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Acolyte Class Features

A devoted spellcaster and servant of divine forces, capable of healing, banishing undead, and invoking powerful blessings. Acolytes carry the mantle of celestial will with zeal and faith.

1 - Divine Pact

In addition to your normal spell slots, you have 2 first level spell slots that recover during a short rest. You always have the Contact Other Plane spell prepared and can cast it without expending a spell slot once per long rest.

1 - Zealot

You gain proficiency in one of the following skills; whenever you make an ability check using one of these skills, treat it as a Charisma check: Arcana, History, or Religion.

1 - Acolyte Subclass

You gain an Acolyte subclass of your choice. You gain each subclass feature of your Acolyte level or lower for the rest of your career.

2 - Blessed

When you make an attack roll, skill check, or saving throw, you can roll an additional d4 and add it to the number rolled.

2 - Sear Undead

As an action, roll a number of d8s equal to your Charisma modifier (min 1). Each Undead within 30 feet that fails its Constitution saving throw against your spell DC takes Radiant damage equal to the roll’s total. Usable a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus.

4 - Ability Score Improvement

You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice. Gain this feature again at levels 8, 12, and 16.

5 - Eldritch Invocations

You gain a number of Eldritch Invocations equal to your proficiency bonus. Must meet level requirements for each invocation, and can swap when leveling up.

6 - Angelic Intuition

When forced to make a Dexterity saving throw, you may use Charisma instead. You may also use Charisma for Insight and Perception checks.

7 - Divine Rebuke

When a creature hits you or an ally within 30 feet, you can use your reaction to deal radiant damage and potentially blind the attacker. Usable a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest.

9 - Word of Judgment

Casting a verbal spell on a hostile creature lets you impose disadvantage on its attack rolls until your next turn. Usable a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier per long rest.

11 - Aura of Courage

Friendly creatures within 15 feet can’t be frightened while you are conscious.

13 - Holy Resilience

When you succeed on Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throws, gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier.

15 - Gift of Understanding

You are always under the effect of Comprehend Languages and have advantage on Charisma checks with celestials.

16 - Celestial Favor

Add half your Charisma modifier (rounded up) to any skill check or saving throw you’re not proficient in.

18 - Divine Shield

When you succeed on a saving throw, choose an ally within 30 feet to gain a bonus to their next saving throw equal to your Charisma modifier.

20 - Avatar of Radiance

You are immune to Radiant and Necrotic damage.

Acolyte Subclasses

Corruption Acolyte Features

Corruption Acolyte

Corruption Acolytes channel divine magic through dark and twisted means, drawing power from the corrupted aspects of the divine. They use this energy to weaken enemies and manipulate life force, offering a sinister approach to their abilities.

Corruption Acolytes thrive on malevolent energy, inflicting debilitating curses and siphoning vitality from foes. If you seek a character that perverts sacred magic with malevolent intent, the Corruption Acolyte is your ideal choice.

Tainted Touch (1st Level Feature)

You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill, reflecting your unnerving presence and dark outlook.

Additionally, as an action, make a melee spell attack against a creature. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 + your Charisma modifier necrotic damage and must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of your next turn. The damage die increases at 5th, 11th, and 17th levels.

Dark Resurgence (3rd Level Feature)

Whenever a creature takes necrotic damage from you, it suffers a –2 penalty on its attack rolls and saving throws until the end of your next turn. This effect does not stack if the creature is hit multiple times in the same round.

Soul Siphon (6th Level Feature)

Whenever you deal necrotic damage to a creature, you gain temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus.

Aura of Corruption (10th Level Feature)

Enemy creatures that start their turn within 10 feet of you take Necrotic damage equal to your Acolyte level.

Corrupt the Wicked (14th Level Feature)

You ignore immunity and resistance to Necrotic damage.

Throne of Blight (19th Level Feature)

Your presence distorts the minds of those touched by your necrotic power. When you deal necrotic damage to a creature on your turn, it must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC or be charmed by you until the end of your turn.

While charmed, you can use your bonus action to command the creature to move up to its speed and make one weapon attack against a target within its reach. This attack uses the creature's own attack and damage modifiers.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum once), regaining all uses after a long rest.

Dawnbringer Acolyte Features

Dawnbringer Acolyte

Dawnbringer Acolytes wield the divine brilliance of light as both weapon and shield. With fire and radiance, they sear the wicked, expose the hidden, and protect the faithful beneath halos of holy flame. Their magic is relentless and luminous—blinding foes, bolstering allies, and burning through darkness wherever it hides.

Light Bender (1st Level Feature)

You learn the Light and Fire Bolt cantrips. These count as Acolyte cantrips for you but do not count against your number of cantrips known.

When you cast Light, the object glows with an aura of bright light visible up to 30 feet even in magical darkness. When you cast Fire Bolt, it deals radiant damage instead of fire damage (your choice when cast).

Favored By The Gods (3rd Level Feature)

When you fail a saving throw or miss with an attack roll, you can choose to add your Charisma modifier to the roll.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Radiant Conduit (6th Level Feature)

You learn the Fireball spell, which counts as an Acolyte spell for you and does not count against your spells known.

Your connection to the Celestial grants you resistance to radiant damage. In addition, when you cast a spell that deals radiant or fire damage, you can add your Charisma modifier to one damage roll of that spell against one target.

Nourishing Flames (10th Level Feature)

Once per turn, when you deal fire or radiant damage, you regain hit points equal to the spell’s level + your Proficiency Bonus. (Weapon attacks, and cantrips count as spell level 0)

Searing Vengeance (14th Level Feature)

When you would be required to make a death saving throw at the start of your turn, you can instead rise in a flash of divine radiance. You regain hit points equal to half your hit point maximum and may immediately stand up without expending movement.

Each creature of your choice within 30 feet must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or take radiant damage equal to 2d8 + your Charisma modifier and be blinded until the start of their next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Aura of Eminence (19th Level Feature)

You can cast the Light cantrip with a range of 60 feet, instead of its normal range of touch.

When an allied creature starts its turn within the bright light created by this spell, it is immune to the charmed and frightened conditions while it remains in the light, and it can gain temporary hit points equal to 1d6 + your Acolyte level.

Life Acolyte Features

Life Acolyte

Life Acolytes embody the restorative essence of divine light, mending wounds, lifting curses, and shielding the living from death’s grip. Their radiance doesn’t just heal — it protects, purifies, and restores hope when all seems lost.

Guided by compassion and resolve, Life Acolytes wield celestial magic to bring allies back from the brink, cleanse the mind of fear, and empower others to keep fighting. In their presence, pain fades, ailments vanish, and even death can be defied.

Healing Light (1st Level Feature)

You gain the ability to channel celestial energy to heal wounds. You have a pool of d6s equal to 1 + your Acolyte level.

As a bonus action, you can heal one creature within 60 feet by spending dice from this pool (up to your Charisma modifier, minimum one). Roll the dice you spend and restore hit points equal to the total. Your pool regains all expended dice when you finish a long rest.

Blessed Healer (3rd Level Feature)

Your healing spells become more effective. Whenever you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit points to a creature, that creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 + the level at which the spell was cast.

Renewed Vigor (6th Level Feature)

As an action, you raise your holy symbol and create a radiant sphere centered on you with a 30-foot radius. The sphere glows with warm, comforting light and persists for 1 minute, or until you are incapacitated or die.

Within the sphere, whenever a creature (including you) ends its turn, you can grant that creature one of the following blessings:

Gain temporary hit points equal to 1d6 plus your Acolyte level.
End one effect causing the creature to be charmed or frightened.

You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus.

Rebirth (10th Level Feature)

Once per long rest, when you cast Revivify on an ally, you do not expend a spell slot and may also cleanse one of the following conditions from that creature: poisoned, paralyzed, or blinded.

Supreme Healing (14th Level Feature)

When you would normally roll dice to restore hit points with a spell, you instead use the maximum number possible for each die. For example, instead of rolling 2d6 for healing, you restore 12 hit points.

Wellspring of Vitality (19th Level Feature)

Your connection to divine life energy is unbreakable. While you are conscious, allied creatures within 30 feet of you gain the following benefits:

Enhanced Healing: When a creature regains hit points from one of your spells or class features, it gains an inspiration die.
Stabilizing Aura: Unconscious allied creatures within 30 feet of you that succeed on a saving throw recover 1 hit point.
Purity of Spirit: When an allied creature within range takes the dodge action, they are healed for 1d6 + your Charisma modifier.

Shinigami Acolyte Features

Shinigami Acolyte

Master the sacred power of death as a Shinigami Acolyte, wielding necrotic magic to command the veil between life and the afterlife. They embody mortality, using their divine connection to manipulate demise for protection and punishment.

Otherworldly Culling (1st Level Feature)

You gain proficiency in History skill checks.

You learn one necromancy cantrip of your choice from any spell list. When you cast a necromancy cantrip that normally targets only one creature, the spell can instead target all creatures within range and within 5 feet of the target.

Touch of Death (3rd Level Feature)

When you hit a creature with a melee attack, or a necromancy attack roll cantrip, you can use your bonus action to deal extra necrotic damage to the target. The damage equals 5 + twice your Acolyte level.

You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus.

Eye's of the Shinigami (6th Level Feature)

You gain magical and non-magical darkvision out to 120 feet.

In addition, when you roll an Arcana, Religion, History, Insight, Perception, or Survival skill check, you can roll an additional 1d6 and add it to the result.

Lifeline (10th Level Feature)

Once per long rest, When a creature within 60 feet of you is dropped to 0 hit points you can use your reaction to set their hit points to 1 instead. In addition, all conditions are removed from the creature, and they gain a bonus to all saving throws and their armor class equal to your Charisma modifier until the start of your next turn.

Keeper of Souls (14th Level Feature)

You can seize a trace of vitality from a parting soul and use it to heal the living. When an enemy you can see dies within 30 feet of you, you or one ally of your choice that is within 30 feet of you regains hit points equal to the enemy’s number of Hit Dice. You can use this feature only if you aren't incapacitated.

Once you use it, you can't do so again until the start of your next turn.

Death's Mandate (19th Level Feature)

You embody the divine authority of death, ushering souls to their end or calling them back when fate allows. While you are conscious, you gain the following benefits:

Reaping Aura: When a creature you can see within 30 feet of you dies, you can immediately choose a number of creatures up to your Charisma modifier within the same range. Each chosen creature regains hit points equal to 1d6 + your Acolyte level.
Truesight: You gain truesight out to 120 feet. You can see through normal and magical darkness, discern illusions, perceive the true form of shapechangers, and see into the Ethereal Plane.
Soul Recall: When an allied creature you can see within 120 feet is reduced to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to keep them standing at 1 hit point instead. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Warlock Acolyte Features with Copy Code

Warlock Acolyte

Blend divine magic with eldritch power as a Warlock Acolyte—forming pacts with mysterious deities such as Djinni, Great Old Ones, and Fiends to wield unique, unpredictable magic.

Walking a shadowed path between faith and the eldritch unknown, you channel forbidden knowledge and dark secrets to manipulate fate and harness powers beyond conventional Acolytes.

Dark One's Blessings (1st Level Feature)

You gain proficiency in Insight and Persuasion.

In addition, you always have the Eldritch Blast cantrip prepared. When you cast Eldritch Blast you can target a number of creatures within range equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Eldritch Power (3rd Level Feature)

You can add your Charisma modifier to the damage of your Acolyte spells that deal force, necrotic, or psychic damage. This effect does not stack with the Agonizing Blast Invocation.

Cloak of Shadows (6th Level Feature)

As a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. When you teleport this way, you gain resistance to all damage until the start of your next turn. During that time, you appear ghostly and translucent.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Beguiling Defenses (10th Level Feature)

You are immune to the Charmed condition.

Additionally, when an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the attack's damage against you.

Armor of Hexes (14th Level Feature)

Your hex grows more powerful. If a creature that is charmed, feared, frightened, or cursed hits you with an attack roll, roll a d6. On a 4 or higher, the attack instead misses you.

Twisted Fate (19th Level Feature)

Your pact is sealed in full, twisting the weave of fate around your will. While you are conscious, you gain the following benefits:

Eldritch Shroud: While you are in dim light or darkness, you have resistance to all damage.
Fateful Precision: When you cast a spell from the Support spell list that targets only one creature, you can force that creature to make its saving throw with disadvantage, or you gain advantage on the attack roll.
Whispers Beyond: Once per long rest, you can cast a 6th-level spell from the Support spell list without expending a spell slot. This spell does not count against your spells prepared.

Vesta Acolyte Features

Vesta Acolyte

As a Vesta Acolyte, you carry the sacred fire of home and hearth — a nurturing warmth that strengthens those bound by peace and fellowship. Through your presence, you kindle courage and shelter your allies as if they were family.

Kindling of Kinship (1st-level feature)

You kindle an ember of kinship among those at peace with one another. As an action, you choose a number of willing creatures within 30 feet equal to your proficiency bonus (including yourself). You create a magical hearth bond between them that lasts 10 minutes or until you use this feature again.

While any bonded creature is within 30 feet of another, they may roll a d4 and add the result to one attack roll, ability check, or saving throw they make. Each creature can use this bonus once per turn.

You can kindle this bond a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses after a long rest.

Ember’s Gentle Touch (3rd-level feature)

The warmth of your hearth extends in motion. As an action, you can move up to your speed without provoking opportunity attacks. Each time you come within 5 feet of a creature during this movement, you restore 2d6 + your Charisma modifier hit points (minimum 1) to that creature. Each creature can benefit from this healing only once per use of this feature.

You can use Ember’s Gentle Touch once per long rest.

Sanctuary of Hearthlight (6th-level feature)

Home is where the hearth’s glow protects. During a short or long rest, you may call upon the shadowy blessing of the Gloaming Court to guard your refuge. At the start of the rest, you touch a point in space and create an invisible sphere of magic with a 30-foot radius centered there. Solid cover blocks the sphere.

While within this Sanctuary of Hearthlight, you and your allies gain a +5 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) and Wisdom (Perception) checks, and flames from open fires inside the sphere cast no light beyond it.

The sanctuary fades at the end of the rest or if you leave the sphere.

Pathways of the Hearthward (10th-level feature)

The sacred flame grants you the ability to weave through hidden paths of fey magic. As a bonus action, you can teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Alternatively, you may use your action to teleport one willing creature you touch up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum once), regaining all uses after a long rest.

Guardian Ember (14th-level feature)

The hearth’s bond shields those it touches. When a creature affected by your Kindling of Kinship is about to take damage, another bonded creature within 30 feet can use its reaction to teleport to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the first creature, taking all the damage instead.

Blazing Hearth (19th-level feature)

The reach of your hearth bond widens. The benefits of your Kindling of Kinship and Guardian Ember features now apply when bonded creatures are within 60 feet of one another.

Additionally, when a creature uses Guardian Ember to take damage for another, it gains resistance to that damage.

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