Sorcerer
Base Class: Sorcerer

Your magical power was not granted by any outside force--rather, it stems from your very personality. Some individuals possess spirits so profoundly expressive they manifest themselves as a powerful magical force. This pure spiritual force is known as a Stand, and those that wield it are Stand Users.

As a Stand User, consider how exactly you first discovered your Stand. Was it awakened in a moment of pure passion: dire need mixed with unyielding desire? Or was it simply present at birth, acting as your ever-present "guardian angel"? Establish how much your character knows about their Stand. Most Stand-using children have no idea that green blob of magic is even connected to them, much less how to control it. Even amongst scholars of the arcane, knowledge of the inner workings of Stands is largely unknown. Talking to a fellow stand user is the only practical way to learn how Stands work, besides simple experimentation.

Stand

Your Stand single-handedly defines how you interact with the magical world. By default, your Stand lies in a dormant state, hiding inside your body. You can tap into your Stand's power to cast spells just as any other Sorcerer would, but only while your Stand is in this dormant state.

As a bonus action on your turn, you can awaken your Stand, causing it to manifest 5 feet in front of you. While it is active, all Sorcerer spells cast will come from your Stand, not your physical body. The Stand appears translucent to your eyes, allowing you to see through it uninhibited. You can return the Stand to your body as an action.

Keeping your Stand active requires significant mental effort on your part. For every 30 minutes your Stand remains active, you suffer one point of exhaustion. Withdrawing your stand will prevent time from being taken away from this total, but will not restore it to 30. Only taking a long rest will allow you to refresh the countdown.

Your Stand will follow your movements exactly, staying directly in front of you at all times. If this movement would force it inside another object/creature, it will temporarily move to your space.

As an action, you may detach your Stand from your physical body, allowing it to roam freely. Your Stand has a flying speed of 30 feet. As long as the Stand is within 60 feet of you, it can do anything you can (attack, dash, cast spells, etc.) except talk. However, once it is over 60 feet away from you, it loses the ability to take actions, reactions, and bonus actions. (this includes the action of withdrawing your stand) It can still move and observe its surroundings. While your stand is seperated from you, all of its senses replace your own, and you are unable to move.

Your stand shares its statistics with you. Any damage dealt to the Stand is also dealt to you, and any magical effects are transferred over. The stand has resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. Any attack that hits both you and your Stand will only hit it.

When you make a melee weapon attack on your turn, it will be carried out by your stand instead. Your stand's weaponry (be it a sword, its fists, or anything else) uses Charisma for its attack rolls, deals 1d10 + CHA force damage, and is considered magical. It is proficient with this weaponry.

Stand Specialty

Your Stand is a reflection of your personality, both in its appearance and abilities. Every Stand excels at different things, based the identity of the User. A bombastic, risk-taking loon would likely possess a stand adept at wading right into the fray, while a quiet soul who wishes to remain at the sidelines may have expertise with long-distance abilities. Consider which of the following specializations fits your character concept best:

Brutish Warrior

Your Stand is far hardier than most, able to stay on the front lines of combat for extended periods.

While active, your Stand has a bonus to its AC equal to that of your Constitution modifier, and has advantage on Constitution saving throws to maintain concentration on its/your spells. In addition, once per round, when it makes a melee weapon attack, it gains temporary hit points equal to half your sorcerer level (rounded up) + your Constitution modifier.

Distant Companion

Your stand excels at fighting from long distances, both by your side and separated from yourself.

When you separate yourself from your Stand, it can continue to function normally up to 500 feet away from you. In addition, any spell that makes an attack roll gains an extra 30 feet of range, including "Touch" spells. When a spell targets a creature within the added reach, you may add your Charisma modifier to the damage roll.

(The "Distant Spell" metamagic's range multiplier is applied after adding the 30 feet, granting 60 feet of powered-up range)

Multitasking Expert

Control of your Stand comes naturally to you: so naturally, in fact, that you can maneuver it independently from your body.

Separating your Stand from your body now only requires a bonus action on your turn. When separated, your senses are no longer completely overwritten by the Stand's: its sight appears as a translucent pink layer on top of your normal vision, and the sounds it hears come to you in a muffled, scratchy tone, easy to distinguish from your standard hearing. You have grown accustomed to dealing with the sensory overload, but, if you choose, you may decide to view either your or the stand's senses exclusively, no action required. You are also capable of casting spells from your own body, even while your stand is active, and can move freely. Both you and your stand are capable of taking any of their normal actions, but share a turn. For example, if you use your action to cast Chromatic Orb, your stand cannot take an action. Movement does not apply to these rules: both you and your stand can move their full movement speeds on your turn.

Stand Evolution

At 6th level, your Stand undergoes an advancement in power, spurred by the changes that have occurred in your mental state. Think about the trials your character has overcome, or the peril that awaits them in the future. Pick which of the three options below would be most appropriate for your newly refined stand:

In addition to the option you choose, your Stand's melee attacks power up to 2d6 + CHA damage.

Focused Destruction

You have mastered the destructive ability of your Stand, enabling it to place all of its power into one, decisive, blow.

Once per turn, when your Stand hits with a melee weapon attack, you may expend 2 Sorcery Points to add an additional 4d6 force damage to the blow. Your stand's critical range has expanded to 19-20, and when you land a critical hit, the additional force damage is also doubled.

Incomprehensible Form

Your Stand has advanced to the point that normal folk can no longer process its existence.

While active, your Stand is completely invisible, only perceivable by other Stand Users, and creatures with Truesight. This benefit does not extend to yourself.

Tremendous Agility

Your stand's movements have grown nearly impossibly swift, enabling it to run circles around enemies.

While your Stand is active, as a bonus action on your turn, you may activate the effects of the Haste spell for both your stand and yourself, without using your concentration. While this spell is active, your Stand will take twice as much time off of the 30-minute limit. The spell will not end unless you will it to, no action acquired. The standard penalties for a Haste spell ending still apply, however.

Stand Mastery

At 14th level, your Stand has grown once again, reflecting the heroic deeds you have surely accomplished by this point. Choose one of the following skills for your stand to master:

No matter which option you choose, your Stand's melee attacks power up to 4d4 + CHA force damage.

Devastating Area

You have mastered spells with a wide area-of-effect, enabling them to wreak havoc on even greater amounts of creatures.

Whenever you cast a spell that targets an area (sphere, cone, line, etc.) its range is expanded in some way. Areas are increased by 20 feet, while radiuses are increased by 10. In the case of lines, their width is increased by 10 feet.

Eternal Will

Your spirit has grown resilient to pain, refusing to simply die with its mortal host.

If you are ever knocked unconscious, or killed, you may spend 5 sorcery points to have your Stand stay active and potent for an hour, able to fully utilize any of your abilities. Your expended spell slots carry over to your Stand,  but your Stand is healed to half of its maximum hit points. If the Stand is killed in this state, your soul is forever shattered, unable to be resurrected by anything short of a Wish spell.

Overwhelming Barrage

Your stand is now able to unleash a nigh-endless flurry of blows, demolishing everything in its path.

On your turn, you can replace your Stand's normal melee attack with a special punch: this punch deals 1d4 + CHA force damage. If it hits, spend any amount of sorcery points you desire. For every sorcery point you spend, you throw another punch, which hits automatically, and deals 1d4 + CHA force damage as well. If the first attack was a critical, the rest are as well.

Feel free to devise some sort of "war cry" for your stand to shout as it mercilessly pummels whatever's in front of it.

The World

By 18th level, your stand has become so immensely powerful, it has gained control of time itself, able to move through it as easily as it moves through air.

You learn the spell Time Stop, and when you cast it, its duration cannot be ended early by any means. Any melee attacks will automatically hit, and the receiving creature will only react after the spell ends. Any spells you cast on a creature besides yourself initially have no effect, but will activate once time resumes. Any objects you interact with will move normally while you are in contact with them, before stopping immediately once you let go. The objects retain any momentum or other effects once time resumes.

In addition, you may briefly stop time even without the use of a spell slot. As a reaction on anything's turn (including yours) you may stop time for a single turn, which you will take immediately after activating the ability. This can be done in the middle of another creature's action, interrupting it and forcing them to finish whatever they are doing after time resumes. If you are interrupting an attack made against you, you may stop time after the roll is made, but before a hit is declared. After time resumes, you suffer 5d12 necrotic damage. This damage ignores resistances and immunities.

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