Category: Systems

Daily Punch 1-1-15 Lich Bloodline Sorcerer for Pathfinder

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Why be a ghoul, when you can be a lich?

Lich Bloodline

Someone in your parentage was not alive.  Moreso, they were the animated corpse of a powerfull wizard or cleric.  Now, that power courses through you.

Class Skill: Knowledge(Religion).

Bonus Spells

inflict light wounds (3rd), Spectral Hand (5th), Animate Dead, Lesser  (7th), Animate Dead(9th), Fleshworm Infestation  (11th), Create Undead (13th), control undead (15th), Create Greater Undead (17th), Canopic Conversion (19th).

Bonus Feats

Combat Casting, Skill Focus (Knowledge [religion]), Spell Focus (necromancy),Sorcerous Bloodstrike, Toughness, Weapon Finesse,Uncanny Concentration, Undead Master.

Bloodline Arcana

Whenever you cast a spell that does necrotic damage, you are healed of 1/4 the hit point damage dealt.

Bloodline Powers

Necrotic Lance(Su)-Starting at 1st level, you can shoot a beam of pure necrotic energy at your targets as a ranged touch attack to a target in 30 feet.  This beam does 1d6+ 1 point of negative energy damage per two class levels you have.  You can do this a number of time per day equal to 3 + your charisma modifier.

Skeletal Appearance(Ex)-Starting at 3rd level, you gain DR-5/bludgeoning and resist 5 cold, electricity, and negative energy damage.  At level 9 this becomes DR-10/bludgeoning and magic and resist 10 cold, electricity, negative energy damage.  At level 15, you gain DR-15/bludgeoning magic and resist 15 cold, electricity, and negative energy damage

Fear Aura(Ex)-Starting at 9th level, you gain a fear aura, All creatures with hit dice of less then half your hit dice must make a Will save (DC 10+ your charisma mod + 1/2 your hit dice) or be shaken for a number of rounds equal to your hit dice.  A creature that makes this save is not affected by your fear aura for 24 hours.

Paralyzing Touch(Ex)-Staring at 15th level, you now paralyze the living who touch you.  Any creature that willingly touches you must make a Fortitude save (DC 10+ your charisma mod + 1/2 your hit dice), or be paralyzed for a a number of rounds equal to your hit dice.  At the end of each round, the creature may make Fortitude save to end the condition.  This may be triggered by an attack on you or by you making a melee touch attack.

Lich Apotheosis(Su)-At level 20, you become a lich.  Create a phylactery as per the lich rules.  If you die, you may return to this phylactery if needed and you regenerate in 1d10 days.  In addition, you constitution score becomes 0, and your Fortitude save and bonus hit points per lever are now calculated based on your charisma modifier.  Your resistances from skeletal appearance now are 20/bludgeoning magic and immunity to cold,  electricity, sleep, negative energy , and non-lethal damage

 

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 12-31-14 Mass Inflict Wounds spell for DnD 5e

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What do you mean, mass inflect wounds  ISN’T in the PHB or the DMG for 5e?!  WELL, HERE IT IS!

 

Mass Inflict Wounds

5th Level Necromancy

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 6o feet

Components: V, S

Duration: Instantaneous

You create a gate to the plane of negative engergy that sucks all life from an area in range.  Choose up to six creatures in a 30 foot radius sphere centered on that point.  Targets in the radius of the spell must make a Wisdom saving throw.  Those that fail take 5d10 necrotic damage.  On a save, the targets take half as much damage

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increase by 1d10 for each slot level above 5th.

 

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 12-30-14 Lich Patron Warlock for DnD 5e

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Ya, I have been playing a ton of 5e lately?  Why do you ask?  Here is some more ideas for your 5e game-Lich patron Warlock?

 

The Lich

Power comes when things die.  What kind of power can come from something that refuses to die?  You’ve meet the creature in its tomb lair.  It offered you power along side its smell of decay.  You said yes.  Now you do the bidding of the cadaver itself.

Lich Expanded Spell List

Level          Spell

1st        inflict wounds, protection from good and evil

2nd      phantasmal force, blindness/deafness

3rd      animate dead, protection from energy

4th      Phantasmal Killer, evard’s black ttentacles

5th      cloudkill, mass inflict wounds

 

Dead Speech

Starting at 1st level, you patron bestows upon you the speech of the dead.  As an action, you can cast speak with dead.  You can’t use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

 

Life Draining Touch

Starting at 6th Level, your patron teaches you the secret of draining the life of others.  When you at the subject of a melee attack, you can cast vampiric touch as a reaction to the attack.  You can’t use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

 

Command of the Dead

Starting at 10th level, unintelligent undead will not longer attack you.  In addition to you gain resistance to all damage dealt to you from all undead, intelligent or otherwise.

Also, at 10th level, you gain the bonus spell create undead once per day.

 

Wrath of the Lich

Starting at level 14, you can point at a creature and fire a beam of negative energy at it as an action that can be avoided with a charisma saving .  If you succeed, you inflict 5d8 necrotic damage on the creature and the paralyzed.  You heal half the amount of damage dealt.  Each turn the creature can make a saving throw at the start of its turns.  If it fails it continues to be paralyzed and take 5d8 necrotic damage, and you continue to heal half the damage dealt.

You can not do this again until you complete a long rest.

 

 

Thoughts?

 

 

Daily Punch 12-29-14 Dark Lance spell for DnD 5e

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I think there should be a spell that does negative energy at range.  Who else wants this?

 

Dark Lance

Necromancy Cantrip

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 120 feet

Components: V,S

Duration: Instantaneous

A dark lance of negative light shoots from your hand to the target.  Make a ranged spell attack against the target.  On a hit, the target takes 1d10 necrotic damage.

The spell’s damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10)

 

 

Thoughts?

 

Daily Punch 12-26-14 Arcane Warrior for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG

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I love fighters who have just a bit of magic to them.  How about making for for DCCRPG?

 

Arcane Warrior

Level Attack (Magic Die) Crit Die/ Table Action Dice Known Spells Max Spell Level Ref Fort Will
1 +d3 1d10/III 1d20 3 1 1 1 1
2 +d4 1d12/III 1d20 3 1 1 1 1
3 +d5 1d14/III 1d20 4 1 1 2 2
4 +d6 1d16/IV 1d20 4 2 2 2 2
5 +d7 1d20/IV 1d20 5 2 2 2 2
6 +d8 1d24/V 1d20+1d14 5 3 2 3 3
7 +d10 1d30/V 1d20+1d16 6 3 3 3 3
8 +d10+1 1d30/V 1d20+1d20 6 4 3 4 4
9 +d10+2 2d20/V 1d20+1d20+1d14 7 4 4 4 4
10 +d10+3 2d20/V 1d20+1d20+1d14 7 5 4 5 5
Titles
Level Title (all alignments)
1  Spell Squire
2 Mage Errant
3 Mage Knight
4 Warlock
5 Eldritch Warrior

 

You have mastered the blade as well as the spell.  It is a hard road that not many can master as it is both mentally and physical demanding.  Many of called, but you however has risen to the challenge.  You are a wanted commodity for any side of a conflict, but your uniqueness also makes you a target foremost.

 

Hit points: An arcane warrior gains 1d8 hit points at each level.

Weapon and Armor Training:  An arcane warrior can use all weapons he or she wants, however, an arcane warrior needs one hand free to cast any spell.  Arcane warriors can wear any armor they can afford.  No worn armor interferes with spell casting of any kind.

Alignment: Arcane warriors have no natural drive toward law or chaos.   You my choose to study black magic as a chaotic wizard or follow control over the elements as a lawful wizard might.

Attack Modifier: Just like a warrior (DCCRPG p 42), you roll an extra die when you make an attack  called a magic die.  This die is added to the attack and to damage from his or her weapons or damage from any spell.

Caster Level: An arcane warriors caster level is equal to his or her current level.

Magic or Might: You are a unique breed of fighter and wizard.  You know spells like a wizard (DCCRPG p48) but also know the ways of the warrior’s mighty deeds of arms ( DCCRPG p43).  Spells are learned just as a wizard with the first three spells being selected at random at first level.  An arcane warrior may learn any spell that a wizard is able to.  Before you make an attack roll, you may select to cast a spell or to do a mighty deed.  If you select to make a spell, you’re attack must hit, the result on the magic die must be a 2 + the level of the spell you wish to cast, and then you cast a spell just like a wizard.  However, instead of adding the arcane warriors intelligence and level to the action die, an arcane warrior rolls his magic die and the action die and  adds the result to his or her intelligence score to determine the effect of a spell.  The second roll for the spell determines if the spell is lost or not.  An arcane warrior may elect to just use the magic die result from the initial attack roll or reroll with the second spell roll.  Casting a spell in this way is part of the same action die use.  Mighty deeds are resolved as normal per a Mighty Deed of Arms using the result of the magic die in place of the Deed Die (DCCRPG p 43).

Luck: An arcane warrior adds his or her luck modifier to all magic die rolls.

Action Die: A arcane warrior uses his action die for spells, attacks, or Magic or Might attacks.  At level 6, an arcane warrior gains a second action die for use in the same combat round’s action.

Daily Punch 12-25-14 Specialist Wizard Feat for DnD 5e

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Well Yesterday was a Generalist wizard.  How about a feat for the specialist wizards out there?

 

Specialist Wizard

Prerequisite: Wizard, Arcane Tradition focusing in one school of magic

Gain the following benefits:

  • Gain a +1 bonus to intelligence to a maximum of 20.
  • When you gain this feat, choose one school of magic to specialize in and two schools of magic to ignore.  When you prepare spells for the day, gain one extra spell slot per level of magic spells you know if you do not prepare magic spells from the schools of magic you ignore.  This extra slot can only be used to cast spells of your specialized school.

 

 

Thoughts?

Daily Punch 12-24-14 Universalist Wizard for DnD 5e

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How about a Universalist Wizard Arcane Tradition for DnD 5e?

 

Universalist Wizard

Instead of focusing, you choose to study longer and harder then your fellows examining all the schools of magic.  This has given you powers over all magic, but you have mastered none.

Broad Studies

You know a little about all magic.  At level 2 for every spell level of magic you know, you gain one extra spell slot.  This continues as you learn higher level spell slots.

 

Surprising Recall

You can often recall a spell from just your memory based on your studies instead of your daily preparations.  At level 6 increase the number of spell you you can prepare daily by your intelligence modifier.

 

General Focus

You’ve learned a little bit about how to maximize or minimize every school you’ve studied.  At level 10, once per day per school of magic, before the target rolls a saving throw you can grant advantage or disadvantage to its saving throw against a spell you cast.

 

Student of the Many Ways

You have a unique knowledge of how magic flows.  Instead of learning just how one type of spell moves, you see the flow of them all. At level 14, you can choose one effect per day.  You can gain advantage on all saving throws against magic and magic effects or you can choose to have disadvantage on saving throws against magic effects to impart disadvantage on all saving throws against spells you cast and advantage on all spells you cast that require an attack roll.  This choice is mad when you prepare spells for the day.

 

Daily Punch 12-23-14 Gravity Spell for Shadowrun 5e

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If there’ is gravity in 5e, there really needs to be gravity spell in Shadowrun!

 

Gravity

(Physical)_____

Type: P         Range:LOS

Duration:S  Drain: F-1

Gravity allows you to increase the mass of a person or object.  You have to beat a threshold of the subjects new intended mass divided by 200 kilograms, rounded up.  The subject of the spell instantly acquires the new mass, but does not change is current size or shape.  If the subject has an Agility or Strength strength score, it takes a penalty to all Agility and Strength checks equal the the threshold that the spell caster had to beat to cast the spell.  However, it gains a bonus to Body equal to the same threshold.

If you are trying to cast gravity on an unwilling living being or an item held by an unwilling living being, that being can defend against the Spellcasting test with Strength + Body.  You can use this spell on yourself if you need to sing like a rock quickly in Lake Michigan.

Daily Punch 12-22-14 Gravity Spell for DnD 5e

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I had a dream about walking on the ceiling.  Maybe I should stop watching bad 80’s music videos before bed….  But, this spell came out of that!

 

Gravity

1st level Transmutation

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: one target in 60 ft., must way less then 1 ton at normal gravity

Components: V, S, M (a piece of lead and a glass of air)

Duration:concentration, up to 1 hour

You alter the attraction of another or an object  to the ground.  You can either make a creature more attracted to the ground or less.  This choice is chosen at the time of casting and can not be changed.  If you make the creature or object more attracted to the ground, it moves at 1/2 speed, weights twice as much, makes all jump, acrobatics, and swim checks with disadvantage, but makes all climb checks and checks to avoid being moved without wanting to with advantage (it climbs at the normal half its regular speed).  If you make the creature less attracted to the ground, it moves at 1 1/2 is land speed, weight half as much it usually does, makes all jump, acrobatics, and swim checks with advantage, but makes all climb and checks to avoid being moved with disadvantage.

Casting at higher level: For every level cast above one add one ton to the maximum weight of the target, and add one target to the spell.

 

Thoughts?