanced tech-
4th 2 1
nique. This time, he chooses a technique from the
6th 3 2
Heavy skill tree: Executioner. Because Gurf’s glaive
8th 4 2 has both the Reach and Heavy properties, both
10th 5 3 advanced techniques enhance his combat prowess
12th 6 3 when fighting with that weapon.
14th 7 4
Gurf then decides to multiclass into the ranger
16th 8 4 class. Ranger is a half-martial class so, for every
18th 9 4 two ranger levels, Gurf gains one martial level. At
20th 10 4 character level 8 (barbarian 4/ranger 4), Gurf is
a martial level 6 character and can learn another
Technique Trees. Advanced techniques are split into technique. Gurf opts to progress further along the
twelve technique trees, each of which is associated with one Heavy technique tree, learning the tier 2 advanced
property: Ammunition, Finesse, Heavy, Impact*, Light,
technique Superior Strike: Heavy.
Loading, Pugilist*, Reach, Scourge*, Shield**, Thrown,
and Versatile. Each technique tree has four tiers; to pick an
advanced technique from tier 2 or higher, you must know at
least one advanced technique from a lower tier in that prop- Superior Strikes
erty’s technique tree. For example, to pick the tier 4 Finesse
advanced technique Ambidextrous, you must have already Every weapon can perform a devastating attack called a
chosen one of the tier 3 techniques, either Opportunist or superior strike. The tier 2 advanced Superior Strike tech-
Weak Spot. nique of each technique tree gives you access to the superior
strike for all weapons with that property. For example, upon
*These new properties are explained on page XX.
**Shield is not a weapon property, but gets its own technique tree,
taking the advanced technique Superior Strike: Heavy from
regardless. the Heavy technique tree at martial level 6, a character can
perform a superior strike with any Heavy weapon, such as a
In addition, advanced techniques in tiers 2 and above greatsword, pike, or glaive.
have martial level prerequisites as shown on the skill tree
and in Weapon Mastery Progression table. Each weapon has a certain superior strike tied to it. For
example, a glaive has the Whirl superior strike, whereas the
Optional Rule: Level Up. When you gain a level, you greatsword has Shockwave. Because both of these weapons
can replace one of the advanced techniques you known have the Heavy property, a character with the Superike
another of your choice for which you meet the prerequisites. Strike: Heavy technique can perform either superior strike
if they are holding the requisite weapon. The Weapon
Metadata table shows every weapon in the core rules, Ryoko’s
Guide, L’Arsene’s Ledger, and Heliana’s Guide, along with
their properties and superior strike effects.
Shields
Shields are a unique case. Technically, they are classified
armour, but as any shield-bearing warrior will tell you, they
can be as much a weapon as any sword or axe. Accordingly,
shields have a dedicated technique tree and their own supe-
rior strike: Shield Slam.
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Weapon Metadata
Weapon Source* Properties Damage Superior Strike
Simple Melee Weapons
Claw HGMH Attached, Light 1d6 slashing Skewer
Club SRD Impact, Light 1d4 bludgeoning Reeling Blow
Dagger SRD Finesse, Light, Thrown 1d4 piercing Battery Strike
Greatclub SRD Impact, Two-handed 1d8 bludgeoning Shockwave
Handaxe SRD Light, Thrown 1d6 slashing Battery Strike
Javelin SRD Thrown 1d6 piercing Battery Strike
Knuckle duster LLTT Attached, Light, Pugilist 1d4 bludgeoning Flurry
Light hammer SRD Impact, Light, Thrown 1d4 bludgeoning Battery Strike
Mace SRD Impact 1d6 bludgeoning Reeling Blow
Quarterstaff SRD Impact, Versatile (1d8) 1d6 bludgeoning Reeling Blow
Sickle SRD Light 1d4 slashing Skewer
Spear SRD Thrown, Versatile 1d6 piercing Skewer
Spiked cestus LLTT Adaptable (piercing), Attached, Pugilist 1d6 bludgeoning Flurry
Adaptable (piercing), Attached, Light,
Spiked knuckle duster LLTT 1d4 bludgeoning Flurry
Pugilist
War crescent LLTT Versatile (1d8) 1d6 slashing Whirling Strike
Simple Ranged Weapons
Crossbow, light SRD Ammunition, Loading, Two-handed 1d8 piercing Piercing Shot
Dart SRD Finesse, Thrown 1d4 piercing Battery Strike
Shortbow SRD Ammunition, Two-handed 1d6 piercing Hail of Ammunition
Shuriken RGYR Finesse, Light, Thrown (range 20/60) 1d4 piercing Battery Strike
Sling SRD Ammunition 1d4 bludgeoning Hail of Ammunition
Slingshot HGMH Ammunition, Two-handed 1d6 bludgeoning Hail of Ammunition
Martial Melee Weapons
Battleaxe SRD Versatile (1d10) 1d8 slashing Whirling Strike
Finesse, Light Thrown (range 30/90),
Chakram LLTT 1d4 slashing Battery Strike
Thrown Versatility (1d6)
Flail SRD Impact 1d8 bludgeoning Reeling Blow
Glaive SRD Heavy, Reach, Two-handed 1d10 slashing Whirling Strike
Greataxe SRD Heavy, Two-handed 1d12 slashing Shockwave
Greatsword SRD Heavy, Two-handed 2d6 slashing Shockwave
Halberd SRD Heavy, Reach, Two-handed 1d10 slashing Hamstring
Kusarigama RGYR Special, Versatile (1d6) 1d4 slashing Trip
Lance SRD Reach, Special 1d12 piercing Skewer
Longsword SRD Versatile (1d10) 1d8 slashing Hamstring
Maul SRD Heavy, Two-handed 2d6 bludgeoning Shockwave
Meteor hammer RGYR Finesse, Scourge 1d4 bludgeoning Whirling Strike
Morningstar SRD Impact 1d8 piercing Shockwave
Nunchaku HGMH Finesse, Special, Versatile (1d8) 1d6 bludgeoning Whirling Strike
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Weapon Source* Properties Damage Superior Strike
Pike SRD Heavy, Reach, Two-handed 1d10 piercing Skewer
Rapier SRD Finesse 1d8 piercing Skewer
Rope Dart RGYR Finesse, Scourge 1d4 piercing Trip
Sai RGYR Finesse, Light 1d4 piercing Skewer
Scimitar SRD Finesse, Light 1d6 slashing Hamstring
Shortsword SRD Finesse, Light 1d6 piercing Whirling strike
Adaptable (slashing), Finesse, Light,
Starknife LLTT Thrown (range 20/60), Thrown 1d4 piercing Battery Strike
Versatility (1d6)
Adaptable (bludgeoning), Finesse, and
Tessen RGYR 1d4 slashing Whirling Strike
Light
Tetherhook HGMH Scourge, Special, Two-handed 1d8 piercing Trip
Tonfa RGYR Light, Parry 1d6 bludgeoning Reeling Blow
Trident SRD Thrown (range 20/60), Versatile (1d8) 1d6 piercing Piercing Shot
Twinblade HGMH Finesse, Special, Two-handed 2d4 slashing Whirling Strike
War Pick SRD Versatile (1d10) 1d8 piercing Skewer
Warhammer SRD Impact, Versatile (1d10) 1d8 bludgeoning Shockwave
Whip SRD Finesse, Scourge 1d4 slashing Trip
Martial Ranged Weapons
Blowgun SRD Ammunition (range 25/100), Loading 1 piercing Piercing Shot
Ammunition (range 20/60), Loud
Blunderbuss HGMH 3d4 piercing Piercing Shot
(1000), Reload (1), Two-handed
Ammunition (range 30/120), Light,
Crossbow, hand SRD 1d6 piercing Piercing Shot
Loading
Ammunition (range 30/120), Light,
Crossbow, heavy SRD 1d10 piercing Piercing Shot
Loading, Two-handed
Ammunition (range 150/600), Heavy,
Longbow SRD 1d8 piercing Hail of Ammunition
Two-handed
Ammunition (range 80/240), Loud
Musket HGMH 1d10 piercing Piercing Shot
(1000), Reload (1), Two-handed
Net SRD Special, Thrown (range 5/15) — Trip
Ammunition (range 150/600),
Ōdzutsu RGYR 2d10 piercing Piercing Shot
Two-handed, and Special
Ammunition (range 40/120), Loud (500),
Pistol HGMH 1d8 piercing Piercing Shot
Reload (2)
Ammunition (range 60/240), Loud
Revolver HGMH 1d10 piercing Piercing Shot
(500), Reload (6)
Ammunition (range 120/480), Loud
Rifle HGMH 1d12 piercing Piercing Shot
(500), Reload (6), Two-handed
Armour
Shield SRD +2 to AC — Shield Slam
*Source indicates which publication the weapon is from. HGMH = Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting; LLTT = L’Arsene’s Ledger of Treasures and
Trinkets; RGYR = Ryoko’s Guide to the Yokai Realms (this book, see Chapter XX); SRD = System Reference Document (the core 5e rules).
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Tier
Tinkered Artillery
Aerodynamic Ammunition Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one
1 Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Ammunition weapon
Ammunition weapon Specialise your ammo with simple enhancements.
Double the range of your ranged attacks.
Tooled Artillery
Double Load
3 Prerequisite: a tier 2 Ammunition advanced technique
Prerequisite: a tier 2 Ammunition advanced technique
Specialise your ammo with explosive enhancements.
Double your ammunition for a powerful shot.
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Tinkered Artillery • Explosive. Hit or miss, the target and each creature
within 5 feet of it must make a Dexterity saving
Prerequisite: martial level 2, proficiency with at least one Ammunition
weapon throw. A target that is hit by your attack automatically
fails this saving throw. A creature takes 1d8 thunder
When you finish a short or long rest, you can modify a damage on a failure or half as much damage on a
number of pieces of ammunition equal to your proficiency success.
bonus using 1 gp worth of materials per piece of modified
• Smoke Bomb. Hit or miss, the ammunition erupts in a
ammunition. You cannot modify the same piece of am-
cloud of smoke. The area within 10 feet of the target is
munition more than once. When you modify a piece of
heavily obscured until the start of your next turn.
ammunition, choose from the options below.
• Poisonous. On a hit, the target takes an additional 1d6 When you make an attack with an Ammunition weapon,
poison damage and must succeed on a Constitution you can use one of your modified pieces of ammunition,
saving throw or be poisoned until the end of your but you can only target creatures or objects within that
next turn. weapon’s normal range for that attack roll. Any specialised
ammunition you create using this technique deteriorates 24
• Whomping. On a hit, the target must succeed on a
hours after it’s created.
Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
When you make an attack with an Ammunition weapon, Tier 4 Advanced Techniques
you can use one of your modified pieces of ammunition,
but you can only target creatures or objects within that Rapid Fire
weapon’s normal range for that attack roll. Any specialised
Prerequisites: martial level 14; a tier 3 Ammunition advanced technique
ammunition you create using this technique deteriorates 24
hours after it’s created. After you take the Attack action and make an attack with
an Ammunition weapon, you can make a DC 15 Dexterity
Tier 2 Advanced Technique check. On a success, you can make one additional attack
with that weapon as part of the same action.
Superior Strike: Ammunition
Runed Artillery
Prerequisites: martial level 6; a tier 1 Ammunition advanced technique
Prerequisites: martial level 14; a tier 3 Ammunition advanced technique
You can perform a superior strike with any weapon that has
the Ammunition property. When you finish a short or long rest, you can modify a
number of pieces of ammunition equal to your proficiency
bonus using 10 gp worth of materials per piece of modified
Tier 3 Advanced Techniques ammunition, choosing from the options below.
When you finish a short or long rest, you can modify a When you make an attack with an Ammunition weapon,
number of pieces of ammunition equal to your proficiency you can use one of your modified pieces of ammunition,
bonus using 5 gp worth of materials per piece of modified but you can only target creatures or objects within that
ammunition, choosing from the options below. weapon’s normal range for that attack roll. Any specialised
ammunition you create using this technique deteriorates 24
hours after it’s created.
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Tier
Ambidextrous
Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Finesse weapon
Nimble Duelist
1 Wield two finesse weapons.
Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Finesse weapon
Strike enemies and retreat unscathed.
Weak Spot
Jink
3 Prerequisite: a tier 2 Finesse advanced technique
Prerequisite: a tier 2 Finesse advanced technique
Target a weakness to deal additional damage.
Dodge and attack at the same time.
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Nimble Duelist
Prerequisite: martial level 2, proficiency with at least one Finesse
Heavy Mastery
weapon
Creatures you hit with a Finesse weapon can’t make oppor- “Size matters.”
tunity attacks against you until the end of this turn.
Fighting Elegance
Tier 3 Advanced Techniques
Prerequisites: martial level 14; a tier 3 Finesse advanced technique
Your AC increases by 2 while you’re wielding a Finesse Cleave
weapon and not wielding a non-Finesse weapon or shield in Prerequisites: martial level 10; a tier 2 Heavy advanced technique
your other hand.
When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a melee
attack roll using a Heavy weapon, you can choose to carry
Opportunist
over any excess damage to one other creature within your
Prerequisites: martial level 10; a tier 2 Finesse advanced technique reach, provided the initial attack roll would hit the target.
When a creature within 5 feet of you attacks a creature If you reduce that creature to 0 hit points, you can repeat
other than you, you can use your reaction to make a melee this process against another target until there is no excess
attack against it with a Finesse weapon. damage remaining.
Hammering Blow
Prerequisites: martial level 10; a tier 2 Heavy advanced technique
When you hit a creature no more than one size larger than
you with a Heavy weapon and roll the highest result on the
weapon’s damage dice, you can knock the target prone.
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Tier
Colossal Strength
Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Heavy weapon Executioner
1 Ignore the size restriction of Heavy weapons. Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Heavy weapon
Deal calamitous damage to prone creatures.
Hammering Blow
Cleave
3 Prerequisite: Superior Strike: Heavy
Prerequisite: Superior Strike: Heavy
Knock targets prone on a critical hit.
Cleave through hordes of enemies.
Concussive Blow
Prerequisite: martial level 14; a tier 3 Heavy advanced technique
When you score a critical hit on an attack with a
Heavy weapon, the target also suffers the effect of
the confusion spell until the end of its next turn.
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Tier
Direct Damage
Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Impact weapon Dizzying Strike
Ignore a target’s temporary hit points and break its concentration. Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Impact weapon 1
Dizzy opponents with fierce blows to reduce their speed.
Momentum Swing
Prerequisite: a tier 2 Impact advanced technique Staggering Strike
Quickly attack again if you miss. Prerequisite: a tier 2 Impact advanced technique
3
Stagger enemies you hit.
Shattered Steel
Crushing Force Prerequisite: a tier 3 Impact advanced technique
Prerequisite: a tier 3 Impact advanced technique
Destroy weapons and shields when you score
4
Gain advantage when attacking smaller creatures. a critical hit.
Impact Mastery
Tier 1 Advanced Techniques
“We can talk about “magic this” and “finesse that” Direct Damage
until the bitan come home, but the fact is that Prerequisite: martial level 2, proficiency with at least one Impact weapon
combat is simple. I bonk people on the head and Your damage rolls for attacks you make with Impact weap-
they stop being alive. I’ll hit you up via sending ons ignore temporary hit points, striking at a target’s normal
spell when that strategy stops working but, so far, hit points directly. In addition, if an attack you make with
the results are impressive.” an Impact weapon forces a target to make a Constitution
saving throw to maintain its concentration, it has disad-
vantage on the saving throw.
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Dizzying Strike
Prerequisite: martial level 2, proficiency with at least one Impact weapon
When you hit a creature with an attack using an Impact
weapon, that creature’s speed is reduced by 10 feet until the
end of its next turn.
Staggering Strike
Prerequisites: martial level 10; a tier 2 Impact advanced technique
When you hit a creature with an Impact weapon and roll
the highest result on the weapon’s damage dice or score a
critical hit, that creature must succeed on a Constitution
saving throw or be staggered until the end of its next turn.
While staggered, a creature has disadvantage on all attack
rolls, and on ability checks and saving throws that use Dex-
terity or Intelligence, and it can’t take reactions.
Shattered Steel
Prerequisites: martial level 14; a tier 3 Impact advanced technique
When you roll the maximum on your damage roll when you
hit a creature with an Impact weapon, you push the force
of that strike onto an object (such as a weapon) the creature
is holding. The target must make an Strength (Athletics)
check against your martial save DC. On a success, it drops
the object. On a failure, the object shatters. If the object is
a magic item of a rarity equal to or higher than that of your
weapon, the target automatically succeeds on this check.
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Tier
Combination Strike
Prerequisite: a tier 2 Light advanced technique Riposte
Make your bonus action attacks with advantage. Prerequisite: a tier 2 Light
3
Counterattack when an enemy misses you.
“Size matters not.” When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add
your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus action
attack.
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Lightweight Riposte
Prerequisite: martial level 2, proficiency with at least one Light Prerequisites: martial level 10; a tier 2 Light advanced technique
weapon
When you are wielding two Light weapons and a creature
While the only weapons you are wielding are Light weapons within your reach misses you with a melee weapon attack,
and you aren’t wearing a shield or heavy armour, your speed you can use your reaction to make an attack roll against that
increases by 10 feet. creature with one of the weapons.
When you take the Attack action and attack with a Light When you take the Attack action, if the only weapons you
weapon, any attack roll you make as a bonus action this are wielding are Light weapons, you can make one addition-
turn with a Light weapon has advantage. al attack with a Light weapon as a part of that action, but
you do not add your ability modifier to the damage, unless
that modifier is negative.
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Steady Loader
Prerequisite: a tier 2 Loading advanced technique Hyper Focus
Strike critical blows more often! Prerequisite: a tier 2 Loading advanced technique
3
Steady your mind to attack with advantage.
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Flexible Weaponry
Prerequisite: martial level 2, proficiency with at least one Loading
weapon
You can use a Loading weapon as a crude club. It is a simple
melee weapon with the Finesse property that deals 1d4
bludgeoning damage on a hit. If you hit a creature with
a melee attack roll using a Loading weapon, that creature
can’t make opportunity attacks against you until the start of
its next turn.
Hyper Focus
Prerequisites: martial level 10; a tier 2 Loading advanced technique
As a bonus action, you can steady your body and mind to
give yourself advantage on the next attack roll you make
with a Loading weapon this turn.
Dead-Eye
Prerequisites: martial level 14; a tier 3 Loading advanced technique
The critical hit threshold for attack rolls you make with
Loading weapons is reduced by 1.
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Tier
Brawler’s Spirit
Welterweight Technique
Pierce magical defences with your unarmed strikes.
Attack dexterously with your unarmed strikes
1
Blitzer
Prerequisite: a tier 2 Pugilist advanced technique Brawler
Strike again as a bonus action. Prerequisite: a tier 2 Pugilist advanced technique
3
Shove or grapple as a bonus action.
“Float like a ryuto, sting like a nue.” You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and
damage rolls of your unarmed strikes or Pugilist weapons.
Trained Pugilist
Tier 1 Advanced Techniques Prerequisite: martial level 2
You can roll a d6 in place of the normal damage of your
Brawler’s Spirit
unarmed strikes.
Prerequisite: martial level 2
Your unarmed strikes and attacks made with Pugilist weap-
ons count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resist-
ances and immunities to nonmagical attacks and damage.
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Tier
Uppercut Specialist
1 Trained Pugilist Deal devastating blows to larger creatures.
Deal greater damage with your unarmed strikes
Got ‘em
Expert Pugilist
3 Prerequisite: a tier 2 Pugilist advanced technique
Prerequisite: a tier 2 Pugilist advanced technique
React deftly to fleeing foes.
Deal even more damage with your unarmed strikes.
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Tier
Fortified Position
Pole Vaulter
Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Reach weapon
1 The area around you becomes difficult terrain for enemies.
Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Loading weapon
Use your polearm to leap further and steady your fall.
Constant Vigilance
Lunging Strikes
3 Prerequisite: a tier 2 Reach advanced technique
Prerequisite: a tier 2 Reach advanced technique
Make attacks against creatures that enter your reach.
Increase the reach even further.
Crowd Control
4 Prerequisite: a tier 3 Reach advanced technique
Pike Wall
Prerequisite: a tier 3 Reach advanced technique
Move creatures that you hit with Reach weapons.
Form a defensive posture alongside an ally
with a Reach weapon.
Reach Mastery
“You’d think millenia of civilisation would amount
to more than ‘the guy with the biggest stick wins’,
but it really doesn’t! The polearm is disgustingly
effective in single combat, and anyone who
disagrees is welcome to try and get within 10 feet
of me to make a counter argument. Let’s see who
can do so without getting their skull cracked open.”
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Tier
Day Tripper
Get Over Here!
Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Scourge weapon
1 Trip enemies to knock them prone after attacking.
Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Scourge weapon
Wrench enemies towards you after attacking.
Long Tether
Wrap
3 Prerequisite: a tier 2 Scourge advanced technique
Prerequisite: a tier 2 Scourge advanced technique
Increase the reach of your Scourge weapon attacks.
Grapple enemies from afar.
Disarming Strike
4 Prerequisite: a tier 3 Scourge advanced technique
Vicious Strikes
Wrench objects out of your enemy’s grasp and pull
Prerequisite: a tier 3 Scourge advanced technique
them towards you.
Increase the damage of your Scourge weapons.
Long Tether
Tier 3 Advanced Techniques
Prerequisites: martial level 10; a tier 2 Scourge advanced technique
When you take the Attack action on your turn, your reach Flexible Attacker
for attacks you make with Scourge weapons increases by 5 Prerequisites: martial level 10; a tier 2 Thrown advanced technique
feet until the end of your turn.
If you make a melee attack with a Thrown weapon on your
turn, you can make a ranged weapon attack with that same
Tier 4 Advanced Techniques weapon as a bonus action that turn.
Vicious Strikes
Prerequisites: martial level 14; a tier 3 Scourge advanced technique
The damage die of your Scourge weapons increases to a d10.
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Bullseye
Whirling Melee Prerequisite: a tier 3 Thrown advanced technique
4 Prerequisite: a tier 3 Thrown advanced technique Crit more often, and devastate enemies with
Seamlessly blend melee and thrown weapon attacks. debilitating effects on a critical hit.
Bullseye
Prerequisites: martial level 14; a tier 3 Thrown advanced technique
The critical threshold of ranged attack rolls you make using
Tier 4 Advanced Techniques Thrown weapons is reduced by 1. If you score a critical hit
against a creature with a ranged attack roll using a Thrown
Whirling Melee weapon, you can choose one of the following additional
effects for the target to suffer:
Prerequisites: martial level 14; a tier 3 Thrown advanced technique
• The target is blinded until the start of its next turn.
After you take the Attack action and make a melee attack
against a creature on your turn, you gain advantage on • The target drops one object (such as a weapon) of your
attack rolls with Thrown weapons against other creatures choice that it is holding.
until the end of the turn. • The target’s speed is halved until the end of its next turn.
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Tier
Weapon Focus
Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Versatile weapon Quick Parry
Use your weapon as a spellcasting focus and to per-
form the somatic components of spells.
Prerequisite: proficiency with at least one Versatile weapon 1
Parry enemies to deflect melee attacks.
Shield Bash
Swift Striker Prerequisite: a tier 2 Versatile Heavy Striker
advanced technique
Prerequisite: a tier 2 Versatile advanced technique
Knock your enemy prone with a
Prerequisite: a tier 2 Versatile advanced
technique
3
Make a bonus attack when you attack with a shield strike. Attack with advantage when you wield
Versatile weapon wielded in one hand.
a Versatile weapon in two hands.
Guard
Dual Maneuver Prerequisite: a tier 3 Versatile ad-
4
vanced technique Very Heavy Striker
Prerequisite: a tier 3 Versatile advanced
technique Increase your AC and cover your Prerequisite: a tier 3 Versatile advanced technique
retreat. Massively boost your critical hit chance when at-
Grapple with your off hand as you attack
with a Versatile weapon in one hand. tacking with a Versatile weapon with both hands.
Versatile Mastery
Quick Parry
Prerequisite: martial level 2, proficiency with at least one Versatile
“One hand, two hand, you’re a, dead man.” weapon
- Poem of the Longsword. When a creature makes a melee attack roll against you while
you wield a Versatile weapon, you can use your reaction to
add your proficiency bonus to your AC against that attack,
potentially turning a hit into a miss.
Tier 1 Advanced Techniques
Weapon Focus Tier 2 Advanced Technique
Prerequisite: martial level 2, proficiency with at least one Versatile
Superior Strike: Versatile
weapon
Prerequisites: martial level 6; a tier 1 Versatile advanced technique
You can use a Versatile weapon as a spellcasting focus and
you can use the hand in which you hold a Versatile weapon You can perform a superior strike with any weapon that has
to perform the somatic components of spells. the Versatile property.
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Tier 3 Advanced Techniques Tier 4 Advanced Techniques
Swift Striker Dual Maneuver
Prerequisites: martial level 10; a tier 2 Versatile advanced technique Prerequisites: martial level 14; a tier 3 Versatile advanced technique
If you take the Attack action on your turn and only attack When you take the Attack action and hit a creature with
with a Versatile weapon wielded in one hand, you can at- a Versatile weapon wielded in one hand while your other
tack with that weapon one-handed again as a bonus action. hand is free, you can attempt to grapple that target as part
You do not add your ability modifier to the damage for this of that same action.
bonus attack, unless that modifier is negative.
Guard
Shield Bash Prerequisite: martial level 14; a tier 3 Versatile advanced technique
Prerequisites: martial level 10; a tier 3 Versatile advanced technique
While you wield both a shield and Versatile weapon, your
When you take the Attack action and hit with a Versatile ability to deflect attacks is second to none. As a bonus
weapon while wielding a shield, you can use a bonus action action, you can grant yourself a +1 bonus to your AC until
to make a melee weapon attack roll using your shield the start of your next turn, and opportunity attacks against
against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d4 bludgeon- you have disadvantage until then.
ing damage and must succeed on a Strength saving throw
or fall prone. Creatures more than one size larger than you Very Heavy Striker
automatically succeed on this saving throw. Prerequisite: martial level 14; a tier 3 Versatile advanced technique
Heavy Striker When you attack with a Versatile weapon using both hands,
your critical hit threshold is reduced by 2.
Prerequisites: martial level 10; a tier 2 Versatile advanced technique
Once per turn, when you attack with a Versatile weapon
using both hands, you can grant yourself advantage on that
attack roll.
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Tier
Shield Wall
Prerequisite: proficiency with shields Reinforcement
Gain a +2 to your AC while beside an ally with a Reach
weapon.
Prerequisite: proficiency with shields 1
Reduce incoming damage from a melee attack.
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Tier 3 Shield Mastery Tier 4 Shield Mastery
Cover Bulwark
Prerequisites: martial level 10, a tier 2 Shield advanced technique Prerequisites: martial level 14, a tier 3 Shield advanced technique
While you are wielding a shield and within 5 feet of an You are a wall capable of withstanding any onslaught. While
allied creature who is not wielding a shield, you can use you are wielding a shield, you can reduce damage you take
your bonus action to grant that creature a +2 bonus to its from any attack by a value equal to your proficiency bonus.
AC until the start of your next turn. The bonus ends early if This effect stacks with Reinforcement, allowing you to
the creature is ever more than 5 feet away from you or you reduce the damage you take from a melee attack by twice
are incapacitated. your proficiency bonus. After you use either Bulwark or
Reinforcement, you can’t use either technique again until
Numbing Collision the start of your next turn.
Prerequisites: martial level 10, a tier 2 Shield advanced technique
Redirect Strike
When a creature misses you with a melee attack while you
Prerequisites: martial level 14, a tier 3 Shield advanced technique
are wielding a shield, you can use your reaction to strike its
attacking limb, numbing it. The creature must succeed on a When you are wielding a shield and you are targeted by a
Constitution saving throw or drop the weapon that it used melee attack by an attacker you can see, you can use your
to make the attack (if any) at your feet and have disad- reaction to add half your proficiency bonus to your AC
vantage on melee attack rolls it makes until the end of its against that strike, potentially turning a hit into a miss.
next turn. It can’t pick up the weapon while you occupy the If the attack misses, you can force the attacker to target a
space and are not unconscious. different target that is within 5 feet of both you and the
attacking creature with the attack. Use the attacker’s original
attack roll to determine if the attack hits.
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Races
“Everyone has a story, and, like it or not, your tale
is being written with each passing moment. Where
you’re going matters more than where you came
from, but every good story needs a beginning. Let’s
start there—who are you?”
— Ryoko
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Enkoh
“There’s magic in this world that goes beyond
flashes, bangs, and jets of flame. An earthy magic
of food, structure, and fellowship. It’s the magic of a
thousand mundane hands raising a city from velvet
snow. A magic woven by walking into the cruellest,
biting blizzard and welcoming it as your home.
These people understand that magic. The mightest
yokai and grandest kaiju might be able to survive
here, for a time, but only the enkoh can thrive.”
— Ryoko
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Beneath snow-capped peaks, where white drifts bury the enkoh: hulking and springtail. On the whole, enkoh see
chaos of rocks and streams, the formidable enkoh make little value in the anthropological labels placed upon them
cities of ice and snow. Well-adapted to colder climes, these by other races, living together in equality and peace. Choose
thick-furred simian folk blend an innate skill for survival one of these subraces.
with a piercing intelligence, making homes in inhospitable
environments. Hulking
Every bit as rugged, resolute, and unflinching as the frigid
Community and Craftsmanship mountains they call home, hulking enkoh are known for
Enkoh have a transformative effect on their environment, their fierce, calculating minds and explosive physical strength.
domesticating beasts, curtailing avalanches, and building Rarely do hulking enkoh act swiftly; they prefer to assess, ana-
sprawling towns. With singular intent, enkoh collaborate to lyse, and contemplate before choosing a path. However, when
form a unified community capable of raising a city from the moved to action, the mountains move with them.
icy wastes in a matter of months. Their realms can be found Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.
within vast glaciers and snowfields, boasting soul-soothing
hot springs and serving steaming winter cider fermented Size. You are Medium. Hulking enkoh are broadly built
inside the trunks of hibernating trees. and can vary substantially in height, from as short as 5 feet
all the way up to above 7 feet tall.
Few enkoh structures are ancient; the ephemeral nature
of ice and slow creeping of glaciers means only those struc- Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a
tures in the coldest, flattest expanses are over a few hundred climbing speed equal to your walking speed.
years old. This transient nature leads enkoh to value their Chest Beating. As a bonus action, you can pound your
kith and kin—their troop—over any single location, and fists to your chest, causing a surge of adrenaline and valour.
has made them masters of ice-crafting. With saw and skin, Until the start of your next turn, you have resistance to
enkoh cut and melt ice just enough so that it forms solid bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, and you have
bonds upon re-freezing. This method produces edifices advantage on Intimidation checks. You can use this trait a
of fantastical shapes; indeed, enkoh architecture is widely number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you
regarded as some of the most beautiful in the Yokai Realms regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
by the few foreign eyes to have seen it.
Natural Cooks. With ingredients worth at least 1 sp, you
can prepare a meal for a number of Medium or smaller crea-
Troops of Solitude tures equal to 2 + your proficiency bonus over the course of
Masters of ice-craft, enkoh guard their crafting secrets a short or long rest. A creature who eats the meal at the end
fiercely and rarely trade anything more than the essentials of the rest regains one spent Hit Die and gains temporary
with other races. Though it is rare for an enkoh to leave hit points equal to 1d6 + your proficiency bonus.
their troop, the lure of master crafters specialising in metal Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when
and stone, as well as tales of verdant, sprawling landscapes determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can
not cloaked in ice, can lead some into lives of adventure. push, drag, or lift.
Fewer still return to their troop, but those that do are warm-
ly welcomed and can expect a peaceful old age in return for
sharing the wisdom of their travels.
Enkoh Traits
As an enkoh, you have the following traits:
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 2.
Age. An enkoh reaches maturity at 15 years of age and
can live up to 80 years.
Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.
Thick Fur. You have resistance to cold damage.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
one other language that you and your GM agree is appro-
priate for your character.
Subrace. There are two primary variations among the
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Fuyohren
Even in tales of triumph, her stories left me with
an aching melancholy—a yearning for meadows,
lakes, and young grass trembling in a spring breeze.
That is what it means to be fuyohren.
Born and nurtured on gentle flowing rivers and tranquil Kaiju Callers
ponds, the fuyohren are sentient, mobile plants innately
harmonious with the natural world. Fuyohren societies nestle Kaiju are feared and worshipped by the fuyohren for their
within ecosystems effortlessly, acting in synchronicity with the power to obliterate swathes of an environment through
ebb and flow of the world around them. A society might exist their presence alone. Many fuyohren cultural traditions
on the same plot of land for millenia, yet remain undetectable include dances, festivals, and ceremonies which aim to
to outsiders who pass through, with nary a tree uprooted or placate such behemoths. Bolder fuyohren may actively seek
stone upturned to indicate the fuyohren’s presence. rampaging kaiju, drawing them away from societies and
fragile ecosystems and into the untamed wilderness, usually
at the cost of their own lives. Bakuryo and other kaiju that
Seasonal Divination do not interfere with the natural world are revered by the
Bound to nature, the fuyohren bear an imprint of the world fuyohren, while Raiko and other chaotic beings of wanton
at the time of their birth. So-called “winter warriors” are destructive force are hated and feared.
fuyohren born in the bitter, colder months, and are believed
to bear an aggressive, steely disposition. Fuyohren born in Fuyohren Traits
spring are blessed with a childlike, optimistic disposition,
while summer fuyohren are typically charismatic, and au- As a fuyohren, you have the following traits:
tumnal fuyohren said to be wise. Whether these stereotypes Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by
are true or merely a product of a cultural myth manifesting 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
itself in the way fuyohren are raised is unknown.
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Hanamori
I was told the hanamori were born from the molten
slag of a bleeding mountain, life bursting forth
from the cruellest environment imaginable. Others
say they bloomed from the first corpses cut down
in war, or emerged fully formed from the silent,
chill void. There are one hundred stories of how
they came to be, but no matter which you choose
to believe, in every tale one theme runs true: the
hanamori are life born from death.
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With gaunt faces, charcoal skin, and coarse crimson petals, Size. Hanamori vary in size—you can be Medium or
hanamori are a race of sentient plants believed by many Small. You choose the size when you select this race.
to be harbingers of death. This reputation is not wholly
Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.
unfounded, for hanamori are physiologically sympathetic;
their bodies reverberate in harmony with the fleeting spirit Creature Type. You are a Plant.
of creatures that die in their presence, taking on traits of the
Essence Capture. You have the power to magically
deceased for a short time. The slaughter of a mighty beast
capture fragments of a creature’s power when it dies in your
is felt by its hunters as a surge of physical strength, and the
proximity. As a reaction when a creature with a CR equal
passing of a sage as a transcendent moment of heightened
to or lower than your level dies within 10 feet of you, you
wisdom. As a result, hanamori have a complex relationship
can capture a fragment of its essence. You gain one of the
with death; to die in their presence is to pass a glimpse of
following effects of your choice:
oneself to another, for a short time.
• You replace your Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Wis-
Reactive Physiology dom, or Charisma ability score with the same ability
score of the creature that died.
A hanamori’s sympathetic physiology extends to the world • You gain one special sense of your choice, except
around them. While they can briefly share in the physi- truesight, that the creature possessed, out to the same
ology of creatures who die, they can permanently take on range.
the physical characteristics of their environment over a
• You gain resistance to one damage type of your choice
longer duration. Humid jungles might impart a hanamori
to which the creature had resistance or immunity.
with a permanent scent of rich flora, while icy mountains
cause their body to forever be chill to the touch. Hanamori • You gain immunity to one condition of your choice,
adventurers who travel the world end their lives as a collage except exhaustion, to which the creature had immunity.
of the habitats that succored them, a jigsaw infused with
This effect lasts for 1 hour, after which time you return
environmental memories ever bonded to their form.
to normal. Once you use this trait, you can’t do so again
until you finish a long rest.
Burning Emotions
Fiery Countenance. You have advantage on saving
Hanamori are naturally passionate and active. They think, throws you make to avoid or end the frightened or stunned
speak, and adapt swiftly, and are known for their fiery condition on yourself.
tempers and zealous loyalty. With short lives, hanamori see
little value in holding grudges or overanalysing a situation, Gaze Of Death. You gain proficiency in your choice of
preferring to think on their feet and revel in the heat of each one of the following skills: Intimidation, Medicine, Nature,
moment. A hanamori’s emotional state can be read on its or Survival.
body: its petals blush darkly when enraged, and the tips of Rugged. Your tough, lignified exterior is a natural barrier
its branches sprout new buds during periods of prolonged to cuts and abrasions. When you aren’t wearing armour,
grief. It is said that if a hanamori loses a true love, it will your AC is 12 + your Constitution modifier. You can use
forever bloom. your natural armour to determine your AC if the armour
you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield’s bene-
Hanamori Traits fits apply as normal while you use your natural armour.
As a hanamori, you have the following traits: Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common
and one other language that you and your GM agree is
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by appropriate for your character.
2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Age. Hanamori reach adulthood at the same rate as
humans and go on to live for up to 60 years.
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Haniwa
“I am the decider! I am the dying breath
of the lost world. I will not forsake the
traditions of old.”
Finding Purpose
Most haniwa, newly reborn, have no memory of
their former selves or original task, their hallowed
grounds long since plundered or buried beneath the
soil of an ever shifting realm. As such, haniwa often
become wanderers, seeking purpose and fortune in
an alien world. It isn’t uncommon to see haniwa
finding meaning through devotion to a cause,
practice, or order, often finding work as clerics,
paladins, and monks. The few haniwa that retain
some memory of their past life now find themselves
serving a grander purpose than protector of a tomb;
they are guardians to the memory of a world no one
else remembers. These haniwa are the final stewards
of an ancient dynasty, a living record of its culture,
wisdom, traditions, and way of life.
Haniwa Traits
As a haniwa, you have the following traits:
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score
increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Age. Haniwa are fully formed, magical clay
Constructs. They do not grow and do not show
any signs of deterioration due to age. However,
haniwa are not immortal. Additionally, you can’t be
magically aged.
Size. You are Medium or Small. You choose the
size when you select this race.
Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.
Creature Type. You are a Construct.
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Clay Companion. Over the course of a long rest, you Soul Shell. Your soul has possessed a Construct, impart-
can fashion a quasi-sentient, clay companion. Your com- ing the following benefits:
panion can take whatever shape you wish, but must use the
• You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe.
giant weasel, hawk, mastiff, or mule stat block. Its creature
type is Construct, and it also gains your Soul Shell trait. • You have advantage on saving throws you make against
Your clay companion understands you and obeys your com- disease and to avoid or end the poisoned condition on
mands. It disintegrates into shapeless clay when it is reduced yourself.
to 0 hit points or when you use this feature again. • You can receive the benefits of spells that restore hit
points that don’t usually affect Constructs, like cure
Grave Guardian. You are blessed with innate magic of
wounds and healing word.
protection and consecration. You can cast the earthen upper-
cut and sanctuary spells with this trait. Once you cast either Spirit Ward. Your weapon attacks are considered magical
of these spells with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with for the purpose of overcoming resistances and immunities.
it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast these Tombkeeper. You gain proficiency in the Religion and
spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level. Perception skills.
Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common
ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait and one other language that you and your GM agree is
(choose when you select this race). appropriate for your character.
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Isetsu
Isetsu are warriors, but we do not live for war. We
live for that which our battles defend.
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Shoreline Guardians Brittle Shell. Your carapace has a brittle, but tough,
outer layer that regenerates over time. When you finish a
It is said that at the dawn of the world, isetsu were tasked short or long rest, you gain a +2 bonus to AC if you don’t
with the defence of the land against the roiling sea. All already have this bonus. This bonus ends after you are hit by
manner of horrors dwell in the black void of the ocean an attack roll.
depths, and core to the isetsu way of life is the shared,
endless responsibility to stand watch on the shore. All isetsu Crustacean Physiology. Your antennae aid you in keep-
train in combat, and all feel an aching longing to face the ing watch, and your natural bulk and size serve you well in
ocean. Even isetsu that travel the world, shirking their contests of strength. You gain proficiency in the Athletics
divine responsibility, feel this pull, and the reverberation of and Perception skills.
an isetsu’s heartbeat through its carapace mimics the gentle Claws. You have claws that you can use to make un-
lapping of waves on the shore—a whisper to return home. armed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal piercing dam-
This is the isetsu’s burden: to be in love with the ocean, yet age equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the
tasked to defend against it. They are the first line of defence bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. Starting
against any threat that rises from the sea, be it pirate, ty- at 5th level, when you hit a creature with an unarmed strike
phoon, or kaiju. on your turn, you can immediately use a bonus action to
attempt to grapple it.
Fortune Favoured Darkvision. Accustomed to the deep blackness of the
Isetsu hold a deterministic philosophy: just as their destiny ocean floor, you have superior vision in dark and dim con-
was set at the dawn of the world, so are others beating an ditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if
inevitable path, whether they realise it or not. To the isetsu, it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light.
luck is a complex, measurable science, and good fortune is a You can’t discern colour in darkness, only shades of grey.
talent that can be trained, a skill they dedicate endless hours
Favoured Warrior. Be it sheer dumb luck, the result of
to mastering. Many tales of incredible, serendipitous events
intense training, or the fruition of a divine blessing, you
occurring in favour of the isetsu seem to indicate this train-
have an uncanny ability to find fortune in combat. If you
ing holds worth. Even the most sceptical members of other
miss an attack roll, or fail an ability check or saving throw,
races begrudgingly accept that the isetsu come up “lucky”
you can reroll the attack roll, check, or save with advantage.
in battle at a rate far beyond any other creature. A common
You can use this trait a number of times equal to half your
idiom across the reams, referring to an incredible stroke of
proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when
good fortune, is “an isetsu’s million-to-one”.
you finish a long rest.
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Kitsune
Ryoko: Any account of the power or grace of
kitsune I might write would be grotesquely self-
indulgent, so I have requested Bombuku comment on
my people in my place.
Bombuku: Yeah, they’re chill.
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With cautious, padded steps and charcoal nose raised to the Visual Linguists
air, a kitsune slinks through a twilight forest, indistinguish-
able from a common fox. The kitsune’s powers of transfor- Kitsune communication incorporates nonverbal cues innate
mation are legendary, being able to assume a fox’s form in to beasts and other beings of the natural world. A swish
a fashion similar to a druid’s mastery of wild shape. Even of the tail or a tilt of the head carries great significance; a
in their humanoid body, kitsune retain the tail, ears, and subtle gesture can be the difference between playful jibe
clawed feet of their canine cousins, along with a fox’s nim- and deadly threat. Kitsune grow an additional tail for each
ble gait and inquisitive mind. As comfortable in humanoid century they live, and so they complain more and more fre-
form as they are as a fox, it is only for the love of interacting quently of the blundering unsophistication of purely verbal
with other folk that so many kitsune live their lives almost languages; each swirling tail adds a subtle layer of meaning,
entirely in their true, bipedal shape, finding it easier to inte- granting elders the power to express that which is inexpress-
grate into communities and explore the world in this way. ible to those limited by the spoken word.
Revered Travellers
Long lives, innate curiosity, and a restless drive to under-
stand others lead ancient kitsune to be revered for their
wisdom and knowledge. Many act as wandering counsel-
lors and justicars, drawing on a millennium of experience
to right the wrongs of the world according to their own
perspective. Others focus on a particular branch of research,
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gaining and spreading knowledge as they travel, or plying Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of
their trade as merchants. Such kitsune are able to observe you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were
the ebb and flow of supply and demand across generations, dim light. You can’t discern colour in darkness, only shades
wielding their experience and long lives as tools in the of grey.
acquisition of incredible wealth.
Fox’s Wedding. You know the druidcraft and produce
flame cantrips. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your
Kitsune Traits spellcasting ability for these spells (choose when you select
As a kitsune, you have the following traits: this race).
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by Kitsune Guile. You have proficiency in the Deception
2, and your Dexterity score increases by 1. and Stealth skills.
Age. Kitsune mature at the same rate as humans, reach- Language of Motion. You can articulate ideas through
ing adulthood at around 20. They can go on to live up to a motion, as well as speech. If you spend 1 minute moving your
millennium. tails and ears, you can communicate a simple message, which
can be contrary to any words you may be speaking aloud. This
Size. You are Medium. Fully grown kitsune stand be- communication is undetectable to any creature that doesn’t
tween 5-6 feet tall. speak Kitsune. A creature within 30 feet of you that can see
Speed. Your walking speed is 35 feet. you and speaks Kitsune can understand this message.
Creature Type. You are a Humanoid. Shapeshifter. As an action, you can transform into the
shape of a fox. When you do, your clothing and equipment
Ascendant Form. You have the power to take on a mag- meld into your form, and you gain no benefits from them
ical, ascendant form. As an action, you can radiate bright, while transformed. You determine the specifics of your
white light for 1 minute or until you end the effect as a appearance in fox form, including your colouration and
bonus action. This light penetrates magical darkness, shed- size (choosing from Tiny or Small when you transform). All
ding bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an your other game statistics remain the same. You can’t cast
additional 10 feet. Creatures of your choice in the light can spells that require material or somatic components while in
add 1d4 to their Charisma (Persuasion) checks, Wisdom this form, but you can still concentrate on spells and speak
(Perception) checks, and initiative rolls. Once you use this as normal. You remain in this form until you use an action
trait, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. to revert to your true form or you die.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common,
Kitsune, and one other language that you and your GM
agree is appropriate for your character.
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Nishikin Traits Draconic Metamorphosis. When you reach 7th level,
or when you undergo a significant moment of personal
As a nishikin, you have the following traits: achievement or loss (at the GM’s discretion), you can
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity, Constitution, choose to metamorphose into a ryujin. Your level, class, and
and Wisdom scores each increase by 1. other game statistics remain the same, aside from your race.
You replace your racial traits from this race with those of the
Age. Nishikins mature rapidly, reaching adulthood by the ryujin, and your ryujin colour is the same as your nishikin
age of 14. They go on to live for about two centuries. primary colouration. This transformation is one-way and
Size. You are Medium. Nishikins stand between 4 and 6 can’t be reversed by any means short of a wish spell.
feet tall. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common
Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a and Aquan.
swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.
Amphibious. You can breathe in both air and water.
Moonblessed. While bathed in moonlight, you can use
a bonus action to spend a number of your Hit Dice equal
to your proficiency bonus. Roll those dice and add your
Constitution modifier; you regain hit points equal to the
total. If this healing restores your hit points to maximum,
any surplus healing is gained as temporary hit points. Once
you use this trait, you can’t do so again until you finish a
long rest.
Nishikin Colour. Each nishikin is born with its own
unique colouration. In nishikin folktales, one’s primary
colouration holds special significance. Your primary col-
ouration also impacts your Slumbering Dragon trait and is
associated with a specific ability score.
Primary Colouration
Colour Ability Score
Red Strength
Gold Dexterity
Black Constitution
Silver Intelligence
White Wisdom
Blue Charisma
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Size. You are Medium. An oniborne stands between 5 body. The rite remains an essential foundation of red oni-
and 7 feet tall. borne culture across their lives. The more deadly the prey,
the greater the respect an oniborne gains. It is not uncom-
Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.
mon to see troop elders proudly clad in pelts and wielding
Creature Type. You are a Humanoid. weapons hewn from the remains of chromatic dragons and
other vanquished terrors.
Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when
determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
push, drag, or lift.
Daunting Stature. You have proficiency in the Intimida-
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common tion skill.
and one other language that you and your GM agree is
Magical Scavenger. You gain proficiency with one type
appropriate for your character.
of artisan’s tools of your choice. In addition, you can use
Subrace. Oniborne exist in many forms. The most strik- an action to scavenge a weapon from the body of an enemy
ing difference between oniborne types is their colour: red, you have slain (at the GM’s discretion), such as a club or
blue, or green. Choose one of these subraces. sword that you hew from its bones. That object becomes
a magic weapon that gives you a +1 bonus to attack and
Red Oniborne damage rolls you make with it. This bonus increases to +2 at
9th level and +3 at 17th level. The weapon is only magical
Red oniborne are great storytellers, taking delight in fireside
for you, and in anyone else’s hands it functions as a normal,
tales of deadly beasts, fiery passions, and ancient marvels of
nonmagical weapon.
the world. The most sociable of the three oniborne heritag-
es, many red oniborne journey the world sharing time-worn When you imbue a scavenged weapon with magic in
tales of adventure while forging their own. this way, any other weapons you created with this feature
become nonmagical.
On the cusp of adulthood, red oniborne leave their troop
to undertake the Rite of the Hunt. They venture into the Weeping Magic. You know the prestidigitation cantrip.
wilderness armed with nothing more than their wits in a
quest to slay a dangerous foe and craft a weapon from its
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Starting at 3rd level, you can cast cure wounds with this Solitary by nature, most blue oniborne choose to remain
trait. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast enhance ability with the troop across their lives, a peaceful existence of
with this trait. Once you cast cure wounds or enhance ability isolation and independence. The few blue oniborne blessed
with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until with an adventurous spirit are unlikely to find kin in the
you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells wider world. They must journey without the guidance of
using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level. Intel- their troop, every path an unmapped wilderness.
ligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.
these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when
you select this race). Compassionate Heart. The aid of a blue oniborne is an
act of great selflessness imbued with powerful magic. When
Tears form at the corner of your eyes when you cast a
you take the Help action, you can spend one of your Hit
spell using this trait.
Dice to empower an ally within 5 feet of you, channelling
your magic into their body. That creature gains temporary
Blue Oniborne hit points equal to one roll of that die plus your Constitu-
The magic of the blue oniborne is subtle and primal, a sing- tion modifier. You can use this trait a number of times equal
ing river of energy that ripples through the body. It can be to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses
relayed through physical contact, a healing stream imparted when you finish a long rest.
by a gentle touch, or a crushing wave that surges through
their biting jaws.
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Crunching Maw. You have vicious teeth and a strong
jaw that you can use to make unarmed strikes. When you
hit with it, the strike deals piercing damage equal to 1d6 +
your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage
normal for an unarmed strike.
Great Deceiver. You have proficiency in the Deception skill.
Savage Bite. As a reaction when you take damage from
a creature within 5 feet of you, you can magically enlarge
your jaw and lash out with a vicious bite. Make an unarmed
strike using your Crunching Maw against that creature. This
attack scores a critical hit on a roll of 18-20 on the d20. You
can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficien-
cy bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish
a long rest.
Green Oniborne
with this trait. Once you cast hellish rebuke or enlarge/reduce
Preferring warm, arid climates, green oniborne are typical-
with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until
ly a nomadic people. They chase the gentle warmth of an
you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells
eternal summer, ever migrating as they wander between
using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level. Intel-
orchards, pastures, and oases on a time-worn path passed
ligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for
down across the generations.
these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when
Widely renowned as great orators, green oniborne speak you select this race).
in hammering rhythm, a staccato avalanche of stories, ideas,
The space immediately around you grows warm and
and possibilities. Their spellcasting is equally animated;
humid when you cast a spell using this trait.
green oniborne are the most overtly magical among their
cousins. The air fizzes as they gesture and articulate, their Ghastly Visage. After you take the Attack action on
eyes shimmer with light, and their words sparkle with mag- your turn, you can use a bonus action to try and magically
ical inflection. frighten a creature within 5 feet of you. That creature must
make a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your Constitu-
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.
tion modifier + your proficiency bonus) or be frightened of
Captivating Quality. You have proficiency in the Perfor- you for 1 minute. If the target ends its turn more than 30
mance skill. feet away from you, it can repeat this saving throw, ending
Fierce Magic. You know the thaumaturgy cantrip. the effect on a success. You can use this trait a number of
Starting at 3rd level, you can cast hellish rebuke with this times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all
trait. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast enlarge/reduce expended uses when you finish a long rest.
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Lion Turtle
I still remember the sight; a newborn ryōkido pup, Ties Of Family
cradled in her grandmother’s arms, her patterned Ryōkido have a long, living history, borne on a stream
shell gleaming in the first, nervous rays of dawn. of shared memory and experience. They find great value
in family and community, raising pups as a village, and
The matriarch stared and stared at the life in
viewing those they surround themselves with as extensions
her arms, telepathically reaching into a mind too of themselves. To the ryōkido, every friend is family, every
young for higher thought or language. There were family a village, every village a legion. When moved to
no words, just a tenderness that she poured from action, a single ryōkido walks as an army.
herself into the child. I felt it wash over the room,
a mystical connection from elder to infant. No Lion Turtle Traits
words, only a feeling, repeated over and over. As a ryōkido, you have the following traits:
I understood what it meant. The feeling said, “You Ability Score Increase. Your Strength, Wisdom, and
are loved”. Charisma scores each increase by 1.
Age. Ryōkido grow extremely slowly. They are considered
Nestled deep within wizened, dry thorn forests, the most young until they reach the age of 80, and go on to live for
ancient settlements in the realm persist, unbroken by scour- up to 600 years.
ing winds, blistering sun, or the relentless march of time. Size. You are Medium.
Here live the ryōkido, colloquially known as “lion turtles”,
a race of telepathic beings that call this inhospitable expanse Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.
home. All ryōkido share fierce claws and squat, feline faces, Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.
but every ryōkido shell is unique, as distinctive as a finger-
print. Each heavy carapace bears an identifying arrangement Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of
of colourful, textured patterns, with some hereditary mark- you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were
ings idiosyncratic to one’s village and clan. dim light. You can’t discern colour in darkness, only shades
of grey.
Telepathic Connection Heavy Shell. You have advantage on ability checks and
saving throws you make to avoid being knocked prone. In
Ryōkido carry telepathic power and are capable of sharing addition, when you stand up from being prone, you must
thoughts and feelings from soul to soul. This ability to use your bonus action, in addition to the amount of move-
connect with other creatures fosters an incredible empathy ment you spend.
in ryōkido; they are united through triumph, joy, and pain,
and are troubled greatly by the suffering of others. Lionheart. You gain proficiency in your choice of one
of the following skills: Acrobatics, Athletics, Insight, or
Each ryōkido village has a miko, a female shaman who Intimidation.
acts as a guardian of the clans’ collective memory. A dying
ryōkido can telepathically surrender their mind in totali- Slashing Claws. You can use your claws to make unarmed
ty, pouring every memory, passion, and thought into the strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals slashing
mind of another. The miko’s job is to receive this final gift: damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the
a lifetime of experience, perspective, and wisdom from the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
dying. In this way, knowledge is never lost, and the village is Telepathic Bond. As an action, you can form a telepathic
forever guided by the collective wisdom of those who came bond with a willing creature you can see within 100 feet of
before them. you. For 1 hour, you and that creature can communicate
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telepathically with each other, even if you don’t share a lan- In addition, when you fall, you can use a reaction to
guage. If that creature doesn’t speak any language, the two angle your body and cushion the impact through your
of you can still communicate rudimentary ideas, images, shell. When you do, you can subtract up to 100 feet from
and feelings. The connection ends early if you use this trait the fall when calculating falling damage. Once you use this
again to bond with a different creature, or if you and the reaction, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, as
creature are ever more than 100 feet apart. your shell recovers from the impact.
Tough Shell. While you aren’t wearing armour, your base Languages. You speak Common and one other language
AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use a shield that you and your GM agree is appropriate for your character.
and still get this benefit.
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Ryujin
Ryujin are closely related to nishikins, having transformed
from the aquatic fish-folk into a new, draconic form. Al-
though such a metamorphosis is seen as transcendent and
incredible by many outside races, Ryujin are not revered or
elevated above their nishikin family in their own society; in
instances where they live together, they live harmoniously.
Ryujin are dragons, but distinct from other varieties of
so-called “dragonborn”. The slumbering draconic energy
that dwells within the nishkins has fully manifested as the
ryujin’s form, and their heartening breath allows them to
share that power with those around them.
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An Individual Story Koi Dragon Colour. The colour of your scales is the
same as the primary colouration you had as a nishikin. Your
The history of the ryujin is shrouded in mystery, largely colour also impacts the effects of your Heartening Breath
because so few ryujin care to record it. Nishikins keep and Innate Magic traits.
meticulous records of their own peoples, including ryujin
who live with them, but of the ryujin who leave, little is Primary Colouration
known. Curious wanderers, ryujin have no cities, libraries,
palaces, or temples; those who leave nishikin communities Colour Ability Score Associated Class
seek to forge their own destinies, rather than standing on Red Strength Sorcerer
the shoulders of their ancestors or kin. A pair of ryujin may
travel together for a time, form a close connection, and Gold Dexterity Druid
raise a family of nishikin children, but they typically part Black Constitution Warlock
ways once the young are old enough to set out on their own Silver Intelligence Wizard
adventure. A servant to their whims and the hands of fate,
the story of no two ryujin is the same. White Wisdom Cleric
Blue Charisma Bard
A Transformed Soul
Heartening Breath. You can use your action to exhale
Every ryujin came to be through a moment of tremendous a warming, spiralling burst of magical energy in a 30-foot
physical and psychological change. The metamorphosis cone. You and a number of creatures of your choice in that
from nishikin to ryujin is often incited by great tragedy or area up to your proficiency bonus can add 1d4 to attack
upon the acquisition of an incredible, lifelong goal, and as rolls and to ability checks and saving throws that use the
such, the life of a ryujin is often shaped by a search for new ability associated with your primary colouration for 1 min-
meanings, perspectives, and opportunity. For many, this ute, or until you lose concentration (as if concentrating on a
means a path of joyful travel and exploration, but for oth- spell). You can use this trait a number of times equal to your
ers, it may mean the start of a family, or adopting a position proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when
of counsel among their nishikin kinsfolk. Ryujin are widely you finish a long rest.
noted as being significantly more relaxed than their nishikin
counterparts, willing to pause and watch the world go by, Innate Magic. You learn one cantrip of your choice
unburdened by the nishikins’ ceaseless pursuit of growth from the spell list of the class associated with your primary
and change. colouration. Your spellcasting ability for this cantrip is the
ability associated with your primary colouration.
Ryujin Traits Sunblessed. While in sunlight, a warm, bubbling vitality
thrums through you, giving you advantage on saving
As a ryujin, you have the following traits:
throws you make to avoid or end the charmed, frightened,
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity, Constitution, paralysed, or stunned condition on yourself, or against
and Wisdom scores each increase by 1. being put to sleep.
Age. Ryujin are transformed nishikins, and they emerge Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common
from the metamorphosis fully formed. This transforma- and Aquan.
tion does not impact their longevity; they typically live for
around two centuries.
Size. You are Medium. Fully grown ryujin stand over 6
feet tall.
Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a
swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.
Amphibious. You can breathe in both air and water.
Cloudstep. As a bonus action, you can conjure a small
cloud under your feet. You gain a fly speed equal to your
walking speed for the next 10 minutes, but moving
through the air in this way counts as difficult terrain. Once
you use this trait, you can’t do so again until you finish a
long rest.
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Tengu In the sprawling forests that clothe the land from frosty
mountainside to fertile shore, verdant life is cultivated and
protected by a race of aloof guardians: the tengu.
She stood before me as a paradox, both of and Mischievous, prideful, and territorial, tengu are a race
beyond this world, terrifying and elegant, wise as a of long-lived yokai. They make their home in the treetops,
kitsune elder and puckish as a fuyohren child. I felt nimbly navigating precarious pathways as noiselessly as a
my tails quiver, my legs shake, my breath catch, shadow passes along the forest floor. Although typically
reclusive, younger tengu have a sparkling curiosity toward
and my heart overflow with relief. For now, I was the outside world, taking earnest interest in those who visit
safe. If the tengu mean you harm, you’re dead long their domain. To all who trespass, however, a subtle threat
before they can be seen. is ever present. Harm not the forest, lest the wrath of the
tengu fall like a crushing oak.
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Yokai Warriors The Tengu Code v2
As yokai, tengu are innately magical. Their natural powers Tengu draw upon an ancient legacy of proud tradition
lean towards trickery and illusion, allowing them to strike and discipline. Funerals, births, and tournaments are all
both the mind and body in a dazzling battery of lethal governed by a strict cultural code, a way of life passed down
force. To many tengu, swordplay is a way of life—both a from generation to generation. Tengu weddings are among
meditative practice and a form of self-defence. The resolute the most spectacular sights in the realms, transforming
tengu swordmaster, a crackling visage of shadowy magic entire forests into beautiful, shimmering forums of magic
and slashing steel, is one found throughout the folklore and and light. Each moment of such a ceremony is dictated by
legends of many other peoples. long standing traditions brimming with significance, and
every tengu is raised to understand the value of such rituals,
embracing the unbroken line of wisdom that stretches to
time immemorial.
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Tengu Traits
As a tengu, you have the following traits:
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.
Age. Tengu reach maturity at around 16 years of age, and
go on to live for up to 400 years.
Size. You are Medium. Tengu are typically a little larger
than humans, standing between 6 and 7 feet tall.
Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.
Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.
Lethal Masters. You have proficiency with one simple or
martial weapon of your choice.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
one other language that you and your GM agree is appro-
priate for your character.
Subrace. There are two primary tengu variations: the
hanataka and the karasu. Choose one of these subraces.
Hanataka Tengu
Less ferocious and impulsive than the karasu, hanataka are
widely regarded as the “higher” lineage of tengu. With the
patience and tenacity of a flowing river, they live, train, and
meditate in the towering trees of their mountain home. Ha-
nataka tengu are swiftly provoked by vanity and are quick
to humble the arrogant and foolish. To those who show re-
spect, however, elder hanataka tengu make sage counsellors
and guides, imparting the wisdom of age and yokai magic.
Legend tells that the great warriors of old honed their swift-
ness of blade and sharpness of mind under the guidance of
hanataka masters.
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.
Master of Craft. You are proficient with one kind of arti-
san’s tools of your choice. When you make a Crafting check
using this tool, you can add 1d4 to the result of the check.
Nature Guardian. You gain proficiency in one of the
following skills of your choice: Arcana, Nature, Religion,
Stealth, or Survival.
Shadowcaster. You learn the prestidigitation and thauma-
turgy cantrips. In addition, you can cast them without com-
ponents while you are in dim light or darkness. Intelligence,
Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these
spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you
select this race).
Whirlwind Onslaught. After you take the Attack action
on your turn, you can use your bonus action on that turn
to cast a cantrip with a casting time of one action or make
a number of melee attacks equal to half your proficiency
bonus (rounded up). Each of these attacks must target a
different creature. Once you use this trait, you can’t do so
again until you finish a short or long rest.
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Karasu Tengu Psychic Battery. When you take the Attack action on
your turn, you can replace one of your attacks with a diz-
Deceptive and witty, cunning and dangerous, karasu tengu
zying psychic assault against a creature you can see within
are tricksters at heart. They take great joy in pranks, be they
15 feet of you. That creature must succeed on a Wisdom
simple or elaborate, and cackle gleefully at the humbling of
saving throw (DC equals 8 + your Constitution modifier +
others. Karasu have many avian qualities, including vestigial,
your proficiency bonus) or suffer the effects of the confusion
feathered wings and powerful, snapping beaks. As bursting
spell until the end of its next turn. Once you use this trait,
with life as their forest homes, and as volatile and passionate
you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
as the tempestuous winds, the friendship of a karasu is one
of staunch trust and joy. Those who insult them, however, Skyrider. When you fall at least 10 feet and aren’t
find karasu grudges run long, deep, and deadly. incapacitated, you can use your reaction to extend your
vestigial, feathered wings to glide. You take no damage from
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
that fall, and you can move horizontally 2 feet for every 1
Fortified Mind. You have resistance to psychic damage. foot you fall.
Prankster. You gain proficiency in the Deception and
Stealth skills.
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CLASSes
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Classes New Features
This chapter introduces a new subclass for every class in the
core system of 5e, plus the tamer subclass that first appeared
in Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting. The tamer subclass
“Everyone has a gift—that’s what I believe.
also includes the core tamer class rules for ease of reference.
Bombuku is a crafting genius, I know my way In addition, the section presents a new class, the element
around a divination spell or two, and I’ve seen bender, along with four subclass options for it. Although
Bologar shatter an ōmukade carapace with a the subclasses offered in Ryoko’s Guide are tied closely to the
single headbutt and feast on the flesh within. history and lore of the Yokai Realms, GMs may allow them
That’s his special talent, what’s yours?” in other settings and worlds.
Improved Extra Attack. This chapter also provides the
— Ryoko Improved Extra Attack feature, which interacts with the
barbarian, bender, fighter, monk, paladin, and ranger classes
at 5th level. If a player is using another class with the Extra
A World of Possibility Attack feature, the GM can offer the Improved Extra Attack
feature to that class, choosing an option given to an existing
The Yokai Realms thrum with spiritual power. It is a place class, or working with a player to craft their own.
of roiling, untamed magic, which manifests in mysterious
ways within all who live there. Heroes and villains alike
wield this power in ways unique to themselves. Perhaps you
follow the Path of the Kaiju as a barbarian, drawing on the
ancient, primal power of behemoths to become a vassal of
destruction and might. It could be that you are a master
of illusion and subtly, wielding powerful spells and lethal
weaponry with the graceful synchronicity of a Shinobi wiz-
ard. Or, your power could come from a pact made with a
shinigami, a terrifying spectre of death, which lets you seize
control of battlefield corpses. No matter the path of power
you choose, yours will be a journey of constant discovery,
advancement, and adventure.
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Improved Extra Attack: Bender emy within 30 feet of you. If the target is a foe that can see
or hear you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw
5th-Level Bender Feature
against your paladin spell save DC or be frightened of you
This feature replaces the Extra Attack feature and works until the end of your next turn. If the target is an ally, the
with features that interact with Extra Attack. frightened condition ends on it. You can use this feature
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take once per turn.
the Attack action on your turn.
Improved Extra Attack: Ranger
When you reach 7th level in this class, your conjuration
5th-Level Ranger Feature
of the elements dazzles and confuses your foes. After you hit
a creature with a melee attack as part of the Attack action This feature replaces the Extra Attack feature and works
on your turn, that creature can’t make opportunity attacks with features that interact with Extra Attack.
against you until the end of your turn.
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take
the Attack action on your turn.
Improved Extra Attack: Fighter
When you reach 7th level in this class, your keen focus
5th-Level Fighter Feature
lets you ignore distractions in the heat of battle. When you
This feature replaces the Extra Attack feature and works take the Attack action and make an attack roll against a
with features that interact with Extra Attack. creature, you can give yourself a +2 bonus to all subsequent
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take attack rolls you make against that creature this turn. This fea-
the Attack action on your turn. The number of attacks you ture can trigger up to twice per turn (+4 bonus maximum).
can make increases to three when you reach 11th level in
this class and to four when you reach 20th level in this class.
When you reach 7th level in this class, the skill and
precision of your attacks create and expose weaknesses in
your foe’s guard. When you take the Attack action and hit
a creature with an attack roll, the next attack roll you make
against the target before the end of your next turn is made
with advantage. You can use this feature once per turn.
Barbarian • The Infinite Tempest. The first time each turn while
raging that you hit a target with a melee attack roll, you
deal 3 (1d6) lightning damage to each creature of your
Path of the Kaiju choice within 10 feet of the target as lightning spirals
out from the point of impact.
You can switch your chosen kaiju each time you gain a
“Be it man, beast, or earth itself, everything new barbarian level.
trembles before me.”
Apex Hunter
3rd-Level Path of the Kaiju Feature
The Path of the Kaiju is one of sheer destructive force. Some
warriors of this kind are fueled by a relentless hatred of a ka- You gain proficiency in the Medicine and Survival skills. If
iju, perhaps one that destroyed their home or ravaged their you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency in
continent. In such cases, an individual’s burning obsession another skill of your choice. Additionally, you can take the
is a source of incredible strength, manifesting as an aspect of Brace action*, stand up from prone, or mount a creature
the kaiju’s own power in moments of blind rage. Other bar- using only 5 feet of movement.
barians might worship kaiju for their strength and grandeur, *See page XX
calling on their aid in battle, embodying the might and fury
of a colossus as they charge into the fray. Kaiju Force
6th-Level Path of the Kaiju Feature
Aspect of the Kaiju
When you enter your rage, you can choose for you and
3rd-Level Path of the Kaiju Feature everything you are wearing and carrying to double in size in
When you adopt this path, choose a kaiju through which all dimensions if there is room, and your weight is multi-
you draw power and gain the associated benefit from the plied by eight. This growth lasts until your rage ends and
options below. increases your size by one category, from Medium to Large,
for example. While in this form, you can add your Consti-
• The Ascendant Dragon. While raging, you can use an tution modifier to all Strength checks and Strength saving
action to let loose a devastating blast of radiant energy throws, and your weapon attacks deal an extra 1d4 damage
from your mouth. Each creature in a 15-foot cone on a hit.
must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw (DC equal
to 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bo- Transformation of the Kaiju
nus), taking a number of d6s radiant damage equal to
your proficiency bonus on a failed save, or half as much 10th-Level Path of the Kaiju Feature
damage on a successful one. You gain the power to transform into a vassal of a kaiju
• The Eternal Leviathan. When you enter your rage, when you rage. This kaiju is the same as the one you draw
or as a bonus action while raging, you can bellow an power from with your Aspect of the Kaiju feature.
echoing cry. Each creature of your choice within 10
• The Ascendant Dragon. While raging, you and any
feet of you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw
objects you are wearing or carrying assume a pseu-
(DC equal to 8 + your Constitution modifier + your
do-liquid form. In this form, you have resistance to
proficiency bonus) or have disadvantage on attack rolls
fire damage, you are immune to the grappled and
against any target other than you until the start of your
restrained conditions, you gain a swimming speed of 60
next turn.
feet, you can move through other creatures’ spaces and
• The Titan Earth. You can use your Constitution modifier through gaps as small as 1 inch wide without squeezing
in place of your Strength modifier for the attack and (but you can’t stop there), and you gain the benefits of
damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and weapon attacks. half cover while submerged in water.
These strikes are still considered Strength-based attack
• The Eternal Leviathan. While raging, you adopt a
rolls for the purposes of your other barbarian features.
translucent, ghastly form. In this form, you have resist-
• The Armoured Kabuto. While raging, if you move at ance to cold and necrotic damage, and you can move
least 15 feet straight towards a target and then imme- through other creatures and objects as if they were
diately hit it with a weapon attack, the target takes an difficult terrain. You take 5 force damage if you end
extra 9 (2d8) bludgeoning damage from the attack. your turn inside an object. If you are inside an object
when your rage ends, you are shunted to the nearest
unoccupied space and take 5 force damage for every 5
feet travelled.
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Chaos Threshold
14th-Level Path of the Kaiju Feature
While you are raging and have hit points equal to less than
half your hit point maximum, your speed increases by
10 feet and you can make one weapon attack as a bonus
action. Furthermore, if you fail a saving throw, you can
expend one use of your rage to succeed instead. You can
use this feature to succeed on a saving throw a number of
times equal to half your Constitution modifier (minimum
of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish
a long rest.
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Bard Pyrotechnics
3rd-Level College of Hanabi Feature
College of Hanabi During a long rest, you can create a number of small, mag-
ical pyrotechnics equal to your Charisma modifier (min-
imum one). When you use one of the effects below, you
“Yes, these days the College of Hanabi is all expend one pyrotechnic. You can activate no more than one
pyrotechnic per turn. Saving throws are always against your
arcanotech gizmos and magiflash whatsits, but
bard spell save DC.
hanabi—fireworks—is where it all started! Now
then, the first question to consider is how important • Kodama Candle. As a reaction when you are targeted
by an attack from a creature you can see within 15 feet
is your hearing?”
of you, you can cause this pyrotechnic to emit a burst
of light, imposing disadvantage on the triggering at-
tack roll. Creatures that don’t rely on sight are immune
Since time immemorial, the College of Hanabi has pro- to this effect. In addition, the creature must succeed on
duced the finest firework artisans. From craftspeople in a Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the
workshops to conductors who orchestrate thousands of end of its next turn.
explosions in an intricate performance, bards from this col-
lege are celebrated throughout the Yokai Realms. They are • Screaming Nue. As an action, you can throw this
more than simple artificers; they imbue each spark with a pyrotechnic to a point within 60 feet of you, where
story, each explosion with emotion, and create an ephemeral it creates smoke and lights in the form of a screaming
tapestry of light and sound whose message moulds the mind nue’s head for the next minute. Each creature other
of all who witness it. than you within 30 feet of the point that can hear or
see the effect must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw
Whether or not you attended the college itself or learnt or be frightened of it. A creature can repeat the saving
the art from a backstreet alchemist is moot: you are an throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect
entertainer who uses bright colours and loud bangs as a on itself and becoming immune to the effect of any
medium. Perhaps you travelled with a carnival, bringing joy Screaming Nue for the next 24 hours on a success.
to a new town each evening. Maybe you are a fresh college • Raiju’s Rupture. As an action, you can throw this
graduate, seeking to conduct performances in the courts of pyrotechnic to a point within 60 feet of you, where
the high and mighty. Or perhaps you were employed in the it explodes, creating a thundering boom that can be
Silk Purse’s quarries, but turned mundane blasting oper- heard for 500 feet. Each creature within 10 feet of the
ations into fantastical varicoloured displays, much to the pyrotechnic must make a Dexterity saving throw. On
chagrin of your foreman. Naysayers be damned, fireworks a failure, a creature is deafened and takes a number of
are a feast for the eyes and besides, the explosions aren’t that d6s of thunder damage equal to your proficiency bo-
loud anymore. Maybe you should get that checked out… nus. On a success, a creature takes half as much damage
and isn’t deafened.
Burgeoning Inventor
• Wanyudo Wheel. As a bonus action, you can light this
3rd-Level College of Hanabi Feature pyrotechnic, which propels you through the air. Until
Your forays into the art of firework creation has granted the end of your turn, you gain a flying speed equal to
you the skills of a journeyman craftsperson and experience 30 plus ten times your proficiency bonus. This move-
wielding projectile weapons. You gain proficiency with the ment does not provoke opportunity attacks.
alchemist’s supplies, one other set of artisan’s tools of your
choice, and all magitech firearms. You can use a set of alche- Firework Display
mist’s supplies as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells. 6th-Level College of Hanabi Feature
In addition, when you make an ability check using a Your expertise with fireworks lets you craft moving stories
tool you have proficiency with, you can expend one use of capable of influencing peoples’ emotions and outlook.
Bardic Inspiration. Roll your Bardic Inspiration die and add
the number rolled to your ability check. You can choose to Over the course of 1 minute, you can use 10 gp of
do so after you roll the die for the ability check, but before fireworks to create an enrapturing display of sporadic bright
the DM tells you whether you succeed or fail. lights and noise audible for 1,000 feet. You must use your
action each round to imbue the light and smoke with your
bardic magic, causing an enthralling story to manifest; if
you fail to do this, the display ends with no effect.
At the end of the display, you can choose a number of
creatures that witnessed it equal to your Charisma modifier
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(minimum one). Each creature must succeed on a Wis- • Kodama Candle. The range increases to 30 feet and
dom saving throw against your bard spell save DC or be the pyrotechnic sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius
subject to the effect of the message with which you chose until the start of your next turn, causing all attacks
to imbue the display for the next 24 hours. Creatures that against you to have disadvantage. Creatures that don’t
do not witness the whole display or that are immune to the rely on sight are immune to this effect.
charmed condition automatically succeed on this saving • Screaming Nue. The radius of the effect increases to
throw. Choose one of the following messages: 40 feet and creatures that fail the saving throw also
• Anger. The message is one of injustice and exploitation, take a number of d8s of psychic damage equal to half
fomenting anger in those that watch it. With a mere your proficiency bonus (rounded down). Creatures that
spark, riots may ensue. Affected creatures are addled by succeed on the saving throw take half as much damage
their anger and prone to violence; Deception checks and aren’t otherwise affected.
against them have advantage. • Raiju’s Rupture. The radius of the explosion increases
• Fear. The world is a dangerous place, and to step to 20 feet and the damage dice increase to d8s.
outside one’s home is to invite disaster. People are un- • Wanyudo Wheel. The flying speed granted lasts until
likely to leave their home, let alone interfere in others’ the end of your next turn. Your movement does not
matters, after watching this performance. Intimidation provoke opportunity attacks for the duration.
checks have advantage against an affected creature.
In addition, the first time the target sees a creature it
can’t identify or with whom it is not acquainted, it
must make a Wisdom saving throw against your bard
spell save DC. On a failure, the affected creature is
frightened of that creature until the unknown creature
reveals itself to be non-threatening, or is out of sight.
While frightened, an affected target can repeat the
saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending
the condition on itself and becoming immune to
being frightened by this effect for that creature for the
duration.
• Generosity. The act of giving and gratitude is epito-
mised as the paradigm of virtue. Observers are more
likely to help others after seeing this display. Affected
creatures are charmed by you. While charmed, these
creatures help you where possible without large risks,
and speak highly of your performance. The creature
ceases to be charmed if you or your companions do
anything harmful to it.
• Peace. The story shows the utopia that awaits the world
if all act with kindness and goodwill. Feelings of resent-
ment are quelled and acts of violence are less likely after
a community sees this display. Affected creatures are
subject to the calm emotions spell.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until
you finish a short or long rest.
Master of Illuminations
14th-Level College of Hanabi Feature
Your mastery of the art of hanabi can be seen in
even your merest spark. Your Firework Display
feature can affected up to three times as
many creatures and your Pyrotechnics are
enhanced in the following ways:
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College of Masks • Mask of War. You can add your Charisma modifier
(minimum of +1) to the damage roll of a weapon attack
you make or a bard spell you cast (no action required).
You can use this benefit once per turn.
“This mask doesn’t give you power, little girl. This
isn’t simple addition! Wearing a mask is an act of You can create a mask in this way a number of times
transformation. You disappear in its shadow; you equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum once), and
become something new—something incredible. That you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. If
you have no uses of this feature remaining, you can create a
is, of course, if you dare.”
mask by expending one use of your Bardic Inspiration.
Inspiring Performance
Masking—the practice of using masks to play a variety of
characters in a solo performance—is among the most ancient 3rd-Level College of Masks Feature
artistic traditions of the Yokai Realms. Conjuring masks to You learn to empower others through the art of perfor-
transform their persona, bards of this college bring tales of mance. If you perform for at least 10 minutes, you can
fallen heroes, nefarious villains, and epic confrontations to life. choose a number of creatures up to your Charisma modifier
Whether on stage or in the heat of battle, such bards perform (minimum of 1) who witnessed your performance. Each
as a whirling kaleidoscope of character, emotion, and magic, creature gains temporary hit points equal to your Charisma
shifting between personas of solitude, war, beauty, and hope. modifier + your proficiency bonus and has advantage on its
Some bards of this college see their masks as exten- next initiative roll before it finishes a long rest.
sions of their true self, a magnification of their power in a
specific direction. Others give themselves completely to the Stagecraft
transformation, adopting totally fresh outlooks, personas, 6th-Level College of Masks Feature
and even voices depending on the mask they wear. In either
case, each mask grants its own special magic, and with the Your mastery of illusions and trickery grants you the power
power to switch between them at will, mask bards have the to move yourself and others through space. While you are
tools and talents to seize command of any situation. on the ground or a surface that can support you, you can
use a bonus action to target one creature that is no more
Kabuki Conjuration than one size larger than you within 60 feet of you. That
target must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against
3rd-Level College of Masks Feature your bard spell save DC or you both teleport, swapping
You have the power to conjure magical masks. As a bonus places. A creature can choose to fail this saving throw.
action, you conjure one mask of your choice from the You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
options below. It appears on your face or levitates in the Charisma modifier (minimum once), and you regain all
air around you, and it lasts for 1 minute or until you use a expended uses when you finish a long rest.
bonus action to dismiss it or conjure another one.
While conjured, your mask grants you advantage on Grandiose Transformation
Performance checks, and you can use it as a spellcasting fo- 14th-Level College of Masks Feature
cus for your bard spells. The type of mask you conjure also
grants an additional benefit: Your mastery of performance and magic enhances your
masks with incredible power. You gain additional benefits
• Mask of Beauty. When a creature within 30 feet of depending on the mask you currently have conjured:
you that you can see makes a saving throw to resist the
effects of an enchantment spell you cast, you can use • Mask of Beauty. You gain a bonus to all saving throws
your reaction to expend one use of your Bardic Inspira- equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +1).
tion, imposing disadvantage on that roll. • Mask of Hope. When a creature you can see within 90
• Mask of Hope. When a creature within 60 feet of you feet of you falls to 0 hit points but isn’t killed outright,
that can see or hear you rolls a Bardic Inspiration die, you can use a reaction to expend one use of your Bardic
you can use your reaction to add your Charisma modi- Inspiration. If you do so, the creature is reduced to 1
fier (minimum of +1) to that roll. hit point instead. Once a creature benefits from this
feature, it can’t do so again until it finishes a long rest.
• Mask of Solitude. When a creature hits you with a me-
lee attack, you can use your reaction to release a blast of • Mask of Solitude. You have resistance to bludgeoning,
force from your mask, dealing 1d8 force damage to the piercing, and slashing damage.
creature and pushing it up to 15 feet away from you. • Mask of War. If you use your action to cast a spell, you
can make one weapon attack as a bonus action that turn.
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Bender
Bare, clawed feet part river-rounded gravel as a tengu sweeps of magical and physical virtuosity, each twist and flick a
through motions as graceful as any dancer’s, the surging nuanced touch of the Weave. For some, this is a weapon of
water parting to allow her and her weary companions a war, of thunderclaps and fists of rock. For others, this is a
peaceful crossing. tool to preserve, to craft shields of ice and invigorate with
an inner flame. Whether a bender chooses to study all the
With patient composure, an oniborne deflects a hail of elements—earth, air, water, and fire—or to master just one,
flaming arrows, redirecting their heat into a cascade of blue the primordial forces of nature are theirs to command.
flame and burning fists.
The clack of jagged obsidian, splash of glacial water, and Quick Build
warmth of flaming eddies gather within a rushing whirl- You can make a bender quickly by following these sugges-
wind. Drifting out of these massed elements is a glowing tions. First, put your highest ability score in the ability
atatsu; a primordial incarnation of their mortal form. you choose for your spellcasting: Intelligence, Wisdom,
These benders, as disparate as their affinities might be, or Charisma, followed by Dexterity. Second, choose the
are defined by their connection with the elements: a magic elementalist background.
manifested through precise and practised movements. More
than a martial art, their motions are a spectacular union
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—Spell Slots per Spell Level—
Level Class Features Cantrips Known*
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
1st Spellcasting, Elemental Affinity (1), Elemental Strikes 2 2
2nd Elemental Combo 2 2
3rd Bender Discipline 2 3
4th Ability Score Improvement 2 3
5th Extra Attack 2 4 2
6th Elemental Affinity (2) 2 4 2
7th Discipline Feature, Improved Extra Attack (optional) 2 4 3
8th Ability Score Improvement 2 4 3
9th — 2 4 3 2
10th Elemental Affinity (3) 3 4 3 2
11th Primordial Form 3 4 3 3
12th Ability Score Improvement 3 4 3 3
13th — 3 4 3 3 1
14th Elemental Affinity (4) 4 4 3 3 1
15th Discipline Feature 4 4 3 3 2
16th Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 3 2
17th — 4 4 3 3 3 1
18th Primordial Avatar 4 4 3 3 3 1
19th Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 3 3 2
20th Discipline Feature 4 4 3 3 3 2
*This value may be higher if you take new elemental affinities. See
Elemental Affinity, page xx.
Starting Equipment
Class Features
You start with the following items, in addition to anything
Hit Points provided by your background:
Hit Dice: 1d8 per bender level • (a) a quarterstaff, (b) a chakram, or (c) any simple weapon
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier • (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitu- • Leather armour and 10 shuriken
tion modifier per bender level after 1st
If you forgo this starting equipment, as well as the items
Proficiencies offered by your background, you start with 5d4 x 10 gp to
buy your equipment.
Armour: Light armour, Medium armour
Weapons: Simple weapons, chakrams, nunchaku,
Multiclassing
shortswords, shuriken, starknives, twin blades
Tools: One type of artisan’s tools or one musical instrument Ability Score Minimum. As a multiclass character, you
of your choice must have at least a 13 in the spellcasting ability from your
Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution bender Spellcasting feature to take a level in this class, or to
Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, Athletics, History, take a level in another class if you are already a bender.
Insight, Religion, and Stealth
Proficiencies Gained. If bender isn’t your initial class,
when you take your first level as a bender, you gain profi-
ciency with simple weapons.
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Spellcasting
1st-Level Bender Feature
As a bender of elements, you use the motions of your
corporeal form to coax the Weave into manipulating
the primordial forces.
Cantrips
You know two cantrips of your choice from your
bender spell list (see Elemental Affinity). At higher
levels, you learn additional cantrips of your choice, as
shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Bender
table. Your Elemental Affinity feature also allows you
to learn more cantrips at higher levels.
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Spellcasting Ability Elemental Affinity
When you gain your first level in this class, you choose
1st-Level Bender Feature
which spellcasting ability you use for your bender spells
from Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. You use this You find attunement with one of the four elements. Choose
ability whenever a bender spell refers to your spellcasting one of the following: air, earth, fire, or water. The spells
ability. In addition, you use this ability’s modifier when associated with that element (see Bender Spell List on page
setting the saving throw DC for a bender spell you cast and xx) are added to your bender spell list.
when making an attack roll with one.
Each element is associated with one or two damage types:
• Air: Thunder.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your spellcasting ability modifier • Earth: Acid & poison.
• Fire: Fire & lightning.
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus
• Water: Cold.
+ your spellcasting ability modifier
Ritual Casting
You can cast a bender spell as a ritual if that spell has the
ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.
Spellcasting Focus
You can use your free hand as a spellcasting focus for your
bender spells. This free hand can be used for both the somat-
ic and material components for a spell, provided the material
component has no cost and isn’t consumed by the casting.
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At Higher Levels. At 6th, 10th, and 14th levels, you Elemental Strikes
choose one of the four elements to gain affinity with, either
1st-Level Bender Feature
a new element or one you’ve chosen before. This has some
immediate effects and interacts with some subclass features • You have learnt to unite magic with movement, giving
(see below). you a unique and deadly combat style. When you take
the Attack action, you can make melee or ranged spell
• New Elemental Affinity. If you choose a new element
attacks called elemental strikes as one or more of your at-
with which to gain affinity, you add its spells to your
tacks. The strike deals damage of a type with which you
bender spell list and you learn one cantrip of your
have affinity (your choice when you make the attack).
choice from the new element’s list. This cantrip doesn’t
count against the number of cantrips you know. • Melee. A melee elemental strike has a reach of 10 feet
and deals damage equal to 1d6 plus your bender spell-
• Repeated Elemental Affinity. If you choose an element
casting ability modifier on a hit.
for which you already had affinity, spells that you cast
from that spell list are cast one level higher than the • Ranged. A ranged elemental strike has a range of 60
level of spell slot you expend. This effect stacks; if you feet and deals damage equal to 1d4 plus your bender
choose to gain affinity with the same element four spellcasting ability modifier on a hit.
times, your spells from that element’s list are cast three Any magic items that confer a bonus to the attack and
levels higher than the spell slot you expend. damage rolls of your unarmed strikes confer the same bonus
to your elemental strikes.
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Elemental Combo Ability Score Improvement
2nd-Level Bender Feature 4th-Level Bender Feature
Your strikes manifest elemental energy, which you can When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 10th, 12th,
unleash at the peak of your combination. After you take the 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of
Attack action on your turn, you can make one Elemental your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of
Strike attack as a bonus action that turn. You do not add your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability
your ability modifier to the damage from this attack. score above 20 using this feature.
At Higher Levels. This attack’s damage increases by one
damage die (1d6 for a melee attack or 1d4 for a ranged at-
Extra Attack
tack) when you reach 6th (2d6 or 2d4), 10th (3d6 or 3d4), 5th-Level Bender Feature
and 14th (4d6 or 4d4) level in this class. You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take
the Attack action on your turn.
Bender Discipline
3rd-Level Bender Feature
You choose an aspect of how nature manifests which you
embody in your manipulation of the elements. Your dis-
cipline choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at
7th, 15th, and 20th level.
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Improved Extra Attack (Optional • Air: Untouchable. You have resistance to nonmagical
Feature) bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing damage.
• Fire: Alight. At the end of your turn, creatures of your
7th-Level Bender Feature
choice within 10 feet of you take fire damage equal to
This feature replaces the Extra Attack feature and works your bender spellcasting ability modifier.
with features that interact with Extra Attack. • Earth: Solid. You gain a +2 bonus to your AC.
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take • Water: Fluid. You gain a pool of vitality equal to five
the Attack action on your turn. times your bender level. At the end of each of your
turns for the duration, you can cause up to three
When you reach 7th level in this class, your conjuration
creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you to regain
of the elements dazzles and confuses your foes. After you hit
5 hit points (no action required), expending an equal
a creature with a melee attack as part of the Attack action
amount of vitality from your pool to do so.
on your turn, that creature can’t make opportunity attacks
against you until the end of your turn. After you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you
finish a long rest.
Primordial Form
Starting at 17th level, while in your primordial form, you
11th-Level Bender Feature can cast spells of 2nd level or lower without expending a
As a bonus action, you embody aspects of a chosen element. spell slot.
Choose one of the elements with which you have affinity.
For 1 minute, you can cast 1st-level spells associated with
that element (see Elemental Affinity lists, page xx) without
expending a spell slot. In addition, you gain a benefit based
on that element:
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Primordial Avatar Primordial Avatar, Fire Benefits
18th-Level Bender Feature Fire
Benefit
As an action, you become a primordial incarnation of your Affinities
mortal form. You gain 50 temporary hit points as well as The first time you hit a target with an attack
benefits based on your Elemental Affinities, which last for on each of your turns, you deal an extra 2d6
10 minutes. After you enter this state using this feature, 1
fire or lightning damage to it (your choice
you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. when you gain this benefit).
2 You are immune to fire damage.
Primordial Avatar, Air Benefits
You can cast the hellish rebuke spell at
Air 2nd-level without expending a spell slot
Benefit
Affinities 3 or expending your reaction. You can’t do so
Your speed increases by 15 feet. You gain a while incapacitated. After you do so, you can’t
1 do so again until the start of your next turn.
flying speed of 60 feet.
You are immune to thunder damage and You are under the effects of the fire shield
2 4
the grappled and restrained conditions. spell (warm shield only).
Once on each of your turns, you can cast the
misty step spell without expending a spell Primordial Avatar, Water Benefits
3
slot (no action required). You can’t do so
while incapacitated. Water
Benefit
Affinities
Your speed increases by 15 feet (30 feet to-
4 tal). You are under the effects of the freedom You gain a swimming speed of 60 feet. Once
of movement spell. on each of your turns, you can take the Help
1
action targeting any creature you can see
within 30 feet of you (no action required).
Primordial Avatar, Earth Benefits
2 You are immune to cold damage.
Earth When a creature you can see within 30 feet
Benefit
Affinities of you succeeds on a saving throw or an at-
Your AC can’t be lower than 14 plus your tack roll, you can force the creature to reroll
1 3
bender spellcasting ability modifier. the d20 and use the lower roll (no action
required). After you do so, you can’t do so
You are immune to acid damage and auto- again until the start of your next turn.
matically succeed on saving throws made
2 You are under the effects of the true
to avoid being moved against your will or 4
knocked prone. seeing spell.
You can cast the shield spell without expend- *See Chapter 13 - Spells
ing a spell slot or expending your reaction.
3 You can’t do so while incapacitated. After
you do so, you can’t do so again until the
start of your next turn.
You are under the effects of the skin of
4
steel* spell.
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Bender: Water Spells
Cantrips (0 Level) 4th Level
Guidance Cage of Frozen Tears*
Ray of Frost Cloud Stride*
Water Whip* Compulsion
Conjure Minor Elementals
1st Level (water only)
Command Control Water
Create or Destroy Water Divination
Detect Poison and Disease Ice Storm
Ice Moon*
Mirror of Redirection* 5th Level
Bakuryo’s Blessèd Blizzard*
2nd Level Commune
Bloodweave* Cone of Cold
Calm Emotions Conjure Elemntal (water only)
Calm Waters Dominate Person
Enhance Ability (Owl’s Wisdom Geas
only) Hold Monster
Hold Person Iminada’s Umigiri*
Riptide* Planar Binding (water elemen-
Suggestion tal only)
Scrying
White Water Wall*
3rd Level
Acid Rain*
Clairvoyance
Elemental Weapon (cold only)
Extract Shirikodama*
Hypnotic Pattern
Sleet Storm
Slow
The Bends*
Water Breathing
Water Walk
Water Wyrm*
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Bonus Ferocity Spells Primordial Battery
3rd-Level Disciple of Ferocity Feature 20th-Level Disciple of Ferocity Feature
The following spells are added to your bender spell list. You can attack three times whenever you take the Attack
They always take the form of an element associated with action on your turn.
your Elemental Affinity. For example, a guardian of faith
may take the form of a giant stalagmite projecting spears of Disciple of Fortification
rock (earth affinity), or a storm cloud letting loose booms of
thunder (air affinity). A bubble of temperate calm amongst a raging wildfire, a
wedge of unmoving rock within a landslide, a shield of ice
Bender Level Spells against fist-sized hailstones; you are a bulwark against the
forces of nature, bending them to protect yourself and your
3rd magic missile* allies. You understand that your role is not to crush and
5th magic weapon slaughter, but to preserve those around you that you may
9th blink** triumph together.
13th guardian of faith* As a Disciple of Fortification, you may have taken a vow
of pacifism yet still yearn for a life of danger and adventure.
17th arcane hand*
Perhaps you worked as a bodyguard, valuing the life of an-
other more than your own. Maybe you found employment
*The damage type is one for which you have affinity instead of what is
specified (you choose when you cast the spell). in a mine, saving colleagues from death by rock and explo-
**You move to a Border-Elemental Plane associated with your Ele- sives. Or it could be that your self preservation instincts are
mental Affinity (see page xx). so well-honed that you cannot help but avoid catastrophe.
Either way, the elements shield and fortify you from hurt
Martial Proficiencies and harm.
3rd-Level Disciple of Ferocity Feature
You gain proficiency with all martial weapons and can use
any weapon you are proficient with as a spellcasting focus
for your bender spells.
Elemental Conduit
3rd-Level Disciple of Ferocity Feature
You have learnt to channel elemental energy beyond your
fist to the weapons you wield. You can use your bender
spellcasting ability instead of Strength or Dexterity for
weapon attack and damage rolls.
Destructive Nature
7th-Level Disicple of Ferocity Feature
When you hit a creature with an attack, you can expend
a spell slot to deal additional damage of a type associated
with your Elemental Affinity. The extra damage is 2d8 for a
1st-level spell slot, plus 1d8 for each spell level higher than
1st, to a maximum of 6d8.
Elemental Ferocity
15th-Level Disciple of Ferocity Feature
When you are in your Primordial Form or Primordial
Avatar state (see page xx), the damage of your Elemental
Combo feature increases to 6d6 for a melee attack and 6d4
for a ranged attack.
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17th endure* When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you (includ-
ing yourself ) would take damage of a type associated with
*See Chapter 13 - Spells
**Must be a damage type for which you have affinity (see Elemental your Elemental Affinity (see page xx), you can use your
Affinity, page xx). reaction to reduce that damage. The damage is reduced
by 2d6 for each time you have chosen affinity with that
Defensive Proficiencies element. If this reduces the damage to 0, you can make a
3rd-Level Disciple of Fortification Feature
ranged spell attack, redirecting the energy at a target within
30 feet of the original target. The attack deals damage equal
You gain proficiency with medium armour, heavy armour, to the total damage reduction you rolled. The size of these
and shields. dice increase to a d8 at 11th level, a d10 at 15th level, and a
In addition, you can use a shield as a spellcasting focus d20 at 20th level.
for your bender spells.
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Elemental Reinforcement
*See page XX
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Interelemental Casting
Fusionist Effects and 7th-Level Disciple of Fusion Feature
Automatic Upcasting When you use a spell to deal damage of a type associated
with an elemental affinity, you can change the damage type
The effects of the Fusion Spellcasting feature de- to one associated with one of your Elemental Affinities. In
pend on the level of spell slot expended, not the lev- addition, when a creature you can see casts a spell that deals
damage of a type associated with any elemental affinity,
el of the spell. This is important as, when a bender
you can use your reaction to make a spellcasting ability
chooses to gain the same Elemental Affinity multiple check. The DC for the check equals 10 plus the spell’s level
times (see page xx), their spells are automatically (cantrips are DC 10). On a success, you change the damage
cast at a higher level than the spell slot expended. type to one associated with one of your Elemental Affinities.
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Inner Vigor and it must use the new result, potentially turning a failed
save into a success or a missed attack into a hit. If this re-
3rd-Level Disciple of Invigoration Feature
rolled attack hits, it deals damage of a type associated with
Your connection to the elements invigorates your body. Your one of your Elemental Affinities (your choice when you take
hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to your the reaction) equal to your bender spellcasting ability.
bender level and you can add your bender spellcasting ability
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
modifier to checks you make to maintain your concentration.
bender spellcasting ability modifier (minimum of once).
You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Primordial Pulse
3rd-Level Disciple of Invigoration Feature Distracting Onslaught
With shrewd timing, you imbue an ally with invigorating 7th-Level Disiciple of Invigoration Feature
energy. When a willing creature you can see within 30 feet
Once on your turn, when you deal damage to a creature
of you fails a saving throw or misses an attack roll, you can
using a damage type associated with your Elemental Affin-
use your reaction to give it a rejuvenating boost. It immedi-
ity, you can cause the elements to manifest in a distracting
ately rerolls the saving throw or attack roll, with an addition-
array: fire may burst into dazzling lights, water may foam
al bonus equal to your bender spellcasting ability modifier,
into obscuring spray, and wind or earth may whip up into
a cloud. The next time the target makes an attack roll or
saving throw before the end of its next turn, it must roll a
d8 and subtract that from the result.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
bender spellcasting ability modifier (minimum of once).
You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Elemental Enhancement
15th-Level Disciple of Invigoration Feature
Once per turn, when you are in your Primordial Form or
Primordial Avatar state and cast a bender spell with a spell
slot of 1st level or higher which targets an ally, you can
enhance that spell (no action required). Choose one of the
following options:
• You end one of the following conditions on the creature
(your choice): blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened,
poisoned, or stunned.
• The creature can add a d6 to the next attack roll or
saving throw it makes before the end of its next turn.
• The creature can use its reaction to make one weapon
attack.
• The creature can use its reaction to move up to half its
speed without provoking opportunity attacks.
If the spell targets more than one ally, you choose which
ally gains the benefit.
Primordial Invigoration
20th-Level Disciple of Invigoration Feature
When you enter your Primordial Avatar state, you can
grant up to five willing creatures within 30 feet of you one
of your Level 1 Affinity benefits listed in an appropriate
Primordial Avatar Benefit table. You choose a single effect
to grant all the creatures, which lasts until your Primordial
Avatar state ends.
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Cleric Across the realms and beyond exist countless deities and
spirits, each with their own motivations, power, and
temperament, and each with their own devoted followers.
Shrine Warden Domain Shrine Warden clerics celebrate and honour the deities they
follow through the creation and preservation of hallowed
sites in their honour—consecrated ground where the misty
Let’s face the fading sun, in safety and comfort, division between spiritual and physical melts away to
and remember what matters. nothing. To such clerics, power can be drawn from almost
any kaiju, spirit, deity, or pantheon they worship. For the
Shrine Warden, the act of devotion itself is magical, and the
erection of a shrine a beacon of hope to those in need, and
of terror to those who mean it harm.
Bonus Proficiencies
1st-Level Shrine Warden Domain Feature
You gain proficiency with martial weapons and heavy
armour.
Consecration
1st-Level Shrine Warden Domain Feature
As a bonus action, you can imbue a point on the ground
that you can see within 60 feet of yourself with divine
magic. A small, spectral shrine appears at that location and
radiates magic in a 15-foot-radius aura. When you use this
feature, choose a Blessing or Curse from the options below,
and then choose a number of creatures up to 1 + your
Wisdom modifier (minimum of up to one creature) to be
affected by the shrine’s magic.
Blessing of Fortune. An affected creature in the aura can
add 1d4 to an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw it
makes. It then can’t gain this benefit again until the start of
its next turn.
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Blessing of Power. When an affected creature in the aura Divine Strike
hits a target with an attack roll, it can deal an extra 1d6
8th-Level Shrine Warden Domain Feature
radiant damage to that target. It then can’t gain this benefit
again until the start of its next turn. This damage increases You gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with
to 2d6 when you reach 10th level in this class. divine energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a
creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to
Blessing of Hope. An affected creature in the aura is
deal an extra 1d8 radiant damage to the target. When you
immune to the frightened condition, and it gains 1d4 tem-
reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.
porary hit points when it ends its turn there.
Curse of the Void. The shrine’s aura is obscured by Empowered Consecration
opaque darkness for affected creatures. 17th-Level Shrine Warden Domain Feature
Curse of Pain. An affected creature takes 1d8 necrotic When you use your Consecration feature, the radius of
damage when it enters the aura for the first time on its turn the shrine’s aura increases to 30 feet. In addition, you can
or its turn there starts its turn in the aura. This damage choose three Blessing or Curse options to affect creatures
increases to 2d8 when you reach 11th level in this class. you designate with this feature, rather than just one.
Curse of Panic. An affected creature that attempts to
enter the aura for the first time on its turn or starts its turn
there must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become
frightened of the shrine until the start of its next turn.
The shrine lasts for 1 minute. Once you use this feature,
you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
Shrine Guardian
6th-Level Shrine Warden Domain Feature
When you create a shrine with your Consecration feature,
you also summon a Tiny Fey (yokai) spirit to act as its
guardian. This shrine guardian is immune to all damage
and conditions and can fly. As a bonus action on your turn,
you can command it to move the shrine up to 20 feet in
any direction.
The shrine guardian can also help or hinder nearby
creatures. When a creature in the shrine’s aura makes an
attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can use your
reaction to command the shrine guardian to intervene, roll-
ing 1d4 and applying it as a bonus or penalty (your choice)
to the creature’s roll. You can use this feature a number of
times equal to your Wisdom modifier, regaining all expend-
ed uses upon finishing a long rest.
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Druid their own mind and voice. Moreover, such druids can
encourage roaming yokai spirits to settle in plants, flames,
pebbles, and streams, turning these facets of nature into
Circle of the Yokai grasping weeds, furious wildfires, stalwart bastions of rock,
or living wyrms of water.
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Yokai Wild Shape Empowered Transformation
2nd-Level Circle of the Yokai Feature 6th-Level Circle of the Yokai Feature
Your circle’s connection to the realms allows you to assume Your connection to the yokai allows you to channel their
more powerful, yokai forms. In addition to the usual Beasts, power when you draw upon your druidic spellcasting.
you can use your Wild Shape feature to transform into any Immediately after you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you
Celestial, Fey, or Fiend yokai of a CR up to the value in the can use your Wild Shape feature as a reaction. Once you use
Circle of the Yokai Wild Shapes table for your druid level. this reaction, you can’t do so again until you finish a short
or long rest.
Circle of the Yokai Wild Shapes
In addition, while you are concentrating on a spell and
Druid Level Max. CR transformed by your Wild Shape, your weapon attacks
count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance
2nd 1/2
and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
4th 1
8th 2 Beckon the Yokai
12th 3 10th-Level Circle of the Yokai Feature
16th 4 You have the power to call upon the Fey yokai that inhabit
20th 5 living things. You can cast the awaken spell as an action
without using a spell slot or material components. When
you cast the spell in this way, the effect lasts for the next 10
In addition, while in any form using your Wild Shape,
minutes, after which time the magic ends and the target
you retain more of your druidic power, granting the follow-
returns to normal. Once you do so, you must finish a long
ing benefits:
rest before you can cast it in this way again.
• You can speak as normal.
• You have advantage on Constitution saving throws to Yokai Fortification
maintain concentration on a spell. 14th-Level Circle of the Yokai Feature
• You can cast spells present in the Circle of the Yokai
Your yokai forms overflow with magic, fortifying your con-
Spells table or in your Wild Shape form’s stat block
nection to the spirit realm. If you drop to 0 hit points while
without material or somatic components.
transformed into a yokai with your Wild Shape, you can use
your reaction to instantly use Wild Shape again (expending
a use as normal), and any remaining damage carries over to
your new form. Once you use this reaction, you can’t do so
again until you finish a short or long rest.
In addition, while transformed by your Wild Shape, if
you use an action to cast a spell, you can use your bonus
action on that turn to make one attack.
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Fighter Skeletal Form for 1 minute. You can end this form early as
a bonus action, returning to normal.
Skeletal Blade Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you
finish a short or long rest.
While in your Skeletal Form, you gain a +1 bonus to AC
“I saw one once in battle, a kaleidoscope of and one other benefit of your choice from the list below.
blinding white and crimson red. His body shifted • Your reach increases by 5 feet.
on a whim, one moment a shield, then claws, then • Your unarmed strikes are considered magical and deal
sprawling, skeletal wings. A one-man onslaught; a piercing damage equal to 1d8 plus your Strength
living weapon.” modifier instead of the bludgeoning damage usual for
an unarmed strike.
Ryoko’s Diary • Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
• You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.
• You gain temporary hit points equal to your Constitu-
tion modifier at the start of each of your turns (mini-
Folklore tells of a caste of downtrodden serfs, forbidden to
mum of 1).
carry weapons, gifted the power to wield their own skele-
tons as lethal instruments of battle by a sympathetic yokai. As a bonus action while in your Skeletal Form, you can
With carapaces of dense bone and vicious, osseous claws change your skeleton again, exchanging your current benefit
bursting from their flesh, the serfs overthrew their masters, for a new one.
winning freedom and a bloodsoaked notoriety. Today, prac-
titioners of this devastating technique are known as skeletal The bonus to your AC increases when you reach certain
blades. Often finding work as mercenaries, bodyguards, levels in this class: to +2 at 10th level and to +3 at 15th level.
and spies, they charge into battle clad in an ever-adapting
armour of gleaming skeletal white. Osseous Prodigy
7th-Level Skeletal Blade Feature
Malleable Physique
You have learned to reduce the fortifications of your
3rd-Level Skeletal Blade Feature external skeletal armour to enhance yourself in other ways.
You have the power to manipulate your skeleton, shifting When you enter your Skeletal Form or use your bonus
your proportions, height, and appearance. As an action, you
can alter your form, becoming up to 1 foot taller or shorter
and changing your facial features by altering the shape of
your skull.
You must remain in a form that has the same basic ar-
rangement of limbs, and you can’t change the colour of your
eyes, hair, or skin. Otherwise, the extent of the transforma-
tion is up to you.
To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its
action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an
Intelligence (Investigation) check (DC equals 8 + your
Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus).
This transformation persists until you use your action to
end it or until you begin a long rest. You can use this feature
a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier
(minimum of once), regaining all expended uses when you
finish a long rest.
Skeletal Form
3rd-Level Skeletal Blade Feature
The control you wield over your own skeleton allows you to
harness it as a weapon. As a bonus action, you can extrude
your bones through your flesh to form armour, entering a
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action to exchange a benefit, you can reduce the bonus to • When you hit with a melee attack, the attack deals an
AC granted by that feature (to a minimum of +0) to gain a extra 1d8 necrotic damage.
number of additional benefits listed in your Skeletal Form • When a creature starts its turn grappled by you, it takes
feature for the duration of your transformation equal to the 2d12 piercing damage.
AC bonus you sacrificed.
Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you One With Nothing
enter your Skeletal Form again. 15th-Level Skeletal Blade Feature
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Monk unarmed strike as a part of that same bonus action. You can
use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency
bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a
Way of the Eight Gates long rest.
Gate of Presence
Your mistake was confusing my tranquillity for 6th-Level Way of the Eight Gates Feature
pacifism. The difference between the two is a
The Gate of Presence reflects a being’s voice, social wellness,
painful lesson indeed. and confidence. Whenever you make a Charisma check,
you gain a bonus to the check equal to your Wisdom modi-
fier (minimum of +1).
Monks of this order strive for meaning and perfection
through mastery of the Eight Gates, internal loci of spiral- Gate of Spirit
ling energy through which ki is channelled. By way of per-
11th-Level Way of the Eight Gates Feature
sonal contemplation and intense training, each gate can be
opened in turn, and once brought into harmony, allow for The Gate of Spirit represents a being’s ki flowing beyond
a stronger channel of ki and the ability to push one’s body their physical form; you have the power to share your ki
beyond mortal limitation. Those who follow the Way of the with those around you. As a bonus action, you can touch
Eight Gates might be hermits, retreating from the chaos one willing creature and expend 2 ki points. That creature
of the wider world and to a place of contemplative isola- gains temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus
tion. Others may be wanderers, embracing and celebrating + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1), and it can
all experiences, believing this is to be the path to internal immediately use its reaction to make a single weapon attack,
harmony. In any case, monks who walk this path shirk or- take the Dodge action, or move up to its speed without
ganised religious and spiritual practices, preferring to carve provoking opportunity attacks.
their own path of potential, freedom, and growth.
Gate of Mind
Gate of Earth 11th-Level Way of the Eight Gates Feature
3rd-Level Way of the Eight Gates Feature
The Gate of Mind represents a monk’s consciousness
The Gate of Earth reflects a being’s strong physical and expanding beyond their physical form. You can cast the tele-
spiritual foundation. Your ki grounds your centre, fortifying pathic bond spell, requiring no components. Once you cast
your body. When you use your Patient Defense or Step of the spell with this feature, you can’t do so again until you
the Wind, you gain temporary hit points equal to your pro- finish a long rest.
ficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1).
Gate of Infinity
Gate of Water 17th-Level Way of the Eight Gates Feature
3rd-Level Way of the Eight Gates Feature
You have reached total harmony within yourself. Your gates
The Gate of Water reflects a being’s natural ebb and flow of align and converge with your ki, opening the final gate: the
ki through the open gates. You have an additional number of Gate of Infinity.
ki points equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1).
As an action, you can spend 8 ki points to transcend to a
state of apotheosis. You gain the following benefits for
Gate of Air
1 minute:
3rd-Level Way of the Eight Gates Feature
• Your walking speed increases by 20 feet.
The Gate of Air reflects a being’s connection to the external • You have a +2 bonus to AC.
world and all living things therein. You gain proficiency in
the Animal Handling and Insight skills. • When you take the Attack action, you can make one
additional unarmed strike as a part of that action.
Gate of Flame • You can add your Wisdom modifier to your attack and
damage rolls.
6th-Level Way of the Eight Gates Feature
The Gate of Flame reflects a monk’s blistering power and
speed, an internal pool of coiling, frenetic energy. When
you use your Flurry of Blows, you can make one additional
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Paladin
Oath of the Yojimbo Yojimbo are sworn to protect those to whom they dedi-
cate their service, be it an individual, a group, or an entire
nation. Though Yojimbo typically pledge their allegiance
to a charge and accompany them until death, a defence-
“I don’t know the end to my story, but I can
less soul might find the raking claws of a dodomeki halted
promise that you’ll live to see it.” inches from their face by the serendipitous intervention of
a wandering Yojimbo paladin. These roaming saviours trav-
erse the realms on an unrelenting quest to shield those who
can’t protect themselves. Despite being in high demand—
unshakeable loyalty is a coveted virtue—Yojimbo rarely
pledge themselves to the wealthy or powerful. It’s said that
a true Yojimbo has the value of ten sellswords in battle, and
ten-thousand sellswords in spirit.
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Tenets of the Yojimbo feet of you, you can use a reaction and expend one spell slot
to cause the attack to deal extra radiant damage to the target.
The tenets of the Oath of the Yojimbo are unflinchingly res-
The extra damage is 2d8 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d8
olute. They do not change or vary, no matter who a paladin
for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 5d8.
pledges to protect.
Guardian’s Intervention. As a reaction, you can use
Protection. Be a shield to those who lack a shield of
your Channel Divinity to reduce the damage dealt by an
their own. Be the weapon that meets the blade of those who
attack to a creature you can see within 30 feet of you.
would slaughter the weaponless.
When you do so, the damage the creature takes is reduced
Strength. Grow strong, for the sake of those who cannot. by a number of d10s equal to half your paladin level. If this
To shelter the vulnerable, one must have the power to hold feature reduces that damage to 0, the creature you protected
back the storm. can immediately use its reaction to make one weapon attack
against the creature that attacked it.
Inspiration. Nurture the weak. Do not merely preserve
the vulnerable; raise them up to be strong, so they might in
turn protect others.
Aura of Sanctuary
7th-Level Oath of the Yojimbo Feature
Self-Sacrifice. Wager everything for the safety of those
who cannot fight. Nothing less is acceptable in the defence Your divine power flows out from you. When an ally within
against tyranny. 10 feet of you becomes the target of a melee attack, you
can use your reaction to move up to your speed towards the
Oath Spells attacker. If you end your movement within 5 feet of the
attacker, you force it to target you with the attack instead.
3rd-Level Oath of the Yojimbo Feature
At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.
You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed in the Oath
of the Yojimbo Spells table. See the Sacred Oath class fea-
ture for how oath spells work.
True Guardian
15th-Level Oath of the Yojimbo Feature
Oath of the Yojimbo Spells You are a master at providing aid in battle. You can take the
Paladin Level Spells Help action or use your Lay on Hands feature as a bonus
action. In addition, when you take the Help action, the crea-
3rd heroism, sanctuary
ture you helped can add your Charisma modifier to the next
5th warding bond, skin of stone* attack roll or ability check it makes within the next minute.
9th spirit guardians, switcheroo*
Ultimate Protector
13th death ward, skin of steel*
20th-Level Oath of the Yojimbo Feature
Bakuryo’s blessed blizzard*, wall of
17th
force You can harness extraordinary defensive power to protect
those around you. As an action, you become an avatar of
*See Chapter 13 - Spells protection, gaining the following benefits for 1 minute or
until you are incapacitated:
Channel Divinity • Creatures of your choice other than yourself that are
3rd-Level Oath of the Yojimbo Feature within 10 feet of you have a +3 bonus to AC.
You gain the following Channel Divinity options. See the • If the creature you have designated as your ward with
Sacred Oath class feature for how Channel Divinity works. your Holy Ward feature falls to 0 hit points while with-
in 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction to cause it
Holy Ward. You can use your Channel Divinity to to fall to 1 hit point instead.
perform a 1-minute divine ritual of protection, dedicating
yourself to the service of a willing creature that stays within • Your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 2d8 radiant
30 feet of you during the entire ritual. The target becomes damage while your ward is within 60 feet of you.
your ward for the next 24 hours, until you use this feature • You can use your Guardian’s Intervention feature with-
again, or until it dies. For the duration, your ward is im- out expending a use of your Channel Divinity.
mune to the frightened condition while you are conscious
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
and within 60 feet of it. In addition, when your ward hits
finish a long rest, unless you expend a 5th-level spell slot to
an enemy you can see with a weapon attack while within 60
use it again.
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Ranger drew that turn, the attack deals an extra 1d6 damage of that
weapon’s type. This extra damage increases to 1d8 when you
reach 11th level in this class.
Ronin In addition, twice per turn, you can draw or stow one weap-
on, provided you aren’t incapacitated (no action required).
Slash Draw You learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels
in this class, as shown in the Wandering Magic Spells table.
3rd-Level Ronin Feature
Each spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn’t
You have mastered the art of striking with sudden, explosive count against the number of ranger spells you know.
power at any moment. The first time each turn that you hit
a creature with a melee weapon attack using a weapon you
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Wandering Magic Spells Multi-Weapon Mastery
Ranger Level Spell 11th-Level Ronin Feature
3rd expeditious retreat You have advantage on the first melee weapon attack you
5th blur make each turn, as well as advantage on the first ranged
weapon attack you make each turn.
9th remove curse
In addition, being within 5 feet of a hostile creature
13th death ward
doesn’t impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls.
17th legend lore
Relentless Onslaught
Masterless 15th-Level Ronin Feature
3rd-Level Ronin Feature The speed and ferocity of your onslaught is legendary. When
you take the Attack action, each time you score a critical hit
You are a solitary warrior, shackled by no code or authority
or reduce a creature to 0 hit points as part of that action, you
beyond your own. Whenever you make a saving throw to
can make one additional weapon attack. You can make up to
avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself, roll a d6
three additional attacks with this feature per turn.
and add the number rolled to the saving throw.
Cleaving Parry
7th-Level Ronin Feature
When a creature makes a weapon attack against you while
you have a stowed melee weapon and a free hand, you can
use your reaction to attempt to parry that blow, drawing
your stowed weapon as you do so. Your AC increases by
an amount equal to your Dexterity or Strength modifier
(your choice) against that attack, and you gain tempo-
rary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus + your
Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1). After the attack
hits or misses, you can then stow that weapon as a
part of this reaction.
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Spellbombs You are adept at using sound, light, and smoke to get the
drop on your enemies. As a bonus action, or as a reaction
3rd-Level Tamaya Feature
when a creature rolls initiative, you can throw out a disori-
You have mastered the skill of crafting tiny orbs that, using enting barrage of flashbangs and smoke at a point within 60
natural chemicals and sophisticated mechanisms, can repli- feet of you. Creatures of your choice within a 20-foot-ra-
cate magical effects: spellbombs. You have a unique resource dius sphere centered on that point make a Wisdom saving
you use to craft these bombs: hanabi points. You have a throw against your spellbomb save DC. On a failed save,
number of hanabi points equal to your rogue level, and you a creature takes a -10 penalty to that initiative roll, or the
regain all expended points when you finish a long rest. next initiative roll it makes within the next minute. The
creature’s current initiative does not change. On a successful
At the cost of gold, 10 minutes of work, and hanabi
save, the creature takes a -5 penalty instead.
points, you can choose one spell from the Tamaya Spell-
bombs table and store its effects within an armed, nonmag-
Spellbomb Adept
ical spellbomb. The amount of gold and number of hanabi
points required to construct a spellbomb is shown in the 13th-Level Tamaya Feature
Tamaya Spellbombs table. Spellbombs weigh 1/2 pound, Through extensive exposure to the raw, volatile components
and any you craft that have not detonated disintegrate of spellbombs, you are inured to their worst effects. You are
harmlessly when you finish a long rest. immune to damage from your own spellbombs and auto-
A creature can use its bonus action to throw a spellbomb matically succeed on saving throws to resist their effects.
up to 60 feet. They are harmless unless detonated. You can In addition, you can use an action to detonate a spell-
use a reaction to detonate a spellbomb that you created bomb that you created that is within 1,000 feet of you.
whenever it is within 60 feet of you. When a spellbomb
detonates, the spell contained within comes into effect,
centred on the point at which the spellbomb detonated. If
that spell requires concentration, it lasts for the full duration
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Hanabi Primer When triggered, the spellbomb detonates with deafen-
ing force in a 20-foot-radius sphere. The sphere spreads
17th-Level Tamaya Feature
around corners. Each creature in the sphere must make a
As an action, you can expend 3 hanabi points to set and Dexterity saving throw against your spellbomb save DC.
conceal a special explosive spellbomb either upon a surface A creature takes 6d6 thunder damage and 6d6 acid, fire,
(such as a table, a section of floor, or a wall) or within lightning, or poison damage (your choice when you set the
an object that can be closed (such as a book or a chest). spellbomb) on a failed save, or half as much damage on a
The spellbomb is nearly invisible and requires a successful successful one.
Intelligence (Investigation) check (DC equals 8 + your
Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you
proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier) to be found.
finish a long rest.
You decide what triggers the bomb to detonate when you
create it. Typical triggers include touching or standing on
the bomb, removing an object covering it, approaching
within a certain distance of the bomb, or manipulating the
object that holds the bomb.
You can further refine the trigger so the bomb
detonates only under certain circumstances or
according to physical characteristics (such as
height or weight), creature type or kind (for
example, the bomb could be set to detonate
in the presence of Aberrations or drow), or
alignment. You can designate a number of
creatures equal to your proficiency bonus
to not trigger the bomb under these
circumstances when you set it.
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Spirit Empowerment
6th-Level Spirit Caller Feature
When you manifest your spirit using your Conduit of the
Soul feature, you can expend any number of sorcery points.
When you do, choose one boon from the following list for
each point you expend. Your manifested spirit gains these
boons until it disappears. You can’t select the same boon
more than once at the same time, unless stated otherwise.
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Tamer
To become the very best, you gotta tame them all.
The Tamer
Class Features
Hit Points Equipment
Hit Dice: 1d8 per tamer level You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier equipment granted by your background:
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitu- • (a) scale mail or (b) leather armor
tion modifier per tamer level after 1st
• A simple melee weapon, a net, and a shield
Proficiencies • A light crossbow and 20 bolts
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
Armour: Light armour, medium armour, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, nets If you forgo this starting equipment, as well as the items
Tools: One type of artisan’s tools or one musical instru- offered by your background, you start with 5d4 × 10 gp to
ment of your choice buy your equipment.
Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
Skills: Choose two from Animal Handling, Insight,
Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Persuasion
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Optional Rule: Multiclassing
If your group uses the optional rule on multiclassing, use
Home Planes
the following prerequisites, proficiencies, and spell slots if Some magical effects, like the banishment spell, have
you choose the tamer as one of your classes. the ability to permanently banish a creature back
Ability Score Minimum: As a multiclass character, you to its home plane. When a creature becomes your
must have at least an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma companion, its home plane becomes the demiplane
score of 13 to take a level in this class, or to take a level within its vessel. If the companion becomes perma-
in another class if you’re already a tamer. The ability you nently banished by such a spell, it simply reappears
use to qualify to multiclass into tamer must be your tamer
in this vessel.
spellcasting ability.
Proficiencies Gained. If tamer isn’t your initial class, you
gain the following proficiencies when you take your first level Summoning. As an action, you can summon your com-
as a tamer: light armour, shields, simple weapons, and nets. panion from a vessel, causing it to appear in an unoccupied
space that you can see within 30 feet of you, or any unoccu-
Spell Slots. Add half your levels (rounded down) in the
pied space within 5 feet of you. You can dismiss a com-
tamer class to the appropriate levels from other classes to
panion within 30 feet of you as a bonus action or action,
determine your available spell slots.
drawing it back into its vessel. To summon or dismiss a
companion, you must be holding its vessel in hand. You can
Pocket Familiar only have one companion summoned at a time.
1st-level Tamer feature
You become bonded to a companion that accompanies you
on your adventures and is trained to fight alongside you. Dominated Companions
Choose a Small or smaller creature with a challenge rating
of 1/2 or lower that isn’t a humanoid, giant, or swarm to A companion that is controlled by another crea-
become your companion. When a creature becomes your ture, such as by the dominate monster spell, can try
companion, it has a maximum number of hit points equal to resist being recalled into its vessel. When you
to the average of its Hit Dice, as indicated in its statistics, try to recall such a creature into its vessel, it can
and it can’t cast spells. Work with your GM to find a com- make a Charisma saving throw against your
panion that suits your campaign world. This companion
tamer spell save DC. On a failed saving throw, it
obeys your commands and is friendly to you and your allies.
is recalled, while on a success, it is not.
Vessel. When not summoned, your companion exists
inside a magical vessel of your own design, such as a painted
animal skull, bejewelled egg, or crystal sphere. While in this Combat. In combat, your companion shares your ini-
vessel, the companion has full cover from all attacks and tiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours.
other effects, is unaffected by area of effects that originate It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only
from outside the vessel, and exists in stasis; it doesn’t need to action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you
eat, drink, sleep, or breathe, and it is immune to poison and take a bonus action or action on your turn to command it
disease, although a poison or disease already in its system is to take different actions. Those actions can be in its statistics
suspended, not neutralised. A companion at 0 hit points is or some other action, bonus action, or object interaction. If
instantly stabilised when it enters its vessel. you are incapacitated, the companion can take any action
If a vessel is broken, or a companion is released from its of its choice, not just Dodge. Your companion can’t take the
vessel for any other reason, the creature within it ceases to Multiattack action until you reach 5th level in this class, even
be a tamer’s companion. It acts according to its own wishes if it would otherwise be able to.
and retains any improvements it gained while a companion. Rest. A companion gains the benefits of a long rest when
its tamer finishes a long rest; if it has at least 1 hit point, it
regains all its hit points when you finish a long rest. Unlike
other creatures, a companion can’t spend its own Hit Dice
to recover hit points at the end of a short rest. See the Soul
Bond feature for details on recovering hit points.
Items. Armour, barding, and weapons can be equipped to
enhance your companion. A companion can wear or carry any
equipment that their size and body shape permits. However,
your companion must be proficient with the armour or weap-
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on to make full use of it. If your companion wears armour Training. Whenever you gain an Ability Score Improve-
that it lacks proficiency with, it has disadvantage on any abil- ment from gaining a level in the tamer class, you pass on
ity check, saving throw, or attack roll that involves Strength or your hardened resolve to all your companions, causing them
Dexterity. A companion that is not proficient with a weapon to gain 1 additional Hit Die. Increase your companion’s hit
type does not add its proficiency bonus to attack rolls made point maximum by rolling this Hit Die and adding your
with that weapon type. companion’s Constitution modifier (minimum of 0).
Item Bonding. Over the course of an hour, you can Whenever you gain a level beyond 1st in this class, each
bond a companion to one object that it can wear or carry companion to which you are bonded gains one of the follow-
that is not any sort of container or storage. When a com- ing improvements. Bespoke familiars such as those from He-
panion is recalled, all items it is wearing or carrying that liana’s Guide or L’Arsene’s Ledger have unique improvements
it is not bonded to are dropped in the space from which it that can be taken instead of these.
was recalled. A companion can be bonded to up to 3 items
Any newly gained companions receive these additional
at any one time. Companions can’t attune to magic items,
Hit Dice and improvements as if you had them since your
unless they have a specific ability that allows them to do so.
1st level in tamer.
Companion Barding. You can purchase armour for
your companion. Any type of armour can be purchased Companion Improvement Training
as barding. The cost and weight is doubled for each size
category above Medium, and halved for each size category Improvement Effect
below Small. In addition, the cost is further doubled if the Increase one existing speed by 15 feet up
companion is not humanoid in shape. Speed to a maximum of 150% of the creature’s
Training base speed, rounded up to the nearest
Companion Barding Cost 5-foot increment*.
Size Humanoid Shape Cost Abstract Shape Cost Your companion gains an additional Hit
Die, increasing its hit point maximum.
Tiny 0.5x 1x Increase your companion’s hit point max-
Toughen Up
Small 1x 2x imum by rolling this Hit Die and adding
Medium 1x 2x your companion’s Constitution modifier
(minimum of 0).
Large 2x 4x
Increase one of your companion's ability
Huge 4x 8x Ability Boost
scores by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Your companion gains a +1 bonus to its
Go For the
Soul Bond Throat
attack and damage rolls made with its
natural weapons or unarmed strikes**.
1st-level Tamer feature
Survival Your companion gains proficiency in one
Companions make death saving throws, die, and can be re- Instincts saving throw.
vived like any player character. A companion that has been
Your companion gains proficiency with
stabilised remains unconscious until it regains hit points, War Training
one armour type or two weapons***.
or until you finish a long rest. Companions that are stable
and have 0 hit points when you finish a long rest regain half
*E.g., a base speed of 30 feet can be increased to 45 feet maximum, a
their maximum hit points. base speed of 25 feet can be increased to 40 feet, and a base speed of
20 feet to 30 feet.
You have a pool of healing power equal to five times your **Your companions can each benefit from this feature once. When you
tamer level that replenishes when you finish a long rest. reach 5th level in this class, your companions can each benefit from this
Whenever you finish a short rest, you can choose to draw feature twice. When you reach 9th level in this class, your companions
power from that pool, restoring a total number of hit points can each benefit from this feature three times. This improvement does
not affect attacks made with weapons.
amongst your companions up to the maximum amount ***Your companion can’t gain proficiency in medium and heavy ar-
remaining in your pool. mour until it has gained proficiency in the prerequisite lighter armour
types. For example, to gain proficiency in heavy armour, you must take
Monster Trainer this improvement 3 times: light, then medium, then heavy. Work with
your GM to figure out if and how a creature can wield shields and
1st-level Tamer feature weapons.
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Tamer Companion Summary
Maximum Maximum Maximum Improvements/Hit Dice Gained on Taming*
Tamer
# of Bonded Companion Companion
Level CR 1/2- CR 1 CR 2 CR 3 CR 4 CR 5 CR 6
Companions Size CR
1 1 Small 1/2 0/0 — — — — — —
2 1 Small 1/2 1/0 — — — — — —
3 2 Small 1/2 2/0 — — — — — —
4 2 Small 1 3/1 0/0 — — — — —
5 2 Medium 1 4/1 1/0 — — — — —
6 2 Medium 1 5/1 2/0 — — — — —
7 3 Medium 2 6/1 3/0 0/0 — — — —
8 3 Medium 2 7/2 4/1 1/1 — — — —
9 3 Medium 2 8/2 5/1 2/1 — — — —
10 3 Medium 3 9/2 6/1 3/1 0/0 — — —
11 4 Large 3 10 / 2 7/1 4/1 1/0 — — —
12 4 Large 3 11 / 3 8/2 5/2 2/1 — — —
13 4 Large 4 12 / 3 9/2 6/2 3/1 0/0 — —
14 4 Large 4 13 / 3 10 / 2 7/2 4/1 1/0 — —
15 5 Large 4 14 / 3 11 / 2 8/2 5/1 2/0 — —
16 5 Large 5 15 / 4 12 / 3 9/3 6/2 3/1 0/0 —
17 5 Huge 5 16 / 4 13 / 3 10 / 3 7/2 4/1 1/0 —
18 5 Huge 5 17 / 4 14 / 3 11 / 3 8/2 5/1 2/0 —
19 6 Huge 6 18 / 5 15 / 4 12 / 4 9/3 6/2 3/1 0/0
20 6 Huge 6 19 / 5 16 / 4 13 / 4 10 / 3 7/2 4/1 1/0
*For example, if a 10th level tamer trained a CR 1 creature, that crea-
ture would immediately gain 6 improvements (see previous page) and
1 Hit Die. This is indicated by the value ‘6/1’ in the ‘CR 1’ column and
the level ‘10’ row.
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Cantrips
Abilities and Proficiency At 2nd level, you know two cantrips of your choice from
As your companions’ ability scores change—often the tamer spell list. You learn additional tamer cantrips
through Companion Improvement Training—their of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips
skill modifiers, saving throws, attack modifiers, and Known column of the Tamer table.
saving throw DCs will also change. Working out
Spell Slots
what ability a creature’s attack or saving throw uses
can require a bit of detective work. The Tamer table shows how many spell slots you have to
cast your tamer spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one
First you have to know the creature’s proficiency of these tamer spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s
level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you
bonus (PB). Luckily this is quite easy: it all depends
finish a long rest.
on the creature’s CR and players’ PB. A creatures’
base PB is +2 at CR 0-4 and +3 at CR 5-6. To pro- For example, if you know the 1st-level spell animal
friendship and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot
ceed, subtract the creature’s PB from its modifiers/
available, you can cast animal friendship using either slot.
save DCs. For save DCs, subtract an additional 8
from the DC. Finally, match the remaining values to Spells Known of 1st Level and
the ability score modifiers. Higher
Let’s use the CR 4 red dragon wyrmling’s bite You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the tamer
attack and breath weapon as an example. It has a spell list.
PB of +2, a Strength of 19 (+4), a Dexterity of 10 The Spells Known column of the Tamer table shows
(+0), and a Constitution of 17 (+3). Its bite attack when you learn more tamer spells of your choice. Each of
has a +6 modifier, while its breath weapon has a these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. Subtracting the PB For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can
learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.
from these values (and 8 from the DC), we are left
with +4 and DC 3. We can deduce that the bite Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can
choose one of the tamer spells you know and replace it with
attack uses Strength (the +4 matches the wyrm-
another spell from the tamer spell list, which also must be
ling’s Strength modifier), and the fire breath uses of a level for which you have spell slots.
Constitution (DC 3 matches the wyrmling’s +3
Constitution modifier). Spellcasting Ability
If the wyrmling’s tamer is 13th level (with a PB of When you gain your first level in this class, choose whether
you use your knowledge (Intelligence), willpower (Wisdom),
+5), then the wyrmling’s PB increases from +2 to
or force of personality (Charisma) as your spellcasting ability
+5 when it becomes a companion. This results in its for your tamer spells. You use this spellcasting ability when-
attack modifier and save DC increasing to +9 and ever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition,
DC 16, respectively. you use your spellcasting ability modifier when setting the
saving throw DC for a tamer spell you cast and when mak-
ing an attack roll with one.
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Ability Score Improvement Wilful Blows
4th-level Tamer feature 6th-level Tamer feature
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and Your magical potency is channeled through your compan-
19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice ions’ strikes. Your companions’ attacks count as magical
by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to
by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 nonmagical attacks and damage.
using this feature.
Switcheroo
Multiattack 13th-level Tamer feature
5th-level Tamer feature
You learn how to switch places with your companion in the
Through rigorous training, you can access the innate fury of nick of time. While you and your companion are within
your companions. When you take a bonus action or action 100 feet of each other, you can use a bonus action, or a
to command your companion, you can command it to use reaction when you or your companion is the target of an
its Multiattack action, if it has one. attack by an attacker you can see, to magically switch places
with your companion. If performed as a reaction, the crea-
Malleable Presence ture that appears in the targeted creature’s space becomes
the new target of the attack. You have a number of uses of
5th-level Tamer feature
this feature equal to your tamer spellcasting ability modifier
While your companion is within 100 feet of you, you (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you
can order it to change its behaviour towards one creature finish a long rest.
you can see as part of the bonus action or action you use
to command it. Choose either the aggressive or cautious Magnificent Presence
behaviours. At the start of each of the target creature’s turns
for the next minute, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving 17th-level Tamer feature
throw versus your tamer spell save DC if it is within 30 While your companion is within 100 feet of you, you can
feet of your companion and can see your companion. On a order it to change its behaviour as part of the bonus action
failure, it suffers the effects of the associated behaviour until or action you use to command it. Choose either the Provok-
the start of its next turn. On a success, it is unaffected. ing Poise or Shrinking Violet behaviours.
• Aggressive. The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls • Provoking Poise. For the next minute, your compan-
it makes against creatures other than your companion. ion draws the attention of nearby creatures. While
• Cautious. The creature has disadvantage on attack within 15 feet of your companion, any creature that is
rolls against your companion if there is another creature hostile towards your companion and that can see it has
hostile towards the attacker within 5 feet of the attacker. disadvantage on attack rolls it makes against creatures
other than your companion.
After you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you
• Shrinking Violet. For the next minute, your compan-
finish a short or long rest.
ion appears small and unassuming, making little noise.
Any creature that is hostile towards your companion
Alpha Strike has disadvantage on attack rolls against your com-
6th-level Tamer feature panion if there is another creature hostile towards the
attacker within 15 feet of the attacker.
While summoning a companion, your psychic connection
is at its closest, allowing you to quickly relay your intent. After you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you
As part of the action to summon a companion, you can finish a long rest.
command it to take an action in its stat block or some other
action, which it does so on its turn. You can use this feature
a number of times equal to your tamer spellcasting ability
modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended
uses of this feature when you finish a long rest.
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Training Paradigm Sensei Spells
3rd-Level Tamer Feature
Tamers follow various Training Paradigms that define their
bond with their companions or the companions themselves. You learn additional spells when you reach certain levels
The paradigm you choose reflects your approach. in this class, as shown in the Sensei Spells table. Each spell
counts as a tamer spell for you, but it doesn’t count against
Sensei the number of tamer spells you know.
Sensei Spells
“Worry yourself not with how people might quote you.” Tamer Level Spells
3rd flash*, repulsing palm*
5th skin of stone*, wind strike*
Sensei see how a body moves with supernatural acuity, identi-
fying minor changes in form that can turn paltry scuffs into 9th create food and water, haste
bone-breaking blows. Through meticulous coaching, they 13th freedom of movement, skin of steel*
unveil the pugilists within their companions, teaching them 17th endure*, greater restoration
to dance between enemies’ strikes, upset their foes’ balance,
and finish them with lightning fast combinations. Perhaps *See Chapter 13 - Spells.
you yourself were a master of martial arts, but are now too
old to fight. Maybe you grew up watching boxers, but always Unleash
saw the flaws in their technique. Whatever the case, you are a
teacher, and your companions are your eager students. 7th-Level Tamer Feature
With a flourish, your companion can perform a series of
Martial Strikes complicated martial combinations, flitting between targets
3rd-Level Tamer Feature with lightning speed. As an action, your companion moves
up to its speed (this movement doesn’t provoke opportunity
You teach your companion how to use its body as a deadly attacks, and can make up to six Martial Strike attacks, each
weapon. Your companion gains a new attack option: an of which must be against a different target. Until the end
Martial Strike. This is a melee attack that uses a part of the of its turn, the companion’s movement does not provoke
companion’s anatomy. Your companion can use its choice opportunity attacks.
of Strength or Dexterity when calculating its attack and
damage modifiers for this attack, which deals damage of a Once a companion uses this action, it can’t do so again
type (usually bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing) that makes until you finish a short or long rest. Starting at 18th level, a
sense for you companion (work with your GM to determine companion can use this action twice between each of your
this for each companion). These attacks deal 1d6 damage short or long rests.
starting at 3rd level, 1d8 at 7th level, 1d10 at 10th level,
and 1d12 at 14th level, and 2d8 at 18th level. Shrug It Off
When you reach 5th level in this class, your companion 10th-Level Tamer Feature
can make two Martial Strike attacks when it takes the At- You have learnt to use your mental connection to shield your
tack action on its turn. If your companion has the Multiat- companion from pain and fatigue. Whenever your compan-
tack action option, it can replace any of its attacks with an ion takes bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, you
Martial Strike attack. can reduce the damage it takes by an amount equal to your
tamer spellcasting ability modifier (minimum reduction of
Martial Techniques 1). You can’t use this feature while you are incapacitated.
3rd-Level Tamer Feature
Martial Prodigy
You learn specific martial techniques, which you teach to
each of your companions. Choose three techniques from 14th-Level Tamer Feature
the Martial Techniques section at the end of this subclass. As an action, you can infuse your companion with your own
When you command a companion on your turn, you can spirit. For 1 minute, it can make four Martial Strike attacks
instruct it to use one or more of these techniques. when it takes the Attack action on its turn instead of two,
When you reach 7th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level in this it can take two bonus actions on each of its turns, and it
class, you learn one additional technique that your compan- gains temporary hit points equal to your spellcasting ability
ions can use. modifier 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.
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Warlock target you can control with this feature increases to Huge at
6th level and Gargantuan at 14th level.
The Shinigami While you control a target in this way, it uses its own stat
block with the following changes:
• It’s treated as an Undead creature if it’s a corpse.
“You’ll fight until your last breath, and beyond.” • It can’t gain hit points or recover from the unconscious
condition.
• It’s immune to the charmed and frightened conditions.
You have entered into a pact with a shinigami, a fearsome • It gains temporary hit points equal to your Charisma
spirit of the netherworld, with powers of death and posses- modifier plus five times your warlock level.
sion. Shinigami themselves are beings of variable character,
• It can use your spellcasting modifier for its attack and
some playing active roles in the lives of their emissaries,
damage rolls.
others inscrutable and shrouded in mystery. All, however,
serve a singular, ultimate purpose: to perpetuate death.
Those who wield a shinigami’s power spin magic of
shadow and authority, puppeteering objects, creatures,
servants, and thralls. Such magic is as vicious and precise
as it is hated and feared; even those with noble intent who
enter into a shinigami’s pact become equal in terror to the
evil they seek to vanquish.
*See page XX
Grim Puppeteer
1st-Level Shinigami Feature
As an action, you can take control of a corpse or
unconscious creature you can see within 60 feet of
you for 1 minute or until you lose concentration (as if
concentrating on a spell). The target must be Large or
smaller and of a CR equal to or less than your warlock
level (or the CR it had in life if it’s a corpse). The size of
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When its temporary hit points are depleted, your control uses left, you can use it if you expend a spell slot from your
of the target ends, and you can’t use this feature on that Pact Magic when you take the action to activate it.
target again until you finish a long rest. If the target was un-
conscious, and it has more than 0 hit points, it immediately Shinigami Vision
regains consciousness when your control over it ends. 1st-Level Shinigami Feature
Your puppet takes its turn immediately after yours. It Your bond to the Shinigami grants you a piercing insight
does nothing unless you use a bonus action on your turn to into the lifespan of others and reveals the best way to cut it
command it to take an action. That action can be one in its short. As a bonus action, you can focus your attention on
stat block (or in the stat block it had in life if it’s a corpse) one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. You become
or some other action. aware of one of its damage vulnerabilities (if any) and its
Limited Control. There are limitations to the scope of damage resistances or damage immunities (if any).
your influence over your puppet. While you are puppeting
a target, it can’t cast spells and can’t use any reactions, any Gift of the Psychopomp
legendary actions, any lair actions, and any actions that 6th-Level Shinigami Feature
create or summon additional creatures (such as a wraith’s
Create Specter action). While you are puppeteering a target using your Grim Pup-
peteer feature, you can make any spell you cast that targets
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your only you also target your puppet.
Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all
expended uses when you finish a long rest. If you have no Shinigami Domination
10th-Level Shinigami Feature
You have developed the power of precise and meticulous
control over your puppets. While a target is under the effect
of your Grim Puppeteer feature, you can see through its
eyes, hear what it hears, and speak through it using its own
voice. You can now puppeteer a creature for up to 1 hour or
until you lose your concentration.
A creature interacting with the puppet can use an action
to make a Wisdom (Insight) check against your warlock
spell save DC, identifying something awry on a success.
Additionally, creatures you puppeteer have resistance to
bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagi-
cal attacks that aren’t silvered.
Master of Death
14th-Level Shinigami Feature
When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you don’t fall un-
conscious. Instead, your spirit is thrown from your physical
form, and you are able to continue to fight, puppeteering
your own body as a disembodied spirit of death.
While puppeteering your own body in this way, your
game statistics and capabilities remain the same, you can’t
puppeteer another creature, you automatically succeed on
all death saving throws, and you gain temporary hit points
equal to your Charisma modifier plus five times your war-
lock level. Your spirit returns to your body immediately if
you regain at least 1 hit point.
You can’t fall unconscious until your temporary hit
points are depleted, at which time your spirit returns to
your body and this feature ends.
Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you
finish a short or long rest.
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Wizard Shinobi’s unique abilities make them the ultimate artisans
of espionage and infiltration, wielding deception, secrecy,
and explosive aggression as lethal tools in their arsenal.
Shinobi
Shinobi Training
2nd-Level Shinobi Feature
As children, we learned that magic was loud,
You gain proficiency with light armour, hand crossbows,
exciting, and dangerous. It meant jets of flame
thrown weapons, and finesse weapons, and you can use a
and dazzling light—distinct from the mundane weapon you are proficient with as your spellcasting focus.
blade or arrow. But the Shinobi are different, Additionally, you are considered a member of a half-martial
harnessing a subtle magic in synchronicity with class for the purposes of weapon masteries (see page xx).
deadly swordplay. I’ve come to realise that the Finally, you gain darkvision out to 60 feet, or if you already
most terrifying spell isn’t one that leaves a smoking have darkvision, its range is increased by 30 feet.
crater, it’s the magic nobody can ever be sure was
Shadow Striker
cast, accompanied by a vortex of steel.
2nd-Level Shinobi Feature
You have learned the art of synchronising spellcasting and
Masters of illusion, guerilla warfare, and martial combat, weaponry. When you take the Attack action on your turn
Shinobi wizards are elusive tricksters and deadly warriors, and make a weapon attack roll, you can expend one spell slot.
striking in a furious onslaught of magic, weaponry, and ac- That attack roll is made with advantage, and the attack deals
robatics. They adopt a philosophy which unifies martial skill an extra 1d6 damage per level of the spell slot you expend-
with spellcasting, empowering their blows with devastating ed on a hit. After you use this feature, you can use a bonus
magical enhancements before vanishing into darkness. A action that turn to perform one of the following techniques:
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backgrounds
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Backgrounds & Feats
able winds at sea. Typically, an elementalist is the pride of
History matters; it shapes who we are. My father their community, their power to predict and influence the
was a kaiju tracker, and his father was a kaiju weather is an essential resource in farming and nomadic
tracker, and his father’s cabbage patch was societies.
trampled by a kaiju. Three grueling generations Skill Proficiencies: Acrobatics, Nature
seeking revenge for those cabbages shaped the Languages: One of your choice (Primordial recommended)
people they were, and the person I am too. Anyway, Equipment: A set of travellers clothes, a healer’s kit, and a
what’s your story? pouch containing 15 gp
Elementalist
From the soil beneath your feet to the clouds that roam
the sky, every aspect of the natural world holds magic, and
so do you. For some, it takes decades of exhausting study
to earn this connection. Others, perhaps those with a wisp
of yokai magic, are born able to connect with the natural
forces around them, influencing the elements as effortlessly
as breathing.
Whether intentionally or subconsciously, elementalists
enhance their performance in ordinary jobs with super-
natural touches. A miner attuned to earth might have
an uncanny ability to extract geodes without damaging
them, while a gondolier with water affinity can steer
their vessel without using an oar. A fire-attuned smith
can forge without bellows, while an air elementalist
sailor might effortlessly steer into the most favour-
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Skill Proficiencies: History, Sleight of Hand d6 Ideal
Tool Proficiencies: One of your choice (Tinker’s Tools
recommended) Ambition. I strive to be recognised as the best in
1
Equipment: A set of travellers clothes, a set of artisan’s tools the world at what I do.
(one of your choice), firecrackers*, and a smokebomb*. Altruism. I aim to make the world a better place
2
*See page XX using my gifts.
Money. I intend to amass great wealth on the
Feature: Prostheses Engineer 3
back of my talents.
You have dedicated years honing your craft. Choose a feat Teacher. I live to pass down knowledge, and I take
4
from among Prosthesis Adept or Prosthesis Fighting. great delight in teaching others all that I know.
Progress. I aspire to wake up every day a little
Hanabi Apprentice 5
better than I was the day before.
As an associate of the college of hanabi, you have access to Chore Aversion. I am willing to work extremely
a large network of tinkerers, merchants, and manufacturers. hard to find a way to be lazy. If it takes a week to
You know the right technical jargon to seamlessly integrate 6
make a tool that handles a boring job that would
with other inventors, and you can count on the support of have taken me 10 minutes, so be it.
the college for information and lodgings in communities
where it has a strong presence. Alumni of the college might
be able to procure “top shelf ” components and magic items d6 Bond
unavailable to those outside the clique, or they may put
I am deeply attached to my tools, giving them
you in touch with affluent merchants or tribes interested in 1
names and talking to them as I work.
purchasing your wares.
I count several famous inventors and merchants
2
Suggested Characteristics among my close friends.
Being a hanabi engineer requires a mind simultaneously I blew up my first workshop at the age of nine and
capable of bombastic imagination and intense focus. You 3 have gone through several more over the years.
see opportunity in every obstacle and delight in solving Numerous landlords have bounties on my head.
problems in the most overengineered fashion possible. Your I have dear friends who count on me for their
enthusiasm for your work is inspiring, but long, isolated 4 prostheses and gear. I devote countless hours to
years of meticulous training and craft may have left you a caring for them at no charge.
little lacking in social situations. Alas, there is no machine
A rival engineer once stole an invention of mine
that can make you better at dealing with people… yet.
5 and claimed credit. I will never forgive them and
secretly seek revenge.
d6 Personality Trait
I am under contract from a noble to produce an
Excessive verbosity is prized among my idiosyn- 6 immensely complex and powerful item, reporting
1
crasies. regular updates on its construction to them.
I tend to get extremely excitable when discussing
2
my passions.
3 I love to blow stuff up. d6 Flaw
I am swiftly irritated by philistines who fail to If anything I create is less than perfect, I throw it
4 1
appreciate my artistry. away in disgust.
I articulate every word with wild gestures and I often forget to charge for my work. The joy of
5 2
movements. creating is all I need.
I sleep hanging upside down; the rush of blood to My eagerness to explosively solve my problems
6 3 sometimes gets me into more trouble than it’s
my head often sparks great ideas.
worth.
I put my trust wholeheartedly in technology, dis-
4 missing any potential magical or social solution to
a problem.
I get anxious when plans go awry, making it a
5
struggle to adapt on the go.
I spend every penny I earn immediately; there
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always seems to be something new to buy.
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Feature: Kaiju Hunter I will never settle down. I need to always be on the
3
road, and I’ll die on my feet.
Your obsession with kaiju has made you an expert in how to
Every dawn, without fail, I take an hour to clean
battle huge creatures. You have the Kaiju Hunter feat 4
and sharpen my weapons.
(page XX).
I love myths of heroes and villains. I constantly
5
retell old folktales and draw parallels to real life.
I try to conscript anyone I meet into joining me on
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foolhardy adventures.
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d6 Ideal Raised By Yokai
Vengeance. Once wronged, I never let go. I am You were not raised among your kin. Yours was a childhood
1 seeking a way to exact vengeance on those who of magic, adventure, and isolation from others of your kind,
have done me harm. for you were raised by a yokai spirit. It could be that you
Travel. I want to see everything and be the first to were abandoned by your parents, that your people were
2 lost in a kaiju rampage, or that you followed a mesmerising
traverse every plane in existence.
creature deep into the jungle.
Harvester. I believe the secret to mythical elixirs
and weapons lies in harvesting components from The circumstances of how you came to find your yokai
3 family may not be known to you, but you owe your life
incredible creatures. I want to harvest the bodies
of gods. to their protection and guidance. Perhaps they sustained
you with magic, taught you to forage, or stole things they
Hasty. If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing thought you might need from travelling caravans. In their
4
now. I have no time for debate or consideration. care, you have come to know magic that no other Human-
Guardian. I struggle to connect with people, but oid has seen and know the world to be singing with all
5 I want to keep them safe, even if they never know manner of incredible, invisible life.
who I am.
Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Perception
Legend. I want to be remembered and leave a Languages: One of your choice (Sylvan, Abyssal, or Infer-
6
legacy that bards will sing of for generations. nal recommended)
Equipment: A set of travellers clothes, a lamp, a vial of
basic poison, and a rare gem worth 10 gp
d6 Bond
There are many monsters in this world. I will pro- Feature: Spirit Bond
1
tect those who cannot protect themselves. You are bonded to a spirit—a protector, ally, and friend you
A kaiju destroyed my home and people. It will die have known since childhood. You have the Spirit Bonded
2
by my hand, or I will die trying. feat (page XX).
3 Those I travel with are closer than kin.
Feature: Natural Envoy
I am enamoured with kaiju—their size, grace, and
4 power. I wish only to observe and understand how You grew up surrounded by yokai and understand their
such beings exist. ways and quirks better than most. You have advantage on
ability checks to peacefully interact with Beasts and yokai.
My faith has been shaken upon seeing the
devastation wrought by the evils in this world. I
5 Suggested Characteristics
am struggling to overcome my doubt in the god I
have long served. Being raised apart from the rest of the world has its benefits.
You have learned much of the natural world and its secrets
I make friends with animals quickly and loathe to
6 but know very little of humanoid societies. It is easy to
harm beasts, even dangerous ones.
feel a little out of place entering a new world of cities,
laws, money, and property, but there are great wonders to
discover as well, such as bonds of fellowship, community,
d6 Flaw
and romance.
My obsession with killing monsters risks turning
1
me into one.
I judge myself harshly. A single failure is enough
2
to send me spiralling into despair.
My thrill seeking behaviour puts me and others
3
at risk.
My word is absolute; I struggle to entertain other
4
perspectives or ideas.
My love for treasure and gold often leads my
5
morals astray.
Only the mission’s success matters; the body
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count is irrelevant.
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d6 Ideal The letter of the law means absolutely nothing to
1
Family. I want to reconnect with my kin; I am me; I am guided solely by my own moral compass.
1 searching for my people and discovering my I hide my past, fearing I’ll never truly fit in with
history. 2
other people.
Unity. I have seen firsthand the patience and I believe myself to be better than others; having
kindness of spirits. I wish to bring the material 3 been raised by yokai, I’ve witnessed magical feats
2
and spiritual realms closer together, creating a that most could never dream of.
more harmonious world.
I am very slow to trust humanoids and find it hard
Power. I grew up around powerful magic, and I’m 4
3 to take them at their word.
looking for more.
I am extremely swift to anger when I believe
Independence. I don’t care what anyone else 5 someone has disrespected nature or the spirits
thinks or does. I didn’t need them before, and I that dwell therein.
4
don’t need them now. I’m on my own incredible
journey, and they’re lucky to have a cameo in it. I put too much faith in my own abilities; I believe
6
myself to be almost invincible.
Kindness. I survived due to the nurture and pro-
5 tection of gentle yokai. I wish to extend that same
gift of kindness to others.
Mischief. I’ve embraced my chaotic life, and I take
6 great pleasure in spreading a little chaos wherev-
er I go.
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As you progress through your adventures, you may discover Boon of the Nue
new abilities or adapt as a result of new experiences. You
might dedicate your downtime to honing skills or establish The nue is a fierce, chimeric hunter, rumoured to be the
bonds with other beings that bring fresh perspectives and first yokai. Its power is chaotic, and a spark of that chaos
avenues of growth. The life of an adventurer is one of end- resides in you. Your connection to the nue grants you the
less change and advancement. The following feats represent following benefits:
that transformation. • At the start of your turn, you can roll a d6. If the result
on the die is even, you gain a bonus to the next attack
roll, ability check, or saving throw you make before the
Boon of Ashura end of this turn. If the result is odd, you take the result
Be it through gift, theft, or serendipitous chance of wild on the die as poison damage. You can use this feature a
magic, you have come to possess a fragment of the power of number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and
Ashura, the mighty three-headed demon god of passion and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or
fury. You gain the following benefits: long rest.
• Increase your Strength or Constitution score by 1, to a • As a bonus action, you can grant yourself a flying speed
maximum of 20. equal to your walking speed until the end of your turn.
You fall if you end your turn in the air with nothing
• You can take one additional reaction in a round, but
holding you aloft. You can use this benefit a number of
you can only take one reaction on a turn. You can take
times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain
an additional reaction in this way a number of times
all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.
equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all
expended uses when you finish a long rest.
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Boon of the Ōmukade • Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a
maximum of 20.
The ōmukade is a dragon hunter—a colossal centipede
yokai with a resilient carapace and resistance to the ele- • You can initiate or collaborate in a combo attack*, even
ments. Your connection to the ōmukade grants you the if you have already initiated or collaborated in one since
following benefits: your last long rest. Once you use this benefit, you can’t
use it again until you finish a long rest.
• Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum
• When you initiate a combo attack, one willing creature
of 20.
of your choice that you can see can collaborate in that
• Choose one damage type from among acid, cold, fire, combo without preventing them from collaborating in
lightning, poison, and thunder when you select this another combo attack before they finish a long rest.
feat. You gain resistance to the chosen damage type. In
addition, when you take damage of that type, you can *See page XX
use a reaction to absorb it. When you do, the first dam-
age roll you make within the next minute deals an extra Dedicated Combatant
1d8 damage of that type. This damage increases by 1d8 Your fervent commitment to combat training puts your
when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and weapon mastery on par with the most dedicated of special-
17th level (4d8). You can use this reaction a number of ists. You can calculate your martial level as equal to your
times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain character level, no matter your class.
all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
* see Weapon Mastery, page XX
Cantrip Combatant
Prerequisites:The Extra Attack feature and
the ability cast at least one cantrip
You have mastered the art of combining
weapon strikes and spellcasting, granting you
the following benefits:
• Increase one ability score of your choice by 1,
to a maximum of 20.
• When you use an action to cast a cantrip that
includes a weapon attack, you can make one
weapon attack as a bonus action on that turn.
Combo Striker
You are practised in the art of collaborative combat and
combination strikes, granting you the following benefits:
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Magic of the Blade Multidisciplinary
You have the power to synchronise magic and swordplay, Prerequisite:You are a multiclass character
granting you the following benefits: You are adept at pulling from different disciplines to employ
• Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a a variety of tactics both in battle and outside it. When you
maximum of 20. take this feat, and each time you gain your 1st level in a new
• You learn two cantrips that include a weapon as their class, choose one of the following benefits:
material component. • You gain proficiency in one skill and one type of arti-
san’s tools of your choice.
Martial Initiate
• Choose one saving throw proficiency that the class you
Prerequisite: 4th level have multiclassed into normally provides at 1st level,
You have studied extensively in the art of combat, honing for which you don’t already have proficiency, and that
your skill with a favoured weapon. You gain the following you haven’t chosen with this benefit before. You can
benefits: add half your proficiency bonus to saving throws you
make of that type.
• Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a
maximum of 20. Nunchaku Master
• You learn two tier 1 advanced techniques of your choice Prerequisite: Proficiency with nunchaku
from any technique tree.* You must meet the prerequi-
sites for those techniques to learn them. Your virtuosity with nunchaku allows you to strike with in-
credible speed. When you take the Attack action and attack
* see Weapon Mastery, page XX with a nunchaku, you can use a bonus action to make one
additional nunchaku attack. This attack uses the same abil-
ity modifier as the primary attack and the weapon’s damage
die for this attack is a d4.
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Spirit Bonded
You have formed a friendship with a spirit, who wishes to
act as your familiar.
You learn the find familiar spell and can cast it without
components or a spell slot. When you cast it in this way,
your familiar ignores the restriction that prevents it from
attacking. After you cast the spell with this feat, you can’t do
so again until you finish a long rest.
When you select this feat, choose one of the following
familiar forms: bancho-gama, betobeto-kun, ko-inari,
kawawappa, or ochimusha-kozo*. You can summon your fa-
miliar in the chosen form or one of those listed in the spell’s
description. When you summon your familiar in the chosen
form, it gains temporary hit points equal to your level, and
the 1st-level improvement on its Improvement Tree. When
you reach 5th level, these temporary hit points are doubled,
and you can also grant it one of the 3rd-level improvements
on its Improvement Tree.
*See pages XX - XX
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Racial Feats Enkoh’s Might
Prerequisite: Enkoh (hulking)
The following are racial feats—special benefits only available
to individuals of your kind. These feats could signify an You possess explosive strength, impressive even compared to
unearthing of a deeper power associated with your lineage your hulking kin, granting you the following benefits:
or an embracing of the connection you share with your own • Your Strength score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
culture and history. Such transformations might be trig-
• As a bonus action, you can attempt to shove a creature
gered by a significant moment of self-discovery or achieved
no more than one size larger than you within your
through intensive training and study. No matter the case,
reach. Make a Strength (Athletics) check, contested by
each feat represents the way you have grown—an evolution
the target’s Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acro-
of your abilities, character, and outlook.
batics) check (target’s choice). If you win the contest,
you either knock the target prone or push it up to 15
Adaptive Colouration
feet away. You can use this feat a number of times equal
Prerequisite: Nishikin or Ryujin to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended
You are able to shift your colouration, a rare ability possessed uses when you finish a long rest.
by few of your kin, granting you the following benefits:
Gift of the Lion Turtle
• You have advantage on Stealth checks to avoid
being seen. Prerequisite: Lion Turtle
• Choose one colour from your Nishikin Colour or Koi Some lion turtles, such as yourself, are blessed with unusual
Dragon Colour trait when you select this feat. When command over their telepathic abilities. Your mastery of this
you use your Slumbering Dragon or Heartening Breath power grants you the following benefits:
trait, you can choose to empower ability checks, attack
• Increase your Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
rolls, and saving throws associated with either your
primary colouration or the one you chose with this feat. • You can cast the detect thoughts and suggestion spells
without expending a spell slot. Once you cast detect
thoughts or suggestion with this feat, you can’t cast that
Draconic Fury
spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can
Prerequisite: Ryujin also cast either of those spells using any spell slots you
You have learned to channel your draconic energy into a dam- have of the appropriate level. Intelligence, Wisdom,
aging breath weapon, granting you the following benefits: or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells
when you cast them with this feat (choose when you
• Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum select this feat).
of 20.
• When you select this feat, choose one damage type Hanamori Physiology
from among acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, and Prerequisite: Hanamori
thunder. When you use your Heartening Breath trait,
you can choose to expel a 15-foot cone of destructive Your hyperactive hanamori physiology causes your body to
energy instead. Each creature in the area must make a adapt to changes in the environment instantly, granting you
Dexterity saving throw (DC = 8 + your Constitution the following benefits:
modifier + your proficiency bonus), taking 1d8 damage • You have advantage on saving throws to avoid ex-
of the type you chose on a failed save, or half as much haustion brought about by the environment, such as
damage on a successful one. This damage increases by extreme heat or cold.
1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), • When you take acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder
and 17th level (4d8). damage, you can use your reaction to gain resistance
to that damage type, including against the triggering
damage, until the end of your next turn. You can use
this benefit a number of times equal to your proficien-
cy bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you
finish a long rest.
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Karasu Trickery
Prerequisite:Tengu (karasu)
You are a virtuoso of mischief and trickery even among
karasu, granting you the following benefits:
• Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum
of 20.
• Whenever you and at least one other creature you can
see make an ability check or saving throw at the same
time, such as rolling for initiative, a contested check, or
a saving throw against an area of effect, you can swap
your result on the d20 for the other creature’s. You
receive their result, and they receive yours. Once you
use this benefit, you can’t do so again until you finish a
short or long rest.
Kitsune’s Blessing
Prerequisite: Kitsune
You possess natural magic beyond that of a typical kitsune.
You gain the following benefits:
• You can cast spells while transformed using your Shape-
shifter trait.
Haniwa Soulbinding • While transformed using your Shapeshifter trait, you
Prerequisite: Haniwa can use your fox’s bite to make unarmed strikes, using
Strength or Dexterity for your attack and damage rolls.
Your innate creation magic is potent enough that you can When you hit with it, the strike deals piercing damage
pour more of your essence into your clay companion. When equal to 1d6 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier
you create a companion, it can use one of the following stat (your choice).
blocks instead of one listed in the Clay Companion trait: • You gain the Multiattack action. While transformed
black bear, giant goat, giant octopus, or warhorse. using your Shapeshifter trait, you can use an action to
Once you reach 5th level, you can create Clay Compan- make a number of unarmed strikes equal to half your
ions that use the dire wolf, giant spider, and giant toad proficiency bonus (rounded up).
stat blocks. • While transformed using your Shapeshifter trait, your
AC equals 12 + your Dexterity modifier.
Isetsu Magic
Prerequisite: Isetsu Oni Regeneration
Your connection with the ocean allows you to wield a meas- Prerequisite: Oniborne
ure of water magic, granting you the following benefits: The incredible fortitude and longevity of your ancestors
• Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a flows through you, granting you the following benefits:
maximum of 20. • Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum
• You learn the water whip* cantrip. of 20.
• You can cast the riptide* and water breathing spells • As a reaction when you take damage, you can spend a
without expending a spell slot. Once you cast riptide or number of your Hit Dice up to your proficiency bonus
water breathing with this feat, you can’t cast that spell to heal yourself. Roll the dice, add your Constitution
with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also modifier, and regain a number of hit points equal to the
cast either of those spells using any spell slots you have total (minimum of 1). You can use this benefit a num-
of the appropriate level. ber of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you
regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting
ability for these spells when you cast them with this feat
(choose when you select this feat).
*See Chapter 13 - Spells
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Seasonal Determinism Springtail Agility
Prerequisite: Fuyohren Prerequisite: Enkoh (springtail)
The state of the world at the moment of your birth left an You are uncommonly agile and dexterous, even relative to
indelible imprint on your body. Choose one of the seasons your springtail kin, granting you the following benefits:
within which you were born; you gain the associated benefits:
• Your Dexterity score increases by 1, to a maximum
Spring. Your Dexterity score increases by 1, to a maximum of 20.
of 20. In addition, your speed increases by 5 feet, and you can • As a bonus action, you can leap a number of feet equal
use a bonus action to prepare yourself to move in a dextrous to five times your proficiency bonus. This leap doesn’t
flourish. When you do, the next attack roll made against you cost you any movement but your speed must be greater
before the start of your next turn has disadvantage. than 0 feet, and it does not provoke opportunity at-
Summer. Your Charisma score increases by 1, to a maxi- tacks. You can use this benefit a number of times equal
mum of 20. In addition, you can use a bonus action to give to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended
yourself advantage on the next attack roll or ability check uses when you finish a long rest.
you make before the start of your next turn. You can use
this bonus action a number of times equal to your profi-
ciency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you
finish a long rest.
Autumn. Your Wisdom score increases by 1, to a maxi-
mum of 20. In addition, you have darkvision out to 30 feet,
and you can take the Hide action as a bonus action while
in dim light or darkness. If you already have darkvision, its
range increases by 30 feet.
Winter. Your Constitution score increases by 1, to a
maximum of 20. In addition, when you create a magical
vial of water with your Water Magic trait, you can choose
the following option as an effect:
• The water freezes and crackles with evocation magic. As
an action, you can make a ranged attack against a crea-
ture or object within 20 feet of you, treating the vial as
an improvised weapon. On a hit, the vial shatters, and
the target takes 1d8 cold damage and must succeed on
a Constitution saving throw (DC = 8 + your Consti-
tution modifier + your proficiency bonus) or have its
speed reduced by 10 feet until the end of its next turn.
Shadowmage
Prerequisite:Tengu (hanataka)
The yokai magic that flows through your veins lets you draw
on a wider pool of magic than is typical to most hanataka.
You learn two cantrips of your choice from the druid or
sorcerer spell list. You can cast them without components
while in dim light or darkness. Your spellcasting ability for
these spells is Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma (choose
when you select this feat).
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FAMILIARS
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Familiars
When that over-dressed, nuisance-creating, Tamer
biomancy-touting blood sucker, Humperdink, snuck The full Tamer class and one subclass will be available in
pages into my last masterpiece, L’Arsene’s Crafting Ryoko’s Guide at a later stage of the PDF; until then, here’s a
Catalogue, I wasn’t right impressed. But after gifting free version!
him cursed pants that set on fire whenever he so
much as exaggerated, I think we’re evens. Besides, it
turns out people quite liked his additions.
My favourite of this batch is the anveleon. I
recently persuaded the tavern to create an air
duct between my smithy and Humperdink’s lab. I
like to leave the anveleon right next to a vent and
let it hammer away, crafting spoons throughout the
night. I even gave a whole set of silver cutlery for
his birthday; I’ve never seen him so pale! Wait till I
give him a garlycanthrope for Giftmas... heliana.lt/Tamer
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BE
Tamer Level
Growth
Pre-requisite: Become companion 1
“Pick on someone your own size, Gama!...”
Bossy III
Pre-requisite: Bossy II 17
“...I’d do what the toad says.”
BETA v2
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Monster Trainer Multiattack
If you are a tamer, you can grant this familiar the following Prerequisite: 5th-level tamer
improvements using your Monster Trainer feature in addi- Type: Active (action)
tion to those normally available for your companions. As an action, the bancho-gama can make two attacks.
Growth II
Prerequisite: 5th-level tamer, Growth I
Type: Passive (companion)
The bancho-gama’s size increases to Medium and its Hit Die
size increases to a d8 (its hit point maximum consequently
increases by 1 for each of its Hit Dice).
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Jumpscare
1 Pre-requisite: Become companion
“When you least expe- BOO!”
Fear-Eater Scary II
13 Pre-requisite: -- Pre-requisite: Scary I
“I wonder how it tastes.” “...AAAAAAH!”
Shadow Aura
17 Pre-requisite: --
“Who turned out the lights?”
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Fear-Eater Shadow Aura
Prerequisite: 13th-level tamer Prerequisite: 17th-level tamer
Type: Active (action) Type: Passive (companion), Active (reaction)
As an action, the betobeto-kun can devour the fear of a The betobeto-kun dims light within 5 feet of it; dim light be-
frightened creature it can see within 30 feet of it. When it comes darkness and bright light becomes dim light. This im-
does, it gains 3d6 temporary hit points, the frightened con- provement has no effect on light created by a spell of 6th level
dition ends for that creature, and the creature suffers one of or higher, or by a magic item of very rare rarity or higher.
the effects described below (tamer’s choice):
In addition, while in dim light or darkness, the betobe-
• The creature becomes immune to the frightened condi- to-kun’s speed increases by 10 feet, and it can use a reaction
tion until the end of the betobeto-kun’s next turn. when it takes bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage to
• The creature must make a Wisdom saving throw, partially meld into the shadows, halving the damage it takes.
taking 5d8 psychic damage on a failed save, or half as
much damage on a successful one.
Scary II
Prerequisite: 13th-level tamer, Scary I
Type: Active (action)
The damage of the betobeto-kun’s Frighten action increases
to 3d8. In addition, a creature is frightened by the betobe-
to-kun’s Frighten action if it rolls a 3 or lower on the saving
throw against it and fails it.
When the betobeto-kun’s tamer reaches 17th level in
this class, the damage of the betobeto-kun’s Frighten action
increases to 4d8.
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Versatile I
Pre-requisite: Become companion 1
“Jack of all trades…”
Tribute Shell II
Pre-requisite: -- Pre-requisite: Shell I 9
“Cucumbers preferred.” “...helper in a half shell…”
Versatile IV
Pre-requisite: Versatile III 17
“...and you might just learn one.”
Kawawappa
The mischievous kappa are known to form bonds with those
“There are few sights sadder than a tiny that offer them respect—and an abundance of cucumbers.
kawawappa dutifully sweeping the dust from When a kappa departs from a community it bonded with,
it may leave behind a small piece of itself: a fragment of its
a home no one will ever live in again… Which soul taken physical shape, imbued with the kappa’s will to
is why you should contribute with a donation aid and protect the creatures it grew fond of. These dimin-
to Ryoko’s Home for Abandoned Yokai! So… utive creatures, called kawawappa, are quick learners, and
how many cucumbers can I put you down for?” they help around homes and settlements in any way they
can. Kawawappa clean, cook, craft, and even take up arms
— Ryoko, Charitable Soul in defence of their people. This compulsion often outlasts
the communities they’re inserted into, however, and it’s not
unheard of to stumble across abandoned villages occupied
Type: Fey only by kawawappa, who continue to perform their duties
Creature Component: any kappa to the benefit of no one.
Bonus Tamer Improvement: Versatile I and
+2 Hit Dice
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If any of the kawawappa’s traits or actions require a
saving throw, it is always against the kawawappa’s save DC,
Kawawappa
Tiny Fey, Neutral Good
as calculated below.
Armour Class 13 (natural armour)
Save DC = 8 + the tamer’s proficiency bonus + Hit Points 3 (1d4 + 1)
Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.
the kawawappa’s Constitution modifier
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
14 (+2) 14 (+2) 13 (+1) 8 (-1) 10 (+0) 8 (-1)
Monster Trainer
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
If you are a tamer, you can grant this familiar the following Languages Common
improvements using your Monster Trainer feature in addi- Challenge 1/8 (25 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
tion to those normally available for your companions.
Amphibious. The kawawappa can breathe air and water.
Versatile I Water Bowl. When the kawawappa is knocked prone, it
must succeed on a DC 11 Dexterity saving throw or spill
Prerequisite: Become a tamer’s companion some of the water it keeps in its head, which disorients the
Type: Passive (companion) kawawappa and gives it disadvantage on the next attack roll
it makes before the end of its next turn.
The kawawappa gains proficiency in its tamer’s choice of
one weapon, one skill, and one type of artisan’s tools. Actions
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Shell I Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.
Prerequisite: 3rd-level tamer
Type: Active (action) Multiattack
As an action, the kawawappa can withdraw into its shell. Prerequisite: 5th-level tamer
Until it emerges, it gains a +2 bonus to AC and other Type: Active (action)
creatures can’t benefit from advantage on attack rolls against
it. While in its shell, the kawawappa is prone, its speed is As an action, the kawawappa can make two attacks.
reduced to 0 feet and can’t increase, it has disadvantage on
Dexterity saving throws, and it can’t take actions or reac- Versatile II
tions other than a bonus action to emerge from its shell. Prerequisite: 5th-level tamer, Versatile I
Type: Passive (companion)
Underwater Combatant
The kawawappa gains proficiency in its tamer’s choice
Prerequisite: 3rd-level tamer of one weapon, one skill, and one type of artisan’s tools.
Type: Passive (companion), Active (bonus action) Instead of a weapon, the kawawappa can gain proficiency
While underwater, the kawawappa gains the following with shields or one type of armour. The kawawappa can
benefits: only gain proficiency with medium armour if it’s proficient
with light armour, and can only gain proficiency with heavy
• It has advantage on ability checks made to grapple armour if it’s proficient with medium armour.
creatures or to avoid or escape being grappled.
In addition, the tamer chooses one of the kawawappa’s
• It can take the Dash or Disengage action as a bonus
skill or tool proficiencies. The kawawappa’s proficiency
action.
bonus is doubled for any ability check it makes that uses the
Growth chosen proficiency.
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Messenger I
1 Pre-requisite: Become companion
“For the last time, Ina...”
Messenger III
13 Pre-requisite: Messenger II
“...if they’re all Bombuku ads.”
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Shapeshifter Messenger III
Prerequisite: 5th-level tamer Prerequisite: 13th-level tamer, Messenger II
Type: Active (action) Type: Active (action)
As an action, the ko-inari takes on the shape of a Tiny fox. The ko-inari can cast the telepathic bond spell, requiring no
When it does, its equipment melds into its form. While in material components. Creatures under the effect of this spell
fox form, the ko-inari can’t wield weapons or tools and can’t are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read
wear equipment that doesn’t fit its new shape. It otherwise their thoughts, determine whether they’re lying, know their
retains all its game statistics. This transformation lasts for alignment, or know their creature type.
1 hour or until the ko-inari reverts to its true form as an
After the ko-inari casts the spell in this way, it can’t do so
action or dies.
again until its tamer finishes a long rest.
After the ko-inari has used this action, it can’t do so
again until its tamer finishes a short or long rest. Divine Seal III
Prerequisite: 17th-level tamer, Divine Seal II
Divine Seal II Type: Active (bonus action)
Prerequisite: 9th-level tamer, Divine Seal I
When the ko-inari uses a seal as part of its Divine Seal I
Type: Active (bonus action)
improvement, it can adorn one additional creature within 5
The ko-inari learns two new seals to hinder its enemies with feet of it with that seal. In addition, the ko-inari learns two
its Divine Seal I improvement: more seals:
• Seal of Disruption. A creature the ko-inari adorns • Seal of Protection. The ko-inari can only adorn a
with this seal must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw willing creature with this seal. That creature gains a +1
or have disadvantage on the first attack roll it makes bonus to AC for 1 minute.
on each of its turns for 1 minute. The creature can re-
peat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, • Seal of Weakness. A creature the ko-inari adorns with
ending the effect on itself on a success. this seal must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or
have disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes
• Seal of Purification. A creature the ko-inari
within 1 minute.
adorns with this seal must succeed on a Wis-
dom saving throw or take 3 (1d6) radiant
damage at the start of each of its turns for 1
minute. The creature can repeat the saving
throw at the end of each of its turns, end-
ing the effect on itself on a success.
Growth II
Prerequisite: 9th-level tamer,
Growth I
Type: Passive (companion)
The ko-inari’s size increases to Medi-
um, its Hit Die size increases to a d8
(its hit point maximum consequently
increases by 1 for each of its Hit Dice),
and the damage die of its Radiant Strike
attack increases to a d8.
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Loot Bag I
Pre-requisite: Become companion 1
“Whatever you need…”
Ethereal I
Pre-requisite: -- 3
“Such convenient incorporeality…”
Ethereal III
Pre-requisite: Ethereal II 17
“...but too ethereal for time-out.”
BETA v2
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BE
TA
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Monster Trainer After the senryoka uses this action, it can’t do so again
until its tamer finishes a short or long rest.
If you are a tamer, you can grant this familiar the following
improvements using your Monster Trainer feature in addi- When the senryoka’s tamer reaches 9th level in the tamer
tion to those normally available for your companions. class, this action’s damage increases to 21 (6d6).
As an action, the senryoka can rummage in its bag, produc- The senryoka dons some of the armour it salvaged or
ing one simple or martial weapon of its tamer’s choice. The reinforces its existing armour with new pieces, gaining a +2
weapon lasts until the senryoka is recalled into its vessel, bonus to AC.
until its tamer finishes a long rest, or until the senryoka
produces a different weapon from the bag, at which point Loot Bag II
the previous one disappears. Prerequisite: 9th-level tamer, Loot Bag I
When the senryoka produces a weapon in this way, its Type: Passive (companion), Active (action)
tamer can choose for it to be silvered or made of adamantine. The senryoka can have up to three weapons produced from
Once the senryoka has produced one of these special weap- its bag out at once. If a new weapon is produced beyond
ons, it can’t do so again until its tamer finishes a long rest. this limit, the senryoka’s tamer chooses one of the other
ones to disappear.
Ethereal I
In addition, the senryoka can produce a +1 weapon or a
Prerequisite: 3rd-level tamer +1 shield from its bag, in addition to the other special weap-
Type: Active (bonus action) ons it can produce. After it does, it can’t produce a magic
The senryoka can use its Incorporeal Form action as a bonus item in this way again until its tamer finishes a long rest.
action, and can use it a number of times equal to its profi-
ciency bonus, regaining all expended uses when its tamer Senryoka
finishes a long rest. Tiny Undead, Neutral
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CHAPTER 12
MAGIC ITEMS
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Magic Items
This chapter presents magic items organised in alphabetical All-Terrain Leg
order, as well as their rarity, attunement requirements, and Prosthesis, uncommon (requires attunement)
components required to craft them. Component: Monstrosity chitin
In the Yokai Realms, they say you can’t judge a man until
Items List you’ve walked a mile in his legs. And climbed a mile in his
All-Terrain Leg . . . . . . . . 179 Kappa’s Aquatic Visage . . 193 legs. And swum a mile in his legs.
Armour of the Kitsune Mask . . . . . . . . . 194
Prosthesis Properties. This prosthesis can replace or en-
Oni King. . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Mask of the Oni. . . . . . . 194 hance a leg. It has the Melee (1d6 slashing, 5 ft.) property.
Blo Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Mask of the Tengu. . . . . . 195
Bonze’s Bokken, Modular Limb. As a bonus action while wearing this
Mindcutter. . . . . . . . . . . 196
Wind Ripper. . . . . . . . . . 181 prosthesis, you can change it into one of the following
Needlespitter Karakasa . . 196
Courtesan’s War Fan. . . . 182 forms, each of which grants a different benefit, or back into
Nekomata Shamisen. . . . 197 a regular leg shape:
Demonhunter Kimono. . 182
Onikiri, Demon Cutter. . 198
Draakannon . . . . . . . . . . 183 • Blade. Your walking speed increases by 5 feet.
Reaper’s Kama. . . . . . . . . 199
Earthpiercer . . . . . . . . . . 183 • Claw. You gain a climbing speed equal to your
Ryuto Nunchaku. . . . . . . 200
G.R.A.P. P. L.E.R.. . . . . . 184 walking speed.
Scorpion’s Wartail. . . . . . 200
Glaive of the • Fin. You gain a swimming speed equal to your
Shisui, Water Slasher. . . . 201
Green Tyrant. . . . . . . . . . 185 walking speed.
Staff of the
God Speaker Kimono. . . 186
Jade Guardian. . . . . . . . . 202
Gofu Hat . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Rare variant: You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage
Tanuki-Zake. . . . . . . . . . 202 rolls made using this prosthesis.
Hakuja-To. . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Wanyudo’s Burden . . . . . 203
Hanabi Kicker. . . . . . . . . 188 Very rare variant: You gain a +1 bonus to attack and dam-
Windweaver . . . . . . . . . . 204
Helping Hand. . . . . . . . . 189 age rolls made using this prosthesis. The prosthesis provides
Wraithclaw. . . . . . . . . . . 205 additional benefits depending on its form, as described below:
Iron Kasa. . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Wyrm’s Breath
Jishin, Earth Render . . . . 191 Grenade . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 • Blade. Attacks made using the prosthesis deal an extra
Kageboshi. . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Xyxlwood Bonsai. . . . . . . 206
1d4 slashing damage on a hit.
Kanaboom Stick. . . . . . . 193 Yukimono. . . . . . . . . . . . 207 • Claw. You have advantage on saving throws made to
resist being moved against your will while standing on
the ground or climbing a surface.
• Fin. While underwater, you can take the Dash action as
a bonus action.
Blade
Claw
Fin
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
Armour of the Oni King creature of your choice within 20 feet of you must make a
Armour (medium or heavy), very rare (requires attunement) DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of you for
Component: Fiend (yokai) bone 1 minute. If a creature fails the saving throw by 5 or more
and isn’t immune to being frightened, it sees the ghostly
There’s something undeniably intoxicating about the feeling image of an enormous oni materialising behind you and
of power one gets by terrorising others. This sensation has is also paralysed until the end of its next turn. A creature
led many righteous paragons who don this armour to grad- frightened in this way must repeat the saving throw at the
ually becoming cruel, vicious tyrants. Inevitably, a fresh- end of each of its turns, taking 2d6 psychic damage on a
faced hero rises to defeat these despots, swearing to use the failure, or ending the effect on itself on a success. Once this
armour exclusively in the service of good… and the cycle property of the item has been used, it can’t be used again
begins anew. until the next dawn.
You have a +2 bonus to AC while wearing this armour.
Rare variant: Reduce the AC bonus to +1, the DC to
Oni’s Aura. As an action while wearing this armour,
15, and the damage to 1d6.
you can release a wave of menacing lethal intent powerful
enough to make other creatures tremble with fear. Each
Armour of the
Oni King
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PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Blo Staff Wind Rip. With a swish, you can send a concussive wave
Weapon (quarterstaff), uncommon of sound streaking towards a target. When you take the
Component: Plant poison gland Attack action with this sword, you can replace any number
of attacks with ranged spell attacks known as ‘wind rips’.
Enchanted with conjuration magic, this hollow, weighted Wind rips have a normal range of 30 feet and a long range
staff can produce its own magical ammunition, loaded of 60 feet, use the same ability modifier as the sword for its
with potent venom. The deadly fungal extract sends jolts attack rolls, deal 1d10 thunder damage on a hit, and can be
of unimaginable pain coursing through those unfortunate heard up to 100 feet away. If you score a critical hit against
enough to suffer it, while the muscular inhibitor causes a a creature with a wind rip, that creature is deafened until
victim to seize up as if its body was turned to stone. the end of its next turn.
This quarterstaff can also be used as a blowgun that lacks Gust Rider. As a bonus action while holding the sword,
the loading property. It has 4 charges and regains 1d4 you can expend 1 charge, causing a sustained gust to lift you.
expended charges daily at dawn. You gain a flying speed of 40 feet until the end of your turn.
Blow Dart. When you make a ranged attack using this
weapon as a blowgun, you can expend 1 charge to shoot a Uncommon variant: Reduce the damage to 1d8. Re-
needle loaded with one of the following poisons of your choice: move the Gust Rider property.
• Amani Tox. On a hit, a creature must make a DC 13 Very rare variant: You have a +1 bonus to attack and
Constitution saving throw. It takes 3d6 poison dam- damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Increase the
age on a failure, or half as much damage on a success. damage to 1d12 and the flying speed to 50 feet.
• Bo Tox. On a hit, a creature must succeed on a DC 13 Legendary variant: You have a +2 bonus to attack and
Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the damage rolls made with this magic weapon. While holding
end of your next turn. While poisoned in this way, its the sword, you can read, speak, and understand Auran.
speed is halved. Increase the damage to 2d8 and the flying speed to 60 feet.
While holding the sword, you can expend 2 charges to cast
Rare variant: Increase the charges to 6, the recharge to the fly spell on yourself.
1d4 + 2, the DCs to 15, and the damage to 4d6. While
poisoned by the Blow Dart property, a creature’s speed is
reduced to 0 feet.
Very rare variant: Increase the charges to 8, the recharge
to 1d6 + 2, the DCs to 16, and the damage to 5d6. While
poisoned by the Blow Dart property, a creature’s speed is re- Blo Staff
duced to 0 feet. If you roll a 20 on the attack roll for a needle
loaded with the bo tox poison and the creature fails its saving
throw, it becomes paralysed while it’s poisoned in that way.
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
Courtesan’s War Fan which protected the mortals within from their unending
Weapon (tessen), uncommon (optional attunement) conflict. The Demon Hunter clan guards the fiendish artifact
Component: Humanoid heart and enchants their silken vestments to aid in this endeavour.
Some assassins rely on stealth. Others, like the courtesans of Aversion. While wearing this kimono, you can use a
the Courteous Cabal, prefer to hide in plain sight, beguiling bonus action to speak its first command word, ‘repel’,
their quarry into a stupor before finishing them off with a causing the printed image on the kimono to mobilise into
quick slash. an illustration of a fiendish soul burning into non-existence.
Each creature in a 30-foot cone must succeed on a DC 15
Beguiling Dance. As an action while holding the fan, Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you for
you can begin a slow, hypnotic dance, causing the fan to 1 minute. Fiends have disadvantage on this saving throw
glow with an ephemeral, beguiling light. Each Humanoid and, while frightened, must take the Dash action and move
of your choice that you can see within 15 feet of you must away from you by the safest available route on each of their
succeed on a Wisdom saving throw contested by your turns, unless there is nowhere to move. A Fiend that ends its
Charisma (Performance) check or be charmed by you turn in a location where it doesn’t have line of sight to you
for 10 minutes or until you stop dancing. You must use can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a
your bonus action on subsequent turns to keep dancing, success. A non-Fiend creature can repeat the saving throw at
otherwise the effect ends at the end of your turn. The effect the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a
also ends early for a creature if you’re ever more than 15 feet success. Once this property of the kimono has been used, it
from it, or if you or your companions do anything harm- can’t be used again until the next dawn.
ful to it. When the effect ends, the creature knows it was
charmed by you. Once this property has been used, it can’t Pursuit. While wearing this kimono, you can use a
be used again until the next dawn. bonus action to speak its second command word, ‘hunt’, to
teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space within 5 feet
Optional Attunement. If you choose to attune to this of a creature that is frightened of you. After this property
item, you become proficient with it and you gain advan- has been used, roll a d6. On a 1 or 2, it can’t be used again
tage on Charisma (Performance) checks you make while until the next dawn.
holding it.
Very rare variant: You have a +1 bonus to AC while you
Very rare variant: You gain a +2 bonus to attack and wear this kimono and no armour. Increase the DC to 16
damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The Beguiling and the range of the teleportation to 45 feet.
Dance property can affect any creature type and can be used
twice, regaining all expended uses daily at dawn. Legendary variant: You have a +2 bonus to AC while
wearing this kimono and no armour. Increase the DC to 17
and the range of the teleportation to 60 feet.
Demonhunter Kimono
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
Component: Fiend (demon) skin
Demonhunter
Years ago, during the Sundering, powerful artifacts were Kimono
stolen from both demons and angels. Without them, these
extraplanar creatures struggled to breach the Material Plane,
Courtesan's
War Fan
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PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Draakannon Rare variant: Increase the DC to 15 and the damage to
Prosthesis, uncommon 2d6. When you use the Blast Zone property, you can propel
Component: Dragon breath sac yourself up to an additional 10 feet.
Throngs of vicious pillagers attacking your home? Explo- Very rare variant: Increase the DC to 16 and the dam-
sions. Sturdy obstacles standing in your way? Explosions. age to 3d6. When you use the Blast Zone property, you can
Want to soar through the air like a dragon? Believe it or propel yourself up to an additional 20 feet. You can use the
not, explosions. Draconic Versatility property as a bonus action.
This prosthesis has 4 charges and regains all expended
charges daily at dawn. Earthpiercer
Prosthesis, uncommon
Prosthesis Properties. This prosthesis can replace or Component: Construct gears
enhance an arm. It has the Blast (1d6 fire, 20 ft.) property.
“This drill is the drill that will pierce the earth!” Thus were the
Draconic Versatility. As an action while wearing this words of Bombuku upon completion of the first earthpiercer
prosthesis, you can change the damage type it deals with prototype. After being asked if the same didn’t technically
its Blast property to one of the following: acid, cold, fire, apply to most drills, he declined to make further comments.
lightning, or poison.
Prosthesis Properties. This prosthesis can enhance or
Blast Zone. When you use the prosthesis’ Blast property replace an arm. It has the Hookshot (20 ft.), Launch (1d6
to propel yourself, you can expend 1 charge to pump extra piercing, 20 ft.), and Melee (1d6 piercing, 5 ft.) properties.
firepower into the blast. If you do, each creature within 5
feet of you must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, Deep Drilling. This prosthesis uses a drill instead of
taking 1d6 damage of the Blast property’s type on a failed a hook for its Hookshot property. When you hit with an
save, or half as much damage on a successful one. attack roll made to attach the drill to a creature, the creature
takes 1d6 piercing damage. When the drill is detached from
a creature, that creature takes 1d6 piercing damage.
Common variant: Remove the Blast Zone property and
all charges. Tunneler. This prosthesis has the Mobility (burrow 5 ft.)
property.
Draakannon
Earthpiercer
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
G.R.A.P.P.L.E.R.
Prosthesis, uncommon
Component: Plant bark
The Gear for Rapid Ascension and Precise, Persistent
Latching onto Enormous Ravagers, or G.R.A.P.P.L.E.R. for
short, is one of Bombuku’s proudest inventions, despite the
criticism he’s received over its “ridiculous acronym” from his
distant cousin L’Arsène Upin. In truth, L’Arsène is simply
jealous he couldn’t come up with that name himself.
Prosthesis Properties. This prosthesis can enhance or
replace an arm. It has the Hookshot (40 ft.) property.
Improved Hookshot. As an action while the prosthesis’
hook is attached to a target, you can reel yourself in. When
you do, you move a number of feet up to the item’s Hook-
shot range in a straight line towards the hook. In addition,
the DC of the ability check required to forcefully detach the
hook increases to 13.
Hooked In. When you hit with an attack roll to attach
the prosthesis’ hook to a creature, the creature takes 1d6
piercing damage. When the hook is detached from a crea-
ture, that creature takes 1d6 piercing damage.
BETA v2
PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Glaive of the Green Tyrant space the tornado moves through must succeed on a DC 15
Weapon (any polearm), rare (requires attunement) Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 lightning damage. A
Component: Dragon (bronze) horn creature can’t take damage from this effect more than once
per turn.
Legend tells of a great warrior queen who, having bested a
bronze dragon in a game of wits, sought to wield the power Once this property of the weapon has been used, it can’t
of storms. With this power, she laid waste to entire armies, be used again until the next dawn.
burning them with flashes of incandescent lightning. Some
called her a liberator, others a tyrant. Though defeated by Uncommon variant: Reduce the DCs to 13 and all
the Hero in Red, some of her power still remains in the damage to 1d4.
Green Tyrant’s ancient weapon.
Very rare variant: You gain a +1 bonus to attack and
Summon Storm. With a flourish of this weapon, you can damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Increase the
expend a bonus action to whip up a tornado in a 5-foot-di- DCs to 16 and all damage to 1d10.
ameter, 30-foot-high cylinder of rushing air and crackling
Legendary variant: You gain a +2 bonus to attack and
lightning centred on a point within 60 feet of you. The
damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Increase the
tornado lasts for 1 minute. Each creature that enters the
DCs to 17 and all damage to 1d12.
area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must
make a DC 15 Strength saving throw. On a failure, the
creature is thrown 10 feet in a random direction, landing
prone, and takes 1d8 bludgeoning damage and 1d8 light-
ning damage.
As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the
tornado up to 20 feet in a straight line. Each creature whose
Glaive of the
Green Tyrant
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PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
God Speaker Kimono Ethereal Plane. While on the Ethereal Plane, you can see
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) and hear the plane you originated from, which is cast in
Component: Celestial skin shades of grey, and you can’t see anything there more than
60 feet away. You can only affect and be affected by other
The counterpart to the Demon Hunter clan, the God creatures on the Ethereal Plane. Creatures that aren’t there
Speaker clan, guard the angelic relic that inhibits celestials’ can’t perceive you or interact with you, unless they have the
passage onto the Material Plane. The God Speakers see ability to do so. At the start of your next turn, you return to
violence against celestials as a last resort and instead seek to an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within
deceive and manipulate them. Their clothing is made from 10 feet of the space you vanished from. If no unoccupied
silk of the ether moth, a creature that blinks into the Ma- space is available within that range, you appear in the near-
terial Plane only to lay its eggs, and flits out of the Material est unoccupied space (chosen at random if more than one
Plane the moment it emerges from its cocoon. space is equally near). This property has no effect if you use
Innocence. While wearing this kimono, you can use a it while you are on the Ethereal Plane or a plane that doesn’t
bonus action to speak its first command word, ‘pure’. Your border it. After this property has been used, roll a d6. On a
aura becomes saturated with celestial energy, manifesting as 1 or 2, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
an almost-visible golden nimbus. You gain advantage on
Deception checks for 10 minutes. For the duration, you Very rare variant: You gain a +1 bonus to AC while
are immune to magic and other effects that allow other wearing this kimono and no armour. Increase the duration
creatures to read your thoughts or determine whether you of the Innocence property to 1 hour.
are lying. Once this property of the item has been used, it
Legendary variant: You gain a +1 bonus to AC while
can’t be used again until the next dawn.
wearing this kimono and no armour. While wearing this
Blink. While wearing this kimono, you can use a bonus kimono, you have resistance to radiant damage. Increase
action to speak its second command word, ‘shimmer’. the duration of the Innocence property to 1 hour and the
Your aura implodes, immediately transporting you to the d6 to a d8.
Gofu Hat
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
When first found or crafted, this hat has 1d4 + 2 paper This weapon has 4 charges and regains 1d4 expended
charms hanging from it, which provide good fortune and charges daily at dawn.
ward off evil. Once all the charms have been used, the hat
Renewal. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 charge
becomes a nonmagical item.
to cause the sword to shed its outer layer, revealing a new,
Protective Talismans. While wearing the hat, you can sharp blade underneath. Until the end of your turn, you
use a bonus action to detach a charm and stick it on a will- gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this
ing creature within 5 feet of you, upon which the ink on it sword, and it deals an extra 1d6 damage on a hit.
begins to glow softly. The creature gains the effects of the
Rebirth. If you are suffering from a condition or effect
bless spell and gains 1d6 temporary hit points until the start
that allows you to make a saving throw at the start or end
of your next turn, at which point the charm disintegrates.
of each of your turns to end it, you can use a bonus action
to expend 3 charges and shed the outer layer of your skin,
Rare variant: Fey, Fiends, and Undead have disadvan- repeating the saving throw.
tage on attack rolls against a creature under the effect of one
of the paper charms.
Rare variant: Increase the charges to 5, the recharge to
Very rare variant: Increase the number of paper charms 1d4 + 1, the attack and damage bonus to +2, and the dam-
to 1d6 + 2 and the temporary hit points to 3d6. Fey, Fiends, age to 2d6. Reduce the charges required to use the Rebirth
and Undead have disadvantage on attack rolls against a property to 2.
creature under the effect of one of the paper charms.
Very rare variant: Increase the charges to 5, the recharge
to 1d4 + 1, the attack and damage bonus to +3, and the
Hakuja-To damage to 3d6. Reduce the charges required to use the
Weapon (any sword), uncommon Rebirth property to 2. You have advantage on the saving
Component: pouch of Dragon scales throw you make as part of the Rebirth property.
Crafted from the scales of a serpentine dragon, this fascinat-
ing weapon represents rebirth and transformation, endlessly
renewing itself to remain deadly to its foes. Its razor-sharp
blade will never dull, and neither shall the resolve and fight-
ing spirit of its wielder.
Hakuja-To
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
Hanabi Kicker
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PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Helping Hand Rare variant: Increase the DC to 15, the charges to 5,
Prosthesis, uncommon (requires attunement) and the recharge to 1d4 + 1. When you use the Assistance
Component: Aberration brain at a Distance property, you can expend 2 charges instead of
1 to split the three puppets. As part of the same bonus ac-
To make the humanoid-shaped puppets with multiple pairs tion, each puppet can take the Help action or feed a potion
of bladed arms somewhat less unsettling, Bombuku rec- to a willing creature.
ommends judicious application of googly eyes and crayon
smiles. (Googly eyes and crayons sold separately.) Very rare variant: Increase the DC to 16, the charges to
5, and the recharge to 1d4 + 1. When you use the Assis-
This prosthesis has 4 charges and regains 1d4 expended tance at a Distance property, you can expend 2 charges
charges daily at dawn. instead of 1 to split the three puppets. As part of the same
Prosthesis Properties. This prosthesis can enhance or re- bonus action, each puppet can take the Help action or feed
place an arm. It has the Hookshot (40 ft.) property. Instead a potion to a willing creature. The prosthesis has the Create
of firing a hook, the prosthesis allows you to manipulate Puppets property.
three Tiny mechanical puppets that grab onto the target. In- Create Puppets. While wearing this prosthesis, you can
stead of rope, the puppets are connected to the prosthesis by cast the animate objects spell. When you do, strings of
wires of pure magic, which can’t be damaged or destroyed. magic extend from your prosthesis to the objects you
It otherwise functions in the same way. animate, which you manipulate like puppets. If one of
Improved Hookshot. As an action while the puppets these objects is ever more than 30 feet away from you,
are attached to a target, you can reel yourself in. When you it ceases to be animated by the spell. Once this property
do, you move a number of feet up to the item’s Hookshot of the prosthesis has been used, it can’t be used again
range in a straight line towards the puppets. In addition, until the next dawn.
the DC of the ability check required to forcefully detach the
puppets increases to 13.
Assistance at a Distance. As a bonus action, you can
expend 1 charge to take the Help action, manipulating the
puppets to support your allies. When you do so to aid an
ally in attacking a creature, the target of that attack can be
up to 40 feet away from you. Alternatively, you can expend
1 charge as a bonus action to have the puppets feed a potion
to a willing creature that you can see within 40 feet of you.
Helping Hand
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
Iron Kasa
Prosthesis (advanced), uncommon
Component: Construct metal plating
It is the duty of a valiant hero to impede evildoers,
support one’s allies, and most importantly, protect the
defenceless. But nowhere does it say that you can’t do
all this from a safe distance.
Prosthesis Properties. This prosthesis can enhance
or replace an arm. It has the Hookshot (15 ft.), Inte- Iron Kasa
grated (shield), and Launch (1d6 bludgeoning, 15 ft.)
properties.
Improved Hookshot. This prosthesis uses a shield
instead of a hook for its Hookshot property. As an
action while the shield is attached to a target, you can
reel yourself in. When you do, you move a number of
feet up to the item’s Hookshot range in a straight line
towards the shield. In addition, the DC of the ability
check required to forcefully detach the shield increases
to 13.
Saving Throw. As a reaction when a creature you
can see within the prosthesis’ Hookshot range is hit
by an attack, you can launch the shield in front of
it, granting it a +2 bonus to AC against the attack
and potentially causing it to miss. In order to use
this reaction, the integrated shield must be extended
and must not be attached to a target as part of the
Hookshot property.
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Jishin, Earth Render Very rare variant: Increase the charges to 6, the recharge
Weapon (any sword), rare (requires attunement) to 1d4 + 2, the DCs to 16, and the extra fire damage that
Component: Elemental core of earth the sword deals while under the effects of heat metal to 2d6.
The battle for Black Rock Fort was long and wearisome. The Legendary variant: While holding this sword, you can
jishin-wielding fire mages, unable to kill the demons with speak, read, and understand Ignan and Terran. Increase
their fire magic, blocked doorway after doorway, forcing the the charges to 8, the recharge to 1d4 + 4, the DCs to 17,
demonic hordes to dig through every inch. Hallways became the extra fire damage that the sword deals while under the
hazardous obstacle courses; gardens were reduced to nothing effects of heat metal to 2d8, the damage of the Lavaburst
more than flaming ashes. After weeks of struggle, the De- property to 3d10, and the length of the slab created by the
mon Hunter clan arrived and the battle began in earnest. Tectonic Shift property to up to ten feet per charge expend-
ed. You can expend any number of charges when using the
This weapon has 4 charges and regains 1d4 expended Tectonic Shift property.
charges daily at dawn.
Heat Holder. As an action while holding the sword,
you can expend 1 charge to cast the heat metal spell (save
DC 15). When heat metal is cast on this weapon, the heat
doesn’t propagate past the guard and its wielder isn’t sub-
jected to the normal effects of the spell. Instead, the weapon
deals an extra 1d8 fire damage to each target it hits while
affected by the spell.
Lavaburst. As an action while holding the sword, you
can expend 1 charge to cause a 10-foot-diameter circle of
earth centred on a point you can see within 60 feet of you
to fracture and warp, spurting forth sprays of lava. For 1
minute or until your concentration ends (as if concentrat-
ing on a spell), the area is difficult terrain, and each creature
that starts its turn in the area or enters the area for the first
time on its turn must make a DC 15 Constitution saving
throw, taking 3d8 fire damage on a failed save, or half as
much damage on a successful one.
Tectonic Shift. As an action while holding the sword and
standing on earth, you can expend up to 3 charges to cause
a nonmagical slab of rock to burst up from the ground at a
point you can see within 30 feet of you. The slab is a rec-
tangle 10 feet high, 2 inches thick, and has a length in feet
equal to five times the number of charges expended, facing a
direction of your choice. The slab is an object made of stone
that has AC 15, 60 hit points, and vulnerability to thunder
damage. When it is reduced to 0 hit points, it is destroyed.
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
Kageboshi
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PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Kanaboom Stick Curse. This item is cursed, and attuning to it extends the
Weapon (mace), uncommon curse to you. While cursed in this way, you gain a mild fixa-
Component: Elemental volatile mote of fire tion on challenging strangers to sumo wrestling matches, and
all other hobbies seem mundane and joyless in comparison.
The fact that demons are reborn after being killed on the
Material Plane leaves them with a laissez-faire attitude
Rare variant, Kappa’s Consuming Visage: Replace the
towards self-preservation. Taking advantage of their innate
Water Spells property with the Consuming Spells property.
resistance to the elements, they can often be found in pos-
Instead of compelling you to challenge strangers to sumo
session of these crudely enchanted maces that leave a minor
matches, the curse gives you a mild fixation on acquiring
path of flaming destruction in their wake. The only limit to
and eating cucumbers, with all other food tasting bland and
this weapon is how much punishment its wielder can suffer.
boring in comparison.
As an action, you can stick this magic weapon into an
Consuming Spells. While wearing this mask, you can
open flame or light it as you would a torch. Either way, the
expend 1 or more charges to cast one of the following
metal glows with incandescent heat as lava-like veins lick up
spells from it (save DC 15): endoleech* (2 charges),
the weapon’s length for 10 minutes, shedding dim light in a
extract shirikodama* (3 charges), or vampiric touch (3
15-foot radius.
charges).
Bigger Booms. While this weapon is lit, it creates fiery *See Chapter 13 - Spells
explosions with each strike. The first time on each of your
turns that you hit a target with an attack using it, you, the
target, and each creature within 5 feet of the target must
make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d4 fire
damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a suc-
cessful one. Flammable objects within this area are set alight
if not being worn or carried.
Kitsune Mask you can seem up to 3 feet taller. The spell ends early if you
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) remove the mask. Once this property of the mask has been
Component: Fey (yokai) psyche used, roll a d6. On a 3 or lower, it can’t be used again until
the next dawn.
Where demons arise, so follows the Courteous Cabal.
Though the cabal maintains a neutral stance in most wars, Enhanced Attunement. As part of an hour-long ritual,
its members can often be observed combing battlefields, you can agree to complete a task set out by the last attuner
offering quick deaths to the wounded, and seeking out the of this mask, enhancing your attunement to it. When you
abominations that might feast upon the corpses. do so, the mask fuses onto your face, turning your skin red,
your teeth gold, and giving your eyes an ethereal, sanguine
This mask has 9 charges, which manifest as nine incor- glow. You can use the Stalker’s Shroud property. You can’t
poreal, fox-like tails. It regains 1d6 + 3 expended charges end your attunement to the mask or remove it until you
daily at dawn. complete the task set out during the ritual. After you com-
Soul Vortex. As an action while wearing the mask, you plete the task, if you attempt to end your attunement to the
can expend 2 charges to conjure a fierce vortex of ethereal mask, you must first set a task for the next enhanced attuner
fire in a 5-foot-radius, 40-foot-high cylinder centred on a to complete.
point within 120 feet of you. The vortex lasts for 1 minute, EA: Stalker’s Shroud. As a bonus action while wearing
or until your concentration ends, as if concentrating on a the mask, you can become invisible to a creature with-
spell. Dim light fills the cylinder. When a creature enters the in 30 feet of you until the start of your next turn. Once
area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it is this property of the mask has been used, roll a d6. On a
engulfed in raging purple flames and must make a DC 15 3 or lower, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Intelligence saving throw, taking 3d6 psychic damage on
a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Rare variant: You can use the Demon’s Deceit property an
On each of your turns, you can use an action to move the unlimited number of times, without needing to roll afterward.
vortex up to 60 feet in any direction.
Very rare variant: You can use the Demon’s Deceit prop-
Spirit Ray. As an action while wearing the mask, you erty an unlimited number of times, without needing to roll
can spend 2 to 5 charges to whip a number of tails into afterward. Rolling a 2 or 3 for the Stalker’s Shroud property
ghostly rays which you hurl at creatures within 120 feet of does not prevent you from using the property again.
you. You produce three rays for the first two charges spent,
and an additional ray for each charge beyond that. Make
a ranged spell attack (+7 to hit) for each ray, dealing 2d6
psychic damage on a hit.
BETA v2
PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Mask of the Tengu with something (such as hitting a target with an attack)
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement) or see the illusion fail to physically interact with some-
Component: Celestial soul thing (such as being hit with an attack, which passes right
through it). Once this property has been used, roll a d4. On
a 3 or lower, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
“Lies should be avoided. However, if it cannot be Switcheroo. While wearing this mask, when you are the
helped, then they should be convincing and not lead target of an attack by a creature you can see, but before the
to a web in which you trap yourself. This tool will creature makes its attack roll, you can use your reaction to
try to switch places with a creature no more than one size
teach you to lie once, and lie well.” larger than you that you can see within 30 feet of you. If
the creature is unwilling, it must make a DC 13 Charisma
— Sensei Lialia on giving his saving throw. If the creature is willing or fails the saving
student a mask of the tengu throw, you switch places, and the creature becomes the new
target of the attack. Alternatively, you can choose to switch
When you don this mask, it shifts to match your features, places with the illusory duplicate created by the Duplicitous
leaving your nose slightly longer than before, but it is other- Duplication property. Once this property has been used, it
wise undetectable. can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Mindcutter
Needlespitter
Karakasa
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PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Personality. Most needlespitter karakasa are incorrigible issue any, they take the Dodge action. Once this property
pranksters, taking immense joy in mischief of all sorts. They of the instrument has been used, it can’t be used again until
love to be spun and get bored easily, which leads them to the next dawn.
indulge in their favourite pastime: scaring folks. Each time
Optional Attunement. If you choose to attune to this
you finish a short rest with it nearby, the karakasa attempts
item, you can use the Spiritual Bond property while you
to startle you with a loud noise or sudden movement, and
remain attuned to it.
you can make a DC 13 Charisma (Performance) check
to appear convincingly frightened. The karakasa may also OA: Spiritual Bond. When a creature’s hit point
attempt to scare you at a random point throughout the day maximum is reduced by the Life Drain action of one of the
(GM’s discretion). On a successful check, the karakasa is so specters summoned by the Nekomata’s Call property, you
pleased that it regains the use of its Needle Shower property. can use your reaction to regain hit points equal to the hit
Once the item has regained a use of a property in this way, point maximum reduction.
it can’t regain a use of that property again until the next
dawn, but it will still periodically attempt to scare you. Rare variant: The Nekomata’s Call property can be used
twice, regaining all expended uses daily at dawn.
Rare variant: Increase the DCs to 15 and the piercing
Very rare variant: The Nekomata’s Call property can be
and psychic damage to 4d6 each. The item has the Safe
used three times, regaining all expended uses daily at dawn.
Descent property.
While attuned to the item, you can use the Spiritual Burden
Safe Descent. When you fall, you can use your reaction property.
to raise and open the umbrella, slowing your rate of
OA: Spiritual Burden. When you take damage, you
descent to 60 feet per round until you land or stop
can use your reaction to share the burden of pain with your
holding the umbrella. For each foot you fall while
choice of one of the specters summoned by the Nekomata’s
under the effects of this property, you can move one
Call property, as long as it is within 30 feet of you. You
foot horizontally. When you land, you take no falling
take half as much damage instead, and the specter takes the
damage. Once this property of the item has been used,
remaining damage.
it can’t be used again until the next dawn. If you suc-
ceed on the check to appear scared by the item, you can
choose to regain the use of this property instead of the
use of Needle Shower.
Very rare variant: Increase the DCs to 16 and the pierc-
ing and psychic damage to 5d6 each. The item has the Safe
Descent property. While open, the umbrella can be used as
a +1 shield. While closed, it can be used as a +1 spear. You
can open or close the umbrella as an action.
Nekomata Shamisen
Wondrous item, uncommon (optional attunement)
Component: Fey (yokai) or Fiend (yokai) hair
Defying explanation, this instrument lends a haunting and
sorrowful quality to any song played on it, regardless of the
musician’s intent. Though off-putting to some, it appears
to be universally appealing to felines of all types, which are
drawn by the sound of the shamisen and sometimes even
join in as a mewling choir.
Nekomata’s Call. As an action while holding this in-
strument, you can play a haunting tune to raise the spirits
of the dead and bend them to your will. You summon
three specters, which appear in unoccupied spaces of your Nekomata
choice within 30 feet of you. Each specter disappears after 1 Shamisen
minute, when it drops to 0 hit points, or if you don’t use a
bonus action on your subsequent turns to continue playing
the shamisen. The specters are allies to you and your com-
panions. In combat, they share your initiative count, but
take their turns immediately after yours. They obey your
verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don’t
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PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
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PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Reaper’s Kama Slicestorm. As an action while wearing this prosthesis
Prosthesis (steelslinger), uncommon and the sickle isn’t attached to a target as part of the Hook-
Component: Monstrosity bone shot property, you can whip the chain around you, slicing
at foes with the sickle at its tip in a whirlwind of steel. Each
creature within 10 feet of you must make a DC 13 Dexter-
ity saving throw, taking 4d6 slashing damage on a failed
“Let’s cut to the chase. This is pretty cut and dry.
save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Once this
I don’t like the cut of your jib. Time to cut you property of the prosthesis has been used, it can’t be used
down to size.” again until the next dawn.
— Catchphrase concepts scribbled on the margins Common variant: The Improved Hookshot property
of Bombuku’s notebook, next to the schematics for doesn’t increase the DC to detach the sickle. Remove the
the reaper’s kama Slicestorm property.
Rare variant: Increase the DCs to 15 and the damage to
Prosthesis Properties. This prosthesis has the Hookshot (30 6d6. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made
ft.), Integrated (kusarigama), and Launch (1d6 slashing, 30 with this magical prosthesis’ integrated weapon.
ft.) properties.
Very rare variant: Increase the DCs to 16 and the dam-
Improved Hookshot. This prosthesis uses a sickle instead age to 6d6. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls
of a hook for its Hookshot property. As an action while the made with this magical prosthesis’ integrated weapon. The
sickle is attached to a target, you can reel yourself in. When Slicestorm property can be used three times, regaining all
you do, you move a number of feet up to the item’s Hook- expended uses daily at dawn.
shot range in a straight line towards the sickle. In addition,
the DC of the ability check required to forcefully detach the
sickle increases to 13.
Reaper's Kama
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PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
Ryuto Nunchaku
Scorpion's
Wartail
Ryuto Nunchaku
Weapon (nunchaku), rare
Component: Elemental volatile mote of fire
The immaterial, ghostly flames that sometimes manifest
above the surface of lakes and rivers have long been the
subject of contentious debate. Some consider them to be
mere tricks of the light, while others hold that they are real,
just not yet understood. Well, it turns out that they are real.
And they can be weaponized.
This weapon deals an extra 1d4 fire or necrotic damage
Scorpion’s Wartail
(your choice) to the first target it hits on each of your turns. Prosthesis, uncommon (requires attunement)
Component: Beast (giant scorpion) chitin
While wielding it, you can cast the dancing lights cantrip.
Why does the scorpion sting the frog, even if both drown as
Ghostly Fireworks. When you successfully perform a
a result? After experiencing the intoxicating thrill of slaugh-
flourish with your nunchaku, you can immediately cast the
ter with this prosthesis, the mystery begins to clarify. With
faerie fire spell (save DC 15, no action required) with a range
such a beautifully lethal weapon at one’s disposal, after all,
of 5 feet. While under the effects of the spell, a creature takes
it’s a travesty to see it go unused…
1d6 fire or necrotic damage (your choice when you cast the
spell) at the end of each of its turns as some of the ghostly Prosthesis Properties. This prosthesis can replace, sim-
fire burns away at it. Once this property of the weapon has ulate, or enhance a tail, and can be worn by a creature even
been used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn. if doing so would put it over its typical number of limbs. It
has the Melee (1d6 piercing, 15 ft.) property.
Uncommon variant: Reduce the DC to 13. The Get Over Here! Once on each of your turns, when you
nunchaku don’t do extra damage on a hit, and creatures hit a Medium or smaller creature with an attack using this
under the effect of the faerie fire spell don’t take damage at prosthesis, you can force it to make a DC 13 Strength
the end of each of their turns. saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is pulled up to
Very rare variant: Increase the DC to 16 and the damage 10 feet closer to you.
of the faerie fire spell to 1d10. The nunchaku deals an extra
1d4 fire or necrotic damage (your choice) to each target it Rare variant: Increase the DC to 15. The prosthesis has
hits, instead of only the first target on each of your turns. the Venom-Tipped property.
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PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Shisui,
Water Slasher
Tanuki-Zake
Potion, uncommon
Component: Fey (tanuki) liver
Among other mischief, tanuki enjoy brewing magical
sake, which they trick Humanoids into imbibing,
delighting in the drunken antics that unfold. How-
ever, they try to ensure their pranks are not overly
harmful—the effects of the sake wear out quickly and,
should the drinker stumble into a scuffle, they will find
themselves strangely empowered by the brew.
Drunken Master. When you use your action
to drink this sake, you become poisoned for 10
minutes. If you have immunity to the poisoned
condition, you can choose to be poisoned by the sake
regardless. While poisoned in this way, you gain the Tanuki-Zake
following benefits:
• You don’t have disadvantage on melee attack rolls
or ability checks that use Strength or Dexterity as
a result of the poisoned condition.
• You gain a +1 bonus to AC.
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PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
• You can spend 5 feet of your movement to stand up • Consume. You regain hit points equal to half the dam-
from being prone, instead of half your speed. age reduced.
• The first time on each of your turns that you make • Exhale. The demonic visage immediately spits out
a melee attack immediately after you stand up from those flames at a creature of your choice within 10
being prone, you have advantage on the attack roll. If feet of you. The target must make a DC 15 Dexterity
the attack is an unarmed strike, it deals an extra 1d6 saving throw, taking 3d6 fire damage on a failed save,
damage on a hit. or half as much damage on a successful one.
Common variant: This potion’s effect does not grant a Flaming Trail. After the necklace has drunk enough fire,
bonus to AC or advantage on attack rolls made immediately it unlocks a powerful new ability. While this necklace has
after standing up from being prone. 0 charges and you are wearing it, you can cast the wall of
fire spell (save DC 15). When cast in this way, the amulet
Very rare variant: You can gain the benefits of the sake
animates, detaches from its string, and spins across the bat-
for each attack you make on your turn immediately after
tlefield, leaving a trail of fire in its wake that grows into the
standing up from prone, instead of only the first time.
wall, which can be in any shape instead of just a circle or
a straight line. After the wall is formed, the amulet returns
Wanyudo’s Burden to you and attaches itself to the string once more. While
Wondrous item, rare wearing the amulet, you take no damage from the spell cast
Component: Fiend (yokai) soul using it. Once this property of the amulet has been used, it
Old legends claim that these amulets are made to punish can’t be used again until the next dawn.
vile fiends, whose souls are sealed within, forced to aid
mortals to make up for past misdeeds. Of course, these tales Uncommon variant: Reduce the DC to 13. Remove the
are pure fiction. A demon couldn’t possibly be imprisoned Flaming Trail property.
in the necklace… right? Very rare variant: Increase the DCs to 16. The Flaming
This amulet has 3 charges and regains all expended Trail property can be used twice, regaining all expended
charges daily at dawn. uses daily at dawn.
Firedrinker. As a reaction when you take fire damage
while wearing this amulet, you can expend 1 charge to
reduce that damage by 3d6, as the demonic visage sucks a
portion of the flames into its mouth. Then choose one of
the following options:
Wanyudo's
Burden
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PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
Windweaver
Prosthesis, uncommon (requires attunement)
Component: Elemental core of air
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Wraithclaw
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PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
Wyrm’s Breath Grenade Brass, Sleep; Very Rare. A creature must succeed on
Wondrous item, rarity varies a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be affected by a
heavy drowsiness that causes it to fall unconscious until the
Within a beautifully sculpted exterior is housed a dragon’s start of its next turn. A creature with 80 or more hit points
biomantically-sustained toxin gland, pungent incense, and is immune to this effect. This effect ends for a creature if the
crushed diamond. Available in a variety of hues, the metal creature takes damage, or if another creature uses an action
from which this grenade-like contraption is fashioned always to wake it. Diamond dust: 700 gp.
matches the dragon from which the organ was harvested.
Gold, Weakening; Very Rare. A creature must succeed on
As an action, you can throw this magical device onto a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or have disadvantage
a surface you can see within 60 feet. Upon impact, the on all ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws, and also
incense ignites, billowing out in a pungent, 15-foot-radius deal half damage with weapon attacks that use Strength until
sphere, carrying with it the dragon’s magic. A creature that the end of its next turn. Diamond dust: 1200 gp.
starts its turn in the area or enters the area for the first time
on a turn must make the associated saving throw, suffering Silver, Paralysing; Legendary. A creature must succeed
the associated effects on a failure. Creatures are affected even on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or be paralysed
if they hold their breath or don’t need to breathe. The cloud until the start of its next turn. Diamond dust: 2400 gp.
lasts for 1 minute or until a strong wind (at least 20 miles
per hour) disperses it. Xyxlwood Bonsai
Once a grenade has been used, it can’t be used again Wondrous item, uncommon
until the next dawn, and it must be refilled with 100 gp Component: bundle of Plant roots
of good-quality incense, as well as a specified value of This exceptionally fast-growing, animated Xyxlwood tree
diamond dust. writhes its roots in delight whenever you sprinkle it with
Bronze, Repulsion; Rare. A creature must succeed on fresh water. Measuring 6 inches cubed, this magical plant
a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be flung up to 60 feet needs almost constant care lest it become an unkempt
from the centre of the sphere, landing prone and taking shrubbery. Each day, the bonsai bonds with the creature
2d6 bludgeoning damage. If a creature collides with anoth- that tends to it best, also known as its gardener.
er creature, both creatures take an additional 2d6 bludgeon- Goodboy Berry. So long as the following conditions
ing damage. If a creature collides with a solid object, it takes were met during the last 24 hours, the bonsai produces 2d4
4d6 bludgeoning damage instead. Diamond dust: 400 gp. berries, as per the goodberry spell, each day at dawn:
Copper, Slow; Rare. A creature must succeed on a DC 15 • The bonsai was in bright light for at least 1 hour in total.
Constitution saving throw or suffer the effects of the slow • The bonsai received more than a quarter of a gallon of
spell until the end of its next turn. Diamond dust: 300 gp. fresh water but no more than half a gallon, or twice as
much water during hot weather.
Wyrm's Breath
Grenade
Xyxlwood Bonsai
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
• A creature spent at least 10 minutes pruning and tend-
ing to the bonsai. When a creature prunes the bonsai,
it must make a DC 11 Dexterity (Nature) check. On
a failed check, the number of berries produced at the
next dawn is reduced by one die.
The berries produced by the bonsai remain for 24 hours.
At the end of this time, their potency dissipates and they
rot away.
Yukomono
Calming Practice. Each day at dawn, if the bonsai
produces at least one berry, the last creature to successfully
prune and tend to it is suffused with a sense of calm until
the next dawn. Once during that time, the creature can cast
the calm emotions spell (save DC 13), centred on itself.
Yukimono
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement)
Component: Undead (yokai) ethereal ichor
After the legendary seamstress of the Mountain Clan passed
away one night, many thought her latest work would never
be completed. Days later, however, the first yukimono was
found in her abandoned home. Many believe that it was her
ghost who finished the piece, and that the constant cold felt
by the wearer of the kimono is in fact the chill of her grave.
This kimono has 3 charges, represented by the same
number of blue wisps floating around it, and regains 1d3
expended charges daily at dawn. As a bonus action, you can
make the wisps invisible or visible again.
Immaterial Step. While wearing this kimono, oth-
er creatures’ spaces aren’t considered difficult terrain for
you, and you can move through a hostile creature’s space
regardless of its size. When you move into a creature’s space
using this property, you take 1d4 force damage, which can’t
be reduced or prevented in any way. You can’t willingly end
your turn in another creature’s space.
Minor Possession. As a bonus action while wearing Rare variant: Increase the charges to 6, the recharge to
this kimono, you can expend 1 charge to speak its com- 1d4 + 2, and the DC to 15. The item has the Major Posses-
mand word, instructing one of the blue wisps to possess sion property.
a creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The creature
Major Possession. While wearing this kimono, you can
must succeed on a DC 13 Charisma saving throw or the
use an action to force several of the blue wisps into a
wisp enters the creature and can exert limited control over
creature at the same time, expending 4 charges to cast
its body for 1 minute, disrupting its movements. For the
the dominate person spell (save DC 15).
duration, the creature’s speed is halved, and it has disad-
vantage on the first attack roll it makes on each of its turns. Very rare variant: Increase the charges to 6, the recharge
The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each to 1d4 + 2, and the DCs to 16. The item has the Major
of its turns, ending the effect on a success. This property has Possession property. While wearing the kimono, you have
no effect on Constructs and Undead. resistance to cold damage.
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PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
CHAPTER 13
SPELLS
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PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
Spells
Behold! A plethora of magical morsels for your magicians Biomancy. Biomantic spells revolve around living matter
and mages to monopolise! This chapter contains 57 spells; and its manipulation. If you’d rather not use the school of
38 brand new ones and 19 from other Loot Tavern publi- biomancy in your world, you can elect to use the alternative
cations, included here for your convenience. The spells are school of magic supplied in the spells meta data line. For
listed alphabetically. example, feverskin’s “5th-level biomancy* (*can be replaced
with evocation)” means that, if you elect to include bioman-
cy in your world, it can be a biomancy spell. If you don’t,
Spells by Name Spells by Level it’s an evocation spell. You can also have it exist in both
Acid Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 This section lists the spells in schools simultaneously, allowing a School of Evocation or
Bakuryo’s Blessèd Blizzard . . . . . 254 School of Biomancy (see Heliana’s Guide) to learn and use it
this book by the spell level.
Blinding Radiance . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Bloodweave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 as if it came from the school of magic with which they were
Cage of Frozen Tears . . . . . . . . . 255 Cantrip affiliated.
Calm Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Concussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Calm Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Dash Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Sundering Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Repulsing Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Calm Flames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Earthen Fist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Tempestuous Transformation . . . 265 See Future Death . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Calm Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Incendiary Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Shielding Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Cloud Stride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Pins & Needles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Concussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Smokescreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 5th Level Switcheroo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Cyclone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Soften Descent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Bakuryo’s Blessèd Blizzard . . . . 254
Dash Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Spark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Cyclone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Druid Spells
Depth Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Water Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Endure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Acid Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Earthen Fist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Feverskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Bakuryo’s Blessèd Blizzard . . . . 254
Earthen Uppercut . . . . . . . . . . . 257 1st Level Iminada’s Umigiri . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Blinding Radiance . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Endoleech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Magatsuchi’s Lantern . . . . . . . . . 260 Calm Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Earthen Uppercut . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Endure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Nomi’s Adamantine Carapace . . 261 Calm Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Eruption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Raiko’s Rending Rage . . . . . . . . 262 Calm Flames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Ice Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Extract Shirikodama . . . . . . . . . . 258 White Water Wall . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Calm Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Inner Flame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Feverskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Cloud Stride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Repulsing Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Concussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 See Future Death . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Spells by Class Cyclone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Flashbang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Wind Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Flaming Tiger Leap . . . . . . . . . . . 259 This section lists the spells in Dash Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Ice Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Depth Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
2nd Level this book separated by the class- Earthen Fist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Iminada’s Umigiri . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 es which have access to them.
Bloodweave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Earthen Uppercut . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Incendiary Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Inner Flame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Calm Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 For the bender class spell list, Endoleech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Calm Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 see page xx. Endure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Lifesap Aura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Calm Flames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Extract Shirikodama . . . . . . . . . . 258
Lion’s Roar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Calm Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Bard Spells Feverskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Magatsuchi’s Lantern . . . . . . . . . 260
Endoleech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Mireball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Bloodweave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Flashbang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Ice Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Mirror of Reflection . . . . . . . . . . 261 Dash Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Lifesap Aura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Incendiary Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Nomi’s Adamantine Carapace . . 261 Flashbang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Mirror of Reflection . . . . . . . . . . 261 Inner Flame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Pins & Needles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Iminada’s Umigiri . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Lifesap Aura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Magatsuchi’s Lantern . . . . . . . . . 260
Redirect Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Lion’s Roar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Raiko’s Rending Rage . . . . . . . . . 262 Mireball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Riptide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Magatsuchi’s Lantern . . . . . . . . . 260
Redirect Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Mirror of Reflection . . . . . . . . . . 261
Shielding Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Mireball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Reinforce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Nomi’s Adamantine Carapace . . 261
Skin of Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Mirror of Reflection . . . . . . . . . . 261
Repulsing Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Snakebite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Nomi’s Adamantine Carapace . . 261
Riptide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Repulsing Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Wanyudo’s Fury . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Pins & Needles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Rock Tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Rock Tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Wind Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
See Future Death . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 See Future Death . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Shielding Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Redirect Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Shielding Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Skin of Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 3rd Level Soften Descent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Reinforce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Skin of Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Acid Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Riptide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Switcheroo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Slatestorm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Depth Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Rock Tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Smokescreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Extract Shirikodama . . . . . . . . . . 258 See Future Death . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Cleric Spells Skin of Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Snakebite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Flaming Tiger Leap . . . . . . . . . . 259
Bakuryo’s Blessèd Blizzard . . . . 254 Skin of Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Soften Descent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Mireball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Blinding Radiance . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Slatestorm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Spark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Switcheroo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Endure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Soften Descent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Sundering Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 The Bends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Extract Shirikodama . . . . . . . . . . 258 Smokescreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Switcheroo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Water Wyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Feverskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Snakebite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Tempestuous Transformation . . . 265
Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Sundering Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
The Bends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 4th Level Iminada’s Umigiri . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Tempestuous Transformation . . . 265
Wanyudo’s Fury . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Blinding Radiance . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Inner Flame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 The Bends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Water Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Cloud Stride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Lifesap Aura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Water Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Water Wyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Lion’s Roar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Mirror of Reflection . . . . . . . . . . 261 Water Wyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
White Water Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Rock Tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Nomi’s Adamantine Carapace . . 261 White Water Wall . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Wind Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Skin of Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Wind Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Wind Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Slatestorm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Reinforce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
Paladin Spells Blinding Radiance . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Skin of Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Calm Flames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Bakuryo’s Blessèd Blizzard . . . . 254 Bloodweave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Skin of Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Calm Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Blinding Radiance . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Cloud Stride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Smokescreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Cloud Stride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Endure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Concussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Soften Descent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Concussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Depth Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Switcheroo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Cyclone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Inner Flame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Endoleech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Dash Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Lifesap Aura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Endure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Warlock Spells Depth Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Magatsuchi’s Lantern . . . . . . . . . 260 Feverskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Acid Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Earthen Uppercut . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Bakuryo’s Blessèd Blizzard . . . . 254 Endoleech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Repulsing Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Flashbang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Blinding Radiance . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Endure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Nomi’s Adamantine Carapace . . 261 Flaming Tiger Leap . . . . . . . . . . 259 Bloodweave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Feverskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Shielding Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Ice Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Concussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Wind Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Lion’s Roar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Cyclone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Flashbang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Mireball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Depth Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Flaming Tiger Leap . . . . . . . . . . 259
Pins & Needles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Ice Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Ranger Spells Redirect Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Endoleech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Iminada’s Umigiri . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Blinding Radiance . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Endure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Riptide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Extract Shirikodama . . . . . . . . . . 258 Lion’s Roar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Calm Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 See Future Death . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Pins & Needles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Calm Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Feverskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Shielding Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Flashbang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Raiko’s Rending Rage . . . . . . . . 262
Calm Flames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Skin of Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Redirect Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Calm Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Flaming Tiger Leap . . . . . . . . . . 259
Skin of Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Ice Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Repulsing Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Cloud Stride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Smokescreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Riptide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Endure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Iminada’s Umigiri . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Snakebite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Inner Flame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 See Future Death . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Flashbang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Soften Descent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Skin of Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Inner Flame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Magatsuchi’s Lantern . . . . . . . . . 260
Spark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Mireball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Skin of Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Lion’s Roar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Sundering Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Slatestorm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Magatsuchi’s Lantern . . . . . . . . . 260 Pins & Needles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Switcheroo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Riptide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Snakebite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Mirror of Reflection . . . . . . . . . . 261 Tempestuous Transformation . . . 265 Smokescreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Nomi’s Adamantine Carapace . . 261 Spark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
The Bends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Sundering Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Soften Descent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Wanyudo’s Fury . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Spark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Raiko’s Rending Rage . . . . . . . . 262 Switcheroo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Water Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 The Bends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Sundering Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Redirect Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Water Wyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Switcheroo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Repulsing Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 White Water Wall . . . . . . . . . . . 266 The Bends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Shielding Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Wind Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Wizard Spells Water Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Skin of Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Acid Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Water Wyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Skin of Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Bakuryo’s Blessèd Blizzard . . . . 254
Slatestorm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Tamer Spells Bloodweave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
White Water Wall . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Cloud Stride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Wind Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Snakebite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Calm Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Wind Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Wanyudo’s Fury . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Endure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Calm Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Water Wyrm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Feverskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Wind Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Wind Strike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Inner Flame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Mirror of Reflection . . . . . . . . . . 261 Bakuryo’s Blessèd Blizzard
Nomi’s Adamantine Carapace . . 261
Sorcerer Spells Reinforce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 5th-level conjuration
Acid Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Shielding Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (20-foot radius)
Acid Rain Components: V, S, M (a snowflake made of mithral, worth
3rd-level conjuration at least 500 gp)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Casting Time: 1 action Classes: Bender (water), Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Warlock,
Range: 90 feet (20-foot-radius, 60-foot-tall cylinder) Wizard
Components: V, S, M (a drop of acid)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You invoke the tenets of the heavenly dragon, Bakuryo,
Class: Bender (earth, water), Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, rewarding those who struggle and punishing the dishonour-
Wizard able. A freezing storm radiates from you in an aura with a
20-foot radius, covering allies in icy armour and freezing
With a gentle patter, corrosive raindrops build to an acidic foes. The aura lasts for the duration, and it moves with you,
deluge in a 20-foot-radius, 60-foot-tall cylinder, cen- centred on you.
tred on a point within range. When the rain begins, each
creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw, When you cast this spell, and when a creature you can see
taking 4d6 acid damage on failure or half as much damage enters the area for the first time on its turn, you must decide
on a success. For the duration, a creature must also make whether you wish to bless the creature. If you do so, the
this saving throw when it enters the spell’s area for the first creature gains a +2 bonus to its AC while in the aura. Once
time on its turn or ends its turn there. you bless a creature, it remains blessed until the spell ends.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell If you choose not to bless the creature, it must make a
slot of 4th level or higher, the acid damage increases by 1d6 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, it takes 4d8 cold
for each slot level above 3rd. damage and its speed is reduced to 0 feet while in the aura.
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PLAYTEST
BE
TA
v2
On a success, it takes half as much damage and its speed is Cage of Frozen Tears
halved while in the aura. 4th-level conjuration
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell Casting Time: 1 minute
slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for Range: Touch
each slot level above 5th. Components: V, S, M (a snowflake)
Duration: 24 hours
Blinding Radiance Classes: Bender (water), Druid, Ranger, Warlock
4th-level evocation You imbue a 20-foot-radius circle of ground you touch
Casting Time: 1 action with an icey trap. The trap is nearly invisible, requiring an
Range: Self (10-foot-radius sphere) Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save
Components: V, S, M (a strip of magnesium) DC to find it. When you cast the spell, choose a trigger:
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute • When a creature of a type you specify enters the area or
Class: Cleric, Paladin, Sorcerer, Warlock reaches its centre.
Bright light erupts from your form and dazzles those around • When any creature other than ones you designate to
you. For the duration, you emit bright light in a 50-foot ra- not trigger it enters the area or reaches its centre.
dius and dim light for an additional 50 feet. Each creature • When you use your reaction to trigger it.
that moves within 10 feet of you for the first time on its
When the trap is triggered, frosty spikes erupt from the
turn or that starts its turn there must make a Constitution
ground, stabbing and trapping creatures within the area in
saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 3d10 radiant
a painful embrace. Each creature in the area when the trap
damage and is blinded until the start of its next turn. On
is triggered must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a
a success, a creature takes half as much damage and isn’t
failure, a creature takes 2d8 piercing damage and 2d8 cold
blinded.
damage and is restrained for 1 minute. On a success, a
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell creature takes half as much damage and is not restrained. A
slot of 5th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for creature can use its action to make a Strength check against
each slot level above 4th. your spell save DC, freeing itself or a trapped creature with-
in its reach on a success.
Bloodweave A creature that starts its turn restrained by the ice sees
2nd-level enchantment horrifying visions of its past reflected in the ice and must
succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened
Casting Time: 1 action
of the reflections that surround it until the start of its next
Range: 60 feet
turn. While frightened in this way, the creature can’t at-
Components: V, S
tempt the Strength check to free itself. A creature that ends
Duration: 1 round
its turn restrained by the ice takes 2d8 cold damage.
Classes: Bard, Bender (water), Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
You attempt to seize control of the blood inside a Humanoid
slot of 5th level or higher, the cold damage increases by 1d8
you can see with range. The target must make a Constitu-
for each slot level above 4th.
tion saving throw. On a failed save, you can force that crea-
ture to use its reaction to move up to its speed in a direction
you choose, and then use its action on its next turn to do Calm Air
one of the following: fall prone, drop what it is holding, or 2nd-level transmutation
make one weapon attack against a creature you choose with-
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
in its reach or range. At the end of that creature’s compelled
Range: 120 feet (60-foot cube)
action, your command over its body fades. Creatures that
Components: V, S
have a challenge rating or level of 5 or higher automatically
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
succeed on the Constitution saving throw to resist this effect.
Classes: Bender (air), Druid, Ranger, Wizard
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
With a calming gesture and soothing word, you calm the
slot of 3rd level or higher, the challenge rating or level of
air in a 60-foot cube centred on a point within range for
creatures that automatically succeed on this saving throw
the duration. In the area, wind becomes still, the flow of
increases by 3 for each slot level above 2nd. When you
poisonous gases is halted, and the effects of air-based spells
cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, it can
of a lower level than this spell, such as the wind drake spell,
target any creature with blood, not only Humanoids.
are prevented or suppressed.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 3rd level or higher, the level of air-based spells sup-
pressed by this spell increases.
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BETA v2
PLAYTEST
v2
TA
BE
Calm Waters This spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th
level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
2nd-level transmutation
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 120 feet (60-foot cube)
Cyclone
5th-level evocation
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute Casting Time: 1 action
Classes: Bender (water), Druid, Ranger, Wizard Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a smoke-filled crystal)
With a peaceful gesture and murmuring word, you calm
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
the water in a 60-foot cube centred on a point within
Classes: Bender (air), Druid, Warlock, Wizard
range for the duration. In the area, a tumultuous stream
becomes swimmable, a stormy ocean gains a moment of A cyclone of swirling wind encases you. For the duration,
reprieve, and the effects of water-based spells of a lower level you have a flying speed of 30 feet and can hover, and weap-
than this spell, such as the riptide spell, are prevented and on attack rolls against you have disadvantage.
suppressed.
As a bonus action on your turns until the spell ends, you
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell can cause the cyclone to emit a blast of wind. Make a melee
slot of 3rd level or higher, the level of fire-based spells sup- or ranged spell attack against a creature within 30 feet of
pressed by this spell increases. you. On a hit, the creature takes 3d8 bludgeoning damage
and is pushed 15 feet directly away from you.
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TA
v2
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell you either knock it prone or push it 5 feet directly away
slot of 6th level or higher, the damage reduction increases from you (your choice).
by 1d10 and the damage of the blast of wind increases by
This spell’s damage and distance a target is pushed
1d8 for each slot level above 5th.
increases by 1d8 and 5 feet when you reach 5th level (2d8
and 10 feet), 11th level (3d8 and 15 feet), and 17th level
Dash Strike (4d8 and 20 feet).
Transmutation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action Earthen Uppercut
Range: Self 1st-level transmutation
Components: S
Casting Time: 1 action
Duration: Instantaneous
Range: Self (30-foot line)
Classes: Bard, Bender (air), Druid, Wizard
Components: S, M (a mosaic tile)
With a deft flourish, you propel yourself up to 10 feet and Duration: Instantaneous
then can immediately make an unarmed strike or a melee Classes: Bender (earth), Druid, Wizard
attack with a weapon you are holding against a creature
Stone erupts upward from the ground in a line extending
within your reach. Immediately after you hit or miss with
from you that is 30 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 10 feet
this attack, you can move up to 10 feet without provoking
high. Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity sav-
opportunity attacks.
ing throw. On a failure, a creature takes 1d10 bludgeoning
The distance up to which you can travel with this spell damage and is flung 10 feet in a direction of your choice
increases by 5 feet when you reach 5th level (15 feet), 11th where it lands prone. On a success, a creature takes half as
level (20 feet), and 17th level (25 feet). much damage and isn’t flung.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
Depth Charge slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10
3rd-level evocation and the distance you can fling a target increases by 5 feet for
each slot level above 1st.
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 90 feet (20-foot-radius sphere)
Components: V, S, M (some metamorphic rock) Endoleech
Duration: Instantaneous 2nd-level biomancy* (*can be replaced with evocation)
Class: Bender (air), Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
Casting Time: 1 action
With a boom that can be heard 300 feet away (or 1,000 Range: Touch
feet in a liquid), a pulse of thunder ripples out from a point Components: V, S, M (a toenail lost to frostbite)
you choose within range. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius Duration: Instantaneous
sphere centred on that point must make a Constitution Class: Bender (water), Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
saving throw. A target takes 7d6 thunder damage on a
You touch a creature, absorbing the energy from its body
failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
and bolstering your metabolism. Make a melee spell attack
This damage increases to 9d6 if the affected creature is
against a creature you can reach. On a hit, the target takes
submerged in a liquid.
5d6 cold damage and can’t take reactions until the end of its
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell next turn. In addition, until the end of its next turn, its speed
slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for is reduced by 15 feet and your speed is increased by 15 feet.
each slot level above 3rd.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for
Earthen Fist each slot level above 2nd.
Conjuration cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 10 feet
Components: S
Duration: Instantaneous
Classes: Bender (earth), Druid
You conjure a fist or foot made of rock and earth, punching
it towards a creature within 10 feet of you. Make a melee
spell attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 bludgeoning
damage and must succeed on a Strength saving throw or
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Casting Time: 1 action You eat a chilli pepper, your metabolism increases, and your
Range: 90 feet (20-foot-radius circle) skin begins to burn to the touch. Make a melee spell attack
Components: S, M (a broken stone tile) against a creature within your reach. On a hit, the target
Duration: Instantaneous takes 6d6 fire damage. Until the spell ends, you can use an
Classes: Bender (earth), Druid, Sorcerer action on each of your subsequent turns to make this attack
again.
You stamp your foot, causing the ground to fling upwards
and form jagged spikes of rock in a 20-foot-radius circle For the duration, your walking speed increases by 15
centred on a point on a stone or earthen surface you can see feet, and you gain 2d6 temporary hit points at the start of
within range. That area becomes difficult terrain and each each of your turns.
creature in the area must make a Strength saving throw. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
On a failure, a creature takes 4d8 piercing damage and is slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for
thrown 2d6 x 10 feet directly away from the surface. On each slot level above 5th.
a success, a creature takes half as much damage and isn’t
thrown. Creatures that are Huge or larger have advantage
on this saving throw. Each 5-foot-diameter portion of the
difficult terrain requires at least 1 minute to clear by hand.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for
each slot level above 5th. In addition, the distance a creature
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Flash At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
1st-level evocation slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 and
your flying speed increases by 30 feet for each slot level
Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when a creature above 3rd.
within 10 feet of you targets you with an attack
Range: 10 feet
Components: S, M (a bead of magnesium) Ice Moon
Duration: Instantaneous 1st-level conjuration
Classes: Bender (fire), Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Sorcerer, Casting Time: 1 action
Tamer, Wizard Range: Self (30-foot line)
You exploit a creature’s focus on you to detonate a blinding Components: V, S, M (a snowflake)
flash of light. The attacking creature must succeed on a Duration: Instantaneous
Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of Classes: Bender (water), Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
its next turn. You form a curving blade of ice and project it forward in an
eviscerating rush. Each creature in a 5-foot-wide, 30-foot-
Flashbang long line must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a
3rd-level evocation failure, a creature takes 1d6 slashing damage and 1d6 cold
damage, and its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end
Casting Time: 1 action of its next turn. On a success, a creature takes half as much
Range: 60 feet (10-foot-radius sphere) damage and its speed is unaffected.
Components: V, S, M (a handful of metal powder)
Duration: Instantaneous At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
Classes: Bard, Bender (air), Ranger, Sorcerer, Warlock, slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for
Wizard each slot level above 1st.
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Casting Time: 1 action At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
Range: Self slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for
Components: V, S each slot level above 2nd.
Duration: Instantaneous
Classes: Bender (fire), Druid Lion’s Roar
Flame envelopes your strike, surging through you and into 4th-level conjuration
a target. Make a melee attack with a weapon or an unarmed Casting Time: 1 action
strike against one creature within 5 feet of you. On a hit, Range: Self
the target suffers the attack’s normal effects, and takes an Components: V, S, M (some burnt hair)
additional 1d6 fire damage. Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
When you reach 5th level, the attack deals an extra 1d6 Classes: Bender (fire), Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard
fire damage (2d6) to the target on a hit, and the reach of You conjure a roaring lion’s head made of writhing flame
the attack increases by 5 feet (10 feet). The fire damage and that moves with you, wielding it like an extension of your
range increase by 1d6 and 5 feet again at 11th level (3d6 body for the duration. When you conjure the lion and as a
and 15 feet) and 17th level (4d6 and 20 feet). bonus action on your subsequent turns, you can cause one
of the following effects with it.
Inner Flame • Fiery Maw. The lion bites a creature or object within
1st-level abjuration 30 feet of you. Make a melee spell attack against the
Casting Time: 1 bonus action target. On a hit, it takes 4d6 fire damage.
Range: Self • Flaming Mane. The lion’s head encases your own until
Components: V the start of your next turn. When a creature within 10
Duration: Instantaneous feet of you hits you with a melee attack, the lion bites
Classes: Bender (fire), Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, the attacker, dealing 3d6 fire damage to it.
Tamer, Warlock • Roar of the Pride. The flames roar. Each creature with-
Your body becomes wreathed in flame. Creatures you are in 20 feet of you must succeed on a Wisdom saving
touching must succeed on a Constitution saving throw, throw or be frightened of you until the spell ends. A
taking 2d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much creature can repeat this saving throw at the end of each
damage on a success. A creature you are grappling, or are of these turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. A
grappled by, automatically fails this saving throw. If you creature that succeeds on this saving throw is immune
are grappled by a creature that fails this saving throw, the to this effect until the spell ends.
creature releases you and the grapple ends. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 5th level or higher, the damage from the Fiery Maw
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
and Flaming Mane options increases by 1d6 for each slot
slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for
level above 4th.
each slot level above 1st.
BETA v2
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BE
TA
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on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by you. The with a piece of ammunition or other physical missile that
charmed creature is incapacitated and moves only if you passes through a space within 10 feet of the mirror, you
verbally or gesturally command it to use its reaction to can use your reaction to move the mirror to intercept the
move. You can command it to use its reaction to move with missile. Make a ranged spell attack. If the result of your at-
you as you move, in which case it makes every effort to stay tack roll is higher than the missile’s attack roll, the missile is
within the aura. A creature that leaves the aura ceases to be redirected back at the attacking creature, using your ranged
charmed at the start of its next turn. The effect ends early attack roll to determine whether it hits or misses
for an affected creature if it takes any damage or if someone
As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the mirror
else uses an action to shake the creature out of its stupor.
up to 20 feet.
A creature that ceases to be charmed by this spell knows
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
that it was charmed by you and has advantage on saving
slot of 3rd level or higher, the distance at which the mirror
throws against this spell for the next 24 hours.
can intercept a missile increases by 5 feet and the distance
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell you can move the mirror as a bonus action on your turn
slot of 6th level or higher, the radius of the aura increases by increases by 10 feet.
5 feet for every slot level above 5th.
Nomi’s Adamantine Carapace
Mireball 5th-level biomancy* (*can be replaced with transmutation)
3rd-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch
Range: 150 feet (15-foot-radius sphere) Components: V, S, M (a hunk of adamantine worth at least
Components: V, S, M (a tiny ball of guano and mud) 300 gp)
Duration: 1 minute Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
Class: Bard, Bender (earth), Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock Classes: Bard, Bender (earth), Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Rang-
er, Tamer
A blob of gloopy mud splunks from your pointed finger
to a point you choose within range, where it splooges with You touch a willing creature, causing blue-green veins of
a wet burp into an explosion of sludge. Each creature in a adamantine to thread through its skin, making it tough-
15-foot-radius sphere centred on that point must make a er than steel and as flexible as silk. For the duration, the
Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 3d10 target’s AC can’t be less than 20, regardless of what kind of
bludgeoning damage and is knocked prone. On a successful armour it’s wearing (shields confer their AC bonus as nor-
one, it takes half as much damage and is not knocked prone. mal) and it has resistance to acid, bludgeoning, piercing,
and slashing damage.
In addition, all surfaces within the area become covered
in unpredictably slick and sticky patches of mud for the At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
duration. The first time a creature moves through the mud- slot of 6th level or higher, the minimum AC increases by 1
dy area on its turn it must succeed on a Dexterity saving for each slot level above 5th.
throw against your spell save DC or fall prone. A creature
moving through the area at half speed doesn’t need to make Pins & Needles
the saving throw.
Biomancy* cantrip (*can be replaced with evocation)
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
Casting Time: 1 action
slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for
Range: 60 feet
each slot level above 3rd.
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
Mirror of Reflection Class: Bender (water), Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
2nd-level conjuration
You momentarily shut down a small part of the nervous
Casting Time: 1 bonus action system of a creature you can see within range, before
Range: 60 feet overstimulating it and causing crippling pain. The creature
Components: V,S, M (a shard of reflective glass) must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d8
Duration: 10 minutes psychic damage. If the target fails its saving throw by 5 or
Classes: Bard, Bender (water), Cleric, Druid, Ranger, more, it has disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes
Tamer before the end of its next turn as it temporarily loses full
control of a part of its body.
You create a floating sheet of curved, reflective ice within
range that lasts for the duration or until you cast this spell This spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th
again. When a creature you can see makes a ranged attack level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
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Riptide You peer into the divergent potentials of the future, your
2nd-level transmutation attention drawn to moments of your own harm. For the
duration, any critical hits you suffer become normal hits
Casting Time: 1 action and opportunity attacks against you have disadvantage. In
Range: 300 feet addition, when an attacker hits you with an attack or you
Components: V, S fail a Strength or Dexterity saving throw, you can use your
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute reaction to roll a d4 and add the result to your AC against
Class: Bender (water), Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard that attack or to the result of the saving throw, potentially
Choose one creature you can see within range that is in at turning a hit into a miss or a failure into a success.
least 2 feet of water and choose a direction. Turbulent cur- At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
rents wrap around the creature. For the duration, the target slot of 3rd level or higher, the duration of the spell increases
must make a Strength saving throw at the start of each of to 10 minutes (3rd level), 1 hour (5th level), 8 hours (7th
its turns. On a failure, it is dragged 30 feet in the direction level), or 24 hours (9th level). When you cast this spell
you chose, and its swimming speed is reduced to 0 feet using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the size of the die
until the start of its next turn. On a success, the creature can you can roll to add to your AC or saving throw increases to
move normally until the start of its next turn. 1d6 (2nd level), 1d8 (4th level), 1d10 (6th level), or 1d12
As a bonus action on your turn, you can change the (8th level).
direction of the underwater currents. The spell ends early if
the creature is ever out of the spell’s range or is no longer in Shielding Word
water at least 2 feet deep. 2nd-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when a creature
Rock Tomb within range that you can see is hit by an attack from
4th-level conjuration an attacker you can see or fails a Strength or Dexterity
Casting Time: 1 action saving throw
Range: 60 feet Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a pebble) Components: V
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute Duration: 1 round
Classes: Bard, Bender (earth), Druid Class: Bard, Bender (earth), Cleric, Paladin, Sorcerer, Tamer
You conjure a tomb of earth, attempting to encase a Large With a word, you coat a creature in a shimmering shield
or smaller creature you can see within range inside of it, that absorbs the energy of incoming blows. The creature
which occupies the same space as the creature until the spell gains 15 temporary hit points the instant before it takes the
ends. If the target is unwilling, it can make a Dexterity triggering damage. These hit points last until the start of the
saving throw. On a success, it avoids being encased and is creature’s next turn.
pushed to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the tomb. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
The tomb provides total cover for targets on the other side slot of 3rd level or higher, you may choose to either increase
of it, and any creature encased within is blinded and re- the range of the spell by 30 feet or increase the number of
strained. The tomb is an object with AC 16, 50 hit points, temporary hit points gained by 5, for each slot level above
immunity to poison and psychic damage, and vulnerabil- 2nd.
ity to thunder damage. Reducing the tomb to 0 hit points
destroys it and ends the spell.
Skin of Steel
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell 4th-level biomancy* (*can be replaced with transmutation)
slot of 5th level or higher, the AC of the tomb increases 1
and its hit points increase by 10 for each slot level above Casting Time: 1 minute
4th. In addition, when cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th Range: Touch
level or higher, it can target a Huge creature, and when cast Components: V, S, M (a steel figurine)
using a spell slot of 8th or 9th level, it can target a Gargan- Duration: 10 minutes
tuan creature. Classes: Bender (earth), Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Tamer,
Wizard
See Future Death You reinforce a willing creature’s skin with the tenacity and
1st-level divination strength of steel. For the spell’s duration, the target’s AC
can’t be lower than 19, regardless of what armour it’s wearing
Casting Time: 1 action (shields confer their bonus to AC as normal), and, at the start
Range: Self of each of the target’s turns, it gains 3d6 temporary hit points.
Components: S, M (a piece of broken mirror)
Duration: 1 minute
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At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell ly obscures its area. When you cast the spell, you can choose
slot of 5th level or higher, the temporary hit points increase whether the cloud remains in the location where you cast it
by 1d6 for each slot level above 4th. or if it moves with you, centred on you.
When you reach higher levels, the size of the cloud you
Skin of Stone can create with this spell increases. When you reach 5th
2nd-level biomancy* (*can be replaced by transmutation) level, the cloud has a maximum diameter and height of 15
feet; at 11th level this increases to 25 feet; and at 17th level
Casting Time: 1 action
this increases to 40 feet. You choose how big the cloud is
Range: Touch
in each dimension up to this maximum each time that you
Components: V, S, M (a carved stone figurine)
cast it.
Duration: 1 minute
Classes: Bender (earth), Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Tamer,
Wizard Snakebite
2nd-level conjuration
At your touch, the skin of a willing creature hardens with
stone-like fortification. Its speed is reduced by 5 feet and, Casting Time: 1 action
when you cast this spell and at the start of each of the target’s Range: Self
turns, it gains temporary hit points equal to 1d4 plus your Components: V, S, M (some sand)
spellcasting modifier. When the spell ends, the target loses Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
any remaining temporary hit points granted by this spell. Classes: Bender (earth), Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell You conjure a sinuous, fanged snake of shifting dirt and
slot of 3rd level or higher, you can target one additional sliding sand that moves with you, wielding it like an exten-
creature for each slot level above 2nd. sion of your body for the duration. When you conjure the
snake and as a bonus action on your subsequent turns, you
Slatestorm can cause one of the following effects with it:
4th-level conjuration • Earthroot. The snake coils around you or a willing
creature of your choice within 30 feet of you as a
Casting Time: 1 action
fortification of earth. Until the start of your next turn,
Range: Self
the affected creature automatically succeeds on ability
Components: V, M (a thin piece of slate)
checks and saving throws to avoid being moved against
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
its will or knocked prone.
Classes: Bender (earth), Druid, Ranger, Wizard
• Tetanus Tooth. The snake turns into a long, jagged
Razor-sharp shards of slate flit about you in a lacerating tooth, stabbing at a creature within 20 feet of you.
whirlwind until the spell ends. Each creature that starts its Make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit, it
turn within 5 feet of you or enters a space within 5 feet of takes 1d6 piercing damage and 1d6 poison damage and
you for the first time on its turn takes 3d8 slashing dam- must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be
age. As an action, you can cause slate to fire out from you poisoned until the end of your next turn.
in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a
• Sandstorm. The snake disintegrates into a cloud of fine
Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d8 slashing damage on a
particles, surging towards a creature within 30 feet of
failure, or half as much damage on a success.
you. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell throw or be blinded until the start of your next turn.
slot of 5th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
each slot level above 4th. slot of 3rd level or higher, the poison damage from the
Tetanus Tooth option increases by 1d6 for each slot level
Smokescreen above 2nd.
Conjuration cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action Soften Descent
Range: Self (5-foot-radius, 10-foot-high cylinder) Transmutation cantrip
Components: V, S, M (a puffball mushroom) Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you are
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 round about to hit a surface after falling
Class: Bender (air), Druid, Sorcerer, Tamer, Wizard Range: Self
You spew a thick cloud of dense black smoke that forms a Components: S
5-foot-diameter, 10-foot-high cylinder centred on you Duration: Instantaneous
that lasts until the start of your next turn. The smoke heavi- Classes: Bard, Bender (air), Druid, Sorcerer, Tamer, Wizard
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With a gesture, you cause an updraft in the air, slowing You attempt to switch places with a Large or smaller target
your descent. You ignore the first 30 feet when calculating within range that you can see. The target must succeed on a
falling damage. Charisma saving throw or instantly teleport to your space
whilst you teleport to the one it previously occupied.
This spell ignores an additional 30 feet of falling damage
when you reach 5th level (60 feet), 11th level (90 feet), and A creature automatically succeeds on this saving throw
17th level (120 feet). if there is not enough space to accommodate either of the
teleporting creatures. A willing creature may choose to fail
Spark the saving throw.
Evocation cantrip At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 4th level or higher, the range of this spell increases by
Casting Time: 1 action
30 feet for each slot level above 3rd. The maximum size of
Range: 60 feet
creature you can target increases to Huge when cast at 6th
Components: V, S
level or higher, and to Gargantuan when cast at 9th level.
Duration: Instantaneous
Class: Bender (fire), Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
A spark of bright light arcs from you to a creature within
Tempestuous Transformation
4th-level transmutation
range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a
hit, the target takes 1d8 lightning damage. On a critical hit, Casting Time: 1 action
the target is also blinded until the end of its next turn. Range: Self
Components: V, S
The spell creates more than one spark when you reach
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
higher levels: two sparks at 5th level, three sparks at 11th
Classes: Bender (air), Druid, Sorcerer
level, and four sparks at 17th level. You can direct the sparks
at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate You endow yourself with the shapeless fluidity of the wind.
attack roll for each spark. Until the spell ends, you can’t cast spells, and you gain the
following benefits:
Sundering Sky • You gain a flying speed of 40 feet.
4th-level evocation • You can move through gaps as small as 1 inch wide
Casting Time: 1 action without squeezing, your movement doesn’t provoke
Range: Self opportunity attacks.
Components: V, S • You have resistance to bludgeoning, lightning, pierc-
Duration: Instantaneous ing, slashing, and thunder damage.
Classes: Bender (air), Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard • When you cast the spell and as a bonus action on your
With a flourish and a rush of air, you leap up to 60 feet to subsequent turns for the duration, you can force one
an unoccupied space you can see, landing with a thunder- creature you can see within 30 feet of you to make a
ous boom that can be heard 600 feet away. Each creature Dexterity saving throw, as a stormy blast extends from
within 10 feet of the space from which you jumped must you toward it. The target takes 2d8 lightning damage
make a Strength saving throw or be pushed 10 feet away and 2d8 thunder damage on a failed save, or half as
from that space and knocked prone. Each creature within much damage on a successful one.
20 feet of where you land must make a Dexterity saving When this spell ends, you must succeed on a DC 15
throw, taking 5d10 thunder damage on a failure or half as Constitution saving throw or gain 1 point of exhaustion.
much damage on a success.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell The Bends
slot of 5th level or higher, the distance you can leap increas- 3rd-level biomancy* (*can be replaced with transmutation)
es by 30 feet and the damage increases by 1d10 for each
Casting Time: 1 action
slot level above 4th.
Range: 90 feet
Components: V, S
Switcheroo Duration: Instantaneous
3rd-level transmutation Class: Bender (water), Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
Casting Time: 1 action You assault the internal chemistry of a creature you can see
Range: 90 feet within range, causing bubbles of nitrogen to precipitate in
Components: V, S its blood, forcing it to make a Constitution saving throw.
Duration: Instantaneous On a failed save, the target takes 5d8 poison damage and
Class: Bard, Bender (air), Cleric, Sorcerer, Tamer, Warlock, is poisoned for 1 minute. On a successful save, the target
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takes half as much damage and isn’t poisoned. If the target Water Wyrm
is completely submerged in water, increase the damage dice 3rd-level conjuration spell
from d8s to d10s.
Casting Time: 1 action
The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each Range: Self
of its turns, ending the effect on a success. Components: V, S, M (a dried tadpole)
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for Classes: Bender (water), Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard
each slot level above 3rd. You conjure a thrashing wyrm of frothing water that moves
with you, wielding it as an extension of your body for the
Wanyudo’s Fury duration. When you conjure the wyrm and as a bonus
2nd-level evocation action on your subsequent turns, you can cause one of the
following effects with it:
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self • Ice Fang. The wyrm grows frozen fangs—jagged icicles
Components: S that it uses to bite a creature or object within 20 feet of
Duration: Instantaneous you. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On a
Classes: Bender (fire), Ranger, Sorcerer hit, it takes 2d6 piercing damage and 1d6 cold damage.
• Engulf. The wyrm leaves your side, surging toward a
With a series of looping cartwheels and magic-enhanced
creature within 40 feet of you and attempting to engulf
flips, you move up to 30 feet in a straight line, your hands
it in a torrent of water. The target must succeed on a
and feet spewing jets of flame. This movement does not
Strength saving throw or be restrained. While re-
provoke opportunity attacks. Each creature within 5 feet of
straining a creature in this way, the only effect you can
you while you move must make a Dexterity saving throw,
use with the wyrm is Ice Fang, targeting the restrained
taking 4d6 fire damage on a failed saving throw or half as
creature regardless of range. A creature can use its
much damage on successful one.
action to make a Strength check against your spell save
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell DC, freeing itself or a creature within its reach from the
slot of 3rd level or higher, the distance you can move in- wyrm on a success. When the wyrm stops restraining a
creases by 10 feet and the damage increases by 1d6 for each creature, the spell ends.
slot level above 2nd. • Weird Water. The wyrm assumes a defensive formation
around you. Until the start of your next turn, ranged
Water Whip attacks that hit you have their damage reduced by 1d6
Transmutation cantrip plus your spellcasting ability modifier.
Casting Time: 1 action At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
Range: 60 feet slot of 4th level or higher, the cold damage from the Ice
Components: V, S Fang option and the damage reduction of the Weird Water
Duration: Instantaneous option increase by 1d6 for each slot level above 3rd.
Class: Bender (water), Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
Choose a source of water that you can see within range that White Water Wall
has a volume of at least 4 pints. Make a melee spell attack 5th-level conjuration
against a creature within 30 feet of the source of water. On
Casting Time: 1 action
a hit, the target takes 1d6 slashing damage and, if the crea-
Range: 120 feet
ture is Large or smaller, you can force it to make a Strength
Components: V, S, M (a perfectly round pebble)
saving throw, pulling it up to 10 feet towards the source of
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
water on a failure.
Classes: Bender (water), Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
The spell’s damage increases by 1d6 and the distance it
You create a wall of raging, turbulent water filled with
can pull a target increases by 5 feet when you reach 5th level
debris. You can make the wall up to 60 feet long, 20 feet
(2d6 and 15 feet), 11th level (3d6 and 20 feet), and 17th
high, and 5 feet thick, or a ringed wall up to 20 feet in di-
level (4d6 and 25 feet).
ameter, 20 feet high, and 5 feet thick. The wall is opaque
and ranged attacks can’t pass through the wall.
If the wall cuts through a creature’s space when it
appears, the creature must succeed on a Strength saving
throw or be entrained in the water. A Huge or larger crea-
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smaller creature that willingly enters the water’s space is also bonus to your speed increases by 10 feet, for each slot level
entrained by it. An entrained creature can’t breathe and has above 1st.
a speed of 0 feet.
The first time a creature enters the wall and at the start Wind Strike
of an entrained creature’s turn, it takes 3d10 bludgeoning 2nd-level transmutation
damage as it is battered by the turbulent flow and de-
Casting Time: 1 action
bris. An entrained creature that uses its action to make a
Range: Self
Strength check against your spell save DC and succeeds
Components: S
exits the wall prone within 5 feet of its current location.
Duration: Instantaneous
White Water Whip. As a bonus action on your turn, Classes: Bender (air), Paladin, Ranger, Wizard
you can cause a tendril of white water to grab at a creature
With a blast of air, you leap up to 30 feet before making
within 10 feet of the wall. That creature must succeed on a
one unarmed strike or melee attack with a weapon you are
Strength saving throw or take 3d10 slashing damage and
holding. You can make two attacks if you have the Extra At-
be pulled into the wall where it becomes entrained by it.
tack class feature. On a hit, a target takes additional thunder
At Higher Levels. When you use a spell slot of 6th level damage equal to 1d8 + your spellcasting ability modifier .
or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
above 5th. When you use a spell slot of 7th level or higher
slot of 3rd level or higher, the distance you can leap increas-
to cast this spell, the wall’s maximum length also increases
es by 15 feet and the attacks deal an additional 1d8 thunder
by 30 feet, its thickness increases by 5 feet, and the size of
damage on a hit for each slot level above 2nd.
creature that automatically succeeds on the Strength saving
throw increases by one for each two slot levels above 5th (to
Huge at 7th level and Gargantuan at 9th level).
Wind Drake
1st-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a dandelion seedhead)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Classes: Bender (air), Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard
You conjure a tempestuous drake of spiralling wind that
moves with you, wielding it as an extension of your body
for the duration. When you conjure the drake and as a
bonus action on your subsequent turns, you can cause one
of the following effects with it:
Thunder Strike. The drake slams into a creature or
object within 20 feet of you with a deafening boom.
Make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit,
the target takes 1d6 thunder damage.
Vortex Grapple. The drake billows towards a Large or
smaller creature within 20 feet of you, attempting to
encase it in a vortex of air. The target must succeed on a
Dexterity saving throw or be restrained for the dura-
tion, or until you use another effect of the wind drake.
A target can use an action to repeat this saving throw,
escaping the drake on a success and ending the spell.
Windstrider. The drake forms a whirling eddy at your
feet, increasing your speed by 10 feet, and preventing
your movement from provoking opportunity attacks.
This effect lasts until the start of your next turn.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage from the Thunder
Strike option increases by 1d6, and the Windstrider option’s
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CREATURES OF THE
YOKAI REALMS
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Creatures of the Yokai Realms
“I need you to imagine the weirdest possible thing tallic dragons cannot make a home here, for example. GMs
you can. Okay, was it a giant wheel that’s on can include creatures from other settings within the Yokai
fire with a screaming human head at the centre? Realms, or take creatures from Ryoko’s Guide and integrate
If it wasn’t, you’re in for a shock when you step them into different settings to bring mysticism and mischief
to other worlds.
out that door. Your imagination is your sharpest
weapon—if you’re going to let a little thing like a The stat blocks presented herein represent a typical
gold-swallowing spirit covered in bird eyes surprise example of a given species or phenomenon. Some traits, like
alignment, might vary among individuals. Because yokai are
you, you’re not going to last long. Don’t fret
intelligent and independent, it is possible, albeit rare, for
though, there’s lots of adorable critters out there individuals to buck stereotype. A jorogumo might repress
too (yes, you can pet them. Yes, they will kill you her hunger for flesh and act as a virtuous guide. An elderly
if you pet them wrong).” ryume may grow tired of stoic placidity and revel in chaos
and mischief. Sometimes, subverting the common tropes of
— Ryoko a creature can be a powerful storytelling tool; don’t be afraid
to alter what is given here to craft a compelling narrative,
but do acknowledge that these individuals differ from the
What Are Yokai? rest of their kin.
Many people think that yokai are just monsters; they are of-
ten described as the form of apparitions, spectres, or devils.
Creatures List
In a way, yokai are all of these things and none of them. Aspect of Ashura . . .
Ashura . . . 270 Korōri . . . . . . . . . . . 292
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Aspect of Ashura
A favoured subject among poets and thespians across the Over the centuries, however, like the creeping rust that
realms is the tale of Ashura: the three-faced, six-armed de- shatters iron chains, time has weakened these seals, and as-
mon god of destruction cast down from the heavens by the pects of Ashura have manifested across the realms. While a
deities he offended. While the legend of Ashura might end mere echo of the true Ashura, these creatures are deadly and
there, his legacy and demonic power endure. Stories shared cunning, inheriting fearsome magic, deadly battle prowess,
in hushed, fireside whispers tell of mighty Fiends that be- and a burning wrath.
foul the land—creatures echoing the form and power of the Blood and Lust. Similar to the original Ashura, the
defeated demon god. On a path fueled by zealous passion aspects are creatures whose body and mind are set ablaze
and hate-driven vengeance, they cleave down everything in by the most intense emotions one could feel. Happiness is
their way. The original Ashura may be gone, but the aspects experienced as nothing less than dizzying ecstasy, anger as
of Ashura carry his legacy into the mortal world. nothing less than blinding rage. When met in battle, there
Fragment of Fury. Aeons ago, upon his defeat, is no hope of mercy, surrender, or compromise, and only
Ashura was broken and scattered to different parts of death can stop them.
the world, his power contained and fragmented.
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Aspect of Ashura Actions
Large Fiend (Yokai), Chaotic Evil Multiattack. The aspect makes six Longsword attacks.
Armour Class 17 (natural armour) Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit Points 157 (15d10 + 75) Hit: 10 (1d6 + 7) piercing damage.
Speed 50 ft. Longsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one
target. Hit: 11 (1d8 + 7) slashing damage.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
Ashura’s Grasp. The aspect lets loose a burst of grasping con-
24 (+7) 20 (+5) 20 (+5) 18 (+4) 9 (-1) 10 (+0)
juration magic, forcing one creature it can see within 300 feet
Saving Throws Dex +10, Wis +4, Cha +5 of it to make a DC 18 Charisma saving throw. On a failed
Skills Arcana +7, Athletics +17, Perception +9 save, the target takes 65 (10d12) force damage and is teleport-
Damage Resistances cold, fire; bludgeoning, piercing, and slash- ed to an unoccupied space the aspect can see within 20 feet of
ing from nonmagical attacks the aspect. On a successful save, the target takes half as much
Damage Immunities poison damage and isn’t teleported.
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, para-
lysed, poisoned, stunned
Reactions
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 19 Nip. When a creature ends its turn within 5 feet of the aspect,
Languages Abyssal, Common, telepathy 120 ft. the aspect makes one Bite attack against that creature.
Challenge 13 (10,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +5 Goad. When a creature the aspect can see misses an attack roll
or fails an ability check or saving throw, the aspect hurls a magi-
Critical Wound. When the aspect hits a creature with six cally infused insult at that creature. The target must succeed on
or more attack rolls on a single turn, that creature’s hit point a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw or use its reaction to move
maximum is reduced by 11 (1d8 + 7). This reduction can’t be its speed toward the aspect. If a creature moves within 5 feet
undone by any means short of a wish spell. of the aspect in this way, it can make one melee weapon attack
Reckless. At the start of its turn, the aspect can gain advan- against the aspect as a part of its reaction.
tage on all melee weapon attack rolls until the start of its next Spell Swallow. When a creature the aspect can see within 120
turn, but attack rolls against it have advantage until then. feet of it casts a spell, the aspect attempts to duplicate that
Three Heads. The aspect can take up to three reactions per magic for itself. The creature must make a DC 18 Charisma
round, but only one per turn. It can’t use the same reaction saving throw. On a failure, the spell is cast as usual, but the
option more than once each round. aspect also casts that same spell as a part of this reaction.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the aspect fails a saving
throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
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Bakezōri
A crowd erupts in cheers as a group of students dash by Bakezōri
on a track, each desperately sprinting forward, hellbent on Tiny Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Neutral
outrunning the rest. As they round the final turn, a girl Armour Class 12
wearing a pair of shoddy-looking sandals pulls ahead, mov- Hit Points 7 (2d4 + 2)
ing with a nimbleness and speed that onlookers could swear Speed 40 ft.
she did not previously possess. Later, in secret, after taking
home a gleaming trophy, the girl removes her footwear and STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
thanks them quietly, extending a handful of straw. A single 8 (-1) 14 (+2) 12 (+1) 7 (-2) 10 (+0) 12 (+1)
eye opens up on each sandal, and a pair of bakezōri reveal
Skills Perception +2
themselves, grinning with delight as they take a meal from Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from
their human friend. nonmagical attacks
Preferential Possession. As a subspecies of tsukumog- Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
Languages —
ami—spirits that like to possess inanimate objects—the
Challenge 1/4 (50 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
bakezōri are unusual in that they exclusively seek out
footwear to inhabit. Like most tsukumogami, they are most Bakezoomies. While a willing bakezōri is worn by a creature
attracted to objects that have gone through an interesting with feet, that creature’s walking speed is increased by 15 feet.
life of their own; it is common for a pair of bakezōri to settle
Actions
themselves in frayed, damaged sandals. As with all sentient
creatures, however, they are known to have idiosyncrasies Flip-Flop Chomp. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5
ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage. If the target
and preferences and can be convinced to possess a new, shiny
is a creature with feet, it must make a DC 12 Dexterity
piece of footwear at the behest of a friendly adventurer. saving throw. On a failed save, the bakezōri attaches itself to
Urban Yokai. Bakezōri are among the most common the creature’s foot. The bakezōri can detach itself by spend-
yokai for average Humanoids to encounter and are viewed ing 5 feet of its movement. While attached to a creature in
this way, the bakezōri has advantage on attack rolls against
as pests rather than outright threats. They tend to grav-
the creature, moves with the creature, can’t attack other
itate toward larger communities due to their possession creatures, and the creature’s speed is reduced by 15 feet.
preferences but prefer to remain hidden from the eyes of The creature can use an action to make a DC 11 Strength
strangers, indistinguishable from a ruined sandal while check, removing the bakezōri on a success, where it lands
resting by the side of the road. prone in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the creature.
Your Sole Is Mine. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5
ft., one creature that the bakezōri is attached to. Hit: 11 (2d8
+ 2) piercing damage.
Betobeto-san
Among the ranks of city-dwelling yokai, the mischievous
betobeto-san is one of paradoxical reputation—simultane-
ously infamous for inspiring fear in the hearts of those who
encounter it, yet well-loved by locals as a playful, prankster
spirit. Most of the time, the betobeto-san is invisible, but
should one choose to reveal itself, onlookers are greeted
with the sight of a round, ball-like creature with a grinning
maw and two small legs. It is known to enjoy wearing san-
dals, with the tell-tale echo of invisible feet pitter-pattering
over cobbled stone a sure indication that the betobeto-san
is near.
One Step at a Time. The betobeto-san is nocturnal,
emerging from its hidden nest to roam the empty streets
after most citizens have gone to sleep. Every city has strag-
glers, transients, and hooligans who walk the town at night,
making perfect prey for the knavish yokai. The betobeto-san
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follows closely behind its quarry, its footsteps echoing into
the darkness, but when its victim turns to look, they find
Betobeto-san
Small Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Neutral
themselves to be seemingly alone. Isolated in the darkness
and haunted by echoing footsteps, victims grow increasingly Armour Class 13 (natural armour)
fearful—a fear that the betobeto-san is eager to exacerbate; Hit Points 19 (3d6+9)
fear is its prize. Speed 30 ft.
Scary Sustenance. Betobeto-san sustain themselves on a STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
diet of fear, but unless the impish yokai wishes it, their prey 12 (+1) 12 (+1) 16 (+3) 9 (-1) 13 (+1) 10 (+0)
is not truly harmed in this process. In fact, their ability to
devour fright has become revered by civilians and adventur- Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from
ers alike, with some attempting to tame and train betobe- nonmagical attacks
Condition Immunities frightened
to-san to aid in soothing the emotions of those suffering
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
from extreme stress and nightmares. However, in communi- Languages —
ties where fear is an ever-present spectre, perhaps under the Challenge 1/2 (100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
reign of a cruel tyrant or in times of famine and war, these
small yokai become corrupted by the persistent atmosphere Surprise! If the betobeto-san is invisible when it rolls initia-
tive, it can choose to turn visible. If it does so, each creature
of dread. Such betobeto-san grow huge as they feast aggres-
within 10 feet of the betobeto-san that can see it must
sively and without caution, devouring a portion of their
succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or become
victims’ souls in the process. These betobeto-sama are cruel frightened of it for 1 minute. A creature can repeat this
and dangerous, their mere presence perpetuating the dread save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself
that birthed them within desperate, haunted communities. on a success.
Actions
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage.
Devour Fear. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one frightened creature. Hit: 9 (2d8) piercing damage. When
a frightened creature is damaged by this attack, it gains im-
munity to the frightened condition for the next hour as the
betobeto-san devours its terror.
Sneak. The betobeto-san magically turns invisible until
the end of its next turn or until immediately after it makes
an attack.
Bonus Actions
Jump Scare. The betobeto-san attempts to frighten one
creature it can see within 30 feet of it. That creature must
succeed on a DC13 Wisdom saving throw or be fright-
ened of the betobeto-san for 1 minute. A creature can
repeat this save at the end of its turn, ending the effect on a
success. If a creature’s saving throw is successful or the effect
ends for it, the creature is immune to the betobeto-san’s
Jump Scare for the next 24 hours.
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Huge Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Evil
Actions
Multiattack. The betobeto-sama makes two attacks with any
combination of Betobeto-sama Slam and Feast of Fear.
Betobeto-sama Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit,
reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 24 (3d10 + 8) bludgeoning
damage. If the target is a creature that isn’t frightened, it must
succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw or become
frightened of the betobeto-sama for 1 minute. If the target
is a frightened creature, it must succeed on a DC 18 Wis-
dom saving throw or become stunned until it is no longer
frightened. A creature can repeat this save at the end of each
of its turns, ending the effect on a success.
Feast of Fear. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10
ft., one stunned and frightened creature. Hit: 26 (4d8 + 8)
piercing damage, and the target’s Charisma score is reduced
by 1d4. The target dies if this reduces its Charisma to 0.
Otherwise, the reduction lasts until the target finishes a short
or long rest.
Bonus Actions
Betobeto-sama Sneak. The betobeto-sama magically turns
invisible until the end of its next turn or until immediately
after it makes an attack.
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Dodomeki
Greed incarnate, the dodomeki are covetous, fiendish yokai Dodomeki
infatuated with wealth and thievery. They take a distorted, Medium Fiend (Yokai), Neutral Evil
humanoid form, with flesh covered in twitching, bulging Armour Class 14 (natural armour)
eyes as black as a starless night. Their arms are grotesquely Hit Points 102 (12d8 + 48)
extended, their hair grows long and dark, and their grasping Speed 40 ft
claws are vicious and swift.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
Deadly Treasure Hunters. Dodomeki stalk those who 16 (+3) 16 (+3) 18 (+4) 11 (+0) 14 (+2) 12 (+1)
radiate the stench of affluence, which dodomeki detect as
a sickly, sweet aroma. Cloaked by invisibility and aided Skills Perception +8, Sleight of Hand +9, Stealth +9
by a supernatural stealth, they brazenly pick the pockets Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 18
of nobles in broad daylight, retreating before their theft is Languages Abyssal, Common
detected. Should a wealthy merchant or courier with an ex- Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
pensive cargo be caught alone, a dodomeki will reveal itself, Wealthsense. The dodomeki can sense the direction of any
reveling in cruel slaughter before meticulously stripping the valuable objects within 100 feet of it, including behind total
corpse of all valuable possessions. cover, as a saccharine aroma. The greater the greed an object
inspires in others, the more potent the stench.
Insatiable Avarice. Devourers of treasure, dodomeki do
Grasping Thief. The first time the dodomeki hits a creature
not keep hordes as dragons do. Their hunger for wealth is in-
with its Wrenching Claw attack on its turn, it steals coins that
satiable, but although they typically target gold, a dodomeki the creature is carrying worth a total value in gold pieces
can covet and consume any object that inspires avarice in equal to ten times the slashing damage dealt.
others. Because they target only those bearing riches, some
impoverished communities view their existence as divine ret- Actions
ribution for those who wield financial dominion over others. Multiattack. The dodomeki makes two Wrenching Claw
attacks.
Wrenching Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach
10 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) slashing damage plus 5
(1d10) psychic damage.
Revel in Gold. The dodomeki magically feasts on any
treasure it is carrying, causing it to disintegrate into motes of
golden light. The dodomeki gains 1 temporary hit point for
every 10 gold pieces worth of objects it devours in this way,
up to a maximum of 25 temporary hit points.
Bonus Actions
Thieves’ Blessing (3/Day). The dodomeki magically turns
invisible for 1 minute or until it attacks or its concentra-
tion ends (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment the
dodomeki wears or carries is invisible with it.
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Dorotabō Dorotabō
Medium Undead (Yokai), Lawful Evil
A band of inquisitive boys crawl under hedgerows and over
fences beyond a long-abandoned track road leading out of Armour Class 15 (natural armour)
town, ignoring the flaking, painted warning signs plastered Hit Points 82 (11d8 + 33)
over along the road. As they heedlessly traipse across an Speed 30 ft.
abandoned rice field of mud and wilted plants, the earth
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
suddenly shifts beneath them. In horror, the trespassers
16 (+3) 11 (+0) 17 (+3) 9 (-1) 16 (+3) 10 (+0)
stand transfixed as a humanoid figure rises from the muck,
coated in soil and withered vines, its three fingers pointing Skills Nature +5
accusingly at the intruders. Only upon coming face to face Damage Resistances cold, necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, and
with the slouching, decrepit form of the dorotabō do the slashing from nonmagical attacks
interlopers realise the folly of insatiable curiosity. Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities exhaustion, frightened, poisoned
Product of Hardwork. Akin to the onryō, dorotabō are Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
vengeful spirits borne of the intense anguish of the dead. Languages the languages it knew in life
Unlike onryō however, who were warriors in life, dorotabō Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
were once common farmers. When a field is desecrated
One With the Land. The dorotabō ignores difficult terrain
by damage or neglect after the passing of its caretaker, the caused by magical and nonmagical plants, mud, swamps, or
spirit of the one who once toiled so dutifully there becomes other natural phenomena.
corrupted with anger and malice, transforming into a doro-
tabō, now cursed to haunt the land they once loved. Actions
Tied to the Land. Dorotabō are intimately tied to their Multiattack. The dorotabō makes three attacks with any
combination of Three-Fingered Claw and Wrathful Scythe.
land; they are unwilling—and unable—to step foot outside
of its borders. Within their territory, they are able to ma- Three-Fingered Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach
5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (3d4 + 3) slashing damage, and the
nipulate the earth itself, conjuring decay-ridden plants to
target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving
entangle trespassers and bury them among the other foolish throw or be poisoned for 1 minute.
dead. They are grim guardians, and their domination is
Wrathful Scythe. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft.,
absolute across their tiny kingdom, for who can know the
one target. Hit: 9 (1d12 + 3) slashing damage, and the area
land better than the farmer it once belonged to? within 10 feet of the dorotabō becomes difficult terrain as
sickly, grasping plants manifest beneath the arc of the scythe.
These plants wither and fade 10 minutes after appearing.
Bonus Actions
Vengeful Earth (3/Day). Up to three creatures standing
on an area of earth within 60 feet of the dorotabō that it
can see are besieged by mouldering vines that burst from
the ground at their feet. Each creature must make a DC 14
Strength saving throw or be restrained for 1 minute.
A restrained creature can use its action to make a DC 14
Strength (Athletics) check, ending the effect on itself on a
success. A creature can also attack the vines to destroy them,
which have an AC of 12, 10 hit points, immunity to necrotic
damage, and vulnerability to fire damage.
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Ebizo
Far beneath roiling ocean waves, in pitch darkness and and wisdom, an adage that rings particularly true among
numbing cold, only the hardiest and most tenacious life the ebi’ishi, for they never cease growing. Over time, their
forms endure. The Ebizo, a society of dangerous crustacean shells and claws become increasingly thick and mighty,
yokai, are notorious for their raids on coastal towns and with elders bearing carapaces so dense they deflect weapons
the plundering of ships foolhardy enough to stray into with the ease of waves breaking on rock. However, as their
their ocean territory. According to legend, in aeons past, weight and strength increase, their mobility suffers. The
they were once isetsu who threw off the shackles of divine ultimate fate of an ebi’ishi is for their carapace to grow so
imperative, forsaking their post on land and stepping will- heavy that it crushes the flesh within. To collapse under the
ingly into the ocean’s embrace. There, beneath the crushing weight of one’s shell is seen as an honourable death for an
pressure of ten-thousand fathoms, their shells and hearts otherwise unconquerable warrior of the Ebizo clan.
hardened in the deep, endless dark. If the tales of their
origin hold true, the irony is not lost on the isetsu; these
ancient cousins, who abandoned their roles as guardians of Ebi’ishi
the shoreline, have become monstrous yokai, chief among Medium Fiend (Yokai), Lawful Evil
its greatest threats. Armour Class 17 (natural armour)
Current Affairs. Despite their clunky, encumbered Hit Points 120 (16d8 + 48)
appearance, none can navigate riptides and ride currents Speed 30 ft., swim 60 ft.
quite like the Ebizo—reading and sensing the flow of the STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
water with a precision reminiscent of a hawk gliding on an 18 (+4) 16 (+3) 16 (+3) 9 (-1) 10 (+0) 12 (+1)
updraft. While uncontested combatants in water, they are
still formidable and ferocious on land, carrying the power Skills Athletics +6
and tenacity of the ocean wherever they tread. Damage Resistances cold, poison
Senses blindsight 10 ft., darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Society. Contrary to the stories told by landfolk, to Languages Aquan, Common
whom the Ebizo are naught but bloodthirsty pirates and Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
conquerors, Ebizo society is rich and complex. The primary
yokai of the clan are ebi’ishi, kanibozu, and zuwai, each Actions
with distinct talents and cultural importance. Although Multiattack. The ebi’ishi makes two attacks with any combi-
much of Ebizo society is crafted around oceanic conquest nation of Claw and Spear.
and battles with landfolk, they also engage in festivals, art, Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
religion, and industry. Ebizo are intelligent and articulate, Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage. Instead of dealing damage,
capable of reason and compromise, and, while undoubtedly the ebi’ishi can grapple the target (escape DC 16). Either
deadly and aggressive, aren’t devoid of kindness and mercy. way, if the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14
Strength saving throw or drop whatever it’s holding.
Ebi’ishi Spear. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft. or
range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) piercing damage.
The bulk of the Ebizo clan’s warriors are ebi’ishi—hardy
lobster yokai with natural carapaces as durable as lacquered Bonus Actions
armour. Their roles range from city guards to infantry Ink Spray (Recharge 4-6). The ebi’ishi hurls a glob of ink
soldiers, while elder ebi’ishi serve as elite juggernauts tasked at one creature it can see within 20 feet of itself. The target
with the defence of zuwai. With experience comes strength must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or
be blinded until the end of its next turn. While underwater,
the ebi’ishi instead expels an ink cloud in a 10-foot radius.
The cloud spreads around corners and heavily obscures the
area. Each creature other than the ebi’ishi that ends its turn
there must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw,
taking 16 (3d10) poison damage on a failed save, or half as
much damage on a successful one. A strong current disperses
the ink cloud, which otherwise disappears at the end of the
ebi’ishi’s next turn.
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Kanibozu Kanibozu
The kanibozu are esteemed nobles that form the backbone Medium Fiend (Yokai), Neutral
of the Ebizo society, often acting as teachers, seers, histori-
Armour Class 18 (natural armour)
ans, healers, and spies. These yokai have a particular affinity Hit Points 95 (10d8 + 50)
for illusion magic, with many legends told of kanibozu Speed 30 ft., swim 40 ft.
infiltrating isetsu outlooks disguised as roaming mercenaries
or masquerading as priests within monasteries, dutifully STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
playing their roles for decades before being caught. In 17 (+3) 11 (+0) 20 (+5) 14 (+2) 10 (+0) 18 (+4)
their true form, every kanibozu carries a lantern—a focus
Skills Deception +7, Stealth +3
through which they channel their magic and an immutable
Damage Resistances cold, poison; bludgeoning, slashing, and
symbol of authority and status. In the haunting darkness piercing from nonmagical attacks
and crushing depths of the ocean, the distant, eerie light of Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
a kanibozu is a bolstering force of hope for the Ebizo and a Languages Aquan, Common
stern warning to its enemies. Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
Lantern Bearer. The kanibozu carries a lantern that sheds
bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an addition-
al 10 feet. It can extinguish or light the lantern as a bonus
action. Creatures of the kanibozu’s choice within the lantern’s
light gain a 1d4 bonus to attack and damage rolls (included in
the kanibozu’s attacks).
Actions
Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 plus 1d4 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 10 (1d8 + 1d4 + 3) bludgeoning damage.
Stinging Ray. Ranged Spell Attack: +7 plus 1d4 to hit, range
120 ft., one target. Hit: 22 (3d10 + 1d4 + 3) radiant damage.
Illusory Form. The kanibozu casts the disguise self spell, using
Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15).
Bonus Actions
Inversion Illusion. The kanibozu attempts to craft an illusion
in the mind of a creature it can see within 60 feet of it. The
target must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a
failed save, the area within 20 feet of the kanibozu’s lantern
becomes obscured by pitch darkness for that creature, regard-
less of other illumination. The creature can repeat the saving
throw at the end of its turn, ending the effect on a success.
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Zuwai Zuwai
The Ebizo believe that all things belong to the ocean, and Large Fiend (Yokai), Lawful Evil
the ocean belongs to the zuwai. Matriarchs among the
Armour Class 19 (natural armour)
Ebizo, these deep-sea elementalists tower over the rest of Hit Points 178 (17d10 + 85)
the clan, both in stature and magical prowess. Among their Speed 40 ft., swim 60 ft.
kin, zuwai act as chieftains and battlefield commanders,
masterminding the flow of combat from afar and rarely STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
engaging personally. However, should the need arise, zuwai 14 (+2) 20 (+5) 20 (+5) 18 (+4) 11 (+0) 18 (+4)
are fearsome warriors innately equipped with lethal magic.
Saving Throws Con +9, Wis +4
Their grace in battle is unmatched; the zuwai’s many limbs
Skills Acrobatics +9, Persuasion +8, Stealth +9
move with spectacular synchronicity as they channel the Damage Resistances cold, poison; bludgeoning, slashing, and
element of water through precise movements—an uncanny piercing from nonmagical attacks
union of delicate motion and crushing tidal force. In many Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
ways, zuwai are the ocean’s erratic temperament incarnate, Languages Aquan, Common
at one moment beautiful in tranquillity, the next terrifying Challenge 10 (5,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4
in tempestuous rage.
Magical Carapace (3/Day). When the zuwai fails a saving
throw, it can choose to succeed instead. If it does so, a layer
of its carapace shatters and sheds, and it has a -1 penalty to
AC until it finishes a long rest.
Actions
Multiattack. The zuwai makes two attacks with any combi-
nation of Claw and Tidal Surge.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target.
Hit: 18 (2d12 + 5) piercing damage, plus 13 (3d8) cold damage.
Tidal Surge. Ranged Spell Attack: +8 to hit, range 120 ft., one
target. Hit: 28 (8d6) bludgeoning damage, and if the target is a
creature, the zuwai can move that creature up to 30 feet in a
direction of its choice.
Tidal Grasp (Recharge 6). The zuwai conjures three tendrils
of undulating water that attempt to ensnare up to three
Large or smaller creatures within 60 feet of it. Each target
must succeed on a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or be
restrained for 1 minute. While restrained in this way, a crea-
ture is also drowning—it cannot breathe, speak, or perform
the verbal components of spells. The target, or a creature
within 5 feet of it, can use an action to attempt a DC 16
Strength saving throw, ending the effect on it on a success.
Water Wyrm (1/Day). The zuwai casts the water wyrm* spell
(at 4th level), using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell
save DC 16, +8 to hit with spell attacks).
*See Appendix A
Reactions
Drowning Shield. When a creature within 60 feet of the
zuwai makes an attack roll, the zuwai can conjure a bubble of
water around itself. It gains a +5 bonus to AC until the start
of its next turn. If the zuwai is hit with an attack roll while
this shield is in place, the bubble bursts, and all other crea-
tures within 15 feet it must succeed on a DC 16 Strength
saving throw or take 22 (4d10) bludgeoning damage and be
knocked prone.
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Hone Karakasa Hone Karakasa
Cavorting with the roaring wind and singing with every Medium Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Neutral
crash of thunder, a bundle of torn red cloth held together Armour Class 14
by a wooden frame dances through a darkened sky. It is a Hit Points 30 (4d8 + 12)
hone karakasa, joyous and unfettered by the rain and gale of Speed 10 ft., fly 40 ft.
a driving tempest. Resembling a torn-up umbrella with its
bamboo skeleton exposed, this large and unusual tsukumog- STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
ami is a sight that sends civilians scarpering indoors—but 13 (+1) 18 (+4) 16 (+3) 7 (-2) 12 (+1) 15 (+2)
not to protect themselves from the hone karakasa itself. On
Skills Acrobatics +6, Stealth +6
days such as these, where the flying yokai is glimpsed in a Damage Resistances cold, lightning, thunder
distant sky, it acts as the harbinger of an oncoming storm. Senses darkvision 30 ft., passive Perception 11
As such, the hone karakasa’s appearance is a useful sign to Languages —
many Humanoids, albeit rarely a welcome one. Challenge 2 (450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
A Bone to Pick. Tsukumogami are known to be a class of Flyby. The hone karakasa doesn’t provoke opportunity
mischievous, playful yokai; sometimes troublesome, some- attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.
times helpful, but rarely ever outright hostile; the exception Storm Guardian. The hone karakasa can impart a flying
is the hone karakasa. An elder tsukumogami whose great speed equal to its own to any creature it is grappling. Such a
lifespan allows it to grow larger and stronger than its young- creature also has resistance to cold, lightning, and thunder
er counterparts, this oversized umbrella is far more aggres- damage. The hone karakasa can only grapple one creature in
sive and belligerent than others of its kind. It subsists on a this way at a time.
diet almost exclusively consisting of small animals, hunting Windrider. While the hone karakasa is outside in stormy
under the cover of mighty storms, seizing prey spooked weather conditions, it’s flying speed is doubled.
from their nests by flashes of lightning and rumbles of Actions
thunder. As opportunists, hone karakasa have been known
Multiattack. The hone karakasa makes two Slam attacks.
to steal food from Humanoids as well, and eagerly strike up
fights with whoever the wind brings them before. Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.
Leader of the Flock. Because of their age, aggression,
and relative strength, whenever tsukumogami gather, a hone Bonus Aactions
karakasa often emerges as the leader of the band. They often Gusting Winds (Recharge 4-6). The hone karakasa emits
fly at the head of a yokai parade, dancing high and free in a mighty rush of wind in a line that is 30 feet long and 10
a proud and beautiful display—their papery wings spread feet wide, which blasts in a direction of its choice. Each crea-
wide, inspiring awe in the gaggle of smaller tsukumogami ture in that line must succeed on a DC 12 Strength saving
throw or be pushed 15 feet away from the hone karakasa.
stumbling in their wake.
The blast of wind disperses gas or vapor, and it extinguishes
candles, torches, and similar unprotected flames in the area. It
causes protected flames, such as those of lanterns, to dance
wildly and has a 50 percent chance to extinguish them.
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Jorogumo
Of all the fiendish yokai that prowl the land, few can match
the cunning and ingenuity of the jorogumo: a shapeshifting
spider-demon with a humanoid head and torso grotesquely
perched atop the abdomen of a giant spider. Horror stories
tell of quaint, luxurious roadside inns that seem to pop up
out of nowhere, beckoning merchants and travellers alike
with the promise of full bellies, soft sheets, and a charm-
ing host. Those foolish enough to be ensnared by these
promises never return—stolen from their beds, wrapped up
in sweet-scented silk, and dragged below the earth to the
jorogumo’s lair. Here they are left, desperate and struggling,
surrounded by the corpses of others caught by the demon
yokai, their muffled screams meritless as they lie trapped
in a dark, webbed tomb. Particularly sadistic jorogumo
visit their prey, singing soft tales of lost love and fallen
heroes, holding them in a tender caress, and revelling
in the thrill of their victims’ absolute terror before
devouring them utterly.
Living Form. The jorogumo’s most subtle art
is that of shapeshifting, capable of assuming the
form of a Humanoid and integrating among
its prey. Some jorogumo spend years in plain
sight, mimicking the lives and habits of ordi-
nary townsfolk, accruing a kill count in the
hundreds over decades of careful slaughter. To
some jorogumo, this sickly Humanoid panto-
mime is as satisfying as the kill itself.
Empty Shell. The magic of the jorogumo’s
form extends beyond mere shapeshifting.
They must shed regularly as they grow, and
this discarded shell of flesh and webbing
holds magic of its own. It is a husk—a
mindless, predatory shadow of the true
jorogumo. While it possesses no malice, it is
still extremely dangerous; jorogumo husks are
driven only by a relentless, aching need to be
whole once more. They burn with a yearning
to consume—to wrap around another as a
cocoon of flesh. Victims of jorogumo husks are
consumed, enveloped by the ghastly undead and
suspended within it. The husk and its slaughtered
victim then undergo a metamorphosis, and a new
jorogumo is born, able to shapeshift into the likeness
of the creature the husk devoured.
Spider Arts. Jorogumo are consummate artists,
exhibiting mastery across various crafts, including
carpentry, artifice, song, and dance. Their performanc-
es are nothing short of sirenical, drawing in all manner
of beings who stand in awe at their beauty and talent,
blissfully unaware of the horror that awaits them just
below the floorboards of the stage.
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Jorogumo Venom Shot. Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 30/90 ft.,
one target. Hit: 20 (3d10 + 4) poison damage.
Large Fiend (Yokai), Lawful Evil
Charm. The jorogumo targets one Humanoid it can see within
Armour Class 16 (natural armour) 30 feet of it. If the target can see the jorogumo, the target
Hit Points 170 (20d10 + 60) must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be
Speed 40 ft., climb 40 ft. charmed for the next 24 hours. The charmed target regards
the jorogumo as a delicate innocent to be loved and protected.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA Although the target isn’t under the jorogumo’s control, it takes
18 (+4) 16 (+3) 16 (+3) 14 (+2) 12 (+1) 20 (+5) the jorogumo’s requests or actions in the most favourable way
it can. The first time on a turn the target takes damage, it can
Saving Throws Dex +6, Cha +8 repeat this saving throw, ending the effect on a success.
Skills Acrobatics +6, Deception +8, Performance +8, Persuasion
Webweaver. The jorogumo casts the web spell, requiring no
+8, Stealth +6
spell components, without requiring concentration, and using
Damage Resistances necrotic
Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16).
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, poisoned Venom Channeler (Recharge 5-6). The jorogumo channels a
Senses darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 30 ft., passive Perception 11 potent poison through its webbing. Each creature within 120
Languages Abyssal, Common, Sylvan feet of the jorogumo that is in contact with the same web as it
Challenge 7 (2,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3 must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw. On a failed
save, a creature takes 36 (8d8) poison damage and suffers one
Spider Climb. The jorogumo can climb difficult surfaces, random condition chosen from the following options until the
including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an end of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half
ability check. as much damage and doesn’t suffer a condition.
Web Walker. While in contact with a web, the jorogumo knows 1. Blinded
the exact location of any other creature in contact with the
2. Frightened
same web. The jorogumo also ignores movement restrictions
caused by webbing. 3. Poisoned
Magic Resistance. The jorogumo has advantage on saving 4. Restrained
throws against spells and other magical effects. Shapeshifter. The jorogumo magically polymorphs into a Small
or Medium Humanoid. Its statistics and capabilities, other than
Actions its size, remain the same. It reverts to its true form if it makes
Multiattack. The jorogumo uses its Charm. It then makes two a Venom Shot attack, uses its Webweaver or Venom Channeler
Venom Shot attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of actions, or dies.
Webweaver.
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Jorogumo Husk Spider Climb. The husk can climb difficult surfaces, includ-
ing upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an
Large Undead (Yokai), Chaotic Evil
ability check.
Armour Class 15 (natural armour) Web Walker. While in contact with a web, the husk knows
Hit Points 68 (8d10 + 24) the exact location of any other creature in contact with the
Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft. same web. The husk also ignores movement restrictions caused
by webbing.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
16 (+3) 16 (+3) 16 (+3) 1 (-5) 10 (+0) 1 (-5) Actions
Multiattack. The husk makes two attacks with any combina-
Skills Stealth +5
tion of Bite and Web.
Damage Resistances cold, necrotic
Damage Immunities poison Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit:
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, poi- 10 (2d6 + 3) piercing damage.
soned Web. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 30/60 ft., one crea-
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10 ture. Hit: The target is restrained by webbing. As an action, the
Languages — restrained target can make a DC 13 Strength check, bursting
Challenge 2 (450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 the webbing on a success. The webbing can also be attacked and
destroyed (AC 10; hp 5; vulnerability to fire damage; immu-
Aching Emptiness. When the husk kills a Humanoid with its nity to bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage).
Devour attack, the Humanoid’s corpse is left suspended and
encased with webbing inside the husk’s carapace. Over the next Devour. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one re-
24 hours, the two fuse together, and the husk is reborn as a strained creature. Hit: 28 (8d6) necrotic damage, and the target
jorogumo that can take the appearance of the Humanoid it is grappled (escape DC 13).
killed with its Shapeshifter action.
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Kamaitachi Kamaitachi
Small Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Neutral
The skittering click-clack of bladed forelimbs across a court-
yard’s stone paving is the telltale indicator of a kamaitachi Armour Class 14 (natural armour)
nearby. As nimble and flighty as mountain winds, these Hit Points 22 (4d6 + 8)
weasel-like yokai dart from shadow to shadow, kicking up Speed 40 ft., climb 30 ft.
whirling eddies of dust and leaves in their wake.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
Deadly Scavenger. Kamaitachi prefer to scavenge food, 5 (-3) 15 (+2) 14 (+2) 7 (-2) 13 (+1) 16 (+3)
sneaking close to settlements and pilfering what they can
under the cover of darkness. If forced to hunt, they tend to Skills Acrobatics +4, Stealth +6
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
ambush prey, striking swiftly for a surgical, clean kill. Though
Languages —
aggressive and dangerous in battle, kamaitachi are not mali- Challenge 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
cious and rarely strike without reason or provocation.
Frenzy. After the kamaitachi makes its second attack roll on a
Reactive Power. The kamaitachi’s most unusual power turn, it has advantage on attack rolls until the end of the turn.
is its ability to harness the strength of those it fights. When
threatened by a powerful predator, the yokai becomes a Actions
devastating flurry of blades, intimidating the foe with its Multiattack. The kamaitachi makes a number of Sickle Claw
lacerating performance before dashing away as a whirlwind attacks equal to the proficiency bonus of the first creature it
of fur and strikes. The greater the threat, the more deadly attacks on its turn (minimum of two).
the kamaitachi becomes; even the boldest adventurers and Sickle Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
mightiest monsters treat kamaitachi with respect. target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) slashing damage plus 3 (1d6) slashing
damage for each other attack the kamaitachi has made
this turn.
Dust Devil. The kamaitachi conjures a small vortex of wind,
dust, and leaves around itself. Until the start of its next turn,
it levitates 4 inches above the ground. While floating in this
way, it can move normally, it ignores difficult terrain, and its
movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks.
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Kappa
Candid Friend, Dangerous Foe. The kappa are well-
A fisherman cautiously drops to his haunches by a sodden
known as honorable and trustworthy yokai; they will return
riverbank and lays down a curious offering with a shaking
a bow to even the most hated adversary before battle and
hand. It is a bag of fresh cucumbers, each scrubbed and
will never willingly break a promise. That said, they are ruth-
polished to perfection. Moments later, a scaly, webbed hand
less and dangerous if threatened or insulted. Grasping hands
breaks the surface of the water, and a kappa hauls itself from
and uncanny strength make the kappa fearsome grapplers,
the depths, its head covered by a smattering of river weeds.
often overpowering prey on land before dragging them into
It opens the bag and examines the goods carefully. Satisfied,
the waters to drown. Defeat at the hands of an angered kap-
the kappa slings the bag over its back and leaps back into
pa leads to a clawing, desperate, and painful death.
the water, returning with a basket of freshly caught fish for
the fisherman moments later. Their trade completed, both Crying Over Spilled Water. Every kappa has a bowl-like
fisherman and kappa go their separate ways, each with indentation on their heads that must be filled with water at
dinner in hand and a smile on their face. all times. Should this water ever dry up or spill, the kappa
weakens. To prevent evaporation, most kappa keep their
heads covered with water weeds while on land. Should a
cunning foe knock a kappa over or trick them into straying
too far from a water source, they can gain the upper hand in
a battle with the unfortunate yokai.
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Kappa Kappa Tideweaver
Small Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Neutral Medium Fey (Yokai), Neutral
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
16 (+3) 16 (+3) 14 (+2) 10 (+0) 16 (+3) 8 (-1) 16 (+3) 16 (+3) 14 (+2) 18 (+4) 16 (+3) 8 (-1)
Skills Athletics +5 Skills Arcana +6, Athletics +5
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13 Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages Common, Sylvan Languages Common, Sylvan
Challenge 2 (450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Amphibious. The kappa can breathe air and water. Amphibious. The kappa can breathe air and water.
Honourable Combatant. If a creature bows to the kappa Honourable Combatant. If a creature bows to the kappa
immediately after rolling initiative, the kappa will bow in re- immediately after rolling initiative, the kappa bows in return.
turn. Both creatures take a -5 penalty to their initiative roll. Both creatures take a -5 penalty to their initiative roll.
Seasoned Wrangler. The kappa’s speed isn’t reduced while Water Bowl. The kappa takes 4 (1d8) necrotic damage when
dragging a creature it is grappling. it is knocked prone or starts its turn upside down. This trait
Water Bowl. The kappa takes 4 (1d8) necrotic damage when doesn’t trigger while the kappa is underwater.
it is knocked prone, or at the start of its turn if it is upside
down. This trait doesn’t trigger while the kappa is underwater.
Actions
Rough-and-Tumble. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
Actions one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage, or 10 (2d6 +
Multiattack. The kappa makes two Rough-and-Tumble attacks. 3) bludgeoning damage if the target is grappled by the kappa or
restrained by its water wyrm.
Rough-and-Tumble. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach
5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage, plus Death Roll. The kappa rolls and thrashes a creature it is
2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage if the target is grappled by grappling that is submerged in water. The creature must make a
the kappa. DC 13 Strength saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) bludgeoning
damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a success-
Death Roll. The kappa rolls and thrashes a creature it is
ful one. If the creature doesn’t have a swimming speed, it has
grappling that is submerged in water. The creature must make
disadvantage on this saving throw.
a DC 13 Strength saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) bludg-
eoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a Tideweaver (2/Day). The kappa casts the water wyrm* spell
successful save. Creatures without a swimming speed make (save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell attacks). The kappa has
this save with disadvantage. advantage on Constitution saving throws to maintain its
concentration on the spell.
Water Magic. The kappa casts the water whip* spell, using
Wisdom as the spellcasting modifier (save DC 13, +5 to Water Bubble. The kappa conjures a bubble of living water.
hit with spell attacks). It can use the water in its head as the The bubble wraps moves with the kappa, enveloping it and any
source of water from which the whip emerges. creature the kappa grapples. Creatures enveloped by the water
*See Appendix B
bubble have a +2 bonus to AC. If a creature enveloped by the
water bubble cannot breathe in water, it also cannot speak,
Bonus Actions cannot perform the verbal components of spells, and has dis-
advantage on attack rolls and ability checks. The bubble lasts
Rugged Grapple (Recharge 5-6). The kappa
for 1 minute, or until the kappa falls unconscious.
attempts to grapple one creature within 5 feet of it.
*See Appendix B
The kappa has advantage on its ability check.
Reactions
Rugged Grapple (Recharge 5-6). The kappa attempts to
grapple one creature within 5 feet of it. The kappa has ad-
vantage on its ability check.
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Kasha Kasha
Medium Fiend (Yokai), Chaotic Evil
Under the falling rain, a solemn funeral procession winds Skills Intimidation +5, Stealth +3
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 9
through a weary town. Two priests lead the parade, each
Damage Immunities fire
bearing a pair of ceremonial cymbals. Each heavy step Languages Infernal
forward is met with a gentle knell—the ancient, ritual pulse Challenge 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
of clashing bronze to ward off any evil spirit who might
disrupt the tragic vigil. At such an event, no yokai is more Flaming Feline. The first time on a turn that a creature
feared than the ruthless kasha, a flaming feline monster with touches the kasha or hits it with a melee attack while within
5 feet of it, that creature takes 2 (1d4) fire damage.
a penchant for stealing and devouring the dead. Unbe-
knownst to the grieving procession, in the deep shadows Steam Eruption. The first time on a turn the kasha comes
into contact with a body of water, or a gallon of water is
cast by a slowly fading sun, a steady hiss of steam whispers.
splashed on it, the flames on its body are extinguished and
It is the sound of rainwater boiling on contact with flame, burst into a cloud of steam. The kasha takes 3 (1d6) cold
as a ravenous yokai stalks its next meal. damage, it loses its Flaming Feline trait, and the steam creates
Hell’s Harvester. Of all the yokai known, there are few a 10-foot-radius sphere of white vapour centred on the
kasha’s space, heavily obscuring the area. These changes last
reviled like the kasha. Their preferred source of food is carri-
until the end of its next turn, at which time its body becomes
on, but unlike other scavengers that happily feast on rotting
wreathed in flames again.
flesh, kasha prefer their meals fresh—and Humanoid. More
grotesque still, kasha have a sadistic love for dead things, Actions
often taking fresh corpses back to their lairs to skin, carve, Multiattack. The kasha makes one Bite attack and one
and preserve. Claws attack.
Flaming Cart. While more than willing to stay patient Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
and cunning while hunting, when threatened, a kasha’s Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) piercing damage.
body becomes wreathed in flames. Once discovered, it Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
acts with extreme aggression—terrifying its victims with Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) slashing damage.
its flaming form and dashing around the battlefield. Such Twin-Tail Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 10 ft.,
is their agility in this state that they are often likened to a one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage.
flaming wagon barreling down a desolate track, unimpeded Bonus Actions
and at full speed.
Fiery Dread (Recharge 6). The kasha erupts in flames. Each
creature within 30 feet of the kasha that can see it must suc-
ceed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened
of the kasha for 1 minute, or until its flames are extin-
guished. A creature can repeat this saving throw at the end of
each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a
creature’s saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it,
the creature is immune to the kasha’s Fiery Dread for the
next 24 hours.
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Komainu
With the agility of a hunting hound and the ferocious maw magic of the yokai soul they house, these stoic Fey elicit a
of a lion, these stone-skinned yokai are the dormant guard- variety of magical effects based on the material from which
ians of shrines and holy places. If a long-abandoned temple they are crafted. Though typically made of stone or jade,
hasn’t yet been plundered of its treasure, these ever-vigilant legend tells of mighty komainu cast from precious metals
protectors are the likely explanation; should a would-be like adamantine and gold who keep watch over treasure
thief defile a site guarded by komainu, the petrified statues beyond imagination.
spring to life, their spectral manes igniting with a rum-
The Beginning and the End. Komainu are commonly
ble that rings deep into the ancient stones of the temple.
found in pairs, with each creature’s maw displaying one of
Screams of pain usually follow.
two syllables: “Un” or “Ah”. These sounds represent the begin-
Artisanal Guardians. In the folktales of many races, ning and end of all things, respectively. Komainu displaying
komainu have simply “always been”—where a shrine exists, a snarling, closed-mouthed “Un” might manifest powers of
komainu are there to guard it. Some tales, shared among healing, growth, and light, while those showing a roaring,
only the most ancient communities, tell of foreboding yokai open-mouthed “Ah” can unleash devastating waves of necrotic
spirits, attracted to areas of intense devotion, finding a energy or banish interlopers to a distant plane of existence.
home in these painstakingly carved statues. Channelling the
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Stone Komainu Divine Mace. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 3 (1d6)
Medium Fey (Yokai), Lawful Good
radiant damage.
Armour Class 16 (natural armour) Beginning and End. The komainu switches between its “Un”
Hit Points 30 (4d8 + 12) and “Ah” forms.
Speed 40 ft., climb 30 ft. Manifestation (Recharge 6). The komainu manifests one of
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA the following effects.
17 (+3) 15 (+2) 17 (+3) 7 (-2) 15 (+2) 13 (+1) Duskbringer (Ah Form Only). The komainu exhales wither-
ing energy in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must
Skills Athletics +5, Acrobatics +4, Stealth +6 make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 18 (4d8)
Damage Resistances necrotic, poison necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, petri- successful one.
fied Shrineward (Un Form Only). The komainu conjures a
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12 nonmagical wall of stone at a point it chooses with 60 feet of
Languages — it, composed of three contiguous 10-foot-by-10-foot panels. If
Challenge 2 (450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 the wall cuts through a creature’s space when it appears, the
creature must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw
Radiant Mane. Any creature grappling the komainu takes 5
or take 9 (2d8) bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone
(2d4) radiant damage at the start of its turn, and the komainu’s
in the nearest unoccupied space of the komainu’s choice. Each
weapon attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming
panel has AC 15 and 30 hit points. A panel crumbles to dust if
resistances and immunity to nonmagical attacks.
it is reduced to 0 hit points or after 1 minute.
Statue Form. While the komainu’s Radiant Mane is not active
(see Fortification of Stone) and it remains motionless, it is indis- Bonus Actions
tinguishable from an ordinary statue. Fortification of Stone. The komainu’s spirit retreats back into
its body. It loses its Radiant Mane trait, can’t use or recharge its
Actions Manifestation action, has its speed reduced by 10 feet, and gains
Multiattack. The komainu makes one Claw attack and one resistance to bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing damage. This
Divine Mace attack. effect lasts until the komainu ends it as a bonus action, reigniting
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: its Radiant Mane.
8 (2d4 + 3) slashing damage.
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Jade Komainu Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit:
10 (1d12 + 4) bludgeoning damage.
Large Fey (Yokai), Lawful Good
Divine Orb. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 120 ft.,
Armour Class 16 (natural armour) one target. Hit: 9 (1d10 + 4) bludgeoning damage plus 3 (1d6)
Hit Points 52 (5d10 + 25) radiant damage.
Speed 40 ft., climb 30 ft. Manifestation (Recharge 6). The komainu manifests one of
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA the following effects.
18 (+4) 15 (+2) 20 (+5) 7 (-2) 17 (+3) 13 (+1) Dawnbringer (Un Form Only). The komainu exhales bril-
liant, radiant energy in a 30-foot cone. Each creature of the
Skills Athletics +6, Acrobatics +4, Stealth +6 komainu’s choice in that area gains 18 (4d8) temporary hit
Damage Resistances necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and points.
slashing from nonmagical attacks Banishment (Ah Form Only). The komainu exhales astral
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, energy in a 30-foot cone. Roll 12d6; the total is how many
petrified hit points of creatures this spell can affect. Creatures in the
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12 area are affected in ascending order of their current hit points.
Languages — Subtract each creature’s hit points from the total before mov-
Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 ing on to the creature with the next lowest hit points. A crea-
ture’s hit points must be equal to or less than the remaining
Radiant Mane. Any creature grappling the komainu takes 11
total for that creature to be affected. An affected creature is
(2d10) radiant damage at the start of its turn, and the komainu’s
teleported to a random location 1d6 miles away. If a creature
weapon attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming
can’t be teleported, it is sent to a harmless demiplane; while
resistances and immunity to nonmagical attacks.
there, the target is incapacitated.
Statue Form. While the komainu’s Radiant Mane is not active
(see Fortification of Gemstone) and it remains motionless, it is Bonus Actions
indistinguishable from an ordinary statue. Fortification of Gemstone. The komainu’s spirit retreats
back into its body. It loses its Radiant Mane trait, can’t use or
Actions recharge its Manifestation action, has its speed reduced by 10
Multiattack. The komainu makes one Claw attack, one Bite feet, gains resistance to all damage dealt by spells, and has
attack, and one Divine Orb attack. advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: effects. This effect lasts until the komainu ends it as a bonus
9 (1d10 + 4) slashing damage. action, reigniting its mane.
Korōri
There exists a yokai whose deadliness is deceptive, whose
appearance does not reflect the devastation it leaves in
its tread. Long-limbed and tiger-striped, the korōri is a
docile-looking creature most commonly found hiding
inside tunnels and caves, scuttling away frantically at signs
of danger. Despite its cowardice and unassuming presence,
however, the korōri is deadly, producing a vicious poison
that will lay an entire village to waste if allowed to settle.
Patient Predator. The korōri hunts by finding a secluded
hiding place and lying in wait, curling up into a ball while
opening stripe-like vents across its body. From these vents, a
lethal, poisonous fume seeps into the area around it. The poi-
son is odourless, almost impossible to detect until the sickness
sets in. Some say the korōri reeks of death and decay, but this
is inaccurate. The odour of rot that follows its arrival is the
stench of living creatures around the korōri that fall prey to its
deadly miasma. Only after it detects the scent of rotting flesh
does the korōri emerge from its hiding place to feed.
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Bringer of Illness. There is nary a creature more widely immune to venoms and toxicants. The korōri is considered
feared than this innocuous yokai. While kaiju can destroy a harbinger of pestilence, a demon of plague and ruin, and
cities in mere minutes, there is no Monstrosity, Fiend, or a herald of death and rot by cultures from all corners of
Fey that can lay waste to a populace in such a subtle and the realm. A single korōri footprint found on the outskirts
silent manner as the korōri. Its poison twists the mind and of a town is grounds enough for the whole settlement to
senses, inciting harrowing hallucinations and excruciating evacuate immediately.
anguish before death, sparing none, even creatures typically
Korōri Actions
Large Fiend (Yokai), Unaligned Multiattack. The korōri makes two attacks with any combina-
Armour Class 17 (natural armour) tion of Bite and Venom Shot.
Hit Points 152 (16d10 + 64) Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit:
Speed 40 ft., climb 20 ft. 7 (1d6 + 4) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage, and
the target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA throw or be poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature can
18 (+4) 20 (+5) 19 (+4) 9 (-1) 14 (+2) 5 (-3) repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending
the poisoned condition on a success.
Skills Stealth +8 Venom Shot. Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range 20/60 ft.,
Damage Immunities poison one target. Hit: 10 (3d6) poison damage, and the target must
Condition Immunities poisoned succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or fall
Senses darkvision 60 ft. prone and be poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature
Languages — can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns,
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3 ending the poisoned condition on a success.
Hallucinogenic Poison. A creature poisoned by the korōri must Pestilent Burst (Recharge 5-6). The korōri releases a sicken-
make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw at the start of each of ing burst of poison. Each creature within 30 feet of the korōri
its turns. On a failed save, it becomes frightened of all other must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 42
creatures until the start of its next turn and must use its action (12d6) poison damage and becoming poisoned for 1 minute
that turn to make one attack against the closest creature it can on a failed save, or taking half as much damage and not be-
see within 30 feet of it, believing it to be a terrifying foe. If no coming poisoned on a successful one. A poisoned creature can
creature is visible within 30 feet, it falls prone. repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending
Harrowing Stench. A creature that starts its turn within 20 the poisoned condition on a success.
feet of the korōri takes 9 (2d8) poison damage. Creatures
within 20 feet of the korōri have disadvantage on saving
throws to avoid or end the poisoned condition.
Magical Toxin. Korōri’s attacks and effects that deal poison
damage ignore poison resistance.
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Narigama Narigama
Small Fey (Yokai), Lawful Good
Tsukumogami, the feeble, mischievous spirits that find
homes possessing worn out objects, are a common sight Armour Class 14 (natural armour)
across the realms, and usually regarded as irritating at best. Hit Points 27 (5d6 + 10)
However, there is one exception—the narigama, a benev- Speed 20 ft.
olent tsukumogami known for inhabiting well-used and
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
well-loved iron kettles. Appearing as a fuzzy quadrupedal
7 (-2) 15 (+2) 15 (+2) 9 (-1) 20 (+5) 12 (+1)
creature with a kettle as its head, the whimsical appearance
and character of the narigama, its docile nature, and its val- Skills Insight +9, Perception +9
uable ability to predict the future, has endeared it to many Senses blindsight 60 ft., tremorsense 120 ft., passive Percep-
folk across the realms. tion 19
Languages –
Spilling the Tea. Despite a humble appearance, nariga- Challenge 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
ma are exceptionally sensitive to their environments and are
able to sense minor changes in temperature and air pressure, Saw It Coming. At the start of its turn, the narigama can
detect nearly indistinguishable vibrations, and identify focus on one creature it can see if the narigama isn’t inca-
pacitated, analysing every nigh-imperceptible movement and
distant noises even the keenest Humanoids would be unable
behaviour. Until the start of its next turn, the narigama has
to detect. Priests and sailors often teach their narigama pets advantage on attack rolls against the target, and the target
to make various clicks and whistles to signal information has disadvantage on attack rolls against the narigama.
without speech. As a result, they can be trained to reliably
predict almost anything, from coming storms to volcanic Actions
eruptions, from animal migrations to bandit incursions. Scald. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 30/90 ft., one
target. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) fire damage.
Boiling Hot. Narigama living in shrines, shipyards, and
boats often lead a carefree, spoiled life—their caretakers Reactions
offering them everything they desire in return for their Screeching Whistle. When a creature the narigama is fo-
predictions of the future. However, like most yokai, these cused on takes an action that forces one or more creatures
fuzzy critters can still pose a threat if they feel threatened. to make a saving throw, the narigama can let loose a piercing
If pressed, a narigama will raise its hackles, give a loud, whistle of warning. Any of those creatures that are within 60
ear-piercing whistle, and spew a stream of boiling water at feet of the narigama who can hear it make that saving throw
its assailant from its kettle head. with advantage.
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Nue
An eerie, whistling call, like that of a white thrush, is a Nueko
warning that man, beast, and yokai alike have long learned Tiny Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Neutral
to fear. It is the call of the nue, a chimeric yokai with Armour Class 12
the skull of a monkey, the body of a tiger, and a tail that Hit Points 18 (4d4 + 8)
morphs into a venomous serpent. Rumoured to be the first Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.
true yokai, it is an ancient sovereign of beasts and an omen
of disaster and dread. Sowing chaos wherever it roams, the STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
nue’s ferocity and unpredictable magic represent the last 7 (-2) 14 (+2) 15 (+2) 7 (-2) 16 (+3) 12 (+1)
remnant of a forgotten, untamed world.
Skills Stealth +4
Nue’s Curse. The nue is notorious for its disaster field—a Damage Immunities poison
chaotic, magical aura that inflicts misfortune upon all with- Condition Immunities poisoned
in its proximity. This power is intertwined with the nue’s Senses darkvision 30 ft., passive Perception 13
mythology, with many stories reciting how its appearance Languages —
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
coincided with great tragedy and cataclysm. Some folktales
speak of the nue’s curse targeting specific individuals, ren-
Actions
dering great warriors and emperors alike helplessly sick for
nights on end until either they or the nue are killed. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2) piercing damage plus 2 (1d4) poison damage.
Nueko. Nue have litters of three to five young every cen- Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one tar-
tury, and the birth of these young, called nueko, are signifi- get. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage, and if the target is a
cant spiritual moments. While carrying neuko, mother nue creature, it must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving
are dangerously aggressive and powerful, their disaster fields throw or be poisoned until the end of its next turn.
growing so potent that they disrupt the weather, generating
thick, black clouds that plunge acres of land into perpet-
Bonus Actions
ual darkness and misfortune. Nueko are highly valued by Growl (Recharge 6). The nueko growls affectionately.
spellcasters, their gentler nature, charming appearance, and Creatures within 10 feet of it must succeed on a DC 13
Wisdom saving throw or be charmed for 1 minute.
innate intelligence making them prized familiars. Unlike the
nue, who’s chimeric body serves a singular, lethal purpose,
a neuko’s head and tail are independent, often play-fighting
with one another and competing for food. Only after a nue-
ko grows into a nue across the first decade of its life do its
simian head and serpent tail synchronise into a single mind.
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Nue
Large Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Neutral
Actions
Multiattack. The nue makes one Bite attack, one Claw
attack, and one Tail attack.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) poison damage.
If the nue’s attack roll exceeds the target’s AC by 5 or more,
the target is also poisoned until the end of its next turn.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.
Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target.
Hit: 6 (1d4 + 4) piercing damage. If the target is poisoned, it
takes an extra 16 (3d10) poison damage.
Beast Sovereign. The nue casts command, requiring no spell
components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability
(save DC 13). It must target a Beast, issuing the command
telepathically.
Bonus Actions
Whistling Howl (Recharge 6). The nue lets out a howl.
Each friendly creature within 30 feet of it that can hear the
howl gains advantage on saving throws against the fright-
ened condition for 1 minute. Each other creature within 30
feet of it that can hear the howl must succeed on a DC 13
Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. A
frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of
each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
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Ancient Nue Actions
Large Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Neutral Multiattack. The nue makes one Bite attack, one Claw attack,
Armour Class 18 (natural armour) and one Tail attack. It can replace one of these attacks with a
Hit Points 189 (18d10 + 90) use of Beast Sovereign.
Speed 60 ft., climb 60 ft., fly 40 ft. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit:
19 (3d8 + 6) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) poison damage. If the
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA nue’s attack roll exceeds the target’s AC by 5 or more, the target
22 (+6) 20 (+5) 21 (+5) 7 (-2) 16 (+3) 14 (+2) is also poisoned until the end of its next turn.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Skills Perception +11, Stealth +9 Hit: 16 (3d6 + 6) slashing damage.
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from
nonmagical attacks Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target.
Damage Immunities poison Hit: 11 (2d4 + 6) piercing damage. If the target is poisoned, it
Condition Immunities poisoned takes an extra 33 (6d10) poison damage.
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 21 Beast Sovereign (3/Day). The nue issues a telepathic command
Languages telepathy 120 ft. (Beasts only) to up to three Beasts it can see within 60 feet of itself. Each
Challenge 10 (5,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4 target must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or
be forced to use its action on its next turn to attack one crea-
Disaster Field. Other creatures within 15 feet of the nue must ture of the nue’s choice.
roll a d10 and subtract the number rolled from their ability
checks and saving throws. Bonus Actions
Nue’s Curse. A creature hit by three of the nue’s attacks in one Whistling Howl (Recharge 5-6). The nue lets out a howl.
turn must make a DC 15 Charisma saving throw. On a failed Each friendly creature within 60 feet of it that can hear the
save, the target is cursed—its creature type becomes Beast, its howl gains advantage on saving throws against the frightened
Intelligence and Charisma scores fall to 5 if they weren’t already condition for 1 minute. Each other creature within 60 feet of
lower, and it can’t cast spells or speak. The creature can still it that can hear the howl must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom
identify friends and foes, attack, and use magic items. This curse saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. A creature
lasts until the creature finishes a short or long rest, or until the that fails this saving throw by 5 or more and is frightened is also
nue choses to lift the curse (no action required) or dies. paralyzed until the start of its next turn. A frightened creature
can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns,
ending the effect on itself on a success.
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Ōmukade
In the depths of a green dragon’s lair, a group of adventurers Anti-Draconic Measures. An ōmukade’s prowess against
stands paralysed in awe. Before them, the broken corpse of dragons doesn’t stem from sheer audacity and strength; its
their draconic quarry lies lifeless, its rib cage crushed, its very body is designed to withstand and thrive in the face of
neck broken, and its body surrounded by mysterious, trans- everything a dragon can unleash. With chitinous armour
lucent eggs. As if in answer to their bewilderment, a chilling able to absorb elemental energy and a mighty, constricting
hiss reverberates from the darkness of the cavern. Chitinous body to grapple prey and prevent flight, the ōmukade is
scale by colossal, chitinous scale, an ōmukade unfurls its an arsenal of anti-dragon attributes, putting even the most
segmented, obsidian form, rising up over the tarnished renowned dragon slayers to shame.
metal trinkets of the late dragon’s horde. It looms over the
trespassers with mandibles bared—mandibles stained green
with the crimson ichor of a butchered dragon. Ōmukade Spawn
Medium Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Neutral
Eater of Dragons. Many myths and folktales speak of
dragons as apex predators: fearless masters of their domain, Armour Class 16 (natural armour)
unmatched by any. These myths and folktales are wrong. Hit Points 58 (9d8 + 18)
The ōmukade are mighty, insectoid yokai who not only Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft.
hold power comparable to dragons but harbour an insatia- STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
ble desire to feast on draconic flesh. It is rumoured that the
17 (+3) 16 (+3) 14 (+2) 5 (-3) 10 (+0) 8 (-1)
ōmukade were created by gods to balance the ego of drag-
onkind: a nightmare to remind them of their fragile mortal- Saving Throws Dexterity +5, Constitution +4
ity. Although their origin is shrouded in myth, the hatred of Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder
dragons is real and innate to all ōmukade—adults relentless- Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
ly seek draconic creatures to devour, laying eggs in a defeated Languages —
dragon’s nest for their spawn to devour its wyrmlings. Challenge 3 (700 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Reactive Growth. When the ōmukade spawn takes acid,
cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, its size increases by
one category if there is room (to a maximum of Huge). Each
time this occurs, its weight is multiplied by eight, the reach of
its Raptorial Stab attack increases by 5 feet, and its weapon
attacks deal an extra 1d8 damage. This trait then can’t trigger
again until the start of the ōmukade spawn’s next turn. When
the ōmukade spawn finishes a long rest, it returns to its nor-
mal size and these benefits end.
Crusher. A creature that starts its turn grappled by the
ōmukade spawn takes 3 bludgeoning damage.
Actions
Multiattack. The ōmukade spawn makes two Raptorial Stab
attacks.
Raptorial Stab. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) piercing damage.
Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
creature smaller than the ōmukade spawn. Hit: 14 (2d10 + 3)
bludgeoning damage and the target is grappled (escape DC
13) if the ōmukade isn’t already constricting a creature. The
target is restrained until this grapple ends.
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Ōmukade Actions
Huge Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Neutral Multiattack. The ōmukade makes one Bite or Swallow attack
Armour Class 21 (natural armour) and two Raptorial Stab attacks.
Hit Points 187 (15d12 + 90) Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target.
Speed 50 ft., burrow 30 ft., climb 50 ft. Hit: 25 (4d8 + 7) piercing damage. If the target is a creature
smaller than the ōmukade, it is grappled (escape DC 20). Un-
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA til this grapple ends, the target is restrained and the ōmukade
24 (+7) 18 (+4) 22 (+6) 5 (-3) 10 (+0) 8 (-1) can’t use its Bite attack on another target.
Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
Saving Throws Dex +9, Con +11 creature smaller than the ōmukade. Hit: 62 (10d10 + 7) bludg-
Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; bludg- eoning damage and the target is grappled (escape DC 20).
eoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks The target is also restrained until this grapple ends.
Senses darkvision 120 ft., tremorsense 60 ft., passive Perception
10 Raptorial Stab. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 15 ft.,
Languages — one target. Hit: 20 (3d8 + 7) piercing damage.
Challenge 15 (13,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +5 Swallow. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one
creature two or more sizes smaller than it that is grappled by
Reactive Growth. When the ōmukade takes acid, cold, fire, the ōmukade. Hit: 25 (4d8 + 7) piercing damage. The creature is
lightning, or thunder damage, its size increases by one category also swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed creature is
if there is room (to a maximum of Gargantuan). Each time this blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and
occurs, its weight is multiplied by eight, the reach of its Raptorial other effects outside the ōmukade, and it takes 28 (8d6) acid
Stab attack increases by 5 feet, and its weapon attacks deal an damage at the start of each of the ōmukade’s turns.
extra 1d8 damage. This trait then can’t trigger again until the
If the ōmukade takes 30 damage or more on a single turn
start of the ōmukade’s next turn. When the ōmukade finishes a
from a creature inside it, the ōmukade must succeed on a DC
long rest, it returns to its normal size and these benefits end.
26 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or
Crusher. A creature that starts its turn grappled by the regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone in a space
ōmukade takes 15 bludgeoning damage. within 10 feet of it. If the ōmukade dies, a swallowed creature
is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse by
using 15 feet of movement, exiting prone.
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Onryō Onryō
Medium Undead (Yokai), Lawful Evil
In the forsaken aftermath of a bloodied battlefield, a band
of thieves ventures forth under cover of darkness, their aim Armour Class 16 (breastplate)
fixed upon the arms and armour they can pluck from the Hit Points 44 (8d8 + 8)
rotting flesh of the recent dead. Their greed-fuelled eupho- Speed 30 ft.
ria fades abruptly, however, as a solitary silhouette emerges
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
from the ruins, its shambling gait resonating with the steady
17 (+3) 16 (+3) 13 (+1) 9 (-1) 9 (-1) 16 (+3)
clash of rusted steel. An onryō, awakened from its sepulch-
er, its hollow sockets burning with an otherworldly light, Saving Throws Con +3, Cha +5
raises a blade to punish the fools who dare trespass upon its Skills Stealth +5
resting place. Damage Resistances acid, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning,
piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Fueled by Vengeance. When a strong-willed individual Damage Immunities cold, necrotic, poison
dies an untimely death with hatred lingering in their heart, Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grap-
they find a vicious calling beyond death as an onryō: a fear- pled, paralysed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained
some Undead warrior hellbent on vengeance. Some claim Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 9
that only by appeasing their thirst for revenge can an onryō Languages the languages it knew in life
find solace. Nevertheless, many onryō arise from large con- Challenge 3 (700 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
flicts, devoid of a singular focus upon which to exact their Incorporeal Movement. The onryō can move through other
retribution and calm their raging spirit. As a result, most creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes
onryō still haunt the place of their demise, weapons drawn, 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
standing over the rotting corpses they left behind, ready to Wrathful Undead. If the onryō takes damage that would re-
add another to the pile. duce it to 0 hit points, it is reduced to 1 hit point instead. This
trait doesn’t activate if the onryō has taken radiant damage
Warrior Scorned. Despite their decrepit appearance, on-
since the start of its last turn. In addition, while the onryō has
ryō retain the combat abilities they had in life—only more 1 hit point, a creature within 5 feet of it that damages it takes
powerful, unfettered by the weaknesses of a mortal body. 2 (1d4) necrotic damage.
Knowing no pain, fear, or notion of surrender, a blood- Appeasement. At the start of the onryō’s turn, if it has 1
thirsty onryō is an unrelenting force driven to endless battle hit point and no non-Undead creature has attacked it since
by the fury that binds them beyond the grave. the start of its last turn, its soul calms. The onryō dissipates
into motes of emerald light and vanishes from this world, its
rusted armour falling to the ground, empty.
Actions
Multiattack. The onryō makes two attacks with any combi-
nation of Spirit Blade and Spirit Bow.
Spirit Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) necrotic damage. If the target isn’t
an Undead, it must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving
throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A frightened
creature can repeat this save at the end of each of its turns,
ending the effect on a success.
Spirit Bow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 150/600
ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) necrotic damage.
Soul Wrench (Recharge 6). The onryō lets loose a hateful
blast of necrotic magic, attempting to rend the soul of a vul-
nerable creature. One frightened creature the onryō can see
within 15 feet of it must succeed on a DC 13 Charisma
saving throw or be reduced to 1 hit point.
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Mounted Onryō Appeasement. At the start of the onryō’s turn, if it has 1 hit
point and no non-Undead creature has attacked it since the
Large Undead (Yokai), Lawful Evil
start of its last turn, its soul calms. The onryō dissipates into
Armour Class 16 (breastplate) motes of emerald light and vanishes from this world, its rusted
Hit Points 78 (12d10 + 12) armour falling to the ground, empty.
Speed 60 ft.
Actions
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA Multiattack. The onryō makes two attacks with any combina-
20 (+5) 16 (+3) 13 (+1) 9 (-1) 9 (-1) 16 (+3) tion of Spirit Blade and Spirit Bow.
Spirit Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
Saving Throws Con +4, Cha +6
target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) necrotic damage. If the target isn’t an
Skills Stealth +6
Undead, it must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw
Damage Resistances acid, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning,
or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat
piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
this save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on
Damage Immunities cold, necrotic, poison
a success.
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grap-
pled, paralysed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained Spirit Bow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, range 150/600 ft.,
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 9 one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3) necrotic damage.
Languages the languages it knew in life Soul Wrench (Recharge 5-6). The onryō lets loose a hateful
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 blast of necrotic magic, attempting to rend the soul of a vulnera-
ble creature. One frightened creature the onryō can see within
Incorporeal Movement. The onryō can move through other 15 feet of it must succeed on a DC 14 Charisma saving
creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 throw or be reduced to 1 hit point.
(1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Wrathful Undead. If the onryō takes damage that would Bonus Actions
reduce it to 0 hit points, it is reduced to 1 hit point instead. Ghastly Charge. The onryō moves up to 60 feet in a straight
This trait doesn’t activate if the onryō has taken radiant damage line without provoking opportunity attacks. Each creature it
since the start of its last turn. In addition, while the onryō has 1 passes through in this way must succeed on a DC 14 Constitu-
hit point, a creature within 5 feet of it that damages it takes 2 tion saving throw or take 11 (2d10) cold damage.
(1d4) necrotic damage.
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Ryume Ryume
Large Celestial (Yokai), Lawful Good
Adorning the walls of monasteries, alongside fearsome
Armour Class 14 depictions of gods and mighty heroes, are renderings of gen-
Hit Points 68 (8d10 + 24) tle equine creatures known as ryume. These celestial white
Speed 40 ft., fly 40 ft. dragon-horses, rumoured cousins of the legendary kirin, are
often depicted soaring through the heavens, trailing dancing
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
motes of light.
18 (+4) 18 (+4) 16 (+3) 12 (+1) 16 (+3) 14 (+2)
Gifted Guardians. It is said that the ryume were the
Skills Perception +5 last of the great gifts imparted to the material world by
Condition Immunities charmed, frightened
the gods. They bore weary travellers and refugees on their
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 15
Languages Celestial, Common, telepathy 30 ft.
backs, galloping over ocean and cloud to a land free from
Challenge 3 (700 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 the ravages of war and kaiju. There they remained as distant
protectors, untamed and proud, ensuring the wellbeing and
Blessed Steed. A creature mounted on a willing ryume gains tranquillity of those they saved.
a +1 bonus to AC and can add 1d4 to the first attack roll,
ability check, or saving throw it makes on each turn. Peaceful Wanderers. Now, having outlived their mortal
Merciful Enchantment. When the ryume would reduce a charges, the ryume wander the land, their elegant hooves
creature to 0 hit points with its Hooves or Divine Bolt attack, it careful never to trample even the smallest of innocent crea-
can choose to reduce that creature to 1 hit point instead. If the tures. A feeling of peace, the touch of a gentle summer sun,
ryume does so, that creature falls unconscious for 1 minute, and a voice as sweet as the ringing of silver bells accompany
or until another creature uses an action to shake it awake. the breathtaking sight of this wandering yokai.
Trampling Charge. When the ryume moves at least 20
feet straight toward a target and then hits it with its Hooves
attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 4 (1d8)
bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must suc-
ceed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or fall prone.
Actions
Multiattack. The ryume makes two attacks with any combi-
nation of Hooves and Divine Bolt.
Hooves. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one
target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) bludgeoning damage.
Divine Bolt. Ranged Spell Attack: +5 to hit, range 120 ft., one
target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) radiant damage, and if the target is a
creature, the ryume gains temporary hit points equal to half
the radiant damage dealt.
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Ryuto
Under a cold drizzle of rain, beneath the tender first rays of
a silent, spring morning, pinpricks of coloured flame ignite
one by one. They materialise over the mossy stones, un-
bound to fuel or form, buoyed gently on a delicate breeze.
As the moments pass, the light sprites grow in number and
vitality, dancing around one another and up into the sky.
The rainfall intensifies, but the flames burn untroubled as
they coalesce into the shape of the mighty behemoth that
was once honoured at this shrine. A single, fiery being,
formed of hundreds of tiny flame-like bodies, soars and
spirals in the morning light, an homage to a long-forgotten
kaiju whose power lingers in the sacred soil long after its
rampage has ended.
Presence of Power. Where kaiju can be found, so too
can ryuto—a phenomenon observed across realms, from
mountain shrine to vast ocean. These mysterious fire spirits
congregate in places where a kaiju’s power can be felt. When
many ryuto assemble in one place, they coalesce like drop-
lets of water into a spectacular swarm of fire—a flaming
form that mimics that of the kaiju who’s strength drew
them there.
Signs of Appeasement. Ryuto are often seen as an emo-
tional mirror to kaiju, and are thus watched closely by vil-
lagers and adventurers alike. A serene night illuminated by
their playful dance signifies tranquillity, while their agitated
and erratic flight foretells impending catastrophe. Time and
again, a well-known proverb rings true: “When the kaiju’s
wrath is kept at bay, the ryuto will come to play.”
Ryuto
Tiny Elemental (Yokai), Neutral
Armour Class 12
Hit Points 2 (1d4)
Speed 0 ft., fly 5 ft. (hover)
Actions
Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 2 (1d4) fire damage.
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Armour Class 14
Hit Points 57 (6d10 + 24)
Speed 0 ft., fly 30 ft. (hover)
Actions
Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one
target. Hit: 15 (2d10 + 4) fire damage.
Fire Breath (Recharge 5-6). The swarm exhales a burning
torrent of flame in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that
area must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw, taking
14 (4d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage
on a successful one.
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Swarm of Tsukumogami
For many, pristine palaces of gleaming stone and resplend- Hyakki Yagyro Harbinger. Swarms of tsukumogami are
ent glory are nothing compared to the charming, ramshack- often seen in the days preceding the parade of one thou-
le homes of ordinary townsfolk. Each house has its unique sand demons—the infamous Hyakki Yagyo. This ancient,
quirks and charm, stacked side-by-side along winding city annual tradition is one that requires extensive preparation,
streets, brimming with life and character. Some yokai feel and Humanoids know well to heed the excitable behaviour
the same, seeking homes not in ornate statues or mighty of tsukumogami as a warning of mightier spirits coming.
trees, but in everyday, tattered objects—a perfect, cosy rest- During the parade, tsukumogami enjoy possessing instru-
ing place. The lesser, playful yokai spirits who occupy such ments and forming large, musical swarms at the head of the
objects are the tsukumogami. pack. Their ruckus is legendary; tsukumogami are famously
as enthusiastic as they are incompetent when it comes to
A Playful Gang. Tsukumogami often gather for ad-
creating music.
ventures of mischief and exploration. Under the cloak of
twilight, a stray sandal, a crooked umbrella, and a shattered
lantern might join forces for a night on the town. Despite
being individually feeble spirits, the havock a swarm of pos-
Swarm of Tsukumogami
Medium Swarm of Tiny Fey (Yokai), Chaotic Neutral
sessed objects can cause while rampaging through a town is
not to be underestimated. They enjoy “dancing” with hu- Armour Class 14
mans, a terrifying experience for their unfortunate partner Hit Points 33 (6d8 + 6)
caught in a maelstrom of excitable footwear and umbrellas. Speed 30 ft., fly 20 ft.
Usually a victim is able to escape relatively unscathed, but STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
those who cannot find themselves lifted bodily into the air
14 (+2) 18 (+4) 12 (+1) 5 (-3) 12 (+1) 16 (+3)
and flown about town, the yokai confusing their passen-
ger’s terrified shrieks for howls of delight. Generally, these Skills Athletics +4, Intimidation +5, Stealth +6
victims are unceremoniously deposited atop a strangers roof Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from
when the swarm grows weary of them. Tsukumogami rarely nonmagical attacks
attack other creatures unprovoked, but they are dangerous Condition Immunities charmed, frightened, grappled, para-
if threatened or frightened, and are best avoided if spotted lysed, petrified, prone, restrained, stunned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
at night.
Languages —
Challenge 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Joyrider. The swarm’s speed isn’t reduced while dragging a
creature it is grappling.
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and
vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening
large enough for a Tiny tsukumogami. The swarm can’t regain
hit points or gain temporary hit points.
Actions
Bombardment. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 0 ft.,
one target in the swarm’s space. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) bludgeoning
damage plus 4 (1d8) psychic damage.
Spook. One creature occupying the swarm’s space must
succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or become
frightened for 1 minute. The creature can repeat this
saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect
on a success.
Bonus Actions
Abduction. The swarm attempts to grapple one creature
sharing its space. If the swarm has at least half of its hit points,
it has advantage on its Strength (Athletics) check.
Reactions
Mischievous Tactics. When a creature within 5 feet of the
swarm misses it with an attack roll, the swarm can knock the
creature prone.
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Taki Reiō
A hulking, tusked demigod with vibrant blue skin strides and brutal, a stalwart combination of physical strength and
through a flooding village. Unfazed by the tumultuous water magic. Taki reiō are unwavering in their ideals and
current and driving torrential rain, it seizes person and goals, and once moved to action, are as sure to accomplish
livestock alike, lifts them above the water, and bears them their task as rain is to fall.
to safety atop its mighty shoulders. Even as the storm rages, Fragment of the Divine. There are multiple taki reiō
the creature works tirelessly to save any being trapped by across the world, and all share one origin. An ancient guard-
the rising water. With the village in desperate peril and its ian deity, unshakable in his crusade against evil, fragmented
inhabitants resigned to their fate, a taki reiō has come to himself and spread across the land. Each fragment took ref-
answer the prayers and pleas of those in need. uge under the waterfalls the god once held sacred, becoming
Immovable Force. Often depicted in folktales and tap- taki reiō. With sword in hand, each immovable giant stands
estries as standing motionless under a crushing waterfall, a vigilant under their waterfall, awaiting any sign of evil they
taki reiō is as resolute as stone and indomitable as the river must rise to vanquish.
that splits the mountain in two. In battle, they are direct
Taki Reiō Giant. The taki reiō can wield melee weapons with the
Two-handed property in only one hand, and it ignores nonmagi-
Huge Celestial (Yokai), Lawful Good
cal difficult terrain.
Armour Class 17 (natural armour) Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the taki reiō fails a saving
Hit Points 162 (13d12 + 78) throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Speed 50 ft., swim 30 ft. Magic Resistance. The taki reiō has advantage on saving
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA throws against spells and other magical effects.
27 (+8) 14 (+2) 22 (+6) 12 (+1) 16 (+3) 12 (+1) Actions
Saving Throws Dex +7, Wis +8, Cha +6 Multiattack. The taki reiō makes three attacks with any combi-
Skills Athletics +18, Perception +8 nation of Bludgeon, Grasp, and Greatsword.
Damage Resistances necrotic, radiant; bludgeoning, piercing, and Bludgeon (Must be Grappling a Medium or Smaller Crea-
slashing from nonmagical attacks ture). Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target.
Damage Immunities cold, poison Hit: 15 (2d6 + 8) bludgeoning damage, and the creature it is
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, para- grappling takes the same damage.
lysed, poisoned, stunned Grasp. Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target.
Senses darkvision 30 ft., passive Perception 18 Hit: 11 (1d6 + 8) bludgeoning damage, and if the taki reiō isn’t
Languages Celestial, Common, Sylvan grappling a creature, the target must succeed on a DC 21
Challenge 13 (10,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +5 Strength or Dexterity saving throw (target’s choice) or be
Brawler. The taki reiō is proficient with improvised weapons grappled (escape DC 21).
and can use a Medium or smaller creature it is grappling as an Greatsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 15 ft., one
improvised weapon. target. Hit: 15 (2d6 + 8) slashing damage.
Crushing Force. When the taki reiō hits a creature with Waterfall (Recharge 4-6). The taki reiō conjures a crushing
three or more Grasp or Greatsword attacks on a single turn, cascade of water that falls in a 30-foot-tall cylinder with a
the creature’s size is halved in all dimensions, and its weight 10-foot radius at a point it can see within 120 feet of itself.
is reduced to one-eighth of its current weight. This reduction Each creature in the area must make a DC 19 Strength
decreases its size by one category—from Medium to Small, for saving throw, taking 28 (8d6) bludgeoning damage and falling
example. The target also has disadvantage on Strength checks prone on a failed save, or taking half as much damage and not
and Strength saving throws, and its weapons also shrink to falling prone on a successful one.
match its new size. While its weapons are reduced, the target’s
attacks with them deal 1d4 less damage (this can’t reduce the Reactions
damage below 1). These changes last until the target finishes Vengeance. When a creature within 15 feet of the taki reiō
a short or long rest. If this trait would reduce a target’s size hits it with an attack roll, the taki reiō can make one Great-
below Tiny, that creature dies instead, its body vanishing into sword attack against that creature.
nothingness, and it can’t be resurrected by any means short of
the wish spell.
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Ushi-Oni Ushi-oni
Huge Fiend (Yokai), Chaotic Evil
Out amongst the rocky crags of the coast, hidden beneath
the gnarled fangs of sea-blasted cliffs are a species of yokai Armour Class 12
feared for their aggression and cunning—ox-headed, spi- Hit Points 34 (4d12 + 8)
der-bodied demons: the ushi-oni. Well known to fisherman, Speed 30 ft., climb 20 ft., swim 30 ft.
pirates, and coastal communities, these savage yokai haunt STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
the nightmares of any who live beside the waves.
19 (+4) 14 (+2) 14 (+2) 6 (-2) 11 (+0) 9 (-1)
Macabre Mimicry. Despite their hulking, monstrous
appearance, the ushi-oni is a creeping, stealthy hunter; its Skills Athletics +6, Stealth +6
Senses passive Perception 10
thick, rugged exoskeleton is perfectly coloured and textured
Damage Immunities poison
to match its craggy home. Once coiled over, it is indistin- Condition Immunities poison
guishable from a coastal boulder. They are also uncanny vocal Languages none (see Wailing Mimicry)
mimics. Despite lacking the capacity to replicate the precise, Challenge 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
delicate articulations needed for speech, ushi-oni are able to
recreate the cries and wails of Humanoid adults and infants, Poison of Aching Weight. When a creature ends its turn
within 10 feet of the ushi-oni, the creature must succeed on
hoping to lure foolhardy rescuers to them as an easy meal.
a DC 12 Strength saving throw or have its Strength score
Artificial Anchor. Beyond their talents in mimicry and reduced by 1d4. The target is stunned if this effect reduces
camouflage, ushi-oni also exude a unique poison that seeps its Strength to 0. The reduction lasts until the ushi-oni dies or
through the salty sea air, devastating nearby creatures. The the target finishes a short or long rest.
poison itself isn’t directly fatal, but is a subtle and cruel Wailing Mimicry. The ushi-oni can replicate the distressed
paralysing agent that burrows into a victim’s body and saps cries and wails of Humanoids. A creature that hears these
sounds can tell they are imitations only with a successful DC
its strength. A creature exposed to the poison will eventually
12 Wisdom (Insight) check.
fall, rooted in place by the overbearing, strangling weight of
its own body—easy pickings for the savage yokai. Actions
Horn. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 10 (1d12 + 4) piercing damage. If the target is a creature,
it must also succeed on a DC 12 Strength saving throw
or fall prone.
Raptorial Slash. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft.,
one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage.
Bonus Actions
Coil. The ushi-oni withdraws its legs and head beneath its
hulking, stoney body. It gains a +5 bonus to its AC, has ad-
vantage on Constitution saving throws, and is indistinguisha-
ble from a large stone. While coiled in this way, the ushi-oni’s
speed falls to 0 and cannot increase, it has disadvantage on
Dexterity saving throws, and it cannot take any actions, other
than using an action to uncoil itself.
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Wanyudo Wanyudo
Medium Fiend (Yokai), Chaotic Evil
Age-old stories tell that when the soul of a sinner flees
after death, fearful of an afterlife of retribution and divine Armour Class 15
punishment, a fearsome yokai spirit is born to hunt them Hit Points 52 (8d8 + 16)
down. Echoing clacks of a speeding wheel on a dirt track, Speed 60 ft.
regular and thunderous as a racing heartbeat, reverberate STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
through the night as the wanyudo hunts. Appearing as a
18 (+4) 20 (+5) 14 (+2) 9 (-1) 12 (+1) 16 (+3)
wheel wreathed in hellfire, with a grimacing face at its cen-
tre, wanyudo are among the most ghastly yokai known—a Skills Athletics +8
bizarre and terrifying creature of incredible speed and Damage Resistances fire
demonic appetite. Condition Immunities exhaustion, frightened
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 11
Wheel of Misfortune. Wanyudo have no need for Languages Infernal
physical sustenance; they replenish their frenzied energy Challenge 3 (700 XP) Proficiency Bonus +5
by feasting on souls, snatching them from freshly killed
Humanoids. They prefer to use their speed to scavenge kills Battering Ram. If the wanyudo moves at least 10 feet
straight toward a target and then immediately hits it with a
from other creatures, but will hunt for victims themselves
Slam attack, the target takes an extra 9 (2d8) bludgeoning
if necessary. They bolt over the long, winding tracks of the damage. If the target is a creature, it must make a contested
countryside, sprinting hell-for-leather in pursuit of solitary Strength (Athletics) check against the wanyudo, the loser
prey. Once a target is found, they strike swiftly and dart of which falls prone.
off, avoiding counter attacks as they steadily batter hapless It’s Wheely Fast. The wanyudo doesn’t provoke opportunity
victims to death in blitzing runs of flame. attacks when it moves out of an enemy’s reach.
Ready to Roll. The wanyudo can stand up from prone using
5 feet of movement.
Actions
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.
Bonus Actions
Hyper Dash. The wanyudo takes the Dash action, but falls
prone at the end of its turn.
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Yuki no Ko
Amidst the howling winds of a deadly blizzard, a humanoid or culture their forebears may once have had has long since
figure strides atop the snow, their steps as light and graceful been chiselled away by centuries of cold and darkness. With
as a leaf resting on water. Their skin and hair glisten with hearts icy to the tribulations of others and potent magic at
white, crackling frost. The landscape is marked with statues their command, the once Humanoid yuki no ko are now
of once-living creatures—flash-frozen, encased, and preserved winter yokai themselves.
forever in ice, and yet the individual strides onward, unboth- Snow Spirit’s Weakness. Although the gift of the yuki
ered by the climate or death that surrounds them. To the onna is great—the yuki no ko are impervious to the extreme
yuki no ko, the biting, icy chill is a gentle caress; what cold climate of permafrost—it comes at heavy price; anything
can bother a being who houses a piece of winter itself within? above freezing temperature is nigh unbearable for them,
Frostbitten Legacy. The name yuki no ko refers not to with prolonged exposure to heat lethally dangerous. As a
one individual, but to a group of Elemental specialists who result, these Elemental warriors are seldom found beyond
chose to isolate themselves in the coldest corners of the the mountain peaks and tundras they call home, making
realm to hone their craft. They follow a path passed down them a rare sight reserved for the boldest explorers or most
to them by an ancient yuki onna, imbuing their ances- isolated enkoh villagers. It is said that their very presence
tors with a shred of the snow yokai’s essence—the gift to will bring about a blizzard, but in reality, yuki no ko are the
endure and manipulate ice and snow. Whatever ties to kin ones chasing the snowstorm.
Yuki no Ko Actions
Medium Elemental (Yokai), Neutral Multiattack. The yuki no ko makes two attacks with any com-
Armour Class 14 bination of Glacial Slash and Ice Flash.
Hit Points 51 (6d8 + 24) Glacial Slash. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
Speed 30 ft. one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage plus 3 (1d6)
cold damage.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA Ice Flash. Ranged Spell Attack: +6 to hit, range 120 ft., one tar-
10 (+0) 18 (+4) 18 (+4) 10 (+0) 14 (+2) 18 (+4) get. Hit: 9 (1d10 + 4) cold damage.
Skills Stealth +6 Invoke Blizzard (Recharge 5-6). The yuki no ko magically con-
Damage Immunities cold, poison jures a frigid tempest around itself. Each creature within 30 feet
Condition Immunities exhaustion, poisoned of the yuki no ko must make a DC 14 Constitution saving
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12 throw, taking 13 (3d8) cold damage on a failed save, or half as
Languages Common, Primordial much damage on a successful one. If a creature fails this save by
Challenge 2 (450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 5 or more, it also gains 1 level of exhaustion.
Armour of Ice. The yuki no ko forms freezing, icy armour
Ice Lancer. The yuki no ko’s attacks ignore temporary hit around a creature it can see within 60 feet of itself. The crea-
points granted to a creature by the yuki no ko’s Armour of Ice ture can make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw, avoiding
action, striking the target’s hit points directly. being encased in the armour on a success. When armoured in
Ice Walk. The yuki no ko can move across ice, a creature gains 13 (3d8) temporary hit points and takes
and climb icy surfaces without needing to 13 (3d8) cold damage at the start of each of its turns. This cold
make an ability check. Additionally, damage ignores temporary hit points, damaging the target’s hit
difficult terrain composed of ice or points directly. The armour is destroyed when these temporary
snow doesn’t cost it extra movement. hit points are depleted or the Yuki no Ko dies. A creature im-
mune to cold damage bearing this armour also has a +1 bonus
to its AC and saving throws.
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Yuki Onna Wraith Yuki Onna Wraith
Medium Fiend (Yokai), Chaotic Evil
Well-travelled merchants and world-weary adventurers tell
of a sinister spirit that makes its home amidst the freezing Armour Class 14
winds and eternal white of the mountain tops—a ghostly Hit Points 104 (16d8 + 32)
apparition that moves with unearthly grace, their silent Speed 30 ft.
steps leaving no imprint on the snow-covered land. While
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
accounts of the encounter vary depending on the speaker,
15 (+2) 18 (+4) 14 (+2) 7 (-2) 18 (+4) 14 (+2)
all share the common themes of dread and the chilling grasp
of ice that saps all strength and hope. Even a whisper of Skills Perception +7
the name yuki onna causes the breath behind the words to Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from
rise like white steam on a winter’s morning, and the mere nonmagical attacks
mention of this creature is sufficient to send shivers down Damage Immunities cold
the spine of even the most battle-hardened warrior. Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 17
Snow-fallen Influence. Once upon a time, the yuki Languages Common, Primordial
onna was far less malevolent—a winter yokai that drifted Challenge 8 (3,900 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
peacefully across isolated, beautiful lands of velvet snow.
Ice Lancer. The yuki onna’s attacks ignore temporary hit
They shared secrets with Humanoids who sought knowl- points granted to a creature by the yuki onna’s Ice Prison
edge, and they protected enkoh and other creatures that trait, striking at the target’s hit points directly.
found homes in their desolate lands. But alas, when a
Ice Prison. When the yuki onna deals cold damage to a
catastrophic event now lost to time brought an icy and creature, that creature gains temporary hit points equal to
painful death to the many innocent souls that shared their the cold damage dealt, as foul magic encases the target in a
frigid home, the restless spirits of the frozen dead became layer of ice. While a creature has these temporary hit points,
intertwined with the snow yokai’s being. The horror and its speed is reduced by 10 feet, it has vulnerability to fire
pain transformed the yuki onna, giving birth to a ghastly damage, and it can’t gain temporary hit points by any means
yokai wraith that wanders the land as a harbinger of ice-cold other than this trait. Temporary hit points from this trait add
death and anguish. together, and a creature can’t refuse to gain temporary hit
points from this trait. If a creature has temporary hit points
Cold Vengeance. After becoming infused with the equal to or greater than half its hit point maximum from this
restless souls of those who found an untimely, freezing feature, it is incapacitated and restrained as it becomes
demise, the yuki onna’s desires changed to reflect those of fully encased in ice. Creatures incapacitated in this way gain 1
the dead. No longer concerned with merely watching over point of exhaustion at the start of each of their turns.
their domain, the wraith is now obsessed with seeking out Ice Walk. The yuki onna can move across and climb icy
any source of warmth and destroying it. All must give way surfaces without needing to make an ability check. Addition-
to the cold and the dark. If the souls it carries were deprived ally, difficult terrain composed of ice or snow doesn’t cost it
extra movement.
of all warmth in their wretched death, why should others be
allowed to have it? Actions
Multiattack. The yuki onna makes two attacks with any
combination of Necrotic Slash and Icy Wind.
Necrotic Slash. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) necrotic damage plus 10 (3d6)
cold damage.
Icy Wind. Ranged Spell Attack: +7 to hit, range 120 ft., one
target. Hit: 17 (2d12 + 4) cold damage, and if the target is a
creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving
throw or have disadvantage on attack rolls until the end of
its next turn.
Bonus Actions
Haunting Wail (1/Day). The yuki onna lets loose a haunting,
echoing wail. Each other creature within 30 feet of it that
can hear it must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving
throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature
frightened in this way has vulnerability to cold damage. A
creature can repeat this save at the end of each of its turns,
ending the effect on itself on a success.
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