Master Vitality and Adapt to Survive
Practitioners of biomancy tend to have a growth mindset and an endless propensity for self-improvement. You likely bear symptoms of this continual desire to improve yourself: patches of scales, manes of peacock feathers, hawk’s eyes, adhesive palms, gills…the list is as long as there are ideas to try. Biomancers are masters of biomantically-enhanced surgery, transplanting specially grown (or amputated) appendages onto other creatures.
Level 3: Biomancy Savant
Choose two Wizard spells from the Biomancy school, each of which must be no higher than level 2, and add them to your spellbook for free. Whenever you gain access to a new level of spell slots in this class, you can add one Wizard spell from the Biomancy school to your spellbook for free. The chosen spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots. In addition, you gain proficiency with surgeon’s tools, and the following spells are considered biomancy spells for you instead of their normal school.Biomancy Spells*
| Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 1 | false life, longstrider |
| 2 | alter self, darkvision, spider climb |
| 3 | haste, water breathing |
| 4 | stoneskin |
| 6 | flesh to stone |
| 7 | simulacrum |
| 9 | shapechage |
Level 3: Biostimulation
You learn to channel biomantic magic into your cells, restoring your vitality. When you use a spell slot to cast a biomancy spell for level 1 or higher, you can simultaneously redirect a strand of the spell’s magic to energize and repair you or your target’s body. You or your target (your choice) regains a number of hit points equal to twice the spell’s level.Level 6: Self Improvement
You can perform minor surgery on your body, improving yourself in a very literal sense. Over the course of 1 hour (which can be done during a rest), you can enhance yourself with one bio-magical improvement, choosing from the following options:- Amphibisprings. With enhanced quads and a ratcheting mechanism in your Achillies, your jumping distance is tripled.
- Extra Appendage. You gain a prehensile tail or an extra arm, allowing you to hold one more thing and conferring advantage on any ability checks you make to climb.
- Detachable Hand. As an action, you can detach your hand and imbue it with biomantic magic. The hand follows the rules of the unseen servant spell, except it is not invisible and waits patiently if ever more than 60 feet away from you. If your hand is ever reduced to 0 hit points, it is destroyed, and you grow a new one over the course of a short or long rest.
- Firefly Skin. You can cast the light cantrip at will with yourself as the target. As a bonus action, you can flash brightly for a moment; each creature within 5 feet of you that can see you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your wizard spell save DC or be blinded until the end of your next turn. After you use this bonus action, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
- Owl Eyes. You gain darkvision out to a range of 120 feet.
- Slime. You exude slime; checks made to evade grapple are at advantage.
- Scales. Your skin is covered in overlapping scales. You gain +1 bonus to AC when you aren’t wearing armour.
- Spidersense. You gain 1d4 bonus to your initiative rolls.
- Talon. One of your hands is replaced with a wicked giant hawk’s talon, a natural weapon that you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d8 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. If you are grappling a creature with this talon, you can automatically deal this damage to the grappled creature once on each of your turns as a bonus action.
- Third Leg. Your speed increases by 10 feet and you have advantage on ability checks and saving throws made against effects that would knock you prone.
- Trimorphism. You can cast the enlarge/reduce spell on yourself at will (no material components or concentration required).
Level 10: Spell Splitter
Your fiddling self-improvement has led to the ability to benefit from magic you create. When you cast a wizard spell that targets only one creature and doesn’t have a range of self, you can choose to simultaneously target yourself with the same spell. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your intelligence modifier (minimum once), and regaining all expended uses when you finish a long red.Level 10: Endocrine Overload
Over the course of 1 hour (which can be done during a rest), you can craft a capsule of potent stimulants, choosing from either the Brutish or Swift archetypes, and embed it within your adrenal gland. With a slight tensing of your brain muscles, you can crack this capsule as a bonus action, stimulating your body. For the next minute, you gain the following benefits based on the archetype you chose:Brutish
- If you are smaller than Large, you become Large, and your weight increases proportionately. If you lack the room to become Large, your size doesn’t change.
- Your Strength score increases to match you Intelligence score if it isn’t already higher.
- You have advantage on Strength and Constitution checks and Strength and Constitution saving throws.
- You grow an appendage with which you can make melee weapon attacks. When you grow the weapon, you decide whether it deals bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage. You are proficient with this weapon and use your Strength modifier for attack and damage rolls. The weapon deals 2d10 damage.
- You can attack twice, instead of once, when you take the Attack action on your turn. You ignore this benefit if you already have a feature, like Extra Attack, that lets you attack more than once when you take the Attack action on your turn.
- You gain temporary hit points equal to twice your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 2) at the start of each of your turns.
Swift
- Your Dexterity score increases to match your Intelligence score if it isn’t already higher.
- You have advantage on Dexterity checks and saving throws.
- Your cantrips with a casting time of 1 action have a casting time of 1 action or 1 bonus action.
- You gain the benefits of the haste spell, which can’t be dispelled: Your speed is doubled, You gain a +2 bonus to AC, And you take on additional action on each of your turns, which can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action.
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