Base Class: Sorcerer
The eldritch powers that lurk beyond the veil of the moon have plunged the world into chaos. This chaos is what gives you might; there isn't any form of power more pure nor more potent than this eldritch insanity. You might have endured nightmarish experiments, possibly a higher being has taken an interest in you, or maybe you’re a mere pawn in an outer god's scheme. Perhaps you were blessed by powers that shouldn't be, or one of your parents was under an eldritch curse. Whatever the case may be, this insanity consumes you, and will be unleashed on the world, for better or atrociously worse.
Mind of Madness
At 1st level, the depraved insanity that lurks within you is always torturing your mind, yet in this chaos you find power. Whenever you gain a madness, you can choose to reroll on the appropriate table, gaining the new effect instead. In addition, when a creature attempts to read your thoughts or scry on you, they can only witness the insanity that ravages you. They take psychic damage equal to your level in this class, their magic or ability fails, and they must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or gain a short-term madness for 1d4 rounds
Spread the Chaos
Also at 1st level, you can infuse your magic with your eldritch insanity. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that doesn’t have a range of self, you can cause each creature affected by the spell to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or gain a shortterm madness for 1d4 minutes. When a creature becomes afflicted by a shortterm madness, the creature is stunned (see the condition) until the start of its next turn, and then the madness takes effect.
If your spell targets more than one creature, you must make a Charisma saving throw against a DC equal to 10 + the spell level + the number of creatures targeted by the spell. On a failure, the spell fails and you gain one shortterm madness, but you do not expend the spell slot nor the use of this feature. On a success, each creature is affected as normal. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.
Any time before you regain the use of this feature, the DM can have you roll on the Short-Term Madness table immediately after you cast a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher. You then regain the use of this feature.
Shortterm Madness
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D100 |
D10 SHORT TERM MADNESS |
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1-10 Your mind is liberated from any sense of self you may possess. |
1-2 Without an ego, you are immune to the charmed condition. |
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11-20 |
1-2 Painful sounds pale in comparison to the cacophony in your head; you are immune to thunder damage. |
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21-30 |
1-2 Your vision expands as if you are under the effect of the see invisibility spell. |
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31-40 |
1-2 Your scream is so loud that it can cause damage. As a bonus action on each of your turns, you can scream at a creature you see within 30 feet of you. If the target can hear you, it must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 1d12 thunder damage on a failure or half as much damage on a success. |
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41-50 |
1-2 You become incredibly skittish. When you are the target of an attack or an effect that requires you to make a Dexterity saving throw, you can use your reaction to begin moving evasively, gaining a +1 bonus to AC and advantage on Dexterity saving throws until the start of your next turn. |
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51-60 |
1-2 These tools can break the minds of your foes. Once per turn when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can deal an extra 1d8 psychic damage to it. |
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61-70 |
1-2 You are immune to the poisoned condition. |
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71-80 |
1-2 When you gain this madness, each creature within 30 feet of you must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you for 1 minute. A frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. |
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81-90 |
1-2 You realize your mind has been holding back your body, and you can now act freely. You have an additional action on each of your turns. That action can be used only to take the Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action. |
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91-95 |
1-2 Your body ignores all pain; only the Eldritch Truth matters. You are immune to the stunned condition. |
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96-100 |
1-2 Your body releases its animalistic instincts, without the influence of your mind to restrain it. You are under the effect of the haste spell, although it doesn’t require concentration. The spell ends when the madness does. |
Depths of Depravity
Starting at 6th level, you can let the insanity within you warp the magic of the world. When a creature that you can see within 120 feet of you must make a saving throw, if you are affected by at least one madness, you can use your reaction to add insanity to the magic, giving the creature disadvantage on the saving throw. If the creature fails the saving throw, you feed on the ensuing chaos; you regain a sorcery point for each madness affecting you.
Once you use this feature to regain sorcery points, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Powers of Insanity
Where madness rots the mind and body of most, it only serves to strengthen you. At 14th level, whenever you roll on a madness table and roll a d10 to determine which specific aspect of the madness overtakes you, you can roll a second d10 and choose the lower result of the two. In addition, gaining a madness doesn’t cause you to be stunned.
Maddening Hunger
Your magic feeds on the insanity of this world. At 18th level, whenever you gain a madness, you regain sorcery points: short term madness, 1d4 sorcery points; longterm madness, 2d4 sorcery points; and indefinite madness, 4d4 sorcery points.
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