Cursed

Highway robbers await in the cliffside of a canyon pass. One of them spots a figure in the distance. As he draws near, he seems to be some sort of scholar, or perhaps a priest. It is no matter; he is clearly not experienced in combat. And he’s travelling alone.

The band of thieves rush into the pass. Their misfortunate victim tries to run, but he is quickly cornered. As one bandit swings his mace, the man raises his open hand and halts it with a force much more powerful than would befit his frail frame.

His eyes flash with a green glare, and his skin begins to bubble. The now wary bandits slowly shuffle backwards. The man shoots to well over 8 feet tall and his flesh ripples as it adjusts to a new muscular form. As the bandits turn tail, the monster hurls a nearby boulder and bellows a thunderous roar.

You are cursed. The body that you inhabit is shared with something else. It might be an incorporeal, fiendish presence that takes control when your mental defenses are down, an unearthly entity from beyond that warps your body to better suit it, a curse that transform you into a furious wolfman, or even a manifestation of your own inner rage.

Life of Solitude

A curse has many facets, and few are particularly pleasant. Yet, worst of all, the body has a mind of its own, infected by the curse. It acts as according to instinct, and the only way to truly accept your power is to let it take control of you. To be the creature that others fear, to fight like a savage animal, tearing down friend and foe alike. To live with this knowledge should be unbearable, and yet the cursed carries on down their dark path, hoping against hope for relief from their fate. Or that the burden may become easier to bear one day.

Those few unlucky ones to be afflicted by a dark, twisted transmutation magic tend to lead isolated lives. Their unpredictable and dangerous alter ego makes them a pariah, so they avoid cities whenever possible. Although they do tend to frequent libraries, as their lonely lifestyle has led them to confide in books. These tortured souls are often well learned and otfen turn to magic as it might lead to apossible cure.

Some seek this power out for themselves, empowered by mystical rituals, unnatural science, or otherworldly forces. but not all of these individuals are beholden to their base desires and many turn their frightful power into a force of good.

Class Features

As Cursed, you gain the following class features

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d6

Saving Throws

You are proficient with Intelligence and Wisdom saving throws.

Skills

Class Skills: All Craft skills, all Knowledge skills and Survival

Skill Points: You gain 2 skill points at 1st level.

Skills - Combat

Weapon Groups: You have rank 1 with Club, Knife, Spear, Staff, Crossbow and Sling.

After 1st level: You gain 1 skill point to spend on combat skills every 3rd level, at levels 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• a dagger and any one simple weapon
• (a) a explorer’s pack or (b) a scholar’s pack
• one set of tools you are proficient with

Cantrips

Through meditation and the use of arcane formulas, you draw power from your curse, and can use some of its power in your normal form. You learn two cantrips of your choice from your spell list. Intelligence is the spellcasting ability for those cantrips.

You learn additional cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Cursed table. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one cantrip you learned with another cantrip from your spell list.

Cursed Form

Choose a curse, which describes the form of your alter ego, and the source or your power. Curses are detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features when you choose it at 1st level and again at 3rd, 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

One thing that all curses have in common is the ability to let your monstrous passenger surface. The Cursed form is a terrifying sight to behold. It has a mind of its own, but just as you share bodies, you also inhabit the same mind, allowing you to nudge it in the right direction. This gives a modicum of control, just enough to not attack allies and to steer the monster in the right direction.

As an action you can transform into the Cursed form. Your size is now medium if it was not before, and your weight doubles. When this happens, any nonmagical equipment that does not fit your new form is possibly destroyed. Magic equipment that does not fit, will be merged into the new form, but will be unusable. If you are affected by the grappled or restrained conditions when you transform, they immediately end.

Unless otherwise noted in the specific curse descriptions, the following applies when you are in your Cursed Form:

While entering your Cursed Form requires an action, ending it early requires only a bonus action. Left to its own course, the Cursed Form will last for a number of minutes equal to your level.

Once you have changed form a number of times equal to your proficieny bonus, you must finish a long rest before you can change again.

Ritual Casting

You can inscribe magical rituals in a Ritual book. Choose two 1st-level spells that have the ritual tag from any class’s spell list. The spells are written in the book and don’t count against the number of spells you know. With your Ritual book in hand, you can cast the chosen spells as rituals. You can’t cast the spells except as rituals, unless you’ve learned them by some other means.

On your adventures, you can add other ritual spells to your book. When you find such a spell, you can add it to the book if the spell’s level is equal to or less than half your Cursed level (rounded up) and if you can spare the time to transcribe the spell. For each level of the spell, the transcription process takes 2 hours and costs 10 gp for the rare inks needed to inscribe it.

Spellcasting

The search for a cure of your affliction has made you pour through many arcane tomes. Together with the meditative techniques and mantras you use to calm your inner beast, you have committed some of the formulas you have found to memory. This allows you to memorize and cast arcane spells.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your spells, since you learn your spells through study and memorization.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Spell Slots

The class table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your 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.

Spells Known of 1st-Level and Higher

You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the Cursed spell list. The Spells Known column of the class table shows when you learn more spells from your class spell list. Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the spells you known and replace it with another spell from your spell list.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your spells.

Split Personality

The Cursed form has a will of its own. As you are two minds in one body, it helps you to resist mind altering effects. From 2nd level, you may add your Cursed form’s ability modifier (minimum of 1) to all saving throws against being charmed, frightened, stunned and knocked unconscious.

If you fail such a saving throw, make a Wisdom save with a DC equal to 10 + half your Cursed level. On a failed save, the cursed form takes over, without spending one of your daily uses. It will not be affected by whatever triggered the save, but it is out of your control, making you unable to end the transformation early.

If the duration of the triggering effect still remains when the transformation ends, you are still affected by it.

Two Minds

From 4th level, you have resistance to psychic damage in both forms.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, whenever you are in your Cursed Form, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Feral Instinct

By 7th level, you have become twitchy with fear and/or anticipation. You have reflexes like lightning. As such, you now get advantage on initiative rolls.

Additionally, if you are surprised at the beginning of combat and aren’t incapacitated, you can use a reaction to start changing into your Cursed Form, allowing you to start with that form on your first turn.

Quick Transformation

From 8th level, you have begun to embrace the power granted by your inner monster. You can use a bonus action instead of an action to use unleash your Cursed form.

Hard to Kill

From 11th level, your involuntary companion can take over when you’re on the brink of death. If you drop to 0 hit points while in normal form and don’t die outright, you automatically change into your Cursed Form. You are unable to end the transformation early by your own will, and when it ends, you are stable at 0 hp, but gain one level of exhaustion. When you have lost control like this once, it will not happen until after you completed a long rest.

Brutal Critical

Beginning at 12th level, you can roll one additional damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with an attack while in Cursed Form.

This increases to two additional dice at 16th level.

Large Size

At 15th level, the curse’s might is manifesting itself in physical size. Your Cursed Form is now large, and your its weight is triple that of your normal form. The Dungeon Master’s Guide has more information on creature sizes.

Indomitable Might

Beginning at 18th level, and while in your Cursed Form, if your total for a Strength check is less than your Strength score, you can use the score in place of the total.

Primal Champion

At 20th level, begin to embrace your dark side, rather than fight it. While in your Cursed Form, your Strength and Constitution scores and maximums increase by 4.

Cursed Forms

Your curse is defined by the being that has taken hold of you and shares your mind with you.

At 1st level, chooses the curse that shapes your other form. Your choice grants you features when you choose it at 1st level and again at 3rd, 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

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Alchemical Curse

You may have been an alchemist, studying the possibility to make a person stronger and more resilient through mutagenic potions. But your mutagen had to be tested, and you chose to test on yourself. That was the first time you transformed into a hulking abomination.

Maybe you have been subjected to a cruel ordeal that changed you forever. A necromancer, dark cultist, or other practitioner of foul blasphemies subjected you to wicked experiments that changed your fundamental nature. Though you escaped the tormentor who sought to transform you into a mindless henchman, lasting effects remain.

In either case, you have a part of yourself that wants to escape. Your repressed rage, your primal urges, or the darkness that you try to hide. It takes on a personality of its own, and sometimes it breaks free.

Alchemist

Alchemical experimentation may be the reason why you are cursed.

You gain 3 additional skill points to spend on Alchemy. Note that Journeyman crafter and Master crafter are much more difficult to gain during play.

Monstrous Rage

Your cursed form is a monstrous, larger and powerful form of you, totally consumed by rage and other strong emotions. It might have changed some much that there is no resemblance between your forms, or it could be that the two forms are clearly the same person. The other form is still you in a way, but a foul shadow defined by the worst elements of your soul that makes a mockery of your ideals. Select an extra Flaw that is only in effect when you are transformed.

While transformed, the following applies in addition to the benefits of your Cursed form:

Alchemical Serum

You might hate your alter ego, but the urge to transform is like an addiction. Sometimes you need the release of your other self, and sometimes there are obstacles that only your cursed form can handle.

Using alchemists’s supplies you can brew a serum that allows you to initiate the transformation yourself. Preparing this serum takes 8 hours, and you can brew and carry at most such 6 vials.

As an action you can spend a spell slot of any level to infuse the serum and drink it, which triggers your change without spending a Cursed form use.

Hurl Creature

You master throwing other creatures. While grappling a creature your size or smaller, you can use an action to throw them at a targeted location or creature. When thrown, the creature has a range of 10/20. The effects of the throw depend on the size of the thrown creature.

When targeting a creature, it must make a Dexterity saving throw. Your save DC is equal to 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus. A thrown creature falls prone after landing. All damage dealt is bludgeoning damage, and you add your Strength modifier to each damage.

• Tiny. The thrown creature takes 2d10 damage. A targeted creature takes damage equal to your Strength modifier on a failure (i.e 2xStr + rage bonus), and none on a success.
• Small. The thrown creature takes 1d10 damage. A targeted creature takes 1d10 damage, or half as much on a success.
• Medium. The thrown creature takes 1d12 damage. A targeted creature takes 1d12 damage, or half as much on a success.
• Large. The thrown creature takes 1d12 damage. A targeted creature, and all creatures within 5 feet of the target location or creature must also make a saving throw, taking 1d12 damage or half that on success. For larger creatures, the size of this impact area increases by 5 feet per size category above Large.

If you throw a willing creature, it must make a DC 10 Acrobatics check or fall prone when they land. If the willing creature is not thrown at a target, a successful save also negates the damage.

Stable Form

Your body resists all attempts to change it further. You have advantage on saving throws against spells and effects that would alter your shape, in both your forms.

Implacable Rage

Your inhuman form heals itself when it suffers a grievous blow. Once per transformation to your Cursed form, when you take damage, as a reaction before taking the damage, you can instantly regain heal hit points equal to twice your Cursed level.

Long Throw

The range of weapons thrown by your Cursed form increases to 30/60.

Additionally, you can throw any object bigger and heavier than a handaxe but smaller and lighter than a maul up to 300 ft, though you can’t aim with precision and can only choose a 10 ft square where the object will land. Objects thrown for these distances do not deal damage on impact.

You can throw a grappling hook or other object with a rope attached up to 200 ft.

Increasing Might

You can throw a creature one size larger than you with the Hurl creature ability, but the range is decreased by half. You can also double the distance you shove a creature in your Cursed form and shove it in any horizontal direction that isn’t directly behind you.

You can shove a creature up to one size larger than you, but only directly forward. A creature that is two or more sizes smaller than you can be shoved in any direction.

Preternatural Vigor

Your raging Cursed form can shrug off effects that would stop normal mortals in their tracks. You have advantage on Constitution and Strength saving throws in that form.

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Chosen

Your mortal body has been inhabited by a celestial creature, like an angel. Most people say that it’s a blessing, that you are chosen and that you should feel honored. But no one asked you. Your body was just taken into possession without your consent. To you this is a curse.

Angelic Being

Your cursed form is a shining angel. It is a beautiful androgynous humanoid, with feathered wings, a golden breastplate and a two-handed sword of radiance.

As a side effect of the origin of your Cursed form, spells affect you as if you were a celestial in both your forms.

While transformed, the following applies in addition to the benefits of your Cursed form:

Innate Spellcasting

While in your Cursed form, you can cast the following spells at will, requiring only verbal components: detect evil and good, protection from evil and good, and shield of faith.

All Seeing

You have truesight up to 30 ft in both your forms.

Judgement

You can unleash judgement on all creatures with 60 ft radius once per transformation. For each creature in the area, choose harm or heal. Unless behind full cover, a creature harmed takes 4d8 + your Constitution modifier radiant damage, while a healed creature is healed the same amount, as well as freed from any curse, disease, poison, blindness, or deafness.

Magic Resistance

You have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects in both your forms.

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Curse from Beyond

They say that when gazing into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you. Your interest into the Far Realm, the space beyond reality, was what caused this. Your experimentation with the arcane, with summoning circles, astronomy and mind expanding drugs made your mind an easy target. Something came through; something mysterious whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality, maybe even a sliver of an Elder god. Whatever it was, its motives are incomprehensible to mortals.

Abomination

Your cursed form is a frightening abomination, maybe with many eyes and/or mouths, and certainly tentacles, lots of tentacles. The actual process of transformation is a very disturbing sight. It could be a tentacled being forcing its way out from your mouth, leaving a shriveled husk behind, or something expanding from within, shredding your skin while slicing its way to freedom.

Creatures that are not accustomed to such a display of gore, must make a Wisdom saving throw against DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier when they see this, or be frightened of you for 1 minute. Fiends, aberrations, undead, construct, (and maybe your allies after the first couple of times) are not affected. A frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the condition on a success.

When you select this Cursed form at 1st level, select two Mutations listed at the end of the Curse description.

While transformed, the following applies in addition to the benefits of your Cursed form:

Immutable form

Your constant body changes makes you have more control of your body. You become immune to any spell or effect that would change your form, unless you specifically allow it. If you fail a save against such an effect, you can choose to ignore it or change into your other form. This is in addition to your normal daily transformations.

You may also select a new Mutation and change one that you already have.

Iron Will

You’ve slowly adjusted to the terrors you have seen, and those that you become. Gain proficiency with Wisdom saving throws in both your forms and Expertise on saving throws against fear.

You may also select a new Mutation and change one that you already have.

Aberration telepathy

Your otherworldly nature allows you to warp with another’s mind. You can communicate telepathically with any creature you can see within 60 ft. You don’t need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic utterances, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language. You can use this in both human and Cursed form.

You may also select a new Mutation and change one that you already have.

Portal to the beyond

Other creatures from the Far realm has found you malleable body and try to use it to crawl their way into your world. The creatures try to shape you into their image and inhabit your shell. As an action you can change into an random abomination with CR equal to half your level or lower (GM has the creature statistics). The shape will be theirs, but this is your world, and your will is stronger…it has to be.

When you change, and at the end of each of your turns, make a Wisdom saving throw against DC 5 + the CR of the aberration. If you succeed you are in control of your body and mind, and do not have to roll for control any more. If you fail, the creature has full control, and will act however it sees fit. Otherwise treat is as the polymorph spell.

Mutations

Unless otherwise noted, the following features apply in Cursed form only. Whenever an ability requires a target to make a saving throw, the DC is 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.

Aberrant eyes

You have eyes or eye stalks all over your body. This grants you darkvision up to 30 ft, and advantage on Perception checks and saves against effects that would blind you. However you have disadvantage against gaze attacks.

Acidic Bile

As an action, you spew acid in a 15 ft cone. Prior to unleashing the bile, you can charge it as a bonus action on each of your turns for up to a number of turns equal to your Constitution modifier. Each creature in the cone must make a Dexterity save. On a failure, they take 1d6 acid damage + an additional 1d6 damage for each time you charged it. On a success, they take half of that. The initial damage increases by on die, and both the initial and charging damage increase by one die size when you reach 5th level, 11th level, and 17th level.

Adhesive

Your whole body is covered by sticky fire resistant slime. You have resistance to fire damage. A creature grappled by you has disadvantage when trying to escape your grapple. In addition you can stick on any surface, allowing you to move across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings, while leaving your hands free. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed.

Amorphous

The Cursed form is more like an ooze. It has resistance to falling damage, can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing, has tremorsense up to 60 ft and is immune to the prone condition. In addition you have advantage on checks and saves made to avoid and escape grapple.

Devour Mind

Once per round, when you hit a creature with a tentacle slap, you can also devour a part of their mind, deal psychic damage equal to twice your Constitution modifier. You may add the same amount as temporary hit points. This ability does not work on mindless creatures, like most constructs and some undead.

Engulf

As an action you can try to engulf a creature of your size or smaller. The target makes a Dexterity save. On a successful save, the creature can choose to be pushed 5 feet back or to the side of you. A creature that chooses not to be pushed suffers the consequences of a failed saving throw. On a failed save, you enter the creature’s space, it takes 1d8 acid damage and is engulfed. The engulfed creature is restrained, and takes 1d8 acid damage at the start of each of your turns.

When you move, the engulfed creature moves with you. At the end of each of its rounds, the engulfed creature can try to escape by making a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check against the DC. On a success, the creature escapes.

Eye Beams

Your eyes are abnormally large and bulbous, and have a faint glow. As an action, you can focus your gaze on a creature, and make a ranged weapon attack, as you create a bright beam from the eyes. On a hit, it takes 1d8 force damage, plus your Constitution modifier.

The damage of this beam increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

Gibbering

Your cursed form has constantly and incoherently babbling mouths and maws all over its body. Each creature that starts its turn within 20 ft and can hear your babbling must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the creature can’t take reactions until the start of its next turn and rolls for the action during their turn as if under the effect of the confusion spell. You can suppress this at will, but it requires concentration to do so.

When a creature is confused this way, you can use a bonus action on your turn to blast its mind, dealing 2d8 + Constitution modifier, or half that if the target succeeds at a Intelligence save.

A creature that has succeeded with its save, is immune to this effect for 24 hours.

Grappling tentacles

Your Cursed form has tentacles long enough to wrap around creatures. When you tentacle slap a creature, no more than one size larger than you, you can attempt to grapple them as a bonus action. At the beginning of your turn, if a creature is grappled, you can squeeze them for the same damage you deal on a tentacle slap. You can still use your other tentacles to attack (only) other targets during your turn. The number of creatures you can grapple simultaneously is equal to you Strength modifier.

Melt foe

Whenever one of your acid attacks kills a creature, you can choose to dissolve it. If you do, and the creature is of CR 1 or higher, it will melt into a puddle of goo. At the end of your next turn it will quiver and animate as a gray ooze under your Cursed form’s control. Roll its own initiative after it has animated. You can control a number of oozes equal to your Constitution modifier, but lose control when you change into your normal form.

Mind Blast

Once per transformation you can emit psychic energy in a 10 ft cone. Each creature in that area must succeed on a Intelligence saving throw or take damage equal to 2d10 + your Cursed level, or half this amount if it succeeds on the saving throw. A creature that fails its saving throw is also stunned for 1 round.

Oozing flesh

Pulsating cavities all over your body constantly ooze acid. At the beginning of your turn, any creature grappling or being grappled by you takes 1d8 acid damage.

Reactive body chemistry

Your cursed form is immune to the poisoned condition, acid and poison damage. Your normal form is also somewhat affected by this, gaining resistance against acid and poison damage.

Stench

Your putrid presence forces creatures that start their turn adjacent to you to succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of their next turn. On a successful saving throw, the creature is immune to the stench of for 1 hour. You are immune to all similar effects from other creatures in both your forms.

Toxic Blood

When a creature deals piercing, or slashing damage to you, each adjacent creature must make a Dexterity save or take acid damage equal to your Constitution modifier. Additionally, you gain immunity to the poison condition and poison damage in both forms.

Venom

Your Cursed form has a stinger, bite attack, a hooked tentacle or some other way to inject venom. Whenever you take the Attack action, you can make an attack with this weapon as a bonus action, dealing 1d8 + Constitution modifier poison damage. This counts as a magical venom.

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Demonic Possession

Not all beings in our world are benevolent. All planes are inhabited by malicious fiends, undead, evil deities, and aberrations of forgotten gods. These beings seek footholds in the material to expand their reach. They inhabit mortal forms to perform their deeds, whether those people do so willingly or not.

Maybe this was a summoning gone wrong, maybe cursed item was inhabited by the demonic creature, or maybe you even did this voluntarily to try wrest the powers from the fiend. Now you share your body with a demon, a creature bent on mayhem and destruction.

Demonic Form

Your cursed form is a twisted demonic creature that is alway inside you. Spells affect you as if you were a fiend in both your forms.

When you gain your Demonic form at 1st level, select one of the demonic aspects listed at the end of the Curse description. Unless otherwise noted, the aspect apply in Cursed form only.

While transformed, the following applies in addition to the benefits of your Cursed form:

Demonic Might

While in your Cursed form, when you use your action to cast a cantrip, you can make one melee attack as a bonus action.

Already possessed

You are already possessed, and there is no more room in your mind. You are immune to possession and charm effects. You may still trigger the Split personality feature if you are targeted with a charm spell or similar.

Teleport

Instead of moving the conventional way in your Cursed form, you can teleport up to a number of feet equal to your movement, to an unoccupied space you can see.

Magic Resistance

You have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects in both your forms.

Aspects

The aspect describes the powers of the demon inhabiting your mind. Aspects have the following in common:

Saves. Whenever an ability requires a target to make a saving throw, the DC is 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.

Aura. The demonic form has an aura extending in a 5 ft radius, affecting all creatures in the area, except you. The radius increases to 10 ft at 6th level, and 15 ft at 14th level. The aura instantly turned on at its maximum radius when you change form. As a bonus action you can increase or decrease the radius by 5 ft, down to 0 or up to the maximum.

The effect of the aura is triggered when first created, and when a creature first enters the aura. A creature starting its turn inside the aura may attempt a Constitution saving throw. On a success, they are immune to the effects of the aura from this particular transformation.

Aspect of Cold

Cold aura. A creature in this chilling aura cannot make reactions and has its movement halved. Whenever a creature affected by the aura is dealt cold damage, it has disadvantage on all attack rolls, Dexterity saves and ability checks until the end of its next turn. In addition, reduce all fire damage dealt within the aura to half.

Icy claws. You can imbue your claws with chilling cold as a bonus action, making them deal magic cold damage instead of slashing damage. This lasts until you turn it off by using a bonus action.

Frostbite. Once per transformation you can dramatically lower the temperature in an area up to 60 ft radius. Everything in that area will be covered with ice and frost, making it difficult terrain for 1 minute. Hostile creatures within the area must make a Constitution save. A creature that fails its saving throw takes a number of d10s cold damage equal to half your Cursed level (rounded up) and becomes frozen in place for 1 minute; restrained and unable to take reactions. Affected creatures can repeat this saving throw at the end of each of their turns. A creature killed by this spell becomes a frozen statue until it thaws.

Aspect of Fire

Fire aura. At the start of your turn, each affected creature takes 1d6 fire damage, and flammable objects in the aura that aren’t being worn or carried ignite. A creature that touches you or hits you with an unarmed attack takes 1d6 fire damage, even if unaffected by the aura. In addition, reduce all cold damage dealt within the aura to half.

Fiery claws. You can turn you claws into flame as a bonus action, making them deal magic fire damage instead of slashing damage. This lasts until you turn it off by using a bonus action.

Fire blast. Once per transformation you can emit a sphere of abyssal flames from your body. Each hostile creature within 30 ft must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes fire damage equal to 2d10 + your cursed level on a failed saving throw, and half as much damage on a successful one. A creature that has total cover from you is not affected.

Aspect of Mind

Aura. Chaotic images and thoughts assault affected creatures within your aura, causing them to be confused, as the spell. When a creature rolls for its random behavior, you may use a reaction to reroll the d10.

Mind assault. Whenever you take the Attack action, you may simultaneously assault the targets’ mind with basal emotions. As a bonus action, force a creature you physically attacked during your turn to make a Wisdom save. If target fails, it takes 1d8 + your Constitution modifier psychic damage, and you may select one of the following effects, that last until the end of its next turn:

A target affected by one of the conditions cannot be affected by that particular effect again during this transformation, but can still take the psychic damage.

Mind blast. One per transformation you can emit a psionic blast in a 30 ft radius around yourself. Hostile creatures within that area must succeed at an Intelligence saving throw or take a number of d8s psychic damage equal to half your Cursed level (rounded up) and be stunned until the end of your next turn. A successful saving throw halves the damage and does not not stun.

Aspect of Rot

Fetid Cloud. A miasma of disgusting green gas extends out from you. It spreads around corners and its area is lightly obscured. Affected creatures are poisoned, and while poisoned in this way, the target can take either an action or a bonus action on its turn, not both, and can’t take reactions. Creatures that do not breathe are immune to this effect.

Infected claws. When you damage a creature with your infected claws, the injury is infected for as long as you concentrate. As a bonus action you can deal 1d8 necrotic damage to all creatures in sight with an infected injury.

Abyssal spores. Once per transformation you can breathe out a cloud of deadly spores that instantly spread into a 30 ft radius around you before becoming inert. A hostile creature in the area takes a number of d10s necrotic damage equal to half your Cursed level (rounded up). A successful Constitution save halves this damage.

If one or more beasts or humanoids that are Small or Medium dies from the spores, you can use your reaction to animate them, causing them to stand up immediately with 1 hit point. The creatures use the zombie statistics and remains animate for as long you have your Demonic form, after which time they collapse and die. The maximum number of creatures you can animate is equal to your Cursed level.

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Entropic Rift

Your cursed form is not a creature at all. By some cosmic happenstance, an improbable space-time collision or maybe because of a simple wild surge, a piece on entropy now resides in you. It periodically opens a rift between here and the wild entropy of Limbo, with you as its anchor point. When this happens, you are shunted to a pocket dimension within Limbo, while in your place remains a multicolored shimmering light.

Chaos Rift

Your cursed form is not a creature, but a stationary, translucent rift in space. The rift is mindless, and thus immune to psychic damage and conditions that require a mind. Even though mindless, it has a few remnants of your identity left, enough to recognize allies and foes.

While in your Cursed form, your original form (i.e. you) is safe somewhere else, not affected by what is happening in this plane. When you return, you can choose to keep any temporary effects affecting only you. For example, if the rift was affected by the spell blink, you get to keep the remaining duration on your original body when you return. If the effect requires concentration, you can continue to keep that.

While transformed, the following applies in addition to the benefits of your Cursed form:

Entropic Shield

The Chaos rift can protect itself with a chaotic shield. As a reaction when targeted by a single target attack in your Cursed form, you can manifest a protective shield between you and the attacker. Roll on the following table:

d20	Effect
1 - 2	The attack is unfortunately drawn to you, hitting you automatically. No attack roll necessary.
6 - 9	The chaotic manifestation was completely useless against this attack. The attack is not affected. Roll attack as normal.
10 - 14	The attack is partly repelled, but not strong enough. The attack is made with disadvantage.
15 - 19	If the attack is magic, it surges. If it is non magic, it turns into a random energy, then surges.
20	The attack is redirected back at the attacker. Make an attack roll as if the attacker made it.

After each transformation some energy remains, allowing you to use this feature once in your normal form, until the start of your next long rest.

Nudge

You can nudge the strands of chaos just a little bit. When you roll damage type for your rift’s attack, you can add or subtract 1 from the d10. If you do not, the attack counts as magical. If your result is lower than 1 or higher than 10, the attack surges instead.

You can also affect spells cast in your normal form if a spell requires some random roll, such as the chaos orb and confusion spells. When several rolls are made, only one dice can be affected per spell. However, for those spells you cannot go outside the table.

Spellmeister

You can cast every known spell in the multiverse. Unfortunately you cannot control which of all those spells you cast. As an action, target a creature, who will be the target of a completely random spell. The GM has a list to roll from.

If you use this feature in your normal form and target an enemy, you roll two random spells, and the GM will choose the most appropriate one. As a rule of thumb, an offensive spell will be chosen before a neutral one, and a beneficial chosen last.

If you use this feature in your Cursed form and target an ally, you also roll two random spells, and the GM will choose the most appropriate one. The rule of thumb is the opposite (beneficial, neutral, and offensive last).

In both cases a lower level spell will be chosen over a higher level. You can use this feature once in each form and uses recover when you finish a long rest.

Surgeproof

It’s a chaotic world, and sometimes even you have to admit that your curse can be a blessing. As a reaction when affected by a wild surge while in your normal form, your Cursed form can absorb the chaos.

You can choose this after you know the effect of the wild surge, but before any specifics of the surge has been rolled/resolved. When you use this feature, your involuntary companion switches places with you and absorbs the effects for you only. As a “payment”, the Cursed form will not allow you to end the transformation early.

When you have lost control like this once, it can not be triggered until after you completed a long rest.

Share your Curse

You can unleash a massive burst of chaotic energy as an action in your normal form, letting others feel just a tiny fraction of the curse you constantly bear within you.

All creatures within a 30 ft radius must make a Charisma saving throw. If they fail, their ties to causality are disrupted. Whenever the creature takes an action, they must roll on the Wild Magic Surge table to create a random magical effect. This disruption lasts until the start of your next turn.

You can use this feature once and you can recover the use when you finish a long rest.

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Lycanthropic Curse

You are filled with animalistic fury and cursed with lycanthropy that changes you into a beast when the full moon hangs high in the sky.

One of the most ancient and feared of all curses, lycanthropy can transform the most civilized humanoid into a ravening beast. In its natural humanoid form, a creature cursed by lycanthropy appears as its normal self. Over time, however, many lycanthropes acquire, features suggestive of their animal form. In that animal form, a lycanthrope resembles a powerful version of a normal animal. On close inspection, its eyes show a faint spark of unnatural intelligence and might glow red in the dark.

Evil lycanthropes hide among normal folk, emerging in beast form at night to spread terror and bloodshed, especially under a full moon. Good lycanthropes are reclusive and uncomfortable around other civilized creatures, often living alone in wilderness areas far from villages and towns.

Lycanthropic Form

Your Cursed form is an animal-humanoid hybrid. Select one of the lycanthropic form listed at the end of this Curse description.

While transformed, the following applies in addition to the benefits of your Cursed form:

Beast Empathy

Even when not in your Cursed form, beasts of the same type as your lycanthropic form recognize you as one of them. Through sound and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas with such beasts. You also have advantage on checks to intimidate beasts.

Improved Critical

Natural attacks in your cursed form score a critical hit on a roll of 19-20.

Keen Senses

The cursed form gains the skill Perception - Sense-hearing, Perception - Sense-Smell and their prerequisite.

While in lycanthropic form you can move stealthily while traveling at a normal pace and you can track other creatures while traveling at a fast pace. In addition, you automatically succeed at checks made to track wounded creatures.

Lycanthropic Form feature

At 6th and 10th level, you gain a feature specific to your selected lycanthropic form.

Survivor

Your wounds heal faster in your lycanthropic form. At the start of each of your turns, if you have less that half your maximum hit points, you regain hit points equal to your Constitution modifier. You don’t gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.

Lycanthropic Forms

Select one of the following animal-humanoid hybrids.

Bear Form

Werebears are powerful lycanthropes with the ability to temper their monstrous natures and reject their violent impulses. In humanoid form, they are large, muscular, and covered in hair matching the color of their ursine form’s fur provided they can grow hair. When a werebear transforms, it grows to enormous size, lashing out with weapons or claws and fighting with the ferocity of a bear.

While transformed, the following applies in addition to the benefits of your Lycanthropic Form:

• You gain a claw attack that deals 1d6 + Strength modifier slashing damage.
• Whenever you take the Attack action, you can also make a bite attack as a bonus action, for 3d4 + Strength modifier piercing damage.

Formidable Strength

At 6th level you gain the might of a bear. Your carrying capacity (including maximum load and maximum lift) is doubled, and you have advantage on Strength checks made to push, pull, lift, or break objects. This benefit applies in both your forms.

You count as one size larger for the purposes of determining which creatures you can grapple. Additionally you can use your action to try to pin a creature grappled by you. To do so, make another grapple check. If you succeed, you and the creature are both restrained until the grapple ends.

Ursine Toughness

At 10th level, while in your lycanthropic form, and not wearing armor, you gain a +2 bonus to AC.

Boar Form

Wereboars are ill-tempered and vulgar brutes. As humanoids, they are stocky and muscular, with short, stiff hair. In their hybrid forms they use heavy weapons, or a devastating goring attack.

In both your forms, you gain proficiency with improvised weapons. In addition, weapons with the Heavy property no longer impose disadvantage on attack rolls if your size is Small.

While transformed, the following applies in addition to the benefits of your Lycanthropic Form:

• Your AC when in this form is 12 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier and your size becomes Medium.
• When you successfully hit a creature with your tusks on your turn you may use your bonus action to attempt to push the creature back. The creature must succeed with a Strength saving throw with a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency + your Strength modifier or be pushed 10 ft away from you.

Charge

Starting at 6th level, while in your hybrid form, if move at least 15 ft straight toward a target and then hit it with your tusks on the same turn, the target takes an extra 2d6 piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a Strength saving throw with a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier or be knocked prone.

Relentless

When you reach the 10th Level, if you drop to 0 hit points while in your any form and don’t die outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can do this once per transformation.

Rat Form

Wererats are cunning lycanthropes with sly, avaricious personalities. They are wiry and twitchy in humanoid form, with thin hair and darting eyes. In both humanoid and hybrid forms, wererats prefer light weapons and use ambush tactics rather than fighting as a pack. Although a wererat can deliver a nasty bite in its rat form, it favors that form for stealthy infiltration and escape rather than combat.

The lycanthropic curse in your blood makes you immune to all diseases, in both your forms.

While transformed, the following applies in addition to the benefits of your Lycanthropic Form:

• Your size becomes Small.
• You gain a bite attack that deals 1d4 piercing damage. Add your Dexterity modifier to the attack and damage rolls.
• A creature damaged by your bite must succeed with a Constitution saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier or take an additional 2d4 poison damage and become poisoned until the end of its next turn.