Young Gold Dragon
Large dragon- Challenge
- STR
- 6
- DEX
- 2
- CON
- 5
- INT
- 2
- WIS
- 1
- CHA
- 4
- Soak
- 2
- Fort
- +8
- Ref
- +7
- Will
- +6
Amphibious. The young gold dragon can breathe air and water.
Maneuvers. The young gold dragon uses maneuvers (maneuver save Difficulty 18). It has 8 stamina dice which are d8s, a dice limit of 3, regains all expended stamina dice when it finishes a long rest, and regains half its total stamina dice when it finishes a short rest. It knows the following maneuvers:
1 stamina die: blind, dive attack, fearsome beast, fountain of blood, grapple, knockback (Claw only), spring attack, swipe, tear flesh
2 stamina dice: tear tendon
Spellcasting. The young gold dragon uses Primal (cha) to cast spells (spell save Difficulty 16, +7 to hit with spell attacks). It has 4 mana, a mana limit of 2, regains all expended mana when it finishes a long rest, and regains half its total mana when it finishes a short rest. It knows the following spells:
Cantrips (at will, 11th-level spellcaster): dancing lights, light, radiance, sunray, thaumaturgy
1 mana: blinding light, blinding strike, ceremony, chains of light, color spray, command, comprehend languages, continual flame, conviction, corona of light, daybreak weapon, daylight, detect death, detect evil and good, divine emissary, divine word, faerie fire, fear, find steed, guiding bolt, guiding strike, light speed, protection from evil and good, protection from the light, radiant rebuke, sanctuary, shield of faith, sunbeam, warding flare
2 mana: angelic wings, archon’s trumpet, bless, burst with light, commune, create food and water, crown of stars, douse the flames of war, guardian of faith, hallow, holy circle, moonbeam, purify, remove curse, spirit guardians, spiritual weapon, summon celestial, sunburst, wall of light
Actions (3)
Bite (1/turn). Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 2 m. Hit: 15 (2d8 + 6) piercing damage plus 4 (1d8) radiant damage.
Claw (2/turn). Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit. Hit: 13 (2d6 + 6) slashing damage.
Radiant Breath (Costs 2 actions; Recharge 5–6). The young gold dragon exhales a beam of brilliant light in a 10-meter cone or line. Each creature in that area must make a Difficulty 17 Fortitude saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 45 (13d6) radiant damage and is blinded until the end of its next turn. On a success, a creature takes half as much damage and isn’t blinded.
Weakening Breath. The young gold dragon exhales gas in a 10-meter cone or line. Each creature in that area must succeed on a Difficulty 17 Reflex saving throw or deal only half damage with weapon attacks for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Maneuvers
As an action, make a weapon attack as you strike a sensitive area.
On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and the creature must succeed on a Fortitude saving throw or it is blinded until the end of its next turn.
On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.
On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.
Enhance
You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.
You can expend 2 additional stamina die so the creature is blinded for 1 minute/stamina die. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
As an action while flying, you can use the Dash action. If you move at least 3 meters in a straight line angled downwards toward a creature, you can make an Attack action with a melee weapon attack against it.
On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and you don’t provoke opportunity attacks when you fly out of the creature’s reach.
On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.
On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.
Enhance
You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.
1 minute/stamina die
As an action, you roar, rear up, flex your wings, or do another similar movement that frightens creatures. Each creature of your choice that is not a construct or an undead in a sphere around you must succeed on a Will saving throw or become frightened of you for the duration or until you are incapacitated.
While frightened by this maneuver, a creature must move at least half its speed away from you by the safest available route at the start of each of its turns, unless there is nowhere to move. If the creature ends its turn in a location where it doesn’t have line of sight to you, the creature can can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.
As a reaction, which you use when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack and reduce it to 0 health, you can rip into your foe as it drops. Each creature of your choice in a sphere twice as big as normal around you must make a Will saving throw.
On a failure, a creature is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.
As an action, make a melee weapon attack and a Brawn check to grapple the creature.
Enhance
You can add the stamina die to the attack’s damage (add half on a miss by 4 or less) for each additional stamina die expended.
As an action, make a weapon attack to knock the creature back.
On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and if the creature is your size or smaller, it must succeed on a Reflex saving throw or you push it 4 meters away from you.
On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.
On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.
Enhance
You can increase the damage, push the creature an additional meter, and target a creature of a larger size for each additional stamina die expended.
As an action, you can use the Dash action. If you move at least 3 meters straight toward a creature, you can make a melee weapon attack against it.
On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage.
On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.
On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.
Enhance
You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.
As an action, make a weapon attack with a melee weapon with a natural weapon that deals slashing damage and then swipe through the target. Each creature within 1 meter of the target and within your weapon’s reach must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes slashing damage equal to the stamina die.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Enhance
You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.
As an action, make a melee weapon attack with a natural weapon that deals piercing or slashing damage to cause jagged wounds that bleed.
On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and the creature is bleeding 1.
On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.
On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.
Enhance
You can increase the damage and bleeding level by 1 for each additional stamina die expended.
1 minute/stamina die
As an action, make a melee weapon attack with a natural weapon that deals piercing or slashing damage to tear the creature’s tendon.
On a hit, add one stamina die to the attack’s damage and the creature must succeed on a Fortitude saving throw or it is slowed 1 for the duration and while affected it loses health equal to one of the stamina dice for every meter it travels. This has no effect on any creature that cannot bleed or lose a vital liquid substance.
On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.
On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.
The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Enhance
You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended and the slowed level by 1 for every two additional stamina die expended.
Spells
1 minute
As an action, you create up to three small lights within 10 meters, making them appear as torches, lanterns, or glowing orbs that hover in the air for the duration. Each light sheds bright light in a 1-meter radius and dim light for an additional 1 meter.
When you cast this spell, or as an action on a later turn, you can:
- Move the lights up to 10 meters to a new spot within 20 meters. A light must be within 5 meters of another light created by this spell, and a light winks out if it goes beyond 20 meters.
- Cause a light within 10 meters to flash brightly.
- Recreate any lights that flashed within 10 meters.
You can cause a light to brightly flash a creature within 1 meter of it. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d6 radiant damage and mystical dim light glitters on it, causing the next attack made against it to have advantage if it is made before the end of your next turn.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
After flashing brightly, a light ends.
This spell immediately ends if you cast it again before its duration ends.
At higher levels
This spell’s damage increases by 1d6 and you can create an additional light when you reach 9th level (2d6; four lights) and 17th level (3d6; five lights).
1 hour
As an action, you, or an object you can touch that is no larger than 2 meters in any dimension sheds bright light in a 2-meter radius and dim light for an additional 3 meter for the duration. The light can be colored as you like. Completely covering you, or the object, with something opaque blocks the light. The spell ends if you cast it again or dismiss it on your turn (no action required).
If you target an object held or worn by a hostile creature, that creature must succeed on a Reflex saving throw to avoid the spell.
When you cast this spell, or as an action on a later turn, you can cause the light to brightly flash brightly a creature within 1 meter of you. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d6 radiant damage and has disadvantage on the next attack it makes before the end of its next turn.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
After flashing brightly, the spell ends.
At higher levels
This spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 9th level (2d6) and 17th level (3d6).
As an action, burning radiance erupts from you. Each creature within 1 meter of you must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d6 radiant damage.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
At higher levels
This spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 9th level (2d6) and 17th level (3d6).
As an action, a ray of sunlight sears a creature that you can touch or see within 5 meters. The creature must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d8 radiant damage.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
At higher levels
This spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 9th level (2d8) and 17th level (3d8).
1 minute
As an action, you manifest a minor wonder, a sign of supernatural power, within 5 meters. You create one of the following magical effects.
- Your voice booms up to three times as loud as normal.
- You cause flames to flicker, brighten, dim, or change color.
- You cause harmless tremors in the ground.
- You create an instantaneous sound, such as a rumble of thunder, the cry of a raven, or ominous whispers.
- You instantly light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
- You instantaneously cause an unlocked door or window to fly open or slam shut.
- You alter the appearance of your eyes.
If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect on your turn (no action required).
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As an action, you blind the eyes of a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters with radiant light. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 2d6 radiant damage and is blinded for the duration.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 4d6 for each additional mana expended.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As an action, make a weapon attack.
On a hit, add 1d6 + your spellcasting ability radiant damage to the attack’s damage roll and the creature must succeed on a Fortitude saving throw or its eyes are blinded with light as it is blinded for the duration.
On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.
On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.
The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 3d6 for each additional mana expended.
(ritual)
As you spend 1 hour to cast this spell, you perform a special religious ceremony that is infused with magic. When you cast the spell, choose one of the following rites, the target of which must be within 2 meters of you throughout the casting.
Atonement. You touch one willing creature whose core belief have been changed against their will, and you make a Difficulty 20 Insight check.
On a success, you restore the target to its original core beliefs.
Bless/Desecrate Water. You touch one vial of water and cause it to become holy water if you know the Holy theme or unholy water if you know the Unholy theme. If you know both themes you can decide which to create.
Coming of Age. You touch one creature who is a young adult. For the next 24 hours, whenever the target makes a skill check, it rolls with advantage. A creature can benefit from this rite only once.
Dedication. You touch one creature who wishes to be dedicated to your god’s service. For the next 24 hours, whenever the target makes a saving throw, rolls with advantage. A creature can benefit from this rite only once.
Funeral Rite. You touch one corpse, and for the next 7 days, the target can’t become undead by any means short of a miracle or wish spell.
Marriage. You touch adult creatures willing to be bonded together in marriage. For the next 7 days, each target gains a +2 bonus to Defense while they are within 5 meters of each other. A creature can benefit from this rite again only if widowed.
Augment
You can increase the damage of holy water by 4d6 for each additional mana expended.
You can expend 1 additional mana to increase the size of the impact of holy water to each creature within 2 meters.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As an action, you restrain a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters with glowing golden chains composed of pure light. The creature must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it is restrained for the duration.
A creature restrained by the chains, or one that can touch the creature, can use an action to make a Brawn or Nimbleness check (its choice) against your spell save Difficulty.
On a success, the target is freed.
Augment
You can expend 1 or more mana so while restrained by this spell, the creature takes 2d8 bludgeoning damage at the start of each of its turns for each additional mana expended.
You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
As an action, you speak a one-word command to a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The target must succeed on a Will saving throw or follow the command. The spell has no effect if the target is undead, if it doesn’t understand your language, or if your command is directly harmful to it.
Some typical commands and their effects follow. You might issue a command other than one described here. If you do so, the GM determines how the target behaves. If the target can’t follow your command, the spell ends.
Approach. On its turn, the creature must use its speed to move toward you by the shortest and most direct route, and can’t willingly move away from you on during its turn.
Drop. The creature immediately drops whatever it is holding at its feet.
When a creature tries to interact with an object in a space occupied by a hostile creature it must use an action to make a Brawn or Nimbleness (its choice) check contested by the hostile creature’s Brawn or Nimbleness check (its choice). If the creature attempting to interact with the object wins the contest, it can interact with the object.
Flee. On its turn, the creature must use its speed to move away from you by the shortest and most direct route, and can’t willingly move toward you on during its turn.
Grovel. The creature immediately falls prone.
Halt. On its turn, the creature can’t willingly move. A flying creature stays aloft, provided that it is able to do so. If it must move to stay aloft, it flies the minimum distance needed to remain in the air.
Augment
You can target one additional creatures for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
You can expend 2 additional mana to change the duration to 1 minute/mana, concentration. For the duration, you can make an additional command on each of your turns.
(ritual); 1 hour/mana
As an action, you understand the literal meaning of any spoken language that you hear for the duration. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text.
This spell doesn’t decode secret messages in a text or a glyph, such as an arcane sigil, that isn’t part of a written language.
Augment
You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
Tongues. You can expend 1 additional mana so you also understands the true meaning of any spoken language you hear. Moreover, when you speak, any creature that knows at least one language and can hear you understands what you say.
M (ruby dust worth 50 sp, consumed)
As an action, a flame, equivalent in brightness to a torch, springs forth from an object that you touch and lasts until dispelled. The effect looks like a regular flame, but it creates no heat and doesn’t use oxygen. A continual flame can be covered or hidden but not smothered or quenched.
As a reaction, which you use when you or another creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters makes a skill check or a saving throw, the creature gains divine conviction. The creature makes the roll with advantage. You can do so after the roll but before any effects of the roll occur.
If the roll already has advantage or disadvantage, you cannot apply another instance of advantage or disadvantage and you must use this before the roll to cancel out any advantage or disadvantage.
Augment
You can provide conviction to one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
As an action, sunlight bursts from you. Each creature other than you in a sphere centered on you must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d8 radiant damage and is blinded until the end of its next turn.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 1d8 for each additional mana expended.
You can expend 2 additional mana so it deals no damage, but the sunlight continuously radiates from you. The duration changes to 1 minute/mana, concentration and the sunlight radiates from you in an aura shaped as a sphere. Until the spell ends, the aura moves with you, centered on you.
You can expend 1 additional mana if the sunlight continuously radiates from you, so the corona hedges out undead creatures. The corona prevents an affected creature from passing or reaching through. An affected creature can cast spells or make attacks with ranged or reach weapons through the corona.
If you move so that an affected creature is forced to pass through the corona, the spell ends.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As an action, a weapon you touch sheds radiant light. For the duration, the weapon radiates bright light in a 2-meter radius and dim light for an additional 2 meters and deals an extra 1d4 radiant damage.
Alternatively, you can touch a quiver containing arrows or bolts, granting the ammunition pulled from it the same effect. The spell’s magic ends on a piece of ammunition when it hits or misses.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 1d4 for each additional mana expended.
You can expend 1 additional mana to imbue an additional weapon you touch with radiant light.
concentration, 1 hour/mana
As an action, light spreads out from a point within 20 meters to fill a sphere twice as big as normal for the duration. The light sheds bright light and sheds dim light beyond the bright light to a distance equal to the sphere’s radius.
If you chose a point on an object you are holding or one that isn’t being worn or carried, the light shines from the object and moves with it. Completely covering the source of the light with an opaque object, such as a bowl or a helm, blocks the light.
If any of this spell’s area overlaps with an area of darkness created by a spell using equal or less mana, the spell that created the darkness is dispelled.
At the start of each of your turns if the light is within 20 meters of you, you can cause it to move up to 2 meters in a direction that you choose. If you spend an action, you can move it up to 10 meters.
Augment
You can expend 1 additional mana so the light is magical sunlight. A creature with the Sunlight Sensitivity species trait is impacted. Non-magical darkness, as well as darkness created by spells of using equal or less mana, can’t darken the area.
Dawn. You can expend 1 additional mana and cast the spell as two actions so the sunlight beams with radiant energy. The sphere is now sized based on the mana expended and the duration changes to 5 minutes/mana, concentration. Whenever a creature starts its turn in the sphere, it must make a Fortitude saving throw. Undead and oozes have disadvantage on this saving throw.
On a failure, a creature takes 1d8 radiant damage and is blinded until the end of its next turn.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
You can increase the damage by 1d8 for every two additional mana expended.
Additionally, this light makes it impossible for the creature to benefit from being invisible while in the bright light.
(ritual); concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As an action, you can sense the presence and location of corpses and undead within 20 meters of you. The spell can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by 30 centimeters of stone, 2 centimeters of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 1 meter of wood or dirt.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As an action, you know if there is an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead within 5 meters of you, as well as where the creature is located. Similarly, you know if there is a place or object within 5 meters of you that has been magically consecrated or desecrated.
The spell can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by 30 centimeters of stone, 2 centimeters of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 1 meter of wood or dirt.
(ritual); M (charcoal, incense, and herbs worth 10 sp that must be consumed by fire, consumed)
As you spend 10 minutes to cast this spell, you call forth an emissary of your deity. The emissary’s form is based on a creature that your deity is known for: almiraj, awakened shrub, badger, bat, cat, chwinga, crab, crawling claw, fish (quipper), flying monkey, flying snake, frog, hawk, homunculus, lizard, octopus, owl, poisonous snake, rat, raven, scorpion, sea horse, spider, toad, tressym, weasel, or any Tiny or smaller animal of challenge rating 0.
Appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 meters, the emissary has the statistics of the chosen form, though its health is increased by 5. Your emissary can understand your speech and you gain the ability to decipher its noises and motions.
Your emissary acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands. In combat, it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn. If you don’t issue any commands to your emissary, it defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions. An emissary can’t attack, but it can take other actions as normal.
While your emissary is within 20 meters of you:
- Your emissary has resistance to all damage. Each time it takes damage, you take the same amount of damage.
- When you cast a spell with a range of touch, your emissary can deliver the spell as if it had cast the spell. Your emissary must use its reaction to deliver the spell when you cast it. If the spell is an attack, you use your own skill check for the roll.
As an action, you can temporarily dismiss your emissary if it is within 5 meters of you. It disappears into a pocket dimension where it awaits your summons. As an action while it is temporarily dismissed, you can cause it to reappear in any unoccupied space within 5 meters of you that you can see.
You can’t have more than one blood sentinel, divine emissary, familiar, or wild companion at a time. If you cast this spell while you already have a blood sentinel, divine emissary, familiar, or wild companion, the spell fails.
When the emissary drops to 0 health, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. It reappears after you cast this spell again. If it is slain by a creature, you gain advantage on your next attack made against the killer.
Augment
You can increase your emissary’s health by 15 for each additional mana expended.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As an action, you speak a prayer censuring the faithless as they turn before the command of your deity. Each creature of your choice that can see or hear you within 5 meters of you must make a Will saving throw.
On a failure, a creature is affected.
- Banished or destroyed: each creature challenge ⅛ or lower is banished if it isn’t on its native plane of origin, otherwise it is destroyed. A banished creature is banished with a faint popping noise, returning to its home plane. If the spell ends before the duration ends, the target reappears within 5 meters of the space it left. Otherwise, the target doesn’t return.
- Stunned: each creature challenge ¼ or lower is stunned for the duration.
- Blinded and deafened: each creature challenge ½ or lower is blinded and deafened for the duration.
- Turned: each creature challenge 2 or lower is turned and deafened for the duration. A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can’t willingly move to a space within 5 meters of you. It also can’t take reactions. For its actions, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there’s nowhere to move, the creature can Dodge. If the creature’s true form is concealed by an illusion, shapeshifting, or other effect, that form is revealed while it is turned.
If a creature is affected, but not banished or destroyed, it can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Augment
You can expend 1 additional mana so a creature is banished or destroyed if its challenge is 1 or lower, stunned if its challenge is 2 or lower, blinded and deafened if its challenge is 3 or lower, and turned if its challenge is 5 or lower.
You can expend 2 additional mana so a creature is banished or destroyed if its challenge is 2 or lower, stunned if its challenge is 4 or lower, blinded and deafened if its challenge is 6 or lower, and turned if its challenge is 8 or lower.
You can expend 3 additional mana so a creature is banished or destroyed if its challenge is 3 or lower, stunned if its challenge is 6 or lower, blinded and deafened if its challenge is 9 or lower, and turned if its challenge is 12 or lower.
You can expend 4 additional mana so a creature is banished or destroyed if its challenge is 4 or lower, stunned if its challenge is 8 or lower, blinded and deafened if its challenge is 12 or lower, and turned if its challenge is 16 or lower.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As an action, each creature and object in a sphere twice as big as normal within 10 meters is outlined in blue, green, or violet light (your choice). An unwilling creature must make a Fortitude saving throw to avoid the effect. For the duration, objects and affected creatures shed dim light in a 2-meter radius.
Any attack made against an affected creature or object has advantage if the attacker can see it, and the affected creature or object can’t benefit from being invisible.
Fear
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As an action, you attempt to awaken the worst fears in a creature that is not a construct or an undead that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The creature must succeed on a Will saving throw or become frightened of you for the duration.
While frightened by this spell, the creature must move as far as its speed allows away from you by the safest available route at the start of each of its turns, unless there is nowhere to move. If the creature ends its turn in a location where it doesn’t have line of sight to you, the creature can can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Augment
You can target two additional creatures for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
As you spend 10 minutes to cast this spell, you summon a loyal, majestic steed. Appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 meters, the steed assumes the form of an animal companion that doesn’t have a burrow, flying, or swimming speed using 1 resource. A steed is typically a camel, elk, horse, mastiff, or pony, but if you have encountered more exotic creatures like an eagle, lizard, spider, wolf, rhinoceros, or saber-toothed tiger you can call forth one of them, with GM approval. The steed appears as a celestial (Holy) or a fiend (Unholy) instead of its normal creature type based on a theme you know and of a size suitable for you to ride: Medium if you are Small, or Large if you are Medium, but no other game statistics change.
Once called, you form a bond with the creature. Casting this spell again re-summons the same bonded steed, with all its health restored and any conditions removed. You can’t have more than one steed bonded by this spell at a time. As an action, you can release a steed from its bond, causing it to disappear permanently.
The steed has no stamina dice, but you can infuse it with stamina dice by expending mana, up to your mana limit. For each mana or 2 ki you expend, the steed gains 1 mana or 2 stamina dice. The steed is friendly to you and your companions, and it disappears when it drops to 0 health or when the spell ends.
You control the steed in combat. If you are not mounted, the steed only defends itself against hostile creatures.
While mounted on it, you can make any spell you cast that targets only you also target the steed.
The steed disappears temporarily when it drops to 0 health, leaving behind any objects it was wearing or carrying. You can dismiss the steed on your turn (no action required) as it leaves behind any objects it was wearing or carrying and wanders into the wilderness, disappearing after 1 minute.
Augment
You can use an additional resource for each additional mana expended. The companion can have a burrow, flying, or swimming speed.
As an action, a flash of light streaks toward a creature within 20 meters. Make a ranged spell attack against the target.
On a hit, it takes 3d12 radiant damage and mystical dim light glitters on it, causing the next attack made against it to have advantage if it is made before the end of your next turn.
On a critical hit, it takes twice as much damage.
On a miss by 4 or less, it takes half as much damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 3d12 for each additional mana expended.
As an action, make a weapon attack.
On a hit, add 2d8 + your spellcasting ability radiant damage to the attack’s damage roll and mystical dim light glitters on it, causing the next attack made against it to have advantage if it is made before the end of your next turn.
On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.
On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 3d8 for each additional mana expended.
As an action, you can use the Dash action. Until the end of your turn, you don’t provoke opportunity attacks and you can move through other creatures as if they were difficult terrain, but can’t stop there. Each creature that you move through this turn must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 2d8 radiant damage.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 3d8 for each additional mana expended.
You can expend 1 additional mana to increase the damage by 1d8 and double the extra movement from your Dash.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As an action, one willing creature you touch is protected against certain types of creatures: aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead.
The protection grants several benefits. Creatures of those types have disadvantage on attacks made against the target. The target also can’t be charmed, frightened, or possessed by them. If the target is already charmed, frightened, or possessed by such a creature, the target has advantage on any new saving throw against the relevant effect.
Augment
You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
1 hour/mana
As an action, you have resistance to radiant damage for the duration.
Augment
You can target one additional willing creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
Immunity. You can expend 2 additional mana so the creature is immune to radiant damage.
Dampen the Light
As a reaction, which you use when you take radiant damage, you gain resistance to radiant damage until the start of your next turn.
Augment
You can expend 1 additional mana to trigger the spell when a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters takes radiant damage. The creature gains the resistance instead.
As a reaction, which you use when you are hit by an attack or missed by 4 or less or taking radiant damage, light wreaths your body, shedding bright light in a 2-meter radius and dim light for an additional 2 meters. If the creature who damaged you is within 10 meters, it must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d6 radiant damage and is blinded until the end of its next turn.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 3d6 for each additional mana expended.
1 minute/mana
As an action, you ward a creature within 5 meters against attack. Until the spell ends, any creature who targets the warded creature with an attack or a harmful spell must first make a Will saving throw.
On a failure, the creature must choose a new target or lose the attack or spell. This spell doesn’t protect the warded creature from area effects, such as the explosion of a fireball.
If the warded creature makes an attack, casts a spell that affects an enemy, or deals damage to another creature, this spell ends.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As an action, a shimmering field appears and surrounds a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters, granting it a +2 bonus to Defense for the duration.
Augment
You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended, though the spell then must be cast as two actions. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
As an action, a beam of brilliant light flashes out from your hand. Each creature in a cone or line must make a Fortitude saving throw, which it does with disadvantage if it is an ooze or an undead.
On a failure, it takes 1d6 radiant damage and is blinded until the end of its next turn.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 1d6 for each additional mana expended.
As a reaction, which you use when a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters of you attacks you or another creature, you can cause light to flare before the attacker before it hits or misses. You impose disadvantage on the roll. An attacker that can’t be blinded is immune to this feature.
Augment
You can expend 1 additional mana so the creature has disadvantage on attacks until the start of its next turn.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As two actions, feathery white wings spread out from your back so you gain a flying speed of 10 meters for the duration. When this spell’s duration would end, if you’re still flying, you float gently to the ground at 10 meters per round.
You can’t sprout your wings while wearing armor unless the armor is made to accommodate them, and clothing not made to accommodate your wings might be destroyed when you manifest them.
Augment
You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
As two actions, you produce a loud trumpeting. Each creature in a cone must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it is incapacitated until the end of its next turn.
Augment
You can expend 1 additional mana so a creature is stunned instead of incapacitated.
You can expend 2 additional mana so the duration changes to 1 minute/mana, concentration and a creature is incapacitated for the duration. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As two actions, you bless up to two creatures you can see within 5 meters. Whenever a target makes a skill check or a saving throw before the spell ends, it rolls with advantage.
Augment
You can target two additional creatures for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As two actions, a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters becomes starts to glow for the duration. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw, which it does with disadvantage if it is an ooze or an undead.
On a failure, it takes 2d6 radiant damage and is blinded until the end of its next turn as light bursts from its wounds and orifices. It radiates bright light in a 4-meter radius and dim light for an additional 4 meters.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 4d6 for each additional mana expended.
(ritual); M (incense and a sacrificial offering appropriate to your religion worth 25 sp, consumed)
As you spend 1 minute to cast this spell, you contact your deity or a divine proxy with an offering and ask a single question concerning a specific goal, event, or activity that has occurred or has yet to occur. The GM offers a truthful reply. The reply might be a short phrase, a cryptic rhyme, or an omen.
Divine beings aren’t necessarily omniscient, so you might receive “unclear” as an answer if a question pertains to information that lies beyond the deity’s knowledge. In a case where a one-word answer could be misleading or contrary to the deity’s interests, the GM might offer a short phrase as an answer instead.
If you cast the spell two or more times before finishing your next long rest, there is a cumulative 25% chance for each casting after the first that you get no answer. The GM makes this roll in secret.
Augment
You can ask one additional question for each additional mana expended.
As two actions, you create 7 kilos of food and 40 liters of clean water on the ground or in containers within 5 meters, enough to sustain up to seven humanoids or 2 steeds for 24 hours for each mana expended. The food is bland but nourishing, and spoils if uneaten after 24 hours. The water is clean and doesn’t go bad.
Augment
You create an additional 7 kilos of food and 40 liters of clean water for each additional mana expended.
1 minute/mana
As two actions, you create two star-like motes in your space. They float in the air and orbit you for the duration. If you have four or more motes remaining, they shed bright light in a 5-meter radius and dim light for an additional 5 meters. If you have one to three motes remaining, they shed dim light in a 5-meter radius.
When you cast the spell—and once on on each of your turns thereafter as an action—you can expend a mote, sending it streaking toward a point within 20 meters. Once a mote reaches its destination or impacts against a solid surface, the mote explodes. Each creature within 1 meter of that point must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 2d8 radiant damage and is blinded until the end of its next turn.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the number of motes by 2, the damage by 1d8 for each additional mana expended, and the damage by 1d8 for every two additional mana expended.
1 minute/mana
As two actions, you temporarily extinguish the violent impulses of a creature that you touch. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw. If the creature is missing any of its health, the spell has no effect on it.
On a failure, it is charmed by you for the duration or until you or your allies attack it, damage it, or force it to make a saving throw or if the target witnesses any of those things happening to its allies. While charmed, it can’t attack, cast spells that deal damage, or spells that force someone to make a saving throw.
3 hours/mana
As two actions, a Large spectral guardian appears and hovers for the duration in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 5 meters. The guardian occupies that space and is indistinct except for a weapon it wields which is emblazoned with the symbol of your deity. The weapon is a weapon associated with your deity (as St. Cuthbert is known for his mace and Thor for his hammer).
When you cast this spell, you can designate any number of creatures you can see to be unaffected by it. A creature that moves within 1 meter of the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 2d12 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing (based on the weapon associated with your deity) damage.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
The guardian vanishes when it has dealt a total of 50 damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 1d10 and the maximum damage increased by 25 for each additional mana expended.
M (herbs, oils, and incense worth 50 sp, consumed); 1 hour/mana
As you spend 1 minute to cast this spell, you infuse an area with holy (or unholy) energy for the duration. The area is a cylinder that is twice as big as normal centered on a point on the ground that you can see within 10 meters. Glowing runes appear wherever the cylinder intersects with the floor or other surface. Choose one of the following types of creatures: celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, or undead. The circle affects a creature of the chosen type in the following ways:
- The creature can’t willingly enter the cylinder by nonmagical means. If the creature tries to use teleportation or interplanar travel to do so, it must first succeed on a Will saving throw.
- The creature has disadvantage on attacks made against targets within the cylinder.
- Targets within the cylinder can’t be charmed, frightened, or possessed by the creature and any creature charmed, frightened, or possessed by the creature is no longer charmed, frightened, or possessed upon entering the area.
When you cast this spell, you can elect to cause its magic to operate in the reverse direction, preventing a creature of the specified type from leaving the cylinder and protecting targets outside it.
Augment
You can expend 1 additional mana to affect all celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead.
You can expend 1 additional mana, increase the casting time to 24 hours, and expend materials equal to 500 sp to infuse the area with holy (or unholy) power until the spell is dispelled and increase the cylinder’s radius up to 10 meters. The spell fails if the radius includes an area already under the effect a hallow spell.
You can expend 1 additional mana to bind an extra effect to the area. Choose the effect from the following list, or choose an effect offered by the GM. Some of these effects apply to creatures in the area; you can designate whether the effect applies to all creatures, creatures that follow a specific deity or leader, or creatures of a specific sort, such as orcs or trolls. When a creature that would be affected enters the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it can make a Will saving throw.
On a success, the creature ignores the extra effect until it leaves the area.
Courage. Affected creatures can’t be frightened while in the area.
Darkness. Darkness fills the area. Normal light, as well as magical light created by spells using less mana than you used to cast this spell, can’t illuminate the area.
Daylight. Bright light fills the area. Magical darkness created by spells using less mana than you used to cast this spell can’t extinguish the light.
Energy Protection. Affected creatures in the area have resistance to one damage type of your choice, except for bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing.
Energy Vulnerability. Affected creatures in the area have vulnerability to one damage type of your choice, except for bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing.
Everlasting Rest. Dead bodies interred in the area can’t be turned into undead.
Extradimensional Interference. Affected creatures can’t move or travel using teleportation or by extradimensional or interplanar means.
Fear. Affected creatures are frightened while in the area.
Silence. No sound can emanate from within the area, and no sound can reach into it.
Tongues. Affected creatures can communicate with any other creature in the area, even if they don’t share a common language.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As two actions, holy energy radiates from you, distorting and diffusing magical energy within a sphere centered on you. Until the spell ends, the sphere that is twice as big as normal moves with you. For the duration, each friendly creature in the area (including you) has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Additionally, when an affected creature succeeds on a saving throw made against a spell or magical effect that allows it to make a saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw.
1 minute/mana
As two actions, a silvery beam of pale light shines down in a 1-meter radius, 10-meter-high cylinder centered on a point within 20 meters. Until the spell ends, dim light fills the cylinder.
A creature that enters the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a Fortitude saving throw, which it does with disadvantage if it is a shapechanger.
On a failure, it takes 2d12 radiant damage.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
At the start of each of your turns if the beam is within 20 meters of you, you can cause it to move up to 2 meters in a direction that you choose. If you spend an action, you can move it up to 10 meters.
If a shapechanger fails, it also instantly reverts to its original form and can’t assume a different form until it leaves the spell’s light.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 1d12 for each additional mana expended.
As two actions, you touch a creature and can remove the blinded, deafened, or poisoned condition.
Augment
You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
Greater Purification. You can expend 1 additional mana to instead remove any reductions to one of its abilities, remove one effect that reduces its maximum health, remove one effect that charmed, paralyzed, or petrified it, or reduce its exhausted level by one.
As two actions, choose a creature, object, or magical effect within 20 meters. Make a Divinity or Occult check. The Difficulty typically equals the spell Difficulty used to cast the curse spell + the mana used to cast the curse spell or a flat Difficulty. If there are multiple curses and if you have not identified them, the curse is chosen at random starting with the least powerful curse.
On a success, if the curse specifies that it is lifted by this spell, the curse ends.
If you fail by 4 or less and the curse specifies that it is lifted by this spell, the curse is suppressed for 1 minute.
On a success, if the curse does not specify that it is lifted by this spell, you learn about the curse. The more information you already have about the thing, the more precise and detailed the information you receive is.
The information you learn is accurate, but might be couched in figurative language. For example, if you have a mysterious magic axe on hand, the spell might yield this information: “Woe to the evildoer whose hand touches the axe, for even the haft slices the hand of the evil ones. Only a true Child of Stone, lover and beloved of Moradin, may awaken the true powers of the axe, and only with the sacred word Rudnogg on the lips.”
Augment
You gain a +1 bonus to your skill check for each additional mana expended.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As two actions, you call forth spirits to protect you. They flit around you in an aura shaped as a sphere. The guardian spirits provide supernatural protection. As a reaction, which you use when a creature that you can touch or see within 5 meters of you takes damage, you can reduce that damage by double the mana expended to cast this spell and the attacker takes psychic damage equal to double the mana expended to cast this spell. An enemy creature that enters the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a Will saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d8 psychic damage, moves at half speed, and has disadvantage on skill checks while in the area.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 1d8 for every two additional mana expended.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As two actions, you create a floating, spectral weapon within 5 meters that lasts for the duration or until you cast this spell again. The weapon takes the form of a weapon associated with your deity (as St. Cuthbert is known for his mace and Thor for his hammer). When you cast the spell—and once on on each of your turns thereafter as an action—you can move the weapon up to 5 meters and make a melee spell attack against a creature within 1 meter of the weapon.
On a hit, the target takes 6d6 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (based on the weapon associated with your deity).
On a miss by 4 or less, the target takes half as much damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 3d6 for each additional mana expended.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As you spend 1 minute to cast this spell, you summon a pegasus, which appears in an unoccupied space that you can see within 20 meters. The celestial is friendly to you and your companions and disappears when it drops to 0 health or when the spell ends.
The celestial can’t use any legendary actions or lair actions. Any spell cast by the summoned celestial reduces your mana by the amount the celestial expends.
When it attacks, make a melee spell attack in place of its attack, but retain the damage and other effects.
Any creature you animated with this spell acts after your turn. You can mentally command the creature if it is within 20 meters of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one). The creature(s) will generally follow any specific verbal commands that you issue to them if the likely outcome is in accordance with its desires (no action required by you). For example you may command it to guard a particular chamber or corridor, explore the room ahead, or to attack a specific creature. If you don't issue any commands, they defend themselves from hostile creatures, but otherwise take no actions.
Augment
You can summon one additional pegasus for each additional mana.
You can expend 2 additional mana to summon a Couatl or Unicorn. You can call one additional creature for every two additional mana expended.
You can expend 3 additional mana to summon a Deva.
As two actions, brilliant sunlight flashes at a point within 20 meters. Each creature in a sphere centered on that point must make a Fortitude saving throw, which it does with disadvantage if it is an ooze or an undead.
On a failure, it takes 3d8 radiant damage and is blinded until the end of its next turn.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
If any of this spell’s area overlaps with an area of darkness created by a spell using equal or less mana, the spell that created the darkness is dispelled.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 1d8 for each additional mana expended.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As two actions, you create a shimmering wall of bright light at a point within 20 meters that lasts for the duration. The wall can’t occupy the same space as a creature or object and doesn’t need to be vertical or rest on any firm foundation. The wall blocks line of sight, but creatures and objects can pass through it. It emits bright light out to 20 meters and dim light for an additional 20 meters. A creature that enters the wall’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a Fortitude saving throw, which it does with disadvantage if it is an ooze or an undead.
On a failure, it takes 4d8 radiant damage and is blinded until the end of its next turn.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 2d8 for each additional mana expended.