#dnd summoner

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My summer wips part 4 - Even more DnD

Meet Caesar, a tiefling version of Setzer from ff6. He's a homebrew Summoner class and please do ask me about him I have a whole PowerPoint at the ready

What's hard about these: absolutely nothing! I sketched these during dnd sessions and they're to get me happy and distracted from the difficult posters I must draw

Difficulty level: none. I do need to finish that traditional one by the end of September though

Disclaimer: Im going to tag these with #Setzer Gabbiani this once, then it'll be just #Caesar Larus. I want you to know he exists and I definitely want to talk about him if you are interested, but I'm not going to spam the ff tags

[grimvestige]

A little cute Keeva for @sadincae!

[peachs-homebrew]

This is my attempt to import the Summoner class from Pathfinder into D&D 5e as a sorcerer variant/subclass. Much of it remains the same as the sorcerer, but the focus is on summoning and controling a bonded extraplanar entity, called an eidolon, which the Summoner controls in combat and shares a special bond. Customization of the eidolon is part of the fun, and the type of eidolon, relationship to your Summoner, and way of roleplaying the two of them is limited only by your imagination! Because this is a variant class, metamagic is replaced by eidolon evolutions, though the mechanics are almost exactly the same. As a variant class, one is free to determine if charisma, wisdom, or intelligence is the best spellcasting ability that one has in mind for their character and eidolon.

[ncat]

Here she is! A new Variant Class, the sha'ir! The sha'ir is my second favourite class in older dnd (first place going to the binder) because of the interesting gameplay in its design.

In gameplay, it's a Variant wizard with vancian-esque casting with you calling upon individual spells throughout the day, while also being aided by your gen Familiar.

And in flavour, it's a fun mix of the elemental planes alongside some historical influences from Arabia

I'm a big fan of how it turned out. I think I got a good mix of taking what I liked from 3.5, while making it work in 5e, while adding a whole new layer of gameplay.

A fun developer note was turning the historically classic "tech" of the sha'ir shuffle into a true and proper game mechanic.

And yeah, the gens are a good bit stronger in this, turning the class into a companion/summoner archetype of sorts.

I hope you enjoy reading (and hopefully playing) this as much I did writing it (:

Homebrewery Link

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My dnd character, Eleanora De Albiana and her design!

Since Eleanora’s face is heavily scarred after her family is murdered, and those scars trigger flashbacks in Ellie, Ramiel (her Eidolon) gifts her a mask similar to his own.

Bonus size comparison between the two.

I did change their designs a bit, so as you can see, Ramiel gets these big ol antlers and Eleanora wears a simple dress

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summoner

✨DND commissions currently open!!!✨

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mila and her slappy slappy plant boye

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Summoner Class

The Summoner class is heavily inspired by the Final Fantasy franchise, though it is not an attempt to play Final Fantasy inside DnD. If you're familiar with espers, magicite, and materia however, you'll notice similarities for sure.

People often suggest slight tweaks to the Wizard in order to cobble together a summoner. But I didn't want a normal, spell slot slinging character with one or two summoning tricks. I wanted a class where all the features were based around summoning creatures to do your bidding, from low levels to high. And that's exactly what this is.

The summoning mechanic works like this: when you kill a creature in combat, you can trap its life force in the form of a magic stone. Later on, you can use that stone to summon the creature you killed to fight for you. As you level up, you learn how to merge these stones with elemental powers in order to conjure up some hard-hitting monstrosities.

Download the Summoner Class PDF.

Note: This class is still in beta. Feel free to playtest and let me know your thoughts.