I just started watching Kono Suba, and Darkness is one of the most interesting characters in this crazy anime. It reminded the Book of Vile Darkness. Let’s build on these idea.
You’ve been beaten down a lot by life, and its something you’ve grown to be thrilled by. When you take damage equal to your level, you gain advantage on your next attack roll on your next turn.
Thoughts?
Time for some power!
8th-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: special
Components: V, S
Duration: special
When you cast this spell, choose any spell you want of level 5 or lower. You cast that spell using up to a spell slot of level 5. The target or targets of the spell must attempt a Charisma saving throw. Those that fail re subjected to the spell as normal and must make all saving throws and checks as if the chosen spell was cast on them. The spell targets areas or individuals as normal for the spell, but does not physically occur only affecting those that fail the original save.
Thoughts?
7th-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 8 hours
You use your mental force to overcome all your physical failures. Choose one mental statistic (Wisdom, Intelligence, or Charisma). For all your saves, checks, attacks, and determined DCs, use the chosen statistic in place of all normal statistics used.
Thoughts?
Lots of mental spells, so let’s get some mental protection!
4th-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: 8 hours
For the duration, the target gains advantage on all saving throws and checks to prevent effects that would affect the targets mind and resistance to psychic damage.
At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, increases the number of targets by one for each slot level above 4th.
How about some real dominate person?
3rd-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: sight
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You concentrate on a creature you can see. That creature must attempt a Charisma saving throw. On a failure, you fall int a comma, and your mind takes over the creatures. It has no memory of what you do while in control of its body. Your physical body is helpess and will continue to concentrate on the spell going for the duration until you end the spell as a free action. If you attempt to do an action that the creature woud not normally want to do, it recieves a new saving throw. Otherwise, you have complete control of the creature and use its physical statistcs and skill for all physical actions, but use your mental statistics and skills for all mental actions. You may not cast spells unless the creature was able to cast spells as normal. Any actions take while controlling the creature do not change the creatures alignment, but your alignment may change as a result of anything you do.
Thoughts?
More mental magic for DnD 5e!
2nd-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a hand mirror)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You point both your hands at two targets and think of a third primary target with your mind’s eye, all within 30 feet of you. If the target in your mind fails a Wisdom saving throw, the two creatures you pointed at have their appierence switch in the mind of the target. Creatures that can’t be charmed are immune to this effect. The creature treats the two secondairy targets as if each was the other and after the ruse is discovered if a formerly frienldy target attacks the primary target, the primary target has disadvanage to attack the target looks like a friendly creature.
Thoughts?
How about some psychic damage at level 1 for your wizard?
evocation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (10-foot-radius sphere)
Components: V, S
Duration: instantaneous
A 10-foot-radius invisible sphere of psychic anguish erupts from your head. Any creature in the area must make a Charisma saving throw or take
1d4 paychic damage.
The spell’s damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).
Thoughts?
How about a spell that prevents exhaustion?
Vigor
4th-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: 8 hours
You touch a creature and fill them with boundless energy.
The first time the target would gain a level of exhaustion as a result of a failed save, the subject gains a reroll on the saving throw, and the spell ends.
If the spell is still in effect when the target is subjected to an effect that would cause a level of exhaustion instantly, that effect is instead negated against the target, and the spell ends.
Thoughts?
I want to play with exhaustion, so let’s make it harder to get tired!
You’ve trained your body beyond the normal limits to not out beat the competition, but outwork them as well. You gain the following benefits:
Thoughts?
The Lore Podcast (https://www.lorepodcast.com/ ) just did an episode about healing with corpses. Let’s do that for clerics!
Corpse Healer Domain
The dead hold gateways for the living. Hangmen long ago learned that corpses still held life and they could wield that life to heal the sick. Your god guides you to use the dead to save the living. Some see your rites and religion as profane casting you out to the outskirts of society, but when your detractors become ill, they all come to see you no matter how much they detest you.
| Cleric Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 1st | inflict Wounds, cure wounds |
| 3rd | lesser restoration, gentle repose |
| 5th | remove curse, revivify |
| 7th | death ward, raise dead |
| 9th | mass cure wounds, raise dead |
Starting at 1st level, you learn to channel the powers of life to heal your friends through use of blood. If you use blood as a material component of a creature that died in the last hour as you cast a healing spell, you heal the target a number of extra hit points equal to the challenge rating the creature had. A creature has a number of doses of blood equal to its size category with tiny having 1 and gargantuan having six doses.
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to enhance your allies.
As an action, you present a severed hand of a hanged craftsman or warrior who fell in battle. Any allies within 30 feet of you, gains a 1d4 to their next skill checks or attacks chosen by you, for the next minute.
Beginning at 6th level, the dead begin to take the injuries of the living. As an action, you can use body of a recently living creature, no undead or fiends, to cast remover curse or lesser restoration. At level 12, you can use a body to cast dispel evil and good or greater restoration. Each corpse may be used once in such a way.
At 8th level, you learn from your headsman forebears and gain the sneak attack ability of a rogue half your level if you wield an ax of any kind.
Starting at 17th level, you can use the body of any creature that died in the last minute as a material to cast true resurrection on any creature that also died in the last minute. If you do so, you do not need to have prepared the spell, the spell does not cost any additional material components, and the casting time drops to one minute. Killing a creature solely to fuel this ability may be seen as an evil act and may cause your god to reject the spell.
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