Path of the Painforged

Preparing Spells. The Painforged Spell List shows the spells you can learn. You prepare the list of Painforged spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the Painforged spell list. When you do so, choose a number of Painforged spells equal to half your barbarian level (rounded down) + your Strength modifier (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you can cast. Additionally, you can prepare a number of ritual spells from the Painforged Spell List equal to half the number of spells you can prepare for that level (rounded down). These ritual spells do not count against your total number of prepared spells. You can only cast these spells as rituals. You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of spells requires time spent in painful, focus-inducing meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list. Spellcasting Ability. Strength is your spellcasting ability for your Painforged spells. The power of your magic comes from the raw, physical force of your rage. You use your Strength whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Strength modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one. Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier Casting Spells. You don’t have spell slots. Instead, when you cast a spell, you must take a certain amount of piercing, slashing, or bludgeoning damage to yourself. Cantrips: Take 1 damage to cast a cantrip. 1st-Level Spells: Take 10 damage to cast a 1st-level spell. 2nd-Level Spells: Take 20 damage to cast a 2nd-level spell. 3rd-Level Spells: Take 30 damage to cast a 3rd-level spell. 4th-Level Spells: Take 40 damage to cast a 4th-level spell. You can cast spells outside of rage, but you don’t gain the benefits of other class features that require a rage state. Ritual Casting. You can cast any Painforged spell you know that has the ritual tag as a ritual. To do so, you must spend at least 10 minutes in painful, focus inducing meditation. This form of casting does not require you to take damage.

Painfueled Casting Starting at 3rd level, when you enter a rage, you can cast one of your action-based cantrips as part of the bonus action you use to enter a rage. Additionally, whenever you take the Attack action while raging, you can cast an action-based cantrip as a bonus action. When the artifact must make a concentration check, it uses a D20 plus your Rage damage bonus plus your proficiency bonus. 

 

Painforged Spell List Cantrips: Acid splash, booming blade, chill touch, eldritch blast, fire bolt, green-flame blade, lightning lure, magic stone, mind sliver, ray of frost, sacred flame, shocking grasp, sorcerous burst, starry wisp, sword burst, thorn whip, thunderclap, toll the dead, true strike, word of radiance. 1st Level: Absorb elements, armor of Agathys, bane, bless, burning hands, catapult, charm person, chromatic orb, command, compelled duel, comprehend languages (ritual), cure wounds, detect magic (ritual), detect poison and disease (ritual), disguise self, ensnaring strike, entangle, faerie fire, find familiar (ritual), fog cloud, goodberry, grease, healing word, hellish rebuke, heroism, ice knife, identify (ritual), jump, longstrider, mage armor, magic missile, purify food and drink (ritual), ray of sickness, searing smite, shield of faith, silvery barbs, speak with animals (ritual), Tasha’s caustic brew, Tenser’s floating disk (ritual), unseen servant (ritual), witch bolt, zephyr strike. 2nd Level: Barkskin, beast sense (ritual), blindness/deafness, blur, darkness, enlarge/reduce, flaming sphere, healing spirit, heat metal, hold person, kinetic jaunt, levitate, Melf’s acid arrow, mind spike, mirror image, misty step, moonbeam, phantasmal force, pyrotechnics, rime’s binding ice, scorching ray, shadow blade, shatter, silence, spider climb, spike growth, Tasha’s mind whip, vortex warp, warding bond, web, wither and bloom. 3rd Level: Animate dead, Ashardalon’s stride, aura of vitality, beacon of hope, blinding smite, blink, counterspell, crusader’s mantle, elemental weapon, fear, fireball, fly, haste, hunger of Hadar, hypnotic pattern, mass healing word, life transference, Melf’s minute meteors, phantom steed (ritual), plant growth, revivify, sleet storm, slow, spirit guardians, spirit shroud, stinking cloud, summon undead, thunder step, tiny servant, vampiric touch, water breathing (ritual), water walk (ritual). 4th Level: Banishment, blight, conjure woodland beings, dimension door, dominate beast, Evard’s black tentacles, fire shield, fount of moonlight, freedom of movement, grasping vine, greater invisibility, Otiluke’s resilient sphere, polymorph, vitriolic sphere, wall of fire.

Painfueled Casting Starting at 3rd level, when you enter a rage, you can cast one of your action-based cantrips as part of the bonus action you use to enter a rage. Additionally, whenever you take the Attack action while raging, you can cast an action-based cantrip as a bonus action. When the artifact must make a concentration check, it uses a D20 plus your Rage damage bonus plus your proficiency bonus. 

Delirious Rebuke At 6th level, your connection to the artifact deepens. Whenever you are subjected to a saving throw and would fail, the artifact forces a painful response. You can choose to take 10 slashing damage to add twice your Rage damage bonus to the save. If this causes you to succeed on the saving throw, you can immediately cast a damaging spell of 1st or 2nd level from your Painforged spell list as a reaction. Unleashed Fury By 10th level, the artifact has taught you to weaponize your pain. When you enter a rage, you can immediately cast an action-based spell of 1st or 2nd level from your Painforged spell list. Additionally, you can upcast a spell you know to a level higher than you could normally cast. The number of levels you can upcast a spell is equal to your Rage damage bonus. The damage you take to cast the spell is increased by 10 damage for each spell level it is upcast. For example, to upcast a 3rd-level spell to 6th level, you would take the base damage for a 3rd-level spell (30) plus 10 damage for each of the 3 additional levels, for a total of 60 damage. Cataclysmic Release At 14th level, your fury and the artifact’s magic become one. You can cast the following spells, each once per long rest, without taking damage: disintegrate, steel wind strike, and circle of power. Additionally, as a bonus action while you are raging, you can modify one of your concentration spells to be without concentration for 1 minute. To do so, you must take bludgeoning damage equal to the base damage for the spell level plus 10 damage for each spell level.

Delirious Rebuke

Delirious Rebuke At 6th level, your connection to the artifact deepens. Whenever you are subjected to a saving throw and would fail, the artifact forces a painful response. You can choose to take 10 slashing damage to add twice your Rage damage bonus to the save. If this causes you to succeed on the saving throw, you can immediately cast a damaging spell of 1st or 2nd level from your Painforged spell list as a reaction.

Unleashed Fury

Unleashed Fury By 10th level, the artifact has taught you to weaponize your pain. When you enter a rage, you can immediately cast an action-based spell of 1st or 2nd level from your Painforged spell list. Additionally, you can upcast a spell you know to a level higher than you could normally cast. The number of levels you can upcast a spell is equal to your Rage damage bonus. The damage you take to cast the spell is increased by 10 damage for each spell level it is upcast. For example, to upcast a 3rd-level spell to 6th level, you would take the base damage for a 3rd-level spell (30) plus 10 damage for each of the 3 additional levels, for a total of 60 damage.

Cataclysmic Release

Cataclysmic Release At 14th level, your fury and the artifact’s magic become one. You can cast the following spells, each once per long rest, without taking damage: disintegrate, steel wind strike, and circle of power. Additionally, as a bonus action while you are raging, you can modify one of your concentration spells to be without concentration for 1 minute. To do so, you must take bludgeoning damage equal to the base damage for the spell level plus 10 damage for each spell level

Delirious Power

Preparing Spells. The Painforged Spell List shows the spells you can learn. You prepare the list of Painforged spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the Painforged spell list. When you do so, choose a number of Painforged spells equal to half your barbarian level (rounded down) + your Strength modifier (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you can cast. Additionally, you can prepare a number of ritual spells from the Painforged Spell List equal to half the number of spells you can prepare for that level (rounded down). These ritual spells do not count against your total number of prepared spells. You can only cast these spells as rituals. You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of spells requires time spent in painful, focus-inducing meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list. Spellcasting Ability. Strength is your spellcasting ability for your Painforged spells. The power of your magic comes from the raw, physical force of your rage. You use your Strength whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Strength modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one. Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier Casting Spells. You don’t have spell slots. Instead, when you cast a spell, you must take a certain amount of piercing, slashing, or bludgeoning damage to yourself.