Adult Bronze Dragon
Huge dragon- Challenge
- STR
- 7
- DEX
- 2
- CON
- 6
- INT
- 3
- WIS
- 2
- CHA
- 4
- Soak
- 3
- Fort
- +10
- Ref
- +8
- Will
- +7
Amphibious. The adult bronze dragon can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/day). If the adult bronze dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Maneuvers. The adult bronze dragon uses maneuvers (maneuver save Difficulty 20). It has 14 stamina dice which are d8s, a dice limit of 5, 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 or Tail only), spring attack, swipe, tear flesh, trip (Tail only)
2 stamina dice: tear tendon
Spellcasting. The adult bronze dragon uses Primal (cha) to cast spells (spell save Difficulty 17, +8 to hit with spell attacks). It has 7 mana, a mana limit of 3, 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, 19th-level spellcaster): hydraulic push, lightning lure, shape water, shock, thunderclap
1 mana: aquatic adaptation, arc lightning, booming weapon, command, conduit, desiccate, ebb and flow, fear, fog cloud, galvanize, lightning bolt, liquid body, locate water, protection from the storm, rain, shocking weapon, slick skin, storm burst, thunder step, thunderwave, tidal break, tidal surge, water jet, water whip, wrath of the storm
2 mana: animate storm, animate water, aqueous form, call lightning, chain lightning, control water, drown, horrid wilting, incite panic, lightning strike, purify, rolling thunder, shatter, storm bane, storm sphere, tidal wave, wall of water, water walk
3 mana: symbol of stunning, watery sphere
Actions (4)
Bite (1/turn). Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 2 m. Hit: 18 (2d10 + 7) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) lightning damage.
Claw (2/turn). Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit. Hit: 14 (2d6 + 7) slashing damage.
Tail (1/turn). Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 3 m. Hit: 16 (2d8 + 7) bludgeoning damage.
Frightful Presence (1/turn). Each creature of the adult bronze dragon’s choice that is within 20 meters of it and aware of it must succeed on a Difficulty 17 Will saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if the adult bronze dragon is within line of sight, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature’s saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the adult bronze dragon’s Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.
Lightning Breath (Costs 2 actions; Recharge 5–6). The adult bronze dragon exhales lightning in a 10-meter cone or line. Each creature in that area must make a Difficulty 19 Reflex saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 63 (14d8) lightning damage and is staggered for 1 minute. On a success, a creature takes half as much damage and isn’t otherwise affected. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Repulsion Breath. The adult bronze dragon exhales repulsion energy in a 10-meter cone or line that is 1 meter wide. Each creature in that area must succeed on a Difficulty 19 Reflex saving throw. On a failure, the creature is pushed 10 meters away from the dragon.
Change Shape (1/turn). The adult bronze dragon can polymorph into a humanoid or animal that has a challenge rating no higher than its own, or back into its true form. It reverts to its true form if it dies. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying is absorbed or borne by the new form (the adult bronze dragon’s choice).
In a new form, the adult bronze dragon retains its personality, health, Health Dice, ability to speak, aptitudes, Legendary Resistance, lair actions, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma, as well as this action. Its statistics and aptitudes are otherwise replaced by those of the new form, except any class features or legendary actions of that form.
Legendary actions (3)
Only one legendary option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The adult bronze dragon regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Detect. The adult bronze dragon makes a Perception check.
Tail Attack. The adult bronze dragon makes a tail attack.
Wing Attack (Costs 2 actions). The adult bronze dragon beats its wings. Each creature within 2 meters of the adult bronze dragon must succeed on a Difficulty 20 Reflex saving throw or take 14 (2d6 + 7) bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. The adult bronze dragon can then fly up to half its flying speed.
Lair actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the adult bronze dragon takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; the same effect can’t be used two rounds in a row:
The dragon creates fog as though it had cast the fog cloud spell. The fog lasts until initiative count 20 on the next round.
A thunderclap originates at a point the dragon can see within 20 meters of it. Each creature within a 5-meter radius centered on that point must make a Difficulty 17 Fortitude saving throw or take 5 (1d10) concussion damage and be deafened until the end of its next turn.
Ocean’s Call. The dragon conjures a swarm of spectral dolphins. Each creature in the water within 20 meters of the dragon must succeed on a Difficulty 17 Reflex saving throw or take 5 (1d10) slashing damage; then the swarm vanishes.
Salt Burst. The dragon chooses a point it can see in the lair. The air in a 5-meter-radius sphere centered on that point bursts with abrasive salt crystals. Each creature in that area must succeed on a Difficulty 17 Reflex saving throw or take 10 (3d6) slashing damage.
Whelming Water. The dragon causes a strong current to course through the water in its lair. The dragon chooses any number of creatures it can see that are standing or swimming in water within 20 meters of it. Each chosen creature must succeed on a Difficulty 17 Reflex saving throw or be knocked prone.
Regional effects
The region containing the adult bronze dragon’s lair is warped by the adult bronze dragon’s magic, which creates one or more of the following effects:
Thunderstorms rage within 10 kilometers of the lair.
Once per day, the dragon can alter the weather in a 10-kilometer radius centered on its lair. The dragon doesn’t need to be outdoors; otherwise the effect is identical to the control weather spell.
Underwater plants within 10 kilometers of the dragon’s lair take on dazzlingly brilliant hues.
Within its lair, the dragon can set illusory sounds, such as soft music and strange echoes, so that they can be heard in various parts of the lair.
Phantom Escort. Ghostly naval ships from an ancient armada appear, escorting well-meaning creatures in need of the dragon’s help toward the dragon’s lair.
Underwater Pursuit. Sailors glimpse the shadowy, illusory form of a dragon in the depths below them, keeping pace with their vessel. Unfailing Faithfulness. Sapient creatures that spend a year within 15 kilometers of the dragon’s lair find it nearly impossible to break a promise.
If the dragon dies, changed weather reverts to normal, as described in the spell, and the other effects fade in 1d10 days.
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.
Trip
As an action, make a melee weapon attack and a Brawn check to Trip.
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.
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
As an action, you shoot a jet of water at a creature that you can touch or see within 5 meters. The creature must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage and is pushed 2 meters away from you if it is Medium or smaller.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is pushed 4 meters away from you if it is Medium or smaller.
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 and it can affect a creature of a larger size when you reach 9th level (2d6; Large) and 17th level (3d6; Huge).
Dampen flame
As an action, you shoot a jet of water at a creature or an object that you can touch or see within 5 meters. Reduce its burning condition by 2.
As an action, your arm whips forward, creating a lash of lightning energy that strikes at a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The creature must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d6 lightning damage and is pulled 2 meters toward you if it is Medium or smaller.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is pulled 4 meters toward you if it is Medium or smaller.
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 and it can affect a creature of a larger size when you reach 9th level (2d6; Large) and 17th level (3d6; Huge).
As an action, you choose an area of water that you can see within 5 meters and that fits within a 1-meter cube. You manipulate it in one of the following ways:
- You instantaneously move or otherwise change the flow of the water as you direct, up to 1 meter in any direction. This movement doesn’t have enough force to cause damage.
- You cause the water to form into simple shapes and animate at your direction. This change lasts for 1 hour.
- You change the water’s color or opacity. The water must be changed in the same way throughout. This change lasts for 1 hour.
If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have no more than two of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect on your turn (no action required).
At higher levels
The cube increases by 1 meter when you reach 9th level (2 meters) and 17th level (3 meters).
As an action, lightning coalesces in your palm, shooting out at a creature that you can touch or see within 5 meters. The creature must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d6 lightning damage and can’t take reactions 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.
At higher levels
This spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 9th level (2d6) and 17th level (3d6).
As an action, you clap your hands together to create a burst of thunderous sound that can be heard up to 20 meters away. Each creature within 1 meter of you must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d6 concussion 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).
1 hour/mana
As an action, you adapt to life underwater. Choose fins or gills as the spell’s effect.
Fins. You grow fins and webbing between your fingers and toes; you gain a swimming speed of 5 meters for the duration.
Gills. You grow gills; you gain the ability to breathe underwater for the duration. You also retain your normal breathing pattern.
Augment
You can expend 1 additional mana to gain the benefit of both effects.
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, four tendrils of lightning arc out from you. Each tendril can target a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters which must make a Reflex saving throw If multiple tendrils target the same creature, it makes one saving throw..
On a failure, it takes 1d8 lightning damage for each tendril targeted at it and can’t take reactions 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.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As an action, a weapon you touch vibrates with anticipation. For the duration, the weapon deals an extra 1d4 concussion 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 cause an additional weapon you touch to vibrate with anticipation.
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.
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 Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 2d8 lightning 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.
As an action, you drain the moisture from a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw, which it does with disadvantage if it is a plant creature, a magical plant, or a creature made of water such as a water elemental. If the creature has no moisture in its body, the spell has no effect on it.
On a failure, it takes 5d6 necrotic damage and is exhausted 1 until it rehydrates. This exhaustion does not accumulate with other forms of exhaustion due to dehydration.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is exhausted 2 until it rehydrates. This exhaustion does not accumulate with other forms of exhaustion due to dehydration.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 6d6 for each additional mana expended.
As an action, you can unleash a stream of water that drains and heals life forces. Choose one of the following options.
Ebb. Life ebbs from a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 3d8 necrotic 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.
A willing creature within 5 meters of the target can regain health equal to half the amount of necrotic damage dealt.
Flow. A creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters regains 3d6 health. A creature that you can touch or see within 5 meters of that creature must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes necrotic damage equal to half the amount of healing.
Augment
You can increase Ebb’s necrotic damage by 3d8 and Flow’s healing by 3d6 for each additional mana expended.
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.
concentration, 1 hour/mana
As an action, you create a sphere twice as big as normal of fog centered on a point within 20 meters. The sphere spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured. It lasts for the duration or until a wind of moderate or greater speed (at least 15 kilometers per hour) disperses it. Creatures in the area are wet while within the fog and remain wet until the end of their turn that they leave the area.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As an action, with fingertips outstretched, you shock a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters, causing its adrenaline to spike. The creature is hasted 1 for the duration.
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.
You can increase the hasted level by 1 for each additional mana expended.
As an action, a stroke of lightning blasts out from you in a direction you choose. The lightning ignites flammable objects in the area that aren’t being worn or carried. Each creature in a cone or line must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 3d8 lightning damage and can’t take reactions 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.
Staggering Bolt. You can expend 1 additional mana so the damage is reduced to 2d8 and each creature who fails the saving throw is staggered until the end of its next turn.
As a reaction, which you use when you are hit by an attack or missed by 4 or less that you can see or when you take fire damage, you can create a rushing torrent of water as a shield. You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical weapon attacks until the start of your next turn, including against the triggering attack.
Additionally, you are wet until the start of your next turn.
Augment
You can expend 1 additional mana to trigger the spell when a creature that you can see within 10 meters is attacked or takes fire damage. The attacked creature gains the benefits instead.
(ritual)
As an action, you sense the direction of water. You learn the direction and distance to the closest substantial body of water within 10 kilometers, if any are present.
1 hour/mana
As an action, you have resistance to concussion and lightning 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 concussion and lightning damage.
Dampen the Storm
As a reaction, which you use when you take concussion and lightning damage, you gain resistance to concussion and lightning 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 concussion and lightning damage. The creature gains the resistance instead.
Rain
(ritual)
As an action, rain falls to the ground in a cylinder twice as big as normal centered on a point within 20 meters. You can focus the cylinder so that the rain falls within an open container or specific area that is smaller than the normal cylinder size. Creatures and objects in the area become wet until the end of their next turn. You can create up to 20 liters of clean water.
Continuous rain
concentration, 1 hour/mana
As an action, rain falls to the ground in a cylinder twice as big as normal centered on a point within 20 meters. The area is heavily obscured and creatures and objects in the area become wet until the end of their next turn. You can create up to 20 liters of clean water each turn, 200 liters of water every minute, and 12,000 liters of water every hour.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As an action, a weapon you touch becomes electrified. For the duration, the weapon deals an extra 1d4 lightning 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 cause an additional weapon you touch to become electrified.
3 hours/mana
As an action, you touch a willing creature who isn’t wearing armor, and its body becomes slick until the spell ends. The target’s Defense becomes 13 + half its Aptitude Bonus (min 1) + its Dexterity (max 4) and it becomes wet. This wetness does not end if it takes fire damage. The spell ends if the target dons armor or if you dismiss the spell on your turn (no action required).
As an action, lightning expands from you, zapping all nearby creatures. Each creature other than you in a sphere centered on you must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 2d12 lightning damage and can’t take reactions 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 1d12 for each additional mana expended.
Storm Pulse. You can expend 1 additional mana so the lightning around you is continuous. The duration changes to 1 minute/mana, concentration and the lightning erupts around you in an aura shaped as a sphere. Until the spell ends, the aura moves with you, centered on you.
Whenever a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make the Reflex saving throw. The damage is reduced to 1d12 and additional augments to the damage increase the damage by 1d12 for every two additional mana expended, instead of the normal increase.
As an action, you teleport yourself to an unoccupied space you can see within 20 meters. A thunderous boom sounds, and each creature other than you in a sphere centered on the space you teleported from or the space you teleport to must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d10 concussion 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 thunder can be heard from up to 100 meters away.
You can bring along objects as long as their weight doesn’t exceed what you can carry.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 1d10 for each additional mana expended.
As an action, a wave of thunderous force sweeps out from you in a thunderous boom audible out to 100 meters. Unsecured objects that weigh up to 100 kilos and are completely within the area of effect are automatically pushed 2 meters away from you. Each creature other than you in a sphere centered on you must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 5d4 concussion damage, is deafened for 1 minute, and is pushed 2 meters away from you if it is Medium or smaller.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is pushed 4 meters away from you if it is Medium or smaller.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
A deafened 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 3d4, push each creature an additional meter, affect a creature of a larger size, and the maximum weight of objects that you can affect with this spell increases by 150 kilos for each additional mana expended.
Thunderwaves. You can expend 1 additional mana so the thunderous force continuously sweeps out from you. The duration changes to 1 minute/mana, concentration and the thunderous force sweeps out from you in an aura shaped as a sphere. Until the spell ends, the aura moves with you, centered on you.
Whenever a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make the Fortitude saving throw. The damage is reduced to 3d4 and additional augments to the damage increase the damage by 1d4 for each additional mana expended, instead of the normal increase.
As a reaction, which you use when you are hit by an attack or missed by 4 or less, jets of water shoot out from you. If the creature who damaged you is within 10 meters, it must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 2d10 bludgeoning damage, is wet until the end of its next turn, and is pushed or pulled 2 meters away from you or toward you if it is Medium or smaller.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is pushed or pulled 4 meters away from you or toward you if it is Medium or smaller.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 2d10, push the creature an additional meter, and affect a creature of a larger size for each additional mana expended.
As an action, a tidal wave surges forth from you or retreats to you. Choose to have the wave surge or retreat. Each creature other than you in a sphere centered on you must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 1d10 bludgeoning damage, is wet until the end of its next turn, is knocked prone if it is Medium or smaller, and is pushed or pulled 2 meters away from you or toward you (pushed if the waves surged, pulled if the waves retreated) if it is Medium or smaller.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is pushed or pulled 4 meters away from you or toward you (pushed if the waves surged, pulled if the waves retreated) if it is Medium or smaller.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 1d10 and affect a creature of a larger size for each additional mana expended.
You can expend 2 additional mana so it deals no damage, but the waves surge continuously. The duration changes to 1 minute/mana, concentration and the waves surge toward and away from you in an aura shaped as a sphere. Until the spell ends, the aura moves with you, centered on you.
Whenever a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make the Reflex saving throw.
You can change the direction of the waves as an action.
As an action, you unleash a jet of water. Each creature in a cone or line must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 3d8 bludgeoning damage, is wet until the end of its next turn, and is pushed 2 meters away from you following the direction of the cone or line if it is Medium or smaller.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is pushed 4 meters away from you following the direction of the cone or line if it is Medium or smaller.
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, push each creature an additional meter, and affect a creature of a larger size for each additional mana expended.
As an action, you create a whip of water that pulls and unbalances a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The creature must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 3d8 bludgeoning damage, is knocked prone if it is Medium or smaller, and is pulled 2 meters toward you if it is Medium or smaller.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is pulled 4 meters toward you if it is Medium or smaller.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 4d8 and affect a creature of a larger size for each additional mana expended.
As a reaction, which you use when you are hit by an attack or missed by 4 or less, lightning lashes out from your body. If the creature who damaged you is within 10 meters, it must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 2d10 lightning damage and can’t take reactions 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 2d10 for each additional mana expended.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As two actions, you call forth a lightning elemental which appears in an unoccupied space that you can see within 10 meters. The elemental is a lightning elemental companion, using 2 resources. The creature has no mana or stamina dice, but you can infuse it with mana, ki, or stamina dice by expending mana up to your mana limit or ki up to double your mana limit. For each mana or 2 ki you expend, the elemental gains 1 mana or 2 stamina dice. The elemental is friendly to you and your companions, and it disappears when it drops to 0 health or when the spell ends.
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 use an additional resource for each additional mana expended.
You can expend 2 additional mana to call forth another elemental.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As two actions, you call forth a water elemental or water weird which appears in an unoccupied space that you can see within 10 meters. The water weird must be summoned in an unoccupied space containing water such as a river, lake, pool, or fountain. The elemental is a water elemental companion, using 2 resources. The creature has no mana or stamina dice, but you can infuse it with mana, ki, or stamina dice by expending mana up to your mana limit or ki up to double your mana limit. For each mana or 2 ki you expend, the elemental gains 1 mana or 2 stamina dice. The elemental is friendly to you and your companions, and it disappears when it drops to 0 health or when the spell ends.
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 use an additional resource for each additional mana expended.
You can expend 2 additional mana to call forth another elemental.
concentration, 1 hour/mana
As two actions, you, along with everything you’re wearing and carrying, transforms into a watery form. The spell ends if you drop to 0 health.
While in this form, the following rules apply:
- your only methods of movement are a speed of 2 meters and a swimming speed of 5 meters
- you can enter and occupy the space of another creature
- you have resistance to nonmagical damage and are immune to the exhausted, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, and restrained conditions
- you have advantage on Reflex and Fortitude saving throws
- you can move through a space as narrow as 2 centimeters wide without squeezing.
- you can’t talk, manipulate objects, attack, use maneuvers, or cast spells. Any objects you were carrying or holding can’t be dropped, used, or otherwise interacted with.
- you are wet. This wetness does not end if you take fire damage.
- the only actions you can take in this form are the Dash action or to revert to your normal form. Until the spell ends, as two actions, you can revert to water form.
If you are in water form and swimming when the effect ends, you ascend 10 meters per round for 1 minute until you reach the surface.
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.
Water Glide. You can expend 1 additional mana to cast this spell without concentration and modify the effect so your swimming speed increases to 100 meters. You can target five additional creatures for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.
1 minute/mana
As two actions, a 10-meter radius storm cloud appears centered on a point you can see within 20 meters directly above you. The spell fails if you can’t see a point in the air where the storm cloud could appear (for example, if you are in a room that can’t accommodate the cloud). The cloud moves to always stay directly above you.
When you cast the spell—and once on on each of your turns thereafter as an action—you can choose a point you can see within 10 meters. A bolt of lightning flashes down from the cloud to that point. Each creature within 1 meter of that point must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 2d12 lightning damage and is deafened and can’t take reactions 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 you are outdoors in stormy conditions when you cast this spell, the spell gives you control over the existing storm instead of creating a new one. Under such conditions, each creature within 2 meters of the point must make the saving throw.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 1d12 for each additional mana expended.
As two actions, a bolt of lightning arcs toward a target that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The lightning can then arc to another target within 5 meters of the first target and a third target within 5 meters of the second target. A target can be a creature or an object and can be targeted only once. A target must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 5d8 lightning damage and can’t take reactions 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
The lightning can arc to an additional target within 5 meters of the previous target for each additional mana expended and the damage increases by 1d8 for each additional mana expended and by an additional 1d8 for every two additional mana expended. You can end the chain at any point.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As two actions, you can control any freestanding water within 100 meters inside an area that is a cube up to 20 meters on a side. You can choose from any of the following effects when you cast this spell.
Flood. You cause the water level of all standing water in the area to rise by as much as 5 meters. If the area includes a shore, the flooding water spills over onto dry land.
If you choose an area in a large body of water, you instead create a 5-meter tall wave that travels from one side of the area to the other and then crashes down. Any Huge or smaller vehicles in the wave’s path are carried with it to the other side. Any Huge or smaller vehicles struck by the wave have a 25% chance of capsizing.
The water level remains elevated until the spell ends or you choose a different effect. If this effect produced a wave, the wave repeats on the start of your next turn while the flood effect lasts.
Part Water. You cause water in the area to move apart and create a trench. The trench extends across the spell’s area, and the separated water forms a wall to either side. The trench remains until the spell ends or you choose a different effect. The water then slowly fills in the trench over the course of the next round until the normal water level is restored.
Redirect Flow. You cause flowing water in the area to move in a direction you choose, even if the water has to flow over obstacles, up walls, or in other unlikely directions. The water in the area moves as you direct it, but once it moves beyond the spell’s area, it resumes its flow based on the terrain conditions. The water continues to move in the direction you chose until the spell ends or you choose a different effect.
On subsequent turns, you can use two actions to repeat the same effect or choose a different one.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As two actions, you form a swirling globe of magical water around the head of a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters. At the start of each of its turns for the duration, the creature must make a Fortitude saving throw. If the creature doesn’t breathe, the spell has no effect on it.
On a failure, it loses 3d8 health, is deafened, can’t speak, can’t use breath weapons, and can’t see anything beyond 2 meters until the start of its next turn.
On a critical failure, it loses twice as much health.
On a success, it loses half as much health and and the effect ends.
On a critical success, it loses no health and the effect ends.
Augment
You can cause the target to lose 3d8 more health for each additional mana expended.
As two actions, you draw the moisture from every creature 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 a plant creature, a magical plant, or a creature made of water such as a water elemental. If the creature has no moisture in its body, the spell has no effect on it.
On a failure, it takes 7d6 necrotic damage and is exhausted 1 until it rehydrates. This exhaustion does not accumulate with other forms of exhaustion due to dehydration.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is exhausted 2 until it rehydrates. This exhaustion does not accumulate with other forms of exhaustion due to dehydration.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
The spell deals maximum damage to plant creatures, magical plants, or creatures made of water such as a water elemental.
Nonmagical plants that aren’t a creature, such as a tree or shrub, automatically fail the saving throw and withers and die.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 2d6 for each additional mana expended.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As two actions, you incite the fears of creatures at a point within 10 meters, causing them to panic. Each creature in a sphere centered on that point must make a Will saving throw. If the creature is immune to being frightened, the spell has no effect on it.
On a failure, it is confused and frightened of the area in the center of the sphere 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.
As two actions, a bolt of lightning flashes down at a point within 20 meters. Each creature in a cylinder centered on that point must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 2d8 damage and is blinded and deafened 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.
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.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As two actions, a rolling clap of thunder appears in a sphere centered on a point within 20 meters. The sphere spreads around corners. It lasts for the duration.
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.
On a failure, it takes 2d8 concussion damage and is deafened 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.
At the start of each of your turns if the thunder 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 increase the damage by 1d8 for every two additional mana expended.
You can expend 1 additional mana so duration changes to 1 hour/mana.
As two actions, a sudden loud ringing noise, painfully intense, erupts from a point of your choice within 10 meters. Each creature in a sphere centered on that point must make a Fortitude saving throw, which it does with disadvantage if it is made of inorganic material such as stone, crystal, or metal.
On a failure, it takes 8d6 concussion damage and is deafened for 1 minute.
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.
A nonmagical object that isn’t being worn or carried also takes the damage if it’s in the spell’s area.
A deafened 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 2d6 for each additional mana expended.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As two actions, you expose a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters to concussion or lightning. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw.
On a failure, it loses any resistance to concussion and lightning damage for the duration and the first time on each turn the creature takes concussion or lightning damage, it takes an extra 2d6 damage of that type.
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, 5 minutes/mana
As two actions, a sphere of thunderous clouds springs into existence centered on a point within 20 meters. The sphere remains for the duration. 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.
On a failure, it takes 1d8 concussion damage and is deafened 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.
At the start of each of your turns if the clouds are within 20 meters of you, you can cause them to move up to 2 meters in a direction that you choose. If you spend an action, you can move them up to 10 meters.
Until the spell ends, you can use an action on each of your turns to cause a bolt of lightning to leap from the center of the sphere toward a creature you choose within 10 meters of the center. Make a ranged spell attack against the target, which you have advantage on if the creature is in the sphere.
On a hit, it takes 2d8 lightning damage and can’t take reactions until the end of its 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.
Creatures within 5 meters of the sphere have disadvantage on Perception checks made to listen.
Augment
You can increase the concussion damage by 1d8 and the lightning damage by 1d8 for every two additional mana expended.
As two actions, you create a wave of water that crashes down at a point within 20 meters. Each creature in a sphere centered on that point must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a failure, it takes 3d8 bludgeoning damage, is wet until the end of its next turn, is knocked prone if it is Large or smaller, and is pushed 3 meters away from the center of the sphere if it is Large or smaller.
On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is pushed 6 meters away from the center of the sphere if it is Large or smaller.
On a success, it takes half as much damage.
On a critical success, it takes no damage.
The water then spreads out across the ground in all directions, causing all creatures and objects in the area to become wet until the end of their next turn.
Augment
You can increase the damage by 1d8, push each creature an additional meter, and affect a creature of a larger size for each additional mana expended.
concentration, 5 minutes/mana
As two actions, you create a wall of water twice as big as normal at a point you can see within 20 meters that lasts for the duration. The wall can’t occupy the same space as a creature or object and it needs to be vertical and to rest on a firm foundation. The wall blocks line of sight, but creatures and objects can pass through it.
A creature must spend 2 meters of movement for every meter it moves through the wall. A creature that enters the wall’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 2d8 bludgeoning damage, is wet until the end of its next turn, and is knocked prone if it is Large or smaller.
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.
Any creature or object in the area becomes went until the end of its next turn, any ranged attack that enters the wall’s space has disadvantage on the roll, and fire damage is halved if the fire effect passes through the wall to reach its target. Spells that deal cold damage that pass through the wall cause the area of the wall they pass through to freeze solid (at least a 1-meter square section is frozen). Each 1-meter square frozen section has 10 Defense, 1 Soak, and 15 Health. Reducing a frozen section to 0 health destroys it. When a section is destroyed, the wall’s water doesn’t fill it.
(ritual); 1 hour/mana
As two actions, you grant the ability to move across any liquid surface—such as water, acid, mud, snow, quicksand, or lava—as if it were harmless solid ground (creatures crossing molten lava can still take damage from the heat) to a creature that you can touch or see within 5 meters.
If you target a creature submerged in a liquid, the spell carries the target to the surface of the liquid at a rate of 10 meters per round.
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.
M (mercury, phosphorus, and powdered diamond and opal worth 1,000 sp, consumed)
As you spend 1 minute to cast this spell, you inscribe a harmful glyph either on a surface (such as a section of floor, a wall, or a table) or within an object that can be closed to conceal the glyph (such as a book, a scroll, or a treasure chest). If you choose a surface, the glyph can cover an area of the surface no larger than 2 meters in diameter. If you choose an object, that object must remain in its place; if the object is moved more than 2 meters from where you cast this spell, the glyph is broken, and the spell ends without being triggered.
The glyph is nearly invisible, requiring a Perception check against your spell save Difficulty to find it.
You decide what triggers the glyph when you cast the spell. For glyphs inscribed on a surface, the most typical triggers include touching or stepping on the glyph, removing another object covering it, approaching within a certain distance of it, or manipulating the object that holds it. For glyphs inscribed within an object, the most common triggers are opening the object, approaching within a certain distance of it, or seeing or reading the glyph.
You can further refine the trigger so the spell is activated only under certain circumstances or according to a creature’s physical characteristics (such as height or weight), or physical kind (for example, the ward could be set to affect hags or shapechangers). You can also specify creatures that don’t trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password.
Once triggered, the glyph glows, filling a sphere twice as big as normal with dim light for 10 minutes, after which time the spell ends. Each creature in the area when the glyph activates must succeed on a Fortitude saving throw or be stunned for 1 minute.
A creature must also make this saving throw when it enters the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there.
concentration, 1 minute/mana
As two actions, you create a sphere of water with a 1-meter radius at a point you can see within 10 meters. The sphere can hover but no more than 2 meters off the ground. Any Medium or smaller creature in the sphere’s space must make a Reflex saving throw.
On a success, a creature is ejected from that space to the nearest unoccupied space of the creature’s choice outside the sphere.
On a failure, a creature is engulfed by the sphere of water for the duration. While engulfed, the creature is restrained, deafened, can’t speak, and can’t see anything further than 2 meters from itself. Additionally, any creature that is engulfed is wet for 1 minute.
A creature restrained by the sphere, 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. A creature with a swimming speed has advantage on this skill check.
The sphere can restrain as many as two Medium or smaller creatures. If the sphere restrains a creature that causes it to exceed this capacity, a random creature that was already restrained by the sphere falls out of it and lands prone in a space within 1 meter of it.
At the start of each of your turns if the sphere 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 it moves over a pit, a cliff, or other drop-off, it safely descends until it is hovering 2 meters above the ground. Any creature restrained by the sphere moves with it. You can ram the sphere into creatures, forcing them to make the saving throw.
When the spell ends, the sphere falls to the ground and extinguishes all normal flames within 5 meters of it. Any creature restrained by the sphere is knocked prone in the space where it falls. The water then vanishes.
Augment
The sphere’s radius grows by 1 meter and the sphere can restrain two additional Medium or smaller creatures for each additional mana expended. The sphere can restrain Large creatures, which are equivalent to 4 Medium creatures.