Reaper of Souls (5e Class)
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Reaper of Souls[edit]
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Creating a Reaper of Souls[edit]
What drove your character to forsake the life they lived before? Did they discover some horrible truth, and decide death was the only resolution? Is your character hunting someone in particular, or are they just gleaning as they please? Is it madness that drives you forward? Some unknowable truth that you may only find in death? What gives you the right to choose whether someone lives or dies?
- Quick Build
You can make a Reaper of Souls quickly by following these suggestions. First, Wisdom should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the Acolyte background.
Class Features
As a Reaper of Souls you gain the following class features.
- Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d8 per Reaper of Souls level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 1d8 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + Constitution modifier per Reaper of Souls level after 1st
- Proficiencies
Armor: Light Armor, Medium Armor
Weapons: Simple and Martial Melee Weapons
Tools: Any One Tool or Instrument
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Constitution
Skills: Choose three from History, Religion, Insight, Medicine, Perception, or Intimidation
- Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
| Level | Proficiency Bonus |
Features |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | Tool of Harvest, Reaper's Mark |
| 2nd | +2 | Deathly Resilience |
| 3rd | +2 | Soul Rip |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 5th | +3 | — |
| 6th | +3 | Death Shroud |
| 7th | +3 | — |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement, Wraith Strike |
| 9th | +4 | — |
| 10th | +4 | — |
| 11th | +4 | — |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 13th | +5 | — |
| 14th | +5 | — |
| 15th | +5 | — |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 17th | +6 | — |
| 18th | +6 | — |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 20th | +6 | — |
Tool of Harvest[edit]
At 1s level your deathly powers connect with your preferred weapon. You may spend 4 hours conducting a ritual in which you sit in meditative silence, bonding to a weapon of your choice. Once fully bonded the weapon will take on some of your power, dealing an extra 1d4 necrotic damage as well as giving enemies hit with Reaper's Mark. The necrotic damage your bonded weapon deals increases to 2d4 at 5th level, 3d4 at 10th level, 4d4 at 15th level, and 5d4 at 20th level. At 10th level and onward your bonded weapon is considered magical for purposes of calculating enemy resistances/immunity. If your bonded weapon is ever lost or destroyed, you can perform the ritual again during a long rest to bond to a new weapon.
Your Tool of Harvest may be a Simple or Martial melee weapon.
Reaper's Mark[edit]
At 1st level your touch heralds death, and those afflicted will find themselves drawn closer to the brink. When you touch someone with your bare skin, or your Tool of Harvest, the target must make a constitution saving throw against your Deathly DC. On a successful save, nothing happens. On a failed save, the target(s) receive the Reaper's Mark for 1 minute. At the start of their turn a marked creature will take 1d6 + your WIS Mod necrotic damage. The damage increases to 2d6 at 9th level and 3d6 at 17th level. Hitting a target again will refresh the mark's duration, but will not extend it past 1 minute. The maximum number of creatures you can mark at once equals (Half your Reaper of Souls level rounded down) + your Proficiency Bonus + WIS Modifier.
- Deathly DC = 8 + Proficiency Bonus + WIS Modifier
Deathly Resilience[edit]
Starting at 2nd level, your connection to the afterlife grants you greater resilience against the very essence of death. You gain resistance to necrotic damage and advantage on saving throws against the being frightened.
Soul Rip[edit]
Starting at 3rd level, you can use your attack action to extract the souls of creatures near you marked by Reaper's Mark. Each marked target within 15 feet of you takes 1d4 + your Wisdom modifier necrotic damage, and you gain temporary hit points equal to the damage dealt from this feature. You can use this ability up to your Proficiency Bonus + your Wisdom Bonus (Minimum 1). You regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. Soul Rip is modified by your subclass choice, as described in each subclass.
Subclass Feature[edit]
At 3rd level, you choose an Aspect of Death. Choose between the Aspect of Mercy, the Aspect of Reckoning, or the Aspect of Inevitability, all detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th level, 10th level, 15th level, 18th level, and 20th level.
Ability Score Improvement[edit]
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[edit]
At 5th level, you may attack twice instead of once whenever you make an Attack action.
Death Shroud[edit]
At 6th level, your power grows. As an action, you can sprout flightless spectral wings that roil with a deathly fog. Your wings swing forth, sending a wave of deathly fog in a line before you. The shroud is 15 feet wide and 20 feet long. Every creature of your choice within the fog must roll a save against your Deathly DC or be afflicted with Reaper's Mark and take 1d8 necrotic damage. The damage increases to 2d8 at 11th level and 3d8 at 18th level.
Wraith Strike[edit]
At 8th level, you have mastered swiftly moving through your enemies, striking from within their souls. As an action, you can teleport to an enemy within 30 feet that you can see and is marked by Reaper's Mark. You deal 1d6 necrotic damage to the target, and Reaper's Mark is refreshed on the target. This damage increases to 2d6 at 11th level, 3d6 at 17th level, and 4d6 at 20th level. You may use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). Regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Aura of Desolation[edit]
Starting at 14th level, your mere presence saps the life from your surroundings. Whenever a hostile creature starts its turn within 10 feet of you, you may force it to make a Constitution saving throw against your Deathly DC. On a failed save, the creature takes necrotic damage equal to your Wisdom modifier and suffers from the Reaper's Mark if it wasn't already marked. The creature takes half the necrotic damage on a successful save and doesn't suffer from the Reaper's Mark. Creatures that are immune to necrotic damage are unaffected by this feature.
Master of the Mark[edit]
At 20th level, your mastery over Reaper's Mark has reached its peak. The maximum number of creatures you can mark at once becomes unlimited. Additionally, when you use your Soul Rip feature, you also deal damage to all marked creatures within 60 feet of you.
Aspect of Reckoning[edit]
As an Aspect of Reckoning, your powers allow you to hone in on a single target and unleash devastating damage upon them. Your techniques are precise and lethal, making you a formidable opponent to anyone who crosses your path. Your precision and focus make you a force to be reckoned with.
- Cold Hand
Upon delving into the Aspect of Reckoning your Soul Rip class feature is modified as such; targets damaged by Soul Rip have their movement speed reduced by half until the end of their next turn. You have an advantage on your next attack against a target afflicted by Reaper's Mark. This effect expires upon use or at the end of your next turn.
- Die Alone
Starting at 3rd level, if only one target is afflicted by {inpage|Reaper's Mark}, any damage dealt by your {inpage|Soul Rip} feature will be doubled. Temp Health received from {inpage|Soul Rip} remains calculated as normal.
- Fear the Reaper
Starting at 10th level you become more attuned to the afterlife. At the cost of a bonus action, you may become incorporeal and increase your movement speed by +10 for your current turn. While incorporeal, you are able to move through creatures your size and larger as though they were difficult terrain. While Incorporeal attacks of opportunity against you roll at disadvantage to hit. You are able to use {inpage|Fear the Reaper} an amount equal to half your level in Reaper of Souls rounded down.
- Swift Death
At 10th Level you've become adept at dealing death swiftly and efficiently. When hitting a creature afflicted with Reaper's Mark with your Tool of Harvest you may choose to activate Soul Rip as a bonus action.
- Last Rites
Starting at 17th level, you gain the ability to deliver the final blow to your enemies. As an action, you may choose one creature afflicted with {inpage|Reaper's Mark} within 30 feet and mark it with a death sentence. After 2 rounds, the target takes necrotic damage equal to half its missing hit points. You may use this feature once per long rest.
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