School of Puppetry

Developed as a form of golemancy, Puppetry provides a personal connection to these constructs. More than an arcane tradition, the process taken to create, control, and connect with these creations is a beautiful art. Rather than commanding these wonderous constructs with words, command them with hand signals, with motion - like a dance. Much more than weapons, youve given these puppets life, a purpose, a story. You have created true art.

Puppet Crafting

At 2nd level, through vigorous practice and training, you gain proficiency with woodcarving tools and carpenters tools. Utilizing these tools, you can craft wooden puppets of either medium or small size. By describing the use, size and design of the puppet you wish to craft, the DM will determine the price and time required to craft.

On Your Strings

At 2nd level, You can use an action or bonus action to command one puppet on the field. Giving it commands through somatic signs you can command it to walk and attack. You can add your proficiency bonus to any attacks made by your puppets. At 2nd level you can only have one puppet on the field at a time, this getting increased to two puppets at 6th level, three at 10th, and four at 14th.

Expert Craftsman

At 6th level, your time spent crafting numerous puppets has opened your eyes to less time consuming and more efficient means to craft a puppet. The cost and time required to craft a puppet is now halved.

Weapons Wielding Weapons

At 6th level, you can now equip a puppet with a weapon, two weapons at maximum. You can either equip one with two simple melee weapons, one martial melee weapon, or two light ranged weapons, either simple or martial.

Another for the Show

At 10th level, youre proficiency in controling puppets have allowed you to be able to use the full scope of movement and actions of two puppets at the same time. This increased to three puppets at 14th level.

A Magical Touch

At 10th level, through the time you have spent controlling, crafting, and connecting with your puppets, at the cost and time required determined by the DM, you can add an arcane focus to unarmed puppets. With this, as long as the puppet is within 60 feet of the you, you can use it to cast spells through.

Colossal Constructs

At 14th level, youre skills in puppet crafting have grown to a much larger scale. At a cost determined by the DM, you can now craft and wield a large puppet. When controlled, you can not control any other puppets at the same time as a large puppet.

Creator's Shield

At 14th level, if you are hit with a melee attack and you have a puppet within 10 feet of you, you can use a reaction to command the puppet to rush to your side. In doing so the puppet takes the attack for you and pushes you 5 feet in the direction the puppet was travelling.

Masterful Puppet Control

At 14th level, your control over puppets has reached a level beyond expert. For now, a single finger is enough to control an entire puppet. Once per long rest, you can control ten medium sized puppets at once for one minute. In which, you can take five movements and actions. After one minute, you can control only the amount you could previously, in addition, you gain a point of exhaustion.