In the shadowed halls of forbidden knowledge, where arcane secrets intertwine with the pulsing rhythm of life itself, there exists a rare breed of spellcaster—the Hemomancer. These enigmatic individuals wield blood as their medium, tapping into its primal essence to shape reality and defy the boundaries of mortality.

### Arcane and Martial Prowess

The Hemomancer stands at the crossroads of magic and combat. Their power emanates from a unique wellspring: the Hemorrhage Dice—a reservoir of life force that fuels their abilities. With each incantation, they draw upon their own vitality, weaving spells and enhancing their martial prowess.

Their combat style is a dance of crimson and steel. They laugh in the face of danger, their eyes ablaze with the promise of forbidden might. When they charge into battle, it is not just their blade that thirsts for blood; it is their very essence.

### Life Force Casting

Hemomancers are full-casters, their spell repertoire drawn from ancient grimoires. But their magic is no mere incantation; it is a pact with their own lifeblood. As they channel spells, they willingly suffer wounds, sacrificing flesh for power. The pain becomes their catalyst, and their veins surge with arcane energy. When a Hemomancer casts, crimson runes flare across their skin, tracing the contours of forgotten sigils. Their whispered words echo with the pulse of their heart, and the very air shivers in response.

Hemomancers channel their power through the unobstructed flow of their own blood. They need to move freely to perform blood casting and use hemorrhage dice. Armor restricts movement and disrupts the connection to their blood. Therefore, hemomancers cannot use these features while wearing armor. When unarmored, a hemomancer's AC equals 10 + their Dexterity modifier + their Constitution modifier.

Armor Restriction

You gain the ability to cast spells. You are a full-caster, using the Hemomancer spell list (see the table below). As a Hemomancer, you draw upon your own life force to cast spells. When you cast a spell, you take damage equal to three times the spell’s level. For example, casting a 1st-level spell costs 3 hit points, while casting a 4th-level spell costs 12 hit points. This damage cannot be reduced by any means, but it does not require you to make concentration checks if you are concentrating on a spell.


**Spell Slots**

Hemomancers tap into their own life force to fuel their spells. They don't rely on spell slots to cast spells. Instead, they draw power from their own life force. You can cast spells as long as you have enough hit points available. However, there's a limit to the strain you can place on your body. You can only cast one spell of 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th level each per long rest.

**Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher**

You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the Hemomancer spell list. The Spells Known column of the Hemomancer table shows when you learn more spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st, 2nd or 3rd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the spells you know and replace it with another spell from the Hemomancer spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

**Spellcasting Ability**

Constitution is your spellcasting ability for your Hemomancer spells, since your magic draws on your own life force. 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 an Hemomancer 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


Blood casting

As a Hemomancer you get access to the following spells:

| Spell Level | Official Spells | Homebrew Spells |
| :-- | :-- | :-- |
| Cantrip | ¤acid splash¤, ¤chill touch¤, ¤infestation¤, ¤mage hand¤, ¤mind sliver¤, ¤prestidigitation¤, ¤shape water¤, ¤spare the dying¤, ¤thaumaturgy¤, ¤thorn whip¤ and ¤toll the dead¤ | - |
| 1st | ¤Armor of agathys¤, ¤bane¤, ¤bless¤, ¤cause fear¤, ¤command¤, ¤create or destroy water¤, ¤detect evil and good¤, ¤detect magic¤, ¤false life¤, ¤fog cloud¤, ¤heroism¤, ¤inflict wounds¤, ¤purify food and drink¤, ¤ray of sickness¤, ¤searing smite¤, ¤Tasha's Caustic Brew¤, ¤unseen servant¤, ¤wrathful smite¤ | ¤blood bolt¤ |
| 2nd | ¤Acid Arrow¤, ¤Aid¤, ¤Alter Self¤, ¤Augury¤, ¤Blindness/Deafness¤, ¤Branding Smite¤, ¤cloud of daggers¤, ¤crown of madness¤, ¤darkness¤, ¤enhance ability¤, ¤enthrall¤, ¤flame blade¤, ¤gentle repose¤, ¤hold person¤, ¤lesser restoration¤, ¤locate object¤, ¤mind spike¤, ¤mirror image¤, ¤misty step¤, ¤protection from poison¤, ¤ray of enfeeblement¤, ¤spike growth¤, ¤spiritual weapon¤, ¤warding bond¤, ¤web¤, ¤wither and bloom¤ and ¤zone of truth¤ | - | 
| 3rd | ¤Antagonize¤, ¤Bestow curse¤, ¤Blinding smite¤, ¤clairvoyance¤, ¤counterspell¤, ¤dispel magic¤, ¤elemental weapon¤, ¤fear¤, ¤feign death¤, ¤fly¤, ¤gaseous form¤, ¤haste¤, ¤life transference¤, ¤motivational speech¤, ¤nondetection¤, ¤remove curse¤, ¤revivify¤, ¤sending¤, ¤slow¤, ¤spirit shroud¤, ¤vampiric touch¤ and ¤water breathing¤ | ¤boil blood¤ and ¤shared suffering¤ |
| 4th | ¤Aura of life¤, ¤aura of purity¤, ¤blight¤, ¤compulsion¤, ¤control water¤, ¤divination¤, ¤elemental bane¤, ¤freedom of movement¤, ¤greater invisibility¤, ¤locate creature¤, ¤polymorph¤, ¤Raulothim's Psychic Lance¤, ¤shadow of moil¤, ¤sickening radiance¤, ¤spirit of death¤, ¤staggering smite¤, ¤Vitriolic Sphere¤ and ¤watery sphere¤  | - |
| 5th | ¤antilife shell¤, ¤circle of power¤, ¤commune¤, ¤contagion¤, ¤destructive wave¤, ¤dominate person¤, ¤enervation¤, ¤geas¤, ¤greater restoration¤, ¤hallow¤, ¤hold monster¤, ¤immolation¤, ¤modify memory¤, ¤negative energy flood¤, ¤reincarnate¤, ¤scrying¤, ¤skill empowerment¤, ¤steel wind strike¤, and ¤teleportation circle¤ | ¤sepsis¤ |
| 6th | ¤blade barrier¤, ¤circle of death¤, ¤contingency¤, ¤eyebite¤, ¤flesh to stone¤, ¤forbiddance¤, ¤globe of invulnerability¤, ¤harm¤, ¤magic jar¤, ¤mental prison¤, ¤soul cage¤, ¤true seeing¤, ¤wall of thorns¤ and ¤wind walk¤  | - |
| 7th | ¤etherealness¤, ¤finger of death¤, ¤plane shift¤, ¤power word pain¤, ¤resurrection¤, ¤sequester¤ and ¤teleport¤ | - |
| 8th | ¤abi-dalzim's horrid wilting¤, ¤antimagic field¤, ¤dominate monster¤, ¤feeblemind¤, ¤mind blank¤, ¤power word stun¤ and ¤telepathy¤ | - |
| 9th | ¤blade of disaster¤, ¤foresight¤, ¤imprisonment¤, ¤invulnerability¤, ¤power word heal¤, ¤power word kill¤, ¤psychic scream¤, ¤true resurrection¤ and ¤wish¤ | ¤Hemorrhagic Annihilation¤ |

Hemomancer Spell List

You possess a pool of hemorrhage dice that fuel your arcane and martial prowess and bolster your resilience. You gain a number of hemorrhage dice equal to half your hemomancer level (rounded up). You regain all spent hemorrhage dice during a short rest.

These dice start as a d4 at 2nd level and increase in size: d6 at 5th, d8 at 9th, d10 at 13th, and d12 at 17th level.

**Hemorrhage Strike (Bonus Action):** As a bonus action, you can expend one hemorrhage die to add its roll to the damage of your next attack. You gain temporary hit points equal to the amount rolled on the hemorrhage dice.

**Vital Ward (Reaction):** When you take damage, you can use your reaction to expend one hemorrhage die and reduce the damage you take by an amount equal to the die roll + your Constitution modifier.

Hemorrhage Dice

Choose your subclass. Your control of hemomancy allows you to specialize, and you have the ability to choose your path as a Blood Knight or a Sanguine Mage. As a Blood Knight you are a fierce martial fighter, utilizing your large health pool as well as healing and draining magic to keep yourself alive despite your lack of armor. As a Sanguine Mage you are a powerful arcane caster, dancing a fine line between life and death as you drain your own life force to lay waste to your enemies. Lifeweavers possess the unique ability to sacrifice their own life force to heal others.

Choose either [Blood Knight](#blood-knight), [Sanguine Mage](#sanguine-mage) or [Lifeweaver](#lifeweaver) as your subclass.

Subclass

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.

Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

Ability Score Increase

You gain the ability to convert excess healing into temporary hit points. Whenever you are healed for an amount that would bring you above your maximum hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to the amount that would have exceeded your maximum hit points.

Alternatively, you can choose to only gain temporary hit points instead of being healed. If you do so you gain temporary hit points equal to the maximum number of hit points possible from any healing.

Overhealing

You can extract blood from a living creature or a creature who was slain within the last hour and isolate one of their senses, proficiencies or languages. This process takes 10 minutes. When the process is completed you can consume the blood as an action or store it in a vial. In a vial, the blood is magically perserved and can be consumed by you within 30 days of extraction.

As an action you can consume the blood to gain the sense, proficiency or language stored in the vial. The effect lasts for 24 hours. You can only have one such effect active at a time.

Transfusion

If you possess a vial of blood from a creature, you always know the distance and general direction to the creature as long as you are on the same plane of existence.

As an action you can consume the blood to cast ¤scrying¤ on the creature. The creature automatically fails it's saving throw when you cast ¤scrying¤ in this way.

Blood tracking

Being poisoned is an unpleasant experience, and as a Hemomancer, you’re acutely aware of its effects and the very essence of your blood magic reacts. When you are poisoned the following additional effects apply:

* You have disadvantage on all Saving Throws.
* When you attack a creature or cast a spell, the target (or one target of your choice affected by a multi-target spell) must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a fail the creature is poisoned for 1 minute and has disadvantage on all saving throws. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of it's turns.

Hemotoxic Retaliation

You have mastered the art of performing arcane rituals using blood as a conduit for your magic. During a short or long rest, you can conduct a blood ritual to invoke one of the following effects: 

- **Sanguine Empowerment**: You can enhance your Hemorrhage Dice. Whenever you roll Hemorrhage Dice, roll an additional dice and add it to the total. 
- **Blood Bond**: You can create a bond with a willing creature by sharing blood. You and the bonded creature can communicate telepathically within a mile and have advantage on all attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws when you are within 15 feet of each other. 
- **Essence Infusion**: You can infuse a weapon with hemomantic energy. The weapon deals an extra 1d6 necrotic damage on a hit and has the properties of a magic weapon for overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. 
- **Vital Warding**: You can ward up to 6 willing creatures with protective blood magic. They gain temporary hit points equal to your Hemomancer level and are cured of one condition.

These rituals require the use of your own blood, and performing a ritual reduces your hit point maximum by an amount equal to your Hemomancer level until you complete a long rest. The effects of the rituals last until you complete a long rest. A creature can only benefit from one blood ritual at a time.

Blood rituals

As a Hemomancer, you have learned to unleash a potent curse that siphons the life force of your enemies. When you cast a spell that deals damage, you can invoke the Blood Curse to afflict the target with a debilitating hex. 

Choose one of the following effects when you invoke the Blood Curse:
* **Sanguine Shackles**: The target’s speed is reduced to 0, and it cannot benefit from any bonus to its speed.
* **Crimson Decay**: The target takes 4d12 necrotic damage at the start of each of its turns.
* **Withering Essence**: The target has disadvantage on Constitution saving throws and is vulnerable to necrotic damage.

The curse lasts for 1 minute or until you use this feature again. The target can make a Constitution saving throw at the end of each of its turns. On a success, the curse ends. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once) and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Blood Curse

At the pinnacle of your mastery over hemomancy, you achieve a state of near-immortality through the complete fusion of your essence with the lifeblood you command. Your understanding of blood magic allows you to transcend the limitations of your mortal form.

* Your Constitution increases by 2, to a maximum of 24.
* Your hit point maximum cannot be reduced.
* When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can choose to regain hit points equal to half your hit point maximum. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.
* When you use a Hemorrhage Die, you can roll two dice and choose which one to use.

Sanguine Ascendancy

Hemomancer

The Blood Knight embodies a fierce and daring approach to combat. These warriors utilize their own life force as a resource, combining healing and draining magic to stay alive in battle. The Blood Knights thrive on risk and reward, eschewing armor in favor of raw power and resilience.

You have honed your martial prowess and gain proficiency in martial weapons and a Fighting Style feat of your choice. Whenever you gain a Hemomancer level, you can replace the feat you chose with a different Fighting Style feat.

Additionally, your training with weapons allows you to use the mastery properties of two kinds of Simple or Martial Melee weapons of your choice. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can practice weapon drills and change one of those weapon choices. When you reach certain Hemomancer levels, you gain the ability to use the mastery properties of more kinds of weapons, as shown in the table below.

| Level | Weapon Masteries |
| :-- | :-- |
| 3rd | 2 |
| 7th | 3 |
| 12th | 4 |

Martial Training

When you have less than half your hit points you can add your constitution modifier to the damage of all attacks. When you have less than a quarter of your hit points your attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Dance with Death

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Additionally, when you use your action to cast a spell you can make one weapon attack using your bonus action.

Extra Attack

As a hemomancer, you possess a unique attunement to the lifeblood flowing within creatures. This acute awareness grants you blindsight within a radius of 30 feet, allowing you to detect the presence of living creatures.

Bloodsense

As an act of primal ferocity, you can willingly sacrifice one third of your current hit points (rounded up) to enter a bloodlust state. While in this state, your senses sharpen, and your combat instincts heighten. When you take the Attack action, you can make an additional attack. Additionally, if a creature enters your melee reach, you can make an opportunity attack against it.

Bloodlust

Blood Knight

The Sanguine Mage delves into forbidden arts, harnessing the very essence of life—the pulsing crimson flow within their veins. Their spells are woven from blood, and their power is drawn from the vital force that courses through all living beings.

When you have less than half your hit points, your spells become infused with the raw essence of your vitality. Once per turn, when you roll damage for a spell, you can add your Constitution modifier (minimum of +1) to one damage roll of that spell.

When you have less than a quarter of your hit points, the cost of casting spells is reduced to twice their level in hit points.

The Sanguine Mages gain an expanded spell list through their communion with life’s essence. Their connection to hemomancy—the forbidden art of blood magic—allows them to peer beyond mortal bounds.

| Spell Level | Spells |
| :-- | :-- |
| Cantrip | ¤eldritch blast¤, ¤fire bolt¤, and ¤frostbite¤ |
| 1st | ¤Blood Bolt¤, ¤burning hands¤, ¤chromatic orb¤, ¤faerie fire¤, ¤magic missile¤, ¤silvery barbs¤ and ¤thunderwave¤ |
| 2nd | ¤flaming sphere¤, ¤heat metal¤, ¤mind spike¤, ¤phantasmal force¤, ¤scorching ray¤, ¤shatter¤ and ¤tasha's mind whip¤ |
| 3rd | ¤blink¤, ¤call lightning¤, ¤fireball¤, ¤lightning bolt¤, ¤major image¤, ¤stinking cloud¤, ¤thunder step¤ and ¤wind wall¤ |
| 4th | ¤banishment¤, ¤blight¤, ¤dimension door¤, ¤ice storm¤, ¤storm sphere¤ and ¤wall of fire¤ |
| 5th | ¤arcane hand¤, ¤cloudkill¤, ¤cone of cold¤, ¤flame strike¤, ¤immolation¤, ¤synaptic static¤, ¤telekinesis¤ and ¤wall of force¤  |
| 6th | ¤chain lightning¤, ¤disintegrate¤, ¤mass suggestion¤, ¤scatter¤ and ¤sunbeam¤ |
| 7th | ¤crown of stars¤, ¤delayed blast fireball¤, ¤fire storm¤, ¤forcecage¤ and ¤prismatic spray¤ |
| 8th | ¤control weather¤, ¤earthquake¤, ¤incendiary cloud¤, ¤maddening darkness¤ and ¤sunburst¤ | 
| 9th | ¤meteor swarm¤, ¤prismatic wall¤, ¤shapechange¤ and ¤storm of vengeance¤ |

Expanded Spell List

When your spell hits a living creature or they fail a save against your spell, you can tap into their life force. By expending one or more Hemorrhage Dice, you drain vitality from your target. Roll the Hemorrhage Dice and add your Constitution modifier to the result. The target takes this amount of necrotic damage, and simultaneously, you regain the same number of hit points. You can use this feature once per turn.

Drain Life

You can inscribe a Crimson Sigil on a surface or object. This sigil is invisible and can only be seen by you. Inscribing a sigil takes 1 minute and you must complete a long rest before you can inscribe a new sigil. You can activate the sigil as a bonus action to produce one of the following effects in a 10 foot radius sphere around the sigil for 1 minute:

* **Sigil of Warding**: Grants a +2 bonus to AC to allies within 10 feet of the sigil.
* **Sigil of Fury**: When you deal damage to an enemy within 10 feet of the sigil, it takes an additional 1d6 slashing damage.
* **Sigil of Fear**: When an enemy comes within 10 feet of the sigil for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. Frightened creatures can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success
* **Sigil of Bloodbond**: When an ally within 10 feet of the sigil takes damage, you can use your reaction to take half of that damage instead.

Crimson Sigil

When you take damage, you can use your reaction to expend one or more Hemorrhage Dice and force the attacker to make a Constitution saving throw. The attacker takes necrotic damage equal to the roll of your Hemorrhage Dice plus your Constitution modifier, or half as much on a success.

Sanguine Retaliation

Sanguine Mage

Lifeweavers possess the unique ability to sacrifice their own life force to heal others, a trait inherent to their hemomantic magic. However, this gift comes with a significant limitation: Lifeweavers are completely unable to use their healing abilities to restore their own health under any circumstance. Their hemomantic powers are solely directed towards aiding their allies, leaving them without recourse for self-healing.

When you have less than half your hit points, your healing spells also grant temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1). When you have less than a quarter of your hit points you gain temporary hit points equal to your hemomancer level at the start of your turn.

Lifeweavers possess the unique ability to sacrifice their own life force to heal others. However, this gift comes with a significant limitation: Lifeweavers are unable to use their healing spells or abilities to restore their own health.

| Spell Level | Spells |
| :-- | :-- |
| Cantrip | ¤guidance¤, ¤mending¤, ¤resistance¤ |
| 1st | ¤bless¤, ¤ceremony¤, ¤cure wounds¤, ¤healing word¤, ¤protection from evil and good¤, ¤purify food and drink¤ and ¤sanctuary¤ |
| 2nd | ¤calm emotions¤, ¤healing spirit¤, ¤prayer of healing¤ and ¤wither and bloom¤ |
| 3rd | ¤aura of vitality¤, ¤beacon of hope¤, ¤create food and water¤, ¤intellect fortress¤, ¤leomund's tiny hut¤, ¤mass healing word¤ and ¤protection from energy¤ |
| 4th | ¤aura of life¤, ¤aura of purity¤, ¤death ward¤ and ¤freedom of movement¤  |
| 5th | ¤creation¤, ¤dispel evil and good¤ and ¤mass cure wounds¤,  |
| 6th | ¤guards and wards¤, ¤heal¤ and ¤heroes' feast¤   |
| 7th | ¤regenerate¤ |
| 8th | ¤clone¤ |
| 9th | ¤mass heal¤ and ¤power word heal¤ |

Expanded spell list

You gain the ability to channel your own life force to heal others. As a bonus action, you can expend one or more Hemorrhage Dice to heal an ally within 30 feet. Roll the Hemorrhage Dice and add your Constitution modifier to determine the amount healed.

When you use your Hemorrhage Die for healing, you take damage equal to half the amount healed.

Blood Infusion

When a creature you can see within 10 feet of you takes damage from an attack, you can use your reaction to become the target of the attack. You can choose to expend a Hemorrhage Dice to reduce the damage you take by the amount rolled.

Crimson Bulwark

As an action, you can empower a willing creature you can see within 30 feet of you and infuse them with hemomantic energy. The target gains temporary hit points equal to your hemomancer level plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). Additionally, for the next minute, whenever the target makes a saving throw, they can add your Constitution modifier to the roll. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Empowered Vitality

As an action, you can choose any number of creatures you can see within 60 feet of you, and expend hit points up to half your maximum hit points. Each chosen creature regains hit points equal to the total amount of hit points you expended, divided as you choose among them. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Sacrificial Surge

Lifeweaver

Hemomancers channel their power through the unobstructed flow of their own blood. They need to move freely to perform blood casting and use hemorrhage dice. Armor restricts movement and disrupts the connection to their blood. Therefore, hemomancers cannot use these features while wearing armor.

You gain the ability to cast spells. You are a full-caster, using the Hemomancer spell list (see the table below). As a Hemomancer, you draw upon your own life force to cast spells. When you cast a spell, you take damage equal to four times the spell’s level. This damage cannot be reduced by any means, but it does not require you to make concentration checks if you are concentrating on a spell.


**Spell Slots**

Hemomancers tap into their own life force to fuel their spells. They don't rely on spell slots to cast spells. Instead, they draw power from their own life force. You can cast spells as long as you have enough hit points available. However, there's a limit to the strain you can place on your body. You can only cast one spell of 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th level each per long rest.

**Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher**

You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the Hemomancer spell list. The Spells Known column of the Hemomancer table shows when you learn more spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st, 2nd or 3rd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the spells you know and replace it with another spell from the Hemomancer spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

**Spellcasting Ability**

Constitution is your spellcasting ability for your Hemomancer spells, since your magic draws on your own life force. 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 an Hemomancer 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


Bonus Proficiencies

You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options: Defense, Dueling, Great Weapon Fighting, Protection, Two-Weapon Fighting.

You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Fighting Style

When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can choose to expend one or more of your Hemorrhage Dice (max 5) to deal additional damage. The damage type is necrotic.

Sanguine Smite

When you have less than half your hit points, your spells cost three times their level in hit points. This is reduced to twice their level when you have less than a quarter of your hit points.

*"Not all goblins are content with their lot in life. Some seek adventure, fortune, or simply a way to outwit fate. These cunning individuals become Adventure Goblins, masters of guile, luck, and the unexpected."*

Adventure Goblins are cunning and mischievous creatures that live for the thrill of adventure and the lure of treasure. Whether they are treasure goblins or dice goblins, they use their unique abilities to manipulate the battlefield, confuse their enemies, and aid their allies. Adventure Goblins are half-casters, using the bard spell list to fuel their magic with their own trickery and charm. Adventure Goblins are versatile and adaptable, able to choose from a variety of skills and proficiencies to suit their needs. Adventure Goblins are not evil by nature, but they are often driven by their own selfish desires and impulses, which can sometimes get them into trouble. Adventure Goblins are always looking for the next big score, the next exciting challenge, and the next opportunity to prove themselves.

While traditionally associated with goblin-kind, this class is not limited to goblins alone. At the Dungeon Master’s discretion, characters from various backgrounds can embrace the path of the Adventure Goblin. Here are some ways you might find yourself drawn to this enigmatic class:

* **Goblin Heritage:** If you have goblin blood running through your veins, whether due to ancestry or a mysterious twist of fate, the path of the Adventure Goblin may call to you. Perhaps you were born into a goblin tribe, raised amidst their cunning ways, and now seek to use your innate talents for more than mere survival.

* **Raised by Goblins:** Some adventurers were abandoned or lost as children, only to be taken in by goblin clans. These unlikely adoptive families taught them their tricks, secrets, and peculiar ways. As a result, these individuals grew up with a foot in both worlds—their goblin upbringing and their longing for something more.

* **Outsiders with a Twist:** Not all Adventure Goblins are goblinoids by birth. Some are outsiders—humans, elves, or other races—who found themselves entangled in goblin affairs. Maybe you were cursed, blessed, or simply curious. Whatever the reason, you’ve embraced the chaotic and unpredictable nature of goblin magic.

Choose your subclass. You are more than your average goblinoid, and you have the ability to choose your path as a Treasure Goblin or a Dice Goblin. As a Treasure Goblin, you are fast and agile and you have a knack for attracting the attention of enemies in combat. As a Dice Goblin, you are a master of manipulating dice rolls, skewing the odds in your favor.

Choose either [Treasure Goblin](#treasure-goblin) or [Dice Goblin](#dice-goblin) as your subclass.

You gain the ability to cast spells. You are a half-caster, using the Bard spell list with a couple of additions (see the table below). Your spells are fueled by your cunning and trickery, rather than by raw magical power. You can use your spells to manipulate the battlefield, confuse your enemies, and aid your allies. 

**Additional Spells**

In addition to the bard spell list you can learn the following spells once you reach a high enough level in the Adventure Goblin class.

| Adventure Goblin Level | Spells |
| :-- | :-- |
| 2nd | ¤Absorb Elements¤, ¤Animal Friendship¤, ¤Expeditious Retreat¤ |
| 5th | ¤Aid¤, ¤Alter Self¤, ¤Spider Climb¤ |
| 9th | ¤Blink¤, ¤Conjure Animals¤, ¤Counterspell¤ |
| 13th | ¤Arcane Eye¤, ¤Banishment¤,  ¤Divination¤ |
| 17th | ¤Creation¤, ¤Far Step¤, ¤Passwall¤ |

**Spell Slots**

The Adventure Goblin table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. 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.

**Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher**

You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the Bard spell list. The Spells Known column of the Adventure Goblin table shows when you learn more spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the spells you know and replace it with another spell from the Bard spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

**Spellcasting Ability**

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your Adventure Goblin spells, since your magic draws on your own cunning and trickery. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an Adventure Goblin spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

**Spell save DC** = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier

**Spell attack modifier** = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier


Spellcasting

Ability Score Improvement

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

You can use a reaction to give yourself or an ally within 30 feet of you advantage on any ability check, attack roll or saving throw. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier, regaining all uses on a long rest

Goblin's Luck

You can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a 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.

Evasion

When you take the attack action on your turn, you can can choose to cast a cantrip instead of making a weapon attack. You can choose to do this for just one or both of your attacks.

Improved Extra Attack

You have grown tired of being small and have decided to take matters into your own hands. You will yourself large through sheer force of will and stubbornness. You can use your action to increase your size to Large for 1 minute. While you are Large, your reach increases by 5 feet and you gain advantage on Strength checks and saving throws. Additionally, your weapon attacks deal an additional 1d12 damage. You can use this feature once per long rest

Goblin's Growth Spurt

As a 20th level Adventure Goblin, you have become the ultimate goblin, revered and feared by all. You gain the following benefits:

* Your Charisma score increases by 4, up to a maximum of 24.
* You can cast any spell of 8th level or lower, from the Bard spell list without expending a spell slot or material components, once per long rest.

Goblin King

Adventure Goblin

Treasure Goblins are known for their cunning and their love of all things shiny. With their unique abilities, they can manipulate portals, taunt enemies, and move with incredible speed. They are formidable opponents in battle and are always on the lookout for their next big score.

You gain proficiency with martial weapons and heavy armor.

As a Treasure Goblin, you possess a unique ability known as the Dimensional Pocket. This pocket is a restricted dimensional storage accessible exclusively to you. Its storage volume is limited to holding up to 50 pounds of weight, not exceeding a volume of 5 cubic feet. If you die, all the contents of the pocket will appear next to you.

Retrieving an item from the pocket requires an action.

Dimensional Pocket

Your base walking speed increases by 10 feet.

Swift Step

As a bonus action, you can taunt all enemies within 30 feet of you. All enemies must make wisdom save against you spell save DC. If they fail, they have disadvantage on attacks against creatures other than you until the end of your next turn.

All eyes on me

You have gained mastery over the manipulation of portals. As an action, you can summon a portal at your current location. This portal can only be used by you. You have two options for its use:

* **Swift Exit**: You can step through the portal to instantly teleport to any location within 30 feet of your current position.

* **Temporal Hold**: You can choose to remain within the portal until the start of your next turn. Inside the portal is a harmless demiplane. At the start of your next turn, you emerge from the portal at your original location, or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses on a long rest.

Riftwalker

Your base speed increases by an additional 10 feet. Additionally, when you take the dash action, you can add your Charisma modifier to your Armor Class until the start of your next turn.

Swifter Step

Your dimensional pocket can now hold up to 500 pounds, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet. Additionally, you can now retrieve an item from the pocket using an action or a bonus action.

Expanded Dimensional Pocket

You can use an action to sense the presence and location of any valuable or magical item within 60 feet of you that is not behind total cover and worth at least 50 gold pieces.

Treasure Sense

You have become a master of attuning to magical items. You can now attune to one additional magical item beyond the normal limit. Additionally, once per day, you can use an action to change one attuned magical item to another magical item that you possess. The new item must be one that you are eligible to attune to.

Treasure Hoarder

Treasure Goblin

Dice Goblins, characterized by their small stature and mischievous demeanor, are elusive creatures driven by their insatiable love for gambling. Their entire existence revolves around the capricious nature of dice rolls, utilizing this unpredictability to gain advantages in both games and combat scenarios.

Known for their cunning nature, Dice Goblins exhibit an unparalleled fascination with dice, perceiving them as both tools and symbols of their connection to fate. Their abilities are intertwined with the manipulation of these dice, allowing them to alter probabilities and twist outcomes in their favor.

You have an innate ability to manipulate the outcome of dice rolls. Once per short rest, you can choose to reroll any one die roll you make, including attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws. You must use the new roll.

Lucky Roll

You gain expertise in gaming sets, which includes dice sets. You can add double your proficiency bonus to any ability check you make that uses gaming sets.

Dice Expert

You learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class if you don’t already know them, as shown in the table below. These spells don’t count against the number of spells you know.

| Adventure Goblin Level | Spells |
| :-- | :-- |
| 2nd | Choose ¤Bane¤ or ¤Bless¤ |
| 5th | Choose ¤Augury¤ or ¤Enhance Ability¤ |
| 9th | Choose ¤Bestow Curse¤ or ¤Blink¤ |
| 13th | Choose ¤Confusion¤ or ¤Divination¤ |
| 17th | Choose ¤Modify Memory¤ or ¤Skill Empowerment¤ |

You can choose to gain proficiency in any two skills of your choice. Alternatively, you can choose to double your proficiency bonus for one skill you are already proficient in.

Gambler’s Cunning

You can alter the outcome of a die roll by expending a spell slot. When you make a roll, you can choose to add or subtract a number from the result equal to the level of the spell slot you expended.

Loaded Dice

At the end of a long rest roll a d20. Once per day, you can choose to replace any one die roll made by you or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you with this roll. You can choose to use this feature after die is rolled, but before the outcome is determined. 

Twist of Fate

Whenever you roll a 20 on an attack roll with a weapon or spell, you can choose to deal maximum damage with your attack.

High Roller

You can channel a force of pure luck and gain a significant power boost for 1 minute. Once per long rest, you can activate this feature as a bonus action. For the duration, you gain the following benefits:

* You can ignore the effects of disadvantage on any roll you make.
* Whenever you roll a 1-6 on a d20, you can treat the roll as a 6.
* Whenever you roll a 1-5 on a d10 or d12, you can treat the roll as a 5.
* Whenever you roll a 1-4 on a d6 or d8, you can treat the roll as a 4.
* Whenever you roll a 1-3 on a d4, you can treat the roll as a 3.
