The drow took a deep breath through her nose.

She could feel

the black powder work through her system, as her senses
clarified. She could smell every goblin within a hundred feet,
The Powder Mage and hear their terrible chattering with unpleasant clarity. She
Marked flashed a grin as she leveled her pistols at the horde and
Proficiency Marked Sense opened fire.
Level Bonus Features Points Range
Power in Powder
Marked Sense, Marked
1st +2
Points, Powder Trance
2 10 ft.
In a world of monsters, gods, and magic, it's hard for an
2nd +2 Floating and Stinging 2 10 ft.
adventurer to find something surprising and new. But while
black powder alone was one thing, powder mages are
3rd +2
Powder Mage
3 20 ft.
something else.
Specialties Powder mages are forces to be reckoned with on the
Ability Score battlefield. Their power comes from their unique ability to
4th +2
Improvement
4 20 ft. manipulate black powder. Every powder mage is able to ingest
a small amount of black powder to enhance their abilities to
5th +3 Extra Attack 5 40 ft. superhuman levels, or even burn it using their willpower and
6th +3 Specialty Feature 6 40 ft. redirecting the force elsewhere. They may use their powers to
redirect bullets, or manipulate the force of explosions.
7th +3 Cumbustion Control 7 80 ft.
Powder mages are deadly efficient with firearms, as well as
8th +3
Ability Score
8 80 ft.
having skill with martial and simple weapons.
Improvement
Improved Powder
Creating a Powder mage
9th +4 9 80 ft.
Trance As you build your powder mage, consider how you came to
10th +4 Specialty Feature 10 160 ft. have your powers. Was it the result of being eperimented on
by a wizard? Or maybe you had some motivation to gain
11th +4 Hidden Reserves 11 160 ft. power, and you made a deal with a demon. Maybe you were
Ability Score born with it and developed the abilities after exposure to black
12th +4
Improvement
12 160 ft. powder. Be sure to discuss the origin of your powder mage
with your DM.
13th +5 Self Medication 13 320 ft Also consider your characters views their own powers. Do
Advanced Powder they revel in their unique abilities, or are they reluctant to use
14th +5
Trance
14 320 ft.
them and seek a way to remove them?
15th +5 Specialty Feature 15 320 ft. Quick Build
16th +5
Ability Score
16 640 ft.
You can make a powder mage quickly by following these
Improvement suggestions. First, Dexterity should be your highest ability
17th +6 Specialty Feature 17 640 ft.
score, followed by Wisdom. Second, choose the soldier
background.
18th +6 Killer Instinct 18 640 ft.

19th +6
Ability Score
19 1280 ft.
Class Features
Improvement
As a powder mage, you gain the following class features
Mastered Powder
20th +6 20 1280 ft.
Trance Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d10 per powder mage level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constituion modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constituion
modifier per powder mage level after 1st
Powder Mage Proficiencies
A young human steps forward to the barricade and looks out Armor: Light Armor, medium armor
at the advancing force of ghouls. The other soldiers, archers, Weapons: Martial weapons, simple weapons, firearms
give him a curious look. The targets weren't in range yet. The Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
young soldier lifted a large metal tube atop his shoulder and lit Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Acrobatics, Intimidation,
the fuse. The ghouls never stood a chance. Perception, Survival, or Investigation
A grizzled dwarf pressed against a fallen tree. Three orcs
were closing in on him. Each from a different direction. He
had no bullets left. No problem.

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 Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
equipment granted by your background:
leather armor
(a) a musket or (b) any one-handed firearm
(a) any martial weapon or (b) any simple weapon
15 rounds of ammunition.
Marked Sense
1st-level Powder Mage feature
You are able to sense the presence of nearby black powder.
The range of this sense is 10 ft, and increases as you gain
powder mage levels as indicated in the Marked Sense Range
column of the class table.
At 5th level, your senses expand to the supernatural,
allowing you to cast detect magic at will, without expending a
spell slot. When you cast this spell, the range of its magic
detection is equal to the range of your Marked Sense.
Marked Points
1st-level Powder Mage feature
Powder mages can manipulate black powder through force of
will. Using these abilities costs Marked Points, representing
the mental and physical strain of performing such feats. You
have 2 Marked points, and gain more as you increase in level,
as represented in the Marked Points column of the class
table. You regain all expended Marked Points after a short or
long rest.
As an action, you may spend 1 Marked Point to detonate a
single source of black powder that you can sense. You may
detonate up to 3 sources at 3rd level, 5 sources at 9th level,
and 10 sources at 15th level. You must spend 1 Marked Point
for each source you detonate.
Explosions you create in this way, as well as other features
you will gain later, require a saving throw. The DC for these
saving throws is calculated as such:
Powder Mage DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Wisdom modifier
Powder Trance
1st-level Powder Mage feature
On your turn, you may enter a powder trance, as a bonus
action, by ingesting a powder charge and spending 1 Marked
Point. You gain the following benefits:
You gain a bonus to your attack rolls equal to half your
proficiency bonus.
Your senses become finely attuned, giving you advantage
on Wisdom (Perception) checks. You can see up to 1 mile
away with no difficulty, able to discern even fine details as
though looking at something no more than 100 feet away
from you. Additionally, dim light doesn't impose
disadvantage on your Wisdom (Perception) checks.
Your trance lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are
knocked unconscious. You can also end your trance on your
turn as a bonus action.
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Floating and Stinging
2nd-level Powder Mage Feature
When you hit with an attack, you may spend Marked Points to
increase the damage dealt by 1d8 for each point you spend.
The damage type is the same as that of the weapon you are
using.
Additionally, when you make a ranged attack, you may
spend 1 Marked Point to double the range of the attack.
Powder Mage Specialty
3rd-level Powder Mage feature
You commit to a form of specialized powder mage training.
You gain features from your archetype at 6th, 10th, 15th, and
17th level.
Ability Score Improvement
4th-level Powder Mage feature
At 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.
Extra Attack
5th-level Powder Mage feature
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the
Attack action on your turn.
Combustion Control
7th-level Powder Mage feature
Your ability to manipulate black powder becomes further
refined. Whenever black powder is detonated within range of
your Marked Sense, you may use your reaction to change the
point of origin of the explosion to a point within the range of
your Marked Sense. This feature may be used to nullify a shot
from a firearm, or to redirect powder that you detonate
yourself, for example.
Redirecting this force costs 1 Marked Point for every 10
feet of the radius or length of the explosion.
Any explosion you redirect with this feature uses your
Powder Mage DC.
Improved Powder Trance
9th-level Powder Mage feature
While in a powder trance you gain the following benefits.
You gain a bonus to saving throws equal to your
Constitution modifier.
Your movement speed increases by 15 ft.
Hidden Reserves
11th-level Powder Mage feature
Whenever you use a feature that requires you to spend a
Marked Point, you may choose to not spend the point. When
you do, you gain one point of exhaustion.
Self Medication
13th-level Powder Mage feature
Your body's ability to metabolize black powder has become
much more refined. As a bonus action, you may ingest a small
amount of black powder to cure yourself of a disease, regain
hit points equal to 1d10 + your powder mage level, or end a
single condition on yourself. This condition may be blinded,
deafened, frightened, or poisoned. Whenever you use this
feature, you must spend 1 Marked Point.
Advanced Powder Trance
14th-level Powder Mage feature
You become able to push the limits of a powder trance even
further than normal. When you enter a powder trance, you
may choose to spend 3 Marked Points instead of 1. If you do
so, you gain one of the following benefits of your choice, for
the duration of your powder trance:
You may make one attack as a bonus action.
You have darkvision for a distance equal to the range of
your Marked Sense.
You have advantage on one type of saving throw of your
choice.
You don't trigger attacks of opportunity.
Killer Instinct
18th-level Powder Mage feature
Your senses are always on alert, ensuring you are always
ready to jump into action. When you roll initiative you may
choose to immediately enter a powder trance and put yourself
at the top of the initiative order instead. Once you do so, you
cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
Additionally, you cannot be surprised.
Mastered Powder Trance
20th-level Powder Mage feature
Your body has become strongly attuned to the effects of black
powder. Whenever you finish a long rest, you may choose one
of the benefits you would gain from a Powder Trance. You
gain this benefit without needing to be in a Powder Trance,
until your next long rest.
You cannot choose from the benefits gained from the
Advanced Powder Trance feature.
Optional Rules
Powder Addiction and Blindness
Powder mages who ingest a large amount of black powder, or
many small amounts in a short period of time, run the risk of a
condition known as Powder Blindness.
When a powder mage uses their powder trance or self
medication features, or spends Marked Points to gain
additional powder trance benefits, an amount of times equal
to half their level (rounded down) + 1 within the same hour,
they suffer the beginning stages of Powder Blindness.
When a powder mage becomes Powder Blind, they lose the
use of two of their powder mage class features, determined by
the DM. The feature lost cannot be the Powder Trance
feature, and the powder mage may use lost features while in a
Powder Trance. The powder mage loses use of an additional
feature for each day that passes without having cured
themselves of their Powder Blindness.
A powder mage suffering from Powder Blindness may cure
themselves of it by not ingesting any black powder for 2 days,
for each feature the mage has lost use of. Powder Blindness is
not affected by any effect that grants disease immunity, or the
Self Medication feature. If a Powder Blind mage is affected by
a magical effect that cures disease, the powder blindness is
not cured, but loses effect for the next hour.
If a powder mage does not permanently cure their Powder
Blindness within 30 days, they lose all powder mage features
permanently.
Kickback
Powder mages are able to detonate large amounts of black
powder with but a small spark of their will alone. But doing so
does not come without consequence. If a powder mage uses
marked points to detonate black powder, and the total amount
of damage dice from the detonations is greater than the
powder mage's maximum marked points, they take a number
of d4 of psychic damage equal to the difference.
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 Powder Mage Specialties
All powder mages draw power from black powder, but each
has their own specialty. Some prefer the elegance and
precision of the Bullet Dancer, while others practice the
explosive techniques of the Bombardier. And the particularly
aggressive among them become known as Powder Fiends.
Bullet Dancer
As a Bullet Dancer, you rely on the precise application of black
powder. Able to accomplish manuvers that are difficult even
for powder mages. You excel at redirecting bullets mid air,
getting as much use out of each one as possible.
Always Armed
3rd-level Bullet Dancer feature
You have honed your skills to ensure you are always armed.
You now treat bullets as ranged weapons with a normal range
of 20 ft., a long range of 60 ft, and a damage die of 1d8.
Quick load
3rd-level Bullet Dancer feature
You no longer need to load black powder into firearms, saving
you precious time reloading. Firearms that have the loading
property now have the reload property instead, requiring
reloading after 1 shot.
Angle Floating
6th-level Bullet Dancer feature
You have begun to use black powder to manipulate the
trajectory of your ranged attacks, and adjust your aim. As a
bonus action, you may spend 1 Marked Point to ignore the
effects of One-quarter, half, and total cover on the target of
your next attack, provided the shot can be fired around said
cover. Shots may be fired around cover, provided the shot
would not need to travel more than 10 ft. after being
redirected around said cover.
Pocket Shot
10th-level Bullet Dancer feature
You are able to interrupt attacks made near you. When a
creature you can see makes an attack within range of your
bullet attack, as per your Always Armed feature, you may
spend 1 Marked Point and use your reaction to make a bullet
attack against that creature. Regardless of whether the attack
hits or not, the target's attack is made at disadvantage.
Adjustment
15th-level Bullet Dancer feature
When you miss with a ranged attack, you may spend 2
Marked Points to reroll that attack. You must use the new roll.
Multi-Float
17th-level Bullet Dancer feature
When you make a ranged attack you may spend Marked
Points to make an additional ranged attack for each marked
point spent.
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Bombardier
Some Powder Mages prefer to focus on the raw explosive
potential of black powder. They use their powers to disorient
their foes and to manipulate the force of explosions. These
Powder Mages are known as Bombardiers.
Flashbang
3rd-level Bombardier feature
As a bonus action, you may spend 1 Marked Point to burn a
small amount of black powder and redirect the force to
disorient a creature within range of your Marked Sense. The
target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed
save, the target becomes blinded and deafened until the end
of their next turn.
Once you reach 10th level, this feature affects a 10 ft.
radius around a point of your choosing, rather than a single
target. The point must be within range of your Marked Sense.
This feature uses you Powder Mage DC.
Expanded Marked Sense
6th-level Bombardier feature
The range of your Marked Sense is doubled. Also, the amount
of black powder sources you can detonate, as per your
Marked Points feature, is also doubled.
Shaped Charge
6th-level Bombardier feature
Whenever there is a black powder explosion within range of
your Marked Sense, you may use your reaction to spend 1
Marked Point and choose any number of creatures within the
area of the explosion. Those creatures are unaffected by the
explosion.
Also, whenever there is a black powder explosion within
range of your Marked Sense, you may use your reaction to
choose multiple points within your Marked Sense, spending 1
Marked Point for every two points chosen. The original
explosion's point of origin becomes the chosen points, and the
radii of the new explosions are each equal to that of the
original divided by the amount of points chosen, rounded up
to the nearest multiple of 5.
Accelerate
10th-level Bombardier feature
You can dampen the force of black powder explosions to push
creatures and objects. You may reduce the damage of a black
powder explosion that you detonate, or redirect, by 1 or more
dice. When you do so, the creature is pushed 5 ft., plus an
additional 5 ft. for each die the damage is reduced by, if they
fail their saving throw against the explosion.
Objects may also be pushed in this way, provided their
weight is less than or equal to 10 lbs. times the number of
dice by which the damage is reduce.
Empowered Detonations
15th-level Bombardier feature
When you roll damage for a black powder explosion that you
caused or redirected, you may roll any die that roll a one or
two. You must use the new roll.
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17th-level Bombardier feature powder. Your powder trance now lasts for 1 hour, instead of 1 10th-
minute.
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focused on a single target. Pow
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Hardened Physique
3rd-level Powder Fiend feature
Your body metabolizes black powder to reinforce your
physique. Upon gaining this feature, choose one of the
following benefits. While in a powder trance, you may spend 1
Marked Point to gain the chosen benefit.
You gain resistance to all damage except psychic damage,
for the duration of your powder trance.
You gain temporary hit points equal to your powder mage
level + your Constitution Modifier.
You regain an amount of hit points equal to your
Constitution Modifier at the start of your turn, while in a
powder trance.
Whenever you gain a powder mage level, you may exchange
your chosen benefit with another.
Powder Fueled Athletics
6th-level Powder Fiend feature
The black powder flowing through you has enhanced your
athletic prowess. Upon gaining this feature, choose one of the
following benefits. While in a powder trance, you may spend 1
Marked Point to gain the chosen benefit.
While in a powder trance, you have advantage on strength
ability checks and saving throws.
While in a powder trance, your AC is equal to 10 + your
Dexterity modifier + your Wisdom modifier, while not
wearing armor.
While in a powder trance, your movement speed is
doubled.
Whenever you gain a powder mage level, you may exchange
your chosen benefit with another.
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