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=== Conclave of the Cursed ===

'''Cursed Biology.''' When you become a Cursed at 3rd level, you gain enhanced biology and gain the following benefits:

*You age five times slower than the non-Cursed counterparts of your race.

*Your eyes look like the eyes of a snake.

*You gain Darkvision out to 120ft if you didn’t have it already, if you do have Darkvision, you add 60ft to it’s range.

'''Cursed Specialization.''' At 3rd level, you learn how to best use your dual blades, gaining the following benefits:

*When you make an attack with a non-Cursed weapon that is not hindered by resistance or immunity, you gain +1 AC until the start of your next turn.

*When you make an attack with a Cursed weapon, you ignore resistance and immunity, and, if the target has resistance or immunity to the damage the weapon deals, the attack deals an additional 2d4 damage.

'''Cursed Mark.''' At 3rd level, you can use your Bonus Action to mark a creature within 60ft of you. This mark lasts for 1 hour or until you lose Concentration. You deal an extra 1d6 damage which ignores Resistance and Immunity to the target on a hit. You have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find a marked creature. When this extra damage is dealt, you can use your reaction to give the target resistance to one damage type of your choice until the end of your next turn. You can use this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

'''Cursed Weapon.''' Starting at 3rd level, when you finish a long rest, you can touch one weapon, it becomes a Cursed weapon. The weapon retains it's statistics but has the appearance of being wreathed in shadows.

'''Cursed Tracking.''' Starting at 7th Level you become more attuned to your line of work, learning how to track creatures and can learn their weaknesses, additionally. You gain advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Intelligence (Investigation) checks.

'''Dual-Bladed Expertise.''' At 11th level, you become more effective with your twin blades. When you hit on an attack with a natural weapon that is unhindered by resistance or immunity, or when you hit on an attack with a cursed weapon that deals 2d4 extra damage due to the Cursed Specialization feature, you can use your bonus action to perform one additional attack with that weapon.

 

 

 

=== Conclave of the Drakewarden ===

'''Draconic Gift.''' At 3rd level, the bond you share with your drake creates a connection to dragonkind, granting you understanding and empowering your presence. You gain the following benefits:

*You learn the Thaumaturgy cantrip, you use Wisdom for this spell.

*You learn to speak, read, and write Draconic or one other language of your choice.

'''Draconic Mark.''' Also at 3rd level, you can use your Bonus Action to mark a creature within 60ft of you. This mark lasts for 1 hour or until you lose Concentration. You and your Drake Companion, deal an extra damage of a type listed in your Drake Companion’s Draconic Essence trait equal to 1d6, to the target on a hit. You have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find a marked creature. When this extra damage is dealt, your Drake Companion can use its reaction to move up to 20ft without provoking opportunity attacks. You can use this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

'''Drake Companion.''' At 3rd level, as an action, you can magically summon the drake that is bound to you.

:It appears in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30 feet of you.

:The drake is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the accompanying Drake Companion stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. Whenever you summon the drake, choose a damage type listed in its Draconic Essence trait. You can determine the cosmetic characteristics of the drake, such as its color, its scale texture, or any visible effect of its Draconic Essence; your choice has no effect on its game statistics.

:In combat, the drake shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the drake can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

:The drake remains until it is reduced to 0 hit points, until you use this feature to summon the drake again, or until you die. Anything the drake was wearing or carrying is left behind when the drake vanishes.

'''Bond of Fang and Scale.''' At 7th level. the bond you share with your drake intensifies, protecting you and stoking the drake’s fury. When you summon your drake, it grows wings on its back and gains a flying speed equal to its walking speed. In addition, while your drake is summoned, you and the drake gain the following benefits:

*The drake grows to Medium size. Reflecting your special bond, you can use the drake as a mount if your size is Medium or smaller. While you are riding your drake, it can’t use the flying speed of this feature.

*The drake’s Bite attack deals an extra 1d6 damage of the type chosen for the drake’s Draconic Essence.

*You gain resistance to the damage type chosen for the drake’s Draconic Essence.

'''Drake’s Breath.''' At 11th level, as an action, you can exhale a 30-foot cone of damaging breath or cause your drake to exhale it. Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage (your choice doesn’t have to match your drake’s Draconic Essence). Each creature in the cone must make a Dexterity saving throw against your discipline save DC, taking 8d6 damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

'''Perfected Bond.''' At 15th level, your bond to your drake reaches the pinnacle of its power. While your drake is summoned, you and the drake gain the following benefits:

=== Conclave of the Fey Wanderer ===

'''Dreadful Strikes.''' At 3rd level, you can augment your weapon strikes with mind-scarring magic, drawn from the gloomy hollows of the Feywild. When you hit a creature with a weapon, you can deal an extra 1d4 psychic damage to the target, which can take this extra damage only once per turn.

'''Fey Mark.''' Also at 3rd level, you can use your Bonus Action to mark a creature within 60ft of you. This mark lasts for 1 hour or until you lose Concentration. You and your Beast Companion (if you have one) deal an extra 1d6 psychic damage to the target on a hit. You have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find a marked creature. When this extra damage is dealt, you can use your reaction to teleport up to 10ft. You can use this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

'''Otherworldly Glamor.''' At 3rd level, your fey qualities give you a supernatural charm. As a result, whenever you make a Charisma check, you gain a bonus to the check equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of +1).

'''Beguiling Twist.''' At 7th level, the magic of the Feywild guards your mind. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

'''Fey Reinforcements.''' At 11th level, the royal courts of the Feywild have blessed you with the assistance of fey beings: you know Summon Fey. You can cast it without a material component. You can also cast it once without expending a spell slot or expending material components. Once you’ve cast the spell in this way, you cannot cast it again until you finish a long rest. Whenever you start casting this spell, you can modify it so that it doesn’t require concentration. If you do so, the spell’s duration becomes 1 minute for that casting.

'''Misty Wanderer.''' At 15th level, you can slip in and out of the Feywild to move in a blink of an eye: you can cast Misty Step without expending a spell slot. You can do so a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

=== Conclave of the Gloom Stalker ===

'''Dread Ambusher.''' At 3rd level, you master the art of the ambush. You can give yourself a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your Wisdom modifier.

'''Gloomy Mark.''' Also at 3rd level, you can use your Bonus Action to mark a creature within 60ft of you. This mark lasts for 1 hour or until you lose Concentration. You deal an extra 1d6 damage to the target on a hit. You have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find a marked creature. When this extra damage is dealt, you can take the Hide action using your reaction until the end of your turn. You can use this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

'''Umbral Sight.''' At 3rd level, you gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet.

'''Iron Mind.''' By 7th level, you have honed your ability to resist the mind-altering powers of your prey. You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws. If you already have this proficiency, you instead gain proficiency in Intelligence or Charisma saving throws (your choice).

'''Stalker’s Flurry.''' At 11th level, you learn to attack with such unexpected speed that you can turn a miss into another strike. Once on each of your turns when you miss with a weapon attack, you can make another weapon attack as part of the same action.

'''Shadowy Dodge.''' Starting at 15th level, you can dodge in unforeseen ways, with wisps of supernatural shadow around you. Whenever a creature makes an attack roll against you and doesn’t have advantage on the roll, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on it. You must use this feature before you know the outcome of the attack roll.

=== Conclave of the Hunter ===

'''Hunter’s Mark.''' Also at 3rd level, you can use your Bonus Action to mark a creature within 60ft of you. This mark lasts for 1 hour or until you lose Concentration. You deal an extra 1d6 damage to the target on a hit. You have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find a marked creature. When this extra damage is dealt, you can take the Help action using your reaction until the end of your turn. You can use this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

'''Hunter’s Prey.''' At 3rd level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

:'''Colossus Slayer.''' Your tenacity can wear down the most potent foes. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage if it’s below its hit point maximum. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn.

:'''Giant Killer.''' When a Large or larger creature within 5 feet of you hits or misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction to attack that creature immediately after its attack, provided that you can see the creature.

:'''Horde Breaker.''' Once on each of your turns when you make a weapon attack, you can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature that is within 5 feet of the original target and within range of your weapon.

'''Defensive Tactics.''' At 7th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

:'''Escape the Horde.''' Opportunity attacks against you are made with disadvantage.

:'''Multiattack Defense.''' When a creature hits you with an attack, you gain a +4 bonus to AC against all subsequent attacks made by that creature for the rest of the turn.

:'''Steel Will.''' You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

'''Multiattack.''' At 11th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

:'''Volley.''' You can use your action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point you can see within your weapon’s range. You must have ammunition for each target, as normal, and you make a separate attack roll for each target.

:'''Whirlwind Attack.''' You can use your action to make a melee attack against any number of creatures within 5 feet of you, with a separate attack roll for each target.

'''Superior Hunter’s Defense.''' At 15th level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

:'''Evasion.''' You can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as an ancient 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. Additionally, if you take no damage because of a success, you may move out of the area causing the save to be made.

:'''Stand Against the Tide.''' When a hostile creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to force that creature to repeat the same attack against another creature (other than itself) of your choice.

:'''Uncanny Dodge.''' 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.

=== Conclave of the Marsh Warden ===

'''Amphibious Alacrity.''' When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain a climbing speed and swimming speed equal to your walking speed, and you can hold your breath for a number of minutes equal to five times your ranger level.

'''Toxic Strikes.''' Beginning at 3rd level, you ignore the loading property of blowguns, and attacking with a blowgun at long range doesn’t impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls with it. Further, when you’re hidden from a creature and miss it with a ranged attack using a blowgun, making the attack doesn’t reveal your position.

'''Poisonous Defense.''' Starting at 7th level, when a creature successfully physically grapples or restrains you, it takes acid or poison damage as if it was hit by your Toxic Strike. The creature takes this damage again at the end of each of its following turns that it continues to grapple or restrain you.

'''Crippling Toxins.''' At 11th level, whenever you deal damage from your Toxic Strike or Poisonous Defense feature, the target’s speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.

'''Unstoppable Marshal.''' By 15th level, you have immunity to poison damage, and you are immune to the poisoned condition. Additionally, you are always under the effects of the freedom of movement spell.

=== Conclave of the Monster Slayer ===

'''Hunter’s Sense.''' At 3rd level, you gain the ability to peer at a creature and magically discern how best to hurt it. As an action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. You immediately learn whether the creature has any damage immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities and what they are. If the creature is hidden from divination magic, you sense that it has no damage immunities, resistances, or vulnerabilities.

'''Slayer’s Mark.''' Also at 3rd level, you can use your Bonus Action to mark a creature within 60ft of you. This mark lasts for 1 hour or until you lose Concentration. You deal an extra 2d6 damage to the target the first time you hit the target with an attack, dealing an extra 1d6 damage on every subsequent hit. You have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find a marked creature. You can use this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

'''Supernatural Defense.''' At 7th level, you gain extra resilience against your prey’s assaults on your mind and body. Whenever the target of your Slayer’s Mark forces you to make a saving throw and whenever you make an ability check to escape that target’s grapple, add 1d6 to your roll.

'''Magic-User’s Nemesis.''' At 11th level, you gain the ability to thwart someone else’s magic. When you see a creature casting a spell or teleporting within 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction to try to magically foil it. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your discipline save DC, or its spell or teleport fails and is wasted. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining expended uses at the end of a long rest.

'''Slayer’s Counter.''' At 15th level, you gain the ability to counterattack when your prey tries to sabotage you. If the target of your Slayer’s Prey forces you to make a saving throw, you can use your reaction to make one weapon attack against the quarry. You make this attack immediately before making the saving throw. If your attack hits, your save automatically succeeds, in addition to the attack’s normal effects.

=== Conclave of the Swarmkeeper ===

'''Gathered Swarm.''' At 3red level, a swarm of intangible nature spirits has bonded itself to you and can assist you in battle. While you’re alive, the swarm remains in your space, crawling on you or flying and skittering around you within your space. You determine its appearance. You know the spell Mage Hand cantrip if you don’t already know it. When you cast it, the hand takes the form of your swarming nature spirits.

*The attack’s target takes 1d6 piercing damage from the swarm.

*The attack’s target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or be moved by the swarm up to 15 feet horizontally in a direction of your choice.

*You are moved by the swarm 5 feet horizontally in a direction of your choice.

'''Swarming Mark.''' Also at 3rd level, you can use your Bonus Action to mark a creature within 60ft of you. This mark lasts for 1 hour or until you lose Concentration. You deal an extra 1d6 damage to the target when you hit with an attack. You have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find a marked creature. When you deal this extra damage, you can use your reaction to cause part of your swarm to harm the target. The creature makes a Constitution Saving Throw against your Discipline Save DC, on a failure the target considers all other creatures to be behind 1/2 cover until the start of your next turn. You can use this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

'''Writhing Tide.''' At 7th level, you can condense part of your swarm into a focused mass that lifts you up. As a bonus action, you gain a flying speed of 10 feet and can hover. This effect lasts for 1 minute or until you are incapacitated.

'''Mighty Swarm.''' Your Gathered Swarm grows mightier in the following ways:

*The damage of Gathered Swarm increases to 1d8.

*If a creature fails its saving throw against being moved by Gathered Swarm, you can also cause the swarm to knock the creature prone.

*When you are moved by Gathered Swarm, it gives you half cover until the start of your next turn.

'''Swarming Dispersal.''' At 15th level, you can discorporate into your swarm, avoiding danger. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to give yourself resistance to that damage. You vanish into your swarm and then teleport to an unoccupied space that you can see within 30 feet of you, where you reappear with the swarm.