Spell Weaver Variant (5e Class)
Spell Weaver (Variant)[edit]
SpellWeavers are magic users who have long since broken down the barriers the other magic users are still bound to, but at a harsh cost. They manipulate the Weave in a more direct manner as to channel the raw potency of magic itself.
Creating a Spell weaver (Variant)[edit]
Where you born within a tribe of these beings of magical prowess? have you stumbled upon their secret villages? Perhaps you saved one of their villagers without realising and they wished to gift you some experience in their craft?
- Quick Build
You can make a Spell Weaver quickly by following these suggestions. First, Constitution should be your highest ability score, followed by Strength or Dexterity. Second, choose the Sage background.
Class Features
As a Spell Weaver you gain the following class features.
- Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d6 per Spell Weaver level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + Constitution modifier per Spell Weaver level after 1st
- Proficiencies
Armor: Light armor
Weapons: Daggers, darts, short swords, slings, quarterstaffs, light crossbows
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Deception, Insight, Investigation, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion
- Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- (a) Quarterstaff or (b) Dagger
- (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
- (a) a Scholar's pack or (b) a Explorer's pack
- SpellBook
- If you are using starting wealth, you have 5d4x10. Plus any from your background in funds.
| Level | Proficiency Bonus |
Features | Sorcery Points | Cantrips Known | —Spell Slots per Spell Level— | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |||||
| 1st | +2 | SpellCasting, Overflow, Lifeweaving | — | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2nd | +2 | Wellspring of Magic, | 2 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3rd | +2 | Metamagic, | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5th | +3 | — | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6th | +3 | Weavewalking | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7th | +3 | — | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9th | +4 | — | 9 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 10th | +4 | Weave's Mercy | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 11th | +4 | — | 11 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 12 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 13th | +5 | — | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 14th | +5 | Overchannel | 14 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 15th | +5 | — | 15 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 16 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 17th | +6 | Judgement of the Weave | 17 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 18th | +6 | — | 18 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 19 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 20th | +6 | Deaths Door | 20 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
SpellCasting[edit]
As a Spell Weaver, your time experimenting and harnessing the weave has granted you the ability to cast Spells, However the cost of over using the pure aspect of the weave could be exhaustive.
- Spellbook
At 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level spells of your choice.
The spells that you add to your spellbook as you gain levels reflect the arcane research you conduct on your own, as well as Experimental breakthroughs you have had about the nature of the multiverse. You might find other spells during your adventures. You could discover a spell recorded on a scroll in an evil Spell users chest, for example, or in a dusty tome in an ancient library.
Copying a Spell into the Book. When you find a spell of 1st level or higher, you can add it to your spellbook if it is of a level for which you have spell slots and if you can spare the time to decipher and copy it.
Copying a spell into your spellbook involves reproducing the basic form of the spell, then deciphering the unique system of notation used by the Spellcaster who wrote it.
For each level of the spell, the process takes 2 hours. Once you have spent this time, you can prepare the spell just like your other spells.
Replacing the Book. You can copy a spell from your own spellbook into another book-for example, if you want to make a backup copy of your spellbook. This is just like copying a new spell into your spellbook, but faster and easier, since you understand your own notation and already know how to cast the spell. You need spend only 1 hour for each level of the copied spell.
If you lose your spellbook, you can use the same procedure to transcribe the spells that you have prepared into a new spellbook. Filling out the remainder of your spellbook requires you to find new spells to do so, as normal. For this reason, many Spell casters keep backup spellbooks in a safe place.
The Book's Appearance. Your spellbook is a unique compilation of spells, with its own decorative flourishes and margin notes. It might be a plain, functional leather volume that you received as a gift from your master, a finely bound gilt-edged tome you found in an ancient library or even a loose collection of notes scrounged together after you lost your previous spellbook in a mishap.
- Learning Spells of 1st Level and Higher
Each time you gain a Spell Weaver level, you can add two spells of your choice to your spellbook. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the Spell Weaver table. On your adventures, you might find other spells that you can add to your spellbook.
- Cantrips
At 1st level, you can choose four cantrips from any of the cantrip lists. You learn additional cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Spell Weaver table.
Each time you gain a Spell weaver level, you can add two spells of your choice to your spell list.
- Spell Slots and Spell list
The Spell Weaver table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells from any of the spell lists. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
For example, if you know the 1st-level spell Burning Hands and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Burning Hands using either slot.
- Spellcasting Ability
Constitution is your spellcasting ability for your sorcerer spells, since the power of your magic comes from the weave. You use your Constitution whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Constitution modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a sorcerer spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
- Spellcasting Ability
Constitution is your spellcasting ability for your Spell Weaver spells, since you Channel the force of the weave, the flow of magic. You use your Constitution whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Constitution modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a Spell Weaver spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier
- Spellcasting Focus
You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your Spell Weaver spells.
Overflow[edit]
At 1st level, in combat every 3rd cantrip you cast which deals damage, you can restore 1 spell slot. the spell slot level is equal or lower than half your proficiency bonus ( rounded down.
you can use this feature a number of time to your proficency bonus, after which you must take a long rest
Lifeweaving[edit]
The logical conclusion of the Spell weaver's credo of casting as long as you stand is burning through the force of your life to throw spell after spell, even as your magical reserves are supposedly depleted. No fatigue, no exhaustion will stop you, only the grip of death can snuff out your arcane fire.
At 1st level, When casting a known spell at a level for which you have spell slots and when all your spell slots of that level are expended, you may instead choose to take 1d4 damage per spell level to cast the spell anyway. This also reduces your maximum health nu the same amount. The damage is resolved before the spell is cast, does not trigger Concentration checks and if you are reduced to 0 Hit Points by Lifeweaving your spell automatically fails. you can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier.
Your charges of Lifeweaving and your Maximum HP resets after 24 hours
Deaths Door[edit]
At 2nd level, Using the flow of your life force, you have been at the very door of deaths domain.
At 2nd level when you fall to 0 Hit points, you do not fall unconscious. Instead you gain a unique set of spell slots which are only accessible when you are at 0 hitpoints, and only regenerate after a long rest.
MetaMagic[edit]
Metamagic At 3rd level, you gain the ability to twist your spells to suit your needs. You gain two of the following Metamagic options of your choice. You gain another one at 10th and 17th level.
You can use only one Metamagic option on a spell when you cast it, unless otherwise noted.
Careful Spell. When you cast a spell that forces other creatures to make a saving throw, you can protect some of those creatures from the spell's full force. To do so, you spend 1 sorcery point and choose a number of those creatures up to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one creature). A chosen creature automatically succeeds on its saving throw against the spell.
Distant Spell. When you cast a spell that has a range of 5 feet or greater, you can spend 1 sorcery point to double the range of the spell. When you cast a spell that has a range of touch, you can spend 1 sorcery point to make the range of the spell 30 feet.
Empowered Spell. When you roll damage for a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to reroll a number of the damage dice up to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one). You must use the new rolls. You can use Empowered Spell even if you have already used a different Metamagic option during the casting of the spell.
Extended Spell. When you cast a spell that has a duration of 1 minute or longer, you can spend 1 sorcery point to double its duration, to a maximum duration of 24 hours.
Heightened Spell. When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a saving throw to resist its effects, you can spend 3 sorcery points to give one target of the spell disadvantage on its first saving throw made against the spell.
Quickened Spell. When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action, you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting.
Subtle Spell. When you cast a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to cast it without any somatic or verbal components.
Transmuted Spell. When you cast a spell that deals a type of damage from the following list, you can spend 1 sorcery point to change that damage type to one of the other listed types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, thunder.
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.
Weave walking[edit]
Your sleepless nights of research into the Weave has granted you the ability to separate your spirit from your body, if only for a short duration and as long as you are not in duress.
At 6th level, when you take a long rest you can separate your soul from your body for 4 hours, giving you the ability to see and move in the ethereal plane up to a 30 foot radius around your body. You can not interact with anything on the material plane while using this form. you can return to your body before the duration has transpired.
this can be used once per dawn.
Weave's Mercy[edit]
After your time utilizing the pure raw power of the weave, you learned how to manifest the flow of the weave as a protective barrier, which shields you from a fatal strike
At 10th level, You can spend half of your maximum sorcery points to cast a frail barrier on yourself that will leave you on 1 hit point from a damaging blow.
Overchannel[edit]
Starting at 14th level, you can increase the power of your simpler spells. When you cast a spell of 5th level or lower that deals damage and isn't a cantrip, you can deal maximum damage with that spell.
The first time you do so, you suffer no adverse effect. If you use this feature again before you finish a long rest, you take 2d12 necrotic damage for each level of the spell, immediately after you cast it. Each time you use this feature again before finishing a long rest, the necrotic damage per spell level increases by 1d12. This damage ignores resistance and immunity.
Judgement of the Weave[edit]
By channeling and forcing the flow of the weave to surge though the body, you can shatter your body to gift an ally in need a much needed boost.
at 18th level, you can voluntary drop your Health to 1, in order to turn the rest of it into a shareable pool of health.
up to 6 creatures of your choice within 60 feet can gain health equal to the amount you designate per creature
you can use this feature once per long rest
Deaths Door[edit]
Knocking on deaths door, the weave empowers you to resist its grasp
At 20th level, when you drop to 0 hit points you do not fall unconscious. instead you gain a separate table of spell slots, theses spell slots can only be used if you are not stabilized. you can not cast any healing spells that effect you from these spell slots.
Multiclassing[edit]
Prerequisites. To qualify for multiclassing into the Spell Weaver class, you must meet these prerequisites: Constitution 15 or higher
Proficiencies. When you multiclass into the Spell Weaver class, you gain the following proficiencies: none
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