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Summoners that specialize in drawing fiends from the pits of a hellscape created through unknowable occult magic, hellcrafters are brutal summoners and powerful commanders. By imbuing a corpse with the spirit of a fiend, hellcrafters create hellspawn, powerful minions that enforce their masters' will. As a hellcrafter, you can develop your talents summoning a multitudinous swarm of hellspawn, summon one powerful hellspawn champion, or cultivate your skills as a ritualist. You might also embrace the path of the hellbound, suffusing your Essence with energy from hell.

'''Champion Track:''' Summon a powerful spirit from Hell to imbue into a mighty corpse. By twisting occult magic to your will, you augment this hellspawn with great power to fight as your champion.

'''Hellbound (see previous):''' Having descended into Hell and emerged with an otherworldly command of fire, fuel your weapon’s strikes with wrathful brimstone.

'''Hordemaster Track:''' You specialize in summoning scores of hellspawn. By ripping fiends from Hell and binding them to dozens of corpses, you can raise a terrifying army in a matter of moments.

'''Ritualist Track:''' Through dark machinations and sinister incantations, you have become an expert in occult ritualism. Your capacity to manipulate occult rituals is nothing to be trifled with.

== '''Hellcrafter Entry Talent''' ==

'''Soulbind.''' By touching a corpse for 1 minute, you draw forth a spirit from hell and imbue its Essence into the corpse. You create a ML 1 or lower Hellspawn that follows your unspoken commands. This is your Hellspawn Champion. The Hellspawn Champion lasts for 24 hours or until you use this power on a new corpse. Alternatively, you may use this power to extend the life of a creature summoned in this way for an additional 24 hours. (1/Rest)

'''Occult.''' You gain +1 Occult Power from this talent and from every talent you take in the Hellcrafter stack. You do not gain additional SP unless noted in an individual talent.

== Champion Track ==

|When you use Soulbind, you may summon a particularly powerful Hellspawn. (1/Rest)

|Your Hellspawn Champion's natural weapon damage increases by one die size (such as from 1d4 to 1d6), to a max of 1d12.  

'''''Claws:''''' ''Reach 5 ft Natural Weapon.'' +STR or DEX vs AR. '''Hit:''' 1d4 + STR or DEX sharp

|Your Hellspawn Champion has +2 TA on Grappling checks.

|You and your Hellspawn Champion gain Resist +2 against one damage type: cold, corrosive, fire, lightning, sonic, or toxic. You cannot choose the same type of damage twice with this talent.

|You and your Hellspawn Champion gain Resist +2 against one damage type for which you already have Resist: cold, corrosive, fire, lightning, sonic, or toxic. You cannot choose the same type of damage twice with this talent.

|You may use Soulbind on the corpse of a beast when making your Hellspawn Champion. This creature has the stats of an appropriate beast of an ML that you can create using your Champion talents. It has the undead and fiend tags in addition to its normal tags.  

|You may use Soulbind on the corpse of a monstrosity when making your Hellspawn Champion. This creature has the stats of an appropriate monstrosity of an ML that you can create using your Champion talents. It has the undead and fiend tags in addition to its normal tags.  

|When making your Hellspawn Champion, you may choose to use the stats of any humanoid that cannot cast spells and that has an ML that you can create using your Champion talents. It has the undead and fiend tags in addition to its normal tags.  

|Your Hellspawn has wings. For every 20 ft it falls vertically, it may reactively move 20 ft horizontally. It only takes falling damage if it falls more than 40 ft.

|When you summon a Hellspawn Champion whose size would normally be Medium, you may choose for its size to instead be Large. If you do, it gains +1 STR and suffers -1 DEX. It also gains +2 additional max HP per Hellcrafter talent you have.  

|When you Recoup, your Champion can regain 1/2 of its max HP. (1/Rest)

Furthermore, Soulbind becomes 2/Rest, but you may still only have one Hellspawn summoned at a time unless other talents say otherwise. Champion Hellspawn becomes 2/Rest and your Hellspawn Champion can be ML 3 or lower.  

|When you summon your Hellspawn Champion, you may choose to give it a bat head unless you gave it a different head. If it has a bat head, when it is Blinded but not Deafened, treat other creatures as Concealed instead of Unseen.  

|When you summon a Hellspawn Champion who would normally be Medium or Large, you may choose for its Size to instead be Huge. If you do, it gains +2 STR and suffers -2 DEX. It also gains +3 additional max HP per Hellcrafter talent you have.  

|Your Hellspawn Champion can be ML 5 or lower.  

When you Recoup, instead of your Champion regaining 1/2 its max HP, it can regain all of its HP. (1/Rest)

|Your Hellspawn Champion deals +2 damage on all hits that would deal damage.  

|Your Hellspawn Champion can take one additional action on each of its turns.  

|'''Strength of the Champion IV'''

|Gain the Spirit of Malice ability.

'''Spirit of Malice.''' The Hellspawn can change its form as though you resummoned it when you Recoup, allowing you to customize its abilities based on the talents you have taken in this track.

Furthermore, Soulbind becomes 3/Rest, but you may still only have one Hellspawn summoned at a time unless other talents say otherwise. Champion Hellspawn becomes 3/Rest and +3 to all of its defense. Your Hellspawn also deals +2 damage when you have Death Points and are Bloodied.

'''''Level 30:''''' Spirit of Malice can also be done once for 1 AP on your turn (1/Recoup). Champion Hellspawn becomes +5 to all defenses.

== Hellbound ==

Note that this class track is unique in that it is shared by two classes: the Zealot and the Hellcrafter.

|Whenever you fail a CHA check, or a creature makes a successful attack against your WILL, you may reroll that check or force that creature to reroll their attack, taking the new result. (2/Rest)

|You gain Resist Fire 3.

'''Fire Scion.''' When you take any fire damage, you can spend 1 Reactive AP to gain Affinity to it (including the damage you just took) for 1 minute. The first time you deal any damage after using this ability, you deal +1d6 fire damage. (½ CHA/Rest)

'''Flameblade.''' For 2 AP you set a melee weapon in your hands ablaze for 1 minute, converting all of your damage done with that weapon to fire. While active, this is considered your Flameblade and you may choose to attack a creature’s REF instead of their AR, and you may choose to use your CHA for attacks and damage with your Flameblade. (2/Rest)

|Flameblade becomes ½ CHA/Rest. Once you have taken 10 talents with the hellbound tag, you regain +1 use of Flameblade whenever you Recoup.

|Whenever you hit a creature with your Flameblade while ablaze, they gain Burning 1d4 for 1 minute. (½ CHA/Rest)

|While your Flameblade is ablaze, you deal +1d4 fire damage with your Flameblade. Additionally, when you apply the Burning condition it is increases by one die size (e.g. 1d4 becomes 1d6).

'''Fiendish Fervor.''' When you hit a creature with the fiend tag you may spend 1 AP to unnerve that creature. Make a magic attack against the WILL of the struck creature. On a hit, that creature is Shaken until the end of your next turn. On your subsequent turns, if you hit the same Shaken creature again, you may spend 1 AP to continue the Shaken duration. (2/Rest)

'''Crushing Fervor.''' When you hit a creature that is currently Shaken you may spend 1 AP to terrify them. Make a magic attack against the WILL of the Shaken creature. On a hit, that creature becomes Frightened of you until the end of your next turn. On your subsequent turns, if you hit the same Frightened creature again, you may spend +1 AP to continue the Frightened duration. This also continues the duration of Shaken from Fiendish Fervor.

'''Breaking Fervor.''' When you hit a creature that is both Shaken and Frightened you may spend 1 AP to break them. Make a magic attack against the WILL of the afflicted creature. On a hit, that creature becomes Broken until the end of your next turn.

'''Terrifying Fervor.''' When you reduce a creature afflicted with the Broken condition to 0 HP you may spend 2 Reactive AP to terrify their allies. Make a magic attack against the WILL of each hostile creature of an equal or lower ML of the creature you have slain. On a hit, the creature is Broken for 1 minute or until they take damage. On a miss, the creature is Broken until the end of their next turn or until they take damage. (½ CHA/Rest)

'''Resolute Bastion.''' When a creature makes an attack against you or one of your ally’s mental defenses you can add +1d4 to that defense. If that attack misses, you activate your Focused Resolve talent on that creature. (2/Rest)

|You may spend 2 AP to activate Focused Resolve against a single creature. If that creature is afflicted with the Engaged or Broken condition then this only costs you 1 AP. (½ CHA/Rest)

|Should you reduce a creature to 0 HP from a crit while benefiting from Focused Resolve you regain HP equal to 1d10+CHA. (2/Recoup)

|Hellbound

'''Redemptive Strike.''' If you have TA against a creature subject to Fiendish Fervor, you may automatically crit that creature (2/Rest). If that TA resulted from Focused Resolve, and your crit reduces the creature to 0 HP, you regain +1 use of Redemptive Strike. (2/Rest)

'''''Level 30:''''' The final cap for your CHA increases from 12 to 14 and you may now use Redemptive Strike 2/Recoup.

Gain the Destroyer's Strike ability.

'''Destroyer's Strike.''' If you hit a target that is Frightened of you, you may cause the creature to become Broken. (2/Rest)

'''''Level 30:''''' Your Hellfire fire damage and Destroyer's Strike psychic damage both increase to 1d10.

|''Hellbound, '''Capston'''''

== Hordemaster Track ==

|When you use Soulbind, you may touch four or more corpses. If you do, rather than creating one Hellspawn Champion, you create a Hellspawn Swarm, or your "Horde". The swarm uses the stats of a hellspawn with a ML equal to or less than ½ the number of hellcrafter talents you have.

|Soulbind becomes ½ CHA/Rest (min 1). You may not have more than one Hellspawn Champion or Hellspawn Swarm active at one time, however.

|Your horde's radius becomes 10 ft, or 5 ft when Bloodied.

Additionally, your horde gains a bonus on attack rolls equal to ½ your CHA.

|The area within your horde's radius is considered Difficult Terrain to hostile creatures. You are Concealed while within your horde's radius.  

|Allies are also considered Concealed while within your horde's radius. If your horde is not Bloodied and has Shield HP, you have Total Cover.  

|While not Bloodied, your horde adds 1/2 your CHA to their damage rolls.  

|While not Bloodied, your horde gains an attack bonus equal to your total CHA, instead of 1/2.  

|While Bloodied, you and your horde add ½ your CHA to damage rolls.

|Your horde's radius becomes 15 ft, or 10 ft when Bloodied.  

|When you Recoup, you may regain +1 use of your Soulbind. When you use Soulbind to summon a Hellspawn Swarm and you previously had a Hellspawn Swarm, your new swarm gains Shield HP equal to your previous swarm's current HP.  

|When your horde occupies the space of a fresh corpse that has died within the past 10 minutes, you may spend 3 AP to resurrect the corpse, causing it to join your horde. Your horde regains 1d10+CHA HP and gains 1d10 Shield HP. (2/Recoup)

|Gain the All-Out Assault ability.  

'''All-Out Assault.''' Spend 3 AP to turn your horde into a cone twice as long as your radius, or a line three times as long as your radius, or to turn your horde back into its typical radius shape. When a cone or line, you are on one side of the horde and do not gain benefits from being within the horde.  

|Gain the Seize Opportunity ability.

'''Seize Opportunity.''' Your horde gains the ability to Exploit, but you must spend your own Reactive AP for them to do so. It costs 1 Reactive AP.

|Gain the Overrun ability.  

'''Overrun.''' Expend one of your uses of Soulbind to order an all-out assault. For the next 5 minutes, you may order your horde to make an attack for 1 AP, instead of 2. Whenever your horde kills a creature, your horde gains 1d10 Shield HP.  

|When one of your allies within the horde's radius would take damage and no other creature would, you may deal the damage to the horde instead.  

|Your horde's radius becomes 20 ft, or 15 ft when Bloodied. It has additional HP equal to your Occult Power x4.  

Your horde's max HP is now your Occult Power x6.

'''''Level 30:''''' Any time you would gain HP or Shield HP, or cause another creature to gain HP or Shield HP, you may choose whether it is HP or Shield HP.

== Ritualist Track ==

Gain the Initiate of the Occult talent if you did not already have it. Future talents from the Ritualist track grant you +5 SP.

This talent does not give you +1 Occult Power from your Occult ability.

|Learn 2 Occult Rituals.

'''Soulbinding Ritual.''' By spending 10 minutes, you may expend a ritual that recharges when you Take a Rest without casting that ritual. If you do, you may use Soulbind without expending any of its uses. (1/2 CHA/Rest)

|Choose two divine rituals that do not have Prerequisites. Gain those rituals. They are considered occult rituals for you. They also have dark power as determined on the Demonomicon Dark Power table.

|When you cast a ritual, you or one Hellspawn you have summoned gains 1d10+CHA Shield HP.

|Gain the Hellspawn Initiates ability.  

'''Hellspawn Initiates.''' When you cast an occult ritual that would target yourself, you may instead target a Hellspawn that you have summoned. Dark power effects still affect you, rather than the Hellspawn. (1/Rest)

|'''Primeval [[Darkness]]'''

|Choose two primal invocations that do not have Prerequisites. Gain those invocations. They are considered occult rituals for you with a 1/Rest recharge. They also have dark power as determined on the Demonomicon Dark Power table.

|Choose two psionic invocations that do not have Prerequisites. Gain those invocations. They are considered occult rituals for you with a 1/Rest recharge. They also have dark power as determined on the Demonomicon Dark Power table.

|Choose two divine rituals. When checking Prerequisites, you are considered to have Divine Power equal to the number of Hellcrafter Ritualist talents you have. Gain the rituals you chose. They are considered occult rituals for you. They also have dark power as determined on the Demonomicon Dark Power table.

'''Unholy Sacrament.''' By spending 10 minutes, you may expend a ritual that recharges when you Take a Rest without casting that ritual. If you do, you may instead regain 10 SP. (2/Rest)

|Choose two primal invocations. When checking Prerequisites, you are considered to have Primal Power equal to the number of Hellcrafter Ritualist talents you have. Gain the invocations you chose. They are considered occult rituals for you. They also have dark power as determined on the Demonomicon Dark Power table.

|Choose two psionic invocations. When checking Prerequisites, you are considered to have Psionic Power equal to the number of Hellcrafter Ritualist talents you have. Gain the invocations you chose. They are considered occult rituals for you. They also have dark power as determined on the Demonomicon Dark Power table.

|Hellspawn Initiates becomes 1/Recoup. Furthermore, dark power affects your Hellspawn rather than you.

|When you use Hellspawn Initiates, you may apply it to a number of Hellspawn that you have summoned equal to or less than 1/2 your CHA.

Furthermore, when you cast an occult ritual that targets yourself, increase two of your attributes by 1 each for the next 1 hour as you are filled with unholy power.  You must still observe your attribute cap.

'''''Level 30:''''' When you use Soulbinding Ritual, you may expend any ritual, regardless of its recharge time. If it has no prerequisite, then you may gain its effect in addition to using it to fuel your Soulbind ability. You no longer need to observe your attribute cap when casting an occult ritual on yourself.