Character name: Scrap (Synthetic Construct with Reliable Assistance Persona)
Player: Sylas (@omg.its.sylas)
Race: Autognome
Primary Class: Ranger/Swarmkeeper 6th level
Secondary Class: Rogue/Scout 3rd level
Inspiration: 0
HP 64 AC 21 Init +3
Str 8 Dex 18* Con 12* Int 14* Wis 15 Cha 10
*: Saving Throw Proficiency
4 1st-level ranger 2 2nd-level ranger
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Feature: Watcher's Eye
Your experience in enforcing the law, and dealing with lawbreakers, gives you a feel for local laws and criminals. You can easily find the local outpost of the watch or a similar organization, and just as easily pick out the dens of criminal activity in a community, although you’re more likely to be welcome in the former locations rather than the latter.
Class Features As a ranger, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points Hit Dice: 1d10 per ranger level Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per ranger level after 1st
Proficiencies Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons Tools: None Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity Skills: Choose three from Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, and Survival
Equipment You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
(a) scale mail or (b) leather armor (a) two shortswords or (b) two simple melee weapons (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack A longbow and a quiver of 20 arrows Favored Enemy Beginning at 1st level, you have significant experience studying, tracking, hunting, and even talking to a certain type of enemy.
Choose a type of favored enemy: aberrations, beasts, celestials, constructs, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, giants, monstrosities, oozes, plants, or undead. Alternatively, you can select two races of humanoid (such as gnolls and orcs) as favored enemies.
You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track your favored enemies, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about them.
When you gain this feature, you also learn one language of your choice that is spoken by your favored enemies, if they speak one at all.
You choose one additional favored enemy, as well as an associated language, at 6th and 14th level. As you gain levels, your choices should reflect the types of monsters you have encountered on your adventures.
Favored Foe (Optional) This 1st-level feature replaces the Favored Enemy feature and works with the Foe Slayer feature. You gain no benefit from the replaced feature and don't qualify for anything in the game that requires it.
When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can call on your mystical bond with nature to mark the target as your favored enemy for 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell).
The first time on each of your turns that you hit the favored enemy and deal damage to it, including when you mark it, you increase that damage by 1d4.
You can use this feature to mark a favored enemy a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
This feature's extra damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d6 at 6th level and to 1d8 at 14th level.
Natural Explorer Also at 1st level, you are particularly familiar with one type of natural environment and are adept at traveling and surviving in such regions. Choose one type of favored terrain: arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, or the Underdark. When you make an Intelligence or Wisdom check related to your favored terrain, your proficiency bonus is doubled if you are using a skill that you’re proficient in.
While traveling for an hour or more in your favored terrain, you gain the following benefits:
Difficult terrain doesn’t slow your group’s travel. Your group can’t become lost except by magical means. Even when you are engaged in another activity while traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking), you remain alert to danger. If you are traveling alone, you can move stealthily at a normal pace. When you forage, you find twice as much food as you normally would. While tracking other creatures, you also learn their exact number, their sizes, and how long ago they passed through the area. You choose additional favored terrain types at 6th and 10th level.
Deft Explorer (Optional) This 1st-level feature replaces the Natural Explorer feature. You gain no benefit from the replaced feature and don't qualify for anything in the game that requires it.
You are an unsurpassed explorer and survivor, both in the wilderness and in dealing with others on your travels. You gain the Canny benefit below, and you gain an additional benefit when you reach 6th level and 10th level in this class.
Canny (1st Level) Choose one of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make using the chosen skill.
You can also speak, read, and write 2 additional languages of your choice.
Roving (6th Level) Your walking speed increases by 5, and you gain a climbing speed and a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
Tireless (10th Level) As an action, you can give yourself a number of temporary hit points equal to 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1 temporary hit point). You can use this action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
In addition, whenever you finish a short rest, your exhaustion level, if any, is decreased by 1.
Fighting Style At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.
Archery. You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.
By the time you reach 2nd level, you have learned to use the magical essence of nature to cast spells, much as a druid does.
The Ranger table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your ranger spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.
For example, if you know the 1st-level spell Animal Friendship and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Animal Friendship using either slot.
You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the ranger spell list.
The Spells Known column of the Ranger table shows when you learn more ranger spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the ranger spells you know and replace it with another spell from the ranger spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your ranger spells, since your magic draws on your attunement to nature. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a ranger spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier
At 2nd level, you can use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your ranger spells. A druidic focus might be a sprig of mistletoe or holly, a wand or rod made of yew or another special wood, a staff drawn whole from a living tree, or an object incorporating feathers, fur, bones, and teeth from sacred animals.
Beginning at 3rd level, you can use your action and expend one ranger spell slot to focus your awareness on the region around you. For 1 minute per level of the spell slot you expend, you can sense whether the following types of creatures are present within 1 mile of you (or within up to 6 miles if you are in your favored terrain): aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead. This feature doesn’t reveal the creatures’ location or number.
Ability Score Improvement When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Martial Versatility (Optional) Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can replace a fighting style you know with another fighting style available to rangers. This replacement represents a shift of focus in your martial practice.
Extra Attack Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Ranger Conclave At 3rd level, you choose to emulate the ideals and training of a ranger conclave. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th, and 15th level.
Gathered Swarm At 3rd level, a swarm of intangible nature spirits has bonded itself to you and can assist you in battle. Until you die, the swarm remains in your space, crawling on you or flying and skittering around you within your space. You determine its appearance, or you generate its appearance by rolling on the Swarm Appearance table.
Swarm Appearance: Nanites!
Once on each of your turns, you can cause the swarm to assist you in one of the following ways, immediately after you hit a creature with an attack:
Swarmkeeper Magic
Also at 3rd level, you learn the Mage Hand cantrip if you don't already know it. When you cast it, the hand takes the form of your swarming nature spirits.
You also learn an additional spell of 1st level or higher when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Swarmkeeper Spells table. Each spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of ranger spells you know.
Swarmkeeper spells Ranger Level Spell 3rd Faerie Fire, Mage Hand 5th Web 9th Gaseous Form 13th Arcane Eye 17th Insect Plague Writhing Tide Beginning at 7th level, you can condense part of your swarm into a focused mass that lifts you up. As a bonus action, you gain a flying speed of 10 feet and can hover. This effect lasts for 1 minute or until you are incapacitated.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Mighty Swarm At 11th level, your Gathered Swarm grows mightier in the following ways:
The damage of Gathered Swarm increases to 1d8. If a creature fails its saving throw against being moved by the Gathered Swarm, you can also cause the swarm to knock the creature prone. When you are moved by Gathered Swarm, it gives you half cover until the start of your next turn. Swarming Dispersal When you reach 15th level, you can discorporate into your swarm, avoiding danger. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to give yourself resistance to that damage. You vanish into your swarm and then teleport to an unoccupied space that you can see within 30 feet of you, where you reappear with the swarm.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Class Features As a rogue, you gain the following class features.
At 1st level, choose two of your skill proficiencies, or one of your skill proficiencies and your proficiency with thieves' tools. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chosen proficiencies.
At 6th level, you can choose two more of your proficiencies (in skills or with thieves' tools) to gain this benefit.
Beginning at 1st level, you know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe's distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack must use a finesse or a ranged weapon.
You don't need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn't incapacitated, and you don't have disadvantage on the attack roll.
The amount of the extra damage increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Sneak Attack column of the Rogue table.
During your rogue training you learned thieves' cant, a secret mix of dialect, jargon, and code that allows you to hide messages in seemingly normal conversation. Only another creature that knows thieves' cant understands such messages. It takes four times longer to convey such a message than it does to speak the same idea plainly.
In addition, you understand a set of secret signs and symbols used to convey short, simple messages, such as whether an area is dangerous or the territory of a thieves' guild, whether loot is nearby, or whether the people in an area are easy marks or will provide a safe house for thieves on the run.
Starting at 2nd level, your quick thinking and agility allow you to move and act quickly. You can take a bonus action on each of your turns in combat. This action can be used only to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.
At 3rd level, as a bonus action, you give yourself advantage on your next attack roll on the current turn. You can use this bonus action only if you haven't moved during this turn, and after you use the bonus action, your speed is 0 until the end of the current turn.
Starting at 3rd level, you are difficult to pin down during a fight. You can move up to half your speed as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet of you. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks.
When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Nature and Survival skills if you don't already have it. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of those proficiencies.
Full Scholarship for next semester!
Student Tablet: These specialized student tablets allow you to review materials from your courses. You can use this as reference material up to three times per day, gaining a d4 bonus to an ability check related to your current courses, rolled after your d20 is rolled but before its outcome is declared. In addition, if you study the primer at the end of a long rest, you can choose one 1st-level spell from any spell list. Before you finish your next long rest, you can cast the chosen spell once without a spell slot if you are holding the primer. Your spellcasting ability for this spell is your choice of Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma.
Student ID (Donal Hall - Freshthing; Security)
Dorm Key
Repair Fluid (allows you to use a Hit Die to restore hit points once upon administering to damage; works only on constructs)
Academy Pennant
Library Card
Cuddly Academy Mascot (Inkling)
Cheap soulphone
Drone
Clockwork Amulet
High quality silver dagger
Gloves of Thievery
Ring of protection +1
Pearl (100 gp)
Belford Medal of Heroism (+1 to Charisma checks against Belfordians)
Baton, stun: 1d4 lightning, 1 lb., Finesse, light, special. A stun baton has 5 charges. When you hit a creature with a stun baton, you can expend one charge. The target must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 10) or be paralyzed until the start of your next turn. The stun baton must be recharged using one battery after expending the last charge. Quirk: The lightning damage only happens when you expend a charge, otherwise it's 1d4 bludgeoning.
Air repeaters, 2
Air repeater extended magazines, 4
500 air repeater pellets
Weapon parts:
Cheap pistol (2d6, 60/180 range, no frills) in concealed holster
Phantom pistol (2d10, 60/180, 6 shots) in concealed holster
Light pistol +1 with laser sight and tac light in concealed holster
Grendel SRT (2d10 damage, Ammunition (range 200/600), reload 9, two-handed, 7 lb, includes a 4x scope (double range factors; -1 to hit without scope) with bipod
Dagger +1 (magebane: +2d6 vs magicusers)
Broken security system / camera monitor system
Grendel PD Licensed Investigator badge
Basic soulphone
Smart Tablet (250 gp)
Infrared Goggles (1000 gp)
Ammunition, 2 reloads per weapon of lethal and nonlethal (20 bolts for crossbow)
Stone of Good Luck
Coat of the Manta Ray (60 foot swim speed; AC 16 + Dex)
'Needlework Kit' (disguised lockpick set)
2 grooming kits (1gp), harness (3gp), weapon black (10) (10gp), grappling gun (30gp), cauterizing torch (10gp), 4x heated cloaks (640gp), mechanical torch (10gp), ascender (4gp), glassbreaker's kit (15gp), grappling hook (2gp), perfume vial (5gp))
To group - *I bought a few things for everyone today. I'll have them at the manor.*
Soulphone Apps
Unlike your regular spells, spells from cantrips are known from memory and can be cast as often as you feel like. You have 2 cantrips from Magic Initiate.
You also can cast one 1st level spell of your choice once per day, from Magic Initiate.
Crossbow, light - Ranged Weapon - +5 to hit, 1d8+3 damage, Simple, Ammunition, Loading, Two-Handed, Range (80/320)
Dagger +1, magebane - Melee Weapon - +6 to hit, 1d4+4 damage, Simple, Finesse, Light, Thrown, Range (20/60), +2d6 damage vs mages
Phantom: 2d10 piercing damage, range 60/180, req simple ranged proficiency, six shots, suppressed.
Pending Upgrade: Nano-Support Structure: 6000 gp cost. Allows use of nanites as a 'free hand' capable of performing an attack with a bonus action (or action, if the hands are occupied or non-usable) or carrying up to 50 pounds.
Riot shield with wind crystal (on successful shield bash, knockback 10 feet unless Str DC 12, once per day or until M power crystal installed)
Spear haft with wind crystal (on successful strike with blunt end, knockback 10 feet unless Str DC 12, once per day or until M power crystal installed)