Path of Pestilence

Little ravages a land like disease. Plague spreads through communities more fervently than wildfire, tearing homes asunder. The healthy must care for the sick, but are then prone to fall ill themselves.

Barbarians following the Path of Pestilence embrace the notion of epidemics. Often serving as the crux of a disease themselves, they spread contagion with their every breath. Perhaps they were once infected themselves, or they originated pestilence and plague, but their hearty constitution ensures their own survival.

ASYMPTOMATIC

When you choose this Primal Path at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Medicine skill if you don't already have it. You are also immune to disease.

NOXIOUS CLOUD

Also at 3rd level, a noxious and virulent gas permeates the air around you. While you are raging, you create a thick cloud of pestilence that surrounds you for 10 feet in all directions, but not through total cover. The fog moves with you, remaining centered on you and making its area lightly obscured. When you enter a rage, you can designate any number of creatures you can see to be unaffected by your Noxious Cloud. If your rage ends for any reason, the cloud disseminates and fades.

Whenever a creature other than you enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it takes poison damage equal to your Strength modifier (a minimum of 1.)

NATURAL IMMUNITY

At 6th level, the disease burgeoning within you has helped you endure. You have advantage on saving throws against poison and death saving throws, and you have resistance to poison damage.

Additionally, as a bonus action, you can teleport to another space within your Noxious Cloud.

DEGENERATIVE ILLNESS

At 10th level, you gain increased power over your disease. The damage from your Noxious Cloud ignores resistance to poison damage.

Additionally, creatures that are not immune to this poison damage must hold their breath inside of your Noxious Cloud. While holding their breath, a creature is silenced. If they speak or cast a spell with verbal components, that creature begins suffocating until they leave the affected area.

PLAGUEBORNE

At 14th level, you become the manifestation of plague itself. Creatures who start their turn within your Noxious Cloud are forced to make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus.) On a failure, they are blinded for one minute.

The target can repeat the Constitution saving throw at the end of its turn. On a success, the blindness ends and they are immune to the effect for one hour.