You have explored the veil between life and death and what lies near it. Were you were driven by a hunger for immortality, a quest to save lives, or just intellectual curiosity?
- Skill Proficiencies: Investigation and either Arcana or Religion
- Tool Proficiencies: One tool or kit
- Languages: Choose 1
- Equipment: 1 set of tools with which you are proficient, traveler's clothes, a pouch with 15 gold, a book of lore
When you attempt to learn the cause or circumstances around a death, you may add 1d4 to any relevant skill checks. You may also add this to any rolls to gain entrance to crime sites involving murder. Constabulary will usually take your opinions seriously on such matters.
Spell List
For you, the spells on the Investigator into the Beyond Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)
| Spell Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| Cantrip | mage hand, spare the dying |
| 1st | detect poison and disease, inflict wounds |
| 2nd | lesser restoration, wither and bloom |
| 3rd | speak with dead, spirit guardians |
| 4th | aura of life, death ward |
| 5th | antilife shell, raise dead |
Suggested Characteristics
An Investigator into the Beyond will have powerful motivation to have taken such risks. Their sanity and social skills may be unusual.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I will say anything if I think it will help me get closer to my goals. |
| 2 | Nothing fazes me. |
| 3 | I am negligent in maintaining my appearance. |
| 4 | My research will make life better for all. |
| 5 | I enjoy the company of the dead over that of the living. |
| 6 | Dangerous work is best accomplished by allowing others to bear the risk. |
| 7 | I have been taught by an otherworldly entity |
| 8 | I stole research from a mentor. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Knowledge. Knowledge is the key to accomplishing one's goals. (Any) |
| 2 | Vengance. There is a great wrong that has been wrought and I will avenge it. (Any) |
| 3 | Self-interest. As an embodied being, my highest loyalty must be to myself. (Evil) |
| 4 | Life. All my research is bent toward extending and improving life. (Good) |
| 5 | Freedom. My quest for knowledge will not be inhibited by the fears of others. (Chaotic) |
| 6 | Power. Every goal begins with acquiring power. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I risk my life, and more, to learn a valuable secret. |
| 2 | I am traumatized by my mentor and will forever oppose them. |
| 3 | My peers from my training remain close to me. |
| 4 | I fear the entity that has noticed me. |
| 5 | I will free the world from death and illness |
| 6 | I will gain immortality. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have killed in the name of research. |
| 2 | I see everything in clear-cut black and white. |
| 3 | I am unable to see anything I do as anything but righteous. |
| 4 | I betrayed a mentor in the past. |
| 5 | I am obsessed with a person who has left me because of my depravity. |
| 6 | My work to save lives is to make up for evil deeds in my past |
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