#TheGriffonsSaddlebag_BookOne

A sorcerer’s magic comes from within, drawing from a genetic or given boon. These mighty spellcasters grow in power in startling ways, and can twist and reshape the fabric of magic around them. A sorcerer may struggle to keep their own power in check, but many would agree that the ends justify the dangers placed upon them. While the mantle of ‘sorcerer’ is thrust upon all sorcerers, their origins are often unique.

Your magic is created by pieces of the Everheart, the center and driving force behind the expanding Everglacier wastelands. This power within you might be passed down through ancestors who protected the glacier’s magical core, or it might have been forced upon you through a chance encounter with the enchanted ice itself. Regardless of the source of your power, you are a creature of cold incarnate.

1st-level Frost Magic Feature
Starting at 1st level, your skin takes on a faintly ice-like, crystalline glow. Your hit point maximum increases by 1 and increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class.

In addition, you’re most comfortable in the ice and snow. You ignore difficult terrain created by ice or snow, and when you walk on ice, you only spend 1 foot of movement for every 2 feet you move.

1st-level Frost Magic Feature
At 1st level, you can use a bonus action to turn up to 5 contiguous 5-foot spaces on the ground into icy terrain, originating from the ground at your feet. The ice is difficult terrain and lasts until the end of your next turn.

You can spend up to 2 sorcery points when creating this terrain to increase the number of spaces you can target with this feature by 5 for each sorcery point spent.

6th-level Frost Magic Feature
At 6th level, you gain resistance to cold damage. When you deal cold damage to a Large or smaller creature with a spell, you can spend 1 or more sorcery points to attempt to freeze it in place. When you do, that creature’s speed is reduced by 15 feet for each sorcery point you spend until the end of its next turn. If you reduce a creature’s speed to 0 in this way, it takes 2d6 cold damage.

In addition, you can now use your Create Ice feature to freeze water as well as ground.

14th-level Frost Magic Feature
By 14th level, you’re most confident on the ice. Your movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks while you’re walking on icy terrain.

In addition, when a creature within 5 feet of you that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to release a blast of freezing cold, dealing cold damage to the attacker equal to half your sorcerer level + your Charisma modifier. When you do, you can also create up to 5 contiguous spaces of icy terrain, originating from the ground at your feet. This icy terrain lasts until the end of your next turn.

Frozen Soul
18th-level Frost Magic Feature
At 18th level, you gain immunity to cold damage and resistance to fire damage.

You also learn the wall of ice spell. The spell counts as a sorcerer spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of sorcerer spells you know. In addition, you can cast it once without expending a spell slot. When you do, the panels of ice created by the spell don’t need to be contiguous with one another. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

#HelianasGuideToMonsterHunting

Whether it be some distant doppelganger heritage or over-exposure to biomantic magic, your body thrums with the potential for change. Though you may try to channel that power into those around you, the magic that inoculates your body is just as likely to change you, transforming you into a myriad of magical morphs. Will you end up with two left feet and paper-thin skin, or rake through your enemies with toxic claws as spells bounce off of your reflective carapace?

1st-level Skinshifter feature
You learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown on the Skinshifter Spells table. Each of these spells counts as a sorcerer spell for you, but don’t count against the number of sorcerer spells you know.

Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be a biomancy or transmutation spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell lists.

1st-level Skinshifter feature
Your spellcasting stimulates the latent changeability of your body. Immediately after you cast a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher, roll a d20. If the result is equal to or lower than one-third of your sorcerer level (minimum 1), roll on the Skinshift Adaptations table to magically alter your body in a random way until the end of your next turn. Immediately after you roll on this table, you can spend 1 sorcery point (no action required) to extend the duration of the effect to 10 minutes. If an effect calls for a saving throw, the DC equals your sorcerer spell save DC.

**You can only benefit from one of these adaptations at a time. If you gain one of these adaptations while you already benefit from one, the older one is lost.
+You can only benefit from one of these adaptations at a time. If you gain one of these adaptations while you already benefit from one, the older one is lost.

Modify Shift. When you reach 6th level in this
class, you can add a bonus to the result of the d20
you roll on the Skinshift Adaptations table equal
to up to half your sorcerer level. For example, at
6th level, if you rolled a 19 on the d20, you could
choose any result between 19 and 22.

6th-level Skinshifter feature
As a bonus action, you can spend 1 or more sorcery points to magically transform your body for the next 10 minutes. For each sorcery point you spend, you gain one adaptation of your choice from the Skinshift Adaptations table, the effects of which last until the transformation ends. The adaptation must have a value in the d20 column equal to or lower than 20 plus half your sorcerer level. If you gain a random skinshift adaptation that replaces one you already had (for example, tumour skin replacing rubber skin), this new adaptation lasts for the duration of the transformation.

14th-level Skinshifter feature
Immediately after you take damage, you can use your reaction to spend 1 sorcery point and gain resistance to that damage type for 10 minutes or until you use this feature again. If you take multiple types of damage simultaneously, you choose one of the damage types to gain resistance to.

18th-level Skinshifter feature
You unleash your inner shapeshifter, allowing your body to react to all manner of environmental
stimuli. As bonus action, you can cause a metabolic cascade that transforms your body for 10 minutes, granting you the following effects:

After you activate this feature, you can’t do so
again until you finish a long rest.

Looking for inspiration to describe how a skinshifter’s reactive mutations might physically manifest? Try adapting the following examples!

#TheGriffonsSaddlebag_BookTwo

Some mages draw on their their magic like a fountain from within. This wellspring of power can come from a unique origin, mysterious birthright, or simple chance of fate. Whatever your story may be, you are steeped in magic, and it is yours to control.

Your power comes from the relentless and punishing magic that lies at the heart of the world’s most unforgiving deserts. Most sorcerers with this power were born to nomads or traveling pilgrims in the H’rethi desert, but perhaps yours came to you in the chaos of a raging sandstorm or the springs of a magical oasis. Regardless of its origin, this blistering magic spirals around inside of you in an ever-present storm that can reduce even the sturdiest enemies to rubble

1st-level Desert Soul feature
Starting when you choose this origin at 1st level, you ignore difficult terrain created by sand, and you can tolerate temperatures as high as 150 degrees Fahrenheit without any additional protection.

1st-level Desert Soul feature
Starting at 1st level, you can cause the magical sand- storm within you to manifest as a nearby twister. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher on your turn, you can use a bonus action to create this storm in a 5-foot cube in a space you can see within 30 feet of you. A Large or smaller creature in the area must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your sorcerer spell save DC. A creature that fails the saving throw is pushed up to 10 feet in a direction of your choice if it’s Medium or smaller, or 5 feet if it’s Large.

When you reach 6th level in this class, a creature that fails this saving throw also takes either 1d8 bludgeoning damage or 1d8 fire damage (your choice). The damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class, increasing to 2d8 at 14th level, and 3d8 at 18th level

6th-level Desert Soul feature
At 6th level, you learn the mirror image spell. If you already know this spell, you learn a different sorcerer spell of your choice. The spell doesn’t count against your number of spells known. You can cast it by spending 2 sorcery points or by expending a spell slot. If you cast it with sorcery points, any creature within 10 feet of you that destroys one of the spell’s illusions takes fire damage equal to half your sorcerer level, as the illusion bursts into a wave of scalding air and sand.

14th-level Desert Soul feature
Beginning at 14th level, you have the ability to step into the heart of the twisters you create. Immediately after a creature is pushed by your Sandstorm feature, you can spend 2 sorcery points to teleport to the storm’s space.
You can also teleport in this way if you create the storm in a space that is unoccupied. When you teleport in this way, you and any equipment you are wearing or carrying are invisible until the end of your turn.

18th-level Desert Soul feature
At 18th level, you can become as intangible as sand. You can spend 5 sorcery points as a bonus action to magically transform yourself into a sand-like form. In this form, you have the following benefits:

In addition, when an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to turn to sand. Until the end of that turn, you have resistance to all damage, including against the triggering attack.

You remain in this form for 1 minute. It ends early if you are incapacitated, if you die, or if you dismiss it as a bonus action.

#RyokosGuideToTheYokaiRealms

Legends tell that a Spirit Caller is born when the soul of a yokai and humanoid meet in the misty void that holds minds waiting to be given life. Spirit Callers are able to manifest their willpower and vitality as a spectral being, a wraith-like spirit that emerges from their body to strike at their enemies. The bond between caller and spirit is visceral; in response to its caller’s fury, a spirit might detonate a blast of necrotic energy, magnify its size, or hone its senses. A Spirit Caller is the epitome of self-reliance and personal strength, their soul and willpower manifested as a being of its own.

1st-Level Spirit Caller Feature
You learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown on the Spirit Caller Spells table. Each of these spells counts as a sorcerer spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of sorcerer spells you know. Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an illusion or a conjuration spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list.

1st-Level Spirit Caller Feature
You can use an action to manifest your spirit, which appears in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of you. It uses the manifested spirit stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You decide the appearance your manifested spirit takes. For example, your spirit might appear as a shadowy clone of you, a vicious dragon, or a mighty, sword-wielding specter that crackles with fiery energy. No matter the form your spirit takes, its statistics remain the same.

While manifested, your spirit shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. As a bonus action, you can command it to take the Attack action on its next turn; otherwise, it takes the Dodge or Help action (your choice). Your spirit remains manifested for 10 minutes, until it is reduced to 0 hit points, or until you lose your concentration, as if concentrating on a spell. You add your Charisma modifier to saving throws you make to maintain concentration on your manifested spirit. After this time, your spirit retreats back into you and disappears.

You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short rest or long rest.

6th-Level Spirit Caller Feature
Spells you cast that don’t have a range of self can originate from your manifested spirit, instead of you, if it is within 120 feet of you.

6th-Level Spirit Caller Feature
When you manifest your spirit using your Conduit of the Soul feature, you can expend any number of sorcery points. When you do, choose one boon from the following list for each point you expend. Your manifested spirit gains these boons until it disappears. You can’t select the same boon more than once at the same time, unless stated otherwise.

14th-Level Spirit Caller Feature
When you use a bonus action to command your spirit on the same turn it’s summoned, you can have it take one additional action on its first turn.

In addition, you gain any damage resistances that your manifested spirit has for the duration of its manifestation.

18th-Level Spirit Caller Feature
You no longer need to maintain your concentration on your manifested spirit. You can cause it to disappear at any time (no action required).

You imbue your spirit with further power. When you manifest your spirit, you can choose one additional boon without spending a sorcery point to gain it. In addition, when summoned, you can choose for your spirit’s base size to be Medium or Large. If manifested as a Large spirit, the reach of its Spirit Grasp attack increases by 5 feet.