School of Biomancy (Heliana's Guide)

Practitioners of biomancy tend to have a growth mindset and an endless propensity for self-improvement. You likely bear symptoms of this continual desire to improve yourself: patches of scales, manes of peacock feathers, hawk’s eyes, adhesive palms, gills, … the list is as long as there are ideas to try. Biomancers are masters of biomantically-enhanced surgery, transplanting specially-grown (or amputated) appendages onto other creatures

Biomancy Savant

Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a biomancy spell into your spellbook is halved. In addition, you gain proficiency with surgeon’s tools, and the following spells are considered biomancy spells for you instead of their normal school.

Biostimulation

You learn to channel biomantic magic into your cells, restoring your vitality. When you cast a biomancy spell of 1st level or higher, you can simultaneously redirect a strand of the spell’s magic to energise and repair your or your target’s body. You or your target (your choice) regains a number of hit points equal to twice the spell’s level

Self Improvement

Your body has enough latent biomantic magic to sustain one improvement at a time. When you reach 10th and 14th level, you can sustain up to two and three improvements at a time, respectively. If you gain a new improvement while you have your maximum number of sustainable improvements active, you must choose one improvement to lose; this improvement withers away and ceases to function the moment you finish the surgery on your new improvement.

Amphibisprings

With enhanced quads and a ratcheting mechanism in your achilles, your jumping distance is tripled.

Extra Appendage

You gain a prehensile tail or an extra arm, allowing you to hold one more thing and conferring advantage on any ability checks you make to climb.

Firefly Skin

You can cast the light cantrip at will with yourself as the target. As a bonus action, you can flash brightly for a moment; each creature within 5 feet of you that can see you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or be blinded until the end of your next turn. After you use this bonus action, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Scales

Your skin is covered in overlapping scales. You gain a +1 bonus to AC when you aren’t wearing armor.

Talon

One of your hands is replaced with a wicked giant hawk’s talon, a natural weapon that you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d8 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. If you are grappling a creature with this talon, you can automatically deal this damage to the grappled creature once on each of your turns as a bonus action.

Third Leg

Your speed increases by 10 feet and you have advantage on ability checks and saving throws made against effects that would knock you prone.

Trimorphism

You can cast the enlarge/reduce spell on yourself at will (no material components or concentration required).

Spell Splitter

When you cast a wizard spell that targets only one creature and doesn’t have a range of self, you can duplicate the spell, simultaneously targeting yourself. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum once), regaining all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Endocrine Overload

Over the course of 1 hour (which can be done during a rest), you can craft a capsule of potent stimulants, choosing from either the brutish or swift archetypes, and embed it within your adrenal gland. With a slight tensing of your brain muscles, you can crack this capsule as a bonus action, stimulating your body. For the next minute, you gain the following benefits based on the archetype you chose.

When the minute elapses, you gain one level of exhaustion and you can’t move or take actions until after your next turn, as a wave of lethargy sweeps over you. You must craft another capsule before you can use this feature again.

Brutish

If you are smaller than Large, you become Large, and your weight increases proportionately. If you lack the room to become Large, your size doesn’t change.

Your Strength score increases to match your Intelligence score if it isn’t already higher.

You have advantage on Strength and Constitution checks and Strength and Constitution saving throws.

You grow an appendage with which you are proficient and can make melee weapon attacks, dealing your choice of bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage equal to 2d10. Use your Strength modifier for attack and damage rolls.

You can attack twice, instead of once, when you take the Attack action on your turn. You ignore this benefit if you already have a feature, like Extra Attack, that lets you attack more than once when you take the Attack action on your turn.

You gain temporary hit points equal to twice your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 2) at the start of each of your turns.

Swift

You gain the benefits of the haste spell, which can’t be dispelled:
◊ Your speed is doubled.
◊ You gain a +2 bonus to AC.
◊ You have Advantage on Dexterity saving throws
◊ You can take an additional action on each of your turns, which can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action.

Your Dexterity score increases to match your Intelligence score if it isn’t already higher.

You have advantage on Dexterity checks.

Your cantrips with a casting time of 1 action have a casting time of 1 action or 1 bonus action.