Heroes Handbook

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Table of Contents
Part I: Heroes 4
Chapter 1: Races .........................................................5
Choosing a Side .................................................................... 5
Choosing a Race ....................................................................6
Blood Elf ..............................................................................7
Draenei ................................................................................ 9
Dwarf ................................................................................. 11
Forsaken ............................................................................13
Gnome ............................................................................... 15
Goblin ................................................................................ 17
Human ...............................................................................19
Night Elf ............................................................................ 21
Orc ......................................................................................23
Pandaren ...........................................................................25
Tauren ................................................................................27
Troll .................................................................................... 29
Worgen .............................................................................. 31
Chapter 2: Classes ..................................................34
Druid ..................................................................................... 35
Hunter ...................................................................................42
Mage ......................................................................................48
Monk ......................................................................................54
Paladin .................................................................................. 59
Priest ..................................................................................... 65
Rogue .................................................................................... 70
Shaman .................................................................................74
Warlock .................................................................................81
Warrior ..................................................................................86
Chapter 3: Personality and 91
Background ..................................................................
Character Details ................................................................91
Hero Points ..........................................................................94
New Backgrounds .............................................................. 95
Chapter 4: New Equipment ..........................100
Starting Equipment ......................................................... 100
Wealth .................................................................................100
Racial Weapons ................................................................ 101
Firearms .............................................................................101
Mounts ................................................................................103
Chapter 5: Customization Options ....104
Multiclassing ..................................................................... 104
New Feats .......................................................................... 106
New Racial Feats ..............................................................106
Part II: Magic 107
Chapter 6: Spells ...................................................108
Spell Lists .......................................................................... 108
Spell Descriptions ............................................................111
Appendix A: Shapeshifts 115

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 Part 1
Creating a Hero

PART 1 | RACES
Chapter 1: Races
A
rmies and factions have always defined the
Warcraft world, and two of the most powerful
factions on Azeroth today are the Alliance and
Horde. Most players belong to one or the
other faction, although anomalies do exist.
Choosing a Side
At character creation, every player must choose their
character’s faction. It is as much a part of the hero as their
class or background. All characters in a party are usually of
the same faction.
Although every race has an affiliation, there are excep-
tions. Creating a character outside their normal affiliation
is challenging, but offers a great role play opportunities for
the player. Some suggestions are listed below.
The character was born into the faction.
The character was saved or befriended by members of
the faction.
The character fled from their faction.
The character witnessed members of their faction doing
something they found reprehensible.
The Alliance
The Alliance have proven themselves to be fierce
combatants, often giving their lives when called for. The
faction is not a uniform governmental body, but is a
coalition of mutual military and economic aid. Diplomacy is
key with in the Alliance and decisions are traditionally
made by being voted on by the Alliance's most influential
members. Stormwind is described as the most powerful
force in the now multiracial Alliance. With it becoming the
de facto leader of the remaining human kingdoms and
entering a powerful alliance with the strongest dwarven
kingdom, Ironforge, Stormwind has thus been shown to be
the most influential kingdom and therefore the de facto
driving force of Alliance politics. Therefore, Stormwind is
undisputedly looked to for maintaining the Alliance and its
policies. Stormwind is where the main superpowers of the
Alliance conference to discuss world issues and mutual
defense. The majority of Alliance citizens also recognizes
Stormwind City as the heart of the Alliance. The High King
coordinates the workings of the Alliance's armies in order
to safeguard the Alliance's interests and defense.
Even now, as always, humans are the glue that hold the
Alliance together, being the most numerous and diplomatic
of the member races. The armies of Stormwind are
primarily stationed in the southern Eastern Kingdoms,
securing regions such as Elwynn Forest, Duskwood,
Westfall, and the Redridge mountains. As well as having
outposts and bases stationed at key points in Lordaeron,
Northrend, and Kalimdor. The armies of Ironforge are
mainly stationed in Khaz Modan along with their gnome
allies, and the night elven armies are mainly defending
northern Kalimdor from the Horde's deforestation of
the Ashenvale. The remaining draenei forces
are still trying to secure their new home on
Azuremyst Isle, and are also stationed in
Outland. The recently brought in Gil-
nean armies are defending them-
selves from the endless Forsaken.
The Horde
The Horde makes no compromises
when it comes to excellence, and the
power and ferocity of their warriors is
legendary. Misunderstood by many as
evil, the Horde possesses a strong code of
honor and strict laws for disobedience.
All members of the Horde have to swear a blood oath to
join the faction and are thus obligated to follow the
warchief's commands and support the warchief in war if
the warchief calls upon them for aid. The position of
warchief can be attained by having the previous warchief
choose a successor or challenging the current warchief to a
Mak'gora: a prearranged duel with deadly weapons
between two people following a formal procedure in the
presence of witnesses and traditionally fought until one
party yields or is killed, usually to settle a quarrel involving
a point of honor. Above all else, the title warchief is granted
to those who display strength and decisive action.
The warchief may accept ambassadors and advisors
from all the different tribes and members of the Horde to
makes sure their voice is heard in the running of the
fledgling hegemony but ultimately, only the warchief may
have the final say in matters concerning the entire Horde.
Each race within the Horde choose a single leader to
govern their people and their people's kingdoms and also to
represent their people in the high Horde echelon.
Despite their somewhat monstrous appearance, the
majority of the Horde is not evil, much like the Alliance, it is
comprised of diverse factions and individuals who possess
a wide range of values and virtues. Even so, there is one
expectation that must be met when joining the Horde:
regardless of gender or station, all are expected to pull
their own weight and give their talents for the betterment of
the Horde. When weakness is a liability to the
of the Horde, it is the duty of the strong to
usurp control from the incompetent
and redeem the Horde. Lok'tar ogar!
Victory or death - These words bind
one to the Horde. For they are the
most sacred and fundamental of
truths to any warrior of the
Horde, for the Horde, failure
is not an option.
Culturally, orcs and tauren
believe in redemption more
than most other races on
Azeroth and are willing to
give almost anyone a chance,
regardless of reputation. The trolls
seem to have even accepted, (if not
at least tolerate) their ancient enemy
the blood elves. Largely because of
these beliefs, a number of mortal races
and many diverse factions can be found
in bservice to the Horde.
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 Choosing a Race
A visit to one of the great cities in the world of Azeroth
Stormwind City, the Capital City of Stormwind, the City of
Doors overwhelms the senses. Voices chatter in countless
dialects of different languages. The smells of cooking in
dozens of different cuisines mingle with the odors of
crowded streets and poor sanitation. Buildings in myriad
architectural styles display the diverse origins of their
inhabitants.
And the people themselves represent many different
races, from gnomes and stout dwarves to majestically
beautiful elves, mingling among a variety of humans.
Scattered among the common races: a draenei here,
pushing his way through the crowd, and a sly worgen there,
lurking in the shadows. Night elves and dwarves live and
work alongside humans. And there, a lone pandaren — a
wanderer from the shifting isles of the ever expanding
great sea, trying to make his way in a world unknown.
— A poetic gnome
Not every intelligent race of the multiverse is appropriate
for a player-controlled adventurer. The ones presented in
this book are the races most well known to become
adventurers and heroes, spread throughout every corner of
Azeroth's continents.
Your choice of race affects many different aspects of your
character. It establishes fundamental qualities that exist
throughout your character's adventuring career. When
making this decision, keep in mind the kind of character
you want to play. For example, a gnome could be a good
choice for a sneaky rogue, a dwarf makes a tough warrior,
and an elf can be a master of arcane magic.
Your character race not only affects your ability scores
and traits but also provides the cues for building your
character's story. Each race's description in this chapter
includes information to help you roleplay a character of
that race, including personality, physical appearance,
features of society, and racial alignment tendencies.
These details are suggestions to help you think about your
character; adventurers can deviate widely from the norm
for their race. It's worthwhile to consider why your
character is different, as a helpful way to think about your
character's background and personality.
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Racial Traits
The description of each race includes racial traits that are
common to members of that race. The following entries
appear among the traits of most races.
Ability Score Increase
Every race increases one or more of a character's ability
scores.
Age
The age entry notes the age when a member of the race is
considered an adult, as well as the race's expected lifespan.
This information can help you decide how old your
character is at the start of the game.
Alignment
Most races have tendencies toward certain alignments,
described in this entry. These are not binding for player
characters, but considering why your dwarf is chaotic, for
example, in defiance of lawful dwarf society can help you
better define your character.
Size
Characters of most races are Medium, a size category
including creatures that are roughly 4 to 8 feet tall.
Members of a few races are Small (between 2 and 4 feet
tall), which means that certain rules of the game affect
them differently. The most important of these rules is that
Small characters have trouble wielding heavy weapons.
Speed
Your speed determines how far you can move when
traveling and fighting.
Languages
By virtue of your race, your character can speak, read, and
write certain languages. Each race has their own language,
with multiple dialects. as well as a 'common' language, that
the majority of their faction speaks and understands.
Chapter 4 lists languages commonly spoken on Azeroth.
Subraces
Many races have subraces. Members of a subrace have the
traits of the parent race in addition to the traits specified
for their subrace. Relationships among the subraces vary
significantly from race to race.

Blood Elf
We must put this misery behind us. We must enter a new
chapter! And so I say to you that, as of this day, we are no
longer high elves! In honor of the sacrifices of our brothers
and sisters, our parents, and our children, as of this day we
will take the name of our royal lineage! As of this day, we
are sin'dorei! For Quel'Thalas!
— Kael'thas Sunstrider
Introduction
Nourished and strengthened by the Sunwell’s potent
energies, the high elves’ enchanted kingdom of Quel'Thalas
prospered within the verdant forests north of Lordaeron.
During the Third War, the high elves were nearly scoured
from Azeroth. Led by the death knight Arthas, the scourge
army slaughtered almost all of the kingdom’s population. In
the slaughter, Arthas tainted the sunwell, reanimating a lost
necromancer. Prince Kael'thas rushed to his homeland's
aid, and the survivors of the onslaught were renamed
'blood elves' in honor of their fallen kin. The blood elves
grew addicted to the sunwells tainted energies. Kael'thas
desperately searching for a cure for his kin, traveling the
world to avenge his people and find a way to sate their
hunger for magic.
Kael'thas assured his people he would return to
Quel'Thalas and lead them to paradise, yet on Outland, the
prince became twisted with the corrupting essence wielded
by the demonic Burning Legion. Getting under the sway of
the Legion's commander. The prince was later killed on his
return to Quel'Thalas for his treachery, and with the aid of
the draenei prophet, Velen, the magic taint lingering on the
sunwell was vanquished, restore it as a fount of both arcane
and holy energy.
Inspired by the Sunwell's rebirth, the blood elves have
since entered into a shining new era in their ancient race's
history. Although some elves remain hesitant to abandon
their dependence on arcane magic, others have embraced
change for the betterment of Quel'Thalas.
Crimson
As a culture, the sin'dorei have retained the look and feel of
their fallen high elven kingdom, though have developed a
greater penchant for the colour of crimson: the colour of
their namesake. Crimson-red robes, decor and armour
have become far more commonplace within blood elven
society prior to the fall of the high elven people, a reference
to the blood of their many brethren who had perished in
the Third War. The iconic and traditional blood elven
colours are red, gold, and to a lesser extent, blue – all of
which can be seen on their racial crest, the Icon of Blood.
Proud Society
In general, the blood elves are a proud, pragmatic, and
somewhat jingoistic people; they place great emphasis on
their love for their homeland, and are ruthless to their
enemies. Their reputation for isolationism is well-earned,
and they prefer to keep to their own kind, although excep-
tions to this stereotype exist. Blood elves are a resilient
race of survivors, and their most prominent figures stand
as beacons of courage, tenacity, and the strength to fight
on, regardless of what foes stand in their way.
Beautiful and Graceful
Blood elves are, biologically and physiologically high elves.
With the largest difference being their emerald glowing
eyes compared to the high elves blue.
They are slenderly built, standing at 5 feet tall to just
over 6 feet, and averaging at 150 pounds. They have long
pointy ears, high cheekbones, and are generally considered
highly attractive by the standards of most mortal races.
Both males and females commonly have long hair in light
colorations, and males ability to grow facial hair is—
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 —limited, resulting in very few having beards beyond an
inch, and large facial hairs being completely absent.
Affiliation
Blood elves are members of the Horde. Though the Horde
was reluctant to forge allegiances with the sin'dorei, the
vouching of Sylvanas, and the general consensus that the
blood elves could bring to the table what the Horde had
previously lacked, paved the way to Quel'Thalas being
accepted as an equal independent nation of the Horde.
Names
Blood elves for the most part use high elven names, origi-
nally being of high elven kin, many have either kept their
past name, or given high elven names to their children.
Unlike high elves, blood elven surnames are generally more
aggressive, blood elves don't keep family names, with the
exception of highborne wanting to carry on a certain name.
Male Names: Mariel, Athaniar, Anador, Tharama, Viridiel,
Malanior, Eraeth, Ulorath, Yehru, Kithadre
Female Names: Anarial, Freja, Driana, Coria, Alanassori,
Melanion, Azshara, Curlih, Setori, Amorly, Zama
Surnames: Coldtrail, Nightfeast, Darkgift, Glowvein,
Warmblood, Dawntrick, Solarmind, Phoenixdreamer
Blood Elf Traits
Your blood elf character has a variety of natural abilities,
the result of the sunwells influence mixed with their high
elven blood.
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score
increases by 2, and your Dexterity by 1.
Age. Blood elves reach adulthood at much the rate of
humans, but are not considered to have entered adulthood
until they reach 60, and can live to become many hundreds
of years old with ease.
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Alignment. Most blood elves tend to be lawful, being a
very militant people. Those who do become chaotic is
usually mages, or warlocks out of control.
Size. Blood elves in many ways resemble humans, but
with slender builds, and much more refined features.
Usually just over 6-ft, with very little difference between
male and females.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision. Accustomed to twilit forests and the night
sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions.
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.
Ancient Lore. You gain proficiency with two of the
following skills of your choice: Arcana, History, Insight,
Perception.
Arcane Influence. You know the blade ward cantrip.
When you reach 3rd level you can cast the magic missiles
spell once per long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can
also cast the see invisibility spell once per long rest.
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
High Elven Heredity. You have advantage on saving
throws against being charmed, and you can't be put to sleep
through magical means.
Sin'dorei Familiarity. You are proficiency in longbows,
sin'dorei warblades, and warglaives.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
Thalassian. Thalassian is a derivative of the Darnassian
language, and in many ways sound the same to an
inexperienced ear.

Draenei
In moments of great strife, I gaze into the heavens and see
just how far we have already come.
— Prophet Velen
Introduction
Thousands of years ago, the titan Sargeras shattered the
tranquility of Argus by offering the eredar immeasurable
knowledge and power. The eredar were a knowledge-
seeking race and accepted his offer. He bathed them in his
fel might, turning them into demonic beings of the burning
legion called Man'ari. The prophet Velen got a troubling
vision of what his race would become, and fled Argus with
his followers by the help of the divine Naaru, who renamed
them draenei, or "Exiled Ones" in the common tongue.
The draenei refer to their corrupted brethren as man'ari,
meaning "Unnatural Being". Although both originate from
the eredar race, neither the draenei or man'ari consider
themselves eredars anymore.
Alien Appearance
While they stand tall and proud, they resemble no other
race on Azeroth. Their skin ranges from rose white, to dark
violet colors. They stand slightly taller than humans on
average, ranging from well over 6 feet tall to just over 8
feet. They are generally more muscular than other races,
with double jointed legs ending in hooves, weighing 250
pounds or more. Males and females are about the same
height, and male are only marginally heavier than females.
Both genders have tendrils in their head as part of their
hair or beard, and both have horns, it is common though for
females to have drastically larger horns than males. They
also have slender tails, males being considerably longer
and thicker than females.
Broken draeneis, although having many of their pure kins
features have noticeable differences, their faces are less
structured, and appear more flat than their kins beautiful
features. They stand shorter than exodar draeneis, their
skin hard and cracked like stone, appearing more human
than exodar draeneis with single jointed legs.
The Divine Naaru
During the draenei's journey, the enigmatic naaru race
taught them the ways of the light, though they already had a
certain experience with it through Velen and T'uure. The
naaru explained that there were other forces in the cosmos
that would stand against the Burning Legion.
The naaru bestowed a blessing, the Gift of the Naaru,
upon the draenei to signify their new connection the light.
Deeply affected by the naaru's words, the draenei vowed to
honor the it and uphold the naaru's ideals.
Affiliation
Due to the draenei's friendly and honorable attitude, they
tend to get along well with other races, especially those
who belong to the Alliance who welcomed them into their
allegiance, even though not all races return their kindness.
Draenei have very strong ties with the night elves, who
were the first of the Alliance to greet the draenei and
welcome them.
Draenei hate orcs for the kins actions on Draenor,
leading to a large distrust from the draeneis side of the
horde and its allied races.
Names
Draenei, unlike most races, do not have last names. Their
parents give them a name at their birth. Upon a draenei
reaching adulthood they choose a name for themselves that
they keep for the rest of their life.
Male Names: Meolphi, Bimerd, Hiktin, Ocdam, Nosmas,
Ondut, Broruk, Oter, Lacasik, Midirgerd, Drocran
Female Names: Eshaatt, Ize, Ruka, Nalre, Hahse, Efae,
Nerii, Asara, Velbus, Fuma, Oren, Suhe, Vumo
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 Draenei Traits
Draenei share certain racial traits given to them upon their
renewal by the naaru.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom increases by 2.
Age. Draeneis mature slightly slower than humans,
reaching adulthood in their early 20's, and can live to
extraordinarily old, become thousands of years old, often
exceeding the ancient ages of night elves.
Alignment. Draeneis are mostly good. Those who strive
towards law are sages, priests, paladins, vindicators, or
scholars. Those who tend toward chaos are warriors,
rangers, or in other ways people more fond of pure fighting.
Size. Draeneis are between 7 and 8 feet tall and
somewhat muscular. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
Drae'ni. The Drae'ni language, is a strange and complicated
language for other races to learn. Seemingly having no
resemblance with any Azerothian languages.
Subrace. Two subraces of draeneis exist in the world:
broken draeneis and exodar draeneis.
Choose one of these subraces.
Broken Draenei
As a broken draenei, you were left on draenor as the
burning legion invaded, your connection to the divine
Naaru having been severed, leaving you an empty shell of
the former draenei. You've been tainted with the fel of the
burning legion, miss figuring your form and making you an
outcast amongst your reunited exodar kin.
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score
increases by 1.
Torturous Resistance. You have resistance against
necrotic damage.
Broken Spirit. Your connection to the naaru has been
severed, taking the lights power with it, making you unable
to cast any spell that deals radiant damage, any such spells
automatically fail.
Elemental Bond. You know the frostbite cantrip. When
you reach 3rd level, you can cast the absorb elements spell
once per long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can also
cast the dragon's breath spell once per long rest. Wisdom is
your spellcasting ability for these spells.
Exodar Draenei
As a draenei, you have a natural connection with the Naaru,
strengthening your bond to the light. Exodar draeneis are
the uncorrupted eredars, who fled their home planet of
Argus from the demonic Burning Legion, to settle on
Draenor for centuries, later to be forced to flee once again,
and crash landing on Azeroth in their vessel the Exodar.
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score
increases by 1.
Lights Guidance You have advantage on saving throws
against spells that deal radiant damage
Gift of the Naaru. as an action, you can place a Gift of
the Naaru on a friendly target within 30 feet, healing the
target for 1d6 + your level, the target is healed for an
additional 1d6 at the beginning of your next two turns.
Once you've used Gift of the Naaru, you cannot use it
again until you've finished a long rest.

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Dwarf
Dwarves are short and stout creatures mostly inhabiting
Khaz Modan in the Eastern Kingdoms. They are shorter
than humans but taller than gnomes, taking advantage of
their size when possible and relying on their robustness
and strength when not.
The average dwarf is steady, observant and composed
both during work and combat, yet able to rage with fierce
zeal and persistence when the situation calls for it. While a
dwarf prefers to plan forward to overcome challenges,
many of them easily lose their temperament and self-
restraint when exposed to conditions stirring their feelings
and concerns.
Introduction
Dwarves are a proud, stern and determined people with
streaks of kindness hidden under the gruff exteriors of
their sturdy frames. Their love for battle, invention and
exploration impels them ever forward to discover and
unearth the mysteries of their heritage, educating them
further about those who first created the dwarven race.
Only recently have the dwarves discovered the legacy of
their ancient progenitors, the Titans. As the dwarves begin
to delve deeper into the mysteries of their past, they also
begin to uncover deeper enigmas.
Still, they keep to the forges and workshops, ever
innovating and creating new and more effective ways to
destroy. Steam powered technology and firearms originate
from dwarven inventiveness and creativity. The stout race
is renowned for its skills at battle and also as cunning
engineers and crafters.
Exploratious
The uncovered fragments of their distant past have led the
dwarves on an unprecedented exodus of exploration.
Seeking out their origins, the dwarves have dispatched
prospectors across all of Lordaeron in order to seek out
signs of the Titans, the supposed creators of the dwarves.
The dwarves have embraced the idea that it is their
purpose to search the world for more signs of proof of their
heritage. Dwarven outposts exist in the most desolate of
places on Azeroth.
Here, the dwarves spend their time seeking out the
secrets of ancient times, or simply use their outposts as
staging grounds for expeditions to clear out their enemies
so that they may continue their quest.
Rough Exterior
Dwarves are stout and powerful, with short muscular
bodies. Male dwarves tend to have long hair, and beards or
facial hair often tied in ornate braids. Female dwarves also
have sturdy muscular frames, but they are buxom and lack
facial hair, despite the claims of some of the less educated
sages of other races. The average dwarf stands between 4
feet and 5 feet in height and weighs between 140 to 160
pounds.
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 Affiliation
Dwarves are part of the alliance. While the dwarves of
Khaz Modan appreciate the fighting skill of the Horde, it is
with grim eyes that they look upon the orcs and their allies,
the trolls and the Forsaken. Although the dwarves have
held dealings of commerce and diplomacy with the blood
elves, they keep the people of Quel’Thalas at an arm’s
distance. While the darnassian elves may share the same
allegiances, the dwarves look upon them with suspicion
and some trepidation.
Humans, however, are the staunch and constant allies of
the dwarven people and find welcome, favor and kindness
when in dwarven lands.
Names
Dwarves typically have names reflecting the sturdy nature
of their past. Many also have surnames that were earned by
a member of the family in service during a quest or in a
particular moment of notoriety or infamy that has now
become part of a family legacy.
Male Names: Barab, Aradun, Thorin, Magni, Garrim,
Wendel, Thurimar, Irmirn, Bhaduk, Gengur
Female Names: Chise, Helge, Ferya, Furga, Krona, Imli,
Gwamde, Illia, Somdunn, Thanmu, Eniss, Nanla
Clan Names: Thunderforge, Bronzebeard, Thornsteel,
Hammergrim, Chunderstout, Broadmail, Madpride
Dwarf Traits
Your dwarf character has an assortment of inborn abilities,
part and parcel of dwarven nature.
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score
increases by 2.
Age. Dwarves mature at the same rate as humans, but
they're considered young until they reach the age of 40. On
average, they live about 320 years.
Alignment. Most dwarves are lawful, believing firmly in
the benefits of a well-ordered society. They tend toward
good as well, with a strong sense of fair play and a belief
that all deserve to share in the benefits of a just order.
Size. Dwarves stand between 4 and 5 feet tall and
average about 150 pounds. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet. Your speed is
not reduced by wearing heavy armor.
Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have
superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.
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Dwarven Resilience. You have advantage on saving
throws against poison, and you have resistance against
poison damage.
Stonecunning. Whenever you make an Intelligence
(History) check related to the origin of stonework, you are
considered proficient in the History skill and add double
your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal
proficiency bonus.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
Dwarven. Dwarven is full of hard consonants and guttural
sounds, and those characteristics spill over into whatever
other language a dwarf might speak.
Subrace. Three main subraces of dwarves populate the
world of Azeroth: dark iron dwarves, ironforge dwarves and
wildhammer dwarves. Choose one of these subraces.
Dark Iron Dwarf
Dark iron dwarves are cunning and nimble in comparison
to the rest of their kin, preferring a less straight on
approach to combat, and the use of darker magics. They
commonly have dark grey to coal black skin, with red
glowing eyes, and fiery red or black hair.
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence increases by 1.
Dark Iron Resilience. You have advantage on saving
throws against illusions and against being charmed or
paralyzed.
Ironforge Dwarf
Ironforge dwarves are hardy and strong, the most military
organized of the dwarven kin, being keen combatants, both
in close quarters or from a distance, living in the snowy
mountains of Dun Morogh, They tend to have lighter
colorations than the rest of their kin.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 1.
Ironforge Training. You have proficency in light and
medium armor, and firearms.
Wildhammer Dwarf
Wildhammer dwarves are untamed in comparison, they
live further north in the Eastern Kingdoms, minding their
own business and shamanistic ways. They are taller and
slenderer than other dwarves, with tanned skin, and often
wearing tribal tattoos.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom increases by 1.
Dwarven Toughness. Your hit point maximum increases
by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.
Forsaken
Death offered no escape for the scores of humans killed
during the Lich King’s campaign to scour the living from
Lordaeron. Instead, the kingdom’s fallen were risen into
undeath as Scourge minions and forced to wage an unholy
war against everything. . . and everyone. . . that they once
held dear.
Introduction
Undead humans and elves freed from the Lich King’s
control, the Forsaken are a strange and dark force. Hailing
from the twisted, skittering darkness of Undercity, the
Forsaken are nominally allied with the Horde but serve
only themselves.
Under the Lich Kings crusade, the elven Ranger General
Sylvanas Windrunner fell in combat. Prince Arthas raised
her as a banshee and compelled her to follow his
command. When the Lich King’s power waned in the
incidents surrounding the Frozen Throne, Sylvanas
harnessed her fury and tore herself free from his skeletal
grasp. She freed many other undead as well, and recruited
powerful allies from the Burning Legion and the
surrounding ogre clans. Sylvanas dubbed her new force the
Forsaken, and the undead established their capital in the
labyrinthine crypts beneath Lordaeron’s capital city. Their
sprawling, subterranean realm now called Undercity.
Necessary Alliance
The Forsaken originally became allies of the Horde out of
necessity and convenience. They have no love for orcs,
tauren or any other living creature, but they need time to
strike against the Scourge and allies to help them do it. The
Forsaken claim that they joined the Horde to prove their
desire to leave their evil ways behind, but no one really
believes this. The Horde accepts the forsaken’s help, as
they do indeed have a common enemy: the Scourge. The
Horde is leery of the forsaken’s tactics, however, and keeps
watchful eyes on them.
Though initially the Forsaken alliance with the Horde
was one of pure convenience, in recent times it appears
that their position in the faction has begun to solidify and
many, though not all, of the Forsaken appear to be more or
less loyal to the Horde now.
Strange Behaviors
Forsaken culture is strange, a perverse combination of the
lives they once knew as mortals and the mindless slavery
they experienced in the Scourge, colored by white-hot rage
toward the Lich King and an almost equally intense
devotion to their queen.
Some Forsaken attempt to reclaim their humanity by
acting in kind and helpful ways. Others allow hatred to
fester into cruelty and rage.
Extreme Alchemists
Never sleeping, eating or falling ill, abandoned by those
they once loved, the Forsaken have a brutal set of priorities.
A great portion of their efforts focus on dark alchemy,
and the Royal Apothecary Society commands great power
in Undercity’s oily tunnels. The apothecaries constantly
send Forsaken on missions to gather odd materials for
their twisted experiments. Rumors tell that the undead
creatures are working to create a plague that will
exterminate the Scourge and every living being on Azeroth.
Dreadful Looks
Forsaken, unsurprisingly, look like dead people. Their skin
is gray and rotting, showing bone and flesh in places. Their
pupil-less eyes glow with dim, white ghostlight. Their
muscles are withered, making them scrawny. Their move-
ments are slow but jagged. Necromantic magic keeps them
preserved, but natural decay still proceeds, just at an
extremely slow rate compared to normal.
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 Affiliation
Though the Forsaken do not trust anyone and no one trusts
them, they are members of the Horde and, for now, do their
best to help their allies and placate their ambassadors.
Forsaken have even less love for the Alliance, particularly
because they clash constantly with the human organization
called the Scarlet Crusade.
The only other Horde faction they have a semblance of
trust with is Silvermoon City and the blood elves. This is
because their ruler Sylvanas Windrunner, and a small
portion of forsaken were once blood elves.
Names
Most forsaken keep the human or blood elven name they
had when they were alive. If a forsaken cannot remember
their name, or simply wishes to change it, they make up a
suitable name or read one from a headstone. Some invent
surnames that imply their desire to eradicate the Scourge
or about their undead nature.
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Forsaken Traits
Your forsaken character has certain traits deriving from
humans, as well as forsaken traits.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 1.
Age. Forsakens do not age, they are undead. The age
they were when brought back as forsaken is the age they
will be until destroyed.
Alignment. Forsakens alignment varies, as their race
origin, most tend to become more chaotic, and very few
keep to good after decades of being an undead.
Size. Forsaken size reflects that of their living counter-
parts. Many getting more hunched over with the decades.
Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Cannibalism. You can spend a minute cannibalizing the
corpse of a humanoid or beast that has been dead for less
than hour. When done, you can expend hit dies as if you
had finished a short rest.
Darkvision. Forsakens can see normal in dark and dim
conditions. 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.
Undead. Your creature type is undead rather than
humanoid. Being undead, you gain the following:
You do not need to breathe, eat or sleep. You still need
to rest to regain hit points, expended hit dice, and
expended spell slots.
You have advantage on saving throws against any effect
that turns undead.
You have advantage on saving throws against being
poisoned, and have resistance against poison damage.
You are vulnerable to radiant damage, and have
resistance against necrotic damage.
You do not fall unconscious upon reaching 0 hit points,
yet continue to fight on as normal, making death saving
throws at the beginning of your turn.
Will of the Forsaken. You have advantage on saving
throws against being charmed or frightened, and magic
can't put you to sleep.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
Gutterspeak. Gutterspeak is a simple form of common
mixed with dwarven and thalassian, originally the language
of underground rogues, it has since been adapted as the
forsakens official language.
Subrace. Two kinds of forsaken exist on Azeroth, elves
and humans. Choose one of these subraces.
Forsaken Elf
As a forsaken elf, you were once a high elf off quel'thalas,
overtaken by the scourge. Now usually serving as high and
powerful members within Sylvanas' rule.
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence increases by 2.
Thalassian Knowledge. You gain proficiency in the
Arcana skill.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Thalassian.
Forsaken Human
As a forsaken human, you were once a proud human of
lordaeron. A human society at the top of the eastern
kingdoms, that the scourge all but leveled with the ground
in its passing. Now, broken from the scourges will, you
serve under Queen Sylvanas' rule.
Ability Score Increase. Two different ability scores of
your choice increase by 1.
Skills. You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.
Gnome
The clever, spunky, and oftentimes eccentric gnomes
present a unique paradox among the civilized races of
Azeroth. Brilliant inventors with an irrepressibly cheerful
disposition, this race has suffered treachery, displacement,
and near-genocide. It is their remarkable optimism in the
face of such calamity that symbolizes the truly unshakable
spirit of the gnomes.
Introduction
Gnomes are a diminutive, wiry race of tinkers who live
underground. In the Second War, they built vehicles and
gadgets for the Alliance, submarines and flying machines,
to combat the Horde. They are great mechanics and
inventors, and are renowned for their knowledge and
eccentric natures. The gnomes had a city, Gnomeregan,
built into Ironforge Mountain. But invading troggs
destroyed it and slaughtered its citizens.
Many survivors moved into Khaz Modan and now live
with the Dun Morogh dwarves, and a few traveled with
their dwarven friends to Kalimdor.
The gnomes are still reeling from the destruction of their
home city and are loath to leave the safety of the dwarven
tunnels. Most gnomes on Kalimdor remain secluded in
Bael Modan. Their tan or brown faces are usually adorned with broad
smiles (beneath their prodigious noses), and their bright
Cheerful Expression eyes shine with excitement. Their fair hair has a tendency
to stick out in every direction, as if expressing the gnome's
Even after the decimation of their race and the destruction insatiable interest in everything around.
of their city, gnomes are an amiable and kind hearted lot. A gnome's personality is writ large in his or her
They make and keep friends easily; others find disliking a appearance. A male gnome's beard, in contrast to his wild
gnome to be difficult. hair, is kept carefully trimmed but often styled into curious
A gnome's energy and enthusiasm for living shines forks or neat points. A gnome's clothing, though usually
through every inch of his or her tiny body. Gnomes average made in modest earth tones, is elaborately decorated with
slightly over 3 feet tall and weigh 40 to 45 pounds. embroidery, embossing, or gleaming jewels.
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 Exceptional Tinker
Gnomes tend to design complicated devices that are
relatively safe. Gnomes are in many ways commensurate
organizers: a gnome can spend as much time organizing
and planning a project as they do actually working on it. If
the design fails, they try to learn why, and fix it if they can.
If they meet with success, they will continue to tinker
with it and improve the design, often for years afterward.
Thus, many gnomish designs feature a high degree of
complexity and a low chance of failure, the exceptions
being those that dabble with chaos energy — but even then,
they take steps to ensure the worst that could happen is a
brief, non-fatal failure.
While a goblin would scream and flee at the mere
thought of a cost overrun, a gnome simply shrugs and
presses on. If a project fails to work correctly the first time,
a gnome will continue to tinker with it, while a goblin
would usually give up and move to something else. Thus,
gnomish items have very low failure rates compared to
goblin items.
Affiliation
Gnomes are members of the alliance, they are great friends
of the dwarves and have fought and died alongside human
soldiers. They are wary of the blood elves, but so is
everyone else, so they don’t feel too bad about that. They
battled the Horde in the Second War and have a bit of a
grudge against orcs, but gnomes are a kindly and forgiving
lot and are willing to give the orcs a second chance.
Gnomes and goblins have always been rivals — though
whether this rivalry is friendly or brutal depends on the
individuals involved.
Gnomes have not been on Kalimdor long enough to form
proper opinions about its denizens. Tauren and night elves
both seem rather rustic for gnome sensibilities — but they
can make friends with anyone.
Names
Gnome parents name their children at birth. Gnomes have
family names that represent an honored ancestor’s
achievements, but they only keep these names until some
time in their 30s. Gnome society expects them to have
made their own achievements by then, and thus the gnome
invents a new name that represents their own accomplish-
ments. This name then takes the place of his family name.
Male Names: Grobnick, Kazbo, Hagin, Snoonose, Mikosh,
Kebos, Otlak, Ciklin, Therlick, Finlis, Iklirn
Female Names: Beggra, Nefti, Sorassa, Gamash, Biskil,
Munkull, Inku, Fixi, Mekin, Mitkla, Dapeek
Family Names: Spinpistol, Airslicer, Bombtosser,
Greatgear, Togglefield, Luyckbreak, Stormhammer
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Gnome Traits
Your gnome character has certain abilities, learned through
generations of gnomes.
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence increases by 2,
and your Constitution by 1.
Age. Gnomes mature at the same rate humans do, and
most are expected to settle down into an adult life by
around age 40. They can live 350 to almost 500 years.
Alignment. Gnomes are most often good. Those who
tend toward law are sages, engineers, researchers,
scholars, investigators, or inventors. Those who tend
toward chaos are minstrels, tricksters, wanderers, or
fanciful jewelers, Gnomes are good-hearted, and even the
tricksters among them are more playful than vicious.
Size. Gnomes are between 3 and 4 feet and generally
compactly built. Your size is Small.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.
Artificer's Lore. Whenever you make an Intelligence
(History) check related to magic items, alchemical objects,
or technological devices, you can add twice your
proficiency bonus, instead of any proficiency bonus you
normally apply.
Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have
superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.
Gnome Cunning. You have advantage on all Intelligence,
Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against magic.
Tinker. You have proficiency with artisan's tools (tinker's
tools). Using those tools, you can spend 1 hour and 10 gp
worth of materials to construct a Tiny clockwork device
(AC 5, 1 hp). The device ceases to function after 24 hours
(unless you spend 1 hour repairing it to keep the device
functioning), or when you use your action to dismantle it; at
that time, you can reclaim the materials used to create it.
You can have up to three such devices active at a time.
When you create a device, choose one of the following:
Clockwork Toy. This toy is a clockwork animal, monster,
or person, such as a frog, mouse, bird, dragon, or
soldier. When placed on the ground, the toy moves 5 feet
across the ground on each of your turns in a random
direction. It makes noises as appropriate to the creature
it represents.
Fire Starter. The device produces a miniature flame,
which you can use to light a candle, torch, or campfire.
Using the device requires your action.
Music Box. When opened. this music box plays a single
song at a moderate volume. The box stops playing when
it reaches the song's end or when it is closed.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
Gnomish. The Gnomish language, which uses the
Dwarvish script, is renowned for its technical treatises and
its catalogs of knowledge about the natural world.
Goblin
I never cover up the things I'm proud of. If the world was
gonna split in half tomorrow, I’d buy the Dark Portal, slap a
toll booth on it, and charge refugees the last of their pocket
change, the rings off their fingers, a bite of their meal, and a
contractual obligation to build me a rocket palace in the
skies of Nagrand. It’s the goblin way! Supply and demand!
Deal with it!
— Trade Prince Jastor Gallywix
Introduction
Slaves of the jungle trolls on their home isle, forced to mine
kaja'mite ore out of the volcanic bowels of Mount Kajaro.
The ore had an unexpected effect on the goblins, granting
them cunning intelligence. They began to rebel in secret,
engineering artifacts, and brewing alchemical substances
to successfully overthrow their oppressors and claim
Kezan their homeland.
Their prior prison become an expanding empire in the
mines they had dugged. To their dismay, the effects of the
kaja'mite ore wore off, and their increased intelligence
waned, as the ore itself became scarce and dwindled. Their
brilliant engineering dwindled in ingenuity, looking
haphazardly put together. Their remaining craftiness and
greed soon took its place, lifting the race to preeminence as
masters of mercantilism. Great fortunes were amassed,
and the isle became a hub for goblin traders.
Technology
Goblins love of mechanics often places them into direct
competition with gnomes who enjoy similar devices. The
competition between goblins and gnomes seems to be
friendly. Whether clockwork shredders that allow a single
goblin to do as much harvesting as 10 field hands or
zeppelin-like airships that can ferry troops over otherwise
impassable terrain, the goblins' inventions have become
legendary. Such technological ingenuity is as central to the
goblins' rise among the races as any trading prowess.
Even with the malfunctions and explosions that occur,
goblin technology is proving to be of a quality that rivals the
dwarves and their firearms.
While other races often try to build reliable machines
that would stay for grandchildren, goblin aims for device of
the marginally bearable reliability that should only last
enough to make its construction reasonable. Weird as it is,
this approach allows to build more machines, or to build a
more complex and powerful machine using the same time
and resources.
Born Traders
Goblins have taken to the role of merchants, and it's hard
to travel for more than a week or two without stumbling
across a goblin shop of some size. Goblin shops can be
found nearly anywhere on Azeroth, seemingly regardless of
whether or not there are towns nearby and heedless of
dangers such as the Scourge. The goblins will sell anything
to anyone, at only slightly inflated prices.
Though many shops remain independent, a growing
number of them have signs declaring that they are owned
and operated by the Venture Company, which the
proprietors claim is headquartered in a faraway city ruled
by goblins where the streets are paved with gold.
The goblins are also legendary for the sheer variety of
trade in which they are willing to indulge and for their
tenacity in bargaining.
Small But Standing Tall
Goblins are slight and wiry, averaging 3 feet in height and
weighing between 30 and 50 pounds. They have long,
sharp noses, chins and ears, and green skin. Their arms
are long and slender and their fingers deft.
Female goblins are on average taller than most male
goblins, even though the difference is miniscule, and close
to nothing compared to other races.
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 Affiliation
Goblins have found a recent enemy in the Alliance. Unpro-
fitable encounters with the secretive SI:7 forces have
driven them away from comfortable neutrality with both
sides. Forcing them to reforge old pacts with their business
partners and now allies the horde.
Although the Alliance is not fond of goblins, they still for
the most part do trade with them when stumbled upon
outside Stormwinds borders. Only member of the Alliance
they tend to stay from are night elves, who carry a deep
dislike towards the goblins because of their disrespect for
the nature they continuously harvest for resources.
Names
Every goblin has a given name and a family name. The
family names portray some ancestor’s achievement, though
a goblin may take a new family name if he feels he has
made an accomplishment that outstrips that of his forebear.
Male Names: Nees, Ford, Joxdeld, Zatval, Fivinkle, Bova,
Geevegbix, Rolaz, Ixa, Saz, Menzen, Gilmaxle
Female Names: Trutte, Meez, Kleqe, Suva, Tweedo,
Cynmee, Twinkle, Klasi, Teexma, Ninzi
Family Names: Brokenblast, Shifttale, Saltsnipe,
Deadknob, Nifttweak, Cogbeast, Slyfire, Manbelt
Goblin Traits
Your gnome character has certain abilities, learned through
generations of gnomes.
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence increases by 1,
and your Charisma score increases by 2.
Age. Goblins mature slightly slower than humans, reach-
ing adulthood in their early 20, and die within a century.
Alignment. Most goblins tend to be chaotic to a certain
degree, even when lawful, they have a spark of chaoticness
in them that they cannot get rid off.
Size. Goblins are between 3 and 4 feet and somewhat
slender. Your size is Small.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Best Deals Anywhere. You have advantage on any
checks made to appraise the price of items. Goblins are
born traders, and love gold more than anything, giving
them an inherited ability to appraise.
Resourceful. You are proficient in one skill or tool of
your choice.
Darkvision. Goblins naturally have superior vision in
dark and dim conditions. 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.
Time is Money. Your walking speed increases by 5-ft.
(included in your speed) Additionally, as a bonus action you
can shout at an ally, making them able to move their move-
ment speed without provoking opportunity attacks.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Charisma modifier (minimum of 1), regaining their uses
after a long rest.
Mechanical Familiarity. You are proficient in firearms.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common,
Goblin and two languages of your choice. Goblins are
traders, and trade with every race willing to buy from them,
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Human
Vengeance cannot be a part of what we must do. If we
allow our passions to turn to bloodlust, then we will
become as vile as the orcs.
— Uther the Lightbringer
Introduction
Humans have existed on Azeroth for many thousands,
being descendants of the ancient vrykul race who were cast
out, growing into the proud human nations we know a
mere two thousand years past. Their valour, optimism and
versatility have led them to build some of the world's
greatest kingdoms. Dominating the Eastern Kingdoms.
With life spans shorter than most other races, they strive
all the harder to achieve great heights in their kingdoms,
exploring uncharted territories and deepen their
understanding in magical studies. Their aggressive and
inquisitive nature have led their nations to become active
and influential in the world. Many of their kingdoms have
fallen through the centuries, strengthening the bond within
the nations still standing.
Proudly Standing
Despite all their tragedies, humans remain hardy and
brave, thoroughly committed to building strong societies,
reinforcing their kingdoms and reclaiming their lost
nations. Years of war have tempered human resolve, and
they are more hardened and determined than ever before.
They value virtue, honor and courage, though like all races
they also pursue power and wealth.
Even more than sheer tenacity, their race's true strength
lies in its willingness and ability to look past its own
interests, see others' point of view, and seek diplomatic
solutions.
Human Ethnicities
Humans come from multiple regions on Azeroth and their
physical appearance varying greatly, they are a race of
many ethnicities, living together as a society. Their skin
ranges from light to dark, their eyes in a variety of colors
giving many a unique glare, and hair from silver haired to
countless tones of brown and red to black. Their height
varies from 5 feet tall to well over 6 feet, weighting well
over 180 pounds, with women generally shorter and
slightly lighter.
Affiliation
Humans began the Alliance and it could not exist without
them. Humans and orcs joined forces to face the Burning
Legion years ago, but old habits returned once they
dispatched the demonic threat. Although the Alliance and
Horde leaders bear a healthy respect for each another, old
racial hatreds still stir within the hearts of their troops.
Humans and dwarves have long enjoyed a good relation-
ship, a bond only strengthened since the dwarves latest
discoveries have energized their archaeological efforts.
Faithful
Humans follow the Holy Light. Cathedrals and churches
stand in their cities, and their priests preside over
followers, heal the wounded, soothe the weary, and crusade
against what they consider evil. Humans have an order of
holy warriors and paladins, who follow the Holy Light and
crush evil and chaotic beings in its name.
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 Names
Human parents grant a child its given name at birth, while
its family name has a long history and usually speaks
something of its bearer’s ancestry. Some humans change
their family name to emphasize own accomplishments.
Male Names: Merander, Gyram, Darrick, Hebry, Telfor,
Avent, Cade, Nicholas, Welf, Bjarne, Arnaud, Winfred
Female Names: Lilla, Merian, Richelle, Ammi, Macy,
Adalyn, Rylee, Delia, Jowita, Seraphine, Betiine
Family Names: Wyther, Barlow, Digby, Ramsey, Gartside,
Cotton, Byron, Yardley, Swailles, Dryden, Sherwood
Human Traits
It's hard to make generalizations about humans, no matter
where you were born your character has these traits.
Ability Score Increase. Two different ability scores of
your choice increase by 1.
Age. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and live
less than a century.
Alignment. Humans tend toward no particular
alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.
Size. Humans vary widely in height and build, from
barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall, averaging at 170
pounds. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Skills. You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
one extra language of your choice. Humans typically learn
the languages of other peoples they deal with, including
obscure dialects.
Origin. Three main origins of humans still populate
Azeroth: dalaran humans, gilean humans and stormwind
humans. Choose one of these origins.
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Dalaran Human
As a dalaran human, you come from the proud nation of
mages and spell casters. You have an inherent knack for
arcane magic, and a deep lying lust for knowledge of the
unknown. Dalaran humans are known for making exceptio-
nal mages, with vast knowledge on a multitude of topics.
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence increases by 1.
Arcane Knack. You know two cantrips of your choice
from the mage spell list. Intelligence is your spellcasting
ability for these spells.
Child of Dalaran. You have advantage on saving throws
against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.
Nights of Studying. You are proficient in History skill.
Gilnean Human
As a gilnean human, you fled from Gilneas as the scourge
and worgen curse emerged, and have found refuge in other
corners of the world. You come from a culture of self
reliance, a once proud nation most of whom has
succumbed to the worgen curse.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom increases by 1.
Child of Gilneas. You gain a +1 bonus to all saving
throws you aren't proficient in.
Gilnean Weapon Training. You are proficient in
firearms.
Perseverance. You may give yourself advantage on a
saving throw. You can choose to use perseverance after you
roll the die, but before the outcome is determined, using
either of the roll
You can use this feature once per short or long rest.
Stormwind Human
As a stormwind human, you come from a resilient nation of
knights and kings, revering the holy light and its churches.
You don't have the cunning of the gilnean humans, or the
innate magics of dalarans, yet you come from a kingdom
with an unprecedented determination.
Ability Score Increase. Each ability score not increased
through the base racial trait increases by 1.
Child of Stormwind. Choose one skill in which you have
proficiency. You gain expertise with the chosen skill.
Night Elf
Darkness covered us in the beginning, and we could not
see. We cried for guidance and the moon shone down
bright upon us. Her soft light not only illuminated the night
for us but also gave comfort. Her light touched us from
within, enabling us to see even when the moon was not
visible...
— Tyrande Whisperwind
Introduction
The night elves are the direct descendants of dark trolls.
This peace loving and fiercely independent tribe took up
residence at the Well of Eternity. The magic contained
within elevated their forms to match their graceful spirits,
completely transforming them into highly intelligent and
near immortal beings, forever changing them into the night
elves known today.
The reclusive Night Elves were the first race to awaken
in the world of Azeroth. These shadowy, ancient beings
were the first to study magic and let it loose throughout the
world nearly ten thousand years before the First War. The
Night Elves' reckless use of magic drew the Burning
Legion into the world and led to a catastrophic war
between the two titanic races. The Night Elves barely
managed to banish the Legion from the world, but their
beautiful homeland was shattered and drowned by the sea.
Graceful Creatures
The night elves are imposing in stature, males being on
average 7 feet tall. Male kaldorei are very muscular, with
broad chests and shoulders, indicative of the strength that
lies within both their minds and bodies. Female night elves
have that same strength lying in their minds and bodies;
they are stunningly beautiful, lithe and curvaceous, yet
extremely muscular and strong.
The race’s prominent eyebrows, long pointed ears and
natural aspects imply a feral grace.
Skin tones range from pale white to blue to violet or even
ruddy red, and hair in colors from bright white to woodland
green to lustrous black.
Many night elves wear markings of some meaning on
their faces. The tattooing marks, mark an earlier rite of
passage. Most commonly the markings symbolize an
animal totem, or others indicative perhaps of the Wild, of
the Grove, or of the Fang, thus recognizing that night elven
society is indeed deeply druidic and spiritual and that even
before druids these animalistic and spiritual beliefs existed,
and that gender is irrelevant in the case of worship and that
truly they are an equal society.
A Timeless Perspective
Night Elves can live to become thousands of years old,
giving them a broad perspective on events that might
trouble the shorter lived races more deeply. They are more
often amused than excited, and more likely to be curious
than greedy. They tend to remain aloof and unfazed by
petty happenstance. When pursuing a goal, however,
whether adventuring on a mission or learning a new skill or
art, elves can be focused and relentless. They are slow to
make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them.
They reply to petty insults with disdain and to serious
insults with vengeance.
Like the branches of a young tree, elves are flexible in
the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and
compromise to resolve differences before they escalate to
violence. They have been known to retreat from intrusions
into their woodland homes, confident that they can simply
wait the invaders out. But when the need arises, elves
reveal a stern martial side, demonstrating skill with sword,
bow, and strategy.
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Affiliation
The night elves are members of the Alliance, but they are
not the most trusted or highest regarded members of this
group of races. Although honorable and just, the elves’
natural distrust has tainted their relations somewhat.
Combined with their mystical appearances and mysterious
natures, interactions with other races become
uncomfortable at times. There is a strong streak of
isolationism in the Kaldorei, for they are uncomfortable
leaving the verdant mists of Teldrassil.
Still, the night elves’ leaders see wisdom in an alliance
with the younger races. The younger races show potential,
and because of this the night elves see themselves as
observers, waiting to step in to correct any dangerous
mistakes.
Their hatred of orcs has also fueled their participation in
the Alliance. After the death of Cenarius during the Third
War, many sentinels, druids and warrior night elves began a
great hunt. Some night elves happily hunt orcs as a
repayment for Cenarius’ murder.
Names
Night Elven names always have a special meaning. First
names derive from an elven word or the name of a famous
hero having a totemic or ancestral connection. Surnames
are indicative of the family line and sometimes date back
thousands of years.
Male Names: Ilthilior, Mellitharn, Khardona, Andissiel,
Mardant, Tanavar, Sillarn, Gasul, Asydrin, Lanoth
Female Names: Keina, Deliantha, Meridia, Freja,
Alannaria, Nevarial, Evi, Nyrcarieth, Ethush
Family Names: Moonblade, Glaivestorm, Proudstrider,
Oakwalker, Nightwing, Staghorn, Bladeleaf, Deeprunner
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Night Elf Traits
Your night elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the
result of thousands of years of elven refinement.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom increases by 2.
Age. Although night elves reach physical maturity at
about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of
adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass
worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and
an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to
become several thousand years old.
Alignment. Night Elves love freedom, variety, and self
expression, so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects
of chaos. They value and protect others' freedom as well as
their own, and they are more often good than not.
Size. Night Elves range from under 6 to aver 8 feet tall
and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision. Accustomed to twilit forests and the night
sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions.
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.
Kaldorei Familiarity. You are proficient in longbows,
kaldorei moonglaives, kaldorei moon swords, and
warglaives.
Quickness. You are able to take the dash Action as a
bonus action.
Touch of Elune. When rolling damage for a critical hit
on a target, you may reroll one die of your choosing once,
you have to use the new number rolled.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
Darnassian. Darnassian is fluid, with subtle intonations
and intricate grammar. Darnassian literature is rich and
varied, and their songs and poems are famous among other
races. Many bards learn their language so they can add
Darnassian ballads to their repertoires.
Subrace. Ancient divides among the elven people
resulted in two subraces: highbornes elves, and kaldorei
elves. Choose one of these subraces.
Highborne
Highborne elves are the 'nobility' amongst elves, becoming
their spellcasters, and priestess', they are keen minded
arcanists all with at least a basic mastery of arcane.
Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score
increases by 1.
Highborne Magic. You know the eldritch blast cantrip.
When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the sleep spell once
per long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can also cast
the hold person spell once per long rest. Intelligence is
your spellcasting ability for these spells.
Kaldorei
Common night elves are the foundation of the elven society,
they embody the average night elven warrior. Generally
having had a harsher life than highbornes, with more
physical training than training of the mind.
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity increases by 1.
Respect of Nature. You gain proficiency with one of the
following skills of your choice: Animal Handling or Nature.

Orc
To pretend the demonic corruption did not exist is to forget
how dreadful the impact was. To make ourselves into
victims, rather than claiming our participation in our own
destruction. We chose this path, we orcs. We chose it right
up until it was too late to turn back. And having made that
choice, we can, with the knowledge that we have of the end
of that dark and shameful road, choose not to take it.
Introduction
When the orcs were freed from the Burning Legion, they
experienced a spiritual revolution as the unnatural
bloodlust left their bodies, connecting them with states of
heart and mind that were common to their ancestors. This
new generation of orcs for the most part followed Thrall as
he forged to reform the Horde through shamanism and
tribal tradition.
Though prone to fits of rage in warfare, orcs tend to
display a curious feral grace that can rival even the finest
fencing of an elven noble. The orcs of today continue to
stand in drastic contrast to those that were enslaved by the
Burning Legion, who embodied a bestial and diabolical
force which was barely being controlled by warlock magic.
Mindful Race
To orcs, prowess in battle bestows great personal honor on
an individual. This notion of honor pervades every echelon
of orcish culture, and the loss or gain of honor has equal
consequence to all orcs regardless of their stature in
society.
Even the naming of orcs is temporary until they have
performed rites of passage; only when orcs bring honor to
themselves and thus to their clan do elders grant them
adult names based upon their deeds. Orcs may appear
quick to anger but they are tempered by the wisdom of the
shamans, who are revered across Horde society.
While many in the Alliance still perceive the orcs as brutish
or even mindless, they have forged a complex culture
embracing many occupations and many different races. No
doubt Thrall's leadership aided in bringing this about, yet it
is apparent that the Alliance has underestimated the orcs'
ability to construct a society that is highly influential in
world affairs.
Spiritual
As far back as orcish history has been recorded, shaman
have been mentioned, and learning to speak with the
elemental spirits of Draenor was a pivotal achievement in
destiny for the orc clans. The first orcs to learn the ways of
shamanism hailed from the Shadowmoon clan, but many
clans claim the mythical "First Shaman" arose from their
ranks, even though the truth is that no one is sure of his or
her allegiance.
Several orc shaman worship or at least acknowledge the
Earth Mother, the benevolent creator deity primarily
worshipped by the tauren.
Frightful Appearance
Orc males are massive and brutish looking creatures.
Weighing in at 250 to 300 pounds and standing from 6 to 7
feet in height, they are not a small race. Even orc women
tend to be only a half-foot or so shorter than most males,
having broad shoulders and muscular, powerful bodies.
Orcs tend to have bristly hair and beards, often black or
brown in color. Their skin ranges from a light green to a
dark drab olive. Eyes range in color from a fierce red to a
pale blue. Orcs have broad, flat noses, tusk-like teeth jutting
from their lower and sometimes upper jaws, and large,
pointed ears. They favor clothes of hide, and armor and
arm themselves with a variety of gear.
Affiliation
Thrall formed the Horde with determination and sheer will,
and created an alliance of races that has shaken the
foundations of the world to its core. Having destroyed the
legacy of Grom Hellscream by bringing the orcs out of the
depths of demon worship and servitude to unseen powers.
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 Names
Most orcish names derive from words in their language
that have some complex meaning or hidden significance to
their families. Typically, this is the name of a favorite thing
or relative. Family names don’t exist; most orcs have last
names related to some great deed of heroism or honor.
Male Names: Grom, Thrum, Drog, Gorrum, Harg, Thurg,
Karg, Regg, Kavenk, Uketel, Thrarturg, Crurn
Female Names: Groma, Hargu, Igrim, Agra, Dragga,
Grima, Fehmo, Mohma, Sherge, Zuri, Orgis
Deed Names: Cravensmile, Steelflame, Twinthunder,
Gravepride, Aridfire, Coldbrass, Foebinder, Elfkiller
Orc Traits
Your orc character share certain traits no matter what clan
you deriving from.
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score
increases by 2.
Age. Orcs mature a little faster than humans, reaching
adulthood around age 14. They age noticeably faster and
rarely live longer than 75 years.
Alignment. Orcs might not have an innate tendency
toward evil, but many end up there. Evil or not, many orcs
lean toward a chaotic alignment.
Size. Orcs are muscularly built, only just towering above
humans, with a height of 6 to 6'6 feet. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision. Thanks to your blood, you have superior
vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.
Blood Fury. You've harnessed the ferocity that dwells
within orcs fierce hearts. On your turn, you can enter a
blood fury as a bonus action. While in a blood fury you gain
the following benefits:
You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength
saving throws.
You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and
slashing damage.
Your blood fury lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are
knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven't
attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken
damage since then.
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You can also end your blood fury on your turn as a bonus
action. If you gain rage through fury warrior's, blood fury
adds an additional use per long rest. You can use this
ability once per long rest.
Relentless Endurance. When you are reduced to 0 hit
points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point
instead. You can't use this feature again until you finish a
long rest.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
Orcish. Orcish is a harsh, grating language with hard
consonants. It has no script of its own but is written in a
mix of dwarven runes and common.
Orc Clan. Orcs come from many clans, these clans have
been put into three categories: Agile, Brute, and Mystic
clans. Choose one of these clans.
Agile Clans
Some orc clans, prefer a more stealth approach to things,
hiding and waiting for the perfect time to ambush, such
clans include The Shattered Hand, and Bleeding Hollow.
Two large orc clans, that go in for a much more stealthy
approach to things, these clans highly favor hunters,
rogues, and occasionally warriors or shamans.
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity increases by 1.
Ambusher. You gain proficiency in the Stealth skill.
Brute Clans
Most known orc clans go for the brute forced approach,
entering combat gladly with raised weapons, hammering
down everything in their way. Some of the larger clans
include Warsong, Burning Blade, and the Frostwolves.
These clans favor warriors and hunters, and occasionally
shamans.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 1.
Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when
determining your carrying capacity and weight you can
push, drag, or lift.
Mystic Clans
Not many orc clans go in for the use of magic, and those
that do are usually more secretive than the rest. Generally
less keen on working with other clans. Such clans include
The Shadowmoon, and Steamreaver. These clans favor
mages, shamans, or warlocks.
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Intelligence by 1.
Mystic Lore. You gain proficiency in the Arcana skill.

Pandaren
To ask why we fight... is to ask why the leaves fall. It is in
their nature. Perhaps, there is a better question. Why do
we fight? To protect Home, and Family... To preserve
Balance, and bring Harmony. For my kind, the true
question is: What is worth fighting for?
— Chen Stormstout
Introduction
The pandaren have long been a mystery to other races of
Azeroth, their history stretching back thousands of years,
to before the raise of the kaldorei. Denizens of a wondrous
and fertile land, the pandaren were slaves to the ancient
warlords known as the mogu. Through tenacity, diplomacy,
and a unique form of unarmed combat, they staged a
successful revolution that deposed the mogu, and
established the foundation of the pandaren empire that
would prosper for thousands of years.
During the bleak days that preceded the sundering of the
world, the pandaren emperor shrouded their land in an
impenetrable mist for ten thousand years. As the years
unveiled, and the pandarian isle reentered Azeroth, both
factions wanted a part of the unexplored isle and what lied
upon it.
A Spiritual Race
Pandaren have a fierce and deep belief in the connection of
the material and spiritual worlds. In many ways their faith
mirrors the ancient beliefs of the night elves, and the tribal
beliefs of the tauren, troll, and orc races.
Like the Tauren, and Wildhammer dwarves, the
pandaren follow a shamanistic faith, worshiping the Earth
Mother and giving passage to their dead. They also follow a
new philosophy, they are a society that reacts, instead of
acting first. They claim to be the water that flows around a
rock: "The water does not push the rock out of the way, it
merely goes around it".
They use this uncomplicated way of thinking in their
everyday life. If they set their minds to a task, and they fail,
then they believe they went about it the wrong way and try
again.
Covered in Fur
Pandaren are humanoid bears, generally between 5 and 6
feet tall, covered in fur from head to toe. Every pandaren
has two colors of fur; one is always white but the other
color ranges from black to brown to red. They have paws
for hands and feet, with three fingers, a thumb and three
toes. Each digit is tipped with a black claw. They refer to
their hands directly as paws. While the species has a tail,
there are two distinct forms. The common form is a round
stub of fur, but the second form, which is long and thickens
out by the end, is exclusive to red-and-white females.
Pandaren are usually very rotund, which tend to be a
point of pride in their society
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 Affiliation
The pandarens are neutral, and relatively new upon the
face of Azeroth, having been welcomed into both Alliance
and Horde cities due to the members interest in the race.
They carry no personal ill feelings against races of
Azeroth, having only had a brief time to learn the history of
every race. They do though carry a certain fondness for the
dwarves because of their brewing of ale, and the taurens
because of their spirituality. As they stand now, pandarens
as a race have not pledged their allegiance with either side,
a few exceptions have occurred of individuals officially
siding with one faction or the other.
Names
Pandaren naming practices are similar to those of humans,
each pandaren are given a name at birth, and carries on the
family name of their parents. Some pandarens are known
to take a new family name reflecting their own achieve-
ments in life, yet such practices are uncommon.
Male Names: Fan Su, Tan Delan, Tian Fu, Fan-Su, Zi Ling,
Gao, Bai, Wei He, Xun Ming, Dong-Gun
Female Names: Sujin, Zemin, Seul-Gi, Heng Lei, Sun-Mi,
Zheng, Yan, Wei Zhelan, Xuefeng, Li, Liuxian
Family Names: Caskriver, Drumfriends, Wisespear,
Keenwalker, Calmbrow, Mellowcoil, Ironshadow, Wildfur
Pandaren Traits
Pandarens has the following characteristics, harnessed
through their immense training.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases
by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.
Age. Much like humans, pandarens reach adulthood in
their late teens, and live approximately to become the same
age as strong humans, most dying within a century.
Alignment. Pandarens are a peaceful folk, and for the
most part tend towards neutral or good, finding a pandaren
that is of an evil alignment, is uncommon.
Size. Pandarens are between 5 to 6 feet tall, and always
on the chubby side, but never lets that hinder them or take
offence from it. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Bouncy. You have resistance against bludgeoning
damage taken from falling.
Passionate Chefs. You are proficient in the artisan's
tools (Brewer's Supplies and Cook's Utensils).
Quaking Palm. Upon hitting a target with an unarmed
strike, you may transfer chi from your body to the targets,
the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw, or
be stunned until the end of your next turn. Wisdom is your
saving throw ability for this feature.
You can use this feature once, regaining its use when you
finish a short or long rest.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write, Common
and Pandaren. Pandaren in many ways resemble an
ancient form of human languages from a time long
forgotten, it uses the same dictionary, but its way of
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Tauren
Our people have walked this land for many, many years,
and in that time have learned much about the world. Our
allies will need to look to us for wisdom and guidance. My
father once made a promise to the Horde, to repay a debt
we owed them for their service to our race. I, for one,
intend to deliver on that promise.
— High Chieftain Baine Bloodhoof
Introduction
The plains of Kalimdor have long been a home to these
gargantuan nomads. The tauren are a race of spiritual
shamans, hunters, and fighters, who long ago developed a
complex culture and system of living without the aid of
stonework, steel or conquest. This is not to say that the
tauren are a race of pacifists, when they are angered they
are capable of retaliating with swift and decisive brutality.
The tauren are a noble race that embrace the natural
world. They have shed their nomadic roots and united in
their ancestral lands. Their race may be one of spirituality,
reverence for nature, and respect for elders, but it also
possesses powerful warriors that willingly fight when the
situation demands it. Although strong and capable warriors
when roused in battle, most tauren reserve combat for
when all other options are exhausted.
They prefer course of wise discussion and careful
rumination before embarking on any great endeavor, and
they have great respect for the wise, spiritual and elderly
among their people. The tauren are not wrathful by nature,
but sometimes a thirst for justice causes them to take up
arms in anger.
Peaceful Race
Tauren have no love for bloodshed, as their deep spiritual
beliefs do not have a place for warfare. The elders of a tribe
solve most issues, or two tauren might resolve a conflict
with a ritual challenge resembling a duel.
Having become members of the Horde, the introspective
race has been involved in more and more conflict, creating
a demand for tauren warriors and healers. Many must
spend time putting great thought into the actions they
perform on the field of battle. Taking another life, whether
it is man or beast, is an act filled with great significance
and responsibility to the tauren.
Majestic Appearance
Tauren are large, and muscular with bull-like heads. Males
average 7 1/2 feet tall and 400 pounds, while females are
usually a bit shorter and lighter. Tauren are mostly muscle,
having incredibly developed physiques and brawny frames
most suitable for combat. Soft, downy fur covers the tauren
body, with manes growing along head and neck, the lengths
of the arms, and the shins.
Coloration can range from solid black to blond and even
to white, or mottled pelts with a range of spots and
different colors. Horns are most prominent on males,
although all tauren have horns.
Affiliation
Taurens are members of the horde. When they first
encountered the orcs, the tauren recognized them as
spiritual brethrens. No other race shared such a similar
outlook on the world, and the shamans of both races met
frequently to discuss the matters of the spirit world. The
tauren allied with the orcs out of a shared vision, one of a
collective of allies keeping each other well guarded.
While the tauren see the orcs and trolls as friends to
welcome, they rarely trust the forsaken with more than a
nod and a place to set their withered feet, and give blood
elves the same treatment, the taint of magic still lingering
on the blood elven spirit is a poisonous air to the tauren, a
stench of the soul that they cannot tolerate for long.
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 Tauren bear no personal ill will to members of the
Alliance unless directly threatened by them. They view
night elves with awe and fear. Tauren and night elves have
coexisted on Kalimdor for centuries, and tauren have long
seen the Kaldorei as a mythical race of demigods, wielders
of great magic and steeped in natural powers.
Names
The language of the tauren is often harsh and low
sounding, which is reflected in the names of their children.
The last name of a tauren is usually a family name, handed
down through the generations. If the tauren has performed
some act that has made an impression on the elders of his
tribe, however, he may choose to take on his own last name
to commemorate that act.
Male Names: Azok, Bron, Turok, Garaddon, Hruon, Etu,
Jeddek, Mechi, Cochu, Huslu, Idra, Naalnish
Female Names: Argo, Serga, Grenda, Beruna, Halfa,
Atepa, Chepi, Mabu, Foston, Pakuna, Halona
Family Names: Darkthorn, Thunderhoof, Stormhorn,
Quillsplitter, Stonebreaker, Plainstalker, Spiritwalker
Tauren Traits
Taurens share certain characteristics no matter what tribe
they come from.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 2.
Age. Taurens reaches adulthood in their mid teens, and
most grow to be 80 years old, few live beyond a century.
Alignment. Most taurens are lawful, keeping to their
tribal code. Those who are evil are shunned upon, most
either outlaws or corrupted in some form.
Size. Taurens stand between 7-9 feet tall, most heavily
built with broad shoulders. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when
determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can
push, drag, or lift.
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Gore. Your horns are natural weapons, which you can
use to make an unarmed strike. If you hit with them, you
deal 1d8 + your Strength modifier piercing damage.
Tribal Training. You are proficient in longbows,
halberds, and tauren totems.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
Taur-ahe. Taur-ahe is a harsh, and low sounding language,
without a proper alphabet, their written language is made
of elaborate pictograms and pictoforms.
Tribe. Tauren are a tribe people, many tribes exist, but
Bloodhoof, Grimtotem, and Highmountain is by far the 3
largest. Choose one of these tribes.
Bloodhoof Tribe
Bloodhoofs are widely spread, their kin is the keepers of
Thunder Bluff, the tauren capital. They reside all over
Azeroth, in attempts to restore the balance of the world
after the occupation of the burning legion.
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma increases by 1.
Far traveled. You are proficiency in the History skill.
Grimtotem Tribe
Grimtotems are the most aggressive and vicious tauren,
wishing to eradicate lesser races from Kalimdor, and
reclaim taurens long lost ancestral holdings.
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score
increases by 1.
Fearful. You have proficiency in the Intimidation skill.
Highmountain Tribe
Highmountains are among the more secluded tauren,
residing atop highmountain on the broken isles, they are a
peaceful, and generally kind hearted tauren kin. These
taurens has massive thick antler instead of horns.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom increases by 1.
Animal Handler. You are proficiency in the Animal
Handling skill.
Troll
Your ancestry dates back to the dawn of the world. Great
were the ancient empires of the trolls. I see a spark in your
eyes, a powerful will - you wish to be great again, yes?
— Lorewalker Cho
Introduction
The jungle trolls are sometimes referred to as Gurubashi
trolls, after the ancient empire of the same name. Their
capital, Zul'Gurub, is located in Stranglethorn Vale, along
with many smaller towns, cities, and villages, many of
which are in a state of ruin or disrepair. The largest jungle
troll settlement outside Stranglethorn is Sen'jin Village
founded by the Darkspear tribe, who had been displaced
from their exile on the Broken Isles and Echo Isles.
Forest trolls hold all other races in contempt —
especially blood elves, whom they consider the despoilers
of their ancient homeland. They will only work with others
if it means the elimination of an even more hated enemy.
Forest troll culture is tribal and primitive. Though not as
violent as their ice troll cousins, forest trolls nonetheless
have a fearsome reputation in battle.
Ice trolls are a subspecies of troll that lives in cold
climates. They have angular features, bright blue eyes, and
mottled blue-white skin covered in hides and pelts. This
troll has blue-white skin under grayish leather armor, and
he sports a red mohawk.
Ice trolls are generally evil and like most trolls, they are
fierce protectors of their homes and may attack travelers to
gain weapons, materials, clothing and food. They practice
cannibalism and sometimes eat their slain enemies raw.
Cannibalists and Voodooism
Cannibalism was a relatively common practice amongst
trolls, although through the decades, and with their
integration into the horde, their cannibalism had been
frowned upon by most, and has since been made a
forbidding practice by the horde, some still practice it, but
non do so openly.
Not all trolls practice voodoo, but it is widespread. It was
given to the trolls by their worshiped gods the Loa, and the
exact emergence of voodoo among the trolls is unknown,
for most tribes that possess such knowledge are unwilling
to share it with outsiders.
Tall and Muscular
Trolls are often tall, lanky, and muscular. They have both
elven and orcish characteristics with their fierce fangs and
long ears. Their long arms, strong legs and quick reflexes
make them adept hunters.
Trolls have only two fingers and a thumb on their hands,
and they have only two toes on each foot. Some trolls have
a toenail on their heels, and they do not wear standard
shoes or boots due to their unusual foot shape and comfort
in wading barefooted within different terrains.
Affiliation
Trolls are steadfast members of the horde. Though they
practice voodoo and many retain their savage natures, they
are respected within the horde by the orcs. They feel a
great debt to them, and their time fighting alongside the
tauren has made them friends of these creatures as well.
They are suspicious of the forsaken, but so is everyone else.
The troll tribes doesn’t really hate the Alliance races, but
their loyalty to the Horde and their bloodthirstiness makes
the Alliance a great target. However, their respect for the
Warchief prevents them from waging a private war against
Theramore.
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 Names
Troll names look simple but are surprisingly complex.
Their language is largely syllabic, and various syllables can
be added to the beginning or end of a troll’s name to denote
status and ability. Trolls don't have family names, although
some use their clan name as their surname.
Male Names: Vol, Ros, Mig, Gal, Traxe, Maaho, Tuben, Ju,
Goz, Akash, Vithek, Tian, Vazkono, Rhas, Vog
Female Names: Shi, Mith, Hai, So, Ozdun, Imo, Aju,
Zhokre, Xullah, Joz, Fahze, Zil, Ruso, Mooh
Troll Traits
All trolls originate from the Zandalar trolls, giving them
certain common traits.
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity increases by 2.
Age. Trolls mature at the same rate as humans, reaching
adulthood in their late teens. Most trolls live until their
early 70, but are able to live to 150.
Alignment. Trolls are a neutral race, their alignment
varying drastically between them. Most trolls tend to avoid
evil, and those who do become evil are almost always
corrupted in some way.
Size. Even though most trolls stand slightly bend over,
they still tower above most other races, with their height
between 7 to 8 feet, and their muscular slender build.
Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision. Trolls retain their vision in dark and dim
conditions. 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.
Rapid Regeneration. As bonus action you can regain
1d6 + your Constitution modifier hit points. The amount
healed increases by 1d6 at 6th, 11th, and 16th level.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Constitution modifier (minimum of 1), regaining expended
uses after a long rest.
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Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
Zandali. Zandali is the tongue of all trolls. It is a largely
syllabic language, and taught down through generations as
it has no physical script.
Subrace Ancient divides among the Zandalari trolls
resulted in three main subraces: forest trolls, ice trolls, and
jungle trolls. Choose one of these subraces.
Forest Troll
Forest trolls are a secluded kin, preferring the company of
plants before other races. Their skin is green, with a thin
layer of a moss-like substance growing on it. As broad
shouldered as ice trolls, but not nearly as fierce.
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score
increases by 1.
Omnivorous. You are able to gain nourishment from
plants and foliage as well as common food.
Natural Camouflage. You have advantage on Stealth
checks, when hiding in foliage or undergrowth.
Ice Troll
Ice trolls are the most barbaric of the trollkins, living in
cold climates easily, with their thick hide, and large build.
They share little of the slenderness of their kin, being
exceptionally muscular, with skin and hair of pale colors.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 1.
Hardened Skinned. You have resistance against cold
damage, and ignore effects of extreme cold.
Jungle Troll
Jungle trolls are the most civilized troll species. They are
organized around tribes, with bloodlines led by powerful
warriors. Their skin tend to be light blue to dark grey.
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma increases by 1.
Gurubashi Training. You have proficiency with the
handaxe, javelin, and spear.
Survivalist. You gain proficiency in the Survival skill.
Worgen
Resembling a cross between human and dire wolf, the
hunched over creature is roughly humanoid. Its body is
covered in coarse, fur with twitching claws and snarling
teeth. The creature's eyes are mottled yellow in colour,
unblinking and devoid of any discernible emotion.
Introduction
Worgens were created during the War of the Satyr by the
priestess Belysra Starbreeze and the druid Ralaar Fangfire
who were trying to find a solution to the wolf pack form's
uncontrollable nature. The form embodied the full fury of
the wolf Ancient Goldrinn, something the druids had never
been able to command. Belysra and Ralaar believed that
the magic of Elune could tame its uncontrollable rage.
Leading a ritual and mixing the power of the moon Elune,
with the Druids of the Pack's pack form, resulting in the
creation of the worgen. Unfortunately Goldrinn's fury was
overwhelming. The worgen turned against the night elves,
and Malfurion was forced to seal them within the Emerald
Dream after it was discovered that their bite turned other
night elves into more worgen, through what is now called
the worgen curse.
Centuries later, they were freed from the Dream in order
to fight the undead Scourge for Gilneas. While extremely
effective against the undead army, the worgen then turned
on the Gilnean, prompting them to close the Greymane
Wall. While no worgen managed to enter the city, humans
who had been bitten by them did. They would turn into
worgen themselves and spread the curse to the whole of
Gilneas, including King Genn Greymane. After being
taught how to control their inner beast by the night elves,
many worgen are now members of the Alliance.
Mindful Hunters
Worgens generally prefer more natural habitats like forests,
they are experienced hunters and have a propensity to
hunt. Once bitten, worgen go through stages of the
mindless ferocity,eventually losing their last vestiges of
their former lives and gaining a full feral mentality.
Worgen must always control their emotions lest they lose
themselves to their feral instincts. They can temporarily
keep their sanity in dire moments through an injection
created by Gilnean alchemists, called Krennan Aranas.
Affiliation
Worgens that are in control of their emotions are a part of
the alliance, originally being humans themselves, they have
a deep connection with the Stormwind Humans.
The respect the night elves, even though they were the
origin of their curse, yet without them, the worgens would
be feral beasts. They have a deep hatred for the forsaken
and the scourge, after their successful overtaking of the
Gilnean Kingdom.
Names
Worgens were once gilnean humans, and uses human
naming conventions. Many worgens though have forgotten
their full name, and often go only by their first name, and
take on last names of their own based on their
achievements as a worgen.
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 Worgen Traits
The worgen curse has transformed your body into that of a Darkvision. Accustomed to the black nights, you have
worgen, giving you the following traits. superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 2. dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and
Age. Worgens age like humans, reaching adulthood in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in
slightly before, at the age of 16, and can live to be up to 300 darkness, only shades of gray.
years old. Language of Wolves. Whilst a worgen you are able to
Alignment. Worgens tend to become chaotic, while communicate with wolves, as the spell commune with
originating from humans, the infection of their blood with animals.
the wolves has made them more unpredictable Natural Weapons. Your claws and bite are natural
Size. Humanly varying widely in height and build, from weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If
barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. In worgen form, they you hit with your claws, you deal 1d4 + your Strength
range from 7 to 9 feet. Your size is Medium. modifier slashing damage, and with your bite, you deal 1d6
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. + your Strength modifier piercing damage.
Beastly Appearance. You have advantage on ability Truesilver Vulnerability. You are vulnerable to damage
checks using Intimidation. taken by silvered weapons.
Curse of the Worgen. The curse still lingers in your Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and
body, whenever gravely angered, agitated or put under one extra language of your choice. Humans typically learn
emotional stress you, at the DM's discretion, you must the languages of other peoples they deal with, including
make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a success, you obscure dialects.
keep the curse under control. On a failed save, the curse
takes over, making you feral for a minute. Whilst feral you
gain the following effects:
You drop any held items and attack the nearest creature
with your natural weapons every round.
You gain resistance against nonmagical bludgeoning,
piercing, and slashing damage.
If you are capable of casting spells, you are unable to
cast them or concentrate on them whilst feral.
At the end of each of your turns, you make a new saving
throw to attempt disrupting the feral rage. On a successful
save, the feral rage ends, and you cannot go feral again for
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 Chapter 2: Classes
H
eroes are extraordinary people, driven by a
thirst for excitement into a life that others
would never dare lead. They arc heroes,
compelled to explore the dark places of
Azeroth and take on the challenges that
lesser women and men can't stand against.
Class is the primary definition of what your character
can do. It's more than a profession; it's your character's
calling. Class shapes the way you think about the world and
interact with it and your relationship with other people and
powers in the multiverse. A warrior, for example, might
view the world in pragmatic terms of strategy and
maneuvering, and see herself as just a pawn in a much
larger game. A priest, by contrast, might see himself as a
willing servant in a god's unfolding plan or a conflict
brewing among various deities. While the warrior has
contacts in a mercenary company or army, the priest might
know a number of healers, paladins, and devotees who
share his faith.
Classes
Hit Primary
Class Description Die Ability
A watcher of nature, wielding powers of
Druid elune, and able to transform into d8
animals.
A prowess ranger, with keen skills and
Hunter d10 Dexterity
knowledge of the wild and its animals.
A scholar of magic, capable of evoking
Mage d6
arcane, shaping it to their needs.
A martial artist, harnessing the power of
Monk the body in pursuit of spiritual d8
perfection.
A holy warrior, wielding the light to aid
Paladin d10
their allies and defeat their enemies.
A divine healer, who wields the powers
Priest d6
of the light and the void.
A master assassin who uses stealth and
Rogue d8
trickery to overcome obstacles.
A wielder of elements, calling them to
Shaman d8
his aid, and bending them to his will.
A wielder of void and fel magic, gaining
Warlock d8
power through a secret grimoire.
An exceptional fighter, skilled with a
Warrior d10 Strength
variety of weapons and armor.
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Your class gives you a variety of special features, such as
a warrior's mastery of weapons and armor, and a mage's
spells. At low levels, your class gives you only two or three
features, but as you advance in level you gain more and
your existing features often improve.
Each class entry in this chapter includes a table
summarizing the benefits you gain at every level, and a
detailed explanation of each one.
Heroes sometimes advance in more than one class. A
rogue might switch direction in life and swear the oath of a
paladin. A barbaric warrior might discover latent magical
ability and dabble in the arcanic classes while continuing to
advance as a warrior. Elves are known to combine martial
mastery with magical training and advance as warriors and
mages simultaneously.
Optional rules for combining classes in this way, called
multiclassing, appear in chapter 5.
Ten classes — listed in the Classes table — are found in
the World of Warcraft and define the spectrum of heroes.
Saving
Throws Armor and Weapons
Intelligence Light and medium armor, simple
Wisdom
& Wisdom weapons
Strength & Light and medium armor, simple
Dexterity and martial weapons, firearms
Intelligence
Intelligence Simple weapons
& Wisdom
Strength & Light armor, simple weapons and
Dexterity
Dexterity shortswords
Strength or Wisdom & All armor, shields, simple and
Charisma Charisma martial weapons
Wisdom &
Wisdom Simple weapons
Charisma
Light armor, simple weapons, hand
Dexterity &
Dexterity crossbows, longswords, rapiers,
Intelligence
shortswords
Strength & Light and medium armor, shields,
Wisdom
Wisdom simple and martial weapons
Intelligence Simple weapons, longswords,
Intelligence
& Wisdom rapiers, scimitars, shortswords
Strength & All armor, shields, simple and
Constitution martial weapons, firearms
Druid
We are the preservers of the balance, now and forever, as
Malfurion lies in the Dreaming. Never forget this.
— Kal of Dolanaar
Clutching an engraved staff stitched with leaves, a night
elf summons the powers of elune, calling down raw blue
energy of the moon upon a terrible foe, smashing upon its
body and encasing it hole for a brief moment.
Crouching out of sight on a low hanging tree branch, in
the form of a large feral tiger, a worgen scouts out from his
hiding stop towards the constructions of Zul'Gurub.
Watching every move of the jungle trolls patrolling.
Holding near her sickle and staff, a young tauren druid is
making beautiful ritual, making tiny seeds sprinkle into a
perfect circle of faintly glowing green lights, healing an
endured ally to the best of her capabilities.
Rushing forward towards his companions aid, rumbling
the ground as his body transforms into a giant bear
creature with tusks, an experienced troll runs to his allies
aid, blocking a fatal blow with its fur.
Nature's Power
Druids harness the vast powers of nature to preserve
balance and protect life. With experience, druids can
unleash nature’s raw energy against their enemies, raining
celestial fury on them from a great distance, binding them
with enchanted vines, or ensnaring them in unrelenting
cyclones. Druids can also direct this power to heal wounds
and restore life to fallen allies.
They are deeply in tune with the animal spirits of
Azeroth. As master shapeshifters, druids can take on the
forms of a variety of beasts, morphing into a bear, cat,
creatures of water, and creatures of air with ease. This
flexibility allows them to fill different roles during their
adventures, tearing enemies to shreds one minute and
surveying the battlefield from the sky the next. These
keepers of the natural order are among the most versatile
heroes in Azeroth, and they must be prepared to adjust to
new challenges on a moment’s notice.
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 The Druid
Level Proficiency Bonus Features Cantrips Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
1st +2 Druidic, Spellcasting 2 2 — — — — — — — —
2nd +2 Shapeshifting, Druid Path 2 3 — — — — — — — —
3rd +2 — 2 4 2 — — — — — — —
Ability Score Improvement,
4th +2 3 4 3 — — — — — — —
Travel Shapeshift
5th +3 — 3 4 3 2 — — — — — —
Druid Path feature,
6th +3 3 4 3 3 — — — — — —
Aquatic Shapeshift
7th +3 — 3 4 3 3 1 — — — — —
Ability Score Improvement,
8th +3 3 4 3 3 2 — — — — —
Flight Shapeshift
9th +4 — 3 4 3 3 3 1 — — — —
10th +4 Druid Path feature 4 4 3 3 3 2 — — — —
11th +4 — 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 — — —
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 — — —
13th +5 — 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 — —
14th +5 Druid Path feature 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 — —
15th +5 — 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 —
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 —
17th +6 Druid Path feature 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
18th +6 Timeless Body 4 4 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1
20th +6 Soul of the Forest 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1

Protectors of Balance
Guardians of nature who seek to preserve balance and
protect life, Druids have unmatched versatility on the field
of battle. This is in part because druidism is much more
than a fighting discipline.
It’s a way of life steeped in traditions so ancient that even
the origin of their kind is preserved largely in mythology
passed on through millennia.
Druids harness nature’s raw energy for an incredible
breadth of offensive and defensive abilities, as well as to
restore life to the wounded. Through communion with
nature and the demigod Cenarius, Lord of the Forest,
Druids are supernaturally endowed with the gift of
shapeshifting, allowing them to take the form of all manner
of nature’s creature and access powers as distinct as they
are diverse.
Creating a Druid
When making a druid, consider why your character has
such a close bond with nature. Perhaps your character was
raised by a druid after being abandoned in the depths of a
forest. Perhaps your character had a dramatic encounter
with the spirits of nature, coming face to face with a giant
eagle or dire wolf and surviving the experience.
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Maybe your character was born during an epic storm or
a volcanic eruption, which was interpreted as a sign that
becoming a druid was part of your character's destiny.
Perhaps your homeland was befouled by evil, and you took
up an adventuring life in hopes of finding a new home.
Quick Build
You can make a druid quickly by following these
suggestions. Wisdom should be your highest ability score,
followed by Constitution. (Feral druids tend to make their
Dexterity higher than Constitution, and Guardians
Strength.)
Class Features
As a druid, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per druid level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 + your Constitution
modifier per druid level after 1st
Proficiencies
Armor: Light armor, medium armor
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: Herbalism kit
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Animal Handling. lnsight,
Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, and Survival
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
equipment granted by your background:
(a) a quarterstaff or (b) any simple weapon
(a) a dagger or (b) any simple weapon
Leather armor, explorer's pack, and a druidic focus
Druidic
You know Druidic, the secret language of druids. You can
speak, read and write Druidic, a language sacred to druids
that is not taught to outsides without severe consequences
for the teacher and teached.
Spellcasting
Drawing on the divine essence of nature itself, you can cast
spells to shape that essence to your will. See chapter 10 of
the Player's Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting
and chapter 6 of this book for the druid spell list.
Cantrips
At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the
druid spell list. You learn additional druid cantrips of your
choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known
column of the Druid table.
Preparing and Casting Spells
The Druid table shows how many spell slots you have to
cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these
druid spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or
higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish
a long rest.
You prepare the list of druid spells that are available for
you to cast, choosing from the druid spell list. When you do
so, choose a number of druid spells equal to your Wisdom
modifier + your druid level (minimum of one spell). The
spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
For example, if you are a 3rd-level druid, you have four
1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 16,
your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or
2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level
spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-
level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list
of prepared spells.
You can also change your list of prepared spells when
you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of druid spells
requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1
minute per spell level for each spell on your list.
Spellcasting Ability
Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your druid spells,
since your magic draws upon your devotion and
attunement to nature. You use your Wisdom whenever a
spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use
your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC
for a druid spell you cast and when making an attack roll
with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Wisdom modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your
Wisdom modifier
Ritual Casting
You can cast a druid spell as a ritual if that spell has the
ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.
Spellcasting Focus
You can use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your
druid spells.
Shapeshifting
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to assume the
shape of a large feline beast, or a thick furred bear. You can
use this feature any number of times, to change into any
shapeshift known.
Your druid level determines the shapeshifts you can
transform into, as shown in the Shapeshifts table.
Each shapeshift and its benefits are described in
Appendix A, at the end of this book.
Shapeshifts
Level Shapeshift Beast
2nd Cat and Bear
4th Travel
6th Aquatic
8th Flight
You can stay in a shapeshift for as long as you wish, and
can revert back to your normal form by using a bonus
action on your turn. You automatically revert back if you fall
unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.
While you are transformed, the following rules apply:
Your retain your game statistics, alignment, and
personality. You also retain all of your skill and saving
throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the
shapeshift.
Shapeshifting does not change your hit points, and any
damage taken whilst in a shapeshift carries over to your
humanoid form upon reverting back.
You can't cast spells, and your ability to speak or take
any action that requires hands is limited to the
capabilities of your shapeshift. Transforming doesn't
break your concentration on a spell you've already cast,
however, or prevent you from taking actions that are
part of a spell that you've already cast.
You retain the benefit of any features from your class,
race, or other source and can use them if the shapeshift
is physically capable of doing so.
You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground
in your space, or merges into your new form. Equipment
that merges with the form has no effect until you leave
the form.
Each shapeshift gives you special benefits unique to that
shape. (as described in Appendix A.)
Druid Paths
At 2nd level, you choose to identify with a druidic path:
Balance, Feral, Guardian, or Restoration, all detailed at the
end of the class description. Your choice grants you featur-
es at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 17th level.
Ability Score Improvement
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 —
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 choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score
above 20 using this feature.
Timeless Body
Starting at 18th level, the primal magic that you wield
causes you to age more slowly. For every 10 years that
pass, your body ages only 1 year.
Soul of the Forest
At 20th level, your connection with nature has grown to an
incredible level, deepening beasts respect for you, and
making you able to conjure a gateway to the unspoiled
Emerald Dream.
Using 10 minutes in a forested or wild area, you can
conjure a gateway to the Emerald Dream, The entrance
shimmers faintly and is 5 feet wide and 10 feet tall. You and
any creature you designate when conjuring the gateway
can enter into the Emerald Dream as long as the portal
remains open. You can open or close if you are within 30
feet of it. While closed, the gateway crumbles and is
effectively invisible. The gateway remains conjured for 24
hours, at which point it vanishes and cannot be conjured
again for 7 days.
Additionally, creatures of the natural world sense your
connection to nature. All skill and ability checks made to
communicate with beasts or plants are made with
advantage.
Druidic Forms
Whilst the statistics of a shapeshift is the same
from one druid to another, a shapeshift is meant
as an extension of the druid itself. Both as a
person, but also as a race, a taurens shapeshifts
might grow horns similar to that of their tauran
form. An orc or troll might want their forms to
have tusks, and a worgen might make theirs look
wild and feral by nature. Likewise, druids
shapeshifts appearance might alter, one may
transform into a muscular, panther, another a
strong lion, or another feline beast.
A small list is compiled beneath each
shapeshift of the most common shapes taken by
druids through time, choose one of them as your
shape, and modify its appear-ance as you wish to
fit your race, or talk to your DM about becoming
something not on the list.
Once a choice has been made, it is a
permanent choice, and cannot be changed
throughout the druids lifetime.
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Druid Paths
Although all druids have a deep love for nature and
wilderness, some druids have a deeper love for their
animal shapeshifts, preferring that form over their
humanoid one. Others for the goddess Elune, and some
stay true to the druidic tradition of preserving life, druids
fall into four categories: Balance, Feral, Guardian, or
Restoration druids.
Path of Balance
Druids on the path of balance leverage the sacred powers
of the moon, the sun, and the stars, accessing a mixture of
arcane and nature powers to aid in the fight against the
imbalance that threatens the natural order of all things.
Bonus Cantrip
When you choose this path at 2nd level, you learn one
additional druid cantrip of your choice.
Spell Sculptor
Starting at 2nd level, you can create pockets of relative
safety within the effects of your spells. When casting a spell
that affects other creatures that you can see, you can
choose a number of creatures equal to 1 + the spell's level.
The chosen creatures automatically succeed on their
saving throws against the spell, and take no damage if they
would normally take half damage on a successful save.
Moonkin Shapeshift
At 6th level, you learn to shapeshift into a moonkin, a kin of
the owlbeasts. Shapeshifting into a moonkin is a straining
process, and as a result, you can shapeshift into a moonkin
a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier
(minimum of 1), and are able to stay shapeshifted as a
moonkin for one hour before reverting back to your
humanoid form. Whilst shapeshifted into a moonkin, you
ignore the shapeshift ruling concerning spellcasting.
Upon shapeshifting into moonkin, you gain a +2 bonus to
your current armor class, and all damaging spells you cast
deals an additional 1d6 damage of the appropriate type.
Your spell's damage increases by 1d6 when you reach
10th level (2d6), 14th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6). As
you grow in strength, you are also able to stay as a moonkin
for a long time, increasing by 1 hour when you reach 10th
level, 14th level, and 17th level.
Astral Influence
Starting at 10th level, the range of all your spells that
require a spell attack to hit increases by 30 feet. This does
not include the area of effects of spells.
Fury of Elune
Upon reaching 14th level, you are able to call upon elune to
bring down a beam of pure moonlight at a target location.
As an action, choose a point within 60 feet of you, summing
a 10-feet-wide beam of moon light, from 100-feet within the
air, any targets within the beam are required to make a
Dexterity saving throw, taking 4d8 + half your druid level
force damage on a failed save, or half on a successful save.
Fury of Elune requires your concentration, and lasts up to
one minute.
On each of your turns after you use this feature, you can
use an action to move the beam up to 15 feet in any
direction. Each target hit as you move the beam takes half
damage on a failed save, and no damage on a successful
saving throw.
Any creature starting their turn inside the beam takes full
damage on a failed saving throw.
Once you've used this feature, you cannot use it again
until you have finished a long rest, unless you expend a
spell slot of 5th level or higher, fury of elunes damage
increasing by 1d8 if you use a 7th level spell slot (5d8), and
again at 9th level (6d8).
Chosen of Elune
At 17th level, you've harnessed your connection with elune
herself, improving your moonkin shapeshift.
Whenever you shapeshift into moonkin, you gain a +4
bonus to your armor class instead of a +2 AC bonus, and
the damage bonus given whilst in moonkin changes from
d6 to d8 Hit Dies.
Path of Feral
Druids on the feral path seek an understanding, and
visceral connection to the wild, and in combat take the form
of a deadly feline predator. Feral druids become ferocious,
agile stalkers. Many feral druids coming to prefer the
appearance of their feline selves over their humanoid
shape.
Predatorial Preference
When you choose this path at 2nd level, you gain the ability
to use Shapeshift on your turn as a bonus action when
shapeshifting into your cat form.
Additionally, your time spent as a cat has sharpened your
reactions, changing your proficiency in Intelligence saving
throws to Dexterity saving throws. This change is
permanent, and cannot be altered.
Feral Caster
When you choose this path, you actively begin spending
more time perfecting your predatorial combat skills than
your spellcasting. Starting at 2nd level, you have difficulties
casting spells beyond 5th level. To cast a spell of 6th level or
higher you're required to make a Wisdom saving throw
against a DC of 10 + the spells level. On a failure, the spell
fails and the spell slot is expended.
Feral druids can expend their spell slots to gain certain
benefits within their cat shapeshift, as shown in the feral
enhancements list below.
Feral Enhancements
These enhancements are presented in alphabetical order.
Displacer Beast. As a bonus action, you can expend a
spell slot to teleport to an empty square within 30 feet of
you, giving you the benefits of a dash upon reappearing in
the new square for the rest of the turn.
Ferocious Bite. When you hit another creature with a
bite attack, you can expend a spell slot to deal an additional
damage die per 2nd level of the spell slot expended.
For example, a 1st or 2nd level deals one additional die,
and a 3rd or 4th deals two additional damage dies.
Mighty Bash. When you hit another creature with a
melee weapon attack, you can expend a spell slot to invoke
the spirit of Ursoc. The target must succeed on a
Constitution saving throw or be stunned for one round per
level of spell slot expended. The stunned target makes a
Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns,
ending the effect on a success.
Rake. When a creature misses you with a melee attack,
you can use your reaction and expend a spell slot to make a
melee weapon attack against the creature.
If you hit, you deal an additional 1d6 damage per level of
the spell slot expended.
Renewal. As a bonus action, you can expend a spell slot
to regain 1d8 hit points per level of the spell slot expended.
Survival Instincts. As a reaction upon taking damage,
you can expend a spell slot to gain resistance towards the
attack, retaining the resistance to that damage type for 1
round per level of spell slot expended. Using this
enhancement again replaces the resistance.
Primal Strikes
Starting at 6th level, you gain an extra attack.
Additionally, your bite deals 1d8 piercing damage, and
your claws deals 2d6 slashing damage, and are considered
magical for the purpose of overcoming resistances and
immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
Upon reaching 10th level, your bite and claws increase to
1d10, and 2d8 damage of their respective type.
Supreme Prowler
At 10th level, you excel at ambushes and acting quickly.
You have advantage on initiative rolls, and you have
advantage on attack rolls against any creature that hasn't
taken a turn in combat yet, and any hit dealt against a
creature that is surprised is considered to be a critical hit.
Sudden Thrashes
Starting at 14th level, you can thrash with deadly speed. If
you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make one
additional claw attack as a bonus action.
King of the Jungle
At 17th level, you've become one with the wilderness,
moving through difficult terrain doesn't cost additional
movement, and you're able to pass through nonmagical
plants without being slowed by them and without taking
damage from them if they have natural hazards.
While traveling for an hour or more whilst shapeshifted
into a feline beast, you gain the following benefits:
Difficult terrain doesn't slow your group's travel pace.
Your group can't become lost except by magical means.
Even when you're engaged in another activity while
traveling (such as navigating, or tracking), you remain
alert to danger.
If you are traveling alone, or with up to nine other
creatures, you can move stealthily at a normal pace.
While tracking other creatures, you also learn their
exact numbers, size, and how long ago they passed
through the area.
Additionally, upon reaching 17th level, you're able to stay
within cat form for any amount of time wished, only
reverting back to humanoid form if you drop to 0 hit points,
or wish to do so by your own will.
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 Path of Guardian
Druids of the guardian path take the form of great bears,
these guardians become massive walls of fur, claw, tooth,
and, aided by the forces of nature, they stand between allies
and any opposing threats.
Raging Shapeshift
When you choose this path at 2nd level, you gain the ability
to shapeshift through rage. As a bonus action you can enter
a rage, immediately transforming you into a bear.
Additionally, your time spent as a bear has built up your
tolerance for damage, changing your proficiency in
Intelligence saving throws to Constitution saving throws.
This change is permanent, and cannot be altered.
While raging, you gain the following benefits:
You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength
saving throws.
When you make a melee weapon attack, you add your
proficiency bonus to the damage roll.
You have resistance to all damage except psychic
damage.
Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are
knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven't
attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken
damage since then. You can also end your rage on your
turn as a bonus action.
Once you have raged the number of times equal to your
Constitution modifier, you must finish a long rest before
you can rage again.
Beastial Caster
When you choose this path, you actively begin spending
more time perfecting your beastial combat skill than your
spellcasting. Starting at 2nd level, you have difficulties
casting spells beyond 5th level. To cast a spell of 6th level or
higher you're required to make a Wisdom saving throw
against a DC of 10 + the spells level. On a failure, the spell
fails and the spell slot is expended.
Guardian druids can expend their spell slots to gain
certain benefits within their bear shapeshift, as shown in
the beastial enhamcenets list below.
Beastial Enhancements
These enhancements are presented in alphabetical order.
Pack Defender. When an ally is hit by a melee attack,
you can use your reaction, and expend a spell slot to rush
to their aid, and make a single bite or claw attack against
the target. You can rush 10 feet per level of spell level
expended towards a target, any opportunity attacks made
against you are made with disadvantage whilst moving.
Demoralizing Roar. As an action, you let out an echoing
roar, each creature hostile to you within 60 feet is required
to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the
target has disadvantage on all weapon attacks for a number
of 1 round per level of spell slot expended, making a new
saving throw at the end of their turn, ending the effect on a
successful save.
Ferocious Bite. When you hit another creature with a
bite attack, you can expend a spell slot to deal an additional
damage die per 2nd level of the spell slot expended.
For example, a 1st or 2nd level deals one additional die,
and a 3rd or 4th deals two additional damage dies.
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Brambled fur. As a reaction upon taking damage, you
can expend a spell slot to return part of the damage taken.
Roll 1d8 for each level of spell slot expended, returning an
amount of damage to the attacker equal to the amount
rolled, if the rolled amount exceeds the damage done, the
excess amount is wasted.
Mighty Bash. When you hit another creature with a
melee weapon attack, you can expend a spell slot to invoke
the spirit of Ursoc. The target must succeed on a
Constitution saving throw or be stunned for one round per
level of spell slot expended. The stunned target makes a
Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns,
ending the effect on a success.
Renewal. As a bonus action, you can expend a spell slot
to regain 1d8 hit points per level of the spell slot expended.
Mauler
Starting at 6th level, you gain an extra attack.
Additionally, your bite deals 1d10 piercing damage, and
your claws deals 2d8 slashing damage.
Relentless Rage
Starting at 10th level, your rage can keep you from
reverting to humanoid form, and keep you fighting despite
grievous wounds. If you drop to 0 hit points while you're
raging and don't die outright, you can make a DC 10
Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, you drop to 1 hit
point instead.
Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC
increases by 5. When you finish a short or long rest, the DC
resets to 10.
Intimidating Presence
Upon reaching 14th level, while you're raging, any creature
within 10 feet of you that's hostile to you has disadvantage
on attack rolls against targets other than you or another
character with this feature. An enemy is immune to this
effect if it can't see or hear you or if it can't be frightened.
Guardian of Ursoc
At 17th level, you embody the power of Ursoc. Your
Strength and Constitution scores increase by 2. Your
maximum for those scores is now 22.
Upon reaching 20th level, your Strength and
Constitution score increases by 2. Your maximum for those
scores is now 24.
Path of Restoration
Druids of the restoration path builds a stronger bond with
things that grow than the rest of their kin, gaining
inspiration from the flower’s bloom, the seeds sprout, the
mushroom’s spores, and the tree’s growth.
Balm of Elune
When you choose this path at 2nd level, you become im-
bued with the blessings of Elune. You are a font of energy
that offers respite from injuries. You have a pool of energy
represented by a number of d6s equal to your druid level.
As a bonus action, you can choose one creature you can
see within 120 feet of you and spend a number of those
dice equal to half your druid level or less. Roll the spent
dice and add them together. The target regains a number of
hit points equal to the total. The target also gains 1
temporary hit point per die spent.
You regain all expended dice when you finish a long rest.
Path Spells
Your connection to elune and its restorative powers infuses
you with the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th,
and 9th level you gain access to path spells.
Once you gain access to a path spell, you always have it
prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells
you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that
doesn't appear on the druid spell list, the spell is
nonetheless a druid spell for you.
Druid Level Path Spells
3rd calm emotions, pass without trace
5th daylight, mass healing word
7th aura of life, guardian of nature
9th dream, greater restoration

Living Seeds
Starting at 6th level, your restorative spells never go to
waste. Whenever you heal a target, and restores them to
their maximum health, any excess hit points healed are
gained as temporary hit points on the target, to a maximum
of temporary hit points equalling your druid level.
Efflorescence
At 10th level, you can sprout a flower, able to heal injured
allies. As an action, choose a point within 60 feet of you,
sprouting a flower healing any ally within 10 feet of it for
2d6 + your Wisdom modifier at the beginning of each of
your rounds. Efflorescence requires concentration, and
lasts for up to 1 minute.
Tranquility
Starting at 14th level, you may call upon the tranquil
powers of Elune. As an action, choose any number of
creatures within 60 feet of you, each target is healing for
4d8 + your druid level hit points.
Once you have used this feature, you cannot use it again
until you have finished a long rest.
Tree of Life
At 17th level, you draw strength from the world trees of
Azeroth's roots. When you would normally roll one or more
dice to restore hit points with a spell, you instead use the
highest number possible for each die.
For example, instead of restoring 2d6 hit points to a
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 Hunter
The way of the hunter is one of mastery over the beasts of
the world, an unparalleled precision in marksmanship, and
the knowledge of how to survive in situations where others
would perish.
— Ranger Sallina
Wild and barbaric looking, a human stalks alone through
the shadows of trees, hunting the orcs he knows are
planning a raid on a nearby farm. Clutching a spear in his
hands, he charges in with intense fury, a large bear running
at his side, roaring as he engages, cutting down one enemy
after another.
Tumbling away from a cone of freezing air, a night elf
finds her feet and draws back her bow to loose an arrow at
the blue dragon. Shrugging off the wave of fear that
emanates from the dragon like the cold of its breath, she Proud Rangers
sends one arrow after another to find the gaps between the The hunter is a stalker in the wilds, living on his knowledge
dragon's thick scales. of survival and skill with a bow or rifle. He is deeply in tune
Holding his hand high, a blood elf whistles to the hawk with nature, and some of its mightiest beasts are his allies.
that circles high above him, calling the bird back to his Of Azeroth's many creatures, few can resist the hunter's
side. Whispering instructions in Thalassian, he points to call, and fewer can survive his fury. Hunters are as varied as
the owlbear he's been tracking and sends the hawk to the world's many climates, but they are universally
distract the creature while he readies his bow. renowned for their amazing abilities to find their prey and
Inescapable Stalkers bring it down. Most hunters seek to aid the balance of
nature along with their druidic allies. Elven rangers are not
From an early age the call of the wild draws some alone in their mastery of the wilderness. While an elven
adventurers from the comfort of their homes into the ranger prefers the bow, the hunter would rather get up
unforgiving primal world outside. Those who endure close. A hunter is skilled in stealth, slipping through the
become hunters. As masters of their environment, hunters woods like a ghost.
are able to slip like ghosts through the trees and lay traps
in the paths of their enemies. These expert marksman drop The Hunters Choice
foes dead in their tracks with flawless shots from a bow, The hunter is the choice of life for those who reject
crossbow or rifle. With the ability to wield two weapons societies that oppress the natural role as prey and hunter,
simultaneously, hunters can unleash a flurry of blows and also reject the druidic stance that we should be healers
against anyone unfortunate enough to stumble into close and observers rather than active participants in the "Great
combat with them. Hunt".
The art of survival is central to the isolated life of a They follow a life of reverence for nature complimenting
hunter. Hunters track beasts with ease and enhance their their tradition and willingness to use man-made tools. We
own abilities by attuning themselves to the feral aspects of are all tool-using creatures after all, and it is only natural to
various creatures. Hunters are known for the lifelong use that advantage afforded by nature to be better hunters.
bonds they form with animals of the wild, training great There are however also those hunters who prefer a more
hawks, cats, bears, and many other beasts to fight direct approach to tracking and hunting.
alongside them.
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The Hunter
Proficiency Focus
Level Bonus Features Points
Animal Empathy, Natural
1st +2 —
Explorer
Fighting Style, Focused
2nd +2 2
Combatant
3rd +2 Hunter Archetype,Tame Beast 2
Ability Score Improvement,
4th +2 2
Aspect of the Monkey
5th +3 Extra Attack 3
Aspect of the Hawk, Focused
6th +3 3
Attack
7th +3 Hunter Archetype Feature 3
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 4
Aspect of the Beast, Focused
9th +4 4
Attack
10th +4 — 4
11th +4 Hunter Archetype Feature 5
Ability Score Improvement,
12th +4 5
Aspect of the Cheetah
13th +5 — 5
14th +5 Focused Attack 6
Hunter Archetype Feature, Quick Build
15th +5
Aspect of the Dragonhawk
6 You can make a hunter quickly by following these
suggestions. First, make Dexterity your highest ability
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 6 score, followed by Wisdom. (Some hunters who focus on
17th +6 Focused Attack 7 melee fighting make Strength higher than Dexterity.)
18th +6 Aspect of the Wilds 7
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 7
Class Features
20th +6 Feral Senses 8
As a hunter, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d10 per hunter level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 + your Constitution
Creating a Hunter modifier per hunter level after 1st
As you create your hunter character, consider the nature of Proficiencies
the training that gave you your particular capabilities. Did Armor: Light armor, medium armor
you train with a single mentor, wandering the wilds Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons, firearms
together until you mastered the hunter's ways? Did you Tools: None
leave your apprenticeship. or was your mentor slain,
perhaps you learned your skills as part of a band of hunters Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
affiliated with a druidic circle, trained in mystic paths as Skills: Choose three from Athletics, Insight, Investigation,
well as wilderness lore. You might be self-taught, a recluse Nature, Perception, Stealth, and Survival
who learned combat skills, tracking, and even a magical Equipment
connection to nature through the necessity of surviving in You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
the wilds. equipment granted by your background:
Is your adventuring career a continuation of your work in
protecting the borderlands, or a significant change? What (a) scale mail or (b) leather armor
made you join up with a band of adventurers? Do you find it (a) two short swords or (b) two simple melee weapons
challenging to teach new allies the ways of the wild, or do (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
you welcome the relief from solitude that they offer? A longbow and a quiver of 20 arrows
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 Animal Empathy
Beginning at 1st level, you gain proficiency and expertise in
Wisdom (Animal Handling).
Natural Explorer
You are familiar with natural environments and are adept
at traveling and surviving in such regions. This grants you
the following benefits:
You ignore difficult terrain.
You have advantage on initiative rolls.
On your first turn during combat, you have advantage on
attack rolls against creatures that have not yet acted.
In addition, you are skilled at navigating the wilderness.
You gain the following benefits when traveling for an hour
or more.
Difficult terrain doesn't slow your group's travel.
Your group can't become lost except by magical means.
Even when you are engaged in another activity while
traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking), you
remain alert to danger.
If you are traveling alone with or without your pet, you
can move stealthily at a normal pace.
When you forage, you find twice as much food as you
normally would.
While tracking other creatures, you also learn their
exact number, their sizes, and how long ago they passed
through the area.
Fighting Style
At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your
specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't
take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you
later get to choose again.
Archery
You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged
weapons.
Defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Two-Weapon Fighting
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your
ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.
Great Weapon Fighting
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you
make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two
hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll,
even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the
two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this
benefit.
Focused Combatant
Starting at 2nd level, you learn to perform powerful attacks
to disable or damage your opponents through a heightened
focus in combat. Your access to your heighted focus is
represented by a number of focus points. Your hunter level
determines the number of focus points you have, as shown
in the Focus Points column of the Hunter table.
You can spend these points to perform various focus
features. You learn two focused attacks of your choice,
which are detailed under Focused Attacks below.
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Each use of a focused attack must be declared before the
attack roll is made. You can only use one focused attack per
attack roll.
You learn an additional focused attack of your choice at
6th, 9th, 14th, and 17th level. Each time you learn a new
focused attack, you can also replace one focused attack you
know with another.
When you spend a focus point, it is unavailable until you
finish a short or long rest, at the end of which your focus is
regained. Additionally you regain 1 expended focus point
each time you roll a 20 on the d20 roll for an attack with a
weapon, or deal the killing blow to a creature of significant
threat (DM's discretion).
Some of your focused attacks require your target to
make a saving throw to resist the attacks effect. The saving
throw DC is calculated as follows:
Focus save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Wisdom modifier
Focused Attacks
These focused attacks are presented in alphabetical order.
Carving Strike. When you make a melee weapon attack
against a creature, you can expend one focus point to make
an attack roll against each target directly on either side of
your initial attack. On a hit, roll damage for one target, any
additional creature hit takes the same amount of damage.
Concussive Strike. When you make a weapon attack
against a creature, you can expend one focus point to
attempt to dizzy your opponent. On a hit, the creature
suffers normal damage and must make a Constitution
saving throw or suffer disadvantage on attacks until the
end of their next turn.
Disarming Attack. When you make a weapon attack
against a creature, you can expend one focus point to
attempt to shoot or knock an object from their hands. On a
hit, the creature suffers normal damage and must succeed
on a Strength saving throw or drop 1 held object of your
choice and have that object be pushed 10 feet away in the
direction of your attack.
Piercing Shot. When you make a ranged weapon attack
against a creature, you can expend one focus point to
attempt to shoot through multiple opponents. On a hit, the
creature suffers normal damage and you make an attack
roll with disadvantage against every creature in a line
directly behind the target within your first range increment.
Steady Attack. When you make a weapon attack against
a creature, you can expend one focus point to gain
advantage on the attack roll.
Violent Attack. When you make a weapon attack against
a creature, you can expend focus points to enhance the
velocity of the attack. For each focus point expended, your
attack deals one additional weapon damage die, to a
maximum of an additional four weapon dies.
Wing Clip. When you make a weapon attack against a
creature, you can expend one focus point to attempt to
topple a target. On a hit, the target suffers normal damage,
and must succeed Strength save or be knocked prone.
Hunter Archetype
At 3rd level, you choose to emulate the ideals and training
of a hunter archetype: Beast Master, Marksman or Surviva-
list, each detailed at the end of the class description. Your
choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th,
11th, and 15th level.
Tame Beast
Beginning at 3rd level, you have strengthened your bond
with animals, gaining a supernatural bond with them that
allows you to interact with them on a spiritual level.
You may attempt to tame any beast that is no larger than
Medium with a challenge rating of 1/2 or lower. You use
both natural and supernatural means to compel the
creature to befriend you. To do this, you must be within 30
feet of the creature and it must be able to see and hear you.
Taming an animal companion takes hours of uninter-
rupted interaction, requiring a successful Animal Handling
check to begin the taming process, the exact time and DC
of the taming process is determined by the DM. The
taming check is made with disadvantage if any creature in
the area appears threatening towards the beast. If the
check fails, the creature's attitude towards you doesn't
change, but you cannot attempt to tame that creature again
in the next 24 hours. If you succeed, the beast becomes
your companion at the end of the taming process.
You can only have one beast companion at a time, having
to release your current companion before you can tame a
new one. Once you have gained a beast loyalty, it gains all
the benefits of your Companion's Bond feature.
Companion's Bond
Your beast companion gains a variety of benefits once loyal.
The beast loses its Multiattack action, if it has one.
Your companion obeys your commands as best it can,
acting on your initiative count, its actions, decisions,
attitudes and so on determined by you. If you are
incapacitated or absent, the companion acts on its own.
Your beast companion has abilities and statistics
determined in part by your level. Using your proficiency
bonus rather than its own. In addition to the areas
where it normally uses its proficiency bonus, your
companion also adds its proficiency bonus to its AC and
to its damage rolls.
Your beast gains proficiency in two skills of your choice.
It also becomes proficient in all saving throws.
For each level above 3rd, your beast companion gains an
additional hit die and its maximum hit points increases
accordingly. This is retroactive for companions gained
at later levels.
Whenever you gain an Ability Score Improvement class
feature, your companions abilities improve as well,
applying all the rules of increasing ability scores that
would apply to you too.
Your companions alignment changes to sharing yours.
Ability Score Improvement
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.
Aspects
At 4th level, a hunter’s connection to the wilds teaches him
to adopt parts of the natural world. By mimicking certain
aspects of a creature’s behavior, the hunter gains abilities
that resembling that animal.
Using a bonus action to activate or dismiss an aspect,
activating a different aspect replaces your current one.
An aspect lasts until dismissed or replaced.
Aspect of the Monkey
Beginning at 4th level, you gain the ability to dodge out of
the way of certain attacks. When an attacker that you can
see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to
halve the attack's damage against you.
Aspect of the Hawk
At 6th level, you gain the ability to quickly perceive your
opponents vulnerabilities, making it easy for you to target
their weak spots. You gain a +1 bonus to damage rolls for
every three hunter levels, to a maximum of +5 at 15th level,
additionally, your critical range is lowered to 19 - 20.
Aspect of the Beast
Starting at 9th level, you learn to move with the grace of a
animal, allowing you and allies to pass through natural
terrain without leaving a trail at half your normal speed.
In addition, you can move through natural undergrowth
at your normal speed without taking damage or suffering
any other impairment. Magically manipulated undergrowth
still affects you.
Aspect of the Cheetah
Beginning at 12th level, you are able to reach high speeds
and still be able to deliver blows. You can use your bonus
action to take either the Dash, or Disengage action.
Aspect of the Dragonhawk
At 15th level, you are able to adjust your eyes to the
likeness of dragonhawks, giving you advantage on Wisdom
(Perception) checks, and granting you 120 ft. darkvision.
Aspect of the Wilds
Starting at 18th level, you've attuned so much to the
wilderness around you, that its ferocity has seeped off on
you, giving you an additional attack per Attack Action.
Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of
once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Feral Senses
At 20th level, you gain preternatural senses that help you
fight creatures you can't see. When you attack a creature
you can't see, your inability to see it doesn't impose
disadvantage on your attack rolls against it.
You are also aware of the location of any invisible
creature within 30 feet of you, provided that the creature
isn't hidden from you and you aren't blinded or deafened.
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 Hunter Archetypes
All hunters have certain things in common, such as their
love for the wilderness, or their passion for beasts. But
some hunters have more than love for beasts, and others a
greater love for the wild, hunters fall into three categories:
Beast Master, Marksman, and Survivalist.
Beast Master
Among the most gifted hunters, there are those who have
from birth felt a profound bond with the creatures of the
wild. These beast masters are drawn to the perilous primal
world, invigorated by its dangerous and untamed nature.
Primitive landscape becomes home. Ferocious predator
becomes kin.
Dire Tamer
At 3rd level, when you choose this archetype, your way with
beasts have made you able to tame powerful, deadly beasts.
You are able to tame beasts with a challenge rating of 1/4
your hunter level rounded down (minimum of 1), and your
beast companion can have a size of large or smaller.
Coordinated Attack
Beginning at 7th level, you and your animal companion
form a more potent fighting team. When you use the Attack
action on your turn, if your companion can see you, it can
use its reaction to make a secondary melee attack against a
creature within range of it.
Once you reach 15th level, this feature works with both
of your Companions.
Tame Monstrosity
Starting at 11th level, you spend enough time around your
beast companion, and the likeness of it to gain additional
experience in how to tame beasts. Using the rules of Tame
Beast and Dire Tamer, you can attempt to tame beastial
monstrosities.
Your monstrous beast companion gains all the benefits of
your Companion's Bond, with the exception of gaining
additional hit dies from 7th character level instead of 3rd.
One of the Pack
At 15th level, you are able to gain the loyalty of a secondary
beast companion, the taming process and rules being the
same as your Tame Beast and Dire Tamer features.
Your second companion can't be a monstrosity, but gains
all of the benefits of your Companion's Bond.
Marksman
Marksmen shroud themselves in the perils of the untamed
wilds, perfecting the use of weapons that are deadliest
from great range. They have little interest in gaining the
loyalty of beasts. Instead, they blend into the surrounding
environment, surveying predators and delivering deadly
shots from great distances.
Lone Wolf
Beginning at 3rd level, when you choose this archetype, you
prefer the lonesome road of a ranger without a companion.
Delivering your kills from long distances in as few shots as
possible, whenever you do not have the company of an
animal companion, you are able to put a hunter's mark on
your target.
Hunter's Mark. As a bonus action, you choose a creature
you can see within 120 ft, marking it as your quarry, until—
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—the target dies, or you become incapacitated, your deal an
extra 1d6 damage to the target whenever you hit it with a
ranged weapon attack, and you have advantage on any
Perception or Survival checks you make to find it.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Wisdom modifier, regaining uses at the end of a short rest.
Patient Sniper
Starting at 7th level, you've learned through experience,
that patience beats all odds.
Your ranged weapon attacks ignore half cover, and three-
quarters cover. Before you make an attack with a ranged
weapon that you are proficient with, you can choose to take
a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add +10
to the attack's damage.
Deadly precision
Upon reaching 11th level, you are able to strike at a target
with devastating precision, before rolling damage for an
attack but after rolling to hit, you can heighten your preci-
sion, dealing damage as if it was a critical hit, should the
attack roll be critical, triple the weapons damage dice.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Dexterity modifier (minimum of 1), regaining expended
uses when you finish a long rest.
Marksman's Focus
At 15th level, your determination to see a pray downed
drives you forward, allowing you to push yourself further
than most hunters would.
Your focus point maximum is doubled.
Survival
While all hunters feel a calling to the wild, some serve as a
reflection of its brutality. To them, the hunt is defined by
unrelenting ferocity, accompanied by merciless bloodshed.
Weapons of great range are abandoned for instruments of
close-quarters combat. For these hunters know that to truly
understand what it means to survive, one must first
become familiar with the cruel face of death.
Wild Ambusher
At 3rd level, when you choose this archetype, you're
reflexes have been sharpened beyond normal, allowing you
to react to combat at a moments notice. You add your
Wisdom modifier to your initiative.
At the start of your first turn in combat, you and your pets
walking speed is increased by 10 feet, lasting a number of
rounds equal to your Wisdom modifier. If you take the
Attack action on one of those turn, you make an additional
weapon attack as part of the action.
Sting Vial
Beginning at 3rd level, you are able to imbue a small vial
with druidic magics, making it able to assume various
poisons at your will. The poisons can be applied to your
weapon as a bonus action for various effects, applying a
poison does not provoke an opportunity attack.
If your attack hits, the target is required to make a save
or the poison takes effect. If you miss, the poison stays on
your weapons blade until the end of your next round at
which point it dries out.
Poison save DC = 10 + your proficiency bonus
Your sting vial has 3 + your proficiency bonus uses each
day before it is empty. Regaining all uses at the end of a
long rest, taking a minute of concentration to refill. The
poison vial is bound to the hunter, if handed to another
creature than the hunter the contents of the vial instantly
turns to water.
Beginning at 3rd level, you learn one of the following
poisons, this choice is permanent and cannot be changed,
upon reaching 7th, 11th, and 15th level, you learn an
additional poison of your choice from the poisons below.
Serpent Sting. Your sting assumes the poison of a
serpent. The target must succeed a Constitution save,
taking 2d6 poison damage on a failed save, or half on a
success, at the beginning of your next turn, they are
required to make a new save, or take 1d6 poison damage,
or half on a successful save. At 7th level the poison
becomes a d8, at 11th a d10, and at 15th a d12.
Wyvern Sting. Your sting assumes the poison of a
wyvern. The target must succeed a Constitution save, or be
paralyzed for 2 rounds, or until they take damage.
Spider Sting. Your sting assumes the poison of a spider.
The target must succeed a Constitution save, or be blinded
until the end of your next turn.
Scorpion Sting. You sting assumes the poison of a
scorpion. The target must succeed an Intelligence save, or
be unable to cast spells until the end of your next turn.
Flanking Strikes
Starting at 7th level, you and your pet work as coordinated
partners, exploiting advantages opened up by the other.
When you and your pet are both adjacent to the same
enemy, and are not standing in squares directly next to one
another, you are considered to be flanking that enemy,
granting each of you advantage on your attack rolls against
that enemy.
You and your pet does not give this flanking bonus to
other allies attacking the same enemy.
Camouflage
Beginning at 11th level, your experience with the nature,
and how to blend in has made you exceptional in the arts of
camouflage. Using a minute for each target you wish to
camouflage, you are able to make them blend in with what
materials you have at hand, to perfectly blend with their
surroundings, and cover their smell from man as well as
beast.
Camouflaged creature have advantage on stealth checks
made in the environment they were camouflaged for, and
are considered invisible for any target more than 40 ft
away, targets within 40 ft perceive you as if you weren't
hidden, checks made to notice the characters that rely on
smell are made with disadvantage.
Poisonous Mixture
At 15th level, you are able apply any number of poisonous
effects onto your weapon at once when you use a sting
attack, each poison taking up a use of your sting vial. Upon
a hit, the target makes a saving throw for each sting that
are affecting him.
All applied stings dry out at the end of your following
round if no target has been hit.
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Mage
Bein' a mage means knowin' power can flow in more than
one direction.
*— Ganvar Singebeard*
Clad in the silver robes that denote her station, a blood elf
closes her eyes to shut out the distractions of the battlefield
and begins her quiet chant. Fingers weaving in front of her,
she completes her spell and launches a tiny bead of fire
toward the enemy ranks, where it erupts into a confla-
gration that engulfs the soldiers.
Long hair whipped by a conjured wind, a human spreads
his arms wide and throws his head back. Lifting him
momentarily off the ground, a wave of magic surges up in
him, through him, and out from him in a mighty blast of
lightning.
Golden eyes flashing, a draenei stretches out her hand
and unleashes the dragonfire that burns in her veins. As an
inferno rages around her foes, fiery wings spread from her
back and she takes to the air.
Mages are supreme magic-users, defined and united as a
class by the spells they cast. Drawing on the leylines of
magic that permeates Azeroth, mages cast spells of
explosive fire, arcing lightning, and subtle deception.
Their magic can conjure monsters from other planes of
existence, or glimpses the future.
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Their mightiest spells change one substance into another,
call meteors down from the sky, or open portals across
continents.
Masters of Time and Space
Students gifted with a keen intellect and unwavering
discipline may walk the path of the mage. The arcane
magic available to magi is both great and dangerous, and
thus is revealed only to the most devoted practitioners. To
avoid interference with their spellcasting, magi wear only
cloth armor, but arcane shields and enchantments give
them additional protection. To keep enemies at bay, magi
can summon bursts of fire to incinerate distant targets and
cause entire areas to erupt, setting groups of foes ablaze.
Masters of ice can command blizzards that tear into flesh
and limit movement. Should enemies manage to survive
this assault, the mage can shrink them into harmless sheep
in the blink of an eye.
Powerful magi can even generate enhancements and
portals, assisting allies by sharpening their minds and
transporting them instantly across the world.
Scholars of the Arcane
Wild and enigmatic, varied in form and function, the power
of magic draws students who seek to master its mysteries.
Some aspire to become like the titans, shaping reality itself.
Though the casting of a typical spell requires merely the
utterance of a few strange words, fleeting gestures, and
sometimes a pinch or clump of exotic materials, these
surface components barely hint at the expertise attained
after years of apprenticeship and countless hours of study.
Mages live and die by their spells. Everything else is
secondary. They learn new spells as they experiment and
grow in experience. They can also learn them from other
mages, from ancient tomes or inscriptions, and from
ancient creatures that are steeped in magic.
The Mage
Proficiency Magi Cantrips
Level Bonus Points Features Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
1st +2 — Spellcasting 3 2 — — — — — — — —
2nd +2 2 Magi Specialization, Font of Magic 3 3 — — — — — — — —
3rd +2 3 Metamagic 3 4 2 — — — — — — —
4th +2 4 Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 — — — — — — —
5th +3 5 — 4 4 3 2 — — — — — —
6th +3 6 Magi Specialization Feature 4 4 3 3 — — — — — —
7th +3 7 — 4 4 3 3 1 — — — — —
8th +3 8 Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 3 2 — — — — —
9th +4 9 Metamagic 4 4 3 3 3 1 — — — —
10th +4 10 Magi Specialization Feature 4 4 3 3 3 2 — — — —
11th +4 11 — 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 — — —
12th +4 12 Ability Score Improvement 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 — — —
13th +5 13 — 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 — —
14th +5 14 Magi Specialization Feature 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 — —
15th +5 15 — 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 —
16th +5 16 Ability Score Improvement 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 —
17th +6 17 Metamagic 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
18th +6 18 — 5 4 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1
19th +6 19 Ability Score Improvement 5 4 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1
20th +6 20 Magi Specialization Mastery 5 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1

The Lure of Knowledge Quick Build

Mages' lives are seldom mundane. The closest a mage is
likely to come to an ordinary life is working as a sage or
lecturer in a library or university, teaching others the
secrets of the multiverse. But the lure of knowledge and
power calls even the most unadventurous mages out of the
safety of their libraries and laboratories and into crumbling
ruins and lost cities. Most mages believe that their
counterparts in ancient civilizations knew secrets of magic
that have been lost to the ages, and discovering those
secrets could unlock the path to a power greater than any
magic available in the present age.
Creating a Mage
Creating a mage character demands a backstory
dominated by at least one extraordinary event. How did
your character first come into contact with magic? How did
you discover you had an aptitude for it? Do you have a
natural talent, or did you simply study hard and practice
incessantly? Did you encounter a magical creature or an
ancient tome that taught you the basics of magic?
What drew you forth from your life of study? Did your
first taste of magical knowledge leave you hungry for more?
Have you received word of a secret repository of knowledge
not yet plundered by any other mages? Perhaps you're
simply eager to put your newfound magical skills to the test
in the face of danger.
You can make a mage quickly by following these
suggestions. First, lntelligence should be your highest
ability score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity.
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 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 + your Constitution
modifier per mage level after 1st
Proficiencies
Armor: None
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, lnsight,
lnvestigation, Medicine, and Religion
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
equipment granted by your background:
(a) quarterstaff or (b) a dagger
(a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
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 (a) a scholar's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
A spellbook
Spellcasting
As a student of arcane magic, you have a spellbook
containing spells that show the first glimmerings of your
true power. See chapter 10 of Player's Handbook for the
general rules of spelicasting and chapter 6 of this book for
the mage spell list.
Cantrips
At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from
the mage spell list. You learn additional mage cantrips of
your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips
Known column of the Mage table.
Spellbook
At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level
mage spells of your choice. A spellbook doesn't contain
cantrips.
Preparing and 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 slot of the spell's level or higher.
You regain expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
You prepare the list of mage spells that are available for
you to cast. To do so, choose a number of mage spells from
your spellbook equal to your Intelligence modifier + your
mage level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a
level for which you have spell slots.
For example. if you're a 3rd-level mage, you have four 1st-
level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of
16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st
or 2nd level, in any combination, chosen from your
spellbook. If you prepare the 1st-level spell magic missile,
you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting
the spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared.
You can change your list of prepared spells when you
finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of mage spells
requires time spent studying your spellbook and memori-
zing the incantations and gestures you must make to cast
the spell: 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.
Spellcasting Ability
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your mage spells,
since you learn your spells through dedicated study and
memorization. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell
refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your
Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for
a mage spell you cast and when making an attack roll.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Intelligence modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your
Intelligence modifier
Ritual Casting
You can cast a mage spell as a ritual if that spell has the
ritual tag and you have the spell in your spellbook. You
don't need to have the spell prepared.
Spellcasting Focus
You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your
mage spells.
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Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher
Each time you gain a mage level, you add two mage spells
of your choice to your spellbook. Each of these spells must
be of a level for which you have spell slots.
Your Spellbook
The spells that you add to your spellbook as you
gain levels reflect the arcane research you
conduct on your own, as well as intellectual
breakthroughs you have had about the nature of
the multiverse. You might find other spells
during your adventures. You could discover a
spell recorded on a scroll in an evil sorcerer's
chest, for example, or in a dusty tome in an
ancient library.
Copying a Spell into the Book. When you find a
mage spell of 1st level or higher, you can add it
to your spellbook if it is of a level for which you
can prepare and if you can spare the time to
decipher and copy it.
Copying a spell into your spellbook involves
reproducing the basic form of the spell, then
deciphering the unique system of notation used
by the mage who wrote it. You must practice the
spell until you understand the sounds or gestures
required, then transcribe it into your spellbook
using your own notation.
For each level of the spell, the process takes 2
hours and costs 50 gp. The cost represents
material components you expend as you
experiment with the spell to master it, as well as
the fine inks you need to record it. Once you
have spent this time and money, you can prepare
the spell just like your other spells.
Replacing the Book. You can copy a spell from
your own spellbook into another book—for
example, if you want to make a backup copy of
your spellbook. This is just like copying a new
spell into your spellbook, but faster and easier,
since you understand your own notation and
already know how to cast the spell. You need
spend only 1 hour and 10 gp for each level of
the copied spell.
If you lose your spellbook, you can use the
same procedure to transcribe the spells that you
have prepared into a new spellbook. Filling out
the remainder of your spellbook requires you to
find new spells to do so, as normal. Many mages
keep backup spellbooks in a safe place.
The Book's Appearance. Your spellbook is a
unique compilation of spells, with its own
decorative flourishes and margin notes. It might
be a plain, functional leather volume that you
received as a gift, a finely bound gilt-edged tome
you found in an ancient library, or even a loose
collection of notes scrounged together after you
lost your previous spellbook in a mishap.
Magi Specialization
When you reach 2nd level, you choose a magi specializa-
tion, shaping your practice of magic through one of three
areas: Arcane Magi, Fire Magi, or Frost Magi, all detailed at
the end of the class description.
Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at
6th, 10th, 14th, and mastery over it at 20th level.
Font of Magic
At 2nd level, you tap into the leylines running below all of
Azeroth, giving you a reserve of magic within yourself. This
reserve is represented by magi points, which allow you to
create a variety of magical effects.
Magi Points
You have 2 magi points, and you gain more as you reach
higher levels, as shown in the Magi Points column of the
Mage table. You can never have more magi points than
shown on the table for your level. You regain all spent magi
points when you finish a long rest.
Flexible Casting
You can use your magi points to gain additional spell slots,
or sacrifice spell slots to gain additional magi points. You
learn new ways to use your magi points as you gain levels.
Creating Spell Slots. You can transform unexpended
magi points into one spell slot as a bonus action on your
turn. The Creating Spell Slots table shows the cost of
creating a spell slot of a given level. You can't create spell
slots higher in level than 5th. The created spell slots vanish
at the end of a long rest.
Creating Spell Slots
Spell Slot Level Magi Point Cost
1st 2 Ability Score Improvement
2nd 3 When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and
3rd 5 by 2. or you can increase two ability scores of your choice
4th 6 by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20
5th 7
Converting a Spell Slot to Magi Points. As a bonus
action on your turn, you can expend one spell slot and gain
a number of magi points equal to the slot's level.
Metamagic
At 3rd level, you gain the ability to twist your spells to suit
your needs. You gain two of the following Metamagics of
your choice. You gain another one at 9th and 17th level.
You can use only one Metamagic option on a spell when
you cast it, unless otherwise noted.
Careful Spell
When you cast a spell that forces other creatures to make a
saving throw, you can protect some of those creatures from
the spell's full force. To do so, you spend 1 magi point and
choose a number of those creatures up to your Intelligence
modifier (minimum of one creature). A chosen creature
automatically succeeds on its saving throw.
Distant Spell
When you cast a spell that has a range of 5 feet or greater.
you can spend 1 magi point to double the range of the spell.
When you cast a spell that has a range of touch, you can
spend 1 magi point to make the range of the spell 30 feet.
Empowered Spell
When you roll damage for a spell, you can spend 1 magi
point to reroll a number of the damage dice up to your
Intelligence modifier (minimum of one). You must use the
new rolls.
You can use Empowered Spell even if you have used a
different Metamagic option during the casting of the spell.
Extended Spell
When you cast a spell that has a duration of 1 minute or
longer, you can spend 1 magi point to double its duration,
to a maximum duration of 24 hours.
Heightened Spell
When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a
saving throw to resist its effects, you can spend 3 magi
points to give one target of the spell disadvantage on its
first saving throw made against the spell.
Quickened Spell
When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action,
you can spend 2 magi points to change the casting time to
1 bonus action for this casting.
Subtle Spell
When you cast a spell, you can spend 1 magi point to cast it
without any somatic or verbal components.
Twinned Spell
When you cast a spell that can only target one creature and
doesn't have a range of self, you can spend a number of
magi points equal to the spell's level to target a second
creature in range with the same spell (1 magi point if the
spell is a cantrip).
19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice
using this feature.
Magi Specializations
Magi are spellcasters who favor magics involving the
cardinal elements of the universe. Students gifted with a
keen intellect and unwavering discipline may walk the path
of the mage. The magic available to mages is both great
and dangerous, and thus is revealed only to the most
devoted practitioners.
Arcane Magi
Mages of the arcane are diviners of secrets, balancing the
webb and flow of incredible mystic energies. These practi-
tioners push their magical knowledge to its very limits.
Those who master this craft are capable of releasing a
barrage of unrelenting power upon their enemies.
Arcanic Savant
Beginning when you select this specialization at 2nd level,
the gold and time you must spend to copy an abjuration
spell into your spellbook is halved.
Arcane Ward
Starting at 2nd level, you can weave magic around yourself
for protection. When you cast an arcane spell of 1st level or
higher, you can simultaneously use a strand of the spell’s
magic to create a magical ward on yourself that lasts until
you finish a long rest. The ward has hit points equal to
twice your mage level + your Intelligence modifier.
Whenever you take damage, the ward takes the damage
instead. If this damage reduces the ward to 0 hit points, you
take any remaining damage.
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 While the ward has 0 hit points, it can’t absorb damage. but
its magic remains. Whenever you cast an arcane spell of
1st level or higher, the ward regains a number of hit points
equal to twice the level of the spell.
Once you create the ward, you can’t create it again until
you finish a long rest.
Power Surge
Starting at 6th level, you can store magical energy within
yourself to later empower your damaging spells. In its
stored form, this energy is called a power surge.
You can store a maximum number of power surges equal
to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of one). Whenever
you finish a long rest, your number of power surges resets
to one. Whenever you successfully end a spell with dispel
magic or counterspell, you gain one power surge, as you
steal magic from the spell you foiled. If you end a short rest
with no power surges, you gain one power surge.
Once per turn when you deal damage to a creature or
object with a mage spell, you can spend one power surge to
deal extra force damage to that target. The extra damage
equals half your mage level.
Durable Magic
Beginning at 10th level, the magic you channel helps ward
off harm. While you maintain concentration on a spell, you
have a +2 bonus to AC and all saving throws.
Overchannel
Starting at 14th level, when you cast a mage spell of 5th
level or lower (excluding cantrips) that deals damage, you
can deal maximum damage with that spell.
The first time you do so, you suffer no adverse effect. If
you use this feature again before you finish a long rest, you
take 2d12 force damage for each level of the spell,
immediately after you cast it. Each time you use this
feature again before finishing a long rest, the force damage
per spell level increases by 1d12. This damage ignores
resistance and immunity.
Mastery: Knowledge of Magi
At 20th level, your knowledge of magic allows you to
duplicate almost any spell. As a bonus action, you can call
to mind the ability to cast one spell of your choice from any
class's spell list. The spell must be of a level for which you
have spell slots, you mustn't have it prepared, and you
follow the normal rules for casting it, including expending a
spell slot. If the spell isn't a mage spell, it counts as a mage
spell when you cast it. The ability to cast the spell vanishes
from your mind when you cast it or when your turn ends.
You can use this feature twice, regaining its uses when
you finish a long rest.
Fire Magi
While any worthy mage is an unparalleled expert in the use
of magic and heavily dedicated to their craft, those who
master the forces of fire tend to be a little more audacious
than their peers. These mages take pride, even pleasure in
igniting their enemies in wild bursts of flame.
Fire Savant
Beginning when you select this specialization at 2nd level,
the gold and time you must spend to copy an evocation
spell into your spellbook is halved.
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Combustion
Starting at 2nd level, you can unleash the flames that
blazes within you.
As a bonus action, you magically wreathe yourself in
swirling fire, as your eyes glow like hot coals.
For 1 minute, you gain the following benefits:
You shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light
for an additional 30 feet.
Any creature takes fire damage equal to your
Intelligence modifier if it hits you with a melee attack
from within 5 feet of you or if it touches you.
Whenever you roll fire damage on your turn, the roll
gains a bonus to equal to your Intelligence modifier.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
finish a long rest.
Blazing Soul
Starting at 6th level, the fiery energy within you grows
restless and vengeful. In the face of defeat, it surges
outward to preserve you in a fiery roar.
If you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can use your
reaction to draw on the sparks within you. You are instead
reduced to 1 hit point, and each creature within 10 feet of
you takes fire damage equal to half your mage level + your
Intelligence modifier.
If you use this feature while under the effects of your
Combustion, this feature instead deals fire damage equal to
your mage level + double your Intelligence modifier, and
your Mantle of Flame immediately ends.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you
finish a long rest.
Empowered Evocation
Beginning at 10th level, you can add your Intelligence
modifier to the damage roll of any mage evocation spell you
cast.
Bombardment
Starting at 14th level, the harmful energy of your spells
intensifies. When you roll damage for a spell and roll the
highest number possible on one of the dice, you may reroll
the lowest dice, and use either of the two numbers for it.
Mastery: Alexstrasza's Fury
At 20th level, you've mastered the spark of fire that dances
within you. While under the effect of your Combustion
feature, you gain additional benefits:
You have a flying speed of 40 feet and can hover.
You have resistance to all damage.
If you use your Blazing Soul, that feature deals an extra
20 fire damage to each creature.
Frost Magi
Frost mages stand apart from their colleagues, in that their
chosen school of magic focuses on maintaining supreme
control over the capabilities of their enemies. Mages who
command frost perform chilling displays on the battlefield,
rendering foes immobile as they bombard them with ice.
Frost Savant
Beginning when you select this specialization at 2nd level,
the gold and time you must spend to copy a conjuration
spell into your spellbook is halved.
Ring of Frost
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to create a
ring of frost. Choose a point within 60 feet of you, spread-
ing ice in a 15-feet radius around it. The area is considered
difficult natural terrain. The Ring of Frost does not require
concentration to maintain, and lasts for up to a minute.
As a bonus action, you can end the ring of frost pre-
maturely, requiring everyone within it to make a Dexterity
saving throw, taking 4 + your mage level cold damage on a
failed save, and half on a success, as the ring explodes.
Your Ring of Frost improves as you reach higher levels.
Upon reaching 6th level, you are able to exclude a number
of creatures equal to your intelligence modifier + 1 from
your rings difficult terrain, removing the ice directly
beneath their feet whilst inside it.
At 10th level, your control and empowerment of the ring
has made the area extremely cold, any creature that ends
their turn within it takes 1d8 cold damage. Targets
excluded from your rings difficult terrain are unaffected by
its extreme cold.
Frost Armor
At 6th level, you can use your reaction to instantaneously
make a sheet of ice, blocking an attack you can see. You
gain an AC bonus equal to half your Intelligence modifier
(rounded up). The ice sheet is broken by the incoming
attack, ending your defensive bonus.
Spikes of Ice
At 10th level, you can use an action to cause spikes of ice to
erupt from anywhere within your ring of frost. Make a
ranged spell attack against a target. On a hit, the target is
impaled by a spike of ice, taking 1d8 piercing damage, and
2d10 cold damage. An impaled creatures is considered
restrained, and can use their action to attempt to remove
the spike, making a Strength Check against your spell DC.
Upon reaching 20th level, the damage of Spikes of Ice
increases to 2d10 piercing damage, and 3d12 cold damage.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Intelligence modifier, regaining expended uses when you
finish a long rest.
Frigid Wind
Upon reaching 14th level, you can use an action to create a
whirl of icy winds. Choose a point within 120 feet of you,
requiring all creatures in a 10-foot radius to make a Consti-
tution saving throw, taking 5d10 cold damage and becom-
ing restrained on a failed save, on a successful save the
target takes half damage, and is unaffected by the restrain.
A restrained creature makes a Strength check against
your Spell save DC, breaking free of the ice on a success.
Once you have used this feature, you cannot use it again
until the end of a long rest.
Mastery: Shatter
At 20th level, whenever you hit a creature with a spell that
deals cold damage, and is affected by either your ring of
frost, or lingering frost, you may sacrifice up to eight hit die.
For each hit die spent this way the spell deals an additional
2d6 + your Intelligence modifier cold damage.
If a creature dies from a spell you apply this effect to it is
turned to solid ice, and may not be revived through any
means other than true resurrection or a wish spell.

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 Monk
To ask why we fight... is to ask why the leaves fall. It is in
their nature. Perhaps, there is a better question. Why do
we fight? To protect Home, and Family... To preserve
Balance, and bring Harmony.
— Chen Stormstout
Her fists a blur as they deflect an incoming hail of
arrows, a tauren springs over a barricade and throws
herself into the massed ranks of gnolls on the other side.
She whirls among them, knocking their blows aside and
sending them reeling, until at last she stands alone.
Taking a deep breath, a human covered in tattoos settles
into a battle stance. As the first charging arcs reach him, he
exhales and a blast of fire roars from his mouth, engulfing
his foes.
Moving with the silence of the night, a black-clad dwarf
steps into a shadow beneath an arch and emerges from
another inky shadow on a balcony a stone's throw away.
She slides her blade free of its cloth wrapped scabbard and
peers through the open window at the tyrant prince, so
vulnerable in the grip of sleep.
Whatever their discipline, monks are united in their
ability to magically harness the energy that flows in their
bodies. Whether channeled as a striking display of combat
prowess or a subtler focus of defensive ability and speed,
this energy infuses all that a monk does.
Self Taught
When the pandaren were subjugated by the mogu
centuries ago, it was the monks that brought hope to a
seemingly dim future. Restricted from using weapons by
their slave masters, these pandaren instead focused on
harnessing their chi and learning weaponless combat.
When the opportunity for revolution struck, they were well-
trained to throw off the yoke of oppression. Masters of
bare-handed combat, monks never rely solely on the need
to have a weapon in their hands to defend against their
enemies.
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Although most widely known to the outside world for their
fearsome jabs and flying kicks, they refuse to limit
themselves to a single method of combat. Many monks
prefer instead to “soak it up” and seem to revel in the
intoxicating effect of absorbing blow after blow while their
companions press the attack. Other monks specialize in
calling upon the restorative power of the mists to balance
the good and bad energy within people, returning them to
good health and fortune.
Monks bring a unique martial arts style to any fight, and
harness an exotic form of magical energy that’s unfamiliar
to those who practice other arcane arts. They seek spiritual
balance in life and in combat, and as dangerous as Monks
can be on the battlefield, they’re rarely looking to pick a
fight without just cause. They view the world through a
different lens, finding power through serenity and inner
peace—then expressing it through artful combat techniques
and powers that mend life. Perhaps most surprisingly,
Monks are also adept at producing powerful brews they
consume to aid them in battle.
The Flow of Chi
Monks make careful study of a magical energy that most
monastic traditions call chi. This energy is an element of
the magic that suffuses the multiverse—specifically, the
element that flows through living bodies. Monks harness
this power within themselves to create magical effects and
exceed their bodies' physical capabilities, and some of their
special attacks can hinder the flow of chi in their opponent.
The Monk
Proficiency Martial Chi Unarmored
Level Bonus Arts Points Movement Features
1st +2 1d4 — — Unarmored Defense, Martial Arts
2nd +2 1d4 2 +5 ft. Chi, Unarmored Movement
3rd +2 1d4 3 +5 ft. Monastic Tradition
4th +2 1d4 4 +5 ft. Ability Score Improvement
5th +3 1d6 5 +5 ft. Extra Attack, Stunning Palm
6th +3 1d6 6 +10 ft. Monastic Tradition Improvement, Chi-Empowered Strikes
7th +3 1d6 7 +10 ft. Evasion, Detox
8th +3 1d6 8 +10 ft. Ability Score Improvement
9th +4 1d6 9 +10 ft. —
10th +4 1d6 10 +15 ft. —
11th +4 1d8 11 +15 ft. Monastic Tradition Improvement
12th +4 1d8 12 +15 ft. Ability Score Improvement
13th +5 1d8 13 +15 ft. —
14th +5 1d8 14 +20 ft. Touch of Karma
15th +5 1d8 15 +20 ft. Timeless Body
16th +5 1d8 16 +20 ft. Ability Score Improvement
17th +6 1d10 17 +20 ft. Monastic Tradition Improvement
18th +6 1d10 18 +25 ft. Touch of Death
19th +6 1d10 19 +25 ft. Ability Score Improvement
20th +6 1d10 20 +25 ft. Inner Self

Using this energy, monks channel uncanny speed and First, make Dexterity your highest ability score, followed
strength into their unarmed strikes. As they gain by Wisdom. (Mistweaving monks make their Wisdom
experience, their martial training and their mastery of chi higher than Dexterity).
gives them more power over their bodies and the bodies of
their foes. Class Features
Creating a Monk As a monk, you gain the following class features.
As you make your monk character, think about your Hit Points
connection to the monastery where you learned your skills Hit Dice: 1d8 per monk level
and spent your formative years. Were you an orphan or a Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
child left on the monastery's threshold? Did your parents Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 + your Constitution
promise you to the monastery in gratitude for a service modifier per monk level after 1st
performed by the monks? Did you enter this secluded life to
hide from a crime you committed? Or did you choose the Proficiencies
monastic life for yourself? Armor: Light armor
Consider why you left. Did the head of your monastery Weapons: Simple weapons, shortswords
choose you for a particularly important mission beyond the Tools: Choose one type of artisan's tools or one musical
cloister? Perhaps you were cast out because of some instrument
violation of the community's rules. Did you dread leaving,
or were you happy to go? Is there something you hope to Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
accomplish outside the monastery? Arc you eager to return Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, Athletics, History,
to your home? As a result of the structured life of a Insight, Religion, and Stealth
monastic community and the discipline required to harness Equipment
chi, monks are almost always lawful in alignment. You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
Quick Build
equipment granted by your background:
You can make a monk quickly by following these (a) a shortsword or (b) any simple weapon
suggestions. (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
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 Unarmored Defense
Beginning at 1st level, while you are wearing no armor and
not wielding a shield, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity
modifier + your Wisdom modifier.
Martial Arts
At 1st level, your practice of martial arts gives you mastery
of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk
weapons, which are shortswords and any simple melee
weapons that don't have the two-handed or heavy property.
You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or
wielding only monk weapons and you aren't wearing mail
or plate armor or wielding a shield:
You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack
and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and weapons.
You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of your
unarmed strike or monk weapon. This die changes as
you gain monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts
column of the Monk table.
When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike
or a monk weapon on your turn, you can make one
unarmed strike as a bonus action. For example, if you
take the Attack action and attack with a quarterstaff, you
can also make an unarmed strike as a bonus action.
Chi
Starting at 2nd level, your training allows you to harness
the mystic energy of chi. Your access to this energy is
represented by a number of chi points. Your monk level
determines the number of points you have, as shown in the
Chi Points column of the Monk table.
You can spend these points to fuel various chi features.
You start knowing four such features: Flurry of Blows,
Patient Defense, Step of the Wind, and Surging Mist. You
learn more chi features as you gain levels in this class.
When you spend a chi point, it is unavailable until you
finish a short or long rest, at the end of which you draw all
of your expended chi back into yourself. You must spend 30
minutes of the rest meditating to regain your chi points.
Some of your chi features require your target to make a
saving throw to resist the feature's effects. The saving
throw DC is calculated as follows:
Chi save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom
modifier
Fists of Fury
Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn,
you can spend 1 chi point to make two unarmed strikes as
a bonus action.
Elusive Dance
You can spend 1 chi point to take the Dodge action as a
bonus action on your turn.
Step of the Wind
You can spend 1 chi point to take the Disengage or Dash
action as a bonus action on your turn, and your jump
distance is doubled for the turn.
Surging Mist
You can spend 1 chi point to heal a nearby ally as a bonus
action, choose an ally within 30 feet of you, and heal them
for two martial arts dies + your Wisdom modifier.
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Unarmored Movement
Starting at 2nd level, your speed increases by 5 feet while
you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield. This bonus
increases when you reach certain monk levels, as shown in
the Monk table.
Monastic Tradition
When you reach 3rd level, you commit yourself to a
monastic tradition: the Way of the Brewmaster, the Way of
the Mistweaver, or the Way of the Windwalker, all detailed
at the end of the class description. Your tradition grants you
features at 3rd level and again at 6th. 11th, and 17th level.
Ability Score Improvement
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.
Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of
once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Stunning Palm
Starting at 5th level, you can interfere with the flow of chi
in an opponent's body. When you hit another creature with
a melee weapon attack, you can spend 1 chi point to
attempt a stunning strike. The target must succeed on a
Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of
your next turn.
Chi-Empowered Strikes
Starting at 6th level, your unarmed strikes count as magical
for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to
nonmagical attacks and damage.
Evasion
At 7th level, your instinctive agility lets you dodge out of the
way of certain area effects, such as a blue dragon's frost
breath or a ireballspell. When you are subjected to an effect
that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take
only half damage, you instead take no damage if you
succeed on the saving throw, and half damage if you fail.
Detox
Starting at 7th level, you can use your action to end one
effect on yourself that is causing you to be charmed, diseas-
ed, frightened, or poisoned.
Touch of Karma
At 14th level, when hit by a melee attack, you can use your
reaction and spend 1 chi point to make a melee attack
against the target, if the attack hits the target is required to
make a Constitution saving throw.
On a failed saving throw, all damage done to you is
transferred back to the attacker as psychic damage. On a
success, half of the damage dealt is returned to the
attacker, rest is dealt to you as force damage for the
purpose of overcoming resistances.
Once you have used this feature, you can't use it again
until you have finished a long rest.
Timeless Body
At 15th level, your chi sustains you so that you suffer none
of the frailty of old age, and you can't he aged magically.
You can still die of old age, however. In addition, you no
longer need food or water.
Touch of Death
Starting at 18th level, when you hit with an unarmed strike,
you can spend 3 chi points to transfer a deadly stream of
chi into their body. The target must make a Constitution
saving throw. Taking 7d8 + 30 psychic damage on a failed
save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Once you have used this feature, you can't use it again
until you have finished a long rest.
Inner Self
At 20th level, when you roll for initiative and have no chi
points remaining, you regain 4 chi points.
Monastic Traditions
Three traditions of monastic pursuit were common in the
monasteries scattered across Pandaria. Most monasteries
practice one tradition exclusively, sending out monks to
teach their ways throughout Azeroth. All three traditions
rely on the same basic techniques, diverging as the student
grows more adept.
Way of the Brewmaster
Brewmasters are often quirky, though dangerous when
underestimated. They may seem to struggle with balance
as they chug their concoctions in the middle of a fight.
When an opponent actually manages to land an attack, it’s
often unclear how much the brewmaster feels it.
Improved Chi Flow
When you choose this monastery at 3rd level, you gain the
following Chi based abilities:
Breath of Fire. You take a deep breath, and exhale a
cone of fire. As an action, you can spend 1 chi point to
exhale a 15-ft cone in front of you, each creature in the area
is required to make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d6
fire damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a
successful one. The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level,
4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 17th level.
When you gain your extra attack at 5th level, breath of
fire takes up one of your attacks.
Redirect Attack. When a creature missed you with a
melee attack roll, you can spend 1 chi point as a reaction to
cause that attack to hit one creature of your choice, other
than the attacker, that you can see within 5 feet of you.
Mystical Vitality
Starting at 6th level, you can manifest the flow of chi within
your body into a protective barrier around you. As an
action, you can spend 2 chi points to give yourself
temporary hit points equal to twice times your monk level +
your Constitution modifier.
This barrier continues to protect you until its temporary
hit points are expended, or until you finish a short rest.
Ironskin Brew
Beginning at 11th level, whenever you are hit by a melee
attack, you can spend 1 chi point and use your reaction to
reduce the damage by your Monk level + 1d10.
If you reduce the damage to 0, you may make an
unarmed attack against the attacker if you are within range.
High Tolerance
Upon reaching 17th level, you've become accustomed to the
feel of physical pain, and through your chi your body has
evolved a natural resistance. You gain resistance against
bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
Additionally, when dealt magical damage, you can spend
1 chi point to give yourself resistance against that attack.
Way of the Mistweaver
Mistweavers are unique among those who heal, they
channel mysterious energy. Those who weave the mists
wield the power of life’s essence, using a mixture of preven-
tative and restorative spells to mend their allies’ wounds.
Gift of Ascension
When you choose this monastery at 3rd level, you are as
calm as a still ocean in even the most chaotic of situations.
As an action, you can cast sanctuary on yourself,
requiring no material components, and lasting for up to 8
hours. A creature that succeeds on the saving throw is
immune to this effect for an hour.
Once you've cast the spell this way, you cannot do so
again for 1 minute.
Soothing Mist
You are able to channel your chi into a mystical beam.
Starting at 3rd level, you have a pool of magical healing
power that replenishes when you finish a long rest. Your
pool of soothing mists is equal to your Monk level x 10.
As an action, you can manifest a beam of chi towards a
creature within 30 feet of you, and draw power from your
pool of healing to restore a number of hit points to that
creature, up to twice your monk level at once.
Instead of healing the creature, you can expend 5 hit
points from your pool of healing to cure the target of one
disease or neutralize one poison affecting it. You can cure
multiple diseases and neutralize multiple poisons with a
single use of Soothing Mist, expending hit points
separately for each one effect.
Mistwalk
At 6th level, you are able to transfer through mist to aid an
ally. As a bonus action, you can spend 1 chi point to engulf
yourself in mist and teleport up to 30 feet adjacent to an
ally square. As part of the same bonus action, you can use
your soothing mist on the target teleported too.
Instead of aiding an ally, you can spend 2 chi points and
teleport to an unoccupied space within 60 feet of you that
you can see.
Jade Serpent Statue
Upon reaching 11th level, you are able to manifest your chi
into a statue of Yu'lon the jade serpent. As an action, you
can spend 3 chi points, and choose an empty square within
30 feet of you to create the statue, the statue is 3-ft wide,
and 5-ft tall. The statue has an AC of 10, and hit points
equal to your half your maximum hit points.
Whenever you use soothing mist, the jade statue mimics
its effect, choose a secondary target within 60 feet of the
statue, the target is healed for half the amount your sooth-
ing mist target is healed for. The statue cannot target the
same creature as you are soothing.
The statue requires concentration, and lasts for up to 1
minute, vanishing prematurely if reduced to 0 hit points.
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 Life Cocoon
At 17th level, you are able to save an ally from the brink of
defeat, immediately returning them to the fray.
As a reaction upon an ally dying, you can spend 5 chi
points, to envelope the target in a cocoon of chi, immediate-
ly healing them for four times your monk level and return-
ing them to life. If you are unable, or unwilling to spend 5
chi points to save your ally, you can instead use Life Co-
coon for free, immediately taking 3 levels of exhaustion as
you strain the chi in your body to manifest the cocoon.
Once you have used this feature, either through chi or
physical exhaustion, you can't use it again until you have
finished a long rest.
Way of the Windwalker
Among monks, none have mastered the martial arts as the
windwalkers have, and few across Azeroth can fight with
their grace. Windwalkers possess unparalleled physical
finesse, and are capable of overwhelming their enemies
with a dizzying flurry of punches and kicks.
Winds Technique
Starting at 3rd level, you can manipulate your enemy's chi
when you harness your own. Whenever you hit a creature
with one of the attacks granted by your Fists of Fury, you
can impose one of the following effects on that target:
It must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be
knocked prone.
It must make a Strength saving throw, if it fails, you
push it up to 15 feet away from you.
It can't take reactions until the end of your next turn.
Windwalking
At 6th level, you hone the skills of agility and nimbleness.
You can use your reaction when you fall to reduce any
falling damage you take by an amount equal to five times
your monk level. Additionally, climbing no longer costs
additional movement, and getting up from prone only takes
5 feet of movement.
Spear Hand Strike
Starting at 11th level, you are able to jab a target, attemp-
ting to prevent their flow of magical energies. When you hit
a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 2 chi
points to prevent their flow of magical energy. The target
must make a Wisdom saving throw. If it fails, the target is
unable to cast spells until the end of your next turn.
Storm, Earth, and Fire
At 17th level, you are able to split yourself into 3 chi driven
copies of you, your two copies spawning in an unoccupied
space within 15 feet of you. You and your copies speed is
doubled as long as Storm, Earth, and Fire is active.
You mentally communicate commands to your copies,
telling them where to go or which creature to stalk. Your
copies imitate your melee weapon attacks, but does not use
any of your chi empowered features. Whenever you roll for
an attack or damage roll, use the one roll against each
targets AC, dealing the damage rolled on a hit.
Storm, Earth, and Fire expends 1 chi point at the end of
each of your rounds, if you have no chi available, you can't
use this feature, and if you can't pay the chi cost at the end
of your round, the copies vanish, you can also choose to end
Storm, Earth, and Fire as a free action, if you do, you still
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Paladin
Vengeance cannot be a part of what we must do. If we
allow our passions to turn to bloodlust, then we will
become as vile as the orcs.
— Uther the Lightbringer
Clad in plate armor that gleams in the sunlight despite
the dust and grime of long travel, a human lays down her
sword and shield and places her hands on a mortally
wounded man. Divine radiance shines from her hands, the
man's wounds knit closed, and his eyes open wide with
amazement.
A dwarf crouches behind an outcrop, his black cloak
making him nearly invisible in the night, and watches an
orc war band celebrating its recent victory. Silently, he
stalks into their midst and whispers an oath, and two orcs
are dead before they even realize he is there.
Silver hair shining in a shaft of light that seems to
illuminate only him, a blood elf laughs with exultation. His
spear flashes like his eyes as he jabs again and again at a
twisted giant, until at last his light overcomes its hideous
darkness.
Whatever their origin and their mission, paladins are
united by the light to stand against the forces of evil. It is a
source of power that turns a devout warrior into a blessed
champion.
Paladins Call
This is the call of the paladin: to protect the weak, to bring
justice to the unjust, and to vanquish evil from the darkest
corners of the world. These holy warriors are equipped
with plate armor so they can confront the toughest of foes,
and the blessing of the Light allows them to heal wounds
and, in some cases, even restore life to the dead. Ready to
serve, paladins can defend their allies with sword and
shield, or they can wield massive two-handed weapons
against their enemies. The Light grants paladins additional
power against the undead and demons, ensuring that these
profane beings corrupt the world no longer.
Paladins are not only zealots, but also guardians of the
righteous, and they bestow blessings on those the Light
would shine upon. The Light radiates from paladins, and
worthy allies who stand near them are emboldened by its
power.
Beyond the Mundane Life
Almost by definition, the life of a paladin is an adventuring
life. Unless a lasting injury has taken him or her away from
adventuring for a time, every paladin lives on the front lines
of the cosmic struggle against evil. Fighters are rare
enough among the ranks of the militias and armies of the
world, but even fewer people can claim the true calling of a
paladin. When they do receive the call, these warriors turn
from their former occupations and take up arms to fight
evil. Sometimes their oaths lead them into the service of
the crown as leaders of elite groups of knights, but even
then their loyalty is first to the cause of righteousness, not
to crown and country.
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 The Paladin
Proficiency
Level Bonus Features 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
1st +2 Divine Sense, Lay on Hands — — — — —
2nd +2 Fighting Style, Spellcasting, Crusader Strike 2 — — — —
3rd +2 Sacred Oath, Aura of Devotion 3 — — — —
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 3 — — — —
5th +3 Extra Attack 4 2 — — —
6th +3 Aura of Retribution 4 2 — — —
7th +3 Sacred Oath Feature 4 3 — — —
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 4 3 — — —
9th +4 — 4 3 2 — —
10th +4 Aura of Crusade 4 3 2 — —
11th +4 Improved Crusader Strike 4 3 3 — —
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 4 3 3 — —
13th +5 — 4 3 3 1 —
14th +5 Cleansing Touch 4 3 3 1 —
15th +5 Sacred Oath Feature, Aura of Concentration 4 3 3 2 —
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 4 3 3 2 —
17th +6 — 4 3 3 3 1
18th +6 Aura Improvements 4 3 3 3 1
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 4 3 3 3 2
20th +6 Avenging Wrath, Sacred Oath Feature 4 3 3 3 2

Adventuring paladins take their work seriously. A delve
into an ancient ruin or dusty crypt can be a quest driven by
a higher purpose than the acquisition of treasure. Evil lurks
in dungeons and primeval forests, and even the smallest
victory against it can tilt the cosmic balance away from
oblivion.
Creating a Paladin
The most important aspect of a paladin character is the
nature of his or her holy quest. Although the class features
related to your oath don't appear until you reach 3rd level,
plan ahead for that choice by reading the oath descriptions
at the end of the class. Are you a devoted servant of good,
loyal to the light, justice and honor, a holy knight in shining
armor venturing forth to smite evil? Or are you a glorious
champion of the light, cherishing everything beautiful that
stands against the shadow?
How did you experience your call to serve as a paladin?
Did you hear a whisper from the light while you were at
prayer? Did another paladin sense the potential within you
and decide to train you as a squire? Or did some terrible
event drive you to your quests? Perhaps you stumbled into
a sacred grove or a hidden elven enclave and found yourself
called to protect all such refuges of goodness and beauty.
Or you might have known from your earliest memories that
the paladin's life was your calling.
As guardians against the forces of wickedness, paladins
are rarely of any evil alignment. Most of them walk the
paths of charity and justice.
Quick Build
You can make a paladin quickly by following these sugges-
tions. First, Strength should be your highest ability score,
followed by Charisma. (Holy paladins go for Constitution
instead of Strength)
Class Features
As a paladin, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d10 per paladin level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 + your Constitution
modifier per paladin level after 1st
Proficiencies
Armor: All armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Insight, Intimidation,
Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion

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Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
equipment granted by your background:
(a) a greatsword or (b) any martial weapon
(a) a priest's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
Chain mail, shield and a holy symbol
Divine Sense
The presence of strong evil registers on your senses like a
noxious odor, and powerful good rings like heavenly music
in your ears. As an action, you can open your awareness to
detect such forces. Until the end of your next turn, you
know the location of any celestial, fiend, or undead within
60 feet of you that is not behind total cover. You know the
type (celestial, fiend, or undead) of any being whose
presence you sense, but not its identity (the demon Illidan
Stormrage, for instance). Within the same radius, you also
detect the presence of any place or object that has been
consecrated or desecrated, as with the hallow spell.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 +
your Charisma modifier. When you finish a long rest, you
regain all expended uses.
Lay on Hands
Your blessed touch can heal wounds. You have a pool of
healing power that replenishes when you take a long rest.
With that pool, you can restore a total number of hit points
equal to your paladin level x 5,
As an action, you can touch a creature and draw power
from the pool to restore a number of hit points to that crea-
ture, up to the maximum amount remaining in your pool.
Alternatively, you can expend 5 hit points from your pool
of healing to cure the target of one disease or neutralize
one poison affecting it. You can cure multiple diseases and
neutralize multiple poisons with a single use of Lay on
Hands, expending hit points separately for each one.
This feature has no effect on undead and constructs.
Fighting Style
At 2nd level, you adopt a style of fighting as your specialty.
Choose one of the following options. You can't take a
Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get
to choose again.
Defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Dueling
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no
other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with
that weapon.
Great Weapon Fighting
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you
make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two
hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll.
The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile
property for you to gain this benefit.
Protection
When a creature you can see attacks a target other than
you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to
impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be
wielding a shield.
Spellcasting
By 2nd level, you have learned to draw on divine magic
through meditation and prayer to cast spells as a priest
does. See chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook for the
general rules of spelicasting and chapter 6 of this book for
the paladin spell list.
Preparing and Casting Spells
The Paladin table shows how many spell slots you have to
cast your spells. To cast one of your paladin spells of 1st
level or higher, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or
higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish
a long rest.
You prepare the list of paladin spells that are available for
you to cast, choosing from the paladin spell list. When you
do so, choose a number of paladin spells equal to your
Charisma modifier + half your paladin level, rounded down
(minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for
which you have spell slots.
For example, if you are a 5th-level paladin, you have four
1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Charisma of
14, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st
or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level
spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-
level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list
of prepared spells.
You can change your list of prepared spells when you
finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of paladin spells
requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1
minute per spell level for each spell on your list.
Spellcasting Ability
Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your paladin spells,
since their power derives from the strength of your
convictions. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers
to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your
Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a
paladin spell you cast and when making an attack roll with
one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Charisma modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your
Charisma modifier
Spellcasting Focus
You can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus for your
paladin spells.
Crusader Strike
Starting at 2nd level, when you hit a creature with a melee
weapon attack, you can expend one spell slot from any
class to deal radiant damage to the target, in addition to the
weapon's damage. The extra damage is 2d8 for a 1st-level
spell slot, plus 1d8 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a
maximum of 5d8. The damage increases by 1d8 if the
target is an undead or a fiend.
Sacred Oath
When you reach 3rd level, you swear the oath that binds
you as a paladin forever. Up to this time you have been in a
preparatory stage, committed to the path but not yet sworn
to it. Now you choose the Oath of Holiness, the Oath of
Protection, or the Oath of Retribution, all detailed at the
end of the class description.
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 Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at
7th, 15th, and 20th level. Those features include oath spells
and the Channel Divinity feature.
Oath Spells
Each oath has a list of associated spells. You gain access to
these spells at the levels specified in the oath description.
Once you gain access to an oath spell, you always have it
prepared. Oath spells don't count against the number of
spells you can prepare each day.
If you gain an oath spell that doesn't appear on the pala-
din spell list, the spell is nonetheless a paladin spell for you.
Channel Divinity
Your oath allows you to channel divine energy to fuel
magical effects. Each Channel Divinity option provided by
your oath explains how to use it.
When you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which
option to use. You must then finish a short or long rest to
use your Channel Divinity again.
Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws.
When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals
your paladin spell save DC.
Auras
Starting at 3rd level, you can emit your radiance onto crea-
tures within 10 feet of you, giving them certain buffs depen-
ding on the aura emitted.
Activating an aura takes a bonus action, and requires
concentration to maintain, lasting until you end it or your
concentration is broken. At 3rd level, your auras affect you
and friendly creatures within 15 feet radius of you. You
learn an additional aura at 6th, 10th, and 15th level.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Charisma modifier, regain expended uses when you finish a
long rest.
At 18th level, the range of your auras increases to 30 feet.
Aura of Devotion
Starting at 3rd level, you can emit an aura of devotion. You
and friendly creatures gains a +1 bonus to AC, this aura
does not stack with AC bonuses gained through spells or
spell-like abilities.
Aura of Retribution
Starting at 6th level, you can emit an aura of retribution.
Whenever you or a friendly creature is damaged by a melee
weapon attack, the attacker takes 1d4 radiant damage.
Upon reaching 10th level, this damage increases to 1d6,
and at 15th level it increases to 1d8 radiant damage.
Aura of Crusade
Starting at 10th level, you can emit an aura of crusade.
Making you and friendly creatures able to move through
difficult terrain at your normal speed. Additionally, all allies
automatically stabilize when reduced to 0 hit points.
Aura of Concentration
Starting at 15th level, you can emit an aura of concentra-
tion. Giving you and friendly creatures advantage on saving
throws against maintaining concentration.
Aura of Resistance
Starting at 17th level, you can emit an aura of resistance.
You and friendly creatures gain resistance to your choice of
(cold, fire, lightning, necrotic, or radiant) damage.
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Ability Score Improvement
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.
Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of
once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Improved Crusader Strike
By 11th level, you are so suffused with righteous might that
all your melee weapon strikes carry divine power with
them. Whenever you hit a creature with a melee weapon,
the creature takes an extra 1d8 radiant damage. If you also
use your Crusader Strike with an attack, you add this
damage to the extra damage of your Crusader Strike.
Cleansing Touch
Beginning at 14th level, you can use your action to end one
spell on yourself or on one willing creature that you touch.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain
expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Avenging Wrath
At 20th level, you may draw upon the empowerment of the
light, as a bonus action, you get empowered by the divine
energy of the light, sprouting cosmetic wings from your
back. This effect lasts for 1 minute, gaining you benefits
depending on your oath.
You may use this feature once per long rest.
Holy
You divine spells becomes empowered by avenging wrath,
all of your healing spells, heals for an additional half of the
healing done.
Protection
The light surrounds you, gaining you resistance to slashing,
bludgeoning, and piercing damage.
Retribution
Your embude your weapons with divine energy, all of your
weapon attacks deals an additional 1d10 radiant damage.
Sacred Oath
Becoming a paladin involves taking vows that commit the
paladin to the cause of righteousness, an active path of
fighting wickedness. The final oath, taken when he or she
reaches 3rd level, is the culmination of all the paladin's
training. Some characters with this class don't consider
themselves true paladins until they have reached 3rd level
and made this oath. For others, the actual swearing of the
oath is a formality, an official stamp on what has always
been true in the paladin's heart.
Oath of Holiness
Like priests who serve the Light, holy paladins are devout
in their faith. Those who pledge themselves to the holy oath
becomes beacons of the Light for their allies in conflict,
taking up the heavy armor and weaponry of justice.
Oath Spells
You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.
Oath of Holiness Spells
Paladin Level Spells
3rd protection from evil and good, sanctuary
5th lesser restoration, zone of truth
9th beacon of hope, revivify
13th death ward, guardian of faith
17th holy weapon, mass cure wounds
Channel Divinity
When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following
two Channel Divinity options.
Light of Dawn. As an action, you pressent your holy
symbol and release a burst of radiant healing that can
restore a number of hit points equal to five times your
paladin level. Choose any creatures within 30 feet of you,
and divide those hit points among them. This feature can
restore a creature to no more than half of its hit point max-
imum. You can't use this feature on an undead or construct.
Light's Hammer. As an action, you slam a divine maul
into the ground at a point within 30 feet of you, causing the
ground to erupt in holy light in a 10-ft radius. Any ally
within range is healed for twice your paladin level. Any
enemy within range must make a Constitution saving
throw, taking your paladin level in radiant damage on a
failed save, and half as much on a successful one.
Soothing Hand
At 3rd level, you are able to channel the effects of your Lay
on Hands over a distance, being able of targeting a creature
of up to 30 feets away from you, instead of requiring to
touch them.
Aura of Light
Starting at 7th level, you can emit an aura of light. You and
friendly creatures receive additional hit points whenever
healed through a spell or spell-like ability. Whenever a
creature within range is healed, they gain additional hit
points equal to half your level.
Divine Favor
At 15th level, you can call upon the light to aid you in the
restoration of an ally. Whenever you use a spell that regains
hit points to a target, you may expend a use of divine favor
to heal the target for twice the amount rolled. This does not
work on abilities that has an area of effect.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Charisma modifier.
Beacon of Light
Upon reaching 20th level, you can use a bonus action to
mark an ally within 60 feet of you. Whenever you use a
spell that targets only a single target, the marked ally is
healed for half the hit points gained, as long as the ally is
within 120 feet of you.
Beacon of Light requires your concentration, and lasts
for up to a minute. Once you have used this feature, you
cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.
Oath of Protection
Stalwart and steadfast, these protectors are ardent defen-
ders of the Light and all that it touches, and are rejuvenated
by its radiance in return. Dedicated to their cause, they con-
secrate the very ground upon which they battle corruption.
Oath Spells
You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.
Oath of Protection Spells
Paladin Level Spells
3rd sanctuary, shield of faith
5th branding smite, warding bond
9th aura of vitality, life transference
13th aura of purity, death ward
17th banishing smite, reincarnate
Channel Divinity
When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following
two Channel Divinity options.
Avenger's Shield. As an action, you embude your shield
with divine energy, making you able to throw a radiant copy
of it. Make a ranged weapon attack using your strength
modifier against a target within a range of 30/90 feet. On a
hit, the target takes 1d6 + your Strength modifier radiant
damage. If the creature is concentration on a spell, checks
made to keep concentration is made with disadvantage.
Upon reaching 7th level, your shields damage increases
by 1d6 (2d6), 13th level (3d6), and 20th level (4d6).
Additionally, each time its damage increases, your shield is
able to bounce to an additional target beyond the first,
making a seperate ranged attack against each target. Each
target beyond the first has to be within 30 feet of the last
target hit.
Consecration. As an action, you consecrate the land
around you, causing the terrain in a 15 foot radius around
you to become difficult terrain, any creature enters, or ends
their turn within consecration must make a Constitution
saving throw, taking half your paladin level in fire damage
on a failed save, and half the damage dealt on a success.
Consecration requires your concentration, and lasts for
up to a minute. When you use this feature, you may choose
a number of creatures equal to your Charisma modifier
that is unaffected by Consecrations difficult terrain and fire
damage.
Holy Shield
Starting at 7th level, whenever an enemy makes a melee
weapon attack against you, and does not hit you with the
attack, you can use your reaction to deal half your paladin
level in radiant damage back onto the target.
Divine Guardian
At 15th level, whenever you finish a short or long rest, you
can choose a number of creatures equal to your Charisma
bonus to gain temporary hit points equal to your paladin
level + your Charisma modifier. The hit points lasts until
expended, or until your next short rest.
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 Ardent Defender Avenging Crusader
Upon reaching 20th level, you can use your reaction to give Upon reaching 20th level, you can assume the a divine form
yourself resistance against all magical damage except of yourself. As an action, you turn into a divine copy of
psychic, if the damage dealt brings you to 0 hit points, or yourself, giving you the following benefits:
kills you instantly. You are instead immediately healed for
half your maximum health. Your Crusader Strike hit dies are d12s instead of d8s,
Once you have used this feature, you cannot use it again and half the damage dealt with Crusader Strike is
until 7 days have passed, on the dawn of which you regain replenished into your Lay on Hands pool.
this feature. You can use your Lay on Hands as a bonus action.
You become immune to difficult terrain, and effects that
Oath of Retribution hinder your movement.
Once you have used this feature, you can't use it again until
Retribution paladins are vengeful guardians of the weak, you've finished a long rest.
crusaders judging and punishing the wicked. Their resolute
conviction in the divine order of all things assures them
that victory is inevitable, but they will fight to the end to
ensure that the Light prevails.
Oath Spells
You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.
Oath of Retribution Spells
Paladin Level Spells
3rd compelled duel, searing smite
5th flame blade, magic weapon
9th binding smite, holy wrath
13th banishment, staggering smite
17th destructive wave, dispel evil and good

Channel Divinity
When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following
two Channel Divinity options.
Weapon of Justice. As an action, you slam a divine
weapon down upon an enemy within 30 feet, the target has
to make a Constitution saving throw, or be stunned for a
number of rounds equal to you Charisma modifier, or until
it takes damage. The target can make a new saving throw
at the end of its turns, ending the effect on a success.
Mark of Vengeance. As a bonus action, you place a
divine mark ono a creature, giving you advantage on all
attack rolls against it. Upon your marked enemies death,
you can use your reaction to transfer the mark to another
creature within sight.
If you fail to move your mark immediately upon your
targets death, it vanishes. Your mark of vengeance requires
concentration, and lasts for up to 10 minutes.
Weapon of Light
Starting at 7th level, your melee weapon attacks count as
magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and
immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
Exorcism
At 15th level, you are immune to being charmed, and
automatically succeed any checks attempting to charm or
take possession of you. As an action, you can remove a
charmed condition from an ally, forcing the caster of the
charm (if any) to make a Constitution saving throw. On a
fail, the charmed condition is removed from your ally.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Charisma modifier, regaining expended uses when you
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Priest
It is faith in ourselves that separates us from others, and
with our powers, we will cause great change in all of
Azeroth. The weak will come to lean on you. The lepers
will call you Lord. And the ignorant will look to you for
guidance.
— Dark Cleric Duesten
Bend down over her falling ally, a dwarf clutches her holy
symbol, and begins to sing a slow melodic tune, holy light
shining from her hand, covering her allies limp body.
Kneeling on the ground, one hand firmly grasping a staff,
the other filled with swirls of divine and necrotic energies.
A human raises, and sends out a thick halo of light and
dark energy out around him, his allies gaining new life, his
enemies feeling the rush of necrotic through their bodies.
A forsaken, surrounded in voidic energy, pulls his holy
symbol from his neck, the void covers his body, thick
tentacles sprouting from his back, as he sends out a
laughter, spewing bolts of necrotic energy towards enemies
and allies.
Priests are the bridge between light and dark, they are
the wielders of the warmth holy light of the divine, and the
voidic magic granted by the old gods. They serve as
protectors, healers, and casters of insanity.w
Invokers of Light and Darkness
Priests are devoted to the spiritual, and express their
unwavering faith by serving the people. For millennia they
have left behind the confines of their temples and the
comfort of their shrines so they can support their allies in
war-torn lands. In the midst of terrible conflict, no hero
questions the value of the priestly orders. These masters of
the healing arts keep their companions fighting far beyond
their normal capacities with an array of restorative powers
and blessings. The divine forces at the priest’s command
can also be turned against foes.
As light cannot exist without darkness, and darkness
without light, some priests tap into shadow to better
understand their own abilities, as well as the abilities of
those who threaten them.
Devoted Acolytes
Priests practice a complex, organized form of spirituality
built around moral philosophy, the worship of a particular
deity (such as Elune) in some cases, and/or idol worship,
rather than around the reverence of the elements that
shamans practice, or the close divine connection with
animals and the wilderness that druids maintain. Priests
serve not only as influential religious figures in their
respective societies, but also as powerful practitioners of
divine magic, which they use to heal and protect, or harm
and weaken.
Devotion to the faiths of Azeroth leads many priests to
the paths of courage and heroism. In dark times, priests
carry the Light of faith with them as a reminder of the
powerful forces at work beyond the comprehension of the
peoples who walk the land. Powerful healers with an
intimate connection to the divine, priests are empowered
with abilities that aid them in times of dire need.
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 The Priest
Proficiency Cantrips
Level Bonus Features Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
1st +2 Spellcasting, Priesthood, Unarmored Defense 3 2 — — — — — — — —
2nd +2 Channel Divinity (1/rest), Priesthood Feature 3 3 — — — — — — — —
3rd +2 — 3 4 2 — — — — — — —
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 — — — — — — —
5th +3 Destroy Undead (CR 1/2) 4 4 3 2 — — — — — —
6th +3 Channel Divinity (2/rest), Priesthood Feature 4 4 3 3 — — — — — —
7th +3 — 4 4 3 3 1 — — — — —
Ability Score Improvement,
8th +3 4 4 3 3 2 — — — — —
Priesthood Feature
9th +4 Destroy Undead (CR 1) 4 4 3 3 3 1 — — — —
10th +4 Divine Intervention 5 4 3 3 3 2 — — — —
11th +4 Destroy Undead (CR 2) 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 — — —
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 — — —
13th +5 — 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 — —
14th +5 Destroy Undead (CR 3) 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 — —
15th +5 — 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 —
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 —
17th +6 Destroy Undead (CR 4), Priesthood Feature 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
18th +6 Channel Divinity (3/rest) 5 4 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 5 4 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1
20th +6 Divine Intervention Improvement 5 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1

Creating a Priest Class Features

Like paladins, the most important aspect of a priest charac- As a priest, you gain the following class features.
ter is the nature of their holy quest. Are you a devoted ser-
vant of good, loyal to the holy light?, a disciplined priest, in Hit Points
beautiful robes, monitoring a sept? or are you an unholy Hit Dice: 1d6 per priest level
priest of shadows, fallen either by choice or forcefully Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
towards the necrotic arts? Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 + your Constitution
How did you enter priesthood? Were you raised in a mo- modifier per priest level after 1st
nastry? Did you hear a whisper from the light itself telling
you to serve it? Or did a terrible war force you to take up Proficiencies
the warmth of the holy light to assist your allies? Perhaps Armor: None
you might have known from your earliest memories that Weapons: Simple weapons
the priest's life was your calling, almost as if you had been Tools: None
sent into the world with that purpose stamped on your soul. Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
As guardians against forces of wickedness and evil, Skills: Choose two from History, Insight, Medicine,
priests are rarely of any evil alignment. Most of them walk Persuasion, and Religion
the paths of charity and soothing.
Or did you never feel the warmth of the holy light, and Equipment
instead felt the calling of the old gods? their voidic magic You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
wrapping around you, making your actions chaotic? equipment granted by your background:
Quick Build (a) a mace or (b) a quarterstaff
You can make a priest quickly by following these (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple
suggestions. First. Wisdom should be your highest ability weapon
score, followed by Constitution. (a) a priest's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
a holy symbol
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Spellcasting
As a conduit for divine power. you can cast priest spells.
See chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook for the general
rules of spellcasting and chapter 6 of this book for the
priest spell list.
Cantrips
At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from
the priest spell list. You learn additional priest cantrips of
your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips
Known column of the Priest table.
Preparing and Casting Spells
The Priest 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 slot of the spell's level or higher.
You regain expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
You prepare the list of priest spells that are available for
you to cast, choosing from the priest spell list. When you do
so, choose a number of priest spells equal to your Wisdom
modifier + your priest level (minimum of one spell). The
spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
For example, if you are a 3rd-level priest, you have four
1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 16,
your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or
2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level
spell flash heal, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level
slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list of
prepared spells.
You can change your list of prepared spells when you
finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of priest spells
requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1
minute per spell level for each spell on your list.
Spellcasting Ability
Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your priest spells.
The power of your spells comes from the light. You use
your Wisdom whenever a priest spell refers to your spell-
casting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier
when setting the saving throw DC for a priest spell you cast
and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Wisdom modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your
Wisdom modifier
Ritual Casting
You can cast a priest spell as a ritual if that spell has the
ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.
Spellcasting Focus
You can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus for your
priest spells.
Priesthood
Choose a priesthood: Discipline, Holiness, or Shadow.
Each priesthood is detailed at the end of the class descrip-
tion. Your choice grants you spells and other features when
you choose it at 1st level. It also grants you additional ways
to use Channel Divinity when you gain that feature at 2nd
level, and additional benefits at 6th, 8th, and 17th levels.
Priesthood Spells
Each priesthood has a list of spells that you gain at the
priest levels noted in the priesthood description.
Once you gain a priesthood spell, you always have it
prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells
you can prepare each day.
If your priesthood gives you a spell that doesn't appear
on the priest spell list, the spell is nonetheless a priest spell
for you.
Unarmored Defense
At 1st level, while you are wearing no armor and not
wielding a shield, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity
modifier + your Wisdom modifier.
Channel Divinity
At 2nd level, you gain the ability to channel divine energy
directly from the holy light, using that energy to fuel
magical effects. You start with two such effects: Shackle
Undead and an effect determined by your priesthood.
When you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which
effect to create. You must then finish a short or long rest to
use your Channel Divinity again.
Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws.
When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals
your priest spell save DC.
Beginning at 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity
twice between rests, and beginning at 18th level, you can
use it three times between rests. When you finish a short or
long rest, you regain your expended uses.
Channel Divinity: Shackle Undead
As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak a
prayer censuring the undead. Each undead that can see or
hear you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving
throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is restrained
and stunned for 1 minute or until it takes any damage.
Ability Score Improvement
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.
Destroy Undead
Starting at 5th level, when an undead fails its saving throw
against your Shackle Undead feature, the creature is
instantly destroyed if its challenge rating is at or below a
certain threshold, as shown in the Destroy Undead table.
Destroy Undead
Priest Level Destroys Undead of CR . . .
5th 1/2 or lower
9th 1 or lower
11th 2 or lower
14th 3 or lower
17th 4 or lower
Divine Intervention
Beginning at 10th level, you can call upon the higher
powers of Azeroth to intervene on your behalf when your
need is great.
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 Imploring the their aid requires you to use your action.
Describe the assistance you seek, and roll percentile dice.
If you roll a number equal to or lower than your priest level,
the powers beyond Azeroth intervenes. The DM chooses
the nature of the intervention; the effect of any priest spell
or priesthood spell would be appropriate.
If they intervene, you can't use this feature again for 7
days. Otherwise, you regain the ability to attempt to call for
powers beyond Azeroth when you finish a long rest.
At 20th level, your call for intervention succeeds auto-
matically, no roll required.
Priesthood
As a priest, you choose one aspect of priesthood to
emphasize, and you are granted powers related to that
purpose. Your choice might correspond to a particular sect
dedicated to branch of priesthood. Your choice of priest-
hood could simply be a matter of personal preference, the
aspect of the purpose that appeals to you most.
Priesthood of Discipline
These priests understand that light casts a shadow, that
darkness is defined by light, and that true discipline stems
from one’s ability to balance these opposing powers in
services of a greater cause. While these priests possess
many holy virtues to aid their allies, they also dabble in the
dark arts to debilitate their enemies.
Discipline Priesthood Spells
Priest Level Spells
1st cure wounds, inflict wounds
3rd darkness, spiritual weapon
5th animate dead, vampiric touch
7th death ward, guardian of faith
9th contagion, raise dead
Shadow Mending
At 1st level, you gain proficiency with Constitution saving
throws. You and all allies within 30 feet of you add your
proficiency bonus to any death saving throws made.
Channel Divinity: Halo
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to
burst out an expanding ring of radiant and necrotic force.
As an action, you present your holy symbol and burst out
a ring of radiant and necrotic energies in a 30 feet radius
around you. Giving you a pool of hit points equal to five
times your priest level. Choose any number of creatures
and divide those hit points among them, either as necrotic
damage, or radiant healing. You can't use this feature to
heal an undead or a construct.
Light and Dark
As an action, you can become a beacon of light for a
number of rounds equal to your Wisdom modifier. Choose
any number of creatures within 60 feet of you, each
creature gains advantage on Wisdom saving throws, and
immunity to magical blindness. The light radiating from
you counts as natural sunlight.
As an action, you can absorb natural and magical light
for a number of rounds equal to your Wisdom modifier. All
natural light within range vanishes, and magical light is
suppressed until the spell ends. The darkness submerging
around you counts as magical darkness.
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You can use both light and dark once per long rest,
regaining their uses when you finish a long rest.
Potent Spellcasting
Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the
damage you deal with any priest cantrip.
Pain Suppression
At 17th level, you are able to transfer a mix of radiant and
necrotic energy to target.
As an action, choose a creature within 30 feet of you, and
infuse them with radiant and necrotic energies. If the target
is an ally, they gain resis-tance against all damage, and
immunity against radiant and necrotic damage. If the target
is an enemy, they gain vulnerability against radiant and
necrotic damage.
Pain suppression requires concentration, and lasts for up
to a minute. You can use this feature once, regaining its use
when you finish a short rest.
Priesthood of Holiness
These priests leave their houses of worship to serve on the
battlefield, as shepherd to flock. There, they use their holy
powers to bless allies and mend wounds. Whilst most stay
behind the frontlines to aid their comrades, these holy
champions are also capable of smiting foes and carrying
out sacred justice.
Holiness Priesthood Spells
Priest Level Spells
1st bless, cure wounds
3rd lesser restoration, spiritual weapon
5th beacon of hope, revivify
7th death ward, guardian of faith
9th mass cure wounds, raise dead
Echoes of Life
At 1st level, your healing spells begin to linger on your
allies. When you cast a spell with a spell slot and it restores
hit points to a target, the target is healed for an additional
1d4 hit points at the beginning of your next turn.
Your linger effect increases by 1d4 at 6th level (2d4), 8th
level (3d4), and 14th level (4d4).
Channel Divinity: Prayer of Healing
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to
heal those that are badly injured.
As an action, you present your holy symbol, and speak a
divine prayer, light radiates from you towards a number of
creatures equal to your Wisdom modifier within 120 feet of
you. Each creature is healed for a number of hit points
equal to your priest level + your Wisdom modifier.
Blessed Healer
At 6th level, the healing spells you cast on others can heal
you as well. When you cast a spell with a spell slot and it
restores hit points to any creature other than you this turn,
you regain hit points equal to 2 + the spell's level.
Leap of Faith
Starting at 8th level, you can use a bonus action to cause
divine energy to wrap around a target within 60 feet, pull-
ing them to an empty square within 5 feet of you, during so
does no make opportunity attacks against the pulled target.
If the creature is unwilling, it can make a Wisdom saving Channel Divinity: Devour Life
throw. On a success, it isn't pulled, and your spell fails. At 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity to devour
Leap of Faith can be used twice, regaining expended the lifeforce of your enemies.
uses when you finish a long rest. As an action, you present your holy symbol and evoke
Guardian Spirit negative energy, dealing psychic damage equal to five times
At 17th level, you are able to call upon a spirit to watch over your priest level. Choose any number of creatures with 30
you or an ally in dire times. feet of you, and divide those hit points among them. This
As a reaction, when an ally falls to 0 hit points, or feature can reduce a creature by no more than half of its
instantly dies, you can call upon a guardian spirit to maximum hit point. You regain hit points equal to half of
sacrifice itself inplace of your ally. Your ally is immediately the total damage dealt this way.
healed for twice your level + your Wisdom modifier, and is Inescapable Domination
immune to all damage until the start of your next turn. Starting at 8th level, your ability to channel negative
You can use this feature once per long rest, energies has become ever more potent. When casting a
spell using a spell slot that deals necrotic or psychic
Priesthood of Shadow damage, your spell ignores resistances and immunities
These priests fully embrace the void and its magics, their against those damage types.
faith equal to their holy counterparts, yet focused on dark
magics and mental manipulation. They dedicate their lives Legacy of the Void
to worship, but they derive their power from the Void, stray- At 17th level, you can bestow a creature with the
ing dangerously close to the domain of the Old Gods. knowledge of how infinitely meaningless their existence is
compared to the never ending void that awaits all.
Shadow Priesthood Spells As an action, you can make a melee spell attack against a
Priest Level Spells creature. If you hit, you can channel the legacy of the void
into them, forcing the creature to make a Wisdom saving
1st hex, mind blast throw. On a fail, the target is filled with a wave of apathy as
3rd blur, phantasmal force their very will to exist leaves them. The creature falls
5th fear, hunger of hadar
prone, and is incapacitated until a remove curse spell is
cast on them or until the creature takes damage, at which
7th black Tentacle, phantasmal Killer point it can make a new saving throw to shroud off the
9th negative energy flood, wall of Force
legacy of the void.
This effect lasts for a day, and does not work on
constructs, undeads, or creatures with an intelligence of 4
Unseen Recovery or lower. A creature that succeeds the spells saving throw
Drawing on your newfound knowledge of the Old Gods, is immune to legacy of the void for the next week.
and their powers, you are able to recover some of your You can use this feature once, regaining its use when you
expended magical ability. finish a long rest.
Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can
choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can
have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your
priest level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th
level or higher.
Channel Divinity: Submit to Madness
Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to
surrender yourself to the madness of the Old Gods.
As an action, you present your holy symbol and invoke it
with necrotic energies, shredding your body in void as the
old gods answer. You double your Wisdom modifier to your
armor class, and can use your reaction to shift your voidic
form, giving an attack against you disadvantage. Addition-
ally, when you would normally roll one or more dice to
damage a target with a spell, you instead use the highest
number possible for each die. For example, instead of
damaging a creature for 2d6 hit points, you damage the
creature for 12.
Submit to Madness lasts for a minute, and does not
require your concentration. As the effect ends, you are
required to make a Constitution saving throw against your
own spell save DC. On a failed save, you take half your
maximum health in psychic damage, and half as much on a
successful one. If this damage brings you to 0 hit points,
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Rogue
You're gonna find a number of outfits that covet our skills.
Adventurers, SI:7... heck, even the disorganized rabble
wouldn't mind a spy or two inside Stormwind. But you
remember this: You're your own man. Don't let nobody
bully you into doing something you don't wanna do!
Besides, we hold all the cards... at least, we do before the
game's done.
— Jorik Kerridan
Signaling for her companions to wait, a female orc
creeps forward through the dungeon hall. She presses an
ear to the door, then pulls out a set of tools and picks the
lock in the blink of an eye. Then she disappears into the
shadows as her fighter friend moves forward to kick the
door open.
A human lurks in the shadows of an alley while his
accomplice prepares for her part in the ambush. When
their target passes the alleyway, the accomplice cries out,
the slaver comes to investigate, and the assassin's blade
cuts his throat before he can make a sound.
Suppressing a giggle, a gnome silently sneaks up behind
a guard, lifting the key ring from the his belt. In a moment,
the keys are in her hand, the cell door is open, and she and
her companions are free to make their escape.
Rogues rely on skill, stealth, and their foes'
vulnerabilities to get the upper hand in any situation. They
have a knack for finding the solution to just about any
problem, demonstrating a resourcefulness and versatility
that is the cornerstone of any successful adventuring party.
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A Simple Code
For rogues, the only code is the contract, and their honor is
purchased in gold. Free from the constraints of a
conscience, these mercenaries rely on brutal and efficient
tactics. Lethal assassins and masters of stealth, they will
approach their marks from behind, piercing a vital organ
and vanishing into the shadows before the victim hits the
ground. Rogues can dip their weapons in paralyzing toxins
that render foes unable to defend themselves. These silent
stalkers wear leather armor so they can move
unencumbered, ensuring that they land the first strike.
With the rogue’s poisons and speed, the first strike is
often the last step before the killing blow.
Rogues fend for themselves, looking for fights in which
they dictate the terms. They’re the shadows in the night
that remain unseen until the right moment comes to strike,
then they dispatch an opponent with quick blade work or a
deadly toxin snuck acutely into the bloodstream. Rogues
are opportunistic thieves, bandits, and assassins, but
there’s an unparalleled art to what they do.
Skill and Precision
Rogues devote as much effort to mastering the use of a
variety of skills as they do to perfecting their combat
abilities, giving them a broad expertise that few other
characters can match. Many rogues focus on stealth and
deception, while others refine the skills that help them in a
dungeon environment, such as climbing, finding and
disarming traps, and opening locks.
When it comes to combat, rogues prioritize cunning over
brute strength. A rogue would rather make one precise
strike, placing it exactly where the attack will hurt the
target most, than wear an opponent down with a barrage of
attacks. Rogues have an almost supernatural knack for
avoiding danger, and a few learn magical tricks to
supplement their other abilities.
The Rogue
Proficiency Sneak
Level Bonus Attack Features
Expertise, Sneak Attack
1st +2 1d6
Thieves' Cant
2nd +2 1d6 Cunning Action
3rd +2 2d6 Roguish Specialization
4th +2 2d6 Ability Score Improvement
5th +3 3d6 Uncanny Dodge
6th +3 3d6 Expertise
7th +3 4d6 Evasion
8th +3 4d6 Ability Score Improvement
Roguish Specialization
9th +4 5d6
Feature
10th +4 5d6 Ability Score Improvement
11th +4 6d6 Reliable Talent
12th +4 6d6 Ability Score Improvement
Roguish Specialization
13th +5 7d6
Feature
14th +5 7d6 Fleet Footed
15th +5 8d6 Slippery Mind
16th +5 8d6 Ability Score Improvement
Roguish Specialization
17th +6 9d6
Feature
18th +6 9d6 Elusive
19th +6 10d6 Ability Score Improvement
20th +6 10d6 Stroke of Luck Class Features
As a rogue, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Creating a Rogue Hit Dice: 1d8 per rogue level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
As you create your rogue character, consider the charac- Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 + your Constitution
ter's relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past, or modifier per rogue level after 1st
present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry
thieves' guild master? or did you leave your guild in search Proficiencies
of bigger risks and bigger rewards? Is it greed that drives Armor: Light armor
you in your adventurers, or some other desire or ideal? Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords,
What was the trigger that led you away from your rapiers, shortswords
previous life? Did a great con or heist gone terribly wrong Tools: Thieves' tools
cause you to reevaluate your career? Maybe you were lucky Saving Throws: Dexterity, Intelligence
and successful robbery gave you the coin you needed to Skills: Choose four from Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception,
escape the squalor of your life. Did wanderlust finally call Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception,
you away from your home? Perhaps you suddenly found Performance, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth
yourself cut off from your family or your mentor, and you
had to find a new means of support. Or maybe you made a Equipment
new friend, who showed you new possibilities for earning a You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
living and employing your particular talents. equipment granted by your background:
Quick Build (a) a rapier or (b) a shortsword
You can make a rogue quickly by following these (a) a shortbow and quiver of 20 arrows or (b) a
suggestions. First, Dexterity should be your highest ability shortsword
score. Make intelligence your next-highest if you want to (a) a burglar's pack or (b) a dungeoneer's pack, or (c) an
excel at Investigation. Choose Charisma instead if you plan explorer's pack
to emphasize deception and social interaction. Leather armor, two daggers, and thieves' tools
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 Expertise
At 1st level, choose two of your skill proficiencies, or one of
your skill proficiencies and your proficiency with thieves'
tools. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for ability checks
you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.
At 6th level, you can choose two more of your proficien-
cies (in skills or with thieves' tools) to gain this benefit.
Sneak Attack
Beginning at 1st level, you know how to strike subtly and
exploit a foe's distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an
extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack if
you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack must use
a finesse or a ranged weapon.
You don't need advantage on the attack roll if another
enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn't
incapacitated, and you don't have disadvantage on the
attack roll.
The amount of the extra damage increases as you gain
levels in this class, as shown in the Sneak Attack column of
the Rogue table.
Thieves' Cant
During your rogue training you learned thieves' cant, a
secret mix of dialect, jargon, and code that allows you to
hide messages in seemingly normal conversation. Only
another creature that knows thieves' cant understands
such messages. It takes four times longer to convey such a
message than it does to speak the same idea plainly.
In addition, you understand a set of secret signs and
symbols used to convey short, simple messages, such as
whether an area is dangerous or the territory of a thieves'
guild, or will provide a safe house for thieves on the run.
Cunning Action
Starting at 2nd level, your quick thinking and agility allow
you to move and act quickly. You can take a bonus action on
each of your turns in combat. This action can be used only
to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.
Roguish Specialization
At 3rd level, you choose an area to specialize yourself
within, that shapes your rogue abilities: Assassin, Outlaw,
or Subtlety, all detailed at the end of the class description.
Your specialization choice grants you features at 3rd level
and then again at 9th, 13th, and 17th level.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 10th, 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.
Uncanny Dodge
Starting at 5th level, when an attacker that you can see hits
you with an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the
attack's damage against you.
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Evasion
At 7th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain
area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or an ice
storm spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows
you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half
damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the
saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.
Reliable Talent
By 11th level, you have refined your chosen skills until they
approach perfection. Whenever you make an ability check
that lets you add your proficiency bonus, you can treat a
d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.
Fleet Footed
Starting at 14th level, your walking speed increases by 10
feet. If you have a climbing or swimming speed, this
increase applies to that speed as well
Additionally, you have perfected landing safely from great
heights, you ignore damage taken from the first 20 feet
falling.
Slippery Mind
By 15th level, you have acquired greater mental strength.
You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws.
Elusive
Beginning at 18th level, you are so evasive that attackers
rarely gain the upper hand against you. No attack roll has
advantage against you while you aren't incapacitated.
Stroke of Luck
At 20th level, you have an uncanny knack for succeeding
when you need to. If your attack misses a target within
range, you can turn the miss into a hit. Alternatively. if you
fail an ability check, you can treat the d20 roll as a 20.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you
finish a short or long rest.
Roguish Specialization
Rogues have many features in common, including their
emphasis on perfecting their skills, their precise and deadly
approach to combat, and their increasingly quick reflexes.
But different rogues steer those talents in varying directi-
ons, embodied by the rogue specializations. Your choice of
specialization is a reflection of your preferred techniques.
Assassin
Assassination rogues favor a pair of daggers coated with
vicious poisons. Assassins begin their work stealthily,
choosing their targets and methods of engagement
carefully, but once committed to a course of action, they
stick to their target until the job is done.
Bonus Proficiencies
When you choose this specialization at 3rd level, you gain
proficiency with the poisoner's kit.
Assassin's Intuition
Your intuition is sharper than mosts, at 3rd level, you add
your Intelligence modifier to your initiative.
Starting at 3rd level, you are at your deadliest when you get
the drop on your enemies. You have advantage on attack
rolls against any creature that hasn't taken a turn in the
combat yet. In addition, any hit you score against a creature
that is surprised is a critical hit.
Elaborate Planning
Beginning at 9th level, you can unfailingly create false
identities for yourself. You must spend seven days and 25
gp to establish the history, profession, and affiliations for an
identity. You can't establish an identity that belongs to
someone else.
Thereafter, if you adopt the new identity as a disguise,
other creatures believe you to be that person until given an
obvious reason not to.
Sealing Their Fate
Starting at 13th level, your determination to finish a wound-
ed target drives you to hit harder. Whenever you make an
attack against a target that is below half its maximum hit
points, your sneak attack die improves from a d6 to a d10.
Vendetta
At 17th level, vengeance drives you further to eliminate a
targeted enemy. As an action, you can mark a creature
within 120 feet of you. Giving you advantage on Wisdom
(Perception) checks against them, and advantage on your
first attack against the target on each of your turns.
Vendetta requires concentration, and lasts for up to a
minute, and automatically ends if you're blinded or if your
target vanishes from your sight. You can use this feature a
number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, regain-
ing expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Outlaw
Outlaw rogues are the unscrupulous scoundrels of Azeroth.
Operating outside the law, they bend the rules and distort
the truth to get what they need. Outlaws use little tact or
discretion, happy to engage in a tavern brawl, rarely patient
enough to wait in stealth for the opportune time to engage.
Bonus Proficiencies
When you choose this specialization at 3rd level, you gain
proficiency with firearms.
Hit and Run
At 3rd level, during your turn, if you make a melee attack
against a creature, that creature can't make opportunity
attacks against you for the rest of your turn.
Additionally, you also gain an additional way to use your
Sneak Attack, you don't need advantage on the attack roll
to use your Sneak Attack against a creature if you are
within 5 feet of it, no other creatures are within 5 feet of
you, and you don't have disadvantage on the attack roll. All
the other rules for Sneak Attack still apply to you.
Quick Combatant
Starting at 9th level, you can attack twice instead of once,
whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Trick of the Trade
Starting at 13th level, you can direct certain attacks meant
for you onto others. When you are targeted by an attack,
you can use your reaction to have the attack target that
creature instead of you.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Dexterity modifier, regaining expended uses when you
finish a short rest.
Adrenaline Rush
At 17th level, the adrenaline of battle overcomes you. When
entering combat, you gain an additional turn at the end of
the first round of combat. You take your first turn on your
rolled initiative, and your second turn on initiative count
one (losing ties).
Once the first round of combat is over, you return to your
rolled initiative and continue combat as normal. You can't
use this feature when you are surprised.
Subtlety
Subtlety rogues are the masters of the shadows, and they
strike unseen. They don’t have the lethal strikes of the
assassin or the brawling prowess of the outlaw, but their
ability to hide in plain sight are unrivaled, performing
devastating strikes, and slipping away to strike again.
Shadowstep
When you choose this specialization at 3rd level, you delve
into shadow magics, giving you an unexpected advantage
over most. As a bonus action, choose a creature within 30
feet of you, immediately teleporting yourself behind them. If
the target is hostile, your first attack against it is made with
advantage.
At 3rd level, you can use this feature once per short rest.
You gain an extra use of Shadowstep when you reach 9th,
13th, and 17th level.
Vision of the Dark
Starting at 3rd level, you gain superior vision in dark and
dim conditions. If you don't already have darkvision, you
gain darkvision to a range of 60 feet.
Shadow Blades
Beginning at 9th level, using a bonus action, you can imbue
your weapons with a portion of the plane of shadow. While
imbued, your weapons are treated as magical, and deals an
extra 1d6 necrotic damage on a hit. This ability lasts for a
minute in bright light, and for 4 hours in dim or unlit areas.
You can use this feature once, regaining its use when you
finish a long rest. Upon reaching 17th level, you are able to
use this feature twice.
Cloak of Shadow
Starting at 13th level, you can use an action whilst in dim
light or darkness to turn invisible. This invisibility ends as
soon as you attack, cast a spell, or in an area of normal or
bright light.
This feature lasts for up to a minute, and can be used a
number of times equal to your Charisma modifier
(minimum of 1), regaining expended uses when you finish a
long rest.
Master of Shadows
At 17th level, as an action you are able to create an illusory
version of yourself within 30 feet of you. On the following
turns you can use a bonus action to move the shadow up to
30 feet from its position, or instantly swap position with it
as long as you're within 120 feet of your shadow. Your
shadow is unable to move into brightly light squares, and
conjured light pushes the shadow away into dim light.
You can use this feature once, regaining its use when you
finish a long rest.
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 Shaman
Know this: a shaman must never demand power; to do so
would arouse the anger of the elements, and a shaman
without the elements' protection is nothing. Those that
follow the path of the shaman must never forget this most
vital tenet. However, a shaman that works in a respectful
union with the elements wields a power rivaled by few.
— Teo Hammerstorm
As goblins surround an orc covered in furs, their cruel
grins anticipating an easy kill. In an instant, the orc is
surrounded by swirls of wind and his warhammer pulses
with raw elemental fire. He sets a martial stance and
beckons the green tide to dare challenge the elements
themselves. It is the call of the shaman to bring balance to this chaos.
An elderly human stands amidst his tribe’s warriors, Acting as moderators among earth, fire, water, and air,
their wounds fresh from conflict. He closes his eyes and shaman summon totems that focus the elements to support
concentrates deeply. Pulling the water of out from the the shaman’s allies or punish those who threaten them.
ground while an icy-hot sensation washes over the These masters of the elements can also call upon
wounded. elemental forces directly, unleashing torrents of lava and
His eyes narrow against the setting sun, casting shadows bolts of lightning against foes. The elements can create,
on his little flock. Four wooden totems line the entrance to destroy, support, and hinder. The experienced shaman
his cavern home; one is searing hot, another bone-chilling, balances the vast spectrum of these primordial forces into
a third surrounded by whirling currents, and the last an array of diverse abilities, making shaman versatile
sending beads of water all around it. They stand as heroes and valued members of any group.
elemental spirit guardians against unnatural forces who For millennia, since the primitive tribal cultures of
would besiege his home, each drawing power from their Azeroth and Draenor, the natural elements of the physical
home plane to fuel their magic. universe have been celebrated, feared, and even worshiped.
However they choose to manifest it, Shamans are united Mystics sought communion with the earth, air, fire, and
in their worship and control of the pure elements. They water, and learned to tap into their raw power. In time,
draw power from the elemental planes themselves. these spiritual guides came to understand that nature’s
Adepts of the Elements elemental forces aren’t wholly benevolent, but have, in fact,
been locked in an unending conflict of chaos and primal
Shaman are spiritual guides and practitioners, not of the fury that once consumed the physical realm. So began the
divine, but of the very elements. Unlike some other mystics, calling of the Shaman, to bring balance to these volatile
shaman commune with forces that are not strictly benevo- energies, leveraging their intensity to mend wounds . . . or
lent. The elements are chaotic, and left to their own devi- inflict them.
ces, they rage against one another in unending primal fury.
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The Shaman
Proficiency Totems Totem Cantrips
Level Bonus Features Known Die Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
1st +2 Spellcasting, Totemist (lesser) 2 d4 4 2 — — — —
2nd +2 Fighting Style 3 d4 4 3 — — — —
3rd +2 Shamanistic Binding, Elemental Shield 3 d4 4 4 — — — —
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 4 d4 5 4 2 — — —
5th +3 Spirit Animal 4 d6 5 4 3 — — —
6th +3 — 5 d6 5 4 3 — — —
7th +3 Shamanistic Binding Feature 5 d6 5 4 3 2 — —
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 6 d6 5 4 3 3 — —
9th +4 Astral Shift 6 d6 5 4 3 3 — —
10th +4 Totemist (greater), Totemist Projection 7 d8 6 4 3 3 1 —
11th +4 Shamanistic Binding Feature 7 d8 6 4 3 3 2 —
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 8 d8 6 4 3 3 3 —
13th +5 — 8 d8 6 4 3 3 3 1
14th +5 Bloodlust 9 d8 6 4 3 3 3 2
15th +5 Shamanistic Binding Feature 9 d8 6 4 3 3 3 2
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 10 d10 6 4 3 3 3 2
17th +6 — 10 d10 6 4 3 3 3 2
18th +6 — 11 d10 6 4 3 3 3 3
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 11 d10 6 4 3 3 3 3
20th +6 Ascendance 12 d10 6 4 3 3 3 3

Creating a Shaman Class Features

When creating an elemental shaman, consider how the
elements affect your personality. Although elemental
shaman have resonance with all four primary elements,
some tend to outwardly display aspects of one over the
others. Those leaning towards fire might be impatient,
temperamental, or full of energy in everything they do.
Water leaning shaman are adaptable, chaotic, and tend to
go with the flow. Those who favor earth are typically lawful,
stalwart, and stubborn. Shaman who favor air are aloof,
distant, and typically the most neutral in arbitrations.
Think about your bond with your totems and how they
represent the elemental planes from which you gain your
power. Are they simply tools to you for channelling raw
planar power, or are they sacred and worthy of reverence?
Do they act as representations of a favored element or do
you use them to keep a favored element in check? How a
shaman perceives their connection to the elemental planes
should be reflected in the totems they summon forth.
Quick Build
You can make a shaman quickly by following these
suggestions. First, Wisdom should be your highest ability
score, followed by Constitution. If you intend to engage in
melee combat regularly, make Strength your second
highest ability score instead.
As a shaman, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per shaman level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 + your Constitution
modifier per shaman level after 1st
Proficiencies
Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: Herbalism kit
Saving Throws: Strength, Wisdom
Skills: Choose two from Animal handling, Arcana, History,
Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Survival
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
equipment granted by your background:
(a) scale mail or (b) studded leather
(a) a mace and shield or (b) two martial weapons
(a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
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 Spellcasting
As a link between the elements. you can cast shaman
spells. See chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook for the
general rules of spellcasting and chapter 6 of this book for
the shaman spell list.
Cantrips
At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from
the shaman spell list. You learn additional shaman cantrips
of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips
Known column of the Shaman table.
Preparing and Casting Spells
The Shaman 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 slot of the spell's level or higher.
You regain expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
You prepare the list of shaman spells that are available
for you to cast, choosing from the shaman spell list. When
you do so, choose a number of shaman spells equal to your
Wisdom modifier + your shaman level (minimum of 1 spell)
The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
For example, if you are a 4th-level shaman, you have four
1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 16,
your list of prepared spells can include seven spells of 1st
or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level
spell absorb element, you can cast it using a 1st-level or
2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your
list of prepared spells.
You can change your list of prepared spells when you
finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of shaman spells
requires time spent communing with the elements: at least
1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.
Spellcasting Ability
Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your shaman spells.
The power of your spells comes from the elements and
spirits. You use your Wisdom whenever a shaman spell
refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your
Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a
shaman spell and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Wisdom modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your
Wisdom modifier
Ritual Casting
You can cast a shaman spell as a ritual if that spell has the
ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.
Spellcasting Focus
You can use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your
shaman spells.
Totemist
You are able to bind elemental energies in the form of
totems. You know two totems of your choice. Your totem
options are detailed at the end of the class description.
When you gain certain shaman levels, you gain additional
totems of your choice as shown in the Totems Known
column of the Shaman table.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can
choose one of the totems you know and replace it with
another totem that you could learn at that level.
Using a bonus action, you can summon a known totems
in an unoccupied square within 30 feet of you.
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Each totem lasts for a minute, and uses their active effect
at the end of your turns. Summoned totems have an AC of
10, and hit points equal to twice your shaman level. You can
have no more than one totem of a each element active at
once, for a maximum of four totems summoned at once.
For example, if you already have an Earthquake Totem
active, summoning a Stone Bulwark Totem will destroy
your Earthquake Totem and take its active totem slot. Your
totems active effectiveness increases when you gain certain
shaman levels, as shown in the Totem Die column of the
Shaman table.
Greater Totems
Upon reaching 10th level, you are able to summon greater
totems. You can know a number of greater totems equal to
your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1).
Fighting Style
At 2nd level, you adopt a style of fighting as your specialty.
Choose one of the following options.
You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even
if you later get to choose again.
Defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Dueling
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no
other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with
that weapon.
Protection
When a creature you can see attacks a target other than
you that is within 5 feet of you. you can use your reaction to
impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be
wielding a shield.
Two-Weapon Fighting
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your
ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.
Shamanistic Binding
When you reach 3rd level, you enter a shamanistic binding,
deepening your understanding of elements in a certain
aspect. Choose Elemental, Enhancement, or Restoration,
each of which is detailed at the end of the class description.
Your choice grants you features at 3rd level, and again at
7th, 11th, and 15th level.
Elemental Shield
Starting at 3rd level, you gain two elemental shields, water
shield, and one determined by your shamanistic binding.
You can only have one elemental shield up at a time, an
elemental shield lasts for an hour, or until its effect has
been used up, activating an elemental shield whilst you
have one active either resetting its duration or replaces it
entirely depending on the shield you cast.
You can use your elemental shield feature a number of
times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all expend-
ed uses at the end of a long rest.
Water Shield
As an action, you manifest small floating orbs of water
around you equal to your Wisdom modifier. The orbs hover
around you for an hour before falling to the ground.
Whenever you roll damage for an attack or a spell cast
using a spell slot, you can expend an orb floating around
you to reroll any number of dice, and use either die roll.
Once you've expended all uses of your water shield it
dissipates, making you able to activate a new shield effect if
desired.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th,
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.
Spirit Animal
Starting at 5th level, your communion with the spirit world
has taught you to turn into a large animal with a ghostly
visage around it. As a bonus action you can turn into a
spirit animal, all of your game statistics remain the same
with the exception of your armor class which is changed to
14 for the duration. Whilst your spirit animal is active, you
can use a bonus action to change back and forth between it
and your humanoid form. A deeper explanation of a
shamans spirit animal can be found in Appendix A at the
end of this book.
Spirit animal lasts for up to an hour, or until you attack a
target with a weapon attack or cast a spell. You can use this
feature twice, regaining expended uses when you finish a
short or long rest.
Astral Shift
Beginning at 9th level, you are able to momentarily shift
your body into the astral plane. As a reaction upon taking
damage, you can momentarily shift your body to the astral
plane, giving you resistance towards all damage except
psychic until the beginning of your next turn.
You can use this feature twice, regaining its uses when
you finish a short or long rest.
Totemist Projection
Starting at 10th level, your mastery over your elemental
totems and knowledge of them have made you able to
effective reposition them. As a bonus action, you can move
any active totems to a new location within 30 feet of you.
Additionally, you can summon a totem of each element
using one bonus action. You can summon multiple totems
at once a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus,
regaining all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Bloodlust
At 14th level, you are able to insight the bloodlust within
your allies, making them able to fight harder. As an action,
all allies within 30 feet of you, are momentarily filled with a
lust for blood. Each affected target gains an extra Action
per turn, this action functions as if it was a new round, and
can be used as normal. Bloodlust lasts until the end of your
second turn, at which point each affected creature gains
one level of exhaustion.
You can use this feature once per long rest. Additionally,
any creature with a level of exhaustion cannot be affected
by bloodlusts effect.
Ascendance
Upon reaching 20th level, you are so in commune with the
elements that you are able to assume an elemental ascen-
dant form for a short duration. As a bonus action, your body
fills with raw elemental power, shifting your form to that of
an elemental ascendant, your ascendance lasts for a num-
ber of turns equal to your Wisdom modifier before return-
ing to your own self. You can use Ascendance once a day,
regaining its use when you finish a long rest.
Each shamanistic binding gains a different ascendance,
each of which are described below:
Elemental
You empower the element of Fire, all of your spells auto-
matically deal the maximum amount of damage possible,
and you have advantage on all ranged spell attacks whilst
ascended.
Enhancement
You empower the element of Wind, you gain two additional
attacks per attack Action, and you have advantage on all
melee weapon attack rolls whilst ascended.
Restoration
You empower the element of Water, all of your spells cast
that restores hit points and are unable to target more than
one creature heals for their maximum amount of healing
possible, and heals a second target within range for half the
healing done whilst ascended.
Shamanistic Binding
Shamans strive to deepen their understanding and connec-
tion with the elements no matter what. Some shamans
prefer a more brutal approach to shamanism, either in the
shape of strict melee combat, or conjuring raw element
powers against their enemies. Others still, stand as the
conjurers of healing waters and restorative energies.
Elemental
Elemental shamans have dedicated themselves above all
else to forging a deep bond with the elements. Making
them able to channel such power into destructive magical
surges. They manipulate the land itself. To battle an
elemental shaman is to taunt the very forces of nature.
Lightning Shield
When you choose this binding, as an action, you manifest
an orb of lightning that slowly swirls around you. Whenever
you cast a spell using a spell slot, choose a creature hit by
your spell and make a ranged spell attack. On a hit, your
orb lashes out at the target, dealing 1d4 lightning damage.
Additionally when you're hit by a melee attack, you can
use your reaction to make a ranged spell attack, causing
your orb to lash out at the attacker for 1d4 lightning
damage on a hit.
Your orbs damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th
level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).
Bonus Cantrip
Starting at 3rd level, you learn the cantrip firebolt, if you
don't already know it.
Destructive Attunement
Beginning at 7th level, all spells cast using a spell slot deals
an extra damage die equal to your totems die.
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 Additionally, your connecting with the elements has
enabled you to change the element of certain spells,
whenever you cast a spell that deals cold, fire, or lightning,
before determining damage you may choose to change the
damage type to one of the two others.
Liquid Magma Totem
Upon reaching 11th level, you are able to summon a liquid
magma totem, expending your fire totem slot. The liquid
magma totem lasts until the end of your fourth turn before
dissipating.
At the end of each of your turns, choose an enemy within
30 feet of your totem, opening a rift of magma from the
totem to the target, requiring any target in the line to make
a Dexterity saving throw. On a fail, each target takes fire
damage equal to half your shaman level + 2d (totem die), on
a success the damage is halved. The magma rift hardens
immediately after your turn ends. You can use your Liquid
Magma totem once, regaining its use when you finish a
short or long rest.
Elemental Storm
At 15th level, you can take control of the weather within 5
miles of you, altering it to your choice of a thunderstorm,
snowstorm, or firestorm. This spell acts as control weather,
taking 10 minutes to cast in an outdoor area as normal.
As long as your elemental storm is active, you can use an
action to cause a 10 foot wide beam to swirl down from the
skies at a point you can see. Any target hit by the beam is
required to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a fail, taking
10d6 damage of the appropriate type for the storm, or half
on a successful one.
Whenever you call forth additional beams, the damage of
the beam is reduced by 2d6, upon reaching 0d6, the storm
ends prematurely as the elements are calmed.
Elemental storm does require concentration, and lasts
up to 8 hours. You can use this feature once per long rest.
Enhancement
Enhancement shamans are in as intense communion with
the elements as the elemental shaman. What differentiates
them is their combat methodology. They favor empowering
their physical attacks with elemental energies and facing
their adversaries up close.
Wind Shield
When you choose this binding, as an action you manifest
the air around you, making your movements and attacks
faster. Your movement speed increases by 10 feet, climbing
does not take additional movement, and you are unaffected
by natural difficult terrain.
When you activate Wind shield, you must expend a 2nd-
level spell slot or higher, gaining an extra attack per attack
Action, when you expend a 4th-level spell slot or higher, you
instead gain two extra attacks per attack Action. These
attacks do not stack with extra attacks given through
another class.
Imbued Weapons
Starting at 3rd level, you can enhance your weapons by
imbuing them with elemental energy. As a free action, you
can expend a spell slot into each weapon you hold, giving
them an effect of your choice from the list below, when
wielding two weapons, you can give each weapon a
different effect if desired.
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The elemental energies within each weapon you wield
lasts for a minute, or until you've successfully hit an enemy
with the weapon.
Flametongue. You imbue your weapon with magma,
making it shine dim light in a 10-ft radius. Your melee
weapon attack deals an extra 2d6 fire damage, for each
higher level spell slot expended, flametongue deals an extra
1d6 fire damage.
Frostbrand. You imbue your weapon with ice. Your
melee weapon attack deals an extra 1d8 frost damage,
requiring the target to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a
fail, their movement speed is halved until your next turn.
Frostbands damage increases by 1d8 for a 3rd-level spell
slot (2d8), and a 5th-level spell slot (3d8).
Stormstrike. You imbue your weapon with crackling
lightning. When you hit an enemy with a melee weapon
attack, lightning crackles out from your weapon, hitting
your target and any chosen enemies within 10 feet of your
target, dealing 1d6 lightning damage to each.
Stormstrikes damage increases by 1d6 for a 3rd-level
spell slot (2d6), and a 5th-level spell slot (3d6).
Feral Lunge
Beginning at 7th level, you are able to lunge yourself at a
target whilst a spirit animal. As an action, you turn into your
spirit animal if you aren't already shapeshifted and lunge
yourself towards an enemy within 60 feet of you, doing so
does not provoke opportunity attacks from any enemies you
pass. As part of the same action, you can make a single
weapon attack against the target.
Using feral lunge counts as a use of spirit animal if you
aren't shapeshifted before using it.
Wind Rush Totem
Upon reaching 11th level, you are able to summon a wind
rush totem, expending your air totem slot. The wind rush
totem lasts until the end of your fourth turn before before
dissipating.
Each ally within 30 feet of the totem can take the dash
Action as a bonus Action, and gain an additional attack per
attack Action. You can use your Wind Rush totem once,
regaining its use when you finish a long rest.
Spirit Wolves
At 15th level, as an action you are able to summon two
spirit wolves to your aid (found in Appendix A). The wolves
act on your initiative, and obeys your commands as best
they can. If no commands are given they use their action to
attack the nearest enemy, being intelligent enough to tell
friend from foe.
The spirit wolves lasts for a minute, or until killed. You
can use this feature once per long rest.
Restoration
Restoration shamans find a deep connection with water,
using it soothing powers to restore life and heal afflictions.
They finding harmony in the nature and purifying their
allies as a tidal surge washes across a sandy shore.
Earth Shield
When you choose this binding, as an action choose a crea-
ture within 60 feet of you, manifesting four large flat rocks
that hovers around the creature.
Using your reaction upon the creature being hit, you can
place a rock slab in front of them, giving them resistance
against all damage, except poison, psychic and thunder.
 You can resist four attacks using earth shield, each
resisted attack destroying a rock slab. The resistance can
be announced after the attack has hit, but before damage is
dealt. Casting this shield does not cancel any shield placed
upon yourself, unless you are the target of earth shield.
Totems of Water
Starting at 3rd level, you learn one lesser water totem of
your choice, this totem does not count towards your
Totems Known.
Additionally, you are able to have two different totems of
water conjured at once. The maximum of four manifest
totems still remain.
Chain Heal
Beginning at 7th level, you are able to heal multiple people
at once. As an action, choose a friendly target within 60
feet of you, healing the target for 3d6, choose a 2nd target
within 30 feet of the 1st target to be healed for the two of
the dice rolls, and a 3rd target within 30 feet of the 2nd to
be healed for one of the dice rolls.
Chain Heals healing increases by 1d6 at 7th level (4d6),
11th level (5d6), and 15th level (6d6). With each healing
increase, the second and third target is healed for one
more of the die rolls.
You can use chain heal a number of times equal to your
Wisdom modifier, regaining expended uses when you finish
a short or long rest.
Healing Tide Totem
Upon reaching 11th level, you are able to summon a heal-
ing tide totem, expending a water totem slot. The healing
tide totem lasts until the end of your fourth turn before
dissipating.
At the end of each of your turns, the totem heals every
ally within 20 feet of it for half your shaman level + 2d
(totem die). You can use your Healing Tide totem once,
regaining its use when you finish a short or long rest.
Cleanse Spirit
At 15th level, you can bend water in such a way as to alle-
viate certain magical effects from allies and enemies. As an
action, you can replicate the effects of a Remove Curse or a
4th level Dispel Magic spell on a target within 30 feet.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Wisdom modifier per long rest.
Totems
If a totem has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn
it. You can learn the totem at the same time that you meet
its prerequisites. A level prerequisite in a totem refers to
your shaman level, not your character level.
Cleansing Totem
Prerequisite: 2nd level, lesser totem (water)
You place down a cleansing totem, at the end of your turn
the totem cleanses one ally of your choice within 30 feet of
it for either one disease, or one condition afflicting it. The
condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.
After the totem has cleansed an ally, it dissipates.
Cloudburst Totem
Prerequisite: 12th level, greater totem (water)
You place down a cloudburst totem, whenever you heal
with a spell that uses a spell slots, the cloudburst totem—
stores the amount healed within it. The totem lasts until
the end of your fourth turn.
At the end of your fourth turn, the totem explodes and
dissipates. Choose any number of creatures within a 15-ft
radius of the totem, and divide the healing within the
cloudburst totem among them. Once you've used this
totem, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or
long rest.
Earthbind Totem
Lesser totem (earth)
You place down an earthbind totem, immediately making a
20-ft radius around the totem difficult terrain for any enemy
that enters it.
Earthgrab Totem
Lesser totem (earth)
You place down an earthgrab totem, any creature within 5
feet of the totem is required to make a Dexterity saving
throw. On a failed save, the creatures affected is grappled
until the start of your next turn.
Earthquake Totem
Lesser totem (earth)
You place down an earthquake totem, requiring all
creatures within 15 feet of it to make a Dexterity saving
throw, dealing 2d (totem die) bludgeoning damage on a
failed save, and half as much on a successful one.
Fire Nova Totem
Prerequisite: 3rd level, lesser totem (fire)
You place down a fire nova totem, the totem uses the round
to charge up, at the end of your next turn, the fire nova
totem explodes and dissipates, every creatures within 10
feet of it must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a fail, they
take 4d (totem die) fire damage and catch on fire, requiring
them to make a Dexterity saving throw at the beginning of
their turn to put out the fire, or take 1d (totem die) fire
damage until they succeed. On a successful save, affected
targets takes half damage, and does not catch fire.
Flametongue Totem
Lesser totem (fire)
You place down a flametongue totem, any ally within a 15-ft
radius of the totem deals an additional 1d (totem die) fire
damage on melee or ranged weapon attack.
Frost Protection Totem
Prerequisite: 5th level, lesser totem (fire)
You place down a frost protection totem, giving all allies
within 30 feet of it a warm barrier around their bodies,
granting them resistance against cold damage, and
extreme cold.
Grace of Air Totem
Prerequisite: 5th level, lesser totem (air)
you place down a grace of air totem, improving the move-
ment of friendly creatures within 30 feet of it. All affected
creatures are able to Dash and Disengage as a bonus
action, and are unaffected by natural difficult terrain.
Grounding Totem
Prerequisite: 7th level, lesser totem (air)
You place down a grounding totem, while the totem is
active, the first spell cast at an ally within 30 feet of the—
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 totem is counter spelled, as if using the spell counter-
spell at 3rd level, no matter if the totem succeeds or fails, it
crumbles and vanishes.
Healing Stream Totem
Lesser totem (water)
You place down a healing stream totem, any friendly
creature within 20 feet can expend hit dice as if they had
finished a long rest as the totem soothes them. The crea-
ture is healed for the amount roll + your Wisdom modifier
per hit die expended.
Heat Protection Totem
Prerequisite: 5th level, lesser totem (water)
You place down a heat protection totem, giving all allies
within 30 feet of it a cold barrier around their bodies, grant-
ing them resistance against fire damage, and extreme heat.
Lightning Surge Totem
Prerequisite: 3rd level, lesser totem (air)
You place down a lightning surge totem, the totem uses the
round to charge up, at the end of your next turn, the
lightning surge totem explodes and dissipates, sending out
a short range pulse of lightning affecting all creature within
15 feet of it, each creature must make a Constitution saving
throw, becoming stunned until the beginning of your next
round on a failed save.
Magma Totem
Prerequisite: 10th level, greater totem (fire)
You place down a magma totem, the totem lasts until the
end of your fourth turn before dissipating, expanding by 5-ft
around it on each of your turns, any creature caught in the
magma is required to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a
fail, they take 5 (totem die) fire damage and catching on
fire, requiring them to make a Dexterity saving throw at the
beginning of their turn to put out the fire, or take 2d (totem
die) fire damage until they succeed. On a successful save,
the damage is halved, and they do not catch fire. Once your
magma totem dissipates, the streams of magma continues
to exist for an hour before hardening. Once you've used this
totem, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or
long rest.
Mana Spring Totem
Lesser totem (water)
You place down a mana spring totem, granting all allies
within 15 ft of it advantage on Intelligence and Wisdom
saving throws.
Searing Totem
Lesser totem (fire)
You place down a searing totem, at the end of each of your
turns, the searing totem spews a ball of fire against a target
of your choice within 60 feet of it. Make a ranged spell
attack, dealing 2d (totem die) on a hit.
Skyfury Totem
Prerequisite: 11th level, greater totem (fire)
You place down a skyfury totem, any ally within a 20-ft
radius, all melee and ranged weapon attacks critical range
is reduced to 18-20.
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Spirit Link Totem
Prerequisite: 14th level, greater totem (water)
You place down a spirit link totem, the totem immediately
makes a visible ring of spirit essence around it in a 10-ft
radius, any damage dealt to allies within it is reduced by
half your shaman level. Once you've used this totem, you
cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Stone Bulwark Totem
Prerequisite: 5th level, lesser totem (earth)
You, place down a stone bulwark totem, and choose an ally
within 15 feet of it, that ally gains 1d (totem die) + your
Wisdom modifier temporary hit points at the end of each of
your turns, if the chosen ally moves out of its range, you
may choose a new target within 15 feet, if no ally is within
15 feet, the totem dissipates.
Stoneskin Totem
Prerequisite: 10th level, greater totem (earth)
you place down a stoneskin totem, allies adjacent to the
totem has resistance against bludgeoning, piercing and
slashing damage. Once you've used this totem, you cannot
use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Stormlash Totem
Prerequisite: 3rd level, lesser totem (air)
you place down a stormlash totem, any ally within a 30-ft
radius of the totem deals an additional 1d (totem die)
lightning damage on their first spell attack on their turn.
Tremor Totem
Prerequisite: 10th level, greater totem (earth)
You place down a tremor totem, as long as the totem
stands, you may use a bonus action to remove all of the
following conditions from allies within 30 feet of it.
charmed, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, or stunned Once
you've used this totem, you cannot use it again until you
finish a short or long rest.
Voodoo Totem
Prerequisite: 15th level, greater totem (air)
You place down a voodoo totem, choose a number of
creatures equal to your wisdom modifier within 60 feet of
the totem, each creature must make a Wisdom saving
throw, being shapeshifted into a frog on a failed save, as by
the polymorph spell. Once you've used this totem, you
cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Wrath of Air Totem
Prerequisite: 10th level, greater totem (air)
You place down a wrath of air totem, allies within 15 feet of
the totem gains a secondary action each round, this action
can only be used to cast a spell, spell-like ability, spell, or to
take the attack action. Once you've used this totem, you
cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Warlock
Behold those who have power, and who are not afraid to
wield it. Behold... the warlocks!
— Gul'dan
With a small imp jumping behind her, a young human in
golden robes smiles warmly, weaving a magical charm into
his honeyed words and bending the palace sentinel to her
will.
As flames spring to life in her hands, a wizened orc
blows upon the flame, infusing spell with fel magic
instantly turning it green.
Shifting his gaze between a battered tome and the odd
alignment of the stars overhead, a wild-eyed forsaken
chants the mystic ritual that will open a doorway to a
distant world.
Dark Arts, Dominance
In the face of demonic power, most heroes see death.
Warlocks see only opportunity. Dominance is their aim, and
they have found a path to it in the dark arts. These
voracious spellcasters summon demonic minions to fight
beside them. At first, they command only the service of
imps, but as a warlock’s knowledge grows, seductive
succubi, loyal voidwalkers, and horrific felhunters join the
dark sorcerer’s ranks to wreak havoc on anyone who
stands in their master’s way.
Warlocks can ignite distant enemies in searing flame, send
them fleeing in terror and pain, or afflict them with
corrupting diseases and curses that steal the victim’s
vitality.
These practitioners of the profane are feared across
Azeroth, and many who have felt their wrath now prefer to
fight alongside a warlock than against one.
Warlocks burn and destroy weakened foes with a
combination of crippling illnesses and dark magic. While
their demon pets protect and enhance them, warlocks
strike at their enemies from a distance. As physically weak
spellcasters bereft of heavy armor, cunning warlocks allow
their minions to take the brunt of enemy attacks in order to
save their own skin.
Delvers Into Secrets
Warlocks are the most volatile and insatiable of
spellcasters. Though they often pledge themselves to the
service of noble causes and are not innately evil, their
desire to understand darker magics and exercise
unwavering command over demonic forces breeds mistrust
among even their closest allies. Warlocks peer into the Void
without hesitation, leveraging the chaos they glimpse
within to devastating ends in battle—their greatest abilities
are fueled by the souls they’ve harvested from their victims.
They exploit powerful Shadow magic to manipulate and
degrade the minds and bodies of their enemies. They
employ Fire magic, dropping hellish rain from the sky, to
immolate the opposition. They summon and command
indomitable demons from the Twisting Nether to do their
bidding, or even to be sacrificed as the Warlock sees fit,
empowering and protecting the dark caster from harm.
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 The Warlock
Proficiency Cantrips Spells Spell Spell
Level Bonus Features Known Known Slots Level
1st +2 Grimoire, Demon Companion, Shadow Magic 3 2 1 1st
2nd +2 Life Drain 3 3 2 1st
3rd +2 — 3 4 2 2nd
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 4 5 2 2nd
5th +3 — 4 6 2 3rd
6th +3 Grimoire Feature 4 7 2 3rd
7th +3 — 4 8 3 4th
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 4 9 3 4th
9th +4 — 4 10 3 5th
10th +4 Grimoire Feature 5 10 3 5th
11th +4 Shadow Arcanum (6th level) 5 11 3 5th
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 5 11 4 5th
13th +5 Shadow Arcanum (7th level) 5 12 4 5th
14th +5 Grimoire Feature 5 12 4 5th
15th +5 Shadow Arcanum (8th level) 5 13 4 5th
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 5 13 4 5th
17th +6 Shadow Arcanum (9th level) 5 14 5 5th
18th +6 — 5 14 5 5th
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 5 15 5 5th
20th +6 Fel Master 5 15 5 5th

Sworn and Beholden Quick Build

A warlock is defined by a specific grimoire. A warlock
might lead a cult dedicated to a powerful demon, or to do
chaotic destruction.
The magic bestowed on a warlock through their grimoire
ranges from minor but lasting alterations to the warlock's
being (such as the ability to see in darkness or to read any
language) to access to powerful spells. Unlike bookish
wizards, warlocks supplement their magic with some
facility at hand-to-hand combat.
Creating a Warlock
As you make your warlock character, spend some time
thinking about your grimoire and the obligations that your
book imposes upon you. What led you to become a warlock
and acquire a grimoire? Were you seduced by the powers
that fel magic can promise, or did you seek out a warlocks
ritual that would entice you to study their ways. Did you
search for knowledge and found more than you expected?
Your grimoire might drive you into adventurers, seeking
to uncover hidden information.
As a warlock you have demon companion, what kind of
relationship do you have with it? friendly, antagonistic,
uneasy, or romantic?
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You can make a warlock quickly by following these
suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest
ability score, followed by Constitution.
Class Features
As a warlock, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per warlock level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 + your Constitution
modifier per warlock level after 1st
Proficiencies
Armor: None
Weapons: Simple weapons, longswords, rapier, scimitar,
shortswords
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
Skills: Choose two skills from Arcana, Deception, History,
Intimidation, Investigation, Nature, and Religion
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
equipment granted by your background:
(a) shortsword or (b) any simple weapon
 (a) a component pouch or (b) a focus of fel
(a) a scholar's pack or (b) a dungeoneer's pack
A grimoire
Grimoire
At 1st level, you acquire a book by the warlock councils, the
book entails the beginning of your growth in one of the
following sects of the council. The Grimoire of Affliction,
Demonology, or Destruction. Your choice grants you
features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.
If you loose your grimoire, you can perform a 1-hour
ceremony to receive a replacement from the void.
Shadow Magic
Your research of shadow and its devastating magic have
given you facility with spells. See chapter 10 of the Player's
Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter
6 of this book for for the warlock spell list.
Cantrips
You know two cantrips of your choice from the warlock
spell list. You learn additional warlock cantrips of your
choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known
column of the Warlock table.
Spell Slots
The Warlock table shows how many spell slots you have.
The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of
your spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your
warlock spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a
spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you
finish a short or long rest.
For example. when you are 5th level, you have two 3rd-
level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell shadowbolt, you
must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 3rd-level
spell.
Spell Known of 1st Level and Higher
At 1st level, you know two 1st-level spells of your choice
from the warlock spell list.
The Spells Known column of the Warlock table shows
when you learn more warlock spells of your choice of 1st
level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no
higher than what's shown in the table's Slot Level column
for your level. When you reach 6th level, for example, you
learn a new warlock spell, which can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd
level.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can
choose one of the warlock spells you know and replace it
with another spell from the warlock spell list, which also
must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
Spellcasting Ability
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your warlock
spells, so you use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers
to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelli-
gence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a war-
lock spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Intelligence modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your
Intelligence modifier
Spellcasting Focus
You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your
warlock spells.
Demon Companion
Starting at 1st level, you gain the unwilling service of a
demon, a creature from the twisting nether. Using an hour,
you can summon the demon to your side, appearing in an
unoccupied space within 15 feet. You can summon any
demon from the Monster Manual that has a challenge
rating lower than half your warlock level (minimum of 1),
using the statistics presented in the monster manual to
determine its stats and abilities.
Should the demon companion die while in the service to
you, you're required to make a Constitution saving throw,
DC 12 + the CR of the demon. On a fail, you take 1d10
psychic damage for each CR of the demon. This damage
overcomes resistances, and ignores temporary hit points,
the damage taken is subtracted from your maximum hit
points, and regains at a rate of 1d10 per long rest. On a
success, the damage is halved.
Your demon acts independently of you, but it always
obeys your commands, whilst enslaved to you, it cannot
independently do any actions that would go against your
alignment. For example, if you're a good aligned warlock,
your demon cant on its own accord begin to wreak havoc
around you, its enslavement forbids it and prevents it from
taking such actions without explicit order to do so. In
Combat, it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn,
its actions decided by its master.
Using a minute, you can temporarily dismiss your
demon. It disappears into a pocket dimension where it
awaits your summons, while in this dimension, the demon
regains hit points as if it had finished a long rest.
Alternatively you can spend an hour to dismiss the demon,
banishing it back into the twisting nether. As an action
while it is temporarily dismissed, you can cause it to
reappear in any unoccupied space within 30 feet of you.
You can't have more than one demon servant at a time, if
you attempt to summon an additional demon while you
currently have one enslaved, your current demon breaks
free of its chains and becomes hostile towards you.
Life Tap
Starting at 2nd level, you can sacrifice a portion of your
health to restore expended spell slot. As a bonus action,
you can deal 1d6 necrotic damage to yourself. In return you
regain a 1st-level spell slot. For each spell slot above 1st,
life tap deals an additional 1d6 necrotic damage, to a
maximum of 5d6 for a 5th level spell slot.
Additionally, you can sacrifice health to regain the usage
of a Grimoire feature. Taking 1d8 necrotic damage for your
1st level feature. The damage increases by 2d8 for your 6th
level (3d8), 10th level (5d8), and 14th level (7d8)
You can use this feature equal to your Intelligence modi-
fier, regaining expended uses when you finish a short rest.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th,
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.
Shadow Arcanum
At 11th level, you've delved deep enough into dark magics
and fel to unveil magical secrets called arcanums. Choose
one 6th-level spell from the warlock spell list as this
arcanum.
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 You can cast your arcanum spell once without expending a
spell slot, after which you must finish a long rest before you
can do so again.
At higher levels, you gain more warlock spells of your
choice that can be cast in this way: one 7th-level spell at
13th level, one 8th-level spell at 15th level, and one 9th-level
spell at 17th level. You regain all uses of your Shadow
Arcanum when you finish a long rest.
Fel Master
At 20th level, you can draw on your inner reserve of fel
power to regain expended spell slots. You can spend 1
minute to regain all your expended spell slots from your
Spellcasting feature. Once you regain spell slots with this
feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.
Grimoire
Warlocks are granted a grimoire for their dedication
towards a certain aspect of warlocks. Three grimoires
exist, each delving into a different aspect of the powers
warlocks wield.
Grimoire of Affliction
Warlocks of the affliction grimoire are masters of shadow-
touched powers, unlike the shadow priests these warlock
delight in using fel as a force to cause intense pain and
suffering in others. They revel in corrupting minds,
agonizing souls, and leaving enemies in a state of torment
that would see them undone in due time.
Expanded Spell List
Affliction lets you choose from an expanded list of spells
when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are
added to the warlock spell list for you.
Affliction Expanded Spells
Spell Level Spells
1st fog cloud, mind blast
2nd enlarge/reduce, phantasmal force
3rd counterspell, slow
4th blight, vitriolic sphere
5th cloudkill, hold monster
Malefic Grasp
Starting at 1st level, you are able to grapple a target with
shadowy tendrils. As an action, choose a target within 30
feet of you, the target is required to make a Strength saving
throw against your spell DC. Taking 1d8 necrotic damage
and halving the target's speed, for every 5 feet the target
moves, the target takes an additional 1d4 necrotic damage.
Malefic grasp lasts for a minute, or until the target has
moved 15 feet from where the tendrils spawned, at which
point they vanish. Malefic Grasps damage increases by one
die upon reaching 6th level (2d8, 2d4), and again at 10th
level (3d8, 3d4)
Malefic grasp requires concentration, and lasts up to a
minute. You can use this feature a number of times equal to
your Intelligence modifier, regaining expended uses when
you finish a long rest.
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Curse of Agony
Beginning at 6th level, you can use an action to agonize a
target within 30 feet of you. The target is required to make
an ability saving throw with disadvantage corresponding to
the curse of agony chosen below. On a failed save, the
target is affected by the curse for the next 24 hours.
Agony of Weakness (Strength): If the creature deals
damage with a weapon attack, their damage rolls is halved
for the duration.
Agony of Gracelessness (Dexterity): The creature has
disadvantage on ability rolls requiring dexterity, and attack
rolls for the duration.
Agony of Illness (Constitution): The creature has
disadvantage on all Constitution saving throws, and cannot
regain hit points through healing spells for the duration.
Agony of Stupidity (Intelligence): Moving requires an
action for the creature for the duration.
Agony of Carelessness (Wisdom): The creature doesn't
move in a way to avoid opportunity attacks, and always
takes the most direct route to its destination. Additionally
the creature cannot use the Disengage action on its turn for
the duration
Agony of Abhorrence (Charisma): The creature
becomes frightened of you for the duration.
You may use this feature once per long rest. Upon
reaching 10th level, and again at 14th level, you gain an
additional use of Curse of Agony.
Siphon Life
Starting at 10th level, you are able to siphon the life of your
enemies to replenish your own. As an action, choose a
target within 60 feet of you. The target is required to make
a Constitution saving throw. Taking your warlock level +
your Intelligence modifier in necrotic damage on a failed
save, immediately healing you for half of the damage dealt.
On a successful save, the target takes half of the damage,
and you regain no hit points from the spell.
You may use this feature a number of times equal to your
Intelligence modifier, regaining expended uses when you
finish a long rest.
Phantom Singularity
At 14th level, as an action, you can place a phantom
singularity within an enemies mind. Whenever the enemy
gains hit points it is required to make a Constitution saving
throw, on a fail, the health regained is instead dealt as psy-
chic damage to the healed creature and the healer if it was
casted upon the target, the damage split evenly between
the two. On a successful save, the target is healed for half
the hit points restored.
Phantom Singularity requires concentration, and lasts
for up to a minute. You can use this feature once, regaining
its use when you finish a long rest.
Grimoire of Demonology
Warlocks of the demonology grimoire have mastered
harnessing the power of the malefic demon beings on the
field of battle. While their practice is often considered by
outsiders as wicked and reckless, the demonologist
maintains absolute control over their enslaved creatures.
Expanded Spell List
Demonology lets you choose from an expanded list of
spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells
are added to the warlock spell list for you.
Demonology Expanded Spells
Spell Level Spells
1st mind blast, sudden awakening
2nd find steed, suggestion
3rd animate dead, * hex
4th charm monster, dominate beast
5th hold monster, planar binding
Wild Imps
Starting at 1st level, whenever you get the final blow or
critically hit a target with a spell using a spell slot, you
bring forth an imp from the twisting nether to assist you in
combat. The imp is summoned in an unoccupied square
within 15 feet of you. The wild imps follows the same rules
given in your Demon Companion feature, with the excep-
tion of the damage dealt to you upon its death.
You can have a number of wild imps under your control
equal to 1/4 of your Warlock level rounded up (minimum of
1). Any wild imps summoned beyond that replaces your
oldest imp. Your wild imps stays for up to 10 minutes,
before being sucked back into the twisting nether, or until
you dismiss them or they die.
Demons Calling
Beginning at 6th level, you can regain hit points equal to
1d8 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point)
when you succeed on a death saving throw, or when you
stabilize a creature with spare the dying.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you
finish a long rest.
Soul Link
Starting at 10th level, the bond between master and minion
has strengthened unlike any other summoner. Upon taking
damage, you can use you and your demons reaction to split
the damage between the two of you, your demon taking the
higher number of the damage rolls are uneven, additionally,
you both gain resistance to damage except psychic against
the damage.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Intelligence modifier, regaining expended uses when you
finish a short or long rest.
Infernal Meteor
At 14th level, you can conjure forth an infernal from the
twisting nether, the infernal arrives on Azeroth through the
use of its meteoric arrival feature.
At the beginning of your following turn, the meteor
transforms into a huge infernal. The infernal crumbles
when it drops to 0 hit points or when an hour has passed.
The infernal follows the same rules given in your Demon
Companion feature, with the exception of the damage dealt
to you upon its death.
If your concentration is broken, the infernal doesn't
dissolve into the twisting nether. Instead, the infernal
breaks free of your bonds and becomes hostile towards you
and your companions. An uncontrolled infernal can't be
dismissed by you, but returns into the twisting nether after
an hour has passed.
Infernal Meteor requires concentration, and lasts up to
an hour. You can use this feature once, regaining its use
when you finish a long rest.
Grimoire of Destruction
Warlocks of the destruction grimoire are well-versed in
discharging a dizzying array of shadow, fel, fire, and chaos
magics upon opponents that rattle souls and conflagrate
bodies. They require little motivation for the havoc they
wreak, happy to revel in the destruction they cause, thrilled
at any opportunity to watch the world erupt in discord.
Expanded Spell List
Destruction lets you choose from an expanded list of spells
when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are
added to the warlock spell list for you.
Destruction Expanded Spells
Spell Level Spells
1st burning hands, witch bolt
2nd aganazzar's scorcher, scorching ray
3rd erupting earth, flame arrows
4th fire shield, wall of fire
5th flame strike, planar binding
Bonus Cantrips
At 1st level, you learn the control flames and firebolt
cantrip. They count as warlock cantrips for you, but they
don't count against your number of cantrips known.
Chaos Magic
Starting at 1st level, any warlock spell cast using a spell slot
deals fire or necrotic damage deals an additional 1d6 dam-
age of the opposite damage type. For example, a burning
hands would deal an additional 1d6 necrotic damage.
Spells that deal both fire and necrotic damage deals an
additional 1d10 damage of either fire or necrotic.
Sacrificial Pact
Beginning at 6th level, your demonic companion are
becoming more of a hindrance than a help. As an action,
you can sacrifice your demon to empower yourself further,
killing your demon this way does not harm you or deal
damage to you. As long as your companion is sacrificed,
any spell cast using a spell slot deals an extra 1d6 damage
of the appropriate type for every second challenge rating
level of the summoned demon. For example, a demon with
a challenge rating of 1 or 2 would make you deal an extra
1d6 damage, and a demon with a challenge rating of 3 or 4
would make you deal an additional 2d6 damage.
The effect of your sacrificed companion lasts until you
summon a new one from the void.
Twisted Fortitude
Starting at 10th level, chaotic energy is beginning to linger
deep within your body, whenever you finish a long rest, you
gain resistance to your choice of fire or necrotic damage
until you finish your next long rest.
Additionally you ignore the effects of extreme heat.
Chaos Bolt
At 14th level, you are able to hurl a roaring bolt of chaotic
energy against a target. Choose a target within 120 feet,
the target is required to make a Constitution saving throw.
On a fail, they take 4d8 necrotic damage plus 30 fire
damage, and half of that damage on a successful one.
Once you have used this feature you cannot use it again
until you have finished a long rest.
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 Warrior
Now, watch them attack me. Pitiful! Do they think to take
vengeance for their fallen? Do they come to challenge ME?
I, who have won a hundred wars? I, who stood alone
against thousands and still shouted for my enemies to
come? No, these saurok will crumple before me like paper
before the flame!
— Skeer the Bloodseeker
A human in clanging plate armor holds her shield high
before her as she charges toward the massed kobolds. A
night elf behind her, clad in studded leather armor, peppers
the kobolds with arrows loosed from his exquisite bow. The
dwarf nearby shouts orders, helping the two combatants
coordinate their assault to the best advantage.
An orc in chainmail interposes his shield between the
ogre's club and his companion in a swift action, knocking
the deadly blow aside. His companion, a blood elf in scale
armor, swings two scimitars in a blinding whirl as she
circles the ogre, looking for a blind spot in its defenses.
A gladiator fights for sport in an arena, a master with his
trident and net, skilled at toppling foes and moving them
around for the crowd's delight, and his own tactical
advantage. His opponent's sword flares with blue light an
instant before she sends lightning flashing forth to smite
him.
Ancient Practice
For as long as war has raged, heroes from every race have
aimed to master the art of battle. Warriors combine
strength, leadership, and a vast knowledge of arms and
armor to wreak havoc in glorious combat. Some protect
from the front lines with shields, locking down enemies
while allies support the warrior from behind with spell and
bow. Others forgo the shield and unleash their rage at the
closest threat with a variety of deadly weapons.
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The warrior’s battle cries embolden friends and leave foes
cowering in fear. With legendary precision, warriors target
the smallest gaps in armor and slice at hamstrings in a blur
of steel.
Every dragon slain, corrupted tyrant toppled, and demon
banished from Azeroth has trembled in the face of these
lords of war.
Warriors are the quintessential fearless fighters on the
battlefield, and their pure martial prowess inspires courage
in allies and despair in enemies. Experts in all manner of
melee weaponry and possessing incredible physical
strength and skill, Warriors are perfectly suited to serve as
frontline combatants and battlefield commanders.
Well-Rounded Specialists
Warriors learn the basics of all combat styles. Every
warrior can swing an axe, fence with a rapier, wield a
longsword or a greatsword, use a bow, and even trap foes in
a net with some degree of skill. Likewise, a warrior is adept
with shields and every form of armor. Beyond that basic
degree of familiarity, each fighter specializes in a certain
style of combat. Some concentrate on protection their
allies from mortal blows, some on fighting with two
weapons at once, and some prefer a single large weapon
able to be wielded with extraordinary force. This
combination of broad general ability and extensive
specialization makes fighters superior combatants on
battlefields and in dungeons alike.
The Warrior
Proficiency
Level Bonus Features
1st +2 Fighting Style, Second Wind
2nd +2 Action Surge (one use)
3rd +2 Martial Stance
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement
5th +3 Extra Attack
6th +3 Ability Score Improvement
7th +3 Martial Stance Improvement
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement
9th +4 Indomitable (one use)
10th +4 Martial Stance Improvement
11th +4 Extra Attack (2)
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement
13th +5 Indomitable (two uses)
14th +5 Ability Score Improvement
15th +5 Martial Stance Improvement
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement
Action Surge (two uses), Indomitable
17th +6
(three uses)
18th +6 Martial Stance Improvement
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement
20th +6 Extra Attack (3)
Class Features
As a warrior, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d10 per warrior level
Creating a Warrior Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 + your Constitution
As you build your warrior, think about two related elements modifier per warrior level after 1st
of your character's background: Where did you get your
combat training, and what set you apart from the mundane Proficiencies
fighters around you? Were you particularly ruthless? Did Armor: All armor, shields
you get extra help from a mentor, perhaps because of your Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons, firearms
exceptional dedication? What drove you to this training in Tools: None
the first place? A threat to your homeland, a thirst for Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution
revenge, or a need to prove yourself might ail have been Skills: Choose two skills from Acrobatics, Animal
factors. Handling, Athletics. History, Insight, Intimidation,
You might have enjoyed formal training in a noble's army Perception, and Survival
or in a local militia. Perhaps you trained in a war academy,
learning strategy, tactics, and military history. Or you might Equipment
be self-taught—unpolished but well tested. Did you take up You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
the sword as a way to escape the limits of life on a farm, or equipment granted by your background:
are you following a proud family tradition? Where did you (a) chain mail or (b) leather, longbow, and 20 arrows
acquire your weapons and armor? They might have been (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial
military issue or family heirlooms. or perhaps you weapons
scrimped and saved for years to buy them. Your armaments (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) two handaxes
are now among your most important possessions—the only (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
things that stand between you and death's embrace.
Quick Build Fighting Style
You can make a warrior quickly by following these You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty.
suggestions. First, Strength should be your highest ability Choose one of the following options. You can't take a
score, followed by Constitution. Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get
to choose again.
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 Defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Dueling
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no
other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with
that weapon.
Great Weapon Fighting
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you
make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two
hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll,
even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the
two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this
benefit.
Protection
When a creature you can see attacks a target other than
you that is within 5 feet of you. you can use your reaction to
impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be
wielding a shield.
Two-Weapon Fighting
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your
ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.
Second Wind
You have a limited well of stamina that you can draw on to
protect yourself from harm. On your turn, you can use a
bonus action to regain hit points equal to Id10 + your
warrior level.
Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long
rest before you can use it again.
Action Surge
Starting at 2nd level, you can push yourself beyond your
normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one
additional action on top of your regular action and a
possible bonus action.
Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long
rest before you can use it again. Starting at 17th level, you
can use it twice before a rest, but only once on the same
turn.
Martial Stance
At 3rd level, you choose a stance that you strive to emulate
in your combat styles and techniques. Choose Arms, Fury,
or Protection, all detailed at the end of the class
description. The stance you choose grants you features at
3rd level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th,
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
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of
once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
The number of attacks increases to three when you
reach 11th level in this class and to four when you reach
20th level in this class.
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Indomitable
Beginning at 9th level, you can reroll a saving throw that
you fail. If you do so, you must use the new roll, and you
can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.
You can use this feature twice between long rests
starting at 13th level and three times between long rests
starting at 17th level.
Martial Stances
Different fighters choose different approaches to perfecting
their fighting prowess. The martial stance you choose to
emulate reflects your approach.
Arms
As a childhood of sparring defines a warrior’s destiny, so
too does one’s choice of weapon determine their role on the
battlefield. Arms warriors gravitate toward two-handed
weapons instinctively. Two-handed weapons allow them to
deliver devastating, overpowering blows, fully exploiting
their enemies’ weaknesses.
Improved Critical
Beginning when you choose this stance at 3rd level, your
weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.
Combat Enhancement
Starting at 7th level, choose one of the following combat
enhancements.
Brutal Attacker: When you roll for an attack and
critically hit, your weapon deals three times as much
damage, instead of twice.
Sword Master: When making an attack with advantage,
you may make an an additional attack against the same
target as a bonus action.
Perceptive Footworker: You can take the Disengage or
Dash action as a bonus action.
Whenever you gain a level as a warrior you can change
your Combat Enhancement to another from the list.
Superior Critical
Beginning at 10th level. your weapon attacks score a
critical hit on a roll of 18-20.
Bladestorm
Upon reaching 15th level, you can bring down a swirl of
attacks. When you make your first attack on your turn, you
can decide to forgo your extra attacks to make a
bladestorm. Once done, choose any number of creatures
within 10 feet of you, and make a seperate attack roll
against each target, rolling damage simultaneously for all
successful hits. Until the beginning of your next turn, attack
rolls against you have advantage.
You can use this feature three times a day, regaining
expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Survivor
At 18th level, you attain the pinnacle of resilience in battle.
At the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points
equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier if you have no more
than half of your hit points left. You don't gain this benefit if
you have 0 hit points.
Fury
On the battlefield and in the arena, the most feared
combatants are often the furious berserkers who lust for
battle and thirst for blood. Through a lifetime of training
and sparring, these merciless warriors have become
masters of carnage, often wielding a weapon in each hand
to maximize the destruction.
Reckless Attack
Beginning when you choose this stance at 3rd level, you
can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with
fierce desperation. When you make your first attack on
your turn, you can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so
gives you advantage on melee weapon attack rolls using
Strength during this turn, but attack rolls against you have
advantage until your next turn.
Rage
Also starting at 3rd level, you fight with primal ferocity. On
your turn, you can enter a rage as a bonus action.
While raging, you gain the following benefits:
You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength
saving throws.
You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and
slashing damage.
You can make a single weapon attack as a bonus action
on each of your turns.
If you are able to cast spells, you cannot cast them or
concentrate on them while raging.
Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are
knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven't
attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken
damage since then. You can also end your rage on your
turn as a bonus action.
You can rage a number of times equal to your Constitu-
tion modifier (minimum of 1), after which you must finish a
long rest before you can rage again.
Trance of Battle
Beginning at 7th level, you can't be charmed or frightened
while raging. If you are charmed or frightened when you
enter your rage, the effect is suspended for the duration of
the rage.
Endless Rage
At 10th level, your rage can keep you fighting despite
grievous wounds. If you drop to 0 hit points while you're
raging and don't die outright, you can make a DC 10
Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, you drop to 1 hit
point instead.
Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC
increases by 5. When you finish a short or long rest, the DC
resets to 10.
Retaliation
Upon reaching 15th level, when you take damage from a
creature that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reac-
tion to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.
Titan's Grip
At 18th level, the strength of which you wield your weapons
are unprecedented, whenever you hit with a target with a
melee weapon, you add twice your Strength modifier to the
weapons damage roll.
Protection
Like their counterparts, protection warriors are virtually
bred for physical dominance, having been raised in the art
of close-quarters combat, but their measured approach to
battle is what distinguishes them from their comrades-in-
arms. They demonstrate an uncanny knack for blade and
shield, nullifying an opponent’s advances and creating
opportunities for counterattacks.
Shield Slam
Beginning when you choose this stance at 3rd level, you are
able to use your shield for more than defense. If you have
the Protection fighting style, you can make a shield slam
against the target as part of the same reaction, dealing 1d6
+ your Strength modifier bludgeoning damage. Additionally
if you don't have the Protection fighting style, you can use a
reaction upon being targeted by a melee attack roll to make
a shield slam towards the attacker. This does not impose
disadvantage on their attack roll against you.
You may also exchange on of your attacks in your Attack
action if desired. Shield slams damage increases by 2d6
upon reaching 7th level (3d6), and 15th level (5d6).
Provoke
Starting at 7th level, you can use an action to attempt to
provoke enemies within 30 feet of you. All enemies within
range has to make a Wisdom saving throw against your
choice of Charisma (Persuasion), or Charisma (Perfor-
mance). On a fail, the targets moves their full movement
towards you, and directs any actions possible towards you
for five rounds.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your
Intelligencea modifier (minimum of 1), regaining expended
uses when you finish a short or long rest.
Improved Second Wind
Beginning at 10th level, the hit points gained through
second wind increases to 2d10 + twice your warrior level.
Relentless
Upon reaching 15th level, you can choose a second option
from the Fighting Style class feature, additionally, your hit
point maximum increases by 2 whenever you gain a
warrior level, and for each warrior level you have gained.
Last Stand
At 18th level, when your hit points are reduced to 0 or
below, you make a final a final stand before collapsing
Upon reaching 0 hit points, you immediately gain tempor-
ary hit points equal to 1/4 of your maximum health. At the
end of each of your turns, you must make a DC 10
Constitution saving throw, or take psychic damage equal to
your level. For each successful save, the DC goes up by 1.
Any healing done to you removes all of your remaining
temporary hit points, and heals you for the spells amount.
Once this feature has been used, it cannot be used again
until the end of a long rest.
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Chapter 3: Personality & Background

C
haracters are defined by much more than their Height and Weight
race and class. They're individuals with their
own stories, interests, connections, and You can decide your character's height and weight, using
capabilities beyond those that class and race the information provided in your race description or on the
define. This chapter expounds on the details Random Height and Weight table. Think about what your
that distinguish characters from one another, character's ability scores might say about his or her height
including the basics of name and physical and weight.
description, the rules of backgrounds and languages, and You can roll for your character's height and weight using
the finer points of personality and alignment. the Random Height and Weight table. The dice roll given in
the Height Modifier column determines the character's
Character Details extra height (in inches) beyond the base height. That same
number multiplied by the dice roll or quantity given in the
Your character's name and physical description might be Weight Modifier column determines the character's extra
the first things that the other players at the table learn weight (in pounds) beyond the base weight.
about you It's worth thinking about how these
characteristics reflect the character you have in mind. Random Height and Weight
Base Height Base Weight
Name Race Height Modifier Weight Modifier
Your character's race description includes the rules that Blood Elf 4'9" +2d10 90 lb. x (1d4) lb.
race follow for naming their offspring and kin. Put some Draenei, Broken 5" +2d8 145 lb. x (2d4) lb.
thought into your name, it may be something you will have
to keep for a long time. Draenei, Exodar 5'5" +2d10 175 lb. x (2d6) lb.
Dwarf, Dark 3'7" +2d4 110 lb. x (2d6) lb.
Sex Dwarf, Iron 3'8" +2d4 115 lb. x (2d6) lb.
You can play a male or female character without gaining
any special benefits or hindrances. Think about how your Dwarf, Wild 4'4" +2d4 130 lb. x (2d6) lb.
character does or does not conform to the broader culture's Forsaken, Elf 4'7" +2d10 90 lb. x (1d4) lb.
expectations of sex, gender, and sexual behavior. For
example, a male blood elf druid defies the traditional Forsaken, Human 4'6" +2d10 110 lb. x (2d4) lb.
gender divisions of blood elf society, which could be a Gnome 2'11" +2d4 40 lb. x 1 lb.
reason for your character to leave that society and venture Goblin 2'7" +2d4 35 lb. x 1 lb.
Azeroth.
Human 4'8" +2d10 110 lb. x (2d4) lb.
Night Elf 5'6" +2d8 150 lb. x (1d6) lb.
Cayla and Endrik:
Contrasting Characters Orc 5'1" +2d10 155 lb. x (2d6) lb.
The details in this chapter make a big difference Pandaren 5'3" +2d6 150 lb. x (2d6) lb.
in setting your character apart from every other
character. Consider the following two human Tauren, Blood 6'3" +2d8 200 lb. x (2d6) lb.
fighters. Tauren, Grim 6'2" +2d10 190 lb. x (2d6) lb.
Hailing from Hammerfall. Cayla Davenport was
a brash teenager who had a rough childhood. The Tauren, High 6'4" +2d10 210 lb. x (2d6) lb.
daughter of a thief, she ran away from home and Troll, Forest 5'8" +2d10 150 lb. x (2d6) lb.
practiced her father's trade on the streets of
Southshore. When she tried to rob the proprietor Troll, Ice 5'4" +2d10 175 lb. x (2d6) lb.
of the Inn, the Early Oak, he caught her and took
her under his wing, giving her a job as a barmaid. Troll, Jungle 5'3" +2d8 160 lb. x (2d4) lb.
But when the scourge laid waste to the town of Worgen 6'2" +2d10 140 lb. x (2d6) lb.
Southshore and destroyed the inn, necessity
forced Cayla into adventure alongside the friends
she'd known from her childhood.
For example, as a human, Cayla has a height of 4 feet 8
Endrik Goodwin grew up on the streets of
inches plus 2d10 inches. Her player rolls 2d10 and gets a
Lakeshire. He used his wits, strength, and agility total of 12, so Cayla stands 5 Feet 8 inches tall. Then the
to carve out his own territory in one of the city's player uses that same roll of 12 and multiplies it by 2d4
hundreds of poor shanty towns. After several pounds. Her 2d4 roll is 3, so Tika weighs an extra 36
years, he attracted the notice of one of the most pounds (12 x 3) on top of her base 110 pounds, for a total
powerful thieves' guilds in the city, and he of 146 pounds.
ascended the ranks of the guild quickly despite
his youth. Other Physical Characteristics
Cayla and Endrik are both human and both
warriors (with some experience as rogues), You choose your character's age and the color of his or her
possessing similarly high Strength and Dexterity hair, eyes, and skin. To add a touch of distinctiveness, you
scores, but there the similarity ends. might want to give your character an unusual or
memorable physical characteristic, such as a scar, a Iimp,
or a tattoo.
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 Cayla and Endrik: Character Details
Consider how the names Cayla Davenport and
Endrik Goodwin set these characters apart from
each other and reflect their personalities. Cayla is
a young woman determined to prove that she's
not just a kid any more, and her name makes her
sound young and ordinary. Endrik Goodwin
comes from a the Stormwind province and
carries a name of riches.
Cayla is nineteen years old at the start of her
adventuring career and has auburn hair, green
eyes, fair skin with freckles, and a mole on her
right hip. Endrik is a small man, compact and all
wiry muscle. He has angular features and high
cheekbones, and he always seems in need of a
shave. His raven-black hair is thick and full, but
his eyes are gray and lifeless, betraying the
emptiness of his life and soul.
Alignment
A typical creature on Azeroth has an alignment, which
broadly describes its moral and personal attitudes.
Alignment is a combination of two factors: one identifies
morality (good, evil, or neutral), and the other describes
attitudes toward society and order (lawful, chaotic, or
neutral). Thus, nine distinct alignments define the possible
combinations.
These brief summaries of the nine alignments describe
the typical behavior of a creature with that alignment.
Individuals might vary significantly from that typical
behavior, and few people are perfectly and consistently
faithful to the precepts of their alignment.
Lawful good (LG) creatures can be counted on to do the
right thing as expected by society. Most paladins, and
dwarves are lawful good.
Neutral good (NG) folk do the best they can to help
others according to their needs. Many celestials, and most
gnomes are neutral good.
Chaotic good (CC) creatures act as their conscience
directs, with little regard for what others expect. Many
elves, and unicorns are chaotic good.
Lawful neutral (LN) individuals act in accordance with
law, tradition, or personal codes. Many monks and some
mages are lawful neutral.
Neutral (N) is the alignment of those who prefer to steer
clear of moral questions and don't take sides, doing what
seems best at the time. Many humans are neutral.
Chaotic neutral (CN) creatures follow their whims,
holding their personal freedom above all else. Many
warriors and rogues, are chaotic neutral.
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Lawful evil (LE) creatures methodically take what they
want, within the limits of a code of tradition, loyalty, or
order. Most black dragonflights, and sentient demons are
lawful evil.
Neutral evil (NE) is the alignment of those who do
whatever they can get away with, without compassion or
qualms. Many goblins, and warlocks are neutral evil.
Chaotic evil (CE) creatures act with arbitrary violence,
spurred by their greed, hatred, or bloodlust. Most Demons
and gnolls are chaotic evil.
Alignment on Azeroth
For many thinking creatures, alignment is a moral choice.
Humans, dwarves, elves, and other humanoid races can
choose to follow the paths of good or evil, law or chaos.
According to myth, these races were giving free will to
choose their moral paths, knowing that good without free
will is slavery. The evil who created other races, though,
made those races to serve them. Those races have strong
inborn tendencies. Centaurs share a violent temperament,
running deep in their blood, and are thus inclined toward
evil. Even if an centaur chooses a good alignment, it
struggles against its innate tendencies for its entire life.
Alignment is an essential part of the nature of celestials
and fiends. A devil does not choose to be lawful evil, and it
doesn't tend toward lawful evil, but rather it is lawful evil in
its essence. If it somehow ceased to be lawful evil, it would
cease to be a devil.
Most creatures that lack the capacity for rational thought
do not have alignments, they are unaligned. Such a
creature is incapable of making a moral or ethical choice
and acts according to its bestial nature. Sharks are savage
predators, for example, but they are not evil; they have no
alignment.
Cayla and Endrik: Alignment
Cayla Davenport is neutral good, fundamentally
good-hearted and striving to help others where
she can. Endrik is lawful evil, unconcerned with
the value of sentient life but at least professional
in his approach to murder.
As an evil character, Endrik is not an ideal
adventurer. He began his career as a villain, and
only cooperates with heroes when he must—and
when it's in his own best interests. In most
games, evil adventurers cause problems in
groups alongside others who don't share their
interests and objectives. Generally, evil
alignments are for villains and monsters.
Languages Personality Traits
Your race indicates the languages your character can speak Give your character two personality traits. Personality
by default, and your background might give you access to traits are small, simple ways to help you set your character
one or more additional languages of your choice. Note apart from every other character. Your personality traits
these languages on your character sheet. should tell you something interesting and fun about your
character. They should be self descriptions that are specific
Choose your languages from your Affiliations Language about what makes your character stand out. "I'm smart" is
table, or choose one that is common in your campaign. not a good trait, because it describes a lot of characters.
With your DM's permission, you can instead choose a "I've read every book in Dalaran" tells you something
language from the Exotic Languages table or a secret specific about your character's interests and disposition.
language, or undocumented language, such as thieves' cant Personality traits might describe the things your
or the tongue of druids. character likes, his or her past accomplishments, things
Some of these languages are actually families of your character dislikes or fears, your character's self
languages with many dialects. For example, the Kalimag attitude or mannerisms, or the influence of his or her
language includes the Auran, Aquan, Ignan, and Terran ability scores.
dialects, one for each of the four elemental planes. A useful place to start thinking about personality traits is
Creatures that speak different dialects of the same to look at your highest and lowest ability scores and define
language can communicate with one another. one trait related to each. Either one could be positive or
Alliance Languages negative: you might work hard to overcome a low score, for
Language Typical Speakers Script
example, or be cocky about your high score.
Common Humans, Worgens Common Ideals
Dwarven Dwarves Runic
Describe one ideal that drives your character. Your ideals
are the things that you believe in most strongly, the
Darnassian Night Elves Darnassian fundamental moral and ethical principles that compel you
Gnomeish Gnomes Common
to act as you do. Ideals encompass everything from your
life goals to your core belief system.
Drae'ni Draeneis Eredic Ideals might answer any of these questions: What are the
principles that you will never betray? What would prompt
Horde Languages you to make sacrifices? What drives you to act and guides
Language Typical Speakers Script your goals and ambitions? What is the single most
important thing you strive for?
Orcish Orcs Common, Runic You can choose any ideals you like, but your character's
Gutterspeak Forsaken Common alignment is a good place to start defining them. Each
background in this chapter includes six suggested ideals.
Taur-ahe Taurens Pictoform Five of them are linked to aspects of alignment: law, chaos,
Zandali Trolls — good, evil, and neutrality. The last one has more to do with
the particular background than with moral or ethical
Thalassian Blood Elves Darnassian perspectives.
Goblin Goblins Common
Bonds
Exotic Languages Create one bond for your character. Bonds represent a
Language Typical Speakers Script
character's connections to people, places, and events in the
world. They tie you to things from your background. They
Eredun Demons Eredic might inspire you to heights of heroism, or lead you to act
Celestial Celestials Celestial
against your own best interests if they are threatened. They
can work very much like ideals, driving a character's
Draconic Dragons Runic motivations and goals.
Giant Ogres — Bonds might answer any of these questions: Whom do
you care most about? To what place do you feel a special
Kalimag Elementals Runic connection? What is your most treasured possession?
Low Common Lesser Races Common Your bonds might be tied to your class, your background,
your race, or some other aspect of your character's history
Pandaren Pandarens Calligraphy or personality. You might also gain new bonds over the
course of your adventures.
Personal Characteristics
Flaws
Fleshing out your character's personality, the array of traits, Finally, choose a flaw for your character. Your character's
mannerisms, habits, beliefs, and flaws that give a person a flaw represents some vice, compulsion, fear, or weakness
unique identity—will help you bring him or her to life as you in particular, anything that someone else could exploit to
play the game. Four categories of characteristics are bring you to ruin or cause you to act against your best
presented here: personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws. interests. More significant than negative personality traits,
Beyond those categories, think about your character's a flaw might answer any of these questions: What enrages
favorite words or phrases, tics and habitual gestures, vices you? What's the one person, concept, or event that you are
and pet peeves, and whatever else you can imagine. terrified of? What are your vices?

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Hero Points
The actions of a hero often include acts of such a daring
nature and chance that it is almost impossible to guarantee
a sure outcome. Even though every hero confronts perils,
on the world of Azeroth fate is on the side of those who
face adversity head on and challenge evil and darkness
without fear of death.
A paladin who stands alone against a horde of undead
while his companions heal a dying comrade, a rogue who
leaps after a precious artifact dropped from a lofty tower
balcony, a warrior who throws himself against a vastly
superior opponent. . . These are the heroes whose actions
inspire stories and legends.
Hero points are rewards for that type of valiant action,
these points allow a player to bend the fates in his
character's favor, and such power requires more hands-on
judgement from a DM than most other rules. Hero points
blur the lines of action and allow characters to perform the
exceptional and even the impossible.
Hero Points are meant as an alternative to Dungeons &
Dragons Inspiration, you can use either system, but they
are not meant to be played on top of one another.
Gaining Hero Points
The power given by hero points can be immense, your DM
can choose to grant you hero points for your heroic actions.
Some heroes might not ever earn a hero point, and even
when a character does, there is no guarantee that the
player will use it when the right time comes.
Your DM will tell you how and when you've earned a hero
point within the game, either during the session or at its
beginning/end.
You either have a hero point or you don't, you can't
stockpile multiple hero points for later use. Likewise, you
cannot earn a hero point through an action that you spend
a hero point on performing.
Using Hero Points
You can use hero points only before determining the
success or failure of your actions. Before you make a roll,
you can announce that you are going to use a hero point. If
you're rolling a d20 to dictate the success or failure of your
action, the hero point will add a +10 bonus to that roll.
Physical Fighter
If used with an attack roll, and the attack roll results in a hit
without the added bonus from the hero point, your hero
point does one of the following, at the player's discretion:
Powerful Blow. Your attack acts as a critical hit, dealing
double damage.
Called Shot. Your attack strikes a specific spot on the
target, dealing its normal weapon damage and inflicting the
target with one of the following effects.
Headshot. The target is stunned until the beginning of
your next turn.
Blinding Blow. The target is blinded for four rounds.
Nerve Strike. Choose one of the targets limbs (if any) to
be rendered useless for 6 rounds.
None of the effects dealt by called shot are eligible for a
saving throw to resist or negate their effects .
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Action Surger
You can use a hero point to make the next turn yours out of
initiative order. Once you've finished the turn, the initiative
goes back to normal, and you return to your place in the
initiative count.
Spell Fighter
If used when you cast a spell, two options are usable with
hero points.
Power Surge. If your spell requires a roll of a d20 to hit,
and your spell attack roll results in a hit without the added
bonus from the hro point, your spell acts as a critical hit,
dealing double damage.
Forceful Spell. You can use a hero point on a spell that
requires a saving throw to resist or negate to give it a +10
bonus to your saving throw DC for that one spell.
Defensive
You can use a hero point when being attacked physically or
magically. The hero point adds a +10 bonus to your Armor
class, this bonus. Additionally, you can use the hero point to
add a +10 bonus to a saving throw.
If you make a saving throw against a spell for half
damage, and did not need the bonus added by the hero
point to succeed the save, you instead take no damage from
the spell. (As by Rogue's evasion)
Survivor
If you fail your third death saving throw, or suffer from
massive damage, you can expend a hero point to avoid
death, and instead fall to 0 health and become stable.
At your DMs discretion you can suffer some signature
injury (a scar, a lost eye, a limp, or so on) befitting the
circumstances, as a reminder that hero points will not
always be there to save you.
Hero Point Summary
Standard Uses
Augmenting a skill roll
Improving a combat roll
Ensuring a spell's success
Dramatic Uses
Leaping to catch a live grenade and throwing
it back
Swinging from a rope to land on a flying
gryphon
Pinning the warlock's hand to the wall with an
arrow.
New Backgrounds
Every story has a beginning. Your character's background
reveals where you came from, how you became an
adventurer, and your place in the world. Your warrior might
have been a courageous knight or a grizzled soldier. Your
mage could have been a sage or an artisan. Your rogue
might have gotten by as a guild thief or commanded
audiences as a jester.
Choosing a background provides you with important
story cues about your character's identity. The most
important question to ask about your background is what
changed? Why did you stop doing whatever your back-
ground describes and start adventuring? Where did you
get the money to purchase your starting gear, or, if you
come from a wealthy background, why don't you have more
money? How did you learn the skills of your class? What
sets you apart from ordinary people who share your
background?
The backgrounds in this chapter are meant as additions
to the factions presented in the Player's Handbook, not as
replacements for them.
Proficiencies
Each background gives a character proficiency in two
skills. Skills are described in chapter 6 of the Player's
Handbook.
In addition, most backgrounds give a character profi-
ciency with one or more tools. Tools and tool proficiencies
are detailed in chapter 5 of the Player's Handbook.
If a character would gain the same proficiency from two
different sources, he or she can choose a different profi-
ciency of the same kind (skill or tool) instead.
Languages
Some backgrounds also allow characters to learn
additional languages beyond those given by race. See
"Languages" earlier in this chapter.
Equipment
Each background provides a package of starting equip-
ment. if you use the optional rule from chapter 4 to spend
coin on gear, you do not receive the starting equipment
from your background.
Suggested Characteristics
A background contains suggested personal characteristics
based on your background. You can pick characteristics,
roll dice to determine them randomly, or use the sugges-
tions as inspiration for characteristics of your own creation.
Customizing a Background
You might want to tweak some of the features of a back-
ground so it better fits your character or the campaign
setting. To customize a background, you can replace one
feature with any other one, choose any two skills, and
choose a total of two tool proficiencies or languages from
the sample backgrounds.
You can either use the equipment package from your
background or spend coin on gear as described in chapter
4. (If you spend coin, you can't also take the equipment
package suggested for your class.) Finally, choose two
personality traits, one ideal, one bond, and one flaw. If you
can't find a feature that matches your desired background,
work with your DM to create one.

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Double Agent
You are an informant for an opposing faction or organi-
zation, secretly providing them with false information on
behalf of another organization in which your loyalty lies.
You may be an informant for the Scarlet Crusade, providing
them with false intel on behalf of the forsakens. Perhaps
you are a member of the Bilgewater Cartel, providing the
goblin trade partners with false information to give the
cartel the richest scores whilst staying out of their reach.
Discuss with your DM the factions/organizations you are
working with and against.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Insight
Tool Proficiencies: Forgery kit
Languages: One of your choice from the opposite faction
Equipment: Forgery kit, dagger, two pieces of chalk, 4
sheets of parchment, one bottle of ink, one quill, a set of
traveler's clothes, and a belt pouch containing 15 gp
Feature: Two Sides of One Coin
You have contacts within both organizations that you
provide information to and/or for. Official organizations will
often allow you to commit minor crimes without fear of
punishment, or run a business without paying all the taxes
or fees typically required. Additionally, you can gain an
audience with functionaries from both organizations.
Suggested Characteristics
Having to work for two sides, hearing each sides story and
delivering crucial information false or not. This is not a life
for all, often shaping carries to leave personal connections
behind, distance themselves from 'close' allies.
d8 Personality Trait
1
People are only as valuable as the information
they have.
2 I act sophisticated and proper.
3
Being simple keeps me unnoticed and
underestimated.
4 I always share with those in need.
5 I am paranoid and a nervous wreck.
I try to gather as much information as I can
6
before I act.
I hide behind a facade, only showing my true self
7
to trusted friends.
8
I am always calm, no matter what the situation. I
never raise my voice or let emotions control me.
d6 Ideal
Selfless I use my position to help good people
1
avoid prosecution or victimization. (Good)
2
Manipulative I use secrets to manipulate and
blackmail others. (Evil)
Just Means I get my hands dirt for the greater
3
good. (Lawful)
4
Freedom I support mine and others right to do as
we wish. (Chaotic)
5
Everyone has something to hide, so I trust no one.
(Neutral)
Secretive Everyone has secrets, no one will ever
6
know mine. (Any)
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d6 Bond
I got involved in a web of lies to protect the ones
1
I love
2
I work to undermine an oppressive organization
that harms my home.
I was forced into providing information because I
3 was framed, so I found a way to get back a little of
my freedom.
4 My family relies on my support.
5
I am stuck in dangerous games because of a
loved one's poor decisions.
I need to advance in my position within my
6
organization.
d6 Flaw
1 I always think i'm one step ahead.
2 I see double agents everywhere.
3 I indulge in illegal behaviors whenever possible.
4 I am pessimistic about everything.
5 I am vindictive and impulsive.
6 I am reckless and seek dangerous thrills.
Faction Fostered
You were abandoned at birth and found by members of the
opposing faction, taken in by a family and raised as a
member of their faction. Having had a harsh childhood of
being shunned upon by members of the faction, never fully
being accepted but merely tolerated in their presence.
You might be a tauren born in the eastern kingdoms, and
abandoned by your parents, to be found by human farmers
that took you in, nurtured you and raised you as their own,
or you may be a human of Theramore, who ran away from
your home, to be taken in by orcs and raised as a member
of the horde within Orgrimmar, taught how to fight and
learn the language of orcs.
Discuss with your DM the details of the faction and race
who raised you, as not all races of Azeroth have an equal
relationship towards other races.
Skill Proficiencies: History, Perception
Languages: Two of your choice from the faction you were
raised ins faction languages.
Equipment: A set of common clothes, hooded cloak, a
trinket of your faction, book, one bottle of ink, one quill, and
a belt pouch containing 10 gp
Feature: A False Allegiance
Your race and appearance makes you able to enter and go
undisturbed through villages and cities of both factions, eye
may wander upon you as you walk, but none will stop and
ask questions, or raise arms against you.
Suggested Characteristics
Having lived a life amongst races of the opposite faction,
getting to know and love their customs often make faction
fostered social skills within their born faction limited. They
are nonetheless social individuals, many of which greatly
appreciate the races they now have grown up with, and
stand by their side against their own kin.
d8 Personality Trait
I am optimistic and appreciate simple gestures
1
given to me.
2
I am genial and make an honest effort to get
along with my new faction.
I smile often, but I am distrustful of people
3
outside my family.
I am quiet and study the people around me
4
intently.
5 I am always looking over my shoulder.
I am uncomfortable in urban settings and only
6
truly feel safe on the open road.
7 I am friendly and extremely curious.
8 I love to talk to people and hear their stories.
d6 Ideal
1
Loyalty I never betray a friend, no matter their
allegiance. (Lawful)
2 People I help those who help me. (Any)
3
Aspiration I will prove im worthy of this faction.
(Good)
4 Family Blood is thicker than water. (Lawful)
Anger I was abandoned and am angry at my kin
5
for being left behind. (Evil)
6 Peace All races deserve peace. (Neutral)
d6 Bond
1 My family means everything to me.
2
I owe everything to the people that took me in,
and would do anything for them.
My foster parents were better than my birth
3
parents and I love them dearly.
4 I strive to one day find the parents that left me.
I must prove myself worthy of the love of a
5 d8 Personality Trait
prominent family member.
6 I must complete a great quest to prove my worth.
d6 Flaw
1 I am very slow to trust others.
I have no sympathy for anyone of my born
2 4
faction.
3 I throw myself into danger recklessly
4 I try to talk my way out of every situation.
5 I always believe those of my foster race.
I am painfully shy and have difficulties speaking
6 8
to people I don't know.
Kirin Tor Apprentice
You have been accepted into the Kirin Tor, Dalarens elite
cadre of the most powerful wizards on Azeroth. You have
spent time within their school, earning yourself a magi
mentor to oversee your studies and guide your learning.
You've learnt the basics of the schools of magic, and the
ley lines of arcane magic that runs beneath the surface of
Azeroth. You've spent enough time within Kirin Tors
libraries, learning what knowledge interested you, and have
been sent out onto Azeroth by your mentor to seek know-
ledge elsewhere, and to gain experience.
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, History
Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan's tools
Languages: One of your choice
Equipment: A bottle of high quality ink, a quill, chalk, a
scroll case with 5 pieces of parchment, robes, a candle,
tinder box, and a belt pouch containing 15 gp
Feature: A Prominent Mentor
You know at least one prominent mage within the Kirin Tor
that you can call upon for answers and information. You've
learnt a simple but limited spell that makes you able to
contact them as long as you are on the same plane of
existence. The spell is limited to a 100 word message, and
a 100 word reply from the mentor. Once you've contacted
your mentor, you cannot contact him again for a week,
unless you expend a spell slot of 2nd level or higher.
At the DMs discretion, the mentors information may be
false, missing vital details, or they may not respond within
a timely fashion.
Discuss the details of the mages you know within the
Kirin Tor with your DM.
Suggested Characteristics
An apprentice of the Kirin Tor is often eager to learn what
lies around Azeroth, wishing to learn any knowledge given
to them. These apprentices vary drastically in personality,
but they all have one thing in common, a deep lying wish
for knowledge and understanding of the magic of the world.
1 I am quiet and observant.
I compare any magical effect i see to one I have
2
learned about.
3 I bring up my mentors' teachings often
I enjoy experiencing the world and avoid being
'cooped up' in a quiet or stuffy location.
5 I treat others as though they are unintelligent.
6 I am wide eyed and easily excited.
I like to use big words to showcase my
7
intelligence.
I enjoy an intellectual challenge.
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 d6 Ideal
Protection Magic can protect us from all the evils
1
in the world. (Good)
Power Knowledge can be leveraged into power in
2
the world, and I want more. (Evil)
Respect Magic deserves our humble efforts to
3
understand and master. (Lawful)
Experimentation New and exciting magics await
4
discovery. (Chaotic)
Knowledge Understanding the world around us is
5 1
the only thing that matters. (Neutral)
Self-Improvement I will achieve magical power
6 2
through self-mastery and understanding. (Any)
d6 Bond
I will be known for my power, knowledge, and
1
discoveries.
2 I will prove myself superior to my mentors.
3 I will bring honor and renown my family.
I will discover new magics that my mentor has
4
never heard of.
A former mentor was a monster, I will avenge his
5
victims.
I have heard of a scroll that contains knowledge I
6
seek that I must find.
d6 Flaw
I point out others mistakes to make them look
1
smaller so I feel bigger.
I can't resist the opportunity to learn a new spell
2
or gain a new magical item.
3 I never learned proper social skills or interactions.
I use spells and magic to do things I can do by
4
hand.
5 I have disdain for authority and act rebelliously.
6 I'm compelled to prove my superior intelligence.
Tribal Member
you were born and raised in the lands of your tribe. Your
tribe has a territory on which they reside. You may come
from of the many smaller tauren tribes that populate
Kalimdor, or from one of the vast expanding tribes of the
trolls. Perhaps you are a member of one of the prominent
orc clans. You may come from a tribe who have isolated
themselves, and have little contact with the outside world,
or a tribe that actively trade with civilized societies.
Skill Proficiencies: Nature, Survival
Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan's tools, one type of
musical instrument
Equipment: A set of common traveler's clothes, a set of
artisan's tools (one of your choice), a musical instrument
(one of your choice), tribal trinket, and a belt pouch
containing 10 gp.
Feature: At One with Nature
You are intimately familiar with the geography of your
home region.
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You know where water, shelter, and food can be found
anywhere within several miles of your home. You are good
at finding these areas when outside your home region as
well when in a climate like that of your home.
Suggested Characteristics
As a member of a tribe, the community is what matters
most, all have to work together and fill their shoes to make
the tribe work. Leaving no one behind to pick up the slack.
d8 Personality Trait
I am loyal and will do anything to protect my
tribe.
I speak plainly and often don't understand
subtlety.
3 I am contemptuous of larger civilizations.
4 I do not trust arcane magic and its casters.
5 I am naive and friendly to everyone.
6 I am baffled by cities and grand architecture.
7 I am unshakable and never back down.
8 I feel empathy for all that suffer.
d6 Ideal
Humility I am no better or worse than anyone else
1
on this world. (Good)
Xenophobia I do not understand the ways of
2
others, but know they are wrong. (Evil)
Order Every place has rules which must be
3
followed for everyone's good. (Lawful)
Freedom There is no rule in the wild, do what you
4
can to live. (Chaotic)
Balance All things and ways of being are natural
5
and necessary. (Neutral)
6 Unity A tribe that works together is strong. (Any)
d6 Bond
1 My family and my tribe are everything to me.
I left my tribe to prove my right to a prominent
2
place in the tribe hierarchy.
3
I love a prominent tribe member and must prove
I am worthy of their love.
4 My tribe is threatened and I must protect them.
My tribe was destroyed and I must have
5
vengeance.
6
I was dishonored and thrown out of my tribe, I
must prove my worth.
d6 Flaw
1 I don't understand social nuances.
2 I drink to excess.
3 I don't trust anyone not of my tribe.
4 I trust everyone to say what they mean.
I believe might proves right and will not listen to
5
those who are 'weak'.
6
I am insecure since my tribe appears weak
compared to larger, more modern societies.
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 Chapter 4: New Equipment
T
he marketplace of a large city teems with
buyers and sellers of many sorts: dwarf
smiths and elf woodcarvers, troll charms,
goblin relics, and gnome jewelers, not to
mention humans of every shape, size, and
color drawn from a spectrum of nations and
cultures. In the largest cities, almost
anything imaginable is offered for sale, from exotic spices
and luxurious clothing to wicker baskets, practical swords,
and beautiful elven bows.
For an adventurer, the availability of armor, weapons,
backpacks, rope, and similar goods is of paramount
importance, since proper equipment can mean the
difference between life and death in a dungeon or the
untamed wilds. This chapter details the mundane and
exotic merchandise that adventurers commonly find useful
in the face of the threats that Azeroth presents.
Starting Equipment
When you create your character, you receive equipment
based on a combination of your class and your chosen
background. Alternatively, you can start with a number of
gold pieces based on your class and spend them on items
from the lists in this chapter. See the Starting Wealth by
Class table to determine how much gold you have to spend.
You decide how your character came by this starting
equipment. It might have been an inheritance, or goods
that the character purchased during his or her upbringing.
You might have been equipped with a weapon. armor, and a
backpack as part of military service. You might even have
stolen your gear. A weapon could be a family heirloom,
passed down from generation to generation until your
character finally took up the mantle and followed in an
ancestor's adventurous footsteps.
Starting Wealth by Class
Class Funds
Druid 2d4 x 10 gp
Hunter 5d4 x 10 gp
Mage 4d4 x 10 gp
Monk 5d4 gp
Paladin 5d4 x 10 gp
Priest 4d4 x 10 gp
Rogue 4d4 x 10 gp
Shaman 5d4 x 10 gp
Warlock 4d4 x 10 gp
Warrior 5d4 x 10 gp
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Wealth
Wealth varies drastically on Azeroth according to region.
Coins, gems, trade goods, art object, animals, and property
can reflect your character's financial well-being. Members
of the peasantry trade in good, bartering for what they need
to scrape what gold necessary to pay of their taxes.
Members of the nobility trade either in legal rights, such
as the rights to a mine, a port, or farmland, or in gold bars,
measuring gold by the pound rather than by the coin.
Only merchants, adventurers, and those offering
professional services for hire commonly deal in coins.
Coinage
Common coins come in several different denominations
based on the relative worth of the metal from which they
are made. The three most common coins are the gold piece
(gp), the silver piece (sp), and the copper piece (cp).
With one gold piece, a character can buy a belt pouch, 50
feet of good rope, or a goat. A skilled (but not exceptional)
artisan can earn one gold piece a day. The gold piece is the
standard unit of measure for wealth, even if the coin itself
is not commonly used. When merchants discuss deals that
involve goods or services worth hundreds or thousands of
gold pieces, the transactions don't usually involve the
exchange of individual coins. Rather, the gold piece is a
standard measure of value, and the actual exchange is in
gold bars, letters of credit, or valuable goods.
One gold piece is worth ten silver pieces, the most
prevalent coin among commoners. One silver piece is
worth ten copper pieces, which are common among
laborers and beggars.
In addition, unusual coins made of other precious metals
sometimes appear in treasure hoards. The electrum piece
(ep) and the platinum piece (pp) originate from fallen
empires and lost kingdoms, and they sometimes arouse
suspicion and skepticism when used in transactions. An
electrum piece is worth five silver pieces, and a platinum
piece is worth ten gold pieces.
A standard coin weighs about a third of an ounce, so fifty
coins weigh a pound.
Standard Exchange Rates
Coin cp sp ep gp pp
Copper (cp) 1 1/10 1/50 1/100 1/1000
Silver (sp) 10 1 1/5 1/10 1/100
Silver (sp) 50 5 1 1/2 1/20
Gold (gp) 100 10 2 1 1/10
Platinum (pp) 1000 100 20 10 1
Racial Weapons
Some races favor specially made weapons before those
commonly used by most, a kaldorei night elf would almost
always pick the circular moon sword over the common
longsword if they had the choice, being a weapon of their
kin, something they have grown up with and around, and
learnt to use since a young age.
Likewise, taurens with their incredible strength favor
their blundering totems over slashing weapon, being able
to swing them with immense force to sunder their enemies.
Racial Weapon Proficiency
Your race, and feats can grant you proficiency with racial
weapons. Racial weapons are exotic weapons created and
used by certain races, and require special training to be
used properly, following the normal rules for wielding
weapons for players not proficient in their use.
Special Weapons
Weapons with special rules are described here.
Sin'dorei Warblade. Immediately after attacking an
enemy with this blade, you may make an additional attack
with its second blade using your bonus action.
Firearms
For tinkers, the invention of the crossbow was never
enough. They strived to further improve their ability to
attack from a distance without the use of magic. with the
invention of black powder, the Ironforge dwarves were
quick to act in experimenting with its uses, eventually
making the blunderbuss, or boomstick. Catching the atten-
tion of the tinkerer's gnomes of Khaz Modan, and the
goblins of Bilgewater.
Firearms as a whole has since improved drastically, the
old dwarven inventions modified and improved, yet still
stand as the cornerstone from which all firearms begin.
Firearm Proficiency
Your race, class, and feats can grant you proficiency with
firearms. Firearms are mechanical marvels, technology
used by few due to the technical difficulties that come with
them. They follow the normal rules for wielding weapons
for players not proficient in their use.
Ammunition
All firearms require ammunition to make an attack. For the
purpose of not over complicating them, their ammunition
has been put into three categories, pistol, rifle, and scatter
ammunition. Pistol ammunition referring to all firearms
held in one hand, rifle referring to two-handed firearms,
and scatter referring to any firearm with the scatter
property.
Ammunitions prices are found at the end of the firearm
table later in this chapter.

Racial Weapons
Name Cost Damage Weight Properties
Melee Weapons
Kaldorei Moon sword 15 gp 1d8 slashing 4 lb. —
Kaldorei Moonglaive 20 gp 1d6 slashing 3 lb. Finesse, light, thrown (range 20/60)
Sin'dorei Warblade 25 gp 1d8 slashing 5 lb. Special
Totem, tauren 20 gp 2d8 bludgeoning 45 lb. Heavy, two-handed
Warglaive 30 gp 1d8 slashing 3 lb. Light

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 Flintlock Firearms
A common trigger for firearms, requiring raw black powder
to be poured into the barrel following a bullet in order to be
fired. As powerful as flintlock weapons are, they carry on
tremendous flaw, these firearms are unable to be shot in
heavy rain, or while submerged in water.
Flintlock firearms are designed for adventurers of 1st
level or higher.
Caplock Firearms
A much rare, expensive trigger mechanism for firearms,
requiring specially made bullets with a black powder
compartment build into them to be operated. Making them
able to be shot even in heavy rain and whilst being
underwater.
Caplock firearms are designed for adventurers of 7th
level or higher.
Firearm Properties
Firearms is a volatile technology, and as such bring their
own unique set of weapon properties. Some properties are
followed by a number, and this number signifies an element
of that property. These properties replace the optional ones
presented in the Dungeon Master's Guide. Firearms are
ranged weapons.
Reload. A firearm can be fired a number of times equal
to its reload score before you must spend an action, or one
attack if you got multiple attacks per turn to reload. You
must have one free hand to reload a firearm.
Misfire. Whenever you make an attack roll with a
firearm, and the dice roll is equal to or lower than the
weapon's misfire score, the weapon malfunctions. The
attack misses, and the weapon cannot be used again until
you spend an action to try repair it.
To repair your firearm, you must make a successful
Intelligence or Tinker's Tools check (DC equal to 8 +
misfire score). If your check fails, the weapon is broken and
must be repaired out of combat at half the cost of the
firearm.
Scatter. An attack is made against each creature within
a 20 feet cone. These attacks are simultaneous. If an
affected creature is adjacent to you, they suffer double
damage on a hit.
Crafted Firearms
Certain firearms cannot be bought at a tinkers stall, these
firearms has to be crafted, either by the adventurer himself
over a longer period of time, or by paying a tinker to make it
as a special order.
To craft one of these firearms, work with your DM to
determine the resources necessary, gold requirement, time
expended and so forth.

Firearms
Name Cost Damage Weight Range Properties
Flintlock Firearms
Blunderbuss 250 gp 2d6 12 lb. (30/60) Two-handed, reload 1, misfire 2, scatter
Musket 400 gp 1d12 10 lb. (200/450) Two-handed, reload 1, misfire 2
Pistol, simple 125 gp 1d8 3 lb. (150/300) Reload 1, misfire 1
Pistol, twin-barrel Crafted 1d8 4 lb. (150/300) Reload 2, misfire 2
Cap-lock Firearms
Heavy scattergun Crafted 2d8 15 lb. (45/90) Two-handed, reload 2, misfire 3, scatter
Pepperbox 550 gp 1d8 5 lb. (100/250) Reload 6, misfire 2
Revolver, quad-barrel Crafted 1d10 4 lb. (200/400) Reload 4, misfire 1
Revolver, six-barrel Crafted 1d10 6 lb. (200/400) Reload 6, misfire 1
Rifle, lever-action Crafted 2d10 10 lb. (300/600) Two-handed, reload 10, misfire 3
Rifle, pepperbox 625 gp 2d8 8 lb. (150/350) Two-handed, reload 6, misfire 2
Scattergun 325 gp 2d6 10 lb. (40/80) Reload 2, misfire 3, scatter
Firearm ammunition
Bullet, pistol (10) 1 gp 3 lb.
Bullet, rifle (10) 1 gp 3 lb.
Bullet, scatter (10) 2 gp 5 lb.

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 Mounts
Carrying
Item Cost Speed Capacity
Neutral mounts
Camel 50 gp 50 ft. 480 lb.
Donkey or mule 8 gp 40 ft. 420 lb.
Mounts Horse, draft 50 gp 40 ft. 540 lb.
Mounts have been categorized into neutral, alliance favored Horse, riding 75 gp 60 ft. 480 lb.
and horde favored, all though all mounts are available to
any character of any faction, it is uncommon for a member Mastiff 25 gp 40 ft. 195 lb.
of the horde to earn the loyalty of an alliance favored Pony 30 gp 40 ft. 225 lb.
mount, and vise versa. Prizes for mounts of the opposite
faction generally costs three times their cost to accommo- Warhorse 300 gp 60 ft. 540 lb.
date for difficulties of transporting such a beast far from its Alliance favored mounts
natural home. Some faction mounts are more than mere
animals of burden, they are loyal to a fold, and will protect Dwarven Ram 250 gp 40 ft. 510 lb.
their master if necessary, in combat, if your mount chooses Nightsaber 500 gp * ft. 570 lb.
to fight alongside with you, it takes its turn at the end of
yours, obeying your commands as best it can. Gryphon 5,000 gp * ft. 540 lb.
Mounts other than those listed here are available on Horde favored mounts
Azeroth, but they are rare and not normally available for Dire Wolf 600 gp 50 ft. 510 lb.
purchase. Acquiring a rare mount often means securing an
egg and raising the creature yourself, making a bargain Kodo, riding 320 gp 40 ft. 630 lb.
with a merchant, or negotiating with the mount itself. Raptor, riding 450 gp 60 ft. 540 lb.
Saddles. A military saddle braces the rider, helping you
keep your seat in battle. It gives you advantage on any Wyvern 6,500 gp * ft. 570 lb.
check you make to remain mounted and is used for the vast * This mount has more than one speed, see the Manual of
majority of mounts. An exotic saddle is required for riding a
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 Chapter 5: Customization Options
T
he combination of ability scores, race, class,
and background defines your character's
capabilities in the game, and the personal
details you create set your character apart
from every other character. Even within your
class and race, you have options to fine-tune
what your character can do. But this chapter
is for players who want to go a step further.
This chapter defines two optional sets of rules for cus-
tomizing your character: multiclassing and feats. Multi-
classing lets you combine classes together, and feats are
special options you can choose instead of increasing your
ability scores as you gain levels. Your DM decides whether
these options are available in a campaign.
Multiclassing
Multiclassing allows you to gain levels in multiple classes.
Doing so lets you mix the abilities of those classes to
realize a character concept that might not be reflected in
one of the standard class options.
With this rule, you have the option of gaining a level in a
new class whenever you advance in level, instead of gaining
a level in your current class. Your levels in all your classes
are added together to determine your character level. For
example, if you have three levels in mage and two in
warrior, you're a 5th-level character.
As you advance in levels, you might primarily remain a
member of your original class with just a few levels in
another class, or you might change course entirely. never
looking back at the class you left behind. You might even
start progressing in a third or fourth class. Compared to a
single-class character of the same level, you'll sacrifice
some focus in exchange for versatility.
Prerequisites
To qualify for a new class, you must meet the ability score
prerequisites for both your current class and your new one,
as shown in the Multiclassing Prerequisites table. For
example, a warrior who decides to multiclass into the druid
class must have both Strength or Dexterity and Wisdom
scores of 13 or higher. Without the full training that a
beginning character receives, you must be a quick study in
your new class. having a natural aptitude that is reflected
by higher-than-average ability scores.
Multiclassing Prerequisites
Class Ability Score Minimum
Druid Wisdom 13
Hunter Dexterity or Strength 13
Mage Intelligence 13
Monk Dexterity 13 and Wisdom 13
Paladin Strength 13 and Charisma 13
Priest Wisdom 13
Rogue Dexterity 13
Shaman Wisdom 13
Warlock Intelligence 13
Warrior Strength or Dexterity 13
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Experience Points
The experience point cost to gain a level is always based on
your total character level, as shown in the Character
Advancement table in chapter 1 of the Player's Handbook,
not your level in a particular class. So, if you are a priest
6/warrior 1, you must gain enough XP to reach 8th level
before you can take your second level as a warrior or your
seventh level as a priest.
Hit Points and Hit Dice
You gain the hit points from your new class as described for
levels after 1st. You gain the 1st-level hit points for a class
only when you are a 1st-level character.
You add together the Hit Dice granted by all your classes
to form your pool of Hit Dice. if the Hit Dice are the same
die type, you can simply pool them together. For example,
both the warrior and the paladin have a d10. so if you area
paladin 5/warrior 5, you have ten d10 Hit Dice. If your
classes give you Hit Dice of different types, keep track of
them separately. If you are a paladin 5/priest 5, for example,
you have five d10 Hit Dice and five d6 Hit Dice.
Proficiency Bonus
Your proficiency bonus is always based on your total
character level, as shown in the Character Advancement
table in chapter 1 of the Player's Handbook, not your level
in a particular class. For example, if you are a warrior
3/rogue 2, you have the proficiency bonus of a 5th-level
character, which is +3.
Proficiencies
When you gain a level in a class other than your first, you
gain only some of that class's starting proficiencies, as
shown in the Multiclassing Proficiencies table.
Multiclassing Proficiencies
Class Proficiencies Gained
Druid Light armor, nature skill
Light armor, medium armor, simple
Hunter weapons, martial weapons, one skill from
the class's skill list.
Mage —
Monk Light armor, simple weapons, shortswords
Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple
Paladin
weapons, martial weapons
Priest One skill from the class's skill list
Light armor, one skill from the class's skill
Rogue
list, thieves' tools
Shaman Light armor, medium armor, shields
Warlock Simple weapons
Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple
Warrior
weapons, martial weapons
Class Features
When you gain a new level in a class, you get its features
for that level. A few features, however, have additional rules
when you're multiclassing: Channel Divinity, Extra Attack,
Unarmored Defense, and Spellcasting,
Channel Divinity
If you already have the Channel Divinity feature and gain a
level in a class that also grants the feature, you gain the
Channel Divinity effects granted by that class, but getting
the feature again doesn't give you an additional use of it.
You gain additional uses only when you reach a class level
that explicitly grants them to you. For example, if you are a
priest 6/paladin 4, you can use Channel Divinity twice
between rests because you are high enough level in the
priest class to have more uses. Whenever you use the
feature, you can choose any of the Channel Divinity effects
available to you from your two classes.
For example, if you are the aforementioned shaman 3 /
Extra Attack priest 4, you count as a 5th-level character when
If you gain the Extra Attack class feature from more than determining your spell slots: you have four 1st-level slots,
one class, the features don't add together. You can't make three 2nd-level slots, and two 3rd-level slots. However, you
more than two attacks with this feature unless it says you don't know any 3rd-level spells, nor do you know any 2nd-
do (as the warrior's version of Extra Attack or a shaman's level shaman spells. You can use the spell slots of those
wind shield does). levels to cast the spells you do know—and potentially
enhance their effects.
Unarmored Defense Shadow Magic. If you have both the Spellcasting class
If you already have the Unarmored Defense feature, you feature and the Shadow Magic class feature from the
can't gain it again from another class. warlock class, you can use the spell slots you gain from the
Spellcasting
Shadow Magic feature to cast spells you know or have
prepared from classes with the Spellcasting class feature,
Your capacity for spellcasting depends partly on your and you can use the spell slots you gain from the
combined levels in all your spellcasting classes and partly Spellcasting class feature to cast warlock spells you know.
on your individual levels in those classes. Once you have
the Spellcasting feature from more than one class, use the Multiclassing Spellcaster:
rules below. If you multiclass but have the Spellcasting Spell Slots per Spell Level
feature from only one class, you follow the rules as Lvl. 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
described in that class.
Spells Known and Prepared. You determine what 1st 2 — — — — — — — —
spells you know and can prepare for each class individually, 2nd 3 — — — — — — — —
as if you were a single-classed member of that class. If you
are a shaman 3 / pries 4, for example, you know four 3rd 4 2 — — — — — — —
shaman cantrips, and four 1st-level shaman spells based on 4th 4 3 — — — — — — —
your levels in the shaman class. As 4th-level priest, you
know four priest cantrips. If your wisdom is 16, you can 5th 4 3 2 — — — — — —
prepare six priest spells of 1st and 2nd-level. 6th 4 3 3 — — — — — —
Each spell you know and prepare is associated with one
of your classes, and you use the spellcasting ability of that 7th 4 3 3 1 — — — — —
class when you cast the spell. Similarly, a spellcasting 8th 4 3 3 2 — — — — —
focus, such as a holy symbol, can be used only for the spells 9th 4 3 3 3 1 — — — —
from the class associated with that focus.
Spell Slots. You determine your available spell slots by 10th 4 3 3 3 2 — — — —
adding together all your levels in the druid, mage, priest, 11th 4 3 3 3 2 1 — — —
and warlock classes, half your levels (rounded down) in the
paladin and shaman classes. Use this total to determine 12th 4 3 3 3 2 1 — — —
your spell slots by consulting the Spellcaster table. 13th 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 — —
If you have more than one spellcasting class, this table
might give you spell slots of a level that is higher than the 14th 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 — —
spells you know or can prepare. You can use those slots, 15th 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 —
but only to cast your Lower-level spells. If a lower level spell
that you cast, like burning hands, has an enhanced effect 16th 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 —
when cast using a higher-level slot, you can use the 17th 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
enhanced effect, even though you don't have any spells of
that higher level. 18th 4 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1
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 New Feats
A feat represents a talent or an area of expertise that gives
a character special capabilities. It embodies training, exper-
ience, and abilities beyond what a class provides.
At certain levels, your class gives you the Ability Score
Improvement feature. Using the optional feats rule, you can
forgo taking that feature to take a feat of your choice
instead. You can take each feat only once, unless the feat's
description says otherwise.
You must meet any prerequisite specified in a feat to take
that feat. If you ever lose a feat's prerequisite, you can't use
that feat until you regain the prerequisite. For example, the
Grappler feat requires you to have a Strength of 13 or
higher. If your Strength is reduced below 13 somehow you
can't benefit from the Grappler feat until your Strength is
restored.
The feats presented in this book are meant as additions
to those presented in the 5th edition Player's Handbook.
Battlemage
Prerequisite: The ability to cast at least one spell
You have improved you technique with spells in the heat of
battle, you gain the following benefits:
You learn two cantrips of your choice from the mage
spell list.
When you make a ranged spell attack, you do not suffer
disadvantage on the attack roll if you are within 5 feet of
the hostile creature.
Before you cast an instantaneous spell that requires a
spell attack and are unable of hitting more than a single
target, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the spell
attack roll. If the spell hits, you add +10 to the attack's
damage.
Firearm Expert
Thanks to extensive practice with firearms, you gain the
following benefits:
You ignore the reload quality of firearms with which you
are proficient.
Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn't impose
disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls.
When you use the Attack action and attack with a one-
handed weapon, you can use a bonus action to attack
with a loaded one-handed firearm you are holding.
Firearm Weapon Adept
Your have gained interest in firearms and their uses, you
gain the following benefits:
Increase your Dexterity or Intelligence score by 1, to a
maximum of 20.
You gain proficiency in the Tinker's tools.
You gain proficiency with firearms.
Racial Weapon Adept
You have caught eye of the special weapons used by other
races, you gain the following benefits:
Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a
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Racial Feats
Races on Azeroth are not equal in strength, the average
tauren is considerably stronger than the average human.
This section introduces a collection of special feats that
allow you to empower your character's race further. These
feats are each associated with a race from earlier in this
book, and summarized in the Racial Feats table. A racial
feat represents either a deepening connection to your
race's culture or a physical transformation that brings you
closer to an aspect of your race's lineage.
The cause of a particular transformation is up to you and
your DM. A transformational feat can symbolize a latent
quality that has emerged as you age, or a transformation
might be the result of an event in the campaign, such as
exposure to powerful magic or visiting a place of ancient
significance to your race.
Racial Feats
Race Feat
Dwarf (wildhammer) Spiritual Guidance
Night Elf Darnassian Knowledge
Orc Spiritual Guidance
Tauren Spiritual Guidance
Tauren Tauren Endurance
Troll Spiritual Guidance
Troll Zandalari Fury
Worgen Hardened Predator
Worgen Neither Beast nor Man
Darnassian Knowledge
Prerequisite: Night elf
Your studies and training have given you a deeper under-
standing of your kin, unlocking unique gifts. You gain the
following benefits:
Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 1, to a
maximum of 20.
You have advantage on stealth checks made in dim or
unlit surroundings, and any ability checks made to
notice you are made with disadvantage.
When you fail a death saving throw, you can call upon a
wisp to guide your path, changing the failure to a
success. Once done, the essence of the wisp continues
to linger in you for two long rests, making you unable to
call upon the aid of another.
Hardened Predator
Prerequisite: Worgen
You have become accustomed with your worgen worm,
realizing some of the benefits that comes with the wolf-like
shape. You gain the following benefits:
You have advantage on Wisdom (perception) checks that
rely on hearing or smell.
Whilst your hands are empty, you can take the dash
action as a bonus action, using all four limbs to run.
Your fur has grown longer and thicker, making you
unaffected by the effects of extreme cold.
When you roll a Hit Die to regain hit points, you roll the
Hit Die twice and use either roll.
Neither Beast nor Man
Prerequisite: Worgen
You have managed to control your worgen curse in a way
most cannot, keeping it suppressed inside and regaining a
glimpse of your former self. You gain the following benefits:
Increase your Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
You have advantage on any saving throws made to resist
the feral rage of the worgen curse.
As part of a short or long rest, you can transform your-
self into a human. While human, you appear as you did
before getting affected by the curse. When subject to a
saving throw to not go feral, you roll the dice twice with
advantage, and use either roll.
Making an attack roll whilst human stirs your blood,
immediately transforming you back into a worgen.
Spiritual Guidance
Prerequisite: Dwarf (wildhammer), orc, tauren or troll
You've delved into the energy of spirits, the everlasting
balance and harmony they bring to all life. You gain the
following benefits:
Increase your Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
You gain proficiency in either Nature or Survival.
You have advantage on saving throws against being
frightened.
You learn the healing spirit spell and can cast it once
without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to
cast it in this way when you finish a short or long rest.
Tauren Endurance
Prerequisite: Tauren
You gain leather tough hide and improved recovery through
hard training. You gain the following benefits:
Increase your Strength, Dexterity or Constitution score
by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Your hide thickens. While you aren't wearing armor, you
add your Constitution modifier to your AC. You can use
a shield and still gain this benefit.
Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal
to your level when you gain this feat. Whenever you gain
a level thereafter, your hit point maximum increases by
an additional 1 hit point.
Zandalari Fury
Prerequisite: Troll
The Zandalari trolls were able to channel their fury, a trait
that has been passed down through ancient bloodlines to
you. Making you a furious combatant for a short while.
As an action, you enter a berserk for a number of rounds
equal to your Strength modifier (minimum of 1), granting
you a second action on each of your turns. This action can't
be used on spells or spell-like abilities.
Once the berserk ends, you gain one level of exhaustion,
and cannot use this ability again until you finish a long rest.
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Chapter 6: Spells

T
his chapter describes the most common
spells on Azeroth. The chapter begins with 6th Level Feather Fall
the spell lists of the spellcasting classes. The Bones of the Earth Find Familiar
remainder contains spell descriptions, pre- Druid Grove * Frostfire Bolt
sented in alphabetical order by the name of Find the Path Identify
the spell. Forbiddance Ice Knife
Spells marked with a star in front of the spells name are Guards and Wards Illusory Script
spells found later in this chapter in the Spell Descriptions. Heal Mage Armor
Primordial Ward Magic Missiles
Sunbeam Shield
Druid Spells Pass without Trace Transport via Plants Silent Image
Protection from Poison True Seeing Tenser's Floating Disk
Cantrips (0 Level) Ray of Enfeeblement Wall of Thorns Unseen Servant
Acid Splash Spider Climb Wind Walk
Druidcraft Spike Growth 2nd Level
Friends 7th Level Aganazzar's Scorcher
Guidance 3rd Level Mirage Arcane Alter Self
Gust Conjure Animals Regenerate Arcane Lock
Mending Counterspell Crown of Stars Blur
Poison Spray Create Food and Water Forcecage Continual Flame
Primal Savagery Daylight Resurrection Darkness
Resistance Dispel Magic Sequester Detect Thoughts
Shillelagh Erupting Earth Dragon's Breath
* Solar Wrath Mass Healing Word 8th Level Enlarge/Reduce
Thorn Whip Nondetection Animal Shapes Flaming Sphere
Plant Growth Antipathy/Sympathy Hold Person
1st Level Protection from Energy Control Weather Invisibility
Animal Friendship Slow Dominate Monster Knock
Beast Bond Speak with Plants Feeblemind Levitate
Cure Wounds Wind Wall Incendiary Cloud Magic Mouth
Detect Magic Sunburst Magic Weapon
Detect Poison and Disease 4th Level Tsunami Mirror Image
Entangle Blight Mind Spike
Expeditious Retreat Charm Monster 9th Level Nystul's Magic Aura
Faerie Fire Confusion Foresight Phantasmal Force
Fog Cloud Conjure Woodland Beings Mass Heal Pyrotechnics
Goodberry Dominate Beast Shapechange Scorching Ray
Healing Word Freedom of Movement True Resurrection See Invisibility
Jump Giant Insect Shatter
Longstrider Grasping Vine Mage Spells Suggestion
Purify Food and Drink Guardian of Nature
Sleep Hallucinatory Terrain Cantrips (0 Level) 3rd Level
Snare Locate Creature Blade Ward Bestow Curse
Speak with Animals Vitriolic Sphere Dancing Lights Blink
Sudden Awakening Eldritch Blast * Blizzard
Thunderwave 5th Level Firebolt Clairvoyance
Wild Cunning Awaken Frostbite Counterspell
Cloudkill Light Dispel Magic
2nd Level Commune with Nature Enemies Abound
Animal Messenger Mage Hand Fireball
Contagion Magic stones
Barkskin Control Winds Message Flame Arrows
Beast Sense Dream Minor Illusion Fly
Blindness/Deafness Far Step Prestidigitation Glyph of Warding
Calm Emotions Geas Ray of Frost Haste
Darkvision Greater Restoration True Strike Magic Circle
Enhance Ability Hold Monster Major Image
Enlarge/Reduce Insect Plague 1st Level Melf's Minute Meteors
Gust of Wind Mass Cure Wounds Alarm Nondetection
Hold Person Planar Binding Burning Hands Remove Curse
Lesser Restoration Scrying Chromatic Orb Sending
Locate Animals or Plants Tree Stride Color Spray Slow
Melf's Acid Arrow Wrath of Nature Comprehend Languages Tiny Servant
Misty Step Detect Magic Tongues
Moonbeam Disguise Self
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 4th Level 8th Level 4th Level Prayer of Healing
* Arcane Barrage Antimagic Field Aura of Life Protection from Poison
Arcane Eye * Blast Wave Aura of Purity Shadow Blade
Banishment Clone Banishment Silence
Confusion Demiplane Death Ward Spiritual Weapon
Dimension Door * Ice Nova Find Greater Steed Warding Bond
Fire Shield Illusory Dragon Staggering Smite Zone of Truth
Greater Invisibility Maze
Hallucinatory Terrain Mind Blank 5th Level 3rd Level
* Ice Block Telepathy Banishing Smite Animate Dead
Ice Storm Circle of Power Beacon of Hope
Locate Creature 9th Level Destructive Wave Bestow Curse
Mordenkainen's Foresight Dispel Evil and Good Clairvoyance
Private Sanctum Imprisonment Holy Weapon Create Food and Water
Phantasmal Killer Invulnerability Mass Cure Wounds Daylight
Polymorph Mass Polymorph Raise Dead Fear
Storm Sphere Prismatic Wall Feign Death
Wall of Fire Timestop Priest Spells Glyph of Warding
True Polymorph * Holy Wrath
5th Level Weird Cantrips (0 Level) Hunger of Hadar
Animate Objects Chill Touch Life Transference
Bigby's Hand Paladin Spells Guidance Mass Healing Word
Cone of Cold Light Protection from Energy
Far Step 1st Level Mending Remove Curse
Hold Monster Bless Resistance Revivify
Immolation Ceremony Sacred Flame Sending
Legend Lore Command Spare the Dying Speak with Dead
Modify Memory Compelled Duel Thaumaturgy Vampiric Touch
Passwall Cure Wounds Toll the Dead
Planar Binding Detect Evil and Good Virtue 4th Level
Scrying Detect Magic Word of Radiance Banishment
Seeming Detect Poison and Disease Death Ward
Teleportation Circle Divine Favor 1st Level Divination
Wall of Force Healing Word Arms of Hadar Freedom of Movement
Heroism Bane Guardian of Faith
6th Level Protection from Bless Shadow of Moil
Arcane Gate Evil and Good Cause Fear
Disintegrate Purify Food and Drink Ceremony 5th Level
Globe of Invulnerability Sanctuary Charm Person Commune
Guards and Wards Searing Smite Command Danse Macabre
Investiture of Flame Shield of Faith Create or Destroy Water Dawn
Investiture of Ice Thunderous Smite Cure Wounds Dispel Evil and Good
Mass Suggestion Wrathful Smite Detect Magic Enervation
Mental Prison Detect Poison and Disease Flame Strike
Otiluke's Freezing Sphere 2nd Level Guiding Bolt Geas
Scatter Aid Guiding Hand Greater Restoration
True Seeing Branding Smite Healing Word Hallow
Wall of Ice Find Steed Inflict Wounds Holy Weapon
Lesser Restoration Protection from Legend Lore
7th Level Magic Weapon Evil and Good Mass Cure Wounds
Etherealness Prayer of Healing Purify Food and Drink Planar Binding
Delayed Blast Fireball Protection from Poison Sanctuary Raise Dead
Fire Storm Zone of Truth Shield of Faith Wall of Light
Forcecage 6th Level
Mirage Arcane 3rd Level 2nd Level
Mordenkainen's Aura of Vitality Aid Eyebite
Magnificent Mansion Beacon of Hope Augury Find the Path
Mordenkainen's Sword Blinding Smite Blindness/Deafness Forbiddance
Prismatic Spray Create Food and Water Calm Emotions Harm
Project Image Crusader's Mantle Crown of Madness Heal
* Pyroblast Daylight Darkness Heroes' Feast
Reverse Gravity Dispel Magic Enhance Ability * Power Word Shield
Sequester * Holy Wrath Gentle Repose True Seeing
Simulacrum Mass Healing Word Hold Person Word of Recall
Symbol Remove Curse Lesser Restoration
Teleport Revivify * Mind Blast
Mind Spike
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 Warlock Spells 4th Level
7th Level Gust of Wind Arcane Eye
Conjure Celestial Healing Spirit Cantrips (0 Level) Banishment
Divine Word Heat Metal Confusion
Finger of Death Lesser Restoration Acid Splash Death Ward
Power Word Pain Maximilian's Chill Touch Dimension Door
Regenerate Earthen Grasp Eldritch Blast Evard's Black Tentacles
Resurrection Pyrotechnics * Fel Flame Mordenkainen's
Symbol Scorching Ray Green-Flame Blade Faithful Hound
Temple of the Gods See Invisibility Infestation Phantasmal Killer
Shatter Minor Illusion Shadow of Moil
8th Level Skywrite Poison Spray Sickening Radiance
Antimagic Field Warding Wind * Shadow Bolt Summon Greater Demon
Holy Aura Sword Burst
Maddening Darkness 3rd Level Toll the dead 5th Level
Mind Blank Call Lightning True Strike Contagion
Power Word Stun Counterspell Danse Macabre
Dispel Magic 1st Level
9th Level Elemental Weapon Armor of Agathys Destructive Wave
Erupting Earth Arms of Hadar Enervation
Mass Heal Far Step
True Resurrection Fireball Cause Fear Immolation
Power Word Heal Haste Comprehend Languages Infernal Calling
Power Word Kill * Hex Detect Magic Negative Energy Flood
Psychic Scream Lightning Bolt False Life
Meld into Stone Hellish Rebuke 6th Level
Shaman Spells Revivify Hex Circle of Death
Remove Curse Inflict Wounds Create Undead
Cantrips (0 Level) Sending Puppet Disintegrate
Control Flames Sleet Storm Ray of Sickness Eyebite
Create Bonfire Speak with Dead Tasha's Hideous Laughter Harm
Frostbite Spirit Guardians Magic Jar
Thunder Step 2nd Level
Gust Tidal Wave Blindness/Deafness Soul Cage
* Invoke Elements Wall of Sand Crown of Madness
Magic Stone Wall of Water Darkness
7th Level
Mending Water Breathing * Demon Skin Delayed Blast Fireball
Mold Earth Water Walk Enthrall Etherealness
Produce Flame Wind wall Hold Person Finger of Death
Shape Water Mind spike Fire Storm
Shocking Grasp 4th Level Ray of Enfeeblement Forcecage
Thunderclap Shadow Blade Power Word Pain
Banishment Symbol
1st Level Conjure Minor Elementals * Void Strike
Absorb Elements Control water 8th Level
Elemental Bane 3rd Level
Burning Hands Fire Shield Bestow Curse Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting
Detect Magic Grasping Vine Clairvoyance Cataclysm
Create or Destroy Water Ice Storm Counterspell Feeblemind
Cure Wounds Stone Shape Dispel Magic Glibness
Earth Tremor Stoneskin Enemies Abound Maddening Darkness
Faerie Fire Storm Sphere Fear Power Word Stun
Fog Cloud Wall of Fire Fireball
Ice Knife Watery Sphere Hunger of Hadar
9th Level
Searing Smite Life Transference Imprisonment
Thunderous Smite 5th Level Magic Circle Meteor Swarm
Thunderwave Melf's Minute Meteors Power Word Kill
Witch Bolt Conjure Elemental Psychic Scream
Control winds Speak with Dead Weird
2nd Level Destructive Wave Summon Lesser Demons
Aganazzar's Scorcher Greater Restoration Tongues
Animal Messenger Immolation Vampiric Touch
Augury Maelstrom
Calm Emotions Mass Cure Wounds
Continual Flame Planar Binding
Dragon's Breath Raise Dead
Dust Devil Reincarnate
Earthbind Scrying
Flame Blade Wall of Stone
Flaming Sphere
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 Spell Descriptions
The spells are presented in alphabetical order.
Arcane Barrage
4th-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
You conjure two swirling intertwined balls of raw force,
hurling them at a point you choose within range and then
pushing beings away as they make an explosion of force.
Each creature in a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on that
point must make a Dexterity saving throw. A target takes
6d8 force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage
on a successful one, and are pushed 5 feet away from the
point of impact.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 5th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8, and
the push back by 5 feet for each slot level above 4th.
Blast Wave
8th-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (60-foot cone)
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
Orange light flashes as a 15-foot tall wall of fire expands
outward from your position. Each creature hit by the wall
must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a
creature takes takes 12d6 fire damage and is knocked
prone. Taking half damage on a successful save.
This spell dispels any darkness in its area that was
created by a spell, and makes the area brightly lit until the
start of your next turn.
Blizzard
3rd-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (shards of glass)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
A cold light flashes from your hand into the sky, as blue
shards hurl down at a point you choose within range, slash-
ing through flesh with a biting cold. Each creature in a 20-
foot-radius, 60-foot-high cylinder centered on a point within
range must make a Dexterity saving throw. A target takes
3d6 cold damage on a failed save, or half as much damage
on a successful one.
As an action on each of your turns before the spell ends,
you can call down another blizzard in the same location.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for
each slot level above 3rd.
Cataclysm
8th-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (a piece charcoal and sulfur)
Duration: Instantaneous
In seconds the ground turns to magma at a point you
choose within range and crumbles before a vertical—
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—beam of fire and magma spews into the air. creature in a
15-foot-radius, 30-foot-high cylinder centered on a point
within range must make a Dexterity saving throw. A target
takes 15d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much
damage on a successful one.
Demon Skin
2nd-level transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (dried skin of a demon or fiend)
Duration: 1 hour
You touch a willing creature who are unarmored, making
their skin ragged and hard. Until the spell ends, the crea-
ture adds your spellcasting ability modifier to their armor
class. The spell ends if the target dons armor, or if you
dismiss the spell as a bonus action.
Fel Flame
Evocation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
A green flame skitters across the ground towards a
creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against
the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 fire damage. Fel
flame ignores fire resistant, and creatures immune to fire
damage are considered to be resistant.
This spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach
5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
Frostfire Bolt
1st-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a piece of glass and sulfur)
Duration: Instantaneous
You hurl a blue flamed firebolt at a creature within range.
Make a ranged spell attack against the creature. On a hit,
the target takes 2d6 fire damage and 2d6 frost damage.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 2nd level or higher, the fire and cold damage
increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.
Hex
3rd-level transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a caterpillar cocoon)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
This spell transform a creature that you can see within
range into a new form. An unwilling creature must make a
Wisdom saving throw to avoid the effect. A shapechanger
automatically succeeds on this saving throw.
The transformation lasts for the duration, or until the
target drops to 0 hit points or dies. The new form can be
any beast who has a challenge rating of 0. The target's
game statistics including mental ability scores, are
replaced by the statistics of the chosen beast. It retains its
alignment and personality.
The target assumes the hit points of its new form. When
it reverts to its normal form, the creature returns to the
number of hit points it had before it transformed.
If it reverts as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any
excess damage carries over to its normal form. As long as
the excess damage doesn't reduce the creature's normal
form to 0 hit points, it isn't knocked unconscious.
The creature is limited in actions it can perform by the
nature of its new form, and it can't speak, cast spells, or
take any other action that requires hands or speech.
The target's gear melds into the new form. The creature
can't activate, use, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of
its equipment.
Holy Wrath
3rd-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
You release a burst of radiant energy in a blast centered
around you. Each enemy creature in a 15-foot-radius
centered on you must make a Wisdom saving throw. A
target takes 6d6 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as
much damage on a successful one. The blast spreads
around corners.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for
each slot level above 3rd.
Ice Block
4th-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you are
targeted by an attack or spell
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
Solid ice rapidly encases your body, protecting you from
harm. You immediately gain 40 temporary hit points, and
resistance against all damage except fire and psychic, and
immunity to cold damage. Ice block continues until your
concentration is broken, your temporary hit points vanish,
or you end it prematurely.
While encased, you are under the effects of being
incapacitated, with the exception of your concentration
being broken.
Ice Nova
8th-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (glass dust and water)
Duration: Instantaneous
Frigid cold rapid expands in a 15-foot-radius centered on a
point you choose within range. Each creature in the cold
must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save,
a creature takes 10d6 cold damage and is grappled for 1
hour as ice encases the lower part of their legs. On a
successful save, it takes half as much damage and isn't
grappled by this spell.
A creature can break the grapple by using their action to
make a Strength saving throw, or deal a total of 40 hit
points worth of damage to the ice.
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 Invoke Elements Pyroblast
Transmutation cantrip 7th-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S Components: V, S, M (a piece of brimstone)
Duration: Up to 1 minute Duration: Instantaneous
You invoke a minor portion of the elements, within range. You clasp your hands together, conjuring a ball of dripping
You create one of the following magical effects within magma, launching it at a creature or object within range.
range: Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the
target takes 10d10 fire damage, and an additional 1d10 fire
You create a harmless sensory effect that predicts what damage at the start of each of its turn, until someone takes
the weather will be for the next 24 hours. This effect an action to make a Dexterity check again your spell DC to
persists for 1 round. douse the fire.
You light or put out a small flame. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
You cause flames to flicker, brighten, drim, or change slot of 8th level or higher, the initial damage increases by
color for 1 minute. 1d10 for each slot level above 7th.
You cause harmless tremors in the ground for 1 minute.
You cool or heat up a small amount of liquid. Shadow Bolt
If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to Evocation cantrip
three of its 1-minute effects active at a time, and you can Casting Time: 1 action
dismiss such an effect as an action. Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Mind Blast Duration: Instantaneous
2nd-level evocation A shoot a blast of necrotic energy at a creature within
Casting Time: 1 action range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a
Range: 60 feet hit, the target takes 1d10 necrotic damage.
Components: V, S This spell's damage increases by 1d10 when you reach
Duration: Instantaneous 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).
You pierce through the mental defenses of a creature
within range. It must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw. Solar Wrath
On a failed save, the target takes 2d6 psychic damage and Evocation cantrip
is frightened of you for a minute, or half of the damage on a Casting Time: 1 action
successful one and isn't frightened of you. Range: 60 feet
The creature makes a new saving throw at the end of its Components: V, S
turns to end the frightened condition. Duration: Instantaneous
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell You release a blast of suns wrath against a creature within
slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for range. Make a ranged spell attack against the creature. On
each slot level above 1st. a hit, the target takes 1d10 radiant damage.
Power Word Shield This spell's damage increases by 1d10 when you reach
6th-level abjuration 5th level (2d10, 11th level 3d10, and 17th level (4d10).
Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take upon a creature Void Strike
taking damage 2nd-level evocation
Range: 30 feet Casting Time: 1 action
Components: V Range: 60 feet
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour Components: V, S
You speak a word of power calling the light to your aid to Duration: Instantaneous
engulf a creature you can see within range. The target You open a crack into the void, as a shimmering black knife
immediately gain 80 temporary hit points. The shield stays strikes out from the void at a creature within range. Make a
around the target until the temporary hit points are ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target
expended, or your concentration is broken. takes 6d6 necrotic damage.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for
each slot level above 2nd.

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 Appendix A: Shapeshifts

D
ruids and Shamans have the extraordinary
ability of shapeshift into certain animals
shapes or spectral beasts. Statistics for such
forms are grouped in this appendix for your
convenience. For information on how to read
a stat block, see 5th Editions Monster Manual

Bear Form
Large beast

Armor Class 11 + Constitution modifier

Speed 40 ft., climb 30 ft.

Keen Smell. You have advantage on Wisdom

(Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Ironfur. You have resistance against bludgeoning,
piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: (Str + Proficiency
bonus) to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: (1d8 + Str modifier) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: (Str + Proficiency
bonus) to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: (2d6 + Str modifier) slashing damage.

The most common shapes taken by druids are as followed:

Brown Bear, Black Bear, Grey Bear, Grizzly Bear.
Talk to your DM if your desired shape isn't on this list.

Flight Form
Large beast

Armor Class 10 + Dexterity modifier

Speed 10 ft., 80 ft.

Keen Sight. You have advantage on Wisdom

(Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Actions
Beak. Melee Weapon Attack: (Str/Dex + Profici-
ency bonus) to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: (1d6 + Str/Dex modifier) piercing damage.
Talons. Melee Weapon Attack: (Str/Dex + Profici-
ency bonus) to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: (2d6 + Str/Dex modifier) slashing damage.

The most common shapes taken by druids are as followed:

Dire Bat, Dire Hawk, Dire Owl, Eagle, Storm Crow.
Talk to your DM if your desired shape isn't on this list.

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 Travel Form
Large beast
Armor Class 12 + Dexterity modifier
Speed 50 ft.
Mountable. As long as a creature is on your back,
you both take turns on your initiative. Upon dis-
mount, the riders initiative returns to normal.
Actions
Hooves. Melee Weapon Attack: (Str + Proficiency
bonus) to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: (2d4 + Str modifier) bludgeoning damage.
The most common shapes taken by druids are as followed:
Elk, Horse, Stag.
Talk to your DM if your desired shape isn't on this list.
Aquatic Form
Medium beast
Armor Class 10 + Dexterity modifier
Speed 0 ft., swim 50 ft.
Water Breathing. You can breathe only underwater.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: (Str + Proficiency
bonus) to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: (1d8 + Str modifier) piercing damage.
The most common shapes taken by druids are as followed:
Sea Lion (Amphibious), Shark, Dolphin, Juvenile Orca .
Talk to your DM if your desired shape isn't on this list.
Cat Form
Medium beast
Armor Class 12 + Dexterity modifier
Speed 40 ft., climb 40 ft.
Darkvision. You gain darkvision 60 ft.
Keen Smell. You have advantage on Wisdom
(Perception) checks that rely on smell, as long as
you are shapeshifted.
Pounce. If you move at least 20 feet straight
toward a creature right before hitting it with a
claw attack, the target must succeed on a DC
(10 + Dexterity modifier) Strength saving throw or
be knocked prone. If the target is prone, you can
make one bite attack against it as a bonus action.
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: (Dex + Prof bonus) to
hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: (1d6 + Dex modifier) piercing damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: (Dex + Prof bonus)
to hit, reach 5 ft., one target.
Hit: (2d4 + Dex modifier) slashing damage.
The most common shapes taken by druids are as followed:
(Snow) Leopard, Lion, Lynx, Nightsaber, Panther, Tiger.
Talk to your DM if your desired shape isn't on this list.
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Shaman Spirit Animal
Upon reaching 5th level as a shaman, you gain
the favor of a spirit animal, an animal shape you
are able to shapeshift into at will through the aid
of spirits of the wild. Whilst the druid is able to
take the complete shape of certain animals, shift-
ing into various beasts, the strain upon a sham-
ans shapeshift lies much deeper within. As a
result, the animal shape taken appears as a
incorporeal seethrough shape in the material
world, often with ghostly visage around it.
Because of this, their spirit animals shape isnt
fit for fighting, and immediately returns your
body to the material plane when necessary.
Most shamans choose one spirit animal, and
sticks with that spirit animal throughout their
life. Orcs and trolls commonly go for a dire wolf,
a shape well known to both, known for its
ferocity and speed. Whilst a dwarf might choose
a bear, a steadfast companion by many of the
dwarven kin. Think about your spirit animal, why
and if it fits your character, a shamans spirit
animal is in many ways an extention of who they
are, reflecting their personality. The only
limitation given upon a spirit animal is that it
cannot have a swim, or fly speed.
No matter what you choose, your spirit animal
is a 'cosmetic' only appearance, and as such has
the same statistics no matter what, talk to your
DM about alter its statistics to suit your shape.

Spirit Wolf
Large, unaligned

Armor Class 14
Hit Points 75 (10d10 + 20)
Speed 50 ft.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA

18 (+4) 13 (+1) 14 (+2) 7 (-2) 12 (+1) 8 (-1)

Skills Perception +5, Stealth +3

Damage Immunities psychic
Senses blindsight 30 ft., passive Perception 15
Languages Understands the shaman

Keen Hearing and Smell. The wolf has advantage on

Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing
or smell.
Pack Tactics. The wolf has advantage on an attack
roll against a creature if another spirit wolf is
within 5 feet of the creature and the wolf isn't
incapacitated.
Actions
Multiattack. The Spirit wolf makes two bite attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, Reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: (2d6 + 4) piercing damage. If the
target is a creature it must succceed on a DC 14
Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.