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While most artificers dedicate themselves to perfecting a particular invention or skill, Gadgeteers believe that it is better to be prepared for any situation than it is to be the master at a select few. As such, Gadgeteers pride themselves in having any number of tools to get out of whatever situation they find themselves in– and if they don’t have a solution, they’ll remember that failure and overcome it in the future.

Tools of the Trade

When you adopt this specialisation at 3rd level, your proficiency bonus is now doubled for any ability check you make that uses your proficiency with tinker’s tools. When you reach level 6 in this class, your proficiency bonus is tripled instead. In addition, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan's tools of your choice.

Gadgeteer Spells

Starting at 3rd level, you always have certain spells prepared after you reach particular levels in this class, as shown in the Gadgeteer Spells table. These spells count as artificer spells for you, but they don’t count against the number of artificer spells you prepare.

Gadgeteer Spells

Artificer Level 3: Identify, Unseen Servant

Artificer Level 5: Heat Metal, Wristpocket

Artificer Level 9: Conjure Barrage, Tiny Servant

Artificer Level 13: Secret Chest, Summon Construct

Artificer Level 17: Animate Objects, Arcane Hand

Gadgetry

Beginning at 3rd level, your tinkering has given you the knowledge, magic, and confidence to put your designs through the prototype phase, charging them with magic and using yourself or one of your allies as a test subject. 

You learn to craft three kinds of Gadgets, chosen from the list provided below. You learn how to craft one additional Gadget from the list when you reach levels 5 and 9. Making a Gadget does not require resources beyond scraps of metal worth at least 2 copper, unless otherwise specified.

You can create a number of Gadgets equal to your Intelligence Modifier (minimum of 1 Gadget). If a Gadget specifies that it becomes unusable after it is used, it counts as usable scrap to remake the device or make a new one. Devices can be made or taken apart and replaced during a long rest.

Gadgets: 

Blinder: This Gadget fits in one hand, and can be thrown to a point within 30 feet of you as an action. Any creatures within 5 feet of the chosen point must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or be Blinded for one minute. At the end of each of its turns, affected creatures may make a Constitution saving throw against the same DC, ending this effect on a successful save. Once used, the Gadget becomes unusable and must be remade.

Breather: This Gadget covers the wearer’s mouth and nose. When activated, it increases the amount of time a creature can hold its breath underwater by up to 5 minutes. After this time is used up, the Gadget becomes unusable and must be remade.

Collapsible Item: To craft this Gadget, you require the normal scrap as well as a shield or weapon you want to make collapsable. Weapons with the Heavy property and any weapons that are magically indestructible cannot be used in this way. If this Gadget is replaced with another, you lose the shield or weapon used to craft it. You modify your shield or weapon to collapse in on itself, rendering it unusable but reducing its size to as small as one quarter of its original size. As a bonus action, you may collapse or extend this item to its original state. If the item gains a magical property, it can still be used while the item is collapsed, so long as it does not require the item be used to activate.

Flare: This Gadget fits in one hand, and can be thrown to a point within 30 feet of you as an action. Once the Gadget is thrown, it creates a bright light with a 20-foot-radius centred on itself, and dim light for 20 feet beyond that. This light lasts up to 1 minute, unless it is extinguished by water or smothered. Once used, the Gadget becomes unusable and must be remade.

Fog Bomb: This Gadget fits in one hand, and can be thrown to a point within 30 feet of you as an action. Once the Gadget is thrown, it creates a 15-foot-radius sphere of fog centred on itself. The sphere spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured. It lasts for 5 rounds, or until a wind of moderate or greater speed (at least 10 miles per hour) disperses it. Once used, the Gadget becomes unusable and must be remade.

Grapple Launcher: To craft this Gadget, you require the normal scrap as well as 50 feet of rope and a bow or crossbow of some kind, as well as one piece of ammunition appropriate for the weapon. You modify your weapon to launch a projectile with a thin, strong rope attached to it, with the other end of the rope attached to a winch that will retract the rope with a push of a button. As an action, you may launch the projectile at any surface, creature, or object within 45 feet of you. The bolt will catch in most surfaces, but solid metal, especially hard stone, or similarly dense surfaces have a 50% chance of failing to catch. This Gadget can still be used as a regular weapon if desired. When the ammunition catches in a surface, you can have it pull you up to 10 feet towards the chosen surface, or pull a creature or object sized Large or smaller up to 10 feet towards you. You can remove the attached projectile as a bonus action after being pulled the full length of the rope, or continue to hang from it at any point. While you are hanging off the ground or being pulled by this Gadget, your speed is reduced to 0. If you use a flying speed or are still on the ground, you can still move. You can choose to drop this gadget at any time on your turn (no action required). If you are hanging for more than a single turn, at the end of each subsequent turn, you must succeed a DC 8 Strength saving throw or lose your grip. Also, whenever you take damage while you are hanging, you must make a Constitution saving throw to keep your grip. The DC equals 10 or half the damage you take, whichever number is higher. This Device only works half as well if it lifts more than 1 medium, 2 small, or 8 tiny creatures at a time, and it outright fails to support more than 1 large, 2 medium, 3 small, or 14 tiny creatures.

Personal Glider: To craft this Gadget, you require the normal scrap as well as at least five square feet of fabric. This Gadget is worn on the back, and contains two wings, usually folded up. Each wing extends 5 feet to either side of you when the Gadget is activated. When you are falling and are not incapacitated, you can spend your action to activate this Gadget. You take no damage from the fall, and you can move up to 3 feet in any horizontal direction for every 1 foot you fall, at a speed of 60 feet per round. If you are subjected to a strong wind at an upward angle or a similar effect, you can take advantage of it in order to rise in the air by up to five additional feet instead, or at any point during the glide. You must spend both your action and bonus action to collapse the wings again. If you leave the glider extended, you have disadvantage on any dexterity checks and saving throws made, your movement speed decreases by 5 feet, and you can be knocked off your feet if struck by a strong wind, making a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw and falling prone on a failure.

Spring Boots: To craft this Gadget, you require the normal scrap as well as a pair of boots. You modify your boots with powerful spring mechanisms to put a true bounce in your step. While wearing these boots, the user’s walking speed increases by 10 feet, and their jump distance is increased by an additional 10 feet.

Masterful Infuser

At 5th level, your intimate knowledge of simple modifications allows you to more easily utilise your Infusions. You may Infuse one more item than the number shown in the Infused Items column of the Artificer table. In addition, you may end one of your infusions to cast a spell using any slot you would normally have access to, without expending an additional spell slot.

Juryrigger

When you reach 9th level, you’ve become adept at using anything available to you to accomplish nearly anything. You gain proficiency with improvised weapons, and improvised weapons have +1 to hit and deal +1 damage. In addition, you can now create or replace one of your Gadgets or Infusions at the end of a Short rest.

Master of Utility

At 15th level, you are truly a master of your own environment, and are almost impossible to find completely unprepared. As an action, you can activate or deactivate an object that you can see within 30 feet of you with a set function (such as any of your gadgets or mechanical traps). In addition, if a device like this is damaged in some way, you can spend your action to repair it so long as it is within reach of you. 

Unstoppable Creativity

Students of the College of Dubstep have learned to channel the chaotic beat of the universe into powerful and often destructive energies at their command. They are masters of drawing attention to themselves when they want to, and will quite literally blow away any critics.

Dubstep Magic

When you join the College of Dubstep at 3rd level, you learn how to channel the Beat of the universe when spellcasting.

You learn the colour spray, chaos bolt, emboldening performance, and thunderwave spells. These spells count as Bard Spells for you but do not count against the number of spells you can learn.

Dubstep Cannon

Starting at 3rd level, you gain the ability to bolster your spells with blasts of musical energy as a means of harming your enemies.

When you deal damage to a creature with a spell, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to deal an additional 1d8 thunder damage to the affected target. In addition, the creature must succeed a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or be pushed 5 feet away from you. You can use this ability only once per round on your turn.

This damage increases as you gain levels in this class, increasing to 2d8 at 5th level, 3d8 10th level, 4d8 at 15th level, and 5d8 at 19th level.

Lingering Beat

Starting at 6th level, you learn to imbue your allies with the lingering rhythm of your music.

Any creatures that you’ve given a Bardic Inspiration die can roll it to add force damage equal to the roll of the die plus your charisma modifier to a successful attack. This does not expend the die, but each die can only be used in this way once.

Powerful Performance

Practice makes perfect, and your heart beats to the same tune as the magic you channel. Once you reach 6th level, when you cast a spell granted to you by your Dubstep Magic feature, you may cast it as though you did so using one slot level above the one you actually used. This feature does not allow you to cast the spell at a slot level higher than what you have access to normally.

Drop the Bass

Starting at 14th level, your mastery of control over the Beat of the universe allows you to deal devastating blows to your enemies.

When you hit a target with an attack or spell, you can choose to channel your Beat into the strike. The target takes an additional 3d8 thunder damage and must succeed a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or be Deafened for 1d4 rounds.

While Druids have defended the natural world for generations, many modern druids have chosen to embrace the advances in the world and accept man-made construction as an environment all on its own. Druids of the Circle of Architects attune themselves to buildings of all kinds, learning to become one with the construction and proving definitively that, while you can take a druid out of nature, you can’t take nature out of the druid.

Structural Bond

Beginning when you take this subclass at 2nd level, your connection to man-made structures has allowed you to foster a deeper bond to them. If you spend a minute and one use of your wild shape feature, you may attune yourself to the building you are currently in, bonding with up to 5,000 square feet and up to two floors, including the floor you are on, so long as it is not primarily naturally-formed. If a floor you are attempting to bond with is more than 25 feet tall, it counts as two floors. If the building is larger than the area you can affect, you may expend an additional use of Wild Shape to double this area and gain an additional floor, or only be bonded to the 5,000 square foot area that includes the area you are currently within. 

You can remain bonded to this area for a number of hours equal to half your druid level (rounded down). You then lose this connection unless you expend another use of this feature. You can sever your bond earlier by using a bonus action on your turn. You automatically lose this bond if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

When you are within the area you are bonded to, you have advantage on all wisdom checks relating to the structure and all wisdom saving throws. In addition, your passive perception while within this area becomes 21, unless your passive perception is already greater. Creatures cannot benefit from Invisibility in this area so long as you see them turn invisible, and you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

You are automatically aware if a door is locked or unlocked within this area, as well as its general direction from you, and you can lock a door you can see up to 20 feet away from you as a bonus action. You also have advantage on attack rolls made within this area, and your AC increases by 1. 

Man-Made Companion

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to call upon the building around you to aid you in battle. You may expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to animate a companion to aid you. This companion’s CR cannot exceed ¼ of your Druid level, rounded down.

Any statue, carving, or other man-made object you can see within 60 feet may be used as this companion, and it either gains the stats it would have if it was animated normally or the stats it would have if it was truly what it depicts, such as a sculpture of a rat having the statistics of a rat. Possible companions include a suit of armour becoming Animated Armour, a statue of a humanoid becoming an animated statue or a golem of some kind as appropriate, a book becoming an animated book, etc.

This companion lasts until it reaches 0 hit points, it is dismissed as a bonus action, or this feature is used again. At this point, it is no longer animated and reverts to its original state. The companion also reverts after a number of hours equal to half your druid level, but this time is paused when both you and your companion are within the area affected by your structural bond.

Wall Eyes

Starting at level 6, you learn to see through the walls of the structure you are in. As an action on your turn, you may cast Arcane Eye without expending a Spell Slot or Material Components. This eye must be connected to a wall at all times, and may jump between walls so long as they are no more than 30 feet apart. 

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Improved Bond

When you reach 6th level, your Structural Bond has grown more powerful. A single use of your Wild Shape feature allows the area affected to extend to 10,000 square feet, allows you to gain access to an additional floor, and you gain tremorsense out to a range of 60 feet and ignore all difficult terrain within the area you are bonded to.

In addition, you may form a bond with a structure you are intimately familiar with after only fifteen seconds.

One with the Building

At 10th level, you have learned to change your body to meld with the structure you are in. You can cast Meld with Stone on yourself as an action without expending a spell slot. This spell allows you to meld with any solid material the structure you seek to meld into is made of, such as wood or metal, but you cannot choose more than one material at a time. When you seek to exit this area, you may choose to exit the way you entered or continue forward through the other side of the material, unless you are blocked by another solid material. If the other material is thin enough to be broken with your strength or a weapon, you may choose to break through it when you exit.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Building Manager

When you reach 14th level, you become the master of your environment. You gain tremorsense out to a range of 15 feet, or 80 feet while within your Structural Bond area. The time it takes to form a structural bond decreases to half a minute, or 6 seconds if you are intimately familiar with the structure, and when using your Structural Bond feature, its area increases to 15,000 square feet and you gain an additional floor of influence, reaching a total of 4 floors including the floor you are currently on. Creatures cannot benefit from invisibility against you while within this area. You can open or close unlocked doors, containers, or windows within this area so long as you are aware of their exact position as a free action on your turn, and can lock any that have a lock so long as you are within 5 feet of them as a free action on your turn. You may also attempt to pick any locks within this area, treating the check as if it were a wisdom skill you have proficiency with.

Many monks in the Feywild find peace in the ways of the fey, and these teachings have bled into the Prime Material Plane. To follow the Way of the Faerie, monks will seek to reach a state of whimsy as they learn to move with as much grace and magic as the fey themselves, and many will give up their ties to their names, taking on false names or vague titles as a precaution when spending so much time among the tricksters of the feywild.

Seasonal Bond

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you deepen your connection to the natural world, bending your soul to the seasons themselves. Whenever you finish a long rest, you may select a Seasonal Bond from the list below. When a season is chosen, your personality may often shift slightly. For example, you may find yourself feeling sombre when attuned to the Winter, or feeling gleeful when attuned to the Summer. This emotional shift depends on how you perceive the season.

When attuned to a season, your body hums with fey energy, which allows you to cast some simple cantrips, as well as gain an ability associated with the season.

Winter: You can cast the Frostbite cantrip. You gain resistance to Cold damage, and when you make an attack with a monk weapon or an unarmed strike, you may spend 1 ki point to deal an additional amount of Cold damage equal to a roll of your Martial Arts die.

Spring: You can cast the Guidance cantrip. You ignore difficult terrain, and, as an action, you can spend 1 ki point to touch a creature and restore a number of hit points equal to a roll of your Martial Arts die.

Summer: You can cast the Sacred Flame cantrip. You gain resistance to Fire damage, and when you make an attack with a monk weapon or an unarmed strike, you may spend 1 ki point to deal an additional amount of Fire damage equal to a roll of your Martial Arts die.

Autumn: You can cast the Gust cantrip. Your movement speed increases by 5 ft., and when you make an attack with a monk weapon or an unarmed strike, you may spend 1 ki point to deal an additional amount of Necrotic damage equal to a roll of your Martial Arts die.

Touch of the Courts

Starting at 6th level, you have learned to channel your ki into the magic of the seelie or unseelie courts. You learn to speak, read, and write Sylvan, you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.

As an action, you can spend 1 ki point to cast Faerie Fire, Charm Person, or Fey Prank, or 2 ki points to cast Command or Invisibility without requiring material components.

Fey Flitting

When you reach level 6 in this class, you learn how to flit around the battlefield like a fairy. When you take the Dash action on your turn, you may also take the Dodge action as a bonus action, or jump up to 20 feet in any direction as a bonus action after moving at least 10 feet of the Dash action. When you take the Disengage action, you jump from your current position to an unoccupied space you can see within 15 feet. In addition, when you are damaged by a melee attack by a creature that you can see, you can spend 1 ki point to take the disengage action immediately.

Dance of the Pixie

By 11th level, your motions and ki are so in-tune with the fey that you’ve mastered an elegant and mystical dance to channel them. As an action on your turn, you may spend 5 ki points to begin the Dance, and must spend an additional ki point every subsequent turn to keep it active. You may still act as normal on subsequent turns. The Dance lasts until you choose to end it on your turn (no action required), or until you fall unconscious, die, or suffer the Restrained, Paralyzed, or Petrified conditions. When the dance begins, a number of creatures of your choice that can see you within 30 feet, up to your Wisdom modifier, must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by you until the Dance ends or until you or an allied creature do anything harmful to it. The DC for this saving throw is equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier.

Additionally, while the Dance is active, four illusory duplicates flicker into existence around you, copying your movements exactly, shifting position so it’s impossible to track which image is real. Each time a creature targets you with an attack while the Dance is active, roll a d20 to determine whether the attack instead targets one of your duplicates. If you have all four duplicates, you must roll a 4 or higher to change the attack’s target to a duplicate. With three duplicates, you must roll a 6 or higher. With two duplicates, you must roll an 8 or higher. With one duplicate, you must roll an 11 or higher.

A duplicate’s AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier. If an attack hits a duplicate, the duplicate is destroyed. A duplicate can be destroyed only by an attack that hits it. It ignores all other damage and effects. When a duplicate is destroyed, it explodes, dealing damage to the creature that destroyed it equal to 1d12 + your Wisdom modifier. The damage’s type is determined by the Seasonal Bond you have active; Winter causes Cold damage, Spring causes Radiant damage, Summer causes Fire damage, and Autumn causes Necrotic damage. The dance ends if all duplicates are destroyed.

A creature is unaffected by this effect if it can’t see, if it relies on senses other than sight, such as blindsight, or if it can perceive illusions as false, as with truesight. 

Boon of the Faerie

At 17th level, you have truly embraced the magic of the fey, and as such, have learned to truly channel the magic of the Seasonal Courts. As an action on your turn, you may spend 6 ki points to grant yourself a flying speed equal to your walking speed. This feature lasts 1 minute, or can be dismissed at will.

In addition, you now gain access to all four Seasonal Bonds and their cantrips and abilities at once, selecting which ability you wish to use for each attack made. When using the Spring bond ability, you may still use your Flurry of Blows as a bonus action.

Throughout the world, there are many creatures beyond our understanding, foes too great to destroy, and terrors that keep people up at night. To combat this, many bards have sought out the loftiest of virtues. For bards belonging to the college of Lullabies, their art is more than just a passion for them. They have striven to master the art of soothing tempers and calming anxieties. They often speak softly and slowly, and many see them as lazy or dreamy types. 

This is rarely the case, however, as those belonging to the college of Lullabies are often the ones who handle the most dangerous of foes. It is said that they were instrumental in the defeat of the Sea Titan Dagon, as well as ancient dragons and even the Archdevil Deisis. The ability to soothe those around you to sleep becomes a necessary part of many adventurer’s lives, and it is an invaluable skill after facing down horrors such as these.

Soothing Magic

When you join this college at 3rd level, you learn how to use your magic to soothe those around you. You learn the Sleep and Calm Emotions spells. These spells count as Bard Spells for you but do not count against the number of spells you can learn.

Primal Lullabies

At 3rd level, you learn several lullabies that can help your allies in dire situations. As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend a use of Bardic Inspiration and choose one of the following lullabies. Each lullaby lasts for one minute, but is treated as if you are maintaining concentration on a spell and ends early under the same conditions.

Focused Mind: While this lullaby is active, choose a number of creatures equal to your charisma modifier (minimum of 1). These creatures must be within 30 feet of you and be able to hear you to gain this lullaby’s effects. A target affected by this lullaby gains resistance to psychic damage, has advantage on Wisdom saving throws, and gains a +1 to all attack rolls made while the lullaby is active.

Numb to the World: While this lullaby is active, choose a number of creatures equal to your charisma modifier (minimum of 1). These creatures must be within 60 feet of you and be able to hear you to gain this lullaby’s effects. A target affected by this lullaby has advantage on Constitution saving throws, gains a number of temporary hit points equal to a roll of your bardic inspiration die at the end of each of your turns, and cannot be charmed or frightened while the lullaby is active.

Sluggish Song: While this lullaby is active, choose one creature that can hear you within 60 feet. That creature gains disadvantage on all Dexterity saving throws, and its AC decreases by 1 while the lullaby is active.

Master of Slumber

At 6th level, you have learned to work around even the greatest of resistances to sleep. When you cast the Sleep spell on a creature that cannot be put to sleep by magic, the creature instead must succeed on a constitution saving throw against your spell save DC to avoid the spell affecting them. Undead and Constructs automatically succeed this saving throw.

Dreamwalker

Your connection to the world of dreamers has attracted the attention of its inhabitants. When you reach level 6 in this class, you learn the spell Find Familiar. This spell counts as a Bard Spell for you but does not count against the number of spells you can learn. In addition, when casting this spell, the familiar you summon is a Lullabeing, which is bonded to you. (See the Lullabeing stat block for more information.) If this lullabeing drops to 0 hit points, it does not die, and instead follows the rules given in Find Familiar. In addition, this lullabeing is immune to the effects of a Sleep spell cast by you, and if a Sleep spell is cast on it from another source that bypasses its immunity to sleep, it does not die, and is instead treated as if it dropped to 0 hit points using the rules of Find Familiar.

Deepest Sleep

The Domain of Chaos represents the lack of control and the unpredictability of the world around us all. Clerics of Chaos tend to avoid many other Domains, thriving away from the strict rules upheld by them.

Those who worship the gods of Chaos hold law and government in low regard, worshipping individuality and doing what they believe is right regardless of obligations. Many work to bring down the governments entirely, though most are willing to accept them and simply work around them wherever they can.

Chaos Domain Spells

When you choose this Domain at level 1, you gain additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class. Once you gain access to a Domain spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If you have a domain spell that doesn’t appear on the cleric spell list, the spell is nonetheless a cleric spell for you.

Wager

Starting when you choose this domain at 1st level, your magic carries with it a powerful, chaotic energy, which you may tap into at will. As a reaction, you can give yourself advantage on any saving throw made until the start of your next turn. If you still fail the saving throw, however, you must immediately roll a d6. If the number rolled is odd, you must then roll on the Wild Magic Surge table found in the Wild Magic Sorcerer subclass. After using this feature and succeeding on all saving throws made while it is active, the next time you cast a cleric spell of 1st level or higher, you must roll a d6. If the number rolled is a 1, you must roll on the Wild Magic Surge table.

Additionally, whenever you roll on the Wild Magic Surge table for any feature granted by this class, if you roll 99-00, you must reroll twice on the table and take both results, ignoring 99-00 rolls.

Channel Divinity: Spread Chaos

Beginning at 2nd Level, you can use your Channel Divinity to spread your chaotic magic to those around you. Choose a creature you know the location of within 60 feet. The next time the creature casts a spell of 1st level or higher, they must roll on the Wild Magic Surge table immediately after.

In addition, you may target a wand, ring of spell-storing, spell scroll, or other object that contains a spell. When that object is used to cast a spell it contains, its user must roll on the Wild Magic Surge table immediately after.

Bend Luck

Starting at 6th level, you are granted the ability to twist fate using your wild magic. When a creature you can see makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can use your reaction to roll 1d4 and apply the number rolled as a bonus or penalty (your choice) to the creature's roll. You can do so after the creature rolls but before any effects of the roll occur. You may use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier, regaining all uses at the end of a long rest.

Disobey

When you reach 6th level in this class, your faith in unpredictability has emboldened you against those who seek to force you in line. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, as well as saving throws against any magical effect that compels you to follow an order, such as the Command, Geas, or Suggestion spells.

Divine Strike

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with chaotic magic. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 damage to the target. The damage type is determined by rolling 1d6 and consulting the Damage table below.

1: Force 2: Fire 3: Lightning 4: Bludgeoning 5: Cold 6: Acid

When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8 

Chaos Incarnate

When you reach level 17, your entire being is filled with a boiling pool of chaos, ready to burst forth at a moment’s notice. Whenever you roll on the Wild Magic Surge table, you may choose to reroll the d100 once per surge. You must take the new effect.

In addition, as a bonus action on your turn, you may choose to roll on the Wild Magic Surge table and cause a creature you can see to take the effects. You must choose which creature is targeted before you roll on the table.

“I had believed that there was nothing more frightening, besides creatures of the more monstrous variety, that a sailor could find themselves face-to-face with than a shark. While this idea was born from a man who had never stepped onto more than a small rowboat, and has been disproven hundreds of times, the most ironic thing to break this concept was when I was told that some of those sharks happen to have legs.

Grassha was friendly to a fault, but their rows of teeth and imposing build still nearly made me reconsider working with their company. But never had I been more afraid of them than when the ship was attacked, and the captain ordered that if we took any injury, we would return to the ship immediately. Because when there was blood in the air, Grassha didn’t care who it belonged to, only that they wanted more."

—Alec Crestfall, ‘Across the Monster’s Sea’

While the sahuagin are Sekolah’s children, the sharkfolk of Zedar are those who truly represent the shark god. Standing between six and seven feet in height and naturally broad and bulky, with a large, muscular tail behind them, the sharkfolk value strength above all else, and will often follow powerful individuals out of a desire to be on the strongest side. They share a mutual respect only with the sahuagin, and any other race must prove their worth before a tribe of sharkfolk will agree to not hunt them down.

Always Moving

Similar to true sharks, sharkfolk rely on constant travel for survival, though that is more due to a nomadic nature and lack of territory than a biological need. Most sharkfolk band together in nomadic tribes to compare strength and increase their power with numbers, and to breed stronger families, though many sharkfolk set out on their own, earning personal power and fear. Few families coddle their children, expecting them to adapt or perish, training them as hunters and warriors from birth.

They travel with impunity through sahuagin territories, the shared reverence of sharks granting them a rare immunity, but it is not unheard of for tribes or individuals to encroach on other territories. In cases like this, it is often the best idea to ignore the intrusion, as they tend to jump on any opportunity to enter a battle.

Blood in the Water

Sharkfolk are rarely welcomed into groups outside of their own, because they have a sensitive nose and an uncontrollable bloodlust if they catch scent of blood. If a creature is badly injured, regardless of allegiance, most sharkfolk won’t be able to stop themselves from tearing them apart. Most hunting is done by individual sharkfolk for this reason, to prevent the slaughter of each other. This isn’t to say that many sharkfolk can’t overcome this weakness, especially those who push away their more violent urges to pursue a life away from the brutal, bloody nature of their people. 

Sharkfolks can resemble any number of sharks, and can appear more feral or humanoid depending on their lineage and habitats, but all sharkfolk suffer the same bloodlust and violent urges, even if one was raised away from their usual society. They often compare kill counts with other tribes or warriors, and show a rare amount of respect to any with more kills than themselves.

Sharkfolk Names

Sharkfolk names are often similar to those of the sahuagin, but due to the disjointed nature of their cultures, many will also adopt names in aquan or even common. While they identify tribes based on scent and visual cues, they will adopt a tribal name in common, to strike fear into sailors.

Personal Names: Abshaka, Cuttlesh, Lionfish, Malucsh, Yashiqis

Clan Names: Hammerbone, Megalodon, Tigerblood, Whitehunt

Sharkfolk Traits

Raised and bred to be a powerful warrior, you possess several abilities to help mark you as the apex predator of the oceans.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2 and your Strength score increases by 1.

Age. Sharks mature faster than humans, being considered adults by the age of 12, and those who do not die in battle rarely survive longer than 60 years, with the lives they are expected to live.

Alignment. Sharkfolk are bred to be aggressive and ferocious, and rarely show any care for anything weaker than themselves. Their care for law is a very weak sense of honour, marking the majority of sharkfolk as neutral or even chaotic evil.

Size. Most sharkfolk stand well over six feet in height and weigh nearly 300 pounds, bolstered by their natural bulky muscularity. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet, and your base swimming speed is 45 feet. 

Darkvision. 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 colour in darkness, only shades of grey.

Amphibious. You can breathe both air and water.

Bite. Your bite counts as a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with your bite, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Blood Tracker. You have advantage on all perception checks to locate any bleeding creatures within 60 feet of yourself, or any creatures with less than half of their maximum hit points within 120 feet.

Blood Madness. The scent of blood unleashes your feral instincts. Any creature below half of their hit point maximum that is within 60 feet of you can cause you to attack it with everything you have. At the start of your next turn, make a Wisdom saving throw to resist the temptation. The DC for this saving throw is equal to 10, +1 for each additional two creatures below half of their hit point maximum within this range. On a failed save, you must use your movement to get as close as you can to the nearest creature in this state and perform a melee attack with advantage, or use your dash action if your movement cannot reach them. Attacks against you have advantage while the blood madness persists. This save can be repeated at the start of each of your turns, ending if all targets are killed or healed past half of their hit point maximum.

“Ah, dryads… Beautiful creatures, them, but I learned the hard way that it’s better to just treat them with respect and move on. They’re prone to changing from friendly as can be to stringing you up from a tree by your beard in the span of a few seconds!“

—Gizzik

Beautiful fey-maidens, dryads have long been known as the guardians of trees and forests. Some dryads, however, are uncontent simply guarding a few trees in a single forest, and seek to go out and make a life for themselves. This has resulted in acorns of far travel being something many dryads seek out from a young age, just in case the call of the world draws them.

Beautiful as the Seasons

Dryads usually take the form of attractive female figures appearing to be made of wood, though more androgynous or even somewhat masculine dryads are not unheard of. Their delicate features shift seamlessly through the wood of their faces, which matches the wood of the tree they are bonded to. Their hair appears to be made of leaves, and changes colour as the seasons cycle. Their hair is a lush green during the spring and summer, but it turns red and eventually a dry brown as the season changes to autumn and winter.

Nature’s Guardians

Dryad homes are usually far from civilization, deep in the forests. Dryads live in harmony with nature, treating it with the utmost respect and cherishing the company of any who do the same.

However, if one were to mean harm towards a dryad’s natural home, they get only the courtesy of warnings. If these warnings went unheeded, the dryad would unleash their wrath upon the intruder.

Treebound

All dryads are permanently and magically bound to a tree. This tree is the dryad’s home and, more importantly, the dryad’s life force. If their tree was cut down or otherwise destroyed, the dryad would soon die as well. 

In addition, if a dryad were to stray too far from their home, they would begin to grow very sick before withering and dying all the same. The only way around this is to use an acorn of far travel, which would be cast on an acorn, pinecone, or other seed from the dryad’s bonded tree. Having this acorn on their person would allow the dryad to travel wherever they wished without growing sick.

Dryad Names

Dryads have true names, which they are born with, but they often prefer to take on names when interacting with other races. To be told a dryad’s true name is a great honour and sign of trust.

True Names: Anillee, Cassinone, Hesitor, Lorrari, Melanippe, Namremey, Winhise, Yentides

Chosen Names: Bramble, Breeze, Chrysanthe, Hawley, Oak, Rose, Rustle, Sapling, Yew

Dryad Traits

Born of the natural magic surrounding their trees, dryads have several innate abilities.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2 and your Charisma score increases by 1.

Age. Dryads can claim maturity at nearly any point in their lives, but most tie it to the age of their home tree. Once a tree begins to bear seeds, most dryads consider themselves adults. Dryads will not die of old age, instead surviving as long as their tree does.

Alignment. Dryads, being fey, have an extremely different idea of morality and law than most races, but do not tend towards any extreme. Most dryads are neutral.

Size. Dryads stand at similar heights to elves, ranging from under 5 feet to 6 feet in height, and weigh surprisingly little considering their seemingly wooden bodies. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Fey. Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid.

Magic Resistance. You have advantage on Saving Throws against Spells and other magical Effects.

Speak with Beasts and Plants. You can communicate with Beasts and Plants as if you shared a language.

Tree Stride. Once on your turn, you can use 10 ft. of your Movement to step magically into one living tree within reach, emerging in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of another living tree within 60 feet of the first. Both trees must be large or bigger to use this feature. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses at the end of a long rest.

Innate Magic. You know the Druidcraft cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Charm Person and Goodberry spells once per day. When you reach 5th level, you can also cast the Barkskin spell once per day. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells, which require no material components.

Tree Dependent. If you stray more than 900 feet from your home tree or it is destroyed, you will begin to grow sick. Every 1d4 hours, you must succeed a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 1 level of exhaustion. Taking a long rest will remove two levels of exhaustion gained in this way, but only once you return to your home tree, or you enter the radius of effect for your Acorn of Far Travel.

Acorn of Far Travel. You possess an enchanted acorn, pine cone, or other seed from your home tree. So long as this item is within 500 ft. of you, you can avoid the effects of your Tree Dependent trait, unless your home tree is destroyed. This item can only be replaced with another seed from your home tree.