If the target succeeds the saving throw, you are aware of it and the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours. Your biomancer focus is your physical body. Evil-aligned biomancers, on the other hand, utilize their powers for malicious purposes and bend nature to the furtherance of their agenda. All of the following are class features of the Biomancer. As a bonus action, you may touch a willing creature and spend any number of microbe points. 1-3 HD: Share Spells, as the familiar ability of the same name. You immediately choose how to distribute this pool among creatures within 50ft of you. Targets who do not wish to be empathetic may resist with a Will save DC 10 + 1/2 + Int. The smell of rotten blood and broken bones, the squelching sound of repurposed muscle, the disgusting visage of creations that violate the sanctity of what should be considered living. His miss chance rises to 50% (and does not stack with spells like blur or displacement). PDF. The source of his alien creations is not study into the workings of life, but channeling mad powers from the Far Realm. Your code of ethics is tied directly with the mission and goals of your character, so choose carefully. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. It does not learn bonus tricks, instead its Int score becomes 3 + the number of bonus tricks normally listed for an animal companion. A successful Heal check reveals what kind of poison the creature possesses. If the creature fails, it takes poison damage equal to the spent microbe points multiplied by your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1) and is considered poisoned. As an action, you may spend two or more microbe points. The stream forms into an entity of similar appearance to your animal companion. Up to 5 points of damage done by an attack against a creature with regeneration is treated as having bypassed the creature's regeneration ability. Do you like using your imagination? Classes are the mechanical heart of characters in Dungeons and Dragons. It does not divine exact hp amounts, nor any effects which have no physical impact, such as being dominated. Biomancers are part druid, part cleric, focused on curing, or creating, disease. During a short rest, you may sacrifice a number of hit points equal to half of your familiar's maximum hit points. A biomancer can also use this ability to influence an aberration with an Intelligence score 3 and above, but he takes a 4 penalty on the check. 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. Good-aligned biomancers often retain a similar philosophy to that of druids, desiring an equilibrium in nature that fosters growth and evolution. From that point on, he may spread his disease as normal for that brand of sickness, such as by touch or fluids. The capabilities of a biomancer correlate to their experimentation. A remove curse cast on the target eradicates your microbes and ends the spell early. Each day after you have rested for 8 hours, you can spend 10 minutes to activate the ingredients to create a number of biohacks equal to 1 + your key ability score modifier. Buildings or other structures not within the sphere are excluded from the effects. While other wizards can use Biomancy spells, they lose their proficiency bonus due to the strangeness of the magic. This sort of feature is usually once/rest, or a capstone. Hostile creatures in the area must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. Druids from the Circle of the Stars can also augment their fighting abilities with a choice of Constellations, which act as buffs for certain abilities in a fight. On a failure, they take full damage and are considered poisoned. Poison Blood (Ex): The blood of a biomancer has become soaked with toxins. Additionally, they may use their reaction to breathe in the microbes. Seeing his allies near death from the dragon's last attack, a human stands defiantly. Whenever you or your aide are charmed or frightened, the telepathic bond between you both enables you to resist the effect. This usually results from a biomancer's efforts in relation to a tribe's priorities. At 15th level, his fly speed rises again, this time to 40 ft. (perfect), and he gains the special ability to infect the bodies of others. Specialists in hybridizing and altering creatures through a mixture ofscience and magic, they have spawned countless hybrid mixes of creatures and beasts in search of the perfect union between nature and civilization. Alignment: Any Lawful. Experiment. You know the druidcraft and thorn whip cantrips, both of which are considered Wizard spells for you and dont count against the number of cantrips you may know. So the creatures are permanent? However, some druids may object to their modifications to nature, and his test subject's aberrant status. Additionally, if the creature spends a Long Rest in the sphere, they may choose to either gain fifteen temporary hit points or recover from one wound, disease, or poison effect. [C] = Concentration Spell, 1st-level enchantment. If you do so, you may impose advantage or disadvantage on the next attack of a creature you can see. At 9th level a biomancer can pass into and transmit through bodies of water as if it were air, literally infecting it. What happens after the charm wears off? Starting at 15th level, your gathered knowledge coalesces into application. These microbes intensify the damage that you do to the creature. You may choose an appendage or specific region of your body to use as a spellcasting focus for your biomancer spells. Good job! While in this form, the following rules apply: You may use the Cell Body feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1). "Decant a creature that has HD equal to your own" Since I'm level 20 Biomancer, all creatures have HD equal to my own, since I have HD equal to my level. Bonus Feats: The epic Biomancer gains a bonus feat (selected from the list of epic Biomancer bonus feats) every four levels after 20th. If you do so, the hit points that must be sacrificed is reduced by five for every microbe point spent. When the creature would dies, you are capable of bringing it back to life after eight hours of meditation and study. Stem Cell Reservoir. However, they share a similar characteristic in bearing a raw hunger for knowledge. Biomancers admire druids, as both of them are in touch with nature. He becomes immune to all forms of poison. Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to glean information from difficult sources. In any case, a biomancer's presence often brings with it attention and curiosity of the guardians of nature. This subclass has several unique abilities, with Starry Form only being one, which gives you access to casting abilities, healing spells, and attack mode while in combat. T+ . While in Cell Body, you may occupy the same space as up to two allies within ten feet of each other. In one, a disease that has plagued the village for months. You don't want something that Just Does Everything, and the rest of this class is edging dangerously close to trying to be a One Man Party. I haven't seen any other homebrews for it so I figured that I would give it a try. All spells which affect animals now instead affect aberration. 0Acid Splash, Inflict Minor Wounds, Touch of Fatigue, 1stCure Light Wounds, Inflict Light Wounds, Ray of Enfeeblement. Good Biomancers are doctors, curing disease and improving the body. Forever? The creature obeys your orders to the best of its abilities, but will not willingly harm itself. Factors such as morality are inherently irrelevant. The effect is the same of a Animal Growth. Do you like D&D? An atonement spell, or a new oath requiring 200 XP per character level, is required to re-acquire one's powers. You regain expended uses of this feature after completing a long rest. "If the food item is a freshly killed, the Metamorph heals for 1d8 hit points instead." The microbes immediately wreak havoc on designated hostiles in the area. You may use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1). These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don't count against the number of artificer spells you prepare. His medical advances have saved many lives. You lose the ability to speak, cannot cast spells, and cannot apply force to any surface or object. If so, you need to specify that I select two creatures to start out with. So, is this an action? Until the spell ends, whenever you or a creature you can see moves into the entity's space for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, you can cause the entity to restore 1d6 hit points to that creature (no action required). You prepare the list of biomancer spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the biomancer spell list. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th, and 15th level. Biomancers are imbued with significant power and the paths laid out before them define the branches of their destiny. Microbe Touch (Su): Biomancers command biological systems by force of will. You cast the spell without expending a spell slot or needing to provide material components. While in this form, you may expend two microbe points as a reaction. As the spores envelop him, the assassin clutches his chest as blood spews forth from his mouth. Adaptation: Trump up the aberration aspect, and the class becomes Alienist for divine casters. Venom Immunity (Ex): At 8th level, constant contact with biohazards has made the biomancer hardy and strong. Biomancer Spells You may not use this feature again until you have completed a short rest. I'm confused as to how this differs from other creatures I decant? These spells are considered Wizard spells for you, despite not appearing on the Wizard spell list, but they must be prepared as normal. I think it should get more powerful as you level up, and make it more of a core piece of this class. I also know that micromanaging a tone of summons and friendly gribblies is a pain - I've tried to minimize it here, but I understand where this could be a turn-off for folks. You can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. Generally, influencing an aberration in this way takes 1 minute but, as with influencing people, it might take more or less time. While in your new form, you gain the following benefits. Why are the creatures Tiny if that doesn't, in any way, alter their stats? Additionally the biomancer gains damage reduction 5 to either silver, adamantine, or cold iron (the biomancer's choice), and his cell form's damage reduction also becomes damage reduction of the appropriate type instead of DR/magic. Every saving throw against those effects is rolled with advantage. Do I create 5 today, 5 tomorroe, and 5 the day after that, becoming fifteen characters? 10-12 HD: +2 ability score bonus increase, 16-18 HD: +2 ability score bonus increase. If you expend at least 10 points on an allied unconscious creature, they automatically succeed on a death saving throw and return to 1 hit point. Components: V S M (A small amount of alcohol or distilled spirits) Bolstering yourself with a necromantic facsimile of life, you gain 1d4 + 4 temporary hit points for the duration. Welcome to /r/DnDHomebrew! You may not use this feature again until you complete a long rest. Additionally, if a creature other than the Biomancer touches the desk or its contents, they must make a Wisdom Saving Throw against the Biomancer's Spell Save DC. Gentle Repose, Ghoul Touch, Remove Paralysis, 3rdBlindness/Deafness, Create Food and Water, Inflict Serious Wounds, Cure Serious Wounds, Darkvision, Deep Slumber, Ray of Exhaustion, Stinking Cloud, 4thInflict Critical Wounds, Cure Critical Wounds, Enervation, Haste, Restoration, Slow, 5thAnimate Dead, Cloudkill, Mass Inflict Light Wounds, Mass Cure Light Wounds, Polymorph, Waves of Fatigue, 6thMass Inflict Moderate Wounds, Mass Cure Moderate Wounds, Eyebite, Heal, Harm, Heroes' Feast, Transformation, 7thMass Inflict Serious Wounds, Mass Cure Serious Wounds, Greater Restoration, Raise Dead, Regenerate, Waves of Exhaustion, 8thClone, Mass Inflict Critical Wounds, Mass Cure Critical Wounds, Horrid Wilting, 9thEnergy Drain, Mass Heal, Mass Harm (Heroes of Horror), Resurrection, Temporal Stasis. While underwater, his speed is cut in half, but is otherwise unaffected. The creature must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. He can select from the list below. You may prepare an additional number of spells each day equal to half your Wizard level (rounded up). They do not count towards your number of prepared spells. Guillotine Strike | A Combat Maneuver For When You Really Revised Monk v1.1. Wreathed in flame and fury, a human man stands surrounded. So long as you are holding a melee weapon or recently fired from a ranged weapon, the weapon is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming nonmagical immunity. They improve in these aspects as they level up. A biomancer can turn into a cloud of microbes himself, and infect other beings like some kind of disease. You may not use this feature again until you have completed a short rest. Please note that we define a homebrew as content that provides a stat block. He becomes a carrier of every disease he encounters, up to his class level. At 2nd level he can judge the general condition of a living creature with a Heal check. All allied creatures within the affected sphere are imbued with the natural magic used in the Biomancer's constant experimentation. I would go to any ends to make a breakthrough. During a short rest, you may choose to spend any number of hit dice. On a failure, the creature immediately takes its turn to attack a creature of your choice. Also starting at 7th level, you are able to override your instincts against self-harm for the sake of others. Their Geomancy has them roll different die to randomize the outcome of their effect based on the world around them, these Geomancies have varying effects, though some are just different damage types. If the result is a 4 or less, the attack misses. While in this form, you may expend five microbe points as an action. Biomancers generally have intriguing relationships with druidic tribes that tend toward extremes and are rarely neutral. Sample Encounter: A mad biomancer has finally developed a disease than would destroy all the evil goblins threatening the land. You may affect additional creatures this way by expending two microbe points for every creature you target. My work is my life, everything else is a distraction! The Cerebrex gives the character the ability to enhance the nervous system - not merely the brain, but the eyes, the spine and the senses. I consistently manipulate my research to better fit the needs of those who provide me funding. Races fond of druids may also create biomancers as an effort to study the forces which their druidic brothers command. This connection is of such strength that a biomancer often expends their own cells to accomplish a spell's effects, potentially rendering serious harm upon themselves. Like a druid, a biomancer may gain a new subject with 24 uninterrupted hours. Another essential aspect is to understand why you have undergone the adventuring lifestyle. The microbes infect the creature's mind and substantially alter its disposition. You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background. Alternatively, you may expend 5 microbe points to cure a willing creature of blindness or deafness. In fact, biomancers often outright abhor those who have sworn to a code differing from their own. False Life. Special Ability: At 10th level and every 2 levels beyond, a biomancer begins to specialize. Furthermore, you no longer suffer the effects of old age. If you do so, the target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC as your microbes enter a creature's mind. I once released a work that was shamefully riddled with errors. This supplement includes 4 subclasses, 11 new spells, and 3 new backgrounds. Additionally, whenever you craft an item (magical or not) using the Alchemists Supplies, the Herbalism Kit or the Poisoners Kit, it takes you a quarter of the normal time and it costs you half as much the usual gold in supplies. When you cast a spell in this area, you can specify 'allies' that are immune to its effects. The area inside the sphere is imbued with natural magic that alters the area as appropriate to the neighboring terrain. Cell Form: At 21st level and every two levels beyond, a biomancer's cell form improves. As an action, you may make a contested Wisdom ability check against the creature's Wisdom. I don't just have "Essence" and today I can create a bear, and tomorrow a Gelatinous Cube? Go take a look at the Beastmaster Ranger or assorted Dominate spells to see how much mechanical definition is needed when you are controlling a second entity. The biomancer rolls 1d20 and adds his biomancer level and his Charisma modifier to determine the unnatural empathy check result. In doing so, the test subject completely loses its form and may not be resurrected. Its power also increases as he levels. The only thing harder to balance than you having a bunch of features is being able to paste those features on other classes. Tool Proficency Possessing Infection (Ex): When a biomancer of at least 15th level uses his infection ability, and successfully enters the body of another, he can cause the subject a great deal of trouble. With a Wisdom of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. This pattern repeats itself. You immediately gain seven microbe points. If you do so, you may use your reaction to impose disadvantage on any magical attack that you can see. Is this supposed to indicate that I can use the Help action at range? From 2nd level on, recovers his biomancer level on hit points per round. Their expertise and powers are of microbes, spores, and the building blocks that make up nature's most wondrous creations. Perfect Health (Ex): At 3rd level a biomancer can fend of diseases of all kinds. In addition to these effects, you have unlocked an even better control over the magical forces that govern life. Also as they level they gain better exploration capabilities, topping even a Ranger. Sleep, 2ndAcid Arrow, Alter Self, Calm Emotions, Inflict Moderate Wounds, Cure Moderate Wounds. Bars, Inns, and Taverns | The Goblin Coach. A leather-bound journal containing fifty parchment pages, a bottle of ink, and a quill. Finally the biomancer gains regeneration 1, which is bypassed by fire, cold, electricity, and acid damage. Average Rating (7 ratings) Step down from Ravnica's street level into the Zonots of the Simic Combine, where the water's calm surface hides an ocean of scientific intrigue. Taken a second time, this ability becomes a swift action. How does the "touch" range work? He can also enter cell form, a potent defense, acting as a living disease. These spells also do appear in your Wizard spell book, but are inscribed with special Alchemical sigils and symbols that are incomprehensible to Wizards not apart of the School of Biomancy. If you prepare the 1st level cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. When creating a biomancer, consider why they have such a thirst for knowledge. How many levels of exhaustion can I ignore or cure? On a success, they take half as much damage. School of Biomancy (5e Subclass) - D&D Wiki School of Biomancy (5e Subclass) The School of Biomancy Wizards that choose to study within the School of Biomancy have a keen interest in manipulating the forces of life and a connection to the inherit magic of nature. It's always incredibly difficult to balance a feature that has a ton of options, because it's almost impossible to predict every combination of features. Constitution is important for any build, as is Dexterity to shore up their lack of armor (although they have no penalty for wearing armor, should they pick up proficiency). At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you gain 5 additional Temporary Hit Points for each slot level . Attacks made against you have the same chance to miss you as they would if you were in Cell Body. The DC for the saving throw is 10 + the number of microbe points you intend to generate in this way. Biomancers must follow a strict Code of Ethics. Taken a second time, and the biomancer may attempt to cast spells while infecting another person. Starting at 6th level, your body has become accustomed to poisons and diseases and you have built up biological countermeasures to each. At Higher Levels. Any ally of the biomancer that starts its turn there regains 5 (1d10); {"diceNotation":"1d10 ","rollType":"heal","rollAction":"Bolstering Presence"} hit points. 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