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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.  

Gain the Fire Scion ability.  

'''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)

|Learn 2 arcane spells from the following list. They count as divine spells for you if this talent has the zealot tag, and as occult spells if this talent has the hellcrafter tag. If you did not have a casting attribute already, then it is CHA.  

'''''Arcane spells and cantrips:''''' [[Beam of Fire]], [[Fan the Flames]], [[Fireball]], [[Fire Shield]], [[Illuminate]], [[Nova]], [[Wall of Fire]], [[Wave of Fire]]

'''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)

|Disciple of Flame, Flameblade

|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, even if they aren’t normally flammable. (½ CHA/Rest)

|Flame Strike, Flameblade

|You may choose to ignore any Resist Fire with your Flameblade. Additionally, you gain +1 TA on attacks against a creature afflicted with the Burning condition.  

|While your Flameblade is ablaze you ignore Immune Fire, treating a creature with such as if they only possessed Affinity, taking ½ the damage. You additionally gain +1 crit range against a creature that is on fire, and hitting such a creature continues their Burning duration by 1 round.  

|'''[[Hellfire]]'''

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While your Flameblade is ablaze, any fire damage you deal with your Flameblade ignores Resist Fire and you deal an additional +1d4 fire damage with your Flameblade. Additionally, when you apply the Burning condition it is increased by 1 dice size (1d4 becomes 1d6, 1d6 becomes 1d8, and so forth).  

|Whenever an attack against your mental defenses misses, you gain +1 TA on your next ability check or attack against the originating creature or any of its allies.  

 

'''Fiendish Fervor.''' When you hit a creature with the fiend tag you may spend 1 AP to unnerve that creature. Make a magic attack vs. WILL of the struck creature. '''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)

|You may now use your Fiendish Fervor talent on any creature afflicted with Burning.  

|Choose 2 creature tags. Fiendish Fervor can also be used on those creatures. You now regain 1 use of your Friendish Fervor whenever you Recoup.  

'''Crushing Fervor.''' When you hit a creature that is currently Shaken you may spend 1 AP to terrify them. Make a magic attack vs. WILL of the Shaken creature. '''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.  

|When you hit a creature that is both Shaken and Frightened you may spend 1 AP to break them. Make a magic attack vs. WLL of the afflicted creature. '''Hit:''' That creature becomes Broken until the end of your next turn.  

|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 vs. WILL of each hostile creature of an equal or lower Monster Level (ML) of the creature you have slain. '''Hit:''' The creature is Broken for 1 minute or until they take damage. '''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 now use your Infernal Bond talent CHA/Rest. Additionally, you gain +1 TA when Focused Resolve triggers from Burning creatures.  

|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)

|You may now use Resolute Bastion CHA/Rest, and you grant you or your ally a +1d6 instead of +1d4.  

|While benefiting from TA drawn from your Focused Resolve, you increase your crit range on a creature you attack by +1 per the following condition it is afflicted with: Shaken, Frightened, Broken, and Burning. 

|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, Repeatable''

|You gain the fiendblood Blood Transformation ability, choosing one of the available sublineages. If you already are a fiendblood, you gain +1 use of your Blood Transformation.  

'''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.

Flameblade becomes CHA/Rest and the extra damage dealt by Hellfire is also dealt by your summoned Hellspawn. You may choose to lose up to 3 Attribute Points to increase your uses of Blood Transformation at a rate of +1 use per Attribute Point lost.  

Also, you and your summoned Hellspawn deal +1d6 psychic damage against all creatures that were Frightened or Broken by you within the past hour.  

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.

== Hordemaster Track ==

|When you use Soulbind, you may touch four or more corpses. If you do, rather than creating one Hellspawn, you create a Hellspawn Swarm, or your "Horde". The swarm uses the stats of a Hellspawn Swarm, but follows some special rules as noted below.

 

During combat, the swarm cannot function unless you are within the swarm. While you are within the swarm, it is treated as a 5 ft radius aura that is centered on you. You may spend 2 AP on each of your turns to cause the swarm to make one of its attacks. You have +2 to your physical defenses and AR while your swarm is not Bloodied, and +1 to these defenses while your swarm is Bloodied.

A creature may target you or the swarm. You have vulnerable 1 AOE while your swarm is active.

|You may use Soulbind 1/2 CHA/Rest (min 1). You may not have more than one Hellspawn or Hellspawn Swarm active at one time, however.

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

 

Additionally, your horde gains a bonus on attack rolls equal to 1/2 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 not Bloodied, your horde adds CHA to their damage rolls, and 1/2 your CHA to their damage rolls while Bloodied.

|Your horde's radius is now 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)

|You may 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.

|Your horde gains the ability to Exploit, but you must spend your own AP reactively for them to do so. It costs 1 AP for your Horde to Exploit.

|You may 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 you would take damage and no other creature would, you may deal the damage to your horde instead.

|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.

|You may expend one of your uses of Soulbind to order a full-scale defense. For the next 5 minutes, provided that your horde has any HP, you have Total Cover when it is not your turn.

|Soulbind becomes CHA/Rest. You may have up to 2 uses of Soulbind active at one time, but only one may be a Hellspawn Swarm.

|Your horde's radius is now 20 ft, or 15 ft when Bloodied. It has additional HP equal to 4x your Occult Power.

You may spend 1 AP to lose any amount of HP. Your horde gains that much HP, but it is Shield HP if they are not Bloodied.

You may spend 1 AP to make your horde lose any amount of HP. You gain that much HP, but it is Shield HP if you are not Bloodied.

Your horde's maximum HP is now 6x your Occult Power.

'''''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, but you do not gain an additional Occult Power from having it. Future talents from the Ritualist track grant you +5 SP.

|Learn 2 Occult Rituals.

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 arcane spells with the arcane ritual tag that have less than or equal to your maximum SP. You learn those spells, but can only cast them as rituals unless you learn them through another talent. They are considered occult rituals for you and have the 1/Rest recharge. They also have Dark Power as determined on the Demonomicon Dark Power table.

|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.

|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 arcane spells with the arcane ritual tag that have less than or equal to your maximum SP x 2. You learn those spells, but can only cast them as rituals unless you learn them through another talent. They are considered occult rituals for you and have the 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.

|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)

|When you finish Taking a Rest, you may magically rewrite which rituals you have written in your Demonomicon. Count up the total number of occult rituals you know (not including those from other sources that count as occult rituals for you). You may unlearn any number of them to learn new occult rituals. For each occult ritual you reassign in this way, permanently lose 1 maximum HP.

|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 now 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.

 

 

 

'''''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.

|Gain TA on the attack roll.

 

'''Dark Power:''' You suffer the damage instead.

|If you do not suffer Dark Power, you become Protected until the end of your next turn.

'''Dark Power:''' Roll for Dark Power. On a roll of 5 or lower, you suffer 1d6 necrotic damage. If this had the Nature or Weather tag, then the nature in the area withers a little or the weather grows sour and corrupt.

|Gain TA on the attack roll.

'''Dark Power:''' You suffer the condition for the written duration instead.

|If successful, the target gains +5 ft speed and TA for the duration.

 

'''Dark Power:''' Roll 1d20 for Dark Power. On a roll of 5 or lower, the Fiend Lords are angry that you stole power from them. For the next 24 hours, beasts and monstrosities are likely to treat you with hostility as they are supernaturally aware of your transgressions.

|Gain TA on the attack roll.

'''Dark Power:''' You suffer the damage instead.

|Gain TA on the attack roll.

'''Dark Power:''' You cast the spell and it is centered on you.

'''Dark Power:''' Roll 1d20 for Dark Power. On a roll of 5 or lower, the spell deals necrotic damage equal to the amount it would have healed.