DASCHA VON ZAROVICH
BACKGROUND:
REDEEMED CULTIST
Born of a mute woman in a small village in the
middle of nowhere, Dascha was raised by the
local farmhands tending to their commune.
While her childhood was not distant with the
cult that shadowed their village, she eventually
ran into them and joined in order to have access
to the cult's contacts. She eventually escaped
once she learned more about the world.
Dascha wants nothing more than to find out who
her father is, why her teeth are sharp, why
people don't find that odd, and why she
sometimes bites into people's necks.
Her intense rashes in the daylight have her
almost exclusively covered in either bandages or
long sleeves.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception and Religion
Weapon Proficiencies: Whip
Tool Proficiencies: Disguise kit or Herbalism kit
or Poisoner’s Kit
Languages: any three occult or extraplanar
language of your choice
Equipment: a set of traveler's clothes, your cult’s
identification mark (if any - see the table below),
a dagger, a magic scroll describing a minor
incantation or ritual (level 1 warlock spell of
your choice, one use), a pack of candles, and a
pouch containing 5gp
FEATURE: THE BLACK SHEEP
[ ] Thanks to your long affiliation with a cult
community, you can very easily identify anyone
who is a member of a commune similar to your
own. All cults are essentially the same and their
members exhibit the same behavioral patterns.
By extension, you can also easily recognize any
drug addicts, compulsive liars and people with
various behavioral disorders.
Additionally (this is up to you or your DM to
decide), some of your former brothers and sisters
in faith might not know you have defected and
would be willing to provide you (and only you)
with shelter and supplies. However, the question
is whether you want to stay with them again.
d6 Cult Members’ Identification
[1] Markings (tattoos, scarification,
branding…)
[2] Self-Mutilation (fingers or ears cut off,
missing eye(s), split tongue…)
[3] Accessories (rings, medallions, bracelets,
piercings…)
[4] Clothing (distinct color or type of
clothing…)
[5] Language (password, phrase, cipher, non-
verbal signs…)
[6] Multiple layers of identification - roll twice
on this table, reroll any 6s
d8 Personality Traits
[1] My past still haunts me in my dreams. I
often wake up screaming or do not sleep at all.
[2] I am quick to anger and prone to violent
tantrums when someone tries to control me or
give me orders.
[3] Being a pawn in someone else’s game left
me with an inability to make choices of my
own. I am indecisive.
[4] I am having second thoughts about my
leaving the cult. I am afraid I could easily
return to my old ways given the right
circumstance.
[5] Boundaries were violated time and time
again in the cult until I lost sense of which
boundaries were appropriate. I often behave
inappropriately or in a seemingly random
manner.
[6] Constant feelings of shame, helplessness
and inferiority make me change my mood at a
moment’s notice. I suffer from mood swings or
sudden emotional
[7] I feel immense guilt over my past actions
and welcome suffering as my atonement. I
have little or no regard for my personal health.
[8] Every day I expect to get a knife in my gut
and I see vengeful assassins in every shadow. I
am paranoid or suspicious of others.
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d6 Ideals d6 Flaws
[1] Protective. Dark cults trifle with powers [1] Sometimes, I hear voices in my head that
that are beyond their understanding or command me to do terrible things. And
control. Those fools must be stopped. (lawful) sometimes, I give in.
[2] Nihilist. What’s the point of anything? [2] I trance out and lose touch with reality. I
People are insignificant and their struggle is am sometimes delusional or experience
futile. (neutral) delirious states.
[3] Repentant. I cannot possibly undo the [3] I take great solace in flagellation. The road
wrongs I have done, but I can still try and to salvation leads through blood and self-
atone. (good) inflicted pain.
[4] Anarchist. Lives of men should not be ruled [4] Before I left, I was given a task (by the dark
by anyone. No gods, no masters! (chaotic) lord or deity, or the cult leader) that I am yet to
[5] Faithful. While our cause may be righteous, fulfill.
the cult's leaders are corrupt: I seek to follow [5] In the cult, they fed us drugs. I am still
my god's plans. (any) heavily dependent and I will do anything to get
[6] Selfish. The world is doomed either way. a dose.
Better make to most of it. (evil) [6] I dread the idea of killing another sentient
creature, I have already spilled enough blood.
d6 Bonds
[1] When I left the cult, I took one of its relics
with me. For some strange reason, I cannot
part with it.
[2] They were supposed to be sacrificed, but…
I have helped them escape. Now I feel
responsible for them.
[3] It breaks my heart to know that my close
friend, lover or family member is still a loyal
follower of the cult.
[4] The cult leader made me kill my old friend
during the initiation. I have not forgotten that
and I want revenge.
[5] I cannot stand by and watch as more
children and youths get turned into mindless
fanatics or are exploited for someone else's
personal gain.
[6] No one must ever know about my
involvement with the cult.
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RACE:
DHAMPIR
A dhampir is a creature that is the result of a
union between a vampire and a human.
Dhampirs are very shapely and comely. Their
beauty is often compared to that of royalty.
Dhampir powers are similar to those of vampires
but without the usual weaknesses. They are a
great danger to both enemies and friends, and it
is recommended to take extreme caution when
dealing with them.
While they seem more or less human, many
dhampirs have pale skin and dark hair. At birth
they resemble stillborn, but they do have a very
faint heartbeat. Most even possess sharpened
teeth or claws, reminders of their undead
heritage. They feed the same way as humans do
but have problems being out in the sun. Their
looks are human too, though they are described
as being more graceful in appearance than
humans. They are not as powerful as vampires
but are instead granted the gift of not needing to
feed on others.
Dhampirs appear tall and sturdy while also
having graceful features and a slender
appearance which belies their unnatural
strength.
HISTORY
Being the offspring of a vampire and a human
parent, the dhampir are usually the children of a
tragic romance... or something much more
sinister. This causes them to search their reason
for being created or in some cases join or hunt
their immortal parent for answers.
SOCIETY
Dhampirs normally live a solitary lifestyle,
feared, shunned, and even hunted by other races.
Because of this, a great number of dhampirs
reject their vampiric heritage. Few, if any, can
even stand the presence of a vampire. They are
famed for their ability to not only hunt vampires,
but also other mythical beings. Most are driven
and stubborn, yet strangely charismatic. But yet
again there is a group who are willing to help
and protect their undead relatives and be their
guard. This is presumably because of their ability
to move in the sun which makes them excellent
followers for vampires.
DHAMPIR TRAITS & FEATURES
The offspring of a vampire and a human
necrophiliac.
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score
increases by 2.
Physical Enhancement. A mortal's transformation
into a vampire offers a host of physical
enhancements, like strength, speed, and agility,
and you have inherited some of this
enhancement from your undead parent. Your
choice of score from either Strength, Dexterity,
or Constitution increase by 1.
Age. Dhampirs mature at roughly the same rate
as humans but do not age further after reaching
maturity, and they do not die of old age.
Alignment. As with humans, a dhampir's
alignment is solely determined by the individual,
though due to their unique heritage and the
subsequent treatment by most of the world they
easily fall to evil, and they also tend slightly
toward chaotic alignments.
Size. Dhampirs are of similar height and build to
humans. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write
Common and one other language of your choice.
VAMPIRIC SIGHT
[ ] You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you
as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it
were dim light. You can't discern color in
darkness, only shades of gray.
VAMPIRIC BITE
[ ] You have the ability to make a bite attack
against either a willing creature, a creature that
is charmed or grappled by you, or a creature that
is incapacitated or restrained. You can use your
Strength or Dexterity for your bite's attack roll.
On a hit, your bite deals necrotic damage equal
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to 1d6 plus the ability modifier used to make the
attack roll. You may also choose to gain
temporary hit points equal to the amount of
necrotic damage dealt with this attack. You may
gain temporary hit points from this trait a
number of times equal to your proficiency bonus.
Any expended uses of this feature are restored
after a long rest.

VAMPIRIC GAZE
[ ] You can cast the charm person spell once
using this trait. Charisma is your spellcasting
ability for this spell. You require no components
to cast this spell using this trait, but your target
must be able to see you. You regain the ability to
cast this spell when you finish a short or long
rest.

POLYMORPHOUS LIGHT
ERUPTION
[ ] The appearance of skin affected by sun
allergy can vary widely, depending on what's
causing the problem. Signs and symptoms may
include redness, itching or pain, tiny bumps that
may merge into raised patches, scaling, crusting
or bleeding, and/or blisters or hives. Signs and
symptoms usually occur only on skin that has
been exposed to the sun and typically develop
within minutes to hours after sun exposure.
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CLASS:
MAGE
Mages are often eager and impatient to become
the powerful master of the arcane they believe
themselves to be. Beginning early, they pursue
reckless powers with occasionally devastating
effect, often using what little actual knowledge
they have for flavor and utility.
CREATING A MAGE
Want to use magic but don't have the patience?
Mages are spellcasters that often don't have the
time or patience to prepare spells every day but
lack the innate abilities of a sorcerer. By creating
a shortcut to actual memorization, they store a
limited number of spells in their mind as a
sorcerer would, but also keep the spell effectively
"prepared" in a focus. This way they only need a
small gesture or word to finish the given spell
and don't have to keep track of as much
knowledge at once, allowing for free time like no
wizard will ever know!
CLASS FEATURES
As a Mage you gain the following class features.
HIT POINTS
Hit Dice: 1d6 per Mage level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) +
Constitution modifier per Mage level after 1st
PROFICIENCIES
Armor: Light Armor
Weapons: Daggers, darts, slings, quarterstaffs,
light crossbows
Tools: Choose one1
Saving Throws: Charisma, Dexterity
Skills: Choose two
EQUIPMENT
You start with the following equipment, in
addition to the equipment granted by your
background:
[ ] a dagger or [ ] a quarterstaff
[ ] a dungeoneer's pack or [ ] an explorer's pack
[ ] an arcane focus
SPELLCASTING
As a student of magic... you gave up using your
spellbook years ago. You can snap your fingers
and do magic, what use is a dusty old tome? You
can figure the rest out as you go.
CANTRIPS
[ ][ ][ ] At 1st level, you know three cantrips
which you may choose from the bard, sorcerer,
warlock, or wizard spell lists. You learn
additional cantrips of your choice at higher
levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column
of the Mage table.
CASTING SPELLS
The Mage table shows how many spell slots you
cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast
one of these spells, you must expend a spell slot
of the spell's level or higher. You regain all
expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
You prepare each spell only once, imbuing it into
your focus. An effective shortcut around the age-
old practice of preparing spells each morning,
you can cast each as many times as your spell
slots will allow.
LEARNING SPELLS
Each time you gain access to a new level of spell,
you learn a single spell chosen from the bard,
sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list of the
appropriate level.
Much like a wizard writing spells in their spell
book, you may use scrolls or other tomes you
find along your way to change the imbued spells
in your focus, but your focus may only carry one
spell of each level.
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SPELLCASTING ABILITY
You use Charisma as your spellcasting ability for
your Mage spells, since the power of your spells
relies on your ability to project your will into the
world. You use your Charisma whenever a spell
calls for your spellcasting ability. In addition, you
use your Charisma modifier when setting the
saving throw DC for a mage spell cast and for
setting an attack roll for one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Charisma modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Charisma modifier
SPELLCASTING FOCUS
[ ][ ] You have been figuring things out on your
own ever since you abandoned your spellbook,
and you've got a good method now.
At 2nd level, choose a skill or a tool. Your
proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability
check you make that uses the chosen proficiency.
At 6th level, you can choose another skill or a
tool proficiency to gain this benefit.
ARCANE BOLT
[ ][ ][ ][ ] Evocation cantrip
Casting time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: Somatic
Duration: Instantaneous
Your signature and masterpiece.
At 1st level, you gain Arcane Bolt as a bonus spell
which you may cast without using a spell slot.
For purposes of Counterspell & etc., this spell's
level is equal to your proficiency bonus.
Make a spell attack against a creature you can
see within range. The target has to make a
dexterity saving throw on a hit, Arcane Bolt deals
a number of damage dice to the target equal to
your proficiency bonus. Each time you cast
Arcane Bolt, choose a unique damage type
among acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, necrotic,
poison, psychic, radiant, and thunder. You must
complete a short or long rest before you can cast
arcane bolt with the same damage type again.
Starting at 1st level, roll d6 for damage. Increase
the damage die size by one at 6th (d8), 11th
(d10) , and 15th level (d12).
IMBUING & CASTING
SPELLS
The Mage table shows how many spell slots you
have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher.
To cast one of these spells, you must expend a
spell slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain
all expended spell slots when you finish a long
rest. You prepare each spell only once, imbuing
it into your focus. As an effective shortcut
around the age-old practice of preparing spells
each morning, you can cast each as many times
as your spell slots will allow.
When you find a spell of 1st level or higher of a
spell list you can imbue, if it is of a level for
which you have a spell already imbued you can
spare the time to decipher and prepare it in place
of your current spell of the same level. This
process involves deciphering the written spell
and the channeling of magic between your focus
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and the object in which the found spell is
inscribed. You perform the ritual over the course
of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest.
At the ritual's completion, you have imbued the
found spell in your focus and can cast it as such.
The source of the inscribed spell (scroll,
spellbook, etc.) now contains the spell that you
had prepared previously, no longer imbued.
TRICKS OF THE TRADE
[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] Not being up to the usual study of
schools and books, the Mage sets about a
different means of getting by. Picking and
choosing to find the best path for themselves.
At 3rd, 7th, 10th, 14th, and 17th levels, a Mage
may gain a feature of any other class as long as a
character of that class could do so at that level or
lower and can ignore any other prerequisites
associated to attaining the feature.
A feature which grants access to a single spell
automatically grants it as a bonus spell. You must
still have your focus in order to cast such a spell.
A feature which grants access to more than one
spell (Warlock patron spells, druid circle spells,
etc) does not grant bonus spells, but if you
choose such a feature you may choose from the
spells it provides when learning spells of a new
level.
Features which go off of levels in a class are
substituted with levels in mage and progress as
normal.
Alternatively, you can take feats instead of taking
features. You must still meet the prerequisites of
these feats.
ABILITY SCORE INCREASE
[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] When you reach 4th level, and
again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can
increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or
you can increase two ability scores of your
choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an
ability score above 20 using this feature.
EFFICIENT SPELL
[ ] At 18th level, casting some spells has simply
become second nature.
When imbuing your focus, you may now have
up to two spells that are reduced by one spell
level. Each of those spells counts as being one
spell level lower for figuring which spell slot to
spend when casting it, but not for what spells
you know.
If done on a 1st level spell, the spell becomes a
cantrip that takes no slot or material components
unless the spell is cast at higher levels for
increased effect. Reducing a 1st level spell to a
cantrip is permanent, as cantrips cannot be
unlearned.
PERMANENCY
[ ] You have been imbuing spells in your focus
for so long that you don't even have to think
about it much to get the magic flowing.
At 20th level, you may cast a spell which
requires concentration and keep it permanent
without concentrating. Alternatively, you can
cast any spell which targets yourself and keep it
permanent with the same conditions. Any
condition that would end the spell other than
time or concentration will still end it. If the spell
would be forcibly dispelled or negated through
means such as Counterspell or Dispel Magic,
your opponent must roll for success no matter
what level of spell slot they used to counter or
dispel, if the spell slot your opponent used to
counter or dispell your spell is equal to or lower
than the spell level, the roll is made with
disadvantage. The DC for your permanent spell
equals 12 + the spell’s level. If the spell would be
suppressed, such as by an Antimagic Field, You
may roll vs. your spellsave DC using your
spellcasting modifier. On a success, the spell is
not suppressed and cannot be suppressed for 1
minute.
You may only have one permanent spell active at
a time. Casting a second permanent spell ends
the first.
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Proficiency --Spell Slots per Spell Level--
Level Bonus Spells Cantrips Features 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
[1] +2 1 3 Spellcasting, Arcane 2 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Bolt
[2] +2 1 3 Practice Makes Perfect 3 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---

[3] +2 2 3 Tricks of The Trade 4 2 --- --- --- --- --- --- ---

[4] +2 2 4 Ability Score 4 3 --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Improvement
[5] +3 3 4 --- 4 3 2 --- --- --- --- --- ---

[6] +3 3 4 Practice Makes Perfect 4 3 3 --- --- --- --- --- ---
II
[7] +3 4 5 Tricks of The Trade II 4 3 3 1 --- --- --- --- ---

[8] +3 4 5 Ability Score 4 3 3 2 --- --- --- ---

Improvement
[9] +4 5 5 --- 4 3 3 3 1 --- --- --- ---

[10] +4 5 6 Tricks of The Trade III 4 3 3 3 2 --- --- --- ---

[11] +4 6 6 --- 4 3 3 3 2 1 --- --- ---

[12] +4 6 6 Ability Score 4 3 3 3 2 1 --- --- ---

Improvement
[13] +5 7 7 --- 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 --- ---

[14] +5 7 7 Tricks of The Trade IV 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 --- ---

[15] +5 8 7 --- 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 ---

[16] +5 8 8 Ability Score 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 ---

Improvement
[17] +6 9 8 Tricks of The Trade V 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
[18] +6 9 8 Efficient Spell 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
[19] +6 9 9 Ability Score 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
Improvement
[20] +6 9 9 Permanency 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1