Risen
Risen fighters are raised from near-death by flora, kept alive
by the plants now at home within their body. Many risen
move like jerky puppets, their organs a tangle of vine and
weed, with bones half-turned to rotten wood. The forest
within might one day call them to take root, but until then,
they fight with endurance only a dead thing could summon.
Sprouting Risen
Starting when you choose this archetype at 3rd level, the flora
inside you has filled your body with unnatural vitality. You can
use your Second Wind twice between rests. When you finish
a short or long rest, you regain both expended uses.
Additionally, when you use your Second Wind to regain hit
points, vegetal adaptations burst from under your skin. Until
the start of your next turn, whenever you take damage equal
to or less than the hit points you regained using your Second
Wind, you can reduce that damage to 0.
Walking Copse
By 3rd level, the wood within has changed you. While in
direct sunlight, you can sunbathe for 4 hours instead of
sleeping. To gain the benefits of a long rest, you can spend all
4 hours engaging in light activity, such as relaxing or keeping
watch. After resting in this way, you recieve enough
nourishment to sustain yourself for another day.
Corpse Seed
Starting at 7th level, you can use your action to touch the
corpse of a Small or Medium beast or humanoid and plant a
seed inside of it. After 1 minute, the seed germinates, and the
corpse stands as a husk. The husk has the same statistics as
a zombie (MM 316), though it is a plant instead of an undead,
and it has vulnerability to fire damage.
A husk is friendly to you and your companions, takes its
turn on your initiative, and obeys your verbal commands. If
you don't issue any commands to a husk, it pursues and
attacks the nearest hostile creature to the best of its ability.
A husk sustains itself only on your power. You can't sustain
more than three husks using this feature at a time. If you
plant a seed inside a corpse while you already have three
husks from this feature, one of the husks under your control
withers and dies.
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Burrowing Roots
At 10th level, your roots become strong enough to anchor you
in the earth. While standing on solid ground, you can use a
bonus action to root yourself. Your speed becomes 0, you
can't be moved or knocked prone, and you have advantage on
Dexterity (Stealth) checks you make to hide amongst plants.
You can uproot yourself on your turn (no action required).
You are uprooted early if you are teleported or if you die.
Innervate
By 15th level, the wood within has twined around your heart,
filling you with life. Whenever you regain hit points, you can
treat any dice rolled to determine the hit points you regain as
having rolled their maximum value for you.
Additionally, you suffer none of the frailty of old age, and if
you die of old age, the growths within you tear your heart
from your body and plant it as a seed deep within the earth,
growing a great forest from the place your heart was buried.
Overflowing Life
Starting at 18th level, when you die, your corpse can animate,
puppeteered by the growths inside you. Your corpse can't
animate if you died of old age. Your corpse is a plant with hit
points equal to half your hit point maximum. Its Intelligence
and Charisma scores are 1, and it can't cast spells, activate
magic items, understand language, or communicate in any
intelligible way. Otherwise, it uses your statistics.
Your corpse takes its turn on your initiative, and you
determine its actions and decisions. Your corpse can identify
your companions as allies, follow them, and protect them.
If your corpse sunbathes for 4 hours using your Walking
Copse feature, you are returned to life with 1 hit point. If your
corpse is reduced to 0 hit points, the plants animating you
wither, and it becomes an ordinary corpse.
Once your corpse animates, it can't animate again until you
finish a long rest.