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Ghost Slayer • Mutant • Lycan

Subclasses Designed by Dwayne at The Tabletop Tavern

About these subclasses

A blood hunter warps the very laws of the world around them to create truly horrifying results

Subclass details

Ghost Slayer

Ghost Slayer

Spell trait: Agility

Walking the land of the living to hunt the dead

Foundation
Tier 1

Chasing Death: While you have 1–3 unmarked Hit Points, you can use your Crimson Rite feature without paying the Hit Point cost. If you have only 1 unmarked Hit Point, you roll d8s instead of d6s for the extra damage of your Crimson Rite.

Shadowed Grit: When the GM gains a Fear from a Duality Dice roll, you can mark a Stress to gain a Hope.

Specialization
Tier 2

Veilwalker: You can briefly slip into the realm between the living and the dead. Spend 2 Hope to disappear and then reappear next to a creature or a corpse within Far range. You then have advantage on the next attack roll you make in this scene.

Mastery
Tier 3

Spectral Form: You have another death move option: Spectral Form. When you choose this option, you clear a Hit Point, your body becomes spectral, you have resistance to physical damage, and you can pass through objects. This form ends if you clear any more Hit Points. It also ends if you mark your last Hit Point, which forces you to take a different death move. You’re shunted to the nearest open space if you're inside an object when the form ends.

Mutant

Mutant

Spell trait: Agility

Warping the laws of biology through blood magic

Foundation
Tier 1

Mutagens: You employ mutagenic toxins created to enhance your abilities. When you finish a rest, you can drink one such toxin to gain its effects, which last until you finish your next rest. These effects include a +1 bonus to one trait of your choice, a −1 penalty to a different trait of your choice, and your choice of one of the following benefits:

Specialization
Tier 2

Improved Mutagens: When you choose a mutagen benefit, your options also include the following:

  • Nerves of Steel. Whenever you must mark a Stress, you can spend 2 Hope instead.
  • Rapidity. Your Evasion increases by 1.
  • Ironskin. Your Severe damage threshold increases by a number equal to your Proficiency.

Volatile Toxins: You can choose two mutagen benefits instead of one. If you do, mark a Hit Point that can't be cleared until you finish your next rest.

Mastery
Tier 3

Mastered Mutagens: The trait bonus and penalty you get from your Mutagens feature changes to +2 and −2, respectively. When you choose a mutagen benefit, your options also include the following:

  • Aetherblood. Within your line of sight, you can see creatures and objects that are invisible, and visual illusions appear transparent to you. If a creature or an object within your line of sight has been transformed by magic, you can see its true form.
  • Fury. When you make an attack roll, you can mark a Stress to gain a bonus to the roll equal to your Proficiency.
  • Steelflesh. Your Major damage threshold increases by a number equal to your Proficiency.
Lycan

Lycan

Spell trait: Strength

Taking the essence of blood and transforming it into a different body

Foundation
Tier 1

Werewolf: You gain the Werewolf Transformation card. Your rolls to perceive via hearing and scent have advantage.

Control the Beast: While in your Wolf Form, you can apply that form’s bonus die to your Agility and Strength Action Rolls

Specialization
Tier 2

Feral Hide: While in your Wolf Form, you gain a bonus to your Damage Thresholds equal to your Tier.

Lycan Regeneration: While in your Wolf Form with all your Hit Points marked, you can mark a Stress to clear a Hit Point. You can do this while unconscious.

Mastery
Tier 3

Master the Beast: When you are in your Wolf Form and would mark your last Stress, you can instead put one of your Domain cards from your Load out into your Vault; you can’t Recall that Domain card until you finish a long rest.

When you Frenzy from marking your last Stress while in Wolf Form, you gain 2 Hope.

Printable cards

Foundation / Specialization / Mastery
Ghost Slayer
Blood Hunter

Ghost Slayer

Foundation

SPELLCAST TRAIT: Agility

Chasing Death: While you have 1–3 unmarked Hit Points, you can use your Crimson Rite feature without paying the Hit Point cost. If you have only 1 unmarked Hit Point, you roll d8s instead of d6s for the extra damage of your Crimson Rite.

Shadowed Grit: When the GM gains a Fear from a Duality Dice roll, you can mark a Stress to gain a Hope.

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Ghost Slayer
Blood Hunter

Ghost Slayer

Specialization

Veilwalker: You can briefly slip into the realm between the living and the dead. Spend 2 Hope to disappear and then reappear next to a creature or a corpse within Far range. You then have advantage on the next attack roll you make in this scene.

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Ghost Slayer
Blood Hunter

Ghost Slayer

Mastery

Spectral Form: You have another death move option: Spectral Form. When you choose this option, you clear a Hit Point, your body becomes spectral, you have resistance to physical damage, and you can pass through objects. This form ends if you clear any more Hit Points. It also ends if you mark your last Hit Point, which forces you to take a different death move. You’re shunted to the nearest open space if you're inside an object when the form ends.

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Mutant
Blood Hunter

Mutant

Foundation

SPELLCAST TRAIT: Agility

Mutagens: You employ mutagenic toxins created to enhance your abilities. When you finish a rest, you can drink one such toxin to gain its effects, which last until you finish your next rest. These effects include a +1 bonus to one trait of your choice, a −1 penalty to a different trait of your choice, and your choice of one of the following benefits:

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Mutant
Blood Hunter

Mutant

Specialization

Improved Mutagens: When you choose a mutagen benefit, your options also include the following:

  • Nerves of Steel. Whenever you must mark a Stress, you can spend 2 Hope instead.
  • Rapidity. Your Evasion increases by 1.
  • Ironskin. Your Severe damage threshold increases by a number equal to your Proficiency.

Volatile Toxins: You can choose two mutagen benefits instead of one. If you do, mark a Hit Point that can't be cleared until you finish your next rest.

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Mutant
Blood Hunter

Mutant

Mastery

Mastered Mutagens: The trait bonus and penalty you get from your Mutagens feature changes to +2 and −2, respectively. When you choose a mutagen benefit, your options also include the following:

  • Aetherblood. Within your line of sight, you can see creatures and objects that are invisible, and visual illusions appear transparent to you. If a creature or an object within your line of sight has been transformed by magic, you can see its true form.
  • Fury. When you make an attack roll, you can mark a Stress to gain a bonus to the roll equal to your Proficiency.
  • Steelflesh. Your Major damage threshold increases by a number equal to your Proficiency.
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Lycan
Blood Hunter

Lycan

Foundation

SPELLCAST TRAIT: Strength

Werewolf: You gain the Werewolf Transformation card. Your rolls to perceive via hearing and scent have advantage.

Control the Beast: While in your Wolf Form, you can apply that form’s bonus die to your Agility and Strength Action Rolls

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Lycan
Blood Hunter

Lycan

Specialization

Feral Hide: While in your Wolf Form, you gain a bonus to your Damage Thresholds equal to your Tier.

Lycan Regeneration: While in your Wolf Form with all your Hit Points marked, you can mark a Stress to clear a Hit Point. You can do this while unconscious.

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Lycan
Blood Hunter

Lycan

Mastery

Master the Beast: When you are in your Wolf Form and would mark your last Stress, you can instead put one of your Domain cards from your Load out into your Vault; you can’t Recall that Domain card until you finish a long rest.

When you Frenzy from marking your last Stress while in Wolf Form, you gain 2 Hope.

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