Adepts are living weapons and athletes that have trained their bodies and honed their minds to perfection. This process endows them with considerable mental power and an unusual understanding of the self.
Every adept has a different reason for striving towards ever greater heights of personal achievement, but all can be incredibly deadly.
Be they rough pugilists used to life in the pits, religious dancers whose prayer is battle, or covert assassins from secret societies adepts all learn amazing supernatural abilities that set them apart from common warriors.
¶ POWER OF DISCIPLINE
Adepts harness mental and physical power through training, an energy they call focus. While this can be fuel for supernatural feats, in essence it is nothing more than the innate potential every living being has. Adepts channel this power within themselves to accomplish the impossible and surpass the limitations of their bodies, allowing them to be as deadly unarmed as a trained warrior is with sharp blades. As they grow more powerful, they learn several new ways of using their focus.
¶ MASTERS AND STUDENTS
The art of the adept is old and personal, often taught by one master to a single student, and though the path to perfection is always long, each chooses their own different way to reach it. However they are all united by the generations of adepts that came before them, the ones who discovered these secrets and passed them forward. Adepts are always ready to learn, both when it comes to their own abilities and about the world around them. They are also always ready to teach, for they know their craft will never survive unless more adepts are trained like they were.
Artificers work in the arcano-sciences, combining both magic and technology despite all the risks. They are masters of their fields, experimenters, and inventors that push the limits of mortal capability ensuring that progress marches on.
Each represents the knife’s edge of understanding though they are their own isolated towers of knowledge and scientific practices, most doomed to become a mere footnote of failed ideas.
Yet more than their individual focuses and methods, it is an artificer’s determination and drive that sets them apart even from their peers—they can fail a thousand times and die satisfied so long as they successfully unlock a mystery of the universe at least once.
¶ INGENIOUS ECCENTRICS
Most artificers start their work in a craftsman’s trade or as a scholar, only to discover some idea or problem yet to be overcome that sparks their fascination with science. Although the marvels in their workshops sometimes explode or otherwise cause hazard, artificers are often regarded quite highly due to their skills. Technology is not always welcome however, and occasionally artificers need to work in secret—especially if their pursuits are unsavory or morally gray, or if their inventions are making other work obsolete—but their march of progress is the highest priority, the consequences be damned.
Wizarding schools often accuse artificers of “faking magic”, but in reality they are harnessing the very same arcana through physical laws rather than ancient rote. Where a mage chants magic words invoking old forgotten pacts the artificer grasps upon magic and drives it into reality. Each of their spell inventions is a marvel and the devices of the most elite practitioners are so superlative that in the hands of even a commoner magic does as it is bid. Such a thing is troubling to say the least and mutterings of “banning fake magic” drift among the halls of prestigious magical colleges.
¶ SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
While a great many artificers would like nothing more than to be left alone to their research, experiments take money and the answers they seek are frequently found outside of a laboratory. Adventuring solves both problems for them, providing lucrative opportunities for funding their research and far-off locales where they might find the answers to puzzles both new and ancient.
Alternatively, sometimes the artificer’s answers lie at the bottom of a dungeon or other dangerous locale, and joining up with an adventuring guild is the most logical means to reach it alive.
If there is any truly social role within the realm of medieval fantasy it is the bard.
An expert of music, stories, and trickery, no team of adventurers are complete without their trusty chronicler enshrining their legend with every step. Serving as their face when it comes to social interactions and also as their support when battle inevitably breaks out, bards can be molded to fit whatever group they choose to be a part of.
¶ MORE THAN VOCAL
The most important part of playing a bard is knowing your party’s strengths and weaknesses. For the most part understanding what your team lacks is beneficial to someone who is an actual jack-of-all-trades. Bards offer fantastic support to all the other classes either as a backup healer, a secondary spell slinger, or a magician with great utility. However when on their own and in the right company, bards can easily outshine others in both magic, combat, and social interactions—but be warned for a jack-of-all-trades is a master of none, and not focusing on particular aspects of adventuring can spread a bard quite thin.
¶ MUSIC MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND
It is said that if one’s name is taken in song that they can never truly die, and so it is the bard’s purpose to immortalize in their art the adventures they experience. From a tossed coin to the symphony of the greatest goblin, bards across the land can influence the world around them with the power of their song. History is written by the winners, but rebellions can be sparked by the single twang of a lute.
Berserkers are well-trained at tapping into that most primal of emotions: rage. In mastering its utility they also master a variety of techniques and preternatural abilities to bring a tactical edge to crushing their foes. No matter what walk of life they come from, berserkers all shine brightest on the move. Far from lumbering brutes, the inner reserves they draw on sharpen senses and reflexes along with the cut of their blade.
While they are classically thought of as wandering nomads or members of remote villages, berserkers do not restrict themselves to such environs. A highway robbers’ camp, a coliseum’s sands, an elite strike force, and a tavern’s common room brawl are all places that would appeal to their skills. No matter where they are berserkers cut imposing figures even in repose, causing many to give them a wide berth—a wolf is still a wolf, even if it runs with the watch dogs.
¶ A LIFE LIVED FULLY
Berserkers are terrors on the battlefield, wading into the fray where they rely on their reflexes and ability to shrug off massive damage to keep them alive for another day. It’s a dangerous life, but one that a berserker lives to its utmost. Let it not be said that berserkers do not practice strategy, however. Their ability to control their adversary’s place in the battlefield by stunning, frightening, or just plain knocking down enemies makes them invaluable at one’s side and a nightmare to face.
NOTE: THE WAY THIS CLASS IS SET UP IT DOES NOT NEED TO INVOLVE SELF HARM.
Assuming the mantle of a bloodblade is to shoulder the yolk of an exile and heretic, and the path to becoming one is difficult, dangerous—and potentially deadly. So named because their blood is fused with that of an entity that is decidedly inhuman, bloodblades take on the traits of deadly creatures to fuel their supernatural abilities. And while some certainly choose to assume this role in the blind pursuit of power, the truth is that many turn to it out of fear, desperation, or the desire to protect their homeland or loved ones.
¶ Alchemical Monstrosity
The exact formula necessary to alchemically blend one’s blood to another creature’s is a fiercely-guarded secret among the highest-ranking bloodblades, and even among them only a select few are entrusted with the knowledge of the ritual. Each of these chosen only know the formula for one type of blood, inducting new recruits into some semblance of an order, though bloodblades seldom work together. There is a chance that, once inoculated with the formula, the individual’s body will violently reject it— often with fatal results—though this is a risk the initiate is willing to take. The ritual itself takes days, and the process is said to be extremely painful.
¶ Mutant Prowess
Once the ritual is complete, bloodblades exhibit some minor mutations almost immediately, taking on physical characteristics of the creature with which their blood was transfused. While some bloodblades are blessed with mutations that are easily concealed or written off by other supernatural phenomena, others are cursed with an unsettling appearance that makes it difficult or even impossible to integrate back into normal society. But even for those few who can hide in plain sight, their blessings are not indefinite. As time passes and the blood more thoroughly mixes in their veins, a bloodblade’s mutations become stronger, more apparent, and far more difficult to hide. Advanced-stage bloodblades are feared, maligned, and only called upon when their ferocity and horrible powers are needed.
Clerics are the conduits through which many deities and greater entities of the planes manifest their will, and as such have great variety among their number.
Some clerics worship one or many gods (possibly even entities of darkness) while others attend to a philosophy or ideology which resonate with matters of ultimacy. Witting or unwitting, joyful or begrudging, lighthearted or solemn—clerics are the sheer presence of divine favor.
¶ DIVINE MISSION
With divine power at their fingertips clerics can heal the wounded and even revive the dead. Their allies glow with boons wrought from outside the Material Plane, and their enemies fall into shadow and flame as they feel the wrath of almighty forces. These abilities are granted when the cleric is chosen by a greater entity, or even a whole pantheon, to fulfill a divine duty, and more are given as they prove themselves worthy. With expertise in both protection and affliction, clerics are indomitable allies and terrifying foes.
When the time calls for it some are just as handy in close quarters with a mace or warhammer as they are at the sidelines with an amulet and divine word. Unlike many spellcasters, a cleric distills their magical ability from acts of devotion and revelations from beyond the pale. Their command over supernatural power stems from their unique connection to forces outside of this realm, and from the mission granted to them.
¶ REVELATION
No matter their religion or cause, a cleric is distinct from the average worshiper and even those at the highest echelons of its hierarchy. Rather than simply choosing a spiritual path, they are called to a spiritual duty. Their greater entity has chosen them as a vessel for their will, anointing the cleric with theurgic magic to manifest commands from beyond.
A cleric may receive their divine mission in the fog of a dream, the gentle whispers of nature, or the appearance of an intercessory messenger (such as angelic or demonic beings, a holy animal, or a long-deceased ancestor) after long study of holy texts. The cleric may even have been non-religious until the moment of their calling (and might still consider themselves that way), born with an innate skill or understanding essential to their mission—for them worship is often more in the form of deeds than in prayer or meditation. Their precise goal is shaped by the entity or pantheon they worship and their chosen archetype (and perhaps a discussion with the Narrator). An oracle may be bound to travel the world and distribute word of things to come, whereas a healer may wade into the chaos of battle to rescue the wounded. Whatever their mission, adventure is central to the life of clerics as they perform the extraordinary to fulfill their duty.
¶ Diabolist
Diabolists are not typical mages or priests, devoting themselves not to study or prayer, only to finding and taking the fastest pursuits to power—through dark pacts with evil creatures hungering for the foolish souls of bargainers. These greedy and despicable individuals wager their very souls to make bargains with not just one creature from beyond the Material Plane but many entities, calling on the malevolent powers to do their bidding. Any and all dark arts are the purview of diabolists and there is no depth to which they will not sink as they seek to conjure ever more powerful allies. The deals one must strike in order to summon evil entities with a whim are dire indeed however, and the further along the corrupted path one travels the greater one finds the demands of their otherworldly partners.
¶ Forbidden Secrets
The path of the diabolist is rarely lauded or promoted within society and the very nature of their art requires one to have a taste for taboo. Only the strong of will and spirit can endure the trials required to learn the secrets of diabolism, and though master summoners frequently take on many apprentices most of these deluded fools are merely pawns used for sacrifice. Devious, foul, and wily as they might be, diabolists are always keen to acquire relics, tokens of power, or forbidden lore whenever the opportunity arises and they can be trusted to do whatever they must in their relentless pursuits.
¶ Unyielding Avarice
Greed is what inspires most diabolists to take up the darkest arts of conjuration but they are never sated—the need for more power and wealth drives them ever forward the further they fall toward depravity in a vicious cycle that ends in eternal torment. The aid of demons and devils does not come without a cost however and either divine relics, great treasures, or the souls of the living must be sacrificed in order for diabolists to forge new unholy alliances.
Be they wise hermits, curious souls, or mysterious presences, druids are the advocates of the wilderness and its untapped powers, willing to accommodate all unless one takes more than is permitted.
Living within the rules they impose upon themselves, they embody and represent an ideology that espouses becoming part of nature instead of civilization. Wielding magic drawn from all that is around them, druids are capable of shaping the environment or themselves to accomplish their goals.
While anyone might come to understand how nature works, only druids can express how nature feels as they are, to an extent, an extension of the wilderness itself.
¶ SECRETIVE MAGIC
Most druids come from orders and families known as circles that define the powers and philosophies that they hold. Circle druids are particularly secretive due to historical anecdotes of exploitation that caused harm to both humanity and nature. For these druids the decades spent under their elders is not just for the sake of mastery, but also to learn the restraint and ethics necessary for one to responsibly wield the powers of nature.
There are druids that do not learn their magic from circles but rather from nature itself, often stumbling upon their gifts by accident or through the instruction of creatures of nature (such as the fey). While they operate much more openly, these hedge druids often lack the language to describe how their magic works. Most ultimately seek out a circle to join while some continue to develop their understanding independently until they take on apprentices to form a new circle of their own. All druids, regardless of origin, are welcome at cyclical congregations where tips on magic and shapeshifting are shared and matters of importance discussed.
¶ AN UNLIKELY ADVENTURER
With secrecy being so important to druids many would wonder why they’d embark on an adventuring career—to most adventuring is seen as both a way to master their skills and as the ultimate test of character. Some circles even require their members to have a certain number of years adventuring experience before they can officially become druids. There are also occasions when adventuring is used as a cover for a druid to pursue another mission, often related to the restoration of nature to an area or to seek out the root of an issue plaguing a druid circle.
The elements infuse all things. While spellcasters shape this magical energy into codified spells through incantations, gestures, focuses, and ingredients, an elementalist simply wields raw elemental energy offensively and defensively. To the untrained, it is magic like any other, but an elementalist’s power is unrefined, adaptable, and almost always at the ready. Most elementalists remain focused upon a single element through their whole lives, taking on that element’s characteristics in both action and personality, while others are contradictions. Some elementalists learn to broaden their elemental control, gaining access to new elements as they grow in power. For some elementalists, their power is their birthright, while others have learned and developed the skill; however they have come to it, an elementalist’s power is their own, and they wield it in a myriad of ways.tural abilities that set them apart from common warriors.
¶ Wild Untamed Power
Elementalists wield the power of the elements like a warrior wields a blade. But where weapons and armor have distinct boundaries, an elementalist’s weapons are mutable and adaptable. Their power is barely contained, bursting forth at first randomly and destructively until a new elementalist gains control. Even after learning to wield their power, an elementalist’s magic is best expressed raw and untamed.
An elementalists power begins with destructive blasts of elemental energy or material, pure and ephemeral; while the effects of an elemental attack are lasting, the energy or material quickly dissipates back into the ether, so elemental water or earth does not linger, but elemental fire can ignite natural fires and elemental water can quench them. Elementalists also learn to command their element, making naturally occurring material move or bend to their will. Powerful elementalists learn to do amazing feats, such as raising walls of stone from the earth, parting lakes, calling down storms, or even awakening volcanoes.
¶ The Building Blocks
Scholars speculate on the nature of the material world, and many traditions speak of the world being formed originally by primordial elemental beings. The sheer strength of beings like djinn, dragons, giants, and other beings infused with elemental power gives credence to these theories, and it is this power that lies within an elementalist’s reach. The base four elements (Air, Earth, Fire, and Water) are the purest form of elemental power, and an elementalist wields them as easily as a warrior wields a sword or an expert wields their tools.
Elementalists are as diverse and varied as the people of the world. Most elementalists learn to master one particular element, growing into a power that rivals the forces of nature. Some elementalists grow to focus on two elements, marrying them together into a unique expression of power. Rare elementalists stretch their talents broadly and learn all four elements, but they can prove to be exceptionally adaptable. On the surface, it is easy to define an elementalist by the element they first wield. But different elementalists vary wildly from one to the next.
Daring outlaw or noble hero, dutiful soldier or self-serving mercenary, a fighter faces their destiny with a weapon in hand and few peers in the bloody art of violence.
Their skills and approaches differ, and they employ a dazzling array of fighting styles and special tricks, yet in the end they are defined by their skill in battle, and the true difference between them is not how they fight but when and why.
Fighters are masters of combat, passing beyond basic proficiency to become experts in their chosen style of combat. Each fighter learns a set of techniques that mark them as something special, regardless of whether they are self-taught or guided by a mentor: honing their senses to a razor’s edge and flowing just out of harm’s way while seizing every opening, harmonizing with allies and knowing how to coordinate with them without sharing a word, or harnessing incredible strength to weather enemy blows before crushing them with a single strike.
¶ HARDENED WARRIOR
More than skill sets a fighter apart from other combatants: a fighter has gone through a crucible and come out the other side hard as steel. A fighter might be a veteran scarred by the wars they have fought, a knight dedicated body and soul to their oaths, or a student of the sword who spent years in the tutelage of a demanding master. Even the most inexperienced and gentle fighter has a strength within them that makes them unique.
¶ Herald (Renamed Paladin)
- Anomalous Knight (GPG #14) - Knight who combats aberrations and siphons some of their power for themself.
- Black Knight (PMG MOAR: L&D Pg. 16) - Varied lot of supernaturally-empowered warriors firmly devoted to whatever gets the job done.
- Conqueror (HOaN) - Conquerors are fearsome heralds dedicating to conquering and subjugating others.
- Crownsworn (HOaN) - Heralds that bind themselves to queens, emperors, generals, or more broadly to nations, peoples, or clans.
- Dark Scourge (GPG #32) - These heralds commit themselves to terrorizing those who hide in the dark and operate through fear.
- Deepfire Emissary (PMG FJ Pg. 5) - Carries the word of something burning and primal from deep beneath the earth.
- Deliverer (GPG #32) - Deliverers actively seek out opportunities to confront and destroy the undead—particularly those who dominate the will of others.
- Dragon Knight (GPG #14) - A knight who serve and gain the essence of dragons.
- Elemental Knight (MoAR Comp Pg. 145) - Knowledge is power and learning is honor.
- Executore (AiZ Pg. 61) - Holy warriors who pursue wrongdoers and free victims from oppression.
- Gatekeeper (HOaN) - Gatekeepers are heralds sworn to uphold the natural order of the cosmos.
- Gloryseeker (HOaN) - Gloryseekers are those heralds dedicated to achieving personal fame and glory.
- Grave Knight (MoAR Comp Pg. 147) - Champions of Undeath.
- Green Knight (AG Pg. 206) - Wardens of nature and the wilderness.
- Holy Champion (AG Pg. 207) - Divine warriors who exemplify either good or evil.
- Inquisitor (AG Pg. 208) - Knights of judgement who seek out heresy.
- Knight of the Fey (GPG #14) - A herald that follows the ideals of the fey courts
- Liberator (PMG MOAR: I Pg. 19) - Heralds that bear the message of freedom, liberators dedicated their lives to fighting against oppression and tyranny.
- Lovesworn (SoS)
- Penitent (PMG MOAR: L&D Pg. 17) - Herald so overcome with remorse they devote themselves to an unending quest to redeem themselves and others.
- Revoker (GPG #1) - Holy warriors who forge their own fate.
- Scholar Knight (PMG AA Pg. 2) - Heralds supplemented with magical training and deep knowledge.
- Sealer (SS)
- Stone Warden (DDG Pg. 37) - Implacable defenders of the weak with rock-like powers.
- Vindicator (PMG JJE Pg. 3) - Incorruptible Heralds trained to find and bring to justice the perpetrators of great evils.
- Voice of Dawn (GPG #32) - These warriors bring the promise of dawn, offering hope and support to the fearful and the promise of redemption to those who turn from their evil ways. They are also renowned for their ability to foresee the future.
¶ Marshal
- Arcane Officer (GPG #13) - Marshal trained in battlefield magic.
- Chief Enforcer (GPG #9) - Enforcer for an underground or criminal organization
- Concordant Commander (GPG #10) - Weilds the collective power of their companions' minds to unleash havoc on the field of battle
- Curseweaver (TT: MoC) -
- Ecclesiarch (PMG MOAR: L&D Pg. 19) - Divinely-empowered marshals.
- Expedition Leader (DDG Pg. 38) - An experienced leader who guides adventurers through dungeons and caves.
- Frontliner (PMG MOAR: I Pg. 20) - Refuse to lead from anywhere but the frontline.
- Gambling General (AG Pg. 218) - Leaders who thrive on risky strategies with great rewards.
- Knight Commander (GPG #9) - Noble leader who has a troupe of men to command.
- Lionheart (GPG #7) - Lead by example, inspiring their crew with flashy maneuvers, cutting wordplay, and acts of courage.
- Ravager (PMG MOAR: L&D Pg. 21) - Leaders of sinister forces.
- Scourge (MMM) - Scourges are those marshals that have embraced one simple truth: it is better to be feared than loved
- Seafaring Scourge (GPG #9) - A decorated sailor who leads a crew at sea (abilities work in a nonaquatic environment).
- Spymaster (PMG MOAR: I Pg. 20) - Generals of the clandestine world of spies, assassins, partisans, guerillas, paramilitary forces and sometimes even terrorists.
- Swift Strategist (AG Pg. 220) - Leaders in the realm of guerrilla warfare.
- Talented Tactician (AG Pg. 221) - Military strategists who plan and anticipate every move.
- Valorous (PMG ToW Pg. 3) - Marshals capable of sharing their courage with the others around them.
- War Falconer (GPG #15) -
- Warlord (MMM) - Marshals focusing moreso than most marshals on enhancing their own personal combat prowess.
¶ Motif Classes (Designed to make multiclassing easier by giving you a starter class that pulls from two classes)
- Dirgesinger (PMG MC) - A mix of Bard/Warlock.
- Gambler (PMG MC) - A mix of Marshal/Rogue
- Lancer (PMG MC) - A mix of Adept/Fighter
- Leyline Master (PMG MC) - A mix of Druid/Wizard
- Pious Protector (PMG MC) - A mix of Cleric/Herald
- Runespell Rager (PMG MC) - A mix of Berserker/Warlock
- Spellslinger (PMG MC) - A mix of Sorcerer/Ranger
¶ Ranger
- Arcane Sniper (PMG AS Pg. 4) - Ranger capable of spellcasting with a focus on AoE.
- Beastmaster (AG Pg. 234) - Friends and allies to animals of the wild
- Darkslayer (PMG MOAR: L&D Pg. 22) - Rangers dedicated to fighting against the terrors of the night.
- Fantastic Fletcher (GPG #2) - An archer who specializes in trick arrows (Hawkeye).
- Fugitive Hunter (PMG MOAR: I Pg. 21) - Specialists who track down people who do not wish to be found.
- Hunter (HOaN) - The hunter is the ranger at their most basic. They are masters of woodcraft who employ those skills tracking and hunting down their quarry
- Monster Hunter (GPG #4) - Hunters who gain power from their trophies.
- Partisan (GPG #4) - An urban warrior, expert at unconventional warfare.
- Rescuer (PMG MOAR: W Pg. 20) - Specialists in pulling stranded or endangered people out of hazardous situations.
- Skilled Survivalist (GPG #4) - An expert at living off the bounty of the land.
- Slayer (TT-VS Pg. 2) - Experts in bringing dangerous prey down quickly.
- Tenebrous Stalker (DDG Pg. 39) - Warriors who use the darkness as a tool and a weapon.
- Warden (AG Pg. 234) - Mounted operatives who patrol the wilds.
- Wayfinder (SoS)
- Wildborn (AG Pg. 235) - Spellcasting rangers who call upon the powers of nature.
¶ Rogue
- Bodyguard (GPG #6) - Rogue who uses their skills to protect others.
- Burglar (AG Pg. 246) - Sneaky thieves and treasurer hunters.
- Contriver (GPG #5) - Skilled at solving problems through unconventional means.
- Courtier (GPG #3) - Nobles skilled with sharp words and sharp blades.
- Cutthroat (AG PG. 246) - Masters of subterfuge and damaging poisons.
- Dark Eye (MoAR Comp Pg. 161) - Rogues with magical training who specialize in surveillance.
- Hand of the Highborn (MMV1) -
- Fugitive (PMG MOAR: I Pg. 22) - Fugitives are many and varied, bu they all share a common thread: pursuit by a predatory force.
- Investigator (AG Pg. 247) - Clever rogues who solve mysteries and overcome problems
- Masquerader (SoS) -
- Occult Blade (AiZ Pg. 65) - Obscure criminals whose magical techniques occlude memory of their actions.
- Poisoner (TT-VS Pg. 3) - Rogue who specializes in making and applying poisons with different effects.
- Sacred Agent (PMG MOAR: L&D Pg. 23) - Rogues who carry the will of their faith or cause into the shadows.
- Shadow Stalker (DDG Pg. 40) - Expert assassins whop strike from the darkness.
- Soul Knife (Paranormal Power) -
- Throwing Ace (GPG #10) - Rogue who can throw tiny things extremely well and impart explosive energy to them (Gambit)
- Trapsmith (AG Pg. 248) - Expert dungeoneers and mechanically inclined scouts.
- Vanishing Force (GPG #29) - These Rogues find themselves capable of exuding a strange force that resists prying eyes and physical forces alike (The Invisible Woman).
¶ Savant (New class. Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes)
- Archaeologist (GPG #18) - Savants that are fascinated by ancient sites and artifacts, equipped with versatile tools to uncover hidden treasures and decipher forgotten languages.
- Avantist (GPG #12) - Avantists have developed a flexible—if taxing—casting style that allows them to mimic any of the major magical disciplines, albeit only in their most rudimentary form.
- Detective (GPG #18) - Sherlock Holmes
- Diplomat (GPG #12) - Savants with a vast knowledge of different cultures and a knack for finding creative, peaceful solutions to conflicts.
- Naturalist (GPG #12) - Savants that can adapt to an astounding array of conditions and environments, allowing them to discover wonders many others would overlook.
- Philosopher (GPG #18) - Philosophers contemplate life’s great mysteries with fervor, forging their minds and souls through relentless pursuit of the truth.
- Physician (GPG #35) - Although clerics and heralds may be able to infuse a creature with regenerative energy at a word, Physicians have a depth of understanding about the body and its systems few mages could ever hope to match.
- Security Specialist (GPG #17) - "Professional paranoids" trained to spot vulnerabilities in buildings, organizations, security plans, and even magical wards.
- Steward (AiZ Pg. 50) - Guides and mentors in military organizations.
- Technician (GPG #35) - Technicians are master inventors and engineers who see their surroundings not for what they are, but for what they could be.
- Vanguard (AiZ Pg. 50) - Ingenious savants who lead the battle and thwart their foes.
- Vox (AiZ Pg. 51) - Masters of the voice, able to communicate, compel, and persuade.
¶ Scholar
- Alchemist (HOaN) - Alchemist that studies the secrets of metallurgy, of herbalism and potion crafting, and of the properties of all manner of different compounds and substances and how they react to each other.
- Artisan (HOaN) - Artisans are those scholars that have devoted themselves to honing a craft.
- Hedge Mage (HOaN) - These are scholars that seek to plumb the depths of magical knowledge, and learn all there is to know about magic even if they themselves cannot perform its greatest feats.
- Master Physician (HOaN) - Scholar who has dedicated themselves to the healing arts.
¶ Sorcerer
- Annihilator (AiZ Pg. 66) - Controllers of destructive energies fueled by death and decay.
- Draconist (AG Pg. 260) - Spellcasters with dragon magic in their blood.
- Empyrean-Touched (GPG #30) - Some sorcerers enjoys the divine blessings of their ancestral past. Their family has been justly blessed by righteous triumph, celestial boon, or perhaps even divine blood.
- Enigma (AG Pg. 261) - Magic-users who wield alien powers.
- Exalted (PMG MOAR: L&D Pg. 25) - Have a connection to some higher order of being, often divine or celestial in nature.
- Fiendblood (MoAR Comp Pg. 167) - Sorceres with direct ties to fiends.
- Ichorblooded (GPG #30) - Their blood is cursed by ill intent, fiendish “blessings”, or the touch of undeath itself, but all carry the taint of corruption.
- Imbued (MoAR Comp Pg. 168) - Sorcerers who were imbued with their powers after birth through unnatural means.
- Living Flame (GPG #29) - These mages do not just conjure fire but actually become it, ultimately transforming themselves into the flames that they’ve mastered (The Human Torch).
- Magemarked (GPG #30) - Focused magic runs rampant through their souls, devastating and beautiful power in its purest form.
- Regulator (PMG AA Pg. 3) - Sorcerer that resists the reality-warping properties of extraplanar entities.
- Shadowtouched (HOaN) - Shadowtouched sorcerers are those who were born into darkness, and took the darkness into them.
- Songweaver (GPG #10) - Sorcerer that casts spells sonically
- Steel Blooded (MoAR Comp Pg. 170) - Supernaturally infused with martial magical knowledge
- Stoneheart (DDG Pg. 41) - Magic-wielders who use the power of the earth.
- Stormborn (HOaN) - Stormborn sorcerers are those for whom the thundering, howling, electric power of the storm thrums through their very veins.
- Traveler (AG Pg. 262) - Spell-wielders with the powers of distant planes.
- Warder (GPG #17) - Sorcerers that are infused with powerful protective magics down to the very core of their being.
¶ Warlock
- Adjudicator (PMG JJE Pg. 6) - Scholars, makers, and enforcers of rules, laws, precepts, and principles.
- Alienist (AG Pg. 281) - Scholars and agents of the far realm and alien forces.
- Deathwalker (MMM) - Many are those who seek to cheat death or unlock its secrets because they fear it. Far rarer are those whose desires drive them to immerse themselves into it.
- Diabolist (AG Pg. 282) - Devotees of demons and diabolical deities.
- Dragonsworn (MMM) - While dragons are most famously associated with those sorcerers for whom draconic power flows through their very blood, a part of who they are, they are not the only ones who envy the power of wyrms.
- Dread Knight (GPG #8) - Anti-paladins, blackguards, and nightmare cavalry
- Eldritch Gunslinger (GPG #5) - Warlock whose patron has gifted them with a powerful revolver.
- Empyreal Sage (HOaN) - Empyreal sages are, in some ways, the opposite of diabolists, warlocks patroned not by fiendish forces but celestial ones.
- Fatewoven (DDG Pg. 42) - Fortune tellers and soothsayers who pluck the strings of fate.
- Glorified (PMG MOAR: L&D Pg. 26) - Seekers of hidden light, members of esoteric orders, students of heavenly architects, appointees of rogue celestials, and the dreamers of dreams.
- Gyre Gazer (GPG #11) - Warlock with a aberrant familiar
- Martialist (MoAR Comp Pg. 174) - Wielders of weapon spirits
- Mortalist (PMG M Pg. 1) - Warlock who has made a pact with Death.
- Mutant (GPG #2) - Supernatural beings whose power stems from within.
- Sea Witch (MoAR Comp Pg. 176) - Warlock of the sea.
- Spellbound (AG Pg. 283) - Spellcasters who embrace the ways of the fey.
- Unnaturalist (GPG #8) - Scholars of abominations and monstrosities
- Urbanist (AiZ Pg. 68) - Avatars of cities who derive information and strength from the metropolis.
- Vestigialist (PMG C Pg. 3) - Harvesters of lost and forgotten supernatural power.
- Wishmaster (HOaN) - Warlock that makes deals with Djinn.
¶ Wielder (Spell List)
- Burdened (TT: CtD) - Burdened have learned to weaponize and externalize the curses that their bonded artifacts carry, using the curse itself as another weapon in their arsenal, even as it weighs them down.
- Crowned (SoS) - Crowned wielders, by virtue of their bond with the relic they bear, are the rightful bearers of authority in their domain, and although not all have yet ascended to positions of power, their destiny is clear. Their magic manifests in compulsion and authority.
- Embedded (MMV2) - Wielders who take a mutable artifact of nature into their bodies, granting them an unusual level of versatility.
- Enigmatist (MoAR Comp Pg. 106) - Wielders who tinker with their artifacts to unlock their true potential - or destruction.
- Entrusted (MoAR Comp Pg. 105) - Have a sentient Artifact that has entrusted you with it's care.
- Reliquarian (MMV1) - A wielder entrusted with a sacred relic that has miraculous powers of holy restoration and protection
- Torchbearer (MoAR Comp Pg. 104) - The last in a long line of bearers of the Artifact who will be able to unlock it's true potential.
¶ Witch (Spell List)
- Enchanter (MMM) - Enchanters are witches who specialize in magic that manipulates, controls, or befuddles the mind.
- Fathoms Witch (ECDM) - Witches that embrace the depths of the ocean an the powers therein.
- Gray Watcher (MMM) - Gray watchers are witches that stand astride the gates between life and death.
- Green Witch (MMM) - Green Witches dwell in wild places, exploring the way in which magic weaves in and out of the natural world.
- Hag-Tutored (ECDM) - Witches that were trained in the arts by Hags, embracing the darker more monstrous forces therein.
- Interceder (MMM) - Interceders are those witches that specialize in magic dealing with other planes and dealing with the entities that reside on them.
- Kitchen Witch (T&T) - A witch that prepares food and infuses them with magical energies to buff their party.
- Rustic Witch (MMM) - These witches specialize in herb lore, monitoring or even manipulating the weather, and the ceremonies and folk beliefs that bind a community together, dispensing wisdom, guidance, and magical blessings alike.
- Winter Witch (MMM) - Winter Witches are those who draw upon the depths of winter for their magic.
¶ Wizard
- Advisor (PMG MOAR: I Pg. 23) - Court mage who advises a noble or monarch
- Aeromancer (MMM) - Air magic-focused wizards.
- Antiquarian (GPG #22) - The Antiquarian approaches the arcane like an archeologist unearthing treasures. All the greatest spells were cast by ancient powers long ago, and the path towards arcane power lies buried in antiquity.
- Arcanist (AG Pg. 297) - Students of one of the eight classical schools of magic.
- Court Magician (GPG #3) - Learned scholars and trusty advisors to those in power.
- Enclavist (AiZ Pg. 70) - Secret wizards who manifest the fey realms.
- Geomancer (MMM) - Earth magic-focused wizards.
- Hedge Mage (PMG MOAR: W Pg. 22) - Arcanists are closer to both nature and their communities than most.
- Hydromancer (MMM) - Water magic-focused wizards.
- Last Raven (AiZ Pg. 69) - Stealers of magic who levy curses on their foes.
- Mage (AG Pg. 298) - Generalist wizards who dabble in all the schools of magic.
- Necromancer (Web Exclusive) - Students of death and masters of the undead.
- Oozemancer (DDG Pg. 43) - A magic-user who allies with and can turn into an ooze.
- Pyromancer (AG Pg. 299) - Spellcasters who focus on the element of fire.
- Spellguard (MoAR Comp Pg. 180) - Wizards who are militarily trained.
- Street Magician (GPG #22) - Whether they were taught some small spellcraft by a mentor, stole an arcana text from a shop window, or dropped out of a proper wizard’s college, these casters rarely have any formal training to speak of, instead relying on their innate cleverness and whatever scraps of knowledge they get their hands on.
- Venomancer (PMG TT-VS Pg. 4) - These wizardly toxin specialists can infuse their own spells with harmful compounds.. but can also poison the magic of other spellcasters.